What they offer is mere maybe and shift.
Creech.
May"bird` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl,
May curlew, and May whaap. (b) The knot. [Southern U. S.] (c) The
bobolink.
May"bloom` (?), n. (Bot.) The hawthorn.
May"bush` (?), n. (Bot.) The hawthorn.
May"duke` (?), n. [Corrupt. of Médoc, a province in France, where it is
supposed to have originated.] A large dark-red cherry of excellent
quality.
May"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis).
See Minnow.
May"flow`er (?), n. (Bot.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England,
the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.