Madge.  The private parts of a woman.

Madge culls.  Sodomites.  Cant.

Magg.  A halfpenny.

Maggot boiler.  A tallow-chandler.

MAGGOTTY.  Whimsical, capricious.

Magnum BONUM.  A bottle containing two quarts of wine. 
  See scotch pint.

Mahometan gruel.  Coffee:  because formerly used
  chiefly by the Turks.

Maiden sessions.  A sessions where none of the prisoners
  are capitally convicted.

Make.  A halfpenny.  Cant.

Make weight.  A small candle:  a term applied to a little
  slender man.

MALINGEROR.  A military term for one who, under pretence
  of sickness, evades his duty.

Malkin, or MAULKIN.  A general name for a cat; also a
  parcel of rags fastened to the end of a stick, to clean an
  oven; also a figure set up in a garden to scare the birds;
  likewise an awkward woman.  The cove’s so scaly, he’d
  spice a malkin of his jazey:  the fellow is so mean, that he
  would rob a scare-crow of his old wig.

MALKINTRASH.  One in a dismal garb.

Malmsey nose.  A red pimpled snout, rich in carbuncles
  and rubies.

Man of the town.  A rake, a debauchee.

Man of the turf.  A horse racer, or jockey.

Manoeuvring the apostles.  Robbing Peter to pay
  Paul, i.e. borrowing of one man to pay another.

Man trap.  A woman’s commodity.

Man of the world.  A knowing man.

Man, (Cambridge.) Any undergraduate from fifteen to thirty. 
  As a man of Emanuel—­a young member of Emanuel.

Manufacture.  Liquors prepared from materials of English
  growth.

Mare’s nest. He has found a mare’s nest, and is laughing
  at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any
  apparent cause.

Margery Prater.  A hen.  Cant.

Marine officer.  An empty bottle:  marine officers being
  held useless by the seamen.  Sea wit.

Marplot.  A spoil sport.

Marriage music.  The squalling and crying of children.

Married. Persons chained or handcuffed together, in order
  to be conveyed to gaol, or on board the lighters for
  transportation, are in the cant language said to be married
  together.

Marrowbones.  The knees.  To bring any one down on
  his marrow bones; to make him beg pardon on his knees: 
  some derive this from Mary’s bones, i.e. the bones bent in
  honour of the Virgin Mary; but this seems rather far-
  fetched.  Marrow bones and cleavers; principal instruments
  in the band of rough music:  these are generally
  performed on by butchers, on marriages, elections, riding
  skimmington, and other public or joyous occasions.