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Show M MA Pol Mavy-roLe. #. /. [May and pole. to be danced round in May Amid the area wide fhe took her ftand Where the tall May-gole once o'er-look'd the ftrand Pope May-wEED. #. /i [May and aweed. fpecies of chamomile, called alfe ftinking chamomile, which grows wild Miller The Maie-weed doth burne,and the thiftle doth freat The fitches pull downward both rie and the wheat Tuffer MA'YOR. #. /. [major, Lat.] The chie magiftrate of a corporation, who, i London and York, is called Lord Mayor When the king once heard it ; out of anger He fent command to the lord mayor ftrai Shakefpeare's Henry VIII To ftop the rumour The mayor locked up the gates of the city. Knolles Wou'dft thon not rather chufe a {fmall renown To be themayor of fome poor paltry town ? Dryden Th Ma'YORALTY. 7. /. [from mayor. office of a mayor It is incorporated with the mayoralty, and namCarew -eth burgefles to the parliament There was a fharp profecution againft Sir WilJiam Capel, for mifgovernment in his mayoralty Bacon's Henry VII Ma'vorEss. 7. /. [from mayor. The wif of the mayor Ma'zARD. #. /. [mafechoire, Fr. A jaw Hanmer Now my lady Worm's «chaplefs, and knock Shakefp ~about the mazard with a fexton's fpade Where thou might'ft ftickle without hazar Hudibras Of outrage to thy hide and mazard MAZE a whirlpool take ; maye - to mif [mifen, Dutch n. f Skinner. . Alabyrinth ; aplace of perplexity an winding pafiages Circular bafz of rifing folds, that tower' Milton ¥old above fold, a furging maze The ways of Heav'n are dark and intricate Puzzled with mazes and perplex'd with error Qur underftanding fearches them in vain. Addifon He, likea copious river, pour'd his fon O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground. Thomfon o 2. Confufio perplexity thought uncertainty He left in himfelf nothing but a maze of longing Sidney and adangeon of forrow While they ftudy how to bring to pafs that reJigion may feem but a matter made, they lofe them felves in the very maze of their own difcourfes, a if reafon did even purpofely forfake them, who o . purpofe forfake God the author thereof. Hooker I have thruft myfelf into this maze Shakefp Haply to wive and thrive as beft Imay s Others apart faton a b#t retir'd Ta thoughts more elevate, and reafon'd hig Of providence, forcknowledge, will and fate Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge abfolute And found no end, in wand'ring mazes loft. Milton 75 Maze v. a. [fro the noun. T bewilder; to confufe Much was I maz'd to fee this monfter kind In hundred forms o change his fearful hue. Spenfer Mazy. adj. [from maze. with windings; confufed Perplexe How from that faphire fount the crifped brooks Rolling on orient peail and fands of gold With mazy error, under pendant fhades Milton Ran nectar The Lapitha to chariots add the ftat Of bits and bridles, taught the ftced to bound To run the ring and trace the mazy round Dryd Ma'zER. 2. /. [moefer, Dutch, a knot o maple. Then A maple cup lo! Perigot the pledge whichI plight A mazer ywrought of the maple ware ME Wherein is enchafed many a fair figh Of bears and tigers that make fierce war Now will the canker forrow eat my ). Che'e hi fro beaut nativ th And chaf Spenfer And he will ook as hollow as a ghof As dim and meagre as an ague's fit, ' Sba.kg Meagre were his look Sharp mifery had worn him to the bor'xes. Shab Virgil obferves, like Theocritus, a juft decorum, both of the fubjeét and perfons, as in th third paftoral, where one of his fhepherds defcribe Dryden a bowl, or mazer, curioufly carved Whatfoever their neighbour gets, tficy l'of‘a M.D. Medicine doctor, do&or of phyfick MEe 1. The oblique cafe of 7 only me, the hand of fortune bore M a kin In fwarms th' offending wretch furroun All brooding on the blafted ground And limping death, lafh'd on by fat Comes up to fhorten half our date, of ludicrou Shake[peare He prefently, as greatnefs knows itfelf Steps me alittle higher chan his vo Made to my father, while his blood was poor Shakefpeare I, acquainted with the fmell before 2. Poor and I followed me clofe, came in foot and hand with a thought, feven of the eleven I paid. Shake/p 3. It is fometimes ufed ungrammaticall MEe"acock. n.