A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
Malkin, _a term of contempt_, iii. 65
Malvoisin, _Malmsey wine_, i. 24
Manchet, _white bread_, viii. 160
Manhood, _manliness_, xi. 459
Mankin, _manly_, _furious_, ii. 216
Mankind, _manlike,_ vii. 319;
_ferocious_, viii. 439
Mankine, _masculine_, iii. 146
Mannerly, _well-behaved_, vii. 162
Man-of-war, _constable_, i. 185
Manship, vii. 417
Mantle-tree, _mantlepiece_, ix. 222
Marchpane, ix. 424;
xi. 540;
_note_, xii. 235
Mare, _nightmare_, "let pass away the mare," i. 57;
"two-legged mare," _the gallows_, iii. 335
Margarites, _pearls_, xii. 475
Margent, _margin_, ix. 169
Marish, _marshy_, x. 161
Marl, _marvel_, x. 504
Marl'd, _marvelled_, xi. 284
Marmoset, _monkey_, xiii. 298;
xiv. 285
Marry, _the Virgin Mary_, xi. 461
Marry a God, _marry_, _the Virgin Mary_, vii. 477
Marshal (of the revels), i. 45
Martialist, v. 9;
_a soldier_, viii. 440;
xiii. 462
Martyrdom, _suffering_, x. 149
Marybone, _marrow-bone_, ii. 79
Masculine, _male_, xi. 452
Maship, _mastership_, i. 367;
iii. 65
Massiness, _massiveness_, x. 131
Massy, _massive_, ii. 329;
xi. 339
Masterdom, _power_, viii. 250
Mastlin, _mixed metal_, ix. 411
Match, _rival_, ii. 349
Maternal (tongue), _mother_ (_tongue_) i. 7
Matron, _an old crone_, i. 72
Matt, _the mass_, iii. 146
Maugre, _in spite of_, xi. 316;
xii. 288
Maukins, _note_, viii. 258
Maumet, _puppet_, x. 167
Mavors, _Mars_, xii. 451
Maw, _term used in card-playing_, ix. 387;
x. 539
Mayhap, _perhaps_, i. 66
Maze, _to amaze_, iv. 65
Mazzard, _pate_, xi. 47
Me, _expletive_, x. 280;
xi. 102
Meacock, _a milksop_, iv. 118
Meads, _meadows_, vii. 295
Mean, "a mean," i. 9;
"the mean season," _meantime_, i. 48;
"in a mean," _of a medium size_, _moderate_, i. 62;
v. 285, 293
Measure, _moderation_, i. 258
Meaze, _form of a hare_, ix. 44
Meditation, _mediation_, xv. 19
Meed, _reward_, iii. 231
Meet with, _to serve out_, vii. 462;
_to be even with_, xiii. 62
Megrim, _megrims_, i. 160; xv. 30
Melancholy, _madness_, i. 84
Melist, _it pleases me_, i. 154
Mell, _to meddle_, iii. 248
Mending, _amendment_, i. 153
Mends, _amends_, v. 299
Merce, _to amerce_, ix. 487
Merchant, _person_, _fellow_, _chap_, i. 69;
ii. 255,383;
xi. 28;
iii. 8;
_rogue_, xii. 165
Merchantman, _merchant_, xii. 158
Mercurials, xi. 301
Mere, _pure_, _perfect_, vii. 270
Merely, _quite_, _absolutely_, x. 204
Merk, _to darken_, xii. 507
Meseem, _meseems_, vi. 62
Meseraics, xi. 303
Met, _dreamt_, xii. 242
Metamorphose, _to change_, _transmute_, xi. 488
Mete, _to measure out a reward_, viii. 304;
_to measure_, ix. 557;
_measured_, x. 37
Metely, _fitly_, _meetly_, i. 48
Meteoroscope, xi. 344
Metheglin, xiii. 32
Methink, _methinks_, i. 9
Mettles, vii. 146
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