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 ...

R.

• RAa, o. a Roe.
• Raab, Javarin, a Hun∣garian Fortress.
• Raba••es, [the hawk] reco∣vers the bearers fist.
• Rabbeting, a close kind of joining boards (by laying them over) to keep out wind or dust, also the letting in of the planks to the Ships keel.
• Rabbinical, belonging to the
• Rabbies, -bins, h. the Jew∣ish Masters or Doctors.
• Rabbinist, one skil'd in their works, also a dunce.
• Rabdomancy, g. divination by rods.
• Rabid, l. raging, mad.
• Racemation, l. grape-glean∣ing.
• Racemiferous, cluster-bear∣ing.
• Racha, Raca, h. rascal, a term of reproach.
• Rachel, h. a sheep or lamb.
• Rachetum, -hat-, Thief-bote, the compensation or redemption of a Thief.
• Racine, f. a root.
• Rack, the Duke of Exeter's Daughter, an Engin to ex∣tort Confessions, brought into the Tower by him (be∣ing Constable, 16 H. 6.) in¦tending to bring in the whole Civil Law.
• Rack, Re••k, No. to take thought or care.
• Rackel, Rakil, o. hasty.
• Rack Vintage, a second voyage of our Merchants in∣to France, for
• Rack'd wines, cleansed and drawn from the Lees.
• Rad Knights, as Rod K-.
• Radamant, as Rhada-.
• Rhadegund, sa. favourable Counsel.
• Rade vore, sa. Tapestry.
• Radgondes, o. a kind of Ulcer.
• Radiant, l. shining.
• Radiation, l. a casting forth bright beams.
• Radicality, a being
• Radical, belonging to the root, nature or life.
• Radical question, propound∣ed when the Lord of the Ascendant and of the Hour, are of one nature and tri∣plicity.
• Radicate, l. to take root.
• Radial artery, a branch of the arm-hole artery bestow∣ing it self on the
• Radius, the upper and greater bone of the arm, al∣so a line from the Center to the circumference.
• Radlings, No. windings of the wall.
• Raffinage, f. refinement or quintessence.
• Raffle, f. a trying to throw most on three dice, also ri∣fling, o.
• Raft, a timber float-boat.
• Rafull of knaves, o. a Rab∣ble.
• Raft, o. (q. rest) rent.
• Rag (or Rake) of Colts, a great company of them, (q. Race)
• Ragery, o. (perhaps) Ro∣guery.
• Raght, Raught, reached.
• Ragman, o. (q. ragement) madness.
• Rageman, a statute of Ju∣stices assigned by Edw. 1. to hear all complaints of inju∣ries done 5 years before.
• Ragot, a cunning French begger, who wrote all his subtilties and died very rich.
• Ragounces, sa. a kind of precious stone.
• Raguset, a City in Dal∣matia.
• Ragwort, a bitter, cleansing herb.
• Railighe, a town in Essex.
• Railed, Rei-, (q. rolled) o. ran.
• Raillery, f. jesting, merri∣ment.
• Raimund, ge. quiet.
• Rains, fine linnen of
• Rains, Rennes, a City of Britanny in France.
• Rain-deer, a northern Hart with large Antlers.
• Raised [in Flesh,] grown fat, spoken of a hawk.
• Rake, so much of the Ships hull as over-hangs both ends of the keel.
• Rakestele, o. the handle of a rake.
• Ralphe, Radulph, g▪ helpful Council.
• Rally, f. to reunite [disper∣sed Companies.]
• Ramagious, belonging to
• Ramage, f. boughes.
• Ramage hawk, wild.
• Rame, No. to reach.
• Ramberge, f. a long swift Ship.
• Rambooze, -buzze, a drink of Eggs and Ale (or in sum∣mer, Milk and Rose-water) with Wine and Sugar.
• Ramkin, a Fort (in the Isle Walcheren in Zeland) called the key of the Neatherlands.
• Rament, l. a scraping or remnant.
• Ram-head, a great block with 3 sheevers, for the main and fore-Halliards.
• Ramist, a follower of
• Ramus, a modern Abridger of many Arts.
• Ramme, a Haven in Ze∣land.
• Ramosity, l. fulness of boughs.
• Rampant, rearing up his fore-feet.
• Rampier, -part, f. a fortress-wall or Bulwark.
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• Rampick, o. [an old tree] beginning to decay at top.
• Rampions, Rapunculus, an herb.
• Ramsey, a famous Abbey in Huntingtonshire, and other small Towns
• Ramsey-town, in Man Isle.
• Ramsons, Allium ursinum, an herb.
• Ran, sa, an open rapine.
• Rancidity, a being
• Rancid, l. mouldy, musty.
• Rancor, -our, l. rottenness, also malice or spight.
• Rank as Roke, o. hoarse as a rook.
• Randal, Ranulph, sa. pure help.
• Ranges, pieces of timber (with wooden pins) to belay the ropes to.
• Ranger, Rainger, as Raun∣ger.
• Ransome, f. to redeem, also [the price of] Redemp∣tion.
• Ranters, of the Family of Love.
• Ranula, l. a swelling under the tongue.
• Ranular vein, the first branch of the outward throat rein ascending to the tongue.
• Rap an Ren, l. and sa. snatch and catch (or else rend.)
• Rapacity, l. a being
• Rapacious, ravenous.
• Rape, the ravishing a wo∣man, also (in Sussex) a sixth part of that Country.
• Rape, o. (q. Rapid,) haste, quickly.
• Rape wine, a small wine, of water and the Mother of prest grapes.
• Raphael, h. Physick of God.
• Rapidity, l. a being
• Rapid, l. swift, violent.
• Rapine, l. an open violent robbery.
• Rapinous, ravenous.
• Rapport, f. a report, relati∣on or resemblance.
• Rapsod••st, the Authour of a
• Rapsody, g. a confused col∣lection.
• Raptu haeredis, a writ for the taking away an heir.
• Rapture, l. a taking away by violence, also an Exstasy.
• Rarefaction, -fying, or cau∣sing
• Rarity, l. a being
• Rare, thin, who's quanti∣ty is more and substance less.
• Rase, a measure of Corn, disused.
• Rasion, -sure, l. a shav∣ing.
• Rascal of Boies, o. a great Company.
• Raskail, o. trash.
• Rasp, -patory, a grosser kind of File.
• Market-Rasen, a Town in Lincoln-shire.
• Ras algease, a Star in Ge∣mini.
• Rate, o. counselled, also the milt, f.
• Rate tythe, for cattel kept in a parish less than a year.
• Rathe, Sa. Ss. Early.
• Ratifie, l. to confirm.
• Ratiocinative, pertaining to
• Ratiocination, l. reasoning.
• Rationabili parte bonorum, a writ for the Widow (or chil∣dren) claiming the Thirds.
• Rationabilibus divisis, for the rectifying the bounds of 2 Seigneuries.
• Rationale, a book shewing
• Rationality, a being
• Rational, l. reasonable, also the High Priests Breast∣plate.
