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
it was enacted by Parliament in the time of the Conqueror no man then living could tell how much that was so as it was referred to the King to rate how much he should pay which was the more strange considering but 100 years before 200000 Bezants were exacted by the Soldan for redeeming St. Lewis of France which were then valued at 100000 livres The name continues yet in the blazons of Arms where plates of gold are called Bezants and a great piece of gold valued at 15. l. which the King of England formerly offered on high festival days was called a Bizantine but afterward there were two purposely made for the King and Queen with the resemblance of the blessed Trinity inscribed In honorem sanctae Trinitatis and on the other side the picture of the Virgin Mary with In honorem sanctae Mariae Virginis and this was used til the first year of King James who caused two to be new cast the one for himself having on the one side the picture of a King kneeling before an Altar with four Crowns before him implying his four Kingdoms and in the circumscription Quid tribuam Domino pro omnibus quae tribuit mihi On the other side a Lamb lying by a Lyon with Cor contritum humiliatum non despiciet Deus And in another for the Queen a Crown protected by a Cherubin over that an eye and Deus in a cloud with Teget ala summus on the reverse a Queen kneeling before an Altar with this Circumscription Piis precibus fervente fide humili obsequio Cam. Rem The French Kings were also accustomed to offer 13 Besants at the Mass of their Coronation in Rheims to which end Hen. 2. after some discontinuance of that custom caused the same number of them to be made and called them Bysantins but they were not worth above a double Ducket the piece Cot. Black-rod Is the Huissier or Usher belonging to the order of the Garter So called of his black-rod which he carries in his hand he was of the Kings Chamber and Usher of the Lords House in Parliament Min. Blain Sax. Blegene a kind of Bile or Ulcer drawing quickly to a head with a vehement inflammation of the whole part about it Blancmanget Fr. a kind of Custard a white meat made of flower milk sugar and the brains of Pullets Bac. Blanch Fr. white or fair we use it in England for a womans name Blandishment from Blandio or from the Fr. Blandissement a soothing smoothing tickling of the mind and affection with terms of flattery an alluring enticing Blandiloquence blandiloquentia fair-speaking flattering Blatant babling twatling Clievland Blateron or Blatteroon blatero a babler an idle-headed fellow Mr. How Blatteration blateratio vain-babling flattering in speech Blaze is a certain fire which the Inhabitants of Staffordshire and some other Counties were wont and still do make on Twelf-Eve 5. Jan. at night in memory of the Blazing-Star that conducted the three Magi to the Manger at Bethlem Blazon Fr. is the description of armâ—s and their appurtenances by the received terms or other apt expressions of things by words Elements of Ar. Blemishe marks made by hunters to shew where a Deer hath gone Blend Sax. to mix or mingle together Blepharen blepharo onis he that hath great brows or eye-lids Blesiloquent blaesiloquus broad-spoken or that speaks stammeringly Blith Sax. joyful glad merry chearful Bliwmantle The name of an Office of one of the Poursuivants at Arms. See Harold To Blissome as the Ram doth the Ewe i. to Tup her So to go a blissoming is to desire the Ram. Rider Blomary the first Forge in an iron Mill through which the iron passeth after it is once melted out of the Mine Bloudwit from the Sax. blout i. blood and wit for which we have the word wite still in the west parts of England signifying a charging of one with a fault or an upbraiding This Bloodwit is a word used in Charters of Liberties antiently granted and signifies an amerciament for shedding blood So that whosoever had it given him in his Charter had the penalty due for shedding blood granted him Cow Fleta saith Significat quietantiam misericordia pro effusione sanguinis lib. 1. cap. 47. Boccone Ital. a morsel a good bit Sometimes taken for poison Bociant Sax. a possession an inheritance a Farm or house with land belonging to it Boethetic Gr. a part of Physick See Medicine Boillary or Bullary of Salt a little house or furnace where Salt is boiled and made as at Droitwich in Worcestershire Co. instit p. 4. b. Bole-Armoniack a kind of faint red colour used by Painters the chiefest use of it is in making a Size for burnished gold Peacham Bolus Lat. a morsel or mouthful In physick it is a medicament of a middle consistency betwixt a Potion and a Pill Bombard bombarda a Gun or peice of Ordnance Hence Bombardical thundering or roaring like a peece of Ordnance How Bombycinous bombycinus that is made of silk or silken Bombilation bombilatio a humming as of Bees Br. Bonaght was an exaction in Ireland imposed at the will of the Lord for relief of the Knights called Bonaghti that served in the Wars Antiq. Hiber p. 60. Bonair Fr. gentle mild courteous Bonairite Fr. gentleness mildeness courtesie Bonasus See Monops Bonaventure bonaventura good adventure the name of a great Saint and Doctor a Frier of St. Francis Order that lived and flourished in the thirteenth age after Christ Bonefire is well known in the modern use of it and was so called from the antient custom of burning dead mens bones Bone-minâ— Fr. a good countenance posture or shew Bongrace Fr. a certain cover which children use to wear on their Foreheads to keep them from sun-burning so called because it preserves their good grace and beauty Bonhemes Fr. i. good men a religious Order of Friers instituted by St. Francis de Paula a Town of Calabria in Italy a person of eminent sanctity and austerity of life and of that humility that he stiled himself the least or meanest of men and ordered the followers of his Institute or Rule to take the appellation of Minimi the least or unworthiest among men and thence they are commonly called Minims or Minorites One point of mortification whereunto the Regulars of that Order tie themselves by vow besides their three Vows of Chastity Poverty and Obedience is a total abstinence from flesh-meats It is an Order much reverenced in France where the Founder lived and died at Tours an 1507. There were two Convents of these formerly in England the one at Asbridge in Buckinghamshire the other at Edington in Wiltshire Bonifate bonifatus that hath good fortune or fate Boniface bonifacius wel-doer or good and sweet face A name of divers as well Popes of Rome as others Bon-jour Fr. good morrow or good-day Boon Sax. Beuâ— Chaucer Bonâ— a petition or request Bâ—ö◠Gr. a slow working Star in the North Pole near Charles wain which it follows Boras or
consecrated to Apollo because on mount Parnassus there grew great store of it Some affirm it has the property not to be hurt by lightning therefore the Cock resorts thereto in Tempests as Natural Historians testifie conform to which is the Imprese of him who caused to be painted a Cock under a Laurel with this Motto SIC EVITABILE FVLMEN Lauriferous laurifer that beareth Bays or Lawrel Law of Arms jus militare is a Law that gives precepts and rules how rightly to proclaim War to make and observe Leagues and Truce to set upon the enemy to retire to punish offenders in the Camp to appoint Souldiers their pay to give every one dignity to his desert to divide spoils in proportion and such like for further knowledge whereof read those that write de Jure Belli Laws of tâ—e Twelve Tables See in Tables Lawless man is he qui est extra legem an Out-law Bract. l. 3. tract 2. c. 11. num 1. Law of Marquâ— or Mart This word is used 27. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. c. 17. and grows from the German word March i. limes a bound or limit And the reason of this appellation is because they that are driven to this Law of Reprizal take the Goods of that people of whom they have received wrong and can get no ordinary Justice when they can catch them within their own Territories or Precincts See Reprisal and Marque Law Merchant is a Priviledge or special Law differing from the Common Law of England and proper to Merchants and summary in proceeding An. 27. Ed. 3. Stat. 8 9 19 and 20. An. 13. Ed. 1. Stat. 3. Lawing of Dogs See Expeditate Mastiffs must be lawed every three years Crom. Jurisd fol. 163. Laxation laxatio an easing releasing or freeing Laxity laxitas loosness wildness liberty Lazer so called of Lazarus mentioned in the Gospel a poor man full of soars and scabs Lazuleâ— lazulus a blewish stone a kind of marble of which they make the colour Azure it is sometimes also used in Physick and is in operation hot and dry Lazzareto Ital. an Hospital for sick folks a Pest-house League Ital. and Span. legua Lat. leuca from the Gr. leucos i. white because they did in old time pitch white stones at every leagues end from the City The difference of miles in several Countries is great but it will be enough to know that the Italian and English are reckoned all for one though some hold the Italian to be the lesser and four of these make a German mile two a French league three and somewhat more a Spanish league the Swedish or Danish mile consists of five English miles and somewhat more a league at Sea is usually held to be three English miles Leander a young man of Abidos who was in love with Hero Lectern or Lectorn with Chaucers Interpreter is a Desk I suppose he means a Reading-Desk in a Church which in old Latin is called Lectrinum Lectistern lectisternium was among the antient Romans the solemn Ceremony of trimming and setting out a bed not for repose but repast wherein they laid the Images of their Gods reared upon Bolsters and Pillows The principal whereof was that in the honour of Jupiter at the Epulum Jovis whereon Jupiter was laid Juno and Minerva sitting on either side by him Livie Lector Lat. a Reader Lecture a Reading Leero corruptly from Lyra is a way of tuning or playing on the Viol different from that of Alphonso Leet Is otherwise called a Law day Smith de Repub. Angl. lib. 2. ca. 18. This Court in whose Mannor soever it is kept is accounted the Kings Court and is commonly held every half year c. See more Kitch fol. 6. Legacy See Devise Legality legalitas the keeping the Law also lawfulness Legation legatio an Embassage the Office of an Embassador Legate legatus an Embassador an Orator a Leiger The Popes Embassador hath most usually this tittle See Nuntio Legatary legatarius the party to whom a Legacy is given or made Legend from lego a writing also the words that are about the edge of a peece of coyn The golden Legend so called is a book of the lives of Saints Legerdemain Fr. Legier de main i. light of hand swiftness of hand cousenage Hocus Pocus tricks Legible legibilis that may be read Legiferous legifer that makes or gives Laws Legion legio an Army or Band of men At first Romulus his Legion consisted of 3000 footmen and 300 horse after of 4200 foot and 300 horse and after that 5000 foot and 300 horse Isid 9.3 saith a Legion consisted of 6000 armed men which number is seldom or never exceeded as it appears by Sigonius de jure Rom. l. 1. cap. 15. The Romans did very seldom enroll into their universal Army above four Legions and in an ordinary Legion ten Cohorts every Cohort containing three Maniples every Maniple two Centuries every Century 100 Soldiers Goodw. p. 175. Legionary legionarius of or pertaining to a Legion Legislator Lat. a Law-giver or Law-maker Legislative legislatus that hath power or authority to make or give Laws Legister Lat. a Lawyer Chaucer Legitimate legitimus lawful right meet just Leguminous from legumen belonging to pulse or pease Leman pallaca a married mans Concubine Lemnian lemnius pertaining to the Isle Lemnos Lemnian-earth is Vermilion or Red-earth Lenity lenitas softness smoothness meekness easiness to please Lenitude the same Lenitive that is apt to soften asswage or pacifie Lenonian lenonius belonging to a Bawd Lentiginous lentiginosus that is full of freckles or pimples like Lentils Lentil lens a kind of small pulse growing in hot Countries round and flat of colour sometimes black sometimes white and sometimes brown being boyled but once they loose the belly but at the second boyling in another water they are of a binding nature being then good to stop the bloody Flux or any looseness of the body Lentiscine lentiscinus of or belonging to the Mastick tree Lent Sax. The Spring-Fast a time of fasting for forty days next before Easter so called from Lenct-monaâ— or length moneth by which name the old Saxons called March because then the days began first to exceed the nights in length And they call this Fast Lent from the name of the said moneth because the most part of it falls within the compass of this month Verst Lent was first commanded to be observed in England by Ercombert the seventh King of Kent before the year of our Lord 800. Sir Rich. Bakers Chron. fol. 7. But Mr. Fuller says the first Lent kept in England was in the year 640. Cent. 7. fo 81. Lentisk lentiscus a tree growing in divers hot Countries which bears the notable Gum called Mastick Its Leaves and Bark stop all loosness and issues of blood Lentour lentor a clammy or glewish humor Bac. Lentous lentus soft tender pliant or limber idle Lenvoy from the Fr. Envoy or L'envoy a message or sending also the conclusion of a Sonnet or Ballade in a short Stanza by
the personality when t is brought against the right person or when the Action is properly personal not real or mixt Personate persono to sound out or perfectly to make a great noise But Personato from persona is more commonly taken to represent the person of another Pâ—rspective from perspicio the Art of advantaging the sight by the help of glasses and other contrivances Perspicacy Perspicacity perspicacia quickness of sight understanding or perceiving a thing ready apprehension Perspicience perspicientia perfect knowledge full perceiving a thing Perspicuity perspicuitas clearness plainness properly in words and sentences Perspirable from perspiro that may or is able to breath through Br. Perspiration perspiratio a breathing through It is as it were a breathing or vaporing of the whole body through the skin Bac. Perstringe perstringo to wring hard to touch a thing sharply in speaking or writing c. Also to deceive Perterebrate perterebro to pierce or bore thorow with a wimble Pertical perticalis belonging to a Perch or Pole Pertinacy pertinacia obstinacy stubbornness stiffness in opinion sometimes it is taken in the good part for perseverance constancy Pertingeâ— pertingens extending reaching or joyning near unto Pertingency a reaching or joyning near unto Pervade pervado to go and enter over all through or into to scape or pass through or by Dr. Charl. Pervagation pervagatio a straying up and down a wandring through or about Perversity perversitas maliciousness of nature where we do overthwartly that we ought not to do frowardness Pervert perverto to overthwart to turn upside down to subvert corrupt destroy A Pervert one that is turned from good to evil as Convert is the contrary Pervicacy pervicacia obstinacy â—teadiness stiffneckedness sometimes perseverance constancy Pervise pervisum a Bar also a conference in former time called the Pervis among the young Councellors Pleaders Attorneys or Students of the Law such as at this day might resemble the course in the Inns of Court or Chancery called Moots and Bolts wherein the form of pleading and arguing a case is exercised for so doth Fortescu chap. 51. commending those Laws prove when he saith That after the Judges were risen at eleven of the clock from hearing Causes at Westminster Placitantes tunc se divertunt ad Pervisum alibi consulentes cum Servientibus ad legem aliis Conciliariis suis Pervious pervius that may be gone in or through that is easie to be passed over or through Perwick or Perwig from the Belg. Perruâ—ck or Fr. perrúque i. a tuff or lock of hair a cap of false or counterfeit hair Peruvians people of Peru in the West Indies so called Pessary pessus is made of soft wool in form of a finger and is a kind of suppository for the secret parts of women Br. Pessundate pessundo to tread or cast under feet to put down or to the worst to cast to the ground as a horse doth his rider Pestarable Wares seem to be such Wares as pester and take up much room in a ship An. 32. H. 8. c 14. Pestiferous pestifer deadly unwholesome that brings death pestilence and destruction Petalism petalismus from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. a leaf a kinde of banishment for five years among the Siracusians practised by writing the parties name whom they would be rid of in an Olive leaf as at Athens they wrote upon shells Petard or Petarre Fr. petart an Engin of War made like a Bell or Morter wherewith strong Gates are burst open Petaurist petaurista a Dancer on the Ropes a Tumbler a runner upon Lines Petauristick pertaining to tumbling vaulting or dancing upon Ropes Peter Gr. for which the French use Pierre and our Ancestors used Pierce a name of high esteem among Christians since our Saviour named Simon the son of Jona Cephas which is Syriack and by interpretation a stone John 1.42 But fool-wisely have some Peters called themselves Pierius Cam. St. Peter ad vincula see Gule of August Peter-pence Denarii sancti Petri otherwise called in the Saxon tongue Rome-feoâ— i. the fee of Rome or due to Rome and also Rome-scot and Rome-penning was a tribute given by Ina King of the West-Saxons being in pilgrimage at Rome about the year of our Lord 626. which was a penny for every Chimney that smoaked in England Lamberds Explication of Saxon words verbo Nummus Whom see also fol. 128. in St Edw. Laws num 10. See also King Edgars Laws fol. 78. c. 4. Stow in his Annals p. 76. saith He that had thirty penny worth of Goods of one kind in his house of his own proper was to give a penny at Lammas yearly see Rome-scot Petitory petitorius belonging to a Petition or request Petrel see Pectoral Petrification petrificatio a making stony a turning into stone also a disease in the eye and eye-lids Petrifie from Petra to make become stonish or of a hard nature Br. Petrobrusiany a sort of Hereticks that held Christians ought not to keep or observe Feasts c. Petrol petroleum a kind of Marle or Chaulky Clay or rather a substance strained out of the natural Bitumen It is for the most part white but sometimes black and being once set on fire can hardly be quenched see Napthe Petronel Fr. petrinal a horsemans peece first used in the Pyrenean Mountains which was hanged at the Brest ready to shoot Petti-fogger from the Fr. petite and Belg. Foken vel Fâ—yken i. convasare a silly Advocate a petty Attorney or Lawyer or rather a Trouble-Town having neither Law nor Conscience Petty Sergeanty a tenure of Land holden of the King by yielding him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like see Capite Petty Treason Fr petit Trahison Treason in a lesser or lower kinde If a Servant kill his Master a Wife her Husband a Secular or Religious man his Prelate these are Petit Treasons An. 25. Edw. 3. cap. 2. Whereof see more in Stawnf Pl. Cr. l. 1. c. 2. Cromp. J. of Peace f. 2. For the punishment of Petit Treason see An. 22. H. 8. cap. 14. Petulancâ— petulantia wantonness malepertness impudency reproachful speaking Petulant petulans wanton dishonest reproachful fawcy Pexiâ—y pexitas the long roughness of the Web. Pâ—oeâ—omenon Gr. an appearance either in Heaven or in the Air. Sir H. Wotton Phagâ—denick phagaedenicus that hath or pertains to a kind of Pock or running Cancer which frets through the skin and eats the flesh Phalanx Lat. a military Squadron consisting of eight thousand footmen set in such array that they might encounter with their enemies foot to foot man to man shield to shield Polybius l. 5. says the Phalanx contained above twenty thousand but these numbers still altered Phalangarians phalangarii Souldiers of the Army Phalanx Phalangeary Phalangeous of or pertaining to Phalanx Br. Phalaris Bull Phalaris was a Tyrant of Sicily who tormented Perillus the Artificer first in the brasen Bull he made for the destruction and torture of others whereupon aptly Ovid nec enim lex justior ulla
