MAUDLIN DRUNK. Crying drunk: perhaps from Mary Magdalene, called Maudlin, who is always painted in tears. MAULED. Extremely drunk, or soundly beaten. MAUNDERING BROTH. Scolding. MAUNDING. Asking or begging. CANT: MAWKES. A vulgar slattern. MAWLEY. A hand. Tip us your mawley; shake hands. with me. Fam the mawley; shake hands. MAW-WALLOP. A filthy composition, sufficient to provoke vomiting. MAX. Gin. MAY BEES. May bees don't fly all the year long; an answer to any one who prefaces a proposition with, It may be. MEALY-MOUTHED. Over-modest or backward in speech. MEDLAR. A fruit, vulgarly called an open a-se; of which it is more truly than delicately said, that it is never ripe till it is as rotten as a t--d, and then it is not worth a f--t. MELLOW. Almost drunk. MELTING MOMENTS. A fat man and woman in the amorous congress. TO MELT. To spend. Will you melt a borde? will you spend a shilling? The cull melted a couple of decusses upon us; the gentleman spent a couple of crowns upon us. CANT. MEMBER MUG. A chamber pot. MEN OF STRAW. Hired bail, so called from having straw stuck in their shoes to distinguish them. MEN OF KENT. Men born east of the river Medway, who are said to have met the Conqueror in a body, each carrying a green bough in his hand, the whole appearing like a moving wood; and thereby obtaining a confirmation of their ancient privileges. The inhabitants of Kent are divided into Kentish men and men of Kent. Also a society held at the Fountain Tavern, Bartholomew Lane, A.D. 1743. MERKIN. Counterfeit hair for women's privy parts. See BAILEY'S DICT. MERRY ANDREW, or MR. MERRYMAN. The jack pudding, jester, or zany of a mountebank, usually dressed in a party-coloured coat. MERRY A-SE CHRISTIAN. A whore. MERRY-BEGOTTEN. A bastard. MAN OF THE WORLD. A knowing man. MESS JOHN. A Scotch presbyterian teacher or parson. MESSMATE. One who eats at the same mess, companion or comrade. METTLE. The semen. To fetch mettle; the act of self pollution. Mettle is also figuratively used for courage. METTLESOME. Bold, courageous. MICHAEL. Hip, Michael, your head's on fire. See HYP. MIDSHIPMAN'S WATCH AND CHAIN. A sheep's heart and pluck. MILCH COW. One who is easily tricked out of his property; a term used by gaolers, for prisoners who have money and bleed freely. MILK AND WATER. Both ends of the busk. TO MILK THE PIGEON. To endeavour at impossibilities. MILLING COVE. A boxer. How the milling cove served the cull out; how the boxer beat the fellow. MILL. A chisel. To MILL. To rob; also to break, beat out, or kill. I'll mill your glaze; I'll beat out your eye. To mill a bleating cheat; to kill a sheep. To mill a ken; to rob a house. To mill doll; to beat hemp in bridewell. CANT. MILL LAY. To force open the doors of houses in order to rob them. MILLER. A murderer.