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MAICH, _s._ (gutt.) Marrow, Ang.

MAICHERAND, _part. adj._ (gutt.) Weak, incapable of exertion, Ang.

Su. G. _meker_, h.o.m.o mollis.

MAID, _s._ A maggot, S. B.

Teut. _made_, Belg. _maade_, id.

MAID, _adj._ Tamed.

V. ~Mait~.

_Acts Ja. III._

MAIDEN, _s._ An instrument for beheading, nearly of the same construction with the _Guillotine_, S.

_G.o.dscroft._

MAIDEN, _s._

1. The last handful of corn cut down by the reapers on a farm; this being dressed up with ribbons, in resemblance of a young woman, S.

_A. Douglas._

2. The feast of harvest-home, S.

_Statist. Acc._

MAIDEN, _s._

1. The honorary designation given to the eldest daughter of a farmer, S.

B.

2. The bride's maid at a wedding, S. B.

3. She who lays the child in the arms of the parent, when presented for baptism, Lanerks.

MAIGLIT, _part. pa._ Mangled.

V. ~Magil~.

MAIK, _s._ A cant term for a halfpenny, S.