An English dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, phylosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences : containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor : together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language : in a method more comprehensive than any that is extant / by E. Coles ...

M.

• M. (For Murder or Man-slaughter) on the brawn of the Thumb of every one admitted to his Clergy.
• Mab▪ Br. a Son.
• Mabel▪ Mabilia, (q▪ amabi∣lis, l. lovely, or Ma••elle, f. My fair one) a Womans name.
• Mac, Ir. a Son.
• Mac-beth, a Scotch Usur∣per who kild Duncom the King.
• Macaleb, a Pomander or bastard-coral, whose sweet and shining black berries serve for bracelets.
• Macareus, the son of Aeo∣lus, who got his sister Canace with child, whereupon her Father sent her a sword with which she killed herself.
• Maca••, a Portugall Isle on the North of China.
• Macaronique, f. a confused huddle of many things toge∣ther.
• Macarons, f. Sweet-meats made of Almonds, Sugar, Rosewater and Musk.
• Maccaroni I. lumps of boild paste, served up in butter and strew'd with spice and grated cheese.
• Maccab••es, Two Apocry∣phal books containing the History of Judas Maccabaeus, son of Matathias, from Maca∣bi, the initial letters of Me Camoca Belim Je••ovah, (W••o among the Gods is like unto thee O Lord?) which (they say) was in his banners against Antiochus.
• Mac••donians, people of
• Macedoni••, Aemathia, Ae∣monia, Romelli, a large coun∣try in Europe, whereof Philip and Alexander were Kings.
• Macegress, those that wit∣tingly-buy and sell stollen flesh▪
• Macellarious, l. belonging to the Shambles.
• Macillat••r, l. a Butcher.
• Macerate, l. to soak in li∣quor, also to make lean, mor∣tify, or weaken.
• Machaon, a famous Physi∣cian, who went (with the Grecians) to the Trojan wars, and was slain.
• Machevalize, the same as
• Macriduclianize, to play the
• Machiavelian, -villian, he that practiseth or studieth
• Machiavelianism, State-p••∣licy, the Doctrine of Ni∣cholas.
• ...

• Machiavel, a famous Hi∣storian and Recorder of Flo∣rence, whose politicks have poison'd almost all Europe.
• Machil, Meghil, h. the rich robe of the Ephod, Exodus 28, 34.
• Machine, g. l. f. an Engine or instrument.
• Machination, l. a plotting or contriving.
• Machlin, a City and Terri∣tory (of 9 Villages) in Bra∣bant.
• Macilent, l. lean or thin.
• Mackaroons, as Macarons.
• Mackenboy, Makimboy, an Irish Spurge, which purgeth one much, only by being born about one.
• Mackerel, Maquerel, f. a spotted fish well known, also a Pander or Procurer.
• Mac••lesfield, a town in Che∣shire.
• Macritude, l. leanness.
• Macrobij, g. Certain Long-lived Aethiopians.
• Macrocosm, g. the Great World, contradistinct to Mi∣crocosm.
• Macrology, g. a figure using more words than are Neces∣sary.
• Mactation, l. a killing.
• Mactator, l. a killer or mur∣derer.
• Maculate, l. to stain or spot.
• Maculatures, waste or blot∣ing-papers.
• Mad, E. an Earth-worm.
• Madagascar, St. Laurence, an African Isle, (the greatest in the World) a thousand mile in length and about 4 hundred in breadth.
• Madder, a plant with a red root, serving to dye Wool.
• Madefaction, l. a moisten∣ing.
• Madify, Madidate, l. to wet.
• Mader, a Town in Zea∣land.
• Madera, an Isle on the West of Ba••bary.
• Madidity, Madour, l. moisture
• Madid, l. wet, washed, al∣so drunken.
• Madning-money, old Ro∣man Coins found about Dun∣stable are so call'd by the Coun∣try people.
• Mad••c, a British name, from
• Mad, Er. Good.
• Madrid, -il, the Metropolis of Castilia Nova, where the King of Spain keeps his Court.
• Madrigal, an Italian air, of one single rank of Verses.
• Maegbote, Mag-, sa. a re∣compense for the murder of ones Kinsman.
• Maeonides, Homer, the son of Maeon.
• ... Maeonia, Lydia.
• Maeotis, Marbianco or Mar∣della Tana, Garpaluc, a Lake in the North part of Scy∣thia.
• Maeremium, Timber.
• Maestricht, a town in Bra∣bant subject to the French.
• Magazine, f. a store-house [of Warlike ammunition, &c.]
• Magdalen••, h. magnified or Exalted.
• Magdalen Colledge in Oxford, built (with a Hall adjoyning) by W. Wainflet Bishop of Winchester.
• Magdalen Colledge in Cam∣bridge, convented from an Hostel for Monks by the Duke of Bucks, about the be∣ginning of K. H. 8.
• Magdaleon, l. a Langate or long plaister like a row∣ler.
• Magdeburg, Parthenopolis, (Mai••s-town) the Chief Ci∣ty of Saxony, half free, half subject to the Elector of Bran∣denburg.
• Magellanick, belonging to, or discovered by Ferdinando
• Magellanus, a Noble Por∣tugal whose ship (the Victoria) saild round the world in the years 1520 and 1521. though he himself perished in the At∣chievement.
• Magellanica, part of South America.
• Magellan's clouds, two small clouds (near the South pole) of the same colour as the Via lactea.
• Magi, P. (Philosophers) the Wisemen mentioned Math. 2.
• Magician, one that studies or practiseth the
• Magi••k [Art] Wisdom, Philosophy, also as
• Diabolical Magick, the black Art ot dealing with familiar Spirits.
• Natural Magick, the Sci∣ence of Nature, which is law∣full, and the ground of all true Physick.
• Magical, belonging to Ma∣gick.
• Magintum, Dunstable, in the Emperour Antonines Iti∣nerary.
• Magistery, l. Mastership, also the total substance of a thing reduced to its primitive juice.
• Magistral, -terial, like or belonging to a Master.
• Magisterial p••ll, plaister &c. prepared after the best man∣ner.
• Magistracy, l. the office of a
• Magistrate or Chief Ruler.
• Magna Assisa Eligenda, a writ for the Sheriff to sum∣mon four lawfull Knights, to chuse twelve Knights of the Vicinage, to pass upon the Great Assise between the Plaintiff and Defendant.
• Magna Charta, (The Great Charter) the most ancient of our written Laws, Granted by King Henry 3. confirmed by King Edward the first, and other Kings.
• Magnalia, l. Great things or works.
• Magnality, an admired greatness.
• Magnanimit••, l. a being
• Magnanimous, l. Couragi∣ous, of a generous, great or stout Spirit.
• Magnes, a beautifull youth of Smyrna, beloved of Gyg•••• King of Lydia.
• ...

• Magnetick, attractive, be∣longing to the
• Magnete, l. the loadstone, which draws iron to it.
• Magnificat, [My Soul] doth magnifie, the Song of the Virgin Mary, (Luke 1.46.)
• Correct the Magnificat, At∣tempt to amend the Scrip∣ture, or that which is beyond correction.
• Magnifical, -cent, Noble, atchieving worthy acts.
• Magnificence, l. stateliness, sumptuousness.
• Magnifici, l. the Govern∣ours of the German Acade∣mies.
• Magnific••'s I. the chief No∣blemen of Venice.
• Magnifie, l. to greaten▪ ex∣tol, or make great account of.
• Magniloquence, l. a discourse of great matters, or being
• Magniloquent, l. speaking loftily, or in a great style.
• Magnitude, l. greatness.
• Mago, the chief of this name encreased very much the wealth and discipline of Carthage.
• Magog, h. (of Gog or the house top) Gen. 10.2. found∣er of the
• Magogi, the Scythians or Tartars.
• Gog and Magog, (Ezek. 38.2.) generally expounded of An∣tiochus the great, King of A∣sia and Syria.
• Gog and Magog, (Rev. 20.8.) the Enemies of the Church, either secret and open, or Hereticks and Ty∣rants, or the Ottoman Family, &c. Opinions are various.
• Mahamorra, a Portugal fort ••n the Coast of Fez.
• Magonel, as Mangonel.
• Mahim, Maim, (f. Mehaing) the loss [of the use] of any member, which may be use∣full or defensive in battel.
• Mahone, a large Turkish ship
• Mahound, o. Mahomet or Muhammed.
• Mahumetism, Mahumetry, Mahumetanism, the Religion and Law of the
• Mahumetans, Maho••-, Turks, followers of
• Mah••met, Maho-, an Ara∣••ian born 572. his Father a Pagan and his Mother a Jew Captain of a rebellious crew, among whom (by the help of Sergius a Monk) he introdu∣ced the Turkish Religion contained in the Alchoran.
• Maia, Daughter of Atlas and one of the Pleiades, on whom Jupiter begat Mercury.
• Maid-Marrian, (or Morion) a boy drest in Maids Appa∣rel, to dance the Marisco.
• Maiden-hair, Ad••antum, Capillus Veneris, a plant.
• Maiden-head, or -hood, Vir∣ginity.
• Maiden-head, -hith, South-Ealington, a town in Berk-shire.
• Maid, Skate-Damzel, Li. a small kind of raye.
• Maiden-rents, a Noble paid by every Tenant (in the Mannour of Builth in Radnor∣shire) at their Marriage, at fi••st (perhaps) a fine for a li∣cense to marry a Daughter, or as in Marche••a.
• Maifaie, Masey, (f. Ma foy) by my faith,
• Maidstone, Medweageston, a pleasant Town on
• Medway, a River in Kent
• Majestative, the same as
• Majestical, full of or belong∣ing to
• Majesty, l. Royal State or gravity.
• Maignagium, a Brasiers shop.
• Maile, (f. an half-penny) an old small piece of mo∣ney.
• Maim, as Mahim.
• Main-Knight, that which is placed aft the Main-sail.
• Maina, part of Morea.
• Mainamber, a strange rock in Cornwall.
• Main-hamper, a basket wherein they carry grapes to the press.
• Maienne, a Town in
• Main, a French Province.
• Mainour, Minour, Manour, (f. Manier to handle) th•• ••hing stolen, and wherewith the thief is taken.
• Mainpernable, bailable which may be bailed.
• Mainpernors▪ they that bail, take into their hands and are sureties for any one to appear at a certain day.
• Mainprize, f. the taking a man into friendly custody▪ ••nd being security for his ap∣pearance.
• Main-p••rte, a certain tri∣bute (commonly of loaves) paid in some places instead of Tythes.
• Mainsworn, No. forsworn or perjured.
• Maint, sa. mingled.
• Maintenance, f. holding [a child that learns to go] by the hand, also the upholding or maintaining a cause or per∣son by word or deed, also (q. Menasance) o. threatning
• Maintainor, he that seconds a cause depending by money, friends, &c.
• Majo, an Irish County.
• Major, l. Greater, a Re∣giment-Officer, next the Lieu∣tenant-Colonel.
• Major-General, next the Lieutenant-General.
• Major, Mayor, the Go∣vernour of a City or Corpo∣ration-town.
• Major-proposition of a Syllo∣gism, the first.
• Majorque, -r••a, an Isle on the Spanish Coast.
• Majoration, l. a making Greater.
• Maisnilwarings, Manwar∣ings, a great and ancient Fa∣mily in Cheshire.
• Maischleoh, o, Maslin.
• Maison-Dieu, (for Maison de Dieu, f. Gods house) an Hospital or Alms-house.
• Make, Li. a Consort.
• Make, c. an half peny.
• Make, to perform or exe∣cute.
• Make his beard▪ o. deceive him.
• M••ke, o. to hinder.
• Make-hawk, an old sta••ch

