MOP. A kind of annual fair in the west of England, where farmers usually hire their servants.
To MOP UP. To drink up. To empty a glass or pot.
MOPED. Stupid, melancholy for want of society.
MOPSEY. A dowdy, or homely woman.
MOPSQUEEZER. A maid servant, particularly a housemaid.
MOPUSSES. Money.
MORGLAG. A brown bill, or kind of halbert, formerly
carried by watchmen; corruption of MORE, great or broad,
and GLAVE, blade.
MORNING DROP. The gallows. He napped the king's pardon
and escaped the morning drop; he was pardoned, and
was not hanged.
MORRIS. Come, morris off; dance off, or get you gone.
allusion to morris, i.e. MORISCO, or Moorish dancing.
MORT. A woman or wench; also a yeoman's daughter. To
be taken all-a mort; to be confounded, surprised, or motionless
through fear.