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Rh Product of Java. Maeliyan, C, 563 gum, glue, any glutinous subtance excluding from trees or plants by incision.

Mipit, to cut the first of any growing crop. See Pipit.

Merasa, to become conscious of, to feel convinced, to have a feeling of. To feel the consequences of anything. (From Rasa).

Miring, to lean downwards, or to one side; to incline, to decline; shelving, sloping. The crude part of this word appears still to be preserved in the Pacific, as in Tahiti, sun-set is called ma-iri te ra, the falling of the Sun. Ellis Polynesian Researches vol 1 page 89. The ma is a very general Polynesian preposition for verbalising a substantive; and the final ng is constructive.

Meringkil, curling up in small folds; shrinking up in curls. Jahil miringkil, maliciously disposed, as if curling up with malice.

Miruha, to rub two sticks together in a peculiar way in order to extract fire. To rub fire out of sticks.

Mirun, used in the expression Mirun Sĕunĕuh, to light up a fire. To set on a fire To draw a little fuel together and set it alight.

Misah, apart, separate, disconnected.

Masalah, to put out of joint, disjointed. From Salah, wrong.

Misan, first cousins, male or female. (Massinā, C. 526), a cousin as if the Polynesians had transposed the a and i, for the sake of making their favorite termination in An. (The word is derived from Jav. pisan, Bal pĕsĕn, at once, one time; also: very, all, altogether. Fr.)

Misanan, distant relations, distant cousins. (From Misan).

Misti, must, what is absolutely necessary; indispensable, necessary. Liwat ti mesti, going beyond what is absolutely necessary. (Jav. Pĕsti or Pasti  Mal. idem).

Mitĕmbai, to commence, to make a beginning.

Mitrah, to make the offering to the officers of the mosque, made by every good Mohammedan, at the Labaran or end of the pwasa month. (At Batavia Pitra, which is to be explained by the Hindu custom of making offerings to the ancestors, Pitarah, at new year. So at Bali. Mitrah is the verbal form. Fr.)

Modal, capital, principal, means to trade with. Mudala, C. 550 money, coin.

Modar, dead, lifeless. It is a coarse word, and conveys an idea of humiliation on the person so dead. It corresponds to the Malay word Mampus.

Modol, excrement, faeces. A vulgar word, S — — t.

Modol landak, porcupine excrement- the name of a plant growing on newly felled ground.

Mogok, to come to a stand, as a wild animal which is hunted. To face about and show fight.

Mogor, to run about after women, especially those of ill fame.

Mohal, an insinuating way of making a refusal or denial. A negative expression difficult to translate, but which the following examples will elucidate. Perhaps it can most frequently be translated- it is not likely.