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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• JAacob, as Jacob.
• Jabber, to pratle or chat.
• Jabesh, h. Confusion.
• Jabin, h, Understanding.
• Jack, Wambasium, a horse∣mans defensive coat in war.
• Jack by the hedg, Alliaria, an Herb with broad leaves, smelling like garlick.
• ...Jack with a Lanthorn, Ignis fatuus.
• Jackall, the lions provider, following his prey with open cry gives notice thereby to the Lion who follows him▪ the beast that is shewn in England under that name re∣sembles a fox in all things save the smell.
• Jacca, a City of Arragon in Spain.
• Jacchus, one of the names of Ba••chus.
• Jacent, ly••ng along, slug∣gish.
• Jac••nth, as Hya••inth.
• Jacob, h. (a tripper, sup∣planter or beguiler) Israel, James.
• ...Jacobins, Dominicans.
• Jacobites, Hereticks (An. 530.) following one
• Jacobus Syrus, he held but one will, nature and opera∣tion in Christ, Circumcised both sexes &c.
• Jacobus, a broad piece of gold coined by
• Jacobus, l. James, the first King of Great Britain.
• Jacobs-ladder, reaching from earth to heaven, Gen. 28.
• Jacobs-staff, a certain Geo∣metrical instrument, a staff with a sword in it, also a pil∣grims staff wherewith they walk to▪
• St. Jago, Sp. Jaques, f. James of Compostella in Spain.
• Jactancy, -titation, l. a vain boasting.
• Jactator, l. a boaster.
• Jaculab••e, capable of
• Jaculation, l. a shooting or darting▪
• Jaculato••y, suddenly cast forth (like a dart.)
• Jactivus, Jec-, he that los∣eth by default.
• Jael, h. a Doe.
• Jaen, a town in Spain.
• Jalop, a black West-India root purging waterish hu∣mours.
• Jallamaka, a place (in the Moguls Country) to which they go in pilgrimage.
• Jamaica-wood, Granadillo, a fine-grain'd speckled wood, from
• Jamaica, an American I••sland taken from the Spani∣ard▪ 1655.
• Jambes, f. (legs) the side-posts of a door.
• Jague, c. a ditch.
• Jam••eaux, -eux, f. armour for the legs.
• Jambick verse, whose feet are
• Jam••ick, the first syllable short and the other long.
• Jamblichus, a Syrian Pytha∣gorean Philosopher, the Di∣scipl•• of Porphyrius.
• ...

• Jamb-stone, the Mantle-tree-stone.
• James, as Jacob.
• Jamoglaw, a Turkish Offi∣cer.
• ... Jampnum, Furze, Gorse.
• Jane, o. half-pence of Ge∣noua.
• Jangerlesses, o. brablers.
• Janizaries, Tu. (the new Militia) the principal foot-soldiers of the Turks Guard.
• Janewits, a Town in Bo∣hemia.
• Jannes and Jambres, the E∣gyptian Sorcerers withstand∣ing Moses.
• Jannocks, No. oaten bread.
• Jansenism, -ianism, the Do∣ctrine of
• Corn. Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres, an opposer of Uni∣versal redempion, and an enemy to the Jesuits.
• Janthe, the Daughter of Telessa, who (on her wedding day) was transformed to a man.
• Janicula, Italy, from
• Janiculum, a town built by
• Janus, an ancient King of Italy, painted with two (and sometimes four) faces.
• Janus's Temple, built by Nu∣ma, in peace shut, and in war open.
• Jape, o. jest, play.
• Japed, o. cheated.
• Japan, an Island in Asia.
• Japetus, Son of Titan and Terra, Father of Prometheus and Epimetheus.
• Japygia, Calabria, Magna Grecia, on the borders of Italy.
• Jarbas, King of Getulia.
• Jargon, f. gibrish, pedlers French.
• Jark, c. a Seal.
• Jarnac, a Town in France.
• Jaroslaw, a Town and Dut∣chy belonging to the eldest Son of Muscovy.
• Jarro, sp. an earthen pot or pitcher.
• Jarre of Oyl, twenty gal∣lons.
• •• Jarre, Nf. [the door stands] half open.
• Jarrock, a kind of Cork.
• Ja••sey, a French Island sub∣ject to England.
• Jasion, -ius, Son of Jupiter and Electra, to him Ceres brought forth Pluto.
• Jasmin, Jesemin, a tree whose flowers (with other mixture) make Jesemin-but∣ter.
• Jason, Son of Eson King of Thessaly, he fetcht the golden fleece from Colchos.
• Jasper, a green precious-stone with red veins, also Gasparus, a mans name.
• Jasponyx, g. a white Jasper with red strakes.
• Jatraliptick, g. one that cures by outward application of ointments, frications, &c.
• Jathromathematique, a Phy∣sician and Mathematician, or that cures in a Mathematical way▪
• Java, an Island of Asia.
• Javan, Jon, founder of the
• Jonian or Greek Nation.
• Javarine▪ f. the Fort Raab in Hungary.
• Javelin, f. a dart or launce, between a Pike and Partisan.
• Jaundice, a disease proper∣ly yellow, yet the worst kind is also black.
• Jay rout perdu mon temps & labeur, f. I have quite lost my time and pains.
• Jay en vous toute ma fiance, f. I have all my confidence in you.
• Jazul, a blew precious stone.
• Jaycza, the chief Town of Bosnia in Turkie.
• ... Iberia, Spain.
• Ibete, o. set forth, went.
• Ibex, Evick, a kind of moun∣tainous Goat.
• Ibis, a Lybian bird feeding on Serpents, which (they say) taught Hippocrates the use of glisters.
• J. C. Juris-Consultus, a Law∣yer.
• Icarus, Son of O••belus, he was slain by a Shepherd of Athens whom he had made drunk.
• Icarian, belonging to
• Icarus, the Son of Daeda∣lus, who (flying too high) melted the wings his Father made him, and fell into the Sea.
• Ice-bone, Nf. a rump of Beef.
• Iceni, the antient inhabi∣tants of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cam∣bridge, and Huntingtonshire.
• Iche, o. I.
• Ich Dien, Ge. (I serve) the motto of the Princes-arms (••hree Ostrich feathers) won by Edward the black Prince from John King of Bohemia.
• Ichabod, h. where is glo∣ry?
• Ichneumon, g. an Indian Rat.
• Ichnography, g. a platform or ground-work of any build∣ing.
• Ichthyocolla, Isinglass, glew made of the skin of Fishes.
• Ichthyologic, g, a discourse or description of Fishes.
• Ichthyonomancy, g. a divina∣tion by F••shes.
• Ichthyop••agi, g. Fish-eaters.
• Icht••yophagy, g. Fish-eat∣ing.
• I••leped o. called, named.
• Icond, o. learned.
• Iconical, -nomical, belong∣ing to an
• Icon, g. an Image or picture.
• Ic••n▪ Basilike, g. the picture of the King.
• Iconism, a true and lively description.
• Iconoclast, -tes g. a demolish∣er or breaker of Images.
• Iconography, g, the platform or model of a house, a de∣scription by cuts, &c.
• Icorven, o. cut or carved.
• Ict••rical, belonging to or troubled with
• Icterus, l. the Jaunders, Jaundise, or overflowing of the gall.
• Ida, a Trojan Mountain, where Paris, gave judgement against Juno and Pallas for the
• ... Idalian Queen, Venus.
• Idas, the Son of Neptune, who (by force) carryed a∣way

• ... Marpesia the Daughter of Mars, as she was dancing in a wood.
• Ideal, belonging to an
• Idea, g. the form or repre∣sentation of any thing in the mind.
• Ideated, made by or for a pattern in the imagination.
• Identification, a causing of
• Identity, sameness, or be∣ing the very same.
• Identitate nominis, a writ for him that is imprisoned for another of the same name.
• Ides, the eight daies next to the nones in every moneth.
• Idiograph, g. a private wri∣ting, or of ones own hand∣writing.
• Idiom▪ g. the peculiar phrase of any language.
• Idiopathy, g. a peculiar pa∣ssion, or affection.
• Idiosyncrasy▪ g. the natural property, or peculiar tem∣per of a thing.
• Idiotism, as Idiom, also as
• Idiocie, simplicity, the be∣ing an▪
• Idiot, g. a natural fool, of whose estate the King (by his prerogative) hath the disposal.
• Idiotical, belonging to fools or private men.
• De Idiota inqui••endo vel exa∣minando, a writ to examine (by Jury, &c.) the party su∣spected of Idiocy.
• Ido, o. undone.
• Idolatrous, given to
• Idolatry, g. a worshipping of
• Id••ls, images, false Gods, or the true God by images.
• Idolast••r, o. Idolater.
• Idol••t, a little Idol.
• Idomeneus, Deucalions Son, and Minos's Grand-child, dri∣ven from his Kingdom for of∣fering to sacrifice his Son (ac∣cording to his vow) being the first that met him at his re∣turn from Troy.
• Idoneity, fitness, a being
• Idoneous, l. fit, convenient.
• Idyl, g. a kind of Eclogue or short Poem.
• Jear-capstain, holds off the cable from the main Capitain and serves to heave the
• Jear [rope], a piece of a hauset (in great ships) fastend to the main yard and fore∣yards, to help to hoyse up the yard and succour the ties.
• Jeat, as Geat.
• Jebbe-aekch••see, the Grand Signiors pocket-mony which he throws to his Buffoons, &c.
• Jebusites, inhabitants of
• Jebus, h. (the fire of the Lord) the old name of Jeru∣salem.
• Jeconiah, h. stability of the Lord.
• Jeer, as Jear.
• Je••ret, a Turkish exercise of darting launces on horse∣back.
• Jegen, an Isle in North ••u∣itland.
• Jegerndorf, a Town in Silesia.
• Jehoahas, h. the Lord seeing.
• Jehoash, as Joash.
• Jehojakim, as Joakim.
• Jeho••am, as Joram.
• Jehosap••a••, h. the Judge∣ment of the Lord.
• Jehovah▪ h. (which was, and is, and is to come) Gods proper name of his own imposing, ne∣ver pronounced by the Jews on pain of death, only by the High-Priest in the holy of Holies on the day of expia∣tion.
• Jehu-march, furious, like that of the Captain
• Jehu, h. being:
• Jejunation, l. a fasting.
• Jejunity, a being
• Jejun••, l. hungry, empty, barren.
• Jemmingen, a Town in Westphalia.
• Jeman, for Yeoman.
• Je ne sçay quoy, f. [sick of] I know not what.
• Jennet••, Barbary-horses.
• Jenticulation, l. a breaking ones fast.
• Jeofaile, (f. Jayfaillé, I have failed) an oversight in plead∣ing or other law proceedings.
• Jeopard, f. to endanger or run the
• Jeopardy, danger or hazard.
• Jeremiah, h. high of the Lord.
• Jeroboam, h. fighting a∣gainst.
• Jerusalem-Artichoaks, Ba∣tatas, (Potatoes,) of Cana∣da.
• Jerby, a Town in Cumber∣land.
• Jesses, short straps fasten'd to the hawks legs and var∣vels.
• Jesu, the Genitive, Dative, Vocative and Ablative case of▪
• Jesus, the same as
• Jesuah. Josuah, Jehosuah, a Saviour.
• Jesuati, Apostolici, Monks begun (by John Columbanus and Francis Vincent) at Siena in Italy An. 1365.
• Jesuites, (of the society of Jesus) instituted by St. Ignati∣us Loyola a Spaniard, and confirm'd by Pope Paul III. An. 1540. Sep. 15. To the common Vows of Poverty, Obedience and Chastity, he added Mission, to go whither∣soever the Pope should send them.
• Jesus Colledge, in Oxford, built (for Welshmen) by Hugh Price 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Laws.
• Jet, o. a device.
• Jethro, h. excelling.
• Jetzeba, Itz-, a Town in Holstein.
• Jevouldray, f. I would.
• Je vous die sans doute, f. I tell you without doubt, for certain.
• Je••son, Jetzon, Jotson, see Flotson.
• Jews-cars, (q. Judas's Ears)▪ an excresence about the root of Elder, on which Judas is supposed to hang himself.
• Jewise, o. reward by re∣venge, also a gibbet, or (as Juise) Judgement.
• Jews-stone, a Marchesite.
• Ifare, o. gone.
• If••re, o. together.
• Ifete, o. an effect.
• ...

