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*Monk . See quotation : — 



* At the stone quarry situated on Clark's-hill, near Bowood-house, . . . 

 great quantity of pottery has heen exhumed near the spot . . . also one 

 of those coins called hy the Wiltshire peasantry 'monks.' — Cook's Topo- 

 graphical Description of Wilts (circa 1833), p. 55. 



Moocher. The Blackberry. (S.) 



Mouch. Add : — At Harnham the somewhat intensified form, Mounch, 



occurs, while on Glouc. bord, Mich is often used. 

 Moulter. To smoulder. "The vire's moulterin' away." N.W. (Clytfe Pypard.) 



Mouse. Add : — A muscle in the leg of a pig, rabbit, etc., which is believed 

 to taint the meat, if not cut out before cooking. Should a ham not keep 

 well, people will say, " You should have taken the • mouse ' out." Op. 



Kernel. n. & s.w. 



Jefferies, however, speaks of the " mouse " as a tit-bit : — " Pig-meat — such 

 as spare-rib, griskin, blade-bone, and that mysterious morsel, the ' mouse ' 

 . . . But the ' mouse ' — what was the 4 mouse ' ? The London butchers 

 can't tell me. It was a tit-bit." — Amaryllis, c. 12. 

 MOW. Part of a barn. Add .—S.W. 



Muck. Add : — (2) v. To scrape together money, to hoard up in a miserly 

 way. See note on Mucker in Wilts Words. S.W. 

 " . . . .If in thease wordle 

 A voolish man there be, 

 'Tis he as's ever mucking goold, 



An wunt a varden gie." — Wilts Rhymes, 5 Ser., p. 90. 

 Muckle. (2) Add : — S.W. (Deverill). 



Mudler. A man whose trade is the building of "Mud" walls for hovels, 

 gardens, etc. Mud is much the same as the well-known " Cob." S.W. 



*"MugV "That hot weather nigh mugged I" — nearly did for me. N.W. 



(Market Lavington.) 



Muminock. Add.— Mummucks, small pieces. (Hist, of Chipp.) N.W. 

 *Munday ? s- 1 hin g. This term occurs several times in the Castle Combe 



MS. Court Books. Cp. Rowless-thing. 



"A tenement and garden in Castle Combe aforesaid called a Mundies 

 thing." — Ibid, 15th Nov., 4 & 5 Philip & Mary. 



"A tenement with its appurtenances called a Mundaies thinge." — Ibid, 

 7th Oct., 5th Eliz. 



Musicianer. A musician. S w 



