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face, n. Fr. A club.

achabe, p. n.

M.

The books of the Maccabees. Jacrobes, pr. n. Macrobius, the author of the commentary on the Somnium Scipionis of Cicero. ladie, v. Sax. To be mad.

Tadion. The French have a saint called Materne. But Mr. Steevens, with much more probability, supposes, that the precious body, by which the host swears, was that of St. Mathurin. See his story in the Golden Legende, Ed.t. 1527. by Winkin de worde, 151. b. "Than toke they the precious body and enoynted it with moche reverence; and when they had layd it in the erth, on the morowe they came to the sepulture and founde the holy body above the erth nygh unto the same sepulture, and then were they all abashed and wyst not what to do." It seems, the knightes, who had brought him out of France, had promised that, if he died on his journey, he should be sent back and buried "where as they had taken him ;" and therefore his body would not stay in the ground, till it was deposited, according to promise, in France; where it afterwards worked many miracles.

Mafeie, Fr. Ma foy, by my faith.
Magicien, n. Fr. A magician.

Mahomet. See Du Cange, in v.

Magike, n. Fr. Magick.

Mahound, pr. n.

Maille, n. Fr. A coat of mail.

Maisterful, adj. Imperious.

Make. Why make ye your backes? We should read-nake, i. e, make naked. Cur inertes terga nudatis? Orig.

Makeles, adj. Sax. Peerless, without a fellow. Making, n. Poetry. Makinges, pl. Poetical come positions. And thou med lest with makings. Pierce Ploughman 60.

Malapert, adj. Pert, forward. The word seems to be evidently of French original, though I do not recollect to have seen it used by any French writer. Appert. adj. Fr. signifies expert, &c. Cotgrave.

Male, n. Fr. A budget, or portmanteau.
Malefic, n. Fr. Enchantment.
Male-talent, n. Fr. Ill will.
Malison, n. Fr. Malediction, curse.
malisoun.

Malt, pa. t. of Melt, v. Sax. Melted.
Malvesie, pr. n. Malmsey-wine.
Malure, n. Fr. Misfortune.
Manace, n. Fr. A threat.
—, v. To threaten.
Threatening.

Manacing, n.

I gyve it my

Manciple, n. An officer, who has the care of purchasing victuals for au Inn of Court. The name is probably derived from the Lat. Manceps, which signified particularly the superintendant of a public bake-house, and from thence a baker in general. See Du Cange, in v. Manceps, 2. The office still subsists in several colleges as well as inns of court.

Mandement n. Fr. Mandate.

Manere, n. Fr. Carriage, behaviour, kind, or sort.
A manere Latin: A kind of Latin. Swiche a
maner love-drinke: Such a sort of love-potion.
Swiche maner rime.
Mangonel, n. Fr.
Manie, n. Fr. Gr.
Mannish, adj. Sax.

An engine used to batter walls.
Madness.

Human, proper to the human species. Masculine, proper to man, as distinguished from woman. In this last sense, when applied to a woman, it is a strong term of reproach.

Mansuete, adj. Fr. Gentle.

Mantelet, n. Fr. A short mantle.
Marcian, pr. n.

Martianus Capella.

Marcian, adj. Martial, under the influence of

Mars.

Marrow-bones.

Marrow.

Mariebones:

Mareis, n. Fr. A marsh. Margarit, n. Fr. A pearl. Marie Mary, n. Sax. Market-beter. One that makes quarrels in markets, says the Glossary. Mr. Upton calls him "one who raises the price of the market." But I am now more inclined to believe, that this word is to be understood in a sense similar to that in which the French phrases, Batre les rues-and Bateur de pavez are used. Batre les rues: To revell, jet, or swagger up and down the streets a'nights. Bateur de pavez: A jetter abroad in the streets; a pavement-beater. See Cotgrave, in v. Bateur. Batre. Pavé. So that "He was a market-beter atte full" may mean perhaps;He was used to swagger up and down the market, 3 A

Lithe, adj. Sax. Soft, flexible.

Lithe, v. Sax. To soften.

Lither, adj. Sax. Wicked. In the editt. it is lithy.

Luther and quede. See Quade,

Litherly, adv. Sax. Very ill.
Litling, adj. Sax. Very little.
Livand, part. pr. Sax. Living.

Live, n. Sax. Life. On live: In life; alive.
Lives creature: Living creature. Lives body:
Living body.

