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 Minau: m. A corne measure; as Mine. Minauderies: f. Foolish trickes, apish pranks, mumpings, mowings.

Mince: com. Thinne, fine, slender, little, small.

Mincé: m. ée: f. Minced, cut verie small.

Mince-fueille: f. Featherfew, fedderfew, feauerfew, Whitewort, called also, Motherwort, because tis good against the disease of the Mother (yet is not this the right Motherwort.)

Mince-fueilles. Thinne leaued, or hauing thinne leaues; whence;  Armoise mince-fueilles. Thinne-leaued Mugwort.

Mincelet: m. ette: f. Somewhat thin, verie fine, small, slender.

Mincément. Thinly, slenderly, smally.

Mincer. To mince; to shred, or cut into small peeces.

Minceté: f. Thinnesse, exilitie, slendernesse, littlenesse, smallnesse.

Minchon: m. A sot, blockhead, loggerhead.

Mine: f. (The halfe of a Sextier, and 24 part of a Muid) A measure for graine, &c, containing somewhat lesse then two of our (London) Bushells; (if, as Nicot saith, it weighes but 110 pounds: But Vigenere vpon Liuie affirmes, that the Mine of wheat weighes about 120 pounds; marrie in Rie, sayes he, it comes but to 110;) also, a Mine, or caue digged vnder ground; also, a mine, or veine of mettall, &c.  Mine de Clermont (pour le bled.) Is the 12 part of a Muid; or iust as big againe as th' ordinarie one.   Mine de Paris. as th' ordinarie Mine. Mine de plomb. An Orenge tawnie minerall vsed by Painters. Plomb de mine. Blacke lead.  Mine de terre en la Chastellenie de Bulles. Containes 50 Verges of 24 foot to the Verge. Mine de terre en Clermont. Containes 60 Verges of 22 foot to the Verge. Mine de terre en la Seigneurie de Remy. Containes 80 Verges, at 22 foot and the third part of a foot to the Verge. Mine: f. The countenance, looke, cheere, visage; the gesture, or posture of the face; also, fauor, phisnomie, feature, outward face, or shew.  Faire mine. To seeme, or make a shew of; whence; Ce ne sont que mines. Faire mines. To make faces.  Faire des mines. The same; also, to make an adoe, or shew of loathnesse to be drawne to a thing.  Faire la mine. To lowt, or lowre vpon.  Faire les mines. To make (strange) faces; also, to act, or play on a stage.  Faire bonne mine. To excuse, colour, beare out a matter handsomely; to set a good face on't, to make a good shew.  Faire bonne mine, & mauvais ieu. To set a good face on a bad matter; to beare out crosses with a cheerefull countenance; to affront miseries with a shew of mirth.  Il y a plus de mine que de ieu. There is more shew then substance, more ceremonie then soliditie, in it.

Miné: m. ée: f. Mined, vndermined, supplanted; also, worne, or fretted away.

Miner. To mine, or vndermine; to supplant; weare, consume, or fret away.

Mineral: m. A minerall; a thing found growing in Mines; (hence) also, mettall.

Mineur: m. An infant; one that's in minoritie, or vnder age; also, a Miner, mine-deuisor, mine-maker; also, as Miniere; whence;  Qui n'a mineur n'a honneur: Prov. He that wants money wants honour.

Mineur: f. The minor proposition of a syllogisme.

Mineure: f. as Miniere. Mineux: m. euse: f. Outward, seeming, apparent; belonging to, or consisting in, the countenance, or gesture of the face; also, squeamish, quaint, coy, that minces it exceedingly; also, mining, or vndermining; also, full of mines.

Mingant: m. A broth thats thickened with the meale of pounded roots.

Mingrelet: m. ette: f. Thinne, gaunt, lanke, slender, leane, scraggie, meager.

Miniere: f. A mine of mettalls, or mineralls.

Minime: m. A name of Friers instituted by François de Paule; a man renowmed for holinesse of life during the raigne of Lewis th' eleuenth; who sent for him into France, in a hope, that by his meanes his life should bee prolonged.  Couleur de minimes. A light soot colour, hauing an eye of gray in it.  Gris de minime. The same.

Minime (blanche.) A Minume, in Musicke.  Minime noire. A Crochet.

Minime: com. The least, or smallest.

Minion: m. Synople, red lead, Vermillion; Painters red made of burned Ceruse.

Ministre: m. A Minister, Seruant; Officer; Deputie; Assistant; Instrument.  Ministres du Roy. His Agents; those that negociate, or deale, for him.

Ministré: m. ée: f. Ministred, serued; assisted; offered, yeelded, affoorded vnto.

Ministreau: m. A little Minister, small Officer, Assistant, or Seruant.

Ministrer. To minister, assist, serue vnto; also, to offer, or affoord vnto.

Ministresse: f. A Ministresse; a woman that assists, or serues vnto.

Minois: m. A sower face, harsh visage, crabbed countenance; a craftie, or discontented looke.

Minon: m. A little kitling; or such a tearme for a cat as is our Pusse; whence;  Il entend le chat sans dire minon. He apprehends the mans meaning before he speake vnto him.

Minons: m. Cat-tailes, or Catkins; the long aglet-like buds of nut-trees.

Minoratif. Medecine minorative. Gentle Physicke, Physicke that workes easily, or is of gentle effect.

Minorité: f. Minoritie, vnder-age.

Minot: m. The halfe of a Mine; three French Bushells; Looke Mine. Minot d'avoine, de sel, & de legumes. Containes 4 French Bushells.  Minot de bled. (Th' ordinarie Minot) containes three Boisseaux. Minot de noix, & d'oignons. Containes foure Boisseaux, and a halfe, of stricken measure.

Minu: m. The particular suruey, or description which a purchaser is bound to deliuer vnto the Lord of whom his purchase is held.

Minué: m. ée: f. Diminished, minished.

Minuer. To minish, diminish, lessen, impaire, abate.

Minuict: f. Midnight.

Minute: m. A mite; the smallest of weights.

Minute: f. The (first) draught of an Euidence, or Pleading; a scroll, or scedule.