maying

Related to maying: May Day, mating

may·ing

or May·ing  (mā′ĭng)
n.
The celebration of May Day, especially by the gathering of spring flowers.
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Maying

(ˈmeɪɪŋ)
n
the traditional celebration of May Day
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May•ing

(ˈmeɪ ɪŋ)

n.
(sometimes l.c.) May 1 (def. 3).
[1350–1400]
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Moreover, a fascinating piece of reception history is provided by the Christie's database record of Ruskin's manuscript annotations in his copy: Corinna's going a Maying is "lovely" and the close of the final stanza is "Horatian," His Poetrie his Pillar consists of "quiet unaccented iambs," a passage in The Mad Maids Song is "curious," and A Prognostick is "low." Surely, this commentary from the arbiter of nineteenth-century aesthetic taste ought to have found a place in the Oxford Herrick?
(50) Kirk session elders were alarmed at the crowds of parishioners drawn to a well at Downie to the south of Aberdeen (named for St Fiacre, also known as Fithack), who visited it 'in a superstitious manner for seeking health to themselves or bairns' particularly on the first Sunday in May as part of the maying festivity.