Medicine, is a languishing disorder incident to pregnant women, in which they long sometimes for one kind of food and sometimes for another, and eat it with extraordinary greediness.

Malacoptyterygeous, in Ichthyology, an appellation given to fishes having the rays of their fins bony at the extremities, but not pointed, like those of acanthopterygeous fishes.

Malacostomous fishes, those destitute of teeth in the jaws, called in English leather-mouthed, as the tench, carp, bream, &c.