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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• EAd, Eadith, Sa. Auda, happiness.
• Eadelman, Adelman, Sa. Nobleman, Earl.
• Eadgar, Sa. happy power.
• Eadulph, Sa. happy help.
• Eadwin, Sa. happy victor.
• Eaglestone, found in the nest of Eagles.
• Eaglet, a little Eagle.
• Ealderman, Ealdorman, Al∣derman, as Ead••lman, or Earl.
• Ealred, Sa. all-counsel.
• Ealdred, Sa. all-reverent.
• Eame, Sa. the Mothers bro∣ther; also Gossip, Friend, No.
• Ean, bring forth [young.]
• Ear, ar, Sa. honour.
• Ear, l. till [the ground.]
• Eardorburgh, Sa. Metropo∣lis or Chief City.
• Earing, that part of the bolt-rope, which (at the Corners of the sail) is left open like a ring.
• Earl, Sa. a Nobleman.
• Earn, No. to run (like Cheese.)
• Earning, No. Cheese-ren∣net.
• Earnest, c. a part or share.
• Ease the ship, slacken the shrouds when too stiffe.
• Ease the helm, let her fall to the lee-ward.
• Easel, a Painters frame for his Cloth.
• Earthnut, pignut, a root in shape and taste like a nut.
• Easement, a service from Neighbour to Neighbour (by Charter or prescription) as passage through his ground, &c.
• Easie of dispence, o. of little expence.
• Easter, No. the back or stock of the Chimney,
• Easter, Eoster, Aoster, Oster, a Saxon Goddess, whose feast they observed in
• Easter-month, April.
• Easter, the Christian-Pass∣over, in remembrance of Christs [Death and] Resur∣rection. On this depend all the other moveable feasts, and the most certain Rule to find it (according to the Church of Englands use) is this: Shrove-tuesday is al∣way the first tuesday after the first new moon that hap∣pens after January (whether that be in February or March) and the Sunday following is Quadragesima (or the first Sunday in Lent) and the sixth Sunday after is Easter-day.
• Easterling [Mony] 'Sterling, current, pure, coyn'd by the
• Easterlings, Inhabiting the
• Eastern parts of Germany.
• Eastmeath, a County in Ireland containing 18 Baro∣nies.
• Eath, Eth, Eith, o. Easie.
• Eath, sc. an Oath.
• Eaton, above 20 towns in several Counties.
• Eaves-dropper, one that Li∣stens under the windows or house-Eaves.
• Ebere-murder, Sa. open and

• inexpiable murder.
• Ebene, see Ebony.
• Ebionites, Hereticks deny∣ing Christs Divinity, and all Gospels but St. Matthews, Anno 71.
• Ebissa, a Saxon-Captain assisting Hengist against the Britains.
• Ebony, black, hard wood of the
• Eben-tree, an Indian and Ethiopian tree, without leaves or fruit.
• ... Eboracum, Eburacum, Bri∣gantium, York.
• Ebourn, a town in Sussex.
• Ebrank, a British King.
• Ebrack, o. Hebrew [tongue.]
• Ebriety, Ebriosity, l. Drun∣kenness.
• Ebrious, l. [making] drun∣ken.
• Ebulo, as Ybel.
• Ebullate, l. to bubble or burst out.
• Ebullition, -iency, l. a boiling up
• Eburnean, l. of Ivory.
• Eccentricity, a being
• Eccentrick, l. moving at un∣equal distance from the Cen∣ter, out of order.
• Ecclesiastick-cal, g. belonging to the Church.
• Ec••l••siastes▪ g. The Preacher.
• Eccleshall, a Town in Staf∣fordshire.
• Echen, o. Increase or help.
• Echidne, a Scythian Queen, who had three children at a birth by Hercules.
• Echo, -Eccho, a Nymph dy∣ing for the love of Narciss••s, and turned into that voice.
• Eckle, Ettle, No. To aim or intend.
• Eclipse. g. want or defect [of light;] also to darken or obscure.
• Eclipse of the Sun, by the interposition of the Moons body.
• Eclipse of the Moon, by the interposion of the Earth.
• Ecliptick [line] running through the Zodiack, in which the Eclipses happen, when the Moon is in Conjunction or opposition under it.
• Ecl••gma, Lo••ock, a confecti∣on (thicker than a Syrup and thinner than an Electuary) to be lickt and softly melted down.
• Eclogue, Eglogue, a Pastoral or Shepherds Dialogue.
• Eclympastery, Son to Mor∣pheus the God of sleep.
• Ecphonesis, g. exclamation, crying out.
• Ecstasie, g. making a short syllable long, also a trance or sudden rapture of Spirit.
• Ecstatick, -eal, belonging thereto.
• Ecthlipsis, g. a thrusting out [the letter m (and the vowel before it) when the following word begins with a vowel or h.]
• Ectype, g. a draught from a∣nother copy.
• Ed, sa. again.
• Edacity, l. a greedy eating or devouring.
• Edder, a fish resembling a Mackrel.
• Eddish, sa. no. Roughings, new latter grass, after∣mathes.
• Eddie, the turning round in a stream.
• Eddy-tide▪ where the water runs back, contrary to the tide.
• Eddy-wind, that which re∣coiles from a sail, &c.
• Edelfleda, Elfleda, govern'd the Kingdom prudently eight years after the death of her husband Ethelred, King of the Mercians.
• Eden, h. pleasure, paradise.
• Edenburgh, -borrow, the chief Town in Scotland.
• Edentate, l. make toothless.
• Edge-hill, in Warwick-••••ire, here was fought the first pitcht battel between the King and Parliament.
• Edgware, a Town in Middle∣sex.
• Edict, l. Proclamation, Ordi∣nance.
• Edification, l. building, also instruction.
• Edifice, l. a house, a building.
• Edile, Eadile, l. the Survey∣or of the buildings in Rome.
• Edinton, Eathandune, a Town in Wilt-shire.
• Edish, Edise, sa. later-math.
• Edition, l. setting forth, im∣pression.
• Edisserator, l. a shewer or de∣clarer.
• Edituate, l. to defend or go∣vern the house or Temple.
• Edmund, Sa. happy peace.
• St. Edmunds-bury, Bedericks-gueord, a Town in Suffolk.
• Edomites, posterity of
• Edom, (h. red,) Esau.
• Education, l. a bringing up.
• Edward, sa. happy keeper.
• Eever, che. corner or quar∣ter.
• Eel-farees, Eel-vares, the fry or brood of Eeles.
• Eem, Che. to have leisure, to spare time.
• Effable, l. which may be ex∣prest or utered.
• Effascinate, l. to bewitch.
• Effated, l. o. for Ef-, or de∣faced,
• Effect, l. end, finishing, that which is caused.
• Effects, Merchants concerns.
• Effection, l. a forming, ex∣pressing.
• Effete, l. having lately brought forth, also barren.
• Efferous, l. fierce, cruel, vio∣lent.
• Efficacious, full of
• Efficacy, l. virtue, power, force.
• Efficient, l. making, working.
• Effiction, l. an expressing or representing.
• Effigies, l. shape, representa∣tion of any thing.
• Effiguration, as Prosopopaea.
• Efflagitate, l. importune, earnestly to request.
• Efflated, l. blown away, yeilded or given up.
• Efflorescence, a budding forth, or flourishing.
• Effluen••e▪ Efflux, Effluvium, l. a flowing forth.
• Effluent, -uous, l. running or flowing out.
• Eff••cate, l. choak, strangle.
• Effoemination, a making
• Effoeminate, l. womanish.
• ...

• Efforts, l. strong assaies, en∣deavours, or impressions.
• Effraction, -ture, l. a break∣ing open.
• Effringed, l. broken, ground to pouder.
• Effractores, Burglars, break∣ers-open of houses.
• Effraenation, l. rashness, un∣bridledness.
• Effronterie, as affrontedness.
• Effund, l. pour out, consume riotously.
• Effusion, l. a pouring out, prodigality.
• Eft, o. again, also Evet.
• Efters, o. waies, walls, walks, galleries, entries, hedges.
• Eft soones, o. quickly.
• Egal, f. equal.
• Egbert, E••b-, sa. ever bright, the first English Monarch.
• Egean, as Aegaean.
• Egestion, l. a voiding or throwing forth.
• Egestuosity, l. extream po∣verty, a being
• Egestuous, l. very poor or needy.
• Eggement, o. procurement.
• Eglantine, f. sweet-bryer.
