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 Monter. To mount, ascend, rise, climbe, to goe or get vp vnto; to leape as the male vpon the female; also, to increase, or grow deere; also, to ouerbid another; also, to shew in quantitie; to amount vnto; to raise, aduance, lift vp.  Monte monte. Words whereby yong Sparrowes are taught to climbe the lather.  Monter vn arbaleste. To set a crossebow in the stock.  Monter sur l'asne. faire cession des biens. Looke Asne. Monter sur ses grands chevaulx. To speake high, stand vpon high tearmes.  Monter au greiner sans chādelle. To light in a turd.  Monter vne monstre. To wind vp a watch.  Monter à la navire. To get a shipboord, to take ship.  Qui plus haut monte qu'il ne doit de plus haut chet qu'il ne voudroit: Prov. He that climbes higher then he should falls lower than he would.

Monte-vin: m. A strait-mouthed vessell of glasse, which if you fill with wine, and another of the same fashion with water, and then set this vpon that, the wine will straight mount through the water to the top of the one vessell, and the water descend through the wine to the bottome of th' other, without mixture of either with the other.

Monticule: f. A hillocke, a small hill.

Montigené: m. ée: f. Borne, or bred on the mountains.

Mont-joye: m. The title of the chiefe Herauld in France.

Mont-joye: f. A barrow; a little hill, or heape of stones, layed in, or neere a highway, for the better discerning thereof; or in remembrance of some notable act performed, or accident befallen, in that place; also, a goale to run at; also (metaphorically) any heape.

Montoir. as Montouër; or the side whereon we get on.  Se ranger au montoir. Metaphorically from a horse to a wench, that suffers a man to get on; or settles her selfe to giue him the easier getting on.

Montouër: m. A mounting blocke; or as Montoir. Montroüage. as Montenage. Montuëux. as Montaigneux. Monture: f. A horse to ride on, a saddle horse.

Monument: m. A monument; sepulchre, tombe; record, memoriall, remembrance of.

Moquer. Looke Mocquer. Moquettes: f. Mockes, frumps, flowts, gudgeons.

Moral: m. ale: f. Morall, belonging vnto ciuilitie, or maners.

Moralement. Morally, in a morall sence, or fashion; also, doubly, or with a meaning different from his words.

Moralisé: m. ée: f. Moralized, morally expounded.

Moraliser. To morallize, to expound morally, to giue a morall sence vnto; also, to act a Morall, or Enterlude of manners.

Moraliseur: m. A moralizer, an expounder of moralities; an Ethicke Lectorer, or Philosopher.

Moralité: f. Moralitie; a morall sence, or subiect; also, a Morall, an Enterlude or Play of manners.

Morbifique: com. Vnwholesome, infectious, diseases-breeding, sicknesse-bringing.

Morbilles: f. The small pockes.

Morceau: m. A morsell; bit, mouthfull; also, a gobbet, fragment, broken peece of, or peece broken off from. Morceau d'Adam. The head of the wind-pipe, or throat, consisting of three little gristles. Se courroucer contre ses morceaux. as vnder Courroucer. Croupir aux escoutes de gras morceaux. To lye in wait for wealthie Offices, fat benefices, &c.  Cela leur fait tailler les morceaux plus menus. That makes them liue the more sparingly, or pinch it the more.  À morceau restif esperon de vin: Prov. Put on a restiue bit with spurres of wine.  Au serviteur le morceau d'honneur: Pro. The last morsell in the dish is the seruants fee (some holding it but a rude part to leaue a dish emptie.)

Morcel: m. as Morceau (in old French.) Morcelaire. Collation morcelaire. A short collation, a bit and away.

Morcelé: m. ée: f. Nibled, eaten by bits, bitten by little and little.

Morceler. To bite small morsells, nibble, mince it, eat by little and little,

Morcelet: m. A bit, small mammocke, or morsell.

Morche: f. Food, victualls, cheere, batling.

Morcillant: m. ante: f. Peecemealing, diuiding into morsells, or small peeces; also, knapping, or nibling; biting fast and sleightly.  Vn oeil morcillant. A greedie, or hungrie eye; such a one as expresses a great appetite to be at it.

Morcillé: m. ée: f. Peecemealed; diuided into small morsells, or peeces; also, nibled; bitten fast and sleightly.

Morciller. To peecemeale; to diuide into small morsells, or peeces; also, to nibble, or knapple; to bite verie fast and verie sleightly, like a rabbit that mumbles a hard thing which her teeth cannot pierce.

Mordacité: f. Mordacitie, eager detraction, sharpe taunting, biting speech, bitter tearmes.

Mordant: m. A kind of great, blacke, and slow Spider.

Mordant: m. ante: f. Biting.  Bestes mordantes. The Wolfe, Boare, Otter, Fox, &c.  En mordant. Holding fast, biting hard.

Mordeur: m. A biter.

Mordicant. Nipping, pinching, biting.

Mordication: f. A nipping, pinching, biting.

Mordienne. Gogs deathlings; a foolish oath in Rab. Mordillé: m. ée: f. Nibled, gnawed; fretted, snipped off.

Mordiller. To nibble, gnaw, fret, snip off.

Mordiquer. To bite, pinch, nip.

Mordre. To bite, or set the teeth in; to gnaw, brouse, champe, nibble; to pinch, nip, snip, or snap with the teeth; also, to sting; also, to smell (whence, le mord; there your nose;) also, to conceiue, apprehend, vnderstand. Mordre au baston. pour le faire mordre, &c. To make him the more eager. Mordre les doigts. To fret, or chafe inwardly at a thing past helpe. Mordre à la grappe: Il sembloit mordre à la grappe. He spoke so heartily that he seemed to doe what he deliuered. Mordre l'oreille à. as much as, flatter, ou caresser mignonnement; wherin the biting of th' eare is, with some, an vsuall Action. Mordre en riant. To quip, or taunt by way, or with a shew, of ieast; to shew a man a good countenance to his face, and cut his throat behind his backe. Il n'y pouvoit rien mordre. He could not skill of it, he knew not what to make of it; twas past his reach, out of his course, out of his element. Vouz avez bien envie de mordre sur mon language. You would faine take hold of, you hope for some aduantage by, my words. Chien qui abbaye ne mord pas: Pro. Many words