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  Mal poise qui ne contrepoise: Pro. He weighes but ill that weighes not one with another. Mal sert qui ne parsert: Prov. He serues but ill that throughly serues not. Mal soupe qui tout disne: Pro. Of a young spender comes an old beggar; of a riotous youth a ruinous age. Qui mal entend, mal respond: Prov. He that vnderstands ill answers vnfitly. Qui bien void, & mal prend fait folie en bon escient: Prov. He that discernes well, and chuses ill, is a true coxcombe.

Malabatre: m. Malabathrum; an aromaticall Jndian leafe, which (as Plinie and Dioscorides imagined) swimmes on pooles and ditches, without any apparent root; but our Gerard (of another opinion) sayes it is the leafe of a great tree growing in Arabia, and Cambaya, farre from the water side.

Malace: f. A storme, tempest, or ill weather, at sea.

Malade: com. Sicke, diseased, crazie, out of temper, ill at ease. Elle est malade. Said of a woman that hath her flowers. À l'œil malade la lumiere nuit: Pro. Looke Oeil. La mort n'a point d'ami, le malade n'a qu'un demy: Prov. The dead man hath no friends, the sicke no true ones. Point ne faùt demander à malade s'il veut santé: Prov. An answer for those busie bodies, that cast many doubts, and make many questions, in cases alreadie resolued on.

Maladerie: f. An Hospitall, or Spittle for the diseased; also, the sicke-mans ward in any Hospitall.

Maladie: f. A maladie, sickneße, disease. Maladie de S. Iean. The falling sicknesse. Maladie S. Main. Mangines, an itching leprosie; the wild Scab. Maladie de S. Mathurin. Frenzie, extreame follie, madneße. Les maladies viennent a cheval, & s'en retournent à pied: Pro. Diseases come a horsebacke, and returne on foot. De grande maladie vient on bien en grande santé: Prov. From a long sicknesse a lasting health. Tard medicine est apprestée à maladie enracinée: Prov. Sicknesse once rooted, all Phisicke comes too late.

Maladif: m. iue: f. Sicklie, crazie, queasie, distempered, ill disposed of bodie, subiect vnto sicknesse, apt to take diseases.

Maladré: m. ée: f. Jnfected with a scurfe, or leaprosie. ¶Rab. Mal-adroict: m. cte: f. Vnwieldie, aukward, vnwheeme; vnapt, improper, vnfit; vnseemelie, vnhandsome, vncomelie, without any manner of grace, decorum, or decencie.

Maladvis: m. Misaduise, vnaduisednesse, indiscretion, inconsideration, rashnesse.

Maladvisé: m. ée: f. Ill aduised, vnaduised, vnwise, improuident, heedleße, inconsiderate, vndiscreet.

Malaginer. To mingle, or incorporate seuerall things (especially mettalls) together.

Malagme: m. A mollifying plaister for scabs, and hard impostumes.

Mal-aigre. A kind of wormes that breed in a Hawkes gorge.

Malaisance: f. Vneasinesse, hardnesse, difficultie, trouble.

Malaise: f. Disease, paine, trouble, disquiet.

Malaisé: m. ée: f. Vneasie, troublesome, difficult, hard. Malaisé a desmesler. Intricate, perplexed, much intangled. Malaisé de sa personne. Vnwieldie.

Malaisement. Vneasily, difficultly, hardly, not lightly, with much paine, with great adoe.

Malaiser. To disease, trouble, disquiet, perplex.

Malandres: m. The Malanders; (a horses disease.)

Malandrin: m. A caßed souldior without pay, or imployment.

Malarmat: m. A kind of rough-skaled Gurnard, which being aliue is red, but dying, of another colour.

Malart: m. A Mallard, or wild Drake.

Mal-avenant. Vncomelie, ill fitting, vnhandsome, ill suiting, vnseemelie; rude, vnciuile, vnmannerlie, ill behaued.

Malaventure: f. Misaduenture, misfortune, disaster, mishap, mischance. Bon guet chasse malaventure: Prov. Hee that would euer be well must euer looke well about him.

Malavisé. Looke Maladvisé. Malaxé: m. ée: f. Mixed, blent, and beaten together; also, kneaded, handled, or wrought with the hands, vntill it be soft.

Malaxer. To blend, and beat together, as egges; also, to soften, work, or knead vnto a softnesse, to handle a thing vntill it be soft.

Mal-basti: m. An ill fauoured, or vnfashioned fellow; one that hath neither manners, nor good making.

Mal-cindré: m. ée: f. Ill supported, weakely vnder-*propped (by a weake, or ill-made Centrie.)

Malcontent. The name of a game at Cards.

Malcontent. Malecontent, moodie, discontent, melancholicke, angrie, displeased.

Mal-contentement: m. Malecontentednesse, discontentment, grudging, vnwillingneße.

Malcus: m. A Fauchion, Hangar, Wood-knife.

Male: f. A Male, or great Budget. Sans cela il estoit troussé en male. Without that he had beene trussed, or twitcht vp.

Male: com. as Masle. Maleable. as Malleable. Male-bosse: f. A pestilent byle, or botch; a plague-*sore.

Maledicence: f. Detraction, reuiling, ill speech, hard censure, opprobrious words.

Malediction: f. A malediction, curse, banning, imprecation, execration.

Malefaçon: f. An absurditie, illfauorednesse, ill manner. Malefaçons des procez. Faults committed in pleading.

Malefice: m. A mischiefe; offence, great fault, naughtie deed, ill act, lewd part, bad pranke; also, a charme (whereby hurt is done;) mischieuous witcherie.

Maleficié: m. ée: f. Deformed, disfigured, maymed, weakened, disabled, defectiue, by nature, enchauntment, or other accident; vnable to performe nuptiall rites.

Male-grace. Looke Malgrace. Maleir. as Mauldire; (an old word.) Malement. Jll, badly, lewdly, naughtily, mischieuously, shrewdly, sorely, hardly, hurtfully.

Malencontre: m. Mischance, misfortune, mishap, misaduenture, calamitie, disaster, bad successe.

Malencontreux: m. euse: f. Vnfortunate, succeßlesse, dismall, ominous, ill lucke bringing.

Malendre: f. The Malanders (of horses.)