À bon bluteur may propice: Pro. Somewhat as stiffe as a maypole does well with him that boults in a fleshlie tub. Il ne sçait que c'est de vendre vin qui n'attend de May la fin: Prov. Belike because he cannot before that time guesse what will be the next yeares Vintage.
May: f. A kneading trough, or tub; also, a stacke, or pile of wood, &c.
Maye: f. A kneading trough; a hutch, or binne; also, a halfe-thraue, or heape of corne (in the sheafe.)
Mayenche: f. A Titmouse. ¶Savoyard. Mayeres: f. The branches of Poplers, and Willowes, fit to make rayles, props, or stayes for Vines.
May-loubet. The disease which wee call the Wolfe. ¶Langued. May-mis: m. ise: f. Maimed.
Mayrastre: f. A stepmother. ¶Langued. Mays: m. Maïs, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat.
Maz: m. A small countrey tenement; or, as Mas; also, the maste of a ship.
Me. Me, or to me; a Pronowne (of the Datiue, or Accusatiue Case) which euer goes before a Verbe, whereas Moy comes after.
Means: m. Void, and emptie places betweene beds in gardens, reserued for speciall hearbes; such are the spaces left for Cardoons betweene rowes of Onyons.
Meat: m. A way, or open passage; a hole, or pore in the bodie. Meat Cholagogue. Looke Cholagogue. Mecanique: com. Mechanicall, belonging to an handicraft; base, meane, ordinarie, vile.
Mecaniquerie: f. Mechanicallnesse; basenesse of humor.
Mecaniqueté: f. The same.
Mecer. for Menacer; to threaten. ¶Rab. Mechanique. as Mecanique. Mechanizé: m. ée: f. Mechanicalized; made, or growne base, vile, ordinarie, meane.
Meche: f. as Meiche. Mecheron: m. A little match, or candle-weeke; also, a sparkle.
Mechine: f. A maid-seruant, a chamber-maid.
Mechoir. as Meschoir. Mect: f. A kneading trough, or tub; Looke Met. Medaille: f. A medall; an auncient and flat iewell, ouch, or bruche; or, a peece of auncient coyne, or plate, wherein the figure of some notable person is cast, or cut.
Medaillé: m. ée: f. Furnished, or set, with medalls.
Medaillon: m. A little medall, ouch, or bruche.
Medalle. as Medaille. Medamothi. Of no place. ¶Rab. Medard. The name of a sanctified Bishop of Noyon, and Tournay, in the yeare 524; by whose prayers (sayes Gregoire de Tours) diuers prisoners haue beene deliuered from captiuitie; whence; Mal S. Medard. (May be) captiuitie, or imprisonment.
Mede. A precious stone that yeelds a Saffron-like sweat, and a tast like wine.
Medecin: m. A Phisition, a Leech.
Medecin d'eau douce. An vnskilfull, or vnexperienced Phisition, a duncicall dog-leach; one that hath not trauelled farre for the (little) skill he hath: (Asclepiades, a better Orator then Phisition (as Plinie reports) was the first that allowed a Patient to drinke cold water; and thereupon caused himselfe to be tearmed, The fresh-water Phisition.)
Apres la mort le medecin: Prov. After meat mustard; when steed is stolne shut the stable doore. Bon est le medecin qui se sçait guarir: Pro. He is a right Phisition that can cure himselfe. De nouveau medecin cimitiere bossu: Pro. A new Phisition makes a Churchyard swell. Vn piteux medecin fait vne playe mortelle: Prov. A pitifull Surgeon spoileth a sore. Ieune barbier vieil medecin: Prov. Looke Barbier. Les maux terminez en ique (comme Hydropique, Hectique, Paralytique, &c) font au medecin la nique: Prov. Because they be hardly cured.
Medecin: m. ine: f. Phisicall, medicinall; belonging to Phisicke, or to a Phisition. Doigt medecin. The ring finger, that which is next vnto the little one.
Medecinable: com. Medicinable, healable, curable.
Medecinal: m. ale: f. Medicinall, seruing for a medicine, curing, healing.
Medecine: f. A medicine, or phisicke; the art of Phisicke; healing, or curing; a remedie for diseases; also, a she Phisition. Contre la mort n'y a point de medecine: Pro. No Phisicke can preuaile 'gainst death. Contre peché est vertu medecine: Prov. Vertue is a salue for sinne. Tard medecine est apprestée a maladie enracinée: Prov. Grounded diseases are incurable.
Medeciné: m. ée: f. Medecined, cured, healed.
Medeciner. To medicine, cure, heale, salue, leach; to apply a remedie; to practise, or minister Phisicke.
Mediane: m. as Mesentere. Mediane: f. The blacke, or middle veine; the inward branch of the shoulder veine, discending downe the arme vnto the hand, and there dispersing it selfe[F1 note - I have seen it in other places as "it selfe" so I am sure there is not supposed to be a space - Magda] among the fingers.
Mediastine: m. A partition made in the bodie by certaine thin skins which diuide the whole breast, from the throat to the midriffe, into two hollow bosomes.
Mediateur: m. A mediator, intercessor, meane or means for; also, an arbitrator.
Mediation: f. Mediation, intercession, suite, or meanes made for; also, an arbitrating, or compounding of (other mens) controuersies.
Mediatrice: f. A mediatrix, arbitratrix.
Medicament: m. A medicament, salue, medicine.
Medicamenter. To salue, cure, heale, apply a medicine, lay a plaister vnto.
Medicamenteux: m. euse: f. A curing, saluing, healing.
Medication: f. as Medicinement. Medicinement: m. A curing, saluing, healing.
Medier. To diuide into halues; also, as Moyenner. Medieu, ou medieus. So God helpe me, or, by the faith of my bodie.
Medimne: m. A corne-measure, containing almost two of our bushels.
Medin: m. An Egyptian coyne of siluer, worth about xx d Parisis. Mediocre: com. Meane; moderate, indifferent, reasonable, competent, neither too big nor too little.
Mediocrement. Meanely, moderately, indifferently, competently, reasonably, measurably, meetly well.
Mediocrer. To qualifie, temper, moderate, add a meane vnto.
Mediocrité: f. Mediocritie; a meane, measure, competencie, indifferencie; temper, moderation, qualification.