• flying hawk, to make or teach a young one.
• Makeless, No. Matchless.
• Malabar, a very populous East-India kingdome.
• Malaca, a Town in India.
• Malachias, h. the Angel or Messenger of God.
• Malachite, g. a precious stone of a dark mallow-green.
• Malacissation, a kneading or making soft.
• Malacy, g. a calm at sea, also the longing of women with child.
• Maladie, f. disease or sick∣ness.
• Malaga. -ago, -aca, a Port-town of Andalusia in Spain.
• Malanders, a disease in horses, causing them
• Mal-andare, I. to go ill.
• Malapert, -••pert, (f. Mal∣appert, ready for mischief, or Mal-appris, ill-taught) impu∣dent, saucy.
• Malchow, a town of Meck∣lenburg in Germany.
• Mal disant, f. an Evil-speaker or back-biter.
• Maldives, Asian Islands.
• Maldon. Camalodunum, a town in Essex.
• Male, D. a sack or budget.
• Male b••uch, f. a wicked mouth.
• Mal••content, f. [one that is] discontented.
• Malediction, l. an evil-speak∣ing or cursing.
• Malefact••ur, l. an Offender or Evil doer.
• Malefesance, a transgres∣sing.
• Maleficiate, to be
• Maleficent, doing a
• Malefice, l. an evil deed, displeasure or shrewd turn.
• Malespine, a Marquisate of Tuscany.
• Maletalent, o. ill-will.
• Maletent, Malet••t, -olte, (f. -oste) an ancient toll of four∣ty Shillings for every sack of Wool.
• Malevolence, l. ill-will, a being
• Malevolent, unkind, ill-na∣tured, of ill effect or influence
• Mal-grace, f. Dis-favour.
• Malign, to Spite, to bear
• Malignity, l. Malice or Grudge.
• Malines, a town in Bra∣bant.
• Malison, (f. Maudisson) a curse.
• Malkin, Maukin, a Scovel (of old clouts) to cleanse the Oven.
• Mallard, a Wild Drake.
• Malleable, which may be
• Malleated, l. hammered or beaten out.
• Malleguetta, a Country on the Coast of Guiny.
• Mallevertes, Mali Leporarij, an ancient family in York∣shire.
• Mallows, a plant of a loo∣sening quality.
• Malmsey, (f. Malvaisie) wine from
• Malvisia, Marvisia, a pro∣montory of Chios, or (rather) from M••nembasia (or Epidau∣rus) in M••rea, whence comes the best.
• Malmesbury, Maidulphsburgh, a town in Wiltshire.
• Ma••••as, a Town in Che∣shire.
• Malt, o. melted.
• Maltesian, belonging to
• Malta, Melita, a Rocky and Barren Isle some sixty m••les from Sicily, belonging to the Knights of Rhodes.
• Malton, a town in York∣shire.
• Malveis Procurors, packers of Juries by Nomination or other procurement.
• Malversation, f. ill con∣versation or Misdemeanour.
• Malure, o. (f. Malheur) Mischance.
• Mamalukes, Mamm-, (A. light-horsemen) an Order of valiant Soldiers in the last Empire of Egypt.
• Mamercus, a Bishop of Vienna, who instituted Lita∣nies.
• Mamitus, an Assyrian King, a terrour to the Egyptians and other Nations.
• Mammeated, l. having paps or teats.
• Mammet, o. a puppet, (q. little
• Mam or Mother.)
• Mammillary processes, cer∣tain bones in the Temples representing the teats of a Cow.
• Mammocks, fragments or pieces.
• Mammonist, a worldling, one that worships or seeks after
• Mammon, Sy. [The God of] Riches.
• Mammon of unrighteousness, False Riches, This Worlds Goods.
• Mammooda, an East-India-Coyn, the value of our Shil∣ling.
• Mammulucks, as Mama∣lucks.
• Man the Ship, store it with a sufficient number of men, also call them all up aloft.
• Man the Capstain, heave at it.
• Man the top well, take in the Top-sails with hands enow.
• Manation, l. a flowing or running (of water.)
• Manage, l. to handle or go∣vern.
• Manar, an Asian Isle.
• Manasses, h. forgotten.
• Manhote, sa. a pecuniary compensation for killing of a man.
• Man, an Isle between Lan∣cashire and Ireland.
• Manche, f. a sleeve, or any thing in such a form.
• Manchester, a Town in Lan∣cashire.
• Manchet, (f. Michette) the smallest and finest sort of bread.
• Manch present, a bribe or present from the Donours own hands.
• Mancipation, l. an ancient manner of selling and deliver∣ing possession before witnesses with several circumstances, also as Emancipation.
• Manciple, l. a Clerk of the Kitchin, or Caterer, that buys

• the provisions for a Colledge or Hospital.
• Man••a, a square piece of Gold, commonly valued at 30 pence.
• Mancuse, -sa, (q. Manu cu∣se) the value of a mark in silver.
• Manca, is sometimes ren∣dered, The fifth part of an ounce.
• Manca and Mancusa, are sometimes both translated by Marca.
• Mandamus, a writ that lay after the year and day, where (in the mean time) the writ called Diem clausit extremum had not been sent to the Es∣cheatour, also a Charge for the Sheriff to take into the kings hands all the lands of a kings widow, who (contra∣ry to her Oath) had married without his consent.
• Mandatary, he to whom a command is given, also he that comes into a Benefice by a Mandamus.
• Mandate, a Command of the King (or his Justices) to have any thing done for the dispatch of Justice.
• Mandevils, de Magna Villa, an ancient family in Essex.
• Mandible, l. which may be eaten.
• Mandilian, -lion, I. a Soldi∣diers loose Cassock.
• Mandingo's, Inhabitants of Guiny (on the river Gambra) who take Tobacco in large and short bowls, through a reed of a yard long.
• Mandonius and Indibi••is, two famous Spanish Captains who assisted the Romans against the Carthaginians, but begin∣ning to revolt, they were on∣ly discharged.
• Mandragora, -goras, -drake, -drage, g. a plant bearing yel∣low apples, the root cold in the fourth Degree and used by Chirurgeons to cast mer into a deep sleep.
• Mandrakes (Can. 7.13. h. lovely) pleasant flowers, or something else smelling sweet which the Common Man∣drakes do not.
• Mandrakes▪ shewn in the perfect shape of men, &c. are perfect Cheats (of Briony roots, &c.)
• Manducable, l. eatable, ca∣pable of
• Manducation, l. a chewing or eating.
• Mandy-Thursday, as Maun∣dy-.
• Maneh, h. Mina, a pound.
• Maneh of Gold, an hundred shekels or 75 pound sterl∣ing.
• Maneh of Silver, sixty she∣kels or 7 pound 10 shillings.
• Manentes, Tenants, also
• Manses or Hides of land.
• Manfredonia, a City of Na∣ples, on the Gulph of Ve∣nice.
• Manganese, (in colour and weight like the loadstone) the most general ingredient of glass.
• Manger, a place to receive the water that comes in at the Hawses.
• Mangin, China so called by the Tartars.
• Mangonel, Mangon, I. an old warlike engine, to cast great stones or darts.
• Mangonism, l. the Craft or trade of
• Mangonizing, -zation, trim∣ming-up things for sale.
• Manheim, a fort in the lower Palatinate.
• Maniable, f. tractable, to be managed or wielded.
• Maniack, g. Mad.
• Manichees, Hereticks fol∣lowing one
• Manes, a Persian, who af∣firmed himself to be Christ and the Paraclete, held a fa∣tal Necessity of sinning, &c.
• Manicles, f. Hand-cuffs or Fetters.
• Manifesto, I. an open or publick Declaration, con∣cerning State-affairs, &c.
• Maningtree, a Town in Essex.
• Manipular, belonging to a
• Maniple, l. a handfull, a band of Soldiers, also a Fan∣nel or Scarf-like Ornament on the left wrist of Priests at Sacrifice.
• Manlius, a Roman name.
• Man, Manna (q. Man••hu, Ch. what is this?) the dew or bread of heaven which the Israelites ate in the De∣sert; also (at this day) a Physical congealed dew ga∣thered in the morning (from the leaves of Mulberries, &c.) in Calabri•• and other hot coun∣tries, also a sweet extract out of any matter.
• Mannaty, Manati, an Am∣phibious West-India beast be∣tween a Fish and a Cow.
• Mannish, sa. Wicked.
• Mannour, Manor, a Juris∣diction and Royalty incor∣poreal, also the Land or Seat.
• Manor in gross, the right of a Court-Baron (and its per∣quisites) while another en∣joyes the Land.
• A Manor cannot be with∣out a Court-Baron and two Suiters.
• Man of War, a valiant Sol∣dier or Warrior, also a Ship of War.
• Manpygarnon, a kind of pot∣tage
• Manqueller, sa. a murder∣er.
• Le Mans, the Chief town of Maine.
• Mansion, l. an abiding, a dwelling-place, also a Man∣nor-house, Capital Messuage, or the Lords chief dwelling-house within his fee.
• Mansfield, a town in the upper Saxony.
• Mansfield, a town in Not∣tinghamshire.
• Man slaughter, the unlaw∣full killing of a man without premeditated malice. It is Felony (because wilfull) but admits Clergy for the first time.
• Mansura, Mas-, Farmers houses.
• Mansus, a Farm.
• ...

• Mansuetude, l. meekness, a being
• Mansuete, l. gentle, tracta∣ble.
• Mantels, -tles, [the Beer] Flowers, also [the hawk] stretches her wings along af∣ter her Legs.
• Manticulate, l. to pick a purse, or do any thing close∣ly.
• Manti••ore, -corn, I. a rave∣nous Indian beast, with three ranks of Teeth, a face like a man, and body like a Lyon.
• Mantile, Mantle, f. a Cloak or long robe, also the flou∣rish proceeding from the wreath and helm, and de∣scending on each out-side of th' Escutcheon.
• Mant••, a Theban Prophe∣tess Daughter of Tiresias, and Mother of Ocnus the Founder of
• Mantua, a City of Italy on the River Po.
• Mant-wine, brought from thence.
• Manual, -ary, l. filling or belonging to the hand.
• Manual, a small volume portable in the hand.
• Manualist, a handi-crafts∣man.
• Manubial, -a••y, l. belong-to a prey or booty.
• Manucaptio, a writ for him that offers sufficient bayl, and cannot be admitted.
• Manucaption, l. a taking with or by the hand.
• Manucaptors, bails or sure∣ties.
• Manuduction, l. a guiding or leading by the hand.
• Manuel, that whereof pre∣sent profit may be made.
• Manufacture, l. handy∣work.
• Manumission, l. an enfran∣chizing or making free.
• Manumitt▪ -miss, l. to make a bondman free, by turning him round, giving him a cap, and other Ceremonies.
• Manure, (Main-oeuvrier, f. to till [the ground.]
• Manus Coristi, Sugar boild with Rose-water, (sometime violet or Cinnamon Water.)
• Manuscript, l. written with the hand, not printed.
• Manutenentia, a writ used in case of [corrupt] Mainte∣nance.
• Manutention, a holding with or by the hand.
• Manworth, sa. the price of a mans head.
• Manzed shrew, o. wicked scold.
• Map••e, a wood much used by Turners.
• Mar, -rria, part of North-Scotland.
• Maran-atha, Sy. Scham∣matha, h. (the Lord cometh) the third and highest de∣gree of Excommunication.
• Marathon, a Grecian Town, about 10 miles from Athens.
• Maravedis, a small Spanish coyn, thirty four of them go to a Ryal or six pence.
• Marcab, the pinion of the wing of Pegasus.
• Marcellus, a great Roman General, circumvented by Hannibal, and slain, also a Ro∣man Bishop, who instituted the Order of Cardinals.
• Marcessible, l. apt to rot or putrifie.
• Marc-grave, Mart-grave, D. a Count or Earl of the
• Marches, D. the borders or Frontiers of a Country.
• Marc••asite, Marchesite, Mar∣quesite, a fire-stone, a stone partaking of the nature and colour of some metal, not to be separated but into smoak and ashes.
• Marche, a Province of France.
• Lords Marchers, Noblemen inhabiting (and securing) the
• Marches of Wales or Scot∣land, the bounds between us and them.
• Marcheta, Mer-, (by skene, the rai'd or first carnal know∣ledge of a woman) a Scotch law by Eugenius 3d. that the Lord should have the first nights lodging with every woman marryed within his fee, abrogated by Malcolm. 3d. for which they pay a Mark.
• Marchioness, the Wife of a Marquiss.
• March-pane, Massepain▪ s. (q. massa panis,) Sugared paste made into little cakes.
• Marcidity, -cour l. a being
• Marcid, -dious, l. rotten, withered, feeble.
• Marcionists, -ites, Hereticks following one
• Marcion, a Stoick Philo∣sopher, who held that Christ was not the Son of God.
• Marcus, Mark, a proper name.
• Marcus Curtius, for his Countries good rode arm'd into a gaping of the Earth.
• Cry the Mare, (in Hereford∣shire) the reapers tye toge∣ther the tops of the last blades, and at a distance throw their sickles at it, and he that cuts the knot hath the prize, with shouting and good cheer.
• Maremaid, as Mermaid.
• Night Mare, as Incubus.
• Mareotis, a large Egyptian lake on the South of Alexan∣dria.
• Mareshal, as Marshal.
• Margaret, (Marget, M••g▪ Peg) g. a Pearl.
• Margarets, o. Daisies.
• Margaritiferous, l. bringing forth or having plenty of
• Margarites, g. Pearls found in Oysters and other shel∣fish.
• ... Margelain, o. Marjerom.
• Margery, (Madg) by some the same as Margaret, by o∣thers as
• Majorana, Sweet Marje∣rom.
• Margery Prater, c. a hen.
• Marginal, -neal, belonging to a
• Margin, -gen••, l. the brink or brim, also the uttermost part of a page.
• Mariandunum, part of Asi∣a, where is the Acherus••an

