Mess, party dining together, a set. WT. 1, 2. At great dinners the company was usually arranged into fours, called messes and served together; hence a set of four. LL. 4, 3. cHf. 1,4 Kin to mast, meat, mate, mead, sax. metsian, to eat; germ. mästen, to dung; gr. mestos, full; fr. mêts, turn'd up and assonant of mettre, apponere. to Mesh, to catch in a net. TAn. 3, 2. To en- Mind's eye. H. 1, 2. S. 113. TL. 204. mesh. 0.2, 3. Mine, mien, countenance. MW. 1, §. to Mine, to dig, hollow, sap. H. 3, 4. Mingle, mixture. AC. 1, 5. 4, 8. Minikin, small, delicate. KL. 3, 6. Goth. min, lat. minus, fr. moins. Minimus, minim, any thing very small. MD. 3, 2. Minnock, minnick. MD. 3, 2. to which Malone substitutes mimic, actor, obliterating, as it seems, the humoristical colour of the passage, probably is but another form of minikin, or rather manakin, wh. s. minx, minim, and others signifying my dwarfish puppetlike fellow. Minnow, a little fish, cyprinus phoxinus, germ. Elritze. Co. 3, 1. LL. 1, 1. Metaphysical, supernatural, transcendent. M. 1, 5. to Mete, to measure; to measure with the eye, to aim. LL. 4, 1. Lat. metiri, gr. metrein, kin to the lat. modius, modus, gr. medimnos, lat. meta. Metewand, meteyard, tailor's yardmeasure or wand. TS. 4, 3. Metheglin, drink made of honey and water. LL. 5, 2. Kin to mead, meathe, gr. methy, germ. Meth. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 242. Mettle, mind. T.2, 1. stoutness, courage. aHd. 2, 4. 5, 4. JC. 1, 2; vigour. JC. 4, 2. 2, 1. M. 1,7; eagerness, vivacity, fire, briskness, life, spirit, nimbleness. AL. 2, 7. For metal TN. 2, 5. Its kindred s. in mad. to Mew up, to shut up, to pen up, to close up, to commit. TS. 1, 1. KJ. 4, 2. Rc. 1, 1. 1, 3. RJ. 3, 4. From the gr. myō, myzō, myaō, amyō. Kin also Minute Jacks. S. Jack of the clockhouse. to Mire, to besmear, to soil with mire. TA. 4, 3. Mirke, darkness. AW. 2, 1. Spelt also mark, murk, merk, myrk, scot. pitmirk, (pickmark,) dark as pitch, icel. myrce. S. to smirch. Mirrors were worn publicly, by the men as brooches, or ornaments in their hats, by the women at their girdles, on their breasts, or in the centres of their fans. Gifford's Ben Jons. II, 263. to Mewl, to squeak, screek. AL. 2, 7. to Miche, to skulk, conceal, hide one's self, as truants do from school, Lily's Euph. p. 71. to act by stealth. Hence mitching, skulking, concealed. H. 3, 2. At Norfolk in Gloucester-Misbehaved, unmannerly. RJ. 3, 3. shire it is spelt to mooch. Malone at H. d. 1. Miser, miserable wretch. aHf. 5, 5. TC. 3, §. The family is mokey, moky, traitor, germ. to Misgive, properly to inspire somewhat other, Munker, munkeln, Meuchel, mugel, maugel;| gr. mychios, inward, inwardly, mychos, inward angle; germ. Mucke, gloomy, clandestine malice, muckish, knavish, malicious; muscheln, prov. to deceive in the game at cards. Micher, a truant, one who acts by stealth. alld. 2, 4. Mickle, great, very much. RJ. 2, 3. CE. 3, 1. to Mildew, to blast, taint with mildew. H. 3, 4. Mill-sixpences. Milled money was invented to Mince, to cut small. TA. 4, 8. H. 2, 2; to Minds is the reading suggested. AC. 1, 2. instead of winds. than what may be required and justified by Misgreff'd, misimped, different, misallied. Missingly, occasionally, by intervals, some- to Misthink, to blame, to find fault with. cHf. 2, 5. Mistress, the small ball at the game of bowls, now called the Jack, at which the players aim. TC. 3, 2. Mite, a little worm. AW. 1, 1. Kin to moth, lowsax. Miete, germ. Motte, gr. mydaō. Moat, ditch filled with water round a house or castle for defence. Rb. 2, 1. AW. 5, 2. Kiu to the precedent, as