F. so called because hee beareth a forme like the Greeke letter Gamma made double Digest To dispose or set in order Dight Made ready apparrelled dressed Digresse To turne aside to leaue the matter time is in hand and speak of another thing Digression A turning to speake of another thing Dilaniation A tearing in pieces Dilate To spread abroad to enlarge to drawe in length Dilatation A drawing in length speaking of a thing at large Dilemma A kinde of argument which conuinceth ones aduersary both waies as in saying If hee bee a good man why doe you speake euill of him If hee bee naught why doe you keepe him company Dimension The true measure of a thing Diminution A diminishing Diminutiue Little small or a word which betokeneth a little thing as lambekinne a little lambe Dinumeration A numbring a reckoning Dire Fierce cruell terrible Directory That which directeth one Direption A violent catching away Disanull To disalowe Disappeare To vanish out of sight To be seene no more Disastrous Vnluckie vnfortunate Disauow To deny or refuse by vowe Disciple A Scholler one that learneth Discipline Instruction Disclayme To deny Disconsolate Vncomfortable Discordant Disagreeing Discrepant Much differing Discusse To examine debate or try 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 grieuous Dismantle To vnclothe to vnfurnish to leaue vnprouided Dismisse To discharge to put away Disparage To disgrace to ioyne with vnequall match Disparagement Dishonour disgrace It properly signifieth a shame or disgrace done by a Guardian to his ward in marying him vnder yeeres to a woman vnfitte for his calling or to one past childe-bearing or which hath some great deformitie lamenesse or some horrible disease Disparates A terme of Logicke applyed to such words as onely differing one from another but not contrary as heate and cold are contraries but heate and moysture are Disparates viz. two contrary qualities Disparity Vnlikenesse vnequality Disperpelled A terme in Herauldry when any thing of soft substance doth by falling from high shoot it selfe out into diuers corners or ends Disperse To scatter abroad Dispersion A scattering abroad Displayed Wide spreade opened Disputable Any thing that a man may dispute on Disrobe To vnclothe properly of rich or garmeâ—ts of state Dissent To disagree Dissheuelled Bare hayred without any attyre on the head the haire hanging at length Dissimilitude Vnlikenesse Dissipate To scatter or spread abroad Dissipation A scattering a wasting Dissolue To vndoe weaken or destroy to plucke downe Dissolute Loose wanton giuen 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 conteyned in two verses Distinguish To put a difference between things Distinction A difference put betweene things Distract To drawe away to trouble ones minde Distraction A pulling asunder or drawing away of the mind Distresse Any goods taken and detained for not payment of rent or to enforce one to answere to a suite Sometime it signifieth great affliction or misery Distribution A diuiding among many Disturbe To trouble to vexe Disunion A disioyning a seuering Disunite To part to diuide to seuer Diuert To turne aside Diuident That which diuideth Diuine Heauenly belonging to God Sometime to gesse or foretell a thing to come Diuination A foretelling of a thing before it happeneth which may as I take it bee diuided into three different kindes namely supernaturall naturâ—ll and superstitious Diuination Supernaturall Diuination onely reuealed to man by God is not properly called Diuination but prophecy with which all the holy Prophets haue in former times beene inspired Naturall Diuination may bee diuided into two branches whereof the first is that which hath in former times been practised by wicked spirits in oracles and answers giuen by them in Idols and is at this day sometime seene in possessed persons who by suggestion of the diuell may foretell often things to come and this is but a naturall Diuination For although to vs 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 obseruation besides the knowledge of secrets in nature and their quicke intelligence from all places are able to foresee much more then wee by nature can The second branch of naturall Diuination is that which a wise man may foretell by probable coniecture beeing no way offensiue so long as it is only guided by reason and ouerruled by submitting it selfe to the almightie power of GOD. And to this second kinde of Diuination 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 certainetie thereof into which excesse of vanity if it should breake foorth it can then bee no longer called naturall Diuination but superstitious and wicked for the Starres may incline but not impose a necessitie in particular things The third and last manner of Diuination is that which we called superstitious whereof there hath among the Gentiles beene diuers different kinds namely Auguration Aruspicie Necromancie Gromancie Hydromancie Pyromancie Cossinomancie Palmistrie or Chiromancie Augutation was a diuination made of things to come by the slying feeding chirping of birds the professors wherof called Augurs were of great account among the heatheÌ„ Romans in so much that there was a Colledge of them in the citie neither would the Romans vndertake any publike matter of importance without asking their assent But the vanity hereof was well derided by a wise Iew named Mossolamus as Iosephus writes For an Augur in the wars once requiring that the army which was then marching might stand still a while till he tooke obseruation of a bird thereby to foreknow the successe of that expedition this Iew whilst the Augur was busie in his art shot at the Bird with an arrow and by chance killed her whereat the Augur and others being highly offended Are you so foolish quoth the Iew to imagine this poore Bird can tell what will happen to vs that could not foresee her owne death so neere at hand Aruspicie is a diuination which by opening and viewing the bowels of beasts did vndertake to foretell things to come the professors whereof were called Aruspices Necromancie the worst of all others is that diuination which is practised by coniuration and calling vp Diuels or dead mens ghosts Which manner of diuination we reade practised by King Saul 1. Reg. cap. 28. when he required a Sorceresse to call vp the spirit of Samuell to him Geomancie is a kinde of diuination practised by making prickes and lines in the earth as the name
wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes hee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath vpon her the monethly courses or which belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenary 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 deserue Meritorious Which doth much deserue Messias The same in Hebrew that Christ is in Greeke to wit Annointed Our Lord and Sauiour 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 Couetousnesse is the roote of all euill Where the word Root is called a Metaphore because it signifieth the cause and beginning of all euill euen as a root is the cause from whence a Plante springeth Metaphoricall Spoken by a Metaphore Metaphysikes Arts which lifting themselues aboue the changeable nature of things doe consider of such as doe subsist in their owne essence not subiect to any alteration so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall and euerlasting things and in this sense schoole Diuinity is the highest part of the Metaphysickes being chiefely occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and soules of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the ayre as rayne snowe hayle thunder lightning blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapors or exhalations drawn vp from the earth and Sea by attractiue vertue of the Sunne Meter Measure or a verse made by measure Method A direct way to teach or doe any thing Metonymie A figure in speaking when the cause is put for the effect the subiect for the adiuact or contrarily Metropolitan The chiefe or mother city an Arch-Bishop 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 doeth resemble a great man Midrisse A sinewie skin passing ouerthwarte in mans body which diuideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guttes liuer lest the vitall parts should bee oftended with any ill vapour comming from them Migrant A disease coming by sits eyther in the right or left side of the head caused by distemperate humours or vapours brought thither from the veines or arteries at certaine times Militant Warring or which is in warfare Military Warlike or belonging to warre Mimicall That which belongeth or scoffing behaviour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton gester a counterfet foole Minatory Threatning Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniuer A sine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrels some say it is the skinne of a little white Vermin breeding in Muscouia Minor The lesser the yonger Minority A mans time before he be of full age in the lawe to dispose of his goods and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candy and fedde with mans flesh where at last he was slaine by Theseus as Poets report Miscreant An infidell a false beleeuer Misprision An offence inclinable to fellony or treason but not so capital as fellony or treason is in which the offendour shall be punished by fine losse of goods forfeite 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 Mistledon A plant which hath slender branches and greene thick leaues growing neuer vpon the ground but vpon other trees The best is that which groweth vpon an oake and the leaues and fruit hereof 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 I le of Cyprus It is of a fretting burning nature as the common copperas is Mithridate A great confection like treacle inuented 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 bee taken inwardly before it bee aboue sixe moneths old Mittigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobility Aptnes to mooue Moderate Measurable temperate also to gouerne or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour hee that keepeth both parties from beeing too extreame Moderne Liuing now in our age Modicum A little a poore pittance Modulation A pleasant tuning or sweete singing Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees Moity Halfe. 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 Beniamin 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 a very little time sometime the valew or weight of a thing Momentany 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 gouerned Monasterle A religious house of Monkes Monasticall Solitarie belonging to a Monasterie 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 sel them or gaine by them but himselfe Moote To argue or reason a case in law Morall Of or belonging to good manners some time one of good behauiour sometimes the meaning of a fable Moralitie Goodnesse of manners ciuilitie 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 way wardnesse Morpheus Sleepe or the God of sleepe 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 giuen 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 statue 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 party are aboue
