Mesgue: f. Whay.
Mesguis. as Megis. Meshaigne: com. Peeuish, wayward, froward, ill to please; (the humor of most lame persons.)
Meshain. as Mehaing. Meshingandé: m. ée: f. (Almost) off the hindges; loose in euerie ioint.
Meshuy. Not to day, not this day, not till to morrow; (a word applyed most properly to the whole later part of the day.)
Meslange: f. A mixture, medley, mesh; mingling; hotch-*pot, gallymaufrey; a composition, or collection of many seuerall things.
Meslangé: m. ée: f. Mixed, mingled; melled, blent; iumbled, shuffled, hudled together.
Meslanger. To mingle, mix, blend; mash, mell; iumble, shuffle; make a confused medley, huddle things together.
Meslangeur: m. A mingler, mixer, blender; iumbler, shuffler, huddler of things together.
Mesle: f. A Medlar. ¶Pic. Avec le temps, & la paille lon meure les mesles: Prov. Time and affliction supple harshest natures.
Meslé: m. ée: f. Mingled, mixed, put among; melled; medled, intermedled; shuffled, huddled, or iumbled, with. Cheveux meslez. Tangled locks; also, gray haires; whence; Vn homme meslé. One thats full of gray haires; also, a generall scholler, one that hath a smattering of all Arts. Pesle meslé. Pell-mell, confusedly.
Meslée: f. A mixture, or medley; a blending, mingling, melling; also, a fight, fray, conflict, combat, bickering, battell.
Meslément. Mixtly, confusedly, in a huddle, as a hotch-*pot, one with another.
Mesler. To mingle, mix, blend, mash, mell; to huddle, shuffle, iumble; confound. Se mesler de. To meddle, intermeddle, deale with, haue a hand in. Se mesler du mestier. Looke Mestier. Cela meslera nos fusées. That will vnite our causes, or make them alike. Il est bien heureux qui se mesle de ses affaires: Prov. Happie is he that followes his owne businesse; Looke Heureux. Qui se mesle d'autruy mestier il trait sa vache en vn panier: Prov. Looke Mestier. Mesleure: f. A medley, mixture; mingling; medling.
Meslié. as Meslé. ¶Vandosmois. Meslier: m. A Medlar tree; also (the name of) a fruitfull white Vine, whose leafe is almost round; whence; Le meslier commun. The most fruitfull kind thereof. Le franc meslier. Another, which beares the best fruit. Le gros meslier. Hath the greatest stocke, and yeelds the greatest grape.
Mesliers: m. The plurall to Meslier; also, Vines of seuerall kinds, and colours growing together.
Meslinge, & Meslingé. as Meslange, & Meslangé. Meslinger. as Meslanger. Meslouër. To dispraise, discommend, detract from.
Mesmarché: m. ée: f. Trodden, or gone awry.
Mesmarcher. To tread, or goe awry, to set the steps amisse.
Mesmarchure: f. A wry step, or treading; an ill posture, or setting of the foot in treading; also, a wrinch, or
straine got in a bone, or ioint by such treading.
Mesme: com. Same, the same, selfe, the selfe-same, the verie same. À mesme terre. On the verie ground. Estre à mesmes de quelque chose. To haue a thing in his power, or choice. I'estois à mesme de ce faire. J was euen readie, or about, to doe this. I'ay faict de mesme vous. I haue done iust as you. Vous n'estes pas à vous mesme. Your wits runne a wooll-gathering; or, you are not well in your wits. Les Bourgeois (de ce païs) boivent de bon Vin, & leurs serviteurs de Mesme: An ordinarie Prouerb in Maine; from the equiuocation betweene this mesme, and Mesme the name of a Riuer in Le Perche. Mesmement. Namely, especially, chiefely, principally.
Mesmes. The plurall to Mesme; also, as Mesmement. Mesmeté: f. Selfenesse, it selfe, it owne eßence, or being.
Mesnage: m. Household-stuffe, businesse, or people; a household, familie, or meynie. Poisson de mesnage. as Belenne. À profit de mesnage. Soundly, throughly, with a witnesse, without ieasting or dalliance, to some purpose. Faire mauvais mesnage ensemble. To agree illfauoredly together. Remuer mesnage contre. To rise vp, or make an insurrection against; and hence; Remueur de mesnage. An vnquiet, seditious, turbulent, or troublesome fellow. Tout vient à point qui tient mesnage: Prov. All's fish that comes to the householders net.
Mesnagé: m. ée: f. Husbanded, thriftily vsed.
Mesnageable: com. Husbandable.
Mesnagement: m. Good husbandrie, thriftinesse, frugalitie, warinesse, prouidence; also, a husbanding, or thriftie disposall, of things.
Mesnager: m. as Mesnagier; whence the Prouerbe; Prou despendre, & peu gaigner saccage le mesnager. Mesnager. To husband, to vse thriftily, gouerne discreetly, make the best or most of a thing.
Mesnagerément. Frugally, thriftily, prouidently, like a good husband.
Mesnagerie: f. Husbandrie, or huswiferie; and the vse, or practise thereof.
Mesnagier: m. An husband, an householder. Vn bon mesnagier. A thriftie, warie, frugall, prouident fellow, one that lookes verie well to his own profit. Vn mauvais mesnagier. An vnthrift, scape-thrift, squāder-good, spēd-all, riotous, dissolute, carelesse yōker.
Mesnagiere: f. A houswife, or huswifelie woman.
Mesnie: f. A meynie, familie, household, household companie, or seruants. De nouveau Seigneur nouvelle mesnie: Pro. New Lords new Lawes. De tel Seigneur telle mesnie: Pro. Like maister like meynie.
Mesoffrir. To vnderbid; to offer lesse for a thing then tis worth; also, to wrong, misuse, abuse. A qui meschet on luy mesoffre: Pro. Look Mescheoir. Mesolabe: m. An halfe Astrolabe; an Instrument vsed for the finding out of one, or many proportionall lines.
Mesoüan, ou mesouën. Henceforward, frō henceforth.
Mesparler. To speak ill, or amisse of; to depraue, dispraise, misterme, detract from.
Mespartement: m. A misparting; an vnhonest, vnfit, or vnseemelie diuision.
Mespert: m. An halfe-part; or a keeping of a thing for halfe the profit comming of it.
