Moose-face, subs. (common).—See quot.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Moose-face. A rich ugly-faced man.
Mop, subs. (common).—1. See quots.
1787. Grose, Prov. Glossary. Mop, a statute fair for hiring
servants.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Mop. A kind of annual fair in the west of
England where farmers usually hire their servants.
1860. Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia’s Lovers, i. Many a rustic went to a
statute fair or mop, and never came home to tell of his hiring.
1874. Mrs. H. Wood, Johnny Ludlow, 1. S. No. xvi. p. 269. ‘There
are as good servants to be picked up in a mop as out of it; and you
get a great deal better choice,’ said he. ‘My mother has hired many
a man and maid at the mop: first-rate servants too.’