AN ENGLISH EXPOSITOR: TEACHING THE INTER­pretation of the hardest words used in our Language.

WITH SVNDRY EXPLICATIONS. Descriptions, and Discourses.

By I. B. Doctor of Physick.

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LONDON, Printed by Iohn Legatt, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, in Pauls Church-yard. 1641.

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND Vertuous, his singular good Lady, the Lady JANE Vicoun­tesse MOUNTAGUE, all ho­nour and happinesse.

BEing perswaded (Right Noble Lady) by some friends, for pub­like benefit to make this Colle­ction of words common, which at first was intended onely for private use, (as written in my youth; at the re­quest of a worthy Gentleman, one whose love prevailed much with me) I could not finde in heart to send it forth, no better furnished than with a bare Title; lest like an unknown Infant, it would be exposed to over hard usage, or per­adventure scornfully rejected, adventuring a­broad without countenance of any friend or [Page]commander. Vpon sure knowledge therefore of your most honourable disposition, and former experience of your Ladiships favour toward me, I am emboldened to present this little Pamphlet unto your Honour, with hope that by your Patronage it shall not onely be protect­ed from injuries, but also finde favourable en­tertainment, and perhaps gracefully admitted among greatest Ladies and studious Gentlewo­men, to whose reading (I am made beleeve) it will not prove altogether ungratefull. And al­though I may well be taxed of folly or pre­sumption, that for credit of a slender trifle, crave the assistance of so eminent a Person, yet such I confesse) is my care thereof (since I must not deny it for my own) and my dutie and devoti­on so affected to your Honour, and all yours; that I have, (hoping of your Ladyships pardon) wilfully repelled all reasons which might dis­swade me, chusing herein not so much what may seem most seemly, as what I suppose most behovefull for me.

Accept therefore I beseech your Honour, and receive under your noble tuition this little Vocabulary Treatise, which having been many yeers restrained of libertie, is now glad of en­largement, especially recommended unto so worthy a Patronesse. The glorious Sun loseth [Page]not the least point of his heighth by liberall lending down his light, and quickning with his influence the lowest creatures; neither is any eminency disgraced, that easily condescendeth to others desired good: which is also confirmed by the Poet, who saith;

Conspicitur nunquam meliore potentia causa,
Quam quoties vanas non sinit esse preces.

Not thinking needfull therefore to trouble your Honour with many words of entreatie (upon assured confidence of your well known Charitie and goodnesse) I conclude, sincerely wishing to your Ladiship, the best that may be wished, and resting my self ever,

Your Honours to be commanded, JO. BULLOKAR.

To the Courteous Reader.

HEre have you (Gentle Reader) that which at first was not made for you, though now willingly (for your benefit if you embrace it) offered to your kinde acceptance. Com­mend it my self I will not, lest I should give occasion to some quick heads, to come upon with the verse, Autor opus laudat, &c. Yet this I will say (and say truely) that in my younger yeers it hath cost me some observation, reading, study, and charge; which you may easily beleeve, considering the great store of strange words, our speech doth borrow, not only from the Latine, and Greeke, (and some from the ancient Hebrew) but also from forraine vulgar Languages round about us: beside sundry old words now growne out of use, and divers termes of art, proper to the learn­ed in Logicke, Philosophy, Law, Physicke, Astronomie, &c. yea, and Divinitie it self, best known to the severall profes­sors thereof. And herein I hope such learned will deeme no wrong offered to themselves or dishonour to Learning, in that I open the signification of such words; to the capacitie of the ignorant, whereby they may conceive and use them as well as those which have bestowed long study in the languages; for considering it is familiar among best writers to usurpe strange words, (and sometime necessary by reason our speech is not sufficiently furnished with apt termes to expresse all meanings) I suppose withall their desire is that they should also be understood; which I (knowing that bonum quò communius eo melius) have endeavoured by this Booke, [Page]though not exquisitely, yet (I trust) in some reasonable measure to performe. It is easier (all know) to finde faults, then to mend them, and easier to mend faults in anothers worke already written, then to write any new work free from all fault. If therefore any fault finder, or over curious Cri­tick (for from the best learned I expect best usage) shall to shew his skill grow captious, and quarrell at my interpretati­ons, I will desire him to forbeare bitternesse, and temper a while his choler, till having laid this worke aside, he travell himself in the same or some other new argument; and then I doubt not but he will either become more indifferent, or give others occasion to bid him English the old Proverbe, Medi [...] ­cura teipsum. But as for you (judiciall or courteous Reader) whose favour I desire, and whose counsell or friendly correcti­on I will not refuse, if to you (I say) any thing herein shall occurre, which seemeth by me omitted, mistaken, or not fully satisfactory to your expectation, (for indeed there are almost slipt away seven yeers since I had any leasure as much as to looke on it) I promise that upon warning hereof given to me or the Printer, at a second Impression it shall be amended or supplyed. Meanewhile use this as you finde it, and I perswade my self your honesty will say it is worth the money you paid for it. So committing my self and Book to your favourable good liking, I commit you to God.

From my house at Chicester in Sussex, this 17. day of October. 1616.
Your heartie well-wisher, Jo: Bullokar.

An Instruction to the Reader.

HAve care to search every word ac­cording to the true Orthography thereof, as for Phoenix in the Letter P. not in F. for Hypostaticall in Hy: not in Hi. Remember also that every word mark­ed with this mark * is an old word, onely used of some ancient Writers, and now grown out of use. Lastly, if a word be of different significations, the one easie, the o­ther more difficult, I onely speak of inter­pretation of the hardest; as in the words Ten, Girle, Garter, may appear.

  • ABandon. To forsake: to cast off.
  • Abate. To make lesse: In our common Law it signi­fieth, to enter into an in­heritance, before the right heire take possession, with intent to keep the said heire out of it.
  • Abatement. The action or enterprise of him which abateth in the common Law.
  • Abba. An Hebrew word, signifying Father.
  • Abbett. To help or assist one in evill.
  • Abbettour. Hee that counselleth or comforteth another to do any evill.
  • Abbot. A spirituall Lord over a religious house of Monks.
  • Abbreviate. To make short: to abridge.
  • Abbreviation. A making short, an abridgement.
  • Abdicate. To refuse or forsake, to renounce.
  • Abeston. A stone found in Arabia, of the colour of yron, which being o [...]ce set on fire, can hardly be quenched.
  • Abject. Vile, base, of no estimation.
  • Abjure. To sweare or forsweare: a terme some­time used in Law, when one having committed a capitall offence, flyeth to a Church, or Churchyard, and chooseth rather per­petuall banishment, viz. to abjure the Realme then stand to tryall of Law. This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confes­sor in favour of life, but now is not in use.
  • Abjuration. A renoun­cing by oath: see Abjure.
  • Ablepsie. Want of sight, blindnes, unadvisednes.
  • Ablution A washing.
  • Abolition. A taking a­way, destroying or aboli­shing.
  • Abortion. The birth of a [Page]child before due time; or the destroying in the mo­thers wombe.
  • Abortiva. That which is untimely born.
  • Abrahams Baume. A lit­tle tree of the kind of Wi­thies growing in Italy, and other hot countreys, bea­ring round fruit like Pep­per cornes. It is very hot and dry; and hath a sin­gular propertie to procure chastitie, for which cause Physicians have named it Agnus castus.
  • Abridge. To shorten, to cut off, to gather onely the principall points.
  • Abrogate. To abolish: to disanull, by publike au­thoritie to alter and make a Law, which was in force, to be of no effect.
  • Abrupt. Broken off.
  • Abruptly. By peece­meale: out of order, with­out observing of due cir­cumstance.
  • Absolve. To pardon, ac­quite, or discharge.
  • Absolute. Perfect: ac­complished.
  • Absolution. Pardon, ac­quitall, forgivenesse.
  • Abstinence. A forbea­ring from gluttony, or un­lawfull taking other mens goods.
  • Abstinent. Sober, tem­perate, content with his own.
  • Abstract. A little booke, or gathering taken out of a greater.
  • Abstraction. A taking a­way: or a short draught taken out of a greater thing.
  • Abstruse. Hidden: se­cret, not easie to under­stand.
  • Absurde. Foolish, with­out any wit or grace.
  • Absurditie. Foolishnesse.
  • Abusive. That which of­fereth abuse.
  • Abisse. A bottomlesse pit, any deepnesse so great that it cannot be sounded.
  • Acatia. A little thorne growing in Egypt, out of the leaves and fruit where­of they draw a juyce or black liquor, which be­ing dryed, is called Acatia, and is very astrictive or binding. Our Apotheca­ries have not the right A­catia, but insteed thereof, [Page]they use the juyce of Sloes, being of the same vertue that Acatia is.
  • Academie. A Vniversitie or great publike schoole: the name hereof first came of a place in Athens, cal­led Academia, where Plato taught.
  • Academicall. Belonging to an Vniversitie, or Aca­demie.
  • Academicke. A Philoso­pher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God, and beleeved the immortalitie of souls, Pla­to having learned many things of the Hebrews, then the peculiar people of God.
  • Accelerate. To hasten.
  • Acceleration. A hasten­ing.
  • Accesse. Liberty or pow­er to come to a place.
  • Accessible. Which may be gone too.
  • Accessary. He that coun­selleth or commandeth another to commit any offence: or comforteth, or hideth him, knowing that he hath committed an of­fence.
  • Accident. That which happeneth by chance: sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing, and yet is no part of the substance, as the quan­titie, qualitie and such like.
  • Accidentall. Happening by chance: or belonging to an Accident.
  • Acclamation. A crying out to one.
  • Accomodate. To make fit: to apply.
  • Accoutrement. Attire, or dressing.
  • Accoste. To draw neere to one.
  • Acc [...]ew To grow, arise, or increase.
  • Accumulate. To heape up.
  • Accumulation. A heaping together.
  • Acerbity. Sowrenesse.
  • Acheeve. To performe; or bring to passe.
  • Acolite. A Minister ser­ving to bring water, wine and light to the altar.
  • Aconitum. A venemous herbe, having a root much like to a Scorpion, and shi­ning within like alabaster. Poets faine that Cerberus [Page]the three headed dog of hell, being dregged up in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules, did cast some of his some upon this herbe, whereby it became so ve­nomous.
  • Acquire. To get or pro­cure.
  • Acquisition. A getting or purchasing.
  • Acquite. To discharge, or free one.
  • Acquitall. A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith he was charged.
  • Action. A deed done: or the doing of any thing. In our common Law it signifieth a suit commen­ced against any man, and is commonly divided into three differing kinds, viz,
    • 1. Action personall, which is for debt, goods, cattell.
    • 2. Action popular, which any man may sue, as upon the breach of a penall sta­tute, where some advan­tage is allowed to him that will sue for it.
    • 3 Actionreall, when one claimeth title to any lands tenements, rents, or com­mon, in fee simple, fee taile, or for terme of life.
  • Active. Livelie, strong, nimble.
  • Activitie. Strong nim­blenes.
  • Actor. A doer, some­time a Player.
  • Actuall. That which is done or committed.
  • Acute. Sharp, wittie.
  • Adage. A proverbe.
  • Adamant. A precious stone commonly called a Diamond, brought out of Arabia and Cyprus. It is the hardest of all stones, insomuch that it cutteth glasse, and yeeldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire, for which cause the Greeks name it Adamas, which in their tongue sig­nifieth Invincible: Not­withstanding it is softened with goats blood, being steeped therein new and warme. It is of contrarie nature to the loadstone, in so much that being laid near it, the loadstone can­not draw yron having the vertue thereof overmaste­red [Page]by the Adamant.
  • Addict. To apply, or give ones selfe much to any thing.
  • Additament. Any thing added.
  • Addition. An adding or putting to. In our com­mon law it signifieth any title given to a man beside his name, which title shew­eth his estate, trade, course of life, and also dwelling place.
  • Adhere. To cleave to,
  • Adherence. A cleaving to, or belonging to any thing.
  • Adherent. That which cleaveth or joineth close to a thing.
  • Adjacent. That which lyeth neare to another thing.
  • Adjourne. To deferre or put off till another time.
  • Adjournement. A terme in law when any Court is dissolved, and appointed to be kept upon some o­ther time, or at any other place.
  • Adjunct. A qualitie, joyned to a thing, as heate to fire, coldnesse to Snow.
  • Adjure. To binde by oath: to make one to sweare.
  • Adjuration. A swearing, or binding by oath.
  • Administer. To do ser­vice: sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods, by ap­pointment of the Ordi­narie.
  • Administration. The do­ing or handling of a bu­sines; or the disposing of a dead mans goods, that made no will.
  • Administrator. He to whom the Ordinary com­mitteth in charge the goods of a man dying without will.
  • Admire. To wonder, to honour or esteem highly.
  • Admiration. A wonde­ring.
  • Admission. A recei­ving or giving one leave to enter.
  • Admit. To let in, to al­low of.
  • Admixtion. A mingling of things together.
  • Admonish. To warne.
  • [Page]Admonishment. A warn­ing given one.
  • Adopt. To choose one to be his sonne.
  • Adoption. The choosing and making one to be as his sonne to him.
  • Adore. To worship, to give divine reverence.
  • Adoration. A worship­ping.
  • Adorne. To decke, to set out, to beautifi [...].
  • Adornation. A decking, or trimming.
  • Advent. A comming: C [...]rtaine weekes before Christmas are so called, because then is made in the Church solemn prepa­ration for the comming of our Saviour.
  • Adventaile. A coate of Armour.
  • Adverse. Contrary.
  • Advert. To marke.
  • Advertise. To give knowledge of a thing.
  • Adulation. Flattery.
  • Adul [...]tory. Which fla [...] ­tereth.
  • Adulterate. To corrupt or counterate.
  • Ad [...]ocate. He that plead­eth for another.
  • Advouson. The right which a man and his heires have to present a Clerke to the Ordinary, to be ad­mitted to a spirituall be­nefice when it becommeth voide.
  • Adust. Burnt, scorched.
  • Adustion. A burning.
  • Aedile. An officer a­mong the ancient Ro­manes, who had charge to see that Temples, pri­vate houses and highwaies, were kept in good repara­tion.
  • Aegipan. A Poeticall word, signifying a monster having the body of a man and legs like a Goat.
  • Aerie. A nest of Hawkes is so called.
  • Acriall. Ayrie, or of the aire.
  • Affability. Courtesie in speech: gentlenesse, kind­nesse
  • Affable. Courteous or kinde in speech.
  • Affect. To love: some­time to move affection.
  • Affectation Too much curiositie: an extreme la­bouring without discreti­on to imitate another, or [Page]do any thing well.
  • Affiance. Trust: confi­dence.
  • Affianced. Betrothed.
  • Affinitie. Kindred by marriage: sometime like­nesse or agreement.
  • Affirmative. Which af­firmeth.
  • Affluence. Plentie: a­boundance.
  • Affront. To come bold­ly before one: to looke boldly in ones face.
  • Africa. One of three parts of the world, lying toward the South; herein is Barbary and all Ethiope contained. The people of these countries lived in times past very uncivilly, feeding much upon ser­pents flesh: It is called A­frica of the Greeke word Phrice, which signifieth Cold: and the particle A. which in that language, being placed before a word, changeth the sense thereof: so that Africa signifieth a countrey hot or without cold.
  • Agarick. A kind of mush­rome or tadstoole of great account in Physicke. It groweth upon the Larch tree in Italy, and is white, light, brittle, and sponge­ous. It expelleth cold fleame and grosse raw hu­mours out of the body, o­pening obstructions of the Liver, and by this meanes amendeth an evill colour.
  • Agast. Amazed with feare: dismaid.
  • Agent. A doer or med­ler in a matter.
  • Aggravate. To make a­ny thing in words more grievous, heavier or worse then it is.
  • Agilitie. Nimblenesse.
  • Agitation. A shaking, jog­ging or moving.
  • Agnition. Knowledge: acknowledgement.
  • Agnize. To acknowledge. Agnus castus. See Abra­hams baume before.
  • Agony. A torment of bo­dy and minde: great feare and trembling.
  • Agriculture. Tillage of land: husbandry.
  • Alabaster. A kinde of marble white and very cleare, which by reason of the naturall coldnes there­of doth preserve things [Page]long from corruption; and therefore they used to make boxes of it to keep sweet ointments, and toombs to burie Princes and great Personag sin.
  • Alacritie. Cheerful­nesse: courage, quicke­nesse.
  • Alchymie. The art of melting or dissolving the nature of mettals, by sepa­rating the pure from the impure parts thereof.
  • Alchymist. Hee that is skilfull in Alchymie.
  • Alcion. A small bird that maketh her nest in the sea, and then it is a signe of faire weather: some call it a Kings-fisher.
  • Alcoran A book wherein Mahomets law and religion is written.
  • *Alderan. A starre in the necke of the signe Leo.
  • Algate. Notwithstan­ding: if so be, seeing that.
  • Alien. A stranger borne, an outlandish man.
  • Alienate. To estrange and withdraw the mind, sometime to sell.
  • Alienation. An estran­ging, a selling away.
  • Aliment. Nourishment.
  • Alkokangi. Otherwise called winter cherries: An herb which beareth round berries and red, that are good against the stoppings of the Liver, the stone and gravell, and divers diseases of the kidneyes and blad­der.
  • Allay. To qualifie or abate the strength or vio­lence of any thing. It is also a terme of hunting, when they set hounds in a readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe, and cast them off when the rest of the Kennell comes in.
  • Allegation. A telling of some proofe or reason of a matter.
  • Allegiance. Obedience of a subject to his Prince.
  • Allegorie. A sentence consisting of divers tropes which must be understood otherwise then the literall interpretation sheweth; as when Saint John Baptist speaking of our Saviour, Matt. 3. said: Whose fanne is in his hand, and he shall [Page]make cleane his floore, and ga­ther the wheat into his barne; but the chaffe he shall burne with unquenchable fire: The meaning whereof is, that Christ being su­preme Judge of all, shall separate the good from the evill, rewarding the one in heaven, and puni­shing the other in hell fire.
  • Allegoricall. Of, or be­longing to an allegorie: spoken by an allegorie.
  • Allelujah. An Hebrew word or rather two Hebrew words joined in one, used as a signe of exultation, and is interpreted, Praise ye our Lord. Paulus Diaco­nus writeth, that when the Britains were invaded by the Saxons and Picts, and on a time readie to fight a battell against them, they were admonished by Ger­manus a French Bishop, (who was sent hither with Saint Lupus to confute the Pelagian heresy) that they should doe as he did; and forth with he cryed aloud Alleluja: which when the whole army of Britains had done, the sound there­of strooke such a terrour into the enemies, that they presently fled away, where the Britains had the victory, De gestis Rom. lib. 15.
  • Allie. Of kin to one by marriage.
  • Alliance. Kindred and affinitie, league or friend­ship.
  • Allot. To appoint, or give by lot.
  • Allude. To speake any thing which hath resem­blance, or privily is di­rected to touch another matter.
  • Allusion. [...]ikening or privy resembling of one matter to another. See Al­lude.
  • * Alnath. A star in the hornes of the signe A­ries.
  • Aloes, or Lignum Aloes. A precious wood used in Phisicke, which comfort­eth the heart, and openeth obstructions. It is knotty, browne of colour, and bit­ter in taste. Being burned it fometh, and yeeldeth a sweet perfume. Some af­firme it to grow upon [Page]mountaines in the East, neere the rising of the fa­mous River Nilus, from which mountaines falling down, it is carried by the streame into India, where being taken up in nets, it is cleansed, and made apt for physick.
  • Aloesuccotrina. The juyce of an herbe brought hither dry out of India; the best whereof is cleere, cleane and red, like to the colour of a liver. It is very bitter, but an excellent medicine to purge cholericke hu­mours out of the stomack; yet not good to be taken inwardly of such as are troubled with the Hemor­rhoides.
  • Alpha. The first letter of the Greeks: wherefore it is sometime taken for the first or chief in any thing.
  • Alphabet. The crosserow of letters, the A, B, C.
  • Alphabeticall. Belonging to the Alphabet.
  • Alps. High mountaines between France and Lom­bardie: the rocks where­of Hannibal (the great Captain of the Carthagi­nians) softned in divers places with fire and vine­ger, to cut out a way for his army to passe into Italy.
  • Altercation. An angrie reasoning or wrangling in words.
  • Alternall. Done by turn or course, one after ano­ther.
  • Altitude. Highth.
  • Amate. To dismay: to make afraid.
  • Amazon. A woman of the Country Amazonica. Amazones were warlike women of Scythia, which kept a Countrey to them­selves without men, yet to have children companied with the bordering people. Their sonnes they either destroyed or sent home to the father, but their daugh­ters they kept, bringing them up in hunting, ti­ding, shooting and feats of armes. They burned the right breast of their children, lest it should hin­der their archerie, where­fore they had the name Amazons, which (in Greeke) signifieth women wanting a breast.
  • [Page]Ambage. A long circum­stance of words.
  • Amber. A kinde of hard yellow gum, wherewith they make beades. M [...]sue saith, the tree whereon it groweth is called Ibex Ro­mana; but what this tree, is I cannot yet learn. Dio­scorides saith, that it falleth in manner of a liquor from Poplar trees into the river Po in Italy, where it con­gealeth and becommeth hard, in that forme as we see it.
  • Ambergrise. Mesue saith it is the spawne of the Whale fish: Avicen affirm­eth it to grow in the Sea. Others write onely, that it is cast up on the shoare, and found cleaving to stones there: the fume thereof is good against the falling sicknesse, and com­fortable to the brain.
  • Ambia. A clammy li­quor of the colour of ho­ney, brought out of India. It is said to have great ver­tue in healing old aches or griefes, proceeding from cold diseases.
  • Ambidexter. He that can use both hands alike: a crafty fellow, that can play on both parts.
  • Ambiguitie. Doubtful­nesse.
  • Ambiguous. Doubtfull: uncertain.
  • Ambition. Vnlawfull, or immoderate desire of So­veraigntie.
  • Ambresie. A sweet shrub or little tree, wherewith some people were wont to make Garlands. In poetry it usually signifieth the meat of the heathen gods. It is sometime taken for immortalitie.
  • Ambulatory. A place to walke in.
  • Ambuscado. A company of Souldiers, hid in some wood or other covert, to entrap their enemies un­wares.
  • Amenitie. Pleasantnesse, delectablenesse.
  • Amerce. To punish one by enjoyning him to pay a certaine small summe of money, at the discretion of him that lawfully com­mandeth it.
  • Amercement. A punish­ment by the purse: See A­merce.
  • [Page]Amethist. A precious stone of a purple colour, fit to grave any thing in, be­cause it is not overhard. It withstandeth drunkennes, as the name in Greek sig­nifieth.
  • Amiable. Lovely.
  • Amitie. Friendship, love.
  • Ammoniacke. A kind of gum almost like to Fran­kincense, so called because it groweth in Lybia, near the place where the Tem­ple of Ammon was. There is also a kind of salt so cal­led, which is found in Africa under sand, and is like unto allume.
  • Amorous. Loving, or gi­ven to love.
  • Amphibolie. A speech ha­ving a doubtfull sence, or which may be taken di­vers manner of waies.
  • Amphibologie. The same that Amphibolie is.
  • Amphiscians. Such peo­ple as dwell under the bur­ning Zone, near the E­quinoctiall line, so called because their shadowes at noone are sometimes to­wards the North, some­times toward the South.
  • Amphitheater. A place having seats and scaffolds in it, used among the old Romans to shew specta­cles and strange sights in. Offenders condemned to dye, and Prisoners taken in warre, were often brought to this place to fight and be devoured by wild beasts, the people sitting in safe places a­bove, & inhumanely spor­ting themselves thereat: Also the Gladiators or Sword-players did fight here.
  • Ample. Large, great.
  • Amplifie. To enlarge.
  • Amplification. An enlarg­ing.
  • Amplitude. Largenesse, greatnes.
  • Amulet. Any thing han­ged about the neck, to pre­serve one from inchant­ment.
  • Anagramme. An inven­tion that by altering the places of the letters of ones name, changeth the word, and turneth it to some other sence, as if for John, one would write, Ho­ni: [Page]there being just the same letters in them both.
  • Analogie. Proportion, agreement, or likenesse of one thing to another.
  • Analysis. A resolution or explicating of an intricate matter.
  • Anarchie. Lacke of go­vernment: all the time when the paople is with­out a Prince or Gover­nour.
  • Anathema. Any thing hanged up in a Church, as an offering to God: some­time it signifieth excom­munication; or a man ex­communicated and deli­vered to the power of the devill.
  • Anathematize. To hang up a thing as consecrated to God: sometime to curse, sweare, or betake to the de­vill.
  • Anatomie. An incision or cutting. The art of know­ing the scituation, office, and nature of all the parts of mans body.
  • Anatomize. To cut and search every part.
  • Anchovie. A Spanish fish lesse then our Sprat, pre­served in pickle, and used by Gallants to draw down drink.
  • Anchoresse. A religious woman that liveth solitary in some close place by her selfe.
  • Anchorite. A religious man living solitary alone in some close place.
  • Angelicall. Like an An­gell.
  • Angle. A corner.
  • Anguish. Grief of mind: vexation.
  • Angust. Streight, nar­row.
  • Animadversion. A mar­king.
  • Animate. To encourage, to harten on.
  • Anime. A white gum or rosin brought out of the West-Indies: It is very pleasant in smel, and being cast into the fire consu­meth very quickly.
  • Animositie. Courage.
  • Annalls. Chronicles of things done from yeare to yeare.
  • Annats. First fruits paid of a spirituall living.
  • Annex. To knit or join to.
  • Annihilate. To make [Page]voyd, or bring to nothing.
  • Anniversarie. A solem­nitie kept every yeere at a set time.
  • Annotation. A note, mark, or exposition made upon any writing.
  • Annuall. Yeerely.
  • Annuitie. Yeerely pay­ment of money to one, not in way of rent, but upon some other occasion.
  • Annull. To make voyd.
  • Annunciate. To tell or declare.
  • Antagonist. An enemy: an adversarie.
  • Antartike Pole. The south pole of the world.
  • Antecedent. That which goeth before.
  • Antheme. See Antiphone.
  • Antichrist. An adversary to Christ: It is compound­ed of the Greeke preposi­tion Anti, and Christus, which signifieth contrary or against Christ.
  • Anticipate. To prevent: to take before another.
  • Anticipation. A prevent­ing; or taking before.
  • Antidate. The dating of a letter or other writing on some day already past.
  • Antidote. A medicine a­gainst poyson, or which serveth to amend any di­stemperature of the bodie.
  • Antike work. A work in painting or carving, of di­vers shapes of beasts, birds, flowers, &c. unperfectly mixt and made one out of ano [...]her.
  • Antimonie. A white stone found in silver mines.
  • Antipathie. A contrariety or great disagreement of qualities.
  • Antiperistasis. A terme used in Philosophy, when heat being kept in by cold, waxeth the stronger in it self, or cold kept in by heat, groweth more ve­hement.
  • Antiphone. Any verse or little sentence, which Churchmen do by course sing one after another.
  • Antipodes. People under us that go with their feet toward ours.
  • Antique. Old, ancient.
  • Antiquary. One studious in matt [...]rs of antiquity, or well acquainted in old Hi­stories.
  • Antiquate. To make old, [Page]or of no account.
  • Antithesis. A contrarietie of things placed against o­ther; as the spokes be in a wheele.
  • Antlier. The lower branch of a Harts horne.
  • Anxietie. Carefulnesse, adnesse.
  • Anxious. Carefull: sad.
  • Aphorisme. A short sen­tence, briefely expressing the properties of a thing: or which serveth as a max­ime or principle to guide a man to any knowledge, specially in Philosophy and Physick.
  • Apocalypse. A divine book written by Saint John E­vangelist, while he was ba­nished in the Ile Pathmos: so called because it con­taineth many profound mysteries there revealed unto him In English it signifieth a Revelation.
  • Apocrypha. That which is hidden and not known. Doubtfull.
  • Apocynon. A little bone in the left side of a Frog, of great vertue as some thinke.
  • Apogeon. A terme in A­stronomy, signifying the farthest distance of a Pla­net from the earth.
  • Apologie. A defence: a speech or written answer made in justification of a­ny person.
  • Apologicall. That which is spoken in defence.
  • Apophthegme. A short quick sentence worthy the noting.
  • Apoplexie. A very dange­rous disease, wherein a man lieth without sense or motion, as if he were dead, with his eyes close, and great difficultie in fetch­ing his breath. It cometh for the most part of cold and grosse flegmaticke hu­mors, oppressing the brain in such sort that the ani­mall spirits, cannot passe from thence into the si­news, as they were wont.
  • Apostasie. A revolting or falling away from true religion.
  • Apostata. He that revolt­eth or falleth from true religion: Iulianus one of the old Emperours was most infamous for this crime.
  • [Page]Apostaticall. Of or be­longing to an Apostata.
  • Apostle. One sent in mes­sage: an Embassadour.
  • Apostolicall. Of or be­longing to an Apostle.
  • Apozeme. A drink made with water and divers spi­ces and herbs, used in stead of sirups.
  • Appall. To make afraid.
  • Apparant. Clear, manifest, certain.
  • Appariter. A sumner: he that attacheth or summo­neth one to appeare at a Court.
  • Apparition. An appea­ring, or vision.
  • Appeach. To accuse, dis­close, or bewray.
  • Appeale. A terme in law, when a malefactor accu­seth or discloseth those that were his confederates in the same offence or any other. Also when the de­fendant refuseth a Judge, and desireth to have his cause tried by a superiour power, he is said then to appeale: as Saint Paul ap­pealed from Festus to Caesar▪ the Emperour.
  • Appellant. He which ap­pealeth.
  • Appellation. A naming or calling.
  • Appendix. That which dependeth or haugeth up­on another thing.
  • Appertenances. That which appertaineth or belongeth to an other thing.
  • Applaude. To shew love or liking to a thing, by clapping the hands, or other sign of rejoicing.
  • Applause. A rejoicing or clapping the hands for joy.
  • Application. An applying of one thing to another.
  • Apposition. A putting of one thing to another.
  • Approbate. To like, to al­low.
  • Approbation. An allow­ance, or liking.
  • Appropriate. To chal­lenge to ones selfe: to keep to himselfe alone.
  • Appropriation. A terme u­sed when any body corpo­rate, or private man, hath the right unto a parsonage in themselves, and may receive the profit thereof, by maintaining Vicar to serve in the place.
  • Arbiter. A Judge in a [Page]controversie, chosen indif­ferent for both parties.
  • Arbiterment. An agree­ment made between par­ties, by an indifferent man to them both.
  • Arbitrary. Belonging to arbiterment.
  • Arbitrate. To judge, to make an agreement.
  • Arbitratour. See Arbiter.
  • * Arblaster. A Crosse­bow.
  • Architect. A chiefe work­man.
  • Architecture. The art or Science of building and comely contriving a house. It is written that this Sci­ence did begin in Cain, because he was the first that ever built a city, which he called by his sonnes name Enoch, as appeareth, Gen. 4.
  • Ardent. Burning hot: vehement.
  • Ardour. Heat: earnestnes.
  • Argent. Silver or silver colour: sometime white.
  • Argonautes. The Wor­thies that went into Col­chos to fetch the golden Fleece; so called of the ship Argo in which they sailed. The chiefe of them were Jason, Typhis, Castor, Pollux, Hercules, and The­seus.
  • Ariditie. Drinesse.
  • Ariopagite. A Lawyer or chiefe Judge in Capitall matters in the Citie of Athens: so called of a cer­tain street in that City de­dicated to Mars, in which those Judges were wont to sit. They were so severe in their judgements, that they sat to heare and de­termine matters in the night time, to the end they would not behold the par­ties which were to be jud­ged, but onely heare what could be objected and an­swered. Saint Dionysius converted to the Christi­an faith by Saint Paul, was one of those Judges.
  • Aristocratie. A kind of government, where the noble men, or chiefe per­sons beare all the sway.
  • Aristocraticall. Of of belonging to Aristocra­tie.
  • Arithmetike. The art or numbring: It is written that Abraham first taught [Page]this art to the Egyptians, and that afterward Pytha­goras did much increase it.
  • Arke. In holy scripture it signifieth two things: [...] The A [...]ke made by Noe at the commandement of God, which was 300. cu­bits long 50. cubits broad, and 30 high, Gen. 6. Se­condly it signifieth a most precious and consecrated coff [...]r or chest, called the Arke of testament, made of the wood Sethim, and pla­ted within and without all over with gold: It had foure corners, and in each corner a golden ring, tho­rough which were put bars of the same wood Sethim, covered likewise with gold, which served for the carriage thereof, This Arke was two cubits and a halfe long, one cubit and a halfe broad, and one cubit and a half deep, Exo. 25. In it was kept part of the Manna in a pot of gold, also the two Tables of the Law, and Aarons rod that had budded Heb. 9
  • Armadilio. A beast in India of the bignesse of a young pig, covered over with small shels like unto armour; for which cause he is called Armadilio, to wit, an armed beast. This beast liveth in the ground like a mole, and the bone of his taile hath vertue to cure diseases and noise in the head.
  • Armipotent. Mightie, strong.
  • Aromaticall. Sweet of savour: smelling like spice.
  • Arrerages. Mony or rent behind, not yet paid.
  • Arrian. An heretike of the sect of Arrius bishop of Alexandria, who devised a blasphemous doctrine a­gainst the divinitie of our Saviour.
  • Arride. To please well, to content with delight.
  • Arrogancie. Pride, loftines
  • Arrogant. Proud, boa­sting.
  • Arrogate. To challenge, proudly more honour or praise than is due.
  • Arterie. A veine with two coats, or a hollow si­new in which the spirits of life doe passe through the body. These kind of veins [Page]proceed all from the heart, where the vitall spirits are made, and are those which pant or beat, called com­monly the pulses.
  • Articulate. To set downe articles or conditions of agreement.
  • Artificiall. Cunning, well contrived, skilfull.
  • Articke pole. The North pole of the world.
  • Artillerie. Great ordnance for the wars.
  • Artisan. A handy crafts­man.
  • Artist. He that is skilfull in any Art.
  • Asafoetida. A dried gum or liquor, brought out of Media and Syria, of a strong lothsome savour; and is sometime applyed outwardly to the body.
  • Ascance. Sidewaies, or looking on one side.
  • Ascribe. To impute, ap­ply, or account.
  • Asia. One of the three parts of the world boun­ding toward the East, in which is Pontus, Bithynia, Phrygia, Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, Armenia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, or the holy land, Arabia, Mesopotamia, (so called because it is in the midst between the two great ri­vers, Tygris and Euphra­tes) Assyria, Media, Per­sia, and divers other coun­tries.
  • Aspe. A venemous Ser­pent of a blacke earthie colour, and sometime yel­low. The superstitious E­gyptians did honour them, and their Kings used to weare the figure of an Asp in their Diadems. They go alwaies two and two toge­ther, and if it happen that one of them be killed, the other will presently pursue him that slew his fellow, in such sort that he shall hard­ly escape, unlesse he make great hast or passe over a river. If one be bitten by this Serpent, the best re­medie is presently to cut off the members so bitten, if it be possible; otherwise he shall fall into a deadly sleep, & within few houres goe away, as it were in a trance. Cleopatra Queene of Egypt, after the death of Marcus Antonius (whom [Page]she loved as her Husband) slue her selfe wilfully, by applying one of these aspes to her body; because she would not be carryed in triumph to Rome, by Au­gustus Caesar, who had van­quished her and Antonie.
  • Aspect▪ Sight or the be­holding of any thing. In Astronomie it signifieth the distance betweene the planets & heavenly signes: And there are foure such Aspects. The first called a Trine aspect (because it divideth the heavens into three even parts) is the distance of foure signes from each other; as Aries beholdeth Leo and Sagit­tarius with a Trine aspect, because these are distant foure signes, the one be­fore, the other after Aries. The second called a Quar­till, is the distance of three signes, as Aries beholdeth Cancer and Capricorne, with a Quartill aspect, because they are distant three signes from him. The third called a Sextill as­pect is the distance of two signes, as Aries beholdeth Gemini and Aquarius with this Sextill aspect, being but two signes distant from them. The fourth called an Opposite aspect, is the farthest distance that can be, namely a distance of six signes asunder; as Aries beholdeth Libra with this opposite aspect, and Libra beholdeth Aries with the same. The like is of all the other signes, or Planets placed in them. For example; Taurus be­holdeth Cancer and Pisces with a Sextill, Leo and A­quarius with a Quartill, Virgo and Capricorne with a Trine, and Scorpio with an opposite aspect. The di­stance of one or five signes is not called an aspect.
  • Asperitie. Sharpnesse.
  • Aspersion. A sprinkling.
  • Aspire. To hope to come to a thing: to seek advance­ment.
  • Aspiration. A breathing, or pronouncing the letter H. before a vowell.
  • Assasinate. A robbing, spoiling, or murthering in the high way.
  • Assecure. To make one [Page]sure or certain, to give one assurance.
  • Assentation. Flatterie.
  • Assertion. An affirming or avouching of any thing.
  • Assets. A terme in the Common Law, when we would signifie that a man hath goods enough come to his hands, to dis­charge a dead mans debts or legacies given by him.
  • Asseveration. An earnest affirming.
  • Assiduitie. Continuance, or continuall attendance.
  • Assigne. To appoint: also one that is appointed in anothers behalfe.
  • Assignation. An appoint­ment.
  • Assignement. An appoint­ing or passing of a thing over to another.
  • Assistant. A helper.
  • Associate. To accompa­nie.
  • Association. A joyning together in fellowship.
  • Assoile. To acquite, cleere, or pardon.
  • Assume. To take to him­selfe.
  • Assumpsit. When one for some consideration given him, undertaketh any thing.
  • Assumption. A lifting or taking up.
  • Astipulation. An affirm­ing, an agreement.
  • Astriction. A binding.
  • Astrictive. Which hath power to binde.
  • Astringent. The same that Astrictive is.
  • Astrolabe. An instru­ment of Astronomie to gather the motion of the Stars by.
  • Astrologie. See Divina­tion.
  • Astrologer. One skilfull in Astrologie.
  • Astronomie. An art that teacheth the knowledge of the course of the planets & Stars. This art seemeth to be very ancient, for Jose­phus; lib. prim. antiq. wri­teth, that the Sons of Seth, Nephewes to Adam (for Seth was Adams sonne) did first find it our: who hea­ring their Grandfather A­dam foretell of the univer­sall floud which should shortly drowne the world, they therupon erected, two great pillars, engraving in [Page]them the principles of A­stronomie; which pillars were the one of bricke, the other of stone; because if the water should haply wash away the bricke, yet the stone might preserve the knowledge hereof for posteritie.
  • Astronomicall. Belonging to Astronomie.
  • Atchevement. A terme of Heraldrie, signifying the armes of any Gentleman set out fullie with all that belongeth to it. Also the performance of any great matter.
  • Atheisme. The damnable opinion of the Atheist.
  • Atheist. He that wickedly beleeveth there is no God, or no rule of Religion.
  • Atomie. A mote flying in the sunne. Any thing so small, that it cannot be made lesse.
  • Atrocitie. Crueltie: out­ragiousnesse.
  • Attache. To take: to lay hands on.
  • Attainder. A conviction or proving one guiltie of a capitall offence.
  • Attaint Convicted or proved guiltie of some great crime.
  • Attentive. Diligentlie harkening.
  • Attestation. A witnessing.
  • Attired. A terme used a­mong Heralds, when they have occasion to speake of the hornes of a Bucke or Stag.
  • Attract. To draw or pull to.
  • Attraction A drawing or pulling too.
  • Attractive. Drawing or which hath vertue to draw.
  • Attrectation. A handling or feeling.
  • Attribute. To give to, or impute. It signifieth some­time a fit title or terme ap­plyed to any thing.
  • Attrition. Sorrow, repen­tance.
  • Atturnie. He that by mu­tuall consent taketh charge of any other mans busi­nesse.
  • Atturnment. The paying of any small piece of mo­nie by a Tenant, in token that he acknowledgeth the partie to whom he paieth it, to be now his Land­lord.
  • Avarice. Covetousnesse.
  • [Page]Aucupation. Hunting af­ter a thing.
  • Audacious. Bold, hardy.
  • Audacitie Boldnesse.
  • Audible. That which is so spoken that it may be heard.
  • Aud [...]tor. An Officer of accounts: It is often taken for a hearer.
  • Audience. A hearing or hearkening: sometime it signifieth an assemblie of people hearkening to some thing spoken.
  • Averre. To justifie, a­vouch or maintain a thing.
  • Averment. A terme in Law when one offereth to prove that his plea is good.
  • Aversion. A turning a­way, a disliking.
  • Avert. To turne away.
  • Augment. To increase.
  • Augmentation An increa­sing.
  • Augur. See Divinati­on.
  • Avidi [...]ie Greedinesse.
  • Avowable. That which one may justifie and main­taine.
  • Avow. To justifie or maintaine.
  • Avowrie. A Law terme, when a Bayliffe or other Officer, avoweth or justi­fieth the lawfull taking of a distresse from any man.
  • Auricular. Spoken in ones eare.
  • Auripigmentum. See O [...]p­ment.
  • Autera. The morning.
  • Ausp [...]cious. Luckie: for­tunare.
  • Austere. Sharp, severe, cruell.
  • Austeritie. Sharpnesse, hard usage.
  • Authenticall. That which is undeniable, and appro­ved of all men.
  • Auth [...]ntike. The same as Auth [...]nticall.
  • Autumne. Harvest time: one of the foure quarters of the yeare; the other three are winter, spring­tide, and summer.
  • Autumnall. Of, or be­longing to Autumne.
  • Axiome. A proposition or short sentence generally allowed to be true; as in saying, the whole is g [...]eat [...]r than a part. It signifi [...]th also in Logicke, any p [...]r­fect sentence, that affir­meth [Page]or denyeth a thing, as in saying, Caesar is mer­cifull, or Caesar is not mer­cifull.
  • * Aye. For ever.
  • Azymes. A solemnitie of seven dayes among the Jewes, in which it was not lawfull to eat leavened bread: the Pasche or Easter of the Jewes.
  • Azure. A fine blew co­lour.
B
  • BAboone. A beast much like an Ape, but grea­ter.
  • Bacchanals. The feasts of Bacchus.
  • Badger. He that buyeth corne or victuall in one place, to carry into ano­ther. It is also a beast of the bignesse of a young Hog, living in the woods, commonly called a Brock.
  • * Bale. Sorrow: great miserie.
  • Balase. Gravell or any thing of weight laid in the bottome of ships to make them goe upright.
  • Balefull. Sorrowfull.
  • Balke. A little piece of ground in earable land, which by mischance the Plough slippeth over, so that it is not ploughed at all.
  • Ballon. The round Globe or top of a pillar.
  • Balme. A precious juice or liquor, otherwise called Balsamum, or Opobalsa­mum. It droppeth by cut­ting out of a little low plant (about a yard high) having leaves like Rue, but whiter, which plant grow­eth in Egypt, and some places of the holy Land. This juice is somewhat like to oyle, but more clammie, and inclining to a certaine rednesse. It hath a strong smell, and is not pleasant in taste: Being put into a vessell of water, it will sinke downe to the bottome like a round pearle, without breaking, and may be taken up a­gaine with the point of a knife. It is an excellent medicine to take any skar out of the body, and for divers other purposes, but very costly and rarely got­ten. [Page] Saladinus writes that there was but one vine­yard of these in the whole world, and that belonged to the great Turke.
  • Balneo. A bath.
  • Balsamum. See Balme.
  • Baptisme. It commonly signifieth a dipping or washing.
  • Baptist. A washer. S. John the sonne of Zacharias was so called, for that he first began to Baptize or wash men in the River Jordan to the remission of sins.
  • Barbarisme. Rudenesse in speech, or behaviour, out­ragious crueltie.
  • * Bardes. Poets.
  • * Bargaret. A kinde of dance.
  • Barrester. He that is al­lowed to plead causes at the barre.
  • Barretter. A common quarreller: one that is ever suing and molesting others without cause.
  • Barricado. A warlike de­fence, of emptie Barrels, and such like vessels, laid at the breach of a wall to keepe out the ene­mies.
  • Barriers. A warlike ex­ercise of men fighting to­gether with short swords, and within some appoint­ed compasse.
  • Barter. To bargaine or exchange commodities for commodities.
  • Base. In Architecture it signisieth the foot of a pillar, or the foundati­on that supporteth any thing.
  • Basiliske. Otherwise cal­led a Cockatrise: the most venemous serpent that is. It breaketh stones and blasteth all plants with the breath thereof, burning e­very thing that it goeth o­ver; neither can any herbe growe neere the place where it lyeth. It is poy­son to poyson, and driveth away all other serpents, with only hissing. If a man touch it but with a sticke, it will kill him, and if it see a man a farre off, it destroyeth him with his looks. This serpent is not above a foot long, of color between black & yellow, having red eyes, a very sharpe head, and a white [Page]spot thereon like a crown wherefore he is called by some in Latine Regulus, viz. a little king. It goeth not winding like other ser­pents, but upright unto the middle, holding up the brest thereof. It breedeth onely in the hot burning sands of Africa: Of this Basiliske the Poet Lucane writeth thus. lib. 9.
    Sibilaque effundens cunct as terrentia pestes.
    Ante venena nocens, late sibi submovet omne
    Vulgus, & in vacua regnat Basiliscus arena.
    With dead [...]y hiss the Basiliske,
    all other plagues doth fright.
    And speedier kils then poisons can,
    with his infectious sight.
    Hee'le have no neighbour dwell neer him,
    he loves to live alone.
    And tyrantlike reignes by himself,
    in cave of sandy stone.
  • Bassae. A noble man, or great Commander under the great Turke.
  • Bastinado. A staffe: a cudgell.
  • Baston. A staffe, or cud­gell: sometime it signifi­eth an officer of the Fleet, attending in the Kings Court, with a red staffe, to convey such to ward, as are there committed.
  • Battry. A beating or stri­king.
  • Bauhee. A small coine: a farthing.
  • * Baine. A Bathe.
  • Bdellium. A Gumme brought out of Arabia, and the Holy land, of a sweet smell and bitter taste. It hath vertue to mollifie and ripen hard swellings, and is good against the stiffe­nesse of sinews or other parts, and against the bi­ting of venemous beasts.
  • Beades of Saint Elline. Cer­tain round roots brought out of Florida, which being dry are very hard, on the outside black, and inwardly white: of a sweet smel and good taste. They [Page]are of great vertue against griefs of the stomack, as al­so of the kidnies or reines.
  • Beame. The maine horn of a Hart or Stag.
  • Beatitude. Blessednesse.
  • Beaver. In armour it sig­nifieth that part of the hel­met which may be lifted up, to take breath the more freely: It is also a be ast of very hot nature, living much in the water. His two forefeet are like the feet of the beast called Gattus, (as Joannes de San­cto Amando writeth:) but what this Gattus is, I doe not well understand, only I suppose it to be an Ottter. Vpon these feet he hath very sharp claws, where­with he taketh his prey, and hangeth upon water banks. His hinder feet are madelike to the foot of a Goose, wherewith hee swimeth. He hath very sharpe teeth, and doth much harme to trees, with knawing the roots and rynds of them. It is writ­ten that if a Beaver come into a strange place, where he hath not been bred, the other Beavers will make him their slave, to provide them meat, and pull off all the haire from his backe that he may be known. The stones of this beast are sold in Apo­thecaries shops, by the name of Castoreum: they are much used in Physick, being very good against palsies and cold diseases of the sinews: But the skin is of more valew then the stones.
  • Beeglue. That which Bees doe make at the en­try of their Hive, to keep out cold.
  • Beestings. The first milke that commeth from the Teat, after the birth of any thing.
  • Belial. An Hebtew word signifying a wicked naugh­tie person. An Apostata; one without yoke, and is many times taken for the devill.
  • Belive. By and by, a­non.
  • Bellona. Warre, or the goddesse of Warre among the Heathen.
  • Belt. A girdle.
  • [Page]Belzebub. An Hebrew word compounded of Bel, which in that language signifieth an Idol, and Zebub, a Fly: so that Bel­zebub signifieth the Idoll of Flies: notwithstanding commonly it is taken for the devill.
  • Benediction. A blessing.
  • Benefactor. A friend, one that doth good.
  • Beneficence. A doing good.
  • Beneficent. Liberall, lo­ving.
  • Benevolence. Good will.
  • Benevolent. Loving, friendly, well wishing.
  • Benigne. Friendly, gentle, favourable.
  • Benignitie. Friendlinesse: libertie, courtesie.
  • * Benison. A blessing.
  • Benzwine. A sweet smel­ling gumme, good against hoarsenesse and the cough, being dissolved in water and drunken. It hath ma­ny other excellent proper­ties to be used in Physicke. The tree upon which it groweth is not with us certainly known.
  • Berill. A precious stone brought out of India, cut most commonly with sixe corners, because otherwise it would not shew so faire, if the sticking out of the corners did not make the brightnesse more mani­fest. It is of a greenish colour, like the water of the Sea.
  • Bestiall. Beastly: disho­nest.
  • Bestialitie. Beastlinesse.
  • Bevie. A herd of row Bucks: most commonly with us it signifieth, a great number of Quails in com­pany together.
  • Beviegreace. The fat of a Row Deere.
  • Beza stone. A stone of excellent vertue against poyson, very costly and of great account in Physick. It is commonly of the bignesse of an Acorne or Chestnut, being compoun­ded of certain thin scales, one upon another, like the scales of an Onion. It is easie to be scraped or cut, and if it continue long in water, it melteth. The middle part is some­thing hollow, and full of [Page]powder of the same sub­stance that the stone is of. And this is a marke to know whether the stone be fine and true: for the Indians doe counterfeit them sometimes and de­ceive many. This stone is taken out of the bow­els of a beast in India, much like a Hart, saving that his hornes are like a goates. The occasion of the growing of the stones (as some write) is thus. These Harts or wilde Goats (for they resem­ble both) going to the dennes of Serpents in those countries, doe with their breathing compell them to come forth, and then eate them: after they goe whereas water is, and plunge themselves therein untill they perceive the furie of the venome be past, and till then they will not drinke a drop: being come forth of the water, they goe into the fields, where feed­ing upon many healthfull hearbs (known to them by naturall instinct to be of vertue against poyson) they are perfectly freed from all danger; and by the mixture of these herbs with the Serpents eaten before, these Bezar stones are very strangely (as is said) ingendered within them: growing by little and little, as appeareth by the scales thereof one folded upon another.
  • Bezill. The broad part of a Ring, in which the stone or signet is set.
  • Bice. A fine blew colour used by painters.
  • Bigamie. The marri­age of two wives; not both together, but seve­rally after the death of the first.
  • Bigamus. Twice marri­ed, he that hath had two wives. Such an one the Romish Church admit­eth not to the Ministe­rie.
  • Bipartite. Divided in two parts.
  • Birgandes. A kinde of wilde goose.
  • Bissextile. Leape yeere, so called, because the sixt Calends of March are in [Page]that yeere twice reckoned: viz. on the 24. and 25. of Februarie, so that leape yeere hath one day more than other yeeres have. This leape yeere is obser­ved every fourth yeere, and was first devised by Julius Caesar, to accommodate or make the yeere agree with the course of the Sun.
  • Bitumen. A kind of clay, naturally clamy like pitch; growing in some coun­tries of Asia. It was of old used in Physick: The best is heavy, bright and cleere, of purple colour, and ha­ving a strong smell. The black is accounted naught. This Bitumen was used in stead of morter, at the building of the tower of Babel, as appeareth in Gen. cap. 11. There is also a kind of Bitumen, like unto a liquor, flowing out of some fountains in the I­land Sicilie, which is used in stead of oyle to burne in lamps.
  • Blankemanger. A custard.
  • Blemishes. Marks made by hunters, to shew where a deere hath gone in.
  • Blend. To mixe or min­gle together.
  • Blewmantle. The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes.
  • * Blith. Merry, frolick, joyfull.
  • Blomarie. The first forge, through which the iron passeth, after it is once melted out of the myne.
  • Bloudstone. A stone growing in Ethiopia and Arabia; of nature astri­ctive, stopping any issue of blood, and eating proud flesh out of wounds. It is of a dark colour, like unto congealed blood.
  • Bole armoniacke. A red­dish stone like to ruddle, of a very binding nature, and of great vertue against the plague.
  • Bonayre. Gentle, milde, curteous.
  • Bone breaker. A kinde of Eagle, having so strong a beake that therewith she breaketh bones.
  • Bolus. A medicine which must be eaten: a mouthfull.
  • Bonnet. A hat or cap.
  • Boone. A request, a suit, a demand; sometime it sig­nifieth [Page]good: as a boone companion, a good com­panion.
  • Boras. A white substance like unto saltpeter, where­with goldsmiths use to sol­der gold and silver: some write it is the gum of a tree, which is very unlike­ly: others affirme it to be made of old lees of oyle, by art and drying in the Sun brought to be white; notwithstanding I suppose it rather to be a minerall.
  • Boras The northeast wind
  • Braces. In building it signifieth the pieces of timber, which bend for­ward on both sides, and beare up the rafters.
  • Brachmans. A sect of Philosophers in India, that lived onely by hearbs, roots, and fruit.
  • Bracygraphie. A short kind of writing, as a letter for a word.
  • Braket. A drinke made of water and hony.
  • Brandish. To shake, pro­perlie a sword or such like weapon.
  • Brayasicke. Mad, foolish, surious.
  • * Bretfull. Top full.
  • Brevitie. Shortnesse.
  • Brigandine. A coat of de­fence.
  • Brigantine. A kinde of small light ship.
  • Brime. A tearme used among hunters when the wilde Boare goeth to the female.
  • Brocage. Meanes used by a spok [...]sman.
  • Broches. The first head or hornes of a Hart or Stag.
  • Brocke. See Badger.
  • Brocket. A red Deere two yeare old.
  • Brothell. A house of di­shonestie.
  • Brothelrie. Dishonestie, bauderie.
  • Bruit A report spread abroad.
  • Brumall. Of or belong­ing to winter.
  • Brute. Beastly, barba­rous.
  • Brutish. The same
  • Brutishaesse. Beastlinesse, barbarous behaviour.
  • Budge. A furre of a kind of Kid in other countries.
  • Buffe. A Beast like a Bull, with a very long [Page]mane; This beast breed­eth in the woods of Ger­many.
  • Bugle. The same that Buffe is: sometime a black horne.
  • Bullion. Silver unrefined, not yet made in money.
  • Burdon. A deep base.
  • Burganet. A Helmet, a Head-peece.
  • Burglarie. The breaking and entring into a house by night, with intent to steale or kill.
  • Burnet. A hood or attire for the head.
  • Burnish. To make a thing to glister or looke faire by rubbing it. It is al­so a terme among hunters, when Harts spread their hornes, after they be fray­ed or new rubbed.
  • * Burled. It sometimes signifieth Armed.
  • Burly Grosse, fat, great.
  • Burre. The round roll of horne, next the head of a Hart.
  • Bursholder. A Headbo­rough, or officer in a Bo­rough.
  • Buttresses. Staies for to beare up any building, or make it strong.
  • Buxome. Pliant, amiable, obedient.
  • Buxomnes. Lowlinesse, humblenesse.
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  • CAbal. The tradition of the Jews doctrine of religion.
  • Cabalist. One skilfull in the doctrine of the Jews religion.
  • Cathos. An herb of red colour, growing in India, which is of vertue against the stone, and to provoke urine.
  • Cadence. The falling of the voice.
  • Calaber. A little gray beast of the bignesse of a Squirrill, whose skin is used for furre.
  • Calamarie. A fish which hath his head between his hinder part and his belly, with two bones, one like a knife, the otherlike a quill, whereof he is called by some a Cutle fish.
  • Calcinate. To burn.
  • Calcine. To burn.
  • Calcination. A burning a [Page]turning into ashes.
  • Calculate. To cast ac­count, to reckon.
  • Calculation. An account, a reckoning.
  • Calends. It signifieth pro­perly, the first day of every moneth, being spoken a­lone by it self. If Pridie be placed before it, then it signifieth the last day of the moneth going before, as Pridie, Calend. Ianuarii. is the last day of Decem­ber. If any number be placed with it, it signifieth that day in the former moneth, which cometh so much before the moneth named; as the tenth Ca­lends of March is the twentieth day of Februa­ry, because if one begin at March, and reckon back­wards, that twentieth day is the tenth day before March. In March, May, July, and October, the Calends beginne at the sixteenth day, in other moneths at the fourteenth which Calends must ever beare the name of the moneth following, and be numbred backward from the first day of the said following moneths.
  • Calfe. The Fawne or young one of a Red Deere.
  • Calefie. To make warm.
  • Calefaction. A making warme.
  • Callette. A lewd woman.
  • Calliditie. Subtiltie, craf­tinesse.
  • Calthrope. An instru­ment used sometime in Warre. It is a little thing made with foure pricks of iron; of such a fashi­on, that which way soever it be thrown, one point will alwayes stick up like a naile, to spoile the ene­mies horse feet.
  • Caligraphie. Faire wri­ting.
  • Calumniate. To slan­der: to belie one shame­fully.
  • Calumniation. Slanderour lying.
  • * Camoyse. Crooked up­ward, as commonly, the noses of blacke Moores be.
  • Camphire. A kinde of Gumme, as Avicen wri­teth. But Platearius affirm­eth [Page]it to be the juyce of an herbe. It is white of colour, and cold and dry in operation.
  • Cancel. To deface, cut or blot out.
  • * Canceline. Chamlet.
  • Canicular. See Dogge-dayes.
  • Canker. A hard swelling in the veines, being over­charged with hot melan­choly humors. It is cal­led a Canker, because the veines so swollen are like unto the clawes of a Crab. This disease may happen in any part of the body, but most commonly in womens breasts; by reason of their spongie hollow­nesse, and great number of veines there meeting. If it continue long it is very hard to cure, because gen­tle medicines will doe no good, and strong doe in­crease the raging malice of it.
  • Canniball. A barbarous savage person: one that eateth mans flesh.
  • Canon. A Greeke word, properly signifying a rule or line, to make any thing straight, or to trie the straightnesse of it. Here­of Laws or Decrees for Church government are called Canons. And cer­taine times of prayer used by Churchmen, were cal­led Canonicall houres of prayer.
  • Canonicall. Approoved by common or exact rule.
  • Canonier. He that shoot­eth in great Ordnance.
  • Canonize. To declare and pronounce one for a Saint.
  • Canonization. The so­lemnitie of Canonizing or pronouncing one to be a Saint.
  • Cantharides. Certaine Flies shining like gold, breeding in the tops of Ashe and Olive trees be­yond Sea. They are some­time used by Physitions, to raise blisters in the body; but their heads, wings, and feet must be cast a­way. The juyce of them is poisonous.
  • Cape. A corner of land shooting out into the Sea.
  • [Page]Capabilitie. An aptnesse to containe, or receive.
  • Capable. Which can con­taine or hold a thing.
  • Capacitie. Aptnesse to re­ceive and hold.
  • Capers. A prickly plant, almost like to brambles, growing in Spaine, Italy, and other hot countries. The root hereof is much used in Physicke, against obstructions of the spleen or milt. The flowers and leaves are brought hither from Spain, preserved in brine, and are commonly eaten with Mutton. They stirre up the appetite, warme the stomacke, and open the stoppings of the liver and milt.
  • Capitall. Chiefe, princi­pall; sometime deadly, ab­hominable.
  • Capite. A tenure, when a man holdeth lands, im­mediately of the king, as of his crown.
  • Capitole. An ancient pa­lace in Rome, so called.
  • Capitulate. To draw or bring into Chapters.
  • Capriole. Leaping of a horse above ground, cal­led by horsemen, the Goats leape.
  • Capstand. An instrument to wind up things of great weight: some call it a Crane.
  • Captious. Short, quicke, quarrelsome in demands.
  • Captivate. To take pri­soner.
  • Captivitie. Bondage, im­prisonment.
  • Caranna. A Gumme brought out of the West Indies, of great vertue a­gainst aches proceeding of cold causes.
  • Carbonado. A rasher upon the coales.
  • Carbuncle. It hath two significations, namely a precious stone, and a dan­gerous sore. 1. Carbun­cle stone, is bright, of the colour of fire. It hath ma­ny vertues, but chiefely prevaileth against the dan­ger of infectious aire. The best of these stones will shine in darkenesse, like a burning coale, as Albertus writeth, himselfe hath seene. Others shine but a little, and are lesse estee­med; but such as shine not [Page]at all, are scarce of any rec­koning: these stones are found in some countreys of Africa. 2. Carbunele disease, is a botch or ulcer, (otherwise called by a Greeke name Anthrax) caused of grosse hot blood, which raiseth blisters, and burneth the skin: This ulcer is ever accompanied with a Feaver.
  • Cardones. An herbe in India, of vertue to heale sores.
  • Carlo Sancto. A roote growing in the West In­dies, of a pleasant smell and bitter taste, the rynde whereof being chewed draweth downe fleame and humours from the head, and being drunken in powder is good against divers inward diseases.
  • Carcanet. A small chaine.
  • Cardinall. Chiefe, prin­cipall.
  • Carnall. Fleshly.
  • Carnalitie. Fleshlinesse.
  • Carol. A song: some­time a dance.
  • Carpe. To check, taunt, or rebuke.
  • Carreere. A short swift race with a Horse, as at Justs, Tournaments.
  • Carrike. A great ship of burden.
  • Casani. India bread.
  • Casia. It is commonly taken for Cinnamome. Poets understand often by it, some sweet smelling herbe: as Virg. Eclog.
    Tum Casia atque aliis intexens suavibus herbis.
    Also Ovid Quo simul ac Casias & nardi lenis aristas,
    Quassaque cum fulva substravit Cinnama myrrha.
    Lactantius also: De Phoenice.
    Cinnama dehinc, auramque procul spirantis amomi;
    Congerit & mixto balsama cum folio.
    Non Casiae mitis, nec olentis vimen acanthi,
    Nec thuris Lachrymae, guttaque pinguis abest.

