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58 HAMPSHIRE QLOSSABT.

  • MiUery, miUery^ daustipolly

How many zacks hast thee astole ? VoVr an' twenty, and a peck ; Hang the miller up by*8 neck' Children Bay this to the moths, and condemn them. Shakespeare speaks of ' the mealy wings ^ of butterflies. — Troil, a)id Oreas. iii. 3. 79. (2) A species of stock grown in cottagers' gardens. — ^Wise. Mill-mountain [mil-mou-ntin], sh, Linum cathartiemn. ■ On the second of October 1617, going by Mr. Colson's shop, an Apothecary of Winchester in Hampshire, I saw this herbe lying on his stall, which I had seene growing long before [at Saint Crosse, a mile hom Win- chester] : I desired of him to know the name of it, he told me that it was called Mxll-mouniaUi,^—^ . Qoodyer in Johnson's ed. of Gerarde, p. 660.— J. B. Hind rmeind],t7. to remember; to recall to mind. Ex. 'I don't mind im ' ^ I don't recollect him.- Hint [mint], eh, (1) A mite (in cheese). *Ak. (2) A small coin. — ^Wise. Hlnty [mint'i], adj, full of mites. *Ak. Said of a cheese. — ^^Vise. Hissel-thmsh [miz'ul thrush], sh, the tree-thrash, the eggs of which are not green as the bush-thrush, but dirty white, with reddish spots. — F.M. Hitch [mich] v, n. to idle, to shirk work. — N. H. See HoucIl Hith [meith], vh, mpL t might. — Cooper. Ex. ' I mith have done it' Hizen [mix-un], sh. a heap of dung, or rather a heap of dung and lime, or mould, mixed together for manure. — Cooper. *Ak. In N. EC. a manure-heap. — W. H. C. Hiz-maze [mi2*maiz], sh, confusion.- Hizzle [mizi], v, to rain slightly ; to drizzle.- Moldn [moa'kin], sh, (Ak. has Mawkin), a coarse piece of sacking, attached to a stick, with which the charcoal-sticks are swept from the oyen previous to putting in the batch. *Ak. Cf. Mokins, leggings made of coarse sacking. See Vamplets. — ^Wise. Of . M. E. mawkin^ for McUkin, dimin. of Maud, used for all sorts of things used in a serrile office, like Jack in bootjack, &c. Hokins [mok-inz], sh, pL gaiters made of coaise sacking. — ^Wise, New Forest, p. 162. Hokns [moa'kus], sh, a donkey. — ^N*. H. Hommick [mom'ik], v, to cut or carve awkwardly or unevenly. — Cooper. Ex. * You are mommicking it.' — Wise. See MammockB. Hone [monz], sh, a crowd, aheap ; also as a verh. Ex. ' Don't mons^ i. e. don't crowd. — Adams' Wykehamica, p. 427. Hoon-rakers [moon-rai-kurz], sh, pi, a name given to Hampshire and Wiltshire peasants. 'The expression of '* Hampshire and Wiltshire