Glossary.
Letter M
- MADE
- having his fortune made
- MAGNIFICO
- the chief magistrate at Venice
- MAGOT-PIE
- a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots
- MAIL
- covered as with a coat of mail
- MAIN-COURSE
- a sea-term
- MALKIN
- a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant wench
- MALLECHO
- mischief
- MAMMERING
- hesitating
- MAMMETS
- a woman's breasts
- A doll
- MAMMOCK
- to break, tear
- MAN
- to tame a hawk
- MANAGE
- management
- MANDRAGORA
- or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality, supposed to resemble a man
- MANKIND
- having a masculine nature
- MARCHES
- frontiers, borders
- MARCHPANE
- a kind of sweet biscuit
- MARGENT
- margin
- MARRY TRAP
- an oath
- MARTLEMAS
- the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the 11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends; hence applied to an old man
- MATCH
- an appointment
- MATE
- to confound, dismay
- MEACOCK
- tame, cowardly
- MEALED
- mingled
- MEAN
- instrument used to promote an end
- MEAN
- the tenor part in a harmony
- MEAN
- opportunity, power
- MEASURE
- reach
- A stately dance
- MEAZEL
- a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person
- MEDAL
- a portrait in a locket
- MEDICINE
- a physician
- MEED
- reward, hire
- Merit
- MEHERCLE
- by Hercules
- MEINY
- retinue
- MELL
- to mix, to meddle
- MEMORISE
- to cause to be remembered
- MEPHISTOPHILUS
- the name of a familiar spirit
- MERCATANTE
- a foreign trader
- MERELY
- simply, absolutely
- MESS
- a company of four
- METAPHYSICAL
- supernatural
- METE-YARD
- measuring-wand
- MEW UP
- to confine
- MICHER
- a truant
- MICKLE
- much
- MILL-SIXPENCE
- a milled sixpence
- MINCE
- to do any thing affectedly
- MINCING
- affected
- MISCREATE
- illegitimate
- MISDOUBT
- to suspect
- MISERY
- avarice
- MISPRISE
- to despise
- To mistake
- MISPRISION
- mistake
- MISSIVE
- messenger
- MISTEMPERED
- angry
- MISTHINK
- to think ill of
- MISTRESS
- the jack in bowling
- MOBLED
- muffled
- MODERN
- commonplace
- MODULE
- a model, image
- MOE
- and more. Of frequent occurrence
- MOIETY
- a portion
- MOME
- a stupid person
- MOMENTANY
- momentary
- MONTHS-MIND
- a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire
- MOOD
- anger
- MOON-CALF
- a nick-name applied to Caliban
- MOONISH
- inconstant
- MOP
- nod
- MORISCO
- a Moor
- MORRIS-PIKE
- Moorish-pike
- MORT
- death, applied to animals of the chase
- MORT-DU-VINAIGRE
- a ridiculous oath
- MORTAL
- fatal, deadly
- Murderous
- MORTIFIED
- ascetic
- MOSE
- a doubtful word, applied to some disease in a horse
- MOTION
- solicitation
- Emotion
- MOTION
- a puppet
- MOTIVE
- one who moves
- That which moves
- MOTLEY
- or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or
- a fool
- MOTLEY-MINDED
- foolish
- MOUSE-HUNT
- a weasel
- MOW
- to make grimaces
- MOY
- a coin, probably a moidore
- MURE
- a wall
- MUTINE
- to mutiny
- MUTINE
- a mutineer
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