May queen (makwen)

A girl or young woman crowned with flowers and honored as queen at the games held on May-day. may-skate (mā'skāt), n. Same as mavis - skate, may-sucker (mā'suk"ėr), n. The harelipped sucker, Qua i labia lacer a. [Local, U. S.] may thorn (ma'thôrn), n. [ The may thorn and its scent. Mrs. Browning. May-time (mā'tīm), n. [ may time ; May4 + time1.] May; the season of May. Alle freliche foules that on that frith songe, for merthe of that may time the i made moc he noyce. mazer in Let no maze intrude Upon your spirits. Marston and Webster , Malcontent, iv. 5. 4. A baffling and confusing network of paths or pa ages; a labyrinth: as, the maze of Hampton Court in England; a winding and turning; hence, a perplexed or embarra ing state of things; intricate disorder; entanglement: as, he found affairs all in a maze . The quaint mazes in the wanton green. Shak ., M. N. D., ii. 1. 99. To pry into the maze of his counsels is not only folly in man, but presumption even in angels. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 13. Others reason'd high, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. .. Milton , P. L., ii. 561. Varied tints all fused in one Great ma of color, like a maze Of flowers illumined by the sun. mazarin2, n. and v. See mazarine . mazarinade (maz-a-ri-nād'), n. [F. mazari- nade; as Mazarin (see def.) + -adel .] In French hist., one of the pamphlets, satires, songs, or lampoons directed against Cardinal 5t. Wonder; matter of wonder or curiosity. Mazarin (1602-61), prime minister of France, during the wars of the Fronde. Mazarin Bible. See Bible. mazarine (maz-a-rēn'), n. [Also mazarin; The sky up above was a bright mazarine, Just as though no such thing as a tempest had been. Barham , In golds by Legends, II. 295. 21. A blue gown worn by common-councilmen. IMG:content-0358.png:[blocks in formation] They. (for the time Was may time , and as yet no sin was dream'd) Rode under groves that look'd a paradise. Tennyson, Guinevere.