The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght

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• PYcnostylon, a house or place buylded, where pylars stande thicke togither.
• Pycta & Pyctes, a wrastler with a cole••
• Pyctatium, a table, wherein the names of Iuges were wryten.
• Pygargus, a beaste lyke to a falowe deere: it is also a byrde lyke to a hawke, hauynge a whyte tayle, I suppose hym to be that, which we call a ryngetayle.
• Pygmachia, wrastlynge with colars.
• Pygmachus, a wrastler.
• Pygmaei, people betweene Inde and Ca∣thay, which are but one cubyte longe.
• Pympleides, the musis.
• Pyr, fyre.
• Pyra, a bonfyre, wherin deed bodyes were burned.
• Pyralis, a fly, which commeth of the fyre, & as longe as he is therin, he lyueth: & whā he is farre frome it, he dyeth incontinent.
• Pyragmon, one of the names of Vulcanus.
• Pyrama, a certayne rosen.
• Pyramus, a yonge man, whyche slewe hym self for the loue of a maydē called Thisbe•• it is also a ryuer in Cilicia.
• Pyramis, midis, a great thynge of stone or other matter, whiche he is brode beneth, and vpwarde is smalle and sharpe on the top.
• Pyratium, a kynde of Sydar, callyd Pery.
• Pyrausta, a worme lyuynge in the fyre, It is also a kynde of spyders, whiche hur∣teth hony combes.
• Pyrenei montes, Mountaynes, whiche do dyuyde Fraunce from Spayne.
• Pyretrū, & pyretra, an herbe callid Pelitory.
• Pyretus, a burnynge feuer.
• Pyraeus, an hauen at Athenes.
• Pyrgobaris, a howse buylded lyke a towar.
• Pyrgoteles, was a cūnyng grauer in stones.
• Pyrgus, in latyne a towar: also a boxe, oute of the which men do cast dyse, whan they playe: it is also a certayn company of hors∣men in batayle.
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• Pyrgus, a boxe, oute of the whyche dyse are throwen.
• Pyriasis, a certayne playster to asswage the burnynge of a feuer.
• Pyrim, a lytell kernell.
• Pyrites, euery stone, out of the whych fire may be striken.
• Pyrobola, a smythes hammer, wherewith he beateth on hotte yron.
• Pyroboli, arowes or dartes, whiche sende forthe fyre, whanne they be shotte or caste, and do burne the thynge that they doo touche.
• Pyrobolarij, they whyche doo shoote su∣che dartes.
• Pyrocorax, a crowe with a redde bylle. I suppose it to be of the kynd, wherof cor∣nyshe chowghes are.
• Pyrodes, he that fyrste strake fyre out of a flynte. also a stone of fyry colour.
• Pyromantia, a dyuynation by fyre.
• Pyrrhicha, & pyrrhiches, a fourme of dan∣synge, with moche mouynge of the bo∣dye and gesture, lyke to them whiche do syght in battayle.
• Pyrrhicarij, they that daunce in the fourme of daunsynge, called Pyrrhica.
• Pyrrhichius, a foote in meter of two shorte syllables.
• Pyrrhus, in latyne Flauius, siue Rufus, he that hath a ruddy or fyrye vysage, by the whyche name the sonne of Achilles was calledde, and a kynge of Epyre was soo callyd, whyche dydde make warre to the Romaynes.
• Pyrum, a peare.
• Pyrus, a peare tree.
• Pythagoras, an excellente Phylosopher, whose Phylosophye was in mystycalle sentences, and alsoo in the Scyence of noumbers.
• Pythagoricus, he that was of the secte of Pythagoras. Pythagorista, idem.
• Pythius, one of the names of Apollo.
• Pythia, thiorum, playes made in the honor of Apollo.
• Python, a Dragon, whyche was slayne by Apollo.
• Pythopolis, a cytie in Asye, in that parte, whyche is callyd Mysia.
• Pytisma, matis, a spyrtynge oute of smalle spyttelle.
• Pyxacantha, & Pyxacanthos, a Berbe∣rye tree.
• Pyxis, idis, a boxe.
• Pyxidicula, a lyttell boxe, proprely wherin medycines are putte.
• Pyxidatus, pyxidata, pyxidatum, made lyke a boxe.