abstaining from wine flesh and women Essentiall That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme in the common Law when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is therfore allowed by the Court to bee absent without penaltie Estreate A copy which is taken of any writing Estouers Plots of wood growing in heathes commons and other places where it is lawfull for tenants to take fewell and timber to repayre their tenements Eternall VVhich hath no beginning nor end Eternity Euerlastingnes Etheriall Heauenly or belonging to the celestiall spheres Ethikes Bookes of morall Philosophy treating of ciuil behauiour and maners Ethnike A gentill a Heathen one that is no Christian Etymologie The true exposition or reason giuen of any word Euacuate To emptie Euacuation An emptying Euade To escape to get away Euangelicall Of or belonging to the Gospell commaunded in the Gospell Euangelist A bringer of good tydings wherefore Saint Mathew Saint Mark S. Luke and S. Iohn are called Euangelists because they first in writing published the ioyfull History of our Redemption by the Sonne of God Euaporate To consume away in vapour Euaporation A vapor or smoake passing from any thing Euasion An escape a starting hole to get out Eucharist It properly signifieth a giuing of thanks In Ecclesiasticall writings it is often taken for the B. Sacrament of the body blood of Christ Euecke A kind of wilde beast like a Goate Euent The end or successe of a matter Euert To ouerthrow Euersion An ouerthrowing Euiction An ouerthrow in Law Euitable Which may be auoided Eunuche A gelded man Euphorbium A gum or te are of a strange plant growing on the mount Atlas in Lybia It is yellowish cleere and brittle It may be vsed in oyntments against palsies cramps and shrinking of sinewes but to be taken inwardly is very dangerous vnlesse the malice thereof be wel corrected for it scaldeth and is exceeding hot neere the fourth degree Europe One of the three parts of the world lying toward the West In it are contained England Spain France Germany Italie all Greece Crete or Candy beside many other kingdoms great countries and Ilands Some affirme it to be caled Europe of Europa King Agenors daughter whom Iupiter as Poets seine in likenesse of a Bull carried ouer sea into the Iland Candy Exact To demaund with great earnestnesse or with constraint also it signifieth perfect and accomplished Exaction A pilling or taking vp of mony by constraint Exaggerate To increase or amplifie a matter properly with words to make a thing more than it is Exaggeration An increasing or amplyfying by words Exanimate To amaze Exanimation An amazement Exasperate To anger or prouoke one greatly to anger Exasperation A prouoking or stirring one to anger Excesse Which exceedeth or is too much Excite To stirre vp Exclamation A crying out Exclude To shut out Exclusion A shutting out Excogitate To deuise Excommunicate To cast out of the communion of the Church Excommunication A casting out of the Church Excrement Any thing which naturally growing or being in the body may bee taken away without harme to the body Excression A growing out a swelling or bunch Excruciate To torment Excursion A running out a light skirmish Excerable Wicked worthy to be detested Execration A cursing Exemplarie Of or belonging to an example Exemplifie To declare a matter at large to alledge examples Exempt Free or priuiledged from any payment or seruice Exemption A freedome or a priuiledge from any businesse Exequies Funeral solemnities in honour of the dead Exhale To cast or send forth a breath or fume Exhalation A fumie smoake hot and dry drawne out of the earth by the heate of the Sunne which being inflamed is the materiall cause of diuers fierie impressions in the ayre Exhaust To consume spend or waste Exhibite To present offer or giue Exhilarate To make merry to comfort Exhortatorie Which exhorteth or perswadeth to doe a thing Exiccate To dry to make dry Exigent A straight a hard pinch Exile Banishment Exinanite To make emptie to spoile weaken or make of no force Exodus A going forth The second Booke of Moyses is so called because it teacheth of the manner how the children of Israel went out of Egypt Exonerate To vnburden to acquite or discharge Exorable Which may be intreated Exorbitant That which goeth out of due proportion or the right way Exorcize To adiure to binde by oath to charge one vpon conscience or greeuous penaltie to speak truly or doe any thing required Exorcisme An adiuring or binding by oath Exordium The first entrance of a sermon oration or such like speech Expect To looke for before it come Expectation A looking for a longing Expedite Quick readie Expeditate To cut off the balles or as some say certaine clawes of great dogs feete which are kept neere a forest that they may not harme the Kings Deere The dogs so cut are said to be expeditated Expedition Quicke dispatch speede sometime a setting forth vnto warre a voiage Expell To thrust out to driue away Experiment An experience proofe or triall Expert Cunning skilfull Expiable Which may be purged or satisfied for Expiate To pacifie to appease to recompence Expiation Pacifying appeasing by sacrifice Expire To dye end perish or decay Expiration A dying a breathing out an end Explane To make plain to declare plainely Explanation A making plaine a declaring Explicate To vnfolde open or to declare at large Explication An vnfolding or opening Explode To driue out with clapping the hands Explosion A driuing away Expose To set forth to set to view to put abroad in hazard Exposition An interpretation or expounding Expositour An expounder or interpreter Expostulate To reason angerly with one to chide or complaine as finding himselfe grieued Expostulation An angry reasoning or complaint Expression A wringing or squeasing out Exprobrate To vpbraid to cast in ones teeth Exprobration An vpbraiding Expugne To conquer to win by assault Expugnation A conquest a winning by fight Expulse To thrust out Expulsion A thrusting out a driuing away Exquisite Excellent curious Extant That which standeth abroad or in sight which may be found Extempore Out of hand presently without studie Extend To stretch forth to shew at length Extension A stretching out Extenuate To diminish to make by words a thing seeme lesse than it is Extenuation A diminishing Exterior Outward Exterminate To banish to driue away Extermination A destroying or rooting out Externe Forren outlandish strange outward Externall Outward strange Extinguish To quench to put out Extinct Quenched dead put out Extirpe To destroy To roote out Extirpate To root vp to destroy Extirpation A rooting vp Extort To wrest away to take by force Extortion Wrong done by any officer in taking greater fees or rewards for executing his office than the lawes will allow him Extortioner He that committeth extortion Extract To draw forth Extraction A drawing out Extrauagant Wandering disordered when there are many needelesse matters or wordes brought in beside the
AN ENGLISH EXPOSITOR TEACHING THE INTERpretation of the hardest words vsed in our Language WITH SVNDRY EXPLICATIons Descriptions and Discourses By I. B. Doctor of Physicke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT 1616. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS HIS SINGVLRA GOOD LADIE THE LADIE IANE Vicountesse Mountague all honour and happinesse BEing perswaded Right Noble Ladie by some friends for publike benefit to make this Collection of words common which at first was intended onely for priuate vse as written in my youth at the request of a worthy Gentleman one whose loue preuailed much with me I could not finde in heart to send it forth no better furnished than with a bare Title lest like an vnknowne Infant it should be exposed to ouer hard vsage or peraduenture scornefully reiected aduenturing abroad without countenance of any friend or commaunder Vpon sure knowledge therefore of your most honourable disposition and former experience of your Ladyships fauour toward me I am emboldned to present this little Pamphlet vnto your Honour with hope that by your Patronage it shall not onely bee protected from iniuries but also finde fauourable entertainment and perhaps gracefully admitted among greatest Ladies and studious Gentlewomen to whose reading I am made beleeue it will not prooue altogether vngratefull And although I may well be taxed of folly or presumption that for credit of a slender trifle craue the assistance of so eminent a Person yet such I confesse is my care thereof since I must not deny it for my owne and my duty and deuotion so affected to your Honour and all yours that I haue hoping of your Ladishps pardon wilfullie repelled al reasons which might disswade me choosing herein not so much what may seem most seemly as what I suppose most behoouefull for me Accept therefore I beseech your Honour and receiue vnder your noble tuition this little vocabulary Treatise which hauing beene many yeares restrained of libertie is now glad of enlargement especially recommended vnto so worthy a Patronesse The glorious Sun loseth not the least point of his heighth by liliberall lending downe his light and quickening with his influence the lowest creatures neither is any eminency disgraced that easily condescendeth to others desired good which is also confirmed by the Poet who saieth Conspicitur nunquam meliore potentia causa Quà m quoties vanas non sinit esse preces Not thinking needfull therefore to trouble your Honour with many words of entreatie vpon assured confidence of your wel known Charitie and goodnesse I conclude sincerely wishing to your Ladiship the best that may be wished and resting my selfe euer Your Honours to be commaunded IO. BVLLOKAR To the Courteous Reader HEre haue you Gentle Reader that which at first was not made for you though now willingly for your benefite if you embrace it offered to your kind acceptance Commend it my selfe I will not lest I should giue occasion to some quick heads to come vpon me with the verse Autor opus land at c. Yet this I will say and say truely that in my yonger yeares it hath cost mee some obseruation reading study and charge which you may easily beleeue considering the great store of strange words our speech doth borrow not only from the Latine and Greeke and som from the ancient Hebrew but also from forraine vulgar Languages round about vs beside sundry olde words now growne out of vse and diuers termes of art proper to the learned in Logicke Philosâ—phy Law Physicke Astronomie c. yea and Diuinitie it selfe best knowen to the seuerall professors thereof And herein I hope such learned will deeme no wrong offered to themselues or dishonour to Learning in that I open the signification of such words to the capacitie of the ignorant whereby they may conceiue and