\Maid`ma"ri*an\, n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary,
or the Virgin Mary.]
1. The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a
   morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque
   character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in
   woman's clothes.
2. A kind of dance. --Sir W. Temple.