and Nottinghamshires that still retain this antient name and in Holland they call it Dorp Thraskâ—es are the followers of John Thraske who broached his Judaical opinions in England about the year 1618. for which he was censured in the Star-chamber but afterwards recanted Mr. Full. Church hist lib 10. p. 76. There was also one Theophilus Braborn a Disciple of his who wrote a Book in defence of his heretical opinions in the year 1632. Thrasonical thrasonicus vain-glorious boasting cracking Thraso-like Thrave of corn was too Shocks of six or rather twelve sheaves a piece Stati 2. H 6 ca. 2. The word comes from the British Dreva i. twenty four In most Counties of England twenty four sheaves do now go to a Thrave Twelve sheaves makes a Stook and two Stooks a Thrave Threne threnum lamentation also a lamentable verse or song a funeral song Threnody threnodia the singing of a funeral song Threnetick threneticus mournful lamentable Threpe Sax. to affirm positively or to face one down with confidence Also to rebuke or chide Still used in the North. Third-borow is used for a Constable An. 28. H 8. ca. 10. which also is noted by Mr. Lambert in his Duty of Constables p. 6. and seems to be corruptly used for the Sax. Freâ—â—orâ— i. ingenuus fide jussor See Headborow Throb â—ax to pant or rise often as the heart doth Thrones throni have the third ranck in the celestial Hierarchy whom together with Dominations Principalities and Powers St. Paul mentions They signifie Majesty on whom God is said to sit Thou sittest c. Thurman Hebr. persection See Vrim Thuriferous thurifer that beareth or brings forth frankincense Thursday See Thor and Day Thymelical thymelicus belonging to players in interludes and open dance Thymous thymosus full of Thime an herb so called Thyrse thyrsus a stalk or stem of any herb also a Javelin wrapped with Ivy which the flock of drunken Harlots bare in Bacchus his Sacrifice Tiarâ— Lat. a round Ornament for the head which Princes Priests and women of old time wore Hence we still call it a tire for a womans head and a tiring-woman It is sometimes used for the Popes triple Crown Tibial tibialis of or belonging to pipes meet to make pipes of Tibicinate tibicino to sing or pipe Ticktack Fr. trictrac a game at Tables so called not from the sudden removing the men and the snapping noise they make as Min. would have it but ticktack quasi touch and take that being the law of the Game if you touch a man you must play him Tide Belg. time See Spring-tide Tiercel See Tassel Tieâ—câ—t Fr. a song of triple Stanzoes or Stanzo of three verses Tiercâ— Fr. tiers a certain measure of liquid things as Wine Oyl c. containing the sixth part of a Tun. Ann. 32. H. 8 c. 14. or the third part of a pipe and from this last it takes denomination because tiers in French signifies a third or third part Tigrine tigrinus of or like the swift beast Tigre Tilting See Turneaments Timariots wheresoever any land is conquered by the Great Turk it is divided into divers parts and given to those they call Timariots for term of life with obligation to serve on horse-back wheresoever they shall be summoned This is not much unlike our old Tenures of Knights service or Escuage but not hereditary According to the value of the timar or feud the Timariot is to come in with one two three or more horses c. See Sir Hen. Blounts Voyage fol. 65. Timber of skins is a term among Furriers and signifies Forty skins Acts 1656. ca. 20. And Timbers of Ermine is a term in Blazon signifying the rows or rancks of Ermine in the Capes of Noblemens Robes Timbrel from the Belg. Trommel a Taber Timidity timiditus fearfulness bashfulness timerousness Timocrâ—cy Gr. dominatus in quo á sensu magistratus creantur Scap. a government wherein the Magistrates were created by their riches Timothy Timotheus a mans name in Greek it signifies honoring God Timpane See Tympane Tiâ—cei from the Fr. Estincelle i. a spark or sparkle of fire signifies with us a stuff or cloth made of silk and copper so called because it glisters like sparks of fire Tiâ—ture tinctura a dying or staining a colour or dye Tingible tingibilis that may be stained dipped or died Tinâ—y a word used in Worcestershire and thereabouts as a little tiney comes from the Ital. Tini which is a diminutive termination Tinniment tinnimentum a ringing or tinckling as mettals do Tinsel See Tincell Tint-wine See Tent-wine Tintamar Fr. tintamare a clashing or crashing a rustling or gingling noise made in the fall of woodden stuff or vessels of mettal Tintinate tintino to ring like a bell to ring Tipocâ—smy or Typâ—câ—sm typocosmia a type or figure of the world Tiromantie tiromantia a kind of divination by cheeâ—e Tissu Fr. woven or plaited with us cloth of tissu is cloth of silk and silver or silk and gold woven together Tiâ—an used of Poets for the Sun Titâ—nick titanicus of or belonging to the Sun Tithâ— decimae seems to be an abreviate of tithing being the Saxon â—otâ—uâ—g a little altered which signifies decuriam a tithing It signifies the tenth part of all fruits predial or personal c. See Sir Henry Spelman de non temerandis Ecclesiis and Mr. Seldens History of Tithes Tithing Sax. Teothung signifies says Lambert the number or company of ten men with their families cast and knit together in a society all of them being bound to the King for the peaceable and good behavior of each of their society of these companies there was one principal person who of his office was called Teothung-man at this day in the West parts Tithing-man but now he is nothing but a Constable for that old discipline of tithings is left long since It also signifies a Court An. 23. Ed 3. ca 4. Titillation titillatio a tickling a stirring a pleasant moving Titubate titubo to stagger in going to stumble and by metaphor to stutter or stammer in speaking Titular from titulus that bears a title onely Tobaco or Tobacco sic vocatur in omnibus linguis a Drug too well known in England since the year 1585 when the Mariners of Sir Fra. Drake first brought it hither from the Indies where some affirm there is an Island called Tobacco and abounding with it whence the Drug took denomination if nor the Island so called from the Drug Tobiâ—â— Heb. the Lord is good Tod of Wool is twenty eight pounds in weight or two Stone see Stone Tolâ—â—yth the name of the chief Prison at Edenburgh Tolsey or Toldsey is a place in the City of Bristol answerable to the Old Exchange in London where the Merchants meet and may perhaps be so called because oft-times there is money told upon the heads of round posts or pillars made for that purpose or from Tol i. vectigal and sey i. sedes the seat or place of paying Custom Tolutation tolutatio
