The new world of English words, or, A general dictionary containing the interpretations of such hard words as are derived from other languages ... together with all those terms that relate to the arts and sciences ... : to which are added the significations of proper names, mythology, and poetical fictions, historical relations, geographical descriptions of most countries and cities of the world ... / collected and published by E.P.

THE NEW WORLD Of English Words. Or, a General Dictionary.

Containing the Terms, Etymologies, Definitions, and perfect Interpretations of the Proper significations of hard English words, throughout the Arts and Sciences, Liberal; and Mechanick, as also all other subjects, that are usefull, or appertain to the Lan∣guage of our Nation.

A. A.

• AAron, the son of Amram, and bro∣ther of Moses, he was the first High-Priest of the Jews, being chosen to that dignity by the budding of his Rod, the word signifies in Hebr. a Teacher, or Moun∣tain of fortitude.
• Aaron, a great Emperour of the Sara∣cens, who leading into Asia an Army of 300000. men, compelled Nicephorus the Greek Emperour, to make peace with him, on Ignominions, and dishonourable terms.

A. B.

• Aba, a Tyrant of Hungaria, who being slain by his own subjects, and buried in the next Church, not long after was digged out of the earth again, where being found with his winding-sheet, and other cloathes un∣corrupted, and unchanged, and all his wounds cured, he was honoured with a no∣bler burial, and his bones translated to a Monastery, built by himself, and there in∣terred.
• † Abaction, (Latin) a driving, or forcing away.
• Abaddon, an Hebrew word signifying a destroyer, and used in the New Testament for the Devil.
• Abae, a Town of Phocis, a Province in Greece, which was not destroyed by Philip of Macedon, because the people were known never to have committed sacriledge.
• Abaea, a Town in the Bay of Messena, wherein was the most ancient Oracle of Apollo, burnt at length by the Army of Xerxes.
• Abagas Can, King of the Tartars, he, ha∣ving recovered the Dominion of the Turks, and taken Parvana Governour of Turcia, because he betrayed it to the Soldan of Aegypt, cut him in pieces, boyled him among his other viands, and eat him.
• Abalus, an Isle in the German Ocean, in which it is reported, that there are Hills from which doth drop great store of Am∣ber.
• To Abandon, (Ital.) to forsake, also to resign one's self up wholly to any prevail∣ing passion.
• † Abannition, (Lat.) a punishment inflict∣ed

• by the Greeks upon the committers of Man-slaughter, namely the banishing them for a twelve-moneths space.
• Abantia••, the Isle of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 near Boeotia in the Mediterranean Sea, so called from the Abantes, a people which coming out of Thrace, inhabited there.
• Abarimon, a Countrey in Scythi••, hear the Mountain Aemaus, the people are very salvage, and although their feet are ••ever∣ted, or turned backward, yet they are ex∣ceeding swift.
• Abarstick, (old word) insatiable.
• Abas, the son of Metanira, whom Ce∣res turned into a Lizard, because he laugh'd at those divine rites, which his Mo∣ther instituted to her worship; also the twelf King of the Argives, being the son of Lynceus by his wife Hypermnestra, he was the Father of Proetus and Acrisius, & Grand∣father of Perseus, that freed Andromeda.
• To Abase (Ital.) to bring low.
• Abast (a term in Navigation) when any thing is done, or placed toward the stern, in respect of any that are towards the ••tem.
• To Abate, to make lesse, or diminish.
• Abatement, a term in Heraldry, being an accidental mark annexed to Coat-armour, denoting a stain in the bearer.
• Abatos, an Island in Egypt, in the Ma∣rishes of Memphis, where King Osiris was buried.
• Abawed, (old word) daunted, ashamed.
• Abbae, a word used in holy Scripture, and signifieth in the Syriack tongue, Fa∣ther.
• Abbington, see Abington.
• To Abbord (Italian) to approach near the shore, also to grapple with a ship.
• Abbot, a spiritual Governour over a reli∣gious house of Monkes.
• To Abbreviate (Lat.) to abridge, to make short.
• Abdals, a kind of religious people among the Persians, who make profession of pover∣ty, and lodge in Churches, they derive their name from Abdala, father of Maho∣met.
• Abdalmatalis, the Grand-father of Ma∣homet, a Man of so rare a beauty, and per∣fect composure, that he wonne the admira∣tion & love of all the women that saw him.
• Abdelmonus, a King of Africa, whose Fa∣ther was a Potter; to whom, while he was a young man, Aventumerth, a famous A∣stronomer, foretold that he should obtain the Kingdom, and afterward assisted him in the compassing of the design.
• Abdera, a Town of Thrace, where Demo∣critus was born, the people whereof were counted a foolish people.
• Abdevenam, the head of the twelf Man∣sion, a term in Astrology.
• To Abdicate, (Lat.) to renounce, or re∣fuse.
• Abdolonymus, a certain Gardiner of Sy∣don, by a long descent continuing of the bloud Royal, whom Alexander the Great, after he had taken that Citie, caused to be proclaimed King thereof.
• Abdomen, in Anatomy, signifies all that part of the belly, that contains the natural bowels, being composed of a skin, fat, eight muscles, and the peritonaeum.
• Abducted, (Lat.) led away.
• Abecedary. belonging to the A. B. C.
• To Abedge, (old word) to abide.
• Abel, the name of one of Adams sons, and signifieth in Hebrew vanity, also the name of a place, and signifieth in Hebrew mourning.
• Abent, (old word) a steep place, or hang∣ing Hill.
• * Abequitation, (Lat.) a riding away.
• Aberconwey, q. the mouth of Conwey, a Town in Caernarvonshire, built upon the mouth of the River Conwey, by Edward the first, out of the ruines of an old Town, cal∣led Caerhaen, i. ancient Citie, in Latin Co∣novium.
• Aberfraw, a Town in the Isle of Anglesey, anciently a very famous place, and the Royal seat of the Kings of Guineth, or North wales.
• Abergevenny, or Abergenny, so called, be∣cause it is situate at the very meeting of the Rivers Vsk, and Gebenny, or Gobanny, it is called in Latin Gobanium, and is fortified with a very strong Castle, which hath been the seat of many great Lords and Earles.
• Aberration, (Lat.) a going astray.
• Abessed, (old word) cast down, humbled.
• Abetting, (old word) a setting on, or incouraging.
• * To Abgregate, (Lat.) to lead out of the flock.
• Abhorrency, (Latin) a loathing, or ha∣ting.
• Abidst, (old word) suffered.
• Abia, the daughter of Hercules, and Nurse to Hyllus, the son of Hercules by Deianira, she lived in a Citie called Ira, which after∣ward she named by her own name, and built a Temple in it.
• Abject, (Lat.) vile, or base.
• Abii, a people in Scythia, who live with∣out any house, and provide for nothing:

• ... Homer calleth them the most just people.
• Abject, (Lat.) vile, or base.
• Abigail, a Womans name in the Old Te∣stament, & signifieth in Hebrew a fathers joy.
• Ability, (Lat.) power, strength.
• Abington, or Abbendon, a pleasant Town situate upon the River Isis in Bark-shire, and so called as some say from one Abben, and Irish Heremite, or rather from an Ab∣bay, built here by Cissa, King of the West Saxons, whereas in old time it had been called Sheovesham.
• Abintestate, (Lat.) without a will.
• Abit, (old word) dwelleth.
• To Abjudicate, (Latin) to give away by judgement.
• To Abjure, (Lat.) to forswear, also in Common-Law it is to forsake the Realm for ever, when one hath committed fello∣ny, or to fly to the Church, or Sanctuary, or place priviledged for that purpose.
• Ablacted, (Lat.) weaned.
• Ablectick, (Lat.) adorned, or garnished for sale, as ablectae aedes, Plant.
• Ablegation, (Lat.) a sending away.
• Ablepsie, (Greek) blindnesse of the mind.
• Abligurie, (Lat.) spending in belly chear.
• Ablocated, (Latin) let out to hire.
• Ablution, (Latin) washing away.
• Abnegation, (Latin) a stiff denying.
• Abnodation, (Latin) untying of knots, al∣so pruning of Trees.
• Abode, (Latin) a place of habitation.
• Aboeocrites, a Captain of the Boeotians, who with a thousand of his men, was slain near Chaeronea, in a fight against the Aeto∣lians.
• Abogen, (Saxon) bowed.
• Abolition, (Latin) an abrogating, or ut∣terly destroying.
• Abomination, (Latin) an abhorring, or detesting.
• To Abone (Ital.) to make ripe.
• Aboord, (a Term in Navigation) within the ship.
• Aborigines, a people brought into Italy by Chamexenus the Egyptian Saturn, and thought to have been the most antient peo∣ple of Italie.
• Abortion, (Latin) the birth of a Childe before its time.
• Abradacarba, a spell in Cornelius Agrippa against Agnes.
• Abraiamins, a kind of Enchanters among the Indians.
• To Abrase (Latin) to shave, or pare a∣way.
• Abravanus, a River in Galloway in Scot∣land, now called Rian.
• Abricot, (French) a certain sort of plum, requiring much of the Sun's warmth to ri∣pen it.
• To Abridge, (French) to make short, to abreviate.
• Abrodiaetical, (Greek) feeding delici∣ciously.
• Abrogation, (Latin) an abolishing.
• Abrotonum, (Greek) the name of an A∣thenian woman, the mother of Themistocles, also the herb Southernwood.
• Abrupt, (Latin) suddenly breaking off.
• Absalom, the son of David, an Hebrew word signifying the father of peace.
• Abscession, (Latin) a going away.
• Abscission, (Latin) a cutting away.
• Absconsion, (Latin) a hiding out of the way.
• Absis, (a Term in Astronomy) is, when the Planets moving to their highest, or their lowest places are at a stay. The high Ab∣sis is called the Apogaeum, the low Absis the Perigaeum.
• Absolute, (Latin) perfect.
• Absolution, (Latin) a pardoning.
• Absonant, (Latin) disagreeing, sounding from the purpose.
• To Absorb (Latin) to sup up all.
• Absoris, a Town built by the Colchians, when they were sent with Absyrtus in pur∣suit of Medea.
• Abstemious, (Latin) temperate, sober.
• Abstention, (Latin) the keeping back of an Heir from the possession of his land, a Term in law.
• Abstersive, (Latin) cleansing.
• Abstinence, (Latin) temperance.
• Abstorted, (Latin) wrested by force.
• Abstract, (Latin) a small book, or wri∣ting, taken out of a greater.
• To Abstrude, (Latin) to thrust away.
• Abstruse, (Latin) dark, obscure.
• Absurd, (Lat.) foolish.
• To Abvolate, (Latin) to fly away.
• Abus, the name of a great and famous River in York-shire, commonly called Hum∣ber, whence Northumberland took its name.
• Abysse, (Greek) a bottomlesse pit.
• Abyssini, a people in Aethiopia, in the sub∣jection of Prester John, who is called in the Aethiopian language Negasch Chauvarianni, i. e. Apostolick Emperour, and is account∣ed one of the Chief Monarchs of the World.

A. C.

• Acacalis, a Nymph by whom Apollo had two sons, Philarides and Philander.
• ...

• Academia, a Wooddy place, about a mile from Athens, built by Academus, where Plato was born and taught Philosophy, whence the word Academy is taken for any publick Shool, or University.
• Acadinus, a Fountain in Sicily, in which they used to try the truth of an Oath, by writing the words of him that swore upon a Table of wood, and if the wood did swim, they took the words for truth, but if it sunk, they took it to be a false Oath.
• Acarnar, the bright Starre of Eridanus, vide Eridanus.
• Acastus, the son of Peleus, King of Thessa∣ly, a famous Hunter with Bow and Arrows, he married Hippolita, who loving Pelius, be∣cause he yielded not to her love, accused him to her husband, for having offered violence to her, wherefore Acastus threw him to be devoured of wilde beasts, but Mercury coming in the interim, freed Pe∣lius with Vulcans sword, who returning slew Acastus and Hippolita.
• Acatalepsie, (Greek) incomprehensibili∣ty, impossibility to be comprehended.
• To Accelerate, (latin) to hasten.
• Accent, (latin) due sound over any word, or letter.
• Acceptation, (latin) acceptance.
• Acceptilation, (latin) a verbal acquit∣tance between the Debtour and the Credi∣tour.
• Accessary, (latin) a Term in Common-law, signifying guilty of a fellonious Act, not actually, but by participation, as by ad∣vice, concealment, or the like.
• Accius Tullius, Prince of the Volsci, who with the help of Coriolanus made War with the Romans.
• Accidental, (latin) hapning by chance.
• Acclamation, (latin) an applause, a cry∣ing out for joy.
• Acclivity, (latin) a stopping place, a steep descent.
• Acco, an old woman, who beholding her face in a glasse, and seeing her beauty de∣cayed, fell mad.
• Accollade (French) a clipping about the neck, which was formerly the way of dub∣bing Knights.
• To Accommodate, (latin) to fit, or to lend.
• To Accomplish, (French) to fulfill.
• Accomptable, (French) lyable to give an account.
• Accordable, (latin) easie to be agreed on.
• Accort, (French) heedy, wary.
• To Accost, (French) to approach, to draw near.
• Accoutred, (French) dress't, attir'd.
• To Accoy, (old word) to asswage.
• Accretion, (latin) a growing, or sticking unto.
• To Accrew, (French) to increase, to be added unto.
• To Accumb, (latin) to sit down at a Ta∣ble.
• Accumulation, (latin) a heaping toge∣ther.
• Accurately, (latin) exactly.
• Accusation, (latin) an accusing, or bla∣ming.
• To Accustome, (Ital.) to be wont, to use.
• Ace, that point in the dice where one one∣ly is expressed, ammez ace, quasi ambos as, both an ace, or two aces.
• Acephalik, (Greek) having no head, or beginning.
• Acephali••ts, (Greek) a sort of Hereticks, whose first founder is unknown.
• Acerbity, (latin) sharpnesse, or sournesse.
• Acerote, course brown bread.
• Acersecomick, (Greek) one whose hair is never cut.
• To Acervate, (latin) to heap up.
• Acetars, (latin) sallets of small herbs.
• Acetosity, (latin) sharpnesse, or sournesse in taste.
• Achapt, (French) a law Term used in contracts, or bargains, and signifieth to buy.
• Achates, a stone of divers colours, resem∣bling a lions skin.
• Achelous, the son of Oceanus and Terra, he ••ought a single Combat with Hercules for Deianira, he first changed himself into a Serpent, then into a Bull, one of whose Horns Hercules cut, and dedicated it to plenty the Companion of Fortune, but af∣terward Achetous giving him Amalthea's Horn received his own again, also the name of a River in Epirus rising from the Moun∣tain Pindus, and is said to be the first River that broke out, after the general Deluge.
• Acheron, the son of Ceres, without a fa∣ther, whom, when she had brought forth in a dark cave in Sicily, not daring to be∣hold the light he was sent to Tartarus, and there turned into a River over which the Souls of men are carried, it is commonly taken for Hell.
• To Achieu, (French) to perform.
• Achilles, the son of Peleus and Thesis, whom his mother while he was an infant, dipt all over in the river Styx, so that he be∣came invulnerable all over, save in that part of his heel, by which she held him, he was put to the Centaur Chiron, to be instructed

• in warlike affairs and musick; and being grown to age, his Mother hearing he should die in the Trojan wars put him into Wo∣mans apparel and hid him among the Daughters of Lycomede where he ravish't Deidamia, and begot Pyrrhus, being seduced from thence by the craft of Vlisses, he fought against the Trojans, slew Hector, and performed many other great exploits in that war.
• Acid, (Latin) sharp, biting.
• Acis, the son of Faunus, and the Nymph Timethis, the comliest of all the Sicilian Shepheards, whom •• Polypheme loved but afterwards kill'd him despising his love.
• To Ackele (old word) to cool.
• Acolastick, (Greek) Riotous.
• Acolyte, (Greek) one that is forbidden to say Divine service, yet may bring light, &c.
• Acontius, a young man of the Iland of Caea, who going to Delos to the Feast of Diana fell in love with Cydippe, but not being able to come at her, writ his mind upon an Apple and threw it to her.
• Aconite, a poisonous herb call'd Sibbards∣bane.
• Acquists, (French) things purchased or obtained.
• To Acquiesce, to rest or rely upon.
• Acquisition, (Latin) a purchasing or ob∣taining.
• Acre such a quantity of Land as may be plow'd in a day by one yoke of Oxen.
• Acrilogie (Greek) bitter speaking.
• Acrimony, (Latin) bitterness eager∣ness.
• Acrisius, the son of Abas King of Argos, and father of Danae Jove's Paramour; he, having heard that he was to be kill'd by the hand of him that should be born of her, shut her up in a brazen Towr, but Jupiter descending in a showr of gold through the lights lay with her and begat Perseus, who afterwards cut off the Gorgons head, and coming with it to Arg••s changed Acrisius into a stone.
• Acroamatick, (Greek) one that hear∣kens attentively to any thing, also harmo∣nious.
• Achronick, from the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is when a Star sets with the Sun and riseth at Sun setting.
• Acronychal, (Greek) a term used in Astronomy, the Achronycal rising of a Star is, when it riseth at the time of the Sun-set∣ting.
• Acrostick, (Greek) a certain number of verses which begin with the Letters of any ones name.
• Actifs, an order of Fryars, that feed on Roots, and wear tawny habits.
• Action, (Latin) a deed, also the right of reckoning that which is due and owing to a man.
• Actisanes, a King of the Aethiopians who beat Amasis tyrannizing over the Aegypti∣ans and deposing him, reigned over them himself very justly, and made many severe Law's for the governing of the King∣dome.
• Act, (Latin) a deed, also a Decree of Par∣liament or Inferiour Court.
• Actaeon, the son of Aristeus & A••tonoe, who going a hunting and coming by chance to see Diana, as she was bathing her self in a Fountain, was changed into a Hart, and torn in pieces by his own Dogg's whence.
• Actaeoned, is often taken for hornifi∣ed.
• Activity, (Latin) nimbleness, stirringness, agility.
• Actium, a promontory of Epirus where Augustus having overthrown Antonie and Cleopatra, built a City and called it Nicopo∣lis.
• Actius Naevius, a South-sayer, who in the presence of Tarquin cut a Whet-stone with a Pen-knife.
• Acton Burnel, a Castle in Shropshire, famous for having had a Court of Parliament call'd there in the time of Edward the First, it was so called as belonging anciently to the Burnels, a family heretofore of great name and antiquity.
• Actor, (Lat.) doer of any thing, also a Stage-player.
• Actual, (Lat.) that which is dispatched by act and deed.
• Aculeate, (Lat.) carrying a sting.
• To Acuminate (Lat.) to sharpen.
• Acupictor (Lat.) a worker of needle-work.
• Acute, (lat.) sharp-pointed also, sharp-wit∣ted. An Acute disease the Physitians call that which by reason of its vehemency imme∣diately grows to a hight and so presently decays or kils: also an Acute-angle is when two lines do inclose less than a square, thereby becoming more sharp.
• Acyrological, (Greek) speaking impro∣perly.

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• Adacted (Lat.) driven by force.
• Adage, (Lat.) a vulgar saying.
• Adam, the name of the first man signi∣fying in (Heb.) red earth.
• ...

• Adjudication, (Lat.) an adjudging or de∣termining.
• Adamant, (Lat.) a precious stone, other∣wise call'd a Diamond.
• Adamantine, hard, inflexible, made of Adamant.
• To Adamate (Lat.) to love tenderly.
• Adamites, a Sect of Hereticks whose pro∣fession was to come into their Synagogue stark naked both Men and Women. It was first instituted in Bohemia about two hun∣dred years ago.
• Adashed, (old word) ashamed.
• Adawed, (old word) awaked.
• To Adcorporate (Lat.) to joyn body to body.
• To Addecimate, (Lat.) to take Tithes.
• Adderbourn, a River in Wiltshire an∣ciently called Nadder.
• An Addice, a Coopers axe.
• To Addict, (Lat.) to give our self to any thing.
• Additament, (Lat.) a Supply, a thing ad∣ded.
• Addomestique, (French) made tame or familiar.
• To Addoulez (French) to sweeten mol∣lifie or asswage.
• Address (French) a dextrous carriage in the manageing of any business, also an application to any person, Artamenes.
• Adelantado, (Spanish) The Deputy of a Province, for any King or General.
• Adeling, an old Saxon word signifying a Kings son.
• Adelrad, or Ethelred, (Sax.) Noble Ad∣vice, a proper name.
• Ademption, (Lat.) a taking away.
• To Adent, (old word) to fasten or joyn.
• Adeption, (Lat.) a getting or obtain∣ing.
• To Adequate, (Latin) to make equal, to level.
• Ades, King of the Molossians whose daughter Cara was ravish't by Pirithous.
• To Adhere, (Lat.) to stick fast, or cleave unto any thing.
• Adjacent, (Lat.) lying near unto, border∣ing upon.
• Adiaphorie, (Greek) indifferent.
• To Adjourn (French) to warn one to ap∣pear at the day appointed, also to put off a day. A word used in Common Law.
• Adjument (Lat.) assistance.
• Adjunct, (Latin) a quality adhering to any thing, as heat to fire, greenness to grass, &c. a term used in logick.
• To Adjure, (Latin) to swear earnestly, also to put another to his oath.
• Adjutant, (Lat.) ayding or assisting to another.
• To Adjust, (French) to make fit, to state an account rightly.
• Adjutory, (Latin) helpful.
• Adle, (old word) empty, shallow.
• Admetus, a King of Thessalie, whose herds Apollo was said to keep nine years together, he was degraded of Divinity, for killing the Cyclops.
• To Administer, (Latin) to dispose, to guide, to do service.
• Administration (Latin) a Term in Law, the disposing of a mans goods or estate, that died intestate, or without any Will.
• Admirable, (Lat.) full of wonder.
• An Admiral, (French) a General at Sea.
• To Admit, (latin) to allow of.
• Admonition, (French) a giving warn∣ing.
• Adnihilation, (latin) a bringing or re∣ducing to nothing.
• Adolescency, (latin) the age of youth.
• Adolph or Hadulph, (Sax.) happy help, a proper name.
• Adon, or Adonai, an Hebrew word, signi∣fying, Lord, or God.
• Adonis, the son of Cinaras, & (King of Cyprus Myrrha) who hunting in the Italian woods, and being kill'd by the tusk of a Boar, was afterwards by Venus turned into a Flowr.
• Adoption (lat.) the choosing of him, into ones family and inheritance, who is not a natural son.
• Adorable (lat.) to be worship'd or ador'd, also being attributed to a mortal, it signifies worthy of all honour and respect. Artam.
• Adornation, (latin) decking, adorning.
• Adory, (Greek) ingloriousness, shame.
• Adruming, (old word) churlish.
• Adrastia, the daughter of Jupiter, and Necessity a sharp punisher of wickedness, otherwise called Nemesis, whom the Egy∣ptian Priests made to be Arbitress of all human affairs, and placed her above the Moon.
• Adrian, a proper name, see Hadrian.
• Adrian, or Adriatique, Sea, the Sea that parts Italie from Dalmatia.
• Advancement, (French) a raising or pro∣moting.
• Advantagious, in favour of another, Atra∣menes.
• Advectitions, (latin) that which may be brought from another place.
• Advent, (latin) an arriving, whence Advent-Sunday is that Sunday wherein

• there us'd to be a preparation in the Church for the approaching Feast, and all suites in Law were remitted for that time.
• Advenale, a Coat of defence, Chaucer.
• Adventitions, (latin) coming unexpected or by chance.
• Adventure, (French) chance, luck.
• Adverse, (latin) contrary, opposite,
• Adversant, Id.
• To Advertise (latin) to give advice.
• To Advesperate, (latin) to wax night.
• To Advigilate, (latin) to watch dili∣gently.
• Adulation, (latin) flattery.
• Adult, (latin) to come to ones, full ripe∣ess of age.
• To Adulterate, (latin) to corrupt.
• To Adumbrate, (latin) to shadow.
• Adumbration, signifies in Heraldrie a cleer exemption of the substance of the charge or thing born, in such sort that there re∣mains nothing thereof to be discovered, but the bare proportion of the outward lineaments. This is also call'd Transpa∣rencie.
• Aduncous or Adunque, (latin) hooked.
• Advocate, (latin) a Term in Law, he that defendeth another mans cause.
• Advouson, (French) signifieth in Common-law, a right, to present to a benefice.
• Adust, (latin) burnt, parch't.
• Adynamous, (Greek) weak, impo∣tent.

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• Aeacus, the son of Jupiter by Aegina, he was said to be so just, that, when he was dead, he was chosen one of the infernal Judges, with Minos and Rhadamanthus.
• Aedone, the Wife of Zethus the Brother of Amphion, she slew her son Itylus in the night thinking him to have been Amaneus the son of Amphion, but afterwards acknowledging her error, she desired to die, and was changed into a Thistle.
• Aeeta, the King of Colchos the son of Sol by Persa the daughter of Oceanus, he be∣gat Medea, Absyrtus, and Calciope, to him Phryxus brought the golden Fleece, which, with the help of Medea was won from him by Jason and the Argonaut's and he de∣posed from his Kingdom.
• Aega, a Nymph, the Daughter of Olenus and Nurse of Jupiter.
• Aegaeon the son of Titan and Terra, who at one lift threw a hundred Rocks against Jupiter, but being overcome, was bound by Neptune to a Rock in the Aegaean-Sea. Aegaeum, or the Agaeean-Sea is that Sea which is vulgarly call'd the Archipela∣go.
• Aegeus, the son of Neptune, King of Athens, who had by his Wife Aetha the daughter of Pitheus, a son named Theseus, the greatest Hero of that time, whom he thinking to have been slain when he returned from Crete threw himself into the Sea, and was by the Athenians made one of the Sea-Gods.
• Aegiale, the Wife of Diomed, who by rea∣son of her adultery with Cyllebarus, was forsaken of her Husband who after the war of Troy went into Italy.
• Aegilope, (Greek) a kind of disease in the eye call'd the lachrymal fistule.
• Aegina, the daughter of Aesopus King of Boeotia, whom Juriter injoy'd by turning himself into fire.
• Aegipanes, (Greek) certain wooddy Deities adored by the Ancients, having feet like Goates.
• Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes and Pelopeia his daughter, he slew Atreus by his fathers command, and afterwards kill'd Agamem∣non at a banquet, by the help of his Wife Clytemnestra.
• Aegle, one of the daughters of Hesperus, King of Italie, who with her sisters Arethusa and Hesperethusa possest most pleasant gardens in Africa, where there were golden apples, kept by a watchful Dragon whom Hercules, sent by Euristheus, slew, and took away the Apples.
• Aegles, the name of a great Wrastler who though he were born dumb, being once to enter into the combat, and seeing a great deceit in the lots, he, through a great desire of speaking, spake distinctly and so continued while he lived.
• Aegrimony or Aegritude (lat.) sickness of body or mind.
• Aegyptus, the son of Belus, the brother of Danais. He having fifty daughters, gave them in marriage to his brothers fifty sons, but they having receiv'd instructions from their father Danaus, each one killed their Husband, the first night of their mar∣riage, except Hypermnestra who saved her Husband Lynceus, who afterwards driving out Danaus, possest the Kingdome of Argos; also a famous Country of Lybia, once a great Kingdome, now a Province under the Turks dominion.
• Aeneas, the son of Anchises, and Venus, who after much wandring came to Latium, overcame Turnus, married Lavinia the daughter of Latinus, and reigned thir∣ty

• years after his Father-in-law's death.
• Aeneator, (lat.) a Trumpeter.
• Aenigmatical, (Greek) full of Aenigma's i. e. dark speeches or riddles.
• Aeolipile, a kind of Instrument called the Hermetical bellows, whereby it is experi∣mented whether there be a vacuum in na∣ture.
• Aeolus the son of Jupiter, and Sergeste who was called the God of the winds.
• Aepalius, a King who being restor'd by Hercules to his Kingdome, adopted Hyllus Hercules his elder Son into the succession of his Kingdome.
• Aequanimity, (lat.) equalness of spirit or temper.
• Aequator, a great circle or line encompas∣sing the Globe equally distant from the Two poles.
• Aequilateral, consisting of equal sides.
• Aequilibrity, (lat.) an equal poising or weighing.
• Aequiponderancy, (lat.) the same as Ae∣quilibrity.
• Aera, a Term in Chronologie signifying the beginning of a great Empire, or some remarkable event, from which peo∣ple compute the number of years, as the Jews reckn'd from Abraham's journey out of Chaldea, or from their deliverance out of Egypt, &c. the ancient Greeks from the first Olympiad, the Christians from the birth of Christ.
• Aerial, (lat.) belonging to the air.
• Aeromancy, (Greek) a foretelling of things, by some certain sign's in the air.
• Aeruginous (lat.) rusty, cancred.
• Aerumnous, (lat.) full of troubles and miseries.
• Aesacus, the son of Priamus, who being in love with a beautiful Virgin call'd Hes∣peria, never left following her in the Woods, but she flying from him was at length kill'd by the bite of a Serpent, he impatient of his loss threw himself from a high Rock into the Sea, where Thetis taking compassion on him, transform'd him into a Dive-dapper.
• Aesculapius, the son of Apollo and Coronis, he, being taught by Chiron the art of Phy∣sick, restor'd Hippolitus the son of Theseus to life, who, because the had refus'd the em∣braces of Phaedra his Mother-in-law, was by her meanes torn in pieces by wild Horses, but Jupiter was so incens't at this cure that he slew Aesculapius with a thunder∣bolt.
• Aesica, an ancient City of Cumberland (upon the River Esk) where the Tribune of the Austures in old time kept watch and ward against the Northern enemies.
• Aesia, a River in France now call'd Oyse.
• To Aestuate (lat.) to burn; to rage like the Sea.
• To Aestivate, (lat.) to keep ones summer in a place.
• Aethalis, the son of Mercurie to whom it was granted, that he should sometimes converse among the number of the dead.
• Aetherial, pertaining to the sky.
• Aethiopia, a large Country of Africa, first called Aetheria, afterward Aethiopia from Aethiops the son of Vulcan.
• Aethon, the name of one of the Horses of the Sun, also the name of a man so given to fart, that he could not abstain in the Capi∣toline Temple.
• Aethra, vide Hyades.
• Aetna, a Hill in Sicilie, that always casts up flames of fire.
• Aetolia, a Country in Greece bordering upon Epirus.

A F

• Affability (lat.) curtesie in speech.
• Affaire, (French) a business of impor∣tance.
• Affectation, (lat.) an overcurious imita∣tion.
• Affectionate, (lat.) bearing a good affecti∣on to any one.
• Affe••rours, (a Term in law) signifying those which are appointed in Court-leets upon Oath, to set Fines upon the heads of those that, have committed crimes punish∣able by vertue of that Court.
• Affiance (French) trust, confidence, also a betrothing.
• Affictious (lat.) dissembled, counterfeited.
• Affidavit, (a Term in law:) to make Af∣fidavit, is to testifie a thing upon Oath.
• Affinage, (French) a refining of metals.
• Affinitie, (lat.) likeness, also kindred by marriage.
• Affirmation (lat.) an absolute maintain∣ing or affirming.
• To Affix (lat.) to fasten unto.
• Affluence (lat.) plenty.
• Afflux, a flowing upon or a flowing together.
• To Afforrest (a Term in law) to lay waste a piece of ground and turn it into for∣rest.
• Affray, (French) fear, also tumult or as∣sault.
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• Affrication, (lat.) a rubbing against any thing.
• Affront (French) wrong, or abuse.
• Affrontednesse, impudence, shamelesnesse.
• Afgodnesse, (Sax.) impiety, ungodlinesse.
• Africa, the third part of the world, so called from Afer, who peopled it with an army, it being before called Libya.

A. G.

• AGa, a great Officer among the Turks, called the Captain of the Janizaries.
• Agamemnon, the son of Atreus and Euro∣pa, King of Argos and Mycenae, he was cho∣sen General of the Greeks in the Trojan expedition, and after he came home, slain by Aegystus at a banquet, vide Aegysthus.
• † Agamist, (Gr.) a despiser of marriage.
• Aganippe, a Fountain in Boeotia, sacred to Apollo, and the Muses.
• Agari••, a Samarian root, that helps conco∣ction, also a soft excrescence of the Larix, or larch tree.
• Agast, (old word) dismaid with fear.
• Agate, a precious stone formerly found in Ganges, a River of Lycia.
• Agatha, a Womans name, signifying in Greek good.
• Agathonian, lascivious, so called from A∣gatho, a minstrel full of ribaldry.
• Agathocles, a Tyrant of Sicily, whose fa∣ther was a Potter, he first gave himself to robbing, but afterwards by his stoutnesse and eloquence, he was advanced to the Kingdom, he made war with the Carthagi∣nians, but seeking to inlarge his Dominions, he was betrayed, and died for grief.
• Agave, the daughter of Cadmus and Her∣mione, she was married to Echion the Theban.
• Age, the measure of mans life, from his birth to his death, a man, by the Common-Law, is liable to answer for any misdemea∣nour, at the fourteenth year of his age, and to inherit at the 21^th.
• † Agelastic, (Greek) one that is perpe∣tually sad, one that never laugh's.
• Agemoglans, the Children of Christians, who while they are young, are seiz'd on by the Turkish Officers to be made Janizaries, or for some other service of the Grand Signior, the word in the Turkish language signifieth untaught.
• Agent, (Lat.) a Factor, or dealer for an other man.
• Agesilaus, a King of the Lacedemonians, who overthrew Tissap••ernes the Persian Ge∣neral, at the River Pactolus, and the Athe∣nians and Boeotians at Coronea; also a stout Athenian, and brother of Themistocles; he being judged to be sacrificed at the Altar of the Sun, for killing Mardonius, held his hand a good while in the fire without changing his countenance, and affirmed that all the Athenians were such as himself, whereupon he was set free.
• To Aggerate, (lat.) to heap up.
• To Agglomerate, (lat.) to rowl up toge∣ther.
• To Agglutinate, (lat.) to glue together.
• To Aggrandize, to make great, also to cry up, or augment the fame of any action.
• To Aggravate, (lat.) the same, also to burthen, also to make the worst of a thing in speaking of it.
• To Aggregate, (lat.) to assemble toge∣ther.
• Aggressour, (lat.) an assailer of another, a beginner of a businesse.
• Agility, (lat.) nimblenesse.
• An Agiler, a marker of men Chaucer.
• Agilt, (old word) committed.
• Aginatour, (lat.) a retailer of small wares from Agina, that whereon the beam of a pair of Balances hangeth.
• Agiographer, (Gr.) see Hagrographer.
• Agipe, (old word) a Coat full of plaites.
• Agis, a King of the Lacedemonians, who made cruel wars with the Athenians, and was at length killed in Prison by his own Countrey-men.
• Agist, (a Term in Common-law) signify∣ing to take in, and feed the Cattel of strangers in the K. Forrest, and to gather money due for the same, to the Kings use.
• Agitation, (lat.) a frequent motion, also a disturbance and inquietude of minde. Artamenes.
• Aglais, one of the Graces.
• Aglais, the Daughter of Magacles, she would dayly devour ten pound of flesh, half a peck of bread, and four Gallons of wine at a meal.
• Aglet, (French) the tag of a point, also a little plate of metal.
• Agnail, a sore between the finger, or toe, and the nail.
• Agnation, (lat.) kindred, or near relati∣on by the fathers side.
• Agnes, a womans name, signifying in Greek chaste.
• Agnition, (lat.) an acknowledging.
• Agnodice, a Virgin, who putting her self into mans apparel, grew famous in physick by the instruction of Herophilus.
• Agnomination, (lat.) a surname, a name wherewith a man is signalized for any fa∣mous act.
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• Agnus Castus, an Herb which preserveth chastity.
• Agonalia, (latin) feasts, in which there were great wrestlings, and other exercises of activity.
• Agony (Greek) anguish of minde.
• To Agonize, (Greek) to play the Cham∣pion.
• Agonothert (Greek) a Master of the Re∣vell's.
• Agramed (old word) aggrieved.
• The Agrarian law, a law made by the Romans for the distribution of lands among the common people.
• Agreeable, (French) suitable to a mans Genius, or Inclination.
• To Agredge, (old word) to aggravate.
• Agrestical (lat.) clownish, rude.
• Agriculture, (lat.) tillage, husbandry.
• Agrippa, one that is born with his feet formost, also the name of several Kings.
• Agrise, (old word) afraid, astonished.
• Agrose, (old word) grieved.
• Agroted, (old word) cloyed.
• To Agryse, (old word) to cause one to quake.

A. J.

• Ajax, the son of Telamon, and Hesione daughter of Laomedon, he was one of the stoutest of all the Greeks that went to the Trojan War, he fought with Hector, and had a contest with Vlisses, for the armes of Achilles, but Vlisses having gain'd them by his eloquence, Ajax run mad, and made a huge slaughter among a flock of sheep, thinking Vlisses and Atrides to have been among them, also the name of the son of Oileus King of the Locri, who for vitiating Cassandra in the Temple of Pallas, was slain with Thunder by the Goddesse, whose Priestesse she was.
• Aide, (French) help, also a subsidy, or tax.
• Aidoneus, King of the Molossi, he sent Theseus to prison, because he, and Pirithous would have taken away his daughter Pro∣serpina, not far from the River Acheron, which gave occasion to the fable, to say that he descended into Hell to fetch away Proserpina, the daughter of Dis.
• Ailesbury, a Town situate not far from the River Tame in Buckingamshire, it was won by Cutwulph the Saxon, in the year 572. and hath been famous in times past, by be∣ing the habitation of St. Edith, the daugh∣ter of Frewald.
• Ailesford, a Town in Kent, not far from the River Medway, it was heretofore named in the British tongue Saissenaeg-haibal, from the great overthrow that was given by Vortimer the Brittain, son of Vortigern to Hengist, and his English Saxons in this place.
• Aine, besides, one of the four Elements, it signifies a certain distinction in the Garb and countenance, between one person and another.
• Ayry, a nest of Hawks.
• Akmanchester, i. e. the City of Sick-folk, a name anciently given by the Saxons, to the Citie of Bath.

A. L.

• Alabandic, a kinde of a Rose with whi∣tish leaves.
• Alabandine, a kinde of blue, and red stone, provoking to bleed.
• Alabaster, a kinde of clear white Mar∣ble.
• Alacrity, (lat.) chearfulnesse.
• Alahab, (Arab.) the Scorpions heart.
• Alamae, (Arab.) the left foot of Andro∣meda.
• Alan, a proper name, signifying in Sla∣vonish a Greyhound, others contract it from Aelian, i. Sun-bright.
• Alastor, the name of one of the sunnes horses.
• Alata Castra, the Citie of Edenborough in Scotland.
• Alay, (a Term in hunting) when fresh Dogs are sent into the cry.
• Alazony, (Greek) vain-glory.
• Alba Julia, the Citie of Westenbergh in Germany.
• Alba, Regalis, a Citie in Hungary, now called Stolwistenbergh, where the Kings use to be Anointed, and Crowned.
• Albania, a Countrey between Illyricum and Macedonia, whose chief Citie is Dyr∣rachium, now called Durazzo, there is also another Albania in the East, between Chol∣cos and Armenia, from whence the people of the former Albania are said originally to spring; also the Kingdom of Scotland was in ancient times called Albania.
• Albanus, a River in Armenia, also a Lake in Italy, called Lago di Castel Gandolf, also the name of the first Brittish Martyr from the Lat. Albus, i. e. white.
• St. Albans, a Town in Hertfordshire, so called from the Brittish Martyr above men∣tioned, whereas formerly it was called Ve∣rulam.
• Albe, a white Garment, which the Priests were wont to wear.
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• Albeito, (Arab.) the mouth of the Swan.
• Albert, a Saxon proper name, signifying all bright.
• Albion, the ancient name of England, by reason of the white Rocks upon the Sea∣side, or from Albion the son of Neptune, or from Albina, one of Dioclesians 50 daugh∣ters.
• Albugineous, (lat.) belonging to the white of the eye, or to any other white sub∣stance.
• Albutius, the name of a very covetous man, who would beat his servants before they had committed a fault, telling them that perhaps he should not be at leasure, when they had committed any.
• Alcaic, verse, a certain kinde of verse, so called from Alcaeus the first Inventor, con∣sisting of two dactyls, and two trochees.
• Alcakengi, a winter Cherry.
• Alcander, a young Lacedemonian, who having put out one of Lycurgus his eyes, yet being intertained by him as his near servant loved him afterwards with a great deal of respect.
• Alcathous, the son of Pelops, who being suspected to have slain his brother Chrysip∣pus fled to Megara, where killing a Lion that had slain Euripus the son of Megareus, he was by Megareus made his son in law, and succeeded him in the Kingdom.
• Alceste, the wife of Adonetus King of Thes∣saly, who willingly offered her self up to die for her husband.
• Alchedi, (Arab.) a Star in the goat.
• Alchenit, (Arab.) a Star in the right side of Perseus.
• Alchobel, see Reception.
• Alchocodon, is an Arabian word, and signi∣fies the giver of years, and is plac't that he hath most essential dignity in the place of the Hyleg, and with some aspect doth behold that place.
• Alchorad, (Arab.) a contrariety of the light of the Planets.
• Alchimy, (Greek) the art of dissolving metals, to separate the pure from the im∣pure.
• Alcippus, vide Damocrita.
• A••cithoe, a Theban woman, who was turned into a Bat, for contemning Bacchus his Org••es.
• Alcmena, vide Amphytryo.
• Al••maeon, the son of Amphiaraus and Eri∣phite, he killed his mother for having be∣trayed Amphiaraus, and afterwards runne mad; but being cured by Phlegias, he mar∣ried his daughter Olphaestbae••, giving her a Bracelet of his mothers, but afterwards falling in love with one of Achetous his daughters, called Callirhoe, he promised her the Bracelet which he had given his former wife, on condition she would marry him, but going to fetch it, he was slain by Temon and Axion, Alphesibaeas bro∣thers.
• Alconor, one of the 300. Argires, who fought against the Lacedemonians, onely he, and Chromius being left alive, and all his enemies killed, excepting Othryades.
• Alcoran, (Arab.) the book wherein the Turkish religion is delivered, first written by Mahomet, the Turks great Prophet.
• Alcyon dayes, quiet times.
• Alcyone, the daughter of Nephtune, the wife of Ceyx, who sayling to the Oracle, was drown'd by the way, and chang'd into a bird, called a King-fisher.
• Alduas d••bis, a River dividing the Helve∣tians from the Sequani, called in French Leo doux.
• Aldborrow, see Isurium.
• Aldingham, a Town in Lancashire, an an∣cient Hereditament belonging to the fami∣ly of the Haveringtons, or Harringtons, un∣to whom it came from the Flemmings by the Cancefelds.
• Aldebaran, (Arab.) the south eye of the Bull.
• Alderanainim, (Arab.) the right shoulder of Cepheus.
• Alderanainim, vide Pap.
• Alectryomancy, (Greek) a certain kinde of divination among the ancients, which was done by a Cock.
• Alectorius, a precious stone of a wate∣rish colour, found in the maw of an old Capon.
• Alectryon, a young man, who kept the door, while Mars was familiar with Venus, but Mars incensed that he was taken through his negligence, changed him into a Cock.
• Alegement, (French) ease, releasment.
• Aleger, a Liquor made of sowr Ale.
• Alembick, (lat.) a Still.
• Alestake, (old word) a Maypole.
• Alexander, son of Philip, King of Mace∣don, he overthrew the Persian Monarchy, took Babylon Susa, and Persepolis, and after he had extended his Conquests as farre as India, he returned to Babylon, and there died, the word signifies in Greek helper of men.
• Alexandria, a Famous Port Town of E∣gypt.
• Alexipharmac, (Greek) a Medecine a∣gainst poyson.
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• Alferes, (Spanish) an Ensign bearer.
• Alfred, (a Saxon word) signifying all peace.
• Alfreton, q. Alfreds Town, a Town in Darbyshire, built by King Alfred, as some think, the Lords whereof were called Ba∣rons de Alfreton, the second of whom built the Abbay de Bello Capite, or Beauchief.
• Algareb, (Arab.) the Star in the right wing of the Crow.
• Algarfe, (Arab.) the head of the fifteenth mansion.
• Algate, (old word) if so be, notwith∣standing, altogether.
• Algates, (old word) ever, even now, for all that.
• Algebar, the left foot of Orion.
• Algebhe, (Arab.) the head of the tenth mansion.
• Algenib. (Arab.) the right wing of Pega∣sus.
• Algebra, a Syriac word, signifying the art of figurative numbers, or equation.
• Algid, (Lat.) num with cold, chill.
• Algomeissa, (Arab.) the little Dog.
• Algon, (Arab.) the head of Medusa.
• Algorithme, (a word compounded of A∣rabick and Spanish,) the art of reckoning by Cyphers.
• Algrim, (old word) the same as Algebra.
• Alguze, the left foot of Orion, an Ara∣bick word.
• Alhabar, (Arab.) a Star in the mouth of the great Dog.
• Alhibade, a rule on the back-side of a Geometrical instrument to take heights and depths.
• Alicante, one of the chief Towns of Va∣lentia in Spain, where there is plenty of Mulbery's, of which they make Alican•• wine.
• Alice, (Germ.) a womans name contra∣cted from Adelize, i. noble.
• Alienation, (Lat.) an estranging.
• Alifed, (Sax word) alowed.
• Aliment, (Lat.) nourishment.
• Alimony, (Lat.) a pension alowed for subsistance, from a husband to his wife, be∣ing parted from him.
• Alioth, (Arab.) a star in the tail of Helice, or the Bear.
• All-a-bone, (old word) a made request.
• Allaborate, (Lat.) to labour much about a thing.
• Allantoides, the tunicle that wraps, and covers the head, buttocks feet, and more eminent parts of the birth.
• Allabanny, the same as Albany, that part of Scotland, called the Highlands, so called either from Albion, or from the Brittish words, Ellan Ban, i. white Island.
• Allay, a mitigation, or asswaging al∣so the tempering of gold, or silver, with a baser metal to augment the weight of it.
• Allective, (Lat.) alluring, inciting.
• Allegation, (Lat.) a proving, an allea∣ging.
• Allegory, (Greek) a mysterious saying, wherein there is couched something that is different from the litteral sense.
• Alleluja, (an Hebrew word) signifying, praise ye our Lord, also the name of an Herb, called Wood-sorrel.
• An Alley (French) a narrow passage.
• All-good, a pot Herb, otherwise called good Henry.
• All-heal, an Herb, otherwise called clowns woundwort.
• Alliance, (French) an association, either by kindred, or by Covenant.
• † Alliency, (Lat.) an inticing unto.
• Alligation, (Lat.) a binding unto.
• Allington, a Town in Hamtshire, scituate upon the River Avon, anciently called Al∣laun.
• Allision, (Latin) a dashing against any thing.
• Alliteration, (lat.) a word used in Rhe∣torick, being a playing upon the same Let∣ter.
• Allobroges, the people of Savoy, and Dau∣phine in France.
• Allocamel, (Greek) a beast in the Indies, having the head of a Mule, and the body of a Camel.
• † Allocation, (lat.) a placing towards.
• Allocations, the allowances of Officers under a Prince, or great man.
• Alloquie, (lat.) a talking unto, or parlying with any one.
• Allodial, lands (a Term in law) free lands for which no fines, or services are due.
• Allome, a kinde of mineral, being a salt sweat of the earth.
• Allot, to assign to every one his proper patrimony.
• Allusion, (lat.) a speaking in reference to another thing.
• An Almain, a German, also (a Term in Musick) being a kinde of aire, which hath a slower time then either Corant, or Sara∣band, also Alma•• Rivets are a certain kinde of Armour rivetted with braces of mail.
• Almanack, (a German word) signifying as much as Calender, or a Prognostication by observing the course of the stars.
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• Almaner, (Arab.) the ••ight of a Planet in his Epicycle.
• Almantica, (Arab.) see Zodiack.
• Alma••zor, (Arab.) Defender, it being the name of divers Princes, and great men among the Moors.
• Almicantarats, (Arab.) a Term in A∣stronomy, being those lines which passe through the Meridian paralel with the Ho∣rizon.
• Almner, a Kings, or Princes Officer that looks to the distribution of Alms, or frag∣ments of meat to the poor.
• Almond, a certain kinde of Thracian Nut so called.
• Almugia, (Arab.) the scituation of Pla∣nets in the Zodiack, so as to behold each other face to face.
• Almuten, of a house, is that Planet, which hath most dignities in the signe ascending, or descending from the Cusp of any house, but Almuton of a figure is that Planet, which in essential dignities, or accidental is most powerfull in the whole Scheme of Heaven.
• Alnath, (Astronomick) a star which is to be seen in the Horns of Aries.
• Alnewick, a Town in Northumberland, scituate upon the River Alne, famous for a battel between William King of Scots, and the English under Henry the second, it is fortified with a strong Castle, where Mal∣colm the third was slain when he besieged it, it is also called Alanwick and Anwick.
• Aloes, Sea Housleek, Bitterwort, an Herb whose juyce congeals in a Gum very pro∣fitable in Physick, also a Wood called Lig∣num vitae-Aloe, Zocatrina, is that which is brought out of the Island Zocatara.
• Alogie, (Greek) a being irrational, or void of reason.
• Alopecie, (Greek) a disease called the Scurf, or Foxes evil, wherein the hairs fall off from the head by the roots.
• Alosha, a certain drink made of water and hony, much used in Spain in hot wea∣ther.
• Alpha, the first of the Greek letters.
• Alphabet, the order of letters, A.B.C.
• Alpharaiz (Arab.) the right shoulder of Pegasus.
• Alpharez, (Arab.) the navel of Pegasus.
• Alpheta, (Arab.) the shining star of the Crow.
• Alpheus, a famous River of Arcadia, which running a great way into the Sea, meets at length with Arethusa, a River in Sicilie, nearunto Siracuse.
• Alphitomancie, (Greek) a divination by tarly meal.
• Alphonsus, from the Gottish word Hel∣phuns, i. our help, the name of divers great Kings of Spain and Naples.
• Alphonsin-Tables, certain Astronomical calculations invented by Alphonsus King of Aragon.
• Alphrad, the bright star in Hydra.
• Alps, great Hills that divide France from Italy.
• Alrameck, (Arab.) a star in the constel∣lation of Bootes.
• Aliacaba, (Arab.) the Pole-star, or the tayl of cynosure.
• Alresford, a Town in Hantshire; given by Kinew••lce the religious Saxon King to the Church at Wenta.
• Alteration, (lat.) a changing.
• Altercation, (lat.) a contentious dispute.
• Alternation, (lat.) a changing by turns.
• Althaea, see Meleager.
• † Altiloquent, (lat.) speaking loftily.
• † Attitonant, (lat.) an Epithet anciently given to Jupiter, and signifies thundring from on high.
• Altitude, (lat.) heighth, also a Term in Astronomy, being the heigth of the sun, or any of the stars from the Horizon.
• † Altivolant, (lat.) soaring, or flying a∣loft.
• Alveary, (lat.) a Hive of Bees.
• Alvea••ed, (lat.) channelled, or trenched from Alveus, a channel.
• Alume, a certain astringent mineral, some∣what whitish and transparent.
• Alumnation, (lat.) a fostering, or nou∣rishing.
• † Alutation, (lat.) a tanning, or dressing of leather.
• Alytarch, (Greek) a keeper of rule and order in publick Games and Ceremonies.

A. M.

• Amayne, a Term used by men of War in∣countring another ship, and bidding them yield.
• Amalgaminge, an old word used by Chaucer, signifying a mixture of Quick∣silver, with other metals.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉, the Nurse of Jupiter, she fed him with Goats milk, and he afterwards as a reward gave her the horn of a Goat, which had this faculty, that whatsoever she desired she should have it, whence Amal∣thean horn hath been taken for an embleme of plenty.
• Amand, (lat.) to send one away.
• Amanuensis, (lat.) a secretary, one that writes for another.
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• Amaritude, (Lat.) bitternesse.
• Amassement, (French) a crouding, or heaping of several things together.
• Amate, to discourage.
• Amazons, certain warlike women of Asia, that dwelt near the River Thermodoon, who burnt off their right paps, and killed all their Male Children, that they might have no man among them, their most renowned Queens were Mathesia, Orithya, Penthesilea, whom Achilles slew, coming to help the Trojans, Menalippe and Hippolyta, whom Hercules overcame, and gave Theseus to wife.
• Ambacti, among the ancient Gauls, were those servants and dependants, which be∣longed to their chief Nobility.
• Ambage, (Lat.) a far-fetch't circum∣stance of words.
• Amber, a hard yellow Gum, of which they make beads and bracelets, some think it to be the Gum of Poplar Trees, others the juyce of a certain stone that grows like Corral.
• Ambergreece, a sweet perfume, or Aro∣matick juyce, which some hold to be a kinde of bitumen, rising from Fountains in the bottom of the Sea, and becoming hard by floating upon the water.
• Amb••anum, the Citie of Amiens in Pi∣cardie.
• Ambidexter, (Lat.) one that useth both hands alike, also (a Term in Common-law) signifying a Juror that taketh of both par∣ties for the giving of his verdict.
• Ambient, (Lat.) encircling, compassing round, an Epithete properly belonging to the aire.
• Ambifarious, (Lat.) that which hath a twofold meaning.
• Ambiguous, (Lat.) uncertain, doubtfull.
• † Ambilogy, (Lat.) an obscure saying, a dark speech.
• Ambition, (Lat.) an excessive thirst of honour.
• Amblothridium, a Medicine provoking travel before the time.
• Amblygone, (Greek) a Term in Geome∣try, signifying a figure that hath a blunt, or obtuse angle.
• Ambracia, a Citie of Epirus, vulgarly cal∣led Lacta.
• Ambresbury, q. Ambrose, his Town, a Town scituate upon the River Avon in Wiltshire, built by Ambrose Aurelian, here Alfritha King Edgars wife erected a stately Nunne∣ry to expiate the murther of her son in Law King Edward, in this Nunnery after∣wards Eleanor widow of K. Henry the third, devoted her self to God.
• An Ambrey, a cup-board.
• Ambrose, the name of an ancient Bishop of Milain, and one of the fathers, the word signifieth in Greek Divine, or immortal.
• Ambrosia, an Herb called Artimisia, Wood sage, it is a word often used by the Poets to signifie the meat of the Gods.
• Ambulatory, (Lat.) a place to walk in.
• Amburbial, sacrifices were certain, ancient sacrifices wherein the beast went about the Citie before he was sacrificed.
• Ambuscado, (Spanish) an ambush, or men secretly so disposed as to rush out upon an enemy unawares.
• Ambustion, (Lat.) a singing, or burning round about.
• Amen, (a Syriack word) signifying▪ ve∣rily, or so be it, and therefore it is used af∣ter every prayer.
• Amenity, (Lat.) delightfulnesse, pleasure.
• Amenused, (old word) diminish't.
• Amercement▪ or Amerciament, (a Term in Law) a penalty, or pecuniary punish∣ment set upon the head of an Offender a∣gainst the King, or Lord in his Court.
• America, the fourth part of the world discovered about the year 1492. by Ame∣ricus Vesputius, a Florentine and Christopho∣rus Columbus; a Genoese.
• Amery, in (Lat.) Almaricus, a proper name, from the German word Emeric. i. al∣wayes rich and powerfull.
• An Amesse, a Priests hood, or Cap, which he weareth in the Quire.
• Amethyst, (Gr.) a precious stone, so cal∣led, because it is said to represse drunkness.
• Amiable, (Lat.) lovely.
• Amicable, (Lat.) friendly.
• Amict, see Amesse.
• Amy, in (Fr.) Aime, i. beloved, a name common, both for man and women from Amadeus, by which name many of the Dukes of Savoy have been called.
• Amission, (Lat.) losse.
• Ammodite, a creeping insect of a sandy colour, and full of black spots.
• Ammoniac, a kinde of Gum, which is brought from Lybia, near the Temple of Ammon, also a kinde of Salt like Allum, which is found in Africa.
• Amnesty, (Greek) a burying in silence, and Oblivion, all former injuries and dam∣mages.
• Amnios, the second Tunicle that enwraps the birth, and covers it all over.
• Amoebean, (Greek) Amoebean verses are those which answer one another.
• Amorist, a lover, an amorous man.
• Amoroso, (Ital.) the same.
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• Amort, (French) dead, whence, one that is melancholy, or in a dumps, is said to be all Amort.
• Amortize, to kill, a word used by Chau∣cer.
• Amotion, (Lat.) a removing out of the way.
• Ampelite, a kinde of pitchy, cleaving, and black earth, wherewith they use to anoint Vines to kill the worms.
• Ampelusia, a promontory in Mauritania.
• Amphiaraus, the son of Oileus, he was a great Prophet, who was desired by Adra∣stus, to go to the War of Thebes, but he knowing he should not return, kept himself private, till being betrayed by his wife Eri∣phile, who was bribed with a golden brace∣let, he was forced to go, but the first day he came to Thebes, he was swallowed up alive by the earth.
• Amphibious, (Greek) living indifferently upon both Elements, land and water.
• Amphibologie, (Greek) see Amphilogie.
• Amphictions, (Greek) the Councel of Greece, consisting of men chosen out of the twelve chief Cities, for the making of laws, and deciding of all controversies: It was instituted by Amphyction the son of Hellen, or as others say by Acrisius.
• Amphion, the son of Jupiter and Ant••ope, who being married to Lycus, and after vi∣tiated by Epaphus, was imprisoned by Dirce Lycus's 2. wife, but being set at liberty by Jupiter, she fled to the Hill Cytheron, where she brought forth Twins, Zethus and Am∣phion, who to revenge their mothers inju∣ries, tormented Dirce by tying her to a wilde Bull's tale, but Bacchus pitying her, changed her to a Fountain, Amphion be∣came so rare a Musician, that he was said to build the Theban Walls, by playing upon Mercuries Harp.
• Amphiscians, (Greek) those people that live under the Equator, where the shadow's are cast both wayes, North and South.
• Amphitheater, a place made for the act∣ing of stage-playes, and publick spectacles differing from a common Theater, as being more perfect, and built in a full circle, the other onely in a semicircle.
• Amphitrite, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, the wife of Neptune, she sitting at the foot of Atlas, was brought to him by a Dolphin, and made Queen of the Sea.
• Amphitryo, the son of Alceus Prince of Thebes, who married Alcmena, daughter of Electryon and Lysidice, upon that condition that he should revenge the death of her brothers upon the Teleboans and Taphians, but while he was in the War, Jupiter co∣ming to her in the likenesse of her hus∣band, and lying with her, she brought forth Twins, Hercules son to Jupiter, Iphiclus to Amphitryo.
• Amphiction, a King of Athens, the son of Deucalion, he succeeded Cranaus in the Kingdom.
• Amphora, an ancient measure of liquid things, the Italick Amphora contained five Gallons, the Attick Amphora seven Gallons and a half.
• Ampliation, (Lat.) an enlargement, also a deferring of judgement, till the cause be better examined, a word used in Common-law.
• Amplification, (Lat.) a making large, or amplifying.
• Amplitude, (Lat.) largenesse, also a Ti∣tle of Honour used among the Latins.
• Ampullous, (Lat.) swelling like a bottle also puft up with pride.
• Amputation, (Lat.) a curtailing, a lop∣ping off.
• Amsanctus, a place in the midst of Italy, where are many waters full of Brimstone, which send forth a pestilent and noisome smell, and are inclosed round about with Woods, which gave occasion to the Poets to faign that the infernal Ghosts had their abode there.
• Amstelodamum, the chief Citie of Hol∣land, now called Amsterdam.
• Amulet, (Lat.) a kinde of composition somewhat like a Pomander to wear about one, which preserveth from the plague, poyson, or inchantment.
• Amulius, King of the Latin's, he disposest his brother Numitor of the Kingdom, and made a Vestal of his Neece Rhea Silvia, but she being got with Childe by Mars (as it was reported) brought forth Romulus and Remus, who afterwards reigned.
• Amycus King of the ••ebrycii, the son of Neptune and Melie, who challenging all strangers to fight with him with whirlebats, was at length slain by Pollux.
• Amymone, one of the fifty daughters of Danae, she was ravish't by Neptune, and brought forth Nauplius.
• Amyris, an inhabitant of Sybaris, who foretelling the ruine of his Countrey fled away with all his goods.

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• Ana, a Greek adverb, used by Physiti∣ans in their bills to signifie the like quanti∣ty of each, also a kind of Indian beasts with long teeth, and sharp nails.
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• Anabaptists, a Sect of Hereticks first be∣gun in Germany, as some say, by one Nicho∣las Stork, in the year 1521. their chief Te∣net is that men ought not be baptized, till they are able to render an account of their faith.
• † Anabathrum, (Greek) a place where∣unto we ascend by steps.
• Anacardium, (Greek) a kinde of bean growing in Malaga.
• Anachorite, (Greek) a kinde of religious person that gives himself up to a religious life.
• Anacreon, a famous Lyrick Poet of Teus in Jonia, who was choaked with the husk of a raison.
• † Anacrisis, (Greek) question of the guilty, either by torment, or by interro∣gation.
• Anachronisme, (Greek) a word used in Chronology, signifying a false collection of time.
• Anadem, (Greek) a Garland.
• Anadesme, (Greek) a swath, a cloath, to tie up wounds.
• Anadiplosis, (Greek) a figure in Rheto∣rick, i. e. when one verse begins with the same word the last ended with.
• Anaetis, a Goddesse among the Lydians, to whom the chiefest Noble men used to Dedicate their daughters.
• Anaglyphick (Greek) belonging to the art of Carving, or Embossing.
• Anagnostick, (Greek) a Curate, or one that serveth to read to another.
• † Anagogical, (Greek) skilled in deep matters, well read in mysterious learning.
• Anagram, (Greek) a transposing the let∣ters of any ones name, so as to make ano∣ther word of it, which art some say was in∣vented by Lycophron.
• Anagraph, (Greek) a register, an inven∣tory.
• Analects, (Greek) scraps, which are ga∣thered from the Table, also Metaphorical∣ly taken for any collections.
• Analemme, (Greek) a Mathematical in∣strument to finde out the course, or eleva∣tion of the Sun, or any Planet.
• Analogisme, (Greek) a logical argument from the cause to the effect.
• Analogie, (Greek) proportion, corres∣pondence.
• Analysis, (Greek) a resolution of doubt∣full matters, also a distribution of the whole into parts.
• Ananias, (Hebr.) the grace of the Lord a proper name.
• Anapaest, (Greek) a foot in a verse, con∣sisting of two short syllables and one long.
• Anaphora, (a Rhetorical figure) being a repetition of the same sound, in the begin∣ning of several sentences, or verses, also the ascention of the signs, from the East by the dayly course of the firmament.
• Anapologetical, (Greek) having no ex∣cuse, without any Apology.
• Anarchy, (Greek) a disorder in govern∣ment, a being without rule, or Prince.
• Anarand, a Brittish proper name, corrup∣ted from Honoratus, i. e. Honourable.
• Anaretas, see Interfector.
• Anathema, (Greek) with e short, is a person solemnly curs't, or devoted to de∣struction.
• Anathema, (Gr.) that which is offered to an Idol.
• Anatocisme, (Greek) the yearly receipt of usury, when at the years end the use is become principal.
• Anatomy, (Greek) the dissection of a body, for the more exact discovery of all the inward parts.
• Anaxarete, a beautifull Virgin of Sala∣mis, who disdaining the love of Iphis, was the cause that he hang'd himself before the her door, and was afterwards, for her hard heartednesse turned into a stone.
• Anaximander, a great Milesian Philoso∣pher, the Successour of Thales.
• Ancoeus, the son of Neptune, he being much given to Agriculture, and going to drive a wilde Boar out of a Vineyard he had planted, was slain by the Boar.
• Ancaster, a Town, or long street in Lin∣colnshire, by Antoninus called Crocolana, in which the memory of Antiquity is conti∣nued by the Roman Coines, and Vaults under ground oftentimes discovered.
• Anchises, the son of Capys, he was carried by his son Aeneas from the sack of Troy▪ but died in his journy toward Italy.
• Anchoret, see Anachorite.
• Anchurus, the son of Midas, he after Mi∣das was warned by the Oracle to throw what he had most precious into a great gap of the earth, about Celenon in Phrygia, & had thrown in his gold in vain, her rode into the Abysse, which had swallowed many men, and afterwards it closed up.
• Ancus Martius, the fourth King of the Romans.
• Ancil, (Lat.) a kinde of sheild, or buck∣ler, made after the fashion of a decrescent Moon, the first of this form was reported to fall from heaven into the hands of Pom∣pilius, Numa, in the time of a great plague, who by the instinct of the Goddesse Ege∣ria

• caused eleven more to be made, and committed them to the keeping of the 12. Salii.
• Ancona, the chief Citie of Picenum in I∣taly, first built by the Sicilians.
• Andalusia, a Countrey in Spain, first cal∣led Baetica.
• Andradswald, a Wood in Sussex, aciently 120 miles in length, memorable for the death of Sigebert, King of the West Saxons, who having been deposed, was stabbed in this place by a Swinheard.
• Andrago, (Lat.) a woman of manly coun∣tenance and carriage.
• Andrastes, or Andate, a certain Goddesse worshipt by the ancient Brittains, as the Goddesse of victory.
• Andrew, (Greek) a proper name, signi∣fying manly.
• Androdamant, (Greek) a kinde of pre∣cious stone.
• Androgyne, (Greek) one of both Sexes, one that is both man and woman.
• Andromache, wife to Hector, she was af∣ter his death married to Helenus the Pro∣phet and son of Priam.
• Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus King of Aethiopia, she was for her pride exposed to the cruelty of a Sea-monster, but deli∣vered by Perseus.
• Androna, (Greek) a place that was an∣ciently made in ships, onely for men to be in.
• Anelate, a kind of a wood knife.
• Anemone, (Greek) a kind of flower, cal∣led a wind flower.
• Anfractuosity, (Lat.) an intricate turning and winding.
• Angel, in gold, is a piece of Coyn that hath an Angel stamp't upon it, and beares the value of 10 shillings.
• Angelica, an Herb so called.
• Angelical, (Greek) belonging to an An∣gel, i. a messenger, the Angels are also ta∣ken in holy Scripture for those immortal spirits, which wait upon Almighty God in the highest heavens, they are divided by Saint Paul, into nine several orders, Sera∣phim, Cherubim, Thrones, Dominations, Virtues, Powers, Principates, Arch-Angel, and Angel.
• Angelot, (French) a kind of small Cheese commonly made in France.
• Angle, a corner, also a Term in Geome∣try, being the concurse of two lines meet∣ing together, so as that they do not make one line.
• Angles, also are the most powerfull hou∣ses; for a Planet therein hath more power, and efficacy then another (in any other house) that is but equally dignified. The Angles are these, viz. The first house, or the East Angle, the tenth, or the South Angle, the seventh house, or the West Angle, and the fourth, or the North An∣gle.
• Anglia, a part of great Brittain, now cal∣led England.
• Anglesey, an Island lying over against Caernarvon in Wales, it was anciently the seat of the Druides, and was called by the Brittains, Ynis Dowil, and the land of Mon, in Latin Mona. It was first attempted by Paulinus Swetonius, and afterwards brought under the Roman Empire by Julius Agrico∣la, many ages after it was Conquered by the English-men, and thence derived this name as it were the English-mens Island.
• Anguineous, (Latin) pertaining to a snake.
• Anguish, (Latin Anguor, French An∣goisse) grief, agony.
• Angular, (Lat.) full of Angles, or Cor∣ners.
• Angus, a County in the South-part of Scotland, called in Latin Angusia, anciently Aenia.
• Angust, (Lat.) narrow.
• Anhelation, (lat.) a difficulty in fetching ones breath.
• Anility, (lat.) feminine old age.
• Animadversion, (lat.) a lending ones at∣tention, as it were a turning ones mind that way, also a correcting.
• Animal, (lat.) a creature indued with life and sence.
• Animalillio, (Spanish) a little animal.
• Animosity, (lat.) stoutnesse, stomack, will∣fulnesse.
• Anlace, (old word) a dudgeon, a half dagger.
• Annals, (lat.) Histories of passages acted from year to year.
• Annandale, a County in the North part of Scotland, so called as it were the Vale by the River Anan, it was in old time in∣habited by a people called Selgovae.
• Annarian law, a law among the Romans, concerning the age, wherein a man might sue for, or exercise any publick Office.
• Annates, (lat.) first fruits paid out of spiritual benefices.
• Anne, (Hebr.) the proper name of a wo∣man, signifying gracious, full of mercy.
• Anneal, to paint upon glasse.
• Annexation, the uniting of lands, or other Rents of the Crown.
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• Anselm, (Germ.) defence of Authority, a proper name.
• Annibal, a great Captain of the Cartha∣ginians, and the son of Amilcar, he over∣threw Sempronius at Trebia, Flaminius at the Lake Thrasymene, and Paulus Aemylius, at Cannae, he was beaten by Marcellus, and af∣terwards at Zama, by Scipio Africanus, at last flying to Prusia, King of Bythinia, he there poysoned himself.
• Annihilation, (latin) a reducing to no∣thing.
• Anniversary, (lat.) down yearly, at a cer∣tain time, or celebrated every year.
• Annon, a Carthagian that coveted to be a God, and taught birds to sing Annon is a God.
• Anodynous, as much as to say pain-easing or without pain. Anodynous Medicaments are such as are appropriated to give ease by stupifying the sences, such are Soporifics, and Narcotics.
• Annotation, (lat.) a nothing, or marking, an Exposition upon any writing.
• Annoy, to trouble, hurt.
• Annueler, (old word) secular.
• Annuity, (lat.) a yearly Pension; in Com∣mon-law, the difference between Annuity and Rent, is this, that Rent is payable out of land; Annuity charges onely the person of the Grantor.
• Annul, (lat.) to make void, q. annihil.
• Annulet, (lat.) a little Ring, or any thing made in the form of a Ring.
• Annunciation, (lat.) a telling, or decla∣ring a thing, as it were a doing, a message unto, also the day of the Virgin Marie, which falls on the 25^th. of March.
• Anoysance, or Nusance, (French) a hurt, or damage in law, it signifieth a trespasse upon a Neighbours ground, by stopping up his water, or hindring his light.
• Anomalous, (Greek) unequal, uneven.
• Anonymous, (Greek) namelesse, without a name.
• Anopsie, (Greek) privation of sight.
• Anorexy, (Greek) one of the Symptomes of the stomack, being a want of appetite.
• Antaeus, the son of Neptune and Terra, who fighting with Hercules recovered strength as often as he touch't his mothers earth, but at length Hercules holding him up from the ground killed him.
• Antagonist, (Greek) an adversary.
• Antalope, a Syrian Heart, swift of foot, and having long Horns.
• Antarctick, (Greek) a word used in A∣stronomy, the Antarctick Pole, being the Southern Pole, so called, because it is con∣trary to the Arctick Pole, & the Antarctick Circle, contrary to the Arctick Circle.
• Antares, (Arab.) the Scorpions heart, a Term in Astrology.
• Anteacts, (lat.) deeds, or actions done in times past.
• Anteambulation, (lat.) a walking before.
• Antecedaneous, (lat.) foregoing.
• Antecedent, (latin) the same also excel∣ling, having a relative, also a Term in Lo∣gick, the first proposition of a Syllo∣gisme.
• Antecessours Forefathers, Acestors, as it were, Foregoers.
• Antecursor, (lat.) a forerunner.
• Antedate, to date a Letter before the time.
• Antedeluvian, (lat.) being before the floud.
• Anteloquie, (lat.) a Preface, also a Term among stage players, signifying their turn, or cue.
• Antemeridian hour, (lat.) hour before-noon.
• Antenor, a Trojan Prince, who coming into Italy with the Heneti, and Paphlagones built Antenorea, since called Padua.
• Anteoccupation, (lat.) see praeoccupation.
• Anteri••r, (lat.) foremost, on the fore∣side.
• Antevene, (lat.) to prevent, to come be∣fore.
• Anthem, (Greek) a Divine song, where∣in each verse is sung by Church-men in their courses.
• Anthologie, (Greek) a treating of flowrs, also a florid discourse.
• Anthony, the proper name of a man, signi∣fying in Greek flourishing.
• Anthropomorphites, (Greek) a Sect of He∣reticks that began in Aegypt, in the year 395. their chief Tenet was, that God had a Corporeal shape.
• Anthropopathy, (Greek) a being indued with the passions, or affections of men.
• Anthropophagi, (Greek) men eaters.
• Antiaxiomatisme, (Greek) that, which is against any known Axiome.
• Antichrist, (Greek) an opposer of Christ.
• Antichthones, (Greek) a people that dwell on that part of the earth, which is opposite to ours, going with their feet directly a∣gainst ours.
• Anticipated, (lat.) prevented.
• Anticlea, the daughter of Diocles, who being defloured by Sisyphus, brought forth Vlysses.
• Antidicomarians, a sort of Hereticks that were against the Virgin Mary.
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• Antidote, (Greek) a Medicine given to preserve one against poyson, or infection.
• Antigonus, one of Alexanders Captains, who afterwards became possessour of Asia.
• † Antigraph, (Greek) a Copy, a Coun∣terpane.
• Antike work, a Term in painting, or Car∣ving, it being a disorderly mixture of di∣vers shapes of men, birds, flowr's, &c.
• Antilogie, (Greek) a contradicting, or opposing.
• Antimony, a certain kinde of stone incli∣ning towards silver, and found in silver Mines.
• Antinomians, (Greek) a Sect of people that hold legal▪ services to be unprofitable, and that God sees no sin in children, this Sect was begun somewhat above a hundred years ago, by one John Islebius a German.
• Antioeci, those that dwell under half of the Meridian, and paralels of a like distance from the Aequator, but the one North-ward, and the other South-ward.
• Antipagments, (lat.) garnishings in Posts or Doors wrought in Stone, or Timber.
• Antipast, the first dish that is served up at a meal.
• Antipathy, (Greek) a secret contrariety in nature, a contrariety of humours and in∣clinations.
• Antiperistasis, (Greek) a philosophical word, signifying the strengthning, and op∣posing of any quality against its contrary, as of cold against heat, or the like.
• Antiphrasis, (Greek) a figurative speech, having a contrary meaning.
• Antiphone, (Greek) see Anthem.
• Antipilanes, or Antepilani, (Lat.) a sort of Souldiers in the fore part of the Roman Army.
• Antipodes, (Greek) see Antichthones.
• Antiquate, (Lat.) to abolish, to abrogate.
• Antique, (Lat.) old, out of fashion.
• Antisabbatarians, a sort of Hereticks, who deny the Sabbath.
• Antiscions, are degrees beholding one an∣other equally distant from the two Tro∣picks, and so much as a Planet shall want of either of the Tropicks, so much on the other side the Tropick shall the Antiscion of the Planet fall, and shall give virtue to any Star, or Planet that is in the same de∣gree, or casteth any Aspect thereto.
• Antistrophe, (Greek) a Rhetorical figure, namely when several Members of a sentence end all with the same word.
• Antithesis, (Greek) a figure in Rheto∣rick, wherein one letter, or word is put for another.
• Antithesis, (Greek) things opposed.
• Antitrinitarians, a Sect of Hereticks, which deny the Trinity, which compre∣hend under them, the Arians, Sabellians, and others.
• Antitype, (Greek) an example like to the pattern.
• Antivestaeum, the utmost promontory of Brittain, lying upon the Western Ocean, it hath been called in former times by the Brittish Bards Penring••aed, the Promontory of bloud, by the Welsh Historians Penwith, i. the Promontory on the left hand.
• Antonians, an order of religious men, in∣stituted by Saint Anthony, an Aegyptian Monk, in the year 1324.
• Antonomasia, (Greek) a Rhetorical fi∣gure, wherein instead of a proper name, another name is put.
• Antrim, the name of a County in Ire∣land.
• Antwerp, a famous Citie in Brabant, which was pull'd down by the Duke of Alva, but restored again by the the Duke of Parma.
• Anubis, a Heathen God, whom the Aegyp∣tians worshipped for Mercurie in the shape of a Dog.
• Anweald, (Sax.) Authority.
• Anxiety, (Lat.) vexation, anguish, grief.
• Anyger, a River of Thessaly, where the Centaures washed their wounds after they had been wounded by Hercules, which cau∣sed the waters ever after to have an ill taste.

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• Aonia, a part of Boeotia, where the Muses Well is, whence the Muses are called Aonides.
• Aorist, (Greek) indefinite, also among the Greek Verbs there are two tenses Aori∣stus primus, and Aoristus secundus.
• Aornus, a Lake in Italy, near the River Po, whose waters are infected with a deadly noysomnesse: into this Lake, the Poets feign that Phaeton fell being struck with thun∣der, and that his sisters weeping for him were changed into poplars dropping Am∣ber.

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• Apamia, a Town of Bythinia, so called by Nicomed, the son of Prusia.
• Apatny, (Greek) freenesse from passion, or affection.
• Apelby, a Town in Westmorland, ancient∣ly called Abballaba, memorable for its plea∣sant scituation upon the River Eden, and for its Antiquity, the Aurelian Maures

• keeping their station there in the time of the Romans.
• Apelles, a famous painter of the Island Cous, who having the picture of Venus un∣finish't, no man durst undertake it after him.
• Apennage, (French) a Childes portion, the Law of Apennages in France, is that, which forbids the Kings younger sons to have partage with the Elder.
• Apennine, a great Hill running through the midst of Italy.
• †Apepsie, (Greek) incoction, crudity of the stomack.
• Aphaeresis (Greek) the taking away of a letter from the beginning of a word.
• Aphelium, a point wherein the Sun, or any other Planet is most distant from the Earth.
• Aphetical, (Astrological Term) belonging to the Planet, that is disposer of life in a Nativity.
• Aphorisme, (Greek) a brief select sen∣tence, expressing the property of a thing.
• Aphrodite, (Greek) the name of Venus, as being ingendred of the froth of the Sea.
• Apina, and Trica, two Towns of Apulia destroyed by Diomed, with so much igno∣miny, that they became a proverb of con∣tempt.
• Apis, King of Argos, the son of Jupiter, and Niobe, he was otherwise called Osiris, and took to wife Isis, leaving the Kingdom of Achaia to Aegialeus, he went into Aegypt, and civilizing the people reign'd there.
• Apocalyps, (Greek) a revelation, or un∣folding of a dark mystery, a title given to the last book of the holy Scriptures, written by St. John in the Isle of Patmos.
• Apocryphal, (Greek) doubted of, whose original is unknown.
• Apodictical, (Greek) demonstrable, easie to be made plain.
• Apogaeum, (Greek) a Term in Astrono∣my, being that point of Heaven, where the Sun, or any Planet is farthest from the Cen∣ter of the earth.
• Apograph, (Greek) a Copy taken from another pattern.
• Apollo, the son of Jupiter and Latona, born in Delos, at one birth with Diana, co∣ming to age, he slew the Serpent Pytho, and afterwards the Cyclops, for which he was deprived of his Divinity, and kept the sheep of Admetus, King of Thessaly, upon the banks of Amphrysus, he loved Daphne, who flying from him was turned into a Lawrel-Tree, also he loved Hyacynthus, a boy of a rare feature, whom killing by mischance, he turned into a flowr; he was called the God of physick, of Musick and Archery, and guided the Chariot of the day.
• Apollyon, (Greek) a name in Scripture, attributed to the Devil, it signifying, de∣stroyer.
• Apologue, (Greek) a tale, a moral fable, such as that of Menenius Agrippa, and those of Aesop.
• Apologie, (Greek) a justifying answer, an excuse, or defence.
• Apopheret, (Lat.) a present, a New years gift.
• Apophlegmatisme, (Greek) a Medecine, to purge away flegme, and waterish humours.
• Apophtegme, (Greek) a short and witty sentence.
• Apoplexy, (Greek) a taking away of sence and motion from the animal parts of the body: for which reason the dead palsie is called by this name.
• Aporetick, (Greek) doubting.
• Apostasie, (Greek) a revolting, a falling away, or defection from ones duty, or first profession.
• Aposteme, (Greek) the gathering of cor∣ruption into any one part of the body.
• Apostle, (Greek) a Messenger, a word most peculiarly appropriate to the twelve Disci∣ples of Christ, who were sent to preach the Gospel.
• Apostrophe, (Greek) a figure, wherein there is a converting ones speech from one party to another, a mark of the cutting off some Vowel at the end of a word.
• †Apotheke, (Greek) a shop, or store house, wherein any thing is laid up.
• Apotomy, (Greek) a Mathematical word, a cutting off part of a line.
• Apozeme, (Greek) a decoction, a Term used in Physick.
• Appal, to dismay, also to decay.
• Appareil, (French) a preparation, a ma∣king ready, also the summe at the foot of an account, which remains charged upon a house, or Colledge.
• Apparitour, (Lat.) one that summons people to appear at a Court.
• Appartment, (Ital.) a division, or separa∣tion, also so much of a great house as is set apart for the intertainment of one person, or one family.
• Appeach, to accuse one of any crime.
• App••al, a word used in Common-Law, and signifies to remove a cause from an in∣feriour Judge, to a Superiour, also a suing within a year and a day, of one, who is next of kin to a party that is murthred.
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• Apellative, (Lat.) a Noun Appellative, is a Term used in Grammar, signifying a name that's common to a great many.
• Appellour, vid. Approver.
• Appendant, (Lat.) a Term used in Civil Law, and in Logick, as when a field is a∣pendant to a freehold, an adjunct to a sub∣ject.
• Appendix, (Lat.) an Addition, a thing that depends upon another.
• Appetency, (Lat.) earnest desire.
• Appeteth, desireth, a word used by Chau∣cer.
• Appian way, a high-way leading from Rome through Campania, as far as Brundu∣sium, which Appius Claudius in his Consul∣ship paved and walled.
• Applauds, expressions of extraordinary praise and congratulation toward the per∣formers of great atchievements. Artam.
• Application, (Lat.) the making an ad∣dresse to any person, or the applying of one thing to another.
• † Applombature, (Lat.) a soldering with Lead.
• Appoast, (French) to subborn, to pro∣cure.
• Apposen, to demand.
• Apposite, (Lat.) put to, also to the pur∣pose.
• Appostile, (French) a small addition to a discourse in writing, set down in the mar∣gent.
• Apprehension, (Lat.) understanding, also according as it is used with expressions, ei∣ther of danger, or happinesse, it denotes ei∣ther fear, or joy. Cassandra.
• Apprentice, skill, Chaucer.
• Appretiation, (Lat.) a high valueing, a setting a high price upon a thing.
• Approbation, (Lat.) liking.
• Approperate, (lat.) to hasten.
• Appropinquate, (lat.) to draw nigh.
• Appropriation, (lat.) a taking to ones self, also a Term in law, a converting the profit of an Ecclesiastical living to ones pro∣per use, onely maintaining a Vicar.
• Approver, (Lat.) a Term in Law, one who confessing himself guilty of Felony, accuseth another, he is also called appel∣lour.
• † Appuyed, (French) stayed, supported.
• Aprication, (Lat.) basking in the Sun.
• Aprize, (old word) adventure.
• Apsonus, a Citie near the Euxin Sea, where Medea slew her brother Absyrtus.
• Ap-thanes, the Superiour sort of the No∣bility of Scotland were anciently so called, the lower sort Vnder-Thanes.
• Aptitude, (Lat.) fitnesse.
• Aptote, (Greek) a Term in Grammar, being a Noun not declined with cases.
• Apulia, a Region in Italy, vulgarly cal∣led Puglia, formerly called Iapygia from Iapyx the son of Daedalus.

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• Aqua Caelestis, a liquor which the Chy∣mists call rectified wine.
• Aquarius, one of the twelve signs in the Zodiack, whereinto the Sun enters in Ja∣nuary.
• Aquatile, (Lat.) that lives in the water.
• Aqueduct, (Lat.) a Conduit that con∣vey's wa••er by a pipe.
• Aqueous, (Lat.) waterish.
• Aquila, (Lat.) (an Eagle) in Astronomy, it is one of the heavenly signs.
• Aquileia, a Citie in Italy, which being besieged by Maximinus held out so stoutly, that when they wanted ropes for the mo∣ving of their Engins, the women suffered their hair to be cut to supply the want.
• Aquiliferous, (Lat.) an Epithete of the Roman standard, that bears the picture of an Eagle upon it.
• Aquisgrane, a Citie in Gulick, now cal∣led Aixcovit, built by Granus, as some sup∣pose, the brother of Nero.
• Aquitania, the third part of France, now called Guien.
• Aquite, (old word) to match.
• Aquiter, (old word) a Needle case.
• Aquosity, (Lat.) waterishnesse.

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• Arabesque, (French) a curious flourish∣ing, or branched work in painting, or Ta∣pestry.
• Arabia, a Countrey in Asia, so called from Arabus the son of Apollo, reaching from India to Aegypt, it is divided into three parts, Arabia Petraea, Arabia deserta, and Arabia foelix.
• Arable, (Lat.) plowable.
• Arace, (old word) to deface.
• Araneous, (Lat.) full of Spiders webs.
• Arausia, the Citie of Orange in France, now under the Princes of Nassau.
• Aray, order, from the (French) Arroy.
• Aray, to apparel.
• Arbela, (Hebr.) a womans name, signi∣fying, God hath revenged.
• Arbitratour, (Lat.) an Umpire, a Com∣missioner, chosen by mutual consent to de∣cide controversies between party & party.
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• Arblaster, a word used by Chaucer, signi∣fying a Cros-bow.
• Arborist, (Latin) he that hath skill in Trees.
• Arcadia, a Countrey of Peloponnesus, fa∣mous for shepherds, and for the residence of Pan, the God of shepherds, it was first called Pelasgia, from Pelasgus an ancient King, afterwards Arcadia from Arcas, son of Jupiter and Calisto, daughter of Lycaon, King of this Countrey.
• Arcade, (French) an Arch.
• Arcane, (Lat.) mysterious, secret.
• Arch Dapifer, a chief sewer, one of the prime Offices of the Empire, which belong∣eth to the Count Palatine of the Rhene.
• Arch Duke, a title belonging to the house of Austria.
• Archebald, see E••chembold.
• Arches, or Court of Arches, the chief Con∣sistory belonging to the Arch-bishop of Can∣terbury for the debating of spiritual causes.
• Archetype, (Greek) the first figure, or Original.
• Arch-flamin, Prince, or chief of the Priests among the Heathens, by some cal∣led Pontifex Maximus, of whom Numa Pom∣pilius, was the first instituter.
• Archimandrite, the chief of a Hermitage.
• Architectonick, belonging to the chief Overseer of buildings.
• Architecture, the Art of building, con∣taining under it all those Arts that con∣duce any thing to the framing of a house, or Temple.
• Architrave, a word much used in Archi∣tecture, the chapiter of a Pillar, or chief beam in a building.
• Archive, a place where ancient Records are kept.
• Archontes, (Greek) certain Governours created in Athens, after Kingly Govern∣ment was abolish't.
• Archonticks, certain Hereticks, so called from Archon the first of that Sect, which be∣gan in the year 334. they denied the Re∣surrection, and held the world to be the work of Princes.
• Archytas, a famous Mathematician, whom Horace mentions in one of his Odes, he made a wooden Dove to fly by art.
• Arcitenent, (Lat.) carrying a Bow and Arrow's.
• Arctation, (Lat.) a streightning.
• Arctick, as the Arctick Pole, or Northern Pole, and the Arctick Circle, or Northern Circle, so called from the Star Arctos, or the Bear.
• Arcturus, a constellation near the North∣pole.
• Arcuare, to bend, to make after the fashion of an Arch.
• Arcubalist, an Engine, anciently used in war, which was to cast forth great stones.
• Ardenna, a great Forrest in Germany, reaching from the River Rhene, to the Citie of Turney, which is 500 miles. There is an∣other great Forrest in Warwick-shire, so called, the word signifying in the ancient, and Gallick tongue a Wood.
• Ardour, (Lat) heat, vehemency, burn∣ing desire.
• Arduity, (Lat.) steepnesse.
• Arefaction, (Lat.) a drying.
• Arelatum, a Citie of France, in the Pro∣vince of Narbon, now called Arles, the seat of the Kings of Basilica, the last wherof cal∣led Boso, was thrust into a Monastery by the Emperour Otho, for striking the Bishop.
• Areopagites, certain Judges of a Council in Athens, instituted by Solon, they were so called from Areopagos, a street in Athens, where they sate.
• Aret, (old word) an account.
• Aretaphila, a womans name, signifying in Greek a friend of virtue.
• Arethusa, the daughter of Nereus, and Doris, the wife of Alpheus, she was fain'd to be a River of Sicily. Also a Fountain in Armenia, wherein nothing can be made to sink.
• Argent, Silver, or Coin, also a Term in Heraldry, whereby they expresse white.
• Argentina, a Citie in Germany, by the Rhine, first subdued by Casar, afterwards by Allila, who called it Stratsburgh, which name it retains to this day.
• Argile, a County of the North part of Scotland, lying over against the Coast of Ireland, and therefore called by the Na∣tives Arguithil, i. near the Irish, in Latin, Argathelia.
• Argiletas, a place near the Palace in Rome, so called from Argos, Captain of the Ar∣gives, who having been intertained by Euander, was at length slain, and buried there.
• Argillous, (Lat.) clayie, of a clammy sub∣stance.
• Argoil, Clay, a word used by Chaucer.
• Argonautes, see Jason.
• Argos, a Citie of Peloponesus, not farre from Athens, where many famous Kings reign'd.
• Argus, the son of Actor, whom Juno set as a spy, over Io, being turned into a Cow.
• Argute, (lat.) full of wit, subtile.
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• Argyra, an Island in India, full of Gold and silver. Also a Nymph, whom Selenius being in love with died for grief, and was changed by Venus into a River.
• Ariadne, the daughter of Minos and Pasi∣phae, see more of her in Theseus.
• Arided, (Arab.) a Term in Astrology, the tail of the Swan.
• Aridity, (lat.) drynesse, sterility.
• Aries, (lat.) an Engin anciently used for the battering down of Citie walls, so called from Aries a Ram, by reason of the like∣nesse it had to that beast, also one of the twelve signs.
• Arietation, (lat.) a butting, a battring with the Engine Aries.
• Ariminum, an ancient Town of Flaminia in Italie, now called Rimini.
• Ariobarzanes, one of Darius his Captains, who was slain by the Greeks.
• Ariolation, (lat.) a sooth-saying.
• Arion, a famous Musician of the Isle of Lesbos, he was in great favour with Perian∣der Tyrant of Corinth, as he was sayling from Italy, the Mariners conspired to kill him for his riches, but he casting himself into the Sea, was carried by a Dolphin to Taenarus; a Town of Laconia.
• Arist, (old word) he arose.
• Aristaeus, the son of Apollo and Ceres, he was King of Arcadia, and found out the use of Bees, but because Euridice flying from him, was slain by the bite of a Ser∣pent, the Nymphes destroyed his Bees, to appease, whom he having sacrificed four Oxen, and four Heifers, a multitude of Bees sprung from the dead Oxen.
• Aristides, an Athenian, famous for Justice.
• Aristocracy, (Greek) the Government of a Common-wealth, wherein the Nobles bear chief sway.
• Arite, (old word) to Arest, or stay.
• Arithmetick, (Greek) the art of num∣bring.
• Arithmancy, (Greek) a divination by numbers.
• Armada, (Span.) a great Navy.
• Armagh, a County in Ireland.
• Armenia, a Countrey of Asia, divided in∣to the greater, and the lesser Arm••nia.
• Armiger, (lat.) a Squire, one that bear∣eth a Knights Arms.
• Armilet, a little Bracelet for the arm.
• Arminians, a Sect of Hereticks instituted by Jacobus Arminius, in the year 1605. they hold free grace, and universal redemp∣tion.
• Armipotent, (lat.) strong in arms, power∣full.
• Armoniack, or Gumme Armonick, a cer∣tain Gum issuing from a plant, called fennel Gyant.
• Armorick, a Countrey in France, now called Brittain.
• Armory, a place where armes are laid up and kept.
• Armuzia, a Countrey on the Borders of Carmania, along the River Andanis, where are many pleasant Vineyards.
• Arobe, a Portugal measure of Sugar, con∣taining 25 Bushels.
• Aromatick, (lat.) Odoriferous, having a spicy smell.
• Arquebuze, a little Gun, a Caleever.
• Arragon, a great Province of Spain, here∣tofore a Kingdom by it self.
• Arraighn, to set at the Bar of Justice, to make guilty.
• Arran, a County in the North-part of Scotland, anciently called Heglota, as being scituate in the River Cla••a, now called Cluid.
• Arrasse, a certain rich cloath, so called from Arras, a Town of Artesia, where it was made.
• Arrearage, (French) a debt due upon an old account.
• Arrendare, signifieth in the practick of Scotland, to set lands to any one for year∣ly Rent.
• Arreptitious, (lat,) suddenly caught, also snatching away privily.
• Arrere, (old word) apart, aside.
• Arrest, (French) a stay, a resting quiet in a place, also a putting a stop to proceed∣ings, in Common-law it signifieth an execu∣tion served upon a mans goods, or person, also a decree, or final sentence of a Court.
• Arretteth, layeth blame, an old word used by Chaucer.
• Arrians, a Sect of ancient Hereticks in∣stituted by one Arrius a Lybian, about the year 315. they deny the son to be of the same substance with God the father.
• Arride, (lat.) to manifest ones consent of a thing by smiling.
• Arrogate, (lat.) to assume too much to ones self.
• Arsenal, (French) a kinde of Cittadel, where Armour and Ammunition is laid up.
• Arse••ick, a mineral, called Orpiment, in English Ra••s-bane.
• Arseversie, upside down, preposterous.
• Arsmart, an Herb, otherwise called water pepper.
• Arson, (French) a saddle-bow.
• Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes, King of Persia, he had three sons by his wife, and

• 112 by his Concubines, he made Darius his Successour, who rebelling from his father, because he had taken from him his Con∣cubine Aspasia, was slain with 50 of his brothers.
• Artemisia, Queen of Halicarnassus, and wife to Mausolus, she built so stately a Se∣pulcher for her deceased husband, that it was held for one of the seven wonders of the world, Artemisia is also the name of an Herb, called Mugwort.
• Artemisian (moneth), the moneth of May.
• Arten, to constrain an (old word) used by Chaucer.
• Arteries, (Lat.) those hollow membra∣nous Vessels like to veins, in which the most thin, and hottest part of the bloud together with the vital spirits pass through the body.
• Arteriotomy, (Greek) a cutting of an Artery.
• Arthritical disease, the Gout from Ar∣thritis, a Greek word which signifies a joynt.
• Arthur, a famous, warlike King of the Brittains, who beat the Saxons in divers set battails, this word signifieth in the Brittish tongue strong man.
• Articular, (Lat.) joynted.
• Articulate, (lat.) to joynt, also make Ar∣ticles of agreement.
• Artificer, (Lat.) a work-man.
• Artillery, great brasse Guns, Cannons.
• Artisan, or Artist, a master of his Art.
• Arval brothers, a fraternity of Roman Priests, twelve in number, who besides their performance of publick sacrifices, were appointed Judges of Land-marks.
• Arvisian wine, a sort of Greek wine from Arvis, now called Amista, in the Island Chios.
• Arundel, in Latine Aruntina vallis, a Town in Sussex, so called as it were Arun∣dale, i. a dale lying upon the River Arun, it hath a strong Castle, which Robert de Be∣lismo, keeping against King Henry the first, he thereupon forfeited his estate, and was proscribed.
• Arundiferous, (Lat.) bringing forth Reeds.
• Aruspicy, (Lat.) a certain kinde of divi∣nation (anciently much in use among the Romans) by looking into the bowels of beasts.

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• Asabaracca, the Herb called Folefoot.
• Asbate, (old word) a buying.
• Asbestes, a people of Lybia about Cyrene, where the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon was.
• Asbestos, a kinde of precious stone of an Iron colour, which being once fir'd cannot be quencht.
• Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, by Creusa the daughter of Priamus, he raigned in Italy 30 years, and built Alba.
• Ascaunces, (old word) as though.
• Ascendant, an Astrological Term, it be∣ing the point of the Ecliptick, which riseth at some determinate moment, when any one is born, it is also called the Horoscope, it signifieth also Metaphorically, a predomi∣nant, or powerfull influence over any one: Cleopatra.
• Ascertain, to assure.
• Ascetick, (Greek) belonging to a Monk, or Monastery.
• Asclepiad, a verse consisting of four feet, Spondee, Choriambus, and two Dactyls.
• Ascribe, (Lat.) to attribute, to impute.
• Ashdown, or Assendown, which some inter∣pret the Mount of Asses, a Town in Essex, where a great battel was fought between Edward Iron-side, and Canutus the Dane.
• Asia, one of those four parts, into which the whole world is divided, it was so called from, Asia, wife, to Iapetus, and daughter of Oceanus, and Thetis.
• Asinine, (Lat.) belonging to an Asse.
• Askaunce, (old word) if by chance.
• Askaunt, (old word) as, to look askaunt, to look side-wayes.
• Askes, (old word) ashes.
• Asmodeus, (Greek) a friend of carnality, the name of a certain spirit.
• Asmotographers, (Greek) composers of lessons to any instrument.
• Asopus, a River of Boeotia running by Thebes, which the Poets faign'd to have been the father of Aegina, whom Jupiter deflowr'd.
• Asotus, (Greek) prodigal, intemperate.
• Aspect, (Lat.) a sight, also ones counte∣nance, or presence, also a position of the stars, one toward another.
• Aspectable, (Lat) that may be seen, or beheld.
• Asper, a certain kinde of coyn, bearing the value of a penny farthing of our money.
• Asperation, (lat.) a making rough, or sharp.
• Asperity, (lat.) roughnesse.
• Aspernate, (lat.) to despise, to scorn.
• Aspersion, (lat.) a sprinkling, or bespat∣tring, it is also taken Metaphorically, for a casting a blemish upon other mens repu∣tation.
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• Asphaltites, a Lake in Judaea, where So∣dom and Gomorrha stood, having been full of brimstone, ever since it rained down up∣on those Cities.
• Asphodil, the name of a certain flowr, o∣therwise called Daffadil, or Narcissus.
• Aspick, a little venemous Serpent.
• Aspiration, (lat.) a breathing, also a note over a Greek vowel, which hath the force of an h.
• Asp••rtation, (lat.) a carrying away.
• Assail, to set upon, to assault.
• Assart, a Term in law, signifying an of∣fence committed in a Forrest by plucking up the Woods by the roots, also to Assart, is to set in order, to make glades in a Wood, to lop off the branches of a Tree, to clear a ground of shrubs.
• An Ass••ssia•• (Ital.) a Robber, or Mur∣therer that kills another for gain.
• Assay, (French) to prove, to try; an As∣sayer of the King is an Officer of the Mint, for the true trial of silver.
• Ass••ctation, (lat.) a following any one, an adhering to anothers opinion.
• Ass••ntation, (lat.) a complying with ano∣thers opinion out of flattery, or dissimula∣tion.
• Assert, (lat.) to affirm, to maintain.
• Assesse, (Fr.) to set down a rate, to tax.
• Ass••••trix, (••at.) a Midwife, a woman that is assistant to another.
• Assets, (French) a Term in Common-law, signifying goods sufficient wherewith the Heir, o•• Executor may discharge the Ancestors, or Testators Debts, or Legacies.
• Ass••verate, (lat.) to affirm earnestly.
• A••sid••ous, (lat.) dayly, observant, dili∣gent.
• Assigne, (French) a term in law, he that is constituted by another, to do any busi∣nesse, an assign indeed is he whom the per∣son appoints, assign in law is he, whom the law appoints.
• Assimilati••n, (lat.) a likening, a resem∣bling.
• Assise, Order, Chaucer.
• Assised, sure, firm, Idem.
• Assi••t, (lat.) to help.
• Assize, (French) a Term in law, signify∣ing a sitting of Justices upon their Com∣mission, it is taken also for a Writ, also a setting down the price of any commodity.
• Association, (lat.) a being frequent in company with another.
• Assoyle, to acquit, to pardon, also to an∣swer, Chaucer.
• Assoylen, to declare; Idem.
• Assuefaction, (lat.) an inuring, a bring∣ing one to any thing by custome.
• Assuetude, (lat.) use, custome.
• Assume, (lat.) to take to ones self.
• Assumpsit, a voluntary promise, whereby a man takes upon him to perform any thing to another.
• Assumption, (lat.) a taking to, also the minor proposition of a syllogisme.
• Astarites, a certain Chrystalline stone having in the midst of it the resemblance of half a Moon.
• A••terisme, (Gr.) a constellation of stars.
• Asterisk, (Greek) a little star, also a mark in writing, having the form of a star.
• Asterius, the name of a certain King of Creet.
• A••terlagour, a word used by Chaucer, signifying an Astrolabe.
• A••••ert, (old word) passed.
• A••thma, (Greek) a certain disease, which causeth difficulty of breathing.
• Astipulation, (lat.) an agreement, an as∣sent, also a witnesse.
• Astonish, (lat.) to dismay, to stupifie.
• Astraea, the daughter of Jupiter and The∣mis, or as some say of Astraeus and Aurora, she was, for her Justice, taken up into hea∣ven, and plac't among the twelve signs.
• Astraeus, the son of Crius (one of the Ti∣tans) and Eurybaea, he married Aurora, and begat the winds▪ and the stars.
• Astragal, a word used in Architecture, as also in fortification, being a certain ring, or circle about the neck of a Pillar, or a piece of Ordnance.
• Astr••ction, (lat.) a binding to.
• Astriferous, (lat.) star-bearing.
• Astringent, (lat.) binding, or making co∣stive.
• A••troit, a precious stone, called in Latin Asteria, wherein little streakes like the beams of a star appear.
• A••••rolabe, a Mathematical instrument, to finde the motions, and distances of stars, or to take any heights and depths by.
• Astrologie, (Greek) the art of foretel∣ling things to come, by the motions and di∣stances of the stars.
• A••tromela, a Citie of the Province of Narbon in France.
• Astronomy, (Greek) an art teaching the knowledge of the courses of the stars.
• Asturia, a Province of Spain near Portu∣gall, so called from the River Astura, the Pyrenean Mountains are also called Astu∣rias.
• Astute, (lat.) subtle, witty, crafty.
• Astyages, the father of Mandana, and Grand-father of Cyrus.
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• Asyle, (Greek) a sanctuary, a place of refuge for offenders.
• Asyndeton, (Greek) a Rhetorital figure, where comma's are put instead of conjun∣ction copulatives.

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• Atalanta, the daughter of Schoeneus King of Scyrus, she being swift of foot, it was pro∣posed among her suiters, that he, who could out-run her, should have her for his wife, but many of them being overcome, at length Hippomenes the son of Megacles, who had received three golden Apples of Venus, that had been gathered in the Hesperian Garden, let them fall in the midst of the Race, and by that means arrived at the end before her, also the name of a great Huntresse of Arcadia, who gave the first wound to the Caledonian Boar, and was af∣terwards married to Meleager.
• Atchievement, (French) the performance of some great exploit.
• Atchek••d, (old word) choaked.
• Ateles, an Island famous for the abun∣dance of precious Oyntments that grew there.
• Aterst, (old word) in earnest, in deed.
• Athamas, the son of Aeolus, and King of Thebes, he had by his wife Nephele, Phryx∣us, and Helle, who were so persecuted by Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, whom their father married that they fled away upon the Golden Ram, but Helle falling off into the Sea, gave the name to Hellespont, see Ino.
• Atheisme, (Greek) ungodlinesse, a being of no Religion.
• Athelney, or Athelingy, i. the Isle of No∣bles, a little Island made by the River Th••ne in Sommersetshire, where King Alfred shrouded himself, when the Danes overran the Kingdom, as Marius did anciently in the Lake of Minturnus.
• Athens, a famous Citie of Greece, first cal∣led Cecropia from Cecrops, afterwards Athenae from Athenaea, or Minerva, who first found out the use of the Olive-tree.
• Athletical, (Greek) belonging to wrast∣ling.
• Athol, a County in the South-part of Scotland, bordering upon Perth, and wate∣red by the River Amund.
• Athos, a high Hill between Macedon, and Thrace, which casts a shadow as far as the Isle of Lemnos, upon the top of this Hill is a Citie, now called Monte Sancto.
• Athroted, (old word) cloyed.
• Atlantick Islands, two Islands upon the Borders of Lybia, formerly called the For∣tunate Islands, or the Hesperides, where were said to be the Elysian fields.
• Atlantick-Sea, a part of the Mediterra∣nean-Sea, lying West-ward, it begins at the River Molucha, and finishes at the promon∣tory Ampelusia.
• Atlas, the son of Iapetus and Asia, daugh∣ter of Oceanus, who was faign'd by the Poets to support heaven upon his shoul∣ders, also a Mountain of Mauritania, now called Anchisa, by others Montes Claros, in∣to which the Poets faign Atlas King of Mau∣ritania, to have been turn'd.
• Atmosphaere, (Greek) that same Region of the aire, where vapours and exhalations are ingendred.
• Atom, (Greek) a mote in the sun-beams, also a word used in Philosophy, being the smallest part of a body that can be ima∣gined.
• Atonement, as it were, a making at one, a reconcilement, or causing to agree.
• Atramental, (Lat.) belonging to Ink.
• Atrate, (Lat.) made black, also one in mourning.
• Atrick, an Usher of a Hall.
• Atrocity, (Lat.) fiercenesse.
• Atrophy, (Greek) a kinde of consumpti∣on of the body, which is caused by the meat, not turning into nourishment.
• Attachment, (French) a laying hands on, in Common-law it signifieth a laying hold on by the force of a Writ, it differeth from an Arrest, which lieth on the body, and from a distresse which is upon land and goods, this being upon body and goods.
• Attainder, (French) a Term in law, signifying the conviction of any person of fellony, or any Crime whereof he was not convicted before.
• Attaint, try'd, found out.
• Attamed, (old word) set on broch.
• Attaque, (French) an assault, an incoun∣ter.
• Attemperate, (Lat.) to make fit. to mix a just proportion.
• An Attendant, a servant.
• Attenes (old word) at once.
• Attentive, (Lat.) diligently hearkning.
• Attenuation, (Lat.) a making lesse.
• Atterly, (old word) extreamly.
• Attestation, (lat.) a proving by witnesses.
• Atthis, the daughter of Cranaus, King of Athens, she died unmarried, and from her the Countrey was called Attica, whereas it was formerly called Actica from Actaeus, the first King thereof.
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• Attick, neat, elegant, from Attica, or Athens, which was the Nursery of Elo∣quence.
• An Attiring, a dressing, or apparelling, from Tiara, a Persian Ornament for the head, also a Term in Heraldry.
• Attoure, (old word) towards.
• Attournment, (French) a Term in Com∣mon-law, a turning Tenant to a new Lord.
• Attraction, (Lat.) a drawing to, an allu∣rement.
• Attraits, (French) the same, also those charming qualities, which have power to draw the affections of men. Artamenes.
• Attrebatii, the ancient name of those people that inhabited that part of England, now called Bark-shire.
• Attrectation, (Lat.) handling, also a wan∣ton carriage towards a woman.
• Attribute, (Lat.) to give, to impute.
• Attrition, (Lat.) a rubbing, or wearing against another thing.
• Attwitte, (old word) to make blame-worthy.
• Atwin, (old word) asunder.

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• Available, profitable.
• Avant, (French) forward, also a Term of disdain, as much as to say, away, out of my sight.
• Avarice, (Lat.) covetousnesse.
• Avaricum, a Town of Gallia, Aquitanica, now called Bourges, by some Chasteau∣neuf.
• Aubades, (French) songs, or instrumen∣tal musick, sung, or play'd under any ones Chamber-window in the morning, from Aube the morning.
• Auben••y, or Albeney, see D'anbeney.
• Auctour, (Lat.) an increaser, also the same as Author.
• Aucupation, (Lat.) fouling, also a greedy looking after gain.
• Audacity, (Lat.) boldnesse.
• Audley, see Awdley.
• Audience, (Lat.) hearing, also a great concourse of people coming to hear any Oration delivered in publick.
• Auditor, (Lat.) a hearer, also an Officer of the King, or any other great personage, appointed to hear, and examin the accounts of all under Officers, and to make up a ge∣neral book, which shews the difference be∣tween their receipts and allowances.
• Audry, the name of an English Saint, the first foundresse of Ely Church, some think it contracted from the Saxon word, Ethel∣red.
• Avenant, agreeable.
• Avenage, (French) a certain quantity of Oates, which a Landlord receives in stead of some other duties.
• Avenio, a Citie of Gallia Narbonensis, which hath been the seat of divers Popes, now called Avignon, this Citie hath seven Palaces, seven Parishes, seven Monasteries, seven Colledges, seven Inn's, and seven Gates.
• Aventinus, one of the seven Hills of Rome.
• Avenue, (French) a Term in fortificati∣on, signifying the space that is left for pas∣sage to and fro, in, and out a Camp, Garri∣son, or Quarter.
• Aver, (old word) bribery.
• Aver, (French) affirm, to justifie.
• Average, from the old Latin word Ave∣ria, which signifies a beast; it being a ser∣vice, which a Tenant does unto the Lord by horse, or carriage of horse, and so the Kings Averages are 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Kings carriages by horse, or cart, it is also a contribution that Merchants and others make, towards the losses of those, who have their goods cast into the Sea for the safeguard of the ship.
• Averdupois, (French) it signifies in Com∣mon-law, a weight of 16 Ounces, whereas Troy-weight hath but 12. also such Mer∣chandizes as are weighed by this weight.
• Averie, a place where Oates, or Proven∣der for the Kings horses was kept, or a Christian name, signifying as much as gi∣ven in wish from the Dutch Alberia.
• Averment, a Term in law, when the De∣fendant offers to justifie an exception pleaded in abatement of the Plaintiffs act.
• Avernus, a Lake in Campania near Baiae, whose vapours were so deadly, that birds were kill'd as they flew over, which made the ancients think it to be a descent into Hell.
• Averpenny, money contributed towards the Kings Averages.
• Averruncation, (Lat.) a Term in Husban∣dry, it being a lopping off of superfluous branches.
• Averrun••us, a certain God among the Romans, who was said to avert all evils, as Hercules among the Greeks, was called A∣lexicacus.
• Aversion, (Lat.) a secret hatred without any apparent reason, it may be taken in the same sence as Antipathy. Artamenes, also a turning away.
• Aufidena, a Citie of Italy among the Ca∣raceni, which is yet standing.
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• Augeas, King of Elis, the son of Sol and Nauphridame, he had a stable which held 3000 Oxen, which Hercules cleansed by bringing in the River Alpheus, but being denied his pay, he killed Augeas, and made his son Phileus King.
• Augmentation, (Lat.) an increasing, the Court of augmentation, was a Court ere∣cted by Henry the eighth, for the increase of the Revenues of the Crown, by the sup∣pression of Abbies and religious houses.
• Augre, a Carpenters tool, a wimble.
• Augrim, the same as Algorithme, skill in numbring.
• Augrimstones, stones to cast account with.
• Augurie, (Lat.) South-saying, Divinati∣on by the voices, or flying of birds.
• Augures-staff, a certain wand, which the Augures used to hold in their hand, when they made their divinations.
• August, Royal, Majestical, Illustrious, from Octavius Augustus, ••he second Roman Em∣perour, after whom 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the succeeding Ro∣man Emperours, were honoured with that Title, also the name of the sixth moneth from March, otherwise called Sextilis.
• Augustal's, (Lat.) feasts kept in honour of Augustus.
• Augustan Confession, (Lat.) the confession of faith made by the Protestants at Aus∣purgg in Germany, in the year 1530.
• Augustin, or Austin, the name of one of the fathers, who was Bishop of Hippo, also a proper name of divers men from Augustus, i. Majestical.
• Augustin, or Austin Fryers, an Order of Fryers, of the institution of St. Austin.
• Augu••tinians, a Sect of Hereticks, other∣wise called Sacramentaries, who hold that Heaven Gates are not opened till the gene∣ral Resurrection, they were instituted by Andreas Car••lostadius, in the year 1524. afterwards confirmed by Augustin a Bohe∣mian.
• Aviary, (Lat.) a great Cage, or place where birds are kept.
• Avice, a womans name, in Latin Hawisia, or Helwisa, contracted from Hildevig, signi∣fying in Saxon, Lady Defence.
• Avidity, (Lat.) covetousnesse, greedi∣nesse of gain.
• Aniso, (Spanish) an advertisement, or advice.
• Aulick, (Lat.) belonging to the Court.
• Aulis, a Haven in Boeotia, where the Gre∣cian Princes met, and joyned forces to go to the siege of Troy.
• Aulnegeor, (French) an Officer of the King, who looks to the Assize of Woollen Cloath, made throughout the land, and hath two Seals ordained him for that pur∣pose.
• Aumener, (old word) a Cupboard.
• Aumer, (old word) Amber.
• Auncient demeasn, a Term in Common-law, signifying a publick Tribute by a Te∣nure, whereby all Mannours belonging to the Crown, in the dayes of Edgar, or Saint Edward did hold.
• Auntreth, (old word) maketh adven∣ture.
• Avocation, (Lat.) a calling away.
• Avoirdupois, see Averdupois.
• Avouch, (French) to maintain, to justi∣fie.
• Avowable, justifiable.
• Avowry, a Term in law, when one takes a distresse for Rent, and he, who is di∣strained sues a Replevy, now he that took the distresse justifying the act, is said to avow.
• Aurea Chers••nesus, a Peninsula of India, by some called Melepa, by others Japan.
• Aureat, (lat.) Golden.
• Aurelia, a Citie of Gallia Celtica, so cal∣led from Aurelius the Emperour, now cal∣led Orleance, it is scituate upon the bank of the River Loir.
• Aurenches, the name of an ancient fami∣ly, who were heretofore Barons of Folk∣stone in Kent, they are stiled in Latin, Re∣cordes de Abrincis.
• Auricular, (lat.) belonging to the ear, whence Auricular confession.
• Auriferous, (lat.) Gold-bearing, an Epi∣thet belonging to the River Tagus.
• Auriflamb, the holy Standard of France, which used to be born in the Wars against Infidels, having on the top a purple Ensign, it was lost in a battle against the Flemings.
• Auriga, a Constellation in the firmament upon the Horns of Taurus.
• Aurigation▪ (lat.) the guiding of a Cha∣riot, or Coach.
• Aurigia, a Town of Hispania Boetica, now called Arion.
• Aurigraphy, (Greek) a writing in Gold.
• Aurney, or Aurigney, contracted from Al∣derney, an Island in the Brittish Sea, anci∣ently called Arica.
• Aurora, the daughter of Hyperion and Thea, mother of Lucifer and the windes, she snatch't away Tithonus, the brother of Laomedon, whom, when he was old, she re∣stored to youth by the virtue of Herbs, and had Memnon by him.
• Aurum potabile, Gold made liquid, and Medicinable.
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• Auscultation, (lat.) a hearkning unto, or obeying.
• Auses, a people of Africa, among whom the Virgins used to combat in honour of Minerva, those that were killed were ac∣counted no maids, and she that fought most valiantly was carried in a Triumphant Cha∣riot, about the River Tritonis.
• Ausones, a very ancient people of Italy, Neighbours to the Osci and Cir••eii, be∣ing that part where now stands Beneven∣tum, they were so called from Auson, the son of Vlysses and Capso, who built Arunca thereabouts.
• Auspical, (lat.) belonging to Sooth-say∣ing.
• Auspitious, (lat.) lucky, happy, from Au∣spices Sooth-sayers.
• Austere, (lat.) sour, crabbed, stern.
• Austral, (lat.) Southern.
• Austrasia, that part which contains Bra∣bant and Lorrain, it was anciently recko∣ned a part of France, and was a Kingdom of it self, having Mets for its chief seat, there being anciently in France four King∣doms, Austrasie, Soissons, Orleans, and Paris.
• Austria, a part of Germany by Danubius, anciently called the upper ••annonia, in this Countrey is seated the imperial Citie of Vi••enna.
• Austromancy, (Greek) a kinde of divi∣nation by observing the South-winde.
• Authentick, (Greek) allowed, approved by good Authors.
• Autoleon, a Captain of the Crotoniates, making war against the Lo••ri, who alwayes left a room void for Ajax, as if he had been present himself, but Antoleon breaking in∣to the empty place, was wounded by Ajax his Ghost.
• Autoli••us, the son of Mercury and Te∣lauge, the daughter of Lucifer, he received this gift from his father, that whatsoever he stole he might change it into what form soever he would to keep himself from be∣ing deprehended, he ravish't Anticlia, the daughter of Sisyphus, who being with childe was given to Laertes, and brought forth Vlisses.
• Autology, (Greek) a speaking of, or to ones self.
• Autogeneal, (Greek) self-begotten.
• Autocrasie, (Greek) self-subsistence.
• Automatous, (Greek) having a motion within it self.
• Antonoe, the daughter of Cadmus, King of Thebes and Hermione, she was married to Aristeus, and brought forth Actaeon.
• Autonomy, (Greek) a living after ones own law.
• Autoptical, (Greek) self beholding.
• Autremite, another attire, a word used by Chaucer.
• Autumnal, (Lat.) belonging to Autumne, one of the four quarters of the year.
• Auturgie, (Greek) a self-working.
• Avulsion, (Lat.) a pulling away from.
• Aux, (a Term in Astronomy) the same as Absis, see Absis.
• A••xiliary, (Lat.) aiding, or assisting, as auxiliary forces were such as were sent the Romans from other Countreys, their con∣federates, and ally's.
• A••xilium ad filium militem faciendum, &c. a Writ directed to the Sheriffe of every County, where the King, or other Lord hath Tenants, to leavy of them reasonable aid toward the Knighting of his eldest son, or marrying of his eldest daughter.
• Award, judgement, arbitration.
• Awaite, a watching circumspection, also a tarrying.
• Awaites, ambushments.
• Awdley end, the name of a stately house in Essex, once an Abby, afterwards the dwel∣ling house of the Aldethelighe's, or Awdly's, an ancient family, it is now in the possession of the Earles of Suffolk.
• Awhaped, (old word) amazed.
• Awhere, (old word) desire.
• Awning, a sayl made of Canvasse, which is spread over the ship above the deck to keep away the sun.
• Awreketh, (old word) revengeth.
• Axillary, (Lat.) belonging to the arm pit.
• Axinomancy, (Greek) a divination by hatchets.
• Axiome, (Greek) a position in a sen∣tence, a maxim in any art.
• Axicle, (Latin) a little board, lath, or shingle.
• Axis, (Lat.) an Axel-tree, the Diameter of the world.
• Axminster, or Axanminster, a Town in Cornwall, famous for the Tombs of the Saxon Princes, slain at the battle of Bruna∣burg.
• Ay, (old word) an Egg.
• Ayde, the same as aid, help, succour, also a Term in law, signifying a subsidy, lone, or tax due from subjects to their Soveraign, or from Tenants to their Landlord.
• Aye, (old word) for ever.
• Azamoglans, those that are destined to be Janizary's are so called, before they are inrolled in pay.
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• Azebone, (Arab.) a Term in Astrology, the head of the 16th. mansion.
• Azimeck, (Arab.) the starre, called the Virgins spike.
• Azemen, degrees in Astronomy, are those degrees, which, when the native is infected with any inseparable disease, as blindnesse, dumnesse, &c. or defective in any member, are supposed to ascend at his birth.
• Azimuth, a Term in Astronomy, the Azi∣muth Circles are those, which meet in the vertical point, and passe through all the degrees of the Horizon.
• Azure, a sky-colour, a light blue, it is most properly termed Azure in blazon, or Heraldry.
• Azyme, (Greek) unleavened, unmingled.
• Azymes, a solemne feast kept for seven dayes, wherein it was not lawfull to eat leavened bread.

B

• BAal, an Assyrian word, signifying Jupi∣ter, or Lord.
• Ba••el, or Babylon, so called from the con∣fusion of languages, which was there cau∣sed, it was anciently the chief seat of the Assyrian Monarchs, being built by Nimrod, and afterwards walled by Semiramis, it is now called Bagadeth, or Bagda.
• Bablac, a Town in Oxfordshire, situate upon the River Isis, where Sir R. Vere, Earle of Oxford, Marquesse of Dublin, and Duke of Ireland, being in great favour and Authority with King Richard the second, was defeated by the Nobles, forced to swim over the River, and to fly his Countrey.
• Babys, the brother of Marsyas, he com∣mitting the like insolency as his brother, was also to have been flead by Apollo, but that he was saved at the intercession of Pallas.
• Bacchanals, the feast of Bacchus.
• Baccharach, or Bachrag wines are those, which we call Rhenish wines, from Baccha∣rag, a Citie situate upon the Rhine Bacchus, the inventour of wine, he was the son of Jupiter and Semele, who desiring to lye with Jupiter in all his glory was burnt up with Thunder, and Bacchus being cut out of her Womb, was inserted into Jupiter's Thigh, untill the birth were mature, he is also called Dionysius, Liber Pater, and Osi∣ris.
• Bacciferous, (Lat.) bearing Berries.
• Bacheler, (French) an unmarried man, also a Bacheler of a Company, a Bacheler of Arts, is he, who takes the first degree in the profession of any Art, or Science, the second being licenciate, and the last Doctor, A Bacheler Knight, vide Knight.
• Backberond, (Saxon) a Term in Com∣mon-law, signifying a Thief that is taken with the manner, (being followed with huy and cry) with those things he hath stollen, whether it be money, or any thing else, it is by some taken for an offender against Vert, or Venison in the Forrest.
• Bactriana, a Provice of Scythia, beyond Assyria.
• Badbury, a Town in Dorsetshire, where King Edward the Elder put to flight his Cozin Aethelwald, who had conspired with the Danes against him.
• Badge, the same as Armes, or Cogni∣sance.
• Badger, a Carrier of Corn, or like pro∣vision from one place, to transport it to an∣other.
• Badinage, (French) foolery, buffonry.
• Badonicus, the ancient name of a Hill in Sommersetshire, now called Bannesdown-hill, where King Arthur defeated the English Saxons in a great battail.
• Boetica, a part of Spain, formerly so cal∣led from the River Boetis, now called Gna∣dalquivir.
• Bagatel, (French) a toy, a trifle.
• Baggeth, (old word) disdaineth.
• Baile, (French) a Term in Common-law, signifying the taking charge of one arrested upon action, either Civil, or Criminal, un∣der surety taken for his appearance at a day, and place certainly assigned. See Main-prize.
• Baily, or Bailiffe, (French) a Magistrate appointed, within a Province, or praecinct, to execute Justice, to maintain the peace, and to preserve the people from wrongs and vexations, and is principal Deputy to the King, or Supream Lord, also the Offi∣cers of each hundred, and of Towns Cor∣porate are called Bayliffs, there are also Bayliffs of husbandry belonging to private men, who are Lords of Mannours.
• Bailywick, the Jurisdiction of a Baily.
• Bain, (French) a bath, or hot house.
• Bainards Castle, a house in London, be∣longing at this day to the Earles of Pem∣brock, it was so called from William Bai∣nard, Lord of Dunmow, whose possession formerly it was.
• Baisemaines, (Fr.) kissing of the hands, Complementing.
• Baiton Kaiton, the belly of the Whale, an Arabick word.
• Baize, a fine sort of Freeze, from Baii, a Citie of Naples, where it was first made.
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• Balade, (French) a Ballet, or roundelay, also a Dance.
• Balasse, a Saxon word, signifying Gravel, laid in the bottom of a ship, to keep it up∣right.
• Balatron, (Ital.) a babler, a prating knave.
• Balcone, (Ital.) a bay-window.
• Baldwin, (Germ.) a proper name, signi∣fying bold victor, and answering to the Greek Thrasyn••achus.
• Bale, (French) a pack of Merchants wares.
• Balefull, sorrowfull, woefull.
• Balk, (Dutch) a ridge between two fur∣rows.
• Ball, (French) a dancing meeting.
• Balladin, (French) a dancer of Gal∣liards.
• A Ballance, (French) a pair of Scales.
• Ballast, see Balasse.
• Balliol Colledge, a Colledge in the Uni∣versity of Oxford, built by John Balliol of Bernards Castle, in the Bishoprick of Dur∣ham, and father of Balliol, King of Scots.
• Ballist, (Lat.) an Engin to cast, or shoot stones.
• Ballon, (French) a Term in Architecture, signifying the round Globe of a Pillar, also a great Ball.
• Ballotation, a kind of casting lots, or ma∣king election by Balls.
• Ballustrad, a Term in Architecture, signi∣fying a jutting out of a window, or por∣tal.
• Balm, the juyce, or Oyl of a certain plant growing in Judaea, otherwise called Balsa∣mum, or Opobalsamum.
• Balmerinoch, an Abby in Fife, a County of Scotland, built by Queen Ermengard wife to King William.
• Balneary, (Lat.) a bathing place.
• Balthasar, an Hebr. word, signifying with∣out treasure, it was the name of one of the wise-men, who came out of the East to worship our Saviour. See Sands his Tra∣vels 181.
• Baltia, an Island in the German Ocean, by Xenophon called Lampsacenus, now Scan∣dia, or Scandinavia, from this Island the Baltick Sea derives its name, which Phile∣mon calls Marimorusa, Hecataeus Amal∣chium.
• Bambalio, a faint-hearted fellow.
• A Band, (French) a Company of foot Souldiers.
• Bandie, (French) to follow a faction.
• Banditi, (Ital.) out-laws from Bando, a Proclamation, because they are condemned by Proclamation, the Dutch call them Nigh∣tinghals, and Free-booters.
• Bandle, an Irish measure of two foot in length.
• A Bandog, a Mastive.
• Bandon, (French) free Licence, or liber∣ty, also a company, or Sect.
• Bandore, (Ital.) a kinde of Musical in∣strument.
• Bane, poyson, destruction.
• Banes, (French) in Canon-law are Pro∣clamations, but more especially taken for the publick proclaiming of Marriage in Churches.
• Bangle-ear'd, having hanging ears like a Spaniel.
• Bangue, a pleasant drink used in the Ea∣stern Countreys.
• A Banker, one who in forreign Countreys delivers forreign money for his own Coun∣treys Coyn.
• Bankrout, or Bankrupt, a decoctor, one that hath consumed his estate.
• Bannavenna, or Bennaventa, a Town in Northhamptonshire, anciently so called, now Wedon in the street, once the Royal seat of Wolpher, King of the Mercians, and by his daughter Werbury, a holy Virgin con∣verted into a Monastery.
• Banner, (French) a Standard, or En∣sign.
• Banneret, or Knight Banneret, vide Knight.
• Banneroll, (French) a little Flagge, or Streamer.
• Baptisme, (Greek) a Sacrament used in the Church, for the initation of children into the Christian Religion, it signifies a washing, or dipping in water.
• Baptist, (Greek) a proper name, first gi∣ven to St. John, who was the first that bap∣tized.
• Baptistery, (Greek) a Vessel to wash in, a Font to baptize in.
• Barbara, the name of a holy woman, mar∣tyred under the Emperour Maximian, the word signifieth in Latin, strange, or un∣known.
• Barbaria, the chief part of Africk, which is divided into four Kingdomes, Morocco, Fesse, Telessina, and Tunis.
• Barbarisme, (Greek) a rudenesse of be∣haviour, a clownish pronunciation of words.
• Barbe, a mask, or visard.
• Barbel, a kinde of fish, a little Sammon.
• Barbican, (French) a Term in archite∣cture, and fortification, an out-work in a building, a bulwark, a watch Towr.
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• Barbitist, a Lutinist.
• Barce, the chief Citie of Lybia.
• Bards, the ancient Poets among the Brit∣tains, and the Gaules, Bardes also, or barbes, signifie the trappings, or caparisons of horses.
• Bardulph, (Germ.) from Bertulph.
• Bargaret, (old word) a Sonnet, or Bal∣let.
• Barkary, a tan house, or house where they put barks of Trees.
• Bark, the Forresters say a Fox barketh.
• Bark-fat, a Tanners tub.
• Bark-man, a Boat-man, from Bark, a lit∣tle ship, or boat.
• Barm, yest, the flowring, or over-deck∣ing of Beer, also a lap.
• Barm-cloath, an Apron, Chaucer.
• Barn, or Bern, a Northern word, signi∣fying a childe.
• Barnabas, the proper name of a man, signifying in Hebrew a son of comfort.
• Baroco, a Term in Logick, being one of the moods of the second figure of a Syllo∣gisme, wherein the first proposition is a universal affirmative, the two second parti∣cular Negatives.
• Baron, (French) a title of Honour, as much as Lord, Barons are of three sorts. First, by Dominion and Jurisdiction, Barons of the King, whose Baronies were Capitales. Secondly, Barons of the subjects holding not of the King, but by mes••alty. Third∣ly, Lords of Mannours.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉, a tax, or subsidy of aide, to be levied for the King ou•• of the Precincts of Baronies.
• Barre, a Term in Common-law, is, when the Defendant in any action pleadeth a Plea, which is a sufficient answer; also place where causes are pleaded, also a Term in Blazo••, being composed of two equidistant lines drawn overthwart the Escutcheon, and differeth from the Fesse, in that it is not confined to the Fesse-point.
• Barfee, a fee of twenty pence, which eve∣ry Prisoner acquitted of Felony payeth to the Goaler.
• Barratour, (French) a Term in Common-law, signifying a common wrangler, one that setteth men at variance, causing them to implead one another at the Barre of Ju∣stice.
• Barren signes are Libra, Leo, Virgo.
• Barricado, (Spanish) a defence against an enemies assault, made of empty barrels fill'd with earth.
• Barriers, (French) a certain martial ex∣ercise (in Latin called palaestra) of armed men fighting with short swords, within cer∣tain limits, or lists which sever them from the spectators.
• Barrister, a pleader at the Barre••, those who after seven years study of the Law are admitted to plead; and stand without the Barre, are called utter Barristers, but a Ser∣jeant, or Princes Attorny, or any of the King•• Councel, are admitted to plead with∣in the Bar, and are called inner-Barristers.
• Barsalona, or Barcellona, anciently called Barcino, or Colonia Faventia, the chief Citie of Catalonia in Spain.
• Barter, from the Latin word vertere, to truck, or change.
• Bartholomew, (Hebr.) a proper name, sig∣nifying the son of him that maketh the wa∣ters to mount.
• Bart••••, a place to keep Poultry in, from the Dutch word baert to bring forth, and Ho••n a H••n.
• Bar••let, a Term in Heraldry, the fourth part of a Bar.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (Spanish) the language of a Countrey of Spain, called Bi••cay.
• Base, the bottom, or foundation of any thing, also the foot of a pillar, also the deepest part in Musick, being the founda∣tion of the rest, also a kinde of fish, called a Sea-wolf.
• Base-Court, a Term in Law, any Court that is not of Record, as Court-Baron.
• Base estate, or base fee, is a holding at the will of the Lord.
• Baselards, (old word) Daggers, Wood-knives.
• Basil, an Herb so called, o•• a very fra∣grant smell, also a proper name signifying Royal, or Kingly.
• Basilical, (Greek) Royal, Magnificent.
• Basilick vain, see vein.
• Basilisk, (Greek) a kinde of a Serpent, called a Cockatrice, also a long piece of Ordnance, called in Italian Basilisco, also a star, called the Lions heart.
• Basinet, a little basin.
• Basis, see Base.
• Baskervil, the name of a very eminent fa∣mily, descended from a Niece of Gunora, that famous Norman Lady, they had their ancient seat at Erdsley, a Town in Hereford∣shire.
• Bassa, a Commander over Souldiers a∣mong the Turks.
• Bastard, signifies in the Common-law, one begotten out of Wedlock.
• Bastardise, to corrupt, to adulterate, to change out of its own kinde into a worse.
• Bastile, or Bastillion, (French) a fortresse,

• or fortification, the chief fortresse of Paris, is called la Bastile, being also the chief pri∣son of the Kingdom of France.
• Bastinado, (Spanish) a banging with a Cudgel.
• Bastion, (French) a Skonce, or Block-house, called also a Cullion head.
• Baston, (French) a Bat, or Cudgel, it signifieth also in the Statute Law, one of the servants, or Officers, to the Warden of the Fleet, that attendeth the Kings Court, for the taking of such men to Ward, as are committed by the Court.
• Bastonado, see Bastinado.
• Batavia, a part of lower Germany, sci∣tuate upon the River Rhene, called Hol∣land.
• Bath, a famous Citie in Sommersetshire, so called from the hot Baths of Medicinal waters, which are there by Antoninus cal∣led Aquae solis, by Ptolomy 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, some report them to have been found out by Bleyden a Magician, others by Julius Caesar, others by an ancient Brittish King.
• Battail-field, a place near Shrewsbury, so called from the great battail fought there between King Henry the fourth, and Ed∣mund Mortimer, Earle of March, where Sir Henry Piercy, called Hotsspur was slain.
• Battalion, (French) the main battle of an Army.
• Battle-bridge, a place in York-shire, other∣wise called Stanford-bridge, where Harald King of England slew Harald Hardreak King of Norwey.
• Battlements, the Turrets of houses built flat.
• Batt••logy, (Greek) a vain repetition of words.
• Battus, a certain keeper of Mares, to whom Mercury delivered several Oxen, which he had stollen from Apollo, keeping Admetus his heards, and coming to him af∣terwards in another s••ape, he corrupted him with gifts to deliver the Oxen, but see∣ing his perfidiousnesse, he turned him into a stone, called Index.
• Batune, a Term in Heraldry, and seemeth to be the fourth part of a bend Sinister onely, it toucheth not the chief, nor the base point.
• Bavaria, a great Dukedom in Germa∣ny.
• Baubels, (old word) Jewels.
• Baucis, the wife of Philemon, who inter∣tained Jupiter and Mercury. See Phile∣mon.
• Baud, a brave, a Ruffian, from the French word Ribaud.
• Baudkin, a kinde of tinsel, or stuff that glisters like sparkles.
• Baudon, custody, a word used by Chau∣cer.
• Baudrick, furniture, also a sword-girdle, also an old fashion'd Jewel.
• Baulk, (old word) to crosse.
• Baulm, a certain Herb called Beewort.
• Bawsin, (old word) bigge, grosse.
• Bay, a stop for water, a road for ships, also a brown red colour, being the colour of the Palm-tree, Chaucer also useth it for a stake.
• Bay-window, a window that boundeth out in a round form.

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• Beacon, from the Dutch word Bekennen to give notice, a light fastened upon a high pole to give warning of an enemies ap∣proach.
• Beaconage, money paid for the maintain∣ing of Beacons.
• Beads, from the Dutch word beden to pray, a certain number of prayers, at the end of which it is the custome to drop a bead.
• Beadle, (from the Dutch word Bedel, a Cryer) one that waites upon a Magistrate with a white wand to make any Summons, an Officer, especially belonging to a Uni∣versity, also an Officer of the Forrest, that makes all manner of garnishments for the Court of the Forrest, and makes all man∣ner of Proclamations, as well within the Court of the Forrest as without.
• A Beadroll, (Saxon) a list of such as Priests use to pray for in the Church.
• Beakehead, in Navigation, is that which is fastened to the stem of the ship, and is supported with a knee which is fastened into the stem.
• Beam, in hunting, is that whereon the starts of a Stags head grow.
• Bearesfoot, an Herb otherwise called Brank Ursin, or Beares claw.
• Bearers, a term in Law signifying main∣tainers or abettors; also a term in Heral∣dry, signifying those that have coat-ar∣mours, distinguisht from others by tin∣cture and differences.
• Bear in, is when a ship sailes before, or with a large wind into a harbour, or chan∣nel, she is said to bear in with the harbour or channel.
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• Bear off, when a ship goes more room than her course doth lie, she is said to bear off from the land.
• Beasel or collet of a ring, that wherein the stone is inchac't.
• Beastail, (French) all manner of cat∣tel or beasts, as oxen, sheep, &c.
• Beate, a term in hunting, a hare or cony when they make a noise, are said to beat or tapp.
• Beatitude, (Lat.) blessednesse, hap∣pinesse.
• Beatrix, (Lat.) a womans name, she that makes happy.
• Beavis, the proper name of a man, con∣tracted from Bellovesus.
• Beauchamp, a name of great honour and eminency from the time of King Henry the second, especially since Cicily de For∣tibus descended from the Earles de Ferra∣riis matcht into their Family of this name were anciently the Earles of Warwick, the Barons of Kidderminster, and of Powick. Of late ages, the Title of Vicount Beau∣champ, hath been conferred upon the Fa∣mily of Seimours. In old Records it is written de Bello Campo.
• Beaumont, the name of one of the great∣est Families of the Nation, descended from John County of Brene in France, who for his valour was preferred to the kingdom of Jerusalem.
• Beaupleading, a term in Law, fair plea∣ding.
• Beau Sir, fair sir, a word used by Chaucer.
• Bec, a Phrygian word, signifying bread, which was the first word pronounced by certain children, whom Psammeticus the Egyptian King caused to be brought up in a forrest, by which he concluded the Phrygians to be the most ancient people.
• Becebick, medicaments, such as are com∣posed for the asswaging of a cough, as Lozenges, Licorice, Pills, &c.
• Becomingnesse, neatnesse, handsomenesse, Artamenes.
• Bede, the name of a learned English Monk, who lived near Newcastle upon Tine; he had the title given him of ve∣nerable Bede, as well in his life time, as since his death.
• Beddeth, (a term in hunting) applied to a Roe when it lies down in any place.
• Bedellium, a kind of gum.
• Bedlem, or Bethlem, (an Hebr. word, signifying a house of bread) a place where mad people are kept.
• Bedoheer, (Sax.) a bedfellow.
• Beemot, the flat key in musick.
• Beesom, a broom.
• Beestings, quasi breasting, the first milk after birth.
• Beet, a certain Garden herb.
• Beglerbeg, a Supream Commander un∣der the Great Turk: there are but two who have this command, the one is called Beglerbeg of Greece, the other of Natolia.
• Beguines, an order of Religious women who are all old.
• Behight, (old word) promised.
• Beknew, (old word) learnt out.
• Behiram, a Feast among the Turks, where they use to pardon all injuries.
• Belamy, (French) fair friend.
• Belchier, (French) good counte∣nance.
• Belchose, (French) fair thing.
• Beleagre, to besiege, from the Dutch Belegren, to sit near.
• Belgia, the Country of the Belgae, or Low-countrymen, lying between the Ri∣ver Sequana, and the Rhene. It is divided into 17 Provinces, also the people ancient∣ly inhabiting that part of England now called Sommersetshire, Hantshire, and Wilt∣shire, were called Belgae, in regard they came thither originally out of Gallia Belgica.
• Belides, the fifty daughters of Danaus, who married the fifty sons of Aegyptus, who all killed their husbands except one.
• Belizarius, Captain of the Emperour Justinians armies, who overthrew the Per∣sians in the East, the Vandals in Africa, the Goths in Italy, and at last had his eyes put out by Justinian, and was forc't to beg his bread in a poor cottage.
• Bell, in the Chaldaean language signi∣fies the Sun who was worshipped under that name by the Caldaeans and Assy∣rians.
• Bellatrice, (Lat.) a woman warriour.
• Bellatrix, the left shoulder of Orion.
• Bellerophon, the son of Glaucus King of Epire, against whom Sthenobaea the wife of Praetus King of Argos conspired, because he refused her inticements; but he ha∣ving overcome all difficulties, was comman∣ded at last to kill the Chimaera, which he did with the help of Neptune, who sent him a flying horse called pegasus, which was afterwards plac't among the celestial Signs.
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• Belleth, a term in hunting, as when the Forresters say, a Roe Belleth.
• Bellipotent, (Lat.) strong in armes, powerful in war.
• Belligeration, (Lat.) a waging war.
• Bellona, who is also called Enyo, the Goddesse of War, and sister of Mars, some think her to be the same with Minerva.
• Bellow, the Foresters apply this word to the Hart, and say, the Hart bellow∣eth.
• Belluine, (Lat.) pertaining to beasts, of a cruel bestial disposition.
• Bel-vedere, (Ital.) pleasant to be∣hold, the name of the Popes Palace in Rome.
• Belus, the second, or, as some say, the first King of Assyria, who when he died, was worshipped as a god. Also the son of Epaphus and Lybia, was called Belus Priscus, who married Isis, and had two sons, Ae∣gyptus and Danaus, Belus hath also been taken for Jupiter, as Nimrod for Sa∣turn.
• Belzebub, an Hebrew word, signifying the god of flyes, and is used in Scripture for the prince of the Devils.
• Bement, (old word) lamented.
• Bemes, (old word) trumpets.
• Benacus, a lake in Lombardy, which is said to have golden sands.
• Benan, a Star in the taile of Helme.
• Bend, used by Chaucer for a muffler, a caul, a kercher. Also a term in Heral∣dry, being an ordinary extended between two opposite points of the Escutcheon: viz. the dexter chief, and the sinister base.
• Bendlet, is also a term in Heraldry, be∣ing a subdivision of the bend.
• Benedictines, certain religious Monks instituted by St. Benedict.
• Benefice, (Lat.) a spiritual promotion.
• Benes, (old word) bones.
• Benefactour, (Lat.) a doer of good turnes.
• Benet, the proper name of a man, con∣tracted from Benedictus.
• Beneplacitie, (Lat.) a well pleasing.
• Benevolence, (Lat.) good will.
• Benevolent Planets, are Jupiter and Venus.
• Benjamin, an Hebr. name, the son of the right hand, as also a gum.
• Benigne, (Lat.) favourable.
• Benimmeth, (old word) bereaveth.
• Benisons, (French) blessings.
• Bennavenna, see Bannavenna.
• Benoni, an Hebr. name, signifying the son of sorrow.
• Bereft, (old word) deprived of.
• Berenice, the daughter of Ptolemaeus Phi∣ladelphus and Arsinoe, whom Ptolemaeus La∣gus her brother married. She when her husband made an Expedition, vowed to de∣dicate her hair to Venus if he returned safe, which afterwards not being to be found, Conon the Mathematician feigned to have been translated to heaven and plac't a∣mong the Stars.
• Beris, a high hill in America, on the top of which some hold that many people were saved in the great Deluge.
• Berkhamsted, a Town in Hertfortshire, where Frederick Abbot of St. Albans, mi∣nistered an oath to William the Conquer∣our, in presence of Arch-Bishop Lanfranc, to observe inviolably the ancient laws of this Nation.
• Bern, the chief City of Helvetia, or Swizzerland.
• Bernacles, a sort of birds which breed out of the rotten wood of trees growing by the sea side, especially in the North parts of Scotland, and the Islands there∣abouts; They are also called Claik-geese, and Soland-geese.
• Bernard, from the Dutch word Beorn∣hart, i. e. beares heart, the proper name of a learned Monk of Burgundy, who en∣tred into the Monastery of Cisteaux.
• Bernard Colledge, a Colledge in Oxford, re-edified by Sir Thomas White, Citizen of London, and called by a new name, Trinity Colledge, as Durham Colledge was repaired by Sir Thomas Pope, and dedicated to St. John Baptist.
• Bernardines, an Order of Monks, insti∣tuted by Robert, Abbot of the above-named Monastery, whereof St. Bernard was the chief: they were also called Cistertian Monks.
• Bernet, a Town in Hertfordshire, fa∣mous for the great battle fought between the two Houses of York and Lancaster, where Rich. Nevil Earle of Warick was slain.
• Berry, a Saxon word, signifying a dwel∣ling house, a Lord of a Mannours seat.
• Berth, convenient room at sea to moor a ship in.
• Bertha, a womans name, signifying in the German tongue, bright or famous.
• Berthinsec, or Birdinsec, a law in Scot∣land, whereby a man cannot be hanged for stealing a sheep, or so much meat as

• he can carry upon his back in a sack, but onely scourged.
• Bertram, an herb called pellitory of Spain, also a proper name. See Ferdi∣nando.
• Berubium, a Town in Strathnahern in Scotland, now called Vrehead.
• Besant, an ancient coin of Gold, other∣wise called Bisantine, from Byzantium: i. e. Constantinople, where it used to be coined. It is uncertain what value it is of; some attribute to it the value of a Ducket. It is also a term in Heraldry, by which they understand plates of Gold, contain∣ing 104 pound and two ounces of Troy weight, in value 3750 pound ster. They were round and smooth, without any representation on them.
• Besieging, is when a Planet is placed be∣tween the bodies of the two malevo∣lents.
• Besestein, or Bisestano, the name of the chief Exchange or Market-place in Con∣stantinople.
• Besyen, trouble.
• Bet, (old word) better, also quickly.
• Bete, (old word) help, boot.
• Beten, (old word) to kindle.
• Bethlem, see Bedlem.
• Betle, or Betre, a kind of Indian plant, called Bastard-pepper.
• Betonie, a medicinal plant, so called, ha∣ving many soveraign vertues.
• Betrassed, (old word) deceaved.
• Betreint, (old word) sprinkled.
• Betroth, from the Dutch word Betrou∣wen, to make sure, to promise one in marriage.
• Beverage, (French) a mingled drink.
• Bevy, a troop, a company. The For∣resters say, a Bevy of Roes.
• Bewreck, (old word) revenged.
• Bewryen, (old word) bewray'd.
• Bezill, see Beasel.
• Bezoar, a pretious stone, bred in the maw of a Goat.

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• Bialacoyl, (old word) fair welcom∣ing.
• Biace, or Bias, (French) that which makes the boule to run obliquely.
• Bibacity, (Lat.) the immoderate love of drink.
• Bibliopolist, (Greek) a Book-seller.
• Bibliotheque, (Greek) a study of books, a library.
• Bice, a certain blue colour used by Painters.
• Bid, a boon, (old word) to desire a request.
• Bid-ale, the setting up of one decayed in his estate, by the liberality of friends invited or bid to a Feast.
• Bicipital, (Lat.) having two heads.
• Bicorp••real, signes are those signes which represent two bodies, or double bodied, as Gemini and Pisces.
• Biennial, (Lat.) of two years conti∣nuance.
• Bifarious, (Lat.) twofold, or that may be taken two wayes.
• Biformed, (Lat.) having two shapes.
• Bifront, (Lat.) having two fore∣heads.
• Bifur••ous, (Lat.) twoforked.
• Bigamy, (Greek) the marriage of two wives at the same time, which according to Common law, hinders a man from ta∣king holy Orders, or one that is a prisoner from having the benefit of his Clergy.
• Bigat, a certain silver coin among the Romans, from Bigia, a chariot drawn with two horses, which was stamped upon it.
• Bigot, (French) a scrupulous supersti∣tious fellow,
• Bilanciis deferendis, a writ directed to a Corporation for the carrying of weights to a Haven to weigh the wools that are licenc't to be transported.
• By-laws, Orders made in Court leets, or Court barons, by common assent, farther than the publick law binds. In Scotland they are called Birlaw, or Burlaw.
• Bilbilis, an ancient City of Hispania Tarraconensis famous for the birth of Martial the Latin Poet, now called by some Calatayn'd.
• Bilboa, or Bilbo, a City of Biscay in Spain, where the best blades are made.
• The Bildge, or Buldge of a ship, is the breadth of the flooce whereon the ship doth rest when she is a ground.
• Bilinguis, (Lat.) double-tongued; also a Common law term, signifying the jury that passeth between an Englishman and Alien, whereof part are English, and part Strangers.
• Binarie, (Lat.) the number of two.
• Binarchy, (Greek) a government, where two onely bear sway.
• Bindeweed, a certain herb, otherwise called With-wind.
• Binne, (old word) a manger, also a place to put bread in.
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• Bint, (old word) bound.
• Bipartite, (Lat.) divided into two parts.
• Bipatent, (Lat.) open on both sides.
• Bipedal, (Lat.) two-foot long.
• Biquintile, is an Aspect consisting of 141 degrees, thus C••aractered Bq.
• Brigandes, a kinde of wilde Goose.
• Birlet, (old word) a Coife, or Hood.
• Bisexons, (Lat.) of both Sexes.
• Bismare, (old word) curiosity.
• Bison, (French) a wilde one, great-eyed, and broad-fac't.
• Bisque, a fault at Tennis, also a com∣pound dish.
• Bissextile, Leap-year, which is every fourth year, wherein one day more then ordinary is added to February, having commonly but 28 dayes, and that odd day they call dies Intercalaris.
• Bisumbres, see Amphiscii.
• Biton, and Cleobis, the two sons of Ar∣gia the Priestesse, who for want of horses drew their Mothers Chariot to the Tem∣ple themselves, whereupon their Mother requesting of the Gods a reward agree∣able to their piety, they were both found dead the next morning.
• Bitressed, see Betrassed.
• Bittazle, a close Cubbard, placed on the steerage before the tiller, whereon the Compasse doth stand.
• Bits, two square pieces of Timber, com∣monly placed abast the manger, in the loof of the ship.
• Bittour, a bird so called, a kinde of He∣ron, which they say hath three stones.
• Bitume, a kinde of slimy clay, almost of the nature of brimstone, or pitch, also a kinde of liquor flowing out of mare mor∣tuum that burns like Oyl.
• Bituriges, a certain people of Gallia aquitanica, whose Countrey is now called
• Berry, and their chief Citie Bourges.
• Bizantin, see Besant.

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• Black book of the Exchequer, a book which treateth of all the ancient Ordnan∣ces, and Orders of the Exchequer.
• Blacklow, a Hill in Warwick-shire, upon which Pierce Gaveston, whom King Edward the second raised from a base Estate to be Earle of Cornwall was beheaded by the Nobles for his insolencie.
• Blackmore Forrest, a Forrest in Dorcet∣shire, called also the Forrest of Whitehart from a very beautifull Whitehart, which King Henry the third, going thither a hunting, and taking great care to spare, was killed by T. de la Linde, which so in∣censed the King, that he set a perpetual Fine upon the Land, which at this day is called Whitehart silver.
• Black-rod, the Usher belonging to the Order of the Garter, so called from the Black-rod he carrieth in his hand, he is also of the Kings Chamber, and of the Lords House in Parliament.
• Black buried, gone to Hell.
• A Blain, a blister.
• Blanch, (French) white, also the proper name of a woman, frequent in England.
• Blandiloquence, (Lat.) a flattring, or speaking fair.
• Blandishment, (French) a flattring, or soothing with fair speeches.
• Blankers, white furniture.
• Blankmanger, (French) a kinde of deli∣cious meat made of Rice, Almond milk, Capons brains, and other things.
• Blasco, an Island in the mouth of the River Rhene, now called Languillade.
• Blase, (Greek Blasios) a proper name, signifying sprouting forth.
• Blatant, barking, bawling.
• Blateration, (Lat.) vain-babling.
• Blaze, (Dutch) to spread abroad.
• Blazon, (French) the description of a Coat of Arms.
• Blay, or bleak, a kinde of fish of a whi∣tish colour.
• Ble, (old word) sight, view.
• Bleach, to whiten, to dry in the sun.
• Blemishes, marks made by hunters, where the Deer hath gone.
• Blend, to mix, to mingle together.
• Blent, (old word) stayed, ceased, turn'd back.
• Blepharon, (Greek) he that hath great eye-brows.
• Blesiloquent, (Lat.) faltering in speech, stammering.
• Blue-bottle, a kinde of blue flowr, so called.
• Blue-mantle, the name of an Office be∣longing to one of the Pursevants of Arms.
• Blight, an Herb, called burnt-corn, or the black Chameleon Thistle.
• Blinkard, one that looks ask••w, or with distorted eyes.
• Blinks, (a Term in hunting) boughs rent from Trees, and cast overtwhart the way, where a Deer is likely to passe, thereby

• to hinder his running, they are called in French Brisees.
• Blissome, to tup as the Ram doth the Ewe.
• Blite, an Herb, so called.
• Blith, an old British word, that signifies yielding milk, profitable, also Blith, or Blithsome is used for pleasant, or jovial.
• Blive, (old word) readily, fast.
• Blo, (old word) blue.
• Blocks, in Navigation are those small woodden things, wherein the running ropes do run.
• Blomary, the first forge in an Iron-Mill, through which the Iron doth passe after: It is melted out of the Mine.
• Bloom, to blossome.
• Blote, to smoke, from the Dutch word, bloet, i. e. bloud.
• Bloudy-hand, see Dogdraw.
• Bloud-wit, an old Saxon word used in Charters of liberties anciently granted, signifying an Amerciament for shedding of bloud.
• Blunder, to keep a pudder, bestir ones self.
• Blyn, (old word) to cease.

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• Boa, a kind of diseases incident to chil∣dren, which fills them full of red pimples, which is called by Physicians Rubella, or the Measels.
• Boanerges, (Hebr.) sons of Thunder.
• Boas, a kinde of Serpent, which being nourish't with Cows milk, grow's to a monstrous greatnesse, in so much as one of them having been killed, there was found an Infant whole in its belly, Plin.
• Boatswain, a Term of Navigation, the Subpilot, he that swayeth, or governeth a boat, or ship, under the chief Pilot.
• Boccone, (Ital.) a morsel, or bit, also poyson.
• Bockland, a Term in Law, land held by book, or charter.
• Bodotria, or Bederia, the ancient name of a Town in Scotland, now called Eden∣burgh Frith, or the Forth, and Frith.
• Boeotia, a Countrey in Greece, formerly called Ogygia, and separated from Attica by the Hill Cytheron.
• Bohemia, a part of Germany beyond the Danow, whose chief Citie is Prague.
• Boistous, (old word) halting, lame, lowly.
• Bole-armoniack, a kind of earth, or soft crumbling-stone, which is found in a part of Armenia, used by Painters to make a kinde of faint red colour.
• Boline, a Term in Navigation, signifying the Coard in a ship, with which Mariners use to draw the sayl, that it may gather winde.
• Bollen, (old word) swelled.
• Bollingbroke, a Castle in Lincoln-shire, famous for being the birth-place of King Henry the fourth, who was called Henry of Bolling-broke.
• Bolmong, a medley of several Granes to∣gether, it is also called Masselin, or Mong∣corn.
• Boltsprit, a Term in Navigation, a mast at the head of a ship.
• Bombasine, a stuffe made of Bombast, or Cotton.
• Bombard, a kinde of Gunne, or piece of Ordnance.
• Bombilation, (Lat.) a humming of Bees.
• Bombycinous, made of silk, from the La∣tin word Bom••yx, i. e. silk.
• Bona Patria, a Term of the practick, or law in Scotland, & signifies the choosing of twelve men out of any part of the Coun∣trey to passe upon Assise, who are called Jurators.
• Bonaght, a certain tax formerly exacted in Ireland, for the maintenance of the Knights, called Bonaghty.
• Bonair, see debonair.
• Bona, a womans name, signifying in La∣tin, good.
• Bonasus, a wilde beast, having the head of a bull, and the body of a horse.
• Bonaventure, (Lat.) good luck, the pro∣per name of a famous holy Fryer of St. Francis Order, and of divers other Emi∣nent men.
• Bonet, a kinde of a Cap.
• Bonewell, the name of a pretty Well, near Richards Castle in Hereford-shire, so called, because it is alwayes full of lit∣tle fish bones, or as some think of small Frog bones, although they be from time to time quite drawn out of it.
• Bongrace, (French) good grace, hand∣some behaviour, also a kinde of covering for Childrens foreheads, to keep them from the heat of the Sun.
• Bonhommes, (French) an order of Fry∣ers, instituted by St. Francis de Paula, they were also called Fryer Minims, or Minorites.
• Boniface, (Lat.) quasi well-doer, the proper name of several Popes, and divers other eminent men.
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• Bonjour, a salutation used in French, being as much as good morrow with us.
• Bonito, a kinde of fish, so called from the French word, Bondir, to leap up.
• Bonium, the ancient name of the Mona∣sterie of Bangor in Cheshire, where Pela∣gius the Heretick was brought up.
• Boodeth, (old word) sheweth.
• Boolie, (old word) beloved.
• Boon, (old word) a request.
• Boot of Bale, (old word) ease of sor∣row's.
• Bootes, a North-star, near Charles wain, called also Bubulcus, or Arctophylax, which the Poets fain'd to have been Arcas the son of Calisto, who was changed into a Bear, and plac't also among the signs.
• Boracho, a Spanish word, signifying a bottle made of a Pigg's skin, with the hair inward dress't with rozen and Pitch.
• Borage, a kinde of Herb good for the heart, and to expel melancholy.
• Borax, or Borace, a hard, and shining mineral like green earth, wherewith Gold∣smiths use to soder Gold or Silver. It is also called Chrysocolla.
• Borbonia, a Dukedome in France, which began from the line of Philip de Valois.
• Bordel, (Ital.) a Brothel-house.
• Bordlanders, the demesns that Lords keep in their hands for the maintenance of their bord or table.
• Borduce in Heraldry, is a circumference or tract of one mettal, colour or fur, drawn about the armes, and it contains the first part of the field,
• Boreas, the son of Astraeus, or as some say, of Strymon, he married Orithya the daughter of Erichthonius, King of Athens, and begate Zetes and Calais. It is also the name of the North wind.
• Borith, an herb which Fullers use for the taking of spots out of cloth.
• Born, (old word) to burnish.
• Borough, see Bourrough.
• Borrell, (old word) attire on the head.
• Borrow, (old word) a pledge, a surety.
• Borysthenes, the greatest River in Scy∣thia, next to Ister.
• Boscage, a place set thick with trees, al∣so a term in painting, a picture that re∣presents much wood or trees.
• Bosenham or Boseham, a pleasant Town in Sussex, where K. Harald liv'd retired for his recreation, and lanching forth into the sea in a little Bark, he was carried by contrary winds into Normandy, where be∣ing detained, he assured the Kingdom of England to Duke William.
• Boss, (French) a stud or knob.
• Bosphorus, the name of two seas, so cal∣led from the passage of Jupiter over them in the shape of a Bull, when he stole a∣way Europa, the one lieth near Constanti∣nople, and is called Bosphorus Thracius, the other more northward, and is called Bos∣phorus Cimmerius.
• Botachidae, a place of Tegea in Arcadia, from Botachus the Nephew of Lycur∣gus.
• Botanicall, (Greek) belonging to herbs.
• Botargo, a kind of Saucedge, from the Greek word Oa Taricha, salted egges.
• Bothna, or Buthna, a term used in the practick of Scotland, signifying a Park where cattel are inclosed and fed.
• Botin, (French) a kind of boot or buskin.
• Botolph, a proper name, signifying in the Saxon tongue helpful.
• Bottom, (old word) a blossom or bud.
• Bovillae, a Town near Rome where Clau∣dius was slain by Milo.
• Bovillon, (French) a kind of boiled meat, made of several ingredients.
• A Boulter, a seive to sift meal or flower.
• Boun, (old word) ready.
• Bourchier, contracted into Bowcer, the name of a very great and ancient Family of this Nation, stiled in Latin, Records de burgo Chara, whose chief seat in ancient times was Hausted, a Town in Essex.
• Bourd, (French) to jest.
• Bourges, (French) a free Denison.
• Bourn, (Dutch) a head of a Spring, or Fountain; and those Towns that end in bourn, as Sittinbourn, &c. are situated upon Bourns or Springs.
• Bourrean, (French) an Executioner.
• Bourrough, from the Dutch word Burgh, a Town incorporate, which is not a City, whence Bourrough, or Bourgomaster, is the Bailiff, Maior, or Chief Ruler of a Town or Borrow.
• Bourrough English, or Burgh-English, a term in law, being a customary descent of land or tenements, to the youngest son or brother.
• A Bourser or Bouser, (French) a Purse-bearer or Treasurer of a Col∣ledge.
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• Boute-feu, (French) an incendiary, a sower of strife and sedition.
• A Bow, a Mathematical instrument to take heights.
• The Bow of a Ship, the fore part of it, so called from the form.
• A Bowge of Court, a livery of bread and drink, or other things of the Princes bounty over and above the ordinary al∣lowance.
• To bowlt a Cony, (term of hunting) to start her out of any place where she lies.
• Boxa, a kind of drink made in Turky of a seed somewhat like mustard-seed.
• Boy, or Booy of an anchor (Span.) that which being tied to the Anchor swims up∣pon the water to give notice where the Anchor lies.

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• Brabantia, the Dukedom of Brabant, which is parted from Flanders by the Ri∣ver Scheldt, it containes the Marchionate of the sacred Empire, the Dukedom of Ars••hot, the Earledomes of Hochstrat and Macklin.
• Braccata Gallia, that part of France wich is called Province.
• Brace, that which fastens beams in building, also a Cable of a ship, also a couple or pair, from the French brace, i. e. the armes.
• Brachy-graphy, (Greek) the Art of writing in Characters or short-writing.
• Brackmans or Bramans, a sect of Phi∣losophers or Divines in India, who live onely upon herbs and fruits.
• Braggard or Braggadocio, a bragging vain-glorious fellow.
• Bragget, a drink made of honey, used in Wales, it is derived from two Welch words, Brag which signifies malt, and Gots a honey-comb; it is also a word used in Architecture, signifying a stay cut out of stone or timber to bear up the Corbel.
• Braid Albin, otherwise called Albanie, the most Nothren Country of Scotland, commonly called the Highlands, the high∣est part whereof is likewise called Drum Albin, or Brun Albin.
• Brake, (Dutch) a snaffle for horses.
• Brancher, a young Hawk newly come out of the neast.
• Brankursin, see Bearesfoot.
• Brand-iron, a trevet, an iron to set a pot upon.
• Brandish, (French) to make to shine with a gentle moving.
• Branonium, the ancient name of Wigor∣nia or the City of Worcester.
• Brant, a bird called a Bargander, or Soland-goose.
• Brassets, (French) armour for the armes.
• Brast, (old word) to break.
• Brat, (old word) a ragge.
• Bravado, (Spanish) a daring, a ma∣king shew of an onset.
• Bravery, a going fine in cloths, also a compleatnesse of behaviour. Cleopatra.
• Bravy, (old word) a reward.
• Brawders, engraven work,
• Brawl, a kind of dance, from the French word Bransler, to move gently up and down.
• Brayd, (old word) to break out.
• Brayed, awoke, arose, also took.
• Breck, (old word) a bruise.
• Brede, (old word) a bredth, also a∣broad.
• Bredgen, (old word) to abridge to shorten.
• Breez, a fresh gale or wind blowing off the sea by day.
• Breetch, (a term in Gunnery) the af∣termost part of a gun.
• Breme, (old word) furiously, also a kind of fish so called.
• Brennus, a Captain of the Gaules who overthrew the Romans at the River Al∣bia, and took Rome, but was beaten out by Camillus, afterwards he killed himself at Delphos.
• Brent, (old word) burnt.
• Breve, that which we call a writ, is cal∣led in the practick of Scotland, a Breve, the several formes whereof will be seen in their order.
• Breviary, a compendious collection, also a kind of Masse-book.
• Breviloquence, (Lat.) a short discourse, a speaking in brief.
• Brian, (French) a shrill voice.
• Briarius, one of the Centimani, and bro∣ther to Gyes and Caeus, they were all three the sons of Vranus and Terra, and were said each of them to have a hundred hands
• Bricolls, certain Engins used in old time to batter the walls of Towns or Castles.
• Bridgenorth, a Town in Shropshire, cor∣ruptedly so called, for Burgmorf, i. e. the Town near the Forrest of Morf; it was built by Achelfleda, Lady of the Mercians,

• and walled by Robert de Belesm, Earle of Shrewsbury, who keeping the Town a∣gainst King Henry the second, was there besieged and taken.
• A Brie, or Brieze, a kinde of fly, called a horse fly, or Gad-fly.
• A Brief, or Breve, or Writ, see Writ.
• Brigade, (French) a Term in Military Discipline, a body of Souldiers, consisting of three squadrons.
• Brigandine, (French) an ancient kinde of Armour, with many plates and joynts, like a Coat of Maile (whence Brigand a foot Souldier so arm'd, or a high-way Robber;) it signifieth also a kind of ship, or Pinnace.
• Brigantes, the ancient name of those people that inhabited a great part of the North of England, as York-shire, Richmond-shire, the Bishoprickrick of Durham, Lan∣cashire, Cumberland, and Westmorland.
• Brig-bote, or Brug-bote, (Dutch) a con∣tribution made toward the mending of Bridges, also an exemption from that Tri∣bute by a Charter from the King.
• Brigidians, an order of religious per∣sons, instituted by a Princesse of Suetia, whose name was Brigidia, there was also an Irish woman famous for sanctity, who was called St. Brigit, or Bride.
• Brimstone, a certain Mineral, being the fat of the earth, decocted unto his hard∣nesse.
• Brionie, a plant, called otherwise white Vine.
• Briseis, the daughter of Brises, she fell to Achilles his share at the taking of Lyr∣nessus, and being afterwards taken from him by Agamemnon, was the cause of his defection from the Grecian Army for a great while.
• Britannia, the name of this whole Island, containing England and Scotland, it is so called from the ancient name Brith, i. painted and Tania, which among the old Greeks signified a Region.
• Bristow, the name of a pleasant Citie, standing partly in Sommerset-shire, partly in Gloster-shire, it is so called as it were Brightstow, which in the Saxon signifieth a bright, or shining place, in British it was called Caer Oder Nant Badon, i. e. the Ci∣tie Oder in the Vale of Badon, it was for∣tified by Robert Bishop of Constance, against King William Rufus, with a Wall, which this day is in part standing.
• Britomartis, a Cretan Nimph, the daugh∣ter of Jupiter and Charme, she was the first Inventour of hun••••ng Nets, being pursued by Minos, she to aviod him, threw her self into the Sea.
• Broach, a Term in hunting, the next start growing above the Beamantler in a Stagg's head.
• Brocado, (Spanish) a kinde of Cloath, wrought, or mixed with Gold, or Sil∣ver.
• Broccarii, a word used in the Scots pra∣ctick, signifies in the Statutes of Gild. Mediatours in any transaction, or con∣tract.
• Brochity, crookednesse, especially of teeth.
• Brocket, a red Deer of two years old, a spitter, or pricket.
• Brode-half-penny, a Toll, or Custome, for setting up boards, or Tables in a Market, or Fair.
• Brond, (old word) fury.
• Brontes, one of the Cyclops, the son of Coelus and Terra, and brother to Arpe and Strerope, they had each of them one∣ly one eye, and that upon their fore∣head.
• Brooklime, an Herb so called.
• Brooming, a bringing of a ship aground to be trimmed, or made clean.
• Brotel, (old word) brickle.
• A Brouch, a Jewel.
• Brow-antler, a Term among hunters, the first start that grows next to the head of a stag, and next to that is the beam-antler.
• Browded, (old word) imbroidered.
• Browk, (old word) to injoy.
• Browse, to feed as beasts on shrubs, or roots of trees.
• Bruges, a famous Citie in Flanders, en∣compass't with a fair wall, and having above 60 Churches.
• Brumal, (Lat.) winterlike, belonging to the shortest day of winter.
• Brundusium, a Town in Italy, through which Caesar followed Pompey into Greece.
• Brusk, a Term used in Heraldry, signi∣fying a kinde of tawney colour, otherwise called Tenne.
• Bryke, (old word) streight, narrow.
• Brymme, when a Boar desires copulati∣on, he is said to go to the brymme.

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• Buccinate, (Lat.) to blow a Trumpet.
• Bucentoro, a stately Gally, or great ship, wherein the Duke of Venice, and the Se∣nate

• go yearly in Triumph, on Ascention day, to espouse the Sea.
• Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander the Great, he had the mark of a Bull's head upon his shoulder, being killed in the bat∣tle, which Alexander fought against Porus, King of India, a Citie was built in the place where he was buried, called Buce∣phala.
• Bucheldians, a Sect of Hereticks, which are reckoned among the several sorts of Anabaptists.
• Buck, a Hare, or Cony, when they de∣sire copulation are said to go to Buck.
• Buck-hurst, the title of a Barony, belong∣ing to the Sackviles, afterwards Eearls of Dorset.
• Buckingham, the chief Towns in Buc∣kinghamshire, so called from its fruitful∣nesse in Beech-trees, which the Saxons cal∣led Bucken.
• Bucoliks, (Greek) pastoral songs.
• Buda, the chief Citie of Hungary, now called Offen, not farre from the Banks of Danubius.
• Budaris, a Citie of Germany, belonging to the Pals-grave, now called Heidelbergh.
• Budge, Lambs furre.
• Buffle, a wilde Oxe.
• Bulbous, (Lat.) Bulbous plants, are those that have round roots.
• Buffoon, (French) a Jester.
• Bulgaria, a countrey on this side Thrace.
• † Bulimy, (Greek) insatiable hunger.
• A Bull, a round Jewel, hollow within, also one of the Popes briefs or Mandates.
• Bullion mony, Gold, or Silver, in the Masse, or billet, also the place where such Gold, or Silver is brought to be tried and changed for the King.
• Bumbasin, see Bombasin.
• Bundles, a sort of Records of Chancery, lying in the Office of the Roll's, as the Files of Bills, and Answers in Chancery, the Files of Corpus cum causa, all Writs of Certiorare with their Certificates, and di∣vers others.
• Buoy, see Boy.
• Buquan, a County in the South-part of Scotland, the people whereof were anci∣ently called Taizoli.
• Burgedala, a famous Citie of France, now called Bourdeaux, where the Poet Ausonius was born.
• Burel, fine••glasse.
• Burford, a Town in Oxford-shire, where Cuthred King of the West-Saxons van∣quish't Aethelbald, King of the Mercians, and won his Banner whereon was painted the Golden Dragon.
• Burgage, is a Tenure, whereby men of Cities and Borrows hold their Lands and Tenements of the King, and other Lords for a certain yearly Rent.
• Burganet, (French) a kinde of Helmet.
• Burgeon, or Bourgeon, to grow big about, or grosse.
• A Burgh, see Bourrough.
• Burgh-grave, a title of Honour in Ger∣many, signifying a Count of a Castle, or Garrison.
• Burglary, (French) from Bourg, a Vil∣lage and Larrecin theft, according to the acceptance of Common-law, is defined a felonious entring into another mans house, with an intent to steal somewhat, or to do some fellonious act.
• Burgundia, a Countrey of France, the people whereof were anciently called Se∣quani, and Hedui: It is now divided into lower Burgundie, which is called Burgun∣dia Regia, or the County of Burgundie, and into upper Burgundy, which is called Burgundia Imperatoria, or the Dutchy of Burgundy.
• Burled, (old word) armed.
• Burlesque, (French) merry, drolish.
• Burlet, (French) a coife.
• Burly-brand, (old word) a great sword, great fury.
• Burnet, the name of a certain Herb, also a word used by Chauser, signifying wool∣len, also a hood, or attire for the head.
• Burnish, (Ital.) to make bright to po∣lish, also a word used by hunters, when Harts spread their Horns after they are new rubbed.
• A Burnisher, a word used in graving, or etching, and signifieth a thing which they make use to smooth, & sweeten the work.
• Burshoulder, or Burrowholder, see Head∣borough.
• Buscum ducis, one of the chief Towns of Brabant, now called Hertogenbush.
• Bush, or holy water sprinkle, (a Term in hunting) the tayl of a Fox.
• Busiris, the son of Neptune, and Lybia the daughter of Epaphus, who for his Ty∣ranny was slain by Hercules, with his son Amphidamas, and Chalbis his cryer.
• A Buskin, a kinde of boot, alse a Pump worn by Tragidians.
• Bustard, or Bistard, a kind of great slug∣gish bird.
• Butes, the son of Amycus, King of the Bebrycians, he being deposed, fled to Tre∣panum,

• and falling in love with Lycaste a fair Curtesan, he begat Eryx.
• Buthus, a famous Wrestler, that used to devour a whole oxe in a day.
• Butlerage, of wines, a certain impost up∣pon wines, which the Kings Butler may exact out of every ship.
• Butten, a term among hunters, the first part in putting up a Stags head.
• Buttington, a Town in Montgomeryshire, wherein in old time the Danes taking up their winter quarters, were driven out by Adhered Earle of the Mercians, in the year of our Lord, 894.
• Buttresse, a word of Architecture, the prop whereon the but-end of the building resteth.
• Buttuck, a term in Navigation, the breadth of a ship right a stern from the tuck upwards.
• Buxome or Bu••some, from the Dutch word Booghsaem, pliant, flexible, also blith or merry.
• Buzzar, a Market-place among the Persians.
• Buzzard, a kind of great Hawk or Kite.

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• Byblus, a Town of Phoenicia, where Ado∣nis had a Temple built in honour of him.
• Byg, (old word) to build.
• Byker, (old word) a fray.
• Byndon, a Town in Dorcetshire, where in the year 614. Kinegilsus the Saxon King in a doubtful and bloody battel over∣came the Brittaines.
• Byram, a certain solemn Feast among the Turkes.
• Byrlaw or Burlaw, a term used in the practick of Scotland. Laws of Burlaw are determined by consent of neighbours elected by common consent in the Courts called Burlaw Courts.
• Byssine, (Lat.) made of silk.
• Bytrent, (old word) catched about.
• Bywopen, (old word) made senselesse.
• Byzantium, a City of Thrace, built by the Spartans under the command of Pau∣sanias. It was afterwards called Nova Ro∣ma: But Constantine the Great, making it the chief Seat of his Empire, it was cal∣led Constantinople, and is at this day the chief Seat of the Turkish Empire.

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• CAb, an Hebr. measure of 3 pints.
• Cabades, a King of Persia, who suc∣ceeded Perozes after he had vanquished him, and cut off his whole army.
• Cabala, an Hebrew word, signifying re∣ceiving, also a science among the Jews, comprehending the secret wayes of ex∣pounding the Law, which were revealed by God to Moses.
• Cabalin, fountain, see Hypocrene.
• Cabin, a cottage, also a little room in a ship, called also Cabern.
• Cablish, (a term used by the writers of forrest laws) signifying Brushwood.
• Cabura, an odoriferous fountain of Me∣sopotamia, wherein Juno was used to wash.
• Caburn, a small line made of yarn to bind the cabel of a ship withal.
• Cacams, Doctors among the Jews.
• Cacafuego, a Spanish word signifying shitefire.
• Cachexy, (Greek) a physical term, signifying an ill disposition of the body.
• Cachinnations, (Lat.) a loud laughter.
• Cacique, a certain King among the In∣dians.
• Cackrell, a kind of fish.
• Cacochimie, (Greek) a physical word, signifying ill juice which is caused in the body through bad nutriment, or ill di∣gestion.
• Cacodemon, (Greek) an evil spirit.
• Cacosyntheton, (Greek) a vicious com∣position of words.
• Cacozealous, (Greek) ill affected, or badly imitating.
• Cacuminate, (Lat.) to form into a sharpe top like a Pyramid.
• Cacumination, (Lat.) a making sharp at the top.
• Cacus, a shepherd of Aventinium in Ita∣ly, who stealing some of the oxen which Hercules Recaranus had taken from Gor∣gon, drew them backward by the taile to his cave, that they might seem by their foot-steps to have gone an other way; but the theft being discovered, Hercules slew him with his club, and recovered his oxen.
• Cadaverus, (Lat.) like a carcase, full of dead carcases.
• Cadbury, a Town in Sommersetshire, which is thought by some to have been that Cathbregion where K. Arthur over∣came the English Saxons in a memorable battel.
• Caddow, a chough or daw.
• Cade, or Cadd••e, an Arabian word, sig∣nifying a Lord or Magistrate among the Eastern people.
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• Cadence, (Lat.) a just falling of the tone in a sentence, a descending of notes in musick.
• Cad••nt houses, are the third, sixth, eight, and twelfth, houses of a scheme or figure.
• Cadet, (French) a younger brother, among Gentlemen.
• Cadier Arthur, a high mountain in Brecknockshire, whose two tops resembling the form of a chair, it is thence vulgarly called K. Arthurs Chair.
• Cadmus, the King of the Phoenicians, the son of Agenor and brother of Europa, he brought the Greek letters out of Phoeni∣cia; he killed a serpent which had slain some of his companions, sowing the teeth of it in the Earth, out of which there sprung up armed men. He built Thebes, in the Country of Aonia, which was after∣wards called Boeotia; but being driven thence with his wife Hermione, by Zethus and Amphion, he was changed into a serpent.
• Cadrou, or Cadzou, a Barony in Scot∣land, out of which was paid a yearly pen∣sion of 26 pounds 13 shillings and 4 pence to the Kings Exchequer.
• Caduce, the snaky staffe which Apollo gave to Mercury in recompence of his harp. This staff had such vertue, that with it he could kill or make alive. It was also a rod among the Romans which was carried by their Heraulds in sign of peace; whence an Embassadour is called Caduceator.
• Caecity, (Lat.) blindnesse.
• Caelibate, (Lat.) an unmarried state, a bachelers life.
• Caenis, a Thessalian Virgin, who was ravisht by Neptune, and being turned into a man and called Caeneus, was made in∣vulnerable: afterwards fighting against the Centaurs, was buried alive by a great weight of trees thrown upon him.
• Caercaradoc, a hill in Shropshire, where Caratacus an ancient King of the Brittans resolutely defended a stone Rampire a∣gainst Ostorius Lieutenant of the Romans.
• Caerdiff, a Town in Glamorganshire, for∣tified by Robert Fitz-Hamon, whose Grandchild William Earle of Glocester, was afterwards besieged in the Castle, and ta∣ken prisoner by Yvor-Bach, a Brittish Mountaineir. In this Castle, Robert Cur∣those, son of William the Conqueror, af∣ter he was bereft of his eyes, lived till he was very old.
• Caerfuse or Caersu••e, a Town in Mont∣gomeryshire, anciently as they say, a very famous City.
• Caermarden, by Ptolomy called Maridu∣num, the chief Town of Caermardenshire, the birth-place of Merlin, the ancient Brit∣tish Prophet.
• Caernarvon, the chief Town of Caernar∣vonshire, where the Princes of Wales an∣ciently kept their Chancery, Exchequer, and Courts of Justice; it was built by K. Edward the first, and the birth-place of K. Edward the second, sirnamed thence Edward of Caernarvon.
• Caesar, a name attributed to the Empe∣rours of Rome, from Julius Caesar the first Emperour.
• Caeyx, see Halcyon.
• Cageole, (French) to prate to little purpose, to canvas or dispute a busi∣nesse.
• Cainsham, a Town in Sommersetshire, so called because it was built by Keina a de∣vout Brittish Virgin, of whom it was be∣lieved by the vulgar, that she turned Ser∣pents into stones, because the high-way thereabout is full of stones which wreath about resembling a Serpent.
• Cairus or Alcairus, a great City of Ae∣gypt, formerly called Babylon Egyptia, it was taken by the Turk Zelmi.
• Caishoberry, the name of a country Pa∣lace, or great House near Watford in Hertfordshire; it was begun by Sir Rich∣ard Morisin Knight (Embassadour to se∣veral great Princes, under K. Henry the eighth, and K. Edward the sixth) and finisht by Sir Charles Morisin, his son. It is now in the possession of the Lady Capell Dowager.
• Caitive, wretched wicked from the French Chetif, or the Italian Cattivo.
• Caitisned, chained, a word used by Chaucer.
• Calabria, a fruitful Country of Italy, which now belongs to the kingdom of Naples.
• Calamint, an herb so called.
• Calamist, a Piper upon a reed, from the Latin word Calamus.
• Calamity, (Lat.) misery, but original∣ly it signifies a destruction of corn, from Calamus a stalk of corn.
• Calasticks, a physical word, signifying purging ointments.
• Calatrava, a place in Spain, which gives denomination to certain Knights, who are called Knights of Calatrave.
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• Calcanth, a Chymical word, being the same as Vitriol.
• Calcation, (Lat.) a treading, or stamp∣ing.
• Calcedon, a word used by Lapidaries, being a certain forbe vein in a Ruby, or Saphyre, differing from the rest of the stone, also the name of a precious stone.
• Calchas, a Grecian south-sayer, the son of Thestor, who seeing a Serpent devour ten Sparrow chickins, prophesied that Troy should be taken the tenth year.
• Calcine, or Calcinate, (Lat.) a Chymi∣call Term, signifying to reduce any thing into cinders, especially metals.
• Calcitrate, (Lat.) to kick, or spurn.
• Calcule, (Lat.) an accounting, also a Ches-man, or Counter.
• Caleb, a proper name, signifying in Hebr. hearty.
• Calcent, a great Mart-Town in India, situate upon the Indian Sea.
• The Caledonian vvood, a great vvood in Scotland, whence Scotland it self hath been anciently called Caledonia, or Caly∣donia.
• Calefaction, (Lat.) a heating, or warm∣ing.
• Calender, a Term used by Linnen-drapers, signifying to set a glosse upon cloath.
• A Calender, (Lat.) an Almanack.
• Calends, (Lat.) a word used among the Romans, for the Computation of their moneths, and signifies the first day of eve∣ry moneth, and if any number be added, it stands for so many as precede the Ca∣lends.
• Calenture, a Spanish word, signifying heat, also a burning feavour.
• Caletum, a Port Town in France, called by Caesar Portus Iccius, by the Moderns Calis.
• Calidity, (Lat.) heat.
• Caliduct, a kinde of Furnace used by the ancients, to convey heat from one room to another, through certain pipes.
• Caligation, (Lat.) dimnesse of sight.
• Caligula, the fourth Emperour of Rome, so called from certain Military Bus∣kins, which he used to wear, named Ca∣ligae.
• Caliph, a Persian word, signifying King, or Emperour, at first all the chief Princes of the Mahumetan Religion were called Caliphs, as the Caliph of Aegypt, &c.
• Calisto, one of Diana's Nymphs, and daughter of Lycaon, King of Arcadia, she was got with Child by Jupiter, and turn'd out of Diana's train.
• Calked, (old word) cast.
• Callidity, (Lat.) subtilty.
• Calligraphy, (Greek) fair, or handsome writing.
• Calliope, the name of one of the nine Muses, the mother of Orpheus, she was be∣lieved to be the Inspiresse of Heroick verse.
• Callipolis, one of the Islands in the Ae∣goean Sea, called Cyclades.
• Callirrhoe, the daughter of Phocus, King of Boeotia, she complaining to her Coun∣trey-men against her thirty suiters, who had killed her father, they fled to Hip∣pote, a Town of Thebes, but being pursued by the Boeotians, the Town was taken, and the murtherers burnt to death.
• Calliver, a kinde of great Gun, or Ar∣quebuse.
• Callot, an old Saxon word, signifying a le••d, or wanton woman.
• Calour, (Lat.) warmth, also a heat of desire, or affection.
• Calpe, a high hill in the uttermost part of Spain, which is faign'd to be one of Hercules his pillars.
• Calsounds, a kinde of linnen drawers usually worn among the Turks.
• Caltrope, (French) certain instruments used in War, being great pricks of iron, four-square, to cast in an enemies way, when they would break in on the contra∣ry side.
• Calvinist, one of the opinion of Calvin, a famous reformer.
• Calvity, (Lat.) baldnesse.
• Calumniatour, (Lat.) signifies in Com-law, him, that in his accusation alleadgeth faults never committed.
• Camarina, a Lake in Sicily, which when the people dried up contrary to the ad∣vice of the Oracle they were overcome by their enemies.
• Cambel, a famous Castle in Argile in Scotland, from whence the great family of the Cambels derive their name.
• Cambio, (Spanish) a Burse, or Exchange, whence comes Cambsor, a Banker, or Mo∣ny-changer.
• Cambles, a King of the Lydians, of so greedy an apetite, that one night he de∣voured his wife.
• Cambren, a British word, signifying a crooked stick.
• Cambria, the Countrey of Wales, so cal∣led from Camber, the son of Brutus.
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• Cambridge, the chief Town of Cam∣bridge-shire, so called from a Bridge built over the River Cam: In this Town hath flourished for many ages, a famous Uni∣versity, consisting of sixteen Colledges, it hath been anciently reported that this Academy was founded by Cantabar a Spaniard, 375 years before Christ, and re∣paired by Sebert, King of the East Angles, in the year of our Lord 630. afterwards it was defaced by the Danes under Sueno, but being restored again by the Normans, it hath stood unviolated by War to this day.
• Camelot, a Town in the Shriefdom of Stirling in Scotland, which seems to be the same with that, which was called Corta Damniorum.
• Cambyses, King of Persia, the son of Cy∣rus, he added Aegypt to his Dominions, he died of a wound, which he gave him∣self as he was getting up to horse.
• Cameracum, a Citie of the Low-coun∣treys, now call'd Cambray, where the lin∣nen cloath, we call Cambrick is made.
• Camelion, a beast like a Lizard, that turneth himself into all colours, and lives by the aire.
• Camelopardal, a kinde of beast, half Ca∣mel, half Pardal, or Panther.
• Camerade, (Spanish) a Cabin, or cham∣ber-fellow.
• Camerated, Vaulted, or Arched, a Term used in Architecture.
• Camisado, (Spanish) a suddain assault, or surprisal.
• Cammock, a kinde of Herb, that hath a hard and big root.
• Camois, a British word, signifying crooked.
• Camomil, an Herb of a fragrant smell, which grows and spreads by being tram∣pled on.
• Campain, (French) a plain field, also a military word, signifying an armies expe∣dition, or taking the field.
• Campania, a Countrey of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples, called Terra del La∣voro, whose chief Citie is Capua.
• Campernulphs, the ancient name of a great family of Cornwall, Lords of the Town of Modbury, they are commonly cal∣led Champernouns, in Latin Records de Campo Arnulphi.
• Campus lapideus, a field of Gallia Nar∣bonensis, where Hercules fought with Al∣cion and Bergion, the sons of Neptune, but his darts failing him, Jupiter sent him down a showr of stones, wherewith he kil∣led the Giants.
• Campus Martius, a field near Rome, de∣dicated to Mars, where the Romaus used to exercise, and the people assembled to give their suffrages.
• Campus sceleratus, a place where the Vestal Nuns were punish't, if they admit∣ted of any familiarity with men.
• Camulodunum, or Camoludunum, the chief Town of Essex in England, vulgarly cal∣led Colchester, or rather Maldon.
• Camulus, a name anciently attributed to Mars, the heathen God of War.
• Canace, the daughter of Aeolus, she was got with childe by her brother Macareus, whence they use to call an Incestuous wo∣man Canace.
• Canachus, a Fountain near Nauplia, where Juno used to bath her self, that she might recover her Virginity.
• Canacus, a high hill in Spain, on the top whereof is a Well, whose depth cannot be ••ounded.
• Canariae, certain Islands in the Adria∣tick Sea, anciently called the fortunate Islands, from thence it is that we have our Canary wines.
• Cancel, (Lat.) to rase, to blot out from Cancelli Lattices, or crosse-bars.
• Canceline, chamlet, a word used by Chaucer.
• Cancer, one of the 12 signs of the Zo∣diack, into which the Sun enters in the Moneth of June, the word signifies in La∣tin a Crab.
• Candia, an Island in the Mediterranean Sea, anciently called Creet, where Jupiter was born, and Minos reign'd, it is at pre∣sent in the powr of the Venetian.
• Candid, (Lat.) white, also innocent, sin∣cere.
• Candida Casa, the ancient name of a Town in Galloway in Scotland, vulgarly Whithern, the Episcopal seat of Ninian, who first converted the Scottish Picts to Christianity, it seemeth to be the same with Ptolomies Leucopibia.
• Candidates, (Lat.) were those among the Romans, who use to stand for any place, or Office of Dignity, and were clad in white Robes.
• Candiope, the daughter of Oenopian, and sister to Theodotion, who going a hunting with her brother, and being drawn into a Cave and ravish't by him, brought forth Hippolagus.
• Cankdore, (old word) a woeful case.
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• Canibals, a people of India that feed up∣pon mans flesh.
• Canicula, a constellation in the Heavens called the little Dog.
• Canicular dayes, certain dayes in July and August wherein Canis Major, or the Dog-Star riseth with the Sun, and makes the weather extraordinary hot.
• Canitude, (Lat.) whiteheadedness, hoariness.
• Cannae, a Town of Apulia, not far from the River Anfidus where Hannibal over∣threw Paulus Emilius, and Terentius Varro.
• Cannel bone, the neckbone or wind∣pipe, so called from its likeness to a gutter or cannel.
• Canobus, see Canopus.
• Canon, (Greek) a rule to draw a streight line by, also a law or decree of the Church, also one that injoyes a living in a Cathedral Church.
• Canonium, the ancient name of a Town in Essex, now called Chelmerford, or Chens∣ford, standing upon the River Chelmer.
• Canonize, to examine by rule, also to register for a Saint.
• Canopus, a City of Egypt, so called from Canopus Amyctaeus, the master of Menelaus his ship, who was there buried; also the bright star in Argo.
• Canorous, (Lat.) shrill, loud singing.
• A Canow, an Indian boat.
• Cantabria, a Country of Hispania Tar∣racouensis, now called Biscay, and Guipus∣coa, bordering upon Asturia.
• Cantae, an ancient people of Scotland, inhabiting that part which is now called Ross.
• Cantation, (lat.) a singing, also an in∣chanting.
• Canterbury, the chief City of Kens, an∣ciently called in Latin Dorobernia, now Cantuaria. In the time of the Saxon Hep∣tarchy, it was the Royal Seat of the Kings of Kent.
• Cantharides, certain venomus green flyes, used in physick, and breeding on the tops of Ashe and Olive-trees.
• Canticle, (lat.) a song or ballad.
• Cantilene, (lat.) a tale or song.
• Cantium, a County in England, vulgarly called Kent.
• Cantlow, the name of an honourable and ancient Family in Cornwall, stiled in La∣tin records, de Cantelupo.
• Canto, (Ital.) part of a H••roick Poeme.
• Canton, a corner, also one of the divi∣sions of the Country of Helvetia or Swit∣zerland, also a term in Heraldry, signi∣fying a corner in an Escutcheon.
• Cantreds, a Welsh word, signifying the Hundreds into which their Countries are divided.
• Cantyre, a promontory called by Ptolomy Epidiorum, being a Province of the South part of Scotland separated from Argile by the lake called Logh Fin; in Irish it signi∣fieth the lands-head
• To Canvase, to sift a businesse, from canvas and cloth made of hemp, which is used in seives.
• Canum or Cana, a law term of Scotland, signifying a duty paid to a Superiour or Lord of the land, especially to Bishops and Church-men.
• Canzonet, (Ital.) a song or sonnet.
• Capable, (French) able, or in a con∣dition to do a thing▪ or apt to receive an impression. Artamenes.
• Capacity, in Common law signifies a right that a King or Clergy-man hath to purchase lands, and is either natural by which he may purchase to him and his heirs, or politick, by which he may pur∣chase to him and his successours.
• Capaneus, see Euadne.
• Cap-a-pe armed, armed from head to foot.
• Caparasson, (French) trappings or fur∣niture for a horse.
• Cape, (Spanish) a neck or promontory of land, shooting it self into the Sea.
• To Caperate, (lat.) to frown.
• Capers, certain berries growing in hot Countries, commonly used for sallads.
• Capias, a writ, of which there be two sorts, the one before judgement, which is called Capias ad respondendum, where an exigent is to be proclaimed 5 times, and if the party appear not, he is to be out∣law'd. The other is called a writ of exe∣cution after judgement, which is of di∣vers kinds, Capias ad faciendum, Capias pro fine, Capias ut l••gatum, & inquiras de bonis & catallis: of which see a book cal∣led Natura Brevium.
• Capillation, (lat.) hairinesse, or cau∣sing hair to grow.
• Capirotade, a stewed meat, compounded of several sorts of meat minced.
• Capistrate, (lat.) to muzzel with a head∣stall.
• Capital, (lat.) belonging to the head, also deadly, worthy of death.
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• Capitation, (lat.) pole-money, or a tribute paid by the head.
• Capite, a Tenure whereby a man hold∣eth lands immediately of the King, either by Knights-service or Soccage.
• Capitol, an ancient cittadel of Rome, so called from a mans head that was found there when they digged to lay the foun∣dation.
• M. Manlius Capitolinus, a famous Ro∣man Captain, so called because he valiant∣ly defended the Capitol against Brennus and the Gaules: but afterwards being sus∣pected of affecting the kingship, he was condemned to be thrown down headlong from the Capitol which he had saved.
• Capitulate, (lat.) to make Articles of agreement, also to divide into chapters.
• Capnomancy, (Greek) a divination by smoak.
• Capo, one of the three chief Officers a∣mong the Venetians.
• Capouchins, an Order of Fryers institu∣ed by Mathew Basci of Ancona, they were so called from the coat or capouch which they used to wear.
• Cappadocia, a country in Asia, which is parted from the great Armenia by the Ri∣ver Euphrates.
• Capriccio, (Ital.) the rough draught or first invention of any thing.
• Caprichious, fantastical, whimsical, from the Spanish word Capricho, a humour.
• Capricorn, a Goat, also the name of one of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack, into which the Sun enters in the midst of Winter.
• Caprification, (lat.) a term in Husban∣dry, the dressing of wild vines or fig-trees.
• Caprifoile, a kind of herb, otherwise called woodbine.
• Capriole, (French) a caper in dancing, also a term in Horsemanship, called the Goatleap.
• Capstand or Capstern, a term in Naviga∣tion, being an instrument in a ship to weigh Anchor, a win de-beam, or draw-beam.
• Capsulary, (Lat.) belonging to a little chest or coffer.
• Captation, (Lat.) an endeavouring to get favour or applause.
• Captious, (Lat.) apt to take excep∣tions.
• Captivate, (Lat.) to take prisoner: it is also taken in an amorous sense.
• Capuchin, vide Capouchin.
• Caracol, (French) spoken chiefely for souldiers, to cast themselves into a round ring.
• Caradoc, an old Brittish name, signi∣fying Dearly beloved.
• Caravan, (French) a convoy of soul∣diers for the safety of Merchants that tra∣vel by land in the Eastern Countries.
• Caravell, (French) a swift ship.
• Carbantorigum, the ancient name of a Town of Nidisdale in Scotland, now called Caerlaverock, a place so impregnable, that it was hardly taken by King Edward the first. It is now the Mansion of the Barons of Maxwell.
• Carbine, one that serves on horseback with a petronell.
• Carbonado, (Ital.) a rasher or collop of meat, a Gash in the flesh.
• Carbuncle, (Lat.) a certain precious stone, also a botch, or plague sore.
• Carcanet, (French Carquan) a rich chain or tablet for the neck.
• Carcedony, a kind of pretious stone, so called from a City anciently named Car∣cedon, now Carthage.
• Carcelage, the fees of a prison.
• Carceral, (Lat.) belonging to a pri∣son.
• Card, an instrument to dresse wool; al∣so a Sea-map, which Mariners use for the better steering of their course. There is also a sort of playing Cards which are used for recreation.
• Cardiacal, (Greek) belonging to the heart, also Cordial.
• Cardigan, the chief Town of Cardi∣ganshire, called by the Bittains Abertivy, i. The mouth of the River Tivy; it was fortified by Gilbert de Clare, and after∣wards being treacherously yielded up, was rased to the ground by Rhese ap Gruffin.
• Cardinal, (Lat.) belonging to a Hinge, also chief, principal, also an Ecclesiastical dignity, instituted by Pope Paschal the First.
• Cardiognostick, (Greek) a Knower of hearts, a prerogative onely attributed to God.
• Cardoon, (French) a dish of meat made of the stalk of an Artichoke.
• Carduus Benedictus, an herb called Bles∣sed Thistle.
• Careening, a Term in Navigation, a way of trimming of a ship under∣water.
• Carefox, quasi quatrefour, or a place

• parted into four wayes, a market-place in Oxford so called.
• Carecks, (old word) marks.
• Caresbroke, a Town in the Isle of Wight, contracted from Whitgaraburgh, i. the Town of Whitgar, for to him it was given by the Lord Cerdic, the first English Saxon that subdued the Island.
• Caresses, (French) cherishings, great expression of friendship and indearment. Cleopatra.
• Cargazon, (Spanish) the Fraight of a ship.
• Caria, a Country of Asia the Lesse, between Lycia and Ionia.
• Carm, (Latine) the keel of a ship.
• Carinthia, a Country joyning on the South to the Alpes, being under the Duke of Austria.
• Carity, (Lat.) dearth, scarsity.
• Cark, a quantity of wool, whereof 30 make a Sarpler.
• Carle, a clown, from the Saxon word Ceorle.
• Carlile, an ancient City in Cumber∣land, almost encompast with the Rivers Eden, Peteril, and Cand, it was called by the Romans Luguballia, by the ancient Brittains Caerlnalid, Egfrid, King of Northumberland, made a deed of gift of it to St. Cuthbert: this City being depo∣pulated by the Danes, and lying buried in Rubbish for 2000 years, began to flou∣rish again in the time of William Rufus, by whom it was first repaired.
• Carline Thistle, a certain plant, by which Charls the great preserved his army from the Pestilence.
• Carlings, Timbers which lie along a ship, from one beam to another.
• Carmania, a Country of Asia the Greater.
• Carmasal, a Turkish ship.
• Carmelites, an order of Fryars, institu∣ted at Carmelus in Syria, by Almericus, Bishop of Antioch, in the year 1122.
• Carmenta, an Arcadian Prophetesse, the mother of Euander, so called, be∣cause she was the first that gave the Ora∣cle in Verse, she was also called Nicostrata.
• Carminate, (Lat.) to card wool.
• Carmouth, a Town in Dorsetshire, where the Danes obtained a great victory against King Egbert, in the year 831, and after∣wards against Ethelwolph in the same place.
• Carnage, (French) the season wherein flesh may be eaten, also a term in hunt∣ing, signifying the flesh that is given to the dogs, after the chace.
• Carnality, (Lat.) Fleshlinesse.
• Carnation, a kind of colour resembling raw flesh.
• Carnaval, (French) a time of dissolute∣nesse, also the season, called Shrovetide.
• Carnificine, (Lat.) the Executioners office, also a place of execution.
• Carnivorous, (Lat.) Flesh-devouring.
• Carnogan, an old Brittish word, signify∣ing a kind of wodden dish, a Piggin.
• Carnoose, the base ring in a great gun.
• Carnocity, (lat.) corpulency, fulnesse of flesh.
• Carodunum, the chief City of Poland, called Cracovia.
• Caroll, a Christmasse song, or hymn, sung at Christmasse, in honour of our Sa∣viours birth.
• Carove, a kind of fruit, also a root cal∣led St. Johns bread.
• Carouse, a lusty drinking, a drinking all out, from the dutch words, Gar, altoge∣ther, and, ausz, out.
• Carpathus, an Island in the Mediterra∣nean sea, between Rhodes and Crete, now called Scarpanto.
• Carpocratians, a sort of Hereticks, that held a very dangerous opinion.
• The Carp stone, a triangular stone, found in the chap of a Carp, white without, and yellow within.
• Carrack, or Carrick, a great ship, from the Italian word, Carico, a bur∣then.
• Carrat, (French) a term used by mint∣men, Goldsmiths, and Jewellers: in gold and silver it signifies the third part of an ounce, in Jewels the 192^d part.
• Carricta, or Carrict, a province of the South part of Scotland, standing upon Dunbritain Frith.
• Carriere, (French, a running of horses in their full speed; also a circle where horses run.
• Cartel, (French) a challenge, or letter of defiance.
• Carthage, the chief City of Africa, an∣ciently called Carthedon: it was built by Dido, and grew at length to that power and greatnesse, that it waged war with the Romans, for a long while, with equal advantage. There is also a City of His∣pania Tarraconensis, formerly called Car∣thago Vetus, now Villa Franca.
• Carthismandua, a famous Brittish Lady, Queen of the Brigantes, who casting off

• her husband Venusius, married Velloca∣tus his Harnesse-bearer, and crowned him King, being countenanced by the Romans, and aided by their forces; yet Venusius making war against her, drove her to great straights, and recovered the Kingdom.
• Carthusians, an order of Monks, insti∣tuted by St. Bruno, a native of Cullen 1101, who first led a Hermeticall life upon the Carthusian Mountains.
• Cartilagineous, (latine) full of gristles.
• Carucata terrae, from the French word Charrue, a Plough: it signifies in the ancient charters, as much land as can be ploughed in a year by one Plough. In the ancient laws it is called Hilda ter∣rae, which we call a hide of land.
• Cartilagindous, (lat.) of a gristly sub∣stance.
• Cartouch, (French) a word used in Ar∣chitecture, signifying a roll, with which they adorn the Cornish of a pillar, also a charge of powder and shot, made ready in a paper, called also a Carthrage.
• Carvage, is to be quit, if the King should tax his land by Carves.
• Carve of land, see Carrucata terrae.
• Casemate, (Ital.) a term in fortification, a loop-hole in a wall to shoot out at.
• Cashire, (French) to break up a com∣pany of souldiers.
• Caspian sea, a sea between the Caspian and Hircanian Mountains.
• Cassandra, the daughter of Priam and Hecuba, she being beloved of Apollo, re∣ceived the gift of prophesie from him at the sack of Troy, she was ravisht in the Temple by Ajax Oileus, and afterwards in the dividing the spoil, she fell to Aga∣memnons lot.
• Cassation, (lat.) a nulling or making void.
• Cassia, or Cassia fistula, a kind of Reed or shrub, growning in Egypt, it is also called Canell, from the French word Canelle.
• Cassia lignea, a sweet wood like to Cin∣namon.
• Cassiope, or Cassiopea, the daughter of Cepheus, King of Ethiopia, and mother of Andromeda, who for her mothers pride, in boasting her self fairer than the Nereides, was exposed to the fury of a sea-monster, they were afterwards placed both among the stars. See Andromeda.
• Cassivellaunus, or Cassibellinus, an anci∣ent King of the Brittains, under whose conduct they defended themselves with great courage against the Romans for a long time, when they invaded this Island, but at last he was constrained to surrender himself to Julius Caesar.
• Castaldie, a Stewardship, from the Latin word Gastaldius.
• Castalia, a certain Nymph, as some think, the daughter of Achelous, who flying from Apollo, was turned into a Fountain near Parnassus, called the Casta∣lian Fountain, by some the Caba••line Fountain, sacred to the Muses.
• Castanetts, a certain sort of snappers, which dancers tying about their fingers, keep time with them as they dance; they are so called from their resemblance of a a Chesnut, called in Latin Castanea.
• Castellain, an officer called the Consta∣ble of a Castle, which some think to be the same with Gnastaldus, also in the Forrest laws, it signifies an Officer of the Forrest.
• Castigate, (lat.) to punish, to chastize.
• Castlesteed, a word anciently used for any Fortresse or Bulwark.
• Castleward, an Imposition upon such as dwell within a certain compasse of any Castle, toward the maintenance of such as watch and ward the Castle: it is taken also for the circuit it self, which is inhabi∣ted by such as are subject to this service.
• Castor and P••llux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda, whom he lay with in the shape of a Swan, they being grown to age, freed the sea of Pirates, and were therefore counted gods of the sea; they went with Jason to Colchos, and coming home, they recovered their sister from Theseus, and won the Town Aphydna, wherein Castor died, Pollux, who was born in the same Egge with Helena, and so became immor∣tal, desired of Jupiter that his brother might partake of immortality with him, whereupon they were both reported to live and die by turns.
• Castrated, (Lat.) gelded, cut away.
• Casual, (Lat.) accidental, hapning by chance.
• Casu consimili, a Writ of Entry granted where a Tenant in courtesie, or for Term of life doth Alienate in Fee, or in Tail.
• Casu proviso, a Writ of Entry granted by the Statute of Glo••ester.
• Casuit, a vvriter of Cases of conscience.
• Casule, a kinde of vestment, in which the Priest sayes Masse, resembling the pur∣ple Robe of derision, which was put upon our Saviour.
• Catabaptist, (Greek) an enemy, or a∣buser

• of the Sacrament of baptisme.
• Catachresis, (Greek) a Rhetorical fi∣gure, the using of another word, in stead of the proper word.
• Cataclysme, (Greek) an inundation, or deluge.
• Catadrome, (Greek) an Engin like a Crane, which builders use, also a Tilt∣yard, or place where horses run for prizes.
• Cataglottisme, (Greek) a thrusting out the tongue in kissing.
• Catagraph, (Greek) the first draught of a picture.
• Catalia, see Chattels.
• A Catalepsie, (Greek) occupation, also a disease in the head, which causeth a de∣prehension of the spirits.
• Catalogue, (Greek) a roul of names.
• Catalonia, a Province in Spain.
• Catamidiate, to put one to open shame, for some notorious offence.
• A Catamite, (Lat.) an Ingle, a boy kept for Sodomy.
• Cataphora, (Greek) a kinde of disease in the head, which causeth heavinesse, and deep sleep.
• Cataplasme, (Greek) an unctuous, and moist composition made of Meal and Herbs like a Pultis, but of a thicker substance.
• Cataphrygians, a Sect of Hereticks, who baptized their dead, forbid second mar∣riage, and had other erroneous opinions, they were broached by Montanus and A∣pelles (who were of the Countrey of Phry∣gia) in the year 181.
• Catapuce, an Herb called Spurge.
• Catapult, (Lat.) the same as Balista.
• Catarract, (Greek) a great fall of wa∣ters from a high place, a flood-gate, a post-cullis, also a disease in the eyes cau∣sed by a coagulation of flegme, between the Uveo••s Tunicle and the Christalline humour, hindring the egresse and ingresse of the visual spirits.
• Catarractonium, or Caturactonium, the name of a Town near Richmond, anci∣ently very famous, so called from a great waterfall near unto it, in the year 769. it was burnt by the Tyrant Beanred, but af∣terwards it flourish't again in the time of King Ethelred, who solemnised his mar∣riage with King Offa's daughter in this Town, it is now called Catarrick-bridge.
• Catarrh, (Greek) a Rheum, a distilla∣tion of humours out of the head into the mouth, or throat.
• Catastasis, (Greek) the third Act of a Comedy, or Tragedy, wherein things are brought to a full perfection and ripe∣nesse.
• Catastrophe, the conclusion of a busi∣nesse, also the last Act of a Comedy, or Tragedy.
• Catechize, (Greek) to instruct, or in∣form.
• A Catechumen, (Greek) one that is Ca∣techiz'd for the receiving of the Commu∣nion.
• Category, (Greek) an accusation, also a Predicament, which is a Term in Lo∣gick.
• Catenate, (Lat.) to chain.
• Caterlogh, or Carlogh, a Countrey of Ireland, joyning on the East to the Coun∣ty of Kilkenny.
• Cathanesse, or Cathnesse, a Province of the South-part of Scotland, the people were called by Ptolomy, Catini.
• Cathaea, a Countrey in India, where beauty is so much regarded, that they choose the hansomest man for their King.
• Catharine, (Greek) pure, chaste, a pro∣per name of women.
• Catharians, a Sect of Hereticks, who held themselves pure from sin, rejected baptisme, and denied original sin.
• Catharists, another sort of Hereticks, who were counted a branch of the Mani∣chees.
• Catharticks, (Greek) the general name in Physick for all purging Medi∣cines.
• Cathay, a great Country Eastward di∣vided into 9 Realmes under the great Cham. It was formerly called Scythia, now Sinarum Regio; the chief City is Is∣sedon.
• Cathedral, (Lat.) belonging to a chair, also a Cathedral Church is the chief Church in a Bishops See.
• Cathelaunum, or Catalaunum, a Citie of Champagne in France, now called Chaalons, near unto which are Campi Cathelauni, those famous fields where Attila the Hun was overthrown.
• Ca••ethus, a Mathematical Term, the Per∣pendicular side of a right angled Trian∣gle.
• Catholick, (Greek) general, universal, defending the Christian faith, a Title at∣tributed to the King of Spain.
• Catholicon, a physical word, signifying a general purging Medicine.
• Cathorius, a Term used in the practick of Scotland, signifying the value of 9 kine, it being a penalty set upon him who

• breaks the Kings peace, to give to the King 22 Kine, and 3 Cathores, or for eve∣ry Cathorius 9 Kine.
• Catini, an ancient people of Scotland, see Cathanesse.
• Cato, the name of several famous men of Rome, whereof the chief were Cato Porcius, Cato Censorius, and Cato Vticensis.
• Catoptrick, (Greek) belonging to a kinde of Optick glasse, which is called Catoptron.
• Catry, a place where Cates, or victuals are set.
• Cat, in Navigation is a piece of Tim∣ber fastned aloft, right over the Hawse, to trise up the Anchor from the Hawse to the fore-castle.
• Cattieuchlani, an ancient people of this Island, inhabiting those parts, which are now called Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Hertfordshire, they were as Camden believeth, more anciently called Cassii, and govern'd by Cassivellaunus.
• Cavalier, a brave man, a Knight, or Gentle-man, serving on hors-back from the Italian word Cavallo.
• Cavazion, a Term in Art Architecture, being the hollowing, or underdigging of the earth for cellerage, allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the whole Fa∣brick.
• Caucasus, a high Hill, which parteth In∣dia from Scythia, being part of the moun∣tain Taurus.
• Caveare, a certain kind of meat, which comes from the River Volgha in Russia, made of the roes of several sorts of fish.
• Caveat, (Lat.) a caution, or warning, also a Term in Civil Law, being a wri∣ting, which is entered by an Executor to keep others from medling in the admini∣stratorship.
• Cavechin, or Cavesan, a false rein to lead a horse in.
• A Cavern, (Lat.) a Cave.
• Cavillation, (Lat.) a mocking, or jest∣ing, also a wrangling.
• Cavity, (Lat.) hollownesse.
• Caulk a ship, to fill the holes and chinks with Ockam and Towe.
• Cavon, a County of Ireland, called an∣ciently East Breanny, lying to the West of Louth.
• Caupes, or Calpes, a Scotch-Law Term, signifying any gift, which a man gives in his own life time to his master, especially to the head, and chief of the Clan for his maintenance and protection.
• Cauphe, a kinde of drink among the Turks, made of a brown Berry.
• Cauponate, (Lat.) to sell for gain, espe∣cially wine, or victuals.
• Caurus, the name of the North-East winde, blowing commonly out of the Brit∣tish Sea.
• Causal, (Lat.) causing, or expressing, the cause of any thing.
• Causam nobis, a vvrit to a Mayor of a Town, who hath denied seisin to one, to whom the King hath given a grant of Lands, or Tenements.
• Causation, (Lat.) an excusing, or al∣leadging of a cause.
• Causidick, (Lat.) a Lawyer, or Pleader.
• Caustick, (Greek) searing, or burning, a word used in physick, signifying that, which is applied to sear any part of the body.
• Cautele, (Lat.) a warinesse, or taking heed.
• Cautery, (Greek) an iron, which phy∣sicians use to sear withall, also a hot oynt∣ment which hath the same quality.
• Cauterize, to sear.
• Cautionary, (Lat.) given in pledge, or pawn for the fulfilling of Articles.
• Cautione admittenda, a writ against a Bishop, for holding an excommunicate person in prison, notwithstanding that he offereth caution to obey the orders of the Church.
• Cayer, a quantity of paper, also a part of a written book.
• Cazimi, (Arab.) or a Planet in the heart of the Sun, is when he is not distant from the Sun 17 minutes.

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• Cebratane, (French) a Trunk to shoot at Birds with clay pellets.
• Ceca, a certain religious house in Cordu∣ba, whence they say Andar de Ceca en Me∣ca, i. e. to turn Turk.
• Cecity, (Lat) blindnesse.
• Cecrops, the first (or as some say the se∣cond) King of Athens, he was an Aegyptian born, and called by Eusebius Diphyes, or Biformed, because he was the first, who civilized mens manners, and instituted marriage in Athens.
• Cedent, (Lat.) giving place.
• Cedrosii, a certain wild barbarous people that go cloathed in the skin of wild beasts.
• Cefala, an Island of Africa, found out by the Portugals, in the year 1500. being three miles in length, and one in breadth.

• It hath two Villages and one strong Castle. In the year 1505 the Ilanders rebelled, but were quickly subdued by the Portu∣gall's, who killed the King; they had chosen among themselves, and set up an∣other King, as Deputy to the King of Por∣tugal.
• Celaenae, a hill in Asia, where Marsyas is said to have contended with Apollo for the mastery upon the Fluit.
• Celandine, a kind of herb called in La∣tine Chelidonium.
• Celature, or Caelature, (Lat.) a car∣ving or engraving.
• Celebration, (Lat.) a solemnizing or making famous.
• Celebrity, (Lat.) famousnesse.
• Celerity, (Lat.) swiftnesse, expedi∣tion.
• Celestial, (Lat.) heavenly.
• Celestines, an Order of Fryers, institu∣ted in the year 1215. by one Peter a Sam∣nite, who was afterwards chosen Pope, and called Celestine the fifth.
• Cellarist, he that keepeth the cellar, or buttery in a Religious house.
• Celsitude, (Lat.) tallnesse, heighth, also a terme attributed to a Prince as a Title of honour.
• Celsity, the same.
• Celtae, a people anciently inhabiting Gal∣lia Comata, between the Rivers Garonne, and Sein; they were so called from Cel∣tus, the son of Polypheme.
• Celtiberia, a part of Spain, anciently so called; now Arragonia.
• Celurca, the ancient name of a Town in the Province of Angus in Scotland, now cal∣led Montros.
• Cemented, close joyned or united; from Cement a strong and cleaving morter.
• Cemetery, see Caemetery.
• Cenchris, a green, and venomus biting Serpent.
• Cenotaph, (Greek) a hearse or empty tombe, erected in honour of a great per∣son.
• Cense, (Lat.) a mustering of an army, a cessing of people.
• Censer, a vessel wherein the Priest burn∣eth incense at any sacrifice or religious rites.
• Censor, (lat.) an Officer among the Ro∣mans, who was to cesse and valew mens esta••es, also to judge of discipline, and reform manners; whence cometh to censure, i. e. to judge or give sen∣tence.
• Centaures, a people of Thessaly, who wa∣ged war with the Lapithae, they descended as the Poets feign from Ixion, who falling in love with Juno, lay with a cloud which was formed into her shape. They were thought to be half men and half horses; because riding their horses to water, while their horses held down their heads to drink, they seemed to those who beheld them a far off, like a strange kind of monster, whose former part resembled a man, the hinder part a horse.
• Centaury, a kind of herb, which some call Feverfew.
• Centenary, (lat.) belonging to a hun∣dred.
• Center, (lat.) that point which is in the midst of every Circle or Globe.
• Centoculated, (lat.) having a hundred eyes, an Epithet belonging to Argos, whom Juno set to watch Io.
• Centinodie, an herb called knot-grasse, as it were having a hundred knots.
• Centon, (lat.) a garment made up of several patches, a work composed of many pieces.
• Central, situate in the center or mid∣dle.
• Centrie, a word contracted from San∣ctuary, a place of refuge for malefa∣ctours.
• Centumviri, certain men among the Ro∣mans chosen out of the 35 Tribes to be Judges; who although they were more in number than a hundred, yet for the easier naming of them, were called Centum∣viri
• Centuple, (lat.) a hundred-fold.
• Centurie, (lat.) the number of a hun∣dred, the space of a hundred years, a band of a hundred men, or the like.
• Centurion, a Commander of a hundred men, a Captain.
• Cephalics, (Greek) medicines proper∣ly applyed to fractures of the head, but generally taken for all medicines peculiar to the head.
• Cephalic vein, see vein.
• Cephalus, the son of Eion, he married Procris, the daughter of Erichtheus King of Athens, and being loved of Aurora, would not answer her love: one morning after he had been a hunting with a dart which Procris gave him, and a dog called Lelaps, he sate down and called upon Aura to refresh him; but his wife having fol∣lowed him out of jealousie, had hid her self in a bush. Cephalus perceiving the

• bush to move, thought it had been a wild beast, and shot his wife, and afterwards was turned into a stone.
• Cepi Corpus, a return made by the Sheriff, that upon an exigent, he hath ta∣ken the body of a man.
• Ceramite, a kind of precious stone.
• Ceratine, (lat.) made of wax, dissolue∣able.
• Cerberus, quasi creoborus or flesh de∣vouring, a three-headed dog, ••aid to watch constantly at the gates of Hell, whom Hercules overcame and carried a∣way in a chain.
• Cerebrosity, (lat.) a being cock brain'd, or brainsick.
• Cerdonists, a sect of Hereticks, who held that there were two contrary principles in the cause of every thing, a good God and a bad; they were instituted by one Cerdo in the year 150.
• Ceremonies, rites of the Church, from the ancient Latin word Cerus, which sig∣nifieth holy, or else from the Caerites, a people of Hetruria, who chearfully enter∣tained all the sacred things of the Ro∣mans, which were brought to them by the Vestals when Rome was taken by the Gaules: whereupon the Romans out of gratitude, ordered that all things belong∣ing to Religious Worship, should be cal∣led Ceremonies.
• Ceres, the daughter of Saturn and Ops, by whom Jupiter had Proserpina, and be∣ing snatcht away by Pluto; Ceres wan∣dered through the world to seek her, and came to the Court of Eleusius King of Attica, whose son Triptolomus she made immortal; and seating him in a Chariot drawn with winged Dragons through the air, she sent him to teach mortals the use of corn, whence she was adored as the Godesse of Agriculture.
• Cerinthians, a sort of Hereticks, who held that Christ at his second coming should give to his people all carnal de∣lights and pleasures: they had their ori∣ginal in the year 97 from one Cerinthus.
• Cerna, an Island in the Aethiopick Sea, where the North Pole is not seen, by some thought to be the same with Madagas∣car.
• Ceromatick, (Greek) anointed with oil.
• Cerones, a certain people anciently in∣habiting that part of Scotland which is now called Assinshire.
• Cerote, (Greek) a kind of sear-cloth or plaister.
• A Certificate, a writing made in any Court to give notice to another Court of any thing done therein.
• Certification, of Assize of novel disse••sin, a Writ granted for the examining of a matter passed by Assize before the Ju∣stices, and is called a Certification of new disseisin.
• Certificando de recognitione stapulae, a Writ directed to the Maior, of the Staple, taken before him, in a case where the par∣ty himself refuseth to bring it in
• Certiorari, is a Writ issuing out of the Chancery to an inferiour Court, to call up the Records of a cause depending there, upon complaint made by the bill, that the party▪seeking the said Writ hath re∣ceived hard dealing.
• Cervine, (Lat.) belonging to a hart, also of a ta••ny or hart-colour.
• Ceruse, (Lat.) white-lead refined out of the Mine, used by Chyrurgians for oint∣ments; by painters for the painting of a white colour.
• Cesata, or Cesada, a City of Spain be∣tween Emerita, and Caesar-Augusta.
• To Cespitate, (Lat.) to stumble.
• Cessation, (Lat.) a leaving off, a cea∣sing.
• Cessavit, a Writ lying upon this gene∣ral ground, where a man hath neglected to perform such service, or to pay such rents as he is tied to by his tenure.
• To Cesse, (from the Lat. Censere) to leave off, to be idle, also to tax.
• Cession, (Lat.) a yeilding or giving place.
• Cest, (Lat.) a marriage-girdle, which the Bride useth to wear, and which is loosed by the Bridegroom the first night.
• Cetaceous, (Lat.) belonging to a Whale.
• Ceus, an Island where all men above 60 years old, were commanded by the law to poison themselves, that there might be no scarsity of provision for the rest.

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• Cha, the leaf of a tree in China, which being infused into water, serves for their ordinary drink.
• Chace, (French) a warren, also a term in the game at tennis.
• Chafewax, an officer in Chancery, that fits the wax for the sealing of Writs, and such other instruments as are thence to be sent out.
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• Chaffare, a buying and selling, from the Dutch word Kauffer a Buyer.
• Chaffinch, a kind of bird, so called be∣cause it delighteth in chaff.
• Chagrin, (French) care, heavinesse, also a disease caused by melancholy.
• Chaine, the decimal chaine is an instu∣ment used in surveying, made of round wire 16 foot in length.
• Chaines, is used by a figure called me∣tonymie of the Adjunct, for captivity, and sometimes in an amorous sense. Cleopat.
• Chalcedon, a Citie of Asia, near Bospho∣rus Thracius, it was built by the Megaren∣ses, who were called Caeci, or blinde, be∣cause they did not choose the other side where Constantinople stands.
• Chalcographer, (Greek) an ingraver in brasse.
• Chaldaea, a Countrey of Asia the greater, bordering upon Arabia, their chief Citie is Babylon, and the people have ever been famous for Astrology and Magick.
• Chaldron, a certain measure of coales, containing 36 bushels.
• Chalice, a holy vessel wherewith they had wont to sacrifice.
• Challenge, a Term in Common-law, sig∣nifying an exception against persons, or things, as a prisoner may except against the partial impanelling of a Jury, or a∣gainst the insufficiency of the Jurors.
• Chalons▪ blankets, or coverings.
• Chalybeate, (Lat.) of the temper, or quality of Steel.
• Chalybes, a people of Asia the lesse, dwelling upon the banks of Thermodoon; Strabo calls them Chaldaeans, they had great store of Iron & Steel Mines, whence some think Chalybs comes to signifie Steel.
• A Chamber, in gunnery, is a charge made of brasse, or iron, to put in at the breech of a Murtherer.
• Chamberdekins, Irish beggars.
• Chamberlain of a Citie, is the chief keeper of the publick treasury from Ca∣mera, or Chamber, the place where the Treasury is kept, there be also two Of∣ficers of this name in the K. Exchequer.
• Chameleon, see Cameleon.
• Chamelot, or Chamblet, a kinde of wa∣ter'd stuff mixed with Camels hair.
• A Chamfer, a word in Architecture, be∣ing an artificial gutter, or crevice made in a pillar.
• Chamois, or Chamoy, a wilde Goat, of whose skins they make Chamois leather.
• Champernouns, see Campernulphs.
• Champerty, (French) signifieth in Com∣mon-law the maintenance of a man in his suit depending, on condition to have part of the Land, or Goods, when they are re∣covered.
• Champion, (French) one that fighteth in anothers behalf, the Kings Champion, is one who is to come armed on hors-back upon the Kings Coronation day, and in the presence of the Nobles to challenge any, who shall affirm the King not law∣full Heir to the Crown, by this Tenure the Dimmocks hold a manner at Scri∣velby, in Lincolnshire.
• Chananaea, the holy land▪ bounded on the East by Euphrates, and the River Jor∣dan, on the West by Aegypt, on the South by Arabia, on the North by Libanus.
• Chancellour, from the Latin word Can∣celli, Latices, with which in former time the judgement seats were compassed; it is a ti∣tle of honour given unto him, who is the chief man next unto the Prince for matter of justice in civil affairs, having power to moderate, and temper the written Law, according to equity, also the Chancellour of the Exchequer is a supream Officer, appointed to moderate the extreamities in Exchequer.
• Chancery, the Court of Equity & Con∣science, moderating the severity of other Courts that are more strictly tied to the rigour of the Law, the Officers belonging to this Court, are the Lord Chancelour, who is chief Judge, twelve masters of the Chancery, whereof the master of the Roll's is chief, the Clerk of the Crown, the six Clerks, with many others.
• Chanfron, the name of an Italian coyn valuing about twenty pence.
• A Chantepleur, (French) he that singeth and weepeth together.
• A Chanter, he that singeth divine ser∣vice in a Church, or Chappel.
• Chanticleer, (French) a name often gi∣ven to a Cock for its clear singing.
• Chaonia, the hilly part of Epirus, which Helenus the son of Priamus, so named from his brother Chaon, whom he there slew a∣gainst his will, while he was a hunting.
• Chaos, (Greek) a confused indigested heap.
• Chapin, (Spanish) a high Cork-heel'd shooe.
• Chaplain, from Capella, a Chappel, he that dependeth upon the King, or other great person for the instruction of him and his family.
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• Chaplet, a wreath, or Garland for the head, from the Latin word Caput.
• Chapter, in the common and Canon-law, signifieth a company of Clergy-men met together in a Cathedral conventual, or collegiate Church, and this company is a kinde of head to rule, and govern the Diocesse in the vacation of the Bishoprick, it is also a word of Architecture, signify∣ing the top, or head of a pillar.
• Character, (Greek) the print, or seal of any thing, a Note in Chronology, also the name of printers several sorts of Let∣ters.
• Characteristick, belonging to a Chara∣cter.
• Chardford, a Town in Hantshire, here∣tofore called Cerdeford from Cerdick, that warlike English Saxon, who obtained a great victory over the Saxons.
• Chare, a kinde of fish, which breeds most peculiarly in Winandermere in Lan∣cashire.
• A Charge in Blazon, is that thing what∣soever, that doth occupy the field of an Escutcheon, as the contained in the con∣taining▪
• Charientisme, (Greek) gracefulnesse, al∣so a Rhetorical figure, when we sweeten harsh expressions with softer terms.
• Charing-crosse, a famous monument which stood not long since at the end of the strand towards Westminster, it was ere∣cted by King Edward, the first in memory of his Queen Eleanor, who accompanying him to the holy war, suck't the poyson out of his eye, when it had been wound∣ed by a More with an envenom'd sword, this crosse was utterly demolish't not ma∣ny years since.
• Charlatenerie, (French) a cousening, cheating, or cogging, from Carlatan, a Mountebank.
• Charles, a proper name contracted from the Dutch words Gar, and Ethel, signify∣ing all Noble.
• Charles wain, certain starres near the North-pole.
• Charmes, certain verses, or expressions, which are thought to have a bewitching power, also taken figuratively for sur∣prizing attractions and allurements. Ar∣tamenes.
• A Charnel-house, a place where dead bones are laid.
• Charon, the son of Erebus, and night, whom the Poets faign to be the ferryman of Hell, and to carry the Souls of those that die over the stygian Lake in a Boat.
• Chart, (Lat.) a paper, or parchment, or written deed.
• Charter-house, a famous Hospital in Lon∣don, founded by Sir Waltermany of He∣nault, who served under King Edward the third, in the French wars, this place was anciently a very noted Caemitery, or place of burial.
• Charters, (French) written Evidences of things done between party and party, also Letters Pattents wherein priviledges are granted by the King, to Towns and Cor∣porations.
• Charterparty, (a Term in Merchandize) a Covenant, or Agreement between a Merchant, and the Master of a ship.
• Chartulary, a keeper of a Register roll, or Reckoning book.
• Charvil, or Chervil, an Herb called in Latin Cerefolium.
• Charybdis, a Gulph in the Bay of Sicily, near the Tauromitanian shore, which is feign'd to have been a woman of prodi∣gious greedinesse, who for stealing Her∣cules his Oxen, was struck with Thunder by Jupiter, and turned into this Gulf.
• Chasma, (Greek) a wide gap, or ope∣ning of the earth.
• Chasteleyn, a word used by Chaucer, sig∣nifying a Gentle-woman of a great house.
• Chasuble, (French) a kinde of Cope, which the Priest and his assistants wear at Masse.
• Chattels, (French) a Term in Com∣mon-law, signifying all goods moveable, and immoveable, but such as are in the nature of a freehold, or a parcel thereof.
• Chattesworth, a stately house in Darby∣shire, built by Sir William Cavendish, or Candish.
• Chaumond, an ancient and Noble fami∣ly of Lancels in Cornwall, written in La∣tin Records, de Calvo Monte.
• Chaud-melle, signifieth in the practick of Scotland, a fault committed in a sudden Tumult.
• A Chauncel, the most sacred part of a Temple, or Church, so called from Can∣celli, or Lattices, which separate that part from the rest of the Church, the Greeks call it Adyton.
• Chaunce medley, signifies in Common-law the casual slaying of a man.
• Chauncery, see Chancery.
• Chaworths, the name of a very Noble

• family of Ailesbury in Buckinghamshire, they were so called as descending from Cahors, a Town of Querce a Province of France, in Latin Records they are stiled de Cadurcis.
• Cheap-gild, a restitution made by the Hundred or County for any wrong done by one that was in plegio.
• Checkie, a term in Heraldry, as a bor∣dure checkie is when the bordure con∣sisteth of three panes of checquer-work, wherein it differs from counter-pany, which never exceeds two panes.
• Chief, a term in Common law, as lands holden in Chief; See Capite. Also a term in Heraldry, being a line added to the up∣per or chief part of an Escutcheon, and contains a third part thereof.
• Chiefpledge, the same as Headborow, Constable, Tything-man.
• Chekel••ton, a stuff like motly. Chaucer.
• Chelandri, a Goldfinch, a word used by Chaucer.
• Chelidon, a pretious stone, which they say is found in the belly of a Swallow.
• Chelidonie, an herb, so called from the Greek word Chelidon, which signifies a Swallow.
• Chelmerford, a Town in Essex, so called from the River Chelmer; it is commonly known by the name of Chensford. In the reign of King Henry the first it belonged to Maurice Bishop of London, who built here two bridges. Some think it to be the same with that which was anciently called Canonium.
• Chelonophagi, a certain people bordering upon Carmania, who feed onely upon Tortoises, covering their houses with the shells of them, being so large that one of them will serve to make a ship.
• Chemnis, an Island which is driven to and fro by the wind, wherein there is a Temple consecrated to Latona.
• Cherisaunce (old word) comfort.
• Chersonesus, (Greek) a tract of land al∣most invironed by the Sea, and joyned to the Continent by an Istthmus or nar∣row neck of land: it is called in Latin Peninsula.
• Chert, or Cheort, (old word) love, jealousie.
• Chertes, merry people, Chaucer.
• Cherubim, or Cherub, an Hebrew word signifying fulnesse of knowledge, one of the nine orders of Angels.
• Cheslip, a kind of little vermin that lies under tyles.
• Chest, (old word) subject.
• Chesten, (French) a chessnut.
• Chester, see Westchester.
• Chestoul, poppie.
• To Cheve, (old word) to thrive.
• Cheveril leather, a kind of soft tender leather, from the French word Chevereul, a wild goat, of whose skin some say it is made, or else from the River Charwel in Oxfordshire, which is famous for dressing of leather.
• Cheverons (French) the strong rafters and cheifs that met at the top of the house, to hold up the covering of the house; also a term in Heraldry, being one of the ordinaries of an Escutcheon made in fashion of a triangle.
• Chevesal, a Gorget. Chaucer.
• To Chevice, (old word) to redeem.
• Chevin, a certain fish having a great head, from the French word Chef a head.
• Chevisaunce, a composition or agree∣ment between the debtour and creditour, from the French word Chever, to come to a head.
• Chevronel, a term in Blazon, being a half Cheveron.
• Chibboll, a little onion.
• Chichester, the name of a famous City of Sussex, formerly called Cissancester, i. the City of Cissa, because it was built by Cissa King of the South-Saxons. It hath a very stately Cathedral, and in the reign of William Rufus, the Bishops See was translated from Selsey hither.
• Child-wit, a law-term, signifying a power to take a fine of your bond-woman be∣gotten with child without your con∣sent.
• Chiliade, (Greek) the number of a thousand.
• Chiliarch, (Greek) a Commander of of a thousand men, a Colonel.
• Chiliasts, (Greek) a sect of men who are also called Millenaries who hold that Christ shall come and reign personally upon Earth with his Saints a thousand years.
• Chilo, the Lacedemonian, one of the 7 Wisemen of Greece, whose sentences were very brief; whence Chilonick signifieth compendious.
• Chimaera, a Hill of Lycia, on the top whereof were many Lions, in the midst fed Goates, and at the bottom were Ser∣pents, which Bellerophon made habitable. Whence the Poets feigned that Bellerophon

• killed the Monster Chimaera, who had the head of a Lion, the belly of a Goat, and the tail of a Dragon. VVhence Chimae∣ra's are taken for idle conceits.
• Chimbe, the uttermost part of a barrel. Chaucer.
• A Chime of Bells, a pleasant tune rung upon the Bells. Some say from the La∣tin word Cymbalum.
• Chimin, (French) a law-term, signi∣fying the Kings highway, where there is free passage for him and his people.
• Chiminage, a toll for wayfarage or pas∣sage thorough a Forrest.
• China, a great Country in Asia, which is all under one King, whom they call Lord of the VVorld, and Son of Hea∣ven.
• Chincherie, niggardlinesse, a word used by Chaucer.
• Chione, the daughter of Deucalion and wife of Paeonius the Epidaurian, she being got with child by Phoebus and Mercury, brought forth twins, Autolycus to Mercu∣ry, Philammon to Phoebus.
• Chios, an Island in the Aegean Sea, be∣tween Lesbos and Samos: It is 900 fur∣longs in circuit.
• Chiragrical, (Greek) having the gout in ones hands.
• Chirking, (old word) a chattering noise.
• Chirographer, a law-term, signifying him, who in the Common-pleas office, in∣grosseth fines acknowledged in that Court, into a perpetual Record; also he that giveth a bill of his hand: Chirograph signifying in Greek ones own hand writ∣ing.
• Chirologie, (Greek) a talking by signs made with the hand.
• Chiromancy, (Greek) a divination, by looking on the lines and marks of the hand. This art is also called Palme∣stry.
• Chiron, the son of Saturn and Philyra, who by reason that Saturn lay with Philyra in the shape of a horse, had his upper parts like a man, his lower parts like a horse: he grew famous for physick, brought up Achilles and Aesculapius, and at length was placed among the Stars, and called Sagit∣tarius.
• Chirrichote, a Spanish word used in de∣rision toward the Frenchmen.
• Chirurgery, (Greek) the Art of cure∣ing wounds, vulgarly called Surgery.
• Chivalrie, (French) horsemanship, valour; also a law-term, signifying a tenure of land by Knights-service.
• Chivauchie, the same as Chivalrie.
• Chloris, the wife of Zephyrus, she was called Flora, or the Goddesse of Flowers: also the daughter of Amphion and Niobe, who married Meleus, and brought forth Nestor.
• Chocolate, a compounded Indian drink, whose chief ingredient is a fruit called Cocao.
• Cholmondley, a Town in Cheshire, which gave name and habitation to the Noble Family of the Cholmondley's or Cholmley's by contraction.
• Chorall, a law-term, one that by vertue of the ancient orders of the Clergy was admitted to serve God in the quire.
• Chord, a term in Geometry, being a right line subtending an arch of a Circle.
• Choriambick, (Greek) a foot in Verse, consisting of 4 syllables, two long ones at each extream, and two short ones in the middle.
• Chorion, (Greek) the outermost tu∣nicle that enwraps the Birth.
• Chorister, (Greek) a singing-man of a quire.
• Chorographer, (Greek) a describer or decipherer of Countries and Kingdoms.
• Chorus, a company of Singers in a quire, also that which is sung or played in a Tra∣gedie or Comedy, between every act.
• Chrysmatory, (Greek) a vessel where∣in they put the holy ointment (used by those of the Roman Church in the Sacra∣ment of Baptisme) which is called Chrism.
• Chrisome, (Greek) a white cloth put about a child newly christned, in token of Baptism.
• Christian, a proper name of women, first derived from the profession it self.
• Christianism, the profession of Christian Religion.
• Christopher, (Greek) a proper name of men, signifying Christ▪carrier.
• Chromatic, (Greek) keeping its co∣lour, also pleasant, delightful, also a soft kind of musick, which by the Ancients was taxed of effeminacy.
• Chronical, (Greek) temporal.
• A Chronicle, (Greek) a History of the times.
• Chronodix, (Greek) a certain kind of Dial or Instrument, to shew how the time passeth away.
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• A Chronogram, (Greek) a verse where∣in the figurative letters being joyned together, make up the year of our Lord.
• Chronography, (Greek) a writing of Annals.
• Chronology, (Greek) a computation of years, whereby is shown the coherence of Histories.
• Chrysocol, (Greek) a kind of green earth called Borax, wherewith Gold∣smiths soder gold and other mettals to∣gether.
• Chrysolite, a kind of pretious stone of a gold-colour.
• Chrysopase, another sort of precious stone of a greenish colour.
• Chrysopolis, a Promontory of Asia, now called Scytary.
• Chrysostomus, signifying in Greek gol∣den mouth, it was the name of an ancient Bishop of Byzantium, famous for his elo∣quence.
• Chrystalline heaven, it is the ninth hea∣ven, mentioned Gen. 1. which divideth the water from the waters.
• Chyle, (Greek) a white substance or milky juice, into which the nutriment is converted by the heat of the stomack, and which being there brought to that pefecti∣on, passes thence away thorough Mesaraic veines into the Liver.
• Chylification, the act or faculty of con∣verting nutriment into Chyle.
• Chymistry, the art of dissolving mettals, and of extracting the quintessence out of any thing.
• Chymere, a coat or jacket, also a Heralds coat of arms.

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• Cibarious, (Lat.) belonging to meat.
• Ciboire, (French) a cup or box, where∣in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is kept among the Roman Catholicks.
• A Cicatrice, (Lat.) a scar or mark which is left after a wound is healed up.
• Cicely, a proper name of women, from the Latin word Caecilia, i. Greyeyd.
• Cicero, the name of a most famous Ora∣tour and Philosopher among the Romans, whence Ciceronical is used for elo∣quent.
• To Cicurate, (Lat.) to tame.
• Cid, from the Arabick Caide, which sig∣nifies a Lord or great man. This word is used among the Spaniards, for a valiant man or great Captain.
• Cierges, waxcandles, lamps. Chaucer.
• Cilerie, a term in Architecture, signi∣fying the draperie or leavage, which is wrought upon the heads of pillars.
• Cilicia, a Country of Asia the Lesse, now called Caramania or Turcomania.
• Cilicious, (Lat.) belonging to a Ci∣lice or haircloath.
• Cilinder, see Cylinder.
• Cimbick, (Lat.) a niggard or peny-father.
• Cimbrians, a northern and warlick peo∣ple, anciently inhabiting that Country which is now called Denmark.
• Cimeliark, (Lat.) a Vestry, also a place to put Jewels in.
• Cimice, a small red insect or worm.
• A Cimiter, see Scymitar.
• Cimmerians, a northern people whose Country by reason of its distance from the Sun, is alwayes dark: whence Cim∣merian darknesse is taken for a very thick obscurity. They live near a certain nar∣row sea, which from them is called Bos∣ph••rus Ci••imerius. There is also a people of Italy, so called, living between Baiae and Cumae, incompassed about with high hills.
• Cinamon, an Hebrew word, signifying a kind of spice.
• Cincantenier, (French) a Commander of 50 men; also the name of an Officer in Paris.
• Cincture, (Lat.) an encompassing with a girdle.
• Ciniph, (Lat.) a gnat.
• Cinkefoile▪ an herb called five leaved-grasse.
• Cinnaber, a red stone found in Mines, which is used for a Vermilion colour.
• Cinople, or Sinople, a kind of red-lead, from the City Sinope, whence it is dig∣ged.
• Cinque-ports, five Havens which lie to∣ward France on the East part of England: namely, Hastings, Dover, Hith, Rumney, and Sandwich; the inhabitants of these Ports have many priviledges and immuni∣ties above others of the Commons of that Country. Also they have an especial Go∣vernour▪ who is called Lord-warden of the Cinque-ports, having all the authori∣ty that a Lord Admiral hath in places not exempted.
• A Cipher, from the Hebrew word Sa∣phar, to number, signifieth any figure or

• number, especially that figure in form of an o. which onely serveth to augment the value of a number, also a Character where∣in secret letters are written.
• Cipresse, a fine curled linnen, of which Hoodes for women are made.
• Circester, or Cirencester, an ancient City in Glocestershire, which standeth upon the River Corinus, or Churn, it was formerly called Corinium, and Durocornovium, also Vrbs Passerum, in regard it was set on fire by sparrows, by a stratageme of one Gur∣mundus; it was taken from the Britaines by Ceaulin, King of the West Saxons, also Cineglise was here defeated by Penda, King of the Mercians.
• Circinate, (Lat.) to make a Circle with a pair of Compasses.
• Circk, (Lat.) a place in Rome made circularly where the people sate and be∣held those playes, which are called cir∣censes.
• A Circuit of action, a Term in Law, sig∣nifying a longer course of proceeding then is needfull, to recover the thing sued for.
• Circuition, (Lat.) a fetching a com∣passe, or going about.
• Circular, (Lat.) round, in fashion of a circle.
• Circulation, (Lat.) an encompassing, a fetching a round circle, also a subliming of waters by a Limbeck.
• Circ••maggeration, (Lat.) a heaping round about.
• Circumambient, (Lat.) incircling, or flowing about, an Epithet proper to the aire.
• Circumambulation, a walking about, also a far-fetch't discourse.
• Circumcelliones, certain abominable He∣reticks, who to get themselves repute, laid violent hands upon themselves.
• Circumcision, (lat.) a cutting about, a Ceremony used among the Jews, namely a cutting off the fore-skins from their chil∣dren as soon as they were eight dayes old.
• Circumduction, (lat.) a leading about, a deceiving.
• Circumference, (lat.) a line circularly drawn about the center.
• Circumferentor, a Mathematical instru∣ment, used by Geometricians and Sur∣veyors, it is made of wood, eight inches in length, and four broad, three quarters of an inch thick, about the middle of the up∣per-side is a round hole, three inches and a half about, and half an inch deep, in which is placed a C••rd, divided into 1••0 equal parts, in which Card is drawn a Dyal, to know the hour of the Sun.
• Circumflex, (lat.) bowed about, also a mark over a Vowel, whereby the most full Greek accent is express't.
• Circumfluous, or Circumfluent, (latin) flowing about.
• Circumforaneous, (lat.) ••••itering about the Market, or Court.
• Circumfusion, (lat.) a powring about.
• Circumgyration, (lat.) a fetching a great circuit round about.
• Circumjacent, (lat.) lying about.
• Circumincession, (lat.) a word used by the Divines, to expresse the existence of the holy Trinity.
• Circumligation, (lat.) a binding about.
• Circumlition, (lat.) a dawbing, or plai∣stering about.
• Circumlocution, (lat.) a circuit of word••, or going about the bush.
• Circumvection, (lat.) a carrying about.
• Circumplication, (lat,) a folding about.
• Circumrotation, (lat.) a wheeling a∣bout.
• Circumscription, (lat.) a writing about.
• Circumspection, (lat.) warinesse, heedful∣nesse.
• A Circumstance, (lat.) a quality that ac∣companieth any thing, as time, place.
• Circumstantibus, a Law Term, those that stand about to make up the number of the Jurors: if any impanell'd appear not, or appearing, be challenged by either party.
• Circumvallation, (lat.) an enclosing, or trenching about.
• Circumvent, (lat.) to over-reach, to de∣ceive.
• Circumvolate, (lat.) to fly about.
• Circumvolve, (lat.) to roll about.
• Circumvolution, a rolling, wheeling, or turning about.
• Circundate, (lat.) to encompasse about.
• Circunsonate, (lat.) to sound about, or on every side.
• Cisalpine, Countreys on this side the Alpes.
• Cisbury, a Town in Sussex▪ so called from C••ssa, the son of Aello, and second King of the South Saxons, who with his brother Cimen, landed with great Forces at Ci∣monshore.
• Cistercian Monks, see Bernardine Monks.
• Cistus, a certain bramble, called the ho∣ly rose.
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• Citation, (lat.) the alleadging of any Text, also a Summons to appear before any Court.
• Citherides, a name given to the Muses.
• Citriale, a Cittern, a word used by Chaucer.
• Cittine colour, the colour of a Pome∣citron, or golden colour.
• Citrull, a kinde of Cucumber.
• Cittadell, a Castle, or Fortresse of a Citie.
• Civet, an Arabian word, it is a kinde of Unctious substance, that hath a very sweet smell, and seems to be an excrement co∣ming from some beast.
• A Civick Crown, a reward anciently given by the Romans, to a deserving Ci∣tizen.

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• Clack Wool, is to cut off the sheeps mark, which maketh it to weigh lesse, and to yield lesse custome.
• Claick-geese, see Bernacles.
• Claim, a Law Term, is a challenge of interest in any thing that is out of ones possession, as Claim by Charter, or descent, &c.
• Clamour, (lat.) noise.
• Clan, a tribe, or family in Scotland, as Clan Mackduff, the family of Mackduff.
• Clancular, (lat.) privie, secret.
• Clandestine, (lat.) the same.
• Clangour, (lat.) a shrill cry, or great sound.
• Clap, a Term in Faulcnory, the neather part of a Hawks beak, is called the Hawks clap.
• Clara, a proper name of women, signi∣fying in Latin clear, or bright.
• Clare, a Town of Suffolk, which gave name unto the ancient family of the Clares, descended from Earle Gislebert the Norman, as also the Title of Dukedom, unto Leonel Son to King Edward the 3^d. who for the more full sound was stiled Duke of Clarence.
• Clarentieux, one of the Kings at arms.
• Claricord, or Clericord, a kinde of Mu∣sical instrument, somewhat like a Cymbal.
• Clarie, a kinde of Herb, so called.
• Clarigation, a Law Term, used by the ancient Romans, being the same as repri∣zal with us, see more in reprizal.
• Clarion, a kinde of Trumpet.
• Clarissona••••, (lat.) clear-voic't, shrill-sounding.
• Clark, a Clergy-man, a Schollar, a Se∣cretary, also a man imployed in some great Office, as Clark of the Crown in Chancery, Clark of the Crown in the Kings Bench, Clark of the Ex••reats, Clark of the Pell, of the petty Bag▪ of the Kings Wardrop, of the Kings silver, &c. which see in their several places.
• Clarmathan, signifies in the practick of Scotland, the warranting of stolen Cattel, or goods.
• Classe, an order, a rank, or degree, also a Navy.
• Cla••dicate, to be lame.
• Clavecymbal, or Claricymbal, a kinde of instrument with wire-strings, by some ta∣ken for a Harpsical, or Virginal.
• Claver, a kinde of Herb, called Trefoil.
• Clavicular, (lat.) belonging to a key.
• Clavis, (lat.) a key, also an exposition of hard words.
• Clause, an Article, or conclusion, from the Latin word Claudere, because it shuts up a sentence.
• Claustral, (lat.) belonging to a close place, retired, or recluse.
• Clement, (lat.) a proper name, signify∣ing milde, or gentle.
• Clementines, a part of the Canon-law, or certain decretals collected by Pope Clement.
• Cleopatra, a Queen of Aegypt, first loved by Julius Caesar, afterwards married to Marck Antonie, who having killed himself she procured her own death, by setting Asps to her naked breasts.
• Clep, a Scots Law Term, a form of claim, petition, or libel, or certain solemn words used, especially in Criminal causes.
• Clepen, (old word) they call.
• Clepsydrie, (Greek) an hour-glasse, which measures out the time by the in∣sensible flowing of water.
• Clergion, a Clark, Chaucer.
• Clergie, the whole number of those that take upon them the Ministery, also a Term, signifying an appeal, a Plea to an Indictment, heretofore onely Clergy-men, but now all men have the benefit of their Ordinaries.
• Clerk, see Clark.
• Cleromancy, (Greek) a divination by lots.
• The Clew of a sayl, the lower corner of a sayl, which reaches down to the place where the sheates are made fast to the sayl.
• Clicket, a clapper of a door, Chaucer al∣so useth it for a key.
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• Clicketting, a Term in hunting, a Fox when he desires copulation, is said to go to his clicketting.
• Clientele, (lat.) a taking into ones pro∣tection, a train of clients and followers.
• Cliff, a cleft Mountain, or broken Rock.
• Climacterical, from the Greek word Cli∣max, a scale, or ladder, every seventh, and ninth year is counted a climacterical year: wherein, if any misfortune, or sicknesse happen, it is accounted most dangerous, as likewise those years, which are compound∣ed of 7^ths. & 9^ths. up to the 63^d. which is held most dangerous of all.
• Climate, (Greek) a portion of the earth contained between two parallel lines, in which space there is half an hours diffe∣rence in the length of the day.
• Clinick, (Greek) bedred.
• Clio, one of the nine Muses, who is said to be the first inventour of History.
• Cloacal, full of filth and nastinesse, from Cloaca a sink, or house of office.
• Cloelia, a Noble Virgin among the Ro∣mans, who being left as a hostage with Pors••nna, King of the Hetrurians made an escape, and swom over the River Tybris to her own party.
• Closet, a Term in Heraldry, being half of the Barre, see Bar.
• Closh, an unlawfull game forbidden by the statute.
• Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, the three Destinies, who spin the thread of humane life, Clotho carries the thread, Lachesis spins, and Atropos cuts it off.
• Cloudesbery, a plant which groweth pe∣culiarly upon Pendlehill in Lancashire, so termed, as if it came out of the clouds.
• Clove, a Law Term, the two and thir∣tieth part of a weight.
• Clun, a Castle in Shropshire, built by the Fitz Alans, descended from Flaold the Norman, and defended by them as Lords Marchers (and afterwards Earls of Arun∣del) against the inroades of the Welsh.
• Cluniack Monks, Monks of the Mona∣stery of Cluyne in France.
• Clyster, (Greek) a certain instrument whereby to convey any purging ingredi∣ent up into the guts through the funda∣ment.
• Clytemnestra, the daughter of Tyndarus, and Leda, the wife of Agamemnon, she li∣ved in Adultery with Aegystus, and with his help killed her husband Agamemnon, but his son Orestes revenged his death up∣on his mother and Aegysthus.
• Clytia, one of the daughters of Oceanus, who discovering that Apollo lay with Le••∣cothoe, the daughter of Orchamus was slighted by him, and pining her self away was turned into a flower, called a Helio∣trope.
• Clyto, a Title of Honour, anciently used in this Nation, and peculiarly ascribed to the Kings sons, it comes from the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. glorious, or excellent, in the same sense was the Saxon word Aethe∣ling used.

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• Cnidus, a Citie of Caria, where Venus was worshipped in ancient times. It is now called Cabocrio Cnossus, or Gnossus, a Citie of Crete, where Minas anciently kept his Court. It was anciently called Cera∣tus, from a River of that name, which ran hard by.
• Cnouts delf, otherwise called Steeds dike, a certain Ditch, which Canute the Dane caused to be made between Ramsey and Whitlesey, to abate the fury of the Sea thereabout, where in a great storm his sons and servants had like to have been cast away, it was also called Swerdes delf, because it was marked out with their swords.

