English Dictionary: mayfly | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mabble \Mab"ble\, v. t. To wrap up. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Maffle \Maf"fle\, v. i. [Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer. Cf. {Muffle} to mumble.] To stammer. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m[94]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species. {A. saccharinum} is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is {A. rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium}, called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A. campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}. Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc. {Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers. {Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, [or] {Maple sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses. {Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a. 1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower. 2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only. [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox. Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal, efficacy. --Sir J. Stephen. {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day fly} and {May fly}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Maybird \May"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The whimbrel; -- called also {May fowl}, {May curlew}, and {May whaap}. (b) The knot. [Southern U. S.] (c) The bobolink. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Maypole \May"pole`\, n. A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See {Mobile}, n.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it. A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. --Addison. 2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. --Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. --Tennyson. {Mob law}, law administered by the mob; lynch law. {Swell mob}, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] --Dickens. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See {Move}.] 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. [bd]Fixed or else mobile.[b8] --Skelton. 2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily. 3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. --Hawthorne. 4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features. 5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mobile \Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, a., and cf. 3d {Mob}.] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] [bd]The unthinking mobile.[b8] --South. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moble \Mo"ble\, v. t. [From {Mob} to wrap up.] To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moebles \Moe"bles\, n. pl. [OE., fr. OF. moeble, mueble, movable, from L. mobilis.] Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular ({moeble}). [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moplah \Mop"lah\, n. [Malayalam m[be]pplia.] One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muffle \Muf"fle\, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See {Muffle}, v. t., {Muff}.] 1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff. 2. (Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc. 3. (Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln. 4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. --Knight. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muffle \Muf"fle\ (m[ucr]f"f'l), n. The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muffling}.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel a muff. See {Muff}.] 1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up. --South. The face lies muffled up within the garment. --Addison. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden. Muffled up in darkness and superstition. --Arbuthnot. 2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen. 3. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock. | |
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Mabel, MN (city, FIPS 38888) Location: 43.52031 N, 91.76829 W Population (1990): 745 (328 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55954 | |
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Maple, NC Zip code(s): 27956 Maple, TX Zip code(s): 79344 Maple, WI Zip code(s): 54854 | |
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Maybell, CO Zip code(s): 81640 | |
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Mayville, MI (village, FIPS 52540) Location: 43.33604 N, 83.35326 W Population (1990): 1010 (386 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48744 Mayville, ND (city, FIPS 51500) Location: 47.50009 N, 97.32825 W Population (1990): 2092 (866 housing units) Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58257 Mayville, NY (village, FIPS 46239) Location: 42.25291 N, 79.50232 W Population (1990): 1636 (811 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 14757 Mayville, WI (city, FIPS 50200) Location: 43.49822 N, 88.54622 W Population (1990): 4374 (1690 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53050 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mobile, AL (city, FIPS 50000) Location: 30.67745 N, 88.08896 W Population (1990): 196278 (82817 housing units) Area: 305.7 sq km (land), 100.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36602, 36603, 36604, 36605, 36606, 36607, 36608, 36609, 36612, 36617, 36618, 36619, 36693, 36695 Mobile, AZ Zip code(s): 85239 | |
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Moville, IA (city, FIPS 54930) Location: 42.48959 N, 96.06682 W Population (1990): 1306 (569 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51039 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Maple A {symbolic mathematics} package by B. Char, K. Geddes, G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of Waterloo}, Canada and {ETH} Zurich, Switzerland in 1980. Version: Maple V. E-mail: glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu. (1994-10-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MPL 1. [Sammet 1969, p.542]. 2. {MasPar} {data-parallel} version of {C}. See also {ampl}. {Compiler version 3.1 (ftp://maspar.maspar.com/put/)}. 3. Motorola Programming Language. A low-level {PL/I}-like language, similar to {PL/M}, but for the {Motorola 6800}. 4. MicroProgramming Language. Simple language for microprogramming. Statements on the same line represent {register} transfers caused by one microinstruction, and are executed in parallel. ["Structured Computer Organization", A.S. Tanenbaum, First Edition, P-H 1976. (Replaced in later editions by Mic-1)]. (1995-03-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MPL II [Burroughs VMS MPL II Language Reference Manual]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MPPL [Sammet 1969, p. 542]. (1995-03-07) |