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 *pose; also, to giue a quicke, and short answer.  À bon entend tu ne faut qu'un demy mot: Prov. A good wit's well inform'd by halfe a Word.  Bons mots n'espargent nuls: Prov. Good words (or fit ieasts) pay home.  En vne chanson n'y a qu'un bon mot: Pro. There's but one good word in a song.

Motacille: f. A Wagtayle, or water-Wagtayle.

Moté. as Motet. Mote. as Motte. Motelle: f. A Powte, or Eele-powte.

Motet: m. A verse in Musicke, or of a Song; a Posie; a short Lay.

Moteur: m. A mouer, stirrer; persuader, prouoker; a motioner.

Mothe. A little earthen fortreße, or strong house, built on a hill; or, as in Motte. Motif: m. A motiue; a mouing reason, argument, or cause; an incitement, inducement, or prouocation vnto a thing; also, the mouer, or author of an act.

Motoire: com. Mouing; that lends, yeelds, or affoords motion vnto.

Motrice: f. Mouing, stirring, inciting, inducing, persuading, prouoking vnto.

Motté: m. as Motet. Motte: f. A clod, lumpe, round sodd, or turfe of earth; also, a little hill, or high place; a fit seat for a fort, or strong house; (hence) also, such a fort, or house (of earth;) also, the gryne, or Pubes; also, a Butt to shoot at.

Motté: m. ée: f. Set, or (vsually) sitting, on a clod, or sodd.

Motteau: m. as Mottelet; also, a clot of congealed moisture.

Mottelet: m. A little clod, lumpe, sodd, or turfe of earth.

Mottelette: f. as Mottelet. Motteux: m. euse: f. Cloddie, turfie, soddie.

Mouaïllon: m. as Moilon. Moüaner. To mawle, yawle, or cry like a little child.

Moüard: m. arde: f. Mumping, mowing, making mouthes.

Moucade: f. The Stuffe Moccadoe.

Moucadou: m. A hand-kerchiefe. ¶Poictevin. Mouce. as Mousse; blunt.

Moucet: m. A Sparrow.  Moucet petit. A kind of small hedge-Sparrow, which feeds altogether on flyes.

Mouchard: m. A spy, pike-thanke, eaue-dropper, promooter; also, a craftie, or subtill fellow.

Moucharder. To spy, watch, obserue, or pry into other mens dealings; to eaue-drop it, or play the easing-dropper.

Mouche: m. A Ship-boy; or, a Saylor.

Mouché. A Vine-branch that runnes out in length, and is vnderpropped.

Mouche: f. A Fly; Looke Mousche. Mouché: m. ée: f. Snyted, wiped; snuffed; mocked; curtalled.

Mouchement: m. A snyting, or wiping of the nose; a snuffing of a candle; a mocking; a curtalling.

Moucher. To snyte, blow, wipe, or make cleane the nose; also, to snuffe a candle; also, to frumpe, mocke, scoffe, deride. Moucher la queuë d'un cheval. To curtall a horse. Les estoilles se mouchent. The starres doe shoot, or fall. Il ne se mouche pas du pied. He begins not at the wrong end, he does not things out of order, J warrant you; he is a subtill, craftie, or warie fellow.  Du temps auquel on se mouchoit encor à la manche. Jn a rude, simple, vnmannerlie, or ignorant age.

Moucheron: m. A little Fly; a Gnat; also, the little blacke patch thats glued by Masticke, &c, on the faces of many; also, the snuffe, or weeke of a candle.  Avoir des moucherons en teste. To be humorous, moodie, giddie-headed; or, to haue many proclamations or crotchets in the head.  Autant chie vn bœuf que mille moucherons: Pro. As much is shitten by one Oxe as by a thousand Gnats; (Some by this Prouerbe meane, that sparing should be onely in great matters.)

Mouchet: m. A Musket; the tassell of a Sparhawke; also, a little singing bird that resembles the Friquet; also, an eare of some kinds of corne, as of Millet, &c; also, the Cats-tayle, or Aglet that hangs on Nut-trees; also, any manner of flap.  Mouchet petit. as Moucet petit. Moucheter. Looke Mouscheter. Mouchettes: f. A paire of snuffers; also, a kind of flourishing among Caruers, &c.

Moucheur: m. A snyter, wiper, snuffer.

Mouchoir: m. A hand-kerchiefe.  Monstrer le mouchoir blanc à. To make an offer of submission; or (after a sound beating) to sue vnto for peace.

Mouchon: m. A little Fly; also, the snuffe of a candle; whence;  Il gaste vne chandelle pour trouver vn petit mouchon. He looses much to recouer a little.

Moucle: f. as Moule; a Muskle.

Moudure. as Mousture. Mouë: f. A moe, or mouth; an (ill-fauoured) extension, or thrusting out, of the lips.  Faire la mouë aux harengieres. To stand on the Pillorie; (we say of one thats hang'd, he makes a wry mouth.)  Oncques vieil Singe ne fit belle mouë: Prov. An old-bred clowne was neuer mannerlie.

Mouée: f. Mouée de gens. A crowde, or thick troope, of people.

Mouelle. as Moelle. Mouette, & Mouettes; as Moette, & Moettes. Mouffle: f. A Winter Mittaine; also, as Moufle; also, the vaulted couer, or lid of a Goldsmithes Crurible.  On ne prend pas tels chats sans mouffles. Such places, or people are not to be woon without scratching, scuffling, strugling.

Moufflet: m. ette: f. Hanches moufflettes. Plumpe, or full hips.

Moufle: f. A truckle for a Pullie; also, as Mouffle. Mougnon. See Moignon. Mouillé: m. ée: f. Wet, moistened, soaked, or steeped in liquor.  Se couvrir d'un sac mouillé. Foolishly to thinke he couers his hard dealing with his idle pretexts; or, obstinately to stand on proofes, or alledge excuses, which rather conuince, then cleare, him.

Mouillement: m. A wetting, or moistening; a soaking, or steeping in moisture.

Mouiller. To wet, moisten, soake, or steepe in moisture. Mouiller l'ancre. To cast ankor. Qui se garre dessous la fueille deux fois se mouille: Pro. Seeke Fueille.

Mouille-vent: m. A tipler, quaffer, bibber; one that often wets his wind-pipe. ¶Rab.