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 Mugueter. To court, woe, make loue, or be suitor vnto a a woman (Le plus ordinairement à mauvaise fin;) also, to sneake in and out, or goe smelling (as it were) about a thing which he seekes to enioy; whence;   Mugueter vne ville. To attempt by all priuat meanes the surprisall, or taking in, of a Towne.

Muguette: f. A Nutmeg.  Muguette de mouton. The nut of a leg of Mutton.

Muguetté, & Muguetter. as Mugueté, & Mugueter. Muguot. as Mugot. Muid: m. A great Vessell, or Measure.  Muid de bled (mesure de Paris;) containes twelue Septiers; (the Septier two Mines; the Mine six Boisseaux; the Boisseau foure Quarts) which come to about fiue Quarters, a Combe, and a Bushell of London measure.   Muid de charbon. Containes 16 Mines (which come to about 30 of our Bushels.)  Muid de terre. C'est autant que 12 Arpens, ou Septiers. Muid de Vin. Containes (aboue the lees) 36 Septiers of eight (Parisian) Pintes to the Septier; (Three of them are to make a Tunne, say the Customes of Clermont.)  Muid de Clergie. Store of Clarkship, a bushell of cunning, abundance of learning.

Muifle: f A kind of Sardinian Sheepe, whose wooll is hairie like a Goats.

Muifleron. as Muifle. Mular: m. A kind of great Whall. ¶Langued. Mulard: m. One that hath kibie heeles.

Mulasse: m. The sea-monster called, a Whirlepoole. ¶Marseillois. Mulataille: f. Mules; the generation, race, or kind of Mules; also, a troope, or companie of Mules.

Mulcté: m. ée: f. Fined, amerced, punished by the purse.

Mulctoire: com. Finable, worthie to be fined; also, fining, amercing.

Mule: f. A Mule; also, a kibe; Looke Mules. Franche mule d'un bœuf. The purse, bag, or skinne wherein the stones of an Ox, &c, be contained. C'est vne mule. She is a barren Jade; (for Mules neuer beare young ones.) Fantastique comme vne vieille mule. As humorous, and skittish as an old Mule. Opiniastre comme vne mule. As headie, stubborne, or moodie, as a Mule. Aller sur mule. Il va sur mule aussi bien que le Pape. (An equiuocation, applyable to one that hath kibed heeles.) Bailler du foin à la mule. To cheat, gull, cousen, ouerreach, conycatch. Brider la mule à. To daunce attendance on; or to drudge, or doe base offices for. Brider la mule aux despens d'autruy. To doe his businesse, or furnish himselfe with necessaries, at another mans charge. Ferrer la mule à. Seeke Ferrer. Il luy fit tenir la mule. He ouerruled, ouercrowed, ouermaistered him; he was euerie way too good for him; also, he made him daunce attendance, or stay long, for him. De bonne mule mauvaise beste. A prouerbe taxing the giddie and skittish nature of that beast. À vieille mule frein doré: Pro. Said in derision of an old woman, that paints and prankes her selfe. Qui ne s'avanture n'a cheval, ni mule: Prov. We say, nothing aduenture nothing haue.  Qui trop s'avanture perd cheval, & mule: Prov. Venture too farre you loose all; (So the difference is, that the one wants but what he had not; the other looses what he had.)

Mules: f. Mules; also, kibes; also, moyles, pantofles, high slippers.

Mulet: m. A Moyle, Mulet, or great Mule; a beast much vsed in France for the carriage of Sumpters, &c; also, a bastard; also, the Mullet fish.  Tour de mulet. A iadish tricke.  Ferrer le mulet. as Ferrer la Mule. Le mulet garde longuement vn coup de pied à son Maistre: Prov. The Moyle will one time or other lend his keeper a rap.

Muletaille. as Mulataille. Muletier: m. A Mulletor, Moyle-keeper, Moyle-driuer.

Mulette: f. A little Mule; a small kibe; also, the pannell, or bellie of a Hawke; also, the maw of a Calfe; which being dressed is called the Renet-bag, Jreness-bag, or Cheslop-bag.

Muliebre: com. Womanlie, of a woman; womanish, effeminate.

Muliebrement. Womanly, woman-like; effeminately, womanishly.

Mulin: m. A narrow heele, and high coffin; such as all Mules haue.

Mulin: m. ine: f. Of, or belonging to, a Mule.

Mullon d'eau. See Moulon. Mullot. as Mulot. Mulon de foin. A hay-rick, hay-stack, or great hay-cock.

Mulot: m. A field-Mouse.

Muloter. To hunt for, or feed on, field-Mice; or to turne vp their neasts, or teare open their holes for the Corne and Akornes which they haue hid in them.

Muloteur. Hunting for, or feeding on, field-Mice; or turning vp their neasts, or tearing ope their holes, for the Corne, and Akornes which are hidden in them.

Mulotier. Sanglier mulotier. as Muloteur. Multation: f. A fining, amercing, punishing by the purse.

Multe: f. A fine, amerciament, penaltie, purse-punishment.

Multer. To fine, amerce, lay a penaltie on, punish by the purse.

Multicuple: m. A manifoldneße, great multiplication.

Multicuple: com. Manifold; abounding in multiplication, or of diuers multiplication.

Multipliable: com. Multipliable, increaseable.

Multipliant: m. The multiplier; the figure whereby another figure is multiplied.

Multipliant. Multiplying, increasing.

Multiplicable: com. Multiplicable, multipliable.

Multiplication: f. Multiplication; augmentation, increase, great store, accesse.

Multiplié: m. The Multiplicand; the figure which is multiplied.

Multiplié: m. ée: f. Multiplied; increased, augmented (in number;) propagated.

Multipliement: m. A multiplying; a propagating; an augmenting, or increasing (in number.)

Multiplier. To multiplie; to augment, or increase in number; to propagate, store, grow many.

Multiplieur: m. A multiplyer; propagator, storer.

Multitude: f. A multitude, a many; a great number, companie, or store, of.

Multre. The skinne wherein the Calfe lyes in a Hindes belly.