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280 *merlare. See marlare.
 * merlengus, merlingus:—a ling (asellus longus).
 * merscum:—a marsh.
 * meruca:—a cod (morrhua vulgaris).
 * merulus:—a merlin (falco æsalon).
 * mesagium. See messuagium.
 * mescheninga:—wrongful prosecution (miskenning).
 * mesfacere:—to do wrong.
 * meslea, mesleia, mesleta:— a fray, a melée.
 * mesprisio. See misprisio.
 * messuria:—the office and profits of a farm bailiff.
 * messarius:—a mower or reaper; a farm bailiff.
 * messina:—harvest time.
 * messuagium:—a messuage; a dwelling-house.
 * mestaria, mestera, mesterum:—art; trade; mistery.
 * mestelenium:— the remains of a meal given as alms.
 * mesticare, mestifirare:—to make sad.
 * mestilo:—mesline, wheat and rye mixed.
 * meta:—a mete, a boundary.
 * meiallifodina:—a mine.
 * metebona:—work done for food.
 * mega:—a stack or heap of hay or corn, a mow.
 * micatorium:— a grater.
 * michia:—a loaf.
 * miles:—a knight.
 * miliare:—a thousand; a mile; a milestone.
 * miliatium:—millet.
 * milicentum:—a millstream.
 * militare:— to be knighted.
 * militia:—knighthood; a knight's fee; a body of knights or soldiers; tenure by knight service.
 * milium:—millet.
 * millenarium:—a thousand.
 * milliare:—a thousand; a mile; a milestone.
 * millo:—a hayrick.
 * milium:—a hound's collar.
 * milivellus. See mulvellus.
 * mimilogium:—minstrelsy.
 * mina:—a measure of corn, &c, 3 to 7 skeps; a measure of land, 120 ft. square; a measure of wine; a mine.
 * minagium:—toll paid on corn sold by the mina.
 * minare:—to drive; to guide.
 * minaria:—a mine.
 * minator:—a miner.
 * minera:—a mine, ore.
 * minerarius:—a miner.
 * mineria:—a mine; a quarry.
 * minetarius:—a miner.
 * miniator:—an illuminator.
 * minietum verrum:—miniver.
 * minigunga:—warning. (A. S. mynegung.)
 * minister:—a thane; a bailiff.
 * ministeriales:—traders.