• If••tte, o. fetched.
• Ifretten, o. devoured.
• Ificched, o. fixed.
• Ifounded, o. sunk.
• Ignaro, I. a foolish igno∣rant fellow.
• Ignifluous, l. running or flowing with fire.
• Ignifie, l. to set on fire.
• Ignipotent, l. powerful in fire.
• Ignis fatuus, l. (a foolish fire,) Will with a wisp, a flight ex∣halation set on fire; it follows one that follows it, because the air doth so, also a foolish fancy.
• Ignivomous, l. spitting or vomiting fire, as Etna, &c.
• Ignitegium, as Curfeu.
• Ignitible, l. capable of
• Ignition, a being or making
• Ignited, set on fire, made hot or fiery.
• Ignoble, l. base (in birth, spirit, &c.)
• Ignominious, l. full of
• Ignominy, l. disgrace, re∣proach, flander, &c.
• Ignoramus, l. (we are igno∣rant) written (by the Grand Inquest) upon bills whose evi∣dence is weak, and the party (thereupon) delivered, also as Ignaro.
• Igraven, o. buried.
• Igurde, Igourd, o. in a round, or to fly [round.]
• Ignoscible, l. pardonable.
• J. H. S. taken and used (by ignorant Papists, &c.) for Jesus Hominum Servator, but proved by Antiquaries to be only a contraction of the greek, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Jesus.
• Ihir••d, Ihiried, o. praised.
• Iholpe, o. helped.
• Ihight, as hight.
• Jilt, o. to deceive or defeat ones expectation especially in the point of Amours.
• Ikend, o. known.
• Ik, D I••••, ge. I.
• Ikenild-street, (from Iceni) one of our four famous Ro∣man High-waies from South∣ampton to Ti••••outh.
• Ilc••ester, Ivelcester, a Town in Somerset-shire.
• Ilfarcombe, a Town in De∣vonshire.
• Ilia, Daughter of Numi∣••or King of the Albanes, a Ve∣stal Nun, but Mother of Ro∣mulus and Remus by Mars.
• Iliades, Homer's books of the destruction of
• Ilium, Troy, from
• Ilus, a King thereof, the Son of Dardanus.
• Iliaque, -acal, belonging to the
• Iles, Ilia, g. the flanks or three small guts.
• Iliac passion, wind in the small guts.
• Ilike. o. like.
• Ilimed, o. taken.
• Ilk, o. each, the same.
• Ilion••us, a Companion of Aenaeas into Italy.
• Illaborate, l▪ without la∣bour or pains, plain.
• Illacerable, l. that cannot be torn in pieces.
• Illachrymable, without pity, uncapable of
• Illachrymation, l. weeping.
• Illaqueate, l. to entangle.
• Illatebration, l. a hiding or seeking of corners.
• Illative, belonging to
• Illation, l. an inference or conclusion.
• Illatration, a barking at.
• Illecebrous, l. enticing.
• Illegitimate, l. unlawful, base-born.
• Illepid, l. dull, unpleasant.
• Illeviable, which may not be levied.
• Illiberal, l. niggardly.
• Illicit, -tous, l. unwarrantable.
• Illigation, l. an enwrapping or entangling.
• Illimitable, that cannot be limited.
• Illimitate, l. unbounded.
• Illiquation, l. a mingling earthly bodies with met∣talline.
• Illiterate, l. unlearned.
• Ill••gical, not according to the rules of Logick.
• Illoqu••s, o. (q. illu••) the place whi••her the dogs are to run.
• Illucidate, l. the same as
• Illuminate, l. to enlighten, explain.
• Illuminous, l. without light.
• Illusion, l. deceit.
• Illustrate, l. to make clear, or set forth.
• Illustrious, l. famous, re∣nowned.
• Illude, to mock or deceive.
• Illusory, l. mocking.
• Illuti••le, that cannot be purged from filth.
• Illyricum, Sclavonia, or We••∣denland.
• Ilmister, a Town in Somer∣setshire.
• I m••te, o. I might.
• Imagery, f. painted or carv∣ed work of Images.
• Imagination, l. feigning, al∣so the phansie.
• Imasked, (for masked) ••. wrapped.
• Imaus, a Mountain divid∣ing Scythia into two parts.
• Im••argo, Emb-, Sp. an ar∣rest or stop of Ships or Mer∣chandise.
• Imbark, l. to go aboard.
• Imbecillity, l. weakness.
• Imb••llick, l. unwarlike, cow∣ardly.
• Imbellish, s. adorn, beauti∣fie.
• Imberweek, as Ember-,
• Imbering-daies, the Wed∣nesday, Fryday and Saturday in Ember-week.
• Imbezle, -esil, to steal, pil••er or purloyn.
• Imbi••e, l. to drink-in, re∣ceive greedily.
• Imbibition, a drinking-in▪ &c.
• Imborduring, making the Field and circumference (in Heraldry) both of one metal, colour or fur.
• Imbes••, f. to hide or shroud ones self in a wood.
• Imboss••ment▪ the manner of
• Imbossed work, with bosses or bunches in metal or stone.
• Imbracery, as Embra-,
• Imbricate, squared and bent like unto, also carved with an▪
• Imbrex, l. a gutter-tile.
• Imbrication, l. a covering with tile.
• ...

• Imbrocado, Sp. Cloth of Gold or Silver.
• Imbroyl, f. to put into a combustion, or set together by the ears.
• Imbuition, l. a thorow moi∣stening, seasoning or stain∣ing.
• Imeint, Imenit, Immenged, o. mingled.
• Imitatives, verbs expres∣sing
• Imitation, l. following or do∣ing like another.
• Imitatrix, she that imita∣teth.
• Immaculate, l. spotless.
• Immanity, l. outragious cru∣elty, excess, hugeness.
• Immansuete, l. untractable, wild.
• Immanuel, h. God with us.
• Immarcesc••nce, l. a not fa∣ding or withering, incorrup∣tibleness.
• Immarcessible, incorruptible, immortal.
• Immaturity, untimeliness, unripeness, a being
• Immature, l. unripe, unsea∣sonable.
• Immediate, l. next and pre∣sently following, with no∣thing between.
• Immedicable, l. incureable.
• Immemorable, l. not worth the remembering, unre∣markable.
• Immensity, l. hugeness, vast∣ness, a being▪
• Immense, l. exceeding large, unmeasurable.
• Immersible, which cannot be drowned, uncapable of
• Immersion, l. a dipping, ducking or plunging-in.
• Imminency, a being
• Imminent, l. hanging over, ready to fall.
• Imm••••ution, l. a making less.
• Immission, l. a sending, put∣ting, graffing or planting▪in∣to.
• Immobility, l. unmoveable∣ness.
• Immoderate, l. without mea∣sure.
• Immolate, l. to offer in sa∣crifice.
• Immolation, l. a sacrificing.
• Immorality, prophaneness, want of morality or common honesty.
• Immorigerous, l. disobedient.
• Immortalize, to give or cause
• Immortality, l. a being
• Immortal, which cannot dye.
• Immunity, l. freedom, pri∣viledge.
• Immure, l. to inclose with, or between walls.
• Immusical, having no mu∣sick or harmony.
• Immutability, l. Constancy, a being
• Immutable, l. unchangea∣ble.
• Impacable, Impla-, which cannot be appeased.
• Impacted, l. driven in.
• Impair, as Empair.
• Impale, I. to spit on a stake, to crown or adorn, also to fence about with pales, and (in Heraldry) the halfing a Coat of Arms.
• Impanation, the turning of another substance into bread.
• Imparisyllabical, not having a like number of syllables in every case.
• Imparity, -ility, l. uneven∣ness, inequality.
• Imparlance, as Emparlance.
• Imparsonee, in actual pos∣session of a parsonage.
• Impassibility, a being
• Impassible, not moved with passion or affection▪
• Impe, Ympe, Da. a shrub.
• Imp, Br. a young shoot or twig.
• Imp, (f. ente,) a graff,
• Imps, witches little fami∣liars.
• Imp a [hawks feather,] graff a new piece on an old bro∣ken stump.
• Impeach, f. to hinder, also to accuse one as guilty of the same crime with himself.
• Impeachment of waste, a re∣straint from committing waste upon lands or Tene∣ments.
• Impeccability, a being
• Impeccable, uncapable of sin∣ning or offending.
• Impedition, l. a hindring.
• Impediment, l. a hindrance.
• Impediment, -ilive, l. hinder∣ing.
• Impel, l. to drive or thrust on.
• Impend, l. to bestow or spend.
• Impendency, a being
• Impendent, -ding, l. hanging over ones head.
• Impendious, over-liberal.
• Impenetrable, which cannot be pierced▪
• Impenitent, hard-hearted, not repenting.
• Impennous, l. without fea∣thers.
• Imperative, l. commanding.
• Imperceptible, which cannot be perceived.
• Imperfect, [or Praeterimper∣fect] tense, hath (in English) the sign did before it.
• Imperial, belonging to an
• Imperator, l. a Commander, General or Emperour.
• Imperil, to hazard or endan∣ger.
• Imperious, Domineering, in∣sulting.
• Imperforable, l. not to be bored thorow.
• Imperforation, a closing up for want of boring or pierce∣ing.
• Impersonal [verbs] without the distinction of persons.
• Impertimence, a thing not belonging to the matter in hand, a being
• Impertinent, nothing to the purpose.
• Impervestigable, l. impossi∣ble to be found or searched out.
• Impervious, l. which cannot be gone or passed through.
• Impetiginosity, a being
• Impetiginous, full of, or troubled with an
• Impetigo, l. an Itching scab.
• Impetrable, which one may
• Impetrate, l. obtain by re∣quest.
• Impe••ren, o. to entreat.
• Impetuosity, a being
• ...Impetuous, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, fu∣rious, violent.
• ...

• Impiated, defiled, not purged from sin.
• Impierment, impairing or prejudicing.
• Impicate, l. to cover with pitch.
• Impiety, wickedness, a be∣ing
• Impious, l. ungodly.
• Impignorate, l. to pawn.
• Impigrity, quickness, a be∣ing
• Impigrous, l. diligent, rea∣dy.
• Impinge, to throw, dash, or run against a thing, also to drive or fasten a nail, &c.
• Impinguate, l. to make fat.
• Impinguation, a fatning.
• Implacability, obstinacy, a being.
• Implacable, l. not to be ap∣peased or reconciled.
• Implantation, l. a planting or fastening into.
• Implead, to sue one at law.
• Implement, l. a filling up.
• Implements, tools, and other necessaries belonging to a house or trade.
• Implication, l. a folding or wrapping within, an entan∣gling, also a necessary con∣sequence, and as Ploce.
• Implicitly, intricately, not in express terms but as in∣cluded and mixt with ano∣ther.
• Implicit faith, upheld by the judgement and authority of many agreeing together.
• Implore, l. to beseech hum∣bly and (as it were) with tears.
• Implume, l. bald, without feathers.
• Impluvious, l. wet with rain.
• Impolite, l. rough, unpolish∣ed.
• Imporcation, the making of a balk in ploughing.
• Imporous, l. without pores or holes.
• Importance, [a carrying in it] great weight or conse∣quence.
• Importunity, a being
• Importunate, troublesome [with two often and unsea∣sonable requests.]
• Importune, l. to request ear∣nestly and often.
• Importuous, without port or haven.
• Impositive, unnatural, im∣posed or given to.
• Impositour, he that imposeth the pages into a Form for the press; also a School-Moni∣tor.
• Imposititio••s [names] primi∣tive or radical.
• Impossibility, a being
• Impossible, which cannot be done.
• Imposition, l. an imposing or laying on, a strict injunction, also as
• Impost, f. tribute or tax, pro∣perly for Merchandise im∣ported, as Custom is for wares shipped out of the Land, but they are confounded.
• Imposture, the Practice of an
• Impostour, l. a Cheat.
• Imposthume, -tume (for Aposteme, g.) a gathering together of bad humours in any part of the body.
• Impotence, -cy, a being
• Impotent, l. unable, weak, lame.
• Impoundage, a putting into a pound.
• Imprecate, l. to curse, or call down mischief.
• Imprecation, a Curse or Curs∣ing.
• Impreci••ble, unvaluable,
• Impregnable, l. not to be won or taken by force.
• Impregnate, to make fruit∣full or cause to swell.
• Impregnation (in Chymistry) when a dry body hath drunk in as much moisture as it will admit.
• Imprescriptible, without the compass of prescription, which by no length of time can be aliened or lost.
• Imprese, I. a Devise with a Motto, signifying some par∣ticular design or undertak∣ing.
• Impress-money, Imprest, or Prest-money, ready money given (as earnest) to Soldi∣ers obliging them to be ready upon all occasions.
• Impression, l. a printing stamp or mark.
• Impression of Books, usually 1500, but in France 1250 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the usual journ••e (or dayes work.)
• Imprimery, f. a print or im∣pression, also a printing-house or the art of printing.
• Imprimings, beginnings, first essaies.
• Imprimis, l. first of all.
• Improbation, l. a disallowing, contrary to Approbation.
• Improbability, a being
• Improbable, l. unlikely, which cannot be proved.
• Improbity, l. Dishonesty.
• Improcerous, low, not tall.
• Improcreability, barrenness, an unaptness to procreate.
• Improlifical, not begetting nor apt to have issue.
• Impromiscuous, unmingled, not confused.
• Improperate, l. to upbraid one with a fault, to Nick∣name, also to make haste to go in.
• Impropriation, as Appropri∣ations about 3845 Parsonages passing by inheritance.
• Improvidence, want of fore∣sight, a being
• Improvident, careless or for∣getfull to provide.
• Improvement, a making bet∣ter and more profitable, a thriving or benefitting.
• Imprudence, want of discre∣tion, a being
• Imprudent, l. unwise, indis∣creet.
• Impudence, a being
• Impudent, l. shameless.
• Impugn, l. to fight against, contradict or resist.
• Impuissance, f. weakness.
• Impulse, -sion, l. a motion, driving or thrusting forward.
• Impunitively, without punish∣ment, unpunishably.
• Impunity, l. freedom from punishment.
• Impurity, l. uncleanness.
• Imputation, l. a laying to ones charge.
• ...

• Imputative, l. reckoned as done by or belonging to ano∣ther.
• Imputrescence, l. a keeping it-self from putrifying or rot∣ting.
• Imputrescible, l incorruptible.
• Imrohor (Emeer-Ahor) Ba∣shaw, Tu. Lord of the stable, chief Master of the Grand Signiors horse, Mules, Ca∣mels, and all his Cattel.
• In alto & imo, as Alto & ••••sso.
• Inaccessible, l. not to be com'n at.
• Inadvertence, -cy, careles∣ness, inconsiderateness.
• Inadulable, that will not or cannot be flattered.
• Inachus, the most ancient King of the Argives.
• Inaffability, a being
• Inaffable, discourteous, un∣pleasant in conversation.
• Inaffectation, a carelesness, or freeness from vain-glory.
• Inalimental, without nou∣rishing.
• Inambulate, l. to walk, up and down.
• Inamiable, l. unlovely.
• Inamissible, which cannot be lost.
• Inamorato, I. a lover.
• Inaniloquent, l. speaking vainly, or emptily.
• Inaniloquution, a vain or idle speaking.
• Inanimate, l. without life or Soul.
• Inanity, l. emptiness, vani∣ty.
• Inappetency, want of appe∣tite.
• Inarable, l. not to be plough∣ed.
• Inarticulate, confused, not articulate or distinct.
• Ina••gentation, l. a covering with silver.
• Inaspicuous, invisible, or hard to be seen.
• Inaudible, not to be heard.
• Inaugurate, l. to ask counsel of the Augurs or Soothsay∣ers, also to confer honour, to invest with an office or place of dignity, also to consecrate.
• Inaurated, l. guilded over.
• Inauspicious, l. unlucky, bo∣ding mischief.
• Inborh & Outborh, Inborow & Outborow. he that gave passage to (or was surety for) those that travelled between the two Realms of England and Scotland.
• Incandescence, l. a growing hot or angry.
• Incalescence, l. a growing warm or lusty.
• Incanescence, l. a growing gray or hoary-headed.
• Incantator, l. he that useth
• Incantation, l. inchanting or charming.
• Incapacity, unableness, un∣cableness, unfitness.
• Incarcerate, l. to imprison.
• Incarnadin, f. a deep rich or bright carnation colour.
• Incarnate-colour, a flesh-co∣lour, or colour of a damask Rose.
• Incarnation, l. a making flesh to grow, also an assum∣ing or being made flesh.
• Incarnative, a salve or me∣dicine to cause flesh to grow.
• Incastellated, f. narrow-heeled as a horse.
• Incendiary, l. Boute-feu, f. one that sets houses on fire, or sows dissention among men,
• Incénse, l. to inflame or provoke.
• Incense, a persume of the best frankincense.
• Incension, l. a setting on fire, also Musick in Consort.
• Incensory, l. a Censor, Cen∣sing or perfuming pan.
• Incentive, l. stirring, pro∣voking, inflaming; also a provocation, motive, or thing that will quickly take fire.
• Incentor, as Incendiary, also a singer of descant, between Succentor and Accentor.
• Inception, l. a beginning or undertaking.
• Inceptour, l. a beginner, he that is taking or hath newly taken his degree.
• Incessantly, Continually, without intermission or cea∣sing.
• Incer••••ng, l. sifting, exami∣ning.
• Incession, l. a going or walk∣ing.
• Incestuous, he that com∣mitteth
• Incest, l. (untying the Ce∣stus or virgin-girdle) defiling one that is near of blood or kinred.
• Inchantment, a Charm or Conjuration.
• Inchipin, the lower gut of a Deer.
• Inchoative, beginning, apt to
• Inchoate, l. begin, or take a beginning.
• Inchoative verbs, signifie to begin to do that which the primitives signifie.
• Incident, l. cutting off o•• hindring.
• Incident, l. happening, also an accident or circumstance, and (in law) a thing necessa∣rily depending on another, as a Court Baron is so incident to a Mannor, that it cannot be separated from it▪
• Incidentally, indirectly, col∣laterally or by chance.
• Incineration, a reducing to ashes.
• Incipation, a beginning.
• Incision, l. a cutting or lancing, also a short pointing of a sentence.
• Incisure, l. a cut or gash.
• Incite, l. to stir up or pro∣voke.
• Inclamitation, l. a frequent calling upon.
• Inclemency, l. rigour, unkind∣ness.
• Inclination, l. a bending or leaning towards, a dispositi∣on.
• Include, to shut or take in.
• Inclusion, an inclosing or shuting in, also as Epanadi∣plesis.
• Inclusive [of,] containing, comprehending.
• Inclusively, by taking in the extreams.
• Incoact, -ted, l. uncompel∣led.
• Incogirable, l. not thought of, or which cannot be com∣prehended

• by thought, also rash.
• Incogitancy, l. rashness, un∣advisedness, inconsiderate∣ness.
• Incognito, l. unknown, in private.
• Incobible, l. which cannot be restrained.
• Incolumity, l. healthfulness, safety.
• Incomity, l. unsociableness, want of civility in Conversa∣tion.
• Incommeable, l. unpassable.
• Incommensurable, l. holding not the same proportion, or not to be measured with ano∣ther thing.
• Incommiscibility, a being
• Incommiscible, uncapable of being mixt or mingled toge∣ther.
• Incommodate, to hurt or en∣dammage.
• Incommodious, l. inconveni∣ent, unfit or unprofitable.
• Incommunicable, which can∣not be made common or im∣parted to another.
• Incommutative, not to be changed or altered.
• Incompact, l. not well jointed or joyned.
• Incomparable, l. without compare, not having the like.
• Incompatibility, a being
• Incompatible, l. not agreeing together or enduring one a∣nother.
• Incompensable, uncapable of being recompensed.
• Incompetency, a being
• Incompetent, unfit, unsuffi∣cient.
• Incompossible [proposition] affirming what another de∣nies.
• Incomprehensible, l. which can∣not be comprehended or con∣ceived.
• Incomputrible, which will not rot or decay.
• Inconcinnity, l. unfitness, un∣handsomness, a being out of order.
• Incongelable, not to be con∣geled or frozen.
• Incongruity, a being
• Incongruous, l. disagreeable, unmeet.
• Inconnexion, l. a not holding together.
• Inconsiderable, not worth considering or taking notice of.
• Inconsiderate, rash, giddy.
• Inconsideration, rashness, un∣advisedness.
• Inconsistency, a being
• Inconsistent, which cannot consist or stand together.
• Inconsolable, l. not to be com∣forted or appeased.
• Inconstancy, unstableness, fickleness.
• Incontinency, want of mode∣ration in affections & desires.
• Incontinent, unchaste, also by and by▪
• Incording, Bursting, the fal∣ing down of the guts into the horses Cod.
• Incordiate, to perswade or put into ones heart.
• Incorporate, l. to mix bodies or substances together.
• Incorporeal, Spiritual, with∣out a body.
• In••orrigibility, a being
• Incorrigible, head-strong, past correction.
• Incorruptible, l. never decay∣ing, free from corruption.
• Incrassate, l. to make thick, or gross.
• Increate, Uncreate, not made.
• Incredibility, a being
• Incredible, l. not to be be∣lieved.
• Incredulity, l. a want of be∣lieving, a being
• Incredulous, hard or slow of believing.
• Increment, l. an increase or waxing bigger, also as Climax.
• Increpation, l. a chiding.
• Incressant [Moon] between the prime and full.
• Incroche, as Encroach.
• Incrustation, l. a rough-cast∣ing or pargetting, a making or becoming Cr••sty on the outside.
• Incubation, l. a lying down, sitting, brooding, or hatching.
• Incubus, l. the Devil (in mans shape) lying with wo∣men, as Succubus with men, also the Night-mare, or raw humours from the stomach troubling the brain and ani∣mal spirits, that the body cannot move.
• Inculcate, l. to tread or thrust in, to beat into the memory by frequent repetition.
• Inculpable, l. unreprovable, blameless.
• Incumbent, l. lying or lean∣ing upon, also he that is in present possession of a bene∣fice.
• Incumbrance, as Encumbr-.
• Incurable, l. not to be cured.
• Incurr, l. to run upon.
• Incursion, l. a running upon, a meeting or hit••ing against one another, also an inroad.
• Incur••ation, l. a bending or Crooking.
• Incussion, l. a violent shak∣ing or dashing against.
• Indacus, a servant of the Em∣perour Leo, who could out-run any horse.
• Indagable, which may be searched after.
• Indagation, l. a diligent searching or hunting out.
• Inde, f. Indico, a mineral used in dying blew.
• Indecent, l. unbecoming, un∣fitting.
• Indecimable, not to be tythed.
• Indeclinable, l. which cannot be declined or shunned, also (in Gram.) not varying the termination.
• Indecorum, l. unseemliness, unhansom carriage.
• Ind••fatigable, l. which cannot be wearied or tired.
• Indefeisible, which cannot be defeated or made void.
• Indefensus, one that is im∣pleaded and refuseth to an∣swer.
• Indefinite, l. not defined, de∣termined, limited or bound∣ed.
• Indelible, l. which cannot be razed or blotted out.
• Indemnify, to save harmless
• Indemnity, l. freedom from

