In the 2000s Briers was the curmudgeonly and extravagant father Hector MacDonald in the BBC television programme Monarch of the Glen (2000-05), appearing in series 1,2,3 & 7. He appeared in other programmes, see Later Career.
(mal'Ä-Ä-bÄl) Capable of being shaped by being beaten or by pressure; a property of certain metals such as gold and silver. [L. malleus, a hammer] susceptible of being beaten out into a thin plate. malleable retractor.
malleus (plural mallei) ( 1 anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. quotations â¼ A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion. ( 2 ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). ( 3 zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.