• Rationary, belonging to account or reckoning.
• Ratisbone, a City of Bava∣ria.
• Ratle, Crista galli, the herb Coxcomb.
• Ratles, [the Goat] cries.
• Ratling-Cove, c. a Coach∣man.
• Ratling-Mumpers, c. beg∣gets at Coaches.
• Ratlings, the steps of the ship-shrouds.
• Ratton, o. a little rat.
• Ratzenburgh, a Town in Mecklenburg.
• Ravage, f. Spoil, havock.
• Raucity, l. hoarsness.
• Ravenglas, a Town in Cum∣berland.
• Ravenna, a City of Italy.
• Ravisable, o. Ravenous.
• Ravensperg, a County in Westphalia.
• Ravishment, f. an unlaw∣full taking away [of a Wo∣man or Heir,] also as Rape.
• Raundon, o. (f. à la randon) at random.
• Raunge, Range, the Office of a
• Raunger, Ranger, who con∣ducts the straying wild beasts to the Forest.
• Raunson, o. for Ransom.
• Ray, f. a beam [of the Sun.]
• Ray [cloth,] never colour∣ed.
• Rayes, Reies, o. Roundelaies▪ Songs.
• Raynous, o. (q. Roigneux) Scabbed.
• Re, an Isle near Rochelle.
• Reach, the distance of two points of land which bear in a right line to one ano∣ther.
• Read, Rede, o. Counsel.
• Reading, the chief town in Barkshire.
• Reäfforested, made Forest again.
• Reäl, Sp. a coyn worth 6d.
• Reälize, to cause
• Reälity, a being real.
• Realty, opposed to Per∣sonalty.
• Ream, (Rieme, Ge. a string) twenty quires, also a Realm.
• Realti, o. for Royalty.
• Rear, o. thin.
• Reasonable aid, was a duty claimed by the Lord, to marry his Daughter or Knight his eldest son.
• Reässume, l. to take again.
• Reathen, o. soon.
• Reättachment, a second at∣tachment.
• Rebate, as Chamf••r, also to allow (what the interest would▪ have com'n to) for antepaiment.
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• Rebaptization, a baptizing again.
• Rebecca, h. fat and full.
• Rebeck, a 3 string'd fidle, also (o.) an old Trot.
• Rebesk, as Arabesqu••.
• Rebus, f. a Name (or o∣ther conceit) exprest in picture, (with an equivocal Motto)
• Rebutter, f. a repelling the Heir by a Warranty from the Donour.
• Recalcitrate, l. to kick back∣wards.
• Recant, l. revoke, unsay.
• Recapitulation, l. a brief repeating the ••eads.
• Recaption, l. [a writ for one that suffers] a second distress for the same cause.
• Recargaison, f. a back∣fraught.
• Recede, l. to go back.
• Recent, l. fresh, new.
• Recension, -sement, f. a rec∣koning.
• Receptacle, l. a store∣house.
• Receptary, f. a note of Re∣ceipts.
• Reception, two Planets be∣ing in each others dignity.
• Receptitious, l. received.
• Receptivity, a being
• Receptive, apt to receive.
• Recess, l. a going back or aside, a by-place.
• Rechabites, sons of Rechab, Jer. 35.
• Reche, a Town in Cam∣bridg.
• Recheat, a Hunters lesson, when they lose the game, &c.
• Recidivation, l. a relapse.
• Recidivous, l. falling back.
• Reciprocal, l. mutual.
• Reciprocation, an inter∣changing.
• Recision, l. a cutting off.
• Recitation, a rehearsing.
• Recitative, rehearsed [in Operaes.]
• Reck, Ret h, o. care.
• Reclaim, to tame [a hawk.]
• Reclamation, l. a crying out against.
• Recluse, l. one cloister'd up.
• Recogitate, to ponder up∣on.
• Recognition, a review, con∣sidering, or acknowledge∣ment.
• Recognitors, l. the Jury∣men.
• Recognitione adnullanda &c. a writ for the disannulling a forced recognisance.
• Recognize, to consider a∣gain.
• Recognizee, to whom is made a
• Recognizance, a bond of re∣cord from the
• Recognizor, who acknow∣ledges the Debt in Court, &c.
• Recognizance, is also the Verdict of the Jury.
• Recollect, l. to call to mind.
• Recollects, a sort of Fran∣ciscans.
• Reconvention, a contrary Action (in Civil Law) brought by the Defendant.
• Record, an Act committed to writing in any of the Kings Courts, and is (when that Term is ended) uncon∣troulable.
• Recordation, a remember∣ing.
• Recordare (or Recordari) facias, a writ for the Sheriff to remove a cause from an inferiour Court, to the Kings Bench or Common-Pleas.
• Recorder, whom the Ma∣gistrate of any Town (hav∣ing a Court of Record) asso∣ciates to himself for directi∣on in Law.
• Recordo et Processu Mi••ten∣dis, calling a Record (and the whole process) from an Inferiour to the Kings Court.
• Recovery, the obtaining a thing by Trial of Law.
• Recoupe, f. to defalk or discount.
• Recourse, l. refuge, re∣treat.
• Recoyl, f. to draw back [the tail.]
• Recrean••e, o, against hope.
• Recreandise, o. Infidelity.
• Recreant, f. eating his words.
• Recreantise, f. Cowardise.
• Recreation, l. a refresh∣••ent.
• Recrementitious, full of
• Recrement, l. dross, dregs.
• Recrimination, l. the re∣turning a reproach or accu∣sation.
• Recruit, supply, fill up.
• Rectangle, l. an even an∣gle.
• Rectanguled, having right angles or corners.
• Rectification, l. a rectify∣ing or making streight.
• Rectilineal, of right lines.
• Recto, a writ of right, try∣ing both for possession and property, and if the Cause be lost, there is no reme∣dy.
• Recto de dote, whereby a woman demands her whole Dower.
• Récto de dote unde nihil ha∣bet, whereby (having no Dower assured) she de∣mands her Thirds.
• Recto de rationabili parte, for a Coparcener &c. to re∣cover his share.
• Recto de advocatione Eccle∣siae, for him that claims the Advowsen to himself and his Heirs in fee.
• Recto de custodiâ terrae et haeredis, for a Guardian in socage, or appointed by the Ancestors will.
• Recto quando dominus re∣misit, when the Lord (i•• whose Seigneury the Land lies) remits the Cause to the Kings Court.
• Recto sur disclaimer, when the Lord avows upon the Tenant, who disclaims to hold of him.
• Rectorial, belonging to a
• Rector, l. a Governour.
• Rector Ecclesiae Parochialis, A Parson [with a Vica∣ridge.]
• Rectory, a Parsonage (with all the appurtenancies.)
• Rectitude, l. uprightness.
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• Rectus in Curiâ, he that stands at the Bar, and has nothing brought against him
• Reculade, f. a recoyling.
• Reculver, a Town in Kent.
