M ( ehm ) - v meol.

mac fuirmhidh - 2nd (from bottom up) rank poet.

macgnímrada - youthful deeds; a major type of seanchas.

machnamh - meditation, contemplation.

mael - term for possible druid tonsure, contended by some to be shorn ear to ear with tuft in front.

Mag Sleacht - the center of the Cromm Croich (qv) cult.

Maigh Tuireadh - 1) First Battle of, Co. Galway between Tuatha Dé Danann and Firbolg; 2) Second Battle of, Co. Sligo between TTD and Fomoire; (Tuatha Dé Danann victorious in both).

mála cruite - harp-bag, for a master harper (only), of 3 lawyers: otter-skin, white-speckled kid-goat-skin, (around only the strings:) white linen.

mála éithigh - "bag of false witness", bag from which lots are drawn.

mallacht (-aí) - curse.

mana - omen.

marana - contemplation (esp. verbal).

Marbán - a swineherd who rose to ardfhile of Ireland (qv fearr fear).

Marcaigh Móra Géala - "Great Bright Riders", Slua Sídhe.

meá - 1) mead; 2) balance-scales, weight, measure; 3) fishing-ground; (to avoid confusion, v miodh).

meabhair – intellect (dual consciousness), rational sense, memory, conscious awareness of ideas (cf aigne 7rl).

mealladh (mealtaí) - glamour, magically-induced illusion.

meanma - thought, attention, orientation of thought, morale (cf aigne).

méarnáil - phosphorescent light of (usually lesser) Sídhe.

mearú - hallucination, bewilderment, insanity, insane craving.

méirín púca - foxglove (one of many names).

meol - spindle, fiodh for the letter M, associated with, among other things, industry, ostentation.

meon - temperament, character, whims and fancies (cf aigne 7rl).

Mí - v Mídhe.

Mídhe - Meath.

Míl - first human inhabitants of Ireland (usually fir Mhíle).

millteoracht - magical attack.

miodh - mead (older form, v meá).

mionaire - lit. Fine (small) attention; perception in which data are distinct, events staccato, time contracted (cf nascaire).

mionn (-a) - 1) regalia; 2) oath; 3) relic. mionnfháinne - finger-ring as "badge of office", a king's worn on the right thumb; a druid's on either middle-finger.

Mogh Ruith - "wild" one-eyed poet-druid (v draoi allta), greatest druid after Amhairghin (qv), who with a few apprentices battled the combined forces of the arch-druid and all the court druids of Ireland and their Sídhe allies, and won.

móideacht - votive offering.

molaim thú - "I praise you" given to trees, lesser Sídhe, 7rl (i.e. not generally to average humans).

moltaí - praises.

mórchúis - false self-importance.

mothú - sentience, sensory awareness, self-awareness, consciousness (cf aigne 7rl).

mothú amhra méadú meabhraithe - very roughly , "a feeling for marvels is an expansion of awareness".

muir - v farraige 7rl.

Mumhan - Munster.

Mumu - v Mumahn.