Apoplexie A very dangerous disease wherin a man lyeth without sense or motion as if hee were dead with his eyes close and great difficulty in fetching his breath It commeth for the most part of colde and grosse flegmaticke humors oppressing the brain in such sort that the animall spirits cannot passe from thence into the sinnewes as they were wont Apostasie A reuolting or falling away from true religion Apostata He that reuolteth or falleth from true religion Iulianus one of the olde Emperours was most infamous for this crime Apostaticall Of or belonging to an Apostata Apostle One sent in message an Embassadour Apostolicall Of or belonging to an Apostle Apozeme A drinke made with water and diuers spices and herbs vsed insteed of sirupes Appall To make afraid Apparant Cleare manifest certaine Appariter A sumner he that attacheth or summoneth one to appeare at a Court. Apparition An appearing or vision Appeach To accuse disclose or bewray Appeale A terme in law when a malefactour accuseth or discloseth those that were his confederates in the same offence or any other Also when the defendant refuseth a Iudge and desireth to haue his cause tryed by a superiour power he is said then to appeale as Saint Paul appealed from Feslus to Caesar the Emperour Appellant He which appealeth Appellation A naming or calling Appendix That which dependeth or hangeth vpon another thing Appertenances That which appertaineth or belongeth to an other thing Applaude To shew loue or liking to a thing by clapping the hands or other signe of reioycing Applause A reioycing or clapping the hands for ioy Application An applying of one thing to another Apposition A putting of one thing to another Approbate To like to allowe Approbation An allowance or liking Appropriate To challenge to ones selfe to keepe to himselfe alone Appropriation A terme vsed when any body corporate or priuate man hath the right vnto a parsonage in themselues and may receiue the profite thereof by maintaining a Vicar to serue in the place Arbiter A iudge in a controuersie chosen indifferent for both parties Arbiterment An agreement made betweene parties by an indifferent man to them both Arbitrary Belonging to arbiterment Arbitrate To iudge to make an agreement Arbitratour See Arbiter * Arblaster A Crosse-bow Architect A chiefe workman Architecture The art or Science of building and comely cōtriuing a house It is written that this Science did beginne in Caine because hee was the first that euer built a city which hee called by his sonnes name Enoch as appeareth Gen. 4. Ardent Burning hot vehement Ardour Heat earnestnes Argent Siluer or siluer colour sometime white Argonautes The Worthies that went into Colchos to fetch the golden Fleece so called of the shippe Argo in which they sailed The chiefe of them were Iason Typhis Castor Pollux Hercules and Thescus Ariditie Drinesse Ariopagite A Lawyer or chiefe Iudge in Capitall matters in the Citie of Athens so called of a certaine street in that citie dedicated to Mars in which those Iudges were wont to sit They were so seuere in their iudgements that they satte to heare and determine matters in the night time to the end they would not behold the parties which were to be iudged but onely heare what could be obiected and answered Saint Dionisius conuerted to the Christian faith by Saint Paul was one of those iudges Aristocratie A kinde of gouernment where the noble men or cheefe persons beare all the sway Aristocraticall Of or belonging to Aristocratie Arithmetike The art of numbring It is written that Abraham first taught this art to the Egyptians and that afterward Pythagoras did much increase it Arke In holy scripture it signifieth two things 1. The Arke made by Noe at the commandement of God which was 300. cubits long 50. cubits broad and 30. high Gen. 6. Secondly it signifieth a most precious and consecrated cofer or chest called the Arke of testament made of the wood Sethim and plated within and without all ouer with gold It had fowre corners and in each corner a golden ring thorough which were putte barres of the same wood Sethim couered likewise with gold which serued for the carriage thereof This Arke was two cubits and a halfe long one cubit and a halfe broad and one cubit a half deepe Exod. 25. In it was kept part of the Manna in a pot of gold also the two Tables of the Law and Aarons rod that had budded Heb. 9. Armadilio A beast in India of the bignesse of a young pigge couered ouer with small shels like vnto armour for which cause he is called Armadilio to wit an armed beast This beast liueth in the ground like a mole and the bone of his taile hath vertue to cure diseases and noise in the head Armipotent Mightie strong Aromaticall Sweete of sauour smelling like spice Arrerages Mony or rent behind not yet paid Arrian An heretike of the sect of Arrius bishop of Alexandria who deuised a blasphemous doctrine against the diuinitie of our Sauiour Arride To please well to content with delight Arrogancie Pride loftines Arrogant Proud boasting Arrogate To chalenge proudly more honour or praise than is due Arterie A veine with two coates or a hollow sinew in which the spirits of life doe passe through the body These kind of veines proceed all from the heart where the vitall spirits are made and are those which pant or beate called commonly the pulses Articulate To set downe articles or conditions of agreement Artificiall Cunning wel contriued skilfull Articke pole The North pole of the world Artillerie Great ordnance for the wars Artisan A handy crafts man Artist He that is skilfull many art Asa foetidae A dried gum or liquor brought out of Media and Syria of a