MAGGOT BOILER. A tallow-chandler.
MAGGOTTY. Whimsical, capricious.
MAGNUM BONUM. A bottle containing two quarts of wine.
See SCOTCH PINT.
MAHOMETAN GRUEL. Coffee: because formerly used
chiefly by the Turks.
MAIDEN SESSIONS. A sessions where none of the prisoners
are capitally convicted.
MAKE. A halfpenny. CANT.
MAKE WEIGHT. A small candle: a term applied to a little
slender man.
MALINGEROR. A military term for one who, under pretence
of sickness, evades his duty.
MALKIN, or MAULKIN. A general name for a cat; also a parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds; likewise an awkward woman. The cove's so scaly, he'd spice a malkin of his jazey: the fellow is so mean, that he would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.
MALKINTRASH. One in a dismal garb.