Vocabulary : Maidservant to Mail

Maidservant : A female servant.
Maieutic : Alt. of Maieutical
Maieutical : Serving to assist childbirth. ;; Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Maieutics : The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Maiger : The meagre.

Maigre : Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Maihem : See Maim, and Mayhem.
Maikel : A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
Maikong : A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
Mail : A spot. ;; A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V. ;; Rent; tribute. ;; A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor. ;; Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering. ;; A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage. ;; Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc. ;; To arm with mail. ;; To pinion. ;; A bag; a wallet. ;; The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter. ;; That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office. ;; A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried. ;; To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter bo

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