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• May

  ·noun The merrymaking of May Day. II. May ·noun A <<Maiden>>. III. May ·noun The early part or spr...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• May laws

  ·add. ·- ·see <<Kulturkampf>>, above. II. May laws ·add. ·- In Russia, severe oppressive laws again...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• May, Thomas

  (1595-1650) Poet and historian, b. in Sussex, s. of Sir Thomas M., of Mayfield, went to Camb., and ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• May Square

  On the west side of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O.S. 1875-80). "Tyson Court" in...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• may bees

  May bees don't fly all the year long; an answer to any one who prefaces a proposition with, It may b...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• may-apple

  (Genus, podophyllum.) A plant, the root of which is medicinal, answering as a substitute for jalup.-...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• may-bug

  the brown cock-chafer. Kent. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Sinclair, Miss May

  Novelist, etc. Nakietas and other Poems, Audrey Craven, Two Sides of a Question, The Divine Fire, Th...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• May, Sir Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough

  (1815-1886) Jurist and historian, ed. at Bedford School, and after holding various minor offices be...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• merry men of may

  Dangerous currents formed by the ebb-tides. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Crommelin, May de la Cherois

  Novelist. Queenie, My Love She's but a Lassie, Orange Lily, For the Sake of the Family, Crimson Lili...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin