mouchoir (moshwor)

[F. (= Sp. mocador = It. moccatore (see moccador, muckender ), muccus, mucus, mucus (of the nose): see mucus.] A pocket-handkerchief. Whenever the dear girl expected his Lordship, her mou choirs , aprons, scarfs, little morocco slippers, and other female gimcracks were arranged. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlviii. Obsolete var i Moun ye drynke the cuppe whiche I schal drinke?... Thei seyn to him, we moun . Wyclif , Mat. xx. 22. moun2 (moun), v.i. [Sc.also maun ; mow nen, mounen, munu , will, shall, must; a [North. Eng. and Scotch.] Scotch 1 mouncelt, ». [ME., moncel , monsel , mun cel, cel, etc., a little hill, a heap, monticellus , dim. of monticulus , a little hill or mountain, dim. of mon ( t- )s, a hill, mountain: see mount1 . Cf. monticle, monticule .] A heap; a pile. Thei lepe to fight with the crowned lyon that hadde his bestes departed in to xviij mouncels . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 413.