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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• Daae, People inhabiting part of Scythia Europaea.
• Dabuze, a weapon (or mace) carried before the Grand Sig∣nior.
• Dacker, Li. Waver, stagger.
• Dacia, part of European Scy∣thia.
• Dactyle, g. a finger, a date; also a foot of one long sylla∣ble and two short.
• Dactylogie, discoursing by signs.
• Daddock (q. dead oak) the rotten heart or Body of a tree.
• Daedalean, belonging to
• Daedalus▪ a famous artist, Icarus father, authour of the Cretian Labyrinth.
• Daemoniack, -cal, belonging to▪ also possessed of a
• Daemon, g. Devil.
• Daemonologie, a treatise of angels, spirits or Devils.
• Daff, o. Dastard, Coward; al••o ••o daunt, No.
• ...Daffock, Dawgos, Dawkin,

• No. a dirty slut.
• Daffadil, Narcissus, a flow∣er.
• Daft, No. stupid, blockish.
• Dagged, o. digged, slitted.
• Dagges, o. Leather-latchets.
• Dagge, D. a Dagger.
• Dagon, an idol having the upper part like a man, the rest like a fish; also a piece or remnant, o.
• Dag-swain, a rough or course mantle.
• Dakir, as Dicker.
• D'alanson, Dallison, a No∣ble family in Lincolnshire,
• Dalilah, Del-, h. he drew▪ or was drawn [out or dry.]
• Dalmatia, part of Illyricum in Greece.
• Dalmatian Cap, a Tulip, brought from Tulippa a Pro∣montory of Dalmatia.
• Dalmatick, a kind of vest∣ment (white with purple studs) for Deacons or Sub-Deacons; and another used by Archbishops.
• Dalrendini, Certain Scotch, conquered by the Irish Renda.
• Damask prunes, Damasines, plums of
• Damascus, the chief City of Syria.
• Damber, c. a rascal.
• Damiata, pelusium, a chief haven of Egypt.
• Dammage, f. hurt; also al∣lowance (in Court) for da∣mage done.
• Damage Cleer, a Gratuity given Protonotaries and their clerks for drawing special Writs and pleadings (2 s. per pound.)
• Dammage fefant, when beasts feed and spoil in other mens grounds without leave.
• Dammask, fine stuff, first made in Damascus.
• Damnation, l. a condemn∣ing.
• Damocrita, a Roman Ma∣tron who kil'd her Daughters and herself, being forbidden to follow her banisht husband Alcippus.
• Dan, h. Judgement, also as Don, Monsieur, Sir, o.
• Danaë, Daughter of Acri∣stus King of Argos.
• Danai, Grecians, from
• Danaüs, Son of Belus and King of Argus.
• Dancers, c. stairs.
• Dancet, like Indented, only the lines are deeper and wi∣der.
• Dandelion (Dent de lion, f.) piss-a-bed, a plant.
• Dandy-prats, a small coyn made by Henry 7. also little folks.
• Dandruff, -raff, head-scurfe.
• Dane-gilt, -gelt, -geld, -gold, 12 d. paid the Danes for eve∣ry hide of land.
• Danewort, Wallwort or dwarf-elder.
• Dagwallet (q. Danglewallet) o. excessive.
• ... Dania, Denmark.
• Daniel, h. Judgment of God.
• Danistick, belonging to a
• Danist, he that takes
• Danisme, g. Usury.
• Dank, o. damp, moist.
• Danmonij, the people of Devonshir and Cornwal.
• Dantis••um, Dantzick, -zig, a town in Poland.
• Dantoned, o. tamed.
• Danubius, Ist••r, Danow, the greatest river in Europe.
• Danwort, as Danewort.
• Dapatical, sumptuous.
• Daphne, flying from Apollo's lust was turn'd into a Laurel or Bay-tree.
• Daphnaelian g. Oil of Bay.
• Daphmomancy, g. Divination by Laurels.
• Dapifer, Sewer, that orders and serves up a Banquet.
• Dapper, neat, spruce.
• Daping, angling near the top of the water.
• Dapocaginous, I. low-spirit∣ed, narrow-hearted, of litle worth.
• Darapti, a syllogism of the two first Universal and the last a particular Affirmative.
• Darby (q. Derwentby) built on the river Derwent.
• Darcy, D' Adrecy, an anci∣ent family in Lincolnshire.
• Dardanum, Troy, built by
• Dardanus, Son of Jupiter and Electra, also a Magician.
• Dardanian art, Witchcraft.
• Dare, o. stare upon, also hurt, No.
• Darick, a s. a coyn of
• Darius, King of Persia.
• Darking, a town in Surrey.
• Darkmans, c. night, evening.
• Darling, (q. Dearling) fond∣ling.
• Darlington, a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham.
• Darnel, a rushy corn-weed very seedy.
• Darrein [presentment,] f. the last.
• Darreign, Dar••n, o. attempt.
• Dartos, one of the skins that enwraps the stones.
• Dartford, Darf-, Darenf-, a town in Kent, upon
• Daren, a River there.
• Dartmouth, a town in De∣von.
• Darij, a syllogism of the first universal and the two last particular affirmatives.
• Dart, jaculus, an ash-co∣lour'd serpent darting it self from trees, &c.
• Datary, a Roman Office, for the collation of Benefices.
• Date, the palm-tree fruit, also the time of writing a let∣ter, &c.
• Dates, o. accounts.
• Datife, that may be given or disposed of.
• Dation, l. a gift.
• Dathan, h. an Edict of law.
• Datisi, as Darij (in another mood.)
• Datism, a heaping together Synonyma's or words of the the same signification, from
• Datis a Noble-man of Greece.
• Dative, l. belonging to giv∣ing.
• Dative Case, that which is put acquisitively, to or for ones use, benefit or dammage▪
• Daudery, a town in Lincoln∣shire.
• Davitt, a piece of timber with a notch at one end, whereon they hang the fish-block.
• Dav••nport, Damport, a town

• in Cheshire, also an ancient family.
• Daventree, Daintry, a town in Northamptonshire.
• David, h. beloved.
• Davids-staff, contains an en∣tire quadrant between the circle of the arched bases of two united triangles.
• Daulphin, or Dolphin [of Viennes] the title of the King of France's eldest son.
• St. Davids day, March, 1. in Honour of St. David Arch-Bishop of Menevy above 60 years. The Leek denotes a great victory obtained a∣gainst the Saxons by the Bri∣tains wearing Leeks by St. Davids direction.
• Daungere, o. a Trap.
• Daungerous, o. coy or sparing.
• Daunsette, as Dancet.
• Dauntry, an ancient Family in Sussex.
• Day-lights-gate, the going down of day-light.
• Dawe, o. dawn, also thrive, no.
• Dawes, o. days.
• Dawkin, as Daffock.
• Days in bank, when the writ is to be returned, or the party to appear.
• Days-man, Arbitrator. no.
• Dazed [bread,] Dough-ba∣ked, Li.
• I's Dazed, I'm very cold, no.
• Dea bona, the Goddess Fortu∣na, and sometimes the Earth, cal'd also Ops, Fatua, and Fauna, whipt to death with myrtle by her husband Fau∣nus, for being drunk with wine of Myrtle-berries.
• Dea vi••i-placa, a Goddess in who's chappel man and wife were reconciled.
• Deaction, l. a finishing or per∣fecting.
• Deacon, g. (Minister, Ser∣vant) a Church Officer [look∣ing anciently to the poor, now also] read••ng in the Church.
• Deadmans-eyes, Ship blocks full of small ropes.
• Dead-pledge, Mort-gage, pawning of things for ever, if the money be not paid at the time agreed on.
• Deafly, dearn, solitary, fa•• from neighbours, no.
• Deadwater, the eddy water at the stern of a Ship.
• Deäfforetted, discharged from being a Forest, or freed from Forest Laws.
• Deälbate, l. whiten.
• Deambulatory, l. walking up and down, also a walking place.
• Deanrie, the Office and place of a
• Dean, set over [ten] Canons.
• Deans rural, who have a Ju∣risdiction assign'd by the Bi∣shop over other Ministers and Parishes adjoyning.
• Dean-great, a Town in Glo∣cestershire.
• Deark, as De••ark.
• Deau••ation, l. gilding over.
• Debauch, to corrupt in man∣ners, also as
• Debaucherie, Desb••sh••rie, f. riot, disorderly revelling.
• Debellation, an overcoming [in war.]
• Debenham, a Town in Suf∣folk.
• De bene esse, when a Defen∣dants deposition is only al∣low'd of, for the present.
• Debentur, (l. they are owing) a bill charging the Common∣wealth to pay the Soldier creditour his arrears.
• Debet & solet, a writ of right, a suit to a mill, common of Pasture, &c.
• Debilitation, l. a weakening.
• Debility, l. weakness.
• Debito▪ de debito, a writ for mony due by obligation or bargain.
• Debonairity, a being
• Debonair, f. courteous, sprightly, complaisant.
• Deborah, h. a word or bee.
• Deboistness, a being
• Deboist, debauched.
• Debosherie, debauchery.
• Debulliate, l. seethe over.
• Decachord, g. an instrument of ten strings,
• Decacuminate, l. take off the top of any thing.
• Decade, g. a number of ten.
• Decadency, l. a falling down
• Decadist, a writer of Decads, as Livy, &c.
• Decagon, g. a figure of ten angles or corners.
• Decalogue, g. the ten Com∣mandments.
• Decameron, g. Boccaces▪ book of Fables in 10 parts.
• Decant, l. report, sing enchant
• Decantation, l. a praising, also the pouring off of liquor setling by inclination.
