long: N A 123 [John Thorpe] ‘I shall come and pay my respects at Fullerton before it is long, if not disagreeable’.
look with adverbs: M P 222 ‘you look very nicely indeed’. N A 70 ‘look delightfully;. ‘Cf. E 179 ‘feeling dreadfully’.
look well = be in good looks: M P 272 (Fanny was) in remarkably good looks… ‘Yes’, said Lady Bertram, ‘she looks very well’. Cf. S S 193 looking most wretchedly. See Well.
look off = look away: M P 227 ‘your eyes steadily fixed on him … or only looking off just to note down any sentence pre-eminently beautiful’.
loud : E 245 ‘if your friends have any gratitude, they will say something pretty loud about you and me in return’. The speaker is in the road outside the house in which the friends are seated; but loud may mean more than audible. We still say ‘they were loud in his praise’, but loud in that sense seems now to be used only of persons. (Probably not = ‘say something pretty, aloud’.)
low: E 336 those who talk most, the young and the low … all the youth and servants in the place.
matters: S S 163 ‘look about me a little, and settle my matters’ (affairs).
make: M P 77 ‘a visit … to be made’.
make of naval promotion : M P 298 ‘He is made. Your brother is a Lieutenant’. P 108 ‘when he came home from the Cape,—just made into the Grappler’.
may occurs in certain connexions where we should use will or can: S S 187 ‘I wish you may receive this in time’ (= I hope you will; we still say, ‘I wish you may get it’, but ironically). M P 305 ‘I wish he may go to the East Indies’. P P 211 ‘your father of course may spare you, if your mother can’. M P 242 ‘I am sure it may be done’.
may with be understood: N A 135 ‘He is very handsome indeed’. ‘Handsome !—Yes, I suppose he may’.
measures = course of action or the like, not now common except in take, (stern, &c.) measures: S S 353 in ignorance of his measures. P P 199 ‘condescended to adopt the measures of art’. M P 396 her measures (were) often ill-chosen and ill-timed.
might where we usually say may have: P P 249 ‘Perhaps we might be deceived’.—‘That is not very likely; our authority was too good’; 365 Elizabeth was secretly forming a desperate resolution; and perhaps he might be doing the same. P 223 ‘I may be mistaken; I might not attend’. S S 135 ‘Perhaps you might notice the ring when you saw him?’
might where would is now used: E 276 ‘she was not perfectly convinced that the place might suit her better than her father’.
mind is used in ways which would now be unusual: P 182 ‘a disparity … in a point no less essential than mind’. It is often distinguished from understanding: S S 350 ‘a good mind and a sound understanding’. P P 186 ‘Her understanding excellent, her mind improved’.
mizzle: E 12.
mob: N A 20 (Mr. Allen) repaired … to the card-room, and left them to enjoy a mob by themselves.
mostly: N A 141 the person whose society she mostly prized.