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Full Glossary for A Midsummer Night's Dream

Marry (9) [Archaic] interjection used to express surprise, anger, etc., or, sometimes, merely to provide emphasis; here, a mild oath, referring to the Virgin Mary.

mazed (113) bewildered.

mew'd (71) to confine in or as in a cage; shut up or conceal.

mimic (19) burlesque actor.

minimus (329) petite person.

misgraffed (137) ill-matched.

mispris'd (74) mistaken.

Mote (135) a speck of dust.

mote (299) a speck of dust or other tiny particle.

muskroses (252) Mediterranean roses with fragrant, usually white, flowers.

neaf (16) fist.

neeze (56) sneeze.

nine-men's morris (98) pattern cut in the turf when this game was played outside with nine pebbles.

Ninny/Ninus (80) mythical founder of Ninevah.

noll (17) head.

old Hiems (109) the winter god.

ounce (36) snow leopard.

ouzel cock (102) male blackbird.

oxlips (250) a perennial plant of the primrose family.


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