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 veut: Prov. Winds are not subiect vnto those that sayle.  Qui veut apprendre à prier aille souvent sur la mer: Prov. He that will learne to pray let him goe oft to sea.

Merane. for Mejane. ¶Rab. Meratre: f. A stepmother.

Merc de Chastel; du Gibet; de la Iustice. The seat, place, or marke of the house of a Lord Chastelain, and of (his) Gibbet, or Gallowes, which be signes of high Jurisdiction.

Mercadant: m. A poore marchant, paltrie tradesman; one that deales but for small, or sleight ware.

Mercadence: f. Small trafficke.

Mercader: m. A Marchant, or Tradesman.

Mercandeau: m. A paltrie marchant; poore bargainer, sorrie chafferer, beggarlie chapman.

Mercandier: m. as Mercandeau. Mercantil: m. ile: f. Marchantlie, marchant-like.

Mercenaire: com. Mercenarie, hireling, or hired; that takes hire, wages, or bribes.

Mercerie: f. Small ware, chaffer.

Mercerot: m. A Pedler, a paltrie Haberdasher.

Merci: f. Mercie; also, pitie, compassion; tender-heartednesse; also, pardon, remission, forgiuenesse; also, a benefit, or fauour; also, thankes giuen for a benefit.  Relief à merci. The reuenue of one, or (as in some places) of euerie third yeare, yeelded for a Relief. Merci: m. ie: f. Thanked; as in Dieu merci''. God be thanked.''

Merci-dieu vilain. Gods mercie villaine; or though J say it, you rogue (an angrie womans oath.)

Mercier: m. A good Pedler, or meane Haberdasher of small wares; a tradesman that retayles all manner of small ware, and hath no better then a shed, or boothe for his shop.  Roy des merciers. Looke Roy. Tuer vn mercier pour vn peigne. To punish light faults with heauie penalties; or, to take a great reuenge of a small wrong.  Chascun mercier prise ses aiguilles, & son panier: Prov. To euerie one his owne seemes faire.  À chasque mercier son pannier: Pro. Let each man his owne burthen beare.  Il n'est pas mercier qui ne sçait faire sa loge: Prov. The Pedlers gaine will be but small that cannot reare himselfe a stall.  Petit mercier petit pannier: Prov. The little Pedler a little packe doth serue.

Mercier. (Of three syllables) to thanke, or giue thanks.

Mercredi. Wednesday.

Mercuire: f. as Mercuriale. Mercure: m. The God Mercurie; Planet Mercurie; drug Mercurie; also, Quick-siluer.  Il a du mercure à la teste. He is fantasticall, humorous, new-fangled, giddie-headed; also, he is verie craftie.

Mercurial: m. ale: f. Of Mercurie; made of Mercurie; borne vnder the Planet Mercurie; hence, humorous, fantasticall, new-fangled; also, prating, talkatiue, long-tongued; also, craftie, subtill, deceitfull, theeuish.

Mercuriale: f. Mercurie, French Mercurie; an hearb whereof there be three kinds; a male, female, and;  Mercuriale sauvage. Wild Mercurie, dogs Mercurie, dogs Cawle.

Mercuriales: f. After-noone Sittings, appointed to be held on Wednesdayes, at first euerie fifteene dayes, or, at least, once a month; afterwards (by an Edict of Charles the ninth, in the yeare 1566) once euerie three months, in all Townes of Parliament; and at length (by an Edict of H. 3. Anno 1579) in all Presidiall Townes, and but once in six months: The Judges in them be certaine select Presidents of the Place, who are to examine, and censure the faults committed by th' Officers of th' ordinarie Courts held there (or elsewhere within that Jurisdiction) and during the continuance of that businesse must intend no other.

Mercurializer. To mercurialize it; to be humorous, fantasticall, new-fangled; also, to prattle, bable, talke ouer-*much.

Mercy. Looke Merci. Merdaille: f. A crue of shitten knaues, of filthie scowndrells of stinking fellowes.

Merde: f. Mans dung, turd, excrements, ordure.  Merde de fer. The droße of Iron.  Merde oye. A Goose-turd greene.  Robbe d'argent brodée de merde. An excellent Text ill expounded, or commented on; (for which cause Rabelais calls so Iustinians Institutes.)  À cul de foirard tousiours abonde merde: Prov. There wants no turd at shitten fellowes tayles.  Le Porc a tout bon en soy fors que la merde: Prov. Looke Porc. Merdé. In stead of, Mort Dieu. Merdefer. The droße of Jron.

Merdefin: m. A Phisition; tearmed so in derision.

Merdeux: m. euse: f. Beshitten, berayed, all-to-be-*turded, full of ordure.

Merdigues. Mother of God; (a rusticall oath.)

Merdré. as Merdé. ¶Rab. Merdugues. Mother of God; (a rusticall oath, or Jnteriection.)

Mere: f. A mother; also, the wombe, or Matrix of a woman; also, the earth of a Fox, or hole of a Badger; also, a great salting-tub for Hogs-flesh; also, a great pit, or trench, whereinto the superfluous moisture of waterie ground is conueyed by small cuts, or ditches; also, the anterior, and inner side, or face, of an Astrolabe. Mere des cailles. A Rayle; or, a brooke-Owsell. Mere d'une fontaine. The head of a Fountaine, or Conduit, walled about with, or couered with a vault of, stone. Mere grand. A grandmother, a grandam. Dure mere de la teste. The double skin that couereth th' outside of the braine, and keepeth it from being hurt, or touched by the skull. Pie mere. A thin, and cleere skin, or filme, next to the braine, the which it inwraps on all sides, and nourishes by vessels receiued from other parts. C'est le ventre ma mere. I will come no more there, I will doe no more so. Il s'en va prendre la mere au nid. Said of one that steales (in ieast) towards another, with a purpose to doe him some vnhappie tricke: Said also of a nice, and precise hypocrite. Mere piteuse fait sa fille roigneuse: Prov. A tender mother breeds a scabbie daughter. La mere du timide ne sçait que c'est de pleurer: Prov. The cowards dam knowes not what weeping meanes. Mauvaise fille se mocque de sa mere: Prov. Looke Mauvais.

Mere: com. Meere, vnmixed, sole, right, pure, plaine, without art, of it selfe.