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 also, pinked, or cut vpon with small cuts.  Fustaine mouschetée. Looke Fustaine. Taffetas mouscheté. Tuftaffata, or tufted Taffata.

Mouscheter. To spot; to powder, or diuersifie with many spots of sundrie, or the same, colours (especially blacke;) also, to pinke, or cut with small cuts; also, to tuft, or set thicke with little tufts; also, to twinkle, or sparkle, as a starre.

Mouschetiere: f. A Fly-flap; also, the end of a beasts tayle.

Mouscheture: f. A spottedneße, or spotting; also, a pinking, or tufting; also, little, and thicke spots; pinkes, or tufts, vpon a thing.

Mouscheur: m. A Fly-Catcher; (or, a nickname bestowed by the Jtalians, &c, on the French Monsieur.)  Aujourd'uy Monsieur demain mouscheur: Prov. To day a maister, to morrow a micher.

Mouschon: m. A little Fly.

Mousque: m. A nickname, or name of contempt, for an ordinarie boy; whence, Venez ça mousque; Come hither you rascall; or come hither wag (for it implies only an extenuation without iniurie;) also, a man that hath lost his eares; in which sence it is also vsed Adiectiuely; as in Chien mousque''. A curtall, and earelesse curre; a dog that hath lost both his eares, and his tayle.''

Mousquet: m. A Musket (Hawke, or Peece.)

Mousquetaire: m. A Musketteere; a souldior that serues with a Musket.

Mousse: m. A Skipper; or, a Ship-boy.

Mousse: f. Mosse; also, the mossie downe that growes vpon Quinces, Peaches, &c.  Mousse marine. Sea-Mosse, Corall-Mosse, Coralline.  Mousse marine à larges fueilles. Slanke, Wrake, Lauer; also, Oyster-greene, sea Lungwort.  Mousse terrestre, ou de terre. Common ground-Mosse; also, Club-Mosse, Wolfe-claw-Mosse, Wolues foot.  La mousse luy est creuë au gosier. His mouth is all Mosse-begrowne, his chaps haue long beene idle, he hath fasted long.  Iamais tu ne cueilleras mousse. Thou wilt neuer grow rich; from the Prouerbe;  Pierre qui se remue n'accueille point de mousse: Pro. The rolling stone gathers no Mosse.

Mousse: com. Dull, blunt; edgelesse, or pointlesse.

Moussé: m. ée: f. Dulled, blunted, made edgelesse, or pointleße.

Mousseau: m. A little round heape, or ball, of Moße.

Mousselu: m. uë: f. Mossie.

Mousseron. as Mouscheron. Mousseux: m. euse: f. Mossie, full of Moße.

Mousson: f. A Cowes milke, or milking; as much as she yeelds at a milking, or meale.

Moussu. as Mousseux. Moust: m. Must; Wine vnrefined; new, or sweet Wine; also, the wort of Ale, or Beere.

Moustache: m. A mustachoe, or the Mustachoes.  Ce seroit pour luy bien hausser les moustaches. This would make him raise his hope, or thoughts, to a verie high pitch.

Moustaché: m. ée: f. Hauing a mustachoe, or long haire, on the vpper lip.

Moustarde: f. Mustard. Moustarde blanche. White Senuie, white Mustard, garden Mustard. Moustarde noir. Common Senuie, field Senuie, field Mustard. Moustarde sauvage. Treacle Mustard, wild Mus-* *tard, wild Sene.  Baveux comme vn pot à moustarde. As frothie as a Mustard-pot; foaming at the mouth like a Bore (say we.)  Les Enfans en vont à la moustarde. Jt is so contemptible, or common, that Mustard-pots are stopt withall.  Amuser quelqu'un à la moustarde. To hold him busied about trifles (from such as trouble themselues, and others in controlling sleight expences (as, it is not possible that J should haue spent so much in sawce &c) and in the meane while passe ouer great matters.)  Moustarde apres disner: Prov. After meat mustard; helpe when danger, supply when want, hath left vs.

Moustardier: m. A Mustard-pot; also, a maker, or seller, of Mustard.

Moustardier: m. ere: f. Of, or affecting, Mustard.

Moustele: f. The little beast called, a Weesell.

Moustoile. as Moustele. Mousture: f. as Moulture; Multure; grist, grinding; and the toll thats due for grinding; also, the meale that falls, as it grinds, into the bag, or Mill-chest.  Prendre d'un sac deux moustures. To take double fees.

Mout. as Moult. Moutardier: m. The great, blacke, and scriching Martin, or Swallow.

Moute: f. Multure, grist, grinding.

Mouton: m. A Mutton, a Weather; also, Mutton; also, the battering Engine called a Ramme; also, a wild (Indian) Peacock; also, an ignorant, sillie, or plain-dealing fellow; one thats easily ouerraught, gulled, or beguiled.  Mouton à la grande laine. A Sheepe well-woolled, or of great burthen; also, a coyne of gold stamped on the one side with a Sheepe, on the other with a crosse Fleury, hauing at each angle a Flower de Luce; (John Duke of Berry first caused it to be made about the yeare 1371.)  Pain mouton. Small white loaues (with outsides stuck full of graines of wheat) for children.  Sault du mouton. Looke Sault. À nos moutons. To our matter againe.  Cercher cinq pieds en vn mouton. To expect more from a thing then it can yeeld.  C'est vn mouton de Berry, il est marqué sur le nez. He hath gotten a rap ouer the nose; (whereon the Shepheards of Berry marke their Sheepe.)  Sentir son espaule de mouton. To smell very ranke, or rammish.  À petite achoison le loup prend le mouton: Pro. See Loup. Chair de mouton manger de glouton: Pro. Flesh of a Mutton is food for a glutton; (or was held so in old time, when Beefe and Bacon were your onely dainties.)

Moutonnage: m. Toll payed vnto certaine Lords by those that buy and sell beasts, or other marchandize, within their Territories.

Moutonnaille: f. Sheepe, Weathers.

Moutonnée: f. A tractable, fond, or sillie wench.

Moutonnier: m. A Shepheard, or keeper of Sheepe.

Moutonnier: m. ere: f. Of Mutton; belonging to a Mutton, or Weather.

Mouvance de fief. A holding of, depending on, a doing of suit and seruice vnto, another, or a higher, fief.

Mouvement: m. A mouing, stirring; motion, agitation, course; agilitie; moueableneße; an inclination, disposition, free will.