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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 pl…

A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

cient measure. His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error. Clarendon.

The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

lt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. Turbervile.

ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t. -- Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema. -- Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form…

A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man. Bacon.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your misfaith." Tennyson.

Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.

wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton.

To mistrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken. [Obs.] Spenser.

A small crustacean with one median eye.

An upward thrust or blow. Shak.