[. [mes cog. Skinner. A uxorious or effeminate man MEs'acock. adj. Tame; timorous COW ardly How tame "Tis aworld to fee whenmen and women are alone It cannot be, tha #n / [mzbo Saxon ME'aGERNESS } n./. [mzbe, Saxon.] Groun § fomewhatwatery, not plowcovered with grafs and flowers a word chiefly poetical Where all things in common do reft Corne feeld with the pafture and mead Yet what doth it ftand you in ftead? Tuffer's Hufb A band feleét from forage drive A herd of beeves, fair oxen, and fair kine From a fat mcadocv ground. Milton's Paradife Lof? Paints her, 'tis true, with the fame hand whic fpreads Like glorious colours, through the flow'ry meads When lavith Nature with her beft attir Cloaths the gay fpring, the feafon of defire. Waller Yet ere to-morrow's fun thaH thew his head The dewy paths of meadeavs we will tread For crowns and chaplets to adorn thy bed MEeADO Dryden SAFFRON. 7./. [colchicum, Liat. A plant The meadow-[affron hath a flower confiting o one leaf, fhaped likea lily, rifing in form of a fmal tube, and is gradually widened into fix fegments it has likewife a folid, bulbous root, covered wit a membranous fkin Miller M:apow-sWEET #. /. [ulmaria, Latin. A plant 7. / [from meager. the better to make compenfafi,{ Poynings the meagernefs of his fervice in the wars by ads Bugs peace, called a parliament Mkeak. #./. A hook with a long hande A meake for the peafe, and to fwing up the bk, Meavr tion. #. /. [male, Saxon, repaft orpgg Boaz faid unto her, at mea/ time, Come eat,u Rathyii1 dip thy morfel The quantity of aliment neceffary to keep to be difi animal in a due flate of vigour, ough "into meals at proper intervals. Arbuthnoton Alimst 2. A repait the food eaten R What ftrange fit Hath made his meal on thee ? Skakefpeare's Tenj Give them great meals of beef, and iron a feel, they will eat like wolves, and fight like d Shake[peare's HagV They made m' a mifer's feaft of happinefs, ' And cou'd not furnith out another meal 3. A part; a fragment Drjin S That yearly rent is ftill paid into the hangt even as the former cafualty itfelf was wont b in parcel meal, brought in and anfwered th;l!-‘} g 4 [Mezlepe Saxon ; meel, Dutch; len, to grind, German. or edible part of corn The flowe In the bolting and fifting of near fourteen & of fuch power and favour, all that came out not be expe@ed to be pure and fine meal, but have a mixture of padar and bran in this loser of human fragility An old weafel convey W'";" himfelf into ama for the mice to.come to her, fince fhe cotlld w LEfi to them ° v . c e F e e [ a w L a To M ey fprinkle ; to mingle Were he meal' Wit that which he correés, then We"‘h‘ rannous Sbaklffl': Me'aLMAN. 7. /. [meal and ,,,a,,.]..O that deals in meal ME aLy. adj. [from meal. 1. Having the tafte or fof infipiaig iti gua th n hav meal ME'aGER. adj. [maigre, French; macer, 17 i The mealy parts of plants diffolve Latin. male too vifcid an aliment. Arbutbnot M‘d t. Lean; wanting fleth; ftarven 2. Befprinkled, as with meal Thou art fo lean and meagre waxen late That fcarce thy legs uphol thy feeble gate. Hué 1. The a& of eating at a certain time. Though not fo folutive a drink as mead, ye Bacos it will be more grateful to the ftomach He fheers his over-burden'd fheep Or mcad for cooling drink prepares Dryden Of virgin honey in the jars MEeabp Mz apow ed, bu Mead i ami 1. Leannefs ; want of flefh 2. Scantnefs ; barenefs meethe honey I fhould be f Krolles's Hiftory of the Ty Shake[peare Dutch ; meth, German ; bydromeli, Lat. A kind of drink made of water an betrayed, and as a man meagered with long Wakh ing and painful labour, laid himfelf dow to A meacock wretch can make the curfteft threws Mgap 3 make lean rather had, my heart might feel your love Than my unpleas'd eye fee your courtely. Shake/p hungry 7o ME'AGER. @. . [from the noun'_fd as, methinks for I Canaan's happy land, when worn wit Requir'd 2 Sabbath year to mend the meagn'f:,;j Dy knew it wa Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs Shake[peare Fierce famine with her meagre fac And fevers of the fiery race Pope He thrufts 7 himfelf into the company of thre or four gentlemanlike dogs, under the duke's table LEfri tr Pope Unbleft to tread an interdi¢ted fhore For me the fates feverely kind, ordai A cool fufpenfe 2. Me is fometime expletive t'Other',, ; make eat on tha brea the ver With four wings, as all farinacious an winged animals, as butterflies anrd moths |