2. One who has a very small piece of ground, S.
~Mail-free~, _adj._ Without paying rent, S.
~Mail-garden~, _s._ A garden, the products of which are raised for sale, S.
1. A farm, S. from _mail_, as being rented.
2. The term during which a tenant possesses a farm.
1. In pl., the plates or links of which a coat of mail is composed.
A. S. _maegen_, Isl. _magn_, magnitudo virium.
MAINS, MAINES, _s._ The farm attached to a mansion-house, S.
1. An officer attending a sheriff for executions and arrestments, S.
2. _Maire of fee_, a hereditary officer under the crown, whose power resembled that of sheriff-substitute in our times.
Gael. _maor_, an officer; C. B. _maer_, a ruler; Arm. _maier_, the head of a village; Fr. _maire_, anc. _maier_, a mayor; Alem. _mer_, a prince.
3. The first magistrate of a royal borough.
Apparently from Gael. _muirtamhuil_, heavy, pron. nearly as the S. term.
Moes. G. _maists_, A. S. _maest_, Isl. _mest_, id.
2. A designation given to the eldest son of a baron or viscount, conjoined with the name from which his father takes his title, S.
3. In composition, denoting what is chief or principal in its kind; as _maister-street_, the principal street; _mayster-man_, equivalent to _Lord_.
Su. G. _mester_, a landholder, from _maest_, most, greatest.
O. Fr. _maistrie_, authority, power, arrogance, superiority.
O. Fr. _maistrise_, affectation of superiority; art, industry.
_Maisterfull beggaris_, such as took by force.
_Maister laiglen_, a wooden vessel for holding urine; _maister-cann_, an earthen vessel applied to the same use, S.
Teut. _matt_, fessus, id. languidus; Isl. _mod_, lassus, _maed-a_, fatigare.
_To_ ~Make~ _to_, _v. n._ To approximate.
MAKINT, pron. _Maikint_, _adj._ Possessing assurance, S. B.
~Makintly~, ~Maikintly~, _adv._ Confidently, S. B.
Isl. _makligt_, A. S. _maccalic_, fit, equal.
MALEGRUGROUS, _adj._ Grim; apparently discontented, S.
Gael. _mala_, having gloomy brows, and _gruagach_, a female giant.
MAL-GRACE, _s._ The opposite of being in a state of favour, Fr.
~Mallewrus~, ~Malheurius~, _adj._ Unhappy.
Fr. _malaise_, disease; q. _malum otium_.
MALLACHIE, _adj._ Denoting the colour resembling milk and water mixed, S. B.
A. S. _meolec_, milk; Belg. _melkachtig_, milky.