• damage or danger, pardon.
• Indenization, the Act or Pa∣tent which doth
• Indenize, make a stranger a free Denizen.
• Indented, f. resembling the teeth of a ••aw.
• Indenture, a writing (in∣dented at the top) containing some mutual Contract, Con∣veyance or Covenant.
• Independency, a being
• Independent, absolute, not depending on another.
• Independents, Congregation∣alists, appearing in England about the year 1643, their Churches are not subordinate (as Par••chial to Provincial and they to National) but Co∣ordinate without superiori∣ty.
• Indeprecable, l. that will not be perswaded or entreated.
• Indepr••hensible, l. which can∣not be taken.
• Indesinent, l. continual, with∣out ceasing.
• Indeterminate, not precisely determined, but left indiffe∣rent.
• Index, l. whatsoever shews or directs, the fore-finger, hand of a Clock, table of a book, &c.
• India, the Indies, a famous, vast and rich Eastern Count∣ry.
• West-Indies, America or The new World.
• Indian-mouse, Ichneumon, which creeping into Croco∣diles mouths, eats up their Entrails and kills them.
• Indicative, shewing, declar∣ing, which doth
• Indicate, l. direct, make ma∣nifest.
• Indicative-mood, wherein the verb plainly affirms, de∣nies or asketh a question.
• Indication, a shewing, also a mark directing to the right way of prescribing medi∣cines.
• Indicavit, a writ whereby the Patron may remove an action of tythes (against his Clerk by another and ex∣tending to the 4th. part of the tythes) from the Court Christian to the Kings Court, whereto it belongs.
• Indiciduous, shewing, de∣tecting, discovering, also not apt to fall.
• Indico. as Inde.
• Indiction, a tribute or tax, also the space of fifteen years, which computation began at Rome (instead of the Heathenish Olympiades) at the dismission of the Nicene Council.
• Indictive, solemnly decla∣red or uttered, whereto the people were called by Pro∣clamation.
• Indictor, he that indicteth another.
• Indictee, he that is indict∣ed.
• Indifference, l. a careless and unconcerned affection.
• Indigence, l. penury, want, a being
• Indigent, poor, or needy.
• Indigenous, -nital, natural, born in the same Town or Country.
• Indigestible, l. which can∣not be digested, or concoct∣ed.
• Indigestion, a crudity or want of digestion in the Sto∣mach.
• Indigitate, l. to signifie or shew by pointing.
• Indignation, disdain, wrath.
• Indignity, l. unworthiness, also an affront or unworthy dealing.
• Indiscernable, not to be per∣ceived.
• Indiscer••ible, not to be rent or divided.
• Indiscretion, want of dis∣cretion or prudence.
• Indiscriminately, without making any separation or difference.
• Indissolvable, not to be dis∣solved.
• Indissoluble, l. which can∣not be untied, loosed or un∣done.
• Indistinct, not distinguished or known a sunder.
• Indistinctly, without distin∣guishing one from another, promiscuously, confusedly.
• Inditement, as Enditement.
• Inditiate, to give a mark or sign.
• Individuity, -uality, a being
• Individual, l. inseparable not to be divided.
• Individuum, l. an individual, singular or particular body or thing, as Peter.
• Individuum vagum, an indi∣vidual at large, a singular thing but not determined to be this or that in particular, as a man.
• Indivisible, l. which cannot be divided.
• Indivisum, l. that which two hold in common without partition.
• Indocility, -cibility, l. un∣teachableness, unaptness to be taught.
• Indocked, put into a Dock.
• Indoctrinate, l. to teach or instruct.
• Indolency, l. a not feeling (or want of) pain.
• Indomable, l. untameable.
• Indorse, to write on the backside, to lay on the back.
• Indorsed fish (in Her.) born with their backs to each o∣ther.
• Indorsement, the Sealed and delivered, &c. on the back of an Indenture; a Condition on the back-side of an Obli∣gation, &c.
• Indostan, that part of Indiae which belongs to the Great Mogul.
• Indubitate, l. not doubted of, taken for certain.
• Indubitation, a not doubt∣ing.
• Indubitably, undoubtedly.
• Inducement, f. a perswasi∣on, enticing or drawing on.
• Indu••iary, belonging to a truce or league.
• Induciat heir of this Imperial Crown, King James (then King of Scotland only.)
• Inductile, which may be brought into or perswaded.
• ...

• Induction, as Inducement, al∣so a form of argument enu∣merating the particulars, also a giving livery and sei∣sin of a Church to the Incum∣bent.
• Indue, l. to put on.
• Indulcate, -ciate, l. to sweet∣en.
• Indulge, -giate, l. to bear with, to cocker or make much of.
• Indulgence, pardon, favour, toleration, gentleness in suf∣fering, also as
• Indult, a special act of Grace, pardon or favour (in a written Instrument) from the Pope or other Prince.
• Indument, l. a garment or cloathing.
• Indurate, to harden, also hardened, unrelenting.
• Indus, a River in the East-Indies.
• Indusiated, l. cloathed with an
• Indusium, l. a shift, or any under-garment,
• Industan, an Indoston.
• Industrious, full of
• Industry, l. labour, dili∣gence.
• Inebriate, l. to make drunk.
• Ineched, o. put in (q. eked in.)
• Ineffable, l. unspeakable, not to be uttered or expres∣sed.
• Ineffugible, l. as Inevita∣ble.
• Inelaborate, not laboured or taken pains for.
• Inelegant, rude, without elegance.
• Ineluctible, not to be over∣com'n by wrestling or taking pains.
• Inept, unapt, foolish, out of season.
• Ineptitude, unaptness, also fondness, foolishness, vain∣ness.
• Inequitable, not to be rid through.
• Inequality, unevenness.
• Inertitude, sloathfulness, dul∣ness, ignorance.
• Ines••ation, a baiting, de∣ceiving, inveigling.
• Inescutcheon, an ordinary of a three-fold-line, repre∣senting the shape of th' Escut∣cheon.
• In esse, in actual being.
• Inestimable, Inaest-, which cannot be valued (to the worth.)
• Inestuate, to be very hot or boil much.
• Inevitable, which cannot be shunned or avoided.
• Inexaturated, Inexsat-, not filled or satisfied.
• Inexaturable, which cannot be filled or satisfied.
• Inexhauribility, a being
• Inexhaurible, -haustible, not to be drawn dry or empti∣ed.
• Inexorable, which cannot or will not be perswaded or intreated.
• Inexpedient, not expedient or fit.
• Inexperience, want of expe∣rience.
• Inexpiable, l. which cannot be purged from guilt, or sa∣tisfied for.
• Inexpleble, not to be filled.
• Inexplicable, which cannot be explained or unfolded.
• Inexpugnable, invincible, impregnable, which cannot be taken by force.
• Inextinguible, which cannot be put out, unquenchable.
• Inext••••pable, not to be rooted out.
• Inextricable, so intricate and difficult, that one cannot wind ones self out of it.
• Inexsuperable, Inexup-, which cannot be overcom'n.
• Infallible, never failing, ne∣ver deceived or deceiving.
• Infame, to defame or slan∣der.
• Infamous, scandalous, full of
• Infamy, slander, reproach or ill report.
• Infancy, (properly speech∣less age but commonly) mans first age (from one to seven years.)
• Infandous, (not to be spo∣ken) very wicked, heinous.
• Infangthef, -theof, -geneth-, [a liberty of trying] a thief stealing and taken in a mans own Jurisdiction.
• Infanta, any Daughter of the King of Spain except the Princesa (the eldest.)
• Infante, any Son of the King of Spain except the Principe (the Eldest.)
• Infanterie, Sp. the Foot-Souldiery.
• Infanticide, l. a killing of Infants.
• Infatigable, as Indefat-.
• Infatuate, to besot or make foolish.
• Infaust, -tous, unlucky.
• Infelicity, unhappiness.
• Infeodation, a granting in fee.
• Infeof, Infeoffe, to grant in fee.
• Inferial, belonging to fune∣rals or funeral rites.
• Inference, a conclusion (from premisses.)
• Inferiour, lower.
• Inferiour Planets, below the Sun.
• Infernal, belonging to hell or the Deep.
• Inferrible, which one may
• Inferre, bring-in or con∣clude (from premisses.)
• Infertil, barren, unfruit∣ful.
• Infest, to trouble or mo∣lest.
• Infestive, unpleasant, with∣out sport, joy or solemni∣ty.
• Infi••ulate, to button or buckle-in.
• Inficial, -atory, belonging to
• Inficiation, a denial.
• Infidelity, unfaithfulness, the being an
• Infidel, unbeliever, hea∣then.
• Infidous, false, unfaithful, not be trusted.
• Inf••mous, l. lowest, mean∣est.
• Infinitive, Infinite, Indefi∣nite, without end, number or measure.
• ...Infinitive mood, ••ot deter∣mined