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• To Coacervate, (lat.) to heap toge∣ther.
• Coaction, (lat.) a compelling or con∣straining.
• Coadjutor, (lat.) a fellow-labourer, an assistant or helper.
• Coadunation, (lat.) an assembling or bringing together.
• Coaetaneous, (lat.) of the same age.
• Coaeternal, (lat.) equal in eternity.
• Coagulation, (lat.) a thickning or curdling together.
• Coalition, (lat.) a growing toge∣ther, an increasing.
• Coaptation, (lat.) a fitting together.
• Coarctation, (lat.) a streightning, a pressing together.
• Coassation, (lat.) a joyning together with boards.
• Coaxation, (lat.) a noise of frogs, a croaking.
• Cobus, a River of Colchis, that hath gol∣den sands, it riseth out of the mountain Caucasus, and gave original to the Fable of the golden Fleece.
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• Coccinean, of a Crimson, or Scarlet die.
• Coccium, an ancient Town of Lanca∣shire, mentioned by the Emperour Antoni∣nus, and thought to be the same with that, which is now called Cockley.
• Cockatrice, a kinde of Serpent, which is also called a Basilisk, ingendred as some say from a Cock's Egg.
• Cocket, a Law Term, being a Seal ap∣pertaining to the Custome-house, also a scrowl delivered by the Officers of the Custome-house to Merchants, to VVar∣rant that their merchandize is Custo∣med.
• Cockle, (Lat.) a Shell-fish, also a Weed called Corn-rose, darnel, or Field-ni∣gella.
• Cocle-stairs, a Term in Architecture, winding stairs.
• Cockney, a vulgar Term given to one born and bred in the Citie, which comes as some think from the River Thames, be∣ing in ancient time called Cockney.
• Cocles, (Lat.) a man born with one eye, also the name of a valiant Roman, who alone fought against all the forces of King Porsenna, upon a Bridge, untill the Bridge it self was cut down, whereupon he threw himself into the River armed, and swom over.
• Coction, (lat.) a seething, also a dige∣stion of the meat in the stomack.
• Cocytus, a River of Hell, running out of the Stygian Lake.
• The Code, a volume of the Civil Law, which contains divers precepts of the Em∣perours. It comes from the Latin word Codex.
• Codeta, certain Orchards about Tiber, wherein grow many shrubs like horses tailes.
• Codicil, a word used in the Civil Law, being a just sentence of our Will, con∣cerning that, which we would have done after our death, without the appointing of an Executor, and is a kinde of supple∣ment to a Will.
• Codiniack, (French) a kinde of Mar∣malade made of Quinces.
• Codrus, a King of the Athenians, who because the Oracle had foretold that the Peloponesians should overcome, if they did not kill the Athenian King, he disguised himself like a beggar, and voluntarily ex∣posed himself to death for the safety of his Countrey.
• Coeliacal Vein, see Vein.
• Coemeterie, (Greek) a Church-yard.
• Coemption, (Lat.) a certain Ceremony used among the Romans, whereby the husband and wife seemed to buy one an∣other.
• Coequal, (lat.) equal one to another.
• Coertion, (lat.) a withholding, or re∣straing.
• Coessential, (lat.) of the same essence.
• Coexistent, (lat.) having a being toge∣ther, or at the same time.
• Coffa, see Cauphe.
• Cofferer of the Kings houshold, a princi∣pal Officer in the Kings Court under the Controller, who hath a special charge over the other Officers of the houshold, and payeth them their wages.
• Cogitation, (lat.) a thinking, or medi∣tating.
• Cognation, (lat.) kindred, or alliance.
• Cognisance, (French) a badge in armes, also an acknowledging of a Fine, also a hearing a thing judicially; moreover, a Cognisance of a Plea is a priviledge that a Citie, or Town hath of the Kings Grant, to hold a Plea of all Contracts, and of Lands, within the Precincts of the Fran∣chise, and that when any man is impleaded for any such thing at the Kings Court, the Mayor, or Bayliffs of such Franchises may ask Cognisance of the Plea, that is, that the matter be determined before them.
• Cognisee, is he, to whom a Fine is ac∣knowledged.
• Cognisour, is he, who acknowledgeth a Fine.
• Cognition, (lat.) a knowing, or judging of a thing.
• Cognitionibus admittendis, a VVrit di∣rected to a Justice, or any that hath power to take a Fine, commanding him to certifie it in the Court of Common-Pleas.
• Cognominate, (lat.) to give a sirname to any one.
• Coherence, (lat.) a sticking unto, an agreeing, or hanging together.
• Cohibition, (lat.) a keeping back, or re∣straining.
• Cohobation, (lat.) a Term in Chymi∣stry, which signifies a powring of the di∣still'd liquor on its faeces, and distilling it again.
• A Cohort, among the Romans, was the tenth part of a legion, and contained five hundred Souldiers.
• Cohortation, (lat.) an exhorting, or per∣swading.
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• Coincident, (lat.) falling out together, hapning at the same time.
• Coines, corners of a wall, also pieces of wood wherewith Gunners mount Ord∣nance.
• Coint, (old word) strange.
• Coition, (lat.) an assembling together, also carnal copulation. Coition of the Moon is also when the Moon is in the same sign and degree with the Sun.
• To Colaphize, (lat.) to cuff or buffet with the fist.
• Colbrand, the Danish Giant who was overcome by Guy Earle of Warick.
• Colchis, a country of Asia, near Pontus, where Aeaetes raigned, with whom the Argonauts made war about the Golden Fleece.
• Collactaneous, (lat.) nursed together, sucking at the same time.
• Collapsed, (lat.) fallen to decay, ruined.
• Collateral, (lat.) equal with either side, Collateral relations or kindred, are brothers or sisters children, or those that descend from them. Collateral security is that security which is given over and above the deed it self.
• Collation, (lat.) a joyning or compa∣ring together, also a Banquet; also Col∣lation of a benefice is the bestowing of a benefice by the Bishop who hath it in his own gift or patronage; whereas the in∣stitution into a benefice is performed by the Bishop at the presentation of another who is Patron of the place, or hath a Pa∣trons right. It is moreover a term used by Booksellers, and signifies a looking upon the letters at the bottom of every page to see that the book be perfect.
• Collative, a unanimous contribution of the people toward any publick work.
• To Collaud, (lat.) to joyn with others in the praise of any one.
• A Colleague, (lat.) a fellow or copart∣ner in any office.
• A Collection, (lat.) a gathering or levie. Collection is when two principal significates do not behold one another, but both of them cast several aspects to a more weighty Planet than themselves, and they both receive him in some of their essential dignities, then shall the Planet which thus collects both their lights, bring the thing demanded to perfe∣ction.
• Collects things gathered out of other mens Works, also certain select prayers in the Common-prayer book, with the E∣pistles and Gospels for such and such dayes.
• Colledge, (lat.) a place set apart for the society and cohabitation of Students.
• Collerage, a pecuniary mulct in France exacted for the collars worn by wine-drawing horses or men.
• Collet, the same as Beazel of a ring.
• Collieth, a term in Faulconrie, when they say, the Hawk collieth, and not beaketh.
• Colligate, (lat.) to fasten, or tye to∣gether.
• Collimation, (lat.) an aiming at a mark.
• Colliquation, (lat.) a dissolving or melting,
• Collision, (lat.) a crushing, or bruising together.
• Collistrigium, or Collistridium, a word used in the practick of Scotland, and sig∣nifies a pillory or stocks.
• Collocation, (lat.) a placing in order, a letting out to hire.
• Collock, an old Saxon word, signifying a paile with one handle.
• To Collogue, to flatter, from the Latin word Colloquium, a talking together.
• A Colonel, a Commander in chief of a Regiment or Brigade, from the Latin word Columna a pillar, because he is one of the chief props and pillars of an Army.
• Colloquy, (lat.) a talking of two men together.
• Colluctation, (lat.) a strugling toge∣ther.
• Collusion, (lat.) a dealing▪ deceitfully; in Common-law it signifieth an action commenc't against another on purpose to defraud him.
• Collybist, (Greek) a money-changer.
• Collyrie, (Greek) a term in Physick, signifying a medicinable water for the eyes.
• Colobe, an ancient kind of short coat, reaching to the knees.
• Coloieros, a certain religious Order a∣mong the Greeks.
• Colon, (Greek) a mark or pause of a sentence not fully ended, also one of the three great guts.
• Colony, (lat.) a company of men sent out of one country to inhabite another.
• Coloquintida, a kind of wild gourd, used by Physitians in purging medicines.
• Coloss, a statue of a vast bignesse: the most famous Coloss in the World was that of the Sun in the Port of Rhodes.
• Colostration, a term in physick, being

• a disease in children, caused by sucking bad milk.
• Colpindach, or Cowdach, a word used in the practick of Scotland, signifying a young cow or heifer.
• Colran, a Country of Ireland, anciently called Krine, bordering south upon Tir Oen.
• Colubraria, an Island of the Iberian sea, abounding with snakes, from the Latin word Coluber, a snake.
• Coludum, the ancient name of a Town of the Province of Merch in Scotland, cal∣led also Coldana by Ptolomy Colania, now Coldingham, where there was a famous Monastery, the Nuns whereof with their Prioresse Ebba, cut off their lips and noses to avoid the lustful violence of the Danes.
• A Columbarg, (lat.) a Dove-house.
• Columbine, a kind of Flower so called.
• Column, (lat.) a pillar.
• Columnae Herculis, or Hercules pillars, two mountains in the West, the one in Europe called Calpe, the other in Africa called Abyla, which Hercules separated the one from the other. Others say they were two pillars of Brasse in the Isles of Cades.
• Colures, two great circles in the Globe of the World, which passing through the Poles and the 4 principal▪ points of the Zodiack, cut themselves equally, and di∣vide the Glob into equal parts.
• Colus a beast of whitish colour that hath a head like a hog, and that drinks in water thorough the nostrils.
• Coma Berenices, a figure like a triangle in the tail of Leo.
• Comald, a strict Order of Fryers insti∣tuted in Italy, in the year 1012. by one Romoald of Ravenna.
• Combat, in the Common law signifies a formal trial of a doubtful cause by the sword or bastons of two Champions, wherein if the defendant can defend him∣self till the stars be seen in the firmament, and demand judgement if he ought to fight any longer, then judgement is to be given on the defendants side.
• Combination, (lat.) a joyning together, also a term in law, signifying the entring of two or more into a conspiracy to per∣form any unlawful or mischeivous design.
• Combustible, (lat.) apt to take fire, easily inflamed.
• Combustion, is when any Planet is not distant from the Sun eight degrees and three minutes, either before or after his body, and a Planet still remains under the Sun, until he is fully elongated 17 degrees.
• Comedie, see Comaedie.
• Comessation, (lat.) revelling, inor∣dinate eating and drinking.
• Comestion, (lat.) a devouring or eat∣ing up.
• Comet, (Greek) a certain Meteor cal∣led a blazing Star, being a hot and dry exhalation set on fire in the upper Region and portending many strange events: of their several Sects, Vide Plin. l. 2. c. 25. de Nat.
• Comical, (Greek.) merry, facetious, pertaining to Comedies.
• Comitatu Commisso, is a VVrit, or Com∣mission, whereby the Shriffe is autho∣riz'd to take upon him the sway of the County.
• Comitie, (lat.) courtesie, gentlenesse, civility of behaviour.
• Comitial, (lat.) belonging to a Conven∣tion, or Assembly of people, which is cal∣led Comitium, also in Physick the Comi∣tial disease, signifying the falling sick∣nesse.
• Comma, (Greek) a point in a part of a sentence, without any perfect sense.
• Commaculate, (lat.) to defile, or pol∣lute.
• Commandment, in Common Law, is ta∣ken either for the Commandment of the King, when upon his meer motion he commandeth any thing to be done, or else for the offence of him that willeth another to transgresse the Law.
• Commaterial, (lat.) made of the same matter, or substance with another.
• Commaundry, was in ancient time a Mannour or chief Messuage by which lands belonging to the Priory of St. Johns in Jerusalem were holden in England.
• A Commeatur, (lat.) one that passeth as a messenger from one place to ano∣ther.
• Commemoration, (lat.) a mentioning or rehearsing the deeds of any one wor∣thy of praise.
• To Commence, (French) to begin, also a term in Common law, signifying to pro∣ceed in any action or suite against any one, also to take a degree in the Univer∣sities.
• Commendaces, (French) prayers for the dead, also verses or orations made in praise of the dead.
• Commendam, a word used by Ecclesia∣stical

• Writers, whereby is signified the in∣trusting of a Benefice which is void to the charge and care of a sufficient Clergy∣man, until it can be conveniently sup∣plied.
• Commendation, (lat.) a praising or ex∣tolling.
• Commensal, (lat.) a companion at the Table, a fellow Commoner.
• Commensuration, (Lat.) a measuring one thing with another.
• A Commentary, (French) an explaining or exposition of a thing; it signifieth also metaphorically, a comprehending the depth of any misery.
• Commerce, (French) a traffiquing or exchanging of wares.
• Commigration▪ (Lat.) a removing from one place to another.
• Commination, (Lat.) a fierce and ve∣hement threatning.
• Comminution, (Lat.) bruising or break∣ing to pieces.
• Commiseration, (Lat.) tender-hearted∣nesse or compassion.
• Commissary, according to the acception of the Can••nists, is he who exerciseth Ec∣clesiastical jurisdiction in places of the Diocesse so far distant from the chief Ci∣ty, that the Chancelour cannot call the subjects to the Bishops principal Consi∣story without their great molestation; also an Officer in war, is he who is to look to the distribution of victuals, provided for the Army and Garrisons.
• Commission, (Lat.) a delegation or mandate given for the warrant for the exercising of a jurisdiction given by Let∣ters pattents, or the publick Seal.
• Commissure, (Lat.) a word used in Architecture, being a close joyning of planks or stone, or any other material to∣gether.
• Committee, is he or they to whom the consideration or ordering of any matter is referred, either by some Court, or con∣sent of parties to whom it belongeth.
• Commixtion, (Lat.) a mingling toge∣ther.
• Commodious, (Lat.) profitable, gainful.
• Common, signifieth in the Common law, that soile or water whereof the use is common in a Town or Lordship.
• Commonality, (French) the common people.
• Common-pleas, is one of the Courts in Westminster, but in ancient time moveable. It was erected in Henry the thirds time, for the trying of all civil causes, both reall and personal. The cheif Judge whereof is called Lord cheif Justice of the Common-pleas: the rest of the Officers are Custos brevium; four Exigenters, four∣teen Filazers, a Clark of the warrants, a Clark of the jurata writs, Clark of the Treasury, Clark of the Kings Silver, Clark of the Essoynes, and Clark of the Outlawries.
• Commoration, (Lat.) a tarrying in a place.
• C••mmotion, (Lat.) a tumult or up∣roar.
• Commotes, or Commoithes, a word used by the Welch, for a part of a shire, or a hundred, also a gathering made upon the people of a hundred.
• Communication, (Lat.) an imparting one to another.
• Community, or Communion, (Lat.) in∣joying in common, or mutual participa∣tion.
• Communition, (Lat.) a fortifying.
• Commutation, (Lat.) a changing one thing for another.
• Commutative justice, is the justice of a contractor, or his performing a covenant, in buying and selling, lending and bor∣rowing, &c.
• Comaedie, or Comedie, a Stage-play wherein are represented the actions of human life.
• Compact, (Lat.) an agreement.
• Compaction, or Compage, (lat.) a fast∣ning or joyning close together. In Philo∣sophy the contracting of a substance by having lesse parts, or by the more close sticking together of the parts, and it is opposed to diffusion.
• Companage, (Ital.) the same as cates, all kind of victuals eaten with bread.
• A Comparition, (lat.) an appearing to open view.
• A Compasse, a Mathematical Instrument wherewith to make a round Circle; also a Mariners Compasse, is a certain Instru∣ment used by Seamen, for the better guid∣ing and directing them in their Naviga∣tion.
• Compassionate, (French) full of ten∣dernesse and compassion.
• Compatible, (French) which can agree together.
• Compatient, (lat.) suffering together.
• Compatriote, (lat.) one of the same Country, a fellow-Citizen.
• Compeer, (lat.) Compar or Compater)

• a consort, or fellow, also a Gossip, also in the Isle of Zant, those young men invited together to Weddings, are called Com∣peers.
• Compel, (lat.) to force, to constrain.
• Compellation, (lat.) a calling any one by their name, also a mentioning with dis∣grace.
• Compendiousnesse, (lat.) shortnesse, bre∣vity.
• A Compendium, (lat.) an abridgement, also a gaining by thriftinesse.
• Compensation, (lat.) a making recom∣pence, a repaying a good, or bad turn.
• Comperennitation, (lat.) a deferring, or putting off.
• Competency, (lat.) sufficiency, or having enough.
• Competitour, (lat.) a rival, one that seeks after the same thing another sues for.
• Compile, (French) to heap together.
• Compital, (lat.) belonging to the Compi∣ta, or crosse wayes.
• Compitals, certain feasts solemnized in those crosse wayes.
• Complacential, (lat.) milde in behavi∣our, of a curteous or affable nature. Ar∣tamenes.
• Complainant to a Magistrate, making ones case known, suing for relief.
• Complaisance, (French) the same as Complacence, an obliging carriage, an apt∣nesse to comply. Cleopatra.
• Complement, (lat.) a filling up, also Ceremony in speech and behaviour, also a Geometrical Term, signifying those parts of a Quadrangle, which being added to the Gnomon, and the Diagonal make up the whole. Complement of an Angle, is so much as the Angle wanteth of ninty de∣grees.
• The Completes, (Spanish) a piece of ser∣vice said in the evening.
• Complex, (Lat.) compound, containing several things together.
• Complexion, (lat.) the state and consti∣tution of the body.
• Complicate, (Lat.) to wrap, or fold up.
• A Complice, differs from a partner in this, that a partner may be said to be a companion in good, or evil, a complice in evil onely.
• Comportment, (French) carriage, or be∣haviour.
• Composition, (Lat.) a setting together, also a work set forth in any piece of lear∣ning, or art.
• Compotation, (Lat.) a drinking bout, or merry meeting.
• Comprehension, (Lat.) a laying on, also understanding, or finding out the depth of any mystery.
• Compressure, or Compression, (Lat.) a pres∣sing together.
• Comprise, (French) to contain, the same as comprehend.
• Comprobation, (Lat.) a mutual allow∣ing, or approving.
• Compromise, a Term in Law, being a mutual promise of two, or more parties at difference to referre the ending of their controversie to the judgement of Arbi∣trators.
• Compton, in the hole, a Town in War∣wick-shire, which gave name and habita∣tion to the ancient family of the Comptons, advanced by Queen Elizabeth, to the Ti∣tle of Barons.
• Compulsion, (Lat.) a constraining, or forcing.
• Compunction, (Lat.) remorce, or trouble of minde for any crime committed.
• Compurgation, (Lat.) a Term in Law, a justifying by Oath the report, or Oath of another.
• Computation, (lat.) a reckoning, or ca∣sting of account.
• De Computo reddendo, a VVrit compel∣ling a Bayliff, Chamberlain, or receiver to give up their accounts.
• Comrade, the same as Camerade.
• Comus, a certain God among the Hea∣then, that was the chief patron of revel∣lings and debauches.
• Conaught, or Connacht, a Province of Ireland, the people whereof were ancient∣ly called Concani, or Gangani.
• Concamerate, (lat.) a word of Archite∣cture, to make a vaulted roof to Arch.
• Concatenate, (lat.) to chain together.
• Concavity, (lat.) hollownesse.
• Concealers, a Term in Common-law, signifying by Antiphrasis, or contrary speaking, such men as finde out concealed Lands, which are privily kept from the King, or the State by common persons, who have nothing to shew for them.
• Concede, (lat.) to yield, or grant.
• Consent, (lat.) a Harmony, or agreement in Musick.
• Concentricks, (lat.) Sphears, or Circles, having the one common Center.
• Conceptacle, (lat.) a capacious hollow∣nesse, that which is apt to contain, or re∣ceive any thing.
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• Conception, (latin) a conceiving with Childe, also a bringing forth any fancy, or conceit.
• Concern, (lat.) to regard, to belong unto.
• Concertation, (lat.) a striving together.
• Concession, (lat.) a granting, or yield∣ing.
• Concidence, (lat.) a falling together, a a making a Cadence at the same time.
• Conciliate, (lat.) to make to agree, to bring together.
• Concinnate, (lat.) apt, fit, proper.
• Concional, (lat.) belonging to a speech made in publick.
• Concise, (lat.) short consisting of few words.
• Concitation, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣voking.
• Conclamation, (lat.) a great noise, or shouting of much people.
• Concl••ve, (lat.) a Closet, or inner Cham∣ber, also an Assembly of the Cardinals, met to consult about any affaire of the Church.
• A Conclusion, (lat.) a shutting up, or ending of a businesse.
• Concoction, (lat.) a seething, or boyling, a digestion of the meat in the stomack.
• Concomitant, (lat.) bearing any one company.
• Concord, (lat.) agreement, in Common-law, it is defined to be an agreement, be∣tween parties that intend the levying of a Fine of Lands one to another, in what manner the Land shall passe, also a perfect Tone in Musick, as an eighth, or a third, &c.
• Concorporation, (lat.) a mixing of bo∣dies together into one.
• Concourse, (lat.) a meeting together of people.
• Concrete, (lat.) joyned, or grown toge∣ther, also a Logical Term, signifying an accident joyned with any subject, whereas abstract is the accident alone.
• Concretion, (lat.) a growing together.
• Concubinage, (French) fornication, also a Term in Common-law, signifying an exception against her that sueth for her Dowry, alleadging that she is not wife, but Concubine to the party, in whose Lands she seeks to be indowed.
• Conculcate, (lat.) to stamp upon, or tread under foot.
• Concupiscence, (lat.) a vehement desire of any thing, but more particularly a lustfull, or venereal appetite.
• The Concupiscible faculty, the sensual part of the Soul, which onely seeks after pleasures and lusts.
• Concurrence, (lat.) a meeting together, also an agreeing.
• Concussion, (lat.) a jumbling together, also extorsion by terrifying.
• Concussionary, an Officer, or Magistrate that by false shew of Authority extorts gifts, and bribes from men.
• Cond, (a Term in Navigation) to lead, or direct a ship, which way she shall go.
• Condensation, (lat.) a making thick.
• Condereum, the ancient name of a Town, in the Bishoprick of Durham, where in old time the left wing of the Astures kept their station, it is now called Chester upon the Street.
• Conders, are those men that stand upon the high places, near the Sea-Coast, at the time of Herring-fishing, to make signes with bough's▪ in their hands unto the fishers, which way the Herrings passe, which they easily discern by the blue co∣lour, which they make in the wate••.
• Condescention, (lat.) a yielding unto, or complying with.
• Condict, (lat.) an appointment, or com∣position.
• Condigne, (lat.) worthy, according to merit.
• Condement, (lat.) seasoning.
• A Condisciple, (lat.) a School-fellow, or fellow Student.
• Condited, (lat.) seasoned.
• Condition, (lat.) nature, disposition, al∣so estate, or fortune. In Common-law it signifies a rate, manner, or Law, annexed to mens Acts, staying, or suspending the same, and making them uncertain, whe∣ther they shall take effect, or no.
• Condolence, (lat.) a grieving with an∣other.
• Condonation, (lat.) a pardoning, or for∣giving.
• Conducible, (lat.) profitable, also to be hired.
• Conduct, (French) a guiding, also a management of any affair. Artamenes.
• Conductour, (lat.) a leader, or guider.
• Condylome, (Greek) an excrescence of flesh.
• Cone, a Geometrical figure, circularly flat at the bottome, and sharpning by de∣grees, till it end in a point at the top, also a Pine Apple.
• Confabulation, (lat.) a discoursing, or talking together.
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• Confar••eation, (lat.) a certain Cere∣mony with a Cake, anciently used at mar∣riages.
• Conf••ction▪ (lat.) a finishing, a mingling of divers things together, a making of Conserves.
• A Confident, (lat.) one that is imploy'd in matters of secresie and trust.
• Configulation, (lat.) a making of earthen ware.
• Configuration, (lat.) a likenesse, or re∣semblance of figures.
• Confines, (French) Marches, or Borders of a Countrey.
• Confirmation, (lat.) a making sure, also a Law Term, signifying a strengthning of an estate formerly had, and yet voidable, though not presently void.
• Confiscation, (lat.) a Law Term, a bring-away a mans goods, as forfeited to the pu∣blick Treasury, from Fiscus a Pannyer, or Hamper, a place where the Kings Trea∣sure useth to be kept.
• Conflagration, (lat.) a great consuming, or destroying with fire.
• Confluence, (lat.) a meeting of divers waters in one, also a great concourse of people.
• Confluxibility, (lat.) an aptnesse to flow together, or to be mingled one with an∣other.
• Confoederate, (lat.) joyn'd together in a league by Oath.
• Conformable, (lat.) agreeable, suitable.
• Confront, (French) to bring face to face, also to compare together.
• Conge, (French) leave, Conge d'Estire, signifies in the Common-law, the Kings permission to a Dean, or Chapter to chuse a Bishop, or to an Abbey, to chuse their Abbot.
• Congenerous, (lat.) of the same sort, of the same stock.
• Congeniality, (lat.) a resemblance of Genius and fancie.
• Congelation, (lat.) a freesing, or con∣gealing.
• Congersbury, a Town in Somerset-shire, so named from one Congar, who liv'd there an Eremite, whom Capgrave an old Wri∣ter affirms to have been the Emperours son of Constantinople.
• Congiary, a gift of a Prince, or great man to the people.
• Conglobation, (lat.) a gathering round into a Globe.
• Conglomeration, (lat.) a rolling up into a heap, a winding into a bottome.
• Conglutination, (lat.) a fastning toge∣ther with Glue.
• Congratulation, (Lat.) a rejoycing with any one for his good fortune.
• Congregation, (lat.) an assembling, or gathering of people together.
• Congresse, (lat.) a coming together, also an incountring.
• Congruence, or Congruity, (lat.) agree∣ablenesse.
• Conical, having the figure of a Cone.
• Conjectural, (lat.) that may be conje∣ctured, or guess't at.
• Conjugal, (latin) pertaining to mar∣riage, belonging to man and wife.
• Conjugates, a Term in Logick, signify∣ing things of the same rank, order, or ori∣ginal.
• Conjugation, (lat.) a deriving of things under the same order, a coupling of verbs with their moods, and tenses under the same theme.
• Conjunction, (lat.) a joyning together, also a Grammatical word, one of the eight parts of speech.
• Conjuration, (lat.) a conspiracy, or plot, also a compact, or bargaining with the Devil, or evil Spirits, to know any se∣cret, or effect any purpose.
• Conizee, and Conizour, see Cognisee, and Cognisour.
• Connacht, see Conaught.
• Connascency, (lat.) a being born toge∣ther, a springing together.
• Conne, to learn without book, from the Dutch word Kennen, to know, or learn.
• Connen, (old word) can.
• Connexion, (lat) a knitting, or joyning together.
• Coninesborough, a Castle in York-shire, where Hengist, after he had been van∣quish't by Aurelius Ambrose, rallied his forces, but being again utterly defeated, he was beheaded.
• Connivence, (lat.) a faigning not to see, a winking at a fault.
• Connubial, (lat.) belonging to wedlock, or marriage.
• Conovium, the ancient name of a Citie, which flourish't in old time in Caernar∣von-shire, and took its name from the Ri∣ver Conovius, now called Conwey.
• Conq••••ssation, (Lat.) a shaking toge∣ther, a dashing in pieces.
• Conquest, a Term used in the practick of Scotland, and differs from heritage in this, that ••eritage signifies Lands & Goods pertaining to any person, as general Suc∣cessour

• to his father, or any other pre∣decessour. Conquest signifies those which any one possesseth by his own private Title, or by gift, or by any other single contract.
• Conquestion, (lat.) a complaining to∣gether.
• Conradus, (Germ.) Able counsel; the name of several German Emperours.
• Consanguinity, (lat.) nearnesse in blood, kindred.
• Consarcination, (lat.) a patching or sowing of several pieces together.
• Conscention, (lat.) a climbing or mount∣ing.
• Conscious, (lat.) inwardly guilty, pri∣vy to ones self of any fault or errour.
• Conscription, (lat.) a registering, or inrolling.
• Consecration, (lat.) a setting apart to the service of any one.
• Consectary, (lat.) that which follows from the demonstration of an argument.
• Consecution, (lat.) an immediate follow∣ing. Month of consecution is a term in Astrology, signifying the space between each conjunction of the Moon with the Sun.
• Consequence, (lat.) that which follow∣eth of necessity, also a businesse of conse∣quence is a businesse of weight and mo∣ment.
• Consequent, (lat.) following, also be∣ing taken substantively it signifies the last proposition of an enthymeme, the first being called an antecedent.
• Conservation, (lat.) a keeping or pre∣serving.
• Conservator of the peace, signifieth in Common law, him that hath a special charge by vertue of his office, to see the Kings peace kept.
• Conservator of the truce and safe con∣ducts, was an officer appointed in every Port of the Sea, to inquire of all offences done against the Kings truce and safe conducts upon the main-sea, out of the Countries and out of the Franchises of the Cinque Ports.
• Conserves, (French) fruits conserved or condited.
• Considerable, of no mean degree, of more than ordinary quality. Cleopatra.
• Consideration, (lat.) an advising or ta∣king heed; also a term in Common law, signifying the material part of a contract, without which no contract standeth or bindeth. Consideration is either expres∣sed, as when a man bargaineth to give a certain sum for any thing, or else imply'd as when the law inforceth a considera∣tion.
• Consignation, (lat.) a signing of a bill with ones own hand.
• Consimilarity, (lat.) a likenesse or a∣greeing together.
• Consistence, (lat.) a being or setling.
• Consistent, an epithite belonging to dry bodies, and opposed to Fluid.
• Consistory, (lat.) an assembly of Pre∣lates, a Council-house of Ecclesiastical persons.
• Consition, (lat.) a planting together.
• Consolation, (lat.) a comforting, or putting in good heart.
• Consolidation, (lat.) a sodering, strength∣ning, or making solid; also a term in Common law, signifying a joyning of two benefices into one, and in the Civil law, a uniting of possession, occupation, or pro∣fit, with the property.
• Consomniation, (lat.) a sleeping or dreaming together.
• Consonant, (lat.) sounding together, or agreeing; also substantively taken, it sig∣nifieth a letter which hath no sound of it self, but as it is joyned with a vowel.
• Consort, (lat.) a fellow, companion, or mate, also a set or company of Musi∣tians.
• Consound, (lat. Consolidum) an herb o∣therwise called Backwort or Cumfry.
• Conspersion, (lat.) a bedewing or sprink∣ling.
• Conspicuous, (lat.) cleer, manifest.
• Conspiracy, (lat.) a plotting or secret consultation; but in Common law it is alwayes taken in the evil part, and signi∣fieth an agreement of such as bind them∣selves by covenant or other allyance, that each of them shall assist the other maliti∣ously to indite, or falsely to move and maintain pleas; also such as cause chil∣dren within age to appeal men of felony, and such as receive men in the Countries, with liveries and fees to maintain their malitious enterprises.
• Conspiratione, a Writ that lies against Conspiratours.
• Conspurcation, (Lat.) a defiling, foul∣ing, or polluting.
• Consputation, (Lat.) a spitting upon.
• Constable, quasi comes stabuli, or Master of the Kings horse, or as others say, de∣rived from the Dutch word Konnin-Stable, i. e. prop and stay of the King. This

• word is diversly taken in Common law, either for the Constable of England, a place formerly of great Dignity, or for an office belonging heretofore to the Lords of certain Mannours, and at length there came to be ordained others of an inferiour rank, as Constables of Hundreds, or Fran∣chises who were appointed for the con∣servation of the peace, and called high Constables; and under these the Con∣stables of every Town or Parish, who are called pety-constables.
• Constant, (Lat.) standing firm to ones duty or principles.
• Constantinople, see Byzantium.
• Constantinus, the son of Constantius and Helena, he was the first Roman Emperour that profess't Christianity, and for his great deeds, was called Constantine the Great.
• Constellation, (Lat.) a company of Stars embody'd together and represent∣ing some figure.
• Consternation, (Lat.) amazement, or astonishment.
• Constipation, (Lat.) a close embody∣ing together.
• Constitution, (Lat.) an appointing or ordaining; also constitution of the body, the state and complexion of the body.
• Constraint, (French) a forcing or com∣pelling.
• Constriction, (Lat.) the same, also a binding together.
• Construction, (Lat.) a placing or set∣ting together; also a term in Grammar, signifying the right placing of words or sentences.
• Constupration, (Lat.) a ravishing or deflowring a Virgin.
• Consubstantial, (Lat.) of the same Es∣sence with another.
• Consuete, or Consuetudinal, (Lat.) usual or accustomed.
• Consuetudinibus & servitiis, a Writ that lieth against a Tenant who deforceth his Lord of the rent or service due unto him.
• Consul, from the Latin word Consulere, to give counsel; it was a place of highest dignity among the Romans, brought in af∣ter the expulsion of their Kings, and at this present day the chief Governours of divers Cities, are called Consuls.
• Consultation, (Lat.) a taking counsel, also the name of a Writ, whereby a cause being formerly removed by prohibition from the Ecclesiastical Court to the Kings Court, is returned thither again.
• Consummation, (lat.) a fulfilling or finishing, also a making up an account.
• Consumption, (lat.) a falling away, or consuming, also a disease which dries and wastes the body.
• Contabulation, (lat.) a fastning of planks or boards together.
• Contaction, (lat.) a touching of two things together.
• Contagion, (lat.) infection, the spread∣ing of a disease.
• Contamination, (lat.) a polluting or defiling by touch.
• Conteke, (old word) strife or contention.
• Contemeration, (lat.) a deflowring.
• Contemplatives, certain Fryers of St. Mary Magdalens Order, who wear black upper garments, and white under∣neath.
• Contemplation, (lat.) a deep considering.
• Contemporal, or Contemporary, (lat.) of the same time with another.
• Contemptible, or Contemptuous, (lat.) worthy of disesteem and scorn.
• Contenement, a term in law, being the freehold land which lieth to a mans house or tenement.
• Contention, (lat.) a striving.
• Contermination, (lat.) a bordering upon, or lying near.
• Conterpleted, (old word) controlled.
• Contesseration, (lat.) a entering into league or amity with strangers.
• Contestation, (lat.) a calling to wit∣nesse.
• Context, or Contexture, (lat.) a wea∣ving together, also the stile or form of a processe or discourse.
• Contignation, in Architecture signifies the floor-work.
• Contiguity, (lat.) a nearnesse or close touching.
• Continent, (lat.) temperate, contain∣ing ones self from any thing; also sub∣stantively taken it signifies the firm or main land.
• Contingency, (lat.) a hapning by chance.
• Continual claim, a term in Common law, signifying a claim made from time to time within every year and day, to land or any other thing, which at present we cannot attain without danger.
• Continuance, seemeth to signifie in Com∣mon law, the same as prorogation in the Civil law, as continuance until the next Assises when it chanceth that a Record cannot be found.
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• Continuation, or Continuity, (lat.) a lengthning, or going on with any thing, a holding out intire.
• Contorsion, (lat.) a pulling awry, a wresting.
• Contrabanded, prohibited, from the Ita∣lian word Bando, a Proclamation, as con∣trabanded goods, are goods forbidden by Proclaimation to be imported.
• Contract, (lat.) a bargaining or ma∣king a match, as contract of marriage; in Common law it is a covenant or agree∣ment with lawfull consideration or clause.
• Contractation, or Contratation, (lat. and Span.) a contract or bargaining.
• Contraction, (lat.) a drawing toge∣ther.
• Contradiction, (lat.) a gainsaying.
• Contra formam collationis, a Writ a∣gainst an Abbot for him that hath given lands to an Abby, and findeth that the Abbot hath made a feoffment thereof.
• Contra formam feoffamenti, a Writ for the Heir of a Tenant infeoffed in certain lands by Charter of feoffment, by a Lord to do certain services to his Court, and afterwards is distrained for more than is contained in the Charter.
• C••ntramure, a term in Architecture or fortification, signifying an out-wall built about the wall of a City, a counter-scarfe.
• Contrasto, (Spanish) contention or strife.
• Contr••ctation, (lat.) a wanton hand∣ling of a woman.
• Contribution, (lat.) a joynt giving of money or supplies towards any businesse of importance.
• Contributione facienda, a Writ that lieth in case more are bound to one thing, yet the whole burthen is put upon one.
• Contristation, (lat.) a making sad.
• Contrition, (lat.) remorce or peni∣tence.
• Controller, an officer who keepeth a Roll of other officers accounts. Control∣ler of the Hamper, an officer in Chancery, who takes all things sealed from the Clark of the Hamper inclosed in leather bags, and takes a special charge of them. Controller of the pipe, an officer in the Exchequer, who writes summons to the Sheriffs to levie the debts of the pipe. Controller of the Pell, an officer of the Exchequer who keeps a controlment of the Pell of receipts and goings out.
• To Controve, (old word) to de∣vise.
• Controversie, (lat.) contention in di∣spute.
• Contumacy, (lat.) stubbornnesse, re∣bellion.
• Contumely, (lat.) injury, reviling.
• Contumulation, (lat.) an intombing to∣gether.
• Contusion, (lat.) a bruising, or beating in pieces.
• Convalescency, (lat.) an increasing in health or strength.
• To Convene, (lat.) to warn into any Assembly.
• Conveniency, (lat.) fitnesse, or meet∣nesse.
• Convent, or Covent, a great Assembly of people, also a Society of Religious men dwelling together in a house.
• Conventicle, (lat.) a private Assem∣bly.
• Conventual, (lat.) belonging to a com∣pany of religious persons. Conventual Church a Parish Church.
• Conversation, (lat.) a keeping company, or being familiar with any.
• Conversion, (lat.) a changing from one state to another, especially from bad to good.
• Convexity, (lat.) the outside of a globous body which is hollow.
• Conviction, (lat.) in Common law, is the proving a man guilty by the verdict of a jury, or when a man that is outlaw'd appeareth and confesseth.
• Convivial, (lat.) belonging to a feast.
• Convocation, (lat.) a calling, or assem∣bling together, convocation house, the house where the Clergy assemble, to con∣sult about Ecclesiastical affairs.
• Convoy, (French) a guide, or con∣duct.
• Convulsion, (lat.) a violent pulling to∣gether, also a disease wherein the sinews are shrunk up, and drawn together.
• Cooperate, (lat.) to bear another com∣pany in the same work.
• Coote, a kinde of bird, otherwise called a Moorhen.
• Copal, a kinde of white Rosin brought from the Indies, which they use for a perfume.
• Cope, a Cloak, also a vestment, that Bi∣shops were wont to wear.
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• Coparceners, or parceners, signifie in Common-law, such as have equal share in the inheritance of their ancestours.
• Copia libelli deliberanda, a Writ that ly∣eth in a case where a man cannot get the Copy of a Libel, at the hands of a Judge Ecclesiastical.
• Copyhold, signifieth in Common-law, a Tenure for which the Tenant hath no∣thing, but the Copy of the Rolles made by the Steward of his Lords Court, this is also called a base Tenure, or Tenure in Villenage.
• Copious, (lat.) plentifull.
• Copise, from the French Couper, to cut down, a little Wood, which consists of underwoods that are to be cut down be∣fore they grow to be great Trees.
• Copperas, a kinde of mineral, otherwise called vitriol, being mixed of humours, strained by drops into small holes.
• Copthall, the name of a stately house, belonging in ancient times to the Fitz∣auchers, and afterwards very much beau∣tified by Sir Thomas Heneage.
• Copulation, (lat.) a joyning, or coupling together.
• Coquettery, (French) a pratling like a a Gossip.
• Coquination, (lat.) a dressing, or Cook∣ing of meat.
• Cor Scorpii, the heart of the Scorpion.
• Coraage, in Common-law, is a certain extraordinary imposition upon certain measures of Corn, which is upon some un∣usual occasion.
• Coral, a certain Maritime plant grow∣ing under water, which when it is taken out, petrifies, and becomes red.
• Coralline, a kinde of plant, called Sea-mosse, or Coral-mosse.
• Coralyse, chaffe, or drosse of Corn.
• Corban, an Hebrew word, signifying a a gift dedicated to God.
• Corbel, or Corbet, a Term in Archite∣cture, signifying a shouldering piece in Timberwork, a jutting out like a bragget.
• Corbets, the name of a very ancient fa∣mily in Shropshire, who about the coming in of the Normans, held divers Lordships by the service of Roger Mountgomery.
• Corciousnesse, (old word) corpulency.
• Corck, or Orchall, a kinde of blue co∣lour, used in painting.
• Cordage, the tackle of a ship, a word used in Navigation, also stuffe to make ropes on.
• Cordelier, a Gray Fryer of the Order of St. Francis, so called because he wears a cord full of knots about his middle.
• Cordial, (latin) comfortable to the heart.
• Cordon, an old English word, signifying reward, in like manner also the French word Guerdon is used by us.
• Cordovan leather, leather made of Goat-skins, so called from Corduba, a Citie of Andaluzia in Spain, where the best sort of that kinde of leather is made.
• Cordwainer, or Cordiner, (French) a shooe-maker.
• Corinaeus, one of the companions of Bru∣tus, whence Cornwall is said to have ta∣ken its denomination, being in old time called Corinaea, it is fabulously reported of him that he fought with a Gyant, cal∣led Gogmagog, and threw him down a steep Rock.
• Corinth, a Citie of Achaia in Greece, in ancient time called Ephyre, which after it had been destroyed, was restored by Co∣rinthus, the son of Marathon, or as some say of Pelops, and by him called Corinth.
• Corinthian order, a Term in Archite∣cture, signifying an adornment of Pillars, after the Corinthian manner, there being five orders of pillars in Architecture, Do∣rick, Ionick, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite.
• Coritani, a people anciently inhabiting that part of this Island, which containeth Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland∣shire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire.
• Cork, a County of Ireland, in old time reputed a Kingdom, the people whereof were anciently called Vodiae & Coriondi.
• Cormorant, a Sea Raven, Metaphorical∣ly taken for a glutton.
• Cornage, is in Common-law a certain Tenure, whereby in the North, men used to hold their Lands, which was to blow a horn when any invasion of a Northern enemy was perceived.
• Cornalin, a kinde of precious stone, which some think to be the same with Corneol.
• Cornavii, the name of a certain people, who in ancient times possessed that part of this Island, containing those Counties which are at present called Warwick-shire, Worcestershire, Stafford-shire, Shrop-shire, Cheshire.
• Corn-flowr, a kinde of flowr, called blue-bottle.
• Cornelian, the same as Corneol,

• a kinde of precious stone, also Cornelian Law, was a Law made by Cornelius Sylla, that any who would follow him in, should be capable of Office before they had at∣tained their full years.
• Cornelius, (lat.) a proper name of men, from Cornu, a horn.
• Cornel, an old word, signifying a cor∣ner, also the fore-part of a house.
• Corneol, a kinde of precious stone, apt to be ingraven, and therefore much used for the making of seals: It is also called a Sardy, or Onyx.
• Corneous, (lat.) of a horny substance.
• Cornet, (French) a kinde of black Taf∣fata, which Doctors of Physick, or Law used to wear on the collar of their robes as an Ensign, or badge of their degree, al∣so the Ensign of a Troup of horse, so called because it was used to be made of that kinde of Taffata.
• Cornice, a Term in Architecture, signi∣fying the crests, or flourishing work at the upper end of a pillar, it is also called a frize.
• Cornigerous, (lat.) wearing horns, an Epithet of Bacchus.
• Cornil-tree, a Tree called a Horn-tree, because its branches are hard like a horn.
• Cornimuse, (lat.) a kinde of musical in∣instrument, which some take for a kind of Bag-pipe.
• Cornix, see Cornalin, and Corneol.
• Cornucopy, a horn which Jupiter gave to Amalthea, whereby she injoyed plenty of all things, it is Metaphorically taken for plenty.
• Cornuted, (lat.) horned.
• Corody, from the Latin word Corrodo, it signifieth in Common-law, a summe of money, or allowance of meat and drink, toward the maintenance of any of the Kings servants out of an Abby, or religi∣ous house, whereof the King is the foun∣der.
• Corodio habendo, a Writ for the exact∣ing a Corody out of an Abby, or religious house.
• Corollary, an advantage above the or∣dinary measure, also a gift bestowed on the people at publick feasts.
• Corona, by the Greeks called Halo, that is to say a clear Circle appearing in a Cloud about the Sun, or any other bright Star, but especially about the Moon, also a coelestial constellation upon the shoulder of Bootes.
• Coronal Suture, this is by Chirurgons called the formost seam of the skull, pas∣sing from one bone of the Temples to the other.
• Coronation, (lat.) a Crowning.
• Coroner, an ancient Officer belonging to the Crown, and Common-wealth of Eng∣land, his Office, is to enquire of every man that is slain, or cometh to an untimely end, and what Corn, Cattel, or free∣hold, the Felon had at the time of the fact committed, and to seize them to the use of the King, or State, there are four of these Officers in every County.
• Coronet, a little Crown, or Chaplet.
• Corporal, (lat.) belonging to the body, also a Commander, or band of ten Soul∣diers, also the fine linnen wherein the Sa∣crament is put.
• Corporation, (lat.) in the Civil Law, signifieth a body politick, authorised by the Kings Charter, to have a Common Seal, one, or more head Officers, and Members able by their common consent to grant, or receive in Law any thing within the compasse of their Charter.
• Corporature, (lat.) the form, or consti∣tution of the body.
• Corporeal, (lat.) of a bodily substance.
• Corporeity, or Corporeature (lat.) Philo∣sophick Term, Corporeature, bodily sub∣stance.
• Corps, (Fr.) a carcasse, or dead body.
• Corps du guard, (French) a Term in Military Discipline, signifying a Compa∣ny of Souldiers set to watch.
• Corpulency, (lat.) fulnesse of body.
• Corpus Christi, a Colledge in Oxford, built by Richard Fox, Bishop of Winche∣ster.
• Corpus cum causa, a Writ issuing out of Chancery to remove, both the body and the record touching the cause of any man lying in execution upon a judgement for debt into the Kings Bench.
• Corr, a certain measure containing two quarts.
• Corrade, (lat.) to scrape together, to extort.
• Correction, (lat.) an amending, also a chastising.
• Correctour of the Staple, a Clerk be∣longing to the Staple, that recordeth the bargains of Merchants there made.
• Correlatives, (lat.) a Term in Logick, signifying things that have mutual rela∣tion one to another, as Master and servant, father and son, &c.
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• Correption, (lat.) a snatching suddenly away.
• Correspondency, (lat.) a holding mutual Commerce and familiarity, an answerable∣nesse, or proportion of one thing to an∣other.
• Corridor, a Term in fortification, other∣wise called Cortina, or Curtain.
• Corrigible, (lat.) easie to be corrected, or made better by correction.
• Corrival, a competitour, one that makes suit in the same businesse.
• Corroboration, (lat.) a strengthning or making firm.
• To Corrode, (lat.) to gnaw, to fret.
• Corrosive, (lat.) having a gnawing or fretting quality; it is spoken of those things which are used in physick, to gnaw or eat into any part of the body.
• Corrugation, (lat.) a contracting toge∣ther, a drawing into wrinkles.
• Corruption, (lat.) a tainting or depra∣ving. Corruption of the blood, signify∣eth in law an infection of the blood, grow∣ing to the estate and issue of a man taint∣ed with treason, whereby he looseth all to the Prince, and both he and his heirs are made ignoble.
• Corsary, (French) a Courrier.
• Corse praesent, law-term, the body of a beast or some such like offering, given to the Priest out of a dead mans goods. It is also called a Mortuary.
• Corslet, (Ital.) the same as Cuirasse in French, armour for the back and brest.
• Corsure, or Courser (old word) a Broaker.
• Corstopitum, the ancient name of a Town in Northumberland, mentioned by Anto∣nine. Some think it to be the same with Ptolemies Curiae Ottadinorum, now called Corbridge.
• Corticated, (lat.) covered with a bark or rind.
• Corven, (old word) carved.
• Corvine, (lat.) belonging to a Crow or Raven.
• Corviser, see Cordwainer.
• Coruscation, (lat.) lightning, a flash∣ing or glimmering of light.
• Corybantes, the Priests of Cybele, who used to celebrate the Feasts of Cybele with dancing and ringing of Cymbals; they were thought to be the same with the Curetes and Idaei Dactyli.
• Coscinomancy, (Greek) a divination by a seive.
• Cosenage, a Writ that lieth where the father of the Great grandfather is seized in his demesu as of fee at the day of his death, of certain lands and tenements, and he dying, a stranger entereth and in∣trudeth. Then shall his heir have this Writ of Cosenage.
• Cosh, or Cotterel, (old word) a Cot∣tage.
• Cosham, a Town in Wiltshire, in ancient times the Mansion house of King Ethel∣red.
• Cosier, (old word) a Botcher, called also a Sowter.
• Cosmical, (Greek) belonging to the World. Cosmical rising of a Star, is a term used in Astronomy, signifying a Star rising at the same time with the Sun.
• Cosmography, (Greek) a description of the World, with the Climates and Circles marked upon the Globe and in Maps.
• Cosmometry, (Greek) a measuring of the World by degrees and minutes, be∣ing a part of Geography or Cosmogra∣phy.
• Cost, a term in Blazon, being the fourth part of the Bend or half the Gartier.
• Costive, (from the Latin word Consti∣patus,) having the belly bound.
• Costmary, an herb called Balsamine, or Alecoast.
• Costrel, (old word) a wine-pot.
• Cote, a kind of refuse or clotted wool, also a cottage or sheepfold.
• Coteswold, (old word) a company of sheepcotes, and sheep feeding on hills.
• A Cottager, signifieth in Law he that dwelleth in a Cottage or house without land, or at most having but 4 acers be∣longing to it.
• Cotterel, see Cosh.
• Cotton, a kind of stuff, otherwise called Frize or Bombasin.
• Couchant, (French) lying or squat∣ting close to the ground, a word often used in Heraldry to expresse that po∣sture.
• Covenable, or Convenable, (old word) suitable or convenient.
• Covenant, (French) a bargain, pact, or agreement, also Covenant in Law is that which the Law intendeth to be made though in words it be not exprest, also the name of a Writ that lyeth for the breach of any.
• Covent, see C••nvent.
• Coventry, a famous City in Warwick∣shire, so called from a Covent of Monks

• that was anciently there. The first Lord of this City is said to be one Leofric, who imposing heavy taxes upon the Citizens, remitted them at last at the earnest inter∣cession of his wife Godiva, upon condition she would ride naked thorough the chief street of the City, which she performed, but so covered with her long hair, that no body could discern her.
• Covercle, or Coverkill, (old word) a lid or cover.
• Covert, (French) an ombrage or sha∣dy place for Deer or other beasts.
• Coverture, in Common law is the con∣dition of a married woman, who by the Laws of England, is under Covertbaron, and so disabled to make any bargain with∣out her husbands consent.
• Coughton, a place in Warwickshire, the principle Mansion of the Throgmortons, a very ancient Family.
• Covie, (French) a term in fouling, signifying a nest or brood of Partridges.
• Covin, fraud, from the Latin word Con∣venire, it signifieth in Common law, a deceitful agreement between two or more, to the prejudice of another.
• Coulant, (French) flowing or gliding along.
• Couldray, (French) a hazel grove.
• Coule, a vessel to carry water in, also a roab which Fryers use to wear, called in Latin Cucullus.
• Coulter, (Lat.) a plough-sheare.
• Councel with a c. (lat. Concilium) an as∣sembly of Counsellours.
• Count, (French) an Earle, also a Law Term coming from the Latin word Com∣putatio, and signifies the Original decla∣ration in a processe chiefly in real actions.
• Countercomponed, a Term in Armory, as a bordure countercomponed is a bor∣dure compounded of two colours coun∣terly placed.
• Counteurs, or Conteurs, are those which a man setteth to speak for him in Court as Advocates, whereas Plaideurs speak as Counsellours at law for one, who is pre∣sent himself.
• Countenance, (French) the face, or vi∣sage, also estimation, or credit, also a Term in Law, signifying the favour that is shew'd to poor men that will swear, they have nothing whereof they may make fine.
• Counter, a Trades-mans chest, where he puts his cash, or money, also a prison in London, where men are put for debt, from the French word Compter, or from the Dutch word Cantor, a secluded place, al∣so Counters are certain little things to cast account with.
• Counterfeit, (French) to feign.
• Countermaund, (French) a revocation of a former command.
• Countermure, a word in fortification, a Wall, or Bank opposite to the Town Wall.
• Counterpain, one of the Copies of a pair of deeds, or indentures, so that one party may keep one part, and the other the o∣ther.
• Counterplea, signifieth in Common-law, that, which the demandant alleadgeth against a Tenant in courtesie, or in dowr, who prayeth in aid of the King, or him, who hath the reversion for his better de∣fence.
• Counterpoint, opposition, also a Term in Musick, being a composing of parts toge∣ther by setting points one against another, also a Term in Needle-work, called back∣stitch, or quilt-stitch.
• Counter-round, a Term in Military Dis∣cipline, signifying a certain number of Of∣ficers going to visit the Rounds, or the Sentinels.
• Counter-scarf, (a Term in fortification) that side of the moat, which is opposite to the Fortresse.
• Counter-tail, or Counter-tally, one of the two tallies, or pieces of wood, whereon any thing is scored, whereof one party keeps one piece, and the other the other piece.
• Countervail, (French) to be of equal price.
• County, or Shire, a certain portion, or circuit of the Realm, into which the whole land is divided.
• County-court, a Court held every moneth by the Sheriffe, or his Deputy the under Sheriffe.
• Coup, (old word) a piece cut off, or cut out.
• Coupant, (French) cutting, or lop∣ping.
• Couple-close, a Term in Blazon, being the fourth part of a Cheveron.
• Courfine, (old word) fine heart.
• Courser, (French) a horse of service.
• Court, the house (where) a King hath his present residence, also a place where justice is judicially ministred, from the Latin curia, or from the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. a Lord.
• Courtbaron, a Court that every Lord of

• a Mannour hath within his own pre∣cincts.
• Court of requests, a Court of Equiry of the same nature with the Chancery, onely this Court instead of a Subpoena useth a privy seal.
• Courtesie of England, is a certain Te∣nure, whereby a man marrying a woman seized of Land in Fee-simple, or Fee-tail general, if he have a childe by her, which cometh alive into the world, though she and the childe die immediately, yet if she were in possession he shall hold the land during his life, and is called Tenant per legem Angliae, or the courtesie of Eng∣land.
• Courtilage in Common-law, is a Garden, or piece of void ground lying near a mes∣sage from Curtis, a mansion house, and le∣gere to gather.
• Courtisan, (French) a Court-lady, it is also commonly taken for a strumpet.
• Courtlasse, or Coutelasse, a short sword.
• Couth, quasi K••nnouth, knew, from the Saxon word Ken, to know.
• Coutheutlaugh, (Saxon) he that recei∣veth, cherisheth, or hideth an out-law.
• Cowde, (old word) a gobbet.
• Cowre, to kneel, to fall down for fear from the Italian word Covare.
• Cowneer, the hollow arching part in the ship stern.
• Coy, or Coyen, (old word) nice dainty, also to quiet, to flatter.

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• Crabbat, (French) handsome, comely, also substantively taken, it signifieth a a Gorget for women, or a kinde of riding band for men.
• Crach, a crib, or rack for beasts.
• Crabs eye, a stone found in a Crab, which resembleth an eye.
• Cranage, money paid for the use of a Crane to draw up wares.
• Crank, (old word) lusty, blith, jo∣vial.
• Crank-sided, when a ship will bear but small sayl, a Term in Navigation.
• Crany, (lat.) the skull.
• Crapulent, (lat.) glutted with meat, having taken a surfet.
• Crasie, sick, distemper'd, from the Greek word, crasis, temperature.
• Crask, (old word) fat.
• Crasse, (lat.) thick, heavy, dull, lum∣pish.
• Crassitude, (lat.) thicknesse, grosse∣nesse.
• Crater, is a sign in Heaven, called the bottom of the pitcher in Virgo, it riseth about the sixteenth of the Calends of March.
• Creance, (French) trust, confidence, cre∣dit.
• Creansour, Law Term, a creditour.
• Creast-tile, a roof tile, which is made to lay upon the ridge of a house.
• Crebrous, (lat.) often, usual.
• Credible, (lat.) that may be believed.
• Credit, trust, belief, also esteem.
• Creditour, (lat.) he that lendeth, or trusteth out money.
• Credulity, (lat.) aptnesse to believe.
• Creed, a set form containing the arti∣ticles of Christian religion.
• Creek, from the Dutch word Kreaken, to make a noise, a part of a Haven where any thing is landed, or disburthened from the Sea.
• Crenelle, a Term in Heraldry, being a line dented like the notch in the horn of a bow.
• Creon, the son of Menatius King of The∣bes, he was brother to Jocasta, the wife of Laius, and mother of Oedipus, who unfold∣ed the riddle of Sphinx, and married Jo∣casta, not knowing her to be his mother, and by her had Eteocles and Polynices, who succeeded in the Kingdom, and were to reign by turns every other year, but they having killed one another in civil Wars, Creon regained the Kingdom, but beha∣ving himself with much cruelty, he was overcome by Theseus, and slain.
• Crepitation, (lat.) a creaking noise.
• Crepuscul, (lat.) the dawning of the day.
• Cressant, (French) the figure of a half Moon, a term in Heraldry.
• Cresses, a kind of plant called in Latin Nasturtium.
• Cresset, (old word) a Lantern, a Bea∣con.
• Crest, (French) a part of a helmet, also the upper part of a Scutchion in ar∣mo••y.
• Crestmarine, an herb called Rock-sam∣phire.
• Crete, an Island of the Mediterranean Sea, heretofore called Hecatompolis by the Greeks, because it had a hundred Cities▪ it is now called Candie, and is a great part of it in the possession of the Turks.
• Cretism, or Creticism, (Greek) a for∣ging

• of lyes, falshood or perfidious∣nesse.
• Crevequeurs, the name of an ancient Fa∣mily in Kent, who built Leeds Castle in that County: they are stiled in ancient Records de crepito corde.
• Crevet, or Cruset, from the French word Creux, hollow, a Goldsmiths mel∣ting pot.
• Creusa, the daughter of Priamus and Hecuba, and wife of Aeneas, by whom he had Ascanius; she following her husband out of Troy when it was set on fire, was not minded by him till he came out of the City, by reason that he led his son in his hand, and carried his father on his shoul∣ders through the flames, but going back to seek her, he could never hear what was become of her.
• Criminal, (lat.) guilty, blameworthy. Cleop.
• Crined, having hairs, from the Latin word Crinis; it is a word used in Heral∣dry.
• Crinisus, a River of Sicily, near to the City Segesta, of which it is related, that when the Trojan Virgins were to be ex∣posed to the fury of a Monster, whom Neptune sent to destroy the Country be∣cause of Laomedons perfidiousnesse, Hip∣potes a noble Trojan committed his daugh∣ter Hegesta to the wide Sea, and she be∣ing by fortune carried into Sicily, Crini∣sus fell in love with her, and turning him∣self into a Bear, ravisht her, whereupon she became with child and brought forth Ac••••tes, who was afterwards King of Sicily.
• Criplings, (a term in building) short spars on the side of a house.
• Crisis, (Greek) a judgement or dis∣cerning into any thing; also a term in Physick denoting the sudden change in a disease, tending either to recovery or death.
• Sir Crispins Launce, an awle, from Cris∣pin who was the Patron of the Shooma∣kers.
• Crisped, (lat.) frisled, curled.
• Crithology, (Greek) a gathering in of the first fruits of corn.
• Critical, (Greek) of a nice judgement, apt to censure. Also Critical dayes in a disease, are those dayes wherein a disease comes to its Crisis, and they are the odde dayes as the third, fifth, seventh, and so on; but the most critical are coun∣ted the fourteenth. The Crisis in acute diseases is judged by the Moon, but in Chronick diseases, the Crisis is judged by the Sun
• Criticisme, (Greek) a playing the Critick, a learning which consists in the curious and nice examining of Authors.
• Cro, or Croy, signifieth in the Scotch Acts of Parliament, a satisfaction which the Judge is to pay unto the nearest of kin to a man that is slain, in case he mini∣ster not justice as he should do.
• Croce, (old word) a Shepherds staff, or crook.
• Crocolana, the ancient name of a Town in Lincolnshire, now called Ancaster.
• Crocute, a certain beast imitating the voice of a man, and ingendred of a Hyaena and a Lionesse, it cometh from the Aethio∣pian word Crocottas.
• Croesus, a King of the Lydians, who abounded in riches; he was overcome in war by Cyrus, and put upon a pile to be burnt, and calling out Solon, Solon, Cyrus demanding the reason, he acquainted him how that Solon having formerly been asked of him who was the happiest man, told him none could be happy till his death, and that the greatest riches could not keep a man from misery; whereupon he was freed and made one of Cyrus his Coun∣sellers.
• Croft, from the old word Creaft, i. e. handy-craft, a little Close joyning to a house, it being lookt to with more than ordinary care.
• Croisada, a Bull of the Pope, granting the sign, the badge of the Crosse, in an expedition of Christians against Infidels.
• Croises, Pilgrims, also Knights of the Order of St. John in Jerusalem, created for the defence of Pilgrims; they were both so called from the sign of the Crosse which they used to wear on their gar∣ments.
• Crome, or Corm, (old word) a crow of iron, from the Dutch word Kromb, crook∣ed.
• Crool, (old word) to mutter.
• Crosier, a Bishops staff, from the old word Croce, a Shepherds crook, or for that it bears the figure of a Crosse.
• Crosstaff, a Mathematical Instrument, wherewith the Altitude of any thing is taken.
• Crostrees, those crosse pieces of timber which are set on the head of the mast of a Ship.
• Crotchet, a measure in musick being half

• a Minim, and a Minim is once down or up, it signifieth also a humour or whimsy.
• Crotells, or Croteying (term in hunting) the ordure of a Hare.
• Crouch, (old word) Crosse, whence to Crouch, i. e. to blesse.
• Crow, is a celestial constellation, and sits upon Hydra's taile, she hath her Man∣sion in the austeral parts.
• Crowland, a Town in Lincolnshire, which is reported to have been heretofore mightily haunted with spirits, until such time as devout Guthlac lived there a Her∣mites life, to whose memory Aethelbald King of the Mercians built a famous Mo∣nastery.
• Crown, of the several sorts of Crowns, as Triumphal, Civic, Gramineal, Mural, and the like. See Aulus Gellius cap. 8. Crown is also metaphorically taken for glory, honour, dignity.
• Clark of the Crown in Chancery, an Officer that attends the Lord Chancellour for special matters of State, as Commissi∣ons of Lieutenancies, Justices, or such like, with their writs of association and dedi∣mus potestatem for taking of oaths; also all general pardons, writs of Parliament, writs of special executions, &c.
• Clark of the Crown-office in the Kings Bench, is he who frames, reads, and re∣cords, all Indictments against Traitours, Felons, and all other offenders there arraigned.
• Collens••earth, a kind of colour used in painting.
• Cruciate, (lat.) to afflict, to tor∣ment.
• Crucifie, (lat.) to fasten or naile to a Crosse.
• A Crucifix, an Image which represents the crucifying of Christ.
• Cruditie, (lat.) rawnesse, ill digestion of the stomack.
• Cruet, or Crewet, a viol or narrow-mouth'd glasse to keep oil or the like in.
• Cruife, a word used in the practick of Scotland for a hogs-stye, it is also called Creffera.
• Crurall, (lat.) belonging to the thighs.
• Crusible, a pot wherein Chymists melt their mettals.
• Crussell, (old word) grisle.
• Crustaceous, (lat.) crusted or covered with a hard shell.
• Crutchet Fryars, the same as crouched or crossed Fryars.
• Cruzada, see Croisada.
• Cruzado, a Portugal Crown of Gold.
• Cryptology, (Greek) a speaking in se∣cret, a whispering.
• Crystall, a very bright and transparent kind of Mineral, which lookes like Ice, or the clearest sort of glasse.
• Crystalline Humour, a white splendid and shining humour, nor flat nor round, seated in the center of the eye, and is the first instrument of sight.

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• Cubbridge head, a division made across the forecastle and half-deck with boords, which in other places is called the Bulk-head.
• Cube, a Geometrical figure, being a so∣lid body every way, comprehending six equal sides.
• Cubebes, a certain kind of Indian fruit.
• Cubicular, (lat.) belonging to a Bed-chamber.
• Cubite, a kinde of measure, reaching from the elbow to the end of the little finger.
• Cuchaneale, a little worm bred in the fruit of the Holy-oke, of which is made a certain costly grain wherewith they dye Skarlet or Crimson colour. Some say it comes from the Latin word coccinus, Skarlet.
• Cu••ullated, (lat.) having on a Monks coule.
• Cucurbite, (lat.) a Gourd, also a Cup∣ing-glasse, being a deep hollow glasse which Physitians apply to the body to draw out blood.
• Cucuye, a strange kind of bird in Hispa∣niola, having eyes under the wings, which in the night time shine very bright.
• Cudweed, a certain herb whose leaves are so soft, that they are used for cotton; it is also called Cotton-weed.
• Cue, an item given to Stage-players when any of them are to begin to speak.
• Cuerpo, (Spanish) a body, also a cor∣poration; to walk in cuerpo, is to go with∣out a cloak.
• Cui ante devortium, a writ, that a wo∣man divorced from her husband hath power to recover her lands from him to whom her husband did alienate them du∣ring the marriage.
• Cui in vita, a writ of entry that a widow hath against him, to whom her

• husband did alienate her lands in his life time.
• Cuinage, the making up of Tin into such a fashion as makes it fit for carriage.
• Cuirassier, (French) he that is armed with a Cuirase or Corslet, which is a kind of armour for the brest and back.
• Culdeis, quasi ••ultores Dei, a sort of re∣ligious people that were anciently in Scot∣land and Ireland.
• Culerage, (French) lechery, also an herb called Water-pepper, or Arse-smart.
• Culinary, (lat.) belonging to the kitchin.
• Cullers, in Latin ••ves rejiculae, sheep that are chosen out and separated from those that are good for meat.
• Cullion-head, the same as Bastion, a Skonce or Block-house.
• Cullis, from Colare to strain, the juice of boiled meat strained thorough a strai∣ner.
• Cullot, from Cullus the taile, a cushion to ride post with.
• Culm, from Culmen the top, smoak or soot.
• Culminate, (lat.) to get up to the top.
• Culrach, or Colrach, signifieth in the practick of Scotland, a pledge or cautioner which is left for the repledgeing of a man from one Court to another.
• Culpable, (lat.) guilty, faulty, pec∣cant.
• Cultivation, (lat.) a manuring or til∣ling.
• Culture, (lat.) the same.
• Culver, (old word) a pigeon or dove.
• Culverine, quasi Colubrine, a piece of Ordnance so called.
• Culvertaile, a term in Architecture, a fastning of boards with artificial joynts.
• Cumble, (French) full heaped mea∣sure.
• Cumae, a City by the Sea side in Italy near Puzzoli.
• Cumfrey, a kind of herb otherwise cal∣led Consound.
• Cumulation, (lat.) a heaping up to∣gether.
• Cunctation, (lat.) prolonging of time, delaying.
• Cuneglasus, the name of a cruel Tyrant who succeeded Vortiporus in his govern∣ment of the Britaines of Wales and Corn∣wale.
• Cunicle, (lat.) a Mine or Hole under ground.
• Cunobelinus, an ancient King of the Trinobantes, a people of the Eastern parts of Brittain, he succeeded Mandubratius in the kingdom.
• Cantey, signifieth the same as the ordi∣nary Jury or trial by the Country.
• Cupidity, (lat.) covetous or lustful desire.
• Cupping-glasse, see Cucurbite.
• Cupulo, (lat.) a term in Architecture, a high arch in a building.
• C••rebulli, tann'd leather, a word used by Cha••cer.
• Curfew, a law made by William the Con∣queror, that every one should put out their fire and light, at the ringing of the eight a clock-bell, which was called Couvrir le feu, i. e. cover the fire.
• Curia Ottadinorum, an ancient Town of Northumberland. See Corstopitum.
• Curialitas Scotiae is equivalent to that which we call Curtesie of England.
• Curlew, a kind of foule so called.
• Curranto, (French,) a running French Dance, also a musical Aire of a more than ordinary swift time.
• Curricurre, a kind of East Indian Barge.
• Curriedow, a curry-favour, or flat∣terer.
• Current, a running stream from Currere to run.
• Cursiter, a Clerk belonging to the Chancery who makes original writs for the Shier which is allotted him.
• Curvetta, or Corvetta, (Ital.) a praun∣cing of a horse of service, from the Latin Curvus, crook'd, because they bend in their feet.
• Curvity, (lat.) crookednesse.
• Curules, (lat.) those of the Roman Se∣nators, which were carried to Court in Chariots.
• Curulis Sella, an ivory seat, which was placed in the Roman Consuls Chariot.
• Cusco, the chief Citie of that part of the new world, which contains Brasilia and Peru.
• Cuspidate, (lat.) to make sharp at the end from Cuspis a point.
• Cuspe, the entrance of any house, or first beginning, which is the line whereon the figure and degree of the Zodiack is placed, as you finde it in the Table of Houses.
• Custode admittendo, a Writ for the re∣moving, or admitting of Guardians.
• Custody, (lat.) safe-hold.
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• Custome, both in Common and Civil Law, signifieth a Law, or Rite not writ∣ten, which being established by long use and the consent of our Ancestours hath been, and is dayly practised.
• Custos brevium, a Clerk belonging to the Court of Common-pleas, whose Office is to receive and keep all the Writs, and put them upon files, every return by it self, and at the end of every Term to re∣ceive of the prothonotaries, all the Re∣cords of nisi prius, called the postea.
• Custos Rotulorum, is he that hath the custody of the Rolls, or Records of the Sessions of peace, and of the Commission it self, he is thought to be the same with Custos placitorum Coronae.
• Custos spiritualium, or of the spirituali∣ties, he that exerciseth Ecclesiastical Ju∣risdiction of any Diocesse, during the Va∣cancy of the See, which by the Canon Law belongs to the Dean and Chapter.
• Cuthbert, (Sax.) famous knowledge, a proper name.
• Cuticle, (lat.) signifieth in Anatomy, the Membrane, or thin skin which cover∣eth the thicker skin all over the body, and is called in Greek Epidermis.
• Cutter of the Tallies, an Officer in the Exchecquer, that provideth wood for the Tallies, and cutting the summe paid upon them, casteth the same into the Court to be written upon.
• Cuttle-fish, a certain kinde of fish, called in Latin Sepia, which throwing a black juyce like ink into the water, becomes hid in that obscurity, and so escapes the fisher.
• Cutilia, a Lake in the Reatine grounds in Italy, where there is a wooddy Island, which continually moves up and down.
• Cutwater, a Term in Navigation, the sharpnesse of the ship before.

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• Cyamba, a Citie in Asia, where they use Coral instead of money, and have great store of Aloes, and all kinde of Spices.
• Cybele, the daughter of Coelus and Ter∣ra, and the wife of Saturn, she is other∣wise called Ops, Rhea, Vesta, Magna Mater, or Grand-mother of the Gods, also ••in∣dymene & Berecynthia.
• Cyclades, 50 Islands in the Aegean Sea, called by the Italians Isole dell Archi∣pelago.
• Cycle, (Greek) a Term in Astronomy, Cycle of the Sun is the revolution of 28 years, Cycle of the Moon the revolution of 19 years, in which time both of their mo∣tions recur to the same point.
• Cyclopaedie, (Greek) the whole Circle of Arts and Sciences.
• Cycl••ps, the sons of Neptune and Am∣phitrite, or as Apollodorus Atheniensis saith of Coelus and Terra, they were the servants of Vulcan, and made Thunder-bolts for Jupiter, having each of them one great eye in their forehead, their names were Bronte, Serope and Pyracmon, whom Apol∣lodorus calleth Harpe, others say they were a very ancient people of Sicily of a very Gyantly stature.
• Cycnus, the son of Mars, who was kill'd in a Combate with Hercules, whom Mars to revenge his sons death resolved to fight with, but before they came to blows, Ju∣piter parted them with a clap of Thun∣der, there was another Cycnus, the son of Neptune, who being invulnerable fought with Achilles, and could not be killed, till Achilles throwing him upon the ground, kneel'd upon his neck and stiffled him.
• Cydippe, see Acontius.
• Cygnus, vide Swan.
• Cylinder, (Greek) a Geometrical bo∣dy, being long, flat at both ends, and e∣qually round from one end to the other, also a rolling stone to smooth Garden allies, being just of that figure, in the art of Gunnery it signifies that part of the bore of a piece, which remains empty when the piece is laden.
• Cymace, from the Greek word Cyma, a wave, it is a Term in Architecture, signi∣fying carved work, which resembles waves.
• Cymbal, a Musical instrument, made of plates of brasse, resembling a kinde of boat, called Cymba.
• Cymraecan language, the Welsh, or old Brittish language.
• Cynanthrophy, (lat.) a kinde of Phren∣sie, or disease, which possesseth a man with a conceit that he is turned into a Dogge.
• Cynegeticks, (Greek) books treating of the art of hunting.
• Cynical, (Greek) crabbed, severe, from a certain Sect of Philosophers, who were called Cynicks.
• Cynosure, (Greek) a constellation of stars near the North-pole, called Vrsa Minor, by which the saylers are directed in their course.
• Cynthius, a name attributed to Apollo,

• as Cynthia to Diana, from Cynthus a Hill in Delos, where Latona brought them forth, being Twins.
• Cyprian, (Greek) a proper name of men, from Cypria one of the names of Venus.
• Cyprus, an Island in the Carpathian Sea, which was anciently dedicated to Venus, it is now under the Turks Dominion.
• Cyrenaica, a Countrey of Africa, called also Pentapolitana, because it contained these five Cities, Beronice, Arsinoe, Ptole∣mais, Apollonia and Cyrene.
• Cyrus, the son of Cambyses and Manda∣na, he was King of Persia, overthrew the Assyrian Monarchy, conquered all Asia, but was at length overcome and slain by Thomyris, Queen of Scythia, who causing his head to be cut off, and cast into a tub of bloud, cried out, now satisfie thy self with bloud, after which thou hast alwayes thirsted.
• Cystick, (Greek) belonging to the bag of Gall, which is call'd Cystis, Cystick vein signifieth in Anatomy a branch of the Port vein, which ascendeth up to the neck of the Gall, and there divideth it self.
• Cyzicus, an Island in the Propontis, joyned to the continent with two bridges, having a Citie in it of the same name.

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• DAae, a people of that part of Scythia, which is called Nomades, mentioned by Virgil in his eight book of Aeneids.
• Dabuze, a kinde of weapon carried be∣fore the Grand Signor, in the nature of our Mace.
• Dacia, a Countrey of Scythia Europaea, which at this day is divided into Transil∣vania, Zypserland, the seven Campes, Rus∣cia, Servia, and Bulgaria.
• Dactyle, (Greek) the fruit of the Palm-tree, a Date, also a foot in verse, consist∣ing of one long syllable, and two short, al∣so a finger.
• Dactylogy, (Greek) a discoursing by signs made with the finger.
• Daedalus, a famous Artist, who made the famous Labyrinth in Crete, into which he was shut up himself with his son Icarus, for having made a woodden Heifer, in which Pasiphae was injoyed by Jupiter in the shape of a Bull, but he making artificial wings for himself and his son, flew out of Crete into Sardinia, but Icarus soaring too high, melted the wax and fell into the sea.
• Daemoniack, (Greek) possessed with a Devil, or evil spirit.
• Doemonologie, (Greek) a discourse of Angels, Spirits, or Devils.
• Daff, (old word) a Coward, or a Da∣stard.
• Daffadill, a kinde of flowr, otherwise called Narcissus.
• A Dagg, a Pistoll, so called from the Dacians, who first used them.
• Dagswain, a rough, or course mantle.
• D' alanson, the name of an ancient and Noble Family in Lincolnshire, common∣ly called by contraction Dallison.
• Dalmatian Dap, a flour, otherwise called a Tulip, because it was brought from Tu∣lippa, a Promontory of Dalmatia, which is a part of Illyricum, a Countrey of Greece.
• Dalmatick, a kinde of vestment worn by the Priests, so called also from Dalma∣tia, where it was first made.
• Dalrendini, the ancient name of a cer∣tain people of Scotland, so called from Renda an Irish Captain, who conquered those parts.
• Damascus, the chief Citie of Syria, whence we have our best sort of Pruines, which are called Damask Pruines, or Da∣masines.
• Dammage, a Term in Common-law, any hurt, or hinderan••e that a man taketh in his estate, also a part of that the Jurors are to enquire of passing for the Plaintiffe, in a civil action.
• Dammage fesant, in Common-law, is, when a strangers beasts are in another mans ground, and there feed without Li∣cence of the Tenant, spoiling the Grasse, or Corn, in which case the Tenant may impound them.
• Dammask, a kinde of fine stuffe, first made in the Citie of Damascus.
• Damnation, (lat.) a condemning, or gi∣ving sentence.
• Damocrita, a Roman Matron, whose husband Alcippus being banish't, and she forbid to follow him, and her daughters prohibited marriage that his race might be extinct, she in revenge when the chief women of the Citie were met in a house to sacrifice, set fire on the house, and when she saw people run to their aid, she first killed her daughters, then her self.
• Danae, the daughter of Acrisius, King of Argos, see Acrisius.
• Danaus, the son of Belus, and brother of Aegyptus, he was King of Argos, and from him the Greeks were called Danai.
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• Dancett, is much like indented, but differs from it, in regard the lines are deeper and wider.
• Dandelion, a kind of plant, vulgarly called Pissebeds.
• Dandruff, a kind of scruff or small scales, sticking to the skin of the head, which look like brann.
• Daneguilt, from Dane and gelt, which signifies money; It was a tribute ancient∣ly laid upon our Ancestors by the Danes, of 12 pence for every hide of land tho∣rough the Realm.
• Dangwallet, Excessive, quasi making the wallet to dangle down.
• Dania, a Country of Europe, almost in∣vironed with the northern Ocean, border∣ing upon Saxony, and is now called Den∣mark.
• Daniel, (Hebr.) judgement of God.
• Danisme, (Greek) Usury.
• Dank, moist, from the Dutch word Dampight.
• Danmonii, the ancient name of a people in old time inhabiting that part of this Island now called Cornwal and Devon∣shire.
• Dantiscum, a famous Mart Town in Poland called Dantz••••k.
• Danwort, a kind of plant called dwarf-elder, in French Hieble from Hybla a mountain of Sicily, where it chiefely grows.
• Danubius, or Ister, the greatest River in Europe, which rising from the mountain Arnoba, runneth through many Countries. It is now called the Danow.
• Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, she flying from Apollo who became in love with her for her beauty, was turned into a Laurel-tree.
• Daphnomancy, (Greek) a divination by Laurels.
• Dapper, fine, neat, spruice, from an old Latin word Toper, i. e. swift, or the Duch word Dapfer, stout, agil, or else from Dapi∣fer, which signifies in Latin a sewer, or he that serves up the first dish at a Feast.
• Darby, the chief Town of Darbyshire, so called by contraction form Derwentby, be∣cause it standeth upon the River Der∣went; the Town was won in old time by Ethelfleda that victorious Lady of the Mercians, from the Danes, of whom she made a very great slaughter.
• Darcy's, or de Adrecy's, the name of an ancient Family of Barons in Lincolnshire, descended from Norman de Adrecy, or Darcy de Nocton, who lived in great fa∣vour and esteem with Henry the third.
• Dardanus, the son of Jupiter, and E∣lectra, who having killed his brother Ja∣sius, fled to Samothrace, afterwards he went into Asia, where he built Dardanum or Troy.
• Darick, a kind of ancient coin bearing the value of two shillings, which had up∣on it the Image of Darius.
• Darius, a King of Persia; there were several of that name, whereof the last was Darius Codomannus, who was overcome by Alexander the Great.
• Darnel, cockle-weed, from the Dutch word Deren, to hurt.
• Darrein, from the French word Dernier, i. e. last, as Darrein, presentment, last presentment.
• Darreighn, (old word) an attempt.
• Dartos one of the membranes that in∣volve the stones.
• Darford or Darenford, a Town in Kent, so called from the River Daren, where K. Edward the third built a Nunnery, which was afterward converted into a Royal Palace.
• Datary, an office in Rome, for the col∣lation of Ecclesiastical Benefices.
• Date, the fruit of Palm-tree, also the day of the moneth or year, wherein any Letter is written.
• Datism, (Greek) an often rehearsal of the same thing by a heaping of synony∣ma's together, from Datis a Satrape of Greece, the Dative Case, the third of the 6 Cases in Grammar, used in actions of giving or attributing.
• Davenport, or by contraction Damport, a Town in Cheshire, which gave name to an ancient Family so called.
• David, (Hebr.) beloved.
• Daunsette, a term in Heraldry, being al∣most the same with a line indented, but onely it is deeper and wider.
• Dantry, the name of a very ancient Fa∣mi••y in Sussex, stiled in Latin Records de Alta ripa.
• Day, signifieth in law, a day in bank before ordinary Judges, wherein the party should appear and plead; as for the Astro∣nomical and Political distinction of dayes and the parts thereof, see Macrobius and Censorinus.

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• Dea bona, or Good Goddesse, a name attributed by the old Heathen to the

• Earth, whom they worshipped as a God∣desse; she was also called Ops Fatua, and Fauna, the Poets feign that being drunk with a wine made of Myrtle-berries, cal∣led Myrtidanum, she was whipt to death by her husband Faunus with Myrtle twiges.
• Dea viri-placa, a certain Goddesse a∣among the ancient Romans, in whose Chappel man and wife, after they had fallen out, were reconciled again.
• Deacon, (from the Greek Diaconus, a minister or servant) is an officer of the Church that is appointed to distribute alms to the poor.
• Deadpledge, land or moveables pawned for money, which is to be the Creditours for ever, if the money be not repaid at the time agreed on; it is also called Mort∣gage.
• Deadwater, the eddy water at the stern of a ship.
• Dean, an Ecclesiastical Magistrate that hath power over ten Canons, and those which have a jurisdiction assigned them by the Bishop over other Ministers and Pa∣rishes near adjoyning, are called Deans rurall.
• Deauration, (lat.) a gilding over.
• Debaucherie, or Desbo••cherie, (French) riot, disorderly revelling.
• Debellation, (lat.) a overcoming in war or duell.
• De bene esse, a term used in Common law, as when a Defendants deposition is onely allowed of for the present, but after more full examination, is either to stand or fall.
• Debet, & solet, a Writ of right, which hath those words in it as formal words not to be omitted when a man sueth for a thing now first of all denied him, and which hath been injoyed by his Ancestors, as suit to a Mill, or common of Pasture, or the like.
• Debilitation, (lat.) a making weak or feeble.
• Debito, a Writ which lieth where a man oweth money upon obligation, or bar∣gain for any thing sold.
• Debonairity, (French) curtesie, mild∣nesse, also sprightlinesse.
• Debosherie, or deboistnesse, see Debau∣cherie.
• Decade, (Greek) the number of ten.
• Decadency, (lat.) a declining or fal∣ling down.
• Decagon, (Greek) a term in Fortifi∣cation and Geometry, signifying a figure of ten Angles.
• Decalogue, (Greek) the ten Com∣mandments imparted to the Jews from God by Moses.
• Decameron, (Greek) a book of Fables, written by Boccace, so called because it is divided into ten parts or books.
• Decapit••••ion, (lat.) a beheading.
• Decapolis, a Country of Syria, so cal∣led because it contained 10 Cities.
• December, one of the 12 moneths so called as being the tenth from March.
• Decempedal, (lat.) ten foot long.
• Decemtales, a law-term, being a supply of ten men empannelled upon a Jury, and not appearing, which are to be like in re∣putation to those that were empanneld.
• Decemvirates, (lat.) the Decemvir•• which were ten Noble men among the Ro∣mans, chosen to govern the Common-wealth in place of the two Consuls, until the laws were fully establisht.
• Decennial, (lat.) lasting, or being of the age of 10 years.
• Deception, (lat.) deceit, fraud, or be∣guiling.
• Deceptione, a Writ that lieth against him, that deceitfully doth any thing in the name of another for him that recei∣veth damage thereby.
• Decerption, (lat.) a cropping off, or pulling away.
• Decertation, (lat.) a striving for any thing.
• Decession, (lat.) a going away, or de∣parting.
• Decies tantum, a Writ that lieth against a juror that taketh money for the giving of his verdict, wherein there is recover∣able ten times so much as he took.
• The Decimal chain, a certain Mathema∣tical Instrument for the measuring of land, which is to be divided into ten equal parts, each of which containeth about 19 in length.
• Decimation, (lat.) a gathering tithes, also a punishing every tenth man by lot.
• De decimis solvendis, &c. a Writ which formerly lay against those that had far∣med the Priors aliens lands of the King.
• Deciners, or Doziners, such as were wont to have the check of ten Friburgs for the maintenance of the peace, the li∣mits of whose jurisdiction was called De∣cenna.
• Decision, (lat.) a determining of any businesse or controversie.
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• The Deck of a Ship, the floor of planks on which the Ordnance is plac'd.
• Declamation, (lat.) a crying out a∣gainst any thing, also an Oration made onely for exercise.
• Declaration, (lat.) a shewing forth, also in Common law it is the shewing in writing the grief of the Demandant or Plaintife against the Tenent or Defen∣dant, wherein he supposeth to have re∣ceived wrong.
• Declension, or Declination, (lat.) a de∣clining or bowing down; also in Gram∣mar, it signifieth the varying of Cases and Tenses in Nounes and Verbs. In Astro∣logy, the declination of a Planet is his di∣stance from the equator, and as he de∣clines from thence, either northward or southward, so is his declination nomina∣ted either north or south.
• Declinator, a Mathematical Instrument, to take the declinations of the Planets.
• Declivity, (lat.) a bending downwards, a steepnesse.
• Decollation, (lat.) a beheading.
• Decoction, (lat.) a boiling away; it is applyed chiefely to medicinable things, as herbs, roots, &c.
• Deconate, vide Faces.
• Decoration, (lat.) an adorning or decking.
• Decortication, (lat.) a pulling off the outward rind or bark.
• Decorum, (lat.) good grace, order, decency.
• Decrees, or Decretals, a volume of the Canon law, composed by Gratian a Monk of the Order of St. Benedict.
• Decrement, (lat.) a decreasing.
• Decrepit, (lat.) weak and impotent with age.
• Decress••nt, (lat.) the waining or de∣creasing Moon.
• Decrustation, (lat.) a taking away the uppermost rind or crust of any thing.
• Decum••ence, (lat.) a lying down.
• Decumbiture, is when a man is so vio∣lently taken with a disease, that he is for∣ced to take his bed; and it is properly taken from the first lying down of the di∣seased, and from this the Crisis is to be gathered.
• Decuple, (lat.) tenfold.
• Decurion, (lat.) the chief of a Decuria, which signifieth a Band of ten souldiers, or a company of ten Senators; also an Alder∣man or Burgesse of a City.
• Decussation, (lat.) a cutting acrosse, or in the form of a figure of ten.
• Decussion, (lat.) a shaking off.
• Dedecoration, (lat.) a disgracing or dishonouring.
• Dedentition, (lat.) a shedding of teeth.
• Dedignation, (lat.) a disdaining.
• Dedimus potestatem, a Writ whereby commission is given to a private man for the speeding of some act appertaining to a Judge, it is called by the Civilians, dele∣gation.
• Dedition, (lat.) a rendring up,
• Deeds, signifie in Common law writings that contain the effect of a contract be∣tween man and man, which the Civilians call literarum obligatio.
• Deep seeline, a small line with which Seamen sound in deep waters to finde ground.
• Defaillance, (French) a failing or de∣fect.
• Defatigation, (lat.) a making weary.
• Defaulking, (French) an abating, or cutting off: It is called in Latin defalca∣tion.
• Defeasance, or defeisance, signifieth in Common law, a condition annexed to an act, obligation, or recognisance, which being performed, the act, &c. is made void.
• Defecation, (lat.) a refining or clean∣sing from the dregs
• Defection, (lat.) a failing, also a re∣volting or falling away.
• Defeisance, or Defeasance.
• Defendant, is in Common law, he that is sued in an action personal, as Tenant is he who is sued in an action real.
• Defendimus, a word used in Enfeof∣ment or Donation, binding the Donour and his heirs to defend the Donee.
• Defendour of the Faith, a Title hereto∣fore proper to the King of England, as Most Christian to the King of France, Catholick to the King of Spain. It was first given by Pope Leo the tenth.
• Defensative, a term in Physick, a Me∣dicine which diverts the humours from the place affected.
• Deficiency, (lat.) a want or failing.
• Definition, (lat.) an explication or un∣folding of the essence of a thing by its genus and difference.
• Deflection, (lat.) a turning away, also a bending down.
• Defloration, (lat.) a ravishing, or de∣flowring.
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• Defluxion, (lat.) a flowing downward, also in physick it is taken for a falling down of humours to any part of the body.
• Deformity, (lat.) ugglinesse.
• Deforsour, in Common-law, is one that casteth another out of possession by force, whereas Disseisour is he that doth it with∣out force.
• Defray, to make free, also to pay ano∣thers charges, from the Dutch word freshen.
• Defunct, (lat.) dead.
• Degenerate, (lat.) to fall from a more noble to a baser kinde, to go aside from the vertues of ones Ancestors.
• Deglutination, (lat.) an unglueing.
• Deglutition, (lat.) a greedy devouring, in physick it is taken for a powr of the animal faculty, which makes us swallow our meat and drink with an appetite.
• Degradation, (lat.) a casting out from any Dignity, or Office.
• Degree, (French) a step, or stair, or by Metaphor any state, or condition, which is as it were an ascending, or descending from one step to another, in Astronomy it is the 30^th. part of any of the twelve signs, in physick and chymistry it is the intensnesse, or remisnesse of the hot, or cold quality of any thing.
• Dehortation, (lat.) a disswading.
• Deianira, the daughter of Oeneus, King of Etolia, she was first espoused to Ache∣••••us, afterwards to Hercules, and being to passe over the River Evenus, Nessus the Centaure offered his service to carry her over, but as soon as he was on the farther side, he attempted to ravish her, where∣upon Hercules shot at him with a poyso∣ned arrow; Nessus perceiving he had re∣ceived his deaths wound, he to be re∣venged presented Deianira with a shirt dipt in his own bloud, telling her, that if her husband wore it, it would draw his affections from all other women, which she believing gave it to Hercules, but the shirt sticking to his body so burnt his flesh that to avoide the torment, he threw himself into a flaming pyle, and Deianira for grief slew her self.
• Dejeration, (lat.) a taking a solemn oath.
• Deifie, (lat.) to make a God of one.
• Deipho••us, the son of Priamus and He∣cuba, who caused Paris to be slain by treachery and married his wife Helena.
• Deipnosophists, (Greek) a company of wise-men discoursing at supper.
• Deis, (old word) a seat.
• Deity, (lat.) Divinity, or Godhead.
• Delamere, a Forrest in Cheshire, whereof the Dawns of Vskinton were, by the gift of Ranulph the first Earle of Chester, made Forresters by Hereditary succession; in this Forrest Aedelfleda the Mercian Lady built a Town called Eadelbury, i. e. the happy Town, which now being nothing but a heap of rubbish, is called the Chamber in the Forrest.
• Delatour, (lat.) an accuser, or infor∣mer.
• A Delegate, (lat.) he that executes judgement in the place of a Civil, or Ec∣clesiastical Judge.
• Deletion, (lat.) a blotting out.
• Delgovitia, the name of an ancient Town in York-shire, which stood as some think in that place where now Wighton is.
• Delibation, (lat.) a sacrificing, also a tasting.
• Deliberation, (lat.) a consulting, or de∣bating.
• Delict, (lat.) an offence, or crime.
• Delineation, (lat.) a drawing the first draught of a Picture.
• A Delinquent, (lat.) one that hath com∣mitted an offence, or crime.
• Deliration, (lat.) a doating, or being besides ones senses.
• Delos, an Island in the Aegean Sea, the chiefest of the Cyclades, where Apollo and Diana were born, whence they were cal∣led the Delian Twins.
• Delph, is an abatement placed in the middle of an Escocheon, proper to him that revoketh his own challenge, and eat∣eth his own words.
• Delphos, a Town of Phocis in Greece, fa∣mous for the Temple and Oracle of A∣pollo.
• Deltoton, (Greek) a constellation of stars, resembling the figure of a Greek delta.
• Delusion, (lat.) a deceiving, or begui∣ling.
• Deluge, (French) an inundation, or o∣verflowing of waters.
• Demand, in Common-law, is opposite to plaint, for in pursuit of civil actions, if they be real actions, the pursuer is called demandant, if personal, plaintiffe.
• Demeasne, or Demain, (French) by the Civilians called Dominicum, is that land, which a man holdeth originally of him∣self, whereas feodum are those, which he holdeth by the benefit of a Superiour.
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• Demetrius, the name of several famous Kings in Asia, who succeeded Alexander, the word signifieth belonging to Ceres, who in Greek is called Demeter.
• Demi, (lat.) joyned with another word, signifieth half as Demi-God, &c.
• Demin, (old word) a Judge.
• Demise, (lat.) to farm, or let.
• Demission, (lat.) a casting down, or a∣basement.
• Democracy, (Greek) a Government wherein the Magistrates are chosen from among the people, and by the people.
• Democritus, a famous Philosopher born at Abdera, he thought the world to be composed of Atomes, and that he might the better contemplate upon natural cau∣ses, and not be taken off with any out∣ward objects, he put out his eyes with a burning bason, his father was a man of so great riches, that he feasted Xerxes and all his Army.
• Demolition, (lat.) a casting down, or ruinating.
• † Demonachation, (French) an expel∣ling from the Monkish order, also a for∣saking of the same.
• Demoniack, see Daemoniack.
• Demonstration, (lat.) a shewing, or ma∣king plain.
• Demoph••n, the son of Theseus and Phae∣dra, he was driven by Tempest upon the shore of Thrace, and married Phillis, the daughter of Lycurgus, but Theseus dying, he took the government of Athens upon him, and forgetting Phillis, she for grief hanged her self upon an Almond-tree.
• Demosthenes, a famous Oratour among the Greeks, who was banish't by Philip of Macedon, and at last poysoned himself to avoid the fury of Antipater.
• Demur, signifieth in Common-law a kinde of pause upon any point of diffi∣culty.
• Denariata terrae, the fourth part of an Acre of Land, it is also called farding-deal, or a farundel of Land.
• Denary, (lat.) the number of 10. also the same as Deneer.
• Denbigh, the chief Town of Denbigh∣shire, called by the Britains Cled Fryn-yn Rosse, i. e. a rough Hill in Rosse, for so that part of Wales was anciently named.
• Deneer, a kinde of Coper Coyn, which values about the tenth part of a penny.
• Denelage, the Law of the Danes, by which a third part of England was gover∣ned before the Conquest.
• Denis, a proper name, contracted from Dionysius, which some fetch from Dios nous, i. e. Divine minde, the chief of this name was St. Denis, the great Saint of France, it is also a womans name contra∣cted from Diana.
• Deneck, (Arab.) the tayl of the Swan.
• Deneck elected, (Arab.) the tayl of the Lion.
• Deneck Alihedi, (Arab.) the bowing of the back, or doubling of the tayl of the Goat.
• Denizon, quasi Danes son, or from the French word donaison, an endowing, and signifieth in Common-law an Alien that is Infranchised by the Princes Charter, whereby he is made capable of any Of∣fice, or of purchasing Land, but it cometh short of Naturalization, because a stran∣ger naturalised may inherit by descent.
• Dennington, a Castle in Bark-shire, built by Sir Richard de Aberbury, it was once the Residence of the Poet Chaucer, after∣wards of Charles Brandon Duke of Suf∣folk.
• Denomination, (lat.) a giving a name, from any occasion.
• Dense, thick, opposed to rare by the Philosopher, and that body is said to be dense, where the substance is more, and the quantity lesse.
• Density, (lat.) thicknesse.
• Dent, a Term in Blazon, as a bordure dent, or indented is, when the line of which the border is made is indented in, and out like the teeth of a saw.
• Dentifrice, (lat) a certain powder made up into a consistence, wherewith to rub the teeth.
• Dentisscalp, (lat.) a tooth-picker, or tooth-scraper.
• Dentition, (lat.) a putting forth, or breeding of teeth.
• Denudation, (lat.) a making bare, or na∣ked.
• Denuntiation, (lat.) a proclaiming, or denouncing.
• De••dand, a thing devoted, and conse∣crated to the service of God, to expiate some eminent hurt, or mischief it hath done.
• De Deoneranda pro rato portionis, a Writ that lieth where a man is distrained for Rent that ought to be paid by others, proportionably with himself.
• Deosculation, (lat.) a kissing with eager∣nesse.
• Departer, a Term in Law, signifying, he

• that pleading one thing at first in barre of an action, and being replied thereunto, doth in his rejoynder, shew another mat∣ter contrary to his first plea; also de∣parters of Gold or Silver, are those that purifie, and part those mettals from the courser sort: they are also called parters and finers.
• Departure in despite of the Court, is when the Tenet or Defendant appeareth to the action brought against him, and hath a day over in the same term and does not appear but makes default; it is called a departure in spight of the Court.
• Depauperation, (lat.) a making poor.
• Depeculation, (lat.) a publick theevery, or stealing from the Common-wealth.
• Depend, (lat.) to stay or rely upon.
• Depford, a famous shipdock in Kent, where the ships for the Kings Navy use to be built. It was anciently called West-Greenwich, and at the Conquest of Eng∣land was given to Cislebert Mammignot, one of William the Conquerours Soul∣diers.
• Depilation, (lat.) a making bare of hairs, a making bald.
• Deploration, (lat.) a mourning for, or bewailing.
• Deplume, (lat.) to strip off feathers.
• Deponent, in Grammar, signifieth a Verb which hath a passive termination, and an active signification; also in Common law it is he who deposeth or layeth down any matter upon oath.
• Depopulation, (lat.) a spoiling or un∣peopling of any Country.
• Deportation, (lat.) a carrying away.
• Deportment, (French) carriage, com∣portment or behaviour.
• Depositum, (lat.) a pledge in feoffee or trust.
• Depravation, (lat.) a spoiling, cor∣rupting, or making nought.
• Depraedation, (lat.) a preying upon, a taking away by force.
• Deprecation, (lat.) a diverting Gods judgements by prayer, a praying against any calamity.
• Deprehension, (lat.) a catching, or ta∣king unawares.
• Depression, (lat.) a pressing downward, also an humbling.
• Deprivation, (lat.) a bereaving or ta∣king away.
• Depromption, (lat.) a bringing out.
• Depudication, (lat.) a vitiating or cor∣rupting.
• Depulsion, (lat.) a driving from.
• Deputy, a Lieutenant, one that governs in the place of another.
• Dequace, (old word) to dash.
• Deradiation, (lat.) a casting forth of ray's or beames.
• Dere, (old word) to hurt.
• Dereliction, (lat.) an utter forsak∣ing.
• Derein, from the French word Desran∣ger, or the Norman word Desrene, signi∣fieth the proof of an action which a man affirmeth that he hath done, and his ad∣versary denies.
• Derham, in the Saxon tongue Deorham, a Town in Glostershire, where Ceaulin the Saxon King slew 3 Princes of the Britains, Commeail, Condidan, and Fariemeiol, and utterly subdued the Nation.
• Deric, a proper name of a man, it being a word contracted from Theoderic.
• Derision, (lat.) a scorning or laughing at.
• Derivation, (lat.) a drawing or taking, it is used in Grammar for the deriving of any word from its original; also in Phy∣sick it is taken for a drawing of the hu∣mour from one part of the body to an∣other.
• Dertmouth, a Port Town in Devonshire, which in former times Mounsieur de Castel a French Pirate going about to invade, was by the Country people intercepted and slain.
• Derogation, (lat.) a lessening or de∣tracting from the worth of any thing, or any person.
• Deruncination, (lat.) a taking away weeds, or any thing that molesteth.
• Derbices, a people of Asia, inhabiting near the mountain Caucasus, who strangle their kindred as soon as they arrive at the age of 70 years, and eat their flesh, in∣viting their neighbours to the Feast. And this they hold to be the most noble kind of burial.
• Derceto, the name of a certain Goddesse anciently worshipped at Askalon, her fore∣part representing the shape of a woman, her hinder part the shape of a fish.
• Dercyllidas, a famous Lacedemonian Commander, who succeeded Thymbron, he took Larissa, Amaxitos, and Colona, and gained divers victories over the Persians.
• Dervises, an Order of religious persons among the Turks.
• Descalsas, (Spanish) a sort of Fryars in Spain that go barelegged.
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• Descant, called in Latin frequentamen∣tum vocis, in French fredon, is a term in Musick, signifying the answering of quick notes in one part, unto a slower measure in the other parti
• Descent, (lat.) a coming down, also a deriving ones pedigree.
• Description, (lat.) a setting forth the nature or property of any thing.
• Descry, from the French word cry or clamour, to discover afar off.
• Desection, (lat.) a cutting or mowing down.
• Desert, a Wildernesse or solitary place, from the Latin word deserere, to forsake, but with the accent in the last syllable, it signifieth merit from the French word de∣servir.
• Desertion, (lat.) a forsaking or aban∣doning.
• Desiccation, (lat.) a drying up.
• Desidery, from the Latin desiderium, de∣sire or lust. It is a word used by Chaucer.
• Designation, or Design, (Lat. and French) a purposing or contriving.
• Designers, see Deciners.
• Desidious, (lat.) negligent, lazy, slug∣gish.
• Desipience, (lat.) foolishnesse, indiscre∣tion; also in Physick it is taken for the dotage of a sick person.
• Desist, (lat.) to leave off, to cease.
• Deslavy, leacherous beastly, a word used by Chaucer.
• Desmonia, a County in Ireland, ancient∣ly inhabited by the Vellabri and Iberni; It is vulgarly called Desmond.
• Desolation, (lat.) a lonelinesse or lying waste.
• Despection, (lat.) a casting ones eyes downward.
• Desperation, (lat.) a despairing or gi∣ving over.
• Despicable, (lat.) lyable to contempt, or to be despised.
• Despoliation, (lat.) a robbing or spoiling.
• Despondency, (lat.) a dejection of spirit, or despairing.
• Desponsation, (lat.) a betrothing, a gi∣ving in marriage.
• Despote, (Greek) a great Title hereto∣fore among the Greeks, being as much as chief Lord or Governour of a Country.
• Despotical dominion, the power of a Master over his servant.
• Despumation, (lat.) a taking off the scum or froth.
• Destination, (lat.) an appointing or or∣daining as it were by destiny.
• Destiny, Fate; the three Destinies, the three fatal Sisters. See Atropos.
• Destitution, (lat.) an utter forsaking or deserting.
• Destruction, (lat.) a destroying, or un∣doing.
• Desuetude, (lat.) a desisting from any custom or use.
• Desultorious, (lat.) given to vaulting.
• Detection, (lat.) a revealing, or laying open.
• Detention, (lat.) a detaining or with∣holding.
• † Deterioration, (lat.) a making worse.
• Determination, (lat.) a purposing or in∣tending.
• Deterred, (lat.) frighted, discoura∣ged.
• Detestation, (lat.) a detesting or abhor∣ring.
• Detinue, (French) a Writ that lieth a∣gainst him who having goods or chattels delivered him to keep, refuseth to deliver them again.
• Detorsion, (lat.) a wresting away.
• Detraction, (lat.) a drawing away, also a slandering.
• Detriment, (lat.) hurt or dammage.
• Detrition, (lat.) a wearing away.
• Detrusion, (lat.) a thrusting a way.
• Detruncation, (lat.) a cutting off a limb or branch.
• Devastation, (lat.) a laying waste.
• Devastaverunt bona testatoris, a Writ lying against Executors for paying of Le∣gacies without specialties before the debt upon the said specialties be due.
• Deucaledonians, a certain people inhabit∣ing in old times the Western parts of Scot∣land; They were vulgarly called Picts.
• Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, he with his wife Pyrrha the daughter of Epime∣theus, were saved in the universal Deluge, being carried in a ship to the top of Per∣nassus and consulting the Oracle of Themis what way they should take to restore mankind, and being told they should throw the bones of their first mother be∣hind them, they took stones out of the earth, and cast them behind them. Those which Deucalion cast became men, and those whic Pyrrha cast became women.
• Devest, (lat.) signifieth in Common Law to deprive of a possession.
• Devils-bit, a kind of plant whose root looks as if it were, and is fain'd to have been, bitten by the Devil out of envy,

• because of the many excellent virtues and properties it hath, wherewith mankinde is benefitted.
• Developed, (French) unfolded.
• Deviation, (lat.) a turning aside out of the way.
• Devirgination, (lat.) a deflouring, or de∣priving of Virginity.
• Devise, in Common-law, is, where a man in his will bequeaths his goods, or his lands, to another after his decease, and he, to whom the lands, or goods are be∣queathed, is called the devisee, devise al∣so signifieth a Motto, or conceit in a Coat of Arms, or Picture, and is also called an Imprese.
• Deumo, an Idol adored by the East In∣dians of Calicut.
• Devoir, (French) duty, Devoirs of Ca∣leis, were the customs due to the King for Merchandize brought to, or carried thence when our staple was there.
• Devolution, (lat.) a rolling down, a fal∣ling from one to another.
• Devote, (lat.) vowed or consecrate to God.
• Devotion, (lat.) a vowing, or consecra∣ting; also piety, religiousnesse.
• Deusan, any kind of hard fruit that lasteth▪long, so called from durare, to last.
• Deuteronomy, (Greek) a Book written by Moses, signifying the second Law, be∣ing the fifth Book in the Holy Scrip∣tures.
• Dew, is generated of a most thin cold vapour, onely exhal'd so high by the Sun as to keep it up in the air; but when he withdrawes himself from our Hemisphear, it falleth down again in round drops, and is by the coldnesse of the air congealed resolved into water.
• Dewlap, called in Latin paleare, the skin which hangeth down under the throat of an oxe.
• Dexterity, (lat.) nimblenesse, readiness, agility.
• Dexter aspect, is contrary to the succes∣sion of the Signs.
• Dexter point, a term in Heraldry, being that place in an Escutch••on that hath its beginning near the right corner, in the chief thereof.

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• Diabetical, (Greek) a term in Physick signifying troubled with the Diabetes, which is a disease wherein a mans water runneth from him without any stay.
• Diabolical, (Greek) devillish.
• Diacatholicon, a certain Medicine or physical Composition.
• Diachylon, a Plaister composed of juices whose office is to soften and concoct.
• Diaconal, (Greek) belonging to a Ser∣vant, Minister, or Deacon.
• Diademe, (Greek) a wreathed hatband, also a Kings Crown.
• Diaeresis, (Greek) a figure whereby one syllable is divided into two.
• Diagnostic, (Greek) thoroughly know∣ing or discerning in Physick. Diagnostic signs of a disease, are those signs which at present are apparent.
• Diagonal, (Greek) a term in Geome∣try, signifying a line in a quadrangle which passeth from one corner to ano∣ther.
• Diagram, (Greek) a Geometrical fi∣gure, also a certain form described in de∣monstrative sciences, also a proportion of measures in Musick distinguished by No∣tes.
• Diagraphical, (Greek) belonging to to the art of painting, or graving.
• Dialect, (Greek) a propriety of speech, or difference of pronunciation peculiar to each several Countrey, as in Greece here∣tofore there were the Attick, Dorick, Ionick, and Aeolick Dialects, or Idiom's; it is also the art of Logick.
• Diallel lines, (Greek) lines running crosse, and cutting one another.
• Dialogisme, (Greek) a figure wherein a man reasoneth, and discourseth with himself as it were with another.
• Dialogue, (Greek) a written discourse wherein two parties are brought in talk∣ing together.
• Diameter, (Greek) a Geometrical word, signifying a streight line drawn through the middle, or Center of any figure.
• Diamond, a sort of precious stone, called also Adamant, so hard, that it is not to be softned by any thing but Goats bloud, it cometh from the Greek word Adamas, untamable.
• Diana, the daughter of Jupiter and La∣tona, brought forth at one birth with A∣pollo, she, that she might keep her Virgi∣nity fled into the Woods, and addicted her self wholly to hunting, whereupon she was called the Goddesse of the Woods.
• Diapasme, (Greek) a Pomander, or per∣fume made of dry powders, which is

• used upon several occasions.
• Diapason, (Greek) an eight, or the most perfect concord in Musick.
• Diaper, a kinde of linnen cloath, which is wrought with flourishes, and divers sorts of figures.
• Diaperd, a bordure in Heraldry is properly said to be Diapred, where it is fretted all over, and hath something quick or dead appearing within the frets.
• Diapering, in painting, is an overrun∣ning your work after it is quite finish't with branches, or other work.
• Diaphanous, (Greek) transparent, or that may be seen through, or pierced through by the Sun beams.
• Diaphony, (Greek) a harsh sound, a sound which maketh a discord.
• Diaphoretick, (Greek) easily piercing through, a word used in physick, and sig∣nifies a Medicine that discusses any hu∣mour by concoction, or transpiration.
• Diaphragme, (Greek) a fence, or hedge, in Anatomy it signifieth a skin, or muscle which passeth overthwart the body, sepe∣rating the breast, or middle region from the stomack, or lower region.
• Diarrhaea, (Greek) a flux of the belly without any inflammation of the En∣trailes.
• Diastole, (Greek) a figure whereby a syllable short by nature is made long, also in physick, it is taken for that motion of the pulses, which dilates the heart and the arteries, being contrary to Systole, which contracts them.
• Diarie, a Diurnal, or Day-book, where∣in the passages of every day are writ∣ten.
• Diatesseron, (Greek) one of the chief Chords in Musick, called a fourth, also a plaister that consists but of foure ingre∣dients.
• Diatribe, (Greek) a place where Ora∣to••ns, or Disputations are held.
• Dibble, a two forked instrument, where∣with they set Herbs in a Garden.
• Dicacity, (lat.) a taunting, or moc∣king.
• Dicearch, (Greek) a just Governour, or Prince.
• Dication, or Dedication, (lat.) a pro∣mising, devoting, or consecrating.
• Dichotomy, (Greek) a cutting in two pieces, a dividing a speech, or discourse into two parts.
• Dicker, a quantity of leather, containing ten Hides.
• Dictate, (lat.) to tell any one what they are to write.
• Dickins, a contraction from Devilkins, or little Devils.
• Dictator, (lat.) a great Commander a∣mong the Romans, who had the chief au∣thority for the time being, both in war and peace; he was never chosen but up∣on some great occasion, and his command was to last but half a year.
• Dictionary, (lat.) called in Greek a Lexicon, a Book wherein hard words and names are mentioned and unfolded.
• Dictum, the ancient name of a City in Caernarvonshire, now called Diganway.
• Dictynna, a name attributed to Diana, who flying from Minos, she cast her self into certain nets which are called Dictya.
• Didapper, a kind of bird, so called from the Greek word Diadyptein, to duck under water.
• Dido, the daughter of Belus, King of the Tyrians, she was married to Sichaeus Priest of Hercules, whom Pygmalion slew that he might obtain his riches; but she gathering all the wealth she could to∣gether, fled into Africa, and there built a City which was first called Byrsa, after∣wards Carthage, and refusing to marry Iarbas King of Getulia, because he went about to force her by war, she killed her self. Others say, it was because falling in love with Aeneas who was driven by tem∣pest on her coast, he refused to marry her.
• Didram, an ancient coin valueing fif∣teen pence.
• Diem clausit extremum, a Writ that lieth for the Heir of him that holdeth land of the Crown, either by Knights service, or in Soccage and dieth. It is di∣rected to the Eschetour to inquire of what estate he was seized, and who is next Heir; and this inquisition is to be re∣turned into the Chancery.
• Dies datus, a respite given to the Ten∣ent or Defendant before the Court.
• Diennial, (lat.) of two years continu∣ance.
• Diespiter, quasi diei pater, a name at∣tributed to Jupiter; he is also called Lu∣cetius, from Lux the light.
• Diet, in Greek diaita, from dais a ban∣quet, signifieth a general convention of the German Peers to consult of the affairs of the Empire.
• Dieta rationabilis, a reasonable dayes journey; a word used in the Civil Law.
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• Dietetical, (Greek) belonging to a li∣mited and proportionable diet.
• Diffamation, (lat.) a disgracing, a blem∣ishing any ones good name.
• Diffarreation, (lat.) a solemnity an∣ciently used among the Romans in the di∣vorcement of man and wife.
• Differences, in Heraldry are extraordi∣nary additions whereby bearers of the same Coat-armour, are distinguished each from others.
• Difficulty, (lat.) uneasinesse, hard∣nesse.
• Diffidence, (lat.) doubtfulnesse, mi∣strustfulnesse.
• Diffluence, (lat.) a flowing asunder, or several wayes.
• Diffusion, (lat.) a scattering or shed∣ding abroad. Diffusion in Philosophy is the dilating of a substance into more parts.
• Digamma, (Greek) the Aeolic letter a∣mong the Greeks, like unto our let∣ter F.
• Digestion, (lat.) a disposing, also a con∣cocting of the meat in the stomack.
• Digests, in French Pandectes, a volume of the Civil Law; so called because the legal precepts therein contained are so excellently disposed and digested.
• Dight, (old word) ready, adorned.
• Digit, a Character which expresseth a figure in Arithmatick, as a V. the figure of five, also the parts of an eclipse.
• Digitation, (lat.) a pointing with the fingers, also an expressing the form of the fingers.
• Digladiation, (lat.) a fighting, or di∣sputing the matter with swords.
• Digne, from the Latin word dignus, neat, gentle, worthy. It is a word used by Chaucer.
• Dignity, (lat.) honour, reputation, ad∣vancement. Essential Dignities of the Planets are when Planets are in their own houses, exaltations, tripticities, and faces, how these are assigned to every Planet, see in Mr. Lillies Introduc. Fo. 104.
• Dignosce, (lat.) to know, or discern one from another.
• Digression, (lat.) a wandering out of the way, a going from the matter in hand.
• Dijudication, (lat.) a deciding a differ∣ence between two.
• Dike-grave, one that oversees the dikes and banks of the Low-Countries, that keeps the bankes from Inundation of the Sea.
• Dilaceration, (lat.) a rending or tear∣ing asunder.
• Dilaniation, (lat.) a butchering or tear∣ing in pieces.
• Dilapidation, (lat.) a taking away or ridding of stones, also a wasting.
• Dilatation, (lat.) a widening or laying at full length.
• Dilatatory, a Chirurgeons Instrument to widen any part that's too much clo∣sed.
• Dilection, (lat.) a tender affection or love.
• Dilemma, (Greek) is called a horned syllogism, wherein both propositions are so framed, that neither can well be de∣nied.
• Dilling, a child born when the Parents are old.
• Dilstone, otherwise called Divelstone, be∣cause it standeth upon the River Diveles∣burn, a Town in Northumberland where King Oswald slew Cedwalla the Brittish Tyrant.
• Dilucidation, (lat.) a making clear or plain.
• Dilution, (lat.) a purging or washing a∣way; also wine dilute signifieth wine that is mingled with water.
• Diluvial, (lat.) belonging to a Flood or Deluge.
• Dimention, (lat.) the just measure or proportion of any figure. In Geometry length breadth, and depth, are called the three dimensions.
• Dimetae, the ancient name of the people inhabiting that part of Wales which con∣taineth those Countries now called Caer∣mardenshire, Pembrokshire, and Cardigan∣shire.
• Dimication, (lat.) skirmishing or fight∣ng.
• Dimidiation, (lat.) a dividing in the midst, a cutting into two halves.
• Dimocks▪ an ancient Family in Cheshire. See Grand Sergeanty.
• Diminutive, (lat.) little, small; in Gram∣mar it is taken substantively for a word whose termination implies a littlenesse in respect of another thing that is bigger, as from tabula a table, comes tabella a little table or tablet. In Heraldry it is a blemish∣ing or defacing of some particular point of the Escocheon by the imposition of some stain and colour thereon. In Archi∣tecture it signifies the lessening of a pillar by little and little, from the base to the top.
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• Dioces, from the Greek word dioecesis a governing, signifieth the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of a Bishop.
• Diogenes, a famous Philosopher, who lived in a tub which he rolled up and down from place to place; he was for his churlish disposition and clownish conver∣sation called the Cynic.
• Diomedes, the son of Tydeus, and Dei∣phile, and King of Aetolia, he was ac∣counted one of the chiefest Hero's at the wars of Troy; he brought away Rhesus his horses and the Palladium, he wounded Mars and Venus, fought with Hector and Aeneas, whom his mother Venus protected; at length being ashamed to return home because of the whorish pranks of his wife Aegiale, he went into Apulia and had that Kingdom given him by Daunus. There was also another Diomed King of Thrace, who used to feed his horses with mans flesh; but at last Hercules overcoming him, gave him to be devoured by his own horses.
• Dioptic art, that part of perspective which belongs to Astronomy, and by in∣struments searcheth out the distance of the Sun and other Stars, comprehending Nenitercapedines of
  • Sun,
  • Moon,
  • and Stars.
• Dioptrical, (Greek) belonging to a Di∣optra or Geometrical Quadrat.
• Diphthong, (Greek) two vowels clapt together into one Diple, a mark in the margent, to shew where a fault is to be corrected.
• Dipsas, a kind of Serpent whose biting brings a deadly thirst.
• Diptote, signifieth in Grammar a Nown that hath but two Cases.
• Dirce, see Amphion.
• Dire, (lat.) cruel, fell, unmerciful.
• Directory, (lat.) that which directeth, or putteth in the right way.
• Direction, a Planet is said direct, when it moveth in its natural course according to the direction of the Signs.
• Diremption, (lat.) a setting apart.
• Direption, (lat.) a snatching, or taking by force.
• Dirge, from the Latin word dirigere, prayers, or divine-service offered to God for the soul of the dead.
• Diribitory, from the old Latin word di∣ribere, to distribute or divide, a place where souldiers are mustered and receive pay.
• Diruption, (lat.) a bursting asunder.
• Disalt, to disable.
• Disard, a doltish fellow from the French word disard, loquacious, or the Dutch word dwaesaerd, i. e. a man of a stupid wit.
• Disastre, (French) ill luck, derived from the evil influence of the Stars.
• Discent, in Common Law is an order whereby Lands are derived unto any man from his Ancestors.
• Disceptation, (lat.) a contentious di∣sputing.
• Discern, (lat.) to perceive, to know one thing from another.
• Discerption, (lat.) a tearing in pieces.
• Descession, (lat.) a departing.
• Hair Discheveled, (French) loosely scat∣tered out of order.
• Discinct, (lat.) ungirded, also care∣lesse.
• Discipline, (lat.) a teaching or instru∣cting.
• Disciplinants, an Order of Religious men that scourge themselves.
• Disclamer, in Common Law is an ex∣presse denial or refusal in standing out a∣gainst any action.
• Discoloure, (lat.) of divers colours.
• Discomfiture, (French) a total routing or vanquishing an enemy.
• Disconsolate, (lat.) comfortlesse.
• Discontinuance, or Discontinuity, (lat.) an interruption or breaking off; also in Common Law discontinuance of posses∣sion is this, that a man may not enter up∣on his own land being alienated, but must bring his Writ, and seek to recover pos∣session by Law.
• Discordance, (lat.) a disagreement, jar∣ring, or being out of tune; for in Musick those Notes are called discords which make harsh and unpleasing sounds, as seconds, fourths, sevenths, &c.
• Discrepance, (lat.) a differing or vary∣ing one from another.
• Discretion, (lat.) a separating or di∣stinguishing; also wisdom, prudence, be∣cause it teacheth us how to make a right distinction of things.
• Discrimination, (lat.) a putting a dif∣ference between one thing and ano∣ther.
• Discumbence, (lat.) a sitting or lying down to eat, it being a custom among the Ancients to lie down upon the ground and eat.
• Discure, to discover, a word used by Chaucer.
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• Discursion, (lat.) a running to and fro.
• Discussion, (lat.) a shaking off, or into pieces; also a searching narrowly into a businesse.
• To Disembogue, (Spanish) to come out of the mouth of a River or Haven.
• Disfranchize, to exclude▪ out of the number of Citizens or free-Denisons.
• Disgrading, a depriving a Clergy-man of his orders, who being delivered to his ordinary, cannot purge himself of the crime whereof he was convicted by the Jury.
• Disgregation, (lat.) a scattering, or se∣parating.
• Disguise, (French) to put into another guise or form.
• Disgust, (lat.) to distaste.
• Disherit, or Disinherit, (French) to put out of possession.
• Disjunction, (lat.) a severing or dis∣joyning.
• Dislocation, (lat.) a putting out of its right place.
• Dislodge, a term in hunting, applyed to a Buck, when you first raise him
• Disloyalty, (French) unfaithfulnesse, perfidiousnesse.
• Dismantle, (French) to take off a cloak or mantle, but by metaphor, it is taken for to beat down the walls of a For∣tresse.
• Dism••s, (French) tithes, or the tenth part of all the fruits being consecrate to God, and consequently to be paid unto those who take upon them holy Orders.
• Dismission, (lat.) a sending away.
• Dispansion, (lat.) a spreading both wayes.
• Disparagement, (Ital.) a disgracing, or undervalueing; In Common Law it is used for the marrying of an Heir or Heiresse under their degree, or against decency. Some derive it from the Latin words dispar and ago, it being as it were a doing that which is disagreable.
• Disparates, (lat.) a term in Logick, sig∣nifying things which are different from one another, but not contrary.
• Disparity, (lat.) unevennesse, or diver∣sity.
• Disparpled, or Disperpled, loosely scat∣tered, or shooting it self into divers parts, a term used in Heraldry.
• Dispaupered, signifieth in Common Law deprived of the priviledge of forma pau∣peris.
• Dispend, (lat.) to spend or lay out money.
• Dispensation, (lat.) a distributing or dealing; also a performing the office of a Dispenser or Steward.
• Dispersion, (lat.) a scattering into seve∣ral parts.
• Dispert, to finde out the difference of the diameters of mettals between the breetch and the mouth of a piece of Ord∣nance.
• Dispicience, (lat.) a looking diligently, a considering.
• Displicence, (lat.) a displeasing.
• Displosion, (lat.) a bursting in two, also the shooting off a gun.
• Dispoliation, (lat.) a spoiling, rifling, or robbing.
• Dispone, (old word) to dispose.
• Disposition, (lat.) a placing or disposing of things; also the natural inclination of the mind, also the constitution of the body.
• Dispossession, (lat.) a depriving any one of their possession.
• Disproportion, (lat.) inequality.
• Dispurveyed, (French) bare, indigent, unprovided.
• Disputation, (lat.) a disputing or con∣testing in words about any doubtful sub∣ject.
• Disquamation, (lat.) a taking off the scales or bark of any thing.
• Disquisition, (lat.) a narrow search after any thing.
• Disrationare, in French disrener, to prove any thing by Battel, Writ or Assize.
• Dissasina, (French) dispossession, see Sasina.
• Dissection, (lat.) a cutting asunder or in pieces.
• Disseisin, in Common law, is an unlaw∣ful dispossessing of a man of his lands or goods.
• Dissemination, (lat.) a sowing or scat∣tering up and down.
• Dissentaneous, (lat.) discording, disa∣greeing.
• Disse••tory, (old word) a kind of Still.
• Disservice, a disclaiming any ones ser∣vice, a doing an ill office.
• Dissidence, (lat.) a disagreeing, or fal∣ling out.
• Dissilience, (lat.) a leaping or bounding up and down, a falling asunder.
• Dissimilar, (lat.) unlike; in Anatomy the dissimilar parts of the body, are those

• which are compounded of several similar parts, as a hand being compounded of flesh nerves and bones, is called a dissimilar or organic part.
• Dissimulation, (lat.) a counterfeiting, or dissembling.
• Dissheveled, see Dischevelled.
• Dissipation, (lat.) a scatering or disper∣sing.
• Dissociation, (lat.) a separating or put∣ting asunder.
• Dissolution, (lat.) a dissolving, a melt∣ing, or destroying; also dissolutenesse, de∣bauchery, or licenciousnesse of life: also contrary to Annexation.
• Dissonance, (lat.) a difference in sound, also a disagreement.
• Dissuasion, (lat.) a perswading against any thing.
• Dissyllable, (Greek) a word consisting of two syllables.
• Distance, (lat.) a being afar off.
• Painting in Distemper, or size, is a kind of painting which hath been ancientlier in use than that which is in oil'd colours.
• Distention, (lat.) a drawing out, or stretching to the full length.
• Distick, (Greek) a couple of Verses ending in the same rhyme or measure.
• Distillation, (lat.) a dropping down, or distilling in a Limbeck.
• Distinction, (lat.) a putting a difference between one thing & another. A Logical distinction is when a word having several significations, may be taken either way.
• Distortion, (lat.) a pulling awry, or wringing several wayes.
• Distraction, (lat.) a drawing several wayes, also perplexity or madnesse.
• Distresse, or distraining, (in Latin, Di∣striction,) is a streightning, wringing, or affliction. In Common Law it signifieth a compulsion to appear in Court, or to pay a debt or duty denied.
• Distribution, (lat.) a dividing amongst many.
• Distributive, is an epithite to justice, whereby is signified the justice of an Ar∣bitrator, who being trusted and perform∣ing his trust, is said to give every man his own.
• Districation, a ridding out of trouble, from the latin words dis a preposition, and Tricae small threads about chickens legs, which hinder them from going; but me∣taphorically any kind of incumbrance.
• Districtus, the circuit or territory with∣in which a man may be compelled to ap∣pear.
• Distringas, a Writ directed to the She∣riff to distrain one for a debt to the King, or for his appearance at a day.
• Disturbance, or Disturbation, (lat.) a causing trouble, or unquietness.
• Disunited, (lat.) disjoyned or severed.
• Dithyramb, (Greek) a kind of Hymne antiently sung in honour of Bacchus, also any kind of lusty or jovial Song.
• Dition, (lat.) a Dominion, Jurisdiction, or Territory.
• Dittany, or Ditander, in Latin Dictam∣num, an herb growing abundantly in Dicte, a Promontory of Creet, in English it is called Garden-pepper.
• Ditty, a Song which hath the words composed to a tune.
• Divan, a great solemn Council or Court of Justice among the Turks and Persians.
• Divarication, (lat.) a striding wide.
• Diventilation, (lat.) a winnowing, or tossing to and fro.
• Diverberation, (lat.) a violent beat∣ing.
• Diversified, (lat.) varied.
• Diversity, (lat.) variety.
• Diverticle, (lat.) a by-way, also a de∣vice or shift.
• Divertisment, (French) recreation or pastime.
• Dividend, in Arithmetick, is the num∣ber which is to be divided, also the share which is equally divided among the Fel∣lows of a Colledge. Also Dividends in the Exchequer seem to be one part of an Indenture.
• Dividual, (lat.) easie or apt to be di∣vided.
• Divinaile. (old word) a riddle.
• Divination, (lat.) a presageing of things to come.
• Divine, (lat.) heavenly, also it is taken substantively for a professour of Theo∣logy, whom Chaucer calls a divinistre.
• Divisibility, Philosophic, it signifies a ca∣pacity in a thing to be divided.
• Division, (lat.) a dividing or cutting into two parts.
• Divitiacus, a King of the Gaules, who as some say, was King of the Brittains.
• Divorce in Common law, is a separation between two married together, not onely from bed and board, but from the bond of wedlock.
• Divour, see Dyvour.
• Diuretical, (Greek) that which pro∣vokes urine.
• Diurnal, (lat.) belonging to the day;

• It is also used substantively for a Pam∣phlet, wherein the passages of every day are recorded.
• Diuturnity, (lat.) lastingnesse, or long continuance.
• Divulgation, (lat.) a making known a∣broad.
• Divulsion, (lat.) a pulling violently a∣sunder.
• Dizain, (French) the number ten, also a kinde of French Coyn of about the va∣lue of a penny, also a song consisting of twelve Stanza's.

