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mankind, masculine, violent, termagant: A mankind witch, iii. 445; Are you mankind? vi. 202: On the second of these passages Johnson remarks, "Sicinius asks Volumnia, if she be mankind. She takes mankind for a human creature, and accordingly cries out, 'Note but this fool.

Was not a man my father?"

(The epithet mankind was applied even to beasts in the sense of "ferocious," &c.; 66 Manticore. A rauenous and mankind Indian beast." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict. "Thoë. A kind of strong, swift, and short-legd Wolfe.... a great friend vnto men, whom he defends, and fights for, against other mankind wild beasts." Id.) manned with an agate: see agate, &c.

manner-Taken with the, Taken in the fact (a law-term), ii. 168; iii. 487; iv. 240.

Manningtree ox with the pudding in his belly-That roasted, iv. 243: "Manningtree, in Essex, formerly enjoyed the privilege of fairs, by the tenure of exhibiting a certain number of stage-plays yearly. It appears also, from other intimations, that there were great festivities there, and much good eating, at Whitsun ales and other times; we may therefore conclude safely, that roasting an ox whole, a very old and established piece of British magnificence, was not uncommon on those occasions. . . . We may further remark that Manningtree oxen were doubtless at all times famous for their size. Such are the cattle throughout the county, and the pastures of Manningtree are said by Mr. Steevens, an Essex man, to be remarkable." Nares's Gloss. (from the notes in the Var. Shakespeare). man-queller, and a woman-queller-A, A man-slayer, and a woman-slayer, iv. 331.

many, a multitude: 0 thou fond many (populace, mob)! iv. 329; The many to them longing, v. 492; the mutable, rank-scented many (populace, mob), vi. 181.

map, with the augmentation of the Indies-The new, iii. 366: “A clear allusion to a map engraved for Linschoten's Voyages, an English translation of which was published in 1598. This map is multilineal in the extreme, and is the first in which the Eastern Islands are included" (STEEVENS): But is it certain that Maria is here speaking of a map belonging to a book?

marches, "the borders of a country, or rather a space on each side the borders of two contiguous countries. Marche, French" (Nares's Gloss.): They of those marches, iv. 428; in the marches here, v. 255. march-pane, a sort of sweet biscuit, which constantly formed part of the desserts of Shakespeare's time, vi. 404: "Marchpanes were composed of filberts, almonds, pistachoes, pine-kernels, and sugar of roses, with a small proportion of flour," says Steevens (following, I believe, Markham's Countrey Farme); but the old

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cookery-books show that there were many varieties of this favourite composition..

mare-To ride the, iv. 331: "The Hostess had threatened to ride Falstaff like the Incubus or Night-mare; but his allusion (if it be not a wanton one) is to the Gallows, which is ludicrously called the Timber or Two-legged Mare" (STEEVENS).

mare-Rides the wild, Plays at see-saw, iv. 348.

Margarelon—properly Margaryton, Margareton, or Margariton—

see, for instance, Lydgate's Warres of Troy, sig. s 1 verso, ed. 1555 —a son of Priam, according to the legends engrafted on the Trojan story, vi. 94.

margent did quote such amazes-His face's own, ii. 182; Find written in the margent of his eyes, vi. 400; you must be edified by the margent, vii. 204; Writ in the glassy margents of such books, viii. 290: "In our author's time, notes, quotations, &c., were usually printed in the exterior margin of books" (MALONE): "Dr. Warburton very properly observes, that in the old books the gloss or comment was usually printed on the margent of the leaf" (Steevens). Marian-Maid, iv. 261: The well-known mistress of Robin Hood:

but in later days she figured as one of the characters in the morrisdance, when she was represented generally by a man dressed in woman's clothes, and sometimes by a strumpet.

marish, a marsh, v. 6.

mark!-Bless the, i. 311; God bless the mark! ii. 360; God save the mark! iv. 217; vi. 434: "Kelly, in his comments on Scots proverbs, observes, that the Scots, when they compare person to person, use this exclamation" (STEEVENS): but the origin and the meaning of the exclamation are alike obscure.

market-And he ended the, ii. 185: An allusion to the proverb, "Three women and a goose make a market. Tre donne et un occa fan un mercato." Ray's Proverbs, p. 46, ed. 1768.

marmoset, a kind of monkey, i. 206.

marry trap, i. 349: "Apparently a kind of proverbial exclamation, as much as to say, 'By Mary,' you are caught" [?]. Nares's Gloss. mart, to traffic: To sell and mart, vi. 667; nothing marted with him, iii. 476.

