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<h1>The Letter M</h1>
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<h2>Mackarel</h2>
<p>a Bawd.</p>
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<h2>MACKAREL-<i>Back</i></h2>
<p>a very
tall, lank Person.</p>
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<h2>MADAM <i>Van</i></h2>
<p>a Whore; <i class="eg">The Cull
has been with Madam Van</i>, the Fellow
has enjoyed such a one.</p>
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<h2>MADE</h2>
<p>stolen. <i class="eg">I made this Knife
at a Heat</i>, I stole it cleverly.</p>
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<h2>MAD <i>Tom</i></h2>
<p>alias of Bedlam; otherwise
called <i>Abram-men</i>.</p>
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<h2>MAIDEN-<i>Sessions</i></h2>
<p>when none are hang'd.</p>
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<h2>MAKE</h2>
<p>a Half-penny.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MAKE</h2>
<p>to steal; seize; to run
away with.</p>
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<h2>MALKINTRASH</h2>
<p>one in a rueful
Dress, enough to fright one.</p>
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<h2>MALMSEY-Nose</h2>
<p>a jolly red Nose.</p>
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<h2>MAN <i>o'th' Town</i></h2>
<p>a lewd Spark, or
very Debauchee.</p>
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<h2>MANUFACTURE</h2>
<p>any Liquor made
of the Fruits of <i>English</i> Growth, as
Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c.</p>
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<h2>MARGERY <i>Prater</i></h2>
<p>a Hen.</p>
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<h2>MARINATED</h2>
<p>transported into
some Foreign Plantation.</p>
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<h2>MARRIAGE <i>Musick</i></h2>
<p>Childrens Cries.</p>
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<h2>MASONS <i>Mawn'd</i></h2>
<p>a Sham Sore
above the Elbow; to counterfeit a
broken Arm, by a Fall from a Scaffold.</p>
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<h2>MAUL'D</h2>
<p>swinglingly drunk, or
soundly beat.</p>
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<h2>MAUNDERS</h2>
<p>Beggars</p>
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<h2>MAUNDING</h2>
<p>begging.</p>
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<h2>MAUNDRING-<i>Broth</i></h2>
<p>Scolding.</p>
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<h2>MAWDLIN</h2>
<p>weepingly drunk.</p>
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<h2>MEGGS</h2>
<p>Guineas. <i class="eg">We fork'd the
rum Cull's Meggs to the Tune of Fifty</i>;
We pickt the Gentleman's Pocket of
full Fifty Guineas.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MELT</h2>
<p>to spend Money. <i class="eg">Will
you melt a Borde?</i> Will you spend your
Shilling? <i class="eg">The Cull melted a Couple of
Decusses upon us</i>; The Gentleman spent
Ten Shillings upon us.</p>
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<h2>MILCH-<i>Kine</i></h2>
<p>a Term used by Goalers,
when their Prisoners will bleed
freely to have some Favour, or to be
at large.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MILL</h2>
<p>to steal, rob, or kill. <i class="eg">ill
the Gig with a Dub</i>, open the Door
with a Pick-lock, or false Key.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Bleating Cheat</i></h2>
<p>to kill a
Sheep.</p>
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<h2>MILL-<i>Clapper</i></h2>
<p>a Woman's Tongue.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Crackmans</i></h2>
<p>to break a
Hedge.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Grunter</i></h2>
<p>to kill a Pig.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Ken</i></h2>
<p>to rob a House.
