Ben Jonson has mazzarded, broken-headed.—N.W.
*Meadow-soot, Spiraea Ulmaria, L., Meadow-sweet (Great Estate, ch. ii). Sote, or soot=sweet.—N.W.
*Mealy, Mild and damp. ''Twar a oncommon mealy marnin'.'—N.W. (Bratton.)
Measle-flower, The garden Marigold, the dried flowers having some local reputation as a remedy. Children, however, have an idea that they may catch the complaint from handling the plant.—N. & S.W.
Med, See Mid.
Meg, Meggy. (1) In the game of Must, q.v., a small stone—called a 'meg' or 'meggy'—is placed on the top of a large one, and bowled at with other 'meggies,' of which each player has one.—N. & S.W. *(2) Maig. A peg (S.).—S.W.
Mere. A boundary line or bank of turf.—N. & S.W. A turf boundary between the downs on adjoining farms: formed by cutting two thick turves, one smaller than the other, and placing them, upside down, with the smaller one on top, at intervals of about a chain along the boundary line.—N.W. (Devizes.)
'The strips [in a "common field">[ are marked off from one another, not by hedge or wall, but by a simple grass path, a foot or so wide, which they call "balks" or "meres."'—Wilts Arch. Mag. xvii. 294.
'Two acres of arable, of large measure, in Pen field, lying together and bounded by meres on both sides.'—Hilmarton Parish Terrier, dated 1704.