Mal´iom. Mahomet is so called in some of the old romances.
“Send five, send six against me! By Maliom! I swear I’ll take them all.”—Fierabras.
Malkin. The maid Marian of the morris-dance is so called by Beaumont and Fletcher:
Put on the shape of order and humanity,
Or you must marry Malkin, the May-Lady.
Monsieur Thomas (1619).
Mall Cutpurse, Mary Frith, a thief and receiver of stolen goods. John Day, in 1610, wrote “a booke called The Madde Prancks of Merry Mall of the Bankside, with her Walks in Man’s Apparel, and to what Purpose.” It is said that she was an androgyne (1584-1659).
Malluch, merchant of Antioch, who befriends Ben-Hur when he most needs substantial aid.—Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur; A Tale of the Christ (1880).
Mal-Orchol, king of Fuär´fed (an island of Scandinavia). Being asked by Ton-Thormod to give him his daughter in marriage, he refused, and the rejected suitor made war on him. Fingal sent his son Ossian to assist Mal-Orchol, and on the very day of his arrival he took Ton-Thormod prisoner. Mal-Orchol, in gratitude, now offered Ossian his daughter in marriage; but Ossian pleaded for Ton-Thormod, and the marriage of the lady with her original suitor was duly solemnized. (The daughter’s name was Oina-Moral).—Ossian, Oina-Morul.
Malony (Kitty), a much maltreated cook, to whom her mistress introduced a “hay-thun Chineser” as an assistant. His imitation, in good faith, of her practice of taking toll of groceries brought into the kitchen awakens her employer’s suspicions.