once set on fire can hardly bee quenched Abiect Vile base of no estimation Abiure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime vsed in Lawe when one hauing committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abiure the Realme then stand to tryall of Lawe This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessour in fauour of life but now is not in vse Abiuration A renouncing by oath see Abiure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnesse vnaduisednesse Ablution A washing Abolition A taking away destroying or abolishing Abortion The birth of a child before due time or the destroying in the mothers wombe Abortiue That which is vntimely borne Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreyes bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and drie and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Phisitians haue 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 peece-meale out of order without obseruing of due circumstance Absolue To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgiuenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or vnlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his owne 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 vnderstand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusiue That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomelesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot bee sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaues and fruit whereof they draw a iuyce or blacke liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictiue or binding Our Apothecaties haue not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they vse the iuice of sloes beeing of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniuersitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniuersitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeued the immortality of soules Plato hauing learned many things of the Hebrewes 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 Accessory 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 chaunce sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantity quality 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 drawe neere to one Accrew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape vp Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeue To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister seruing to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe hauing a root much like a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dogge of hell being dregged vp in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his fome vpon this herbe whereby it became so venemous Acquire To gette or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guilty of an offence wherewith hee was charged Action A deede done or the doing of any thing In our common Lawe it signifieth a suite commenced against any man and is commonly diuided into three differing kindes viz. 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as vpon the breach of a penall statute where some aduantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3. Action reall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Actiue Liuely strong nimble Actiuity Strong nimblenesse Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharpe witty Adage A prouerbe 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 yieldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Inuincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goates blood beeing steeped therein new and warme It is of contrary nature to the loadstone in so much that beeing laide neere it the loadstone can not draw yron hauing the vertue thereof ouer mastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or giue ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our commō law it signifieth any title giuen to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleaue to Adherence A cleauing to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaueth or ioyneth close to a thing Adiacent That which lyeth neere to another thing Adiourne To deferre or put off till another time Adiournement A terme in lawe when any Court is dissolued and appointed to be kept vpon some other time or at any other place Adiunct A qualitie ioyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adiure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adiuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To doe seruice sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinary Administration The doing or handling of a businesse or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator Hee to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goodes of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honor or esteeme highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiuing or giuing one leaue to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning giuen one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to bee as his sonne to him Adore To worship to giue diuine reuerence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifie Adornation A decking or trimming Aduent A comming Certaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemne preparation for the comming of our Sauiour Aduentaile A coate of Armour Aduerse Contrary Aduert To marke Aduertise To giue knowledge of a thing Adulacion Flattery Adulatory Which flattereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterfeit Aduocate Hee that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which
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 bee taken vp againe with the point of a knife It is an excellent medicine to take any scar out of the body and for diuers other purposes but very costly and rarely gotten Saladinus writes that there was but one vineyard of these in the whole world and that belonged to the great Turke Balnco A bathe Balsanium See Balme Baptisme It commonly signifieth a dipping or washing Baptist A washer S. Iohn the sonne of Zacharias was so called for that hee first began to Baptize or wash men in the riuer of Iordan to the remission of sinnes Barbarisme Rudenesse in speech or behauiour outragious crueltie * Bardes Poets * Bargaret A kinde of dance Barrester He that is allowed to pleade causes at the barre Barretter A common quarreller one that is euer suing and molesting others without cause Barricado A warlike defence of emptie Barrels and such like vessels laide 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 signifieth the foote 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 euery thing that it goeth ouer neither can any herbe growe neere the place where it lyeth It is poyson to poyson and driueth 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 lookes This serpent is not aboue a foote long of colour between black yellow hauing red eye a very sharpe head and a white spot thereon like a crowne wherefore he is called by some in Latine Regulus viz. a little king It goeth not winding like other serpents but vpright vnto the middle holding vp 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 cunctas terrentia pestes Ante venena nocens late sibi submouet omne Vulgus in vacua regnat Basiliscus arena With deadly hisse the Basiliske all other plagues doth fright And speedier kils then poisons can with his infectious sight Hee le haue no neighbour dwell neere him he loues to liue alone And tyrantlike reignes by himselfe in caue of sandy stone Bassae A noble man or great Commander vnder 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 conuey such to ward as are there committed Battry A beating or striking Baubee A small coine a farthing * Baine A Bathe Bdellium A Gumme brought out of Arabia and the Holy land of a sweete smell and bitter taste It hath vertue to mollifie and ripen hard swellings and is good against the stiffenesse of sinewes or other parts and against the biting of venemous beasts Beades of Saint Elline Certaine round roots brought out of Florida which being drie are very hard on the outside blacke and inwardly white of a sweet smell and good taste They are of great vertue against griefs of the stomack as also of the kidnies or reines Beame The maine horne of a hart or Stagge Beatitude Blessednesse Beauer In armour it signifieth that part of the helmet which may bee lifted vp to take breath the more freely It is also a beast of very hotte nature liuing much in the water His two forefeete are like the feete of the beast called Gattus as Ioannes de Sancto amando writeth but what this Gattus is I doe not well vnderstand onely I suppose it to be an Otter Vpon these feete hee hath very sharpe clawes wherewith hee taketh his prey and hangeth vpon water bankes His hinder feet are made like to the foot of a Goose wherewith hee swimmeth Hee hath very sharpe teeth and doeth much harme to trees with knawing the rootes and ryndes of them It is written that if a Beauer come into a strange place where hee hath not beene bred the other Beauers will make him their slaue to prouide them meate and pull off all the haire from his backe that hee may be knowne The stones of this beast are sold in Apothecaries shoppes by the name of Castoreum they are much vsed in Physick beeing very good against palsies and cold diseases of the sinewes But the skin is of more valew then the stones Beeglue That which Bees doe make at the entry of their hiue to keepe out cold Beestings The first milke that commeth from the Teate after the birth of any thing Belial An Hebrew word signifying a wicked naughty person An Apostata one without yoke and is many times taken for the diuell * Beliue By and by anon Bellona Warre or the goddesse of Warre among the heathen Belt A girdle Belzebub An Hebrew word compounded of Bel which in that language signifieth an Idoll and Zebub a Fly so that Belzebub signifieth the Idoll of Flies notwithstanding commonly it is taken for the diuell Benediction A blessing Benefactor A friend one that doth good Benificence A dooing good Beneficent Liberall louing Beneuolence Good will Beneuolent Louing friendly well wishing Benigne Friendly gentle fauourable Benignity Friendlinesse liberty courtesie * Benison A blessing Benz vine A sweet smelling gumme good against hoarsenesse and the cough beeing dissolued in water and drunken It hath many other excellent properties to be vsed in Physick The tree vpon which it groweth is not with vs certenly knowne 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 Beastiall Beastly dishonest Bestiality Beastlinesse Beuie A heard of row Buckes most commonly with vs it signifieth a great number of Quails in company Beuie greace The fat of a row Deere Bezar stone A stone of excellent vertue against poyson very costly and of great account in Physick It is commonly of the bignesse of an A corne or Chestnut being compoūded of certain thin scales one vpon another like the scales of an Onion It is easie to bee scraped or cutte and if it continue long in water it melteth The middle part is something hollow and full of powder of the same substance that the stone is of And this is a marke to know whether the stone bee fine and true for the Indians doe counterfeite them sometimes and deceiue many This stone it taken out of the bowels of a beast in India much like
sometime in Warre It is a little thing made with foure prickes of yron of such a fashion that which way soeuer it be throwen one point will alwaies sticke vp like a naile to spoile the enemies horse feete Caligraphic Faire writing Calumniate To slaunder to belie one shamefully Columniation Slaunderous lying * Camoyse Crooked vpward as commonly the noses of blacke Moores bee Camphire A kinde of Gumme as Auicen writeth But Platearius affirmeth it to be the iuice 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 ouercharged with hot melancholy humours It is called a Canker because the veines so swollen are like vnto the clawes of a Crab. This disease may happen in any part of the bodie but most commonly in womens breasts by reason of their spongie hollownesse and great number of veines their 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 sauage 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 Lawes or decrees for Church gouernement are called Canons And certaine times of prayer vsed by Churchmen were called Canonicall houres of prayer Canonicall Approoued by common or exact rule Canonier He that shooteth in great Ordinance Canonize To declare and pronounce one for a Saint Canonization The solemnity of Canonizing or pronouncing one to bee a Saint Cantharides Certaine Flies shining like golde breeding in the toppes of Ashe and Oliue trees beyond Sea They are sometime vsed by Physitions to raise blisters in the body but their heads wings and feete must be cast away The iuice of them is poysonous Cape A corner of land shooting out into the Sea Capabilitie An aptnesse to containe or receiue Capable Which can containe or hold a thing Capacitie Aptnesse to receiue and hold Capers A prickly plant almost like to brambles growing in Spaine Italy and other hot countries The roote hereof is much vsed in Physicke against obstructions of the spleen or milte The flowers and leaues are brought hither from Spaine preserued in brine and are commonly eaten with Mutton They stirre vp the appetite warme the stomacke and open the stoppings of the liuer and milt Capitall Chiefe principall sometime deadly abhominable Capite A tenure when a man holdeth lands immediately of the king as of his crowne Capitole An ancient palace in Rome so called Capitulate To draw or bring into Chapters Capriole Leaping of a horse aboue ground called by horsemen the Goates leape Capstand An instrument to wind vp things of great weight some call it a crane Captious Short quicke quarrelsome in demands Captiuate To take prisoner Captiuity Bondage imprisonment Caranna A Gumme brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against aches proceeding of cold causes Carbonado A rasher vpon 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 chiefly preuaileth against the danger of infectious aire The best of these stones will shine in darkeness like a burning coale as Albertus writeth himselfe hath seene Others shine but a little and are lesse esteemed but such as shine not at all are scarce of any reckoning these stones are found in some countreies of Africa 2. Carbuncle disease is a botch or vlcer otherwise called by a Greeke name Anthrax caused of grosse hot blood which raiseth blisters and burneth the skinne This vlcer is euer accompanied with a Feuer Cardones An hearbe 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 beeing chewed draweth downe fleame and humours from the head being drunâ—en in powder is good against diuers inward diseases Carcanet A small chaine Cardinall Chiefe principall Carnall Fleshly Carnality Fleshlinesse Carol. A song sometime a dance Carpt To checke taunt or rebuke Carreere A short swift race with a horse as at lusts Tournaments Carrike A great shippe of burden Casani India bread Casia It is commonly taken for Cinnamome Poets vnderstand often by it some sweete smelling herbe as Virg. Eclog. 2. Tum Casia atque alijs intexens suanibus herbis Also Ovid. Quo simul ac Casias nardilenis aristas Quassaque cum fulua substrauit Cinnama myrrha Lictantius also De Phoenice Cinnama dehint auramque procul spirantis amomâ— Congerit mixto balsama cum folio Non Casia mitis nec olentis vinuen acanthi Nec thuris Lachrymae guttaque pinguis abest Where wee see that Casia and Cinnamome signifie two things Some think it to bee Lauender For mine owne part I know not certainely what English name or interpretation to giue it Cassia fistula A fruite growing in Arabia and Syria which is round blacke and long almost as ones arme of the bignesse of a Thumbe The outside hereof is hard within it is contained the seede and a blacke substance soft and sweete which is much vsed in Physicke as a gentle purger of the inward parts Cassia lignea A sweete wood much like cinnamome and of the nature of cinnamome Castigate To chastise to correct Castigation A chasticing a correction Castleward A payment made by some dwelling within a certaine compasse of a castle for the maintenance of those that doe watch and ward the castle Also the circuite of land which oweth this seruice Castoreum See Beuer. Casual That which happeneth by chance doubtfull vncertaine Casualtie Chance fortune hap-hazard Catadupa A place in Ethiopia so called where the great riuer Nilus falleth from high Mountanous rockes with such violence that the continuall noise thereof maketh the people there dwelling to become deafe Catalogue A roll a bill a register of name or other things Cataplasma It signifieth properly a medicine which is made of diuers hearbes eyther bruised or boyled in water and so applyed outwardly to the body If there bee 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 humors out of the head into the mouth and throate caused by a colde and sometime hotte distemperance of the braine Catastrophe The conclusion or end of a Comedy a sudden alteration Catecheumen A nouice or one newly instructed in matters of faith by word of mouth Category In the Greeke tongue it properly signifieth an accusation It is also a terme vsed in Logike which shall after the explicated in the word Predicament Categoricall axiome A simple axiome or proposition not compounded of any coniunction as Peter is a man Cathedrall Of or belonging to a Bishops chaire Catholike A Greek word signifying vniuerfal or generall Catobleya A
