._ the mark at which boys play pitch and toss

Meg's, or Maggotts Diversions _s._ rattling or wanton fun

Meg-with-the-wad _s._ will o' the wisp

Melander _s._ a row (Fr. _melee_)

Me'll _v.a._ to meddle, touch; ex. I'll neither mell nor make; I ont
mell o't, _i.e._, I will not touch it

Mesh _s._ moss; lichen on apple-trees

Mesh _s._ a hare's creep or run _v._ to run through the same

Mess, Messy _v._ to serve cattle with hay _s._ Messin

Mid, Med _v._ might, ex. Nor zed a mid; midst, medst, ex. Thou medst if
wouldst

Midgerim _s._ mesentery

Mid'n might not, ex. I mid or I mid'n

Mig in the same sense

Milemas _s._ Michaelmas

Mind _v._ to remember

Misky form of misty

Miz-maze _s._ confusion

Mog _v._ to decamp, march off

Mooch _v._ to stroke down gently

Mood _s._ the mother of vinegar

Mole _s._ higher part of the back of the neck

Mommacks _s._ pl. fragments, scraps

Mommick, Mommet _s._ a scarecrow (Wiclif's N. Test.: "a sacrifice to
the _mawmet_" Act vii. 41)

Moocher, Mooching, Meecher _s._ one who skulks; absents himself from
school

Moor-coot _s._ a moor-hen

More _s._ a root

Moot _v._ to root up _s._ Mooting-axe

Moot _s._ that portion of a tree left in the ground after it has been
felled

Mop _s._ tuft of grass

More, Morey _v.n._ to take root; applied to trees

Mother, Mothering _s._ white mould in beer or cider

Mothering-Sunday _s._ midlent Sunday, probably from the custom of
visiting the mother-churches during that season

Mought for might _aux. verb_

Mouse-snap _s._ a mouse-trap

Mouster _v._ to stir, to be moving

Mow-staddle _s._ a conical stone with a flat circular cap, used for the
support of a mow or stack of corn

Muddy-want _s._ a mole

Mullin _s._ metheglin

Mumper, Mump, Mumping a beggar, to beg

Nacker _s._ a nag

Nagging _adj._ applied to continued aching pain, as toothache; also,
teasing with reproaches

Nammet, or Nummet _s._ luncheon; a short meal between breakfast and
dinner. Noon-meat

Nan, Anan _interj._ Eh! what? (Shakes.)

Nap _s._ a small rising, a hillock

Na-poast _s._ gnaw-post, a fool.

Narn, or Norn _pron._ neither, ex. Narn on's

Nasten _v.a._ to render nasty

Nathely _adv._ nearly, as a baby is nathely pining away

Naunt _s._ aunt

Nawl _s._ navel; Nawl-cut a term used by butchers

Neel, Neeld _s._ a needle (Shaks. Mid. N. Dr. iii. 2)

Nesh, Na