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   May beetle
         n 1: any of various large European beetles destructive to
               vegetation as both larvae and adult [syn: {cockchafer},
               {May bug}, {May beetle}, {Melolontha melolontha}]
         2: any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating
            beetles common in late spring; the larvae feed on roots of
            grasses etc. [syn: {June beetle}, {June bug}, {May bug}, {May
            beetle}]

English Dictionary: Mobuto Lake by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mobuto Lake
n
  1. a shallow lake on the border between Uganda and Congo in the Great Rift Valley
    Synonym(s): Lake Albert, Lake Albert Nyanza, Mobuto Lake
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   June \June\, n. [L. Junius: cf. F. Juin. So called either from
      Junius, the name of a Roman gens, or from Juno, the goddess.]
      The sixth month of the year, containing thirty days.
  
               And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever,
               come perfect days.                                 -- Lowell.
  
      {June beetle}, {June bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several
            species of large brown beetles of the genus {Lachnosterna}
            and related genera; -- so called because they begin to
            fly, in the northern United States, about the first of
            June. The larv[91] of the June beetles live under ground,
            and feed upon the roots of grasses and other plants.
            Called also {May bug} or {May beetle}.
  
      {June grass} (Bot.), a New England name for Kentucky blue
            grass. See {Blue glass}, and Illustration in Appendix.

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]:
   Myoepithelial \My`o*ep`i*the"li*al\, a. [Myo- + epithelial.]
      1. (Biol.) Derived from epithelial cells and destined to
            become a part of the muscular system; -- applied to
            structural elements in certain embryonic forms.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Having the characteristics of both muscle and
            epithelium; as, the myoepithelial cells of the hydra.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   MFTL /M-F-T-L/   [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
   adj.   Describes a talk on a programming language design that is
   heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about
   semantics (e.g., type systems), but rarely, if ever, has any content
   (see {content-free}).   More broadly applied to talks -- even when
   the topic is not a programming language -- in which the subject
   matter is gone into in unnecessary and meticulous detail at the
   sacrifice of any conceptual content.   "Well, it was a typical MFTL
   talk".   2. n. Describes a language about which the developers are
   passionate (often to the point of proselytic zeal) but no one else
   cares about.   Applied to the language by those outside the
   originating group.   "He cornered me about type resolution in his
   MFTL."
  
      The first great goal in the mind of the designer of an MFTL is
   usually to write a compiler for it, then bootstrap the design away
   from contamination by lesser languages by writing a compiler for it
   in itself.   Thus, the standard put-down question at an MFTL talk is
   "Has it been used for anything besides its own compiler?"   On the
   other hand, a (compiled) language that cannot even be used to write
   its own compiler is beneath contempt.   (The qualification has become
   necessary because of the increasing popularity of interpreted
   languages like {Perl} and {Python}. See {break-even point}.
  
      (On a related note, Doug McIlroy once proposed a test of the
   generality and utility of a language and the operating system under
   which it is compiled: "Is the output of a FORTRAN program acceptable
   as input to the FORTRAN compiler?"   In other words, can you write
   programs that write programs? (See {toolsmith}.)   Alarming numbers
   of (language, OS) pairs fail this test, particularly when the
   language is FORTRAN; aficionados are quick to point out that {Unix}
   (even using FORTRAN) passes it handily.   That the test could ever be
   failed is only surprising to those who have had the good fortune to
   have worked only under modern systems which lack OS-supported and
   -imposed "file types".)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MFTL
  
      {My Favourite Toy Language}
  
  
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