• Egilopical, Aegi-, belonging to the
• Egil••pa, Aegi-, a canker in the corner of the eye, the la∣chrymale fistula.
• Eglogue, as Eclogue.
• Eglomerate, l. unwind.
• Egre, o. sore.
• Egregious, l. excellent.
• Egremont, -mond, a Castle and Town in Cumberland.
• Egress, -sion, l. a going out.
• Egrets, o. a kind of raven∣ous bird.
• Egremony, as Aegrimony.
• Egritude, l. sickness, as aeg-
• Egroting, as Aegroting.
• Egurgitate, l. draw out, emp∣ty, disgorge.
• Egyptians, 'Gypsies, (Cinga∣ri, J.) counterfeit vaga∣bonds.
• Ehud, h: praising▪
• Ejaculation, l. a casting forth; also a sudden and short meditation or prayer.
• Ejaculatory, l. having the power or property of darting or sprouting forth.
• Ejection, l. a casting out.
• Ejectione Custodiae, l. and
• Ejectment de gard, f. a writ against him that casts out the heirs Guardian.
• Ejectione firmae, a writ for the ••••ssee ejected before the expiration of his term.
• Eigh, o. Eyes.
• Eign, eldest.
• Eight, Alney, an Isle in Glocestershire, where Edmund King of English and Canutus King of Danes (in a single combat) try'd their right to the Kingdom.
• Eighteth mow, o. might grant.
• Einecia, Eldership.
• Eirenarch, g. Justice of peace.
• Eirenarchie, g. a keeping of the peace, the Office of Con∣stable, Justice, &c.
• Eisil, Sa. Vinegar.
• Eitching, as Etching.
• Ejulation, l. a yelling or howling.
• Ejuration, l. a renouncing.
• Eke, also; also to piece, lengthen or enlarge, also to kill, hurt or make to ake.
• Ela, the highe•••• note in the Common scale of Mu∣sick.
• Elaborate, l. Done with ex∣actness and great pains.
• Elaboratory, Labra-, a [chy∣mists] work-house or shop.
• Elacerate, l. rend or tear in pieces.
• Elamites, the posterity of
• Elam, h. young man.
• Elami, the sixt note in Mu∣sick.
• ••lapidation, l. a taking a∣way of stones.
• Elapsion, l. a slipping a∣way.
• Elapsed, l. slipt, gone, past.
• Elaqueate, l. disintangle.
• Elate, Elated, l. lifted up, proud.
• Elation, l. a lifting up.
• Elaterium, g. Concrete juice of wild Cucumbers.
• Elaxate, l. unloose, widen.
• Eld, o. age, Eldership.
• Elder, D. and No. the ud∣der.
• Eleack, Philosophers insti∣tuted by Phaedo an
• Elean, of Elis in Greece.
• Ele, o. help, assistance.
• Elden, No. fewel for fire.
• ... Eleanor, Helena.
• Eleazar, h. the help of God.
• El••campane, Enula campa∣na, horse-heal.
• Elect, l. choose, also as
• Elect••d, chosen.
• Elective, belonging or sub∣ject to.
• Election, l. a choosing, choice.
• Election de Clerk, a writ for the Choice of a Clerk assign∣ed to take and make the bonds called Statute Mer∣chant.
• Elections, (in Astronomy) fit times elected for the doing any manner of work.
• Electorat, the Office, power or territory of the
• Electors, Electoral-Princes, who choose the Emperour of Germany.
• Electriferous, l. yielding
• Electrum, Amber, distil∣ling from Poplar-trees.
• Electricity, l. power to draw straws &c. like amber.
• Electrine, belonging to, or made of Amber.
• Electuary, a Confection of the choicest Drugs.
• Eleïmosynary, g. of free gift also an Almoner.
• Eleëmosynate, to give alms.
• Elegance, -cy, l. a being
• Elegant, l. Neat.
• Elegiac [verse,] pentame∣ter, of five feet (most com∣monly subjoyn'd to the Her∣ameter) belonging to an
• Elegie, g. a kind of mourn∣full verse, or funeral song.
• Elegiographer, a writer of Elegies.
• Elegit, a writ for part of the land and goods, till the debt or damage given be sa∣tisfied.
• Elementary, belonging to
• Elements, l. unmixt bo∣dies, the principles of all

• things, fire, air, water, Earth; also the first Princi∣ples or Rudiments of any art, and the single letters of an Alphabet.
• Elemi, a West-India gum.
• Elenchical, -ctick, -cal, g. belonging to
• Elench, g. a subtile argu∣ment, by way of reproof.
• Elenge, o. strange, for∣reign.
• Elengelich, o. strangely or miserably.
• Elephansy, Elephantiasy, the Leprosie.
• Elephantine, belonging to an Elephant.
• Eles, o. Eeles.
• Elevation, Exaltation, lift∣ing up; (in Chymistry) the rising of any matter in man∣ner of fume or vapour.
• Elevatory, an instrument to lift up broken pieces of the skull, draw out bullets, &c.
• Elf, Elve▪ a fairy.
• Elguze, the left shoulder of Orion.
• Eliah, Elijah, Elias, h. [My] God the Lord
• Eliakim, h. God ariseth.
• Eli, h. My God, or the Of∣fering, lifting up.
• Elibation, as Deli••ation.
• Elicitation, l. a drawing out, an enticing.
• Elide, l. to dash, break, squeeze or strangle.
• Eligible, l. to be chosen.
• Elihu, h. he is my God.
• Elimation, l. a filing off.
• Elimination, l. a casting over the threshold, out of doors.
• Elingued, l. tongue-tied, dumb.
• Eliphaz, h. the endeavour of God.
• Eliquament, l. fat juice of flesh or fish.
• Elisa, Dido Queen of Car∣thage.
• Elisha, h. my God saveth, or the salvation of God.
• Elisaeus, -zeus, as Elisha.
• Elishaphat, h. my God judg∣eth.
• Elision, l. a dashing or strik∣ing off or out.
• Elixation, l. a seething.
• Elixir, -er, A. strength, quintessence, also the Phi∣losophers stone.
• Elizabeth, h. the fullness or oath of God.
• Elk, a strong swift beast like a stag, also a kind of Ewe for bows.
• Ellinge, Ss. solitary, lonely.
• Ellipsis, g. wanting, leav∣ing out, also a crooked line in the bias-section of a Cone or Cylinder.
• Elliptick, Defective.
• Ellis, Elias, h. Lord God.
• Elmer, Ethelmer, Sa. Noble, renowned.
• Elmet, a certain Territory about Leeds in Yorkshire.
• El-mother, Cu. a Step-mo∣ther.
• Elocution, l. proper speech, handsom utterance.
• Eloah, Elohim, h. God [the Judge.]
• Elogie, l. commendation.
• Eloinment, f. Elongation, l a removing far off.
• Elopement, a womans leav∣ing her husband, dwelling with an Adulterer, and losing her Dower,
• Eloquence, as Elocution, a being
• Eloquent, l. neat, and pow∣erful in speech▪
• Eltham, a town in Kent.
• Elth, o. old. See Eld.
• Elucidaries, Expositions of obscure things.
• Elucidation, l. a making bright, clear, plain.
• Elucubration, l. a watching and studying by candle-light.
• Elves, Fairies, hobgoblins.
• Elvish, o. froward.
• Elutheria, feasts to the
• ... Elutherian God, Jupiter.
• Ely, a City in the midst of the fens in Cambridgeshire.
• Elychnious, without match, weik, or light.
• Elysian fields, pleasant places whither the heathens suppos∣ed the Souls to pass.
• Elysium, the same, para∣dise.
• Elytroides, Vaginal tunicle, the inmost of the 3 tunicles covering the testicles.
• Emaceration, a soaking, al∣so as
• Emaciation, l. a making lean.
• Emacity, l. a desire of be∣ing alway buying.
• Emaculation, l. a taking a∣way of spots.
• Emanation, l. a flowing from.
• Eman••ipation, l. a legal set∣ting of Children free from the power of their parents.
• Emanuel, Emm-, h. God with us.
• Emanuensis (for Ama-,) One that writes for another, a Secretary.
• Emargination, l. a cleans∣ing of sores from the scurfe about the brims.
• Emasculation, l. a taking a∣way of Manhood, Effeminat∣ing.
• Embalming, the seasoning a dead body with gums and spices, to keep it from putri∣faction, also wrapping it in Searcloth of wax, gum, &c.
