the principal of the Maldive Islands, in the Indian Ocean, situated nearly in the centre of them, and about four miles in circumference. It is the most fertile of the whole, and contains a town, which is the residence of the prince. Long. 73.10. E. Lat. 6.20. N.

Male, amongst zoologists, that sex of animals which has the parts of generation situated externally. (See Physiology and Sex.) The term male has also, from some similitude to that sex in animals, been applied to several inanimate things; thus we say, a male flower, a male screw, and the like.