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

  • Make

  • to do up, bar
    To do

  • 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

  • Much

  • int. significant of contempt

  • Much

  • used ironically

  • Mure

  • a wall

  • Must

  • a scramble

  • Mutine

  • to mutiny

  • Mutine

  • a mutineer

N

• Napkin

  a handkerchief

• Natural

  an idiot

• Nayward

  towards denial

• Nayword

  a catch-word, by-word

• Neb

  the beak

• Neeld

  a needle

• Neif

  hand

• Nephew

  a grandson

• Nether-stocks

  stockings

• Next

  nearest

• Nice

  foolish

• Nick

  score or reckoning

• Nick

  to brand with folly

• Nighted

  black as night

• Night-rule

  nightly solemnity

• Nine Men's Morris

  a place set apart for a Moorish dance by
  nine men

• Ninny

  a fool, jester

• Nobility

  nobleness

• Noble

  a coin, worth 6s. 8d

• Noddy

  a dolt

• Nonce

  for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'
  for the occasion

• Nook-shotten

  indented with bays and creeks

• Nourish

  a nurse

• Novum

  a game at dice

• Nowl

  head

• Nuthook

  a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief