Bibliotheca Eliotæ Eliotis librarie.

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SI, if although, I wolde god.

Si dijs placet, If god wyl, or on goddis name: a word spoken eyther in dysdaine or in mockage, for any thynge not well done.

Etiam latini, si dijs placet, hoc biennio, ma∣gistri dicendi extiterunt▪ yea and also the la∣tines, on goddis name, haue ben these two ye¦res maysters of eloquence.

Quinetiam, si dijs placet, nephas aiunt, con∣sulem plebeium fie••••, They saye also, on god∣des name, that it is vnlefull for a communes to be made consul.

Si sapis, if thou be wyse.

Siambis, an yle in the Brytyshe occean sea, on the northe parte.

Sibatis, an olde towne .xii. miles from Rome. also a citie in Calabria. sometyme it is taken for delycate and wanton lyuynge.

Sibariticus, ca, cum, wanton or delycate.

Sibi, to hym.

Sibilo, are, to whystell.

Sibilus, a whistelynge.

Sibylla, was a general name to all women whi¦che had the spirite of prophecy. of theym as Varro and Lactantius do wryte were tenne, the fyrste called Persica, the seconde Libyca, the thyrde Delphica, the fourthe Cumaea, the fyfthe, Erythrea, the syxt Samia, the seuenth Cumana, the eyght Hellespontia, the nynth Phrigia, the tenthe Tyburtina, euery one of these (as Lactantius saythe) wrate of the in∣carnation of Chryste.

Sibus, a sharpe wytted felowe.

Sic, so, in lykewyse, accordyngely, so lyghtlye. Mirabar hoc, si sic, abiret, I wolde haue mer¦uayled, if that it shuld haue passed to lightly Sic ago, so am I wonte to do. Sic sum, suche a one am I.

Sica, a shorte sworde,

Sicambri, the people of Nassaw, and Hessen in Germany.

Sicani, people of Sicile.

Sicania, the yle of Sicile.

Sicarius, a murderer.

Sicaneus, a, um, drye of nature.

Siccesco, scere, to drye.

Siccine, of that fascion, in suche facion.

Siccine tu illam? Siccine nos habes Iudibrio omnes? Wylte thou handell her of that fas∣cion? Wylte thou in suche fascion moche vs all.

Siccitas, & Siccitudo, drythe.

Sicco, care, to drye or be dryed.

Siccus, ca, cum, drye, wythered.

Sicera, all maner of drynke made of corne or fruites.

Sicileo, cilui, cilire, to cut agayn that whiche was not well cutte afore, properly grasse in a medowe.

Sicilia, a noble Ile, fyrste called Trinacria, af∣terwarde Sicania, and at the laste Sicilia, It is in fourme thre cornerd, and therof had the name of Trinacria, the one corner called Pa∣chynus, extēdeth toward that part of Grece whiche was called Peloponêsus, nowe Mo∣rêa. the seconde corner called Pelórus, lyeth towarde Italy, the thyrde called Lilybaeus, is extended towarde Affricam, of the whiche Pelorus excedeth in the temperaunce of the erthe, for with no weate there maye be anye myre, nor by any drythe duste. This yle con∣teyneth in circuite as Solinus wryteth three thousande furlonge, whiche is of Italion mi∣les. CCC.lxxv. as Diodorus Siculus wry∣teth foure thousand thre hundred and .lx. mi∣les. But Plinius sayth that the said thre cor∣ners be distant from Pelorus to Pachinū by lande .Clxvi. myles. from thense to Lilybaeū .CC. myles. from thense to Pelorum .Clxx. myles, and sayth also that Agrippa affirmed it to be in circute .DCxviii. myles. which do not agre with Solinus nor Diodorus, whi∣che may happen to be by the diuersitie of fur¦longes. rede therof in Stadiū. The fertilitie of this yle in al grayn, beaultie of medowes, delicatenesse of waters colde and hot, moun∣taynes and caues myraculouse, and other thynges there excedynge notable, manye au∣tours haue wrytten and woundred at dothe Grekes and Latines.