• Embarasment, f. a perplex∣ing, intangling, hind'ring.
• Embargo, Sp. a stop or ar∣rest laid upon ships.
• Embassade, f. Embassy, Mes∣sage.
• Embattel'd, set in battel aray, also as Crenelle (in He∣raldry.)
• Embelf [circle] o. oblique, or else Embolick, belonging to leap-year.
• Ember-weeks, (when the Bishop sprinkled ashes on the Peoples heads in token of mortality) four Seasons in the year, set apart for fasting and prayer, immediately preceding the Ordination of Ministers.
• Embellish, f. beautify.
• Embez••l, I. theevishly to consume or make away.
• Emblematical, belonging to an
• Embleme, g. a curious in∣laying in wood, &c. also a device or picture Expressing

• something moral or divine.
• Emblematist, a maker of Emblems.
• Emblements, the profits of land [which hath been sow∣ed.]
• Embolism, g. the casting in of the day added to Leap-year.
• Embolned, o. swelled.
• Embossement, Embouchement, f. a putting into the mouth.
• Embost, foaming at the mouth, (spoken of a hunted Dear.
• Embracery, the act or offence of an
• Embracer, -eor, he that, (being no lawyer, but for reward) comes to the bar and speaks for either party, labours with the Jury, &c. the pe∣nalty is 20 l. and imprison∣ment.
• Embring-daies, the Wednes∣day, Friday and Saturday, be∣fore every ordination Sun∣day.
• Embrocation, I. by some, a bathing any part in liquor falling from aloft; by others, a rubbing the part affected or applying of clothes dipt in oyl, &c.
• Embryous, belonging to an
• Embryo, -on, g. the Child in the Mothers Womb not yet shaped, also any thing else before it come to perfection.
• Embushment, as Embossement.
• Embus••hment, f. the falling [of a river] into the Sea.
• Embuscade, f. an Ambush∣ment.
• Embden, a City built upon
• Ems, a River in Friezeland.
• Eme, o. an Aunt.
• Emendals, (at the foot of an account in the Temple) bank or stock for the house.
• Emendation, l. a mending.
• Ementition, l. a lying or forging.
• Emerald, Sp. a precious stone of a green colour.
• Emergency, a being
• Emergent, l. rising up above water, appearing on a sud∣den, also of great importance.
• Emeril, a Garnsey-stone, wherewith they cut and bur∣nish other precious stones.
• Emetical, -ique, g. purging the body by vomit.
• Emersion, l. a rising, appear∣ing or coming out.
• Emication, l. a shining out.
• Emigration, l. a passing out.
• Emerlin, o. a Marlin, Hawk.
• Emildon, a Town in Nor∣thumberland, birth-place of the subtile Dr. J. Duns, called Scotus.
• Emforth, o. according.
• Eminence, -cy, a being
• Eminent, l. excellent, appear∣ing above others.
• Emissary, l. one sent abroad [to spy or give intelli∣gence.]
• Emission, l. a sending forth.
• Emit, l. send or cast out.
• Emme, a womans name, ei∣ther as Amie or Elgiva, help-giver.
• Emmoised, o. comforted.
• Emmot, ant, pismire.
• Emollid, l. soft.
• Emollient, l. softning.
• Emolument, l. mill-toll, profit.
• Emotion, l. a moving out, a stirring up, also trouble of mind.
• Empair, f. diminish, make worse.
• Empale, as Impale:
• Empanel, -nnel, enter the names of the Jury in a Sche∣dule.
• Emparlance, f. a petition (in court) for a day of respite.
• Empasmus, g. powders to al∣lay imflammations and sca∣rifie the extremity of the skin.
• Empeor, o, grow worse.
• Emp••atical, having or done with an
• Emphasis, -sy, g earnestness, an intent expression of ones mind.
• Emphastica, g. clammy me∣dicines stopping the pores of the skin.
• Emphyteutick, g. set out to be improved, let out to farm.
• Emphyteuticary, an impro∣ver making a thing better than he received it.
• Empirick, g. a Physitian that cures by receipts taken upon trust.
• Empirically, done like an Empirick, by practice with∣out Theory.
• Emplaister, l. plaister.
• Emplasteration, -tration, l. an applying of a plaister, a daw∣bing, also a graffing.
• Emporetical, belonging to an
• Emporium, -ry, l. a Mart-Town, or an Exchange.
• Emprimed, spoken of a Hart at first forsaking the Herd.
• Emprize, o. enterprize.
• Emprostotonos, g. a kind of Cramp.
• Emptional, to be bought.
• Emption, l. a buying.
• Emptory, as Empory.
• Empturition, l. a longing to buy.
• Empyema, g. corruption be∣tween the breast and lungs, after a Pleurisie.
• Empyreal, g. fiery.
• Empyreal Heaven, the high∣est.
• Emrods, as Hemerrhoides.
• Emucid, l. mouldy.
• Emulation, l. a striving to excel others.
• Emulgent, l. milking out.
• Emulgent vein, pumping vein, one of the two main bran∣ches of the hollow vein pas∣sing to the Reins.
• Emulsion, l. a stroking, any kind of cream or milky sub∣stance, seeds, &c. brayed in water and strained to the consistence of an Almond milk.
• Emunctories, l. the kernels by which the principal parts void their superfluities, also a pair of snuffers.
• Emuscation, l. a rubbing the moss off.
• Enach, sc. a satisfaction for any crime or fault.
• Enacted, decreed, ordained.
• Enaluron, when a bordure (in heraldry) is charged with any kind of Birds.
• Enamel, f. to vary with lit∣tle spots.
• ...

• Enantiosis, g. contrariety.
• Enargie, Evidence, clear∣ness.
• Enblaunched, o. adorned, whited.
• Enbolned, o. swelled.
• Encaustick, g. enameled, varnished, wrought with fire.
• Enchase, f. to set in gold.
• Enchant, f. conjure, bewitch.
• Enchafed, o. heated.
• Encheson, f. occasion, cause or reason why any thing is done.
• Enchiridion, g. a hand- or pocket-book.
• Enclitick, -cal, g. enclining, a particle joyn'd to the end of words and causing the accent to encline that way.
• Encumbrance, f. an hin∣drance.
• Encomiast, g. a Praiser of vertues.
• Encomiastick, belonging to
• Encomium, -ion, g. a speech in the Praise or Commenda∣tion of any.
• Encontrewayl, o. prevent.
• Encrees, o. Increase.
• Encroachment, a pressing too far upon a neighbours ground.
• Encyc••ical, round, belong∣ing to
• Encyclopaedie, as Cyclopadie. End for end, when a rope is all run out of the Block, &c.
• Endammage, f. to hurt or damnify.
• Endeynous, o. Disdainfull,
• Endictment, Enditement, an accusation exhibited or presented to the Court.
• En Dieu est, f. it is in Gods hand or power.
• Endive, a cooling herb.
• Endorse, -f. write on the back-side.
• Endorse, the fourth part of a pallet.
• Endoubted, o. feared.
• Endowment, f. the bestow∣ing or assuring of a Dower.
• Endowment de la plus belle part, a widows Dower of Lands holden in soccage, as the fairer or better part.
• Endowment of a vicaridge, the setling of maintenance on a vicar (by some great tithes, &c.) when the rest of the Benefice is appropriated.
• Endromick, -me, g. a long Irish robe, used before and after running, &c.
• Endry, o. Endure.
• Endymion, a Shepherd in love with the Moon, who stoops every night to kiss him, being cast into a perpe∣tual sleep on the top of Lat∣mus hill.
• Endyd in untime, o. Yeaned before the time.
• Enecated, l. killed.
• Eneorema, g. a cloud in di∣stilled waters, or in urines when the Disease is break∣ing.
• Enewed, o. made new.
• Encrees (f. Denrées) o. wares, or peny-worths.
• Enervity, weakness.
• Enewed, o. renewed.
• Eneya, Sa. the principal part of the heritage, passing to the eldest son.
• Energetical, belonging to
• Energy, g. force, efficacy, powerfull working.
• Enervation, l. a weakening.
• Enfield-Chase, in Middle∣sex, belonging to the Earls of Essex.
• Enfamined, o. famished.
• Enfeeteth, o. infecteth.
• Enfranchisement, f. incor∣porating into a society or body politick.
• Engastrimuch, g. one that speaks out of his belly.
• Engel-bert, Ge. bright An∣gel.
• Engine, l. devise, wit, o.
• Engined, o. racked.
