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Morling or mortling

Morling or mortling, wool from the skin of dead sheep, 3 Jac. 1, c. 18.

Mixed tithes

Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc., consisting of natural products, but nurtured and preserved in part by the care of man.

Burnetta, or Brunetta

Burnetta, or Brunetta, cloth made of dyed wool, Lyndewood.

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Mediators of questions, six persons authorised by statute, who, upon any question arising among merchants, relating to unmerchantable wool, or undue packing, etc., might, before the mayor and officers of the staple, upon their oath, certify and

Maletent, Maletoute

Maletent, Maletoute, a toll for every sack of wool, 25 Edw. 1, c. 7.

Last

Last [fr. hl'stan, Sax.; lest, Fr.], a burden; a weight or measure of fish, corn, wool, leather, pitch, etc.

Lanis decre scentia Walli' traducendis absque custuma, etc

custuma, etc., an ancient writ that lay to the customer of a port to permit one to pass wool without paying custom, he having paid it before in Wales, Reg. Brev. 279.

Langeolum

Langeolum [fr. lana, Lat.], means an undergarment made of wool, formerly worn by the monks, which reached to their knees, Dugd. Mon. t. 1, 419.

Noil

A short or waste piece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing also a similar piece or shred of waste silk

Factory

any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together