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• Dobeler, a great dish, or platter.
• Dobuni, ancient people of the Brittains, who inhabited those parts, which are now called Oxfordshire, and Glostershire.
• Doced, or Douced, a Musical instrument, otherwise called a Dulcimer.
• Docility, Docibility, (lat.) aptnesse to learn that which is taught.
• Docke, a place where ships are built, or laid up from the Greek word Cocheion a receptacle, also a kinde of Herb, called in Latin Lapathum.
• Docket, a Brief in writing.
• Doctoral, (lat.) belonging to a Doctor, i. e. Teacher, or one that hath taken the highest degree in Divinity, Physick, or Civil Law.
• Document, (lat.) a teaching, or instructing.
• Dodded, (old word) in Latin Decornu∣tus, unhorned, also lopped as a Tree, ha∣ving the branches cut off.
• Dodder, a certain weed winding about Herbs.
• Dodecaedrie, (Greek) a Geometrical figure of 12 sides.
• Dodecagon, (Greek) a Geometrical fi∣gure of 12 Angles.
• Dodecatemorie, (Greek) an Astronomi∣cal Term, being one of the 12 parts, into which the Zodiack is divided.
• Dodkin, a kinde of small piece of money, which some think to be of the same value as our farthing.
• Dodona, a Citie of Chaonia, a Countrey of Greece, near to which there was a Temple and Oracle of Jupiter, within a Wood, sacred to the same Deity, of which Wood it was fain'd that the Trees were vocal, and returned the answers of the Oracle, also the name of a Fountain, whose water had a property, both to quench and kindle fire.
• Dotrantal, (lat.) of the weight, or mea∣sure of nine ounces.
• Dog-dayes, see Canicular dayes.
• Dogdraw, (a Term used in Forrest law,) is when any man is found drawing after a Deer by the scent of a hound, which he leadeth in his hand, being one of the four circumstances, wherein a Forrester may arrest the body of an offender against Vert, or Venison in the Forrest, the other three being Stablestand, Back berond, and Bloudy-hand.
• Doge of Venice, is the supream Magi∣strate, or Duke of Venice.
• Dogger, a kinde of ship.
• Dogmatist, (Greek) one that bringeth in any new Sect, or opinion.
• Dolation, (lat.) a making smooth, or plain.
• Dole, (lat.) deceit, fraud, also grief, also a distributing, or dealing of Almes, or gifts.
• Dollar, a Dutch Coyn of the value of four shillings.
• Dolling, (old word) warming.
• Dolorous, (lat.) painfull, or sorrowfull.
• Dolphin, a kinde of fish, so called as some say from the Delphi, who were the first finders of it, also the title of the eldest son of the King of France, from Daulphin a Province of France; also a constellation beautified with nine bright stars, accord∣ing to the number of the Muses.
• Dolt, a sot, or blockhead, from the Dutch word Doll.
• Dolven, buried from the old word Delve, to dig.
• Dolyman, a kinde of Turkish Garment.
• Domable, (lat.) tameable.
• Dome, (Ital.) a Town-house, or chief meeting place of a Citie.
• Domestick, (lat.) tame, belonging to a family, or houshold.
• Domicil, (lat.) a dwelling-house, or place of habitation.
• Domination, (lat.) a ruling, or lording over others, dominations are also one of the nine orders of Angels.
• Dominical letter, the red Letter in the Calender, wherewith Sunday, or the Lords day is mark't.
• Dominicans, an Order of Fryars, insti∣tuted by St. Dominick a Spaniard about the year 1206.
• Domino, a kinde of hood worn by Ca∣nons, also a mourning vail for women.
• Domition, or Domiture, (lat.) a taming.
• Domo reparanda, a Writ that lieth a∣gainst one whose house going to decay may indanger his Neighbours house by falling.
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• Donary, (lat) a gift, or present.
• Donatists, a Sect of Hereticks, whereof the more rigid sort are called Circumcel∣lians, they held the son to be lesse then the father, and the holy Ghost lesse then the son, and affirm'd the true Church to be onely in Africa, they were instituted by Donatus, Bishop of Carthage, in the year 358. the more moderate sort were called Rogatists.
• Donative, (lat.) apt to give, it is sub∣stantively taken for a benefice meerly gi∣ven by a Patron to any man, also a Princes gift.
• A Dondon, (old word) a short fat wo∣man.
• Donee, in Common-law, is he to whom Lands are given as Donour, is he, who gi∣veth them.
• Donegal, see Tyrconel.
• Dooms-day-book, a book made in the time of Edward the Confessour, some say, of William the Conquerour, wherein all the ancient demeans of England were re∣gistred with the names of all those that possessed them.
• Dooms-man, a Judge from the Saxon word Doom, a Judgement, or sentence.
• Dorcas, the proper name of a woman, the word signifieth a Deer.
• Dorado, (Span.) guilded over.
• Dorchester, the chief Town in Dorcet∣shire, it was in old time called Durnova∣ria, i. e. the River passage, it was misera∣bly harrass't by Sueno the Dane, and after∣wards by Hush the Norman, but flourish't again in King Edwards dayes; there is al∣so another Town of this name in Oxford∣shire, by Leland, called Hydropolis. Dour signifying in the ancient Brittish tongue, water.
• Dorick, dialect, see Dialect.
• Dorick, Musick, a kinde of grave and solemne Musick, also Dorick work in Ar∣chitecture, see Corinthian.
• Doris, the daughter of Oceanus and The∣tis, she being married to Nereus, brought forth a great number of Sea-nymphs, cal∣led Nereides.
• Dormant, in Heraldry signifieth lying in a sleeping posture, also in Law a writing Dormant is, that, which hath a blank to put in the name of any one, also a Dor∣mant-tree is a great beam, which lieth crosse the house which some call a Sum∣mer.
• Dormers, window's made in the roof of a house.
• Dorothy, a womans name, signifying in Greek the gift of God.
• Dorp, or Thorp, a Countrey Town, or Village.
• Dorrie, a kinde of fish, so called because the sides of it shine like Gold, it is called in Latin Faber.
• Dorter, or Dormitorie, a place where many sleep together, also a place where people are buried.
• Dose, (Greek) a Term in Physick, being the quantity of a potion, or Medecine which is prescribed by a Physitian to his patient.
• A Dosel, or Dorsel, from the Latin word dorsum, a rich Canopie under which Prin∣ces sit, also the Curtain of a Chaire of State.
• Doted, (lat.) endowed, having a joyn∣ture.
• Dotkin, or Dodkin, the eighth part of a stiver, or French shilling.
• Dottrel, a kinde of bird so called.
• Double plea, is that wherein the Defen∣dant alleadgeth two several matters in bar of the action.
• Doubles, in Greek diplomata, Letters Patents.
• Doubleth, a Term in hunting, when a Hare keeps in plain fields, and chaseth a∣bout to deceive the hounds, it is said she doubleth.
• Doublet, a precious stone, consisting of two pieces joyned together.
• Doublings, a Term used in Heraldry, for the linings of Roabs, Mantles of state, or other Garments.
• Dovane, (French) Custome, or Im∣post.
• Dover, see Dubris.
• Dovetail, a joynt used by Carpen∣ters, denominated from that kinde of fi∣gure.
• Dousabel, (French) sweet and fair, a womans name answering to the Greek Glycerium.
• Douset, or Doulcet, a kinde of Custard, from the Latin word dulcis.
• Dowager, a title applied to the widows of Princes and great persons.
• Downes, hilly plains, also a part of the Sea lying near the sands, from the Saxon word Dune, a hill, the same word signify∣ing in Dutch a sand-bank.
• Dowry, in Common-law, signifieth that which a wife hath with her husband in marriage, it is also taken for that portion

• which she bringeth with her, which is cal∣led in Latin Maritagium or Dos, the for∣mer is called Donatio.
• Dowsets, the stones of a Stag, so termed in hunting, also the same as Dousets.
• Dowtremere, fair wearing, a word used by Chaucer.
• Doxie, a she Beggar or Trull.
• Doxology, (Greek) a Verse or Song of praise, anciently instituted in the Church which was to be recited in Divine-service after the Prayers and Psalmes.

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• Drabler, in Navigation, is a piece ad∣ded to the bonnet, when there is need of more sail.
• Draco's Laws, certain rigid and severe Laws made anciently in Athens by one Draco; whence all severe punishments for trivial offences are called Draco's Laws.
• Dragant, or Traga••ant, a certain gum distilling from an herb of the same name, in English called Goates-thorn.
• Dragons Head, called in the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a node or place in the Ecclip∣tick line, which the Moon cutteth and ascendes from the aust'ral part of the node into the Septentrional, it hath no aspect to any Planet, but it may be aspect∣ed by them; its motion is according to the motion of the Sun.
• Dragons taile, called in Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, is a node opposite to the Dragons Head in the Eccliptick line, which the M••on cutteth and descends from the Sep∣tentrional part of the node, unto the Au∣st'ral.
• Dragons-wort, a certain herb, otherwise called Serpentary, or vipers Bugloss.
• Dragonstone, a certain pretious Stone called in Greek Draconitis.
• Drags, pieces of wood so joyned toge∣ther, as floating upon the water they may bear a burload of wood or other wares down the River.
• Draiton, a Town in Shropshire near which, a very bloody field was fought be∣tween the two Houses of York and Lan∣caster.
• Dram, or Drachme, (Greek) the eighth part of an ounce.
• Dramatic, (Greek) a sort of Poetry, wherein are lively representations of things, acted by persons upon a Stage, as Comedies and Tragedies.
• Drap de Berry, a kind of thick cloth made in the Country of Berry in France.
• Drapery, a term in painting, being a work wherein cloths are represented. See Cilerie.
• Draught, a first Copy, from the Latin word tractus.
• Drawelatchets, a sort of nightly theeves, so termed in divers Statutes, they are also called Robertsmen.
• Drawing, a term used by Painters, sig∣nifying an exact observance of the distan∣ces and proportions of that which you would imitate or phancy. It comprehen∣deth Pictures by the life; Stories, Opticks, Landskips, &c. It is by some called De∣signing.
• Dreint, (old word) drowned.
• Dretch, (old word) to dream, to tarry.
• Dry exchange, a term which is given to Usury.
• D••iffeild, a Town in Yorkshire, famous for the Tomb of the learned Alfred King of Northumberland, and for the Mounts which he raised about it.
• Drift of the Forrest, a driving of cattel, or a view of what cattel are in the For∣rest; also a boat is said to go adrift when it hath no body to row or steer it. Drift is also taken for counsell or policy, from the Dutch word dr••iven, i. e. to act.
• Drill, a Stone-cutters toole wherewith he bores holes in Marble, also a Baboon.
• Drogoman, or Truchman, in Greek Dra∣gomenos, a word used by the Turks for an Interpreter.
• Droit, signifieth in common Law a double right, the right of possession, and the right of the Lord.
• Drolery, (French) a merry facetious way of speaking or writing.
• Dromedary, a kind of Camel with two bunches on its back, it is called in Greek Dromas for its swiftness.
• Dronklew, (old word) given to drink.
• Dropacist, a puller off of hair.
• Drouy, (old word) troubled.
• Dru, (Sax.) subtile, a proper name, called in Latin Drogo, or Drugo.
• Drugge, a Medicin, from the Dutch word Droogh, i. e. dry, because all Medi∣cins vehemently dry the body.
• Druides, certain learned men or Priests anciently in great esteem among the Galls; they were so called from the Greek word Drys a wood, because they loved to in∣habite among the woods.
• Drury, (old word) sobriety, mo∣desty.
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• Drusilla, the poper name of divers fa∣mous women.
• Dryads, certain Nimphs, called Nimphs of the wood, from the Greek word Drys an Oak.

D U

• Duall, (lat.) of, or belonging to two.
• To Dub a Knight, to confer the Order of Knighthood upon any one, from the French word a douber, to arm com∣pleat.
• Dubious, (lat.) uncertain, doubtful.
• Dublin, the chief City of Ireland, si∣tuate in the Province of Leimster, it was antiently called Bala cleigh, i. a Town up∣on Hurdles. Some say it was built by Harold King of Norway, (when he con∣quered Ireland) from whom descended in a direct line Griffith ap Conan, borne at Dublin, in the reign of Tyrlough. This City was bravely defended by the English against Asculph Prince of the Dublinians, and Gottred King of the Isles, and in the time of King Henry the second, was given to a Colony of Bristowmen.
• Dubris, the ancient name of a Port-Town in Kent, now called Dover, having a very fair and strong Castle, built as some say by Julius Caesar, and afterwards forti∣fied by King Arviragus against the Ro∣mans.
• Ducal, (lat.) belonging to a Duke.
• Duces tecum, a Writ summoning one to appear in Chancery, and to bring with him some evidence which that Court would view.
• Ducket, a certain golden coin, valueing about 6 shillings, first coined in Rome in the year of the City 547. having the Image or arms of a Duke or supream Ma∣gistrate stampt upon it.
• Ductile, (lat.) easie to be drawn out, and beaten into a thin plate; a word most commonly applied to mettals.
• Duction, (lat.) a leading.
• Duell, (lat.) a single Combat between two, from duo▪ i. two, and bellum, i. war.
• Duellona, see Bellona.
• Duilius, a great Commander among the Romans, who overcame the Carthaginians in a great Sea-fight, and was the first that triumphed after a naval Victory.
• Dul••arnon, a proportion found out by Pythagoras, for which happy invention, he sacrified an Oxe to the gods in thankful∣ness, which sacrifice he called Dulcarnon.
• Dulcimer, a kind of Musical Instrument, otherwise called a Sambuc.
• Dulcisonant, (lat.) sweetly sounding.
• Dulcitude, (lat.) sweetness.
• Dulc••ration, (lat.) a making sweet.
• Dulocrasy, (Greek) a government where slaves and servants domineer.
• Dumosity, (lat.) fulness of bryers and brambles.
• To Dun, a word vulgarly used signify∣ing to come often to importune the pay∣ment of any debt.
• Dunbar, a Town of Lothien or Lauden in Scotland, where of late years a total de∣feat was given to the Scotch army under the command of Lesly, by Crumwell Gene∣ral of the English Forces.
• Dundee, a Town of Angus, a Province of Scotland, called in Latin Taodunum, by others Alectum.
• Duni pacis▪ See knots of peace.
• Dunstan, (Sax.) Most high.
• Duodecimo, a book is said to be in Duo∣decimo, when it is of twelve leaves in a sheet.
• Duplicity, (lat.) a being double or two∣fold.
• Duplicate, a second letter patent gran∣ted by the Lord Chancelour, in a case wherein he had formerly done the same, and was therefore thought void.
• Duplication, (lat.) a doubling, also a word used in Law, signifying an allegation brought in to weaken the reply of the pleader.
• Dura mater, (lat.) a term in Anatomy, signifying the outward skin that infolds the brain.
• Duration, (lat.) a long continuing or lasting.
• Dures, in Common Law, is a plea used by way of exception by him who being cast into prison, or hardly used by any, is constrained to seal a bond to him during his restraint.
• Durham, the chief City of the Bishop∣rick of Durham, built by Bishop Aldwin, with the help of Vthred Earle of Nor∣thumberland. Here the Monks of Lindis-farm sheltred themselves when they fled with the body of St. Cuthbert from the fury of the Danes. It was anciently called Dunholm and Dunelmum.
• Durham Colledge, see Bernard Col∣ledge.
• Durity, (lat.) hardness.
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• Durnovaria, see Dorchester.
• Durotriges, an ancient people among the Brittains, inhabiting that part which is now called Dorcetshire.
• Duskie, obscure, dark, from the Greek word dascios, shady.
• Dutchie Court, a Court wherein all mat∣ters belonging to the Dutchy of Lancaster are decided by the decree of the Chan∣celour of that Court.
• Duumvirate, a certain Magistracy an∣ciently in Rome.
• Dwale, a kind of herb called sleeping night-shade.
• Dwyned, (old word) consumed.

D Y

• Dyna, a kind of East India coin, value∣ing about 30 shillings.
• Dynastie, (Greek) Supream Govern∣ment or Authority.
• Dyrrachium, a City of Macedon, lying upon the Adriatick Sea, now called Du∣razzo.
• Dyscracy, (Greek) a distemper of the body proceeding from an unequal mix∣ture of the first qualities.
• Dysentery, (Greek) a disease called the Bloody-Flux.
• Dyspathy, (Greek) evil passion or affe∣ction.
• Dyspepsie, (Greek) ill digestion of the meat in the stomack.

E

• EAd, or Eadith, (Sax.) a proper name of women, signifying happinesse. It is writen in Latin Auda, and by some Idonea.
• Eaglestone, a certain pretious Stone found in the nests of Eagles, in Greek cal∣led Aetites.
• Eadelman, or Adelman, a Saxon word, signifying a Noble man.
• Eadgar, (Sax.) happy power.
• Eadulph, (Sax.) happy help.
• Eadwin, (Sax.) happy Victor.
• Ealderman, or Alderman, the same as Eadelman.
• Ealred, (Sax.) all counsell: a proper name.
• Ean, to bring forth young, from the Greek word Odinein.
• To Ear the ground, to till or plough the ground, from the Latin word Arare.
• Earing, a part of the bolt-rope which a•• all four quarters of the sail is left open.
• Earle, (Sax.) a Noble man, from Ehre, i. Honour, and Edel, i. Noble.
• Easell, is a word used in painting, being that frame upon which the Artist placeth his cloth either higher or lower as he pleaseth.
• Easement, in Common law, is a service which one neighbour hath of another by charter or prescription, as a passage tho∣rough his ground, or the like. The Civi∣lians call it servitus praedii.
• Easter, the time of the celebration of Christs Resurrection, contracted from the Dutch word Aufferstand, i. e. Resurrection, or from Eoster, an ancient Goddesse of the Saxons, whose Feast they kept about the same time, namely, about April, which was thence called Eoster-monath. It is al∣so called Pasca, from the Hebrew, word Pasach, to passe over, because about this time, the Jews celebrated the Feast of the Passeover.
• Easterlings, people inhabiting the East part of Germany, also Easterling money, is that which we call Sterling, or Currant money, from a certain coin which Richard the first caused to be coined in those parts, being held in great request for its purity.
• Eastmeath, a County of Ireland, in the Province of Meath, it is divided into 18. Baronies.

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• Eben-tree, a certain tree which grows in India, and Aethiopia, it hath neither leaves nor fruit, and the wood of it is black and very hard, serving for many uses.
• Ebionites, a certain Sect of Hereticks who denied the Divinity of Christ, and rejected all the Gospels but St. Mathews; they were instituted by one Ebion in the year 71.
• Ebissa, a certain Captain of the Saxons, who with Octha, came to aid Hengist a∣gainst the Brittains.
• Eboracum, the second City of England, commonly called York. Ptolomy calleth it Brigantium, from the Brigants, an ancient people of that Country; but it was cal∣led Eboracum, or Eburacum, from Ebrank, a certain King of the Brittains, or as o∣thers say, from the River Vre.
• Ebrack, the Hebrew tongue; a word used by Chaucer.
• Ebriety, or Ebriosity, (lat.) drunken∣nesse.
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• Ebulo, the same as Ybel.
• Ebullition, (lat.) a bubling or boyling up.
• Eburnean, (lat.) made of Ivory.
• Eccentrick Orb, in Astronomy, is that which moves at unequal distance from the Center.
• Ecclesiastical, (Greek) belonging to the Church.
• Echen, (old word) they increase, also they help.
• Echidne, a Queen of Scythia, who by Hercules had three Children at a birth, whereof one of them named Scytha, who onely was able to bend his fathers bow, succeeded in the Kingdom, and from him it was named Scythia.
• Echo, a Nymph that lived near the Ri∣ver Cephisus, she dying for the love of Narcissus, was fain'd by the Poets to be changed into that voice, which is refle∣cted back in Caves and hollow places.
• Eclipse, (Greek) a want, or defect, an Eclipse of the Sun is a depriving us of its light, by the interposition of the Moons body, between that and us, whereas the Eclipse of the Moon is caused, by the in∣terposition of the earth.
• Ecliptick line, a line running through the midst of the Zodiack and 12 signes, it is so called because the Eclipses hap∣pen under that line.
• Eclogue, or Eglogue, as pastoral Poem, or speech between two Sheapherds.
• Ecstasie, (Greek) a figure wherein a syllable is made long contrary to its pro∣per nature, also a trance, or sudden rap∣ture of spirit.
• Ectype, (Greek) a thing drawn from another Copy.

E D

• Edacity, (lat.) a greedy eating, or de∣vouring.
• Eddie, the turning round in a stream.
• Edelfleda, or Elfleda, the wife of Ethel∣red, King of the Mercians, who after her husbands death, governed that Kingdom for eight years with great prudence and moderation.
• Edentate, (lat.) to make toothlesse.
• Edgehill, a Hill in Warwick-shire, where the first pitch't field was fought, between the forces of King Charles the first, and the Parliament of England.
• Edict, (lat.) a Proclamation, or publick Ordinance.
• Edification, (lat.) building, also it is Metaphorically taken for instruction.
• Edifice▪ (lat.) a house, or building.
• Edil, or Eadile, (lat.) an Officer in Rome, who was appointed to oversee the building of Temples and private houses.
• Edinton, (called in old time Eathan∣dune) a Town in Wiltshire, where King Alfred overthrew the Danes in a memora∣ble battle, here also William de Edinton, Bishop of Winchester, erected a Colledge for an Order of men, called bon hommes, i. e. good men.
• Edition, (lat.) a setting forth of any thing, but commonly it is taken for the impression of a book.
• Edmund, the proper name of a man sig∣nifying in the Saxon tongue happy peace.
• St. Edmundsbury, a Town in Suffolk, anciently called Bederick's gueord, i. e. the Court, or Mansion-house of Bederick, and seems to have been the same Town with that, which Antonine calleth Villa Fausti∣ni. It derived its present name from King Edmund, who was cruelly put to death by the Danes, and his body transla∣ted hither, a stately Church being also erected to his memory, which being de∣molished by Suenus the Dane, was built anew by his son Canutus to expiate his fa∣thers sacriledge.
• Education, (lat.) a bringing up, or in∣structing.
• Edward, a proper name, signifying in the Saxon tongue happy keeper.

E F

• Effable, (lat.) to be express't, or ut∣tered.
• Eff••ct, (Lat.) the doing, or finishing of a thing.
• Efficacie, (lat.) vertue, ability, also force, urgency in speech.
• Efficient, (lat.) causing to come to passe, it is a word chiefly applied to one of the four causes treated of in Logick.
• Effiction, (lat.) a forming, or expressing a thing.
• Effigies, (lat.) the form, or representa∣tion of any thing.
• Efflagitation, (lat.) an earnest request∣ing, or importuning.
• Effl••rescence, (lat.) a sprouting, or bud∣ding forth.
• Effluence, Effluvium, or Efflux, (lat.) a flowing forth.
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• Effoemination, (lat.) a making soft, nice, or womanish.
• Efforts, (French) violent Assays, strong impressions.
• Effroenation, (lat.) unbridlednesse, or rashnesse.
• Effronterie, see Affrontednesse.
• Effusion, (lat.) a powring out, or wa∣sting.
• Eft, (old word) again.
• Eftsoones, (old word) quickly.

E G.

• Egbert, a proper name, signifying in the Saxon tongue ever bright and famous.
• Egestion, (lat.) a voiding, or conveying forth.
• Eggement, (old word) procurement.
• Eglantine, a certain herb, so called from the Dutch Eghel, i. e. a Hedge-hog, because it is full of prickles. It is also call'd sweet Bryar.
• Eglogue, see Eclogue.
• Egregious, (lat.) excellent.
• Egremont, a Castle in Cumberland, which William de Mes••hines held by Knights service of King Henry the first.
• Egression, or Egresse, (lat.) a going forth.
• Egrimony, see Aegrimony.

E J

• Ejaculation, (lat.) a casting forth, also by Metaphor a spiritual trance.
• Ejection, (lat.) a casting out.
• The Eight (anciently called Alney, i. e. the Island) a place in Glocestershire, where a single Combat was fought between Ed∣mund King of the English, and Canutus King of the Danes, to decide their right to the Kingdom.
• Eirenarchie, (Greek) the Office of Constable, or Justice of Peace.
• Ejulation, (lat.) a yelling, or pittifull crying out.
• Ejuration, (lat.) a renouncing, a yield∣ing up ones place.

E L.

• Ela, the highest note in the scale of Musick, or Gam ut.
• Elaborate, (lat.) done with exactnesse and pains.
• An Elaboratory, or Labratory, (lat.) a place to work in, properly a Chymists work-house, or shop.
• Elapidation, (lat.) a taking away stones.
• Elapsion, (lat.) a slipping out.
• Elated, (lat.) lifted up, exalted, proud.
• Eld, (old word) age, Eldership.
• Ele, (old word) help.
• Eleanor, a proper name of women de∣duced from Helena.
• Elecampane, in Latin, Enula Campana, a certain Herb called Horseheal.
• Election, (lat.) a choosing, or setting apart.
• Elections, are times elected, for the doing any manner of work by the secret ope∣rations of the Heavens, by the nature of the signes, planets, and aspects of the Moon.
• Electors, certain Princes belonging to the Roman Empire.
• Electrum, a kinde of precious Gum, cal∣led Amber, distilling from Poplar Trees, into which the Poets fain the sisters of Phaeton to have been turned.
• Electuarie, a certain confection, or Me∣dicinable composition made of the most select drugs.
• Eleemosynary, (Greek) an Almner, or giver of Almes.
• Elegancy, (lat.) gallantnesse in speech, or apparel.
• Elegie, (Greek) a kinde of mournfull verse, or Funeral song.
• Elegit, a Writ, for the recovery of goods, or lands, toward the payment of any debt.
• Elements, those pure unmix't bodies, which are principles of all things, an Ele∣ment is defin'd by the Philosophers, to be a body not composed of any former bo∣dies, and of which all former bodies are composed; also the rudiments of any Art, also the single letters of the Alphabet.
• Elench, (Greek) a subtile, or argumen∣tary reproof.
• Elenge, (old word) strange.
• Elephancie, or Elephantiacy, (Greek) a kinde of disease, called a leprosie.
• Elevation, (lat.) an exalting, or lift∣ing up.
• Eleyson, see Kyre Eleyson.
• Elf, a fairy, it seems to be corrupted from the Greek word Ephialtes.
• Elguze, the left shoulder of Orion.
• Elibation, see Delibation.
• Elicitation, (lat.) a drawing out, an en∣ticing.
• Eligible, (lat.) apt to be elected, or chosen.
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• Elimation, (lat.) a filing off.
• Elimination, (lat.) a throwing over the threshold, a casting out of doors.
• Eliquament, (lat.) a fat juyce which is squeezed out of any kinde of flesh.
• Elizabeth, (Hebr.) quiet rest of the Lord, a proper name of women.
• Elision, (lat.) a hitting against.
• Elixation, (lat.) a seething.
• Elixir, in (Arab.) signifieth strength, it is commonly taken for the quintessence of any thing, the Philosophers stone.
• Elizabeth, the proper name of a wo∣man, from the Hebrew words Eli, and Shavang▪ i. e. the Oath of God.
• Elk, a kinde of strong swift beast, de∣rived from the Greek word Alce, i. e. strength.
• Ellis, a proper name, corruptly for E∣lias, Hebr. Lord God.
• Elmet, a certain Territory, or little Region about Leeds in York-shire, an∣ciently so called, which Eadwin the son of Ealla King of Northumberland Conque∣red from Cereticus the Brittish King, in the year 620.
• Elocution, (lat.) proper speech, hand∣some utterance.
• Elogie, (lat.) a Testimony given in com∣mendation of any one.
• Eloinment, (French) or Elongation, (lat.) a removing a great way off.
• Elopement in Law, is, when a married woman leaves her husband, and dwells with an Adulterer.
• Eloquence, (lat.) neatnesse, power and perswasivenesse in speech.
• Elucidation, (lat.) a making bright, clear, or plain.
• Elvish, (old word) froward.
• Elutheria, (Greek) certain feasts cele∣brated by the ancient Heathens.
• Elysian fields, certain pleasant places, into which the Heathens held that the Souls of men passed after death.

E M

• Emaceration, (lat.) a making lean.
• Emaciating, the same.
• Emaculation, (lat.) a taking away of spots.
• Emanation, (lat.) a flowing from.
• Emancipation, (lat.) hath the same re∣ference to Children, as Manumission to servants, according to the Civil Law, namely a legal, setting them free from the power of their fathers, before the Magi∣strate.
• Emanuel, (Hebr.) God with us.
• Emanuensis, (lat.) he that writes, or doth businesse for another man, a Secre∣tary.
• Emargination, (lat.) a term in Chirurgery, signifying a clensing wounds, or soares of the scruf that lieth about the brims.
• Emasculation, (lat.) a taking away the force of manhood.
• Embargo, (Span.) a stop, or arrest upon ships.
• Emberweek, in Latin Cineralia, the week before Lent, wherein by the an∣cient institution of the Church people were to fast, and the Bishop used to sprinkle ashes upon their heads; saying, Remember, O man, that thou art ashes, and to ashes shalt thou return. Imber, signifying in the Saxon tongue ashes, whence our word embers cometh, some say ember week, is derived from the Greek word Hemerai, i. dayes.
• Embellish, (French) to deck, or beau∣tifie.
• Embezel, to steal, from the Italian word Invaligiare, i. to put in a sack.
• Emblem, (Greek) a curious inlaying in wood, or other material, also an expres∣sing a moral sentence by way of device, or picture.
• Emblements, in Common-law, signifie the profits of Land, which hath been sowed.
• Embolism, (Greek) a casting in, it is commonly used for the casting in of the day, which is added to Leap year.
• Embolned, (old word) swelled.
• Embossement, or Emboucheur, (French) a putting into the mouth.
• Embost, a Term in hunting when a Deer is so hard chac't, that she foams at the mouth, it comes from the Spanish word Dosembocar, and is metaphorically taken for any kinde of wearinesse.
• Embracer, in Common-law, is he that when a matter is in trial, comes for reward to the bar, being no Lawyer, and speaks in favour of one of the parties.
• Embrocation, (Ital.) a bathing any part of the body in a liquor, falling from aloft.
• Embryon, (Greek) the imperfect fea∣ture of a Childe, unshap't in the mothers womb.
• Embushment, see Embossement.
• Embuscade, an Ambushment, or secrete lying in wait.
• Eme, (old word) an Aunt.
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• Emendation, (lat.) a correcting or men∣ding.
• Emerald, (Span.) a certain pretious stone of a green colour, called in Latin Smaragdus.
• Emergent, (lat.) rising up above water, appearing from underneath any thing. An Emergent occasion is taken for a business of great consequence.
• Emetical, (Greek) a term in Medicine, belonging to those things which purge the body by vomit.
• Emication, (lat.) a shining out.
• Emigration, (lat.) a passing out of any place.
• Emildon, a Town in Northumberland, where J. Duns called Scotus was born, who for his obscure way of writing was stiled the subtile Doctor.
• Eminence, (lat.) an excelling, an ap∣pearing above others.
• Emissary, (lat.) one sent abroad to spie or give intelligence.
• Emission, a throwing or sending out.
• Emme, the proper name of a woman: some will have it to be the same with Amie, others contract it from Elgiva which sig∣nifieth Helpgiver.
• Emmot, a little insect called a Pismire. Emollient, (lat.) softning, molifying, or asswaging.
• Emolument, (lat.) profit or benefit.
• Emotion, (lat.) a moving out, a stirring up, also trouble of mind. Cleop.
• Empaire, (French) to diminish, to make worse, from the praeposition in, and pire, worse.
• Empannel, from the French word panne, or pannea••, i. a skin, signifies to enter the names of the Jury into a parchment or roll, which are summond to appear for the publick service.
• Emparlance, (French) in the Common Law, is a petition in Court of a day of respite. It is called in the Civil Law, pe∣titio induciarum.
• Emphatical, (Greek) uttered with a grace or emphasis, which is a significant or intent expression of ones mind.
• Emphyteutick, (Greek) set out to be improved, let out to farm.
• Empirick, (Greek) a Physitian which cures by receipts taken upon trust.
• Emplastration, (lat.) an applying a plai∣ster, a dawbing, also a graffing.
• Emporetical, (Greek) belonging to an Emporium, i. e. a Mart Town, or place for Faires and Markets.
• Emprimed, a term in hunting, signify∣ing a Harts forsaking the herd.
• Emption, (lat.) a buying.
• Empyraeal, (Greek) fiery, Empyraeal Heaven, the highest Heaven, or Seat of the Blessed.
• Emucid, (lat.) mouldy.
• Emulation, (lat.) envy, or striving to exceed.
• Emulgent, (lat.) stroaking, Emulgent vein, one of the branches of that hollow vein which goes to the reines, and by which the reines do separate the urine from the blood, and attract it.
• Emulsion, (lat.) a stroaking, also in physick, it is a kind of Medicine made in∣to a certain cream.
• Emunctories, (lat.) certain kernelly places in the body by which the principal parts void their excrements or superflui∣ties.

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• Enach, in the practick of Scotland, is a satisfaction for any crime or fault.
• Enaluron, a term in Heraldry, is when a bordure is charged with any kinds of Birds.
• Enamell, to vary with little spots, from the French word Maille, a spot.
• Enargy, (Greek) cleernesse or evidence.
• Encaustick, (Greek) varnished, or wrought with fire.
• Enchace, (French) to set in Gold.
• Enchant, (French) to conjure, or in∣voke the Devil with certain strange words or verses.
• Encheson, a Law French word, signi∣fying the cause why any thing is done.
• Encheiridion, (lat.) a small Book that one may clasp in ones hand.
• Enclitick, (Greek) enclining. An En∣clitick conjunction in Grammar is that which casts back the accent to the fore∣going syllable.
• Encombrance, (French) a hindrance.
• Encomiastick, (Greek) belonging to an Encomium or speech made in praise of another.
• Encrochment, in Common Law, is a pressing too far upon ones neighbours ground.
• Encyclopaedie, see Cyclopaedie.
• Endammage (French) to hurt, to dam∣nifie.
• Enditement, in Common Law, is a Bill of accusation for some offence exhibited against any one, and by a Jury presented

• unto an Officer, or Court that hath power to punish, in the Civil Law it is called Accusation.
• Endive, a kind of herb, so called.
• Endorse, a term in Heraldry, being the fourth part of a Pallet, see Pallet.
• Endorsed, see Indorsed.
• Endowment, in Law, signifieth the be∣stowing or assuring of a dowr, also a send∣ing maintenance to a Vicar when the be∣nefice is appropriated.
• Endromick, a long Irish Robe.
• Endymion, a certain Shepherd whom the Poets feign to have fallen in love with the Moon, and that being cast into a per∣petual sleep upon the top of Latmus Hill, she every night stoopt down to steal a kiss from him.
• Eneya, in the practick of Scotland, is the principal part of the Heritage which goes to the eldest son, called in French l'aisne.
• Energy, (Greek) force or efficacy.
• Enervation, (lat.) a weakning.
• Enfeildchace, a place in Middlesex, where yet are to be seen the ruines of an old house, the dwelling place heretofore of the Magnavills Earles of Essex, from whom this Chace descended to the Bohuns Earles of Hereford and Essex.
• Enfranchisment, (French) the incorpo∣rating of any man into a society or body politick.
• Engastrimuch, (Greek) on that speakes out of the belly.
• Engelbert, (Germ.) bright Angel, a proper name.
• Englecery, is taken contradistinct to Francigena, which word used to compre∣hend every alien that was murdered, upon which there was a mulct laid upon the Country where it was done, unlesse En∣glecery was proved; that is to say, that it was an English man who was slain.
• Engonasin, (Greek) the name of one of the heavenly constellations, by which figur was represented Hercules kneeling. In Latin it is called Ingeniculum or Nixus.
• Eng••scope, (Greek) a certain Instrument whereby the proportion of the smallest things may be discerned.
• Enhauncement, (French) a raising the price of any thing.
• Enigmatical, see Aenigmatical.
• Eniff Alpherary, (Ar.) the yawning of Pegasus.
• Enoch's pillars, two pillars erected by Enoch the son of Seth, the one of brick, the other of stone, whereupon were ingraven the whole Art of Astronomy.
• Enneade, (Greek) the number nine.
• Enneagon, (Greek) a Geometrical figure of nine Angles.
• Enodation, (lat.) an unknotting, a ma∣king plain.
• Enormity, from the Latin word Norma, a rule and the praeposition E. It signi∣fies irregularity, unmeasurablenesse.
• Enquest, in Common law, is the trial of causes both civil and criminal by the Jury.
• Ensconce, to entrench, from the Dutch word Schantse, a military Fortresse.
• Ensiferous (lat.) carrying a sword, sword-bearing.
• Ensign, (French) an Escutcheon where∣in are painted the Trophies of Honour or Armory of a Family; also a military Banner.
• Enstall, from the Greek word Enstellein, i. to adorn, signifies to put upon a Throne, to endow with a Robe of honour.
• Entaile, in Common law, signifieth fee taile, fee entailed, or abridged.
• Entangle, quasi inter angulos ducere, to ensnare, to embroile.
• Enteched, (old word) defiled.
• Entelechie, (Greek) an inward soul, or power to move and act.
• Entendment, (French) signifieth in Law the true meaning or sense of a word or sentence.
• Enterfeire, (French) to hit one against another, to clash, or skirmish.
• Enterplead, in Common Law, is the dis∣curssing of a point accidentally hapning before the principal cause have an end. In the Civil Law it is called cognitio prae∣judicialis.
• Enthusiasts, see Enthysiasts.
• Enthymem, (Greek) an imperfect Syllo∣gism wherein the Major or Minor propo∣sition is to be understood.
• Enthysiasts, (Greek) a certain Sect of people which pretended to the Spirit and Revelations.
• Entire entrance, signifieth in Common law a sole possession in one man, whereas several tenancy is a joynt or common pos∣session.
• Entire pertransient, is in Heraldry a line which crosseth the middle of the shield, and runs diametrically the longest way of her position.
• Entire perngents, are lines that run the longest way of the sheilds position, with∣out

• touching the Center.
• Entity, (lat.) the having a being.
• Entoire, a term in Blazon, when a bor∣dure is charged with sorts of inanimate things, except leaves, fruits, and flowers.
• Entoxication, a poisoning, from the Hebrew word Toch, i. poison.
• Entrals, bowels, from the Greek word Entera.
• Entreague, (Span.) a making good a∣gain. It is also taken for a Story, which after many intangled passages is brought to a calme end.
• Entreate, (old word) to handle.
• Entry, in Common Law, signifieth a ta∣king possession of Lands or Tenements.
• Entriked, (old word) deceived.
• Entrusion, in Common Law, signifieth a violent entrance into Lands or Tenements void of possession by him that hath no right unto them.
• Entrusion de gard, a Writ that lieth where the infant within age entreth into his Lands and holdeth his Lord out.
• Entweyssel, a fair house in Lancashire, which gave name and habitation to an ancient so called.
• Enucleation, (lat.) a taking out the kernel, also the expounding of any diffi∣cult matter.
• Envelope, (Span.) to infold or inwrap.
• Environ, to compasse about, from the French word Environ, i. about.
• Enumeration, (lat.) a numbering or counting.
• Enunciation, (lat.) an uttering or pro∣nouncing; in Logick it is taken for a pro∣position which simply affirms or denies.

E P

• Epact, the number by which the year of the Sun, or solar year, exceeds the year of the Moon, or lunar year, being the number 11.
• Epaminondas, a great Captain of the Thebans, who much weakned the strength of the Lacedaemonians by many great victo∣ries which he gained over them: he died of a wound which he received at the bat∣tel of Mantinea.
• Epanalepsis, (Greek) a Rhetorical figure, wherein the same word is oft times repeated.
• Epatrides, (Greek) certain Noble men among the Athenians.
• Eparch, (Greek) the chief Governour of a Province.
• Epenthesis, (Greek) a certain figure, wherein a letter or syllable is put between any word.
• Epha, an Hebrew measure containing 9 Gallons.
• Epheby, (Greek) a young man between the age of 14. and 25.
• Ephemerides, (Greek) Journals or Books wherein daily actions are regi∣stered, also Astronomical calculations.
• Ephesus, the chief City of Ionia in Asia the Lesse, famous for the Magnificent Temple of Diana, built by one Ephesus the son of Caister, who gave name to the City.
• Ephialtes, (Greek) a kind of disease called the Nightmare, or Elf.
• Ephippiated, (Greek) saddled.
• Ephod, a kind of brest-plate or priestly garment, worn by the ancient Priests of the Jews.
• Ephori, (Greek) certain Magistrates a∣mong the ancient Lacedaemonians.
• Epicedie, (Greek) a certain mournful Song, which used to be sung before the corps at a Funeral.
• Epicoene, (lat.) one of both Sexes, a word of the Epicoene Gender in Grammar is a word declined with both Genders, Masculine, and Faeminine.
• Epicurean, of the Sect of Epicurus, a fa∣mous Philosopheer, who held pleasure and absence of pain to be the chiefest good.
• Epicycle, (Greek) a term used in Astro∣nomy, signifying a lesser orb, whose center is in the circumference of a greater, whereby the irregular motion of some Planet is solved.
• Epick poesie, (Greek) is that which is written in Heroick Verse, and is taken contradistinct to lyric.
• Epidemical, (Greek) Epidemie or Epi∣demical disease, a disease universally catching.
• Epigastrick, (Greek) belonging to the Epigastrium or outward part of the belly, which reacheth from the stomack to the navel.
• Epiglottis, (Greek) the weasel of the throat, the little tongue which closeth the larinx.
• Epigrams, (Greek) short Poems upon several kinds of subjects.
• Epigraph, (Greek) an Inscription.
• Epileptic, (Greek) troubled with a cer∣tain disease called the Epilepsie, which is a convulsion of the whole body, whereby

• the sense and understanding is very much depraved.
• Epilogue, (Greek) a conclusion, also a speech made at the end of a Play.
• Epiphany, (Greek) an appearing bright or shining; also the Feast celebrated on the 12 day from Christs Nativity, which was the day whereon the Star appeared in the East, which conducted the Wise men
• Episcopal, (Greek) belonging to a Bi∣shop or Overseer.
• Epistolary, belonging to a Letter or E∣pistle, which comes from the Greek word Epistellein, to send.
• Epistyle, (Greek) a term of Archi∣tecture, signifying the Chapiter of a pillar or Architrave.
• Epitaph, (Greek) that which is in∣scribed upon a Tomb or Sepulchre.
• Epitasis, (Greek) the buisie part of a Comedy, before things are brought to their full state and vigour.
• Epithalamy, (Greek) a Nuptial Song, or Poem which useth to be recited at Weddings in praise of the Bride, and Bridegroom▪
• Epithemetical, (Greek) belonging to an Epithem or liquid Medicine outwardly applyed to the body by a piece of Cotton or Scarlet.
• Epithet, (Greek) a word expressing the nature or quality of another word to which it is joyned.
• Epitoge, (Greek) a garment worn loose over another.
• Epitome, (Greek) a making short or abridging.
• Epoch, (Greek) a certain retention of time in a Chronology, taken from the be∣ginning of some Empire.
• Epode, (Greek) a kind of lyric Poesie, wherein the first Verse is longer than the second.
• Epulary, (lat.) belonging to a Ban∣quet.

E Q

• Equator, see Aequator.
• Equestrian, (lat.) belonging to Horse∣man, Cavalier, or Knight, who is called in Latin Eques Auratus.
• Equilateral, (lat.) See Aequilateral.
• Equinoctial line, see Aequator.
• Equipage, (French) a furnishing, or setting forth.
• Equiparates, or Aequiparates, (lat.) things compared or made equal, a term in Logick.
• Equipollence, or Aequipollence, (lat.) a being of equal force or value.
• Equipped, (French) set forth, or accou∣tred.
• Equivalent, or Aequivalent, (lat.) be∣ing of equal worth or value.
• Equivocal, or Aequivocal, (lat.) (a Logi∣cal term) having a double signification, or whose sense and meaning may be taken either way.
• Equorean, (lat.) belonging to the Sea.
• Equus, a Constellation in Heaven.

E R

• Eradication, (lat.) a destroying or pul∣ling up by the roots.
• Erased, (lat.) scraped, or torn out; in Heraldry the member of any beast which seems torn from the body, is called Erased.
• Erasmuss, (Greek) Amiable. A proper name.
• Erastians, a sort of Hereticks, founded by one Erastus a Physitian.
• Erato, the name of one of the 9 Muses.
• Erchembald, (Germ.) a bold or speedy learner. A proper name answerable to the Greek Dasypodius.
• Erebus, an infernal Deity, whom the Poets feign to be the father of night: It is metaphorically taken for Hell.
• Erection, (lat.) a raising or making to stand up-right.
• Eremitical, (Greek) belonging to a de∣sart, or leading a Hermites life.
• Ereption, (lat.) a snatching, or taking away by violence.
• Erichthonius, a King of the Athenians, and the son of Vulcan, who desirous to lie with Minerva, and she resisting him, he spilt his seed upon the earth in the con∣test, out of which sprung Erichthonius with Dragons feet, which deformity to hide he invented the use of the Chariot.
• Eridanus, a River in Italy, otherwise called Padus, vulgarly Po, made a Con∣stellation.
• Erigone, the daughter of Icarius, who hanging her self for grief of her fathers death, was placed among the heavenly signs, and called Virgo.
• Erimanthian, belonging to Erimanthus, a Mountain in Arcadia.
• Eriphile, the wife of Amphiaraus, and sister of Adrastus, who having received a Bracelet of Polynices, betrayed her husband to the Theban wars, where he was de∣stroyed.
• ...

• † Eristical, full of strife, from the Greek word Eris contention.
• Ermine, a little beast, whose fur is very costly, Ermines is a word used in Heral∣dry, signifying white powdered with black.
• Ermine-street, see Ikenild.
• Erminois, a Term in Blazon, or Armory, signifying a fur wherein black and yel∣low are mixed.
• Ernes, (old word) promises.
• Ernest (Germ.) severe, it seems con∣tracted from Ariovistus mentioned by Cae∣sar.
• Erogation, (lat.) a liberal bestowing.
• Eros, the servant of Mark Antony, who killed himself, because he would not see his master fall.
• Erosion, (lat.) a gnawing, or eating a∣way.
• Erostratus, one, who to make himself famous, set fire on the Temple of Diana.
• Errant, a Justice which rides the Cir∣cuit, from the Latin word Errare, or the old word Ern, i. e. a journey.
• Errata, (lat.) faults escaped in printing.
• Er••hines, certain Medecines, which purge away flegm sticking about the mem∣branes of the brain, through the nose.
• Erroneous, (lat.) subject to errours.
• Erubesc••ncy, (lat.) a being ashamed, or blushing.
• Eructation, (lat.) a belching forth.
• Erudition, (lat.) an instructing, or bringing up in learning.
• Eruncation, (lat.) a taking away of weeds.
• Eruption, (lat.) a breaking forth with violence.
• Erwhile, a while ago, lately.
• Eryngus, a kinde of Thistle, so called.
• Erysipely, (Greek) a disease called St. Anthonies fire, causing blisters, being bred of Cholerick bloud.
• Erythraean Sea, the Arabian Gulf, not the Red-Sea as some have supposed.
• Eryx, the son of Buras and Venus, he was a man of great strength, and was killed by Hercules, at a fight called whirle∣bat.

E S

• Esay, the name of a Prophet among the Jews, the word signifying in Hebrew, reward of the Lord.
• Escal, (lat.) fit for food.
• Escambio, a Licence granted for the making of a Bill of exchange to a man over-sea.
• Escheat, in Common-law, signifieth lands that fall to a Lord within his Manour, by forfiture, or the death of his Tenant with∣out Heirs, it cometh from the French word Escheoir, to fall.
• Escotcheon, (French) a shield, or Coat of Arms, from Escu, a Buckler.
• Escuage, (French) a Tenure of Land, whereby a Tenant is bound to follow his Lord into the Wars at his own charges.
• Esculent, see Escal.
• Escurial, a famous Monastery built by Philip the second of Spain, and dedicated to the Jerome Fryars, it is situate near to a Village of the same name not farre from Madrid.
• Esnecy, the right of choosing first, in a divided inheritance belonging to the el∣dest Copartner.
• Eson, or Aeson, the father of Jason, and the brother of Pelias King of Thessaly, he had his youth restored unto him by Me∣dea, at the request of Jason.
• Esples, in Latin Expleta, the full pro∣fit, that land yields.
• Esquier, in French Escuier, in Latin Scu∣tifer, was anciently he that bore the Arms of a Knight.
• Espringold, a certain warlike Engin, for the casting up of great stones.
• Esquiline, one of the seven Hills, upon which Rome was built.
• Essay, (French) a tryal, also a pre∣amble.
• The Essay of a Deer, in hunting is the breast, or brisket of a Deer, in French la hampe.
• Essedary, (lat.) one that fights in an Essed, or warlike Chariot.
• Essenes, certain Philosophers among the ancient Jews, who separated themselves from the rest of the people, and led a kind of Monastical life.
• Essential, (lat.) having a perfect essence, or being.
• Essential debilities, are when the Pla∣nets are in their detriment fall, or pere∣grines. See the Table in Lillies introdu∣ction, f. 104.
• Essoine, in Common-law, is an excuse al∣leadged for one that is summoned to ap∣pear at any Court, it is called by the Ci∣vilians Excusatio.
• Clerk of the Essoins, an Officer of the Common-pleas, who keepeth the Essoins Rolls, delivereth them to every Officer,

• and receiveth them again when they are written.
• Establishment of Dowr, is the assurance of Dowr, made to the wife, by the hus∣band, or his friends, about the time of marriage.
• Estandard, the standing measure of the King, or Common-wealth, to the scant∣ling whereof all measures throughout the Land are to be framed, also an Ensign in Warre.
• Estimation, or Aestimation, (lat.) va∣lueing, or esteeming.
• Estopel, in Common-law, is an impedi∣ment of an action, growing from a mans own fact, that might have had his action tried, it cometh from the French word Estouper, to stop.
• Estovers, in Common-law, signifieth that sustenance, which a man accused of felony is to have out of his Lands, or Goods, du∣ring his imprisonment, it cometh from the French word Estover, to foster.
• Estreat, in French Estraict, in Latin Ex∣tractum, the Copy of an Original writing.
• Estreie, in Latin Extrahura, signifieth in Common-law, a beast not wilde, found within any Lordship, and not owned by any man.
• E••trepement, from the Spanish word Estropear, to set upon the wrack, signifieth in Common-law, spoyl made by the Te∣nant for term of life, upon any Lands, or Woods, to the prejudice of him in Rever∣sion, also a drawing out the heart of the Land, by plowing it continually.
• Estuate, see to Aestuate.
• Esuriti••n, (lat.) a being a hungry.

E T

• Etching, is a kinde of graving with A∣qua fortis, which eats into the Copper.
• Eternize, (French) to make eternal.
• Etesian windes, (Latin Etesiae) certain milde Easterly winds.
• Etheling, see Adeling.
• Ethelbert, (Sax.) nobly bright, or re∣nown'd, hence the Heirs apparent of the Crown were surnamed Etheling, i. e. No∣bly born.
• Ethelstane, (Sax.) noble Jewel.
• Ethelward, (Sax.) noble keeper.
• Ethelwold, (Sax.) noble Governour.
• Ethelwolph, (Sax.) noble helper, proper names.
• Etherial, see Aetherial.
• Ethicks, Books treating of Moral Phi∣losophy, from the Greek word Ethos, man∣ners, or morality.
• Ethiopia, see Aethiopia.
• Ethnick, (Greek) belonging to the Heathens, or Gentiles.
• Ethologie, (Gr.) a discourse of manners.
• Etocetum, the name of a Town, situate in the Military High-way, commonly cal∣led Watling-street, mentioned by the Em∣perour Antoninus, as the second Roman Station from Manvessedum, or Mancester, in Warwick-shire.
• Etymological, (Greek) belonging to E∣tymology, which is a true derivation of words from their first Original.

E V

• Evacuation, (lat.) an emptying.
• Evade, (lat.) to escape.
• Evagation, (lat.) a wandring abroad.
• Evagination, (lat.) a drawing out of a sheath.
• Evan, the same, as Ivon, see John.
• Evangelisme, (Greek) a bringing glad tidings, a preaching the Gospel.
• Evanid, (lat.) soon decaying.
• Evaporation, (lat.) a sending outva∣pours.
• Evasion, (lat.) a making an escape.
• Eucharist, (Greek) a giving thanks, al∣so the Sacrament of the body, and bloud of Christ.
• Eucrasie, (Greek) a good temperature of the body.
• Eve, the wife of Adam, from the Hebrew word Chavah, to live.
• Eve, and Treve, in the practick of Scot∣land, are such servants, whose Predeces∣sours have been servants to any man, and his predecessours.
• Eveck, a kinde of beast like a wilde Goat.
• Evection, (lat.) a lifting up, or carrying forth.
• Event, (lat.) issue, or successe.
• Eventeration, (lat.) a taking out the belly of any thing.
• Eventilation, (lat.) a winnowing, or sif∣ting, by Metaphor a strict examining of a businesse.
• Everard, (Germ. well reported) a pro∣per name answering to the Greek Eu∣doxus, others write it Eberard, i. e. excel∣lent towardnesse.
• Eversion, (lat.) an utter overthrowing.
• Evestigation, (lat.) an earnest seeking after.
• Eugeny, (Greek) Gentility, Noblenesse of bloud.
• ...

• Eviction, (lat.) a vanquishing, a con∣vincement by argument, or law.
• Evidence, (lat.) testimony, in Common-law, it is used for any proof, either of men, or instrument.
• Eviration, (lat.) an unmanning, a yield∣ing.
• Evisceration, (lat.) a taking out the bowels, or guts.
• Evitation, (lat.) a shunning.
• Eulogie, (Greek) a praising, or speak∣ing well.
• Eunuch, (Greek) a man that is utterly disabled for the use of women, and herein differs from Castratus, in that a Castrate is onely gelded, but an Eunuch totally de∣prived of his Genitals.
• Eunomians, a sort of Hereticks, who held that faith was onely acceptable with∣out works.
• Evocation, (lat.) a calling out.
• Eupatorie, a kind of Herb, called Liver∣wort.
• Euphemisme, (Greek) a setting forth any ones good fame.
• Euphonie, (Greek) a gracefull sound, a smooth running of words.
• Euphorbium, a certain Gum distilling from a plant, call'd Gum-thistle, of which Iuba, King of Lybia is said to have been the first inventour.
• Euphrosyna, the name of one of the three Graces, the other two being Aglaia and Thalia.
• Euridice, the wife of Orpheus, who fly∣ing from Aristheus his Embraces, was stung by a Serpent, and died, and being by the Harmony of Orpheus delivered from the Deep, she was snatch't back again, because he look't back upon her before she was arrived upon earth.
• Euripe, a narrow passage between At∣tica, and Euboea, now called Golpho de Ne∣groponte, which Ebbes and flowes seven times a day. It is Metaphorically taken for any narrow passage.
• Europe, one of the four parts of the world separated from Asia, by the River Tanais, it was so called from Europa, the daughter of Agenor, King of Phoenicia, whom Iupiter carried away in the shape of a Bull.
• Eurythmy, (Greek) a Term in Archi∣tecture, being the exact proportion of the Rooms in a building.
• Eutaxie, (Greek) a handsome order∣ing, or disposing of things.
• Eusebius, (Greek) pious, or godly, a proper name.
• Eustace, a proper name, from the Greek Eustathius, or Eustachius, i. e. standing firm.
• Euterpe, the name of the nine Muses.
• Euthymie, (Greek) quietnesnesse, and tranquillity of minde.
• Eutrapely, (Greek) courtesie, urbanity.
• Eutropius, (Greek) well manner'd, a proper name.
• Eutychians, a Sect of Hereticks, institu∣ted by Eutiches in the year 443. their chief Tenet was, that there was but one na∣ture in Christ.
• Evulsion, (lat.) a violent pulling up.

E X

• Exacination, (lat.) a taking out the stone, or kernel out of any fruit.
• Exaggeration, (lat.) an increasing, or heaping up together, also the same as ag∣gravation.
• Exagitation, (lat.) a stirring up.
• Exalted, being joyned as an Epithete to another word, is as much as sublime, great, excellent, as exalted virtue. Cas∣sandra.
• Exanguious, (lat.) bloudlesse.
• Exanimation, (lat.) a depriving of life, also a dismaying.
• Exanthems, (Greek) certain Wheals in a mans body, called the small Pox, or Measles.
• Exantlation, (lat.) an overcoming with much labour and difficulty.
• Exaration, (lat.) a plowing up, also a writing, or engraving.
• Exarch, (Greek) a great Officer, here∣tofore under the Constantinople Empe∣rours, who governed the affaires of Italy, and was called the Exarch of Ravenna, where his chief residence was.
• Exarticulation, (lat.) a putting out of joynt.
• Exasperation, (lat.) a making sharp, a provoking to anger.
• Exaturation, (lat.) a satiating.
• Exauctoration, (lat.) a depriving one of any office, or benefit.
• Excandesceny, (lat.) a being inflamed with anger, or rage.
• Excavation, (lat.) a making hollow.
• Excelsity, (lat.) highnesse, loftinesse.
• Excentrik, see Eccentrick.
• Excerption, (lat.) a culling, or choosing out.
• ...

• Excesse, (lat.) an exceeding or super∣fluity.
• Excester, (i. the City standing upon the River Ex,) the chief City of Devon∣shire, it is called in Latin Exonia by Anto∣nine Isca Danmoniorum; it was fortified by King Athelstane who drove the Brittains quite out of it; also it is famous for the birth of Joseph Iscanus the most excellent Poet of his age.
• Exchequer, the Court to which are brought all the Revenues belonging to the Crown.
• Excitation, (lat.) a stirring up.
• Exclusion, (lat.) a barring or shutting out.
• Excogitation, (lat.) an inventing.
• Excommunication, (lat.) is a punishment inflicted by the Church upon offenders, being a secluding them from the Sacra∣ment, and other spiritual priviledges.
• Excoriation, (lat.) a fleaing or pulling off the skin.
• Excreation, (lat.) a spiting out.
• Excrementitious, (lat.) belonging or full of excrements, i. dregs or ordure.
• Excrescence, (lat.) an unusual growing out, or swelling.
• Excretion, (lat.) a purging of excre∣mentitious humours, a sifting or casting out.
• Excruciation, (lat.) a tormenting, or putting to pain.
• Excuriation, (lat.) a throwing out of the Court.
• Excursion, (lat.) a roving or running out.
• Excusation, (lat.) an excusing or free∣ing from blame.
• Excussion, (lat.) a shaking off.
• Execration, (lat.) a cursing or detest∣ing.
• Execution, (lat.) in Common Law, sig∣nifieth the last performance of an Act, as of a fine, or of a judgement.
• Executione facienda, a Writ command∣ing the execution of a judgement.
• Executor, (lat.) one that performeth any action. In Law it is taken for him that is left by will to dispose of the de∣ceased parties estate.
• Exemplification, (lat.) a drawing out of an example, transcript, or draught, out of an Original Record.
• Exemption, (lat.) a taking out or free∣ing.
• Exenteration, (lat.) a taking out the bowels or guts.
• Exequies, (lat.) Funeral Rites, or So∣lemnities.
• Exercitation, (lat.) often exercising; also a kind of critical commenting upon Authors.
• Exflorous, (lat.) that hath flowers grow∣ing out of it.
• Exhalation, (lat.) a hot and dry fume drawn up by the heat of the Sun, by which fiery Meteors are ingendered: Also a blowing or breathing out.
• Exhausted, (lat.) drawn quite out, wasted.
• Exhibition, (lat.) a shewing or pre∣senting, also an allowment to any one to∣ward their maintenance.
• Exhilaration, (lat.) a making merry or joyful.
• Exiccation, (lat.) a drying up.
• Exigendary, or Exigenter, an Officer of the Court of Common-pleas.
• Exigent, (lat.) a Writ that lieth where the defendant in an action personal can∣not be found, nor any thing within the County to be distreined: It is directed to the Sheriff to call five County-dayes under pain of outlawry. It is metaphori∣cally taken for a streightnesse or necessity.
• Exiguity, (lat.) slendernesse or smal∣nesse.
• Exilition, (lat.) a leaping out.
• Exility, (lat.) the same as Exiguity.
• Eximious, (lat.) excellent, famous.
• Exinanition, (lat.) a making void or empty.
• Existence, (lat.) a being.
• Existimation, (lat.) a thinking or judg∣ing.
• Exit, is commonly taken for the going out of any person in a Play, from the Latin Exire, to go out.
• Exitial, (lat.) bringing danger, or de∣struction.
• Exodos, (Greek) a going out, the Title of the second Book in the old Testament.
• Exolete, (lat.) stale, grown out of use.
• Exoneration, (lat.) an unloading.
• Exoptation, (lat.) an earnest wishing.
• Exorable, (lat.) that may be intreated.
• Exorbitancy, (lat.) a thing done out of measure, square or rule.
• Exorcism, (Greek) a restraining the power of the Devil by prayes or conju∣ration.
• Exordium, (lat.) a beginning or pre∣amble to an Oration or Discourse.
• Exornation, (lat.) a dressing, or adorn∣ing.
• Exosseous, (lat.) having no bones.
• ...

• Exoster, (lat.) a Petard, or Engin to blow open a gate.
• Exotick, (Greek) strange or forrain.
• Expansion, (lat.) an opening or spread∣ing abroad.
• Ex parte latis, a Writ that lieth for a Bailiff, who having auditours assigned to hear his accounts, cannot obtain reason∣able allowance.
• Expatiation, (lat.) a walking at large, or at full liberty.
• Expectant fee, in Common Law, signi∣fieth land given to a man and to the heirs of his hody, it being the same with fee-taile, and contrary to fee-simple.
• Expectation, (lat.) a tarrying or look∣ing for,
• Expeditate, (lat.) signifieth in the For∣rest Law, to cut out the balls of the dogs feet, for the preservation of the Kings Game.
• Expedient, (lat.) fit or convenient.
• Expedition, (lat.) quick dispatch, also a setting forth upon a journey, war, or any other businesse.
• Expell, (lat.) to drive out.
• Expence, (lat.) cost or charges.
• Experience, or Experiment, (lat.) proof, trial, or practise.
• Expiation, (lat.) a pacifying God by prayer for any offence committed, or a making amends for any fault, by the do∣ing of some good deed
• Expiration, (lat.) a giving up the ghost.
• Explanation, (lat.) a making plain or manifest.
• Explement, or Expletion, (lat.) a filling up of any place or room.
• Explication, (lat.) an unfolding or ex∣plaining.
• Explicite, (lat.) unfolded.
• Exploit, (French) a valiant act.
• Exploration, (lat.) a spying, a diligent searching out.
• Explosion, (lat.) an exploding, a sleight∣ing, or hissing off from the Stage.
• Expolition, (lat.) a making bright, or polishing.
• Exposition, (lat.) an expounding or in∣terpreting.
• Expostulation, (lat.) a reasoning the case, or complaining about an injury re∣ceived.
• Expression, (lat.) an uttering or pro∣nouncing, it is ofttimes also taken for the thing expressed.
• Exprobration, (lat.) an upbraiding, or calling a thing to mind to any ones re∣proach.
• Expugnation, (lat.) a winning by force.
• Expuition, (lat.) a spitting out.
• Expulsion, (lat.) a driving out by force.
• Expumication, (lat.) a making sleek, or smooth, with a pumice-stone.
• Expunge, (lat.) to blot out, to abolish.
• Exquisite, (lat.) performed to the height, exact.
• Extant, (lat.) having a being, set forth to view, appearing above others.
• Extemporary, (lat.) done ex tempore, i. e. immediately, forthwith.
• Extension, (lat.) a stretching out, or inlarging.
• Extent, in Common Law, is a Commis∣sion to the Sheriff, to seize and value the Lands and Tenements of one who being bound by the Statute, hath forfeited his bond.
• Extenuation, (lat.) a making small, also an undervalueing.
• Extercoration, (lat.) a cleansing, or car∣rying forth of dung.
• Etermination, (lat.) a throwing out or banishing.
• External, or Exteriour, (lat.) outward.
• Extersion, (lat.) a wiping out.
• Extimulation, (lat.) a moving or ex∣citing.
• Extinct, (lat.) put out, quenched.
• Exstinguishment, in Common Law is a part of consolidation, as when a man hath a yearly rent out of any lands, and after∣wards purchaseth the whole lands, both the rent and the property are consoli∣dated into one possession, and therefore the rent is said to be extinguished.
• Extirpation, (lat.) an utter destroying or rooting out.
• Extorsion, (lat.) an exacting, or inju∣rious taking away, especially of money, as it is usually taken in Common Law.
• Extraction, (lat.) a drawing out, also the same as Estreat, also a descending from such or such a Family.
• Extrajudical, that which is done out of Court.
• Extramundane, (lat.) being without the World, as extramundane spaces, be∣tween one world and another. Dr. Charl∣ton.
• Extraneous, quasi exterraneous, (lat.) one of a strange land.
• Extravagant, (lat.) idle, of a wandring mind.
• Clerk of the Extreats, an Officer be∣longing to the Exchequer, who receiveth the extreates out of the Remembrancers

• Office, and writeth them out to be levyed for the King. See Estreats.
• Extrication, (lat.) see Districation.
• Extrinsecal, (lat.) outward.
• Extrusion, (lat.) a thrusting out.
• Extuberation, (lat.) a swelling or bunch∣ing up.
• Extumescence, (lat.) the same.
• Ex••berancy, (lat.) an overflowing or a∣bounding.
• Exuccous, (lat.) juicelesse.
• Exudation, (lat.) a sweating out.
• Exulati••n, (lat.) a being exild or ba∣nished.
• Exulceration, (lat.) a blistring, or turn∣ing to an Ulcer.
• Exultation, (lat.) a triumphing for joy.
• Exundation, (lat.) an overflowing.
• Euperation, (lat.) an excelling or sur∣passing.
• Exustion, (lat.) a burning.

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• Eyebite, to fascinate or bewitch by a certain evil influence from the eye.
• Eyebright, or Euphrasia, an herb so cal∣led, very good for the eyes.
• Eyre, the Court of Justices Itinerant, from the French word Erre, a journey; also Eyre of the Forrest, the judicature which used anciently to be held every three years, by the Justices of the Forrest journeying up and down to that pur∣pose.
• Eyth, or Eth, (old word) easie.

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• Ezechias, a proper name, signifying in Hebrew, strength of the Lord.
• Ezechiel, the name of a Prophet among the Jews; the word signifies in Hebrew, seeing the Lord.

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• FAbian, a proper name, from Fabius. The chief of this name was Fabianus Bishop of Rome, martyred under the Em∣perour Decius.
• Fabius, a famous Captain of the Romans, who for the great overthrow he gave to Hannibals Army, was sirnamed Maximus.
• Fabrication, (lat.) a making of a Fa∣brick or Building.
• Fabulous, (lat.) full of Fables, or in∣vented Tales.
• Facade, (French) the outside, or fore-front of a house.
• Faces, Decury, or Deconate, from the Greek word Deka, signifying ten, because in every Sign there are three Faces, every Face consisting of ten degrees. They are called Faces for that they are equivalent to Signs, Formes, and shapes, by reason they shew the nature and inclination of the Planets in them as in their own houses.
• Facetious, (lat.) wittily merry, or pleasant.
• Facility, (lat.) easinesse.
• Facinorous, (lat.) belonging to high or wicked designs.
• Factitious, (lat.) made like another, counterfeited.
• Factor, (lat.) an Agent for a Merchant beyond Sea.
• Faculty, (lat.) the power or ability of performing any action, as the Animal, Vi∣tal, and Natural Faculties in the body of man. In Common Law it signifieth a priviledge granted to a man by indul∣gence or dispensation, to do that which by the Law he cannot do. It is also used sometimes for a Mystery or Profession.
• Facundity, (lat.) Eloquence.
• Faint pleader, a false manner of plead∣ing, to the deceit of a third party.
• Fair pleading, a Writ upon the Statute of Malborow, whereby it is provided that no fines shall be taken of any man for not pleading fairly, or to the purpose.
• Fairie, a Goblin or Phantasm, from the Dutch word Varelick, i fearful
• Faith, the Christian name of divers wo∣men, the signification commonly known.
• Faitours, idle-livers, from the French word Faitardise, a sleepy disease.
• Fall, is an essential debility, and it hap∣pens when a Planet is opposite to his ex∣altation, whereby he is debilitated and very weak.
• Falcation, (lat) a mowing.
• Falchon, a short sword bending like a hook, from the Latin word Falx.
• Falcidian Law, a Law made by the Ro∣mans in the time of the Consul Falcidius, which treated of the right each Roman Citizen had in the disposal of his goods.
• Falcon, a great gun, next to the Minion.
• Falernian wine, wine growing in Faler∣nus, a field of Campania in Italy.
• Fall off, in Navigation is when a ship doth not keep so near the wind as we ap∣point.
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• Fallacious, (lat.) full of deceit or craft.
• Falouque, (French) a boat or barge, by some called a brigantine.
• Falsification, (lat.) a speaking falsities, or untruths.
• Famagosta, the chief City of the Isle of Cyprus.
• Famigeration, (lat.) a divulging, or re∣porting abroad.
• Familiar, (lat.) acquainted, also sub∣stantively, for a Spirit, or Devil.
• Family of love, a Sect or Heresie broached by Henry Nicholas. Their chief Tenet is, That Christ is already come in glory to judge.
• Fanatick, (lat.) frantick, inspired, ha∣ving vain apparitions.
• Fane, from the Greek word Phaino, a a weathercock; it is sometimes taken for a Temple.
• Fannel, (French) a kind of ornament, anciently worn by Priests.
• Fanus, a certain Deity, representing the year, anciently worshipped by the Heathens.
• Farandman, in the practick of Scotland a Pilgrim or Stranger.
• Farced, (lat.) stuffed.
• Fardingdeal, or Farundel of land, the fourth part of an acre.
• Farendon, a famous Market Town with a strong Castle in Barkshire, remarkable besides for the Fort raised by Robert Earle of Glocester, against K. Stephen, who notwith∣standing won it by desperate assaults.
• Farlie things, yearly things.
• Farraginous, (lat.) belonging to a far∣rago, or mixture of several graines to∣gether, which they call a maslin.
• Farreation, (lat.) a ceremony anciently performed at Marriages.
• Farrow, to bring forth, from the Latin word parere, it is spoken of sows.
• Farsang, otherwise called Parasang, a Persian word, signifying a league, which is 3 English miles.
• Fascicular, (lat.) made into a fascicle which is a bundle or fardel.
• Fascination, (lat.) an eyebiting, or be∣witching by the eye, or by the force of imagination.
• Fasciate, (lat.) to bind, from fascia a swath.
• Fastidious, (lat.) breeding a loathing.
• Fastigation, (lat.) a making or growing sharp at the top like a pyramid.
• Fastuosity, (lat.) insufferable pride.
• Fatality, (lat.) unavoidable necessity, or that which is appointed by Fate, which is the order of affairs from all eternity.
• Fatidical, (lat.) foretelling that which is to come.
• Fatigation, (lat.) wearisomenesse.
• Fatigue, (French) the same.
• Fatuity, (lat.) sottishnesse, stupidity.
• Faunus, the son of Saturn, civiliz'd mens manners, built Temples, and made Laws, and was one of the ancientest Kings of Italy.
• Favonian, belonging to Favonius or the West wind.
• Faust, (lat.) lucky.
• Fautor, (lat.) a cherisher or favourer.

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• Fealty, from the French word feaulte, i. fidelity, an oath taken at the admit∣tance of every Tenant, to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his land.
• Feasible, (French) easie to be done.
• Febricitation, (lat.) a falling sick of an Ague or Feaver.
• February, so called of Numa Pompilius, a februis expiatoriis, or sacrifices for purg∣ing of souls; for the second day of this moneth a Feast was kept, and sacrifice was offered to Pluto for the souls of their An∣cestours.
• Februation, (lat.) a praying for the souls of any.
• Fecial, or Fae••ial, (lat.) a Herald or Embassadour of war, among the ancient Romans there were 20 in number, the principal of whom, was called pater pa∣tratus.
• Feculent, or Faeculent, (lat.) full of dregs.
• Fee, in Latin feud••m, is taken in Com∣mon Law for all those lands wh••ch are held by perpetual right.
• Fee ferm, in Common Law, is land held of another, to himself and his heirs for ever for a certain yearly rent.
• Fee simple, or absolute, is land whereof we are seized with these general words; To us, and our heirs for ever.
• Fee taile, or condi••ional, hath this limi∣tation; To us, and the heirs of our body.
• Feild, is the whole surface of a sheild overspread with some mettal, colour or fur, and comprehendeth in it the charge. A term in Heraldry.
• Felicity, (lat.) happinesse.
• Fellon, a blister or wheal on the body, from the Latin word, fel, choler.
• Felo de se, a self-murderer.
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• Felony, in Common Law, is any offence which is next to petty treason, as murder, theft, rapes, burning of houses, &c.
• Fencemonth, the month wherein Deer begin to fawn, which is about midsum∣mer, wherein it is unlawful to hunt in the Forrest.
• Fends, things hung over a ships side to keep another ship from rubbing against it.
• Fennel, a kind of herb so called.
• Fenugreec, an herb which hath been found growing in great abundance, in several parts of Greece.
• Feodary, or Feudatary, an officer be∣longing to the Court of Wards and Li∣veries, who is to be present with the Es∣cheatour at the finding of any office, and also to survay and value the land of the Ward.
• Feofment, in Common Law, is the gift or grant of any Honours, Castles, Manors, &c. unto another in fee simple, by deli∣very of seisin, either by word or writ∣ing.
• Foeminine, (lat.) belonging to the Fe∣mal Sex.
• Foeneration, (lat.) a putting out money to use.
• Feracity, (lat.) fruitfulnesse.
• Feral, (lat.) dangerous or deadly.
• Feral Signs, are Leo, and the last part of Scorpio.
• Fercost, (Ital.) a kind of ship or boat.
• Fere, (old word) a companion.
• Ferdfare, an acquitment of a man to go into the wars.
• Ferdinando, a proper name of men, cal∣led by the Spaniards Hernando, by the Italians Ferando, by the French Ferrant. Some think it derived from the Saxon words Fred rand, i. pure peace. Others think that the Spaniards have for the sweeter sound drawn it from Bertrand, i. fair and pure.
• Ferdwit, an acquitment of a murderer in the army.
• Feretrius, Jupiter so called a ferendis spoliis, i. from spoiles taken in war.
• Feriation, (lat.) a keeping holiday, a ceasing from work, idlenesse.
• Ferine, (lat.) brutish, beastly, wild.
• Ferit, (Ital.) a blow.
• Ferity, (lat.) salvagnesse, brutish∣nesse.
• Ferm, or Farm, a house, or land, or both, taken by Indenture of Lease, or Lease Paroll.
• Fermanagh, a County of Ireland in the Province of Vlster, the people whereof were anciently called Erdini.
• Fermentation, (lat.) a swelling with ferment or leaven, also a working; it is a word much used in Chymistry.
• Ferocity, (lat.) fiercenesse.
• Feronia, an ancient heathen Goddesse, a Goddess of the Woods.
• Ferret, from Forare, to pierce, or Fu∣rari, to steal; a little beast called in Latin Viverra.
• Ferry, a passage over the water, from the Greek word Phero, to carry.
• Ferruginous, (lat.) like rust of iron, of an iron colour.
• Ferrumination, (lat.) a soldering toge∣ther of mettals, a word used in Chymi∣stry.
• Fertility, (lat.) fruitfulnesse.
• Fervent, or Fervid, (lat.) hot, by me∣taphor, eager, or vehement.
• Ferula, an herb called in English Fen∣nel Gyant.
• Ferular, (lat.) a kind of chastising in∣strument, called also a Palmer.
• Fesspoint, a term in Heraldry, being a line going thorough the midst of the Escutcheon, called the girdle of honour, it comes from the Latin word fascia.
• Festination, (lat.) a hastning, or making speed.
• Festivity, (lat.) mirth, rejoycing, solem∣nity.
• Festucous, (lat.) having a tender sprig or branch.
• Foetid, (lat.) smelling ill or stink∣ing.
• Fetise, (old word) handsome.
• Fetters, is ofttimes used figuratively in Poems and Romances, for Captivity or thraldom, especially in an amorous sense. Cleopat.
• Fend, Feed, or Feid, a combination of one Family against another, being in∣flamed with hatred or revenge.
• Feverfow, an herb called Mothwort, in Latin Febrifuga, because it is good against a feaver.
• Feversham, a flourishing Town in Kent, where King Althestane assembled the No∣bles and learned men of his Kingdom to make Laws, and where King Stephen foun∣ded an Abby for the Monks of Clugny, in which he himself, Maude his wife, and Eustach his son, were entombed.
• Fewmetts, a term in Hunting, the dung of a Deer.

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• Fiants, the dung of a Badger, or Fox, and all Vermine.
• Fibrous, (lat.) full of Fibers, which are the small strings, or threads which hang about the roots of any plant, also little strings about the Veins, and Muscles of a body.
• Fibulation, (lat.) a buttoning, or joyn∣ing together.
• Fictile, (lat.) made of earth.
• Fiction, (lat.) a feigning, or invent∣ing.
• Fictitious, (lat.) feined, invented.
• Fidicula, the falling vulture.
• Fidelity, (lat.) faithfulnesse.
• Fidejussor, (lat.) a pledge, or surety.
• Fidius, an ancient heathen God, said to be the son of Iupiter, he is called the God of faithfulnesse.
• Fiduciary, (lat.) trusty, also a Feoffee in trust.
• Fierabras, (French) fierce at arms.
• Fieri facias, a judicial Writ that lieth for him that hath recover'd in an action of debt, or damages.
• Fife, a County of Scotland, shooting far into the East, between two arms of the Sea, Forth & Tau.
• Fifteenth, a certain tribute, which used to be levied by Parliament, and imposed upon every Citie, or Borough, through the Realm.
• Figment, (lat.) a fiction, or faigned tale.
• Figurative, (lat.) spoken by a figure.
• Filaceous, (lat.) made of thread, or flax, also full of filaments, which are the small threads, or strings, about the Roots of Plants.
• Filanders, a sort of little Worms, which breed in Hawks, also Nets for wilde beasts.
• Filazers, (French) certain Officers be∣longing to the Common-pleas, who make out all Original Processes, real, personal and mixt.
• Filctale, a kinde of entertainment, made by Bayliffs for those of their hundreds, for their gain, it is also called Sothale.
• File, in Latin Filacium, a thread, or wyer, whereon VVrits, or other Exhi∣bits in Courts are fastned, also in Heral∣dry, it is one of the modern wayes of dif∣ferencing Coat-Armours.
• Filial, (lat.) relating to a son.
• A Fillet▪ in Heraldrie, is made, or con∣stituted, by adding one line to the chief, underneath it, the content whereof is the fourth part of the chief.
• Film, a membrain, or thin skin enwrap∣ping the brain, and several other parts of the body, & also the infant in the womb, of which there are three sorts, Chorion, Amnios, and Allantois.
• Filtration, (lat.) a straining through a course cloath.
• Fimashing, the ordure of all sort of Deer.
• Final, (lat.) having an end, brought to an end.
• Financer, a receiver, or teller in the Ex∣chequer, from the French word Finance, wealth, or treasure.
• Fine, a mulct, or penalty, also a formal conveyance of Land, by acknowledging a perfect agreement before a Judge.
• Fine capiendo pro terris, a VVrit that ly∣eth for him, who being committed to pri∣son, obtaineth favour for a summe of mo∣ney.
• Fine force, a French word, signifying absolute constraint.
• Finite (Philos.) limited, bounded.
• Finours of gold, or silver, are those that purifie those metals by fire from the drosse.
• Fire-boote, an allowance to maintain competent fire for the use of the Te∣nant.
• Firedrake▪ a fiery meteor, ingendred of a hot exhalation inflamed between two Clouds.
• Firma, in the practick of Scotland, is the duty, which the Tenant payes to his Landlord.
• Firmament, (from the Latin Firmus, i. e. solid.) the starry Heaven, it is turned about the Chrystalline Heaven, being both of an uniform motion, & finish their course in 250000 years, which motion appears not, but by the observation of sundry ages. For 430 years before Christs time, the first star in Aries was in the vernal in∣tersection, which still keeps that name, though now removed almost 29 degrees, so that in more then two thousand years the fixed stars have not travelled from VVest to East, so much as one whole sign of the Zodiack.
• Firmus, a Roman Emperour of that vast strength, that bearing himself up from any place with his arms, and bearing an Anvil upon his breast, he could endure the smiths

• beating upon it for a long time.
• First fruits, the profits of every spiri∣tual living for one year, in ancient time given to the Pope, afterwards to the Prince.
• Fiscal, (lat.) belonging to a fisque, i. e. a Treasury, or Exchequer.
• Fishing, or Splicing, a Term used in Masts, Cables, or in any Timber, cut like wedges at one end, and fastned toge∣ther.
• Fissure, (lat.) a cleft, or division.
• Fistulary, (lat.) belonging to a pipe, or to a disease called Fistula, which is a kind of Ulcer eating into the body with a long narrow passage.
• Fitched, (from the Lat. Figere) a Term in Blazon, as a Crosse Fitched, i. e. sharp at the end.
• Fitz, (Fr. Fils) a word commonly ad∣ded to the sirnames of several great fami∣lies of this Nation, descended from the Norman race as Fitz-Herbert, Fitz-Wal∣ter, i. e. the son of Herbert, or the son of Walter, it being answerable to Ben in Hebr. Bar in Chaldee, and Ap in Welsh.
• Fixation, (lat.) a fixing, also a Term in Chymistry, signifying a fixing of bodies, so as to make them indure the fire.
• Fizgigg, a kinde of dart, wherewith Marriners strike fishes as they swim.

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• Flabellation, (lat.) a fanning with a Fla∣ble, or fan.
• Flaccid, (lat.) drooping, or flagging.
• Flagellantes, a sort of Hereticks, which went up and down scourging themselves, and begging Almes, they were so called from Flagellam a scourge.
• Flagitation, (lat.) an earnest begging.
• Flagitious, (lat. hainous, wicked.
• Flagrancie, (lat.) a lightsome burning, also a vehement desire.
• Fluj••let, (French) a certain Musical in∣strument, being a kinde of Pipe, or Fluite, but somewhat lesse.
• Flamins, certain Roman Priests, institu∣ted by Pompilius Numa, so called from the Filamines, or Coifes, which they wore up∣on their heads.
• Flammeous, (lat.) flaming, or flame co∣lour'd.
• Flanch, a term in Heraldry, being an Or∣dinary formed of an Arch-line, beginning from the corner of the chief, and compas∣sing with a swelling embossement toward the Nombril of the Escotcheon.
• Flandria, the Countrey in Flanders in Gallia Belgica, being one of those ten Provinces, remaining in the King of Spains Dominion.
• Flasque, a term in Blazon, being an or∣dinary consisting of one Archline drawn somewhat distant from the corner of the chief, and swelling by degrees toward the midst of the Escutcheon.
• Flatulent, or Flatuous, (lat.) windy.
• Fledwit, a Saxon word, signifying in Common-law, an Out-lawed fugitive, co∣ming to the peace, and discharged from amerciament.
• Fleet, a prison in London, so called be∣cause it stands upon the River Fleta, or Fleet.
• Flemeswit, or Fle••enwit, from the Saxon Flezen, to flie away, signifieth in Com∣mon Law, a liberty to challenge the cat∣tel or amerciament of ones man a fugi∣tive.
• Flexanimous, (lat.) having a flexible or easie mind.
• Flexibility, (lat.) easinesse to bend.
• Flexion, (lat.) a bending.
• Flint, the name of a Castle in Flintshire, begun by King Henry the second, and fi∣nisht by King Edward the first. Here King Richard the second being circumvented, was delivered into the hands of Henry of Lancaster Duke of Hereford, who shortly after claimed the Crown.
• Flo••••ify, (lat.) to esteem lightly, or at a low rate.
• Floddon, the name of a Hill near Bramp∣ton in Northumberland, memorable for the battel fought there between Thomas Ho∣ward Earle of Surrey, and James the fourth King of Scotland, who was van∣quisht and slain.
• Flora, a Goddesse among the Romans, called the Goddesse of Flowers. Some report her to have been a famous Strum∣pet, who when she died, left a great sum of money to the Common-wealth, desiring that her memory might be celebrated with yearly Feasts which were called Floralia.
• Floramor, a flower called the flower of love, passevelours, or purple velvet flower.
• Florein, a kind of coin, valueing about 3 shillings of our money.
• Florence, (lat. flourishing) a proper name of women, also the chief City of Tuscany in Italy is so called.
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• Florences, a kind of cloth brought over from Florence.
• Florey blew, a kind of blew colour used in painting or limning.
• Florid, (lat.) flowrishing, or adorned with flowers.
• Flosculous, (lat) sprouting or blooming with Flowers.
• Flotes, certain peices of timber joyned together with rafters overthwart, which serve to convey burthens down a River with the stream.
• Flotson, or Flotzam, goods that being lost by shipwrack lie floating upon the sea, which, with jetson, i. e. goods cast out of the ship, being in danger of wreck, and beaten on shore; lagam or ligam, those which lie at the botton of the sea, and Shares, i. goods divided among many, are all given to the Lord Admiral.
• Flouke of an anchor, that part which taketh hold on the ground.
• Fluctuation, (lat.) a rising or swelling of waves, a tossing to and fro, also a waver∣ing in opinion.
• Fluctivagant, (lat.) tossed on the sea, wandering on the waves.
• Fluent, (lat.) flowing.
• Fluidity, (lat.) aptnesse to flow.
• Fluminous, or Fluvial, (lat.) pertaining to Rivers, or full of Rivers.
• Fluores, the Mineralists call such kind of stones as coming out of Mines, are like unto pretious stones.
• Flush fore and aft, decks in ships laid level from stem to stern.
• Fluxibility, (lat.) aptnesse to flow.
• Fuxion or Flux, (lat.) a flowing, also a loosnesse of the body.
• Fly, that part of the Compasse where the 32 points of the winds are described.

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• Focillation, (lat.) a refreshing.
• Foder, or Fodrum, from the Dutch word Vo••den, to feed, a course kind of meat for cattel, also a prerogative that a Prince hath to be provided of corn for his horses toward any Expedition. Also Fodder is taken for 2000 pound weight of lead.
• Foeculent, (lat.) full of dregs.
• Foecundity, (lat.) fruitfulnesse.
• Foedity, (lat.) filthinesse.
• Foeminine, (lat.) of the Female Sex.
• Foeneration, (lat.) a practising of usury.
• Foine, (French) to prick.
• Foines, a kind of Fur, which is black at the top, taken from a little beast of the same name.
• Foison, (French) abundance.
• Foist, a Pinnace, or little Ship.
• Folgherers, (old word) followers.
• Foliage, branched work.
• Foliatanes, a certain religious Order of men, who lived onely upon leaves.
• Folio, a book is said to be in Folio, when it is of a large volume, consisting of sheets onely once doubled, or making but two leaves a piece.
• Folkland, (Saxon) coppy-hold land.
• Folkmoot, from the Saxon words folk, i. people, and Gemettan, to meet, signi∣fies either the County Court, or the Sheriffs turn.
• Follicle, (lat.) a little bladder or purse.
• Fomentation, (lat.) a cherishing, in physick it signifies the applying of warm or dry things to the body.
• Fons solis, a Fountain in Lybia, near the Temple of Jupiter Hammon, which is at midnight hot as boyling water.
• Foothote, (old word) straightway.
• Foraminous, (lat.) full of holes.
• Foraneous, (lat.) pertaining to a Court or Market-place.
• Forbarr, to deprive for ever.
• Force, in Common Law, signifieth un∣lawful violence.
• Forcible entry, is a violent actual entry into any house or land.
• Forcipated, (lat.) bending, or hooked.
• Fordoe, (old word) to kill.
• Foregoers, purveyours going before the King or Queen in progresse.
• Forein matter, a matter tryable in ano∣ther Country.
• Forein opposer, an Officer of the Exche∣quer, to whom all Sheriffs and Bailiffs do repair to be opposed of their green wax.
• Forejudger, in common Law, is a judg∣ment whereby a man is put by the thing in question.
• Foreland, or Forenesse, an ancient word used for a promontory which jutteth out foremost.
• Foreloin, in hunting, is when a hound going before the rest of the cry, meets chace and goes away with it.
• Forest, (q. Feresta, i. a station of wild beasts) is defined to be a safe harbour or abiding place for Deer, or any sort of beasts that are wild and delight in woods.
• Forestaller, or Regrater, one that buys ware, before it comes to the Market, and

• sells it again at a higher price.
• Forfare, (old word) forlorn.
• Forfeiture, in Latin, forisfactum, or fo∣risfactura, signifies the transgressing of a penal Law, or the effect of it.
• Forelorn, lost, from the Dutch word Verloren, whence Forlorn-hope, a party of Souldiers put upon the most desperate service, in some old English Writers, For∣leten signifieth the same.
• Forletten, (old word) abandoned.
• Formality, (lat.) outward shew, pre∣cisenesse.
• Formation, (lat.) forming or fashion∣ing.
• Formeth, or seateth, a term in hunting, applied to a Hare when it squats in any place.
• Formidable, (lat.) to be feared.
• Form••sity, (lat.) beauty, fairness.
• Formulary, (lat.) belonging to a form; also used in the substantive, for a presi∣dent, or proceeding in Law.
• Fornication, (lat.) whoredom.
• Forenesse, see Foreland.
• Forses, (Gr. Catadupae) waterfalls.
• Forslegl••n, (old word) slain.
• Forspreak, (old word) an advocate.
• Fortitude, (lat.) valour, or stoutnesse of mind.
• Fortlet, signifieth in Common Law, a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fort or place of some strength.
• Fortuitous, (lat.) accidental, or coming by chance.
• Fortuny, a kind of Tourneament or running a tilt on horseback with Launces, a sport much used here in old times.
• Forwelked (old word) dried.
• Forwyned, (old word) withered.
• Fosset, a little long Coffer or Chest, from the Latin word fossa, a ditch.
• Fosseway, a highway, digged out and made passable. See Ikenild.
• Fossion, (lat.) a digging.
• A Foster, contract for a Forrester.
• Fother, or Foder, a twenty hundred pound weight.
• Fotheringhay, a Castle in Northampton∣shire, kept by William Earle of Aumart, against King Henry the third, when the Nobles of England revolted.
• Fotion, (lat.) a cherishing.
• Fougade, (French) a kind of fire∣work.
• Foulk, a proper name, from the Dutch word Volg, i. Noble.
• Founes, (old word) devises.
• Fourche, (in French a fork) signifieth in Common-law a delaying, or putting off an action.
• Fontegeld, signifieth in the Forrest law, an amerciament for not cutting out the balls of great Dogs feet in the Forrest; it cometh from the Dutch word Fusz, and Gelten to loosen.
• Fownder, is when a ship by an extraor∣dinary leak becomes full, or half full of water.
• Fox stones, an Herb so called from the likenesse of the Root.

F R

• Fracid, (lat.) rotten ripe.
• Fraction, (lat.) a breaking, also a dis∣sention among parties, in Arithmetick it is taken for a number having two denomi∣nations.
• Fragility, (lat.) aptnesse to break, brit∣tlenesse.
• Fragment, (lat.) a broken part, or piece of any thing.
• Fragrancie, (lat.) an odorousnesse, or sweetnesse of smell.
• Fraisheur, (French) freshnesse, cool∣nesse, livelinesse.
• Franck, a French Coyn, of about the value of two shillings.
• Franchise, in French, signifieth liberty, it is taken in Common-law for a privi∣ledge, or exemption from ordinary Juris∣diction, also an immunity from tri∣bute.
• Franci, a certain people, anciently in∣habiting a part of Germany, who entred into Gallia, under the conduct of Phara∣mond, and conquered a great part of the Kingdom, whence it came afterwards to be called France.
• Francis, a proper name of men, or wo∣men, from the German word Franck, i. e. free, not servile; answerable to the Greek Eleutherius, and the Latin Liberius.
• Franciscans, an order of Fryars, insti∣tuted by St. Francis, in the year 1198. they were injoyned chastity, obedience, poverty, and many other strict rules of life and conversation.
• Frank almoine, (French) signifies in Common-law, such Lands and Tenements as are bestowed upon those people that give themselves up wholly to the service of God for pure almes.
• Franck bank, such Copy-hold lands as the wife, being espoused a Virgin hath after her husbands decease, for his dowr.
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• Frank fee, that which is in the hand of the King, or Lord of a Mannour, being ancient demesne of the Crown, whereas that which is in the hand of the Tenants is ancient demesne onely.
• Frank ferm, is land, wherein the na∣ture of Fee is changed by Feoffement, out of Knights service for certain yearly ser∣vices.
• Frank law, is taken for a free injoy∣ment of all those priviledges, which the Law permits to a man not found guilty of any hainous offence.
• Frank marriage, a Tenure in tail spe∣cial, whereby a man hath Land with a woman to hir, and the Heirs of his body without doing any service, but fealty to the Donour.
• Frank pledge, a pledge, or surety for free-men.
• Frank ford, a famous Citie upon the River Maenus, being the chiefest Mart-Town in Germany.
• Fra••c••••ia, a Countrey in the East part of Germany, called Frankenland.
• F••antick, Phrenetick, (Greek) mad.
• Fraternity, (lat.) a brother-hood, also a company of men entered into a firm bond of society, or friendship.
• Fratricelli, a sort of Hereticks, institu∣ted by one Hermannus in the year 1304. they preached Community among Chri∣stians, and that it was unlawfull for them to be Governours one over another.
• Fratricide, (lat.) the killing of ones brother.
• Fratruels, (lat.) brothers Children.
• Fraudation, (lat.) a defrauding, or de∣priving.
• Fra••dulency, (lat.) deceitfullnesse, craf∣tinesse.
• Frea, the same as Friga.
• Frederick, (••erm.) rich peace, of this name there have been three Emperours of Germany, for Frederick we commonly use Frery and Fery.
• Frediswid, (Sax.) very free, a womans proper name.
• Free••ooter, a Souldier that makes in∣roades into an enemies Countrey, for Cat∣tel, or any other commodity from the ene∣mies Countrey, it cometh from the Dutch words Frey, i. e. free, and beut, i. e. prey, the Italians call them Banditi.
• Free Chappel, a Chappel founded with∣in a Parish, over and above the mother Church, unto which it is free for the Pa∣rishioners to come, or not to come.
• Freedstol, (i. e. the stool of Peace) a cer∣tain Chair of stone, erected by King A∣thelitan, in honour of John de Beverly, Arch-Bishop of York, to which Offenders used to fly for sanctuary.
• Free-h••ld, free Tenure, or Land, which a man holdeth in Fee-tail, or at the least for term of life.
• Free-warren, (in Latin Libera Warre∣na) the power of granting, or denying Licence to any to hunt, or chace in such, or such Lands.
• Fremund, (Sax.) free peace, a proper name.
• Frendl••sse-man, in the Saxon tongue, signifieth an out-law.
• Freob••rgh, or Fridburgh, the same, in the Saxon tongue, as Franck-pledge in French, a surety for the peace, or good beha∣viour.
• Frery, a proper name of a man, contra∣cted from Frederick, which signifieth in Saxon tongue rich peace.
• Frescades, (French) cool refreshments against the heat of the summer.
• To walk in Fresco, (Ital.) to take the fresh aire, also to drink in Fresco, to drink fresh liquor.
• Fresh disseisin, in Common-law, is that d••ss••isin that a man may seek to defeat of his own power, without the help of the King, or his Judges.
• Fresh force, a force done within fou••••y dayes.
• Fresh shot, is when any great River comes into the Sea, so that it is fresh water for a mile, or two.
• Fresh sute, is such an earnest following of an Offendour as never ceaseth from the time of the offence committed untill he be apprehended.
• Fretrots, a sort of Hereticks, not much different from those which are called A∣damites.
• Friars minors, Augustines Preachers and Carmelites, (which are the four principa•• orders) see in their proper places, to these also belonging Fryars observants, Con∣ventuales, ••apuchins.
• Fric••sse, (French) a kind of fried meat.
• Frication, (Latin) a rubbing, or cha∣fing.
• Friga, a certain Goddesse, anciently worshipp'd by the Saxons, under the form of an Hermaphrodite.
• Frigate, in Spanish Fragata, a spial ship.
• Frigefaction, (lat.) a making cold.
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• Frigeratorie, (lat.) a place to make, or keep things cool.
• Frigidity, (lat.) coldnesse.
• Friperer, (French) in Latin Interpola∣tor, one that cleanseth old Apparel to sell again.
• Frisia, one of the seven United Pro∣vinces, called Friezland.
• Frithsoken, a surety, or defence from the Saxon words Frid, i. e. peace, and Socen, i. e. to seek.
• Fritiniency, (lat.) the chirping of a swallow.
• Frivolous, (lat.) vain of little worth.
• Frize, a Term in Architecture, the garnishing of the upper end of a pillar.
• Frondosity, (Latin) a flourishing with green leaves, being just under the archi∣trave.
• Frontal, (lat.) belonging to the fore∣head, also used substantively for an attire of the forehead, called also a frontlet.
• Frontispiece, (lat.) the forefront of a house, also a picture placet before any book.
• Frontiers, the borders, or limits of any place.
• Frontiniack, a kinde of sweet luscious French wine.
• Frontstall, a part of a horses bridle.
• Frote, (old word) to rub.
• The Frounce, a disease in a hawks tongues called in French Barbillon.
• Fructifie, (lat.) to bring forth fruit.
• Frugality, (lat.) thriftinesse, sparing∣nesse in expences.
• A Fruggin, a Fork to stir about the fuel in an Oven, from the French word Four∣gon, an Oven Fork.
• Fruitery, (French) a place for fruit.
• Frutiges, (lat.) branched work, or the representation of fruit in Sculpture, or painting.
• Frumenty, pottage made of wheat, from the Latin word Frumentum, i. e. wheat.
• Frustration, (lat.) a making vain, a de∣ceiving; In Astrology, it is used when a light Planet would come to a Conjunction with one more heavy, and before it doth accomplish it, the more weighty Planet is joyned with another.
• Frustulent (lat.) full of Frusta, or small pieces.
• Frutication, (lat.) a sprouting, or shoot∣ing forth of young branches.
• Fryth, (old word) wood.

F U

• Fucation, (lat.) a mending the com∣plexion by drugs, or artificial colours.
• Fugacity, (lat.) aptnesse to fly way.
• Fugalia, (lat.) certain feasts celebrated by the ancient Romans in remembrance of the expulsion of Kings out of Rome.
• Fugation, (lat.) a putting to flight.
• Fugne, (French) a Term in Musick, when two parts answer one the other in the same point.
• Fugitive goods, the goods of a fugitive, or him that flies away for felony, which are forfeit to the King, or State.
• Fuir, or Fuer en feit, is when a man doth corporally fly; Fuer en ley, is, when being called in the County, he appeareth not untill he be outlawed.
• Fulbert, (Sax.) full bright, a proper name.
• Fulgidity, or Fulgency, (lat.) glistring∣nesse, or brightnesse.
• Fulguration, (lat.) a lightning, or flash∣ing of fire in the Clouds, which precedes the Thunder.
• Fulfremed, (Saxon) perfect.
• Fulians, certain Monks of the Order of St. Bernard.
• Fuliginous, (Latin) sooty, or full of smoak.
• Fullonical, (lat.) pertaining to a Fuller, or scourer of cloath.
• Fulmination, (lat.) a striking with light∣ning, also metaphorically taken for threat∣ning.
• Fulvid, (lat.) of a kinde of dusky co∣lour.
• Fumets, by the hunters used for the or∣dure of an Hart.
• F••midity, (lat.) smoakinesse.
• Fumigation, (lat.) a perfuming with the smoak of sweet wood.
• Fumitory, a kinde of Herb, called in Spanish Palomilla.
• Funambulatour, (lat.) a Dancer on the Ropes.
• Function, (lat.) the performance, or ex∣ercise of any duty, or office.
• Funditour, (lat.) a slinger, or darter.
• Funebrous, (lat.) sad, mournfull, relating to Funerals.
• Funestation, (lat.) a polluting with a dead body.
• Fungosity, (lat.) spunginesse, or a being thin, and full of holes like a Mushrom.
• Funnel, an instrument very small at one

• end to convey liquors into any narrow-mouthed vessel.
• Furacity, (lat.) an inclination to steal or pilfer.
• Furbish, (French) to polish or make bright.
• Furcation, (lat.) a putting into the fa∣shion of a fork.
• Furies, faigned by the Poets to be the three daughters of Acheron, and night, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, whose office was to torment the minds of transgres∣sours, they possest Orestes for a while, but afterwards being appeased they were cal∣led Eumenides.
• Furibund, (lat.) mad, or raging.
• Furina, a Goddesse among the Romans, who was held to be the patronesse of theeves.
• Furlong, a certain measure containing 20 poles in length, being the eighth part of a mile. It is also taken for a perch or the eighth part of an acre of land.
• Furnivalls, an ancient Family, Lords of Fernham in Buckinghamshire, who hold their Lands by this Tenure, namely to find the King upon his Coronation day, a glove for his right hand, and to support his right arm while he holds his Scepter.
• Furole, (French) a kind of little Meteor appearing in the night, by some called St. Hermes fire.
• Furres, which are of several sorts, as Sables, Lucerns, Genets, Foines, Martens, Minivers, Fitch, Shankes, Calabre. See in their proper places.
• Furring, (in Navigation) is a ripping off the first planks of a ship, and putting other timbers upon the first, and so put∣ting on the planks upon the timbers which they call plank upon plank.
• Furtive, (lat.) given to stealing, or done by stealth.
• Fusibility, (lat.) aptness, or easiness to be melted.
• Fusil, (lat.) a spindle, also a term in Heraldry, being the resemblance of a spindle in a Coat of Arms.
• Fusion, (lat.) a melting.
• Fustian, in Latin Xylinum, a kind of stuff made of the down of a certain fruit grow∣ing in the upper part of Aegypt.
• Futility, (lat.) vanity, lightness.
• Futtocks, those compassing timbers which are scarfed upon the ground timbers and give breadth to a ship.
• Future, (lat.) that which is to come.

F Y

• Fyre levin, (old word) lightning.

G A

• GAbala, a Town of Syria Cava, which is now called Gibel or M••rgad.
• Gabardine, a kind of rough Cassock, like an Irish mantle.
• Gabberies, (French) mockeries, gibings, wilie deceits.
• Gabel, (French) any kind of tribute or impost.
• Gabion, a kind of fortification made of baskets filled with dirt.
• Gable end of a house, a term in Archi∣tecture, signifying the top of a house. Some take it for the fore part or frontis∣piece, called also Delicia.
• Gabrantovici, the name of an ancient people of Brittain, who inhabited some part of Yorkshire.
• Gabriel, the name of the Angel that appeared to the Virgin Mary, signifying in Hebrew strong with God.
• Gabrosentum, an ancient frontier station of the Romans, kept by the second Band of the Thracians; it is thought to have stood in that part of the Bishoprick of Durham and Northumberland, where 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Newcastle and Gateshead stand.
• Gaddefly, a certain Insect which stings cattel, called also a Brie.
• Gades, two Islands lying westward be∣yond the Streights, by some called Her∣cules his Pillars.
• Gage, in Common Law signifieth a pawn or surety, also to gage deliverance, or to wage deliverance, signifieth to put in surety.
• Gage a ship, to stick a naile into a pole, and put it down by the rudder, thereby to know how much water the ship draws.
• Gaging rod, an instrument to measure any vessel of liquid stuff.
• Gaiety, (French) chearfulness, gallan∣try. Cleopatra. Some say it is derived from the Latin word Gaudeo, to re∣joyce.
• Gainage, in Common Law, is Land held of the baser kind of sokemen or villeines.
• Gainesborough, a Town in Lincolnshire, where anciently the Danish ships lay at rode, and where Suene Tiugskege a Danish Tyrant after he had miserably harrassed the Country, was stabbed by an unknown man.
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• Galactite, (Greek) a kind of pretious stone, so called because it is white as milk.
• Galanthis, the servant maid of Alcmena, who for deluding Juno, that sought to hinder the birth of Hercules, was turned into a Weasel.
• Galathea, a Sea Nimph, the Daughter of Nereus and Doris, who being beloved of Polypheme, and prefering Acis before him, Polypheme killed his rival with a great stone which he pluckt out of a rock: whereupon Acis was turned into a River of the same name.
• Galatia, a region of Asia the Less, cal∣led also Gallogrecia.
• Galaxy, (Greek) a broad white circle in the sky, which is made by the light re∣flected from a great company of little Stars. It is called the milky way.
• Galbanum, a kind of gum, issuing out of a plant called Sagapane, or Fennel Gyant.
• Gale, when the wind bloweth gently, so that a ship may bear her top-sailes a trip, it is called a loom gall; when it is much wind, a fresh or stiff gale.
• Galege, or Galage, (in French Galloches) a kind of outward shooe, worn in dirty weather, which hath been anciently in use among the Gaules from whence the word is derived.
• Galena, the ancient name of a Town in Oxfordshire, now called Wallingford.
• Galenus, a famous Physitian of Pergamus, who flourished▪ in the time of the Empe∣rour Commodus, and writ many excellent Volumes.
• Galeon, or Gallion, (French) a great Ship of war.
• Galeote, (French) a small Gally; also one that rows in a Gally.
• Galgacus, the name of a valiant Brittain, who led an army against the Romans.
• Galilaea, a Region of Syria lying north of Judea.
• Galingale, the aromatical root of the rush Cypresse, called Acorus.
• Gallantry, (French) compleatnesse, ac∣complishment, or a bold confident way of courtship. Artam.
• Gallego, (Span.) an inhabitant of Ga∣latia.
• Gallia, a great Country of Europe an∣ciently inhabited by the Gaules, now cal∣led France.
• Galliard, (French) lusty, also substan∣tively taken for a kind of dance.
• Galliardise (French) lustiness, lively∣ness.
• Gallie-foist, see Foist.
• Galliegaskines, or Galligascoines, a kind of breeches, first in use among the inhabi∣tants of that part of France which is called Gascoine.
• Gallimafry, a kind of meat made up of several sorts of meats minced together. It was so called either because it was al∣lotted to the Gally-slaves, or else because it was invented by the Gaules.
• Galloches, see Galege.
• Gallon, (Spanish) a measure containing two quarts.
• Ga••loway, a County of Scotland, the people whereof were anciently called No∣vanti; also a County of Ireland in the Province of C••naught.
• Galloon, a kind of Lace.
• Gallulate, (lat.) to begin to have a great voice.
• Gallus, a River in Phrygia, of which when the Priests of Cybele drank, they were agitated with divine fury, whence they were called Galli; also the name of a young man who suffering Sol to discover the adultery of Mars and Venus, was by Mars turned into a cock.
• Galnes, in the practick of Scotland, sig∣nifies any kind of satisfaction for slaugh∣ter.
• Gamahez, in Arabick, signifieth certain figures or images of things wrought exact∣ly by nature.
• Gamaliel, (Hebr.) Gods reward.
• Gambado, a thing made of leather for a man to put his legges into when he rides.
• Gamboles, certain games, or tricks which are in use about Christmasse time, from the Italian word Gamba, a leg.
• Gammot, an incision-knife.
• Gamut, the first note in the scale of Musick.
• Ganch, to put men to death as they do in Turky, by letting them fall from a high place upon sharp hooks.
• Ganges, a very great River rising out of the Scythian Mountaines, and running tho∣rough the middest of India.
• Gangflower, a certain Flower which flourisheth in Procession or Rogation-week, by some called Rogation-flower.
• Gangiators, or Gaugeators, signifies in the practick of Scotland, those that exa∣mine weights and measures, mark cloth, &c.
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• Gangraen, (lat.) a spreading sore, an eating ulcer which mortifies the member by reason of the greatness of the exhala∣tion.
• Gang-week, the next week but one be∣fore Whitsunday, in which solemn prayer and procession, used to be injoyned by the Church as a preparation to the Feast of the Ascension. It is also called Rogation-week.
• Gantlet, or Gauntlet, (French) a certain Military glove.
• To run the Gantlope, a punishment used among souldiers, the offender being to run with his back naked through the whole Regiment, and to receive a lash from every souldier. It comes from Gant, a Town in Flanders, where it was invented, and the Dutch word Lope, which signifies running.
• Ganymed, the son of Tros, whom for his excellent form, Jupiter fell in love with, and causing him to be brought up to Hea∣ven upon an Eagles back, made him his Cup-bearer instead of He••e the daughter of Juno. Also it is metaphorically taken for an ingle or boy hired to commit Sodomy.
• Garamantes, a people of Lybia, so cal∣led from Garamas their King, the son of Apollo.
• Garbe, a sheaf of Corn, from the French word gerbe, a bundle; also handsomness, graceful carriage, from the Italian word Garbo, also a sharp piquant relish in wine or beer.
• Garbel, or Garboord, a plank next to the keel of a ship.
• Garble, to purifie, to sort out the bad from the good, an expression borrowed from Grocers, who are said to garble their Spices, i. e. to purifie them from the dross and dirt.
• Garboile, (French) tumult or trouble.
• Garcifer, in the practick of Scot∣land, signifies a boy that serves in the Mill.
• Gard, in Common Law is taken for a custody or care of defence, as the edu∣cation of children under age, or the like.
• Gardein, in Common Law, is he that hath the charge or custody of any person or thing, especially he that hath the edu∣cation of children, and the government of their estates, until they come to 20 years of age; also that hath the charge of idiots, or frantick persons during their lunacy, he is called by the Civilians Tutor or Curator.
• Gardein of the Spirituality, is he to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of any Diocess is committed during the vacancy of the See.
• Garderobe, a kind of herb so called; also the same as Wardrop.
• Gardmanger, (French) a storehouse or sellar for meat.
• Gare, a kind of very course wool.
• Gargarism, (Greek) the bubling of any liquor in the throat, to wash the throat and mouth.
• Gargarus, the top of the Mountain Ida.
• Gargantua, the name of a great Gyant or Monster, from the Spanish word Gar∣ganta, a throat.
• Garner, see Granary.
• Garnet, a tackle to hoise goods into a Ship.
• Garnishment, (French) signifieth in Common Law, the issuing forth a Writ of scire facias against the Plaintiff, for an action of Detinue of charters brought a∣gainst the Defendant; also a fee which pri∣soners give their keepers at their admit∣tance into prison.
• Garnison, (French) preparation or fur∣niture.
• Garret, a proper name. See Gerrard.
• Garrison, (French) a Town or Strong hold fortified and kept by souldiers.
• Garrulity, (lat.) much tatling, or prate∣ing.
• Garter, the chief of the three Kings at armes, also half a bend in Blazon. See Bend.
• Gasehound, a certain sort of dogs of an excellent hunting kind, being the same with that which among the old Greeks was called Agasaeus.
• G••stenesse, (old word) terror.
• Gastrimyth, (Greek) one that speaketh inwardly, as it were out of his belly.
• Gastroepiploic vein, see vein.
• Gaude, (old word) a toy or trifle.
• To Gaude, (old word) to mock, to scoff at.
• Gaudy dayes, certain Festival dayes ob∣served in Colledges or the Innes of Court.
• Gavelet, an ancient kind of cessavit used in Kent, whereby the tenant in Gavel∣kind shall forfeit all his Lands and Tene∣ments, to the Lord of whom they are hol∣den, if he withdraw his due rents & services.
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• Gavelkind, from the three Saxon words, Gife, Eal, Cyn, i. e. given to all the kind, signifieth in Common-law, an equal divi∣sion of the fathers Lands among all the Children, or of the Lands of a brother deceased among his brethren, if he have no issue of his own.
• Gaunt, in Latin Gandavum, the chief Ci∣ty of Flanders, which is said to have 20 Islands, and 48 Bridges within the Walls.
• Gawdy-dayes, see Gaudy-dayes.
• Gawen, see Waldwin.
• Gawgeours, the same as Gangeatours, they are also called Gagers.
• A Gazehound▪ a certain hound, so called from the Greek word Agazomai, because of its admirable quicknesse of sight.
• Gazet, (French) a certain Venetian Coyn, also a brief general relation of the Occurrences, or Affairs of Christendom.
• Gazul and Subit, two Aegyptian weeds of which being burnt to ashes, they make the finest sort of glasses, which are called Venice glasses, because they are made at Venice.

G E

• Geat, a sort of precious stone, otherwise called black Amber, and thought by some to be the same with Gagates, whence it is derived.
• Gebalena, a Countrey bordering upon Eleutheropolis.
• Gebaltark, the streights, vulgarly cal∣led the streights of Gibralter, it comes from the Arabian word Gebal a Mountain, and Tareck the son of Abdalla, who brought his Army over those streights.
• Gehenna, a certain Vally, where the Israelites sacrificed to Moloch, Metaphori∣cally taken for Hell.
• Geld, (Saxon) money, or tribute, it is also called Gild, or Guild.
• Geldable, one of the three parts, into which Suffolk is divided, the other two being St. Edmund's liberty, and St. Au∣drey's liberty.
• Geldria, the Dutchy of Gelderland, in the Low-Countreys.
• Gelicide, (lat.) frost.
• Gelidity, (lat.) icynesse, coldnesse.
• Gelo, a young boy of Sicily, who sitting upon the threshold of a School, and ma∣king an out-cry after a Wolf that had snatched his book out of his hand, the ma∣ster and Scholars making a sudden tumult, were all killed by the fall of the School-house.
• Gelones, a certain people of Scythia, who paint their faces that they may ap∣pear the more terrible in war.
• Geloum, a certain Lake in Sicily, near which there are two Fountains of that na∣ture, that the waters of one make women fruitfull, the other barren.
• Gem, or Gemme, a Jewel, or precious stone, also a bud, or blossome.
• Gemination, (lat.) a doubling.
• Geminels, (lat.) Twins, also one of the twelve signes in the Zodiack, into which the Poets faign that Castor and Pollux, the sons of Tyndarus and Leda were changed, is called Gemini.
• Gemites, a kinde of precious stone.
• Gemmerie, a Cabinet to keep Jewels in, a Jewel house.
• Gemote, a Court belonging to a hun∣dred.
• Gemmosity, (lat.) an abounding with Jewels, also a sprouting forth of blos∣soms.
• Gemony, a place in Rome, where malefa∣ctors were cast headlong into the River Tiber.
• A Gemow-ring, a kinde of double Ring, linked with two, or more links.
• Gendarme, (French) a horse-man com∣pleatly armed.
• Gencaleathud, (Sax.) approached.
• Genealogie, (Greek) a Description of ones family, descent, or linage.
• Generation, (lat.) an engendring, or be∣getting.
• Generosity, (lat.) noblenesse of minde, or of bloud.
• Genesis, (Greek) the same as genera∣tion from the Latin, also the Title of the first book of Moses, because it treats of the beginning, or generation of the world.
• Genethliaques, (Greek) books, which treat of the foretelling of mens fortunes by the calculation of their Nativities.
• Genets, a kinde of fur, which is taken from a beast of the same name.
• Geneva, a fair Imperial Town upon the Lake Leman in Savoy, next to the Bor∣ders of Swizzerland.
• Genial, (lat.) festival, joyfull, helpfull to generation.
• Geniculation, (lat.) a joynting.
• Genital, (lat.) apt to ingender, or be∣get, also Genitals are taken substantively for the Members of Generation.
• A Geniting, a kinde of Apple, which is first ripe of any others.
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• Genitive case in Grammer is the second of the six Cases, and is commonly known by the sign of
• Genius, (lat.) the good, or evil spirit attending on every man, or proper to each several place, also a mans nature, fancy, or inclination.
• Genoa, the chief Citie of Liguria in Ita∣ly famous for Traffick, called also Genes.
• Gensericus, a King of the Vandals, he took Carthage, spoyled the Temples, and made stables of them for his horses.
• Gent, (old word) proper, handsome.
• Gentian, an Herb found out, as some say by Gen••ius, King of Illyrium.
• Gentilesse, (French) Gentility, Noble∣nesse, or Gallantry. Cleopat.
• Gentilisme, (lat.) Heathenisme, or the belief of the Gentiles.
• Gentilitial, (lat.) pertaining to kindred, or ancestors.
• Gentil, a kinde of insect, called a Mag∣got.
• Genua, see Genoa.
• Genuflexion, (lat.) a kneeling, or bend∣ing of the knee.
• Genuine, (lat.) natural, or proper.
• Genus, (lat.) a kinde, a stock, or linage, also one of the five Predicables in Logick, being that which containeth under it, the species, or lesser considerations, also a Gender.
• Geodoesia, (Greek) the art of measu∣ring of Land.
• Geography, (Greek) the exact descrip∣tion of all the Regions, and Countreys of the earth.
• Geomanty, (Greek) a kinde of divina∣tion, by certain Circles made on the earth.
• Geometry, (Greek) the measuring of the earth, but it is commonly taken for the art of measuring in general.
• Geoponical, (Greek) belonging to til∣ling, or manuring the ground.
• George, a proper name, signifying in Greek husband-man, the chief of this name was George of Cappadocia, a Tribune under ••ioclesian, who killed a mighty Serpent in Africa, to whom a Virgin was cast to have been devoured, he is thought to be the same with St. George the Cham∣pion.
• Georgians, a people inhabiting Albania, now called Georgia, professing themselves Christians, though differing in many points from us, and honouring St. George as their chief Patron, also a Sect of Here∣ticks; instituted at Delft by David George, whose Doctrine was, that both the Law and the Gospel were unprofitable for sal∣vation.
• Georgicks, (Greek) books that treat of husbandry, and tillage.
• Geornlick, (Sax.) willingly.
• Gerah, an Hebrew measure, being the 20^th. part of a shekle.
• Gerard, (Sax.) all towardnesse, a pro∣per name, for Gerard we frequently use Garret.
• Gerfalcon, a kinde of bird, which is be∣tween a Vultur and a Hawke.
• Germander, an Herb called English Treacle.
• Germanity, (lat.) a brotherhood, sister∣hood, or very near relation.
• Germination, (lat.) a budding forth.
• Gertrude, the proper name of a woman from the Saxon words Ger, and Trude, i e. all truth.
• Gervase, a proper name of men, from the German word Gerfast, i. e. all fast, firm, or sure, answering to the Latin word Con∣stans, others contract it from the Greek Gerousios, i. e. ancient, or honourable, the chief of this name was a famous Matyr, who suffered under Nero at Millain.
• Gerunds, in Grammar are certain parts of a Verb, so called from bearing a dou∣ble signification, both active and passive.
• Geryon, a certain King of the Spanish Islands, called Baleares, who is fain'd by the Poets to have had three bodies, and to have been killed by Hercules.
• Gesamund, (Sax.) assembled.
• Gestation, (lat.) a carrying.
• Gesticulation, (lat.) a making signs by gestures, or motions of the body, also a kinde of Morrice dancing.
• Gestion, (lat.) a doing, or carriage of any businesse.
• Gests, (lat.) great actions, or exploits performed.
• Getealed, (Sax.) numbred.
• Gethild, (Sax.) patience.
• Getulians, a certain barbarous people, who were the first inhabitants of Aphrica.
• Geules, a Term in Heraldry, signifying a red, or Vermilion colour.
• Gewgaws, or Gugaws, trifles for chil∣dren to play with, derived as some think from the Latin word gaudere, to rejoyce.

G H

• Gheus, an ignominious Term, heretofore

• given to the Protestants in Flanders, the word signifying as much as beggar.

G I

• Gibbosity, (lat.) a bunching out, but more especially taken for a bunching in the back.
• Gibe, (old word) to mock, from the French word gaber.
• Gibellines, see Guelphs.
• Gibraltar, see Gebaltarch.
• Gibsere, a pouch, a word used by Chaucer.
• Gideon, or Gedeon, (Hebr.) a Breaker or Destroyer.
• Gifta, (Sax.) Marriage.
• Gifu, (Sax.) Grace.
• Gigantick, big-bodied, Gyant-like.
• Gigantomachy, (Greek) the ancient war of the Gyants against Heaven, often mentioned by the Poets.
• Giglet, or Giglot, a wanton woman or strumpet. Chaucer.
• Gigot, (French) a kind of minced meat.
• Gilbert, a proper name of men, signify∣ing in the German tongue Gold-like bright, answering the Lat. Aurelius, or Aurelian: others write Gislebert, i. bright pledge.
• Gilbertines, a certain religious Order instituted by one Gilbert, who for his great holinesse was Canonized for a Saint.
• Gild, see Geld.
• Giles, a proper name of men, contracted from Aegidious, which some derive from the Greek word Aigidion, i. a little kid. Others derive Giles from Julius, as Gilian from Juliana.
• Gillet, a womans name contracted in like manner from Aegidia.
• Gillingham, a Forrest in Dorsetshire, where Edmund Ironside overthrew the Danes in a great pitch feild.
• Gilthead, a kind of fish, so called from its golden colour.
• Gimlet, a piercer to pierce any barrel of liquor withal.
• Gimmal, see Gemmow-ring.
• Gingreat, to chirp like a bird.
• Ginne, a snare, contracted as some think from Engin.
• Gippius, a certain Roman, who using to feign himself asleep, while his wife lay with other men; one time he started up and cryed, non omnibus dormio, I sleep not to all men; whence it became a Pro∣verb.
• Gippon, (French) a kind of short cas∣sock, or coat.
• Gips, a kind of chalk or mortar.
• Girle, a term in Hunting, being a Roe∣buck of two years.
• Gironne, a certain term in Heraldry.
• Girthol, in the practick of Scotland, sig∣nifieth a Sanctuary.
• Girvii, a people in times past inhabit∣ing the Fenny parts of Lincolnshire, Cam∣bridgeshire, &c. the word signifying Fen-dwellers.
• Gisarms, a kind of weapon with two pikes, which some call Bisarmes.
• Giste, (French) a Couch or resting place, also a writing which contains the names of the Towns or Houses where a King or Prince intends to lie in his pro∣gress.
• Gite, (old word) a gown.

G L

• Glaciation, (lat.) a freezing.
• Gladiatour, (lat.) a Swordman or Fen∣cer, from the Latin word gladius, a sword.
• Gladin, or Gladiole, a certain herb whose leaf resembleth a sword.
• Gladuse, (Brittish) the proper name of divers women, from Claudia.
• Glandage, (French) mastage, or the season of feeding hogs with mast.
• Glandulous, (lat.) full of kernels, from the Latin word glans a kernel.
• Glanoventa, an ancient Town of Nor∣thumberland, garrisoned by the first Co∣hort of the Morini, so called because it stood upon the bank of the River Venta, now called Wantsbeck.
• Glastenbury, a famous Abby founded by Joseph of Arimathaea, near unto which in Wiral Park groweth a Hawthron, which is reported to put forth leaves and blossomes upon Christmasse Day, as fresh as in May, also in the Church-yard there grew a Wallnut-tree, which as some have affirm∣ed, did not put forth his leaves until St. Barnabies Feast.
• Glaucitation, (lat.) a crying like a whelp.
• Glaucus, the son of Hippolochus, he assisted Priamus in the Trojan war, and taking Diomeds brazen arms for his own which were of Gold, he was killed by A∣jax▪ and his body being carried into Lycia by the winds, was changed into a River; Also the name of a fisher, who tasting of a

• certain herb, leapt into the Sea and was made a Sea-god.
• Glayve, (old word) a kind of crooked sword or bill.
• Glaze, to vernish.
• Glebeland, land belonging to a Parson∣age, from gleba, a clod or turf.
• Glede, (old word) a hot ember or coal, also a puttock or kite.
• Glee, joy or mirth, from the Dutch word glooren, to recreate.
• Gleire, (old word) white.
• Glimmering, a glancing or trembling light.
• Globosity, (lat.) a being round like a bowle or globe.
• Globous, (lat.) round like a globe.
• Globe, vide Spheare.
• Glocester, the chief City of Glocester∣shire, it was called by the Saxons Gleve∣cester, in Latin Glevum, by the Brittains Caer-Glove, i. fair City: It is also called by some Claudia-Cestria, from the Em∣perour Claudius, who as it is fabulously reported, married his daughter Genissa to Arviragus the Brittish King.
• Glocester Hall, a place for Students in Oxford, built by John Lord Gifferd of Brimesfeild.
• Glome, (old word) a bottom of thread.
• Glomeration, (lat.) a rolling or gather∣ing into a round lump.
• Gloomy, (old word) dusky or dark.
• Gl••se, (old word) to flatter.
• Glossator, or G••••ssographer, he that makes a Glosse or Comment to interpret the hard meaning of words or things.
• Glutination, (lat.) a joyning together with glue.
• Glycerium, a Curtesan of Thespia, who gave the picture of Cupid which she had of Praxiteles, as a legacy to the Thespians.
• Glyster, see Clyster.

