An English dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, phylosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences : containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor : together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language : in a method more comprehensive than any that is extant / by E. Coles ...

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• GAal, h. Abomination.
• Gabala, Gibel, Mar∣gad, a town of Syria cava.
• Gab, o. to prate or lie.
• Gabbing, lying.
• Gabardine, an Irish mantle, rough Cassock, or Livery coat.
• Gabberies, f. wiles, mock∣eries.
• Gabel, f. tribute, custom.
• Gabion, f. a defence made of baskets filled with earth.
• Gable end of a house, the top, or (by some) the fron∣tispiece.
• Gabrantovici, Britains in∣habiting part of Yorkshire.
• Gabriel, h. the strength of God.
• Gabrosentum, a frontier station of the Romans, sup∣posed to be where New-ca∣stle and Gates-head now stand.
• Gaddefly, a brie or brieze.
• Gad, h. a troop or band.
• Gadd••, Gaddi, a rare Flo∣rentine painter who excelled in Mosaic work.
• Gades, two Islands west∣ward beyond the streights, by some called Hercules's pillars.
• Gadling, o. stradling.
• Gaffe, f. an iron hook to pull great fishes into the ship.
• Gafold-gyld, Sa. the pay∣ment of tribute, also usury.
• Gafol-land, Gafulland, li∣able to tribute, also rented.
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• Gage or wage deliverance, put in security that the thing shall be delivered.
• Gage the ship, try how much water she draws, by a pole and a nail put down by the rudder.
• Gage, c. a pot or pipe.
• Gaging-rod, an instrument to measure any vessel of li∣quor.
• a Gagle of geys, o. a flock of Geese.
• Gaiety, f. gallantry, cheer∣fulness.
• Gaitere berries, of the
• Gayter tree, Prickwood.
• Gainage, the instruments of tillage, also the land held by the baser sort of Soke-men or Villains.
• Gainerie, the same.
• Gail-dish, Guile-dish, No. the Tun-dish.
• Gail-clear, No. a Wort-tub.
• Gainsborough, a town in Lin∣colnshire.
• Gainure, tillage.
• Gain [thing] Not. Conve∣nient.
• Gain [man] active, expert.
• Gain [miles] short.
• Galactopote, g. a drinker of milk.
• Galactite, g. a milky preci∣ous stone.
• Galanga, an East-India root like ginger.
• Galanthis, Alcmena's maid turn'd into a weasel.
• Galathea, a Sea-Nymph beloved of Polypheme; who killed Acis whom she prefer∣red before him.
• Galatia, Gallo-grecia in Asia the less.
• Galaxi••, g. the milky way, made up of little stars.
• Galbanum, a Syrian gum of the plant Fennel-giant.
• Galeat, a kind of White-wine from a Town of that name in France.
• ... Galeges, Galages, Galloches.
• Gal••oshooes, f. wooden shoen all of a piece; with us, out¦ward shoes or cases for dirty weather, &c.
• Gale, o. to chafe, to flout, also to yawl,
• ... Galena, Wallingford.
• Galenist, -ite, a follower of
• Galen, -nus, a famous Phy∣sician of Pergamus
• Galeon, Galleon, f. a great man of war.
• Gallote, f. a small Gally, or one that rows in a Gally.
• Galerion, the herb Crud∣wort.
• Galgacus, a British Gene∣ral against the Romans.
• Gallians, -iens, f. Galens works.
• Galiard, Gaillard, f. mer∣ry.
• Galilaea, -lee, a Region of Syria, North of Judaea.
• Galingale, the Aromatick root of the rush Cyprus.
• Galla moschata, a Con∣fection of Musk, &c.
• Galleasse, f. a great double Gally.
• Gallego, Sp. an inhabitant of Galatia.
• ... Gallia, l. France.
• Galliard, f. Lusty, Mer∣ry, also a kind of Jovial dance.
• Galliardise, f. liveliness, &c.
• Gallie-foist, as Foist.
• Gallicism, l. a French Idi∣ome.
• Galligaskins, -scoines, Breeches or slops first used by the Gas∣coines in France.
• Galli-halpens. a coin for∣bidden by Hen. 5.
• Gallimafry, a minced dish of several sorts of meats.
• Gallion, as Galeon.
• Galliote, as Gal••ote.
• Galloglasses, -glaghes, Wild-Irish Trooper••.
• Galloches, as Galege.
• Gallon, Sp. the same as
• Gallion, or Galcon.
• Galloway, a County both of Scotland and Ireland.
• Galls, rough spurious fruit of Mast bearing trees.
• Gallulate, l. to begin to have a great voice.
• Galli, Cybel••s Priests in∣spired by drinking of
• Gallus, a River in Phrygia, whose water made men mad; also a young man turn'd into a Cock for suffering Sol to discover the adultery of Mars and Venus.
• Galor, o. for Gaoler.
• Galpe, o. to belch.
• Galnes, Sc. any kind of satisfaction for slaughter.
• Gamahez, A. natural fi∣gures or images of things.
• Gamaliel, h. Gods reward.
• Gamba, I, a leg.
• Gambado, a riding leathern leg-case, hanging in the stir∣rops place.
• Gambalock, an Eastern ri∣ding gown, button'd under the chin.
• Gam••oles, Gambades, f. leg-gestures, or tumbling tricks.
• Gambra, a River in Guiny abounding with River-horses, Torpedos, running-fish, &c.
• Gammot, an incision-knife.
• Gam' Vt, the scale of Mu∣sick, also the first or lowest note thereof.
• Ganching, f. a Turkish exe∣cution of men, by letting them fall from on high upon sharp iron stakes.
• Gang, No. to go, also a company.
• Gangick, belonging to
• Ganges, a great River (pas∣sing through the midst of In∣dia,) in some places 20 miles over, and never less than an hundred foot deep.
• Gang-flower, Rogation-flo∣wer, flourishing about Ro∣gation time.
• Gangiatores, Gaug-, Scotch examiners of weights and measures.
• Gangrene, g. a beginning of putrefaction or mortifica∣tion in a member, an eat••ng Ulcer.
• Gang-week, procession or Rogation week.
• Gantlet, Gauntlet, f. a mili∣tary glove.
• Run the Gantlope, D. Run through the whole Regi∣ment and receive a lash of

• every Soldier, from
• Gant, Gaunt, Ghent, a Town in Flanders.
• Ganymed, Jupiters cup-bear∣er, an Ingle.
• Ganza, an East-Indian metal of gold and brass.
• Garamantick, belonging to the
• Garamantes, Lybians, sub∣jects of
• Garamas, the son of Jupiter.
• Garbe, Gerbe, f. a sheaf of Corn.
• Garbe, -bo, I. a graceful carriage, also a pleasant sharpness in Beer or Wine.