vse them as well as those which haue bestowed lonâ— study in the languages for considering it is familiar among best writers to vsurpe strange words and sometime necessary by reason our speech is not sufficiently furnished with apt termes to expresse all meanings I suppose withall their desire is that they should also be vnderstood which I knowing that bonum quò communius eo melius haue endeauoured by this Booke though not exquisitely yet I trust in some reasonable measure to performe It is easier all know to find faults then to mende them and easier to mend faults in anothers worke already written then to write any new worke free from all fault If therefore any fault finder or ouer curious Criticke for from the best learned I expect best vsage shall to shew his skill grow captious and quarrell at my interpretations I will desire him to forbeare bitternesse and temper a while his choler till hauing laide this worke aside hee trauell himselfe in the same or some other new argument and then I doubt not but he will either become more indifferent or giue others occasion to bid him English the olde Prouerbe Medice cura teipsum But as for you iudiciall or courteous Reader whose fauour I desire and whose counsell or friendly correction I will not refuse if to you I say any thing herein shall occurre which seemeth by me omitted mistaken or not fully satisfactory to your expectation for indeed there are almost slipt away seuen yeeres since I had any leasure as much as to looke on it I promise that vpon warning hereof giuen to me or the Printer at a second Impression it shall be amended or supplyed Meanewhile vse this as you finde it and I perswade my selfe your honesty will say it is worth the money you paide for it So committing my selfe and Booke to your fauorable good liking I commit you to God From my house at Chicester in Sussex this 17. day of October 1616. Your hearty well willer Io Bullokar An Instruction to the Reader HAue care to search euery word according to the true Orthography thereof as for Phoenix in the Letter P. not in F. for Hypostaticall in Hy not in Hi. Remember also that euery word marked with this marke * is an olde word onely vsed of some ancient writers and now growne out of vse Lastly if a word bee of different significations the one easie the other more difficult I onely speake of interpretation of the hardest as in the words Tenne Girle Garter may appeare ABandon To forsake to cast off Abate To make lesse In our common Law it signifieth to enter into any inheritance before the right heire take possession with intent to keepe the said heire out of it Abatement The action or enterprise of him which abateth in the common Lawe Abba An Hebrewe word signifying Father Abbett To helpe or assist one in euill Abbettour Hee that counselleth or comforteth another to doe any euill Abbot A spirituall Lord ouer a religious house of Monkes Abbreuiate To make short to abridge Abbreuiation A making short an abridgement Abdicate To refuse or forsake to renounce
counterfeit Aduocate He that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which a man his heires haue to present a Clerke to the Ordinary to be admitted to a spirituall benefice when it becommeth voide Adust Burnt scorched Adustion A burning Aedile An officer among the ancient Romanes who had charge to see that Temples priuate houses and highwaies were kept in good reparation Aegipan A Poeticall word signifying a monster hauing the body of a man and legs like a Goat Aerie A nest of Haukes is so called Aeriall Ayrie or of the aire Affability Courtesie in speech gentlenesse kindnesse Affable Courteous or kinde in speech Affect To loue sometime to moue affection Affectation Too much curiosity an extreme labouring without discretion to imitate another or doe any thing well Affiance Trust confidence Affianced Betrothed Affinitie Kindred by marriage sometime likenesse or agreement Affirmatiue Which affirmeth Affluence Plenty aboundance Affront To come boldly before one to looke boldly in ones face Africa One of three parts of the world lying toward the South herein is Barbary and all Ethiope contained The people of these countries liued in times past very vnciuilly feeding much vpon serpents flesh It is called Africa of the Greeke worke Phrice which signifieth Colde and the particle A. which in that language being placed before a word changeth the sense thereof so that Africa signifieth a country hotte or without cold Agarick A kind of mushrome or tadstoole of great account in Physicke It groweth vpon the Larch tree in Italy and is white light brittle and spongeous It expelleth cold fleame and grosse raw humours out of the body opening obstructions of the Liuer and by this meanes amendeth an euill colour Agast Amazed with feare dismaide Agent A dooer or medler in a matter Aggrauate To make any thing in words more grieuous heauier or worse then it is Agilitie Nimblenesse Agitation A shaking iogging or mouing Agnition Knowledge acknowledgement Agnize To acknowledge Agnus castus See Abrahams baume before Agony A torment of body and mind great feare and trembling Agriculture Tillage of land husbandry Alabaster A kinde of marble white and very cleare which by reason of the naturall coldnes therof doth preserue things long from corruption and therefore they vsed to make boxes of it to keepe sweete ointments and toombes to bury Princes and great Personages in Alacritie Cheerefulnesse courage quickenesse Alchymie The art of melting or dissoluing the nature of mettals by separating the pure from the impure parts thereof Alchymist Hee that is skilfull in Alchymie Alcion A small bird that maketh her nest in the sea and then it is a signe of faire weather some call it a kings fisher Alcoran A booke wherin Mahomets law and religion is written * Alderan A starre in the necke of the signe Leo. Algate Notwithstanding if so be seeing that Alien A stranger borne an outlandish man Alienate To estrange and withdraw the minde sometime to sell Alienation An estranging a selling away Aliment Nourishment Alkakengi Otherwise called winter cherries An herb which beareth round berries and red that are good against the stoppings of the Liuer the stone and grauell and diuers diseases of the kidneyes and bladder Allay To qualifie or abate the strength or violence of any thing It is also a terme of hunting when they set hounds in a readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe and cast them off when the rest of the Kennell comes in Allegation A telling of some proofe or reason of a matter Allegiance Obedience of a subject to his Prince Allegorie A sentence consisting of diuers tropes which must be vnderstood otherwise then the litterall interpretation sheweth as when Saint Iohn Baptist speaking of our Sauiour Matth. 3 said Whose fanne is in his hand and he shall make cleane his floore and gather the wheat into his barne but the chaffe he shall burne with vnquenchable fire The meaning whereof is that Christ being supreme Iudge of all shall separate the good from the euill rewarding the one in heauen and punishing the other in hell fire Allegoricall Of or belonging to an allegorie spoken by an allegorie Alleluia An Hebrew word or rather two Hebrewe words ioyned in one vsed as a signe of exultation and is interpreted Prayse ye our Lord. Paulus Diaconus writeth that when the Britaine 's were inuaded by the Saxons and Picts and on a time ready to fight a battell against them they were admonished by Germanus a French Bishop who was sent hither with Saint Lupus to confute the Pelagian heresie that they should doe as he did and forthwith he cryed aloude Alleluia which when the whole armie of Britaines had done the sound thereof strooke such a terrour into the enemies that they presently fledde away whereby the Britaines had the victory De gestis Rom. lib. 15. Allie Of kinne to one by marriage Alliance Kindred and affinitie league or friendship Allot To appoint or giue by lotte Allude To speake any thing which hath resemblance or priuilie is directed to touch another matter Allusion A likening or priuy resembling of one matter to another See Allude * Alnath A starre in the hornes of the signe Aries Aloes or Lignum Aloes A precious wood vsed in Phisicke which comforteth the heart and openeth obstructions It is knotty browne of colour and bitter in taste Being burned it fometh and yieldeth a sweete perfume Some affirme it to grow vppon mountaines in the East neere the rising of the famous Riuer Nilus from which mountaines falling downe it is carried by the streame into India where being taken vp in nets it is cleansed and made apt for physicke Aloesuccotrina The iuyce of an herbe brought hither dry out of India the best whereof is cleere cleane and red like to the colour of a lyuer It is very bitter but an excellent medicine to purge cholericke humours out of the stomack yet not good to bee taken inwardly of such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoides Alpha. The first letter of the Greekes wherefore it is sometime taken for the first or cheef in any thing Alphabet The crosserow of letters the A B C. Alphabeticall Belonging to the Alphabet Alps. High mountaines between France and Lombardie the rockes whereof Hannibal the great Captaine of the Carthaginians softened in diuers places with fire and vineger to cut out a way for his army to passe into Italy Altercation An angrie reasoning or wrangling in words Alternall Done by turne or course one after another Altitude Highth Amate To dismay to make afraid Amazon A woman of the Country Amazonica Amazones were warlike women of Scythia which kept a Countrey to themselues without men yet to haue children companied with the bordering people Their Sonnes they eyther destroyed or sent home to the father but their daughters they kept bringing them vp in hunting ryding shooting and feates of armes They burned the right breast of their children lest it should hinder their archerie wherefore they had the name Amazons which in Greeke
