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*"tk), Ma*ieu"tic*al (-t*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. e., clearness and
conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Payne.
Mai"ger (?), n. (Zoöl.) The meagre.
Mai"gre (?), a. [F. See Meager.] Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a
maigre day. Walpole.
Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.
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Mai"hem (m"hm), n. See Maim, and Mayhem.
||Mai*kel" (mä*kl"), n. (Zoöl.) A South American carnivore of the genus
||Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer
||snout. The tail is not bushy.
||Mai*kong" (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South American wild dog (Canis
||cancrivorus); the crab- eating dog.