• Garbe feders, o. the Fea∣thers under a hawks beak.
• Garbel, -boord, the plank next the Ships keel on the out∣side.
• Garble [spices] purifie them from dross and dirt.
• Garbles, the dust and dross that is severed.
• Garbling, culling out the good from the bad of any thing.
• Gar••oil, f. trouble, tumult,
• Garbord-strake, the first seam next the keel.
• Garcifer, a scotch Mill-boy.
• Gardian, he that hath the
• Gard, custody or care of one not able to guide himself and his own affairs.
• Gard-robe, an herb, also as ward-robe.
• Gardian or Warden of the Cinque Ports, a Magistrate who in those 5 Havens hath the same jurisdiction as the Admiral elsewhere.
• Gardian of the Peace, as Conser∣vator.
• Gardein de l'esteinery, War∣den of the stanneries.
• Gardian of the spiritualties, he that hath the jurisdiction of a vacant Diocese.
• Gard-manger, f. a place to keep victuals in.
• Gare, a kind of very corse wool.
• Garre, No. to cause or force.
• Gargarism, a medicinal li∣quor to
• Gargarize or Gargle, wash and cleanse the throat and mouth.
• Gargarus, the top of Ida hill.
• Gargantua, a feigned giant or monster with a
• Garganta, Sp. a great throat.
• Gargilon, the chief part of a Deers Hart.
• Gariofilli, -phylli, Caryo-Cloves.
• Garnade, o. for Granada a Spanish Town.
• Garner, as Granary.
• Garn••t, a Tackle to hoise goods into a ship.
• Garnement, Garnishment, f. a warning for one to appear, for the better furnishing the cause and Court.
• Garnish, to warn, also a Prisoners fees at his admit∣tance, both to keeper and fellow-Prisoners.
• Garnishee, the party in who's hands money is attached.
• Garnison, f. preparation, furniture, also as
• Garrison, a place fortified and furnished with Soldiers, Ammunition, &c.
• Garth▪ a wear for Fish, also a backside or close.
• Garth-man, he that keeps or owns an open wear.
• Garranty, as Warranty.
• Garrulity, l. tatling, pratling, a being
• Garrulous, full of talk, ever chatting.
• Garstrange, a Town in Lan∣cashire.
• Garter, the chief of the 3 Kings at Arms, also half a bend.
• A la Gascoignade, f. after the Gascoigne, fashion.
• Gase-bound, Agasaeus, g. an admirable hunting kind of Dog.
• Gastly, Ghostly, like a spirit.
• Gasper, -par, one of the 3 Kings of Coll••n, see Balthasar.
• Gastness, o, terrour.
• Gaster, So. to scare or fright suddenly.
• Gastrom••th, g. one speak∣ing inwardly or as out of his belly.
• Gastric••, g. belonging to the Belly.
• Gastroclite, -lyte, g. he that gets his living by handicraft.
• Gastroepiploick vein, Gastrep-, a branch of the Port vein, spreading it self in the bot∣tom of the ventricle.
• Gastromancy, g. Divination by the Belly.
• Gastrotomy, g. cutting up of the Belly.
• Gat-tothed, o. Goat or Gapt-toothed.
• Gather-bag, the bag that encloses a red fawn in the Hinds belly.
• Gate, No. a way or path.
• Ne Gate ne geyn, o. Neither got nor gained.
• Gattlehead, a forgetful per∣son, Cambridge.
• Gaude, o. a toy or trifle, also to mock or scoff at, f.
• Gaudeá, o. made gawd••.
• Gaudy-daies, Colledge or Innes of Court-festivals.
• Gaudiloquent, l. speaking with joy.
• Gavelet, a Kentish C••ssavit, whereby the Tenant in Ga∣vel-kind (withdrawing his due rents, &c.) forfeits his Land to the Lord.
• Gavel, Sa. tribute, also yearly rent.
• Gavel-kind, Sa. (Gife cal cyn▪ given to all the kin) an equal division of the Fathers Lands among the Children, or of a brother (without Issue) a∣mong his Brethren.
• Gavel-sester, Tol-sester. Oale-gavel, Sa. Sextarius vectigalis cervisiae, a certain measure of tribute or rent-ale.
• Gavel••c, Sa. a warlike sling for stones or darts.
• Gaul, La. a leaver.
• Gawn, Che. a Gallon.
• Gaun••, Gandavum, a chief City in Flanders, having 20 Islands and 48 Bridges.
• Gaulonites a Jewish faction opposing the Roman Tribute.
• Gawr••n, o. to stare.
• Gaugeou••s, as Gaugeators, Gagers, who mark and al∣l••w vessels of Wine, oyl, Ho∣ney and Butter, before they be sold.
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• Gawge-peny, the Gaugeors fee.
• Gayler, o. for Jayler.
• Gaza, l. g. and Persian, a treasure.
• Gazetta, Gazz-, I. a small Venetian coin (about our peny) the common price of a
• Gazet, -ette, f. a News-book.
• Gazul and Suhit, Two E∣gyptian weeds (growing in the Sands where the Nile ar∣rives not) being burnt to ashes and sent to Venice, make the finest Chrystal glasses.
• Geat, black amber, a sort of precious stone or solid bi∣tumen.
• Geaunt, Geant, o. a Jay.
• Geazon, E. scarce, hard to come by.
• Gedaliah, h. the greatness of the Lord.
• Geffery, Ge. Joyfull peace.
• Gehazi, the servant of E∣lisha.
• Gehenna, h. the valley of Hinnom, where they sacri∣ficed to Moloch, also hell.
• Geld, gelt, gild, guild, Sa. Money, or Tribute.
• Geld ne Geere, o. neither money nor ware or house∣hold-stuff.
• D•• Geld, o. raise money.
• Geldable, a 3d part of Suf∣folk, the other being St. Ed∣munds and St. Andreys Liber∣ties.
• Geldria Gelderland, a Low-Country-Province.
• Gelicide, l. a frost.
• Gelidity, frostiness, a be∣ing
• Gelid, l. Icy, cold.
• Gelo, a Sicilian School-boy who raised such a tumult in the School (for his book ta∣ken away by a Wolf) that the house fell and kill'd them all.
• Gelones, Scythians who paint themselves to appear more terrible.
• Gelover, o. a Gilloflower.
• Geloum, a lake in Sicily, near two fountains whereof one makes women fruitfull the other barren.
• Gelous, o. jealous.
• Gemefeder, o. the cheif tail-feather.
• Gem, Gemme, a jewel, a bud or blossom.
• Gement, l. groaning.
• Gemersheim, a town in the Palatinate.
• Gemination, l. a doubling.
• Gemels, l. double, twins.
• Gemini, -nels, l. twins, a sign in the Zodiack.