foot or ten foot long Decemvirate decemviratus the Office or Authority of those ten Noblemen or Governors among the Romans who were called Decemviri they were appointed to govern the Commonwealth instead of the two Consuls and had the highest Authority from whom none could appeal The Roman Laws were divided into ten â—ables wherto these Decemviâ—s added other two and called them the Laws of the twelve Tables whereof you may read Pomponius Laetus Decennial decennalis belonging to or containing ten years Deception deceptio deceit fallacy craft cosenage Deceptive deceptivus deceitful deceiving wily crafty full of subtilty Decerp decerpo to pluck off or away to gather to diminish Decertation decertatio a contending or striving Decession decessio a departing or diminishing Deciduous diciduus subject to fall off hanging or falling down Decimâ— See Nona Decimate decimo to take the Tenth to gather the Tyth Decimation decimatio the punishing every tenth Souldier by Lot was termed Decimatio legionis also a Tything or paying a tenth part Decirciâ—ate decircino to bring out of compass or roundness to unbind Decision decisio a determining or deciding a cutting off or lessening Decisive decisus deciding determining fit or able to end a controversie And Decisorie Idem Declamation declamatio an Oration made of a feigned subject or only for exercise also a crying out aloud Declarative declarativus which doth declare or shew forth Declivity declivitas a steep bending downwards as on the side of a hill Decoctible decoctibilis easie to be sodden or boiled Decollation decollatio a beheading as the Decollation of St. John Baptist a holy day instituted of old in memory of the beheading St. John Baptist on the twenty ninth of August yearly See Lapidation Decoction decoctio a boiling or seething In Physick it signifies commonly any liquor in which medicinable roots herbs seeds flowers or any other thing has been boyled Decor Lat. comeliness or beauty Decorate decoro to beautifie to make decent Decoration decoratio a beautifying or adorning Bacon Decortication decorticatio a pilling or plucking off the bark Decorticate decortico to pill or pluck off the bark Apol. for learning Decorum Lat. comeliness honesty good grace Decrement decrementum a decreasing Feltham Decrepite decrepitus very old at deaths door whose Candle is almost burnt out Decressant from decresco the Moon decreasing or in the last quarter the wayning of the Moon Decretist decretista a Student or one that studies the Decretals Decretals decretales a Volume of the Canon Law so called or books containing the Decrees of sundry Popes Or a digestion of the Canons of all the Councils that pertained to one matter under one head Decretal taken Adjectively belonging to a Decree Decretaliarck Gr. an absolute Commander one that commands by Decree or whose command is and is obeyed as a Decree Cotg. Decrustation decrustatio an uncrusting a paring away of the uppermost part or uttermost rind Deculcate deculco to tread or trample upon Decumbence from decumbo a lying or sitting down Decumbent decumbens that lyes or sits down or dyes Decuple decuplus ten times so much Decuâ—y decuria a Band of ten Souldiers Also it signified four or five bands of Souldiers each consisting of ten hundred horsemen appointed to be assistant to the Judges sitting upon life and death also the Senators and Judges were divided into Bands called Decuriae and the chief of them was called Decurion Rider Decurion decurio a Captain over ten horse and sometimes it is used for an Alderman or chief Burgess in a Roman Colony Decursion decursio a hasty running a running down or unto Decussated decussatus cut or divided after the form of the letter X or of St. Andrews cross which is called Crux decussata Decussation decussatio a division cut sawn or carved after the form of four lines drawn a cross by one Center star-wise so it makes eight even portions Decutient decutiens that shakes or beats down Dedaleaâ— daedaleâ—s intricate or perplexed also expert or cunning A derivative from Daedalus an expert Artificer who first invented the Saw Axe Sayl and Sail-yards for a ship which gave occasion for the Fable of Daedalus his wings c. Dedecorate dedecoro to dishonest to dishonor or defame Dedentition dedentitio the falling or losing of teeth Dr. Brown Dedignation dedignatio a disdaining or contemning Dedition deditio a yielding or rendring up a place besieged Defailiance Fr. a failing languor faintness defect also a fainting Defalcation defalcatio a pruning or cutting a deducting Defalk Fr. defaulquer to deduct deduce abate take out of Defatigable defatigabilis easily to be wearied Defatigate defatigo to make weary to tire Defâ—caâ—e defaeco to purge from dregs to refine to scum Defecation defaecatio a purging from dregs a refining Defection defectio a falling away a revolting back an infirmity Defeizance or Defeasance from the Fr. Desfaire i. to undo signifies in our Common Law a condition relating to an Act as to an Obligation Recognizance or Statute which performed by the Obligee or Recognizee the act is defeated and made void as if it never had been done whereof you may see at large West part 1. Sym. l. 2. sect 156. and Shep. Epit. p. 775. Defender of the Faith Defensor Fidei is a peculiar title given to the Kings of England by the Pope as Catholicus to the King of Spain and Christianissimus to the French King It was first given by Leo decimus to King Henry the Eighth for writing against Martin Luther in behalf of the Church of Rome The Bull for this Title bears date quinto Idus Octobr. 1521. and may be seen at length in the Lord Herberts Henry the Eighth fol. 105. Stows Annals p. 863. Defensatâ—vâ— is a medicine that keeps humors from coming to a sore or place affected or hinders the inflammation thereof Cotgr. Deficient deficiens fainting or failing Definition definitio est oratio explicans essentiam rei per genus differentiam a declaring what a thing is by a Gender or something that is common to the thing declared and to other things also and by a difference onely agreeing to the thing explicated and distinguishing it from all things else Definition also is a Decree or Determination as the Definition of a Council Definitive definitivus which limits or determines Deflagration deflagratio a burning or inflammation Defletion defletio a bewayling or bemoaning Deflexure deflexura a bowing or bending Defloration defloratio a deflowring or dishonoring Defluxion defluxio a flowing or falling down of humors a looseness Defeneration defoeneratio a taking money upon usury Deforsour comes of the Fr. forceur i. expugnator is used in our Common Law for one that overcomes and casts out by force c. See the difference between a Defâ—rsour and a Desseisor in Cowel on this word Defunct defunctus dead ended Degenerate degenero to grow out of kind to grow base Deglutinate deglutino to unglue or loosen Deglutition deglutitio a devouring or swallowing down also the passage or
ascension or descension also a kind of Spurge tree or Plant. Hellenism See Grecism Hellenize from hellenes to play the Grecian Hellenistical pertaining to Greece or the Grecians Hellespout Hellespontus the narrow Sea by Constantinople dividing Europe from Asia betwixt Propentis and the Aegean Sea It is now called Brachium Sancti Georgii Heluation heluatio a devouring gluttony Helme of the Rudder of a ship is a handle of wood put on the Rudder for the Steersman to govern the same and direct the ship which may be so called of Helm or Helmet For as a Helmet saves the head so does that by good guidance preserve the ship from dangers or as a Helmet is the top Armor piece for the head so is the Helm the top of the Stern or Rudder And in French Heaume one word signifies both Min. Helvetian of or pertaining to Switzerland otherwise called Helvetia Hemerobaptists hemerobaptistae daily Baptists a Sect so called because they did every day wash themselves Epiph. l. 1. Tom. 1. ch 17. Hemerologe hemorologium a Kalendar or Register declaring what is done every day a Day-book Hemi Gr. half a word used only in composition as Hemicade hemicadium a half Hogshead Hemicircular half round Hemicranick hemicranicus subject to the sickness called Megrim or Hemicrain See Megrim Hemicycle hemicyclus half a circle a compass or half round chair Hemiplexy hemiplexia the palsie in half the body Hemisphere hemisphaerium half the compass of the visible heavens Hemistick hemistichium half a verse Hemorrhagy Gr. an abundant Flux of blood Cotg. Hemorrhoide hemorrhois a disease in the Fundament like Teats or Warts by the swelling