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 Mauled, adj. (common).—See quot. For synonyms see Drinks and Screwed.

1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Maul'd, swingingly Drunk, or soundly Beat.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mauld.

Mauley (Morley or Mawley), subs. (common).—1. A fist; a hand. To tip a mauley = to give a hand. Fam the mawley = shake hands.

1800. Parker, Life's Painter, 139. The key of the street-door in her mauley. Ibid. 144. When one asks the other to shake hands, that is, sling us your mauly.

1821. Egan, Life in London, 207. Learn the use of your morleys.

1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, ii. 6. Mr. J. It was but t'other day they took'd me up; slapp'd a pick-ax into one of my mauleys, and shov'd a shovel into t'other, and told me to vork.

1852. Judson, Mysteries of New York, iv. Ello, Charley, my kid! tip us your mawley.

1857. Cuthbert Bede, Verdant Green, pt. 11. ch. iii. 'I couldn't use my mawleys no how!' and the Pet illustrated his remark in a professional manner, by sparring at an imaginary opponent in a feeble and unscientific fashion.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

1861. Miss Braddon, Trail of the Serpent, Bk. iv. ch. v. 'Let the man as murdered your uncle keep clear of my left mawley, if he wants to preserve his beauty.'

1870. London Figaro, 2 July. 'Milling Ancient and Modern.' We think mawleys is the correct sporting term for 'bunches of fives.'

1888. Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, i. It takes a good man to put me on my back, or stand up to me with the gloves, or the naked mauleys.

1888. Sporting Life, 11 Dec. Lambert ducked and the mawley flew over his head.

1890. Lic. Vict. Gaz., 31 Jan. Tip us your mawleys, old pal!

2. (common).—A signature; handwriting; a fist (q.v.).

1851-61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab., i. 340. One of those specious but deceitful 'fakements' upon which the 'swells,' (especially those who have 'been in the service,') 'come down with a couter' (sovereign) if they 'granny the mauley' (perceive the signature) of a brother officer or friend.

Maund (or Maunder).—1. To beg. To maund upon the pad (or on the fly) = to beg in the highway or the street. Maunding = begging. [From Maund = a basket: cf. Beg from bag].

1531-47. Copland, Hye Way to the Spyttel House, line 1046. With bowsy Cove maund Nace, Tour the Patring Coue inthe darkeman Case.

1607. Dekker, Jests to Make You Merie, in Wks. (Grosart), II. 322. In her mawnd or basket which she beares on her arme, lapt in a pure white cloth, some fine tidy pig.

1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark-all, p. 39 (H. Club's Repr. 1874). What maund doe you beake = what kind of begging use you? Ile myll your maund = Ile spoyle your begging.

1611. Middleton, Roaring Girl, v. 1. I instructed him in the rudiments of roguery, and by my map made him sail over any country you can name, to that now he can maunder better than myself.

1621. Fletcher, Thierry & Theodoret, v. 1. Keep constables waking, wear out stocks and whipcord, maunder for buttermilk, etc.

1622. Beaumont and Fletcher, The Beggar's Bush, ii. 1. And every man to keep In his own path and circuit. Hig. Do you hear? You must hereafter maund on your own pads, he says.

1625. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. A rogue, A very canter, I, sir, one that maunds Upon the pad.