• Englecerie, Englecherie, En∣gleschyre, o. a being an English∣man.
• Englaymyd▪ -lemed, o. Nau∣seated.
• Engluting▪ o. gluing, or glued, stopped.
• Engonasi, -sin, g. Hercules on his knee, a Constellation.
• Engrailed, as ingrailed
• Engyscope, g. an instrument to discern the proportion of the smallest things.
• Enharmonick, -iack, Mu∣sick] of many parts, differing from the other 2 kinds, Chro∣matick, and Diatonick.
• Enhaunsement, f. a raising the price of a thing.
• Enigma, as Aenigma,
• Enion, Br. just, upright.
• Enitia pars, as Esnecy.
• Enlased, o. intangled.
• Enlangored, o. Languishing.
• Enneade, Nine. g.
• Enneagon, g. a figure of 9 angles.
• Ennealogue, g. a discousre of 9 points, or parts.
• Ennoy, Sc. annoy.
• Enochs pillars, (supposed) one of brick, the other of stone containing the whole art of Astronomy.
• Enoch, Henoch, h. Dedicat∣ed to God.
• Enodation, l. a taking a∣way of knots.
• Enormity, l. errour, une∣venness, a being
• Enormous, irregular, un∣measurable, out of rule.
• Enosch, h. mortal, misera∣ble.
• Enpited, o. delighted.
• Enprice, o. the fashion.
• Enquest, f. the trial of causes by a Jury.
• Enquitance, -aunce, o. En∣quiry.
• Enseame, purge a hawk of her glut and grease.
• Enseeled, [a hawk] having a thread drawn through her upper ey-lids, and made fast under her beak.
• Ensconse, D. Entrench.
• Ensiferous, l. sword-bear∣ing.
• Ensign, f. an Escutcheon; also a banner, or he that bears it.
• Ensise, o. quality▪ stamp.
• To Ensile hawks, See Ens••el∣ed.
• Enstall, set upon a throne, endow with a robe of hon∣our.
• Enstalm••nt, a making

• Knights of the Garter, &c.
• Entail, f. (cut off) fee-tail, fee-entailed, limited, tied to certain conditions.
• Entailed, o. engraven.
• Entalenten, o. stir up.
• Entangle, ensnare, perplex.
• Entetch••d, o. defiled.
• Entelechie, g. an understand∣ing, soul, or power to move or act of it self.
• Entendaunce, o. service.
• Entendment, f. the true sense and meaning.
• Entermelled, o. interming∣led.
• Enterfeire, -fere, -frir, f. to hit one against another, as a Horses heels, &c.
• Entermined, o. robbed, em∣ptied.
• Enterlaced, as Enlased, con∣trary to unlased.
• Enterplead, -plede, discuss or try a point accidentally happening, before the princi∣pal can be determined.
• Entetched, Enseched, o. quali∣fied.
• Enthalamize, bring the bride and Bridegroom to bed.
• Enthean, -ated, inspired with God.
• Enthymematical, belonging to an
• Enthymem, g. an imperfect Syllogism, part being reta••n∣ed in the mind.
• Enthysiasmical, -astick, -cal, belonging to
• Enthysiasm, Enthusiasm, the doctrine or principles of an
• Enthysian, Enthusiast, g. one pretending to Divine revela∣tion and inspiration, fana∣tick.
• Entiertie, Int-, the whole.
• Entierement vostre, f. entire∣ly yours.
• Entire Tenan••y, a sole posses∣sion in one man.
• Entire pertransient, a line crossing the midle of a shield and running diametrically the longest way of her posi∣tio••.
• Entire pertingents, lines running the longest, way of the shields position, without touching the center.
• Entitatively, according to the
• Entity, an essence, being or subsistence.
• Entoire, when a bordure is charged with all sorts of in∣animate things, except leaves Fruits and Flowers.
• Entoxicate, l. to poyson.
• Entrails, f. bowels.
• Entreague, Sp. a making good again, also a story (af∣ter many entangled passages) brought to a calm end.
• Entreat, o. to handle.
• Entrecomune, o. f. converse together.
• Entremees, -mes, f. inter∣mingled.
• Entremesse, entertainment between the messes, or cour∣ses.
• Entremete, o. to deal or medle.
• Entresse, o. entrance.
• Entreteden, o. to handle.
• Entry, a taking possession.
• Entriked, o. deceived.
• Entrusion, a violent en∣trance.
• Entrusion de gard, a writ a∣gainst an Infant within age, entring upon his lands and holding his Lord out.
• Entunes, o. tunes.
• Entwyssel, an ancient house and Family in Lancashire.
• Enucl••ate▪ l. take out the kernel, also unfold, expound.
• Envelope, f. infold, wrap up.
• Environ, f. to compass a∣bout.
• Enumerate, l. to reckon up, to number.
• Enunciation, l. an uttering or pronouncing, also (in Lo∣gick) a proposition.
• Enunciative, simply affirm∣ing or denying.
• Envoy, f. (Envoi••) a messen∣ger sent [to an Ambassadour.]
• Envoice, as Invoice,
• Enure, to take place or ef∣fect or be available.
• Envyron, o. as Environ.
• Enurny, all borders of Coats charged with beasts (in he∣raldry.)
• Eolian, belonging to Ae••∣lus, God of the Winds.
• Epact, g. the addition of eleven dayes, to equal the Lunar year of 354, to the so∣lar of 365 daies.
• Epagoge, g. the comparing of things that are alike.
• Epaminondas, a great Cap∣tain of the Thebans against the Lacedemonians.
• Epanadiplosis, g. a begin∣ning and ending with the same word in a sentence.
• Epanalepsis, g. a repetition of the same word for enforce∣ment sake.
• Epaenaphora, g. when the same word begins several sen∣tences.
• Epanodos, g. a repitition of things in an order inverted.
• Epanorthosis, g. a recalling and correcting somthing be∣fore spoken.
• Epatrides, g. certain Noble∣men amongst the Athenians.
• Eparch, g. the cheif Govern∣our of a Province.
• Epenthesis, g. the putting of a letter or syllable into the midle of a word.
• Epha, an hebrew measure of nine gallons.
• Epheby, g. a stripling.
• Ephemera febris, a Fever that lasts but one day.
• Ephemeron, daily, also as
• Ephemeridian, belonging to
• Ephemerides, g. Journals, al∣so Almanacks.
• Ephemerist, he that writes Almanacks, Calculations, &c.
• Ephesian, belonging to
• Ephesus, the chief City of Jo••ia in Asia minor, famous for the Temple of Diana.
• Ephesian moan, like that of Heraclitus their weeping Phi∣losopher.
• Ephi, as Epha.
• Ephialtes, g. the night-mare
• Ephippiated, g. sadled.
• Ephippiarchy, a body of 16 Troops of horse, 1024.
• Ephod, a Linnen Garment worn by the Jewish Priests.
• ...

• Ephori, g. certain Magi∣strates among the Lacedaemo∣nians.
• Ephr••••mites, the Off spring of
• Ep••raim, h. fruitfull▪
• Epi••ole, g. as Epanalepsis, only with respect to the mat∣ter, as that is to the style, a repetition of the same word at the beginning of several sentences.
• Epick p••etry, written in He∣roick verse, not Lyrick.
• Epicrasis, g. a slow and mo∣derate evacuation of bad hu∣mours.
• Epicedie, g. -ium, a funeral song.
• Epicaene, g. comprehending both sexes under one gender.
• Epichrists, g. ointments.
• Epicure, -ean, belonging to
• Epicurus, an Athenian Phy∣losopher holding Pleasure to be the chiefest good.
• Epicurism, the manner or custom of an
• Epicure, or voluptuous per∣son.
• Epicycle, a lesser orb, whose centre is in the Circumfe∣rence of a greater, whereby they solve the irregular moti∣ons of Planets, &c.
• Epidemick, -cal, belonging to an
• Epidemy, g. a disease or contagion univerally catch∣ing.
• Epidermis, g. the outward skin covering the main skin of the body.
• Epididymis, g. one of the tu∣nicles involving the testicles
• Epigamy, g. affinity by mar∣riage.
• Epigastrick, g. belonging to the
• Epigastrium, the outward part of the belly, from the stomach to the navel.
• Epiglot, -••tis, g. the weasel of the throat, the little tongue closing the Larynx.
• Epigram, g. a short and wit∣ty sort of poem, playing on the subject.
• Epigrammatist, -t••grapher, a maker or writer of Epi∣grams.