of the vein out of which issueth blood called Piles corruptly called Emrods Henchman or Heinsman is a German word signifying ' a Domestick or one of a family it is used with us for one that runs on foot attending on a person of honor A. 3. E. 4. c. 5. An. 24. H. 8. ca. 13. Hence comes our word hine or hinde a servant for husbandry Hepatical Hepatarian hepatarius of or pertaining to the Liver Hepatiques obstructions of the Liver or books treating of the Liver Hepta Gr. Septem seven Hence Heptagon Gr. that has seven angles or corners Heptagonal Pertaining to a Heptagon Heptaphony heptaphonia the having seven sounds Heptarchy heptarchia a kind of Government where seven rule as in England when there were seven Kings viz. 1. The King of Kent 2. Of South-Saxons 3. Of the West Saxons 4. Of the East Saxons 5. Of Northumberland 6 Of Mercia 7. Of the East Angles Of which see more in Sir Rich. Bakers Chroniele fol. 6 7. Herald Heralt See Harold Herbage Fr. signifies in our Common Law the fruit of the earth provided by nature for the bit or mouth of the Cattle But it is most commonly used for that liberty a man hath to feed his Cattle in another mans ground as in the Forest c. Crompt Jurisd fol. 197. Herbalist or Herbâ—st herbarius one that understands the nature and temper of herbs one cunning in Simples Herbenger from the Fr. Herberger i. to harbor or lodge signifies with us an Officer of the Princes Court that alots the Noblemen and those of the Household their lodgings It signifies also in Kitchin an Inkeeper fol. 176 Herbert Germ. signifies famous Lord bright Lord or glory of the Army Cam. Herbiferous herbifer bringing forth herbs or grass Herbosity herbositas abundance of herbs or grass Herbulent herbulentus full of grass or herbs Hercules Pillars On the North side of the Straight called of old Fretum Herculeum was Mount Calpe on the South Mount Abila on which Hercules placed his so memorized Pillars with the Inscription Nil Vltra because that was then conceived to be the most Western bound of the world But Charls the fifth after the discovery of America coming that way caused Plus Vltra to be engraven either on the old Pillars or else on new erected in their places Hercules is said to have faln into the Falling-sickness by over much eating Quails which disease has ever since been termed Hercules sickness Dr. Muffet Herculean Herculane Herculeus of or belonging to Hercules pertaining to a valiant fellow difficile hard invincible So Herculean labor a Proverb signifying a work of great difficulty or almost impossible to be atchieved which took beginning from the twelve labors of Hercules of which see Rider Here de Caesar i. the Monarchy of Caesar An ancient account of time used instead of the year of our Lord in Spain especially as also among the Arabs and Sarrazens It took date 38 years before Christs Nativity and was used in Spain till the year 1383. which was of Here de Caesar 1421. Heremitical See Eremitical Heresie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haeresis an opinion contrary to some point of faith whereof Eusebius Platina St. Austin and other learned Authors make mention of very many since our Saviours time As Simonians Menandrians Ebionites Cerinthians Nicholaitans Saturnians Carpocratians Gnosticks Valentinians Marcionites Cleobians Dorothians Gorthenians Masuberthians Encratites Basilides Cataphrygians Arabes Helchesaites Novatians Catharians Sabellians Manicheans Arrians Pelagians Helonitians Hermoginians Peputians Quintillians Colliridians Priscillianists Hemerobaptists Anthropomorphits Chilliasts or Millenarians Massilians Dimocrites Garasians Paterons Poor men of Lyons Aquarians Speronists Fraticelli Adamites Orebites Taborites Noetians Hydroparastates Artotyrites Ptholemaites Stacioicques Phibionites Helionites Heracleonites Antitades Perades Phrygians Colarbasians Docites Borborians Zacheans Naasanians Phemionitaius Sethranians Caynians Codians Ophites Severians Paulianists Catabaptists Arbigeois Archontiques Hierarchites Seileutians Felicians Nestorians Jacobitans Monothelitanes The Acephalick Sects of Barcotobas Cerdon Tatian Redon Apelles Basilicus Sirenus Montanus Theodorus Paulus Samosatenus Ogdoades Artemon Natalis Galien Berillus Nepos Liberius Macedonius Helvidius Ethicianus Hermogenes Epiphanes Pontinus Sinerus Prepon Pithon Cleobulus Praxeas Asclepiodotus Hermophilus Apolonides Themison Theodotus Florinus Blattus Isidorus Secundus Portitus Bardesianus Symmachus Theodocion Lucius Apolinarius Acatus Donatus Olympius Adimantius Alogios Bertoldus Paliardus the Philosopher Almerick Guillaume of holy love Hermand Durcine Quintinists Severists Campanists c. with infinite more See Prateolus In this latter age those that have most abounded are Anabaptists Antinomians Brownists Socinians Arminians Erastians Quakers Adamites Anti-Trinitarians Anti-Scripturians c. with many others of which see Mr. Ross his View of all Religions Heresie as the Fathers define it is a mis-belief in some points of Faith contrary to the Doctrine universally received in the Church Cressy Heresiark haeresiarchus an Arch-Heretick a principal Heretick a Sect-Master Heretick haereticus a person wilfully and stifly maintaining false opinions against the Scriptures and Doctrine of the Church after due admonition Tit. 3.10 Wil. Dict. Heretoga Sax. was our antient appellation for the cheif Conductor of an Army for which we have long since used our borrowed French word Duke from the Latin Dux Here in the antient Teutonick is an Army and toga signifies to draw or train forward The Netherlanders for Duke do yet use the
black and blew wan of the colour of lead also malicious envious backbiting Lividity lividitas blewness the colour appearing upon a stroke a dead earthly leaden colour Livor Lat. a black and blew mark in a body coming of a stroke or blow also blackness of the eyes coming of humors also envy malice Lixiviated from lixivia of or like or washed with Lee or Lye made of ashes Dr. Br. Lixor Lat. a Water-bearer Lizard lacertus a little beast much like our Evet but without poyson breeding in Italy and other hot Countries whose dung is good to take away spots in the eye and clear the sight And its head being bruised and laid to draws out thorns or any thing sticking in the flesh Lobbe is a great kind of North-Sea-fish An. 31. Ed. 3. Stat. 3. ca. 2. Local localis pertaining to a place It signifies in our Common Law as much as tyed or annexed to a place certain Example the thing is local and annexed to the freehold Kitch fol. 180. Locality localitas the being of a thing in a place Location locatio a placing or setting in a place Also a letting out to hire or setting out work by the great Loche See Lohoc Lococession from locus and cedo a giving place Locomotion locus and motio a moving or stirring from one place to another Dr. Br. Loculament loculamentum a little place of bords made with holes for Pigeons or Conies a Coffin for a Book also the several places wherein the seeds lye as in Poppy heads Dr. Charl. Locuplicity locuplicitas abundance of wealth Locuplete locuples rich wealthy well-stored Locust locusta a kind of flying insect or Fly which the French term Cigale of which we have none in England See Dr. Brown in his Vul. Err. lib. 5. ca. 3. There were divers kinds of these some hurtful and venemous others comodious for meat Mat. 3.4 His meat was locusts which some conceive to be the tops of herbs and plants Lodemanage is the hire of a Pilot for conducting a ship from one place to another and comes from the Dutch Loot i. lead and in the same Dutch the Pilot is called Lootsman or Piâ—looâ— the man of