<i class="eg">Milling the Gig with a Betty</i>, Breaking
open the Door with an Iron Crow.</p>
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<h2>MILL-<i>Ken</i></h2>
<p>a House-Breaker.</p>
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<h2>MILL <i>the Glaze</i></h2>
<p>break open the
Window.</p>
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<h2>MILL <i>Them</i></h2>
<p>kill them.</p>
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<h2>MILLER</h2>
<p>a Killer or Murderer.</p>
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<h2>MINT</h2>
<p>Gold.</p>
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<h2>MISH</h2>
<p>Shirt, Smock, or Sheet.</p>
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<h2>MISH <i>Topper</i></h2>
<p>a Coat or Petticoat.</p>
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<h2>MISS</h2>
<p>a Whore of Quality.</p>
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<h2>MOABITES</h2>
<p>Serjeants, Bailiffs and
their Crew.</p>
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<h2>MOB</h2>
<h2>or MAB</h2>
<p>a Wench or Harlot.</p>
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<h2>MONGREL</h2>
<p>a Hanger-on among
the Cheats, a Spunger.</p>
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<h2>MOON-<i>Curser</i></h2>
<p>a Link-boy, or one
that, under Colour of lighting Men,
(especially they who get in Drink, or
have the Fields, or any uninhabited or
By place, to go over) robs or leads
them to a Gang of Rogues, that will
do it for him.</p>
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<h2>MOON-<i>Men</i></h2>
<p>Gypsies.</p>
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<h2>MOPSIE</h2>
<p>a Dowdy, or homely
Woman.</p>
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<h2>MOP'D</h2>
<p>maz'd.</p>
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<h2>MOPUS</h2>
<p>a Half-penny or Farthing.</p>
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<h2>MORGLAG</h2>
<p>a Watchman's brown
Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> MORRIS</h2>
<p>to hang dangling in the
Air, to be executed.</p>
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<h2>MORTS</h2>
<p>Yeomans Daughters; also
a Wife, Woman, or Wench.</p>
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<h2>MOTHER</h2>
<p>a Bawd.</p>
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<h2>MOTHER <i>Midnight</i></h2>
<p>a Midwife (often a Bawd).</p>
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<h2>MOVEABLES</h2>
<p>Rings, Watches,
Swords, and such Toys of Value.</p>
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<h2>MOUSE-<i>Trap</i></h2>
<p>as <i class="eg">The Parson's
Mouse-Trap</i>, Marriage.</p>
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<h2>MOUTH</h2>
<p>a noisy Fellow. <i class="eg">Mouth
half cockt</i>, gaping and staring at every
Thing they see.</p>
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<h2>MOWER</h2>
<p>a Cow.</p>
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<h2>MOW-<i>Heater</i></h2>
<p>a Drover.</p>
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<h2>MUCK</h2>
<p>Money, Wealth.</p>
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<h2>MUFF</h2>
<p>a Woman's Secrets, <i class="eg">To the
well wearing of your Muff, Mort</i>; To
the happy Consummation of your Marriage,
Madam. A Health.</p>
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<h2>MUFFLING-<i>Cheat</i></h2>
<p>a Napkin.</p>
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<h2>MUM <i>for-that</i></h2>
<p>not a Word of the
Pudding.</p>
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<h2>MUM <i>Chance</i></h2>
<p>one that fits mute.</p>
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<h2>MUM <i>Glass</i></h2>
<p>the Monument, erected
at the City Charge, in Memory of the
dreadful Fire 1666, which consumed
the greatest part of the City.</p>
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<h2>MUMPERS</h2>
<p>genteel Beggars, who
will not accept of Victuals, but of
Money or Cloaths. The <i>Male Mumper</i>
often appears with an Apron before
him, and a Cap on his Head, pretending
to be a decayed Tradesman, who having
been a long Time sick, hath spent
all his remaining Stock, ans is so weak
he cannot work. At other times he
appears like a decayed Gentleman, who,
especially since the fatal <i>South Sea
Scheme</i>, has been undine, and reduced
to the Necessity of imploring good People's Charity.</p>
<p>The <i>Female Mumper</i> will confidently
knock at the Door of a House, and desire
to speak with the Mistress, and
after apologizing for her Boldness, she
acquaints her how urgent her Necessity
is: That she has a Husband and two
small Children lying at the Point of
Death: That she was a Gentlewoman
born; but marrying against her Friends
Consent, was by them disowned, and
so by her Husbands Sickness, is reduced
to this miserable Condition. Sometimes
she appears big with Child, and
begs Cloaths or Linnen to make Clouts
of. The Word <i>Mumper</i> is now generally
used to denote all sorts of Beggars.</p>
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<h2>MUMPERS <i>Hall</i></h2>
<p>several Ale-houses
in and about this City and Suburbs, in
Alleys, and By-places, much used by
them, and resorted to in the Evening,
where they will be very merry, drunk,
and frolicksome.</p>
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<h2>MUNNS</h2>
<p>the Face; <i class="eg">Toute his Munns</i>,
Note his Phiz, or, Mark his Face well.
<i class="eg">Pay his Munns</i>, i.e. Strike him in the
Face, &c.</p>
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<h2>MUSICK</h2>
<p>the Watch-word among
High-way-men, to let the Company
they were to rob, alone, in return to
some Courtesy from some Gentleman
among them.</p>
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<h2>MUTTON <i>Monger</i></h2>
<p>a Lover of
Women; also a Sheep-stealer.</p>
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<h2>MUTTON-<i>in-long-coats</i></h2>
<p>Women
<i class="eg">A Leg of Mutton in a Silk Stocking</i>, a
Woman's leg.</p>
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<h2>MUZZLE</h2>
<p>a beard, (usually) long
and nasty.</p>
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<h2>MYRMIDONS</h2>
<p>the Constable's Attendants,
or those whom he commands
(in the King's Name) to aid and assist
him: Also the Watchmen.</p>
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