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mes Gothic = dish, whence Benjamin's mess, a mess of pottage, etc.
Mess, meaning confusion or litter, is the German mischen, to mix; our word mash.
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Mews Stables, but properly a place for hawks on the moult. The muette was an edifice in a park where
the officers of venery lodged, and which was fitted up with dog-kennels, stables, and hawkeries. They
were called muettes from mue, the slough of anything; the antlers shed by stags were collected and kept in
these enclosures. (Lacombe: Dictionnaire Portatif des Beaux-Arts.)
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Mexitli Tutelary god of the Aztecs, in honour of whom they named their empire Mexico. (Southey.)
Tutelary = guardian
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Midden The kitchen midden. The dust-bin. The farmer's midden is the dunghill. The word is Scotch.
(Danish, mödding; Norwegian, mudder; Welsh, mwydo (to wet), our mud and mire.)
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Middlesex The Middle Saxons- that is, between Essex, Sussex, and Wessex.
Nothing to do with sex.
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Mikado (Japan, mi, exalted; kado, gate), is not a title of the emperor of Japan, but simply means the
person who lives in the imperial palace.
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The Middle Saxons- that is, between Essex, Sussex, and Wessex- and now all part of London (though you still specify the county as Middx in your address). Wembley (football) and Harrow (posh school) in NW London, aren't really far out at all, but they are Middlesex rather than London addresses. And here's a link to previous Sussex & Essex stuff (courtesy of Bill again): http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=76205
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Milesians (The). The ancient Irish. The legend is that Ireland was once peopled by the Firbolgs, who
were subdued by the Milesians, called the “Gaels of Ireland.”
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Milliner A corruption of Milaner; so called from Milan, in Italy, which at one time gave the law to
Europe in all matters of taste, dress, and elegance.
Milliner was originally applied to the male sex; hence Ben Jonson, in Every Man in his Humour, i. 3,
speaks of a “milliner's wife.” The French have still une modiste and un modiste.
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Milo An athlete of Crotona. It is said that he carried through the stadium at Olympia a heifer four years
old, and ate the whole of it afterwards. When old he attempted to tear in two an oak-tree, but the parts
closed upon his hands, and while held fast he was devoured by wolves.
But his last name was not Washington.
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