may

A hawthorn or its blossoms.

To be allowed or permitted to.

Used to indicate a certain measure of likelihood or possibility.

Used to express a desire or fervent wish.

Used to express contingency, purpose, or result in clauses introduced by that or so that.

To be obliged, as where rules of construction or legal doctrine call for a specified interpretation of a word used in a law or legal document.

A maiden; a virgin.

A kinsman.

A person.

To celebrate May-day; take part in the festivities of Mayday: chiefly or only in the verbal noun maying and the derivative mayer: as, to go a maying.