MADE having his fortune made

MAGNIFICO the chief magistrate at Venice

MAGOT-PIE a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots

MAIL covered as with a coat of mail

MAIN-COURSE a sea-term

MAKE to do up, bar To do

MALKIN a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant wench

MALLECHO mischief

MAMMERING hesitating

MAMMETS a woman's breasts A doll

MAMMOCK to break, tear

MAN to tame a hawk

MANAGE management

MANDRAGORA or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality, supposed to resemble a man

MANKIND having a masculine nature

MARCHES frontiers, borders

MARCHPANE a kind of sweet biscuit

MARGENT margin

MARRY TRAP an oath

MARTLEMAS the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the 11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends; hence applied to an old man

MATCH an appointment

MATE to confound, dismay

MEACOCK tame, cowardly

MEALED mingled

MEAN instrument used to promote an end

MEAN the tenor part in a harmony

MEAN opportunity, power

MEASURE reach A stately dance

MEAZEL a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person

MEDAL a portrait in a locket

MEDICINE a physician

MEED reward, hire Merit

MEHERCLE by Hercules

MEINY retinue

MELL to mix, to meddle

MEMORISE to cause to be remembered

MEPHISTOPHILUS the name of a familiar spirit

MERCATANTE a foreign trader

MERELY simply, absolutely

MESS a company of four

METAPHYSICAL supernatural

METE-YARD measuring-wand

MEW UP to confine

MICHER a truant

MICKLE much

MILL-SIXPENCE a milled sixpence

MINCE to do any thing affectedly

MINCING affected

MISCREATE illegitimate

MISDOUBT to suspect

MISERY avarice

MISPRISE to despise To mistake

MISPRISION mistake

MISSIVE messenger

MISTEMPERED angry

MISTHINK to think ill of

MISTRESS the jack in bowling

MOBLED muffled

MODERN commonplace

MODULE a model, image

MOE and more. Of frequent occurrence

MOIETY a portion

MOME a stupid person

MOMENTANY momentary

MONTHS-MIND a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire

MOOD anger

MOON-CALF a nick-name applied to Caliban

MOONISH inconstant

MOP nod

MORISCO a Moor

MORRIS-PIKE Moorish-pike

MORT death, applied to animals of the chase

MORT-DU-VINAIGRE a ridiculous oath

MORTAL fatal, deadly Murderous

MORTIFIED ascetic

MOSE a doubtful word, applied to some disease in a horse

MOTION solicitation Emotion

MOTION a puppet

MOTIVE one who moves That which moves

MOTLEY or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or a fool

MOTLEY-MINDED foolish

MOUSE-HUNT a weasel

MOW to make grimaces

MOY a coin, probably a moidore

MUCH int. significant of contempt

MUCH used ironically

MURE a wall

MUST a scramble

MUTINE to mutiny

MUTINE a mutineer