Bibliotheca Eliotæ Eliotis librarie.

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MEANDER, a riuer in Phrigia, whi¦che by sundry wyndynges, at the laste falleth into a creeke, whiche diuideth Miletum and Priena in Grece.

Meapte, myne owne.

Meatus, tus, a passage or waye. also the pores of the body, out of the whiche do come sweat and vapours.

Mecastor, a fourme of sweryng, as who saith, so Castor helpe me.

Mechanicus, a craftes man.

Mechanica ars, a handy crafte.

Mecoenas, atis, mynyon to Augustus the empe∣roure, and bycause he was the supporter of great lerned men, all fauourers and succou∣rers of lernyd men be so callyd.

Mecon, in greke is popy in englyshe.

Meconium, is the iuyce of the leaues & heddes of popy pressed out, whiche somme do vse in the stede of Opium.

Mecum, with me.

Mecum facit, it maketh for my purpose.

Mecum sentit, he is of myne opinyon.

Medea, wyfe vnto Iason, a wytche and cruelle woman, she was doughter of Oētes kynge of Colchos and Hipsea his wyfe, whose hy∣story is sufficiently knowen in all tungues.

Medela, remedy by medicine.

Mederga, for erga, toward me.

Medeor, eris, eri, to heale or cure.

Media, a countrey in Asia, hauyng on the north the sea callyd Hyrcanum, on the west Arme∣ny the more and Assyria, on the south Persia on the east Hircania and Parthia.

Media uocabula, wordes whiche may be taken in a good or yll parte. as Tempestas whiche sygnifyeth tempest & tyme. Facinus, a nota∣ble dede good or yll. Valitudo, helth or sycke∣nes, and other lyke.

Medianus, na, um, that whiche is in the mydle.

Mediastinus, a, um, the myddelmoste.

Mediastimus, a drudge or lubber, which dothe in the house al maner of vile seruice, as swepe or clense the house, cary wood to the kytchen and other lyke drudgery.

Mediastrinus, the seruant, whiche hath the rule of the house vnder his maister.

Medica, an herbe, whiche I suppose to be clo∣uer grasse, with purple rounde floures.

Medica mala, orenges.

Medica malus, an orenge tree.

Medibile, in state to be healyd, curable.

Medicabilis, le, curable.

Medicamentarius, a phisition.

Medicamentarius, a, um, {per}taining to medicine

Medicina, medicamen, medicamentum, a me∣dicine. sometyme it signifieth poyson.

Medicinalis, le, medicynable.

Medico, & Medicor, aris, ari, to heale or cure.

Medicus a phisitian.

Medicus, ca, cum, pertaynyng to phisyke.

Medimnus, was a mesure of the grekes, wher¦of were two sortes, one was callyd Atticus, and contaynyd of oure measure .vi. gallons, one pottell, and one quart. An other was cal∣lyd Georgicus, whiche was of our measure one bushell, a pecke, and one pynte, it recey∣ueth .xlviii. Choenices.

Mediocris, diocre, measurable, in a mean, mo∣derate.

Mediocritas, tatis, a meane.

Mediolanium, the citie of Orleance in France. it was also a citie in Westphalia in Almayn callid Munster, which forasmoch as the peo∣ple therof were infected with the heresye of Anabaptistes, and other detestable errours. It was destroyed by the princis of Almayn, about the yere of our lorde god a thousande fyue hundred thirty and nyne.

Mediolanum, the chief citie of Lumbardy, cal∣lyd Myllane. also a town in Lankashyre, cal∣lyd Manchester.

Mediouratrices, Mastright in Brabant.

Medioximus, a, um, meane, or in the myddes.

Medipontus, an instrumente wherwith ropes are made.

Meditabundus, carefull, studiouse.

Meditate, studyously, perfectly on the fyngers endes.

Meditatio, a thynkyng or diuisyng in thought. alsoo an exercyse as welle of mynde as of bodye.

Meditatorius, a, um, whyche belongeth to me∣dytation.

