MOON-EYED HEN. A squinting wench. MOON MEN. Gypsies. MOON RAKERS. Wiltshire men: because it is said that some men of that county, seeing the reflection of the moon in a pond, endeavoured to pull it out with a rake. MOONSHINE. A matter or mouthful of moonshine; a trifle, nothing. The white brandy smuggled on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, and the gin in the north of Yorkshire, are also called moonshine. MOP. A kind of annual fair in the west of England, where farmers usually hire their servants. To MOP UP. To drink up. To empty a glass or pot. MOPED. Stupid, melancholy for want of society. MOPSEY. A dowdy, or homely woman. MOPSQUEEZER. A maid servant, particularly a housemaid. MOPUSSES. Money. MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly carried by watchmen; corruption of MORE, great or broad, and GLAVE, blade. MORNING DROP. The gallows. He napped the king's pardon and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and was not hanged. MORRIS. Come, morris off; dance off, or get you gone. allusion to morris, i.e. MORISCO, or Moorish dancing. MORT. A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless through fear. MOSES. To stand Moses: a man is said to stand Moses when he has another man's bastard child fathered upon him, and he is obliged by the parish to maintain it. MOSS. A cant term for lead, because both are found on the tops of buildings. MOSSY FACE. The mother of all saints. MOT. A girl, or wench. See MORT. MOTHER, or THE MOTHER. A bawd. Mother abbess: the same. Mother midnight; a midwife. Mother in law's bit; a small piece, mothers in law being supposed not apt to overload the stomachs of their husband's children. MOTHER OF ALL SAINTS. The Monosyllable. MOTHER OF ALL SOULS. The same. IRISH. MOTHER OF ST. PATRICK. The same. IRISH. MOTHER OF THE MAIDS. A bawd. MOUCHETS. Small patches worn by ladies: from the French word mouches. MOVEABLES. Rings, watches, or any toys of value. MOUSE. To speak like a mouse in a cheese; i.e. faintly or indistinctly. MOUSETRAP. The parson's mousetrap; the state of matrimony. MOUTH. A noisy fellow. Mouth half cocked; one gaping and staring at every thing he sees. To make any one laugh on the wrong, or t'other side of his mouth; to make him cry or grieve. MOUTH. A silly fellow. A dupe. To stand mouth; i.e. to be duped. To MOW. A Scotch word for the act of copulation. MOW HEATER. A drover: from their frequent sleeping on hay mows. CANT. MOWER. A cow. MUCK. Money; also dung. MUCKWORM. A miser. MUCKINDER. A child's handkerchief tied to the side. MUD. A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See DUNG. MUD LARK. A fellow who goes about by the water side picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Also a duck.