The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght
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Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
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Londini :: In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,
[Anno .M. D. XXXVIII. [1538]]
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English language -- Dictionaries -- Latin -- Early works to 1800.
English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Latin language -- Dictionaries -- English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A21313.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.

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¶L ANTE Y.
  • LYaeus, one of the names of Bacchus, called god of wynes.
  • Lyceum, was the schole of Aristotell in Athenes.
  • Lycaeus, a mountayne in the countreye of Archadia.
  • Lycaon, the kyng of Archadia, whom Iu∣piter tourned into a wolfe.
  • Lycaonia, a countrey in Asia: after somme writers, it is a parte of Archadia.
  • Lycaones, people in Asia the lesse, nere to Lycia, as writeth Ptolome.
  • Lycastus, a citie of Candy.
  • Lychnis, an herbe whose floure shyneth by nyght, and fyrste springeth, and longest du∣reth: whiche in drynke helpeth them that are stongen with the Scorpion.
  • Lychnites, whyte marbyll.
  • Lychnobij, they whiche do tourne the daye into nyght, and the nyght into daye.
  • Lychnus, a matche of a candelle, sometyme the selfe candell.
  • Lycia, a countrey in the lasse Asia.
  • Lycidas, the name of a Centaure, and of a shepeherde in Vergile.
  • Lycion, a thyng made with the iuyce of an herbe, wherwith soore eis be cured.
  • Lycisca, a dogge commen of a wolfe and a dogge.
  • Lycius, one of the names of Apollo.
  • Lycurgus, a kynge of the Lacedemoniens, whiche gaue to them their fyrste lawes.
  • Lycus, a ryuer in the countreye of Caesaria.
  • Lydia, a royalme in Asia the more.
  • Lydus, a, um, of the countrey of Lydia.
  • Lyenteria, the flyxe or continuall lowsenes of the bealye.
  • Lympha, water.
  • Lymphaticus, a madde man, which lyke to a wodde dogge, runneth hither and thither.
  • Lympidus, a, um, cleere, smothe.
  • Lynceus, was a manne, who (as Varro wri∣teth) coulde see shyppes on the see .Cxxx. myles from hym, & dyd nombre them. And some wrate, that he coulde see throughe a walle. And therfore they, whiche haue ve∣ry sharpe syghtes, be sayde to haue
  • Lynceos oculos, the eien of Lynceus.
  • Lyndus, a citie atte the Rodes, where they dyd sacrifice to Hercules with reproches and curses.
  • Lynter, eris, a cockebote.
  • Lynx, cis, a beaste lyke to a wolfe, hauynge many spottes, whose syght dothe perce all thynges. It is also a byrde, whyche hath a tongue lyke a serpente.
  • Lyra, an harpe.
  • Lyricen, cinis, an harper.
  • Lysander, a Capitayne of the Lacedemo∣nyans, a man contentious, whiche dydde sette all Grece in the Lacedemonians top, and was slayne of the Thebans.
  • ...

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  • Lysanias, an oratour of Grece.
  • Lysias, an oratour moste pleasant, of whom Quint. speaketh.
  • Lysimachus, a noble man of Macedony, the scholar of Callisthenes.
  • Lysippus, an excellent caruer.
  • Lysius, a ryuer of Archadie.
  • Lytta, a worme in a dogges tongue.

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