Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
mease . - noun The mayweed, Anthemis Cotula.
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Examples
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Nawt tew bii nomming maise…nom awn cheezburgers, insted!
WAT DO U MEAN BY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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In the evening Uliba took me to a little room off the stables where we packed our bags for the trip — spare clobber of shamas and boots and waterproof cloaks, blankets and utensils, biltong and bread and teff-cakes, (* Millet.) flasks of maise and tej, cheese and dried fruit and locust-balls, God help me.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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Only the maise and rice weevils can fly and infest crops in the field.
Chapter 10 1981
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Four hundred boats came up to Peel, and we hadn't less than ten maise apiece.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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Four thousand maise ready and waiting for the steamers to
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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Irish, maise is food, and in the Old High German, maz is meat.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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Sunday, International Medical Corps delivered 2.5 metric tons of rice, beans, maise, and vegetable oil to the residents of the little community-an action that clearly lifted Marhone's spirits.
GOOD 2010
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He is applying for a loan to buy maise and soybeans to plant so that he can grow his business.
Kiva Loans 2010
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Sunday, International Medical Corps delivered 2.5 metric tons of rice, beans, maise, and vegetable oil to the residents of the little community-an action that clearly lifted Marhone's spirits.
GOOD Tyler Marshall 2010
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Sunday, International Medical Corps delivered 2.5 metric tons of rice, beans, maise, and vegetable oil to the residents of the little community-an action that clearly lifted Marhone's spirits.
GOOD 2010
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