lead or casting out his lead to save the Ship from danger Min. Chaucer would have this word signifie the skill or art of Navigation See Pilot. Lodestar a Star that guides Mariners the north star Lodestone magnes a stone of the colour of rusty iron which hath an admirable vertue not onely to draw iron to it self but to make any iron on which it is rubbed to draw iron also This stone is found in the Indian Sea and in the Country Trachonitis and is of greatest use in Navigation For by it Saylers find out the certain course of their Voyage the needle in the Compass tempered herewith still standing directly towards the North and South Read more of this stone in Dr. Br. Vul. Err. l. 2. c. 2. Locution locutio a saying or speaking Lodâ—works one of the works belonging to the Stanaries in Cornwal for which see Cam. Brit. in the title Cornwal See Stremeworks Log the name of an Hebrew measure as the Sextarius Atticus was among the Greeks Logarithmes logarithmi a term in Mathematicks signifying numbers which being fitted to proportional numbers retain always equal differences Wingate Logick logica the Art of Logick the Art of reasoning or disputing Logick according to my Lord Bacon professes the preparation and contrivance of Aids and Forces for the understanding Arts Logical or intellectual are four Art of Enquiry or Invention Art of Examination or Judgement Art of Custody or Memory and Art of Elocution or Tradition c. See his Advancement of Learning fol. 218 219. Logician logicus one skilled or learned in the Art of Logick Logism the due and judicious understanding of a thing formerly considered and esteemed of according to reason Cot. Logist logista he that causeth presidents or notable â—ayings to be registred a caster of accounts The Logists among the Athenians saith Harpocration were ten men elected out of the Tribes to whom all such as had ended their Office of Magistracy within thirty days of their Authorities expiration were to render an account of all such affairs as they had then administration of They not onely kept account of the moneys but of all other matters that appertained to the Kings revenue c. Logistick logistice the Art of counting or reckoning the practice of Arithmetick or that part thereof which contains Addition Substraction Multiplication and Division Logographers logographi Lawyers Clerks they that write Pleas and Causes in the Law or Books of Accompt Logomachy logomachia a contention in or strife about words a verbal altercation Lohoch or Loch a Physical word and is a thick Syrrup or other soft substance or confection which must not be swallowed but suffered to melt of it self in the mouth that so it may gently slide down and thereby have the more vertue against diseases of the Brest Lungs and throat Culpepper says it is an Arabick word and simply signifies a thing to be licked up Lollardâ— Lollardi a Sect that abounded in England in the days of Edw. 3. and Hen. 5 An. 2. H. 5. ca. 7. of these read Stows Annals p. 425. Tritemius in his Chronicle deduces the name from one Gualter Lolhard a German as the first author of that Sect living about the year 1315. And Chilian says Lollardus fuit Alexianus Monachus Lollardus quoque dicitur Haereticus Valdersis These Lolhards were much consenting with the Wicklevites in opinions they began in time of P. Innocent the sixth and Charles the fourth Emperor of that name says another Author See their Tenets in B. Spotswoods hist of Scotl. fol. 61. As for the word Lollard retained in our Statutes since the Reformation it seems now as a generical name to signifie such who in their opinions oppose the setled Religion of the Land in which sence the Sheriffs are bound by their oath to suppress them Lombardeer an Usurer or Broaker so called from the Lombards a people of the hither part of Italy who were great Usurers they were called Lombards alias Longobards from their long Beards which they wore Hence our word Lumbar which signifies refuse Housholdstuff Lombard is also by the same reason used for a bank for Usury or Pawns Hence Lombardstreet which is still full of Goldsmiths and Moneyers See Causines Lome lutum dirt mud or morter Longevity longaevitas long or old age Longanimity longanimitas long-suffering patience forbearance In Divinity it is thus defined Longanimity is an untired confidence of mind in respecting the good things of the life to come Longinquity longinquitas long distance of place length of time continuance long lasting or long life Longitude longitudo length of place time or any other thing The Longitude of a Star is the arch of the Ecliptick contained between the beginning of Aries and the circle of the stars latitude In Geography the longitude of a place
book containing the Officers of the King of Englands Court as it was antiently governed wherein he whom we now call Sewer was called Asseour which comes from the Fr. Asseoir to settle or place wherein his Office in setting down the meat is well expressed And Sewer as it signifies such an Officer is by Fleta Latined Assessor a setter down lib. 2. ca. 15. Sexagesima Sunday is always the Sunday next before Shrove Sunday and is so called either for being the sixth before Passion Sunday or the second before Quadragesima Sunday reckoning backward from Quadragesima to Quinquagesima and thence to Sexagesima and so to Septuagesima Sexennial sexennis that is six years old or of six years standing Sextant sextans a coin less then that called Quadrant by the third part a certain weight being two ounces by some called Obolus by others the sixth part of any measure sum or quantity that is divided into twelve parts also two inches The sixth part of Jugerum Varro Sextantary sextantarius belonging to that measure or weight Sextary sextarius a measure or weight the Roman Sextary contains of Wine or wheat two pound Roman that is 24 ounces a pound and an half averdupois weight less then the Paris pint by eight ounces You may try it following Glareans rule by making a measure four inches long by square three inches deep and as many broad which is the true Sextary according to this account it is just our pint and a half for in our Wine pint are but sixteen ounces Physicians assign but eighteen ounces or at the most twenty to Sextarius and then it is but two or four ounces more then our pint Sextarius after Geo. Agricola contains two Heminae one pound measure and eight ounces that is twenty ounces or inch measures Sextarius of Oyl is sixteen ounces five drams one scruple of wine 18 ounces and an half two Siliquies two grains and two third parts of a grain Tho. Sexte a part of the Canon Law added to the decretals Sexten seems to be corrupt from sacristan which see Sextery see Sacristy Sextile or Sextilian moneth Sextilis the moneth of August so called because it is the sixth from March which was the first moneth of the year with the Romans Shackbolt or Shackle a prisoners Bolt a Fetter or Give Sextule sextula the sixth part of an ounce that is a dram and a scruple also a measure of Land Sextuple sextuplus six-fold or that contains or is made of the number six A time in Musick containing six Crotchets to a Bar appropriated chiefly to Sarabands Shallop from the Fr. Schalupe or Lat. Scapha a Boat or perhaps from shallow-up because being a small Vessel it goes up into shallow places a small Boat so called Also a kind of Shel-fish Shamots or Chamois a kinde of wilde Goat whose skin being rightly dressed makes our true Shamois Leather Shafment is a kinde of measure used in some parts of England and is the breadth of a mans hand and the length of the thumb Shamsheer the usual Sword among the Persians not unlike the Turkish Scymitar for Mr. Herb. saith it is crooked like a Crescent and sharp as a Razor Fol. 147. Shash is the whole piece be it long or short of fine linnen of which the Turbant is made but the name of the Linnen is Telbent whence we falsly call that which a Turk wears about his head a Turbant whereas the true name is Saruck and the Turks themselves so call it it comes from Sarnack which signifies to joyn about or to swathe Shaw in the Persian Tongue is a King and Potshaw an Emperor Herb. Tr. Shekel see Sicle Sherbet or Serbet in the Persian Tongue it signifies pleasant liquor is a kinde of drink in great request both in Turkie and Persia and is compounded of juyce of Lemons Sugar Amber and other ingredients another sort of it is made of Violets Honey juyce of Raisons and the like Others say Sherbet is an Arabic word and signifies drink in general Sherry Sack so called from Zeres a Sea Town of Corduba in Spain where that kind of Sack is made Scewage see Scavage Skeyn a kinde of long knife or short sword antiently and still used by the Irish Kernes Antiq. Hiber p. 57. Shibboleth or Schibboleth Hebr. i. spica by the pronounciation of this word the Galaadites who fought for and under Jepthe the Judge of Israel discovered the Ephramites to be their enemies and not Galaadites as they pretended to be for their safety for when they were taken by the true Galaadites at the passages over Jordan through which they endeavored to escape they ceuld not pronounce Shibboleth or Schibboleth but Sibboleth which cost two and forty thousand of them their lives at that time Judges cap. 12. Hence the word is usually taken for a word of trial to discern Citizens from Aliens Friends from Foes See Pichigni Shilo or Shiloh Hebr i. missus is mentioned in the Prophecy of Jacob where it is said The Scepter shall not depart from Judah till Shiloh come that is till our Saviour come Gen. 49.10 The word signifies a Prosperer or Safe-maker Waters of Shiloah see in Waters Shingle from the Teut. Schindel that from Scindo a Slate or Lath of wood to cover houses Shingles à cingendo a disease about the Brest Belly or Back the place affected looking red and increasing circle-wise more more it is chiefly cured with Cats blood if it go round the body it kils Shoud a Justice of Peace among the Turks Shrew a kind of Field-Mouse which if he go over a beasts back will make him lame in the Chine and if he bite the beast swels to the heart and dies Gesn From hence came our English phrase I beshrew thee when we wish ill and we call a curst woman a Shrew Shrift or Shriving Sax. perhaps from Scrinium quasi revelare peccata ab intimo scrinio was antiently taken for auricular Confession Shrove-tide from the Sax. Shrive or Shrift and the Belg. Tyde i. tempus a time of shriving or confessing sins for about that time the Roman Catholicks use to confess their sins and receive the Blessed Sacrament to the end they may the more religiously observe the holy time of Lent then immediately ensuing Shrine scrinium that which contained the body of a Saint or the place where such a body was buried or intombed Sialoquent sialoquus that spits much in his speech Sibilate sibilo to whistle or hiss Bac. Sibils see Sybils Siccaneous siccaneus dry of nature that hath no Rivers or Springs to water it Siccifical siccificus that has power to make dry Siccity siccitas driness drouth lack of sap or moisture barrenness Sicilian Vesperas see Vesperas Sicle or Shekel siclus from the Hebrew shakel i. librare as well a kind of coyn both of Silver and Gold as a weight among the Jews on one side of the silver Shekel was carved a pot with Manna and this Inscription in Hebrew
beareth scales scaly Square-number see Quadrate Squinant squinanthum the sweet rush which is very medicinable Camels meat Squinancy squinantia a swelling disease in the throat which causeth a difficulty in breathing the Squincy S.S. stand usually for Sacro-Sanctus or for Sacra Sciptura or for Sancti as S.S. Patres Sancti Patres Stability stabilitas firmness stableness soundness constancy Stabulate stabulo to stand or be as Cattel in a Stable or Stall to be housed as Beasts are to keep or stall up ones self Stade stadium a race for men or horses to run in also a proportion or measure of ground called also a Furlong whereof there are three sorts viz. The Italian containing one hundred twenty and five paces the Olympick of one hundred and twenty paces and the Pyâ—hick of two hundred paces all after five feet to the pace Of these Stades eight make an Italian mile containing one thousand paces see Furlong Staggaâ—d a red Male Deer four years old Stagirâ—te Aristotle so called from Stagira a Town in Macedonia where he was born Stallage Fr. Estallage signifies in our Common Law money paid for pitching stalls in Fair or Market see Scavage This in Scotland is called Stallange Skene verbo Stallongiatores And among the Romans it was termed Siliquaticum from siliqua their first and least of all weights Stallion from the Fr. Estallon or Ital. Stallóne a horse kept for covering Mares Stamineous stamineus pertaining to hemp or flax or that hath shreds in it Standard or Estandard from the Fr. Estandart an Ensign for Horsmen in War and is commonly taken for that of the King or chief General It is also used for the principal or standing measure of the King to the scantling whereof all the measures throughout the Land are or ought to be framed c. Magna Charta and confirmed 14 Edw 3. cap. 12. Of these Standards and Measures read Britton cap. 30. Stannaries Stannaria the Mines and Works touching the getting and purifying of Tin in Cornwal and other places of which works there are two sorts viz. Lode-work and â—tream-work See Cam. Brit. pag. 119. Stanza Ital. a Staff of Verses As Spencers Books are divided into Canto's and those again into Stanza's Staple Fr. Estape a Mart or general Market a publick Store-house in a Sea Town or Town of Traffick whither the Merchants of England by common Order or commandment did carry Wools Woolfels Cloaths Lead Tin c. which are the Staple Commodies of this Land for the utterance of them by the great Staple Inn near Holburn Bars now one of the Inns of Chancery was formerly an Inn or Hostel of the Merchants of the Staple and from thence took name Star Chamber a late Court at Westminster voted down by Act. Starrulet a dim of Star a little Star Stasiarch Gr. an Arch-rebel the head of a Sedition Stater Lat. an antient coyn of severall sorts The Corinthian Stater was worth 21 d. want a farthing The Macedonian Stater was worth about two shillings nine pence half penny The Golden Attick Stater weighed two drams and therefore worth seventeen shillings six pence But in Scripture it valued two Didrams for the tribute money to be paid for each person was Didrachmum Mat. 17.24 and a Stater was paid for two namely for Christ and St. Peter the value of it therefore was 2 s. 6 d. Staticks Gr. the science of weights and measures a species of Mechanicks Br. Station statio a standing place a Bay or Rode for ships to rest in also a place of resort abode or stay Station-staff is a strait Pole divided into feet and inches used by Surveyors in measuring Land Stationary stationarius appointed to keep ward in any place that is in a Garison setled standing Stationer so called of his station or standing shop to sell in is often confounded with Book-seller and sometimes with Book-binder whereas they are three several Trades the Stationer sells Paper and Paper-Books Ink Wax c. The Book-seller deals onely in printed Books ready bound and the Book-binder binds them but sells not Yet all three are of the Company of