GLOSSARY. 



Lynkys, 53. />/. links, 12 



Lyste, 5^. a stripe, 34 



Lyttyd, />/). dyed. (From Icel. lita, to dye. W.W.S.) 



Magre, 5^. ill-will, 4. F. vial gre. 



Magyf, 4*. Probably a scribal error for magre which 

 is used in 1496 text. 



Mannys, sb. man's, i; meiinys, men's, i* 



Mathewes, sb. pi. grubs or maggots, 29. A.S. mathti, 

 a maggot. 



Maure, 5^. a mulberry-coloured fly, 34. Lat. morus. 

 (Cf. F. meure, a mulberry; (^otgrave. W.W.S.) 

 Walton, who has adopted this list of flies, calls it 

 the " Moorish fly " — a step into the dark. The 

 " Gentleman angler," 1736 repeats the list with 

 Walton's Yariations. Ephemera Danica is pro- 

 bably the maure fly of the te.xt. 



Mayle, 5^. mail, 35. Speckled feathers. (The Lat. 

 macula became maillc in O. Fi-. W.W.S.) 



Meane, 6, see Meyn. 

 / Mener, meneys, menew, menow, menowe, sb. the 



« minnow. 



/ . Mese, 5^. mess, ration, 37 



^ Mesurable, adj. moderate, i 



<[ Mesurably, adv. moderately, i* 



) Meyn, 6*; menys, i*, sb. way, method. F. inoyen, 



O.F. meieii. 



MiUYNGE, adj. close, stifling, 20*. The 1496 te.xt has 

 szvoly. ( Cf. E. mijf, displeasure ; and the curious 

 Low G. mujj'cn, to smell musty, in the Bremen 

 Worterbuch. W.W.S.) 



MoCHEXES, sb. muchness, i.e. size ; of the mochenes, 

 for its size. 



MoRO^v, 19*; morowe, 19, sb. morning. A.S. niorgcn. 



MoRYSSHE, adj. belonging to a moor, peatv, 11 



My'le waye. " Boyll halfe a myle waye "=for ten 

 minut'js. A mile-way is 20 minutes, at 3 miles 

 an hour. ( G. stund (hour)=3 miles to this day; 

 common in Switzerland. W.W.S.) 