Martial thigh-His, His thigh like that of Mars, vii. 704.

Martin's summer—) -Expect Saint, “Expect prosperity after misfortune, like fair weather at Martlemas, after winter has begun" (JOHNSON), v. 13. ("It was one of those rare but lovely exceptions to a cold season, called in the Mediterranean 'St. Martin's summer.'" Correspondent in The Times (newspaper) for Oct. 6, 1864.) martlemas-The, iv. 336: "That is, the autumn, or rather, the

latter spring. The old fellow with juvenile passions" (JOHNSON):

"In the First Part of King Henry IV. the Prince calls Falstaff 'the [thou] latter spring,-All-hallown summer'" (MALONE): Martlemas is a corruption of Martinmas.

mary, iv. 453, 454: Captain Jamy's Scotticism for marry.

Mary-buds, marigold-buds, vii. 661.

mask'd Neptune, viii. 43: see note 149, viii. 96.

mass-Evening, vi. 450: "Juliet means vespers. There is no such thing as evening mass" (RITSON).

master of fence-A, i. 352: "Does not simply mean a professor of the art of fencing, but a person who had taken his master's degree in it" (STEEVENS): see play'd your prize, &c.

masters though ye be-Weak: see weak masters, &c.

match, compact: 'tis our match, vii. 690.

match-Set a: see set a match.

mate, to confound, to bewilder: Not mad, but mated, ii. 27; I think you are all mated or stark mad, ii. 50; My mind she has mated, vii. 62; Her more than haste is mated with delays, viii. 269; Which mates him first (where perhaps there is an allusion to the checkmate in the game of chess), v. 149.

mate, to match, to equal: Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be, v. 539.

mate, to marry: The hind that would be mated by the lion, iii. 209; If she be mated with an equal husband, vi. 511.

material fool—A, “A fool with matter in him a fool stocked with notions" (JOHNSON), iii. 47.

mattress—A certain queen to Cæsar in a, vii. 531: The anecdote of Cleopatra being so conveyed to Julius Cæsar must be familiar to

most readers.

maugre, in spite of (Fr. malgré), iii. 364; vi. 329; vii. 340. maund, a basket, viii. 440.

may, you may-You, equivalent to "You may divert yourself, as you please, at my expense" (STEEVENS), vi. 46, 172.

May-To do observance to a morn of, iii. 269; For now our observation is perform'd, iii. 307; they rose up early to observe The rite of May, ii. 308; to make 'em sleep On May-day morning, v. 568: "It was anciently the custom for all ranks of people to go out a maying on the first of May. It is on record that King Henry VIII. and Queen Katharine partook of this diversion" (STEEVENS): "Stowe says, that, 'in the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods; there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and

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savour of sweet flowers, and with the noise [i.e. music] of birds, praising God in their kind.' See also Brand's Observations on Popular Antiquities, 8vo, 1777, p. 255" (REED).

mazard, the head, vii. 194, 408.

mazes in the wanton green-The quaint, ii. 277: แ Several mazes of the kind here alluded to are still preserved, having been kept up from time immemorial. On the top of Catherine-Hill, Winchester, the usual play-place of the school, observes Percy, was a very perplexed and winding path running in a very small space over a great deal of ground, called a Miz-Maze. The senior boys obliged the juniors to tread it, to prevent the figure from being lost, and I believe it is still retained" (HALLIWELL).

meacock wretch-A, A spiritless, dastardly wretch, iii. 137 ("Coquefredouille. A meacocke, milkesop, sneaksbie, worthlesse fellow." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.: "A Meacock, Pusillanimus, effœminatus; uxorius, uxori nimium deditus et obnoxius." Coles's Lat. and Engl. Dict.: "You, maister meacoke, that stand vpon the beauty of your churnmilke face," &c. Greene's Neuer too late, Part Second, sig. o 2 verso, ed. 1611).

