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 Medique: f. Medick fodder, Spanish Trefoile, Snaile Clauer.

Medisson. Looke Mesdisson. Meditation: f. A meditation, or meditating; a deepe consideration, carefull examination, studious casting, or deuising of things in the mind.

Mediter. To meditate, studie, muse on; to thinke seriously, reuolue studiously, consider deepely, deuise carefully, ponder diligently.

Mediterranée: f. The Mediterranean, or mid-earth sea.

Medon: m. The drinke Mede, or Bragot.

Medullaire: com. Marrowie, of marrow.

Medulle: f. Marrow; pith.  Spinale medulle. Seeke Spinal. Medulleux: m. euse: f. Marrowie, pithie, strong; full of marrow.

Meffaict: m. A fault, offence, trespasse, misdeed; a wrong, abuse, displeasure, bad part, shrewd turne.

Meffaict: m. cte: f. Misdone, trespaßed, offended.

Meffaire. To trespasse, offend, misdoe against; to wrong, abuse, deale treacherously, play false with.

Meffiance: f. Distrust, mistrust, suspition, iealousie.

Meffier. Se meffier de. To distrust, mistrust, haue in iealousie, put small confidence in.

Megalopsychie: f. Magnanimitie; or, as Magnanimité. Megicier. as Megissier. Megis: m. Tawings; the offals, or peeces cut from skinnes in tawing; or the liquor wherein they are, or haue beene tawed.

Megisserie: f. The tawing, or dressing of (thinne) skinnes for Gloues, Purses, &c.

Megissier: m. A tawer, or tawyer; a Fell-monger, a Leather-dreßer.

Megiste. Verie great. ¶Rab. Megle: m. A kind of forked Pick-ax, or Grubbing-ax.

Megre: f. Looke Maigre: f. Megrelin: m. A leane scrag, lanke starueling.

Megue. as Maigue. Mehaigné: m. ée: f. Lamed, maymed; growne impotent, much weakened by extreame hurts receiued, care taken, or toyle indured.

Mehaigner. To mayme, or make lame with blowes; to weaken, bruize, or founder by extreame care, stripes, or toyle.

Mehaing: m. A mayme; or, an extreame weakenesse, impotencie, or abatement of strength, in the bodie, by hurts receiued, care taken, or toyle indured.  Il n'est cheval qui n'ait son mehaing: Prov. No horse without some bruize; no man without one fault or other.

Mejane: f. A mizzen sayle; also, a Guilt-head, or Goldennie of a middle size.

Meiche: f. The weeke (or snuffe) of a candle; the match of a lampe; also, Match for a Harquebuse, &c; also, a tent (for a wound) vniforme, or all of a bignesse, and therein differing from Tente, which is bigger at one end then at the other.  Descouvrir la meiche. as in Descouvrir. (from birds, or wild beasts, which venting a match, doe quickly get them gone.) Meicheron: m. A little match, weeke, or snuffe; also, a sparkle.

Meignie: f. A meynie, or household; See Mesgnie. Meillauque: f. Turkie Millet, great blacke Millet.

Meilleur: m. eure: f. Better, worthier, honester; also, the best, or chiefest; as, Le meilleur de tous autres; &, la meilleure chose qu'ils ont, &c. Il a eu du meilleur. He hath gotten the victorie.  Courtes folies sont les meilleures: Prov. The shortest follies are the best; (and thereof may the next Prouerbe be vnderstood;)  Le plus bref est le meilleur: Prov  The shorter the better.   Qui avec son seigneur mange poires il ne choisit pas des meilleures: Prov. Looke Manger. Meilleurer. To improue, better; make better.

Mein: m. A proper name for a man; and particularly, the name of a Saint, who is held the Patron of the Scuruie; and hence;  Mal de sainct Mein. The wild scab, mange, or scuruie.

Meix. as Mex. Melancholie: f. Melancholie, blacke choler; sadnesse, pensiuenesse, heauineße, thoughtfullneße, care-taking; solitarineße, retyredneße.  Melancholie artificielle. Oyle of Vitrioll, or Coperas; tearmed so by some Phisitions, because being spilled on the ground, it boyles of it selfe, like the Melancholie called, Atra bilis. Melancholie louviere. Seeke Louvier. Elle fait plusieurs petites melancholies à son amy. She playes him many wanton trickes, or puts him into many prettie extasies.

Melancholier. Se melan. To be melancholicke, sad, pensiue, heauie; to sorrow, grieue, take thought.

Melancholique: com. Melancholicke, sad, pensiue,heauie, thoughtfull; retyred; sullen; full of blacke choler.

Melandrin: m. A sea-fish, that (his blackish colour excepted) resembles the Pearch.

Melanterie: f. A causticke minerall (of the colour of Sulphure) found in Braße mines.

Melegette. The spice called Graines, or Graines of Paradice.

Melese: f. The Larch, or Turpentine tree; and (as Meleze) the gumme, or teare issuing from it.

Melet: m. A small, great-eyed, and little-mouthed sea-fish, otherwise much resembling (though not so daintie as) the Anchoua, whereof some hold it to be a kind; or, as; [F1 note - this entry leads into the next entry so punct. is correct] Melette: f. A verie small, soft, and fat sea-fish, bred of raine, and water, and called the Smie, or sea-Groundlin.

Meleze: f. The gumme, or teare of the Larch tree; also, the tree it selfe; whence;  Resine de meleze: The Turpentine thats ordinarily sold by Apothecaries.

Meliceride: f. An impostume, or sore, whose humor resembleth honie.

Melichore. A winged Scorpion that hath two stings; also, a precious stone thats white on the one side, and of a honie colour on the other.

Melicrat: m. Metheglin, or Mede; drinke made of water, and honie sodden together.

Melilot: m. Melilot, Plaister Clauer, Harts Clauer.  Melilot d'Italie. Jtalian Clauer.  Melilot de montaigne. Herborist, or Tetrifolie; tearmed (Northward) Hader, or Hather.  Franc melilot. The same; or milke-Trefoile, shrub Trefoile.

Melin: m. Bastard yellow, straw colour, a colour betweene white and yellow.

Melioration: f. An improuement, a bettering; a making, or growing, better; and in Law, as Reparation