    Where wee see that signifie two things. Some Casia and Cinnamome, thinke it to be Lavender, [Page]For mine owne part, I know not certainly what English name or interpre­tation to give it.

  • Cassia fistula. A fruit growing in Arabia and Syria, which is round, black, and long, almost as ones arme, of the big­nesse of a Thumbe. The outside hereof is hard: within it, is contained the seed, and a black substance soft and sweet, which is much used in Physick, as a gentle purger of the in­ward parts.
  • Cassia lignea. A sweet wood much like Cinna­mome, and of the nature of Cinnamome.
  • Castigate. To chastise, to correct.
  • Castigation. A chastising, a correction.
  • Castleward. A payment made by some dwelling within a certain compasse of a Castle, for the main­tenance of those that do watch and ward the Ca­stle; Also the circuit of land, which oweth this service.
  • Castoreum. See Bever.
  • Casuall. That which happeneth by chance, doubtfull, uncertain.
  • Casualtie. Chance: for­tune, hap-hazard.
  • Catadupa. A place in E­thiopia so called, where the great river Nilus, fal­leth from high Mounta­nous rocks with such vio­lence, that the continu­all noise thereof, maketh the people there dwelling to become deafe.
  • Catalogue. A roll, a bill, a register of names or other things.
  • Cataplasma. It signifi­eth properly a medicine, which is made of divers herbes, either bruised or boyled in water, and so applyed outwardly to the body. If there be oyle ad­ded, it is not then called a Cataplasme, but an Em­plaister.
  • Cataract. A distillation of humours out of the eyes.
  • Catarrhe. A distillation of waterish humours out of the head, into the mouth and throat, caused by a [Page]cold and sometime hot distemperature of the brain.
  • Catastrophe. The con­clusion or end of a Come­die: a sudden alteration.
  • Catechumen. A novice, or one newly instructed in matters of faith, by word of mouth.
  • Categorie. In the Greeke tongue it properly signifi­eth an accusation. It is al­so a terme used in Logick, which shall after be expli­cated in the word Predica­ment.
  • Categoricall axiome. A simple axiome or proposi­tion, not compounded of any conjunction, as, Peter is a man.
  • Cathedrall. Of or belong­ing to a Bishops Chaire.
  • Catholike. A Greeke word, signifying universall or generall.
  • Catoblepa. A strange beast that killeth a man onely with the sight of it: some thinke it to be the Basiliske, or Cockatrise.
  • Cavearee. A strange meate like blacke sope, made (as is said) of the Roe of a Sturgeon.
  • Caveat. A warning, an admonition to take heed.
  • Caverne. A hole or Cave in the earth.
  • Caville. To mocke or flout in words, to reason overthwartly.
  • Cavitie. Hollownesse.
  • Causticke. A medicine that burneth; and is used when a disease cannot o­therwise be mastered.
  • Cautele. A taking heed.
  • Cautelous. Warie, cir­cumspect.
  • Cauterize. To burne: to seare.
  • Caution. A warning or watchword given to take heed: sometime a great heedfulnesse, or warie car­riage in a thing.
  • Cedar. A tall great tree, which groweth in Africa, and Syria, straight upright like the Firre tree. The leaves are small and thick, of a sweet smell: This Tree hath fruit on it, all times of the yeere, which fruit is like that of the Pine and Firre Tree, but greater and har­der.
  • [Page]Celebrate. To speake or write very honourably in praise of any thing: also to rehearse often: and sometime to keepe a festi­vall day, or other time with great solemnitie.
  • Celebration. The solemni­zation of a feast.
  • Celebritie. Great resort to a place: famousnesse.
  • Celeritie. Swiftnes, speed.
  • Celestiall Heavenly.
  • Celsitude. Highnesse.
  • Cement. Morter: Lime.
  • Censer. A vessell to burn Frankincense in.
  • Censor. A grave Officer having authoritie to con­troll and correct manners.
  • Censorean. Belonging to a Censor.
  • Censure. A judgement: an opinion.
  • Centaures. People of Thessaly, which because they first rid on Horses, were supposed to be halfe men and half horses. Poets feine they were begotten by Ixion upon a cloud, made in the likenesse of Iuno. They warred on the Lapithes, and were over­come by Hercules.
  • Center. The point in the midst of a round circle, or the inward middle part of a globe. VVherefore the earth is called the Center of the world, because it is in the midst thereof.
  • Centurion A Captaine o­ver a hundred footmen.
  • Certes. Surely: certain­ly.
  • Certificate. A writing which testifieth the cer­taintie of a thing.
  • Cerusse. VVhite Lead, oftentimes used by Surge­ons in oyntments and playsters. Some women make painting therewith.
  • Ceterach. Otherwise cal­led Fingerferne: An herbe which hath neither stalke, flower, nor seed. It is much used in Physick against the black Jaundise, quartaine agues, and stopping of the spleene.
  • Chalons. Blankets, Cover­ings.
  • Chameleon. A little beast like a Lizard, having a­rough scaly skin, straight legs, sharpe clawes, a slow pace like a Torteyes, and a long wreathed taile: He [Page]changeth himself quickly into any colour that he sit­teth upon, except white and red: wherefore men that are inconstant and sickle, are sometime called Chameleons. This beast (as is said) is nourished onely with aire.
  • Chamfering A small gut­ter or furrow made by art upon some pillars of stone or timber.
  • Champertie. See Cham­pertours.
  • Champertours. Those that stirre others to go to law, and beare the charges thereof themselves, to the end they may have part of the land, or other thing in variance.
  • Chancellour. A chiefe of­ficer in a spirituall Court: Also the Lord or chiefe Judge in the Chancerie.
  • Chancerie. The Court of equity & good conscience.
  • Chanior. A singer.
  • Chaos. A great confused and disorderly heape, out of which Poets imagined all things to be made.
  • Chaplet. An attire for the head, made of Gold, Pearle, or other costly, or curious stuffe, used to be fastned behinde; in man­ner of a folded roll or garland.
  • Character. The forme of a letter. A mark, sign, or stamp made in any thing.
  • Characterie. A writing by Characters or by strange marks.
  • Charles Wayne. Certaine Stars winding about the North pole of the world, in fashion like foure wheeles and horses draw­ing it. Poets feine that Ca­listo, King Lycaons daugh­ter, having had a childe by Jupiter, was by Juno in de­spight turned into a Beare, and that Iupiter changing Calisto afterward, into this figure of Stars, for that cause, in Greeke it is called
  • Arctos, which signifieth a Beare.
  • Charnell-house. A place to lay soulles, and bones of dead men in.
  • Chart. A writing, a writ­ten deed.
  • Charter. A writing where­by the King makes a grant to any person or persons of [Page]any liberty, priviledge, par­don, or other thing: Also writings betweene private men, are somtime so called.
  • Chattell. A Law tearme, wherof there be two kinds, namely Chattels reall, and Chattels personall. Chat­tels reall, are leases, or wards. Chattels personall are all moveable goods, as money, plate, cattell, &c.
  • Chaunter. A singer.
  • Cheate. To cousin, to de­ceive.
  • Cheating. Cousenage.
  • Cherubin. One of the highest Order of Angels: See Hierarchie.
  • Chieftaine. A Captain.
  • Cheeke varnish. Painting used by some women.
  • Chevisance. Merchandise, bargaining.
  • China. A hard knottie root brought out of the East Indies, of a reddish colour: It is very comfor­table to nature, and used often in restoratives and dyet drinks.
  • Chiromancie. See Divi­nation.
  • Chivalrie. Knighthood: the knowledge of a Knight or Nobleman in feats of armes.
  • Chivancie. Chivalry: ri­ding.
  • Chrisme. A Greeke word, signifying an Oynt­ment: Sometime it is ta­ken for a white linnen cloth, wrapped about an infant after it is newly christened.
  • Chrismatorie. A vessell to carry oyle in.
  • Christ. The surname of our Saviour, signifying anointed.
  • Chronologer. One skilfull in Chronicles.
  • Chronologie. The know­ledge of old Stories.
  • Chrysocoll. A kinde of minerall found like Sand in the veines of some met­tals.
  • Chrysolite. A stone of the colour of Gold, which shineth brightest in the morning, and receiveth harm if it be held too neer the fire.
  • Chymera. A strange mon­ster, having the head and breast like a Lion, the bel­ly like a Goat, the tayle like a Dragon.
  • [Page]Chymicall. Of, or belong­ing to a Chymist.
  • Chymist. A Physician following the method of Paracelsus.
  • Cimball. An old musicall instrument, made in some places of two or mo plates of brasse, which with beat­ing together made a ring­ing noyse.
  • Cimisse. A noysome little worme, flat and red, which raiseth wheals where it bi­teth: If it be broken, it yieldeth a stinking smell.
  • Cinoper. A soft red stone, found in mines, otherwise cald Vermilion. The Pay­nims did use to paint their idols therewith, and them­selves in publike feasts and solemnities, as we reade that Camillus when he tri­ump [...]d in Rome was painted with this Vermili­on: So Virgill speaking in his tenth Eclog, of the sh [...]p­herds God Pan, saith that he was seene,
    Sanguineis chuli baccis minioque rubentem.
    With bloody Walwort berries stayn'd, and with Vermilion red.
  • Cinque Ports. Five haven townes in our Countrey, which have many liber­ties. They are Hasting, Romnie, Hethe, Dover, and Sandwich.
  • Circular. That which is round in compasse.
  • Circumcise. To cut off the foreskin of a mans pri­vy parts: which was a re­ligious ceremony among all the Hebrews after A­braham, to whom God first commanded it.
  • Circumcision. A cutting off of the foreskin. See Circumcise.
  • Circumference. The outer part of any round circle: The ring or round com­passe of a wheele.
  • Circumlocution. A long circumstance; a speaking of many words, where few may suffice.
  • Circumscribe. To cōpasse round, to draw a line about
  • Circumscriptible. That which may be limited or contained within bounds.
  • Circumspect. Wise, warie, heedfull.
  • [Page]Circumvent▪ To compasse in; to deceive one craftily.
  • Cite. To warne one to appeare.
  • Citation. A warning one to appeare.
  • Citrine. Yellow.
  • Cittadell. A castle with a small garrison to keepe a towne in awe.
  • Ciuct. A sweet substance like muske. It is said to be the dung of the beast Hye­na.
  • Civilize. To make civil.
  • Clamour. A great cry or noise.
  • Clamorous. Crying out or exclaiming.
  • Clandestine. Privy, close, secret.
  • Clarentius. One of the Kings of armes, whose of­fice is to dispose, the fune­rals of Knights & Esquires of the south side of Trent.
  • Clarifie. To make cleere.
  • Claritie. Noblenesse, cleerenesse.
  • Clause. A short sentence.
  • * Cleepe. An old word, signifying to name, or to call.
  • Clemencie. Mercy, gen­tlenesse.
  • Clement. Mercifull, pit­tifull.
  • Client. One that asketh counsell of a Lawyer.
  • Clime. See Climate.
  • Climactericall. A Greeke word signifying an account or reckoning, made by cer­taine degrees or steps. Some have hereby divi­ded the age of mans life after this manner. The seventh yeere they reckon for dangerous; and by this account the 14.21.28.35. &c. are climactericall yeers. Likewise the ninth yeere is esteemed equally as dangerous, and by this account, the 18.27.36. &c. are called Climacteri­call yeeres. But the most noted and famous Clima­ctericall yeere, is at the age of 63. because both ac­counts doe meete in this number; namely 7. times 9. and 9. times 7. And this is held the most dangerous yeere of all other.
  • Climate. A terme used in Cosmographie. It sig­nifieth a portion of the world, betweene North & South, conteining some [Page]notable difference in the Sun rising.
  • Cloake. To cover or hide.
  • Closs [...]e. An unlawfull game, called by some nine pins, cules, or kit­tles.
  • * Clum. A note of si­lence.
  • Coaction. Constraint.
  • Coactive. Constraining.
  • Coadiutor. A fellow-hel­per.
  • Coagulate. To turne to c [...]rde.
  • C [...]ca. An hearbe in In­dia, the leaves whereof be­ing bruised and mixt with the powder of Cockles or Oysters in their shelles burnt, the Indians use in little balles to carry in their mouthes, to preserve them from famine or great dryth.
  • Cockatrice. See Basi­liske.
  • Coequall. Equall in de­gree with another.
  • Co [...]ssentiall. Of the same essence or substance.
  • Coeternall. Equall in e­ternitie with another.
  • Cogitation. A thinking.
  • Cognition. Knowledge.
  • Cohere. To cleave, stick, or hang together.
  • Coherence. An agreement or hanging together.
  • Collaterall. Sidewaies, or joyning to the side. Eve­ry degree of kindred is ei­ther lineall or collaterall: The lineall is that which cometh from the Grand­father to the Father, from the Father to the Son, and so still right downward: Collaterall is that which cometh sidewaies, as first between brothers and si­sters, then betweene their children, &c. Also Vnc­kles, Aunts, and all Cou­sins are conteined under this tearme of Collaterall kindred.
  • Collation. A short ban­quet.
  • Colleague. A companion, or one joyned in office with another.
  • Collect. To gather toge­ther.
  • Collection. A gathering.
  • Collocation. A placing to­gether.
  • Colloquie. A talking or conferring together.
  • [Page]Collusion. Deceit, couse­nage. It is also a terme used in law, when an action is brought against one, by his own agreement.
  • Collyrie. A physicall terme signifying any medicine for the eyes.
  • Colon. A marke of a sentence not fully ended; which is made with two pricks thus (:)
  • Colonie. Among the Ro­mans, when their citie was too full of inhabitants, they used to withdraw a certain number, to dwell in some other place, which number so withdrawn, as also the place to which they were sent, was called by the name of Colonie.
  • Coloquintida. A kinde of wilde Gourd, which the Persians name Gall of the earth, because it de­stroyeth all hearbs, neere which it groweth. It is round, having a thinne yellow rinde (when it is ripe) and the inner part open, and spongie full of gray seed. If there grow but one upon a plant, it must be throwne away, because it will be too vio­lent in operation. This fruit is often used in phy­sick to purge slimie grosse humours from the sine [...] and joynts; but must be well prepared, for that o­therwise it is very dange­rous.
  • Colosse. An image or sta­tue of exceeding gre [...] ­desse, made sometime by the old Emperours of Rome. There was off such image in the Ile of Rhodes, dedicated to the Sun, of one hundred and five foot long, the thumbe of which image few [...] could fathome.
  • Columbine. Dovelike.
  • Columne. A pillar.
  • C [...]luri. Two imagined circles in the heavens, drawne both through the Poles; whereof one piss­seth through Aries and Libra, the other through Cancer and Caprico [...]e▪ So that they divide the Zodiacke, and the whole heavens into foure even parts.
  • Combat. A fight between two, allowed by the law [Page]for triall of some contro­versie.
  • Combatant. He that fight­eth or is to sight a Com­bat.
  • Combine. To couple or joyne together.
  • Combination. A coupling or joyning together.
  • Combust. Burnt or scor­ched: a planet is said to be combust, when he is under the Sun beames, or with­in certaine degrees of them.
  • Combustible. That which will soon be set on fire and consumed.
  • Combustion. A burning.
  • Comedie. A play or interlude, the beginning whereof is ever full of troubles, and the end joy­full. Among the Greekes Eupolis, Aristophanes and Cratinus, were the chiefe comicall Poets, among the Latines Plautus and Te­rence.
  • Comedian. A player or writer of Comedies.
  • Comet. A blazing starre. It is properly a great quan­titie of hot and dry exha­lations drawn up from the earth, by the attractive vertue of starres into the highest region of the ayre, where being neere the E­lement of fire, it is infla­med, and there moved round, according to the motion of the starre, under which it is grown, or the motion of the ayre, in those high parts.
  • Comicall. That which pertaineth to Comedies: also pleasant or merry.
  • Comma. A marke often used in writing and print­ing, which is made thus (,)
  • Commemorate. To re­hearse or make mention.
  • Commemoration. A re­hearsall, a remembrance.
  • Commence. To begin, to enter an action against one.
  • Commendatory. Which recommendeth one.
  • Comment. Notes of in­struction set in some books, to expound such things as cannot easily be understood. Sometime it is taken for a lie or fayned tale.
  • Commentarie. See Com­ment.
  • [Page]Commendatorie. That which hath commendati­ons onely written in it.
  • Commerce. Conversati­on, entercourse of mer­chandise.
  • Commination. A threat­ning.
  • Commiserate. To take pittie or compassion upon any.
  • Commiseration. Pittie or compassion.
  • Commissary. One that hath spirituall jurisdiction in some out places of a Diocesse, so farre distant from the chiefe Citie, that it were too great trouble to summon people to it.
  • Commission. A writing testifying that one or ma­ny have some authoritie in a matter of trust, commit­ted to their charge.
  • Commissioner. He that is in authoritie by vertue of a commission.
  • Committee. He to whom a matter is committed to be decided or ordered.
  • Commixe. To mingle to­gether.
  • Commixtion. A mingling together.
  • Commodious. Fit, profita­ble.
  • Commotion. A great stir, a hurly burly.
  • Communicable. That which may be imparted unto another.
  • Communion. A partaking together.
  • Communitie. Fellowship in partaking together.
  • Commutation. A chang­ing.
  • Compact. Hard knit, close joyned together, sometime a bargaine, agreement.
  • Compassionate. Pittifull, which grieveth at others harmes.
  • Compendious. Brief, short, saving.
  • Compendium. A short way, a saving course.
  • Competencie. Sufficiency, fitnesse.
  • Competent. Convenient, fit, necessary.
  • Competitor. He that sueth for the same thing with another.
  • Compile. To make, frame, or set together.
  • Complement. Fulnesse, perfection, fine behaviour.
  • Compleate. Full, perfect.
  • [Page]Complexion. The tempe­rature of the humors in mans body, which causeth the colour: sometime it signifieth painting used by women.
  • Complices. Fellows or confederates, in lewde matters.
  • Compose. To frame; or set together.
  • Composition. A joyning or putting together.
  • Compositor. He that com­poseth or setteth a thing in order.
  • Comprehend. To con­taine, or conceive in the minde.
  • Comprehensible. Which may be contained or con­ceived.
  • Comprehension. A taking, a conceiving, or under­standing.
  • Compression. A pressing together.
  • Compremise. An agree­ment made by indifferent parties chosen on both sides.
  • Comprise. To containe.
  • Compulse. Constraint, enforcement.
  • Compulsion. Constraint.
  • Compunction. Griefe, re­morse.
  • Computate. To account, cast, or reckon.
  • Computation. An account or reckoning.
  • Comrade. A companion, a good fellow.
  • Concave. Hollow.
  • Concavitie. Hollownes.
  • Concinnitie. Apt, fitnesse, a feat contriving, or han­some setting a thing toge­ther.
  • Concise. Briefe, short.
  • Concave. A private roome, a closet.
  • Concoct. To digest, to boile.
  • Concoction. Digestion of meat in the body.
  • Concourse. A great assem­bly.
  • Concupiscence. Lust, flesh­ly desire.
  • Concurre. To meet to­gether.
  • Condescend. To agree, to joyn together.
  • Condigne. Worthy, due, deserved.
  • Condole. To lament with another, to bemoane.
  • Conduce. To helpe, or be profitable.
  • [Page]Conduct. To guide one in the way.
  • Confection. A mingling together: or that which is mingled.
  • Confederate. One joyned in friendship, or linked with another in any pra­ctise.
  • Conferre. To compare to­gether: sometime to talke or reason with another.
  • Conference. A reasoning together, or a comparing of one thing with another.
  • Confidence. Trust, credit.
  • Confident. Very bold, as­sured; nothing doubtfull.
  • Confine. To appoint bounds, to limit.
  • Confines. The bounds or borders of a Countrey.
  • Confiscate. Forfeited: sei­sed to the Kings use.
  • Confiscation. Forfeiture of ones goods, or seising them to the Kings use.
  • Conflict. A fight, a skir­mish, a bickering.
  • Confluence. A flowing to­gether: a great multitude: great store.
  • Conforme. To apply or frame ones selfe to any thing which is required of him.
  • Conformitie. Likenesse or agreement with another thing.
  • Confront. To come or stand boldly before ones face: to face one.
  • Confuse. Mixt together: mingled, out of order.
  • Confusion. A disorderly mingling.
  • Confute. To disprove, to overthrow by argument.
  • Congeale. To freeze, to grow stiffe, or cling toge­ther with cold.
  • Conglutinate. To glew together: to joyne.
  • Conglutination. A glew­ing together.
  • Congratulate. To rejoyce in anothers behalfe with him: or to signifie that we so rejoyce.
  • Congratulation. A rejoy­cing together.
  • Congregate. To gather together.
  • Congruent. Agreeable, meet, fit.
  • Congruity. Good agreement.
  • Conjecturall. Vncertaine, which may, & may not be.
  • Conjoyne. To joyn toge­ther.
  • Conjugall. Belonging to wedlock.
  • [Page]Conjunction. A joyning or coupling together.
  • Conjure. To sweare or conspire together: to binde by oath, or under a great penaltie.
  • Connex. To knit or tye together.
  • Connexion. A knitting to­gether.
  • Connivence. A suffering, or winking at a matter.
  • Consanguinitie. Kindred by blood.
  • Consecrate. To hallow or make holy.
  • Consecration. A making holy.
  • Consequence. That which followeth another thing going before.
  • Consequent. Following or necessarily coming after another thing.
  • Conserve. To preserve or keep.
  • Conserves. The juice or substance of any thing boi­led with Sugar and so kept.
  • Considerate. Discreet, wise.
  • Consistorie. An assembly of Magistrates, a Judgement place.
  • Consolatorie. Comforting, which comforteth.
  • Consolation. Comfort.
  • Consolidate. To make firme or strong.
  • Consonant. Agreeable. Al­so every letter not being a vowell, is so called, as B, C, D.
  • Consort. A company: or a companie of Musitians together.
  • Conspicuous. Bright, cleer.
  • Conspurcation. A defling or making foule.
  • Constellation. A company of starres together: or the influēce which they work.
  • Consternation Amaze­ment: a great feare.
  • Constitute. To ordaine, to appoint.
  • Constitution. A decree, an ordinance.
  • Construction. A joyning of words and sentences toge­ther.
  • Consubstantiall. Of the same substance.
  • Consubstantialitie. Agree­ment in substance: the be­ing of the same substance that another is of.
  • Consull. A chiefe officer among the Romans: there were two chosen yearly to governe the City: These [Page]Magistrates first began af­ter the Kings were expel­led, and were called Consuls of the latin word Consulere, because they were by their office to provide and take care for the good of the common-wealth.
  • Consult. To take advice together.
  • Consultation. An advice or deliberation taken to­gether.
  • Consummate. To finish, to make an end.
  • Consummation. An end, a finishing of a matter.
  • Consumption. A consu­ming. Also a disease, wher­in the lungs being exulce­rated, there followeth a leannesse of all the body.
  • Contagion. An infection.
  • Contagious. Infectious.
  • Contaminate. To defile.
  • Contamination. A defiling.
  • Contemne. To despise.
  • Contemplate. To behold in the mind: to muse upon.
  • Contemplatiō. A beholding in mind; a thinking upon.
  • Contemptible. Base, vile, of no account.
  • Contemptuous. Despiteful.
  • Continenoie. Chastitie, temperatenes.
  • Continent. Chaste, sober, temperate.
  • Continent land. That which is no Island, main land.
  • Contingent. Casual, doubt­full, uncertain: which may and may not be.
  • Continuate. To joyn close together.
  • Contract. A bargaine, an agreement made.
  • Contraction. A shrinking together.
  • Contradict. To gainsay or speak against.
  • Contradiction. A speaking against; a withstanding in words.
  • Contribute. To give with others; to allow as others doe.
  • Contributarie. Which al­loweth or giveth as others doe.
  • Contribution. A giving with others, when many give together.
  • Contristate. To make sad or sorrowfull.
  • Contrite. Broken: very sor­rowfull: hartily repentant.
  • Contrition. Great inward sorrow for sin committed.
  • Controvert. To contend, strive, or bee at vari­ance [Page]about a matter.
  • Contumacy. Stubbornnes, disobedience: self-will.
  • Contumelie. Reproach; spite, disgrace.
  • Contumelious. Reproach­full: spitefull, disgracefull.
  • Contund. To pownd or beate in a morter.
  • Contusion. A beating, brui­sing, or pounding.
  • Convent. To bring one before a Judge.
  • Conventicle. A little as­sembly; most commonly for an ill purpose.
  • Convention. An appearing before a Judge.
  • Converse. To use ones company, to live with.
  • Conversant. Vsing much in ones company.
  • Conversion. A turning from evill to good.
  • Convict. Proved guilty of the crime whereof hee is accused.
  • Conviction. A condemna­tion or proofe of being guiltie.
  • Convince. To overcome, to confute: To prove one guiltie.
  • Convocate. To call toge­ther.
  • Convocation. An assem­bling or calling together: sometime the company as­sembled.
  • Convulsion. A shrinking, or pulling together of the sinews; a cramp, a pang.
  • Cooperato. To worke to­gether; to help.
  • Cooperation. A working with another, a helping.
  • Cope. A church vestment much like a large cloake.
  • Copall. A white Rosin of much brightnesse brought from the West Indies: the people there were wont to make perfumes thereof in their sacrifices. It is hot in the second degree, and moyst in the first, and is used here to be burnt a­gainst cold diseases of the braine.
  • Copie. Great plentie.
  • Copious. Plentifull, a­boundant.
  • Copulation. A coupling or joyning together.
  • Corall. There are two sorts hereof, the one white, the other red; but the red is best. It groweth like a tree in the bottome of the sea, from whence being taken, [Page]it is by the ayre hardened into the forme of a stone, as we see it. It is cold and dry in operation, good to be hanged about childrens necks, as well to rub their gums, as to preserve them from the falling sick­nesse.
  • Corbell. A shouldering piece cut out in stone, as we may see in wals, to bear up a poste, summer, or o­ther weight.
  • Corbets. Places in walles where Images stand.
  • Corbona. A chest or cof­fer in the Temple of Hie­rusalem, where the trea­sure that served for the Priests use was kept.
  • Cordiall. Heartie; that which comforteth the heart.
  • Cordwayner. A Shooe ma­ker.
  • Corodie. An ancient term, used when the founders of Abbies or other religious houses, reserved a right in themselves and heires, to appoint some person to have allowance of meate and drinke, or other main­tenance out of the house; and this allowance was called a Corodie.
  • Coronell. A Captain over many bands.
  • Coronation. The crown­ing of a King or Queene.
  • Corporall. Of or belong­ing to the body.
  • Corporation. A body po­litick, having by the kings grant a common seale, a chiefe Officer, and in­feriour persons belonging to it.
  • Corpulencie. Grossenesse, fatnesse.
  • Corpulent. Fat and grosse.
  • Correlative. A tearme of Logicke applyed to such words as cannot be spoken, but there must be supposed some other word, which is necessarily a de­pendant upon it: as a Fa­ther and a Son; a Master and a Servant; a Captaine and a Souldiour; a Hus­band and a Wife.
  • Correspondence. An a­greeablenesse, or proporti­on answering to some o­ther thing.
  • Correspondent. Agreeable, or answerable to another thing.
  • [Page]Corrigible. That which may be corrected or amen­ded.
  • Corrivall. He that is sui­ter with another, to a wo­man for marriage.
  • Corroborate. To streng­then, to confirme.
  • Corrode. To gnaw asun­der.
  • Corrosive. A fretting plai­ [...]ter: any thing which laid to the body raiseth blisters and maketh it sore.
  • Cosignificative. Of the same signification with an­other thing.
  • Cosmographie. An art tou­ching the description of the whole world. This art by the distance of the cir­cles in heaven, divideth the earth under them into her Zones and climats, and by the elevation of the Pole, considereth the length of the day and night, with the perfect demonstration of the Suns rising and going downe.
  • Covent. The whole num­ber of religious men toge­ther dwelling in one house.
  • Coverture. A covering. In the Common Law it signifieth all the time, that a man and wife are cou­pled in marriage.
  • Couchant. Couching or lying on the ground.
  • Covert. Hidden, secret.
  • Covertharon. A married wife: a woman subject to a husband.
  • Coverture. In our Com­mon Law it is sometime taken for marriage.
  • Covine. Deceit. cousenage.
  • Countermand. To give cō ­mandement contrarie to that which was comman­ded before.
  • Countermine. To mine or did in the earth against another.
  • Countermure. A wall made in defence of another wall.
  • Counterpane. The fellow copy of a deed indented.
  • Counterpoise. Any thing laid in weight against ano­ther thing.
  • Countervaile. To be of equall value to another thing.
  • Coupee. Cut off.
  • Cramp-fish. A fish whose nature is to make the hands of such as touch it, [Page]to be benummed or asto­nied, though they touch it with a long pole.
  • Crannie. A little hole or chinke.
  • Craven. A coward.
  • Crazie. Sickly, weake, of unperfect health.
  • Credence. Beliefe, trust.
  • Credible. That which may be believed.
  • Creditor. He that lendeth or trusteth another with money, or wares.
  • Credulitie. Easines of be­liefe.
  • Credulous. He which ea­sily beleeveth a thing.
  • Cressant. In Heraldrie it signifieth the new Moon.
  • Crime. An offence, or fault committed,
  • Criminall. Faultie: or that which belongeth to a fault or accusation.
  • Crisis. A Greeke word, which is interpreted judge­ment. In Physicke it signi­fieth the conflict between nature and sicknesse; that is, the time, when either the patient suddenly be­cometh well, or suddenly dyeth, or waxeth better or worse according to the strength of his body, and violence of the disease.
  • Crispe Curled.
  • Cristall. A substance like cleere glasse. There are two kinds hereof. One which groweth upon ex­treame cold mountaines, being there congealed like yce, by the minerall virtue of the place, as Albertus writeth. Another kinde groweth in the earth in some places of Germa­nie.
  • Cristalline. Made of Cri­stall, or shining like Cri­stall.
  • Criticall. In Physicke the fourth and seventh dayes are called Critical, because in them Physitians use to judge of the danger of a disease: But the seventh is accounted the chiefe Criticall day, & the fourth a token or signe what the seventh day will be, if the Patient live so long. This account must be made according to the number of weeks thus. In the first weeke the fourth day is the token or Critical of the [Page]seventh day. In the second weeke the eleventh is the Critical of the fourteenth. In the third the seven­teenth is the Criticall of the twentieth: for Hippo­crates r [...]ckoneth the twen­tieth day for the last of the third weeke: In the fourth weeke 24. is the Criticall of the 27 In th [...] fift, the 31. the Critica [...]l of the 34. In the sixt weeke the 37. the Criticall of the 40. And so forth to a hundred.
  • Criticke. The same that Criticall is. Also it signi­fieth sometime, one that hath authoritie, or taketh upon him to censure other mens acts or works wri [...]ē.
  • Crocrodile. A harmefull beast living most about the River Nilus in Egypt. It is hatched of an egge, and groweth unto a won­derfull greatnesse, some­time to twentie or thirtie foot long. This beast hath no tongue, and in feeding moveth onely the upper jawe: He hath eyes like a Hogge, and cruell sharpe teeth: He hath no haire, but is made much after the fashion of an Evet, with a long taile, a long belly, and backe covered all over with scales close joyned & of great strength. Vpon his feete he hath strong sharpe clawes. In the day time hee can see farre, and liveth on land, in the night he is almost blind, and keepeth in the water. He is very bold up­on those he seeth afraid of him, and feare full if he be assaulted. It is written that he will weepe over a mans head, when he hath devou­red the body, and then will eate up the head too. Wherefore in Latine there is a proverbe, Crocodili La­chrymae, Crocodiles teares, to signifie such teares as are fained, and spent onely with intent to deceive, or do harme. I saw once one of these beasts in London brought thither dead, but in perfect forme, of about three yards long.
  • Croches. The little buds or branches, at the top of a Harts horn.
  • Crosselet. A melting pot.
  • [Page]Crotaves. Dung of Hare.
  • Crownet. A little crown, also a part of a Horse hoofe is so called.
  • Crude Rawe, not well dig [...]sted.
  • Crudi [...]e. Rawnesse: ill dig slion.
  • Cubebs. A certaine fruit sold by Apothecaries like unto Pepper. It cometh out of India, and is hot and dry in operation. It comforteth the braine much, and quickeneth the spirits, being held & chew­edin the mouth. It is also very good to open the stoppings of the Liver.
  • Cubite. Halfe a yard: the measure from a mans elbow to the top of his middle finger.
  • Cullion The stone of a­ny living thing.
  • Culpable. Faultie.
  • Culture. Tillage, dressing of land.
  • Culvertaile. A strong kinde of building, by fa­stening boards or timber, with artificiall joynts, so firmely together, that they cannot fall asunder.
  • Cummine. An herbe, the seed whereof is much used in Physicke. It is hot and dry; good to breake or dis­solve windinesse in any part of the body.
  • Cummulation. A heaping up, or increasing.
  • Cunctation. Slacknesse, delay, lingering.
  • Cupglasse. A hollow round G [...]sse, with a hole in the bottome, used by Physici­ans sometimes, to draw blood or wind out of the body, for it sucketh with great strength, by reason of a little flame of fire made in it.
  • Cupiditie. Desire, cove­tounsnesse.
  • Curfew. A bell which ringing about bedtime, gi­veth folkes warning, to go to rest and cover their fire.
  • Cursoritie. Swiftly [...] as when one readeth a booke over with speed.
  • Curtezane. A harlot.
  • Curtilage. Any peece of ground, as a yard, backe-side, or garden-plot, adjoyning to a house.
  • Custodie. Safe keep­ing.
  • [Page]Cuichoncale. A little flie (as some thinke) brought from beyond the Sea, dri­ed, wherewith Diers dye Stammell and colours in Graine: but indeed it is a fruit.
  • Cynicall. Doggish, See Cynike.
  • Cynike. Doggish or cur­rish: There was in Greece an old Sect of Philoso­phers so called, because they did over sharply barke at mens vices, and were not so respective in their behaviour as civilitie re­quired. The chief of this Sect were Antisthenes and Diogenes.
  • Cypher. A circle in Arith­metike like the letter O; which of it self is of no value, but increaseth the value of other figures af­ter which it is joyned: wherefore we sometime say of one, that in compa­ny of others doth nothing himself, that he standeth for a Cypher.
  • Cypresse. A tree which groweth on drie moun­tains, very tall and slen­der: the timber thereof is yellowish & of a pleasant smell, especially set neere the fire. It carryeth no leaf but greene small twigs.
D
  • * DAffe. A dastard.
  • * Dags. Latches cut of Lether.
  • Daine. To vouchsafe.
  • Dandruffe. Small scales that sticke to the skin of the head, and often hang about the haires. They are caused by salt fleame, or some other corrupted hu­mours, piercing insensibly the pores, and then sleight­ly congealed by the aire, and may be taken away by washing the head with salt water or vineger warme.
  • Darnell. A naughty grain almost like wheat, but much lesse, and groweth among wheat often. It may be used in Physicke, against some outward dis­eases, but taken inwardly it is harmefull, as being too hot, and making the head giddy.
  • Darreigne. To attempt, or challenge.
  • [Page]Deaurate. Gilded, glister­ing like gold.
  • Debilitate. To weaken.
  • Debilitie. Weaknesse.
  • Dehitor. A debtor.
  • Debonaire. Gentle, mild, curteous.
  • Decad. The number of ten.
  • Decalog. The ten com­mandements.
  • Decent. Comely, han­some.
  • Decencie. Comelinesse.
  • Decide. To determine, or end a Controversie or doubt.
  • Decipher. To write after a strange fashion, that none shall reade it, also to find out the meaning of a thing so written.
  • Decision. A determinati­on, or end made of a con­troversie.
  • Declayme. To speake e­vill: to reproach.
  • Declamation. An oration or speech made of purpose in reproach of any person or thing.
  • Declaymer. He that ma­keth a declamation.
  • Decline. To bend down­ward.
  • Declination. A bending downward.
  • Declivitie. A steep bend­ing downward, as on the side of a hill.
  • Decoct. To seethe, to boyle.
  • Decoction. A boyling or seething. In Physicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicina­ble roots, herbs, seeds, flowers, or any other thing hath been boyled.
  • Decollation. A beheading.
  • Decorum. Comely, or comelinesse.
  • Decrepit. Weake, or very feeble with age.
  • Decressant. The Moon in the last quarter.
  • Decretals. Ordinances, decrees.
  • Dedicate. To offer, give, or appoint for some speci­all purpose.
  • Dedication. An offering, a giving up.
  • Deduce. To take away, to abate.
  • Deduct. To take away.
  • Deduction. A taking a­way.
  • Defamation. A defaming, a speaking ill of one.
  • [Page]Defamatory. Slanderous: which defameth.
  • Defatigation. Wearinesse.
  • Defeasance. An over­throwing, or undoing that which was formerly done. A writing testifying that some other writing shall be of no force.
  • Defeate. To deceive, or beguile: to take craftily from one.
  • Defect. A sailing or want in any thing.
  • Defection. A falling a­way, a revolting.
  • Defective. Faultie, which wanteth something.
