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 where the quantity given to the miller is called moutre, or muter, or mooter.


 * Mulharten; a flesh-worm: a form of meelcartan. See Meelcar.


 * Mullaberta; arbitration. (Munster.) Merely the Irish moladh-beirte, same sound and meaning: in which moladh [mulla] is 'appraisement'; and beirtĕ, gen. of beart, 'two persons':—lit. 'appraisement of two.' The word mullaberta has however in recent times drifted to mean a loose unbusinesslike settlement. (Healy.)


 * Mummers, 171.


 * Murray, Mr. Patrick, schoolmaster of Kilfinane, 153, 154, and under 'Roasters,' below.


 * Murrogh O'Brien, Earl of Inchiquin, 165.


 * Musicianer for musician is much in use all over Ireland. Of English origin, and used by several old English writers, among others by Collier.




 * Nab; a knowing old-fashioned little fellow. (Derry.)


 * Naboc´lesh; never mind. (North and South.) Irish ná-bac-leis (same sound), 'do not stop to mind it,' or 'pass it over.'


 * Nail, paying on the nail, 183.


 * Naygur; a form of niggard: a wretched miser:—


 * 'I certainly thought my poor heart it would bleed
 * To be trudging behind that old naygur.'


 * (Old Munster song; 'The Spalpeen's Complaint':
 * from 'Old Irish Folk Music and Songs.')


 * 'In all my ranging and serenading,
 * I met no naygur but humpy Hyde.'


 * (See 'Castlehyde' in my 'Old Irish Music and Songs.')