few, or no blowes; they seldome strike home that threaten, or talke, much. Homme mort mord iusques, & par delà la mort: Prov. The bloud of the innocent cryes vnto God for vengeance, pursuing vnto, and stinging after, death the conscience of a murtherer: Howsoeuer some may flatter themselues with; Homme mort ne mord pas: Prov. A dead man, (or as we say, a dead dog) bites not. Mauvais chien ne trouve ou mordre: Pro. The curst curre knowes not where to set his teeth. On ne sçait qui mord ne qui rue: Prov. A man knowes not what may fall out. Tel estrille fauveau qui puis le mord: Prov. Looke Fauveau. Tel rid qui mord: Prov. Some laugh that bite, some ieast that gall; or as before in, Mordre en riant. Mords: m. A Bitt for a horse.
Mords. Bitten; gnawne, champed; nibled; nipped, or pinched with the teeth; stung.
More: m. A Moore, Morian, Blackamore. Petit more. The name of an excellent Ordinarie in Paris. Teste de more. Looke Teste. Il a esté pris comme le more. His cunning is discouered; or he hath cousened himselfe in thinking to cousen others; he is caught in the snare he layed for another. (Francis Sforce the last absolute Duke of Milain (surnamed the Moore, because of his swart complexion, and the most craftie Prince of his time) hauing receiued a great ouerthrow, put on the apparrell of a Swisser, and thought so to haue liued, for a while, hidden among the Regiments of that Nation; but they within a while discouering, deliuered him vnto the French King, in whose prisons he ended his dayes.)
Moreau. Cheval moreau. A blacke horse.
Morée: f. A kind of murrey, or darke-red colour.
Morel. as Moreau. Morelle: f. The hearbe Morell, pettie Morell, garden Nightshade. Morelle furieuse, ou maniaque. Mad, raging, or furious Nightshade. Morelle marine. A kind of sleeping Nightshade which growes in rockie places neere vnto the sea. Morelle mortelle. Dwale, Deaths hearbe, deadlie Nightshade, great Nightshade. Morelle somnifique. Sleepie Nightshade; or, as Morelle mortelle. Morelles: f. Morell Cherries; late-ripe Cherries, dryed for Winter prouision.
Morene: f. as Hemorrhoïde; the Emrods, or Piles.
Morengue. The name of a kind of Oliue.
Moresque: f. A Mooresse, a shee Moore, a blacke woman.
Moresque: com. Moorish, Moore-like, of the Moores. Fueillage, & Ouvrage, moresque. Moreske worke; a rude, or anticke painting, or caruing, wherein the feet and tayles of beasts, &c, are intermingled with, or made to resemble, a kind of wild leaues, &c.
Moresse: f. A Mooresse, a woman Moore, a blacke woman.
Moret: m. A kind of Lye whereof Sope is made; also, as Morée. Morets. Des morets. winne-berries, hurtle-berries.
Morfe: f. A feasting, or making of good cheere.
Morfée: f. as Morphée.
Morfiaille: f. Greedie eating, illfauoured or hastie deuouring; also, bad or dead Wine, such as is no
better then droppings.
Morfiailler. To feed greedily, eat or drinke hastily, and writhe the mouth illfauouredly in chawing, or swallowing.
Morfiailleries: f. Food or victualls greedily, and illfauouredly taken in.
Morfil: m. Juorie, Elephants teeth. Le morfil d'un cousteau. The edge-side of a new, and vnground knife.
Morfondement: m. as Morfondure. se Morfondre. To take cold; catch cold, get a cold. Se morfondre sur. To stand long, or dwell much vpon.
Morfondu: m. uë: f. That hath taken, or caught cold; that hath got a cold.
Morfondure: f. A cold; or a taking of cold.
Morganegibe. A matrimoniall gift; or, such a title as our frankmariage.
Morgeline: f. Juie Chickweed, Henne-bit; also, the small, or fine Chickweed; also, Pimpernell; whence; Morgeline femelle. Blew Pimpernell. Morgeline masle. Red Pimpernell.
Morgoy, for Mort Dieu; (a rusticall oath.)
Morgue: f. A sad, or sadned looke; a solemne, or seuere countenance; a soure face; an austere posture, or sett of the visage; the mumping aspect of one that would seeme grauer then he is; Also (in the Chastelet of Paris) a certaine Chaire, wherein a new-come prisoner is set, and must continue some houres, without stirring either head or hand, that the Keepers ordinarie seruants may the better take notice of his face, and fauour. À le voir tenir si bonne morgue. Seeing him keepe his countenance so well, or set so good a face on the matter.
Morguer. To looke sourely on, or make a soure face at; to braue or outface with a soure, solemne, or stout countenance. Qui morgue le ciel, & fait gambades à la terre. that hangs on a gibbet.
Morguesoupe. à la m. Whilest they were eating their broweße, or fat pottage.
Morgueur: m. A maker of strange mouthes, or soure faces.
Morgueux. The same; or one that illfauouredly writhes his face to a shew of grauitie.
Morhouc: m. A Porpose, or sea Hog. ¶Breton. Moribonde: com. Dying; or vpon the point of dying; readie to dye.
Morienne: com. Dying a naturall death; or, not killed, but dead of it selfe.
Morigené: m. ée: f. Bien mor. Mannerlie, well mannered, well behaued, of good carriage, well fashioned, well brought vp.
Morille: f. The smallest, and daintiest kind of red Mushrome. Pinse morille. The game called, Hinch pinch, and laugh not.
Morillon: m. A shell-Drake; or broad-beaked water-*fowle, whose head and neckes vpper part is of a ruddie, or Chestnut colour, the lower part of his necke, back and tayle being black, and the rest of his back and his wings Mouse-coloured; also, the name of a blacke grape that yeelds verie good Wine.
Morin. Vent morin. The South wind.
Morion: m. A Murrian, or Head-peece.
Morionné. Armed, or couered with a Murrian.
Lievres morionnez. (Sillie Artificers, or cowardlie Trades-men, turned watchmen) the ordinarie