  • Defendant. He which an­swereth to an accusation or challenge.
  • Defensive. That which defendeth, or is spoken, or done in defence.
  • Deferre. To put off, to prolong.
  • Define. To declare, shew or describe a thing plain­lie.
  • Definition. A sentence which expressely declareth what a thing is.
  • Definitive. Which de­fineth or concludeth a matter.
  • Defloration. A deflou­ring.
  • Defloure. To corrupt, spoile or marre.
  • Deforme. To disfigure, to spoyle the forme of any thing.
  • Deformation. A disfigu­ring.
  • Deformitie. Ill favoured­nesse: uncomelinesse.
  • Defraud. To deceive, to beguile.
  • Deft. Little and prettie, feat and handsome.
  • Defunct. Dead.
  • Degenerate. To turne out of kinde.
  • Degrade. To take away the priviledge of holy or­ders from one.
  • Degradation. A taking a­way of Ecclesiasticall au­thoritie, from a Clerke convinced of some notori­ous crime.
  • Degree. A terme often used in Astronomie and Physick. In Astronomie it signifieth the thirtieth part of a signe: viz. of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, &c. For in­to so many parts or de­grees are all the signes di­vided. In Physick it sig­nifieth [Page]a proportion of heat, cold, moisture or dri­nesse, in the nature of simples; and there are foure such proportions or degrees: The first degree is so smal, that it can scarce be perceived. The second, that which may be mani­festly perceived without hurting the sense. The third, that which some­what offendeth the sense. The fourth, which so much offendeth, that it may destroy the body. For example: Sweet Almonds, Rice, Buglosse, ripe Grapes are hot in the first degree: Parsley, Saffron, Honey, in the second degree; Cum­mine, Galingall, Pepper in the third degree: and Garlike, Spourge, Euphor­bium, in the fourth degree. So Barly is cold in the first degree, Cucumbers in the second, Sengreene in the third, and Hemlocke in the fourth degree. Where note that in heat, cold, and drinesse, there may be foure degrees, and in moi­sture but two.
  • Dehort. To disswade: to advise one to the con­trary.
  • Dehortation. A perswasi­on or admonition to re­fraine from doing some­thing.
  • Deject. To throw down, to debase.
  • Dejection. A throwing down, a debasement.
  • Deitie. Godhead, or a God.
  • Delineate. To draw the first proportion of a thing.
  • Delinquent. An offender.
  • Delude. To mocke, to scorne, to deceive.
  • Deluge. An universall o­verflowing of waters, Noes floud.
  • Delusion. A mocking.
  • Demaynes. The Lords Mannor house, and the Lands which he and his Ancestors have alwayes used.
  • Demeane. To behave or carry ones self.
  • Demeanour. Behaviour.
  • Demerit. A desert.
  • Demise. To give or grant.
  • Democraty. A kind of go­vernment wherin the peo­ple bare rule without other [Page]superiours saving such as they appoint.
  • Democraticall. Of or be­longing to the estate of Democrat [...].
  • Den [...]ish. To pull down.
  • Demolition. A pulling down.
  • Demoniacke. Possessed with a devill.
  • Demonstrable. VVhich may be shewed or made manifest.
  • Demonstrate. To shew.
  • Demonstration. A shewing plain of any thing.
  • Demurre. A pause or stay, a standing still.
  • Demy. Half, sometime little.
  • Deneere. A penny, a small peece of money.
  • Denizen. A stranger born, that obtaineth the Kings letters patents, and becometh his Majesties subject, enjoying thereby all priviledges, as if he were an Englishman.
  • Denominate. To name one.
  • Denomination. A naming.
  • Denolate. To note or marke, to signifie.
  • Denotation. A noting or marking.
  • Denounce. To give warn­ing, to declare, to threa­ten.
  • * Denwere. Double.
  • Deodand When a man is casually killed by a cart, Horse, or Mill, &c. that which moved and was thereby cause of his death, being forfeit to the King, appertaineth to his Maje­sties Almoner to bestow in deeds of charitie, and is therefore called a Deodand, as being to be given away for Gods sake.
  • Depend. To hang upon an other thing.
  • Dependant. That which hangeth upon an other thing.
  • Deplore. To lament, to bewaile.
  • Deploration. A lamenting.
  • Depopulate. To waste or spoile a countrey.
  • Depopulation. A spoiling or wasting of a countrey.
  • Depose. To take away ones authoritie, to thrust out of his kingdom, some­time to sweare.
  • Depositum. A pledge, any thing laid up with one [Page]to keepe.
  • Deposition. A deposing or putting from great au­thority, also a laying down, sometime an oath or testi­mony given by oath.
  • Deprave. To corrupt or marre, sometime to speake evill of one.
  • Depresse. To crouch down, to keep under.
  • Deprive. To take away.
  • Deprivation. A losse of any thing.
  • Depute. To appoint.
  • Deride. To mocke, or flout.
  • Derision. A mocking.
  • Derive. To take or draw from another thing.
  • Derivative. That which is derived from another thing or word.
  • Derivation. A deriving, or drawing from some thing.
  • Derogate. To empaire, diminish, or take away.
  • Derogation. A taking a­way from ones honour or estimation.
  • Derogatory. That which empaireth or hindereth the credit of any one.
  • Descend. To go down­ward.
  • Describe. To expresse plainly the outward forme of a thing.
  • Description. A plaine expressing of the outward forme of a thing, or the manner how a thing was done.
  • Design. To appoint.
  • Designment. An enter­prise or purpose which a man hath.
  • Desist. To leave off.
  • Deteine. To keep from one.
  • Detect. To discover, to disclose.
  • Detection. A discovery, a disclosing.
  • Detract. To speake evill of one.
  • Detraction. Slanderous speaking.
  • Detriment. Losse, harme, hinderance.
  • Devastation. A wasting of a countrey.
  • Devest. To uncloath.
  • Deviant. Farre out of the way.
  • Devoire. Endeavour.
  • Devolve. To roll down.
  • Devolution. A rolling along.
  • Dewlap. The hollow part [Page]of the throat, hanging down in some beasts.
  • Dexter. Belonging to the right hand.
  • Dexteritie. Nimblenesse, quicknesse, skilfulnesse.
  • Diabolicall. Devillish.
  • Diacatholicon. An electu­ary much used in Physick, so called because it serveth as a gentle purge for all humours.
  • Diacinnamon. A physicall mixture of Cinnamon and divers spices in powder to­gether, which helpeth di­gestion and is good a­gainst cold moist diseases of the stomacke.
  • Diacodion. A cold sirupe made of the tops of Pop­pies, used in physick some­time against hote diseases, and to stay the falling down of humours out of the head.
  • Diacurcunna. A confe­ction made of Saffron and divers other simples, used against the dropsie and old diseases of the stomacke, spleene and liver.
  • Diadem. A Kings crown, or an attire for Princes to weare on their heads, made of purple silke, and pearle.
  • Diagalanga. A confecti­on made of Galingale and hot spices, good against the winde collicke and cold distemperature of the inward parts.
  • Diagridium. There is a plant called Scammonie growing in farre hot coun­tries, the juyce of the root whereof being dryed, is a very strong and violent purgative medicine, called also Scammanie: which be­fore it can be used in phy­sicke, must be boyled in Quinces, to abate the ma­lice of it: now the Scammo­nie boyled and prepared in this sort, is called by Apo­thecaries Diagridium.
  • D [...]alacca. A confection made of the gumme Lacca, and divers hot simples, good against cold diseases of the stomack, stoppings, of the liver, and all causes that may draw one to the dropsie.
  • Dialect. A difference of some words, or pronuncia­tion in any language: as in England the Dialect or manner of speech in the [Page]North, is different from that in the South, and the Western Dialect differing from them both. The Grecians had five especi­all Dialects: as 1. The property of speech in A­thens: 2. In Jonia: 3. In Doris: 4. In Eolia: and 5. that manner of speech which was generally used of them all. So every countrey hath, common­ly in divers parts thereof some difference of lan­guage, which is called the Dialect of that place.
  • Dialecticall. Of or be­longing to the art of Lo­gicke.
  • Dialog. A talke, reaso­ning, or disputation be­tweene two parties or moe, or a discourse written where such a conference is set downe.
  • Diamber. A comforta­ble confection made of di­vers hot spices, good to be given in wine or other li­quor, to strengthen the stomacke, revive the spi­rits, and warme the inward parts.
  • Diameter. A streight line which passing through the middle of any figure, di­videth it in two equall parts.
  • Diapason. A concord in musicke of all.
  • Diaphoenicon. An Ele­ctuary used often by Phy­sitians to purge flegme and choler.
  • Diaper. A fine kind of linnen not woven after the ordinarie fashion but in certaine workes, Di­amonds, knots, or other devices.
  • Diapred. Diversified: of divers colours, or garni­shings.
  • Diaprunum. An Electu­arie made of Damaske Prunes, and divers other simples, good to coole the body in hot burning Fe­vers. After it is made, Physitians use often to adde Diagridium to it, and then it becommeth very Purgatory, and is called Diaprunum soluti­onum; soluble, or laxative Diaprunum.
  • Diarhodon. A comfor­table confection good to refresh and strengthen all [Page]the inward parts, after long hot diseases.
  • Diasena. A purging E­lectuary, good against quartane Agues, and all other diseases proceeding from melancholy.
  • Diatragacanthum. A con­fection made of the Gum Tragacanth, and other sim­ples, good against hot dis­eases of the breast, the cough, pleuresie, & inflam­mation of the lungs.
  • Diatrionpiperion. A con­fection so called, because it is principally compoun­ded of the three kinds of Pepper, to wit, long, white and blacke Pepper. It is good to help digestion when the stomacke wan­teth heate to concoct that which it hath received.
  • Diatrionsantalon. A cold confection made of the wood Sanders, good a­gainst burning Agues, and to refresh the inward parts inflamed with too much heate.
  • Diaturbith. An Electu­arie which principally purgeth flegmaticke grosse humors.
  • Dicacitie. Much talke, or prating.
  • Dichotomie. A dividing into two parts, or a divisi­on made by two and two.
  • Dicker. Ten hides of Lether.
  • Dictate. To endite; also that which one writeth from anothers mouth while he speaketh.
  • Dictator. A chiefe Offi­cer among the Romanes; never chosen but upon great necessitie in dange­rous troubles of the com­mon wealth. This Dictator could continue in office but onely sixe moneths, and then under paine of treason was to give up his authoritie: He could be named by none but the Consull, and that in the night time, with great si­lence and attention. After he was once chosen all o­ther Magistrates were out of office, except only the Tribune of the people; so that the Dictator, during his time, had (as it were) a kingly authority above all.
  • Difficult. Hard: unea­sie.
  • [Page]Difficulty. Hardnesse, un­easinesse.
  • Diffidence. Distrust.
  • Diffident. Mistrustfull.
  • Diffuse. To spread a­broad.
  • Digamma. The letter F. so called, because he bea­reth a forme, like the Greeke Letter Gamma, made double.
  • Digest. To dispose or set in order.
  • Dight. Make ready: ap­parrelled, dressed.
  • Digresse. To turne aside, to leave the matter that is in hand, and speak of ano­ther thing.
  • Digression. A turning to speak of another thing.
  • Dilaniation. A tearing in pieces.
  • Dilate. To spread abroad, to inlarge, to draw in length.
  • Dilatation. A drawing in length, speaking of a thing at large.
  • Dilemma. A kind of ar­gument, which convinceth ones adversary both waies: as in saying: If he be a good man, why doe you speake evill of him? If he be naught, why doe you keep him company?
  • Dimension. The true mea­sure of a thing.
  • Diminution. A diminish­ing.
  • Dimmutive. Little, small, or a word which betoke­neth a little thing, as lambe-kinne, a little lambe.
  • Dinumeration. A num­bring, a reckoning.
  • Dire. Fierce, cruell, terri­ble.
  • Directorie. That which directeth one.
  • Direction. A violent ca [...] ­ching away.
  • Disanull. To disallow.
  • Disappeare. To vanish out of sight. To be seene no more.
  • Disastrous. Vnluckie: un­fortunate.
  • Disavow. To deny or refuse by vow.
  • Disciple. A Scholler, one that learneth.
  • Discipline. Instructi­on.
  • Disclayme. To de­nie.
  • Disconsolate. Vncom­fortable.
  • [Page]Discordant. Disagree­ing.
  • Discrepant. Much diffe­ring.
  • Discusse. To examine, debate, or trie a matter.
  • Discussion. An examining, a sifting or tryall of a mat­ter.
  • Disfranchise. To take away freedome.
  • Disfranchisement. A ta­king away of ones free­dome.
  • Disgust. Dislike.
  • Dislocation. A putting out of the right place.
  • Dismall. Vnluckie: grie­vous.
  • Dismantle. To unclothe: to unfurnish, to leave un­provided.
  • Dismisse. To discharge, to put away.
  • Disparage. To disgrace: to joyne with unequall match.
  • Disparagement. Disho­nour: disgrace. It proper­ly signifieth a shame or disgrace done by a Guar­dian to his ward, in mary­ing him under yeares, to a woman unfit for his calling, or to one past childe-bearing, or which hath some great defor­mitie, lamenesse, or somē horrible disease.
  • Disparates. A terme of Logicke, applyed to such words as are onely diffe­ring one from another, but not contrary: as heate and cold are contraries, but heate and moisture are Disperates: viz, two contrarie qualities.
  • Disparitie. Vnlikenesse: unequalitie.
  • Disperpelled. A terme in Herauldrie, when any thing of soft substance, doth by falling from high shoot it selfe out into di­vers corners or ends.
  • Disperse. To scatter a­broad.
  • Dispersion. A scattering abroad.
  • Displayed. Wide spread, opened.
  • Disputable: Any thing that a man may dispute on.
  • Disrobe. To unclothe: properly of rich, or gar­ments of estate.
  • Dissent. To disagree.
  • Disshevelled. Bare hay­red, [Page]without any attire on the head, the hairehan­ging at length.
  • Dissimilitude. Vnlike­nesse.
  • Dissipate. To scatter, or spread abroad.
  • Dissipation. A scatte­ring, a wasting.
  • Dissolve. To undoe, weaken, or destroy: to pluck downe.
  • Dissolute. Loose, wanton, given much to vaine plea­sures.
  • Dissolution. A breaking, weakening, or pulling a­sunder of any thing.
  • Dissonant. Of a contrary sound, not agreeing.
  • Disswade. To perswade one from a thing.
  • Disswasion. A perswa­ding of one from some thing.
  • Distich. Two verses; or a sentence contained in two verses.
  • Distinguish. To put a difference between things.
  • Distinction. A difference put between things.
  • Distract. To draw a­way: to trouble ones mind.
  • Distraction. A pulling asunder, or drawing away of the mind.
  • Distresse. Any goods taken and detained for not paiment of rent, or to inforce one to answer to a suite. Sometime it signifieth great affliction, or misery.
  • Distribution. A dividing among many.
  • Disturbe. To trouble, to vexe.
  • Disunion. A disjoyning, a severing.
  • Disunite. To part, to divide, to sever.
  • Divert. To turne a­side.
  • Divident. That which divideth.
  • Divine. Heavenly be­longing to God. Some­time to guesse or foretell a thing to come.
  • Divination. A fore­telling of a thing before it happeneth: which may (as I take it) be divi­ded into three different kinds; namely, super­naturall, naturall, and su­perstitious Divination. Supernaturall Divination [Page](onely revealed to man by God,) is not properly called. Divination, but prophecie, with which all the holy Prophets have in former times been inspi­red. Naturall Divination may be divided into two branches; whereof the first is, that which hath in former times been pra­ctised by wicked spirits in oracles and answers given by them in Idols, and is at this day sometime seene in possessed persons, who by suggestion of the devill may foretell often things to come: and this is but a naturall Divination: For although to us it seeme miraculous, because of our ignorance in the causes and course of things, yet in those spirits, it is but natu­rall, who by their long ex­perience, and great obser­vation, beside the know­ledge of secrets in nature, and their quicke intelli­gence from all places, are able to foresee much more then we by nature can. The second branch of na­turall Divination, is that which a wise man may foretell by probable con­jecture, being no way of­fensive, so long as it is on­ly guided by reason, and overruled by submitting it selfe to the Almightie power of GOD. And to this second kind of Divination, may also A­strologie bee referred (which by the motion and influence of Starres and Planets doth pro­mise to foretell many things) so long as it kee­peth it selfe in due limits, and arrogateth not too much to the certaintie thereof: into which ex­cesse of vanitie if it should breake forth, it can then be no longer called na­turall Divination, but superstitious and wicked: for the Starres may in­cline, but not impose a necessitie in particular things. The third and la [...] manner of Divinati­on, is that which we cal­led superstitious, where­of there hath among the Gentiles been divers dif­ferent kinds, namtly, Au­guration. [Page]Aruspicie, Necro­mancie, Geomancie, Hydro­mancie, Pyromancie, Cosci­nomancie, Palmistrie or Chi­romancie.

    Auguration, was a divi­nation made of things to come, by the flying, fee­ding, and chirping of birds: the professors whereof cal­led Augurs, were of great account among the heathē Romans, in so much that there was a Colledge of them in the City; neither would the Romans under­take any publike matter of importāce, without asking their assent. But the vanity hereof was well derided by a wise Jew, named Mosso­lamus; as Josephus writes. For an Augur in the wars once requiring, that the army which was then mar­ching, might stand still a while, till he tooke obser­vation of a bird there by, to foreknow the successe of that expedition, this Jew whilst the Augur was bu­sie in his art, shot at the Bird with an arrow, but by chance killed her: whereat the Augur and others being highly offen­ded: Are you so foolish (quoth the Jew) to ima­gine this poore Bird can tell what will happen to us, that could not foresee her owne death so neere at hand? Aruspicie is a divination, which by ope­ning and viewing the bow­els of beasts, did under­take to foretell things to come: the professors whereof were called A­ruspices. Necromancie, the worst of all others, is that divination, which is practised by conjuration, and calling up Devils or dead mens Ghosts. Which manner of divination we read practised by King Saul (1. Reg. cap. 28.) when he required a Sor­ceresse to call up the spirit of Samuel to him. Geo­mancie, is a kind of divina­tion practised by making prickes and lines in the earth; as the name in Greeke signifieth. So Hy­dromancie, is a divination made by some apparition in water, as Varro wticeth, that a Boy saw in water, [Page]one bearing the forme of Mercury, who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses, the event of the warre which the Ro­manes had with King Mithridates. Pyromancie is a divination made by the fire, or spirits ap­pearing in the fire. Cos­tinomancie is a ridiculous kind of divination made with a sieve; which at this day is used by some sim­ple women, and appea­reth to be of antiquitie, for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is men­tion made hereof. Palmi­strie or Chiromancie, is a divination practised, by looking upon the lines of the fingers and hands, an art still in use, among fortune tellers, Egypti­ans, and Juglers. Besides these there were also o­ther divinations, as name­ly Acromancie, that which is gathered by apparitions in the aire. Capnomancie, by the flying of smoake. Catoptromancie by visions shewne in a glasse. All which being even by the Pagans themselves ac­counted deceitfull and vaine, it remaineth that of Christians they be utterly rejected and abhorred.

  • Divorce. A separation of man and wife, which was (as our Saviour witnes­seth) first permitted by Moses unto the Israelites, for the hardnesse of their hearts, that men might rather put their wives a­way, whom they grew wearie of, than use them with too great extremitie, to shorten their lives, as many did. The woman so divorced was to have of her husband, a writing (as Josephus witnesseth) to this effect. I promise, that here­after, I will lay no claime to thee: And this writing was called a bil of divorce. But with Christians this custome is abrogated, sa­ving onely in case of a­dulterie. The ancient Romanes also had a cu­stome of divorce, and a­mongst them, it was as lawfull for the wives to put away their husbands, as for the husband to dis­misse [Page]his wife: but amongst the, Israelites, this preroga­tive was onely permitted to the husband.
  • Diureticall. That which is of vertue, to cause one to make water.
  • Diurnall. Of or belong­ing to a day: Also a booke, wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe.
  • Diuturnitie. Long con­tinuance.
  • Divulge. To publish, or tell abroad.
  • Divulgation. A telling, or reporting abroad.
  • Docibilitie. See Docility.
  • Docible. See Docill.
  • Docill. Easie to be taught, one that will soone learne.
  • Docilitie. Aptnesse, quick­nesse of understanding.
  • Document. A lesson, an instruction.
  • Dogdayes. Certaine dayes in Iuly and August, so cal­led of the Starre Canis, the Dogge: which then ri­sing with the Sun, doth greatly increase the heate thereof.
  • Dogmaticall. Which is held or maintained in some mens opinion.
  • Dole. Sorrow, heavi­nesse, griefe: sometimes almes given to many poore folks.
  • Dolefull. Heavy, sorrow­full.
  • Dolorous. Grievous, painefull.
  • Dolphine. A fish friend­lie to man, and especial­lie to children; the Fe­males of this fish, have breasts like to women, which are well stored with milke. They are ve­ry faithfull to one ano­ther, and bring forth young ones like whelps, after ten moneths, and in Summer time. They sometime breake forth of the Sea, but presently die assoone as they touch land.
  • Doome. A sentence pro­nounced: a judgement.
  • Doomesman. A Iudge.
  • Domesticall. One of the house: or any thing belon­ging to the house.
  • Domesticke. See Dome­sticall.
  • Domineere. To beare rule, or great sway.
  • [Page]Dominicall. Belonging to sunday or our Lords day.
  • Dominion. Lordship, rule.
  • Donarie. A gift; proper­ly that which is hanged up in a Church.
  • Donation. A giving.
  • Donee. He to whom a thing is given or granted.
  • Donour. A giver.
  • Dormant. Sleeping.
  • Dormitorie. A place to sleepe in: or that which hath vertue to make one sleep.
  • Dorter. A cell or cham­ber used onely for religi­ous men to sleep in.
  • Dowager. A Widdow Princesse, having dowrie in the countrey which was in subjection to her de­ceased husband.
  • Doultets. The stones of a Hart or Stag.
  • Drachme. See dram.
  • Dram. A small weight, the eight part of an ounce: It containeth in it three scruples, every scruple be­ing of the weight of twen­tie Wheat corns: so that a dram is the just weight of 60 corns of Wheat.
  • Drerie. Sorrowfull: la­mentable.
  • Dromedarie. A kinde of camel, having two bunches on the back, which is very swift, and can travell two or three daies without drinke.
  • Drone. An idle Bee that will not labour.
  • Druides. Ancient Pa­gane Priests in France, which lived naked in woods, giving themselves to the study of Philosophy and avoyding all company so much as they might. They were of such estima­tion among the people. that all controversies were referred to their determi­nation, and a great penal­tie laid on such as disobey­ed their sentence. They be­leeved the immortalitie of soules, but supposed (with Pythagoras) that they still passed by death from one body to another.
  • Dryades. Nymphs of the woods, so called of the Greek word Drys: which signifieth an Oake.
  • Duall. Of, or belonging to two.
  • [Page]Dubious. Doubtfull.
  • Dubitable. Doubtfull.
  • Dulia. Service: a wor­ship done to Angels and Saints.
  • Duplication. A doubling.
  • Duplicitie. Doublenesse.
  • Durabilitie. Long conti­nuance.
  • Dwale. An hearb of cold operation, having power to make one sleep: some call it Nightshade.
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  • EAglet. A young Eagle.
  • Ebene. A tree which groweth in Ethiopia, bea­ring neither leaves nor fruit. It is black and hath no grain like other wood, and is sharp byting in tast: Being burned it yieldeth a pleasant smell, neither is the smoake thereof offen­sive: but the greene wood is so full of sap, that it will flame like a candle. It is good against many disea­ses of the eyes. That which groweth in India, is spor­ed with white and yellow, being not in such estima­tion as the Ethiopian E­bene is.
  • Ebionites. Certaine old Heretikes, which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother, the blessed Virgin. Against these He­reticks, Saint John writ his Gospel, after he returned from his banishment in the Ile Pathmos.
  • Ebonie. See Ebene.
  • Ebrietie. Drunkennesse.
  • Eccho. A rebounding or sounding backe of any noise or voyce, in a wood, valley or hollow place. Po­ets feine that this Eccho was a Nymph so called, which being rejected of one, whom she loved, py­ned away for sorrow in the woods, where her voyce still remaineth an­swering the outcryes of all complaints.
  • Ecclesiasticall. Of, or be­longing to the Church.
  • Ecclesiasticus. Of, or be­long to a Preacher. The name of a Booke in the old Testament is so called.
  • Eclipse. A fayling or want of any thing: Com­monly [Page]it signifieth a want of light; and there be two such Eclipses, namely of the Moone [...]and of the Sunne. Eclipse of the Moone; never happeneth but at the full Moone, nei­ther then alwaies, but whē she is in such a point, that the shadow of the earth de­priveth her of the Sunne beames, from whence she taketh her light, Eclipse of the Sunne is not so usuall, and happeneth only at the change of the Moone, namely when the Moone being between the Sunne and us, doth with her dark body, hide part of her light from us: which was the cause that Dionysius Areopa­gita, seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Saviours Passion, con­trarie to all reason, when the Moon was not in any neerenesse to hinder his light, cryed out in amaze­ment: ARt Deus naturae patitur, aut machina mun­di dissolvetur. Either the God of nature suffereth, or else the frame of the world will be destroyed.
  • Ecliptike line. Anima­gined line, running tho­rough the midst of the twelve signes, in which the Sunne alwaies keepeth his course.
  • Eclog. It is commonly taken for a poeme contai­ning a communication of shepherds, but the word in Greeke signifieth a collection or choice ga­thering of things toge­ther.
  • Eden. An Hebrew word signifying delectation, or a place of pleasure and de­light. Paradise.
  • Edible. Which may be eaten.
  • Edict. An ordinance made by any in autho­ritie: A proclamation or decree.
  • Edifie. To build, to frame, sometime to in­struct.
  • Edifice. A building, a frame.
  • Edification. A building: but most commonly it is taken for an instru­ction, so plainly delivered that the hearer profiteth by it.
  • [Page]Edition. A setting forth or publishing.
  • Educate. To bring up, to nourish.
  • Education. A bringing up.
  • Effectuate. To performe.
  • Effeminate. Womanish, nice.
  • Efficacie. Strength, ver­tue, force.
  • Efficiencie. A bringing to passe.
  • Efficient Which bringeth to passe, or performeth.
  • Effusion. A powring out, a large spending.
  • Eftsoones. Againe, of­ten.
  • Egregious. Notable, ex­cellent.
  • Egresse. A going forth from any place.
  • Egritude. Griefe of mind, or paine of body.
  • Eject. To cast out.
  • Ejection. A casting out.
  • Ejulation. A howling, a pittifull crying out.
  • Elaborate. Curious, done with great pains.
  • Elate. Lifted up, advan­ced, proud, loftie.
  • Elation. A lifting up, pride, loftinesse.
  • Elaterium. The juice of wilde cucumbers dried: Being taken inwardly, it purgeth waterish humors, and is good against the dropsie. But it must be mixed with somewhat to restraine the malice of it, for▪ otherwise it will be p [...]infull in operation.
  • * Eld. Old age.
  • Elect. To choose, or one that is chosen.
  • Election. Choice.
  • Electuarie. Any medi­cine taken inwardly, made of divers powders mix­ed together, and by tem­pering with some syrupes, or hony, brought to a soft liquid formy.
  • Elegancie. Finenes, neat­nesse.
  • Elegant. Fine, neate, pic­ked, trim.
  • Elegie. A mournefull song used in funerals, or other passions of sor­row.
  • Elegiacke. Mournfull.
  • Element. The first mat­ter of visible substance, from whence all things take their beginning: wher­of there be foure, namely, [Page]fire, aire, water, and earth. Sometime it signifieth a letter, as A.B.C. sometime the first foundation, prin­ciple, or instruction of any thing.
  • Elementary. Which con­sisteth of Elements.
  • Eleemosynarie. Given in almes, or which giveth almes.
  • Elench. A subtill argu­ment.
  • Elevate. To lift up, to advance.
  • Elevation. A lifting up.
  • Elixir. An Arabian word of the same signification that Quintessence is in la­tine: see Quintessence.
  • Elke. A kind of Yew to make bowes with.
  • Elocution. Vtterance, e­loquence.
  • Eloine. To put, give, or sell away.
  • Elong. To put, or set farre off.
  • Elude. To mocke or de­ceive.
  • Elusion. A mocking, a deceit.
  • Elysian. Of or belong­ing to Elysium.
  • Elysium. A supposed place of pleasure below, where Poets imagined the souls of good men did rest.
  • Embalme. To annoint with balme.
  • Embassie. An embassage, a message from one Prince to another.
  • Embellish. To make beautifull.
  • Embezill. To steale, to convey away.
  • Embleme. It properly sig­nifieth any fine worke, cunningly set in wood or other substance, as we see in chesse boards and ta­bles; notwithstanding it is commonly taken for a picture or other device, shadowing some matter to be learned by it.
  • Embost. A terme used by hunters, when a Deere is so weary that he fometh at the mouth.
  • Embracer. A law terme of him, that when a matter is in triall, cometh for reward to the barre, being no lawyer, nor witnes, and speaketh in favour of one of the parties: or which laboureth the Jury, or [Page]useth any unlawfull pra­ctise to make them give their verdit, as he would have them.
  • Embrion. A childe un­perfect in the mothers wombe.
  • Emendation. An amend­ing.
  • Emeralde. A precious stone, the greenest of all other, for which cause it is very comfortable to the sight. The best of these stones are brought out of Scythia. And some affirme them to be taken out of the Griffons nests, who doe keepe this stone with great crueltie. It is found by experience (as Albertus writeth) that if the Emerald be good, it inclineth the bearer thereof to chastitie, and cannot endure the a­ction of lust. There is also a disease sounding neere this word, for which see Hemorrhode.
  • Eminence. Highnesse, dignitie, honour.
  • Eminent. High, loftie, honourable.
  • Emmanuel. An Hebrew word expressing the digni­tie of our Saviour, and is interpreted God with us.
  • Emolument. Profit, gaine, advantage.
  • Empannel. To make up a jurie of twelve, or more men.
  • Emphasis. An expresse or most plaine significati­on of ones minde.
  • Emphaticall. That which is uttered with most ex­presse signification, in such sort, that it setteth forth to the full, the intent of the speaker.
  • Empirick. A physition that getteth skill by his own practise.
  • Emplaster. A plaister or salve made of herbs, pow­ders and oyle boyled toge­ther.
  • Emplead. To sue one.
  • Emprimed. A terme used by hunters when a Hart first forsaketh the herd.
  • Empyriall heaven. The highest heaven above the firmament; so called (by a Greeke name) because of the bright shining of it.
  • Emulate. To envie, to strive to doe as another doth.
  • [Page]Emulation. Envie: an earnest desire to do as an­other doth.
  • Enarration. A telling or declaring.
  • Enchiridion. It is com­monly taken for a little book, which one may still carry in his hand.
  • Encomium. A praise.
  • Encroch. To creepe or presse upon a man unlaw­fully, to get more then his due.
  • Encrochment. A law terme when one man unlawful­ly presseth too farre upon another, as in setting his pale too farre upon ano­thers land, the more to enlarge his own, or in ta­king more rent then is due.
  • Endorse. To write on the outside of a Letter.
  • Endorsed. A terme of Herauldrie, when two beasts are painted with their backs turned to each other.
  • Energeticall. Very forci­ble, and strong.
  • Energie. Force, vertue, strength.
  • * Enewed. Made new.
  • Enfranchise. To make free, to admit or receive one into any corporation.
  • Enfranchisement. A ma­king free.
  • Enhance. To advance, or make greater.
  • Enigma. A riddle, a darke speech.
  • Enigmaticall. Obscure: darke, hard to understand, spoken in a riddle.
  • * Enmoised. Comforted.
  • Enormitie. A going out of rule: a great disorder.
  • Enormous. Wicked: very bad.
  • Enquest. A Iury of twelve or moe men.
  • Ensigne. A banner borne in warres: a flagge, or any ornament serving for a marke of some dignitie.
  • Entalented. Ingrafted.
  • Enthymeme. A terme of Logick. It signifieth an im­perfect syllogisme, which wanteth either the Major or Minor: as for example.
    • Every sin deserveth cor­rection.
    • Every theft is a sin.
    • Therefore every theft deserveth correction.
    • Now if we will leave [Page]the first part (called the Major) and say thus: Every theft is a sinne: Therefore Every theft deserveth cor­rection. Or omit the second part (named the Minor) and say Every sinne deser­veth correction, therefore every theft deserveth cor­rection, Then it is called an Enthymeme, to wit, a keeping in the mind (for so the word properly sig­nifieth) because one of these parts is understood in the mind: where note that if the two endes of the Enthymeme are like in speech, then the Minor is wanting, if the two beinnings be like, the Major is omitted, as may easily appeare by the fore­going example.
  • Enveloped. Wrapped.
  • Environ. To compasse about.
  • Enumerate. To reckon up: to declare.
  • Enumeration. A recko­ning: a rehearsall.
  • Enunciative. Any thing pronounced or spoken. A proposition or speech, wch simply affirmed or denyeth any thing; as Cicero is ver­tuous: Cicero is not vertuous.
  • Epact. A number which is in use every yeer, to find the age of the Moone by: This Epact changeth yeer­ly, and is made by the ad­dition of eleven to the for­mer Epact; both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeer, but al­waies so, that both those numbers exceed not the number of 30. For if they amount to above 30. the [...] must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact. As for example, in this yeere 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleven for the next yeers Epact, it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three; which is the Epact for the next yeere 1617. Note also: when in any yeere the E­pact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeeres true Epact, that casting a­way thirty, the Epact may come to be eleven. In al o­ther numbers the Epact is still made (as before) by [Page]eleven. And these Epacts are ever changed on the first day of March.
  • Ephemerides. A booke wherein day acts are regi­stred. Commonly it is ta­ken for a Booke of Astro­nomie (in use among such as erect figures to cast mens nativities) by which booke is shewne how all the Planets are placed, everie day and houre of the yeare.
  • Ephi. An Hebrew mea­sure containing about five pecks of ours.
  • Ephod. A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes, when he executed his function. It covered the back, and was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple, Skarlet, and Vio­let colour. On the shoul­ders there were set two great precious Onix stones, and in them graven the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob, called the twelve Patriarchs, in the right shoulder the six el­dest, and in the left the six youngest; that the High Priest entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum (which was the holiest place of the Temple) might beare with him the names of the peo­ple, for whom he was to pray unto God.
  • Epicycle. A terme used in Astronomie. It signifieth a lesser circle, whose cen­ter or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle. In the upper part of this E [...]icycle, the five Pla­nets, Saturne, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, doe goe forward according to the course of the signes; as Aries to Taurus, &c. in the lower part they are re­trograde, that is, goe back­ward, as from Gemini to Taurus, from Taurus to Aries againe. Betweene these two motions, are said to be two stations; namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward, and beginneth to be retro­grade, or comming to the farthest point of his retro­gradation, goeth forward againe: so that in the Epi­cycle, these Planets wheele about somtime according, [Page]sometime contrary to the order of the signs.
  • Epicure. It is commonly [...]aken with us, for a man given over much to plea­sure, especially in gluttony. In ancient times it signi­fied one that followed the sect of a Philosopher na­med Epicurus, who taught that the greatest happines was, to be without paine, and enjoy pleasure of bo­die and mind.
  • Epigramme. It proper­ly signifieth a superscrip­tion or writing set upon any thing; now it is com­monly taken for a short witty poeme, which under a faigned name, doth co­vertly praise or tax some particular person or thing.
  • Epilepsie. The falling sicknesse, whereto most commonly children and yong folkare subject. This disease is caused by some humor or vapor, suddenly stopping the passage of spi­rits in the braine, which the brain striving to expel, causeth the patient to fall downe, and commonly some at the mouth.

