wickedly or knavishly Politic.
Machines, Vessels full of Carcasses and Bombs, under Shelter or Covert of the Smokers, to come close up under Walls, Forts, Fortifications, &c. being fixt to Blow up the same. Also Engines or Instruments of divers Arts, and Movements upon the Stage.
Madam Van, c. a Whore, The Cull has been with Madam Van, c. the Fellow has enjoyed such a one.
Mad-cap, a frolicksom Person.
Made, c. Stolen. I Made this Knife at a beat, c. I Stole it cleaverly.
Mad Tom, alias of Bedlam, the Eighteenth Rank of Canters.
Madge-howlet, an Owl.
Maggot, a whimsical Fellow, full of strange Fancies and Caprichio's, Maggotty, Freakish.
Maiden-sessions, when none are Hang'd. Mailes, the Breast-Feathers of a Hawk.
Main, great, excellent, choice, rare; also the Sea. Maingood, very good. With Might and Main, Tooth and Nail.
Make, c. a half Penny.
Make-bait, a Trouble-House, or Mischief-maker, a stirrer of Strife, and maker of Debate, a Boute feu, or Incendiary.
Male-contents, Disaffected to the State, out of Humor with the Government.
Malkin or Maukin, a Scare-crow, Drest and Set up to fright the Birds. Also a Scovel (of old Clouts) to cleanse the Oven: Hence Malkin-trash, for one in a rueful Dress, enough to Fright one. There are more Maids than Malkins, Mawks, the same abbreaviated. Mawkish, a Wallowish, ill Tast.
Malmesey-nose, a jolly, red Nose.
Man o'th' Town, a