• Recuperatory, belonging to
• Recuperation, l. a recover∣ing.
• Recure, o. recover.
• Recurrent, l. running back
• Recursion, l. a running back.
• Recurvate, l. to bend back
• Recusants, Romanists, or any that refuse to come to Church.
• Red, o. meaning.
• Red-Sea, the Long-Sea, di∣viding Africa and Asia.
• Redacted, l. forced back.
• Redaman••y, -mation, l. a loving them that love us.
• Redargue, to re- (or dis-) prove.
• Redarguation, a controlling.
• Redborn, a Town in Hert∣fordshire.
• Reddendum, the reservati∣on of Rent to the Lessor.
• Redditive, belonging to
• Reddition, l. a restoring or yielding; (in Law) an ac∣knowledgment that the thing belongs not to himself.
• Reddour, o. (q. roideur) vi∣olence.
• Rede, o. advise, help.
• Redeless, o. help less.
• Redford, a Town in Not∣tinghamshire.
• Redemptions, l. Ransomes.
• Redevable, f. obliged.
• Redhibition, a forcing one to take that again which he sold.
• Rediculus, a certain God, worshipt for ••righting Han∣nibal from Rome.
• Redient, l. returning, new.
• Redintegration, l a renewing.
• Redisseisin, a second dis∣seisin.
• Redition, l. a returning.
• Redituaries, a sort of Fran∣cis••ans having Lands, &c.
• Redolent, l. sweet-smelling.
• Redon••te, l. to restore.
• Redoubted, reverenced.
• Redoubt, [the jurting out of the corners of] a Fort.
• Redound, l. to abound.
• Redour, (q. redoubleur) o. turning, doubling.
• Redowbting, o. praising.
• ... Red shanks, Irish Scots.
• Redstert, a red-taild-bird.
• Redubbers, Ad-, they that buy stolen cloth and turn it to some other form or co∣lour.
• Reduction, l. a bringing back.
• Redversies, de Riparijs, the family of the Riverses in Cornwal.
• Redulcerate, l. to renew a wound.
• Redundancy, l. a being
• Redundant, overflowing, having too much.
• Reduplicate, l. to double a∣gain.
• Reduplication, as Anadi∣pl••sis.
• Reduplicative, which dou∣bles (or may be doubled) often.
• Reed, o. red.
• Reem, La. to cry.
• Reëntery, the resuming a possession we had lately for∣gone.
• Reer-County, as Rier-.
• Reeve, Reve, Greve, sa. a Governour, the Bailiff of a Franchise or Mannour.
• Reeve the rope in the block, put it through.
• Reevo, (Sp. arriva) up.
• Reëxtent, a second extent upon Lands or Tenements.
• Refection, l. a refreshing.
• Refectory, -tuary, a Hall or dining-room.
• R••fel, l. to disprove.
• Referendaries, Rapporteurs, Officers under the Masters of Requests (in Germany and France.)
• Reflection, l. a bending or beating back.
• Reflux, l. the flowing back.
• Refocillate, l. to cherish.
• Reformado, Sp. an Officer who (having lost his men) is either cashier'd or put lower.
• Reforms, [the hawk] prunes her feathers.
• Refracted, l. weakned.
• Refraction, l. a breaking open or a rebounding.
• Refreide, o. refrain [for fear.]
• Refractory, l. stubborn.
• Refranation, a Planets be∣coming retrograde, while he is applying to another.
• Refret, (f. refrain) the burden of a song.
• Refrete, o. full [fraught.] 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• Refrigerate, l. to cool, re∣fresh.
• Refroiden, o. to cool.
• Refrynyd [hawk,] o. neezing and casting water through her nostrils.
• Refuge, l. a place of suc∣cour.
• Refulgent, l. glistering.
• Refund, l. to melt again, pour or pay back.
• Refuite, -use, o. refuge.
• Refusion, l. a pouring back.
• Refute, l. to disprove.
• Regal, l. Royal, Kinglike.
• Regal of Franc••, a costly ring offered by a King of France to St. Thomas of Cant∣erbury, worn afterwards by King Henry VIII.
• Regal Fishes, Whales and Sturgeons.
• Regale, f. to feast like a King.
• Regalia, l. the rights of a King.
• Regality, l. Kingship.
• Regalo, Sp. a Royal dain∣ty.
• Regardant, f. looking back or to.
• Regard, the Office and ju∣risdiction of the
• Regarder, the Overseer of all other Forest-Officers.
• Regards, f. observations.
• Regency, rule, govern∣ment.
• Regeneration, l. a being
• R••generate, -ted, born again.
• Regenspurg, a town of low∣er Bavaria.
• Regent, l. ruling.
• Regerminate, l. to spring again.
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• Regible, l. that may be ru∣led.
• Regicide, l. a King-killer.
• Regifical l. Royal, stately.
• Regifugium, l. a feast kept (Feb. 23.) for the banish∣ment of Tarquin.
• Regio assensu, the writ of the Royal Assent to chuse a Bishop.
• Regiment, l. Government, also the command of a Colo∣nel, abo••t ten Companies.
• Register, a Record, or Re∣corder.
• Registry, his Office and Books.
• Reg••utinate, l. to unglue or glue again.
• Regnardise, to practise
• Regnardism, the subtilty of
• Regnard, f. a Fox.
• Regi••s Professor, reader of Divinity, Hebrew, Greek, Law or Physick, founded by Hen. VIII. in each Univer∣sity.
• Regrate, o. courtesie, estima∣tion.
• Regrator, formerly he that bought by the great and sold by retail, now he that buys and sells again in the same market or within 4 miles thereof, a Huckster.
• Regratulate, to rejoyce (or give thanks) again.
• Regress, ssion, l. a return∣ing.
• Regret, f. sorrow, an ill-will.
• Regularity, l. a being
• Regular, orderly.
• Regulars, regular Priests, Monks under some particu∣lar rule.
• M. Attil. Regulus, a Roman taken prisoner by the Car∣thaginians, and having liber∣ty upon his parole, return'd accordingly and was put to death.
• Regurgitate, l. swallow a∣gain.
• Rehob••am, h. breath of the people.
• R••jection, l. a casting off.
• Reif away, se. snatch away.
• Reiglement, f. a ruling.
• Reight, o. reached.
• Reignous, o. ruinous.
• Reimbosce, Sp. return to the wood, lye in ambush again.
• Rehab••litation, the Popes bull for reinabling a Clergy-man.
• Rein, o. run.
• Rejourn, Readj-, to adjourn again.
• Reioynder, (in Civil Law Duplication) an exception or answer to a Replication.
• Reinforce, f. to strengthen again.
• Reister, (D. Ruyter) a hors∣man.
• Reit, o. a Sea-weed.
• Reiterate, l. repeat again.
• Reive, as Reif.
• Rejumble, Li. to rise [in ones Stomack.]
• Rekelness, o. rashness.
• Reken, o. reckon.
• Reking, a high copped hill in Shropshire.
