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 Menteusement. Most vntruly, verie falsely.

Menteux: m. euse: f. Full of lyes, fraught with leasings, fables, vntruthes.

Menthastre: m. Calamint, mountaine Mint.

Menthe. Looke Mente. Menti: m. ie: f. Lyed, fained, foisted, fabled.

Mentibules: f. The iawes.

Mention: f. Mention; remembrance; a nomination, or naming of; talke had, speech paßed, of.

Mentionné: m. ée: f. Mentioned; nominated, named, remembred; somewhat spoken, or talked of; touched in discourse.

Mentionner. To mention; remember; nominate, name; speake or talke of; touch in discourse.

Mentir. To lye, fib, fable, cog, foist, faine, forge vntruths, coyne leasings, tell a lye; also, to doe any thing contrarie to it selfe; whence;  Bon cœur ne peut mentir: Prov. An honest heart cannot vtter (or be the author of) an vntruth; and;  Le bon sang ne peut mentir. A noble nature will not yeeld vnto base conditions; or cannot, when occasion is offered, conceale it selfe.  Mentir comme vn arracheur de dents. To lye like a tooth drawer; (we say that Barbers haue all the newes in a countrey; and they that tell much newes tell many a lye.)  On ne doit point mentir en Vin: Pro. Wine telleth truth, and should not be belyed.

Menton: m. The chinne.  Lever le menton à. To harden, assure, hearten, imbolden, incourage.  Rabaisser le menton à. To humble, deiect, bring low, plucke downe.  Tenir le menton à. To succour, fauor, support, maintaine, vphold.  Celuy peut hardiment nager à qui l'on soustient le menton: Pro. He must needs swimme that is held vp by the chinne (say we.)  La vertu ne fut iamais à menton blanc: Pro. Vertue neuer grew old; the vigor thereof did neuer decay.

Mentonnnier : m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, the chinne.

Mentule: f. A mans yard. ¶Rab. Menu. Le menu. The prettie dishes, or fine meates at Table; also, the head, feet, and paunch of a sheepe.

Menu: m. uë: f. Little, small, fine, thinne, slender, subtill, exile.  Menus droicts. All vailes, or fees belonging to an officer; and particularly, the head, feet, skin, and intralls of a slaughtered beast; or all such parts as a Cooke, or yeoman of the slaughter-house, reserues for himselfe.  Menus panais. The white Mallow, marsh Mallow, moorish Mallow.  Menues pensées. Paunsies, Harts-ease, loue or liue in idlenesse; also, idle, priuate, or prettie thoughts.  Le menu peuple. The vulgar; the rude multitude; the meaner sort; the rascall, or common people.  Menus poetastres. Common, paultrie, triuiall, ignorant, Poets.  Menus propos. Short speeches, prettie sayings, pleasant conferences; also, idle chat.  Menu ver, ou verk. The furre Mineuer; also, the beast that beares it.  Par le menu. By parcells, by peeces, by retayle, peece-*meale.

Menüailles: f. Small ware, small trash, small offalls; a great sort of little peeces, trinkets, or trifles.

Menuëment. Smally, slenderly, thinly, by little parcels, or peeces. Menuet: m. The name of a sweet apple, that yeelds excellent Cyder.

Menuet: m. ette: f. Smallish, little, prettie, fine, thinne.

Menuëté: f. Smallnesse, littleneße, exilitie, slenderneße, finenesse, thinnesse.

Menuïsailles: f. Small trash, slender toyes, little trifles, or offalls; also, as Menus droicts; or, the head, feet, and paunch of an edible creature.

Menuise: f. Small fish of diuers sorts; or, the small fry of fish cast into a Pond, &c, for the storing thereof; also, a kind of net wherewith such fish may be caught; also, any small trash, guts, or garbage; and the gobbets, or parings of fish cut, and cast away by Fishmongers; also, a small Gudgeon, or fish bred of the spawne, but neuer growing to the bignesse, of a Gudgeon.

Menuïsement: m. A minishing, extenuating, making small; a crumbling, or breaking verie small.

Menuïser. To minish, extenuate, impaire verie much, make verie small; to crumble; to grind, breake, or cut small.

Menuiserie: f. Seeling, wainscotting, Ioyners worke; also, any small worke.

Menuïseté: f. Smallnesse, littlenesse, thinneße, fineneße, exilitie, slenderneße.

Menuisier: m. A Ioyner.

Menuisier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a Joyner, or to Joyners worke.

Menusaillerie: f. Small stuffe.

Menuville: f. as Manivelle (in the last sence.)

Meon: m. Mew, Spignell, Baldimonie, Bearewort.

Mequine. as Mechine. ¶Pic.

Mer: f. The Sea; the Mayne; also, the hollownesse, or channell of a Wine-presse; the round concauitie wherein the grapes are preßed. Mer d'amont. The Adriaticke sea; the sea wherein Venice doth stand. Mer d'aval. The Tyrrhenian, or Tuscane sea. Mer majour. The Euxine sea; the sea which diuides Europe from Asia. Mer de procez. An infinite, or endlesse suit. Diable de mer. A sea-Coot, or Cormorant. La grande mer. The first Bull of Priuiledges graunted (by Paulus tertius) vnto the Jesuits. Verd de mer. Sea-greene colour. Entre deux mers. Is vnderstood of the countrey that lyes betweene the two large Gascon Riuers Dordonne, and Garonne. Mesler la mer, & le ciel. To make a horrible confusion. Singler en haute mer. To sayle in the Mayne; to haue stuffe enough to worke on, or the world at will. Tenir la mer. To commaund at, or be maister of, the sea. Tenir à la mer. To worke, or sayle against the tyde. Celuy qui se met sur la mer ou il est fol, ou il est pouvre, ou il a envie de mourir: Prov. He that vnto the sea commits his bodie, is either poore, or desp'rat, or a noddie. Goutte à goutte la mer s'esgoute: Prov. Looke Esgouter. Les Rivieres retournent en la mer: Prov. (Said when Princes doe squeeze out of their spungie Officers the moisture which they haue purloyned from them.) Qui envoye chetif à la mer il n'en rapporte ne poisson, ne sel: Prov. A man either looses, or gets naught, by sending an vnfit messenger. Qui est sur la mer ne fait pas des vents ce qu'il