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 Marme rayée. A kind of sundrie-coloured sea-fish.

Marme. for mon arme, or, mon ame: ¶Langued. Marmentau. Bois marm. A faire great wood, or beautifull tuft of high trees.

Marmes. A rusticall oath; as in Marme. Marmite: f. A great pot, kettle, boyler, or boyling lead; especially such a one as is vsed for the boyling of beefe in the kitchins of Abbeyes.

Marmiteux: m. euse: f. Wretched, poore, miserable, heartlesse, that lookes pitifully on it.

Marmiton: m. A Scullion, or kitchin boy; also, a greasie, or slouenlie knaue; and, a saucie, malapert, or knauish fellow; also, a pettie, or young schoole-boy.

Marmitonnage: m. Scullionrie, or th' Office of a Scullion; also, nastinesse, greasinesse, slouenlinesse.

Marmitonne: f. A Kitchin-stuffe wench, or Kitchin wench; a filthie greasie queane.

Marmitonner. To play the saucie rogue, the malapert rascall, to vse knauish or saucie tricks; also, to tend the beefe-pot like a Kitchin-boy.

Marmo. as Denté. Marmonné: m. ée: f. Mumbled, muttered, vttered betweene the teeth.

Marmonner. as Marmoter. Marmontaine. as Marmotaine. Marmor: m. The Goldenie, or a kind thereof; as Denté. Marmorat: m. Morter, wherein, among other things, little peeces of the best marble are put.

Marmoset: m. as Marmouset; Also, a lewd flatterer, or vicious fellow; especially the base flatterer of a Prince, who to feed his maisters humor, applauds, and and imitates, his foulest vices.

Marmot: m. A Marmoset, or little Monkie; also, as;

Marmotaine: f. Th' Alpine Mouse, or mountaine Rat; broad-backed, great-eyed, and short-eared; as big, but not so high, as a Conie; her haire is, as a Badgers, long, and of diuers colours; her voyce verie small, and shrill; her taile but short; her clawes so sharpe, as with them she quickly digs her a hole into the hardest earth.

Marmotan. as Marmotaine. Marmote. as Marmotaine; also, as Marmotte; also, the riuer Lote; a little muddie fish, headed, skinned, and finned, like an Eele.

Marmoter. To mumble, mutter, murmure; to speake, or vtter a thing, betweene the teeth.

Marmoterie: f. A muttering, or mumbling of words betweene the teeth.

Marmotonné: m. ée: f. Made to grumble, or, that yeelds a grumbling sound.

Marmotonner. To grumble, mutter, or murmure; to rumble, or make a rumbling noise.

Marmotte: f. A she Marmoset, or she Monkie.

Marmotter. as Marmoter. Marmouselle: f. A little puppie, or pug to play with.

Marmouserie: f. Frenzie, doating, rauing, foolish melancholie; (An old word.)

Marmouset: m. The cocke of a cesterne, or fountaine, made like a womans dug; any Anticke Image, from whose teats water trilleth; any Puppet, or Anticke; any such foolish, or odde representation; also, the Minion, fauorite, or flatterer of a Prince; as in Marmoset. Marne: f. Marle; a hard, and (most commonly) white earth, which in frostie weather falls to dust, and fattens the ground it is laied on.

Marné: m. ée: f. Marled; fattened, or manured with (a whitish) marle. Marner. To marle, or manure (with a white hard marle.)

Marneux: m. euse: f. Full of (white) marle.

Marniere: f. A marle-pit.

Marochemin: m. Horehound; or, as Marrubin. Marolle. The name of a village, wherein a virgine of fifteene is hard to be found; whence; Pucelle de marolle; Seeke Pucelle. Maronne: f. Whitewort, Fedderfew, Feuerfew; some also call sweet Marierome so.

Maronnier: m. Looke Marinier. Maronnites: m. A sect of poore Christians (in some parts of Turkie) that weare great belts, or girdles of leather.

Marotte: f. A (Princes) Scepter; also, a fooles bable (because made commonly like a Scepter.)  Il en est plus assotté qu'un fol de sa marotte. Hee doats more on it then a foole does on his bable.  Il luy en fit porter la marotte. He made him the author, or commaunder of.  Au fol la marotte: Prov. The foole would haue a bable.  Fol est qui sa marotte ne cognoist, & ne la maine comme il doit: Prov. He is an asse that knowes not, and cannot rule, his owne (familie, or affections.)  Si tous les fols portoient marotte, on ne sçait pas de quel bois on se chaufferoit: Prov. If all that fooles are bables wore, of wood we should haue but small store.

Marouque: f. The tough, and hard thorne, or shrubbie tree, called Paliurus, Ram of Lybia, and Christs thorne; because (as it is imagined) hee was crowned withall.

Maroute: f. Bastard Camomill, false Camomill.

Marpaut: m. An ill-fauoured scrub, a little ouglie, or swartie wretch; also, a lickorous, or saucie fellow; one that catches at whatsoeuer dainties comes in his way.

Marquable: com. Markable, notable, of marke, of note.

Marquasin: m. A young wild boare.

Marque: f. A marke, signe, token; badge; print, stamp; spot; note, annotation; also, a distresse, arrest, or seisure of bodie, or goods; also, as Merque; also, a Marquisdome.  Droict de marque. Looke Droict. Faux Marque. A tearme by Wood-men bestowed on the head of a deere, which hath more rights, or branches on th' one side then on th' other.  Homme de marque. A renowmed, or notable person; a man of marke, or note.

Marqué: m. ée: f. Marked, noted, signed, spotted, printed; bearing the badge, or stampe of; also, heeded,obserued, regarded.  Bien marqué. Good, honest, vertuous, well inclined.  Mal marqué. Lewd, naughtie, vicious, badly giuen.

Marquer. To marke, note; signe, spot, set a print, or stampe on; to heed, regard, obserue, take especiall notice of.  Cela ne marque rien. (Of a counter, &c) that stands for nothing.

Marquet: m. A small Venetian coyne worth about iiij. d. Tourn. Marquetage. as Marqueterie. Marqueté: m. ée: f. Spotted; diuersified, or couered with sundrie-coloured spots; also, inlayed; wrought all