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ha, 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 flowe…

The celebrating of May Day. "He met her once a-Maying." Milton.

with spongy pith; pithy. Medullary groove (Anat.), a groove, in the epiblast of the vertebrate blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube (the medullary canal) from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exogenous w…

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

The middle body layer in some invertebrates.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn. Michaelmas daisy. (Bot.) See under Daisy.

of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.

A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.

Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.

A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida.

A strong or abnormal desire. [Obs.] Shak. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. -- Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common…

One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses; -- so called from the name of the stud from which the breed originated in Vermont.

Obedient; obsequious. [Obs.] Brathwait.

ical sounds, i.e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in…

Same as Vertebrata.