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4. mall2 (mel or mal), n. [ The mall without comparison is the noblest in Europe for length and shade, having 7 rowes of the tallest and goodliest elms I had ever beheld. IMG:content-0138.png:[blocks in formation] could only cock her fud at... thy yelping." J. Wilson, Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life, p. 181. 6. A mop; especially, a mop used to clean a baker's oven. See here a maukin , there a sheet As spotle e pure as it is sweet. Herrick, Hesperides, p. 106. 7. In gun., a jointed staff with a sponge at one end, used for cleaning out cannon. - Mother of the mawkins. (at) A witch, hag, or uncanny old woman. (b) The little grebe or dabchick. J. A. Harvie Brown. II.t a. Of or pertaining to a malkin or kitchen-wench. Her maukin knuckles were never shapen to that royall buskin. Milton , Apology for Smectymnuus. malkinlyt, mawkinlyt, a. [ malkin , mawkin , +-ly1.] Like a malkin; slatternly. Some silly souls are prone to place much piety in their mawkingly [read mawkinly ] plainne , and in their cen An at in a. See duck2. The mallard is from 22 to 24 inches long, by 32 to 36 in extent of wings. The male has the head and neck glo y-green, succeeded by a white ring; the Mallard ( Anas boscas). malleifer breast purplish-chestnut; the lower back, rump, and tail coverts glo y-black; the tail-feathers mostly whitish, with a curly tuft; the wing-speculum iridescent, bordered with black and white; the bill greenish-yellow; the feet or angered; and the iris brown. The female has the wings and feet as in the male, the bill greenish-black blotched with orange, and the body-colors variegated in fine pattern with lighter and darker brownish shades. The mallard is found in nearly all parts of the world. It nests on the ground, laying usually from 8 to 10 yellowish-drab eggs measuring about 2ł by 13 inches.