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 218 As if to say, '^the all sweet mead," or whey. In Wales they call it mezyglen, 111 Sanscrit are the words madhu, macla, mad, to intoxicate, which compare with raecid (or medh.) Mewed. '^Scattered by fright." T.C. Sennen. Mews. Moss. w.T.A.p. Mica. In the china clay works this is the name given to the coarser, or inferior clay, which is deposited in the mica pits. The finer clay, held in suspension in water, passes on into the large '^ clay pit." It is the washing away of this '^ mica," that makes the rivers look like milk. In reality '''mica" contains a very large proportion of porcelain clay, and therefore is often saved, and sold at a lower price. Mica-pits. The clay in the slopes, (Q.V.), held in suspension by water, having deposited the sand, flows into shallow, narrow, but long pits ; as the clay fluid passes slowly on, the mica deposits in these mica pits, and the pure clay passes as it leaves these pits into the day-pit. (Q.v.) Michy. (Pro. Mit-chee.) See Minching^ or Mich- ing. Also Minch or Mich. Midjans and jowds. Shreds and tatters. Midgets^ or Midjans. Small pieces, or bits. Midgetty-morrows. The fidgets, m.a.c. Midgetty por^ Miggal conpore^ Migglecum- pore, Synonymous words for uproar.