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GLOSSARY 289
LOOPED, having loop-holes; 3. MERE, absolute, very; 2.4.86;
4-3i 4. 1. 20
LOOSE, give vent to, allow to MERITS, deserts; 5. 3.45
proceed from (O.E.D. 4«)j MESS, dish of food; 1. 1. 116
1. 4. 304. METAL. A differentiated sp. of
LOUSE (vb.), become infected 'mettle', 'the two being
with lice; 3. 2. 29 used without distinction in
LtrsT-DiETED=eitheF 'whose the old edd.' (On.); 1. 1. 68
desires are fed to the full', MILK-LIVERED, white-livered,
or, 'whose appetite is ruled cowardly; 4. 2. 50
solely by his desires'; 4.1. 66 MILKY, weak, effeminate (cf.
LUSTY, (a) lustful, (b) vigorous} Tim. 3. 1. 54); 1. 4. 342
1. 2. 11 MINIKIN, either=shrill
LUXURY, lascivionsness; 4. 6. (O.E.D. B2); or=pretty
117 little (O.E.D. Bi, 3); 3. 6.
LYM, bloodhound; 3. 6. 68 43
MINISTER^ servant, agent; 3.2.
MAIN, mainland; 3.1. 6 21
MAINLY, entirely; 4. 7. 65 MISCARRY, come to harm or
MAKE (sb.), mate; 4. 3. 35; destruction; 5. 1. 5, 44
(vb.), (i) do; 1. 4. 189; (ii) MISCHIEF, injury, harm; I. 2.
1
prove; (see O.E.D. v 56^); 16653. 7. 8154.2. 55
5. 3. 94. Phrs.: 'make MISCREANT= either 'infidel'
from'=get out of the way (the orig. meaning) or
of; 1.1.142; 'makegood'= 'villain'; 1. 1. 160
put into effect; 1. 1. 171} MODEST, (i) moderate; 2. 4.
'make mouths=make faces 24; (ii) exact; 4. 7. 5
(at), treat with contempt, MOE, more; 1. 5. 36
(cf. Ham. 4. 4. 50); 3. 2. MOIETY, share; 1. 1. 5
35-65 'make up'=accept a MONSTER (vb.), make mon-
proposal; 1. 1. 205 strous or inhuman; 1.1. 219
MATERIAL, forming the sub- MORAL, moralizing, priggish;
stance of a thing, nourishing 4. 2. 58
it; 4. 2._ 35
MORROW, morning; 2. 4. 123
MAUGRE, in spite of; 5. 3.130 MORTIFIED, deadened, 'pe-
MEANING, intention, purpose; rished', made insensible to
1. 2. 176 pain; 2. 3. 15
MEANS, resources, wealth; 4. MOTHER, lit. womb (see O.E.D.
1. 20 11)5 hence, hysteria, wh.
MEINY, body of retainers; 2.4. ace. to the old physiology
34 was the rising, swelling up-
MERCY, (i) 'in mercy'=at his ward of the womb or
mercy; 1. 4. 328; (ii) 'cry vapours therefrom; 2. 4. 54
you mercy'=1 beg pardon of MOTION, thrusting movement
jou; 3. 6. 51 in fencing; 2. 1. 50