Davie Mailsetter, her son.—Sir W. Scott, The Antiquary (time, George III.).
Maimou´ne (3 syl.), a fairy, daughter of Damriat, “king of a legion of genii.” When the Princess Badoura, in her sleep, was carried to the bed of Prince Camaral´zaman, to be shown to him, Maimounê changed herself into a flea, and bit the prince’s neck to wake him. Whereupon he sees the sleeping princess by his side, falls in love with her, and afterwards marries her.—Arabian Nights (“Camaralzaman and Badoura”).
Mai´muna or Maimu´na, one of the sorceresses of Dom-Daniel, who repents and turns to Allah. Thal´aba first encounters her, disguised as an old woman spinning the finest thread. He greatly marvels at its extreme fineness, but she tells him he cannot snap it; whereupon he winds it round his two wrists, and becomes powerless. Maimuna, with her sister-sorceress, Khwala, then carry him to the island of Moha´reb, where he is held in durance; but Maimuna releases him, repents, and dies.—Southey, Thalaba, the Destroyer, ix. (1797).
Mainote (2 syl.), a pirate who infests the coast of Attica.
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Of island-pirate of Mainote.
Byron, The Giaour (1813).
Mainy (Richard), out of whom the Jesuits cast the seven deadly sins, each in the form of some representative animal. As each devil came forth, Mainy indicated the special sin by some trick or gesture. Thus, for pride, he pretended to curl his hair, for gluttony, to vomit, for sloth, to gape, and so on.—Bishop Harsnett, Declaration of Popish Impostures, 279, 280.
Maitland (Thomas), the pseudonym of Robert Buchanan, in The Contemporary Review, when he attacked the “Fleshly school.”
Maitre des Forges. By Georges Ohnet. A wealthy ironmaster, Phillippe Derblay, who loves Clarie de Beaulieu. In pique at her desertion by her high-born love, Gaston de Bligny, Clarie accepts and marries Phillippe. She eventually learns to love him.