medder, V, [221], 11: mother.

medill-erthe, I, 327, 27. See middle-earth.

meed, I, 68, 10, 14; II, 172, 33: mood, heart, state of feeling.

meed, warld’s meed, I, 108, 14; IV, 446 f., 14: seems to be corrupted from mate (make). Woreldes make is a familiar phrase in Old English, and not unfrequent in ballads.

meel, meel or mor, III, 281, 8, 10: mold, earth, ground; but perhaps an error for mede, mead. See meal.

meen, v., moan, lament. See mean, v.

meen, mean, I, 427, 5; II, 124, 39; 417, 11; III, 389, 12, 13: lamentation. See mane.

meen, I, 222, 8; 315, 8; IV, 416, 10: moon.

meet, I, 148, F 10: (causative) pass, put, thrust in.

meet, meete, II, 46, 45: even, equal. II, 229, 13: scant, close, and so, perhaps, II, 436, 61.