Apoplexie A very dangerous disease wherin a man lyeth without sense or motion as if hee were dead with his eyes close and great difficulty in fetching his breath It commeth for the most part of colde and grosse flegmaticke humors oppressing the brain in such sort that the animall spirits cannot passe from thence into the sinnewes as they were wont Apostasie A reuolting or falling away from true religion Apostata He that reuolteth or falleth from true religion Iulianus one of the olde Emperours was most infamous for this crime Apostaticall Of or belonging to an Apostata Apostle One sent in message an Embassadour Apostolicall Of or belonging to an Apostle Apozeme A drinke made with water and diuers spices and herbs vsed insteed of sirupes Appall To make afraid Apparant Cleare manifest certaine Appariter A sumner he that attacheth or summoneth one to appeare at a Court. Apparition An appearing or vision Appeach To accuse disclose or bewray Appeale A terme in law when a malefactour accuseth or discloseth those that were his confederates in the same offence or any other Also when the defendant refuseth a Iudge and desireth to haue his cause tryed by a superiour power he is said then to appeale as Saint Paul appealed from Feslus to Caesar the Emperour Appellant He which appealeth Appellation A naming or calling Appendix That which dependeth or hangeth vpon another thing Appertenances That which appertaineth or belongeth to an other thing Applaude To shew loue or liking to a thing by clapping the hands or other signe of reioycing Applause A reioycing or clapping the hands for ioy Application An applying of one thing to another Apposition A putting of one thing to another Approbate To like to allowe Approbation An allowance or liking Appropriate To challenge to ones selfe to keepe to himselfe alone Appropriation A terme vsed when any body corporate or priuate man hath the right vnto a parsonage in themselues and may receiue the profite thereof by maintaining a Vicar to serue in the place Arbiter A iudge in a controuersie chosen indifferent for both parties Arbiterment An agreement made betweene parties by an indifferent man to them both Arbitrary Belonging to arbiterment Arbitrate To iudge to make an agreement Arbitratour See Arbiter * Arblaster A Crosse-bow Architect A chiefe workman Architecture The art or Science of building and comely cōtriuing a house It is written that this Science did beginne in Caine because hee was the first that euer built a city which hee called by his sonnes name Enoch as appeareth Gen. 4. Ardent Burning hot vehement Ardour Heat earnestnes Argent Siluer or siluer colour sometime white Argonautes The Worthies that went into Colchos to fetch the golden Fleece so called of the shippe Argo in which they sailed The chiefe of them were Iason Typhis Castor Pollux Hercules and Thescus Ariditie Drinesse Ariopagite A Lawyer or chiefe Iudge in Capitall matters in the Citie of Athens so called of a certaine street in that citie dedicated to Mars in which those Iudges were wont to sit They were so seuere in their iudgements that they satte to heare and determine matters in the night time to the end they would not behold the parties which were to be iudged but onely heare what could be obiected and answered Saint Dionisius conuerted to the Christian faith by Saint Paul was one of those iudges Aristocratie A kinde of gouernment where the noble men or cheefe persons beare all the sway Aristocraticall Of or belonging to Aristocratie Arithmetike The art of numbring It is written that Abraham first taught this art to the Egyptians and that afterward Pythagoras did much increase it Arke In holy scripture it signifieth two things 1. The Arke made by Noe at the commandement of God which was 300. cubits long 50. cubits broad and 30. high Gen. 6. Secondly it signifieth a most precious and consecrated cofer or chest called the Arke of testament made of the wood Sethim and plated within and without all ouer with gold It had fowre corners and in each corner a golden ring thorough which were putte barres of the same wood Sethim couered likewise with gold which serued for the carriage thereof This Arke was two cubits and a halfe long one cubit and a halfe broad and one cubit a half deepe Exod. 25. In it was kept part of the Manna in a pot of gold also the two Tables of the Law and Aarons rod that had budded Heb. 9. Armadilio A beast in India of the bignesse of a young pigge couered ouer with small shels like vnto armour for which cause he is called Armadilio to wit an armed beast This beast liueth in the ground like a mole and the bone of his taile hath vertue to cure diseases and noise in the head Armipotent Mightie strong Aromaticall Sweete of sauour smelling like spice Arrerages Mony or rent behind not yet paid Arrian An heretike of the sect of Arrius bishop of Alexandria who deuised a blasphemous doctrine against the diuinitie of our Sauiour Arride To please well to content with delight Arrogancie Pride loftines Arrogant Proud boasting Arrogate To chalenge proudly more honour or praise than is due Arterie A veine with two coates or a hollow sinew in which the spirits of life doe passe through the body These kind of veines proceed all from the heart where the vitall spirits are made and are those which pant or beate called commonly the pulses Articulate To set downe articles or conditions of agreement Artificiall Cunning wel contriued skilfull Articke pole The North pole of the world Artillerie Great ordnance for the wars Artisan A handy crafts man Artist He that is skilfull many art Asa foetidae A dried gum or liquor brought out of Media and Syria of a strong lothsome sauour and is sometime applyed outwardly to the body Ascance Sidewaies or looking on one side Ascribe To impute apply or account Asia One of the three parts of the world bounding toward the East in which is Pontus Bithynia Phrygia Paphlagonia Cappadocia Armenia Cyprus Syria Palestine or the holy land Arabia Mesopotamia so called because it is in the midst betweene the two great riuers Tigris and Euphrates Assyria Media Persia and diuers other countries Aspe A venemous Serpent of a blacke earthie colour and sometime yellow The superstitious Egyptians did honour them and their Kings vsed to weare the figure of an Aspe in their Diadems They go alwaies two and two together and if it happen that one of them be killed the other will presently pursue him that slue his fellow in such sort that he shal hardly escape vnlesse he make great hast or passe ouer a riuer If one be bitten by this Serpent the best remedy is presently to cut off the member so bitten if it be possible otherwise he shall fall into a deadly sleep within few houres goe away as it were in a trance Cleopatra Queene of Egypt after the death of Marcus Antonius whom she loued as her Husband flue her selfe
Calefaction A making warme Callette A lewd woman Callidditie Subtiltiy craftines Calthrope An instrument vsed sometime in Warre It is a little thing made with foure prickes of yron of such a fashion that which way soeuer it be throwen one point will alwayes sticke vp like a naile to spoile the enemies horsefeete Caligraphie Faire writing Calumniate To slaunder to belie one shamefully Calumniation Slaunderous lying * Camoyse Crooked vpward as commonly the noses of blacke Moores bee Camphire A kinde of Gumme as Auicen writeth But Platearius affirmeth it to be the iuice of an herbe It is white of colour and cold and dry in operation Cancel To deface cut or blot out * Canceline Chamlet Canicular See dogge-dayes Canker A hard swelling in the veines being ouercharged with hot melancholy humors It is called a Canker because the veines so swollen are like vnto the clawes of a Crab. This disease may happen in any part of the body but most commonly in womens breasts by reason of their spongie hollownesse and great number of veines there meeting If it continue long it is very hard to cure because gentle medicines will doe no good and strong doe increase the raging malice of it Canniball A barbarous sauage person one that eateth mans flesh Canon A Greeke word properly signifying a rule or line to make any thing straight or to trie the straightnesse of it Hereof Lawes or decrees for Church gouernement are called Canons And certaine times of prayer vsed by Churchmen were called Canonicall houres of prayer Canonicall Approoued by common or exact rule Canonier He that shooteth in great Ordinance Canonize To declare and pronounce one for a Saint Canonization The solemnitie of Canonizing or pronouncing one to be a Saint Cantharides Certaine Flies shining like golde breeding in the toppes of Ashe and Oliue trees beyond Sea They are sometime vsed by Physitiōs to raise blisters in the body but their heades wings and feete must bee cast away The iuice of them is poisonous Cape A corner of land shooting out into the Sea Capabilitie An aptnesse to containe or receiue Capable Which can containe or hold a thing Capacitie Aptnesse to receiue and hold Capers A prickly plant almost like to brambles growing in Spaine Italy and other hot countries The roote hereof is much vsed in Phisicke against obstructions of the spleen or milte The flowers and leaues are brought hither from Spaine preserued in brine and are commonly eaten with Mutton They stirre vp the appetite warme the stomacke and open the stoppings of the liuer and milt Capitall Chiefe principall sometime deadly abhominable Capite A tenure when a man holdeth lands immediately of the king as of his crowne Capitole An ancient palace in Rome so called Capitulate To draw or bring into Chapters Capriole Leaping of a horse aboue ground called by horsemen the Goates leape Capstand An instrument to wind vp things of great weight some call it a Crane Captious Short quicke quarrelsome in demaunds Captiuate To take prisoner Captiuitie Bondage imprisonment Caranna A Gumme brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against aches proceeding of cold causes Carbonado A rasher vpon the coales Carbuncle It hath two significations namely a precious stone and a dangerous sore 1. Carbuncle stone is bright of the colour of fire It hath many vertues but chiefely preuaileth against the danger of infectious aire The best of these stones will shine in darkenesse like a burning coale as Albertus writeth himselfe hath seene Others shine but a little and are lesse esteemed but such as shine not at all are scarce of any reckoning these stones are found in some countreyes of Africa 2. Carbuncle disease is a botch or vlcer otherwise called by a Greeke name Anthrax caused of grosse hot blood which raiseth blisters and burneth the skinne This vlcer is euer accompanied with a Feuer Cardones An herbe in India of vertue to heale sores Carlo Sancto A roote growing in the West Indies of a pleasant smell and bitter taste the rynde whereof beeing chewed draweth downe fleame and humours from the head and being drunken in powder is good against diuers inward diseases Carcanet A small chaine Cardinall Chiefe principall Carnall Fleshly Carnalitie Fleshlinesse Carol. A song sometime a dance Carpe To checke taunt or rebuke Carreere A short swift race with a horse as at Iusts Tournaments Carrike A great shippe of burden Casana India bread Casia It is commonly taken for Cinnamome Poets vnderstand often by it some sweete smelling herbe as Virg. Eclog. 