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 * ritie, dominion, rule, sway; also, cunning, skill, artificiallnesse, expert or excellent workmanship; also, a Maistership; the office, or place of a Maister; whence;  La grand maistrise. The office of le Grand maistre; (for whom, looke vnder Maistre.)   Il y a eu de la maistrise à faire cela. That matter hath beene cunningly, or workmanly handled.

Maistriser. To maister, gouerne, rule, sway; to bridle, order, containe, or keepe within compasse.

Maistroqueux. A maister Cooke. ¶Rab. Majuscule: com. Somewhat greater, a little bigger; of good stature, of a reasonable age.

Maiz: m. Maïs, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat; (the graine whereof the Indians make the most of their bread.)

Mal: m. An euill, mischiefe; hurt, harme, domage, wrong, displeasure, annoyance; also, a griefe, paine; sicknesse, disease. Mal de S. Acaire. as Acariastreté. Mal aigre. A kind of wormes that breed in the gorge of a Hawke. Mal d'Alcide. Hercules euill; the foule, or falling euill. Mal d'amarry. The suffocation of the Matrix. Mal de S. Apollonie. The toothache. Mal de S. Avertin. Dizzinesse; or any disease of the head. Mal cadue. The falling sicknesse. Mal chaud, ou chaud mal. A continuall (or violent) burning ague; (whence the Prouerbe, De fievre en chaud mal. Out of the frying-panne into the fire.) Mal de S. Claire. Red eyes; or, a painefull rednesse of the eyes. Mal des comices. The falling sickneße. Mal de corne. The sitt fast; a hornie swelling on the backe of a horse. Mal de craye. The stone-cray; a Hawkes disease. Mal de cropion. The rumpe-euill; a disease wherewith all birds (especially such as be kept in cages) are sometimes troubled. Mal aux dents. The toothache; also, extreame hunger, or famishment by reason thereof; Looke Dent. Mal feru. A Malander in the bought of a horses knee. Mal S. Fiacre. An inflamed scab, or great wart in the fundament, the which it makes to swell. Mal de flancs. A Pleurisie; or, as vnder Flanc. Mal S. Francois. Want of money, or, not a crosse in the purse (for those of his order must carrie no money about them.) Mal de S. Genou. The Gowt. Mal de S. Gilles. A Fistula, or Canker. Mal de gosier. The Squinancie, or Squinzie. Mal de S. Iean. The falling sickneße. Mal de Mahumet. The falling sicknesse (whereunto Mahomet was verie subiect.) Mal de S. Mammard. Sorenesse, or chaps, in the breasts of women. Mal de S. Mathurin. Frenzie, madnesse. Mal de S. Medard. Looke Medard. Mal de S. Mein. The wild scab, or mangineße; a kind of (most itching) leaprosie, bred of a salt phlegme. Mal mort. A running scab, or thicke morphew, which couering all ouer the vlcers that be vnder it, seemes wholly dead: Some Northerne people call it, the Rig-*ruffe (in beasts.) Mal de Naples. The French Pocks; or, the Neapolitane disease, first gotten by the French (of the Spaniards) at the siege of Naples, Anno Dom. 1528.  Mal du pantois. Difficultie of breathing; See Pantois. Mal du pion. A sickneße that comes by excessiue drinking.  Mal de pippe. Drunkenneße.  Mal de S. Quentin. The Cough.  Mal de S. Raphine. The wild Scab.  Mal de S. Roch. Scurfe, or scabbinesse; an itching mangineße.  Mal sacrée. The Kings euill.  Mal de S. Sebastien. The Plague, or pestilence.  Mal subtil. The Ptisicke, or consumption of the lungs.  Mal de terre. The falling sicknesse.  Mal de teste. The head-ache; (and sometimes) also, iealousie.  Mal de S. Valentin. The falling sicknesse.  Mal de ventre. The wormes; or belly-ache; a painfull griping, or fretting in the guts.  Mal de ver. The Farcie in a horse.   Mal S. Vitus. A pleasant disease, wherein the patient leapes, daunces, and laughes all the while his fit is on him.  Chaud mal. as before in Mal chaud. Gros mal. The falling sicknesse; the foule euill.  Haut mal. The same.  Le haut mal de la corde. Hanging; a twitching vp in a rope.  Mal dessus mal n'est pas santé: Prov. Jll vpon ill is no health.  De mal est venu l'agneau, & à mal retourne la peau: Prov. From ill came the Lambe, and to ill goes it skinne; goods euill gotten are commonly ill spent.  A peine endure mal qui ne l'a appris: Pro. Hardly can he brooke miserie that neuer any bore.  Il est tost deceu qui mal ne pense: Prov. He that thinkes no harme is soone beguiled.  Tel se plaind qui n'a point de mal: Prov. Some though they feele no harme vnquiet are.

Mal: m. ale: f. Jll, bad, naughtie, lewd; scuruie; mischieuous, hurtfull, harmefull, shrewd; vnseemelie, vncomelie, vndecent; sicke, diseased, crazie, pained, sore, ill at ease.  La male bosse. A pestilent byle, or bunch; a plague-*sore.

Mal. (Adverb.) Jll, euilly, badly, naughtily; mischieuously; hardly, vneasily; vnhandsomely, ill-fauouredly, scuruily. Que bien que mal. Indifferently, so so; also, hittie missie, one way or another. Ie fus bien mal de mon pere. J had my fathers anger, I got his distleasure, I was hardly vsed, ill intreated, by him. Il me fait mal de luy. I am sorrie for him. Ils me veulent faire mal de vous. They would haue me fall out with you. Mon cœur luy est, ou fait mal. I beare him a grudge, my heart cannot abide him. Mal batu longuement pleure; &, Autant pleure mal batu qui bien batu: Prov. Looke Batu. Mal fait qui ne parfait: Prov. He does ill that does not all; the end crownes the worke. Mal iouë qui fiert la jouë: Prov. Looke Iouë. Mal pense qui ne repense: Prov. Better not thinke at all then not to weigh the thoughts.