strong lothsome sauour and is sometime applyed outwardly to the body Ascance Sidewaies or looking on one side Ascribe To impute apply or account Asia One of the three parts of the world bounding toward the East in which is Pontus Bithynia Phrygia Paphlagonia Cappadocia Armenia Cyprus Syria Palestine or the holy land Arabia Mesopotamia so called because it is in the midst betweene the two great riuers Tigris and Euphrates Assyria Media Persia and diuers other countries Aspe A venemous Serpent of a blacke earthie colour and sometime yellow The superstitious Egyptians did honour them and their Kings vsed to weare the figure of an Aspe in their Diadems They go alwaies two and two together and if it happen that one of them be killed the other will presently pursue him that slue his fellow in such sort that he shal hardly escape vnlesse he make great hast or passe ouer a riuer If one be bitten by this Serpent the best remedy is presently to cut off the member so bitten if it be possible otherwise he shall fall into a deadly sleep within few houres goe away as it were in a trance Cleopatra Queene of Egypt after the death of Marcus Antonius whom she loued as her Husband flue her selfe
grow as high as nineteene and then the golden number returneth to one againe For example this yeare 1616. the golden number is two the next yeare therefore it will be three c. This golden number was deuised to finde out the feast of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Hierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Golierdise Hee that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure conteyning more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fed from Heauen with Manna in the desert receiued euery one this measure full for a daies allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knot which cannot be loosed Gorgon A terrible fighting Woman Poets seine there were foure such Daughters to King Phorcus their names were Scylla Medusa Stenio and Euryale Gossomor Things that flye like Copwebs in the ayre Gourmand A glutton Gourmandize Gluttony sometime to eate like a Glutton Graces A poeticall fiction of three Sisters supposed the Daughters of Iupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne The moralitie of this inuention was to expresse the mutual loue and cheerefull conuersation which ought to be amongst friends For they were painted naked to signifie that friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smiling and merry to shew that men should do good willingly yong maidēlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefit bestowed dooth againe returne to the giuer Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Gradual That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospell Graduate He that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniuersity Graines of Paradise A litle seede brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtill substance and often vsed in Physicke For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beasts and diuers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruit like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Deuised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turne Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turne Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuitie A benefit or gift giuen onely for good will sometime thankfulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we reioyce at the prosperity of another Gratulation A reioycing for anothers good A thanksgiuing Grauitie Heauinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeantie An old tenure in the Common Law when a man holdes lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the warres or to beare his banner leade his host or doe some such like seruice Graunge A village or lone house in the countrey * Gree. Good part Griffine A strange Bird in India with foure feete armed with cruell clawes being from the breast vpward fashioned like an Eagle but of purple colour with red fierie eies and whitish wings and in the hinder part blacke made much like a Lyon This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very yong for he wil aduenture on any man is so fierce that hee often killeth Elephants and Dragons He is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgill in his eight Eclog bringeth in the sheppheard Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Iunguntur iam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are ioynd with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacatane An herbe growing in the west Indies of great vertue against the piles or griefes proceeding from colde or windinesse Guaiacum A wood called by some Lignum vitae It is much vsed in physicke against the French disease Guaiauas A fruit growing in India much like vnto apples Guerdon A reward Guerdonles Vnrewarded * Guerring Brawling Gumme Arabicke A kind of gumme growing on a thorne tree called Acacia in Egypt Guzes The ball of the eye A terme in heraldrie Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwaies naked and liued solitarie in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Hierome writeth cont Iouinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H. HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit. The outward attire of the bodie whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of a Gentleman is different from the habit of a merchant and the habit of a Handi-crafts man differing from them both Sometime it signifieth a qualitie in the bodie or minde not naturall but gotten by long custome or infused by God as an Orator