2. Tum Casia atque alijs intexens suauibus herbis Also Ouid. Quo simul ac Casias nardi lenis aristas Quassaque cum fulua substr auit Cinnama myrrha Lactantius also De Phoenice Cinnama dehine auramque procul spirantis amomi Congerit mixto balsama cum folio Non Casiae mitis nec olentis vimen acanthi Nec thuris Lachrymae guttaque pinguis abest Where wee see that Casia and Cinnamome signifie two things Some thinke it to be Lauender for mine owne part I know not certainely what English name or interpretation to giue it Cassia fistula A fruite growing in Arabia and Syria which is round blacke and long almost as ones arme of the bignesse of a Thumbe The outside hereof is hard within it is contained the seede and a blacke substance soft and sweete which is much vsed in Physicke as a gentle purger of the inwarde partes Cassia lignea A sweete wood much like Cinnamome and of the nature of Cinnamome Castigate To chastise to correct Castigation A chasticing a correction Castleward A payment made by some dwelling within a certaine compasse of a Castle for the maintenance of those that do watch and ward the Castle Also the circuite of land which oweth this seruice Castoreum See Beuer. Casuall That which happeneth by chaunce doubtfull vncertaine Casualtie Chance fortune hap-hazard Catadupa A place in Ethiopia so called where the great riuer Nilus falleth from high Mountanous rockes with such violence that the continuall noise thereof maketh the people there dwelling to become deafe Catalogue A roll a bill a register of names or other things Cataplasma It signifieth properly a medicine which is made of diuers herbes either bruised or boyled in water and so applied outwardly to the body If there be oyle added it is not then called a Cataplasme but an Emplaister Cataract A destillation of humours out of the eyes Catarrhe A destillation of waterish humors out of the head into the mouth and throate caused by a cold and sometime hotte distemperature of the braine Catastrophe The conclusion or end of Comedie a sudden alteration Catechumen A nouice or one newly instructed in matters of faith by word of mouth Categorie In the Greeke tongue it properly signifieth an accusation It is also a terme vsed in Logike which shall after be explicated in the word Predicament Categoricall axiome A simple axiome or proposition not compounded of any coniunction as Peter is a man Cathedrall Of
or belonging to a Bishops Chaire Catholike A Greeke word signifying vniuersall or generall Catoblepa A strange beast that killâ—th a man onely with the sight of it some thinke it to bee the Basiliske or Cockatrise Cauearce A strange meate like blacke sope made as is said of the Roe of a Sturgeon Caueat A warning an admonition to take heede Cauerne A hole or Caue in the earth Cauille To mocke or flout in words to reason ouerthwartly Cauitie Hollownesse Causticke A medicine that burneth and is vsed when a disease cannot otherwise be mastered Cautele A taking heed Cautelous Warie circumspect Cauterize To burne to seare Caution A warning or watchword giuen to take heed sometime a great heedfulnesse or warie cariage in a thing Cedar A tall great tree which groweth in Africa and Syria straight vpright like the Firre tree The leaues are smal and thicke of a sweete smell This Tree hath fruit on it all times of the yeere which fruite is like that of the Pine and Firre Tree but greater and harder Celebrate To speake or write very honourablie in praise of any thing also to rehearse often and sometime to keepe a festiual day or other time with great solemnity Celebration The solemnization of a feast Celebritie Great resort to a place famousnesse Celeritie Swiftnes speed Celestiall Heauenly Celsitude Highnesse Cement Morter Lime Censer A vessell to burne Frankincense in Censor A graue Officer hauing authority to controlle and correct maners Censorean Belonging to a Censor Censure A iudgement an opinion Centaures People of Thessalie which because they first rid on horses were supposed to be halfe men and half horses Poets feine they were begotten by Ixion vpon a cloud made in the likenes of Iuno They warred on the Lapithes and were ouercome by Hercules Center The point in the midst of a round circle or the inward middle part of a globe VVherefore the earth is called the Center of the world because it is in the midst thereof Centurion A Captaine ouer a hundred footmen Certes Surely certainelie Certificate A writing which testifieth the certainty of a thing Cerusse VVhite Lead oftentimes vsed by Surgeons in oyntments playsters Some women make painting therewith Ceterach Otherwise called Fingerferne An herbe which hath neither stalke flower nor seed It is much vsed in Phisick against the blacke Iaundise quartaine agues and stopping of the spleene Chalons Blankets Couerings Chameleon A little beast like a Lizard hauing a rough scaly skin straight legs sharpe clawes a slow pace like a Torteyes and a long wreathed taile Hee changeth himselfe quickly into any colour that he sitteth vpon except white red wherefore men that are inconstant and fickle are sometime called Chameleons This beast as is saide is nourished onely with aire Chamfering A smal gutter or furrow made by art vpon some pillars of stone or timber Champertie See Champertours Champertours Those that stirre others to go to law beare the charges thereof themselues to the end they may haue part of the land or other thing in variance Chancellour A chiefe officer in a spirituall Court Also the Lord or cheefe Iudge in the Chancerie Chancerie The Court of equity good conscience Chantor A singer Chaos A great confused and disorderly heape out of which Poets imagined all thing to be made Chaplet An attire for the head made of Gold Pearle or other costly or curious stuffe vsed to bee fastned behinde in manner of a foulded rolle or garland Character The forme of a letter A marke signe or stamp made in any thing Characterie A writing by Characters or by strange markes Charles Wayne Certaine Starres winding about the North pole of the world in fashion like foure wheeles and horses drawing it Poets feine that Calisto King Lycaons daughter hauing had a childe by Iupiter was by Iuno in despight turned into a Beare and that Iupiter changing Calisto afterward into this figure of Starres for that cause in Greeke it is called Arctos which signifieth a Beare Charnell house A place to lay sculles and bones of dead men in Chart. A writing a written deed Charter A writing wherby the King makes a grant to any person or persons of any liberty priuiledge pardon or other thing Also writings betweene priuate men are somtime so called Chattell A Law tearme wherof there be two kinds namely Chattels reall and Chattels personall Chattels reall are beasts or wards Chattels personall are all moueable goods as money plate cattell c. Chaunter A singer Cheate To cousin to deceiue Cheating Cousenage Cherubin One of the highest Order of Angels See Hierarchie Cheeftaine A Captaine Cheeke varnish Painting vsed by some women Cheuisance Merchandise bargaining China A hard knotty roote brought out of the East Indies of a reddish colour It is very comfortable to nature and vsed often in restoratiues and dyet drinkes Chiromancie See Diuination Chiualrie Knighthood the knowledge of a Knight or Nobleman in feats of armes Chiuancie Chiualrie riding Chrisme A Greeke word signifying an Oyntment Sometime it is taken for a white linnen cloth wrapped about an infant after it is newlie christened Chrismatorie A vessell to cary oyle in Christ. The surname of our Sauiour signifying annointed Chronologer One skilfull in Chronicles Chronologie The knowledge of old Stories Chrysocoll A kinde of minerall found like Sand in the veines of some mettalles Chrysolite A stone of the colour of Gold which shineth brightest in the morning and receiueth harm if it be held too nere the fire Chymera A strange monster hauing the head and breast like a Lyon the belly like a Goate the tayle like a Dragon Chymicall Of or belonging to a Chymist Chymist A Physition following the method of Paracelsus Cimball An old musicall instrument made in some places of two or mo plates of brasse which with beating together made a ringing noyse Cimisse A noysome little worme flat and red which raiseth wheals where it biteth If it bee broken it yieldeth a stinking smell Cinoper A soft red stone found in mines otherwise cald Vermilion The Paynims did vse to paint their Idols therwith and themselues in publike feasts and solemnitiss as wee reade that Camillus when he tryumphed in Rome was painted with this Vermilion So Virgill speaking in his tenth Eclog of the shepheards God Pan saith that he was seene Sanguineis ebuli baccis minioque rubentem With bloody Walwort berries staynd and with Vermilion red Coique Ports Fiue hauen townes in our Countrey which haue many liberties They are Hasting Romnie Hethe Douer and Sandwich Circular That which is round in compasse Circumcise To cut off the foreskin of a mans priuy parts which was a religious ceremony among all the Hebrewes after Abraham to whom God first commanded it Circumcision A cutting off of the foreskinne See Circumcise Circumference The outer part of any round circle The ring or round compasse of a wheele Circumlocution A long circumstance a speaking of many words where few may suffice Circumscribe To coÌ„passe round
Geomancie is a kinde of diuination practised by making prickes and lines in the earth as the name in Greeke signifieth So Hydromancie is a diuination made by some apparition in water as Varro writeth that a Boy saw in water one bearing the forme of Mercurie who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses the euent of the warre which the Romans had with King Mithridates Pyromancie is a diuination made by the fire or spirits appearing in the fire Coscinomancie is a ridiculous kinde of diuination made with a sieue which at this day is vsed by some simple women and appeareth to bee of antiquitie for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is mention made hereof Palmistrie or Chiromancie is a diuination practised by looking vpon the lines of the fingers and hands an art still in vse among fortune tellers Egyptians and iuglers Besides these there were also other diuinations as namely Acromancie that which is gathered by apparitions in the aire Capnomancie by the flying of smoake Catoptromancie by visions shewne in a glasse All which beeing euen by the Pagans themselues accounted deceitfull and vaine it remaineth that of Christians they be vtterly reiected and abhorred Diuorce A separation of man and wife which was as our Sauiour witnesseth first permitted by Moses vnto the Israelites for the hardnesse of their hearts that men might rather put their wiues away whome they grew wearie of than vse them with too great extremitie to shorten their liues as many did The woman so diuorced was to haue of her husband a writing as Iosephus witnesseth to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claime to thee And this