_Mends_; reparation of a wrong. 14. --"_To the mends_;" to boot, besides, add to that.
_Midses_; means, instrumentality. 190, 317.
_Mid-way_; courses. 190.--Half and half, undecided.
_Minch_; cut into small pieces. 127.
_Mind_; remember, take care to speak of. 333, 334, 342.
_Mint_; to attempt, intend at doing, essay. 29, 92, 188, etc.
_Mired_; plunged into mire, soiled. 174.
_Misbelief_; wrong belief. 112, 143.
_Miscall_; give wrong names to. 322, etc.
_Misconstruct_; misconstrue. 285.
_Miscount_; erroneous calculation. 133.
_Misken_; to misunderstand, overlook, to treat as if unknown. 89, 99, 102, 148, 181, etc.
_Misleard_; indiscreet, rude; _q.d. mislearned_. 112, 181.
_Mismannered_; unmannerly. 106.
_Misnurtured_; ill-disciplined, ill-trained. 181, 234.
_Missive_; a letter empowering the person to act. 142.
_Misted._ --See _Bemisted_. 118, 146. Like one in a mist.
_Moderate_, a Verb; to rule over a meeting. 203. --An ecclesiastical phrase from the Latin.
_Moneys_; price. 281.
_Moyen_; means; interest; influence. 59, 116, 119, etc.
_Muir-ground_; waste land covered with heath. 157, 298.
_Naughty_; vile, worthless. 77, 81, etc. --Bunyan calls Badman, "a man left to himself, a _naughty_ man."
_Nay-say_; denial. 80, 231. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7: "Christ gave the devil three nay-says."
_Near-hand_; near at hand. 29, 79, 191, etc.
_Need-force_; by sheer necessity; or, by hook or crook. 71, 179, 205, etc. Under plea of necessity.
_Nether_; the lower; not high enough. 245.
_Newings_; novelties; _q.d. new things_. 29.
_Nice_; chary, capricious, ill to please. 81, 226.
_Nick_; mark, notch, point. 70, 249, etc.
_Niffer_; exchange, barter. 140, etc.
_Nigh-hand_; near. 183, 347.
_Night-glass_; hour-glass. 281.
_Non-entry_; money, or rents, due to the superior by an heir on coming to his property; or the state of one who is heir, but has not yet got the legal investiture. 222, 256.
_Nor_; than. 144, 307.
_Noughty_; useless, worthless, nothing in it. 175, 200, 225. --Sibbs, "Others that are nought" (on 2 Cor. i. 4).
_Nurture_; discipline. 70, 98, 206. --The Verb, to use discipline. 299.
_Odds_; difference. 294. --Also _odd_; any leisure time.
_Of._ The use of the preposition "of" is common and peculiar to the time in such phrases as "Dear of a drink of water;" at the price of. 148. --"Content of." 45. --"Understood of." 51. --Is it from the French
"de?" Old Chaucer sings: "And all the orient laugheth of delight" (Knight's Tale).
_Off-fallings_; droppings, remnants, 70, 169, 285. John Livingstone writes: "Compared with Christ Himself, what is all this but the _off-fallings_."
_Oh if._ 180, 204, etc. --"_Oh if_," 152. What would you say if.
_Oh that!_ in the sense of _Alas_! 189. So "_Oh for_." 97.
_Old-dated_; antiquated, 320.
_Once_; one time or other, sooner or later. 62, 112, 143, 152, 170, 217, 255, 270, 330. Knox uses it often thus. Also, once for all; altogether.
_Once-errand_; on the sole business. 210, 301.
_Opposites_; opponents. 231.
_Or._ --See _Then_.
_Order_; take order is an old English phrase for "take measures." 18.
_Ordinarily_; usually. 144.
_Other_; ought else. 68, 77. --_Others_; each other. 82.
_Out_, a Noun; laying out, exhibiting for sale. 277.
_Outcast_; a contention, quarrel. 239, 274, 275. --In a sermon on Zech. xiii. 7 he says: "After a sore _outcast_, there is greater love betwixt Christ and His people than before."
_Outfield_; waste land, covered with heath. 256, 261.
_Outgate_; way of escape, outlet. "Make home over us, go homeward."
_Over_; in the phrase "_over-little_," too little. 257.
_Overmist_; rise over like a mist. 189.
_Over-watered_; plated over. 299.
_Oyess_; the French _Oyez_; the crier's "Hearken." The Verb, to denounce one by public proclamation. 249.
_Paces_ (from French "_peser_," to weigh, and old English "to paise"); the weights of a clock. He uses the same figure in a sermon on Song v. 1. 189, 197, 199, 292.
_Packald_; burdens, things packed up. 198.
_Packs_, or _paiks_; a severe blow. "_Paiks_ the man," the man soundly beaten. 138.
_Pact._ 230.
_Paiks._ --See _Packs_.
_Painful_; taking pains, laborious. 188. --See _Baxter_, etc.
_Paintry_; painting. 83.
_Panged_; quite full, crammed; "_Pang-full_." 225.
_Pantry_, a Verb; to lock up in the cupboard. 110.
_Pasch_; Passover, or Easter. 51. (Acts xii. 4; πασχα.)
_Pass from_; used of a summons; not enforce it.
_Passments_; strips of lace sewed on dress by way of ornament. 42, 75, 275.
_Pawn_; pledge. "_Pawn-clay_;" a thing of dust, and that is only partly ours. 77, 130, 139.
_Perqueer_; the French _par cœur_; by heart, perfectly. 204.
_Pertinacy_; same as pertinacity.
_Pickle_; small grain. 22, 186, 197.
_Piece-withered_; withered patches. 254.