â—tationers Stative stativus pitched or set as a Fortress or pitched Camp also standing Statuary statuarius a Stone-cutter a Carver of Statues and Images Statuminate statumino to prop up to under-set to make sure Statute statutum signifies a Decree or Act of Parliament c. 2. It is a kind of Bond as Statute Merchant and Statute Staple An. 5. H. 4. cap. 12. The reason of which name is because those Bonds are made according to the form of certain Statutes which direct both before what persons and in what manner they ought to be made West par 1. Symb. lib. 2. sect 151.27 Ed. 3. ca. 9. and 23 Hen. 8.6 Statutes is also used in our vulgar talk for the petit Sessions which are yearly kept for the disposing of Servants in service by the Statutes of 1 and 5 Eliz. cap 4. Steccado Span Estacada a place railed in for a Combate or Lists Steel-yard see Stil-yard Steganâ—graphy Gr. a description of the way or manner of covering Edifices Stellar stellaris starry pertaining to a star Bac. Stellation stellatio a making star-like or adorning with stars also a blasting Stelled stellatus full of or garnished with stars Stelletto or Stiletto Ital. a little Ponyard or the small and sharp pointed Dagger Stelliferous stellifer that bears or has stars in it starry Stellion stellio the spotted or starry Lizard so called also an envious fellow or one that cannot endure another should be the better by him from the Stellion which having as he doth half yearly cast his skin a soverein remedy for the Falling-sickness presently devours it to deprive mankind of it Stellionate stellionatus a deceit in dissembling a thing to take profit by another unjustly a counterfeiting of merchandize a cousening or selling the same thing to several persons Lo Bac. Stem stemma a Garland of flowers a Race of Kindred the blood of a Gentile house Stenegraphy stenegraphia the Art of Short-writing or a description of reducing any thing in a narrower compass Stentor a Grecian that had a voyce lowder then fifty men together Hence we use Stentorian voyce for a great loud roaring voyce Stephen Gr. a Crown Step-mother so called because she steps in instead of a Mother by marrying the sons or daughters Father a Mother in Law Stercorean or Stercorarious stercorarius belonging to dung or muck Stercoration stercoratio a dunging or defiling with dung Sterile sterilis barren fruitless that cannot engender without generation yielding nothing Sterility sterilitas barrenness unfruitfulness Sterling is the old term or Epitheton for money currant in this Nation which thus took denomination In the time of Richard the First money coined in the East paâ—t of Germany began to be of special request in England for its purity was cal'd Easterling money as the Inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings shortly after some of that Country skilful
the Lord of the Manor who has such Franchise of VVaif may seize the Goods so waived to the Lords use who may keep them as his own proper except the owner come with fresh Sute after the Felon and sue an Appeal or give in Evidence against him at his Arraignment upon the Indictment and he be attainted thereof c. In which cases the first owner shall have restitution of his Goods so stoln and waived Also if a man be pursued with Hue and Cry as a Felon and leaves his own Goods c. these shall be taken as Goods waived and forfeited as if they had been stoln VVaived also belongs to a Woman that being sued in Law contemptuously refuseth to appear as the word Outlawed doth to a man For Women cannot be out-lawed because they are not sworn in Leets to the King nor to the Law as men are so that a Man is said Out-lawed or without the Law to which he was sworn and a Woman waived Waldenses a Sect or Congregation that took name from one Waldo of Lions in France about the twelfth Century and held They were not bound to make profession of their Faith denied the real Presence Purgatory c. And condemned the eating of Flesh Eggs and Milk c. See Rosses View p. 223. Wakes or Country Feasts were most usually kept on the Sunday next after that Saints day to whom the Parish Church was dedicated And these Feasts took Origin from a Letter written by Gregory the Great to Melitus Abbot sent into England with St Austin in these words It may therefore be permitted them the English that in the dedication days or other solemn days of Martyrs they make them Bowers about the Churches and Feasting together after a good religious sort kill their Oxen now to the refreshing of themselves to the praise of God and encrease of Charity which before they were wont to offer up in Sacrifice to the Devil c. Bede Eccles Hist c. 30. And they may be called Wakes because on the Vigil of those Feasts people were wont to watch and pray or to awake from sleep at the several Vigils of the night but now that Religious custom is prophanely converted into rude Sports and Gluttonous Feasting for the most part Waiter Germ. a mans name from Waldher for so it is most antiently written a Pilgrime according to Reneccius others make it a Wood-Lord or Wood-man Cam. Wapentake is all one with that which we call a Hundred as appears by Bract. lib. 3. Tract 2. cap. 1. num 1. In some Counties they are called Hundreds in others Wapentakes c. Wardmote is a Court kept in every Ward in London An. 32. Hen. 8. cap. 17. ordinarily called among the Citizens the VVardmote Court Wardwit alias Ward wyte is to be quit of giving money for keeping Watch and Ward Stows Survey Warp from the old Saxon awarp or awurp to throw or cast hence we still say a board warps or casts and in some parts of England we call a Moul a Mouldwarp which is as much as to say a Cast-earth Versteg Wards and Liveries a certain Court erected in Hen. the Eighths time and put down by Act. 1656. ca. 4. A Wash of Oysters is ten Strikes Wassail or Wassale on Twelf-day at night or on New-years Eve The Origin in the words of Verstegan thus Lady Rowena Neece to Hengistus having invited King Vortiger to a supper at his new built Castle called Thong-Castle caused her after supper to come forth of her Chamber into the Kings presence with a Cup of gold filled with Wine in her hand and making in very seemly manner a low reverence to the King said with a pleasing grace in our antient Saxon Language Waes heal hâ—aford Cyuing which is according to our present Speech Be of health Lord King for as was is our Verb of the preter-imperfect tence signifying have been so Waes being the same Verb in the Imperative Mood and now pronounced was is as much to say as grow be or become and Waesheâ—l by corruption of pronounciation afterwards became Wassaile The King not understanding what she said demanded it of his Chamberlain who was his Interpreter and when he knew what it was he asked him how he might answer her in her own Language whereof being informed he said unto her Drinc heal i. Drink health c. Verst p. 101. Some say t is Wassale quasi wash your throat with Ale Waters of Shiloah properly Waters which came from a Fountain at the Root of Mount Sion and ran through Jerusalem with a still and quiet course Therefore in Nehemiah 2. it is called the Dragons or Serpents Well because the Waters of it crept gently as a Serpent but Figuratively it denoted the promise of help to the men of Jerusalem against the Kings of Syria and Israel from Gods power alone without hiring forein forces to repel their enemies Isa 8.6 The waters of Shiloah which run so softly See Psal 46.4 Wilson Watling-street is one of the four ways which the Romans are said to have made here in England and called them Consulares Praetorias Militares Publicas This Street is otherwise called Weriam-street and leads from Dover to London Dunstable and so to Westchester An. 39 Eliz. cap. 2. The second Street is called Ikenild-street beginning Ab Iconis who were the people inhabiting Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire as Mr. Camden declares in his Brittan pag. 345. The third is called Fosse the reason of the name he giveth because he thinks it was ditched of each side The fourth is called Ermyn-street c. Of these read more in the said Author pag. 43 44. And in the first Volume of Holinsheds Chronicle cap. 19. Wave-Offerings were certain loaves which were enjoyned to be paid as the first fruits of every years increase Levit. 