• Decapitation, l. a beheading.
• Decapolis, g. part of Syria.
• Decark, g. a Governor of ten.
• Decede, l. depart.
• December▪ l. the 10th. month from March.
• Decempedal, of ten foot.
• Decem tales, the Judges granting a supply of ten such Jurors as do appear, or as are not excepted against.
• Decemvirate, the office and authority of the
• Decemviri, ten Romans cho∣sen to govern instead of the two Consuls.
• Decenna, see Deciners.
• Decennial, l. of ten years.
• Deception, l. a deceiving.
• Deceptione, a writ against him that doth any thing de∣ceitfully in the name of ano∣ther.
• Deceptive, l. apt to deceive.
• Decerp, l. pluck off or away, gather.
• Decerption, l. a cropping off.
• Decertation, l. a striving.
• Decession, a departing.
• Deciduous, hanging or falling down.
• Decies tantum, ten times as much, reco••erable from the Juror bribed to give his ver∣dict.
• Decimal, belonging to the number of ten.
• Decimate, l. to tythe or take the Tenth.
• Decimate, l. a tithing, also punishing every tenth man.
• De decimis solvendis, a writ for recovery of Tythes of them that had farm'd the Priors aliens Lands of the King.
• ...

• Decenna, -ary, the jurisdicti∣on of the
• Deciners, Decenniers, Dezi∣ners, who were to keep the Peace within ten Friburghs.
• Decide, l. determine con∣troversies.
• Decircinate, l. bring out of compass, unbind.
• Decision, a determining or ending of a controversie.
• Decisive, -sory. apt to deter∣mine.
• Decius, a Roman Emperor who persecuted Christians.
• Deck, floor [of a ship.]
• Declaim, l. to make a
• Declamation, crying out, also an Oration.
• Declarative, which doth
• Declare, l. make a
• Declaration, manifestation, shewing forth, also a shew∣ing the Plantiffes grief in writing.
• Declension, Declination, a de∣clining, bending or bowing [down,] also the variation of Cases in Nouns, &c.
• Declinator, an instrument to take the
• Declination of Planets, their distance from the Aequator.
• Declivity, l. steepness.
• Decoctible, easie to be sodden.
• Decoction, l. a boiling away.
• Decollation, l. a beheading.
• Decomposite, -pound, l. com∣pounded of more than two.
• Deconate, as Decury.
• Decoped, o. copped, peaked.
• Decor, l. comliness.
• Decorate, beautifie.
• Decorticate, pill off the rinde.
• Decoration, l. an adorning.
• Decortication, a pulling off the bark.
• Decorum, l. decency, come∣liness, order.
• Decretist, one that studies the
• Decrees, Decretals, a volume of the Canon-law compiled by Gratian a monk.
• Decrement, l. a decreasing.
• Decrements, are paid by Scho∣ars for the use (or wasting) of things at Colledge.
• Decrepit, l. weak [with age.]
• Decressant, l. waining.
• Decretaliark, an absolute Commander.
• Decrustation, a taking away the rinde or crust.
• Deculcate, l. trample on.
• Decumbence, l. a lying down.
• Decumbiture, l. the taking ones bed, or first lying down in a sickness.
• Decuple, l. ten fold.
• Decurion, l. the chief of a
• Decuria, a company often.
• Decursion, a running down.
• Decussate, l. to make a
• Decussation, l. a cutting in the form of an X.
• Decussion, l. a shaking off.
• Decutient, shaking or beat∣ing down.
• Dedalus, as Daedalus.
• Dede, o. death.
• Dedecoration, l. a disgracing.
• Dedentition, l. a shedding of Teeth.
• Dedi, (l. I have given) a war∣ranty to the Feoffee and his Heirs.
• Dedignation, l. a disdaigning.
• Dedimus potestatem, a dele∣gation or commission to a private man for the speeding some Judicial act.
• Deeping-market, a Town in Lincolnshire.
• Neither Dees nor Daws, No. neither dies nor mends.
• Dedition, l. a surrendring.
• Deed, o. dead.
• Deeds, writings of contract.
• Deemsters, Demsters, Judges (in the Isle of man) deciding all controversies, without pro∣cess, charges, &c.
• Deep-sea-lead, about four∣teen pound hung at the
• Deep-sea-line, to sound in deep waters.
• Dees, o. a Canopy.
• De essendo quietum de Tolonio, priviledge from payment of Toll.
• Deësis, g. beseeching, earnest entreaty or calling to wit∣ness.
• De expensis militum, a writ to levy 4 s. per day, a Knight of the Shires expenses.
• Defailance, f. a failing.
• Defaited, o. decay'd.
• Defatigable, easily wearied.
• Defatigation, l. a wearying.
• Defamation, l. a slandering.
• Defaulking, f the same as
• Defalcation, l. an abating or cutting off
• De facto, actually done.
• Default, omission of what we ought to do.
• Defeasance, Defeis-, f. the making void an act, obligati∣on, &c. by performing a condition thereto annexed.
• Defecated, refined.
• Defecation, l. a refining or cleansing [from dregs.]
• Defection, l. a failing, also revolting or falling away.
• Defend, f. forbid.
• Defendant, f. he that is sued in an action personal, as Te∣nant in an action real.
• Defendemus, a binding the Donour to defend the Donee.
• Defender of the Faith, a Ti∣tle of the Kings of England, given Henry the 8th. by Leo .10. 1521.
• Defenestration, a throwing out at window.
• Defeneration, a taking of money upon usury.
• Defensatives, medicines di∣verting the humour.
• Deficiency, l. a want or fail∣ing.
• De fide, l. of Faith, necessa∣ry to believed.
• Define, l. make a
• Definition, explication, an unfolding the essence of a thing [by the genus and diffe∣rence.]
• Definite, certain, limited.
• Definitive, limiting or de∣termining.
• Deflagration, a burning.
• Deflection, -exure, a turning down or away.
• Defletion, a bewailing.
• Defloration▪ l. the same as
• Deflowring, ravishing.
• Defluxion, l. a flowing down [of humours.]
• Deft, o. little and pretty.
• Deforcement, a forcible with∣holding lands, &c.
• Deformatio, as Prosop••paea.
• ...

• Deformity, l. a being
• Deformed, ugly, mis-shapen.
• Deforsour, -ceor, -ciant, he that dispossesses one by force, as
• Desseisour, without force.
• Defouled, o. shamed.
• Defray, make free, also to pay [anothers] charges.
• Defunct, l. dead.
• Defie, to chalenge.
• Degenerous, he that doth
• Degenerate, l. fall from the [better] kind, from vertue, to vice, &c.
• Deglutination, l. an unglue∣ing.
• Deglutition, l. quick de∣vouring, also the appetite of swallowing.
• Degow••dy, o. moulting.
• Degrade, l. cast down [from Office or Honour.]
• Degradation, a degrading.
• Degrandinate, l. to hail much.
• Degree, f. a step or stair, a state or condition, also (in Astronomy) the 30th. part of a Sign.
• Dehort, l. disswade.
• Dehortation, a disswading.
• Deïanira, Hercule's wife, who slew her self, because he burnt himself to avoid the torment caused by the shirt she gave him (to gain his love) presented her by the Centaure Nessus wound∣ed by Hercules's arrow, for attempting to ravish her when carried by him over the River Evenus.
• Deiden, o. dy'd.
• Deicide, l. a killer of God.
• Dejeration, l. a solemn swear∣ing.
• Deiformity, the form of God.
• Deifie, l. make a God of one.
• Deiphobus, Priam's Son, who causing Paris to be murdered, married his wife Helena.
• Deignous, o. disdainful.
• Deintie, o. desire or dainty.
• Deipnosophists, g. wise men discoursing at supper.
• D••irie, o. dairy.
• Deis, o. a seat.
• Deists, Anti-Trinitarians.
• Deïty, l. Godhead.
• Delamere, a Forrest in Cheshire.
• Delatour, l. an accuser, in∣former.
• Delayed [wine] mingled with water.
• Delegate, l. appoint another in ones stead, also he that is so appointed.
• Delenifical, mitigating, pa∣cifying.
• Deleted, defaced, destroyed.
• Deletry, [medicines] dead∣ly venemous.
• Deletorious, apt to blot or rase out.
• Deletion, l. a bloting out.
• Delgovitia, supposed to be Wighton in Yorkshire.
• Delibation, l. tasting, also a sacrificing.
• Deliberate, l. with advice, leisure and consideration.
• Deliberation, a debating or consulting.
• Delibrate, l. peel off the bark.
• Delict, l. offence.
• Delignate, destroy wood.
• Delimate, l. file off.
• Delineate, l. draw the first draught of a picture, also to describe.
• Delinquent, l. offender.
• Deliquium, a fainting away, also the dissolving of a hard body (as salt, &c.) into li∣quor, in a moist place.
• Delirous, belonging to or full of
• Deliration, -rium, a doating.
• Deliver, o. active, nimble.
• Delian-twins, Apollo and Diana born in
• Delos, cheif of the Aegaean Cyclade-Isles.
• Delle, o. Dike.
• Dell, Doxy, c. a wench.
• Delph, an abatement in the midst of an Escucheon, pro∣per to him that revokes his challenge and eats his own words.
• Delphick, belonging to
• Delphos, a Town of Phocis in Greece, famous for Apol∣lo's Oracle and Temple.
• Deltoton, g. a Constellation resembling the greek del∣ta
• Delusion, l. a deceiving o•• being
• Deluded, deceived.
• Deluge, f. flood, inundation▪
• Dely, o. little.
