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 Homme mort mord iusques, & par delà la mort: &, Homme mort ne mord point: Pro. Looke Mordre. Homme mort ne fait guerre: Prov. Dead men are quiet; the dead man makes no warre.  La guerre est la feste des morts: Pro. Warre is the dead mans holyday.  Qui se combat n'est pas mort: Prov. A man's not dead as long as he doth fight: (Jndeed there's often-*times more life then honestie in a contention.)

Mortaillable: com. Subiect vnto his Lords Taxations, or vnto Mortmaine; or, as Main-mortable. Mortaillablement. By, or in, Mortmaine; also, seruilly, slauishly, by villenage.

Mortaille: f. The Taxation, or Tax whereto a villain is subiect, either in his life time, or after his deceasse; at the (reasonable) will of his Lord, or by custome, or as he hath compounded with him.

Mortailler. A Lord to tax his villaines, or seruile Tenants.

Mortaise: f. A mortaise in a peece of timber.

Mortalité: f. Mortalitie, frailtie, subiection vnto death; also, a mortalitie, plague, murrein, rot.

Mortau. as Mortel (rustically.)

Mortel: m. elle: f. Mortall, humane, fraile, subiect vnto death; also, mortall, deadlie, bane-giuing, death-bringing, end-procuring.

Mortellement. Mortally, deadly, capitally, vnto the death, or vnto death.

Morte-main: f. as Main-morte; Mortmaine; also, the succession of, or estate left by, illegitimated bastards, vnnaturalized strangers, and vnaffranchized villaines.

Mortement. Deadly, as one thats dead; also, weakely, faintly, without force, like one that is halfe dead.

Morte-payes: m. ''Dead-payes; Souldiors in ordinarie pay, for the gard of a Fortresse, or frontier Towne, during their liues. Jn France they be exempted from the'' Taille. Morte-saison. The season wherein Herrings, or other sea-fish are not fit to be caught.  Congé de morte-saison. A Licence to fish in that vnseasonable season.

Mort-gage, & Mort-gaige: m. Morgage, or Mort-*gage.

Mortier: m. A Morter (to bray things in;) also, the short, and wide-mouthed peece of Ordnance called a Morter; also, Morter (vsed by Dawhers, &c;) also, a fashion of Cap (with brimmes turned vp) worne by the Lord Chauncelor, and Presidents of soueraigne Courts on high dayes; also, a kind of small chamber-lampe.  Mortier de Sagesse. An excellent Morter, made (by some) of the whites of egges, a little Mastick, and Beane flower.  Le mortier sent tousiours les aulx: Prov. A bad impression made by nature, or an ill habit got by custome, leaue euer some tacke of themselues behind them.

Mortifere: com. Mortiferous, death-bringing, bane-giuing; deadlie, pestilent.

Mortification: f. Mortification; a mortifying; a quelling, taming, or punishing of the flesh; a deading of the appetite, a killing of lust.

Mortifié: m. ée: f. Mortified; made tender.

Mortifier. To mortifie; to dead the appetite, quell, tame, or punish the flesh; also, to mortifie, or make tender, flesh thats to be eaten. Iamais grain ne fructifie si premier ne se mortifie: Pro. Seed yeelds no fruit before it haue been mortified. Mortifieur: m. A mortifier.

Mortmain. Looke Main-morte. Mort-né: m. ée: f. Borne dead, still-borne.

Mortuage: m. A Mortuarie; that which is due, or giuen, to a Parson out of a dead mans goods.

Mortuaille. as Mortuaire. Mortuaire: m. A funerall, or buriall; also, a hearse-cloth, or funerall cloth.  Banquet de mortuaire. A funerall dinner, banquet, or feast.

Mortuaire: com. Belonging to a funerall, or to a Mortuarie.  Cloche mortuaire. A passing-bell; or, the bell that rings to a buriall.  Drap mortuaire. A hearse-cloth.  Propos mortuaire. Talke of death, funeralls, or burialls.

Morvat: m. A dot of sniuell, or of snot.

Morve: m. Snot, sniuell.

Moruë: f. The Cod, or Greenefish; (a lesse, and dull-eyed kind whereof is called by some, the Morhwell.)  Moruë parée. Haberdine.  Moruë verte. Greenefish.  Oeil de moruë. A great, out-strouting, and dull-sighted eye.  Tripe de moruë. Looke Tripe. Morveau: m. Snot, sniuell.  Le morveau de limaçons. The slyme of snayles.

Morvenic: m. The rough Cedar of Licia. ¶Provençal. Morver. To sniuell, be snottie, let snot fall.

Morves. Les m. de petit point. A kind of frenzie in a horse, which during it neither knowes any that haue tended him, nor heares any that come neere him.

Morveux: m. euse: f. Snottie, sniuellie; slymie.  Il faut laisser son enfant morveux plustost que luy arracher le nez: Pro. Better a snottie nose then none.

Moruyer. Poissonnier mor. A Fishmonger that sells nothing but Cod, or Greenefish.

Mosaïque: f. Worke of small in-layed peeces; Mosaicall worke.

Moscaire. Os m. as Os sacré. Moscellin: m. ine: f. Of, or belonging to, Muske.

Moschardins: m. Small pellets, or graines of a delicate Paste, made of Gumme Dragagant, Rose-water, fine Sugar, Dragons bloud, and Muske.

Mose: f. A patterne, as of one Herring in a barrell, shewing the goodnesse of the rest; or, as Moison. Mosle. as Mole. Moslé. Bois moslé. See Bois. Mosler. To frame by mould, to cast in a mould.

Mosleur. as Mouleur. Mosquée: f. A Temple, or Church among the Turkes.

Mosquets. as Mosquettes. Mosquette. as Mosquée; or a little Turkish Church; also, a Musket (Peece.)  Mosquettes. Little iewells, earings, &c.

Mot: m. A Motto, a word; a speech; also, the note winded by a huntsman on his horne; also, a quip, cut, nip, frumpe, scoffe, ieast. Mot de gueule. A wanton or waggish ieast, an obscene or lasciuious conceit. Mot de rencontre. A wittie conceit; or, as in Rencontre. Dire le mot. To breake a ieast. Trencher le mot. To speake briefely, and to the pur-*