The britheren of hir and the modir answeryden, The mayde child at the leest dwelle ten dayes anentis us, and aftirward sche shal go. (L. V. damesele, puella.) - Wic. Gen. li. 54; maydyn child, v. 57.

Beholde, Goddesse of clene Chastite!
The bittere teres that on my chekes fall,
Sin thou art mayde, and keper of us all,
My maydenhode thou kepe and wel conserve:
And while I live, a mayde I wol thee serve.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, vv. 2330, 1, 2.

MAIL, v. See Piers Plouhman in v. Rifle. And he (Goliath) was clothid with an haburion hokid, ethir mailid (squamata).- Wic. 1 Kings xvii. 5.

MAIM.

That is, whanne the seruaunt is sout of his Lord to be slayn, ether to be meymed, &c. Wic. Deut. xxiii. 15, note g.

MAJESTY.

In all the public writs which he now issued as King of Spain, he assumed the title of Majesty, and required it from his subjects as a mark of respect. Before that time all the monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness or Grace.

Robertson. Charles V. v. i. b. 1, An. 1519.

MAINPRISE, v.

Mede shal noght maynprise yow.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2439.

That Mede moste be maynpernow
Reson thei bi-sought.-Id. Ib. v. 2305.
MAIZE.

The Spaniards reported that the natives of Cuba had given them to eat a singular species of corn called maize, which, either when roasted whole or ground into meal, was abundantly palatable.-Robertson, v. i. b. 2, An. 1492.

MAKE. To compose verses. Makings, Composition of verses. See Piers Plouhman.

Makeless (Chaucer, in Dictionary), matchless ; (Shakespeare, infra) mateless.

MAMBLE.

MAN

Of this matere I myghte
Mamelen ful longe.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 2514.

MAN. Sw. Man. Vir fortis. Stiernhelmius et Rudbeckius hanc primam vocis esse significationem credunt, utpote ortæ a ma, valere, Angl. May. Ihre. Me is written for Men (impersonally), says the Gloss. to Wiclif. Thus Wiclif renders neque accendunt, in L. V. ne me leendith; and in E. V. nether men. Mat. v. 15; also in Gen. xlv. 6, L. V.

In sorwe thow shalt bere children; and thow shalt be under power of thi man (L. V. the hosebande, viri), and he shal haue lordship of thee.-Wic. Gen. iii. 16.

And thei maden engynys, and they wenten out, and brenten hem in fijre, and fouzten manly (viriliter). Id. 1 Mac. vi. 31. Forsothe I trist hym to do myldly, and manly (humanė), or curteysly.-Id. 2 Mac. ix. 27.

Bot Y preye, thou kyng, all these thingus knowen, byholde to the cuntree and kyn aftir thi manlynesse (humanitatem) shewide to alle men.-Id. Ib. xiv. 9.

She n'as nat with the leste of her stature,
But al hire limmes so well answering
Weren to womanhode, that creature
Was never less mannishe in seming.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. i. v. 284.
MANACE, i. e. Menace, qv.
MANACLE.

To ben bounde the kyngis of hem in fettris, and the noble men of hem in irene manyclis (manicis). Wic. Ps. cxlix. 8.

MANAGE. Manyable, from Fr. Manier. He may not be swolowed ne by the felyng or attouchyng (for he is not manyable), ne may not be handlyd. The Golden Legend, fo. 27, c. 1. Caxton, 1483, Westm.

MANDATE. MAUNDEMENT, Tyrwhitt interprets, disposition. More literally, self-command. (They) said, By will and maundément, They were at hire commaundèment. MANDRAGE.

Chaucer. Dreame, v. 451.

And Ruben goon out in tyme of wheet heruest into the feeld fonde mandraggis, that he broute to Lya, the modir. Wic. Gen. xxx. 14.

MANGE, MANGER.

To make the Libyan shore.-Dryden.
Libya vertuntur ad oras.-En. b. i. v. 158.

MALACISSATION, adj.

Penetrating and insinuating remedies are the defferrents, as it were, of malacissant and mollifying qualities, and convay more easily and impressedly the virtue thereof.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. iv. c. 2.

MAL, or MALE. In comp. A prefix with the force of-ill, evil, bad, wrong. Malebouch, ill or evil tongue. Chaucer. Black Knight, v. 260.

