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 Martagon de Constantinople. The Lillie of Constantinople, the Bysantine Lillie.

Marte: f. The beast called a Martin.  Martes sebellines, & soubellines, ou soublines. Sables.

Marteau: m. A hammer; also, a sledge, or mallet; and (among Woodmen) a hammer that hath a stampe on the one side, wherewith the Surueyors, and Verderers of the Kings woods and forrests, marke the trees which are to bee felled, and sold; also, the hearbe Reed-*mace, Water-toarch, or Cats-taile; also, a certaine little bone seated farre within the eare; also, the Stithie (a beasts disease.)  Marteau de mer. The huge, ouglie, vnluckie, staring, and wide-mouthed, Mullet-fish.  À Preuve de marteau. Sound, currant, good, right stuffe.  Couché entre l'enclume & les marteaux. Seated in the middest of extremities, or in a dangerous strait; imbarked into vnauoydable mischiefes, or miseries.  À l'enclume le marteau: Prov. (Said when a contentious, or litigious swaggerer meets, or is matched, with a worse then himselfe.)  À dure enclume marteau de plume: Prov. By patience we quaile, or quell all harsh attempts: and now adayes we see bags of wooll, and walls of soft earth opposed to the furie of the Cannon.

Martel: m. Jealousie, suspition; throbbing, or panting, vpon passion; a buzze in the head, a flie in the eare.

Martelage: m. A malling, or hammering; a beating, working; or marking with a hammer.

Martelé: m. ée: f. Hammered, malled; beaten, wrought, or marked with a hammer; also, spotted, or speckled.

Marteler. To hammer, mall; beat, worke, or marke with a hammer; also, to spot, or speckle.  Les dents luy marteloyent de froid. His teeth chattered through cold.

Martelerie: f. A hammering, or hammer worke.

Martelet: m. A little hammer; also, a Martlet, or Martin.

Marteleur: m. A hammerer; one that worketh with a hammer.

Marteline: f. A small hewing picke, or pauing picke; a Masons hammer, or picke.

Martellé. as Martelé. Mattellement: m. A hammering, or malling; a beating, working, or marking with a hammer.

Marteller. Seeke Marteler. Martengalle: f. A kind of daunce, as common in Provence, as the Bransle in other parts of France.

Marthe: f. Martha (a womans name.)  Prendre Mars pour Marthe. (In things of some resemblance) to mistake one for another.

Martial: m. ale: f. Martiall, warlicke, valorous; borne vnder the Planet, or being of the humor, of Mars.

Martin: m. Martin (a mans name.) La S. Martin. Martilmas; or the feast of S. Martin the Bishop, in Winter. Estaffier de S. Martin. The diuell. Esté de S. Martin. The later end of Autumne. Oiseau de S. Martin. The Ring-taile, or Hen-harme. Faire le prestre Martin. To play both the Priest and the Clerke; to propound a question, and make himselfe an answer. À la S. Martin lon boit le bon vin: Prov. At Martilmas wine is fit to be drunke. Plus d'vn Asne à la foire a nom Martin: Prov. If one will not another will; there be more wayes to the wood then one; or, as vnder Asne. Pour vn poil Martin perdit son asne: &, pour vn poinct Martin perdit son asne: Prov. Looke Asne. Martin: m. as Marte; A Martin.  Prendre martin pour regnard. (In alike things) to mistake one for another.

Martiner. To quaffe, swill, guzzle (from S. Martins day, when commonly the French people begin to drinke new wine.)

Martinet: m. A Martlet, or Martin (bird;) also, a water-mill for an yron forge; also, a little woodden candlesticke hauing on th' one side a handle, and on th' other a hooke (most in vse among Tauerners;) also, a kind of great hammer vsed in the breaking open of doores; also, a Student, or Scholler, that lodges in the towne, and resorts vnto Lectures, and Disputations in Colledges; also, the game called Cat and Trap; also, a Saints bell, or Antham bell.  Martinet pescheur. A Kings fisher.  Grand Martinet. The great blacke Martin.

Martingale: f. A Martingale for a horse.  À la martingale. Absurdly, foolishly, vntowardly, grossely, rudely, in the homeliest manner.

Martre. as Marte; A Martin; also, a game played with huckle-bones, and a little ball.

Martroy: m. A place of execution, or punishment: (¶Orleannois.) Martyr: m. A Martyre; one that suffers death for the truth.

Martyre: m. Martyrdome, death suffered for the truth; extreame paine, affliction, torment.

Martyrément. Martyre-like.

Martyrer. To martyr; torment, afflict extreamely, put vnto mightie paine.

Martyriser. To martyrize, to martyr.

Martyrologie: f. A Martyrologie; a Relation, Historie, or Booke of Martyrs.

Mary. as Mari. Marzol: m. as Escourgeon; Called so, as it seemes, because it is most commonly sowne in March: ¶Piedmontois. Marzolin: m. A kind of delicate Italian cheese made of sheeps milke not curdled with runnet, but with Artichock flowers.

Mas de navire. The mast of a ship.

Mas de terre. On Oxe-gang, plow-land, or hide of land, containing about 20 acres; (and hauing a house belonging to it.)

Mascarade: f. A Maske, or Mummerie.

Mascarer. To blot, soyle, blurre, sullie, disfigure.

Mascaret d'eaux. A huge, and sudden rauage, or inundatiō of waters; (L'on appelle mascaret vne grande montaigne d'eau qui se fait en la Riviere de Dordonne, vers les contrées de Libourne; Au temps d'esté, es saisons les plus paisibles, & tout en vn moment elle se forme, & fait vne course quelquesfois bien longue le long de l'eau, & quelquesfois plus courte, renversant les bateaux.) Mascaut. as Macault. Mascelles: f. The Jawes.

Maschaut: m. A bag of money; or as Macault. Masché: m. Chowed meat, such as Nurses giue vnto their children.

Masché: m. ée: f. Chawed, chewed, chammed, champed. Il luy faut bailler la chose toute maschée. (Said of one thats either vnable, or too lazie, to manage a difficult busineße; & therefore) it must be chawed, or t*wed, vnto his hands.