    Spilog▪ The conclusion or end of a matter. A speech made, after an ent [...]lude or play is ended.

  • Epiphanie. An appearing or manifestation. The feast of Twelfe day at Christ­mas is so called, because thē the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Saviour.
  • Episcopall. Of, or belon­ging to a Bishop.
  • Epitaph. An inscription or writing set upon a tombe; most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried.
  • Epithete. Any word or short sentence, added to a Noune substantive, to ex­presse some qualitie of it: as in saying, Barbarous cru­eltie, unbridled lust: anger the short madnes of the mind: where barbarous, unbridled, and the short madnesse of the mind, are Epithetes expres­sing the qualitie of cruel­tie, lust and anger.
  • Epitome. An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing.
  • Epitomize. To make an abridgement or short ga­thering.
  • [Page]Equanimitie. Vprightnes of heart, quietnes of mind.
  • Equinoctiall. An imagined line, passing just in the midst between the two poles of heaven, to which line, the sun coming twice a yeer (namely about the xj. of March and the xj. of September) maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world; for which cause it is called E­quinoctiall: The signes A­ries and Libra do both be­gin at this line.
  • Equipage. Furniture or provision for horseman­ship; especially in triumph or turnaments.
  • Equivalence. The equall value of one thing with another.
  • Equivalent. Of equall va­lue to another thing.
  • Equivocate. To speak or answer with a secret mea­ning reserved in ones own mind; which peradventure the hearers do not under­stand.
  • Equivocation. A speech or answermade, with a se­cret meaning reserved in ones mind.
  • Equivoke. When one word signifieth two things
  • Erased. A terme of He­raldrie, when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body.
  • Erebus. Hell, or a river in hell.
  • Erect. To lift up.
  • Erection. A lifting up.
  • Eremite. See Hermite.
  • Ereption. A taking away.
  • Ermines. A little beast lesse then a Squirrell, the furre whereof is very cost­ly, worn onely by Prin­ces or great Potentates. It hath a taile of a thumbe length, and is browne. Er­mine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with black, and Ermines, black powdred white.
  • Errant. Wandring: ha­ving no certaine abode.
  • Erroneous. Full of error: deceived.
  • Erst. Heretofore.
  • Erudition. Learning, in­struction.
  • Eruption. A violent brea­king out.
  • Escheate. To be forfei­ted to the King, or chiefe Lord.
  • [Page]Escheater. An Officer that observeth and certifi­eth into the Exchequer, such things as do escheate unto the King.
  • Escript. A writing.
  • Escuage. A tenure of lands, whereby the tenant is bound at his own charg to follow his Lord into the warres: either in Scot­land or Wales: sometime in this tenure, the Tenant, onely payeth a yeerly rent.
  • Escuerconera. An hearbe in the West Indies, so na­med because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of cer­taine venemous beastes, which in that country they call Escuercos.
  • Esperance. Hope.
  • Essayes. Tryals.
  • Essence. The being or naturall substance of any thing.
  • Essenes. Certaine religi­ous men among the Jewes which lived a very strict life, abstaining from wine, flesh and women.
  • Essentiall. That which belongeth to the essence of a thing.
  • Essoine. A tearme in the common Law, when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is therfore allowed by the Court to be absent without penaltie.
  • Estreate. A copy which is taken of any writing.
  • Estovers. Plots of wood, growing in heathes, com­mons, and other places where it is lawfull for re­nants to take fewell, and timber to repaire their te­nements.
  • Eternall. Which hath no beginning nor end.
  • Eternity. Everlastingnes.
  • Etheriall. Heavenly, or belonging to the celestiall spheres.
  • Ethikes. Books of mo­rall Philosophy, treating of civill behaviour and manners.
  • Ethnike. A Gentile: a Heathen: one that is no Christian.
  • Etymology. The true ex­position, or reason given of any word.
  • Evacuate. To emptie.
  • Evacuation. An empty­ing.
  • [Page]Evade. To escape: to get away.
  • Evangelicall. Of or be­longing to the Gospell: commanded in the Gos­pell.
  • Evangelist. A bringer of good tidings: wherefore Saint Mathew, Saint Mark, S. Luke, and S. Iohn, are called Evangelists, because they first in writing publi­shed the joyfull History of our Redemption by the Son of God.
  • Evaporate. To consume away in vapor.
  • Evaporation. A vapor or smoake passing from any thing.
  • Evasion. An escape: a starting hole to get out.
  • Eucharist. It properly sig­nifieth a giving of thanks. In Ecclesiasticall writings it is often taken for the B. Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ.
  • Evecke A kind of wilde beast like a Goat.
  • Event. The end or suc­cesse of a matter.
  • Evert. To overthrow.
  • Eversion. An overthrow­ing.
  • Eviction. An overthrow in Law.
  • Evitable. Which may be avoided.
  • Eunuch. A gelded man.
  • Euphorbium. A gum or teare of a strange plant, growing on the mount Atlas in Lybia. It is yello­wish, cleere, and brittle. It may be used in oyntments against palsies, cramps, and shrinking of sinewes: but to be taken inwardly is very dangerous, unlesse the malice thereof be wel cor­rected; for it scaldeth and is exceeding hot, neere the fourth degree.
  • Europe. One of the three parts of the world lying toward the West. In it are contained England, Spain, France, Germany, Italie, all Greece, Crete, or Candy, beside many other kingdomes, great countries and Islands. Some affirme it to be called Europe of Europa, King Agenors daughter, whom Jupiter (as Poets feign) in likenes of a Bull, carried oversea, into the Island Candy.
  • Exact. To demand [Page]with great earnestnesse, or with constraint: also it sig­nifieth perfect and accom­plished.
  • Exaction. A pilling or ta­king up of money by con­straint.
  • Exaggerate. To increase or amplifie a matter: pro­perly, with words to make a thing more than it is.
  • Exaggeration. An increa­sing or amplifying by words.
  • Exanimate. To amaze.
  • Exanimation. An amaze­ment.
  • Exasperate. To anger, or provoke one greatly to an­ger.
  • Exasperation. A provo­king or stirring one to an­ger.
  • Excesse. Which excee­deth, or is too much.
  • Excite. To stir up.
  • Exclamation. A crying out.
  • Exclude. To shut out.
  • Exclusion. A shutting out.
  • Excogitate. To devise.
  • Excommunicate. To cast out of the communion of the Church.
  • Excommunication. A ca­sting out of the Church.
  • Excrement. Any thing which naturally growing or being in the body, may be taken away without harme to the body.
  • Excression. A growing out a swelling or bunch.
  • Excruciate. To torment.
  • Excursion. A running out, a light skirmish.
  • Execrable. Wicked, wor­thy to be detested.
  • Execration. A cursing.
  • Exemplarie. Of, or be­longing to an example.
  • Exemplifie. To declare a matter at large, to alledge examples.
  • Exempt. Free or priuiled­ged from any paiment or service.
  • Exemption. A freedome or a priviledge from any busines.
  • Exequies. Funeral solem­nities in honour of the dead.
  • Exhale. To cast or send forth a breath or sume.
  • Exhalation. A fumie smoake, hot and dry, drawne out of the earth by the heate of the Sunne, which being inflamed, is [Page]the materiall cause of di­vers fierie impressions in the ayre.
  • Exhaust. To consume, spend, or waste.
  • Exhibite. To present, of­fer, or give.
  • Exhilarate. To make merry, to comfort.
  • Exhortatorie. Which ex­horteth or perswadeth to do a thing.
  • Exiccate. To dry, to make dry.
  • Exigent. A straight, a hard pinch.
  • Exile. Banishment.
  • Exinanite. To make emptie, to spoile, weaken, or make of no force.
  • Exodus. A going forth. The second Booke of Moyses, is so called, because it teacheth of the manner how the children of Israel went out of Egypt.
  • Exonerate. To unburden, to acquite or discharge.
  • Exorable. Which may be intreated.
  • Exorbitant. That which goeth out of due proporti­on, or the right way.
  • Exorcize. To adjure, to binde by oath: to charge one upon conscience or grievous penaltie, to speak truely, or doe any thing required.
  • Exorcisme. An adjuring or binding by oath.
  • Exordium. The first en­trance of a sermon, orati­on, or such like speech.
  • Expect. To look for be­fore it come.
  • Expectation. A looking for a longing.
  • Expidite. Quick, readie.
  • Expeditate. To cut off the balles or (as some say) cer­taine clawes of great dogs feete, which are kept neere a forrest, that they may not harme the Kings Deere. The dogs so cut, are said to be expeditated.
  • Expedition. Quick dis­patch, speed, sometime a setting forth unto warre; a voyage.
  • Expell. To thrust out, to drive away.
  • Experiment. An experi­ence, proofe or tryall.
  • Expert. Cunning, skil­full.
  • Expiable. Which may be purged or satisfied for.
  • Expiate. To pacifie, to [Page]appease, to recompence.
  • Expiation. Pacifying, appeasing by sacrifice.
  • Expire. To dye, end, pe­rish, or decay.
  • Expiration. A dying, a breathing out, an end.
  • Explane. To make plain, to declare plainly.
  • Explanation. A making plain, a declaring.
  • Explicate. To unfold, open, or to declare at large.
  • Explication. An unfold­ing or opening.
  • Explode. To drive out with clapping the hands.
  • Explosion. A driving a­way.
  • Expose. To set forth: to set to view; to put abroad in hazard.
  • Exposition. An interpre­tation or expounding.
  • Expositour. An expoun­der or interpreter.
  • Expostulate. To reason angerly with one; to chide or complaine, as finding himself grieved.
  • Expostulation. An an­gry reasoning or com­plaint.
  • Expression. A wringing or squeasing out.
  • Exprobrate. To upbraid, to cast in ones teeth.
  • Exprobration. An upbrai­ding.
  • Expugne. To conquer: to win by assault.
  • Expugnation. A conquest: a winning by fight.
  • Expulse. To thrust out.
  • Expulsion. A thrusting out, a driving away.
  • Exquisite. Excellent, cu­rious.
  • Extant. That which stan­deth abroad or in sight; which may be found.
  • Extempore. Out of hand; presently, without studie.
  • Extend. To stretch forth, to shew at length.
  • Extension. A stretching out.
  • Extenuate. To diminish: to make by words, a thing seeme lesse then it is.
  • Extenuation. A diminish­ing.
  • Exterior. Outward.
  • Exterminate. To banish: to drive away.
  • Extermination. A destroy­ing, or rooting out.
  • Externe. Forren: out­landish, strange, outward.
  • [Page]Externall. Outward, strange.
  • Extinguish. To quench, to put out.
  • Extinct. Quenched, dead, put out.
  • Extirpe. To destroy, to root out.
  • Extirpate. To root up: to destroy.
  • Extirpation. A rooting up.
  • Extort. To wrest away, to take by force.
  • Extortion. Wrong done by any officer, in taking greater fees or rewards, for executing his office, than the laws will allow him.
  • Extortioner. Hee that committeth extortion.
  • Extract. To draw forth.
  • Extraction. A drawing out.
  • Extravagant. Wander­ing, disordered, when there are many needlesse mat­ters or words brought in beside the purpose.
  • Extrinsecall. Outward, or on the outside.
  • Exulcerate. To raise blisters or sores.
  • Exulceration. A rising of blisters or sores in the body.
  • Exult. To rejoyce great­ly, to triumph over one.
  • Exultation. A great re­joycing.
F
  • FAbricate. To frame, to build.
  • Fabrike. A frame a buil­ding.
  • Fabulous. False as a fable.
  • Facile. Easie.
  • Facilitie. Easinesse.
  • Faction. A sect or divi­sion into sundry opini­ons.
  • Factious. Contentious, troublesome, unquiet.
  • Factor. He that buyeth and selleth for a merchant, or that looketh to his bu­sinesse.
  • Facultie. Power, abilitie, a trade or course of life, a priviledge or power grant­ed, that a man may doe something, which without such priviledge he could not doe.
  • Facundite. Eloquencie.
  • Fage. A fable.
  • Falding. A kind of course cloth.
  • [Page]Fallacie. Deceit in words.
  • Falsitie. To counterfeit, or make false.
  • Falsification. A counter­feiting, or making false.
  • Falsitie. Falshood, de­ceit.
  • Fanaticall. Distracted, mad, franticke, out of his wits.
  • Farcines. A disease in beasts: it is a creeping ul­cer growing in knots, and following along some veine.
  • Farced. Stuffed, full.
  • Fascinate. To bewitch.
  • Fastidious. Disdainfull, loathing, proud.
  • Fate. Destinie, that which must of necessitie come to passe, by Gods secret appointment.
  • Fatall. That which hap­peneth or cometh to passe by fare.
  • Faunes. Poeticall gods of the woods.
  • Favorite. One in great favour.
  • Fealtie. A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whom they hold lands: which is in laying their right hand upon a booke, and promi­sing fidelitie to him by oath.
  • Feature. Hansomnesse, comelinesse, beautie.
  • Fecunditie. Fruitfulnesse.
  • Fleere. A companion, a husband or wife.
  • Felicitie. Happinesse.
  • Fell. A skin, sometime it signifieth fierce, terrible, or frowning.
  • Feminine. Of or belong­ing to the female.
  • Fencemoneth. A moneth, so called, because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest, for that the Does then doe fawne. This moneth beginneth about the ninth of June, and continueth till the ninth of July.
  • Fengreeke. A plant or herbe, the seed whereof is much used in physicke. It is yellow, being hot in the second degree and drie in the first, and hath pow­er to mollifie and dis­solve.
  • Feodarie. An officer who is to be present with the Escheater, at the fin­ding of any office, and [Page]to survey wards lands, and to rate them.
  • Feofment. A deed wit­nessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple, with liverie of seisine, and possession thereof. He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer, and the partie to whom it is made, the Feofee.
  • Ferie. Any day of the weeke not kept holy.
  • Fers. The Queene in chesse play.
  • Fertile. Fruitfull, yeelding much.
  • Fertilitie. Fruitfulnesse.
  • Fervent. Hot.
  • Fervour. Heate.
  • Ferula. A rod, sticke, or thinne paulmer, where­with children are correct­ed in Schooles upon the hand.
  • Fessepoint. The middle part of a scutcheon, whose bredth is divided into three even parts.
  • Festivall. Merry, joy­full, belonging to a feast.
  • Festivitie. Mir [...]h rejoy­cing, pleasantnesse, merri­nesse.
  • Feud. Hatred, enmitie, strife.
  • Fewmets, or Fewmi­shing. The dung of a Decre.
  • Fiants. The dung of a Fox or Badger.
  • Fiction. A feined device, a lye.
  • Fidelitie. Faithfulnesse.
  • Figment. A vaine device, a lye, a counterfeit tale.
  • Figurative. That which figureth or serveth but as a representation of another thing.
  • Filiall. Of or belonging to a sonne.
  • Filme. A fine thinne skin within the body, dividing the flesh or any neere member one from another.
  • Fine. An end: some­time money payed when one first taketh land for yeers.
  • Finall. Of or belon­ging to an end, the last.
  • * Finance. An end.
  • Finite. Which hath an end.
  • Fire-drake. A fire some­time seene, flying in the [Page]night like a Dragon. Common people thinke it a spirit, that keepeth some treasure hid: but Philosophers affirme it to be a great unequall exha­lation; inflamed between two Cloudes, the one hot, the other cold (which is the reason that it also smo­keth:) the middle part whereof, according to the proportion of the hote Cloud, being greater then the rest, maketh it seeme like a bellie, and both ends like unto a head and taile.
  • Firme. Strong, stable, stedfast.
  • Firmament. Astronomers understand by this word, the eighth spheare, next above the spheres of the seven Planets, in which all the sixt Stars are pla­ced.
  • Firmitie. Strength, sted­fastnesse.
  • Fistike nuts. Outlandish nuts, brought out of Syria and other hot Countries, not much unlike a small Hasell nut. They are verie good against the stoppings of the liver, being steeped all night in some sweet wine, and so eaten in the morning. They are good also to unstop the lungs, and for such as are trou­bled with shortnesse of breath, and are comforta­ble for the stomacke; yet they nourish but little, be­ing taken as meat.
  • Fistula. A dangerous ulcer or sore still running. It goeth up into the body, with a long narrow hole, like a pipe, and is com­monly hard in the out­side.
  • Fitch. The furre of the Polecat.
  • Fixe. To fasten.
  • Fixed. Fastened.
  • Flagitious. Wicked, very lewd.
  • Flamine. A great Priest amongst the Gentiles. There were three such at Rome. One called Fla­men Dialis: The Priest of Jupiter: who ware rich vest­ments, and had a chaire of Estate. If his Wife chanced to die, he there­upon went presently out of his office: It was [Page]not lawfull for him to a­bide one night out of the Citie, nor yet to affirme any thing by oath; for his word was held of sufficient credit. The other two Fla­mins, were the Flamine of Mars, and the Flamine of Romulus, called Quirinus.
  • Flankards. Hunters call so two knots or nuts, in the flanke of a Deere.
  • Flebotomie. See Phlebo­tomie.
  • Flegmaticke. Full of flegme, or inclining to flegme.
  • Flexibilitie. Aptnesse to bend.
  • Flexible. Pliant, easie to end.
  • * Flo. An arrow.
  • Floreine. A coine, whereof there be two sorts: one a­bout the value of three shillings foure pence, the other about two shillings ten pence farthing.
  • Fluent. Which floweth or aboundeth.
  • Flux. A flowing or issue of blood.
  • Fluxibilitie. Aptnesse to flow or spread abroad.
  • Fluxible. Which is apt to flow or run abroad.
  • Foyling. The print of a Deers foot in grasse, when it cannot well be seene.
  • Foemen. Enemies.
  • Foines. A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France: the top of this furre is blacke, and the ground whitish: the beast that beareth it, is about the bignesse of a Cat.
  • Foison. Great plenty, store.
  • Foiterers. Vagabonds.
  • Folio. A sheet or large leafe of paper.
  • Fomentation. In physick it properly signifieth, pow­ders or dry things in bags, or any liquor in a sponge or bladder, applyed warme to the bodie, to mitigate paine, or for some other purpose.
  • Footstall. The lower part of a pillar, whereon it standeth.
  • Foppe. A Foole.
  • Foppery. Foolishnesse, a vaine matter.
  • Forage. Provision for horses and cattell in the wars.
  • Forcer. A coffer, or little chest.
  • [Page]Forester. He that hath charge to looke to a for­rest, or some part of it.
  • Foreloyne. A tearme in hunting, when a hound meeteth a chace, and goeth away with it before the rest:
  • Forlorne. Vtterly undone, in a desperate estate.
  • Formalitie. An observing of good forme or order.
  • Formall. That which keepeth due forme.
  • Formositie. Beautie, faire­nesse.
  • Forestall. To buy victu­all or other merchandise by the way before it come to the faire or market; to sell it againe at a dearer price.
  • Forestaller. He that doth forestall, and buy things in such sort.
  • Fortifie. To make strong.
  • Fortification. A hold, any place made strong.
  • Fortitude. Courage, strength, valour.
  • Forewelked. Dried up.
  • Foster. To cherish, to bring up, to keep.
  • Fother. A wain-load of 2000. weighr.
  • Fracture. A breaking.
  • Fragilitie. Weakenesse, brittlenesse.
  • Fragment. A broken peece, a cantle.
  • Fragrant. Sweet smell­ing.
  • * Frape. A companie, a rabble.
  • Fraternitie. A brother­hood.
  • Fraud. Deceit, couse­nage.
  • Fraudulent. Deceitfull.
  • Fray. Harts or stags are said to fray their head [...], when they rub them, to make the pilles of their new horns come off.
  • * Fremd. Strange.
  • Frequent. Often, com­mon, also to haunt or re­sort much to a place.
  • Frequentation. A haunt­ing or resorting to a place.
  • Frication. A rubbing.
  • Friction. A rubbing.
  • Frivolous. Vain, foolish, of no account.
  • Froise. A pancake, a tan­sie.
  • Front. A forehead, the first part of a battell, an entrance or beginning.
  • [Page]Frontire. The bounds or limits of a countrey.
  • Fronilet. Any thing worne on the forehead.
  • * Frownce. A wrinckle.
  • Fruitifie. To beare fruit.
  • Frugall. Thriftie, spa­ring.
  • Frugalitie. Thriftinesse, good husbandry.
  • Frustrate. To make voyd, to deceive, to disappoint.
  • Fugitive. One likely to run away, a vagrant per­son, a run-away.
  • Fumigation. A perfume, any thing which being cast on hot coales, maketh a sweet smell.
  • Function. An office, a charge which one hath, a course of life.
  • Fundamentall. Of or be­longing to the foundati­on, or to the maine, chiefe, and principall point.
  • Funerall. A solemne bu­riall of some great person.
  • Furies. Three imagina­rie hags or spirits in hell, having snakes growing on them in stead of haires. Poets feined them to be daughters of Acheron (a ri­ver in hell) and of the night, and to have the of­fice of tormenting the soules of wicked men. Their names were Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.
  • Fusible. That may be molten.
  • Future. That which shall be hereafter.
G
  • * Gab. To prate or lye.
  • Gabbing. Lying.
  • Gabions. Baskets of earth to keep off great shot.
  • Gable. The fore-front or end of a house com­ing down right.
  • Gaynest. Most profitable or neerest.
  • * Gadling. Stragling.
  • Galangale. An herbe so called, the root whereof is hot and dry in the third degree, and much used in physicke.
  • Galbanum. A gumme or liquor drawne forth of a plant in Syria called Meto­pion. It is of a strange sa­vour, and very pure, close and firme, neither too moist, nor too dry. It is good against an olde [Page]cough, and for such as cannot easily fetch breath: and the perfume thereof driveth Serpents from the place where it is bur­ned.
  • * Galiard. Lustie; frolike.
  • * Galoch. A kinde of shooe.
  • * Gaipe. To belch.
  • Grangrene. A dangerous disease when any fleshie part of the body, after some great inflamation or other griefe, losing the na­turall colour, beginneth to grow insensible, and by degrees to waxe dead.
  • Garbe. A tearme in He­raldrie. It signifieth sheafe of Wheat, or any other grain.
  • Garbell. To purifie or cleanse spice or other things, from the drosse or dust which is mingled with it.
  • Gargarize. To wash or scowre the mouth with any Physicall liquor.
  • Gargarisme. A liquor to wash the mouth.
  • Gargill. The same that Gargarize.
  • * Gargoning. Strange speaking.
  • Garrulitie. Pratling, vaine babling.
  • Garter. It sometime sig­nifieth the principal of our English Heralds, called the King at armes.
  • Gatherbag. The bag or skin, inclosing a young red Deere in the Hindes bellie.
  • Gavelkinde. Customes annexed unto certain lāds in Kent, called Gavelkinde lands: whereof one is, that if the Father be han­ged for Felony, the Sonne shall enjoy all his lands and tenements holden in Gavelkinde. Other cu­stomes there are of Ga­velkinde, too long to be re­hearsed in this place.
  • Gawgeour. An officer ha­ving authority, to give a marke of allowance, to all Tuns, Hogsheads, Pipes, Barrels, &c. of Wine, Oyle, Honie, and Butter, before they ought to be sold.
  • * Gawre. To stare.
  • Gehenna. It properly signifieth a place in a valley, in the Tribe of [Page] Benjamin, where the Israe­lites erected abhominable altars, there sacrificing their children in fire to the Idoll Moloch: notwith­standing it is usually taken for hell.
  • Gemme. A jewell.
  • Genealogie. A pedegree; a declaration of ones li­nage, stocke, or race.
  • Generable. Which may be begotten.
  • Generate. To beget:
  • Generositie. Noblenesse of minde, Gentlemanlike courage.
  • Generous. Noble, vali­ant, vertuous.
  • Genesis. A generation. The first Booke of Moyses is so called in Greeke and Latine, because it decla­reth the creation and ge­neration of all things.
  • Genet. A goodly horse of Spaine.
  • Genets. A beast almost of the bignesse of a Cat breeding in Spaine. There are two colours of them, blacke and gray; but the furre of the black is most esteemed.
  • Genius. The spirit or soule: A good Angel, or a familiar evill spirit.
  • Gentill. Among the Jews, all were Gentiles, that were not of one of the twelve Tribes: now we commonly call them Gentiles, that professe not the faith of Christ.
  • Gentilisme. The opinion or beliefe of the Gen­tiles.
  • Gentilitie. The same that Gentilisme is.
  • Geographie. A descripti­on of the earth, as we see in Maps.
  • Geomancie. See Divina­tion.
  • Geometrie. An art of due proportion consisting in lineaments, formes, distances, and greatnesse. There are foure principles hereof: to wit, 1. A prick or point: 2. A line. 3. A superficies or outside: 4. A bodie. This Art was of great estimation among the ancient Grecians.
  • Geometrician. One skil­full in Geometrie.
  • Georgikes. Books treat­ing of husbandry and til­lage of land.
  • [Page]* Gerifull. Changeable: sometime cruell.
  • * Gesseran. A breast plate.
  • Gesticulation. A moo­ving of the fingers, hands, or other parts, either in idle wantonnesse, or to expresse some matter by signes, in dancing, sing­ing, or other such like ex­ercise.
  • Gestes. Deeds, noble acts.
  • Geules. A tearme among Heralds: It signifieth a vermilion colour.
  • * Gippon. A doublet: a light cote.
  • * Gipsere. A bagge or pouch.
  • Girle. A Roe Bucke of two yeeres.
  • * Gisarme. A certaine weapon.
  • * Gite. A gown.
  • Give. A weapon like an Halberd.
  • Glede. Fire, embers; flame, ashes: sometime a bird called a Puttoke.
  • * Glce. Mirth or joyful­nesse.
  • Gleire. White.
  • Glinne. A little vil­lage, or part of a village.
  • Glister. A liquor made sometime with sodden flesh, sometime with deco­ction of hearbs or other things, which by a pipe, is conveyed into the low­er parts of the body. It is written that the use hereof was first learned from a Bird in Egypt, cal­led Ibis, much like unto a Storke, which Bird doth often with her bill, open her hinder parts, when nature of her selfe doth not expell what is need­full.
  • Globe. A great round Bowle: or a description of the world made in such a forme.
  • Glosse. A short expositi­on of any darke speech.
  • Glow. To be hot and red, to shine, to burne.
  • * Gnarre. A hard knot in wood: sometime a short thicke fellow, a club.
  • Gnathonicall. Flattering; deceitfull in words: sooth­ing ones humour, to get by him.
  • * Gnoffe. A Foole, a Churle.
  • [Page]Goldfoile. A thin leafe of gold.
  • Golden number. A num­ber which changeth every yeere, by adding one to the golden number of the yeere going before, untill it grow as high as nine­teene, and then the gold­en number returneth to one again. For example, this yeere 1616. the gol­den number is two: the next yeer therefore it will be three, &c. This golden number was devised to finde out the feast of Ea­ster.
  • Golgotha. A Syrian word, signifying, a place of dead mens sculles. It was a place at Hierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion, so called be­cause there lay the sculles of offenders put to death.
  • * Golierdise. Hee that hath a fowle great mouth.
  • Gomor. The name of an Hebrew measure, contain­ing more than a Gallon. The Israelites when they were fed from Heaven with Manna in the desert, received every one, this measure full for a daies al­lowance.
  • * Gonfennon. A little flag.
  • Gordian knot. A knot which cannot be loosed.
  • Gorgon. A terrible fight­ing Woman: Poets feine, there were foure such, Daughters to King Phor­cus: their names were Scylla, Medusa, Stenio, and Euryale.
  • Gossomer. Things that flye like Copwebs in the ayre.
  • Gourmand. A glutton.
  • Gourmandize. Gluttony: sometime to eate like a Glutton.
  • Graces. A poeticall fic­tion of three Sisters, sup­posed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus. They were called Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne. The mo­ralitie of this invention was, to expresse the mutual love and cheerefull con­versation which ought to be amongst friends: For they were painted naked, to signifie that friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation; smiling and [Page]merry, to shew that men should do good willingly; young and maidenlike, to teach that friendship should consist in honest things; and holding hands together in a round ring, to shew that a benefit be­stowed, doth again return to the giver.
  • Gradation. A going by steps, or a speaking by cer­taine degrees.
  • Gradual. That which was said or sung, betweene the Epistle and the Gospel.
  • Graduate. He that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniversitie.
  • Graines of Paradise. A lit­tle seed, brought out of Armenia, of a strong sweet smell, and somewhat sharp in taste. It is hot and dry, of a subtill substance, and often used in Physicke. For it warmeth the inward parts, and is good against the falling sicknesse, the Sciatica, the Strangurie, bytings of venemous beasts, and divers other diseases.
  • * Grame. Sorrow, mis­hap: anger.
  • Gramaticall. Of, or be­longing to Grammer.
  • Granadillia. A fruit like a Pomegranat growing in India.
  • Grand. Great.
  • Grandour. Greatnesse.
  • * Graythed. Devised.
  • * Gratch. Apparell.
  • Gratefull. Thankfull.
  • Gratifie. To pleasure one, to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turn.
  • Gratification. A pleasu­ring of one, a good turn.
  • Gratis. Freely, without cost.
  • Gratitude. Thankfulnes.
  • Gratuitie. A benefit or gift, given onely for good will: sometime thankful­nesse, or a reward.
  • Gratulate. To signifie that we rejoyce at the pro­speritie of another.
  • Gratulation. A rejoycing for anothers good. A thanksgiving.
  • Gravitie. Heavinesse: al­so sagenes, great discretion.
  • Graund Sergeantie. An old tenure in the Com­mon Law, when a man holds lands or tenements of the king, to go with him [Page]into the wars, or to beare his banner, lead his host, or do some such like ser­vice.
  • Graunge. A village, or lone house in the country.
  • * Gree. Good part.
  • Griffine. A strange Bird in India, with foure feet armed with cruell clawes, being from the breast up­ward fashioned like an Ea­gle, but of purple colour, with red fierie eyes, and whitish wings, and in the hinder part blacke, made much like a Lion. This bird neasteth in the high mountaines, and is exceed­ing hard to be taken, ex­cept very yong; for he will adventure on any man, & is so fierce, that he often killeth Elephants Dandra­gons. He is most enemy to horses: for which cause Virgil in his eight Eclog, bringeth in the shepherd Damon, who wondered at a strange marriage, speaking thus: Junguntur jam gry­phes equis: &c. The Grif­fins fierce are joyn'd with horses now.
  • * Grith. Agreement.
  • Gruell. Potage.
  • Guacatane. An herbe growing in the west Indies of great vertue against the piles, or griefs proceeding from cold or windinesse.
  • Guaiacum. A wood cal­led by some Lignum vitae. It is much used in physick against the French disease.
  • Guaiavas. A fruit grow­ing in India much like un­to apples.
  • Guerdon. A reward.
  • Guerdonles. Vnrewarded.
  • * Guerring. Brawling.
  • Gumme Arabicke. A kind of gumme, growing on a thorne tree, called Acacia in Egypt.
  • Guzes. The ball of the eye. A terme in heraldrie.
  • Gymnosophists. Certaine Philosophers in India, that went alwaies naked, and lived solitary in woods; the first beginner of which sect, was (as S. Hierome wri­teth cont. Iovinian.) na­med Buddas.
  • * Gyre. A trance.
H.
  • HAberdepoise. A pound weight which contei­neth sixteene ounces.
  • [Page]Habit The outward at­tire of the body, whereby one person may be distin­guished from another; as the habit of a Gentleman, is different from the habit of a Merchant, and the ha­bit of a Handi-crafts man differing from them both. Sometime it signifieth a qualitie in the bodie or minde, not naturall, but gotten by long custome, or insused by God: as an O­rator still exercised in ma­king orations, hath gotten a habit of eloquent speak­ing; and the holy Apo­stles had a habit to under­stand and speak languages without studie.
  • Habitable. Which may be dwelled in.
  • Habitation. A dwelling place.
  • Habituall. Grown to a habit by long custome.
  • * Hailse. Charge.
  • * Haine. Hatred.
  • * Haketon. A sleevelesse jacket.
  • Halituous. Vaporous, thin, moist, which may be voided out by the pores.
  • * Halse. A necke.
  • * Halke. A corner, a val­ley.
  • * Hameled. Cut off, aba­ted.
  • Hamkin. A pudding made upon the bones of a shoul­der of mutton, all the flesh being first taken off.
  • Hamlet. A village in the countrey.
  • Hague. A hand-gunne of about three quarters of a yard long.
  • Haguebut. A gunne or harquebuse.
  • Harbinger. One that ta­keth up lodging for others.
  • Hariant. A tearme in herauldry when a fish is painted standing upright.
  • Harmonie. Delightfull musicke of many notes.
  • Harmonious. Sweet, plea­sant, delightful to the eare.
  • Harpyes. A Poeticall word. It signifieth certaine monstrous birds, with mai­den faces, & crooked sharp talons, so called because of their rapine which they used. They lived in Stym­phalis a Lake of Arcadia, and were sent by the Gods (if we beleeve Poets) to snatch away and defile [Page]the meat of Phineus, king of that countrey, because he at the perswasion of his second wife, had destroyed the children which he had by his first; they were at last driven away by Zetus, and Calais the sonnes of Boreas. These Harpyes were named, Aello, Ocypete, Celeno, and Thyella.
  • Harquebuze. A hand Gun.
  • Harquebuzier. He that shooteth in a hand Gun.
  • * Harrow. An old word signifying, away, sie.
  • Haubergion. A coate of male.
  • Hauoire. Possession.
  • * Hauselins. Breeches.
  • * Hawbacke. To return.
  • Hawberke. A Gorget.
  • Hearse. A buriall coffin covered with black.
  • Hecatombe. A great sa­crifice wherein were offer­ed a hundred beasts.
  • Hecticke. A Fever infla­ming the heart, and sound­est parts of the body.
  • Heisugge. A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges.
  • Hemisphere. Halfe the compasse of the heavens: that part of the heavens which is still visible to us.
  • Hemistich. Half a verse.
  • Hemorrhodes. A swelling of veines in the funda­ment like werts: whereof some doe use to bleed of­ten, and some bleed not at all. They are caused by superfluitie of grosse me­lancholy blood, sent to these parts from the Li­ver, being many times healthfull to the patient, by preventing other disea­ses; and therefore ought not hastily to be stopt, un­lesse through continuance, the body bee too much weakened by them.
  • Henchman. A page of honour, neere attendant to a Prince, or other great personage.
  • * Hend. Gentle.
  • * Hent. To catch or lay hold of.
  • Herbage. Pasture, or the feeding of cattel in pasture.
  • Herball. A booke of the nature of herbs.
  • Herbinger. See harbinger.
  • Hereticall. Obstinate in a false beleefe, belonging to an Hereticke.
  • [Page]Heretike. He that maketh his owne choice, what points of religion he will believe, and what he will not believe.
  • Hereditarie. That which commeth to one by inhe­ritance.
  • Heriot. The best living beast which a Tenant hath at his death, which in some Mannors is due to the lord of whom the land is holden.
  • Hermaphrodite. Of both natures: which is both man and woman.
  • Hermite. One dwelling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to devo­tion.
  • Hermitage. A lone house where an hermit dwelleth.
  • Hermodactiles. Little roots white, and round, sold by Apothecaries. They are hot and dry in the second degree, and are much used against all gouts, purging slimie fleame from farthest parts of the body: but they must be taken with Gin­ger, Anniseed or Cum­min, and a little Masticke, or else by stirring windi­nesse, they will overturne the stomacke.
  • Heroes. Great Noble men.
  • Heroycall. Noble, hono­rable, couragious.
  • Heroike. The same, as Heroicall.
  • Hests. Commandements or decrees.
  • Heteroscians. Any people dwelling under a tempe­rate Zone: so called be­cause their shadowes at noone bend still but one way.
  • Hew. Colour.
  • Hewle. A little copse or grove.
  • Heyward. A bailiefe, or officer having charge to looke to the fieldes.
  • Hiacinth. See Hyacinth.
  • Hide of land. Some affirme it to be an hundred acres.
  • Hidage. A taxe or pai­ment for every hide of lād.
  • Hidebound. A disease in cattell when the skin clea­veth to their sides.
  • Hideous. Terrible, ugly.
  • Hiena. See Hyena.
  • Hiera picra. A bitter con­fection made of Alo [...] succo­trina, and other simples, [Page]often used in Physicke to purge Choler out of the flomacke.
  • Hierarchie. The holy or­der of Angels, which con­taining nine degrees (as some affirme) is a mystical resemblance of the B. Tri­nitie, there being in nine, thrice three, and in every three thrice one. So that there are three superi­our, three inferiour, and three middle degrees. The superior are Seraphines, Cherubines, and Thrones; the middle, Dominati­ons, Principalities, Pow­ers: The inferior, ver­tues, Archangels, and An­gels.
  • Hieroglyphikes. A darke mysticall kinde of writing, used chiefly in times past among the Pagane Priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort. This writing was by making the formes of beasts and di­vers other figures, and could hardly bee under­stood without exposition, or great knowledge in the nature of things. For ex­ample: Eternitie or everla­stingnesse, they expressed by a round circle, which hath no end: A king, by a scepter with an eye in the top thereof: A matter of haste, by a Dolphin, the swiftest of all fishes. And a matter of deliberation or advice, by an Anchor, which stayeth a ship in the waves. With a thousand such devices, not subject to common capacities to find out.
  • Hight. Was named.
  • Hillocke. A little hill.
  • Hin. An Hebrew mea­sure of moist things, con­taining (by Agricolas ac­count) foure pottles and a quart of ours. Santes Pagni­nus affirmeth it to con­tain, threescore and twelve egges.
  • Hip. The red berry on the bryer.
  • Hipocrite. See Hypocrite.
  • Historian. A writer or teller of a History.
  • Historicall. Of or belong­ing to a History.
  • Historiographer. A wri­ter of Histories.
  • Historiologie. The know­ledge [Page]and telling of old Histories.
  • Hoane. A fine kinde of whetstone.
  • Hogsteere. A wild Bore of three yeeres old.
  • Holocaust. A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered, and no part re­served.
  • Holt, A grove.
  • Homage. In Court Ba­rons, the Jury that are sworne to enquire of mat­ters, are so called. It signifi­eth also a servil ceremony, of duty by some Tenants to their Lords, after this manner. The Tenant that holdeth Lands by ho­mage, kneeling on both knees before the Lord (who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands be­tween his) saith as follow­eth.