Mediterraneus, in the myddle of the lande, and furthest from the sea.

Meditor, aris, ari, to thynke depely, and in thin∣kynge to fynde out, to purpose, to lay snares, to synge or play swetely.

Meditari se, to exercyse hym selfe.

Meditrina, the goddesse of physike.

Meditrinalia, ceremonies vsed by them, which dranke muste or newe wyne.

Meditullium, the myddell.

Medius, a, um, the middes equally distant from the extremities. sometyme meane.

Medium commune, amonge all.

Medio, uel de medio tollere, to kyll.

Medius, a meane or mediatour betwene .ii. mē.

Mediusfidius, an othe, whyche although some tyme it had an other signifycation, yet maye it nowe in a commune fourme of speakynge be vsed in this wyse, by the faythe of my bo∣dye. Sens Dius for Iupiter, and Fidius for filius, be nowe out of vse.

Meduacus, a ryuer about Venyce, callyd nowe Brente.

Medulla, marrowe, whiche is in bones.

Medullitus, innerly into the marrowe.

Medullo, are, to take out marrowe sometyme to expresse vtterly. Narra iam rem nobis o∣mnem, at{que} emedulla, Telle and expresse vt∣terly to vs all the hole matter.

Medusa, a lady, of whome fables do reporte, that her heares by Minerua were tournyd into adders, and they whyche behelde her were tourned into stoones, whome Perseus afterwarde slewe. She is somtyme taken for one of the furies of helle.

Mefansilium, a certayne weapon to throwe.

Megabizi, priestes of Diana, whiche alwaye were gelded.

Megaera, a fury or turmentour of hell, whyche Paynyms supposed dydde prouoke and styre men to woodnesse.

Megalenses, & megalesia, playes to the honor of Cybele.

Megalesia, the festiuall day dedicate to Cybele, callid the mother of goddis amōg Pyanims.

Megalium, a swete oyntment.

Megaloprepeia, an honourable facion in gy∣uynge or imployenge of great thynges, why∣che besemeth a man of great courage.

Megaloprepes, he that dothe greate thynges, accordyng to his dignitie.

Megara, a cytie belongyng to Athenes. it was also the name of one of Hercules wyues.

Megaris, idis, a countrey in Achaia.

Megistanes, whom we do call nobles or pieres of the realme.

Me herclè, an othe sworne by Hercules.

Meio, iere, to pysse.

Mel, mellis, hony.

Melamphyllon, an herbe.

Melampus, a mans name.

Melamirus, a fyshe hauyng a blacke tayle.

Melancholia, melancholy. sometyme madnes.

Melancoryphus, a byrde callyd a fynche.

Melandria, the leane partes of the fysshe cal∣lyd Tunny.

Melanthia, an herbe callyd also Nigella.

Melanurus, a kynde of perches callyd ruffes.

Melculum, a wanton worde spoken by louers vnto theyr paramours, my lyttell hony.

Meleagrides, byrdes, whyche we do call hen∣nes of Genny.

Melegina, an yle in the Venecian sea.

Melenetus, a kynde of fawkons very lyttell of body, blacke and puyssaunt, whyche haun∣teth mountaynes, and feedeth her byrdes a∣lone, a merlyon as I suppose.

Melibeus, a shepardes name.

Meliboea, a citie in Thessaly.

Meliceris, ridis, a soore or skale in the head like a hony combe, out of the which commeth an humour lyke hony.

Melicerta, whome the gentyles dydde honour for one of the goddis of the sea, callyd alsoo Palaemon.

Melicraton, wyne and hony sodden togither.

Melicus, a musytion.

Melilotos, an herbe callyd Melylote.

Melimela, sweete appuls.

Melina, a swete shaulme.

Melinus, na, num, whyte russette, or a gynger colour.

Melioresco, scere, to be better.

Melipecta, meates made with hony.

Melis, seu melius, a beast callid a gray, abrock or a badger.

Melisigenes, was the fyrst name of Homerus the poete.

Melisphillon, smallache.