writing was called a bil of diuorce But with Christians this custome is abrogated sauing onely in case of adulterie The auncient Romanes also had a custome of diuorce and amongst them it was as lawfull for the wiues to put away their husbands as for the husband to dismisse his wife but amongst the Israelites this prerogatiue was onely permitted to the husband Diureticall That which is of vertue to cause one to make water Diumall Of or belonging to a day Also a booke wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe Diuturmitie Long continuance Diuulge To publish or tell abroad Diuulgation A telling or reporting abroad Docibilitie See docilitie Docible See docill Docill Easie to bee taught one that wil soone learne Docilitie Aptnesse quicknesse of vnderstanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certain dayes in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doeth greatly increase the heate thereof Dogmaticall Which is held or maintained in som mens opinion Dole Sorrow heauinesse griefe sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes Dolefull Heauie sorrowfull Dolorous Greeuous painefull Dolphine A fish friendlie to man and especially to children the Females of this fish haue breasts like to women which are well stored with milke They are very faithfull to one another and bring foorth yong ones like whelpes after tenne moneths and in Sommer time They sometime breake foorth of the Sea but presently die as soone as they touch land Doome A sentence pronounced a iudgement Doomesman A Iudge Domesticall One of the house or any thing belonging to the house Domesticke See Domesticall Domineere To beare rule or great sway Dominicall Belonging to sunday or our Lordes day Dominion Lordship rule Donarie A gift properly that which is hanged vp in a Church Donation A giuing Donee Hee to whom a thing is giuen or granted Donour A giuer Dormant Sleeping Dormitorie A place to sleepe in or that which hath vertue to make one sleepe Dorter A cell or chamber vsed onely for religious men to sleepe in Dowager A Widdow Princesse hauing dowrie in the countrey which was in subiection to her deceased husband Doulcets The stones of a Hart or Stag. Drachme See dram Dramme A smal weight the eight part of an ounce It conteineth in it three scruples euery scruple beeing of the weight of twentie Wheate cornes so that a dramme is the iust weight of 60. cornes of wheate Drerie Sorrowfull lamentable Dromedarie A kinde of camel hauing two bunches on the backe which is very swift and can trauell two or three daies without drinke Drone An idle Bee that will not labour Druides Ancient Pagane Priests in France which liued naked in woods giuing themselues to the study of Philosophy and auoyding all company so much as they might They were of such estimation among the people that all controuersies were referred to their determination and a great penaltie laid on such as disobeied their sentence They beleeued the immortalitie of soules but supposed with Pythagoras that they still passed by death from one body to another Dryades Nymphs of the woods so called of the Greek word Drys which signifieth an Oake Duall Of or belonging to two Dubious Doubtfull Dubitable Doubtfull Dulia Seruire a worship done to Angels and Saints Duplication A doubling Duplicitie Doublenesse Durabilitie Long continuance Dwale An hearb of cold operation hauing power to make one sleepe some call it Nightshade E EAglet A yong Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia bearing neither leaues nor fruit It is blacke and hath no graine like other wood and is sharp byting in tast Being burned it yeildeth a pleasant smell neither is the smoake thereof offensiue but the greene wood is so full of sap that it will flame like a candle It is good against many diseases of the eyes That which groweth in India is spotted with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionits Certaine olde Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the B. Virgin Against these Heretickes Saint Iohn writ his Gospel after he returned from his banishment in the I le Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrictie Drunkennesse Eccho A rebounding or sounding backe of any noyse or voyce in a wood valley or hollow place Poets feine that this Eccho was a Nymphc so called which beeing reiected of one whom she loued pyned away for sorrow in the woods where her voyce still remaineth answering the outcryes of all complaints Ecclesiasticall Of or belonging to the Church Ecclesiasticus Of or belonging to a Preacher The name of a Booke in the olde Testament is so called Eclipse A fayling or want of any thing Commonly it signifieth a want of light and there be two such Eclipses namely of the Moone and of the Sunne Eclipse of the Moone neuer happeneth but at the full Moone neither then alwaies but whē she is in such a point that the shadow of the earth depriueth her of the Sunne beames from whence she taketh her light Eclipse of the Sunne is not so vsuall and happeneth only at the change of the Moone namely when the Moone being betweene the Sunne and vs doth with her dark body hide part of her light from vs which was the cause that Dionysius Areopagita seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Sauiours
where note that if the two endes of the Enthymeme are like in speech then the Minor is wanting if the two beginnings be like the Maior is omitted as may easily appeare by the foregoing example Enueloped Wrapped Enuiron To cōpasse about Enumerate To reckon vp to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciatiue Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmeth or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in vse euery yeare to find the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yearly and is made by the addition of eleuen to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeare but alwaies so that both those numbers exceede not the number of 30. For if they amount to aboue 30. then must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeare 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleuen for the next yeares Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeare 1617. Note also when in any yeare the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeares true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleuen In al other nūbers the Epast is stil made as before by adding eleuen And these Epacts are euer changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomy in vse among such as erect figures to cast mens natiuities by which booke is shewen how all the Planets are placed euerie day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure conteining about fiue peckes of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It couered the backe was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Scarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set two great precious Onix stones and in them grauen the names of the twelue sonnes of Iacob called the twelue Patriarches in the right shoulder the sixe eldest and in the left the sixe youngest that the High Priest entering into the Sanctum Sanctorum which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom hee was to pray vnto God Epicycle A terme vsed in Astronomy It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the vpper part of this Epicycle the fiue Planets Saturne Iupiter Mars Venus and Mercurie doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to bee two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signes Epicure It is commonly taken with vs for a man giuen ouer much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to be without paine and enioy pleasure of body and minde Epigramme It properly signifieth a supersciption or writing set vpon any thing now it is commonly takē for a short wittie poeme which vnder a fained name doth couertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folk are subiect This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striuing to expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some at the mouth Epilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an enterlude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because thē the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Sauiour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set vpon a toombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantiue to expresse some qualitie of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie vnbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous vnbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgemēt or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of hart quietnesse of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing iust in the midst betweene the two poles of heauen to which line the sun coming twice a yeare namely about the xj of March and the xj of September maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra doe both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or prouision for horsemanship especially in triumphs or turnaments Equiualence The equall value of one thing with another Equiualent Of equal value to another thing Equiuocate To speak or answere with a secret meaning reserued in ones own mind which peraduenture the hearers do not vnderstand Equiuocation A speech or answere made with a secret meaning reserued in ones mind Equiuoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torn from the body Erebus Hell or a riuer in hell Erect To lift vp Erection A lifting vp Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse than a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worne onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with blacke and Ermines blacke powdred white Errant Wandring hauing no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceiued Erst. Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To bee forfeited to the King or cheefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that obserueth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as doe escheate vnto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charge to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or VVales somtime in this tenure the Tenant only payeth a yearely rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the VVest Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The being or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Iewes which liued a very strict life