• Rela••••s and Limers, o. stan∣ders at advantage with darts to kill Deer.
• Relapse, l. fall back.
• Relatist, a reporter.
• Relative, l. having relation to another thing.
• Relaxate, l. loosen, release.
• Relay, f. a setting on more hounds when the Deer and the rest are past by.
• Release, an instrument whereby Estates, &c. are extinguished, enlarged, &c.
• Relief, a certain paiment to the Lord at the entrance of some Tenants.
• Relegation, a banishment [for a certain time.]
• Relent, l. to grow soft or pitiful.
• Relevant, relieving.
• Relevate, l. to raise again.
• Releeved up, o. rais'd myself up.
• Relict, l. a widow, or any thing that is left.
• Religate, l. to tye fast.
• Relinquish, l. to forsake.
• Reliquary, f. a place for
• Reliques, l. what is left [of the Cloaths or bodies of Sts. deceased.]
• Reliquator, l. he that hath the arrears of another in his hand.
• Reluctance, -ation, l. a stri∣ving against.
• Remble, Li. to remove, also a reward, and (in Y.) a good colour [in the face.]
• Remainder, an estate limi∣ted in Lands, &c. to be en∣joy'd after the estate of ano∣ther expired e. g. a man may grant land to one for term of his life, the Remainder to another for term of his life.
• Remand, f. to command back again.
• Remancipate, l. to sell or re∣turn a commodity into his hands that first sold it us.
• Reme, o. take away, deny.
• Remansion, l. a remaining.
• Remersel, a town in Ze∣land.
• Remembrancers, of the Ex∣chequer, three, viz.
• The Kings Remembrancer, who enters all Recogni∣zances, &c.
• The Lord Treasurers Re∣membrancer, he makes pro∣cess against all Sheriffs, &c.
• Remembrancer of the first Fruits, takes all compositions for first Fruits and Tenths.
• Remes, o. for Realms.
• Remew, o. to refuse.
• Remigation, l. a rowing.
• Remigration, l. a returning.
• Reminiscence, l. a calling to mind.
• Remiss, l. slack, careless.
• Remissible, pardonable.
• Remissionary, f. who is par∣doned.
• Remitter, restoring a man to his best and most ancient Title.
• Remonstrance, a shewing of reasons; also an Instru∣ment (of silver or gold) wherein the Sacrament is exposed on the Altar.
• ... Remonstrants, Arminians.
• Remora. l. a Sea-Lamprey which (they say) stops the course of a ship.
• Remord, o. To cause.
• Remorse, l. the biting or

• sting of Conscience.
• Remote, l. far off, distant,
• Remuable, o, moveable, ready.
• Remunerate, l. to recom∣pense.
• Remus, Brother to Romu∣lus.
• Renab••y, -ally▪ o. ready.
• Renal, l. belonging to the Kidneys.
• Renardism, as Regnar.-
• Renavigation, a sayling back.
• Rencontre, -ounter, f. a sudden adventure or meeting
• Rendevous, Rendez-vous, f. (Render your selves at) the place of Muster.
• Rendlesham, -lis-, a town in Suffolk.
• Reneez, f. Apostates.
• Ren••gado, Sp. he that de∣serts his colours or Religi∣on.
• Renege, l. to refuse.
• Renged, o. compassed about.
• Reniant, f. a revolter.
• Renimed, running Mead (in Middlesex) where the Ba∣rons assembled to claim their liberties of King J••hn.
• Renitence, -cy, l. a resist∣ance, or a shining.
• Renks, o. for ranks.
• Ren radder, o. run readily.
• Rennes, a City in France.
• Rents resolute, payable to the Crown out of Abbey-Lands.
• Renodate, l. to unty.
• Renomie, o. renown.
• Renovate, l. to renew.
• Renovelances, o. renewings.
• Renversed, f. over-turned.
• Renue, o. to pull or get.
• Renumerate, l. to pay back.
• Renunciate, l. to bring word again.
• Renvoy, f. a sending back.
• Reny ••er lay, o. deny her law.
• Repairs, the Hares haunts.
• Repandous, l. bent back.
• Reparation, l. a mending.
• Repara••ione faciendâ, when one Joint-Tenant is willing to repair, and the other not.
• Reparty, f. a subdivision, also a reply.
• Repast, f. a meal.
• Repe, o. to pluck up, also to care.
• Repastinate, l. to dig again about vines.
• Repe and Renne, o. for rap and rend.
• Repeham, a town in Norfolk.
• Repatriate, l. to return to ones own Country.
• Repellance, a repealing or disanulling.
• Repensation, l. a recompen∣sing.
• Repentine, l. sudden.
• Repercussion, l. a beating back.
• Repercussive, belonging thereto, also a medicine dri∣ving the pain from that place.
• Repertible, to be found.
• Repertitious, l. found.
• Repertory, l. an Inventory.
• Repignerate, l. to redeem a pawn.
• Repleader, to plead again.
• Reple••e, l. full, filled.
• Repletion, l. a filling.
• Replegiare, to replevy or re∣deem a distress by putting in legal sureties.
• Replegiare de averijs, a writ to release Cattle distrain'd, upon surety to answer the suit.
• Replegiari facias, another to the same purpose.
• Replevie, -vin, the bringing that writ, and releasing Cat∣tel on that condition, also the bailing of a man.
• Replevish, to let go upon bail.
• Replication, l. an unfolding, also the Plaintiffs reply to the Defendants answer in Chancery.
• Report, a relation or repeti∣tion of a case debated.
• Reporta••or, l. he that car∣ries back.
• Repose, l. to lay upon, to rest.
• Reposition, l. a setling again.
• Reposition of the Forest, an Act whereby certain forest-grounds made purlieu, were (by a second view) laid to the Forest again.
• Repossede, l. to possess a∣gain.
• Repository, l. a storehouse.
• Reprefe, -riefe, o. reproof.
• Reprehend, l. to reprove.
• Reprehension, l. a reproving.
• Representation, a likeness.
• Representative, in the room of another, or he that sup∣plies his place.
• Repress, l. to keep down.
• Reprimende, f a reproof.
• Reprisal, as Law of Marque.
• Reprises, Yearly deducti∣ons out of a Manour, as Pen∣sions, &c.
• Reprieve, a respiting the Execution of the Law.
• Reprobate, l. cast out of ••a∣vour.
• Reptile, -itious, l. creeping.
• Repton, a Town in Darbi∣shire.
• Republique, l. a Common-wealth.
• Repudiable, which may be
• Repudiated, put away, di∣vorced.
• Repudious, l. villanous, hatefull.
• Repugnancy, a being
• Repugnant, l. contrary.
• Repugne, l. to resist.
• Repullulate, l. to burgen and spring again.
• Repumicate, l. to smooth with a pumice-stone.
• Reputation, l. credit.
• Requests, f. Petitions.
• ...Requiem, l. ••est, Mass for the Dead, from
• Requiem aeternam dona ••is Domine, part thereof.