Melissa, a woman, who with her syster Amal∣thea nouryshed Iupyter. it is alsoo an herbe commonly callyd baulme.

Melissus, the name of hym, whyche dyd fyrste sacrifice vnto ydols. also the name of an an∣cient phylosopher.

Melita, siue Melite, an yle lyenge betwene Sy∣cile and Affryke, wherin is plenty of hony, and is now callyd Malta, where at this time the company of the knyghtes hospytilers do inhabyte, as they dyd at the Rhodes.

Melitaei canes, & melitenses, were praty lytell houndes, in the whyche ladyes toke pleasure and delyte, whyche were brought out of the sayde yle of Melite.

Melites, a precyous stoone of the colour of an orenge.

Melitites, a drynke made of hony and must, or newe wyne.

Mellarius, a hony man, or sellar of hony.

Mellarius, a, um, of honye.

Mellatio, the tyme of dryuyng of hyues, whan hony is taken out.

Mellatium, newe must, wherin hony is sodden

Mellene, a citie in Arcadia.

Melleus, a, um, of hony. also swete. Vox mellea, a swete voyce.

Mellica, a kynd of pulse, of the colour of redde, of the fourme of Myll.

Mellificatio, makynge of hony.

Mellifico, care, to make hony.

Mellificum, idem.

Mellifluus, a, um, swete as hony.

Melligo, ginis, a meile dewe, whyche falleth on leaues of trees, and somtyme on corne.

Melilla, my hony, my swetyng, a word of wan∣ton dalyers.

Melliloquus, a swete speaker.

Mellisones, they whiche do practyse dressynge of hony.

Mellitones, places where bees be nourished.

Melliturgus, a warker or maker of hony.

Mellitus, a, um, myxt with hony.

Mellium, a dogges colar.

Melitus, the name of hym whyche accused So¦crates.

Melizonum, a confection made with honye claryfyed.

Melo, a ryuer callyd also Geon.

Melodes, he that syngeth kūnyngly & swetely.

Melodia, melody.

Meloessa, an yle by Sicile, in the whiche was great plenty of shepe.

Melomeli, whan appuls verye ripe and fayre be conserued in hony.

Melonia, uel Melona, callyd the goddesse of honye.

Melos, odis, melody, armony.

Melota, uel melote, a shepes fell or skynne.

Melpomene, one of the nyne Muses.

Membrana, parchement, or velume, wherein men do write. also the ouermooste skynne of any thynge.

Membraneus, a, um, of parchement or velume.

Membranulum, a smalle member.

Membrare, to fourme membres.

Membratim, by euery member.

Membratura, the setting or order of membres.

Membrosus, a, um, hauing a great membre.

Membrum, a membre.

Memerylus, a lyttell tree lyke a citron tree.

Memet, my selfe.

Memini, I remember.

Memnon, the sonne of Thiton, whyche came to the ayde of the Troyans.

Memnoniae aues, byrdes whiche were suppo∣sed to growe of the ashes of Memnon.

Memor, oris, he that remembreth.

Memorabilis, le, worthy remembraunce.

Memoratus, tus, & Memoratio, a remēbryng.

Memoria, memory, remembraunce.

Memoriale, a thyng which shuld be remēbred.

Memoriosus, he that hath a good memory.

Memoriter, perfectly by hart, or with good re∣membraunce.

Memoro, are, to remembre, somtyme to tell, or expounde, to recyte, or reherse.

Memphis, a great and famous citie in Egypt.

Memphiticus, of that citie.

Memphe, idem.

Mena, a lyttell fyshe blacke or blue in sommer, and whyte in wynter, whiche I suppose may be well callyd a menowe. all be it Theodo∣rus Gaza, dothe translate Maenides, callynge theym sometyme Aleces, whych we call her∣rynges, and Maenidia, he translateth paruas Aleculas, lytel hearynges, callyd pylchardes.

Menaechmi, the name of a comedy of Plautus.

Menalippa, quene of Amazon, whome Hercu∣les vanquyshed.

