mayoress, mayress

[Eng. mayor; -e .) The wife of a mayor. "To ride in a fine gilt coach and six, Like her worship the Lady May're ." Hood: Mi Kilmansegg. *māy'-õr-lět, s. [English mayor : -let .] A petty mayor. "The patriotic mayor or may or let of the village."Carlyle: French Revol ., pt. 11., bk. iii., ch. iv. māy-těn-ŭs, subst. [Latinized by Molina from maiten, the Chilian name of one specics.] Bot.: A genus of Cel as traceæ, tribe Euonymem. It consists of shrubs or small trees found in South America. May ten us chi lens is is highly astringent. Măz-a-găn, s. [See def.] Geog.: A fortified seaport town of Morocco. Mazagan-bean, s. Hort.: An early variety of the common garden bean ( Faba vulgar is ), brought from near Mazagan. ma-za-mą, s. [Native name.] Zoology : 1. The generic name adopted by Buffon for all the Mexican species of the genus Cervus. In this he was followed by Rafinesque. F. Cuvier applied the name to his Cervus campestris . ( D'Orbigny .) 2. Mazama montana (Ord), Aplocerus montan us (Baird), popularly known as the Rocky Mountain Goat, though it is not a goat, nor is its home, strictly speaking, the Rocky Mountains, but the detatched chains that occupy the Pacific slopes of that range. The horns are thick, conical, and recurved; the hair white, long, and thick on the shoulders, throat, sides, and tail; the under hair soft and silky, the general appearance resembling that of a large sheep. One was shot in 1822, having a girth of 7 feet 31⁄2 inches, and measuring 5 feet 10% inches from the nose to the root of the tail. Its weight was between three and four hundred pounds.