MANNER. Mannerism and Mannerist are of modern introduction. Mannerism (not in Todd) may be described-first, as a mode of composition distinct from all usual modes, and thus affecting originality; and secondly, as a misapplication or misemployment of style, by preserving (for instance) the same stateliness or gravity on all occasions. In painting, it is manifested by placing a sitter always in the same attitude; by grouping

relative positions; in the management of colouring, in lights and shades, and various other particulars. And so, in the Sister Arts.

And he was comun to a maner place (sum place, quendam), and he wolde rest in it aftir the sunne goyng down. Wic. Gen. xxviii. 8. Wile thou not (noli) trauailen that thon be riche, but to prudence put maner. (L. V. mesure, modum.) Id. Prov. xxiii. 4. | Thanne Judit song this song to the Lord, seiende, Begynneth in tymbris; singith to the Lord in cimbalis; manerly singith. (L. V. synge ze swetli, modulamini.) Id. Judith xvi. 2. The ende of manernesse (L. V. temperaunce, modestia) (is) the drede of the Lord.-Id. Prov. xxii. 4. It hath been shewede me that ye brynge with you a maner of Bretons, Barroys, &c. Berners' Froissart, v. ii. 230. The months, twelve sisters all of different hue, Though there appears in all a likeness too; Not such a likeness, as, through Hayman's verse,

p.

MAR

Dull mannerist, in Christians, Jews, and Turks,
Cloys with a sameness in each female face.
Churchill. Gotham, b. i.

MANURE.

The face of the earth hath not been torn, nor the virtue and salt of the soil spent by manurance.

Raleigh. Discovery of Guiana.

Yon flourie arbors, yonder allies green, Our walk at noon, with branches overgrown, That mock our scant manuring, and require More hands than ours to top their wanton growth. Milton. Par. L. b. iv. v. 628. MANY. Fr. Mesnie. A Meyny, a family MENIAL. household, company, or servants. Cotgrave. The rout; the baser sort. Minsheu. Menial offices, emph. Servile offices or employ

ments.

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Piers Plouhman writes, " And how he myghte moost meynee manliche fynde."-Vision, v. 5789. Gawin Douglas, " Ane few menze." See FEW. Spenser, in his Ireland, " A much more many.' In Wiclif," His household meynee," is in the Latin Vulgate, Domestici ejus; and Meyneal Church, Domestica ecclesia. In other instances the Lat. Familia, M. V. Family, is rendered, meynee, and

Meyneals, from domestici. And to this usage the word seems very early to have been limited. See MEAN.

In 1 Henry IV. c. 7, Knights and esquires menial (Fr. Menialx), are distinguished from knights and esquires which be of his lord's retinue, and do take their yearly fee for term of life.

Our lawyers have been accustomed to derive Menial, from Mania-a servant or servants intra mania; Servants within the walls. French etymologists from Fr. Maison; Lat. Mansio. See Rochefort and Lacombe; also Du Cange, in v. Maisnada; and Menage, Le Orig. It. in v. Masnada. See also the quotation from Chaucer, in v. Captain, supra. Who so hath much, spend manliche,

So seith Tobye;

Swiche lessons lordes sholde

Lovye to here,

And how he might moost meynee

Manliche fynde.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 5789.
This is the possessioun of the lynage of sones of Juda, by
her meynees. (E. V. kinredis, per cognationes.)
Wic. Josh. xv. 20.

And, for the outlaw hath but small meinee,
And may not do so gret an harme as he (the tyrant),
Ne bring a contree to so gret mischiefe,
Men clepen him an outlawe or a thefe.

MAR, v.

Chaucer. The Manciples Tale, v. 17180.

All thy trees and frute of thy land shall be marred with blasting.-Bible, 1549. Deut. xxviii.

MARCH, v.

Austyn at Caunterbury
Cristnede the kyng,

And thorugh miracles, as men now rede,

Al that marche he tornede

To Crist... Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10516. For hire moneie and hire marchaundize (Thei) marchen togideres.-Id. lb. v. 126.

MARCH, s.

And thou woldist bilde up the temple that Idumes brenden, for Judee is put out of her termes, or marchis (exterminata est) of the Caldeis.-Wic. 3 Esd. iv. 45.

MARE. See MERE. From the marees deepe

Of Acherontes well.-Skelton. Philip Sparrow, v. 69. MARGARETTES. Daisies were so called. Chaucer. See Skinner.