Lodemanage, Lodesterre. See the statute 3 Geo. I. c. 13. where load-manage is used repeatedly in the sense of Pilotage. Lode-mange seems to be formed, by adding a French termination to the Sax. ladman, a guide or pilot. It would have been more English to have said ledemanship, as seamanship, horsemanship, &c. From the same property of leading, the north star is called the lodesterre, and hence also our name of loadstone for the magnet.

Lodesmen, n. pl. Sax. Pilots.

Loft, adv. Sax. On loft: On high; a-loft.

Loge, n. Fr. A lodge, habitation.

Sirs, ma

Lordings, n. pl.
lords.
Lordship, n. Sax. Supreme p
Lore, n. Sax. Knowledge, doc
Lorel, n. Sax. A good-for-noth

supposes it to be derived fro:
and in the Promptorium Par
or lorel, or lurden," is render
Jurco, I apprehend, signifies
which falls very short of our ide
besides I do not believe that th
sufficiently common in Latin t
derivative in English. One of S
deduces it with much more prob
Belg. (rather Sax.) Loren: lost;:
Lorne, part. pa. of Lese, v. Sax. L
Los, n. Sax. Loss.

Losed, part. pa. Sax. Loosed. Losed, part. pa. Fr. Praised. Losenge, n. Fr. A quadrilateral figu sides but unequal angles, in which women are usually painted. Losyn signify small figures of the same i fret-work of a crown.

Losengeour, n. Fr. A flatterer.
Loteby, n. In the orig. Compaigne
companion, or bed-fellow. In Pi
man 14. the concubines of pries
their lotebies. Perhaps it may be
the Sax. loute; to lurk.

Loth, adj. Sax. Disagreeable, odious.
Lother, comp. d. More hateful.
Lothest, superl. d. Most unwilling.
Lothly, adj. Loathsome.

Love-dayes. Days appointed for the an. ment of differences.

Love-drinke, n. Sax. A drinke to ex
Love-longing, n. Sax. Desire of love
Lovesome, adj. Sax. Lovely.
Lough, pa. t. of Laugh, v. Sax. Laugh
Louke. A receiver to a thief: in

man 20, wrong is called a wicked
learn from Cotgrave, that luske is
word to lowt, lorel, &c. so that
may be still another term for an
nothing fellow. See Cotg. in v.
in v. Loricard, Falourdin. Fr.
Loure, v. neut. Sax. To look discont
Louring, part. pa.

Loute, v. Sax. To bow, to lur'.
Low, n. for law.

Lowlyhede, n. Sax.

Humility.

Lucan, pr. n. The Roman poet

Logged, part. pa. Fr. Lodged.

Logging, n. Lodging.

Loke, v. Sax. To see, to look upon.

Luce, n. Lat.

The fish, called a
Lucina, pr. n. The Moon.
Lulled, pa. t. of Lull, v. Sax.i
Lumbardes, n. pl. Bankers, rem
Lunarie, pr, n. of a herb, moon-
Lure, n. Fr. A device used by fa.
their hawks.

Lure, v. Fr. To bring to the lure.
Lussheburghes. Base coins proba
from Luxemburg.
Lust, n. See Lest.
See Leste.

Long. See Along.

Loos, Los, n. Fr. Praise. Loses, pl.

Lord, n. Sax. A title of honour, given to monks, as well as to other persons of superior rank.

Lustyhede, n. Sax. Pleasure, mi
Luxurie, n. Fr. Leacherie.
Lynian, pr. n. Linian, an en.

whom there is some account
Cl. Leg. Interpret. I. iii. c. xxv. I

when it was fullest: a circumstance, which suits very well with the rest of his character.-Market daschar, Circuinforaneus. Prompt. Parv. Markis, n. Fr. A marquis.

Markis for Markises, gen. ca. sing. In the same manner Peneus is put for Peneuses: Theseus for Theseuses: Venus for Venuses: Ceres for Careses: Melibeus for Melibeuses. Perhaps it might have been proper to add a mark of apocope to the words so abbreviated. As to the present method of expressing the genitive cases of nouns ending in s, by adding another s, with a mark of syncope, as Peneus's, Theseus's, Venus's, &c. it seems absurd, whether the addition be intended to be pronounced, or not. In the first case, the e should not be cut out; in the second, the s is quite superfluous. But the absurdity of this practice is most striking, when the genitives of monosyllable nouns are thus written; an ox's horns; an ass's ears; a fish's tail; St. James's park; notwithstanding that the e, which is thus directed to be cut out, is constantly and necessarily to be pronounced, as if the several words were written at length; oxes, asses, fishes, Jameses.

Markisesse, n. Fr. The wife of a marquis.

Marte, pr. n.

Mars.