• cave by which Hercules (they say) went down to hell.
• Mariembourg, a Town in Hainault.
• Mari••ts, f. Marian-Violets.
• Marinate fish, fry them in Sallet oyl and then pickle them.
• Marinated, pertaining to the Sea, tasting of Salt water, also (c.) transported into some forreign plantation.
• Marine, Maritan, -time, l. belonging to, near or from beyond the Sea.
• Marjoram, Majorana, Ama∣racus, a comforter of the Brain and Nerves.
• Maritagio amisso, &c. a writ for a Tenant in frank-marri∣age to recover Lands where∣of he is deforced.
• Marital, l. belonging to an Husband or Marriage.
• Marius, a valiant Roman chosen Consul seven times.
• Mark, an Earldom in Ger∣many.
• Mark of Adam, ••. mark of manhood.
• Mark [of Silver,] thirteen shillings and four-pence.
• Mark [of Gold,] thirty three shillings and four pence.
• Scotch Mark, thirteen-pence half-penny.
• Marketzeld, or rather
• Marketgeld, toll of the Mar∣ket.
• The Market hardens, No. things grow dear.
• Mark-penny, paid at Maldon for laying pipes or gutters into the streets.
• Markab, as Marcab.
• Marle, Malin, a chalky earth used in soiling of Land.
• Marleborough, a Town in Wil••shire (seated on a chalky ground) where a Parliament made the
• Statute of Marleborough, for appeasing of tumults.
• Marlerium, -etum, a Marle∣pit.
• Marlin, Merlin, (f. Esme∣rillon) a small kind of Hawk.
• Marle the Sail, fasten it to the bolt-rope, with
• Marling, a small tarr'd line of untwisted hemp, to sease the ends of ropes from ••ar∣sing out, &c.
• Marling-speek or spike, a small iron for splising of small ropes and opening the bolt-rope (to sew in the Sail.)
• Marlow, a Town in Bucks.
• Marmaduke, (q. Mehr-mach∣tig, Ge. more powerfull) a mans name.
• Marmelade, f. l. conserve (of Quinces, &c.)
• Marmoration, l. a building with marble.
• Marmorean, like (or made of) Marble.
• Marmoset, a kind of black Monkey with a shaggy neck, (as they are shown in Eng∣land.)
• Marmot▪ f. a Mountain-rat.
• Marne, a River of Champagne in France.
• Maronea, -ogna, a City of Ciconia, whence
• Maronean wine, so strong, that if twenty times so much water be mixt with it, it still retains its virtue.
• Marocco, an African King∣dom West of Barbary.
• Maronites, (a branch of the Jacobites) Christians of Mount
• Libanus, whose Patriarch is alwayes called Peter.
• Marpissa, Alcyone, the be∣loved Wife of Idaeus (the comliest man of his time.)
• Marpu••g, a Town of Hessen in Germany.
• Marques▪ as Reprisals.
• Letters of Marque, See Lett-,
• Marquenterre, part of Pi∣cardy.
• Marquesite, as Marchesite.
• Marquisate, the title and ju∣risdiction of a
• Marquess, -quiss, (q. Lord Marcher) a Noble-man be∣tween a Duke and Earl.
• Marquisate of the Empire, part of Brabant, conteining Lovaine, Bruxelles, Nivelle and Antwerp.
• Marquetry, f. a Jo••ners chec∣quer'd in-la••d work with wood of divers sorts and co∣lours, and sometime con∣founded with Mosaique.
• Marrow, (f. Maraud,) a fel∣low, knave or beggerly ra∣scal.
• Marrows, No. fellows (spo∣of Gloves, Shoes, &c.)
• Mars, the Son of Juno (with∣out the help of Jupiter) War or the God of War, also the Planet next above the Sun.
• Marseilles (in Provence) the most ancient City of France.
• Marsalquivir, a Spanish Port in the Kingdome of Al∣giers.
• Marshal, Ge. (Master of the Horse) the name of several Officers, whereof the chief is the
• Earl Marshal of England, his Office consists (especial∣ly) in matters of War and Arms.
• Marshal of the Kings House, he hears and determines all Pleas of the Crown, &c.
• Marshal of the Exchequer, to whom the Court commits the Custody of the Kings Debtors, &c.
• Marshal of the Kings Bench, who hath the Custody of the prison called the Kings-Bench in Southwark.
• In every Regiment there is a Marshal, who Executes all Orders of the Council of War.
• Marshalsee, the Court or seat of the Marshal, also the Prison in Southwark so cal∣led.
• Marchfield, a Town in Glo∣cestershire.
• Marsyas, a Phrygian Musi∣cian, who chalenged Apollo, and (being overcom'n) was flead for his presumption.
• Mart, a great Fair or Ma••∣ket.
• Martagon, a sort of Lilly.
• Martane, a River of Lor∣raine.
• Martens, sables, a rich furr of a little beast of that name.
• Martes ••••rk, o. Mars's mark.
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• Martia▪ Cato's wife, whom he gave to his friend Hortensi∣us, after whose death he took her again.
• Martial, Warlike, belong∣ing to (or born under the Planet) Mars.
• Martial-Law, which de∣pends on the voice of the king or of his Lieutenant, or of the General or his Officers in wars.
• Martichore, as Mant-.
• Martin, -nus (q. Martius) a mans name.
• S••. Martin, a Military Saint, Bishop of Tours.
• Martinet, Martlet, Apus, a Swift, (the word is dimi∣nutive, but the bird is bigger than the Common Martin.)
• Martingale, f. a leather passing from the horses chaps to his fore-girth, to make him reign well, and hinder the casting-up of his head.
• Martnets, small lines fasten∣ed to the Legs on the leetch of a sail, to bring it close up to the yard in fartheling.
• Top the Martnets, hale the martnets of the top-••ails.
• Martock, a town in Som∣mersetshire.
• Martyria, g. testimony, a confirming what one speaks, by ones own experience.
• Martyrologie, g. a discourse or Book of
• Martyrs, g. Witnesses seal∣ing the truth of Christianity with their bloud.
• Martyrdom, their Suffer∣ing.
• Marvel of Peru, an Ameri∣can Nightshade, with flo∣wers of wonderfull varie∣ty.
• Marullus Pomponius, a great Grammarian and Critick, who reproved Tiberius for speaking improper Latin.
• Mary, h. Exalted, or from
• Marah, h. bitterness.
• St. Mary Cray, a town in Kent.
• Mascarade, f. a Mask or Mummery.
• Mascon, a City in Burgun∣dy.
• Mascle, (f. Macle) a short lozenge (in Blazon) with a square hole in the midst.
• Masham, a Town in York∣shire.
• Masculine, l. Manly, of the Male-kind.
• Maskewd, o. fenced, forti∣fied.
• Mass, (f. Messe, l. Missa, h, Missah an Oblation) the Popish Liturgie or Church-service.
• Mass-daies, Sa. Holy-days.
• Massa, a Countrey between Tuscany and Genoa.
• Massanello, (for Thomas Anello) a Fisher-man of Na∣ples who headed the tumultu∣ous people against their Go∣vernours, arose to great dignity and (in a moment) slain.
• Massicot, f. (q. Massa cocta) Oaker made of Ceruse or white-lead.
• Massacre, f. (I. Mazzare to kill with a Mazz-, a mace or club) a General Slaugh∣ter.
• Massilia, Marseilles in France
• Massilians, as Messalians.
• Massinissa, a King of Nu∣••idia, first an Enemy, after∣wards a faithfull friend to the Romans.
• Mass-Munster, a town in Alsatia.
• Massovia, a Province of Poland.
• Massorets, Jews that cor∣rected (in the Margent) the false-written words of the Scripture-text.
• Mast, the fruit of the Oak, Beech, Chesnut, &c.
• Main-mast, four fifths of a ships breath, multiplied by 3 [feet,] and (for thickness) one inch to a yard.
• Fore-Mast, (and Bolt-sprit) four fifths of the Main mast.
• Missen-Mast, half the Main-Mast.
• Top-Mast, half the length of its own mast.
• Master of the Armory, hav∣ing the Care and over-sight of his Majesties Armour.
• Master of the Ceremonies, the Kings Interpreter, introduc∣eth Ambassadours, &c.
• Masters of the Chancery, As∣sistants to the Lord Chan∣cellour and Master of the Rolls.
• Master of the Horse, he that hath the rule and charge of the Kings stable.
• Master of the Kings Houshold, Grand Master-, Lord Ste∣ward-, under whom is the
• Master of the Houshold, a Principal Officer of great authority and antiquity.
• Master of the Jewel house, hath charge of all plate for the King or Queens Table, or in the Tower, Chains, loose Jewels, &c.
• Master of the Mint, War∣den-, he receives the Silver of the Goldsmiths, &c.
• Master of the Kings Musters, or
• Muster-Master General, sees that the Kings forces be com∣pleat, well armed and train∣ed.
• Master of the Ordnance, who hath care of all the Kings Ordnance and Artillery,
• Master of the Posts, was an Officer of the Kings Court, who appointed all that pro∣vided Post-horses, &c.
• Master of the Rolls (till •••• Henry 7. called Clerk of the Rolls) Magister vel Custos Ro∣tulorum, Clericus parvae bag••, &c. Assistant to the Lord Chancellour of England, and (in his absence) hears Causes and gives Orders.
• Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries, the Chief Offi∣cer of that Court, abolished 12 Car. 2.
• Master of the Wardrope, (an Office near puddle-Wharf) He has the Charge of all for∣mer kings and Queens anci∣ent Robes in the Tower, all hangings, bedding, &c. for the kings houses, delivers Velvet or Scarlet for Liveries, &c.
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• Masterie, q. Maistrete (for Maistrise) Mastership, or else for mastereth.
• Masterwort, Imperatoria, it provokes sweat, and (being held between the Teeth) draws rheum very much.
• Mastication, l. a chewing,
• Masticatory, a medicine to be chewed.
• Masticine, belonging to
• Mastick, a clear sweet-smel∣ling gum of the Lentisk tree in Chios.
• Masticot, a fine yellow pow∣der for paint.
• Masty, q. Nasty, or fatted with Mast.
• Mastigophere, g. one deserv∣ing stripes, or the Officer that (with blows) makes way in a croud.
• Mastling, (q. Messing, ge. brass,) o. shining.
• Mastrake▪ f. a winter-gar∣ment of Wolves and Deer-skins.
• Masura terrae, about four O••gangs.
• Mastuerco, an Indian healing herb.
• Ma••s, broad clowts (of syn∣net and thrums) to save any thing from galling.
• Matachin, f. an antick or ••orrice dance.
• Matagot, a kind of Ape, al∣so a Hypocrite.
• Matapan, (in the More••) the most Southern Cape of Eu∣rope.
• Match, when a Wolf desires copulation, he goes to his Match or Mate.
• Mate, sa. daunted, also con∣sumed, dead.
• Cr••ck-mate, when (at Chess) there is no way left for the King to escape, and the game is ended.
• Blind-mate, when he that 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the King (not perceiv∣ing it) cries only Check.
• Matelotage, f. the hire of a ship or boat from
• Matelo••, f. a seaman or boat∣man.
• Mateology, g. a vain over∣curious enquiry into things.
• Mateotechny, g. a vain art, or the vanity of any science.
• Materia prima, the first mat∣ter, or subject of all substan∣tial formes.
• Material, l. consisting of matter or substance, also weighty or important.
• Materiation, l. selling of Timber for building, or pre∣paring it for war.
• Mater Metallorum, Quick∣silver.
• Maternal, l. Motherly.
• Maternity, mother-hood.
• Mathematical, belonging to a
• Mathematician, one skil'd in the
• Mathematicks, g. Sciences taught by Demonstration, viz. Arithmetick, Astrono∣my, Geometry and Musick.
• Matthew, h. reward.
• Mathurins, Fryers of the Holy Trinity, who are to employ the alms they beg, in redeeming Christian slaves from the Turks.
• Matines, f. Morning-Pray∣ers at three a Clock.
• Matire, o. matter.
• Matricide, l. a killing or killer of his Mother.
• Matricious, belonging to the
• Matrice, -ix, l. that part of the womb, where the Child is conceived; also a mould for Printers Letters.
• Matriculution, l. a being
• Matriculated, sworn and re∣gistred into the society of our Mother the University.
• Matrimonial, l. belonging to
• Matrimony, l. Marriage.
• Matron, a grave motherly Woman.
• Matta, an Indian Idol wh••ch they visit yearly, and to whom they sacrifice a piece of their tongues.
• Mattathias, Ma••thias, b. the Gift of the Lord.
• Matted plants, growing as if they were plat••ed toge∣ther.
• Mattins, as Matines.
• Matttock, (q. Met haeck, D. with a hook) a kind of pick-axe.
• Mattress, s. a quilt or flock-bed.
• Matura, the Goddess of Corn when it began to ripen, as Patalena was, when the cups began to open.
• Maturated, l. ripened, haste∣ned.
• Maturation, a ripening.
• Maturative, belonging to, helping or causing
• Maturity, l. ripeness, per∣fection.
• Matutine, -nal▪ l. belonging to
• Matuta, the morning.
• Maud, Matilda, Mathildis, Ge. Lady of M••ids.
• Maudlin, Costus hortorum, like Tansey in sight, and Alecoast in vertue.
• Mauger, Malgerius, a proper name.
• Maugre, (f. Mal gre) in spight of ones Teeth.
• Thou canst (••ennest) me Mau∣gre, o. owest me a spight.
• Mavis, a thrush, also a bu∣shel, o.
• Maumet, o. Mahomet.
• Maund, f. a hand-basket with two lids, or hamper, (to carry victuals, &c.) whence
• Maundy-Thursday, shore or Sheer-Thursday, next before Easter, when the King (or his Almoner) washes the feet of certain poor men and gives them Doles.
• Maunding, c. begging.
• Mavors, as Mars.
• Mauritania▪ the utmost Re∣gion of Africa toward the Gaditan Bay or the streights of Gibra••ter.
• Mausolaeum, a famous mar∣ble Sepulchre (one of the seven wonders of the world) 25 cubits high, 411 foot a∣bout▪ supported with 36 cu∣rious pillars, built by Ar••••∣mesia for her Husband
• Mausolus, King of Caria.
• Marentius, the Son of
• Maximinus, a Roma•• Ty∣rant,