MARGIN, s. This word has acquired (from mercantile usages) a common application to room (left), space (ample room and verge enough). And thow shalt ioyne the goldun cheynes to the rynges that ben in the mergyns of it. (L. V. brynkes, marginibus.)- Wic. Er. xxviii. 24.

He intended for his wild sense of honour's sake, to be true in the matter of the treasure; but before and after it was reached, there was a wide margin of possibilities. E. Warburton. Darien, ch, xiii. The purchase of an annuity with the produce of his commission, secured to him an ample supply for his simple wants, and left him besides a wide margin for the charities in which his brave old heart delighted.

Id. Ib. Intro. Chap.

Syrus (Syria) thi marchaunt, for the multitude of thi werkis thei puttiden forth in thi market or marchaundise (L. V. marcat, in mercatu) gemme and purpur, &c. Wic. Ez. xxvii. 16.

MARMOREAL. Lat. Marmoreus. Of Marble.
And she unveiled her bosom, and the green
And glancing shadows of the sea did play
O'er its marmoreal depth.-Shelley. Revolt of Islam, c. 1.
And again, marmoreal floods.-Id. Ib.

MARROW. Var. written in Wiclif, Mary, marz, marzh, merzh, merczw, merowz, merow, merowe, merowz.

The swerd of the Lord fulfild is of blod, innerly fattid it is with tal of blod of lombis and of get, of the blod of merewi wetheres. (L. V. rammes, ful of merow, medullatorum.)- Wic. Is. xxxiv. 6.

MARSH.

I wende me to stonde upon the brynk of the flood, and seuen oxen fro the flood togideres steyden up, ful greetli fayr and thur; oute with fatt fleish, the whiche in the pasture of mershe (L. V. marreis, paludis) the grene leswis cheseden.- Wic. Gen. xli. 18.

And Pharao trowide him to stonde upon a flood, of the whiche steyden up seuene fayre oxen, and fulle fatte, and thei weren fed in mershi places. (L. V. places of mareis, locis palustribus.) Id. Ib. xli. 2.

That to men-not knowende-desyr of seching be set, and to men sechende frut of travaile, and to God the doctrine of maisterhed be kept.- Wic. Prol. to Apocalypse. And the Lord spak to Moises, and seide, A soule that denyeth to his neizbore a thing bitakun to kepyng, that was bitakun to his feith, ethir takith maisterfulle a thing by violence, &c. (extorserit).-Id. Lev. vi. 2.

Love wol not be constreined by maistrie;
When maistrie cometh the God of love anon,
Beteth his winges, and farewel! he is gon.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11076.

Ne may love be compeld by maistery; For, soone as maistery comes, sweet love anone Taketh his nimble winges, and soone away is gone. Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iii. c. 1, st. 25. MATA-FUND. From the Spanish. The quotation explains the word.

That murderous sling,

The matafund, from whence the ponderous stone
Made but one wound of him whom in its way
It met.-Southey. Joan of Arc, b. viii. v. 163.
МАТСН.

Patience and I

Were put to be macches,

And seten bi ourselve

MEA

At the side borde.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8094. (By Grammar) we free our language from the opinion of rudeness and barbarism, by which it is mistaken to be diseased; we shew the copy of it, and matchableness of it with other tongues; we ripen the wits of our children and youth sooner by it, and advance their knowledge. Ben Jonson. English Grammar. Pref.

MATE, v. Christ the Saviour, by his mating and quelling the enemies of man's salvation Barrow, v. iii. ser. 41, p. 468.

MATHEMATICKS.

The word Mathematics (i. e. disciplines) in its proper and primary signification, seems common to every acquired science. They (says Plato) who are by nature arithmeticians, do shew themselves ready to learn the whole mathematics, i. e. every thing which is capable of being learned. Sometimes they are called in the singular the mathematic, as by Aristotle. By a certain metonymy, of the action for the object, they are frequently called mathesis, the discipline.-Barrow. Mathematical Lecture, lec. i. p. 2.

MATTER.

I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled into life.-Browne. Religio Medici, pt. i. § 50. MAUGRE.

And not onli these thingus, but another forsothe respit (respectus) of hem was, for maugre theires (L. V. azens her wille, inviti) thei resceyueden straungeres. Wic. Wis. xix. 14.

