38 DOUSETSHIHE FOLK-SPEECH AM) SUPERSTITIONS. 



Merry : The wil I cherry (cerasus sylvestris). 



Miller (Millard) : A large white moth, such as the puss-moth 

 ta vinuld) and the pale tussock-moth (phalwna, pwlibumhi). 



[Note in the Glossary, p. 70 : " Children catch these moths or 

 "millers," and, having interrogated them on their taking of toll, 

 make them plead guilty and condemn them in these lines : 

 ' Millery, millery, dousty poll ! 

 How many zacks hast thee a-stole 1 

 Vowr an' twenty, an' a peck. 

 Hang the miller up by 's neck.' " 



Milk-maids : The white campion (lychnis vespei'tina). 



Mock : The butt or stump of a tree. [See Moot.] 



Money-Spider : The arauna scenica. 



If you take a money-spider by the thread that it hangs from and 

 swing it three times round your head without throwing it off, and 

 then put it in your pocket, it is believed it will soon bring you 

 money. 



Moot : The butt of a felled tree ; the bottom of its trunk and 

 its roots. [See Mock.'] 



More : The top root of a flower or small plant ; the single root 

 of a tree. 



Moses-in-tlie-bulrushes : The spider-wort (Tradescantia virginica). 

 Also called Life-of-man. 



Mote '. A stalk of corn or grass [e.g., a straw-mote. See 

 Stramote.] 



Mouel : The field-mouse (mus sylvaticus). 



Mourning-ividoio : The cultivated variety of the dark scabious 

 (scabiosa atropurpurea). 



Mutton-tops or chops : The young tops or shoots of the goose- 

 foot (chenojJodiiim) sometimes boiled in the spring for food. 



Micope : The bullfinch (see Hoop). 



Nessel-tripe : The most weakly or last-born of a brood of fowls, 

 the fare of pigs, or a family of children. 



Nettle : The pharmacopeia contained in the country lore of 

 most districts provides for the alleviation or cure .of the effects of a 