• persecutour of Christi∣anity.
• Maxillar, -ry, l. belonging to the Jaw-bone.
• Maxime, an axiom, rule, or undeniable principle in any Art.
• Maximilian, (composed of
• Maximus and Aemilianus, Q. Fabius and Scipio) a Ger∣man Emperour Son to Fre∣derick 3.
• Maximinus, a Roman Em∣perour Author of the sixth persecution.
• May, the Moneth dedicated to
• Maia, the Mother of Mercu∣ry.
• May-fly, bred (in May) of a Water-cricket crept out of the water.
• May games, Floralia, be∣ginning (probably) from such a Roman custom, ac∣cording to Ovid.
• ... Exit & in Maias Festum
• Florale Cal••ndas, Fast. 4.
• Maynour, as Mainour.
• Mayor, Meyr, as Maior.
• Maystrye, o. a Master-piece.
• May-weed, resembling Cam∣momel, but of a stinking sa∣vour and odious to Bees.
• Mazagan, a Portugal sort on the coast of Morocco.
• Maze, an astonishment, also as
• Miz-maze, a labyrinth or place full of intricate turn∣ings.
• Mazara, a town in Sicily.
• Mazer, -zar, -zeline, a beker or standing-cup to drink in, commonly made of
• Maes••r, D. Maple.
• Mazzards, West. black-cherries.
• Mazzo, a Town in the Valte∣line.
• Meaco, the chief City in Japan.
• Mead, Mede, (Br. Medd) as Hydromel.
• Mead, a Meadow.
• Meadow-sweet, Regina prati, with crumpled leaves, stops bleeding, &c.
• Meag, Meak, E. a peas-hook.
• Meagre, f. lean.
• Meal-Rents, payable by some Tenants in the Honour of Clun, to make meat for the Lords hounds.
• Mean, midle, in the midle, between two extreams.
• Mean part (in Musick,) the Tenour, between treble and Basse.
• Meander, Maean-, Madre, Palazzia, a Phrygian River with many turnings.
• Meandrous, full of
• Meande••s, [things full of] intricate turnings and wind∣ings.
• Mear-stones, placed for bounds between land and land.
• Mease, (q. Maison) f. a man∣sion-house, also a measure of 500 Herrings.
• Measles, a disease somewhat like the small pox.
• Measn, as Mesne.
• Measondue as Maison Dieu.
• Measure of length, three bar∣ly corns (from end to end) make an inch, twelve inches a foot, two foot and a half a step, 3 foot a yard▪ 3 foot and nine inches an ell, 6 foot a fathom, five yards and a half a Rood, (pole or pearch) forty Roods a Furlong, and (with the breadth of four Rods) an Acre, eight Fur∣longs an English mile.
• Meath, Li. choice or liberty, also a Province of Ireland.
• Meaux, a City in France.
• Mec••••nas, a Noble man of Rome, who favour'd Virgil, Horace, and other learned men.
• Mecha, Meccha, a City of Arabia faelix, not far from
• Medina, but of far greater resort and traffick.
• Mechanick, -cal, g. belonging to an Handy-craft.
• Mechanick, a Trades-man.
• Mechanick Arts, (chiefly seven) Agriculture, Archi∣tecture, Clothing, Hunting, Medicine, Military-Disci∣pline, and Navigation.
• Mechlin, a City of Brabant.
• Mechoachan, a root of great efficacy in the Dropsie.
• Mechation, l. Whoredom.
• Mecklenburg, a German Dukedom.
• Medal, -lia, (f. Medaille) an ancient flat jewel or coyn, (not current money, but, re∣presenting some effigies or other ingenious device.
• Mede, sa. a desert or me∣rit.
• Medea, a forceress feigned to have the power of renew∣ing youth, &c.
• Medes, o. to boot.
• Medembleck, a Town in Hol∣land.
• Medewife, sa. a woman of merit.
• Medfee, sa. a bribe or re∣ward, also the bote or com∣pensation given in an ex∣change.
• Media, a large Country in Asia.
• Median, l. mean, midle, in∣different.
• Median vein, the midle, com∣mon or black vein.
• Mediastine, l. the thin skins dividing the whole breast (from the throat to the Mid∣riff) into two hollow bosoms, also a drudge or kitchin-slave.
• Mediation, l. a dividing in two, also coming between, the work of a
• Mediatour, l. he that doth
• Mediate, intercede or entreat for another.
• Medicable, l, able to heal, or easy to be healed.
• Medicament, l. a medicine.
• Medicaster, l. a Quack or pedling Physitian.
• Medicated [meats, &c.] min∣gled with medicinal ingre∣dients.
• Medication, l. a curing:
• Medicinable, curable.
• Medicine, l. Physick, of five kinds, Nosognomick, discern∣ing diseases; Boethetick, removing them; Pharma∣ceutick, curing them by ap∣plication of Medicaments; Chirurgick, by incision or

• cauterising, Diaeteri••k, by Diet.
• Medick, l. a Physitian.
• Mediety, l. the midle or half.
• Medietas linguae, a mixt in∣quest of Denizens and Stran∣gers.
• Medimne, -num, l. 6 Bush∣els▪
• Medina, a City of Arabia where Mahomets Tomb stands.
• Mediòcrity, l. indifferency moderation, a mean.
• Medio acquietando, a writ to distrain a Lord for acquit∣ting a mean Lord from a Rent which another claims.
• Mediolanum, Millain, the Chief City of Lombardy, so called (they say) from a sow half covered with Wooll, found in digging the founda∣tion.
• Medisance, f. evil-speaking, reproach.
• Meditative, belonging to
• Meditation, l. a studying or devising.
• Mediterranean, l. in the mid∣dle of the Earth.
• Mediterranean Sea, the Mid∣land Sea, Dividing Europe from Africa, and part of Asia.
• Medle, o. mingle.
• Medlar, a fruit (if rotten-ripe) gratefull to the sto∣mach.
• Medlefe, -letum, quarrelling, scuff••ng.
• Medrinacles, Pouledavies, a Course kind of Canvas.
• Medullar, belonging to the marrow.
• Medusean, belonging to
• Medusa, Phorcys's Daugh∣ter with golden hair, turn'd into snakes by Minerva, for lying with Neptune in her Temple.
• Meed, o. Merit or reward.
• Meedless, No. unruly.
• Meegre Larbre, o. (q. Maigre 〈◊〉〈◊〉 arbre) as Lean as a tree.
• Meen, Mine, f. the Counte∣nance, or posture of the face.
• Meer, for Meer Right.
• Mees, sa. meadows.
• Meet, Mete, No. measure.
• Meet now, No. Just now.
• Meeter, -tre, Verse or mea∣sure.
• M••eterly, Meeth-, Meed-, No. handsomely, modestly.
• Megaclo, Daughter of
• Megares, King of Lesbia, who hired the muses to be her maids and (with their singing) to pacifie his fro∣wardness towards her mo∣ther.
• Megacosm, g. Macrocosm, the great world.
• Megaera, one of the Fu∣ries.
• Megalensian, or Megalesian Games, in honour of the great Goddess Cybele.
• Megalopsychie, g. Magnani∣mity, greatness of Soul.
• Megalysus, A Persian No∣ble, who (for Darius) over∣threw the tyranny of the Magi.
• Meganologie, g. a discourse of Greatness.
• Megarick Phylosophers, in∣stituted by Euclid, born at
• Megara, a Town near the Istmus, also the daughter of Creon King of Thebes, slain by her own husband Hercules.
• Megb••te, as Mag-.
• Megrim, Migrame, (Hemi∣crania) a pain (by fits) in the Temples or fore-part of the head.
• Meine, o. the same as
• Meiny, Mesnie, f. a Fami∣ly.
• Meiosis, g. a diminution, making a thing less than it is.
• Meke, o. meek.
• Meladine, a king of Egypt, courteous to the Christians when they were half drown∣ed.
• ... Melampode, g. Hellebore.
• Melampus, (black-foot, by being laid in the Sun) a Phy∣sician that understood the voices of Birds and Beasts.
• Melancholick, troubled with
• Melancholy▪ g. black choler, one of the four humours al∣so a pensive distemper from the abounding thereof.
• Melantho, Daughter of Pro∣teus, being desirous to ride on a Dolphin, Neptune (in that shape) deceived her and ravished her.
• Melduthus, a banished Messenian, who having hol∣pen the Athenians against the Baeotians, was by them cho∣sen king.
• Melborn, a Castle in Dar∣byshire, where the Duke of Bourbon was prisoner 19 years.
• Melchior, one of the Magi, or 3 kings of Colen, also an Heretick, founder of the Melchiorists.
• Melchites, a Syrian Sect Subject to the Patriarch of Antioch of the same Tenents with the Grecians (save that they observe both Saterday and Sunday:) in Religion they follow the injunctions of the Emperour or
• Melchi, Sy. king.
• Melchizedeck, h. King of Righteousness.
• Meldfeoh, Sa. the Infor∣mers fee.
• Meleager, son of Oneus king of Calidonia.
• Melechsala, the son of Me∣ladine, king of Egypt, he won the peoples hearts from his Father, who (therefore) liv∣ed unbeloved and died unla∣mented.
• Melilote, M••ll-, Corona Re∣gia, (q. Honey-Lote) an herb with round leaves and slender branches.
• Meliorate, l. to wax or make better.
• Meliority, Betterness.
• Melissa, M••llona, -nia, the Patroness of bees.
• Melite, o, power.
• Melius inquirendo, a writ for a second (more impartial) enquiry of what lands a man died seized.
• Mellasses, Treacle, the dross of Sugar.
• Mellation, the [time of] taking the honey out of hives.
• Mell, o. medle.
• ...

• Mellean, -eous, of or like Honey.
• Mellif••rous, l. bringing or bearing Honey.
• Mellification, a making ho∣ney.
• Mellifluent, -uous, flowing with honey, eloquent.
• Melliloquent, Sweet-spo∣ken.
• Melliscent, (hony-sweet) a womans name.
• Mellitism, honeyed wine.
• Melliturgie, g. Bees-work, making of honey.
• Mellona, see Mellissa.
• Melody, g. harmony, a sweet-song.
• Melowne, (f. Milan) a kite.
• Melpomene, one of the Mu∣ses, Authour of Trage∣dies.
• Melton-Mowbray, a Town in Leicestershire.
• Membranatick, belonging to a
• Memb••ane, l. a thin skin, rind or parchment.
• Pleuritique Membrane, through whose doubles pass all the Sinews, Veins and Ar∣teries, which are between the Ribs.
• Membrature, l. a setting or ordering of Members or Parts.
• Membrin••, a fam'd Knight errant in Don Quixot, whose helmet was said to be impe∣netrable.
• Memnonian birds, reported to have flown out from the funeral pile of
• Memnon, Brother of Lao∣medon, slain by Achilles in the Trojan war.
• Memorable, l. easie or wor∣thy to be remembred.
• Memorandum, l. [a note or token of] something to be remembred.
• Memoires, f. remarkable ob∣servations.
• ...Memorial, l. ••hat which puts one in mind, or makes one to be remembred.
• Memories, obsequies or Re∣membrances for the dead.
• Me••••••ious, l. having a good Memory.
• Memento mori, l. remember dying.
• Of blessed Memory, happy or honoured in being thought upon.
• Memphians, -ists, Egypti∣ans, inhabitants of
• Memphis, Alcairo, the chief City of Egypt.
• Menage, f. a leading or handing.
• Menahim, h. a comforter.
• Menalippus, a Theban, slain by the friends of Tydeus, to whom he had first given a mortal wound.
• Menasseh, Manassah, h. for∣gotten.
• Mendaciloquent, l. speak∣ing lies.
• Mendicant, l. begging.
• Mendicants, begging Fry∣ers.
• Mendication, a begging.
• Mendicity, beggery.
• Mendience, f. the same
• Mendlesham, a Town in Suffolk.
• Menelaus, the Son of Atre∣us, and Husband of Helena the Daughter of Jupiter and Leda.
• Menestheus, the Son of Pe∣leus and King of Athens who died at the siege of Troy.
• Mene, o. meditate.
• Menged, o. mingled.
• Mengrel, o. mongrel.
• Mengrelians, Circassians, (next neighbours to the Georgians) of the Greek Religion, save that they baptize not their Children till eight years old.
• Menial-servants, Family servants.
• Menials, the same
• Meninges, g. the two thin skins about the Brain, viz. Dura mater between the skul and the Pia mater, next the Brain.
• Meniver, the fur of a small Muscovia-beast.
• Menker, the Whales jaw, a star.
• Mennow, (f. Menu, small) Minimus, a Cockrel, a very little fish.
• Menachus, the Son of Creon and the last of Cadmus's race, who slew himself for the safe∣ty of his Country promised by the Oracle on that ac∣count.
• Menologe, the greek Mar∣tyrology, Calendar or Col∣lection of Saints-days in eve∣ry moneth.
• Mensal, l. belonging to a Table.
• Menseful, Y. comely, cre∣ditable.
• Mension, -suration, l. a mea∣suring.
• Menstrual, l. monthly.
• Menstruosity, a being
• Menstruous, -uant, l abound∣ing with or belonging to monthly Terms or Flowers.
• Mensurate, l. to measure.
• Mensura Regalis, the Kings standard of th' Exchequer.
• Mental, l. thought or kept in the mind.
• Menteith, part of South Scotland.
• Mentition, l. a lying or tell∣ing of lies.
• Mentz, Maenus, Mogus, a free City on the Rhine in Germany.
• Meny, No. a Family.
• Meotides, Lakes and Mar∣shes between Europe and Asia.
• Mephibosheth, h. shame of mouth.
• Mephistophiles, Dr. Faustus's familiar spirit.
• Mephitick, stinking, dam∣pish [savour of the earth.]
• Mera, a great huntress ra∣visht by Jupiter in the shape of Diana, who shot her to death and turn'd her to a Ce∣lestial Dog.
• Meracity, l. pureness with∣out mixture.
• Meraud, (q. Esmeraude) a Womans name.
• Mercative, belonging to
• Mercature, l. the Trade of Merchandize.
• Mercedary, l. he that hireth, also as
• Mercenary, he that is hi∣hired

