*Midstay. The barn-floor between the mows.—N.W. (Aldbourne.) Compare Middlestead, a threshing-floor: East of England; also
'The old and one-eyed cart-horse dun
The middenstead went hobbling round,
Blowing the light straw from the ground.'
W. Morris, The Land East of the Sun.
Midsummer men. Sedum Fabaria, Koch., a variety of the red Orpine.—N.W. occasionally; S.W. (Farley.)
Mild. Of stone or wood, easily worked (Great Estate, ch. ix).—N.W.
*Milk-flower. Lychnis vespertina, Sibth., Evening Campion.—S.W. (Charlton All Saints.)
Milkmaids. Cardamine pratensis, L., Lady's Smock. In common use in Hill Deverill and Longbridge Deverill, also at Farley and Hamptworth.—S.W.
Milkwort. Euphorbia Peplus, L., Petty Spurge.—N. & S.W.
Mill. To clean clover-seed from the husk (D.). Milled Hop (D.).—N.W.