A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature/מכסא - מכשף
מכסא, מיכ׳ ch. same. Gen. R. s. 4o למ׳ דמטא כיון (==מ לבי) ewhen he arrived at tthe custom-house. Ib. הב מ׳ pay toll. Ab. Zar. 4a וכ׳ מ׳ ליה שבקו they released him from taxes for thirteen years. [מכא, infin. of כסא, v. כסן.]]- Pl. מכסי, מי׳. מ׳ בי Custoom House, name of a place. Keth. 112a top; Yeb. 45a; Gitt. 46b; v. כובא II.
מכסא, v. מוכסא.
מכסאני, v. מכסנא.
מכסה m. (b. h.; כסה II) 1) tent-cover. Sabb. 28a; a. e. - Pl. מכסאות. Ib. Num. R. s. 12, end; a. e. -- 2) (v. Lev. III, 3) the cover of the inwards, peritoneum. Y. Hor. I, 46a top מ׳ ושל (not ולומ׳) and the fat of the peritoneum.
*מכסורין,מכסי׳ m. pl. (כסר, cmp. Arab. kasar and denom.) division, setttlement of shares (cmp. ממס). Y'lamd. to Num. XXIII, 10, quot. in Ar. ותעשה שלך את לכשתטול וכ׳ המ׳ when thou (Balaam) takest thy share and makest a settlement, thou shalt agree with (or thank) me. [Ar. refers to אכסרה.]
מכסח, Y. Sabb. VI, end, 8d למ׳ קריב, read; למכסה, v. מוכסא.
מכסיוטינוס, Mekh. Yithro, Amal., s. 2 end, read טכסיוטיסין m. pl. (t~eb~~) magistrate's assistants.
מכסירין, v. מכסורין.
מכסן (denom. of next w.) to chastise. [Targ. Ps. XCIV, 12 מכסניניה, Var. ed. Lag, read; תכס׳, v. עמן] Bhpa. אתמכסן to be chastised. Targ. Job XXXIII, 19.
מכסנא m. (כסן) chastiser. - Pl. מכסני. Targ. Prov. XXIV, 25 (ed. Lag. מאכסני, Ms. מכסאני).
מכסנותא f. (preced.) chastisement, rebuke. Targ. Ps. L, 17. Ib. XXXIX, 12 (some ed. מסכ׳, corr. acc.); a. e -- Pl. מכסנייתא (v. next w.). Ib. XXXVIII, 15. Targ. Job XXIII, 4 מכסניותא ed. Lag. (corr. מכסנו׳ or מכסניי׳; oth. ed. sing.).
מכסנייא same. Targ. Job XXXI, 23 מכסנייה Ms. (ed. Lag. מסייפי; ed. Wil. מספיי׳).
מכפה, Y. Succ. II, end, 53b, read; מקפה.
מכפלה f (b. h.; כפל) doubling, coupling. Erub. 53a מ׳ הייו that is the reason why it is called double cave'. Ib. מ׳ מאי why is it called &c. --Gen. R. s. 98 ישראל לשמע המ׳ ממערת אבינו hear, oh Israel, our father of the double cavel; a. e.
מכר (b. h.; cmp. כרה) to sell. Sifre Deut. 169 (ref. to Deut. XVIII, 8) וכ׳ מכרו מה what have the fathers sold to one another? (Answ. the weekly turns); Succ. 56a; Y. ib. V, end, 55a. B. Bath. 64b, a. fr. מוכר יפה בעין מוכר the seller is presumed to sell liberally, i. e. to sell all ex- cept that which is specified as excluded; מ׳ רעה בעיין מ׳ he sells only that which is specified as sold. Ib. IV, 1. . המוכר וכ׳ מ׳ לא iff one sells . . ., he has not implicitly sold &c. Sot. III, 8 וכ׳ מוכית האשה אין a woman cannot sell her daughter; a. v. fr. Part. pass. מכור; f מכורה; pl. מכורים, מכורין; מכורות. Tosef. Ab. Zar. III (IV), 18 מ׳ זה הרי he is sold (the sale is valid). B. Bath. IV, 3. Tosef. B. Kam. VII, 8 וכ׳ המ׳ חביות wine casks which have been sold to the shopkeeper (awaiting delivery); a. v. fr. Nif. נמכר to be sold. Sot. l. c. נמכרת . . ׳ האיש a man can be sold for his theft, but a woman cannot &c. Mekh. Mishp. s. 2; a. fr.
*מכר, Ithpa. אתמכר (denom. of מכר) to be made ac- auainted. Targ. Prov. XIX, 14 Var. ed. Lag. (ed. מתמסרא, v. מסר).
מכר m. (b. h.; מכר) sale. Kidd. 6b קנה לא במ׳ if the transaction is a sale (of land), he has not acquired pos- session (by delivering the purchasing money as a loan). Ib. 47a במ׳ ושוין and they agree in the case of a sale. Keth. XI, 4 בטל מכרה her sale is invalid; a. fr. -- V. ממכר.
מכר m. (b. h.; נכר) acquaintance, friend. Y. Gitt. III, 45a לעי מ׳ ויש has the poor man a friend?, . e., is he who separates the poor man's tithes permitted to reserve them for a certain person? --- Pl. מכרים, constr. מכרי. Ib. במ׳ וכ׳ כהונה the Mishnah speaks of friends of priests or Le- vites (to whom the owner is in the habit of giving the priestly shares); Bab. ib. 30a. Ib. קתני לא במ׳ (sub. כהונה) the Mishnah does not distinctly speak of friends. Hull. 133a; a. fr.
מכרא ch. same. Targ. II Kings XII, 6. - Pl. מכרין. Ib. 8.
מכרות f. pl. 1) (מכר) sales, trnsf. m. (cmp. לקוחות) seller. Gen. R. s. 98 (ref. to Gen. XLIX, 6 מכרתי) for whom are those weapons flt למכרותיהוכ׳ to their seller, to Esau who sold the birth-right (to their father). -2) (=מכרות, fr. נכר, cmp. מכר) friendship, neighborhood, neighbors. Tanh. Vayhi 9; Gen. R. s. 99 (ref. to Gen. l. c.) מכרותיהם וי״א וכ׳ מגורותיהם(ed. il. מכור׳) and some say m'kherotheheom, means their neighborhoods (ed. Wil.; and some say, read it m'khorothehen) as we read (Ez. XVI, 3) &c. --V. מכידין.
מכרין, Y. Hall. I, 58a top מ׳ עיסת (ed. Krot. מברין) prob. to be read מוכרין, the dough prepared by sellers (intended to be used as leaven).
מכשול m. (b. h.; כשל) hindrance. Succ. 52a ישעיה מ׳ קראו Isaiah called the evil inclination hindrance (Is. LVII, 14).
מכשיר m., pl.מכשירין (1(עשר) preparatorymeans, preliminary acts. Meg. 7b נפש אוכל מכשירי acts prelimin-- ary to the preparation of food (as grinding the slaughter- ing knife &c.). Ib. מכשיריו ולא הוא it says (Ex. XII, 16) that (alone may be done), but not its preliminaries. Ib. וכ׳ שאפשר מ׳ acts which might have been done a day before. Erub. 102b, sq. מ׳מצוה requirements of a religious act (to be performed on the Sabbath, v. דחה). Sabb. 136a מילה מ׳ requirements for circumcision. Tosef. Pes. V, 1; Y. Sabb. XIX, 17a top; a. fr. - 2) Makhshirin(things which make an object fit for levitical uncleanness), natme of a