• for reward or wages.
• Merch, part of South Scot∣land.
• Merchenlage, the law of the
• Mercian, Inhabitants of Chester, Glocester, Hereford, Ox∣ford, Salop, Stafford, War∣wick, and Worcester. This was one of the three sorts of laws out of which the Conqueror framed o••rs, mixt with those of Normandy; the other two being Danelaege, and West-Saxonlaeg.
• Mercimoniatus Angliae, the Custom or Impost of Eng∣land.
• Mercurialize, to play the
• Mercurial, -list, fantastical, talkative, theevish, Eloquent, one born under
• Mercury, the Planet next above the Moon, also Quick∣silver, the Son of Jupiter, and Maia, the messenger of the Gods, also a News-book.
• Mercurian, eloquent &c.
• Mercurius Trismegistus, as Hermes, &c.
• Mercury-women. See Haw∣kers.
• In the grievous Mercy of the King, in hazard of a great fine or penalty.
• Merdiferous, l. carrying dung.
• Mere, a standing water which cannot be drawn dry, also as Lynchet.
• Mere, a Town in Wilts.
• Meritricious, l. whorish.
• Mergen, sa. the morning.
• Me••••ll, o. (for Werelt, D.) the World.
• Meridian, an imagined cir∣cle (passing through the Poles and the Zenith) which being touched by the centre of the Suns body, maketh Noon∣tide, also as
• Meridional, belonging to the South or to mid-day.
• Meridiation, l. a sleeping at Noon.
• Merismus, g. division, a dis∣posing things in their proper places.
• Merito••, Oscillum, a child∣ish play of sitting and swing∣ing in a rope.
• Meritorious, full of
• Merit, l. desert, also to deserve.
• Merk, o. Dark. Se M••rk.
• Merkin, (f. la mere, Ma∣trix) pube•• [ementita] muli∣eris.
• Merle, f. a blackbird.
• Merlin, a British Conjur∣er.
• Mermaides, Syrens, (Ligaea, Leucosia and Parthenope,) Sea∣maids (with their neather parts fishy) who were said with their musick to entice Seamen & then destroy them.
• Mern, part of North-Scot∣land.
• Merodach-Baladan, h. bit∣ter Contrition without judg∣ment.
• Merod••n, a town in Gulick∣land.
• Dia Meroes, the farthest of the Northern Climates, whose parallel runs through
• Meroe, a City in an Island of that name encompassed with Nilus, from
• Meroe, the Sister of Cambyses founder thereof.
• Merope, one of the Plei∣ades.
• Merrick, an ancient British name of a man.
• Merry banks, Der. a cold posset.
• Mersion, l. a Ducking, drowning or over-whelming.
• Mertlage, for Martyrologie.
• Merton Colledge (in Oxford) founded by one Walter of
• Merton, a town in Surrey.
• Mer••il, a town of Luxem∣burgh.
• Mese, half a thousand of herrings, also the mean or midle-string of an instru∣ment.
• Mesel, Sa. a ••eper.
• Mesenterick, Meseraick, be∣longing to the
• Mesen••ery, g. (mid-bowels) the Double skin fastening the bowels to the back and one another, enclosing a number of veins which nourish th•• guts, conc••ct the juice of meat, and convey it to the liver to be made bloud.
• Meskite, a synagogue a∣mong the Turks and Moors, from
• Mezquidun, A. an Orati∣on.
• Mesnalty, the right of a
• Mesn, the Lord of a man∣nour, holding of a superiour Lord, also a writ, when the Tenant is distrained by the superiour for service due to the mean Lord.
• Mes••agery, -rie, f. [the pra∣ctice of] Husbandry or Hus∣wifry.
• Mesopotamia, Apamia, Adi∣abene, (Aram Naharaim, h. Syria of the rivers) a large Country of Asia, between the Rivers Tigris and Eu∣phrates.
• Mesozeugma, the figure Zeugma with the verb in the midle.
• M••ssagery, a diligence in doing a message.
• Messalians, Massil-, Here∣ticks holding that the sacra∣ments did neither good nor harm, &c.
• Messilanae, the Luxurious Wife of Claudius the Empe∣rour.
• Messana, -sina, the chief ci∣ty of Sicily.
• Messapià, Mesae-, part of I∣taly, conteining Apuglia and Calabria.
• Messarius, a mower or har∣vester.
• M••ssenij, the people of▪
• Messenae, a City of Greece, which held out long against the Spartans, but at last was reduced to absolute slavery.
• Messengers of the Exchequer, Four Pursuivants attending the Lord Treasurer.
• Messiah -as, h. Christ or A∣nointed.
• Messil••, as Missile, (in the last sense.)
• Messina, the best port-town in Sicily.
• Messor, l. a reaper or mow∣er.
• Messorious, l▪ belonging

• to reaping or harvest.
• Mes••••lo, Meslin, Mun••orn, Wheat and Rye mixt.
• Mestizos, Sp. the breed of Spaniards by the Americans.
• Mest, o. for Most.
• Mestier, f. a trade, also ne∣cessity.
• Mestifical, l. making heavy or sad.
• Mesuage, Mess••, a dwelling-house [with Garden and all things belonging to it]
• Messuagium, (in Scotland) the Mannor-house.
• Met, Mette, o. Dream∣ed.
• Met, No. Four pecks.
• Metabasis, g. a Transition or passing from one thing to ano∣ther.
• Metachronism, g. an errour in Chronology or reckoning of time.
• Metacism, l. a fault in pro∣nouncing.
• Metaleptick, belonging to
• Metalepsis, g. a participa∣ting, the continuation of a trope in one word through a Succession of significati∣ons.
• Metal, Mettle, the breech of a Great Gun.
• Vnder-M••ttle, with her mouth lower than the breech.
• Over-Mettle, with the mouth higher.
• Metalliferous, l. bringing forth Metals.
• Metallick, -ine, l. belonging to Metals.
• Metamorphize, to transform, or change the form or shape.
• Metamorphosis, g. a chang∣ing of one shape into ano∣ther.
• Metaphorical, belonging to or spoken by a
• Metaphor, g. a borrowing of a word to express something which it doth not signifie na∣turally, a similitude compre∣hended in one word.
• Metaphysical, Supernatu∣ral, belonging to
• Metaphysicks, g. a Science wh••ch enquires of the form and end (as Physicks doth of the efficient and matter) of of things The highest part of it treats of God, Spirits, &c.
• Metaplasm, -mus▪ a nece∣ssary change (of words or let∣ters) by reason of the verse, &c.
• Metaris, Maltraith, the washes, an arm of the Sea in Lincolnshire.
• Metathesis, g. a transpositi∣on or change of letters.
• Mete-gavel, sa. Tribute or Rent paid in Victuals, chang∣ed into money by Hen. 1.
• Metellus, a famous Roman General, also a Priest who lost his eyes by venturing to fetch the Palladium out of Vesta's Temple on fire.
• Mete, (for Meet,) o. equal, also to deal, to yield.
• Metempsychosed, passed by
• M••tempsychosis, g. a passing of the soul from one body to another.
• Meteorologist, one that stu∣dies or is skilled in
• Meterology, g. the Doctrine of
• M••teors, g. apparitions on high, or bodies imperfectly mixt of vapours drawn up in∣to the air, as Comets, Clouds. Wind, Rain, &c.
• Metcoroscopie, g. a part of Astrology, handling the diffe∣rence of sublimities and di∣stance of Stars.
• Metewand, a yard or mea∣suring rod.
• Meth, Meeth, o. the same as Mead or
• Metheglin, (Br. Meddiglin) a Welch drink of wort, herbs, hony and spice boild toge∣ther.
• Methodical, belonging to
• Method, g. a ready way or manner, an orderly or arti∣ficial disposing of things.
• Methodist, one that so dispo∣seth things or that treats of method.
• Methodists, Galenists.
• Methridate, as Mit••rida••e.
• M••thuselah, h. (the wea∣pons of his death) he lived 969 years.
• Meticulosity, a being
• Meticulous, l. timerous, fearful.
• Metient, l. measuring.
• Meti••••hus, the Son of Al∣••ibiades (at war with Darius) being taken prisoner, was honourably received and en∣riched.
• Metius Suffetius, Dictator of the Albans, torn in pieces by Tullius Hostilius's wild horses, for not assisting him (according to Covenant) a∣gainst the Fidenates.
• Metonymical, belonging to a
• Metonymie, g. a putting one name for another, as of the Cause and Subject for the Effect and Adjunct, or e con∣trà.
• Metope, the distance or space (in a pillar) between the Denticles and Triglyphs.
• Metopomancy, g. Divination by the face or forehead.
• Metoposcopy, g. telling mens Natures (and fortunes) by looking on their faces.
• Metrenchyta, g. an instru∣ment to inject liquid medi∣cines into the womb.
• Metrical, l. belonging to.
• M••••ter, or verse.
• Metropolis, g. the chief or Mother-City of a Province.
• Metropolitan, belonging thereto, also an Arch-Bishop, who (usually) hath his seat there▪
• Metropolitan and Primate of England, the Arch-Bishop of York.
• Metropolitan and Primate of all England, the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.
• Meve, o. for move.
• Mewet, o. in secret.
• Metz▪ a City of Lorrain.
• Mexican, belonging to
• Mexico, a famous City of Nova Hispania.
• Meurs, a Town on the Rhine.
• Meurte, a River in Lor∣rain.
• Mezentius, a King of the Thus••ans, who (with his Son Lausus) assisting Turnus were

• slain by Aenaeas.
• Mezieres, a Town in Cham∣pagne.
• Miagrus, Mya-, Myopes, A∣chor, the God of flies.
• Miasm, g. a defilement.
• Micajah, h. who is like the Lord?
• Michael, h. who is like God?
• St. Michaels Mount, a Pro∣montory in Cornwall, fortifi∣ed by John Earl of Oxford a∣gainst K. Edw. 4th.
• Michal, h. who is perfect?
• Miche, to play the truant, or hide ones self out of the way.
• Michis, white-loaves, paid sometime as a Rent.
• Michleta, a kind of Con∣fection.
• Mickle, sa. much.
• Microcosm, g. the little World, Man.
• Microcosmical, belonging thereto.
• Microcosmography, g. a de∣scription thereof.
• Micrography, g. a descrip∣tion of minute bodies.
• Micrology, g. a speaking or treating of petty affairs.
• Micropsychy, g. smallness of Soul, faintheartedness.
• Microscope, g. an instru∣ment to discern the full pro∣portion of the smallest things.
• Mictus sanguinis, l. a pis∣sing of [thin, wheyish] bloud.
• Midas▪ King of Phrygia, who had his desire of his guest Bacchus, that whatsoever he touched might be turn'd into gold, till (being almost fami∣shed) he was counselled to wash in Pactolus, whose sands (thereby) became golden.
• Midding, sa. No. a mixen or dunghill.
• Middleburg, the chief City of Zealand, another in Mentz, &c.
• Middle-men, half-files, they that are in the sixth rank of ten, or the fifth of eight (but improperly.
• Middleham, a Town in York-shire.
• Midge, No. a gnat.
• Midian, h. Judgement or striving.
• Middleton, a Town in Dor∣cetshire, and almost 40 more.
• Midriasis, g. the dilatation of the apple of the eye.
• Middlewich, a town in Cheshire,
• Midhurst, a Town in Sussex.
• Midriff, as Diaphragm.
• Migrame, as Megrim.
• Migration, l. a removing or departing.
• Mikel, for Mickle.
• Mildernix, a kind of Can∣vas for Sail-Clothes, &c.
• Mile, a thousand paces, or 1760 yards.
• Dutch Mile, 4000 paces.
• German Mile, 5000 paces.
• Milbrook, a town in Cornwall.
• Mildenhall, a Town in Sussex.
• Miles Milo, a mans name.
• Mil••sij, the people of
• Miletus, Anactoria, Me∣lazzo, the chief City of Ionia
• Milan, Millain, a City in Italy.
• Milford-haven, a large and comodious haven in Pem∣brokeshire.
• Militant, l. f••ighting, com∣bating.
• Military, belonging to
• Militia, l. warfare, Soldie∣ry the implements and furni∣ture for war.
• Milken, c. a house-breaker.
• Milky way, as Vtalactaea.
• Millea••e, Mil-leat, a trench to convey water to or from a Mill.
• ...Millefoile, ••he herb yarrow.
• Mill, c. to steal.
• Millenari••, -ian, as Chiliast.
• Millet, Milium, a plant bear∣ing a multitude of small grains.
• Milliary, l. mile-mark a stone-pillar (in Rome) with a brass-ball, from whence all the Miles were reckoned. Such a one London stone is thought to have been.
• Million, a thousand thousand.
• Milo, a Cro••••nian, who (at the Olympick games) carri∣ed an Oxe a furlong, killed him with his fist, and are him in one day.
• Mill-holms, No. watry places bout the Mill dam.
• Miloglossum, one of the four muscles of the tongue.
• Miltiades, an Athenian who (with 11 thousand Greeks) overthrew 600 thousand Per∣sians, yet (being accused of bribery) was forced to dye in chains.
• Milton, a Town in Kent▪ and about 30 more.
• Milverton, a Town in Som∣mersetshire.
• Milwyn, La. green-fish.
• Mimical, a pish, belonging to a
• Mime, -mick▪ g. a Jester, or fool in a play, also a kind of play more wanton than a Comedy.
• Mimographer, a writer of such Poems.
• Minacity, -ature, l. mena∣cing or threatning.
• Minchings, o. (Monachae) Nuns.
• Minchin-Hampton, a town in Glocestershire.
• Mindbruch, sa. a hurting of honour or Worship.
• Mindon, a town in West∣phalia.
• Mine••ead, a town in Som∣mersetshire.
• Mine, f. as Meen.
• Mineralist, one skill'd in
• Minerals, metallick substan∣ces, dug out of
• Mines, whence metals are taken, as quarries, whence stones, and pits, whence clays are dug.
• Mineral Courts, to regulate the affairs of lead-mines.
• Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and all the Arts, born of Jupiters brain without a Mother.
• Minerval▪ l. a reward giv∣en for teaching, and (proper∣ly) a banquet before a va∣cation.
• Ming, No. mention.
• Minge, o. for mingle.
• Min••inator, Y. a maker of Fr••twork.
• ...

