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 Mesure mesurante. The vessell, or instrument wherewith a thing is measured.

Mesure: f. ''A measure; scantling, rule, square, proportion, size; an instrument, or vessell of measuring; also, modulation, or time, in Musicke; also, a measure, meane, moderation, temperature; also, a particular Corne-measure containing about a bushell and a halfe. For land there be foure kinds of Mesures in France; one consisting of 22 foot to the Perch, and 100 Perches (in square) to the Arpent; The second (more common then that) of 20 foot to the Perch, and 100 Perches to the Arpent; The third (least in vse) of 19 foot and a third to the Perch, and 100 Perches to the Arpent; The last (and most vsuall one) of 18 foot to the Perch, and (as in the rest) 100 Perches to the Arpent.''  Mesure d'un moulin. A Mill-hopper.  Mesure de Roy. Looke Roy. Appetissement de mesure. A certaine Jmpost vpon Wine retayled within Tours, Mehun sur Eure, Vierzon, and some other Townes; leuied towards the reparation of their walls, gates, bridges, causeyes, pauements, &c.  La petite mesure. The same.  À mesure que. As, euen as, still as, euer as; by how much, or looke how much that. Oultre mesure. Profusely, excessiuely, vnmeasurably, extreamely.  Cuider n'est pas iuste mesure: Prov. Coniecture is no iust measure; the iust conclude not by imagination; He often wrongs both himselfe and others, who makes a certain estimate, or giues a finall iudgement, vpon the first, or outward apparance of things.

Mesuré: m. ée: f. Measured, meated, proportioned, ruled, squared out; valued, rated; weighed, examined; moderated, tempered.  Mesure mesurée. The size, or quantitie of that which is measured.

Mesurement: m. A measuring, a meating.

Mesurer. To measure, meat, proportion, rule; square out; examine, weigh; rate, value, esteeme; temper, qualifie, moderate.  Mesurer les sauts des puces. To loose time, or spend it most idly, fondly, vainely.  Qui mesure l'huile il s'en oingt les mains: Prov. Looke Huile. Mesureur: m. A measurer, meater, surueyor.

Mes-usage: m. Misusage, bad vsage, ill handling.

Met: m. Sometimes vsed (by the Parisians) in stead of Maistre. Met: f. A kneading trough, or tub; also, a binne to keepe bread in; also, the trough, gutter, or furrow of a Wine-presse; that whereinto the Wine falleth.

Metacarpe: m. The vpper part of the hand from the wrist to the knuckles, or the root, of the fingers.

Metagraboulizé: m. ée: f. Puzzled in, dunced vpon.

Metagraboulizer. To dunce vpon, to puzzle, or (too much) beat the braines about.

Metail: m. Meßlin, or Maßlin; Wheat and Rye mingled, sowed, and vsed together.

Metairie: f. A Farme, Tenement, Countrey house.

Metais: m. A Farmer, or Husbandman; for he holds not by rent, &c; but onely tills, and orders the Farme as seruant vnto the owner.

Metaise: f. Such a Farmers wife.

Metal: m. Mettall, mettle.

Metalepse: f. A figure whereby a word is put from it proper signification. Metalier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, mettall; full of, or abounding with, mettall.

Metalisé: m. ée: f. Made mettall, reduced into mettall.

Metallier: m. A mettall-man; one that deales in mettalls.

Metallurgie: f. A search, or searching for mettall in the bowells of the earth.

Metamorphose: f. A Metamorphosis; a transformation of shape.

Metamorphoser. To transforme; to alter, or change the shape of.

Metaphore: f. A Metaphor; the translation, or change of a word out of it proper, into another, sence.

Metaphoriquement. Metaphorically, by translation, figuratiuely.

Metaphrene: m. That part of the backe which is ouer-*against the heart.

Metaposcopie: f. A mans phisiognomie.

Metayer: m. A Farmor, or Husbandman; properly one that takes grounds to the halues; or binds himselfe, by contract, to answer vnto him, of whom he holds them, halfe, or a great part, of the profits thereof.

Metayere: f. (Such) a Farmers wife, or woman Farmer.

Metayerie: f. A Farme; also, the reuenues thereof.

Metayse. as Metaise; and as Metayerie. Mete: f. A limit, bound; end.

Meteil. as Metail; also, typhe wheat, bearded wheat, flat wheat, Roman wheat.

Metelle. Noix metelle. The thorne apple, or thornie apple of Peru; an Jndian nut, or fruit, which being eaten off, causeth an extreame numnesse, heauinesse, or drowsinesse.

Metempsicose: f. The transmigration, or paßage of the soule from one bodie to another; (Pithagoras error.)

Meteore: m. A meteor; an imperfect mixture bred in the ayre.

Meteorologie: f. A discourse of Meteors.

Methelle. Noix methelle. as Metelle. Methode: f. A methode; a short, readie, and orderlie course for the teaching, learning, or doing of a thing.

Methodique: com. Methodicall, orderlie.

Methridat: m. Methridate; a strong Treacle, or Preseruatiue deuised at first by the Pontian King, Mithridates. Metiz: m. Mongrells; or, as Metis. Metope: f. A Metope; a square space between Trigliphes in a Dorick frize.

Metopomantie: f. Diuination by the face. ¶Rab. Metoyant. Diuiding into halues, parting in two; also, equally belonging to, or depending on, two; whence;  Mur metoyant. A partition wall.

Metre: m. Meeter.

Metrifié: m. ée: f. Made into meeter, put into verse.

Mets: m. as Més; a meße, course, or seruice of meat; also, a house, or tenement; and hence;  Chef mets. The principall Mannor-house of a succession, or familie. ¶Norm. Mettable: com. Passable, allowable, of good sufficiencie, of currant value.

Mettant. Putting, setting, placing; pitching, planting; grounding, situating; bringing, sending.

Mette: f. (The drinke) Meade.

Metteur; & encherisseur de fermes. A chapman for Farmes; one that bids readily, or roundly for a Farme which is to be let.

Mettre: m. A Corne-measure in some parts of Burgundie, containing the halfe of a Bichot, or two & a halfe of that countrey bushels.