• Demagogue, g. leader of the people, head of a party.
• Demain, -mene, f. manage.
• Demandant, in real actions is the same as Plaintiff in personal ones.
• Demean, behave, also be∣moan, o.
• Demene, o. dwell.
• Demeanour, behaviour.
• Dementation, a making or being besides ones self.
• Demesne, Demean, f. land holden originally of ones self▪
• Demerit, an ill deserving.
• Demas and Gesmas, (in the Gospel of Nicodemus) the two thieves crucified with Christ.
• Demetrius, belonging to
• ... Demeter, g. Ceres.
• Demi- l. half-.
• Demi-chase, f. half-hunt∣ing, Summer-riding-boots.
• Demigrate, l. flit, remove.
• Demin, o. a Judge.
• Demipho, g. light of the peo∣ple.
• Demise, l. farm or let out.
• Demission, a casting down or abasement.
• Demit, l. lay down, to hum∣ble.
• Democratical, belonging 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• Democracy, g. a Govern∣ment whose Magistrates 〈◊〉〈◊〉 chosen from among and by the people.
• Democritick, belonging to
• Democritus, a Philosophe•• who laughed at all the world and (for contemplation sake put out his own eyes.
• Demolition, a demolishin•• casting down and ruinating.
• Demonachation, an expelli•••• from, or forsaking the Mon∣kish order.
• Demoniack, as Daemonia••
• Demonicracy, the Govern∣ment of Devils.
• Demonstrative, belongi•••• to
• ...

• Demonstration, l. a shewing or making plain.
• Demonologie, a discourse of or with Devils.
• Demophoon, succeeding his Father Theseus (in the Go∣vernment of Athens) forgat Phillis whom he had married in Thrace, driven thither by storm, whereupon she hang'd her self on an Almond-tree.
• Demosthenes, a famous Ora∣tour, that was banished by Philip of Macedon and poiso∣ned himself.
• Demur, -rrer, f. stop at any case of difficulty.
• Demy, an half-fellow [at Magdalen Colledge in Oxon.]
• Denariata terrae, a farding-deal, or farundel of Land, the 4th. part of an acre.
• Denary, the number of 10, also as
• Deneer, -ier, f. the tenth (now the 12th.) part of a peny.
• Denbigh, a Town in Wales.
• Denwere, o. double.
• Dene, o. a small valley, con∣trary to doun.
• Dendrologie, the or a dis∣course of Trees.
• Dene-lage, the law of the Danes before the Conquest.
• Denis, Dionysius, a mans name,
• Denis, Diana, a womans name.
• Deneck, a. the swans tail.
• Deneck eleced, a. the Lions tail.
• Deneck alibedi, a. the bow∣ing of the back, or doubling of the tail of the Goat.
• Denigrate, l. make black.
• Denizon, Dennizen, (q. Danes Son, or Dinesidd, Br. Citizen) an alien infranchi∣sed and made capable of Office or purchasing, but not of inheriting by descent (as one that is naturalized.)
• Dennington, a Castle in Berks, once the residence of Chaucer.
• Denomination, l. the giving of a name.
• ... Denshire, Devonshire.
• Denotation, a marking.
• Dense, l. thick.
• Densitie, l. thickness.
• Dent, indented like the teeth of a saw, also dint, blow, impression, o.
• Dental, belonging to the Teeth, also a small shell-fish like a dogs tooth.
• Dentati, l. such as are born with teeth.
• Dentelli, Asseri, the teeth above the Cymatium (in Ar∣chitecture.)
• Denticle, l. a little tooth.
• Dentifrice, l. any thing to rub the teeth with.
• Dentiloquent, l. lisping [through the teeth.]
• Dentiscalp, l. a tooth-pick∣er.
• Dentition, l. a breeding teeth.
• Denudation, l. a making bare or naked.
• Denumerate, pay down.
• Denuntiation, l. a denounc∣ing or proclaiming.
• Denwere, o. doubt.
• Deobturated, l. shut or stop∣ped from.
• Deodand, a thing devoted (sold for the poors use) to ex∣piate the mischief it hath done, as a Cart running over and killing a man, &c.
• De Deoneranda pro rata por∣tionis, when one is distrained for rent payable by others in proportion with himself.
• Deosculation, l. an eager kis∣sing.
• Deperdeux, (De par dieu) f. from God.
• Departer, -ture, waving the first thing pleaded (being re∣plied to) and producing ano∣ther.
• Departers, parters, finers▪ refiners of Gold or Silver from the courser sort.
• Departure in despight of the Court, when a Defendant ap∣pears to an action; but makes default in not appearing af∣terward.
• Departed even, o. equally mixt, or divided.
• Depauperate, l. make poor.
• Depeculation, l. a stealing from the publick.
• Depeloupe, o. (for Deve-) transparent.
• Depend, l. hang or rely up∣on.
• Dependance, -cy, a relying or staying upon.
• Depension, l. a weighing or paying.
• Dep••ford, West-Greenwich in Kent.
• Depilatory, that which is apt to
• Depilate, take away hair.
• Depilation, a making bald.
• Depilous, bald without wool, fur, or hair.
• Deploration, l. a bewailing.
• Deplantation, a taking up of Plants.
• Deplume, l. strip off Fea∣thers.
• Depolition, a polishing.
• Deponent, l. laying down, he that doth
• Depose, -site, l. lay down upon oath.]
• Deponent verbs, which have laid aside their passive signi∣fication.
• Depopulatores agrorum, those that are guilty of
• Depopulation; l. a spoiling, wasting or unpeopling [of a Country.]
• Deportation, l. a carrying away.
• Deportment, f. carriage, be∣haviour.
• Depositary▪ he that keepeth a
• Depositum, l. a pledge in Feoffee or trust.
• Deposition, a laying down, an oath, also death.
• Depravation, l. a spoiling or making naught.
• Depraed••tion, l. a preying upon, robbery.
• Depredable, that may be rob'd or spoild.
• Deprecation, l. a praying a∣gainst [judgments, &c.]
• Depre••ate, divert by Pray∣er.
• Deprehension, l. a taking unawares.
• Depression, l. a pressing down
• Depretiate, beat down the price.
• ...

• Deprivation, l. a bereaving.
• Deprome, l. draw forth.
• Depromption, l. a bringing out.
• Depudication, l. a deflouring.
• Depulsion, l, a driving from.
• Depuration, a cleansing [of a wound.]
• Deputy, one appointed in the stead of another.
• Dequace, o. dash, (q. Dequash.)
• Dequantitate, to lessen the quantity.
• Deradiation, l. a casting forth of raies or beams.
• Derbent, a famous Port in Persia.
• Derbices, people of Asia who eat their kindred at 70 year old.
• Derceto, half woman, half fish, an Idol Goddess at Aska∣lon.
• Dercyllidas, a famous Lace∣demonian Commander against the Persians.
• Dere, o. to hurt, grieve.
• D••reham East, a Town in Norf••lk.
• Dereliction, l. an utter for∣saking.
• Derelinquish, l. utterly to forsake.
• Derein, Deraign, prove an action.
• Dereinment, proof, also turn∣ing aside, departure.
• D••rham, a Town in Gloce∣stershire.
• ... D••rick, Theodorick.
• Derision, l. a laughing to scorn.
• Derivation, a drawing from the Fountain or Original.
• Dertmouth, a port-Town in Dev••nshire.
• Derogatory, apt to
• Derogate, disparage, dimi∣nish.
• Derogation, a detracting from the worth of any thing.
• Deruncination, l. a weeding out.
• Dervises, -veeshes, a strict and severe sort of Relig••o••s T••rks.
• Desarcinate, unload.
• D••s••alsas, Spanish bare-leg••d ••ryers.
• Descant, the answering of quick notes in one part to a slower measure in the other, also as Comment.
• Descent, l. a going down, also a pedigree.
• Descention, a going or faling down.
• Deschevel, as Dischevel.
• Describe, l. to make a
• Description, imperfect defi∣nition, shewing the nature or property of a thing.
• Descry, discover a far off.
• Desecate, l. cut off.
• Desection, l. a cutting down
• Desecrate, degrade, discharge from holy Orders.
• D••sart, -sert, l. wilderness.
• Des••rt, f. merit.
• Desertion, l. a forsaking.
• Deserter, -tor, l. renegado, that leaves one Religion, Prince or Captain for another
• D••siccative, apt or able to dry up.
• Desiccation, l. a drying up.
• Desiderate, l. to desire.
• Desiderative, desiring [to do what the primitive verb sig∣nifies.]
• Desidery, o. desire, lust.
• D••signation, l. design, f. a purposing or contriving.
• Desidious, l. negligent.
• Desipience, l. foolishness, dotage.
• D••sist, l. leave off.
• Deslavy o. (q. deslawy) law∣less, leacherous, beastly.
• Desmonia, Desmond in Ire∣land.
• Desolati••n, l. a laying or a lying waste.
• Desolate, l. forsaken, left alone.
• De son tort Demesne, f. the trepass was done of his own head, without command of Master, &c.
• Despection, l. a looking downwards.
• Desperation, l. a despairing or giving over.
• Despicable, l. base, to be slight••d.
• Despoliation, l. a robbing or spoiling.
• Despond, l. to despair.
• Despondence, -cy, l. a being cast down, quite disheartened
• Despondingly, despairingly▪
• Desponsation, l. a betroth∣ing.
• Despotical, belonging to 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• Despote, g. Lord, Govern∣our.
• Despumation, l. a taking of the scum or froth.
• Dessert, f. the last course 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Feast.