• Miniated, painted, in-laid (with gold, &c.
• Miniature, a drawing of pictures in little, usually with
• Minium, l. red lead.
• Minim, half a Sembrief.
• Miniments, as Muniments.
• Minims, Minorites, as Bon∣••ommes.
• Miniographer, a painter or writer with Vermillion, or any red colour.
• Minion, Mignon, f. a Darl∣ing or Favourite, also the name of a piece of Ordi∣nance.
• Minious, l. of a Red or Ver∣milion colour.
• Minish, o. for Diminish.
• Ministry, l. [Church] ser∣vice.
• Ministers, o. for Ministrels or Musicians.
• Miniver, as Meniver.
• Minning-daies (q. Minding-daies) La. Months-mind or Years-mind, Anniversary or Commemoration daies, when some Office was said for the soul of the Deceased.
• Minor, l. lesser, younger.
• Minor [proposition] the As∣sumption or second part of a syllogism.
• Minoration, a making less.
• Minorative, diminishing.
• Minority, a being under age, Nonage.
• Minorca, -qua, a Mediter∣ranean Isle on the Spanish Coast.
• Minors, as Friar Minors.
• Minos, a King of Creet, supposed (for his justice) to be made a Judge in hell, his wife Pasiphae having lain with a Bull (or her man Taurus) brought forth the
• Minotaur, a Monster (half-man, half-bull) kept in the Labyrinth made by Daedalus, and devoured yearly seven of the Noblest Athenian-Youths, till (in the third year) Theseus slew him, and escaped by the help of A∣riadne.
• Minovery, (q. Main-••••uvre) an Offensive handy-work in the Forest, as an Engin to catch Deer, &c.
• ... Minster, Sa. Monastery.
• Minstrel, (f. Menestril) a fid∣ler or piper.
• Mint at it, No. aim at it, or have a mind to it.
• Mint, the place where the Kings coyn is formed, (for∣merly Caleis, now the Tower of London.)
• Minting, (q. minding or coining) Li. ••.▪ endeavouring.
• Minute, the sixtieth part of an hour.
• Minúte, l. very small.
• Minute-Tythes, small-tythes belonging to the Vicar.
• Minution, a making little.
• Mirabilary, a book of won∣ders.
• Mirach, the girdle of An∣dromeda.
• Miraculous, wonderful, a∣bove the force or course of Nature.
• Miradical, speaking strange things.
• Mire-Court, a town in Lor∣rain.
• Miriam, h. as Maria.
• Mirifical, l. wonderfully wrought or working.
• Mirmillions, Galli, a sort of Gladiators or Sword-figh∣ters.
• Mirour, Mirrour, f. a look∣ing-glass.
• Misagaft, Ss. mistaken.
• Misanthropy, g. hating of men.
• Misanthropist, g. he that hates the Company of men.
• Misadventure, Misav-, the killing of a man partly by negligence, partly by chance (as by careless throwing of a stone, &c.) whereby he for∣feiteth his Goods.
• Misbode, o. Wrong (by word or deed.)
• Miscellaneous, l. mixt to∣gether without Order.
• Miscellanies, Collections of several various matters.
• Miscreed, No. descryed.
• At Mi••chefe, o. Conquer∣ed.
• Miscreant, f. an Infidel.
• Miscord, o. to differ.
• Miscognisant, Ignorant, not knowing.
• Miscontinuance, as Dis∣con-.
• Mise, Mize, f. cast or put-upon, a tax, expence or charges, also
• Mise, (in a writ of right) is the same as that which (in all other actions) is called an Issue.
• Mise (in Wales is the cu∣stomary present (of 5000 pounds) to every new Prince, paid thrice in the reign of King James, viz. to himself, Prince Henry, and Prince Charles.
• Mise (in the County Pala∣tine of Chester) 3000 Marks paid to every new Earl.
• Misen-sail, between the Poop and Mainsail.
• Change the Misen, bring the yard to the other side of the mast.
• Miseraick, as Meseraick.
• Miserere, l. (have mercy) the beginning of the Psalm of mercy, one of the peniten∣tial Psalms usually given as the Benefit of Clergy.
• Miserere mei, a Disease (from an obstruction of the small guts) voiding the excre∣ments upward.
• Misericordia, Mercy, A∣mercement, an Arbitrary and moderate punishment.
• In Misericordiâ, Amerced or at Mercy.
• Misfill, f. (q. Misfell) o. miscarried.
• M••••seasans, mis-doings, trespasses.
• Mish-mash, Ge. a Chaos or confused heaps of things.
• Mish, Commission, c. a shirt.
• Mish-topper, c. a Coat.
• Mishering, miskering, as A∣bishersing.
• Miskenning, (misunderstand∣ing) erroneous proceeding, also varying ones speech in Court.
• Miskin, o. a little bag-pipe.
• ...

