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Thompson Chain Reference
• Saved, All May Be
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• Sin: May Be Committed by Proxy
• Little Things: Whereunto They May Grow
King James Dictionary
• May
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• May, Mayest, Might
• Can, May
Webster Dictionary
• Maying
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• May
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Angelo Mai
• Cape May
• Chieng Mai
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Mai, Angelo
• May, E.H.
• May, James
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• May
• May, Isle of
• May, Sir Thomas Erskine
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Angelo Mai
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Mai, Johann Heinrich
• Mai, Joseph ben Michael
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• ἄνοιξις
• δύναμαι
• ἔξεστι , ἔξειμι
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• אולַּי
• אֱמֶת
• הָוָה , הָוָה
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MAY, n. L. Maius.

1. The fifth month of the year, beginning with January, but the third, beginning with March, as was the ancient practice of the Romans.

2. A young woman.

3. The early part of life.

His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.

MAY, To gather flowers in May-morning.

MAY, verb aux pret.might.

1. To be possible. We say, a thing may be, or may not be an event may happen a thing may be done, if means are not wanting.

2. To have physical power to be able.

Make the most of life you may.

3. To have moral power to have liberty, leave, license or permission to be permitted to be allowed. A man may do what the laws permit. He may do what is not against decency, propriety or good manners. We may not violate the laws, or the rules of good breeding. I told the servant he might be absent.

Thou mayest be no longer steward. Luke 16 .

4. It is used in prayer and petitions to express desire. O may we never experience the evils we dread. So also in expressions of good will. May you live happily, and be a blessing to your country. It was formerly used for can, and its radical sense is the same.

May be, it may be, are expressions equivalent to perhaps, by chance, peradventure, that is, it is possible to be.