    I become your man, from this day forward, of life and member, and of earthly honour, and to you shall be faithfull and true, and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our Lord the King. And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant.

  • Homager. One that doth or oweth homage.
  • Homicide. A manslayer: sometime manslaughter.
  • Homilie. A talking toge­ther: a speech, or a Ser­mon.
  • Homonymie. A terme in Logicke, when one word signifieth divers things: as Hart: signifieth a beast, and a principall member of the body.
  • Honour point. In Heraul­dry the upper part of a Scutcheon is so called, when the bredth thereof, is divided into three even parts.
  • * Hopesteres. Pilots to guide a ship.
  • Horizon. An imaginary line compassing the low­est part of the heavens that we can see; so called be­cause it limiteth our sight, dividing the heavens un­derneath us, from that which is above. The Sun rising and going downe is ever in this line.
  • Horologe. A Clocke, or Dyall.
  • [Page]Horoscope. The ascendent of ones nativitie, to wit, that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East, when a child is born. Astrologers call it, the first house.
  • Horrid. Terrible: feare­full to looke on.
  • Horrour. Great feare or trembling.
  • * Horrow. Beastlie; base flaunderous.
  • Hosanna. An Hebrew word, which signifieth, Save I beseech thee.
  • Hospitalitie. Entertain­ment of strangers, good house keeping.
  • Hostage. A pledge left in warres for performance of covenants.
  • Hostile. Of or belong­ing to an enemie: malici­ous, harmefull.
  • Hostilitie. Enmitie: ha­tred, open warre.
  • Hotchpot. A terme in our common Law, when a daughter which hath had given unto her any lands to be coheire after in Franke marriage, clay­ming her fathers death, to other lands with some sisters, is constrained to suffer that part of land, given her before her fathers death, to be put in Hotchpot, that is to be mingled to­gether with the lands whereof her Father dyed seised, so that an equall di­vision may be made of the whole.
  • * Howgates. How.
  • Howsell. To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death.
  • Howten. To hol­low.
  • Hulke. To open a hare or cony, to take out the garbage.
  • * Hulstred. Hidden.
  • Huke. A Dutch attire covering the head, face, and all the body.
  • Humane. That which belongeth or may happen to man.
  • Humanitie. Gentle­nesse, courtesie, civill be­haviour: also manhood or the nature of man­kind.
  • Humide. Moist.
  • Humiditie. Moisture.
  • Humiliate. To make humble.
  • [Page]Humiliation. A making lowe or humble.
  • Humorous. Full of hu­mors.
  • * Hurtelen. To thrust, to provoke.
  • Hyacinth. The red, blew, or yellow lilly: also a pur­ple flower called crow­toes.
  • Hydra. A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerna, which having one head cut off, had forthwith two other heads growing up in the place. Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him.
  • Hydromancie. See Divi­nation.
  • Hydromell. A physicall sweet drinke, made of wa­ter and hony.
  • Hyemall. Belonging to winter, winterly.
  • Hyena. A beast like a Wolfe, having a mane and long haires over all the bodie. It is the subtillest (as some say) of all beasts, and will counterfeit the voice of a man, to draw sheep­heards out of their hou­ses in the night, to the end he may kill them. It is written that he chan­geth sex often, being som­time male, and sometime femall.
  • Hymen. A poeticall word, it is taken for the God of marriage, sonne unto Bac­chus and Venus; and some­time for a song at a mari­age feast.
  • Hymn. A song to praise God.
  • Hyperbole. A figure when one speaketh a great deal more than is precise­ly true.
  • Hyberbolicall. Any thing spoken above all be­liefe, as in saying, high­er than heaven, swifter than lightening, &c. is called an Hyperbolicall speech.
  • Hypocrite. It properly signifieth one that doth counterfeit the gesture of an other man: but it is commonly taken for a dissembler, that with fained holines would seeme beter than he is indeed.
  • Hypoquistidos. In di­vers hote countries there [Page]groweth a plant called Ci­stus, having about the root thereof, a certaine Mush­roome, which being brui­sed yeeldeth a liquor, cal­led by Apothecaries Hypo­quistidos. This liquour (brought hither dry) is cold of operation, and of vertue to stop all bleed­ings, laskes, and fluxes of the belly.
  • Hypostaticall. Belonging to substance; or that which consisteth in the substance of a thing.
  • Hypotheticall. In Logike, those propositions, which have a conjunction in them, and so consist of two parts, are called it Hypo­theticall propositions, as in saying. If the Sunne be in our Hemisphere, it is day.
  • Hysteron proteron. A Greeke terme, sometime used in derision of that which is spoken or done preposterously or quite contrary. We call it in En­glish, The cart before the horse.
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  • IAcent. Lying along.
  • Jacynth. A precious stone found in Ethiopia, where­of there are two kindes, the one of a pale yellow colour, and the other of a cleere bright yellow, which is accounted the better. It is cold of nature, comfort­able to the body, and pro­voketh sleep.
  • Jacobs staffe. An instru­ment in Geometry.
  • Jaculatory. That which is suddenly cast from one, like a dart.
  • Jambes. Postes sustei­ning both sides of the doore.
  • Jambeux. Armour for the legs.
  • Jasmine. A limmer weake plant, full of joynts or knots, which groweth in manner of a hedge or quickset, and must be stay­ed up, as roses and vines are.
  • Jasper. A precious stone of divers colours; but the best is greene, transparant with red veines, and shew­eth fairest being set in sil­ver: it is good to stop any issue of blood.
  • Jasponix. A precious stone, white of colour, [Page]and having red strakes.
  • Iazul. A precious stone of a blew azure colour.
  • Ibis. A tall strong bird in Egypt, with a long bill, which doth much good there in destroying ser­pents.
  • Icleeped. Named, called.
  • * Icond. Learned.
  • Idea. The forme or fi­gure of any thing concei­ved in the minde.
  • Identitie. The selfe same thing.
  • Idiome. The forme of speech, or propertie of any language.
  • Idiote. It is commonly taken for a foole naturall: notwithstanding it some­time signifieth a man un­learned.
  • Ides. Eight daies in every moneth, so called, because they devide the moneth almost in the middle. In March, May, July, and October, these eight daies begin at the eighth day of the moneth, and conti­nue to the fifteenth: in o­ther moneths they begin at the sixt day, and continue to the thirteenth. Where note that the last day onely is called Ides, and the first of these dayes, the eighth Ides, the second the seventh Ides: that is, the eigthth or seventh day before the Ides, and so of the rest.
  • Idolaster. An Idolater.
  • Iehovah. The ineffable name of God, signifying his divine essence. The He­brews did not use to reade this word, when they came to it in any writing, so much reverence did they beare unto it; but in stead thereof they pronounced Adonai, which signifieth Lord.
  • Iesus. A Saviour.
  • * Iewise. Reward by re­venge, also a gibbet.
  • * Ifere. Together.
  • * Ifretten. Devoured.
  • Ignoble. Base, that is not noble.
  • Ignominie. Shame, re­proch, infamie.
  • Ignominous. Shamefull, vile, reprochfull.
  • * Ikend. Known.
  • Iliads. A booke written in Greeke by Homer, of the destruction of Troy.
  • * Ilke. The same.
  • [Page]Illation. A bringing in of a matter.
  • Illaudable. Not worthy of praise.
  • Illegitimate. Vnlawfull, not lawfully begotten.
  • Illiberall. Not liberall, miserable, base.
  • Illiberalitle. Niggard­nesse: properly in a great man, that over slightly re­wardeth a service or curte­sie done to him by his in­feriour.
  • Illiterate. Vnlearned, one that is not acquainted with letters.
  • Illude. To mocke, to deceive.
  • Illusion. A mockerie, a cunning slight to deceive one.
  • Illuminate. To enligh­ten.
  • Illumination. A shining or giving of light.
  • Illustrate. To make fa­mous, or noble.
  • Illustration. A making famous or noble.
  • Illustrious. Famous, no­ble, very honourable.
  • Imagerie. Painted or carved works of images:
  • Imaginarie. That which is conceited in the mind.
  • Imbecillitie. Weaknesse.
  • * Imeint. Mingled.
  • Imitate. To follow.
  • Imitation. A following.
  • Imitator. A follower of another.
  • Immaculate. Vndefiled, pure, unspotted.
  • Immanitie. Crueltie, out­ragious, fiercenesse.
  • Immarcessible. Vncor­ruptible.
  • Immature. Vnripe.
  • Immaturitie. Vnripenesse.
  • Immediate. That which commeth directly from one thing to another with­out any thing between.
  • Immedicable. Which can­not be healed.
  • Immemorable. Not wor­thy to be remembred.
  • Immense. Vnmeasurable, which cannot be measu­red.
  • Immensitie. Exceeding greatnesse, unmeasurable­nesse.
  • Immoderate. Vnreasona­ble, contrary to modestie.
  • Immodest. Not sober, un­mannerly, saucy.
  • Immolate. To offer in sa­crifice.
  • [Page]Immolation. An offering of sacrifice.
  • Immortall. Not subject to death: everlasting.
  • Immortality. Everlasting­nesse.
  • Immunitie. Freedome, or discharge from any publike busines.
  • Immure. To shut up, or inclose in a wall.
  • Immutable. [...]nchange­able.
  • Immutation. A change.
  • Impacted. Thrust hard together: couched in­to.
  • Imparitie. Vnequalnesse, unlikenesse.
  • Imparlance. When a man sued in the common law, for debt, trespasse, or such like, craveth and obtai­neth of the Court, some respite of time, before he make his answer, this stay of making his an­swer, is called an Impar­lance.
  • Impassibilitie. A Free­dome from any ability of feeling pain.
  • Impassible. Which can­not feele any paine, or pas­sion.
  • Impeach. To harme, or hinder.
  • Impeachment. A hinde­rance.
  • Impeachment of waste. A restraint from making waste in Lands, or Te­nements.
  • Impediment. A hinde­rance.
  • Impell. To thrust on, to constraine.
  • Impenetrable. So hard that it cannot be pier­ced.
  • Imperious. That com­mandeth with authoritie; Lordlike stately.
  • Impertinent. Not belon­ging to the matter.
  • Impetrable. Which may be obtained.
  • Impetrate. To obtain.
  • Impetuous. Violent: or hasty.
  • Impietie. Wickednesse.
  • Impious. Wicked.
  • Implacable. Hard to be pacified, or that cannot be appeased.
  • Implicite. Wrapped up, hidden.
  • Implore. To beseech, to intreat with teares.
  • Jmportance. The weight [Page]or value of a thing.
  • Important. Of great weight and value.
  • Importune. To urge ear­nestly.
  • Importunate. Very ear­nest: which will not be answered.
  • Importunitie. Vnreasona­blenes: too much earnest­nes in asking.
  • Impose. To lay on.
  • Imposition. A laying on.
  • Impost. Custome or tal­lage paid at Haven townes or elsewhere.
  • Impostume. A quantity of evill humours, gathered into one part of the body. There are two kinds here­of. One when inflamed blood, being turned to corrupted matter, filleth some place: the other when without any inslam­mation, nature thrusteth those humours into some part apt to receive them.
  • Imposture. Deceit, cou­senage: properly in sel­ling counterfeit wares for currant, or in crafty illu­sions done by Sorcerers, Egyptians and Juglers. The party so deceiving is called an Impostor.
  • Impotency. Weaknes.
  • Impotent. Weake, fee­ble.
  • Imprecate. To curse and wish evill.
  • Imprecation. A cursing, a wishing evill.
  • Impregnable. That which cannot be taken or over­come.
  • Impresa. A device pain­ted upon [...] [...]hield.
  • Impresse. To import the forme of a thing.
  • Imprimis. First of all.
  • Improbabilitie. Vnlikeli­hood.
  • Improbable. Vnlikely to be true; that which can­not be proved true.
  • Improbity. Naughtines, lewdnes, dishonestie.
  • Impropriation. A parso­nage, or Ecclesiasticall living comming to one by inheritance.
  • Improve. To raise rents higher.
  • Improvidence. VVant of foresight.
  • Improvident. Which fore­casteth not, or taketh no care what shall come af­ter.
  • [Page]Jmprudence. Foolishnes, want of wit.
  • Imprudent. Vnwise, not discreet.
  • Impudence. Shameles­nesse.
  • Impudent. Shamelesse, past shame.
  • Impugne. To assault, or sight against.
  • Impulse. To con­straine.
  • Impulsion. A con­straint.
  • Impunitie. Lacke of pu­nishment.
  • Impuritie. Vnclean­nesse.
  • Impute. To lay to ones charge: to ascribe.
  • Imputation. An impu­ting or laying by conje­cture to on [...] charge.
  • Imputative. Which is im­puted to one.
  • Inaccessible. Which can­not be come unto, unap­prochable.
  • Inanitie. Emptines.
  • Inaugurate. To dedicate, or consecrate.
  • Inauspicious. Vnluckie, unfortunate.
  • Incantation. A charme.
  • Incapable. Which can­not conceive or con­tain.
  • Incendiary. He that bur­neth or setteth any thing on fire.
  • Incense. To inflame, to stir up to anger: being a nowne it signifieth the best frankincense.
  • Incest. Carnall know­ledge between neere kin­dred.
  • Incestuous. Wicked, which committeth In­ce [...].
  • Inchepinne. The lower gut of a Deere.
  • Incident. That which happeneth or belongeth to a thing.
  • Incision. A cutting: A terme used in Chirurgerie, whē they launce a wound, the better to come to the bottome; or any impo­stume, or such like to let out evill humours.
  • Incite. To stir up.
  • Incitation. A. stirring up.
  • Inclemencie. Vngentle­nes; crueltie.
  • Include. To containe, to shut in.
  • Inclusive. Which con­taineth, [Page]or is contained.
  • Incoact. Vnconstrained.
  • Incompact. Slight, not close joined.
  • Jncompatible. Disagree­ing: unreconcileable: al­so mischievous: not suffe­rable.
  • Incomprehensible. Which cannot be comprehended or contained.
  • Inconcinnitie. Vnaptnes: ill agreeing, disproportion.
  • Incongruitie. Disagree­ment: false speaking, dis­proportion.
  • Incongruous. Disagreea­ble: absurd; against rule of Grammar.
  • Jnconsiderate. Foolish, undiscreet.
  • Inconsideration. Foolish­nes: unadvisednes.
  • Inconsolable. Comfort­lesse.
  • Incontinent. Vnchaste: also forthwith, by and by.
  • Incorporate. To mixe two or moe substances toge­ther.
  • Incorrigible. That which cannot be corrected or amended.
  • Increate. Which is not created or made.
  • Incredibilitie. Impossibi­litie of beliefe.
  • Incredible. Which cannot be believed.
  • Incredulitie. Want of be­liefe.
  • Incredulous. One that will not believe.
  • Increment. An increase.
  • Incessant. A terme of Herauldry, signifying the Moone past the prime, and not yet come to the full.
  • Incroch. See Encroch.
  • Incubus, The night mare, when a man in his sleep supposeth he hath a great weight lying on him, and feeleth himselfe almost strangled; in such sort that he cannot turne him­selfe nor sit up, nor call for help. The vulgar thinke it some spirit, but the Phy­sitians affirme it to be a naturall disease, caused by humors undigested in the stomacke, which fu­ming up to the braine, doe there trouble the animall spirits, stopping their pas­sage into the sinewes, so that the body cannot move.
  • [Page]Inculcate. To repeat a thing often, thereby to make one remember it.
  • Inculcation. An often re­peating, a beating into the brains.
  • Inculpable. Blamelesse, without fault.
  • Incumbent. He that is in possession of a benefice, or spirituall living.
  • Incursion. A running in.
  • Indecorum. Vncomely.
  • Indifinite. Not precisely exprest: undefined.
  • Indemnity. Escaping with­out damage or hurt.
  • Index. A Table in a book.
  • Indico. A stone brought out of Turkie, wherewith Dyers use to die blew.
  • Indiction. The space of fifteene yeares, by which account Charters & pub­like writings are dated at Rome: every yeare still increasing one, till it come to fifteene; and then re­turning to one again.
  • Indigence. Want: pover­tie.
  • Indigestion. Want of di­gestion: or evill dige­stion.
  • Indignitie. Disgrace, dis­honour.
  • Individuum. That which cannot be divided: A terme in Logicke, when we directly expresse, and seeme to point to that thing which we speake of: as in saying, This horse, That man: For although the words Horse, or Man, may be applyed to any horse or man, yet being so expresly pointed at, they cannot then be drawn to signifie other then those two.
  • Indocible. Which can­not be taught, hard to learne.
  • Induce. To bring in.
  • Inducement. That which bringeth or draweth one in.
  • Induction. A drawing in: or a forme of argument proceeding from particu­lars to universals.
  • Indulgence. Gentle­nesse, too much cocke­ring.
  • Indulgences. Pardons.
  • Induration. A harde­ning.
  • Industrie. Diligence: [Page]painfull endeavours.
  • Industrious. Diligent: painfull.
  • Ineffable. That which can­not bespoken, unutterable.
  • Inevitable. That which cannot be avoided.
  • Inexorable. Which can­not be intreated.
  • Inexperience. Want of ex­perience.
  • Inexpiable. So grievous that one cannot make sa­tisfaction for it: unmerci­full, deadly.
  • Inexplicable. Which can­not be unfolded, opened, or declared.
  • Inextricable. So confu­sed or difficult, that a man cannot winde himselfe out of it.
  • Infallible. Certaine: sure wherein one cannot be deceived.
  • Infamous. Lewd: ill spo­ken of, base, vile.
  • Infatigable. Vnwearyed.
  • Infatuate. To make foo­lish.
  • Infecundity. Vnfruitfulnes.
  • Infelicitie. Vnhappines.
  • Inferior. Lower, more base
  • Infernall. Hellish, or be­longing to hell.
  • Inferre. To bring in by way of argument, to con­clude.
  • Inference. A bringing in, or concluding upon some­what going before.
  • Infestation. A troubling, a molesting.
  • Infinitie. Endlesnesse: un­measurablenes.
  • Infirme. Weake, feeble.
  • Infixe. To fasten, or stick in.
  • Inflammation. An infla­ming: a hot angry swel­ling.
  • Inflate. To puffe up: to make proud.
  • Inflation. A puffing up: a swelling.
  • Inflexible. Very hard, which will not bend.
  • Inflict. To lay punish­ment, or some penaltie up­on one.
  • Influence. A flowing in: most commonly it is ta­ken for the power which Planets and Stars have in moving of inferior things.
  • Information. An instructi­on, or giving one to un­derstand.
  • Infringe. To breake: to transgresse.
  • [Page]Infuse. To poure in.
  • Infusion. A pouring in. Also a liquor wherein any medicinable thing is layed warme to sleepe, that the vertue thereof may passe into it: Physitians use these infusions often, when they have to deale with de­licat persons, that will not endure strong medicines.
  • Ingenerable. Which can­not be bred or begotten.
  • Ingenious. Wi [...]ty: quicke conceited.
  • Ingenuous. Gentleman­like.
  • Ingot. A small masse or little wedge of fined gold.
  • Ingrate. Vnthankfull.
  • Ingratitude. Vnthankful­nesse.
  • Ingredience. A going in: or that which goeth into the making of a thing.
  • Ingresse. A going in.
  • Ingrosse. To buy up all for himselfe: sometime to write a thing faire in a booke.
  • Ingrosser. One that buy­eth corn growing, or dead victuall, to sell again: ex­cept it be by retaile, as vi­ctuallers use, or buying barly for Malt; Oates for Oatemeale, oiles or spices.
  • Ingulfe. To drawne, to swallow up.
  • Ingurgitation. A swilling or swallowing in.
  • Inhabitable. Which can­not be dwelled in.
  • Inherent. Cleaving to, or abiding in a thing.
  • Inhibit. To forbid.
  • Inhiition. A forbidding.
  • Inhospitable. Harbourles: not fit to entertaine one.
  • Inhumane. Cruel, unman­like, unhumane.
  • Inhume. To bury.
  • Inhumanity. Cruelty, un­manlike behaviour.
  • Injection. A liquor which Surgeons do squirt into a deepe wound.
  • Inimitable. Which can­not be followed.
  • Injunction. An injoyning or commanding one to do a thing.
  • Innate. Naturall.
  • Innavigable. That which cannot be sayled upon.
  • Innovate. To make new.
  • Innovation. A making. new: an alteration.
  • Inobservable. Which can­not be observed or marked.
  • [Page]Jnoculate. To graffe a bud, by cutting a round hole in the barke of ano­ther tree, and setting it on with clay.
  • Inquisition. A searching.
  • Inquisitive. Very desirous to know: searching or en­quiring after a matter.
  • Insatiable. Which can­not be satisfied or fil­led.
  • Inscription. A title or note written upon any thing.
  • Inscrutable. Vnsearcha­ble: which cannot be per­fectly found out.
  • Insculpe. To cut or carve in.
  • Insensible. Which cannot be perceived: or one so foolish that he perceiveth nothing.
  • Insert. To put in; to adde.
  • Insertion. A putting in.
  • Insinuate. To put any thing into ones mind cun­ningly and closely: also by little and little to creep into ones favour.
  • Insinuation. A cunning speech to creep into ones favour.
  • Insist. To continue or abide.
  • Insition. Graffing.
  • Insociable. Not apt to keep company.
  • Insolencie. Pride.
  • Insolent. Proud, pre­sumptuous: also strange and unwonted.
  • Insoluble. That which cannot be loosed: unan­swerable.
  • Inspection. A looking in.
  • Inspersion. A sprinkling.
  • Inspire. To breathe into; to put in ones mind.
  • Inspiration. An inward in­struction or motion com­ming from God.
  • Instance. An example or similitude brought of a thing.
  • Instant. Very earnest: al­so quicknesse, speedinesse, present time.
  • Instaure. To repaire or build a new.
  • Instigate. To stirre up: to provoke.
  • Instigation. A stirring up: a provoking.
  • Instinct. A naturall incli­nation.
  • Institute. To ordaine, to appoint: somtime to teach and instruct.
  • [Page]Institution An appoint­ment, an ordinance: som­time a teaching or instru­ction:
  • Insult. To vaunt proudly over one.
  • Insultation. A proud crowing over one.
  • Insuperable. Which can­not be overcome.
  • Insurrection. A rising of many together in armes or disturbance of the peace.
  • Integritie. Soundnesse; upright dealing: honestie.
  • Intellectuall. Of, or belon­ging to the understanding.
  • Intelligence. Knowledge, understanding: sometime an Angel or heavenly spi­tit.
  • Intelligent. One that un­derstandeth.
  • Intelligible. Which may be understood.
  • Intentive. Which liste­neth well, and is earnestly bent to a thing.
  • Interceede. To step be­tween, to intreat for one.
  • Intercept. To take by the way before it come to him to whom it was sent.
  • Interception. A taking of a thing by the way, to the let or hinderance ther­of.
  • Intercesse. See Interceed.
  • Intercession. An intreating in ones behalfe.
  • Intercessor. He that intrea­teth for another.
  • Intercourse. Passing or sending one to another.
  • Interdict. To forbid: to barre or keepe away.
  • Interdiction. A forbidding.
  • Interest. Right, or title: sometime profit made by usurie.
  • Interfeere. To knock the legs together in going.
  • Interim. In the meane while.
  • Interior. Inward.
  • Interlace. To joyn with­all, to mixe together.
  • Interline. To write be­tween two written lines.
  • Interlocution. A speaking betweene.
  • Interlude. A Play, a Co­medie.
  • Intermission, A leaving off for a time.
  • Intermit. To leave off for a time, to discontinue.
  • Intermixe. To mingle with other things.
  • Internall. Inward: ve­ry [Page]deerely esteemed, or fa­miliar with one.
  • Interpellation. An inter­rupting or troubling one while he speaketh.
  • Interpose. To put between to step in between two: to busie himselfe where he needeth not.
  • Interposition. A putting between.
  • Interre. To bury.
  • Interreigne. The space of time between the old king and the new.
  • Interrogation. An asking a question.
  • Interrogative. Which as­keth a question.
  • Interrogatorie. Asking of a question: a demaund.
  • Interrupt. To breake be­tween, to trouble one as he is speaking.
  • Interruption. A breaking off: a troubling.
  • Intervall. A distance of time or place.
  • Intestate. That dyeth without making any testa­ment or will.
  • Intestine. Bred in the bo­wels: Intestine warre: Ci­vill warre.
  • Intimate. To signifie, or touch a matter closely.
  • Intimation. A cunning tor close signifying of a mat [...]er
  • Intire. Whole, sound, perfect.
  • Intolerable. Which can­not be endured.
  • Intoxicate. To bewitch, to amaze, or extreamely dull ones spirit.
  • Intractable. Stubborne, which cannot be ordered or handled.
  • * Intresse. Lyning.
  • Intricate. Wrapped, entan­gled, hard to be under­stood.
  • Intrinsecall. Inward.
  • Introduct. To leade or guide in.
  • Introduction. That which leadeth or directeth one.
  • Intrude. To thrust boldly in.
  • Intrusion. A thrusting in, properly into a void tene­ment, whereto one hath no right.
  • Invade. To set upon: to assault.
  • Invaliditie. Weaknesse, want of strength.
  • Invasion. A setting upon: an assault.
  • Invective. A sharp speech [Page]made in ones disgrace.
  • Inveigh. To speak bitterly against one.
  • Inveigle. To allure, to entice.
  • Inveloped. Wrapped, co­vered.
  • Inventorie. A writing of the quallity and value of a mans goods.
  • Inversion. A turning in, or a turning upside downe.
  • Invert. To turne contra­rie to right forme.
  • Invest. To clothe.
  • Inveterate. Old, aunci­ent.
  • Invincible. Which cannot be conquered.
  • Inviolate. Safe, whole, not wronged or broken.
  • Invisible. Which cannot be seene.
  • Invite. To request, to bid to a feast.
  • Inundation. An overflow­ing of water.
  • Invocate. To call upon.
  • Invocation. A calling up­on.
  • Involve. To roule up in a thing: to cover.
  • Invulnerable. Which can­not be wounded.
  • Jo [...]und. Merrie, plea­sant.
  • Joynture. Lands or Te­nements which a man as­sureth unto his Wife, for terme of her life, or other­wise, in respect of his mar­rying her.
  • * Joleyning Joyfull.
  • * Jonglerie. Jugling.
  • Joviall. Noble excellent, also lively, pleasant, and merrie.
  • Joyeux. Joyfull.
  • Irascible. Which hath power to be angry.
  • Iris The rainebow.
  • Ironie. A speaking by contraries, as in calling blake, white.
  • Ironicall. That which is spoken in jest or mock­ingly, contrary to his meaning that speaketh it.
  • Irradiation. A shining upon.
  • Irrationall. Vnmeasura­ble.
  • Irrefragable. Vndenia­ble.
  • Irregular. Contrarie to rule: somtime it signifieth one not capable of holy orders.
  • Irregularitie. A going out [Page]of right rule. In the old Canon Law it is taken for any impediment, which hindereth a man from ta­king holy Orders. As if he be base borne, or noto­riously defamed of any notable crime, or be may­med or much deformed, or have consented to procure anothers death, with di­vers other impediments too long to be reheatsed in this place.
  • Irremediable. Which can­not be remedied.
  • Irreparable. Which can­not be repaired.
  • Irreprehensible. Which cannot be reproved.
  • Irresolute. Not fully re­solved: uncertaine.
  • Irrevocable. Which can­not be called backe a­gaine.
  • Irrision. A mocking.
  • Irritate. To provoke: to move to anger.
  • Irritation. A provoking.
  • Irruption. A breaking into.
  • Isthmos. A narrow part of a Country between two seas.
  • Iterate. To repeate or do againe.
  • Iteration. A doing again, a doing twice.
  • * Jub. A bottle.
  • Jubilation. A great shout for joy, a great rejoycing.
  • Jubilie. A publike rejoy­cing or a great shout for joy. Among the Hebrewes every fiftieth year, was cal­led the yeare of Jubilie; for then were bond-men of there owne Country made free, possessions returned againe to the first owners, neither was it lawfull to plant or sow any thing that yeare. Among Chri­stians this solemnitie of keeping a yeere of Jubilie, was first instituted by Bo­nifacius the eight, in the yeare of our Lord 1300. who ordained that it should be observed every hundreth yeare. After this Clement the sixt, instituted it to be kept every fiftieth yeare. And lastly, Sixtus the fourth brought it to be celebrated every five and twentieth yeare, be­ginning it first in the yeare of our Lord God, 1475.
  • [Page]Jucunditie. Pleasantnes, mirth.
  • Judaisme. The religion or beliefe of the Jewes.
  • Judiciall. Belonging to judgment: also wise grave, of great judgement.
  • Judicious. See Judiciall.
  • Iujubes. Certain plumbs of Italy, sold here by A­pothecaries. This fruit is in colour white or red, in fashion round or like an olive, in tast sweet, having a hard long stone like an olive stone, but much lesse. If these plumbes be kept long, they waxe drie, and full of wrinckles. They are temperate in heate and cold, and are good against the cough, roughnesse of the throat, and against all exulcerations and inflam­mations of the kidnies and bladder: but being eaten for meate, they are of hard digestion.
  • Iulip. A physicall cleere drinke made of distilled waters and sugar, used to coole the bodie, or quench thirst in hot diseases: some­times the Iuleps have sirups or other mixtures put to them.
  • Iuncture. A joynt, a joy­ning together.
  • Ivorie. The Elephants tooth; it is of a binding nature, and the scraping thereof is good against sores, growing under the rootes of the nayles.
  • Iuridicall. Of or apper­taining to judgement.
  • Iurisdiction. Lawfull au­thority in any place.
  • Iustification. A justify­ing or making just
  • * Iwympled. Muffled.
K
  • Kalends. See Calends.
  • Keele. The bottome of a ship.
  • Keene. Sharpe edged.
  • Kell. The caule about the paunch of a Hart or Stagge.
  • * Kemelling. A brewers vessell.
  • * Kepe. It is sometimes taken for care or regard.
  • * Keynard. A micher, a hedge-creeper.
  • * Kitchell. A kinde of cake.
  • Kintall. A certaine [Page]weight of about an hun­dred.
  • Kirat. An Arabian word signifying the weight of three graine.
  • Kith. Acquaintance.
  • Kitkaies. The fruite of the ashen tree: they are little narrow huskes han­ging together in clusters, wherein is contained the seed of the ashe which is bitter. This provoketh u­rine, and is sought by some for other purpose.
  • * Knarrie. Stubbie.
  • Knight-service. An aun­cient tenure of lands, by which a man was bound to beare armes in warre, for the defence of the Realme.
L
  • LAas. A nette or gynne.
  • Laborious. Painfull, full of labour.
  • Labyrinth. An intricate building or place made with so many turnings and windings, that whosoever went into it, could never get out without a perfect guide or a threed to direct him, the end of which threed must be tyed at the doore where he entreth. Some heathen Princes bestowed infinite charge, to build such devices in a stately forme. There were foure principall labyrinths in the world. The first in Egypt, made for a sepul­cher of one of their Kings, or (as some write) in ho­nour of the sunne. The se­cond in the Iland of Can­die, built at the comman­dement of King Minos, by the ingenious workeman Daedalus, who tooke his patterne, from that which he had seene in Egypt, the third in the Ile Lemnos, the fourth in Italy built by King Porsenna, of great square stones, for his owne sepulcher.
  • Lacca. A kinde of red gumme, brought out of Arabia, and sold here by Apothecaries, good a­gainst diseases of the breast, and comfortable to the Liver.
  • Laudanum. A yellowish gumme, as some write; [Page]notwithstanding others af­firm it to be made of a dew which falleth upon a cer­taine herbe in Greece. A­vicen sayth, it is taken han­ging on the haire of Goats beards, that have fed upon that plant. It is hot and drie, and sweet of smell, if it be pure. It is often used in pomanders, and being annointed upon the head with oyle of myrtles, it doth strengthen the skin, and keepeth haire from falling off.
  • Laike. A lay man.
  • Laitie. The estate or de­gree of a lay man, lay men.
  • Lake. A faire red colour used by painters.
  • Laire. The place where any Deere harboureth by day.
  • Languishment. A feeble­nesse, a fainting.
  • Languor. Feeblenesse, sicknesse, infirmitie.
  • Lapidarie. One that sel­leth or polisheth precious stones: a Jeweller.
  • Lappise. A terme used among hunters, when hounds opē their mouthes in the string, or a grey­hound in his course.
  • Larch Turpentine. A kind of Turpentine or rosen growing upon the Larch tree in Italie, used often in oyntments and emplai­sters, to cleanse or heale wounds. It may be also ta­ken inwardly with honey, and then it cleanseth the breast, looseth the belly, and expelleth the stone and gravell.
  • * Larfon. Robberie.
  • Largesse. Liberality.
  • Lascivious. Wanton, di­shonest.
  • Lasciviousnesse. Wanton­nesse.
  • Lassitude. Wearinesse.
  • Lastage. Any heavy weight or balasse, layd in the bottome of ships to make them goe upright: It is also a terme in the com­mon law, which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and mar­kets, for carrying of things where a man will.
  • Latitude. The breadth of any thing: in Astrono­my it signifieth the di­stance, north, or southward from the Equinoctiall line [Page]or the distance of the Pole from the Horizon.
  • Latria. Divine honour.
  • Laude. Praise.
  • Laudable. Worthy of praise.
  • Laureate. Crowned with Laurell.
  • Laurell. The Bay tree, or a garland of Bayes.
  • * Laye. A Song.
  • * Layvers. Thongs of lether.
  • Lazer. A Leaper, a poore man full of sores and scabs.
  • Lazule stone. A blewish greene stone of the kind of marble, used sometime in physick. It is in operati­on hot and dry, and being rightly prepared (accor­ding to an art known to Apothecaries) is good a­gainst melācholy diseases, and by cleansing the bloud to preserve one from the leprosie.
  • League. Truce, friend­ship, peace: sometimes it signifieth a space of three mile or thereabout.
  • Leasing. Lying.
  • Lector. A reader.
  • * Lectorne. A Deske.
  • Lecture. A reading, a les­son.
  • * Leede. An old name of the moneth of March.
  • Leete. A court or law-day holden commonly every halfe yeare.
  • Legatie. Any thing gi­ven by ones will or testa­ment.
  • Legall. Of or belonging to the law.
  • Legate. An Embassadour▪
  • Legend. A story of old matters.
  • Legible. Which may be read.
  • Legion. An army of men. The Romane Legion. con­sisted of ten bands, wherof the first band contained 1105. footmen, and 123. horsemen; in which band the Standard was alwayes carried. The other nine bands had every one 555. footmen, and 66. horse­men; so that a Legion made up the number of 6100. footmen, and 726. horse­men.
  • * Legisters. Lawyers.
  • Legitimate. Lawfull, law­fully begotten.
  • Legitimation. A making [Page]of one legitimate.
  • Lenity. Gentlenes, mild­nes, mercy.
  • Lentils. A kind of small pulse growing in hot coun­tries, round and flat, of co­lour sometimes blacke, somtimes white, and some­times browne. Being boy­led but once, they loose the belly, but at the second boyling in another water, they are of a binding na­ture, being then good to stop the bloody flixe or any loosenes of the body.
  • Lentiske. A tree growing in divers hot Countries, which beareth the notable Gumme called Masticke: The leaves and barke of this tree stop all loosenes, and issues of blood what­soever.
  • Lessee. He that taketh a Lease.
  • Lesses. Doung of a rave­nous beast, as of a Beare Bore, &c.
  • Lessour. He that letteth lands or tenements to an­other.
  • Lethargy. A disease con­trary to phrensie; for as phrensie is caused by hot humours inflaming the braine; so is a Lethargy by cold flegmaticke hu­mours, oppressing the braine in such sort, that the Patient can doe no­thing but sleep, whereby he becommeth forgetfull, with losse (in a manner) of reason and all the senses of his body.
  • Lethe. A poeticall word, signifying a feined River in hell, the water whereof being drunken, causeth forgetfulnes of all that is past.
  • Leucoma. A fruit in In­dia so called, much like unto a Chestnut.
  • Leveret. A young Hare.
  • * Levesell. A bush.
  • Levity. Lightnes.
  • Lexicon. A Greek Dicti­onary for words.
  • Liable. Subject to, belon­ging to.
  • * Liard. Nimble, wilde.
  • Libard. A spotted wilde beast, the male of a Pan­ther: See Panther.
  • Libell. A little Booke: sometime a defamatorie scroll, or slanderous wri­ting [Page]or invective written against one, without any knowne name of the Au­thor.
  • Libertine. One of loose life, or carelesse of Religi­on.
  • Libidinous. Lustfull, lea­cherous.
  • Licenciate. One that hath studied the Civill Law five yeares.
  • Licentious. Loose, wan­ton.
  • Licentiousnesse. Too much liberty, loosenes, wanton­nes.
  • Lieu. In stead or place of another thing.
  • Lignum Aloes. See A­loes.
  • Lignum vitae. See Guaia­cum.
  • Limit. A bound or end. Also to set bounds.
  • Limitation. An appoint­ing of bounds.
  • Lineall. Down-right like a line.
  • Lineament. The forme, draught, or proportion of the body.
  • Linguist. One skilfull in languages.
  • Lipothymie. A fainting or swounding, when the vital spirits being suddenly op­prest, a man sinketh down, as if he were dead.
  • Liquid. Thin and moist.
  • Liquefaction. A mel­ting.
  • Liquefie. To melt.
  • Liquid Amber. A sweet Rosin brought from the West-Indies, comfortable to the braine, or any griefe proceeding from cold cau­ses.
  • Lizard. A little beast much like our Evet, but without poison, breeding in Italy & other hot coun­tries. The dung of this beast is good to take away spots in the eye, & cleereth the sight. And the head thereof being bruised and laid to, draweth out thorns, or any thing sticking with­in the flesh.
  • Litanies. Prayers or sup­plications, so called of the Greeke verbe Litanevo, which signifieth to beseech or intreat.
  • Litargie. The some that riseth from lead, when it is tried. It is cold of opera­tion, and often used by [Page]Surgeons in Ointments and Plaisters, being of a gentle drying, cleansing, and binding nature. See Lethargie.
  • Literature. Learning: knowledge in books.
  • Litherly. Slothfull.
  • Litigious. Contentious, full of strife.
  • Liturgie. Publike service of the Church.
  • Locall. Of, or belonging to place.
  • Locust. A great Flye or Grashopper with long legs, breeding in India, and other hot Countries. There are two kindes of them: One with wings, not good to be eaten, and the other without wings, which the inhabitants use for food.
  • * Lodemanage. Skill of navigation.
  • Lodestar. A Starre that guideth one.
  • Lodestone. A stone of the colour of rusty iron, which hath an admirable vertue, not only to draw iron to it selfe, but also to make any iron, upon which it is rubbed, to draw iron also. It is written notwithstan­ding, that being rubbed with the juice of Gar­licke, it cannot then draw Iron, as likewise if a Dia­mond be laid close unto it. This stone is found in the Indian Sea, and also in the Countrey of Tra­chonitis: It is of greatest use in Navigation, for by it Sailers find out the certaine course of their voyage; the needle (in their compasse) tempered herewith, still standing di­rectly toward the North and South.
  • Logician. One skilfull in Logicke.
  • Logicke. The art of rea­son.
  • Lohoc. A physicall word; It is a thicke sirupe or o­ther soft substance, which must not be swallowed, but suffered to melt of ie selfe in the mouth, that so it may gently slide downe, and thereby have the more vertue against diseases of the brest, lungs, and throat.
  • Lone. Lending: sometime single or solitary.
  • [Page]Longanimity. Long suf­ferance or forbearance.
  • Longitude. The length of any thing: In Astrono­my it signifieth the di­stance of any Star or Pla­net from the first degree of the signe Aries.
  • Loquacitie. Much talke, or babling.
  • * Lore. Learning, know­ledge.
  • Lorimer. One that ma­keth bits for bridles, and such like instruments.
  • * Lorrell. A devourer.
  • * Losell. A lout, some­time a crafty fellow.
  • Losenger. A flatterer, a lyar.
  • Lotion. A washing.
  • * Louke. A fellow recei­ver.
  • Lubricity. Slippernesse.
  • Lucerns. A beast almost as big as a Wolfe breeding in Muscovia, and Russia, of colour between red and brown, mingled with black spots.
  • Lucre. Gain, profit.
  • Lunacy. A disease where­in one is distracted in his wits, at certaine times of the Moon.
  • Lunaticke. Sicke of a Lu­nacie.
  • Lupines. A little flat Pulse almost like a small Beane, but much lesse and bitter in taste. They be not very good meat, but are sometime used in Physicke against worms in children, and the decoction of them taketh away spots and frec­kles of the face.
  • * Lushbrough. A base coin in the time of King Ed­ward the third.
  • Luster. A shining or great brightnesse.
  • Lutum. Clay.
  • Luxury. Roiotousnes, leachery.
  • Luxurious. Riotous, wan­ton, lecherous.
  • Lyncuris. A bright shining stone, and sometimes of a dark yellow color like Saf­fron. This stone groweth of the urine of the beast Lynx, being congealed, which urine the Lynx hi­deth (as Pliny writeth) be­cause men should not find it. Some say it is good a­gainst the paine of the sto­mack, yellow Iaundise, and loosenesse of the belly.