• Destination, l. an appoint∣ing.
• Destiny, fate.
• Destitute, l. forsaken, want∣ing.
• Destitution, l. a forsaking.
• Destrer, o. a war-horse.
• Destruction, l. a destroy∣ing.
• Desuetude, l. a disuse, de∣sisting from any custom.
• Desultorious, -ry, l. belong∣ing or given to leaping 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vaulting; also unconsta••▪ mutable.
• Desumption, l. a Chusing o•• taking out.
• Detection, l. a discovering or laying open.
• Detenebrate, l. dispel or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 away darkness.
• Detention, l. a with-hold∣ing.
• Deterioration, a making worse.
• Determination, a purposing appointing.
• Deterred, l. affrighted, ••••••••couraged.
• Detersion, l. a wiping or clea••••sing.
• Detestation, an abhorring
• Dethrone, l. to depose or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 from the Throne.
• Detinue, f. a writ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him that refuses to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 goods delivered him to 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• Detonation, a thundri•••• down, also driving away 〈◊〉〈◊〉 impure Sulpherous and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 parts of a body.
• Detorsion, a wresting a••way.
• Detraction, l. a drawing ••••way, also a slandering.
• Detrectation, a drawing 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a refusing.
• ...

• Detrimental, having or bringing
• Detriment, l. dammage.
• Detrition, l. a wearing a∣way.
• Detrite, worn out, bruised, consumed.
• Detrusion, a thrusting a∣way.
• Detruncation, a cutting off [limb or branch.]
• Deturpation, l. a defiling.
• Devastation▪ a laying waste.
• Devastaverunt bona Testato∣ris, a writ against Executors for paying Legacies and debts without specialties, to the prejudice of Creditors hav∣ing specialties.
• Deucalidonians, the Picts in the West of Scotland.
• Deucalion & Pyrrha, all that were saved in the General floud, restored mankind by throwing stones over their heads.
• Devection, l. a carrying a∣way or down.
• Devest, uncloath, deprive.
• Devexity, l. the hollowness of a vally, a bending down.
• Devils-drop, [the reliques of a beacon on] a high hill at Dover.
• Devils-bit, a plant who's root seems bitten [by the Devil, out of envy to man∣kind, for its rare virtues.]
• Devenerunt, a writ com∣manding the Escheatour to enquire what lands came to the King, by the death of the Kings tenant.
• Developed, f. unfolded.
• Deviation, l. a going astray.
• Devious, l. -iant, f. wan∣dring, out of the way.
• Devirgination, a taking a∣way Virginity.
• Devinals, f. wizards, or their predictions.
• Devise, Div-, bequeath by will, also to declare or tell▪ o.
• Devisee, to whom goods are
• Devised or bequeathed.
• Devise, Motto, conceit, impress in a Coat of arms, &c.
• Devises, -izes, a Town in Wilts.
• Devonshiring, Den-, of land, is improving it by spreading on it the Ashes of burnt ••urfs.
• Deumo, an East-Indian Idol.
• Devoir, f. duty.
• Devolve, l. roll down.
• Devolution, l. a rolling or falling from one to another.
• Devote, l. vow, consecrate.
• Devotion, l. a consecrating, also piety, a being
• Devout, Religious.
• Deuseaville, c. the Coun∣try.
• Deuswins, c. twopence.
• Deusan, any hard lasting fruit.
• Deuterogamy, g. second mar∣riage.
• Deuteronomy, g. the second law, a repetition of it.
• Deuteral, pertaining to a second or weaker [wine, &c.]
• Deutroscopy, g. a second aim, intention or thought.
• Dewclaw, the little nail be∣hind the foot of a Deer, &c.
• Dewlap, the skin hanging under the Oxes throat.
• Dex, o. for Desk.
• Dexterity, l. a being
• Dexterous, handy, active.
• Dexter aspect, contrary to the succession of the signs.
• Dexter point (in heraldry) begins in the Chief of the right corner.
• Dexter-Epiploïk vein, the 2d branch of the spleen-vein, passing to the Epiploön and Colon.
• Dextral, a bracelet for the right arm.
• Dey, o. Dairy-woman.
• Diab••tical, troubled with
• Diabetes, g. the running of ones water without any stay.
• Diabolical, g Devilish.
• Diacalaminthe, a powder of mountain Calamint.
• Diacatholicon, a Compositi∣on of universal use.
• Diachylon, a softening and concocting plaister of juices or mucilages.
• Diacodium, a syrup of pop∣py-tops and water.
• Diaconal, belonging to a Deacon.
• Diacope, as Diastole
• Diacydonium, Marmalade of Quinces.
• Diacyminon, g. Diacuminum, l. a Composition of Cummin, &c.
• Diadem, g. a linnen wreath for the head [of Kings;] al∣so a Crown.
• Diaeresis, g. Division, also the mark thereof on the head of a vowel ( ¨ ).
• Diagalanga, a Confection of Galingale, and hot spices, for the wind-cholick, &c.
• Diagnostick, discerning, al∣so apparent at present, also a sign or mark of distinction [in herbs, &c.]
• Diagonal, g. passing from corner to corner.
• Diagram, g. a decree, title of a book, Geometrical fi∣gure, also a proportion of measures in musick.
• Diagraphical, belonging to the art of painting or grav∣ing.
• Diagrydium, the prepared juice of Scammony-roots.
• Dialacca, a confection of the gum Lacca, &c.
• Dialectick, belonging to
• Dialect, Logick, speech; also a particular propriety or Idiom of the same speech.
• Dial, belonging to the day.
• Diallel [lines] running cross and cutting one another.
• Dialogism, a mans reason∣ing with himself.
• Dialogical, belonging to
• Dialogue, a discourse be∣tween two.
• Dialyto, as Asyndeton.
• Diamargariton, a restora∣tive pearl-powder.
• Diamber, a Confection of Amber and hot spices.
• Diamerdis, a Confection of Pilgrims sálve, also a shitten ••ellow.
• Diametrical, belonging to
• Diameter, a streight line

• drawn through the center.
• Diamond, Adamant, g. un∣tamable (by reason of the hardness.) also the Rhomb or picke at cards.
• Diamoschu, a medicinal musk-powder.
• Diana, the maiden God∣dess of woods and hunting, twin-sister to Apollo, by Ju∣piter and Latona: the Moon.
• Diano••tick, belonging to
• Dianaea, Consideration, al∣so argumentation.
• Diapasm, Pomander or per∣fume of dry powders.
• Diapase, -son, g. an Eight, the most perfect concord.
• Diapente, a fifth, also a Far∣riers composition of Myrh, Gentian, Birthwort, Ivory, and Bay-berries.
• Diahexapla, the same with an addition of Honey.
• Diaper, linnen wrought with flourishes and figures.
• Diaper'd, -pred, [bordure] in heraldry, where it is fret∣ted all over, and something appearing within the frets.
• Diaper. (in painting) o∣ver-run the finisht work with branches, &c.
• Diaphanous, g. that may be seen or shon thorow.
• Diaphanity, transparency.
• Diaphonicon,, an electuary of dates, &c.
• Diapnoetica, medicines to ripen a swelling.
• Diaprunum, an electuary of Damask-prunes, &c.
• Diaphonist, he that makes a
• Diaphony, a discord or harsh sound.
• Diaphora, g. difference.
• Diaphoretick, piercing through, discussing [hu∣mours.]
• Diaphragmatick, belonging to the
• Diaphragm, a fence, a par∣tition; the skin, muscle, midriff or apron parting the breast and stomach.
• Diapaedesis, the sweating of bloud.
• Diaporesis, a doubting, (ei∣ther real or feigned.)
• Diarrhoetick, belonging to a
• Diarrhaea, a gentle flux of of the belly, without inflam∣mation.
• Diary, l. a day-book.
• ... Dias, drive away death with
• Dias and Dragges, i. e. dul∣ness and dregs, or (perhaps) Diets and Drugs.
• Diasantalon, a confection of the wood Sanders.
• Diasatyrion, an Electuary of Satyrion, &c.
• Diascordium, an Electuary of S••ordium, &c.
• Diasena, -senna, -sonna, an Electuary of Sena, &c.
• Diastole, Extension, pro∣longing a short syllable; al∣so that motion of the pulses which dilates the heart and arteries, as Systole contracts them.
• Diasyrmus, g. an extolling of a person (or thing) by way of derision.
• Diatessaron, a fourth (in musick,) also a plaister of four ingredients,
• Diatonick musick, plain-song
• Diatraganth, a confection of the gum Traganth &c.
• Diatribe, a place where O∣rations and disputations are held.
• Diatrionpipereôn, a medi∣cine of 3 sorts of pepper.
• Diatyposis a very exact and lively description of a thing.
• Diaturbith, an Electuary of Turbith, &c.
• Dibble, a forked setting-stick.
• Dicacity, l. taunting or mocking.
• Dicaearchy, g. Government by a
• Dicaearch, g. a just Prince or Governour.
• Dicaeologia, a brief expres∣sing the justice of a cause.
• Dication, Dedication, l. a devoting or consecrating.
• Dichling, a town in Sussex.
• Dichotomy, g. a cutting in two, dividing a discourse.
• Dicker [of Leather] t••n hides
• Dictamen, l. a thing writ∣ten by the instruction of ano∣ther.
• Dictate, l. tell one what he should write, also an English dictated for translation, &c.
• Dictitate, l. speak often, plead.
• Dickins, Devilkins, little de∣vils.
• Dictature, l. the same as
• Dictatorship, the Office of a
• Dictator, who's word was a law, chosen upon great and urgent Occasions.
