_Miss_, a Whore of Quality; also a little Girl. _Moabites_, Serjeants, Bailiffs and their Crew. _Mob_, } _Mobile_, } the Vulgar, or Rabble. _Mobility_, } _Mock-song_, that Ridicules another Song, in the same Terms and to the same Tune. _A Mock-Romance_, that ridicules other Romances, as _Don Quixot_. A Mock-Play, that exposes other Playes, as the _Rehearsal_. _A Mock-holy-day._ _To Mock_, or mimick another. _Moggy_, in Scotch, as _Peg_ in English, for Margaret. _Moil_, to Drudge or Labour Hard. _To Moil and Toil_, to Slave at it. _A Moiling Fellow_, a Drudge or great Pains-taker. _Molinet_, a Chocolate Stick, or little Mill. _Mongrel_, c. a Hanger on among the Cheats, a Spunger. _Of a Mongrel race or Breed_, a Curr or Man of a base, ungenerous Breed. _Mood_, Humor. _In a merry Mood_, or good Humor; _in an ill Mood_, or out of Humor. _Moody_, Humorous. _Moon-curser_, c. a Link-boy, or one that under Colour of lighting Men, Robs them or leads them to a gang of Rogues, that will do it for him. _Moon-men_, c. Gipsies. _Moon-blind_, a sort of Horses, weak-sighted. _Moppet_, _a pretty Moppet_, a very pretty little Baby. _Mopsie_, a Dowdy, or Homely Woman. _Mop eied_, one that can’t see well, by living too long a Maid. _Mop’d_, Maz’d. _Mopus_, c. a half Penny or Farthing. _A meer Mopus grown_, become dispirited, dull and Stupid. _Morglag_, a Watch-man’s brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords. _Morisco_, a Morris or Morrice-dance, being belike some Remains of a Moorish Custom with us, as the _Juego de Toros_, or Feast of Bulls is, in _Spain_. _Mort_, or Death, is Blown at the Death of the Deer. _Morts_, c. Yeomen’s Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench. _Moss-Troopers_, so called from the Mosses, wast Lands in _Lancashire_, as the _Bog-Trotters_ in _Ireland_, are from the Boggs there. _Mother_, a Bawd. _Mother-midnight_, a Midwife (often a Bawd.) _Mouchets_, Patches for Ladies Faces. _Moveables_, c. Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toies of value. _As we bit all the Cull’s Cole and Moveables_, c. we Won all the Man’s Money, Rings, Watches, _&c._ _Very Moving_, prevailing, powerful, perswading. _Mountings_, a Soldier’s Arms and Cloths. _Mouse-trap._ _The Parson’s Mouse-trap_, Marriage. _He watcht me, as a Cat does a Mouse_, i. e. narrowly. _A Man or a Mouse_, a Prince or a Peasant. _A Mouse in the Pot is better than no Flesh_, or something has some Savour. _’Tis pitty to fling Water on a Drown’d Mouse_, or to depress the Miserable. _A sorry Mouse that has but one Hole_, or a poor Creature that has but one Shift. _Mouth_, a noisy Fellow. _A Mouthing Fellow_, a Bawling or Scolding Person. _He never Speaks, but his Mouth opens._ _Mouth half Cockt_, gaping and staring at every thing they see. _Mower_, c. a Cow. _Mow-beater_, c. a Drover. _Muck_, Money, Wealth; also Dung to manure Land. _Muckworm_, a covetous Wretch. _Muckinder_, a Child’s Handkerchief tied by the side.