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Mays   /meɪz/   Listen
Mays

noun
1.
United States baseball player (born in 1931).  Synonyms: Say Hey Kid, Willie Howard Mays Jr., Willie Mays.



May

noun
1.
The month following April and preceding June.
2.
Thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America.  Synonyms: Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, English hawthorn, whitethorn.



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"Mays" Quotes from Famous Books



... our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature," being six Lectures to Working Men delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology by Prof. Huxley, 1863. These lectures, which were given once a week from November 10th, 1862, onwards, were printed from the notes of Mr. J.A. Mays, a shorthand writer, who asked permission to publish them on his own account; Mr. Huxley stating in a prefatory "Notice" that he had no leisure to revise the lectures.) They are simply perfect. They ought to be largely advertised; but it is very good in me to say so, for ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

... Macquarie Street, and then made for the mountain. There were few people about, but Mr. Mays, of the Star Hotel, tried to stop him, and was knocked head over heels. He says the ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke

... Anna, what a cautious little thing you are with your 'mays' and your 'mights;' but you are right, you are right, and I'll go to Marian this noon, and say just what you've told me to say, and ...
— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry

... account. She was a grave, sweet, dainty sort of baby, with wondering eyes of bluish violet, bordering on gray. I think myself that she should have had a prettier name, but people were not throwing away even two-hundred-dollar chances in those days. Neither had they come to Ediths and Ethels and Mays and Gladys. And they barbarously shortened some of their most beautiful names to Peggy and ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas



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