• Dictionary, l. Lexicon, ga. store house of words orderly digested and explained.
• Dictum, Diganway in Caer∣narvanshire.
• Dictum de Kenelworth (Ca∣stle in Warwickshire.) a com∣position between King Henry 3d. and the Barons, &c. for their Estates forfeited in that Rebellion.
• ... Dictynna, Diana.
• Dido, Queen of Carthage in Africa, she kil'd herself, be∣cause Aenaeas would not mar∣ry her, or (rather) because she would not be forced to marry Jarbas King of Getu∣lia.
• Didapper, diver, a bird.
• Didram, g. a Roman coyn of fifteen pence.
• Didactick, -ical, g. doctri∣nal, instructive.
• Didascalick, pertaining to a Master or Teacher.
• Didder, No. quiver [with cold.]
• Didymus, g. Thomas, h. a twin.
• Diem clausit extremum, a writ for the Escheator to enquire into the Estate and next Heir of a Kings Te∣nant.
• Diennial, l. of two years.
• Dies datus, a respite given (by the Court) to the Tenant or Defendant.
• Dïeretick, belonging to
• Dieresis, as Diaeresis.
• ... Diespit••r, Lucetius, Jupiter.
• Diet, a German Parli∣ment.
• ...

• Dieta rationabilis, a reasona∣ble dayes journey.
• Dietary, treating of or be-belonging to a Diet
• Dietical, daily, regular.
• Dietetical, belonging to a prescribed Diet.
• Dieuet mon droit, f. God and my right. First used (they say) by Hen. 8.
• Diezeugmenon, Epiz-, g. the reference of several clauses to one verb.
• Diffamation, Def-, l. a tak∣ing away ones good name.
• Diffarreation, l. a Roman ce∣remony at divorcement.
• Diffibulate, l. unbutton.
• Difficulty, -cacity, l. hardness uneasiness.
• Difficilitate, make difficult.
• Diffidence, l. a doubting mis∣trusting.
• Diffident, l. distrustful.
• Diffoded, l. digged.
• Difflation (in Chymistry) when Spirits (through heat) are blown and coagulated in the adverse Camera, a blow∣ing down or abou••.
• Diffluence, l. a flowing asun∣der or several wayes.
• Diffusion, l. shedding abroad, dilating of a substance into more parts.
• Digamist, -ite, as Bigamist.
• Digamma, g. an Aeolick let∣ter, in force and figure like the Latin F.
• Digestive, (in Chirurgery) that which prepares for cleansing.
• Digestion, l. a disposing, con∣cocting.
• Digests, l. Pandectes, g. a Vo∣lume of the Civil law.
• Dight, No. decked, made ready; also to foul or dirty one, Che.
• Digit, any single figure in A∣rithmetick.
• Digital, l. of a finger.
• Digitation, a shewing or pointing with the fingers, al∣so an expressing the form of them.
• Digladiation, l. a combating [with swords.]
• Digne, f. Worthy, neat, gen∣tle, also disdainful.
• Dignitary, a Church Officer without cure of Souls, as Dean, &c.
• Dignity, l. honour, advance∣ment.
• Dignities of Planets, their be∣ing in their own houses, ex∣altations, triplicities and faces.
• Dignorate, to set a mark on
• Dignosce, l. discern, distin∣guish.
• Digression, l. a going aside.
• Dijudication, l. deciding a difference.
• Dike-Grave, D. Overseer of the Low-Country Dikes and Banks.
• Dilaceration, l. a rending or tearing asunder.
• Dilaniation, l. tearing in pieces [like a Butcher.]
• Dilapidation, l. a taking a∣way of stones, also a wast∣ing.
• Dilatable, l. capable of
• Dilatation, l. a widening.
• Dilatory, -ter, a Chirurge∣ons widening instrument.
• Dilatory, l. making delayes.
• ... Dildo, passa-tempo, I. penis succedaneus.
• Dilection, affection, love.
• Dilemma, g. a forked or horned syllogism, where two propositions are so framed, that neither can well be de∣nied.
• Dill, an herb resembling fen∣nel.
• Dilling, Darling, a Child born when the parents are old, the youngest.
• Diloricate, rip a sewed coat.
• Dilstone, Divelstone, a town on
• Divelsburn, a River in Northumberland.
• Dilucid, l. clear, manifest.
• Dilucidation, l. a making clear.
• Dilute, -ed [wine] mingled with water.
• Diluvial, belonging to a flood.
• Dimber, c. pretty.
• Dimension, l. the just mea∣sure or proportion, length, breadth, depth.
• Dimetient, l. measuring.
• Dimetae, the ancient inhabi∣tants of Caermarthen, Cardi∣gan and Pembrokeshire.
• Dimication, l. a skirmish∣ing.
• Dimidiation, l. a dividing in the midst.
• Dimidietas, the one half.
• Dimocks, an ancient family in Cheshire.
• Diminutive, l. little, dimi∣nishing the signification of the primitive, blemishing or staining a part of the Escu∣cheon, also lessening a pillar all along by degrees.
• Dimissory, dismissing, dis∣charging.
• Dimissory, [letters] of appeal.
• Dinah, h. Judgment.
• Dinarchy, g. a government by two.
• Dingle, a small valley be∣tween two steep hills.
• Ding, No. beat, also a blow, also to sling.
• Diocese, g. the jurisdiction of a
• Diocesan, a Bishop.
• Dioclesian, a Roman perse∣cuting Emperour, who (af∣ter two years) resign'd his Crown for a private life.
• Diogenes, a Cynic, churlish Philosopher, who dwelt in a kind of tub.
• Diomedes, King of Aetolia, one of the chiefest Hero's at the Trojan wars: also a King of Thrace who fed his horses with mans flesh, till Hercules gave them him for their meat.
• Dionymal, g. of two names.
• Dyonisia, a gemm which be∣ing bruised and drunk, tastes like wine and resists drun∣kenness.
• Dionysius (of Bacchus) De∣nis.
• Dioptick art, searching by perspectives the distances of planets.
• Dioptrical, belonging to a
• Dioptra, a Geometrical qua∣drat.
• Diphryges, the dross of brass, sticking (like ashes) to the

• bottom of the furnace.
• Dipthong, g. a double or compound sound, as ei, ai, oy, ou.
• Diple, a marginal mark for the correcting of a fault.
• Diploma, letters patent, a writ or Bull.
• Dipondiary, l. of 2 pound weight.
• Dipsas, a serpent who's bit∣ing brings a deadly thirst.
• Dipseiline, as Deep-sea-line.
• Diptote, g. a noun of two cases only.
• Dipty••hs, g. tables with the names of famous men recited at the Altar, the living on one side, dead on the other.
• Dire, l. cruel, dreadful.
• Direction, l. instruction, putting in the right way.
• Direct, straight.
• Direct Planet, moving on in its natural course.
• Number of direction, the 35 years between the highest and lowest falling of the moveable Feasts.
• Directory, apt to direct or put in the right way, also a book of rules for Divine ser∣vice, instead of the Common-prayer-book.
• Diremption, l. a separation or setting apart.
• Direption, l. a taking or snatching away, a robbing or plundering.
• Dirge, (for Dirige, l.) Pray∣ers for the dead.
• Diribitory, the place of mu∣stering and paying Soldiers▪
• Dirity, l. terribleness.
• Diruption, l. a bursting in sunder.
• Dirutor, l. he that destroys or pulls down.
• Disability, a being [made] uncapable.
• Disalt, to disable.
• Disamis, a Syllogism whose midle proposition is an uni∣versal affirmative, the other two particular.
• Di••ard, a block-head.
• Disarmed [Deer] when the horns are fallen.
• Dis••••scatio, assarting, turn∣ing wood-ground to arable or pasture.
• Discalceate, l. unshooe.
• Discarcatio, an unloading.
• Disaster, f. misfortune.
• Disastrous, unlucky.
• Disceit, deceit, deception.
• Discent, an order or means whereby land is derived to a man from his Ancestors.
• Disceptation, l. contentious disputing.
• Disceptator, a Judge or Ar∣bitrator.
• Dis••••rn, perceive, distin∣guish.
• Discerption, l. a tearing in pieces.
• Discession, l. a departing.
• Discever, o. spend, consume.
• Discheveled [hair.] f. hang∣ing loose, out of order.
• Discinct, l. ungirded, careless.
• Disciple, l. Scholar, learner.
• Disciplinable, capable of
• Discipline, l. order, instru∣ction, correction.
• Disciplinants, Fryers that scourge themselves.
• Disclaimer, an express de∣nial or refusal (in law.)
• Disclaim, f. renounce.
• Disclose, reveal, discover.
• Disclosed [hawks,] newly hatcht.
• Disclusion, a shutting out.
• Discolor, l. of divers co∣lours.
• Discolour, l. to change into another colour.
• Discomfiture, f. a routing or vanquishing an enemy.
• Disconsolate, f. comfortless.
• Discontinue, f. leave or break off.
• Discontinuance, -uity, inter∣ruption or breaking off.
• Discontinuance of possession, a mans incapacity of enter∣ing on his own alienated lands, except in a legal way.
• Discontinuance of Plea or Process, when (the opportunity of prosecution being lost) the suit must be begun afresh.
• Discontinued, put without day, finally dismist the Court for that time.
• Discordance, l. disagreement
• Discords [in Musick,] harsh, disagreeing notes.
• Discrasy, as Dyscrasy.
• Discount, set off, count how much less you have to pay.
• Discrepance, l. a differing.
• Discrepant, l. disagreeing.