MAUND.

It bifel on a Friday,

A litel bifore pasqe,

The Thursday bifore,
There he made his maundee,
Sittynge at the soper,

He seide thise wordes.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11086. ΜΑΧΙΜ. Gassendi says that a Maxim, is Propositio generalissima; Martinus and Vossius agree that it is, Theorema catholicon. See Martinii, Lex. Philol.; Vossius de Vitiis, and Gassendi, Instit. Log. And the learned Sir William Hamilton concludes, that maxims are maxima propositiones; and so styled, because as universal and primary, they contain the other propositions (minores posterioresque), and determine the whole inference of reasoning. On Reid, p. 766. And from this comprehensiveness, their weight, value, and authority.

MAY, v. MAY, s. Goth. Mahts.-Potestas. For thy place and May.-Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida. Wher thorough the parlements schall may do more good in a moneth.-Fortescue. De Legibus.

MAYOR.

And to meyris or presidentes (ad præsides), and to kyngis ye schul be led for me in witnessyng to hem, and to hethen men.- Wic. Mat. x. 18.

Ther shal no more be clepid he that is unwis a prince, ne the gylere shal be clepid a meyre. (L. V. the grettere, maior.)-ld. Is. xxxii. 5.

MAZE.

The more the matere is moved The mazedere hi worthen.

ME.

Piers Plouhman's Creed, v. 1645.

For euen I me selfe am a man.-Bible, 1549. Acts x. MEAD.

And he seide to hem, Goth, and eteth fatte thingis, and drinkith meth. (L. V. wijn maad swete with honey, mulsum.)- Wic. 2 Esd. viii. 10.

MEAL. Of grain. Er I have breed of mele,

Ofte moote I swete.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8555.

MEAL. A portion.

The son for sorwe therof
Lees light of a tyme,

About mydday whan moost light is,
And meel-tyme of seintes.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 3482.
Their morning milk the peasants press at night,
Their evening meal before the rising light
To market bear; or sparingly they steep
With seas'ning salt, and stor'd for winter keep.

Dryden. Virgil, Georgics, b. iii. v. 613.

MEAL. Is a common terminating affix to old English words; and the compound is usually rendered from Latin adverbs in im, as (Wiclif's Bible)

Shakespeare. Tempest, act ii. sc. 2.

MEAN. (Moyen.) Thus in a feith leve that folk (the paynims) And in a fals mene.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10692. Thei wisten not forsothe that Joseph shulde undurstonde, therthur; that bi a mene persone undoynge both langagis he spak to hem. (L. V. interpretour, per interpretem.) Wic. Gen. xlii. 23.

In the meene tyme (interim) hungur al the loond greetly bare down.-ld. b. xliii. 1.

To these thus striuende the apostil putte hym a mene bitwen (a mediator), shewende to bothe puples neither circumcisioun to ben oft, neither the kept flesh, but the feith that werkith bi charite.-Id. Prol. to Romans, p. 299. With livelishe browes, flawe of colour pure, Betwene the which was mene disseveraunce From every browe, to shewen a distaunce.

Chaucer. Court of Love, v. 783. For somtime we be Goddes instruments, And menests don his commandements.

MEATH. See MEAD.

MEBLE, i. e. Movable. See MOVE.
MEDDLE.

I holde my pees of gramariens, medeleris of retorik, of filosoferis. . . . (and) I shal come to the lesse craftis. Wic. Pref. Ep. p. 66. We beseche you, brethren, that ye encrease more and more, and that ye studye to be quyete, and to medle with youre owne busines. (M. V. to do, rearre.) Bible, 1549. 1 Thes. iv. 11.

For certeyn byrdes called vultures,
Without medelyng conceyuyn by nature.

Lyfe of our Ladye. Caxton, d. 1, c. 1. And it is to peyneful to be medelous in other mennes maters.-Tullius de Amicitia, b. 52. Wurcestre, Erle of.

MENACE, v.

And now worth this

Mede y-maried

To a mansede sherewe,

To oon fals fikel tonge.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 961.

Yet was hir deth depeinted therbeforne,
By manacing of Mars, right by figure.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2037. Being besieged in his palace (seditione minaci) by a menaceful mob of the Macedonians, he (Antigonus) went out amongst them without his guards.

Turnbull. Justin, b. xxviii. ch. 3.

