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  Manieur de sable. A Moulder, or caster of Medalls, or prints in sand.

Manifacture: f. Manifacture, workemanship, handie-*worke.

Manifacturé: m. ée: f. Wrought, or done with the hands.

Manifacturer. To worke, or frame with the hands.

Manifeste: m. A manifestation, or declaration; also, as la partie honteuse; vnder Honteux. Manifeste: com. Manifest, apparent, euident, notorious, open, knowne, publicke, plaine, cleere, vndoubted, certaine.

Manifesté: m. ée: f. Manifested, made apparent, published, divulged, discouered, detected, reuealed, bewrayed.

Manifestement. Manifestly, apparently, openly, euidently, publickly, vndoubtedly, certainly.

Manifester. To manifest; publish, declare, detect, reueale, bewray, discouer, make plaine, cleere, open, apparent.

Manigance: f. An ill-set countenance, an vnsetled fashion, an vnstaied or vnseemelie behauiour; also, couert dealing, priuate shuffling, secret practising or packing in a matter.

Manigotter. To handle, or finger much; busily to trim, dresse, or fold vp with the hands, as children doe their babies.

Maniguet: m. The spice called Graines, or graines of Paradise.

Maniguette: f. as Maniguet. Manille: f. The handle of a pot, &c.

Maniller: m. A bracelet maker; also, one that in Popish Churches gathers for a poore Preacher.

Manjore. A manger.

Maniot: m. A certain root which, boiled, is good meat, but raw, poison.

Manipule: m. A gripe, fistfull, handfull of; a bundle, a bottle also, a wrist-band; or, as Manipulon. Manipulon: m. A Maniple, or Fannell; a scarfe-like ornament worne about the left wrist of a sacrificing Priest.

Manivelle: f. An instrument that goes with a vice, hauing at it end a booke, whereby disioynted bones are set in their former places; also, the handle whereby a grindlestone, &c, is turned; and hence; Manivelles. The braces wherby a windlesse, or wind-*beame is turned.

Manne: f. A maund, flasket, open basket, or pannier hauing handles; also, a veine of earth, or sand, which giueth some hope of gold to be found; also, Manna, or the deaw of heauen, gathered in hot countries from plants, and trees wherein it congeales, and reserued as a gentle purger of choler; whence; Manne de Calabre. Calabrian Manna; the best, and most lasting Manna; the graines wherof be small, heauie, white, cleere, transparent, and verie sweet. Manne de Cotton. Great graines of Manna resembling lockes of wooll, or bumbast; the worse kind of Leuant Manna, and the worst of all others. Manne d'Encens. Graine, crummes, or mammockes of Incense falling from it while it is in loading. Manne de fueilles. The best kind of Calabrian Manna, gathered from off the leaues of hearbes, and trees. Manne de Levant. Leuant Manna; a second (generall) kind of Manna, inferiour in goodnesse to the Calabrian.

Mannequin: m. A little, open, wide-mouthed, and narrow-bottomed maund, flasket, or pannier; also, a little

basket, leape-head, or weele, made of bullrushes, and vsed by fishermen; also, a Puppet, or Anticke; Looke Manequin. Mannequinage. as Manequinage. Manneux: m. euse: f. Belonging to a maund, resembling a maund.

Manoir: m. A Mansion, Mannor, or Mannor-house; the scite of a Mannor; a place, or chiefe dwelling place; also, a roome in a house.

Manople: f. A kind of long Gauntlet; or as Manipulon. Manotte: f. A little hand, a childs hand.

Manottes. Manacles, hand-fetters, gyues.

Manouvrer. To hold, occupie, possesse; (an old Normand word.)

Manouvrier: m. A mechanicall workeman, or labourer, an artificer, or handicrafts-man.

Manque: f. Defect, lacke, want.

Manque: com. Defectiue, lacking, wanting; maimed, lame; declining, in the wane; also, lesse; whence; Vade manque. Goe lesse, at Primero.

Manquement: m. Want, lacke, defect, need; or a wanting, lacking; declining, waning.

Manquer. To want, lacke, need, faile of, be defectiue. Manquer à sa parole. To breake his word.

Manquerot. A maimed, or lame creature; one that wants some of his limmes.

Mansais. Deniers, & solz mansais. Be double the worth of Deniers, and solz Tournois. Mansart: m. A Culuer, Cooshot, Ringdoue: ¶Pic. Manselles. as Mancelles. Mansionnier: m. A dweller, inhabitant, abider; one that hath a mansion in a place.

Mansuet: m. ete: f. Gentle, courteous, meeke, mild, humble; tame, tractable.

Mansuetement. Gently, meekely, mildly, courteously, tractably.

Mansuetude: f. Gentlenesse, meekenesse, courtesie, mildnesse, tractablenesse, humilitie; tamenesse.

Mante: f. A mantle; also, as Menthe. Mante veluë. A rug, rough mantle, Irish mantle.

Manteau: m. A cloke; also, the mantle-tree of a chimney. Le manteau d'vn cheval. His haire, or coat. Les blancs manteaux. An antient Order of begging Friers, for whom S. Lewis built a house, or Couent in Paris; afterwards giuen by Philip the Faire vnto the Guillemins (an Order of Hermits instituted by Guillaume Duke of Guienne, and Earle of Poictou) who yet retaine it, and with it this title. Droict de manteaux. Cloke-money; Looke Droict. Pendre son manteau à foible cheville. To require aduise of a foole, or almes of a begger; vainely to relie on weake helpes, or settle his resolution on a tottering foundation. Coeur content, & manteau sur l'espaule: Pro. See Coeur; ou, Content. Fy de manteau quand il faict beau: Prov. A cloke is but a comber in faire weather.

Mantel: m. as Manteau. Mantelé: m. ée: f. Cloked; couered with a cloke; shielded, or shadowed vnder a mantelet.

Manteler. To cloke; to couer with a cloke; to defend, shroud, or shield, as vnder a mantelet.

Mantelet: m. A little mantle; also, a mouable pent-*house, or shed of boords, vnder which souldiers approaching a rampire are shrowded, and defended from whatsoeuer is throwne downe by the besieged.