• Discretion, l. a distinguish∣ing, also prudence.
• Discriminating, distinguish∣ing.
• Discrimination, l. a putting of a difference between things.
• Discubation, the same as
• Discumbence, l. a lying (or sitting) down [to meat, &c▪]
• Discure, o. discover, show.
• Discurrent, l. wandring a∣bout.
• Discursion, l. a running up and down.
• Discursive, l. belonging to discourse.
• Discuss, l. shake up and down, handle, search narrow∣ly into-.
• Discussion, a shaking, han∣dling, searching, &c.
• Disembarque, Disimbark, f. to land [goods] out of a ship.
• Disembogue, Sp, Vomit up, also to sail out of the straight mouth of a gulph.
• Disertitude, l. Eloquence.
• Disesperan••e, f. dispair.
• Disfranchize, f. take away ones freedom.
• Disgrade, as Degrade.
• Disgregation, a scattering or separating [from the flock.]
• Disguise, f. put into ano∣ther guise or form.
• Disgust, f. distaste.
• Dish-meat, K. spoon-meat.
• Disherison, a disinheriting, dammage.
• Disheritour, Disheriter, en∣dammager.
• Disherit, Disinherit, f. put out of Possession or right thereto.
• Disimbellish, f. disfigure.
• Disjugate, disjoyn.
• Disjoynt, o. a hard case, dan∣ger.
• Disjunctive, belonging to
• Disjunction, l. a separating or disjoyning.
• ...

• Disjunctum, as Diezeugme∣non.
• Dislocation, a putting out of joint, out of the right place.
• Dislodge, f. rowse, raise [a Buck.]
• Disloyalty, f. unfaithfulness.
• Dismal, dreadful.
• Dismantle, f. take off a cloak, also beat down the walls of a Town, Fort, &c.
• Dismay, astonish.
• Dismember▪ f. cut off a mem∣ber or joynt.
• Dismembering-knife, as Cut∣ling.
• Dismes, f. tithes.
• Dismiss, l. send away.
• Dismount, f. take down, unhorse.
• Dismount a piece, take her off the carriage.
• Dispand, l. stretch out.
• Dispansion, l. a spreading abroad.
• Disparage, I. disgrace.
• Disparagement, an underva∣luing, also the marrying of an Heir or heiress under their degree.
• Disparates, l. opposites wherein one thing is opposed to many.
• Disparility, the same as
• Disparity, l. inequality, un∣evenness.
• Disparition, l. a disappear∣ing.
• Disparpled, -perpled, -per∣pelled, loosly scattered, shoot∣ing it self into divers parts (in heraldry.)
• Dispaupered▪ deprived of the Priviledge of forma pauperis.
• Dispend, f. spend [money.]
• Dispensation, l. a distribu∣ting or dealing, performing the office of a
• Dispenser, -sator, l. Steward.
• Dispensatory, f. Pharmacopoea, g. directions (from the Col∣ledge of Physicians) for mak∣ing all Physical compositi∣ons, &c.
• Dispertion, l. a scattering.
• Dispert a peice of Ordnance, find the different diameters between the mouth and breech.
• Dispicience, l. looking dili∣gently, considering.
• Dispitous, o. angry, full of spite.
• Display, f. unfold, spread abroad.
• Displant, f. pluck up.
• Displic••nce, l. a displeasing.
• Displesion, l. a bursting in two, also the shooting a gun off.
• Dispoliation, l. a spoiling, r••fling, robbing.
• Dispone, o. dispose, set in order.
• Disport, o. sport.
• Disposition, l. a disposing, also the Constitution [of bo∣dy or mind.]
• Dispositor, l. a disposer.
• Dispossesse, f. put out of po∣ssession.
• Disproportion, inequality.
• Dispurveyed, f. bare, indi∣gent, unprovided.
• Dispute, l. strive, contend (either by words or blows.)
• Disquammation, l. a scaling [of fish, &c.]
• Disquisition, l. a narrow search.
• Disrationare, o. Traversare, to traverse.
• Dissasina, f. Dispossession.
• Dissection, l. a cutting in two or in pieces.
• Desseisin, f. unlawful dispos∣sessing one of Lands or goods.
• Disseisin upon Disseisin, when the
• Disseisour, (or Dispossesser) is
• Disseised, (dispossest) by another.
• Dissemination, l. a sowing or scattering up and down.
• Dissentaneous, l. disagree∣ing.
• Dissentery, as Dyssentery.
• Dissentiment, f. disagree∣ment [in opinion.]
• Dissentory, o. a kind of still.
• Disserve, f. do a
• Disservice, f. an ill office, a bad turn; disclaiming ones service.
• Dissidence, l. a disagreeing, a falling out.
• Dissilience, l. a leaping up and down, a falling asunder.
• Dissimilar, -ry, l. unlike, compounded of several simi∣lar parts.
• Dissimilitude, l. unlikeness.
• Dissimulation, l. a dissem∣bling.
• Disheveled, as Desch-, Disch-.
• Dissipable, capable of
• Dissipation, l. a scattering, dispersing.
• Dissite, l. remote.
• Dissociation, l. a separating.
• Dissology, Dialogue.
• Dissolve, l. Melt, destroy, undo, put an end to.
• Dissolute, loose, debauched, lawless.
• Dissoluble, capable of
• Dissolution, l. a dissolving, also death.
• Dissonance, l. disagreement [in sound.]
• Disswade, l. perswade a∣gainst.
• Disswasion, a perswading against.
• Dissyllable, g. a word of two syllables.
• Distantial, belonging to
• Distance, l. space, a being
• Distant, asunder, far off.
• Distaunce, o. Discord.
• Distemper, sickness, also size for [ancient] painting.
• Distend, l. stretch out, en∣large.
• Distention, an enlarging.
• Disterminate, l. divide place from place.
• Distick, g. a couple or pair [of verses.]
• Distillation, l. a dropping down, a
• Distilling, extracting the moisture of things by heat, and condensing the vapour again by cold.
• Distillatio per descensum, when the liquor falls into a vessel below the distilled mat∣ter.
• Distinction, l. Distinguish∣ing, putting a difference be∣tween; shewing the several meanings of a thing.
• Distorquement, the same as
• Distorsion, -tion, l. a wrest∣ing, writhing, pulling awry.
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• Distrain, take away goods for the payment of a debt; also to grieve, vex, o.
• Distress, a distraining, also great affliction.
• Distract, l. draw asunder, perplex, also to cause
• Distraction, Madness.
• Distreine, o. Constrain.
• Distreineth, o. Effecteth.
• Distributive, l. belonging to
• Distribution, l. a dividing among many, resolving the whole into parts, also as Diaeresis.
• Districation, Disentangling, ridding out of trouble.
• Disturn, o. turn away.
• District, -tus, l. jurisdiction, the compass within which a man may be compel'd to ap∣pear, or be distrained.
• Distrigilation, l. a currying.
• Distringas, a writ for the Sheriff to distrain.
• Distringent, wiping off, al∣so troubling.
• Disturbance, -ation, l. a caus∣ing of trouble.
• Disveloped, as Developed.
• Disvirgin, Deflour.
• Disunited, l. severed.
• Dite, o. (for indite) a trea∣tise.
• Dithyramb, f. a jovial song [to Bacchus.]
• Dition, l. Dominion, ju∣risdiction, territory.
• Dittander, Dittany, Dictam∣num, Lepidium, Pipirites, Pep∣perwort, a cleansing herb, from
• Dicte, a Promontory of Creet.
• Ditto, I. the same, the said.
• Dittology, g. a double read∣ing or meaning.
• Ditty, Song.
• Divagation, l. a going a∣stray.
• Dival, Divine.
• Divan▪ -no, the Turkish and Persian great solemn Council or Court of Justice.
• Divaporation, exhalation of vapour by fire.
• Divarication, l. a being
• Divaricated, spread as a fork.
• Divelled, pulled away, ra∣vished.
• Diventilate, winnow.
• Diverberation, l. a beating.
• Diversity, l. vary, alter.
• Diversity, l. a being
• Diverse, l. different [in cir∣cumstance.
• Divers, many, several.
• Diversiloquent, speaking di∣versly.
• Diverticle, l. a turning, a by-way, also a shifting de∣vice.
• Divertisement, f. recrea∣tion.
• Dividend, l. the thing to be divided, the dividing, also the division or share.
• Dividual, l. apt to be divi∣ded.
• Dividuity, division, aptness to divide.
• Divinale, -ail, o. a ridle.
• Divination, l. foretelling of things to come.
• Divine, l. guess; also hea∣venly, also a professour of
• Divinity, l. the mystery of heavenly things, also as Dei∣ty.
• Divinistre, o. a smatterer in Divinity.
• Divinize, to [make] Divine.
• Divisibility, l. a being
• Divisible, capable of
• Division, Dividing or being divided.
• Divitiate▪ enrich.
• Divitiosity, a being very rich.
• Divitiacus, King of the Gauls.
• Divorce, to separate (also the separation) from the bond of Wedlock.
• Diuretical, g. provoking urine.
• Diurnal, l. belonging to the day, also a day-book or News-book.
• Diuturnity, l. lastingness.
• Divulgation, l. a publishing abroad.
• Divulsion, l. a pulling asunder
• Dizain, f. half a score.
• Dize, No. put tow on a di∣staffe.
• Dizen'd, No. drest.
• D. La sol re, the fifth note in the common Gamut or Scale of Musick.
• Dobeler, a great dish or platter.
• Dobuni, antient inhabitants of Oxford and Glocestershire.
• Doced, Douced, a Dulcimer.