Martire, n. Fr. Martyrdom, torment.
Martire, v. Fr. To torment,

Mary, Marie, pr. n. A vulgar oath; by Mary.
Mase, n. A wild fancy.
Mase, v. neut. To doubt, to be confounded.
Masednesse, n. Astonishment, confusion.
Maselin, n. Rather Mazerin. A drinking cup.
See Du Cange, in v. Mazer.

Mate, part. pa. of Mate, v. Fr. Dejected, struck
dead. So feble and mate. Conf. Am.
Matire for Matere, n. Fr. Matter.
Maugre, Malgre, Fr. In spite of. Maugre all thy
might. Maugre thin eyen. Maugre hire hed.
The original of this expression appears more
plainly in the following passages. I drede thou
canst me grete maugre.

Mawe, n. Sax. The stomach.

May, v. Sax. To be able, physicially or morally. See Mowe.

May, n. Sax. A virgin. Of Mary moder and may. A young woman. Maydenhed, n. Sax. Virginity.

Marimian, pr. n. The author of vi elegies, which have been frequently printed under the name of Gallus. He is said by Fabricius (Bibl. Lat. T. i. p. 297. Ed. Patav.) to have lived under the emperour Anastasius, q. I. or II? A translation, or rather abridgement, of these elegies, in English verse, is in Ms. Harl. 2253. Meaneliche. adj. Sax. Moderate.

| Mebles, a. pl. Fr. Moveable goods. Mede, n. Sax. Reward, a meadow. Mede, Methe, Meth, n. Barb. Lat. Mead, a liquor made of honey.

Medle, v. Fr. To mix.

Medle, adj. Of a mixed stuff, or colour. Meinie, n. Fr. Household attendants, an army. Hurlewaynes meyne. Contin. of Canterb. Tales, 1. 8. This obscure phrase, I think, may be understood to relate to a particular set of ghostly apparitions, which were used to run about the country at night and were called in French La mesgnie de Hellequin or Herlequin. The fullest account that I have seen of them is in "L'historie de Richard sans paour, Duc de Normandie, qui fut fils de Robert le Diable." In one of his rides he meets with three black knights, whom he engages." Et quand les chevaliers veirent le jeu mal party pour eux ils monterent à cheval et s'enfuyrent;-et Richard-chevaucha apres eux; et ainsi qu'il chevauchoit il apperceut une dance de gens noirs qui s'entretenoyent. Adonc luy souvint de la mesgnie de Hellequin, dont il avoit autres foys ouy parler." The title of the next chapter (4.) is “Cy divise de la mesgnie de Hellequin et qui il estoit." He is there said to have been a knight, who, having spent all his substance in the wars of Charles Martel against the Saracens, lived afterwards by pillage. "Adonc il avint qu'il mourut et fut en danger d'estre damne, mais Dieu luy fit pardon, pource que il avoit bataille contre les Sarrazins et exaulce la foy. Si fut condamne de Dieu que pour un tems determine luy et ceux de son lignage feroient penitence et yroient toute la nuit parmy la terre, pour leurs penitences faire et endurer plusieurs maux et calamitez." belief of such apparitions was certainly of great antiquity in Normandy, as they are mentioned by Ordericus Vitalis, under the title of familia Herlechini, in a most extraordinary story related by him, L. viii. p. 695. ann. 1091. And I suspect that in a passage quoted by Du Cange, in v. Herlinini, from Petr. Blesens Ep. 14. we should read Herlikini instead of Herlinini.

The

Gervase of Tilbery, who wrote in 1211, mentions another set of apparitions, which were called familia Arturi. Ot. Imper. Dec. ii. c. 12 "In sylvis Britanniæ majoris aut minoris consimilia contigisse referuntur, narrantibus nemorum custodibus, quos forestarios-vulgus nominat, se alternis diebus circa horam meridianam, et in primo noctium conticinio sub plenilunio lunâ lucente, sæpissime videre militum copiam venantium et canum et cornuum strepitum, qui sciscitantibus se de societate et familiâ Arturi esse affirmant." He had just said that Arthur, not long before, had been seen in a palace, "miro opere constructo," in a most delicions valley in the neighbourhood of Mount Etna, where he had resided ever since the time of his supposed death, “vulneribus quotannis recrudescentibus."

Meint, part. pa. of Menge, v. Sax. Mixed, mingled.
Meke, adj. Sax. Meek, humble.

---- v. To become meek.
Meles, n. pl. Sax. Meals, dinners.
Mele-tide, n. Sax. Dinner-time.
Melle, v. Fr. To meddle.
Melle, n. for Mille.