Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAY-MORN, n.

Freshness; vigor. Shak.

MAY-OR, n. [Fr. maire; Norm. maeur, mair, meyre; Arm. mear; W. maer, one stationed, one that looks after or tends, one that keeps or guards, a provost, a mayor, a bailif; maer y biswal, a land steward, the keeper of a cow-lair; maer-drev, a dairy hamlet; maerdy, a dairy farm; maeron, a male-keeper or dairy-farmer; maeres, a female who looks after, a dairy woman; maeroni, the office of a keeper, superintendency, mayoralty; Arm. miret, to keep, stop, hold, coinciding with Fr. mirer, L. miror, the primary sense of which is precisely the same as in the Armoric. See Admirable and Miracle. A mayor, then, was originally an overseer, and among country gentlemen, a steward, a kind of domestic bailif; rendered in the writing of the middle ages, villicus. See Spelman ad voc. The derivation of the word from L. major, is undoubtedly an error.]

The chief magistrate of a city, who, in London and York, is called lord mayor. The mayor of a city, in America, is the chief judge of the city court, and is assisted, in some cases at least, by two or more aldermen. To the lord mayor of London belong several courts of judicature, as the hustings, court of requests, and court of common council.

MAY-OR-AL-TY, n.

The office of a mayor. Bacon.

MAY-OR-ESS, a.

The wife of a mayor.

MAY-POLE, n.

A pole to dance round in May; a long pole erected.

MAY-WEED, n.

A plant, Anthemis Cotula.

MAZ'A-GAN, n.

A variety of the common bean, Faba vulgaris.

MAZ'ARD, n. [probably from the root of mash; Fr. machoire.]

1. The jaw. [Not used.] Shak. Hudibras.
2. A black cherry.

MAZ'ARD, v.t.

To knock on the head. [Not in use.] B. Jonson.

MAZ-A-RINE, n.

1. A deep blue color.
2. A particular way of dressing fowls.
3. A little dish set in a large one. Ash.

MAZE, n. [Sax. mase, a whirlpool; Arm. mez, confusion or shame. The origin and affinities of this word are not ascertained.]

1. A winding and turning; perplexed state of things; intricacy; a state that embarrasses. The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, / puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. Addison.
2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty.
3. A labyrinth.

MAZE, v.i.

To be bewildered. [Obs.] Chaucer.

MAZE, v.t.

To bewilder; to confound with intricacy; to amaze. Spenser.

MAZ-ED-NESS, n.

Confusion; astonishment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

MAZ-ER, n.

A maple cup. [Obs.] Spenser.

MA'ZI-LY, adv.

With perplexity.

MA'ZI-NESS, n.

Perplexity.

MAZ-O-LOG'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to mazology.

MA-ZOL'O-GIST, n.

One versed in mazology.

MA-ZOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. μαζα,a breast, and λογος, discourse.]

The doctrine or history of mammiferous animals.

MA'ZY, a.

Winding; perplexed with turns and windings; intricate; as, mazy error. Milton. To run the ring and trace the mazy round. Dryden.

MD, n. [M. D.]

Medicinæ Doctor, doctor of medicine.

ME, pron. [pron. pers.; the objective case of I, answering to the oblique cases of ego, in Latin. Sax. me; Goth. mik; G. mich; Fr. moi; L. mihi; Sp. mi; It. mi or me; Arm. me; Port. mim; D. my; Gaelic, mo; Hindoo, mejko; Sans. me. The Hindoos use me in the nominative, as in Celtic and French, mi, moi.]

Follow me; give to me; go with me. The phrase "I followed me close," is not in use. Before think, as in methinks, me is properly in the dative case, and the verb is impersonal; the construction is, it appears to me.

MEA-COCK, a.

Tame; timorous; cowardly. [Not used.] Shak.

MEA-COCK, n. [Qu. meek and cock.]

An uxorious, effeminate man. [Not used.] Johnson.