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
Mued, _moulted_, xi. 360
Muliebrity, _womanhood_, v. 345
Mum, _silent_, i. 74;
_silence_, iii. 352
Mumchance, _note_, xii. 120
Mummery, _masking_, v. 300
Mun, _must_, iii. 159;
vi. 74;
xv. 143
Mundungo, _tobacco_, xiv. 291
Murlons, _merlins_ (_hawks_), iv. 70
Murnival, _a term used in card-playing_, xi. 217
Murrain, _plague_, _curse_, xiii. 160;
_plaguy_, _very_, xv. 144
Murrainer, _worse_ (?), iii. 221
Murrainly, _much_, _exceedingly_, iii. 213
Murrion, _murrain_, iii. 180
Muscadine (wine), ix. 526
Muskadine, _muscadel_, xi. 491
Muss, _a term of abuse_, ix. 367
Musselden, _muscadine_, iv. 73
Mussers, _hiding-places_, x. 294
Mutin, _mutinous_, iv. 258
Muzzling, iv. 120
Mynock (myn hock), vi. 242
Naked, _without weapons_, xiv. 334;
_note_, 511
Nale, "at nale," (=atten _ale_) _at the ale-house_, i. 166;
_ale_, vi. 73
Napery, _napkin_, xv. 159
Nat, _not_, iii. 177
Natural, _an idiot_, xi. 453
Naturate, _natural_, i. 11
Naturing, _bringing into birth_, i. 11
Naunt, _aunt_, _whore_, xiii. 161
Nawl, _an awl_, iii. 210
Nay, _denial_, iii. 38
Ne, _nor_, i. 226
Near, _nearer_, ii. 125;
iii. 64;
xi. 46
Nearhand, _nearly_, iii. 31
Neat, _finely-dressed_, vii. 286
Neck verse, i. 159
Neele, _needle_, iii. 180
Neighbourhood, _neighbourliness_, xii. 67
Nem, _take_, xii. 287
Nempd, _named_, xii. 242
Nessary, _necessary_, i. 253
Nething, _nothing_, vi. 72
New, "a new day," i. 86
New-joint (to), ix. 556
Next, _nearest_, i. 27;
ix. 441;
_nearest of kin_, x. 196;
_the next heir_, x. 31
Nice, i. 116; _foolish_, i. 235;
_tender_, _delicate_, ii. 272;
_coy_, xi. 531
Nicely, _quietly_, iii. 232
Niches in the wall, _note_, xv. 216
Nick (of time), xii. 390;
xv. 47, 60;
_a term used in dicing_, ii. 171
Nicking, _using a beer-can with a raised bottom, hence giving short
measure_, xii. 334
Nidiot, _idiot_, ii. 303
Nifling, _trifling_, xiv. 317
Niggers (= snigs), _an oath_, xiii. 6, 22
Niggersnoggers, _an oath_, xiii. 5, 10
Niggler, _sporter_, xiv. 313
Nill, _will not_, vi. 475;
vii. 108;
x. 474
Nim, _to take_, xiv. 350
Nimmer, _thief_, xi. 370
Ningle, _a term of endearment_, xiv. 297
Nipitaty, _note_, viii. 60
Nippitate, _note_, vii. 445
Niset, _a term of endearment_, ii. 22
Niters, _note_, xi. 430
Nitty-napry, xiv. 344
Nod, _noddy_, ii. 130
Noddlehead, x. 328
Noddy, _nobody_, iv. 17
Noiling, _noise_ (?), iii. 230
Noise, _band_, x. 263;
_note_, xii. 281
Noisome, _poisonous_, _noxious_, xii. 192
Nol, _pate_, vi. 253
Noly, ii. 171
Norice, _nurse_, xii. 241
Nosthrils, _nostrils_, i. 376
Not, _nought_, i. 321
Notable, _well-known_, i. 69
Note, _mark_, ix. 427
Notes, _signs_, vii. 187
Nother, _nor_, i. 22;
_neither_, i. 200, 368
Nothing, _not at all_, i. 7
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