• Docility, Docibility, l. a be∣ing
• Docile, teachable apt to learn.
• Docilize, make tractable.
• Dock, a place where ships are built or laid up, also the fleshy part of a Boars chine between the middle and the buttock.
• Docket, a brief in writing, or a subscription (under the Letters Patents) by the clerk of the Dockets.
• Doctiloquent, l. speaking learnedly.
• Doctoral, belonging to a
• Doctor, l. teacher, he that hath taken the highest degree in Divinity, Physick, Civil-law or Musick.
• Doctorate, f. Doctorship.
• Document, l. instruction.
• Dodded, o. having the branches or horns cut off.
• Dodder, a weed winding about herbs.
• Dodecaedrie, -dron, g. a fi∣gure of twelve sides.
• Dodecagon, g. a figure of 12 Angles.
• Dodecatemorie, g. one of the twelve parts of the Zodiack.
• Dodkin, by some a farthing, by others the 8th. part there∣of.
• Dodman, So. Hodmand••d, Nf. a shel-snail.
• Dodona, a City in Greece, near which Jupiter had an Oracle in a wood whose trees were supposed to be vocal and to return the an∣swers of the Oracle.
• Dodo, (Dors, Dors, f.) sleep, sleep; lullaby.
• Dodonoeus, a Physician of Mechlin in Germany author of a famous herbal.
• Dodrantal, of nine ounces.
• Dodu, a chuffe, or fat-chaps.
• Dogana, a custom-house in the East-Indies.
• Doeg, h. careful.
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• Dog-days, in July and Au∣gust, when the Dog-star, ri∣sing with the Sun, encreases his heat.
• Dog-draw, when a man is found drawing after a Deer by the sent of a dog in his hand.
• Doge, Duke [of Venice.]
• Dogger, a kind of ship.
• Dogget, as Docket.
• Dogmatical, imposing his own opinions, also prudent.
• Dogmatist, introducer of new opinions.
• Dogmatize, to impose a Do∣ctrine, also to instruct.
• Dogs-bane, a dog-killing herb.
• Dogs-grass, common in Gar∣dens and ploughed fields.
• Doke, E. Sf. deep dint or furrow.
• Dolation, l. a smoothing, plaining.
• Dole or Dool, No. (q. dale.) a long unplowed green in a plowed field.
• Dole, l. deceit, grief, also a distributing of Alms.
• Doleans, f. a lamentation.
• Dole-fish, which the north-sea Fishers do by custom re∣ceive for their allowance.
• Dolg-••ote, Dolgbot, satisfacti∣on for a wound.
• Dollar, a dutch crown less than ours.
• Dolgelle, a Town in Merio∣neth-shire.
• Dolling, o. warming.
• Dolorous, l. painful.
• Dolphin, a fish that loves men, the eldest Son of France, also a Constellation of nine bright stars.
• Dolt, sot, block-head.
• Dolven, o. buried.
• Doly. Dooly, o. mourning, sad.
• Dolyman, a Turkish garment
• Domable, l. tameable.
• Dome, I, a Town-house.
• Domestick, -cal, l. belonging to the house or Family.
• Domes-man, o. confessor, or Judge.
• Domicil, l. a dwelling-place.
• Dominative, belonging to
• Domination, l. a ruling or Lording.
• Dominical, of the Lord.
• Dominica in ramis palma∣rum, Palm-sunday.
• Dominica in albis, Whitsun∣day.
• Dominical Letter, shewing the Lords-daies in an Alma∣nack.
• Dominicide, l. killer of his Master.
• Dominicans, an order of Fryers instituted, 1206. by
• Dominick, a Spaniard, the au∣thor (as they say) of the In∣quisition.
• Domicellus, -la, titles given John of Gaunts Son and Daughter in their naturaliza∣tion.
• Domino, a hood worn by Canons, also a womans mourning veil.
• Domitian, a persecuting Em∣perour of Rome, who was wont (when alone) to kill flies.
• Dompte-vilain, f. tame-knave a good cudgel.
• Domition, -ture, l. a taming.
• Dommera••, c. a madman.
• Domo reparanda, a writ a∣gainst him that lets his house go to decay, and endanger his neighbours.
• Domus Conversorum, a house appointed by King Henry the third, for Jews convert∣ed to the Christian Faith, now the rolls.
• Don, Doun, sa. a hill.
• Donary, l. a gift or present.
• Donatists, hereticks detract∣ing from the Son and Holy Ghost, and holding the true Church to be only in Africa, from
• Donatus, Bishop of Carthage.
• Donnat, Donnaught, (q. do nought, or naught) idle, good for nothing, naughty, Y.
• Donation, l. bestowing, a gift.
• Donative, apt to give, also a gift, a Benefice.
• Done houres, o. [to observe] Canonical, given or conse∣crated houres.
• Doncaster, a Town in York-shire.
• Dondon, o. a short fat wo∣man.
• Donegal, as Tyrconel.
• Donce, to whom lands are given.
• Donour, he that gives [lands, &c.]
• Doniferous, gift-bearing.
• Donwich, a Town in Suffolk.
• Doom, Sa. judgment, sen∣tence, also sence or significa∣tion.
• Dooms-day-book, made in the time of Edward the Confessor (or William the Conquerour) wherein all the demeans of England, (and the posse∣ssours) were registred.
• Dont vient la destenie (or le destin) f. whence the fate or destiny comes.
• Dooms-man, sa. a Judge.
• Dorado, Sp. guilded over.
• Dorcas, g. a Deer or Roe∣buck.
• Dorchester, the cheif Town in
• Dorcetshire; and another in Oxfordshire.
• Dordrectum, Dort in Holland
• Dorias's woundwort, an herb with broad leaves, where with he used to cure himself and his Soldiers.
• Dorick, one of the five greek Dialects, also a kind of work in Architecture.
• Dorick-mood, Dorian-musick, of a slow solemn time, from C sol fa ut to A la mi re.
• Doris, wife to Nereus, and Mother of the Sea-nymphs Nereides.
• Dormant, f. in a sleeping po∣sture, having a blank to put in a name.
• Dormant-tree, the summer or beam lying cross the house.
• Dormant, (q. demeurant, f.) unremoved.
• Dormers, windows in the roof of a house.
• Dornix, a kind of stuff for curtains, &c. from
• Dornick, a City in Flanders.
• Dorothy, g. the gift of God.
• Dorp, Thorp, a village.
• Doronicum, a Cordial herb resisting poyson.
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• Dorrie, a fish that shines like gold.
• Dortor, -ture, Dortoire, f. Dormitory, l. a place where many sleep together, a bury∣ing place.
• Dose, g. so much of a Medi∣cine as is given or taken at a time.
• Dosology, g. a discourse con∣cerning the several Doses.
• Dosome [beast] Che. content with nothing; also thriv∣ing.
• Dosel, Dorsel, a Princes Ca∣nopy, also the Curtain of a Chair of state.
• Dosser, Dorser, a panier.
• Dotal, belonging to a Dow∣ry.
• Dote assignanda, a writ for the Escheator to assign a Dowry to the widow of a Kings te∣nant, swearing in Chancery not to marry without the Kings leave. These are the Kings widows.
• Dote unde nihil habet, a writ of Dower for a widow, of the land sold by her husband, whereof he was so seised as the issue of them both might have inherited.
• Doted, l. endowed, having a joynture.
• Dotkin, as Dodkin, or (by some) the 8 part of a Sol or French peny.
• Dottrel, a foolish bird (in Lincolnshire) imitating the Fowlers, till it be caught.
• Dovan••, f. Custom, the Cu∣stom-house at Lyons.
• Double quarrel, a Complaint to the Archbishop against an inferiour Ordinary for delay of justice.
• Doubles, Letters patents.
• Doubleth, when a hair winds up and down, to deceive the dogs.
• Doublet, a precious stone, of two pieces joyned.
• Doublets, a low game at Ta∣bles.
• Doublings, linings of Robes (in Heraldry.)
• Dover a Sea-town in Kent.
• Doves-foot, a kind of Cranes∣bil, an herb.
• Dove-tail, a kind of Joyning by laying one piece into ano∣ther.
• Doughty, o. stout, valiant.
• Douglas-town, in Man Island.
• Doulcets, Dowsets, the stones of a hart or stag.
• Doundrins, Der. afternoons drinkins.
• Dousabel, f. Dulcibella, l. sweet and fair.
• Douset, Doulcet, a Custard.
• Doutaunces, f. doubtings, suspicions.
• Doutremere, (d' outre mere, f.) from beyond sea, sea-faring.
• Dow, o. (q. Da, l.) Give, also thrive, mend, No.
• Dowager, applyed to widows of Princes, &c.
• Doway, an English Seminary in the Neatherlands instituted 1568. by the procurement of one W. Allen of Oxford.
• Dowl, o. Deal.
• Downs, Sa. hilly plains, also a harbour between Deal and the Goodwin sands.
• Downeham, a town in Nor∣folk.
• Dow-gate, (q. down-gate, or Dour-gate, Br. Watergate) where the water runs faster into the Thames than in any other street in London.
• Dower, Dowry, a wives por∣tion.
• Dowsets, as Doulcets or Dou∣set.
• Dowtremere, as Doutremer.
• Doxie, o. a she-beggar, trull.
• Doxology, g. Gloria Patri &c. repeated (in the Liturgy) at the end of Psalms, &c.
• Dozens, Devonshire Kersies.
• Dozein, as De••ine.
• Drabler, a piece added to the bonnet, when there is need
• Draco's laws, very severe, from
• Draco, an Athenian Gover∣nour.
