Mere goutte. Vnpressed wine, or oyle; such as of it selfe, distills from the grapes, or oliues, immediatly after they be layed in the preße. Bateau mere. A great salt-boat, or barke; or, the chiefest, or greatest of a fleet. Sentine mere. A little salt-boat, or barke. Tout fin mere nud. Naked vp, or euen, to the bellie.
Mereau: m. A Counter (to cast withall;) also, a Token (receiued at Church by one that meanes to communicate.)
Meregrand. Looke Mere. Merelles. Le Ieu des merelles. The boyish game called Merills, or fiue-pennie Morris; played here most commonly with stones, but in France with pawnes, or men made of purpose, and tearmed Merelles. Mere-perle. Mother of pearle.
Merge: m. A name for diuers water fowle, that vse to ducke much; as the Puffin, Cormorant, Didapper, &c.
Meriane: f. Noone-rest, sleeping adayes, or at mid-day. ¶Norm. Merianer. To rest, or sleepe at noone-tide.
Meridian. as Meridien. Meridien: m. The Meridian; a circle which passing through both the Poles, and through our Zenith (wheresoeuer) diuides the Sphere into two equall parts; th' one Orientall, th' other Occidentall.
Meridien: m. enne: f. Meridian; South, or Southerlie; of, or belonging to, the Meridian, mid-day, or noone.
Meridional: m. ale: f. Meridionall, Southerlie, of the South, on the South side; belonging to noone-tide. Cercle meridional. as Meridien; called so, because whensoeuer, and wheresoeuer the Sunne comes into it it is noone.
Merin: m. A Sergeant, common Baylife, or such like rurall Officer in the Customes of La Bourt. Merise: f. A small bitter Cherrie.
Merisier: m. The small and bitter Cherrie-tree.
Merite: m. Merite; desert; an act worthie of recompence. Les merites d'un procez. The Pleadings of a cause; the Bill, Answer, Reply, and Reioinder; the titles alledged, proofes produced, or matter contained, therein.
Merité: m. ée: f. Merited, deserued, earned.
Meritément. Meritoriously, deseruedly, worthily, with good cause.
Meriter. To merit, to deserue.
Meritoire: com. Meritorious, well deseruing, worthie of reward.
Meritoirement. Meritoriously, deseruedly, worthily.
Merlan: m. A Whiting, a Merling. Merlan salé. A dryed Whiting; the fish which we call (of it hardnesse) Buckhorne.
Merlanc. as Merlan.
Merle: m. A Mearle, Owsell, Blackbird.
Merle bleu. A small Owsell, that vsually builds among Rocks, and feeds on wormes, fruits, and seeds.
Merle de Bresil. A kind of Mearle of a liuelie red colour.
Merle au collier. A kind of Thrush that hath a whitish ring about her necke.
Merle de mer. The Cooke-fish, or sea-Tench; a duskie, and daintie fish, that resembles a Perch.
Merle noir. The Blackbird, or ordinarie Owsell.
Grand merle. A Goat-sucker; a mountaine bird, somewhat bigger then an Owsell, and lesse then a Cuckoe.
Ie vous donneray vn merle blanc. J will performe impossibilities, or bestow on you a most rare gift.
Merle: f. as Mesle; a Medlar.
Merlet: m. A battlement (of a wall.)
Merlette: f. A Martlet, in Blason.
Merlier: m. A Medlar tree.
Merlus, ou Merluz: m. A Mellwell, or Keeling, a kind of small Cod whereof Stockfish is made. Chausses à queuë de merlus. Looke Chausse. Mermelade: f. Marmalade.
Merque. as Marque. Merque de bois. A rowe, tuft, or groue of trees neere to a house.
Merques: f. Be, in a paire of beads, the biggest, or least.
Merrain, & Merrien. as Marrein. Mers. Batture faicte au dessus des mers. Vpon the head, or face.
Merveillable: com. Maruellous, admirable.
Merveille: f. A maruell, wonder; miracle; a monstrous thing, strange accident, admirable matter. À merveilles. Maruellously, miraculously, wonderfully, admirably, strangely. Pois de merveilles. The blacke Winter Cherrie, Jndian Hart, or Hart-pease.
Merveille; ou, Pomme de mer. The Balsam, or Balme apple; (an hearbe.) Merveille femelle. The female Balsam apple; beares a purple flower, and differs from the male in all things but the fruit; which (though like vnto) is somewhat lesse then his. Merveille masle. The male Balsame, or Balme apple, (tearmed particularly the apple of Jerusalem) beares a faint-yellow, or straw-coloured flower.
Merveilleusement. Maruellously, miraculously, wonderfully, strangely.
Merveilleux: m. euse: f. Maruellous, miraculous, wonderfull, admirable, strange.
Mery: m. The gullet, weason, or pipe, whereby meat passeth downe into the stomacke.
Més: m. A messe, or seruice of meat; a course of dishes at table. Belle chere vault bien vn més: Prov. A cheerefull looke fills vp halfe-emptie dishes. Qui a fourmage pour tous més il le doit couper bien espez: Prov. He that hath nought but Cheese at noone and night, must banish the Phisitions penny-*weight.
Mes. The Plurall of Mon; as, Mes livres, habits, &c. Mes. for Plus, as Oncques mes. Neuer more.
Mes, in Composition, is as much as Mal, peruerting and turning to ill the sence of the words it precedeth; as in Mesaise, Mesfaire, &c; Or as our Compounds, Vn, and Mis, which we vse vnto the same purpose.
Mesadvenance: f. Vncomelinesse, misbecomming.
Mesadvenir à. To mishappen, to succeed ill vnto.
Mesadventure: f. Misaduenture, mischance, misfortune, mishap.
Mesadvenuë: f. as Mesadventure. Mesaise: f. Disease, trouble, molestation, calamitie, miserie, affliction.
Mesange: f. A Titmouse, or Tittling.
Mesange bleuë. Our ordinarie Titmouse.
Mesange hupée. A copped small Titmouse, that hath a blacke head spotted with white, a light-browne bodie, white breast, and ash-coloured thighes.
Mesange à la longue queuë. The lōg-tayled Titmouse; liues, for the most part, among hills, and in high places.
Mesange nonnette. The little Titmouse called a Nunne, because she seemes to weare (as a Nunne doth) a fillet about her head.