• Geminous or twin-arteries, descending to the joynt of the knee.
• Gemites, a precious stone with the resemblance of fold∣ed hands.
• Gemmated, l. bedeckt with precious stones.
• Gemmerie, a Cabinet or Jewel-house.
• Gemmiferous, l. bearing or bringing jewels.
• Gem••te, the Hundred Court.
• Gemmosity, an abounding with jewels, also blossom∣ing.
• Gemony, a place at Rome, where malefactors were cast headlong into Tiber.
• Gemund, a town of North Schwaben in Germany.
• Gemow-ring, a kind of dou∣ble ring, linked with two or more links.
• Gend, Gent, Neat.
• Genda••me, f. a horseman compleatly armed.
• Gens-d'armes, f. Soldiers.
• Gender, f. difference of sex or kind.
• Geneal••thud, Sa. approa∣ched.
• Genealogie, g. a description of one family or pedigree.
• Geneath, Sa. a Villain, hind, or Farmer.
• Geneoglossum, g. the muscle that stretches out the tongue.
• Generative, having the fa∣culty or power of
• Generation, l. an ingendring or begetting, also an age of men.
• Generosa, the Title of Gen∣tlewoman as Spinster of o¦thers unmarried.
• Generos••ty, l. a being
• Generous, l. noble in mind or bloud, bountifull.
• Generical, belonging to Genus, or to
• Genesis, g. birth, genera∣tion, Creation.
• Genets, a kind of furr from a little beast of that name, also Spanish horses.
• Genethliacal, belonging to
• Genethliaques, Treaters or Treat••ses of
• Genethlialogy, l. telling mens fortunes by casting their nativities.
• Geneva, an Imperial town by the Lake Leman in Savoy, on the borders of Switzer∣land.
• Gengenbach, a town of Su••∣via in Germany.
• Genial, joyfull, festival, belonging to marriage or ge∣neration.
• Geniculation, l. a joynting.
• Genital, apt to ing••nder or beget.
• Genitals, privities.
• Geniting, a small apple soon ripe.
• Genitive, of an ingendring faculty, natural.
• Genitive Case, the second, formed of the Nominative, and forming all the rest.
• Genitor, l. a Father, be∣getter, or beginner.
• Genius, a good or evil spi∣rit attending on particular men or places, also Nature, fancy or inclination.
• Gennep, a town in Cleve∣land.
• Genoa, Genes, a City of Ligu∣ria in Italy.
• Gensericus, a Vandal, who took Carthage and made sta∣bles of the Temples.
• Gent, o. proper, handsome.
• Gentian, the herb Filwort.
• Gentil, a Maggot.
• Gentile, l. Heathen, pa∣gan.
• Gentile, f. Gentleman-like.
• Gentilesse, f. Gentility, No∣bility.
• Gentilism, l. Heathenism,

• the opinion or practice of Heathens.
• Gentilitial, -ious, l. belong∣ing to ancestors or kinred.
• Gentiles (in Gram.) Nouns that signifie belonging to such or such a Country.
• Gentleman, one that ob∣serves his
• Gentility, race and propa∣gation of bloud, by bearing arms.
• Gentry Cove or Mort, c. Gentleman or woman.
• Genua, Genoua, as Genoa.
• Genuflexion, l. a kneeling.
• Genuine, l. Natural, proper.
• Genus, l. a kind, stock or lineage, that which contains many species or smaller kinds.
• Geode, g. the Earth-stone.
• Geodesian, one that useth
• Geodesie, Geodoesia, g. the art of measuring land.
• Geographical, belonging to
• Geography, g. a descripti- of all the Regions and Coun∣tries of the Earth.
• Geographer, a Describer of the Earth.
• Geomanty, g. Divination by Circles drawn on the Earth, or opening of it.
• Geometrize, to play the
• Geometer, -trician, one skild in
• Geometry, g. the art of measuring [the earth.]
• Geometrical, belonging there∣to.
• Geoponical, g. belonging to tillage, or manuring ground.
• George, g. Husband-man.
• Georgians, Inhabitants of
• Georgia, Albania, border∣ing on Armenia.
• Georgian-hereticks, follow∣ers of David George (of Delft) who held that both Law and Gospel were unprofitable for Salvation, That He was Christ, &c. he died 1556.
• Georgicks, g. Books treat∣ing of husbandry.
• Geornlick. Sa. Willingly.
• Gerah, the least silver coin among the Jews, worth 1 d. ob.
• Gerard, Gerald, Garret, Sa. all towardliness.
• Gerbevillier, a town in Lorrain▪
• Gerent, l. bearing, carry∣ing.
• Gere, o. Jeer, jest, frenzy.
• In no Gere, o. at no rate.
• Gerfalcon, between a Vul∣ture and a hawk.
• Gergon, -ning, o. Chattering, prating.
• Gergo, ••one, I. speech.
• Germander, Chamaedris, Tris∣sago, Quercula major, the herb English-treacle.
• Germanity, l. a being near∣ly related, brotherhood.
• Germany, High-Dutch∣land.
• St. Germain, the Windsor of France.
• Germination, l. a budding.
• Gernsey, Sarnia, an Isle a∣bour 20 miles from Jarsey.
• Gersa, serpentaria, Cerusse made of Aram-roots.
• Gersuma, Sa. Gressume, Sc. a fine or income.
• Gertrude, Gar-, Sa. all truth.
• Gervase, (Sa. all fast, or g. ancient, noble) a Martyr at Millain under Nero.
• Gerunds, the Verbal Infi∣nitive terminations -di, -do, and -dum.
• Geryon, a Spanish King of three Countries, supposed to have 3 bodies and slain by Hercules.
• Gery, Gerifull, o. mutable, also cruel.
• Gesamund, Sa. Assembled.
• Geseke, a town in Westpha∣lia.
• Gessant, a Lions head born over a Chief.
• Gesseram, -ran, o. a brest∣plate.
• Gestation, l. a carrying.
• Gesticulation, l. making signs, using much gesture, acting of a person, also a kind of dance.
• Gestion, a doing or carri∣age of a business.
• Gests, great actions or Ex∣ploits performed.
• Getealed, sa. numbred.
• Gethild, sa. patience.
• Getulians, the first inha∣bitants of Africa.
• Geules, a red or vermilion colour.
• Gewgaws, Gug-, trifles for Children to play with.
• Gheta, a mineral lately found in Turky.
• Gheus, f. beggars, a nick∣name of Protestants in Flan∣ders.
• Ghittar, an instrument somewhat like a Cittern, on∣ly the strings are guts.
• Ghittern, a small sort of Cittern.
• Ghybe, Gibe, No. to scold.
• Gibbon, No. a Nut-hook.
• Gibbosity, l. a bunching out in the back, the Moons being 3 parts light.
• Gibe, o. to mock.
