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Malendurant. Tichie, impatient.

Malengin: m. Fraud, guile, craft, subtiltie, deceit, cousenage, trumperie, cautele, treacherie, circumuention, double-dealing, ill-meaning.

Malengineux: m. euse: f. Deceitfull, fraudulent, cousening, ouer-reaching, false, double, trecherous.

Malengroin: m. Sullennesse, powting, surlynesse, a soure looke.

Mal-enthalenté: m. ée: f. Maliciously affected, ill-minded.

Maleole. as Malleole. Malesuade: f. Hunger (because it persuades but ill.)

Malesüade: f. A sweating paine, or sicknesse.

Maletoste: f. An extraordinarie tax, or subsidie leuied the yeare 1296 by Philip le bel; viz. (at first) the value of the hundreth, (and afterwards) of the fiftieth part of all, either lay-mens, or clergie-mens, goods; hence also, any imposition, exaction, taxation.

Maletote. The same; or, as Maltote. Maletoulte. as Maletoste; (called so, because held as Mal tolluë.) Maletoultier: m. A collector of taxes, or subsidies; a toll-gatherer.

Malette: f. A little male; a budget, or scrip. Malette de bergier. A Shepheards scrip; also, the hearbe Shepheards purse, pouch, or scrip; called otherwise Toywort, Caseweed, Pickpurse, and poore mans Parmacetie.

Malfaict: m. A misdeed, fault, offence, trespaße, transgression, abuse, bad act, lewd tricke, foule part, naughtie pranke.

Malfaicteur: m. A malefactor, offendor, transgreßor, trespasser, guiltie person.

Malfaisant. Lewd, wicked, offending, faultie, naughtie, culpable; shrewd, mischieuous, harmefull, hurtfull.

Mal-feable: com. Weake, or in whom there's no good trusting.

Malgisant. A maisterleße man; or, such a one as hauing no home to take vnto, is often sped with a very bad lodging; also, a fellow of ill behauior, or lewd conuersation; a naughtie-packe.

Malgrace: f. Disfauor, displeasure, bad acceptance, ill opinion; anger, blame, or hate incurred.

Malhabile: com. Vnable, vnwieldie, vnapt, vnfit, sleight, weake, disabled, without vigor.

Malhardi: m. ie: f. Dastardlie, cowardlie, faint-hearted, white-liuered, vnmanlie, fearefull, timerous.

Malheur: m. Mishap, misfortune, mischance, aduersitie, disaster, calamitie, miserie. Malheur ne dure pas tousiours: Pro. Ill lucke doth not alwayes last. Malheur ne vient iamais seul: Prov. Mischances neuer come single; one misfortune succeeds in the necke of another. À quelque chose malheur est bon: Prov. Tis an ill wind that blowes no man to good. Pour neant recule qui malheur attend: Prov. Jn vaine he giues backe that lookes for ill lucke. Vn fol cerche son malheur: Prov. The foole by prying finds himselfe vnhappie; or, The prying foole meets with his owne mishap.

Malheure. à la mal. Vnluckily, vnhappily, vnfortunately, disasterously, in an euill houre.

Malheurer. To mischieue, afflict, make vnhappie, inflict miseries, lay calamities, on.

Malheureté: f. as Malheur.

Malheureusement. Vnhappily, vnluckily, vnfortunately, sinisterly, disasterously, miserably.

Malheureux: m. euse: f. Vnhappie, vnluckie, sinister, crosse, vnfortunate, vnprosperous, disastrous, miserable, wretched. Plus malheureux que le bois dont on fait le gibet. More vnhappie then the wood of a Gibbet.

Malheustre: f. The pinion of a birds wing.

Malice: f. Guile, deceit, cousenage, trumperie, treacherie, knauerie, falsehood, shifting; malice, mischieuousnesse, ill meaning; a bad fetch, wicked sleight, lewd deuice. Homme ne connoit mieux la malice que l'Abbé qui a esté moine: Pro. No man is better seene in knauerie then an Abbot that hath beene a Monke.

Malicieusement. Deceitfully, craftily, guilefully, falsely, treacherously; maliciously, despightfully, mischieuously, knauishly, with an ill meaning, with a bad intent.

Malicieux: m. euse: f. Deceitfull, craftie, cousening, false, treacherous; despightfull, malicious; knauish, mischieuous.

Malier: m. A Male-horse, Trunke-horse, or Sumpter-horse; he that carries the Cloake-bag.

Maligue: f. A Spring-tyde; called so by the Salters of Xaintonge. Maligne. The feminine of Maling. Malignement. Malignantly, maliciously; lewdly, wickedly, naughtily, shrewdly, knauishly, mischieuously; of set (and with a bad) purpose.

Malignité: f. Malignitie; malice prepensed, purposed villanie; mischiefe intended vnto; ill-will, grudge, despight; wickednesse, lewdnesse, naughtinesse, knauishneße.

Maling: m. maligne: f. Malignant, ill-willie, grudge-bearing, despightfull, malicious; knauish, hurtfull, shrewd, villanous; naughtie, lewd, vicious, delighting in mischiefe.

Malingre. Pomme de mal. A sowrish apple, tearmed, the Maligar apple.

Malingre: com. Sore, scabbie, ouglie, loathsome.

Malivole: com. Maleuolent, maleuolous, ill-willie, malicious, despightfull, churlish, dogged, currish, repining at, ill minded vnto, fraught with rancour, full of hatred.

Malleable: com. Mallable, tractable, hammerable, plyant to the hammer, which may be wrought or beaten with the hammer.

Malleation: f. A hammering.

Mallece. Molossus; the dregs, or coursest, of Sugar.

Mallement. Greatly, much, mightily, a vile or filthie deale.

Malleole: f. The ankle, or ankle-bone; also, a veine that runnes along vpon the ankle.

Malletier: m. ere: f. Bearing, or belonging to, a male, budget, or wallet.

Mallette. as Malette. Malmené. as Maumené. Misused, &c.

Malobatre: m. as Malabatre. Malot: m. A little Boare. ¶Norm. Malotru: m. uë: f. Forlorne, wretched, wofull, miserable. Vn povre malotru. A poore snake.

Malpatient de. Impatient of.

Mal-plaisant. Vnpleasing, vnacceptable, rude, lumpish, vnmannerlie, without grace, without fashion.

Mal-sain: m. aine: f. Vnholesome; sicklie, crazie, vnhealthie.

Malseance: f. Vncomelineße, vnseemelinesse, vnhandsomenesse, illfauorednesse.

Mal-talent: m. Despight; ill will; anger gotten, disfauor incurred.