purpose Extrinsecall Outward or on the outside Exulcerate To raise blisters or sores Exulceration A rising of blisters or sores in the odie Exulte To reioyce greatly to triumph ouer one Exultation A greate reioycing F Fabricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easines Faction A sect or diuision into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome vnquiet Factor He that buieth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his buisinesse Faculty Power ability a trade or course of life a priuiledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priuiledge he could not doe Facundite Eloquencie Fage A fable Falding A kind of course cloth Fallacie Deceit in words Falsitie To counterfeit or make false Falsification A counterfeiting or making false Falsitie Falsehood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping vlcer growing in knots and following alongst some veine Farced Stuffed full Fascinate To bewitch Fastidious Disdainfull loathing proud Fate Destinie that which must of necessitie come to passe by Gods secret appointment Fatall That which happeneth or commeth to passe by fate Faunus Poeticall gods of the woodes Fauorite One in great fauour Fealtie A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whome they hold lands which is in laying their right hand vpon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beautie Fecunditie Fruitfulnes Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicitie Happinesse Fell. A skinne sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemonth A month so called because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the does then do fawn This month beginneth about the ninth of Iune and continueth till the ninth of Iuly Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seede whereof is much vsed in phisike It is yellow being hot in the second degree and drie in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolue Feodarie An officer who is to bee present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to suruey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deede witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liuerie of seisine and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer and the partie to whome it is made the Feofee Ferie Any day of the weeke not kept holy Fers The Queene in chesse play Fertile Fruitfull yeelding much Fertilitie Fruitfulnesse Feruent Hot. Feruour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in schooles vpon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scucheon whose bredth is deuided into three euen parts Festiuall Merry ioyfull belonging to a feast Festiuitie Mirth reioycing pleasantnes merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Deere Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badger Fiction A feined deuice a lye Fidelitie Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine deuice a lye a counterfeit tale Figuratiue That which figureth or serueth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skinne within the bodie deuiding the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeares Finall Of or belonging to an end the last * Finance An end Finite which hath an end Fire-drake A fire sometime seene flying in the night like a Dragon Common people thinke it a spirit that keepeth some treasure hid but Philosophers affirme it to bee a great vnequall â—â—â—alation inflamed betweene two Cloudes the one hot the other colde which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hote Cloud being greater than the rest maketh it seeme like a bellie and both ends like vnto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers vnderstand by this word the eighth spheare next aboue the spheres of the seauen Planets in which all the fixt Starres are placed Firmitie Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hot Countries not much vnlike a small Hasell nut They are very good against the stoppings of the liuer being steeped all night in some sweete wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to vnstop the lungs and for such as are troubled with shortnesse of breath and are comfortable for the stomacke yet they nourish but little being taken as meate Fistula A dangerous vlcer or sore still running It goeth vp into the body with a long narrow hole like a pipe and is commonlie hard in the outside Fitch The furre of the Polecat Fixe To fasten Fixed Fastened Flagitious Wicked verie lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Iupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to dye he thereupon went presentlie out of his office It was not lawfull for him to abide one night out of the Citty nor yet to affirme any thing by oath for his word was held of sufficient credit The other two Flamins were the Flamine of Mars and the Flamine of Romulus called Quirinus Flankards Hunters call so two knots or nuts in the flanke of a Deere Flebotomie See Phlebotomie Flegmaticke Full of fleagme or inclining to fleagme Flexibilitie Aptnes to bend Flexible Pliant easie to bend * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coyne wherof there be two sorts one about the valew of thre shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence-farthing Fluent which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of bloud Fluxibilitie Aptnes to flow or spread abroad Fluxible Which is apt to flow or run abroad Foyling The print of a Deers foote in grasse when it cannot well be seene Foemen Enemies Fâ—â—â—es A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France the top of this furre is blacke and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foison Great plenty store â—oâ—erers Vagabonds Folio A sheete or large leafe of paper Fomentation In physick it properlie signifieth powders or drie things in bags or any liquour in a sponge or bladder applied warme to the bodie to mitigate paine or for some other purpose Footstall The lower part of a pillar whereon it standeth Foppe A Foole. Foppery Foolishnesse a vaine matter Forage Prouision for horses and cattell in the wars Forcer A cofer or little chest Forester He that hath charge to looke to a forrest or some part of it Foreloyne A tearme in hunting when a hound meeteth a chace and goeth away with it before the rest Forlorne Vtterly vndone in a desperate estate Formalitie An obseruing of good forme or order Formall That which keepeth due forme Formositie Beautie fairenesse Forestall To buy victuall or other merchandise by the way before it come to the
Clement the sixt instituted it to be kept euerie fiftith yeare And lastly Sixtus the fourth brought it to be celebrated euery fiue and twentieth yeare beginning it first in the yeare of our Lord God 1475. Iucunditie Pleasantnes mirth Iudaisme The religion or beleefe of the Iewes Iudiciall Belonging to iudgement also wise graue of great iudgement Iudicious See Iudiciall Iuiubes Certaine plumbs of Italy solde here by Apothecaries This fruite is in colour white or red in fashion round or like an oliue in tast sweete hauing a hard long stone like an oliue stone but much lesse If these plumbes bee kept long they waxe drie and full of wrinckles They are temperate in heate and colde and are good against the cough roughnes of the throate and against all exulcerations and inflammations of the kidneis and bladder but being eaten for meate they are of hard digestion Iulep A physicall cleere drinke made of distilled waters and sugar vsed to coole the bodie or quench thirst in hot diseases sometime the Iuleps haue sirupes or other mixtures put to them Iuncture A ioynt a ioyning together Iuorie The Elephants tooth it is of a binding nature and the scraping thereof is good against sores growing vnder the rootes of the nayles Iuridicall Of or appertaining to iudgement Iurisdiction Lawfull authoritie in any place Iustification A iustifying or making iust * Iwympled Muffled K Kalends See Calends Keele The bottome of a ship Keene Sharpe edged Kell The caule about the paunch of a Hart or Stagge * Kernelling A brewers vessell * Kepe It is sometimes taken for care or regard * Keynard A micher a hedge-creeper * Kitchell A kinde of cake Kintall A certaine weight of about an hundred Kirat An Arabian word signifying the weight of three graines Kith Acquaintance Kithaies The fruite of the ashen tree they are little narrow huskes hanging together in clusters wherein is contained the seede of the ashe which is bitter This prouoketh vrine and is sought by some for other purpose * Knarrie Stubbie Knight-seruice An auncient tenure of lands by which a man was bound to beare armes in warre for the defence of the Realme L LAas A nette or gynne Laborious Painefull full of labour Labyrinth An intricate building or place made with so many turnings and windings that whosoeuer went into it could neuer get out without a perfect guide or a thred to direct him the end of which threed must be tyed at the doore where he entreth Some heathen Princes bestowed infinite charge to build such deuices in a stately forme There wer◠fowre principall labyrinth in the world The first in Egypt made for a sepulcher of one of their Kings or as some write in honour of the sunne The second in the Iland of Candie built at the commandement of King Minos by the ingenious workeman Dadalus who tooke his patterne from that which he had seene in Egypt the third in the I le Lemnos the fourth in Italy built by King Porsenna of great square stones for his owne sepulcher Lacca A kinde of red gumme brought out of Arabia and solde heere by Apothecaries good against diseases of the breast and comfortable to the lyuer Laudanum A yellowish gumme as some write notwithstanding others affirm it to be made of a dew which falleth vpon a certaine herbe in Grecce Auicen sayth it is taken hanging on the haire of Goats beards that haue fed vpon that plant It is hot and drie and sweete of smeil if it be pure It is often vsed in pomanders and being annointed vpon the head with oyle of myrtles it doth strengthen the skin and keepeth haire from falling off Laike A lay man Laitie The estate or degree of a lay man lay men Lake A faire red colour vsed by painters Laire The place where any Deere harboureth by day Languishment A feeblenesse a fainting Languor Feeblenesse sicknesse infirmitie Lapidarie One that selleth or polisheth precious stones a Ieweller Lappise A terme vsed among hunters when hounds opē their mouthes in the string or a greyhound in his course Larch Turpentine A kind of Turpentine or rosen growing vpon the Larch tree in Italie vsed often in oyntments and emplaisters to cleanse or heale wounds It may be also taken inwardly with honie and then it cleanseth the breast looseth the belly and expelleth the stone and grauell * Larfon Robberie Largesse Liberality Lasciuious Wanton dishonest Lasciuiousnesse Wantonnesse Lassitude Wearinesse Lastage Any heauy weight or balasse layd in the bottome of ships to make them goe vpright It is also a terme in the common law which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and markets for carrying of things where a man will