• or limited (by num∣ber or person.)
• Infinity, endlessness, un∣measureableness.
• Infirmary, Fermory, a place for the sick in a Monastery, also an Hospital.
• Infirmity, a being
• Infirm, weak, indisposed.
• Infix, to fasten-in.
• Inflame, to set on fire.
• Inflammation, an inflaming, also a passive burning or swelling with heat.
• Inflate, puft-up, swoln.
• Inflation, f. a puffing-up or windy swelling.
• Inflexible, which cannot be bent or bowed, unruly.
• Inflict, to lay [a punish∣ment] upon.
• Influence, a flowing in or upon, a sending forth ver∣tue, power or operation up∣on inferiour things, also to cause action or motion.
• Influx, a flowing in.
• Infaecundity, unfruitfulness, barrenness.
• Infoliate, to be full of (or wrapt in) leaves.
• Information, a fashioning, instructing or making known.
• In forma pauperis, having Council and Clerks assigned without fees, upon Affidavit made that (your debts being paid) you are not worth five pounds.
• Informatus non sum, non sum informatus, an Atturneys formal answer in Court, when he hath no more to say in defense of his Client.
• Information for the King, (which,) for a Common-person, is called a Declara∣tion) by one who prosecutes as well for the King as for himself.
• Informers, Promoters, De∣latores, who complain in Court, of any that offend a∣gainst the Laws or penal Sta∣tutes.
• Informity, Deformity, a be∣ing
• Informous, without shape or fashion, ill favoured.
• Infragible, Infran-, not easi∣ly broken or discouraged.
• Infriction, -cation, a rub∣bing or chafing-in.
• Infringe, to break in pieces, to endammage or diminish.
• Infucate, artificially to co∣lour or paint (the face, &c.)
• Infus••ate, to make dark or dusky.
• Infuse, to pour in, to in∣spire with.
• Infusion, a pouring-in; the giving of a Glyster, also the steeping of things in li∣quor, that their virtue may pass into it, and also the li∣quor in which they have been infused.
• Ing, Da. a meadow or low ground.
• Ingage, to pawn, to ad∣venture.
• Ingannation, I. deceit, couse∣nage.
• Ingeminate, l. to double or repeat often.
• Ingenerable, l. not to be be∣gotten.
• Ingeniculation, l. a kneel∣ing.
• Ingenio, the Sugar-house or mill in Barbado's.
• Ingeny, Ingeniosity, wit, wit∣tiness.
• Ingenious, l. witty.
• Ingenuity, good or free na∣ture, a being
• Ingenious, good-natured, well-born and bred.
• Ingenious and Ingenuous, are too often confounded.
• Ingest, l. to carry o•• pour in.
• Ingestion, l. a carrying or conveying-in.
• Ingle, as Catamite, also a fire or a blaze, Cu.
• Inglorious, without glory, obscure.
• Ingluvious, l. gluttonous, ra∣venous.
• Ingolstad, a Town in lower Bavaria.
• Ingot, (q. Lingot, f.) a lit∣tle [tongue or] wedge of gold, also the trough wherein it is molten.
• Ingrailed bordure made of a line bending inward toward the field.
• Ingratitude, unthankfulness, a being
• Ingrate, ungrateful, un∣thankful, also unacceptable, unpleasant.
• Ingratiate, to get into ones favour.
• Ingredient, one part of a compound medicine, &c.
• In gree, f. in good part.
• Ingress, -ssion, l. an entring or walking into, also a be∣ginning.
• Ingressu, a writ of entry, whereby a man seeks en∣trance into Lands or Tene∣ments.
• De Ingressu sine assensu Ca∣pituli, &c. a writ for his Suc∣cessour who alienated with∣out consent of the Chap∣ter.
• Ingria, a Province in Swede∣land.
• Ingrossator magni Rotuli, Clerk of the Pipe.
• Ingrosse, belonging to the person of the Lord.
• Ingrosser, a forestaller, he that buys bread-corn grow∣ing, or dead victuals to sell a∣gain, &c. also a Clerk that writes Records or Instru∣ments in Parchment-skins.
• Ingrossing of a fine, the Chi∣rographers making the In∣dentures and delivering them to him to whom the Cogni∣sance is made.
• Ingruent, approaching, un∣lookt-for.
• Ingurgitate, Ingulph, to de∣vour or swallow like a gulf or bottomless pit.
• Ingustable, which may not or cannot be ••asted.
• Inhi••, o. in haste.
• Inhabitant, a dweller.
• Inhabited, dwelt-in.
• Inhabitable, not to be dwelt in.
• Inhalation, a breathing in or upon.
• Inherent, sticking to or a∣biding in.
• Inheritance, a perpetuity

• of Lands or Tenements to a Man and his Heir.
• Inhesion, Inhaes-, a sticking or cleaving to.
• Inhibition, a forbidding or stopping, a writ forbidding the Judge to proceed any farther in the cause before him, and (most commonly) a writ from a higher Court-Christian to an inferiour, upon an appeal; as Prohi∣bition is from the Kings Court to any Inferiour.
• Inhild, o. to infuse.
• Inhonestation, a disgracing, shaming, or making disho∣nest.
• Inhospitality, -ability, a be∣ing
• Inhospital, -able, not afford∣ing or unfit for entertain∣ment.
• Inhumanity, cruelty, a be∣ing
• Inhumane, barbarous, not like a man.
• Inhumation, a burying or putting into the ground.
• Inhume, to bury.
• Inidoneus, unfit, improper.
• Injection, a casting, squirt∣ing or conveying in.
• Inimical, -citial, like an enemy.
• Inimitable, which cannot be imitated.
• Iniquity, injustice, want of equity.
• Iniswen, Albion, the white Island, an ancient name of Britain.
• Initiate, to enter or begin.
• Initiative, which doth ini∣tiate.
• Initiated, entred or admit∣ted to any Art or Faculty.
• Injucundity, unpleasant∣ness.
• Injunction, a Command, al∣so a writ or decree of Chan∣cery, sometimes to give pos∣session to the Plantiff (upon the Defendants not appear∣ing,) sometimes to stop the rigorous proceedings of ano∣ther Court.
• Injurious, wrongful, against right.
• Inkling,, (q. tinkling, a lit∣tle sound, or else q. Eencke∣linghe, D. a running of divisi∣on) a small and uncertain re∣port.
• Inlagh, Inlaughe, under the law, one that is not out-law∣ed.
• Inlagary, -ation, a restitu∣tion of an Out-law to the pro∣tection of the Law and Liber∣ty of a Subject.
• Inlay, to lay in, to lay co∣loured Wood in Wainscot-work, Cup-boards, &c. See Marquetry.
• Inland, far in the Land.
• Inleased, (f. enlas••é) intan∣gled or insnared.
• Inmate, one who (not being able to maintain himself) is admitted (for money) to dwell joyntly with another.
• Innable, -atable, which can∣not be swimmed in.
• Innarrable, not to be decla∣red.
• Innate, natural, imbred.
• Innavigable, which cannot be sailed in or upon.
• Innerest, o. innermost.
• Innes of Chancery, Houses for Attorneys and young Stu∣dents in the Law, viz. Clif∣fords, Lyons, Clements, Ber∣nards, Staple, Furnivals, Da∣vies (or Thavies) and New-Inne.
• Innes of Court, Colledges for Counsellours and Students at law, viz. The Inner Tem∣ple (to which belong the three first houses of Chancery) Grayes-Inne, (to which be∣long the next two.)
• Lincolns-Inne, (having the two next) and the Middle Temple, (with the last.) The Outer-Temple is converted to Essex-house.
• Serjeants-Innes, two high∣er Houses for the Judges, Barons of the Exchequer and Serjeants at Law. These altogether (saith Sir Edward Coke) make the most famous University (for profession of Law only, or of any one hu∣mane Science) in the world.
• Innitent, endeavouring, lean∣ing on.
• Innocents or Childermas-day, December, the 28th. in memo∣ry of the Innocent Children slain by Herod.
• Innocuous, harmless or free from hurt.
• Innomina le, not to be nam∣ed.
• Innotescimus, Vidimus, Let∣ters Patent.
• Innovate, to make or be∣come new.
• Innovator, the author of
• Innovation, a bringing up of new customs, opinions, &c.
• Innoxious, harmless, also safe.
• Innubilous, without clouds.
• Innuendo▪ l. by meaning or signifying [such a particular person,] as to say that he (Innuendo, the Plantiff) is so or so.
• Innutrition, a nourishing.
• Ino, Daughter of Cadmus, nurse to Bacchus, and wife to Athamas King of Thebes, who (in his madness) supposing her to be a Lioness, drove her headlong into the Sea.
• Inobservable, not to be ob∣served.
• Inocciduous [stars,] never setting or going down.
• Inoculate, to engraff a bud or kernel.
• Inodoration, a perfuming.
• Inome, -ed, o. taken, obtain∣ed.
• Inominal, unlucky.
• Inopacous, open, not sha∣dowed.
• Inoffensive, giving no of∣fence.
• Inofficious [will,] which o∣mits or slightly provides for those that ought chiefly to be considered.
• Inopinate, unthought of, unlookt-for.
• Inopious, poor, needy.
• Inoptable, not to be wish∣ed.
• Inordinate, out of order or measure.
• Inorganity, a being
• ...