Siciliences, people dwellynge in Sicile, which were borne elles where.

Sicilis, lidis, of Sicile.

Sicilides Musae, the Musis of Sicile.

Sicilisso, are, to speake the language of Sicile.

Siciliqua, uel Sicilicus, a poyse or weyght wai∣inge two drammes: and is the fourthe parte of an ounce.

Sicilites, the heade of a iauelyn.

Siclus, called also Tetradragmum, and Stater argenteus, is as well a coyne as a weyghte, beinge halfe an ounce in poyse.

Sicinnium, a kynde of daunsynge, wherin they that daunced dyd syng, as they do in Christ∣mas, whan they synge carolles: and as mai∣dens do nowe vse to do in the stretes.

Sicubi, wheresoeuer.

Siculi, men of Sicile.

Siculum mare, the sea by Sicile.

Sicunde, of any place.

Sicut & Sicuti, as, lyke as.

Sicyonia, an yle in the sea of Aegeum.

Sideratio, a sickenesse, which in suche wyse ta∣keth some parte of a mannes body, that it so daynely becommeth drye, so that he feleth it not, women do call it takynge, or benūming.

Sideratus, he that is taken in any member or parte of his body, that he canne not fele it or stere it, the homely people calleth benummed

Siderites, an herbe, whiche groweth on tyles and olde walles.

Sidereus, a, um, of the sterres.

Sideror, ari, to be blasted, or taken, that a man maye not stere or moue his membres.

Sido, dis, sedi, sidere, to settyll.

Sidon, a citie in Phoenicia, vpon the sea syde, so called for the plenty of fyshe there beinge taken. There was glasse fyrste made.

Sidonius, a, um, of that citie.

Sidus, a number of sterres gathered, which do make a sygne or celestiall figure: sometyme it is taken for one sterre.

Sifilare, to whystell.

Sifilator, oris, a whystler.

Sigaeum, a gret mountayn in the sea by Troy.

Sigillaria opera, warkes wherin were sette small ymages.

Sigillatim, one after an other.

Sigillo, are, to seale, sometyme to close or shut.

Sigillum, a lyttell ymage.

Sigillum Salomonis, an herbe. Reade Cor∣rigiola.

Sigma, tis, a lyttell table.

Signaculum, a seale.

Signatorius anulus, a signet.

Signatus, ta, tum, notable.

Signa infesta, Standardes and baners ad∣uaunced in battayle, in marchynge agaynste ennemies.

Signa coelestia, the twelue sygnes, by the whiche the sonne and other planets do passe.

Signia, a citie in Campania.

Signifer, he that beareth standarde or baner in a fielde. it is somtyme taken for the cerkle in the firmament called also Zodiacus, wherin ben the .xii. signes.

Significo, care, to sygnifye or gyue knowlege. Signinum opus, a warke made with shelles and morter, or tyles and morter.

Signo, are, to make a signe, to signe or seale, to signifie or shewe by a signe or token, to write

Signum, a signe, token, or marke, a miracle.

Signa dare militibus, to cause the trumpets to blowe, that the souldiours maye prepare

them to battayle or to assemble them selues to gether.

Signa, be also ymages of mettal, stone, or wod standardes in warre or baners.

Silanius, an hyghe hyll in Irelande.

Sil, silis, certayne erthe yelowe of colour found in the mynes of golde or syluer.

Sillago, an herbe whiche Brunfelsius suppo∣poseth to be the common crowe fote.

Silatum, brekefaste.

Sila, an helmet.

Silenta loca, quiete places, wherein is noo noyse.

Silentium, sylence, quietnesse.

Silenus, the foster father of Bacchus.

Sileo, lui, lere, to kepe sylence, to speake no∣thynge.

Siler, a kynde of wythy growynge in water: it is also a ryuer in the realme of Naples.

Silesco, scere, to be in silence, or quiete.

Silex, silicis, a flynte stone.

Silicatus, ta, tum, made with flynte stones.

Silicernius, & Silicernium, a certayn pudding eaten only at the tyme of funeralles, some do take it for a feaste or dyner made at the fune∣ralles or termente of a man or woman.

Senex silicernius, is named of Terence for an olde Cryppell, redy to haue suche a dyuer made for hym.

Siliceus, a, um, of a flynte stone.

Silitia, siue Silicula, an herbe called Fengreke.

Silugo, liginis, a kynde of wheate hauynge an vpryghte stalke, and the corne verye whyte, and therof is made the fynest breade & moste pryncipall, as Galenus wryteth, De alimen¦tis. li. 26. It was also called Olyra, of some Typha.

Siliqua, the huske or codde of any thynge. also a certayne fruite in Italy, which is in length of a mans fynger, and brode, and somewhat hoked, the wayte of syxe of theym made the poyse called Scrupulus, a scruple, whereof three do make a dramme. It is now called a Characte, and is vsed among fyners of gold and syluer, and also coyners in the fynynge and alayinge therof.

Siliqua, is sometyme taken for foenugraecum.

Siliqua aegiptia, is Cassia fistula.

Siliquastrum, an herbe.

Siliquor, quaris, quari, to growe in huske or rodde.

Silura, a countrey in the more Britayne.

Silo, onis, he whiche hath great browes.

❀Silosontis chlamis, is spoken in a prouerb of hym, whiche bosteth hym selfe of ryche garmentes.

Silus, a camoised nose, or a nose whiche is tour¦ned vpwarde.

Silphion, an herbe, wherof commeth the gum called Beuicyn.

Silurus, a fyshe called a sturgeon.

Simiolus. a lyttell ape.

Simia, & Simius, an ape.

Simila, fyne meale of corne.

Similago, ginis, idem.

Simillimus, a, um, moste lyke.

Similitas, lykenesse.

Similiter, lykewyse, also.

Similis, le, lyke.

❀Simileis habent labra lactucas, a prouerb applyed to them, which being of lyke yll con∣ditions, be matched together, as a lewde ser∣uant with an yll mayster, an vnruly people to a neglygent gouernour, a shrewde wyfe to a frowarde husband. &c. Like master like man Lyke wyll to lyke.

Similitudo, dinis, lykenesse.

Similo, are, to be lyke.

Simitu, pro simul, together.

Simois, oentos, a ryuer by Troye.

Simonia, Symony.

Simonides, a Poete of Greece, borne in the ile called Coea, who was the fyrste that inuen∣ted the verses called Lyrici, and was excel∣lent in prouoking of teares, and in that kind of wrytynge there was in hym a wonderfull grace. It is written that Pausanias kynge of Lacedemonians, at a banket desyred instant∣ly of hym, that he wolde thanne speake some thynge notable, and that sauoured of wyse∣dome▪ Simonides therat smylinge, Remem∣bre sayde he, that thou arte a man. Pausani as tooke that scornefullye, and estemed it no∣thynge. Afterwarde Pausanias beinge put in prison in Chalcioeco, and there being fami¦shed er that he dyed. He remembred the say∣inge of Simonides, and with a lowd and la∣mentable voyce sayde. O my frende of Coe∣us, thy wordes were of a great importance, but I for mad pryde estemed theym nothing. This lyttell historye is not vnworthye to be had in remembraunce.

Simplariae, symple thynges or of lyttell value.

Simplares, they whiche doo weare hostynge harneyse.

Simplex, plicis, that is not double, syncere or playne, withoute deceypte, of one sorte, vn∣myxte.

Simplicitas, playnenesse.

Simpliciter, playnely.

Simplicitus, for simpliciter.

Simplus, a, um, sengle in number, one onely.

Simpulum, a chalyce or cuppe of erthe, wher∣with they sacrifyced in the olde tyme before that golde and syluer were in great estimati∣on. It is of Varro taken for a cruete with a pype, out of the which wyne came dropping by lyttell and lyttel.

Simpuuium, a vessell of tree.

Simul, togyther with other, moreouer, also.

Simul ac, simul at{que}, as sone as, incontinent as.

Simulachrum, an ymage of a man or woman.

Simulo, are, to indeuour, to be lyke to one, al∣so to fayne.

