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 *uering, inconstancie, ficklenesse.

Mocayart: m. The stuffe Moccadoe; or a kind thereof.

Mocqué: m. ée: f. Mocked, flowted, frumped, scoffed, ieasted at; gulled, gudgeoned; also, disappointed, frustrated.

se Mocquer. To mock, flowt, frump, scoffe, deride, ieast at, laugh to scorne; to gull, gudgeon; frustrate, make a foole of, disappoint.  Vous vous mocquez du ieu. You doe but dallie.  Se mocque qui cloque: Pro. he mocks that least may; the greatest mockers haue cōmonly most imperfections.  Mauvaise fille se mocque de sa mere: Prov. The ill-bred daughter mocks her sillie mother.  La paelle* se mocque du fourgon: Pro. One friend, or kinsman mocks another; he that might well be flowted flowts his neighbor.

Mocquereau: m. A mocking child, or, a little mocker.

Mocquerie: f. A mock, flowt, frumpe, scoffe, gibe, ieast; gull, gudgeon, derision; a mockerie, tale of a tub, ridiculous discourse, foppish thing; also, a mocking, flowting, scoffing, frumping.

Mocqueur: m. A mocker, flowter, frumper, scoffer, giber, derider.

Mode: m. as Meuf; A Mood.

Mode: f. Manner, sort, fashion, guise, vse, custome; way, meanes.  À la trotte qui mode. Setting the cart before the horse.

Modeler. To modell, forme, fashion, plot, cast in a mould.

Modelle: f. A modell, patterne, mould, plot, forme, frame.

Modelon. as Modillon. Moderateur: m. A moderator, gouernor, director, guider.

Moderation: f. A moderation, meane, temper, gouernement; a good disposition, due proportion, right measure.

Moderatrice: f. A moderatrix.

Moderé: m. ée: f. Moderate, quiet, rulie, temperate, orderlie, patient; also, moderated, allayed, tempered; whose edge is somewhat taken off, or heart taken downe; also, sloped, or cut aslope.

Moderément. Moderately, temperately, quietly, orderly, patiently, with reason, in good rule.

Moderer. To moderate, qualifie, temper, quiet, order, gouerne, rule, refraine, hold in, vse with measure, set a meane on; abate th' edge, allay the heat of; also, to slope, or cut aslope.

Moderne: com. Moderne, new, of this age, of these times, in our time.

Modeste: com. Modest, sober, ciuile, bashfull, shame-fac'd, humble, maidenlie, mannerlie.

Modestement. Modestly, soberly, chastly, ciuilly.

Modesteté: f. as Modestie. Modestie: f. Modestie, moderation, sobernesse, temperance, humilitie, bashfulnesse, maidenlinesse.

Modicité: f. Modicitie, moderateneße, meannesse, littlenesse.

Modie: m. An ancient Roman measure containing somewhat lesse then our pecke, and halfe.

Modifiable: com. Modifiable, qualifiable.

Modification: f. A modification, qualification, limitation, exception.

Modifié: m. ée: f. Modified, moderated, qualified, limited.

Modifier. To modifie, moderate, qualifie, limit.

Modillon: m. A cartridge, or cartoose, a foulding bracket, or corbell.

Modulation: f. Modulation, harmonie, musicall proportion, pleasant tuning. Module: m. A modell, or module; that wherby a whole worke is measured, proportioned, or squared; also, the measure, bignesse, or quantitie of a thing; also, a certaine measure in conduits, or conueyances of water; also, modulation, melodie, or measure, in Musicke.

Modurre. as Madoure: ¶Rab. Moë. as Mouë. Moëlle: f. The marrow of bones; the pith of plants; also, as Meule; a milstone.  Moëlle de pain. The pith of bread.

Moëlleux: m. euse: f. Marrowie, pithie, full of strength, or strong sap.

Moëllon. as Moilon. Moëtte. A Sea-mew.  Les Moëttes. Forerunners, foreriders, foretellers of ones comming.  Moëtte blanche. Th' ordinarie white Mew, or Sea-mew.  Moëtte cendrée. Th' (ordinarie) ash-coloured Sea-mew.  La petite Moëtte. The small ash-coloured Mew, tearmed otherwise Hirondelle de mer. Moeurs. Manners; Looke Meurs. Moge: f. A measure containing about six bushells.

Moïau. as Moyeu. Moien, & Moienner. Looke Moyen, & Moyenner. Moïeu. as Moyeu. Moignon: m. A stump, or, the blunt end of a thing.  Moignon des ailes. The stumpes, or pinions of the wings.  Moignon du bras. The brawne, or brawnie part of th' arme.  Gros moignons de chair. Great lumps, or gobbets of massie flesh.

Moil: m. A sea Barbell, or sore Mullet.

Moile: f. An arch, damme, or bay of planks, whereby the force of water is broken.

Moileux. Looke Moëlleux. Moillonneux: m. euse*: f. Full of rubbish, made of ruble; also, full of the soft stone Moilon. Moilon: m. Rubbish, ruble, shards, ragged stones, peeces of stone hewed, or broken off; such as walls are built, or parget made, of; also, the soft vpper crust of a quarrey of free stone; or a kind of soft, or tender stone, that lyeth some 10, or 12 foot thick aboue the hardest free stone, in the quarreyes about Paris.

Moilonneux. as Moillonneux. Moindre: com. Lesse, leßer, inferiour to; also, the least, smallest, lowmost.

Moine: m. A Monke; also, a casting top; also, the little Titmouse; also, as Albassan*. Moines de la Charité. An Order of Monkes, who by their statutes are bound to visit the sicke, and burie the dead. Moines de Grace. An Order of white Monkes, who weare great white crosses on their bosomes. Collation de Moine. A Monkes nunchion, a large collatiō*; as much as another man eats at a good meale. Teste de Moine. A blunt, and round-nosed Porpose; also, the hearbe Dandelion. Avoir le moine. To be cousened, gleekt, poopt, bobbed, crossed; to haue ill lucke. Bailler le moine. To crampe, also, to bring ill lucke vnto. Bailler le moine par le col. To hang, or twitch vp. À la fin le regnard sera moine: Prov. At length the Fox turnes Monke; (viz. when hee can play the knaue no longer.)