M' i.e. Mac. A Gaelic prefix meaning son. (Gothic, magus, a son; Sanskrit, mah, to grow; Welsh, magu,
to breed.) The Welsh ap is Mac changed to Map, and contracted into 'ap or 'p, as Apadam ('Ap Adam),
Prichard ('P Richard).

Persons of Scottish ancestry dislike having their "Mac" changed to "Mc".

Macaroni A coxcomb (Italian, un macceherone). The word is derived from the Macaroni Club, instituted
by a set of flashy men who had travelled in Italy, and introduced Italian maccheroni at Almack's
subscription table. The Macaronies were the most exquisite fops that ever disgraced the name of man;
vicious, insolent, fond of gambling, drinking, and duelling, they were (about 1773) the curse of Vauxhall
Gardens.

Macbeth (Shakespeare). The story is taken from Holinshed, who copied it from the History of Scotland,
by Hector Boece or Boyce, in seventeen volumes (1527). The history, written in Latin, was translated by
John Bellenden (1531-1535).

“History states that Macbeth slew Duncan at Bothgowan, near Elgin, in 1039, and not as
Shakespeare says, at his castle of Inverness: the attack was made because Duncan had
usurped the throne, to which Macbeth had the better claim. As a king Macbeth proved a very
just and equitable prince, but the partisans of Malcolm got head, and succeeded in deposing
Macbeth, who was slain in 1056, at Lumphanan. He was thane of Cromarty [Glamis], and
afterwards of Moray [Cawdor].- Lardner: Cabinet Cyclopoedia

Lady Macbeth. The wife of Macbeth. Ambition is her sin, and to gain the object of her ambition she
hesitates at nothing. Her masterful mind sways the weaker Macbeth to “the mood of what she liked or
loathed.” She is a Mede'a, or Catherine de' Medici, or Cæsar Borgia in female form. (Shakespeare
Macbeth.)
The real name of Lady Macbeth was Graoch, and instead of being urged to the murder of Duncan
through ambition, she was goaded by deadly injuries. She was, in fact, the granddaughter of Kenneth IV.,
killed in 1003, fighting against Malcolm II.- Lardner: Cabinet Cyclopoedia, vol. i. 17, etc.

Magazine (3 syl.). A place for stores. (Arabic, makhzan, gazana, a place where articles are preserved.)