walking up and down changeable Amburbial amburbialis that goes about the City Amburbial Sacrifices were when the beast went about the City before he was sacrificed Ambuscado Spa. souldiers hid in a secret place to entrap the enemy unawares an ambush a way-laying or laying in wait for Ambustion ambustio a burning or scorching about Amebean Verse Carmen Amoebaeum a Song or Verse when one answers another by course or is sung by turns Amen Heb. i.e. verè in the end of prayer wishing that it may be so so be it But when it is found twice repeated as Amen Amen then it implies verily verily for confirmation of a truth Mat. 18.3 Joh. 6.26 Durantus saith that Amen imports Be it to us which we have praied for Amen is used in most languages in Turky they use Homin instead of it S.H.B. Amenity amaenitas pleasantness mirth delight amity Amerciament from the Fr. merci i. Mercy signifies the pecuniary punishment of an offender against the King or other Lord in his Court that is found to be in misericordia i. to have offended and to stand at the mercy of the Lord. There seems to be a difference between Amerciaments and Fines Kitchin fol. 214. For Fines as taken for punishments are punishments certain which grow expresly from some Statute and Amerciaments are arbitrably imposed by Affeerors Cow America one of the four parts of the world so called from Americus Vespacius a Florentine who with Columbus a Genoese first discover'd this Country about the year 1492. which is most aptly called the New world new for the late discovery and world for the vast spaciousness of it For it being divided into two parts Mexicana and Peruana the compass of the first is deemed 17000 of the other 13000 miles Heyl. American Disease The great Pox brought first from the Indies by the Spaniards into Christendom and at the Siege of Naples they bestowed it on the French their enemies in the year 1528. See Morbus Gallicus Amfractuosity anfractuositas a manifold winding turning involution intricacy compass Amfractuous anfractuosus full of turnings or windings intricate maze-like perplexed Amicable amicabilis friendly like a friend Amict or Amice amictus us a garment or attire particularly it is that linen attire which Priests put first on when they vest themselves by which is represented the head-cloth wherewith the Jews covered the face and eys of our Savior when buffeting him they said Prophecy who is he that struck thee Amicted amictus clothed or covered with a garment Amie from the Fr. amiè beloved and that from Amatus a name common both to men and women The Earls and Dukes of Savoy who are commonly called Aimè were in Latin called Amadeus that is loving God as Theophilus We now use Amias for this in difference from Amie the womans name Cam. Amission amissio a loss or losing To Amit amitto to lose to pardon Ammodite ammodites a creeping vermin like a Viper but of a sandy colour and full of black spots Ammoniack A kind of gum almost like Frankincense so called because it grows in Lybia near the place where the Temple of Jupiter Ammon or Hammon was There is also a kinde of salt so called which is found in Africa under sand and is like Allum Bull. Amnesty amnestia forgetfulness of things past Icon. Basil Amnick amnicus of or belonging to a River Amonites taken either for a distinct people descended from Amon or generally used for all the Heathen whereof they were the worst and wickedest which possessed the land Gen. 15.16 Josh 2.10 Amos. 2.9 Amorist amator a lover an amorous fellow a wooer Amorositie from amor amorousness lovefulness Amoroso Ital. a he-lover and Amorosa a she-lover Amort from the Fr. amorti extinguished deaded quenched Hence 't is we use to say to those that are melancholy what alls-a-mort or amortified To Amortize from mors to deaden kill or slay Lord Bacon and Chaucer Amotion amotio a removing or Putting away Amphibology amphibologia a word or speech that hath a double or doubtful understanding or meaning Amphibion Amphibious amphibium amphibius that lives as well by water as on land Fuller Amphibolous Amphibolical Amphibological amphibolicus doubtful or doubtfully spoken Amphictious Amphyctiones were the most noble Counsellors of Greece selected out of the twelve prime Cities and instituted either by Acrisius as Strabo or as Halicarnassaeus thinks by Amphictyon the son of Helen from whom they seem to have derived their name They had power to decide all controversies and to enact Laws for the common good their meetings were at the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Ryder To Amphionize i. to play the Amphion who was the author of harmony and by his Eloquence brought men from savageness to civility Apol. for Learning Amphyscians amphyscii such people as live under the burning Zone near the Equinoctial line so called because their shadows at noon are sometimes toward the North sometimes toward the South Bull. Amphitheater amphitheatrum a kind of round Scaffold or Play-house full of benches of divers heights for people to sit and behold publique exercises It differs from a Theater as the Full Moon from the half this was but half-circled that round and composed as it were of two Theaters and is thereof so called Caius Julius Caesar says Polydore Virgil built the first Amphitheater in the field and consecrated it to Mars Verona a City in Lombardy boasts of an Amphitheater able to contain 80000 people And Vespatians Amphitheater at Rome said to be as great Theoderick King of the Goths did utterly abolish the pastimes then used to be exhibited upon these Amphitheatres Amphitrite Gr the wife of Neptune used for the Sea Ovid. Amphoral amphoralis containing or pertaining to Amphora which is a vessel or pot with two ears by some taken for a Rundlet of nine gallons Antiently the Italick Amphora contained five Gallons the Attick Amphora seven Gallons and a half Godwin 143. Ampliation ampliatio a deferring or prolonging of Judgement or trial till the cause be better certified an enlargement a Reprive Amplification amplificatio an amplifying enlarging or dilating Amplitude amplitudo greatness dignity breadth largenes Amplivagant amplivagus that stretcheth far or hath a large scope Ampullous ampullarius pertaining to or empty as a bottle or such like vessel also proud swelling or gorgeous Amputation amputatio a cutting off away or about a proyning Amulete amuletum a ball like a Pomander good against infection or bewitching also any thing that is hung about the neck to preserve one from bewitching or infection Ana A barbarous word used by Physicians and signifies of every one a like quantity Anabaptists a sort of Hereticks whose erroneous Tenents or the greatest part of them are 1. That Christ took not flesh from the Virgin Mary but that he past through her as the Sun beams through glass or rain through a spout 2. That there is no original sin 3. That children ought not to be baptized 4. That such as have
wherewith Kings were wont to be annointed at their Coronation or wherein the Holy Oyl called Chrism is kept Christianism christianismus Christianity the being or profession of a Christian Chromatick chromaticus that never blusheth whose colour never changeth also pleasant or delightful as Chromatick Musick pleasant Musick composed much of discords to render it more delightful But Chromaticum melos ab antiquis dicebatur una ex tribus musicae partibus quae ob nimiam mollitiem infamiae nota non caruit Chronical chronicus temporal or returning at a certain time Chronical Diseases are such as come at certain times by fits and have some intermission Chronogram from the Gr. chronos i. tempus and Gramma Litera is a kind of Sentence or Verse in which the figurative letters do promiscuously make up the year of our Lord which letters are usually for distinction printed in a different Character As upon Duke Bernard of Weymer his taking Brisack in the year 1938 This. InVICto fortIs CeCiDit BraeIsaels AChILLI IVngItVr tanto DIgna pVeLLa VIro Chronographer chronographus a writer of Chronicles or Annals Chronography chronographia the writing of Annals or description of time Chronology chronologia a speaking of times or the Art of numbering the years from the beginning of the world Heylin saith Chronologies are onely bare supputations of the times without any regard of the acts then happening such are the Chronologies of Funccius Scaliger and Helvicus Chronologer chronologus he that computes times a writer of Chronicles Chronologicks books treating of Chronology Chrysocol chrysocolla a kind of Mineral found like sand in veins of brass silver or gold one kind of it is called Borax or green earth wherewith Gold-smiths solder gold Chrysolite chrysolithus a kind of Jasper of a Gold colour Chrysopase Fr. a precious stone that yeelds a golden lustre Church-Wardens Ecclearum Gardiani seu custodes are Officers yearly chosen by the consent of the Minister and Parishoners according to the custom of every several place to look to the Church Church-yard and such things as belong to both and to observe the behaviour of their Parishioners for such faults as appertain to the Jurisdiction or censure of the Court Ecclesiastical They are a kind of Corporation enabled by Law to sue for any thing belonging to their Church or poor of their Parish See Lambert in his Pamphlet of the duty of Church-wardens Churle Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chyle chylus the white juyce of digested meat the matter whereof our blood is made The word originally signifies a juyce concocted by heat unto a consistence that holds both of moysture and driness Cot. Chylifactory from chylus and factus that maketh or causeth the white juyce coming of the meat digested in the stomach Vul. Er. Chylification a making or causing of that white juyce in the stomach Chymick or Chymist and Chymistry See Alchimy Chymere See Taberd Cibarious cibarius pertaining to meat sit to be eaten Ciboir Fr. a Pix the box or cup wherin the Sacrament is put and kept in the Churches of Roman Catholicks Cibosity cibositas plenty of victuals store of food Cicatrice cicatrix a token a scar of a wound skin bred upon a wound or soar Ciceronical from Cicero learned or eloquent as Cicero was Cicurate cicuro to tame or make tame Br. Cilerie or Silerie Drapery wrought on the heads of Pillars or Posts and made like cloth or leaves turning divers ways See Silery and Drapery Cilice cilicium a cloth or garment made of hair Cilicious cilicius pertaining to hairy or woollen cloth Br. Cimbal See Cymbal Cimeliark cimeliarchum a Jewel house also a Vestry in a Church Ciment See Cement Cimisse A noysom little worm flat and red which raiseth Wheals where it bites if it be broken it yields a stinking smell Bull. Cimeterre Fr. a crooked sword See Scymitar Cimmerian That sees no Sun or lives without the light of the Sun obscure dark from Cimmerii a people of Italy dwelling in a Valley near the mountain Pausilype so invironed with hills that the Sun never comes to it Hence the proverb Cimmerian darkness where Ovid placeth the Palace of Somnus Est prope Cimmerios longo spelunca recessu Mons cavus c. Metam lib. 11. A Cave there is near the Cimmerians deep In hollow hill the Mansion of dull sleep Never by Phoebus seen from earth a night There of dim clouds ascends and doubtful light Cincture cinctura a girding Cindalism cindalismus a play that Boys use to fling at a heap of dust dust-point Cinefaction cinefactio a reducing into or burning unto ashes Cinefy cinefacio to bring to ashes Ciniph Lat. a Gnat. Cinerulent cinerulentus full of ashes Cinnaber or Cinoper cinnabaris Vermillion Sanguinary is either natural a soft red and heavy stone found in Mines or artificial the more common and better coloured made of calcinated Sulphur and Quick-silver The Paynims used to paint their Idols therewith and themselves in publique feasts and solemnities as we read Camillus when he triumphed in Rome was painted with Vermillion So Virgil speaking in his tenth Eglogue of the shepherds god Pan saith Pan Deus Arcadiae venit quem vidimus ipsi Sanguineis ebuli baccis minioque rubentem Pan the Arcadian God we saw appear With bloody berries stain'd and Cinoper Cinque Ports Fr. five Ports or Havens which lie towards France in the East of England viz. Hastings Dover Hithe Rumney and Sandwich for Rye and Winchelsea are but limbs or members belonging to Hastings as likewise Lid and old Rumney are Limbs of the Port of new Rumney and not distinct Ports by themselves The Inhabitants of these Cinque Ports and of their members enjoy divers priviledges above the rest of the Commons of that Country They pay no Subsidies Suits at Law are commenced and answered within their own Liberties their Majors have the credit of carrying the Canopy over the King or Queen at their Coronation And for their greater dignity they are placed then at a Table on the right hand of the King Min. See the first institution of these Cinque Ports and of the Lord Warden in Camdens Brit. fol. 230. Cion Dion or Scion Fr. a Plant a young Shoot or Sprig growing out of the root or stock of a Tree And by a metaphor a childe or youth Cipher ciphra a figure or number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 are the figures and 0 a cipher in Arithmetick Which 0 of it self is of no value but encreaseth the value of other figures to which it is joyned Hence 't is we use to say that person stands for a cipher who being in company of others neither speaks nor acts as they do There is also a kind of writing which we call by Ciphers or Characters whereof every exercised Statesman hath peculiar to himself and which was invented by J. Caesar when he first began to think of the Roman Monarchy and was by him in his
