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 Gens de mise. Persons of worth, sort, qualitie.

Mis-en-avant. mon m. My subiect, my matter, the thing which I haue propounded, or set on foot.

Miserable: com. Miserable, wretched, vnfortunate; piteous, wofull, ruthfull, distressefull; disasterous.

Miserablement. Miserably, wretchedly, wofully, ruthfully, distreßefully; disasterously.

Misere: f. Miserie, wretchednesse, distreße; aduersitie, calamitie; wofulnesse, or a wofull case; also, a poore drinke made of the water wherewith bee-hiues haue beene washed.  Il suffit au jour de sa misere: Pro. One affliction suffices for one day.

Miserere. The name (and beginning) of one of the seuen (penitentiall) Psalmes.  Miserere mei. A voiding of th' excrements vpwards; comes of th' obstruction of the small guts, and is verie painefull, the patient imagining that his guts are pulled out, and broken.  Tu auras miserere iusques à vitulos. Thou shalt be soundly whipped.

Misericorde: f. Mercie, pitie, compassion, ruth, tendernesse.  Espée misericorde. A waued sword.

Misericordieusement. Mercifully, compassionately, pitifully.

Misericordieux: m. euse: f. Mercifull, pitifull; compassionate.

Misque: m. Mosse.

Missal: m. ale: f. Of, or belonging to, the Masse.  Pain missal. A kind of wafer made only of flower, and a little salt.

Missel: m. A Masse-booke.

Missile. feu missile. A squib, or other fire-worke throwne.

Mission: f. as Mise; Expence, disbursement, charge: ¶Bourgongnon. Missive: f. A letter missiue; a letter sent.

Missotage: m. Masserie, Masse trinkets, Masse-stuffe; things belonging to the Masse.

Missotier: m. ere: f. Masse-monging, Masse-making; of the Masse.

Mistagogue: m. A teacher, or interpreter of mysteries, and ceremonies; also, a keeper of the Churches Reliques.

Miste: com. Neat, spruce, compt, quaint, picked, minion, trickesie, fine, gay.

Mistement. Neatly, sprucely, comptly, quaintly, finely, gaily, minion-like.

Mistigouri. My pillicocke, my prettie rogue: ¶Norm. Mistion: f. A mixture, mash, medley, melling, blending; a confounding; a sophistication.

Mistionné: m. ée: f. Mixed, mingled, melled, blent; sophisticated by mixture.

Mistionnement: m. A mixing, mingling, melling, blending, medley-making; sophisticating.

Mistionner. To mix, mingle, mash, mell, blend or temper with, make a medley of; to falsifie, adulterate, sophisticate, by mixture.

Mistoudin: m. A neat fellow, a spruce companion.

Mistrouille: f. A foule great slut, a filthie draggletaile: ¶Norm. Misy: m. A caustick drug, or minerall of a golden colour, and luster; found growing in little peeces, about, or aboue, naturall Chalcitis; whereunto it is like in vertue, and operation, though in temperature it be the more subtile of the two.

Mitaille: f. Great (or the grossost) file-dust. Mitaines: f. Mittaines, Winter-gloues.  Ils ne se laissent prēdre ? -P1] from context -P2] sans mitaines. They will not be taken without mittains; viz. much preparation, or adoe.

Mitan: m. The middest, or middle of: ¶Norm. Mitanier: m. ere: f. Middle, of the middest.

Mitaut. la Region du m. The middle Region of the aire.

Mite: f. A Mite, the smallest of coynes; also, the little worme, called a Mite.  Herbe aux mites. Moth-Mullein.

Mithologie: f. Mithologie; an expounding, or moralizing, of fables.

Mithologiquement. Mithologikely; by a morall exposition of fables.

Mithre: f. Looke Mitre. Mithridat: m. Mithridatum; Looke Methridat. Mitifier. To soften; disgest, concoct.

Mitigatif: m. iue: f. Mitigatiue, lenitiue, appeasiue.

Mitigation: f. A mitigation, qualification, allaying, tempering, assuaging, appeasing.

Mitigué: m. ée: f. Mitigated, qualified, moderated, allayed, assuaged, appeased.

Mitiguer. To mitigate, qualifie, temper, moderate, ease, assuage, allay, appease.

Mi-tirer. To draw out the halfe of.

Mitis. Nice, curious, precise; hypocriticall.

Miton: m. (The small worme, or vermine called) a Mite.

Mitou: m. A great cat.  Faire le mitou. To dissemble, or play the hypocrite; to put on a lowlie, meeke, humble, or afflicted countenance; to looke poorely, or pitifully on it.

Mitoüard: m. A cat; also, an hypocrite: ¶Rab. Mitouflé: m. ée: f. Furred like a cat, or with cats skins; hidden in, wrapped, or lapped about with furres, or cat-furred garments.

Mitouïn: m. An hypocrite; a dissembler vnder the protection of a meeke, and lowlie countenance.

Mitoyen. as Moitoyen. Mitraille: f. Broken brasse, or copper; or lumpes consisting of diuers mettalls, which haue beene mingled, and melted together.

Mitrant. Hooding, or crowning, with a miter.

Mitre: f. A Bishops miter; also, the hole (or cap) of a mans yard.  Donner la mitre, & la crosse à. To set a specious gloße of Religion on; or to authorize (an ill thing) by a goodlie shew of deuotion.

Mitré: m. ée: f. Mitred; hooded with a miter, wearing a miter; set on a pillorie, or scaffold, with a miter of paper on his head.

Mitrement: m. A mitring; a hooding, crowning, or couering of the head with a miter; for ornament, or in disgrace.

Mitrer. To hood, crowne, or couer the head with a miter, of rich stuffe for ornament (as at the consecration of a Bishop;) or of paper in disgrace.

Mixtion. as Mistion. Mixtionné, & Mixtionner. as Mistionné, & Mistionner. Mizone: f. The name of a delicate Italian peare thats ripe in August.

Mnadies. Barbarously for Bona dies''. God-denne to you'': ¶Rab. Mobile: com. Mouable, which may be remoued.

Mobiliaire: com. as Mobile.

Mobilité: f. Mouableneße; a wagging, flitting, wa-*