Menapij, people of the countrey callyd Gellar∣lande, or Gylderlande and Cleue.

Menander, a famous poete, a wryter of com∣medyes.

Menaria, an yle in the sea betwene Carthage and Sicile.

Menceps, he or she that is out of theyr wytte.

Menda, & mendum, a faut or vice in writyng.

Mendaculum, a lyttell faute or lye.

Mendatium, a lye.

Mendax, acis, a lyar.

Mendaciloquus, a tellar of lyes.

Mendicabulum, beggynge.

Mendicitas, tatis, & Mendicimoniū, beggery.

Mendico, care, to begge.

Mendicula, a certayne vesture.

Mendicus, a beggar.

Mendix, an offyce amonge the olde Italyans callyd Osci.

Mendosus, a, um, faulty.

Menecrates, was an arrogant and proude phi¦sition, who bycause he chanced to heale sun∣dry persons, of whose helth mē dyd dispaire, and therfore in commendyng hym callyd him Iupyter. He afterwarde named hym self Me¦necrates Iupiter.

Menelaus, was kyng of Lacedemonia brother to Agamemnon, & husbande to the fayre He∣lene, for whom Troy was destroyed.

Meneletus, a byrde lyke to a smalle egle.

Menestheus, was duke of Athenes, sonne of Thescus and Phedra.

Meniana aedificia, buyldyng outwarde in pro∣spectes or galleryes.

Meninges, the rysine wherin the brayne is in∣closyd.

Menix, an yle agaynst the lesse Affrica.

Mens, tis, the highest & chiefe part of the soule. somtyme it signifieth the mynde, wyl, intent, or memory. somtyme aduyse or counsayle.

Mente captus, a madde man.

Mentis compos, of hole mynde or perfecte re∣membraunce.

Mensa, a table or bourde to eate on. sometyme dyner or supper.

Mensarius, the banker or exchanger, of whom men do borowe money vpon gayne, callyd ex∣chaunge.

Mensio, a measure.

Mensis, a moneth.

Mensôres, they whiche do lay out the boundes

of lande betweene man and man, or towne and towne.

Menstrualis, pertaynyng to a moneth, or of the space of a monethe, or durynge the tyme of a moneth.

Menstruatus, ta, tum, that which hath flowres lyke to women.

Menstruum, a womans naturall pourgation, callyd floures.

Menstruus, a, um, that whiche hapneth euerye moneth, or is done monethly.

Mensura, a measure.

Mensurnus, a, um, monethly.

Menta, & Mentula, the priuy membres of a mā

Mentagra, a disease, whiche couereth the face with a fowle scabbe, and it was callid of the grekes Lichen. Some do suppose, that it is the same disease, whyche is nowe callyd the frenche pockes.

Mentastrum, wylde mynte.

Mentha, an herbe callyd mynte.

Mentibor, for mentiar, I shall make a lye.

Mentigo, ginis, the scabbe whiche is amonge shepe callid the poxe.

Mentior, iris, iri, to lye.

Mentiri se esse aliquem, to fayne to be an o∣ther persone.

Mentiri sexum muliebri motu, to fayne hym selfe to be a woman.

Mentoas, the famous ryuer, whiche is nowe callyd Danubius.

Mentor, an excellent grauer of vessell.

Mentum, a chynne.

Menus, a ryuer in Germany.

Meo, are, to goo, to flowe.

Meopte ingenio, by myne owne witte, of myn owne nature.

Mephiticus, ca, cum, stynkynge.

Mephitis, a stenche or yll sauour, which proce∣deth of corupt water or likor, mixt with erth.

Meracus, ca, cum, & Merax, racis, pure with out any myxture.

Vinum meracum, wyne without any water.

Meraculum uinū, wyne but a lyttel alayde.

Mercalis, le, vendyble, or that whiche may be bought.

Mercator, oris, euery byer, a marchaunt.

Mercatura, the feate of marchandyse.

Mercatus tus, the acte of byenge.

Mercatus, ti, a market or fayre.

Mercatus, ta, tum, bought.

