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butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the
flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of
the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah,
is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

||Ma"i*a (?), n. [From L. Maia,
a goddess.] (Zoöl.) (a) A genus of
spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia
squinado). (b) A beautiful American
bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Ma"ian (?), n. (Zoöl.)
Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family
Maiadæ.

Maid (?), n. [Shortened from
maiden. &?;. See Maiden.] 1.
An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a
girl; a virgin; a maiden.

Would I had died a maid,

And never seen thee, never borne thee son.

Shak.

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her
attire? Yet my people have forgotten me.

Jer. ii.
32.

2.

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