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 Mesple: f. A Medlar, or Open-arse.

Mesplier: m. A Medlar tree.  Mesplier sauvage. The Hollie, Huluer, Holme tree.

Mesprendre. To erre, mistake; transgresse, offend.

Mespris: m. Despisall, disestimation, contempt, loathing, neglect, carelesse regard of.

Mesprisant. Contemning, despising, disesteeming, neglecting, heedlesse of.

Mesprisé: m. ée: f. Despised, disesteemed, contemned, neglected, not heeded, nought set by.

Mesprisement: m. A contemning, disesteeming, despising, disdaining, neglecting.

Mespriser. To disesteeme, contemne, disdaine, despise, neglect, make light of, set nought by.

Mespriseresse: f. A coy, squeamish, or scornefull dame.

Mespriseur: m. A disesteemer, contemner, disdainer, despiser; one that neglects, or makes light accompt of, things.

Mesprison: f. Misprision, error; offence; a thing done, or taken, amisse.

Mesquin: m. A wretch, caitife, sillie groome, poore swaine.

Mesrien, & Mesrin. as Marrein. Messadge, & Messadgerie. as Message, & Messagerie. Message: m. A message, errand, embassage; also, a messenger, or embassador.

Messager. as Messagier. Messagere: f. A she-meßenger.

Messagerie: f. A messengership; the estate, office, or function of a meßenger.

Messagier: m. A Meßenger; Pursuiuant; Poste; Apostle.  Messagier solennel. An embaßador.  Ne fais pas d'un fol ton messagier: Pro. Send not a foole on thine errand, make not a foole thy meßenger.

Messe: f. The Masse, a Maße.  Messe de chasseur. A short, or soone-said Masse.  La messe Martingault. An Allarum, or Curfue bell, so tearmed by the inhabitants of Touraine. Enfans de choëur de la messe de minuict. Quirresters of midnights Masse; night-walking rakehells, or such as haunt those nightlie Rites, not for any deuotion, but onely to rob, abuse, or play the knaues with, others.  Quand la messe fut chantée, si fut la Dame parée: Prov. When prayers were ended, Madame ends her pranking.

Messeamment. Vnseemely, ill-suitingly, vnhandsomely, ill-fauoredly, with small decorum, or comelineße.

Messeance: f. A misbecomming, vnsutablenesse, vnfitneße, vnseemelineße, ill-fauorednesse.

Messeant. Jll-sitting, ill-suiting, misbecomming, vnbeseeming; vnhandsome, vndecent, vncomelie; vnworthie of.

Messel: m. A Masse-booke.

Messer: m. as Maistre; a Maister; whence;  La Case monstre le messer: Prov. The house the owner shewes.

Messeresque. Generosité messeresque. Italian generousnesse; or, the generositie of Jtalian gentlemen.

Messied. (A verbe Jmpersonall) Cela messied à. Misbecomes, ill becomes, or becomes not; is vnseemelie, vnhandsome, vnfit for, vnworthie of.

Messier: m. A keeper, or ouerseer of a Vineyard.

Messiffiant. Massing, saying or singing Masse.

Messiffier. To sing, or say Masse.

Messilier: m. Sergent messilier. An officer that lookes vnto Vineyards, and other fruit-bearing grounds. Mession: f. La Mession. The Vacation (among Lawyers, and Schollers) during Vintage; for it begins the seuenth of September, and ends about the eleuenth of October. ¶Norm. Messire. Sir; (The title of a Knight; of a Marchant; and of a countrey Curate.)

Messottier: m. A massing Priest; or a nickname for him.

Mestaier. as Mestayer. Mestairie: f. A great Farme.

Mestais. as Mestayer. Mestayer: m. A Farmer; a Husbandman, or Plough-*man; especially such a one, as by contract, is to yeeld halfe the profits, or increase of his land vnto him of whom he holds it; or such a one, as takes or sowes another mans land to the halues.

Mestier: m. A Trade, Occupation, Misterie, Handicraft; also, need, lacke, necessitie, want, occasion for the vse, of a thing; also, a Weauers Frame, or Loome; also, the wort of Ale, or Beere; also, a kind of wafer, which is not altogether so thicke as the Gauffre. Mestiers. A certaine Game wherein all trades are counterfeited by signes.  Le mestier de la guerre. The Art of Warre.  Le mestier ord. Lecherie, or bawderie; Looke Femme. S'endormir sur le mestier. Lasily to forestow, faint in, or giue ouer, a businesse, when it is at the height, or halfe done.  Se mesler du mestier. Femmes qui se meslent du mestier. That deale in the trade you wot of, that trade with their tayles.  Mourir de faim prés le mestier. To starue in a Cookes shop.  C'est mestier iuré, il n'en est pas qui veut: Prov. (Vnderstood of honestie.)  Mieux vault mestier qu'esparvier: Prov. Looke Esparvier. Qui sçait mestier il est renté: Pro. The industrious tradesmans rents come in apace; or, he that hath a good trade hath a goodlie reuenue.  Qui se mesle d'autruy mestier il trait sa vache en vn panier: Prov. As good milke a Cow into a Siue, as deale in an vnknowne Trade.

Mestif: m. A Mongrell.  Les mestis. Such as are of a meane estate, or condition.

Mestif: m. iue: f. Mongrell; halfe the one halfe the other; whence;  Vn chien mestif. A Mongrell; vnderstood, by the French, especially of a Dog thats bred betweene a Mastiue, or great Curre, and a Greyhound.

Mestivailles: f. Haruest feasts.

Mestivales. The same.

Mestivé: m. ée: f. Reaped, as Corne in Haruest.

Mestiver. To reape, to make Haruest.

Mestives: f. Haruest; Corne thats ripe, or readie to be reaped, or alreadie reaped, in Haruest.

Mestivier: m. A Reaper, a Haruest man.

Mestoyant. Middle, betweene both.

Mesvenir. as Mesadvenir. Mesurage: m. Measurage; a measuring.  Droict de mesurage. The appointing, or proportioning of Measures, or the setting downe of their Assise, within a Territorie, belongs to none vnder the degree of a Lord Chastellain; for the authoritie of the Haut Iusticier extends no further then to a bare examination of their iustnesse; also, Toll-Corne, and Toll-Salt.

Mesurant. Measuring, meating.