• Gibellines, a faction in Italy opposing the Guelphs.
• Gibraltar, -ther, Gebeltark, -rec, A. (the Mountain of Tarec son to Abdalla) the streights of the Mediterrane∣an sea, having on the North Mount Calpe, on the south Abila, with Hercule's pillars.
• Gibsere, o. f. a pouch.
• Gib-staffe, No. a quarter-staff.
• Giddy, No. Mad [with an∣ger.]
• Gideon▪ Gedeon, h. a break∣er or destroyer.
• Gierful, o. vulturine, ra∣pacious.
• Gifta, sa. Marriage.
• Gifu, Sa. Grace.
• Gigging, o. sounding.
• Gigantick, -tine, Giant-like.
• Gigantomachy, g. the War of the Giants [with heaven.]
• Gig, Giglet, -lot, o. a wanton woman.
• Gig-mills, for fulling and butling of cloth, prohibited.
• Gigot, f. a leg of mutton with the whole hip-bone, also▪ hasche.
• G••gger, c. a door.
• Gigg, c. the nose.
• Gigs, swellings on the inside of horses lips, also a pra∣ting, o.
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• Gilbert, Sa. bright as gold, or as Gislebert.
• Gilbertines, Fryers and Nuns of Sempringham, in Lincoln∣shire, instituted (1145) by one
• Gilbert, he lived to see 700 Fryers and 1100 Nuns of his Order.
• Gild, Sa. Tribute, Amerce∣ment, also a Company or fraternity combined by the Princes leave.
• Gildable, as Geldable.
• Gildale, sa. a club, a com∣potation where every one paid his share.
• Gildhal, Guildhall, the chief Hall of the City of London.
• Gild halda Teutonicorum, the Stilyard, hanse or fraternity of Easterling Merchants.
• Gild-Merchant, a privilege whereby Merchants might hold pleas of Land within their own precincts.
• Giles, Aegidius, l. Aigidion, g. a little kid, or for Julius, as Gilian, for Juliana.
• Gill, Ss. a small water, ri∣vulet or beck.
• Gillet▪ Aegidia, the Womans name.
• Gillingham, a Forrest in Dor∣setshire.
• Gilp, sa. a brag or boast.
• Gilt, Jilt, a cheat, a fly de∣feating ones intent.
• Gilt, c. a picklock.
• Gilt-head, a gold-coloured Fish.
• Gimlet, a piercer.
• Gimmal, as Gemmow-ring.
• Gimmer-lamb, (q. Gam-) an Ew-lamb.
• Ginglymos, g. (a hinge) the joining of bones, so that the same bone receives and is re∣received by another.
• Gipe, o. a coat full of plaits.
• Gingreat, o. to chirp like a bird.
• Gin••e, Gin, (for engine) a snare.
• Gippius, a Roman, Authour of the sentence Non omnibus dormio.
• Gippon, -ion, f. a jump a kind of short coat or Cassock.
• Gipsere, (f. Gibbeciere) a pouch.
• Gipsous, belonging to
• Gips, l. lime or plaister.
• Giraffe, an Asian beast, un∣der whose belly a man on horseback may ride.
• Girasol••, the Sun-stone of a golden splendour toward the sun, otherwise of an eye-like lustre.
• Girde, o, to strike.
• Girdle-sted, the waste or girdling place.
• Girle, Gerle, a Roe-buck of two years.
• Girthol, sc. a Sanctuary.
• Girt, a ship is girt, when the Cable is so taught that (upon the turning of the tide) she cannot go over it.
• Girvij, fen-dwellers, in Lin∣colnshire, Cambridgeshire, &c.
• Gisarme, Guisarme, Bisarme, Sisarme, a kind of halberd or Battle-ax.
• Gislebert, Gilbert, sa. bright pledge.
• Giste, f. a couch or lodging place,
• Gists of the Kings progress, a writing with the names of all the places where he means to lye by the way.
• Gisting, as Agist.
• Gite, o, a gown.
• Git, [eggs] beaten to oyl.
• Glacial, belonging to
• Glace, f. Ice.
• Glaciate, l. freeze or turn to ice.
• Gladdon, Gladwin, spatula foetida, Spurgewort.
• Glade, an open passage in a Wood.
• Gladly, (q. leodly sa.) com∣monly.
• Gladiatour, l. a Sword-man or fencer.
• Gladiature, l. Sword-play, or fighting.
• Gladuse, Br. for Claudia.
• Glaive, as Glave.
• Glandage, f. mastage, or the season of feeding hogs with Mast.
• Glandiferous, l. mast-bear∣ing.
• Glandulosity, a being
• Glandulous, l. full of ker∣nels.
• Glanoventa, a Town upon Venta, Wanspeck or Want∣beck, a River in Northumber∣land.
• Glare, o. glister.
• Glastenbury, an Abby (in Sommersetshire) founded (they say) by Joseph of Arimathaea, near which (in Wiral-Park) is a hawthorn that blossoms upon Christmas day.
• Glatton, No. Welsh ••lan∣nel.
• Glaucitate, l. to cry like a Whelp.
• Glaucoma, g. a fiery redness in the Cyrstalline humour of the eye.
• Glaucus, killed by Ajax in the Trojan War, also a Fisher, who (tasting of a certain herb) leapt into the Sea and became a Sea-God.
• Glaver, Glaffer, Che. Flat∣ter.
• Glave, Glay••e, o. a kind of hooked Sword or Bill.
• Glaymous, o. muddy and clammy.
• Glaze, to varnish.
• Glaziers, c. eyes, also Fi∣chers by unripping or creep∣ing into Windows.
• Glebe-land, belonging to a Parsonage (beside the tithes▪)
• Gleba, l. a clod of Earth.
• Glebosity, l. fulness of clods or turfs.
• Glede, o. a burning Coal, also a Kite.
• Gleden, o. gone.
• Glee, o. joy, or mirth.
• Glent, o. glanced.
• Gleire, o. white.
• Gleyre of an eye, o. the white of an Egge.
• Glimfenders, c. andirons▪
• Glimflashy, c. angry.
• Glimmering, a glancing or trembling light.
• Glimmer, c. fire.
• Glin, Br. a dale.
• Glister, as Clyster.
• Globosity, a being
• Globous, -bular, in form of a
• Glob••, a thing every way round like a ball.
• Glob'd, Ch••. fond of, wedded to.
• ...

• Glocester, Glevum, the City of Glocestershire.
• Glocester-hall, built by John Lord Gifford of Brimesfield, for Students in Oxford.
• Glombe, o. to frown.
• Glome, l. a bottom of thrid.
• Glomeration, l. a rolling or gathering into a round lump.
• Gloomy, o. dusky, or dark.
• Withouten Glose, without de∣ceit.
