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66 ANTRIM AND DOWN QLOSSART. Maokerel-soout, sh. the gar fish. Same as Eom-eeL Mad, adj, angry. Mad angry, very angry ; raging. Magnify, v. to signify. * That hurt won't magiiify^ Mailie, Mailie, a call to a pet sheep. Mails, ah, pL small perforated scales made of copper or other metal used in Jaoquard weaving. Maist feok, sb. the greater part. Make, v. to attempt ; to offer. * He made to strike me.' Make moan, t;. to pity. ' When you've tooth ache they make no moan for yott' Make off, v. to run away. Make up, v. to accost a person with a view of making acquaintance. To be attentive to, or to make love to a person. Man. * You'll be a man before your mother,' said to comfori a little boy in trouble. Man alive I an impatient mode of address. Man-big, adj, full grown ; the size of a man. Mankeeper, Manoreeper, sb. a water newt, Llsaotriton punetatus. It is said that mankeepers will creep down the throat of a person who £edl8 asleep near any water where they are. Manner, v. to prepare. * It's hard to manner that ground.' ' The land will be well mannered by the frost' Flax is said to be well- mannered, or the reverse, according to its having been carefully treated, or the reverse, in the various processes of preparation. Flax is passed through rollers to manner it for the scutoners. Man or mortal, any one. ' Now don't tell this to man or mortal.' Manswom, adj. perjured. Manx puffin, eb, the Manx shearwater, Puffintis anghru-jn (Habbis, 1744). Many's the time, many a time. Map, sb. a mop. March, (1) sb. a boundary of land. (2) V. to border on ; to be contiguous to. ' This is where my land marches with his.' March dike, sb. the dike (fence) between adjoining farms or town- lands. Margy more, sb, the big market, t. e. the market before Christmas. Marksman, sb. a man who cannot write his name, and has therefore to make his mark.