G N

• Gnarity, (lat.) knowingnesse, expe∣rience.
• Gnarr, or Gnurre, a hard knot in wood, also a churle.
• Gnathonichal, playing the Gnatho, i. e. a parasite or deceitful fellow.
• Gnatsnapper, a certain Bird called a fig∣geater, in Latin Ficedula.
• Gnavity, (lat.) a being industrious, active, or vigorous, in any business.
• Gnew, (old word) gnawed.
• Gnoff, (old word) a churl or fool.
• Gnomonick, (Greek) belonging to a gnomon, or pin of a Dial.
• Gnosticks, from the Greek word gnosis, knowledge, a sect of Hereticks, instituted by one Carpocras in the year 125, they assumed to themselves a great degree of knowledge, denied the day of Judgement, and held two Supream Deities, one good, the other bad.
• Gnurre, see Gnarre.

G O

• Gobonated, a term in Heraldry, as a bordure gobonated is when it is divided into two colours, in such sort, as if it were cut into small gobbets.
• Go to God, signifieth in Common Law, to be dismissed the Court.
• Godard, a proper name of men, signify∣ing in the German tongue, Godly dispo∣sition.
• Godfrey, another proper name signify∣ing Gods peace.
• Godwin, (Germ.) victorious in God.
• Goetie, (••reek) Witchcraft, Diabolical Magick.
• Gofish, (old word) sottish.
• Gog and Magog, signifying in the He∣brew tongue, covered or uncovered, are taken in Scripture for certain Nations that shall persecute the Church.
• To be Agog, to be eagerly bent upon a thing, also to be puft up with pride.
• Golden number the full course of the Moon, which is performed in 19 years. See Cycle.
• Golden Fleece, small graines of Gold which are found by Rivers and Brookes, and gathered up by the help of sheep-skinnes with the wool on, of these Graines there were great plenty upon the Chol∣chian shore, which gave occasion to the Fable of Jason and his Argonauts.
• G••ldfoile, leaf Gold.
• Goldknops, a flower called Crow-foot.
• Golgotha, a place hard by Mount Sion, full of malefactors bones: It signifieth in the Syrian tongue a place of dead mens s••ulls.
• Golierdies, (old word) ravenously mouthed.
• Golp, (Spanish) a slash or blow.
• Goman, (Saxon) a married man.
• Gomer, an Hebrew measure containing almost a gallon and a pint over.
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• Gondola, or Gondolot, a kind of boat much used at Venice.
• Gonfennon, (old word) a little flag.
• Gonorrhaea, (Greek) a disease called the running of the reines.
• Good abearing, or Good behaviour, signi∣nifieth in Common Law, an exact carriage of a subject toward the King and his leige people.
• Goodmanchester, a Town in Huntington∣shire, so abounding in tillage, that Kings in times past, coming that way, were re∣ceived in country fashion with 180 ploughs.
• Goods escheat, goods confiscate.
• Goosewing, in Navigation▪ is a fitting up the sail, so as that the ship may go before a wind or quarter winds with a fair fresh gale.
• Gorbelly, one who is all panch or belly.
• Gorcrow, a Raven.
• G••rdieus, a Mountain of Armenia, where the Ark of Noah was said to rest.
• Gordius, a King of Phrygia, who being raised from the plough to the Throne, hung up the furniture of his oxen in the Temple, as a memorial, which being tied in a very intricate knot, and the Monar∣chy of the World being promised to him that could untie it, Alexander the Great after he had long tried in vain, at length cut it in two with his sword, whence the Gordian knot came to be a proverb, being taken for any thing which is difficult to be expounded.
• Gore, a term in Blazon, and consists of two Arch lines drawn from the sinister chief and bottom of the Escutcheon, and meeting in a sharp angle in the fesspoint.
• Gorgious, gallant, sumptuous, some think from the Greek word Gargairo, i. e. to shine.
• Gorgons, the three daughters of Phorcys Medusa, Sthenio, and Euriale, with Medusa Perseus fought, and cutting off her head, turned it into a stone. Also particularly taken for the head of Medusa in Astro∣logy.
• Gorlois, a Prince of Cornwall, whose wife Vther Pendragon fell in love with, and injoying her by the means of his Magical delusions, he begat King Arthur.
• Gormandize, (French) to play the gour∣mand, i. a glutton or great devourer. Some derive it from the Latin words gulose mandere▪ i. to eat greedily.
• Gormoncester, a Town in Huntington∣shire, the same with G••odmanchester above mentioned, it was called Gormoncester, from Gormon, the Dane, unto whom, after an agreement of peace, King Alfred granted this Town with the adjoyning Territories, it is thought to have been the same Town with that which was called in old times Durosiponte.
• Gospel, a Saxon word, signifying good saying, or Gods word; it is commonly taken for one of the four Evangelists in the New Testament.
• Gossehauke, quasi Grossehauke, a kind of Hauke called in Greek Asterias, because of its spots, which are like little Stars.
• Gossip, one that undertakes for a child in Baptism, the word signifieth in the Saxon tongue, spiritually of kin.
• Gossomor, or Gossymear, (Saxon) a kind of thin Cobweb-like exhalation, which hovers abroad in the air in hot weather.
• Gothia, a Country of Europe, bordering upon Denmark and Norway▪ the people are called Gothi, or Gothes, who in former times overrun the greatest part of Europe.
• Goule, (old word) Usury, from the Latin Gula, i. the throat.
• Gourd, a kind of plant, somewhat like a coucumber, also used by Chaucer for a bottel.
• Gowtes, a word used in Sommersetshire, common sewes or sinks that run under ground.
• Gowreth, (old word) stareth.

G R

• Gracchus Sempronius, a great Captain of the Romans, who subdued the Celtiberi∣ans a people of Spain, and repaired their chief City Illurcis, calling it by his own name Gracchuris: he had two sons by his wife Cornelia, Caius and Tiberius, who were both slain in a popular sedition, seek∣ing to re-establish the Agrarian Laws.
• Graces, the three daughters of Jupiter and Venus, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, the Goddesses of Elegance, and handsome conversation.
• Grace, a proper name of divers women, the signification well known.
• Gracility, (lat.) slendernesse.
• Gradation, (lat.) an ascending by de∣grees.
• Gradual, that part of the Mass, which uses to be sung between the Epistle and Gospel. Also by degrees.
• Graduate, (lat.) he that hath taken a degree at the University.
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• Graecia, a famous Countrey of Europe, the Nurse of learning, and of all the arts; its chief Regions are Attica, Boeotia, Phocis Achaia, &c.
• Graeae, the three daughters of Phocys, who had but one eye and one tooth a∣mong them, which they used by turns, they helpt Perseus to overcome their si∣sters the Gorgons.
• Graffer, is used in some of the statutes, for a Notary, or Scrivener, from the French word Greffier.
• A Graie, a beast called a Brock, or Badger.
• Grains of Paradice, a certain plant, o∣therwise called Cardamomum.
• Gramercy, from the French, Grand∣merci, i. e. great thanks, an expression of giving thanks.
• Gramineous, or Gramineal, (lat.) grassie, or made of grasse.
• Gramineal Crown, see Crown.
• Grammatical, (Greek) belonging to the art of Grammar, i. e. the Method of attaining to any language by certain Rules.
• Granadil, (Span.) a Diminutive of Granado, which signifieth a Pomegra∣nate, also a certain Engin like a Pome∣granate, which is to be shot out of a piece of Ordinance.
• Granary, (lat.) a place to lay Corn in.
• Grandevity, (lat.) ancientnesse, seniori∣ty of years.
• Grand distresse, in Common-law, is a di∣stresse taken of all the Lands, or Goods that a man hath within the County, or Baylywick.
• Grandezza, or Grandeur, (Spanish and French) greatnesse of state, or of spirit. Cleopatra.
• Grandiloquence, or Grandiloquie, (lat.) Majesty, or heigth of stile.
• Grandimoniensers, a religious order, ere∣cted in the year 1076. by one Stephen of Avern.
• Grandinous, (lat.) belonging to hail.
• Grandity, (lat.) greatnesse.
• Grand Sergeanty, a certain kinde of ser∣vice, whereby the Lords of Scrivelby, in Cheshire held their Land, which was to come well armed and mounted into the Kings presence upon the day of his Coro∣nation, and by publick Proclamation to offer himself to maintain the Kings right by open Combat, against whosoever should dare to oppose it, this Tenure belonged by Hereditary succession to the Family of the Dimmocks.
• Grange, from the Latin word Grana, a building which hath barnes, stables, stalls and all other places necessary for Hus∣bandry.
• Granicus, a River in Bithynia, famous for the great battel between Alexander and Darius, wherein above 600000 Persians were slain and taken.
• Granito, (Ital.) a kind of speckled mar∣ble found in divers places of Italy.
• Graniferous, (lat.) bearing kernels, or grains.
• Grantcester, see Gron.
• Granule, (lat.) a little grain.
• Graphical, (Greek) curiously describ'd or wrought.
• Graplings, crooked irons that hold ships together, they are called also Grapnels.
• Grassation, (lat.) a spoyling, or laying waste.
• Gratiae expectativae, certain Bulles where∣by the Pope used to grant out Mandates of Ecclesiastical livings.
• Gratianople, a Citie of Narbon in France.
• Gratianus, the name of a Roman Em∣perour sirnamed Funarius, he was perfi∣diously slain by Andragathius, one of his Captains in Lions in France.
• Gratification, (lat.) a rewarding, or making amends.
• Gratis, (lat.) freely, for nothing.
• Gratuity, (lat.) a free reward.
• Gratulation, (lat.) a rejoycing in an∣others behalf, also a thanking.
• A Grave, see Greve.
• Grave a ship, to make her lye drie a ground, and to burn off the filth with stubble.
• Graveolence, (lat.) a smelling rank, or strong.
• Graver, a small piece of steel used in graving, formed Lozenge, or Diamond square, there are different sorts of gra∣ving, see Sele-graving.
• Gravidity, (lat.) a being with Child.
• Gravity, (lat.) heavinesse, or weight, be∣ing applied to bodies, also gravenesse, or sobernesse in behaviour.
• Graunt, in Common-law, is a gift in writing, of such a thing as cannot be pas∣sed in word onely.
• Greace, (a Term of hunting) the fat of a Boare, or Hare, the fat of a Boare hath an addition, and is called Bevygreace.
• Greach-breach, see Grith-breach.
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• Greaves, (French) Armour for the legges.
• Grecisme, (Greek) a speaking after the Idiom of the Greek tongue.
• Gree, willingnesse, from the French word Gre, or the Latin Gratum.
• Green cloath, the name of a Court of Justice that used to fit in the Coumpting-house of the Kings Court.
• Green hew, a Term used in the Forrest-laws, signifying every thing that groweth green within the Forrest, it is also called Vert.
• Greenwich, (q. Green Creek) a Town in Kent, where in old times there lay at Rode a great Fleet of the Danes under Thurkill their Captain, who put to a cruel death Ealpheg Arch-Bishop of Canterbury; this place is also famous for a Royal Palace, built by Humphry Duke of Glocester, and by him named Placence, he also built here upon a high Hill, a pleasant Town famous in Spanish fables.
• Greese, a staire, or step, from the La∣tin word Gressus.
• Gregal, (lat.) belonging to a flock.
• Gregorie, a proper name of men, signi∣fying in Greek watchfull, answering to the Latin Vigilius.
• Gregorian, a kinde of Cap, also Grego∣rian account, a correction of the Calen∣der by Pope Gregorie the 13^th. making the year to consist of 365 dayes, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds, whereas be∣fore according to the Julian account, it consisted of 365 dayes, and 6 hours.
• Gresham Colledge, a fair house in the Citie of London, once the habitation of Sir Thomas Gresham, who constituted it a Colledge, and endowed it with Revenues for the maintaining of Professours of Di∣vinity, Law, Physick, Astronomy, Geome∣try, and Musick; the said Sir Thomas Gres∣ham built also that stately Fabrick, com∣monly called the Royal Exchange.
• Greve, or Grave, a word of authority among the Low Dutch, signifying as much as Lord, or Governour.
• Griff-graff, (French) by hook, or by crook.
• Griffith, see Gryffith.
• A Grigge, a young Eele.
• Grilliade, (French) a kinde of meat broyled.
• Grimbald, or Grimoald, a proper name of men, signifying in the German tongue powr over anger.
• A Griph, (old word) a riddle.
• Grishild, (Germ.) the proper name of divers women, signifying Grey Lady, in Latin Gesia.
• A Grit, a kinde of fish, otherwise called a Grample fish.
• Grith-breach, or Gich-breach, a breach of peace.
• Grith, signifying in the Saxon tongue peace.
• Grobianisme, (French) slovenly beha∣viour.
• Grommets, in Navigation, are little rings made fast to the upper side of the yard, to which the caskets.
• Groening, the chief Town of West Frize∣land, from the Dutch word Groen, i. e. Green, because it is seated in a Green place.
• Gromel, or Gromil, a kinde of Herb, cal∣led also Pearle plant.
• Gron, a Saxon word, signifying a fenny place, whence some derive Grandcester, a Town in Cambridge-shire.
• Groop, (old word) a pissing place.
• Grosvenour, i. e. great Hunter, the name of a Noble family of Cheshire, commonly contracted into Gravenour.
• Grot, (Ital.) a Cave.
• Grotesch, (Ital.) a kind of mixt, or con∣fused piece of painting, or sculpture, an∣tick work; hence it is taken for any rude misshapen thing.
• Groveling, quasi Ground-lying, a lying prone, or with ones face downward upon the ground.
• To Ground a ship, to bring her on the ground to be trimmed.
• Ground-pine, a kinde of Herb which creeps upon the ground, and hath a resem∣blance to the Pine-tree.
• Groundswell, a certain Herb, called in Latin Senecio, because it quickly de∣cayes.
• Grouppade, (French) a Term in hors∣manship, being a lofty kinde of manage∣ment, & higher then an ordinary Curvet.
• A Growm, an ensign to stretch woollen Cloath with, after it is woven.
• To grown, the Forresters say a Buck growneth.
• Grum••sity, (lat.) a curdling of any li∣quid substance into a thick masse, or clod.
• Gryffen, a certain animal feathered like a foul, and having four feet as a beast, some derive it from the Hebrew word Garaph, i. e. to snatch. Gryph, see Griph.
• Gryffith, an old Brittish name, signifying strong-faithed.

G U

• Guadalquivir, a River of Andaluzia in Spain, anciently called Baetis.
• Guadiana, a River of Portugal, now cal∣led Ana, which runs fourteen miles under ground, whence they boast of a bridge whereon 10000 Cattel may feed.
• Guaiacum, a certain drying wood, which is good against the venereal disease.
• Guastald, he that hath the custody of the Kings mansion houses, Castelein being he, who onely hath the custody of Ca∣stles and Fortresses.
• Guastaliens, a religious order of men and women, begun in the year 1537. by the Countesse of Guastala.
• A Gubbin, (old word) a fragment.
• Gubernation, (lat.) a governing, or ru∣ling.
• Gudgeons, rudder irons to ships.
• Guelphs and Gibellines, two great facti∣ons in Italy.
• Guenliana, a valiant Lady, the wife of Gruffin, Prince of Wales, she valiantly as∣sailing Maurice of London, who invaded those parts, was with her son Morgan slain in the battail.
• Guerdon, (French) a reward, some de∣rive it from the Greek word Cerdos, i. e. gain.
• Gugaws, see Gewgaws.
• Guidage, money paid for safe conduct, through a strange Territory.
• Guidon, a Cornet of Argolatiers that serve on hors-back with Petronels.
• Guilford, Sax. Geglford) a Town in Sur∣rey, the Royal Mansion in times past of the English Saxon Kings, who had 75 Hages, i. e. houses wherein remained 175 men, here Elfrid the son of King Ethelred was most barbarously betrayed by Good∣win, Earle of Kent, who contrary to his faithfull promise delivered him into the hands of Harold the Dane, and by a cruel decimation slew almost all his men that came with him out of Normandy.
• Guinethia, or Guineth, that part of Wales commonly called South-wales, it is also cal∣led Venedotia.
• Guild, a society incorporate, from the Dutch word Geld, i. e. money.
• Guld, a kinde of weed growing among Corn, called in Latin Maneleta, whence came the Law of Maneleta, ordained by King Kenneth of Scotland; which was, that if any one suffered his land to be over∣run with weeds, he should forfeit an Oxe.
• Gules, see Geules.
• Gule of August, the first day of August, otherwise called Lammas day, in old Al∣manacks St. Peter ad Vincula, it cometh from the French word Gueul, i. e. a throat, because on that day, a certain maid ha∣ving a disease in her throat, was cured by kissing the Chains, that St. Peter had been bound with at Rome.
• Gulf, or Gulph, a streight passage be∣tween two Seas, it comes from the Greek word Colpos.
• Gulo••ity, (lat.) gluttony.
• Gultwit, an old Saxon word, signifying an amends for trespasse.
• Gummilda, the wife of Asmond, King of Denmark, she killed her self for grief, that her husband had been slain in battel.
• Gunora, a Famous Norman Lady, who flourished in Shropshire and Cheshire, and held the Hamlet of Lanton in chief, as of the honour of Mountgomery, by the service of giving to the King a Barb'd-headed, whensoever he should come into those parts to hunt in Cornedon Chace.
• Gunwale, a piece of Timber in a ship, which reacheth from the half deck to the fore-castle on either side.
• Gurgitation, (lat.) an ingulphing, or swallowing up.
• Gurnard, a kinde of fish, so called.
• Gusset, an abatement in Heraldry, form'd of a Travers line drawn from the dexter chief, and descending perpendicularly to the extream base parts, or contrary∣wise.
• Gust, in Navigation, is a sudden winde, also taken by some for a stranger, or guest.
• Guttural, (lat.) belonging to the throat.
• Guzes, in Heraldry, signifieth the ball of the eye.
• Guy, a proper name of men, in Latin Guido, from the French word Guide, i. e. a leader, or directour.
• Guy, a certain rope used in a ship, to keep any thing from swinging in too fast.

G Y

• Gy, (old word) a guide.
• Gibbositie, a bunchbacked, the Moons 3. parts full of light.
• Gyges, a certain Lydian, to whom Can∣daules the King, having shown his wife

• naked, she animated him to kill the King, which he did by the help of a Ring, which made him invisible, and afterwards marry∣ing her, he made himself King.
• Gymnasiarch, (Greek) the chief gover∣nour of a Gymnase, which is a place for all manner of exercise, both of minde and body.
• Gymnosophists, (Greek) a Sect of Philo∣sophers among the Indians, who went na∣ked, living in desarts, and feeding upon Herbs.
• Gyndes, a River, (not far from Euphra∣tes) which Cyrus besieging Babylon, cut in∣to 46 several Channels.
• Gypsation, (lat.) a plaistering with Mor∣tar.
• Gyration, (lat.) a fetching a compasse, from Gyre, a great circle.
• Gyron, in Heraldry, signifieth a quarter, or half a Cube described by a Diagonal line.
• Gysarme, the same as Gisarme.

H A

• HAbberdasher, one that sells a great many several wares, from the Dutch words, habt jhr das, i. e. have you that.
• Habeas Corpus, a Writ, which a man In∣dited before Justices of Peace, and laid in prison, may have out of the Kings bench, to remove himself thither at his own charges.
• Haberdepois, see Averdupoise.
• Habergeon, a diminutive of Haubert, see Haubert.
• Habilement, (French) cloathing, also armour.
• Hability, (lat.) an aptnesse, or capacity.
• Habit, (lat.) custome, or use, also the attire, or cloathing of the body.
• Habitation, or Habitacle, (lat.) a dwel∣ling, a place of residence.
• Habitual, (lat.) grown to a habit, or cu∣stome.
• Habitude, (lat.) the same as habit.
• Hables, (French) a haven, or port.
• Hachee, or Hach, (French) a certain French dish made of sliced meat.
• Hadock, a kinde of fish, called a Cod∣fish.
• Hadrian, the name of a great Roman Emperour, who was so called from the Citie Hadria, whence he deduced his ori∣ginal, the word is derived by Gesner, from the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. grosse, or wealthy.
• Hadrianople, (Greek) a Citie of Mace∣don in Greece.
• Haemon, a young man of Thebes, who lo∣ving Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, hearing that she was put to death by Creon, he killed himself over her Tomb.
• Haemorrhagie, (Greek) a violent bursting out of bloud.
• Haemorrhoides, (Greek) a certain dis∣ease, called in English the Piles.
• Haemus, a great Mountain dividing Thessaly from Thrace, at the foot of which are the fields of Tempe; it was so called from Haemus the son of Boreas, and Ori∣thya.
• Haerede abducto, a Writ that lieth for him, who having the Wardship of his Te∣nant under age, hath him conveyed away from him by another.
• Haeresie, (Greek) a division in the Church, caused by some erroneous opi∣nion, contrary to the fundamental points of religion.
• Haesitation, (lat.) a sticking at any thing, a doubting.
• Haga, a word used in some old Writs, for a house.
• Hagard, (French) untam'd, unruly, al∣so a Hagard Hawk is taken for a wilde Hawk.
• Hagiographer, (Greek) a writer of holy things.
• Haggase, a kinde of pudding made of Hogs flesh.
• Haie, from the French word Haye, a kinde of Net to catch Conies, which is commonly pitch'tunder hedges.
• Haile, a word of salutation, from the Saxon word Heal, i. e. health.
• Haire, is when a Masculine and Diur∣nal Planet in the day time the earth, or a Feminine nocturnal Planet in the night time under the earth.
• Haimhaldatio Catallorum, signifieth in the practick of Scotland, a seeking re∣stitution for goods wrongfully taken a∣way.
• Haketon, a Jacket without sleeves. Chaucer.
• Halbert, a kinde of weapon, called in Spanish Halabarda.
• Halcyon, a bird, called a King-fisher, which builds its Nest, and breeds upon the Sea-shore, about the winter ••ol••tice, for the space of fourteen dayes, wherein the weather useth to be very calm, whence by Metaphor peaceable and quiet times,

• are called Halcyon dayes, the Poets feign that Halcyon the wife of Caeyx, was turned into this bird. See Alcyon.
• Haledon, a place in Northumberland, where Oswald King of that County, in a great pitcht feild against the Brittish King Cedwall, having erected a cross unto Christ, obtained the victory, and afterwards be∣came a devout Christian. This place was in old times called Heavenfeild.
• Half-merk, or Noble, a piece of coine valueing 6 shillings 8 pence.
• Half-seal, is taken for the sealing of Commissions unto delegates, appointed by an appeal in Ecclesiastical or Maritime causes.
• Halicarnassus, the chief City of Caria, where the famous Tomb of Mausolus was built by Queen Artemisia.
• Halidome, (Saxon) holy judgement, whence, By my Halidome used anciently to be a great oath among country people.
• Halieuticks, (Greek) books treating of the Art of fishing.
• Halifax, signifying in old English holy hair, a Town in Yorkshire, so called from a Maides head, that had been cut off by a Priest of that place, which being hung up∣on a yew-tree as a holy matter, was had in great veneration by the people, who gathering of the sprigs of the tree, took it for her hair.
• Halinitre, (Greek) a kind of Mineral commonly called Saltpeter.
• Hall a Ship, to call to her to know whence she is, and whither bound.
• Hallage, (French) a fee due for clothes brought for sale to Blackwell Hall, or to the Lord of a Market, for commodities vended there.
• Hallelujah, see Allelujah.
• H••llucination, (lat.) error or blindness of judgement.
• Halm, from the Hebrew word, halam, to shake the stalk of corn, from the ear to the root.
• Halsier, a term in Navigation, he that draws the Halser or Cable wherewith boats are towed along some Channel.
• Halo, (Greek) a circle about the Moon, and others of the Stars.
• Halonesus, an Island in the Aegean Sea, which was defended by women, when all the men were slain.
• To make Halt, (French) to make a stop, a term of War.
• Hallyattes, a King of Lydia, and father to Croesus, who was overcome by Cyrus.
• Halymote, see Healgemote.
• Hamadryades, (Greek) wood-nimphs.
• Hamburg, the cheif City of Lower Saxony, so called from Jupiter Hamon, there worshipped.
• Hames, two crooked pieces of wood which encompasse a horse-collar, from the Ham of the leg which is crooked, or the Latin word hamus, a hook.
• Hamkin, a kind of pudding.
• Hamling of dogs, see expeditating.
• Hamlet, a dwelling house, a diminutive, from the Dutch word Ham, i. home
• Hammocks, hanging beds used in ships.
• Hampton-Court, a Palace belonging to the Kings of England, standing in Mid∣dlesex upon the River Thames, it was built in a very costly and magnificent manner by Cardinal Wolsey, and finisht by King Henry the eighth.
• Hankwit, or Hangwit, (Sax.) a theif escaped out of custody.
• Hannibal, a great Captain of the Car∣thaginians, who having long made war with the Romans, was beaten by Scipio, and in the end poisoned himself, the word sig∣nifies in the Punic tongue Gracious Lord.
• Hanno, a Carthaginian, who seeking to make himself master of Carthage, was at length taken and had his eyes put out.
• Hannonia, or Haynault, one of the 17 Provinces of the Low Countries.
• Hanselines, upper sloppes. Chaucer.
• Hanse-towns, certain Towns in Germa∣ny, as Hambourg, Magdenbourg, Lubeck, &c. being the principal seates of the Dutch Merchants. Hans signifying in the French tongue, a Society or Corporation of Merchants.
• Hansel, (Dutch) the first money that is bestowed with a Tradesman in a mor∣ning
• Hans-en-kelder, a Dutch word, signi∣fying Jack in the Cellar; it is commonly taken for a child in the mothers belly.
• Hansiatick, belonging to the Hanse Towns.
• Hanten, (old word) they use, or accu∣stom.
• Haphertlet, a kind of course cover••ed for a bed.
• Haquebut, (French) the same as Har∣quebuse.
• Haracana, or Herocane, a violent whirl∣wind or tempest, which hapneth once in 9

• years. Some say it comes from the Spa∣nish word Arancar, to pull up by the roots.
• Harald, or Herauld, (French) quasi herus altus, i. high-master, is an Officer whose imployment is to denounce war, or proclaim peace, to judge and examine Gentlemens Arms, to marshal the Solem∣nities at a Princes Coronation, and such like.
• Harangue, (French) a Speech or Ora∣tion.
• Harase, (French) to tire out, to weary, to disquiet.
• Harbinger, from the Dutch words her benghen, i. hither keep, an officer in a Princes Court, that alotteth those of the household their lodgings in time of pro∣gresse; but vulgarly taken for any one that goeth before, and provideth lodge∣ing.
• Harbour, a Hart is said to Harbour when it goes to rest.
• Harelip, a lip cloven like a Hares lip.
• Harepipe, a snare made of a piece of elder or cane to catch a Hare with.
• Hariant, or Hauriant, in Heraldry, is when a fish is represented standing up∣right.
• Hariolation, (lat.) a southsaying.
• Harlot, or Arletta, Concubine to Robert Duke of N••rmandy, and mother to Wil∣liam the Conquerour, in disgrace of whom all whores came to be called Harlots.
• Harman, a proper name of men, signi∣fying in Dutch the General of an Army, answerable to the Greek Polemarchus.
• Harmodius, and Aristogeiton, two famous conspiratours against Hipparchus the Ty∣rant of Athens.
• Harmonia, the daughter of Mars and Venus, and the wife of Cadmus, to her is at∣tributed by some, the first invention of Musical Harmony.
• Harmonides, a Trojan whom Minerva in∣spired with all kind of manufacture.
• Harmonical, or Harmonious, full of Har∣mony, i. musical consent or agreement.
• Harold, see Harald.
• Harpalice, the daughter of Lycurgus, she was a great huntresse, and hearing that her father was taken prisoner by the Getans, rescued him by force of arms.
• Harpe, the name of the Fauchion where∣with Mercury slew Argos and P••rseus Me∣dusa.
• Harping-Irons, certain Irons to strike great fish withal, being at one end like a barbed arrow, and having at the other end a cord.
• Harpings, the breadth of a ship at the bow.
• Harpocrates, an Image used in the cere∣monies of Serapis and Isis, made with one hand upon his mouth, and called by the Aegyptians, the god of silence.
• Harpyes, the three daughters of Pontus and Terra, Aello, Celaeno, and Ocypete, they were part women, and part birds, having claws like vultures. Homer saith, that upon Celaeno, whom he calls Podarges, Zephyrus begat Balius, and Xanthus, the horses of Achilles.
• Hart, in the Forrest Laws, is a Stag of 5 years old, if having been hunted by the King or Queen, he escape alive, he is cal∣led a Hart royal.
• Hart-hall, a place for Students in the University of Oxford, built by Water Stapleton Bishop of Exceter, together with Exceter Colledge, in the time of King Edward the second, who in imitation of him, built Oriall Colledge and St. Mary Hall.
• Hatches of a ship, are trap-doors to let things down into the hold; they are also called scutles.
• Hauberk, or Haubert, (French) a coat of maile.
• Havelock, a certain Danish foundling of the Royal blood, who as it is reported, was fosterd by one Grime a Merchant, and from a skullen in the Kings kitchin, was for his valour and conduct in Military affairs, promoted to the ma••riage of the Kings daughter.
• Havering, a Town in Essex, an ancient retiring place of the Kings of England, so called from the fabulous conceit of a ring delivered by a Pilgrim, as sent from St. John Baptist, to King Edward the Con∣fessour.
• Haunt, a term in hunting, the walk of a Deer, or the place of his ordinary pas∣sage, in French Enceinte.
• Hauriant, see Hariant.
• Hauselines, or Hanselines, (old word) breeches or slops.
• Haw, a hedge, from the French word Hay, also an old word, signifying black, also a disease in the eye.
• Haward, or Hayward, a keeper of the common Heard of the Town, who is to look that they neither break nor crop hedges, from the French words Hay, a hedge, and Garde, custody.
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• Hawise, a proper name of women. See Avice.
• Hawkers, certain deceitful people, that go up and down from place to place, buy∣ing and selling old brasse or pewter which ought to be uttered in open market.
• Hawlkes, (old word) corners.
• Hawten, (old word) insolent.
• Hawthorn, white thorn, from Haeg∣doren. Haeg in Dutch signifying white.
• Hazard, or Hasard, the ace of the dice, metaphorically any doubtful event.
• Hay, a Town in Brecknockshire, called in Brittish Trekethle, i. a Town in a Grove of Hazel-trees, it was formerly a very flourishing place till ruined and de∣populated by that arch rebell Owen Glen∣dowerdwy.
• Hayboot, signifieth in common Law, a permission to take thorns to make or re∣pair hedges.
• Hayn, (old word) hatred.

H E

• Headborow, the chief of the frank pledge, the same as Constable, or Tithingman, from heord, i. head, and borhe, i. pledge.
• Heafling, (Sax.) a captive.
• Heafod, (Sax.) a head.
• Healgemote, or Halymote, a Saxon word, signifying a Court-baron, or meeting of the Tenants in one Hall.
• Hearse, an empty Tomb, erected for the honour of the dead, from the Greek word Arsis, a lifting up.
• Hebdoma••e, (Greek) the number 7. a week which consists of 7 dayes.
• Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, and daughter of Juno, without a father, she was for her beauty preferred by Jupiter to be his Cup••bearer, but one time falling down, and discovering her secret parts to the gods, she was removed from her place.
• Hebetude, (lat.) bluntness, dulness.
• Hebrews, a name given to the Israelites, because they spake the ancient Hebrew Language, which continued in the Fa∣mily of Heber, after the division of tongues.
• Hebrides, certain Islands in the Deu••ale∣donian Sea, called also Ebudae, and the Western Islands, they are 44 in number, but the chief of them are Levissa, Eusta, Mula, and Ila.
• Hebrus, a River of Thrace, where the head of Orpheus was thrown, after his body had been torn in pieces by the Bac∣chides.
• Hecalius, a name attributed to Jupiter by Theseus, from Hecale an old woman who had devoted her life to Jupiter, for his safe return.
• Hecate, the daughter of Jupiter and Latona, and the sister of Apollo. Some think her to be the same with Diana, or the Moon, also the name of a famous Inchan∣tresse of Thrace.
• Hecatomb, (Greek) a sacrifice wherein a hundred beasts were offered at one time.
• Hecatompolis, an Epithet of the Island of Crete, which is said to have had a hundred Cities in it.
• Hecatompylae, the name of a City of Aegypt, otherwise called Aegyptian Thebes.
• Heck, the name of an Engin to take fish withal, from the Dutch word hecken, i. to pick, or heck a bramble.
• Heckled, (old word) wrapped.
• Hecktick feaver, a feaver which is ha∣bitual, and which inflames the solid parts of the body, it comes from the Greek word Hexis, a habit.
• Hector, the son of Priam and Hecuba, he was accounted the stoutest of all the Trojans, slew Protesilaus and Patroclus, but was at length slain himself by Achilles, the word signifieth Defender.
• Hecuba, the daughter of Dyamas, the wife of Priam King of Troy, it is feigned of her, that after the taking of Troy she was turned into a bitch.
• Hederal Crown, a Crown of Ivy, from the Latin word Hedera.
• Heer and Hace, (old word) hoarse and harsh.
• Hegesistratus, an Ephesian, who was the builder of the City Elea in Asia.
• Hegira, the Epoch or computation of time among the Turkes.
• Heinfare or H••nfare, (old word) a de∣parting of a servant from his master, from Hine and fare, passage.
• Heire of blood, in Common Law, is he who succeedeth by right of blood in any mans Lands or Tenements in fee, but heir of Inheritance is he that cannot be de∣feated of his inheritance upon any dis∣pleasure.
• Heirloom, signifieth all implements of a house, which having belonged to the house for certain descents, accrew to the heir with the house it self. Loom signi∣fying

• a frame to weave in.
• Heighth, a vertue in writing or speak∣ing, wherein the expressions are neither too inflate, nor too creeping, but obser∣ving a decent majesty between both.
• Helchesaites, a sect of Hereticks, who held it no sin to deny Christ in times of persecution; their first Teacher was one Helchesaus.
• Helchysm, the drosse and scum of silver.
• Hele, (old word) to cover.
• Helena, the daughter of Jupiter and Laeda, she was married to Menelaus, and brought forth Hermione, afterwards being stole away by Paris, and being demanded of Priamus by the Greeks, the Trojans refused to send her back, which was the occasion of a very great war, and of the destruction of Troy. The word signifieth in Greek pittiful.
• Heliacal rising of a Star, is when a Star which was at first hid by the light of the Sun, afterwards appears; from the Greek word Helios, i. the Sun.
• Heliades, the daughters of the Sun, and sisters of Phaeton, who wept themselves in∣to Poplar-trees for the death of their brother, and their teares became Amber; their names were Phaaethusa, Lampelusa, and Lampetia.
• Heliconian, belonging to Helicon, a hill of Phocis, sacred to Apollo and the Muses.
• Helioscopie, (Greek) the furthest point of the Suns course in his ascention or de∣scention.
• Heliotrope, (Greek) the name of a plant commonly called Turnsole, also a kind of pretious stone.
• Helle, the daughter of Athamas King of Thebes, she with her brother Phryxus, crossing over the Pontick Sea upon a gol∣den Ram, being frighted with the danger, fell into the sea, from which accident, that sea was ever after called Hellespont.
• Hellebore▪ the name of a certain plant, called also Melampodium, which is good against madness.
• Hellenistical, belonging to Greece or the Greek Language, from Hellas, the an∣cient name of that Country.
• Helme, signifieth in Navigation a piece of wood fastned to the rudder in a ship or boat, also the helme of State is metapho∣rically taken for the chief place in the go∣vernment of a Nation.
• Helmed in stark stowers, (old word) defended in sharp assaults.
• Heluation, (lat.) a playing the glutton, a greedy devouring.
• Helve, (old word) a handle of anything.
• Helvetia, a Country invironed by the Alps and the Hill Jura, the Rivers Rhene, and Rhone, it is now called Swizzer∣land.
• Hemerology, (Greek) a Calender, or Book wherein are registred the passages of every day.
• Hemicranie, (Greek) a disease in the head called the Meagrim.
• Hemicycle, (Greek) a half circle.
• Hemingstone, a Town in Suffolk, which one Baldwin le Pettour held of the King, per Saltum, sufflatum, & Bumbulum seu Pet∣tum, i. e. by this Tenure, that on every Christmasse Day before the King, he should dance, puff up his cheekes, and fart.
• Hemisphere (Greek) half the compass of the heavens, or so much as is visible a∣bove the Horison.
• Hemlock, a certain plant, called in Latin Cicuta, whose juice being poison used to be given to capital offenders.
• Henares, a River in Spain, near to which stands a Town called Alcala di Henares.
• Henbane, in Greek Hyoscyamus, an herb which is counted rank poison.
• Henchman, or Heinsman, a German word, signifying a domestick servant. It is taken among us for a page of honour.
• Hend, (old word) neat, fine, gentle.
• Hengston hill, a hill in Cornwall, where the Brittish Danmonii calling the Danes to assist them to drive the English out of De∣vonshire, were by King Egbert ••otally de∣feated and ruined.
• Hengwit, see Hankwit.
• Hengest, the name of him who led the first English men into this Isle, the word signifies in the Saxon Horseman.
• Heniochus, vide Auriga.
• Henry, the name of seven Emperours of Germany, eight Kings of England, four Kings of France, four Kings of Castile: the word comes from the German Einric, i. rich and powerful, or Herric, i. rich Lord, or else is contracted from Hono∣ricus.
• Hent, (old word) to catch.
• Hepatical, (Greek) belonging to the Liver.
• Hephaestian mountains, certain burning mountains in Lycia.
• Heptahedrical, (Greek) having seven sides.
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• Heptagonal, (Greek) belonging to a Heptagon or figure of seven angles.
• Heptarchy, (Greek) a sevenfold govern∣ment, or government of seven men, as that of the Saxon Kings here in England.
• Heraclea, a City of Narbon in France, now called St. Gilles.
• Heraclitus, the name of a famous Ephe∣sian Philosopher who used to weep as often as he thought upon the misery of the World.
• Herald, see Harald.
• Herawdes, (old word) feates of acti∣vity.
• Herbage, signifieth in Common Law, the fruit of the earth provided by nature for the cattel, also the liberty that a man hath to feed his cattel in another mans ground, or in the Forrest.
• Herbert, a proper name of men, signi∣fying in Dutch, famous Lord.
• Herbigage, or Herborow, (old word) lodging.
• Herbalist, or Herbary, (lat.) one that hath knowledge in the nature and tem∣peraments of herbs.
• Herbenger, see Harbenger.
• Herbert, a proper name, signifying in Dutch bright Lord.
• Herbipolis, a City of Germany, now called Wirtzberg.
• Herbosity, (lat.) plenty of herbs.
• Herbulent, (lat.) grassy, full of herbs.
• Hercinia, a great Wood in Germany, sixty dayes journeys in length, and nine in breadth.
• Herculean, belonging to Hercules, the cheif of which name was Hercules the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, he being hated by Juno because he was born of a Con∣cubine, was by her ingaged in 12 very dangerous enterprises, which are called Hercules his 12 labours, all which he overcame to his great renown; whence every great atcheivment came to be cal∣led a Herculean labour. He is said to have built two pillars on Mount Calpe, and Mount Avila, as the utmost bounds of the Western World, with the inscription of Nil ultra, and at this day those places are called Hercules pillars. This name Her∣cules signifieth in Greek, Glory or Illumi∣nation of the Air.
• Here de Caesar, a certain Epoch or Ac∣count, from which the Saracens and Ara∣bians used to compute their number of yeares, as we do from the year of our Lord. It was also used in Spain for a great while, the word signifieth as much as the Monarcy of Caesar.
• Hereditary, or Haereditary, (lat.) com∣ing by Inheritance.
• Hereditaments, signifie in Common Law, all such things as descend to a man and his heirs by way of Inheritance, and fall not within the compasse of an Exe∣cutor as Chattels do.
• Hereford, the cheif City of Hereford∣shire, anciently called Tresawith, from the Beech-trees growing thereabout. It was built as some say by King Edward the Elder, in that tract of the Country called of old Ereinuc or Archenfeild, out of the ruines of the ancient Ariconium; the fame of this City was augmented by the Mar∣tyrdom of Ethelbert King of East England, who going to wooe the daughter of Offa King of the Mercians, was here forelaid and murthered by the procurement of Quendred Offa's wife.
• Heremitage, or Ermitage, (French) a solitary place, a dwelling for Hermites, i. persons that devote themselves to a reli∣gious solitude.
• Heresie, see Haeresie.
• Heresiarch, or Haeresiarch, (Greek) the principall Author of any Heresie or Sect.
• Heretog, or Hertogh, a Leader of an Army, or a Duke, from the Saxon words Here an Army, and Toga, to draw out.
• Herility, (lat.) Masterly Authority.
• Heriot, or Hariot, hath formerly been used to signifie a tribute given by a Te∣nant to the Lord of the Mannour for his better preparation toward war; Here in the Saxon tongue signifying an Army; but now it is taken for the best chattel that a Tenant hath at the hour of his death, which is due unto the Lord by cu∣stom.
• Herlaxton, a Town in Lincolnshire, near which was ploughed up a brazen vessel, wherein a Golden Helmet beset with pre∣tious Stones (which was given as a pre∣sent to Catherine of Spain, wife to King Henry the eighth) was found.
• Herman, see Harman.
• Hermaphrodite, (Greek) a word com∣pounded of Hermes, i. Mercury and Aphro∣dite, i. Venus, and signifieth one of both Sexes, Man and Woman. See the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, elegantly described in the fourth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis.
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• Hermetical, (Greek) belonging to Mer∣cury the messenger of the gods, who is cal∣led in Greek Hermes, or to Hermes Tris∣megistus, the great Aegyptian Philosopher.
• Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, she was betrothed by her father, after the end of the Trojan war, to Pyrrhus the son of Achilles, which Orestes (to whom she had been before espoused by her Grand∣father Tyndarus) taking ill, he slew Pir∣rhus in the Temple of Apollo.
• Hermitage, Hermite, see Heremitage.
• Hermotimus, a certain man of Clazome∣na, whose Soul used to leave his body, and wander up and down, bringing him news of things that were done a great way off, his body lying in the mean while as it were asleep, but at length his enemies find∣ing his body, burnt it, so that his Soul had no habitation left to return to.
• Hernious, (lat.) bursten bellied.
• Herod, sirnamed Antipater, a King of the Jews, created by the Roman Senate, he destroyed the Temple, built by Zoro∣babel, and erected another more magnifi∣cient in its place, he put his wife Ma∣ria••ne to death, and his two sons, Aristo∣bulus and Alexander.
• Heroick, or Heroical, (Greek) noble, lofty, becoming a Heroe, whence Heroick Poem, is a Poem treating of Heroic acti∣ons, or persons.
• Heroine, a woman of a noble spirit, and excellent virtues.
• A Heron, a kinde of bird, called in La∣tin Ardea, ab ardendo, because its dung burns whatsoever it touches.
• Herophila, the name of the Erythraean Sibil, who having asked Tarquin a very great price for her three books of Pro∣phesies, and being refused it, she burnt 2. and afterwards received as much for that one that was left, as she demanded for all the three.
• Herostratus, one that to purchace him∣self fame, burnt the Temple of Diana.
• Hersilia, the wife of Romulus, who after her death was worshipp'd by the name of Hora, or the goddesse of youth.
• Hertford, i. e. the Ford of Harts, the chief Town of Hertford-shire, having a Castle upon the River Lea, built as some say, by King Edward the Elder, and aug∣mented by Gislebert de Clare, who was Earle of this Town in King Henry the se∣conds dayes, Bede treating of the Synode that was held here in the year 670. cal∣leth it Herudford, i. e. Redford.
• Herthus, a goddesse worshipt by the an∣cient Saxons, in the same nature as Tellus by the Latins, some think the word earth to be thence derived.
• Hesione, the daughter of Laomedon, King of Troy, whom Hercules, having freed her from a great Whale, gave in marriage to his friend Telamon, after he had ransack't Troy, because her father Laomedon per∣formed not his promise to him.
• Hesperus, the son of Japetus, and bro∣ther of Atlas, who flying from his Coun∣trey, went and inhabited in Italy, whence that Countrey came to be called Hesp••ria, he had three daughters, Aegle, Arethusa, and Hesperethusa, called the Hesperides, who lived in the Hesperian Garden, whose Trees bare golden Apples, that were kept by a watchfull Dragon, whom Hercules slew; it is also faigned of Hesperus, that after his death he was changed into the Evening Star.
• Hests, (old word) commands, or de∣crees.
• Hete, (old word) a vow, offer, or pro∣mise.
• Heteroclite, in Grammar, is taken for a Nown, that hath a different way of decli∣ning from other Nouns.
• Heterodox, (Greek) being of another opinion, or judgement, then what is ge∣nerally received.
• Heterogeneal, (Greek) being of another or different kinde.
• Heteroscians, (Greek) people that live between the Aequator and the Tropicks, whose shadowes still incline more one way then another.
• Hetruria, a Countrey of Italy, other∣wise called Tuscia, or Tuscanie, the people whereof were in ancient times much gi∣ven to sooth-saying; it reacheth from Macra to Tyber.
• Heveningham, a Town in Suffolk, which gave name and residence to an ancient family, commonly contracted into Hen∣ningham.
• Hew, (old word) colour.
• Hewmond, (old word) shining.
• Hexagonal, (Greek) belonging to a Geometrical figure, having six angles, or corners.
• Hexameter verse, (Greek) a verse con∣sisting of six feet, it is otherwise called a Heroick verse, because it is used in He∣roick Poems.
• Hexaptote, (Greek) a Noune declined with six cases.
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• Hexastick, (Greek) a Stanza, consisting of six verses.
• Heydelberg, a Citie of Germany, so cal∣led from the Dutch words Heyd, i. e. sweet Broom, and Berg, i. e. a Hill.

H I

• Hiation, (lat.) an opening asunder, or gaping.
• Hibernia, a fair Island, lying on the Western part of Brittain; it is now called Ireland.
• Hibride, a Mongrel, or a Creature of a mixt generation; it comes from the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, disgrace.
• Hichel, or Hatchel, an instrument to kemb Hemp, or Flax withall.
• Hickway, a certain bird, otherwise cal∣led a wood pecker, or wryneck, in Greek Jynx.
• Hidage, a certain Tax, which upon ex∣traordinary occasions used to be paid for every hide of Land.
• Hide of Land, from the Dutch word Heyd, i. e. a wide field, also Heath and Broom, signifieth in Law, such a quantity of Land as may be plough'd with one plough in a year, which according to some mens accounts is about a hundred Acres, eight Hides, being a Knights fee.
• Hide and Gain, arable Land, or the same as gainage.
• Hidel, a kinde of sanctuary, or hiding place.
• Hierarchie, (Greek) a spiritual govern∣ment, also the holy order of Angels, which consisteth of nine degrees, Seraphims, Che∣rubims, Thrones, Dominations, Principali∣ties, Powrs, Vertues, Arch-Angles, and An∣gels.
• Hieratick paper, fine paper, dedicated to religious uses.
• Hieroglyphicks, certain Mysterious Cha∣racters, or Images, used among the an∣cient Aegyptians, whereby holy sentences were express't.
• Hierograms, (Greek) sacred writings.
• Hierome, or Hieronymus, the name of one of the ancient fathers, the word signi∣fying in Greek holy name, there was also a Tyrant of Sicily, so called, who contra∣ry to the advice of his father Hiero, taking part with Hannibal against the Romans, was at length slain by them.
• Hieronymians, a certain order of Monks, instituted by St. Hierome, there were also certain Hermites so called, whose order was founded in the year 1365. by one Granel of Florence.
• Hierosolyme, the famous Citie of Judaea, vulgarly called Jerusalem.
• Higham, a Town in Suffolk, which gave name and residence to an ancient family so called.
• Hight, (old word) named.
• Hilarion, a certain Hermite of Syria, famous for many great miracles.
• Hilarity, (lat.) chearfulnesse, or mirth.
• Hildebert, the proper name of a man, signifying in Dutch famous Lord.
• Himple, an old Saxon word, signifying to halt, or go lame.
• Hin, a certain Hebrew measure, con∣taining 12 Sextaries, or Logins, a Lo∣gin being a certain measure, which con∣tains about the quantity of six Egg-shells.
• Hine, or Hinde, is commonly used for a servant at husbandry.
• Hippace, a kinde of Cheese made of Mares milk.
• Hipparchus, a Tyrant of Athens, who succeeded Pisistratus, and having deflowr'd a Virgin, Harmodius and Aristogeiton con∣spired against him, and slew him, also the master of horse, a chief Officer among the Athenians, was called Hipparchus.
• Hippe, the daughter of Chiron, she was a great huntresse upon Mount Peleus, and being got with Childe, was changed into a Mare.
• Hippiades, (Greek) images represent∣ing women on hors-back.
• Hippocentaurs, see Centaurs.
• Hippocrates, a famous Physician of the Island of Coos, he lived 104 years, and was had in great honour by Artaxerxes, King of Persia.
• Hippocren, a Fountain of Boeotia, sacred to the Muses.
• Hippodame, see Pelops.
• Hippodrom, (Greek) a place for tilting, or hors-racing.
• Hippogryph, (Greek) a beast represent∣ed to the fancy, being half a horse, and half a griffin.
• Hippolyta, a Queen of the Amazons, whom Hercules gave to Theseus for his wife.
• Hippolytus, the son of Theseus and Hip∣polyte, he addicted himself wholly to hunt∣ing, but being accused of adultery by Phoedra his mother in Law, because he had denied her, when she sollicited him to lye with her, he fled away and was torn in piec••s by the wilde horses that drew his

• Chariot, afterwards his limbs being ga∣thered up, and he restored to life by Aesculapius, at the request of Diana, he went into Italy and was called Virbius, and built a Citie, which from his wives name was called Ancia.
• Hippomachie, (Greek) a fighting on hors-back.
• Hippomanes, the son of Megareus and Merope, who winning the Race from Ata∣lanta, the daughter of Sichaeneus, by throw∣ing golden Apples in her way, he obtained her for his wife, but because he could not abstain from lying with his wife in the Temple of Cybele, he was turned into a Lion, and she into a Lionesse.
• Hippon, the name of a Citie of Africa, whereof St. Austin was Bishop.
• Hippona, an ancient goddesse, who was worshipped as the goddesse of Hors-cour∣sing, and her image used to be placed in stables.
• Hipp••nax, an Ephesian Poet, who writ so sharply against some that painted him ridiculously, that he caused them to hang themselves.
• Hippotades, the sirname of Aeolus, King of the winds.
• Hipsicratea, the wife of Mithridates, King of Pontus, who loved her husband so much, that she followed him in all dangers and extremities.
• Hircine, (lat.) belonging to a Goat.
• Hirculation, (lat.) a certain disease in a Vine, which causeth it to bear no fruit.
• Hircus, the left shoulder of Auriga.
• Hirsute, (lat.) rough, bristly, full of haire.
• Hispalis, a famous Citie of Spain, situate upon the River Boetis; it is now called Sevil.
• Hispania, the Kingdom of Spain, an∣ciently divided into Boetica, now called Granada. Lusitania, now called Portu∣gal and Tarraconensis, which containes the Kingdom of Arragon, and part of Castile.
• Hispid, (lat.) having rough haires, or bristles.
• Historiographer, (Greek) a Writer of Histories, a Historian.
• Historiologie, (Greek) a historical dis∣course.
• Histrionical, (lat.) belonging to a Hi∣strio, or stage-player.
• Hithe, a little Haven to land wares out of boates.

H L

• Hlaford, or Laford, (Saxon) a Lord.
• Hleafdian, or Leafdian, (Sax.) a Lady.

H O

• Hoane, a Saxon word, signifying a fine whetstone.
• Hobbie, a kinde of Hawk, called in La∣tin Alaudarius, also a little Irish Nag.
• Hoblers, certain Irish Knights, which used to serve upon Hobbies.
• Hock, and Hocks, an old English phrase, signifying mire and dirt.
• Hocktide, a certain festival time, cele∣brated about Candlemasse, for the death of Hardiknute, the last King of the Danes; it is also called Blazetide, in Latin Fu∣galia.
• Hocus-pocus, a made word, signifying a Jugler, a shewer of tricks by Legier de Main, or sleight of hand.
• A Hodge-poge, or Hotch-pot, a Hachee, or flesh cut to pieces, and sodden together with Herbs, also a Law-term, signifying a commixtion, or putting together of land for the better division of it.
• Hodget, a Persian Priest.
• Hodiernal, (lat.) belonging to the pre∣sent day, or time.
• Hoghenhine, in Common-law, is he that cometh to a house Guest-wise, and lieth there the third night, after which he is accounted one of the family.
• Hogoo, a word vulgarly used for a high savour, or taste, it cometh from the French word Hautgoust.
• Hogshead, a measure o•• wine, contain∣ing the fourth part of a Tun.
• A Hogsteer, a wilde Boar of three years old.
• Hoker, (Sax.) peevishnesse.
• Holland, one of the three parts, into which Lincolnshire is divided, from which the Earle of Holland deriveth his Title, the other two are called Kest••ven, and Lindsey.
• Holm, a certain Tree, called otherwise a Hollie-tree, also the same as Halm.
• Holocaust, (Greek) a burnt-offering, or sacrifice laid whole on the Altar.
• Holour, (old word) a whore-monger.
• Holsatia, quasi Holt Sassia, i. e. wooddy Germany. Holtz, signifying in Dutch,

• wood, it is a Countrey of Germany vul∣garly called Holstein.
• Homage, the Oath that a Vassal, or Tenant sweareth to his Lord, also the Ju∣ry of a Court Baron, consisting of such as owe Homage to the Lord of the Fee, from the Greek word Omoo, i. e. to swear.
• Homer, a famous Greek Poet, called at first Melesigenes, because he was born by the River Melete, he writ a Poem concerning the wars of Troy, which was called Ilias, and another of the Travels of Vlisses, cal∣led Odysseis. He is called by some the Moeo∣nian Prophet.
• Homesoken, or Hamsoken, an immunity from an amerciament, for entring into houses violently, and without Licence; it cometh from the Dutch words Heym, a house, and Suchen, to seek.
• Homicide, (lat.) Man-slaughter, or Mur∣der.
• Homily, (Greek) a Speech, or Sermon.
• Homoeomerie, (Greek) a likenesse of parts.
• Homogeneal, (Greek) being of the same kinde.
• Homologie, (Greek) a confessing, or a∣greeing.
• Homonymous, (Greek) things of several kindes, having the same denomination, a Term in Logick.
• Honie-suckle, a kinde of flowr, other∣wise called a wood-binde.
• Honi s••it qui mal y Pense, a common French Motto, signifying in English, blame be to him, who thinketh ill.
• Honour, in Common-law, is taken for the more noble sort of Seigneuries.
• Honour-point, in Heraldry, is the upper part of an Escutcheon, when the breadth thereof is divided into three equal parts.
• Honorary, (lat.) done, or conferred up∣on any one in token of honour.
• Honorius, the name of one of the Ro∣man Emperours, the son of Theodosius the first, who divided the Empire between his two sons, assigning to Arcadius the Eastern part, to Theodosius the Western part.
• Honymoon, an expression commonly ap∣plied to new married people, who loving violently at first, soon cool in their affe∣ction.
• Hope-Castle, a Castle in Flimtshire, to which King Edward the first retired, when the Welsh-men set upon him unawares; it is near Caergurle Castle.
• Hophas, a River that flowes by Haliar∣tus, a Citie of Boeotia, formerly called Iso∣mantus.
• Hoplochrysme, (Greek) 〈…〉〈…〉 of weapons with the weapon-〈◊〉〈◊〉▪
• Hoqueton, (French) a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of short Coat without sleeves.
• Horae, or the hours, they were faigned by the Poets to be certain goddesses, the daughters of Jupiter and Themis, their names, see in Hyginus.
• Horary, (lat.) hourly.
• Horatius Cocles, a famous Roman, who fighting against P••rsenna, King of the He∣trurians, defended a bridge himself a∣gainst all the enemies forces, untill the bridge was cut down, and after that he leapt into Tyber, and swomme to his own people, also Horatius Flaccus, a famous Lyrick Poet of Venusium, who was in high favour with Augustus and Mecaenas: whence Horatio is a proper name frequent now adayes, derived as some think from the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. e. of good eye-sight.
• Hord, (Lat.) a Cow great with Calf.
• Horizontal, (Greek) belonging to the Horizon, i. e. that Circle which divides the upper Hemisphear, or so much of the Heavens as we can see round about us from the lower Hemisphear, or so much of the Heavens as is hid from our sight.
• A Hornet, a kinde of insect, called in Latin Crabro, which useth to infest horses and other creatures, and is ingendred of the carcases of dead horses.
• Horngeld, a Tax within the Forrest to be paid for horned beasts; it comes from horn, and the Dutch word Gelden, i. e. to pay.
• Horodix, (Greek) a kinde of Dial, or in∣strument to shew how the hours passe a••way.
• Horological, (Gr.) belonging to a Ho∣rologe, i. e. an Hour-glasse, Clock, or Dial.
• Horoscope, (Greek) a diligent marking of hours, also so much of the firmament as riseth every hour from the East, also the Ascendent of ones Nativity, or a diligent marking of the time of a Childes birth.
• Horridity, or Horrour, (lat.) frightful∣nesse, dreadfulnesse, a quaking for fear.
• Horseheal, a kind of Herb, otherwise called Elicampane.
• Hortation, (lat.) an exhorting, or per∣swading to any thing.
• Hor••ensius, an eloquent Roman, whose daughter Hortensia; so pleaded her cause before the Triumvirs; M. Antony, Octa∣vius, and Lepidus; that the great Tax was taken off, which they had laid upon the people.
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• Hortyard, a Garden-yard, haply the same with Orchard.
• Hosanna, an Hebrew word signifying, Save I beseech thee, being a solemn accla∣mation used by the Jews in their Feasts of Tabernacles.
• Hospitallers, certain Knights of an Or∣der so called, because they had the care of Hospitals, i. houses erected for the re∣lief of Pilgrims, and poor or impotent people.
• Hostage, (French) a pledge left in war for performance of Covenants.
• Hosteler, in Latin hospes or hostellarius, a keeper of an Hostery or Inne, an Host.
• Hostility, (lat.) hatred or enmity.
• Hotchpot, see Hodgepodge.
• Hoten, (old word) they promise.
• Housage, a fee that a Carryer or any one payes for setting up any stuff in a house.
• House in Astrology, is the twelf part of the Zodiack being divided into twelve equal parts.
• Housebote, Estovers out of the Lords wood, to uphold a tenement or house, from hous and the Dutch word bote, a ma∣king good. See Estovers.
• Houton, (old word) hollow.
• The Howld of a ship, the room betwixt the keilson and lower decks.
• The Hownds, the holes of the checks fastned to the head of the masts.
• Howsel, to administer the Sacrament to one that lyeth on his death-bed.
• House-in, is when a ship after she is past the breadth of her bearing, is brought in narrow to her upper workes.

H U

• Hubba, the name of a Danish Captain, who in old times invaded this Island.
• Hue and Cry, in Common Law, is a pur∣suite of one having committed felony by the highway, by describing the party, and giving notice to several Constables from one Town to another.
• Hugh, the proper name of a man, signi∣fying comfort. Others derive it from the Dutch word Hougen, to cut.
• Huguenots, a name which used to be given in derision to those of the reformed Religion in France, from a gate in Tours called Hugon. Others derive it from these words Huc nos venimus, Hither we are come, wherewith they begin their pro∣testation.
• Huik, or Huke, a kind of mantle used in Spain and Germany.
• Hulk, a kind of great and broad ship, from the Greek word Olcas.
• Hull, a Town in Yorkshire, situate upon the River Hull, anciently called Kingston (q. Kings Town) upon Hull. It being built by King Edward the first, and beau∣tified with fair buildings by Michael de la Pool Earle of Suffolk. This Town is very well accomodated for Ships and Mer∣chandize.
• Hull, in Navigation, is taken for the body of a ship without masts, sailes, or yards.
• Hulling, is when a ship at sea hath taken in all her sailes in calm weather.
• Hulstred, (old word) hidden.
• Humanity, (lat.) the nature and con∣dition of man, also gentlenesse, mild∣nesse.
• Humane, or curteous Signs, are Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Aquarius.
• Humber, a great River (or rather an arm of the sea) in Yorkshire.
• Humectation, (lat.) a moistning.
• Humidity, (lat.) moistness.
• Humiliates, a certain religious Order of men, so called from Humiliare, (lat.) to humble or bring low, because they led very strict or mortified lives: they were instituted in the year 1166.
• Humorist, (lat.) one that is fantastick, or full of humours.
• Humour, (lat.) moisture, also a mans phancy or disposition. The four predo∣minate humours in a mans body, are blood, choler, flegme, and melancholy.
• Humfrey, or Humfred, the proper name of a man, signifying in Dutch Hous∣peace.
• Hundred, a part of a Shire consisting of ten tithings, each tithing consisting of ten housholds, called in Latin Decennae.
• Hundreders, men empanelled of a Jury upon any controversie of land, dwelling within the Hundred where the land lieth.
• Hundrelagh, the Hundred Court, from which all the officers of the Kings Forrest were freed.
• Hungaria, the Kingdom of Hungary di∣vided into two parts by the River Danu∣bius, it was anciently called Pan∣nonia.
• Hunnes, a people of Scythia, who in the

• time of the Emperour Valentinian over∣run all Italy and Gallia, but at last over∣come by the prayers of Pope Leo, they retired themselves into Hungary.
• Huntington, the chief Town of Huntin∣tonshire, in the publick seale called Hun∣tersdune, i. the hill of Hunters, alluding to which name Leland calls it in Latin Ve∣nantodunum: near unto the bridge is to be seen yet the plot of a Castle built by K. Edward the Elder, in the year 917, and by K. Henry the second demolished, to put an end to the contention which the Scottish men and the St. Lizes had so often had about it.
• Hurlebats, or Whirlebats, used among the ancients, called in Latin Caestus.
• Hurlers, certain great stones in Corn∣wall, which the people thereabout per∣swade themselves to have been in times past men transformed into stones for pro∣phaning the Sabbath Day, with hurling of the Ball.
• Hurleth, (old word) maketh a noise.
• Huscarles, a name given in ancient times to those that were gatherers of the Danish tribute.
• Husfastene, in some of the Statutes is taken for him that holdeth house and land.
• Hustings, the principal and highest Court of London, it cometh from the French word Haulser, i. to lift up.

H Y

• Hyacynthus, a youth who being belo∣ved of Apollo, and playing with him at a play called Discus, Zephyrus who was slighted by Hyacinthus, blew the Discus thrown by Apollo, full upon Hyacinthus his head, and killed him, which mischance Apollo lamenting, turned him into a flower called a Jacinth, vulgarly Crowtoes. There is also a pretious stone called a Hyacinth or Jacinth, being of a waterish co∣lour.
• Hyades, the seven daughters of Atlas, by his wife Aethra, they were called Ambro∣sia, Eudoxa, Pasithoe, Corone, Plexauris, Pytho, and Tyche, who lamenting their brother Hyas devoured by a Lion, were taken up into Heaven by Jupiter and changed into Stars.
• Hyaline, (Greek) of a colour like glasse.
• Hybernall, (lat.) belonging to the win∣ter-season.
• Hybla, a mountain of Sicily, famous for its Bees, and for the abundance of Time which grew there.
• Hybreas, a famous Orator, born in Ny∣lassus, a City of Caria, who was advanced to be chief Governour of that City under Euthydamus Prince of Caria, but when La∣bienus came against that Country, he so incensed him by saying he was Emperour of Caria, that he destroyed the City.
• Hydra, a monstrous Serpent bred in the Lake of Lerna; it was feigned to have a hundred heads, and was at last slaine by Hercules: also a celestial constella∣tion.
• Hydragogy, (Greek) a conveying of water by furrows and trenches from one place to another. Hydragogues are me∣dicins that are prepared to draw forth the water from any Hydropical parts.
• Hydrargyrous, (Greek) belonging to Quicksilver.
• Hydraulicks, (Greek) certain water∣works, whereby musick is made by the running of waters.
• Hydrography, (Greek) a description of waters.
• Hydromancy, (Greek) a kind of divi∣nation by waters.
• Hydromel, (Greek) a kind of drink made of honey, by some called Metheg∣lin.
• Hydrophoby, (Greek) a certain disease caused by melancholy, which causeth in those that are affected with it, an extream dread of waters.
• Hydropick, (Greek) troubled with a certain disease called the Dropsie.
• Hyemal, (lat.) bleak or winterly.
• Hyena, (lat.) a beast like a wolf, which some say, changeth Sex often, and coun∣terfeiteth the voice of a man.
• Hyl••s, the son of Theodamas King of Maeonia, whom Hercules took away by force, and carryed him with him in the Expedition to Colchos; but Hercules go∣ing on shore about Mysia, sent him for water to the River Ascanius, and the Nimphs of the River being in love with him, pulled him in, so that Hercules long expected him, and hearing no news of him, left the Argonauts and wandred up and down the Wood for a long time in quest of him.
• Hyleg, is that Planet or place in Hea∣ven whereby being directed by his or its digression, we judge of the life or state of any person.
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• Hyllus, the son of Hercules by Deianira, he being driven out of his City by Eurys∣theus, fled to Athens, and there built a Temple to Misericordia the Goddesse of Pitty.
• Hymen, or Hymenaeus, son of Bacchus and Venus, he was the first that instituted Mar∣riage, and therefore by some called the god of Marriage, he hath that name from a thin skin (called in Greek hymen) which is within the secret parts of a woman, and is said to be a note of Virginity.
• Hymne, (Greek) a spiritual Song, or Psalm sung to the praise of God.
• Hypallage, (Greek) a certain figure wherein the order of words is contrary to the meaning of them in construction.
• Hyperbolical, (Greek) spoken by way of Hyperbole, i. a figure wherein an ex∣pression goes beyond truth, either by way of excess or diminution.
• Hyperboreans, a certain Northern peo∣ple; some say, dwelling under the North Pole; others say they are a people of Scythia.
• Hyperion, the son of Caelus, and brother of Saturn, he is thought by some to be the first that found out the motion of the Stars, and is oftimes mentioned in Poetry for the same with the Sun.
• Hypermeter, (Greek) a Verse that hath a syllable above its ordinary measure.
• Hypermnestra, one of the 50 daughters of Danaus, they being commanded to kill their Husbands, the 50 sons of Aegyptus, she onely of all the sisters saved her Husband Lynceus, who afterwards killed Da∣naus.
• Hyperphysical, (Greek) supernatu∣rall.
• Hypocondriacal, (Greek) subject to melancholy, because under the hypocon∣dria or sides of the upper part of the belly, lie the Liver and Spleen which are the seat of melancholy.
• Hypocritical, (Greek) belonging to a Hypocrite, i. e. a dissembler, or one that maketh a false shew of Piety or Holi∣nesse.
• Hypogastrick, (Greek) belonging to the Hypogastrium or lower part of the belly.
• Hypoge, (Greek) a cellar or place under ground.
• Hypostatical, (Greek) belonging to a Hypostasis or Personal subsistence.
• Hypothenusal line, a term in Geometry, it is that side of a right-angled triangle which is subtended or opposite to the right angle.
• Hypothetical, (Greek) belonging to a Hypothesis, i. e. a supposition, also a Hy∣pothetical Syllogism in Logick, is that which begins with a conditionall con∣junction.
• Hypsicratea, see Hipsicratea.
• Hypsiphile, the daughter of Thous and Queen of Lemnos, she intertained Jason in his voyage to Colchos, and had twins by him; she was banisht out of Lemnos for saving her father, when all the men of the Island were killed by the women, and was intertained by Lycurgus King of Nemea.
• Hyrcania, a Country of Asia, border∣ing southward upon Armenia.
• Hyreus, a Countryman of Boe••tia, who desiring of Jupiter, Mercury, and Neptune, whom he had intertained at his house, that he might have a son and not marry, the three Deities made water upon the dung of an Oxe which had been newly offered, out of which when the tenth moneth was almost expired, was borne Orion.
• Hyrse, a kind of plant, otherwise called Millet.
• Hysterical, (Greek) as hysterical passion, a certain disease in women commonly cal∣led Fits of the Mother.
• Hysteron Proteron, (Greek) a preposte∣rous manner of speaking or writing, ex∣pressing that first which should be last.
• Hyttenia, a part of Attica, formerly called Tetrapolis, because it had four chief Cities Probalynthus, Oenoe, Tricory∣thus, and Marathon.

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• IAcchus, one of the names of Bacchus, from the Greek word Iacchein, to cry out, because his preistesses the Bacchae used in the celebration of his Orgies to make strange and unusual noises.
• Jacynth, the name of a certain pretious stone of a blewish colour, also a flower cal∣led Hyacinthus, see Hyacynthus.
• Jacob, (Hebr.) a supplanter, or be∣guiler.
• Jacobins, certain Friars of the Order of St. Dominick.
• Jacobites, a sort of Hereticks instituted in the year 530. by one Jacobus Syrus, they used circumcision, and acknowledge but one nature in Christ.
• Jacobs staff, a certain Geometrical in∣strument

• so called, also a staff that Pil∣grims use to walk with to James Compo∣stella.
• Jactancy, (lat.) a boasting.
• Jaculation, (lat.) a shooting, or dart∣ing.
• Jambes, (French) the side-posts of a door.
• Jambeux, (French) armour for the legs.
• Iambick, (lat.) the foot of a verse, con∣sisting of two syllables, one short and one long.
• Jamblichus, a famous Pythagorean Philo∣sopher of Chalcis, a Citie of Syria, he was the Disciple of Porphyrius.
• James, the proper name of a man, con∣tracted from Jacob, in Spanish Jago, in French Jaques.
• Jampnorum, a certain Law-term used in Fines, signifying certain Acres of Furze.
• Janizaries, Turkish foot Souldiers, which are of the Guard to the Grand Signior.
• Jane, the Christian name of divers wo∣men, mollified, as some think, from Joan.
• Jannock, a kinde of Oaten bread, much used in the North of England.
• Jansenisme, the opinion of Cornelius Jan∣senus, Bishop of Tyre, he was a great op∣poser of universal redemption.
• Janthe, a certain Virgin, the daughter of Telessa, who the first day of her mar∣riage was transformed into a man.
• Janus, the name of an ancient King of Italy, who intertained Saturn (when he was banish't out of Creet, by his son Jupi∣ter) and of him learn't husbandry, and the use of the Vine, he built a Citie called Janiculum, from which all Italy was also called Janicula, he is pictured with two faces, and from him the first moneth of the year is called January.
• Iapetus, the son of Titan and Terra, he married the Nymph Aria, and begat Pro∣metheus and Epimethe••s.
• Japygia, a Countrey upon the Borders of Italy, called also Calabria, and Magna Graecia, the narrowest entrance of it reach∣eth from Tarentum to Brundusium.
• Iarbas, a King of Getulia. See Dido.
• Jargon, the same as Gibbrish, or Pedlars French.
• Jarre of Oile, an earthen pitcher, con∣taining twenty Gallons, also the Order of Knights of the Jarre, was instituted by Don Garcia, King of Navarre, who riding one day on hunting, and entring into a Cave, he saw an Altar with the image of the Virgin Marie, and a Pitcher of Lillies, at which sight being moved with devo∣tion, he founded this order.
• Iarrock, a kinde of Cork.
• Iasion, or Ias••us, the son of Iupiter and Electra, to him Ceres brought forth Pluto, who was the first that brought men the use of money.
• Iasmin, or Iesemin, a kinde of flowr, so called.
• Iason, the son of Aeson, King of Thessaly, he was sent by his Uncle Pelias to Colchos, to fetch the Golden Fleece, and having overcome the Dragon, and Brazen-footed Bull, that were set to guard it, by the help of Medea, who was in love with him, he brought her away with him, and married her, but afterwards falling in love with Creusa, the daughter of Creon, he left Me∣dea, who in anger burnt Creusa, and her Palace together.
• Iasper, a precious stone of a green co∣lour, also the proper name of a man, in Latin Gasparus.
• Iaveline, (Ital.) a kinde of Dart, or Launce.
• Iberia, the ancient name of Spain.
• Ibexe, or Evick, a kinde of a mounta∣nous Goat, in Greek called Aegoreros, in Latin Capricornus.
• Ibis, a certain Lybian bird feeding up∣on Serpents, formerly worshipped in Ae∣gypt, which with its long bill first taught the use of Glisters.

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• Icarius, the son of Oebalus, he being slain by the Sheapherds of Athens, whom he had made drunk, and being discovered by his Dog Maer••, his daughter Erigone hanged her self for grief, and was after∣wards translated among the heavenly signs, and was called Virgo, the Dog also pined away and died, and was translated among the signs.
• Icarus, the son of Daedalus, who flying too near the Sun with his waxen wings which his father had made for him, melted them, and fell into the Sea, which from thence was called the Icarian Sea.
• Iceni, a certain people, anciently inha∣biting those Provinces, which are now cal∣led Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgshire, and Huntingtonshire.
• Ichdien, a Motto, or device, heretofore belonging to the arms of the Princes of

• ... Wales, it signifies in the old Saxon, I serve.
• Ichneun••on, (Greek) an Indian Rat.
• Ichnography, (Greek) a Description, or Plat-form of any thing in writing, accord∣ing to which example it is to be made.
• Ichthyologie, (Greek) a Description of fishes.
• Ichthyophagi, a certain people, who feed altogether upon fish, which they catch with Nets, made of the bark of a Palm-tree, and build their houses with the bones of fish.
• Icleped (old word) called, or named.
• Icond, (old word) learned.
• Iconoclastes, (Greek) a breaker, or de∣molisher of images, a surname attributed to several of the Greek Emperours, who were zealous against the worshipping of images in Churches, from Icon an image, and clazein to break.
• Icorven. (old word) cut, or carved.
• Ictericall, (Greek) troubled with the overflowing of the gall, a disease vulgar∣ly called the Jaunders, or the Jaundice, from the French word Iaulne, i. e. yellow, because it maketh the skin to appear of a yellow colour.

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• Ida, a Mountain of Troas, where Paris gave Judgement for Venus, about the gol¦den apple, against Iuno and Pallas; whence Venus is called the Idalian Queen.
• Idas, the son of Neptune, he seeing Marpesia, the daughter of Mars, dancing in a wood, which was sacred to Diana, carried her away by force, his father Nep∣tune having given him very swift horses, whereat Mars was so inraged that he threw himself into the River Lyco••ma, but Apollo meeting Idas, and fighting with him for Marpesia, Iupiter sent Mercury to part them, and Marpesia being left to her own freedom, which of them she would choose made choice of Idas.
• Idea, the form of any thing represented to the imagination.
• Identity, (lat.) a made Term, much used in Logick, and signifying as it were the samenesse of any thing.
• Ides of a moneth, are eight dayes in eve∣ry moneth, as in March, May, July, and October, from the fifteenth to the eight, being reckoned backward in other moneths from the thirteenth to the sixth, it comes from the old Latin word Iduo, to divide.
• Idiom, (Greek) the peculiar phrase of any language.
• Idiopathie, (Greek) a peculiar passion.
• Idiosyncrasie, (Greek) the proper, or natural temper of any thing.
• Idiotical, (Greek) private, also belong∣ing to an Idiote, i. e. one born of so weak an understanding, that the King by his prerogative, hath the government and dis∣posal of his Lands and substance, and to that purpose, a Writ de Idiota Inquirendo is to be directed to the Sheriff, to examin the party suspected of Idiocie, or Idio∣tisme.
• Idolatrie, (Greek) the worshipping of false gods, but most properly an offering of Divine honours to any Idols, pictures, or images.
• Idomeneus, the son of Deucalion Grand∣childe of Mino••, King of Creet, he return∣ing from the Wars of Troy, and going about to offer up his son, who was the first that met him upon Land, according to the vow he made to sacrifice whomsoever he met first▪ he was driven out of the King∣dom by his subjects, and arriving in the Countrey of Calabria, he built the Citie of Salentinum.
• Idoneous, (lat.) fit, convenient.
• Idyl, (Greek) a kinde of Eclogue, or Pastoral Poem, such as was written by Theocritus, Moschus, and others.

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• Jearecapstern, an Engin used in great ships to hoise the yards and sayls with∣all.
• Ieat, see Geat.
• Iejunation, (lat.) fasting.
• Iejunity, (lat.) hungrynesse, also bar∣rennesse, shallownesse of judgement, or stile.
• Ienticulation, (lat.) a breaking ones fast.
• Ieofail, in Common-law, is when a pleading, or issue, is so badly pleaded, or joyn'd that it will be errour if they pro∣ceed, it is contracted from the French words, I'ay failli, i. e. I have failed.
• Ieopardy, danger, or hazard, it comes from the French words, jeu, i. e. play, and perte, i. e. losse.
• Ieremie▪ a proper name, signifying in Hebrew, High of the Lord.
• Iesuati, an order of Monks, so called from their having the name of Jesus often in their mouths, they were begun at Sen••, in the

• year 1365. by Francis Vincent, and John Columbanus.
• Jesuites, those of the Society of Jesu, a certain religious Order instituted by St. Ignatius Loyola, they had to the three vows of Chastity, Poverty, and Obedi∣ence, the vow of Mission annexed, which bound them to go whithersoever the Ro∣man Bishop should send them for the pro∣pagation of the Faith, and to execute whatsoever he should command them.
• Jesus Colledge, a Colledge in Oxford, built not long since by Hugh Price Doctor of the Laws.
• Jet, (old word) a device.
• Jetson, the same as Flotson.
• Jews-eares, a kind of mushrome or ex∣crescence about the root of the Elder-tree.
• Jewsstone, a kind of stone called also a Marchesite.

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• Ifere, (old word) together.
• Ifretten, (old word) devoured.

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• Ignaro, (Ital.) a foolish ignorant fel∣low.
• Ignifluous, (lat.) running or flowing with fire.
• Ignify, (lat.) to set on fire, to cause to burn.
• Ignipotent, (lat.) powerful in fire.
• Ignis ••atuus, (lat.) a kind of slight ex∣halation set on fire in the night time, which ofttimes causeth men to wander out of their way. It is metaphorically taken for some trivial humour or phancy, where∣with men of shallow understandings are apt to be seduced.
• Ignition, (lat.) a setting on fire.
• † Ignivomus, (lat.) fire spitting, or vo∣miting out flames of fire, an Epithet pro∣per to Aetna, and some other mountains of the like nature.
• Ignoble, (lat.) of an obscure birth, or of a base spirit.
• Ignominious, (lat.) dishonourable, full of shame or reproach.
• Ignoramus, is a word used by the grand Inquest empanelled in the inquisition of causes criminal and publick, when they mislike their evidence as defective, or too weak to make good the presentment, which word being written upon the Bill, all farther inquiry upon that party is stopped. It is also taken substantively for a foolish and ignorant person.
• † Ignoscible, (lat.) fit to be pardoned or forgiven.
• J H S, a certain character whereby hath anciently been expressed Jesus, the proper name of our Saviour, the middle letter being taken for a Greek E, but more likely the three initial letters of these words Jesus Hominum Salvator, i. Jesus the Saviour of man, have been com∣monly used for brevities sake.

I K

• Ikenild street, one of the 4 famous ways, that the Romans anciently made in Eng∣land: It taketh its name from the Iceni, (so the people inhabiting Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, are called) the other three wayes were termed Foss, Erminstreet, and Watlingstreet.

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• Ilcester, contracted from Ivelcester, a Town in Somersetshire, it was assaulted by Robert Mowbray, when the Nobles of Eng∣land conspired against King William Ru∣fus, to set up his brother Robert Duke of Normandy in the Royal Throne.
• Ilia, the daughter of Numitor, King of the Albanes, who by her Uncle Amulius was made a Vestal, but being got with child, she brought forth twins, Romulus and Remus, of whom Mars was reported to have been the father.
• Iliades, (Greek) the Title of a famous ancient Poem writ by Homer concerning the destruction of Troy, which was for∣merly called Ilium, from Ilus one of the Kings thereof, who inlarged it, after it had been built by Dardanus the son of Jupiter.
• Iliacal, (Greek) belonging to the Ilia or small guts.
• Iliac passion, a certain dangerous disease caused by the wind getting into those guts.
• Ilioneus, the son of Phorbas a Trojan, he went with Aeneas into Italy, and being fa∣mous for his Eloquence, was sent on all his Embassages.
• Illaborate, (lat.) unlaboured, or done without paines.
• † Illachrymable, (lat.) pittilesse, [also unpittied.
• ...

• Illaqueation, (lat.) an entangling or en∣snaring.
• Illation, (lat.) a conclusion or infe∣rence.
• † Illatration, (lat.) a barking at any one.
• † Illecebrous, (lat.) alluring, charming, or inticing.
• Illegitimate, (lat.) Bastard of a base birth, unlawfully begotten.
• Illepid, (lat.) dull and unpleasant in conversation.
• Illiberal, (lat.) niggardly, without ge∣nerosity.
• Illicite, (lat.) unwarrantable, or un∣lawful.
• † Illigation, (lat.) a binding or wrap∣ping within.
• Illimitate, (lat.) unbounded, having no limits or bounds.
• Illiterate, (lat.) unlearned.
• † Illucidation, (lat.) a giving light, also an explaining or making clear.
• Illumination, (lat.) the same.
• Illusion, (lat.) a deceiving, a mock∣ing.
• Illustration, (lat.) a making cleer, a setting forth.
• Illustrious, (lat.) Noble, Famous, Re∣nowned.
• Ilus, a Trojan, who when the Temple of Pallas was burning, ran into the midst of the flames and recovered the Palladium, which because no mortal eye was permit∣ted to behold, he was strook blind, but afterwards the Goddesse being appeased, his sight was restored.
• Illyricum, a Country of Europe, so cal∣led from Illirius the son of Polyphemus; it is now known by the name of Slavonia.

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• Imagery, (French) painted or carved work of Images.
• Imagination, (lat.) a feigning or phan∣cying, also the faculty it self likewise cal∣led the Phancy.
• Imaus, a great mountain dividing Scy∣thia, into two parts, whereof one part is called Scythia within Imaus, and the other Scythia without Imaus.
• Imb••rgo, (Span.) a word used among Merchants, signifying an arrest or stop of ships or merchandizes upon any occa∣sion.
• Imbarke, (Ital.) to go aboard a ship, a term used in Navigation.
• Imbecillity, (lat.) weakness.
• † Imbellick, (lat.) unwarlick, cow∣ardly.
• Imbellish, (French) to ador••, to beau∣tifie.
• † Imberbirk, (lat.) without a beard, beardless.
• Imber-week, see Ember.
• Imbibition, (lat.) a greedy receiving or drinking in of any liquid substance.
• Imborduring, a term in Heraldry, when the field and circumference of the field are both of one mettal, colour, or fur.
• Imbossed work, from the Dutch word Inbossieren, to carve or grave, is work made with bunches or knobs in stone or met∣tall.
• Imbossement, the manner of that work.
• Imbrication, (lat.) a making square, or bending like a gutter-tile, also a covering with tile, from Imbrex, a gutter-tile.
• Imbrocado, (Spanish) cloth of Gold or Silver.
• Imbroyle, (French) to put into a com∣bustion, to set together by the eares.
• Imbuition, (lat.) a thorough moistning, also a seasoning, also a staining; whence cometh our word Embrue.
• Imitation, (lat.) a following or doing like another.
• Immaculate, (lat.) unspotted, undefiled.
• Immanity, (lat.) salvagenesse, wildness, cruelty; Also such a hugenesse as renders a thing unmanageable.
• Immansuete, (lat.) untractable, untame.
• † Immarcescence, (lat.) unfadingness, incorruptibleness; hence the participial Immarcessible.
• Immaturity, (lat.) unripenesse.
• Immediate, (lat.) next, or presently fol∣lowing.
• Immedicable, (lat.) unhealable, incure∣able.
• † Immemorable, (lat.) unworthy of mention, unremarkeable.
• Immensity, (lat.) unmeasurableness, hugeness, exceeding largenesse.
• Immersion, (lat.) a dipping, ducking, or plunging in.
• † Immigration, (lat.) a going to dwell, a passing into.
• Imminent, (lat.) ready to fall, hanging over.
• † Imminution, (lat.) a diminishing, or lessning.
• Immission, (lat.) a putting in, a planting into.
• Immobility, (lat.) unmoveableness,

• a being not to be removed.
• Immoderate, (lat.) unmeasurable, in∣temperate.
• Immolation, (lat.) an offering up to God, a sacrificing.
• Immorigerous, (lat.) rude, uncivil, diso∣bedient.
• Immortality, (lat.) a living for ever, everlastingness.
• Immortalize, (lat.) to make immortal.
• Immunity, (lat.) exemption from any office, freedom, priviledge.
• Immure, (lat.) to inclose, to shut up between two walls.
• Immutability, (lat.) constancy, unchange∣ableness.
• † Impacted, (lat.) driven in.
• Impaire, see Empaire.
• Impale, (Ital.) to spit upon a stake; al∣so to crown or adorn; also to fence about with pales: It is a term sometimes used in Heraldry.
• Imparity, or Imparility, (lat.) inequali∣ty, unevenness.
• Imparlance, see Emparlance.
• Impassible, (lat.) not moved with any affection, but more especially, cold in the passion of love. Cleop.
• Impe, a term in Falconry, signifieth to insert a feather into the wing of a Hawk, instead of one which was broken. It comes from the Saxon word imp or himp, i. to graff or inoculate, and is metaphorically taken for to fill up any vacancies. It is taken also for a kind of graffing used by Gardeners.
• Impeach, or appeach, (French.) to hin∣der; also to accuse one as guilty of the same crime whereof he which impeacheth is accused; it cometh originally from the Latin word impedire.
• Impeachment of waste, in Common Law, ••s a restraint from committing of waste up∣on Lands or Tenements.
• † Impeccability, (lat.) an impossibility of sinning or offending; it is a term proper to Scool-Divinity.
• † Impedition, or Impediment, (lat.) a hindering.
• Impel, (lat.) to thrust on.
• Impendent, (lat.) hanging over head, al∣so ready to fall upon.
• Impenetrable, (lat.) unpierceable, not to be pierced.
• Impenitent, (lat.) unrepentant, not re∣penting.
• † Impen••ous, (lat.) having no fea∣thers.
• Imperative Mood, in Grammar, is that Mood which implyeth a commanding.
• Imperceptible, (lat.) not to be taken notice of, unperceiveable.
• Imperial, (lat.) belonging to an Impe∣ratour, i. e. a Commander or Emperour.
• † Imperil, (from the Lat. periculum) to bring into danger.
• Imperious, (lat.) given to domineer or insult, of a commanding spirit.
• † Imperforable, (lat.) not to be bored thorough, a Decompositum, or word com∣pounded of two praepositions and a verb.
• Impersonal, (lat.) a term used in Gra∣mar, and signifieth that word whether pro∣noun or verb which hath but one termi∣nation for all the three persons, or at least which wanteth a termination for one of them.
• Impertinence, (lat.) a thing not belong∣ing to the purpose.
• † Impervestigable, (lat.) not to be found out by strict inquiry or search.
• Impervious, (lat.) through which there is no passage.
• Impetiginous, (lat.) scabby, or troubled with an itching distemper.
• Impetrate, (lat.) to obtain by earnest request or intreaty, whence the participial Impetrable.
• Impetuosity, (lat.) a driving forward with great force and violence.
• † Impiation, (lat.) a defiling.
• Impiety, (lat.) wickednesse, a being void of piety.
• † Impignoration, (lat.) a putting to pawn.
• † Impigrity, (lat.) a being free from sloth; quicknesse, activity.
• † Impinge, (lat.) to run against any thing, also to drive fast into, as a naile in∣to a board; whence the Participle Im∣pacted, above mentioned.
• † Impinguation, (lat.) a fatning, or ma∣king fat.
• Implacability, (lat.) an unreconcile∣ablenesse, a disposition not to be ap∣peased.
• Implantation, (lat.) a planting or fast∣ning into.
• Implead, in Common Law, is to sue or commence a suit.
• Implement, (lat.) a filling up of any va∣cancy, also things necessary about a house, or belonging to a trade, are called Im∣plements.
• Implication, (lat.) a folding or wrap∣ping within, an entangling, also a

• necessary consequence, and in this last sence we use the word to imply, which is hence derived.
• Implicite, (lat.) folded, or intangled together, also implicite faith, is taken in a translate sence, for such a belief as is al∣together upheld by the judgement, and authority of a great company agreeing to∣gether.
• Imploration, (lat.) an humble petitio∣ning, a desiring any thing with great sub∣mission.
• † Implume, (lat.) bare, without fea∣thers.
• Impolite, (lat.) rough, and unpolish't.
• Imporcation, (lat.) a making a Balk, or ridge in the ploughing of land.
• Imporous, (lat.) having no pores, a word proper onely to Philosophy.
• Importance, (French) moment, weight consequence, a carrying in it some great matter from the Latin words, in the pre∣position, and portare to carry.
• Importunate, (lat.) troublesome, or wearying with too often, or unseasonable requests.
• Imposition, (lat.) an imposing, or lay∣ing a strict injunction, also the same as Impost
• Imposititious names, (latin) original names.
• Impositour, (lat.) one that belongeth to a Printing-house, and imposeth the pages into a form for the presse.
• Impossibility, (lat.) that which cannot be done.
• Impost, (French) a tribute, or tax, but more especially we use it for the tax re∣ceived by the Prince for such merchan∣dizes as are brought into any haven from other Nations, whereas Custome is for wares shipped out of the land.
• Impostour, (lat.) a seller of false wares, also any kinde of deceiver, or jugler.
• Impostume, a word commonly, but cor∣ruptly used for Aposteme, (Greek) which is a gathering together of evil humours into any one part of the body.
• Impotency, (lat.) an unablenesse, or want of strength, it is many times taken for an unap••nesse to generation.
• Impoundage, a confining, or putting into a pound.
• Impregnation, (lat.) a making fruit∣full, a filling, or causing to swell.
• Imprecation, (lat.) a cursing, or calling down some mischief upon anothers head.
• Impregnable, (lat.) not to be won, or taken by force.
• Imprese, the same as devise, it cometh from the Italian word Imprendere, to un∣dertake.
• Impression, (lat.) an imprinting, stamp∣ing, or making a mark.
• Imprest money, is money paid to Soul∣diers before hand.
• † Imprimings, beginnings, from the Latin Imprimis, i. e. first of all, a word used in the beginnings of Inventories, or Cata∣logues of goods.
• Improbation, (lat.) a disallowing, or not approving.
• Improbability, (lat.) a matter which can not be proved, an unlikelinesse.
• Improbity, (lat.) dishonesty, wicked∣nesse.
• † Improcerity, (lat.) a lownesse, want of talnesse, or stature.
• † Improcreability, (lat.) a barrennesse, or unaptnesse to procreate.
• † Improperation, (lat.) a making haste, also an upbraiding any one with a fault.
• Impropriation, (lat.) see appropria∣tion.
• Improvidence, (lat.) carelesensse, or forgetfulnesse to provide, want of fore∣sight.
• Improvement, an advancing of profits, a thriving, a benefiting in any kind of pro∣fession.
• Imprudence, (lat.) want of discretion, or understanding.
• Impudence, (lat.) overboldnesse, shame∣lesnesse.
• Impugnation, (lat.) a contradicting, or resisting.
• Impuissance, (French) weaknesse, di∣stresse, want of outward supports.
• Impulsion, (lat.) a driving forward, a thrusting on, also a constraining.
• Impunity, (lat.) a going unpunished, an exemption from punishment.
• Impurity, (lat.) uncleannesse.
• Imputation, (lat.) a laying to ones charge.
• Imputrescence, (lat.) a keeping from pu∣trefaction, or rotting an uncorruptible∣nesse.

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• Inaccessible, (lat.) not to be come at.
• Inachus, the most ancient King of the Argives, the son of Oceanus and Thetys and the brother of Aesopus, concerning his daughter Jo, see beneath in Jo, from this

• King Inachus the chief River of Argia took its denomination.
• Inaffability, (lat.) discurtesie, unplea∣santnesse in conversation.
• Inaffectation, (lat.) carelesseness, free∣ness from vain-glory.
• Inambulation, (lat.) a walking from place to place.
• Inamiable, (lat.) unlovely, unplea∣sant.
• † Inamissible, (lat.) not to be lost.
• Inamorato, (Ital.) a lover.
• † Inaniloquution, (lat.) an i••dle or vain speaking, from inanis, empty, and loqui, to speak.
• Inanimate, (lat.) having no life, with∣out a soul.
• Inanity, (lat.) emptiness, or a being void of air, or any other body. It is a Philosophical term used by Dr. Charl∣ton.
• Inarable, (lat.) not to be plonghed.
• † Inargentation, (lat.) a silvering over, a covering with silver.
• Inaudible, (lat.) not to be heard.
• Inauguration, (lat.) an asking counsel of Augures or Soothsayers, also the confer∣ring of honours or preferment upon any one, also a consecrating.
• Inaurated, (lat.) covered with Gold, gilded over.
• Inauspicious, (lat.) unlucky, ill-boding.
• Inborow, and Outborow, in ancient times, was the office of him that was to allow free liberty of Ingress and Egress to those that travelled between the two Realmes of England and Scotland. This office belong∣ed in King Henry the thirds time, to Patrick Earle of Dunbar.
• Incalescence, (lat.) a growing warm or lusty, a taking heat.
• Incandescence, (lat.) a being inflamed with wroth, a growing angry.
• Incanescence, (lat.) a growing gray-headed, a waxing hoary.
• Incantation, (lat.) an inchanting or charming.
• Incapacity, (lat.) an uncapableness, or being unfit.
• Incarceration, (lat.) a putting in prison.
• Incarnadin colour, (French) a flesh co∣lour, or the colour of a Damask Rose.
• Incarnation, (lat.) a making flesh to grow, or a being made of flesh.
• Incastellated, (French) narrow-heeled.
• Incendiary, (lat.) one that puts things into a flame or combustion, a sower of divi∣sion or strife.
• Incense, (lat.) to inflame or stir up anger.
• Incensory, (French) a censing-pan, or Church-vessel, wherein they use to burn incense, being a kind of rich Perfume or Gum, distilling from a Tree of the same name, and is also called Frankin∣cense.
• Incentive, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣vokement, a motive.
• Incentor, (lat.) the same as Incendiary, also Incentor, Accentor, and Succentor, are three sorts of Singers in parts.
• Inception, (lat.) a beginning or under∣taking of any businesse: whence Incep∣tour, he that hath newly taken his de∣gree in the University.
• Incern, (lat.) to sift, to examine strictly.
• Incessant, (lat.) continual, without ceasing.
• Incestuous, (lat.) unchast, committing incest, which is an untying of the Virgin Zone, or Cestus; but it is commonly taken for a defiling one that is near in blood or kindred.
• Inchoation, (lat.) a beginning of any work.
• Incident, (lat.) hapning to, or falling out of necessity: It is also substantively taken in Common Law, for a thing neces∣sarily depending upon another, as more principal; as a Court-Baron is so inci∣dent to a Manor that it cannot be sepa∣rated.
• Incineration, (lat.) a reducing to ashes or cinders.
• Incision, (lat.) a cutting deep into any thing, a making a gash.
• Incisure, (lat.) the cut or gash it self.
• Incitation, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣voking.
• Inclamitation, (lat.) an often calling upon.
• Inclemency, (lat.) rigour, sharpness, a being without pitty or compassion.
• Inclination, (lat.) a bending or leaning toward, a disposition to any thing. It is also taken in an amorous sense. Artam.
• Inclusion, (lat.) an inclosing, a shutting in.
• Inclusive, (lat.) containing.
• Incoacted, (lat.) uncompelled.
• Incogitancy, (lat.) a not thinking or minding, rashnesse, inconsiderateness.
• † Incohible, (lat.) unrestrainable, not to be restrained.
• Incolumity, (lat.) a being free from dan∣ger, safeness.
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• Incomity, (lat.) unsociableness, want of civility in conversation.
• Incommensurable, (lat.) holding not the same proportion, or not to be measured with another thing.
• Incommodious, (lat.) unprofitable, or unfit.
• Incommunicable, (lat.) not to be made common or imparted to another.
• Incompact, (lat.) not close fastned or joyned together.
• Incomparable, (lat.) without compare, not to be compared with.
• Incompatible, (lat.) not agreeing one with another, not induring to be joyned together.
• Incompensable, (lat.) uncapable of be∣ing recompenced.
• Incompossible, (lat.) affirming what an∣other denies. A term proper onely to Logick.
• Incomprehensible, (lat.) not to be taken hold of, not to be conceived by the mind.
• Inconcinnity, (lat.) ungracefulness, a being ill disposed, or placed out of or∣der.
• Incongealable, (lat.) not to be congealed or frozen.
• Incongruity, (lat.) a disagreeableness, an unfitness.
• Inconsideration, (lat.) rashness, unad∣visedness.
• Inconsolable, (lat.) not to be cheared or comforted.
• Incon••tancy, (lat.) unstableness, fickle∣ness.
• Incontinency, (lat.) a not abstaining from unlawful desires.
• Incorporation, (lat.) a mixing together into one body or substance.
• Incorporeal, (lat.) being bodiless or without a body.
• Incorrigibility, (lat.) a being past cor∣rection.
• Incorruptible, (lat.) never consuming or decaying, free from corruption.
• Incrassation, (lat.) a thickning, a ma∣king gross.
• Increate, (lat.) not made, uncreated.
• Incredibility, (lat.) a being not to be believed.
• Incredulity, (lat.) a not believing, a want of belief.
• Increment, (lat.) an increasing, or growing big.
• Increpation, (lat.) a chiding, or finding fault with.
• Incressant, resembling the Moon not come to the full, a term in Heraldry.
• Incrustation, (lat.) a making or become∣ing hard on the outside like a crust, a rough-casting, or pargetting.
• Incubation, (lat.) a lying down, a sitting over, or brooding.
• Incubus, (lat.) a certain disease called the night-mare, which is caused by the ascending of raw humours up into the brain, and obstructing the animal spirits; it oppresseth people in their sleep, and causeth them to imagin that some great weight is lying upon them. There is also mention made in some Stories of certain spirits, that having taken upon them hu∣mane shapes, have mixed in carnal copu∣lation with mortal persons, the male spirit is called Incubus, the female Succubus.
• Inculcation, (lat.) an often repeating and insisting upon the same thing, that it may the more deeply be imprinted in ones mind.
• Inculpable, (lat.) unreproveable, not to be blamed.
• Incumbent, (lat.) lying or leaning upon, also it is substantively taken for him that is preferred to any spiritual living, and is in possession of it.
• Incumbrance, see Encumbrance.
• Incurable, (lat.) not to be cured of any disease or malady.
• Incur, (lat.) to run upon.
• Incursion, (lat.) a running into, a hit∣ting against, also a making an inroad.
• Incurvation, (lat.) a crooking or bend∣ing.
• Incussion, (lat.) a violent shaking, or dashing against any thing.
• † Incusation, (lat) a blaming or accu∣sing.
• Indacus, a servant to the Emperour Leo, so swift of foot, that he could outrun any horse.
• Indagation, (lat.) a diligent search∣ing.
• Inde, (French) a certain Mineral wher∣with they use to paint or die of a blew colour, called also Indico, because it is brought out of India. It is of two sorts, English Inde, and Inde Baunias.
• Indecent, (lat.) unbecoming, unfitting.
• Indeclinable, (lat.) not to be declined, or shun'd, also in Grammar that Noun is said to be indeclinable, which varies not Cases.
• Indecorum, (lat.) an unseemlinesse, an unhandsome carriage.
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• Indefatigable, (lat.) not to be wearied or tired.
• Indefinite, (lat.) not limited, undefined, undetermined.
• Indelible, (lat.) not to be cancelled, razed or blotted out.
• Indemnity, (lat.) a freeness from da∣mage, loss, or danger.
• Indenture, a writing containing some contract between two or more, (from the French word Endenter) it being indented or jagged on the top.
• Independency, (lat.) a not depending upon another, absoluteness of ones self; but it is commonly taken for that pro∣fession or sect of men who manage all things belonging to Church-discipline within their own Congregations, and allow not of a dependance upon a national Church.
• Indeprecable, (lat.) not to be perswa∣ded or intreated.
• Indesinent, (lat.) incessant, without ceasing.
• Indeterminate, (lat.) not determined or decided, but left indifferent.
• Index, (lat.) a token or mark to shew or direct, the Table of a Book.
• India, a famous and vast Country, lying very far toward the East, and extreamly abounding in riches. It is denominated from the River Indus. America or the New World is also called the West Indies.
• Indian mouse, a little beast called in Greek Ichneumon, which creeping in at the mouths of Crocodiles, eates up their entrailes, and kills them.
• Indication, (lat.) a shewing or making manifest; also a term in Physick, signi∣fying the right way which prescribeth what is to be done in relation to the resto∣ring of health.
• Indicative mood, in Grammar is that mood which barely affirms and no more.
• Indicavit, the name of a writ, by which the patron of a Church may remove a suit commenced against his Clerk, from the Court Christian, to the Kings Court.
• Indico, the same as Inde.
• Indiction, (lat.) a certain computation of time, which came in place of the Olym∣piads, every Indiction is the space of 15 years, by which compute all publick wri∣tings were dated at Rome; it signifieth al∣so a tribute, or tax.
• Indifference, (lat.) a carelesse, general, and unconcerned affection. Cassandra.
• Indigence, (lat.) need, penurie, or want.
• Indigenous, (lat.) an indweller, or native of any Country.
• Indigestion, (lat.) cruditie, want of digestion or concoction in the stomack.
• Indigitation, (lat.) a pointing at, or shewing with the finger.
• Indignation, (lat.) a being angry with.
• Indignity, (lat.) unworthiness, unworthy dealing.
• † Indiligence, (lat.) want of diligence, sloth.
• Indiscretion, (lat.) want of discretion or prudence.
• Indiscriminate, (lat.) where no separa∣ration or difference is made.
• Indissoluble, (lat.) not to be dissolved, untied, or taken asunder.
• Indistinct, (lat.) not distinguisht or known one from another.
• Inditement, see Enditement.
• † Inditiation, (lat.) a giving a mark or sign.
• Individual, (lat.) not to be divided or separated, an individual, or individuum in Philosophy is taken for a small particle or body, so minute, that it cannot be divided, and is by some called an Atome: also in Logick it signifies that which cannot be divided into more of the same name or nature, and is by somd called Singu∣lare.
• Indivisible, (lat.) not to be divi∣ded.
• Indivisum, (lat.) in Common-law, is that which two hold in common without partion or dividing.
• Indocility, or Indocibility, (lat.) an un∣aptnesse to be taught or learn.
• Indoctrination, (lat.) an instructing or teaching.
• Indolency, (lat.) a being without pain.
• Indomable, (lat.) not to be tam'd.
• Indorcement, in Common-law is a con∣dition written upon the other side of an obligation or conveyance, from the Italian word Endossare.
• Ind••bitation, (lat.) a not doubting, a yielding for certain.
• Inducement, (French) a perswasion, or drawing on.
• Induciary, (lat.) belonging to a league or truce.
• Induction, (lat.) a leading into, a draw∣ing on or inticing, also in Logick, it is ta∣ken for a kind of argumentation or Im∣perfect Syllogisme, wherein the species is

• collected out of the Individuals, the Ge∣nus out of the species, and the whole out of the parts.
• † Indulcation, or Indulciation, (lat.) a sweetning, a making sweet.
• Indulgence, (lat.) a gentlenesse in suf∣fering, a favouring, a pardoning; it is also taken for the form of some special act of grace, granted by the Pope to divers persons, upon some special occasions, which some call an Indult.
• † Indument, (lat.) a cloathing, or gar∣ment.
• Induration, (lat.) a making hard.
• † Indusiated, (lat.) cloathed with a garment called Indusium, i. e. a shirt or smock.
• Industrie, (lat.) pains, labour, diligence: some derive it from induere and s••rnere••: it being as Minshew saith, as it were a cer∣tain structure, wherewith the mind is in∣dued.
• Inebriation, (lat.) a making drunk.
• Ineched, (old word) put in.
• Ineffable, (lat.) unspeakable, not to be uttered.
• † Ineffugible, (lat.) unavoidable, not to be shunned.
• Inelaborate, (lat.) not labourd, or ta∣ken pains for.
• Ineluctable, (lat.) not to be over∣come by wrestling, or taking great pains.
• Innerrable, (lat.) not to be declared or related.
• Ineptitude, (lat.) unaptnesse, also fond∣nesse. vainnesse.
• Inequality, (lat.) unequalnesse, uneven∣nesse.
• Inequitable, (lat.) not to be rid through.
• † Inertitude, (lat.) lazinesse, sloth∣fulnesse.
• Inescutcheon, a term in Heraldry, being an Ordinary formed of a threefold line, representing the shape of the Escutch∣eon.
• Inestimable, or Inaestimable, (lat.) which cannot be rated, of too high a price to be valued.
• Inevitable, (lat.) not to be shuned or avoided.
• Inexaturated, (lat.) not to be filled or satisfied, of an unsatiable appetite.
• Inexhaustible, or Inexhaurible, (lat.) not to be drawn out or emptied.
• Inexorable, (lat.) not to be perswaded or intreated.
• Inexpiable, (lat.) not to be purged or cleansed from sin, never to be satisfied for.
• Inexpleble, (lat.) not to be filled.
• Inexplicable, (lat.) not to be unfolded or explained.
• Inexpugnable, (lat.) not to be taken or won by force.
• Inextinguible, (lat.) not to be put out or quenched.
• Inextirpable, (lat.) not to be rooted out, whose stock or linage can never be utterly destroyed.
• Inextricable, (lat.) not to be wound out, or disentangled.
• Inexuperable, (lat.) not to be overcome, or surpassed.
• Infallible, (lat.) not to be deceaved, never failing.
• Infancie, (lat.) the first age of man, which is from the first year till the se∣venth.
• Infandous, (lat.) not to be spoken, monstrously wicked and hainous.
• Infangtheft, a word used in the practic of Scotland, signifying a liberty to sit and decide upon any theft committed within a mans own jurisdiction, by his own ser∣vant; Out-fangtheft being the like liberty, when a theft is committed by a stran∣ger.
• Infantes and Infantas of Spain, all the Sons and Daughters of the King of Spain, are so called, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or by way of eminence, except the Eldest, who are cal∣led Principe, and Princesa.
• Infanterie, (Ital.) the Foot Souldierie of an army.
• Infanticide, (lat.) Infant-killing, a mur∣dering of Children or Infants.
• Infatigable, see Indefatigable.
• Infatuation, (lat.) a besoting, a making foolish.
• Infaust, or Infaustous, (lat.) unluckly, unfortunate.
• Infelicity, (lat.) unhappinesse.
• To Infeof, a Law Term, to grant in Fee.
• Inferial, (lat.) belonging to Fune∣ralls.
• Inferiour, (lat,) lower, of a meaner de∣gree.
• Inferiour, Planets are those which are placed below the Globe of the Sun.
• Infernal, (lat.) belonging to the deep, or hell.
• To Infer, (lat.) to bring in, to conclude from something gone before.
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• Infertil, (lat.) barren, unfruitful.
• Infestation, (lat.) a troubling, molesting, or disturbing.
• † Infestive, (lat.) without sport, joy, or solemnity.
• Infibulation, (lat.) a buttoning or buck∣ling in.
• Inficiation, (lat.) a denying.
• Infidelity, (lat.) untrustinesse, unfaith∣fulnesse.
• Infimous, (lat.) lowermost, meanest.
• Infinitive, (lat.) having no end or mea∣sure, the Ifinitive Mood in Grammer, is that Mood which hath neither number nor person, as other moods.
• Infirmary, an Hospital or Spittle for sick folks.
• Infirmity, (lat.) weaknesse indisposed∣nesse▪
• To Infix, (lat.) to fasten in.
• Inflammation, (lat.) an inflaming, a swelling or burning with heat.
• Inflate, (lat.) swelling, or puft up with wind; hence an inflate expression, is an expression swelling with big words, but to little purpose.
• Inflexible, (lat.) not to be bowed or bended, and by metaphor unruly: it is also taken in an amorous sense, when a Lady is not to be moved by the most earn∣est importunity of her servant. Artam.
• Infliction, (lat.) a laying a punishment upon.
• Influence, (lat.) a flowing in, also the power which celestial bodies have over earthly things.
• Influx, (lat.) a flowing in.
• Infacundity, (lat.) unfruitfulnesse, bar∣rennesse.
• Information, (lat.) an informing, tel∣ling, nor making known.
• Informatus non sum, a formal answer, made by an Atturny, that is commanded by the Court to say what he thinks good in defence of his Client, whereby he is deemed to leave his Client undefended, and so judgement passeth for the adverse party.
• Informers, certain Officers belonging to the Kings bench, who complain of those that offend against any penal statutes; they are also called Promoters, and by the Ci∣vilians, Delatores.
• Informity, (lat.) unhandsomenesse, uglynesse, a being out of shape or form.
• Infrangible, (lat.) not to be broken or discouraged.
• Infriction, or Infrication, (lat.) a rub∣bing or cha••ing in.
• To Infringe, (lat.) to break to pieces, also to indamage or diminish.
• Infucation, (lat.) a laying on of drugs, or artificial colours upon the face.
• Infuscation, (lat.) a making dark or dusky.
• Infusi••n, (lat.) a powring, in, it is used in Physick, for a steeping of roots or leaves, or any kind of medicine, in some liquid substance for a certain time, till the chiefest of their virtue be drawn out.
• Ingannation, (Ital.) a deceaving.
• Ingemination, (lat.) a doubling, also a repeating the same word over a∣gain.
• Ingenerable, (lat.) not to be begotten or produc't.
• Ingeniculation, (lat.) a bending of the knee, a kneeling.
• † Ingeniosity, or Ingenuity, (lat.) ingeni∣ousnesse, wittynesse, also Ingenuity is taken for a free condition or state of life, also a liberal or free nature.
• Ingestion, (lat.) a carrying or convey∣ing in.
• Ingle, see Ca••amite.
• Inglorious, (lat.) without glory, ob∣scure.
• Ingot, a little wedge, or masse, of gold, from the French word Lingot, because it something resembleth a tongue.
• Ingrailed, from the Latin, Ingredior, a term in Heraldry, as a bordure ingrailed, is when the line, of which the bordure is made, crooks inward toward the field.
• Ingrate, (lat.) displeasing, not accepted, also unthankful, whence Ingratitude, un∣thankfulnesse.
• Ingredient, (lat.) is taken, in Physick, for one of the simples, put into a com∣pounded medecine.
• Ingree, (old word) in good part.
• Ingression, (lat.) an entring or walking into, also a beginning,
• Ingressu, (lat.) a writ of entrie, whereby a man seeketh entrie into Lands or Tene∣ments.
• Ingrosser, in Common law signifies one thnt buys up corn growing, or dead victu∣all to sell again.
• Ingurgitation, (lat.) a greedy swal∣lowing, or gluttonous devouring, as it were a craming a bottomlesse pit.
• Ingustable, (lat.) untastable, not to be tasted.
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• Inhabitable, (lat.) not to be dwelt in, or inhabited, but the praeposition in, hath not the same force in the word Inhabitant, this signifying a dweller, or one that lives in this or that place.
• Inhalation, (lat.) a breathing in, a breathing upon.
• Inhesion, or Inhaesion, (lat.) a sticking close, a cleaving unto.
• Inheritance, in Common law, is a perpe∣tuitie of lands or tenements, to a man and his heirs.
• Inhibition, (lat.) a forbiding, in Common law, it is taken, for a writ, forbidding a Judge to proceed farther in the cause de∣pending before him, but inhibition is a writ issuing out of a higher Court, Chri∣stian to an inferiour, whereas prohibition issues out of the Kings, to a Court Chri∣stian, or to an inferiour temporall Court.
• Inhonestation, (lat.) a shaming or dis∣gracing, a making dishonest.
• Iahospitality, or Inhospitability, (lat.) a not affording intertainment, a churlishness to strangers, also an unfitnesse for inter∣tainment.
• Inhumanity, (lat.) cruelty, barbarous∣nesse, as it were a putting off, and devest∣ing ones self of human nature.
• Inhumation, (lat.) a burying, or putting into the ground.
• † Inideous, (lat.) unfit.
• Injection, (lat.) a casting in, it signifi∣eth in Physick, particularly, a conveying of any liquid substance, into any part of the body, by glister or Syringe, or the like.
• Inimitable, (lat.) not to be followed or imitated.
• Iniquity, (lat.) want of equity, corrup∣tion, injustice.
• Iniswen, the white Island, a name which in ancient times was attributed to this Island of Brittain.
• Initiation, (lat.) an entrance, or admit∣tance into any Faculty or Art.
• Injucundity, (lat.) unpleasantnesse.
• Injunction, (lat.) an injoyning, or commandement, as it were a joyning or fastening a command upon any one, also a decree out of Chancery, to give possession to the plaintife for want of apparence in the defendent, or to stay a proceeding in a Court, upon suggestion made, that the ri∣gour of the law is against equity.
• Injurious, (Lat. from in and jus) wrong∣full, as it were against right and law.
• An Inkling of a matter, a small rumour or report, as it were a tinckling, or little sound, or, as others say, from Inclinare, because by it the ear is somewhat in∣clined.
• Inlagary, in Common law, is a restitution or restoring of one outlaw'd, to the bene∣fit or estate of a subject; the word Inlawgh signifying in the Saxon tongue, one that is in franco••plegio, that is, under a certain law; and in Decenna, for till a man be 12 years of age, he is not accounted under law.
• Inlay, see Marquetry.
• Inmates, signify in Common law, those that are admitted for their mony, to dwel joyntly with another man in his house, passing in and out by one door, and not being able to maintain themselves.
• Innatable, or Innable, (lat.) not to be swimed in.
• Innate, (lat.) naturally inbred.
• Innavigable, (lat.) not to be sailed in, unpassable for any ship or boat.
• Innes of Chancery, eight houses appoint∣ed for young Students in the elements of law, namely, Thavies Inne, anciently the mansion house of J. Thavie, Armourer of London. 2. Furnivalls Inne, once the man∣sion of Sr. Rich. Furnival, afterwards of the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury. 3. Ber∣nards Inne, once belonging to J. Macworth, Dean of the Cathedral of Lincoln, and in the holding of Lionel Bernard. 4. Staple Inne, once belonging to the English Mer∣chants of the Staple. 5. Cliffords Inne, once the dwelling house of Malcolm de hersey, afterwards of the Cliffords, Earls of Cumberland, of whom it is now rented. 6. Clements Inne, once a Messuage belong∣ing to the Parish Church of St. Clement Danes. 7. New Inne, once the dwelling house of Sr. J. Tyncaulxe, it hath been also called our Lady's Inne. 8. Lyons Inne, once a dwelling house, known by the name of the Black Lyon.
• Innes of Court, 4 houses or Celledges, for the intertainment of Students of the law, namly, the two Temples, Inner and Middle, which were anciently the habita∣tions of the Templars, or Knights of Je∣rusalem, (to which was added the outward Temple, which is now called Essex House) Lincoln's Inne, built by Henry Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, for his own dwelling house, and Grais Inne, anciently the mannour house of Baron Gray, in the time of Ed∣ward the third.
• Innitent, (lat.) endeavouring, lean∣ing,

• or insisting upon.
• Innocents day, the 28 of December, wherein Masse used to be said, for the souls of the Innocent Children slain by Herod, it is also called Childermas day.
• Innocuous, (lat.) doing no hurt, harm∣lesse.
• Innominable, (lat.) not to be na∣med.
• Innovation, (lat.) a making new, also a bringing in of new customs or opini∣ons.
• Innoxious, (lat.) safe, dangerless, where∣in there is no hurt.
• Innubilous, (lat.) cloudlesse, not over∣cast.
• Innuendo, a Law term, used in pleadings, to declare a thing or person that was men∣tioned before obscurely.
• Innumerable, (lat.) not to be num∣bred.
• Innutrition, (lat.) a nourishing in∣wardly.
• Ino, the daughter of Cadmus and Har∣monia, and nurse to Bacchus, she was second wife to Athamas, King of Thebes, and for causing Phryxus and Helle, whom he had by his first wife Nephel••, to be banisht, she was punished by Juno, who possest her husband, with such a raving madnesse, that he took her for a lionesse, and forced her with her son Melicerta, to cast her self into the sea, where, by the compassion of the gods, they were changed into sea Deities.
• Inobservable, (lat.) not to be observed, unworthy of observation.
• Inocciduous, (lat.) never falling, setting, or going down.
• Inoculation, (lat.) a graffing, or insert∣ing a bud or kernel into the bud of ano∣ther tree.
• Inodoration, (lat.) a making to swell, a perfuming.
• Inopacous, (lat.) not dark, or sha∣dowed.
• Inopinate, (lat.) not thought of, or ex∣pected.
• Inoptable, (lat.) not to be wisht.
• Inorganical, (lat.) wanting Organs, or Instruments of motion or opera∣tion.
• Inquietude, (lat.) restlessenesse, want of repose, or quiet of minde. Cleop.
• Inquiline, (lat.) a native, he that dwel∣eth where he was born, from in and Colo. i. to dwel.
• Inquination, (lat.) a making foul, a polluting or defiling.
• Inquirendo, an authority given to a per∣son, to inquire into something for the Kings advantage.
• Inquisition, (lat.) a searching into, or inquiring after; also the name of a grand councel, instituted by Ferdinand, the Ca∣tholick King of Spain, who having subdu∣ed the Empire of the Moors in that king∣dom, ordered, that no Moors should be suffered to stay in Spain, but such as should be baptized; and for inquiry into those matters: this Councel was erected, and called the Sacred Councel of the inquisition, whereof the Arch-bishop of Toledo, or the Arch-Bishop of Sevil was President, assisted by 12 other Councel∣lours.
• Inrolement, a registering or recording any lawful act in the Roules of the Chan∣cerie.
• Insanity, (lat.) unsoundnesse of body or mind.
• Insative, (lat.) unsown, unplanted, grow∣ing voluntarily.
• Insaturable, (lat.) not to be filled, or satified.
• Inscious, or inscient, (lat.) unknowing, ignorant.
• Inscription, (lat.) a title or name, writ or engraven over any thing.
• Inscrutable, (lat.) not to be found out by searching, hidden, mysterious.
• Insculption, (lat.) a carving, or engra∣ving.
• Insecable, (lat.) not to be cut.
• An Insect, (lat.) the smallest sort of Animal, as a Fly, Bee, or Ant, some think them to be so called, because they have a kind of division, or section, between the head and the belly.
• Insectation, (lat.) a railing against, as it were a following and prosecuting with evil language.
• Insectile, (lat.) not to be cut.
• Insection, (lat.) a cutting into.
• Insemination, (lat.) a sowing into.
• Insensate, (lat.) mad, foolish, void of sense.
• Insensible, (lat.) not to be perceived, also not having any sence, also the same as impassible. Artam.
• Insertion, (lat.) an engraffing, a planting into.
• Insic••ation, (lat.) a drying.
• Insident, (lat▪) sitting upon, also set∣ling.
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• Insidiation, (lat.) a laying ambush, a waiting to ensnare.
• Insimulation, (lat.) an accusing.
• Insinuation, (lat.) a winding ones self in by little and little, a getting into favour by degrees, as it were a going into the bosome.
• Insipid, (lat.) having no taste or relish, unsavory.
• Insipience, (lat.) foolishnesse, want of knowledge or discretion.
• Insist, (lat.) to stay upon, to urge.
• Insition, (lat.) a cutting into, a graf∣fing.
• Insolation, (lat.) a laying in the Sun, a bleaching.
• Insolency, (lat.) pride, arrogancy, as it were an unwonted behaviour, or doing contrary to common custom.
• Insoluble, (lat.) See Indissoluble.
• Insomnious, (lat.) wanting sleep, also apt to dream.
• Inspection, (lat.) a looking narrowly into.
• Insperable, (lat.) not to be hoped.
• Inspersion, (lat.) a sprinkling upon.
• Inspiration, (lat.) an inspiring or brea∣thing into.
• Inspissation, (lat.) a thickning or ma∣king thick.
• Instability, (lat.) unsteadfastness, in∣constancy.
• Instancy, (lat.) a being near at hand, also earnestness or urgency.
• Instauration, (lat.) a renewing or re∣pairing.
• Instigation, (lat.) a stirring or pricking on, a provoking.
• Instillation, (lat.) an instilling, or cau∣sing to drop by little and little.
• Instimulation, (lat.) the same as Insti∣gation.
• Instinct, (lat.) a natural inward motion, or prompting.
• Institutes, (lat.) ordinances, precepts, or commandments, and particularly certain bookes of the Civil Law, collected by Justinian.
• Institution, (lat.) an ordaining or ap∣pointing.
• † Ins••bid, (lat.) hasty, inconsiderate, rash.
• Insubria, a Country of Italy, anciently called Gallia Cisalpina, now Lumbardy, from the Lumbards, a people of Pannonia which conquered it.
• Insular, (lat.) belonging to an Island, or Island-like.
• Insulsity, (lat.) unsavoriness, unpleasant∣ness, also folly, bluntness of wit.
• Insultation, (lat.) a leaping on, also a boasting or insulting.
• Insuperable, (lat.) not to be vanquisht or overcome.
• 〈◊〉〈◊〉, (lat.) not to be born or indured.
• Insurrection, (lat.) a rising against.
• Intabulation, (lat.) a laying on of boards or planks.
• Intactible, (lat.) not to be touched.
• Intakers, a sort of theeves so called, be∣cause they receive such things as the out∣parters bring to them.
• Intamination, (lat.) a defiling or pol∣luting.
• Intangible, (lat.) the same as Inta∣ctible.
• Integral, whole, in Arithmetick inte∣gral numbers are opposed to fractions.
• Integration, (lat.) a making whole, or restoring.
• Integrity, (lat.) sincerity, uprightness, as it were soundness, and intireness of mind.
• Integument, (lat.) a covering, a garment to cover with.
• Intellectual, (lat.) belonging to the In∣tellect, i. e. the faculty or act it self of un∣derstanding.
• Intelligence, (lat.) knowledge, under∣standing, wisdom.
• Intemperance, (lat.) inordinatness of life, a want of temperance to contain a mans desires and lusts.
• Intempestivity, (lat.) unseasonableness, a doing a thing out of due season and order.
• Intenebration, (lat.) a darkning or ob∣scuring.
• Inteneration, (lat.) a making tender, a softning.
• Intense, (lat.) stretched to the utmost, contrary to remisse, as intensely cold, i. cold in a high degree, remissely cold, i. cold in a low degree.
• Intent, or Intentive, (lat.) seriously bent upon a business.
• Intentation, (lat.) a threatning, as it were a trying o•• indeavouring a∣gainst.
• Interc••lation, (lat.) an interserting or putting between; it is particularly ap∣plyed to the putting in of a day into the moneth of February in Bissextile or Leap-year.
• Intercession, (lat.) a praying or media∣ting

• in the behalf of another, as it were a stepping between to keep off harm or danger.
• Intercident, (lat.) falling between as an intercidental day, an extraordinary criti∣cal day, which being caused by the vio∣lence of the disease, falls between the or∣dinary critical dayes.
• Intercision, (lat.) a cutting between or in the midst.
• Interclusion, (lat.) a shutting between, or a stopping up the passage between one thing and another.
• Intercolumniation, (lat.) the distane be-two Columns or Pillars, also some kind of work placed between them. It is a term used in Architecture.
• Intercostal, (lat.) being between the ribs, as those veins and muscles which run along in those parts, are called in Anatomy, the intercostal veins and muscles.
• Intercurrent, (lat.) running or passing between, whence the substantive inter∣course commonly used.
• Intercutaneous, (lat.) being between the skin and the flesh.
• Interdict, or Interdiction, (lat.) a for∣bidding or debarring one the use of any thing. In Common and Canon Law, in∣terdiction is particularly taken for an Ecclesiastical censure prohibiting the use of Divine rites to the person condemned, also such persons whom all men are for∣bidden to receive into their house, are said to be interdicted of fire and water.
• Interduct, (lat.) a leading between, also a sp••ce left between full periods in wri∣ting or printing.
• Interemption, (lat.) a killing or violent depriving of life.
• † Interequitation, (lat.) a riding be∣tween.
• Interest▪ a Verb impersonal in Latin signifieth, it concerns or belongs unto; but we commonly use it substantively for a concernment, right, or appertainment, al••o usury, the use of money lent, being as it were the right of him that lends.
• Interfaction, (lat.) an interrupting or disturbing any one by speaking in the midst of their discourse.
• Interfecti••n, (lat.) a killing.
• Interfectour, an interficient or destroy∣ing Planet, and which is placed in the eighth house (in a Nativity) either five degrees before the cusp of the house, or 25 after. Secondly, the Lord of the eighth house. Thirdly the Planet that is joyned to the Lord of the eighth house. Fourthly the Planet that disposeth of the Lord of the eighth house when he is not therein.
• Interfeer, (Frence) to hit one leg against another, also to exchange blows.
• Interfluent, or Interfluous, (lat.) flowing between.
• Interrogatories, in Common Law, are questions demanded of witnesses brought in.
• Interjacent, (lat.) lying between.
• Interjection, (lat.) a casting between: It is commonly used for one of the eight parts of Speech in Grammar, expressing some sudden passion of the mind.
• Interim, an Adverb signifying in Latin, in the mean while; but we commonly use it substantively for the time passing be∣tween.
• Interiour, (lat.) inward, being on the inside.
• Interition, (lat.) a perishing or de∣caying.
• Interloquution, (lat.) a speaking or dis∣coursing between.
• Interlopers, in Common Law, are those that without legal authority, intercept the trade of a company, as it were Inter∣leapers.
• Interlucation, (lat.) a letting in of light between, by the cutting away of boughs, a term in Gardening.
• Interlude, (lat.) a kind of Stage-play, that which is sung or represented between the several Acts.
• Interlunary, (lat.) belonging to the Interlunium, or space between the old and new Moon.
• Intermeation, (lat.) a passing be∣tween.
• Intermedian, or Intermeate, (lat.) be∣ing in the middle, or lying between.
• Intermeteth, (old word) medleth.
• Intermication, (lat.) a shining between, or in the midst.
• Intermission, (lat.) a putting between, also a deferring or leaving off for a while.
• Intermissions, a term in Architecture, the spaces between the wall and the pillars, or between pillars and pillars.
• Intermixtion, (lat.) a mingling between or amongst.
• Intermural space, (lat.) a space between two walls.
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• Internal, (lat.) inward.
• Internecion, (lat.) a making a universal slaughter, or utter destroying.
• Internigration, (lat.) a mingling of black.
• Internuntiation, (lat.) a going or send∣ing of a message between several parties.
• Interpellation, (lat.) an interrupting or disturbing.
• Interplication, (lat.) a folding be∣tween.
• Interpolation, (lat.) a fixing or insert∣ing between.
• Interposition, (lat.) an interposing or putting between.
• Interpretation, (lat.) an interpreting, expounding, or explaining.
• Interpunction, (lat.) a distinguishing by making points or pricks between.
• Interreign, in Latin Interreguum, the space between the death of one Prince or Ruler, and the succession or election of another; whence Interrex, he that ruleth or beareth sway during that space.
• Interrogation, (lat.) an asking or de∣manding a question.
• Interruption, (lat.) a troubling or di∣sturbing any one in the midst of a busi∣nesse.
• Interscription, (lat.) an interlining, a writing between two lines.
• Intersecants in Heraldry, are pertransient lines which crosse one another.
• Intersection, (lat.) a cutting in the midst.
• Intersertion, (lat.) a graffing, or putting in between.
• Intersonant, (lat.) sounding between or in the midst.
• Interspersion, (lat.) a sprinkling or scat∣tering between.
• Interspiration, (lat.) a breathing be∣tween.
• Interstitial, (lat.) having an interstice or space between.
• Intertexture, (lat.) a weaving be∣tween.
• Interval, (lat.) a distance or space either of place or time.
• Intervenient, (lat.) coming between.
• Intervert, (lat.) to turn upside down, also to beguile, or deceitfully to take a∣way a thing committed to any ones trust.
• Intervigilation, (lat.) a watching be∣tween whiles.
• Intestable, (lat.) uncapable by the Law to make any Will, or be taken for a wit∣nesse.
• Intestine, (lat.) inward, lying within the entrailes.
• Inthronization, (lat.) a placing upon a Throne or Seat of Majesty.
• Intimation, (lat.) a signifying, or se∣cret declaring.
• Intimidation, (lat.) a making timorous or fearful.
• Intinction, (lat.) a dying, a dipping in∣to any coloured liquor.
• Intire, (lat.) whole or sound.
• Intitulation, (lat.) an intiteling, an ad∣ding a title unto any thing.
• Intollerable, (lat.) not to be born, or endured.
• Intonation, (lat.) a thundering or ma∣king a terrible noise.
• Intoxication, (lat.) a poisoning or en∣venoming.
• Intractable, (lat.) not to be managed or trained, unmanageable.
• Intrado, (Spanish) an entrance, also a yearly revenue.
• Intraneous, (lat.) inward.
• Intricacy, or Intrique, (lat. and Fr.) an intanglednesse, incumbrance, or winding like a labyrinth.
• Intrinsecal, (lat.) inward or secret.
• Introduction, (lat.) a leading in, also a beginning or preface to any discourse.
• Introgression, (lat.) a going in.
• Intromission, (lat.) a sending inward.
• † Introruption, (lat.) a breaking in, a rushing in by violence.
• † Introversion, (lat.) a turning upside down, also a turning ones thoughts with∣in, a looking a word used in practical Divinity.
• Intrusion, (lat.) a wrongful or unman∣nerly thrusting in.
• Intuition, (lat.) a clear seeing into, a distinct beholding.
• Intumescence, (lat.) a swelling, or rising up into a heap.
• Intumulation, (lat.) a throwing a heap upon, a burying.
• Invagination, (lat.) a putting into a sheath or scabbard.
• Invalid, (lat.) of no force, strength, or value.
• Invasion, (lat.) an assailing, or setting upon anothers right or dominions.
• Invecked, from the Latin Invehere, a term in Blazon▪ as a bordure Invecked, is when the line of which the bordure is made inverts its points not toward the field, but into it self.
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• Invection, (lat.) a carrying in, or a∣gainst.
• Invective, (lat.) railing, sharp, bitter in expressions, as it were violently carried on against any one.
• Inveigle, to allure, or intice, from the Dutch word avanglen, i. to cast alluring eyes.
• Invellop, see Envelope.
• Inventory, (lat.) a certain writing where∣in is contained a Catalogue, or reckoning up of the Goods & Chattels of a deceased party, which are to be prized, or valued by sufficient men, and exhibited to the Ordinary.
• Inversion, (lat.) a turning the inside out, a changing the order of things, or words.
• Invest, (lat.) to give possession, which used to be done by delivering the Tenant a rod, and administring him an Oath, also to instal with any honour, or dignity.
• Investigation, (lat.) a making diligent search, or inquiry.
• Investiture, (lat.) a giving possession, an endowing with honour.
• Inveterate, (lat.) grown old, rooted, and setled by long custome.
• Invigilation, (lat.) a carefull watching, a diligent over-seeing.
• Invigorate, to inspire vigour, life, and spirit.
• Invincible, (lat.) not to be conquered, or overcome.
• Inviolable, (lat.) not to be violated, or broken.
• Inviron, (French) to encompasse.
• Invisible, (lat.) not to be seen, or dis∣cerned.
• Invitation, (lat.) an inviting, bidding, or calling unto.
• Inumbration, (lat.) a casting a shadow upon.
• Inunction, (lat.) an anointing thorough∣ly.
• Inundation, (lat.) an overflowing with water.
• Invocation, (lat.) an invoking, or cal∣ling upon.
• Involation, (lat.) a flying into, or a fly∣ing upon.
• Involve, (lat.) to wrap, or fold in, to entangle, or overwhelm.
• Involuntarie, (lat.) unwilling.
• Inurbanitie, (lat.) incivility, want of courtesie, or affability.
• Inure, or Enure, to accustome, also in Common-law, it signifieth to take effect, or be available.
• Inusitate, (lat.) not accustomed, un∣wonted.
• Inutility, (lat.) unprofitablenesse.
• Invulnerable, (lat.) not to be wound∣ed.