MENCHEN, or From It. Meschino; Fr. MENCHION. Meschine, or mechine; Lat. Meschinus, or mischinus (qy.) See in Menage, Cotgrave, and Du Cange; or, the old French Mencion, mansio; whence, Mencionaire, mencionarius. And thus either-1. A very poor person, a servant (meschesir); or, 2. A housekeeper.

And the wife of Wolphernes, named Eumentilda, was made a menchen at Ely, and Wereburga, his daughter, was also made a nonne.-Fabyan, pt. v. fo. 1482.

MEND, v.

he is Duk of wisdam; and mendere of wise men. mendere, emendator.)- Wic. Wis. vii. 15.

Thy fa(u)lt our law calles death; but the kind prince,
Taking thy part, hath rusht aside the law,
And turn'd that blacke word death to banishment.
This is deare mercy, and thou seest it not.

Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 3.
MERIT. See CONGRUE.-The quotations from
Hobbes in Dictionary, and from Lawrence, supra.
Ac muche moore meritorie,
Me thynketh it is to baptize.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 6732. The meritorie lijf of a good man is schort. Wic. Wis. xli. 13, n. I. MERK, i. e. Mirk, qv. MERMAID.

We, heisynge to the cuntre of heuen, owen to passe ouer with a deef eere the dedliche songis of meremaydens. Wic. Prol. to Josh. p. 556.

MERRY, v. See FLAME, Piers Plouhman.
And as I lay and lenede,
And loked on the watres,

I slombred into a slepyng,

It sweyed so murie.-Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 20. And as the weke and fir

Wol maken a warm flaumbe,

For to murthen men myd,

That in the derke sitten. Id. Ib. v. 11847.

This yuel man dieth strong and hool, riche and blesful, that is, myrie. (E. V. welsun, felix.)- Wic. Job xxi. 23. And there I gan my wo complaine, Wishyng and wepyng all mine one, For other merthes made I none.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. i. fo. 82.

MIG

That ennobled her breed

And high-mettled the blood of her veins.

Campbell. Lines on the Camp Hill at Hastings. METAPHYSIC.

(This) is commonly in the Schools called Metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense; for there it signiphilosophy. But the Schools take them for books of superfieth as much as books written or placed after his natural natural philosophy; for the word Metaphysic will bear both these senses.-Hobbes. Leviathan, c. xlvi. p. 339, fo. edit. METE. See METT.

METE.

He it myght haue

With false mesures and met,

And with fals witnesse.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 8745. Nor yet the time hath Titan's gliding fire Met forth (measured out).

Fairefar. Godfrey of Bulloigne, b. xv. st. 39. METICULOUS, adj. Lat. Meticulosus, fearful; from Metus.

Move circumspectly, not meticulously, and rather carefully solicitous than anxiously solicitudinous. Browne. Christian Morals, pt. i. § 33.

METRETE, s. Gr. Mητρητns; Lat. Metreta, about nine English gallons. See Wiclif, in Dictionary.

MEW.

Thus toke he purpose Love's craft to sewe, And thought that he would worken privily, First for to hide all his desire in mewe, From every wight yborne.

MICH.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. i. v. 381.

How like a micher he stands, as though he had trewanted from honestie.-Lilly. Mother Bombie, act iii. sc. 1. That mite is miching in this grove.-ld. lb. act ii. se. 3. MIDGE. Mugge; Dan. Myg; Fr. Mouche. A. S. Mycge; Ger. Mucke; Dut, A small fly; a gnat. Where there is no space

For receipt of a fly;

Where the midge dares not venture,
Lest herself fast she lay;

If Love come he will enter,
And soon find out his way.

MIDWIFE.

Old Song. Love will find, &c.

And the meedwijf (L. V. medewijf, obstetrix) seide to hir, Wole thou not (noli) drede, for also and this thow shalt haue a sone.- Wic. Gen. xxxv. 17.

The toon put forthe an hoond, in the which the medewife (L. V. mydwijf) bonde a reed threed, seiynge, This shal goon out rather.-ld. Ib. xxxviii. 29.

Wymmen of Ebrew ben not as the wymmen of Egipte: thei forsothe han the cunning of myduyuynge (of medeir obstetricandi), and er we comen to hem thei ben delyuered.-ld. Er. i. 19.

MIGHT, v. See MAY, supra.

