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MADE BEER—College swipes bottled with raisins, sugar, nutmeg, and rice, which made it “up.”
MAKE—To appropriate any article.
MASTER—The title by which farmers, labourers, bargees, &c., were addressed by the boys.
MATER—Mother.
MESS—The Præfects’ tables in Hall were called “Tub, Middle, and Junior Mess” respectively. The boys who dined at each were also so named. Any number of boys who habitually breakfasted together were so called, with some distinguishing prefix, such as “Deputy’s Mess.” In Chambers, tea was called “Mess;” as was also the remains of a joint of meat. Lest the reader should make a “Mess” of all these different meanings, I will give a sentence in which they shall all figure: “Look there, Junior Mess has sat down at Tub Mess, but as they will find nothing left but a Mess, they had better go down to Chambers, as Mess is ready.”
MIDDLE CUT—A thick slice out of the centre of a leg of mutton.
MIDDLE PART THE FIFTH—Generally called Middle Part; the next Part below Senior Part the Fifth.
MILK HOLE—That part of a canal immediately below the lock-gates, where a hole has been formed by the rush of water from the lock.
MONEY AND DIRECTION ROLLS—Commoner Peal, (v. inf.)
MOUSE DIGGER—A miniature pickaxe.
MUG—To read hard; also to pay great attention to anything; any one cleaning and oiling a bat was said to “Mug” it; a boy with carefully greased and brushed hair was said to have “mugged” hair.
MUSTARD AND PEPPER KEEPER—An appointment in the gift of Præfect of Hall, which exempted the holder from Watching out at Cricket or Kicking in at Football.
MUTTONER—A blow from a cricket-ball on the fingers, the bat being at the time clasped by them.