leaning hard upon him stops the passage of breath Min. See Incubus Ephippiated ephippiatus sadled or that hath a saddle on his back Ephod Hebr. a Priestly Garment used antiently to be worn by the Priests among the Jewes whereof there were two kinds The first was made of gold and twisted silk of purple scarlet and violet colour and fine linnen with broidered work and this onely belonged to the High Priest and was onely used by him when he executed his function it covered the back and the breast and on the shoulders there were set two great precious Onyx stones and in them graven the names of the twelve Sons of Jacob called the twelve Patriarchs in the right shoulder the six eldest and in the left the six youngest that the High Priest going into the Sanctum Sanctorum to officiate might among other things be put in mind he was to pray to God for the posterity of those twelve Patriarchs The other was of white linnen used by the inferior Priests Levites and also by Laicks Moses and Aaron p. 14. Epicedium Lat. a Funeral Song or verses in praise of the dead which were wont to be sung before the Corps were buried Epicene epicaenus common of both Sexes or kinds The Epicene Gender is that which concludes both Sexes under one Article as Aquila being declinable onely with the feminine Article signifies both the male and female of Eagles Epichrists epichrista ointments Epicurean or Epicure one that gives himself wholly to pleasure especially to gluttony Heretofore it signified one that followed the Sect of the Philosopher Epicurus who taught that the greatest happiness was to be without pain and to enjoy pleasure of body and mind and that death was nothing nor any thing after death Epicurean epicureus voluptuous given to nothing but pleasure and gluttony Epicurism epicurismus the manner or custom of an Epicure a living wholly according to sense and pleasure in eating drinking c. Epicycle epicyclus a term in Astronomy signifying a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater In the upper part of this Epicycle the five Planets Saturn Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury go forward according to the course of the Signs as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrogade that is go backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries again Between these two Motions are said to be two Stations viz. when a Planet ceaseth going forward and begins to retrograde or coming to the furthest point of his retrogradation goes forward again So that in the Epicycle these Planets wheel about sometimes according sometimes contrary to the order of the Signs Bull. Epick or Epique epicus a sort of Poesie which is made in Heroical and lofty Verses most commonly Hexameters See Poesie Epidemy epidemia an universal sickness and general infection a most catching or contagious disease Epidemical epidemicus publick universal infectious contagious Epigamy epigamia affinity by marriage with other Nations Epigastrick epigastricus pertaining to the outward part of the belly from the bulk to the privities Epigram epigramma signifâ—es properly a superscription or writing set upon any thing now it is commonly taken for a short witty Poem which under a feigned name does covertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epigrammatist epigrammatista a maker of Epigrams Epigrammatographer epigrammatographus a writer of Epigrâ—ms Epigraph epigraphe an inscription or title Epilepsie epilepsia the Falling-sickness whereto most commonly children and young folks are most subject This disease is caused by some humor or vapour suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the brain which the brain striving to expel causeth â—he Patient to fall down and commonly foam at the mouth Bull. Epileptick epilepticus that hath the Falling-sickness Epilogism Gr. a computation or a numbering by way of repetition Greg. Epilogue epilogus the conclusion or knitting up of a matter a Speech made after an Interlude or Play ended Epilâ—gize epilogizo to conclude or deliver an Epilogue Epiod epiodium a song sung before the Corps were buried Epiphany epiphania an appearing of light or a manifestation The feast of Twelfth day after Christmas is so called in memory and honor of Christs manifestation or apparition made to the Gentiles by a miraculous blazing Star by vertue whereof he drew and conducted the three Magi or Sages commonly called the three Kings who upon sight of that star came out of the East into the Country of Palestine or Jewry to adore him in the Manger where they presented him as on this day with Mirh Gold and Frankinsence in testimony of his Regality Humanity and Divinity The Vigil of this Feast was of old called Vigilia Luminum And the Antients were wont to send lights one to another Greg. Arthur the Brittish King is said to have begun the custom of solemnizing the Twelve days in Christmass with such Feasts and Sports as yet are or lately were used by the Lords of mis-rule in some Gentlemens houses Heyl. See Balthazar Episcopal episcopalis of or like a Bishop Episcopate episcopo to play the Bishop to oversee diligently Epistyle epistylium an architrave also a little Pillar set upon a greater Epistolary epistolaris serving for Letters or Epistles Epitaph epitaphium an Inscription or writing set upon a Tomb most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried The invention whereof is referred to the Scholars of Linus who first bewailed their Master when he was slain in doleful verses then called of him Aelina afterwards Epitaphia for that they were first sung at burials after engraved upon the Sepulchers According to Plato's Laws an Epitaph should be comprised in four Verses The Lacedemonians reserved this honor only to Martial men and chaste women Cam. Epitasis Gr. the second and busiest part of a Comedy which signifies the intention or exaggeration of matters See Catastasis Epithalamy epithalamium a Bridal Song or Poem or a Song at a Wedding in commendation of the parties married Such was that of Solomon Psal 45. wherein the praise of the Church and her spiritual Marriage and Union with Christ is set down Such also is that of Stella in Statius and of Julia in Catullus c. It is so called from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. apud and Thalamus a Bed-Chamber but more properly a Bride-Chamber because this Song was used to be sung at the door of the Bride-Chamber when the Bride bedded There are two kinds of Epithalamies the one used to be sung at night when the married couple entred Bed the other in the morning to raise them up Min. Epithalamize to make or sing an Epithalamy or Bridal song Epitheme epithema a kind of liquid medicine applied to an outward part of the body by a piece of thin linnen or cotten dipped in it thereby to supple the place or cool and comfort the inward Heart Stomack or Liver that 's under it Epithemetical belonging to such a kind of
to make empty or void to purge In the Rhemes Testament Evacuated from Christ signifies made void and having no part with him Evade evado to escape to pass without danger Evagation evagatio a wandring roving or straying abroad Evagirate evagino to draw out of a sheath or scabbard Evangeliques a sort of Reformers so called appearing at or not long after Luther in Germany An Evangelistary The office of an Evangelist also a Pulpit or the place where the Gospel is delivered Evangelism evangelismus joyful tidings as the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary the tidings of Christs Nativity c. Evangelist evangelista one that brings good tidings a writer or preacher of the Gospel Evangelize evangelizo to preach the Gospel to bring good tidings Evanid evanidus vain decaying unfruitful frail Evaporate evaporo to breath or steam out to send out vapors Evasion evasio from evado an escaping a shift Eucharist Eucharista properly signifies a giving of thanks In Ecclesiasticall writings it is taken for the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ Eucharistical Pertaining to the Eucharist Eucrasy eucrasia a right temperature of the body humors and qualities Eudoxie Gr. excellency of name good report or estimation Eve the wife of Adam from the Heb. Evah i. living or giving life Adam so called his wife because she was the mother of every living thing Evection evectio a carrying out or forth Eveck or Evick Ibex a kind of wilde Goat Eventerate from è and venter to take out the belly or paunch of any thing also to come out of the belly Dr. Br. Eveâ—tilate eventilo to winnow as we do Corn and metaphorically to sift or examine a matter throughly Eversion eversio a ruine or overthrowing Evertuate to take away the vertue or strength Evestigate evestigo to seek to follow to hunt after Eugantan euganeus pertaining to that people or Country by the inner Gulf of the Adriatique Sea towards the Alps which belongs to the Dominion of Venice Eugenia Gr nobleness or goodness of birth or blood Evibration evibratio a shaking brandishing or darting Eviction evictio an over vercoming or convincing by Law Evince evinco to vanquish to surmount to convince to obtain by earnest labor also to convict and recover by Law Eviration eviratio a gelding or taking away the Genitals Evintegrony aevintiger that bears age without decay Evisceration eviscero to imbowel or draw out the guts Evitable evitabilis that may be shunned or avoided Eviternity aeviternitas eternity everlastingness immortality Euloge or Eulogy eulogia a well speaking an honest speech a Praise or Benediction Eulogical eulogicus well-spoken Eunuchate or eunuchize eunuchizo to geld men or to play the Eunuch or gelded man Eunuchism the state or condition of an Eunuch the want of virility Eunomians A sort of Hereticks who maintained that no sin could be hurtful to one having Faith St. Aug. Her Cap. 54. Evocation evocatio a calling out forth or upon a mustering calling back or withdrawing Evolatical evolaticus that flies or gads abroad Evolution evolutio a rolling or tumbling out a reading over Euphemism euphemismus a good or favourable interpretation of a bad word Euphony euphonia a good sound or voyce as they use to say in Schools Euphoniae gratia for good sound sake Euphorbium A gum or tear of a strange plant growing on Mount Atlas in Lybia It is yellowish clear and brittle It may be used in Oyntments against Palsies Cramps and shrinking of sinews but to be taken inwardly is very dangerous unless the malice of it be well corrected for it is exceeding hot in the fourth degree Bull. Euripe Euripus signifies generally any Strait Fret or Channel of the Sea running between two shoars as Julius Pollux defines it But Euripus Euboicus or Chalcidicus is a narrow passage of Sea dividing Attica and the Island of Euboea now called Golpho de Negroponte which ebbs and flows seven times every day the reason of which when Aristotle could not find it is said he threw himself into the Sea with these words Quia ego non capio te tu capias me But see Dr. Br. Vul. Er. fol. 364. Hence To Euripize To ebb and flow as Euripus doth to be always in motion to be inconstant to be whirled hither and thither Eurythmie eurythmia is that agreeable harmony between the bredth length and height of all the rooms of a Fabrick Vitruv. l. 1. c. 2. Europe Europa one of the four parts of the world lying towards the West containg England France Spain Italy Germany all Greece Creet or Candy with many other Kingdoms great Countries and Islands We have many opinions concerning the derivation of the word but the most received is that it is called Europe of Europa King Agenors daughter whom Jupiter as Poets feign in likeness of a Bull carried over Sea into the Island Candy Bull. Eustace eustachius standing firm constant a proper name Eutaxie eutaxia good order placing or disposing Apol. for learning Euthanasie Gr. a happy death Bac. Euterpe one of the Muses Euthymie euthymia security quiet hearts-ease Eutrapelize from Eutrapelia to treat civilly or use courteously Four Ages Eutychians followers of the Arch Heretick Eutyches who about the year of Christ 443. in time of Pope Leo the first and Theodosius the second Emperor dogmatized that there was but one nature in Christ that Christ was not truely born of the Virgin Mary with many other absurd errors against Faith Evulsion evulsio a plucking up Exacerate exacero to purge from chaff Exacinate exacino to pull or press out the kernels Exacution exacutio the pointing or making a thing sharp Exaggerate exaggero to heap up together to increase or amplify Exagitate exagito to trouble chide to discuss to stir up or move Ex-amussim Lat exactly justly according to rule Exanguious exanguis without blood dead fearful pale Vul. Er. Exanimate exanimo to trouble in mind to astonish to kill Exanthems exanthemata the Small-pox wheals or pushes in a mans skin Measles Exantlate exantlo to draw out to empty to sustain or suffer to overcome with great pain Dr. Charleton Exarate exaro to dig or plow up also to write with the pen or engrave Exarch Exarchus a Vice-Emperor a Lieutenant of the Empire Exarchy or Exarchate The chief place of dignity under the Emperor the Lieutenancy of the Empire Exariculate exarticulo to put out of joynt Exartuate exartuo to carve as meat is carved to quarter as the hangman doth Exasperat exaspero to make sharp to vex or make angry Exaturate exaturo to fill an hungry stomack to satisfie a greedy mind Exauctorate or Exauctorat exauctoro to put out of pay service or office Exaugurate exauguro to unhallow to prophane Exauspâ—cate exauspico to have ill luck to do a thing unfortunately Excalfaction excalfactio a heating chafing or warming Excambion from Cambio an Exchange Spots Excandescency excandescentia anger soon come and gone Excavation excavatio a making hollow Sir H.W. Execation excaecatio a blinding or making blind
farcino to stuff Farragirous from farrago inis that is mixed with sundry grains together or with good and bad Vul. Er. Farinaceous or Farinous farinaceus mealy or full of meal bemealed beflowred Farreation farreatio a Sacrifice whereby Priests confirmed marriage Farsang is three of our English miles or a League among the Persians Herb. tra Fasciate fascio to swaddle or bind Fascicular facicularis belonging to a bundle or fardel Fasciculate To tye up into a bundle or fascicle Fascicle fasciculus a handful bound together a packet also any thing carried in the hand to smell Fascinate fascino to bewitch to forespeak or inchant Fascination A bewitching a charm a forespeaking Fascination is the power and intensitive act of the imagination upon the body of another Faâ—tidious fastidiosus disdainful loathing soon offended Fastigate Fastigiate fastigio to raise up or grow up to a sharp top Fasâ—s A strong hold an inaccessible place Bac. Fastuosity fastuositas disdain pride Fatality from fatum fatalness also unavoidableness as of a thing appointed by destiny Cotg. Fate fatum destiny that which must of necessity come to pass by Gods secret appointment Fatal fatalis pertaining to destiny or fate Fatidical fatidicus that telleth fortunes or destinies Fatiferous fatifer that brings fate or destiny Fatigable from fatigo which may be wearied or tired Fatigate fatigo to make weary to trouble much Fatigue Fr. weariness tediousness trouble toyl as we say the Fatigues of war or of a long journey Fatiloquent fatiloquus that soothsaith or prophecieth Fatuate fatuor to play the fool Fatuity fatuitas foolishness blockishness idiotism Favaginous from favus like or full of honey or honey comb Faunes Fauni Gods of the fields and woods Faunick faunicus wild woodish rude Favontan Favonius pertaining to the west-wind favorable Faustity faustitas good luck happiness Fautor Lat. a favorer a furtherer or maintainer Fautresse fautrix she that favors or maintains Fealty of the Fr. feaulte i. fidelitas signifies in our Common Law an oath taken at the admittance of every Tenant to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his Land And he that holds Land by this oath of fealty onely holds in the freest manner that any man in Engl. under the King may hold Because all with us that have Fee hold per fidem fiduciam that is by fealty at the least Smith de Repub. Anglor l. 3. c. 8. Act 1656. c. 4. Feasible Fr. faisable effectable which may be performed acted or done Febricitate febricito to be sick-of a Feaver or Ague Febriculous febriculosus that hath or is subject to a Feaver Februate februo to purge Souls by Sacrifice or Prayer Fecial faecialis pertaining to the Herald that denounceth war or peace The manner was thus The Faecialis carried a Lance or Spear headed with Iron and half burnt with fire and strewed herbs all the way in sign of peace even to the confines of those against whom he was to menace war there in the presence of three men of good years declared that he and the people of Rome did denounce war against them c. And then threw the Lance as far as he could upon their ground When they proclaimed Peace the Faecialis took up a stone in his hand which after certain solemn words pronounced and those to be read in Godwins Anthol lib. 4. cap. 1. he cast out of his hand c. And of these Foeciales or Heralds there were in Rome a Colledge of twenty the principal of them was Pater patratus Feculency foeculentia filthiness fulness of dregs Feculent foeculentus soul unclean loathsom full of dregs Fecundity foecunditas plenty fertility abundance Fedity foeditas filthiness foulness dishonesty Feid Feed or Feud Is that ill custom which hath been much used in Scotland and the North of England viz. a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood against the killer and all his race These deadly Feids King James in his Basilicon Doron advised his son to redress with all care possible The word signifies hatred See Feud Fee feodum alias feudum is in our Law an equivocal word but most usually taken for an estate of inheritance in Lands to one and his Heirs for ever or to one and the heirs of his body But it is also used for the compass or extent of a Mannor and in the common acceptance the word is well known Fee-farm is when a Tenant holds of his Lord in Fee-simple paying him a yearly rent to half or a third part of the value of the Land more or less Fee-simple feodum simplex is when any person holds Lands or Rent to him and his Heirs for ever and these words his Heirs make the Estate of inheritance for if Land be given to a man for ever yet he hath but an Estate for life Feisible See Feasible Fellifluous fellifluus flowing of the Gall. Felicitaeâ— felicito to make prosperous or hapyy Felth. And I have read Felicify Felicitous from felix happy or made happy Felion from fel i. choler or grief of mind an angry blister or wheal most commonly on the finger or thumbs end Felo de se Is he that commits Felony by murthering himself See Crompt Just of Peace fo 28. and Lamb. Eiren. l. 2. c. 7. p. 243. Feloqur See Falouque Fencemonth is a moneth wherein it is unlawful to hunt in the Forest because the female Deer fawn in this month which begins fifteen days before Midsomer and ends fifteen days after So that to this moneth there are 31 days assigned See Manwood part 1. of his Forest Laws p. 80. but more at large part secunda c. 13. per totum Fenestral fenestralis belonging to a window Felony felonia seems to come of the Fr. felonnie i. impetuositas atrocitas immisericordia We account any offence Felony that is in degree next to petty Treason and compriseth divers particulars under it as Murther Theft killing of a mans self Sodomy Rape wilful burning of houses and divers such like which are to be gathered especially out of Statutes whereby many offences are daily made Felony that before were not Felony is discern'd from lighter offences by this that the punishment thereof is death Howbeit Petit Larceny which is the stealing of any thing under the value of twelve pence is Felony as appears by Brook tit Coron n. 2. His reason is because the Indictment against such a one must run with these words felonicè cepit and yet this is not punished by death though it be loss of goods A man may call that Felony which is under petit Treason and punished by death And of this there are two sorts one lighter that for the first time may be relieved by Clergy another that may not and these are to be known by the Statutes for Clergy is allowed where it is not expresly taken away Vid. Stanf. l. 1. pl. Cor. à fine cap. 2. usque ad 39. Lamb. Just P. l. 2. cap. 7. and Crompt J.P. fol.
