<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title>M</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFAFA" text="#330000"> <h1>The Letter M</h1> <div class="entry"> <h2>Mackarel</h2> <p>a Bawd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MACKAREL-<i>Back</i></h2> <p>a very tall, lank Person.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MADE</h2> <p>stolen. <i class="eg">I made this Knife at a Heat</i>, I stole it cleverly.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAD <i>Tom</i></h2> <p>alias of Bedlam; otherwise called <i>Abram-men</i>.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAIDEN-<i>Sessions</i></h2> <p>when none are hang'd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAKE</h2> <p>a Half-penny.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> MAKE</h2> <p>to steal; seize; to run away with.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MALKINTRASH</h2> <p>one in a rueful Dress, enough to fright one.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MALMSEY-Nose</h2> <p>a jolly red Nose.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAN <i>o'th' Town</i></h2> <p>a lewd Spark, or very Debauchee.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MANUFACTURE</h2> <p>any Liquor made of the Fruits of <i>English</i> Growth, as Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MARGERY <i>Prater</i></h2> <p>a Hen.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MARINATED</h2> <p>transported into some Foreign Plantation.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MARRIAGE <i>Musick</i></h2> <p>Childrens Cries.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAUL'D</h2> <p>swinglingly drunk, or soundly beat.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAUNDERS</h2> <p>Beggars</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAUNDING</h2> <p>begging.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAUNDRING-<i>Broth</i></h2> <p>Scolding.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MAWDLIN</h2> <p>weepingly drunk.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Bleating Cheat</i></h2> <p>to kill a Sheep.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MILL-<i>Clapper</i></h2> <p>a Woman's Tongue.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Crackmans</i></h2> <p>to break a Hedge.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> MILL <i>a Grunter</i></h2> <p>to kill a Pig.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MILL-<i>Ken</i></h2> <p>a House-Breaker.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MILL <i>the Glaze</i></h2> <p>break open the Window.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MILL <i>Them</i></h2> <p>kill them.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MILLER</h2> <p>a Killer or Murderer.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MINT</h2> <p>Gold.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MISH</h2> <p>Shirt, Smock, or Sheet.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MISH <i>Topper</i></h2> <p>a Coat or Petticoat.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MISS</h2> <p>a Whore of Quality.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOABITES</h2> <p>Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOB</h2> <h2>or MAB</h2> <p>a Wench or Harlot.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MONGREL</h2> <p>a Hanger-on among the Cheats, a Spunger.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOON-<i>Men</i></h2> <p>Gypsies.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOPSIE</h2> <p>a Dowdy, or homely Woman.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOP'D</h2> <p>maz'd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOPUS</h2> <p>a Half-penny or Farthing.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MORGLAG</h2> <p>a Watchman's brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2><i>To</i> MORRIS</h2> <p>to hang dangling in the Air, to be executed.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MORTS</h2> <p>Yeomans Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOTHER</h2> <p>a Bawd.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOTHER <i>Midnight</i></h2> <p>a Midwife (often a Bawd).</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOVEABLES</h2> <p>Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toys of Value.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOUSE-<i>Trap</i></h2> <p>as <i class="eg">The Parson's Mouse-Trap</i>, Marriage.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOUTH</h2> <p>a noisy Fellow. <i class="eg">Mouth half cockt</i>, gaping and staring at every Thing they see.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOWER</h2> <p>a Cow.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MOW-<i>Heater</i></h2> <p>a Drover.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUCK</h2> <p>Money, Wealth.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUFFLING-<i>Cheat</i></h2> <p>a Napkin.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUM <i>for-that</i></h2> <p>not a Word of the Pudding.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUM <i>Chance</i></h2> <p>one that fits mute.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUTTON <i>Monger</i></h2> <p>a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> <div class="entry"> <h2>MUZZLE</h2> <p>a beard, (usually) long and nasty.</p> </div> <div class="entry"> <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> </div> </body> </html>