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 On luy mettra la teste aux pieds. He must be beheaded, they will haue his head.  Mettre en train. To introduce, exhibit; make an ouerture, set forward, breake the yce, or shew the way, vnto.  Mettre en vente. To expose vnto sale.  Mais si ie m'y mets. But if I fall in hand with it, if I vndertake it, if I set to it.  Mettez fol à par soy, il pensera: Prov. Leaue a foole to himselfe, and he will thinke, or (perhaps) make an end of the matter.  Mets raison en toy, ou elle s'y mettra: Prov. Hearken to reason, or she will be heard; Let reasons rudder steere thy prow, least thou make wrecke on woes enow.

Metz: m. A messuage, tenement, or plow-land: ¶Wallon. Meu: m. meuë: f. Moued; stirred; remoued; iogged, wagged; troubled; also, induced, inclined, persuaded.  Ou est meu le hourd. Where the scuffling is begun; where blows begin to walk, thumps to be giuē, thwacks to be dealt.

Meuble: m. A mouable, or thing mouable; also, houshold stuffe, implements, or furniture.  Les meubles suivent la personne. Looke Personne. Meuble: com. Mouable, mouing.  Terre meuble. Soft, and short earth (made so by often stirring.)

Meublé: m. ée: f. Furnished with mouables, (well) stored with houshold stuffe.

Meubler. To furnish with mouables, to store with household stuffe.

Meuf: m. The Mood of a Verbe.

Meuglé: m. ée: f. Lowed, bellowed.

Meuglement: m. A lowing, or bellowing.

Meugler. To low, to bellow.

Meule: f. A mill-stone; also, a grindlestone; also, the cabbadge of a Deeres head; also, a stacke, troden cocke, or great cocke, of hay.

Meulette: f. A little Mill-stone, or grindlestone.

Meulier: m. ere: f. Grinding; or belonging to a mill-stone, or grindlestone.  Dents meulieres. The cheeke-teeth, or grinders.

Meulon de foin. A cocke of hay.

Meulonner. To make vp hay into cocks, or stacks.

Meulot: m. A little cocke of hay.

Meur. Looke Mur. Meur: m. meure: f. Ripe, mature, mellow; also, discreet, considerate, aduised, setled, stayed.  Il en aura des plus meures du panier. He shall bee throughly payed, soundly handled, roundly dealt with.  Donner entre deux vertes vne meure. To season matters, to iumble good and bad together.  Toutes heures ne sont pas meures: Pro. All houres are not successiue, or seasonable.

Meure: f. A Mulberrie.  Meure de ronce. The blacke-berrie, or bramble-berrie.  Il ne faut aller aux meures sans crochet: Prov. We must not goe about a businesse without helpes to facilitate, and meanes to effect, it.

Meurement. Ripely, maturely; discreetly, aduisedly.

Meureté: f. Maturitie, ripenesse.

Meuri: m. Ripened, growne ripe.

Meurier: m. A mulberrie tree; of two principall kinds, a white, and a blacke one. Meurier blanc. The white Mulberrie, is of 3 kinds; one bearing a white, another a red, and the third (and best) a blacke, berrie. Meuriere: f. A ground, or groue of Mulberrie trees.

Meurir. To ripen, to make ripe.

Meurisson: f. A ripening; a making, or growing ripe.

Meurler. To low, to bellow.

Meurlon: m. The name of a certaine white vine, or grape.

Meurole de pommes. A hoord of apples.

Meuron: m. A blacke, or bramble-berrie.

Meurs: m. Manners, conditions, qualities, fashions, customes, behauiour, carriage.

Meurte: m. The Mirtle-tree, or shrub; (sweet-leaued, and euer full of leaues.)  Meurte blanc. The white Mirtle; hath smooth light-greene leaues, and beares white berries.  Meurte de Brabant. The sweet shrub Gaule, or sweet Willow; the Dutch Mirtle tree.  Meurte estrange. The strange, or forreine Mirtle; fuller of leaues (and those broader pointed) then the ordinarie one.  Meurte des forests. A certaine hearbe whose tender sprigs being sodden are verie good meat; it beares a white flower, and resembles Oake-fearne.  Meurte noir. Th' ordinarie Mirtle; or, any kind af Mirtle that beares a black berrie, and leaues of a darker greene then the white.  Meurte sauvage. The wild Mirtle tree, or Mirtle shrub; also, Butchers Broome, Pettigree, Knee-holme.  Meurte de Tarente. Noble Mirtle; the least, most common, best, and best knowne of all the rest.  Oiseau de meurte. A Mirtle Thrush.

Meurtre: m. Murther, Homicide.

Meurtri: m. ie: f. Murthered; also, crushed, bruised, wan, lew, or bleake with beating, beaten blacke and blew.

Meurtrier: m. A murtherer, homicide, cut-throat, bloudie fellow.

Meurtrier: m. ere: f. Murthering, murtherous.

Meurtriere: f. A murthering peece.  Meutrieres. Holes (in that part of a rampire that hangs ouer the gate) whereat the assailed let fall stones on the heads of their too neere approaching aduersaries.

Meurtrierement. Murtherously, cruelly, cut-throat-like.

Meurtrir. To murther, kill, slay, massacre; also, to bruise, or crush.

Meurtrissure: f. A crushing, or bruising of the flesh; also, the wan marke, or print of a stroake.

Meusnier. A Miller; Seeke Munier; or Musnier. Meusnier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a Mill, or Miller.

Meusniere: f. A Millers wife, or woman Miller.

Meute: f. A kennell, or crie, of hounds.  Bailler la meute, & route à vn cerf. To follow him with a full crie.

Mex: m. A plow-land, and tenement thereto belonging; See Mas. Meyans. as Means. Meynne: f. Dung, durt, filthie, ordure.

Mezarin: m. A Physician: ¶Rab. Meze: f. An vntilled wast, or champian, wherein many seuerall mens cattell runne: ¶Auvergnois. Mezeau. as Meseau. Mezelle: f. A kind of brasse, or copper, good to make ordnance of.

Mezellerie: f. Mezeldnesse, leaprosie.

Mezenge. Looke Mesange.