{ Mayan arch, or Maya arch }. A form of corbel arch employing regular small corbels.
May laws. 1. See Kulturkampf, above.
2. In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).
Maz`a*rine" (?), n. (Cookery) A forcemeat entrée.
Med"al play`. (Golf) Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
Med"i*cine, n. 1. (a) Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.
The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.
F. H. Giddings.
(b) Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.