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• Io, the daughter of Inachus, King of the Argives, she being beloved of Jupiter was transformed into a Cow, that she might not be known of Juno, who neverthelesse suspecting, caused her to be watch't by Argus, who had many eyes, but Argus be∣ing slain by Mercury, Juno sent a Gadfly to sting her, which made her run up and down restlesse, till at length she arrived at Aegypt, where being restored to her former shape, she was married to Osiris, and called Isis.
• Joab, (Hebr.) Fatherhood.
• Joachim, an Hebrew proper name, sig∣nifying preparation of the Lord.
• Joan, a proper name of women, answer∣able to that of John in men, it was the name of several great Queens, as those of Aragon and Naples.
• Joannitiques, a certain order of Monks, that wear the figure of a Chalice upon their breasts.
• Job, (Hebr.) sighing, or sorrowing.
• Joblin, (French) a sot, or gull.
• Jocasta, the daughter of Creon, King of Thebes, and the wife of Laius, after whose death she was married unknowingly to her son Oedipus, to whom she brought forth Eteocles and Polynices, who slaying one another in a contest about the King∣dom, she killed her self for grief.
• Joculatory, or Jocous, (lat.) jesting, sportive, done or spoken in jest.
• Jocund, in (Latin Jucundus) chearfull, pleasant, or joyfull, from Jocus, i. a jest.
• John, a proper name, signifying in He∣brew gracious, there have been divers great Kings, and other famous men of this name, as Kings of England, Scotland, Spain, and Portugal, 23 Popes of Rome, also Joannes Hircanus, a famous Captain of the Jews, who conquered Samaria, Idu∣maea, and a great part of Syria; Joannes Acutus, or Hackwood, an English-man, who performed several great martial exploits in Italy, under the Dukes of Milain; Joan∣nes Guttenberg, a German, who invented the Art of printing, this name was anci∣ently pronounced Juon.
• Joinder, in Common-law, is the coup∣ling

• of two in a suite one against ano∣ther.
• Joyning-issue, a Term in Common-law, the referring a point of a matter depend∣ing in suite, to the tryal of the Jury.
• Joynt-Tenants, in Common-law, are those that hold Lands, or Tenements by one Title, or without partition.
• Joynture, a Term in Law, being a Cove∣nant, whereby a husband assureth unto his wife in respect of marriage lands, or Tene∣ments for Term of her life, or otherwise.
• Jolaus, the Nephew of Hercules, he drove his Unkles Chariot, when he fought against Cycnus the son of Mars, afterwards when he grew old, he was restored to youth by the prayers of Hercules.
• Jollitrin, (Fr.) a youngster, or young Gallant.
• Jonas, a proper name, signifying in He∣brew a Dove.
• Jonathan, another Hebrew name, signi∣fying the gift of God.
• Joncade, (French) a certain kinde of spoon meat.
• Ionia, a Countrey of Asia the lesse, ha∣ving twelve great Cities, whereof Miletus and Ephesus were the chief, the inhabi∣tants of this Countrey descended anci∣ently from the Greeks, whence their lan∣guage was called the Ionick Dialect.
• Ionick Order in Architecture, see Corin∣thian.
• Jopaean, a certain expression, used in Hymnes, or songs of rejoycing.
• Jopa••, an African King, who was one of those that sought to have married Dido, he was a great Musician, and sung in verse, of the course of the Moon, and the motion of the Stars.
• Jordan, (Hebr.) the River of judge∣ment.
• Joscelin, the proper name of a man, in Latin Justulus, being a diminutive from Jost, in Latin Justus, or Jodocus, the chief of this name was Joscelin of Lovan, son to Godfrey, Duke of Brabant.
• Joseph, (Hebr.) encrease of the Lord.
• Josias, (Hebr.) fire of the Lord.
• Josuah, (Hebr.) the Lord Saviour.
• Jot, a little, or very small matter, from the Greek letter Iota, or the Hebrew Jod.
• Jotacisme, (Greek) a running much upon the letter Iota, or I, also a bad pro∣nunciation of the same letter.
• Jouketh, a Term in Faulconry, they say the Hawk Jouketh, and not sleepeth.
• Journal, (French) a book of every dayes passages, also so much land as may be plough'd in a day by one team of oxen.
• Journee, (French) a dayes journey, also an expedition of war, a day of battell.
• Joyce, the proper name of a woman, in Latin Jocosa, i. merry, pleasant.
• Joyes of the Planets, are when they are in those houses where they are most powerfully and strong, as Saturn joyeth in Scorpio.

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• Iphianassa, Iphinoe, and Lysippe, the daughters of Proetus, King of Argos, who for despising the goddesse Juno, & equal∣ling their own beauties to hers, were struck with such a Phrensie, that they ima∣gined themselves transformed to Cowes, but Melampus being sent for, & offered for the cure of them half the Kingdom, and which of the daughters he lik't best, soon brought them to their former estate, and married Iphianassa.
• Iphiclus, the son of Amphitryo by Alck∣mena, he was born at the same time with Hercules, who was begot by Jupiter.
• Iphicrates, a Captain of the Athenians, famous for many great victories.
• Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, and Clytemnestra, she was adjudged to be sacrificed to Diana, because that goddesse being incensed against Agamemnon for kil∣ling one of her harts, kept the Navy of the Greeks by contrary windes from their intended course, but after that Vlisses had by craft obtained her of her mother, and all things in a readinesse for the sa∣crifice, Diana accepted of a Hart, so that Iphigenia was set free and sent to Taurica, where she was made Over-seer of the rites of that goddesse, (which were performed by the sacrificing of men) by Thoas the King of that place, who was afterwards slain by Orestes, who was designed to be offered for a sacrifice.
• Iphimedia, the wife of Aloeus, who being ravish't by Neptune, brought forth Twins, Othus and Ephialtes, who grew every moneth nine fingers in talnesse, till they came to be of a very vast stature, they helpt the Gyants against the Gods, and were at length slain by the Arrows of Apollo and Diana.
• Iphinoe, see Iphianassa.
• Iphis, a young man of a great beauty, who fell in love with Anaxarete, see A∣naxarete.
• Iphis, is also the name of a Cretan Vir∣gin

• the daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa, she was by her mothers prayers to the goddesse Isis changed into a man, least Lygdus finding himself deceived should be incensed, for he going to travel, and gi∣ving a strict charge to Theletusa, whom he left with Childe, that if she brought forth a Female Childe, she should put her out from her, he was made to believe that it was a Boy, and as soon as his supposed Son came of age, he provided him a wife named Janthe, for whom as it hapned, Iphis proved a real husband.
• Ipswich, the chief Town of Suffolk, it was sacked by the Danes in the year 991. this Town is famous for the birth of Car∣dinal W••lsey, who was a Butcher's son of this place, and who began to build here a very magnificent Colledge▪ here is yet to be seen the ruines of the old Town, which was called Gipwich.

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• Iracundious, (lat.) of an angry dispo∣sition, inclinable to anger.
• Irascible, (lat.) capable of anger, irasci∣ble faculty is that faculty of the Soul from whence anger and passion is stirred up, and kindled in men.
• Irchenfield, or Archenfield, that part of Herefordshire, where the Citie of Hereford now standeth, and where the old Town of Ariconium stood in ancient times.
• Irene, the mother of Constantine the 7^th. she reigned at Constantinople joyntly with her son called a Councel at Nice, consisting of above 300 Bishops, wherein the setting up of images in churches was confirmed by a decree, being expelled from the Empire by her son, who reigned alone for▪ seven years, she at length took him by craft, put out his eyes, and cast him into prison where he died.
• Iris, the daughter of Thaumas, feign'd by the Poets to have been the messenger of the gods, there is a kinde of watry Me∣teor, so called in Greek, appearing in the Clouds of divers colours, which we call the Rain-bow.
• Irmunsul, or Ermisul, a certain God worshipped by the ancient Brittains, and thought to be the same with Mercury.
• Ironical, (Greek) spoken in mockery, or by that figure called Irony, which is a speaking contrary to what a man means by way of bitter gibing, or scoffing.
• Irradiation, (lat.) an enlightning, or casting beams upon.
• Irrational, (lat.) unreasonable.
• † Irrecordable, (lat.) not to be remem∣bred.
• Irrecuperable, (lat.) never to be reco∣vered, unrecoverable.
• Irredivivous, (lat.) not to be revived.
• Irrefragable, (lat.) unbreakable, also undeniable, not to be confuted.
• Irregularity, (lat.) disorderlinesse, as it were a being without rule, also an in∣capacity of taking holy orders, as being maimed, or very deformed, base-born, or guilty of any hainous crime, a Term in Canon-law.
• Irreligious, (lat.) having no Religion, or piety towards God.
• Irremeable, (lat.) through which there is no passing back, or returning.
• Irremediable, (lat.) not to be remedied, or helped.
• Irremissible, (lat.) not to be remitted, or pardoned.
• Irremunerable, (lat.) not to be re∣warded.
• Irreparable, (lat.) not to be restored, or repaired.
• Irreprehensible, (lat.) not to be repre∣hended, or blamed.
• Irresolute, (lat.) unresolved, doubting▪ or wavering.
• Irrevocable, (lat.) not to be revoked, or called back.
• Irrigation, (lat.) a watering of Gar∣dens and Meadows out of some neigh∣bouring River.
• Irrision, (lat.) a laughing at, a scoffing, or flouting.
• Irritation, (lat.) a provoking, or stir∣ring up.
• † Irrite, (lat.) void, of no effect.
• Irrogation, (lat.) an imposing upon.
• Irroration, (lat.) a bedewing, or be∣sprinkling.
• † Irruent, (lat.) rushing, or running vio∣lently upon.
• Irrugation, (lat.) a wrinkling, a con∣tracting into wrinkles.
• Irruption, (lat.) a breaking violently in.
• Irus, a poor man of Ithaca, who was a continual messenger between Penelope and those that came to court her in her hus∣bands absence, for which Vlisses, when he came home, killed him with his fist.

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• Isaac, (Hebrew) laughter, as Gelasius in Greek.
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• Isaca, or Isca, a river in England, vul∣garly called Ex, from whence the City Exon, or Exeter, is denominated.
• Isagogical, (Greek) belonging to Isa∣gogue, (i. e.) an Introduction or begin∣ning.
• Isca Danmoniorum, see Excester.
• Isca Silurum, the name of a Town in Monmouthshire, commonly called Caer∣leon.
• Iscariot, the sirname of Judas, that be∣trayed our Saviour, from the Hebrew, Isch Carioth.
• Ischiatic, (Greek from Iscrias the hip) troubled with a pain in the hip, which pain is commonly called the Sciatica, or hip gout.
• Isicle, q. Iceseekle, from the dutch word Iskekel, a tappe of ice, a drop of water frozen.
• Isis, a goddesse, worshipped by the Egyptians, she was at first called Io, and was the daughter of Inachus, King of Argos, see Io.
• Isis, the river Ouse, in Wiltshire, which meeting with Thames, is called Thamisis.
• Islip, a Town in Oxfordshire, anciently called Gistlipe, famous for being the birth-place of King Edward the Confes∣sour.
• Ismaelite, one descended from Ismael, the son of Abraham, by his Concubin Agar.
• Isonomy, (Greek) an equality.
• Isoceles Triangle, (in Geometry) is that which hath two equal sides, and two equal opposite Angles.
• Isota de Nugarolis, a Virgin of Verona, the daughter of Antonius de Nugarolis, she was very famous for Philosophy, Phi∣lology, and Poetry.
• Isped, (old word) dispatched.
• Israel, (Hebrew) prevailing in the Lord.
• Issue, in Common law, signifieth either children begotten between a man and his wife, or the profits of lands, or the profits growing from a fine, or a matter depend∣ing in suit, whereupon the parties joyn.
• Isthme, (Greek) a narrow neck of land, lying between two seas, the most famous Isthmus, is that of Greece, whereupon Corinth stands; from thence were deno∣minated the Isthmian Games, instituted by Theseus, in honour of Neptune.
• Istria, a Country of Italy, joyning to Illyricum.
• Isurium Brigantum, the name of an anci∣ent City in York-shire, so called from the River Vre running by it: It was many ages since, rased to the ground, but out of the ruines of it was built a Town, now called Ealdburgh or Aldborow.

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• Italia, or Italie, one of the most famous Countries of Europe, so called from Italus, otherwise called Atlas, an ancient King thereof, who had two daughters, Electra, whom he marryed to Camboblasco, King of the Janigenae, and Roma, whom he made Queen of the Aborigenes, she is said to have laid the foundation of the City Rome, which was afterwards finished by Romulus, others derive Italy from the Greek word Italos, an Ox, because that Country abounded with Oxen, it was an∣ciently called Hesperia, from Hesperus, the brother of Atlas.
• To Italianize, a made word, signifying to speak or do like an Italian.
• Iteration, (lat.) a saying or doing the same thing over again, a repeating.
• Ithaca, an Island in the Ionian sea, where Vlisses was born, it is full of Goats, but no Hare can live there.
• Itinerary, (lat.) belonging to a journy, also substantially used for a Calender of miles, or a note-book, wherein are set down the passages of a journy.
• Itylus, the son of Zethus and Aedon, see Aedon.
• Itys, the son of Tereus, King of Thrace, by Progne, the daughter of Pandion, King of Athens, he was slain by his mother, and set before Tereus, to eat at a banquet, (because he had deflowred her sister Philo∣mel, who after her hands and tongue were cut off, wrought the relation of it with her needle) but Tereus discovering in the midst of the banquet, the slaughter of Itys, by seeing the head of the child, he pursued Progne and her sister, with his sword drawn, who running from him, Progne was changed into a swallow, Philo∣mell, into a Nighingale, and Itys into a Pheasant.

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• Juba, a King of Mauritania, he was a constant friend to Pompey's party, he over∣threw Curio, and all his forces sent into Africa, by Caesar: when Pompey was over∣come,

• he joyned his forces with Scipio, and dyed fighting with Petreius.
• Jubarb, q. barba jovis, because of its per∣petual greennesse, a kind of plant, other∣wise called Housleek.
• Jubeb▪ fruit or Jujubes, (Arab. zufalzef) a kind of Pruan, used much in Physick, and sold by Apothecaries; it was a fruit known among the Seres, a people of Scythia, and therefore called in Latin Sericum.
• Jubilation, (lat.) a solemn rejoycing, a shouting for joy.
• A year of Jubile, a great festival, or time of rejoycing, celebrated every 50th year by the Jews, in remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt, it came at length to be solemnized among the Chri∣stians, being first instituted by Pope Boni∣face, the eighth in the year 1300, who ordained it to be kept every hundred years, it comes from the Hebrew word Jocel, rejoycing.
• Jucundity, (lat.) pleasantnesse.
• Judea, a Country of Syria, in Asia the greater, bordering eastward upon the dead sea, it is also called Chananaea, or the land of Promise.
• Judaisme, (lat.) the faith or religion of the Jews.
• Judicatory, (lat.) a place of Judgement or hearing of causes.
• Judicial, or Judiciary. (lat.) belong∣ing to a cause, tryal, or judgement.
• Judith, (Hebr.) praising, a proper name of women.
• Ivetot, a Town of lower Normandy in France, which hath in former times been governed by a titular King; whence a man of a great Title, and a small inheri∣tance, is in derision called a King of Ivetot.
• Jugal, (lat.) belonging to a yoak.
• Jugament, (lat.) a yoaking or coup∣ling.
• Jugular, or Jugularie, (lat.) belonging to the throat, whence the jugular veins are those veins which ascend along the sides of the neck, to the bottom of the head.
• Jugulation, (lat.) a cutting the throat of any one, a killing.
• Jugurth, the son of Manostabales, brother of Micipsa, King of Numidia; whom his Uncle, dying, constituted heir of his king∣dom, together with his two sons, Adherbal and Hiemsal, but Jugurth, that he might possesse the Kingdom to himself, slew them both: whereupon the Romans made war upon him for a long time, wherein at length being overthrown by Marius, he fled to Bocchus, King of Mauritania, by whom he was betrayed to Sylla, and being brought to Rome, dyed in pri∣son.
• Jujubes, see Jubeb fruit.
• To Juke, to pearch or roost as a Hawk.
• Julep, a kind of physical medecine, to open the inward parts, and prepare for purgation, being a decoction mingled with sirrups, or sweetned with sugar.
• Jullaber, a certain hillock in Kent, so called from one Jullaber, a Giant, or as some say, a Witch, who was here enterred, but Cambden rather thinks it so named from Laberius Durus, a Captain of Julius Caesars, who was here slain.
• Julian, sirnamed the Apostate, because that being brought up in the Christian religion, he fell back to Heathenisme: he was the son of Constantius, and by his va∣lour came to be made Roman Emperour, he prohibited to the Christians all kind of learning, that through their ignorance, they might become uncapable to defend their religion: at last, in an expedition against the Persians, being mortally wound∣ed, he cryed out, vicisti Galilaee, Thou hast overcome, O Galilaean, meaning Christ; and soon after dyed: also, a proper name of women, contracted Juliana, some write it Gilian.
• Julian account, see Gregorian account.
• Julio, a kind of Italian coin, made by Pope Julius, valuing about six pence of our mony.
• Julius Caesar, the first of the Roman Emperours, he subdued France, Spain, Brittain, the Low Countries, and the great∣est part of Germany, afterwards he entred into a civil war with Pompey, whom he ut∣terly defeated at the battle of Pharsalia, and his two sons, Cneus and Sextus Pom∣peius in Spain; and having reigned three years in Rome, as absolute Emperour, he was at length slain in the Senate house, by Brutus and Cassius, the word signifies in Greek softhaired.
• Julius, the sirname of Ascanius, the son of Aeneas, and his first wife Creusa, he came along with his father into Italy, and built the City Alba in the place, where he found the white Sow with the 30 Pigs: also the son of Ascanius, who stood in com∣petition for the kingdom of Alba, with

• ... Silvius Posthumus the son of Aeneas by his second wife Lavinia; the word signifieth in Greek, the soft down appearing on the chin of a young man, before he comes to have a perfect beard.
• July, the name of the fifth moneth from March, which was heretofore accounted the first moneth of the year, it was so na∣med from Julius Caesar, being in former time called Quintilis.
• Jumentarious, (lat.) belonging to a horse, or any kind of labouring beast, cal∣led in Latin jumentum.
• Juncture, (lat.) a joyning together, also a joynt, also juncture of time, the very nick or moment of time.
• June, the fourth moneth of the year from March the first. Some say it was so called from Juno, as it were junonian moneth. Others from Junius Brutus, who begun his Consulship in that moneth: it is called in Greek Hecatombaeon, from the Hecatombs or Sacrifices of a hundred Oxen which used to be offered to Jupiter in this moneth.
• Junke, in Navigation, is any piece of an old cable.
• Juno, the daughter of Saturn and Ops, and both wife and sister to Jupiter, to whom she brought forth Vulcan and Mars, and a daughter called Hebe, whom she conceived by eating of green Lettice: she is called Juno a juvando, i. from giving help, also Lucina, from causing men to see the light of the World, being said to be present at the birth of all children that come into the World, and to sit crosse-legged when any miscarry. She is also called Sospita a Sospitando, i. e. keeping in safety.
• Juno's teares, a kind of plant otherwise called Vervain.
• Junto, or Junta, (Span.) a meeting to∣gether of men to ••it in council.
• Ivory, (French) the Elephants tooth being the finest and whitest kind of bone, of which boxes and several sorts of things are made.
• Jupiter, the son of Saturn by his wife Ops, born at the same birth with Juno, and hid in the mountain Ida in Creet, where he was bred up by the Curetes unknown to his father Saturn, who intending to de∣voure all his male children, his wife Ops gave him a great stone wrapt up in swad∣ling clouts, to eat instead of his son Jupiter, who coming to age and understanding his fathers designs against him, conspired a∣gainst him, and cast him out of his domi∣nions, and divided the government of the World between himself and his two bro∣thers; the Heavens he reserved to him∣self, to Neptune he gave the Empire of the Sea, and to Pluto the lower Regions of the Earth.
• Jupiter Belus, the second King of Baby∣lon, or as some say the first, he was the son of Nimrod, called also Saturn.
• Juration, (lat.) a swearing, or taking an oath.
• Jurats, (French) certain officers other∣wise called Eschevins, or Sheriffs.
• Jurden, or Jordon, a kind of Urinal or Chamberpot, also Jordan is the name of a River dividing Perea from the rest of Judaea.
• Juridical, (lat.) belonging to the Law, judicial, or which will bear an action.
• Jury, (in lat. Jurati) signifieth in Com∣mon Law, a company consisting of 24 or 12 men empanelled, and sworn to deliver a truth upon such evidence as shall be de∣livered them touching the matter in que∣stion, there being three sorts of trials, either by Assize or Jury, by Battel, or by Parliament. In every general Assize, there is both a Grand Jury consisting of 24 sub∣stantial men, chosen indifferently out of the whole County, and others called Petit Juries, consisting of 12, to whom are referred such things concerning life and death, as the Grand Jury have ap∣proved of.
• Jurisdiction, (lat.) authority to make or execute Laws. Also it is used for any kind of power or authority.
• A Jurist, a Lawyer.
• Jurisprudence, (lat.) knowledge or skil in the Laws.
• Jurn, or Journchoppers, the regraters or changers of yarn.
• Juror, one of the twelve men in a Jury.
• Jury-mast, is one made at sea in case of necessity, by fastning several pieces to∣gether.
• Jussel, a minutal from jus, signifying a dish made of several meats minced to∣gether.
• Jussulent, (lat.) full of broth or pot∣tage.
• Justes, (French) tikings or combats on horseback with Speares and Lances.
• Justice, or Justicer, (French) an officer deputed by the King or Common-wealth, to act by way of judgement.
• ...

• Justice of the Kings Bench, is the capital or chief Justice of England, he is a Lord by his office, which is most especially to hear and determine all pleas of the Crown, that is such as concern offences committed against the Crown, Dignity, and Peace, of the King; as Treasons, Mayhems, and the like.
• Justice of Common pleas, is he who hears and determines all causes at the Common Law, that is, all civil causes between common persons, as well personal as reall. He is also a Lord by his office.
• Justice of the Forrest, or Justice in eyre of the Forrest, is he that hath the hearing and determining of all offences within the Kings Forrest committed against Veni∣son or Vert, and is also a Lord by his office.
• Justices of Assises, such as were wont by special commission to be sent into this or that County to take Assises for the ease of the subjects.
• Justices of oyer and terminer, are Ju∣stices deputed upon some special and ex∣traordinary occasions, to hear and deter∣mine causes.
• Justices in eyre, those that were wont to be sent with commissions into divers Coun∣ties, to hear such causes as were termed the Pleas of the Crown, and were for the ••ase of the subjects who must have come to the Kings Bench, if the cause were too high for the County-Court, from the French word Erre, a journey.
• Justices of Goale delivery, are such as are sent with commission to hear and deter∣mine all causes appertaining to such as for any offence are cast into Goale.
• Justices of Nisi prius, the same now a∣dayes with Justices of Assises.
• Justices of tryal baston, or trayl baston, were certain Justices appointed by Ed∣ward the first to make inquisition through the Realme, upon all Officers, as Mayors, Sheriffs, Escheatours, &c. touching ex∣tortion, briberies, intrusion into other mens lands, and Barratours that used to take money for beating of men, and they had power either to punish by death, or to exact a ransome. This term comes from two French words, treille an arbour or form, and baston a staff or pole, to note that the Justices imployed in this com∣mission, had authority to proceed without any solemn Judgement-seat, but where∣soever they could apprehend the male∣factours.
• Justices of peace, are such as are appoin∣ted by the Kings commission to attend the peace in the County where they dwell, whereof such whose commission begins Quorum vos unum esse volumus, are called Justices of the Quorum.
• Justicies, a Writ directed to the Sheriff for the dispatch of justice in some espe∣cial cause wherewith of his own authority he cannot deal in his County-Court▪
• Justiciable, (French) subject to Law, under authority.
• Justicians, a certain religious Order in∣stituted in the year 1412 in the Abby of St. Justine at Padua, by one Lewise Balus a Venetian.
• Justification, (lat.) a clearing, justify∣ing, or making good; in Common Law it is a shewing a good reason why a man did such a thing as he is called to an∣swer.
• Justinianus, a name by which two of the Roman Emperours were called. The first was famous for causing the Civil Law to be reduced into the Pandects and the Code; whence Students of the Civil Law are called Justinianists: the second for the great wars he had with the Saracens and Bulgarians.
• Justinopolis, a City of Istria, built upon the Sea side by the Emperour Justine: it is now called Cabo d' Istria.
• Jutties of houses, are certain parts of a building, which jut or stand out farther than the rest.
• Juturna, the daughter of Daunus, and sister of Turnus King of the Rutuli, she was by Jupiter in recompence of the losse of her maiden-head immortalized, and made Nimph of the River Numicus.
• Juvenility, (lat.) youthfulnesse, lusti∣nesse, or vigour.
• Juventas, the Goddesse of Youth, the same with Hebe.
• Juverna, an ancient name of Ireland.

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• Iwimpled, (old word) muffled.

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• Ixion, the son of Phlegyas, he having slain his son in law Erioneus, after he had long wandered up and down, and could not be absolved either by gods or men; at length Jupiter pitying him, took him up into Heaven and expiated him; but he

• after his purgation remaining among the gods, fell in love with Juno and sollicited her to unchastity, which she making known to Jove, he formed a cloud in the shape of Juno, and Ixion thinking it to have been the goddesse, begat a race of Centaurs, and being soon after sent down to the earth, he boasted every where that he lay with Juno, for which being struck down to Hell with a Thunderbolt, he was condemned to be alwayes rowled on a wheele.

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• KAb, or Cab, an Hebrew measure con∣taining three pints of our measure.
• Kalends, see Calends.
• Karena, the twentieth part of a drop, a term used in Chimistry.
• Karobe, or Carobe, a kind of fruit, also an herb called St. Johns bread, also a very small weight used by Goldsmiths, being the 24 part of a grain.
• Karos or Caros, a certain disease in the head which causeth much drousinesse.
• Katharine, see Catharine.

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• Keel, the lowest and first timber laid in a ship, the botton of a ship, also a vessell to coole new beer or ale in.
• Keen or Kene, (old word) sharp, some think it comes from the Greek word a cone, a whetstone.
• Keeper of the great Seal of England, is he under whose hands passe all Charters, Commissions, and grants of the King, strengthned by the Great or Broad Seal, without which they are of no effect. He is a Lord by his office, and one of the Kings privy Council.
• Keeper of the privy Seal, is also a Lord by his office, and one of the privy Coun∣cil; under his hands passe all Charters signed by the King, before they come to the Broad Seal.
• Keeper of the Forrest, is he who hath the principal government of all things belong∣ing to the Forrest: he is also called chief Warden of the Forrest.
• Kele, (old word) to coole.
• Kemeling, (old word) a Brewers vessel.
• Within Ken, within sight or view, a term in Navigation, and comes from the Saxon word Kenne, i. e. to know or dis∣cover.
• Kenchester, a Town in Herefordshire, built as some think out of the ruines of old Ariconium.
• Kenhelm, the proper name of a man, signifying in Saxon, defence of his kin∣dred.
• Kenneleth, (applyed to a Fox) when he is in his hole. A term in hunting.
• Kenodoxy, or Cenodoxy, (Greek) vain-glory.
• Kenotaph, see Cenotaph.
• Kerchief, (French Co••vrechef) a kind of linnin dresse which women use to wear upon their heads.
• Kerck, or Kirk, (old word) a Church.
• Kern, an old Brittish word, signifying a horn.
• Kern, a kind of light-armed foot soul∣dier among the Irish; we use it also for an ordinary Country farmer, also to Kern, signifieth to powder or to salt.
• Kernel, (lat. Kernellare) an old word, signifying to embattle a house.
• Kerry, a County of Ireland in the Pro∣vince of Mounster.
• Kers, or Cresses, a kind of plant so called.
• Kersie, (French) a kind of cloth or stuff much used.
• Kesar, a word which the Brittains used instead of Caesar, and is taken in the same sense at this day, when they say, King nor Kesar.
• Kesteven, see Holland.
• Key of a River or Haven, a place where ships ride, and are as it were lock't in. Some deduce it a quiescendo, i. from rest∣ing, or from the old Latin Casare, i. to restrain.
• Keynard, (old word) a micher.

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• Kichel, (old word) a kind of cake, the same which is called in Latin Libum.
• Kilderkin, (in Dutch Kindek••n) a kind of liquid measure, being the eighth part of a hogshead, it contains about eleven or twelve gallons.
• Kiles, from the Dutch word keghel an Isicle, certain pins to play withal, com∣monly called Nine-pins.
• Kildare, two Counties of Ireland in the Province of Leim∣ster.
• Kilkenny, two Counties of Ireland in the Province of Leim∣ster.
• Kinburgh, (Sax.) strength and defence of kindred, a proper name of women.
• King, (from the Dutch word koning, i. to

• know, because he ought to be the most knowing of men, or from Konnen, to be powerful) the supream Ruler of a Nation.
• King of Harolds, or King of Arms, he is called Garter, and is the same with Pater patratus, among the Romans. See in Harald.
• Kingsbench, the Court or Judgement-seat where the King was wont to sit in his own person, and therefore it was move∣able with the Court or Kings houshold, and was called Curia domini Regis, or Aula Regia.
• Kings Silver, that money which is due to the King in the Court of Common-pleas, in respect of a license there granted to any man for passing of a fine.
• Clark of the Kings Silver, is an officer of the Common pleas, unto whom every fine is brought, after it hath been with the custos Brevium, and by whom the effect of the Writ of covenant is entred into a paper book.
• Kingston upon Thames, a Town in Surry, so called because Athelstane, Edwin, and Etheldred, were here Crowned Kings in the open Market-place.
• Kintal, see Quintal.

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• Knap of ground, a little rising hillock.
• Knave, (Sax. Canapa) signifieth origi∣nally a Lacquey or Waiting-man, and cometh originally from the Hebrew word Gnavadh, to serve.
• Knees, in Navigation, are certain croo∣ked pieces of timber used in Ships to fasten the beames unto the sides.
• Knight, (Sax. Cnicht) hath been taken originally for a souldier or horseman in war; those that were wont to accompany and wait upon the Emperour in the wars, were called in Dutch Knechts, i. e. servi∣tours or lusty young men. It is also ta∣ken for a client or vassal, but more espe∣cially one that holds his land by serving his Lord on horseback; it is now grown to be a Title of great Dignity and Ho∣nour. Of Knight-hoods there are many sorts, but the most usual in this Nation are these.
• Knight Bachelour, the lowest, but anci∣entest Order of Knight-hood, and cometh from the Germans, among whom it was an ancient custom, that as soon as the State judged any of their young men fit to manage armes and weapons, and al∣lowed him sufficient for martial exercises, then in the very assembly and council, ei∣ther one of the Princes, the father, or son of the kinsfolk of the young man, did furnish him with a shield and a javelin, as the Romans did the toga virilis, or Virile gown, to those whom they thought capable of publick imployment, and thenceforth from a part of a private house, he was accounted a member of the Common-wealth. It was also an ancient ceremony to honour men with the Girdle of Knighthood, which he who received, was solemnly to go to Church, and offer∣ring his sword upon the Altar, to vow himself to the service of God; afterwards it came to be usual for Kings to send their sons to the neighbour Princes, to receive Knighthood at their hands; Then it was also that besides the Sword and Girdle, Gilt-Spurs were also added for more or∣nament, whence in Latin they are called Equi••es aurati; the word Bachelours some derive from the French Bascheva∣liers, as it were Knights of the lowest de∣gree; others from Batailler to battel or fight: they are also simply and without any addition called Knights.
• Knight Banneret, from the Dutch word Bannerherr, Lord or Master of the Banner, is a Knight made in the field, with the ceremonies of cutting the point of his Standard, and making it as it were a Ban∣ner, and is allowed to display his arms in the Kings army. This Dignity was given at first by the Kings of England and France, to such Gentlemen as valiantly carried themselves in two Royal Battels, or to such as had ten vassals and means to main∣tain a Troop of Horses at their own charge. Some say the first original of it was from Edward the third.
• Knight Baronet, is a new distinct Order erected by King James, who for certain disbursements toward the Plantation in Vlster, created divers into this Dignity, and made it hereditary by his Letters Pa∣tents to be seen in the Rolles, whereas be∣fore that time there were Baronets who were not Knights, and these Knight Ba∣ronets were to have precedency in all Writings, Sessions, and Salutations, be∣fore all Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelours, and Bannerets, except those created under the Kings Standard in an Army Royal, the King being personally present, and the King was not to create any person into that degree of Baronet

• within the Kingdom of England, above the number of two hundred.
• Knight of the Bath, an Order of Knights created within the lists of the Bath, and girded with a sword in the Ceremonies of their Creation, these Knights were wont to be created with a great many religious solemnities, which usually belong to Her∣mites, and other holy Orders.
• Knights of the Carpet, are another sort of Knights made out of the field, and are so called, because in receiving their order they commonly kneel upon a Carpet.
• Knights of the Garter, an order of Knighthood, instituted by King Edward the 3d. some say upon occasion of good successe in a skirmish, wherein the Kings Garter was used for a token, others affirm that the King after his great successes abroad and at home, dancing one night with the Queen and other Ladies, took up a Garter that hapned to fall from one of them, whereat some of the Lords smiling, the King said that ere long he would make that Garter to be of high reputation, and shortly after he erected this order of the blue Garter, which consists of 26 martial Nobles, whereof the King of Eng∣land used to be the chief, and the rest be either of the Realm, or Princes of other Countreys, there are also depending upon this order 26 poor Knights, who have no other sustenance, but the allowance of this house, and are also called poor Knights of Windsor, the site of this Colledge be∣ing the Castle of Windsor, with the Chap∣pel of St. George, the Officers belonging to this Order, are, the Prelate of the Garter, which Office belongeth to the Bi∣shop of Winchester, the Chancelour of the Garter, the Register of the Garter, who was alwayes Dean of Windsor, the princi∣pal King of Arms, called Garter, and the Usher of the Garter, which Office be∣longed to the Usher of the Princes Cham∣ber, called Black-rod.
• Knights of the Order of St. John of Je∣rusalem, an Order of Knighthood erected in the year 1120. and had their first foun∣dation and abode in Jerusalem, afterwards they had their residence at Rhodes, whence they were expelled by Solyman, and ever since their chief seat hath been at Malta, where they have done great exploits a∣gainst the Turk, there was one general Prior that had the government of the whole Order in England, and Scotland but toward the end of Harry the eights reign, they were suppressed in England for adhering to the Pope.
• Knights of the Temple, or Knights Tem∣plars, an Order of Knighthood erected by Pope Gelasius, about the year of our Lord 1117. these Knights in the beginning dwelling not far from the Sepulchre of Christ, intertained Christian strangers and Pilgrims charitably, and in their Armour led them through the holy land, to view such things as there were to be seen, and to defend them from the Infidels, but be∣cause at the last they abounded in many Vices, and many of them fell away from Christianity to the Saracens, the whole Order was suppressed by Pope Clement the fifth, and their substance given to the Knights of Rhodes, and other Religious Orders.
• Knights of the Shire, two Knights, or other Gentlemen of worth, that are chosen by the freeholders of every County, that can dispend fourty shillings per annum, and be resident in the Shire; formerly none but Knights were chosen to that Office (Milites gladio cincti, for so run∣neth the Tenour of the Writ) when every one that had a Knights fee was constrain∣ed to be a Knight, but now custome al∣loweth that Esquires may be chosen, so that they be resident in the County.
• Knight Marshal, an Officer of the Kings house, who hath the Jurisdiction and Cognisance of any transgression; as also of all Contracts made within the Kings house and verge.
• Knights of Calatrava in Spain, an Order created by Alonzo, the ninth King of Spain, conferred upon certain Cavallero's, who went in Devotion to succour Calatra∣va against the Moors, their badge was a red crosse on the left side of their breast.
• Knights of the Jar, see Jar.
• Knights fee, so much inheritance as is sufficient to maintain a Knight with con∣venient Revenue, which was in ancient time about 800 Acres, it is also taken for the Rent that a Knight payes for his fee to the Lord of whom he holds.
• Knights service, or Chevalry, a certain an∣cient Tenure of Lands, by which a man was obliged to bear Arms in defence of his Countrey.
• Knighten Guild, a certain Guild, or Com∣pany in London, consisting of 19 Knights, it was founded by King Edgar, who gave them a portion of void ground, lying

• without the Citie, now called Portsoken Ward.
• Knipperdollings, a certain Sect of Here∣ticks, who lived in Germany, about the time of John of Leyden, they were so cal∣led from one Knipperdolling, who was the first founder of that Sect.
• Knolls of Peace, certain Mounts cast up by mans hand, in the Sherifdom of Ster∣ling in Scotland, called in Latin Duni Pacis.

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• Kunigunda, or Cunigunda, the wife of Henry the second, Duke of Bavaria, and Emperour of Germany, she to free her self from the aspersion of inchastity that was cast upon her, caused certain Plough-shares to be heated red hot, and placed at a little distance one from the other, and went over them blindfold without receiving any harm, whereby she cleared her self from all suspition, the like was re∣ported of Edward the Confessours wife, and this tryal afterwards became often∣times in use upon such like occasions, and was called the tryal of fire Ordeal.

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• Kyle, a County in the South part of Scotland, by Bede, called Campus Cyel, i. e. the field Ciel; this with other Territories Eadbert King of Northumberland annexed to his Kingdom.
• Kyrie Eleison, a form of solemne invo∣cation, used in the Liturgy, or Service book, and signifieth in the Greek tongue, Lord have mercy upon us.

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• LAbarum, (Greek) a military streamer, or flag, also a Church Banner, or En∣signe.
• Labda, the daughter of Amphion of the Race of the Bacchidae, she being lame and despised by the rest of the Bacchidae mar∣ried Aetion, to whom she brought forth Cypselus, so called from a certain Corn measure, wherein his mother hid him from the ten men, whom the Corinthians by a publick decree ordained to kill him, because it had been foretold by the Ora∣cle that a son of Labda should invade the Tyranny of Corinth.
• Labdacisme, see Lambdacisme.
• Labdanum, or Ladanum, a kinde of sweet Gumme, taken from the leaves of a certain small shrub, called Cistus Ledon.
• Labefaction, (lat.) an enfeebling, or ma∣king weak.
• Labels, Ribbands hanging down upon Garlands, or Crowns, made of flowrs, also little pieces of parchment cut out long∣wayes, and hanging upon Indentures, or other kinde of writings, also in Heraldry they are those lines, which hang down from the file in an Escutcheon.
• Labeons, (lat.) blaber-lipped persons.
• Labienus, one of Caesars Captains, who did very famous actions under him in Gal∣lia, but when the Civil wars broke out, fled from him to Pompey's party.
• Labile, (lat.) slippery, apt to slip, or fall.
• Laborariis, the name of a Writ that lieth against such as having not wherewith to live, do refuse to serve.
• † Labori••sity, (lat.) laboriousnesse, pain∣fulnesse.
• Labour, a ship is said to Labour in the Sea, when she rowles and tumbles very much, either a Hull, or under Sail.
• Labyrinth, (Greek) a Maze, or place made with so many turnings and windings that a man once entered in, cannot finde the way out, whereof the two most fa∣mous were, that built by Miris King of Egypt, and that which Daedalus built for Minos, King of Crete, it is also by Meta∣phor used for any kinde of intanglement, or intricate businesse.
• Lacca, a kinde of red Gumme, issuing from certain Trees in Arabia.
• Laceration, (lat.) a tearing, or dismem∣bring.
• Lacert, (Latin) from Lacerta, a Lizard (from Lacertus) the brawny part of the arm.
• Lacession, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣voking.
• Laches, in Common-law, signifieth ne∣gligence, from the French word Lasche, i. carelesse, or slothfull, or Lascher, to loosen.
• Lachesis, the name of one of the De∣stinies.
• Lacken, (old word) contemned, also ex∣tenuated.
• Lachrymation, (lat.) a weeping, or shed∣ding tears.
• Laconisme, (Greek) a speaking briefly, or after the manner of the Lacedemo∣nians.
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• Lactary, (lat.) a Dairy house, or place where they keep Milk, or make Cheese.
• Lacteal, or Lacteous, (lat.) milky, milk white, or made of milk.
• Lactucina, a certain goddesse among the Romans, see Matura.
• Lacunation, (lat.) a making holes.
• Ladanum, or Laudanum, see Labdanum.
• Ladas, a Page of Alexander the Great, he ran so swift that the print of his foot could not be discerned in the sand.
• Ladon, a River of Arcadia, where Sy∣riax was turned into a Reed.
• Laghslite, a Saxon word from Lah Law, and Slite a breach, signifying a Mulct for breach of the Law.
• Lagophthalmie, (Greek) a disease in the eyes, which causeth one to sleep like a Hare with the eye-lids open.
• Lai••al, (lat.) belonging to Lay-men, or such as have not to do in the Ministerial function.
• Laines, courses, or ranks laid in the building of stone, or brick-walls, a Term in Masonry.
• Laire, (a Term in hunting) the place where a Deer harbours by day.
• Lais, a woman of Sicily, who going to dwell at Corinth, became a very famous strumpet, and exacted excessive rates for the prostitution of her body, afterwards removing to Thessaly, she was in such high request among the men of Th••ssaly, that the women out of envy killed her in the Temple of Venus, it was by her instigation that Alexander the Great caused Persep••∣lis to be burnt.
• Laius, the son of Labdacus, King of The∣bes, and the father of Oedipus, see Jocasta, or Oedipus.
• Lake, a kinde of red colour, used in painting.
• Lambith, q. Lomehith, i. e. a Lomy, or Clayish rode, a Town in Surry, famous for a stately Palace, belonging to the Arch-bishops of Canterbury, first built by Arch-bishop Baldwin, in the year 1183. in this place Hardy-Canute, the Danish King of England, giving up himself wholy to luxurious banquettings, & costly inter∣tainments expired suddenly, in the midst of his debauchery, and excessive Cups.
• Lambdacisme, (Greek) a pronouncing the letter L. which is called in Greek Lambda, with greater force then it should be.
• Lamdoides, the hindermost seam of the skull.
• Lambert, the proper name of a man, signifying in Saxon fair Lamb, or as others will have it, Far famous.
• Lambition, (lat.) a licking, a lapping with the tongue, also a going over a thing with a soft touch.
• Lamiae, (lat.) certain Female spirits, or apparitions by some called fairies, there was also one Lamia, a Concubine of De∣metrius, to whom the Thebans built a Temple, under the name of Lamia Ve∣nus.
• Lammas day, the first of August, so called, as some say, because the Priests, on this day, were wont to gather their Tithe-Lambs, others take it from the Saxon word Laffmess, i. Breadmass, it being kept as a feast of Thanks-giving for the first fruits of the Corn, it is also called Gule, or Yule of August, see Gule of August.
• Lampadios, a constellation in the head of Taurus▪
• Lampasse, vulgarly called the Lampreys, a disease in the mouth of a Horse, so named, because it is cured by burning with a Lamp, or a hot Iron.
• Lampetia, see Neaera.
• Lampoon, a kinde of Drolling Poem, or Pamphlet, wherein any person of the pre∣sent age, is mentioned with reproach, or scurrility.
• Lamprey, or Suck-st••ne, a kinde of fish, called in Latin Muraena.
• Lampsacus, a Town upon the Helles∣pont, near the Coast of Asia.
• Lanarious, or Laneous, (lat.) belonging to, or made of wool.
• Lancaster, or Loncaster, (i. a Town si∣tuate upon the River Lone) the chief Town of Lancashire, which some think to be the same with the ancient Town Lon∣govicum.
• Lancelot, the proper name of a man, signifying in Spanish a Lance, or Spear, of this name was one of King Arthurs Knights of the round Table.
• Lancepesado, see Launcepesado.
• Lanch, to put a float a ship, or boat, that lies aground.
• Lanciferous, (lat.) bearing a Launce.
• Landcape, an end of Land, or conti∣nent, which stretcheth it self out into the
• Landgraviate, a Countrey belonging to Sea. to a Landgrave, which in the Dutch tongue is as much as Count, or Earle of a Province, or piece of Land given by the Emperour.
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• Landlcck't, a term in Navigation, is when a man sees land round about him out of a ship or boat.
• Landloper, (Dutch) a vagabond, that runs up and down the Country.
• Landskip, see Lantskip.
• Landto, just so far off at Sea, as a man can see the land.
• Landturn, the same off the land by night, as a breiz is off the sea by day.
• Langrel, (a term in Gunnery) a loose shot, which when it is put into the piece, flies out at length when it is dischar∣ged.
• Langued, tongued, a term in Blazon or Heraldry, from the French word langue, a tongue.
• Langid, (lat.) weak, faint, languish∣ing.
• Languour, (lat.) a drooping, decay∣ing, languishing.
• Laniation, (lat.) a butchering, or tear∣ing to pieces.
• Laniferous, (lat.) bearing cotton or wool.
• Lank, (old word) slender or weak.
• Lanner, or Lanneret, a kind of Hawk, called in French Faulcon Lanier.
• Lantgrave, see Landgrave.
• Lantskip, Landskip, or Paisage, a de∣scription of Land as far as may be seen above the Horison, by hills, valleys, cities, woods, rivers, &c. in a mixt picture which contains both persons, and the de∣scription of a Country, or any part of a Country; the persons are called the Ar∣gument, the Landskip the Parergon or By-work.
• Lanuginous, (lat.) covered with Lanuge, which is a soft thin down or cotten-like substance, which groweth upon some kinds of fruit, also that which appeareth upon the chins of young men before they come to have perfect beards.
• Laoco••••, the son of Priamus and Hecuba, and Priest to Apollo, he was the first that disswaded the Trojans from receiving the great horse into the walls, and strook his Spear so hard against it, that the sound of the armes was heard within; whereupon it hath been affirmed, that for his despising the gift of Minerva, there came imme∣diately two great Serpents, and first de∣voured his two children, afterwards him∣self.
• Laodamia, the daughter of Bellerophon and Ach••mone, she brought forth Sarpedon King of Lycia to Jupiter, who was ina∣moured of her; at length having dis∣pleased Diana, the goddesse shot her with her own arrows.
• Laodicea, a City in Asia the Lesse, which became very wealthy by the great gifts of divers rich Citizens, as Jeronymus, (who died worth two thousand talents) Zeno the Orator, and his son Polemo, whom Augustus advanced to be a King.
• Laodoche, the wife of Protesilaus, she died imbracing the dead body of her husband slain by Hector.
• Laodocus, the son of Antenor, in his shape Minerva came into the Army of the Trojans, and perswaded Pandarus by shoot∣ing at Menelaus to break the league.
• Laomedon, a King of the Trojans, he was the son of Ilus, and the father of Pria∣mus, to divert a great pestilence which was sent upon the City, because he had defrauded Neptune and Apollo of the wages he had promised them for building the City walls, he was constrained to expose his daughter Hesione to be devoured by a Sea-monster, promising Hercules to give him his horses which were of sacred race, on condition he would undertake to free his daughter, which he having performed, and Laomedon going back from his word, Hercules made war against him, and took the City, slew Laomedon, took Priamus captive, and gave Hesione to Telamon, who was the first man that skalled the walls.
• Lapicide, (lat.) a stone-cutter, a hewer of stones out of the quarry.
• Lapidary, (lat.) one that pollisheth or works in stones, a jeweller.
• Lapidation, (lat.) a stoning or putting to death with stones hurled or slung.
• Lapidescence, (lat.) a waxing hard like stone, or of a stony substance.
• Lapithae, a people of Thessalie, inhabit∣ing the mountains Pindus and Othrys, they were governed by Pirithous, had great conflicts with the Centaurs, and were the first that invented bridles and sad∣dles.
• Lappewing, a kind of bird, so called from the often clapping of its wings; it is also called a Houp, and in French La∣pouin.
• Lappise, is when Greyhounds open their mouths in their course, or Hounds in the liam or string, a term in Hunting.
• Lapse, (lat.) a slip or fall; It is also when an original Patron departeth from the right of presenting to a void. Benefice,

• by neglecting to present within 6 moneths unto the ordinary.
• Laqueary, (lat.) the roof of a chamber vaulted.
• Lara, the name of one of the Nimphs called Naiades, the daughter of the Ri∣ver Almon: she was delivered to Mercury to be carried to Hell for revealing to Juno the love of Jupiter to the Nimph Juturna the sister of Turnus; but Mercury falling in love with her by the way, lay with her, and begat twins called Lares or House∣hold-gods, who are also named Pe∣nates.
• Larboard, a term in Navigation, the left side of a boat or ship.
• Larcenie, (from the French word Lar∣recin, i. theft) a word used in Common-Law, and is either great larcenie, name∣ly, when the things stollen exceed the value of 12 pence, or petit larcenie, when the things stollen exceed not such a va∣lue.
• The Larch-tree, a tree so called from Larissa, a City of Thessalie where it was first known. It hath leaves like the Pine-tree, and beareth a kind of drug called Agaricum, which is of an exhilarating nature.
• Lareow, (Sax.) a Master.
• Lares, see Lara.
• Largesse, (French) a free gift bestowed upon any one; also liberality.
• Largitional, an officer that oversees the bestowing of gifts.
• Lari••s, the greatest Lake in Italy, vul∣garly called Lago di Como, containing 60 miles from North to South.
• Larvated, (lat.) masqued or visarded for the representing some Gobling or dreadful Spirit.
• Lascivious, (lat.) of a wanton carriage, loose or effoeminate in behaviour.
• Lask, a disease called in Greek Di∣arrhaea, causing an immoderate loosenesse of the belly, and cometh from the Latin word Laxitas, i. loosenesse.
• Lassitude, (lat.) an extream weari∣nesse.
• Lastage, or Lestage, a custom challenged in Markets or Faires for carrying of things, also the ballast of a ship; it com∣eth from the Saxon word Last, which sig∣nifieth a certain kind of weight, also a burthen in general.
• Latebrous, (lat.) full of Latebrae, i. dens, or hiding-holes.
• Latent, (lat.) lying hid.
• Lateral, (lat.) belonging to the sides of any thing.
• Lateranus, a Patrician of Rome, so cal∣led because he used to skulk and hide himself, for the taking of his ease and pleasure; he being designed Consul was slain by the command of Nero, and many Ages after his houses being very large and stately▪ were given by the Emperour Con∣stantine to the Pope, and ever since it hath been called the Laterane Palace.
• Latericious, (lat.) made of brick or tile.
• Latible, (lat.) a hiding or lurking place.
• Laticlave▪ or cloak of the broad nail, a kind of broad purple garment, which used to be a badge of the Senatorian Order: a cloak of the narrow nail was of the E∣questrian or Knightly Order.
• Latifolious, (lat.) having broad leaves.
• Latimer, the name of a Town and Ba∣rony in Bucchinghamshire, as also of several great Families in this Nation. This word, according as Cambden observes, signi∣fying as much as Truchman, or Inter∣preter.
• Latinity, (lat.) an incorrupt speaking or pronouncing of the Latin tongue.
• Latinus, an ancient King of Italy, the son of Fa••nus and Marita, he married his daughter Lavinia whom he had by Amat•• sister of Faunus King of the Rutuli, to Aeneas when he came into Italy; where∣upon Turnus to whom she had formerly been betrothed, waged war against his Rival, and was slain in single combat.
• Lation, (lat.) a bearing or carry∣ing.
• Latitancy, or Latitation, (lat.) a lurk∣ing or lying hid.
• Latitat, the name of a Writ, whereby all men in personal actions are called ori∣ginally to the Kings Bench, because a man is supposed latitare, i. to lie hid.
• Latitude▪ (lat.) breadth or widenesse, in Astronomy the latitude of a star is, the Arch of a great Circle made by the Poles of the Ecliptick, intercepted between the star and the Ecliptick. The latitude of a place is the Arch of the Meridian inter∣cepted between the Equinoctial and the Zenith of the place given.
• Latomy, (Greek) a Quarry or place whence they hew out stones for build∣ing.
• Latona▪ the daughter of Caeus, one of the Titans, she was got with child by Jupi∣ter, which thing so incensed Juno, that

• she sent the Serpent Pytho to slay her; whereupon she fled to her sister Asteria, where she was delivered of twins, Apollo and Diana; but Diana being first brought forth, she immediately served her mother instead of a Midwife, and helped to bring her to bed of her brother Apollo, who as soon as he was come to age, killed the Ser∣pent Pytho; Apollo and Diana being com∣monly taken for the Sun and Moon, are called Latonian Lights.
• Latration, (lat.) a barking.
• Latrie, (Greek) Divine-worship or ser∣vice of God.
• Latrocination, (lat.) a committing of robbery, or hainous theft.
• Lavacre, (lat.) a washing vessel, also a conduit.
• Lavatory, (lat.) the same.
• Lavatrine, (lat.) a square stone in a kitchin with a hole in it for the water to passe through, a sinke.
• Laudable, (lat.) worthy of praise or commendation.
• Lauds, (lat.) commendations or praises, also certain Psalms of David, beginning with these words Laudate dominum, which use to be recited by the Roman Catho∣licks between the Nocturns and the Howres, which are certain other prayers or psalms so called.
• Laudanum, or Ladanum, see Labda∣num.
• Lauden, or Lothien, a Country in the south part of Scotland, anciently inhabi∣ted by the Picts.
• Lavedan, an iron-grey Gennet, so cal∣led because it is bred on Lavedon, one of the Pyrenean Mountains, whereon the best horses of France are bred.
• Lavender, a kind of plant, otherwise called spiknard, in Latin Lavendula.
• Laver, or Ewer, or vessel to wash in, from the Latin word Lavare, i. to wash.
• Laverd, or Loverd, (old word) Lord.
• Laverna, a certain goddesse worshipped by the ancient Romans, accounted the Patronesse of Theeves, who were thence called Laverniones; to her they built a Temple called Lavernium, from whence one of the gates of Rome near which it stood, was called Por a Lavernalis.
• Lavinia, the wife of Aeneas, from whose name the City Lavinium had its denomi∣nation. See more in Latinus, and Tyr∣rheus.
• Launcelot, a Chirurgians Instrument used in letting blood, otherwise called a Fleam, and in Italian Lancetta; also a proper name. See Lancelot.
• Launcepesado, or Lancepresado, (French) the lowest officer in a Foot-company, or he that commands over a maniple, which is a Band of 10 souldiers.
• Laund, or Lawn in a Park, (Ital.) plain untilled ground.
• Lavolta, (Ital.) a course held in sailing, also a kind of dance.
• Laureat, (lat.) crowned with Laurel, or the bay-tree, which used to be worn by Conquerours in token of Triumph, also laureated letters, were letters wrapt up in Laurel or Bay-leaves, which the Roman Captains were wont to send unto the Senate, to give them notice of their Victories. This plant is said to be proof against thunder and lig••tning.
• Laurells, by a figure called Metonymy, is ofttimes used for Triumph or Victory. Cleop.
• St. Laurence, the name of a famous Martyr, who being a Deacon and Questor of the Roman church, and being com∣manded by Valerian the Prefect of the City to produce the Treasures of the Church which Sextus committed to his charge, he assembled together the poor, the lame, and the sick, and told the offi∣cers those were the Treasures of the Church; whereupon the Prefect think∣ing he was deluded, commanded he should be broiled upon a Gridiron, and Laurence as soon as he was almost ready to give up the ghost, said to the Prefect standing by, now turn me on the other side, this is broiled enough. This name is derived from the Latin word Laurus, i. a Laurel or Bay-tree.
• Acca Laurentia, the wife of Faustulus, Shepherd of Amulius King of the Latins, she took Romulus and Remus (the grand∣children of Numitor, whom his brother Amulius had expelled the Kingdom) and nursed them up secretly as her own, they being brought to her by her husband Fau∣stulus, who found them sucking of a Wolf at the root of a Fig-tree from thence cal∣led Ruminalis, upon the banks of Tyber, into which they had been cast by the command of Amulius. Others say that the story of their being fostered by a Wolf ariseth from hence, namely that this wo∣man from the gain she made by the pro∣stitution of her body, was called Lupa, who dying very rich, had divine honours

• given her by the people of Rome, and festi∣val dayes kept, which were called Lauren∣talia; and from her other name Lupa those houses of intertainment are called Lupa∣naria.
• Lauri••erous, (lat.) bearing Laurel, or Bays.
• L••••sus, the son of Numitor, and brother of Rhea Silvia, he was slain by his Uncle Amulius, after his father had been banisht the Kingdom, also the son of Mezentius, King of the Hetrurians, was so called, whom Aeneas slew, as he went about to rescue his father, he was a famous hunter of wilde beasts.
• Law of Arms, a Law that giveth pre∣cepts how rightly to proclaim war, to make and observe leagues, to set upon the enemy, to punish offenders in the camp, &c.
• Law of Marque, Mart, or reprisal, is that whereby men take the goods of that peo∣ple of whom they have received wrong, and cannot get ordinary Justice, when ever they can catch them within their own Territories, or limits.
• Law Merchant, a special Law, proper to Merchants, and differing from the Com∣mon-law of England.
• Law day, a Leet, or County-Court.
• Lawing of Dogs, see Expeditate.
• Lawlesse man, the same as out-law.
• Lawn, see Laund.
• A Lax, a kinde of fish without ••ones.
• Laxation, (lat.) a loosening, easing, or setting free.
• Laxity, (lat.) loosenesse.
• Lay, (French) a song.
• Lazaret, (Ital.) an Hospital, a spittle for Lazers, or Lepers.
• Lazarus, (Hebr.) Lords help.
• Lazule, a kinde of Azure, or blewish stone, much used in Physick.

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• Leach, (old word) a Physitian.
• A league, a certain proportion of ground in length onely, consisting of about two, or three miles, it is called in Latin Leuco, from the Greek word Leucos, i. e. white, because formerly the end of every league used to be noted with a white stone, whence ad primum aut secundum lapidem ab urbe, at the first, or second stone from the Citie, was as much as to say, one, or two leagues from the Citie. League is also derived from the Latin word Ligare, and signi∣fieth an agreement, Pact, or Covenant.
• Leafdian, or Hleafdian, (Sax.) a Lady.
• Leam, a line to hold a Dogge in, it is also called a Leash.
• Leander, a noble youth of Abydos, a Town in Asia, situated upon the shore of the Hellespont, he being in love with Hero, one of Venus Nuns, who dwelt in Sestos, a Town of the opposite bank, used to swim over to her in the night time, which having done several times without dan∣ger, at length in his passage over, he was orewhelmed by a storm, and drowned in the Hellespont.
• Learchus, the son of Athamas, King of Th••bes, and Ino, the daughter of Cadmus, he was slain by his father, who in a raging madnesse, took him for a Lyons whelp, whereupon Ino fled with her other son Me∣licerta▪ & both of them cast themselves into the Sea, and were changed into Sea gods, and called by the Greeks Leucothea & Pa∣loemon, by the Latins Matuta & Portumnus.
• Lease, a word used in Common-law, and signifieth a demising, or letting of Lands, or Tenements, or right of a Rent, unto another for term of years, or of life, or for a Rent reserved, if it be in writing it is called a Lease by indenture, if by word of mouth, a Lease Parole, the party that let∣teth the Lease, is called the Leassour, the party that taketh it, the Leassee, being derived from the French word Laisser, i. to leave, or permit.
• Leash, see L••am.
• Leasungs, or Leasings, (Sax.) lies.
• Leaveret, (French) Diminutive, a young Hare.
• Lecanomancy, (Greek) a divining by water in a Bason.
• Lectern, a kinde of Desk used in Churches.
• Lectistern, (lat.) the setting out, and adorning of a bed for a Compotation, or Banquet, a custome used by the ancients at their solemne feasts, who also used to rear the images of their Gods upon the Pillow's.
• Lecturer, or Lectour, (lat.) a publick Professour, a Reader of Lectures, i. e. cer∣tain portions of an Author, or Science read in the publick Schools.
• Leda, the wife of Thestius, and the daughter of Tyndarus, King of Laconia, she being got with Childe by Jupiter, (who to deceive her transformed himself into a Swan) brought forth two Eggs, out of one of which was born Pollux and Helena, out of the other Castor and Clytemnestra.
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• Ledors, (French) reproaches, reviling Terms.
• Leed, or Lide, an old word, signifying the moneth of March, whence Cow-hides are called Lide pilles.
• Leeds, a Castle in Kent, which Barth••lo∣mew Lord Baldismer fortified against King Edward the second, who had freely gi∣ven it him, whereupon he lost his life; also a place in York-shire, where Oswy King of Northumberland overthrew Penda the Mer∣cian.
• The Leer of a Deer, a Term among Hunters, the place wherein he lies to dry himself, after he hath been wet by the dew.
• Leero, see Lyrick.
• Leet, (Sax.) a Law-day whence Court Leet, is a Court, or Jurisdiction, contain∣ing the third part of a S••ire, and compre∣hending three, or four wapen-takes, or hundreds, the Leets were called by the Romans Fasti, wherein the Praet••r might lawfully keep Court, and administer Ju∣stice, which was not done without the speaking of these three words, Do, Di••o, Addico, i. e. I give, viz. way to actions and suites. I speak, viz. the Law. I Judge, viz. matters and men.
• Legality, (lat.) lawfulnesse, an obser∣ving of the Law.
• Legatary, (lat.) one to whom a Legacy is bequeathed.
• Legation, (lat.) the sending of a mes∣sage, or embassage.
• Legate, (lat.) an Oratour, or Ambassa∣dour to any Prince.
• Legend, or Legendary, (French) the Ti∣tle of a book, containing the lives of the Saints; also words graven about the edge of a piece of Coyn.
• Legeolium, the ancient name of a Town in York-shire, vulgarly called Castleford, where in old times the Citizens of York slew many of King Ethelreds army.
• Legerdemain, (French as it were, light of hand) cousenage, or jugling tricks.
• Legion, (lat.) a Company of Souldiers, among the ancient Romans, consisting of three, or four thousand foot, and three, or four hundred horse, afterwards being in∣creased to six thousand foot, and six hun∣dred horse, every ordinary foot Legion consisting of ten Cohorts, every Cohort of three Maniples, every Maniple of two Centuries, & each Century of a 100 men, likewise every horse Legion contained six Turmae, or Troupes, every Troup ten Decuries, and every Dec••ry ten men; also there are in every Legion four Orders of Souldiers, the Triari••, the Principes, the Hastati, or Spearmen, the Velites, or light-armed.
• Legionary, (lat.) belonging to a Le∣gion.
• Legislative, (lat.) having authority to make, or give Laws.
• Legislatour, (lat.) a Law-giver.
• Legist, (lat.) a Lawyer.
• Legitimate, (lat.) lawfull, done accord∣ing to Law and right.
• Leguminous, (lat.) belonging to pulse.
• Leicester, the chief Citie of Leicester∣shire, called also Legeocester, Leogora, and Leg••cestria, this Citie was besieged by King Henry the third, (when Earle Robert re∣belled against him) and the Wall round about it utterly demolish't.
• Leinster, a Province in Ireland, contain∣ing these following Counties, Kilkenny, Caerbogh, Queens County, Kings County, Kil∣dare, Weshford, Dublin.
• Leman, a Concubine, or Catamite, (Pullus Jovis Latin) some say it comes from the French word L•• mignon, or Ley∣man, as it were ly by man.
• Lemannus, the Lake Leman, upon which stands the Citie of Geneva.
• Lemnos, an Island in the Aegean Sea, fa∣mous for the fall of Vulcan, who by rea∣son of his deformity, being thrown down from heaven, as soon as he was born, hap∣ned to light in this place, whence he was called the Lemnian God, this Island was originally known by the name of Hipsipy∣laea, from a daughter of Thoas of that name, who was Queen thereof.
• Lemster, a Town of Herefordshire, so called q. Leonminster, from a Lyon that appeared to a certain religious man as some have fabled, others more probably derive it from a Church of Nuns built by Merwalck, a King of the ••ercians; for those which we call Nuns, the ancient Brittains termed Leans, some there are that derive it from Line, whereof the best sort groweth there, this Town is now adayes very famous for Wool, which is called Lemster Ore; it was defaced by W. de Breosa, Lord of Brecknock, when he revolted from King John.
• Lemures, (lat.) certain spirits, or appa∣ritions, vulgarly called Hobgoblins.
• Lenity, (lat.) mildnesse, softnesse, gent∣lenesse.
• Lenitive, or Lenient, (lat.) softning,

• of an asswaging or pacifying power.
• Lenitude, (lat.) the same as Lenity.
• Lennox, a County in the south part of Scotland, so called from the River Levin, which Ptolomy calleth Letanonius.
• Lenonian, (lat.) belonging to a Pander or Band.
• Lentigenous, (lat.) belonging to Len∣tills which are a kind of round and flat pulse growing in hot Countries, also full of little pimples or freckles resembling Lentills.
• Lentisk, (lat.) a kind of tree called the Mastick-tree, from which there is taken a Gum of very great vertue.
• Lentitude, (lat.) slacknesse, slownesse, or negligence.
• Lentour, (lat.) stiffnesse, or clammy∣nesse.
• Lent-season, (in Lat. Quadragesima) a Fast of fourty dayes, instituted by the Church, and first appointed to be kept in England by Ercombert a King of Kent. It comes from the Dutch word Lente, i. Spring, because it ever happens to be a∣bout the beginning of the Spring time, or as others say, from length, because about this time the dayes begin to lengthen.
• Leo, the name of several Roman Empe∣rours reigning at Constantinople; also the name of several Popes of Rome, also one of the 12 Signes.
• Leocorion, a Monument erected by the Athenians, in honour of Leo the son of Orpheus, who when no body else would permit their daughters to be sacrificed to the gods to divert a great pestilence which then raged in the City, willingly consen∣ted to the offering up of his three daugh∣ters, Pasithea, Theope, and Eubule.
• Leodegar, or Leger, a German proper name, signifying a gatherer of the people.
• Leodium, a famous City of Germany, anciently called Ebur num Augusta, and is said to have been built by Ambioriges, a King of Germany, who also called it Legia, from the cutting off of a Roman Legion in a valley near unto it; at this day it is named Luttich or Leige.
• Leofstan, i. most beloved, a Saxon name Leofwin, i. Winlove.
• Leoh, (Sax.) light.
• Leonard, the proper name of a man, sig∣nifying in Dutch popular disposition as Lipsius will have it; but as others say, Lion-like disposition, answering to the Greek name Thymoleon.
• Leonidas, a famous Captain and King of the Lacedemonians, who defending the Streights of Thermopylae against the whole Army of Xerxes, was himself slain, toge∣ther with all his men.
• Leonine, (lat.) belonging to, or like a Lion.
• Leopard, or Libberd, a certain African beast, otherwise called a Panther: this beast is all over full of streakes or little spots, and is begotten between a Pard and a Lionesse.
• Leopold, q. Leodpold, the proper name of a man, signifying in Dutch Defender of the people, being in imitation of the Greek names Demochares, i. gracious to the people, and Demophilus, i. a lover of the people, and Laodamus, i. tamer of the people: the chief of this name was Leo∣poldus Arch-Duke of Austria.
• Leorning ••night, (Sax.) a disciple or scholar.
• Lepid, (lat.) neat, jocund, pleasant in speech, or behaviour.
• Leporine, (lat.) belonging to a Hare.
• Leprosie, (Greek) a kind of disease which causeth a white scurfe to run all over the body; it is also termed Elephan∣tiasis, from the roughnesse of an Elephants skin, which it resembleth.
• Lerna, a Lake near the City of Argos, where the Serpent Hydra was slain by Hercules.
• Lesbos, an Island in the Aegaean Sea, which in old time obtained the Empire of all Troas. It is now called Metelin, from the chief City thereof Mitylene, the rest were Er••ssos, Ant••ssa, Portus, Me∣thymna.
• Lesinage, (Ital) thriftinesse, sparing∣nesse, good husbandry, from Lesina which signifieth a Coblers aule.
• Lesion, or Laesion, (lat.) a hurting or endamaging.
• Lessee and L••ss••r, see Lease.
• L••sses, the dung of a Boare.
• Lessian diet, a moderate temperate diet, from Lessius a famous modern Physitian, who wrote divers rules for the keeping of an exact and temperate diet.
• Lestage, see Lastage.
• Lestrigones, or Lae••trigones, a certain barbarous people, and of a vast Giant-like stature, that anciently inhabited For∣miae a City of Campania, and were said to live upon Human flesh, their King An∣tiphates oppos'd Vlisses with all his might when he landed on that coast, and tore

• one of his companions in pieces with his teeth.
• Letanie, (Greek) the Book of Divine-service used in Churches, from Liteuo, or Lissomai, i. to pray and supplicate.
• Lethality, (lat.) deadlinesse or morta∣lity.
• Lethargick, (Greek) sick of a Lethargy, i. e. a disease which causeth an excessive drousinesse and sleepinesse.
• Lethean, (lat.) forgetful, from Lethe a River of Hell, which the Poets feign to be of that nature that the water of it being drunk, causeth oblivion or forgetful∣nesse.
• Lethiferous, (lat.) bringing death, deadly.
• Letifical, or Laetifical, (lat.) making glad or joyful.
• Letter missive, (lat.) an Epistle or Let∣ter sent from one party to another, from the Latin word Mittere, i. to send.
• Letters of Atturney, writings whereby an Atturney or any friend made choice of for that purpose, is appointed to do a law∣ful act in anothers stead, from which war∣rants of Atturny differ in this, that besides being sealed and delivered before sufficient witnesse, they must also be acknowledged before a Justice or Serjeant.
• Letters of Mart, or Marque, are Letters which authorize any one to take by force of armes those goods which are due by the Law of Marque. See Law of Mar∣que.
• Letters Patents, are writings sealed open with the Broad-Seal of England, whereby a man is authorized to do or injoy any thing which of himself he could not, from the Latin word patere, i. to lie open.
• Lettice, a Christian name of severall women, from the Latin Laetitia, i. joy∣fulnesse, mirth.
• Lettice, a kind of plant called in Latin Lactuca, because in women that eat of it, it breedeth milk.
• Levament, or Levation, (lat.) an en∣lightning, easing, comforting, also a lift∣ing up or causing to rise.
• Levant and Couchant, (French) terms used in Common Law, when the beasts or cattel of a stranger come into another mans ground, and there have remained a good space, i. rising and lying down. Levant is also taken for the Eastern Coun∣tries.
• Levari facias, the name of a Writ di∣rected to the Sheriff, for the levying of a sum of money upon the lands of him that hath forfeited his Recognisance.
• Leucophlegmatick, (Greek) troubled with a disease called Leucophlegmaty, i. a Dropsie caused by the abounding of white flegme.
• Leucothea, see Ino.
• Leucothoe, the daughter of Orchamus King of the Babylonians, with whom A∣pollo being in love, transformed himself into the shape of Eurynome her mother, & pretending private businesse with her, he re-assumed his former shape, and won her by fair speeches to consent to his desires; whereupon Clytia, who was in love with Apollo, growing extreamly envious, de∣clared the whole businesse to Orchamus, who in a great fury caused his daughter to be buried alive, whose death Apollo grie∣ving at, transformed her into the Frank∣incense-tree, and Clytia seeing her self contemned of Apollo, pined her self away, and was turned into a Marygold.
• Leuctra, a Town in Boeotia, where the Thebans under Epaminondas gave the Lace∣demonians so total an overthrow, that they could never after recover them∣selves.
• Level-Coil, (French) is, when he that hath lost the game sits out, and gives ano∣ther his place, as it were lever le cul, i. to lift up or remove the buttock; it is also called Hitchbuttock.
• Levie, (French) signifieth in Common Law, to erect or sit up, also to tax or ga∣ther money.
• Leviathan, an Hebrew word, signify∣ing a Whale, or as some think a water-serpent of a vast bignesse.
• Levigation, or Laevigation, (lat.) a ma∣king plain or smooth.
• Levitical, belonging to the Tribe of Levi, or to the Priestly office, which in the time of the Law, was the peculiar inheri∣tance of that Tribe.
• Levity, (lat.) lightnesse.
• Lewis, the chief Town of Sussex, famous for the great pitcht battle fought between King Henry the third, and the Barons of England.
• Lewis, the proper name of a man, con∣tracted from L••dowic.
• Lewlin, or Lewellin, the proper name of a man, signifying in the old Brittish tongue Lion••like, and is equivalent to the Latin name Leontius, and Leo∣ninus.
• ...

• Lexicon, (Greek) a Vocabulary, or Dictionary.
• Lex talionis, (lat.) a law which recom∣penceth exactly one good or ill turn for another.
• Leyerwit, Lotherwit, (Sax.) a liberty to take amends of him that defileth ones bondwoman without licence.

L H

• Lhan, in the Brittish tongue, signifieth a Church, as Lhan Badern Vaur, the Church of great Patern; Lhan Stuphadon, the Church of St. Stephens.

L I

• Libation, or Libament, (lat.) an offering up or sacrificing to God the first taste of any thing that is eat or drunk.
• Libb, (old word) to geld, from the Greek word thlibein, i. to presse.
• Libell, (lat.) a little book, also a scan∣dalous or invective writing, secretly cast abroad or published by stealth; also an original declaration of any action in the Civil Law.
• Liberate, the name of a warrant issuing out of the Chancery, to the Treasurer, Chamberlaines, and Barons of the Ex∣chequer, for the payment of any annual pension, or other sums granted under the Broad-Seal.
• Liberation, (lat.) a freeing, or deliver∣ing.
• Liber Pater, a name attributed to Bac∣chus the god of wine.
• Libertas, (lat.) a priviledge held by grant or prescription, whereby men in∣joy some benefit or favour beyond the or∣dinary subject, also the name of a god∣desse among the ancient Romans, who had a Temple built unto her upon the hill Aventinus.
• Libertatibus allocandis, a Writ that lieth for a Citizen or Burgesse of a City, who refusing or deferring to allow his privi∣ledge, is impleaded before the Kings Ju∣stices.
• Libertinism (lat.) the state and condi∣tion of a Libertine, i. e. one born or made free, a freeman; also Libertinism, or Libertinage, is taken for sensuality, licen∣tiousnesse, a dissolute life and conver∣sation.
• Libethra, a Town seated upon the mountain Olympus, of which it was fore∣told by the Oracle, that all the inhabi∣tants should be destroyed by a Sow, when the Sun should behold Orpheus his bones, which was thus verified; A great multi∣tude of people being gathered together to hear a Shepherd sing in the way which leadeth from Dion to Olympus, a large Urn containing Orpheus his bones, which stood in that place, was overturned and his bones laid open to view, and the very same day, a great violent stream called Sys (which in Greek signifieth a Sow) overflowing, destroyed the whole Town with all the people in it. Libethra is also the name of a Fountain of Magnesia, sacred to the Muses who are thence called Libethrides.
• Libidinous, (lat.) sensual, incontinent, full of lustful desires.
• Libitina, an ancient goddesse worshipt by the Romans, who was the Patronesse of Funerals, Sepulchres, and all things belonging to the dead.
• Libral, (lat.) belonging to a weight or measure called Libra, which is also the name of one of the 12 Signs of the Zo∣diack into which the Sun entring, causeth the vernal Equinoctial.
• Library, (lat.) a studdy, or place where Books are kept.
• Libration, (lat.) a weighing, or bal∣lancing.
• Librata terrae, see Farding deale of land.
• Libya, the fourth part of the World, commonly called Africa.
• Licence to arise, in Common Law, is a liberty given by the Court to a tenant that is essoynd de malo lecti in a reall action, after he hath been viewed by Knights thereunto appointed, until which time, if the Demandant can prove that he hath been seen out of his chamber, or walking up and down his grounds, he shall be adjudged to be deceitfully es∣soyned.
• Licentiate, (lat.) one that hath full licence or authority to practice in any Art; the same with him that we commonly call Bachelour of Divinity, or of Physick, or of Civil Law, and in Common Law a Barrister.
• Licentious, (lat.) loose, disorderly, unruly.
• Lichas, a boy that waited upon Hercules, by him Deianira sent the shirt ••hat was dipt in the Centaurs blood, which Hercu∣les having put on, and perceiving the

• venome to seize upon his body, he in a fu∣ry took Lichas by the hair of the head and flung him into the Sea, where he was im∣mediately changed into a Rock.
• Lichfield, a Town in Staffordshire, by Bede called Licidfield, i. the field of dead bodies, from a great number of people, who as some say were martyred here in the time of Dioclesian.
• Lich-fowles, ominous, or ill-boding birds, as the Night-raven, and Lich-owle, commonly called the Scritch-owle, the word Lich, signifying in the Saxon lan∣guage a Carcase, or dead body.
• Licitation, (lat.) a cheapning, a setting out to sale, also an enhauncing of a price.
• Licite, (lat.) lawfull, allowable.
• Lictorian, (lat.) belonging to the Li∣ctors, who were certain Officers among the ancient Romans twelve in number, who carried the Axes and bundles of rods before the Magistrate, they are now taken for the same as we commonly call Ser∣geants.
• Liddesdale, a Countrey in the South part of Scotland, so called as it were a dale by the River Lidde.
• Lide, see Leed.
• Lieftenant, (French) as it were hold∣ing the place, one that executeth any place, Office, or imployment in anothers stead, or absence.
• Lief, or Leof, (Sax.) rather.
• Lief-hebber, (Sax.) a Lover.
• Liege, (French) in Common-law is ta∣ken ••ither for the Liegelord, or he that acknowledgeth Liegeancie, or Fealty to his Liege Lord.
• Liegeancie, or Ligeance, (French) such a duty, or fealty as no man may owe, or bear to more then one Lord, also Ligeance is used for the Territory, or Dominions of the Liege Lord.
• Lierwit, see Leyerwit.
• Lifts, in Navigation, are certain ropes, which serve to top the yard arms of all yards to make the ends of them hang higher, or lower, or even as we li••t.
• Ligament, or Ligature, (lat.) a band, or string to tie with; in Anatomy it is taken for the string wherewith the joynts of bones and gristles are fastned and knit to∣gether.
• Ligation, (lat.) the act it self of tying, or binding.
• Ligne, (French) to couple as Dogs with bitches.
• Lignation, (lat.) a providing for, or going to fetch wood.
• Lignean, or Ligneous, (lat.) woodden, made of wood.
• Lignum vitae, the wood, commonly cal∣led Aloes, by the Arabians Calambuco.
• Liguria, a hilly Countrey of Italy, reaching from the Ap••nnine to the Tuscan Sea.
• Ligurion, (lat.) a glutton, or de∣vourer.
• Liguration, (lat.) a ravenous devour∣ing.
• Lilie, (lat.) a kinde of specious flowr, otherwise the rose of Juno.
• Lilith, the name of a certain she Devil which the Jews imagined to be a de∣stroyer of children.
• Lilybaeum, a Promontory in Sicily, having a Town of the same name upon it.
• Limaceous, (lat.) belonging unto, or like a Snail, slimy.
• Limation, (lat.) a filing, or pollishing.
• Limbers, or Limber-holes, (a Term in Navigation) certain little square holes cut in the bottome of the ground Tim∣bers, and hooks next to the Keel to let water passe to the well of the Pump.
• Limbus Patrum, (lat.) a place where the Saints deceased are said to reside un∣till the day of Judgement, being as it were the skirts, or confines of Hell.
• Lim••narch, (Greek) the Governour of a Port.
• Limitation, (lat.) a stinting, or setting of bounds.
• Limitation of Assise, is a certain time set down by Statute, within which a man must alleage himself, or his Ancestours to have been seised of Lands sued for by a Writ of Assize.
• Limning, a kinde of Painting, which is done in water colours, and also differs from the other sort of painting in the pre∣paring of the colours.
• Lim••sity, (lat.) muddinesse, fulnesse of mud.
• Limpid, (lat.) pure, clear, transpa∣rent.
• A Limpin, a kinde of fish, otherwise cal∣led a muscle.
• Linament, (lat.) linnen thread, also a tent, or lint for a wound.
• Lincoln, the chief Citie of Lincolnshire, anciently called Lindum, and by the Brit∣tains Lindecoit, by Bede Lindecollina civi∣tas, from the old Brittish L••in, as Cambden is of opinion, which signifieth a Lake, it

• being situate near a Lake, and upon a hill, in this Citie Vortimer, the scourge of the Saxons ended his dayes.
• Lincoln Colledge, a Colledge in Oxford, founded by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.
• Lindsey, see Holland.
• Lincolns Inne, one of the Inns of Court, heretofore the house of Sir Henry Lacy Earle of Lincoln, now a place for Students of the Law.
• Lineament, (lat.) the feature, or pro∣portion of any thing drawn out onely in lines.
• Linear, (lat.) belonging to a line.
• Ling, a kinde of small shrub, otherwise called Heath, in Latin Erix.
• Lingel, a little tongue, or thong.
• Lingot, see Ingot.
• Linguacity, (lat.) a being full of tongue, or much given to talk.
• Linguist, one that is skilfull in tongues, or languages.
• Linigerous, (lat.) bearing Flax, or Hemp.
• Liniment, (lat.) an oynting, or daub∣bing over.
• Linsie-woolsey, a kinde of mixt cloath, part linnen, part woollen.
• Lintels, (French) the head pieces over a door, also the same as Lentils, i. a kinde of pulse.
• Linus, the son of Apollo, and Psammas, the daughter of Crotopus, King of Argos, by whom Apollo being intertained as he came from slaying the Serpent Pytho, lay privately with Psammas, who proving with Childe brought forth Linus, who having committed some offence, and hiding him∣self among certain bushes, was found out and torn in pieces by the Dogs, also the son of Apollo and Terpsich••re, one of the nine Muses, he proved a very famous Mu∣sitian, taught Thamyras, Orpheus, and Her∣cules, by whom, as some say, he was knockt on the head, because he laught at him for playing unhandsomely.
• Linx, (lat.) a kinde of spotted beast, otherwise called an Ounce.
• Lionel, the proper name of a man, in La∣tin Leonellus, i. little Lyon.
• Lions paw, a kinde of Herb, called in Greek Leontopodium.
• Lipothymie, (Greek) a distemper, which causeth a fainting, or swouning by reason of sudden decay, or oppression of the vi∣tal spirits.
• Lippitude, (lat.) a waterishnesse of the eyes, a looking bloud-shot, or blear-eyed.
• Liptote, (Greek) a Rhetorical figure, wherein more is understood then is ex∣press't.
• Liquation, or Liquefaction, (lat.) a melt∣ing, dissolving, or making Liquid, i. moist or of a watery substance.
• Liquids, (lat.) are those four Conso∣nants, which do as it were melt in the pronunciation, namely L.M.N.R▪ the rest are called mutes.
• Liquidation, (lat.) a making moist.
• Lisard, or Lizard, (French, from the La∣tin Lacerta) a certain beast, so called be∣cause it hath feet like the brawne, or si∣news of a mans arms, or thighs, also the Lizard point, the utmost Southwest point of Cornwall.
• Litanie, see Letanie.
• Litation, (lat.) a sacrificing.
• Literature, (lat.) knowledge in letters, learning.
• Lithargie, or Litargie, (Greek) the foam that riseth from silver, or lead, when they are tried.
• Lither, (old word) lazy, or sluggish.
• Lithoglyphick, (Greek) a graver, or cut∣ter in stones.
• Lithomancie, (lat.) a Divination, the casting of pebble stones.
• Lithotomie, (Greek) a cutting of stones, a quarry whence stones are digged.
• Litigation, (lat.) a contending, or wrang∣ling.
• Litigious, (lat.) full of strife, conten∣tious.
• Litispendence, (lat.) the hanging of a suit, till it be decided.
• L••tmose blue, a kinde of blue colour, used in painting and limning.
• Litoral, or Litorean, (lat.) belonging to the shor•• sea-side, or side of a river.
• Liturgie, (Greek) signifieth in general any publick Office, but particularly Di∣vine service, or the function of a Mini∣ster.
• Liverie, (French) the Cognizance, de∣vice, or badge, which a Noble-man, or Gentleman gives to his servants and fol∣lowers, also Livery of seisin is a Ceremony used in Common-law, being a delivery of possession of Lands, or Tenements, or other things unto another, also a Writ, which lieth for the Heir to obtain the possession, and seizin of his Lands at the Kings hands.
• Lividity, or Livor, (lat.) a kinde of

• leaden or dead blewish colour in the body, caused by a stroke ar blow given; also metaphorically taken for spite or envy.
• Lixiviated, (lat.) washed with lye made of ashes.
• Lizard, see Lisard.

L O

• Loach, or Lohoch, (French) a kind of Confection or Electuary that is to be licked, or suffered to melt in the mouth without chewing; it is an Arabick word, and signifieth in the Latin Linctus, i. a licking.
• Lobbe, or Lobling, a kind of great north Sea-fish.
• Local, in Common Law, is as much as tied or annexed to a place.
• Location, (lat.) a placing, or setting in place, also a letting out to hire.
• Lockers, little cupbords which are made by the ships sides, to put in shot, by the pieces.
• Lococessi••n, (lat.) a yeilding or giving place.
• Locomotion, (lat.) a moving out of a place, or from place to place.
• Locrians, or Locri, a people of Locris in Greece inhabiting on either side of the Hill Parnassus. Locris is also a City of that part of Italy called Magna Graecia, built by those Locrians that followed Ajax Oileus to Troy.
• Loculament, (lat.) a little place distinct, or apart by it self.
• Locuplete, (lat.) abounding with riches, wealthy.
• Locust, (lat.) a kind of winged Insect, commonly taken for a Grasshopper; but others think it to be the same with that which the Frenchmen call Cigale.
• Locution, (lat.) a speaking or say∣ing.
• Lodemanage, the hire of a Pilot for conducting of a ship from one place to another, from the Dutch word loot, i. lead.
• Lodesman, a Guide or Pilot, from the same word loot; whence he is also called Lootsman.
• Lodestar, the Cynosure or North-Star which guideth Mariners.
• Lodestone, as it were a leading-stone, because by it Mariners are guided and di∣rected in their voyages: It is of a rusty-iron colour, and hath the vertue to at∣tract or draw iron to it, whereby many admirable secrets are performed.
• Lodeworkes and Stremeworks, certain workes in the Stannery in Cornwall; these are performed in the higher grounds by▪ making deep wells which they call shafts, those in the lower grounds by digging of trenches and diverting the course of the Rivers.
• Lodge, a Buck is by the Forresters said to lodge, when he goes to his rest.
• Log, the name of an Hebrew measure, and thought by some to be of the same quantity with Sextarius A••ticus.
• Logarithmes, (Greek) are certain bor∣rowed numbers which differ among them∣selves by Arithmetical proportion as the numbers which borrow them differ by Geometrical proportion.
• Log-line, a term in Navigation, being a small line with a little piece of board at the end, with a little lead to it, to keep it edge-long in the water, the use of which is, by seeing how many fathom this runs in a minute, to give a judgement how many leagues the ship will run in a watch.
• Logician, (Greek) one that hath skill in Logick, i. the art of disputing prob∣ably in any argument.
• Logist, (Greek) one skilled in the Lo∣gistick Art, i. the Art of reckoning or casting account; also Logists were certain Officers among the Athenians ten in num∣ber, to whom all such as had ended their Magistracy gave an account within 30 dayes of all those affairs whereof they had had the administration, they also kept an account of the monies, and of all matters belonging to the publick Revenue.
• Logographers, (Greek) those that write pleas in the Law, or books of account, Lawyers Clerks.
• Logomachy, (Greek) a verbal strife, a contention in words.
• Lohoch, see Loach.
• Lollards, a Sect of Hereticks that aboun∣ded here in England in the dayes of Ed∣ward the third, and Henry the fifth; so called from one Gualter Lollard a German the first Author of them: or as others say, from lolium, because they were ac∣counted as darnel or cockle growing a∣mong wheat.
• Lombard, or Lombar, a Bank for usury or pawns, from the Longobardi, or Lom∣bards, a people inhabiting the hithermost part of Italy, formerly called Insubria,

• much addicted to usury, whence ofttimes Usurers are called Lombardeers.
• Lome, (old word) clay or mortar.
• London, the chief City of England, si∣tuate in Middlesex, so called as Cambden conjectureth, either from Lhun (which in the Brittish tongue signifieth a Grove) or Lhong, (i. a ship) and Dinas, i. a City, so that it may seem to have been anciently termed Lhundinas, i. a City thick of trees, or Lhongdinas, i. a City of Ships, from whence the Latins derive the word Lon∣dinum. It was called Augusta, and Troja Nova, being first founded by Brutus, who sprang of the Trojan race, and repaired by King Lud, and thence called Caerlud, or Luds-town.
• Longaevity, (lat) length of age, long life.
• Longanimity, (lat.) as it were length of mind, long-suffering, patience, for∣bearance.
• Longinquity, (lat) far distance, or length of place.
• Longitude, (lat.) the length of any thing, also the Longitude of a Region, City, or Cape, is the distance of it East, numbred in the Equinoctial by Meridians, from the first general and fixed Meridian. The Longitude of a star, is the arch of the E∣cliptick intercepted between the begin∣ning of Aries, and the circle of the stars Latitude.
• Long-Meg, the name of a stone 15 foot high, erected near Salkeld in Cumberland, next which are 77 more erected in a cir∣cular manner, which the country people call the Daughters of Long-Meg.
• Long-primer, one of the sorts of Cha∣racters used by Printers.
• The Loof, of a Ship, is that part aloft of a Ship, that lies before the ches-trees, as far as the bulk-head of the castle.
• A Ship Loomes a great or a small sail, a term used in Navigation, and signifieth as much as a Ship seems a great or a little Ship.
• Lootsman, see Lodesman.
• Loover, a place made open (to let out the smoak) on the top of a house, from the French word l'overt, open.
• Lopum, a great Desart in the Country of Bactria, in which it is reported that certain evil spirits do abide, by which strangers that passe that way being called by their names, and following the voice, perish miserably.
• Loquacity, (lat.) talkativenesse, or a be∣ing given to much babling.
• Loquabre, a Country in the North part of Scotland, so called, q. the mouth of the Lake.
• Lorament, (lat.) that which is com∣posed of thongs of leather.
• Loray-law, an article found in the me∣morials of the chamber of account in France, which ordaineth, that if a combat be once accepted, and afterwards taken up, by consent of the Lord of the Fee, each of the parties is to pay two shillings six pence, but if it be performed, the party vanquisht forfeits 112 shillings.
• Lordane, or Lourdane, a dull heavy fel∣low, a lazy lubber, it being a proverbial word taken from the tyranny of the Danes over the English, who were forced to la∣bour and till the ground for them, while they sate idle and ate the fruits of their labours.
• Lore, (Sax.) learning or skill.
• Loricated, (lat) armed with mail.
• Lorimers, (French) the name of a Trade and Company in London, that makes bits, spurs, and all kind of small iron-work, and is by some derived from the Latin word Lorum.
• Loriot, (French) a Bird called a Wit∣wall, Woodpecker, or Greenfinch.
• Lorn, the name of a County in the south part of Scotland.
• Lorty's, a great and ancient Family of Sommersetshire, stiled in Latin records, de Vrtiaco.
• Losenger, a flatterer, a word used by Chaucer.
• Lotharius, the son of Ludovicus Pius, Emperour of Germany, and King of France, he succeeded his father in the Empire; but his brothers Charles and Lodowic, not contented with their portions, and raising an army against their brother, a great bat∣tle was fought at Fontenay, in the borders of France, where Lotharius was put to flight, but at last they came to an agree∣ment, and Lotharius after he had reigned about 15 years betook himself to the Pru∣miensian Monastery. There were also se∣veral Kings of France and Dukes of Lor∣rain of his name.
• Lothbrook, (i. Leatherbreech) a certain Dane, whose daughters were so skilful at needle-work, that the Danes bare in their Ensign a Raven of their working, with such an opinion of good successe, that they imagined it would never be won.
• Lotherwit, see Leyerwit.
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• Lotion, (lat.) a washing or cleansing with water, also in Physick it is used for the taking away of any superfluous quali∣ty out of any medicament, or the bringing on of a new one.
• Lotis, or Lotus, the daughter of Neptune, she fleeing from Priapus (who made an at∣tempt upon her chastity) and invoking the help of the gods, was turned into the Lote-tree.
• Lotophagi, a certain people of Africa, dwelling near the Syrtes, so called because they feed much upon the Lote-tree, which is a tree of that nature, that when the companions of Vlisses being cast upon the coast of Africa had tasted of the fruit of it, they could hardly be got from thence to return into their own Country, whence the word is proverbially used for those that are forgetful of their Parents, Coun∣try and Kindred.
• Lovell's, an ancient Family in Northamp∣tonshire, stiled in Latin records, de Lu∣pello.
• Loverd, or Laverd, (old word) a Lord.
• Lourdain, see Lordane.
• Louvre, a stately Palace in Paris, and the chief seat of the Kings of France, built by Francis the first, and augmented with a long stately Gallery by Henry the fourth.
• Lowbell, as it were loud bell, a certain bell hung about the neck of a weather.
• Lozenge, a little square cake made of preserved herbs, in the form of a Rhomb or a quarrel of Glasse.

L U

• Lua, a certain goddesse among the an∣cient Romans, she was the goddesse of all lustrations and purging from sin.
• Lubricity, (lat.) slipperinesse.
• Lucernes, a kind of rich Fur, taken from a beast of the same name, breeding in Russia and those Northerly Coun∣tries.
• Lucia, a Christian name of divers wo∣men, signifying in Latin Lightsome.
• Lucida Laucis, a Star in 9 degrees 45 minutes of Scorpio.
• Lucidity, (lat.) brightnesse, shining∣nesse.
• Lucifer, (lat.) as it were lightbearing, the morning Star called in Greek Phos∣phorus.
• Lucina, a name attributed to Juno, as she is the Patronesse of Childbirth, or as some say to Diana or the Moon.
• Lucius, the praenomen of divers famous men among the Romans; as Lucius Sylla, Lucius Antonius Commodus the Emperour, Lucius Septimius Severus, and many others. The first of this name is likely to have been so called from being born in the dawn or first shining of the day.
• Lucre, (lat.) gain or profit, whence Lucration a gaining or winning.
• Lucretia, the daughter of Lucretius Tricipitinus Prefect of Rome, and the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus, she being ravisht by Sextus the son of Tarquinius Super∣bus King of the Romans, slew her self, which was the cause of banishing both Tarquin and Kingly Government from Rome which was afterwards ruled by Consuls chosen anew every year, and this act of Lucretia hath ever since been so famed, that every chast woman is prover∣bially called a Lucrece.
• Luctation, (lat.) a striving or wrestling.
• Luctatius Catulus, a famous Captain of the Romans, who with 300 ships over∣came 600 of the Carthaginians, and made an end of the war.
• Lucubration, (lat.) a studying or work∣ing by candle-light.
• Luculency, (lat.) clearnesse, brightness, fulnesse of light.
• Lucullus, a famous Roman, being a man of great eloquence, and ingenuity, he ha∣ving been successeful in the wars against Mithridates, heaped up a mighty masse of riches, after the war was ended, gave himself up wholy to ease and delicacy, li∣ving in more state and splendor than any of that Age, besides afterwards beginning to grow mad, he was given in charge to his brother Marcus.
• Ludibrious, (lat.) shameful, or reproach∣ful.
• Ludicrous, (lat.) belonging to sport, re∣creation, or mockery.
• Ludification, (lat.) a mocking or de∣ceiving.
• Ludlow, a Town in Shropshire, in Old times called Dinan, afterwards Lystwysoc, i. the Princes Palace, it hath a fair Castle built by Roger Montgomery, which was besieged by King Stephen, who valiantly rescued Henry son to the King of Scots, who was about to have been pulled into the Castle with an iron hook.
• Ludovicus Pius, the son of Charles the Great (who was created Emperour by

• Pope Leo) he succeeded his father in the Empire and Kingdom of France, also Ludo∣vicus hath been the name of several other Emperours and Kings of France, this name according to Helmoldus Nigellus is deriv'd from the Dutch words Hludo Wiggh, i. e. famous Warrier.
• Lugdunum, the chief Citie of Gallia Celtica, vulgarly called Lyons, built by Munatius Plancus, a Roman Governour.
• Lugubrous, (lat.) mournfull, heavy, sor∣rowfull.
• Luition, (lat.) a making satisfaction for any offence, also a paying a ransome▪
• Luke, (Hebr.) rising, or lifting up.
• Lumbar, see Lombar.
• Luminaries, (in Lat. Luminaria) lights, lamps, also conspicuous stars, as the sun and moon, also the feast of Christs Nativity, commonly called Christmas, was by the ancient Western Church, called Lumi∣naria.
• Luminous, (lat.) full of light.
• Lunaeburgum, a great Citie of Germany, built by Julius Caesar, vulgarly called Lu∣nemburgh.
• Lunar, belonging to the Planet of the Moon, called in Latin Luna.
• Lunatick, (lat.) troubled with a Lu∣nacy, i. a kinde of madnesse, which hap∣pens at certain times of the Moon.
• Lunes for Hawks, leashes, or long lines to call them.
• Lungis, (French) a tall slim man that hath no making to his heighth.
• Lupercal, a place about Rome, where an∣ciently certain feasts were celebrated to Pan, which were called Lupercalia, from Lupa a she-wolf, which gave Romulus suck, or as some say, a Harlot of that name which nursed him.
• Lupines, (lat.) a kind of little flat round pulse, almost like a small bean.
• Lurcation, (lat.) a greedy eating, or playing the glutton, derived originally from Lura, a great leathern bottle.
• Lure for Hawks, a certain leathern de∣vice, whereby with a little piece of flesh, they call a Hawk from a good distance off, it comes from the Dutch word Laeden, i. e. to invite.
• Lurid, (lat.) pale, wan, of a sallow co∣lour.
• Luscitation, (lat.) a being dim-sighted, or pore-blind.
• Lushborough, a base Coyn brought over from beyond Sea, in the dayes of King Edward the third.
• † Lusion, (lat.) a playing, or gaming.
• Lusitania, the third part of Spain, ac∣cording to the ancient division; it is now called Portugal, and is a Kingdom by it self.
• A Lusk, a slug, or sloathfull fellow, from the French word lasche.
• Lust of a ship, a Term in Navigation, when a ship out of her own mold, and ma∣king hath an inclination more to one side then another.
• Lustration, (lat.) a going about, also a purging by sacrifice.
• Lustre, (French) a shining, also from the Latin word lustrum, it signifieth a Den of wilde beasts, also the space of five years, by which space the Romans were wont to compute the time.
• Lutheranisme, the doctrine and judge∣ment of Martin Luther, who being first a Monk of the Order of St. Augustin for∣sook the Church of Rome, and writ against the errors of it.
• Luteous, (lat.) muddy, or of a muddy colour.
• Lutulent, (lat.) miry, or dirty.
• Lutzenburgum, or Lutzenburgh, a Dutchy in the low Countreys, adjoining to Leige and Namur, being one of the 17 Provin∣ces, and having a chief Citie of the same name.
• Luxation, (lat.) a putting out of joynt, a making loose.
• Luxuriant, or Luxurious (lat.) riotous, given to excesse, or debauchery.

L Y

• Lycanthropy, (Greek) a kinde of me∣lancoly, or phrenzy, which causeth those that are po••sest therewith to think them∣selves turned into Wolves, and to fly the company of men.
• Ly••aon, the son of Pelasgus, and King of Arcadia, who when Jupiter came into Arcadia in the likenesse of a mortal man, resolved to try whether he were a God, or no, as men reported him to be, and killing one of those, whom the King of the Mo∣lossi had left with him for pledges, he cau∣sed him to be dressed, and part rosted, to be set before Jupiter, whereat he being highly provoked turned Lycaon into a Wolf, and burnt his Pallace with Thun∣der, others say it was for sprinkling with the bloud of an Infant, an Altar which he had erected to Jupiter upon the Mountain Lycaeus, a hill of Arcadia.
• ...

• Lycaonia, a Countrey of Asia the lesse, near Phrygia, and reaching as far as the Mountain Taurus; also Arcadia was here∣tofore so called from Lycaon, the King thereof.
• Lyceum, the name of a School, which Cicero erected at his Mannor of Tusculum, calling it so after the name of Aristotles School, near Athens.
• Lycomedes, a King of the Island Scyrus, by whom Achilles being intertained before he went to the Trojan War, and conver∣sing with his daughters in womans appa∣rel, he got one of them called Deidamia with Childe, and begat Pyrrhus.
• Lycurgus, the son of Polydectes, and King of Sparta, after the death of his brother Eunomus, but he soon resigned up the Crown to Charilaus his brothers son, and having made wholesome laws for the good of the Common-wealth, which were con∣firmed by the approbation of the Delphic Oracle, he afterwards retired himself to Cyrrha, where at length he slew himself, and had a Temple built him, and Divine honours given bim by the Lacedaemonians: also the name of a King of Thrace, who proceeded so violently against Bacchus, that he forced him to retire himself to Naxus, and would have caused all the Vines in his Kingdom to be rooted up, that no sacrifice might be made to him, but ere he had effected his design he fell mad, and cut off his own legs.
• Lycus, a King of Boeotia, who married Antiope, the daughter of Nycteus, but she being got with Childe by Jupiter in the form of a Satyr, he put her away and married Dirce. See more in Dirce, and Amphyon; also a King of Lybia, who using to sacrifice his Guests, had intended the same thing towards Diomede, but Callirroe the daughter of Lycus, falling in love with him delivered him out of Chains, and be∣ing afterwards neglected by him, hanged her self for grief.
• Lydia, a Christian name of divers wo∣men, from the Countrey so called.
• Lydia, a Kingdom of Asia the lesse, so called from Lydus, the son of Atys, who perceiving the people grow too numerous for the Countrey, resolved to send out one of his sons, to whose lot it should fall, to plant a Colony in some other place, so that it falling to Tyrrenus his lot, he went out with a great multitude of Lydians, and choosing out a part of Italie, which lieth upon the Sea-side, he called it from his own name Tyrrhenum, his brother Lydus tarrying at home succeeded his father A∣tys in the Kingdom, and called it from his own name Lydia, whereas before it was called Maeonia.
• Lydford Law, a certain Law, whereby they first hang a man, and afterwards in∣dite him.
• Lymphatick, (lat.) mad, distracted, as it were by seeing the likenesse of a Nymph in the water, from Lympha, i. water.
• Lynceus, the son of Apareus, and one of the Argonauts, he was reported to be so quick-sighted, that he could see through stone walls even to the very deep it self, and that he could discern the Moon in her last quarter, and the first, the very same day, in the signe of Aries; whence a sharp-sighted man is proverbially called a Lynceus, also Lynceus and Idas were two brothers, who fought with Castor and Pol∣lux, about the two daughters of Leucippus, Castor fell by the hand of Lynceus, Lynceus by the hand of Pollux, Idas going about to slay Pollux, was strook with Thunder from Heaven.
• Lyncus, a King of Scythia, who going about to kill Triptolemus his Guest as he lay asleep, that he might gain to himself the glory of inventing the use of Corn, was changed by Ceres into a beast, called Lynx, or Ounce.
• Lyndus, a Citie of Rhodes, famous for the solemne sacrifices, which in old time were performed there to Hercules.
• Lyra, one of the celestial A••••orismes, which the Poets feigned to be Arions Harp.
• Lyrick, verses, or songs, songs compo∣sed to the Lyre, or Harp, whence we say vulgarly, playing Leero-way on the Viol, which is corruptly used for Lyra-way, i. e. Harp-way.
• Lysander, a Captain of the Lecedaemo∣nians, who overcame the Athenians under the command of Conon in a very great battel.
• Lysidice, the daughter of Pelops, she was married to Electryon, and brought forth Alckmena the mother of Hercules.
• Lysimachus, the son of Agathocles, and one of the chief Captains of Alexander the Great, he was thrown to a Lyon to be de∣voured by Alexanders command, for hear∣ing Call••••thenes the Philosopher after he was in Chains, but he wrapping his Gar∣ment about his hands, thrust them into the Lyons mouth, and pulling out his

• tongue killed him; after Alexanders death he had the Government of Thrace.
• Lysippe, see Iphianassa.
• Lysius, one of the sirnames of Bacchus, to whom under that name the Boeotians consecrated a Temple, because by his help they overcame the Thracians, by whom they had been set upon before and beaten.