• Rere-County, See Ri••r-
• Rere-ward, the hindmost part of the Army.
• Resager, o. Rats-bane.
• Resceit, an admission of a third person to plead his right in a cause commen∣ced between other two; also a bare admittance of plea.
• Rescind, l. to cut asunder.
• Rescissory, -rian, belong∣ing to
• Rescission, a disanulling or undo••ng.
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• Rescous, f. a rescue of a di∣stress, or person arrested.
• Rescussor, the Rescuer.
• Rescribendary, a Roman Officer, who taxed Supplica∣tions.
• Rescript, l. a written an∣swer to a Letter, petition, Writ, &c.
• Research, f. a continuance [of Services, &c.]
• Resentment, Ressentiment, f. a true and sensible appre∣hension.
• Reseration, l. an unlocking.
• Reservation, l. a keeping back in store; also as
• Reservedness, a being
• Reserved, close, not free in discourse.
• Resiance, -idence, a being
• Resiant, -ident, f. continu∣ally dwelling or abiding in a place.
• Residentiary, he that re∣sides, or the place of abode.
• Residue, l. the rest.
• Resignation, l. an unsealing; also resigning [a benefice.]
• Resilience, -liment, -ition, l. a rebounding or starting back.
• Resinous, -naceous, of Rosin.
• Resipiscence, l. repentance.
• Resolution, l. untying, full purpose and intention.
• Resonant, l. sounding a∣gain.
• Resort, Ress-, f. the autho∣rity or jurisdiction of a Court.
• Resource, f. as Ressource.
• Respiration, l. a taking breath.
• Respectu computi Vicecomitis habendo, a writ for the re∣spiting the Sheriffs account.
• Respectful, giving respect.
• Respective, according to se∣veral respects or relations.
• Respite of homage, was a small summe paid every fifth term for the forbearance of homage till the Prince were at leasure to take it.
• Resplendent, l. glistering.
• Respondent, l. he that an∣swers the Opponent in dis∣putations or Interrogato∣ries.
• Respondeat Superior, Let the Mayor and Commons [of London] answer [for the Sheriffs insufficiency.]
• Responsalis, he that ap∣pears in Court for another.
• Response, f. an answer.
• Responsible, liable or able to answer or give account.
• Responsion, surety.
• Responsions, certain ac∣counts made to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem.
• Responsory, l. answering.
• Resport, o. respect or care.
• Resside, o. rusty.
• Ressource, f., a new spring or rising again.
• Restagnant, l. over-flow∣ing.
• Restagnation, a bubling up.
• Restauration, l. a restor∣ing or repairing.
• Restible, l. tilled (or bear∣ing) every year.
• Restipulation, l. an engag∣ing to answer an Action at Law.
• Restitutione extracti ab Ec∣clesia, to restore one to the Church which he had reco∣vered for Sanctuary.
• Restitutione temporalium, for a Bishop to recover his Temporalities and Barony.
• Restitution, l. a restoring [one unlawfully disseised.]
• Restiveness, a being
• Restive, -ty, (f. rest f) stub∣born, drawing back.
• Restriction, l. a restraint, or straitening.
• Restrict (or discriminal) line, separating the hand from the arm.
• Resudation, l. a sweating.
• Resvery, f. a raving, mad∣ness.
• Resul Alloh, Tu. (the Mes∣senger of God) Mahomet.
• Result, f. conclusion, issue, also as
• Resultancy, rebounding.
• Resummons, a second sum∣mons.
• Resumption, l. a taking a∣gain [into the Kings hands, what he had (upon false suggestion) granted.]
• Resupination, l. a lying with the face upward.
• Resurrection, l. a rising again.
• Resuscitate, l. to raise a∣gain.
• Retail, f. a cutting (or selling) in small parcels.
• Retainer, Retei-, a servant wearing the Livery and at∣tending only upon special Occasions.
• Retaliate, l. to do like for like.
• Retard, l. to stop or hin∣der.
• Retchlessness, o. careless∣ness.
• Retenementum, (in old deeds) a with-holding.
• Retent, l. holden back, also unbent.
• Retention, l. a retaining.
• Retentive faculty, duly keeping the nourishment within the body.
• Retiary, l. the Net-bearer [in fighting, &c.]
• Reticence, l. silence, con∣cealment.
• Reticle, l. a small net or caul.
• Retinacle, l. a stay or hold.
• Retinue f. a train of atten∣dants.
• Retort, f. a crooked body, a Lymbeck of glass, also to twist or turn back.
• Retour, f. a return.
• Retract, l. to revoke or draw back.
• Retraction, l. a drawing back.
• Retractation, a recanting.
• Retraxit, an exception a∣gainst one that had with∣drawn his Action, saying (in open Court) He will proceed no further.
• Retreat, f. a retiring [place.]
• Retribution, l. a recompen∣sing.
• Retriment, l. dross or dregs.
• Retrieve, (f. retrouver) to find again, to spring par∣tridges again.
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• Retroaction, l. a driving back.
• Retroactive, driving back.
• Retrocede, l. to go back.
• Retrocession, a retreating.
• Retrocopulation, a coupling backward.
• Retroduction, a bringing back.
• Retrograde, l. to go (or go∣ing) back (contrary to the succession of the Signs.)
• Retrogradation, a going back.
• Retrogression, -oition, the same.
• Retromingency, a staling backward.
• Retromingents, Animals that piss backward.
• Retrospection, l. a looking back.
• Return, a Certificate of what is done in the Execu∣tion of writs &c.
• Returns, Daies in Bank, allotted for the several sorts of proceedings in every term: wherein
• Crastino, signifies the mor∣row after the day annexed;
• Octabis, 8 daies after (in∣clusive)
• Quindena, 15 daies after;
• Tres, three weeks after;
• Mense, that day moneth;
• Quinque, that day 5 weeks.
• Returno habendo, a writ for the return of Cattel (di∣strein'd and replevied) to him that has proved his di∣stress lawfull.
• Returnum Averiorum, for the return of the Cattel to the Defendant, when the Plaintiff doth not declare.
• Returnum Irreplegiabile, for the final restitution of Cattel to the owner, found by the Jury to be unjustly distrein∣ed.
• Reuben, h. Son of vision.
• Reuda, an Irish Captain who seated himself in Scot∣land.
• Reve, o. (q. bereave) spoil.
• Reve, as Reeve.
• Revelation, l. a discover∣ing.
• Master of the Revels, who hath the Ordering of the
• Revels, f. Night-sports of dancing &c. in the Innes of Court, &c.
• Revene, l. to return.
• Revenue, f. yearly rent.
• Reverberate, l. to reflect or beat back.
• Reverberation (in Chymi∣stry) the calcining of bo∣dies by fire in a
• Reverbitory, -••eratory, l. a Lymbeck or Furnace.
• Revere, l. to fear and hon∣our.
• Reverential, with reve∣rence and aw.