  • [Page]Lynx. A spotted beast like unto a Wolfe, and having a very perfect sight. This beast breedeth chiefly in Countries of the East, & is often found in the woods of Almaine & Sclavonia.
  • Lyrike. A Poet which ma­keth verses to be sung unto the harp. The best of these Poets among the Grecians was Pindarus, and among the Latines, Horace.
M
  • MAcerate. To steep or soake in water; some­time to afflict or vexe. To make leane.
  • Machil. An Hebrew word; It signifieth the rich Robe of the Ephod, worn by the high Priest of the old law, having about the skirts therof 72. Pomegranats of blew silk, purple & skarlet and as many bells of gold between thē round about.
  • Machination. A devising or subtle contriving of a matter.
  • Machivilian. A politicke states-man: a cunning Po­lititian, such as Machivell was.
  • Macrology. Long and te­dious talk, without matter.
  • Maculate. To blemish or blot.
  • Madrigals. A kinde of Sonnets.
  • Magician. A cunning man: a Sorcerer, a great learned Clerk, a Conjurer.
  • Magike. At first this word signified great learning or knowledge in the nature of things; now it is most commonly taken for in­chantment and sorcery.
  • Magistracy. The bearing of office: authority, rule, government.
  • Magnanimity. Great cou­rage.
  • Magnanimous. Noble­minded: one of great cou­rage.
  • Magnificence. Sumptuous­nesse: great port and state­linesse.
  • Magnificent. Sumptuous: honorable, stately.
  • Magnifico. An honorable personage.
  • Magnitude. Greatnes.
  • Mainpernours. Those that are sureties for a man, and undertake that he shall ap­peare at a certaine day, be­fore Judges in a Court.
  • [Page]Maineprise. The bayling of a man out of prison, upon security given, that he shall be forth-com­ming.
  • Major. The greater or more ancient.
  • Malady. A disease.
  • Malecontent. Not conten­ted: ill pleased.
  • Malediction. A cursing.
  • Malefactor. An evill-doer.
  • Malevolent. Ill minded: spitefull, envious.
  • Malignant. Envious, spite­full, mischievous.
  • Maligne. Spitefull: or to spite and hate.
  • Malignity. Spitefulnesse: envy, malice.
  • Mammon. An Assyrian word of the singular num­ber, and Masculine Gen­der, as Saint Hierome affir­meth: It is interpreted riches.
  • Manage. To rule, order, or handle a thing well.
  • Mandate. A commande­ment.
  • Mandragoras. See Man­drake following.
  • Mandrake. A strange hearbe, bearing yellow round Apples. The root of this herbe is great and white like a Radish root, and is divided into two or moe parts, growing often almost like to the legs of a man. This root, espe­cially the barke thereof, is extreamely cold and dry, even to the fourth degree: It is therefore very dangerous to receive inwardly, for that the least quantity too much, will quickly kill one. Surge­ons use to steep this root in Wine, and give it to be drunken of such as they must cut, sawe, or burne in any part, for the cold operation thereof causeth sleep, and maketh the body insensible for a time.
  • Manna. In holy Scrip­ture it signifieth a delicate food, which God sent from heaven to the Israe­lites, in manner of a dew, white and somewhat like Coriander seed: with which the Israelites lived forty yeares in the Wil­dernesse, till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. At the first [Page]sending hereof, the people were in such admiration, that they said to each other Manbu? viz. What is this? Which seemeth to be the cause, why it was after called Manna. In Physicke it is taken for a kind of dew, which fal­ling in hot Countries upon trees, doth there congeale, almost like to crums of white bread, and is gathered and choicely kept, as a gentle purger of choler.
  • Mansion. A tarying or abiding: also a dwelling house.
  • Mansuetude. Gentlenes: mildenesse.
  • Manuall. Handy: or that which may be carryed in the hand.
  • Manumission. A making one free from bondage.
  • Manumitte. To make a slave or bondman free, which was in old time thus. The lord of the slave holding him by the head, arme, or other part, said before witnesse, I will that this man goe free, and in so saying, shoved him forward out of his hand.
  • Manure. To till, to dresse land.
  • Manuscript. A hand wri­ting: a written booke.
  • Marchasite. A stone par­ticipating with the nature of some mettall, yet in so small quantity, that the mettall cannot be melted from it, but will vapour away in smoake, the stone turning to ashes. These Marchasites are common­ly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them; whether it be gold, silver, brasse, or any other. Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which, fire may be stric­ken.
  • Marches. The bounds, or limits lying betweene two countries, commonly between Wales & Englād, or between England and Scotland.
  • Marchionesse. A great Lady: a Wife to a Mar­quesse.
  • Marcionists. Old con­demned Heretikes, so cal­led of their first Master Marcion, a stoicke Philoso­pher, [Page]pher, who held a detesta­ble opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God.
  • Margarites. Little pearles found in the shell-fish, es­pecially in Orsters, where­of some have holes in them, and some have none. The best are brought out of India, yet they are also found in our English Seas, as also in the Fle­mish and Almaine, and the fairest Margarits grow in young shels. Some write that in thunder, the Oi­sters doe cast them up, as it were in way of aborti­on, which is the cause that they are often found in the sands. They are some­times used by Physitiās in cordiall confections, for they comfort the spirits, and are therefore good a­gainst swoundings, having vertue also in them to stop issues of blood, or any loosenes of the bo­dy.
  • Margent. A brimme, or border.
  • Marginall. Written in the Margent▪
  • Marine. Belonging to the Sea.
  • Maritall. Husbandlike.
  • Maritime. Bordering neer the Sea.
  • Marte. A great faire or Market.
  • Martiall. Warlike.
  • Martyr. A witnesse: one that dyeth for the testimo­ny of agood conscience.
  • Martyrdome. A suffering of death or grievous tor­ment for constant perse­verance in true Religi­on.
  • Martyrology. A history of the death of Martyrs. A booke of the memorie of Martyrs.
  • Massacre. A great slaugh­ter or murder of many people together.
  • Masculine. Of the male kind.
  • Masticke. A white and cleere Gumme, of a sweet savour. This Gum grow­eth on the Lentiske tree, especially in the Island Chios. It is temperate in heat, and of a dry binding nature; wherfore it streng­theneth the stomacke, stayeth vomiting, and [Page]stoppeth any issue of blood. Some doe use to rub their teeth herewith, as well to whiten them, as to fasten such as be loose.
  • Mastuerco. An herbe in India, of great vertue to heale wounds.
  • Materiall. Which hath matter or substance in it.
  • Maternall. Motherly.
  • Mathematician. One skilfull in the Mathema­ticks: sometime it is ta­ken in a worse sense, for one that superstitiously ca­steth mens nativities, or undertaketh to find things lost, or foretell what is to come.
  • Mathematicks. A terme applyed to such arts, as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies. The arts common­ly so called, are Arithme­tick, Musick, Geometry, Geography, Astronomie, Cosmography, and Astro­logy.
  • Matrimoniall. Belong­ing to Matrimony or Wedlocke.
  • Matrixe. The wombe or place of conception.
  • Matrone. A grave mo­therly woman.
  • Mature. Ripe.
  • Maturitie. Ripenesse.
  • Matutine. Of or belong­ing to the morning.
  • Maugre. In despite of ones heart: whether one will or no.
  • Maxime. A principall matter, a main point, a ge­nerall rule.
  • Maze. An astonish­ment: sometime a device like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot, out of which a man cannot get easily, if he once enter in.
  • Mazar. A broad flat standing cup to drinke in: There is also a kinde of small Cherries so cal­led.
  • Mecoenas. It was the pro­per name of a noble Ro­mane, who being in great favour with Augustus the Emperour, was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horacc, and generally a supporter of all learned men: wherefore sometime [Page]a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas.
  • Mechanichall. Of or be­longing to handicrafts.
  • Mechoacan. A whitish root brought out of In­dia, called by some Indian or white Rubarbe. It is hot in the first, and dry in the second degree, and purgeth all humours of what kinde soever with much ease. It cleanseth and comforteth the liver and all the inward parts.
  • * Mediate. To deale be­tweene two, to make means of agreement, as an indifferent partie to both.
  • Mediation. A means of agreement by a friend to both parties.
  • Mediator. He that ma­keth meanes or speaketh for another.
  • Medicable. Which may be healed.
  • Medicament. A medicine.
  • Mediocritie. A meane, a measure.
  • Mediterrannean Sea. A sea which divideth Europe from Africa.
  • Megasine. A storehouse for warre.
  • Melancholy. One of the foure humours of the bo­dy, the grossest of all o­ther, which if it abound too much, causeth heavinesse and sadnesse of minde.
  • Melioritie. A bettering.
  • Mellifluous. Sweet as ho­ney.
  • Membrane. The upmost thin skin in any part of the body.
  • Memorable. That which is worthy of remem­brance.
  • Memorandum. A terme often used, when we write of a thing which we would remember.
  • Memorial. That wch put­teth one in remembrance.
  • Mendicitie. Beggery.
  • Meninges. Thin skins in which the braine is contained. There are two such skins: one called by Physitians, Dura mater, which is the stronger of the two, and next unto the scull. The other named Pia mater, is within this first, being more tender and fine, and close wrapping the braine it selfe. If any of these skinnes bee [Page]wounded, it causeth spee­dy death.
  • Menstruous. Which hath upon her the monethly courses, or which belong­eth to them.
  • Mensuration. A measu­ring.
  • Mentall. That which is only thought in the mind
  • Mercenarie. A hireling: one that worketh for hire.
  • Mercurian. Eloquent as Mercury was.
  • Meridian. Of or belong­ing to noone day, or the South part of the world.
  • Merit. Desert, or to de­serve.
  • Meritorious. Which doth much deserve.
  • Messias. The same in Hebrew, that Christ is in Greek: to wit, Anoint­ed. Our Lord and Savi­our is often so called.
  • Metamorphise. To change the outward shape.
  • Metamorphosis. A change from one shape to another
  • Metaphore. The chang­ing of a word, from the naturall sense, into ano­ther sense like to it: as in saying, Covetousnesse is the roote of all evill: Where the word Root, is called a Metaphore, because it sig­nifieth, the cause and be­ginning of all evill, even as a root is the cause, from whence a Plant spring­eth.
  • Metaphoricall. Spoken by a Metaphore.
  • Metaphysicks. Arts which lifting themselves above the changeable nature of things, doe consider of such as do subsist in their own essence, not subject to any alteration! so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall, and everlasting things; and in this sense Schoole Divinitie is the highest part of the Metaphysicks, being chiefly occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God, angels, and souls of men.
  • Meteore. Any imper­fect mixt substance ingen­dred in the aire; as raine, snow, haile, thunder, lightning, blazing starres, cloudes, and winde: all which are made of va­pours [Page]pours or exhalations drawn up from the earth and Sea, by attractive ver­tue of the Sun.
  • Meter. Measure, or a verse made by measure.
  • Method. A direct way, to teach or do any thing.
  • Metonymie. A figure in speaking, when the cause is put for the effect, the sub­ject for the adjunct, or con­trarily.
  • Metropelitan. The chiefe or mother citie: An Arch­bishop.
  • Microcosmus. It proper­ly signifieth a little world. This terme is sometime applyed to man, who is therefore called a Micro­cosmus or little world, be­cause his body being com­pared to the baser part of the world, and his soule to the blessed Angels, seem­eth to signifie, that man is as it were a little world, and that the whole world doth resemble a great man.
  • Midriffe. A sinewie skin passing overthwart in mans body, which divi­deth the heart and lungs, from the stomacke, guts, and liver, lest the vitall parts should be offended with any ill vapour com­ing from them.
  • Migrame. A disease com­ing by fits, either in the right or left side of the head; caused by distempe­rate rumours or vapours, brought thither from the veines or arteries at cer­tain times.
  • Militant. Warring or which is in warfare.
  • Militarie. Warlike: or belonging to Warre.
  • Mimicall. That which belongeth to scoffing be­haviour, or wanton ge­sture.
  • Mimicke. A wanton je­ster, a counterfeit foole.
  • Minatorie. Threatning.
  • Minerall. Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth.
  • Miniature. A small pro­portion: a little figure.
  • Miniver. A fine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrils: some say it is the skin of a little white Vermine, breeding in Muscovia.
  • [Page]Minor. The lesser, the younger.
  • Minoritie. A mans time before he be of full age in the law, to dispose of his goods and lands.
  • Minotaure. A poeticall monster, halfe like a man, halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candie, and fed with mans flesh, where at last he was slaine by Theseus, as Poets report.
  • Miscreant. An infidell, a false beleever.
  • Misprision. An offence inclinable to fellonie or treason, but not so capital, as fellonie or treason is; in which the offendour shall be punished by fine, losse of goods, forfeit of lands, during his life, or perpetuall imprisonment, according to the quality of his offence.
  • Mission. A sending.
  • Missive. That which wit­nesseth ones being sent.
  • Mistleden. A plant which hath slender branches, and greene thick leaves, grow­ing never upon the ground but upon other trees. The best is that which groweth upon an oake, and the leaves and fruit thereof are good to soften and ripen any cold hard swellings.
  • Misy. A kinde of yellow copperas, shining like gold, brought out of Egypt and the Ile of Cyprus: It is of a fretting burning nature, as the common Copperas is.
  • Mithridate. A great con­fection like treacle, inven­ted by King Mithridates, from whom it taketh the name. It is of singular ver­tue against poyson, and hath so many and strong simples in it, that it ought not to be taken inwardly before it be above sixe moneths old.
  • Mitigate. To asswage or pacifie.
  • Mitigation. A pacifying, an asswaging.
  • Mittimus. A warrant made to convey an offen­der to prison.
  • Mixture. A mingling.
  • Mobilitie. Aptnesse to move.
  • Moderate. Measurable, temperate, also to governe [Page]or temper with discretion.
  • Moderation. A due pro­portion, temperance, good discretion.
  • Moderator. A discreet go­vernour, he that keepeth both parties from being too extreame.
  • Moderne. Living now in our age.
  • Modicum. A little, a poore pittance.
  • Modulation. A pleasant tuning or sweet singing.
  • Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees.
  • Moitie. Half.
  • Moleboute. A great fish which maketh a grunting noyse when he is taken.
  • Molestation. A troubling.
  • Mollifie. To make soft.
  • Mollification. A making soft.
  • Moloch. The name of an Idol, in the vally of Ennon, in the tribe of Benjamin, to which the Israelites did abhominably offer their children, in sacrifice of fire. This Idoll was made in the likenesse of a Calfe.
  • Moment. A minute, or very little time, sometime the valew or weight of a thing.
  • Momentanie. Of short continuance, which lasteth a very little while.
  • Monarch. A King or Prince that ruleth alone, without any equall.
  • Monarchie. The rule of one Prince alone, or a countrey so governed.
  • Monasterie. A religious house of Monks.
  • Monasticall. Solitary, be­longing to a Monastery.
  • Monition. A warning.
  • Monologie. A speaking still of one thing, a long tale of one matter.
  • Monomachie. A single fight betweene two, hand to hand.
  • Monopolie. When a man doth ingrosse or get com­modities into his hands, in such fashion that none can sell them, or gain by them but himself.
  • Moote. To argue or rea­son a case in law.
  • Morall. Of or belonging to good manners: some time one of good behavi­our: sometimes the mean­ing of a fable.
  • Moralitie. Goodnesse of [Page]manners, civilitie.
  • Morgage. To lay house or land to pawne, in such sort that they are forfeit, if the money be not repayed at a certaine time.
  • Morositie. Frowardnesse, waywardnesse.
  • Morpheus. Sleep, or the God of sleep.
  • Mortifie. To kill: some­time to tame, to breake the courage, or take away ones delight.
  • Mortification. A killing, a pulling away of ones pleasure.
  • Mortmaine. A terme in the Law, when lands were given to a house of religi­on, or to a company cor­porate by the Kings grant; for then such land is said to come into Mortmaine, that is, a dead hand, and by a statute, the King or Lord of whom it is holden may enter into it.
  • Mortuarie. A payment due in some places for the buriall of the dead: which is foure shillings and foure pence, where the goods of the deceased partie are a­bove the valew of twentie nobles, and under thirtie pounds: sixe shillings and eight pence, where the goods exceed thirtie pounds; and ten shillings where the goods amount above the valew of three­score pounds.
  • Mosaicall. A cunning kinde of painting, which seemeth to be embossed and graven in some places.
  • Mother. A disease in wo­men, when the wombe ri­seth with pain upward. In this disease the smelling to all sweet savours is harm­full, as contrarily the smel­ling to all strong loath­some savours, profitable.
  • Motion. A moving from place to place, or the mo­ving of a matter to have it considered of.
  • Motive. A cause moving one to any thing.
  • Motte. A word, or short sentence.
  • Mountibancke. A base deceitfull merchant (espe­cially of Apothecaries drugs) that with impudent lying doth for the most part sell counterfeit stuffe to the common people.
  • [Page]Mugwet. See Gather­bag.
  • Mulct. A fine or penal­tie layd on one.
  • Mullet. A kinde of dain­tie fish: it is also a terme in heraldrie, which signifieth a spot descending from high, and devided into five corners or ends out of one drop.
  • Mummia. A thing like pitch, sold by Apotheca­ries. Some affirme it is ta­ken out of old Tombes, being a corrupted humour that droppeth there from embalmed bodies: others say it is made of mans flesh boyled in pitch. It is hot in the second degree, and good against all bruisings, spetting of bloud, and di­vers other diseases.
  • Mundane. Worldly.
  • Mundifie. To make cleane.
  • Mundification. A making cleane.
  • Municipall. Of or be­longing to the state of a Free-man or Burgesse of a Citie.
  • Munificence. Liberalitie.
  • Munificent. Liberall, bountifull.
  • Munition. Great Ord­nance for the warre, great shot.
  • Muscle. In physicke it signifieth a knitting toge­ther of flesh with veines, arteries and sinewes, ser­ving specially for the mo­tion of some part of the body, by reason of sinewes in it.
  • Muses. The feined god­desses of poetry, and mu­sicke, which were nine in number and daughters un­to Iupiter and Mnemosyne: Their names were Cleio, Melpomene, Thaleia, Euterpe, Terpsichore, Erato, Galliope, Vrania and Polymneia.
  • Muske. It is brought out of India and other hote countries, taken there from a beast like a Roe, saving that it hath two crooked teeth bending inward like two hornes; within which beast the muske groweth, contained in a little bag or bladder. It is comfortable to the heart and braine, by reason of the sweet smell thereof; being hote and dry in operation: and it [Page]conveyeth the vertues of diverse medicines, to those the two principall parts.
  • Mutation. A change.
  • Mute. Dumbe.
  • Muteble. Changea­ble.
  • Mutability. Changeable­nesse.
  • Mutiny. An uprore: a troublesome assembly of people together.
  • Mutinous. Apt to breed quarrels, or discord a­mong the people.
  • Mutuall. That which passeth one from ano­ther.
  • Mutulate. To maime, cut off, or make lame.
  • Muzrole. A ring or band of yron, to come over a horses nose.
  • Myrobolanes. A fruit growing in Egypt and Sy­ria, like Plummes, or Damsens. There are five kinds hereof, distingui­shed by these names, Citrinae, Indae, Cepulae, Emblicae, and Belliricae. They are cold in ope­ration, and comfortable to nature; The first of these purgeth choler, the second melancho­lie, and the three last fleame.
  • Myrrhe. A Gumme brought out of Arabia, and Assyria, of colour between white and red, It is hot and dry in the second degree, or as some write in the third, and is often used in Phy­sicke, being of an ope­ning, cleansing, and dis­solving nature. Poets feine that Myrrhe, first came by reason of a kings daughter, named Myrrha, who for a grievous crime committed, was by the Gods turned into a lit­tle Tree, out of the bran­ches whereof this Gumme still droppeth in man­ner of teares, as a token of her repentant sor­row.
  • Myrtle. A little low Tree growing in some hot countreyes, having small darke leaves, and bearing berries, which are of a binding nature, good to stop any issue of blood. This myrtle is a [Page]tender plant, not able to endure cold, and was wont to be worne of the Ro­mane captaines garland-wise in triumph, when they had obtained any victory, without slaugh­ter of men: Poets con­secrated this Tree to Ve­nus.
  • Myster. Vnknowne: strange.
  • Mysticall. Darke, which hath a mystery in it.
  • Mysterious. Darke; spo­ken in a mystery, hard to understand,
N.
  • NAdir. That point in the heavens which is direct under our feet.
  • Naiades. The water Nimphes.
  • Naperie. Linnen for the Table.
  • Narcoticall. That which hath power to provoke sleep, or to make the body insensible.
  • * Narre. Neerer.
  • Narration. A declaration of the matter whereof one purposeth to speake. A port, a discourse.
  • Native. Naturall: The place where one was borne.
  • Naturalize. To make naturall.
  • Nave. The middle part of a wheele.
  • Navigable. Any water where ships may saile.
  • Navigation. A failing by Sea.
  • Navigator. A Sayler: a Mariner.
  • Nazarite. In Hebrew it signifieth a man separa­ted or divided. The Jewes so called those that had vowed themselves for some time to God: And these Nazarites, while their vow lasted, were to abstaine from wine and Grapes, either greene or dry, and generally from all whatsoever came from the vine tree, or might make a man drunke. They also cut not their haire, but suffe­red it still to grow, and ob­served divers other cere­monies. The date of their vow being expired, they presented themselves to [Page]the Priest, who offered a sacrifice for them; and then was the Nazarites haire cut, and burnt with the sacrifice. After which time it was lawfull, for the Nazarites to drinke wine as before.
  • Necromancy. See Divina­tion.
  • Nectar. Poets faine it to be a delicate pleasant li­quor, which the gods used to drinke.
  • Nefarious. Very wic­ked.
  • Negation. A denying.
  • Negative. A denyall, or that which denyeth.
  • Negotiate. To traffike in merchandise: to follow much businesse.
  • Negotiation. A buying and selling: a trafficke of merchandise.
  • Neophyte. Any thing lately planted or set: wherefore it is often taken for one, who is newly con­verted to the faith: a novice, or young lear­ner.
  • Nerve. A sinew.
  • Neuter. Neither on the one side, nor the other. An indifferent partie.
  • Neutralitie. A retch­lesse being▪ on neither side.
  • Nicotiane. The herbe Tobacco, so called of a French mans name who first brought the know­ledge of this herbe into France.
  • Niefe. In our common Law, it signifieth a bond­woman.
  • Niter. A substance like Salt, but sometime of a light red colour. It is hot and dry, of a strong fret­ting nature: some take it to be salt-peter.
  • Nobilitate. To make No­ble.
  • Nocent. Hurtfull.
  • Nocturne. Psalmes and Prayers used at certaine houres of the night.
  • Nocturnall. Belonging to the night.
  • Noli me tangere. A dis­ease by some so called. It is a peece of flesh growing in the nostrill, in such sort that it often stoppeth the winde.
  • Nombrill. In Heraldry it signifieth the lower part [Page]of a scuchion, which is di­vided by the bredth, into three even parts.
  • Nominate. To name, to appoint.
  • Nomination. A naming.
  • Nonage. A childes age, under 21. yeares old.
  • Nonresidency. Vnlawfull absence from the place of ones charge.
  • Nonresident. Absent from his charge, or where he ought to dwell.
  • Nones. In March, May, Iuly, and October, they are the sixe dayes, next following the first day: In other moneths, they are the foure dayes next after the first; but the last of these dayes is properly cal­led Nones, and the other reckoned backeward ac­cording to the number distant from the Nones; as the third, fourth, or fift Nones. They are called Nones, because they are just nine dayes before the Jdes.
  • Nonplus. No more, a rerme somtime used, when a man can speake no fur­ther, or make no answer to an objection.
  • Nonsuite. The letting of a suite fall.
  • N [...]rroy. One of the He­raulds, having the same authority beyond Trent Northward, that Clarentius hath from Trent South­ward.
  • Notice. Knowledge.
  • Notifie. To make knowne.
  • Novelty. Newes, a new matter.
  • Novice. A young lear­ner, one that hath no ex­perience.
  • Novity. Newnesse.
  • Nullifidi [...]n. Of no hone­stie, of no religion.
  • Nullitie. Nothing.
  • Numeration. A number­ing.
  • Nuncupation. A no­ming.
  • Nuptiall. Of or belon­ging to marriage.
  • Nutriment. Nourish­ment.
  • Nutritive. Which nouri­sheth.
  • Nymphe. A Virgine, a faire young Maide.
O
  • OBdurate. To harden, also hard, or unrelen­ting.
  • Obduration. A harde­ning.
  • Obelicke. A great square stone, broad beneath, and rising of an admirable height, smaller and smal­ler, toward the top. There were divers of these Obe­liskes in Egypt, conse­crated in honour of the Sunne: whereof foure were principally erected by King Sochis, of two hundred and forty yards high: In time of the Ro­mane Emperours, many Obeliskes were likewise set at Rome.
  • Object. That which is placed before ones eyes, or the thing that one la­boureth to attaine.
  • Objection. A laying to ones charge.
  • Objurgate. To chide, to reprove sharply.
  • Objurgation. A chi­ding
  • Oblation. A sacrifice, an offering.
  • Oblige. To binde
  • Oblique. Crooked: over­thwart.
  • Obliquitie. Crooked­nesse.
  • Obliterate. To blot out.
  • Oblivion. Forgetfulnesse.
  • Oblivious. Forgetfull.
  • Obloquie. Slander: evill report.
  • Obnoxious. Subject to danger.
  • Obscene. Filthy, abhomi­nable, dishonest.
  • Obscenitie. Filthy talke.
  • Obscure. Darke.
  • Obscuritie. Darknesse.
  • Obsecrate. To intreate: to beseech.
  • Obsecration. A besee­ching.
  • Obsequie. A Funerall: a solemne buriall.
  • Obsequious. Dutifull: diligent, serviceable.
  • Observance. Diligent heed, or attendance.
  • Observant. Dutifully watching, diligent.
  • Obsesse. To besiege: or compasse about: A man is said to be obsest, when an evill spirit followeth him, troubling him divers [Page]times and seeking oppor­tunitie to enter into him.
  • Obsolete. Old, stale, growne out of use.
  • Obstacle. A hinderance or let.
  • Obstruction. A stopping, commonly in the bo­die.
  • Obtestation. A beseech­ing.
  • Obtrectation. A slander­ing behind ones backe.
  • Obtrude. To thrust forth, to cast upon one.
  • Obtuse. Dull, blunt.
  • Occidentall. Of or belon­ging to the West.
  • Occurre. To come in the way: to meet with one.
  • Occurrent. That which happeneth or commeth in the way.
  • Ocean. The universall maine Sea, compassing the greater part of the earth.
  • Octanes. Eight dayes next after some principall feasts of the yeare.
  • Ode. A Song.
  • Odious. Hatefull.
  • Odour. A sweet smell.
  • Odoriferous. Sweet smel­ling.
  • Occonomie. The know­ledge of well ordering matters belonging to houshold.
  • Oeconomicall. Of or be­longing to houshold.
  • Oecumenicall. Vniversall: generall.
  • Oedeme. A waterish swel­ling, in the body without paine, caused by some fleg­maticke or vaporous hu­mour, and leaving a hol­low dent or pit therein, if one presse it downe with the finger.
  • Offensive. Which offen­deth.
  • Officious. Serviceable: willing to please.
  • Officiall. An Officer.
  • Olibanum. The right frankincense, which is a Gumme, growing in Ara­bia; whereof there are two kindes: the female or smaller frankincense, and the male, the greater, whiter, and stronger: of which Virgill speaketh: Eclog. 8. Burne Verveine fat, and strong male frankincense. It is hot and dry, good for per­fumes to correct infecti­ous [Page]ayre, and to be put in plaisters for green woūds. The weight of two or three Wheat cornes swal­lowed downe, doth help digestion, and maketh the breath sweet. Where note that the right Olibanum, or Frankincense will burne like a candle, and that which is counterfeit con­sume away in smoak.
  • Oligarchie. A common wealth where a few princi­pall persons govern all the rest.
  • Olympicke games. So­lemne games of running, riding, wrastling, and other feats of activity, kept every fift yeare on a high hill in Greece, called Olympus. The reward to those that overcame in these trials, was nothing but a Garland of Olive branches, least covetous­nesse, rather than vertue should make men strive for victory: which was the cause that Tigranes Sonne of Artabanus, serving in the huge army of King Xerxes, who then invaded Greece, said to Mardonius, who had perswaded the King to that enterprize; against what a people have you brought us to fight, that more esteeme honour than money? Thinking it impossible to overcome such Nations as were so affected.
  • Omen. A hausening.
  • Ominous Hausening: that which signifieth some good or bad luck to ensue.
  • Omission. A letting sl [...]p: a leaving undone.
  • Omit. To forbeare: to leave undone.
  • Omnipotencie. Almigh­tinesse.
  • Omnipotent. Almighty.
  • Omniregencie. The ha­ving all authority in ones own [...] hands.
  • O [...]erate. To burden or overcharge.
  • Cayx. A precious stone found in the Mountaines of Arabia, of the colour of a mans naile. Some write, that it is congealed of a juice dropping from a tree called Onycha, which is the cause that it smelleth sweet being cast into the fire, as also that it is often found [Page]with divers pictures in it, being easily therein fashi­oned, before the stone be throughly hardened.
  • Opall. A precious stone of divers colours, wherein appeareth the fierie shi­ning of the Carbuncle, the purple colour of the Ame­thyst, and the green shew of the Emerald, very strangely mixed together.
  • Operate. To worke.
  • Operative. Which work­eth, or hath power to worke.
  • Ophthalmie. An inflam­mation of the outer skin of the eye, caused by hot fretting humours flowing thither.
  • Opinionate. Bent to his own opinion: self-willed.
  • Opium. The juice of black Poppie, sold dry by Apo­thecaries. It is sometime used in Physicke to make one sleepe, or to asswage excessive paine; but then it must be mixed with o­ther things, and given with great descretion; for taken alone it will cast one into a deadly sleep; being cold and dry in the fourth degree.
  • Opobalsamum. See Balme.
  • Opopanax. A sap or liquor flowing in some hot coun­tries out of a Plant called Panax. It is brought hither dry, being of a yellow co­lour on the outside, and white within, if it be not overstale. It is good a­gainst cold shiverings of agues, and to be drunke with meate, of such as are squat or bruised therein.
  • Opportunely. Fitly, in due time.
  • Oppilation. A stopping.
  • Opponent. He which ap­poseth, or asketh questi­ons.
  • Oppose. To object; to set one thing against another.
  • Opposite. Contrarie, or placed over against.
  • Opposition A putting, set­ting, or standing against.
  • Opprobrious. Reprochfull, naughty, wicked.
  • Oppugne. To resist, to fight against.
  • Optike. Belonging to the sight.
  • Option. A wish.
  • Opulencie. Great wealth, riches.
  • [Page]Or. Gold, or golden co­lour.
  • Oracle. An answer or counsel given by God. A­mong the Gentiles, these Oracles were but illusions of the devil, who answered for the most part doubt­fully in Idols, to questions or demands made unto him. There were two such principall places of Oracles: One of Ammon or Iupiter, in Lybia, which was founded upon this oc­casion. When Bacchus after his conquests in India, came into the hot burning countrey of Lybia, and wanted there water to re­leeve his Army, it is said that he prayed to his father Iupiter to help him in that distresse: whereupon there appeared a Ramme unto him, which stamping upon the ground with his foot, caused a fountaine forth­with to spring in the place. Bacchus obtaining by this meanes his desire, built a Temple there of excee­ding huge greatnesse, in the middle whereof, he erected an Idoll to Iupiter, in the likenesse of a Ram; which Idol afterward gave Oracles, and was called the Oracle of Ammon; be­cause it was situated in a dry sandy place; for Am­mos in Greeke signifieth Sand. The other Oracle was at Delphi, a Citie of Beotia in Greece, where Apollo was said to give an­swers.
  • Oratorie. A place to pray in.
  • Oratour. One that plead­eth causeth: an eloquent speaker.
  • Orbe. Any perfect round circle hollow in the midst.
  • Orbicular. Round like an Orbe.
  • Orchall. A stone like Al­lume, used sometime by Diers to raise a red colour.
  • Ordinary. A Judge that hath Ordinary jurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes.
  • Ordure. Dung, filth.
  • Orgall. The lees of Wine dried, used by Diers to make their cloth to drinke in the colour throughly.
  • Organicall. That which consisteth of divers sub­stantiall parts & members.
  • [Page]Organist. A player upon Organs.
  • Organ Ling. A kinde of Ling brought out of the North Countries.
  • Orgies. Rude ceremonies instituted by the Poet Or­pheus, to be kept every third yeere in the honour of Bacchus,
  • Orient. The East.
  • Orient Pearles. Glistring Pearles of great price.
  • Orientall. Of, or belong­ing to the East.
  • Orifice. The mouth of any thing, or the outward hole of a wound.
  • Originall. The first be­ginning. The first of any thing.
  • Oringos. Certaine roots growing in some places, neere the Sea side. The Plant is called Sea holly, bearing prickly broad leaves, and round sharpe prickly heads, set about with small sky coloured floures. These roots are very long and deepe into the ground, of an ashie co­lour in the outside and full of joynts. They use, scra­ping of the outer rinde of these roots, and pulling out the pith, to preserve them by boyling them with Su­gar or Honie, & a litle Ci­namon and Ginger; which preserve is very good for a­ged people, and such as are consumed in their bodie, to nourish them again.
  • Orisons. Prayers.
  • Ornament. A garnishing.
  • Ornature. A garnishing, a setting forth.
  • Ornifie. To garnish.
  • Orphan. He that wanteth father and mother: friend­lesse.
  • Orpment. A soft yellow kind of Arsenik, like unto Brimstone: It is common­ly taken for Rats-bane.
  • Orthodoxall. That which belongeth to a true and right faith, or Religion.
  • Orthographie. The art of writing words truly; as Sonne of man, with an O: Sun that shineth, with the vowell V.
  • Orthographist. He that professeth or is skilfull in Orthographie.
  • Osanna. See Hosanna.
  • Osprey. A kinde of rave­nous Fowle, which hover­eth [Page]over pooles to take Fish.
  • Ostentation. Boasting; vain craking or vaunting. A proud setting forth to shew.
  • Ostiarie. An officer ha­ving authoritie to keepe unworthy persons out of the Church.
  • Ostracisme. A banish­ment among the Atheni­ans for ten yeers, so called because they used to write the names of the partie so condemned, in Oyster shelles. This punishment was chiefely used to abate the over great power of noble men.
  • Ovall. A long round cir­cle made like an egge: such as pictures are sometimes drawn in.
  • Overture. An overturn­ing, a sudden change.
  • Oxgang. Thirteene acres of land.
  • Oxymell. A sirupe made of Hony, Vineger and wa­ter, good to cut and clense grosse slegmatick humors: sometime there are boyl­ed certaine roots and seeds with it; and then is it cal­led Oxymell compositum: sometime it is made with Honey, Vineger, and the Sea Onion, and then it is named Oxymel Scylliticum: which also is of two sorts, to wit, simple and com­pound.
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  • PAcal. A tree in India so called.
  • Pacification. An appea­sing or pacifying.
  • Pacificatorie. Which ap­peaseth or pacifieth.
  • Pact. A bargain.
  • Page. A written side of a leafe of paper.
  • Pagan. A Heathen: an infidell.
  • Paganisme. The beliefe of the Pagans.
  • Paico. An hearbe in In­dia, good against the griefe of the stone in the Kid­nies, which cometh of windinesse or cold cau­ses.
  • Palate. The upper hol­low part of the mouth, wherein lyeth the sense of tasting, as in the tongue.
  • [Page]Palestricall. Of, or be­longing to wrastling. Also that which is done decent­ly with comely gesture of the bodie.
  • Pali [...]ode. A recantation or denying of an opinion formerly maintained.
  • * Palliard. A Whoore­monger.
  • * Palliardise. Whoore­dome.
  • Palliate. To cloke, to cover.
  • Pallizado. Great postes set up in the entrie to a Camp, for a defence a­gainst great shot.
  • Palme. The tree which beareth, Dates, growing plentifully in the holie land. There are of these trees found also in some parts of Egypt, but they beare no fruit, or if they beare any it is unpleasant. The branches of this tree, were wont to be carried as a token of victory, because they are of that nature, that they wil stil shoot upward, though oppressed with ne­ver so great weight, & the leaves thereof never fall. Of this tree there is male and female: the male bea­reth only blossomes & no fruit, but the female beares both. In old times, some people used to write with Paper, made of leaves of the Palme tree.
  • Palmer. A poore Pil­grime, that visiteth all ho­ly places.
  • Palmister. He that tel­leth ones fortune by look­ing in his hand.
  • Palmistry. See divination.
  • Palpable. That which may be felt with the fin­gers: m [...]nifest, notorious.
  • Pamphlet. A little book.
  • Pandar. A base fellow that keepeth or attendeth upon Harlots.
  • Pandect. A booke trea­ting of all matters: also the Volume of the Civill Law called Digests, is so called.
  • Panegyricall. That which is spoken flatteringly in praise of some great per­son: Also it signifieth, stately, honorable, magni­ficent, or a speech made of many great matters toge­ther.
  • Panther. A fierce wilde [Page]beast, having a sweet smell, and a faire spotted skin, wherewith she allureth o­ther beasts to looke on her; hiding her head lest it should make them afraid, and by this means, getteth her prey more easily. The male of this beast is the li­bard. The panthers (as is written) have on their shoulder a spot, which groweth and waineth like the Moon. This beast is so fearfull of the Hyena, that in his presence she dareth not doe any thing; in so much that if one have but a peece of the skinne of a Hyena, the Panther will not touch him, and it is said, that if both their skins be hanged together, the haire of the Panthers skin will fall off.
  • Panyme. A heathen, a gentile.
  • Parable. A similitude or resemblance made of a thing.
  • Para [...]elsian. A Physitian that followeth the me­thod of Paracelsus, and his manner of curing, which was by exceeding strong oyles and waters extracted out of the nature of things.
  • Paraclere. A comforter.
  • Paradise. A garden or pleasant place.
  • Paradox. An opinion maintained contrary to the common allowed opinion, as if one affirme that the earth doth move round, and the heavens stand still.
  • Paragon. A beautifull peece, a lovely creature.
  • Paragraph. It properly signifieth any marke set in a m [...]rgent, to note the different discourses in a Booke, or long Chap­ter, wherefore such di­visions in writing, are commonly called Para­graphs.
  • Paralipomenon. Omitted, or not spoken of: There are two bookes in the old testament so call'd, because many worthy histories o­mitted in the bookes of Kings, are there related.
  • Parallels. Lines running of an equall distance from each other, which can ne­ver meete, though they be drawne infinitely in length, thus,—. [Page]