to mist, mead, mud, middlelat. mota, fr. mote, explained tourbe, by Dufresne, motarium, palustris locus unde eiusmodi motae eruuntur. Of course it would be properly a ditch of turf. to Moble, mable, wh. s. to veil or cover the head close. H. 2, 2. Mockery, prestige, phantom, opposed to true things. He. 4. chor. M. 3, 4. Kin to the gr. mōkaō, myktērizō, hebr. hemik, fr. moquer. Mockwater, a jocular term of reproach to the french Dr. Caius MW. 2, 3. meaning a pretending, counterfeit, deceiving, spurious waterdoctor, called a while before King Urinal. Model, module, measure, portion, quantity. Rb. 3, 2; Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 410. pattern. Rc. 3, 2. 5, 1. H. 5, 2. Modern, common, trivial, trite, worthless. AL. 2, 7. 4, 1. M. 4, 3. KJ. 3, 4. AC. 5, 2. 0.1, 3. RJ. 3, 2. stay in the joint, like the ribs and masts of a ship in tempest, of course to withstand, to maintain, defend one's self. O. 2, 1. to Mortise, to join by a mortaise. Hence H. 3, 3. mortis'd and adjoin'd. Mo Mome, blockhead, sometimes buffoon. CE. 3, 1. Montanto, montant, an old fencing term. Month's mind, anniversary in times of popery in remembrance of dead persons, a month after their decease. Those anniversaries being welcome to the friars, because profitable, month's mind was also used for eager desire, longing, strong inclination. TG. 1, 2. John Croft refers it to the longing of a woman in the first month of pregnancy. Mood, humour, temper of mind. Co. 1, 3; anger, wrath, eagerness. MD. 3, 2. TG. 4, 1. O. 2, 3. S. mad. Moody, of mood, of mind, melancholy. Moody food is called the music AC. 2, 5. humorsome, wilfull, obstinate, peevish. aHf. 3, 1. cHf. 4, 6. Rc. 5, 1. Moon, man in the, with a briarbush on the back, a dog on the side (MD. 5, 1.) was a comical object of the stage. T. 2, 1. Drake's Sh. and his time I, 383. Mooncalf, false conception, mola carnea, or Moonish, variable, changeable. AL. 3, 2. wh. s. Moral, meaning. MA. 3, 4. TS. 4, 4. TA. 4, 4. More, greater. KJ. 2, 1. More and less, great and small. aHd. 4, 8. bHd. 1, 1. Morisco, dancer in a morrisdance. bHf. 3, 1; the dance itself. Morris dance, moorish dance, used on festival occasions, and particularly on Mayday. AW. 2, 2. S. May, and maid Marian, Hobbyhorse. Add Irving's Bracebridge - hall. II, 5.11. Morrispike, a formidable weapon used often by the english mariners, sometimes by soldiers. ČE. 4, 3. to Mose in the chine, a disorder in horses by some called mourning in the chine. TS. 3, 1. Most, used redundantly. KL. 2, §. H. 2, 2. Most, greatest. aHƒ. 4, 1. Mote, moth, atom, any very small object. H. 1, 1. KJ. 4, 1. He. 4, 1. Sax. mot, kin to mite, wh. s. Mother, womb; hysterica passio. KL. 2, 4. Motive, assistant, mover. AW. 4, 4. to Moult, to mew, wh. s., to shed or cast the Mountant, rising up; a real or mock term of heraldry, TA. 4, 3. French montant. Mountebank, quack, wandering and shuckling physician. CE. 1, 2. H. 4,7. Ital. montambanco, saltimbanco, properly one that mounts at a bank, or stage. to Mountebank, to play the mountebank; to cheat, gain by quackish or charlatanish deceit, craft. Co. 3, 2. where it is joined to cog. Mouse, term of endearment. LL. 5, 2. H. 3, 4. to Mouse, to mammock, to tear in pieces, to teaze. MD. 5, 1. Mousehunt, hunter of mice, but with allusion to a different object of pursuit; such as is called mouse only in playful endearment. RJ. 4, 4. Moy, a piece of money. He. 4, 4. From moidore, or moedore, a portuguese piece of gold; or from modius. S. Dufresne. Muck, an ironical or contemptuous exclamation for little or none, far from it, by no means, not at all. bhd. 2, 4. AL. 4, 8. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 117. II, 44. III, 279. VI, 365. It seems an elliptical phrase for much good may it do you. Muck, dung. Co. 2, 2. Belonging to the hebr. Muddy, confuse and unsettled. WT. 1, 2. H. Mort of the deer, a certain set of notes usually blown by huntsmen on the occasion of the death (mors) of the deer. WT. 1, 2. Mortaise, mortise, mortice, hole cut into a piece of timber, that another piece may be put Mulled, softened, sweetened, dispirited. Co. into it and form a joint. To hold the m., to 4, 5. Kin to mulcere, mulsus, whence mulsum, mow. in bed. VA. 67. (mull. Walter Sc. Heart of Midloth. I, 7.), | Naked bed, in, of a person undressed, and aqua mulsa, honeywater. Mumbudget, mumbouget, a cantword implying silence. MW. 5, 2. 5, 5. Slender's watchword. It seems to have been originally a dice hazard, like mumchance, where great calmness was required. Gifford's Ben Jons. IV, 174. 474. The word mum is kin to mommery, gr. mormō, mommō, mombrō; germ. Mumme, mask, Mummel, Mummerei. Mummy, pissasphalt, a pitchy substance used for preserving dead bodies and for dying. 0.3, 4. to Munch, to chew eagerly by great mouthfu's. MD. 4, 1. Variety of to mounch, maunch, mouch, kin to the fr. macher, to the gr. smuō, směchō, smychō, smōchō, germ, schmatzen, provinc. mätschen. Murdering piece, a very destructive kind of ordnance, calculated to do much execution at once, having a wide mouth and discharging large stones. H. 4, 5. Mure, wall. bHd. 4, 4. Murky. AW. 2, 1. T. 4, 1. M. 5, 1. S. mirk. to Muse, to wonder. T. 3, 3. M. 3, 4. KJ. 3, 1. mousseron. Musket, the male young of the sparrowhawk. MW. 3,3. S. eyas. From the fr. mousquet, it. muschetto. Also a sort of gun; by the custom, of giving to poliorcetical engines the names of animals, like aries, musculus, echinus etc. Muss, a scramble, when any small objects are thrown among the rabble, to be taken by those, who can seize them. AC. 3, 2. From the fr. mouche, like to the greek childish play, called myia chalke, a kind of blind man's buff. Gifford's Ben Jons, VI, 472. VI, 82. to Muster, to assemble in order to form an army. Rb. 2, 2; to gather to congest. MM. 2, 4. Germ. mustern, lat. monstrare, it. mo Nap, sleep, slumber. TS. ind. 2. Rc. 5,3; flock of wool, tufted superficies of cloth. bHf. 4, 2. In the first meaning it is the transposed gr. hypnos, as the sax. hnappian, sanscr. suapap, to sleep, suap, sleep, oldlat. sopnus for somnus; in the second the general notion is hollow, and its kindred are the sax. nappe, hnaeppe, cup, gall. hanap, ital. nappo, hebr. nabub, from bub; cambr. nef, heaven; bohem. nebe, oldgerm. Nauf, a coffin; pers. naf, navel; gr. nape, valley; icel. gnypa, nupr, gnupr, promontory. Hence Nape properly the vaulted, arched or bowed Nasty, filthy, slovenly, sluttish. He. 2, 1. H. Nayward, towards a negative, or a nay. WT. Nayword, watchword. MW. 2, 2; proverb, Neare, neere, for nearer. Rb. 5, 1. Neb, bill of a bird. WT. 1, 2. Variety of nib, Necessaries, stores, stocks, provisions, victuals. He. 1, 2. Need. More than need. LL. 3, 3. KJ. 1, 1. Neeld, neele, needle. MD. 3, 2. KJ. 5, 2. P. 5, 5. TL. 46. Sax. needle, goth. nethls, icel. nal, germ. Nadel, kin to the gr. neein, nethein, germ. nähen, nyssein, nyttein, to perforate. to Neese, neeze, to sneeze. MD. 2, 1. From Mutuality, reciprocation, interchangeable fa- mouth. Neigh, 0.1, 1. Sax. hnaegan, lat. hinnire. Netherstocks, stockings, lower stocks, oppos. to the upperstocks, or breeches. The whole was originally in one, like the present pantaloons. KL. 2, 4. Germ. nieder, gr. nerthe. Mystery, art, trade, profession. MM. 4, 2. In this sense it should properly be spelt mistery, from the fr. mestier, metier, maistery, ma-New fangled, new invented. LL. 1, 1. AL. stery, by the lat. magisterium, germ. Meisterei. N. Nag, small horse, jade. aHd. 3, 1. AC. 3, 8. 