• Reverse, f. a back-blow, also the back-side.
• Reversed, l. turned back∣ward or upside down.
• Reversion, l. a returning [of a possession to the former owner or his heirs.]
• Revery, as Resvery.
• Revert, l. to return.
• Reverticle, l. a place to re∣turn unto.
• Reves, o. Rents, Tythes.
• Revestiary, Revestry, the Vestry, where Church-Vest∣ments are kept.
• Reveiw, -vise, f. look over again.
• Bill of Review, exhibited by leave of the Court when some errour appears after the Decree (in Chancery) is signed and enrolled.
• Reviviction, l. a coming to life again.
• Reviving, the same, also a renewing or bringing to life again.
• Bill of Revivor, (in Chan∣cery) when one party dies, to revive and finally deter∣mine the former Cause.
• Reuks, o. for Rooks.
• Reünite, l. to joyn together again.
• Revocable, l capable of
• Revocation, l. a calling back.
• Revolt, f▪ to fall away.
• Revolve, l. to toss up and down.
• Revolution, l. a turning round to the first point.
• Revulsion, l. a pulling up or away, also a forcing of humours to contrary parts.
• Rew, o. to take pity.
• Rewet, (f. rouette) the lock of a harquebuse.
• Rewis, o. (f. rues) streets.
• Rewish [pigeon] D. earnest in copulation.
• Rewey [cloth] unevenly wrought, or full of rews.
• Reygate, a Town in Sur∣rey.
• Reyne, o. [clean] water.
• Rhabdomancy, g. Divinati∣on by a rod or staff.
• Rhad••mant, -thus, Aeac••s and Minos, the 3 feigned Judges in hell.
• Rhagides, g. the third skin encompassing the eye.
• Rhaetia, higher and lower (Grisons and Boiarij) border∣ing on Helvetia.
• Rhapsody, as Rapsody.
• Rhedarious, l. belonging to a Charter, Waggon or Coach.
• Rheggio, a City of Na∣ples.
• Rheimes, a City of Cham∣pagne in France.
• Rhenish, belonging to the
• Rhene, Rhine, a German river.
• Rhenen, a town in Vtrech•• and Westphalia.
• Rhesus, a King of Thrace slain in his aid of Troy.
• Rhetorical, belonging to a
• Rhetor, -rician, he that us∣eth or teacheth
• Rhetorick, g. the Art of speaking Eloquently, or well and wisely.
• Rhin••••••ld, a town of Schwa∣be••.
• Rhineberg, or Berck, a town of Co••en.
• Rhinoceros, -rote, g. an In∣dian beast with a horn on his nose.
• Rhode le Duche, a town of Limburgh.
• R••odomel, g. honey of Roses.
• Rhodus, Rhodes, a Medi∣terranean Island wh••re (they

• say, the Sun (to whom 'tis consecrate) shines every day in the year.
• Rhomb, Rhumb, g. a spin∣ning wheel, also a figure of equal sides but unequal an∣gles, as a quarry of glass.
• Rhombs, the points of the Mariners compass.
• Rhomboidal, belonging to a rhomb or to a
• Rhomboides, g. a romb whereof 2 sides are longer than the other two, also a muscle in the shoulder-blade.
• Rhon••hisonant, l. imitating (by way of jeer) the noise of snorting.
• Rhosne, a river in France.
• Rhu••arb, a plant (for its wholesomeness) called the Friend, Life, Heart, and Treacle of the Liver.
• Rhyparographer, g. a wri∣ter (or painter) of base tri∣fles.
• Rhythmical, made in or be∣longing to
• Rhythm, g. xyme, meeter, harmony, proportion.
• Rial, o. for Royal.
• Rialto, a Marble bridge at Venice, where the Merchants meet.
• Rib, the division between the feathers in a quill, also the side-timber of a Ship.
• Ribadavia, a mild White-wine made at
• Ribadavia, a town of Gallicia.
• Riband, (in Heraldry) the 8th. part of a Bend.
• Ribaud, f. a baud.
• Ribaldrie, l. roguery, whore∣dom.
• Ribib, o. for ribaud.
• Ribible, o. a rebeck or fi∣dle.
• Riballa, strong Zant wines.
• Riche-Cour, a town in Lor∣rain.
• Richard, sa. of a strong na∣ture.
• Richmond, (q Rich Mount) a town in Surrey, also the Chief Town of
• Richmondshire, part of York∣shire.
• Riches of Marter••s (or sables,) a great company of them.
• Rickmansworth, a town in Hertfordshire and Buckingham∣shire.
• Riddeled, o. plaited, wrink∣led.
• Riddle-cakes, La. thick sour-cakes.
• Ricture, l. a grinning.
• Rides, [the ship] is holden fast with the anchors.
• Ride a cross, with the yards hoised up to the hounds.
• Ride a good (or great) road (and stress,] where the Wind and Sea had much power.
• Riddle, s. an oblong sieve (to separate the seed from the Corn.)
• Riders, great timbers bolt∣ed on weak places of the Ship.
• Ridg-cully, c. a Goldsmith.
• Ridgil, which hath lost but one stone.
• Ridiculous, l. to be laugh∣ed at.
• Riding Clerk, one of the six Clerks of the Chancery.
• Ridings, the East, West and North divisions of York∣shire.
• Riens, f. nothing.
• Rier County, a place ap∣pointed by the Sheriff (after his Court ended) for the re∣ceipt of the Kings money.
• Rife, o. for rifle.
• Rifts, a corruption of the horses Palate.
• Rigation, l. a watering.
• Ridge, Rudg, o. the back.
• Rigging, the ropes belong∣ing to the Masts or yards.
• Rigel, Orions left foot.
• Rightwise, Sa. Righteous.
• Rigidity, l. a being
• Rigid, l. stiff, surly, se∣vere.
• Right the helm, keep it up∣right.
• Rigols, o. a claricord [in∣strument.]
• Rigorous, l. full of
• Rigour, hardness, severity.
• Rimmon, ••. a Pomegra∣nat.
• Rimosity, a being
• Rimose, -sous, l. full of Chinks.
• Rimpeled, o. for rumpled.
• Rine, No. to touch.
• Ringelenstein, a town in Westphalia.
• Riner, Che. a very good cast.
• Ring-bolts, for the tackle of the Ordnance.
• Ring-head, an engin to stretch woollen.
• Ring-tail, a Kite with a whitish tail.
• Ring-walk, a hunters round walk.
• Ring-wood, a town in Hant∣shire.
• Rio de la hacha, a small West India Province.
• Rining, o. for raining, dropping.
• Rintelin, a town in West∣phalia.
• Riot, the forcible doing an unlawful act by 3 (or more) assembled therefore.
• Riparious, l. belonging to water-banks.
• Ripariae, the water within the bank.
• Ripen, a town in North-Jui••land.
• Riphaean-hills, Hyperboraean Mountains of Scythia.
• Ripley, a town in York∣shire.
• Rippon, in York-shire.