Merceditius, an hyred seruant.

Mercenarius, idem.

Mercenarius, a, um, that whiche may be hired.

Merces, cis, marchandise, ware, chaffare.

Merces, cedis, wages, the rewarde of laboure or seruyce.

Praediorum merces, reuenues of lande.

Mercimonium, that whiche is tournyd in by∣enge and sellynge.

Mercor, aris, ari, to bye for to selle for gaynes▪ sometyme to bye generally.

Mercurialis, an herbe callyd Mercury.

Mercurius, was of the paynyms callyd god of eloquēce, and messanger of Iupiter, it is the name of one of the .vii. planettes.

Mercurij dies, wenysday.

Merda, the excrement or ordure of a mā or beast

Merdo, are, to expell ordure, to shite.

Merenda, meate eaten at after noone, a colla∣tion, a noone meale.

Mereo, ere, & Mereor, eri, to take wages, to deserue, to exercise a vile occupation also Me¦rere, to serue in warres.

Merere stipendia, to take wages as a sowl∣dyour, or to be a sowldyour.

Merêre alicui, to do seruyce to one.

Merêre equo, to be a manne of armes, or to serue on horsebacke in warres.

Merêre pedibus, to be a fote man in warres

Mereor bene de te, I do somewhat for the, I deserue to haue the my frende, or to haue thy fauour.

Male mereor de te, I do the displeasure, I do yll deserue thy fauour.

Merè, purely.

Meretriciè, hooryshely.

Meretricium, hooredome, or brothelry.

Meretricius, a, um, pertayngng to brothelry.

Meretricor, aris, ari, to lyue in brothelrye, to playe the harlotte.

Meretrix, icis, an harlot, or brothell.

Mergae, pytcheforkes for to take vp sheues.

Mergites, gripes of corne.

Mergi, vynes or other smalle trees, whiche are bowed, and haue the toppes bowe wyse, tur∣ned and set in the erthe.

Mergo, si, gere, to drowne in the water.

Mergulus, an instrument where the matche of a lampe is conteyned.

Mergus, goris, a bucket to drawe vp water.

Mergus, gi, a foule of the sea lyke to a gul, whi¦che diueth vnder the water to take fyshe, and by often dyuynge perceyueth sygnes of tem∣pest comyng, and than sodainly with a great crye he fleeth out of the myddle of the water vnto the lande.

Meribibulus, he that drinketh moch wyne with out water.

Meridianus, a, um, pertayning to none.

Meridiatio, noone reste.

Meridies, noone tyde.

Meridio, are, & meridior, ari, to dyne, to eate meate at noone, to slepe at noone.

Meridionalis, le, of the southe.

Merismos a fygure callyd alsoo Distributio, whereby the oration is distributed into sun∣dry sentences.

Meritò, worthily, with good cause.

Merito, are, to be worthy. also to serue in war∣tes, sometyme to gayne.

Meritoria, houses or shoppes let to hyre.

Meritorius, a, um, that whiche is let or set for aduauntage.

Meritoria taberna, a house wherinto a man is receyued for his money.

Meritum, a benefytte or pleasure, a deserte good or ylle.

Meritum est meum, it is in my defaute.

Meritus, ta, tum, deserued, conuenient.

Meritus, a mountayne in the thyrd part of Eu∣ropa, beyonde Grece.

Mero, was in skorne the name of Nero, by∣cause he was so great a drynker of wyne.

Meroe, an yle on the greate ryuer of Nilus in Egypte.

Merobiba, she that drynketh wyne withoute water.

Meroctes, a lyttell stone of the colour of lekes, whiche sweateth a lykour lyke to mylke.

Meropes, men of dyuers languages.

Merops, a byrde whiche dothe eate bees.

Meropus, a mountayne in Grece by Thessaly.

Meros, a hyll of Inde, at the foote whereof is the citie callyd Nisa.

Merso, are, to drowne often.

Merto, idem.

Merula, a byrde callyd a blacke macke or ow∣syli, with a yelowe beke. also a fysshe callyd merlynge or whitynge.

