*Mother Shimbles' Snick-needles. Stellaria Holostea, L., Greater Stitchwort (Sarum Dioc. Gazette).—S.W. (Zeals.)
Mothery. Thick, muddy, as spoilt beer or vinegar (A.B.C.S.).—N. & S.W.
Mouch, Mooch. (1) v. To prowl about the woods and lanes, picking up such unconsidered trifles as nuts, watercresses, blackberries, ferns, and flower-roots, with an occasional turn at poaching (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. vii); to pilfer out-of-doors, as an armful of clover from the fresh-cut swathe (Hodge and his Masters, ch. xxiii).—N. & S.W.
'Probably connected with O.F. mucer, muchier, Fr. musser, to hide, to lurk about. It always implies something done more or less by stealth.'—Smythe-Palmer.
(2) v. To play the truant.—N. & S.W. (3) v. To be sulky or out of temper.—N. & S.W. (4) n. 'In a mouch,' in a bad temper. 'On the mouch,' gone off mouching.—N. & S.W.
Moucher, Moocher. (1) A truant (A.B.). See Berry-moucher.—N. & S.W. (2) A man who lives by mouching (Gamekeeper at Home, ch. vii).—N. & S.W.
Moulter. Of birds, to moult.—N.W.
Mound. (1) n. A hedge. In general use in N. Wilts.—N. & S.W. (2) v. To hedge in or enclose.—N.W.
'The Churchyard ... to be mounded partly by the manor, partly by the parish and parsonage except only one gate to be maintained by the vicar.'—1704, Hilmarton Parish Terrier.