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
a horse-race Hippogryph hippo-gryps a kind of feigned beast in part horse in part Griffin Hippomachy hippomachia a justing or tilting on horseback Hircine hircinus goatish of a Goat Hirculation hirculatio a disease in the Vine when it bears no fruit Hirsuts hirsutus rough hairy full of bristles sharp Hirundinous from â—hirundo inis of or pertaining to a swallow Hispanian Hispanus of or belonging to Spain born in Spain Hispid hispidus bristled or rough-haired terrible Historiography historiographia the writing an History Histriographer historiographus an historian a writer of Histories Histrionick histrionicus player-like fit for or belonging to a Stage-player or Stage-play Histrionically after the manner of a Stage-Player Hithe as Queen-Hithe in London is a petit Haven to land wares out of vessels or boats New Book of Enteries fol. 3. Col. 3. Hoane Sax. a fine kind of Whetstone softer then that which is most commonly called a Whetstone Hoblers hobellarii In Ireland there were certain Knights so called because they were wont to serve in the wars upon Hobbies also with us certain persons who were by their tenure tyed to maintain a little light Nag which in Ireland they call a Hobby and hence we say a Hobby-horse for the certifying of any invasion made by Enemies or such like peril towards the Sea side as Portsmouth c. Of these you shall read A. 18. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 7. An. 25. ejusdem Stat. 5. cap. 8. Antiq. Hibâ—rn p. 35. Hocktyde or Hockstyde of old thus Hardiknute the last King of the Danes in this Nation dying suddainly at Lambeth in the year 1042 his death was so welcome to his Subjects that the time was annually celebrated for some hundreds of years after with open pastimes in the streets and called Hockstide in some parts of this Nation not yet out of memory but observed the week after Easter signifying scorning or contempt which fell upon the Danes by his death Sir Rich. Baker See Fugalia Hocus-pocus a Jugler one that shews tricks by slight of hand Hodiernal hodiernus of to day or at this time Hodgee Persian a holy man a Priest among the Persians Herb. Ho-goo in true Fr. Haut-goust a high taste smatch or savour it is usually taken for any dish of meat that has some more then ordinary taste or savor Hogshead Brit. Hogsed is a measure of Wine or Oyl containing the fourth part of a Tun that is 63 Gallons A. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Holocaust holocaustum a Burnt-Offering a Sacrifice wherein the whole beast was offered and no part reserved Holographical holographicus wholly written with his own hand from whom it is sent Homage Fr Hommage i. fides clientularis service fidelity In Court Barons the Jury sworn to enquire of matters is so called It signifies also a servile ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holds Lands by Homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sits and holds the Tenants hands between his saith as follows I become your man from this day forth for life for member and for worldly honor and shall owe you my faith for the Land I hold of you saving the faith I owe to our Soveraign Lord the King and to my other Lords And then the Lord sitting must kiss the Tenant An. 17. Ed. 2. Stat. 2. Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 1. Homageable that is subject to or ought to do homage Homeology homoeologia likeness of speech Homerical after the manner of Homer Homer like Bac. Homicide homicida a murtherer a man-slayer Homicide homicidium the slaying of a man and is divided into voluntary and casual homicide voluntary is that which is deliberate and committed of a set mind and purpose to kill And this is either with precedent malice or without the former is murther and is the fellonious killing through malice prepensed of any person living in this Realm under the Kings protection West par 2. Sym. tit Inditements sect 37 c. usque ad 51. where you may see divers subdivisions of it See also Glanvile l. 14. ca. 3. Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 4.15 and 17. Brit. cap. 5 6 7. Also a sort of knives so called Act. 1656. ca. 20. Homily homilia a familiar speech of men together a kind of Sermon properly of an inferior kind such as is delivered out of a Book or Manuscript by those that are not able to preach otherwise Homodox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the same opinion with another Homogeneal homogeneus of one or the same kind congenerous Homography homographia like writing or painting Homologation homologatio an admission allowance or approbation a consent unto Homology homologia an agreement a confession Homonymy Gr. when divers things are signified by one word or name as Hart signifies a beast and a prinicipal Member of the body a likeness or sameness of name It is a term in Logick Holy War Homonymous Gr. whose name onely is common their essence divers doubtful ambiguous Honi soit qui maly â—ense Fr. signifies Evil or shame be to him that evil thinks it is the Motto belonging to the Order of Knights of the Garter Honor does sometimes signifie the most noble sort of Seigniories on which other inferior Lordships or Mannors depend by performance of some Customs or Services to the Lords of such Honors And it seems there are no Honors but such as did originally belong to the King and have since been given in Fee to Noble men Of this sort are the Honors of Windsor Greenwich Tickhil c. And Courts there held are called Honor-Courts 37 H. 8.18.33 H. 8.37 Honour point In Heraldry the upper part of an Escoutcheon is so called when its breadth is divided into three even parts Honorary honorarius pertaining to honour which is made for honor more then use Honorificabilitudinity honorificabilitudinitas honorableness Honorifical honorificus that brings or causeth honor Honâ—-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Hoguâ—ton Fr. a fashion of short Coat Cassock or Jacket without sleeves Horary horarius of the space of an hour hourly Hoplochrism from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arma and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unguentum an anointing of arms or weapons as they do in the use of the weapon salve Dr. Charl. Hoplochristical pertaining to the Weapon-salve Horcentrick Fr. out of the Center clean without the Compass of Mathematicians apply this word to the Sun when his Center being at the full height of his Epicycle is farthest from the Center of the earth Cot. Horizon Gr. a Circle immoveable dividing the half-Sphear of the Firmament which we see from the other half we see not it hath the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. termino to bound or limit because it limits our sight For example imagine you stood upon Highgate or the Tower-hill at Greenwich so far as you
words horse or man may be applied to any horse or man yet being so expresly pointed at they cannot then be drawn to signifie other then those two Individuum Vagum a singular thing not determined to be this or that in particular Indivisible indivisibilis that cannot be divided Indocility indocilitas unaptness to learn Indoctrinate indoctrino to teach or instruct Indomable indomabilis that cannot be tamed Indolency indolentia Fr. indoleance no apprehension of grief no feeling of sorrow unsensibleness of or want of sense in pain Indorsation from in and dorsum an indorsing or writing on the backside a bearing or laying on the back Indubitate indubitatus without doubt for certain Induciary induciarius pertaining to truce or league Sir Hen. Wotton speaking of the times of Queen Elizabeth calls King James then King of Scotland induciat heir of this Imperial Crown Rel. Wot p. 13. Induction inductio a drawing entry or leading into an inducement alluring or perswasion unto also a form of argument from particulars proceeding to universals We take Induction says my Lord Bacon to be that form of demonstration which supports sence presses nature and is instanced in works and in a sort mingled therewith Indue induo to put on a garment or other like thing Indulcate Indulciate indulco to make sweet Felth. Indulgence indulgentia pardon favor gentleness in suffering If you desire to know the nature and quality of Indulgences in the Roman Catholick sence See Mr. Cressies Exomologesis p. 444. Indulgiat◠from indulgeo es to be merciful to make too much of one to pardon Félthams Resolves Indult indultus a Grant or favour a written instrument of a grant or favor made by a Pope or Prince Indument indumentum a Garment or Vesture Indura◠induratus hardned unrelenting Induration induratio a hardning or making hard Induciated induciatus cloathed with a Petticoat Waste-coat or Shirt Inebriate inebrio to make drunk to be drunk Ineffable ineffabilis unspeakable unutterable which no tongue can tell no speech deliver no terms express Ineffugible ineffugibilis inevitable not to be avoided Inept ineptus unapt foolish fond out of season Ineptitude ineptitudo unaptness fondness foolishness trisling vainness Inequitable inequitabilis that cannot be rid through Inertitude inertitudo sloathfulness dulness without Science or any craft Inestuate inaestuo to be very hot to boyl vehemently Inexaturable inexaturabilis that cannot be filled Inexhauribility a disability to draw out or empty Inexorable inexorabilis that cannot or will not be intreated churlish obdurate Inexpiable inexpiabilis that cannot be purged cleansed or satisfied for Inexplicable inexplicabilis that cannot be declared or expounded unexpressible undisplayable intricate Inexpugnable inexpugnabilis that cannot be forced or won invincible impregnable Inextinguible inextinguibilis that cannot be quenched unquenchable Inextirpable inextirpabilis that cannot be rooted out or pulled up Inextricable inextricabilis so confused or difficult that one cannot wind himself out of it whereof one cannot be rid Inexuperable inexuperabilis that cannot be passed or overcome invincible To Infame infamo so slander or speak ill of to defame Infandous infandus so great so heinous or villainous that it may not be spoken exceeding wicked Infanta of Spain every Daughter of that King not being Heir whether first second or third c. the Heir is called Princesa and the rest Infanta's so the Sons are called Infantes and the Heir Principe of the Latin Infans a childe Infanterie Spa. the Footmen or Foot Souldiers of an Army Infanticide infanticidium a slaying or killing of Infants child-murthering such was that of Herod soon after our Saviours birth Infatigable infatigabilis that cannot be wearied or tired Infatuate infatuo to make foolish or besot Infaustous Infausting from infaustus unlucky unfortunate dismal Lo. Bac. Inferial inferialis belonging to Funeral Obsequies Infernal infernalis belonging to Hell low neathermost Inferrible from infero that may be inferred brought or carryed in or concluded Infestive infestivus unpleasant nothing sportful Inficial Inficiatory inficialis that pertains to denial negative Inficiation a denial a negation Infidous infidus unfaithful not to be trusted false Infimous infimus the lowest the meanest very humble Infinitive infinitivus that has no end innumerable without measure The Infinitive Mood so called because it is without end or time it defines neither number nor person as other Moods do as Amare to love Infirmarie infirmarium that place or part of a Monastery wherein the sick had the benefit of Physick and attendance private to themselves Also an Hospital for sick or maimed people Inflammation inflammatio a kindling inflaming or setting on fire Inflation inflatio a breeding of winde in the body a puffing up or a windy swelling Inflexible inflexibilis that cannot be bowed unruly Influence influentia a flowing or running into most commonly it is taken for the power which Planets and Stars have in moving inferior things Influx influxus the same with Influence Infoliate from in and folior to blossom or bud forth leaves to be full of leaves to be enleaved or wrapt with leaves How Informity informitas deformity want of shape or fashion Informous informis without fashion ill-favored rude Br. Infragible infragibilis not soon broken or discouraged durable strong infrangible Infriction infriction a rubbing in a chafing Infringe infringo to break in pieces to tear to diminish Infusion infusio a pouring or filling in And in Physick a conveyance of some liquid medicine into the body by Clister or other instrument Also a steeping of Drugs c. in a convenient liquor that their vertue may pass into it Ingannation from the Ital. Ingannare to deceive deceit or cousenage Br. Ingeminate ingemino to double or repeat often Ingenerable ingenerabilis which cannot be born or begotten Ingenio in Barbado's they call the house or mill where they make Sugar by this name Hist of Barb. Ingeniosity ingeniositas wittiness Ingest ingero to carry or pour in to bring into Bac. Ingenuity ingenuitas the state of a free and honest man freedom a liberal nature or condition Ingle Span. from the Lat. Inguen i. the groin a boy kept for Sodomy See Ganymede Ingluvious ingluviosus gluttonous ravenous devouring Ingot Fr. Lingot à linguae forma a small mass or little wedge of fined gold after it is moulten it is sometimes taken for the trough wherein it is moulten Ingrate ingratus unpleasant unacceptable unkinde unthankful Bac. Ingresse Ingression ingressus a beginning an entrance or going in a walking Ingurgitate ingurgito to devour or raven gluttonously to stuff or fill himself with to dash in as it were to a great stream or bottomless pit Ingustable from in and gusto that cannot or may not be tasted untasteable Br. Ingrosser from the Fr. Grasseur or Grossier signifies in our Common Law one that buyes Corn growing or dead victuals to sell again except Barley for Malt Oats for Oatmeal or victuals to retail badging by licence and buying of Oyles Spices and and Victuals other then fish or salt An.
between Interstitial that hath a distance or space between Br. Interval intervallum a space between a pause a respite also a Rest in Musick It signifies any distance either of place or time as appears by that of Tully Intervallo locorum temporum disjuncti Cic. Ep. fam lib. 1. Ep. 7. Intervenient interveniens that comes flows or runs between Intervert interverto to take away craftily to convey away falsly that was lent one or committed to his charge to deceive or beguil also to turn upside down Intervigilant intervigilans that is watchful or that awakes now and then or between whiles Intestable intestabilis that by the Law can make no Testament or that cannot be taken in witness not to be believed Intestate intestatus that dies without a Will or Testament also one that no man will take for a witness Intestine Intestinal intestinus that belongs to the inward parts hidden privy deadly spightful Inthronize inthronizo to install in the seat of honor to place in a Royal Throne Intimate intimo to shew to signifie to denounce also to love entirely Intimidate from in and timidus to fear scare affright or make fearful Intinction intinctio a dying or colouring Intone intono to thunder or make a rumbling also to speak earnestly Intoxicate intoxico to poison Intrado or Entrado Spa. an income or yearly revenue also an entrance Fuller Intraneous intraneus that is within inward Intribution intributio contribution or lot-money paid for Lands Intrinsecal intrinsecus inward secret familiar Intrique Fr. an intricacy labyrinth maze incumbrance difficulty Cressey Introclude introcludo to shut within Introgression introgressus a going in Introit introitus an entry a place to enter by a going into a beginning of The first part of the Mass which begins Introibo ad Altare Dei is so called Intromission intromissio a letting in Introruption introruptio an entring or rushing in by violence Introvenient introveniens a comming in Introversion introversio a turning inwards in mystical Divinity it signifies a recollecting ones thoughts from external to inward considerations Intrusion intrusio a wrongful thrusting into the possession of a vacant thing Intuitive intuitus seeing or apt to see or behold clearly An intuitive Vision is a clear sight of a thing as it is in it self Intuition from intueor a looking upon or beholding a thing clearly and distinctly Intumescence intumescentia a swelling puffing or uprising Invaginate invagino to shealth or put into a sheath Invalid invalidus weak feeble impotent forceless Invective invectivus a railing biting opprobrious discourse or bitter speech against one Inventory inventorium is a description or repertory orderly made of dead mens Goods and Chattels prized by four credible men or more which every Executor or Administrator ought to exhibite to the Ordinary at such times as he shall appoint the same West part 1. Symb. lib. 2. Sect. 696. Where likewise you may see the form This Inventory proceeds from the Civil Law for whereas by the antient Law of the Romans the Heir was tied to answer all the Testators debts by which means Heritages were prejudicial to many Justinian to encourage men the better to take upon them this charitable Office ordained that if the heir would first make and exhibite a true Inventory of all the Testators substance coming to his hand he should be no further charged then to the value of the Inventory l. ult Co. de Jure de liberando Inversion inversio a turning inside out or upside down a mis-placing words or matter Invest investire to give or put into possession Investitura propria dicitur quando hasta vel aliquod corporeum traditur à Domini ut ait Feudista lib. 2. tit 2. with us we use likewise to admit the Tenant by delivering a verge or rod into his hand and ministring him an oath which is called Investing others define it thus Investitura est alicujus in suum jus introductio Investigable investigabilis which cannot be found out Investigation investigatio a searching out a diligent enquiry Inveterate inveteratus confirmed by long use setled by continuance antient Invid invidus that hath envy that spighteth or is malicious Invigilate invigilo to watch diligently to take good heed Inviolable inviolabilis that cannot be broken or violated Invious invisus not seen without ways or paths untract Invitiate invitio to mar to spoil to defile Invitatory any thing that inviteth a Summons Inumbrate inumbro to cast a shadow upon to give a shadow to Inundate inundo to overflow to cover with water to run or stream into Invocate invoco to call in or upon to ask or require help Involvent involvens wrapping or folding in covering or overwhelming Inure from in and Vre use or custom a Law term used much in Conveyances and signifies to take place or effect to be available Example a Release shall inure by way of extinguishment Littleton cap. Release And a Release made to a Tenant for term of life shall inure to him in the Reversion Inusitate inusitatus not wont unaccustomed that hath been seldom used strange Invulnerable invulnerabilis that cannot be wounded unwoundable Invulnerability unwoundableness the power of being shot-free Ioab Heb. Fatherhood Ioachim Heb. preparatian of the Lord. Ioannitiques an order of Monks that wear red habits and the presentation of a Chalice on their brests Iob Heb. sighing or sorrowing Iocatory jocatorius pertaining to jesting Iocosity jocositas merriness in jesting Ioculary jocularius that is spoken in jest a jesting matter Bac. Ioculatory joculatorius merry pleasant sporting Iocund jocundus merry pleasant chearful Iohn Hebr. gracious Thought to be an unfortunate name for Kings For that John King of England well near lost his Kingdom and John King of France was long Captive in England and John Baliol was lifted out of his Kingdom of Scotland And John Stewart when the Kingdom of Scotland came to him him renouncing that name would be proclaimed King Robert Iuon is used by the Welch and Sclavonians for John and in this Realm about the Conquerors time John was rarely found but Iuon as Cambden observes Ionathan Heb. Gods gift Ionah or Ionas the name of that Prophet which was sent to Ninive Jon. 1.2 It signifies in Hebrew a Dove Ioncade Fr. a certain Spoon-meat made of Cream Rose-water and Sugar Ionick-work is a sort of Pillars in Architecture See Tuscan Ionick Ionicus a certain foot in a verse consisting of two long syllables and two short also wanton as Jonica Saltatio a wanton or effeminate dance Also pertaining to Jonia a Region of Greece Ionick was also a Sect of Philosophers of which Thales and Anaximander were chief the first whereof was an Ionian by birth whence the Sect took name Hist of Philos Iopaean Gr. a voice or song of rejoycing See Paean Ioseph Heb. encreasing or encrease of the Lord. Iordan See Iurden Iosias Heb. fire of the Lord. Iot or Iod Iöta littera Graeca a thing of very little or no value so called from the Hebrew letter