• Epigraph, g. an inscripti∣on.
• Epileptick, belonging to, or troubled with an
• Epilepsy, g. a Convulsion of the whole body, the falling sickness.
• Epilogism, a computation or numbring by way of repe∣tition.
• Epilogize, to make an
• Epilogue, g. a conclusion, also a speech at the end of a play.
• Epiloimick, g. good against the plague or any infection.
• Epim••nides, a Cretian poet. who slept (they say) 75 years in a Cave, as he kept his Fa∣thers sheep.
• Epimone, g. a tarrying long upon one subject or matter.
• Epiod, g. a song before the burying of the corps.
• Epephonema, g. Acclamati∣on, a sententious clause of a discourse.
• Epiphany, g. appearance [of the star to the wise∣men,] Manifestation [of Christ to the Gentiles] Jan∣uary 6.
• Epiphora, g. force, impres∣sion, repeating the same word (with respect chiefly to the matter) at the end of several sentences.
• Epiplexis, g. an elegant up∣braiding in order to convicti∣on.
• Epiploce, g. a gradual rising of one clause of a sentence out of another, much like to Climax.
• Episcopal, g. belonging to a Bishop or Overseer.
• Episcopate, to play the Bi∣shop, overlook diligently.
• Episcopicide, the killing of a Bishop.
• Epispastick, g. drawing or blistering.
• Epistolary, belonging to an
• Epistle, g. a Letter sent.
• Epistrophe, g. when divers sentences end alike.
• Epistyle, g. the Chapiter of a Pillar, or architrave.
• Epitaph, g. an inscription on a tomb or grave.
• Epitasis, g. the second or busie part of a Comedy, be∣fore things are at full vigour.
• Epithalamize, to make an
• Epithalamy, -mium, g. a nuptial or wedding song.
• Epithemetical, belonging to an
• Epitheme, g. a liquid medi∣ci••e appli'd by Cotton, Scar∣let, &c.
• Epithet, g. an Adjective, or concrete quality, expres∣sing the nature of the thing to which it is added.
• Epitimesis, g. as Epiplexis a rebuking.
• Epitoge, a loose upper gar∣ment.
• Epitomater, he that doth
• Epitomize, make an
• Epitome, -my, g. an abridg∣ment.
• Epitritos. g. a foot of four syllables the first short and the other three long.
• Epitrochasmus, g. a slight running over several things for brevity sake.
• Epitrope, g. permission (se∣rious or ironical.)
• Epizeuxis, g. an immediate repetition of the same word.
• Epoch, -che, -cha, g. as Ae∣ra.
• Epode, g. a kind of Lyrick Poesie, wherein the first verse is longer than the second.
• Epostracism, g. Duck and a Drake and a white peny cake (with an oister-shell on the Water.)
• Epping-street, a Town in Essex.
• Epulary, l. belonging to a banquet.
• Epulosity, a being
• Epulous, l. full of banquet∣ing.
• Epucloticks, g. powders, &c. to dry up ulcers, &c.
• Equanimity, l. evenness, quietness of mind.
• Equation, l. a making equal even or plain.
• Equator, as Aequator.
• ...

• Equestrian, l. belonging to an Horseman or Knight.
• Eques auratus, l. a Knight [with gilt arms, &c.]
• Equilateral, as Aequilateral.
• Equinoctial-line, as Aequa∣tor.
• Equiparates, Aeq-, l. things compared or made equal.
• Equippage, f. a furnishing, setting forth, also furniture.
• Equiparable, comparable.
• Equiangle, where the angles are equal.
• Equipped, f. set forth, furni∣shed, accoutred.
• Equicrural, even-legged.
• Equidial, having the daies and nights equal.
• Equipensate, weigh or esteem alike.
• Equipollence, Aeq-, l. a be∣ing
• Equipollent, l. of equal force or value.
• Equidistants, Parallels.
• Equiformity, l. likeness in form.
• Equiponderous, of equal weight.
• Equivalent, Aeq-, l. of equal worth, or signification.
• Equivocal, Aeq-, l. having a double meaning.
• Equivocate, to use
• Equivocation, double or doubt∣full speech.
• Equorean, l. belonging to the Sea.
• Equus, the Horse, l. a Con∣stellation.
• Er, h. a Watchman.
• Eradicate, l. pull up by the roots.
• Erarij, Aer-, Romans de∣prived of giving their vote, paid all tribute, and served in the war at their own charges.
• Erased, l. scraped out, torn away.
• Erasmus, g. amiable.
• Erastianism, the doctrine of the
• Erastians, followers of
• Erastus, a Swisse Doctor (about 1580) who held that excommunication belong'd to the secular Magistrate, &c.
• Erato, one of the nine Muses.
• Erber, o. arbour.
• Erchenbald, a Bishop of London, Son to King Offa.
• Erean, Aer-, l. brasen.
• Erebus, an infernal deity, Fa∣ther of Night, Hell.
• Erection, l. a raising up∣right.
• Erector, l. a lifter up, one of the Muscles.
• Eremitical, belonging to an
• Eremite, or Hermite, g.
• Ereption, l. a snatching away.
• Eretriack, as Eleack, from Menedemus born at
• Eretria, a City of Eubaea.
• Ergotique, belonging to
• Ergotism, arguing, quarrel∣ling, sophistry, from
• Ergo, l. therefore.
• Eriferous, l. bearing brass.
• Erichthonius, King of Athens, Son of the Earth and Vulcan (striving with Minerva) he invented the Chariot, to hide his Dragons feet.
• Eridanus, Padus, the Po, a River in Italy, a Constellati∣on.
• Erigone, Daughter of Icarus, who hang'd her self for her Fathers death, the Constella∣tion Virgo.
• Erimanthian, belonging to
• Erimanthus, a Mountain in Arcadia.
• Eriphile, for a bracelet be∣trayed her Husband Amphi∣araus to the Theban wars, to his destruction.
• Erke, o. weary, loathing.
• Eristical, g. contentious.
• Eristicks, books or Treatises of controversie or disputes.
• Erivate, l. to dry up, or drain away by a stream.
• Ermine, a little Beast whose fur is very costly.
• Ermin-street, Erminage-street, the Roman high-way from St. Davids to Southampton.
• Ernes, o. a promise in [earn∣est.]
• Ern, o. greatly.
• Ernest, ge. severe.
• Earnfull, so. sorrowful, la∣mentable.
• Erogation, l. a liberal bestow∣ing.
• Eros, g. Love, Cupid.
• Erosion, l. a gnawing or eat∣ing away.
• Erostratus, to get him a name set fire to Diana's Temple.
• Erotesis, -tema, g. asking of a question.
• Ersh, Ss. Edish, the stubble af∣ter corn is cut.
• Errant [Justices] riding the Circuits.
• Errant [Knights] wandring all over the world, doing wonders.
• Erre, f. a way.
• Errata, l. faults [in print, &c.]
• Erratique, l. wandring or creeping up and down.
• Errhines, g. Medicines purg∣ing through the nose.
• Erroneous, subject to or full of
• Errours, l. mistakes.
• Erst, o. earnest.
• Erst my shert, o. before my shirt [was made.]
• Erugate, l. take away wrin∣kles.
• Eruginous, l. rusty, cankered, corrupted, blasted.
• Erubescency, l. a blushing.
• Eructation, l. a belching out.
• Erudition, l. an instructing.
• Erumnate, l. impoverish, make miserable.
• Eruncation, l. a weeding.
• Eruption, l. a violent break∣ing forth.
• Erewhile, o. a while ago.
• Eryngus, Sea-holly.
• Erysipelatous, troubled with an
• Erysipely, g. St. Anthonies fire.
• Ery, D. to honour or reve∣rence.
• Erythraean sea, the Red sea, the Gulph of Arabia or Mec∣cha.
• Eryx, a valiant man kil'd by Hercules at Whirl-bats.
• Esaias, as Isaiah.
• Esarhaddon, h. binding chear∣fulness.
• Esau, h. working or doing.
• Escal, l. fit for food.
• Escambio, a licence to

• make over a bill of Exchange to another beyond-sea.
• Eschaufeth, o. heateth.
• Eschange, as Exchange.
• Eschew, f. avoid or shun.
• Escheat, Lands &c. fallen or forfeited to the Lord of the Mannor, also a writ to reco∣ver such lands, also the Cir∣cuit within which they fall.
• Escheator, the Officer ap∣pointed to observe the Es∣cheats due to the King.
