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LOB - a looby

LOCKRAM - a sort of coarse linen

LODE-STAR - the leading-star, pole-star

LOFFE - to laugh

LOGGATS - the game called nine-pins

LONGLY - longingly

LOOF - to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind

LOON - a low contemptible fellow

LOT - a prize in a lottery

LOTTERY - that which falls to a man by lot

LOWT - a clown

LOWT - to treat one as a lowt, with contempt

LOZEL - a spendthrift

LUBBER - a leopard

LUCE - n the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish

LUMPISH - duff, dejected

LUNES - fits of lunacy

LURCH - to defeat, to win

LURCH - to shift, to play tricks

LURE - something stuffed to resemble a bird

LUSH - juicy, luxuriant

LUSTIG - lusty, cheerful

LUXURIOUS - lascivious

LUXURY - lust

LYM - a slow hound

M

MACE - staff carried by a sergeant

MACHINE - bodily frame

MACULATE - stained, polluted

MAD-BRED - produced by madness

MADE-UP - accomplished (Tim51103)

MADRIGAL - short lyrical poem

MAGNIFICO - the chief magistrate at Venice

MAGOT-PIE - a magpie

MAHU - name of a daemon

MAID-PALE - white-complexioned

MAIL - covered as with a coat of mail

MAIN-COURSE - a sea-term for the mainsail

MAINLY - forcible, violently

MAINTENANCE - bearing, demeanour

MAKE - to do up, bar

MALKIN - untidy servant-woman, slut

MALLECHO - mischief

MALMSEY - a sweet fortified wine originally made in Greece

MALMSEY-BUTT - a cask of sweet wine containing the heads of two hogs

MALMSEY-NOSE - red-nosed

MALT-HORSE - heavy kind of horse - used as a term of abuse

MAMMERING - wavering, hesitating

MAMMETS - a doll or puppet; woman's breasts

MAMMOCK - to break into fragments

MAN - to tame a hawk

MANAGE - management

MANDRAGORA - mandrake, the poisonous plant

MANDRAKE - poisonous plant known for its narcotic properties

MANE - used to describe the crests of waves

MANKIND - having a masculine nature

MAN-QUELLER - murderer

MANTLE (1) - vegetable coating on the surface of stagnant water

MANTLE (2) - vb to cover, envelope

MAPPERY - map-making

MARBLE (1) - metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite

MARBLE (2) - hard-hearted

MARCANTANT - corruption of 'merchant'

MARCHES - frontiers, borders

MARCHPANE - a kind of sweet biscuit made of almond-paste

MARGENT - margin; edge, border

MARISH - marsh, swamp

MARL - clay, earth

MARMOSET - small monkey

MARRY (1) - vb to join closely

MARRY (2) - name of the Blessed Virgin used as an oath

MARRY TRAP - an oath

MARSHALSEA - prison in Southwark

MART - meeting of people to exchange goods; traffic; bargain

MARTLEMAS - the Feast of St Martin

MARTLET - swallow or house-martin

MASTERDOM - absolute control

MATCH - an appointment

MATE - to confound, dismay

MEACOCK - tame, cowardly

MEALED - mingled

MEAN - instrument used to promote an end

MEAN - the tenor part in a harmony

MEAN - opportunity, power

MEASURE - distance of a fencer from his opponent; limit; moderation; metre; dance; to judge; to tread

MEAZEL - a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person

MEDAL - a portrait in a locket

MEDICINE - a physician

MEED - reward, hire

MEHERCLE - by Hercules

MEINY - retinue

MELL - to mix, to meddle

MEMORISE - to cause to be remembered

MEPHISTOPHILUS - the name of a familiar spirit

MERCATANTE - a foreign trader

MERELY - simply, absolutely

MESS - a company of four

METAPHYSICAL - supernatural

METE-YARD - measuring-wand

MEW UP - to confine

MICHER - a truant

MICKLE - much

MILK-LIVERED - cowardly

MILKY - timid, weak

MILL-SIXPENCE - a milled sixpence

MIMIC - burlesque actor

MINCE - to do any thing affectedly

MINCING - affected

MIRTH - fun; object of merriment

MISCREATE - illegitimate

MISDOUBT - to suspect

MISERY - avarice

MISPRISE - to despise

MISPRISION - mistake

MISSIVE - messenger

MISTEMPERED - angry

MISTHINK - to think ill of

MISTRESS - the jack in bowling

MOBLED - muffled

MODERN - commonplace

MODULE - a model, image

MOE - and more Of frequent occurrence

MOIETY - a portion; small part, lesser portion

MOME - a stupid person

MOMENTANY - momentary

MONTHS-MIND - a monthly commemoration of the dead

MOOD - anger

MOON-CALF