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 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 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 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 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
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 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 I 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 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 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 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 â—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 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
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 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 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 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 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 bond-woman 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 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
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 Gâ—â—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 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 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 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 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 superiours saving such as they appoint Democraticall Of or belonging to the estate of Democratâ—â—â— Denâ—â—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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Mirâ—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 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 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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 I le 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 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 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 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
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 theÌ„ 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 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 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 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 Poenâ—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 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 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 merchaÌ„t denizen or alien Practicall Of or belonging to practise Practique
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 Seâ—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 â—â—ssleade Sediâ—lity Diligence carefulnessâ— Segregate To divide to 〈◊〉 Sejjant A terme in â—â—naul drie when a beast is painted sitting upright Sâ—lâ—â—â— To choose to pâ—â—â—e out Semâ—â—lable Like Semblanoe A shew a colâ—â—â— Sâ—â—â—â—ant Like Sâ—â—â—â—le Halfe a cirâ—â—e Seminarie A seede 〈◊〉 Semiâ—â—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 Sâ—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 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 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 I le 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 strÌ„age 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 ninâ— Hereat the King deriding 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 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
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 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 * 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 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 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 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