still exercised in making orations hath gotten a habit of eloquent speaking and the holy Apostles had a habit to vnderstand and speake languages without studie Habitable which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Grwne to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleeuelesse iacket Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valley * Hameled Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made vpon the bones of a shoulder of mutton all the flesh being first taken off Hamlet A village in the countrey Hague A hand-gunne of about three quarters of a yard long Haguebut A gunne or harquebuse Harbinger One that taketh vp lodging for others Hariant A tearme in herauldry when a fish is painted standing vpright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweete pleasant delightful to the eare Harpyes A poeticall word It signifieth certaine monstrous birds with maiden faces crooked sharp talons so called because of their rapine which they vsed They liued in Stymphalis a lake of Arcadia and were sent by the Gods if wee beleeue Poets to snatch away and defile the meate of Phineus king of that countrey because he at the perswasion of his second wife had destroyed the children which he had by his first they were at last driuen away by Zetus and Calais the sonnes of of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello Ocypete Celeno and Thyella Harquebuze A hande Gunne Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gunne * Harrow An old word signifying away fie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To returne Hawberke A Gorget Hearse A buriall coffin couered with blacke Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beastes Hecticke A Feuer inflaming the Heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heauens that part of the heauens which is still visible to vs. Hemistich Halfe a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of veines in the fundament like
the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first being more tender and fine and close wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes bee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath vpon her the monthly courses or which belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenarie A hireling one that worketh for hire Mercurian Eloquent as Mercury was Meridian Of or belonging to noone day or the South part of the world Merit Desert or to 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 Metaphysickes dealeth onely with incorporall and euerlasting things and in this sense schoole Diuinitie is the highest part of the Metaphysickes being chiefly occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and soules of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the aire as raine snow haile thunder lightening blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapours or exhalations drawen 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 adiunct or contrarily Metropolitan The chiefe or mother city An Archbishop Microcosmus It properly signifieth a little world This terme is sometime applyed to man who is therefore called a Microcosmus or little world because his body being compared to the baser part of the world and his soule to the blessed Angels seemeth to signifie that man is as it were a little world and that the whole world doeth resemble a great man Midriffe A sinewie skin passing ouerthwarte in mans body which diuideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guttes and liuer lest the vitall parts should be offended with any ill vapour comming from them Migraine A disease comming by fits either 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 Militarie Warlike or belonging to Warre Mimicall That which belongeth to scoffing behauiour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton iester a counterfet foole Minatorie Threatening Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniuer A fine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrils some say it is the skinne of a little white Vermine breeding in Muscouia Minor The lesser the yonger Minoritie A mans time before he be of full age in the law to dispose of his goodes and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like a man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candie 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 fellonie or treason but not so capitall as fellonie 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 Missiue That which witnesseth ones being sent Mistleden A plant which hath slender branches and greene thicke 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 colde hard swellings Misy A kind 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 whome it taketh the name It is of singular vertue against poison and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken inwardly before it be aboue sixe moneths olde Mitigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobilitie Aptnes to moue Moderate Measurable temperate also to gouerne or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour he 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 Moitie 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 Idoll 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 Momentanie Of short continuance which lasteth a very little while Monarch A King or Prince that ruleth alone without any equall Monarchie The rule of one Prince alone or a countrey so gouerned Monasterie 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 sell 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 waywardnesse 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