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 Manteline: f. A mantle, sleight robe, or cloke, worne loosse about the shoulders; also, a Friers weed, or habit.

Manthe. as Mante veluë. Manticore: f. A rauenous, and mankind Indian beast, that hath a face like a man, a bodie like a Lyon, and three rankes of verie sharpe teeth.

Mantil: m. A table-cloth.

Mantin: m. A kind of Prawne.

Mantonel: m. The catch of a doore.

Mantonniere: f. A chocke, or bob vnder the chinne; also, the chinne-peece of an helmet; also, a chinne-cloth, or the little peece of fine linnen wherewith a masked Ladie couers her chinne.  Habillement de teste à mantonniere. A caske, or an helmet hauing a chinne-peece.

Manuel: m. A Manuell; a portable (prayer) booke.

Manuel: m. elle: f. Manuell, handie, of the hand, wrought or done with the hands.  Argent manuel. Present money, readie coyne.  Iustice manuelle. That rights it selfe; Looke Iustice. Seing manuel. Ones hand subscribed, marke or signe put to.

Manuellement. bailler m. To giue in hand, pay readie money, deliuer presently.

Manufacture: f. as Manifacture. Manumission: f. A manumission, or dismissing; a freeing, infranchising, setting at libertie, deliuering from bondage.

Manutenteur: m. A maintainer, vpholder, protector, countenancer.

Manutention: f. as Maintenance. Mappemonde: f. A map of the world.

Mappule: f. A little peece of Lawne wherewith the (Sacramentall) Pix is couered.

Maquereau: m. A Mackerell (fish;) also, a (man) bawd.  Maquereaux. Red scorches, or spots on the legs of such as vse to sit neere the fire.  Maquereau bastard. The bastard Mackerell; somewhat lesse, and lesse good, then the right one.

Maquerelage: m. The practise, or trade, of bawderie.

Maquerelle: f. A (woman) bawd; the solicitrix of lecherie.

Maquerelleux: m. euse: f. Full of bawderie, vsing the trade of bawderie, belonging to the bawdie art.

Maquignon: m. A Hucster, Broker, Horse-scourser, cousening Marchant.

Maquignonnage: m. Deceitfull brokage, bargaining for, or selling of, things; hence, also, the trade of hors-scoursing.

Maquignnonner. To play the Broker, or Horse-scourser, to deale deceitfully in bargaines; also, to play the bawd.

Mar: m. harenc de mar. A great, faire, fat, and full-rowed Herring.

Marabais. A kind of base coyne.

Maraine: f. A Godmother.

Marais: m. A marsh, or fenne; Looke Marets.

Maramedi. as Maravedi.

Maran: m. An Infidell, miscreant, Apostata, Renegado; a Christian circumcised, or Jew turned Christian; Looke Marrane.

Marant. as Mareant.

Marasine: m. ''A consumption in the highest degree; an extreame, or totall consumption; an exsiccation, or drying vp of the whole bodie.  Marasmé: m. ée: f. Wholly consumed, wasted, withered, exhausted, or drained of moisture.''

Marastre: f. A stepdame, or stepmother.  Qui a marastre a le Diable en l'atre: Prov. He that hath a stepdame hath a Diuell to his dame.

Marastresque. Stepmother-like.

Maraud: m. A rogue, begger, vagabond; a varlet, rascall, scoundrell, base knaue.

Maraudaille: f. A packe of lowsie rogues, a crue of beggerly vagabonds; also, rascallitie, scoundrellisme.

Maraude: f. A begger-woman, great lazie queane, roguish hedge-whore, Tinkers-bitch.

Marauder. To beg, to play the rogue, or idle vagabond.

Maraudise: f. Beggerie, roguerie, idle knauerie, base vagabondrie.

Maravedi: m. A little Spanish coyne, whereof 34 make but the Royall, or vj. d. sterl. Marbre: m. Marble.  Marbre gentil. The hard white marble, whereof statues, or images be commonly made.  Marbre grené. See Grené. Marbre Parien. A marble of a whitish colour, which indures all weathers, and being polished hath a resemblance of flesh.  Marbre serpentin. A spotted marble, the ground whereof is darke greene, the spots light.  Marbre Thebaïque. Whereof there be two kinds; one of a grayish ground spotted with two or three sundrie colours; another blacke, and beautified with golden drops.  Le marbre de soy n'a que faire de peinture: Prov. A beautifull thing needs no luster, an excellent thing no commendation.

Marbré: m. ée: f. Marbled, of marble, with marble, like vnto marble.  Pierre marbrée. Any hard, or grained stone, which, as marble, may be smoothed, or polished.

Marbreux: m. Full of, or abounding with, marble.

Marbrier: m. A marble-cutter, one that worketh in marble.

Marbriere: f. A quarrey of marble.

Marbrin: m. ine: f. Of marble, resembling marble.

Marc: m. Marke (a mans name;) also, the mother, grounds, dregs, lees, bottome, or setlings of liquor; also, the grosse, or thicke substance that remains of things which haue beene squeezed, or strained; also, ground manured, or dunged for the next yeares tillage; (Looke the next marginall word.)  Marc des raisins. The mother of the grapes; the husks, hullings, or skins of grapes ofter the last pressing.  Faire vn marc. To put grapes into the presse; to make, or make readie, a pressing of grapes.

Marc: m. A Marke; halfe a pound, or eight ounces of gold, siluer, or Billon. Marc d'argent. Is esteemed at 10 l. Parisis by the customes of Melun; and is due vnto a Lord for the right of Reliefe, and Rachapt, ouer and besides a yeares reuenew, if the land be valued at aboue 20 l.  Parisis. Droict de Marc. A Sol vpon euerie Marc of gold; iij. d. vpon euerie Marc of siluer; and j. d. vpon euerie Marc of Billon perfectly coyned, is the Prouost of the Mints fee, besides his ordinarie intertainment. Chargé a poids de marc. Soundly charged, throughly loaden; (appliable to one that hath taken in his liquor freely.) Fiens de chien, & marc d'argent seront tout vn au iour de iugement: Prov. See Iugement.