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 Mouvement de terre. An Earthquake.

Mouveur: m. A mouer, or stirrer; a stirring, busie, or troublesome fellow.

Mouvoir. To moue, stirre; iog, wag; to remoue; also, to induce, allure, intice, persuade, incline, prouoke, incite; also, as Releuer, to hold land of; also, to breake vp land for fallow.  Mouvoir la Camerine. To stirre a stinking puddle; to bring a troublesome, or filthie busineße on the Stage.

Moux. The plurall of Mol. Moy: m. Me, J; my selfe, J my selfe.  Il fait bien le quant à moy. He brags, or braues it exceedingly; he will not take it as he hath done.

Moyau: m. The middle, or center of; and (in a wheele) as Moyeu. Au moyau de. Jn the verie bowels of.

Moyen: m. A meane; course, way; manner, sort, forme, fashion, order; occasion, reason; indeauour; also, a moderation, or measure; also, a meanes, mediator; moderator; arbitrator; also, as Vireson; also, the greatest peece of the bottome of a Hogshead, &c.  Moyen de fenestre. The crosse-barre of a window.  Homme sans moyen. That holds of the King in chiefe, or by an immediate homage.

Moyen: m. enne: f. Meane, indifferent, moderate, measurable, competent, reasonable.  Iustice moyenne. Looke Iustice. Muscle moyen. A muskle (in the hand) that serues to moue the thumbe towards the fingers.

Moyennant. Working, being the meane of, or a meanes for.  Moyennant que. So that, if so be that.

Moyenné: m. ée: f. Wrought by meanes; also, rich, well to liue, or that hath meanes to liue.

Moyennement. Meanely, moderately, measurably, reasonably, indifferently, competently.

Moyenner. To worke, effect, or compasse (by meanes;) to be the meanes of, or a meanes for.

Moyenneté: f. Meanenesse, indifferencie, competencie.

Moyenneur: m. A meanes, mediator; stickler, arbitrator, moderator betweene partie and partie.

Moyeu: m. The yolke of an egge; also, the naue, or stocke of a wheele.

Moylon. Seeke Moilon. Moyne. as Moine. Moyneau. Looke Moineau. Moynerie: f. Monkerie; the state, or profession of a Monk.

Moynesse: f. A Nunne.

Moynoton: m. A little Monke; also, the lesse, or little Titmouse.

Moyse: m. Holie Moyses; whose ordinarie counterfeit hauing on either side of the head an eminence, or luster arising somewhat in the forme of a horne, hath imbouldened a prophane Author to stile Cuckolds, Parents de Moyse. Moyson. Size, bigneße, quantitie, full length.

Moyton. as Moiton. Muable: com. Mutable, changeable, variable, vnstedfast, vnsteadie, wauering, fickle, inconstant, vnstable.  Domaine muable. See Domaine. Muableté: f. Mutablenesse, changeablenesse, variablenesse, ficklenesse, wauering, inconstancie, vnstableneße.

Muance: f. Change, alteration; and particularly, a variation, or change of notes in singing; viz. when in going either aboue, or below the six Notes (Vt, re, mi, fa, sol, la) one of them is changed in the middle to gaine ground, and to knit the gradation; as if in stead of Vt, re, mi, fa, sol, la, in ascending, one should sing Vt, re, mi, fa, re, mi, fa, sol, &c. Mucagineux: m. euse: f. Slymie.

Mucer. as Musser. To hide. ¶Rab. Muche: f. A hiding hole. ¶Norm. Mucilage: m. Slyme; or, a slymie liquor drawne from seeds, roots, &c; and thence, a clammie sap, glewie iuice, cleauing moisture.

Mucosité: f. Slymineße; or filthie, and hoare moisture, as of slyme, snot, sniuell, &c; or the filthinesse thereof.

Mucqueux: m. euse: f. Slymie; snottie, sniuellie; (and hence) also, mustie, or fustie.

Mucydan. Slymie; mouldie, hoarie, all the yere lōg. ¶Rab Mue: f. A change, or changing; (hence) any casting of the coat, or skin, as the muing of a Hawke; also, the age, or yeare of the age, of an Intermure, or white Hawke; also, a Hawkes Mue; and, a Mue, or Coope wherein fowle is fattened.   La mue d'un cerf. The casting of his head; also, his head, or hornes being cast.  La mue d'une femme. A womans muing; an elderlie womans wrinkled skin growne smooth, and sleeke, by the helpe of corrosiue drugs.

Mué: m. ée: f. Changed, altered, transformed, metamorphosed; also, mued, renued; cast, as the coat, or skin.

Muel: m. A Masons Plumb-rule.

Muement: m. A changing, altering, transforming; a turning, or casting of the coat; a muing.

Muer. To chāge, alter, trāsforme, trāsfigure, disguise, translate, shift, varie; to mue, to cast the head, coat, or skin.

Muere: com. Dampish.

Muerier. as Meurier. Muet: m. A dumbe man.

Muet: m. ette: f. Dumbe, speechlesse, tongue-lesse; still silent, husht; mute; Looke Mut. Muet comme vn Francolin pris. Looke Francolin. Plus muet qu'un poisson. More dumbe then a fish.

Muette: f. The Chamber, or Lodge of a Lieutenant, or cheefe Raunger, of a Forrest; also, a Hares neast, the forme, or place, wherein she kindles.

Mufle: m. The snowt, or muzzle.

Mugault. as Macault. Muge: m. (The sea-fish called) a Mullet.  Muge volant. A kind of small-mouthed Mullet, that hath long finnes like wings.  Amour de muge: Pro. Faithfull, and most affectionat loue of a wife; (the female Mullet chusing rather to be caught by fishers then to abandon her Make.)

Mugereul: m. A kind of Mullet. ¶Narbonnois. Mugir. To low, or bellow, like an Ox, &c.

Mugissement: m. A lowing, or bellowing.

Muglement. as Mugissement. Mugler. To low, or bellow.

Mugot: m. A hoord, or secret heape of treasure.

Mugotté: m. ée: f. Hoorded; also, ripened, as fruit in straw

Mugotter. To hoord; also, to ripen, as fruit in straw.

Muguet: m. Woodrow, Woodroofe, Woodrowell; also (and the more properly) as,  Grand muguet. The May-blossome, May-Lillie, Liri-*cumfancie, Lillyconually.  Petit muguet. Pettie Muguet, Cheesewort, Cudwort, Cheese-running, Maids haire, our Ladies Bedstraw; also, the hearbe Harrewort, or Sharrewort.

Muguet: m. Vn m. A fond woer, or courter of wenches; an effeminate yongster, a spruce Carpet-knight; also, a curiously-dressed babie of clowts.

Mugueté: m. ée: f. Courted, woed, sued vnto, whereunto loue is made.