MUCKINDER. A child's handkerchief tied to the side.
MUD. A fool, or thick-sculled fellow; also, among printers
the same as dung among journeymen taylors. See
DUNG.
MUD LARK. A fellow who goes about by the water side
picking up coals, nails, or other articles in the mud. Also
a duck.
MUFF. The private parts of a woman. To the well wearing
of your muff, mort; to the happy consummation of
your marriage, girl; a health.
MUFFLING CHEAT. A napkin.
MUGGLETONIANS. The sect or disciples of Lodowick
Muggleton.
MULLIGRUBS. Sick of the mulligrubs with eating chopped
hay: low-spirited, having an imaginary sickness.
MUM. An interjection directing silence. Mum for that; I shall be silent as to that. As mute as Mumchance, who was hanged for saying nothing; a friendly reproach to any one who seems low-spirited and silent.
MUMCHANCE. An ancient game like hazard, played with dice: probably so named from the silence observed in playing at it.
MUM GLASS. The monument erected on Fish-street Hill,
London, in memory of the great fire in 1666.