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Show MA MA "a. ' Mediterranean, where it grows on rocks tand old ruins, from whence it is brough ‘for medicinal ufe S June is drawn in a mantle of dark grafs green ipon his head a garland of bents, king's-cup, an raidenkbair Peacham A'IDENHEAD % A IDENHODE purity ; freedo them Shakefpeare Maidenbood the loves, and will be fwif Newnefs i 1gi Milton Toaid a virgin k. ... ftate frefhnefs uncontaminate This is now become a low word The devil and mifchance look bi Shakef of our affa Upon the maidenbea . Some who attended with much expeation, a T itheir firft appearing have ftained the maidenbead o |B2)s ; their credit with fome negligent performance Nios Wotton i Hope's chafte kifs wrongs no joy's maidenbead ‘% Then fpoufal rites prejudge the marriage-bed C)'{[J%(I‘TU An herb [a"ipENLIP. 2./. [lappago. Ainfworth Lik TAYDENLY. adj. [maiden and like. a maid amadyio modeft gentle timorous, de I cent *Tis not maidenly Our fex, as well as I, may chide you for it. Shak You virtuous afs, and bathful fool; muft you b w11 bluthing? what a maiden/y man at arms are you beseiib © come Shakefpeare /a'1puoop nity #. /. [from maid. .1 VIA IDMARIAN (o 7. /. [puer ludius, Lat. fo called from a buf A kind of dance A fet of morrice-dancer play wh foon drefled like a man tricks to the populace dance Temple Pal like a fick virgin Change the completion of her maidpale peac Shakefpeare To fcarlet indignation " Maipse'rRvanT. 2z / A female fervant It is perfectly right what you fay of the indiffe rence in commo friends, whethe are fic w o well; the very maidfervants in a family have th Swift fame notion Maje'sTicaL N ¢/ 1. Auguft % adj havin [from majefty.] dignity grand im perial ; regal ; great of appearance They made a doub Prefence majeftical would put him out Wotton adv [from majeftical. A ftately worthlefs animal Yet fear not thou, but fpeak audacioufly. Shakefp # Get the ftart of the majeffick world Swift MA'JESTY. n. /. [majeffas, Latin. 1. Dignity ; grandeur; greatnefs of appearance; an appearance awful and folemn The voice of the Lord is full of majefly Plalm xxix. 4 The Lord reigneth 5 he is clothed with majefy Pfalm xciii Thic Amidf clouds an dark doth Heav'n's all-rulin Sir Chufe to refide, his glory unobfcur'd And with the majefly of darknefs roun Covers his throne Milton's Paradife Loft Great, without prildc, in fober majefty Pope 2. Power ; fovereignty Thine, O Lord, is the power and majefty 1 Chrons XXiX To the only wife God be glory and majsfty Fude 25 He gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father majefty Dan. v 18 3. Dignity ; elevation of manner The firft in loftinefs of thought furpafs'd The next in majefty Dryden 4. The title of kings and queens Moft royal majefly I crave no more than what your highnefs offer'd Shakefpeare's King Lear I have a garden opens to the fea From whence I can your majefly conve To fome nigh friend Waller He, who had been always believed a creature o the queen, vifited her majefly but oncg in fix weeks Clarendon I walk in awful ftate abov The majefty of heaven Martvr #z. / [maille Dryden French maglia Italian ; from maille, the mefh ofa net Skinner. 1. A coat of fteel network worn for defence Being advifed to wear a privy coat, the duk gave this anfwer, That againft any popular fury, fhirt of mail would be but a filly defence. #utzon Sate mecknefs, heighten'd with majeflick grace Denham Gay We frip the lobfter of his fcarlet mail Some fhirts of mail, fome coats of plate put on Some don'd a curace, fome a corflet bright Fairfax And bear the palm alone. Shake[peare's Fulius Cf ‘We do it wrong, being fo majéftical To offer it the fhew of violence. Shakefps Hamlet In his fac I am thy married wife And thou a prince, proteétor of this lan Some wore a coat-armour, imitating fcale And next their {kin. were ftubborn fhirts of mail Some wore a breaft-plate. Dryden's Knight's Tale 3. poftman' mghletre, Fr. bundle a bag Methinks I fhould not thus be led along Mail'd up in fhame, with papers on my back Shake[peare 70 MAIM. @. a. [maitan, Gothick, t cut off5 mehaigner, to maim, old French mehaina, Armorick; mancus, Latin.] T deprive of any neceflary part ; to crippl by lofs of a limb: originally writte from the French mayhem You wrought to be a legate [mal by whic powe You maim'd the jurifdi€tion of all bithops. Shakef The multitude wondered when they faw th dumb to fpeak, the maimed to be whole, and th lame to walk 3 and they glorified God Matthew, xv. 31 Marm That plies the tongue, and wags the tail All flutter, pride, and talk Shakefpeare's Henry 1V 2. To bundle in a wrapper From Italy a wand ring ra Of moving light illuminates the day Northward fhe bends, majeftically bright And here fhe fixes her imperial light Granwille So have I feen in black and white A prating thing, a magpie hight Majeftically falk 2. Any armour For, quoth the king, an angel fhalt theu fee Up to the ears in blood Huooker majeftical defires in ever as wit The mailed Mars fhall on his altar fi With dignity ; with grandeur a maidmaria MA1DPALE. adj. [maid and pale. an armour not only argue an infinit Nor will you tender lefs with a tabor and pipe dot @. a. [from the noun. t. 'T'o arm defenfively; to cover abundance, both of artizans and materials, but like Virgi By maidhbood, honour, and-every thing Shakefpeare's Tawelfth Night I love thee gl aga paflag Maje'sTicaLLy Example, that fo terrible thews in the wreck o maidenbood, cannot for all that difluade fuccefiion but that they are limed with the twigs that threate tanes thing which he purpofed;, t majeftical and frately was n The leaft portions muft be of the epick kind all mutt be grave, majeflical, and fublime. Dryden She hated chambers, clofets, fecret mewes And in broad fields preferv'd her maidenbead Whic 7o MarL fplendid common perfon 1}.':";/‘2.',\: e t was no mea perform a wotk f wife of magnificen And, for the modeft lore of maidenbood " Bids me not fojourn with thefe armed men Oh whither fhall I fly; what facred woe %8, Shall hide me from the tyrant? or what den 2. Stately ; pompous 3. Sublime ; elevated ; lofty "a'TDENHOOD ' Virginity ; virgina "from contamination A royal robe he wore with graceful pride Embroider'd fandals glitter'd as he trod And forth he mov'd, majeftick as a god Pape's Odyfley fmall charge #. /. [from maiden. MA 1 #z. / [from the verb. lame Privation of fome eflential part nefs, produced by a wound or amputation Surely there is° more caufe to fear; left th want thereof be a maim, than the ufe a blemith Hooker fcarce himfelf Humphry, duke of Glo'fter That bears fo fhrewd a maim ; two pulls at once: A lady banifh't, and a.limb lopt.off 2. Injury Shakefp mifchief Not fo deep a maim As to be caft forth in the common air Have 1 deferved Shakefpeare's Richard 1 3. Effential defe&t A noble author efteems it to be a-maim in hiftory, that the afts of parliament fhould-not be recited Hayzward M!}IN. adf. [magne, old French Latin. 1. Principal'; chief; leading magnus In every grand or main publick duty which Go requireth of his churchy there is, befides that mar ter and form wherein the eflfence thereof confifteth a certain outward fafhion, whereby the fame is i decent manner adminiftered Hooker There is a hiftory in all men's lives Figuring the nature of the times deceafed ; The which obferv'd a man may prophefy With a near aim, of the main chance of thing As yet not come to life Shakefpsare's Henr IV He is fuper@itious grown of late Quite from the main opinion he had. onc Of fantafy of dreams and ceremonies Shakefpeass There arofe three nototious and main rebeilions which drew feveral armies out of England Dawies on Ireland The nether flood Which now divided into four main ftreams Runs diverfe Miitor's Paradife Lofl I fhould be much for open war If what was urg' O pecers Main reafon to perfuade immediate war Did not diffuade me mott Alf creatures loo Milton's Paradife Lof to the main chance that is food and propagation L'Efirange Our snain intereft is to be as happy as we can iHotf sotlon and as long as pofitble Nor tell me in a dying father's tone Be careful {till of the main chance my fo Put out the principal in trufty hands Live on the ufe, and never dip thy lands Dryden Whil@t they have bufied themfelves in variou learning, they have been wanting in the one mai thing Baker Nor is it only in the main defign, but they hav Pog followed him in every epifode » Might hug gnty overpowering v |