• Misnia, a Saxon-province.
• Misnomer, a misnaming.
• Misogamy, g. a hating of marriage.
• Misogyny, g. hatred of wo∣men.
• Misogynist, g. a Woman-hater.
• Misprision, (f. Mespris) contempt, negligence or O-fight, also a Mistaking.
• Misprision of Clerks, their neglect in writing or keep∣ing Records.
• Misprision of Treason or Fe∣lony, Not revealing it, when we know it commited, the first incurs imprisonment dur∣ing the Kings pleasure and loss of goods, the other is only finable by the Justices before whom the party is at∣tainted.
• Misqueme, o. to displease.
• Missate, (q. mis-sate) o. became not, was misbecom∣ing.
• Miss, for Mistress.
• Missal, l. a Mass-book.
• Misselden, Meseldine, Missel∣••••, Mess-, an excrementiti∣ous plant (with slimy white berries) growing upon trees.
• M••ssen, as Misen, where∣of some long ships have two, viz. the
• Main-Miss••n▪ next the main-mast, and the
• Bonaventure-missen, next the poop.
• Missil, l. a dart or any thing shot or thrown, also (in He∣raldry) a mixture of several colours together.
• Mission, l. a sending, also a Popish Commission to preach the Roman Faith in other Countries.
• Missionaries, the Priests that are so sent, also as
• Fathers of the Mission (in France) they go by pairs (in imitation of the Apostles) to assist the Clergy, with obe∣dience to the Bishop.
• Missive, l. a sending, also sent, and that which wit∣nesseth ones being sent.
• Mis-trial, a false or errone∣ous trial.
• Mister, o. need, want, also as
• Mistery, (f. Mestir,) a craft or trade.
• Mis-us••r, an abuse of li∣berty or benefit.
• Miswoman, o. a whore.
• Misy, Copper-(shining like like gold) found in Egypt and Cyprus.
• Misthrown, o. cast [thine eye] the wrong way.
• Mistimed, o. Mis-spent the time.
• Mites, Vermin (smaller than lice) about the heads and Nostrils of hawks.
• Mitches, o. Manchets.
• Mithridate, Meth-, an An∣tidote against infection, in∣vented by
• Mithridates, a King of Pon∣tus who spake 22 Languages, rebelling and being overcome by the Romans, he would have poison'd himself, but could not.
• Mitigate, l. to pacify or quiet.
• Mitta, ten bu••hels.
• Mittens, f. thick winter gloves [without distinction of fingers.]
• Mitte, o. Mighty.
• Mittimus (we send) a writ by which Records are trans∣mitted from one Court to a∣nother, also a Justices war∣rant to a Jailor, to receive and keep an Offender.
• Mittendo Manus••riptum pe∣dis finis, a Writ for the searching and transmitting the foot of a fine from the Exchequer to the Common-pleas.
• Mitral, l. belonging to a
• Mitre▪ was to a Bishop, as a Crown to a King.
• Mytelene, an ancient City (and now the whole Isle of Le••bos.)
• Mixen, S. a Dunghill.
• Mixolydian, (q. Mixt Lydi∣an) Musick, lamentable, fit for Tragedies.
• Mixt-tithes, of Cheese, milk, the young of beasts, &c.
• Mize, as Mise.
• Mizzy, No. a quagmire.
• Miz-maze, as Maze,
• Mizmor, Sp. a Dungeon.
• Mnas, a famous Italian Pirate.
• Mnason, (q. Mneson,) g. an Exhorter.
• Mnemosyne, g. (Memory) the Mother of the Muses by Jupiter.
• Mnestheus, as Menestheus.
• Moabites, the Offspring of
• Moab, h. Of the Father.
• Mobbi, a drink (in Bar∣bados) made of Potato roots
• Mobility, l. moveableness, inconstancy.
• Mockel, Muckle, o. Mickle.
• Mockadoes, a kind of stuff.
• Modality, the manner or qualification of a thing in the abstract.
• Modbury, a town in Devon∣shire.
• Modder, (D. Modde) and Mawther, (Da. Moër) Nf. a young girl.
• Modefy, f. to moderate, or put into the
• Mode, f. fashion.
• Modena, the chief City of
• Modenois, an Italian Dut∣chy.
• Moderata Misericordia, a Writ for the abating an im∣moderate amerciament.
• Modo et formâ, l. in manner and form.
• Moderation, l. temperance, discretion, government.
• Moderatour, -tor, l. a Dis∣creet Governour, and Deci∣der of Controversies.
• Modern, l. New, of late time.
• Modiation, a measuring by the bushel.
• Modher, as Modder.
• Modicum, l. a small pit∣tance.
• Modificable, capable of
• Modification, the act of
• Modifying, qualify••ng, mea∣suring, lim••ting.
• Modus decimandi, any com∣position for Ti••hes in kind.
• Modul••tion, l. an exact sing∣••ng or warbling.
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• Modwall, a bird that de∣stroyes bees.
• Moeble, o. (f. Meuble, Mua∣ble) Moveable.
• Moeris, an Egyptian King who undertook and finished the
• Moeris, an admirable lake receiving the superfluity of Nilus, and supplying them with water in time of drought
• Mognions, f. Arms for the shoulders.
• Mogontus, an ancient Bri∣tish Idol in Northumberland.
• M••guntine, belonging to
• Moguntia, Mentz in Germa∣ny, where printing was in∣vented, An. 1440.
• Mohatra, Sp. a taking up money upon usury.
• Moiety, Moitié, f. the half of any thing.
• Moile, o. a dish of marrow and grated bread.
• Moiles, Mullci, high-soald shoes anciently worn by Kings and great persons.
• Moison, o. (f. Moisson, har∣vest) ripeness [of corn.]
• Mokes, Ss. the meishes of a Net.
• Mokel, sa. Bigness.
• Molar, l. belonging to a mill.
• Molar teeth, Cheek-teeth, Grinders, five on each side both above and beneath.
• Molasses, the refuse Sirrup ••n boiling Sugar.
• Mole, a Peer or Fense against the Sea.
• Molebou••e, a great grunting ••••sh.
• Molech, h. as Moloch.
• Molendarious, -dina-, be∣longing to a mill.
• Molendinum ad ventum, a wind-mill.
• Molendinum ••ladonicum, bladum, de blado, a Corn∣mill.
• Molestation, l. a vexing or troubling.
• Moliminous, having, using, or requiring much strength.
• Molinists, great opposers of the Jansenists, and followers of
• Molina, a Spanish Jesuit, maintaining that God did not premove the will in free acts &c.
• Molli••ion, l. an attempting or endeavouring.
• Mollificative, having power-to
• Mollify, l. to soften, or cause
• Mollitude, l. softness, ten∣derness, effeminateness.
• Mollock, Meore, o. dirt or dung.
• Moloch, Molech. h. (railing, or a King) an Idol having the brazen body of a man with the head of a Calf.
• Molter, No. Mill-toll.
• Molochi••e, as Malachite.
• Molucques, Asian Islands.
• Moly, an herb of great use (and virtue) among the Gods, whose root was sup∣posed dangerous for mortals to dig up.
• Momblishness, o. talk; mutter∣ing.
• Mombelliard, a town in Franche County.
• Mome, -mus, a feigned Dei∣ty (Son of Nox and Somnus) whose business was to find fault and carp at all the other Gods.
• Moment, l. a minute, also weight or concernment.
• Momentary, of short con∣tinuance.
• Mompellier, a City of Lan∣guedoc, in France.
• Mon, o. Might, (q. Mun or Must.)
• ... Mon, Mona, Anglesey.
• Mona••hal, Monial, belong∣ing to
• Monachism, g. the state and condition of a Monk.
• Monadical, belonging to
• Monas, g. unity, the num∣ber of one.
• Mon amy, f. My friend.
• Mon-Castel, a town in Flan∣ders.
• Monarchical, belonging to
• Monarchy, g. Government by a
• Monarch, g. one Man (or Woman) ruling alone.
• Monasterial, belonging to
• Monasteries colledges for
• Monasticks, g. Monks, or Solitary Religious peo∣ple.
• Mond, f. a golden globe, the Ensign of an Empe∣rour, challenging a kind of right to the whole world.
• Mone, o. (q. Mond) a globe.
• Monedule, l. a Jack-daw.
• Moneresse, o. a She-Mourn∣er [at Funerals.]
• Moneth, Four weeks, or Eight and twenty daies.
• Twelve-Moneth, a whole year.
• Twelve moneths, to be reck∣oned by 28 dayes to the moneth.
• Calendar Moneth, as ex∣prest in every yearly Alma∣nack.
• Moneth of apparition, 26 daies and 12 hours, the Moon being in combustion with the Sun and disappearing the o∣ther 3 daies.
• Moneth of Consecution or Progression, from one conjun∣ction to another, 26 dayes and an half.
• Medical or Decretorial Moneth, 26 dayes and 2•• houres.
• Moneth of Peragration, 2•• dayes and 8 hours, the Moons revolution from any part of the Zodiack to the same a∣gain.
• Moneths-mind, Sa. The 30th. day after any ones death.
• Mong-corn, o. Maslin.
• Monger, a small Sea-vessel for fishing.
• Monger, Mangere, Sa. a Merchant.
• Moniers, Moneyors, the Mint-men or Coyners.
• Monitory, l. the place of
• Monition, l. admonition, warning, the work of a
• Monitor, l. an admonishes or Counsellour.
• Monks-hood, Consolida Rega∣lis, a flower.
• Monmedi, a town of Lux∣emburg.
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• Monmouth, a town and County in Wales.
• Monoceros, -rote, g. an uni∣corn.
• Monocord, g. having but one string.
• Monocular, -lous, one-eyed.
• Monodical, belonging to a
• Monody, g. a funeral ditty sung by one alone.
• Monogamy, g. a marrying but one [wife or husband.]
• Monogdon, g. an eight, or one out of eight.
• Mon••gram, g. a writing or sen∣tence of one line or verse.
• Monologie, g. speaking a∣lone or alwaies in the self∣same tone, also a long dis∣course to little purpose.
• Monomachy, g. a single com∣bat, hand to hand.
• Monologue, -gian, g. one that loves to hear himself talk
• Monophagie, g. a feeding a∣lone, or on one kind of meat.
• M••nopolize, to play the
• Monopolist, he that useth or hath the grant of a
• Monopoly, g. an ingrossing of commodities into ones hand, that none can sell or gain by them but himself.
• Monops, Bonasus, a Paeoni∣•••• beast, which (being pur∣sued) casts forth ordure dead∣ly to those it lights on.
• Monoptate, g. [a Noun] of one only case.
• Monoptick, g. seeing onely with one eye.
• Monostick, g. a single verse.
• Monosyllable, [a word] of one only syllable.
• Monothelites, g. Hereticks (Anno. 640.) holding but one will in Christ.
• Monstrable, l. which may be shewed or declared.
• Monstrance de droit f. a writ of Chancery to restore one to lands or Tenements, shewn to be his Right.
• Monstre, o. an essay or (ra∣ther) master-piece.
• Monstraverunt, a writ for Tenants in ancient demesne, not to be distreined for toll or other service contrary to their liberties.
• Monstrosity, l. a being
• Monstrous, l. beyond the ordinary course of nature.
• Mount belgard, a Town and Earldom in Germany.
• Montanus, an heretick who held that the Holy Ghost was not given to the Apostles, but to him and the
• Montanists, his followers.
• Montanous, l. belonging to or full of Mountains.
• Montchensy, de moute Canisio, a great surname in Kent and Suffolk.
• Montferrat, an Italian Pro∣vince divided between the Dukes of Mantoua and Savoy.
• Mont••fiasco, a r••ch wine from
• Montefiascone, a City in Italy.
• Montfort, a Town in Vtrecht
• Montera, -ro, sp. a Hunters or Horsemans cap.
• Montgomery, Mons Gomeri∣cus, a City in Wales.
• M••nticulous, l. f••ll of
• Monticles l little hills.
• Montifichet, de monte fixo, a noted name.
• Montivagant, -gous, l. wan∣dring on the Mountains.
• Monts, Mons, the chief town of Hainault.
• Monument, l. a memorial, tomb, statue, &c.
• Montreali, a City in Sicily.
• Montrose, a Marquisate of North Scotland.
• Monychus, a Centaur that pulled up Trees by the Roots.
• Monyma, complained that her Diadem was good nei∣ther in prosperity nor adver∣sity, because it broke when she would have hang'd herself in it, after her husband Mith∣ridates was overthrown.
• Mony-wort, Numularia, herb-two pence.
• Mood, Mode, l. manner, measure, rule, also an hu∣mour or temper of mind.
• Moods of Verbs, Indicative Imperative, Subjunctive and Infinitive▪
• Moods in Musick, Dorick Lydian, Aeolick, Phrygian and Ionick.
• Moon-wort, Lunaria, a small plant of great virtue in cu∣ring wounds, bruises, Can∣cers, &c.
• Moon-Curser, c. a link-boy.
• Moor-hen, as Coot.
• Moor the ship, lay out her anchors (at least two) most conveniently for her to ride by.
• Moor a-cross or athwart, with one anchor on one side and another on the other side of the River.
• Moor a-longst, with one Anchor a-head and the other a-stern.
• Moor-Water-shot, quarter∣ing, between both the for∣mer.
• Moor a-proviso, with one Anchor down, and her head moored with a hawser to the shore.
• Moorland, a Moorish bar∣ren part of Staffordshire.
• Moot-men, Students (in the Innes of Court and Chance∣ry) who do
• Moot, Mote, to plead or handle cases in Law (for an house-exercise) see Mote.
• Mooted, (in heraldry) torn up by the roots.
• Mopsical, l. mop-ey'd, which cannot see well.
• Moral, l. belonging to man∣ners or civility, also
• Morally, after the manner of men, or as the case now stands.
• M••rality, an exercising of the
• Moral or Cardinal Ver∣tues, Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Forti∣tude.
• Moralize, to give the
• Moral sence of a thing, as the
• Moral of a Fable, the ap∣plication of it to mens lives and manners.
• Moration, l. a tarrying.
• Moravia, Marcomannia, part of Bohemia.
• Moratur (or Demora••ur) in l••ge, he demurrs or abides up∣on

• the Judgment of the Court.
• Morbidizza, I. tenderness, softness, effeminacy.
• Mor••••fical, l. bringing sick∣ing sickness or diseas••s.
• Morbu••ent, l. sickly, full of disea••es.
• Mo••bas Gallicus, Neopolita∣nus, Hispanicus, Indicus, the Great or French Pox.
• Mordacity, -ancy, l. sharp∣ness, bit••ng, bitterness of speech.
• Mordecai, h. bitter.
• Mordicate, l. to bite
• Mordicative, l. biting or stinging.
• Morea, the Peninsula Pelo∣ponnes••s in Greece.
• Moresk-work, Moresque, f. a rude or antick, painting or carving, a wild resem∣blance of all things inter∣mingled.
• Mores, No. hills.
• Moreton, a town in Devon∣shire.
• Morgan, Br. Seaman.
• Morglay, (q. Mort-glaive) a mortal or deadly sword.
• Moriam, as Morion.
• Morigerati••n, a being
• Morigerous, l. dutif••l, obe∣dient
• Mo••im, f a Murrian, a steel-cap or head-piece.
• Mo••is, Morice, Maurice, -itius, a Martyr under Max∣imianus.
• Mort••co, Sp. a moor, also a Mo••rice (or moor••sh) d••nce
• Morking, -kin, a Deer (or other beast) ••hat dies by mis∣chance o•• sickness al••o as
• Morling, Mortling, wool taken fro•• the skin of a dead Sheep.
• Mormal, o. a canker or Gangreen.
• Mo••ol••g••, g. a foolish speak∣ing.
• Morosity, l. a being
• M••rose, l. froward, peevish, wayward.
• Morow••d, o. morning.
• M••rowning, the same.
• Morpeth, a town in Northum∣berland.
• Morpheus, [the God of] sleep.
• Morphew, (q. Mort-feu) a dead fire) a white scurff up∣on the body.
• Mors-munster, as Pfirt.
• Morsee, part of North Juit∣land.
• Mort, c. a Woman.
• Morta, l. one of the desti∣nies, See Nona.
• Mort••l, l. deadly.
• Morter, o. a [funeral] lamp.
• Mort d' ancester, as Assise of Mort-.
• Mortgage, f. (dead pledge) a pawn of Lands or goods for money borrowed, to be the Creditors for ever, if the mo∣ney be not repaid at the time.
• Tenant in Mortgage, holding such Lands or Tenements.
• Mortiferous, l. death-bring∣ing.
• Mortifi••ation, l. the action of
• Mortifying, killing [of lust] punishing and subduing [the Flesh.]
• Mortise, f. the fastening a piece of Wood (as it were by biting) into another piece.
• Mortling, as Mor••ing.
• M••rtmain, f. (dead hand) an alienation of Lands or Te∣nements (with the Kings li∣cence of Mortmain) to a Corporation or Fraternity (and their Successors) as B••shops, Parsons, &c.
• Mortress, -eis, o. a made dish of hens, crums of bread, Yolks of Eggs and Saffron boild together.
• Mortuary, l. corps-present, a gift-left by a man (at his death) to his Parish Church, for tithes not duly paid in his life-time, by custom becom'n due (viz. a noble, if the goods be worth between 30 and 40 pound, 10 shillings, if above, &c.) and in some places for the passage of a corps through another Parish.
• Mortuum caput, the gross reliques of any thing distill∣ed.
• Mosaick, -cal, belonging to
• Moses, h. drawn up [out of the water.]
• Mosaique, -ical, Musaique, -sive work, a most curious kind of work inlaid with small pieces of stone, glass, shells, &c. sometimes in wood, called Tarsia or Mar∣quetry.
• Mosa, the River Meuse (or Maes) running through Lor∣rain and the Low Countries.
• Mosco, -ow, the chief City in
• Moscovy, Mus-, [the prin∣cipal province of] White Russia.
• Mosche, -ea, Mosque, as Meskite, a Turkish Church.
• Moselle, a river running through Lorrain, &c.
• Mosses, La. Moorish and boggy places.
• Mospach, a town in the Pa∣latinate of the Rhine.
• Moss-troopers (like the I∣rish Yories, and Italian Ban∣diti) that live (in the North of England) by Robbery and Rapine.
• Mostick (q. Malstick, Ge. paint-stick) which the Pain∣ters rest upon while they are at work.
• ... Mosul, Nineve.
• Mote, (sa. gem••te) a Court, Plea or Convention, also a Castle, and as moot,
• Mot, f. Motto, I. a word, Emblem, Impress or De∣vice, also a lesson which Huntsmen wind on their horn.
• Mote, o. Must.
• Motable, l. alwaies mov∣ing.
• Motacism, l. the dashing out of the Letter.
• Motet, f. a verse or stanza in Musick, a short poem.
• Mother, a painfull rising of the Womb, for which all sweet smells are bad, and stinking ones good.
• Motherwort, Cardiaca, a cleansing astringent herb.
• Mother-tongues, having no

