Mag.—A halfpenny.
Malty Coves.—Porter patrons, heavy wet encouragers, beer drinkers—and thinkers!
Maulagaram.—An awkward knock.
Max.—Gin.—Oh! for a glass of Max. Byron’s Don Juan, Canto xi., Stanza 16. His Lordship added by way of a foot-note in explanation of the word Max! The advance of science and of language has rendered it unnecessary to translate the above good and true English, spoken in its original purity by the select mobility and their patrons.
Master of the Mint.—A punning term for a gardener.
Master of the Rolls.—A baker. Jack Martin, the renowned pugilist, who was a baker by trade, was well known to the Fancy as The Master of the Rolls.
Masquerade.—Masquerades were in fashion in the time of Edward III., 1340, and in the reign of Charles, 1660. The Bishops preached against them, and made such representations as occasioned their suppression, 9 Geo. I., 1724. They were revived, and carried to shameful excess in violation of the laws, and tickets of admission to a masquerade at Ranelagh were on some occasions subscribed for at twenty-five guineas each. Now, if the reader wishes to take the mask off this scene, let him go and take a glass of champagne with Charles Wright of the Haymarket, and he will fully initiate him into all its merry mysteries, he is at liberty to make use of the Author’s name in his enquiries.
Mazzard.—Head. Rap on the Mazzard, a thump on the head.
Men are but Children of a Larger Growth.—From Dryden’s, “All for Love,” Act iv., Sc. 1.
Mendicity Society.—Red Lion-square, London, was established in 1818, for the suppression of public begging, and other impositions.