The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
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an extree of a cart, somtyme the hole carte, Sometyme it is shyngle,* wherewith howses are couered in the stede of tyle.- Axilla,
the armehole.- Axamenta,
verses made by the priestes of Mars, called Salii, in quycke tauntynge of all men.- Axare,
olde writers vsed for nominare, to name or aske.- Axioma,
a sentence spoken and proued: as If Plato walketh, Plato moueth, if it be day, the son is aboue the erth. It is put by Tulli for that, which sophisters do call a proposi∣tion, whiche is a sentence trewe or fals.