• Esc••at, f. a splinter of wood.
• Eschequer, as Exchequer.
• Escotcheon, a shield or buck∣ler, a Coat of arms.
• Escrite, f. a writing.
• Escuage, f. a tenure whereby the tenant is bound (at his own charges) to follow the Lord to the wars.
• Esculent, as Escal.
• Escurial, a stately Edifice built by Philip 2. King of Spain, in 24 years, it contains the Kings palace, St. Lau∣rence Church, the Monastery of Jeronomites and Free-Schools.
• Eshin, No. a pail or kit.
• Eskippeson, Eskypesoun, ship∣ping, passage.
• Esnecy, f. a prerogative al∣low'd the eldest copartner, of choosing first.
• Eson, Aeson, King of Thessa∣ly, had his youth restored by Medea at the request of his son Jason.
• Esons bath, the Bath or Me∣dicines which restored his age.
• Esopical, fabulous, belong∣ing to
• Esop, Aesop, authour of the Fables.
• Espalier, f. a close hedg-row of sundry fruit-trees, also a shouldering piece in archi∣tecture.
• Esples, Expleta, l. the full pro∣fit of land.
• Espervarius, Sparverius, a Spar-hawk.
• Espelers, the 3d branch of the harts-horns.
• Espe••es, f. kinds.
• Esperance, f. hope.
• Espire, o. as expire.
• Esploit, (for Exploit) per∣fection.
• Espringold, Espringalle, f. a warlike Engine (disused) for the casting great stones.
• Esquiline, -nus, l. one of the seaven hills on which Rome was built.
• Esquiry, f. a querry or Princes stable, also a querry-ship, or the Office and dig∣nity of an
• Esquire, f. he that bore the arms of a Knight, [now] that degree of Gentry next below a Knight.
• Essay, f. to try, also a tryal or preamble.
• Essay [of a Deer,] the breast or brisket.
• Essedary, one that guides or fights in an
• Essede, l. a warlike Chariot.
• Essendi quietum de Tolonio, a writ for any Townsmen (when toll is exacted) having Charter or prescription to exempt them.
• Skeer the Esse, Che. separate the dead ashes from the em∣bers.
• Essenes, a kind of Monastick Philosophers among the Jews, kept neither wife nor servant, referred all to desti∣ny, thought the soul mortal, &c.
• Essential, having or belong∣ing to
• Essence▪ l. substance, being.
• Essential debilities, when pla∣nets are in their detriment, fall▪ or peregrines.
• Essentifical, causing the Es∣sence or being.
• Essoine, an excuse for one summoned to appear.
• Establishment of Dowre, assu∣rance thereof to the wife, about the time of marriage.
• Estandard, 'Standard, the standing measure to regulate all others in the land▪ also an Ensign in war.
• Ester, (f. Estre) o. substance, state or being.
• Esther, h. secret.
• Estiserous, l. bringing or bear∣ing heat.
• Estimate, Aest-, l. to make
• Estimation, account, valu∣ing.
• Estival, l. of Summer.
• Estivate, l. to Summer.
• Estopel, an impediment or bar of an action, from his own fact who otherwise might have had his action.
• Estotiland, the most Northern Region on the Eastside of A∣merica.
• Estovers, sustenance allowed an accused felon (and his fa∣mily) out of his Estate during imprisonment.
• Estreat, Estreict, f. extractum, l. the copy of an original writing.
• Estraie, 'Stray, Extra••••••a, l. a beast (not wild) found (and not owned) in any Lord∣ship.
• Estreignes moy de coeur joyeus, f. embrace me with a merry heart.
• Estrepement, -pament, Estra∣pement, f. Spoil made by a Tenant, to the prejudice of him in reversion.
• Estuate, as Aestuate.
• Esurial, l. fasting, hungry.
• Esurion, l. a hungry fellow.
• Esurition, l. a being hun∣gry.
• Et je say bien que ce n'est pa•• mon tort, f. And I am sure I have done no wrong.
• Etching, graving with aq••ae-fortis eating into the Copper, &c.
• Etcaetera, &c. l. and the rest, and so forth.
• Eternize, g. to make eter∣nal.
• Etesiae, Etesian-winds, cer∣tain Easterly winds blowing yearly about the dog-dayes.
• Ethe, o. Easie, gentle.
• Etheling, as Adeling.
• Ethelard, Adelard, Sa. No∣ble disposition.
• Ethelbert, Edlebert, sa, no∣bly bright.
• Ethelstaine, -an, sa. Noble Jewel.
• Ethelward, sa. Noble keeper
• Ethelwold, sa. Noble Go∣vernour.
• ...

• Ethelwolph, sa. Noble helper
• Etherial, as Aetherial.
• Ethicks, g. [books treating of] moral Philosophy.
• Ethiopia, as AEthiopia.
• Ethnarchy, g. Principality.
• Ethnick, g. heathenish.
• Ethnicks, Heathens, Gen∣tiles.
• Ethologie, g. a discourse con∣cerning manners.
• Ethopoeia, g. a representati∣on of [some certain particu∣lar mens] manners.
• Etiologie, as AEtiology.
• Etna, as AEtna.
• Etocetum, a Town in War∣wick-shire, the second Roman station from Manchester.
• Etymological, belonging to
• Etymology, g. derivation of words from their Originals.
• Etymologize, to interpret by deriving words, &c.
• Evacuate, l. to empty.
• Evade, l. to make an
• Evasion, an escape, shift.
• Evagation, l. a wandring a∣broad.
• Evagination, l. a drawing out of the sheath.
• ... Evan, Ivon, John.
• Evander, an Arcadian, hav∣ing slain his Father, he fled into Latium, where he made himself King.
• Evangeliques, a sort of re∣formers not much differing from Lutherans.
• Evangelism, g., a bringing of glad tidings.
• Evangelistary, a pulpit, also the office of an
• Evangelist, g. one that doth
• Evangelize, write or bring
• Evangelium, the Gospel, good news.
• Evanid, l. soon decaying.
• Evaporation, l. a sending forth of vapours.
• Evate, precious Ethiopian Wood for cups, that will en∣dure no poison.
• Eucharistical, belonging to the
• Eucharist, g. thanks-giving, also the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper.
• Eucrasie, g. a good tempe∣rature of body.
• Euchamie, g. [a being sup∣plied with] good juice.
• Eudora, g. a good gift.
• Eudoxic, g. excellency of name, good report or estima∣tion.
• Eve, h. living.
• Eve and Treve, sc. Servants whose predecessors have been Servants to any man and his predecessors.
• Eveck, -ick, ib••x, l. a kind of Wild Goat.
• Evection, l. a lifting up, or a carrying out.
• Event, l. issue, success.
• Eventeration, l. a taking out the belly of a thing.
• Eventilate, l. sift or win∣now [Corn,] strictly to exa∣mine.
• Evershot, a Town in Dor∣setshire.
• Everych, o. every.
• Everard, g••. well reported.
• ... Everwicscire, Yorkshire.
• Eversion, l. an overthrow∣ing.
• Evertuate, take away the vertue or strength.
• Evestigation, l. an earnest seeking or hunting after.
• Evesholme, a Town in Wor∣cestershire.
• Euganian, belonging to a Country of the Venetians by the inner gulph of the Adria∣tick-Sea.
• Eugeny, g. nobleness of blood.
• Eviction, l. a convincing or vanquishing.
• Evibration, l. a brandish∣ing or darting forth.
• Evidence, l. a testimony, or proof.
• Evince, l. overcome, de∣clare.
• Evil, a Town in Somerset∣shire.
• Evint••grous, l. bearing age well, without decay.
• Eviration, l. an unmanning, a gelding.
• Evisceration, l. a taking out the bowels.
• Evitable, l. capable of
• Evitation, l. an avoiding, or shunning.
• Eviternity, l. everlasting∣ness.
• Eulogy, -ge, g. a praising.
• Eum, o. equal.
• Eulogical, g. well spoken.
• Eumenides, the three Fu∣ries.
• Eunuchate, -chize, to geld.
• Eunuchism, the state or condition of an
• Eunuch, g. (whose mind is right) a gelded man.
• Eunomians, Hereticks holding, that Faith only was acceptable without works, or that no sin could hurt the faithful.
• Evocation, l. a calling out.
• Evolatical, l. flying abroad.
• Evolution, l. a rolling or reading over.
• Eupatory, liver-wort.
