malison (malizon)

[Formerly also mall i son; ME. malisoun, malisun, malison, And who that wille not so, gaf hem ther malisoun . Rob. of Brunne , p. 162. My curse and mall is on she's got, For to pursue her still. Margaret of Craignargat (Child's Ballads, VIII. 252). A malison light on the tongue Sic tidings tells to me! Lady Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 82). malkin, mawkin (mal'-, ma'kin), n. and a. [Also maulkin , maukin ; malkyn , malkyne , Mal (E. Moll1 ), a reduced form of Mary , and also of Matilda (formerly Molt , Mawde , now Maud ), + dim. -kin.] I. n. 1. A kitchen servant, or any common woman; a slattern. Malkyn with a distaf in hire hond. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 564. The kitchen malkin pins Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck. Shak . , Cor., ii. 1. 224. Now monstrous in hoops, now trapish, and walking With your petticoats clung to your heels like a maulkin . Quoted in Fairholt's Costume (ed. Dillon), I. 394. A draggled mawkin , thou, That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge. Tennyson, Prince . 21. Maid Marian, the lady of the morris-dance. Put on the shape of order and humanity, Or you must marry Malkin , the May-lady. Fletcher , Mons. Thomas, ii. 2. 3. A stuffed figure; a caricature of a woman in dre and general appearance; a scarecrow. Thou pitiful Flatterer of thy Master's Imperfections; thou Maukin made up of the Shreds and Pairings of his superfluous Fopperies. Congreve, Old Batchelor, iii. 6. 4. A cat. Compare grimalkin . The word is used in the following pa age as the name of a familiar spirit in the shape of a cat: Malkin , my sweet spirit, and I. 5. A hare. [Scotch.] Middle ton, The Witch, iii. 2. "Nay, nay, Luath," whispered Abel, patting his dog,... "you must not kill the rabbit; but if a maukin would 3595 so rio us ne of others who use more comely and costly curiosities. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 87. malll (mal), n. [Also maul (the verb being commonly spelled maul ); monly maul.] Whan Arthur saugh the Geaunte lifte vp his malle he douted the stroke.. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 339. Eftsoones one of those villeins him did rap Upon his head peece with his yron mall , That he was soone awaked there with all. Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 42. 2. (a) A war-hammer or martel-de-fer. is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Prov. xxv. 18. A man that beareth false witne against his neighbour (b) The head or striking part of a war-hammer or martel-de-fer. (c) The blunt or square erances. from the beak on the opposite side han projection of such a hammer, as distinguished dle: this blunt end was often divided into four, six, or more blunt points or protuberances.3. An old game played with a wooden ball in a kind of smooth alley boarded in at each side, in which the ball was struck with a mallet in order to send it through an iron arch called the pa , placed at the end of the alley. Strutt. -41. The mallet with which this game was played; also, the alley in which it was played. IMG:content-0137.jpg:[blocks in formation] Top-mall, a heavy iron hammer used on board ship. malllt (mal), v. t. [Also and more commonly maul; I salle evene amange his mene malle hym to dede. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4038. Lys. Would not my ghost start up, and fly upon thee? Cy. No, I'd mall it down again with this. [She snatches up the crow.]