23.17 See Moses and Aaron p. 219. Weald of Kent is the woody part of the Country Cam. Britan pag. 247. Verstegan says Wald Weald and Wold differing in Vowel signifie one thing to wit a Forest or Wood for so the Teut. Wald also signifies Yet I have observed in Leicester and Yorkeshires those places are now called Wolds which have little or no Wood on them but it is very probable the woods thereof have been cut down since they received that denomination From this word Wald came Waltham Forest antiently called Waldham Forest And Waldegrave an antient name in Norfolk took denomination from the disposing and over-seeing the Forest for so much the name imports Wea-bit or Way-bit is a word used in the North of England where if you ask how far 't is to such a place they answer a mile and a VVay-bit by which is understood a mile and vantage or a mile and better I finde iâ— written Wea-bit but conceive it should be Way-bit quasi a bit or part of a way Weapon Salve is that by which a wounded person is said to be cured by applying it to the sword or weapon that made the wound and
so called brought out of India the best are of a deep skie colour This stone is said to be of a cold nature Sapid sapidus well seasoned savory that hath a smack Sapidity sapiditas pleasantness of taste or savor also pleasantness of talk Sapientipotent sapientipotens mighty in wisdom or that by his wisdom and prudence is able to bring great things to pass Sapor Lat. see Sapidity Sapphique Verse so called from Sappho a famous Poetess held to be the first inventor of them consists of eleven syllables and hath a Trochee a Spondee a Dactyle and two Trochees immutably as Nuncius celso veniens Olympo After three Verses is inserted an Adonique of a Dactyle and a Spondee Rara juventus Saraband Ital. Zarabanda a kind of lesson in Musick and a Dance so called Sarah Hebr. Lady Mistress or Dame Sarcling time or time of Sarkling is the time when the Countrey man weeds his Corn and comes from the Lat. sarculare or from the Fr. sarcler both which signifie to rake or weed Sarcasm sarcasmus a biting taunt bitter jest a manner of scoffing nippingly Sarcinatious sarcinarius of or belonging to Packs Fardels c. serving to carry burthens or loads Sarcinate sarcino to load with Fardels or Packs also to patch or sew Sarcophage sarcophagus a Grave a Sepulchre a Tomb also a stone called Eat-flesh because it consumes in forty days the dead Carkasses inclosed within it the Teeth excepted Sarcotique from sarcoma breeding or belonging to new or superfluous flesh Sarculate sarculo to rake to weed up with a hook or other Instrument Sardonian Gem sardonius lapis a precious stone of a black colour being a kind of Onyx and called a Corneol the best whereof are found in Sardinia and therefore so called Sardonian Laughter risus Sardonius a long and causeless laughter whereof the end is sorrowful so used from the Hearb Sardoa which being of a poisonous nature causes men to dye with such a convulsion or contraction of their sinews that they seem to grin or laugh This Herb is like Smalage and is found in Sardinia Sarmentitious sarmentitius belonging to twigs or branches Sarplar sarplera lanae is a quantity of Wooll This in Scotland is called Serplathe and contains fourscore stone for the Lords of the Council in Anno 1527. decreed four Serpliathes of packed Wooll to contain sixteenscore stone The Merchants use now to pay fraught for their goods to Flanders by the Sack to France Spain and England by the Tun and to Dantzick and the Eastern Seas by the Serpliath Skene With us in England a load of Wooll as I have been enformed consists of eighty Tod each Tod consisting of two stone and each stone of fourteen pound And that a Sack of wooll is in common account equal with a load and a Sarplar otherwise called a Pocket is half a Sack Further that a Pack of Wooll is a Hors-load which consists of seventeen stone and two pounds see Fleta lib. 2. c. 12. Sartor Lat. Ã Sartio a Tailor a Botcher a Mender of old Garments Sassafras a Tree of great vertue which grows in Florida of the West Indies the Rinde whereof has a sweet smell like Cinnamon it comforts the Liver and Stomack and opens Obstructions of the inwards parts being hot and dry in the second degree The best of the Tree is the Root next the Boughs then the body but the principal goodness of all rests in the Rinde Bull. Sassinate see Assassinate Satan Heb. Gr. Satanas an adversary the Devil enemy to God and all goodness The Devil took this name from the Hebr. Sitnah which signifies hatred or spightfulness Satanical from Satan devilish pertaining to the Devil Satellite satelles itis one retained to guard a mans person a Yeoman of the Guard a Serjeant Catch-pole one that attacheth Satiate satio to fill to satisfie to cloy Satiety satietas plenty fulness glutting so much as one desireth Sation satio from sero a sowing of seed a planting Satisdation satisdatio a putting in of Surety or Bail sufficient for performance of Covenants or for payment of moneys Satorious satorius belonging to a Sator or to him that sows sets or plants Satrap satrapa a great Ruler a Peer of a Realm a Lieutenant Governor or President of a Country Saturate saturo to fill or satisfie with any thing superfluously to cloy or glut Saturity saturitas fulness plenty excess Saturnals saturnalia Feasts dedicated to Saturn in December when Servants had freedom Macrobius his Saturnals are Books intreating of the Colloquies and Passages at some of those Feasts Saturn Saturnus hath the first place among the Planets but is slowest in motion not finishing its course under thirty eight years space The antient Mathematicians attributed Sterility and Mortality to this Planet to Jupiter happy times and the beginning of life To Mars the cause of all Debates Garboils and War To Sol Riches and Treasure To Venus Loves and Marriages To Mercury Eloquence and Knowledge To Luna the Empire and command over Humid matters Saturn with Alchymists is used for Lead with Heralds for Sable Saturnian or Saturnine from Saturnus barren dull heavy melancholly also unlucky or unfortunate Satyre satyra a kinde of Poetry whereof there seems to have been two kinds the one more antient which consisted only in variety of Verses the other more modern containing an open reprehension of mens Vices without respect of persons Satyrical satyricus of or pertaining to Satyres biting nipping reproving Satyrist one that writes Satyres or invectives Satyre satyrus a Wood-wose a strange monster having the body of a man all hairy with legs and feet like a Goat full of motion and given much to venery and jeering which the Poets were wont to call gods of the Woods these as Pliny testifies lib. 7. cap. 2. were found in times past in the Eastern Mountains of India And St. Hierome in the life of St. Anthony reports he saw one of these in his time Vidi homunculum inquit aduncis naribus fronte cornibus aspera cui extrema corporis in caprarum pelles desinebant c. But the truth hereof I will not rashly impugn nor over boldly affirm And Satyres shall dance there Isa 13 21. Sauciate saucio to hurt to wound to cut Saul Hebr. lent of the Lord or as some will Fox Saucige from the Fr. Saucisse a kind of pudding well known The Bolona Saucige is made of Beef and lean Bacon in equal quantity flayed and chopped small with half as much Lard and some Pepper Ginger and Salt then put into a clean Ox-gut half a foot long and laid in salt for two days together and after hung up in the smoak Cot. Sauitoir or Sautoir Fr. the figure of St. Andrews Cross in Heraldry Saxons the ancient name of our Ancestors in England were so called from their use and wearing a certain Sword or Weapon made after the fashion of a Sithe which in the Neatherlands is called a Saisen These kind of Swords were