Latitude The breadth of any thing in Astronomy it signifieth the distance north or southward from the Equinoctiall line or the distance of the Pole from the Horizon Latria Diuine honour Laude Praise Laudable Worthy of praise Laureate Crowned with Laurell Laurell The Bay tree or a garland of Bayes * Laye A song * Layuers Thongs of lether Lazer A Leaper a poore man full of sores and scabs Lazule stone A blewish greene stone of the kinde of marble vsed sometime in physicke It is in operation hot and drie and being rightly prepared according to an art knowne to Apothecaries is good against melancholy diseases and by cleansing the bloud to preserue one from the leaprosic League Truce friendship peace sometimes it signifieth a space of three mile or thereabout Leasing Lying Lector A reader * Lectorise A Deske Lecture A reading a lesson * Leede An olde name of the moneth of March. Leete A court or law-day holden commonly euerie halfe yeare Legacie Any thing giuen by ones will or testament Legall Of or belonging to the law Legate An Embassadour Legend A story of olde matters Legible Which may be read Legion An armie of men The Romane Legion consisted of ten bands wherof the first band conteyned 1105. footemen and 123. horsemen in which band the Standard was alwayes carried The other nine bands had euery one 555. footemen and 66. horsemen so that a Legion made vp the number of 6100. footemen and 726. horsemen * Legisters Lawyers Legitimate Lawfull lawfully begotten Legitimation A making of one legetimate Lenitie Gentlenes mildnesse mercie Lentils A kind of small pulse growing in hot countries round and flat of colour sometimes blacke sometimes white sometimes browne Being boyled but once they loose the belly but at the second boyling in another water they are of a binding nature being then good to stop the bloody flixe or any loosenesse of the bodie Lentiske A tree growing in diuers hot Countries which beareth the notable Gumme called Masticke The leaues and barke of this tree stop al loosenesse and issues of blood whatsoeuer Lessee He that taketh a lease Lesses Dongue of a rauenous beast as of a Beare Bore c. Lessour He that letteth lands or tenements to another Lethargie A disease contrarie to phrensie for as phrensie is caused by hot
a louely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a margent to note the different discourses in a booke or long chapter wherefore such diuisions in writing are commonly called Paragraphs Paralipomenon Omitted or not spoken of There are two bookes in the old testament so called because many worthy histories omitted in the bookes of Kings are there related Parallels Lines running of an equall distance from each other which can neuer meete though they bee drawne infinitely in length thus In astronomie there are fiue such imagined lines running circlewise about the round compasse of the heauens The first is the Equinoctiall line iust in the middle of the world betweene the two Poles The second northward from the Equinoctiall is the Tropike of Cancer to which line the sunne commeth about the the twelfth day of Iune The third yet more northward is the northern circle within 23. degrees and 50. minutes of the North-pole The fourth line is the Tropike of Capricorne declining southward from the Equinoctiall as much as the Tropike of Cancer doth northward and to this line the sunne commeth about the twelfth of December The fift and last line is the southerne circle beeing as neere the South pole as the northerne circle before spoken of is to the North pole Paralogisme A deceitfull syllogisme a maner of arguing which seemeth true when it is not as in saying He that affirmeth William to be a liuing creature sayth true He that affirmeth William to be a Horse affirmeth him to be a liuing creature Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true Paramounte The chieft Lord of the fee. Paramour A Sweete-heart one dearely beloued Paraphrase A free manner of translation or interpretation wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse euery word as it lieth in the coppie but to explicate and adorne the matter more at large and to abridge some things yet still keeping the sense of the Author any such translation is called a Paraphrasticall translation Parasite A Flatterer a trencher friend One that is still hanging on some rich man and flatteringlie feedeth his humor because he would bee partaker of his good cheere Parcitie Sparingnesse niggardlinesse Parenthesis Any word or sentence thrust into an other sentence in such sort that it may be left out in speaking and yet the sense of the matter still remaine whole Such word or sentence is commonly marked with two halfe circles thus Paricide One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother Among the auncient Romans if any committed so horrible a crime he was sowed aliue in a leather bag with a Cocke an Ape and an Adder put to him and as some write a Dog so were throwne together into the riuer Tyber where the miserable Caytife must needes die a lingering death being depriued of the vse of all elements saue onely a little aire to draw his wretched life in torment the longer Paritie Equality likenesse Parley A talking together Paroxysme The sharpe assaulte or fit of an ague Parsimonie Thriftines good husbandrie Parsimonious Thriftie sparing Particularise To draw or deuide things in speaking into certaine particulars or small parcels Partisan A weapon like a Halberd Paschall Of or belonging to the feast of Easter Pasche The feast of Easter Passant Walking passing along Passible Which may suffer or feele paine Passion A suffering Pastor A shepheard Pastorall Of or belonging to a shepheard Paternall Fatherly Patheticall Passionate or that which mooueth passions in a man Patriarch A great auncestour a great Bishop or father Patrimonie Goods or lands left one by his father or some other auncestour Patrone A defender a great friend that supporteth one Patronage Defence Patronize To defend Paucitie Fewnesse Pauice A great large shield that couereth the whole bodie Pauilion A tent for war Paunage The feeding of swine in any forrest wood or other place with mast Peccaui I haue offended Pectorall Belonging to the breast or which hangeth before the breast Pecuniarie Of or belonging to money Pellican A bird that wanting food feedeth her yong ones as is said with her owne blood Pellmell Confusedly running disorderly together Penall Of or belonging to paine or punishment Pendant Hanging downward Penetrable Which may be pearsed through Penetrate To pearse thorough Penitentiall Belonging to penance or repentance Penitent He that is heartily sorrie and repenteth Penon An ensigne or banner borne in warre Pension A yearely fee or wages for some seruice done Pensiue Sad heauy Pentateuch The fiue bookes of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leuiticus Numeri and Deuteronomie Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide so called because it is fiftie daies after Easter For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fiftieth Penurie Want pouertie Penurious Poore in want Perambulation A walking Perceptible Which may be perceiued Perch A kinde of fish It signifieth also a rod or long pole vsed in measuring of land being of 16. foote a halfe in length and in some places more Percullis The name of an office of one of the Pursiuants at armes Percussion A striking Perdition Destruction Perdurable Lasting of long continuance Peregrination A trauelling into a strange land Peremptorie Resolute short quicke Perennitie Long continuance Perfidious Treacherous not to be trusted Perfidiousnesse Treacherie disloyaltie Perfunctorie Carelesly don Perigeon The neerest distance of the Planets from the earth Period The perfect end of a sentēce marked commōly with a full point thus Peripatetickes Philosophers of the sect of Aristotle so called because they walked in their readings and disputations for Peripateo in Greeke signifieth to walke Periphrasis A long speaking a speaking of one word by many Periscians People dwelling so neere either of the two Poles that their shadowes goe round about them like a wheele Periurie A forswearing Permission Sufferance leaue Permutation A changing Pernicious Deadly dangerous Peroration The conclusion of a long speech or Oration Perpendicular Directlie downe right Perpetrate To commit any vnlawfull thing Perpetuitie Euerlastingnesse Perplexitie Great doubtfulnesse intanglednesse Perquisits Profits comming to Lords of mannors by casualtie or vncertainely as escheats heriots releefes strayes forfeitures Persist To continue to the end Personate To represent the person of another Perspicuitie Cleerenesse plainnesse Perspicuous Cleere plain manifest Perswasiue Which doth or may perswade Pertinacie Stubbornnes wilfulnesse Perturbe To trouble Perturbation A trouble a great disquietnesse Peruerse Froward contrarie Peruert To corrupt or marre to turne one from good to bad Pestiferous Mortal deadly poysonous Petition A suite a demaund a request Petroll A substance strained out of the naturall Bitumen spoken of before It is for the most part white and somtime black and being once set on fire can hardly be quenched Pettie Being placed before other words it signifieth little Pettie Sergeantie A tenure of lands holden of the King by yeilding to him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like seruice Petulancie Wanton saucinesse malepart boldnesse Phantasme A vision or imagined appearance Pharisee A sect of Iewes professing more
