uggie_, a small wooden dish with a handle.

_Lum_, the chimney; _lum-head_, chimney-top.

_Lunch_, a large piece of cheese, flesh, &c.

_Lunt_, a column of smoke, to smoke, to walk quickly.

_Lyart_, of a mixed colour, gray.

M.

_Mae_, and _mair_, more.

_Maggot's-meat_, food for the worms.

_Mahoun_, Satan.

_Mailen_, a farm.

_Maist_, most, almost.

_Maistly_, mostly, for the greater part.

_Mak_', to make; _makin_', making.

_Mally_, Molly, Mary.

_Mang_, among.

_Manse_, the house of the parish minister is called "the Manse."

_Manteele_, a mantle.

_Mark_, marks. This and several other nouns which in English require
an _s_ to form the plural, are in Scotch, like the words sheep,
deer, the same in both numbers.

_Mark, merk_, a Scottish coin, value thirteen shillings and four-pence.

_Marled_, party-coloured.

_Mar's year_, the year 1715. Called Mar's year from the rebellion of
Erskine, Earl of Mar.

_Martial chuck,_ the soldier's camp-comrade, female companion.

_Mashlum_, mixed corn.

_Mask_, to mash, as malt, &c., to infuse.

_Maskin-pot_, teapot.

_Maukin_, a hare.

_Maun, mauna_, must, must not.

_Maut_, malt.

_Mavis_, the thrush.

_Maw_, to mow.

_Mawin_, mowing; _maun_, mowed; _maw'd_, mowed.

_Mawn_, a small basket, without a handle.

_Meere_, a mare.

_Melancholious_, mournful.

_Melder_, a load of corn, &c., sent to the mill to be ground.

_Mell_, to be intimate, to meddle, also a mallet for pounding barley in
a stone trough.

_Melvie_, to soil with meal.

_Men_', to mend.

_Mense_, good manners, decorum.

_Menseless_, ill-bred, impudent.

_Merle_, the blackbird.

_Messin_, a small dog.

_Middin_, a dunghill.

_Middin-creels_, dung-baskets, panniers in which horses carry manure.

_Midden-hole_, a gutter at the bottom of a dunghill.

_Milkin-shiel_ a place where cows or ewes are brought to be milked.

_Mim_, prim, affectedly meek.

_Mim-mou'd_, gentle-mouthed.

_Min_', to remember.

_Minawae_, minuet.

_Mind't_, mind it, resolved, intending, remembered.

_Minnie_, mother, dam.

_Mirk_, dark.

_Misca_', to abuse, to call names; _misca'd_, abused.

_Mischanter_, accident.

_Misleard_, mischievous, unmannerly.

_Misteuk_, mistook.

_Mither,_ mother.

_Mixtie-maxtie_, confusedly mixed, mish-mash.

_Moistify_, _moistified_, to moisten, to soak; moistened, soaked.

_Mons-Meg,_ a large