meal'd, mingled, compounded, i. 496.

mean is drown'd with your unruly base-The, i. 269; he can sing a mean most meanly, ii. 220; most of them means and bases, iii. 464: "The mean in music was the intermediate part between the tenor and treble; not the tenor itself, as explained by Steevens." Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time, &c. vol. i. p. 223, sec. ed. measles, lepers,-scurvy fellows ("Mesel, as Meseau. A messelled, scuruie, leaporous, lazarous person." Cotgrave's Fr. and Engl. Dict.), vi. 181.

measure, properly a stately dance with slow measured steps, though

the word is sometimes used to express a dance in general: a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace, ii. 87; tread a measure, ii. 216; trod a measure, iii. 73; though the devil lead the measure, iii. 224; a delightful measure, iv. 120; no strength in measure (=dancing), iv. 502; a measure To lead 'em once again, v. 504; We'll measure them a measure, vi. 401; The measure done, vi. 405; to the measures fall, iii. 76; delightful measures, v. 351; to tread the measures, viii. 277. ("The measures were dances solemn and slow. They were performed at court, and at public entertainments of the societies of law and equity, at their halls, on particular occasions. It was formerly not deemed inconsistent with propriety even for the gravest persons to join in them; and accordingly at the revels which were celebrated at the inns of court, it has not been unusual for the first characters in the law to become performers in treading the measures. See Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales. Sir John Davies, in his poem called Orchestra, 1622, describes them in this manner;

MEASURE-MEINY.

'But after these, as men more civil grew,

He [i. e. Love] did more grave and solemn measures frame;
With such fair order and proportion true,

And correspondence every way the same,
That no fault-finding eye did ever blame,
For every eye was moved at the sight,
With sober wond'ring and with sweet delight.

Not those young students of the heavenly book,
Atlas the great, Prometheus the wise,
Which on the stars did all their life-time look,
Could ever find such measure in the skies,

So full of change and rare varieties;

Yet all the feet whereon these measures go,

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Are only spondees, solemn, grave, and slow' [Stanzas 65, 66]” (REED).

measure in every thing—Tell him there is, ii. 87 : A quibble on the word measure, which means both "moderation" and "a dance" (see the preceding article).

meddle with my thoughts, mingle, mix with my thoughts, i. 178. Medea young Absyrtus did-As wild, v. 195: "When Medea fled with Jason from Colchos, she murdered her brother Absyrtus, and cut his body into several pieces, that her father might be prevented for some time from pursuing her. See Ovid, Trist. Lib. iii. El. 9," &c. (MALONE).

medicine, a physician: a medicine That's able to breathe life into a stone, iii. 224; The medicine of our house, iii. 483; the medicine of the sickly weal, vii. 63.

medicine hath With his tinct gilded thee·

That great, vii. 511: "Alluding to the philosopher's stone, which, by its touch, converts base metal into gold. The alchemists call the matter, whatever it be, by which they perform transmutation, a medicine" (JOHNSON): Walker thinks that here medicine means "physician;" but compare gilded 'em-This grand liquor that hath.

medicine potable-Preserving life in, iv. 384: An allusion to the "opinion that a solution of gold has great medicinal virtues, and that the incorruptibility of gold might be communicated to the body impregnated with it" (JOHNSON).

meed, merit, desert: my meed hath got me fame, v. 304 ; no meed but he repays Sevenfold above itself, vi. 515; in his meed (in this his particular excellence) he's unfellowed, vii. 204; Each one already blazing by our meeds, v. 253.

meek, tame, humbled: To one so meek, that mine own servant should, &c. vii. 591 (see note 214, vii. 628); all recreant, poor, and meek, viii. 307.

meet with, to counteract: to meet with Caliban, i. 223.

meet with-To be, To be even with: he'll be meet with you, ii. 76. meiny, household attendants, retinue, vii. 284.