mutton (mutn)

[ The hynde in pees with the leon, The wolfe in pees with the molt on . Gower, Conf. Amant., Prol. The wolf in fleecy hosiery... did not as yet molest her [the lamb], being replenished with the mutton her mamma. Thackeray , New comes, i. 2. The flesh of sheep, raw or dre ed for food. The mot on boyled is of nature and complexion sanguyne, the whiche, to my jugement, is holsome for your grace. Du Guez , p. 1071, quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), [Index, p. 102. 3. A loose woman; a prostitute. [Slang.] The old lecher hath got holy mutton to him, a nunne, my lord. Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 4. An Anglo-French gold coin: so called from its being impre ed with the image of a lamb. See mouton and agnel2, Davies. mutton Reckon with my father about that... he will pay you gallantly; a French mutton for every hide I have spoiled. Scott , Fair Maid of Perth, vi. Laced muttont, a loose woman. [Slang.] - I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mutton; and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a lost mutton, nothing for my labour! Shak., T. G. of V., i. 1. 102. Cupid hath got me a stomach, and I long for laced mutton. Middle ton, Blurt, Master-Constable, i. 2. mutton-bird (mut'n-bėrd), n . A bird of the family Procellariidæ and genus Est relata ; one of several kinds of petrels found in the southern seas, as Œ . le on i , which is also called white night-hawk. See cut at Est relata .