Manché: m. ée: f. Hafted, helued.
Manchereau: m. A little haft, or handle. Les manchereaux d'la charruë. The plough-handles, or plough-hales.
Mancheron: m. A bracelet, or bracer; also, a halfe-sleeue, or wrist-sleeue; a sleeue that couers the arme from the elbow to the wrist. Mancherons de robbes. The hanging halfe-sleeues of some fashioned gownes.
Manchette: f. A cuffe, or hand-ruffe.
Manchon: m. as Mancheron; also, a Snuffkin; also, a scarfe, bracelet, or other such like fauour worne vpon the sleeue, or arme in publike shewes, and assemblies. Manchon d'hermines. A Maniple charged, or powdered, with Ermines.
Manchot: m. otte: f. Lame, that hath but one hand, that wanteth a limme.
Manciper. To disposseße himselfe, to deliuer the possession, or make liuerie and seisin, of; to sell, passe away, giue vp.
Mand. as Mandement. An old word.
Mandat: m. A Mandate, or Mandamus for the preferment of one to a Benefice.
Mandataire: m. A Mandatarie; one that comes to a Benefice by a Mandamus. Mande. as Manne; a Maund. ¶Pic. Mandé: m. ée: f. Commaunded; sent, or called for; bid come; directed; appointed, charged.
Mandegloire: f. Mandrake; See Mandragore. Mandement: m. A sending, or calling for, also, a charge, bidding, or commaundement; a Mandate, Mandamus, Commission, Warrant, Appointment.
Mander. To bid, or command; to call by commandement; to send, send for, send word of; to charge, or appoint. À rien mander il ne faut point de messager; (a flowting answer for such as say, Me voulez vous rien mander.) À main lavée Dieu mande la repeuë: Prov. The heauens powre downe their blessings on th'vpright. À toile ordie Dieu mande le fil: Prov. God furthers their indeauors that take paines.
Mandibules: f. The iawes.
Mandication: f. as Manducation. Mandil: m A Mandilian, or loose Caßocke.
Mandille: f. as Mandil. Mandole: f. A Cackarell (fish.)
Mandore: f. A Kitt, small Gitterne, or instrument resembling a small Gitterne.
Mandosiane: f. A broad (and old-fashioned) short-sword.
Mandoussiane. The same.
Mandragore: f. Mandrake, Mandrage, Mandragon; whereof there be two kinds. Mandragore femelle. The female, or blacke Mandrake, beares a darke greene leafe, and a long apple; but is otherwise like vnto; Mandragore masle. Male Mandrake, white Mandrake, which beareth a round apple.
Mandre: f. The Cell of a Monke, or Hermit; also, a houell, or shedd; a stall, or foddering place, for beasts, in the fields.
Mandregloire. as Mandragore. Manducation: f. An eating, or chawing, a grinding, or champing with the teeth.
Manducité: f. Great eating. ¶Rab.
Manée: f. A small vessell, or measure, whereof 96 make but one Minot.
Droict de manée de sel. That measure-full vpon euerie horse-load of salt brought into Bourges, and of euerie one that sells any salt in Bourges; due to the Abbot, and Couent of S. Sulpice. Manege: m. The manage, or managing of a horse.
Manequin: m. A little, open, wide-mouthed, and narrow bottomed Panier, or Maund, vsed for the carrying both of victualls, and of earth; also, a Puppet; (See Mannequin;) also, a rude instrument of Musicke; whence; Iouër des cymbales, & manequins. To leacher. Iouër des manequins à basses marches. The same.
Manequinage: m. Anticke ingrauerie, or caruing, in Wainscot, or Stone-worke.
Manette: f. A small hand; also, a manacle, or hand-fetter.
Maneuvre. as Manouvrier. Manganese: f. A certaine minerall which being melted with glaße, amends the colour thereof; there is also good blue, oror blacke enamell made of it.
Mangé: m. ée: f. Eaten, fed on. Il a mangé le lard. He onely is guiltie of the theft, or cousenage. À la fin sçaura on qui a mangé le lard. The theefe will at length be discouered. Qui a mangé le lard ronge l'os. He that hath eaten the sweet shall tast of the soure; or, let him that hath gotten the best goe away with the worst. C'est trop mangé d'un pain en vn lieu. Wee haue stayed too long in a place, or stood too much on one matter. Il a mangé de la biche blanche. Looke Biche. Il a mangé les pigeonneaux. Said of one whose voice being hoarse, hath some resemblance with their cry. Il a mangé de la vache enragée. Looke Manger. Mangeaille: f. Meat, food, sustenance, victualls. Mangeaille pour les pourceaux. Swillings, washings, draffe, Hogs-wash. Il luy a baillé logis pour mangeaille. He hath assigned him a house to eat, or to dresse & spend his meat, in.
Mangeant. Eating, feeding, falling to his victualls. En mangeant l'appetit se perd: Prov. Eating and drinking will take away any mans stomacke. En mangeant l'appetit vient: Pro. (Sometimes) the more one eats the more he may. Bonne beste s'eschauffe en mangeant: Prov. A good beast heates it selfe while it eates; viz. eates hard, feeds heartily.
Mangeatif: m. iue: f. Eatable; which may be, or is fit to be, eaten.
Mangemerde: f. The name of a fish thats otherwise called, Saupe. Mangeoire: f. A manger; also, the gullet, or swallow.
Manger: m. Meat, food, sustenance, belly-timber, victualls, eating stuffe.
Chair de mouton manger de glouton; Prov. Looke Mouton.
Manger. To eat, feed, take sustenance or nourishment, fall to his victualls.
Il mange bien. He is a daintie feeder, or, he keepes good meat in his house.
Manger son avoine en son sac. as in Avoine; or, as Manger son pain en son sac.
Manger son bled en herbe. To wast his reuenue before it comes in.
Manger le cochon ensemble. To complot, conspire, ioyne in a practise, conclude an enterprise, together: (Belike from some notable meeting of conspirators, whereat Pigs flesh was their best, or onely fare.)
