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 À bon bluteur may propice: Pro. Somewhat as stiffe as a maypole does well with him that boults in a fleshlie tub.  Il ne sçait que c'est de vendre vin qui n'attend de May la fin: Prov. Belike because he cannot before that time guesse what will be the next yeares Vintage.

May: f. A kneading trough, or tub; also, a stacke, or pile of wood, &c.

Maye: f. A kneading trough; a hutch, or binne; also, a halfe-thraue, or heape of corne (in the sheafe.)

Mayenche: f. A Titmouse. ¶Savoyard. Mayeres: f. The branches of Poplers, and Willowes, fit to make rayles, props, or stayes for Vines.

May-loubet. The disease which wee call the Wolfe. ¶Langued. May-mis: m. ise: f. Maimed.

Mayrastre: f. A stepmother. ¶Langued. Mays: m. Maïs, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.

Maz: m. A small countrey tenement; or, as Mas; also, the maste of a ship.

Me. Me, or to me; a Pronowne (of the Datiue, or Accusatiue Case) which euer goes before a Verbe, whereas Moy comes after.

Means: m. Void, and emptie places betweene beds in gardens, reserued for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.

Meat: m. A way, or open passage; a hole, or pore in the bodie.  Meat Cholagogue. Looke Cholagogue. Mecanique: com. Mechanicall, belonging to an handicraft; base, meane, ordinarie, vile.

Mecaniquerie: f. Mechanicallnesse; basenesse of humor.

Mecaniqueté: f. The same.

Mecer. for Menacer; to threaten. ¶Rab. Mechanique. as Mecanique. Mechanizé: m. ée: f. Mechanicalized; made, or growne base, vile, ordinarie, meane.

Meche: f. as Meiche. Mecheron: m. A little match, or candle-weeke; also, a sparkle.

Mechine: f. A maid-seruant, a chamber-maid.

Mechoir. as Meschoir. Mect: f. A kneading trough, or tub; Looke Met. Medaille: f. A medall; an auncient and flat iewell, ouch, or bruche; or, a peece of auncient coyne, or plate, wherein the figure of some notable person is cast, or cut.

Medaillé: m. ée: f. Furnished, or set, with medalls.

Medaillon: m. A little medall, ouch, or bruche.

Medalle. as Medaille. Medamothi. Of no place. ¶Rab. Medard. The name of a sanctified Bishop of Noyon, and Tournay, in the yeare 524; by whose prayers (sayes Gregoire de Tours) diuers prisoners haue beene deliuered from captiuitie; whence;  Mal S. Medard. (May be) captiuitie, or imprisonment.

Mede. A precious stone that yeelds a Saffron-like sweat, and a tast like wine.

Medecin: m. A Phisition, a Leech. Medecin d'eau douce. An vnskilfull, or vnexperienced Phisition, a duncicall dog-leach; one that hath not trauelled farre for the (little) skill he hath: (Asclepiades, a better Orator then Phisition (as Plinie reports) was the first that allowed a Patient to drinke cold water; and thereupon caused himselfe to be tearmed, The fresh-water Phisition.) Apres la mort le medecin: Prov. After meat mustard; when steed is stolne shut the stable doore.  Bon est le medecin qui se sçait guarir: Pro. He is a right Phisition that can cure himselfe.  De nouveau medecin cimitiere bossu: Pro. A new Phisition makes a Churchyard swell.  Vn piteux medecin fait vne playe mortelle: Prov. A pitifull Surgeon spoileth a sore.  Ieune barbier vieil medecin: Prov. Looke Barbier. Les maux terminez en ique (comme Hydropique, Hectique, Paralytique, &c) font au medecin la nique: Prov. Because they be hardly cured.

Medecin: m. ine: f. Phisicall, medicinall; belonging to Phisicke, or to a Phisition.  Doigt medecin. The ring finger, that which is next vnto the little one.

Medecinable: com. Medicinable, healable, curable.

Medecinal: m. ale: f. Medicinall, seruing for a medicine, curing, healing.

Medecine: f. A medicine, or phisicke; the art of Phisicke; healing, or curing; a remedie for diseases; also, a she Phisition.  Contre la mort n'y a point de medecine: Pro. No Phisicke can preuaile 'gainst death.  Contre peché est vertu medecine: Prov. Vertue is a salue for sinne.  Tard medecine est apprestée a maladie enracinée: Prov. Grounded diseases are incurable.

Medeciné: m. ée: f. Medecined, cured, healed.

Medeciner. To medicine, cure, heale, salue, leach; to apply a remedie; to practise, or minister Phisicke.

Mediane: m. as Mesentere. Mediane: f. The blacke, or middle veine; the inward branch of the shoulder veine, discending downe the arme vnto the hand, and there dispersing it selfe[F1 note - I have seen it in other places as "it selfe" so I am sure there is not supposed to be a space - Magda] among the fingers.

Mediastine: m. A partition made in the bodie by certaine thin skins which diuide the whole breast, from the throat to the midriffe, into two hollow bosomes.

Mediateur: m. A mediator, intercessor, meane or means for; also, an arbitrator.

Mediation: f. Mediation, intercession, suite, or meanes made for; also, an arbitrating, or compounding of (other mens) controuersies.

Mediatrice: f. A mediatrix, arbitratrix.

Medicament: m. A medicament, salue, medicine.

Medicamenter. To salue, cure, heale, apply a medicine, lay a plaister vnto.

Medicamenteux: m. euse: f. A curing, saluing, healing.

Medication: f. as Medicinement. Medicinement: m. A curing, saluing, healing.

Medier. To diuide into halues; also, as Moyenner. Medieu, ou medieus. So God helpe me, or, by the faith of my bodie.

Medimne: m. A corne-measure, containing almost two of our bushels.

Medin: m. An Egyptian coyne of siluer, worth about xx d Parisis. Mediocre: com. Meane; moderate, indifferent, reasonable, competent, neither too big nor too little.

Mediocrement. Meanely, moderately, indifferently, competently, reasonably, measurably, meetly well.

Mediocrer. To qualifie, temper, moderate, add a meane vnto.

Mediocrité: f. Mediocritie; a meane, measure, competencie, indifferencie; temper, moderation, qualification.