• Glose, o. to flatter.
• Glossomatical, belonging to a
• Glossater, Glossographer, he that makes a
• Gloss, l. a short Comment.
• Glossary, a dictionary or Gloss-book.
• Glossop••••a, g. the tongue-stone (from its shape.)
• Gloten, (for Cloathing) co∣vering.
• Glotend, Che. surprized, star∣tled.
• Glowden, o. shined.
• Glowed, o. stared.
• Glum, sadly, sowrely.
• Glutinosity, a being
• Glutinous, l. gluy, clammy.
• Glutination, l. a gluing.
• Gly, Li. to look asquint, an∣gerly.
• Glyconick [verse] of one Spon∣dee and two Dactyles.
• Glycerium, a Courtesan of Thespia.
• Glyster, as Clyster.
• Glymmer, c. fire.
• Glym, jack, c. a link-boy.
• Glym-stick, c. a Candle∣stick.
• Gmund, a Town in higher Austria.
• Gnarity, l. knowledge, ex∣perience.
• Gnarr, Gnurr, a hard knot in Wood, also a churle.
• Gnast (for Gnash) o. to vex.
• Gnathonical, playing or be∣longing to
• Gnatho, g. a flattering para∣site.
• Gnathonize, to flatter or play the smell-feast.
• Gnat-snapper, Fig-eater, a bird.
• Gnavity, l. industry.
• Gnew, o. gnawed.
• Gnoff, o. a churle or fool.
• Gnomological, belonging to the art of Dialling.
• Gnomonick, -mical, belong∣ing to a
• Gnomon, g. a Carpenters square, or pin of a Dial.
• Gnosticks, Carpo••ratians, Bor∣boritae, Borboriani, filthy here∣ticks (begun by Carpocras 125) pretending great know∣ledge, denying a future judg∣ment, holding two Gods, one good the other bad, &c.
• Gnurr, as Gnarr.
• Goa, the best of all the East-Indian Cities, where the Viceroy of Portugal keeps his Residence.
• Goaling, sending to the
• Goal, or gail.
• Goan, as Gawn.
• Goam, No. to clasp or grasp.
• Goam, Y. to mind or look at
• Goaring, cut ••loping (spoken of a sayl.
• Goats-beard, Tragopogon, g. an herb with long staring leaves, good in Consumpti∣ons.
• Goats-rue, with leaves like the Vetches but lighter, good against infection, &c.
• Gobettyd, a trought gob. o. a trout drest in bits.
• Goblins, as Elves.
• Gobonated, divided into two colours, as if it were cut into small gobbets.
• Go to God, go without day, as Aller sans jour, to be dismist the Court.
• Go-carts, wherein Children learn to go.
• Gods-good, Nf. K, Sf. barm, yeast.
• God-bote, sa. an Ecclesiasti∣cal or Church-fine.
• Godalming, a Town in Sur∣rey.
• Godard, sa. godly disposition.
• Godfrey, (Gods peace) a Christian King of Jerusalem, who refu∣sed to be Crown'd with gold, where Christ was Crown'd with thorns.
• Godiva, Wife to Leofric, Lord of Coventry, who (to gain them a release from his Im∣positions) rode naked through the City.
• Godwin or Goodwins Sands, (on the Coast of Kent) here∣tofore the rebel Count God∣wins Lands.
• Godwin, ge. victorious in God.
• Goes, a Town in Zeland.
• Goetie, g. witch-craft.
• Gofish, -yshe, o. sottish.
• Goffe, E. a mow of hay or Corn.
• Gog, h. the roof of a house, covered.
• A-Gog, eagerly bent up∣on a thing, also pu••t up with pride.
• A-Gogue, f. with his belly full, frolick, lively.
• Gog-magog, a (feigned) Bri∣tish giant (12 cubits high) whom Corinaeus, (Brutus's Companion) threw down
• Gogmagogs leap, a steep rock in Cornwall.
• Golden number, (writ in gold∣en or red letters, or of golden use in finding the changes of the Moon, &c.) it hath yearly one added till it come to 19, and then returns to one again because in 19 years the Sun and Moon were thought to finish their mutual Aspects.
• Gold n-Fleece, gold in grains (on the Colchian shore) ga∣thered by the help of sheep-skins with the wool on.
• Golden rod, a cleansing A∣stringent herb.
• Gold-foile, leaf-gold.
• Golgotha, Syr. a place of dead mens sc••lls.
• Goliah, -ath, h. a Giant of the Philistines whom David slew with a sling-stone.
• Go••ierdies, o. ravenously-mouthed.
• Golpe, Sp. a slash.
• A Golpe, Sp. at a blow.
• Goman, Gomman, o. a hus∣band or Master of a Family.
• The Gome that gloseth so chartes, o. the man or Officer that closeth the Writs or in∣struments.
• Gomer, h. (consuming) Fa∣Father

• of the Cimbri, also a measure somewhat above our gallon.
• Gomorrhaean, one of Gomor∣rha, a Sedomite.
• Gomphosis, g. the joyning of a bone together.
• Gonagra, g. the gout in the knees.
• Gonde, a town upon the Sihelde in Hanault.
• Gondola, -lot, a Venetian wherry-boat.
• Gonfennon, -fanon, f. a lit∣tle square flag at the end of a lance.
• Gong (q. Gang) o. a privy.
• Gonorrhaea g. the running of the reins.
• Good abearing, Good beha∣viour, an exact carriage of a Subject towards the King and his liege people.
• Good Country, a Jury of Country-men or good Neigh∣bours.
• Goodmes, o. Good time or mood.
• Goodmanchester, a town in Huntingtonshire, heretofore entertaining Kings with the pomp of 180 ploughs.
• Goole, (f. goulet) a breach in a bank or Sea-wall, also a Ditch, Li.
• Gooly, for Goodly.
• Goos-hill, a Chirurgeons instrument of the same use as a Crow-bill.
• Goos-grass, Cleavers, clean∣sing and strengthening the Liver.
• Goose intentos, a goose claim∣ed of custom by the hus∣bandmen in Lancashire upon the 16 Sunday after Pentecost when the old Church-prayer ended thus, -ac bonis operibus jugiter praestet esse Intentos.
• Goos-wing, a peculiar way of fitting up the mizzen-sail, so as to give the ship more way in a fair fresh gale.
• Gorbelly, -lied, having a ve∣ry great paunch or belly.
• Gorce, f. a fish-wear.
• Gorchum, a town in Hol∣land.
• Gor-crow, a Raven.
• Gord, f. a whirl-pool or deep hole in the water.
• Gordiaeus, an Armenian hill wh••re Noahs ark is said to have rested.
• Gordius, a Phrygian raised from the plough to the throne he hung up his harness in the Temple (for a memorial) tied up in a very intricate manner called the
• Gordian knot, Cut in two by Alexander (when he could not untie it) because the Monarchy of the world was promised to him that undid it.
