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An old game at cards. Sir A. Weldon.

e 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 woma…

A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score; as, to meld a sequence.

-- Merry men, followers; retainers. [Obs.] His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee. Chaucer. -- To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. Judg. ix. 27.

ternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; - - in distinction from heterogamy.

the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

nly one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.

A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

A game preserve consisting of moorland. Moor buzzard (Zoöl.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. -- Moor cock (Zoöl.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. -- Moor coot. (Zoöl.) See Gallinule. -- Moor fowl. (Zoöl.) (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grou…

A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

en plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.

A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters.

Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.