    In Astronomie there are five such imagined lines, running circlewise about the round com­passe of the heavens. The first is the Equinoctiall line just in the middle of the world betweene the two Poles. The second northward from the Equi­noctiall, is the Tropike of Cancer, to which line the Sunne commeth about the twelfth day of June. The third (yet more northward) is the northern [...]ircle, within 23. degrees and 50. minutes of the North-pole. The fourth line is the Tropike of Ca­pricorne, declining South­ward from the Equinocti­all, as much as the Tro­pike of Cancer doth north­ward, and to this line the Sunne cometh about the twelfth of December. The fift and last line is the Southern circle, being as neere the South pole, as the Northerne circle (be­fore spoken of) is to the North pole.

  • Paralogisme. A deceitfull syllogisme, a manner of arguing which seemeth true, when it is not: as in saying, He that affirmeth William to be a living crea­ture, saith true.

    He that affirmeth William to be a Horse, affirmeth him to be a living creature.

    Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true.

  • Paramounte. The chiefe Lord of the fee.
  • Paramour. A Sweet­heart, one dearely beloved.
  • Paraphrase. A free man­ner of translation or inter­pretation, wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse every word as it lyeth in the copie, but to explicate and adorne the matter more at large, and to abridge some things, yet still keeping the sense of the Author, any such tran­slation is called a Para­phrasticall translation.
  • Parasite. A flatterer, a trencher friend. One that is still hanging one some rich man, and flatteringly feedeth his humor because he would be partaker of his good cheere.
  • [Page]Parcitie. Sparingnesse, niggardlinesse.
  • Parenthesis. Any word or sentence, thrust into an other sentence, in such sort that it may be left out in speaking, and yet the sense of the matter still remaine whole. Such word or sen­tence is commonly mar­ked with two half circles (thus.)
  • Paricide. One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother. Among the an­cient Romans if any com­mitted so horrible a crime, he was sowed alive in a leather bag, with a Cock, an Ape, and an Adder put to him (and as some write, a Dog, & so were thrown together into the river Tyber, where the misera­ble Caytife must needs die a lingring death, being depriued of the use of all elements, save only a little aire, to draw his wretched life in torment the longer.
  • Paritie. Equality, like­nesse.
  • Parley. A talking toge­ther.
  • Poroxysme. The sharp assault or fit of an ague.
  • Pa [...]simonie. Thriftines, good husbandry.
  • Parsimonious. Thrifty, paring.
  • Particularise. To draw or divide things in spea­king into certain particu­lars or small parcels.
  • Partisan. A weapon like a Halberd.
  • Paschall. Of or belon­ging to the Feast of Easter.
  • Pasche. The feast of Easter.
  • Passant. Walking, passing along.
  • Passi [...]le. Which may suf­fer, or feele pain.
  • Passion. A suffering.
  • Pastor. A shepheard.
  • Pastorall. Of or belon­ging to a shepheard.
  • Paternall. Fatherly.
  • Patheticall. Passionate, or that which moveth passi­ons in a man.
  • Patriarch. A great ance­stour, a great Bishop or father.
  • Patrimonie. Goods or lands left one by his fa­ther, or some other ance­stor.
  • Patrone. A defender, a [Page]great friend that support­eth one.
  • Patronage. Defence.
  • Patronize. To defend.
  • Paucitie. Fewnesse.
  • Pavice. A great large shield that covereth the whole bodie.
  • Pavilion. A tent for war.
  • Paunage. The feeding of swine in any forrest, wood or other place with mast.
  • Peccavi. I have offended.
  • Pectorall. Belonging to the breast, or which hang­eth before the breast.
  • Pecuniarie Of or belong­ing to money.
  • Pellican. A bird that wanteth food, feedeth her yong ones (as is said) with her own blood.
  • Pellmell. Confusedly, running disorderly toge­ther.
  • Penall. Of or belonging to pain or punishment.
  • Pendant. Hanging, down­ward.
  • Penetrable. Which may be pearsed thorow.
  • Penetrate. To pearse tho­row.
  • Penitentiall. Belonging to penance or repentance.
  • Penitent. He that is hear­tily sorry and repenteth.
  • Penon. An ensigne or banner borne in warre.
  • Pension. A yeerely fee or wages for some service done.
  • Pensive. Sad, heavie.
  • Pentateuch. The five bookes of Moses, to wit, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, and Deuteron [...]mie.
  • Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide, so called be­cause it is fiftie daies after Easter. For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fif­tieth.
  • Penurie. Want, povertie.
  • Penurious. Poore, in want.
  • Perambulation. A walk­ing.
  • Perceptible. Which may be perceived.
  • Perch. A kinde of fish, It signifieth also a rod or long pole used in measu­ring of land, being of 16. foot and a half in length, and in some places more.
  • Percullis. The name of an office of one of the Pursivants at armes.
  • Percussion. A striking.
  • [Page]Perdition. Destruction.
  • Perdurable. Lasting, of long continuance.
  • Peregrination. A travel­ling into a strange land.
  • Peremptorie. Resolute, short, quicke.
  • Perennitie. Long conti­nuance.
  • Perfidious. Treacherous, not to be trusted.
  • Perfidiousnesse. Treache­ry, disloyalty.
  • Perfunctory. Carelesly done.
  • Perigion. The nearest di­stance of the Planets from the earth.
  • Period. The perfect end of a sentēce, marked commō ­ly with a full point thus (.)
  • Peripatetickes. Philoso­phers of the sect of Aristo­tle: so called because they walked in their readings and disputations: for Peri­pateo, in Greeke, signifieth to walke.
  • Periphrasis. A long spea­king, a speaking of one word by many.
  • Periscians. People dwel­ling so neare either of the two Poles, that their sha­dowes goe round about them like a wheele.
  • Perjury. A forswearing.
  • Permission. Sufferance, leave.
  • Permutation. A changing.
  • Pernicious. Deadly, dan­gerous.
  • Peroration. The conclu­sion of a long speech or Oration.
  • Perpendicular. Directly downe right.
  • Perpetrate. To commit any unlawfull thing.
  • Perpetuity. Everlasting­nesse.
  • Perplexity. Great doubt­fulnesse, intanglednesse.
  • Perquisits. Profits com­ming to Lords of mannors by casualty, or uncertain­ly, as escheats, heriots, re­leafes, strayes, forfeitures.
  • Persist. To continue to the end.
  • Personate. To represent the person of another.
  • Perspecuity. Cleerenesse, plainnesse.
  • Perspicuous. Cleere, plain, manifest.
  • Perswasive. Which doth or may perswade.
  • Pertinacy Stubbornnesse, wilfulnesse.
  • Perturbe. To trouble.
  • Perturbation. A trouble, a [Page]great disquietnesse.
  • Perverse. Froward, con­trary.
  • Pervert. To corrupt or marre: to turne one from good to bad.
  • Pestiferous. Mortal, dead­ly, poisonous.
  • Potition. A suite, a de­mand, a request.
  • Petroll. A substance strai­ned out of the naturall Bitumen spoken of before. It is for the most part white, and somtime black, and being once set on fire, can hardly be quenched.
  • Petty. Being placed be­fore other words, it signi­fieth little.
  • Petty Sergeanty. A tenure of lands, holden of the King, by yeelding to him, a Buckler, Arrow, Bow, or such like service.
  • Petulancy. Wanton sau­cinesse malepart, bold­nesse.
  • Phantasme. A vision or imagined appearance.
  • Pharisee. A sect of Iewes, professing more holinesse than the common sort did. They wore on their fore­heads little scrols, wherein were written the ten com­mandements; and were called Pharises, of the He­brew word Phares, which signifieth to divide or se­parate, because by their fei­ned devotion they seemed to separate themselves from the other people.
  • Pheere. See Feere.
  • Phenix. The rarest Bird in the world. It is written, that there was never any but one of this kind living at one time, and that only in Arabia; of the bignesse of an Eagle, of a purple colour, having a bright co­lour of gold about his necke, a goodly faire taile, and a tuft of feathers upon his head. He liveth above 600. yeares, and being old, buildeth him a nest of Cinnamon and the twigs of Frankincense, which he silleth with spices, and thē with the labouring of his wings in the Sun, setting it on fire, is there consumed in it; out of whose Ashes there groweth a Worme, and of the worme another Phenix.
  • Pheon. A terme in Heral­drie: [Page]It signifieth the head of a Dart.
  • Philosopher. A lover of wisedome. It is commonly used for a learned man of great knowledge in the nature of things.
  • Philosophy. The study of wisedome: a deep know­ledge in the nature of things. There are three different kinds hereof,
    • 1. Rationall Philosophy, in­cluding Grammer, Logick and Rhetoricke.
    • 2. Naturall Philosophy teaching the nature of all things, and containing besides Arith­metick, Musick, Geometry and Astronomy.
    • 3. Morall Philosophy, which con­sisteth in the knowledge and practise of civility and good behaviour.
  • Philtre. An amorous po­tion: a drinke to procure love.
  • Phlebotomie. Letting of blood. Physitions (as is written) learned this pra­ctise first of a beast called Hyppopotamus, living in the river Nilus; which being of a ravenous nature, and therefore often overchar­ged with much eating, is wont to seek in the banks, for some sharp stub of a Reed; upon which prick­ing his leg, he thereby ea­seth his full body, stopping the bleeding afterward with mud.
  • Phlegmon. A hot swelling of inflamed blood.
  • Phrase. A manner of speaking.
  • Phylactery. A scroll of parchment which the Pha­rises wore on their fore­heads having the ten com­mandements written in it.
  • Physiognomy. An art to judge of ones nature or conditions by his visage and forme of his body.
  • Phytonisse. A woman pos­sessed with a spirit, and thereby foretelling things to come.
  • Pia mater. The inmost skin which incloseth the braine round about.
  • Pickage. Money paid at Faires for breaking the ground to set up booths.
  • Piety. Godlinesse.
  • Pigment. A painting.
  • Pight. Set or placed.
  • Pine tree. A tall strong [Page]tree not subject to worms or rottennesse, and there­fore much used, where it groweth to make ships. The leaves of this tree are hard pointed, sharp and narrow, continuing greene all the yeare, and the shad­dow thereof will not suffer any plant to grow under it.
  • Pinipinichi. A milky juice drawne out of cer­taine trees in India. It is somewhat thick and clam­my, and with great vehe­mency purgeth cholericke humours.
  • Pinnas. A fruit growing in India, good for the sto­macke and heart.
  • Pioner A labourer in an army, used to cast trenches or undermine forts.
  • Pious. Godly, vertuous.
  • Pipe. A measure of halfe a Tunne; that is, 126. Gal­lons.
  • Piepowders. A court held in faires for redresse of disorders there com­mitted.
  • Pirate. A robber by sea.
  • Pistacke. See Fistik­outs.
  • Placable. Gentle, milde, that will soone be paci­fied.
  • Placability. Gentlenesse, mildenesse.
  • Placard. A licence to maintain unlawful games.
  • Plaintife. He that com­plaineth.
  • Planetree. A tree wide spreading, with broad leaves, in times past greatly esteemed in Italy onely for the shadow thereof, in so much that they often bedewed it with wine to make it grow. The Ro­mans were wont to ban­quet much under these trees.
  • Planet. A wandering Starre mooved onely in a spheare by himself: there are seven such Starres, to wit, the Sun, Venus, Mer­cury, the Moone, Saturne, Iupiter and Mars. They are called Planets of a greeke word signifying to wander or goe astray, because these Starres passe through the twelve signes, and are sometimes wide di­stant, sometimes neare to each other.
  • [Page]Plaudite. A signe of re­joycing: a clapping of the hands.
  • Plausible. That which greatly pleaseth or rejoy­ceth.
  • Plebeian. One of the common people.
  • Pleget. A linnen cloath dipped in any water to wash, or lay to a sore place.
  • Plenary. Full, whole, in­tire.
  • Plenitude. Fulnesse.
  • Pleurisie. A disease when the inward skin of the ribs in mans body, is inflamed with too much blood, flowing unnaturally to it. In this disease there is a hardnesse to fetch breath, a cough, a continuall ague, and a pricking paine about the ribs.
  • Plonkets. A kind of wol­len cloth.
  • Plume. A Feather.
  • Plurall. More then one.
  • Plurality. The being or having more then one.
  • Poen [...]e. Any short matter, wittingly contrived in verse.
  • Poesie. The writing of a Poet; a Poets worke.
  • Poet. One that writeth well in verse.
  • Poetaster. A counterfeit Poet: a bad Poet.
  • Poeticall. Like a Poet: belonging to a Poet.
  • Poelize. To write like a Poet.
  • Poetry. The same that Poesie is.
  • Poise Weight, heavines.
  • Pole. The end of the axle­tree whereon the heavens do move, that part or point of the heavens, which ne­ver moveth. There are two such Poles of the world; one called the North pole, visible to us in the North, farre above the earth: the other called the south pole, far out of our sight, being as much under the earth in the South, as the North pole is above it.
  • Polish. To make faire or bright.
  • Polite. Bright, trim, fine.
  • Pollute. To defile.
  • Pollution. A defiling, an uncleannesse.
  • Polygamy. The having of moe wives than one: often marriage.
  • Polype. A fish having many [Page]feet, and changing colour often: wherfore inconstant persons are sometimes said to be Polypes.
  • Polypodium. Okeferne: a kinde of herbe like Ferne, growing much about the roots of oakes: The root of this herbe is used in Physicke to purge melan­cholike, grosse, and phleg­maticke humors.
  • Pompe. A great shew, a solemne traine.
  • Pompous. Stately, very solemne:
  • Ponderous. Heavy, of great weight.
  • Pontage. Money paid to­ward the maintenance and repairing of bridges.
  • Pontificacy. Popedome.
  • Pontificiall. Stately, hono­rable, Bishoplike.
  • Popular. In great favour with the common peo­ple.
  • Populous. Full of peo­ple.
  • Pores. Little holes in the skin, out of which swea droppeth, or vapors breath out of the body.
  • Porphyrie. A kind of red marble.
  • Port. A haven, or haven towne, sometime a stately traine or behaviour.
  • Portable. Which may ea­sily be carried.
  • Portage. Carriage, trans­porting.
  • Portend. To foreshew, or signifie before hand.
  • Portent. A monstrous thing which foresheweth some great matter.
  • Portcullise. A falling gate to keep out enemies from a City, or keep them in.
  • Portgreve. A chiefe officer in certaine Port townes.
  • Portrature. An image, a picture.
  • Portsale. A selling at the haven.
  • Pose. A rheume or humor which falleth into the nose, stopping the no­strils and hindering the voice.
  • Position. A setting or pla­cing: sometimes a sentence propounded.
  • Positive. Expresly set downe and decreed.
  • Postscript. That which is written in the end after another thing.
  • [Page]Posterior. The later, the hinder part.
  • Postilion. A speedy poste or messenger.
  • Postulation. A demand, a request.
  • Potent. Mighty, strong, able.
  • Potentate. A Prince, a great Ruler.
  • Potion. A Physicall drinke.
  • Pourcontrell. The same that Polype is.
  • Poundage. A Subsidie granted to the Kings Ma­jestie, of twelve pence in the pound, for all mer­chandise, brought hither, or carryed away by every merchāt denizen, or alien.
  • Practicall. Of or belong­ing to practise.
  • Practique. The same that practicall is.
  • Pravity. Lewdnes, naugh­tinesse.
  • Preamble. A speech, spo­ken before we enter into a discourse, a flourish or en­trance into a matter.
  • Prebend. A portion of maintenance, which every member or Canon of a Cathedrall Church recei­veth in the right of his place.
  • Prebendarie. He which hath a Prebend, or yeerely maintenance, out of the lands of a Cathedrall Church, and is member of the same Church.
  • Precede. To go before.
  • Precedent. Going before.
  • Precept. A commande­ment.
  • Precinct. The compasse, or circuit of a place.
  • Precipitate. To throw down headlong. It is also the name of a corasive pouder, commonly called, red Mercury, used by Chi­rurgians, to eate corrupted flesh.
  • Precontract. A former bargaine, or contract.
  • Precursor. A forerunner, a foregoer.
  • Predestinate. To appoint beforehand, what shal fol­low after.
  • Predestination. An ap­pointment before hand what shall follow.
  • Predecessor. He that was in place or office before another.
  • Predicable. That which [Page]may be reported or spoken of. In Logicke it signifi­eth certaine generall words, or universalities; whereof there are five, to wit, Genus, Species, Differen­cia, Proprium, and Acci­dens.
  • Predicament. A terme of Logicke: It signifieth a different order in the na­ture of things, or certaine generall heads, to which they may be referred; and there are commōly recko­ned ten such predicaments.
    • The first called Substance, includeth all substances whatsoever, as the foure Elements, and all other creatures.
    • The second na­med Quantity, containeth all quantities, as ten, twen­ty, a yard, a furlong, a mile.
    • The third called Quality, hath under it all qualities, as wisedome, art, fortitude, dilegence, floth.
    • The fourth named Relatiō, is properly of such words, as depend mutually one upon ano­ther, as a husband and wife, a master and servant, a father and childe.
    The o­ther sixe are,
    • 5. Action or doing:
    • 6. Passion or suffe­ring:
    • 7. Where:
    • 8. When:
    • 9. Situation or placing:
    • 10. the Habit or outward co­vering of a thing.
  • Predicate. To tell abroad, to report. In Logicke, it signifieth the later part of a proposition, as in saying, Paul is an Apostle: The word Apostle is called pre­dicate, because it is spoken or affirmed of the subject Paul.
  • Prediction. A foretelling.
  • Predominant. That ruleth or beareth sway.
  • Preface. That which is spoken or written before.
  • Prefect. A chiefe Magi­strate, a Governour.
  • Prefigure. See prefigurate.
  • Prefigurate. To foreshew any thing by a figure.
  • Prefiguration. A foreshew­ing by a figure.
  • Prefixe. To fasten before, or to appoint a time afore­hand.
  • Pregnant. Quickewitted, that will soone conceive.
  • Pregnancy. Quickewit­tednesse.
  • Prejudicate. To judge rashly, without due tryall.
  • [Page]Prejudication. A judging before hand.
  • Prejudice. A judgement given before due tryall, or a judgement formerly gi­ven of the same matter: sometime it signifieth harme, or hindrance.
  • Prejudiciall. Which jud­geth before due time, sometime hurtfull, or evill.
  • Prelate. A Bishop, a great Clergie man.
  • Premeditate. To thinke before hand.
  • Premeditation. A think­ing, or musing upon a thing aforehand.
  • Premise. To send before, to speake before.
  • Promonish. To warne be­fore.
  • Premunire. A punishment wherein the offender lo­seth all his goods for ever, and libertie during life.
  • Preordaine. To ordaine before hand.
  • Preordinate. Ordained be­fore.
  • Preposterous. Disorderly, untoward, contrary to due course.
  • Prepose. To preferre, to set before.
  • Prepuce. The foreskin of a mans yard, which the Hebrewes used to cut off in circumcision.
  • Prerogative. Priviledge or authoritie above o­ther.
  • Presage. A foretelling, or conjecture made of a thing beforehand.
  • Presbytery. Priesthood, Eldership.
  • Prescience. A knowing beforehand.
  • Prescript. A commande­ment or appointment by writing.
  • Prescription. Possession and use of a thing, time out of minde.
  • Preservative. Which pre­serveth or defendeth from sicknesse.
  • President. A chiefe Judge or Ruler.
  • Pressure. An oppressi­on.
  • Prestigious. Deceitfull: blinding the sight.
  • Pretermission. A let­ting passe, a leaving out.
  • Pretermit. To over­passe.
  • [Page]Pretext. A colourable ex­cuse, or pretence.
  • Pretor. A chiefe Judge, a great officer.
  • Prevarication. Deceit, false dealing when he that seemeth to helpe a mans cause, doth craftily seeke to hinder it.
  • Pricker. A Huntsman on horsebacke.
  • Pricket. A Fallow Deere two yeers old.
  • Pricking. The print of a Hares foot on the ground.
  • Prigge. To filch, to steale.
  • Prigging. Stealing.
  • Prime. The morning: sometime the spring, some­time the chiefe.
  • Primacie. Chiefe autho­ritie, or jurisdiction.
  • Primate. An Archbishop.
  • Primitive. The first, the most antient.
  • Prioritie. The more ex­cellent state or dignitie.
  • Pristine. Old, ancient.
  • Privation. A depriving, or taking away.
  • Probable. Which may be proved.
  • Probation. A proofe, a tryall.
  • Probatum. Proved, tryed.
  • Probitie. Honesty, good­nesse.
  • Probleme. A darke sen­tence, with a question joy­ned unto it.
  • Proclive. Inclining, or bent to a thing.
  • Proclivitie. An inclinati­on, a bending to.
  • Proconsull. A Deputy un­to a Consull, or one en­dewed with a Consuls au­thoritie.
  • Procrastination. A delay­ing, a prolonging.
  • Procreate. To breed, to bring forth.
  • Procreation. A breeding, a bringing forth.
  • Procurator. A steward, he that taketh charge to over­see anothers businesse.
  • Prod [...]gie. A rare thing seldome seene, which sig­nifieth that some strange matter shall after follow.
  • Prodigious. Strange, won­derfull.
  • Prodition. A betraying.
  • Produce: To bring forth, to draw at length.
  • Profane. To put holy things to a common use.
  • Profanation. A putting of holy things to common uses.
  • [Page]Proficient. One that hath well profited.
  • Profligate. To overthrow, to drive away.
  • Profunditie. The depth of a thing.
  • Profuse. Wastfull, lavish in spending.
  • Progenie. A generation, an off-spring, a stocke, or kindred.
  • Progenitor. An Ancester, a forefather.
  • Prognosticate. To know or conjecture before hand.
  • Progresse. A going for­ward.
  • Progression. A going for­ward.
  • Proheme. A beginning of a matter: a preface be­fore a book.
  • Prohibit. To forbid.
  • Prohibition. A forbid­ding.
  • Project. A plot, or the contriving of any thing.
  • Prolix. Long, or large: tedious.
  • Prolixitie. Length, or largenesse, tediousnesse.
  • Prolocutour. The first speaker.
  • Prologue. A preface, a forespeech.
  • Promoscuous. Confused, mingled one with ano­ther.
  • Promontorie. A hill lying out, like an elbow into the Sea.
  • Promote. To advance: to lift up.
  • Promoter. He which ac­cuseth another, for the breach of some law, and hath thereby part of the penaltie for his pain.
  • Promp. Ready, or quick: sometime to tell one pri­vily, to teach what he should say.
  • Promptitude. Readinesse.
  • Promulgate. To publish, to speak abroad.
  • Promulgation. A pub­lishing of a Law or De­cree.
  • Prone. Stooping down­ward: also bending or in­clined to a thing.
  • Propagate. To spread a­broad, inlarge, or multi­ply.
  • Propagation. An increa­sing, or breeding.
  • Propense. Ready, apt, or given to a thing.
  • Propheticall. Of or be­longing to a Prophet.
  • [Page]Propinquitie. Neerenesse, sometime kindred.
  • Propitiation. An obtain­ing of pardon, or a sacri­fice to appease Gods dis­pleasure.
  • Propitiatorie. A table set on the Arke of the Old Testament; on either side whereof was a Cherubin of gold, with the wings spread over the Propiti­atorie, and their faces looking one toward ano­ther.
  • Propitious. Gentle, favou­rable, mercifull.
  • Propose. To set forth, to ofter, to appoint.
  • Proposition. A short sen­tence containing the summe of what we will speake.
  • Proprietarie. He that hath the fruits of a Benefice, to him and his heires or suc­cessors.
  • Propulse. To beate off, to put away by force.
  • Prorogue. To prolong: to delay, to continue.
  • Prorogation. A prolong­ing.
  • Proscription. Banish­ment, or open sale made of goods beeing for­feit.
  • Prosecute. To follow: to pursue.
  • Proselyte. A stranger converted to our religi­on.
  • Prosodie. True pronoun­cing of words.
  • Prospect. A large sight, or a place where one may see farre.
  • Prostitute. To set to o­pen sale. to offer to every man for money.
  • Prostrate. To fall down, at ones feet.
  • Protest. To affirme ear­nestly.
  • Protestation. A declarati­on of ones minde.
  • Protomartyr. The first Martyr.
  • Prototypon. The first copy or pattern of a thing.
  • Protract. To draw in length, to prolong▪
  • Proviso. A provision or condition made in any writing.
  • Proule. To goe about in the night: to pilfer or steale small things.
  • Prowe. The forepart of a ship.
  • [Page]Prowesse. Strength, man­hood, courage.
  • Proximitie. Neere­nesse.
  • Prudent. Discreete, wise.
  • Prunellas. A fruit like small Figges, good for restorative, and to comfort the heart.
  • Psalmist. A maker or singer of Psalmes.
  • Psalmodie. A singing of Psalmes.
  • Psalterie. A sweet instru­ment like a Harpe.
  • Pseudo. Note, that words which begin with Pseudo, signifie counter­feit or false, as Pseudo­martyr, a false Martyr, or witnesse: Pseudopro­phet, a false prophet.
  • Psisane. A Physicall drinke of Barley, and cold herbes sod together.
  • Publicane. Hee that hyreth the revenewes or common profits of the CITIE at a certaine Rent. This was an o­dious name among the Jews, because they were commonly men of ill con­science, which exercised that office.
  • Publike. Common, open abroad.
  • Pulcritude. Beautie, faire­nesse.
  • Pulpe. The fleshie part of any thing.
  • Pulse. A beating veine: also pease, beanes, lupines, and such other Graine are so called.
  • Pulverisated. Beaten to powder.
  • Punctuall. Not missing a haires breadth: which is short, and direct to the purpose.
  • Pupill. A ward, a young Scholler, one under age.
  • Purgative. Which hath vertue to purge.
  • Purgatorie. A place of purging.
  • Purlue. A place neere joyning to a forrest, where it is lawfull for the owner of the ground to hunt, if he can dispend fortie shil­lings by the yeere of free­land.
  • Purporte. A purpose, or meaning.
  • Pusillanimitie. Little­nesse of courage, faint-heartednesse.
  • [Page]Pustule. A wheele, or bladder risen in the body.
  • Putrifaction. A rotten­nesse or corruption.
  • Putrifie. To be rotten or corrupted.
  • Pygmies. Little people in India, not above a foot and a halfe long: their wo­men bring forth children at five yeeres and at eight are accounted old. They have continuall war with Cranes, who do often put them to the worst.
  • Pyramides. A steeple or pillar, broad and square beneath, and sharpe a­bove.
  • Pyromancie. See Divina­tion.
  • Python. A spirit which possesseth one; or a man possessed with a spirit.
Q.
  • QVadrangle. A figure made with four corn­ers.
  • Quadrant. Foure square, or the fourth part of a thing.
  • Quadripartite Divided into foure parts.
  • Quadruplication. A foure­fold doubling.
  • Quaint. Fine and strange.
  • Quarentine. A terme in the common law, when a woman after the death of her husband remaineth fortie dayes in the chiefe Mannor place, within which time her dower shall be assigned.
  • Quarrie. A place or pit where stones are digged. A mong hunters it signifi­eth a reward given to Hounds after they have hunted, or the Venison which is taken by hunting.
  • Quaviver. A Sea Dra­gon.
  • Quaternion. Foure, or any thing divided by the number of foure.
  • Queach. A thicke bushie plot.
  • Querimonious. Full of complaining.
  • Querulous. Complain­ing.
  • Quest. A search or in­quirie.
  • Quidditie. A short darke speech, an intricate que­stion.
  • Quiddanet. A sweete [Page]mixture thicker then a si­rup, and not so thicke nor stiffe as marmalet.
  • Quid pro quo. A terme amongst all Apothecaries, when in stead of one thing they use another of the same nature.
  • Quintessence. The first substance. That which re­maineth in any thing after the corruptible Elements are taken from it.
  • Quippe. A quicke checke, a pretty taunt.
  • Quotidian. Daily▪
R
  • RAbbine. A Master, a Lord, a great Doctor, a Teacher.
  • Racha. An Hebrew word of reproach, never spoken but in extreame anger.
  • Radiant. Bright shining, glistering with beames.
  • Radiation. A glistering, a casting of beames.
  • Radicall. Of or belong­ing to the root, naturall.
  • Radicall moisture. The naturall moisture spread like a dew in all parts of the body; wherewith such parts are nourished; which moisture being once wa­sted can never be restored.
  • Raindeere. A beast like a Hart, but having his head fuller of Antliers.
  • Rampant. A terme of Herauldry, when a beast is painted ramping upright with the forefeet.
  • Rancor. Hatred, malice.
  • Rape. A violent ravishing of a woman against her will. There is also a root like a Turnep so called. Sometime it signifieth a division made in some shires; as the countie of Sussex is devided into sixe Rapes, to wit, the Rape of Chichester, of Arundell, of Bramber, of Lewis, of Pe­vensie, and of Hastings.
  • Rapacitie. A ravening, a violent catching.
  • Rapiditie. A snatching, a catching.
  • Rapine. Robbery, catch­ing, extorsion.
  • Rapsodie. A joyning of diverse verses together.
  • Rarifaction. A making of that thin, which is thicke or close joyned together.
  • Rarifie. To make thin, [Page]to pull a thing abroad.
  • Raritie. Fewnesle, thin­nesse.
  • Rasure. A shaving away.
  • Ratifie. To confirme, to allow.
  • Rationall. Reasonable. It signifieth also an orna­ment, which the high Priest of the Jewes ware on his breast, when he ex­ecuted his function, being foure square of the length of a span, made curiously of gold and twisted silke of divers colours, wherein were set twelve precious stones in foure rankes of gold, and in every stone graven one of the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob.
  • Reall Which is in very deed.
  • R [...]assume. To take again.
  • Recant. To deny an o­pinion formerly by him­self maintained.
  • Recapitulate. To rehearse briefly that which was spoken before.
  • Recapitulation. A briefe rehearsall of that which hath beene formerly spo­ken at large.
  • Receptacle. A place of receit, or any vessell to re­ceive a thing in.
  • Recesse. A by-place, a going backe or aside.
  • Recidivation. A backe. sliding, or falling backe a­gaine.
  • Reciprocall. That which returneth backe, or hath respect to some thing go­ing before.
  • Reclaime. To winne, to make gentle.
  • Recluse. Shut up.
  • Recognisance. An ac­knowledgement. A band wherein a man before a lawfull Judge, acknow­ledgeth himself to owe a certaine summe of money to the King, if he faile in performance of a conditi­on thereto joyned.
  • Recoile. To flie backe.
  • Recollect. To gather a­gain, to call his wits toge­ther.
  • Rectifie. To direct, to make streight.
  • Recreant. He that deny­eth his own challenge, he that goeth from what he hath said, or eateth his word.
  • [Page]Rector. A Ruler, a Go­vernour.
  • Recurre. To run backe.
  • Recursion. A running backe.
  • Recusant. He that refu­seth to doe any thing.
  • Redolent. Sweete in smell.
  • Redoubted. Greatly re­verenced, most noble.
  • Redound. To abound, or overflow.
  • Redobbour. He that wit­tingly buieth stollencloth, and turneth it into some other fashion.
  • Reduce. To bring back, to restore.
  • Reduction. A bringing backe.
  • Reedifie. To build again, to repaire.
  • Reenter. To enter a­gaine.
  • Reentrie. An entrance a­gaine.
  • Reeve. An old name of an officer in Lordshippes, much like to those that we call Bayliffes now.
  • Refection. A refresh­ing.
  • Refectorie. A place to refresh ones self, or to take ones diet in.
  • R [...]fell. To disprove, to prove false.
  • Reflect. To turn or cast backe againe.
  • Reflection. A rebounding backe: or turning back a­gaine.
  • Reforme. To amend, to correct.
  • Refractorie. Stubborne, which will not bend.
  • Refuge. A place of suc­cour.
  • Refute. To disprove, to confound by sence and reason.
  • Refutation. A disproving, a confuting.
  • Regall. Kingly; belong­ing to a King.
  • Regalitie. The estate or authority of a King.
  • Regardant. A tearme in Heraldrie, when a beaste is painted, looking backe­wards at one.
  • Regenerate. To beare a­gaine in birth, to renew.
  • Regeneration. A new birth.
  • Regent. A Prince, Ruler or Governour.
  • [Page]Regiment. A government, or the place where one hath authoritie.
  • Register. Writings of re­cord kept for memory. Al­so he that keepeth such writings in a spirituall Court.
  • Regratour. He that in a faire or market, buyeth a­ny dead victuall whatsoe­ver, and selleth the same a­gaine in any faire or mar­ket kept there, or within foure miles thereof.
  • Regresse. A going backe againe.
  • Regression. The same.
  • Regular. Vnder rule, or living according to a set rule.
  • Reject. To cast off, to de­spise.
  • Rejoynder. A second an­swere made by the defen­dant, after his first an­swere hath beene replyed unto.
  • Reiterate. To do againe, to do a thing often.
  • Relapse. A backe sly­ding.
  • Relate. To tell, to de­clare.
  • Relation. A rehearsall or telling of a matter.
  • Relaxation. A releasing, a refreshing or setting at li­bertie.
  • Relay. A tearme of hun­ting, when they set hounds in readinesse, where they thinke a Deere will passe, and cast them off after the other hounds are past by.
  • Releese. A payment which some Heires make (after the death of their Aunce­stour) to the Lord of whom their lands are hol­den.
  • Relent. To waxe soft, to yeeld.
  • Relinquish. To leave off, to forsake.
  • Reliques. Things left or remaning. Most common­ly it is taken for the bo­dies, or some part of the bodies, or somwhat which hath toucht the bodies of Saints now in heaven.
  • Remainder. A possibility in any, to enjoy lands, te­nements, or rents, after a­nothers estate is ended.
  • Remisse. Slack, negligent or carelesse.
  • Remit. To send backe: [Page]sometime to release or for­give.
  • Remora. A little Fish which cleaving to the bot­tome of a shippe, doth verie strangely stay the shippe that she cannot moove.
  • Remorse. Doubtfulnesse in conscience, to doe a thing: a staggering in minde: sometime pitiful­nesse or repentance of a bad done.
  • Remote. Farre distant.
  • Remunerate. To reward.
  • Remuneration. A reward, a requitall.
  • Renovate. To renew.
  • Renovation. A renewing.
  • Repast. Food.
  • Repeale. To call backe a­gaine, to disallow.
  • Repell. To thrust backe.
  • Repercussive. That which striketh backe againe, or reboundeth backe.
  • Repetition. A new rehear­sall.
  • Replevine. A Warrant sent from the Sheriffe or his Bayliffe, that a man shall have his cattell or a distresse taken from him, restored to him againe; up­on surety sound to answer the party grieved, in the Law.
  • Replication. The answer made to the defendant af­ter the defendant hath an­swered.
  • Repose. To lay upon: sometime to take rest.
  • Repositorie. A storehouse, a place to lay up things in.
  • Repossede. To possesse a­gaine.
  • Reprehend. To reprove.
  • Reprehension. A repro­ving.
  • Represse. To stay backe, to keepe downe by force.
  • Reprises. All payments and charges that issue yearelie out of a Man­nor.
  • Reprobate. One past grace: a wicked person, a cast away.
  • Republike. A Common­wealth.
  • Repudiate. To refuse: properly to put away ones Wife.
  • Repugne. To resist.
  • Repugnancie. Disagree­ment, contrarietie.
  • Repugnant. Contrary or [Page]resisting.
  • Repute. To esteeme, to account.
  • Reputation. Estimation or account.
  • Requiem. Rest: ceasing from labour.
  • Rereward. The hinde­most part of a battell.
  • Rescouse. A forcible de­liverie or setting at liberty of one that hath beene ar­rested.
  • Reserved. To keep by it selfe, to keepe for some purpose.
  • Reservation. A keeping of some thing apart.
  • Reside. To alight, sinke downe, or to abide in a place.
  • Resident. Abiding in a place.
  • Resigne. To give or yeeld up.
  • Resignation. A yeelding up of a thing to another.
  • Resolve. To open, to weaken, to make loose: sometime to expound and declare.
  • Resolute. Determinately bent to doe any thing.
  • Respective. Awfull, which beareth great respect to one.
  • Respiration. A fetching of breath.
  • Resplendent. Bright, cleere, shining.
  • Respondent. He that an­swereth.
  • Response. An answer.
  • Restauration. A repay­ring, a making againe.
  • Restie. Dull, heavie.
  • Restitution. A restoring backe.
  • Restriction. A restray­ning, or holding back.
  • Result. To rebound, to leape backe.
  • Resume. To take a­gaine.
  • Resurrection. A rising a­gaine.
  • Resuscitation. A stirring up againe.
  • Retaile. To sell in small parcels: that which was formerly bought.
  • Retention. A keeping.
  • Retentive. Having po­wer to binde, retaine, or keepe.
  • Retire. To return back­ward.
  • Retort. To throw, or shoote backe againe.
  • Retract. To call backe [Page]againe, to revoke.
  • Retractation. A calling backe, a recanting, a de­nying of a thing before af­firmed.
  • Retreate. A calling backe of Souldiers from fight: a returning or going backe.
  • Retribution. A reward, a recompence.
  • Retrive. A seeking a­gaine.
  • Retrograde. That which goeth backward. A planet is said to be retrograde, when he goeth backward contrarie to the course of the signes, as from Taurus to Aries &c.
  • Retrogradation. A going backward.
  • Revels. Players and dan­cings, with other pleasant devices, used sometimes in the Kings Court, and else­where in great houses.
  • Revenew. Yearely rent received for lands or tene­ments.
  • Reverberation. A beating backe againe.
  • Reversed. A tearme in Heraldrie when a mans armes is given him, turned the lower part upward.
  • Reuert. To returne.
  • Revise. To peruse, to looke over againe.
  • Reunite. To joyne toge­ther againe.
  • Revocable. Which may be called backe againe.
  • Revocation. A calling back againe.
  • Revoke. To call backe.
  • Revolt. To forsake ones captaine or company, and goe to another.
  • Revolve. To tosse up and downe in ones minde: to muse or thinke much of a matter.
  • Revolution. A turning or winding about: especially in the course of time.
  • Rhetoricke. The art of e­loquent speaking.
  • Rheubarb. See Rubarb.
  • Ridiculous. Worthy to be laughed at: foolish; with­out wit.
  • Rigid. Stiffe, hard, stub­borne.
  • Rigor. Hardnesse, stiffe­nesse, extreame dealing.
  • Rigorus. Hard, cruell, unmercifull.
  • Rime. A mist or foggie dew.
  • [Page]Ringwalke. A round walk made by Hunters.
  • Rinocere. A great beast, having a horne in his nose, bending upward, which he whetteth often against rockes, to fight therewith against the Elephant.
  • Riot. In the law it signi­fieth when three or moe persons, being assembled to commit forcibly an un­lawfull act, do accordingly execute the same.
  • Rite. A ceremony, a cu­stome.
  • Rivall. One that sueth for the same thing with another.
  • Robustious. Strong.
  • Roode. In land it signifi­eth a quarter of an acre. It is sometime taken for the picture of our Saviour up­on the Crosse.
  • Rotunditie. Roundnesse.
  • Rougecrosse. The name of an office of one of the Pur­sevants at armes.
  • Rougedragon. The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes.
  • Route. A disorderly as­sembly of three or moe persons moving forward to commit by force an un­lawfull act. It signifieth al­so a heard or great compa­ny of wolves together.
  • Rubarbe. A costly roote much used in Phisicke to purge choler, & is brought hither out of Barbary. Be­ing toasted and dried, it is then good against the bloodie flixe, and all man­ner of laskes; if it be so drunke with some binding liquor, as the juyce of Plantaine, red Wine, and such like.
  • Rubricke. An order or rule written.
  • Rubricated. Marked with red; or written in red let­ters.
  • Rudiments. The first grounds or principles of an art or any knowledge.
  • Ruine. Vtter overthrow, destruction.
  • Ruminate. To chew over againe as beasts doe, that chew the cud: wherefore it is often taken for to studie and think much of a mat­ter.
  • Running of the reines. A disease when by reason of weakenesse, seede passeth [Page]often from one against his will.
  • Ruption. A breaking.
  • Rupture. A breaking.
  • Rurall. Of or belonging to the countrey.
  • Rusticall. Countrey-like, homely, rude.
  • Rusticitie. Rudenesse: clownish behaviour.
S
  • SAbaoth. Hostes or ar­mies of men.
  • Sable. In armorie it signifieth blacke. It is al­so a rich Furre of a beast so called, which beast is made like a pole cat, of colour betweene black, & brown, and breedeth in Russia, but most in Tartaria.
  • Sabboth. A day of rest.
  • Sacietie. Fulnesse.
  • Sacrament. A mysticall ceremony instituted by our Saviour.
  • Sacred. Holy.
  • Sacriledge. The robbing of a Church: the stealing of holy things, or abusing of Sacraments or holy mysteries.
  • Sacrilegious. Very wicked and abhominable.
  • Saduce. An Heretical sect among the Jewes, which denyed the resurrection: they called themselves Sa­duces of the Hebrew word Tsedek.: Which signifieth Justice, because they took themselves to live more uprightly, and juster then other men.
  • Safeconduite. A securitie and protection given by a Prince or any other per­son in authoritie, for a mans safe comming or going to or from a place.
  • Sagacitie. Quicknesse of understanding; wittinesse.
  • Sage. Grave, wise, dis­creete.
  • Sagapenum. The sappe or Gum of a plant grow­ing in Media, of a yellow­ish colour without, and white within. It is hot and dry, of a strong smell like garlicke, and is used in Physicke against divers cold diseases.
  • Saint Anthonies fire. A dis­ease rising of hot chole­ricke blood, which begin­ning first with a blister, groweth after to a sore, or scab like a tetter.
  • [Page]Salamander. A little beast like a lisard, with foure feet and a short taile, ha­ving divers spottes in the body thereof. It is of a byting venomous nature, and (as some affirme) will abide in the fire without harme, and at last put it cleare out.
  • Salarie. Wages, or hyre.
  • Salgemma. A cleare kind of salt like Chrystall, used sometime in Physicke, and is found plentifully in Hungaria.
  • Saliant. A terme in He­rauldry, when a beast see­meth rampand, but lifteth not the fore pawes so high, as the rampande doth.
  • Salubritie. Healthfulnes.
  • Sanctifie. To make ho­lie.
  • Sanctification. A making holy.
  • Sanctimonie. Holinesse.
  • Sanctitie. Holinesse.
  • Sancturary. A place whi­ther offenders, or indebted persons may flie for suc­cour, from being punished or arested.
  • Sanctum Sanctorum. The holiest place of the Jewes temple, where the Arke was kept, and whither none entred but the high Priest every yeere.
  • Sandall. An ancient kind of shooe.
  • Sanders. A precious wood brought out of India, whereof there are three kindes, to wit, red, yellow, and white Sanders. They are all of a cooling nature especially the red, which is often used in Physicke a­gainst hot diseases.
  • Sanglier. A wild Bore five yeeres old.
  • Sanguine. In Herauldry it signifieth a murrey co­lour: but commonly it signifieth a complexion most inclining towarde blood.
  • Sanguivolent. Bloody.
  • Sanity. Health.
  • Saphire. A precious stone brought out of East India: of a cleare skie colour, and the best sort of them hath as it were cloudes therein, inclining to a certain red­nesse. This stone is said to be of a cold nature.
  • [Page]Sapience. Wisdome, knowledge.
  • Sarcaparillia. A plant of India, the root whereof is often used in dyet drinkes, against the French and o­ther diseases.
  • Sarcocolla. A Gumme brought out of Persia, which is red, and bitter in tast. It is of a healing na­ture, and therefore often used to close up woundes, and fill corrupted ulcers with new flesh. For which cause it is named in Greek Sarcocolla, which signifieth a glewer or healer up of the flesh.
  • Sassafras. A tree of great vertue, which groweth in the Florida of the West In­dies: the rinde hereof hath a sweet smell like Cinna­monne. It comforteth the liver, and stomack, and o­peneth obstructions of the inward parts, being hotte and dry in the second de­gree. The best of the Tree is the roote, next the boughes, then the body, but the principle good­nesse of all resteth in the rindes.
  • Satan. An enemie.
  • Satiate. to fill.
  • Satietie. Fulnesse.
  • Saturitie. Fulnesse.
  • Satyr. A strange mon­ster in India, having the body of a man all hairy, with legs and feet like a Goat: which monsters the ancient Poets were wont to call gods of the woods. It signifieth also a sharpe byting kind of verse, wher­in mens vices were laid o­pen.
  • Satyricall. Sharpe or bi­ting, as Satyrs were com­monly written.
  • Savine. A little low tree, bearing leaves almost like Tamariske, and of a hot scowring nature.
  • Saults. Jumpes, leapes.
  • Saunce. Without.
  • Sawe. An old saying.
  • Saxifrage. An herbe bea­ring seed like Parsley seed but more hot and biting, which seede or the roote being boyled in wine and drunken, breaketh the stone of the kidneyes and bladder.
  • [Page]Scalpe. The haire skin of the head.
  • Scammony. The juice of the root of an hearbe, brought hither dry out of Asia, and Mysia. It is a violent purger of choler, and dangerous to take in­ward, unlesse it be well prepared. See Diagridi­um.
  • Scandall. An offence, or that which causeth one to fall, stumble, or take offence.
  • Scandalize. To offend by evill example, or give one occasion to bee offen­ded.
  • Scarifie. To scrape, cut, launce, or open a sore.
  • Scarification. A scraping, or cutting.
  • Scedule. A little rowle, or written bill.
  • Scene A play, a Comedy, a Tragedy, or the division of a play into certaine parts. In old time it signi­fied a place covered with boughes, or the roome where the players made them ready.
  • Scheme. A figure in spea­king.
  • Schisme. Division or strife in matters of religion.
  • Schismaticall. Divided in fellowship from the other part erroneous.
  • Schismaticke. One divi­ded from the unity of the Church.
  • Scholasticall. Learned, belonging to Schollers.
  • Sciatica. A gout in the hip, caused by grosse and flegmaticke humors, ga­thered in the hollownes of the joynt thereof.
  • Science. Knowledge.
  • Scolopendra. A fish that feeling himselfe taken with a hooke, casteth out his bowels, untill he hath unloosed the hooke, and then swalloweth them up againe.
  • Scope. The end or marke that one aimeth at.
  • Scorpion. A venemous worme with seven feet, bearing his sting in his raile; with which he stri­keth mischievously. They are of divers colours, and the female is the greater, having withall a sharper sting then the male. They may be killed with fasting [Page]spittle of a sound man. There are also great Scor­pions with wings, which are carried in some hot countries with the winde from one place to ano­ther.