• Riple the flax, No. wipe off the vessels.
• Ripper, Ss. a pedder, dor∣ser, or badger.
• Ripiers, that bring fish from the Sea-coast to the In-land.
• Rise, o. beauty.
• Rishe, o. for rush.
• Risible, l. capable of
• Rision, l. laughing.
• Risingham, a town in Nor∣thumberland.
• Rising-timbers, the hooks placed on the keel.
• Risings, the thick planks on which the timbers of the decks do bear at boths ends.
• Risque, f. danger, hazard.
• Ritual, belonging to
• Rites, l. Customes, Cere∣monies.
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• Rituals, books containing the Rites of the Roman Church.
• Rivage, f. the water-side.
• Rivality, the envie of
• Rivals, Corrivals, two fet∣ching water from the same river, in love with the same thing, &c.
• Riveling, o. turning in and out.
• Rivulet, l. a small river.
• Rixation, l. a wrangling.
• Rizons, a City of Illyria.
• Road, a place near the Land for a Ships riding.
• Wild Road, with little land on any side.
• Roader, a Ship riding at an∣chor in a road.
• Roan, a dark horse-colour.
• Roan, a town in France.
• Robert, Ge. famous coun∣sel.
• Robertines, a religious order erected by
• Robert Flower, whose Father Took Flower was twice Maior of York.
• Roberdsmen, Mighty thieves, like Robin-hood.
• Robigalia, May-feasts in ho∣nour of
• Robigus, a Roman God pre∣serving Corn from being
• Robiginous, l. blasted.
• Robins, the small lines that make fast the Sails to the yards.
• Roboration, l. a strengthen∣ing.
• Roboreau, l. of Oak.
• Roburnean, l. the same.
• Robur, a place in Roman Prisons whence men were thrown head long.
• Robusteous, l. strong as Oak.
• Roch, o. as Rock.
• Rochelle, a town in France.
• Rochester, a City in Kent.
• Roche de Marche, a Town in Luxemburgh.
• Rochet, f. a frock, also a Bi∣shops Vestment.
• Rochetta, as Polverine.
• Rocket, an herb smelling like milk burnt-to.
• Rod, a Pearch, or Pole.
• Rodage, f. a toll exacted by some French Lords of Carts passing by their Lordships.
• Rode, Rud, o. Complexi∣on.
• Rod (or Rad) Knights, cer∣tain Servitors, who held their Land by serving their Lords on hors-back.
• Rodnet, a net for black-birds or Wood-cocks.
• Rodomond, f. one that u∣seth
• Rodomontades, l. the boast∣ings of
• Rodomonte, a vapouring Hector in Orlando Furi••so.
• Rofe, o. did rend and rive.
• Rofe-tyle, creast or ridge-tyle.
• Roe, a kind of Deer.
• Rogal, -lion, belonging to
• Rogus, a great [funeral] fire.
• Rogation, a desire, prayer.
• Rogation-week, Gang-week, Grass-week, the next week but one (of prayers, pro∣cessions and abstinence) be∣fore Whitsunday.
• Rogatists, the moderate sort of Donatists.
• Roggeth, o. for rocketh.
• Roger, q. Ruger, D. quiet, or
• Rodgar, strong Counsel.
• Roger, c. a Cloak-bag.
• Rogitate, l. to ask [often.]
• Roignous, o. ruinous.
• Roile, o. to range.
• Roin, o. a skar.
• Roiston, a town in Hert∣fordshire.
• Rider-roll, a Schedule added to a roll or record.
• Rolls, Domus Conversorum, the place where the Chan∣cery Rolls are kept.
• In Rolls, with rolls of gold on the edges of the Covers.
• Rollo, a Danish Captain, who seated himself in Nor∣mandy.
• Roman Indiction, 15 or 3 five years, at the end of which the Romans exacted their several Tributes, 1. Of Gold. 2. Silver. 3. Brass and Iron.
• Romancist, sp. a composer of
• Romances, feigned histories.
• Romanize, to imitate the
• Romans▪ people of Rome.
• Romanists, Papists.
• Romant, the most eloquent French, or (in Lorrain and the borders of Germany) that language which is not Ger∣man.
• Romford, a town in Essex.
• Romney, a Town in Kent.
• Romer, o. wider.
• Romberville, a town in Lor∣rain.
• Romboyld, c. with a war∣rant.
• Rome-fe••••, and
• Romescot, as Peterpence.
• Rome, the cheif City of Ita∣ly, built by
• Romulus, Grand-son of Numitor (King of Albans) by his Daughter Sylvia and Mars, who being exposed on the bank of Tiber, was nourished (they say) by a Wolf, and (at last) was hur∣ried away in a Whirl∣wind.
• Roncevale, Roscida vallis, a town of Nevar.
• Rondacher, he that bears a
• Rondache,▪f. a round target.
• Rondel, o. as Roundelay.
• Ronges (q. Ranges) o. the sides of a ladder.
• Rondelier, f. an user or ma∣ker of such targets.
• Rood of Land, a quarter of an Acre.
• Rood-lost, between the Church and Chancel, where was placed the
• Rood, sa. a Crucifix, or the Image of Christ upon the Cross.
• Roof-trees, small timbers (from the half-deck to the forecastle) to bear up the gratings and ledges where∣in the Nettings lye.
• Roop, No. hoarsness.
• Rooper, an East-India Coin, about 2 s. 9 d.
• Rope-yarnes, the yarns of any rope untwisted.
• Roor, o. uproar.
• Ropen, o. to reap.
• Roral, -rid, -rulent, dewy.
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• Roriferous, l. dew-bring∣ing.
• Rosere, o. a Rose-plat.
• Rosial, o. Red.
• Rosimunda, (Sa. Rose of peace) she was forced by Herminges to drink the poi∣son which she offered him, by whom she had procured the death of her Husband Alboinus (King of the Lom∣bards) because he drank a health to her in a cup made of her Fathers skull.
• Rosary, l. a bed or garland of roses, a rose-water-still, also Fifteens, a pair of beads (of 15 Pater-nosters and 150 Aves) much used by the
• Arch-confraternity of the Rosary, instituted by St. Do∣minick.
• Roscid, l. dewy.
• Roses, a port town in Cata∣lonia.
• Roseoman, an Irish Coun∣ty.
• Rose, the flower of Venus, consecrated by Cupid to Har∣pocrates the God of silence.
• Vnder the Rose, among private Lovers, not to be di∣vulged.
• Rosi-Crucians, Chymists, Brothers of the Rosy-Cross.
• Rosion, l. a gnawing.
• Rosse, a Scotish County, al∣so a town in Hereford.
• Rostration, l. a putting in the beak or bill.
• Rosto••, a Town of Mecble∣burg.
• Rot, a file or 6 Soldiers.
• Rotal, like a wheel.
• Cropping of the Rotan, c. the Carts tail.
• Rotation, l. a wheeling.
• By Rote, (f. par rotine) roundly, as a wheel runs.
