MAGGOT BOILER. A tallow-chandler. MAGGOTTY. Whimsical, capricious. MAGNUM BONUM. A bottle containing two quarts of wine. See SCOTCH PINT. MAHOMETAN GRUEL. Coffee: because formerly used chiefly by the Turks. MAIDEN SESSIONS. A sessions where none of the prisoners are capitally convicted. MAKE. A halfpenny. CANT. MAKE WEIGHT. A small candle: a term applied to a little slender man. MALINGEROR. A military term for one who, under pretence of sickness, evades his duty. MALKIN, or MAULKIN. A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig. MALKINTRASH. One in a dismal garb. MALMSEY NOSE. A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles and rubies. MAN OF THE TOWN. A rake, a debauchee. MAN OF THE TURF. A horse racer, or jockey. MANOEUVRING THE APOSTLES. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, i.e. borrowing of one man to pay another. MAN TRAP. A woman's commodity. MAN OF THE WORLD. A knowing man. MAN, (CAMBRIDGE.) Any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. As a man of Emanuel--a young member of Emanuel. MANUFACTURE. Liquors prepared from materials of English growth. MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause. MARGERY PRATER. A hen. CANT. MARINE OFFICER. An empty bottle: marine officers being held useless by the seamen. SEA WIT. MARPLOT. A spoil sport. MARRIAGE MUSIC. The squalling and crying of children. MARRIED. Persons chained or handcuffed together, in order to be conveyed to gaol, or on board the lighters for transportation, are in the cant language said to be married together. MARROWBONES. The knees. To bring any one down on his marrow bones; to make him beg pardon on his knees: some derive this from Mary's bones, i.e. the bones bent in honour of the Virgin Mary; but this seems rather far-fetched. Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments in the band of rough music: these are generally performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions. MARTINET. A military term for a strict disciplinarian: from the name of a French general, famous for restoring military discipline to the French army. He first disciplined the French infantry, and regulated their method of encampment: he was killed at the siege of Doesbourg in the year 1672. MASON'S MAUND. A sham sore above the elbow, to counterfeit a broken arm by a fall from a scaffold. MASTER OF THE MINT. A gardener. MASTER OF THE ROLLS. A baker. MASTER OF THE WARDROBE. One who pawns his clothes to purchase liquor. MATRIMONIAL PEACE-MAKER. The sugar-stick, or arbor vitae.