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 Mere goutte. Vnpressed wine, or oyle; such as of it selfe, distills from the grapes, or oliues, immediatly after they be layed in the preße.  Bateau mere. A great salt-boat, or barke; or, the chiefest, or greatest of a fleet.  Sentine mere. A little salt-boat, or barke.  Tout fin mere nud. Naked vp, or euen, to the bellie.

Mereau: m. A Counter (to cast withall;) also, a Token (receiued at Church by one that meanes to communicate.)

Meregrand. Looke Mere. Merelles. Le Ieu des merelles. The boyish game called Merills, or fiue-pennie Morris; played here most commonly with stones, but in France with pawnes, or men made of purpose, and tearmed Merelles. Mere-perle. Mother of pearle.

Merge: m. A name for diuers water fowle, that vse to ducke much; as the Puffin, Cormorant, Didapper, &c.

Meriane: f. Noone-rest, sleeping adayes, or at mid-day. ¶Norm. Merianer. To rest, or sleepe at noone-tide.

Meridian. as Meridien. Meridien: m. The Meridian; a circle which passing through both the Poles, and through our Zenith (wheresoeuer) diuides the Sphere into two equall parts; th' one Orientall, th' other Occidentall.

Meridien: m. enne: f. Meridian; South, or Southerlie; of, or belonging to, the Meridian, mid-day, or noone.

Meridional: m. ale: f. Meridionall, Southerlie, of the South, on the South side; belonging to noone-tide.  Cercle meridional. as Meridien; called so, because whensoeuer, and wheresoeuer the Sunne comes into it it is noone.

Merin: m. A Sergeant, common Baylife, or such like rurall Officer in the Customes of La Bourt. Merise: f. A small bitter Cherrie.

Merisier: m. The small and bitter Cherrie-tree.

Merite: m. Merite; desert; an act worthie of recompence.  Les merites d'un procez. The Pleadings of a cause; the Bill, Answer, Reply, and Reioinder; the titles alledged, proofes produced, or matter contained, therein.

Merité: m. ée: f. Merited, deserued, earned.

Meritément. Meritoriously, deseruedly, worthily, with good cause.

Meriter. To merit, to deserue.

Meritoire: com. Meritorious, well deseruing, worthie of reward.

Meritoirement. Meritoriously, deseruedly, worthily.

Merlan: m. A Whiting, a Merling.  Merlan salé. A dryed Whiting; the fish which we call (of it hardnesse) Buckhorne.

Merlanc. as Merlan.

Merle: m. A Mearle, Owsell, Blackbird. Merle bleu. A small Owsell, that vsually builds among Rocks, and feeds on wormes, fruits, and seeds. Merle de Bresil. A kind of Mearle of a liuelie red colour. Merle au collier. A kind of Thrush that hath a whitish ring about her necke. Merle de mer. The Cooke-fish, or sea-Tench; a duskie, and daintie fish, that resembles a Perch. Merle noir. The Blackbird, or ordinarie Owsell. Grand merle. A Goat-sucker; a mountaine bird, somewhat bigger then an Owsell, and lesse then a Cuckoe. Ie vous donneray vn merle blanc. J will performe impossibilities, or bestow on you a most rare gift. Merle: f. as Mesle; a Medlar.

Merlet: m. A battlement (of a wall.)

Merlette: f. A Martlet, in Blason.

Merlier: m. A Medlar tree.

Merlus, ou Merluz: m. A Mellwell, or Keeling, a kind of small Cod whereof Stockfish is made.  Chausses à queuë de merlus. Looke Chausse. Mermelade: f. Marmalade.

Merque. as Marque. Merque de bois. A rowe, tuft, or groue of trees neere to a house.

Merques: f. Be, in a paire of beads, the biggest, or least.

Merrain, & Merrien. as Marrein. Mers. Batture faicte au dessus des mers. Vpon the head, or face.

Merveillable: com. Maruellous, admirable.

Merveille: f. A maruell, wonder; miracle; a monstrous thing, strange accident, admirable matter.  À merveilles. Maruellously, miraculously, wonderfully, admirably, strangely.  Pois de merveilles. The blacke Winter Cherrie, Jndian Hart, or Hart-pease.

Merveille; ou, Pomme de mer. The Balsam, or Balme apple; (an hearbe.)  Merveille femelle. The female Balsam apple; beares a purple flower, and differs from the male in all things but the fruit; which (though like vnto) is somewhat lesse then his.  Merveille masle. The male Balsame, or Balme apple, (tearmed particularly the apple of Jerusalem) beares a faint-yellow, or straw-coloured flower.

Merveilleusement. Maruellously, miraculously, wonderfully, strangely.

Merveilleux: m. euse: f. Maruellous, miraculous, wonderfull, admirable, strange.

Mery: m. The gullet, weason, or pipe, whereby meat passeth downe into the stomacke.

Més: m. A messe, or seruice of meat; a course of dishes at table.  Belle chere vault bien vn més: Prov. A cheerefull looke fills vp halfe-emptie dishes.  Qui a fourmage pour tous més il le doit couper bien espez: Prov. He that hath nought but Cheese at noone and night, must banish the Phisitions penny-*weight.

Mes. The Plurall of Mon; as, Mes livres, habits, &c. Mes. for Plus, as Oncques mes. Neuer more.

Mes, in Composition, is as much as Mal, peruerting and turning to ill the sence of the words it precedeth; as in Mesaise, Mesfaire, &c; Or as our Compounds, Vn, and Mis, which we vse vnto the same purpose.

Mesadvenance: f. Vncomelinesse, misbecomming.

Mesadvenir à. To mishappen, to succeed ill vnto.

Mesadventure: f. Misaduenture, mischance, misfortune, mishap.

Mesadvenuë: f. as Mesadventure. Mesaise: f. Disease, trouble, molestation, calamitie, miserie, affliction.

Mesange: f. A Titmouse, or Tittling. Mesange bleuë. Our ordinarie Titmouse. Mesange hupée. A copped small Titmouse, that hath a blacke head spotted with white, a light-browne bodie, white breast, and ash-coloured thighes. Mesange à la longue queuë. The lōg-tayled Titmouse; liues, for the most part, among hills, and in high places. Mesange nonnette. The little Titmouse called a Nunne, because she seemes to weare (as a Nunne doth) a fillet about her head.