There myghtow (might thou) sen examples
In hymself oone,

That he was myghtful and meke.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, vv. 801, 3.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 13689. An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, Arising upwards from the rock below, The Palace moats.-Dryden. Ceyr and Alcyone.

MOB. North says-the word was adopted in the assemblies of the Green Ribbon Club, in 1680, twelve years before Dryden's use of it in his Cleomenes. See the Quotation from Tatler in v. Bubble, supra.

I may note that the rabble first changed their title and were called the mob, in the assemblies of this Club. (i. e. The Green Ribbon Club, 1680, twelve years before Dryden's Cleomenes was published.)—North. Examen. p. 574. Some abbreviations (are) exquisitely refined; as pozz for positive, mobb for mobile, &c.

Swift. Polite Conversation. Introduction. L. Cath. (There is) Kitty Linnet, a little play actor, who gets applauded and hissed just e'en as the mobility wills. Foote. The Maid of Bath, act ii. sc. 1.

MOB. See SLOP. A dress easily slipt on or off. Mob, a dress-a cap-easily moved or removed.

I have often thought wrapping gowns and dirty linen, with all that huddled economy of dress which passes under the general name of mob, the bane of conjugal love, and one of the readiest means imaginable to alienate the affections of an husband, especially a fond one. Spectator, No. 302.

MOCK. His passyon was despited of mockeries and derysions of the jewes-foure tymes he was mockyd.

The Golden Legend, fo. 15, c. 3. MODER, v.

MODERATE, v. The Dukes would gladly have modered the matter. Berners Froissart, v. ii. How moderance and attemperance (are appropryd) to old age.-The Boke of Tulle of Old Age. Carton.

MODULATE.

p.

569.

MOR

Thy beste cote, Haukyn,

Hath many moles and spottes,
It moste ben ywashe.-Id. v. 8651.

MOLE.

In that day shal a man throwe awey the maumetes of his siluer, and the symulacris of his gold that he had mad to hym, that he shulde honoure moldewerpes (talpas) and reremees.- Wic. Is. ii. 20.

Whanne te maken a coueitouse prest to stonde at the auter, ze maken a maldwarp stonde there in the stede of Crist. Id. Bible. Prol. p. 32.

MOMENT.

Hyl. I lay it down for a principle, that the moments or quantities of motion in bodies, are in a direct compounded in them.-Berkeley. Dialogue i. reason of the velocities and quantities of matter contained

MONEST. See MONISH.

MONG-CORN. MENE-MONG, i. e. mixed in a mean or moderate degree.

(Thei) mene-mong corn breed

To her mete fongen.-Piers Plouhman's Crede, v. 1567. MONK, s.

For Christian monkism had not its beginning till many beginning about the year of our Lord 250. years after (Jewish monkism of the Essens). It had its Prideaux, pt. ii. b. 5. MONO-MANIA. Gr. Movog, and μavía, madness. Madness on one subject alone. A word now unhappily in most common use.

MOON, in Gower, is of the masculine gender.See HE.

And the moone (luna) in alle thingus in his tyme shewende of tyme, and tokne of the spirituel world. Of the moone the signe of the holy day; a list 3yuere that is lassid in the ending. The mooneth (mensis) aftir his name is waxende, merueylously into the ful ending. Wic. Ecclus. xliii. 6, 7, 8. Benethe all other (planets) stont the moon.And euery fishe, whiche hath a shelle, Mote in his gouernance dwelle.

(He) is not of him selfe bright, But as he taketh it of the sonne.

Gower. Conf. Am. b. vii. fo. 141'. The professors of them (metaphysics and logic) are moonblind wits.-Warburton. Divine Legation, b. i. § 4.

MOON.
Modern taste or affectation has
MOON-LIT. introduced this p. p. to supplant the
old adj. moonlight. Southey knew better.
So Urien sought Goervyl, whom he found
Alone and gazing on the moonlight sea.-i
-Southey. Madoc,
b. i. pt. 1; also 16. b. xiii. and 16. b. iii. pt. 2.
MOOT.

It helpe him nothing for to mote
To gete ageyn that he hath lore.

Gower. Conf. Am. 1. viii. 1772. MORAL, s. is, in the singular, applied to any lesson in morals or morality; to be inferred from any discourse, or story-real or fictitious.

