Aid-major :: Aid-major (n.) The adjutant of a regiment.

Drum Major :: Drum major () .

Drum Major :: Drum major () The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

Drum Major :: Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.

Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Majolica :: Majolica (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century..

Major :: Major (a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory..

Major :: Major (a.) Of greater dignity; more important.

Major :: Major (a.) Of full legal age.

Major :: Major (a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone..

Major :: Major (a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

Major :: Major (a.) A person of full age.

Major :: Major (a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference]..

Major :: Major (a.) A mayor.

Major General :: Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps..

Major-domo :: Major-domo (n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer..

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Majorat :: Majorat (a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it..

Majorate :: Majorate (n.) The office or rank of a major.

Majorate :: Majorate (a.) To augment; to increase.

Majoration :: Majoration (n.) Increase; enlargement.

Majorcan :: Majorcan (a.) Of or pertaining to Majorca.

Majorcan :: Majorcan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

Majorities :: Majorities (pl. ) of Majorit.

Majority :: Majority (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

Majority :: Majority (n.) The military rank of a major.

Majority :: Majority (n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs..

Majority :: Majority (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast..

Majority :: Majority (n.) Ancestors; ancestry.

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