54. Manuary manuarius gotten by handy labor or that fills the hand Manucaption manucaptio a taking by or with the hand Manuduction manuductio a leading or guiding by the hand Manumission manumissio a deliverance out of bondage an enfranchisement a making free Manumit or Manumisse manumitto to enfranchize to make a Slave or Bondman free which was in old time thus The Lord of the Slave holding him by the head arm or other part said before witness I will that this man go free and in so saying shoved him forward out of his hand Manutention from manu tenere a holding with the hand Lo. Herb. H. 8. Maran-atha Syriac i.e. adventus Dei vel Deus venit a curse mentioned 1 Cor. 16. Anathema Maranatha the third and highest degree of Excommunication The Jews called it Schammatha See Dr Ham. Annot. fol. 600. Maravedis a little Spanish coyn whereof thirty four make but the Royal or six pence sterling Marchasite or Marquesite marchasita a stone participating with the nature of some mettal yet in so small quantity that the mettal cannot be melted from it but will vapor away in smoak the stone turning to ashes those Marchasites are commonly in colour like the metal mixed with them whether it be Gold Silver Brass or any other Some affirm a Marchasite to be any stone out of which fire may be strucken Marcessible marcessibilis apt or easie to rot or putrifie Marcgrave or Martgrave Germ. a County or Earl of the Borders or Marches with us a Marquess Marches from the Germ. March i. a border or from the Fr. Marque i. a Mark the borders bounds or limits of any place Region or Country as between us and Wales or between us and Scotland An. 24. H 8. ca. 9. Marcheta Eugenius the third King of Scotland did wickedly ordain that the Lord or Master of the ground or land should have the first nights lodging with every married woman within the same which Ordinance was afterwards abrogated by King Malcome the third who ordained that the Bridegroom should have the sole use of his own Wife and therefore should pay to the Lord a piece of money called Marca Hect. Boetius l. 3. ca. 12. Spotsw Hist fol. 29. Mr. Skene says that Mercheta mulieris is the raid of the woman or the first carnal copulation with her pag. 93. Marchionesse the wife of a Marquess Marcid marcidus withered rotten feeble lither Marcidious marcidiosus very rotten feeble c. Marcionists old condemned Hereticks so called of their first Master Marcion a Stoick Philosopher who held a detastable opinion that Christ was not the Son of God Marcor Lat. rottenness withering pining away Mare-maid See Mer-maid Night-Mare a disease in the night that troubles one so in his sleep that he can scarce breath See Incubus Mareshal See Marshal Margaratiferous margaritifer that brings forth or hath plenty of pearls or Margarites which are found in the shel-fish especially in Oysters the best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English and Flemish Seas but not in such perfection Marginal Marginean marginalis margineus belonging to the brim or margin written in the margin Marine Maritan marinus belonging to or near the Sea also strange as from beyond Sea Marital maritalis belonging to marriage or Wedlock on the Husbands part Maritime maritimus belonging to or near the Sea wavering and changeable Mark is with us 13 s. 4 d. In Scotland but 13 d. ob See Marcheta Marmoration marmoratio a building with marble Marmorean marmoreus of marble or that is like it in colour hardness c. Maronean wine wine of such vertue and strength that if twenty times so much water be put to it it will still keep his vertue And is so called from Maronea or Marogna a City of Ciconia where it is made Rider Maronites so called from one Maron who is mentioned in the fifth Act of the Constantinopolitan Council a sort of Christians onely found in Mount Libanus in Syria they have a Patriarck whose name is always Peter they were a limb of the Jacobites but received the Roman Catholick Religion in the Papacy of Clement 8. who sent them a Catechism printed at Rome in the Arabian language Sands Marque seems to a French word signifying notam vel signum or else to come from the Germ. March i. limes or from Marc a Britan word used not onely by the now Welch but also by the Armoricans signifying as much as note or character signifies in the antient Statutes of our Land as much as Reprisals as A. 4. H. 5. c. 7. Marques and Reprizals are used as Synonima and letters of Marque are found in the same signification in the same Chapter See Law of Marque Marquetry is a most curious work wrought in wood of divers colours and divers sorts into the shape of knots flowers and other devices with that excellency of cunning as they seem all to be one piece and rather the work of Nature then Art Chequer-work Inlaid-word Marquetrie properly belongs to Joyners as Mosaique to Masons and Stone-cutters though some Authors confound them See Mosaique Marquess or Marquis narchio by the opinion of Hâ—tom comes of the Germ. March i. limes signifying originally as much as custos limtis or comes praefectus limtis c. These are with us in honor and place next Dikes See Cassau de consuet Birg p. 15. See Marcgrave Marquisate Fr. Marquisaâ— a Marquiship or Marqusdom the Territories of a Marquess Marrow Fr marauld a felow a Knave or Rascal Mars the Heathen god of War taken for War or Battle it self Also one of the seven Planets See Saturn Marshal Fr. Mareschal with us there are divers Officers of this name but one most noble of all the rest who is called Lord or Earl Marshal of England of whom mention is made in divers Statutes as An. 1. H. 4. ca 7. and 14. and An. 13. R. 2. ca. 2. His Office consists especially in matters of War and Arms as well with us as in other Countries whereof you may read in Lupanus de Magistratibus Franciae lib. 1. ca. Marschallus Tilius lib. 2. ca. de Conestabili Mariscallo c. The next to this is the Marshal of the Kings house then the Marshal of the Justices in Eyre Marshal of the Upper Bench Prison in Southwark Marshal of the Kings Hall Marshal of the Exchequer c. whereof see Cowel In every Regiment of Souldiers there is a Marshal whose Office is to look to Prisoners of War and to put in execution all sentences or orders of the Council of War upon offenders c. In Francis the firsts time there were but two Lord Marshals of France now there are ten who having their several Provinces assigned them by the King ride Circuits are present at all general musters to see how military Discipline is observed in Garisons view the Fortifications and reparations of Frontier Towns the munition and victual of Arsenals and Store-houses and lastly provide
of some persons so called Morpheus somni minister sleep or the God thereof Morta one of the destines Mortal sin See Venial Mortgage Fr. mort i. mors and gage i. pignus merces signifies in our Common Law a pawn of Land or Tenement or any thing movable laid or bound for money borrowed peremptorily to be the Creditors for ever if the mony be not repaid at the day agreed on And the Creditor holding such Land or Tenement is called Tenant in Mortgage Mortiferous mortifer deadly that brings death Mortification mortificatio a mortifying a queling taming or punishing the flesh a deading the appetite a killing of lust Mortmain Fr. i. a dead hand signifies in Law an alienation of Lands or Tenements to any Corporation Guild or Fraternity and their Successors As Bishops Parsons Vicars c. which may not be done without license of the King and the Lord of the Mannor c. See more of this in Cowel Mortress a meat made of boyled Hens crums of bread yolkes of eggs and Saffron all boyled together Chauc Mortuary mortuarium is a gift left by a man at his death to his Parish Church in recompence of his personal Tithes and Offerings not duely paid in his life time Heretofore if a man had three or more Cattel of any kind the best being kept for the Lord of the Fee as a Herriot The second was wont to be given to the Parson in Right of the Church But by the Statute of 21 H. 8. ca. 6. a rate in money is set down for Mortuaries viz. three shillings four pence where the goods of the deceased are above the value of twenty Nobles and under thirty pound six shillings eight pence where the goods exceed thirty pound and under forty pound and ten shillings where the goods amount above the value of forty pound c. These Mortuaries are due but in some particular places and were also called Corse or Corps-presents Mosaique or Musaical work Mosaicum musaeacum vel Musivum opus is a most curious work wrought with stones of divers colours and divers mettles into the shape of knots flowers and other devices with that excellency of cunning that they seem all to be one stone and rather the work of Nature then Art Sir Henry Wotton describes it thus Mosaique is a kind of painting in smal Pebbles Cockles and shels of sundry colours and of late dayes likewise with peeces of glass figured at pleasure An ornament in truth of much beauty and long life but of most use in Pavements and floarings El. of Archit p. 261. St. Marks Church in Venice abounds with curiosity of this Work of which the Venetians vaunt themselves to be the Authors See Marquetry Mosaical of or pertaining to Moses or to Mosaick work Mosche or Mosque a Temple or Church among the Turks and Saracens the Persians call it a Moschea Motable motabilis alwayes moving still in motion Motacism motacismus the dashing out a letter Mother a disease in women when the womb riseth with pain for which the smelling to all sweet savors is harmful as contrarily to all strong and loathsom good Mot Fr. Motto Ital. a word But in a restrained sence it is properly taken for the Word or short sentence applied to an Imprése or Devise See Devise There are also Motto's belonging to the Coats of Arms of most of the Nobility and Gentry which are seldom in the English tongue Mot is also a Note which a Huntsman winds on his horn Motet Fr. a verse in Musick or of a Song a Pâ—sie a short-lay Mountain of Piety mons pietatis is a stock of money raised by the charity of good people who observing the poor ruined by the usury of Jews voluntarily contributed good store of treasure to be preserved and lent to them whereby they upon security might have money at a low rate to relieve their wants which because the mass is great and the thing pious and charitable in it self is called a Mountain of Piety But in respect the Officers and incident charges cannot be had without some emolument therefore the borrower payes somewhat by the moneth for the loan of that he receives Cajet opusc de monte Pietat c. 1. Mountebank Ital. Montimbanco Span. Saltaenbanco Fr. Charlatan Tent. Landstreicher Belg. Quaksalvar a cousening Drug-seller a base deceitful Merchant especially of Apothecaries Drugs that with impudent Lying does for the most part sell counterfeit stuff to the common people Muccâ—lâ—ginous comes from the Latin muccago or muccus or mucus snot or snivil snivilish snotty filthy and thence flegmy and the like Dr. Br. Mucculent or Muculent muculentus full of snot or snivel Mucid mucidus sinued hoâ—ry mouldy filthy Mucor Lat. hoariness filthiness Mue from the Fr. Muer to change a kind of Cage where Hawks are wintered or kept when they mue or change their feathers whence those great Stables belonging to Whitehall took denomination that place having been antiently full of Mues where the Kings Hawks were kept Mufti i. an Oracle or answerer of doubts a chief Priest among the Turks who is created by the Emperor and hath four several orders or Sects subordinate to him viz. 1. The Calenderim 2. The Haggiemlar 3. The Torlocchi 4. The Dervislar c. See Sir Hen. Blounts Voyage into the Levant p. 79. See Brachman Mugient mugiens lowing bellowing crying Mulato Span. the son of a woman Blackmore and a man of another Nation or è contra one that is of a mongril complexion Dr. Br. Mulcible mulcibilis which may be appeased Mulct mulcta a fine an amerciament a punishing by the purse Muleto a Moil or great Mule a beast much used in France for carrying Sumpters c. It may also be taken for a diminutive of Mule and so signifies a little Mule Muliebrity muliebritas tenderness delicateness womanliness Mulier Lat. signifies a woman that has had the company of a man but in our Law it signifies one that is lawfully begotten and born contradistinguished to Bastard Mulierosity mulierositas unlawful lust after women properly married or defiled women Mullar from the Lat. molo to grind is the upper stone which Painters and Limners use to grind their colours the neather stone is called the grinding stone The French call it a Moulleur Mullet mullus a kind of dainty fish Also a term in Heraldry signifying a Star-like spot and divided into five corners or ends and is the distinction for a third Brother Mulse mulsum water and honey sod together also sweet wine Mulsulmans Arab. the Turks or Mahumetists so called the word signifies as much as a people faithful in their Law or Religion Multatitious multatitius gotten by fine or forfeit Multifarious multifarius divers in conditions many ways divided Lo. Bac. Multiferous multifer bearing much or many fruitful Multifidous multifidus having many slits or clefts divided into many parts manifold Multiformity multiformitas diversity of form shape or figure Multiloquent multiloquus full of speech that hath many words
Council was held Ann. 314. to which there assembled three hundred and eighteen Bishops to beat down the Arrian Heresie Nices or Niches from the Italian Nichi the hollow places in a wall wherein Statues or Images are set A term in Architecture Nicete Fr. sloth idleness slackness simplicity hence our word nicety which we commonly use for coyness daintiness curiosity Nicholaitans so called from Nicholas the Proselyte of Antioch one of the seven Deacons which were instituted with Saint Stephen by the Apostles a sort of Hereticks that held it lawful to have their wives common c. St. John makes mention of them in his Apocalypse where speaking of the Church of Pergamus he saith Thou hast them that hold the doctrine of the Nicholaitans Nicholas Gr. Conqueror of the people Nicodemites a sort of late Reformists in Switzerland so called because they profess their Faith in private as Nicodemus did to Christ Nicotian Fr. Nicotiane Span. Nicociana Tobacco so called from John Nicot who first sent that weed into France from Portugal where he was Ambassador Leiger for the French King about the year 1560. Near which time and at which place he made that great French and Latin called Nicots Dictionary Nictation nictatio a winking or twinkling with the eyes Nidgeries Fr. Nigeries fopperies fooleries trifles Nidifice nidificium a Nest such as Birds make Nidifie nidifico to build or make a Nest Niding old English signifies an abject base-minded false-hearted coward In former time this word was of great force in England For when there was a dangerous Rebellion against King William Rufus c. after he had but proclaimed that his Subjects should repair to his Camp upon no other penalty but that who ever refused should be reputed a Niding they swarmed to him immediately from all sides in such numbers as he had in few days a great Army and the Rebels were so terrified therewith that they forthwith yielded Nidor Lat. the savor of any thing burned or rosted sometimes brightness Nidulation nidulatio a building or making a Nest Night-Mare See Incubus Nigrifie nigrefacio to make black Nihilifie nihilifacio to set nothing by to dis-esteem to make no account of Nigromancy See Necromancy Nihil dicit is a failing to put in answer to the Plea of the Plaintiff by the day assigned upon which failure Judgment passeth against him as saying nothing why it should not Nil Belg. niet i. nihil the sparkles or ashes that come of Brass tried in the Furnace Nilus a great River running through Ethiope and Egypt famous for the vertue of its water which overflowing this Country makes it wonderful fertile many years after This River is in length almost three thousand miles Nimbiferous nimbifer that brings storms or showrs Nimbot Fr. a Dwraf Dandiprat or little Skipjack Nimietie nimietas too great abundance Nimious nimius too much excessive over-great superfluous Ningid or Ninguid ninguidus where much snow is Nisi prius is a Writ Judicial which lies in case where the Enquest is panelled and returned before the Justices of the Bank the one party or the other making Petition to have this Writ for the ease of the Country c. It is called Nisi prius of these words contained in the same Nisi die Lunae apud talem locum prius venerint c. See Assize Nitid nitidus clean neat gay trim fair bright Nitidity nitiditas cleanness brightness trimness Nitor Lat. the same Nitre nitrum a Salt-resembling substance of colour ruddy and white and full of holes like a Spunge some late Writers mistake it for Salt-petre Nitrouâ— nitrosus having the savor of Nitre having stuff in it whereof Nitre is made full of Nitre Nival nivalis Niveous niveus pertaining to Snow white or cold like Snow snowy Nixu the gods of Child-bearing Nobless Fr. Nobility Gentry Generousness Nobiliâ—ate nobilito to make noble to promote to Dignity Noceâ—t nocens that hath done a trespass or injury that hurteth or endamageth a person guilty or that hath offended Nocive nocivus that doth harm hurtful noyous Noctiferous noctifer that betokens or brings night the evening Star Noctivagant noctivagus that wandreth by night Nocturnal nocturnus belonging to the night nightly or in the night time Nocturne nocturnum a part of the Office or certain Psalms and Prayers so called because they are said Nocturno tempore about midnight Nocument nocumentum hurt or damage Nocuous nocuus that doth harm hurtful Nodosity nodositas knottiness knobbiness Nodous nodosus knotty full of knots knurs joynts or difficulties curious or scrupulous Noli-me-tangere i Do not touch me An Herb so called because its seed being ripe fpurts away so soon as it is touched Also a disease of thâ—t name being a piece of flesh growing in the Nostrils in such sort as it often stops the wind and the more it is touched the worse it grows Nomarck Nomarcha he that hath the preheminence in the ministration of Laws as a Major or other like Officer Nomarchie nomarchia a jurisdiction or Majoralty a Law a County or Shire a Territory about some City Nombreil from the Fr. Nombril i. a Navel in Heraldry it signifies the lower part of a Scutcheon divided by the breadth into three even parts The Fesse being the middle and the Honor Point the upper part Guill Nomenclator Lat. Quasi nominis calator he that knows the names of things and calls them thereby a common Crier in a Court of Justice a Bedel or like Officer to whom it belongs to know by heart the names offices and crafts of all the Citizens thereby to instruct such as among the Romans did stand for any Office that they might speak to them more gently Thomasius Nomenclature nomenclatura the numbring of names or Surnames of sundry things the office of the Nomenclator Nominal nominalis of or belonging to a name Nominalia A Feast among the Romans to Females they gave the name on the eighth day to Males on the ninth which they called Dies lustricus as it were the cleansing day on which they solemnized this Feast and as Turtullian notes Fata adscribenda advocabantur that is as I conceive their Nativities were set The Athenians gave names on the tenth day others on the seventh Nomination nominatio a naming or appointing it is used both by the Common Lawyers and Canonists for a power that a man by vertue of a Mannor or otherwise hath to appoint a Clerk to a Patron of a Benefice by him to be presented to the Ordinary Nomographer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Writer of the Law a Legislator Nomothesie Gr. the making publishing or proclaiming a Law Nona Decima and Morra the three fatal Ladies whom the Greeks call Clotho Lachesis and Atropos Nonability is in our Law an exception against any person that disables him to commence a Suit Non est factum Lat. is an usual Plea to a Declaration whereby a man denies that to be his Deed whereon he is impleaded Nonage Fr. non aage i.