Troy. Whil'st some with cunning guild their copper

crownes,

With truth and plainnesse-I doe weare mine bare: Feare not my truth: the moral of my wit

Is plaine and true-ther's all the reach of it.

Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, act iv. sc. 4. Homer's moral was to urge the necessity of union, and of a good understanding betwixt confederate states and princes engag'd in a war with a mighty monarch; as also -of discipline in an army, and obedience in their several chiefs to the supreme commander of the joint forces.

Dryden. Virgil. Dedication to the Æneid. Good and bad stars moralize not our actions, and neither excuse or commend, acquit or condemn our good or bad deeds at the present or last bar.

Browne. Christian Morals, pt. iii. § 7. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton; the moral of other poems is incidental, and consequent; in Milton's only it is essential and intrinsic.

Johnson. Life of Milton. He left a name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale.

MORDACIOUS.

Id. Vanity of Human Wishes.

Xenocles affirmed that these fruits (for the most part) carry with them a certaine piercing and mordicant quality, yet pleasant withal, whereby they provoke and quicken the stomach to appetite.-Holland. Plutarch, fo. 448.

MORE. There are several instances in Piers Plouhman, and see v. 9853.-(Arbor) vitium habet in radice.

MOU

It is a ful trie tree, quod he,

Trewely to telle;

Mercy is the more therof,

The myddul stok is ruth.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 10802. This Troilus, withouten rede or lore As man that hath his joyes eke forlore, Was waiting on his ladie evermore, As she that was sothefast the croppe and more Of all his lust or joyes heretofore.

Chaucer. Troylus and Cressida, b. 5, v. 25. MORE, adj MORE, s.

Aske thi fadir, and he shal telle to thee, thi more (L. V. thi grettere men, majores), and thei shulen seie to thee. Wic. Deut. xxxii. 7. Thei birieden hym with his moris (majoribus suis). Id. 4 Kings xv. 7. Every cause is more and worthier than thing caused, and in the mores possession all things lesse ben counted. Chaucer. Test. of Loue, b. ii.

MORIGERATE.

They ought rather to have charged the defects in this kind upon the errors and contumacie of the mind, which refuseth to be pliant and morigerous (morigera) to the nature of things.

Wats. Bacon. Advancement of Learning, b. v. c. 2. MORSEL

For men gyuynge tent to drinkis, and yuynge mussels (L.V. scot, symbolam) togidre, schulen be waastid. Wic. Prov. xxiii. 21. MORTAL.

We ben cast down, but we perischen not, enermore beringe about the mortifying of Jhesu Crist in oure body. (L.V. sleyng, mortificationem.)- Wic. 2 Cor. iv. 10.

The great Physician is come, to free us not onely from all mortiferous diseases, but from mortality itself. Barrow, v. iii. p. 504. Ser. xliii.

Oure bakkes that mothe-eten be.
Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 6340.
He bilde up his hows as a mowthe. (L.V. mouzte, tinea.)
Wic. Job xxvii. 18.
MOTHER.
Away, profane! Hence to your mother-land.
Southey. Madoc, pt. ii. § 7.
The very mother-language which I learnt,
A lisping baby on my mother's knees,
No more with its sweet sounds to comfort me.-Id. Ib. § 5.
MOTION, &c. See MOVE.

MOVE. MOVED. See Woollaston in v. Traduce.
These corsede theves

Fleeth a man for his moebles.

Piers Plouhman's Vision, v. 11916.
Swiche motyres thei mene,
Thise maistres in her glorie.-Id. v. 5839.
And al to-moued (commovebitur) shal be the lond.
Wic. Jer. li. 29.

(Ladies) shall hem telle so fele tidings (many).
What with kissing and with talkinges,
That certes if thei trowed be,
Shall never leve hem londe ne fe;
That it n'ill as the moeble fare,
Of whiche they first delivered are.

Chaucer. Rom. of the Rose, v. 6048. Enery man shold mortefye in hym self the moeuynges of hys flessh.-The Golden Legend, fo. 22, c. 2.

MOULD.

It (time) wol not come again

Let us not moulen thus in idelnesse.

Chaucer. Man of Lawes Prol. v. 4452. MOUNT. Fr. Monture. A horse to ride on, a saddle-horse. Cot. Generally, the animal mountedį, rode. See Piers Plouhman in v. Most, supra.