• Euphemism, g. a speaking well of, putting a favourable interpretation on a bad word or thing.
• Euphonie, g. a graceful sound.
• Euphorbium, the gum of the Lybian gum-thistle.
• Euphrosyne, g. burrage, al∣so one of the 3 Graces.
• Euridice, being fetch'd from hell by her husband Orpheus, was snatched back again, be∣cause he lookt back on her be∣fore she arrived upon earth.
• Euripize, to imitate
• Euripe, -pus, Golpho de Ne∣groponte, which ebbes and flows seaven times a day.
• Eureclydon, g. the Seamans plague, a furious North-east∣wind.
• Europaeans, Inhabitants of
• Europe, one of the Worlds four parts, separated from Asia by the River Tanais.
• Eurythmy, g. the exact pro∣portion of rooms in a build∣ing,
• Eusebius, g. pious, godly.
• Eustace, Eustathius, or
• Eustachius, g. standing firm.
• Eutaxie, g. good order or disposing of things.
• Euterpe, one of the Muses.
• Euthansie, g. an happy dy∣ing.
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• Euthymy, g. tranquillity, quietness of mind.
• Eutrapelize, to use or exer∣cise
• Eutrapely, g. Courtesie.
• Eutropius, g. Well-man∣ner'd.
• Eutychians, followers of
• Eutyches (An. 443.) he held that there was but one nature in Christ, that he was not born of the Virgin Mary, &c.
• Evulsion, l. a violent pul∣ling up.
• Ewage, o. colour.
• Evyn, o. Even.
• Exaceration, l. a purging or cleansing from chaffe.
• Exacerbation, l. a making soure, also as Sarcasmus.
• Exacination, l. a taking out the stone or kern••l.
• Exaction, a taking of un∣lawfull fees.
• Exacuation, l. the making a thing sharp-pointed.
• Exactor Regis, the Kings
• Exactor, Customer or Ex∣ciseman, also the Sheriffe.
• Exaggeration, l. a heaping up▪ also as Aggravation.
• Exagitation, l. a stirring up.
• Exaltation, l. a lifting up, also (in Chymistry) a bring∣ing to greater purity.
• Exalted, lifted up, sublime, excellent.
• Example, l. pattern, copy.
• Examussim, l. exactly.
• Exanguious, l. bloudless.
• Exanimate, l. to deprive of life, also to dismay.
• Exanthems, g. the small pox, measles, or any wheales.
• Exantlate, l. to empty, pump or draw out; also to overcome by great labour.
• Exaration, l. a plowing up, also writing, engraving.
• Exarchy, -chaie, the office or dignity of an
• Exarch, g. a Lieutenant or Vice Emperour.
• Exarch of Ravenna, Gover∣nour of Italy under the Con∣stantinople Emperours.
• E••articulation, l. a putting out of joynt.
• Exartuate, l. disjoynt, carve or quarter.
• Exasperation, l. a making sharp, a provoking.
• Exaturation; l. a satiating.
• Exauctoration, Exaut-, l. a depriving one of an office, a disbanding.
• Exaugurate, l. to unhallow or prophane.
• Ex••uspicate, l. to have ill luck, or do a thing unfortu∣nately.
• Excalfaction, l. a heating.
• Excambio, an Exchange.
• Excambiator, an Exchanger of land.
• Excandescency, l. a being inflamed [with anger, &c.]
• Excavation, a making hol∣low.
• Excecation, l. a blinding.
• Excelsity, l. highness, lofti∣ness.
• Excentrick, as Eccentrick.
• Exception, l. (taking out) a bar or stop to an action.
• Exceptions, irregularities, deviations from general Rules.
• Take Exception at, be dis∣pleased or unsatisfied with.
• Exceptor, l. a gatherer [of the speakers words.]
• Excern, l. to seirce or sift.
• Excerption, l. picking or choosing.
• Excess, l. an exceeding, a going or doing out of mea∣sure.
• Excester, Exonia, Isca Dan∣moniorum, the Chief City of Devonshire, upon
• Ex, the name of the Ri∣ver.
• Exchangeors, men licensed to return money beyond-sea by bills of Exchange.
• Exchequer, the Court whi∣ther all the Crown-Revenues are brought.
• Excision, l. a breaking down, wasting or destroying.
• Excise, an imposition on Beer, Ale, Sider and other liquors.
• Excitation, l. a stirring up.
• Exclude, l. to shut out.
• Exclusory, l. having power of
• Exclusion, l. a barring or shutting out.
• Exclusively, in a manner.
• Exclusive of, not taking in [the extreams, &c.]
• Excogitate, l. to invent.
• Excommengement, the same as
• Excommunication, l. a sepa∣rating from the Church or Communion of Saints.
• Excommunicato capiendo, a writ for the apprehending and imprisoning him that ob∣stinately stands excommuni∣cated 40 dayes.
• Excommunicato deliberando, a writ to deliver the excom∣municate out of prison upon a Certificate of his conformi∣ty.
• Excommunicato recipiendo, for the retaking an Excom∣municate person unlawfully delivered from prison.
• Excoriate, l. flea off the skin.
• Excorticate, l. pull off the rind of bark.
• Excreable, l. which one may
• Excreate, l. Spit out.
• Excrementous, -titious, be∣longing to
• Excrements, l. dregs, or∣dure.
• Excrescence, -cy, l. a grow∣ing out, or swelling.
• Excretion, l. a voiding or purging of
• Excrements or bodily super∣fluities.
• Excruciate, l. to torment.
• Excude, l. to beat or ham∣mer out.
• Exculcate, to tread, or kick up or out.
• Exculpate, l. to clear on••s self of a fault.
• Excuriate, l. throw out of the Court.
• Excursion, l. a roving or running out.
• Excusatory, belo••ging to
• Excusati••n, l. an excus••••g.
• Excussion, l. a shaking 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• Execation, l. a cutting out
• Execration, l. a cursing▪
• Execrable, l. accursed,

• horrible, detestable.
• Execution, l. the last perfor∣mance of an act, inflicting of punishment.
• Executione facienda▪ a Writ for the Execution of a Judge∣ment.
• Executione facienda in Wither∣namium, a Writ for the tak∣ing his Cattle who had con∣veyed another mans Cattle out of the County, so that they could not be replevyed.
• Executor, l. he that performs any action, also he that is left by Will to dispose of the de∣ceased mans estate.
• Executor de son tort, who takes upon him the office without appointment.
• Exeg••tical, belonging to
• Exegesis, g. explication.
• Exemplary, belonging to
• Exemplar, l. a person or thing containing an example
• Exemplifie, l. to give, make take out of an example or copy.
• Exemplifi••ation••, a writ granted for the exemplifica∣tion of an Original.
• Ex••mption, l. a taking out or a freeing [from duty, &c.]
• Exenteration, l. a taking out the guts or bowels.
• Exequial, belonging to
• Exequies, l. funeral rites.
• Exercitation, l. a frequent exercising, also a critical Comment.
• Exergasia, g. an adorning, polishing.
• Exert, l. to put forth.
• Exest••m, l. an eating up or out, consuming.
• Exflorous, l. having flowers growing out of it.
• Ex gravi querela, a writ for him to whom Lands are de∣vised by Will, and the heir of the devisor enters and detains them.
• Ex mero motu, (in the Kings Charters and Letters Patent) of his own will and motion, without the Petiti∣on o•• [false] suggestion of o∣thers.
• Ex officio, an Oath ex officio might have been administred by any person authorized by Letters Patent, to force the supposed delinquent to ac∣cuse or clear himself; re∣pealed.
• Exoneratione Sectae, a writ to disburden the Kings-ward of all sute to the County, &c.
• Exhalation, l. a vapour drawn up by the Suns heat, also a blowing or breathing out.
• Exharmonia, discords in Musick.
• Exhausted, l. drawn dry, wasted.
• Exhibit, l. to shew, or present.
• Exhibition, a shewing, also an allowance towards ones maintenance.
• Exhilarate, l. to refresh, to make one merry or chearful.
• Exsiccation, l. a drying up.
• Exigendary, -genter, four Of∣ficers in the Common-pleas who make
• Exigents, Writs where the Defendant cannot be found, nor any thing to be distreined
• Exigent, l. a great streight or necessity.
• Exiguity, l. slenderness.
• Exiguous, l, slender, small.
• Ex••lition, l. a leaping out.
• Exile, l. banishment.
• Exility, l, as E••iguity.
• Eximiety, a being.