non aetas not yet of age minority that is all the time of a mans age under One and twenty years in soml cases and Fourteen in some as marriage See Brook tit Age. Non compos mentis i. not in his right wits is of four sorts 1. He that is an Ideot born Next he that by accident wholly loseth this wits 3. A Lunatick that has sometime his understanding and sometimes not Lastly he that by his own act deprives himself of his right mind for a time as a Drunkard None of the day is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting Nones nonae in March May July and October are the six days next following the first day or the Calends In other moneths they are the four days next after the first But the last of these days is properly called Nones and the other reckoned backward according to the number distant from the Nones as the third fourth or fith Nones They are called Nones because they began the ninth day before the Ides Hoptons Conc. p. 70. Non liquet i. It appears not it is not clear it likes not Also a Verdict given by the Jury signifying that the matter was to be deferred to another day of trial Ignoramus with us or a Reprié it was wont to be put down in a Scrowle or Tablet by these letters N.L. As guilty or Condemnatio by C Quitting by A i. Absolutus Carol. Sigon de Judiciis Non obstante Lat. notwithstanding nevertheless a word much used in our Statutes Patents and other writings c. Non plus Lat. no more a term often used when a man can say no more nor answer an Ojection then he is said to be at a Nonplus Non-residency unlawful absence from the place of his charge most commonly spoken of Ministers and their Cures Non-suit is a Renunciation of the Suit by the Plaintiff or Demandant when the matter is so far proceeded in as the Jury is ready at the Bar to deliver their Verdict A. 2. H. 4. ca. 7. See the New book of Entries verbo Nonsuit The Civilians term it Litis renunciationem Nonupla a quick time in Musick peculiar to Gigs and such like having nine Crotchets between Bar and Bar. Nook of Land See Yard Normal normalis right by rule made by the Square or Rule Nortel ware corruptly so called in some part of England for Lorimers See Lorimer Norrey or Norroy King at Arms. See Harold Nosognomonick Gr. a part of Physick See Medicine Nostoch says Dr. Charlton in his Paradoxes is the nocturnal pollution of some plethorical and wanton star or rather excrement blown from the nostrils of some rheumatick Planet falling upon plains and sheep pastures of an obscure red or brown tawny in consistence like a gelly and so trembling if touched which the Philosophy of the clouted shoo affirms to be the ruines of a star fallen Some there are saith Dornaeus who by Nostoch intend wax but by the favor of a metaphor Notary notarius a Scribe or Scrivener that onely takes notes or makes a short draught of contracts obligations or other instruments these notes he may deliver to the parties that gave him instructions if they desire no more but if they do he must deliver them to a Tabellion who draws them at large ingrosses them in parchment c. and keeps a Register of them but this is not generally observed for in many Towns of France the Notaries are also Tabellions Cotg. Notification notificatio information signification advertisement Notion notio knowledge understanding acquaintance Novatians a sort of Hereticks whereof one Novatus was first Author about the year 215. he condemned second Mariages and held that such as had once faln or were in Apostacy ought no more to be received into the Church although they were repentant therefore c. This Heresie was condemned by a Council at Rome See Catharians Novator Lat. he that makes a thing new a renewer Novels of the Civil Law are in number 168. into which the 91 Collations of the Authenticks which were set out after the Codex by Justinian then Emperor and brought into the body of the Civil Law were divided They were called Novelles says Cujatius quod novissime promulgatae sint post Codices Novenary novenarius of nine that consists of nine Novendial novendialis of nine days space or continuance Novennial novennis of nine years Novae tabulae Lat. was an easement proposed in favor of debtors at Rome whereby the old debt books and obligations were cancelled or the nomina dashed out Among the Athenians this practise was called Sisacthia i. an easing of burthen or Creâ—opia a cutting off or striking out of debts Livie Novercal novercalis of or pertaining to a Step-mother or mother in Law Novice from the Lat. Novus a young Monk or Nun before they are professed one that 's but newly entred into a Religious house and has not passed his time of probation also a youngling or beginner in any profession Novity novitas newness strangeness novelty Nowed a term in Heraldry from the Fr. Nové knotted or tied in a knot Noxious noxius hurtful noysom offensive Nubiferous nubifer that brings or carries clouds cloudy Nubilous nubilosus full of clouds cloudy stormy tempestuous Nubivagant nubivagus passing through or among clouds Nuceous nuceus of or pertaining to a Nut. Nudation nudatio a making bare Nude nudus bare naked uncovered void empty destitute poor Nude contract nudum pactum is in our Law a bare contract or promise of a thing without any consideration given therefore ex quo non oritur actio Nudity nuditas bareness nakedness want of any thing poverty Nugal Nugatory nugatorius trifling vain of no force Nugator Lat. a trifler Nugation nugatio a trifling Bac. Nuisance See Nusance Nullifidian from nulla fides one of no faith Religion or honesty a Seeker Nullity nullitas nothing annihilation the being void nothing or of no effect Nullo a Cypher or non-significant character Numeral numeralis of or belonging to number Numerical belonging to number Also a term in Logick as when we say a numerical difference that is to say the last difference by which one individual thing is distinguished from one another Numerist numerarius he that numbereth an Officer in the later Emperors time belonging to the Office of Praefectus praetorio A kind of Register Notary or Auditor Nun nonna q. non nupta Teut. Nunn Belg. Nonne is a holy or consecrated Virgin or a woman that by vow has bound her self to a single and chaste life in some place and company of other women separated from the world and devoted to an especial service of God by prayer fasting and such like holy exercises St. Hierom makes nonna originally an Egyptian word as Hospinian records of him in his book de origine progressu monachatus fol 3. Of these there are several Orders Scholastica the Sister of St. Benedict was the first that collected
oppicatio a covering with pitch Opium Lat. or Opiate the juyce of black Poppy sold dry by Apothecaries It is sometimes used in Physick to cause sleep or to asswage excessive pain but then it must be mixed with other things and given with great discretion for taken alone it will cast one into a deadly sleep being cold and dry in the fourth degree Bul. Oppidan oppidanus a Citizen or Townsman Oppignorate oppignoro to lay in pledge to gage or pawn Oppilation oppilatio an obstruction or stopping the Liver or other chief entrals Oppilative oppilatus obstructive stopping shut up Oppletion oppletio a filling up Opportune opportunus meet for the purpose fit convenient in due time and as it ought to be Opposite oppositum a contrary Aristotle makes four kinds of Opposites first those that are relativè opposita as the Husband and Wife the Master and Servant c. which have reference each to other Secondly those which are Contraria as Right and Wrong Ignorance and Science c. Thirdly Those that are privativè opposita as Light and Darkness Sight and Blindness which succeed and deprive one another The fourth and last kind of Opposites are those which in Propositions and Clauses are Contradicentia the one affirming and the other negative c. J. Doderidge Opprobrious opprobriosus reproachful in words upbraiding reviling taunting Oppugn oppugno to assault to batter to lay seige unto to fight against Also to reason against a thing earnestly Opsimathie opsimathia a learning when one is old Opsonator Lat. a buyer or purveyor of meats a Cater a Manciple Optable optabilis that is to be desired wished or looked for Optation optatio choyce opinion wishing desiring Optative optatum a wish or desire It is also used adjectively as wishing for or that desireth Optick Optical opticus pertaining to the sight Optick sinews are those which bring the vertue of seeing to the eyes So the Optick Science is that by which the reason of sight is known Art speculative Optimacy from optimates a Government in a Commonwealth by noble or other chief persons Optimitie optimitas utility great profit excellency Option optio choyce or election Optive See Adoptive Opulencie opulentia riches abundance plenty wealth Opulent opulentus rich plentiful wealthy abundant Opuscule opusculum a little work a little labor Or Fr. Gold In Heraldry it signifies gold colour Ore ora the end or extreme part of any thing a Region Land or Country Thus Lempsters Ore is that fertile part of Herefordshire which lyes about two miles round that Town Oracle oraculum a Sentence Council or Answer given by God also a notable saying or judgement a Prophesie or Prediction Among the Gentiles these Oracles were but illusions of the Devil who answered for the most part doubtfully in Idols to questions made to him As a great Prince going to the Wars and demanding of the Oracle what success he should have had this ambiguous answer given him Ibis redibis nunquam per bella peribis Which he thus commaing Ibis redibis nunquam per c. ventured on the War and was slain There were two principal places of Oracles one of Ammon in Lybia the other at Delphi in Booetia at the first Jupiter in this Apollo were said to give answers These Oracles ceased at the coming of our Saviour Oracular pertaining to an Oracle Oral from Os oris pertaining to the Mouth Visage face look favor or voyce Oratory oratorium a place wholly dedicated to prayer a Closet a private Chappel to pray in Oratorians a Religious Fraternity or Order instituted the last age by St. Philip Nerius a Florentine Priest They took name from the place first frequented by them for their exercises of Preaching and Catechising which was the Oratory of St. Hierom in Rome Orbation orbatio a depriving or bereaving one of his goods or of any other thing poverty Orbical Orbicular orbicus round like a circle circular Globie Orbiculated orbiculatus made round in the form of a circle or compass Orbitie orbitas the want of children on the Parents part the want of parents on the childrens part any want or privation Orchal orca a stone like Allum used sometimes by Dyers to raise a red colour Ordael or Ordeal ordalium signifies as much as judgement and is compounded as some say of two Saxon words Or a privatitive as A in Greek and dael i. â—ars q Expers But it is artificially used for a kind of purgation practised in antient times whereby the party purged was judged Expers criminis called in the Common Law Purgatio vulgaris and utterly condemned by Pope Steven the second There was of this four sorts one by Kampfight not unlike our Duel The second called Fire-Ordeal which was for the accused to pass blindfold with bare feet over hot Plowshares c. of which see Mr. Fullers hist Cent. 11. p. 141. The third was hot water-Ordeal by putting his arms up to the elbows in seething water c. The fourth was cold water-Ordeal like the late used trial of Witches Of these at large see Verstegan p. 50 51. and Lambert in his explication of Saxon words Verbo Ordalium where he expresses such superstitions as were used in it Mr. Manwood part 1. pag. 15. But Hotom especially disput de feud ca 41 c. Ordalian Law was that Law which instituted the Ordael aforesaid and was long before the Conquest but did continue of force in England till the time of King John in whose days it was abrogated as Pol. Vir. Holinshed Supplimentum Chronicorum witness Ordinal ordinale is properly a Book of Direction for Bishops to give holy Orders and for other things belonging to their Function but sometimes used for a Book containing the Orders and Constitutions of a Religious House or Colledge Ordinary ordinarius though in the Civil Law whence the word is taken it signifies any Judge that has authority to take knowledge of Causes in his own right as he is a Magistrate and not by deputation yet in our Common Law it is most commonly and usually taken for him that hath ordinary Jurisdiction in causes Ecclesiastical See Brook and Linwood hoc titulo Oreads oreades Fairies of the mountains Oredelf is a liberty whereby a man claims the Ore found in his own ground It properly signifies Ore lying under ground as a Delf of Coal is coal lying in veins under ground before it is digged up Orfraies aurifrisium frizled cloth of gold made and used in England both before and since the Conquest worn both by the Clergy and the Kings themselves as may appear out of Math. Paris where he speaks of the Ornaments sent by the Abbots of England to the Pope and also by a Record in the Tower where the King commands the Templars to deliver such Jewels Garments and Ornaments as they had of his in keeping among which he names Dalmaticum velatum de Orefreis that is a damask garment guarded with Orfraies Of old the Jackets or Coat Armors of
Northern Circle before spoken of is to the North Pole These Parallels are also called Aequidistants There is another sort of Parallels two of which go to a Clime called Artificial Parallels because they shew the differences of artificial days c. Heyl. To Parallel to compare or match Parallelogram parallelogrammus having lines every where a like distant a long square Paralogism paralogismus a deceitful conclusion or captious reasoning a manner of arguing which seems true when it is not As in saying He that affirms Peter to be a living creature saith true He that affirms Peter to be a Bear affirms him to be a living Creature Therefore he that affirms Peter to be a Bear says true To Paralogize to reason captiously argue deceitfully conclude falsly Br. Paralysis Gr. a resolution of the sinews a depriving of the feeling or moving or of both in any part of the body the Palsie Paralytick paralyticus sick of the Palsie Paraments Robes of state or the place where they are kept Chauc Paramount from the Fr. par i. per and mounter i. ascendere is in our Law the highest Lord of the Fee For there may be a Tenant to a Lord that holds over of another Lord the first of these is called Lord Mesn the second Lord Paramount c. Paramor peramator a Lover he or she a Sweetheart Paranymph Paranymphus an Orator who a little before the Commencement of Doctors c. makes a publick Speech in commendation of their sufficiency also an overseer of a Wedding a Bride-dresser or he or she that bears all the sway at the Bridal Parapet Ital. Parapetto q. propter pectus a Wall or Defence brest-high on the upper part of a Rampier to defend from the enemies shot Paraph Fr. paraphe the flourish or peculiar knot or mark set unto after or instead of a name in the signing a Deed or Letter and generally any such graceful setting out of a mans hand or name in writing also a subsignature or signing under Paraphonalia is used in our Law but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia which are those goods a Wife brings her Husband over and besides her Dowry or Marriage-money as Furniture for her own Chamber her own Apparel and Jewels if she be of quality all which she must have and not the Executors of the Husband c. Shep. Fa. Counc 122. Paraphrase paraphrasis a free manner of exposition or interpretation wherein a man ties not himself to express every word as it lies in the Copy but to explicate and adorn the matter more at large or to abridge it yet stil keeping the Authors sence Any such Exposition is called a Paraphrase or Paraphrastical Exposition Paraphrast paraphrastes a Paraphraser one that expounds a Text by other words then it is written in Parasang parasanga a measure of ground containing thirty Stades i.e. three miles and three quarters of ours Parasite parasitus a flatterer a Trencher-friend a smel-feast one that is full hanging on some rich man feeding his humor with flattery to the end to partake of his good Cheer Hence Parasitical pertaining to a Parasite Those Plants or Supercrescences are called Parasitical plants that live upon the stock of others as Parasites do such are Misseltoe Polypody Moss and others Paratragediate paratragoedio to help to set forward a Tragedy to make a matter much worse then indeed it is Parature paratura the matter whereof any thing is made Parcae the three Ladies of destiny Clotho Lachesis and Atropos The first bears a Distaff the second spins the thred of mans life the third cuts off the same thred c. with like fabulous stories Parceners Parcinary See Coparceners Parciloquy parciloquium a sparing or nigardly speech Parcity parcitas scantness nearness niggardliness thrift frugality Pard Pardus the Beast called a Libard Pareasse Pareas a Serpent having to the greatness of his body but a small head yet such a wide mouth that he is able to swallow a whole Pigeon and as he creeps makes a Furrow on the ground with his tail Parellelisation or rather Parallelisation a making Parallels or likes a comparison El. of Armories Parellelogram See Parallelogram Parenetick paraeneticus containing such fatherly or Masterly admonitions or exhortations as may not be gainsaid Hence Parenetick paraenetica are taken for verses full of precepts or admonitions Parent parens à pareo obedient dutiful serviceable Parental parentalis of or pertaining to our Ancestors or Parents Parentation parentatio a celebrating Funerals or Obsequies properly of parents Parenthesis Gr. a word or clause comprehended within another sentence in such sort that it may be left out yet the sence still remain whole and is commonly enclosed with two half circles thus as in Virgil. Aeneas neque enim patriam consistere mentem Passus amor rapidum ad naves praemittit Achatem Pâ—rentâ—de parenticida he that murders his Father Mother or dear Friend Parâ—rgâ—â—ergon or Parerâ—m Gr. Parergue Fr. an addition or acceâ—s a thing put unto though no part of the matter any thing that is beside the principal question point or purpose in hand see Landskip Patâ— Marble a sort of pure white Marble had from the Isle Paros and therefore so called Pariation pariatio evenness of account where as much is laid out as received Paricide Paricida a murtherer of his Father Mother or any of his near Kindred any hainous murtherer and from Paricidium it signifies the Act it self Paricidal paricidalis belonging to such murder cruel Paâ—ieâ—t pariens travelling with young lying in travel bringing forth young Parilian Palilian Feasts parilia Feasts or Festival days dedicated to the goddess Pales for the preservation of Cattel Parility parilitas likeness evenness equality resemblance Parish parochia a multitude of neighbors within a certain compass of ground pertaining to one Church This Land was first divided into Parishes by Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury in the year of our Lord 637. Cam. Brit. Of these Parish Churches there are in England and Wales 9285. according to Speed Parisyllable parisyllabus an equal syllable Parisyllabical parisyllabicus that hath equal syllables those words are called Parisyllabical which have no more syllables in one then another as fama mensa c. So likewise we say in Grammar the first decleâ—sion of Nouns is Parisyllabique because all the Cases of such Nouns in the singular number especially have even syllables as Gemma gemmae gemmae gemmam gemma gemma c. Parity paritas likeness equality evenness Paritude Pariture or Parture from pario a breeding or ingendring the time of travail or deliverance of child or young Parliament or Parlement Fr. q. Parler le ment or Parlament from the Italian and Spanish Parlamento With us it was antiently the Assembly of the King and the three Estates of the Realm viz. The Lords Spiritual Temporal and Commons for debating matters touching the Commonwealth and especially the making and correcting Laws which Assembly or Court is of all other the highest and of greatest authority
