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Mignardiser. as Mignarder. Mignie: m. A troupe, companie, or meinie; also, as Meignie. Mignon: m. A minion, fauorite, wanton, dilling, darling.

Mignon: m. onne: f. Minion, daintie, neat, spruce, compt, fine, elegant, polite; also, pleasing, gentle, kind. Argent mignon. Readie money. Dain mignon. A tame Deere.

Mignonne. sa mignonne. His sweeting, or sweet-hart, his prettie minion, his louelie delight.

Mignonnement. Minionly, minion-like.

Mignonnet: m. A prettie, or young minion; a mini-*kin.

Mignonneté: f. Minionisme, quaintnesse, trimnesse, delicacie, spruceneße, featnesse, finesse.

Mignonnette. as Mignonne. Mignot: m. A wanton, feddle, fauourite; a dilling, dandling, darling.

Mignotement: m. as Mignotise. Mignotement. Tenderly, nicely; fauorably, kindly, gently, cherishingly.

Mignoter. To dandle, feddle, cocker, cherish, handle gently, intertaine kindly, vse tenderly, make a wanton of.

Mignotise: f. A dandling, fedling, cockering, cherishing, gentle handling, tender vsage; also, wantonnesse; tamenesse, gentlenesse. Mignotises. Prettie dainties, or trinkets; fine toyes; affected delights.

Migraine: f. The Megrim, or head-ach; also, a Pomegranet; also, the great Sea-vrchin; also, Scarlet, or Purple in graine. Migraine de feu. A sticke, or brand of fire; also, a ball of wildfire.

Migration: f. A migration, a remouing, or shifting of places.

Migrelin: m. A small thinne scrag, or tender starueling.

Migrer. To remoue, to flit, or shift from one place to another.

Mi-jour: m. Midday, Noone.

Mil: m. (The graine) Mill, Millet, Hirse; Looke Millet. Mil Sarrasin. French-wheat, Bucke-wheat, Boly-*mong.

Milace: f. A kind of the Holme, or Scarlet, Oake.

Milacié: m. ée: f. Mill-eating, millet-fed; a nicke-*name for the Gascon, whose bread is, for the most part, made of Millet.

Milaire: m. A mile; also, as Cenchrite. Milan: m. A Kite, Puttocke, Glead; also (the name of) a delicate peare. Milan marin. A Gilden-pole, or kind of Gurnard, that shines in the night, and before change of weather flies (or seemes to flie) a little aboue the water. Milan Royal. Th' ordinarie Kite, or Glead. Pied de Milan. The hearbe Kites-foot.

Milandre. A little Dog-fish thats mortall enemie to mankind.

Miliart. Looke Milliart. Miliasse: f. Thousands, or, a huge number of; (deriued, by the vulgar, from vne Ilias.)

Milice: f. Warlike discipline, warfare. La celestielle milice. The hoast of heauen.

Milieu: m. The middest, middle, or center of.
  Dame du milieu. Seeke Dame.

Militaire: com. Militarie, martiall, warlicke, souldier-like.

  Herbe militaire à millefueilles. Knights Milfoile, souldiers Yarrow.

Militer. To warre, goe a warfaring, be in warres, practise the feats of warre; to souldierize it.

Mille. A thousand.

Millefeuil: m. as Millefueille. Millefueille: f. Milfoile, nose-bleed Yarrow, common Yarrow. Millefueille aquatique. Water Yarrow; also, water Sengreene, water Housleeke, Knights Pondwort, wading Pondweed, fresh-water souldier. Millefueille grande. Great Yarrow (differs from the ordinarie one in onely bigneße.) Millefueille iaulne. Knights Milfoile, souldiers Yarrow, yellow knighten Yarrow, yellow or little Yarrow. Millefueille petite. The same.

Millegraine: f. Oake of Jerusalem, Oake of Paradice; (an hearbe.)

Millene: f. vne mil. d'années. A thousand of yeares.

Millepertuis: m. S. Iohns wort, S. Iohns grasse.

Millepieds: m. The worme, or vermine, called a Palmer.

Milleraie: f. A peece of ground sowed with Millet; a Millet-ground.

Milleret: m. A Middle Ray, the halfe of a Milleray; a peece of gold worth almost 7 s. sterl. Millerine: f. The straw or stubble of Millet.

Millesoudiers: m. Old maimed souldiers; such as haue a thousand sous (or 5 l. sterl.) of yearelie pension.

Millet: m. Millet, Mill, Hirse. Millet d'Inde. Mais, Turkie corne, Turkie wheat. Millet noir. Blacke Millet; and, as Millet de Turquie. Millet Sarrasin. French-wheat, Bucke-wheat, Boly-*mong. Millet de Turquie. Turkie Hirse, Turkie Mill, blacke Millet. Percer vn grain de Millet d'vn tarriere. To performe impossibilities.

Milliart: m. A thousand millions of millions.

Millier: m. vn millier. A thousand; a proportion, or number, of a thousand.

Millier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a thousand.

Milliesme. la milliesme partie. The thousandth part.

Milliet: m. A serpent of a greenish colour.

Million: m. A million; ten hundred thousand.

Millon: m. A kind of flint, or hard stone.

Milloque: f. Furmentie, or pottage, made of Millet: ¶Rab. Milods: m. Halfe-fines due in cases of collaterall succession vnto Censuel inheritance (as in Lodunois) or in cases of Donation (as in Dauphine.)

Milort: m. My Lord; or as Monseigneur (a word borrowed of, and imployed on, vs.)

Milrai: m. A Milleray; a coyne of gold worth betweene 13 and 14 shillings sterl. Milret. as Milleret. Mime: m. A vice, foole, ieaster, scoffer, dauncer, in a Play; also, a foolish, wanton, shamelesse, ridiculous Poeme, part, or Play; also, a graue, and sententious Poeme.

Mi-more: com. Swartie, blackish, halfe-Moore.

Minage: m. A measuring of corne by the Mine; whence; Droict de minage. A fee due vnto some Lords vpon euerie Mine of corne thats measured within their territorie.

Minatere: m. A Miner, mine-man, mine-digger.