• Eximious, l. excellent, fa∣mous.
• Exinanition, l. an emptying▪ or making void▪ a being
• Exinanited, l. robbed, pilled, reduced to nothing.
• Existence, l. a being.
• Existimation, l. a thinking or judging.
• Exit, l. he or she goes out, also a going out or ending.
• Exitial, -itious, l. dangerous, destructive, deadly.
• Exodus, g. the going out [of the Isralites from Egypt.]
• Exoine, as Essoyn.
• Exol••te, l. stale, out of use.
• Exolution, l. full payment, also faintness and loosness all over the b••dy.
• Exonerate, l. unload.
• Exoptable, l. desireable.
• Exoptate, l. to desire earnest∣ly.
• Exorable, l. that may be en∣treated.
• Exorbitancy, l. a being
• Exor••itant, l. out of rule or measure.
• Exorbitate, l. to go out of the right way.
• Exorcism. the practise of an
• Exorcist, g. he that doth
• Exorcise, restrain the De∣vils Power (by prayer or Conjuration.)
• Exordium, l. a preamble or beginning [of a discourse.]
• Exornation, l. an adorning, or dressing up.
• Exortive, l. belonging to ri∣sing or the East.
• Exosseous, l. having no bones.
• Exoster, l. a petard or engine to blow a gate open.
• Exoterick [doctrine] of nice disputes.
• Exotick, g. strange, forreig•• outlandish.
• Expand, declare, display.
• Expansed, l. displayed.
• Expansion, l. an opening or spreading abroad.
• Ex parte, l. partly, also done by one party onely.
• Ex parte talis, a writ for a Bailiff or Receiver who can∣not obtain reasonable allow∣ance but is cast into prison by the Auditors assign'd to take his account.
• Expatiate. l. walk at large or full liberty.
• Expectant [fee-] taile, the having Lands given to a man and the heirs of his body, &c.
• Epectable, to be expect••d.
• Expectation, l. a tarrying or looking for.
• Expectorate, l. to raise phlegme from the breast.
• Expedient, l. fit, convenient
• An Expedient, a convenient way, means, or device.
• Expeditate, l. cut out the balls of the Dogs feet, (for preservation of the Kings game)
• Expedite, l. prepare, dispatch finish.
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• Expedition, l. quick dis∣patch, also a setting forth up∣on a journey, war, &c.
• Expel, l. drive out.
• Expenditors, paymasters.
• Expence, l. cost or charges.
• Expensis militum levandis, a writ to levy allowance for the Knights of Parliament.
• Experience, l. proof or trial upon sight or observation.
• Experiment, l. a putting to trial or into practice.
• Expetible, l. desireable.
• Expiable, capable of
• Expiation, l. a pacifying, satis∣fying or making amends for an offence.
• Expiration, l. a giving up the Ghost.
• Expire, l. to come to an end.
• Explain, l. unfold, declare.
• Explanation, a making plain clear or manifest.
• Expleiten, o. make show.
• Explement, the same as
• Expletion, l. a filling up.
• Expletive, l. filling, fulfilling, perfecting.
• Explication, l. explaining or unfolding.
• Explicite, l. unfolded, open.
• Exploit, f. a notable act.
• Exploration, -orement, l. a spying or searching out.
• Explorator, l. a scout [Master]
• Explode, l. to hiss off the stage
• Explosion, l. an exploding, slighting, decrying, hissing, off, &c.
• Ex post facto, l. the doing a thing after the time when it should have been done.
• Expolition, l. a polishing.
• Eposition, l. an expounding or interpreting.
• Expostulate, l. reason the case, complain.
• Express, pronounce, utter, declare, also a letter or pack∣et of Letters.
• Expressed, (in Physick) squeezed out.
• Expression, l. an expressing, squeezing, also the thing ex∣pressed, &c. also as Ethopoeia.
• Expro••ation, l. a reproaching or upbraiding.
• Expugna••le, capable of
• Expugnation, l. a taking or winning by force.
• Expuition, l. a spitting out.
• Expulsion, l. a driving out.
• Expumication, l. a sleeking or smoothing with pumice-stone.
• Expunge, l. blot out.
• Exquisite, l. exact, in the highest degree.
• Exsufflation, l. a breathing out.
• Ext••n••y, being
• Extant, l. appearing in sight [above others] also in being.
• Extacy, as Ecstasie.
• Extemporary, -raneous, l. that which is done
• Ex tempore, presently, with∣out any praevious study.
• Extemporality, a promptness without praemeditation.
• Extend, l. enlarge, stretch out.
• Extensible, -sive, capable of
• Extension, a stretching out.
• Extent, whole breadth or compass, also a commission to seize and value lands, &c. also the act of seizing, &c. upon this writ.
• Extendi facias, writ of ex∣tent, commanding Lands to be extended or valued.
• Extenuate, l. make little, un∣dervalue.
• Extercorate, l. cleanse, or car∣ry forth dung.
• Exterminate, l. throw out or banish.
• External, -riour, l. outward.
• Exterraneous, Extra-, ••, strange, forreign.
• Extersion, l. a wiping off or out.
• Extimate, l. outmost, contra∣ry to intimate.
• Extimulate, l. to spur on or provoke.
• Extinct, l. put out, quench∣ed.
• Extinction, l. a quenching.
• Extinguisher, an instrument to
• Extinguish, l. put out [a can∣dle, &c]
• Extinguishm••nt of Rent, when the Rent and property are both consolidated into one possession.
• Extirpate, l. utterly to de∣stroy or root out.
• Extispitious, belonging to southsaying by the entrails of Beasts.
• Extorsion, l. a wresting or violent taking [of more than is due,] excessive usury.
• Extort, l. to wrest or wring out of.
• Extract, l. to draw out, al∣so as
• Extraction, l. a drawing out, also as Estreat, also a pedi∣gree, or descending from such or such a Family.
• Extracts, as Estreats.
• Extrajudicial, done out of Court.
• Extramission, l. a sending out or beyond.
• Extramundane, [spaces] be∣tween one world and ano∣ther.
• Extraneous, -terra-, l. of a Forreign or strange Land.
• Extraparochial, beyond or out of the Parish.
• Extravagant, l. wandring beyond the due bounds.
• Extravasal, beside or out of the vessel.
• Extreat, as Estreat.
• Extricabl••, capable of
• Extrication, as Distri-, rid∣ding one self of.
• Extri••sick, -cal, l. outward, from without.
• Extroversi••n, a turning [ones thoughts upon] outward [objects.]
• Extrude, l. to thrust out.
• Extrusion, a thrusting out.
• Ex••uberate, l, [to cause] to swel or bunch up.
• Extumescence, l. a swelling or bunching up.
• Exuberance, -cy, l. an o∣verflowing or abounding.
• Exuberate, l. to abound, or be plentifull.
• Exuccous, Exsu-, l. juice∣less.
• Exudate, Exsu-, l. to drop or send forth moisture, to sweat out.
• Exuge, l. to suck up.
• Exulate, to be banished or

• to live in exile.
• Exulcerate, l. to blister or turn to an ulcer, also fret or vex.
• Exult, l. leap for joy, tri∣umph.
• Exultation, l. a great rejoyc∣ing.
• Exundation, l. an overflow∣ing.
• Exuperable, l. that may be exceeded, got over or over∣com'n.
• Exuperation, Exsu-, l. an excelling or surpassing.
• Exustion, l. a burning or parching.
• Exuthenismus, g. an exten∣uation or speaking contemp∣tibly of any person or thing.
• Ey, o. an egge, also a wa∣tery place.
• Eye [of a plant,] where the bud puts forth, also the bud it self.
• Eye-bite, to bewitch with the eyes.
• Ey-bright, Euphrasia, an herb good for eyes, brain and memory.
• Ey- [of Pheasants] the whole brood of young ones, the same as Covey in Partridges.
• E••ess, a [watery-eyed] hawk brought up under a Kite.
• Eyet, Eyght, a little Island.
• Eyleth, o. aileth.
• Eyre, the Court of Justices Iterant.
• Eyre of the forest, the Court which was wont to be kept (every three years) by the Justices of the Forest.
• Eyth, Eth, o. easie.
• Eywood, a Town in Surrey.
• Ezechias, Hezekiah, or Hiz∣kiah, h. strength of the Lord.
• Ezechiel, h. seeing or strength of God.
• Ezenden, a town in Rut∣land.
• Ez••a, h. an helper.
• Ezzab, a Province of A∣frica.