his Maiesties subiect enioying thereby al priuiledges as if he were an Englishman Denominate To name one Denomination A naming Denotate To note or marke to signifie Denotation A noting or marking Denounce To giue warning to declare to threaten * Denwere Double Deodand When a man is casually killed by a catt Horse or Mill c. that which mooued and was thereby cause of his death being forfeit to the King appertaineth to his Maiesties Almoner to bestow in deedes of charity and is therefore called a Deodand as being to be giuen away for Gods sake Depend To hang vpon an other thing Dependant That which hangeth vpon 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 authority to thrust out of his kingdome somtime to sweate Depositum A pledge any thing layd vp with one to keepe Deposition A deposing or putting from great authority also a laying down sometime an oath or testimony giuen by oath Depraue To corrupt or marre sometime to speake euill of one Depresse To crouch downe to keepe vnder Depriue To take away Depriuation A losse of any thing Depute To appoint Deride To mocke or floute Derision A mocking Deriue To take or draw from another thing Deriuative That which is deriued from another thing or word Deriuation A deriuing or drawing from some thing Derogate To empaire diminish or take away Derogation A taking away from ones honour or estimation Derogatorie That which empaireth or hindereth the credit of any one Descend To goe 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 Designe To appoint Designement An enterprise or purpose which a man hath Desist To leaue off Deteine To keep from one Detect To discouer to disclose Detection A discouerie disclosing Detract To speake euill of one Detraction Slanderous speaking Detriment Losse harme hinderance Deuastation A wasting of a countrey Deuest To vncloath Deuiant Farre out of the way Deuoire Endeauour Deuolue To rolle down Deuolution A rolling along Dewlap The hollow part of the throate hanging downe in some beasts Dexter Belonging to the right hand Dexteritie Nimblenesse quicknesse skilfulnesse Diabolicall Diuellish Diacatholicon An electuary much vsed in phisicke so called because it serueth as a gentle purge for all humours Diacinnamon A physicall mixture of cinnamom and diuerse spices in powder together which helpeth digestion and is good against colde moist diseases of the stomacke Diacodion A cold sirupe made of the tops of poppies vsed in phisicke sometime against hote diseases and to stay the falling downe of humours out of the head Diacurcuma A confection made of Saffron and diuers other simples vsed against the dropsie and olde diseases of the stomacke spleene and liuer Diadem A kings crowne or an attire for Princes to weare on their heads made of purple silke and pearle Diagalanga A confection made of Galingale and hotte spices good against the wind colicke and cold distemperature of the inward parts Diagridium There is a plant called Scammonie growing in far hot countries the iuice of the roote whereof being dryed is a very strong and violent purgatiue medicine called also Scammonie which before it can be vsed in physicke must bee boyled in Quinces to abate the malice of it now the Scammony boyled and prepared in this sort is called by Apothecaries Diagridium Dialacca A confection made of the gumme Lacca and diuerse hotte simples good against cold diseases of the stomack stoppings of the liuer 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 North is different from that in the South and the Western Dialect differing from them both The Grecians had fiue especiall Dialects as 1. The property of speech in Athens 2. In Ionia 3. In Doris 4. In Eolia and 5. that manner of speech which was generally vsed of them all So euery countrey hath commonly in diueâ—s parts thereof some differance 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 diuers hot spices good to be giuen in wine or other liquor to strengthen the stomacke reuiue the spirits and warme the inward parts Diameter A streight line which passing through the middle of any figure diuideth it in two equall parts Diapason A concord of musicke in of all Diaphoenicon An Electuary vsed often by Phisitions to purge fleame and choler Diaper A fine kinde of linnen not wouen after the ordinarie fashion but in certaine workes Diamonds knots or other deuices Diapred Diuersified of diuers colours or garnishings Diaprunum An Electuary made of Damaske Prunes and diuers other simples good to coole the body in hot burning Feuers After it is made Phisitians vse often to adde Diagridium to it and then it becommeth very Purgatory and is called Diaprunum solutiuum soluble or laxatiue Diaprunum Diarhodon A comfortable confection good to refresh and strengthen all the inward parts after long hot diseases Diasena A purging Electuaty good against quartane Agues and all other diseases proceeding from melancholy Diatragacanthum A confection made of the Gum Tragacarith and other simples good against hot diseases of the breast the cough pleurisie inflammation of the lungs Diatrionpiperion A confection so called because it is principally compounded of the three kindes of Pepper to wit long white and blacke Pepper It is good to helpe digestion when the stomacke wanteth heat to concoct that which it hath receiued Diatrionsantalon A colde 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 opurgeth flegmatick grosse humours Dicacitie Much talke or prating Dichotomie A diuiding into two parts or a diuision made by two and two Dicker Tenne hides of Lether Dictate To endite also that which one writeth from anothers mouth while he speaketh Dictator A chiefe Officer among the Romanes neuer chosen but vpon great necessity in dangerous troubles of the common wealth This Dictator could continue in office but onely sixe moneths and then vnder paine of treason was to giue vp his authoritie He could bee 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 onely the Tribune of the people so that the Dictator during his time had as it were a kingly authority aboue all Difficult Hard vneasie Difficulty Hardnesse vneasinesse Diffidence Distrust Diffident Mistrustfull Diffuse To spreade abroad Digamma The letter