• Drafty, o. Irksom, trouble∣some.
• Dragant, Tragacant▪ Goats horn, a gum Distil'd from an herb so called.
• Dragges, o. Dregs or Drugs.
• Dragges, whatever hangs o∣ver the ship in sea, as shirts, &c. also the boat, and all hind'rances of sailing.
• Dragons-head, a node or place in the Ecliptick, which the Moon cuts ascending Northward.
• Dragons-tail, the node (op∣posite to the Dragons-head) which the Moon cuts descen∣ding Southward.
• Dragons, Serpentary, Vipers Bugloss.
• Dragonstone, a kind of preci∣ous stone in a Dragons head.
• Drags, pieces of wood joyn'd to carry wood &c. down a ri∣ver.
• Draiton, Drayton, a town in Shropshire.
• Draitwitch, a town in Wor∣cestershire.
• Drake, a field piece of Ord∣nance.
• Sir Francis Drake, in two years space sail'd round the world.
• Dram, Drachm, g. the 8▪ part of an ounce.
• Dramatick poetry, Comedies and Tragedies.
• Dran, o. bran.
• Drap de Berry, thick French cloth of Berry.
• Drape, No. a farrow-Cow, whose milk is dry'd up.
• Drape-sheep, No. Culled, Bad.
• Drapery, Cloth-wares, cloth-market, also a representing of Cloaths in painting.
• Draught, a Drawing.
• The ship Draws much water, i. e. goes Deep in water.
• Draule, o. speak dreaming∣ly.
• Drawers, c. stockings.
• Draw-latches, Roberts-me••, Night-thieves.
• Drede, o. dread.
• Dregge, Draw a little Crap∣nel on the ground, to find a cable, &c.
• Dredgers, Oister-fishers.
• Dreint, o. drowned, drench'd.
• Dreit-dreit, a double right (of possession and Dominion.)
• Drenched, o. over-com'n.
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• Drenie, o. sorrowful.
• Drengage, the tenure of a
• Dreynghe, Drenge, Drench, a tenant in Capite.
• Dretch, o. dream, tarry.
• Dry exchange. Usury.
• Dribblets, o. little bits.
• Dree, No. long, tedious [way] also a hard [bargainer.] q. dry.
• Driffield, a Town in York∣shire.
• Drift, a driving, a scope or intent, Counsel or Policy.
• Drift of the Forest, an exact view of the Cattel.
• A Drift, a-float, swimming down stream.
• Drift-sail, to keep the ships head right upon the Sea (in a storm, &c.)
• Drill, a baboon, also a tool to bore holes in Marble, Iron, &c.
• Drink-lean, Scot-ale, pro∣vided by the Tenants to en∣tertain their Lord or his Ste∣ward.
• Drivebolt, a long piece to drive out a nail, &c. (in a ship.)
• The ship drives, when the an∣chor will not hold her.
• Drogeday, Tredah in Ireland.
• Drof••enn, Sa. a grove.
• Drofland, Dryfland, rent paid the Landlord for driving Cat∣tel through the Mannor, to fairs or Markets.
• Drogoman, Truchman, Tu. an interpreter.
• Droit, f. right.
• Drol, f. a little stage-play, also he that uses
• Drolleric, f. jesting, joquing.
• Dromedary, a kind of Camel with two bunches on his back.
• Dronklew, o. given to drink.
• Drovy, o. (Droevigh, d.) trou∣bled.
• Drozen, No. fond.
• Dropacist, one that applies a
• Dropax, g. a depilatory, or medicine to take away hair.
• Dropsy, (for hydropsie,) g. a waterish distemper.
• Dropping, a hawks muting (in drops) directly down∣ward.
• Dropwort, filipendula, an herb.
• ... Drouk,
• Drough, o. drawn.
• Dru, Drugo, Drogo, sa. sub∣tile.
• Drudging, Oyster-fishing.
• Drugge, d. any dry simple used in medicine, also drudge, o.
• Drunk-wort, Tabacco.
• Druides, old Gaulish Priests.
• Drungar, a Grecian Com∣mander [of a squadron.]
• Drury, o. modesty, sobriety.
• Drusilla, Dioclesians wife.
• Dry, Drien, o. suffer.
• Dryads, g. Oak or Wood-Nymphs.
• ... Duacum, Doway.
• Dual, l. belonging to two.
• Duality, l. a being two.
• Duana, as Divano.
• Duarchy, g. government by two.
• Dub, No. a pool of water.
• Dub, make [a Knight.]
• Dubiosity, a being
• Dubious, l. doubtful.
• Dublin, the Chief City of Ireland.
• ... Dubris, l. Dover.
• Ducal, belonging to a Duke.
• Ducape, a kind of silk.
• Ducenarious, belonging to two hundred.
• Duces tecum, a writ to ap∣pear in Chancery, and bring some evidence to be view∣ed.
• Duck up the clew-lines, when a sail hinders the sight in steering, shooting, &c.
• Ducks-meat, an herb swim∣ming on the top of standing waters.
• Ducket, Ducate, a Roman Gold coyn, about 6 s.
• Ductarious, drawing, or leading.
• Ductile, (mettals) to be drawn out and beaten into plates.
• Ductible, capable of
• Duction, l. a leading.
• Du••man, (q. Deadman) a Maulkin or scare-crow.
• Duel, l. a Combat between two.
• Duds, c. Goods▪
• Duilus, a Roman that beat the Carthaginians by Sea, the first that triumphed after a naval victory.
• Dulcac••d, sweet and soure.
• Dulcarnon, (by some) a pro∣portion found out by Pytha∣goras, after a years study, also the Oxe which he sacrificed in thankfulness.
• At Dulcarnon, in a maze, at my wits end, Chaucer, l. 3. fol. 161.
• Dulciaries, l. sweetning things.
• Dull, D. mad.
• Dulcifie, l. sweeten.
• Dulciloquent, sweet-spoken.
• Dulcimer, a wire-string'd in∣strument.
• Dulcisonant, l. sweet-sound∣ing.
• Dulcitude, l. sweetness.
• Dulcoration, l. a sweetning.
• Dulocratical, belonging to
• Dulocracy, g. a Government where servants domineer.
• Dulverion, a Town in So∣mersetshire.
• Dumal, belonging to bryers.
• Dumosity, l. fulness of bushes.
• Dum fuit infra aetatem, a writ to recover land sold by one under age.
• Dum non fuit compos mentis, a writ to recover land alien'd by one not of sound memo∣ry.
• Dun, importune.
• Dunbar, a Town in Scot∣land.
• Dunch, o. deaf.
• Dundee, a Town in Scotland.
• Dunsets, sa. Mountainers.
• Duni pacis, as knolls of peace.
• Dunholm, a Town in Lin∣coln-shire.
• Dunmow, a Town in Essex▪ where the Prior gave a flitch or gammon of Bacon to all that swore they repented not of marrying within a year and a day, or never made any nuptial transgression.
• Dunnington, a Town in Lin∣colnshire.
• Dunington-Castle, a Town in Leicestershire.
• Dunstable, a Town in Bed∣fordshire.
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• Dunster, a Town in Somer∣set.
• Dunstan, Sa. most high, or as Aaron.
• Duodecennial, of 12 years.
• Duodecimo, of twelve [leaves in a sheet.]
• Dup, c. enter [the house.]
• Duplicity, l. a being
• Duple, double, twofold.
• Duplicate, l. Double, also a second letter of the same con∣tents with the former.
• Duplication, l. a doubling, al∣so an allegation brought to weaken the reply of the plea∣der.
• Dura mater, the outward skin that infolds the brain.
• Duration, l. continuance, lasting.
• Durense, o. (Duracines, f.) some kind of solid and last∣ing fruit.
• Dures, -ress, a plea of excep∣tion by one constrained (by imprisonment, &c.) to seal a bond.
• Durham, Duresme, Dun••olm, Dunelmum, the Chief City of the Bishoprick of Durham,
• Durham Colledge, Trinity Colledg in Oxford.
• Durity, l. hardness.
• ...Durnovaria, Dorchester,
• ...Durotriges, Dorcet-shire-Bri∣tains.
• Dursley, a Town in Glocester∣shire.
• Duskie, Dark.
• Dutchie-Court, where all mat∣ters relating to the D••tchy of Lancaster are Decided.
• Duumvirate, the Office of the
• Duumviri, l. two Magistrates of Equal authority in Rome.
• Dwale, sleeping or deadly night-shade.
• Dwas-light, Sa. Jack with a Lanthorn, Will-a-wisp.
• Dwindle, shrink or consume away.
• Dwyned, o. consumed.
• Dyers-weed, used for yellow-colour.
• Dyke-reeve, Overseer of the
• Dykes and Draines in Deep∣ing-fens, &c.
• Dyna, an East-India Coyn, about 30 s.
• Dynamologie, g. a Discourse of power.
• Dynaste, -stick, g. [a power∣full] Prince.
• Dynastie, g. supream autho∣rity.
• Dypticks, as Dipticks.
• Dyrrachium, Durazzo in Macedonia.
• Dyscrasy, g. a Distemper, an unequal mixture of the first qualities.
• Dysentery, g. the bloudy-flux.
• Dysnomy, g. evil constituti∣on or ordering of the law.
• Dysopsy, g. dimness, bad sight.
• Dyspathy, g. evil passion or affection.
• Dyspepsie, g. an ill digestion.
• Dyspnaea, g. a difficult breath∣ing.
• Dysse, a Town in Nf.
• Dysury, g. a scalding or stop∣ping of the urine.