  • Scoute. One sent out to espy and bring tydings of the enemies purpose, or of any danger likely to happen.
  • Scribe. A writer, a Clerk, a publike notary.
  • Scruple. Doubt, difficulty: In physicke it signifieth a small weight of twenty wheat cornes; the third part or a dram.
  • Scrupulositie. Doubtful­nesse, difficulty.
  • Scrupulous. Doubtfull, fearefull, one that casteth many doubts.
  • Scrutinie. Search, enqui­rie.
  • Scull. A great company of fish swimming toge­ther.
  • Sculpture. A carving, a graving.
  • Scurrill. Scoffing, beastly, dishonest, filthy.
  • Scurrilitie. Saucy scoffing, ribauldry.
  • Scurrillous. The same that Scurrill is.
  • Scut. The taile of a Hare or Cony.
  • Sea-calfe. Great fishes that bellow like oxen, and have their bodies covered with haire. They breed like beasts on the land, and sleep there often in the night.
  • Sealamprey. A fish called by some Remora, which stayeth a shippe under a sayle.
  • Sebestens. Little plums brought out of Italy, of a blewish colour and sweet in taste. They are cold and moist in operation, and are often used by Physiti­ans in hote agues, and inward inflammations of the body.
  • Seclude. To shut apart, to shut out.
  • Seclusion. A shutting a­part.
  • Sect. A particular opini­on of some few.
  • Sectary. One that fol­loweth private opinions in religion.
  • Section. A division or cutting off.
  • [Page]Se [...]ular. Worldly, or be­longing to the world.
  • Seoundine. The after birth, the skinne, wherein a childe is wrapped in his mothers wombe.
  • Scoure. Carelesse, voyde of feare.
  • Securitie. Assurance from feare or danger.
  • Sediment. The dregs of [...] liquor which sinketh to the bottome.
  • Seduce. To deceive, to [...]ssleade.
  • Sedi [...]lity. Diligence, care­fulness [...].
  • Segregate. To divide, to [...].
  • Sejjant. A terme in [...]naul drie, when a beast is painted sitting upright.
  • S [...]l [...]. To choose, to p [...]e out.
  • Sem [...]lable. Like.
  • Semblanoe. A shew, a co­l [...].
  • S [...]ant. Like.
  • S [...]le. Halfe a cir­ [...]e.
  • Seminarie. A seede [...].
  • Semi [...]rie. A crooked swoud a faucheon.
  • Sempiternall. Everlast­ing.
  • Sena. A little plant grow­ing in Italy and other hot countreyes, but the best is brought from Alexandria. It is hot and dry, and the leaves thereof are often boyled in Physicke, to purge the body of melan­cholicke grosse humours, and to cleanse the blood: but there must be Annis­seede, Cinnamon or Gin­ger added to it, for that o­therwise it will provoke windinesse, and gripings in the belly.
  • Senat. The Counsell house, where the Magi­strates of a Citie assemble themselves.
  • Senator. An Aldetman, or grave Magistrate of a Citie.
  • Senior. The Elder.
  • S [...]nsible. That may bee felt or perceived: some­time witty or of good con­ceite.
  • Sensuall That pleaseth the senses, wanton, given to please the flesh.
  • Sensualitie. Bodily plea­sure: wanton delight.
  • [Page]Sentinell. A man standing in some convenient place to descry what company cometh neere an army or towne of warre.
  • Sententious. Full of sen­tences, or wise speeches.
  • Septentrionall. Of, or be­longing to the North.
  • Septuagints. Seaventy lear­ned men which translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greeke.
  • Sepulture. Buriall.
  • Sequell. That which fol­loweth the matter follow­ing.
  • Sequester. To divide, to withdraw. To put by it selfe.
  • Sequestration. A putting apart: a placing in severall by it selfe.
  • Seraine. A foggy mist or dampish vapour falling in Italie about sunne set, at which time it is unwhole­some to be abroad especi­ally bare headed.
  • Seraphicall. Inflamed with divine love like a Se­raphin.
  • Seraphin. The highest or­der of Angels: See Hie­rarchie.
  • Serenitie. Faire and cleere weather.
  • Sergreant. A tearme ap­plyed in Heraldry onely to the Griffine which is so called.
  • Serious. Earnest, weigh­ty, of great importance.
  • Serpentine. Of the nature of a Serpent.
  • Servile. Base, flavish, be­longing to a bondman or servant.
  • Servilitie. Bondage; base estate.
  • Servitude. Bondage.
  • Sessions. A sitting of Jud­ges.
  • Sethim. A kinde of tree like a white Thorne, the timber whereof never rot­teth. Of this tree was made the holy Arke of the Old Testament.
  • Severe. Just, grave, hard,
  • Severitie. Gravity, great constancy in ministring ju­stice.
  • Sewell. A paper, clout, or any thing hanged up to keep a Deere from entring into a place.
  • Sewer. He that goeth be­fore the meate of a Prince or great personage, to [Page]place it on the table: also one that hath authority to overlooke water courses.
  • Shamoise. A wilde Goat keeping the mountains.
  • Shankes. The skinne of the shanke of a kind of Kid.
  • Shingles. A disease about the breast, belly, or back, wherein the place affected looketh red, increasing cir­clewise more and more. It is chiefly cured with Cats bloud; or if it goe round the body, it killeth.
  • Shrew. A kinde of field Mouse, which if hee goe over a beasts backe, will make him lame in the chine; and if he bite, the beast swelleth to the heart and dieth.
  • Shrine. A Tombe or place where the body of some Saint is buried or remaineth.
  • Siatica. See Sciatica be­fore.
  • Sibbe. One of kinne.
  • Sibyll. A woman inspi­red with aspirit of prophe­sie; so called of the greeke words Sios, which signifi­eth God, and Boyle, which signifieth counsell, because such women had know­ledge (as was said) of the counsell of God. There were ten Sibylls famous a­bove the rest. The first was Sibylla of Persia, the se­cond of Lybia, the third of the City Delphos in Greece, the fourth of Cuma, a city in Aeolis, the fift of Erythrae, a City of Asia, the sixt of the Ile, Sa­mos, the seventh of Cu­mae, a City of Campania in Italy. This Sibylla of Cumae, (as it is written) came on a time to Tarquine King of Rome, in the ha­bit of a str̄age old woman, offering to sell him nine bookes, full (as she said) of divine oracles; for which she demanded three hun­dred crownes of gold: the King not much regarding, and beside thinking them too deare at that price, she burned three of them be­fore his face, and then as­ked if he would have the other sixe, for which she demanded no lesse than she had don at first for the nin [...]. Hereat the King de­riding [Page]her and thinking her halfe mad, she burned three more of them, and told him that he should give her the same price for those three that were left. The King much wonder­ing at the womans con­stant earnestnesse, and therefore thinking the bookes contained no com­mon matter, commanded three hundred crownes to be given her for them, which she receiving, pre­sently vanished out of sight. These bookes were after kept by the Romans very carefully, who in great matters of doubt, alwayes had recourse to them, as to an assured ora­cle. The eighth Sibyll was called Sibylla of Helespon­tus in Greece; the ninth was of Phrygia; the tenth and last of Tybur, a City neere Rome in Italy. All these Sibylls prophecied of the incarnation of our Sa­viour Christ.
  • Sicle. In coyne it signi­fieth foure sterling groates of eight to an ounce: in weight it is halfe an ounce.
  • Sidelayes. Dogs laid in the way to be let slip at a Deere, as he passeth by.
  • Signet. A seale.
  • Significative. Which ex­presseth a matter plainly.
  • Signiory. A Lordship.
  • Silence. Holding ones peace.
  • Similitude. A likenesse.
  • Simonie. The selling of spirituall things for mony. This name first was deri­ved from one Simon a sor­cerer of Samaria, whooffe­red money to the Apostles that he might have power to give the holy Ghost un­to any that he should lay his hands on; for which cause he was sharply repro­ved by Saint Peter.
  • Simulachre. A picture or image.
  • Simulation. Dissembling.
  • Sincere. Vpright, plaine, without dissimulation.
  • Sindon. Fine linnen cloth.
  • Single. The taile of a Stagge or other Deere.
  • Singularity. Private opi­nion, a desire to be odde from other men.
  • [Page]Sinister. Vnhappy, naugh­ty, lewd, harmefull.
  • Sinoper. A kinde of red stone which some call rudle.
  • Syren. A Mer-mayde: Poets feine there were three Mer-maydes or Sy­rens, in the upper part like maidens, and in the lower part fishes: which dwel­ling in the Sea of Sicilie, would allure Saylers to them, and afterward de­stroy them; being first brought asleepe with har­kening to their sweet sin­ging. Their names were Parthenope, Lygia, and Leu­casia; wherefore sometime alluring women are sayd to be Syrens.
  • Site. The setting or stand­ing of a place.
  • Situation. The same that Site is.
  • Slot. The view or print of a Stags foot in the ground.
  • Slowth. A heard or com­pany of wild Boares toge­ther.
  • Sluse. A frame or device to keepe water in any ground, or let it out.
  • Smaradge. A precious stone called an Emrauld: See Emerald.
  • Socage. An ancient te­nure of land, by doing some inferiour service of husbandry to the Lord of the fee.
  • Sociable. Kind, loving, one that will keepe com­pany, or is curteous in company.
  • Societie. Fellow ship.
  • Sale. Alone, onely.
  • Solecisme. A false man­ner of speaking, contrary to rules of Grammer.
  • Solegrove. An old name of the moneth of Februa­ry.
  • Solicite. To urge, to move, to provoke.
  • Solicitude. Carefulnesse.
  • Solid. Whole, firme, not hollow.
  • Soliditie. Wholenesse, massivenesse, soundnesse.
  • Solitarie. Alone, without company.
  • Solitude. A desert place, a wildernesse.
  • Solstice. The stay of the Sunne when he cannot go higher and lower, which is (with us) in sommer about [Page]mid Tune, and in Winter about the middle of De­cember.
  • Soluble. Loose, not bound.
  • Solve. Tountie, to open, to expound.
  • Solution. A paiment or an expounding.
  • Sophister. A subtill cavil­ler in words, a crafty dis­puter, which will make a false matter seeme true.
  • Sophisme. A false argu­ment.
  • Sophisticall. Deceitfull: captious.
  • Sophisticate. To counter­feit, to deceive.
  • Sophistry. A false kinde of argument seeming true when it is not.
  • Sore. To flye up aloft: also it signifieth a Fallow Deere foure yeares old.
  • Sorell. A Fallow Deere three yeares old.
  • Source. A wave of the sea.
  • Sownder. A company of wilde Bores together.
  • Spaide. A Red Deere three yeares old
  • Spatious. Large and wide.
  • Species. The differing kind of every thing.
  • Spectator. A beholder.
  • Speculation. The inward knowledge, or beholding of a thing.
  • Speculative. That which belongeth to Speculation.
  • Sperme. Seed.
  • Spermaceti. The seed of the Whale fish: It is used in Physicke against squats and bruisings of the bo­dy.
  • Spermaticall. Of or be­longing to seed: or the veines which containe the seed.
  • Sphere. A round circle; It is commonly taken for the circled round compasse of the heavens.
  • Sphericall. Round like a sphere.
  • Spikenard. A kinde of sweet herbe like Lavender.
  • Splene. The milt of man or beast: which is like a long narrow tongue lying under the short ribbes on the left side, and hath this office of na­ture, to purge the liver of superfluous melancholicke blood: sometime it signi­fieth anger or choler.
  • Splendour. Brightnesse.
  • [Page]Splendent. Bright shining.
  • Spongeous. Hollow, like a Sponge.
  • Spousals. A marriage.
  • Spraints. Dung of an Otter.
  • * Sprent. To sprinkle.
  • Spume. Fome or froth.
  • Squadron. A square form in a battell.
  • Squinanth. A kinde of round rush, which is sweet, and hath flowers very me­dicinable.
  • Squincy. A swelling dis­ease in the throat.
  • Stability. Stedfastnesse: constancy.
  • Stacte. A sweet oyle or liquor which is drawne out of new myrrhe, by bruising and strayning it according to art.
  • Staggard. A red male Deere, foure yeares old.
  • Stanchhound. An old hound well experienced.
  • Stannaries. Mines of Tinne.
  • Staple. Any towne or ci­cy appointed for Mer­chants of England to ca­ry their Wooll, Cloth, Lead, Tinne, or such like commodities unto, for the better sale of them to other Merchants by the great.
  • State. It is sometime ta­ken for urine of mans bo­dy.
  • Station. A standing or resting place.
  • Statue. A carved, or cast image, made in proportion like a man.
  • Stavesaker. An herbe bea­ring a three cornered seed of a hot burning nature, which being beaten to powder, and mingled with oyle, destroyeth lice, and cureth all itchy mangines.
  • Stechados. A beautifull herbe, bearing faire knops or cares, which being boy­led and drunken, doe open the stoppings of all in­ward parts, and are very good against the paine of the head, and diseases of the brest.
  • Sterill. Barren.
  • Sterility. Barrennesse: un­fruitfulnesse.
  • Stigmaticall. See Stig­maticke.
  • Stigmaticke. A notorious lewde fellow, which hath been burnt with a hot y­ron, [Page]or beareth other markes about him, as a to­ken of his punishment.
  • Stile. A manner or forme of writing, or spea­king.
  • Stillyard. A place in Lon­don where the Easterling Merchants of Hawnse and Almane, were wont to abide.
  • Stipend. Wages, or hire given one.
  • Stipendary. He that re­ceiveth yearely wages, or is hyred to doe a thing for a certaine price.
  • Stipulation. A solemne covenant or bargaine.
  • Stoicall. Of or belong­ing to the Stoikes.
  • Stoike. A severe sect of Philosophers at Athens which followed the do­ctrine of Zeno, who taught that a wise man ought to be free from all passions, and never to be mooved either with joy or griefe. They were called Stoikes, of the Greeke word Stoa, (which signifieth a porch) because Zeno taught his followers in a common porch of the City.
  • Storax. A kinde of sweet Gumme, good a­gainst hoarsenesse, and the cough.
  • Storke. A bird famous for naturall love toward his parents, whom he fee­deth being old and impo­tent, as they fed him, being young. The Egyptians so esteemed this bird, that there was a great penalty laid upon any that should kill him.
  • Strangurion. A disease when one cannot make water, but by drops, and that with great paine.
  • Stratageme. A policy or subtill device in warre, whereby the enemy is of­ten vanquished.
  • Sirict. Hard, streight, severe.
  • Structure. A buil­ding.
  • Student. One that stu­dieth.
  • Studious. Given to study.
  • Stupid. Blockish, with­out wit, dull.
  • Stupidity. Blockishnesse, dulnesse, astonishment.
  • Stupifaction. A making dull or senssesse.
  • [Page]Stygian. Belonging to the river Styx.
  • Styx. A feined River in hell, by which the heathen gods did use to sweare: And if they swore falsely, they were deprived of their godhead, for one hundred yeares after.
  • Suavity. Sweetnesse.
  • Subalterne. Placed under another: or that which succeedeth another by course.
  • Subalternation. A succee­ding by course.
  • Subject. That which doth support qualities belong­ing unto it: as the body is the subject in which is health, or sicknesse, and the minde the subject that receiveth into it vertues or vices.
  • Sublime. High, lofty, ho­nourable.
  • Sublimatum. A strong corrosive powder called white Mercury, used by Chirurgians to eate and consume corrupted flesh.
  • Sublimity. Highnesse, loftinesse.
  • Submisse. Lowly, hum­ble.
  • Subordinate. Placed in office under another.
  • Subordination. An ap­pointing or placing of one thing under another.
  • Suborne. To bring one in for a false witnesse: to instruct one privily how to deceive another.
  • Subpoena. A Writ where­by one is summoned to appeare in the Chancery at a certaine time, upon a great penalty, if he faile in appearance.
  • Subscribe. To write un­der.
  • Subscription. A writing under.
  • Subsist. To abide or con­tinue in his owne be­ing.
  • Subsistence. The abiding or continuance of a thing in it owne estate.
  • Substitute. To appoint an inferior officer: also he that is in authority under another, or which ruleth in stead of another.
  • Subterfuge. A refuge, a safeguard; a place to hide or save one in.
  • Subversion. An over­throw.
  • [Page]Subvert: To overthrow, to destroy.
  • Succinct. Briefe, short.
  • Suffocate. To strangle, choak.
  • Suffocation. A choaking, a strangling.
  • Suffrage. Favourable, voyces in our behalfe, as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates.
  • Suggest. To put closely into ones minde.
  • Suggestion. A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde.
  • Sulphur. Brimstone.
  • Summary. A briefe ga­thering together; an a­bridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words.
  • Summarily. Briefly: touching onely the chiefe points.
  • Summity. The height or top of a thing.
  • Superabound. To abound very much; to be in great plenty.
  • Supereminence. Authori­tie, or dignitie above o­thers.
  • Supererogation. Laying out of more then one hath received; or the doing of more then a man is of ne­cessity bound to doe.
  • Superficiall. Going no farther then the outside; slight, bearing shew onely in the outside, without any goodnesse within.
  • Superficies. The outside of every thing, which is al­wayes in sight.
  • Superfluity. More then needs to be, overmuch.
  • Superfluous. That which is too much: also vaine or unprofitable.
  • Superlative. The highest.
  • Superiour. Higher, above another.
  • Supernall. That which commeth from above.
  • Superscription. A writing set upon any thing, as on the outside of a letter.
  • Supersedeas. In our com­mon Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing, forbidding an of­ficer from the doing of that, which otherwise he might and ought to doe.
  • Superstition. An excesse of ceremonious worship, false worship, or honour given to God.
  • [Page]Supplant. To trip one, or to overthrow him craf­tily.
  • Supplement. That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting.
  • Supply. To fill up or adde too.
  • Suppliant. He that maketh a supplication, or humbly intreateth another.
  • Supplicate. To beseech humbly.
  • Suppository. Any thing put up into the Funda­ment, to make the body soluble. It is commonly made of honey boyled till it grow thick, and so made into an apt forme for that purpose; whereto some­time is added the yolke of an egge, or salt, when we will have it to worke the effect more speedily.
  • Suppresse. To keepe downe; to beate under: sometime to conceale or keep close.
  • Supputation. An account or reckoning.
  • Supreme. Chiefe, highest, most excellent.
  • Surcease. To give over, leave off or cease.
  • * Surcote. A gowne with a hood of the same.
  • Surplusage. Overplus, more then needs.
  • Surprise. To come una­wares: to take upon a sud­den.
  • Surprisall. A taking un­awares.
  • * Surquidrie. Presump­tion.
  • Surrender. To yeeld up lands or tenements to a­nother.
  • Surreption. A privy ta­king away.
  • Surround. To compasse round about.
  • Survey. To overlooke, or oversee.
  • Surveyer. He that hath the oversight, of the kings or some great personages lands or works.
  • Survive. To overlive, or live after another.
  • Surviver. He that liveth after another.
  • Suspend. To stay one by authority for a time, from executing his office: to delay, to deferre.
  • Suspence. Doubtfulnesse, uncertainty.
  • [Page]Suspiration. A breathing or sighing.
  • Swallowes tayle. In buil­ding it signifieth, a faste­ning of two peeces of tim­ber so strongly together, that they cannot fall asun­der.
  • Swaine. A Servant.
  • Swaynemote. A Court kept thrice a yeare, tou­ching matters belonging to a forrest.
  • * Sweven. A dreame.
  • * Swynker. A labourer.
  • Sycomore. A tree like a fig tree, having great bran­ches, and large leaves like a Mulberry. It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare, much like a wilde Fig, but without any seeds within. The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree, and the great maine boughes, and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool. It is found plentifully in Caria, Egypt, and the Ile of Rhodes; especially in such places, where Wheate will not grow.
  • Sycophant. A Tale bearer, a slanderer, a false accu­ser.
  • Syllogisme. An Argu­ment consisting of three parts, whereby somthing is necessarily prooved, as thus:
    • Every vertue is honorable: Patience is a vertue.
    • Therefore Patience is honourable.
    • The first part of a syllo­gisme is called the Propo­sition or Major; the se­cond the Assumption or Minor; and the third, the Conclusion.
  • Sylvane. Of, or belong­ing to the woods.
  • Symbole. A short ga­thering of principal points together.
  • Symmetrie. Due pro­portion of one part with another.
  • Symmetrian. Hee that considereth the due pro­portion of a thing, and how well the parts agree with the whole.
  • Sympathy. A likenesse in quantity; or a like dispo­sition or affection of one thing to another.
  • Symphony. Harmony or consent in Musicke.
  • [Page]Symptome. Any passion or griefe following a dis­ease, or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague, a pricking in the side with a Plurisie, and such like.
  • Synagogue. A Congre­gation or assembly: com­monly it signifies a church of the Iewes.
  • Synteresie. The inward conscience: or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule, which inwardly in­formeth a man, whether he do well or ill.
  • Synod. A generall coun­cell, a generall or univer­sall assembly.
  • Synoper. See Cinoper.
  • Synopsie. A sight or full view of a thing.
T
  • * TAas. An heape.
  • Tabernacle. A shel­ter or a room made abroad, with boords and boughes of trees. There was of old among the Is­raelites, a feast comman­ded by God, called the feast of Tabernacles; which began on the fif­teenth day of the seventh moneth, and continued seven dayes, during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles, in remembrance, that their Fathers a long time so li­ved, after God had delive­red them out of the land of Egypt.
  • Tacamabaca. A Rosin brought out of the West Indies, of great vertue a­gainst any cold humours, rising of the Mother, Toothache, and divers other griefes.
  • Talent. A certaine value of money. Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents, the grea­ter and the lesse: The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling: the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds. Among the Hebrewes the greater ta­lent of the Sanctuary con­tained 400. pounds, the lesser Talent halfe so much.
  • Tallage. Custome, fraight.
  • [Page]Tamarinds. A fruite brought hither out of In­dia, like unto green Dam­sens. They are cold in o­peration, and therefore good against burning Fea­vers and all inward disea­ses, proceeding of heate and choler.
  • Tamariske. A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath; the de­coction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger be­ing drunken, is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt. This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt, that Swine which have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof, have beene found to have no Milt at all.
  • * Tapinage. Secrecie, sli­linesse.
  • Tarantula: A little beast like a Lizard, having spots in his necke like starres.
  • Tardie. Slow.
  • Tartar. Lee [...]e of wine.
  • Tautologie. A repeating of one speech or matter often.
  • Taxe. To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince: sometime to reprove.
  • Tearce. A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun, and the third part of a pipe.
  • * Teene. Sorrow.
  • Temerarious. Rash, hasty.
  • Temeritie. Rashnesse.
  • Templaries. Certaine Christian souldiers dwel­ling about the Temple at Hierusalem, whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion, and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land: They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment, with a redde Crosse.
  • Temporall. That which endureth but a time.
  • Temporarie. The same that Temporall is.
  • Temporize. To follow the time: To seeke to please the time.
  • Tenacitie. A holding fast, a niggardnesse.
  • Tenderlings. The soft tops of a Deeres hornes when they are in blood.
  • [Page]Tendrells. Little sprigs of Vines or other Plants, wherewith they take hold to grow or stay themselves up.
  • Tenne. A terme used among Heralds, signifying an O­renge or tawny colour.
  • Tenon. That part of a post which is put into a mortise hole, to make it stand up­right, or to beare it up.
  • Tenuitie. Littlenesse, slen­dernesse.
  • Tergiversation. Wrangling, overthwart dealing. A see­ming to run away and yet fight still.
  • Termination. An ending or last part of a word.
  • Terrene. Earthly.
  • Terrestriall. Earthly.
  • Terrifie. To make afraid.
  • Territorie. Land lying within the bounds of a Citie.
  • Terrour. Feare, dread.
  • Tertian. The third, or re­turning every third day.
  • Testament. A written will.
  • Testator. He that worketh a will.
  • Testifie. To beare wit­nesse.
  • Testification. A witnes­sing.
  • Tetragrammaton. Having foure Letters. The He­brewes so called the great name of God Jehovah, be­cause in their language it was written with foure letters.
  • Tetrarch. A Prince that ruleth the fourth part of a kingdome.
  • Theater. A place made halfe round where people sate to behold solemne playes and games.
  • Theatricall. Of, or be­longing to the Theater.
  • Theme. A sentence or ar­gument whereupon one speaketh.
  • Theologie. Divinitie: the knowledge of Divine things.
  • Theologicall vertues. Faith, Hope and Charitie are so called, because they have their object & end in God.
  • Theoreticall. That which belongeth to contemplati­on or inward knowledge of a thing.
  • Theorick. The inward knowledge or contempla­tion of a thing.
  • [Page]* Thilke. The same.
  • * Thirle. To pearce.
  • Thorpe. A village.
  • Thrasonicall. Vain-glo­rious, full of boasting as Thraso was.
  • Threnes. Lamentations: mournings.
  • * Threpe. To affirme.
  • Thummim. An Hebrew word signifying perfecti­on. See Vrim.
  • Tiara. A rich cap or hat of silke used by Kings and Priests of Persia: It cover­ed not the whole head be­fore, but was fastened with ribbins behind, so that it could not easily fall off.
  • Tiger. A fierce wild beast in India & Hyrcania. This beast is the swiftest of all other, wherefore they are taken very young in the dams absence, and carried away by men on horse­back; who hearing the cry of the old Tiger follow­ing swiftly after them, doe of purpose let fall one of the young whelpes, that while shee beareth that back, they in the meane time may escape safe with the other to the ship.
  • Timerous. Fearefull.
  • Timiditie. Fearefulnesse.
  • Tincture. A dipping, co­louring, or stayning of a thing.
  • Titular. Which beareth onely a Title.
  • Toft. A place where a house hath stood.
  • Tolerate. To indure or suffer.
  • Toleration. An induring; a sufferance.
  • Tome. A part or division.
  • Tone. A tune, note, or accent of the voice.
  • Tonnage. A payment due for merchandise carried in tuns or such like vessels, af­ter a certaine rate in every tun.
  • Tonsure. A clipping or cutting off the haire.
  • Topase. A precious stone wherof ther are two kinds: One of the colour of gold, and the other of a Saffron colour, not so good as the first. It is written that this stone being put into see­thing water, doth so coole it, that one may presently take it out with his hand.
  • Topikes. Places to finde arguments.
  • Topographie. A description of a place.
  • [Page]Torrent. A little streame, a brooke that runneth swiftly.
  • Torride. Burning, excee­ding hot.
  • Torteauxes. Cakes of bread: a terme used in He­raldrie.
  • Totall. The whole.
  • Trace. To follow by the steps.
  • Traces. The print of feet in beasts of ravine, as wilde Boares, Beares, and such like.
  • Tract. A discomse, a drawing in length.
  • Tractable. Easie to be ru­led and handled: gentle, easie to be perswaded.
  • Tradition. A deliverie: that which is delivered us from others.
  • Traduce. To speake evill of one, to defame, to re­proach.
  • Tragacanth. A kinde of Gum, the best whereof is cleere, and somwhat fweet in taste: It is often used a­gainst coughes, and rough hoarsenesse of the throat.
  • Tragedie. A play or Hi­storie ending with great sorrow and bloodshed.
  • Tragedian. A Player or Writer of Tragedies.
  • Tragicall. Mourafull, lamentable, deadly, which endeth like a Tragedy.
  • Tranquillitie. Quietnesse of minde, calmenesse.
  • Transcendent. That which clymeth over, and sur­mounteth another thing: In Logicke it signifieth a word of such nature that it cannot be included in a­ny of the tenne predica­ments.
  • Transcript. A writing or a coppying out.
  • Transfer. To carry or convey from one place to another.
  • Transfiguration. An alte­ring of the form or figure.
  • Transformation. A chang­ing into another forme.
  • Transition. A passing o­ver from one thing to ano­ther.
  • Transitory. Soon passing, of short continuance.
  • Translucent. Cleere, bright, which may be seen throught.
  • Transmigration. A remo­ving to dwell, from one place to another.
  • [Page]Transmitte. To send over or away.
  • Transmulation. A chang­ing.
  • Transparent. Cleere, that may be seen through.
  • Transport. To send over by ship.
  • Transpose. To change or alter the order of a thing.
  • Transubstantiation. A changing of one substance into another.
  • Trasonings. The crossings or doublings of a Row bucke before the hounds.
  • Trave. A trevise to shooe a wild horse in.
  • Traverse. To march up and down or to move the feet with proportion, as in dancing. In our common Law it signifieth to make contradiction, or to deny the chiefe point of the matter wherewith one is charged.
  • Treble. Threefold, or to make a thing thrice so great as it is: sometime it signifieth the highest note in musicke.
  • Tremour. A trembling.
  • Trepandiron. An instru­ment used by Surgeons to cut out a small bone with­all.
  • Tresses. Haire.
  • Triangled. Three corner­ed.
  • Tribe. A kindered; or company that dwelleth to­gether in one Ward.
  • Tribune. The name of two chiefe Officers in Rome. The first was Tri­bune of the people, who was to defend their liber­ties, and had therefore the gates of his house standing alwayes open day and night. The other was cal­led Tribune of the soul­diers, who had charge to see them well armed, and ordered, being as the Knight marshal is with us.
  • Tribunall. A judgement seat.
  • Trine. The number of three.
  • Trinitie. Three joyned in one, or three together.
  • Tripartite. Divided into three parts.
  • Tripp. A heard or flocke of goates.
  • Triplicitie. Threefold be­ing.
  • [Page]Triviall. Base, vile, of no estimation, common eve­ry where.
  • Triumvirate. The office of three together.
  • Troiciskes. Little flat cakes sold by Apotheca­ries, made of divers simple medicines mingled toge­ther.
  • Trope. The changing of a word; or a figurative manner of speaking.
  • Trophie. Any thing set up in token of victorie. This custome first began among the Greekes who used in that place, where the enemies were van­quished, to cut down the boughes of great trees, and in the flocks or bodies of them to hang up armour, or other spoils taken from the enemies.
  • Tropicall. That which is spoken by a trope or fi­gure.
  • Tropikes. Two imagined circles in the spheare, of e­quall distance on either side from the Equinoctiall line. The one is called the Tropike of Cancer, the o­ther the Tropike of Capri­corne. To the first the Sun cometh in June, to the o­ther in December. They are called Tropikes of the Greeke word Trepo, which signifieth to turn, because when the Sunne comes to either of them, he turnes his course another way.
  • Troy weight. A pound weight of twelve ounces, by which gold, silver, pre­cious stones, jewels and bread are weighed.
  • Trucheman. An interpre­ter.
  • Truculent. Fierce, cruell and terrible.
  • Trunk. The body of a tree.
  • Tuition. Defence, pro­tection.
  • Tumor. A swelling.
  • Tumult. A sedition or trouble, some gathering together of the people.
  • Tumultuous. Seditious, full of businesse, or trou­ble.
  • Tun. A measure of 252. gallons. In weight it signi­fieth twentie hundred.
  • Turbith. A roote much used in Physicke, to purge slimie fleame out of the [Page]body. The best is white and hollow, and is com­monly taken with a little Ginger, for then it will work the effect with more ease.
  • Turbith minerall. A cer­taine red powder (made according to the Paracel­sian practise) which is used against the French disease.
  • Turbulent. Troublesome, unquiet.
  • Turkise. A precious stone of a silke blew co­lour.
  • Turpentine. A faire, cleere, and moist kinde of rosin, which issueth out of the Larx and Turpentine tree. It is good to be put into oyntments and em­plaisters, for it gleweth, cleanseth and healeth wounds. It may be also licked in with honey, and then it cleanseth the brest, and gently looseth the bel­ly, provoking urine and driving out the stone and gravell.
  • Turpitude. Filthines, dis­honesty.
  • Turtle dove. A bird lesse than a pigeon, famous for continencie in widowes e­state. If the male or female of this bird die, the other ever remaineth single, as it were in continuall sorrow▪ In the spring time they are scarce seene, because they then loose their fethers: when they drink, they lift not up their heads backe­ward as other birds use. They live commonly eight yeers, and do breed twice a yeere, not above three egs at a time.
  • Tatmouthed. He that hath the chin and nether jaw sticking out farther then the upper.
  • Tutour. A defender, he that hath charge to bring up a childe.
  • Twibill. An instrument used by Carpenters to make mortise holes.
  • Tympanie. A disease wherein the body waxing leane, the belly swelleth up, having great store of wind and windy humours gathered together between the inner skin thereof and the guts.
  • Type. A figure, forme or likenesse of any thing.
  • [Page]Tripicall. Mysticall, or that which serveth as a shadow and figure of an other thing.
  • Tyrant. A cruell Prince, One that ruleth unjustly.
  • Tyrannize. To play the tyrant, to governe with crueltie.
V
  • VAcant. Voyde, emptie; without businesse.
  • Vacation. A ceasing from labour.
  • Vacuitie. Emptinesse.
  • Vacuum. Emptinesse.
  • Vaile bonet. To put off the hatt, to strike saile, to give signe of submission.
  • Valentinians. Certaine he­retikes so called by the name of their first master Valentinianus; who held o­pinion that our Saviour received not his flesh of the blessed virgin Mary.
  • Validitie. Force, or strength.
  • Variable. Changeable, which altereth often.
  • Variation. An altering, or changing.
  • Vaste. Huge and great.
  • Vastation. A wasting or spoyling of a countrey.
  • Vastitie. Exceeding great­nesse: also waste or spoile done to acountrey.
  • Vavessour. A Lord.
  • Vauntcourers. Forerun­ners.
  • Vauntlay. A terme of hunting, when they set hounds in readines, where they thinke a chace will passe, and cast them off be­fore the rest of the kennell come in.
  • Vaward. The foremost part of a battell.
  • Vbiquitie. The presence of a person in all places at once.
  • * Vechons. Hedgehogs.
  • Vegetive. That which li­veth and groweth as plants doe.
  • Vehemencie. Earnestnes.
  • Veile. To hide or cover: also any thing which hi­deth or covereth.
  • Velitations. Skirmishes, fightings.
  • Velocitie. Swiftnesse.
  • Velume. Fine parchment of calves skins.
  • Vendible. Saleable, which will quickly be sold.
  • [Page]Venerable. Reverent, grave, worshipfull.
  • Veneration. A worship­ping.
  • Venery. Hunting: some­time fleshly wantonnesse.
  • Veneriall. See veneri­ous.
  • Venerious. Fleshly given to lechery.
  • Venie. A touch in the body at playing at wea­pons.
  • Veniall. Which may easi­ly be pardoned.
  • Ventoy. A fanne for a woman.
  • Ventositie. Windinesse.
  • Ventricle. The stomacke of any living thing.
  • Ventroloquie. A hollow inward speaking of a spirit in a possessed body.
  • Ver. The spring time.
  • Verbal. Of or belonging to words.
  • Verbatim. Word by word, that which is precisely spo­ken, according as some­thing was spoken before.
  • Verbositie. Much talke, many words.
  • Verdegrease. A greene substance, made of the rust of brasse or copper, which hath been hanged certaine dayes over strong vine­ger; It is of a fretting na­ture, and therefore to be used with great discreti­on.
  • Verdour. The name of a chiefe officer in a For­rest: sometime it signifieth greenenesse.
  • Verge. A rod or wanne.
  • Verger. He that carryeth a white wand before a great officer.
  • Verifie. To prove, to make true.
  • Veritie. Truth.
  • Vermilion. See Cinoper.
  • Vernall. Of or belong­ing to the spring.
  • Versifie. To make ver­ses.
  • Verte. A terme in He­rauldry: it signifieth a greene colour.
  • Vesper. The Evening.
  • Vestals. Certaine virgins among the ancient Ro­manes, consecrated to the Goddesse Vesta. They were alwayes chosen be­tweene sixe and tenne yeeres of age, and conti­nued thirtie yeeres in their office; whereof the [Page]first ten yeeres they be­stowed in learning the ce­remonies of their order, the second they employed in execution thereof, and the last ten in teaching others, after it was law­full for them to marry if they would. Their chiefe office was to keepe fire continually burning in a round temple at Rome in honour of Ve­sta, and if it chanced to goe out, they were to renew it againe with no usuall fire, but such as they could get by art from the Sunne beames. They were greatly honoured in the Citie, and had diverse priviledges: for they were carried in Cha­riots, and the chiefest Magistrates would doe reverence to them. They had officers going before them, as the Consuls had, and if they met any who was ledde to be put to death, they had authori­tie to deliver him, taking an oath that they came not that way of purpose but by chance. They might also make a will, and dispose of their goods as they plea­sed. But if any of them were found to live unchast, shee was openly carried with sad silence to the gate called Collina, where being put into a deepe pit, she was presently buried alive. These Vestals were first in­stituted by Numa Pompili­us, or as some write, by Romulus.
  • Vestment. A garment or clothing.
  • * Viands. Victuals.
  • Viaticum. Money or any necessary provision for a traveller.
  • Viciate. To corrupt, to difile.
  • Vicegerent. A deputie, one that supplyeth the place of another man.
  • Vicinitie. Neighbour­hood.
  • Vicissitude. An inter­changeable course of things, now one way, now another.
  • Victime. A sacrifice, a beast offered in sacrifice.
  • Victimate. To offer in sacrifice, to kill and sacri­fice.
  • [Page]Victor. A conqueror.
  • Victorious. That hath gotten the victory.
  • Videlicet. To wit, that is to say.
  • View. The print of the foot of a fallow Deere in the ground.
  • Vigilancie. Watchfulnesse.
  • Vigilant. Watchfull.
  • Vigill. The E [...]ve or day next before a great festi­vall day. It signifieth also a portion of the night devi­ded into foure equal parts, the first Vigill began at sixe of the clocke in the evening, and continued till nine. The second Vigill began at nine, and conti­nued till twelve. The third was from twelve till three. And the fourth was from three, till six of the clock [...] in the morning.
  • Vigour. Strength, liveli­nesse, force.
  • Vigorous. Lively, strong, lusty.
  • Vilifie. To make base.
  • Vilitie. Basenesse.
  • Vindictive. Revengefull, or apt to revenge.
  • Vintage. The time of yeere when wine is made.
  • Violate. To offer vio­lence, to corrupt or defile, to transgresse or breake a law.
  • Violation. An offering of violence, a breaking.
  • Viper. A venemous ser­pent in some hot countries lying much in the earth, having a short taile, which grateth and maketh a noise as he goeth. They are of a yellow colour, and some­time red. The male hath but one tooth in every side, but the female hath moe. It is written that when they ingender, the female biteth off the males head, which he putteth in­to her mouth, and that the young ones do gnaw the dams belly, and so kill her to get forth the sooner.
  • Virago. A stout woman of manly courage.
  • Virginall. Of or belong­ing to a Virgin.
  • Virilitie. Mans estate.
  • Virulent. Poysonous, deadly, infectious.
  • Visible. Which may be seene.
  • Visibilitie. The abilitie or power of seeing.
  • [Page]Vitall. Living, or apper­taining to life.
  • Vitiate. To corrupt or defile.
  • Vitious. Full of vice, lewd, wicked.
  • Vitriol. Copperas: It is of a middle nature between stone and mettall.
  • Vituperate. To re­proach, blame, or dis­praise.
  • Vituperation. A blaming, a rebuking.
  • Vivacitie. Long life, livelinesse.
  • Vivification. A quicken­ing, a reviving.
  • Vlcer. A sore, or botch.
  • Vlcerate. To make sores or blisters to arise.
  • Vlcerous. Full of sores.
  • Vmbilike. The navell, the middle part.
  • Vmbrated. Shadowed.
  • Vnac [...]essible. Vnapproch­able, which cannot be come unto.
  • Vnanimitie. One con­sent of minde, concord, a­greement.
  • Vncouth. Strange.
  • Vnction. An anointing.
  • * Vneth. Scarce, hardly, with difficultie.
  • Vnguent. An oyntment.
  • Vniforme. Of one forme and fashion.
  • Vniformitie. One forme and fashion.
  • Vnintelligible. VVhich cannot be understood.
  • Vnion. A joyning to­gether, concord, agree­ment: also there is a preci­ous pearle so called.
  • Vnitie. Concord, a­greement.
  • Vniversall. The whole, all in generall.
  • Vniversalitie. The whole state, all in generall.
  • Vnsatiable. Which can­not be filled or satisfied.
  • Vocabulary. Of or be­longing to words, which consisteth onely of words.
  • Vocall. Of or belonging to the voice.
  • Vocation. A calling, or course of life that one is called to.
  • Volant. Flying.
  • Volubilitie. The quicke turning of any thing: in­constancy, changeablenes.
  • Voluntary. Willing.
  • Voluper. A Kercher.
  • Voluptuous. Given to pleasure, wanton.
  • [Page]Voluptuousnesse. Pleasure of body, wantonnesse.
  • Vomite. To cast, to rid the stomacke.
  • Voracitie. A devouring.
  • Votary. He that maketh a vow, or bindeth himself by vow.
  • Vowell. A letter which maketh a perfect sound of it self, as a, c, i, o, u.
  • Vrbanitie. Courtesie in speech or behaviour, civi­litie, gentlenesse.
  • Vrgent. Which urgeth or compelleth a man to go a­bout a matter.
  • Vreters. The water pipes or conduits by which the urine passeth from the kid­nies to the bladder.
  • Vrim. An Hebrew word, which the high Priest of the Jewes wore with the word Thummim, in the plaits of the. Rationall up­on his brest: Saint Hierome interpreteth it, Learning.
  • Vrine. Water of man or beast.
  • Vrne. A box, or little ves­sell.
  • Vtas. The eighth day fol­lowing any terme or feast.
  • Vtensils, Necessaries be­longing to a house or ship.
  • Vtilitie. Profit, commo­ditie.
  • Vulgar. Common or much used of the common people.
  • Vultur. A ravenous fel­low, a cruell Cormorant.
  • Vuula. A little peece of flesh in the inmost roofe of the mouth, which some­time hangeth loose down­ward, and hindereth from speaking and swallowing the meat.
W
  • WAife. Goods that a Fellon flying, lea­veth for haste behind him, which commonly are for­feit to the lord of the soile, if the right owner be not known.
  • Waive. In our com­mon law it signifieth a woman that is outlawed.
  • * Wanger. A male or bouget.
  • * Warison. Reward.
  • Wariangles. A kinde of ravenous birds.
  • Warpe. The threed that goeth in the length of the cloth.
  • [Page]* Wastell bread. Fine Cim­nell.
  • * Waymenting. Lament­ing.
  • Weasand. The throat or passage into the stomacke.
  • * Weene. To thinke.
  • * Welked. Whithered.
  • Welkine. The whole cō ­passe of the heavens: the firmament, the heavens.
  • * Wend. To go.
  • Whilke. Which.
  • Whilome. Whilst, some­time once, or in time past.
  • Whirlebone. A round bone upon the knee, which may be moved up and down.
  • Whorlebat. A weapon having plummets of Lead tyed to the end of it.
  • Wile. Deceit, crafti­nesse.
  • Wily. Subtle, craftie.
  • Wisard. A Wise-man, a Witch, a cunning man.
  • Withername. When he that hath taken a distresse carrieth it to such a place, where the Sheriffe may not make deliverance upon a Replevine, then the par­tie distrayned may have a Writ to the Sheriffe, that he take as many beasts, or as much goods of the other in his keeping, till that he hath made de­liverance of the first di­stresse, and this is called a Writ of Withername.
  • * Wone. Store.
  • * Wonne. To dwell, or abide.
  • Woodshaw. Woodside or shadow.
  • Woose. That threed in weaving which goeth a crosse.
  • Wooldriver. He that buy­eth wooll in the Country, and carryeth it away on horsebacke to sell it a­gain.
  • Wrethe. The tayle of a wild Boare.
  • Wreck. The losse of a ship at Sea by drowning: also goods so lost and cast up on the sea shoare.
  • * Wre [...]e. To compasse about.
  • Wright. A Carpenter.
  • * Wimple. A Kercher.
  • Wyver. A serpent much like a Dragon.
X
  • XYloaloes. See Lignum Aloes.
  • [Page]Xylobalsamum. A sweet wood out of which balme droppeth. See Balme.
Y
  • YArdland. In some pla­ces, it is 20 Acres of land: in some, 24 and in some 30.
  • Yarrow. Fearefull, faint­hearted. Also there is an herbe so called, good to stop any bleeding.
  • Yate. A Gate.
  • Ycleeped. Called, name.
  • Yearne. To cry and barke as Beagles doe at their prey.
  • * Yede. Went.
  • Yexing. Sobbing.
  • Yore. Long ago, of old.
  • Yuca. An herbe in In­ [...]a, wherewith they use to make bread.
Z
  • ZAnie. A foolish imi­tator to a tumbler, or such like.
  • Zenith. That part of the heavens which is direct o­ver our head.
  • Zephirus. The west wind.
  • Zodiake. An imaginary winding circle in the hea­vens, under which the pla­nets are still moved, and in which the twelve signes are placed.
  • Zone. A girdle in Cos­mographic, it signifieth a division made of the hea­vens into five parts, where­of one is extreme hot, two extreame cold, and two temperate. The hot Zone, otherwise called the burn­ing Zone, is all that part of the heavens, which is contained betweene the two Tropickes of Cancer and Capricorne, in which Zone, continually the Sun keepeth his course. The two cold Zones are under the two Poles of the world, or within 23 de­grees neere them. The two temperate are the Zones betweene the far­thest extreme cold and the middle burning Zone. And with these five Zones of the heavens, doth the earth under, agree in heat, cold temperature.
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