the foure dayes next after the first but the last of these dayes is properly called Nones and the other reckoned backward according to the number distant froÌ„ the Nones as the third fourth or fift Nones They are called Nones because they are iust nine daies before the Ides Nonplus No more a terme somtime vsed when a man can speake no further or make no answer to an obiection Nonsuite The letting of a suite fall Norroy One of the Herauldes hauing the same authority beyond Trent northward that Clarentius hath from Trent Southward Notice Knowledge Notifie To make knowne Nouelty Newes a newe matter Nouice A young learner oâ—e that hath no experience Nouity Newnesse Nullifidian Of no honestie of no religion Nullity Nothing Numeration A numbering Nuncupation A naming Nuptiall Of or belonging to marriage Nutriment Nourishment Nutritiue Which nourisheth Nymph A Virgine a faire young Maide O OBdurate To harden also hard or vnrelenting Obduration A hardening Obeliske A great square stone broad beneath and rising of an admirable height smaller and smaller toward the toppe There were diuers of these Obeliskes in Egypt consecrated in honour of the Sunne whereof foure were principall erected by King Sochis of two hundred and forty yards high In time of the Romane Emperours many Obeliskes were likewise set at Rome Obiect That which is placed before ones eyes or the thing that one laboureth to attaine Obiection A laying to ones charge Obiurgate To chide to reprooue sharpely Obiurgation A chiding Oblation A sacrifice an offering Oblige To binde Oblique Crooked ouerthwart Obliquitie Crookednesse Obliterate To blot out Obliuion Forgetfulnesse Obliuious Forgetfull Obloquie Slander euill report Obnoxious Subiect to danger Obscene Filthy abhominable dishonest Obscenity Filthy talke Obscure Darke Obscurity Darknesse Obsecrate To intreate to beseech Obsecration A beseeching Obsequie A Funerall a solemne buriall Obsequious Dutifull diligent seruiceable Obseruance Diligent heede or attendance Obseruant Dutifully watching diligent Obsesse To besiege or compasse about A man is said to bee obsest when an euill spirit followeth him troubling him diuers times and seeking oportunity to enter into him Obsolete Olde stale growne out of vse Obstacle A hinderance or lette Obstruction A stopping commonly in the body Obtestation A beseeching Obtrectations A slandering behind ones backe Obtrude To thrust forth to cast vpon one Obtuse Dull blunt Occidentall Of or belonging to the West Occurre To come in the way to meete with one Occurrent That which happeneth or commeth in the way Ocean The vniuersall maine Sea compassing the greater part of the earth Octances Eight dayes next after some principall feasts of the yeare Ode A song Odious Hatefull Odour A sweet smell Odoriferous Sweet smelling Oeconomie The knowledge of wel ordering matters blonging to houshold Oeconomicall Of or belonging to houshold Oecumenicall Vniuersall generall Oedeme A waterish swelling in the body without paine caused by some flegmaticke or vaporous humour and leauing a hollow dent or pit therein if one presse it downe with the finger Offensive Which offendeth Officious Seruiceable willing to please Officiall An Officer Olibanum The right frankincense which is a Gumme growing in Arabia whereof there are two kindes the femall or smaller frankincense and the male the greater whitet and stronger of which Virgill speaketh Eclog. 8. Burne Verucine fatte and strong male frankincense It is hotte and dry good for perfumes to correct infectious ayre and to be put in plaisters for greenwounds The weight of two or three Wheate cornes swallowed downe doth helpe digestion and maketh the breath swette Where note that the right Olibanum or Frankincense will burne like a candle and that which is counterfeit consume away in smoake Oligarchie A common wealth where a few principall persons gouerne all the rest Olympicke games Solemne games of running riding wrastling and other feates of actiuitie kept euery fift yeare on a high hill in Greece called Olympus The reward to those that ouercame in these trials was nothing but a Garland of Oliue branches least couetousnesse rather then vertue should make men striue for victorie which was the cause that Tigranes Sonne of Artabanus seruing in the huge armie of King Xerxes who then inuaded Greece said to Mardonius who had perswaded the King to that enterprize against what a people haue you brought vs to fight that more esteeme honour then mony Thinking it impossible to ouercome such Nations as were so affected Omen A hausening Ominous Hausening that which signifieth som good or bad lucke to ensue Omission A letting slip a leaning vndone Omit To forbeare to leaue vndone Omnipotencie Almightinesse Omnipotent Almightie Omniregencie The hauing all authoritie in ones owne hands Onerate To burden or ouercharge Onyx A precious stone found in the Mountaines of Arabia of the colour of a mans naile Some write that it is congealed of a iuyce dropping from a tree called Onytha which is the cause that it smelleth sweet being cast into the fire as also that it is often found with diuers pictures in it being easily therein fashioned before the stone bee throughly hardened Opall A precious stone of diuers colours wherein appeareth the fierie shining of the Carbuncle the purple colour of the Amethyst and the greene shew of the Emerald very strangely mixed together Operate To worke Operatiue 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 selfe-willed Opium The iuice of black Poppie sold dry by Apothecaries It is sometime vsed in Physicke to make one sleepe or to asswage excessiue paine but then it must bee mixed with other things discretion for taken alone it will cast one into a deadly sleepe beeing cold and dry in the fourth degree Opobalsamum See Balme Opopanax A sappe 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 bee not ouerstale It is good against cold shiuerings of agues to be drunke with meade of such as are squat or bruised therein Oportunely Fitly in due time Oppilation A stopping Opponent He which apposeth or asketh questions Oppose To obiect to set one thing against another Opposite Contrarie or placed ouer against Opposition A putting setting or standing against Opprobrious Reprochful naughtie wicked Oppugne To resist to fight against Optike Belonging to the sight Option A wish Opulencie Great wealth riches Or. Gold or golden colour Oracle An answere or counsel giuen by God Among the Gentiles these Oracles were but illusions of the diuel who answered for the most part doubtfully in Idols to questions or demands made vnto him There were two such principall places of Oracles One of Ammon or Iupiter in Lybia which was founded vpon this occasion When Bacchus after his conquests in India came into the hot burning countrey of Lybia and wanted there water to releeue his armie it is said that he praied