• Gore, o. an arbour, also a pleit or fold.
• Gore, two arch lines from the sinister chief and bottom of th'Escutcheon, and meet∣ing (in a sharp angle) in the fess-point.
• Gorge, in a hawk is the Craw or crap in other fowls.
• Gorget, o. a throat.
• Gorgious, gallant, sumptu∣ous.
• Gorgons, Medusa, St••enio and Euryale (Phorcys's Daugh∣ters) who had snakes instead of hair, and killed men with their looks.
• Gorlois, a Prince of Corn∣wall, whose wife Uther-Pen-dragon enchanted, and begat on her King Arthur.
• Gorroghs, Leathern boats used by the Romans here.
• Gormandize, to play the
• Gormand, Gour-, f. a glut∣ton.
• Gormoncester, as Goodman∣chester.
• Gorst, o. bushes.
• Gortinians, a kind of New-England Quakers, from Sam-Gorton banished thence about 1646.
• Gospel, for God-spel, sa. good word or tidings.
• Goss-hawk, (q. Gross-hawk, or rather Goos-hawk) a large kind of hawk.
• Gossip (q. God-sib, sa, of kin before God) the God-father or God-mother.
• Gossemeer, Gossomer, -mor, Gossa-, Gossymear, Fila Virgi∣nis, Our Ladies hair, white Cobwebby exhalations flying about in sunny weather.
• Gote, a ditch, sluce or gut∣ter.
• Gothes, Gothi, people of
• Gothia, Gothe-land, a Coun∣try bordering upon Denmark and Norway,
• Gothlen, o. to grunt.
• Gotish, as Gofyshe.
• Gottorp, a town of South Juitland in Denmark.
• Goude, a town in Holland.
• Goule, o. Usury.
• Gouffaucon, o. for Gonfen∣non.
• Governail, Gouv-, f. the rudder.
• Gourd, a plant somewhat like a Cucumber, also a bot∣tle, o.
• Goureth, o. stareth.
• Goutes, Som. Common sinks or sewers.
• Goutwort, Herb-Gerrard, Ash∣weed, Jump-about.
• Gouvernante, Gov-, f. a governess or she-governour.
• Goyster, Ss. to be frolick, ramp, or laugh aloud.
• Gracchus Sempronius, a Roman General, who subdued the Celtiberians.
• Graces, Aglaia, Euphrosyne and Thalia (daughters of Jupiter and Venus) goddesses of Elegance, friendship, and hand∣some conversation.
• Grach, o. to behave [with a grace.]
• Gracility, l. slenderness.
• Gradatory, the ascent from the Cloyster to the Quire of the Church, also any going up by steps.
• Gradation, l. Climax, g. an ascending by degrees.
• Graduality, the being
• Gradual, l. by degrees, al∣so part of the Mass, sung be∣tween the Epistle and Gospel, also as
• Graile, a book of certain Offices in the Roman Church.
• Gradual Psalmes (of degrees or steps) the 15 Psalms from 118 to 133, sung on the 15

• steps in Solomons Temple.
• Graduate, l. having taken his degree.
• Gradde, (q. Grav'd) craved.
• ... Gradivus, Mars.
• Graecia, Greece, a large part of Europe, the nurse of learn∣ing, prowess, and of all Arts.
• Graeae, three Sisters of the Gorgons, they had all but one eye and one Tooth, which they used by turns.
• Graffer, Greff••er, f. a Notary or Scrivener.
• Graffically, g. exactly curi∣ously.
• Graie, Grey, a brock or bad∣ger.
• Graie-Fryer, as Cordelier.
• ... Grains of Paradise, Carda∣••ome.
• Graith, o. made ready.
• Grame, o. anger, sorrow, also mis-hap and punish∣ment.
• Gramercy, f. (Grand-merci) great thanks.
• Gramineal, -eous, l. grassy, or made of grass, green.
• Graminous, l. full of or over∣grown with grass.
• Grammatical, belonging to
• Grammar, g. the Art of Speaking, Reading and Writing.
• Grammatist, -ticaster, a young
• Grammarian, one skilled in Grammer.
• Grampus, a fish somewhat less than a Whale.
• Grampound, a Town in Corn∣wall.
• Granadil, sp. a small
• Granado, sp. a Pome-granate, also a hollow bullet filled with wild-fire and shot from a morter-piece, there are also hand-granadoes.
• Granary, l. a place to lay Corn in.
• Granate, l. a precious stone resembling a Pomegranate-stone.
• Grand, f. great, also as
• Grandee, a great or leading man.
• Grand-dayes, as Gau••y-days.
• Grandaevity, l. greatness of age, Antiquity, Eldership.
• Grand Cape, see Cape.
• Grand-distress, of all the Lands or goods a man hath within the County or Baily∣wick.
• Grandezza, I. -deza, sp. -d••ur, f. greatness [of state or Spirit.]
• Grandiloquence, -quy, l. great∣ness of speech or style, a be∣ing
• Grandiloquent, -quous, l. u∣sing high words.
• Grandimontensers, a Religi∣ous Order erected An. 1076. having their Abbey on a Mountain in Aquitane.
• Grandinous, l. belonging to, or full of hail.
• Grand Seignior, the Great Turk.
• Grandity, l. greatness.
• Grand Sergeanty, a holding Lands of the King by service to be done him in person, as to bear his banner, spear, &c.
• Grange, f. (a barn) a great farm with barns, &c.
• Granicus, a River in Bithy∣nia, where Alexander slew and took above 600 thousand Persians.
• Granito, I. a kind of speck∣led Italian marble.
• Grannam, c. Corn.
• Granson, a French Poet whom Chaucer translates.
• Graniferous, l. bearing grains or kernels.
• Granivorous, l. corn-devour∣ing.
• Grantham, a Town in Lin∣colnshire.
• Grans, a Town in the Earl∣dom of Mont-belgard.
• Granulation, l. a Chymical reducing of metals and mine∣rals into
• Granula▪ -ules, l. small grains.
• Graphical, g. curiously de∣scribed or wrought.
• Graplings, Grapness, a kind of Anchors with four flooks and no stock, used also in
• Grapling, or fastening of Ships together in a Fight.
• Grassatim, l. a robbing, spoiling and making havock.
• Grateolent, l. smelling grate∣fully or pleasantly.
• Gratiae expectativae, Popish Bulls or Mandates for livings not yet void.
• Gratch, o. Apparel.
• Gratianople, a City of Nar∣bon in France.
• Gratianus, Eunarius, a Ro∣man Emperour perfidiously slain by his Captain Andra∣gathius at Lions in France.
• Gratification, l. -fying, re∣warding; making amends.