M A

• MAbel, the Christian name of divers women, in Latin Mabilia, from A∣mabilis, i. lovely.
• Mac, an Irish word, signifying as much as son in English, or fitz in Welsh.
• Macareus, the son of Aeolus, who got his sister Canace with child, which Aeolus coming to discover by hearing the child cry, sent Canace a sword privately, bid∣ding her do with it as she deserved best, whereupon she killed her self, and Maca∣reus fleeing to Delphos, was made a Priest of Apollo.
• Macaleb, a kind of Pomander or ba∣stard Coral whose berries are black and shining and serve for Bracelets.
• Macaronique, (French) a confused huddle of divers things jumbled to∣gether.
• Macarons, (Ital.) lumps of boiled paste, strewed over with sugar or spice, a dish much used by the Italians; but here they are commonly compounded of Almonds, Sugar, Rose-water, and Musk.
• Macedonia, a large Country of Europe, heretofore famous for being governed by two great Kings, Philip of Macedon, and Alexander the Great, it was anciently called Aemathia and Aemonia, now Ro∣melli.
• Macegrefs, those that buy and sell stol∣len flesh.
• Macellarious, (lat) belonging to a shambles.
• Maceration, (lat.) a mortifying, or bringing low, also a steeping in li∣quor.
• Machaon, a famous Physitian, the son of Aesculapius and Arsin••e, he was slain at the wars of Troy by Euripilus.
• Machiavilian, belonging unto Machia∣vill, a famous Historian and Polititian of Florence, whence it is commonly used for subtile or well verst in State-policy.
• Machination, (lat.) a plotting, con∣triving, or devising, from Machina, an Engin or Instrument of war, but used also for a device or invention.
• Macilent, (lat.) thin, lean, fallen of ones flesh.
• Mackerell, or Maquerell, (French) a kind of fish, so called from the great com∣pany of spots it hath, in Latin Scombrus; it is also used for a pander or procurer.
• Macritude, (lat.) leannesse.
• Macrobii, a certain people of Aethiopia, so called from the long life they live.
• Macrocosme, (Greek) the greater, being taken contradistinct to the Microcosme or lesser, world, which is man.
• Macrology, (lat.) a figure among Rhe∣toricians, being a speech containing more words than are just necessary.
• Mactation, (lat.) a killing or commit∣ting slaughter.
• Maculation, (lat.) a staining or defiling with spots.
• Madefaction, (lat.) a moistning or wet∣ting.
• Madidity, or Madour, (lat.) moistness or wetness.
• Madder, a kind of plant, with whose root being of a red colour, they use to dye wool.
• Madoc, an ancient Brittish name, from Mad, i. good.
• Madrigal, (Ital.) a kind of Song.
• Maeonia, see Lydia.
• Maeotis, a Lake in the North part of Scythia, near the mouth of the River Phasis. It is called by the Italians Mar della Tana, and Mar Bianco, by the Scy∣thians, Garpaluc.
• Magazine, (French) a Store-house where Armes and Ammunition of War are put, as it were Mansio Gazae.
• Magdalen, (Hebr.) Majestical, the Christian name of divers women.
• Magdalen Colledge, a Colledge in Ox∣ford, built, together with a Hall near ad∣joyning to it, by William Wain••let Bishop of Winchester.
• Magdaleon, (lat.) a kind of long plai∣ster like a rowler, called also a Lan∣gate.
• Magdeburgum, or Magdeburg, as it were Maidenburg, from the Dutch word Magd, i. a Maid, the chief City of Saxony, in Germany, heretofore called Parthenopolis, from Venus Parthenia, who was there wor∣shipped.
• Magician, (lat.) one that professeth the

• Art Magick, which was the same among the Persians, as Philosophy among the Gre∣cians, i. e. the study of the more occult and mysterious Arts; whence the 3 Wise∣men of the East were called Magi, but a∣mong the vulgar, the word simply taken, is used in the same signification as Diabo∣lical Magick, i. e. Sorcery or Witch∣craft.
• Magisterial, (lat.) pertaining to Magi∣stery, or Mastership, done by or like a Master; in Physick a pill or plaister, &c. prepared after the best manner is called Magisterial.
• Magistracy, (lat.) the office of a Magi∣strate or chief Ruler.
• Magna charta, the great Charter con∣taining a number of Laws ordained in the nineth year of Henry the third, and con∣firmed by Edward the first, containing the sum of all the written Laws of Eng∣land.
• † Magnality, a greatnesse to be admi∣red at, being a made word, from the Lat. Magnalia, i. e. great and wonderfull things.
• Magnanimity, (lat.) greatnesse of mind, courage, stoutnesse.
• Magnes, a youth of Smyrna, the most beautiful of his age, and excellent in mu∣sick and poetry, for which he was in high esteem with Gyges King of Lydia, who because the Parents of Magnes spoiled his cloths, and cut off his hair, made war up∣on the Country, overcame them, and brought away Magnes in Triumph to Sardes.
• Magnetick, (lat.) belonging to the Magnete or Lodestone. See Lodestone.
• Magnificence, (lat.) as it were a ma∣king great, sumptuousnesse, statelinesse, a carrying things on at a great heighth.
• Magnificat, the Song of the Virgin Mary, so called because it beginneth with these words, Magnificat anima mea, &c.
• Magnifico, (Ital.) the title of a Noble man of Venus, also the Governours of Aca∣demies in Germany, are called Mag∣nifici.
• Magniloquence, (lat.) a lofty speaking, a talking of high things.
• Magnitude, (lat.) greatness, ampleness, largeness.
• Mago, the first that increased the wealth of Carthage, before the first Punick war he aided the Romans in the war of Ta∣rentum with 120 ships.
• Magog, see Gog and Magog.
• Magonel, according to Chaucer, is an in∣strument to cast stones with.
• Mahim, or Maim, (in Latin Mahemium) is the hurting or taking away of any member by the wrongful act of another, whereby the party so hurt is made unable to fight, it comes from the old French word Mehaighn, and is called by the Ca∣nonists, Mutilatio membri.
• Mahumetanisme, the Religion and Law of the Turks, founded by Mahomet the first Emperour of the Saracens, there was also of this name a great Emperour of the Turks, who overthrew the Greek Empire, took twelve Kingdomes, and two hundred Cities from the Christians, whereof the chief were Constantinople, the Island Chal∣cis, Scodra, Trapezuntium, and Hydrun∣tum, in Italie, but at the siedge of Bel∣grade, or as some say of Taurinum, he was overthrown, and put to flight.
• Maia, one of the seven Pleiades, on whom Jupiter begat Mercury, she was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione.
• Maid Marrian, or Morion, a boy dressed in womans apparel to dance the Morisco, or M••rrisdance.
• Maiden-hair, a kinde of plant, called in Latin Adiantum, or Capillus veneris.
• Maidenhead, a Town in Bark-shire, so called from a Maids head that was had in great reverence, being one of those 11000. who returning from Rome with their Lea∣der Vrsula, were taken by Attila, and mar∣tyred at Colein in Germany.
• Maidstone, a pleasant Town in Kent, si∣tuate upon the River Medway, and there∣fore anciently called Medweg-ston, and thought to be the same with the old Town Vagniacae.
• Maim, see Mahim.
• Mainour, Manour, or Meinour, (from the French word Maniere) signifieth in Common-law, an apprehending of one that hath stollen any thing, and is followed with Hue and Cry, with the manner, that is, having the thing.
• Mainprise, (from the French words main, i. a hand, and prins, i. taken) sig∣nifieth in Common Law, the receiving a man into friendly custody, that otherwise might be committed to prison, giving se∣curity for his forth comming at a day assigned; those that do thus undertake for any, are called Mainpernours, he that is taken into custody Mainpernable.
• Maint, (Saxon) mingled.
• Maintenance, in Common Law, is, up∣holding

• of a cause depending in suite be∣tween others, either by lending of money, or making of friends for either party.
• Majo, a County of Ireland, in the Pro∣vince of Conaught.
• Major, signifieth in Latin greater, but with us it is commonly taken sometimes for a Praetor or Governour of a City, sometimes for a Military officer; also in Logick the first part of a Syllogisme is cal∣led the Major or the proposition, the se∣cond the Minor or the assumption.
• Majoration, (lat.) a making greater.
• Maisnilwarings, and by contraction Manwarings, the name of a great and an∣cient Family in Cheshire.
• Master of the Rolles, is an assistant unto the Lord Chancelour of England in the high Court of Chancery, and in his absence heareth causes and giveth or∣ders.
• Maisters of the Chancery, are assistants to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal in mat∣ters of judgement; of these there are 12 in number, whereof the chief is the Ma∣ster of the Rolles.
• Masters of the Court of Wards and Li∣veries, the principal officer of that Court, named and assigned by the King to whose custody the Seal of the Court is commit∣ted.
• Master of the Horse, is he that hath the rule and charge of the Kings stable.
• Make, in Common Law, signifieth, to perform or execute, as, to make his Law, is to perform that Law which he hath formerly bound himself unto, that is, to clear himself of an action, commenced against him by his Oath, and the Oaths of his Neighbours; also to make ones beard, (an old phrase) to deceive.
• Malachias, (Hebr.) my messenger.
• Malachite, (Greek) a kinde of precious stone, so called.
• Malacissation, a kneading, a making soft.
• Malacy, (Greek) a calm on the Sea, also a longing of women with childe.
• Maladie, (French) a disease, sicknesse, or infirmity.
• Malaga, a Citie and Port-Town of An∣dalusia, whence we have that sort of wine, which is called Malago Sack; it is said to have been so called, because Cava the daughter of Count Julian, after that, her being ravish't by King Roderigo had been the occasion of the losse of Spain to the Moors, threw her self from a high Tower, crying out, Malacà, i. here's the evil.
• Malanders, a certain disease in a horse, from the Italians Mal andare, i. to go ill.
• Malapert, saucy, impudent, as it were Male partus, i. ill brought forth.
• Maldisant, (French) a backbiter, an evil speaker.
• Maldon, a Town in Essex, anciently cal∣led Camalodunum from Camulus, whom the old Brittains worship't here for Mars, the God of war; this Town being made a Colony of the Romans, was sacked by Queen Bunduca, or Boadicia.
• A Male, a kinde of sack, or budget from the Greek word Malloi fleece, because they used to be made of sheepskins.
• Malecontent, (lat.) discontented, evil content.
• Malediction, (lat.) an evil speaking, or cursing.
• Malefactour, (lat.) an evil doer, an of∣fender.
• Malefice, (lat.) an evil act, a shrewd turn.
• Maletent, a Toll of fourty shillings for every sack of Wool, Anno 29. Edw. 1.▪ it is also called Maletot, from the French Maletoste.
• Malevolence, (lat.) ill will.
• Malignity, (lat.) spite, malice, grudge.
• Malevolent Planets, Saturn and Sagi∣tarius.
• M••lison, (French) a curse.
• Mallard, (French) a wilde Drake.
• Malleable, (lat.) to be wrought, or beaten out with a Mallet, or Hammer.
• M••lkin, or M••ukin, a Beesom to make clean an Oven with, it is also called a Scovel.
• Malliverie's, the name of an ancient fa∣mily in York-shire, stiled in Latin Records Mali Leporarii.
• Mallow's, a kinde of plant of a soft∣ning, or loosening quality, called in Latin Malva.
• Malmesie, a sort of wine, which is brought out of Arvisium, in the Island of Chio, vulgarly called Marvisia, or Mal∣visia.
• Malmesbury, a Town in Wiltshire, first built by Mulmutius, a King of the Brit∣tains, and by him named Caer Baldon, af∣terwards from one Maidulph an Irish-Scot, who here led a Hermites life, it was cal∣led Maidulphsburgh, and so by contraction Malmsbury.
• Malta, a rocky and barren Island, sixty

• miles distant from Sicilie, called in the New Testament Melita, this Island was given by Charls the fifth, to the Knights of Rhodes, who have ever since been called Knights of Malta.
• Mamalukes, a certain Order of Soul∣diers, who fought lightly armed on hors∣back, and were the chief military support of the last Empire of Aegypt.
• Mamitus, the thirteenth King of the Assyrians, he trained up his subjects in military discipline, and was a terrour to the Aegyptians, and many other Nations.
• Mammeated, (lat.) having paps, or teates.
• Mammet, a puppet, from the Greek word Mamme, as it were a little Mother, or Nurse.
• Mammillary Processes, (lat.) a Term in Anatomy, certain bones in the temples, representing the teates in a Cows Udder.
• Mammocks, fragments, or pieces.
• Mammon, the God of wealth, the word signifying in the Syriack tongue riches, or wealth, and is derived from the Hebrew word Hamon, i. plenty, having M. He∣mantick added at the beginning.
• Mammooda, a kinde of East-Indian Coyn, valuing about a shilling.
• Manation, (lat.) a passing away, a flow∣ing.
• Manage, in Italian Maneggiare, to go∣vern, to rule, to handle.
• Manasses, (Hebr.) not forgotten.
• Manbote, (Sax.) a pecuniary compen∣sation for killing of a man.
• Manchester, a pleasant Town in Lanca∣shire, which anciently belonging to the Kings of Northumberland, and having been destroyed in the Danish war, King Edw. the Elder, sent an Army of Mercians into Northumberland, to re-edifie this Citie; some say, because the inhabitants behaved themselves valiantly against the Danes, it was called Manchester, as it were the Citie of men, others derive it from Main, i. a stone, because it standeth upon a stony Hill; it was anciently called Mancunium.
• Manchet, (from the French word Main, i. e. the hand) the finest, and the smallest sort of wheaten bread, called in Latin pa∣nis Capituli, in Greek Collyris.
• Manch present, (old word) a bribe.
• Mancipation, (lat.) an ancient manner of selling before witnesses, wherein divers Ceremonies were used; it is also used in the same sence as Emancipation.
• Manciple, (lat.) a Steward, or Caterer, but chiefly one that buyes the common provisions in a Colledge, or Hospital.
• Mancuse, a kinde of Coyn, valuing about thirty of the ancient pence, each of which contains three pence of our money, some hold a Manca, or Mancus of Gold, to be as much as a Mark of silver.
• Mandatarie, (lat.) one that comes in to a Benefice by a Mandamus.
• A Mandate, (lat.) a Commandment, or charge, also in Common-law, it is a Judi∣cial Command of the King, or his Justi∣ces, to have any thing done for the dis∣patch of Justice.
• Mandevils, an ancient family in Essex, stiled in Latin Records de Magna Villa.
• Mandible, (lat.) from M••ndibulum) a jaw, (from the participiate Mandibilis) eatable.
• Mandilion, or Mandilian, (French) a kinde of military garment, a loose Cassock.
• Mandonius and Indibilis, two famous Spanish Captains, who having assisted Sci∣pio, and the Romans against the Carthagi∣nians began afterwards to revolt, but be∣cause of the memory of their former good service they were dismissed.
• Mandrake, a kinde of plant, so called from the Greek word Mandra, i. a Cave, because it groweth near unto Den's and in shady places, it beareth a fruit called Mandrake, Apples of a cold and soporife∣rous quality, it is also called by some An∣thropomorphos, because its root being diva∣ricated, something resembleth the shape of a man.
• Manducation, (lat.) a chewing.
• Mandy thursday, as it were dies Mandati, the day of Commandment, because of that great charge which our Saviour gave to his Disciples, concerning the observation of his Supper, being the Thursday next before Easter day.
• Mangonels, the same as Magonells.
• Mangonization, (lat.) a trimming, or setting out things to the best advantage for sale.
• Manichees, a sort of Hereticks that maintained that there was a fatal necessity of sin, which Doctrine was first broached by one Manes a Persian.
• Manicles, (French) fetters wherewith the hands of prisoners are bound, being derived originally from the Latin word Manus, a hand.
• Manifesto, (Ital.) a Declaration of some Prince, or Common-wealth, about publick affairs.
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• Maniple, (lat.) a handful, in physick more especialy it is taken for such a bundle of herbs or other things as may be griped with the hand; also a company consisting of 10 souldiers; some also take it for a fannel or such a kind of ornament as Priests used to wear about their wrists when they went to sacrifice.
• Manipular, (lat.) belonging to a ma∣niple.
• Manlius, the name of divers famous Ro∣mans, whereof the chief were Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, and Titus M••nlius Torquatus. See Capitolinus and Tor∣quatus.
• Manna, a certain delicious food where∣with God fed the children of Israel in their journey to Canaan, being a congea∣led dew which fell from Heaven, it comes from the Hebrew word Manah, i. to di∣stribute or Mahna, i. what is it, because they admired what it was: there is also at this day a certain sweet dew, which falling early in the morning upon trees and herbs, is called Manna, which con∣gealing into a whitish substance, is of a pleasant taste, and is much used in phy∣sick.
• Mannour, (in Latin Manerium a manen∣do, i. remaining to the heir, or else from the Lords remaining there himself) it sig∣nifieth in common Law, a rule or govern∣ment which a man hath over such as hold land within his fee.
• Man of War, in Navigation, is taken for a ship of War, by the figure Meto∣nymia.
• Manqueller, (old word) a murderer.
• Mansion, (lat.) a remaining, an abiding, also a Manor-house, or the Lords chief dwelling house within his fee.
• Manslaughter, in Common Law, is the unlawful killing of a man upon some sud∣den occasion, or falling out, without pre∣meditated malice.
• Mansuetude, (lat.) gentlenesse, tractable∣nesse, meeknesse.
• Manteleth, a term in Faulconry, for when the Hawk stretcheth one of her wings along after her legs, and so the o∣ther: It is said she Manteleth.
• Mathematicks, Arts taught by demon∣stration which comprehend four of the liberal Arts, Astronomy, Arithmetick, Musick, and Geometry.
• Manticore, (Ital.) a kind of Indian beast, faced like a Man, and bodied like a Lion, and having three rows of sharp teeth.
• Manticulation, (lat.) a doing a thing slily, a carrying on a businesse closely.
• Mantle, or Mantile, (lat.) a kind of long robe, also in Heraldry it is that flourish which proceeds from the wreath and helm, and descends on each side the Escutcheon.
• Mantua, a City of Italy, situate upon the River Po, and built by Ocnus, who cal∣led it so from his mothers name Manto a Theban Prophetesse, the daughter of Tire∣sias, she after the death of her father flee∣ing from the tyranny of Creon King of Thebes, went first into Asia and built the Temple of Apollo Clarius, afterwards she came into Italy, where being got with child by Tiberinus, she brought forth Ocnus.
• Manual, (lat.) belonging to the hand, filling the hand; it is also used substan∣tively, for a book of a small volume which may easily be carried in ones hand.
• Manubiary, (lat.) belonging to the spoil or prey.
• Manucaption, (lat.) a taking by the hand.
• Manucaptors, (lat.) Sureties or Bailes.
• Manuduction, (lat.) a leading by the hand, a guiding.
• Manuel, in Common Law, signifieth that whereof present profit may be made.
• Manufacture, (lat.) handy-work.
• Manumission, (lat.) an Enfranchising, a making free a slave or bondman, which in former time was performed with divers ceremonies before a Magistrate.
• Manure, from the French word Manou∣urier, to work and labour the earth with the hand.
• Manuscript, (lat.) a thing onely written with the hand.
• Manutenentia, a Writ used in the case of maintenance.
• † Manutention, (lat.) a holding by the hand.
• Marria or Mar, the name of a Country in the North part of Scotland.
• Marathon, a Town of Greece, about ten miles distant from Athens, famous for the Victory of Theseus over the Marathonian Bull, and of Miltiades over Darius his Army consisting of above 100000. men.
• Maravedis, a kind of Spanish coin of very small value, 34 of them amounting

• but to a Royal, which is about 6 pence of our money.
• Marcellus, a great General of the Ro∣mans, who overcame the Captain of the Gaules in a single Duel; vanqvisht Han∣nibal after he had given the Romans seve∣ral great overthrows, took Syracuse, and at last was circumvented by Hannibal and slain.
• Marcessible, (lat.) apt to putrifie or cor∣rupt.
• Marcgrave, (Dutch) a Count or Earl of the Marches, i. e. the Frontier of a Country, whence the title of Marquesse seemeth to be derived; also those Noble∣men which from the Marches, i. the limits between England and Wales, or between England and Scotland, were heretofore called Marchers, and injoyed private Laws to themselves which now are worn out.
• March, so called because it was dedica∣ted to Mars by his son Romulus.
• Marchesite, or Marquesite, (Span.) a cer∣tain kind of stone intermingled among mettal, and partaking of the nature and colour of the mettal it is mixt with▪ it is by some called a firestone.
• Marcheta, a certain Law made by Eu∣genius King of Scotland, which was that the Lord of the land should have the first nights lodging with every married woman within his jurisdiction, (the word signi∣fying, as some think, the first carnal copu∣lation with a woman) but this law was abrogated by Malcolm the third.
• Marchpane, (French) a kind of Sugered paste made into little cakes, it is called in Greek Saccharites, in Latin Panis dulcia∣rius, also Sagunculus, from Saguntum a Town in Spain where the best are made, or Panis Martius, because it had wont to be consecrated to Mars, having towers, castles, and such like on it.
• Marcidity, or Marcour, (lat.) a wither∣ing away, rottennesse.
• Marcionists, a sort of ancient Hereticks, so called from one Marcion a Stoick, they denied Christ to be the Son of God.
• Marcus, the praenomen of divers emi∣nent Romans, as Marcus Curtius, (who for the publick good, devoted himself to the infernal powers, and rid compleatly arm'd into a monstrous gap with which the earth opened) and others. See Regulus Salina∣t••r, &c.
• Maremaid, see Syren.
• Mareotis, a great Lake in Aegypt, on the south side of Alexandria, having a large and commodious Port.
• Margaret, (Greek) pearl, the Christian name of divers women, contracted Mar∣get.
• Margaritiferous, (lat.) bringing forth, Margarites, i. pearles which are found in Oysters and other kind of shell-fish.
• Margery, a Christian name of divers women; some think it to be the same with Margaret, others derive it from Marjora, a kind of flower.
• Marginal, (lat) belonging to the mar∣gin or margent, i. the brink or brim of any thing, also written in the margin of a book, which is, the extream or uttermost part of a page, which terminates the lines.
• Mariandunum, a Country of Asia, fa∣mous for the Acherusian Den, through which the Poets feign that Hercules went down into Hell.
• Mariets, (French) a sort of violets, cal∣led also Marian violets; some think from Maria the name of a woman who first dis∣covered them.
• Marigold, a kind of flower of a yellow or golden colour, called in Latin herba solaris, in Greek Heliotropium, because at night it contracts it self, and at sun-rising opens and dilates it self.
• Marine, (lat.) belonging to the Sea, whence Mariner, a Sailour, a Seafaring∣man.
• Marital, (lat.) belonging to Wedlock or Mariage.
• Maritime, (lat.) belonging to the Sea, or being along the Sea side.
• Marius, a stout Roman born at Arpinas, he overcame Jugurth King of Numidia, and led him in Triumph before his Chariot, after he had had five Consulships together conferred on him by the Romans, being the sixth time Consul with Catulus, he overthrew the Cimbrians in Gallia, and the Teutones in Italy, at length being over∣come by Sylla, he hid himself by the Lake Minturna, from whence he fled into A∣frica, but was recalled by Cinna, and made Consul the seventh time.
• Mark, (Hebr.) high, or from the Latin Marcus, which name according to Varrow, was given to those that were born in the moneth of March, but according to Festus, it signifies a hammer or mallet.
• Mark, a sort of coin, or money valueing with us about thirteen shillings and four pence, but a Mark of Gold is counted a∣bout

• eight ounces, or thirty three shil∣lings and four pence.
• Marcab, the pinion of the wing of Pe∣gasus.
• Marleborough, a Town in Wiltshire, seat∣ed upon the River Cunetio or Kenet, so called from Marga or Marle, because it standeth upon a chalky ground. Alex∣ander Necham calleth it Merlebrigia, from the Tomb of Merlin the Prophet; this Town is famous for a Parliament in old times, assembled here, who made a Law for appeasing tumults, called the Statute of Marleb••row.
• Marlin, a kind of Hawk called in French Esmerillion.
• Marling, a term in Navigation, being a small line made of untwisted hemp, to sease the ends of ropes from farsing out.
• Marmaduke, the proper name of a man, from the Dutch Mermachtig, i. more mighty.
• Marmalade, (Ital.) a kind of conserve made of quince, which is called by the Italians Marmelo.
• Marmorean, (lat.) like Marble, or made of Marble.
• Marmoset, a Monky, from the French word Marmotter, i. to mutter.
• Maronean wine, a sort of wine made at the City Maronea, of great vertue and strength.
• Maronites, were a sort of Christians dwelling in Mount Libanus, they received the Catholik religion from Pope Clement the eighth, and were a branch of the Ja∣cobites having a Patriarch of their own, who was alwayes called Peter.
• Marpessa, called also Alcyone, the daughter of Euenus, and wife of Idaeus, the comliest man of his time, she was so loved of her husband, that when Apollo carried her away he pursued the god with his bow and arrows; he had by her a very fair daughter called Cleopatra, who was mar∣ried to Meleager.
• Marque, see Letters of Mart, or Marque.
• Marquesite, see Marchesite.
• Marquetry, a kind of chequer'd or in∣laid work, made with wood of divers sorts or colours, into the shape of knots, flowers, or other things.
• Marquisate, (French) the title and ju∣risdiction of a Marquesse who is a Noble man, next in Dignity and account unto a Duke, from the Dutch word March, i. a bound, because originally they were the Prefects of the borders of some Coun∣trey.
• A Marrow, (French) a companion or fellow, also a beggarly rascal.
• Mars, the son of Juno, who without the help of Jupiter, proved with child by eating of a flower which grew in the Ole∣nian fields, according to the advice of Flora and brought forth Mars, who was called the god of War; he being in bed with Venus, was discovered by Vulcan her husband, who throwing an iron net over them exposed them to the view and laugh∣ter of all the gods; but at the suite of Neptune they were set free. Also the name of one of the 7 Planets.
• Marshal, (in Latin Mariscallus) was anciently no other than a Master of Horse, from the Dutch words Mar, i. a horse, and Scalc, i. a servant, but of late there are several officers of that name, as the Marshals belonging to the several Courts of Law, the Marshals of each Regiment in an Army, but the highest officers that bore this name among us, were the Lord Mar∣shal of England, whose power consisted chiefly in matters of war and armes, and Marshals of the Kings House, whose office was to hear pleas of the Crown, and to punish faults committed within the verge.
• Marshalsee, as it were Marshals seat, the Court of the Marshal.
• Marsyas, a certain Musitian of Phrygia, instructed by Minerva, he provoking A∣pollo to a contest in Musick, was overcome and flead for his presumption, and from his name the River Marsyas whose streams were augmented by the tears of the Nimphs that bewailed him, took its deno∣mination.
• Marternes, or Sables, a kind of rich Fur, being the skin of a little beast called a Marten.
• Martia, the wife of Cato Vticensis, whom he gave to his friend Hortensius, and after he was dead, about the begin∣ning of the civil wars, took her a∣gain.
• Martial, (lat.) born under the Planet of Mars, also warlike or valiant, whence the Law of Armes is called Martial Law.
• Martichore, see Manticore.
• Martin, the proper name of a man, from the Latin Martius. The first of this name was St. Martin the Military Saint, Bishop of Tours.
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• Martinet, or Martelet, a kind of bird, called in Greek Apus, because it wanteth the use of its feet.
• Martingale, see Cavechin.
• Martnets, a Term in Navigation, the small lines which being fastned to the legs on the leetch of a sayl, come down by the mast to the deck.
• Martyrologie, (Greek) a discourse, treat∣ing of the lives, and sufferings of Mar∣tyres.
• Marullus Pomponius, the greatest Gram∣marian and Critick of his age, who re∣prehended Tiberius for speaking improper Latin, and gave Ateius Capito, the lie for vindicating it.
• Mary, (Hebr.) exalted.
• Mascarade, (French) a mask, or pom∣pous representation.
• Mascle▪ in blazon, is a short lozenge, ha∣ving a square hole in the midst, from the French word Macle, i. e. a spot, also the mash, or hole of a Net.
• Masculine, (lat.) manly, or of the male kinde.
• Massagetae, see Scythia.
• Masse, (in latin Missa) the Liturgy, or Divine service performed by the Roman Catholicks, is also called from the Hebrew Missah, l. sacrifice, or oblation.
• Massicot, a kinde of Oaker, made of Ceruse, or white Lead.
• Massilia, a Town of Gallia Narbonensis, which after it had been destroyed, was re∣built by the Phocences, who flying from the Tyranny of Cyrus, seated themselves in this place; the Arts and Sciences flow∣rish't here at that heighth, that it was ac∣counted a second Athens, it is vulgarly called Mar••eiltes.
• Massinissa, a King of Numidia, who from an inveterate enemy of the Roman name, became a faithfull friend and allie, he was a man of that strength, and vigour of bo∣dy, that at 90 years of age, he begat a son.
• Massorets, a sort of Jews, which corre∣cted the false written words of the Scrip∣ture, noting them wit a little o. (for they made a scruple to blot them out) and set∣ting down their corrections in the Mar∣gin.
• Mastication▪ (lat.) a chewing between the teeth.
• Mastick, a kinde of sweet Gum▪ distil∣ling out of the Mastich, or Lentiske Tree.
• Masticot, a kinde of yellow colour used in painting.
• Mastigophore, (Greek) an Usher that with stripes makes way in a croud.
• Mastruke, (French) a kinde of winter Garment made of Wolves and Deers skins together.
• Mastupration, (lat.) lascivious violence offered to a man.
• Matachin, (French) a kinde of French dance.
• Matagot, (French) a kinde of Ape, or Monky, also a Hypocrite.
• Match, a Term in Hunting, when a Wolf desires copulation, he is said to go to his match, or to his mate.
• Mateotechny, or Mataeotechny, (Greek) the vanity of any Art, a vain Science.
• Mate, (Saxon) daunted, also consum'd.
• A Mate, or Checkmate, (a Term used in the Game at Chess) is when the Game is brought to that passe, that there is no way left for the King to escape, from the Italian word Motto, i. foolish and incon∣siderate, or the Spanish Matar, i. to kill.
• Matelotage, the Hire of a Boat, or ship, from the French word Matelot, a Saylour, or Shipman.
• Material, (lat.) consisting of matter, or substance; also being of some weight, or importance.
• Materiation, (lat.) a ••elling of Timber for building.
• Maternal, (lat.) motherly, on the mo∣thers side, whence maternity, mother∣hood.
• Mathematician, (lat.) one that is skil∣full in the Mathematicks, that is, those Sciences which are understood by demon∣stration, of these there are four in all, A∣rithmetick, Geometry, Astronomy, and Musick.
• Matthew, (Hebr.) Gods gift.
• Mathurins, certain Fryars of the Order of the holy Trinity, whose Office is to re∣deem Christian Captives out of Turkish slavery.
• Matricide, (lat.) a killing of ones mo∣ther, or one that kill's his mother.
• Matrice, (lat.) that part of the Womb, where the Child is conceived, also a mould for letters.
• Matriculation, (lat.) a Registring of young Schollars, into the society of their Foster-mother of learning the University.
• Matrimonial, (lat.) belonging to ma∣trimony, i. marriage, or wedlock.
• Mattins, (French) Morning-prayer.
• Mattock, a kinde of Pick-axe, from the Dutch word, Metha••••k, i. with hook.
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• Mattresse, (French) a quilt, or flock-bed.
• Matura, a certain goddesse among the ancient Romans, who was said to be the Patronnesse of Corn, when the eares be∣gan to ripen, as Patalena took charge of them when the cups began to open, and Lactucina, when the juyce, or milky sub∣stance began to abound.
• Maturity, (lat.) ripenesse, whence ma∣turation, a ripening.
• Matuta, see Ino.
• Matutine, (lat.) belonging to the morn∣ing.
• Maud, (Germ.) a Christian name of di∣vers women from Matilda, or Mathildis, i. Honourable Lady of maids.
• Maugre, or Maulgre, (French) whither one will, or no, or as we commonly say in despite of his teeth; also a proper name, in Latin Malgerius.
• Mavis, in Latin Malviccium, a bird cal∣led a Thrush, or Thrussel.
• Maund, (French) a hand-basket, from Manus, i. a hand, or from Mandere, i. to eat, because they use to carry meat in it.
• Maundy-Thursday, see Mandy-Thurs∣day.
• Mavors, the same as Mars.
• Mauritania, the utmost Region of A∣frica, toward the Gaditan Bay, now called the Streights of Gibraltar, where the Gy∣ant Antaeus is said to have raign'd, who was overcome by Hercules, it is divided into Tingitana and Caesariensis, which Strabo call's Massilia and Massaesylia.
• Mausolus, a King of Caria, the husband of Artemisia, by whom he was so intirely loved, that after he was dead, she is said to have drunk up his ashes in wine, and built him a very stately Sepulcher, which from his name she called Mousoleum, being one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which every rich Monument is figuratively called a Mausoleum.
• Maxillar, or Maxillary, (lat.) belonging to the jawbone.
• A Maxime in Phylosophy, or Law, is a proposition, or principle generally re∣ceived, grounded upon reason, and not to be denied, called also an axiome.
• Maximilian, a name, first given to one of the German Emperours, by his father Frederick the third, composing it of the names of two famous Romans, Quintus Fa∣bius, Maximus, and Scipio Aemelianus, with hope that his son would imitate their vertues.
• May, so called, because Romulus dedica∣ted it to M••ya, the mother of M••rcury.
• Maze, an astonishment, also the same as Labyrinth.
• Mazer, a Beker, or standing Cup to drink in, from the Dutch word Maeser, i. Maple, of which sort of wood those Cups are commonly made.

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• Mead, the same Hydromel.
• Meagre, (French) scraggy, or lean.
• The Mean, in Musick the Tenor, or mid∣dle part, also in Law, it is used for the interim, or middle time, as, the action was mean, &c.
• Meander, or Maeander, a River of Phry∣gia, which hath many oblique diversions, whence a thing that is full of intricate turnings and windings, is called a Maean∣der, by way of Metaphor.
• Mearstones, (in Latin Lapides termina∣les) certain stones, which are put as bounds and limits between one mans land and anothers.
• Mease, (in Latin Mansus) a Mansion house, from the French word Maison, i. e. a house, or as some say from Meix, i. e. a Mansion, also Mease, or Mese, is used for a measure of Herrings, consisting of 500.
• Measandue, an Hospital, from the French Maison de Dieu.
• Meath, a Province of Ireland, contain∣ing these following Counties, Eastmeath, Westmeath, and Longford.
• Mecaen••s, a learned Noble-man of Rome, who lived in the time of Augustus, he was a great favourer of Virgil and Horace, whence every favourer of learning, and learned men hath been ever since saluted with the Title of Mecaenas.
• Mecha, a Citie in Arabia Foelix, which is had in great reverence by the Turks, as being the place where Mahomet was bu∣ried.
• Mechanick Arts, or Handycrafts those Arts, which require the labour of the hand, of which these seven are esteemed the chief; Agriculture, Clothing, Naviga∣tion, Hunting, Architecture, Medecine, Mi∣litary Discipline: the word comes from the Greek, M••chane, an artifice, or inven∣tion.
• Mechation, (lat.) a committing forni∣cation, or whoredom.
• A Medal, (French) a kinde of ancient coyn, or piece of plate, having stampt up∣on

• it the effigies of some Prince, or other eminent man.
• Medea, see Jason.
• Medewife, (Sax.) a woman of merit.
• Media, a large Countrey in Asia, so called from Madai the son of Japheth, or Medus the son of Aegeus and Medea, it is divided into the greater Media, whose chief Citie is Ecbatana, and the lesser cal∣led also Atropatia.
• Mediastine, from the Latin Mediastinus, is a drudge, or Kitchin slave, from Media∣stinum it signifies that partition made by certain thin skins, dividing the whole breast into two hollow bosomes.
• Mediation, (lat.) a dividing into two, also a making suit, or means for any one, whence Mediatour, an intercessour.
• Medicable, (lat.) able to heal, also easie to be heal'd, or cur'd.
• Medicament, (lat.) a Medecine, or Phy∣sical drugge.
• Medication, (lat.) a curing, or heal∣ing.
• Medietas linguae, an inquest empanell'd upon any cause, whereof one part con∣sisteth of Denizens, the other of stran∣gers.
• Mediety, (lat.) the half, or middle.
• Medimne, (lat.) a certain measure, containing six bushels.
• Mediocrity, (lat.) a mean, a middle temper, and indifferency.
• Mediolanum, the chief Citie of that part of Italie, formerly called Gallia Ci∣salpina, it was first built by the Gauls, who as they were digging in the earth, finding a sow half covered with wool like a sheep, called the Citie Mediolanum, vulgarly Millain, and the whole Countrey after∣wards being Conquered by the Lombards, was thence named Lombardy.
• Medisance, (French) evil speaking, obloquy, or reproach.
• Meditation, (lat.) a studying, or de∣vising.
• Mediterranean, (lat.) being in the middle of the earth, or land, whence the Mediterranean Sea is that Sea, which hath its course in the midst of the earth.
• Medrinacles, a kinde of course Can∣vas, called also Pouledavies.
• Medullar, (lat.) belonging to the marrow.
• Medusa, the daughter of Phorcys, with whose golden hair Neptune was so much in love, that he lay with her in the Tem∣ple of Minerva, and begat Pegasus, at which the goddesse being incenced, turned her hairs into Serpents, whose sight converted all that look't on them into stone, but at length Perseus finding the Serpents asleep, killed them, and cut off Medusa's head.
• Meed, (old word) merit, or reward.
• Meen, (French) the countenance, or po∣sture of the face, also the outward Garb.
• Meer, in Common-law, hath been used for meer right.
• Mees, (Saxon) Meadows.
• Megabysus, one of the Persian Nobles, who in the behalf of Darius overthrew the Tyranny of the Magi, in Europe he took Perinthus, overcame the Paeones, and attempted Macedonia.
• Megaclo, the daughter of Macares, King of the Lesbians, who being of a froward disposition, and alwayes contending with his wife, Megaclo was so grieved at her mothers calamity, that she hired the Mu∣ses to be her maids, and teaching them to sing, they by the sweetnesse of their Mu∣sick, so allayed the spirit of Megares, that his wife ever after lived a better life with him, for which benefite to her, she in thankfulnesse built pillars of brasse to their glory, and caused them to be ho∣noured in all the Temples thereabout.
• Megacosme, (Greek) the great world.
• Megaera, the name of one of the three Furies, the other two being Alecto, and Ti∣siphone.
• Megalesian games, were certain games celebrated in ancient times at Rome, in ho∣nour of Cybele, or the great goddesse.
• Megalopsychie, (Greek) Magnanimity, or greatnesse of minde.
• Megara, the daughter of Creon, King of Thebes, she was given in marriage to Her∣cules, upon condition that he should free the Thebans from the oppression of Ergi∣nus, King of the Orchomenii, which he per∣formed, but Juno being highly incenc't against him for killing Lycus, possest him with such a madnesse that he slew his wife Megara, and all the Children he had by her.
• Megrim, a distemper which causeth a great pain in the temples and fore part of the head; the word seems to be contract∣ed from the Greek word Hemicrania.
• Meire, a term in Blazon. See Varry Cuppy.
• Melampod, (in Greek Melampodium) a certain kind of herb, otherwise called Hel∣lebore.
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• Melampus, the son of Amythaon and Do∣rippe, who laying him abroad in the Sun and covering all his body except his feet, they were so scorched by the Sun, that they became black, whence he was called Melampus, i. Blackfoot. He was a famous Physitian and understood the voices of birds and beasts, he cured the daughters of Praetus of their madnesse, one of whom named Iphianassa he married.
• Melancholick, (Greek) sad, pensive, troubled with melancholy, i. e. black cho∣ler, one of the 4 humours of the body, also a distemper caused by the abounding of that humour.
• Melantho, the daughter of Proteus, who had a humour to ride upon a Dolphins back up and down the Sea, which Neptune observing turned himself into a Dolphin, and carrying her to shore upon his back, ravisht her and begot Amycus.
• Melanthus, the son of Andropompis, he being a Messenian was driven out of his Country by the Heraclidae; he went and helpt the Athenians against the Boeotians, and killed their Captain Xanthus; for which he was chosen King of the Athenians in the place of Thymoetes.
• Melborn, a Castle in Darbyshire, where John Duke of Barbon, taken prisoner at Agincourt, was detained prisoner 19 years under the custody of Sir Nicholas de Mount∣gomery the younger.
• Melchior, the name of one of the Magi, or Wise men of the East who offered gifts to our Saviour; He offered Gold as to a King, the second call'd Jasper frankincense as unto God, the third called Balthasar Myrrh as to one that was to die; also the name of a great Heretick, the founder of that sect called the Melchiorists.
• Melchites, a sort of Christians in Syria, subject to the Patriarch of Antioch, they are so called from Melchi, which in the Sy∣riack tongue signifies a King, because they used to follow the Emperours injunctions in matters of Religion.
• Melicent, (French) honey-sweet, a Christian name of women.
• Meleager, the son of Oeneus King of Calidonia, and Althaea, he gathered a com∣pany of valiant youths together to slay a wild Bore that wasted the Country of Ae∣tolia, and having slain it, presented the head to Atalanta the daughter of Jasius King of Argos, which Plexippus and Tox∣••us the brothers of Althaea indeavouring to take away, he slew them both, and married Atalanta, but Althaea enraged at the death of her brothers, threw the brand into the fire which she had saved from the Destinies when he was borne, which as it burnt, he consumed away.
• Melimele, see Pome Paradise.
• Melioration, (lat.) a making better, an improving.
• Melissa, see Mellona.
• Mellation, (lat.) the driving away of the Bees, and taking the honey out of the Hives.
• Mellification, (lat.) a making Honey.
• Melli••••uous, (lat.) flowing with Honey, full of sweetnesse.
• Melliloquent, (lat.) speaking sweetly, as it were speaking Honey.
• Mellilote, or Melilote, a certain herb, bearing round leaves with slender bran∣ches, from the Greek word meli, i. honey, and Lotus the Lote-tree, as it were, the Lote bearing honey.
• Mellona, a certain goddesse worshipt by the ancient Romans, as the Patronesse of Bees, perhaps the same with Melissa who first found out the use of Honey, whom the Poets feign to have been turned into a Bee; she was the daughter of Me∣lissus King of Creet, and the sister of A∣malthea, the Nurse of Jupiter.
• Melody, a musical sound, or sweet aire, from the Greek words, meli, i. honey, and ode, i. a song, as it were a honey'd or sweet song.
• Melpomene, the name of one of the nine Muses, the first inventresse of Trage∣dies.
• Membrane, (lat.) a certain little thin skin which covereth every part of the bo∣dy, also a skin of parchment, also the pill between the bark and the tree.
• Memnon, the son of Tithonus and Aurora, and brother of Laomedon, he was slain by Achilles in the Trojan War, and his body being burnt, it is reported that there flew out certain Birds, which are thence cal∣led Memnonian Birds, who are said every year to come out of Aethi••pia to visit the Tomb of Memnon.
• Memorandum, (lat.) a short note or token for the better remembrance of any thing, or as we commonly say, an I••em.
• Memorable, (lat.) easie to be remem∣bred, worthy of remembrance.
• Memorial, (lat.) a remembrancer, or that which puts one in mind of any thing.
• Memphis, the chief City of Aegypt, built

• by Ogdous, and called after his daughters name, and from whence the Aegyptians are anciently named Memphians; it is now vulgarly called Alcairo.
• Menalippus, a Theban, who having given Tydeus a mortal wound, was slain by the friends of Tydeus, who causing Menalippus his head to be brought to him, tore it in pieces for revenge, and immediately after died.
• † Mendaciloquent, (lat.) speaking false, telling lyes.
• Mendication, (lat.) a begging, whence a Friar Mendicant is one that goes up and down begging almes.
• Menelaus, the son of Atreus and Aerope, he marrying Helena the daughter of Ju∣piter and Leda, she was in his absence stol∣len away by Paris the son of Priam, which was the occasion of the Trojan war, where∣in after 9 years siege Troy was destroyed, and Helena recovered.
• Menestheus, the son of Peleus, he with the help of the Tyndaridae raising a sedi∣tion against Theseus, became King of the Athenia••••, but going to the siege of Troy he there died.
• Menial or Moenial servant, one that lives within the walls of his masters house, from the Latin word Moenia, i. walls, or from the old word Meny, which significes a Fa∣mily.
• Meninges, (Greek) two thin skins which enwrap the brain, the one called dura ma∣ter next to the skull, the other pia ma∣ter, which immediately covereth the brain.
• Meniver, a kind of Fur, being as some think, the skin of a Squirrels belly, or as others say, of a little white beast, (like to a wesel) breeding in Muscovy.
• Mennow, (from the French word Menu, i. small) a little fish, otherwise called a Cackrel, in Latin Minimus.
• Menoecus, a Theban youth, the son of Creon, he was so zealous for the safety of his Countrey, that when the Oracle had foretold that the Citie, which was besieg'd by the Argives, could not be saved unlesse the last of the race of Cadmus would vo∣luntarily kill himself, he slew himself with his own sword.
• Mensal, (lat.) belonging to a table.
• Mension, (lat.) a measuring.
• Menstruosity, (lat.) the abounding of womens monethly flowers.
• Mensuration, (lat.) the same as Men∣sion, or measuring.
• Mental, (lat.) kept in the mind, whence mental reservation, a speaking something, and concealing the rest.
• Menteith, the name of a Country in the south part of Scotland.
• Mentition, (lat.) a lying, or forging tales.
• Mera, the daughter of Praetus and An∣tia, she being a great Huntresse and fol∣lowing Diana in the Woods, was ravisht by Jupiter, who lay with her in the shape of Diana, whereupon the goddesse shot her to death with one of her arrows, and afterwards turning her into a dog, she placed her among the heavenly Constel∣lations; also the name of Icarius his dog. See Icarius.
• Meracity, (lat.) a being pure and with∣out mixture.
• Menker, the jaw of the Whale.
• Meraud, the Christian name of divers women, from the pretious stone called the Emerauld.
• Mercature, (lat.) a buying, trading, or merchandizing.
• Mercedary, (lat.) hired with reward or wages.
• Mercenary, (lat.) the same.
• Merch, the name of a Country in the south part of Scotland.
• Merchenlage, the law of the Mercians, or the inhabitants of these eight Coun∣tries, Glocester, Worcester, Hereford, War∣wick, Oxford, Chester, Salop, and Stafford, the Land being formerly divided into three parts; the Mercians, the West-Sax∣ons, and the Danes. See Denelage.
• Mercury, as it were Medius currens inter Deos & homines, i. e. sent on messages be∣tween the gods and men, the son of Ju∣piter and Maia the daughter of Atlas, he lay with his sister Venus and begat Her∣maphroditus, he was counted the god of Eloquence, of Merchandry, of Handy∣crafts-men, and the first inventour of the Harpe, also among Astronomers the name of one of the seven Planets; among Chy∣mists of Quicksilver.
• Mercurial, or Mercurialist, one born under the Planet Mercury.
• Meretricious, (lat.) belonging to a Whore.
• Meridian, (lat.) belonging to noon, al∣so substantively used for one of the greater circles dividing the Sphear into two equal parts, and passing through the Poles of the World, and the Zenith or Vertical point.
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• Meridiation, (lat.) a sleeping at noon.
• Meritot, a kinde of play used by Chil∣dren, wherein they swing themselves up and down upon a Rope, to which is tied a little beam, acrosse which they sit, it is cal∣led in Latin Oscillum.
• Meremaid, or Maremaid. See Syren.
• Mern, a County in the North of Scot∣land, the people whereof were anciently called Vernicones, by some Vecturiones.
• Meroe, an Island encompass't with the River Nilus, in which there is a Citie of the same name, built by Cambyses, whose sister was called Meroe, from wence the Citie and Island took their denominati∣on, this Citie Astronomers make to be the farthest of the Northern Climats, whose parallel-line they call Dia Meroes, because it runs through the midst of the Citie.
• Merope, one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, they were feigned by the Poets to be changed into seven stars, called the Pleiades.
• Merrick, a proper name of a man, a∣mong the ancient Brittains, in Latin Meuricus.
• Mersion, (lat.) a ducking, or plunging over head and eares into the water, a drowning.
• M••rton, a Town in Surrey, where Ki∣nalph, King of the West-Saxons was slain by a Clito, or Prince of the bloud, in a Harlots house, the Clito himself being al∣so stab'd immediately by Kinulphs follow∣ers: in this place was born Walter de Mer∣ton, founder of Merton Colledge in Ox∣ford.
• Mese, see Mease.
• Mesel, (Sax.) a Leaper.
• Mesentery, (Greek as it were, the mid∣dle of the entrails) a certain thick, and double skin that fastneth the bowels, or entrails to the back, and affordeth pas∣sage to a number of veins, called the Me∣senterick, or Meseraick veins.
• Meskite, a Church, or Synagogue among the Turks and Moors, from the Arabick word Mezquidun, i. an Oration.
• Mesnagerie, (French) husbandry, or housewifery.
• Mesnalty, a Term in Common-law, the right of the Mes••, that is, a Lord of a Mannour, who hath Tenants holding of him, yet holding himself of a Superiour Lord, from the French word Maisné, i. e. younger by birth.
• Mesopotamia, a large Countrey of Asia; so called because it is between the two Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, it was called by the ancient Hebrews Aram Naharaim, i. e. Syria of the Rivers, now Apamia, and by some Adiabene.
• Messagry, (old word) diligence in doing a message.
• Messalians, a Sect of Hereticks, who held the Lords Supper, and baptism to be but of indifferent concernment.
• Messana, the chief Citie of Sicilie, built by the Messenians, near unto the Promon∣tory of Pelorum.
• Messapia, or Mesapia, a Countrey of Italie, anciently so called from Messapus, the son of Neptune, it containeth those Regions which are now called Calabria, and Apulia.
• Messenae, a famous Citie in Greece, si∣tuate in the Peloponnesus, whose ancient inhabitants the Messenii, waged a long and bloudy war with the Spartans, but at last were reduced to absolute slavery.
• Messias, the same in Hebrew as Christos in Greek, i. anointed, and is oft used in the Holy Scriptures for our Saviour Christ.
• Messorious, (lat.) belonging to mowing, reaping, or harvest.
• Mesuage, in Common-law, is used for a dwelling house, with Garden, Courtilage, Orchard, and all other things belonging to it.
• Metachronisme, (Greek) an errour in Chronology by the mis-reckoning of time, or the ill connexion of passages, a word compounded of the Greek preposi∣tion Meta and Chronos, i. time.
• Metaleptick, (Greek) belonging to the figure Metalepsie, wherein one thing is used to signifie another.
• Metalline, (lat.) belonging to mettals.
• Metamorphosis, (Greek) a changing of one body, or figure into another.
• A Metaphor, (Greek) a certain figure, wherein one word is borrowed to expresse the signification of another, as smiling Meadow's, youthfull Summer.
• Metaphysicks, (Greek) a science, which treateth of supernatural things, as God, Angels, the Souls of men, &c.
• Metaplasmus, (Greek) a Rhetorical fi∣gure, wherein words, or letters are plac't contrary to their usual order.
• Metaris, an arm of the Sea in Lincoln∣shire, commonly called Maltraith, and the Washes.
• Metathesis, (Greek) transposition, be∣ing

• a certain figure wherein one letter is put for another.
• Metellus, a famous Roman Captain, who being to go by Sea, with a great Army against the Carthaginians and Sicilians, prayed to all the gods but Vesta, who be∣ing thereby offended, kept back the Na∣vy with contrary windes, which Caius Ju∣lius the Priest affirmed could not be di∣verted, but by the sacrificing of his daughter Metella, which he yielding un∣to, the goddesse took compassion of the Virgin, and sent a Heifer in her stead, also the name of a High-Priest of the Romans, who when the Temple of Vesta was on fire, running into the Palladium out of the flame, he lost his sight by venturing too far into the fire.
• Metempsychosis, (Greek) a Transmigra∣tion, or passing of the Soul out of one bo∣dy into another.
• Meteor, (from the Greek word Meteo∣ros, i. high) a certain imperfectly mixt body, consisting of vapours drawn up into the middle Region, whereof are ingendred Rain, Winds, Thunder, and Lightning.
• Meteorologie, (Greek) a discourse of Meteors.
• Meteoroscopie, that part of Astrology, which handleth the difference of Subli∣mities, and distance of Stars.
• Metheglin, (in latin Mulsum) a kinde of drink made of Herbs, Hony, Spice, &c.
• Methodical, (Greek) belonging to a Method, i. an orderly, or artificial dispo∣sing, or placing of things.
• Metiochus, the son of Alcibiades, he be∣ing taken by the Phaenicians, and brought a prisoner to Darius the King of Persia, a∣gainst whom his father then made warre, was yet honourably received, the King be∣stowing upon him large possessions, and a wife named Persiba, by whom he had ma∣ny Children.
• Metius Suffetius, Dictator of the Albans, who being bound by Covenant to aide Tullus Hostilius, King of the Romans, a∣gainst the Fidenates, stood with his Army upon a Hill, to see the event of the bat∣tel, for which he was by the command of Hostilius, torn in pieces with wilde horses.
• Metonymie, (Greek) a Rhetorical figure, wherein there is a changing of one name for another, as of the cause for the effects, of the subject, for the adjuncts, and con∣trarily.
• Metope, (a Term in Architecture) the distance of space in a pillar, between the Denticles and Triglyph's.
• Metoposcopy, (Greek) the guessing at mens inclinations, as also the future events of men, by looking on their faces.
• Metrical, (lat.) belonging to Meeter, or verse.
• Metropolitan, belonging to a Metropolis, (Greek) i. the chief Citie of a Countrey, or Province, whence an Arch-bishop is called a Metropolitan Bishop, because his Sea is alwayes in the chief Citie.
• Mexico, a great and famous Citie of the Mexican Province in Nova Hispania, the Citie was the chief seat of Montezeu∣ma, who was Lord of the new world.
• Mezentius, a King of the Thuscans, who with his son Lausus, assisting Turnus in the war against Aeneas, and the Trojans, they both fell by the hand of Aeneas himself.

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• Miagrus, the God of flies, so called by Plautus, by others Myopes.
• Miasme, (Greek) a polluting, or de∣filing.
• Michael, (Hebr.) who is like God.
• St. Michaels Mount, a Rocky cliffe, or Promontory in Corn-wall, which John, Earle of Oxford fortified against King Ed∣ward the fourth, there is also a place so called in Normandy.
• Miche, to play the Truant, or hide ones self out of the way, from the French word Muser, i. to be idle, or the Dutch Micke, i. a wary looking about.
• Mickle, much, from the Saxon word Micel, or as some say from the Greek word Megale.
• Microcosme, (Greek) the body of man is commonly so called, being as it were a little world, see Macrocosme.
• Micrologie, (Greek) a discoursing about petty small affairs.
• Microscope, (Greek) a certain instru∣ment whereby the full proportion of the smallest things may be discerned.
• Midas, a King of Phrygia, the son of Gor∣dias a Cowheard, he having intertained Bacchus, and being bid to ask of him what ever he had a minde to, he desired that whatsoever he toucht▪ might be turned into gold, which desire was immediately granted, and not onely every thing else he touched, but his meat also, before he could bring it to his mouth, was changed to gold, whereupon he being forced to request that he might be freed from that

• gift he was counselled to wash himself in Pactolus streams, which immediately be∣came very bright with the glistering of the sands which were turned into gold, afterwards Pan having challenged Apollo to a musick duell; Tmolus being chosen Judge, Midas being the onely man that gave the victory to Pan, was adjudged for his ignorance to have Asses ears grow to his head, which disgrace neverthelesse had been concealed, had not his Barber gone into a hollow place of the earth, and cried out Midas hath Asses ears, and soon after the reeds which grew in that place became vocal, and continually uttered the same words.
• Middleburgh, the chief City of Zealand.
• Midriffe, see Diaphragme.
• Migration, (lat.) a removing, or pas∣sing from place to place.
• Mile, such a space of ground in length onely, as containeth a thousand paces, or eight furlongs, every furlong containing 125 paces.
• Miles, the proper name of a man, in La∣tin Milo, from the grain called Milium, i. Millet, others make it a contraction from Michael.
• Miletus, the chief Ci••ie of Ionia, whose inhabitants the Milesii were accounted the potentest, and the richest people of all Asia; it was originally called Anactoria, now Melazzo, also a Citie of Caria, built by Miletus the son of Apollo and Arg••a, or as some say, by Sarpendon the son of Ju∣piter, and the brother of Minos, and Rha∣damanthus.
• Milfordhaven, a very commodious Haven in Pembroke-shire, where Henry Earle of Richmond landed, when by that famous battel at Bosworth, he won the Crown from Richard the third, this Haven hath sixteen Creeks, five Bay's, and thirteen Rodes.
• Militarie, (lat.) belonging to Souldiers or War.
• Millefoile▪ (in Lat. Millefolium) a kind of Herb, otherwise called yarrow.
• Millenarians, see Chiliasts.
• Millet, in Latin Milium, in Greek Cen∣chros) a kind of plant, so called from the multitude of small granes, or seeds which it beareth.
• Milo, a certain Crotonian of that vast strength, that at the Olympick games he carried an Oxe the space of a whole fur∣long, killed it with his fist, and afterwards eat it all himself in one day.
• Miltiades, a great Captain of the Athe∣nians, who with 11000 Greeks overthrew 600000 Persians in the fields of Marathon, yet afterwards being accused of bribery, he was forced by the Athenians to die in Chains.
• A Mime, or Mimick, (Greek) a Jester, or one that counterfeits the gestures, or countenances of others, whence Mimical, Apish, or given to imitate.
• Minacity, (lat.) a menacing, or threat∣ning.
• Minchings, an ancient word for those consecrated, whom we call Nuns.
• Mindbruch, (a Saxon word) a hurting of honour and worship.
• Mine, (French) the same as meen, the aspect, or garb of any person. Cleop.
• Mineralist, one skilfull in minerals, (lat.) i. metals, or any thing growing in mines.
• Minerva, the goddesse of wisdom, she is said to have been born without a mother, and to have sprung out of Jupiters head, she is reported also to have invented the liberal sciences, and to have found out the use of wool, about which a Lydian Virgin named Arachne, contesting with her, was overthrown and turned into a Spider, also to her is attributed the first finding out of the use of Oyl, she was cal∣led in Greek Athenaea, and from her the Citie of Athens took its denomination.
• Miniature, a drawing of pictures in lit∣tle, which is many times done with Minium, i. red lead.
• A Minime, a certain quantity in musick, containing one time up, or down, from the Latin word Minimus, i. least, also Minime friars, are a certain order instituted by Fran. de Paul.
• A Minion, or Mignon, (French) one that is in highest credit and esteem with a great person, above any one besides, but espe∣cially in an amorous sence, it is also used adjectively for neat, spruice, polisht, or adorn'd.
• Minious, (lat.) of a red, or Vermilion colour.
• Ministery, (lat.) service, or charge in any imployment, but used more especial∣ly in a spiritual sence for the Priestly fun∣ction.
• Miniver, see Meniv••r.
• The Minor, in a syllogisme the latter part, or assumption.
• Minoration, (lat.) a diminishing, or ma∣king lesse.
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• Minority, (lat.) nonage, or being un∣der age.
• Minos, a King of Creet the son of Ju∣piter, (or as some say, of Xanthus) and Europa, he having great wars with the A∣thenians and Megareans, because they slew his son Androgeus, had Megara deli∣vered to him by the treachery of Scylla; he intertained Daedalus an Athenian being banisht from his Country, who being an excellent Artist, made that famous Laby∣rinth into which the Minotaur was put; But afterwards for making a wooden Heifer into which Pasiphae the wife of Minos be∣ing included, received the Bull again, by which she had formerly had the Minotaur, he was shut up into the Labyrinth himself, together with his son Icarus; but he ma∣king waxen wings for himself and his son, fled away into Sicily, where he was stifled in a Bath by the daughter of King Cro∣calus, his son having melted his wings by the way, and fallen into the Sea, which was thence called the Icarian Sea.
• Minotaurus, the Monster which Pasiphae the wife of Minos brought forth, having had carnal copulation with a Bull, it had partly the form of a man, partly of a Bull: to this Monster the Athenians overcome by Minos, were bound by covenant to sent yearly seven of their noblest youths to be devoured; but in the third year Theseus the son of Aegeus was sent to slay the Mi∣notaur, which having done, he escaped with the help of Ariadne out of the Laby∣rinth by a clew of thread.
• Minouery, (from the French word Main∣ovre, i. handy-work) is a trespasse com∣mitted by a mans handy-work in the Forrest, as an engine to catch Dear, &c.
• Minster, a Saxon word, signifying a Monastery.
• Mint, a certain herb, so called from Minthe the daughter of Cocytus, who being taken away with Proserpina by Pluto, was changed into a plant of the same name, also the place where the Kings coin is formed, which at present is at the Tower of London, but in ancient times it was at Caleis.
• Minute, (lat.) little, small, whence Mi∣nution, a diminishing, or making little, also a Minute is substantively used for a moment or the smallest part of time.
• † Mirabile, (lat.) wonderful, strange, to be admired.
• Miraculous, (lat.) the same.
• Mirmillions, (lat.) a sort of gladiators or sword-fighters.
• Mirour, or Mirrour, (French) a looking-glasse.
• Misanthropy, (Greek) a man-hateing, a flying the company of men.
• Mirach, the Girdle of Adromeday.
• Misaventure, in Common Law, is the killing of a man, partly by negligence, and partly by chance, as by throwing a stone carelessely, shooting an arrow, or the like.
• Misbode, (old word) wrong.
• Miscellanies, (lat.) a mixture of several things together, a collection of divers no∣tions treating of different matters.
• Miscreant, (French) an Infidel, or un∣believer.
• Mise, a French word, signifying in an action of right or property, the point whereupon the parties proceed to trial, either by Assize or Battle, as issue is in an action personal.
• Misericordia, in Common Law, is an arbitrary punishment, very moderate, and rather lesse than the offence.
• Miskenning, is a changing of speech in Court.
• The Misne, or Misen-sail of a Ship, is that which is between the poop and the main-sail.
• Misogamy, (Greek) a hating or contempt of marriage.
• Misoginy, (Greek) a hating of wo∣men.
• Misprision, (from the French word mes∣pris) signifieth in Common Law, a neg∣lect or oversight, as a misprision of Felony, &c. is a neglect or light account had of Felony committed, by not revealing it, when we know it to be committed.
• To Misqueam, (old word) to dis∣please.
• Missale, (lat.) a breviary or masse-book.
• Misseltoe, or Misseldin, (in Dutch Mistel) a certain plant which grows not upon the ground, but upon other trees, of which it is reported, that Thrushes eating the ber∣ries of this plant and afterwards sitting to roust all night, and shitting upon it, causeth it to bear bird-lime, whence com∣eth the Proverb, The Thrush shits her own sorrow.
• Missile, (lat.) a dart or arrow, also a term in Heraldry, being a mixture of se∣veral colours together.
• Mission, (lat.) a sending, it is also taken

• peculiarly for a power given by the Church of Rome, to go into other Coun∣tries and preach the Catholick Faith, and those that are thus sent, are called Mission∣aries, or fathers of the Mission.
• A letter Missive, (lat.) a letter which is sent from one friend to another.
• Mister, (old word) need, want.
• Mistery, (French Mistier, Latin Magi∣sterium) a craft, trade, or occupation, but coming from Mysterium, it signifieth a se∣cret or hidden businesse.
• Mithridates, a King of Pontus, who spake 22 Languages, he rebelling against the Romans was overcome by Sylla near Dardanus, and afterwards by Lucullus near Cyzicus, and flying to Tigranes King of Armenia he renewed the war, but at length was totally overthrown by Pompey, and besieged in his own Palace, where ha∣ving in vain attempted to poison himself, he assisted Gallus the Executioner (when his hand trembled) in the murdering of himself. He was the first inventour of that excellent Antidote against infection and poison, called from his own name Mithri∣date.
• Mitigation. (lat.) a pacifying or as∣swaging.
• Mittins, (in French Mitains) certain winter gloves made of cloth or furs.
• Mittimus, a Justice of peace his warrant to send an offender to the Goale or prison.
• Mitylene, an ancient City of Lesbos, not far from Methymna: from this City the whole Island now takes its denomina∣tion.
• Mixen, (old word from Meoxe, i. dung) a dunghill.
• Mixture, (lat.) a mingling of several things together.
• Mizmor, (Span.) a Dungeon.

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• Mnemosyne, a certain Nimph who being got with child by Jupiter, brought forth the nine Muses; the word signifieth in Greek memory.
• Mnesteus, see Menesteus.

M O

• Mobbi, a certain drink made of Potato roots, much used in the Island of Bar∣bado's.
• Mobility, (lat.) moveablenesse, incon∣stancy.
• Modality, (lat.) a School-term, signi∣fying the manner of a thing in the ab∣stract.
• Modder, (from the Dutch word Modde or Moddekin, i. a Maid or Virgin) a young girle or wench.
• Moderation, (lat.) temperance, govern∣ment, discretion.
• Moderatour, (lat.) a discreet governour, a decider of any controversie.
• Modern, (lat.) of late time.
• Modicum, (lat.) a little matter, a small pittance.
• Modification, (lat.) a qualifying, a set∣ting a measure or limit to any thing.
• Modulation, (lat.) an exact singing, a keeping time and measure in singing.
• Mogontus, a certain heathen god, wor∣shipped by the ancient Brittains in Nor∣thumberland, like as Bellotucardus in Cum∣berland, and Andates in Essex.
• Moguntia, a City of Germany, now cal∣led Mentz: the Arch-Bishop of this place is one of the three spiritual Electors of the Empire.
• Moiles, (in Latin Mallei) a kind of highsoaled-shooes worn in ancient times by Kings and great persons.
• Moitie, (French) the half part of any thing.
• Mokel, (Sax.) bignesse.
• Molar, (lat.) belonging to a Mill, whence the molar-teeth are those five most extreme teeth on either side of the mouth both above and beneath, which are called Grinders.
• Molendinarius, (lat.) belonging to a Mill.
• Molestation, (lat.) a vexing, a trouble∣ing.
• Moliminous, (lat.) requiring strength, force, stresse, or indeavour.
• Molition, (lat.) a trying, endeavouring, or attempting.
• Mollification, (lat.) a making soft or tender.
• Mollitude, (lat.) softnesse, tendernesse, effeminatenesse.
• Mollock, or Meore, (old word) dirt, dung, excrement.
• Molochite, see Malachite.
• Moly, a certain herb of very great ver∣tue, mentioned by Homer.
• Momus, a certain deity among the An∣cients, reputed the god of carping and re∣prehension, he is feigned by the Poets to

• have been born of Nox and Somnus, and that his whole businesse was to reprehend and carp at all the other gods.
• Mona, see Anglesey.
• Monachal, (lat.) belonging to a Monk.
• Monarchy, (Greek) the government of a Common-wealth by a Monarch or one man alone.
• Monas, (Greek) the number one.
• Monasterial, (lat.) belonging to Mona∣steries, i. solitary places where Monks live: it comes from the Greek word Monos, i. alone.
• A Mond, a ball of Gold, being one of the Ensigns of an Emperour, who chal∣lengeth a kind of right to the whole World.
• Monedule, (lat.) a jackdaw.
• Monmouth, the chief Town of Monmouth∣shire, called in the Brittish tongue Mongwy, because it is seated at the confluence of the Rivers Munow and Wye. This Town is famous for the birth of King Henry the fifth, and of Geffry ap Arthur Bishop of Asaph, the compiler of the ancient Brit∣tish Story.
• Moneth, (Sax. Monad, Dutch Maendt, from Maene, i. the Moon) the space of 28 dayes, in which time the Moon compleat∣eth her circle. There are four sorts of moneths. First a moneth of Apparition, i. the space of 26 dayes and 12 hours, where∣in the Moon appears, the other three days being deducted wherein it is obscured by the Sun. Secondly Medical or Decreto∣rial, i. the space of 26 days and 22 hours, Thirdly of Consecution or Progression, i. the space of one conjunction of the Moon with the Sun, and the other being 29 dayes and a half. Fourthly of Pera∣gration, i. the space of the Moons revolu∣tion from any part of the Zodiack unto the same again, being 27 dayes and 8 hours.
• Monger, or Manger, a Saxon word anciently used for a Merchant, whence Woodmonger, &c. i. a Woodmerchant.
• Moniers, a word anciently used for ministers of the Mint, coiners of money.
• Monition, (lat.) an admonishing, or giving warning.
• Monkeshood, a kind of flower called in Latin Consolida Regalis.
• Monoceros, (Greek) a Unicorn, or beast having but one horn.
• Monocular, (lat.) having but one eye.
• Monodical, (Greek) belonging to Monody, i. a kind of Funeral-song, wherein one sings alone.
• Monogamy, (Greek) a single marriage, a having but one wife or one husband.
• Monogram, (Greek) a writing or sen∣tence, consisting of one line or verse.
• Monology, (Greek) a talking alone, a discourse held by one man onely.
• Monomachy, (Greek) a single combate, or fighting of one couple onely hand to hand.
• Monophagy, (Greek) an eating alone, or of one kind of meat.
• Monopoly, (Greek) the ingrossing of any saleable commodity by one man, that no body can gain by them but him∣self.
• A Monops, (Greek) a kind of beast of Paeonia, otherwise called a Bonasus, which voideth a kind of sharp and fiery ordure deadly to whomsoever it lights upon.
• Monoptote, (Greek) a term in Gram∣mar, being a Noun that hath but one Case.
• Monostick, (Greek) a sentence consist∣ing onely of one single verse.
• A Monosyllable, (Greek) a word con∣sisting onely of one syllable.
• Monothelites, (Greek) a sort of Here∣ticks living in the year 640, who held that there was but one will in Christ.
• Monstrosity, (lat.) monstrousnesse, that which is beyond the ordinary course of nature.
• Montanists, a sort of Hereticks, so called from their first Author Montanus; they held that the Holy Ghost was not given to the Apostles, but to them∣selves.
• Montanous, (lat.) full of mountains, be∣longing to a mountain.
• Montchensy, a great sirname in Kent and Suffolk, stiled in Latin records de Monte Canisio.
• Montefiasco, a sort of rich wine made at Montefiascone a City in Italy.
• Montera, (Span.) a kind of cap used by Hunters and Seamen.
• Monticulous, (lat.) full of Monticles, i. little mountains or hillocks.
• Montivagous, (lat.) wandering up and down the hills and mountains.
• Montfichet, a name of great note, stiled in the Latin records, de Monte Fixo.
• Montgomery, the chief City of Montgo∣meryshire, so named from Roger de Mont∣gomery Earle of Shrewsbury who built the

• Castle. It is called in Latin Mons Gome∣ricus.
• Monument, (lat. from the verb M••nere, i. to admonish) a memorial of any famous person or action, by Sepulchre, Statue, Pillar, or the like.
• Monychus, the name of one of the Cen∣taurs, whose strength was such, that he could pull up the strongest trees by the roots, and use them instead of darts.
• Monyma, the wife of King Mithridates, who when her husband was overthrown, attempted to have strangled her self by tying her Diadem to her neck, but the rope breaking, she cursed her Diadem, as being neither useful in prosperity, nor adversity, and delivered her self up to an Eunuch to be slain.
• To Moor a ship, a term in Navigation, to lay out her Anchors, as is most fit for the Ship to ride by in that place where she is.
• Moorland, a part of Staffordshire, so cal∣led from certain barren places there∣about which have been anciently called Moores.
• To Moot, (from the French word Mot, i. a word, or the Dutch ghe-moet, i. a meet∣ing together) a term used in the Innes of Court, and signifieth to handle a case in Law, and those that handle these cases are called Mootmen, who after 7 or 8 years study, are chosen Utterbaristers.
• Moral, (lat.) pertaining to manners or civility, also the moral of a fable is used substantively for the application of it to mens lives and manners; whence to mo∣ralize, is to give the moral sense or inter∣pretation of any thing.
• Moration, (lat.) a tarrying or stay∣ing.
• Moravia, a Country of Germany, an∣ciently called Marcomannia, it is now joyned to the Kingdom of Bohemia.
• Morbidezza, (Ital.) tendernesse, effe∣minacy.
• Morbi••ical, (lat.) causing sicknesse, bringing diseases.
• Mordacity, (lat.) bitingnesse, sharp∣nesse, also bitternesse of speech, taunting terms.
• Mordication, (lat.) a biting or fastning the teeth deep into any thing.
• Moresk work, (French) a kind of an∣tick work in painting or carving, wherein there is a wild resemblance of birds, beasts, trees, &c. intermingled.
• Morgan, a proper name of a man, signi∣fying in the ancient Brittish tongue, as much as Seaman.
• Morglay, (from the French words Mort, i. death, and Glaive, i. a sword) a mor∣tal or deadly sword.
• Moris, a proper name, in Latin Mau∣ritius, from Maurus a Moor. the most fa∣mous man of this name was St. Morice, a Commander in the Theban Region, mar∣tyred for the Christian Faith under Maxi∣mianus.
• Morigeration, (lat.) as it were a bear∣ing manners, an obeying, a yeilding obe∣dience.
• Morion, (Ital.) a steel-cap or head-piece.
• Morisco, (Span.) a Moor, also a kind of Dance which seemeth to be the same with that which the Greeks call Pyrricha, we vulgarly call it the Morris Dance, as it were the Moorish Dance.
• Morkin, (a term in Hunting) a Deer that dies by mischance or sicknesse.
• Morling, or Mortling, the wool which is taken from the skin of a dead sheep.
• Morology, (Greek) foolish speaking, talking like a fool.
• Morosity, (lat.) peevishnesse, froward∣nesse, waywardnesse.
• Morphew, a kind of white scurfe upon the body, from the French word Mort∣feu, i. dead fire, because it lookes like the white sparkes that fall from a brand ex∣tinguished.
• Morpheus, the minister of sleep, used also metaphorically for sleep it self.
• Morta, the name of one of the three Destinies according to the Latins. See Parcae.
• Mortal, (lat.) deadly, bringing death.
• Mort d' ancester, is a Writ that lieth where a mans father, mother, brother, or Uncle die seised of land, and a stranger abateth or entreth the land.
• Mortgage, (French) a pawn of land or goods, bound for money borrowed to be the Creditours for ever, if the money be not repaied at the time agreed on.
• Mortiferous, (lat.) bringing death.
• Mortification, (lat.) as it were a ma∣king dead, a quelling or subduing, but it is peculiarly used in Divinity for an hum∣bling or bringing down the flesh by fast∣ing and prayer.
• A Mortise, (French) a term in Carpen∣ters work, being a fastning a piece of wood as it were by biting into another piece.
• Mortmain, (French) signifying a dead

• hand) is in Common-law an Alienation of Lands, or Tenements to any Corpora∣tion, or Fraternity, and their Successours with the Licence of the King and the Lord of the Mannour.
• Mortresse, a kinde of made dish of meat consisting of several ingredients.
• A Mortuarie, (lat.) a Funeral, a bury∣ing place, also a gift left by a man at his death to his Parish in recompence of his Tythes not duely paid in his life time.
• Mosaical, Musaique, or Musive work, a kinde of curious work in Architecture, consisting of small inlayed pieces of stone, glasse, sundry coloured shells, or other materials.
• Moscovia, a large Countrey of Europe, otherwise called Russia, bordering upon Tartary, it is governed by the great Duke of Muscovie, called also Emperour of R••ssia.
• Moses, (Hebr.) drawn up.
• A Mosque, the same as Meskite.
• A Mosstick, a word used in painting, be∣ing a round stick about a yard long, which the Artist doth rest upon when he paints.
• Mot, or Motto, (French and Italian) an Emblem, Impresse, or devise, as it were a a short sentence comprised in a word, also a certain note which hunts-men wind on their horn.
• Motet, (French) a verse in Musick, a stanza of a song, also a short posie.
• Mouch, (old word) to eat up.
• Mougnon, (French) the brawny part of the arm, also the brassel, or that part of a Coat of Armour, which covereth the Arms.
• Mound, q. Munimentum, a Fence, or Hedge.
• Mounster, a Province in Ireland, con∣taining these following Counties, Kerry, Desmond, Kork, Waterford, Limmerick, Tipperary.
• Mountain of piety, a certain stock, or bank of money, which used to be raised out of voluntary contributions, and treasured up to be lent upon occasion to poor peo∣ple, who were ruined by the usury and extortion of the Jews.
• Mountebank, (from the Italian word Montimbanco, because he monts upon some high bench or form) a Drugseller, or one that buys Drugs of Apothecaries, and by much boasting of their vertues, sells them again for choice Medecins. He is called in French Charlatan, from his great talking and bragging.
• A Mowe, (from the French Amas, i. •• heap) a pile or stack of corn or hay.

M U

• Mucilaginous, or Mucculent, (lat.) full of snotty or slimy substance.
• Mucidity, or Mucour, (lat.) mouldiness, hoarinesse, filthinesse.
• A Muefor Hawks, a kind of cage or aviary where Hawks are kept when they change their feathers, it comes from the from the French word Muer, to change, whence that place called the Mues near Charing-crosse came to be so called, it having been anciently appointed for the keeping of the Kings Hawks.
• Mufti, the chief Priest among the Turks, who is created by the Emperour him∣self.
• Mugwort, a kind of herb, which being carried about a man, taketh away weari∣nesse; it is called in Latin Artemisia, from Artemisia the Queen of Caria, or from Artemis, i. Diana.
• Mulato, (Span.) one whose father is a Blackmore, and his mother of another na∣tion or contrarily.
• Mulct, (lat.) a fine, penalty, or amercia∣ment.
• Muleto, (Ital.) a beast called a Moile or great Mule, made use of in some parts for the carrying of Sumpters.
• Muliebrity, (lat.) womanishnesse, soft∣nesse, effeminacy.
• Mulier, in Common Law, is a word taken contradistinct to a bastard, as if a man have a son by a woman before mar∣riage, and then marrying the mother of that son who is called a bastard, have ano∣ther son, this second son is called Mulier, and being compared together, they have this addition, Bastard eldest, and Mulier youngest; but the most proper significa∣tion of Mulier is a woman that hath had the company of man.
• Mullar, (in French Mulleur) the upper stone wherewith Painters use to grind their colours.
• Mullet, (in Latin Mullus) a kind of fish called a Barbel, also a term in Heral∣dry, being like a spot falling from above, and divided into five ends.
• Mulse, (lat.) a kind of wine mingled with honey.
• Multifarious, (lat.) of divers sorts, di∣vided into many parts.
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• Multifidous, (lat.) having divers slits, cleft into several parts.
• Multiformity, (lat.) a having divers forms, or shapes.
• Multiloquous, (lat.) talking much, of many words.
• Multiparous, (lat.) bringing forth ma∣ny young ones at a birth.
• Multiplicious, (lat.) manifold, consisting of divers wayes or things.
• Multiplication, (lat.) an increasing, a making much or many.
• Multipotent, (lat.) having much power, able to do much.
• Multiscious, (lat.) having much skill, or knowledge.
• Multisonant, (lat.) sounding much, ma∣king much noise.
• Multivagant, (lat.) straying, or wan∣dering much.
• Multure, in Common Law, is a toll that a miller taketh for grinding of corn.
• Mumme, a kind of Dutch Beer made originally at Brunswick.
• Mummery, (French) a personating of any one in a mask.
• Mummy, (lat.) a kind of pitchy sub∣stance arising from the moisture which is sweat out of dead bodies that have been embalmed with divers sorts of spices, and is called in Greek Pissasphaltus.
• Muncerians, a sort of Anabaptists that made a great insurrection in Germany, so called from their Ringleader Muncer.
• Mundane, (lat.) worldly, belonging to the world.
• Mundification, (lat.) a making clean, purging, or purifying.
• Muneration, (lat.) a recompencing, or rewarding.
• Municipal, (lat.) injoying a freedom, or the right of a free City.
• Munificence, (lat.) bountifulnesse, li∣berality.
• Muniment, (lat.) a Fence or Fortress, also a house of Strength where the Deeds or Plate of a Colledge are kept.
• Munite, (lat.) fenced, made strong.
• Munkseam, (a term in Navigation) a kind of sowing the canvasses of sails the edge of the one over the edge of the o∣ther.
• Murage, (lat.) a toll to be levyed for the building or repairing of publick walls.
• Mural, (lat.) belonging to a wall.
• Mural Crown, a Crown which among the ancient Romans was given to him who first scaled the walls of an enemies City.
• Murder, in Common Law, is a wilful and felonious killing of any man upon premeditated malice.
• Murengers, certain officers in Westchester that look to the City walls.
• Muricide, (lat.) a mouse-killer, a cow∣ardly fellow.
• Muriel, the Christian name of divers women, from the Greek Myron, i. sweet ointment.
• Muring, a term in Architecture, the raising of walls.
• Murrain, (from the Greek word Maraino) a kind of rot or consuming di∣sease among cattel.
• Murnival, (French) the number 4.
• Murray, a Country in the North part of Scotland, called in Latin Moravia.
• A Murrey colour, (from the Greek word Maurus) a dusky, blackish, or dun co∣lour.
• Musach cassa, a certain chest in the Temple of Jerusalem, wherein Kings were wont to cast their offerings.
• Musaph, a certain book containing the Laws of the Turks.
• Muscadel wine, (French) a sort of wine brought from the Island of Candy, having a sweet odour like to that of Musk.
• Mus••hamp, a name formerly of great note in Northumberland, stiled in Latin records, de Musko Campo.
• Muscheto, a kind of Insect so called, somewhat resembling a gnat.
• Mussack, a kind of drink, much in use among the Chineses.
• Muscous, (lat.) mossy, or full of mosse.
• Musculous, (lat.) belonging to, or full of Muscles, i. certain organick parts of the body being of a fleshy and tendinous substance, and interlac't with filaments and little veines and arteries, and serving as the instruments of motion to every part.
• Musen, a term among Hunters, is when a Stag or male Deer casts his head.
• Muses, the 9 daughters of Jupiter and Mnemosyne, born in the Country of Pieria (whence they are called Pierides) and in∣habiting Helicon a hill of Boeotia, they were accounted the goddesses of Musick and Poetry, and the rest of the ingenuous Arts and Sciences, their names were Cal∣liope, Clio, Erato, Thalia, Melpomene, Terp∣sichore, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, and Vra∣nia.
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• Musive, see Mosaical.
• Musket, the tassel or male of a sparrow-Hawk.
• Muskinne, a kind of bird otherwise cal∣led a finch, in Latin fringillago.
• Musmon, the name of a certain beast re∣sembling partly a sheep, partly a goat.
• Mussitation, (lat.) a muttring or speak∣ing between the teeth
• Mussulmans, or Mulsulmans, an Arabick word, signifying a people faithful in their Religion, being an attribute which the Turks or Mahumetans arrogate to them∣selves.
• Must, (lat.) wine newly pressed from the grape.
• Mustache, or Mustachio, (French from the Greek word Mystax) the beard of the upper-lip.
• Mustaphis, certain Prophets or Learned men among the Turks.
• Musteline, (lat.) belonging to a weasel.
• Mustriche, a Shoomakers last.
• Mutability, (lat.) changeablenesse, in∣constancy.
• Mutation, (lat.) a changing.
• Mute, (lat.) dumbe, speechlesse, also Mutes, used substantively for those conso∣nants which have no sound of a vowel be∣fore them; also certain Executioners a∣mong the Turks appointed to strangle of∣fenders, are called Mutes. Also a Hawk is said to mute, not to dung.
• Mutilation, (lat.) a maiming or curtail∣ing of any thing.
• Q. Mutius, a stout Roman, who in the war with Porsenna King of the Hetrurians went into the enemies Camp with an in∣tent to have killed the King; but being taken and threatned with extraordinary punishments, he thrust his right hand into the fire and burnt it off, to shew his con∣tempt of torments; whence he was called Scaevola, and telling Porsenna, that 300 youths had in like manner conspired a∣gainst him, he was so terrified that imme∣diately he made a peace with the Ro∣mans.
• Mutual, (lat.) passing between two, in∣terchangeable.

M Y

• Myriad, (Greek) the number of ten thousand.
• Myrmidons, a certain people of Thessaly, who went under the conduct of Achilles to the wars of Troy. They were so called from Myrmidon an ancient King of Thes∣saly the son of Jupiter and the Nimph Co∣rymosa, or else from a certain Virgin cal∣led Myrmice, who for contemning Ceres, was changed into an Ant, from which there springing up a multitude of Ants, they were by the prayers of Aeacus, when Thes∣saly was almost depopulated, changed into men.
• Myrobalanes, a sort of medicinal fruit, by some called Egyptian acorns, of which there are five sorts, Bellerick, Chebule, Citrine, Emblick, and Indian.
• Myropolist, (Greek) a seller of ointments or sweet oiles.
• Myrrha, the daughter of Cynaras King of Cyprus, who by the help of her Nurse coming to lie with her father, was got with child by him, and brought forth Adonis the Paramour of Venus, but Cyna∣ras afterwards being sensible of what was done, would have slain her with his sword, whereupon she fled into Arabia Felix and was changed into a Tree of her own name, from which there distilleth a sweet aro∣matick Gum called also Myrrhe.
• Myrrhine, (lat.) belonging to myrrhe, made of myrrhe.
• Myrsilus, the son of Myrsus, a King of Lydia, called also Candaules the last of the race of the Heraclidae. See Can∣daules.
• Myrtilus, the son of Mercury and Phae∣thusa, he was the Chariot-driver of Oeno∣maus, who being to run a race with Pelops Myrtilus being promised a great reward, loosened the axeltree so, that the Chariot being overturned Oenomaus fell out and broke his neck, but before he died, he in∣treated Pelops to revenge his death; where∣upon when Myrtilus came to demand his reward, he was thrown into that Sea which from thence was called Mare Myr∣toum, now Mar de Mandria.
• Myrtle, a kind of low tree which bear∣eth a little blackish leaf of a very fragrant scent, and groweth onely in hot Coun∣tries; this tree was by the ancients acounted sacred to Venus.
• Mysia, a Country of Asia the Lesse, anciently divided into Higher Mysia and Lower Mysia, it containeth those Coun∣tries which are now called Servia, Bul∣garia, and Wallachia.
• Mystagogical, (Greek) belonging to a Mystagogue, i. e. he that interprets Di∣vine mysteries or ceremonies, also he that

• hath the keeping of Church relicks, and shewing them to strangers.
• Mysteriarch, (Greek) a chief overseer of sacred mysteries.
• Mystical, (Greek) mysterious, secret, hidden.
• Mithology, (Greek) a discourse and exposition of fables.

N A

• NAam (from the Dutch word Mem∣men, i. to nim or take hold on) in Common Law is the taking of anothers moveable goods, which if it be by reason∣able distresse proportionable to the value of the thing distrained for, it is called lawful Naam.
• Nacre, (French) mother of pearle.
• Nadir, an Arabick word oft used in A∣stronomy, signifying that point of heaven directly under our feet, and opposite to the Zenith.
• Naenia, (lat.) Funeral-songs, Funeral-prayers or praises.
• Naiades, the Nimphs of Rivers and Fountains, from the Greek word Nao, i. to flow.
• Naiant, (French) swimming or float∣ing, a term in Heraldry.
• Naif, (French) a term in Jewelling and is spoken of a Diamond or other Stone, which looketh quick and natural, and hath all its properties as in water, clean∣nesse, &c.
• Nantwich, a Town in Cheshire, famous for the pits of brine or salt water, which are called Wiches; it was named by the ancient Brittains Hellath Wen, i. the white Wich or Salt pit; and by Latin Writers Vicus Malbanus, perhaps from one Wil∣liam Malbedeng or Malbanc, anciently Lord thereof.
• Napaeae, the Nimphs of the woods and mountains, from the Greek word Nape, i. a wood.
• Napthe, (lat.) a kind of sulphureous substance, called Median oile, or Babylo∣nish bitumen.
• Narcissus, a youth of great beauty, the son of Cephisus and Liriope, of whom the Prophet Tyresias foretold that he should live so long as he should abstain from be∣holding himself; he being beloved of many Nimphs and especially of Echo, was insensible to all their loves, & at length coming to drink of a clear Fountain, and beholding his image in the water, he fell in love with it, and seeing no hopes of in∣joying it, he pined away for grief and was changed into a Flower of the same name, vulgarly called a white Daffadilly, and Echo seeing her self despised likewise, pined away, and was changed into a voice. Also the name of a Bishop of Jerusalem, who when oil was wanting at Divine ser∣vice for the Lamps, by his prayers turned water into oil.
• Narcotique, (Greek) of a stupefying and benumming quality, whence divers things which are used in physick to that end, are called Narcotic Medicines.
• Nares, a term in Faulconry, the holes in the Hawks beake.
• A Narration, or Narrative, (lat.) a report, discourse, or relation of any thing.
• Narses, an Eunuch who being General of the Emperour Justinians Army in Italy, after Belizarius performed very great service against the Goths, but at last being affronted by Sophia the Empresse, he cal∣led in the Lombards into Italy.
• † Nasicornous, a made word which sig∣nifieth having a horn upon the nose, from the Latin Nasus, i. a nose, and Cornu, i. a horn.
• Natalitious, (lat.) belonging to ones nativity or birth-day.
• Natation, (lat.) a swimming.
• Nathaniel, a proper name, signifying in Hebr. the gift of God.
• Nativity, (lat.) the birth, or first en∣trance into the World.
• Nativo habendo, a Writ for the appre∣hending and restoring to a Lord his vil∣lain claimed as his inheritance, who in Common Law is called Nief.
• Naturalist, (lat.) one that understandeth natural causes, a natural Philosopher.
• Naturalization, (lat.) an admitting of strangers into the number of Natural Sub∣jects.
• Naval, (lat.) belonging to a Ship or Navy.
• To Naucifie, (lat.) to set at naught.
• The Nave of a wheele, the middle, or that part into which axeltree is put.
• Naufrage, (lat.) shipwrack, losse at sea. See Wreck.
• Navicular, (lat.) belonging to ships.
• Navigable, (lat.) passable by ships.
• Navigation, (lat.) a sailing, also the Art of Seafaring, the knowledge of Sea-affairs.
• Navity, (lat.) diligence, stirringnesse.
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• Naulage, (French) the fraight or pas∣sage money for going over the Sea, or any River.
• Naumachy, (Greek) a fighting at sea, a sea▪battle.
• Nauplius, the son of Neptune and Amy∣mone the daughter of Danaus, he was King of Eubaea, and father of Palamedes, who being by the means of Vlisses stoned to death, Nauplius in revenge made a great fire upon the Mountain Caphareus, which the Greek Navy taking to be the light of some near Harbour, sailed so near, that they were cast away upon the rocks.
• Nauseous, or Nauseative, (lat.) going a∣gainst ones stomack, making one ready to vomit.
• Nausicae, the daughter of Alcinous and Arete, she going out of the City one night with her maid-servants to bath her, met with Vlisses who was shipwrack't upon that shore and almost naked, whom she brought to her fathers Palace, gave him cloths, and entertained him with a great deal of respect.
• Naustible, (lat.) a Haven for ships.
• Nautical, or Nautic, (lat.) belonging to Mariners or to Ships.
• Naxos, one of the Cyclades, Islands in the Aegean, anciently called Strongyle and Dia; in this Island Ariadne being left by Theseus, married Bacchus.
• Nazal, (French) the nose-piece of a Helmet.
• N••zarites, (Hebr.) a sort of Jews who separated themselves from all others, and vowed themselves to God for a certain time, in which they abstained from wine and suffered their hair to grow, also the Disciples were called Nazarites, from Na∣zareth the place where Christ was born.

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• Neades, a certain kind of beast, whose bones are of a miraculous greatnesse.
• Neaera, the name of a very fair Nimph, who being got with child by Phaebus, brought forth two daughters, Lampetia and Phaethusa, who kept the flocks of their father the Sun in Sicily, many of which were killed by the companions of Vlisses, for which they were cast away at sea.
• Neale-too, in Navigation, is when it is deep water close to the shore.
• Neapolis, the City of Naples situate in Campania in Italy, upon the Mediterra∣nean Sea-side; it was built first of all by the Citizens of Cuma and called Parthe∣nope, from the name of one of the Syrens who was there buried, afterwards it was destroyed, then rebuilt and called Neapo∣lis, which in Greek signifieth the new City; from this City the Kingdom of Naples takes its denomination, contain∣ing all those Countries of Italy which are called Campania, Apulia, Lucania, Mag∣na Graecia, and part of Latium.
• Neap-tides, those smaller tides which happen 7 dayes after the change, and 7 dayes after the full of the Moon, whereas the greater tides which happen 7 dayes before the change and full, are called Spring-tides.
• Neat, (from the Dutch Nieten, i. to but) an Oxe, Cow, or Stear.
• Nebule, a term in Heraldry, bearing a representation of the clouds.
• Nebulous, (lat.) misty, foggy, cloudy.
• Necromancy, (Greek) a divination by calling up deceased bodies, also the black art, or any kinde of conjuration by deal∣ing with the Devil, or evil spirits.
• Nectarean, (Greek) pleasant, immortal; from Nectar, i. a certain pleasant drink which the Poets faign to have been the drink of the Gods, and that whosoever drunk of it would become immortal.
• Nefandous, (lat.) hainous, horrible, not to be mentioned.
• Nefarious, (lat.) very wicked, abomi∣nable.
• Negative, (lat.) denying, or gainsay∣ing.
• Negative pregnant, in Common-law, is when a man being impleaded to have done a thing upon such a day denies that he did it after the manner and form de∣clared.
• Negotiation, (lat.) a merchandizing, trafficking, or mannaging of affairs.
• Negro, (Ital.) a black-more.
• Neif, see Nativo habendo.
• Nemoea, a certain wooddy Countrey of Achaia, between Cleonae and Phlius, here it was that Hercules slew a Lyon of a Mon∣strous bignesse, which from the place was called the Nemae••n Lyon, in remembrance of which exploit he instituted certain games, called also Nemaean games.
• Nemesis, the goddesse of reward and re∣venge, and the daughter of Jupiter and Necessity, she was also called Adrastia and Rhamnusia, and placed by the Aegyp∣tians above the Moon.
• Nemoral, or Nemorous, (lat.) belonging

• to woods, wooddy, shaded with trees.
• Nenuphar, (Arab.) a certain flower com∣monly called a water-lilly.
• Neogamist, (Greek) one newly mar∣ried.
• Neophyte, (Greek) a plant newly set or planted, also metaphorically one newly entred into any profession, or one newly converted to the Faith.
• Neoterical, or Neoterique, (Greek) new or of a late time.
• Nepenthe, a certain herb (mentioned by Pliny) which being put into wine, expel∣eth sadnesse. Some think it to be the same with Buglosse.
• Nephglian Crookhorn, is Aries.
• Nephritick, (Greek) troubled with a disease which causeth a pain in the reines of the back.
• Nepotation, (lat.) riotousnesse or luxury.
• Neptune, the son of Saturn and Ops, in the division of the world among Saturns sons, the Empire of the Sea fell to him by lot.
• Nereides, the Nimphs of the Sea, the daughters of Nereus and Doris, among whom was Amphitrite the wife of Nep∣tune.
• Domitius Nero, one of the ancient Ro∣man Emperours, who killed his mother Agrippina, his wife Octavia, the Poet Lu∣can, and Seneca his master.
• Nerve, (lat.) a sinew, also by metaphor, force, or strength of body.
• Nervosity, (lat.) a being full of Nerves or Sinews, i. certain organick parts of the body, which cause strength and motion; it is also metaphorically taken for strength or vigour.
• Nescious or Nescient, (lat.) ignorant or not knowing.
• Nesh, (old word) tender.
• Nessus, one of the Centaurs whom Ixion begat upon a cloud formed into the like∣nesse of Juno, he was slain by Hercules for attempting to ravish his wife Deianira.
• Nestor, the son of Neleus and Chloris, he came with 50 ships along with the Grecian Army to the wars of Troy, and was famous for his prudence and eloquence, and the great age he lived to.
• Nestorians, a sort of Hereticks, so called from Nestorius, their first founder, their chief tenet was, that there were two per∣sons as well as two natures in Christ.
• Nettings, (a term in Navigation) those small ropes which are ceased together with roap yarnes, in the form of a Net with Mashes.
• Nevin, a Town in Caernarvonshire, where in the year 1284. the Nobles of England triumphed over the Welsh with solemne Justs and Turnaments, wherewith they ce∣lebrated the memory of King Arthur.
• Nevosity, (lat.) fulnesse of Warts, or Moles.
• Neustria, a region of Gallia Celtica, vul∣garly called Westrich.
• Neutral, (lat.) indifferent inclining to neither side.
• Newark, a pleasant Town, seated upon the River Trent in Nottinghamshire, it is so called as it were, the new work, from a stately Castle, built in King Stephens time, by Alexander Bishop of Lincoln. In this Town King John ended his dayes.
• Newcastle, a noted Town in Northum∣berland, situate upon the River Tine, which maketh a very commodious Haven for ships: It derived this name from the new Castle built by Robert son to William the Conquerour. Some think it to have been that Town which was anciently called Gabrosentum.
• Newcolledge, a Colledge in the Uni∣versity of Oxford, built by William Wic∣kam, Bishop of Winchester.
• Newyears-gift, a gift presented to friends or great persons the first day of January, a custom derived from the ancient Romans who used to offer Presents to the Emperors in the Capitol though they were absent. In Italy it is the custom for the greatest persons to give to the meanest, whereas here the meanest give to the greatest.
• Nexible, (lat.) easie to be knit.

N I

• Nias hawk, (a term in Faulconry) a Hawk newly taken out of the nest, and not able to prey for her self; also meta∣phorically taken for a Novice.
• Nicaea, a City of Bithynia, famous for the great Synod or Council which was kept there by the appointment of Con∣stantine the Great, consisting of 318 Bishops.
• Nicia, a Christian name of women, in Greek Victorious.
• Nicias, an Athenian Captain, who to∣gether with Demosthenes being sent against the Syracusians, was repulsed with a very great overthrow by Gylippus the Lacede∣monian

• who was sent to aid the Syracu∣sians.
• Niches, or Ni••es, a term in Architecture, the hollow places in a wall wherein Sta∣tues or Images are set.
• Nicholas, (Greek) Victorious over the people.
• Nicholaitans, a sort of Hereticks who held it lawful to have their wives in com∣mon, so called from Nicholas of Antioch, who was created by the Apostles, one of the 7 Deacons.
• Nicomedia, a City of Bithynia, wherein Constantine the Great died, having in his sicknesse been baptized by Eusebius Bishop of this City, a maintainer of the Arrian Heresie; it was anciently built by King Nicomedes, and is at this day called Nichor.
• Nicodemites, a sort of Hereticks in Switzerland, so called from their imita∣tion of Nicodemus, who made profession of his faith in private.
• Nicopolis, (as it were the City of Vi∣ctory) a City of Epirus, so called from the great Battle at Actium (which is near this City) where Augustus overcame M. An∣tony and Cleopatra: It is now vulgarly cal∣led Gallipoly.
• Nicostrata, the mother of Euander, she was otherwise called Carmenta.
• Nicotian, a certain plant vulgarly cal∣led Tobacco, it was called Nicotian from one I. Nicot, who first brought it from France into Portugal.
• Nictation, (lat.) a twinkling with the eyes.
• Nidgeries, (French) trifles, fooleries.
• Nidification, (lat.) a building of a birds nest.
• A Niding, an old English word, signi∣fying a base-hearted fellow, a coward.
• Nidisdale, a Country in the south part of Scotland, q. the dale upon the River Nid.
• Nidulation, (lat.) the same as Nidi∣fication.
• Nief, see Neif.
• Nightertaile, (Saxon) by night.
• Nigrefaction, (lat.) a making black.
• Nihil dicit, in Common Law, is a failing to put in an answer to the plea of the Plaintiff by the day assigned, whereupon judgement passeth against him as saying nothing.
• Nil, the sparkles that fly from mettals tryed in a furnace: it is called in Greek Pompholyx or Spodium.
• Nilling, (old word) unwilling.
• Nilus, a River running through the midst of Aegypt and Aethiopia, counted the chiefest and the father of all other Rivers, and as some say, taketh its name from Nilus an ancient King of Aegypt. This River is famous for overflowing the Country every year, and making the soil fruitful, and for falling into the Sea within seven mouths in he figure of a Greek Δ.
• Nimbiferous, (lat.) bringing tempests or stormy showers.
• Nimbot, (French) a dandiprat, a dwarf.
• Nimious, (lat.) excessive, overmuch.
• Ninus, an ancient King of the Assyrians the son of Jupiter Belus, he very much enlarged the Assyrian Empire, overcame Barzanes King of the Armenians, Pharus King of the Medes, Zoroaster the King of the Bactrians, the first inventour of Ma∣gick, and Sabarius King of the Sagae, at length he was secretly made away by his wife Semiramis, (whom he had taken from Menon the Prefect of Syria) who conspiring against his life succeeded him in the Kingdom.
• Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus and sister of Pelops, she was married to Am∣phion, and by him had 6 sons and 6 dau∣ghters, whom Juno prevailed with Apollo to kill with his Bow and Arrows, because their mother had adventured to preferre her self above the goddesse, and Niobe her self while she was railing against Juno was carried by a whirlewind into Asia, and there changed into a stone.
• Niphates, a Hill parting Armenia the greater from Assyria, from this Hill the River Tigris springs.
• Niseus, a Tyrant of Syracuse, who being admonish't by the Augurs that he had but a short while to live, spent the remainder of his life in excesse of luxury, and revel∣ling.
• Nisi prius, a Writ judicial that lieth where the Enquest is panelled and re∣turned before the Justices of the bank, the one party, or the other making peti∣tion to have this Writ for the ease of the Countrey.
• Nisus, a King of the Megarenses, against whom war was made by Minos, a King of Crete, to revenge the death of his sonne Androgeus, who was slain by the Megaren∣ses and Athenians, conspiring together; at length Megara was taken by the treache∣ry

• of Scylla, who for the love of Minos cut off her fathers purple Lock on which depended the fate of his life and King∣dom, whereupon Nisus pined away for grief, and was changed into a Hawk, and Scylla seeing her self despised of Minos pined away also, and was changed into a Partridge.
• Nitidity, or Nitour, (lat.) cleannesse, gaynesse, brightnesse.
• Nitrous, (lat.) full of, or savouring of Nitre, i. a kinde of substance like unto Salt, somewhat spongy, and full of holes, it a little resembleth Salt peter, but is not the same as some suppose it to be.
• Niveous, (lat.) snowy, white, like unto snow.
• Nixii, certain gods among the Romans, who were said to be assisting to women in Childbirth.
• Nixus, one of the heavenly constellati∣ons, resembling Hercules with his knee bent, and indeavouring to strike at the Dragons head; it is also called Ingenicu∣lum, in Greek Engonasin.

N O

• Nobilitation, (lat.) an enobling, or ma∣king noble.
• Noblesse, (French) nobility, generosity, both of bloud and of minde.
• Nocent, or Nocive, (lat.) hurtfull, inju∣rious, or doing harm.
• Noctiferous, (lat.) bringing night, or darknesse.
• Noctivagant, (lat.) night-wandring, walking by night.
• Nocturnal, (lat.) belonging to the night time, nightly; also a Nocturnal is sub∣stantively taken for a night Dial.
• Nocturnes, certain Prayers, or Psalms, ap∣pointed by the Church to be read in the night time.
• Nocument, (lat.) hurt, damage, or harm.
• Nocuous, (lat.) harmfull, doing hurt.
• Nodinus, a certain God among the Ro∣mans, being overseer of the knots and joints in the stalks of Corn.
• Nodous, (lat.) full of knots, knobs, or joynts.
• Noel, (French) the time of Christs Na∣tivity, vulgarly called Christmas.
• Noli me tangere, a kinde of Herb whose seed spurts away as soon as it is touch't; also a disease so called wherein the part affected, the oftner it is toucht the worse it grows.
• Nomades, a certain people of Scythia Europaea, who are said to be descended from those that followed Hercules in his expedition into Spain.
• Nomarchy, (Greek) a Mayralty, the go∣vernment of a Citie, or County.
• Nombreil, a Term in Heraldry, being the lower part of an Escutcheon, the ho∣nour point being the uppermost part, the Fesse the middle part, the word signifieth in French a Navel.
• Nomenclator, (from the Latin word Nomen, i. e. a name, and the Greek Cale••, i. e. to call) one that calleth things by their proper and significant ••ames, among the Romans there were certain Officers, so called, who gave unto their Lord an account of the names of all such as salu∣ted him as they passed, they were also such as we call the Criers of a Court.
• Nominal, (lat.) belonging to a name.
• Nominalia, (lat.) certain festival dayes among the Romans wherein they gave names to their Children, for Males it was the eighth day, for Females the ninth, which was called dies lustricus.
• Nomination, (lat.) a naming, also in Common and Canon-law, it is taken for a powr that man hath by virtue of a Mannour, or otherwise to appoint a Clark to a Patron of a benefice by him to be presented to the ordinary.
• Nomographer, (Greek) a Writer of Laws.
• Nomothesie, (Greek) a making, or pu∣blishing of Laws.
• Nonability, (a Term in Law) being an exception taken against the Plaintiffe, or Defendant, why he cannot Commence any suit in Law.
• Nonacris, a Mountain of Arcadia, at the foot of which is the River Styx, whose water is so cold that it cannot be contain'd in any other Vessel, but onely in the hoof of a Mule.
• Nona, the name of one of the three de∣stinies among the Latins, see Morta.
• Nonage, in Common-law, is the time of a mans, or womans being under age, see age.
• Non claim, is an exception against a man that claimeth not within the time limited by the Law.
• Non compos mentis, or one that is not in his right wits, signifieth in Common-law; first, an Ideot born; secondly, one that

• by accident looseth his wits; thirdly, a Lunatick; fourthly, a drunkard.
• Non est culpabilis, the general answer to an action of Trespasse, whereby the De∣fendant doth deny the fact imputed unto him by the Plaintiffe.
• Non est factum, an answer to a Declara∣tion whereby a man denieth that to be his deed whereupon he is impleaded.
• Non liquet, a Law-term, signifying it appears not; a Verdict given by a Jury, when a matter is to be referred to another day of Tryal.
• Nonpareil, (French) Peerlesse, having no fellow, or Peer; also a Term in print∣ing, see Pareil.
• † Non-pri••••••piate, (a made word com∣pounded of non and principium) not ha∣ving a beginning.
• Non-residencie, the unlawfull absence of a beneficed man from his spiritual charge.
• Non sanae memoriae, an exception taken to any act declared by the Plaintiffe, or Defendant, as not being well in his wits.
• Non-suit, a renunciation of the suit by the Plaintiffe, or Demandant when the the matter is so far proceeded in as the Jury is ready to give their Verdict.
• Non-Term, the time of Vacation between Term and Term, it was wont to be called the dayes of the Kings peace.
• Nones of a moneth, are certain dayes next following the Calends, or first day, in March, May, July, and October, they are six dayes, in other moneths but four.
• None of a day, the third quarter of the day, from noon till sun set.
• To stand at a Non plus, (lat.) to be able to answer never a word, to have nothing more to, say.
• Nonupla, (a Term in Musick) being a very quick time, and peculiar to Jiggs.
• Noricum, a Countrey of Germany, now called Bavaria it is divided from Vinde∣licia, by the River Aenus, from the higher Pannonia, by the Mountain Cecius.
• Normal, (lat.) done exactly, according to the rule, or square.
• Normannia, or Normandy, a Countrey of Gallia Celtica; so called from the Nor∣manni, a people anciently inhabiting Nor∣wegia, who in the time of Charles the Grosse had this Countrey assigned them to dwell in, it being formerly called Neustria, and the people were all baptised with their Duke Rollo, whose name was changed into Robert.
• Northallerton, or Northalverton, the chief Town of Northallertonshire, being a part of York-shire, anciently so called, near this Town was fought that famous pitcht field, commonly called the battail of the Standard, where Ralph Bishop of Dur∣ham overthrew David King of Scots, it was so called because the English receiving the first onset of the Scots, kept themselves close together about the Standard, which resembled the Caroccio, so much used by the Italians.
• Northampton, the chief Citie of Nor∣thamptonshire, so called by contraction from Northfandon, near this place was fought that bloudy battel wherein King Henry the sixth was taken prisoner, by Richard Nevil, Earle of Warwick.
• Nostoch, is taken by some for a certain kinde of excrement, or polluted matter like to a gelly, of an obscure red colour dropping upon the earth from some luxu∣riant Planet, or other Star.
• Norwegia, a Countrey of Europe, for∣merly a Kingdom by it self; it is now cal∣led Norwey, and is under the Government of the Danes.
• Norwich, the chief Citie of Northfolk, heretofore called Northwick, i. Northerly Creek, Wick signifying in the Saxon tongue, the Creek, or Cove of a River, it was set on fire by Sweno the Dane, in the time of King Ethelred, but it flourisht again after the Conquest, and the Castle was re-edified by Hugh Bigod, Earle of Northfolk, Lewis the Frenchman won it by assault from King John.
• Notarie, (lat.) one that takes Notes, and makes a short draught of Contracts, Obligations, and other instruments, a Scribe, or Scrivener.
• Note, a Term in faulconory, vide Pru∣neth.
• Notification, (lat.) a making known, a a giving information, or advertisement.
• Notion, (lat.) understanding, or know∣ledge.
• Notius, vide Pisces.
• Nottingham, the chief Town of Not∣tinghamshire, it is so called by a mollified pronuntiation, from the Saxon word Snot∣tengaham, i. a house of Dennes, or Caves, it hath a strong Castle, which the Danes held out against Aethered, King of the West-Saxons, and his brother Aelfrid, who were stirred up by Burthred, King of the Mercians against them.
• Novae tabulae, (lat.) certain Tables a∣mong

• the ancient Romans, whereby old debts, or obligations were cancelled, and made void.
• Novatians, a sort of Hereticks, who condemned second marriages, and held that those who had once fall'n, ought not to be received into the Church, although they afterwards repented: they were se∣duced by one Novatus, in the year 215.
• Novation, (lat.) a renewing, or making new.
• Novels, certain volumes of the Civil-law, in number 168. they were set out by the Emperour Justinian after the Codex, also certain little tales, or Romances.
• November, so called because it is the ninth moneth from March.
• Novempopulana, the Countrey of Gascoin in France, whose chief Cities are Bour∣deaux and Tolouse.
• Novendial, (lat.) continuing the space of nine dayes.
• Novennial, (lat.) continuing the space of nine years.
• Novercal, (lat.) belonging to a step∣mother.
• Novice, (lat. Tyro, Greek Neophyte) one newly entred into Orders, also a young beginner in any art, or profes∣sion.
• Novity, (lat.) newnesse, strangenesse.
• Nowed, (French) tied in a knot, a Term in Heraldry.
• Noxi••us (lat.) guilty, also hurtfull, or offensive.

N U

• Nubiferous, (lat.) cloud-bearing, bring∣ing, or causing obscurity.
• Nubilous, (lat.) cloudy, or tempestu∣ous.
• Nude contract, in Common-law, is a bare contract, or promise of any thing without assigning, or agreeing what another shall give.
• Nudation, (lat.) a making bare.
• Nudity, (lat.) nakednesse, barenesse.
• Nugation, (lat.) a toying, or tri∣fling.
• Nuisance, or Nusance, see Annoyance.
• Nullifidian, (lat.) one of no faith, or honesty.
• Nullity, (lat.) nothing, or a being of no effect.
• Nullo, (Arithm.) a Cipher that stands for nothing.
• Numa Pompilius, the second King of the Romans, a Sabine born, he built the Temple of Janus, created the Dial Mar∣tial, and Quirinal Flamins, he made the twelve Salii, or Priests of Mars, and the High-Priest, consecrated the Vestal Vir∣gins, distinguisht the dayes into hallow'd and unhallowed, and divided the year in∣to twelve moneths, and that these things might gain the greater credit with the people, he faign'd that every night he had private discourse with the Nymph Aege∣ria, and that what he had instituted was by her appointment.
• Numbles, (French) the entrailes of a Stag, or Dear.
• Numeration, (lat.) a numbring.
• Numerical, (lat.) belonging to number, also a Term in Logick, as Numerical dif∣ference is that difference which together with the lowermost species constitutes the Individuum.
• Numitor, the son of Procas, King of the Albanians, he was driven out of his King∣dom by his younger brother Amulius.
• Nun, (Dutch) a Virgin that by holy vow obligeth her self to perpetual virgi∣nity, and espouseth her self to the Church.
• Nuncupation, (lat.) a pronouncing, or calling by name.
• A Nuncupative Will, or Testament, is that which is declared by words, and not written.
• Nundinary, (lat.) belonging to fairs, or markets, whence Nundination, a Traffick∣ing, or Trading.
• Nuntio, (Ital.) a Messenger Legat or Ambassadour, it is a word most peculiarly appropriate to the Popes Legat.
• Nuper Obiit, the name of a Writ, which lieth for a Coheir, being deforced by her Coheir of Land, or Tenements, whereof any of their Ancestours died seised in fee-simple.
• Nuptial, (lat.) belonging to a marriage or wedding.
• Nurture, for nouriture, i. a nourishing, a teaching of good manners.
• Nutation, (lat.) a nodding.
• Nutrition, (lat.) a nourishing.

N Y

• Nycteus, the son of Neptune and Celene, the daughter of Atlas, he married a Cre∣tan Nymph, called Amalthaea, by whom he had Antiope and Nyctimene, the latter of which falling in love with her father, came

• by the help of her Nurse to injoy him, but being afterwards known, and flying from her fathers wrath, she was changed into an Oake.
• Nymphs, see Nymphal.
• Nymphal, (lat.) belonging to the Nymphs, which were accounted by the ancients certain rural goddesses, of which some were called the Nymphs of the woods, or Dryades, some of the moun∣tains, or Oreades, some of the waters, or Naiades, &c.
• Nymphet, (French) a little Nymph.
• Nysa, a Citie built by Bacchus in In∣dia, being situate in a very fruitfull soyl; also one of the tops of the mountain Par∣nassus, consecrate to Bacchus.
• Nysus, a King of the Megarenses, whose Citie was betrayed to Minos, by his daugh∣ter Scylla, see Scylla.

O A

• OAxis, a River of Creet, so called from Oaxis, the son of Apollo, who lived there.
• Oaxus, the son of Acacallis, daughter of Minos, also a Citie of Creet, which took its denomination from the above mentio∣ned Oaxus, in this Citie Etearchus the fa∣ther of Phronima, who was the mother of Battus raign'd.

O B

• † Obaceratio, (lat.) a stopping ones mouth.
• Obambulation, (lat.) a walking abroad, about, or against.
• Obarmation, (lat.) an arming against.
• Obduction, (lat.) a covering about.
• Obduration, (lat.) a hardning, a grow∣ing obstinate against.
• Obedientia, hath been used in Law for a certain Rent paid in ancient time, also in Canon-law it is taken for the administra∣tion of an Office, whence Obedientiales are those that execute an Office under their Superiours.
• Obelisk, (Greek) a great stone waxing smaller and smaller from the bottom, and ending in a point at the top, differing one∣ly from a Pyramid, in that it is four-square, and all of one stone; also a long stroke in writing, signifying that some∣thing is amisse, and better left out then inserted.
• Obequitation, (lat.) a riding about.
• Oberration, (lat.) a straying, or wan∣dring about.
• Obesitie, (lat.) grosnesse, or fatnesse.
• Objection, (lat.) a casting against, also a laying to ones charge.
• An Obit, (lat.) a trental, an obsequy, or funeral.
• Objuration, (lat.) a binding by Oath against any person, or thing.
• Objurgation, (lat.) a chiding, rebuking, or reproaching.
• An Oblat, (French) a Souldier, who be∣ing maimed in the wars is maintained in an Abbey; it is also taken for the mainte∣nance it self.
• Oblation, (lat.) an offering, more espe∣cially that which is offered by religious persons to the Church, or to pious uses, also a toll, or subsidy.
• Oblatration, (lat.) a barking, or ex∣claiming against.
• Oblectation, (lat.) a delighting, pleasing, or recreating ones self.
• Obligation, (lat.) a binding, or obliging ones self to any thing.
• Oblimation, (lat.) a plaistring, or dawb∣ing over, a stopping up with mud.
• Oblique, (lat.) crooked, awry.
• Obliquation, (lat.) a crooking, or bend∣ing.
• Obliteration, (lat.) a blotting out, a cancelling, or abolishing.
• Oblivion, (lat.) forgetfulnesse.
• Oblong, (lat.) a Term in Geometry, a quadrangle, or foursquare figure, whose length exceeds its breadth.
• Obloquy, (lat.) a speaking evil against any one, a backbiting, or slandring.
• Obmutescence, (lat.) a remaining silent, a holding ones peace.
• Obnoxious, (lat.) guilty, faulty, lyable to punishment.
• Obnubilation, (lat.) a darkning, or ob∣scuring with clouds.
• Obnunciation, (lat.) a forbidding any thing upon foreknowledge, or conjecture of ill successe.
• Obole, (lat.) a certain kinde of Coyn, valueing with us about a half penny; also a weight of 12. or 14 grains.
• Obreption, (lat.) a creeping, or stealing upon by craft; whence obreptitious, i. stol∣len upon by crafty means.
• Obrizum, q. Ophirizum, fine gold, gold of Ophir.
• Obrogation, (lat.) an interrupting, or hindring, also a gain-saying.
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• Obscaenity, (lat.) ribaldry, baudinesse, unclean speech or action.
• Obscuration, (lat.) a making dark or obscure.
• Obsecration, (lat.) a beseeching or pray∣ing earnestly.
• Obsequious, (lat.) dutiful, obedient, di∣ligent to please.
• Obsequies, (French) Funeral Rites, from the Latin word Obsequium, i. duty, because in accompanying the dead corps to the grave, we perform a civil duty to the per∣son of the dead.
• Obserration, (lat.) a locking or shut∣ting up.
• Observant, (lat.) diligently marking, also dutiful, respectful: there are also a sort of Franciscans or gray Fryars insti∣tuted by St. Francis of Assisium, who are called Observants,
• Obsession, (lat.) a besieging, beleaguring or encompassing about.
• Obsibilation, (lat.) a hissing against.
• Obsidian stone, a kind of pretious stone, spoken of by Pliny in his natural History▪ Cambden thinketh it to be the same with our Canole cole.
• O••sidional, (lat.) belonging to a siege, whence an Obsidional Crown, is a Crown given to him who raiseth an exraordi∣nary siege, an honour often conferred by the ancient Romans upon their Cap∣tains.
• Obigillation, (lat.) a sealing up.
• Obsolete, (lat.) grown old, out of use or fashion.
• Obstacle, (lat.) as it were a standing a∣gainst, a let or hindrance.
• Obstetrication, (lat.) a doing the office of a Midwife.
• Obstinacy, (lat.) as it were a holding against, self-will, stubbornnesse.
• Obstipation, (lat.) a stopping up.
• Obstreperons, (lat.) making a loud noise.
• Obstrigillation, (lat.) a reprehending, also a resisting or withstanding.
• Obstruction, (lat.) a stopping or shutting up, also a hindring.
• Obstupefaction, (lat.) a stupefying, asto∣nishing, or making abashed.
• Obtemperation, (lat.) an obeying, a yeilding obedience.
• Obtenebration, (lat.) a making dark or cloudy.
• Obtestation, (lat.) an humble requesting or beseeching, a calling God to witnesse for any thing.
• † Obticence, (lat.) a being silent, a hold∣ing ones peace.
• Obtrectation, (lat.) a calumniating, de∣praving, or backbiting.
• Obtrition, (lat.) a bruising, or wearing away against any thing.
• Obtruration, (lat.) a stopping, shutting, or closing up.
• Obtuse, (lat.) blunt having a dull point or edge, also heavy or dull-witted. In Geometry an Obtuse Angle, is when two lines do include more than a square, make a blunt angle.
• Obvallation, (lat.) an invironing or encompassing with a trench.
• Obvarication, (lat.) a hindring any in their passage.
• Obverted, (lat.) turned against or a∣bout.
• Obvious, (lat.) meeting in the way or coming toward.
• Obumbration, (lat.) an obscuring or shadowing over.
• Obuncous, (lat.) crooked.
• † Obundation, (lat.) a flowing against.
• Obvolation, (lat.) a flying against.
• Obvolution, (lat.) a rowling against, or to and fro.

O C

• Occaecation, (lat.) a blinding.
• † Occallation, (lat.) a making hard like brawn.
• Occidental, (lat.) belonging to the oc∣cident, i. the going down of the Sun, or the west part of the World; also when a Planet setteth after the Sun and is seen above the Horizon after him.
• Occiduous, (lat.) setting, falling, or go∣ing down.
• Occipital, (lat.) belonging to the hin∣der part of the head, which is called Oc∣ciput.
• Occision, (lat.) a slaughtering, or killing.
• Occlusion, (lat.) a shutting up.
• Occulcation, (lat.) a spurning or tread∣ing upon.
• Occult, (lat.) hidden, secret, privy, whence occultation a hiding or keeping secret.
• Occupation, (lat.) a using, also businesse or imployment, also a Mystery or Art.
• To Occur, (lat.) to happen, also to meet with.
• Oceanine, (lat.) belonging to the Ocean, i. the broad and main Sea which compasseth the World, and hath several denominations according to the several

• Regions to which it is annext. Among the Poets the son of Coelus and Vesta is cal∣••ed Oceanus, who marrying Tethys, was thought to be the father of all the Rivers and Fountains.
• Ochlocrasie, (lat.) such a government wherein the common people or multitude bear sway.
• Ockham, a term in Navigation, being toe or flax, or old ropes untwisted and imployed about a Ship.
• Ochus, the sirname of Artaxerxes the son of Artaxerxes Mnemon by his daughter Ancestris, he subdued Aegypt, overcame Tennes King of Phoenicia, Hermias the Acarnensian Tyrant, Euagoras King of Cyprus, took Sidon, by the help of Mentor, he buried his Sister and Mother in Law alive, caused his Uncle with a hundred of his children and grandchildren to be slain, but at last was poisoned by his Phy∣sitian Bagoas.
• Ocnus, see Manto.
• Octangular, (lat.) having 8 angles or corners, a term in Geometry.
• Octave, (lat.) a musical proportion cal∣led an eighth, also the eighth day next after some Principall Feast, of the year.
• Octavo, a book is said to be in Octavo, when it consisteth of sheets doubled into eight leaves a piece.
• Octennial, (lat.) comprehending the space of eight years.
• October, so called because it is the eighth moneth from March.
• Octohedrical, (a term in Geometry) having eight sides.
• Octonary, (lat.) belonging to the num∣ber eight.
• Octogon, (Greek) a Geometrical figure consisting of eight angles.
• Ocular, (lat.) belonging to the eyes.
• Oculate, (lat.) full of holes like eyes, also quicksighted.
• Oculus Christi, a certain herb very good for the eyes, otherwise called wild clary.
• Oculus Tauri, a constillation in 24 de∣grees 39 minutes of Gemini.
• Ocypete, the name of one of the three Harpyes, so called from the swiftnesse of her flight.
• Ocyroe, the daughter of Chiron and the Nimph ••hariclo, she being a great Pro∣phetesse fortold that Aesculapius should be the best of Physitians, and that she her self should be changed into a Mare, which things hapned accordingly.

O D

• Ode, (Greek) a Song or Lyrick Poem.
• Odelet, (dimin.) a short Ode.
• Odoacer, a King of the Heruli and Thu∣ringians, who having possest himself of Ticinum, Ravenna and Rome, and utterly defeated Augustulus, the last of those that usurped the title of Roman Emperour, he caused himself to be proclaimed King of Italy and Placentia.
• Odoriferous, (lat.) sweet-smelling, bear∣ing perfumes or odours.
• Odour, (lat.) a scent or smell.

O E

• Oeconomical, (Greek) belonging to Oeconomy, i. the ordering or governing of a houshold or family.
• Oecumenical, (Greek) belonging to the whole world, universal.
• Oedastine, (Greek) skilful in weights and measures.
• Oedemato••s, (Greek) belonging to an O••d••my, i. a tumour or swelling in the body rising from the abundance of flegme.
• Oedip••s, the son of Laius, King of The∣bes and Jocasta the daughter of Creon, he was brought by Phorbas to Polybius King of Corinth, and bred up by the Queen as her own son: when he came to age he un∣folded the riddle of Sphnix, slew his father, and married his mother. See Creon and Jocasta.
• Oen••maus, see Pelops.
• Oenopolist, (Greek) one that sells wine, a Vintner.

O F

• Offertory, (lat.) a part of the Masse, also a place where offerings are kept.
• An Official, (lat.) is used in the Canon Law, for him to whom any Bishop doth commit the charge of his spiritual juris∣diction.
• Officine, (lat.) a shop or workhouse.
• Officious, (lat.) dutiful, or service∣able.
• Offton, a Town in Suffolk, so nam'd from Offa King of the Mercians, as it were Offa's Town.
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• Offuscation, (lat.) a shadowing, a ma∣king dark or dusky.

O G

• Ogdastick, (Greek) an Epigram or a Stanza consisting of 8 verses.
• Ogive, or Ogee, (French) a wreath, circlet or round band in Architecture.
• Ogyges, an ancient King of Boeotia who built the City of Thebes, in his time hap∣ned a very great flood called the Ogygian flood, bigger than that of Deucalion but lesse than Noahs Flood.

O I

• Oisterloit, a certain herb otherwise cal∣led snakeweed, in Latin Bistorta.

O K

• Oker, a colour used in painting whereof are several kinds, Oker de lace, or yellow Oker, burnt Oker, and brown Oker.

O L

• Oleaginous, (lat.) belonging to an Olive-tree.
• Oleander, a certain shrub called Rose∣bay, in Greek Rododendron, or Rodo∣daphne.
• Oleity, (lat.) the time of gathering Olives, also oilynesse.
• Olfact••ry, (lat.) belonging to the sense of smelling.
• Olicana, the ancient name of a Town in Yorkshire, re-edified by Virius Lupus then Propretor in Brittain, and is thought to have been the same with that which is now called Ilkely.
• Olidous, (lat.) rank-smelling, having a strong savour.
• Oligarchy, (Greek) the government of a Common wealth by a few.
• Olivaster, (lat.) of an olive colour, also a wild olive-tree.
• Oliver, the proper name of a man, de∣rived from the peace-bringing Olive, as Daphnis from the Laurel.
• Oliviferous, (lat.) olive-bearing, bring∣ing forth Olives.
• Olivity, see Oleity.
• Olla podrida, (Span.) a hotchpot or dish of meat consisting of several ingre∣dients, being somewhat like that which the French call a Bisque.
• Olympia, a City of Greece, near unto which were solemnized the great Games instituted by Hercules in honour of Jupi∣ter; they were from the name of this City called the Olympian Games, and were celebrated every fifth year, which space was observed as an Epoch of time by the Greeks, and called an Olympiad.
• Olympias, the Christian name of divers women, so called from Olympus.
• Olympus, a hill in that part of Thessaly that lieth against Macedon, the top of this hill toucheth the clouds, and therefore it hath been taken by the Poets for Heaven, or the seat of the gods.
• Olynthus, a City of Thrace which Philip of Macedon won from the Athenians by corrupting the souldiers with money.
• Olysippo, the chief City of Portugal, vul∣garly called Lisbon.

O M

• Ombrage, (French) a shadow, also a colour or pretence.
• Omega, (Greek) the last letter in the Greek Alphabet: It is also used meta∣phorically for the end of any thing.
• Omelet, (French) a pancake or froise.
• Ominous, (lat.) portending good or ill luck, but most commonly it is taken in the worst sense.
• Omission, (lat.) a neglecting or letting a thing passe.
• Omnifarious, (lat.) divers, sundry, of all sorts.
• Omniparent, (lat.) bearing or bringing forth all things.
• Omnipotent, (lat.) all mighty, all-power∣full.
• Omnipresent, (lat.) present in all places.
• Omniscious, or Omniscient, (lat.) know∣ing all things.
• Omnivagant, (lat.) wandring every where, or in all places.
• Omniv••rous, (lat.) eating or devouring all kind of things.
• Omology, (Greek) agreeablenesse or pro∣portion, also a confession.
• Omphale, a Queen of Lydia by whom Hercules was highly rewarded for killing a great Serpent upon the River Sangaris, and afterwards he falling in love with her and desiring to be intertained in her ser∣vice, she compelled him to sit and spin, while she leaving her distaff, put on his armes and Lions skin; others say that he

• was sold to her by Mercury at the com∣mand of Jupiter, for having slain Iphitus the son of Euritus.

O N

• Onagre, (lat.) a wild asse, also a certain Engin used by the Ancients, out of which they used to shoot great stones.
• Onerary, (lat.) serving for burthen or carriage.
• Oneration, (lat.) a loading or burthen∣ning.
• Onomancy, (lat.) a divination by names, also a repeating of many names by the Art of memory.
• Onomatopy, (Greek) the faining of a name, from any kind of sound, as Bom∣barda, i. a Gun, from the sounding of bom.
• Onpresse, (old word) downward.
• Onyx, a certain pretious Stone, so cal∣led from the Greek word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. a naile of a mans hand, because it is of a kind of whitish colour, resembling the colour of a mans naile. Some say it is the congealed juyce of a Tree called Onycha, it is also called a Chalcedonie.

O P

• Opacous, (lat.) shady, obscure, dark∣ned.
• Opal, (Greek) a precious stone of di∣vers colours, yellowish, green, and pur∣ple.
• Opening of Gates, is, when a Planet ap∣plies it self to another, who ruleth the fi∣gure opposite to his house, or when one Planet separates from another, and ap∣plies immediately to one that hath domi∣nion by house, in the signe opposite to these ruled by the Planet with whom it was joyned, either by body, or aspect.
• Opera, a kinde of Dramatick Poem, in use among the Italians, performed by voyces and instrumental Musick in a reci∣tative stile, and adorned with Scenes by Perspective.
• Operation, (lat.) a working, or labour∣ing.
• Operiment, (lat.) a covering.
• Operosity, (lat.) busie work, great pain, or travel.
• Ophthalmy, (Greek) a certain disease of the eye, rising from an inflammation of the uttermost skin of the eye, called Ad∣nata.
• Ophites, (lat.) a kinde of marble varie∣gated like a Serpent.
• Ophiuchus, a constellation in Sagittary.
• Ophiusa, an Island in the Balearick Sea, so called from the abundance of Serpents, which are in it.
• An Opiate, (lat.) a confection of Opium, i. the juyce of black Poppy, which is used to cause sleep, or asswage excessive pain.
• Opiferous, (lat.) bringing aid, help, or succour.
• Opifice, (lat.) workmanship.
• Opimous, (lat.) fat, or grosse, also rich, or plentifull.
• Opination, (lat.) a thinking, or sup∣posing.
• Opiniatrecy, (French) opiniativenesse, obstinacy, a wilfull persisting in any opi∣nion.
• Opisthograph, (Greek) a book, or paper, written upon on the back-side.
• Opitulation, (lat.) a helping, or aid∣ing.
• Opobalsame, (Greek) the gumme, or li∣quor that distilleth from the Balm-tree.
• Oppication, (lat.) a covering over with pitch.
• Oppignoration, (lat.) a pawning, or lay∣ing inpledge.
• Oppilation, (lat.) an obstruction, or stoppage in the inward parts.
• Oppletion, (lat.) a filling up.
• An Opponent, (lat.) a withstander, or contradicter, one that maintaineth a con∣trary argument in the Schools, to what is generally held.
• Opportune, (lat.) fit, seasonable, conve∣nient, whence opportunity, due time, or season.
• Opposite, (lat.) contrary, or over-against, also opposites substantively used, signifie in Logick, things relatively oppo∣sed as master and servant, or privately, as light and darknesse, or contraries, as know∣ledge and ignorance.
• Opposition, (lat.) a contrary setting a∣gainst, also a resisting; in Astrology it is when two Planets are in houses opposite to one another, it is 180. d. distance, or six signes, and is thus Charactered. o—o.
• Opprobrious, (lat.) reproachfull, up∣braiding, or reviling.
• Oppugnation, (lat.) a fighting against, an assalting, or laying siege unto, also a violent opposing.
• Ops, the daughter of Coelus and Vesta, the wife and sister of Saturn.
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• Opsimathie, (Greek) a learning late.
• Opsonation, (lat.) a catering, a purvey∣ing, or buying of meat.
• Optation, (lat.) a wishing, desiring, or looking for.
• Ophthalmie, (Greek) a certain disease in the eye, occasioned by the inflammation of the annate Tunicle.
• Optick, (Greek) belonging to the sight, also substantively used for that science, whereby the reason of sight is known.
• Optimacie, (lat.) a governing of the Common-wealth, by the Nobler sort of persons.
• Option, (lat.) election, choice, wish, or desire.
• Opulencie, (lat.) riches, wealth, plenty.
• Opuscle, (lat.) a little work, or labour.

O R

• Or, (French) a Term in Heraldry, ex∣pressing the colour of Gold.
• Orache, or Orage, a certain Pot-herb of an insipid taste, called in Latin Atri∣plex.
• Oracle, (lat.) an answer, or Counsel given by God, a foretelling of things to come by Divine revelation, a saying whose truth is unquestionable, Oracles were an∣ciently very frequent among the Gen∣tiles, but they all ceast immediately after the coming of Christ.
• Oral, (lat.) belonging to the mouth, face, or visage.
• Oration, (lat.) a praying, also a speech.
• Oratory, (lat.) eloquence, also a Chap∣pel, or place dedicated to prayer.
• Oratorians, an Order of Fryars, so cal∣led from the Oratory of St. Hierom in Rome, where they used to pray, they were instituted by St. Philip Nerius, a Floren∣tine.
• Orbation, (lat.) a bereaving, depriving, or making desolate.
• Orbe, a body contained under one round superficies; those Orbs that belong to the coelestial firmament, are either with, or without Stars, that without Stars is the primum mobile, the other are all stellified, either with fixed Stars, or Planets.
• Orbicular, (lat.) round, in fashion of a Ball, or Globe.
• Orbity, (lat.) the lack of Parents, or Children, generally any want.
• Orbona, a certain goddesse among the ancient Romans, to whom Parents, or Children used to pray against Orbity.
• Orcades, certain Islands in the Brittish Ocean, thirty in number, vulgarly called the Isles of Orkeney.
• An Orch, or Ork. a monstrous fish, vul∣garly called a whirle-pool, also a Butt for wine, or figs.
• Orchall, see Corck.
• Orchamus, see Leucothoe.
• Orchanet, (Arab. Alcanet) a certain Herb, called in Spanish Buglosse, or wilde Buglosse, in Greek Anchusa.
• Orchel, or Orchal, a certain stone like Allum, wherewith Dyers use to colour red, in some old Statutes it seemeth to be the same thing with Cork.
• Orchester, (Greek) that part of the Scene in a Theater, where the Chorus useth to dance; it is also sometimes taken for the place where the Musicians sit.
• Orcus, a River of Thessaly, flowing out of the Lake Styx, whose waters are so thick, that they swim like Oyl upon the top of the River Peneus into which it flows, it is oft times taken by the Poets for Hell.
• Ordeal, (a Sax. word, signifying judge∣ment) a kinde of purgation practised in ancient times, whereby the party purged was judged free from Crime, it is called in Common-law purgatio vulgaris, of this purgation there are several kindes; as Camp-fight, wherein he that overcame in single Combat, was judged to have the right on his side. Fire-Ordeal, i. a pas∣sing blindfold with bare feet over red hot plough-shares, and Water-Ordeal, i. e. a putting ones arms up to the elbows in see∣thing water.
• Ordinary, (lat.) in the Civil-law, signi∣fieth any judge that hath authority to take knowledge of causes in his own right, as he is a Magistrate, and not by deputa∣tion, in Common-law it is usually taken for him that hath ordinary Jurisdiction in Causes Ecclesiastical; also in Heraldry, Ordinaries are those charges that by a certain property do belong, to that art, and are of ordinary use therein, they are also called proper charges.
• Oreads, (Greek) Nymphs of the Moun∣tains.
• Oredelf, ore lying under ground, also a liberty whereby a man claims the ore found in his own ground.
• Oreford, a Town in Suffolk, where in the reign of King Henry the second, a certain hairy creature perfectly resem∣bling

• a man, in all parts and proportions, was taken out of the Sea by fisher-men in a Net, who after he had been kept awhile, secretly slipt away into the Sea, and was never seen after, this Ralph Cogeshall an old Writer recordeth.
• Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Cly∣temnestra, he was preserved from Aegisthus, by his sister Electra, and sent to Strophius, King of the Phocences, where he remained twelve years, after which returning dis∣guised to Argos, he slew Aegysthus (who had murthered his father Agamemnon) together with his mother Clytemnaestra, with whom Aegysthus had lived in adulte∣ry, he also with the help of Macarus the Priest slew Pyrrhus, in the temple of Apollo, because he had taken away Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus, who had been first espoused to him, for which crimes, being strucken with madness, he was cured at the Altar of Diana, being brought thither by Pylades, who was so faithfull a friend to him, that when Thoas King of Taurica had designed to sacrifice Orestes, he affirmed himself to be Orestes, that he might die for his friend; but Orestes slaying Thoas, freed both himself and Pylades, with the help of his sister Iphigeneia, who had been made the over-seer of those sacrifices, at last he was bitten by a Viper in Arcadia, at a place called Orestion, of which wound he died, and his body being digged up, was found to be seven Cubits in length.
• Orewood, a kinde of Sea-weed.
• Orfgild, a restitution made by the hun∣dred, or County of any wrong done by one that was in Plegio.
• Orfraies, (French) a certain frisled Cloath of Gold, much worn heretofore in England, both by the Clergy, and Kings themselves.
• Orgal, the lees of wine dried, used by Dyers.
• Organical, (Greek) belonging to, or consisting of Organes, i. instruments, also the substantial parts, or Members of the body.
• Organie, a kinde of Herb, growing much upon the Mountains, called in Latin Ori∣ganum.
• Orgeis, a word used in some old Sta∣tutes, signifying the greater sort of North-sea fish.
• Orgies, (lat.) certain feasts and revels, instituted by Orpheus to the honour of Bacchus.
• Orial Colledge, a Colledge in Oxford, built by King Edward the second.
• Oriental, (lat.) belonging to the Ori∣ent, i. the East, or that part of the world where the sun riseth.
• Orifice, (lat.) the mouth, or utmost brim of any thing, the outward hole of a wound.
• Oriflambe, (French) the great and holy Standard of France, having on the top a purple Flag, or Ensign, born at first onely in the wars against infidels.
• Original, (lat.) a beginning, or foun∣tain; also a stock, or pedigree; also a first draught.
• Orisons, (French) prayers.
• Orion, the name of a great hunter, who vaunting himself to be of that strength of body, that there was no wilde beast that he could not kill, the earth brought forth a Scorpion, which stinging him to death, he was placed together with the Scorpion among the heavenly constellations, some say he was the son of Oenopion King of Sicilie, and that lying with his sister Can∣diope, he had his eyes put out by his fa∣ther, others deliver him to have been born by a very strange way, of which see more in Hyreus.
• Orithyia, the daughter of Erectheus, King of Athens, she was ravish't away by Boreas, who fell in love with her, and brought forth Zethus and Calais, who go∣ing with the Argonauts to Colchos, put the Harpies to flight.
• Orle, a Term in Blason, being an ordi∣nary composed, of a threefold line dou∣bled, admitting a transparency of the field through the innermost space.
• Orlop, a Term in Navigation, signifying the second and lower deck of a ship.
• Ormus, a famous Citie of Persia, being most pleasantly situated in an Island, and abounding with shells which breed the fairest and clearest Pearles that are; it was taken by the Lieutenant General to the King of Portugal, in the year 1506.
• Ornature, (lat.) a setting forth, trim∣ming, or adorning.
• Ornomancy, (Greek) a kinde of Divina∣tion by birds.
• Orontes, a River of Coelosyria, which rising out of the Hill Libanus runs under ground, till it come to Apamia, and falleth into the Sea, near Seleucia.
• Orphanisme, (lat.) the state of an Or∣phane, i. a fatherlesse Child.
• Orpheus, a famous Poet, and Musician of Thrace, the son of Calliope and Apollo, he took so heavily the losse of his wife Euri∣dice

• (of which see Euridice) that he ut∣terly abandoned the company of women, for which he was torn in pieces by the Maenades at the Feast of Bacchus, and his several members being cast down the Ri∣ver▪ Hebrus were gathered up by the Mu∣ses and buried, and his Harp translated up to Heaven.
• Orpiment, a certain drug found deep in the earth, being a kind of Arsenick or Ratsbane, and is called in Latin Auripig∣mentum, from its golden colour.
• Orpine, a kind of herb called in Greek Telephion, from Telephus the first discoverer of it.
• Orque, (lat.) a hulk or huge Ship, also the same as Orch.
• Orrice, a certain flower called in Greek Iris, because it resembleth the Rainbow in diversity of colours, it is vulgarly called a flower delice.
• Orsilochus, the son of Idomeneus, who fol∣lowing his father to the wars of Troy, was at the taking of Troy slain by Vlisses.
• Ortelli, a word used in the Forrest Laws, signifying the claws of a dogs foot.
• Orthodox, or Orthodoxal, (Greek) of a true and right opinion, of a sound faith.
• Orthogonal, (Greek) having even or right angles.
• Orthography, (Greek) the manner of right and true writing: Also in Archi∣tecture or Fortification, it is taken for the upright erection of any work, as it ap∣pears when it is finisht.
• Ortygia, one of the Cyclades Islands, called also Delos sacred to Apollo, and into which the Poets feign Asteria the sister of Latona to have been turned after she had been turned into a quail, called in Greek ortyx.
• Orval, a certain herb otherwise called Clary or Clear-eye.
• An Oryx, or Orynx, (Greek) a kind of wild Goat in Africa.

