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 Lyripipié, & Lyripipion. as Liripipié, & Liripipion. Lyrique: com. Lyricke; of a Harpe; sung to the Harpe; playing on a Harpe.

Lys. as Lis. Lysarde. Seeke Lisarde. Lysimachie: f. Willow-hearbe, Loose-strife, Water-willow.  Lysimachie rouge. The red, or codded Willow-hearbe.

Lysteau. as Listeau. Lyturgie, ou Lyturgue: f. A Liturgie, or forme of Seruice vsed in Churches.

M

Ma. The feminine of Mon; My. Ma dia. Seeke Madia. ¶Rab. Macabré. Danse Macabré. Death.

Macaleb. The bastard Corall, or Pomander, Priuet, of whose sweet, and shining blacke berries, chaynes and bracelets be made.

Macalep, & Macalet. as Macaleb. Macar: m. A mate, match, marrow, fellow.

Macareau: m. A Mackerell fish.

Macaronique: m. A Macaronick; a confused heape, or huddle of many seuerall things.

Macarons: m. Macarons; little Fritter-like Bunnes, or thicke Losenges compounded of Sugar, Almonds, Rose-water, and Muske, pounded together, and baked with a gentle fire; also, the Jtalian Macaroni; lumps, or gobbets of boyled paste serued vp in butter, and strewed ouer with spice, and grated cheese.

Macault: m. A scrip, or wallet; also, a chest filled with precious stuffe, and hidden, or hoorded vp, in a secret corner.

Macé: m. (A proper name for a man) Mathew.  Ie suis Prestre Macé. An equiuocall allusion to Maistre passé''. A sworne maister, or freeman of a Trade.''

Mace. Iuge Mace. as Iuge Mage (in Mage.) Macée: f. Mat, or Macie; (a proper name for a woman.)

Macer: m. Is not Mace (as many imagine) but a reddish, aromaticall, and astringent rinde of a certaine Jndian root.

Maceration: f. A maceration, macerating, making leane; a mortifying, weakening, or taming of the bodie by abstinence, &c; also, a soaking, or steeping in liquor.

Maceré: m. ée: f. Macerated, made leane; weakened, mortified, brought low, tamed, subdued; also, allayed, soaked, or steeped in water.

Macerer. To macerate, or make leane; to mortifie, weaken, bring downe, punish or pull vnder the bodie; to suppresse, or subdue the lusts thereof by abstinence, or hard fare; also, to allay, soake, or steepe in liquor.

Maceris. as Macer. Maceron: m. The hearb Candie Alexanders, or through-bored Parsely.

Maceronne: f. as Maceron. Mache: f. Water-torch, Cats-tayle, Marsh pestill, Douch downe; (an hearbe.)

Machecoulis. Looke Maschecoulis. Machefer. The droße of Jron.

Mache-foin. A nick-name for such a Iudge, or Lawyer as takes of clients the hay his horses feed on; or, as Maschefouyn. Machelier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a iaw.  Dents Machelieres. The cheeke-teeth, or grinders.

Macher. as Mascher. Mache-rave. A Turnep-eater: An Epithete for a Lymosin (who feeds much on Turneps.)

Mache-rivet. A Cobler, or Shoomaker.

Macheron. as Maceron. Maches: f. The mashes, or holes of a net between thread and thread.

Machette: f. The Owle, or Madge-howlet; as in Cheveche. Macheure: f. A blacke smutch, or smeare; also, a crush, or bruise, which leaues a blacke, or blew spot after it.  Macheure de fer. The drosse of Jron.

Macheuré: m. ée: f. Smeared, smutched, begrymed; also, made blacke and blew by a crush, &c.

Machiavelisme: m. Machiauellisme; subtill policie, cunning roguerie.

Machiavelizer. To Machiauelize it; to practise Machiauellisme.

Machicoulé: m. ée: f. Fortified with Maschecoulis. Machicoulis. Looke Maschecoulis. Machinateur: m. A machinator, framer, contriuer, deuiser (especially of bad things.)

Machination: f. A machination, frame, contriuement; a subtill plot, or conspiracie; a craftie inuention, shifting stratageme, circumuenting tricke.

Machine: f. A frame, engine, toole, instrument, inuention, deuice.

Machiné: m. ée: f. Framed, contriued, deuised; plotted, conspired; practised against.

Machiner. To machinate, frame; contriue, deuise; to practise, plot, conspire against.

Machoirier: m. A horned, and great-iawed Snake.

Machonner. To chaw slowly, or gently; to mumble.

Machoter. To champe, or chaw slowly, or without any great effect.

Machoüeres: f. The iawes.

Machurer. To blacke, smeare, smutch, begryme, or disfigure with blacking.  Le chauderon machure la poisle. One knaue disgraces, or, one neighbour detracts from, another.

Macis: m. The spice called Mace.

Macle: f. The Mash of a net; also (in Blason) a Mascle, or short Lozenge, hauing a square hole in the middest.

Macle: com. Raw. ¶Rab. Macles: f. Pot-hangers; the Jrons whereupon pots are hung.

Maçon. as Masson. Maçonné: m. ée: f. Wrought by Masons; built of stone; hewed, squared, layed, as stones by a Mason.

Maçonner. To play the Mason, to build with, or of stone; to hew, square, worke, lay stones, as a Mason; to worke Masons worke.

Maçonnerie. Seeke Massonnerie. Macque. A Lozenge, or Net-mash.

Macquereau. as Maquereau. Macquignon. Looke Maquignon. Macreau: m. A Mackerell fish; Looke Maquereau. Macreon: m. An old, or long-liued, man. ¶Rab. Macrobe. Of old life; of long continuance, or that hath had a long time, in this life. ¶Rab. Macroule: f. A sea-Coot, or Scottish Moore-henne.

Maculatures: f. Blotting, or wast, papers.

Macule: f. A spot, blot; speck, speckle; staine, blemish.

Maculer. To spot, blot; speck, speckle, bespatter; besmeare, distaine, blemish, beray.

Madame: f. ''Madame. (The title, or stile of a Ladie.)''