358 GLOSSARP. 
Malign, adj. Malignant, injurious: p. 79, I. 2. 
Maniable, adj. Manageable, tractable: p. 17, 1. 8. ‘Maniable: com. 
Tractable, wieldable, handleable,’ &c. Cotgrave, Fr. Dict. 
Mansion, sb. A dwelling-place: p. 119, 1, 18; p. 134,117. See John 
xiv. 2. 
Manurance, sb. Manuring, fertilizing ; p. 184, lL. 4. 
Manured, ~.p. Cultivated: p. 84, 1. Io. 
Mar, v.¢. To injure: p. Io, |. 20. 
Marvel, v.i. To wonder: p. 112, I. 13. 
Materially, adv. Solidly, soundly: p. 198, 1. 26. 
Mathematic, sb. Mathematics: p. 121, 1. 2. Comp. athletic, cosmetic, 
metaphysic, physic. 
Matter, sb. The point or essential part of a subject: p. 61, 1.7. Comp. 
Albumazar, ii. 4: 
*Then vouch a statute, and a Latin sentence, 
Wide from the matter,’ : 
May=can: p. 141, 1. 31. Comp. Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. i. 3. 7: ‘May 
you stead me.’ And Ps. exxv. 1, Pr. Bk. ‘ Mount Zion, which may not be 
removed.’ 
Mean, sb. Means, medium: p. 76,1. 21; p.195,1.19. ‘For it is the 
soleecisme of power, to thinke to command the end, and yet not to 
endure the meane,’ Essay xix. p. 77. 
Mean, adj. Moderate: p. 219, l. 33. 
Means, sb. Wealth: p. 20, ll. 8, 9. Used as a singular noun: p, 242, 1. 24. 
Mechanicals, sb. Mechanics: p. 198, 1. 5. The word occurs in a different 
sense in Shakespeare, Mid. N’s. Dr, iii. 2. 9. 
‘A crew of patches, rude mechanicals.’ 
Mechanique, sb. Mechanism: p. 124, 1. 10; p. 138, lL. 24. 
Medicinable, adj. Medicinal; p. 141, 1. 26. In Shakespeare, Oth. v. 2. 
351, where the Quartos read, 
‘Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their medicinal gum,’ 
the Folios have medicinable. See also Much Ado, ii. 2. 5; Troilus and 
Cressida, iii. 3. 45. 
Medicine, v.t. ‘To administer medicine to: p. 207,1.27. 
Mercurius, apparently not yet Anglicised: p. 52,1, 10. Comp, Acts xiv, 
i2. 
Mere, adj. Absolute: p. 106, 1. 29. 
‘I have engaged myself to a dear friend, 
Engaged my friend to his mere enemy.’ 
Shakespeare, Mer. of Ven. iii. 2. 265. 
Merely, adv. Absolutely, simply: p. 88, 1.10; p. 121, 1. 30; p. 258, 
I, 32. 
: ‘We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards.’ 
Shakespeare, Temp. i. I. 59. 
Meriting, adj. Meritorious: p. 7,1. 27. 
Message, ‘Came in message’ =came as a messenger: p. 66, I. 16. 
Metaphysic, sb. Metaphysics: p. 112, Il. 1, 2; p. 1£3, 1. 18.. Bacon’s 
definition is given on p. 114. 
Minion, sb. A darling: p. 30, 1. 33. In ed. 1605 it is printed migmon 
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