• affinity with one another.
• Motion, l. a moving.
• Motive, moving, also a mo∣ving cause or argument.
• Moveable Feasts, which al∣wayes keep the day of the week, but ••••ry in the day of the moneth:
• Motred, o. muttered.
• Mouch, o. to eat up all.
• Mougnon, f. the but-end of a thing, the brawny pa••t of the arm, also a brassel or Armour for the arm.
• South Moulton, a town in Devonshire.
• Mound (q. Muniment) a sence or hedge.
• Mounsoun, an East-India wind, blowing constantly three months one way, and the next three contrary.
• Mounster, an Irish Pro∣vince.
• Mount a piece, lay her on the Carriages, also, lay her mouth higher.
• Mountabour, a town in Westphalia.
• Mountain of Piety, a Cha∣ritable stock raised and lent (for a small consideration) to the Poor, to free them from the usury and extorsion of the Jews.
• Mountaunce, as Mounte∣nance.
• Mountebank, Montimbanco, I. Charlatam, f. Quacksalver, D. a wandring and jugling Phy∣sician.
• Mounts••rrel, a town in Lei∣cester-shire.
• Mountenance, o. (f. Mo••∣tance) the price that any thing amounts to, the quan∣tity.
• Mourdant, o. the tongue [of a buckle.]
• Mourning of the Chine, a disease in Horses, exulceta∣ting the Liver, corrupting the Heart, and killing.
• Mous-ear, Pilosella, a bind∣ing and cleansing herb.
• Mous-••ole, a town in Corn∣••al.
• Mow, (f. amas) a pile or stack of Corn or Hay.]
• Mowe, o. I may.
• Mowlen, o. moulder away, or moulded.
• Mower, c. a Cow.
• Mow-heater, c. a d••over.
• Moylery, o. pains.
• Welly Moyder'd, Che. almost distracted.
• M. S. Manuscript.
• Muccilaginous, Mucculent, Mucu-, l. full of snot, filth or flegme.
• Mu••idity, Mucour, hoari∣ness, filthiness, or being
• Mucid, l. mouldy, sinew∣ed.
• Muckre, o. to hoard up.
• Muck, Li. moist.
• Mucronated, l. sharp-point∣ed.
• Mudereeses, Turkish Rea∣ders, instructing Scholars in all Church duties▪ &c.
• Muckson up to the Buckson, Dev. dirty up to the knuc∣kles.
• Mue, a place where Hawks are kept, while they.
• Mu••, f. change [their Feathers.]
• The Mues, the Kings Sta∣bles, where formerly his Hawks were kept.
• Muffling-cheat, c. a Nap∣kin.
• Mufti, (Tu. Oracle or an∣swerer of doubts) the chief-Priest among the Turks, created by the Emperour himself.
• Mugient, l. lowing or bel∣lowing.
• Mugwet, as Gatherbag.
• Mugwort, Artemisia, an herb which (they say) re∣moves weariness.
• Mulatto, Sp. one whose Fa∣ther or Mother only was a black.
• Mulberg, a town in Mis∣nia.
• Mulcible, l. which may be appeased.
• Mulct, l. a fine or amer∣ciament.
• Mulcto, I. a moil or great mule, used to carry sump∣ters.
• Mulhausen, a town in Al∣satia.
• Mulheim, a town of Berg in Germany.
• Muliebrity, l. womanliness, delicateness.
• Mulierosity, unlawful lust after Women.
• Mulier, l. a woman that hath known man, also a wife.
• Muliertie, Mulerie, the be∣ing or condition of a
• Mulier, (q. Melieur, f better) filius mulieratus, the the lawful Issue, preferred be∣fore an Elder Brother born out of Matrimony.
• Mullar, (f▪ Mouleur,) the upper stone, which Painters grind their colours with, up∣on the grinding stone.
• Mulled sack,) Molli••unt) burnt and Sugar'd.
• Mullock, N••. dirt or rubbish.
• Mullet, a barbel, also (in Heraldry) a starlike spot falling with five ends signi∣fying a third brother, also a Chirurgeons small pincer∣like instrument.
• Mulse, l. honeyed wine.
• Mulsulmans, Muss-, A. (faithful people) Mahome∣tans so called among them∣selves.
• Multa (or Multra) Episco∣pi, a fine paid by the Bishops to the King, for power to make their own wills and have the probate of other mens.
• Multatitious, Mulct-, l. got∣ten by fine or forfeit.
• Multifarious, l. of divers sorts; or divided many ways.
• Multiferous, l. bearing much.
• Multifidous l. having many clefts.
• Multiformity, a being
• Multiform, l. having many forms or shapes.
• Multiloquent, -quous, l. full of words.
• Multinominal, l. having ma∣ny names.
• Multiparous, l. bringing forth many [at a birth.]
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• Multiplicity, a being
• Multiplicio••s, l. manifold.
• Multiplicable, capable of
• Multiplication, augmenting, making much or many.
• Multiplication of Gold or Sil∣••er, forbidden 5. H▪ 4.
• Multipotent, l. able to do much.
• Multiscious, l. knowing much.
• Multisonant, l. sounding much.
• Multitudinous, having ma∣ny, or belonging to a
• Multitude, (by some) ten persons at le••st, others leave it to the discretion of the Judge.
• Multivious, l. having ma∣ny wayes.
• Multivagant, l. wandring much.
• Multivolent, l. of many minds, mutable.
• Multure, f. the grist, also the Millers toll.
• Mum, a kind of Physical Beer made (originally) at Brunswick in Germany, with husks of walnuts infused.
• Mummery, f. a personating others in a mask or antick habit.
• Mumpers, c. gentile beggars.
• Mumps, a swelling of the chaps.
• Mumial, belonging to
• Mumy, Mummy, l. Pissa sphaltum, Pici-bitumen, a pit∣thy substance, either from bodies embalmed in Arabia, or made of Jews lime and bitumen.
• Muncer, the Ring-leader of the
• Munc••rians, a sort of re∣bellious Anabaptists in Ger∣many.
• Mundane, l. worldly.
• Mundani••y, worldliness.
• Mundatory, as Purifica∣tory.
• Mundbrech, sa. a breach of mounds or fences.
• Munlick, a hard stony sub∣stance found in the Tin-ore.
• Mundif••••ative, belonging to
• Mundification, l. the act of
• Mundifying, purifying, cleansing.
• Mundivagant, l. wandring about the world.
• Mun••rate, l. to reward or re∣compense.
• Munger, as Monger.
• Municipal, -pial, l. enjoy∣ing, or belonging to the free∣dom of a City.
• Munick, the chief City of Bavaria.
• Muniferous, l. gift-bear∣ing.
• Munificence, l. liberality, a being
• Munificent, -cal, bountiful.
• Muniment, l. a fence or Fort.
• Muniment-house, a little strong room for the keeping of plate and
• Muniments, Min-, Charters, evidences, &c.
• Munite, l. to fortifie, also as
• Munited, armed, fenced.
• Munster, a Province in Ire∣land, and a City in Westpha∣lia.
• Munk-scam, the strongest way of sewing sails, with the edge of one canvas over the edge of the other.
• Muns, c. the face.
• Murage, a toll taken of every laden Cart or Horse, toward the building or re∣pairing the walls of that Ci∣ty or Town.
• Mural, l. belonging to a wall.
• Mural Crown, given to him that first scaled the walls of an Enemies City.
• Murcia, part of Spain.
• Murcid, l. cowardly, sloath∣ful.
• Murder, a wilful killing of a man upon premeditated ma∣lice.
• Murderers, small canon, car∣rying
• Murdering-shot, to clear the Decks, when men enter.
• Murengers, yearly Officers in Westchester, who keep the walls in repair.
• Muret, a Town of Gascoigne in France.
• Muricide, l. a Mouse-killer.
• Muriel, a womans name.
• Muring, the raising of walls.
• Murk, No. dark.
• Murklins, No. in the dark.
• Murnival, (f. Morni•••• a trick) four [cards of a kind.]
• Murrain, a kind of disease or rot among Cattel.
• Murray, Moravia, part of North Scotland.
• Murrey, (M••urus,) a dusky or dun-colour.
• A Murth of Corn, No. abun∣dance.
• Musach cassa a chest in the Temple at Jerusalem, where∣into the Kings were wont to cast their Offerings.
• Musaeus, a famous Greek Poet, contemporary with Orpheus.
• Musahib Alloh, Tu. (a tal∣ker with God) Moses.
• Musaph, a book of all the Turkish Laws.
• Musard, f. a loyte••er.
• Muscadel, -dine, f. Wine (brought from Candy) hav∣ing the flavour of Musk.
• Muschamp, a name (in Nor∣thumberland) formerly of great note.
• Muscheto, (Moschetta, I. a little fly) a kind of gnat.
• Musculous, belonging to, or full of
• Muscles, l. fleshy parts of the body, serving for instru∣ments of motion.
• Musculous vein, the first branch of the flank-veins, communicating it self with divers muscles about the bel∣ly and loins.
• Muscovites, people of
• Muscovy, Russia, bordering on Tartary.
• Muscosity, abundance of Mice, also a being
• Muscous, l. mossy.
• Musen, when a Stag or Male Deer casts his head.
• Muses, (Calliope, Clio, Era∣to, Thalia, Melpomene, Terp∣sichore, Polyhymnia, Vrania) Daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, Goddesses of Poe∣try and Musick.
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• Muse, -set, f. the place through which the hare goes to relief.
• Musive, as Mosaique.
• Musk, Pa••, a per••ume grow∣ing in a little bag or bladder within an Indian beast like a Roe or Wild Goat.
• Musket, the Tassel or Male of a Sparrow-hawk.
• Muskin, (q. Mouskin) a Finch, or Titmouse.
• Musmon, a certain beast resembling partly a sheep, partly a goat.
• Musrol, f. an iron ring to put about a horses nose.
• Mussack, a drink much used by the Chineses.
• Mussitation, l. a mutter∣ing.
• Mussulmans, as Mulsul∣mans
• Mus••, l. New-prest wine.
• Mustachio, -che, f. -chos, Sp. g. the beard upon the upper∣lip.
• Mustaphis, -pheis, Turkish Doctors or Prophets.
• Mustelline, l. belonging to a Weasel.
• Muster of Peacocks, an old (but Elegant) word for a com∣pany of them together.
• Mustered of Record, enrol∣led among the Kings Soldi∣ers.
• Muster-master General, Ma∣ster of the Kings Musters.
• Mustriche, Mous-, o. (Mu∣stricula) a shoemakers last.
• Mustulent, l. new, fresh, sweet as Must.
• Mutability, a being
• Mutable, l. changeable, in∣constant.
• Mutation, l. a change.
• Mutations, the places wher•• Strangers (as they journey∣ed) did change their Post-horses, &c.
• Mute, l. dumb, or (in Law) not answering directly, also any Consonant except the Liquids, also (Sc.) as Mote or Moot.
• Mu••es, certain [dumb] executioners among the Turks
• Mu••eth, [the hawk] dung¦••th.
• Mutilate, l. to maim, cur∣tail, or diminish.
• Mutiny, f. [to raise] a se∣dition, especially among Sol∣diers.
• Quintus Mutius Scaevola, burnt his right hand for kil∣ling a Courtier instead of Porsenna (King of the He∣trusci) warring against Rome.
• Mutual, l. interchangeable, from one to another.
• Muzrole, as Musrol.
• Muzzle-ring, the greatest cirle about the mouth of a great gun.
• Mycterism, g. a wiping ones nose, a closer kind of Sarcasm.
• Mydias, the reputed Au∣thour of Coats of Ma••l.
• Mynnyng daies, as Min∣ning.
• Mynt, c. Gold.
• Myriarch, g. a Captain of a
• Myriad, g. ten thousand.
• Myrmice, a maid who (for contemning Ceres) was turn'd into an Ant.
• Myrmidon, an ancient King of Thessaly, and Son of Ju∣piter.
• Myrmidons, Thessalians that went with Achilles to Troy.
• Myrobalanes, Egyptian Nuts or Acorns, of five kinds, viz. B••llerick, Chebule, Citrine, E••b∣lick and Indian.
• Myropolist, g. a seller of sweet ointments or perfumes.
• Myrrha, Mother of Adonis by her Father Cynaras (King of Cyprus) who (when he knew it) would have sla••n her, but flying into Arabia she is said to be turn'd into a ••ree of that name.
• Myrrhine, -••hean, belong∣ing to
• Myrrh, an Arabian gum (between white and red) of an opening, cleansing and dissolving nature.
• Myrsus, King of Lydia, Fa∣ther of
• Myrsi••us, Candaules, the last of the race of the Hera∣clidae.
• Myrtilus, the son of Mer∣cury, drowned (instead of being rewarded) by Pelops, for whom (at a race) he left the Chariot-wheel loose and brake the neck of his Master Oenomaus.
• Myrtle, a low, tender and fragrant tree sacred to Venus, worn garland-wise by those that triumphed after Victo∣ries obtain'd without slaugh∣ter of men.
• Mysia, part of Asia the less.
• Mystagogical, belonging to a
• Mystagogue, g. he that inter∣prets Mysteries, that hath the keeping of Church-reli∣ques and shewing them 〈◊〉〈◊〉 strangers.
• Mysteriarch, g. a Chief pre∣late or master of sacred my∣steries.
• Mystical, Mysterious, secret, obscure.
• Mythologist, he that doth
• Myt••ologize, or practise
• Mythology, g. an expounding of Fables.