Mattockes, _s. pl._ mattocks, tools to dig up roots and weeds, 8/20. _See_ Beate. Mawe, _s._ the stomach, 102/2. May, _pr. s._ can, is able, 66/20. Mayn whyte, principally white, 68/70. Meane, _adj._ middling, ordinary, 2/6, 124/19; neither very moist nor very dry, 70/27. Meane, _s._ means, way, 166, _rubric_; 167, _rubric_. Measure, _s._ measure, moderation, 147/10. Meete, _imp. s._ measure, 146/16. Medle, _v._ to mix, 17/16; medled, _pp._ 2/6, 34/21, 43/1. Melch kye, _s. pl._ milch cows, 70/21. Mete, _adj._ even, 138/23. Metelye, _adv._ meetly, 12/7. Middes, _s._ midst, 48/7. Mo, _adj. compar._ more (in number), 58/34; 141/50. A.S. _má_. _See_ Moo. Moche, _adj._ large, 47/3, 15. Moderate, _v._ lessen, 44/26. Molde, _s._ mould, 9/6; moldes, _pl._ pieces of earth, 45/7. Molten, _pp._ melted, 43/4, 45/7. Moneth, _s._ month, 93/8. Moo, _adj. compar._ more (in number), 40/8, 121/20. _See_ Mo. Moralytes, _s. pl._ moral principles, _prol._ 15. More, _adj. compar._ greater, 127/4. More harder, _adj. compar._ harder, 137/13. More hyer, _adj. compar._ higher, 67/3. Morfounde, _s._ a disease in a horse’s feet, occasioned by its taking cold, 100/1. “_Se morfondre_, to take cold, catch cold;” Cotgrave. Morteys, _s._ mortise, 3/13, 20, 39. (It is a hole in a piece of wood made to receive something that can be tightly wedged up in it.) Mosse, _s._ moss, 131/3. Mouldywarpe-hilles, _s. pl._ mole-hills, 23/20. Mountenance, _s._ amount, 58/31. Mournynge, _s._ a disease appearing either in the tongue or back of a horse, apparently cancer, 83/1, 87/1, 119/4. See _mourrues_, _mourue_ in Cotgrave. Mowen, _adj._ mown, 70/32. Mowes, _s. pl._ stacks, heaps, 32/3. Mucke, _s._ manure, 17/2. Mucke, _v._ to manure, 17/5. Muck-wayne, _s._ manure-cart, 146/86. Muldes, _s. pl._ pieces of mould or earth, 41/3, 45/8, 124/23. Murren, _s._ murrain, 57/13. Murtheryng, _s._ murdering, killing, 51/6. Musell, _s._ muzzle, _note_ to 39/9. Myldewe-grass, _s._ mildew-grass, 54/17. Myldewes, _s. pl._ mildews, 44/24. Myllettes, _s. pl._ a disease behind the fetlocks of horses, 110/1. Mynystratours, _s. pl._ ministers, 165/5. Nache, _s._ the point of the rump, 57/3. See Old Country Words, ed. Britten, p. 105. “A big _nach_, round and knotty,” said of an ox; G. Markham, Husbandry, Of Oxen. Narowe, _adj._ narrow, close, difficult, 4/26. Nathes, _s. pl._ naves of a wheel, 5/9. Nauyll, _s._ navel, 57/6. Nauylgall, _s._ navel-gall, described as a kind of sore on a horse’s back, 105/1. Necessaryest, _adj. superl._ most necessary, 1/4. (Used with _most_ preceding). Nede, _s._ need, necessity, 44/16. Nedle, _s._ needle, 142/5. Nether, _adj. compar._ lower, 5/22, 31/7. Norfolke, 2/27.