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cottagers in Lincolnshire. This 
plant, the Chenopodium bonus hen- 
vicus of botanists, bears tender 
young leaves resembling spinach, 
which, when cooked, are but little 
inferior in flavour to the finest 
asparagus. It is a robust-growing 
perennial, and, when once planted 
in deep, rich soil, requires no 
further cultural attention than a 
dressing of well-decomposed ma- 
nure during the winter. 
Mestlen, 37/21, s. a mixture of wheat 
and rye. ‘‘ Mastilsone, dzgermen, 
mixtilio.” —Cath. Ang. ‘* Framots, 
meslin of oats and barlie mixed.” 
“* Meteil, messling or misslin, wheat 
and rie mingled.”—Cotgrave. 
Mew, 36/26, s. a cage for moulting. 
Michel, 33/22, Mihel, 57/25, Mihell, 
12/4, s. Michaelmas. The feast of 
St. Michael and All Angels, 29th 
September. 
Michers, 10/15, s. AZ. lurking thieves, 
skulkers. ‘‘ Mecher, a lytell thefe, 
laronceau.” —Palsgrave. Now com- 
mon as a term for a truant. Cf. 
Shak. 1 Henry IV. ii. 4: ‘*Shall 
the blessed sun of heaven prove a 
micher and eat blackberries.” 
Mickle, 68/1, aaj. great, much. 
Mier, 107/4, s. mire, filth. A.S. myre. 
*Mier, 38, Mierie, 113/27, aaj. filthy, 
muddy. 
Mihelmas, 57/44, Michaelmas. 
*Millons, 72/c, s. j/. melons. 
Musk Million. 
Mind, 68/5, v. notice, comment on. 
Mind, 63/1, v. pr. ¢. intend, have in 
mind, wish. 
Minion, 66/4, adj. pleasant, agreeable, 
favourite. Fr. mzgnon. L. Lat. mig- 
nonelus, gratissimus, minna, love. 
Minnekin, 10/20, aaj. little, perhaps 
with the idea of the modern con- 
tracted form ‘‘ minx.” 
Miring, 23/3, v. being stuck in bogs. 
Mis, 16/8, v. want, be without. 
Mischiefe, 23/4, v. hurt, injure. 
Mischieued, 10/36, a@a7. unfortunate, 
ruined. 
Misdeeme, 30/3, v. misjudge. A.S. 
deman, to judge. 
Mislike, 23/16, v. displease, not suit. 
Mistle, 33/12, s. mistletoe. A.S. mzstel. 
O.H. Ger. mistil. 
Mitch, 17/17, aa7. large. 
See 
Glossary. 
Mite, 63/20, s. the smallest piece. A.S- 
mite. 
Mo, 33/57, aa7. more, others. A.S. md. 
Moether, 17/13, Mother, 16/14, s. a 
girl. A woman and her mawther 
=a woman and her daughter. 
‘Moder, servaunte or wench.”— 
Prompt. Pary. 
Mogwort, 45/15, s. mugwort, Artemisia 
vulgaris, Linn. 
Moile, 4/1, v. to work hard, drudge. 
Lat. molirt, to struggle. ‘‘ In the 
earth we mozle with hunger, care 
and paine.”—Mirror for Magist. 
ed. 1610. 
Molding, 55/4, v. becoming musty, or 
mouldy. 
Mome, 62/3, s. blockhead, fool. ‘A 
gull, a ninny, a ome.”—Florio, 
p- 81. ‘*A youth will play the 
wanton, and an olde man proove a 
mome.”—Drayton, Skeltoniad. 
Mone, 67/1, s. complaint, lamentation. 
Mooueth, 94/7, v. f7. ¢. moves or exerts 
herself, plans. 
Mother, 16/14, s. a girl. See Moether. 
Moulspare, 17/18, s. mole spear. 
Mow, 17/19, s. stack of hay or corn. 
A.S. muwa. L. Lat. mugium. 
Mowles, 36/17, s. £7. moles. 
Mowse, 38/3, v. pr. ¢. mouth, bite. 
Mowth, 57/25, v. eat. 
Muck, 61/13, s. manure. 
Mulley, 57/46, a common name for a 
cow in Suffolk. 
Mungrels, 46/3, s. a7. cur dogs, mon- 
grels. A.S. mencgan, to mix, 
hence an animal of a mixed, breed, 
a hybrid. 
Musk Million, 40/8, s. the musk melon. 
**Pickled cowcombers I have 
bought a pecke for threepence, 
and musk mellions, there hath 
beene cast five or sixe loads of 
them in one day to their hogs.” — 
Taylor’s Works, 1630. See Lyte’s 
Dodoens, p. 590. 
Myslen, 16/11, s. mixed corn. . Mest- 
lyone or monge corne or dragge.— 
Prompt. Parv. See Dredge and 
Mestlen. 
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Nads, 17/9, s. an adze. 
Naile, 17/8, s. nails. 
Nall, 17/4, s. an awl. 
