Early English Meals and Manners - Unknown

Motes, [16/236]; [18/272], bits of dust, &c.

Moths in clothes, [p. 115], last line.

Mought, flesche-, [18/280], flesh-moth, louse. ‘Mowȝte, clothe wyrme (mouhe, mow, mowghe), Tinea; Mought that eateth clothes, uers de drap.’ Palsgrave; A.S. mođđe. Prompt.

Moughtes, [64/945]; [p. 108], moths.

Mouth, don’t eat on both sides of, [179/65].

Mouth, drink not with a full, [255/149];

nor speak, [255/152].

Mouth, wipe it before drinking, [255/155].

Mowes (faces), don’t make, [277], [278/29]. Fr. ‘Monnoye de Singe. Moes, mumps, mouthes; also, friskes, leaps, gambolls.... Mopping, mumping, mowing; also friskes, gambolls, tumbling tricks.’ Cotgrave.