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 Robs, them or leads them to a gang of Rogues, that will do it for him.

Moon-men, c. Gipsies.

Moon-blind, a sort of Horses, weak-sighted.

Moppet, a pretty Moppet, a very pretty little Baby.

Mopsie, a Dowdy, or Homely Woman.

Mop eied, one that can't see well, by living too long a Maid.

Mop'd, Maz'd.

Mopus, c. a half Penny or Farthing. ''A meer Mopus grown'' become dispirited, dull and Stupid.

Morglag, - a Watch-*man's brown Bill; as Glaives, are Bills or Swords.

Morisco, a Morris or Morrice-dance, being belike some Remains of a Moorish Custom with us, as the Juego de Toros, or Feast of Bulls is, in Spain.

Mort, or Death, is Blown at the Death of the Deer. Morts, c. Yeomen's Daughters; also a Wife, Woman, or Wench.

Moss-Troopers, so called from the Mosses, wast Lands in Lancashire, as the Bog-Trotters in Ireland, are from the Boggs there.

Mother, a Bawd.

Mother-midnight, a Midwife (often a Bawd.)

Mouchets, Patches for Ladies Faces.

Moveables, c. Rings, Watches, Swords, and such Toies of value. ''As we bit all the Cull's Cole and Moveables'', c. we Won all the Man's Money, Rings, Watches, &c. Very Moving, prevailing, powerful, perswading.

Mountings, a Soldier's Arms and Cloths.

Mouse-trap. The Parson's Mouse-trap, Marriage. He watcht me, as a Cat does a Mouse, i. e. narrowly. A Man or a Mouse, a Prince or a Peasant. ''A Mouse in the Pot is better than no Flesh'',