35 8 GLOSSARY. 



Malign, adj. Malignant, injurious : p. 79, 1. 2. 



Maniable, adj. Manageable, tractable : p. 1 7, I. 8. Maniable : com. 



Tractable, wieldable, handleable, &c. Cotgrave, Fr. Diet. 

 Mansion, sb. A dweliing-place : p. 119, I. 18; p. 134,!. 17. See John 



xiv. 2. 



Maniirance, sb. Manuring, fertilizing : p. 184, 1. 4 

 Manured, p.p. Cultivated: p. 84, 1. 10. 

 Mar, v. 1. To injure: p. 10, 1. 20. 

 Marvel, v. i. To wonder : p. 112, 1. 13. 

 Materially, adv. Solidly, soundly: p. 198, 1. 26. 

 Mathematics, sb. Mathematics: p. 121, 1. 2. Comp. athletic, cosmetic, 



metaphysic, physic. 

 Matter, sb. The point or essential part of a subject : p. 6l, 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. cxxv. I, 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 



solcecisme of power, to thinke to command the end, and yet not to 



endure the meane. Essay xix. p. 77. 

 Mean, adj. Moderate: p. 219, 1. 33. 



Means, sb. Wealth : p. 20, 11. 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, 1. 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. 



12. 

 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, 



1.32. 



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, 1. 16. 

 Metaphysic, sb. Metaphysics: p. 112, 11. I, 2 ; p. 113, 1. 1 8. Bacon s 



definition is given on p. 114. 

 Minion, sb. A darling: p. 30, 1. 33. In ed. 1605 it is printed migmon 



