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Maid`ma"ri*an (?), n. [Maid +
Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin Mary.]
1. The lady of the May games; one of the
characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque
character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's
clothes.

2. A kind of dance. Sir W.
Temple.

Maid"pale` (?), a. Pale, like a
sick girl. Shak.

Maid"serv`ant (?), n. A female
servant.

Maid's" hair` (?). (Bot.) The yellow bedstraw
(Galium verum).

{ Ma*ieu"tic (m&asl;*ū"t&ibreve;k),
Ma*ieu"tic*al (-t&ibreve;*kal), }
a. [Gr. maieytiko`s, fr.
mai^a midwife.] 1. Serving to assist
childbirth. Cudworth.

2. Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the
definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Payne.

Ma*ieu"tics (?), n. The art of
giving birth (i.


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