a thing in controversie from the possession of both those that contend for it And this is double Voluntary sequestration or Judiciary Voluntary is that which is used by the consent of both parties Judiciary is that which the Judge of his Authority doth whether the parties will or not Cow In what sence it hath been of late years used very many know by sad experience Sequestrator Lat is he that puts a thing in controversie into another man hand or rather the third person who takes a thing in controversie between two But it is now usually taken for an Officer that receives the Rents of Recusants or Delinquents Estates for the use of the Commonwealth Seraglio the Turkish word is Serai borrowed from the Persian Seraw which signifies a house is that place in Constantinople where the Grand Signor resides with his Court the description whereof you may see at large in Mr. Rob. Withers Book published by Mr. Greaves 1650. Serain Fr. a foggy mist or dampish vapor falling in Italy about Sun-set at which time it is unwholsom to be abroad there especially bare-headed mildew also the fresh and cool air of the evening Seraph a Turkish coyn of fine gold worth about a French crown Seraphim Heb i. fulgentes aut comburentes so called for their burning with divine love and charity the highest order of the celestial Hierarchy of Angels See Hierarchy Seraphical from Seraphin celestial inflamed with divine love like a Seraphim also fiery or burning Seraphis a Serpent worshipped by the Egyptians as a God Serenade Fr. evening musick at the door or under the window of a lovely or beloved creature Serenity serenitas fair and clear weather quietness calmness Sergeant at Law or of the Coyf is the highest degree taken in that profession as a Doctor of the Civil Law c. with what solemnity these Sergeants are created read Fortescu c. 50. Coks Reports Sergeanty from the Fr. Sergeant or Sergent i. one retained to guard ones person signifies in our Common Law a service due to the King from his Tenant holding by such service For this service cannot be due to any Lord from his Tenant but to the King onely And this is either grand or petit as you shall find in Littletons Tenures and Br. l. 2. c. 26. Sergreant a tearm in Heraldry applyed onely to the Griffin so called Sericated sericatus clothed with or attired in silk Series Lat. an order succession or process in any matter hanging wel together a row an issue or descent of kindred a race or course Sermocinate sermocinor to talk or commune with Serosity serositas the waterishness or thinner parts of the mass of blood answering to whay in milk which floats upon it after it has been let out of a vein also the whayish or waterish moisture drawn by the Kidney from all parts of the body and after some concoction termed urine Serous pertaining to such waterishness or moisture c. Serotine Serotinous serotinus that is in the evening late lateward Serpentine serpentinus of or belonging to Serpents under which general name all vermine that creep on the belly as Snakes Adders c. are contained Also winding wrigling or crooking Serpentine verses are those which do as it were run into themselves as we see Serpents pictured with tail in mouth So these verses begin and end with the same word As that of Juvenal Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit Also a kind of warlike Engine called a Serpentine or Basilisco Serpet a kind of Basket Serred Fr. serré compact contracted bound fast Bac. Servable servabilis that may be kept or preserved Servet see Sherbet Servile servilis pertaining to a servant or bondage slavish Servitude servitudo bondage slavery thraldom servility Serviteur Fr. a servitor servant Serving-man Attendant or Waiter We use the word Servitor in our Universities where the poor or meaner sort of Schollars that have not wherwith sufficiently to maintain themselves execute the Office of a Servitor or Attendant to those of greater wealth and quality Sesquialteral sesquialter that which contains one and an half or the whole and half again as six to four Sesquipedal sesquipedalis of a foot and half in measure Sesquipedalian one that is a foot and a half high Sesquipedalian words verba sesquipedalia used by Horace for great stout and lofty words words that are very long consisting of many syllables Sesquitertian sesquitertius which contains as much as another and a third part more as twelve to nine Session sessio à sedeo a sitting Sessions are usually taken for the quarterly sitting of Justices in Court otherwise called General Sessions An. 5. Eliz. ca. 4. or Open Sessions ibid. There are also other kinds of Sessions of which see Cromp. J. of P. fol. 109 110. Sesterce Sestercâ—e sestertius a coyn among the Romans whereof Denarius contained four and is so called quasi Semitertius for it contained two and a half of the brazen coin called As and it is marked with this figure H S. which signifies two pound and a half Of our money it valued about three half pence farthing Or as the Translator of â— Tacitus computes it three half pence farthing and half farthing This Character H-S two capital II. and the letter S thus coupled together stood for Sestertius others say the true character was L L.S. Sestine Fr. a Stanza of six verses Sethim or Setim a tree like a white Thorn the timber whereof never rots Of this tree was made the holy Ark of the Old Testament see Ark. Setigerous setiger that bears or hath bristles on his back Severians so called from Severus their first founder a sort of Hereticks that condemned marriage abstained from eating flesh and drinking wine c. Sevidical saevidicus that speaks cruel and rigorous words that threateneth Sevil see Sivil Sevocation sevocatio a calling a part or aside a withdrawing from Sewel a paper clout or any thing hanged up to keep a Deer from entring into a place A term of Hunting Sewer or Sewar has two significations one applied to him that ushers or comes in before the meat of the King or other great Personage and placeth it on the Table c. The other to such passages or gutters as carry water into the Sea or River in Lawyers Latin called Sewera A. 6. H. 6. c. 5. And there are Commissions of Sewers usually granted under the Great Seal authorising certain persons to see Dreins and Ditches well kept and maintained in the Marish and Fen Countries for better conveyance of the water into the Sea and preserving the grass for food of Cattle This word is probably derived from the Fr. issue an issue or going forth as if we should call them Issuers because they give issue or passage to the water c. And the Latin word suera sometimes used in these Commissions is a competent reason for this conjecture See Fitz. nat br in Oyer and Terminer I have heard of an old French
diseased in the houghs or pasterns that hath the Scratches or Spaven Suffricate suffrico to rub off or under Suffumigate suffumigo to make a fume or smoak underneath The smoak which is physically received from under a stool into the body for the diseases of the Guts Fundament or Matrix is called Suffumigation Cot. Suffusion suffusio a spreading abroad a pouring upon Suggestion suggestio a putting into ones minde a prompting Sugillation sugillatio the being black and blew with beating the blood-shot of an eye also reproach slander Suhit See Gazul Suicide from sui the slaying or murdering of himself self-murder Suist from sui one that loves himself a selfish man Sulcate sulco to cast up in Furrows to Till or Plow Sulphureous sulphureus belonging to mixed with or of the colour of Sulphur or Brimstone Sultan in the Persian language properly signifies an Earl But Sultan or Soldan among the Turks Persians and Arabians is commonly taken for a King Prince or Sovereign Also a Turkish Coyn of Gold worth about our Six shillings six pence Sultanin Sultana a Turkish coin of gold worth about Seven shillings six pence or Seven shillings ten pence sterling It is so called because coyned at Constantinople where the Sultan lives Sumack Sumake or Sumaque a kind of rank-smelling plant or shrub with black-Berries wherwith Curriers dress their leather Sumage seems to be Toll for carriage on horse-back Crompt juris fol. 191. for the book called Pupilla oculi hath these words pro uno equo portante Summagium per dimidium anni obulum It is otherwise called a Seam and a Seam in the Western parts is a horse load which word Seam and Sumage may well come of the Fr. Somme i. Sarcina and Sommièr equus sarcinarius a Sumpter-horse Summary summarium a brief gathering together an abridgement containing tâ—e whole effect of a matter â—n few words an Epitome Summit or Summity summitas height or higâ—ness the top the either erd of a thing beneath or above Summist or Summulst one that writes sums or brieâ—s upon any subject an abridger Peripat Instit Sumpter-horse from sumptus a horse that carries the necessaries and expences for a journey Sund or Sond Sax. a narrow passage at Sea between two lands a Streight Sumptifie sumptifacio to make great expences or cost Sunamite Heb. dormiens one sleeping A worthy good woman of Suna that often entertained Eliseus the Prophet by whose prayers she had a Son when by course of nature she was past hopes of any and afterwards had the same Son raised from death to life by the same Eliseus 4 Kings Sunday was dedicated to the Idol of the Sun by the old Pagan Saxons and therefore called the Sun's day or day of the Sun now dies Dominicus or our Lords day Superable superabilis that may be passed or overcome Superannate Superannuate from the Ital. superannato to out wear with to exceed in years to grow old or out of date to live longer to out-live Bac. Superate supero to overcome to exceed or excel Superbifical superbificus that doth a thing proudly that makes proud Superbiloquence superbiloquentia arrogant speaking proud and haughty words Supercilious superciliosus pertaining to the eye-brows sowr in countenance also proud squeamish Superchety Fr. foul-play an injury wrong affront assault on a sudden or upon great advantage Tanslation of L' Home Criminelle Supereminence supereminentia a Prerogative authority or excellency above others Supererogation supererogatio laying out more then one hath received or the doing more then a man is of necessity bound to do a giving over-plus In Divinity works of Supererogation are usually taken to be such as are done upon a pious account and to which a man is not bound in particular by any positive precept of Gods Law Supererogatory that gives overplus or does more then obligation or that is apt to do so Superferation superfaetatio the conceiving another after the first yong is conceived a second conceiving or the breeding of young upon young Superficiâ— superficiarius he that hath built an house upon another mans ground and therefore pays Quit rent belonging to the outside of a thing Superficies Lat. the uttermost part of any thing the outside the surface In Geometry it is the second kinde of quantity to which are attributed two dimensions length and breadth but not thickness and it is the term or end of a body as a line is the end of a Superficies Superficialize from superficies to do any thing on the outside or not throughly Superfluirance Superfluity superfluitas operplus excess more then needs Superiection superjectio a laying or casting upon Superinduce superinduco to lay upon to cover to draw over Lo. Bac. Superior Lat. one that is higher above or over others Superlative superlativus highest in degree preferred Supermeate supermeo to go or slip over Supernal supernus that which comes from above high Supernation supernatio a swiming upon over or aloft Supernatural supernaturalis which is above Nature or the ordinary course of it Supersaliency from super and salio a leaping or jumping upon Br. Supersedeas from supersedeo i. to omit leave off or cease is a Writ which lies in divers cases and signifies a command or request to stay or forbear the doing of that which in appearance of Law were to be done were it not for the cause whereupon this Writ is granted for example a man regularly is to have Surety of Peace against him of whom he will swear he is afraid and the Justice required hereunto cannot deny him yet if the party be formerly bound to the Peace either in Chancery or elswhere this Writ lieth to stay the Justice from doing that which otherwise he might not deny This word is also used in our common discourse to like purpose as when one is commanded or requested to omit the doing that which he had former order or ought to have done We say the former order or command is superseded Supersession supersessio a surceasing a leaving off or giving over Superstition superstitio from super and sto an excess of ceremonious Worship vain Religion or Devotion the worship of Demons an honoring that which should not be honored a vain reverence or fear towards that thing wherein is no efficacy or force but onely by illusion spiced conscience in vain things St. Thomas Aquinas mentions four kinds of Superstition 2 da. 2 dae qu. 92. Art 1. and Art 2. in Corp. Supervacaneous or Supervacuous supervacaneus vel supervacuus needless vain superfluous not necessary unprofitable also that which is set aside above ordinary use against some future occasion Supervene supervenio to come unlooked for to come upon or after another thing to leap upon as the Male doth the Female Supervive supervivo to recover from peril of death or when a man seems to be dead to out-live or live longer then another thing Supine supinus upright upward the belly upward also negligent and careless Supinity supinitas a bending backward a lying