anciently written Seaxen or Seaxes and the Welshmen wrote them Saisons as they yet write us The learned Engelhusus of this weapon Seaxe and name Saxon hath this Latin Rime Quippe brevis gladius apud illos Saxa vocatur Vnde sibi Saxo nomen traxisse putatur Saxifical saxificus that turns into a stone or is made stony Saxifragrant saxifragus that breaks stones or is broken against stones Scabious scabiosus mangy scabby scurvy Scabrous scabrosus rough ragged uneven impolite As a Scabrous stile an unpleasant kind of writing Scaevola See Scevola Scalado from the Span. Escaláda and that from the Lat. Scala i. a Ladder a scaling or getting up the Ladder a term of War and most commonly applied to the gaining a Castle or Town by scaling it with Ladders Scalar Scalary scalaris leaning one way ladderwise not bolt upright Scale an eminent place in the City Zant where after fourteen days one stands and publickly cites offenders Sands Scalae Gemoniae See Gemony Scalp pericranion the skin compassing and covering all the skull Scalpture scalptura a graving in mettal a cutting or scratching Scalper or Scalping Iron scalprum a Surgeons instrument to scrape or take away corrupt flesh from the bones a Lance to let blood with Scandalize scandalizo to offend by giving ill example to give one occasion to sin or be offended also to slander or defame Scandalum Magnaâ—um Lat. is the special name of a wrong done to any high personage of the Land as Prelates Dukes Earls Barons and other Nobles as also of the great Officers of the Realm by false news or Messages whereby debates and discords betwixt them and the Commons or any scandal to their persons may arise An. 2 R. 2. c. 5. Scanderbeg i. Great Alexander the nick name of that valiant Commander George Castriot the late terror of the Turks who is said in his whole life time to have slain three thousand of them with his own hands Scandular scandularis pertaining to wooden Tiles or Shingles Scapular scapularis belonging to the shoulder It is also used substantively for a narrow and square piece of cloth c worn by Monks and Friers over the rest of their Habit and falling over the shoulders on both sides from the neck which goes through it by a slit or hole made for that purpose down almost to the foot Scarabee scarabeus the black flie bred commonly in Dung called a Beetle Scarifie scarifico to launce or open a soar to make little incisions and holes or openings either that the blood and humor may the easier come out or to prepare a place for the better extraction of Cupping-Glasses Scarification sacrificatio a cutting or lancing a scraping the skin with a fleam that one may bleed the better Scatinian Law Lex Scatinia was a Law made by Scatinius wherein the use of preposterous venery was chastised Scarpe Fr. Escarpe a Scarf worn by Commanders in the Field and so named in Heraldry Leigh Scaturiginous scaturiginosus that bursts out or runs over out of which water riseth Scavage otherwise called Shewage is a kinde of Toll or Custom exacted by Majors and Bayliffs of Cities and Burrough Towns of Merchants for Wares shewed to be sold within their Precinct which is forbidden by the Statute of 19 H. 7.8 It comes of the Saxon word Sceaw to behold or view or to shew and hence the word Sceaw-stow a Theatre or Shew-place a beholding place Verstegan Scavenger from the Belg. Scâ—avan i. to scrape or shave away an Officer well known in London that makes clean the streets by scraping up and carrying away the dust and durt The Germans call him a Drecksimon from one Simon who was appointed Scavenger of Marpurg Scelestique scelestus wicked ungracious mischievous full of naughtiness Sceleâ—on Gr. is that which the vulgar call an Anatomy the whole Fabrick or dry frame of human Bones The dry carkass of a man or woman with bones and ligaments onely For Sceletos in Greek signifies bony or dry as a bone Scellum or Schellum from the Belg. Schelm a Rogue Villain or wicked person and some times taken in the same sence with Renegado Scene scena the front or forepart of a Theatre or Stage or the partition between the Players Vestry and the Stage a Comedy or Tragedy or the division of a Play into certain parts viz. first into Acts those again into Scenes which somtimes fall out more sometimes fewer in every Act The definition of a â—cene being mutatio personarum In old time it signified a place covered with Boughs or the room where the Players made them ready Scenical scenicus of or belonging to a Scene Stage or Comedy or to Players on Stages Scenography scenographia is the model or draught of any work presented with its shadows according as the work it self shews with its dimensions according to the Rules of prospective Enchir. of Fort. See Sciagraph Sceptical scepticus that contemplates or always seeks and never finds The Philosophers called Scepticks were such as used to search into and consider much of things but leave them in suspence without any determination affirming they know nothing of this Sect Phyrro was Author Sceâ—ticium the Doctrine or opinion of the Scepticks Sceptriferous sceptrifer that bears a Scepter Sâ—evâ— scaevitas unluckiness lefthandedness Scevola scaevola the Surname of Q. Mutius a noble Roman who voluntarily burnt off his own right hand c. hence the word is used for a lefthanded man or one that hath but one hand Br. Schammatâ—a Hebr. an Excommunication to death the same with Maranatha see Moses and Aaron p. 183. Schediasm schediasma a sudden invention or a work extempore Schedical schedicus hasty sudden extemporary not labored Schedule schedula a leaf or scroll of Paper or Parchment containing the particulars of goods or other things an Inventory Scheme schema the outward fashion or habit of any thing the adorning a speech with Rhetorical figures Schism schisma properly a cutting in two a disagreeing of minds a division in the Church of Christ consisting with an unity in matters of Faith Schism says an Author is an uncharitable division or recession of any member from the unity of the whole Church As Hereâ—ie is a departing from the Communion of the Church in respect of Doctrine so Schism is a dividing or cutting off ones self for external things Schismatick schismaticus one that is divided from the external Communion of the Church Schismatical schismaticus of or pertaining to Schism or such division in the Church Scholastica Gr. a womans name and signifies leasure from business Scholastic scholasticus belonging to a Schollar or School Schollarly Scholy or Scholion scholium a close a short or compendious exposition a critical note And Scholiast one that writes such Expositions or critical notes Sciagraph schigrapha a description of the whole frame and contrivance of every room as the Carpenters shews with a Lath how the Work will fall out a Platform see Scenography Sciamachy scimachia a counterfeit