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 Menaçant. Menacing, threatening.

Menace: f. A menace, a threat.

Menacé: m. ée: f. Menaced, threatened.

Menacement: m. A menacing, a threatening.

Menacer. To menace, to threaten.  Il ne le menace pas de poires molles. Tis no small matter, no sleight mischiefe, wherewith he threatens him.  Tel menace qui est batu: Prov. Some threaten that are beaten.  Tel menace qui a grand peur: Prov. Looke Peur. Menaceur: m. A menacer, a threatner.  De grand menaceur peu de faict: Prov. Great menacers, little men-hackers.

Menaceux: m. euse: f. Menacing, threatfull.

Menage: m. A bringing, leading, conducting; handling, manage, carriage.

Menandé. Surely, out of question, without doubt; (a Gossiplie oath, or asseueration.)

Mendé. as Menandé. Mendeux: m. euse: f. Erronious, faultie, naughtie, lewd, false.  Suture mendeuse. The seame whereby the bone of the temples is ioyned with the scull.

Mendiant: m. A beggar.

Mendiant: m. ante: f. Begging.

Mendicité: f. Mendicitie, beggarie, beggarlinesse.

Mendience: f. A begging.

Mendier. To beg, to craue an almes, to goe from doore to doore.

Mendole: f. A Cackarell fish.

Mene: f. as Mendole. Mené: m. ée: f. Led, brought; guided, conducted, directed; managed; moued, induced, persuaded; also, ouer-*raught, subdued, fetcht in.  Mené à S. Mathurin. Gulled, made a foole of.  Mal mené. Ill handled, abused, hardly vsed; sore layed to; wearied, tyred, iaw-fallen; imbossed, or almost spēt, as a Deere by hard pursuit.

Meneau de fenestre. The transome, or crosse-barre of a window.

Menée: f. A plot, conspiracie, practise; priuate faction; a shift, subtiltie, deuise; a businesse carried closely; also, the direct, or outright course of a flying Deere.  La menée du Sergent. C'est quand le Sergent va sur les lieux du fief, & meine tesmoins pour l'aider en son exploict. Vn faiseur de menées. A Polypragmon, medler, common barrater, busie bodie.

Mener. To bring, lead; guide, conduct, direct; also, to manage, or handle; also, to moue, induce, toll on, persuade; also, to subdue, ouer-reach, fetch in. Mener l'asne. To be laughed at, or little accounted of, by all men. Mener batant devant eux. To driue, or chase before them with blowes; and in fight, to pursue hard, or giue hard chase vnto. Mener à dy ay & hory ho. To put vnto carting, or cart-driuing; to bring vnto drudgerie. Mener à la bonne eau. To steale (a horse, &c.) Mener la genisse au Taureau. To play the bawd. Mener la loy. To proceed in a suite; or, to follow the Law. Mener les mains. To lay about him; deale blowes, fall to handie-stroakes. Mener les mains basses. To make a generall slaughter, to put all to the sword. Mener au Tabourinet. Looke Tabourinet. Mener le train de. To follow the busineße of.  Mener vne trompe. To driue a top; Looke Trompe. Cela ne me meine pas. J am not ruled, nor swayed by that; I neither heed, nor respect it; it preuailes nothing with me.  Il y a vn mois que la lavandiere nous meine. The Laundresse hath put vs off this month.  Qui femme croit, & Asne meine, son corps ne sera ia sans peine: Prov. He that beleeues a woman, and leads an Asse, hath brought his bodie (and mind) t' an euill passe.  Les Oisons menent paistre les Oyes: Prov. Looke Oison. Menestranderie: f. A companie of Minstrells.

Menestrandier: m. A Minstrell, or Fidler.

Menestrel. The same. (v.m.) Menestrier: m. The same; also, as Gaian. Menier. as Propre; (an old word.)

Meniguette. Looke Maniguette. Meninges. Two skinnes, or filmes which enwrap the braine.

Mennetot. The name of a sweet apple.

Menon: m. A guelded Goat.

Menone. A Minstrell. ¶Poictevin. Menotes: f. Manacles, hand-fetters.

Mensale: f. The Table-line in the hand; (a tearme of Palmistrie.)

Mensionnier. as Mansionnier. Mensonge: m. A lye, fib, leasing, vntruth; a tale, ieast, mockerie, fable, false report.  Les songes sont mensonges: Pro. There is no truth in dreames.

Mensonger: m. ere: f. Lying, false, vntrue, fained, forged, fabulous; amisse.

Mensonger. To lye, fib, foist, fable, cog, faine; to forge, report, or deliuer, an vntruth.

Mensongerement. Lyingly, fabulously, falsely, vntruly.

Menstrual: m. ale: f. Menstruall, or menstruous; belonging, or like, vnto a womans flowers.

Menstrue: m. A womans flowers; her monthlie disease, or tearmes.

Mensurable: com. Measurable.

Mental: m. ale: f. Mentall, thoughtsome, belonging to the mind, (onely) in the mind.

Mentastre: m. Calamint, mountaine Mint. Mente: f. The hearbe Mint, or Mints.  Mente aiguë. Speare-Mint, garden Mint, browne Mint, Mackerell Mint, our Ladies mint.  Mente aquatique. Fish Mint; water Mint, brooke Mint.  Mente chevaline. Horse Mint, wild Mints; water Mint.  Mente crespuë. Curled Mint, red garden Mints.  Mente de nostre Dame. as Mente Romaine. Mente Grecque. The same.  Mente Romaine. Speare-Mint, balme-Mint, Mackerell Mint, garden Mint, browne Mint, our Ladies Mint.  Mente Sarrasine. The same.  Mente sauvage. Horse Mint, wild Mints; also, water Mint.

Mentereau: m. A fabler, fibber, prettie lyer.

Menterie: f. A lying, cogging, foisting, fabling, fibbing; also, a lye.

Menteur: m. A lyer, fibber, foister, fabler, cogger, leasing-mungar, false limmer. Homme plaideur menteur: Prov. See Plaideur.