Merum, wyne vnlayde, without water.

Merus, a, um, soole, mere, pure.

Merx, cis, one kynde of marchandyse.

Mes, in the Arabian tungue is a pease of the Grekes, as Manardus writeth li. 1. epist. 3. Serapio sayth, that it is a grayne hauyng in it a fygure of an eye with the appull thereof very blacke.

Mesa, a ryuer whiche runneth by Brabande, and the lande of Luke and Gellar, callyd the Mase.

Mesapia, a countrey callyd also Apulia.

Mesauli, entrees betwene the halle & the pariar.

Mesentericae uenae, are vaynes whiche lyke to rootes of trees, doo receyue nourysshement, from the stomake and bowelles, dysposyng it into all the body.

Mesenterion, is a bowel ioyned with the mid∣resse, and vnto the backe, whyche letteth that the iuyce of meates be not sucked to hastylye or vnprofytablye by the other bowels. Alex. Benedictus. Iulius Pollux writith, that Me¦senterion is a skynne compact of vaines and synewes, ioynyng to the raynes and stomak, sendyng nouryshement vnto the lyuer. Gale∣nus in Anato. sayth, that it is set in the myd∣dell of the bowelles, and is also callyd Me∣sarchon, bycause he wrappeth and incloseth all the veynes, whiche do come from the ly∣uer vnto hym, with also the arteries adioy∣nynge vnto hym. It is alsoo callyd in latyne Medianum.

Mesia, a countrey ioynyng to Hungry, Myse.

Mesochorus, he that plaieth on a flute or other pype in the myddes of the daunsers.

Mesoleucos, a precyous stone, blacke, hauyng a white strake in the niddes.

Mesomelas, a kynd of that precious stone, whi¦che is callid Achates, whiche being white is diuided with a blacke lyne.

Meson, was one which fyrst inuented to bring into comedies seruantes and cookes. wherof it is supposed, that the cookes of cities and townes were of old tyme callyd Mesones, as straunge cookes were callyd Tettiges. Coe∣lius antiq. lec. li. 3.

Mesonauta, a drudge in a shyppe, or a shyppe page, which doth all vyle seruyce in the shyp

Mesonyxion, mydnyght.

Mesopotamia, a countrey in the orient, lienge betweene the two noble ryuers Tigris, and Euphrates, and hath on the southe Babylo∣niam, and on the north the great mountayne callyd Caucasus.

Mespilus, a medlar tree.

Mespilum, a fruite callyd a medlar.

Messâla Coruinus, a noble senatour of Rome, of whom Tully in his boke of oratours cal∣lyd Brutus, writeth in this wyse, I may not omytte to speke of the excellency of Messala. Beware do not thynke that any is lyke vnto hym in constance care and studye aboute the weale publyke, also in eloquence, wherein he wonderfully dothe excell. And not withstan∣dyng beinge suche a manne, two yeres before that he dyed, he so lost his remembrance, that he forgate his owne name. Which hath hap¦ned to dyuerse other men of great wysedome and lernyng. He lyued in the tyme of Iulius Cesar and Augustus emperours.

Messalina, wyfe to the emperour Claudius, a woman of vnsaciable lechery.

Messana, a citie in Sicile.

Messapia, a part of the countrey of Apulia.

Messene, a citie in Grece.

Messenij, the people of that citie.

Messenia, a region in Achaia, hauynge .xviii. mountaynes, in the whiche was a citie callid lyd Messenae.

Messias, Christe.

Messis, haruest, somtyme it signifieth the corns or the grapes newe mowen or gathered.

Messio, onis, a reapynge.

Messor, oris, a reaper.

Messorius, ria, rium, pertaynyng to reapyng.

Meta, a butte or prycke to shoote at, sometyme

a marke or gowle in the field, whervnto men or horses do runne. somtyme a bounde in lan∣des. also a reyke of corne or heye. also the lo∣wer stone of a mylle.

Meta lactis, a cheese.

Metabasis, a passage.

Metabole, chaunge.