• Inorganical, wanting Or∣gans or instruments of moti∣on or operation.
• Inprision, an attempt.
• Inquietude, restlessness.
• Inquiline, a native, born where he dwells.
• Inquination, a defiling.
• Inquirendo, an authority (given) to enquire into some∣thing for the Kings advan∣tage.
• Inquisition, a diligent search, inquiry or Examination.
• Spanish Inquisition, Sacred Council of the Inq-. erected by Ferdinand the Catholick about 1492. to see that all Moors (whose Empire then determined in Spain) were baptized.
• Inquisitive, making a dili∣gent search, prying into.
• Inquisitors, Searchers, Co∣roners, Sheriffs, &c.
• Inrise, o. in [his] beau∣ty.
• Inrollment, a Registering of things [in the rolls of Chan∣cery.]
• Insanity, a being
• Insane, l. unsound (in body or mind.)
• Insanguin'd, dipt in bloud.
• Insative, not sown or plan∣ted, growing of its own ac∣cord.
• Insaturable, Insatiable, not to be satisfied or filled.
• Inscient, -ious, ignorant.
• Inscribe, to write upon, to make an
• Inscription, a name or title written or engraven upon.
• Inscrutable, unsearchable, not to be found out.
• Insculption, a carving or engraving.
• Insecable, which cannot be cut or divided.
• Insects, small fleshless and bloudless vermine, either not divided into joynts as other creatures, or as it were di∣vided between the head and body, as flies, &c.
• Insectation, a railing a∣gainst, a prosecuting or fol∣lowing [with ill language.]
• Insectile, cut, or which can∣not be cut.
• Insection, l. a cutting in∣to, also a Declaration, trea∣tise or long Discourse.
• Insemination, a sowing in∣to.
• Insense, Y. to inform (an elegant word.)
• Insensate, Mad, foolish, sensless.
• Insensible, sensless, also not to be perceived.
• Insertion, a putting, plant∣ing or graffing in.
• Insiccation, a drying.
• Insident, siting or setling upon.
• Insidiation, a lying in wait to ensnare.
• Insidiat res viarum, Way-layers.
• Insidious, deceitfull, crafty, wily.
• Insimulation, an accusing.
• Insimul tenuit, one species of the writ of partition.
• Insinuation, a winding ones self in by degrees, also an in∣timation or slight touch of a thing.
• Insipid, unsavory, fool••sh, without taste or judgment.
• Insipience, ignorance, fool∣ishness.
• Insist, to urge or stay up∣on.
• Insition, a graffing or put∣ting into.
• Insociable▪ not fit for com∣pany.
• Insolation, a bleaching or laying in the sun.
• Insolency, a being
• Insolent, proud, arrogant, contrary to common custom.
• Insoluble, as Indissoluble or Indissolvable.
• Insomnious, wanting sleep, also dreaming much.
• Inspection, a looking nar∣rowly into, an overseeing.
• Insperable, not to be hoped for.
• Inspersion, a sprinkling up∣on.
• Inspeximus, Letters patent.
• Inspire, l. to breath in∣to.
• Inspiration, a breathing in∣to, a being affected with the Spirit [of God.]
• Inspruck, the chief town of Tirol in Germany.
• Inspissate, to make thick or massy.
• Instability, unconstancy, sickleness.
• Instalment, a setlement or sure placing in, and some∣times as Abatement.
• Instancy, a being
• Instant, near at hand, ear∣nest or urgent, also an indi∣visible moment of time.
• Instance, an example, im∣portunity.
• Instauration, a renewing or repairing.
• Instigate, to prick, provoke or egg on.
• Instillation, a gentle infusion, a letting or falling in by drops.
• Instimulate, to spur-on.
• Instinct, inward motion or prompting (usually natu∣ral.)
• Instrumental, serviceable as a means.
• Institutes, Ordinances, In∣structions [in the Law, &c.]
• Institution, an Order or ap∣pointment, also the Bishops investing a Parson with Cure and Spiritualty (as Inducti∣on doth with the Temporal∣ty) of a living.
• Insubid, rash, inconside∣rate.
• Insubria, Gallia Cisalpina, Lombardy or Lumb-, in Italy.
• Insular, belonging to an Island.
• Insulsity, unsavoriness, fol∣ly.
• Insult, to leap upon or tri∣umph over.
• Insultation, -lture, a leap∣ing, boasting, &c.
• Insuper, upon.
• Insuperable, which cannot be overcom'n.
• Insupportable, Intolerable, not to be born or endured.
• Insurrection, a rising a∣gainst.
• Intabulate, l. to write in ta∣bles.
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• Intabulation, a boarding or planking.
• Intactible, not to be touch∣ed.
• Intakers, Thieves (on the borders of Scotland) who re∣ceived such booties as their Complices (the Out-parters) brought them.
• Intam••••e, to defile.
• Intangi••le, a•• Intactible.
• Integral, entire, whole.
• Integration, a restoring or making whole.
• Integrity, sincerity, sound∣ness, uprightness.
• Integument, a covering, al∣so a thing spoken covertly or darkly.
• Intellectual, belonging to the
• Intellect, the faculty or act of understanding.
• Intellectualist, one quick of apprehension or
• Intelligence, understanding, also notice or information.
• Intelligilble, which may be understood.
• Imtemperance, a being
• Intemperate, immoderate in desire, diet, &c.
• Intempestivity, a being
• Intempestive, unseasonable, out of order, also unlucky.
• Intendment, f. understand∣ing, meaning.
• Intenebrate, to darken.
• Intenerate, to make tender, soft, merciful or pliant.
• Inteneration, a softening.
• Intense, -sive, set, fixed, bent upon a thing.
• Intensely, to the utmost, in the highest degree.
• Intensively, as Appreciatively.
• Intent, -tion, a purpose, meaning or design.
• Intent, -tive, as Intense, &c.
• Intentable, which cannot be tempted.
• Intentation, a threatning.
• Intenuate, o. slender or sli∣ced.
• Inter canem & lupum, l. (be∣tween Dog and Wolf) by twylight.
• Intercalarity, the burden of a Song, or as
• Intercalation, a putting in or between, particularly that
• Intercalaris dies, the odde day in February every Leap-year.
• Interchangeably, by turns.
• Intercede, to come between, to play the
• Intercessour, Mediatour, he that maketh
• Intercession, mediating or praying for another, or help∣ing him to pray.
• Intercident, falling be∣tween.
• Intercident (or -tal) day, an extraordinary or critical day, forced by the malice of the disease.
• Intercision, a cutting off in the midst.
• Interclusion, a stopping the passage between.
• Interclusive, stopping or stopped, enclosed, shut-in.
• Intercolumniation, the di∣stance (or work placed) be∣tween two columns or pil∣lars.
• Intercommoning, feeding Cattle promiscuously in two contiguous Commons.
• Intercostal, l. between the ribs.
• Intercourse, a passing or pas∣sage between.
• Intercurrent, running or pas∣sing between.
• Intercutaneous, between the skin and Flesh.
• Interdict, to forbid, also as
• Interdiction, a forbidding, also a Church-censure pro∣hibiting the administration of Divine Rites.
• Interdicted of water and fire, banished, excommunicat∣ed.
• Interduct, a space left be∣tween full sentences (in wri∣ting.)
• Interemption, a killing.
• Interequitate, to ride be∣tween.
• Interessed, concerned, hav∣ing an
• Interest, concernment, part or share, right and title; also the use of money lent.
• Interfaction, an interrupt∣ing one in his discourse.
• Interfection, a killing.
• Interfectour, an interficient or destructive Planet, placed in the eighth house of a Na∣tivity.
• Interfeir, as Enterfeir.
• Interfluent, -uous, flowing or running between.
• Interjacency, a being
• Interjacent, lying between.
• Interject, cast or placed be∣tween.
• Interjection, a particle ex∣pressing a sudden passion, as Oh! &c. also as Parenthesis.
• Interim, [In] the mean while.
• Interiour, l. inward, on the inside.
• Interition, a perishing or de∣caying.
• Interlocution, a speaking be∣tween.
• Interlocutory, Order, not fi∣nal but for the present, till the cause can he heard.
• Interlopers, (q. Interleapers) D. those that intercept the trade of a Company, and are nat legally authorised.
• Interlucation, a letting in of light by cutting away Boughs.
• Interlude, a Comedy or that which is play'd (or done) between the Acts.
• Interlunary, belonging to the
• Interlunium, the space be∣tween the old and new Moon.
• Intermean, a mean between two.
• Intermeation, a passing be∣tween.
• Intermedian, lying or being between.
• Intermeteth, o. medleth.
• Intermicate, l. to shine be∣tween or amongst.
• Interminant, boundless, uncertain.
• Intermission, a putting be∣tween, a ceasing or leaving off for a while.
• ...

• Intermissions, spaces be∣tween the wall and pillars▪ or pillars and pillars.
• Intermit, to discontinue or leave-off for a time.
• Intermitting [pulse,] discon∣tinued for a while by the fit, an ill symptome.
• Intermixtion, a mingling between or amongst.
• Intermural, between the Walls.
• Internal, inward.
• Internecion, l. an utter slaugh∣ter or killing all.
• Internunciate, to go on a message between party and party.
• Interpel, to interrupt or di∣sturb.
• Interpellation▪ an interrupt∣ing, or being interrupted in ones business.
• Interpleder, as Enterpl-.
• Interplication, a folding be∣tween.
• Interpolation, a new dres∣sing or polishing of a thing.
• Interpose, to put or set be∣tween.
• Interposition, a medling or putting between.
• Interpretation, an expound∣ing or explaining.
• Interpunction, a distinguish∣ing by points.
• Interr, to bury.
• Interrex, he that ruleth during the
• Interreign, -regency, -regnum, the space between the death or deposition of one King or Governour, and the Successi∣on or election of another.
• Interrogation, a question.
• Interrogation-point, in Latin thus (?) in Greek thus (;.)
• Interrogative, used in asking of questions.
• Interrogatory, belonging to questioning▪ also a question in legal examinations.
• Interruption, a disturbing one in the midst of business, also a Parenthesis.
• Interscident, l. cutting or hewing in two.
• Interscript, -tion, an inter∣lining, or writing between the lines.
• Intersecants, pertransient lines crossing one another.
• Intersection, a cutting in the midst.
• Interse••tion, a graffing or putting in between.
• Intersonant, founding be∣tween, or in the mean while.
• Interspersed, bestrewed, scattered or sprinkled be∣tween.
• Interspersion, a sprinkling or scattering between.
• Interspiration, a breathing between.
• Interstitial, having an
• Interstice, distance or space between.
• Intertexture, a weaving be∣tween.
• Interval, any distance or space either of place or time.
• Intervene, to come between.
• Intervenient, coming be∣tween.
• Intervert, to deceive or falsly to convey away a thing com∣mitted to ones charge, also to turn upside down.
• Interview, a meeting of great persons, a sight of one ano∣ther.
• Intervigilate, watching now and then or between whiles.
• Intestable, uncapable (by law) to make a will, or to be ta∣ken for a witness.
• Intestate, [dying] without a will, also one that hath lost his credit.
• Quasi intestate, whose Exe¦cutors do refuse.
• Intestine, -nal, inward, hid∣den, belonging to the
• Intestina, inwards, entrails.
• Intestina gracilia, the little guts.
• Intestina terrae, Earth-worms.
• Intestinum duodenum, the gut next to the stomack.
• Intestinum caecum, the fourth or blind gut.
• Intestinum jejunum or tenue, the hungry or empty gut.
• Intestinum quintum vel cras∣sum, the same as Colon.
• Intestinum rectum, the strait or Arse-gut.
• Inthronize, to place on a throne.
• Intiertie, as Entiertie.
• Intimacy, great familiarity, a being
• Intimate, inwardly acquaint∣ed; also to shew or signifie privately.
• Intimidate, to affright or make fearful.
• Intinction, a dying or co∣louring.
• Intire, whole or found, as Entire
• Intituled, having this tîtle.
• Intitulation, an intîtling or adding a title.
• Intolerable, not to be born or endured.
• Intone, to thunder or speak aloud.
• Intonation, a thundering or making a terrible noise.
• Intoxicate, to poison or make drunk.
• Intractable, l. not to be hand∣led or managed.
• Intrado, En-, Sp. an en∣trance, also an yearly reve∣nue.
• Intraneous, l. inward.
• Intress, o. lining (perhaps for living.)
• Intribution, Contribution, or lot-money paid for lands.
• Intricacy, a being
• Intricate, intangled, per∣plexed.
• Intrigue, -que, f. Intricacy, incumbrance, labyrinth, se∣cret working.
• Intrins••cal, inward, secret.
• Introclude, to shut within.
• Introduce, to bring in.
• Introduction, a leading in, a preface or beginning.
• Introgression, a going in.
• Introit, an Entry or En∣trance, the first part of the Mass beginning Introib•• ad altare-.
• Intromission, a letting in.
• Introruption, a breaking in by violence.
• Introvenient, coming in.
• Introversion, a turning [ones thoughts] inward.
• Intrude, to thrust in rude∣ly