Simultas, atis, priuy dysplesure or hatred with dyssemblynge countenaunce.

Simulatio, fantasy, also dyssimulation.

Simulator, he that dyssembleth.

Simulter, for similiter.

Simulto, tare, to be at varyance with one, to hate one priuyly.

Simus, a, um, flatte.

Sin, or els, yf not, but yf.

Sina, or Sinai, a mountayne in the deserte of A∣raby, called also Oreb. it is of Solinus callid Casius. Iustinus callyth it Synaeus, on that hylle god appered to Moses, and delyuered to hym the tables of the lawe, reade hereof a∣bundantly in the olde testament.

Sinapi, & sinapis, senuye seede, whereof mu∣starde is made.

Sinapium, mustarde.

Sinapodes, people in Affrike, whiche do go as they crepte.

Sinarum Regio, a countraye beyonde the lyne equinoctiall.

Sinciput, the foreparte of the heade.

Sindo, donis, a fyne lynnen clothe.

Sine, without.

Sine ut ueniat, let hym come.

Sine fraude mea, my ryght saued.

Singillatim, to euery one, or of euery one, one after an nother.

Singularis, re, syngular, excellente, one with∣out any mo.

Singulariter, syngularly, onely.

Singulatim, euery thynge by it selfe.

Singultio, tire, to yexe.

Singultiens, he that hath the yexe.

Singultiens gallina, a clockynge henne.

Singultus, tus, yexynge.

Singulus, a, um, eueryche.

Sinistra, the lefthande.

Sinister, stra, strum, pertayning to the left hand. sometyme it sygnifieth contrarye, vnprospe∣rous, or vnhappy.

Sino, sini, sinere, to suffre.

Sinope, pes, a citie in the countray of Pontus.

Sinopis, pidis, a redde stone, commonly callyd Sinoper.

Sinistre, vnhappily, vnfortunately.

Sinistrorsum, on the left hande.

Sinuessa, a citie in Campania.

Sinuo, are, to tourne or wynde in the fourme of a serpent, makynge holowe bosomes or fo∣rowes. it is also applyed to garmentes that ar pleyghted or gathered vp. also to streames of ryuers, whyche do in rounnynge make di∣uers tournynges. also to bankes, which haue holowe crekes or bosomes.

Sinuosus, a, um, that whiche hathe many tour∣nynges and wyndynges.

Sinus, us, a bosome. also the tournynges or ho∣lownesse of water bankes. sometyme the ho∣lownesse of eyen. sometyme a sayle. also a cup for wyne, also nettes, sometyme a sayle, whan the wynde fylleth it.

Sinus urbis, the myddell of a citie.

In sinu habere, to haue secretely in his hart.

In sinu gaudere, to be mery or gladde, with∣out shewyng it openly.

Soluto sinu, with all lyberalitie.

Sion, an herbe growynge in the water, hauing leaues lyke Alysanders, but somewhat lesse and soote in smellynge.

Siparium, a courtayne.

Siphones, the pypes of a cundyte.

Siphnus, an yle in the sea of Aegeum, wherin was found somtyme plenty of golde & siluer.

Sipus, sipuntis, or Sipontum, a citie in Apulia, by the mountayne callyd Garganus.

Sipontinus, of that citie.

Siqua, for si aliqua, yf any.

Siquide, for bycause, also yf.

Siquis, quae, quod, yf any.

Sir, a citie in Illiria, or Slauony.

Siremps, for similis res ipsa.

Siren, & Sirena, a mermayden.

Sirenes, were thre doughters of Achelo{us} & Cal¦li••pe, which dwellyd in an yle betwene Italy & Sicile, who with theyr swete synging drew suche vnto them, as passed that sea, and than they slewe theym. As it happened to Vlysses to sayle that way, he stopped the eares of all his company, to the intente they shoulde not heare the songes of Sirenes, and caused him selfe to be bounde to the mast of a shippe, and so escaped. Syrenes, sorowed so moche, that they were dysapoynted, that they threw them selfe into the sea, whome poetes fayned to be meremaydens.