• Gratings, small ledges a cross over one another (like a Port-cullis) in close Fights &c.
• Gratis, l. (for thanks) free∣ly, for nothing, undeservedly.
• Gratuity, l. a free reward or gift.
• Gratton, Ss. an ersh or ed∣dish;
• Gratton, k. stubble.
• Grats, a Town in Stiria.
• Gratulatory, belonging to or full of
• Gratulation, l. thanking, or rejoycing on anothers be∣half.
• Grave, Greve, D. Earl o•• Governour.
• Grave, o. a ditch, also a wood.
• Grave the ship, burn off the old stuff and lay on new, with train-oyl, Rosin and Brim∣stone boild together.
• Graveling, a Town in Flan∣ders.
• Gravesend, a Town in Kent.
• Graven, o. buried.
• Gravet, o. a grove.
• Graveolence, l. a rank or strong sent, a being
• Graveolent, smelling rank, stinking.
• Graver, a graving-steel, also an instrument to take off scales from the Teeth.
• Gravidity, l. a being
• Gravid, l. great with chi•••• or any young.
• Graviloquence, l. a grave speech or speaking gravely.
• Gravity, heaviness 〈◊〉〈◊〉 weight, also graveness or so∣berness in behaviour.
• ...

• Grauntee, to whom is given a
• Graunt, Grant, a gift (in wri∣ting) of such things as cannot fitly be passed by word only.
• Graunt mercy, o. for Gramercy
• Grayeth, o. (q. arrayeth) maketh trim.
• Graythed, o. devised.
• Greach-breach, as Grith-breach.
• Grease, the fat of a bore or hare.
• Great Men, temporal Lords in Parliament, and some∣times the Commons.
• Greaves, f. armour for the Legs.
• Grecians, men of Greece, also (as opposed to Hebrews) Heathens.
• Grecism, l. a greek idiom.
• Gree, Gré, f. willingness, a∣greement, satisfaction, also (in Heraldry) a step or degree
• Greek Church, differs in some things from the Roman, viz. in denying the Holy Ghosts proceeding from the Father and the Son, admitting only painted images, admitting none but marryed men into orders, &c.
• Grede, o. to cry.
• Green-Cloth, a Court of Ju∣stice, sitting in the Counting-house of the Kings Court.
• Green-hew, Vert, every green thing growing within a Fo∣rest.
• Green-silver, a yearly half-peny paid the Lord of Writ∣tel Mannour in Essex for eve∣ry fore-door opening towards Greenbury.
• Green-war, Estreats delive∣red to the Sheriffs, under the Exchequer Seal (in Green-wax) to be levied in their several Counties.
• Green-wich, a Town in Kent, where Humphrey Duke of Glocester built the Pallace cal∣led Placence.
• Greece, Grece, o. gray.
• Grei••ed, o. made.
• Greith, o. to remove, or bring.
• Greathly, No. handsomely, towardly.
• In Gr••ath, well.
• Greet & yowl, Cu. weep and cry.
• Greese, l. a step or stair.
• Gregal, l. belonging to a flock or company.
• Gregory, g. watchfull.
• Gregorian, [cap of hair] first made among us by
• Gregory, a Barber in the Strand.
• Gregorian, Lilian, Forreign or New Account, a correction of the Calender (through the advice of Antonius Lilius, and other Mathematicians) 1584. by
• Pope Gregory, the XIII. who made the year to consist of 365 dayes, 5 hours, 49 mi∣nutes and 12 seconds. And that the Vernal Equinox (which was then March 11) might be reduced to March, 21 (as it was at the time of the first Nic••n•• Council) he Commanded the 4th. to be the 14th. of October▪
• Grenhead, o. [q. Greenhead] rashness.
• Gresham Colledge, the house of Sir Thomas Gresham, who endowed it with Revenues for the maintenance of Profes∣sours of Divinity, Law, Phy∣sick, Astronomy, Geometry and Musick.
• Gremial, -ious l. belonging to the lap or bosom.
• Grest-feders, o. Crest-fea∣thers.
• Grete, o. as Grede, to cry.
• Greves- o. [q. Groves] Trees, Boughs, Grass.
• Greve, as Grave, a Lord,
• Griffe graffe, f. by hook or by crook, any way.
• Griffenberg, a Town in lo∣wer Ponurania.
• Grigg, a young Eel.
• Grills, a kind of small fish.
• Grill, o. cold, [q. gresse, f. hail.]
• Grilliade, -lade, f. a dish of broyled meat.
• Grimace, f. a sour crabbed look, a wry ill-favoured face made.
• Grimsbie, a Town in Lincoln∣shire.
• Grim••ald, -moald, ge. power over anger.
• Grinstead, a Town in Sussex▪
• Grint, o. for grinded, ground▪
• Grinders, c. Teeth.
• Grise, as Greese.
• Gripe, the sharpness of the stem under water.
• The ship Gripes, when she is apt to run her nose too much to the wind.
• Griph, o. a riddle.
• Grip, Gripe, a little trench.
• Grishild, ge. Grey-Lady.
• Grispe, o. gripe or grasp.
• Grisly, o. fearfully, horribly,
• Grith, o. agreement.
• Grit, a Grample-fish.
• Grith breach, Grich-, sa. breach of the peace.
• Grith-stole, as Frodmortel.
• Grobianism, f. slovenliness, the practice of a
• Grobian, f. a sloven.
• Groffe, Gruff, Growff, o. Groveling.
• Groine, o. a froward grunt∣ing look.
• Groening, -ghen, the chief Town of
• Groening-land, a Province of the Neatherlands.
• Grommyts, little rings on the upper side of the yard, to which the Caskets are fastned
• Gromatick [Art,] of casting out the ground for quarters, fortifying a Camp, &c.
• Gromel, -mil, the herb Pearl-plant.
• Gron, Sa. a fenny place.
• Grondsell, a threshold.
• Gropers, c. blind men.
• Groop, o. a pissing place.
• Grosse boys, f. great wood, Timber.
• Grosvenour, Gravenour, [great hunter] a noble Fami∣ly of Cheshire.
• Grossome, for Gersuma.
• Grot, l. a Cave.
• Grotesca, I. -sques, f. antick work, odde confused painting without any sense or mean∣ing, also any rude mishapen thing.
• Groveling, with ones face or belly on the ground.
• Ground ••he ship, bring her on the ground, to be trimmed.
• Ground-Pine, an herb creep∣ing

• on the ground and resem∣bling the pine tree.
• Grout, No. wort of the last running, New ale, also Mil∣let.
• Groundswel, Senecio, an herb that quickly decayes.
• Ground-timbers, which are first laid over the keel and make the ships floor.
• Grouppade, f. a lofty kind of horse-mannage.
• I Grow, No. I am troubled.
