M

# The Letter M

## Mackarel

a Bawd.

## MACKAREL-Back

a very tall, lank Person.

## MADAM Van

a Whore; The Cull has been with Madam Van, the Fellow has enjoyed such a one.

## MADE

stolen. I made this Knife at a Heat, I stole it cleverly.

## MAD Tom

alias of Bedlam; otherwise called Abram-men.

## MAIDEN-Sessions

when none are hang'd.

## MAKE

a Half-penny.

## To MAKE

to steal; seize; to run away with.

## MALKINTRASH

one in a rueful Dress, enough to fright one.

## MALMSEY-Nose

a jolly red Nose.

## MAN o'th' Town

a lewd Spark, or very Debauchee.

## MANUFACTURE

any Liquor made of the Fruits of English Growth, as Ale, Beer, Cyder, &c.

## MARGERY Prater

a Hen.

## MARINATED

transported into some Foreign Plantation.

## MARRIAGE Musick

Childrens Cries.

## MASONS Mawn'd

a Sham Sore above the Elbow; to counterfeit a broken Arm, by a Fall from a Scaffold.

## MAUL'D

swinglingly drunk, or soundly beat.

## MAUNDERS

Beggars

## MAUNDING

begging.

## MAUNDRING-Broth

Scolding.

## MAWDLIN

weepingly drunk.

## MEGGS

Guineas. We fork'd the rum Cull's Meggs to the Tune of Fifty; We pickt the Gentleman's Pocket of full Fifty Guineas.

## To MELT

to spend Money. Will you melt a Borde? Will you spend your Shilling? The Cull melted a Couple of Decusses upon us; The Gentleman spent Ten Shillings upon us.

## MILCH-Kine

a Term used by Goalers, when their Prisoners will bleed freely to have some Favour, or to be at large.

## To MILL

to steal, rob, or kill. ill the Gig with a Dub, open the Door with a Pick-lock, or false Key.

## To MILL a Bleating Cheat

to kill a Sheep.

## MILL-Clapper

a Woman's Tongue.

## To MILL a Crackmans

to break a Hedge.

## To MILL a Grunter

to kill a Pig.

## To MILL a Ken

to rob a House. Milling the Gig with a Betty, Breaking open the Door with an Iron Crow.

## MILL-Ken

a House-Breaker.

## MILL the Glaze

break open the Window.

## MILL Them

kill them.

## MILLER

a Killer or Murderer.

## MINT

Gold.

## MISH

Shirt, Smock, or Sheet.

## MISH Topper

a Coat or Petticoat.

## MISS

a Whore of Quality.

## MOABITES

Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew.

## MOB

## or MAB

a Wench or Harlot.

## MONGREL

a Hanger-on among the Cheats, a Spunger.

## MOON-Curser

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.

## MOON-Men

Gypsies.

## MOPSIE

a Dowdy, or homely Woman.

## MOP'D

maz'd.

## MOPUS

a Half-penny or Farthing.

## MORGLAG

a Watchman's brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.

## To MORRIS

to hang dangling in the Air, to be executed.

## MORTS

Yeomans Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench.

## MOTHER

a Bawd.

## MOTHER Midnight

a Midwife (often a Bawd).

## MOVEABLES

Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toys of Value.

## MOUSE-Trap

as The Parson's Mouse-Trap, Marriage.

## MOUTH

a noisy Fellow. Mouth half cockt, gaping and staring at every Thing they see.

## MOWER

a Cow.

## MOW-Heater

a Drover.

## MUCK

Money, Wealth.

## MUFF

a Woman's Secrets, To the well wearing of your Muff, Mort; To the happy Consummation of your Marriage, Madam. A Health.

## MUFFLING-Cheat

a Napkin.

## MUM for-that

not a Word of the Pudding.

## MUM Chance

one that fits mute.

## MUM Glass

the Monument, erected at the City Charge, in Memory of the dreadful Fire 1666, which consumed the greatest part of the City.

## MUMPERS

genteel Beggars, who will not accept of Victuals, but of Money or Cloaths. The Male Mumper 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 South Sea Scheme, has been undine, and reduced to the Necessity of imploring good People's Charity.

The Female Mumper 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 Mumper is now generally used to denote all sorts of Beggars.

## MUMPERS Hall

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.

## MUNNS

the Face; Toute his Munns, Note his Phiz, or, Mark his Face well. Pay his Munns, i.e. Strike him in the Face, &c.

## MUSICK

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.

## MUTTON Monger

a Lover of Women; also a Sheep-stealer.

## MUTTON-in-long-coats

Women A Leg of Mutton in a Silk Stocking, a Woman's leg.

## MUZZLE

a beard, (usually) long and nasty.

## MYRMIDONS

the Constable's Attendants, or those whom he commands (in the King's Name) to aid and assist him: Also the Watchmen.