MAWKISH, _adj._ spiritless; actionless; slow.

MAWT, _s._ malt.

MAY, _s._ a maid; a virgin.

MEDE, _s._ a meadow.

MEIKLE, MEKYL, MUCKLE, _adj._ great.

MELL, _s._ a maul.

MELT, _s._ milt.

MENDS, _s._ atonement.

_To_ MENE, MEANE, MEYNE, _v. a._ to bemoan.

MENSK, MENSE, _s._ dignity of demeanour; discretion.

MENSKFUL, _adj._ manly; moderate; discreet; mannerly.

MERE, _s._ a boundary; a limit; the sea.

MERK, _s._ an ancient Scottish silver coin, value thirteen
shillings and fourpence Scotch money, or thirteen pence and
one-third of a penny sterling.

MERLE, _s._ a blackbird.

MERRY-BEGOTTEN, _s._ an illegitimate child.

MERRY-DANCERS, _s._ the Aurora Borealis.

MES. _s._ mass. _Mes_ or _Mass John_, a name of
derision for a parish minister.

MESSAN, _s._ a small mongrel dog.

MET, METT, _s._ measure.

MEVIS, _s._ a thrush.

MICHTIE, _adj._ of high rank; stately; haughty.

MICK, _s._ Michael.

MIDDEN, _s._ a dunghill.

MILK-SYTH, _s._ a milk strainer.

MILL, MULL, _s._ a snuff-box made of a horn.

MILL-LADE, MILL-LEAD, _s._ a mill-course.

MIM, _adj._ prim; demure; prudish.

MIM-MOU'D, _adj._ soft of speech; bashful.

_To_ MIND, _v. n._ to remember; to recollect.

MINNIE, MINNY, _s._ mother.

MIRK, MYUK, MARK, _adj._ dark.

MIRLYGOES, _s. pl._ when persons see indistinctly they are
said to be in the _Mirlygoes_.

MISCALL, MISCA', _v. a._ to call hard uames.

MISCHANTER, _s._ misfortune; mishap.

_To_ MISKEN, _v. n._ not to recognise.

_To_ MISTROW, _v. a._ to suspect; to mistrust.

_To_ MISTRYST, _v. a._ to break an engagement.

MITTENS, _s. pl._ woollen gloves.

MIXTIE-MAXTIE, _adj._ in a state of confusion.

_To_ MODERATE, _v. n._ to preside in an ecclesiastical
court.

MODERATOR, _S_. he who presides in an ecclesiastical court.

MODYWART, MODEWORT, _s._ a mole.

MOLLIGRANT, MOLLIGRUBS, whining, complaining.

MONY, _adj._ many.

_To_ MOOL, _v. a._ to crumble.

MORN, MORNE, _s._ to-morrow. _The morn_, to-morrow.

_To_ MORTIFY, _v. a._ to give in mortmain.

MOSS-TROOPERS, _s._ banditti.

MOTHERWIT, _s._ common sense.

MOW, _s._ the mouth.

_To_ MUCK, _v. a._ to carry out dung.

_To_ MUDDLE, _v. n._ to be busy without making
progress at a trifling work.

_To_ MUDGE, _v. n_, to stir; to budge.

MUIR, _s._ a heath.

MULIN, MULOCK, _s._ a crumb.

MULTURE, MOUTUR, _s._ the fee for grinding corn.

MUNDS, MUNS, _s._ the mouth.

MURRION,