Metagonium, a promontory or mountayne ly∣enge into the sea, whyche diuydeth Affrica from Numidia.

Metalepsis, a fygure, whereby a worde is put from his commune signification.

Mettalli, hyred sowldyours.

Metallici, they whiche do dygge & warke met∣tal out of the mynes, wherin mettal is found.

Metallum, mettall.

Metamorphosis, eos, a trāsformation or chan∣gynge of fygure.

Metaphora, a translation of wordes frō theyr proper signification.

Metaphraenum, that part of the backe whiche is agaynst the hart, the splene, the lungues, and the lyuer.

Metaplasmus, a fygure callyd transformation. it is a translatyng of wordes being in prose, into a fourme of meter, eyther for necessitie, or for to augment the elegancy.

Metapontum, a citie in the realme of Naples.

Metapontini, people of that citie.

Metempsichosis, the transposyng of soules af∣ter the opinyon of the Pythagoriens, out of one body, into an other body.

Metathesis, where one letter is transposed frō one place in a word into an nother, as Tym∣ber Tymbre.

Metaurus, & metaurum, a ryuer of Vmbria, whiche runneth into Flaminia.

Metellus, the proper name of diuers noble Ro∣maynes.

Meteora, ar bokes of Aristotle, wherin he tre∣teth of sterres, & such other celestiall thinges.

Meteoria, speculation in hygh thynges.

Meteorologus, he that is studyous in suche speculation.

Meteoroscopus, a beholder of high thynges.

Methodus, a compendious or redy waye, or a rule certayne to lerne by any science.

Methymna, a citie in the yle of Lesbos.

Meticulosus, rymerouse or fearefull.

Metior, tiris, tiri, to meete or measure, to gyue by measure, to passe ouer.

Metius Sufferius, was capitayne of the people callyd Albani, in the tyme of Tullus Ho∣stilius kynge of Romaynes. Who callynge hym to battayle agaynst the people callid Fi∣denates. He came, but abydyng whiche host shuld haue the victory, he abstayned to fight. Wherfore Tullus after that he had vanqui∣shed his enemies, caused Metius to be ryed to sundry horses, & to be drawen in pieces.

Meto, messui, metere, to reape.

Metoecus, was he which came out of one coū∣trey or citie, and dwellyd in an nother. suche were wont to pay certayn head syluer, which was named Metoecium, and was the value of .xii. Dragmas.

Metona, a towne in Grece callyd Modon.

Metonymia, a fygure callyd denomination, as Bacchus for wyne, Venus for lecherye, Cu∣pido for loue.

Metor, aris, ari, to set boundes, to mesure land, to dyspose.

Metopion, oyle of almondes. also a tree in Af∣frica, whyche dystylleth downe gumme lyke to roseyn.

Metoposcopus, he that consydereth a mannes face, and thereby iudgeth his conditions or affectes.

Metrêta, or Metrêtes, is a certayne measure, wherof be two sortes: the one is callyd At∣tica, and contayneth of wyne a hundred poū∣des, of oyle .xc. pounde, of hony a hundred & fyfty poundes, and is of our measure .vi. ga∣lons, one pottell, and one quarte. And soo it receyueth .xii. Choas atticas. The other is callyd Georgica, but it is of equall measure with Attica.

Metropolis, the chiefe citie.

Metropolitanus, a man of that citie.

Metropolites, the byshop of the chiefe citie.

Metrum, a verse.

Metuo, tui, tuere, to fear or dread with trēbling

Metus, rus, feare, dreade.

Metys, the refuse of waxe.

Meu, an herbe.

Meuania, a citie in the parte of Italye, callyd Vmbria, wherin Propertius the poete was borne.

Meneusa, a citie in Wales callid saint Dauid.

Meus, a, um, myne.

Mea quidem sententia, in myne opinyon.

Meo nomine, for my cause, on my behalfe.

Meum est, it is my duetie or my part, or myn inuention.

Meus sum, I am myne owne man, or subiect to no man, or in no mans daunger.