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Minuté: m. ée: f. Minished, impaired, made little; abated; disabled; also, drawne, or whereof a draught is made (in writing;) also, deuised, cast, or concluded on, as the first proiect of a designe.

Minuter. To minish, diminish, impaire, lessen, or make little; to disable, or abate; also, to draw, or make a draught of, an Instrument in writing; and hence also, to deuise, cast, or lay the first proiect of a designe. Minuter ses papiers de raisons. To cast, make vp; reduce to a head, his (stragling) accounts.

Mioche: f. A crumme, scrap, small fragment, or mammocke of.

Mioler. To mew, or crie like a cat.

Mi-panché: m. ée: f. Halfe bowed, halfe declining, halfe hanging, downewards.

Miparti: m. ie: f. Parted in the middest, or into (equall) halues. La Chambre mipartie. Looke Chambre. Mipartir. To part in the middest, or into halues; to diuide into two equall parts.

Mipotence. en m. Made, or fashioned, like a halfe gibbet; crooked, or bent into the forme of th' vpper part of a gibbet; as a tenter-hooke, &c.

Mique. A kind of hastie pudding.

Miquelot: m. A Pilgrim to S. Michaells Mount; also, a poore, pettie, vagabond Pedler, that with a spritstaffe crosses from place to place, to vtter small trifles, which he carries along with him in boxes.

Mirabolan: m. A Mirabolan plumme; Looke Myrabolan. Mirach: m. Th' outward lower part of the bellie, couering all th' intraills: ¶Arabesque: ¶Rab. Miracle: m. A miracle; a maruellous, or monstrous thing. Il n'est miracle que de vieux saincts: Prov. We doe not credit reports, or miracles of a fresh date; Antiquitie is reuerend, and of awfull authoritie.

Miracleur: m. A doer of miracles.

Miraclifique: com. Wonder-working.

Miraculeusement. Miraculously, wonderfully.

Miraculeux: m. euse: f. Miraculous, wonderfull, maruelous, monstrous, beyond nature, past common vnderstanding.

Miraillet: m. A Thornebacke which hath on either of her sides, or finnes, a great eye-like spot; (a hard, and vnwholesome fish.)

Miraillier: m. A looking-glasse-maker.

Miraillier: m. Of a looking glasse.

Miraine: f. Oake of Jerusalem, Oake of Paradise: ¶Savoyard. Miramomelin: m. A Lord ouer Lords; an Arabian word vsed in some old French Authors.

Mire: m. A Physitian, Leech, Chirurgian. Il n'a plus besoing de mire. He hath no longer need, he hath no further vse, of a Physitian; viz. he is dead. Debonnaire mire fait playe puante: Prov. A gentle Chirurgian makes a stinking sore. Qui veut la guarison du mire il luy convient tout son mal dire: Prov. He that lookes to be cur'd must all his ill discouer.

Mire: f. The leuell, or little button at th' end, of a Peece; also, the tuske of a wild Boare.

Miré: m. ée: f. Aimed, leuelled at; looked, viewed, beheld through; watched, pried into, neerely, obserued; also, long-tusked, full-tushed, as a full-growne Boare.

Mirecoton: m. The delicate yellow Peach, called a Melicotonie.

Mirelicoton. as Mirecoton.

Mirelifique: com. Exceeding wonderfull, passing admirable, horribly excellent (a word of ironicall commendation, or amplification.)

Mirelifiques: f. Toyes, bables; trickes to mocke Apes, or amaze infants with.

Mirer. To aime, or leuell at; to looke, view, regard, obserue, prie into, behold through, or throughly. Se mirer. To looke in a glasse; to looke on, or into, himselfe; also, to take notice of, or example by. Dieu le vous mire. God restore it you, or reward you for it. Dame qui trop se mire peu file: Pro. She that looks too much at her selfe lookes too little to her selfe. Qui bien se mire bien se void: Qui bien se void bien se cognoist; Qui bien se cognoist peu se prise; Qui peu se prise Dieu l'avise: Prov. Mires d'vn sanglier. His tuskes, or tushes.

Miriade: f. A Miriade; ten thousand.

Mirifique: com. Strangely wrought, maruellously acted, admirably done.

Mirlirot. as Melilot: ¶Parisien. Mirloret: m. A neat, spruce, quaint, compt fellow.

Miroaillier: m. A looking-glasse maker.

Miroir: m. A Myrror, a looking glasse; also, an instrument wherewith Chirurgians dilate the parts which be naturally hollow (as the mouth, fundament, &c,) when they haue occasion to looke into the bottome, or depth, of them. Miroir d'Asne. A white transparent stone, (or congealed humor of the earth) vsed in old time in stead of glasse, (farre better then which) it indures th' extremities of heat and frosts, without breaking. Miroir de nostre Dame. as Miroir d'Asne. Le bay à miroir. A dapled bay. Pierre à miroir. A light, white, and transparent stone, easily cleft into thinne flakes, and vsed by th' Arabians (among whom it growes) in stead of glasse; anights it represents the Moone, and euer increases, or decreases, as the Moone doth. Il n'y a meilleur miroir que le vieil ami: Prov. An old friend an excellent looking-glasse.

Miroitier: m. A looking-glasse maker.

Mirond: m. de: f. Semicirculer, halfe round.

Mirouaillier. as Miroaillier. Mirouaillier: m. ere: f. Often looking, euer prying, into a glasse.

Mirouer. as Miroir. Mirtil. A Mirtill berrie; also, a Salamander, or deafe worme.

Mis: m. ise: f. Put; set, layed; placed, pitched, planted, situated, grounded; thrust into; also, brought, reduced, sent. Mis en cueilleur de pommes. Tucked vp like an apple-gatherer, dressed like an apple-squire; in base, poore, or beggerlie array. Mis à la pile, ou, au verjus. Trounst, courst.

Misaille: f. A lay, a wager.

Misaine: f. The foresaile of a ship.

Misanthrope: m. A hater of mens companie: ¶Rab.

Mise: f. Expence, disbursement, money layed out, or the laying out of money; also, a chapter, or title of expences in an accompt; also, a price offered, or laied downe; also, the currantnesse, or goodnesse of coyne.
  Mise de faict. A iudiciall putting into possession, for the preseruation of the true owners right.
  Folle mise. So much as one hath bidden more then another, or former, chapman; which he is bound to pay if th' other refuse the thing in bargaine.