Sireus, a sterre in the myddel of the fyrmament vnto the which whan the sonne commeth, the ferue••tnes of heate is doubled, whereby the bodyes of me become syck with heates. this sterre is also callyd Canicula, and the dayes wherein it appereth be callyd Caniculares, whiche do begyn the .vi. day of Iuly.

Siri, pyttes, wherein corne was layde to be preserued.

Siriasis, a syckenesse of trees, where about the tyme of the Canycular days by the excedyng heate of the Sunne, the trees be brente, and doo sterue. it is alsoo a syckenesse in the hea∣des of chylderne, procedyng of the inflama∣tions of the brayne.

Sirius, a sterre, whyche ryseth the .viii. Calen∣des of Iune

Sirpea, mattes, or other thynges made of russhes.

Sirpices, were instrumentes made with teethe lyke to a sawe, whyche beynge drawen with oxen, plucked vp by the rootes flagges and great wedes, whyche grewe in medowes.

Sirpiculae falces, hookes, wherewith vynes are cutte.

Sirpiculum, a lyttell baskette.

Sirpo, are, to bynde or wynde with russhes or osyars, or other lyke thynge.

Sirpus, a russhe. Nodum in sirpo quaeris, thou fyndest dyfficultie or doubte, where there is none. Sirpi, be also warkes or verses, whi∣che be very harde to be vnderstande.

Sirrus, a caue vnder grounde, in the whyche men kept wheate.

Sisacthea, ae, a rayenge syue.

Sisachthea, a lawe of the Athenienses made by Solon, for the mitigation of dettes or money owed.

Sisamum, a maner of pulse or corne. alsoo it is that whyche the apothecaryes doo calle Se∣samum.

Sisara, after Varro is a tree, whereof the bees doo gather lyquyde honye. Plinius callyth it Sisarum, it is supposed to be that, whyche Dioscorides callyth Ericem, not moche vn∣lyke to Tamarix, the Athenienses (as Plyny writeth) calleth it Tetradicem.

Siser, a delycate to be eaten, whiche some men do suppose to be yelowe carettes.

Sisymbrium, an herbe, wherof be two kyndes, the one is callyd Sisymbrium alone, whyche is also callyd Thymbrea, in englysshe water mynte, the other is callyd Sisymbrium Car∣damine, whyche in englyshe is watercresses.

Sisto, sistere, to make to tary or stande stylle, to retayne or kepe backe, to appere, as a manne dothe beinge sued in the lawe.

Sistas te, appere thou.

Ore sistere. Eminor, interminor{que}, ne quis mihi obstiterit obuiam, nam qui obstiterit ore sistet, I thretten, and I menace, that no man let me of my way, for who so euer letteth me, shall kysse the grounde.

Sistere nadimonium, to brynge in surctie.

Sistrum, an Instrumente lyke a horne, why∣che was vsed in battaylle, in the stede of a trumpette.

Sisyphus, was a greatte theefe, whyche was slayne by Theseus, of whome it is fayned, that in helle he tourneth a stoone vppe to a greatte hylle, but whan it is at the toppe, it fallethe downe agayne, and renewethe his laboure.

Sitanius panis, breade of newe wheate.

Sitarchia, a bagge, or gardeuyandes, wherein meate is putte.

Sithonia, a countrey in Macedonia vppon the sea syde.

Siticen, he that dyd blowe in a trumpet whan men were buryed.

Sitio, tire, to thyrst or be a thyrste.

Sitiens, he that is a thyrste.

Situlus barbatus, a lyttell skyllette.

Sitella, a lytell potte, wherinto lottes were put.

Sitibundus, a, um, very thyrsty.

Siticulosus, he that is alway a thyrst.

Sitis, thyrst, or desyre to drynke.

Situla, & sitella, a lyttell coffer, wherein lottes were put, at the chosynge of offycers, also a bucket to drawe water.

Situs, ta, tum, put or sette.

Situs, tus, fylthynesse gathered of moysture, by lacke of klensynge. also of sluttyshenes, also the settynge or standynge of a place, whyche is nowe callyd the syte or sytuation of a ma∣ner or countray.