4, 1. Cy. 5, 4. chiefly as it seems in a contemptuous sense. S. fangled. Newt, eft. MD. 2, 3. TA. 4, 3. KL. 3, 4. M. 4, 1. Variety risen out of the absorbed article an, and kin to the nordengl. effet, evet, gr. echis, ophis, aspis. Galloway nags. bHd. 2, 4. Lowsax. Nickel, to Nibble, to bite a little and often. AL. 3, 3. T. 4, 1. Anciently gnibble, kin to the gr. kin probably to neigh. knaō, knapō, knaphō, knaptō, gnaptō, germ. Nonny, or Hey nonny, nonny, a kind of burden gnabbeln. Nice, tender, delicate. TG. 3, 1; of no moment, foolish, trifling. RJ.3, 1. 5, 2. TS. 3, 1. whence nice and trivial respects Rc. 3, 7. JC. 4, 3. nice offence. AC. 3, 4. Nice as subst. for delicacy of hearing, like dark (He. ch. 4.) fair (RJ. 1. ch.) prime (AW. 2, 1.) mean (KL. 4, 1.) restored Voss MD. 1, 1. for voice, reading my ear should catch your ice, my eye your eye. Unless the word be kin to nesh, and to the gr. neossos, we might derive it with Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 384. from the sax. hnescian, mollire. Niceness, delicacy. Cy. 3, 4. to some old lovesongs. MA. 2, 3. H. 4, 5. Nook, neck; bay. T. 1, 2; corner. AL. 3, 2. Northern man, vir borealis, a clown. LL. 5, 2. to Nose, to smell. II. 4, 3. Not, not only. Co. 3, 3. Confounded with now Nicholas, Saint, the patron of scholars, more particularly of schoolboys; his day the 6th of December. TG. 3, 1. Converted jocularly into Old Nick, devil, he gave a name to St. Ni-Nowl, head. MD. 3, 2. Rc. 2, 1. S. noddy. cholas clerks, when used to signify thieves, Nourice, norice, nurse. aHf. 1, 1. highwaymen and the like. aHd. 2, 1. Novum, or novem, a kind of game at dice, in Nick, notch. Out of all nick TG. 4, 2. beyond which it appears that five or six persons played. all reckoning or count; reckonings being kept LL. 5, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 243. upon nicked or notched sticks or tailies. Nuncle, mine uncle; customary appellation of to Nick, to notch, to carve. CE. 5, 1. the licensed fool to his superior. KL. 1, 4. 5. Niece, relation in general. TG. 4, 1. unless it be rather godfather, gossip; from Niggard, covetous, avaricious, pinchfast. M. nonnus. S. Dufresne. 4, 3. Hh. 1, 1. TA. 5, 6. H. 3, 1. Kin to the gr. knizō, knigō, germ nagen, kneipen, whence Gnipho, the old covetous in comedy. to Niggard, to spare, to keep niggardly. JC. 4, 3. Nightrule, night revel, or nightwork. MD. 3, 2. Rule in this composition no doubt is the same word as revel. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 192. although not in misrule. to Nill, not to will, to be averse to. TS. 2, 1. Nine fold, for ninefoals. KL, 3, 4. Numb, forceless, torpid, chilled, feeble, weak. aHf. 2, 5. TAn. 3, 1. Formerly num, benum, sax. benumen, benumed, from niman, capere, Number, poetical measure. LL. 4, 3. Rd. 2, 4. Nurture, education, civility, manner, gentle- Nuthook, a hook to pull down the branches of nuts, in order to gather them; metaphorically a bailiff, who hooks or seizes debtors or malefactors with a staff or otherwise. bld. 5, 4. MW. 1, 1. Nutmeg, gilt, was a common gift at Christmas, or festive times, and a love philtrum. LL.5, 2. Gifford's Ben Jonson VII, 405. 