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Webster 1913 Edition


Maying

May′ing

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Noun.
The celebrating of May Day.
“He met her once a-Maying.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Maying

MA'YING

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Noun.
The gathering of flowers on May-day.

Definition 2024


maying

maying

English

Noun

maying (plural mayings)

  1. (chiefly historical) The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter j, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIX:
      SOo it befelle in the moneth of May / quene Gueneuer called vnto her knyȝtes of the table round / and she gafe them warnynge that erly vpon the morowe she wold ryde on mayeng in to woodes & feldes besyde westmynstre / & I warne yow that there be none of yow but that he be wel horsed / and that ye alle be clothed on grene outher in sylke outher in clothe
    • Stow
      [] sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had their several mayings; and did fetch in maypoles [].