_Madam Van_, c. a Whore, _The Cull has been with Madam Van_, c. the Fellow has enjoyed such a one. _Mad-cap_, a frolicksom Person. _Made_, c. Stolen. _I Made this Knife at a beat_, c. I Stole it cleaverly. _Mad Tom_, alias of Bedlam, the Eighteenth Rank of Canters. _Madge-howlet_, an Owl. _Maggot_, a whimsical Fellow, full of strange Fancies and Caprichio’s, _Maggotty_, Freakish. _Maiden-sessions_, when none are Hang’d. _Mailes_, the Breast-Feathers of a Hawk. _Main_, great, excellent, choice, rare; also the Sea. _Maingood_, very good. _With Might and Main_, Tooth and Nail. _Make_, c. a half Penny. _Make-bait_, a Trouble-House, or Mischief-maker, a stirrer of Strife, and maker of Debate, a Boute feu, or Incendiary. _Male-contents_, Disaffected to the State, out of Humor with the Government. _Malkin_ or _Maukin_, a Scare-crow, Drest and Set up to fright the Birds. Also a Scovel (of old Clouts) to cleanse the Oven: Hence _Malkin-trash_, for one in a rueful Dress, enough to Fright one. _There are more Maids than Malkins_, _Mawks_, the same abbreaviated. _Mawkish_, a Wallowish, ill Tast. _Malmesey-nose_, a jolly, red Nose. _Man o’ th’ Town_, a Lew’d Spark, or very Debaushe. _Manning_, a Hawk, making him endure Company. _Mannikin_, a Dwarf, or diminutive Fellow. _Mantles_, when Drink is brisk and smiles; also when a Hawk stretcheth one of her Wings after her Leggs, and so the other. _Margery-prater_, c. a Hen. _Marinated_, c. Transported into some forreign Plantation; also Fish Soused. _Marriage-music_, Childrens Cries. _Marks_, the Footing of an Otter. _Marrel_, a Bird about the bigness of a Knot, but not good Meat. _Martern_, a Wild Cat, the second Year, called a Cub, the first. _A Martern Treeth_, Lodgeth; _Tree the Martern_, Dislodge him. _Masons mawn’d_, c. a Sham sore above the Elbow, to counterfeit a broken Arm, by a Fail from a Scaffold, expos’d by subtil Beggers, to move Compassion, and get Money. _Masons-Word_, who ever has it, shall never want, there being a Bank at a certain Lodge in _Scotland_ for their Relief. Tis communicated with a strict Oath, and much Ceremony, (too tedious to insert) and if it be sent to any of the Society, he must, (nay will) come immediately, tho’ very Busy, or at great Distance. _Match_ or _Make_, the Copulation of Woolves. _Match makers_, a better sort of Procurers of Wives for Men, or Husbands for Women, Maiden-head-jobbers, Virginity Sellers, Brokers, _&c._ _Maul’d_, swingingly Drunk, or soundly Beat. _Maunders_, c. Beggers. _Maunding_, c. to Beg, Begging. _Maundring-broth_, Scolding. _Mawdlin_, weepingly Drunk, as we say the Tears of the Tankard. _What are you Mawdlin you Rake?_ are ye’ neither Drunk, nor Sober? _May-games_, Frolicks Plaies, Tricks, Pastimes, _&c._ _Do you make a May-game of me?_ do you Abuse or Expose me?