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 Monsieur, de trois au boisseau: &, de trois à vne espée. A thread-bare, single-soled, course-spunne, gentleman.  Monsieur sans queuë. A Cheater; also, a Maister without further addition; a gentleman without Arms, or Attendance; one thats troubled with no more gentrie then he needs.  Monsieur vaut bien Madame: Prov. A Lord deserues (or is worth) a Ladie at all times.  Aujourd'huy monsieur demain Mouscheur: Pro. To day a Maister, to morrow Maisterlesse.

Monstier: m. A Monasterie; also, a Minster, or Cathedrall Church; (and sometimes) also, any Parish Church.  Laisser le monstier ou il est. Not to alter an auncient custome; or, to leaue the determining of Church matters vnto Church-men.   Ce que l'enfant oit au fouyer est tost connu iusques au monstier: Pro. The Parish quickly knowes what infants heare in priuate.

Monstre: m. A monster; a deformed creature; a thing thats fashioned, or bred contrarie to nature.

Monstre: f. A patterne, scantling, proofe, example, essay; also, a muster, view, shew, or sight; the countenance, representation, or outward apparence of a thing; a demonstration; also, a watch, or little clocke that strikes not; also, the glassie box that stands on the stalls of Goldsmithes, Cutlers, &c; and generally, any thing that shewes, or points at, another thing; whence;  La monstre d'vn horologe. The hand of a clocke.  La monstre d'vn maquignon de chevaux. The place wherein a horse-scourser shews his commodities.

Monstré: m. ée: f. Shewed, represented; discouered, bewrayed; pointed at; signified, expressed, declared.

Monstrée. as Monstre; A view, shew, sight, muster of.

Monstrement: m. A shewing, representing, pointing at; a demonstrating, expressing, declaring.

Monstrer. To shew; represent; expresse, point at; manifest, signifie, demonstrate, declare; disclose, discouer, bewray, reueale.  Se monstrer. To appeare, stand out, present or put forth himselfe; also, to shew, or proue himselfe.  Monstrer la dent. To girne; to grow into choler.  Monstrer le mouchoir blanc à. Looke Mouchoir. Monstrer les talons; ou le cul. To shew a faire paire of heeles; to runne away.

Monstreur: m. A shewer, a demonstrator.

Monstrüeusement. Monstrously; mishapenly, most deformedly, or defectiuely; against the course of nature.

Monstrüeux: m. euse: f. Monstrous; mishapen; defectiue, exorbitant, vnnaturall, or most contrary to nature.

Mont: m. A mount, hill, mountaine. Les monts. (Without addition) are commonly vnderstood to be the Alpes; High mountaines which diuide Italie, and France. Mont Iovie. A rising vnder (th' inside of) one of the fingers. Mont de pieté. A publicke stocke, or purse maintained for the reliefe, assistance, and furtherance of young Tradesmen. Du mont à val. From the top to the bottome. En mont. Vpwards, aboue, on high. Par monts & par vaux. In euerie coast, in euerie place, euerie where, all the world through. Promettre monts, & merveilles; ou, monts & vaux. To promise wonders, or golden worlds; (as some doe that either will not, or cannot, performe any thing.) Au matin les monts, au soir les fonds: Pro. So some men quickely fall from high full low. Au matin vers les monts, au soir vers les fonts: Pro. A mornings walk vp th' hill, in th' euening downwards.

Mont. in stead of Moult. Much.  C'est mont. Looke Mon. Montable: com. Mountable, ascendable, climable.

Montagne. as Montaigne. Montagner. faulcon mont. as Montain, or Montagon. Montagon: m. A kind of hardie faulcō, hard to be kept.

Montagu. The name of a beggerlie Colledge in Paris, founded in the yeare of Grace 1314.  Esparvier de Montagu. A lowse.

Montaignard: m. A mountainer, or mountaine man.

Montaigne: f. A mountaine, a great hill.  Montaigne de Mars. The fleshie part of the hand betweene the thumbe, and middle finger; or the muscles whereof it is made; (a tearme of Anatomie.)  Les hommes se rencontrent, & non pas les montaignes: Prov. Men meet often, mountaines neuer.

se Montaigner. To looke big on't; highly to exalt, or lift vp, himselfe.

Montaignette: f. A little mountaine.

Montaigneux: m. euse: f. Mountainous, mountainie, Full of mountaines.

Montaignois: m. oise: f. Of or belgnging to, residing or dwelling in mountaines.

Montaignolle: f. as Montaignette. Montain: m. A kind of short, strong, and excellent (but ill to be kept) Faulcon, that vseth to looke much on her feet; also, the little bird, called the Brambling.

Montanage. as Montenage. Montance. à la mon. de cent. Arising, or amounting to aboue an hundred.

Montant: m. A Mountan; an vpright beame, or post in building; also, a boat that goes vp a riuer, or against the streame; also, as Col rompu, or a small rising in the middle of the mouth of a bit; also, an vpright blow, or thrust; also, th' ascent, or rising of a thing; or a thing, or any part thereof, considered in it ascent.  Les montants d'vn lict. The bed-posts.  Le montant du pied. Th'instup.

Montant. Mounting, ascending, rising, getting vp on; also, increasing, or growing deere; also, ouerbidding a-*nother.

Monté: m. ée: f. Mounted, ascended, risen, got vp, got vpon.  Bien, ou mal monté. Well, or ill mounted; viz. well, or ill horsed.  Guiterre bien, ou mal monté. Well, or ill strung.  Monté iusques au nid de la pie. At the height of his fortunes; as high as his meanes, or worth, can raise him.  Il n'est pas asseuré qui trop haut est monté: Pro. He sits not fast whose seat is raisd too high.

Montée: f. An ascent, rising, mounting, or climbing vp; also, the rising part of a horses bit.  La montée d'vn bastiment. Th'upper part of a building; or, a representation, or modell thereof, called the vpright plot of a building.  À haute montée le faix encombre: Prov. He that climbes high feels euerie small weight heauie.  Apres grande montée grande vallée: Prov. After toyle rest, after paine ease.  Apres grande vallée rude montée: Prov. The contrarie.

Montelet: m. A little mountaine.

Montenage: m. Toll paied vnto certaine Lords by such as buy, and sell beasts, & other marchandise within their territories.