56 HAMFSHIBE QLOSSiHT. Mallaoe [mal*us], ah. Malva sylvestrU, — J. B. The common mallow. Malm, wMte [maam], ah, a kind of soil. * To the north-west^ north, and east of the village, is a range of fair enclosures, consLsting of what is called a white-malm, a sort of rotten or ruhble-stone, which, when turned up to the frost and rain, moulders to pieces, and beomnes manure to itself.*— -White's ^o^. HutL of Selbome, Letter L Malm, black, ^5. a kind of soil. ' The gardens to the north-east and small enclosures behind, consist of a warm, forward, crumbling mould, called black malmj which seems highly saturated with vege- table and animal manure.' — ^White's Nat Hist, of Sdborne^ Letter L Malm seems in fact to mean soil, or. earth. A £eld in the south of the county is called 2'he Malm, Malt-rashed [mau'lt-rasht],a4/. over-heated ; burnt — ^Lisle. Mammered [mamurd], pp. perplexed. *Ak, Mammy [mam-i], aclj. soft, marshy. — J, MammookB [mam*uks], sh. pi. leavings. — Lisle. Mannered [m^n-urd], pp. a meadow abounding in close and sweet grass is said to be gwid-mannered. — Cooper. Marg [maag], sh. Anthemisfostida, Stinking Camomile. — N. K. Margon [maa*gun], sh. Anthemis Cotula. — J. B. Com Camomile. Mark-ash [maak-asb], sh. a boundary ash. See below. Mark-oak [maak-oak],«&. a boundary oak, the same as 'bound-oak'; so called from the ancient cross or mark cut on the rind. The custom of marking is very old. Cf. on than merkeden 6k, to the marked oak.— Saxons in England, voL L App. A p. 480. — Wise, New Forest. Martin. Free-Martin [free-maatin], sh. 'A free'inartin is a sort of barren cow, which hardly carries any teats to be seen ; she will never take buU; she fats very kindly, and in fatting she'll grow almost as big as an ox ; she is counted especial meat. When a cow brings two calves [of different sexes] the cow-calf will be 9k free-martin^ and will never bear a calf.' — ^Lisle, ii. 99. Mast [maast], sh. the fruit of Fagus sylvatlca. — HoUoway's Dictionary. — J. B. Mathan [maa'dhun], sh. Anthemis Cotula. — J. B. Mannder [mau-ndur] , v. to talk menacingly and vaguely. *Ak. Mannt fmaunt] present tense of v. must not Ex. * We maunt let
- un bide more than a day.* — N. H.
Mawk [mauk], sh. a slattern, an awkward woman. — Cooper. May [mai], sh. (1) The hawthorn blossom. ♦Ak. (2) The hawthorn tree. Cratcegus Oxyacant?M. — N. H. May-be [mai'bee], adv. perhaps. — Cooper. ♦Ak. May-bittle [mai-bit'd], sh. the may-beetle, the cockchafer.