• and violently.
• Intrusione, a writ against an
• Intruder, he that commits
• Intrusion, unlawfull thrust∣ing himself into anothers right.
• Intuitive, belonging to
• Intuition, a clear and di∣stinct beholding of a thing.
• Intumescence, l. a swelling.
• Intumulate, to bury or throw an heap upon.
• Invaginate, to put into a sheath or scabbard.
• Invadiationes, Morgages or pledges.
• Invalidate, to make
• Invalid, weak, of no force or value.
• Invadible, capable of
• Invasion, Invading, setting upon another mans right.
• Invecked [bordure] inverting its points into it self.
• Invection, a carrying in or against.
• Invective, a railing, re∣proaching, biting and bitter speech.
• Inveigh, to rail against.
• Inveigle (f. aveugler▪ to blind, or I. Vagolare) to al∣lure or draw in.
• Invelope, as Envelope.
• Invention a finding out, a devise.
• Inventory, -tary, a reperto∣ry or Catalogue of Dead mens goods, to be valued by four credible men (at least) and exhibited to the Ordina∣ry.
• Inventre sa mere▪ f. In his Mothers belly, the name of a writ.
• Inversion, Inverting, a turning the inside out, or up∣side down.
• Invest, to cloath, compass or besiege, also to give one possession of a thing.
• Investigable, which cannot be searched or found out.
• Investigation, a diligent search or enquiry.
• Investiture, l. a giving pos∣session, or endowing.
• Inveterate, grown old, rooted, ••etled.
• Invid, spightfull, malici∣ous.
• Invigilate, to watch care∣fully.
• Invigorate, to give vigour, life, and courage.
• Invincible, not to be con∣quered.
• Inviolable, not to be viola∣ted or broken.
• Inviron, as Environ.
• Invious, without way or path.
• Invisible, not to be seen.
• Invitatory, belonging to
• Invitation, a bidding or cal∣ling to.
• Invitiate, to spoil or de¦file.
• Inumbrate, to shade or cast a shadow upon.
• Inunction, an annointing thorowly.
• Inundation, an overflow∣ing, a floud.
• Invocate, to call upon.
• Invoice, a particular of the va∣lue, custom & Charges of any goods sent by a Merchant (in another mans ship) and con∣signed to a Factor or Corres∣pondent in another Coun∣try.
• Involate, to fly in or upon.
• Involve, to wrap or fold in, intangle or overwhelm.
• Involvent, wrapping, &c.
• Involuntary, unwilling.
• Inurbanity, l. incivility, Clownishness.
• Inure, Enure, l. to accu∣stom, also (in Law) to take effect or be available.
• Inusitate, l. not accustom∣ed, seldom used, unusual.
• Inutility, l. unprofitable∣ness.
• Invulnerability, a being
• Invulnerable, l. not to be wounded.
• Jö, Daughter of Inachus, turn'd into a Cow by Jupiter, that she might not be known of Juno, who drave her into Egypt, where she recovered her former shape and was made a Goddess.
• Joab, h. Father-hood.
• Joachim, Jehoiakim, h. pre∣paration of the Lord.
• Joan, the feminine of John.
• Joännites, Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
• Joännitiques, Red Monks with the figure of a Chalice on their breasts.
• Joash, Jehoash, h. the fire of the Lord.
• Job, c. a guinny.
• Job, h. sighing, sorrowing.
• Jobelin (f. Gobelin) a s••t or fool.
• Jocalia, Jewels.
• Jocarius, a buffoon or jest∣er.
• Jocasta, Daughter of Cre•••• King of Thebes, after the death of her husband Laius, she unwittingly married her own son Oedipus.
• Jockumgage, c. a chamber-pot.
• Joclet-Yoklet, a little farm, requiring a small Yoke of Oxen to plow.
• J••c sity, l. merriness, a be∣ing
• Jocose, Jocund, Jocatory, Jo∣cular, Joculary, Joculatory, l. merry, jesting.
• John, h. Gracious.
• Joilite, o. for Jollity.
• Joinder, Joyn-, the coupling of two in a suit against one another.
• Join issue, put the cause to the trial of a Jury.
• Joint Tenants, that hold lands or Tenements jointly, by one tîtle or without par∣tition.
• Jointure, a settlement upon the wise in respect of marri∣age.
• Join-ville, a Town of Champagne in France.
• Jölaus, being old, was re∣stored to youth by the Pray∣ers of his Uncle Hercules, whose chariot he drove.
• Joly & Jolanus, for Julius and Julianus.
• Jollitrin, f. a Youngster, or young Gallant.
• ...Jombre, o. ••o joyn.
• Jonah, -as, h. a Dove.
• ...

• Jonathan, h. the gift of God.
• Jonglerie, f. Jugling.
• Joncade, f. a Spoon-meat of Cream, rose-water and Sugar.
• Jönism, -ick, belonging to
• Jonia, a Country of Asia the less.
• Iö Paean, a voice or song of rejoicing [to Apollo.]
• Jopas, a musical King of Africa, one of Dido's Suit∣ers.
• Joram, Jeho-, h. the height of the Lord.
• Jor and Dan, the two heads of
• Jordan, h. the River of Judgment.
• Joscelin, Justulus, a Diminu∣tive of
• Jost, Justus, or Jodocus▪ Joyce.
• Joseph, h. Encrease.
• Josias, h. the fire of the Lord.
• Josuah, Jesus, h. Saviour, a Name common to the Gene∣rals of Armies.
• Iöta, g. Jod, h. the letter I, (being the smallest of them all) a thing of little or no va∣lue.
• Iotacism, a frequent be∣ginning with the letter I; al∣so a fault in pronouncing it too broad. All (but English∣men) pronounce it ee.
• ... Jove, (q. Jehove) Jupiter.
• Jovial, (like Jupiter) Noble, also pleasant or merry.
• Jouketh, [the hauk] sleeps.
• Journal, f. a diary or day-book, also as much land as a team of Oxen can plough in one day.
• Jouissance, f. mirth or jolli∣ty.
• Journ choppers, regraters of yarn.
• Journé, f. a day, a daies journey or work, a day of battel.
• Journy-man, working [pro∣perly by the day, but now] by the year.
• Joyce, Jocosus, -sa, merry.
• Joyes of Planets, when they are in those houses where they are most powerful.
• Jowe, o. for jaw.
• Joyeux, f. joyful.
• Joyleyning, o. the same.
• Ipent, o. pin'd or pen't.
• Iphianassa, Iphinoe and Ly∣sippe, Daughters of Praetus King of Argos, preferring their beauty to Juno's were by her struck with madness, imagining themselves to be Cows.
• Iphicles, -clus, Son of Am∣phitryo by Alcmena, who bore him with Hercules (by Jupi∣ter.)
• Iphicrates, an Athenian Cap∣tain, who banished himself because they would not be guided by him.
• Iphigenia, Agamemnons Daughter, which should have been sacrificed to Diana because her Father had slain a Hart of hers, but the God∣dess pityed her and sent an Hart to be offered in her stead.
• Iphimedia, ravished by Nep∣tune, brought forth Ephial∣tes and Otus, who grew (eve∣ry moneth) nine fingers in length, till (helping the Gy∣ants against the Gods) they were slain by Apollo.
• Iphis, a young man who hang'd himself for the love of Anax••rete, who was also turn'd into a stone.
• Iphis, a Cretan Virgin turn'd into a man on her wedding day (at the prayers of her Mother) to avoid the anger of her husband Lygdus, who supposed her to be a man and had provided her a wife, he having commanded her Mo∣ther, if she brought forth a girl, to destroy it.
• Ippocrass, as Hippocras.
• Iprived, o. searched, pryed into.
• Ipsissime, l. the very same.
• Ips, a Town on the River Ips in the higher Austria.
• Ipswich, the chief Town of Suffolk, where Cardinal Woolsey (a Butchers Son) was born.
• Ipulled, Ipolid, Ipolished, o. smoothed.
• Iracundious, teasty, soon angry.
• Iradde, -rad, o. readd.
• Irascible, subject to or capa∣ble of anger.
• Irayled, o. covered.
• Irayed, o. arrayed.
• Irching, o. Urchin.
• Irchinfield, Archenfield. Where Hereford now doth, and the old Ariconium did stand.
• Ire ad largum, to go at large, escape, or be set at liber∣ty.
• Ire, f. anger, wrath.
• Ireland, Western Island and Kingdom subject to Eng∣land.
• Irene, the Mother of Con∣stantine the seaventh, reign'd with him 9 years, he expell∣ed her and reign'd alone 7 years, again she took him by craft, put out his eyes, cast him into prison (where he died) and reigned alone 4 years.
• Iris, Juno's messenger, the rain-bow, also an hexagonal precious stone.
• Irmunsal, Ermisul, (suppo∣sed to be Mercury) worship∣ped by the ancient Britains.
• Ironical, belonging to an
• Ironie, g. a speaking by con∣traries or mockingly.
• Iron-sick, leaky, by reason of the Irons being rusty and hollow in the planks.
• Iroquois, a people of Cana∣da in America.
• Irradiate, l. to enlighten or shine upon.
• Irrational, l. unreasona∣ble.
• Irrecordable, not to be re∣membred.
• Irrecuperable, Irrecoverable, unre-, not to be recovered, ut∣terly lost.
• Irredivivous, which cannot be rev••ved or repaired.
• Irrefragable, unbreakable, undeniable.
• Irregularity, a being
• Irregular, disorderly, out of

• rule, also uncapable of taking holy Orders, as being maim∣ed, base-born, criminal, &c.
• Irreligious, ungodly, pro∣phane.
• Irremeable, from whence there is no returning.
• Irremediable, l. not to be re∣medied.
• Irremissible. l. not to be re∣mitted or pardoned.
• Irremunerable, l. which can∣not be rewarded or recom∣pensed.
• Irreparable, l. which cannot be repaired or made up a∣gain.
• Irrepleviable, -isable, not to be replevied or set at large upon sureties.
• Irreposcible, l. not to be re∣quired again.
• Irreprehensible, l. unreprov∣able, blameless.
• Irresolute, unresolved, doubting.
• Irreverent, rude, without reverence.
• Irrevocable, l. not to be re∣voked or called back.
• Irrigate, l. to water or moi∣sten.
• Irriguous, l. that is or may easily be watered or washed.
• Irrision, l. a laughing at.
• Irritate, l. to provoke or stir up.
• Irrite, l. void, of no effect or weight.
• Irroborate, l. to make strong.
• Irrogation, l. imposing a tribute▪ penalty, &c.
• Irrorate, l. to bedew, be∣sprinkle or moisten.
• Ir••uent, l. rushing-in.
• Irrugation, l. a wrinkling.
• Irrump••nt l. breaking in.
• Irruption, l. a violent break∣ing-in or forced entrance.
• Irus, a beggerly messenger between Penelope and her sui∣ters▪ whom Vlyss••s kill'd with his fist.
• Isaac, h. laughter.
• Isaca, Isca, the River Ex.
• Isagogical, belonging to
• Isagogu••, g. an introducti∣on.
• Iseland, the utmost North∣ern Island.
• ... Isca Danmoniorum, Exce∣ster,
• Isca Silurum, Caerleon in Monmouthshire.
• Iscariot, (q. Ish Carioth) h. one of Carioth a Town in Judaea.
• Ischia, an Island near Na∣ples.
• Ischiatick, g. troubled with the Sciatica or Hip-gout.
• Ischnotes, g. a slender, child∣ish or Foeminine pronunciati∣on.
• Ischuria, g. a stoppage or difficulty of Urine.
• Isembourg, a County of Veteravia.
• Ishmaclite, Ism-, one de∣scended from, or like to
• Ishma••l, Ism-, h. God hath heard, or the hearing of God.
• Ishad, Ished, o. scattered.
• Ishet, o. shut.
• Ishorn, o. (for shorn) dock∣ed.
• Ishove, o. set forth, shown.
• Isicle, (q. Icicle, or small ice) hanging at the house-ea••es, &c.
• Isis, an Egyptian Goddess made of Iö.
• Isis, the River Ouse in Wiltshire.
• Islip, Gislipe, a Town in O••fordshire, where King Ed∣ward the Confessour was born.
• Isonomy, g. equality of Go∣verment under the same Laws.
• Isonglass, Isin-, as Ichthyo∣colla.
• Isosceles, g. [a triangle] with two equal sides and op∣posite angles.
• Isota de Nugarolis, a virgin of Verona, famous for Philo∣sophy, Philology and Poetry.
• Ispahan, the Metropolis of Persia.
• Isped, o. dispatched.
• Ispended, o. considered.
• Isperi, o. (q. Vespers) Oris••n.
• Israelites, the Children of
• Israel, h. (prevailing with the Lord) Jacob.
• Issachar, h. Wages.
• Issue, an effect, Children, profits of fines or lands, the matter depending in suit.
• Istalled, o. placed.
• Isthmian, belonging to the
• Isthm, -us, g. Neck of land between two Seas [whereon Corinth stands.]
• Istrained, o. (for strained) tied close.
• Istria, part of Italy joyn∣ing to Illyricum, and subject to Venice.
• Isurium Brigantum, an an∣cient City in Yorkshire, out of whose ruines was raised Ealdburg or Aldborow.
• Iswent, o. sw••nged, tossed.
• Italianated, which doth
• Italianize, play the
• Italian, one of (or belong∣ing to)
• Italia, -ly, one of the most famous Countries in Europe, whose chief City is Rome, where the Pope hath his seat.
• Italiana, a kind of Merce•••• stuff.
• Iterate, l. to repeat, do o•• say a thing over again.
• Ithaca, an Ionian Isle (where Vlysses was Prince) full of Goats, but no hare can live there.
• Ithee, o. to thrive.
• St. Ithies, a Town in Corn∣wall.
• Itinerant, l. traveling up and down.
• Itinerary, belonging to a journey, also a Calender of miles, lodging and other pas∣sages on the way.
• Itinerate, l. to travel or take a journey.
• Itwight, o. (q. twitched) drawn.
• Itylus, slain by his own mother Aedon instead of Amaneus the Son of A••∣phion.
• Itys, slain by his Mother Progne and set before his Fa∣ther Tereus (King of Thrace) at a banquet, for deflowring her sister Philomel; he per∣ceiving the murder, with his

