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- Mink, 130, 148, Mo. a noose or headstall for a horse, monk in Fife, minkan-up, coiling a rope in the hand, mink up the coo's tether, a rinnin-mink=a slip-knot; Gael, muince, a collar, muin, the neck, the back
- †Mins, miniza, minists, 29, Go. N.E.D. does not connect mince with mins, which it traces to O.E. mincier. Mod. Fr. mincer, Lat. minutiare, but this last, cog. with Lat. minus, less, which is conn. with Go.
- Mint-cake, 185, Cu.
- Mischiévous, 84, Eliz., "stress on mid-syll. literary form till 1700, now dial. and vulgar."—N.E.D.
- Mise, 211, C. Du., prob. a var. of miser; cf. Sc. misert-pig, which see
- Misert-pig, Fi. syn. of pirlie-pig. See pig
- Mishanter, 92
- Mis-leared, 70, 136, badly brought up, mis-lered. See lair
- Mixen, 24, Eng. a dunghill, parallel stem in Go. maihstus. N.E.D. midden of Scand. or. from muck and dynge, thing or stuff. Da. a heap. From Go. comes, O.E. meox, filth, Fr. minks, and Sc. mauchie, q.v.
- Modags, 28, Go. angry, moody; cog. O.E. módig, Du. moedig, Ger. mutig, all in old sense of brave, high-spirited
- Modernised C. Du., 197
- Monk, 130, 140, 148, Fi. a head stall. See mink
- Monosy. prets., 36
- Mony, 29, 53, 63, 84, Eng. many, O.E. manig, Du. menig, Ger. manch. Go. manag-s, many and managei, a multitude; O.E. and Ger. menge—"Robin Hood and his merry menyie"
- Mooi, 222, C. Du.; Lat. mollis soft
- Moolins, 29, 123, crumbs, mool, to crumble (bread), var. of mould
- Mools, for muldes, 29, 74, the earth of the grave, burial, A.S. mold, dust, Go. mulda, muldeins, earthy; dial. var. of mould; moolie or mooly "not given at III. 305, Jam., soft, flabby, fozy. A moolie sort o' a chap=a duffer. The marbles, called commies as of common clay, sometimes known as moolies, if soft and ill-shaped. Mulie cheese is crumbling, friable." (J. B. F.)
- Mooss-fa, 124, 251, Ic. mus-föll, mûs, A.S.
- Mota, 23, Go. receipt of custom, mote, O.E. a village council, moot-hill; motareis. Go. a publican. N.E.D. gives M.E. mot, imot under moot, a public assembly, but offers no Go. connection
- "Mournings," 84, 94, in Sc. only in plural in sense of mourning dress
- Mozies, 172. Jam. "a being with silly intellect, Gael, muiseag, threatening;" var. mwozie, Cu.
- Muckle, mikils, 29, 38, Go. See mikilnan
- Mull, 74, snuff box, var. of mill
- Multiple-poinding, 72, Sc. law=action raised by holder of a fund to which there are several claimants
- Mun or maan, 103, must, used as auxiliary of the fut.=shall, will; or. sense "to intend," cog. with mind, to remember
- Munan, 26, Go. to think, O.N. muna, to remember, identical with munu, to intend, O.E. munan, to think, consider. Go. muns, mind
- Müne, 23, 81, moon. Go. mêna, men-oths, a month
- Munths, 17, Go. Sc. mouth, mou, mouth, Du. moud, Ger. Mund, Fr. mûth, cog. Lat. mentum, the chin
- Mussel-picker, 119, oyster-catcher
- Mussel scaups, 119, scaup, form of scaup, bed of shell-fish from the thinness of the layer
- My, 94, an emphatic—my dennir
- Myn-pachts, 211, C. Du.
- My san! My certe, 33, Exclamation equal to my certe, Eng. sooth. "In Jam. has to be looked for under certy." (J. B. F.)