• Rotheram, a town in York∣shire.
• Rothersoil, the dung of
• Rother-beasts, No. horned-.
• Rotterdam, a town in Hol∣land.
• Rotulus Wintoniae, Domes∣day book.
• Rotundity, l. roundness.
• Rou, o. ugly, froward.
• Rove, the little iron plate to which the Clinch-nails are clinched; also (o.) did rive.
• Rouge, f. red.
• Rouge-Cross, and
• Rouge-Dragon, two pursui∣vants at arms.
• Rought, o. cared.
• Rouncevals, Pease that came from
• Ronceval, a place at the foot of the ••yreneans.
• Roundel, a ball (in He∣raldry) also as
• Roundelay, f. a shepherds song or dance.
• Roundlet, an uncertain measure from 3 to 20 Gal∣lons.
• Round-house, the upper∣most room of a ships stern.
• Round-in (or af••) let rise the Main or fore-tack, &c. when the wind larges upon them.
• Roun••, o. to cease.
• Rounds, the fragments of Statues.
• Rout, f. an assembly of 3 (or more) to commit an un∣lawfull act.
• Routeth, o. snorteth.
• Rowland, Rolland, Rodland, Ge. Land-Counsel, (I. Or∣lando.)
• Rowle, the round piece wherein the whip-staff goes.
• Rowney, o. a Cart-horse.
• Rounge, o. to gnaw.
• Rowning, o. silence, whis∣pering in the ear.
• Rowpand, o. Calling.
• Rowse, raise [a hart.]
• Rowses, [the hawk] shakes her self:
• Rowse-in the cable, hale-in so much as lies slack.
• Rowt, Rawt, No. to bel∣low.
• Rowt, a Company [of Wolves.]
• Coleur de Roy, f. the King of France's colour, Violet.
• Royal, f. Kingly.
• Royal Society, a Fellow∣ship of Noble and Ingenious men (founded 14 Car. 2.) for the improvement of Natu∣ral Knowledge.
• Royalist, f. a lover of the King.
• Royalty, f. the Kings Pre∣rogative.
• Royston, a town in Cam∣bridgshire.
• R. P. Res-publica, the Com∣mon-Wealth, also as
• Regiu•• Professor.
• Rubace, -cel, a yellowish precious-stone.
• Rubefaction, l. a rubefying or making red.
• Rubet, l. a toad-stone.
• Rubicon, the large Italian river Runcone.
• Rubicund, -dous, l. bloud-red.
• Rubid, l. ruddy.
• Rubie, l. a red precious-stone.
• Rubiginous, rusty. See Rob-.
• Rubor, l. redness.
• Rubricate, l. to make red.
• Rubrick, l. a Title, Rule or Sentence in Red, a Ca∣lendar of Saints and Festi∣vals.
• Rubrificative, [a strong plaister] making the place look red.
• Rucking, o. lurking.
• Ructation, l. a belching.
• Rudg-washt Kersey, made of fle••ce-wooll, washt only on the Sheeps back.
• Rudge-bone, o. Os sacrum, the rump-bone.
• Rudheath (in Cheshire) was a Sanctuary (for a year and a day) to Offenders.
• Rudiments, l. Principles or first plain instructions.
• Rue, Dev. to sift.
• Ruel-bone, o. the whirl∣bone of the knee.
• Ruff, Pope, a fish like a small pearch.
• Ruff••n, c. the Devil.
• Ruffler, c. a notorious Rogue.
• Ruff-peck, c. bacon.
• Ruffians-hall, Smithfield, where trials of skill were plaid by Ruffianly people.
• Rugby, a Town in War∣wickshire.
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• Rugen, an Island of Pome∣rania.
• Rugosity, l. a being
• Rugose, -sous, full of wrin∣kles.
• Ruinous, l. falling to de∣cay.
• Rum, Kill-devil, a Bar∣bado's drink stronger than brandy.
• Rum, c. gallant.
• Rum boozing welts, c. bun∣ches of grapes.
• Rumboyl c. the Watch.
• Rum-Cully, c. a rich fool.
• Rum dropper, c. a Vint∣ner.
• Rum-gutlers, c. Canary.
• Rum-hopper, c. a drawer.
• Rum-padders, c. brave high-way men.
• Rum-vile, c. London.
• Rumb, as Rhomb.
• Rumbeg, Tu. Lord of Rome, the Pope.
• Rumia, the Goddess of sucking.
• Rumidg (or Rummage) the hold, clear it of lumber, for the stowing of goods.
• Rumiforate, -ige-, l. to re∣port abroad.
• Ruminate, l. to chew the Cud, also to ponder.
• Ruminus, [Jupiter] be∣stowing teats or breasts.
• Rumsey, two towns in Hant∣shire.
• Rumsebab, P. the King of Rome, the Pope.
• Runcinus, a load-horse, or Cart-horse.
• Runcina, the Goddess of
• Runcation, l. weeding.
• Run, that part of the ships hull under water, which comes lanker by degrees from the floor-timber to the stern-post.
• Rune, Somerset, a water-course.
• Runge, No. a flasket.
• Rung-heads, the ends of the
• Rungs, the ground-tim∣bers which give the floor of the ship.
• Runlet, as Roundlet.
• Runn••l, No. Pollard-wood.
• Runner, a rope used in the hoising of heavy things.
• Over-••ale the Runner, pull down that end with a hook in it, to hitch into the slings &c,
• Rupelmond, a Town in Flanders.
• Ruption, l. a breaking.
• Ruptor, l. a breaker.
• Ruptory, f. a Corrosive, or that which hath power to break.
• Rupture-wort, an herb good for a
• Rupture, l. a burstness.
• Rural, l. of the Countrey.
• Rural Deanry, the Juris∣diction of a
• Rural Dean, an Officer un∣der the Arch-Deacon, for dispatch of business.
• Ruremond, a town in Gel∣derland.
• Rurigene, l. born in the Country.
• Rus••a apum, a hive of bees.
• Rush-grown, as Bob-tail (in Archery.)
• Rushin-Castle, in Man Isle.
• Russia [alba] Muscovy.
• Russia nigra, a Province in Poland.
• Rustication, l. a dwelling in the Country.
• Rusticity, l. a being
• Rustick, -cal, clownish.
• Rut, Copulation of Deer, also the dashing of the sea a∣gainst any thing.
• He Rutes it, Che. cries fiercely.
• Ruth, h. watered or filled.
• Rutilant, l, glistering like gold.
• Rutilate, l. to shine or make bright.
• Ruttier, (f. Routier) a di∣rection to find out Courses (by Sea or Land,) also an old beaten Soldier (that knows all the places.)
• Ry, o. a swelling about the hawks head.
• Ryal, o. for Royal.
• Rye, a Sea-town in Sus∣sex.
• Ryparographer, as R••ypa-.
• Ry••elere, o. a hawk that only rifles the feathers of a Fowl.
• Ryntye, Che. By your leave, stand handsomly.