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- mortuarium:—a bequest to the testator's parish church in recompense for tithes not duly paid; a duty payable to the lord on the death of a tenant.
- mortuum vadium:—a mortgage.
- morua, moruca:—a codfish (morrhua vulgaris).
- mos:—custom, in the sense of tax on goods entering the kingdom.
- mossa:—a moss or bog.
- mota:—a mote; a moot; a pack of hounds; a moat; a castle mound.
- motaculum:—a rudder, an implement used in mixing malt.
- motibilis:—moveable; a vagrant.
- motivum:—a motive.
- motor:—a mootman.
- motulinus:—mutton.
- motum:—a moat.
- motura. See molitura.
- mua:—mews.
- mucetta:—a hole.
- mueta:—a watchtower; mews; a pack of hounds.
- muffulæ:—fur gloves; muffs.
- mugettum:—musk.
- muiia :—mews.
- muillo:—a haycock or hayrick.
- muiolus (Fr. muid):—a measure of corn, salt, &c, about 5½ qrs.
- mulcto. See multo.
- mulecius:—a mullet (mullus barbatus or mugil capito).
- mulier:—lawful issue.
- mulio, mullo:—a hayrick.
- mulneda:—a mill pool.
- multa:—a fine.
- multiplicium:—a cloak.
- multo:—a sheep, a wether; a French gold coin bearing the Agnus Dei, worth 12s. 6d. Tournois; an engine of war.
- multoties:—many times.
- multra, multrum:—a pail.
- multura. See molitura.
- mulvellus:—melwell, milwin, greenfish, perhaps coalfish (merlangus carbonarius) or pollock (merlangius pollachius). It cannot be the green streaked wrasse (labrus lineatus), which is in some parts called greenfish, as suggested in Wright's Dialect Dictionary, on account of its rarity.
- muncellus:—a mound, a heap of corn, sometimes 10 sheaves.
- mundare:—to purge by ordeal.
- mundifractura:—mundbrech, breach of enclosures, privileges, or the king's peace.
- municeps:—a magistrate of a town.
- munimen:—a grant, a charter.
- munimenta:—records.
- muntator:—a soldier serving with a knight, on the Welsh March.
- muragium:— toll exacted in a town for repairing the walls.
- murale:—a wall.
- muratio:—a walled town.
- murdra:—murder.