Subscription A writing vnder Subsist To abide or continue in his owne beeing Subsistence The abiding or continuance of a thing in it owne estate Substitute To appoint an inferior officer also he that is in authoritie vnder another or which ruleth in steed of another Subterfuge A refuge a sauegard a place to hide or saue one in Subuersion An ouerthrow Subuert To ouerthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choke Suffocation A choking a strangling Suffrage Fauourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde Sulphur Brimstone Summarie A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarilie Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summitie The height or top of a thing Superabound To abound very much to be in great plentie Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie aboue others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath receiued or the doing of more then a man is of necessitie bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of euery thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluitie More then needes to bee ouermuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or vnprofitable Superlatiue The highest Superiour Higher aboue another Supernall That which commeth from aboue Superscription A writing set vpon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise hee might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour giuen to God Supplant To trip one or to ouerthrowe him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh vp what is wanting Supply To fill vp or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put vp into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of hony boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when wee will haue it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate vnder sometime to conceale or keepe close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To giue ouer leaue off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Ouerplus more then needes Surprise To come vnwares to take vpon a sodaine Surprisall A taking vnawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yielde vp lands or tenements to another Surreption A priuie taking away Surround To compasse round about Suruey To ouerlooke or ouersee Surueyer He that hath the ouersight of the kings or some great personages lands or workes Suruiue To ouerliue or liue after another Suruiuer He that liueth after another Suspend To stay one by authoritie for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse vncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A Seruant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweuen A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree hauing great branches and large leaues like a Mulberrie It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth vpon the verie bodie of the tree and the great maine boughes and will neuer be ripe except it bee scraped with an iron toole It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Talebearer a slandererer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby something is necessarily prooued as thus Euery vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Thererefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Maior the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Syluane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathie A likenesse in quantitie or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphonie Harmony or consent in Musick Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly ioyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Pleurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall qualitie ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or vniuersal assembly Synoper Sec Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a roome made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commaunded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which beganne on the fifteenth day of the seuenth moneth and continued seauen dayes during which time the Israelites liued abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so liued after God had deliuered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamahaza A Rosin brought out of the VVest Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothach and diuers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kindes of talents the greater and the lesse The greater conteined about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seuenty fiue pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater Talent of the Sanctuary conteined 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like vnto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feauers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaues not much vnlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger beeing drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which haue beene daily fedde out of a vessell made thereof haue beene found to haue no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard hauing spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Leeze of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprooue Tearce A measure of moyst things beeing the sixt part of a tun and the third part of
a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiours dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for deuotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or vpper Garment with a redde Crosse Temporall That which endureth but a time Temporarie The same that Temporal is Temporize To follow the time To seeke to please the time Tenacitie A holding fast a niggardnesse Tenderlings The soft tops of a Deeres hornes when they are in blood Tendrells Little sprigs of Vines or other Plants wherewith they take hold to grow or stay themselues vp Tenne A terme vsed among Heralds signifying an Orenge or tawny colour Tenon That part of a post which is put into a mortise hole to make it stand vpright or to beare it vp Tenuitie Littlenesse slendernesse Tergiuersation Wrangling ouerthwart dealing A seeming to run away and yet fight still Termination An ending or last part of a word Terrene Earthly Terrestriall Earthly Terrifie To make afraid Territorie Land lying within the bounds of a Cittie Terrour Feare dread Tertian The third or returning euery third day Testament A written will Testator He that worketh a will Testifie To beare witnesse Testification A witnessing Tetragrammaton Hauing foure Letters The Hebrewes so called the great name of God Iehouah because in their language it was written with foure letters Tetrarch A Prince that ruleth the fourth part of a kingdome Theater A place made halfe round where people sate to behold solemne playes and games Theatricall Of or belonging to the Theater Theme A sentence or argument whereupon one speaketh Theologie Diuinitie the knowledge of Diuine things Theologicall vertues Faith Hope and Charity are so called because they haue their obiect end in God Theoretical That which belongeth to contemplation or inward knowledge of a thing Theorick The inward knowledge or contemplation of a thing * Thilke The same * Thirle To pearce Thorpe A village Thrasonicall Vainglorious full of boasting as Thraso was Threnes Lamentations mournings * Threpe To affirme Thummim An Hebrew word signifying perfection See Vrim Tiara A rich cap or hat of silke vsed by Kings and Priests of Persia It couered not the whole head before but was fastened with ribbins behind so that it could not easily fall off Tiger A fierce wild beast in India Hyrcania This beast is the swiftest of all other wherefore they are taken very young in the dams absence and carried away by men on horseback who hearing the cry of the old Tiger following swiftly after them doe of purpose let fall one of the young whelpes that while she beareth that back they in the meane time may escape safe with the other to the ship Timerous Fearefull Timiditie Fearefulnesse Tincture A dipping colouring or stayning of a thing Titular Which beareth onely a Title Toft A place where a house hath stood Tolerate To indure or suffer Toleration An induring a sufferance Tome A part or diuision Tone A tune note or accent of the voice Tonnage A payment due for merchandise carried in tuns or such like vessels after a certaine rate in euery tunne Tonsure A clipping or cutting of the haire Topase A precious stone wherof ther are two kinds One of the colour of gold and the other of a Saffron colour not so good as the first It is written that this stone being put into seething water doth so coole it that one may presentlie take it out with his hand Topikes Places to finde arguments Topographie A description of a place Torrent A little streame a brooke that runneth swiftly Torride Burning exceeding hot Torteauxes Cakes of bread a terme vsed in Heraldrie Totall The whole Trace To follow by the steps Traces The print of feet in beasts of rauine as wilde Boares Beares and such like Tract A discourse a drawing in length Tractable Easie to be ruled and handled gentle easie to be perswaded Tradition A deliuerie that which is deliuered vs from others Traduce To speake euill of one to defame to reproach Tragacanth A kind of Gum the best whereof is cleere and somewhat sweet in taste It is often vsed against coughes and rough hoarsenesse of the throate Tragedie A play or Historie ending with great sorrow and bloodshed Tragedian A Player or Writer of Tragedies Tragicall Mournefull lamentable deadly which endeth like a Tragedy Tranquillitie Quietnesse of mind calmenesse Transcendent That which clymeth ouer and surmounteth another thing In Logicke it signifieth a word of such nature that it cannot be included in any of the tenne predicaments Transcript A writing or a coppying out Transfer To carry or conuey from one place to another Transfiguration An altering of the form or figure Transformation A changing into another forme Transition A passing ouer from one thing to another Transitorie Soone passing of short continuance Translucent Cleere bright which may be seen through Transmigration A remouing to dwell from one place to another Transmitte To send ouer or away Transmutation A changing Transparent Cleere that may be seene through Transport To send ouer by shippe Transpose To change or alter the order of a thing Transubstantiation A changing of one substance into another Trasonings The crossings or doublings of a Row bucke before the hounds Traue A treuise to shooe a wild horse in Trauerse To march vp and downe or to moue the feete with proportion as in dancing In our common Law it signifieth to make contradiction or to deny the cheefe point of the matter wherewith one is charged Treble Threefold or to make a thing thrice so great as it is sometime it signifieth the highest note in musicke Tremour A trembling Trepandiron An instrument vsed by surgeons to cut out a small bone withall Tresses Haire Triangled Three cornered Tribe A kindered or companie that dwelleth together in one ward Tribune The name of two cheefe officers in Rome The first was Tribune of the people who was to defend their liberties and had therefore the gates of his house standing alwayes open day and night The other was called Tribune of the souldiours who had charge to see them well armed and ordered being as the Knight marshall is with vs. Tribunall A iudgement seate Tributarie which paieth tribute Trine The number of three Trinitie Three ioyned in one or three together Tripartite Diuided into three parts Tripp A heard or flocke of goates Triplicicie Threefolde being Triuiall Base vile of no estimation common euery where Triumuirate The office of three together Trociskes Little flatte cakes sold by Apothecaries made of diuerse simple medicines mingled together Trope The changing of a word or a figuratiue māner of speaking Trophie Any thing set vp in token of victorie This custome first began among the Greekes who vsed in that place where the enemies were vanquished to cut downe the boughes of great trees and in the stockes or bodies of them