• naked sword pursued them, but (in their flight) they were changed, Progne into a Swallow, Philomel into a Nightingale, and Itys to a Pheasant.
• Jub (q. Jug.) o. a bottle.
• Juba, King of Mauritania, a Constant friend to Pompey and his p••rty.
• Jubal, h. fading, or a trum∣pet.
• Jubarb, (q. Jovis barba) hous∣leek.
• Jubeb, Jajubes, Sericum, (A. Zufalzef) a kind of prune, used much in Physick.
• Jubilation, l. a shouting for joy.
• Jubil••te Lector, having read Divinity fifteen years.
• Year of Jubile, -lee, among the Jews every fiftieth year, when with Jobels (Rams-horns) and trumpets they signified their rejoycing and remission. Among Christi∣ans ordained by Pope Boni∣face the Eighth (1300) to be kept every hundredth year, by Clement the sixth, every fiftieth year, and by Sixtus the fourth (as it now stands) every 25 year, beginning it first Anno 1475.
• Jucatan, a Peninsula of New Spain.
• Jucundity, l. pleasantness.
• Judah, Jehudah, h. Confessi∣on.
• Judaea, Chananaea, Canaan, part of Syria, the holy land or land of promise.
• Judaick, -cal, Jewish.
• Judaism, the Faith, Custom or Religion of the Jews; al∣so a Mortgage.
• Judas, Jude, as Judah.
• Judas tree (with broad leaves) whereon he is sup∣posed (by some) to hang him∣self.
• Ju••gement Judicium▪ the se∣cond part of Logick dispos∣ing Arguments, as the first part (Invention) finds them out.
• Judicabl••, which may be judged.
• Judication, the giving of judgment.
• Judicatory, -ture, l. a place of judgment.
• Judicial, -ary; belonging to a
• Judge or Judgement.
• Jud••cious, full of judgment, wise.
• Judicium Dei, tryal of Or∣del.
• Judith. h. praising.
• St. Ives, a town in Hunting∣ton.
• Ivetot, a town of lower Nor∣mandy in France, whose go∣vernour was called
• King of Ivetot, one of a great Title and small inheritance.
• Jugal, l. belonging to a Yoke or Wedlock.
• Jugament, l. a yoking or coup∣ling.
• Jugular, -arie, belonging to the throat.
• Jugulation, l. a killing or cutting ones throat.
• Jugum terrae, half a plough-land.
• Jugurth, -tha, King of Numi∣dia, taken by the Romans (af∣ter a long war) and brought to Rome, where he died in prison.
• Ivingoe, a town in Bucks.
• Juise, o. Judgement, trial, examination.
• Jujubes, -uves, Jubeb-fruit, Italian plums like Olives.
• Juitland, Jut-, North and South, parts of D••nmark.
• Juke, to pearch or roost as a hawk.
• Julep, A. a preparative (of Syrups &c.) to open the in∣ward parts and prepare for a purgation▪ from
• Julap, P. a kind of Rose-water.
• I••lian, nus▪ a Roman Em∣perour who apostatized from Christiani••y to Heathenism.
• Iulian, -na, Gilian, a Wo∣mans name.
• Iuli••n Law (among the Ro∣mans) made Adulte••y death.
• Iul••an Are••unt, Old▪ Engl••sh acc••unt, where••y the year consists of 365 dayes and 6 hours, a Correction of the Calendar made (44 years be∣fore the birth of Christ) by
• Iulius Caesar, the first Ro∣man Emperour, he subdued France, Spain, Britain, and the greatest part of Germany, reigned 3 years, and was stab'd in the Senate-house.
• Iuliers, an Imperial town and Dukedome.
• Iulio, an Italian coyn (about 6 d. value) in the papacy of Pope Iulius.
• Iülus, g. (soft-haired or mossy-bearded) Ascanius, the son of Aenaeas, also a son of Ascanius.
• Iullaber, a little hill in Kent, where (they say) Iullaber (a Giant or Witch) was buri∣ed, or where Laberius Durus (a Captain of Iulius Caesars) was slain.
• Iuly, Quintilis, the fifth Moneth from March, so cal∣led in honour of Iulius Cae∣sar.
• Iumbals, certain sweet-meats
• Iumentarious, belonging to a
• Iument, l. a horse or any la∣bouring beast.
• Iument, f. a mare.
• Iuncaria, a soil where rushes grow.
• Iuncto, (Iunta, Sp.) a Caba••, Combination of particular persons.
• Juncture, l. a joynt or joyn∣ing.
• ••uncture [of time] the very nick or moment.
• Juncture [of affairs] the pre∣sent posture.
• Jungible, which may be joyn∣ed.
• Junk, any piece of an old Ca∣ble.
• Junonian, -ick, belonging to
• Juno, Twin-sister and Wife to Jupiter.
• Juno's tears, the plant Ver∣vain.
• Juniority, a being
• Junior, l▪ Younger.
• Jun••o, Sp. as Juncto, a meet∣ing of men to sit in Council.
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• Juon, o. John.
• Ivory, f. Elephants Teeth.
• Jupart, o. Jeopardy.
• Jupiter, Son of Saturn and Ops, he conspired against his Father, expelled him and di∣vided the Empire between Himself, Neptune and Pluto.
• Jupiter Belus, second King of Babylon, Son of Nimrod (or Saturn.)
• Jupiters distaffe, Mullein, Candelaria, a kind of Clary.
• Jura Regalia, as Regalia.
• Juration, l. a swearing.
• Jurate, l. sworn.
• Jurates, Aldermen, or Sheriffs.
• Jurden, Jurdan, Jordan, Jourdon, (q. Gor-den, sa. stercus cubilis) a Chamber-pot.
• Juridick -cal, l. belonging to the Law, lawful, action∣able.
• Juridical-day, a Court-day.
• Jurisdiction, l. authority, also the compass or extent thereof.
• Juris prudence, l. knowledge or skill in the Laws, also the stile or form of the Law.
• Jurist, a Lawyer.
• Jurn-choppers, as Journ-.
• Juror, one of the
• Jury, a Company of men sworn to deliver a truth up∣on such evidence as shall be delivered to them.
• Grand Jury, twenty four grave and substantial men.
• Petit Jury, twelve men (at least.)
• Juris utrum, a writ for the incumbent whose Predeces∣sour hath alienated his Lands or Tenements.
• Jury mast, made at Sea, in case of necessity.
• Ivry, a Town in Norman∣dy.
• Jus Coronae, (Crown-Right) part of the Law of England, and (in many things) differs from the General Law.
• Jus Curialitatis Angliae, the Courtesie of England.
• Jus Patronatus, the right of Patronage or presenting a Clerk to a Benefice.
• Jussel, a minced dish of se∣veral meats.
• Jussulent, l. full of, or stew∣ed in broth.
• Justes, f. Turnaments or Tiltings on horse-back with spears and lances.
• Justice, -cer, -eier, f. a Judge or Administrer of Justice.
• Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench▪ he hears and de∣termines all Pleas of the Crown, Treasons, Felonies, &c.
• L••rd Chief Justice of the Com∣mon-Pleas, he hears and de∣termines all causes at the Common-Law, that is, all Civil causes (personal and real) between common per∣sons.
• Lord Justice of the Forest, Justice in eyre of the Forest, one which hath Jurisdiction over all the Forest on this side Trent, and another over all beyond.
• Justices of Assise, sent (by special commission) into this or that (but not his own) County, to take Assises for the Peoples ease.
• Justices of Oyer and Termi∣ner, deputed (upon special and extraordinary occasions) to hear and determine some particular causes.
• Justices errants or in Eyre, were sent with Commissions into the Country to determine the Pleas of the Crown; for the ease of the Subject, who must else have com'n to the Courts at Westminster.
• Justices of Gaol-delivery, sent with Commission to hear and determine all causes belong∣ing to any cast into Gaol.
• Justice of the hundred, the Lord or Alderman of the Hundred.
• Justices of Labourers, ap∣pointed to redresse their fro∣wardness, who would either not work or have unreasona∣ble wages.
• Justices of Nisi prius, are (now) the same with Justices of Assises. Some make this difference, that the first have jurisdiction in causes personal as well as real, and these (in strict acception) deal only in Possessory writs.
• Justices of Trail-••aston, (f. draw-staff,) Inquisitours ap∣pointed by King Edward the first, on occasion of great dis∣orders in the Realm, during his absence in the Scotish and French wars.
• Justices of the Pavilion, au∣thorised by the Bishop of Winchester (at a fair held near that City) by virtue of a grant from King Edward the fourth.
• Justices of the P••ace, appoin∣ted (by the Kings Commissi∣on) to attend the peace of the County where they dwell.
• Justicements, all things be∣longing to Justice.
• Justicies, a writ for the She∣riff to dispatch some special cause above the ordinary reach of his County-Court.
• Justiciable, subject to autho∣rity or Law.
• Justicium, Lawsteed, vaca∣tion, a stay or ceasing from ministration of Justice.
• Justifical, executing or do∣ing Justice.
• Justification, a justifying, clearing, maintaining, ma∣king good or shewing a good reason for.
• Justificators, Compurga∣tors, which (by oath) justi∣fie the Innocency, report or oath of another.
• Justinians, Fryers and Nuns instituted 1412 in St. Justines, an Abbey at Pa∣dua.
• Justinianists, Civilians, Stu∣dents of the Civil Law, re∣duced into the Code and Pa••∣dects by
• Justinian, -nus, an Empe∣rour of Rome.
• Justinopoli-, Ca••o d' Is••ri••, a City of Istria, built by the Emperour Justine.
• ...

• Jutties of houses, those parts that jut or stand out be∣yond the rest.
• Juturna, the Daughter of Daunus, made by Jupiter (for the loss of her maidenhead) the immortal Nymph of the River Numicius.
• Juvenal, a Roman Saty∣rist.
• Juvenility, a being
• Juvenile, l. youthful, lusty.
• Juventas, Hebe Daughter of Juno without a Father, the Goddess of Youth, also young age.
• ...Juverna, Hibernia, Ireland.
• Iwimpled, o. muffled.
• Iwis, o. certainly.
• Ixions wheel, (a feigned pu∣nishment in hell) continually turning about, having fasten∣ed on it
• Ixion, Son of Phlegyas, thrown to hell for boasting that he had lien with Juno, in whose stead Jupiter had placed a Cloud, on which he begat the Centaures.
• Iwroke, o. wreaked.
• Iwry, -yen, o. hidden.
• Iyen, o. eyes.
• Izhak, as Isaac.