and a house (alreadie) made; like whereunto is; Il faut acheter maison faitte, & femme à faire: Pro. Purchase a house readie made, but let thy wife be of thine owne making. Chascun est maistre en sa maison: Prov. Euerie one is (or should be) maister within his owne doores. Qui fait nopçes, & maison, met le sien en abandon: Prov. Much building, and often bridalls make bare pastures, and naked side-walls. Qui veut tenir nette maison il n'y faut prestre, ny pigeon: Pro. He that loues to haue a neat house must keepe neither Priest, nor Pigeon in it.
Maisonage: m. Timber-trees cut downe for the building of a house.
Maisonnages: m. Houses, housing; lodgings, dwellings.
Maisonné: m. ée: f. Housed; furnished, or stored with houses.
Maisonnée: f. A housefull, household, familie.
Maisonner. To build houses; to furnish, or store with houses.
Maisonnette: f. A little house; a lodging, a cote, a crib, a cottage.
Maisonnier: m. ere: f. Keeping a house; also, belonging to, or seruing for, a house.
Maistraille. The maine sayle (of a ship.)
Maistral: m. The North-west wind. ¶Rab.
Maistre: m. A Maister; Gouernour, Commaunder, President, Principall, chiefe Ruler; a Teacher, Instructor; Ouerseer; also, an Owner, Proprietarie, Poßessor; also, one that hath (or should haue) sufficient skill in the facultie which he professes; whence, Maistre es arts, &c; also, a title of honour (such as it is) belonging to all Artificers, and Tradesmen; whence, Maistre Pierre, Maistre Iehan &c; which we giue not so generally, but qualifie the meaner sort of them (especially in countrey townes) with the title of Goodman (too good for many.)
Les deux Maistres. The two principall ropes of a Fishers Draw-net.
Maistre des basses œuvres. A Iakes-farmer, or Gold-*finder.
Maistres de la chambre aux deniers. The principall officers of the Exchequer, called so in old time.
Maistre des Comptes. Looke in Chambre des Comptes.
Maistre des eaux, & forests. The Lord chiefe Iustice, or Iustice in Eire, of the Kings Forrests, &c.
Maistre des hautes œuvres. A hangman.
Maistre d'hostel. The steward of a (great) household.
Maistres du Parlement. So were the Conseillers du Parlement called in old time.
Maistre phy phy. A Jakes-feyer (who hath often occasion enough to say phy.)
Maistre de Ports. An Officer that ouersees the leuying of the Imposition foraine, Resue, & Haut passage.
Maistres rationnaux. Certaine officers which haue the letting of the Kings farmes.
Maistre des Requestes. The Maisters of Requests; Looke Requeste.
Le Grand Maistre. The Great Maister of France; the Lord Steward of the Kings household; heretofore stiled, Le Comte du Palais; &, le Seneschal de France.
Le grand Maistre des Arbalestiers. The Maister of the Crossebow-men; an officer in date vntill the com-*
*ming vp of Gunnes, and holding the same ranke, and authoritie that, at this day, belongs to Le grand Maistre de l'Artillerie. The Maister of the Ordnance. Vn second Maistre. The vsher of a Schoole. Servir son maistre. To purge, vntrusse, goe to the stoole. À pere, à maistre, & à Dieu tout puissant, nul ne peut rendre l'equivalent: Prov. Looke Dieu. Ce que maistre donne, & valet pleure, ce sont larmes perduës: Prov. The groome that wayles his maisters gifts may well enough spare his teares. Chascun est maistre en sa maison: Prov. Euerie one rules in his owne house. De grand maistre hardi valet: Prov. Said of a seruant, that bearing himselfe on his maisters greatnesse, is more bold, and confident then otherwise he would be. En pont, en planche, & en riviere, valet devant, maistre derriere: Prov. Jn places of danger, or disaster, the seruant must precede his maister. Fortune n'espargne ny serviteur ny maistre: Prov. Looke Fortune. Iamais ne gaigne qui precede à son maistre: Pro. He neuer gaines that stands in suit with's maister. Il est plus d'ouvriers, que de maistres: Prov. There be more workmen then skilfull workmen. Il se peut bien seoir à table quand le maistre luy commande: Prov. He needs not wait thats bid sit downe by his maister. La maison fait cognoistre le maistre: Prov. We say, the seluidge makes shew of the cloth. L'oeil du maistre engraisse le cheval: Prov. A horse is fattened by his maisters eye. Les derniers venus sont les maistres: Prov. Those that come last (oft) get the maisterie. Nouveau apprenti n'est pas maistre: Prov. A nouice (or new-come Prentice) is no maister; viz. must neither looke for the respect, nor haue looked from him the skill of, a maister. Qui a compagnon a maistre: Prov. He that hath a mate hath a maister. Qui bon maistre sert bon loyer en attend: Prov. He that waites on a good maister waites for a good turne. Qui sert Dieu il a bon maistre: Prov. The seruant of God hath a good maister. Qui sert le Roy il a bon maistre: Prov. No seruice to the King. Tel maistre tel valet: Prov. Like maister like man.
Maistre: com. (Adiectiuely) chiefe, principall; whence; Vn maistre cable, ou chable. A sheat-cable. Le maistre doigt. The middle finger.
Maistre-garde: m. A chiefe Warden, or Maister-warden in a forrest.
Maistrement. as Magistralement; (an old word.) Maistre-pied: m. The stocke, or principall arme of a Plant.
Maistre-sergent: m. A Maister-Sergeant, or chiefe Sergeant; an officer in forrests.
Maistre-sergenterie: f. The office, or walke of a Maister-Sergeant, in forrests.
Maistresse: f. A mistresse, dame, commaundresse. La maistresse Esglise. A Cathedrall Church, the mistreße Church, or chiefe Church in a Towne (wherein this word, as well as Maistre before, is vsed Adiectiuely.)
Maistrier. as Maistriser.
Maistrise: f. Maisterie, seigniorie, commaund, autho-*