when it was suppressed by Clement the fifth These Templars first founded and built the Temples or Templars Inne in Fleetstreet which without controversie is the most antient of all the Inns of Court and though they were divided into three several Houses that is the Inner the Middle and the Outward Temple which last is now converted into Essex house yet were they at first all but one House in which these Knights lived in great honor and opulency about one hundred years For they had many Castles Lordships and Seignories belonging to them and their Order in many parts of England and the Master of this Order was a Baron of this Nation their Church yet standing was dedicated to the service of God by Heraclius Patriarck of Jerusalem An. Dom. 1185. After the suppression of these Templars their lands were by a general Council held at Vienna conferred on the other more antient and religous Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem called also Joannites and after Knights of Rhodes and lastly of Malta where they live at this day And this Cannon of the Council was confirmed to the Knights of Saint John residing here in England by Act of Parliament made 17. Ed. 2. In the reign of Edw. 3 after several noble persons had in this interval been tenants and occupants of the Temple Inns certain of the reverend antient Professors of the Laws obtained a very large or perpetual Lease of this Temple or of two parts thereof distinguished by the names of the Middle and Inner Temple from the said Joannites then residing in their goodly house called the Priory of St. John of Jerusalem near Smithfield to pay yearly ten pounds These Knights Templars bore for their Arms a Shield Argent charged with a Cross Gules and upon the Nombril of it a holy Lamb. And Mat. Paris saith on their common Seal was engraven a horse with two men riding on him But the Society of the Inner Temple have taken for their Ensign or Devise a Pegasus or flying Horse sable or gules upon a Shield Or. Over the door of the Temple Church was this inscription in antient characters remaining legible till April 1656. since which time the latter part of it is defaced ✚ Anno ab incarnatione domini MCLXXXV dedicata haec Ecclesia in honorem beatae Mariae à Domino Eraclio Dei gratiae Sanctae resurrectionis Ecclesiae Patriarcha quarto Idus Februarii qui eam annatim petentibus de injuncta sibi penitentia LX. dies indulsit Temporaneous temporaneus done suddenly at a certain time pertaining to time variable for the time Temporary temporarius in time at the hour appointed temporal temporeous Temporaities of Bishops were such revenues as had been given to their Sees by the Kings and other great Personages as they were Lords of the Parliament See Spiritualities of Bishops Temporize from tempus oris to observe agree with or apply himself to the time to seek to please the times to live as the times go also to linger or protract the time Temporizer he that doth so a time-server Temulency temulentia drunkenness Temulent Temulentine temulentus drunken cupshot Tenacies tenacia the stalks of apples Lustra Lud. Tenacious tenax acis that holds fast long and stedfast good and sure clammy glewish also hard to be moved stiff-necked Tenacity tenacitas fast-keeping sure holding niggardliness misery also constancy stedfastness Tend tendo to extend to stretch out to bend to incline to make towards to draw on Tendency tendentia an extending a stretching out a going forward a making toward Tenderlings the soft tops of a Deers horns when they are in blood any living things that are nesh and tender Tendons or Tendines Lat. tendones certain instruments of moving in the top of muscles made of sinews and ligatures and knitting them to the bones they are harder then sinews and not so hard as ligatures Thom. Tendrels from the Fr. tendron or Lat. tenendo little sprigs of vines or other plants wherewith they take hold to grow or stay themselves up also a kind of gristle Tenebres Fr. à tenebrae darkness obscurity also the Service or Mattins used in the Roman Church on Wednesday Thursday and Friday before Easter are call'd tenebrae and thence tenebrae-Wednesday Thursday c. as being begun with many lights and ending in darkness representing the night-time of our blessed Saviours apprehension in the Garden Gethsemani in which Office are lighted at the first on a triangular candlestick fifteen candles viz. as many as there are Psalms and Canticles in the Office and at the end of every Psalm one of the fifteen lights is extinguished till they are all put out so to shew the forsaken desolate state of our blessed Saviour in his passion all the light or comfort of his friends leaving him or being forced from him for a time and he left alone suh potestate tenebrarum under the power of darkness Tenebrosity tenebrositas great darkness or obscurity Tenebrous tenebrosus very close dark or obscure Tenerity teneritas softness tenderness Tenn◠a term used by Heralds signifying an orange or tawny colour Teno◠that part of a Post or Rafter which is put into a mortise hole to make it stand upright or bear it up Tenor Lat. a continual order form fashion trade state or race Also the content or substance of a matter The tenor part in musick is that which is next above the base The order in consort-vocal musick is thus 1. Base 2. Tenor. 3. Counter-tenor 4. Mean or Contra-alto 5. Treble or Alto. Tensile tensus stretched out bent strouting out Tent◠hath divers significations As first from tentorium it signifies a Pavillion or Tent for War commonly made of Sackcloth or such like 2. Tent which Chyrurgions put into a wound comes from tento to try because it tries how wide or deep the wound is 3. Jewellers call that Tent which they put under Table Diamonds when they set them in work and is made of Mastick and Turpentine 4. Tent or Tint wine is a kind of Alicant though not so good as pure Alicant and is a general name for all wines in Spain except white from the Span. vino tinto i. a deep red wine 5. Tent from tentum a mans privy member Tentative from tento the posing for the passing of Graduates a probation or examination of such as are to to take degree or that tries or examines Tenths decimae is that yearly portion of tribute which all Ecclesiastical Livings yield to the King An. 26. H. 8. cap. 3. The Levites paid them to their high Priests Numb 8. Hieron in Ezekiel It signifies also a tax levied of the temporalty Holinsh H. 2. fol. 111. Tentorian tentorianus belonging to a Tent or Pavillion Tenuate tenuo to make small thin or slender to make lean or feeble Tenuifolious thin or narrow leafed Br. Tenuious or Tenuous tenuis slender thin low lean poor sparing small of no estimation L. Bac. Tenuity tenuitas smalness poverty leanness thinness
or setting forth Vendition venditio a sale or selling Venefice veneficium the art or craft of poysoning poysoning sorcery Venefick Veneficial Veneficious veneficus that poysoneth venemous poysonfull Veneniferous venenifer that bears poyson venemous Venenous venenosus full of poyson or venom Venerate veneror to reverence worship or honor Venereal Venereous venereus disposed to lechery lecherous lustful fleshly lascivious Venereal disease See Morbus Gallicus Venerie venus eris carnal lust lechery fleshly wantonness carnality Venew See Venue Veniable from venia pardonable Dr. Br. Venial venialis that may be forgiven without much difficulty pardonable Sin is either original or actual the first is a privation of original justice which we inherit from our first parent Adam being all by course of nature conceived and born in that privation or original sin The latter is a thought word or deed contrary to the Law of God and this Actual sin is by many Divines divided into mortal and venial Mortal sin they account any great offence against the charity of God or our neighbour and to be so called because it kills the soul and robs it of the spiritual life of grace Venial sin is any small and pardonable offence against God or our neighbour as the stealing an apple or a pin an idle word or such like Vent ventus wind a blast air breath also a bruit or report a place for air to come in and out at Ventilet a diminitive of vent a little wine a small puff gentle gale coole blast of winde Ventiduct from ventus and duco a conduit or conveyance of winde as an Aqueduct is of water Ventilate ventilo to gather winde to give a vent to fan or winnow corn Also to turn out of one hand into another Ventoy from the Fr. ventau a fan Ventosity ventositas windiness Ventricle ventriculus the place wherein the meat sent from the stomack is digested some use it for Epigastrium others take it for the stomack it self a little belly Ventricles of the heart are two large holes one on the right the other on the left side thereof that the greater and closed within a slender flesh contains the natural blood this of a harder substance contains the blood wherewith our Arteries are nourished and thereupon that is called the bloody this the spiritual Ventricle Ventriloquist ventriloquus one that hath an evil spirit speaking in his belly or one that by use and practise can speak as it were out of his belly not moving his lips Ventripotenâ— ventripotens big-paunch'd belly-able huge-gutted Venue or Visuâ— from vicinus a Law term of frequent use and signifies the next or neighboring place to that where any thing that comes to be tried is supposed to be done 35 H. 8.6 Venundate venundo to buy and sell Venus the goddess of lust also lust it self venerie unchastness lechery also among Alchimists the mettal copper also one of the seven Planets See Saturn the day or mornin Star Venus Escuage is used for Knights or nights service to Ladies Quid facies facies Veneris cum veneris ante Ne sedeas sed eas ne pereas per eas Venustate venusto to make beautiful fair or sightly Vepricosous vepricosus full of briars or brambles Veracity veracitas a speaking truth or the quality or vertue of saying truth Verbal verbalis that is of or that descends of a word In Grammer those words are called Verbals which come from some verb as amabilis from amo Lector from Lego c. Verbality verbalitas a belongingness to a word or verb a fulness of words Verbatim Lat. word by word that which is precisely spoken according as it was delivered before Verberable verberabilis that may be or is worthy to be beaten Verberate verbero to beat punish or strike Verbigerate verbigero to speak to talk to noise abroad Verbosity verbositas much talking or speaking talkativeness Verdan from the Fr. verd green fresh lively new in prime Verd-grease or vert-grâ—ceâ— a green substance made of the rust of Brass or Copper which hath been hanged certain dayes over strong vinegar It is of a fretting nature and therefore to be used with great discretion Verderer or Verdor Fr Verdier a Judicial Officer of the Kings Forrest a great part of whose office is touching the vert i. the wood and grass in the Forest Verde or Verdea a kind of white Muscadine wine made in Toscany which is sometimes brought into England in bottles Verdict veredictum is the answer of a Jury or Inquest made upon any cause civil or criminal committed by the Court to their consideration or tryal And this Verdict is two-fold either general or special Stawnf pl. Cor. lib. 3. cap. 9. Verditure is one of the names of green Colour among Painters whereof they have four most uâ—ual Green Bice Verditure Vert Greece Sap-green Verdure Fr. Verdeur greenness or green things as herbs c. a raw or natural sowrness in wine fruits c. Verecund Verecundous verecundus modest shamefac'd demure bashfull Verdoâ— a term in Heraldry when a bordure is charged with leaves fruits flowers and the like Verge Fr. a rod yard or wand also a Sergeants Verge or Mace It is also used for the compass about the Kings Court that bounds the jurisdiction of the Lord Steward and Coroner of his House and seems to have been twelve miles compass Anno 13. R. 2. Stat. 1. cap. 3. Fitzh Nat. Br. fol. 241. B. Britton fol. 68. b. 69. a. Fleta lib. 2. cap. 2. and Cokes Reports lib. 4. fol. 47. a. For this see the Statute of 33 Hen. 8. cap. 12. But Fleta saith this compass about the Court is called Virgata à virga quam Marishallus portat ut signum suae potestatis lib. 2. cap. 4. Sect. 1. Verge hath also another signification being used for a stick or rod whereby one is admitted Tenant who holding it in his hand swears fealty to the Lord of a Mannor and for that cause is called Tenant by the the Verge Old Nat. Br. fol. 77. Verger Fr. or Virger from Virga one that bears a Verge or white wand before a Magistrate c. Vergobert Fr. a Mayor or Burgomaster Among the ancient Heduanes it was an yearly elected chief Officer or Magistrate that had power of life and death Veridical veridicus that says or speaks truth Veriloquy veriloquium the true exposition of a word the Etymology or right meaning of a word Also a Speech or Report Veriloquent as Veridical Verisimility verisimilitas great likelihood or true likeness of a thing Dr Br. Vermiculated vermiculatus eaten with worms also embroidered wrought with checquer work or with small pieces of divers colours representing sundry pictures as we see in Tables and Counters Vermillion Fr. Vermillon a ruddy colour made of Brimstone and Quicksilver Also Gules in Armory See Cinnaber Vermination verminatio a disease with worms properly in cattle a vehement ache by the wringing of the Guts as if they were gnawn with worms Vermiparous vermiparus that brings
the old Romans were wont to burn their dead bodies Now it is often taken for a Grave or Sepulchre also a vessel wherein the Roman Pretor did put the names of such as were to be elected or tried by lot See a learned discourse of Vrns written lately by Dr. Brown and entituled Hydriotaphia Vroscopy Gr. an inspection of Urines or casting of water as Physicians do Vrsine ursinus of or belonging to a Bear Vrsula Lat. a little she Bear a womans name heretofore of great reputation in honor of Vrsula the British Virgin Saint martyred under Gods scourge Attila King of the Hunnes Vrus or Vre Ox is a huge-bodied hulk-backed short-horned and red-eyed wilde Ox. Pliny Vsance Fr. use usage it is a term among Merchants as if a Merchant receive money here and engage by Bill of Exchange to pay the like sum in Paris at Vsance that is at the moneths end and double Vsance is two moneths Vâ—bagh or Vsâ—abagh Irish Aqua vitae the word in that language importing as much Vstion ustio a burning or scaring Vstulate ustulo to burn or sear a thing also to frizel or curle Vsucaption usucaptio prescription or long possession or the attaining a thing thereby Vsufructuary usufructuarius one that hath the use and reaps the profit of that whereof the propriety rests in another Vsury usura usage the occupation of a thing also money or moneys worth given above the principal sum for the lone of it interest use Vsurpation usurpatio an usurping an unjust or often using a taking against right and reason an incroaching on another mans Right Vâ—as Octava is the eighth day following any Term or Feast as the Vtas of Saint Michael the Vtas of St. Hillary the Vtas of St. Martin the Vtas of St. John Baptist and the Vtas of the Blessed Trinity c. as you may read An. 51. Hen. 3. Stat. concerning general days in the Bench. And any day between the Feast and the Eighth day is said to be within the Vtas the use of it is in the Return of Writs as appears by the same Statute Vtensil utensile any thing necessary for our use and occupation Housholdstuff Vterine uterinus of or pertaining to the womb Fratres Vterini brothers of the same Mother that came both of one Womb or Belly Vtible utibilis that may be used profitable Vtinam Lat. Adverb God grant Would to God it is sometimes used substantively in English for a wish Vtlarie See Outlawrie Vtopian belonging to the feigned or imaginary place or Country Vtopia Vtter Barristers See Barristers Vval from uva pertaining to a Grape or Vine Vvid uvidus wet moist Vviferous uvifer that bears Grapes or Vines Vulcan Vulcanus the god of Fire who is also called Jupiters Smith it is sometimes used for fire it self or for any Workman or Forger continually about the fire or for a Hill that continually burns and casts out flame and smoak Vulgarity vulgaritas the common manner or fashion of the vulgar people Vulgarization a making common or vulgar Vulgate vulgatus published abroad commonly used set out to the use of all men Vulned from vulnus wounded A term in Heraldry Vulnerate vulnero to hurt or wound Vulnerary vulnerarius he that healeth wounds a Chyrurgeon Also used adjectively which relates to wounds or sores Vulnifical vulnificus which woundeth or makes wounds Vulpinate vulpinor to play the Fox to deceive with crafty wiles or deceits Vulpinatiness from vulpinor craftiness deceit Vulsion vulsio the twinging or pulling of the cramp or any other thing Vultuosous vultuosus of a grave and solemn countenance or of a heavy and sad look Vulturine vulturinus pertaining to the ravenous Bird called a Vulture or Cormorant also grey coloured Vvula Lat. a little piece of flesh in the inmost roof of the mouth which sometimes hangs loose downward and hinders from speaking and swallowing meat the Palate of the mouth Vxorious uxorius belonging to a Wife also that is very indulgent to or fond of a Wife W. WAge from the Fr. Gager i. to put in security for performing any thing as to Wage Law and Wage Deliverance When an Action of Debt or Detinue is brought against one upon some secret agreement or contract had between the parties without Specialty shewed or other matter of Record for goods lent or left with the Defendant then the Defendant may Wage his Law if he will that is Swear upon a Book and certain persons with him that he detains not the Goods nor ows any thing to the Plaintiff in manner and form as he hath declared Terms of the Law Note that the offer to make the Oath is called Wager of Law and when it is accomplished it is called the doing your Law To Wage Law in the common acception seems to be to follow urge drive on or prosecute the Law or Law Sutes as to wage War is praeliari bellare to drive on the War to fight in Battails as Warriers do The Wain of the Moon from the antient Belg. Wan i defect or want à lat vanus quia evanescit the decrease or declination of the Moon Hence also To look wan that is pale as being in a decaying or defective health To Waive or Weive is to forsake As to waive the company of Theeves Stawnf pl. Cor. fol. 26. Waif or Weif The nineteenth Chapter of the Grand Customary of Normandy is entituled De choses gaives and Latined by the interpreter De rebus vaivis i. Of things waived which are there thus defined Vaiva sunt res velalia quae nullius proprietate attributa sine possessionis reclamatione sunt inventa quae usque ad Diem annum servanda sunt This weif or things weived are nothing but things forsaken The Civilians call it Derelictum Bract. lib. 1. cap. 12. num 10. reckons them inter res quae sunt nullius ea quae pro waivio habentur sicut de averiis ubi non apparet dominus where he also saith Quod olim fuerunt inventoris dè jure naturali jam efficiuntur Principis de jure gentium This is a Regality and belongs to the King except it be challenged by the owner within a year and a day as appears by Britton cap. 17. Now the Kings in their times have granted this and such like Prerogatives to Subjects within their Liberties and Fees so that Waifs Estrays Things lost are the Lords of the Franchise where they are found but must first be cried and published in Markets and Churches near about or else the year and day runs not to the prejudice of him that lost them and otherwise the Detainer may be accus'd of Theft The Expositor of Law Terms also saith VVaif is when a Thief has feloniously stoln Goods and being closely pursued with Hue and Cry or else overcharged with the burden or trouble of them for his ease or more speed flies away and leaves the goods or any part of them behind him then the Kings Officers or the Reeve or Bailiff of
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