• Growbed, o. for Grubbed.
• Growm, an engine to stretch woollen cloth.
• Growth half-peny, paid (in some places) for tythe of e∣very fat beast, Ox and other unfruitfull cattel.
• Growz, No. to be chill [at the beginning of an Ague ••it.]
• Groyne, f. the snowt [of a sow.]
• Abuck Groyneth, makes that noise.
• Grumosity, l. a curdling of liquor into a thick mass or clod, a being
• Grumo••••s, l. Cloddy, full of Clots or hillocks.
• Gruarij, the principal Of∣ficers of the Forest.
• Grunting-peek, c. pork.
• Grunting c••eat, c. a pig.
• Gryffen, -fon, g. a fierce creature whose fore part is like an Eagle, purple colour∣ed▪ and whitish wings, the hinder part like a Lion, black, by Modern Writers esteemed fabulous.
• Griffith, Grif-, Br. strong-faithed.
• Grymsey, a town in Lin∣colnshire.
• Grys, o. a Partridge.
• Guacatane, an Indian ••••le-wort.
• Guadage, as Guidage.
• Guadelquivir, a River of Andaluzia in Spain
• Guadiana, the river Ana, in Portugal, running 14 miles under ground, so that the bridge may feed 10 thousand Cattel.
• Guaiacum, a West-India dry∣ing wood, good against the French disease.
• Guaiavas, a kind of Indian apples.
• Guastald, he that hath the Custody of the Kings Mansi∣on-houses.
• Guastaliens, a Religious or∣der of men and women be∣gun 1537 by a Mantuan La∣dy, Countess of Guastala.
• Gubernation, l. a governing.
• Gu••ernator, l. a Govern∣our [of a ship.]
• Gudge••ns▪ Rudder-irons.
• Gu••lderland, Gel-, one of the Neatherlands.
• Gu••lphs, and Gibellines, two great factions in Italy.
• Guenliana, a valiant Lady, (wife to Gryffin Prince of Wales,) slain in a battel with Maurice of London.
• Guerring, o. (q. jarring) brawling.
• Guerdon, f. a reward.
• Guest-takers, Gist-, as Agi∣stors.
• Gugaws, h. Gnugabb, a jews-harp or toy for Chil∣dren.
• Guidage, mony for safe-con∣duct through a strange place
• Guid••n, f. a horse-banner, also the Corner or bearer of it.
• Guill, Che. to dazle [the eyes.]
• Guild-hall, as Gild hall.
• Guilford, Geglford, sa. a town in Surrey, the Mansion place of the English-Saxon Kings.
• Guinethia, Guineth, Veno∣dotia, South-Wales.
• Guiny, Nigritarum Regio, a Kingdom of Africa.
• Guise, Manner or fashi∣on.
• Guld, Maneleta, a certain Corn-weed.
• Gules, as Geules.
• Gul••, Goule, or Yule of August, St. Peter ad vin••ula, Lammas day, when they say Quirinus's Daughter (by kissing St. Peters chain) was cured of a Disease in her
• Gu••ule, f. a Throat.
• Gulick, the Chief town of
• Gulick-land, a province of Germany.
• Gulf, Gulph, a streight see between two lands, or the meeting of two se••s.
• Gulling, when the pin of a block eats or wears into the Sheever, or the yard into the Mast.
• Gulosity, l. Gluttony.
• Gultwit▪ for Gyltwit.
• Gum Animi, Indian am∣ber.
• Gum Arabick, from the Egyptian thorn-tree Aca∣cia.
• Gummilda, she killed her self, because her Husband Asmond King of Denmark was slain in battel.
• Gun, No. a great flag on of ale.
• Gunora, a Norman Lady, who held the Hamlet of Lanton by the service of a barbed Arrow to the King when he hunted in Cornedon Chase.
• Gunwale, the piece of Timber that reaches on ei∣ther side from the▪ half deck to the forecastle; also the lower part of any Ordnance-port.
• Gurgitate, l. to devour or swallow up.
• Gurgitive, l. belonging to a gulph or stream.
• Gurnard, a fishes name.
• Gusse••, an abatement, for∣med of a travers line from the dexter Chief perpendi∣cularly to the extream Bases▪ or Contrary-wise.
• Gust▪ Gest, a Guest or stranger that lodges with us the 2d night.
• Gust▪ l. a taste or rel∣lish, also a sudden blast o•• wind.
• Gustation▪ l. a tasting, also a little knowledge or experi∣ence.
• Gusto, I. a right relish, Savour or Taste of any thing,
• ...

• Gustatory, l. a banqueting house.
• Gut-tide, Shrovetide.
• Gutta rosacea, a praeter-na∣tural redness in the Face.
• Gu••ta serena, a clear speck [hindring the eye-sight.]
• Guttulous, belonging to or full of drops.
• Guttural, l. belonging to
• Guttur, l. the Throat.
• Guttu••al letters, pronounc∣ed in the Throat.
• Gutturous, Gutt••r-, having a wide throat.
• Guzes, (in Her.) the ball of the Eye.
• Guy, Guido, Guide, f. a lea∣der or director.
• Guydage, as Guidage.
• Guye, a rope that guides gently any thing hoised a∣board, also the rope that hales forward the pendant of the winding tackle.
• Gwalstow, sa. patibuli locus, the Gallows or Execution-place.
• Gwab••-merched, Br. a fine to the Lords of some Man∣nours upon the marriage of their Tenants-daughters, also as Lair-wite.
• Gy, o. a guide.
• Gybe, c. any writing or passe.
• Gyges, a Lydian Shepherd who kil'd the King Candaules (his Master) and enjoy'd his Crown and Wife (whom he had shown him naked) by the help of
• Gyge's ring, taken from a dead Giants finger found in the belly of a brasen horse in the Earth, who's collet (turned inward) made him invisible.
• Gyltwite, a compensation or amends for trespass or fraud.
• Gymnastick, g. belonging to a
• Gymnase, g. a place for ex∣ercise (of body and mind) a School.
• Gy••nasticks, books treating of Exercise.
• Gymnasiarch, the head M••¦ster of the place where the Champions did exercise, the chief Master of a School.
• Gymnosophists, g. Indian Philosophers of a naked and solitary living.
• Gyndes, a river cut by Cy∣rus (in his siege of Babylon) into 46 channels.
• Gynecocracy, Gynocraty, g. a Feminine Government.
• Gypsation, l. a plaistering with Mortar.
• Gyration, l. the fetching of a large compass, a wheeling about, dizziness.
• Gyre, g. a circuit, compass or cariere, the bound or end of a course or race, also a traunce, dump or fit, o.
• Gyron, Guyron, f. a geron, half a square or quarter in an Escutcheon cut off by an oblique or diagonal line.
• Gysarme, as Gisarme.