Menske, _adj._ == gracious. RG. 33. From AS. mennisc, human; cf. our double sense of "humanity"
---- _sb._ == grace, civility. Wright"s L. P. p. 37
---- _v. a._ == treat graciously. Ritson"s AS. viii. 83
Menskful, _adj._ == gracious. Wright"s L. P. p. 51
Merchandise, _sb._ RG. 99
Merchant, _sb._ Alys. 704
Merciful, _adj._ Ps. cxliv. 8
Mercy, _sb._ RG. 370; to "do into mercy" == force a man to beg his life.
RG. 539
Mere, _adj._ [mire]. O. and N. 1739
---- _adv._ == merely, entirely. O. and N. 496
Mere, _sb._ == a boundary. Ps. ii. 8. AS. ge-m?re
Mere, _adj._ == famous, beautiful, n.o.ble. Wright"s L. P. p. 26. M. Ode, 196. AS. m?ra
Merksoot, _sb._ == distance between two limits. Ritson"s AS. viii. 31. See Wyntoun, ix. 47
Merrily, _adv._ [murdly]. Body and Soul, 17
Merry, _adj._ 141 ; [miri]. Ritson"s AS. viii. 118; comp. "murgore." RG.
190, 281; sup. "murgost." RG. 349. AS. merg
---- _v. n._ == to be merry, 3 s. pres. "murgeth." Wright"s L. P. p. 45
---- _v. a._ == make merry. Wright"s L. P. p. 44
Mes, _sb._ == meal, mess. Body and Soul, 137, Sermon 6. AS. mesan, to eat
Message, _sb._ 2020 B.
Messegere, _sb._ == apparatus of the Ma.s.s. See Ma.s.sgear
Messenger, _sb._ RG. 475, 505
Mestere, _sb._ == craft. K. Horn, 235. Fr. maistrie. Lat. magister
Mestere, _sb._ == trade, profession. Alys. 6719. Fr. metier. Lat.
ministerium. "Of all mestere men" == of all sorts of men. Rel. Ant. i.
115.
Mestre--"with the mestre" == with need, or with craft. Alys. 5466
Metal, _sb._ RG. 6; [matel]. Alys. 6242
Mete, _v. n._ == dream. K. Horn, 1458. pret. "mette." Judas 8. AS. maetan
Meth, _sb._ == respect. Wright"s L. P. p. 103. AS. mae
Meth, _sb._ == measure. Ps. lxxix. 6. AS. ge-mete
Methful, _adj._ == kind. Wright"s L. P. p. 32. AS. m?d-full
Methful, _adj._ == weary. Ps. iii. 6. AS. mee
Methfullike, _adj._ == moderate, short? Ps. x.x.xviii. 6. AS. m?te. The V.
L. has "metlic"
Meting, _sb._ == a dream. 1576 B. Alys. 327; [matyng]. Alys. 261. AS.
maetan
Meyne, _sb._ == company. 144, 1582 B.; [maigne]. Alys. 1119. Fr. maignee, from manoir. See Burguy, _s. v._ "manoir"
Mid, _prep._ == with. RG. 371. AS. mid.
---- _adv._ == together. O. and N. 136
Midday, _sb._ Wright"s L. P. p. 41
Middelerd, _sb._ == the world. RG. 560. AS. middan-geard
Middle, _sb._ == waist. RG. 435
---- _adj._ [myldel]. RG. 437
Midmost, _adj._ == middle. RG. 29
Midnight, _sb._ RG. 202
Midovernoon, == 3 P. M. Alys. 5216. Ps. x.x.xvi. 6
Midst, [myddes]--"in the myddes." RG. 61
Midsummer, _sb._ RG. 499
Midwinter, _sb._ RG. 367, 408
Might, _sb._ See May
---- _sb._ RG. 23. HD. 35. AS. miht