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 Maltassé: m. ée: f. Jndigested, ill piled, ill-fauouredly made vp, vnorderly hudled or iumbled together.

Maltaulte. as Maletoste. Maltaultier: m. A Collector of the Subsidie, a Toll-gatherer.

Maltote. as Maletoste; or as; Mal-toute: f. An exaction, imposition, toll; a new, or extraordinarie taxation.

Maltraictement: m. Hard dealing, bad intertainment, rudenesse, harshnesse, inciuilitie, crueltie.

Malvaisie: f. The wine Malmesie.

Malubec: m. The falling sicknesse; tearmed so in some parts of Languedoc. Malvedi: m. A small Spanish coyne, six whereof are scarcely worth an English pennie.

Mal-versation: f. Misdemeanor, misbehauior, ill conuersation, lewd carriage.

Malverser en son office. To behaue himselfe ill in his office.

Mal-vestu: m. uë: f. Jll-clothed; ragged, or bare, in array.  Les mal-vestus devers le vent: Prov. (Like our) the weakest to the wall; those that worst may are euer put to the worst.

Malvoisie: f. Malmesie.

Malvoisin: m. ine: f. Of Malmesie.

Malusité: m. ée: f. Jll-fashioned, ill mannered; rude, that hath not beene in much good companie; also, raw, vnexperienced, ignorant, a nouice.

Malvueillance: f. Malice, ill-will; hatred; pleasure taken in the misfortunes of another.

Malvueillant. Maleuolent, malignant, malicious; that beareth a grudge, or oweth ill will, vnto; that ioyeth in the miseries of another.

Mamaluc: m. A Mamaluke, or light horseman (in the Syrian, and Arabian tongues;) The Mamalukes were an order of valiant horsemen in the last Empire of Egypt.

Mamaye: f. A great Indian Peach whereof a kind of Marmalade is made.

Mambour, & Mambourg: m. A Captaine; also, the Gouernour of a Prouince; also, the Gardian of an infant, protector of a widow &c.

Mambournie: f. as Main-bournie. Mamelue. See Mammeluë. M'amie: f. My friend, loue, deere.  Ma belle m'amie. My prettie Pug (so fooles, hugging their bables, tearme them.)  Par saincte m'amie. Jn stead of, Par saincte Marie. ¶Rab. Mamillaire: com. Of, or belonging to the breasts, paps, or dugs.  Additions mamillaires. That part of the braine which lyes next to the nose, and where the sence of smelling begins.  Procez mamillaires. Looke Procés. Mammal: m. ale: f. Belonging to the breasts, or paps.  Veine mammale. Seeke Veine. Mammam. (The voice of infants) Mam.

Mammeaux: m. A kind of Panick.

Mammelette: f. A little dug, breast, vdder.

Mammeleux: m. euse: f. Of, or belonging to, the dugs; also, hauing great dugs.

Mammelle: f. A dug, breast, pap; vdder.

Mammellement. Duggishly, breast-fashion, pap-like. ¶Rab.

Mammelon: m. The niple, or teat of a dug. Mammelons. Be certaine little, red, hard, vlcerie, and teat like swellings, which breake out of the skin of the head, and yeeld a whayish, or waterish humor.

Mammelu. as Mammeleux. Mammeluch. as Mamaluc. Mammeluë: f. A fooles bable; so tearmed, because ordinarily it is made to resemble a laughing, and fat woman.

Mammeron. as Mammelon. Mammillaire. Seeke Mamillaire. Mammuque: f. A winglesse bird, of an vnknowne beginning, and after death not corrupting; she hath feet a hand long, & so light a bodie, so long feathers, that she is continually carried in the ayre, whereon she feeds; some call her the bird of Paradice, but erroniously; for that hath wings, and differs in other parts from this.

Manable: com. Habitable; which may be inhabited; or dwelt in.

Manance: f. A dwelling, abiding, inhabiting in.

Manant: m. A dweller, abider, inhabiter, or inhabitant; properly such a one as dwells where he was borne; also, a boore, clowne, hinde, husbandman, countrey fellow.

Manat: m. A monstrous Jndian fish that resembles an Oxe, and hath a flat backe, and a verie thicke skin.

Manbourg. as Mambour. Mancelles: f. Great Jron rings whereby the thill-horse &c, is fastened vnto a cart.

Manche: m. The haft, helue, or handle of a toole; also, the necke of a musicall Jnstrument; also, a mans toole. Le manche d'une charruë. A Plough-tayle, or handle; the Plough-hale. Le manche d'un espieu. The staffe of a Bore-speare. Vn manche d'estrille. A dwarfe, elfe, dandiprat, low scrub. Manche de rasoir. Vn nez faict à manche de raisoir. A Hawke-nose. Bransler au manche. To shake in the helue, to be vnsetled in heart. Iecter le manche apres la coignée. To increase a misfortune by desperate carelesnesse; vpon the loße of some to forgoe all. De l'arbre d'un pressoir le manche d'un Cernoir: Prov. Looke Cernoir.

Manche: f. A sleeue; also, a long narrow bag (such as Hypocras is made in;) also, a flat, and large furnace, made somewhat like an Ouen, and vsed for the melting of mettall new come out of the Mine; also, a sleeue-net, a narrow and long fish-net; also, a sleeue-like narrowing of the sea betweene two lands; whence; La manche d'Angleterre. Saint Georges channell. Manche de cousteau. The Pitot; a long, and round shell-fish. Manche Lombarde. Seeke Lombard. La manche de la parece. The Bellfrey. ¶Poictevin. Manches de deux paroisses. Sleeues of two parishes; viz. whereof the vpper part is of one stuffe, and the nether of another. C'est bien vn autre paire de manches. This is another manner of matter. C'estoit du temps qu'on se mouchoit encor à la manche. Jt was in the dayes of simplicitie, or ignorance; it was at a time when people either knew not, or cared not for good manners. Ils luy torchent le nez de sa manche. They wipe his nose with his owne sleeue; they doe him a pleasure, but tis with the helpe of his owne meanes.