to his father Iupiter to helpe him in that distresse whereupon there appeared a Ramme vnto him which stamping vpon the ground with his foote 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 hee erected an Idoll to Iupiter in the likenesse of a Ram which Idol afterward gaue 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 Cittie of Beotia in Greece where Apollo was said to giue answers Oratorie A place to pray in Oratour One that pleadeth causes an eloquent speaker Orbe Any perfect round circle hollow in the midst Orbicular Round like an Orbe Orchall A stone like Allume vsed somtime by Diers to raise a red colour Ordinarie A Iudge that hath ordinary iurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes Ordure Dung filth Orgall The lees of Wine dried vsed by Diers to make their cloth to drinke in the colour throughly Organicall That which consisteth of diuers substantiall parts members Organist A player vpon Organs Organ Ling. A kinde of Ling brought out of the North Countries Orgies Rude ceremonies instituted by the Poet Orpheus to bee kept euery third yeare 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 rootes growing in some places neere the Sea side The Plant is called Sea hollie bearing prickly broad leaues and round sharpe prickly heads set about with small skie coloured floures These rootes are very long and deepe into the ground of an ashie colour in the outside and full of ioynts They vse scraping of the outer rinde of these roots pulling out the pith to preserue them by boyling them with Sugar or Hony a little Cinamon and Ginger which preserue is very good for aged people and such as are consumed in their bodie to nourish them againe 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 vnto 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 Sunne that shineth with the vowell V. Orthographist Hee that professeth or is skilfull in Orthographie Osanna See Hosanna Osprey A kinde of rauenous Fowle which houereth ouer pooles to take Fish Ostentation Boasting vaine craking or vaunting A proude setting foorth to shew Ostiary An officer hauing authority to keep vnworthy persons out of the Church Ostracisme A banishment among the Athenians for ten years so called because they vsed to write the names of the party so condemned in Oyster shelles This punishment was chiefely vsed to abate the ouergreat power of noble men Ouall A long round circle made like an egge such as pictures are sometimes drawne in Ouerture An ouerturning a sudden change Oxgang Thirteene acres of land Oxymel A sirupe made of Hony Vineger and water good to cut and clense grosse flegmatick humors sometime there are boyled certen roots and seeds with it and then it is called Oxymell compositum sometime it is made with Hony Vineger and the Sea Onion and then it is named Oymel Scilliticum which also is of two sorts to witte simple and compound P. PAcal A tree in India so called Pacification An appeasing or pacifying Pacificatory Which appeaseth or pacifieth Pact A bargaine Page A written side of a lease of paper Pagan A Heathen an infidell Paganisme The beleefe of the Pagans Paico An hearbe in India good against the griefe of the stone in the Kidnies which commeth of windinesse or colde causes Palate The vpper hollow part of the mouth wherin lieth the sense of tasting as in the tongue Palestricall Of or belonging to wrastling Also that which is done decently with comely gesture of the body Palinode A recantation or denying of an opinion formerly maintained * Palliard A Whooremonger * Palliardise Whooredome Palliate To cloke to couer Pallizado Great posts set vp in the entry to a Camp for a defence against great shot Palme The tree which beareth Dates growing plentifully in the holy land There are of these trees found also in some parts of Egypt but they beare no fruite or if they beare any it is vnpleasant 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 vpward though oppressed with neuer so great weight the leaues thereof neuer fall Of this tree there is male and female the male beareth only blossomes no fruit but the female beares both In olde times some people vsed to write with Paper made of leaues 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 Diuination Palpable That which may be felt with the fingers manifest notorious Pamphlet A little booke Pandar A base fellow that keepeth or attendeth vpon Harlots Pandect A booke treating of all matters also the Volume of the Ciuill Lawe 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 beast hauing a sweet smel and a faire spotted skinne wherewith shee allureth other beastes to looke on her hiding her head least 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 haue on their shoulder a spotte which groweth and waineth like the moon This beast is so fearfull of the Hyena that in his presence shee dareth not doe any thing in so much that if one haue but a peece of the skinne of a Hyena the Panther will not touch him and it is sayde that if both their skins be hanged together the haire of the Panthers skin will fall of Panyme A heathen a gentile Parable A similitude or resemblance made of a thing Paracelsian A physition 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 Paraclete A comforter Paradise A garden or pleasant place Paradox An opinion maintained cōtrary to the common allowed opinion as if one affirme that the earth doth mooue round and the heauens stand stil Paragon A beautifull peece a louely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a margent to note the different discourses in a booke or long chapter wherefore such diuisions in writing are commonly