0. to Nip, to bite, pinch, as frost, to taunt. bHf. O, any thing circular, as the stars, or round 2, 4. S. to nibble. Noise, set, band, company of musicians. bHd. Non com MA. 3, 5. for non compos mentis, or O spots of any kind, spangles etc. MD. 3, 2; Obsequious, belonging to a funeral, or ob- Observant, a person who observes, an obse- Obstruct, obstruction; a conjectural unneces- Ov to Occupy, to possess or enjoy, in obscene Od's pitikins, a diminutive adjuration, corrupted from God's pity, quasi God's little pity. Cy. 4, 2. So in 's blood for god's blood, odd's my will. Odd, unusual, uncommon, strange, unexpected. aHf. 1, 2. Odd even of night 0.1, 1. the time about midnight. From the gr. heis, one, dor. ais, as, pers. ahad. Odds, difference, disparity, M. 3, 4; unequal match, superiority. alif. 4, 4. cllf. 2, 1. He. 4, 3. Rb. 3, 4. To set at odds, to make discordant. KL. 1, 3, To take the odds, to get advantage over. aHd. 5, 1. To lay odds with, to lay a wager. bHd. 5, 5. Oeillad, glance of the eye, ogle. KL. 4, French word! 5. Of abundantly, or in unusual construction; as Offal, broken pieces of meat, remnants of meat. Offering, one who offers a battle, or fray, Office, errand. TN. 1, 5. Offices, the parts of a house appropriated to Old, frequent, abundant; a burlesque phrase. Ordinary, a public dinner, where each person pays his share, long the universal resort of gentlemen, particularly in the reign of James I. LL. 2,3. AC.2, 2. lounging places of the men of the town, and the fantastic gallants, exchange for news, gambling, part of fashionable edu cation. Ordnance, statute, decree, institute. KL. 4, 1; artillery, cannon. TS. 1,2. He. 3. prol. In the last signification translated from the misunderstood word kanon, confounded with canna. Ordure, mire, dung. He. 2, 4. French word from the lat. sordes, icel. aur. Ore, brass. H. 4, 1. AW.3, 6. Sax. ore, ora, lat. aurum, kin to iron, icel. jarn, goth. eisarn, sax. isern, isen, iren, irn, scott. irne, yrn, airn, sued. jaern, dan. jern; lat. ferrum; span. hierro; lat. aes, old, ais, aeris, aeneus, ahe neus. Orgillous, proud. TC. prol. 1, 2. French or- Ornaments, scarlet, red of lips. S. 142. and Osier, salix. AL. 4, 3. Gr. oisos, oisya, itys, itea, lat. vitus, vitex. Osprey, seaeagle, falco ossifragus, and hali- Ostent, prodigy; show, appearance. MV. 2, 2. One, an individual, a single person. M. 3, 4. Sometimes it was written and pronounced on. TG. 2, 1, KJ. 3, 3. with Malone, Oneyers, onyers, public accountants. To settle accounts in the Exchequer is still called to ony, from the mark o. ni, which is an abbreviation of the latin form: oneretur, nisi habeat sufficientem exonerationem. So observes and re-to Overbulk, to overcharge like a bulk, to stores aHd. 2, 1. Malone for monyer, and owner. Ooze, wetness, moisture, AC. 2, 7. T. 1, 2. 3, 3; brook, source, germ. Wase. Cy. 4, 2. Kin to eaves, wh. s., wos, woose, ouze, owze, in Iun. etymol. angl., the gr. asis, slime, mire, hyō, hygō, hydō, hyzó, pluo. to Oose, to run, drain, flow, distill gently. TA. 1, 1. Oozy, slimy, muddy. T. 5, 1. Opal, a stone thought to possess magical powers, Operant, operative, fit for action. H. 3, 2. ornaments. oppress. TC. 1, 3. Overcanopy'd, overhung with a canopy or baldachin. MD. 2, 2. to Overcast, to become dark, cloudy, covered with clouds. Rc. 3, 2. Overdy'd blacks, cloth too much dyed in black, that breaks and bursts sooner. WT. 1, 2. to Overpart, to charge with a too heavy part, to pretend too much. LL. 5, 2. to Overpeer, to peer over, or overhang, oversee. MV. 1, 1. aHf. 1, 4. Co. 2, 3. to Overperch, to soar, hover, hang, fly over. RJ. 2, 2. to Overrate, to overprize. Cy. 1, 5. Overscutched, bHd. 3, 2. by some interpreters explained filthy, greasy, by Ray for overswitched, much lashed with a whip, whipped, |