O S

• Osbert, a proper name among the Sax∣ons, signifying, Light of the Family.
• Osborn, another proper name signifying in Saxon, House-child.
• Oscillation, (lat.) a hanging or tot∣tering motion, a swinging upon a rope whose ends are tyed to several beams.
• Oscines, (lat.) those kind of birds by whose feeding or voices the Augures used to fortell things to come.
• Oscitation, (lat.) a yawning or gaping, also idlenesse.
• Osculation, (lat.) a kissing or im∣bracing.
• Osiris, the son of Jupiter and Niobe the daughter of Phoroneus, whom he succeeded in the Kingdom of Argos, but after a while leaving that Kingdom to his brother Ae∣gialeus, he went and subdued Aegypt, and married the daughter of Inachus called Io or Isis, who first taught the Egyptians Letters, and sundry Arts and Sciences; he was at length slain by Typhon his bro∣ther, and after his death was worshipped by the Egyptians in the shape of an Oxe.
• St. Osith, a Town in Essex so called, for it was anciently named Chic, from Osith a Virgin of a Royal Family, who having consecrated her self to the service of God, was here slain by Danish Pirates.
• Osmund, the proper name of a man, signi∣fying in the Saxon tongue House-peace.
• Osprey, a kind of Eagle called in Latin Ossifraga, in Greek Perenopterus.
• Ossicle, (lat.) a little bone.
• Ossifrage, (lat.) a kind of Eagle which breaketh bones with her beak, the same as Osprey.
• Ostensional, (lat.) a souldier attending the Prince in publick Shews.
• Ostent, (lat.) a wonder, a monster, or strange thing.
• Ostentation, (lat.) a boasting, vain-glory.
• Ostiary, (lat.) one that keeps the hoasts in a Church a doorkeeper or porter.
• Ostomachy, (Greek) a playing at bones.
• Ostracisme, (Greek) a kind of punish∣ment among the Athenians which was a banishing for ten years by delivering shells to the condemned persons, wherein their names were written.
• Oswestre, in Brittish Croix Oswalds, a Town in Shropshire, so called (for it was anciently named Masserfield) from Os∣wald King of Northumberland, whom Pen∣da the Pagan King of the Mercians after he had slain him in a bloody battle, tore to pieces in a barbarous manner.
• Oswold, a proper name of a man signify∣ing in Dutch House-ruler or Steward, and equivalent to the French le Dispencer.

O T

• Othes, in Latin Otho or Eudo, the proper name of a man, from the Saxon word Hud, i. Keeper.
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• Othryades, a certain Lacedemonian, who in a combat of 300 Lacedemonians to 300 Argives, being the onely man of all his party left alive, put to flight those two who were the onely men left alive of the Argives, and writing upon his shield these words, I have overcome, he slew himself, as being ashamed to return to Sparta, all the rest of his companions being slain.
• Otraque, a certain drink which is made of a Nut growing among the Molucca's.
• Ottadini, the ancient name of a people inhabiting that part of Brittain, which is now called Northumberland.
• Otterbourn, a Town in Northumberland near which was fought a famous battle between the English and Scots, in which William Douglas the Leader of the Scot∣tish Army was slain, and Sir Henry Percy called Hotspur Commander of the Eng∣lish, having lost 1500 of his men, was ta∣ken prisoner himself.
• Otus and Ephialtes, the son of Neptune by Iphimedeia the wife of Aloeus, they were of those Gyants that made war with heaven, throwing huge rocks and hills a∣gainst the gods, and were at last shot to death by Apollo: they were reported to have grown the length of nine acres in nine years.

O U

• Oval, (lat.) belonging to, or in the shape of an egge.
• Ovation, (lat.) a kind of petty Triumph for a Victory obtained with the slaughter of a few men onely, it is so called from the souldiers following their Commander shouting and singing O, O, or from Ovis, i. a sheep which used to be sacrificed by him, whereas in a greater Triumph the General sacrificed a Bull, and his soul∣diers following cryed out Io, Io, Tri∣umpho, also Ovation, from Ovum, i. an egge signifying the season wherein hens lay egges.
• An Ouch, a collar of Gold, a Jewel or Tablet; it is also caled a brooch.
• Oviary, (lat.) a flock of sheep.
• Oviparous animals, (lat.) those creatures that bring forth egges or spawn.
• Ounce, a certain weight, being the twelfth part of a pound Troy weight, but in a pound aver du pois, it is the sixteenth part; also a kind of spotted beast called a Lynx.
• Ounding, (old word) rising like waves.
• Ourage, (French) work or labour.
• Outborow, see Inborow.
• Outfangthef, see Infangthef.
• Outlawry, (in Latin Vtlagaria) the losse or deprivation of the benefit be∣longing to a subject of the Kings prote∣ction and the Realm.
• Outparters, a sort of theeves about Ridesdale, that ride about to fetch in such cattel or other things as they can light on.

O W

• Owelty of services, an equality, when the Tenant paravail oweth as much to the Mesen, as the Mesen doth to the Lord Paramount.
• Owen, (in Latin Audoenus) the proper name of a man, being the same with the Latin Eugenius, as appeareth by severall Records.

O X

• Oxford, the chief City of Oxfordshire, which some say hath been anciently cal∣led Caer Vortigern, and Caer Vember, as being thought to have been built by Vor∣tigern and Memprix; but the Saxons cal∣led it Oxenford (corresponding to Bos∣phorus among the Greeks) from a foard of Oxen. Leland deriveth it from the River Ouse, and supposeth it may have formerly been called Ouseford. It is chief∣ly famous for its University which Camb∣den calleth, Our most noble Athens, the Muses seat, the Sun, the Eye, and the Soul of England. This University was begun, as most Authors agree, in the year of our Lord 806. three Colledges being built by the learned Aelfred who then reigned.
• Oxgang of land, see Bovata terrae.
• Oxygon, (Greek) a term in Geometry, being a Triangle having three acute Angles.
• Oxymel, (Greek) a certain kind of po∣tion made of honey, vinegar, and water boyled together, being good to attenuate grosse phlegmatick humours.

O Y

• Oyer and terminer, (French) signifieth in Common Law, a Commission granted to certain men for the hearing and deter∣mining of one or more causes.

O Z

• Ozene, (Greek) a kind of disease or putrified stinking sore in the nostrils.

P A

• Pabular, or Pabulatory, (lat.) belonging to forrage, provender or fodder for cattel.
• Pacation, (lat.) a stilling or appeasing.
• Pace, a measure of two foot and a half, or the distance from the toes of the fore∣foot to the heels of the hinderfoot: but a Geometrical pace consisteth of 5 foot, a thousand of which paces make up a mile.
• Pachynum, a Promontory of Sicily lying toward the Peloponnesus.
• Paciferous, (lat.) bringing peace.
• Pacification, (lat.) a making peace, an asswaging or appeasing.
• Paction, or Pact, (lat.) a bargain, cove∣nant, or agreement; also a truce in war.
• Pactitious, (lat.) done by bargain, or upon condition.
• Pactolus, a River of Lydia rising out of the hill Tmolus, the gravel whereof hath been said to be of a golden colour ever since Midas washt himself in the streams.
• Paddock, (from the Dutch word Padde) a toad.
• Padelion, a kind of plant otherwise cal∣led great Sanicle, in Latin Pes leonis.
• Padua, a famous City and University of Italy, now under the jurisdiction of the Venetian: It was anciently built by An∣tenor the Trojan, and called Antenorea.
• Paduentage, (French) common of pa∣sture in one or more Parishes.
• Padus, a famous City of Italy, rising out of the Hill Vesulus, it is now called Po.
• Paean, (Greek) a certain Hymn which the ancient Greeks used to sing to A∣pollo.
• Paedagogue, (Greek) a school-master, a bringer up of youth in learning.
• Paeonia, a part of Macedon was formerly so called from Paeon the son of Endy∣mion.
• Paganical, (lat.) belonging to country villages, (whence Paganals, i. Wakes, Country-Holidayes, Ploughmens Feasts) also belonging to a Pagan, i. a paynim, Heathen or Gentile.
• Paganism, heathenism, gentilism; also the manner or fashion of the Country.
• Paginal, (lat▪) belonging to a page, i. the side of a leaf in a book.
• Pagod, a kind of Idol.
• Paigles, a sort of flower otherwise cal∣led Oxlips.
• Paillardise, (French) lechery, whore∣dom.
• Pain fort & dure, signifying in Com∣mon Law, an especial punishment for those that being arraigned of felony refuse to put themselves upon the ordinary trial of God and the Country, and thereby are mute and dumb.
• Paisage, (French) the discription of any part of the Country in painting or drawing. See Landskip.
• Palamedes, the son of Nauplius King of Eubaea, he was the occasion of Vlisses be∣ing forced against his will to go to the Trojan wars, but was himself by a forged accusation of Vlisses, stoned to death by the Graecian Army. He is said to have been the first that accomodated the year to the course of the Sun; he is also said to have found out the use of weights and measures, and to have added to the Greek tongue these 4 letters, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• Palate, (lat.) the roof of the mouth being the uppermost hollow part, where∣in the sense of tasting lies.
• Palatinate, the Country or chief Seat of a Count Palatine or Paladine, i. a Su∣pream Officer in a Sovereign Princes Pa∣lace; but it is more especially taken for one of the Electors of the Roman Empire cal∣led the Palsgrave, or Prince Palatine of the Rhene; also certain Knights of this Island, in ancient times called Knights of the round Table, were called Paladines, also Palatine signifieth adjectively belong∣ing to a Princes Palace.
• Palaemon, the son of A••hamas and Ino, called also Melicerta. See Ino.
• Pale, a term in Heraldry, being an Or∣dinary consisting of two lines drawn per∣pendicularly from the top to the bottom of the Escutcheon.
• Pales, the goddesse of Shepherds, to whom certain Feasts were consecrated, called Palilia.
• Palestine, a Country of Syria, thought by some to have been that Country called Phoenicia, whereof Cadmus was King, it containeth Judea, Samaria, and Ga∣lilaea.
• Palestrical, or Palaestrical, (Greek) be∣longing to wrestling.
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• Palfray, (French) a horse of state for a Princesse or great Lady.
• Palici, or Palisci, two twins the sons of Jupiter and the Nimph Thaleia, whom he ravisht by the River Simethius, when she was with child she wished that the earth would open and hide her from the wrath of Juno, whereupon the earth immediate∣ly opened and received her within its bowels, and as soon as she was delivered, it opened again and let out the two twins into the World.
• Palindrome, (Greek) a certain verse or sentence which being read forward or backward the words and sense are the same, as

  Sator arepo tenet opera rotas

• Palingenesie, (Greek) regeneration or new birth.
• Palinode, or Palinody, (Greek) a recan∣tation or unsaying what one had spoken or written before.
• Palinurus, a Promontory of Lucania, so called from Palinurus the Pilot of Aeneas, who sleeping fell into the sea, and being taken up and rifled by the inhabitants of this place, had a Grove consecrated and Cenotaph built unto him to appease his ghost.
• Palisado, (Span.) a defence made with stakes, posts, piles, &c. to keep out an enemy.
• Pall, (lat.) a certain robe or long gar∣ment which hath usually been worn by persons eminent either in learning or in war.
• Palladium, a certain Image of Pallas which was kept by the Trojans in a Tower that was built on purpose, but this Image being stollen out of the Temple by Vlisses and Diomede, the City was soon after ta∣ken by the Greeks, it was at last brought to Rome and placed in the Temple of Vesta.
• Pallas, the same as Minerva.
• A Pallat, a word used in Painting, be∣ing a thin peice of wood which a Pain∣ter makes use of to place his colours upon.
• Pallemaille, (French) a certain Game wherein a round bowle of box is with a mallet strook through a hoop of iron, into which he that can strike it at the fewest blows wins.
• Pallet, a term in Heraldry, being the moity or one half of the pale. See Pale.
• Palletoque, or Pallecoat, (French) a cassock or short cloak with sleeves, such as Pages wear.
• Palliardize, see Pailliardize.
• Palliation, (lat.) a cloaking, hiding, or concealing.
• Pallid, (lat.) pale, whitish, bleak.
• Pallification, (lat.) a term in Archi∣tecture, it signifies the piling of the ground-work, or the strengthning of the ground-work with piles of timber driven into the ground, when they build upon a moist or marshy soile.
• Palmar, (lat.) belonging to a Palm, i. the inward part of the hand called the Palm of the hand; also a measure con∣taining the breadth of 4 fingers, a hand breadth.
• Palm-tree, (lat.) a certain tree bearing the fruit called Dates, it is reported to be both male and female, the male bearing blossomes onely, the female both blossoms and fruit. The leaves shoot upward though oppressed with never so much weight. Whence the Palm is metaphori∣cally used for Victory, Praise, and Com∣mendations. Cleop.
• Palm-Sunday, the Sunday before Easter, so called because on that day the people went to meet our Saviour with Palm and Olive-branches in their hands when he rode solemnly into Jerusalem.
• Palmer, a certain instrument wherewith school-boys are struck on the palms of their hands, otherwise called a Ferular; also a kind of caterpillar or worm with many feet▪ also a poor Pilgrim that tra∣vels up and down to visit Holy places with branches of Palm in his hand.
• Palmestry, the same as Cheiromancy.
• Palmeto-tree, a certain tree in the Isle Mauritius, of whose juice they make a very pleasant sort of wine.
• Palmiferous, (lat.) bearing Palms, Vi∣ctorious.
• Palmipedous birds, (lat.) those that are whole footed, or have plain and flat feet as water-foule.
• Palpation, (lat.) a gentle handling or feeling; also a flattring or fair speak∣ing.
• Palpitation, (lat.) a panting, or tremb∣ling or moving up and down.
• Paltsgrave, a Dutch word signifying a Count of a Palace, being more especially the Title of the Prince Elector Palatine of the Rhene.
• Paludament, (lat.) a certain Military garment which used to be worn by none

• but chief Captains; also a Heralds Coat of Arms.
• Palumbine, (lat.) belonging to a Ring Dove, otherwise called a Wood Culver.
• Pamphylia, a Countrey of Asia the lesse, wherein are two famous Rivers, Eurime∣don and Melas.
• Pampination, (lat.) a lopping off, of su∣perfluous branches from a Vine from Pampinus a Vine-branch.
• Pan, the son of Demogorgon, he was worshipp'd in Arcadia; as the God of sheapherds, being smitten by Cupid, he fell in love with the Nymph Syrinx, who passing over the River Ladon, was turned into a Reed, which Pan beholding, made him a Pipe with the same Reed, whence he is said to have first found out the use of the Pipe and Oaten Reed.
• Panado, (Span.) a certain kinde of meat, made of crums of bread boyled in water.
• Pancart, (French) a paper containing the particular rates of Tolls, or rates due to the King, or Common-wealth.
• Panchaia, a Countrey of Arabia, where Frankincence grows in great abundance.
• Pancratical, (Greek) expert in all kind of Games, and exercises of activity.
• A Pandar, one that procureth the hire of a strumpet, a baud, or pimp.
• Pandects, (lat.) books that handle all subjects, or all the part of the subject whereof they treat, there is also a volume of the Civil-law, so called.
• Pandiculation, (lat.) a gaping & stretch∣ing out of the whole body.
• Pandion, the son of Erectheus, and King of Athens, whose daughter Progne was married to Tereus, King of Thrace, by whom her sister Philomela was ravish't.
• Pandora, by the Poets fained the first of all women, made by Vulcan at the com∣mand of Jupiter, and endowed with seve∣ral gifts, by all the gods and goddesses, she was espoused to Epimetheus, to whom she was sent with a box shut, which he unad∣visedly opening, filled the world with all manner of diseases and calamities.
• Pandure, (lat.) a kinde of Musical in∣strument, called also a rebeck.
• Panegyrick, (Greek) a solemne con∣vention of people, at some publick so∣lemnity; also an Oration in the praise of some great person.
• Panel, (from the French word Panne, i. a skin) it signifieth in Common-law, a Schedule, or Roll, containing the names of such Jurors; as the Sheriffe provideth to passe upon any tryal.
• Pangonie, (Greek) a kinde of precious stone, so called from its multitudes of An∣gles.
• A Panguts, (as it were all guts) a dros∣sel, a gorbelly, an unweildy fellow.
• Panick, or Painick, (lat.) a certain kinde of Grain like unto Millet, also Pa∣nick fear, a sudden fear, or distraction from god Pan, who was the first that co∣ming on a sudden upon his enemies with much noise and tumult, cast a mighty ter∣rour and amazement into them.
• Panifice, (lat.) a making of bread.
• Pannade▪ (French) the curvetting, or prauncing of a lusty horse.
• Pannage, (in French Pasnage, (the mo∣ney taken by Agistors, for feeding of Hoggs with the mast of the Kings For∣rest.
• Pannicle, (lat.) a little piece of Cloath, also the fleshy Pannicle, a Term in Ana∣tomy, being the membrane, or skin, which lies next under the fat of the paunch.
• Pannier, (French) a dosser, or basket to put bread in.
• Pannonia, see Hungaria.
• Panomphaean, an Epithete of Jupiter, it comes from the Greek words Pan. i. all, and Omphe, i. a voice, because he was worship'd in all languages.
• Panoply, (Greek) compleat Armour, or Harnesse.
• Pansie, a kinde of flowr, vulgarly called hearts-ease.
• Pans••phie, (Greek) wisdom, or know∣ledge in all things.
• Pantagruelist, (French) a merry drun∣kard, or good fellow.
• Pantarb, a precious stone, called in Spa∣nish Pantarva, in English the stone of the Sun.
• Panters, toiles to take deer with.
• Pantheologie, (Greek) the whole summe of divinity.
• Pantheon, (Greek) an ancient Temple in Rome, dedicated to all the heathen gods, and since by Pope Boniface the 4^th. to the Virgin Marie and all the Saints.
• Panther, (lat.) a kinde of spotted beast, the Leopard, or Libard being the Male, the Panther, the Female.
• Pantomime, (Greek) a player, one that can act all parts, and counterfeit all kinde of persons.
• Panurgie, (Greek) craft, or skill in all kinde of matters.
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• Papal, (lat.) belonging to the Pope, who is called Papa, being a contraction of the two words Pater Patrioe.
• Papaverous, (lat.) belonging to Chestoul or Poppy.
• Papelardise, (French) hypocrisie, or dis∣sembling.
• Paphus, the son of Pygmalion, the son of Cilix and Eburnea, for Pygmalion being an excellent graver, came into the Island of Cyprus, made the statue of a woman so ad∣mirable, that he fell in love with it, and prayed to Venus that he might have a wife as like as might be, to the statue he had made, which prayer was granted, and he coming home one time found the statue enlivened, with whom having lain he be∣gat Paphus, who became King of Cyprus, and built a Citie which he called by his own name, and dedicated it to Venus, who was thence called the Paphian Queen.
• Papian Law, see Popaean Law.
• Papulosity, (lat.) a fulnesse of blisters, or pimples, called in Latin Papulae.
• Papyrius Cursor, a famous Roman Cap∣tain, who in the war against the Samnites was made Dictator, and gave a totall over∣throw to the Enemy, after they had beat the Romans at a place called ••urcae Cau∣dinae.
• Parabien, (Span.) a congratulation, or bidding of joy.
• Parable, (Greek) a declaration, or ex∣position of one thing by another, which is like a similitude, or comparison.
• Paracelsian, a Physician that in curing of diseases followeth the Method of Para∣celsus.
• Paraclete, (Greek) a comforter; the holy Ghost is sometimes so called in Scripture.
• Parackmastical, (lat.) diminishing, or declining by little and little from the vio∣lence of a hot fit in a feaver.
• Parade, (French) a Term in Military Discipline, being an appearance of Soul∣diers at a set time to receive Orders; also any great preparation, or appearance.
• Paradigme, (Greek) a pattern, or ex∣ample.
• Paradise, (Greek) a place of pleasure.
• Paradox, (Greek) a thing which seem∣eth strange and absurd, and is contrary to common opinion.
• Paradoxologie, (Greek) a speaking by Paradoxes.
• Paradrome, (Greek) a walk, or gallery that hath no shelter over head.
• Paraenetical, (Greek) apt to perswade, or admonish.
• Parage, (old word) parentage.
• Paragogical, (Greek) belonging to the figure Paragoge, which is an adding of a letter, or syllable at the end of a word.
• Paragon, (French) a Compeer, an equal; also a Peerlesse Dame, one without com∣pare.
• A Paragraphe, (Greek) a full head, or title in any kinde of writing; as much as is comprehended in one section, it is also called a Pillkrow.
• Paralipomenon, (Greek) a title common∣ly given to such books as briefly contain those things, which are either omitted, or imperfectly handled in others; in the Old Testament, there are two books, so cal∣led.
• Parallax, the difference between the true place, or apparent place of a Comet, Eclipse, or Planet, by reason we behold it from the superficies not from the center.
• Parallels, (Greek) a Term in Geome∣try, lines running at an equal distance one from the other and never meeting, in A∣stronomy they are certain imaginary Cir∣cles in the Globe, for the better Calcula∣tion of the degrees of Northern, or Sou∣thern Latitude.
• Parallel, (Greek) to compare.
• Parallelogram, (Greek) a certain Geo∣metrical figure, wherein on each side the lines run parallel one to another.
• Paragolisme, (Greek) a fallacious, or deceitfull way of arguing, wherein from true extreams, a false conclusion is brought out.
• Paralytick, (Greek) sick of a Paraly∣sie, or palsie being a disease which causeth a resolution, or loosening of the sinews.
• Paraments, robes of state.
• Lord Paramount, in Common-law, is the highest Lord of the Fee, as he that hold∣eth of a Superiour Lord, yet hath a Te∣nant under him, is called Lord of the Mesne, but the lowest Tenant is called Tenant paravail.
• Paramour, a Lover, or Sweetheart.
• Paranymph, (Greek) he, or she that is joyn'd with the Bridegroom, or Bride, to see all things well ordered at a Wedding, also one that maketh a speech in commen∣dation of those that are to commence Do∣ctors.
• Parapet, (French) a Term in fortifica∣tion, a wall, or battlement of a wall, brest, to defend from the enemies shot.
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• Paraph, (Greek) a subsignature, or flou∣rishing mark set under ones name in signing a letter or deed, also a mark in the margent of a book.
• Paraphonalia, or Paraphernalia, a word in the Civil-law, signifying those goods which a wife bringeth her husband over and above her dowr, as Jewels, Apparel, Plate, &c.
• Paraphrase, (Greek) an exposition, which altereth the words, yet holdeth the sence of the thing expounded.
• Parasang, a certain measure of ground, containing thirty stades, or furlongs.
• Paraselinii, the same that Paretii, and those happen to the Sun, and these to the Moon.
• Parasite, (Greek) a smell feast, a flat∣terer, a belly-friend.
• Paravaile, see Paramount.
• Parazon, a wood-knife.
• Parbreak, (old word) vomit.
• A Parbunkle, (a Term in Navigation) a roap seased together at both ends; and so put double about the Cask to holse it in by.
• Parcae, the three Destenies, Clotho, La∣chesis, and Atropos.
• Parcinarie, in Common-law, is a hold∣ing of Land, by two, or more pro indiviso; or by Joynt-Tenants, otherwise called Copartners.
• Parciloquy, (Lat.) a moderation in words, a speaking little.
• Parcity, (lat.) thrift, sparingnesse, fru∣gality.
• Pard, (lat.) a certain beast, called a Li∣bard.
• Pareil, the name of one of the sorts of Characters, or Letters used by Printers, the rest being Nonpareil, Brevier, Long∣primer, and Pica.
• Parental, (lat.) belonging to Parents, or ancestours.
• Parentation, (lat.) a celebrating of fu∣nerals.
• Parelii, mock-suns appearing on each side of the Sun, occasioned by a thick Cloud gathered together toward the side of the Sun, in which the broken beams of the Sun being gathered, the very same of the Sun is represented to us therein.
• Parenthesis, (Greek) the interrupting of a sentence, by interposing a clause, which being removed, the sence would never∣thelesse remain intire.
• Parenticide, (lat.) a killing of ones Parents.
• Parergie, see Lantskip.
• Parian Marble, see Paros.
• Paricide, (lat.) from Paricida) a mur∣therer of his father, or mother; also any hainous murtherer, but from paricidium, it signifieth the act it self.
• Parilian, or Palilian feasts, see Pales.
• Paris, the son of Priamus, and Hecuba, he was also called Alexander, whom his mother caused to be nursed up privately on the Mountain Ida by the shepherds, where, coming to age he fell in Love with the Nymph Oenone, and lying with her, had two Children by her; afterwards, there growing a contention between the three goddesses, Juno, Pallas, and Venus, they agreed to submit themselves to the judgement of Paris; Juno proffering him a Kingdom, Pallas wisdom, and Venus the handsomest of women, whereupon he gave his judgement for Venus; soon after he was returned home, he was sent into Greece as an Ambassadour to demand He∣sione, and being intertained by Menelaus, he fell in Love with Helena his wife, and Menelaus being absent about some af∣fairs, he soon won her to his desires, and carried her away with him by stealth, whereupon there immediately grew a violent warre between the Greeks and the Trojans, wherein after nine years siege Troy was taken, and Paris (having shot Achilles in the heel with his Bow and Arrows in the Temple of Apollo, whither he had led him under pretence of marry∣ing him to his sister Polixena) was himself slain by Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.
• Parish or Parochial Church, is that which is instituted for the saying of Divine Ser∣vice to the people dwelling within a cer∣tain compasse of ground near unto it, the other Churches being either Cathedral, that is where the Bishop hath his chair or seat, and conventual consisting of Dean and Chapter, or of regular Clerks pro∣fessing some order of Religion.
• Parisyllabical Nounes, (a term in Gram∣mar) those Nounes which consist of equal syllables, or those Nouns that have not more syllables in one Case than in ano∣ther.
• Parity, (lat.) equallity or evennesse.
• Park, an Inclosure or place fenced a∣bout for the keeping of Deer, or any other sort of wild beasts; it seems to be derived from the Latin word Parcus which Varro useth in the same sense.
• Parliament, (Ital. q. parlar la mente)

• the chief Assembly and Council of a Kingdom met together to make or correct Laws, and to debate matters touching the Common-wealth: in this Kingdom it used to consist of the King and the three Estates of the Realm, i. the Lords Spiri∣tual, Lords Temporal, and Commons.
• Parmacety, a pretious and very excel∣lent confection, so called from Parma a City of Italy between Placentia and Cre∣monia, or because it is made of the seed of the Whale which is called Sperma Ceti.
• Parmesan, an inhabitant of Parma, also a sort of cheese so called because it is made in that City.
• Parnassus, a Mountain of Phocis in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, who are thence called Parnassides, it hath two tops, whereof one is called Tithorea the other Hyampeus.
• A Parnel, a pretty woman-lover.
• Parochial, see Parish.
• A lease Parole, in Common Law, is a lease made onely by word of mouth, also when a prisoner of war hath liberty given him upon his word to return at such a time, he is said to go upon his Parole, which in French signifieth a word or say∣ing.
• Paros, an Island of the Aegean Sea, one of the Cyclades, it is so called from Paros the son of Jason; in this Island there is an excellent sort of Marble called Parian Marble.
• Paroxysme, (Greek) the accesse or fit in an Ague or Feaver.
• Parrells, a term in Navigation, those things made of trucks, ribs and ropes, which go about the mast and are at both ends made fast to the yard.
• Parrhasius, a famous Painter, the first that painted by the life, he drew the pi∣cture of a linnen Tablecloth so admirable∣ly, that Zeuxis looking on it, bid him take away the cloth that he might see the pi∣cture underneath it.
• Parsimony, (lat.) sparingnesse, frugali∣ty, good husbandry.
• Partage, (French) a partition, sharing or dividing.
• Parthenian, (Greek) belonging to Vir∣gins or Virginity.
• Parthenope, the name of one of the Syrens that indeavoured to insnare Vlisses and his companions, also the ancient name of a famous City of Italy, now called Naples.
• Parthia, a Country of Asia, whose in∣habitants were anciently a very warlike people; it is now called Arach.
• Partiality, (lat.) an inclining more to one part than to the other.
• Participation, (lat.) a being partaker, a giving or taking part with any one.
• Participle, (lat.) one of the parts of speech in Grammar, so called because it partakes both of the Noune, and of the Verb.
• Particle, (lat.) a parcel, a small part or portion.
• Partile aspect, when two Planets are both in the same number of degrees and mi∣nutes either by conjunction or aspect.
• Partition, (lat.) a parting, sharing, or dividing.
• Partisan, (French) a partaker or part∣ner, also a leading-staff or javelin.
• Partlet, a word used in some old Sta∣tutes, signifying the loose collar of a dub∣let to be set on or taken off by it self with∣out the bodies, also a womans necker∣cheif.
• Partners, those timbers which are bolted to the beams and do compass the shoot in the mast at the deck.
• Parturient, (lat.) travelling or being a∣bout to bring forth.
• Parvity, (lat.) littlenesse, smallnesse.
• Pas a pas, (French) leasurely.
• Pascage, (French) grazing or feeding of cattel.
• Paschal, (lat.) belonging to the Pasche, i. the Jewish Passeover, also the Feast of Easter.
• Pascuous, (lat.) belonging to pasturage or feeding of cattel.
• Pasiphae, see Minos.
• Pasquil, or P••squin, a certain statue or image in Rome whereon all Satyricall in∣vectives were wont to be fixt and father'd as the Author, whence it is commonly used for any slanderous libell or defama∣tory book.
• Passade, (French) an alms or benevo∣lence given to a passenger, also a posture in the management of a horse.
• Passant, (French) going or passing by, a term in Heraldry.
• A Passartdo, a rope wherewith we hale down the sheat-blocks of the main and fore sails when they are haled aft the clew of the main sail to the cubbridge head of the main mast.
• Passe-flower, a certain kind of flower, otherwise called Pulsatil.
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• Passenger, a kind of small trained hawk called in French Pellerin.
• Passeport, (French q. passer le port) a licence made by any that hath authority for the safe passage of any man from one place to another, a passe or safe con∣duct.
• Passibility, (lat.) an aptnesse or ableness to suffer.
• Passion, (lat.) a suffering, also an affe∣ction of the mind, also in Poems and Ro∣mances it is more peculiarly taken for the passion of love. Artam.
• Passive, (lat.) suffering or bearing.
• Pastill, (lat.) a lump of any kinde of paste made up into a little long rolle, also woade.
• Pastern, the huckle bone of any beasts foot.
• Pastilication, (lat.) a making any thing into the form of a pill or round ball
• Pastination, (lat.) a digging or delving of ground.
• Paston, a Townlet in Northfolk, giving sirname and residence to an honourable Family of this County.
• Pasture, (lat.) a feeding.
• Pastophories, (Greek) the most honour∣able order of Priests among the Egyp∣tians.
• Pastoral, (lat.) belonging to a shepherd or rural life, whence a pastoral Song.
• Pasvolant, (French) one that is foisted by a Captain into his Company on a mu∣ster-day, whence it is taken for a hireling or base fellow.
• Pataque, (French) a Neapolitan com worth a hundred quadrins.
• Patart, a Dutch coin, five whereof a∣mount to six pence.
• Patee, a term in Heraldry, as a crosse Patee, i. e. a crosse whose ends are broad and opened.
• Patefaction, (lat.) a making open, also a discovering or making manifest.
• Patelena, see Matura.
• Patelin, (French) a flatterer, cogger, or deceiver.
• Paten, a kind of wooden shooe, from the Greek word Pateo, i. to tread under foot, also a little flat saucer used by the Priests with the chalice at Masse.
• Letters Patents, see Letters.
• Patency, (lat.) a being uncovered, a ly∣ing open.
• Paterguardian, a title given to the chief of the Franciscan Fryars in their Mona∣steries.
• Paternal, (lat.) fatherly, belonging to a father.
• Pathetical, (Greek) apt to perswade or move the affections.
• Pathology, (Greek) that part of physick which treats of the causes and differences of diseases.
• Patible, (lat.) to be suffered or in∣dured.
• Patibulary, (lat.) belonging to a gal∣lows.
• Patin, (lat.) a kind of platter, charger, or bason.
• Patonce, a term in Heraldry, as a crosse Patonce, i. e. whose ends are both broad and as it were three wayes hooked.
• Patration, (lat.) a doing any thing, a finishing any work.
• Patriarchate, (lat.) the estate, dig∣nity, or chief seat, of a Patriarch, i. the first father of a Family or Nation.
• Patricians, (lat.) those men among the Romans who were accounted of the most noble, as being descended of Senatours.
• Patrick, the proper name of a man, from the Latin word Patricius, a Peer or States∣man.
• Patricide, see Parricide.
• Patrimonial, (lat.) belonging to a Pa∣trimony, i. an inheritance or estate left by a father to his children.
• Patrocination, (lat.) a defending the quarrel, or maintaining the right of any one.
• Patroclus, the son of Menoetius and Sthe∣nele, he having slain Cleonymus the son of Amphidamas, fled to Phia, where he was in∣tertained by Peleus, and together with A∣chilles educated by the Centaure Chiron, afterwards he went to the wars of Troy with Achilles, with whom he had contra∣cted an inviolable friendship, and when Achilles having made a defection from the Grecian Army could by no means be won to fight with Hector, he at last was pre∣vailed with to send Patroclus in his stead, and with his own armour, in which fight Patroclus being slain, Achilles then whom no other respect could move, would fight to revenge the death of his friend, and having new arms made for him by Vulcan, he fought with Hector and slew him.
• Patronal, (lat.) belonging to a Patron, i. an advocate, defender, or pleader; also in Civil Law, a Patron is taken for him that hath manumitted a servant and thereby challength of him certain reve∣rence and duty during his life, and in the

• Canon Law for him that hath the gift of a Benefice.
• Patronymicks, (Greek) those names which men derive from their fathers or ancestours with some little addition, as Aeneades from Aeneas.
• Patulication, (lat.) a being opened, or made wide.
• Pauciloquy, (lat.) a speaking few words, little talk.
• Paucity, (lat.) fewnesse, a being of a little or small number.
• Pavefaction, (lat.) a terrifying or ma∣king afraid.
• A Pavese, or Pavice, (Ital.) a large shield which covereth the whole body.
• Pavidity, (lat.) timerousnesse, fearful∣nesse.
• Pavillion, (French) a Tent, or Taber∣nacle of State.
• Pavin, (Span.) a kind of Dance so called.
• Paul, the proper name of a man, signi∣fying in Hebrew, wonderful or rest.
• Paulin, a diminutive from Paul.
• Paunage, see Pannage.
• Pavoisade, or Pavezado, (French and Spanish) a target defence in Gallies whereby the slaves are defended from the small shot of the enemy.
• Pavonine, (lat.) belonging to a peacock or peahen.
• Pausade, (French) a pausing or resting.
• Pausanias, the son of Cleombrotus, he was a famous Lacedemonian Captain and won many Victories in the wars against the Athenians, also a Macedonian youth who slew Philip of Macedon, because having received a rape, and complaining often of it to Philip, he could receive no re∣dresse.
• Payn, the proper name of a man, in La∣tin Paganus, a Villager.

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• Pean, the same as Erminois, a term in Heraldry. See Erminois.
• Pearch, a rod or pole wherewith land is measured, fourty whereof in length, and four in breadth make an acre, it containeth sixteen foot and a half.
• Pearles, a sort of Gemms which are bred in some kind of shell-fishes.
• Peccadillo, (Span.) a little crime or fault.
• Peccant, (lat.) sinning, committing a crime.
• Pectination, (lat.) a kembing, also a raking together of Corn.
• Pectoral, (lat.) belonging to the brest, also used substantively for a brestplate, peitrel, or stomacher.
• Pecuarious, (lat.) belonging to beasts, or cattel.
• Peculation, (lat.) a robbing of the Prince or Common-wealth.
• The Court of Peculiars, a certain Court in the Bishops time, which dealt in certain Parishes exempt from the Bishops juris∣diction in some Diocesses, and were pecu∣liarly belonging to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury.
• Peculiation, (lat.) a taking away a mans goods.
• Pecuniary, (lat.) belonging to money.
• Pedage, (lat.) money given for pas∣sing by foot or horse through any Coun∣trey.
• Pedal, (lat.) containing a foot in mea∣sure.
• Pedaneous, (lat.) going on foot.
• Pedantism, (French) the office of an or∣dinary School-master or Pedant.
• Pedation, (lat.) a propping or setting up of vines.
• Pedature, (lat.) an assignment of so ma∣ny foot to workmen in digging or buil∣ding.
• Pederasty, or Paederasty, (Greek) bug∣gery, or a lusting after boyes.
• Pedestal, (French) a term in Archite∣cture, the basis or foot of a pillar.
• Pedestrial, (lat.) going on foot, belong∣ing to the foot.
• Pedicle, (lat.) a little foot, also the stalk of any fruit or flower.
• Pedobaptism, or Paedobaptism, (Greek) Infant-baptism, the baptizing of Chil∣dren.
• Pedotribe, or Paedotribe, (Greek) one that instructs children how to exercise their bodies.
• Peere, (French) a Fortresse made a∣gainst the force of the Sea, also Peers q. pares, i, equals are the Nobles or chief Lords in Parliament: this denomination is thought to be derived from the 12 Peers of France instituted by Charles the great, or Lewis the younger; also in Common Law those that are impanneled upon En∣quest are called Peers.
• Pegasean, (lat.) swift, from Pegasus the winged horse of Perseus.
• Pejeration, (lat.) a forswearing.
• Pejoration, (lat.) a making worse.
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• Peitrel, or Poitral, (French) the brest-leather of a horse.
• Pelagians, a sort of Hereticks so called from Pelagius their first founder; they de∣nied original sin, and had many other er∣roneous tenets.
• Pelasgi, an ancient people of Greece, so called from Pelasgus the son of Jupiter and Larissa, they inhabited a part of the Pelo∣ponnessus called Pelasgia.
• Pelias, the son of Neptune and Tyro the daughter of Salmoueus, he was the brother of Aeson King of Thessaly, and meditating the ruine of his brothers son, he sent him to Colchos for the Golden Fleece, he was at last slain by his daughters at the insti∣gation of Medea.
• Pelion, a mountain of Thessaly which the Titans when they made war against the gods heaped upon Ossa a neighbouring mountain▪ the top of this mountain is thick set with Pine trees, and hangeth over the Pelasgian Gulph.
• Pellican, a certain bird that pecking her own brest, draweth blood thence to feed her young ones.
• Pelliculation, (lat.) a deceiving with fair words.
• Pellicle, (lat.) a little skin or thin rind.
• Pellucid, (lat.) clear, bright, shining thorough.
• Pel-mel, (French) confusedly, one with another.
• Pelopaea, the daughter of Thyestes, who being got with child by her father, brought forth Aegysthus.
• Peloponnesus, a Country of Greece, lying upon the Adriatick Sea, it was anciently called Pelasgia, now Morea.
• Pelops, the son of Tantalus King of Phrygia, by Taygete, he, when his father had invited the gods to a Feast, was killed and set before them to eat, from the eat∣ing of which when all the gods abstained, onely Ceres eat up his shoulder, for which Jupiter restoring him to life again, made him an Ivory shoulder, he being to run with Oenomaus King of Elis, was to marry his daughter Hippodamia on condition he won the race, which he did by corrupting Myrtilus the Chariot-driver of Oenomans. See Myrtilus.
• Pelota, the ball of the foot, from the French Pelote, i. a ball.
• Clerk of the Pels, an officer of the Ex∣chequer, who enters every tellers bill in a parchment roll called pellis receptorum, i. the skin or roll of receipts, and makes an∣other roll of payments called Pellis exi∣tuum.
• Peltiferous, (lat.) a Target-bearer, he that carrieth a Pelt which is a kind of Target made of skins.
• Peltwool, wool pulled off the pelt or skin of a dead sheep.
• Pelure, rich Fur.
• Pelusium, one of the seven mouths of Nile now called Damiata.
• Pembroke, the chief Town of Pembroke∣shire, in Brittish called Penbro, i. a Cape or Head of the Sea, Pen signifying in the Brittish tongue, a head. It hath a little Castle (built by Arnulph of Montgomery, brother to the Earle of Shrewsbury) which Girald his Constable valiantly holding out with a small Garrison against the force of all South-Wales laying siege to it, there∣by purchased to himself much honour, and raised his Family to a great height, from which the Giraldines and Fitzgiralds in Ireland are descended.
• Penarious, (lat.) belonging to victuals or provision.
• Penates, (lat.) houshold-gods.
• Pencills, certain small instruments made of Bears, Ermin's or Hogs hairs put into quills of several sizes, which Painters use to paint withal.
• A Pendant, a Jewel, q. Pendent, i. hang∣ing down, also Pendants in a Ship, are short ropes made fast at one end either to the head of the mast or to a yard, or to the clew of a sail.
• Pendiloches, (French) a term in Jewel∣ling, the lowest part of Jewels that dangle and hang down.
• Pendulous, (lat.) hanging down in a rope, clammy.
• Penelope, the daughter of Icarius and the wife of Vlisses, she being careful to pre∣serve her chastity in her husbands ab∣sence, being importuned by many suiters, who having been put off a great while, were at last resolved to ravish her; she desired onely so much time till she had made an end of what was upon her distaff, which when she had obtaind, she ravelled over night what she had spun in the day time, by which means she put them off till her husband returned home.
• Penetrable, (lat.) to be pierced or bored thorough.
• Peneus, a River of Thessaly, upon whose bank Daphne was turned into a Laurel-tree, near unto which is a most pleasant

• Vallie, called the Peneian Vallie.
• Peninsule, (lat.) a tract of Land, which is almost an Island, onely joyned to the continent by a narrow neck of Land, cal∣led an Isthmus.
• Penitential, (lat.) sorrowfull, penitent, also moving to repentance.
• Penitentiary, (lat.) a Priest that impo∣seth what penance upon an offender he thinks fit; also a place in Rome, where Priests sit and hear the confessions of those that come unto them to that end.
• Pennigerous, (lat.) bearing feathers, winged, feathered.
• Pennant, see Pendant.
• Pennocrucium, the ancient name of a Town in Staffordshire, called from thence at this day Pencridge.
• Penon, (French) a flagge▪ or banner in warre; also a streamer in a ship, also a Term in Heraldry.
• Penoncels, little Penons.
• Pensans, (i. the Cape, or head of Saints, or as some interpret it, the head of sands) near which is that famous Rock, called Main-Amber, or Marine-Amber, which being equally counterpoised upon a lesser Rock, may be stirred by the push of a finger, but cannot be removed out of its place by a multitude of men.
• Pensitation, or Pensiculation, (lat.) a di∣ligent considering, weighing, or ponder∣ing.
• Pension, (lat.) a stipend, or ordinary payment.
• Pensive, (French) sad, heavy, sorrow∣full.
• Pentahedrical figure, (Greek) a Mathe∣matical Term, being a figure which hath five sides.
• Pentaglottical, (Greek) skilfull in five tongues, having several languages.
• Pentagonal, (Greek) having angles, or corners.
• Pentameter, (Greek) a verse consisting of five feet.
• Pentasticks, (Greek) Stanza's, consi∣sting of five verses; also Porches having five rows of Pillars.
• Pentateuch, (Greek) the five books of Moses; also any volume consisting of five books.
• Pentecontarck, (Greek) a Captain that hath the command of fifty men.
• Pentecost, (Greek) the feast of Whit∣suntide, so called, because it is the 50^th. day from Christs resurrection.
• Penthesilea, a Queen of the Amazons, who coming to help the Trojans, was slain by Achilles.
• Pentheus, the son of Echion and Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, he was torn in pieces by his mother and sister, for despi∣sing the rites of Bacchus.
• Penurie, (lat.) want, need, poverty.
• Pepin, a King of the Francks, and fa∣ther of Charles the Great, he reduced the Lombards to the obedience of the Church, for which he had the title of most Christian King, bestowed upon him and his successours by Pope Zacharie.
• Peple, (lat.) a hood, or kerchief; also a a kinde of imbroidered vesture.
• Pepti••k, (Greek) concoctive, or di∣gestive.
• Peracter, a Mathematical instrument, the same as circumferentor.
• Peraction, (lat.) a performing, or finish∣ing a businesse.
• Peragration, (lat.) a travelling, or wan∣dring about.
• Perambulation, (lat.) a walking through or about.
• Perangust, (lat.) very narrow.
• Percepier, a certain Herb, growing in some parts of Somersetshire, it hath small flowrs of a greenish hew, and is good to provoke urine.
• Per••eptible, (lat.) perceiveable, or to be apprehended.
• The Perch-stone, a white stone found in the head of a Perch.
• Percival, a proper name from Percheval, a Town in Normandy.
• Percolation, (lat.) a straining through.
• Percontation, or Percunction, (lat.) a di∣ligent searching, inquiring, or demanding.
• Percullis, see Poursuivant at Arms.
• Percussion, (lat.) a striking, or hit∣ting.
• Perdiccas, a stout Macedonian, one of the Commanders of Alexander the Great.
• Perdition, (lat.) destruction, utter losse.
• Perdix, the Nephew of Daedalus, he found out the use of the saw, for which being envied of his Uncle, and by him cast down from a high Towr, he was changed into a Patridge.
• Perduction, (lat.) a leadingh through.
• Perdues, a Term in Military discipline, certain chosen Companies, who are put upon the most desperate services; from the French word Perdu, i. lost.
• Perduellion, or Perduellisme, (lat.) an open act of Hostility.
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• Perduration, (lat.) a lasting very long.
• Peregrine, the proper name of a man, in Latin Peregrinus, i. out-landish; also a Hawk of the kinde of Falcons.
• Peregrination, (lat.) a going on Pilgrim∣age, a travailing into far Countreys; in Astronomy it is an essential debility, as when a Planet is in a sign, wherein he is altogether a stranger, by being neither in his House, Exaltation, Trine▪ Term, or face: and therefore then he is very weak.
• Peremptorie, (lat.) absolute, without ex∣exception, or excuse, from Perimere, i. ut∣terly to take away.
• Perendination, (lat.) a putting off for a day.
• Perennity, (lat.) continuance, long last∣ingnesse.
• Pererration, (lat.) a wandring up and down.
• Perfidie, (lat.) treachery, falsness, breach of faith, or trust.
• Perforation, (lat.) a boring, or piercing through.
• Perfretation, (lat.) a wading through.
• Perfrication, or Perfriction, (lat.) a rubbing, or chasing throughly.
• Perfunctorie, (lat.) carelesly, or negli∣gently done.
• Pergamus, a Citie of Natolia, where Parchment, or Vellum was invented, which is thence called Pergamena.
• † Pergraphical, (Greek) work-man∣like, artificial.
• Periander, a Tyrant of Corinth, the son of Cypselus, he was accounted one of the seven wise-men of Greece.
• Pericardie, (Greek) the film, or thin skin, wherein the heart is enwrapped.
• Periclitation, (lat.) an adventuring, ha∣zarding, or endangering.
• Pericranie, (Greek) the hairy scalp, or skin that covereth the skull.
• Perigee, (Greek) that point of heaven, wherein the Sun, or any other Starre is nearest the Center of the earth.
• Perillus, see Phalaris.
• Perimeter, (Greek) the outermost line of any solid body; also a verse that hath a syllable above the just measure.
• Perioch, (Greek) an argument, contain∣ing briefly the summe of an ensuing dis∣course.
• Periodical, (Greek) belonging to a pe∣riod, i. e. the Term of time wherein any thing is finisht; also the end of a perfect sentence.
• Perioici, or Perioeci, those that dwell in the same climate.
• Peripateticks, (from the Greek word Peripatein, i. to walk) the Disciples and followers of Aristotle, who was wont to teach walking.
• Periphelium, (Greek) that point of the heaven, wherein the earth, or any other Planet is nearest to the Sun.
• Peripherie, (Greek) as it were a carry∣ing about the circumference, or round crooking line of a Circle.
• Periphrastical, (Greek) spoken by a Pe∣riphrase, i. circumloquution, or expressing a thing by many words.
• Peripneumonical, (Greek) sick of a Pe∣ripneumony, i. a disease which causeth an inflammation of the Lungs, and shortnesse of breath.
• Periscians, (Greek) those that dwell where the shadows are cast round about them.
• Perissologie, (Greek) a redundancy, or superfluity of speech.
• Peristaltick, (Greek) having the power to strain, or presse together.
• Perit, a certain measure, being the 20^th. part of a Droit, a Droit the 24^th. part of a Mite, a Mite the 20th. of a Grain, a Grain the 24^th. part of a penny-weight, and a penny-weight the 20^th. part of an Ounce, 24. blanks make a Perit.
• Peritoneum, the caule, which is extend∣ed over the bowels, and vessels that lye between the Diaphragma and the thighes.
• Perjuration, see Pejeration.
• Perkin, a proper name, as it were Peter∣kin, i. little Peter, the particle Kin, being in the Saxon language a note of diminution.
• Permagies, a sort of Turkish boat.
• Permanent, (lat.) durable, very last∣ing.
• Permeation, (lat.) a going, or passing through.
• Permission, (lat.) a suffering, or giving leave.
• Permistion, (lat.) a mingling well toge∣ther.
• Permutation, (lat.) an exchanging one with another.
• Pernel, the Christian name of divers wo∣men from Petronilla, pretty stone.
• Pernicious, (lat.) hurtfull, destructive, dangerous.
• Pernicity, (lat.) swiftnesse.
• Pernoctation, (lat.) a tarrying all night.
• Pernour of profits, (French) a taker of profits, a Termin Common-law.
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• Peroration, (lat.) the conclusion, or last part of an Oration.
• Pero, the sister of Nestor and Pericli∣menes, and the daughter of Neleus and Chloris, she was married to Bryas, the son of Amythaon and Aglaia, after he had brought Neleus the Oxen, which Hercules took from Diomedes.
• Perpenders, or Perpent stones, stones fit∣ted to the thicknesse of a wall.
• Perpendicle, (lat.) a Plumb-line, whence Perpendicular, i. falling directly down, and inclining neither way.
• Perpenna, a famous Roman overthrown by Pompey, he slew Sertorius at a Ban∣quet.
• Perpension, or Perpensation, (lat.) a dili∣gent weighing, considering, or exami∣ning.
• Perpession, (lat.) a suffering, or indu∣ring.
• Perpetration, (lat.) a committing, acting or atchieving any thing.
• Perpetuation, (lat.) a making a thing continue, or abide everlastingly.
• Perplexity, (lat.) doubtfulnesse, incer∣tainty; also trouble, or anguish of minde.
• Perplication, (lat.) a folding through.
• Perquisites, (lat.) those profits that ac∣crew to a Lord of a Mannour over and above his yearly Rents, by virtue of his Court Baron.
• Perquisition, (lat.) a diligent searching, or inquiring.
• Perry wright, (old word) imbroidered with precious stones.
• Perscrutation, (lat.) a searching through∣ly, or into the depth of any thing.
• Perse, sky colour.
• Persecution, (lat.) a following after any one, to do them harm.
• Perseverance, (lat.) constancy, firmnesse, stedfastnesse in any thing.
• Perseus, the son of Jupiter and Danae, see Danae, and Andromeda.
• Persia, a famous Countrey in the Eastern part of the world; so called from Perses, the son of Perseus and Andromeda, its fa∣mous Citie Persepolis was destroyed by A∣lexander, at the request of Lais.
• Personable, a Term in Law, inabled to hold Plea in Court; as, he was made per∣sonable by Parliament; that is, he was made able to stand in Court.
• Personality, (a Law-Term) an abstract of personal, as the action is in the per∣••onalty; that is, brought against the right person, against whom in Law it lieth.
• Personate, (lat.) to sound very loud; also to represent the person of ano∣ther.
• Perspective, (lat.) the art of advantaging the sight by the contrivance of glasses, be∣ing a branch of Opticks.
• Perspicacity, (lat.) quicknesse of sight, or apprehension.
• Perspicil, (lat.) a kinde of mirrour, or looking-glasse, wherein the form of any thing is clearly represented.
• Perspicuity, (lat.) clearnesse, easinesse to be seen through.
• Perspiration, (lat.) a breathing through.
• Perterebration, (lat.) a boring through with a wimble.
• Perthia, or Perth, a large and plentifull Countrey in the North-part of Scot∣land.
• Pertinacie, or Pertinacity, (lat.) obsti∣natenesse, stifnesse in opinion.
• Pertinent, (lat.) pertaining, or belong∣ing unto.
• Pertingent, (lat.) joyning, or reaching near unto.
• Aelius Pertinax, a Roman Emperour; so called because he obstinately refused the Empire when it was offered him, he was slain in his Palace by the Praetorian Soul∣diers at the instigation of Didius Julianus, who succeeded.
• Pertingent lines in Heraldry, vide En∣tire.
• Pertransient lines in Heraldry, vide En∣tire.
• Perne, a great Province in America, or the West-Indies, having in it a famous Ci∣tie of the same name.
• Perturbation, (lat.) a disquieting, or troubling.
• Pervade, (lat.) to go through, or into.
• Pervagation, (lat.) a straying, or wan∣dring through, or up and down.
• Perversity, (lat.) frowardnesse, crosnesse, overthwartnesse.
• Pervert, (lat.) to corrupt, to overthrow, or turn upside down.
• Pervestigation, (lat.) a finding out by diligent seeking.
• Pervicacy, (lat.) obstinacy, or stubborn∣nesse.
• Pervigilation, (lat.) a watching all night.
• Pervise, (a rail, or barre) also a confe∣rence among young pleaders and Stu∣dents

• in the Law, it was so called in an∣cient time, and seemeth to be the same with that which we now call moot∣ing.
• Pervious, (lat.) easie to be passed through.
• Pessary, (lat.) a kinde of suppository made of soft wool.
• Pessundation, (lat.) a putting to the worst, a casting under foot.
• Pestiferous, (lat.) bringing Pestilence and destruction, unwholesome.
• Petalisme, (Greek) a manner of banish∣ment among the Siracusians, which was in∣flicted by writing the offenders name up∣on an Olive leaf.
• Petard, (French) a kinde of Engine like a Mortar, wherewith strong gates are burst open in war.
• Petarrade, (French) a gun-shot of farting, a yerking out of a horse behind, commonly accompained with farting.
• Petaurist, (Greek) a tumbler or dancer on the ropes.
• Peter, the proper name of a man, from the Greek word Petra a rock.
• Peterpence, a tribute given by I••••s King of the West-Saxons being in pilgrimage at Rome in the year 720, which was a penny for every house, it was also called the fee of Rome.
• Peters post, that famous delph or quarry of stone in Yorkshire, out of which the stones that built St. Peters Church in York were hewed, by the liberal grant of the Vavasours.
• Clerks of the Petit bag, three officers of Chancery who record the return of all inquisitions out of every Shire, all live∣ries granted in the Court of Wards, make all Patents of Customes, Gaugers, Con∣trollers, &c. each record being put in a petit or little leather bag; whence they had the denomination of Clerks of the Petit bag.
• Petitory, (lat.) belonging to a petition, i. a request or intreaty made by an inferi∣our to a Superiour.
• Petrary, the same as Ma••gonel.
• Petreius, a famous Roman Captain who was Caesars Legat in Gallia, but after∣wards taking part with Pompey, he was overthrown in Mauritania, together with King Juba, whereupon they consent∣ed mutually together to kill one ano∣ther.
• Petrification, (lat.) a making stony, a turning to stone.
• Petrobusians, a sort of Hereticks that denied the keeping of Feasts.
• Petrol, (lat.) a sort of marle or chalky clay; some take it for a kind of Bitumen or Naphta.
• Petronel, a kind of Harquebuse, or Horse∣mans piece, so called because it is to aime at a horses brest.
• Petropolis, a Town in Northamptonshire, commonly called Peterborow, from a Mo∣nastery dedicated to St. Peter, begun by Penda, a Christian King of the Mercians & finisht by his brother Wolpher to expiate the crime of murdering his two sons Wol∣phald and Rufin. This Town was ancient∣ly called Medeswelhamsted or Medeshamsted, from Medeswell a deep whirlpool.
• Pettifogger, a silly Advocate, Attorny, or Lawyer; fogen signifying in Dutch to comply or insinuate.
• Pettisergeantry, a certain tenure of Lands holden of the King by yeilding him a shield, bow, arrow, &c.
• Petulancy, (lat.) saucynesse, impudence, wantonnesse.
• Pexity, (lat.) the roughnesse of the web.

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• Phaedra, the daught of Minos King of Creet, and the wife of Theseus, she contri∣ved the destruction of her son in Law Hippolytus because he would not yeild to her allurements. See Hippolytus.
• Phaemonoe, a Virgin who first invented Heroick Verses, and who was the first Priestesse of Apollo at Delphos.
• Phaenomena, (Greek) appearances of Meteors or any other Signs in the Aire or Heavens.
• Phaeton, the son of Sol and Clymene, he, when Epaphus the son of Jupiter and Isis had objected to him that he was not the son of Phoebus, requested of his father that he might have the guidance of his chariot for one day, which being granted, he set the Heavens all of a flame, for which Ju∣piter struck him down with his thunder into the River Padus or Po.
• Phaetontiades, the sisters of Phaeton▪ See Heliades.
• † Phagedaenick, (Greek) troubled with pimples, pushes, or breakings out in the body.
• Phalanx, (Greek) a Military squadron consisting of 8000 men, most in use among

• the Macedonians; some think it was first invented by Phalanx, and from him so cal∣led; he was the brother of Arachne, and was instructed in Military discipline by Pallas, and taught his sister the use of the needle, but afterwards lying with his sister, they were both turned into vipers by Pallas.
• Phalaris, a Tyrant of Agrigentum who caused Perillus, a rare Artificer, to make a brazen Bull wherein he tormented many by putting them into the belly of the Bull after it had been heated with a vehement fire, and among many others Perillus the author of it was served in the same man∣ner.
• Phalerated, (lat.) dressed or adorned with trappings.
• Phaleucian verse, a verse consisting of eleven syllables, and five feet, viz. a dactyle, spondee, and three trochee's.
• Phanatick, (lat.) See Fanatick.
• Phantasie, (Greek) a representation of things to the phancy or imagination, a conceiving of things in the mind.
• Phantasm, (Greek) the same, also a false imagination or apparition, a vision of night-ghosts.
• Phao, a Lesbian youth, who receiving from Venus an Alabaster box of ointment, became therewith so beautiful, that the chief Dames of Mitylene especially Sappho fell in love with him.
• Phare, (Greek) a watch-tower or high place by the sea coast wherein lights con∣tinually shine to light Seamen to their Haven, so called from Pharos an Island in the Canopick mouth of Nile, where such a tower was built by Gnidius the Archi∣tect.
• Pharetriferous, (lat.) bearing a quiver of arrows.
• Pharisaism, hypocrisie, the profession and opinion of the Pharisees, who were a sect of the Jews so called from the He∣brew word Pharesh, i. to separate, because they were Interpreters of the Law, and separatists from the rest of the Jewish Church, pretending more holinesse than the rest of the people.
• Pharmaceutic••▪ (Greek) belonging to Medicines or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 also that part of phy∣sick which treateth of Medicines.
• Pharnaces, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Mithridates King of Pontus, who coming with a great army into Cappadocia was overthrown by Caesar.
• Pharsalus, a Town of Thessaly, seated up∣on the banks of the River Enipeus, near unto which are those famous fields where the great battel was fought between Caesar and Pompey, and between Augustus, Brutus, and Cassius.
• Phasm, (Greek) a surprising vision, or dazeling appearance of light.
• Phegeus, the father of Alphesibaea, he purged Al••maeon of his crime when he had slain his mother by his fathers command, and gave him his daughter Alphesibaea in marriage.
• Pheon, the head of a dart, a term in Heraldry.
• Pheron, the son of Sesostris King of Egypt, he being strook blind for shooting a dart into the the stream of Nilus, was advised by the oracle to wash his eyes in the urine of a woman that had known but one man, which having done, he recovered his sight.
• Phial, (lat.) a pot or glasse with a wide mouth, also a certain measure.
• Philadelphia, a City of Misia in Asia the Lesse, also the proper name of a woman, signifying in Greek brotherly or sisterly love.
• Philanthropy, (Greek) humanity, the love of mankind.
• Philargyry, (Greek) the love of silver, covetousnesse
• Philauty, (Greek) self-love.
• Philibert, the proper name of a man sig∣nifying in the German tongue, Bright and Famous.
• Philippolis, a City of Macedon, near which are the Philippick fields, where Au∣gustus and M. Antony got the great victory over Brutus and Cassius.
• Philippus, the name of many famous men, especially the father of Alexander the Great, the word signifieth in Greek, a lover of horses; there is also a coin of gold so called worth three shillings ster∣ling.
• Phillis, the proper name of a woman, signifying in Greek, Lovely.
• Philoctetes, the son of Paeas, and the companion of Hercules, to him Hercules dying left his bow and arrows dipt in the Lernaean poison, and because the Delphian Oracle admonished that there was need of the arrows of Hercules, he was brought to the wars of Troy, where he received an almost irrecoverable wound by letting fall one of his arrows upon his foot, where∣upon being ashamed to return lame into his own Country, he went into Calabria

• in Italy where he built Petilia, at length by the help of Machaon he was cured.
• Philology, (Greek) the love of learning or study.
• Philomela, the daughter of Pandion King of Athens, her sister Pr••gne was married to Tereus King of Thrace (the son of Mars by the Nimph Bistonis) who having ra∣visht Philomela and cut out her tongue, that she might not declare her sufferings to any one, she wrought the story of them with her needle, and sent it to her sister Progne, who in revenge caused her son Itys to be killed at the Feast of Bacchus, and set before Tereus, who following Progne with his sword drawn was changed into a Moorcock, Itys into a Pheasant, Progne into a Swallow, and Philomele into a Nightingale.
• † Philomusous, (Greek) a lover of the Muse.
• Philonomia, the daughter of Nyctinus and Arcadia, she, as she went a hunting one day with Diana, was got with child by Mars, and after she had brought forth twins she cast them into the River Ery∣manth••s, who being a little after found by the Shepherd Tyliphus sucking a she Woolf, they were brought up by Tyliphus, and being called Lycastus and Parrhasius, succeeded in the Kingdom of Arca∣dia.
• Philos••phical, (Greek) belonging to a Philosopher or Philosophy, i. the love and study of wisdom, knowledge of natural causes.
• Philotimy, (Greek) the love of honour.
• Philtre, (Greek) a potion, powder, or any kind of Medicine procuring love.
• Philyra, the daughter of Oceanus, with whom Saturn lying in the shape of a horse, begat the Centaur Chiron, who being wounded with one of the arrows of Her∣cules that had been dipt in Lernaean poi∣son, wished to die, but being immortal was placed among the heavenly Signs, and called Sagitarius.
• Phineus, the son of Agenor, or as others say of Phoenix and Cassiopaea, he was King of Thrace, and had by his first wife Cleo∣patra, Orythus and Crambus, whose eyes he put out at the perswasion of his second wife Harpalice the sister of Zethes and Ca∣lais, for which he was strucken blind him∣self, and the Harpyes were sent against him who continually defiled his meat as it came to his table; but at last they were driven by Zethes and Calais into the Stro∣phades Islands, and Phineus himself was killed by Hercules after he understood that the children were blinded without a cause.
• Phlebotomy, (Greek) a cutting of a veine, a letting blood.
• Phlegmatick, (Greek) full of phlegm or fleam, i. one of the four humours of the body being cold and moist.
• Phlegmon, (Greek) a hot and red swel∣ling of the body, caused by an inflamma∣tion of the blood.
• Phlegraean fields, certain fields of Thes∣saly, where the Gyants fought against the gods.
• Phlegyas, son of Mars and King of the Lapitheans in Thessaly, he was the father of Ixion and the Nimph Coronis, who being ravisht by Apollo, Phlegyas in revenge burnt his Temple, for which being cast into Hell, he remained in continual fear of the fal∣ling of a great stone which hung over his head.
• Phoebus, the son of Jupiter and Latona, born at the same birth with Diana, he is also called Apollo and Sol.
• Phoenix, (Greek) an Arabian Bird of which it is reported that there is but one of them in the World at a time, and that having lived 500 years, it builds a nest of combustible spices, which taking fire from the Sun, she fans it with her wings, and burns her self therein, out of whose ashes there springs up a new Phoenix; It is also an ancient name of several famous men.
• Phorbas, the son of Priamus and Epithe∣sia the daughter of Stasippus King of Myg∣donia, he was, after many great atcheive∣ments performed in the Trojan war, slain by Menelaus.
• Ph••rcys the son of Neptune and the Nimph Thesea, and father of Medusa, he was King of Corsica and Sardinia, and be∣ing overthrown by Atlas in a Sea-fight, was turned into a Deity of the Sea.
• Phospher, (Greek) as it were a bringer of light, the morning 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• Phrase, (Greek) a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 peculiar man∣ner and form of speech.
• Phrenetick, (〈◊〉〈◊〉) possessed with a Phrensie, i. a certain kind of madnesse, arising from an inflammation of the mem∣branes of the brain.
• Phrygia, a Country of Asia the Lesse, bounding upon Caria, Lydia, and Bithy∣nia, it is divided into the Greater Phrygia and the Lesser.
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• Phryxus, the son of Athamas and Ne∣phele, and the brother of Helle. See Ino and Helle.
• Phtisick, (Greek) a kind of Consump∣tion accompanied with a Cough and Ul∣ceration of the body.
• Phylarch, (Greek) the Govenour or chief Ruler of any Tribe or Family.
• Phylacteries, (Greek) scrolles of parch∣ment having the ten Commandments written upon them, which the Pharisees were wont to wear about their necks and arms; also preservatives against poison or witchcraft; also places to keep things safe in.
• Phyllis, the daughter of Lycurgus King of Thrace, she hanged her self for the love of Demophoon, who she thought had neg∣lected her, and was turned into an Al∣mond tree.
• Physick, (Greek) natural Philosophy, also the Art of curing by Medicines.
• Physiognomy, (Greek) an Art which teacheth to know the dispositions of men by looking on their countenances, it is vulgarly called Phisnomy.
• Physiology, (Greek) a discourse of natu∣ral things, a handling of natural causes.

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• Piacular, (lat.) able to absolve or clear a man from some hainous sin or of∣fence.
• Pia mater, (lat.) a film or skin which encompasseth the brain.
• Piation, or Piacle, (lat.) a satisfaction for sin, a purging by sacrifice or interces∣sion.
• Piazza, (Ital.) a great open place or broad street, a market-place.
• Picardy, a Province of that part of France called Gallia Belgica, whose chief City is Amiens.
• Piccage, money paid in a Fair for break∣ing up the ground to set up a standing or booth.
• Picenum, or Picentum, a Region of Italy between the Apennine hills and the Adria∣tick Sea, vulgarly called Marca Anconi∣tana.
• Pickadil, (from the Dutch word Picke∣dillekens) the hem about the skirt of a garment, also the extremity or utmost part of any thing, also an Ordinary at St. James's so called.
• To Pickear, (French picquer) is when particular persons fight between two Armies before the main Battle is begun.
• Picle, or Pitle, (from the Italian word Piccolo, i. little) an inclosure or small close.
• Piepouders court, (from the French word pied, i. a foot, and pouldreux, i. dusty) a Court held in Fairs for the redresse of all disorders committed within them.
• Pierced, a term in Heraldry, as a crosse pierced, i. e. bored in the middle.
• Pieria, a Country in the confines of Macedonia, by the Rivers Axius and Ha∣liacmon.
• Pierpoint, a sirname of great note and antiquity, stilled in Latin records, De Petrae Ponte.
• Pight, (old word) propped setled.
• Pigment, (lat.) a kind of painting where∣with women colour their faces; it is also used metaphorically for deceit or guile.
• Pigneration, (lat.) a gaging or laying to pawn.
• Pignitis, a certain kind of Mineral, com∣monly called black chalk.
• Pigritude, (lat.) lazinesse, slothfulnesse.
• Pilaster, (French) a little pillar, also an inflammation of the Uvula.
• Pilchard, or Pilcher, a kind of fish, cal∣led in Latin Sarda, in Greek Trichis.
• Pile, a term in Heraldry, being an Or∣dinary consisting of a twofold line, formed after the manner of a wedge.
• Pilgrim, (from the Ital. Pelegrino) one that travelleth out of devotion thorough strange Countries to visit holy places.
• Pilkrow, see Paragraph.
• Pillaw, a kind of meat made of rice, used among the Turks.
• Pilosity, (lat.) hairinesse, rough∣nesse.
• Pilotage, the office of a Pilot or Steers∣man of a Ship, called in Dutch a Loots∣man.
• Pilumnus, the son of Jupiter, and King of Daunia, he married Dane the daughter of Acrisius and mother of Perseus.
• Pimpernel, a kind of little flower called in Latin Pimpinella.
• Pimpompet, a kind of antick dance wherein three hit each other on the bum with one of their feet.
• Pimplea, a mountain in Macedon, near which was the Pimplean Fountain and Den sacred to the Muses, from whence they were called Pimpleides.
• Pingres, or Pingles, (French) a kind of play wherein they use Ivory balls.
• ...

• Pinguedinous, (lat.) fat, or grosse.
• Piniferous, (lat.) bearing Pine-trees.
• Pink, a kinde of yellow colour used in painting.
• Pinnace, a kinde of small ship, so called, q. Pennata, i. winged, or from Pinus, i. a Pine-tree, of which it is commonly made.
• Pinnigerous, (lat.) finned like a fish, bear∣ing fins.
• Pioners, certain underminers and casters up of trenches in an army, from a certain people of Mysia, called Piones, who used to digge them houses in Rocks.
• Pipation, (lat.) a kinde of shrill cry∣ing, or weeping.
• Pipe, a measure of wine, or oyl, contain∣ing 26 gallons, or half a tun.
• Clerk of the Pipe, an Officer in the Ex∣chequer, who having all accounts and debts due unto the King, drawn out of the remembrancers Office, chargeth them down into the great Roll.
• P••quant, (French) sharp, biting, or quick-tasted.
• Pique, (French) a quarrel, or distaste.
• Piqueron, (French) a Javelin, or Dart.
• Piquy, a Term in printing, see Pareil.
• Piratical, belonging to a Pirate, i. a Robber on the Sea; so called from the Greek word, Peiran, i. to passe the Seas.
• Pirene, see Pyrene.
• Pirithous, the son of Ixion, he was join'd with Theseus in a perpetual league of friendship, and assisted him against the Cen∣taurs that would have ravisht away Hip∣podamia, at last they going together to Hell to fetch away Proserpina, Pirithous was slain by Cerberus, and Theseus being taken prisoner by Dis, was freed by Her∣cules.
• Piscarie, in Common-law, is a liberty of fishing in another mans waters.
• Piscation, (lat.) a fishing.
• Piscinal, (lat.) belonging to a fish-pond.
• Pisces, the 12^th. and last figure of the Zodiack, the one is Northerly, the other Southerly, and is called Notios.
• Pisistratus, a King of the Orchomenians, who for too much favouring of the peo∣ple was slain in the Senate-house by a faction of the Nobility, his son Telesima∣chus being chief of the conspiracy; also the name of a famous Tyrant of Athens, the son of Hippocrates, he was a man▪ o•• singular eloquence, and a great favourer of the Arts and Sciences.
• Pissaphalt, (Greek) a kinde of mineral, consisting of pitch, and the lime Bitumen incorporated together.
• Pistachoes, or Pistack Nuts, a kinde of small Nuts growing in Aegypt and Syria, being often used in Physick.
• Pistolado, (Ital.) a shot, or wound gi∣ven with a Pistol.
• Pistrine, (lat.) a grinding house, or mill; also a bake house.
• Pittacus, a Philosopher of Mitylene, and one of the seven wise-men of Greece, who in a war between the Athenians and Mity∣lenians, overcame Phrynon, Captain of the enemies by intangling him in a Net, from whence arose the faction of the Retiarii and the Myrmillions.
• Pituitous, (lat.) flegmatick, full of wa∣terish humours.

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• Placability, (lat.) easinesse to be paci∣fied, or appeased.
• Placard, (French) a Licence, whereby a man is permitted to maintain unlawfull Games; also a decree, or Mandate of a Prince; also any Table hung up, wherein Laws, or Orders are written.
• Placence, see Greenwich.
• Placidity, (lat.) gentlenesse, mildnesse, quietnesse.
• Placit, (lat.) an opinion, or decree.
• Plagiary, (lat.) he that steals people out of one Countrey, and sells them into an∣other; also a stealer of other mens works, or writings.
• The Plain Table, a certain Mathemati∣cal instrument used for the surveying of Land.
• Plaint, (in Common-law) is the pro∣pounding of any action real, or personal in writing, whence Plaintiffe, see Deman∣dant.
• Planetarie, (lat.) belonging to a Planet, i. a wandring star; whereof there are se∣ven in number, which take their names from the chief heathen deities Saturn, Ju∣piter, Mars, Sol, Venus, Mercury, Luna.
• Planiloquy, (lat.) plain, and free speech.
• Planimetry, (Greek) a measuring of plains, as lands, boards, &c.
• Planisphaere, (lat.) an Astrolabe, or plain Sphere.
• Plantation, (lat.) a planting, or set∣ting▪
• Plastick, (Greek) the art of making, or forming the figure of any thing out of earth.
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• † Plastograph, (Greek) counterfeit wri∣ting.
• Platanine, (lat.) belonging to a Platane, or Planetree.
• Platonick, belonging to, or affirm'd by Plato, (whence Platonick love, or Plato∣nick year i. the space of 36000 years) he was the chief of the Academick Philoso∣phers, he was at first called Aristocles, was a great wrestler, and much given to paint∣ing; afterwards became a hearer of So∣crates, then he sayl'd into Italy, to hear Pythagoras, and took many things out of the books of Philolaus Crotoniatos, next he went into Aegypt to hear the Gymnosophists, and as some say, read the books of Moses, he was called Divine Plato, & was esteem∣ed the most famous Philosoper of the world, his chief opinion being, that the abstract Idea's, or images of all virtues, and of all forms had a peculiar subsistence by themselves.
• A Plaudite, (lat.) a clapping of hands for joy, a sign of rejoycing, it being a substantive made of a verb.
• Plausible, (lat.) acceptable, received with praise, favour, or joy.
• Plea, a Term in Law, that which either party alleadgeth for himself in Court.
• Plebeian, (lat.) belonging to the com∣mon people; also mean, vulgar, inferi∣our.
• Plebiscite, (lat.) a decree, statute, or law, made by the common people.
• Pledge, (French) a surety, whence to pledge one in drinking, is to be his sure∣ty, or to ingage that he shall receive no harm while he is drinking, which custom was first occasioned, as some say, by rea∣son of the practice of the Danes, hereto∣fore in this Kingdom, who used frequent∣ly to stab the Natives while they were drinking.
• Pleget, a long plaister of Leather, or Linnen Cloath.
• Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas, and the Nymph Pleione, whose names were Electra, Alcynoe, Celaeno, Taygete, Asterope, Maia, and Merope, they were placed by Jupiter among the stars, and called by the Latins Virgiliae.
• Plenarie, (Fr.) full, intire.
• Plenartie, a word used in Common-law, signifying a benefice supplied.
• Plenilunarie, (lat.) belonging to the Plenilune, or full Moon.
• Plenipotentiaries, Ambassadours that are invested with full power and authority to conclude with that state to whom they are sent about those thing•• contained in their Commissions.
• Plenitude, or Plenity, (lat.) fulnesse.
• Pleonasme, (Greek) a certain Rhetori∣cal figure, wherein some superfluous word, or sentence is added.
• Plethorick, (Greek) troubled with a Plethora, i. an abounding, or being too full of humours.
• Pleurifie, (Greek) an inflammation of the inward skin of the Ribs, caused by too great an abundance of bloud.
• Pliant, (French) flexible, easie to be bent.
• Plicature, (lat.) a plaiting, or folding.
• Plimouth, a famous Port Town in Corn∣well, so called as it were the mouth of the River Plime: in this place, the fable goeth that Corinoeus threw down the Gyant Gog∣mogog from a steep Rock, it was anciently called Sutton, and was divided into two parts, Sutton Prior, as belonging to the Priors, and Sutton Vautort belonging to the Vautorts, stiled in old Records de Val∣le Terta.
• Plinth, (Greek) the lowermost part of the foot of a pillar, being in the form of a Tile, or square brick.
• Plisthenes, the son of Pelops and Hippodae∣mia, he dying young, recommended his two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, to the care of his brother Atreus, whence they were called Atreides.
• Plonkets, a word used in some old sta∣tutes, signifying woollen cloath.
• Plottons, a Term in Military Discipline, consisting of eight in front.
• Plumage, (French) a bunch of fea∣thers.
• Plumbagin, (lat.) silver mingled with lead stone, or oar.
• Plumbeous, (lat.) leaden, of the colour of lead; also blunt, or dull.
• A Plumestriker, a parasite, or flatterer, so called from pulling hairs, or feathers off from other mens Cloakes.
• Plumigerous, (lat.) bearing feathers, ha∣ving feathers on.
• Plunder, (Dutch) to rob, or take away by violence in time of war.
• Plurality, (lat.) a being more then one.
• Pluries, the name of a Writ that goeth out the third time; if the Original Capi••s, and the sicut alias speed not.
• Plutarch, a famous Philosopher of Che∣ronea, who liv'd in the time of the Empe∣rours,

• ... Trajan and Adrian, and wrote many ex∣cellent books; he was in such high esteem with Adrian that he was sent with Con∣sular power into Illyria.
• Pluto, the son of Saturn and Ops, to whom in the division of the World be∣twen him and his two brothers Jupiter and Neptune, there fell the infernal Em∣pire by lot.
• Pluvial, or Pluvious, (lat.) rainy, full of rain, or watery clouds.

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• Pneumatical, (Greek) belonging to wind or spirits.

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• Pocillation, (lat.) the waiting on a great mans cup.
• Poculent, (lat.) that may be drunk.
• Podagrical, (lat.) having the gout in the feet.
• Podalirius and Machaon, the sons of Ae∣sculapius, they were Physitians in the Gre∣cian Army that went against the Trojans.
• Podarge, the swiftest of Mares, that fed in a place called Vernum Pratum, on whom Zephyrus begat the Horses of Achilles.
• Podestat, (Ital.) or chief Magistrate of a City.
• Podimetry, (Greek) a measuring by the foot.
• Poesie, or Poetry, (Greek) the art of making a Poem, i. any kind of subject con∣sisting of Rythm or Verses.
• Points, in Heraldry are certain places in an Escutcheon diversly named accor∣ding to their several positions.
• A Poinard, or Poinado, (French) a dag∣gar or short sword.
• Pointblanck, punctually, absolutely, from the French words, poinct a prick, and blanc white.
• Polar, or Polary, (lat.) belonging to the Poles, i. the ends of the axeltree about which Astronomers imagin the heavens to be moved. The North Pole is called the Arctick Pole, the South Pole the Antar∣ctick, whence the Polar-circles are two little circles near the Poles of the World described by the Poles of the Zo∣diack.
• Polemical, (Greek) Military, belonging to War.
• Policy of Assurance, a giving to some or other a certain rate or proportion to se∣cure the safe arrival of a ship and so much wares at a place agreed on.
• Political, (Greek) belonging to policy, or the government of a Common-wealth.
• Politure, (lat.) a polishing or trim∣ming.
• Pollard, a ••heven or cod-fish, also a stag or male Deer having musen'd or cast his head.
• Pollicar, (lat.) containing the measure of an inch, which is the breadth of a thumb or toe.
• Pollicitation, (lat.) a promising.
• Pollinarious, (lat.) belonging to, or made into fine flower.
• Pollincture, (lat.) the embalming of dead bodies.
• Poltron, (French) a knave or rascal, al∣so a coward or lazy fellow.
• Polycrates, a Tyrant of Samos, being a man of very great wealth, and of that for∣tune, that having let fall into the Sea a ring of great value, it was found the next day in the belly of a fish; but in his later end he was taken by Orontes the Per∣sian and crucified.
• Polydamas, the son of Antenor and Thea∣no the sister of Hecuba, he marryed Ly∣caste, the daughter of Priamus by a Con∣cubine, and is said together with his fa∣ther Antenor and Aeneas, to have betray∣ed the City Troy to the Greeks. Also the son of Panthous the master of Hector, he was a man of vast strength.
• Polydorus, see Polymnestor.
• Polygamy, (Greek) the having more wives than one.
• Polygony, (Greek) the having many angles or corners, also an herb called knot-grasse.
• Polyhymnia, or Polymneia, the name of one of the nine Muses, she is said to have been the first inventour of History.
• Polymnestor, a Tyrant of Thrace, who when Priamus fearing the Trojan War had committed his youngest son Polydorus to his tuition with a great summe of Gold, for greedinesse of the money killed the child.
• Polymorphean, (Greek) having many shapes or forms.
• Polynices, the brother of Eteocles, and son of Oedipus King of Thebes, by his mo∣ther Jocasta.
• Polyphagian, (Greek) one that eats much, a great feeder.
• Polyphemus, the son of Neptune by the Nimph Thoosa the daughter of Phorcus, he

• was one of the Cyclops, and faling in love with the Nimph Galatea, slew the youth Acis whom she preferred before him; he devoured four of the companions of Vlis∣ses when they were cast upon that shore, and would have served the rest in like manner, but that Vlisses made him drunk with black wine, and put out that one eye which he had in the midst of his fore∣head.
• Polypt••te, (term in Grammar) a Noun that is declined with many Cases
• Polypus, a kind of fish that hath a great many feet, called also Pourcontrel; also a tumour or swelling in the nose.
• Polysyllabical, (Greek) having many syllables.
• Polysyndeton, (Greek) a certain figure wherein a sentence is joyned with many conjunction copulatives.
• Polyxena, (the daughter of Priamus) whom Pyrrhus the son of Achilles slew up∣on his fathers Tomb and sent her to the infernal shades to his father who for her sake had been slain by Paris.
• Pomander, (in Dutch Pomamber, as it were an apple of Amber) a little round ball made of several fragrant perfumes to smell to, or hang about the wrist.
• Pomarious, (lat.) belonging to a Poma∣ry, i. an Orchard, or place set with Apple-trees.
• Pomegranate, a kind of round fruit, so called because it is full of graines, or be∣cause it groweth chiefely in Granata a Re∣gion of Spain.
• Pomelegryse, (old word) dapple-gray.
• Pomeparadice, a fruit called a John-apple, In Greek Melimelum, as it were a Honey-apple.
• Pomeridian, the same as Postmeridian.
• Pomiferous, (lat.) bearing apples or o∣ther kind of round fruit.
• Pommade, (French) a kind of sweet ointment, also a trick in vaulting.
• Pomaery, (lat.) a certain space about the walls of a City or Town.
• Pomfret, or Pontfract, a Town in York∣shire, so called (for in the Saxons time it was named K••rkby) from a wooden bridge over Are, broken by the confluence of a great multitude of people that accompa∣nied William Arch-Bishop of York, King Stephens Nephew when he returned from Rome. This place hath been stained with the blood-shed of many Great men; here Thomas Earle of Lancaster was beheaded by King Edward the second; King Ri∣chard the second was here made away by the appointment of King Henry the fourth. Also Anthony Earle Rivers, and Sir Richard Grey, were here beheaded by King Richard the third.
• Pomona, the goddesse of Orchards, with whom Vertumnus falling in love, courted her in several s••apes, at last in the form of an old woman he spake so effectually for Vertumnus, that he prevailed, and return∣ing to his own shape he married her.
• ••neus Pompeius, sirnamed the Great, which title was given him by the Army of Sylla for Triumphing over Iarbas a King of Africa, then joyning with Metellus he overcame Sertorius in Spain; next he was chosen Emperour in the Pyratick War, which he finisht in three moneths; after∣wards he triumphed over Mithridates, and restored Tigranes to the Crown of Arme∣nia. Lastly he quelled the Iberians, Albans, and Jews, taking prisoner their King Ari∣stobulus; at length in the Civil War be∣tween him and Julius Caesar he was over∣come at the Battle of Pharsalia, and flying into Aegypt was slain by Aquila, through the treachery of Ptolomy the young King.
• Pompetts, Printers balls wherewith they put the Ink upon their letters.
• Pompus, (lat.) full of pomp, stately.
• Ponderosity, (lat.) weightinesse, heavy∣nesse.
• Pone, a Writ whereby a cause depending in the County Court, is removed to the Common Bank.
• Pontage, a contribution toward the re∣edifying of bridges, or keeping them in repair.
• Pontes▪ a Town in Buckinghamshire, so called from the 4 bridges, over the 4 channels into which the River Cole is di∣vided. This Town is now calld Col-Broke.
• Pontfract, see Pomfret.
• Pontick, (lat.) belonging to Pontus, i. the Sea between Meotis and Tenedos, as also the Country joyning to that Sea con∣taining Armenia, and Cappadocia.
• Pontifical, or Pontificial, (lat.) belong∣ing to a Pontif or Pontifex, i. a Bishop or Praelate, who being clad in his Episcopal vestments or those ornaments with which he performeth Divine Service on Festival dayes, as also those who have on their richest apparel, are commonly said to be in their Pontificalibus.
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• Popelin, (French) a little finical dar∣ling.
• Popination, (lat.) excessive eating, or drinking; also a haunting Popinas, i. Ta∣verns, or Victualing houses.
• Popingey, a kinde of Parret; also an Herb, so called from being of the colour of that bird, being a kinde of greenish colour, this Herb is called in Latin Sym∣phonia.
• Poplemans, a sort of Hobgoblins, so cal∣led from Popleman, a cruel Tyrant, anci∣ently of Polonia.
• Poplet, (old word) a young wench.
• Poplitick, (lat.) belonging to the ham, or leg.
• Poppaean Law, a certain Law among the Romans against single life.
• Populace, (Fr.) the vulgar, or meaner sort of people.
• Popularity, (lat.) familiarity with the common people.
• Population, (lat.) a wasting, destroying, or unpeopling of any place.
• Populiferous, (lat.) bearing poplar Trees.
• Populosity, (lat.) abundance, or fulnesse of people.
• Porcelane, a kinde of Sallet-herb, cal∣led in Greek Andrachne; also the cream, or flowring on the top of a certain chalky earth, in China steeped in water, of which they make China dishes.
• Porcine, (lat.) belonging to a Hog.
• Porculation, (lat.) a fatning of Hogs, or Swine.
• Porcupine, a kinde of beast, called in Latin, Histrix, which casteth out of her body certain sharp bristles, like darts a∣gainst the Dogs when they hunt her.
• Porosity, (lat.) fulnesse of Pores, i. cer∣tain little holes in the skin, through which sweat and vapours do exhale out of the body.
• Porpaise, a kinde of fish of a••duskish colour, called in Greek Phocaena.
• Porphyretick, (lat.) belonging to Por∣phyrie, i. a fine reddish marble, streaked with divers colours, whence the Porphyrie Chair of St. John Lateran at Rome, where∣in the Pope is inaugurated.
• Porrection, (lat.) a stretching out.
• Portable, (lat.) to be carried, or born.
• Portcullis, (French) the falling gate of a Citie, which is made to slip down, to keep out the enemy.
• Portegue, a certain Coyn in Gold, va∣luing three pound ten shillings.
• Portemote, (from Port, i. a Haven, and the Dutch word Gemetan, i. to meet) a Court kept in Havens, or Port Towns.
• Portentous, (lat.) prodigious, portend∣ing, or betokening some ill to come.
• Portglaive, (French) a sword-bearer.
• Portgreve, a pre••ect, or chief Gover∣nour of a Port Town, in ancient times the chief Magistrate of London, was so called.
• Portguidon, (French) the Cornet, or Ensign-bearer, to a Troup of horse, or men at Arms.
• Portmantean, (French) a kind of Cloak-bagge.
• Portmen, a name commonly given to the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports.
• Portpain, (French) a kinde of Towel used at Court, wherein they carry their bread to serve for the Table.
• Portsale, a sale of fish, presently upon re∣turn into the haven; also a publick sale like that of the ancient Romans, who used per prae••onem sub hasta vendere.
• Posade, (French) a respite, or breath∣ing; also a lighting down of birds.
• Pose, see Catarre.
• Position, (lat.) a putting; also a Term in Logick, a foundation upon which an argument is built.
• Possession, (lat.) an absolute injoyment of any thing, in Common-law it is taken for Lands & Inheritance, or for the actual injoyment of them.
• Possibility, (lat.) likelyhood.
• Posteriority, (lat.) a being after, or be∣hinde; also in Common-law a man hold∣ing Tenements of two Lords, is said to hold of the first by Priority, of the last by Posteriority.
• Posthume, (lat.) a Child, born after the death of the father; also Posthume works are writings publish't after the death of the Author.
• Postick, (lat.) being behinde, or on the back-side.
• Postil, a compendious exposition, con∣taining more then hath been observed be∣fore, from the Latin post illud, i. after that.
• Postillon, (French) a Posts guide, or fore-runner; also he that rides upon one of the foremost of the Coach-horses, when there are six.
• Postliminie, (lat.) the return of one, who was thought to be dead.
• Postmeridian, (lat.) done in the after∣noon.
• Postnate, (lat.) the same as Posthume.
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• Postpone, (lat.) to set behinde, to esteem lesse then another.
• Postposure, (lat.) a setting behind.
• Postvene, (lat.) to come after.
• Postulation, (lat.) a requiring, or de∣manding.
• Potable, (lat.) fit to be drunk.
• Potatoes, a sort of Indian fruit, whose root is of great virtue.
• Potent, or Potential, (lat.) powerfull, able, indued with might.
• Potent, in Blazon, expresseth the resem∣blance of the top of a crowtch.
• Potentate, (lat.) one powerfull, or mighty.
• Potulent, (lat.) that may be drunk.
• Pouches, a Term in Navigation, small bulk-heads made in howld, either thwart∣ships, or longst ships.
• Poul-davies, or Ouldernesse, see Medri∣nacles.
• Pounce, (Spanish Poncar, Latin pungere) to jagge, or cut in and out.
• Pounces of Hawks, the claws, from the Latin Pungere.
• Poundage, a subsidie granted to the King out of all Merchandizes, to the value of twelve pence in the pound.
• Pourcontrel, the same as Polypus.
• Pourmenade, (French) a walk, or Gal∣lery open over head.
• To make Pourparty, to sever the Lands that fall to partners, which before parti∣tion they held joyntly.
• Pourpresture, (French) an inclosure; al∣so an incroaching upon any Land, or Ju∣risdiction that belongs to the King.
• P••ursuivants, (French) followers, also messengers attending the King in wars, or to be sent upon any special occasion, or message; the four Poursuivants at Arms are those that attend the Heralds, and are cal∣led Bluemantle, Rougecrosse, Rougedragon, and Percullis.
• Pourtraiture, (French) a delineating, or drawing a Pourtraict, i. a picture, or image of any thing.
• Pourveyour, (French) an Officer of the King, or other great personage that pro∣vides Corn, and other victual for the house.
• Power of the County, the attendance of all Gentlemen, Yeomen, Labourers, &c. within the County, above the age of fif∣teen, that are capable to bear arms.
• Pownd, in Common-law, signifieth an inclosure to keep beasts in, but more especially a place of strength, where Cattell distrained for any trespasse are put, untill they be replevied, or di∣strained.
• Poynings Law, an Act of Parliament, whereby the Laws of England became of force in Ireland; so called, because it was made when Sir Edward Poynings was Lieu∣tenant of Ireland.

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• Pragmatical, (Greek) busie, or expert in many things.
• Practick, or Practical, (Greek) ready to practise, or deal in any Art, or Science, also substantively taken for any Art, or Science.
• Prandicle, (lat.) a breakfast, or re∣past.
• Pratique, (Ital.) the same as practick, also a licence to traffick.
• Praeamble, see Preface.
• Praebendary, (from the Latin Praebere, to afford) he that receives a Praebend, i. a por∣tion allowed for the maintenance of the Members of a Cathedral Church; he is al∣so so called from affording his Counsel, and assistance to the Bishop.
• Praecaution, (lat.) a fore-seeing, fore-warning, or preventing.
• Praecedence, (lat.) a going before, also a surpassing, or excelling.
• Praecellence, (lat.) an exceeding, or ex∣celling.
• Praecention, (lat.) the flourish, or en∣trance of a song, or ballad.
• Preceptive, (lat.) belonging to a pre∣cept, i. a teaching, instruction, or lesson; also a Command.
• Praeceptories, certain benefices, anci∣ently possest by the better sort of Tem∣plers.
• Praecidaneous, (lat.) that, which is cut, killed, or sacrificed before.
• Praecipice, (lat.) a steep place, a down∣right descent.
• Praecipitation, (lat.) a casting down headlong; also rashnesse, or unadvised∣nesse; also a Term in Chymistry, being a steeping, or dissolving of metals, or other bodies in corroding liquours.
• Praecocity, (lat.) a too early, or over∣hasty ripening of fruits.
• Praecognition, (lat.) fore-knowledge of any thing.
• Praecontract, (lat.) a former bargain, or contract.
• Praecursour, (lat.) a fore-runner, a mes∣senger sent before.
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• Praedation, (lat.) a preying, robbing, or spoiling,
• Praedecessour, (lat.) an Ancestour or Fore-father,
• Praedestination, (lat.) a pre-appointing, fore-ordaining, or designing before what shall come after.
• Praedial, (lat.) belonging to Lands, Manours, or Farms.
• Praedicable, Praedicament, and Praedicate, (lat.) three words which are most com∣monly used as terms in Logick, Praedicables (which are 5. viz. genus, species, proprium, differentia, and accidens) are those things which may truly, naturally, and imme∣diately, be affirmed of more things than one. Praedicaments (which are also called Categories, and are 10 in all, viz. Sub∣stance, Quantity, Quality, Relation, Action, Passion, Where, When, Situation, and Habit) are the Series of things gra∣dually disposed under the same summum genus. A Praedicate is the last part of the Proposition or the major term of a Syllo∣gisme.
• Praediction, (lat.) a foresaying, or fore∣telling.
• Praedominant, (lat.) bearing chief sway or rule.
• Praeeminence, (lat.) a being to be set before others for eminence or excel∣lence.
• Praeexistent, (lat.) existing or being before.
• Praeface, (as it were a speaking before, from the Latin Prae, and fari) a prologue or preparatory speech before any dis∣course. It is also called a Praeamble, which is as it were a walking before.
• Praefect, (lat.) a Governour or chief Ruler of a City or Province; there was also anciently a chief Officer in the Ro∣man Empire called Praefectus Praetorio.
• To Praefer, (lat.) to advance or set be∣fore others.
• Praegnant, (lat.) great with child, also ripe, forward, of a prompt and ready wit.
• Praegnotaries, signifies in Common law, the chief Clerks of the Kings Court, whereof three are of the Common pleas, and one of the Kings Bench.
• Praegression, (lat.) a going before.
• Praegustation, (lat.) a tasting or trying before.
• Praejudication, (lat.) a judging before hand; whence Praejudice is used for hurt or hinderance.
• Praelation, (lat.) a preferring or setting before.
• Praelections, (lat.) Lectures, or Read∣ings before.
• Praelude, (lat.) a proaem or entrance in∣to any discourse or subject; also in Mu∣sick it is taken for a voluntary or flourish upon any instrument.
• Praemature (lat.) ripe before.
• Praemeditation, (lat.) a fore-thinking, a musing of a thing before hand.
• Praemission, (lat.) a sending before, whence the praemises, i. things sent out or spoken of before.
• To fall into a Praemunire, signifieth in Common Law, to forfeit a mans goods to the Prince, and his body to remain in pri∣son: it is a word corruptly used for prae∣monere, i. to admonish or forewarn, and is taken either for the writ, or for the offence whereupon the writ is granted.
• Praemonition, (lat.) a forewarning.
• Praemunition, (lat.) a fortifying before hand.
• Prender, a word used in Common Law, things which lie in prender are those things which the Lord of a Manour may have before atturnment, as the ward of the bo∣dy of an heir, or of the land escheats; whereas those things which lie in Render he cannot take before atturnment; as rents, releifs, heriots, &c.
• Praenomination, (lat.) a forenaming.
• Praenotion, (lat.) foreknowledge.
• Praenunciation, (lat.) a fore-shewing, or declaring before hand.
• Praeoccupation, (lat.) a possessing before hand, also a preventing.
• Praepensed, (French) fore-thought.
• To Paeponderate, (lat.) to weigh well, or consider before hand.
• Praeposition, (lat.) a putting before, also one of the eight parts of Speech in Gram∣mar, so called because it is set before a Noun or a Verb.
• Praeposterons, (lat.) rash, headlong, out of order.
• Praepuce, (lat.) the foreskin which co∣vereth the nut of the yard.
• Praerogative, (lat. a having ones opinion first askt) a priviledge, a peculiar autho∣rity or praeeminence.
• Praesage, (lat.) a foreguessing or fore∣telling.
• Presbytery, (lat.) Priesthood, Eldership, or a government of the Church by El∣ders.
• Praescience, (lat.) foreknowledge.
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• Praescription, (lat.) a prescribing, limit∣ing, or determining by a rule or law; also the course or use of any thing for a long time.
• Praesentaneous, (lat.) present, ready, speedy, effectual.
• Praesentation, (lat.) a shewing or setting forth; also in Common Law presentation is the offering or presenting of any one by his Patron to the Bishop, to be instituted in a Benefice of his gift.
• Praesepe, a constellation in 2 degrees 13 minutes of Leo.
• To Praeside, (lat.) to rule or have au∣thority over.
• Praesidiary, (lat.) belonging to a Prae∣sidy, i. a Garrison of souldiers, also aid, help, or defence.
• Prest-money, (from the French Prest, i. ready, prompt) money that bindeth those who have received it, to be ready at all times appointed.
• Praestigiation, (lat.) a deceiving, jugling, or playing the impostor.
• Praesumption, (lat.) a taking upon one, a being proud or arrogant.
• Praetence, or Praetext, (lat.) a cloak or colour for any thing, also Praetence or Prae∣tension, a claim or title to any thing.
• Praeterition, (lat.) a going by, a pas∣sing over.
• Praetermission, (lat. as it were a sending besides) a suffering to passe by, a leaving out or omitting.
• Praetorian, (lat.) belonging to a Praetor, i. one that was anciently the chief Ruler of any Province or Country subject to the Roman Empire, and he had supream au∣thority not onely in Military affairs, but also in matters of judgement; also the Praetorian Guard was a Band of souldiers consisting of 10000 who were peculiarly to attend upon the Emperours person.
• Praevarication, (lat.) deceit or double-dealing.
• Praevious, (lat.) leading the way, or going before.
• Prasutagus, an ancient King who reign∣ed over a people of Brittain called the Iceni.
• Pravity, (lat.) crookednesse, deformity, also naughtinesse, leudnesse.
• The Prerogative Court, a certain Court belonging to the Civil Law, in which the Commissary sits upon Inheritances fallen either by the Intestate, or by Will and Testament.
• Priamus, the son of Laomedon King of Troy, he having been led captive by Her∣cules into Greece, was afterwards ransomed for a great summe of money: He had 50 sons whereof 17 he had by his wife He∣cuba; in his time it was that Troy was taken and sackt by the Greeks.
• Priapismus, (lat.) a disease wherein there is an erection of the yard without lust, from Priapus the son of Bacchus and Venus, he being born at Lampsacus, be∣came through the malice of Juno, who was his mothers Midwife, very ugly and de∣formed, yet he had something about him so pleasing to the women of Lampsacus that after he was banisht by the men of that place, they built a Temple to him where they were wont to sacrifice an asse, and called him the god of Gardens.
• Pricker, a term in Hunting, being used for a Huntsman on horseback.
• Pricketh, a term in Hunting, when a Hare beates in the plain highway where you may yet perceive her footing; it is said she pricketh.
• Pricket, a brocket, spitter, or young male Deer of a year or two old, begin∣ning to put forth the head.
• Pridian, (lat.) belonging to the day before.
• Primacy, (French) the first place or chief rule, especially in Ecclesiastical af∣fairs, whence a Metropolitan or Arch-Bishop is called a Primate.
• Primage, a duty due to Mariners for loading of a Ship, at the first setting forth from any Haven.
• Prime, (lat.) first or principal, also taken substantively for the first hour of the day; whence a Primer is a kind of little prayer book containing prayers, responsories, and antiphones, chosen for that hour of the day.
• A Prime, is in Surveying, an exact part containing 19 inches and four fift parts of an inch.
• Primaevous, (lat.) of a former age, elder.
• Primero, and Primavista, (Ital.) two games at Cards formerly much in use.
• Primier seisin, a word used in Common Law, a branch of the Kings prerogative, whereby he hath the first possession of all Lands and Tenements through the Realm.
• Primigenious, (lat.) coming naturally, or having its original from it self.
• Primitial, (lat.) belonging to the first fruites.
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• Primitive, (lat.) ancient, or of the first Age.
• Primogeniture, (lat.) a first birth, also a being eldest or first born.
• Primordial, (lat.) belonging to the first original or beginning of all things.
• Primum mobile, (lat.) the tenth or high∣est Orb, so called by Astronomers, as be∣ing the first, and upon which the motion of the inferiour Orbs depends.
• Principality, (lat.) the dignity or chief seat of a Soveraign Prince; also Princi∣palitie is taken for one of the Orders of Angels.
• Princox (from the Latin Praecox) a hasty or over-ripe headed young boy.
• Priority, (lat.) see Posteriority.
• Prisage, a custom or share belonging to the King out of such merchandises as are taken by way of lawful prize.
• Priscilla, the proper name of a woman, being a diminutive of Prisca, which signi∣fieth in Latin ancient.
• Priscillianists, a sort of Hereticks insti∣tuted by one Priscillianus, they denied the Persons of the Trinity, and held that things had their beginning from two Gods, the one good, and the other bad.
• Prism, (Greek) a certain Geometrical figure being a solid triangle.
• Pristine, (lat.) former, ancient, wonted.
• Pristis, (lat.) a kind of fish very long and slender; also a Ship fashioned long and narrow after the manner of that fish.
• Privado, (Span.) a favorite.
• Privation, (lat.) a depriving, bereave∣ing, or taking away.
• Priviledge, that which is granted to any person or place, against or beside the course of Common Law.
• Probability, (lat.) likelihood.
• Probat of testaments, the producing of dead mens Wills before the Ecclesiastical Judge, Ordinary of the place where the dead man dieth.
• Probation, (lat.) a proving or trying; whence a Probationer in the University, is one that is to be approved and allowed of by the Colledge for his doctrine and manners, before he be chosen Fellow.
• Probe, a Chyrurgions Instrument where∣with he tryeth the depth of wounds.
• Probity, (lat.) honesty, goodnesse, in∣tegrity.
• Problematical, (lat.) belonging to a Problem, i. a hard question propoun∣ded to any one to explain.
• Proboscide, (Greek) the snout of an Elephant.
• Procacity, (lat.) saucinesse, malepert∣nesse, scoffing.
• Procatarctick, (Greek) as Procatar∣ctick cause, that cause which foregoeth or beginneth another cause.
• Procerity, (lat.) heighth of stature, tallnesse.
• Processe, (lat.) the manner of proceed∣ing in every cause be it personal or reall, civil or criminal, even from the original writ to the end.
• Procession, (lat.) a passing on, a going forward, also a custom among Clergy∣men of passing along the streets singing of Psalms, making supplications and visiting the bounds of the Parish.
• Prochronism, (Gr.) an errour in Chro∣nology, or the computation of time.
• Prochyta, an Island in the Tyrrhene sea, not far from Puteoli in Campania, so cal∣led from Prochyta the Nurse of Aeneas; it hath been reported of old▪ that a moun∣tain of Inarime a neighbouring Island be∣ing cast into the Sea by an Earthquake, was the original of this Island.
• Procidence, (lat.) the falling down of any thing out of its place.
• Procinct, (lat.) a being prepared, or in a readinesse.
• Proclivity, (lat.) an aptnesse, propensity, or inclination to any thing.
• Proconsul, (lat.) one in the stead or place of a Consul, a deputy Consul.
• Procrastination, (lat.) a delaying or putting off from time to time.
• Procreation, (lat.) an ingendering or begetting.
• Proctors, (in Latin Procuratores) Advo∣cates, or those that sollicit other mens businesses; also those that appear in Par∣liament for Cathedral or other collegiate Churches, or for the common Clergy of every diocesse. There are also in the Uni∣versity two men chosen from among the Schollars to see good orders kept and ex∣ercises performed, who are called Proctors. Also in the State of Venice there are cer∣tain chief officers called Procurators.
• Proculcation, (lat.) a trampling, or treading under foot.
• Procyon, the lesser Dog-Star.
• Prodigality, (lat.) riotous, or wastefull expence.
• Prodigy, (lat.) a monstrous or unnatural action, betokening some great evil to come.
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• Proditorious, (lat.) belonging to Prodi∣tion, i. treason, or treachery, traytour-like.
• Prodrome, (Greek) a Praecursour, or fore-runner.
• Production, (lat.) a producing, or bring∣ing forth (whence the product in Arith∣metick is any number brought forth out of another) also a lengthning, or making longer.
• Profanation, (lat.) a putting holy things to a common use.
• Profection, (lat.) a walking forward, or going any journey; in Astronomy Profe∣ction, and Progression are all one, being no more then a regular change of the signifi∣cators, according to the succession of the signs.
• Professour, (lat.) a Lecturer, or Reader of any Art, or Science in the publick Schools of a University.
• Proficient, (lat.) helping forward, or profiting.
• Profile, (Ital.) a Term in painting, be∣ing a picture onely drawn side-wayes.
• Profligation, (lat.) a driving away, or putting to flight.
• Profluence, (lat.) a flowing plentifully, abundance.
• Prof••und, is oft-times joyned to other words, to add a weight and aggravation to them, as profound reverence. Cleo∣patra.
• Profundity, (lat.) a great depth, a deep extent.
• Profusion, (lat.) a powring out lavishly, a wasting.
• Progeny, (lat.) an off-spring, or issue, whence Progenitour, a fore-father, or an∣cestour.
• Progne, see Philomela.
• Prognostication, (lat.) a foretelling of things to come.
• Progressi••n, (lat.) a making progresse, or going foreward.
• Prohibition, (lat.) a forbidding, in A∣stronomy it is, when two Planets are ap∣plying to Conjunction, or Aspect, and be∣fore they come to joyn themselves, ano∣ther comes to Conjunction, or Aspect of the Planet applied to.
• Projections, a Mathematical Term, all sorts of Globes, or Spheres in Plano.
• Projecture, (lat.) a forecasting, or de∣signing; also a Term in Architecture, a jutting out in pillars, or buildings.
• Prolatation, (lat.) a delaying, or defer∣ring.
• Prolation, (lat.) a putting forth, a pro∣nouncing, or speaking plain.
• Proleptical, (Greek) belonging to a Pro∣lepsie, i. a conceaving of things in the minde before-hand, a figure wherein we prevent what another intendeth to al∣leadge.
• Proletaneous, or Proletarious, (lat.) ha∣ving many Children, and little to main∣tain them, of a mean, or low condition.
• Prolifical, (lat.) apt to breed▪ or bring forth, fruitfull. Prolifical signes are Can∣cer, Scorpio, and Pisces.
• Prolixity, (latin) teadiousnesse in speech.
• Prologue, (Greek) a Preface, a Speech which commends to the people a Come∣dy, or Fable, or the Author of it.
• Proloquutour, (lat.) he that speaks be∣fore others, a Chair-man, or Speaker of a Synod, or Convocation-house.
• Prolusion, (lat.) as it were a playing before, an Essay, or making tryal before hand of what a man is able to do.
• Prolyte, (Greek) one that hath studied the Law four year, a Licentiate.
• Prometheus, the father of Deucaleon, and son of Iapetus and Asia, he having formed of Clay the Image of a man, and climbing up to Heaven by the help of Minerva, he kindled a little stick at the Sun, and with that celestial fire, inlivened the man he had made, for which he was at the com∣mand of Jupiter, bound by Mercury to the Mountain Caucasus, where a Vulture was continually pecking at his Liver, but af∣terwards having diswaded Jupiter from marrying Thetis, he was for his good counsel freed by Hercules.
• Prominence, (lat.) a jutting, or stand∣ing out farther then another.
• Promiscuous, (lat. mingled, or confused one with another.
• Promontorie, (lat.) the top of a Hill, butting out upon the Sea.
• Promoters, or Promouters, those men, who for complaining of such as offend in acti∣ons bearing a penalty, have part of the profit for their reward.
• Promptitude, (lat.) quicknesse, or rea∣dinesse.
• Promptuarie, (lat.) a Cellar, or But∣tery.
• Promulgation, (lat.) a proclaiming, or publishing by hanging any Law in the open market place.
• Prone, (lat.) stooping downward, or lying with the face downward.
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• Pronephew, (lat.) a Nephew, or Grand∣childs son.
• Proem, (lat.) a preface, or prologue, an entrance into any discourse.
• Propagotion, (lat.) a planting of many young Vines from the old one cut down; also a spreading abroad, the multiplying of a stock.
• Prop••lled, (lat.) thrust out, or driven forward.
• Propension, (lat.) a pronenesse, or incli∣nation to any thing.
• Properation, (lat.) a doing a thing quickly, a making haste.
• Prophetical, (Greek) belonging to Prophesie, i. a foretelling of things to come by certain hidden, and mysterious speeches.
• Propination, (lat.) a drinking to any one.
• Propinquity, (lat.) nearnesse, or neigh∣bourhood, also affinity.
• Propitiatory, (lat.) a place where God is pacified.
• Propitious, (lat.) favourable, whence Propitiation, an appeasing of Gods dis∣pleasure by sacrifice, or prayer.
• Propontis, all that Sea that reacheth from the Streights of Hellespont, to the Bosphorus Thracius.
• Proportion, (lat.) a convenience, or an∣swerablenesse of one thing to another.
• Proposition, (lat.) a propounding, or shewing what one intends to speak of; al∣so the major, or first term in Logick.
• Propraetor, (lat.) a Deputy Praetor, or Chief Justice.
• Proprietary, (French) an owner, or he that hath a property in any thing, or one that hath the fruit of a benefice to him∣self and his Heirs.
• Propudious, (lat.) shamefull, filthy, dis∣honest.
• Propugnacle, (lat.) a Bulwark, or For∣tresse, whence propugnation, a defending, or fighting for.
• Propulsation, (lat.) a chasing away, or driving back.
• Proreption, (lat.) a creeping, or steal∣ing on by little and little.
• Proritation, (lat.) a stirring up, or pro∣voking.
• Prorogation, (lat.) a deferring, or put∣ting off to another time; it is spoken more especially of the adjourning of a Parlia∣ment, or Councel.
• Prosaick, (lat.) belonging to prose.
• Proscription, (lat.) a banishing, or out∣lawing, a making it lawfull for any man to kill the Proscript, or person outlawed, where ever he findeth him.
• Prosecution, (lat.) a following, or pur∣suing eagerly.
• Proselyte, (Greek) a stranger converted to our faith, it was heretofore meant onely of one converted from Heathenisme to the Jewish religion.
• Proserpina, the daughter of Jupiter and Ceres, she being ravisht by Pluto, was sought for by Ceres all over the earth, but after the whole matter was related by the Nymph Cyane, Jupiter at her earnest re∣quest, granted that her daughter should return again to earth, on condition she had tasted no meat since she came to Hell, but Ascalaphus having declared that she had eaten part of a Pomegranate (for which Ceres turned him into an Owl) she could obtain no more, but that she should be 6 moneths upon earth, and 6 moneths with Pluto.
• Prosodie, (Greek) the art of giving words their due accent, or tone.
• Prosopopaea, (Greek) a certain figure, wherein divers things are personated, which are not real.
• A Prospect, (lat.) a view, or sight of any thing afar off.
• Prospicuous, (lat.) fair, or goodly to be∣hold.
• Prosternation, (lat.) a throwing to the ground, or laying flat, an overcoming.
• Prostitution, (lat.) a Harlots letting out the use of her body for hire.
• Prostration, (lat.) a falling at ones feet.
• Protatick, (lat.) belonging to a Pro∣tasie, i. a proposition; also the first part of a Comedy.
• Protelation, (lat.) a driving, or chasing away.
• Protend, (lat.) to stretch forth.
• Protervity, (lat.) way-wardnesse, or frowardnesse.
• Protesilaus, the son of Iphiclus, who go∣ing to the Trojan war, contrary to the Oracles advice, was slain by Hector.
• Protestation, (lat.) an open declaring of ones minde, whence the Reformers in Ger∣many, from the protestation they made at Spires, were called Protestants.
• Proteus, a Sea deity, the son of Oceanus and Thetys, he was reported to have been Neptune's Sheapheard, and the keeper of his Sea-calfs; the Poets also feign that he was a great Prophet, and that he could

• transform himself into what shape he pleased, Servius affirms that he reigned in the Carpathian Island, leaving Pal∣lene, a Citie of Thessaly, where he first lived.
• Protocol, (Greek) the first draught of a deed, contract, or instrument, or a short Register kept thereof; also the upper part of the leaf of a book, wherein the Title is written.
• Protolicia, a Castle in Northumberland, where in King Henry the second's reign, William King of Scots laying siege to it, received a repulse; it is thought to have been the same with that, which is now called Prudhow-Castle.
• Protologie, (Greek) a fore-speech, or Preface.
• Protomartyr, (Greek) the first Martyr, or witnesse of the New Testament.
• Protoplast, (Greek) first formed, or made.
• Prototype, (Greek) the Original type, or first pattern.
• Protraction, (lat.) a putting off, defer∣ring, or delaying of time.
• Protractor, a certain Mathematical in∣strument made of brasse, consisting of the Scale and Semicircle, used in the survey∣ing of Land.
• Protreptick, (Greek) doctrinal, or gi∣ving instructions.
• Protrusion, (lat.) a thrusting forward.
• Protuberant, (lat.) rising, or swelling out.
• Protype, (Greek) an Example, or Copy, after which any thing is made.
• Proveditor, (Italian, as it were a provi∣dour) a great Military Officer among the Venetians.
• Proverbial, (lat.) belonging to a pro∣verb, i. an adage, or old saying.
• Provincial, (lat.) belonging to a Pro∣vince; also a Provincial is taken sub∣stantively for a chief Governour of an Order of Fryars.
• Proviso, (Ital.) a caveat, or condition, made in any writing, without the perfor∣mance, of which the writing becomes void.
• Provocation, (lat.) a provoking, stirring up, or challenging.
• Proul, to pilfer, or steal in the night.
• Prow, (old word) honour, also the fore-castle of a ship; also a point jutting out in a building.
• Prov••st, a President of a Colledge, or Cathedral Church; also a chief Magistrate of a Town.
• Proximity, (lat.) nearnesse, or neigh∣bourhood, a nigh degree of kindred.
• Prudence, the Christian name of divers women, the signification well known.
• Pruinous, (lat.) frosty, covered with frost.
• Prunel, an Herb, otherwise called ••ickle∣wort.
• Prunella, a kind of fruit, or Plum, some∣what like a Prune.
• Pruneth, a Term in Faulconry, they say a Hawk Pruneth, and not picketh her self; yet a Hawk cannot be said properly to prune her self, but when she beginneth at her legs, and fetcheth moisture at her tail, wherewith she embalmeth her feet, and striketh the feathers of her wings through her beak, and this fetching off the Oyl is called the Note.
• Prurient, (lat.) itching, or having an itching desire.
• Pruriginous, (lat.) having the itch.

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• Psalmodie, (Greek) a singing of Psalms, or verses made of short songs, or sen∣tences.
• Psalmographie, (Greek) a writing of Psalms.
• Psaltery, (Greek) a certain Musical in∣strument with ten strings, somewhat like a Harp, some call it a Shalm.
• Psephisme, (Greek) an Ordinance, Sta∣tute, or Decree.
• Pseudography, (Greek) a false writing, or counterfeit hand.
• Pseudologie, (Greek) a false speaking, or lying.
• Pseudomartyr, (Greek) a false witnesse, a counterfeit Martyr.
• Pseudoprophet, (Greek) a false Pro∣phet.
• Psychomachy, (Greek) a conflict, or war of the Soul.

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• Ptisane, (lat.) a kinde of drink made of Barly.
• Ptolomaeus, one of Alexander the Great's Captains; also the name of several Kings of Aegypt.

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• Puberty, (lat.) youth, the age when hairs begin to grow about the privy members.
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• Publican, a Farmer of publick Rents, or Revenues.
• Publication, (lat.) a publishing, or ma∣king common.
• Pucelage, (French) Virginity.
• Pucle-Church, a Town in Glo••ershire, in times past, a Mannour of the Kings; where King Edmund interposing himself between his Sewer and one Leove a ruffian to part them as they were quarreling, was thrust through the body, and so lost his life.
• Pudibund, (lat.) bashfull, or shame-fac't.
• Pudicity, (lat.) chastity, or purity.
• Puerility, (lat.) boyishnesse, childishness▪ or simplicity.
• Puerperous, (lat.) bearing children, or causing to bear children.
• Pugill, (lat.) a small handfull.
• Pugillation, (lat.) a playing the Cham∣pion, a fighting for any one.
• Pugnacity, (lat.) an eager desire of fighting.
• Puisne, or Puny, (French as it were born after) a word used in common Law for the younger.
• Puissance, (French) power, force, might.
• Pulchritude, (lat.) fairnesse, or tallnesse of person.
• Pulicous, (lat.) full of fleas.
• Pullation, (lat.) a hatching of chickens.
• Pullulation, (lat.) a springing, a bud∣ding forth, a shooting up.
• Pulmonary, (lat) the herb Lungwort.
• Pulmonarious, (lat.) diseased in the Lungs.
• Pulp, (lat.) the brawny or musc'ly part of the body; also a kind of fish, o∣therwise called a Cuttle-fish or Polypus.
• Pulsation, (lat.) a knocking, striking, or beating upon.
• Pulverisation, (lat.) a breaking to dust, a reducing into powder.
• Pulverulent, (lat.) dusty, full of powder.
• Pumication, (lat.) a making smooth with a Pumice-stone, i. a stone that is spongy and full of holes.
• Punch, a kind of Indian drink.
• Pungency, (lat.) a pricking.
• Punctillo, (Ital.) a diminutive of Puncto, i. a little point; also a thing of no va∣lue or moment.
• Punick faith, falshood or perjury.
• Punition, (lat.) a chastising or correct∣ing.
• Puny, see Puisne.
• Pupill, (lat.) the ball or apple of the eye, also derived from Pupillus, it signi∣fieth an Orphan or fatherlesse Child, one under age or ward, or the tuition of a Tutor.
• Purbeck, a demy Island in Dorcetshire, in the midst of which standeth Corf Castle, where Aelfrith to make way for her own son Ethelred to the Crown, caused her son in law Edward to be barbarously mur∣thered as he came from hunting to visit her.
• Purfle, (French pourfile) a guard, bor∣der, or fringe about any garment.
• Purflew, a term in Heraldry, common to all furs so long as they are used in bor∣ders.
• Purgatory, (lat.) a place of cleansing or purging, a certain place where the Ro∣man Catholicks say the souls of men are cleansed before they go to Heaven.
• Purification, (lat.) a purifying, a ma∣king clean or pure.
• Purlue, (French, as it were pure ground) all that ground near any Forrest, which being anciently made Forrest, is after∣wards by perambulations severed again from the same.
• To Purloin, to lurk, to get privily away.
• Purple, or Purpure, signifieth in Heral∣dry that colour which we commonly call red.
• Purpurean, (lat.) made of Purple, or of the colour of Purple.
• Purulent, (lat.) full of matter or filth.
• Purveyour, see Pourveyour.
• Pusilanimity, (lat.) cowardlinesse, or faint-heartednesse.
• Pustulous, (lat.) full of Pustules, i. bli∣sters, blaines, or wheales.
• Putation, (lat.) a lopping or cutting off superfluous branches; also a thinking, reputing, or esteeming.
• Putrid, (lat.) corrupt, rotten, full of matter, whence putrescence, corrup∣tion.
• Puttocks, (a term in Navigation) small shroudes which go from the maine, fore, and missen masts shrouds, to the top∣masts shrouds,
• To Put over, a term in Faulconry. A Hawk is said to put over when she remo∣veth her meat from her gorge into her bowels by traversing with her body; but chiefely with her neck.

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• Pygmachy, (Greek) a fighting with Hurlbats.
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• Pygmies, a certain people inhabiting the uttermost mountains of India, not above a cubit in heighth, of whom it is reported that they ride forth in the Spring time upon Goats or Rams toward the Sea side, armed with bows and arrows to destroy the nests of the Cranes, which else would grow so numerous, that they would not be able to overcome them.
• Pyramidal, (Greek) belonging to a Pyramid, i. a Geometrical figure, See Obelisk.
• Pyrenaean hills, certain hills that divide France from Spain.
• Pyrotechnie. (Greek) any structure or machination made by fire-works.
• Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles, also a King of Epirus who made war with the Romans for a long while, he was slain at the taking of Argos, by the fall of a tile.
• Pythagorical, belonging to Pythagoras, a famous Philosopher, who was the chief that held transmigration or the passing of soules out of one body into another.
• Pythonical, belonging to Python, i. a prophecying spirit; also the name of a Serpent of a very vast magnitude which was killed by Apollo, in memory of which the Pythian Games were instituted.

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• QVabb, a kind of fish, called a water-weasel, or Eelpout.
• Quacksalver, (Dutch) a Mountebank or simple Physitian.
• Quadragenarious, (lat.) belonging to 40 years.
• Quadragesimal, (lat.) belonging to Quadragesima, i. the fourtieth day before Easter, or first Sunday in Lent.
• Quadrain, (French) a stanza or staff consisting of 4 verses.
• Quadrangular, (lat.) belonging to a quadrangle, i. a foursquare figure.
• Quadrant, (lat.) a certain Mathematical Instrument, being the fourth part of a circle, also the fourth part of any measure or number.
• Quadrantal, (lat.) four fingers thick; also a certain figure every way four∣square.
• Quadrature, (lat.) a squaring, a making square of any thing.
• Quadriennial, (lat.) of four years.
• Quadrigarious, (lat.) belonging to a Coach or Charriot drawn with foure horses.
• A Quadrin, (French) a mite or small piece of money, valueing about a farthing.
• Quadringenarious, (lat.) belonging to 4 hundred.
• Quadripartite, (lat.) divided into four parts.
• Quadrivial, (lat.) consisting of 4 wayes or turnings.
• Quadrupedal, (lat.) having 4 feet.
• Quadrupedian signs, representing four-footed beasts, Aries, Taurus, Leo, Sagi∣tarius, Capricornus.
• Quadrulation, (lat.) a doubling four times.
• Quadruplication, (lat.) a folding of a thing 4 times.
• Quail, a kind of bird, called in Latin Cothurnix.
• