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Middling. (1) Ailing in health (H) ; Middlinish (Wilts Tales, p. 
137.) N. & S.W. 
(2) Tolerable, as ‘a middlin’ good crop.? Middlekin is occasionally 
used in S. Wilts in this sense. N. & 8.W. 
“Very middling” (with a shake of the head), bad, or ill; “pretty 
middling” (with a nod), good, or well. (Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxii., 
: p. 112.) 
od Midsummer men. Sedum Fabaria, Koch., a variety of the red Orpine. 
2 N.W. occasionally ; 8. W. (Farley). 
: Mild. Of stone or wood, easily worked. (Great Estate, ch. 9.) N.W, 
 *Milk-flower. Lychuis vespertina. Sibth., Evening Campion. S.W. (Charl- 
4 ton All Saints.) 
~*Milkmaids. Cardamine pratensis, L., Lady’s Smock. S.W. (Farley.) 
=) Milkwort. Euphorbia Peplus, L., Petty Spurge. N. & S.W. 
. Mill. To clean clover-seed from the husk. (D.) M illed seed. N.W. 
Millard, Mallard, or Dusty Miller. A large white moth (A.)5 
generally extended to any large night-flying species. Miller here=mealer, 
from its mealy deposit. N. & S.W, 
 ¥M ill-peck. A kind of hammer with two chisel-heads, used for deepening 
the grooves of the millstone. (Greut Estate, ch. 9.) 
 *Mill-staff. A flat piece of wood, rubbed with ruddle, by which the accuracy 
of the work done by the mill-peck may be tested. (Great Estate, ch. 9.) 
Mind. (1) Toremind. “That minds I o’ Lunnon, it do.” N. & S.W. 
(2) Toremember. “I minds I wur just about bad then.” N. & S.W. 
(3) ‘To be a mind to anything,’’ to be inclined to do it. N.W. 
% Minding. A reminder. After a severe illness you are apt to have “the 
' mindings on’t” now and again. N.W. 
~ Minnies. Small fry of all kinds. N. & S.W. 
, M int. A cheese-mite. A.) The older form of mite. (Skeat.) N.W. 
a inty. Of cheese, full of mites. (A.) N.W. 
; Mixen, Muxen. A dungheap. (A.B.) N. &S.W. 
_ Mix-muddle. One who muddles things imbecilely. (Village Miners.) N.W. 
-Moile, Mwoile. Dirt, mud. (A.) “Aal ina mwoile.” N.W. 
Moll ern, Molly Heron. The Heron. (Great Estate, ch. 4.) N.W. 
q Money-in-both-pockets. Lunaria biennis, Lu., Honesty, from the seeds 
showing through both sides of the transparent part of the pod. 
YM onkey-musk. The large garden varieties of Mimulus, which resemble 
the true musk, but are scentless, and therefore merely monkey (i.¢., mock, 
| _—s Spurious) musk, N.W. 
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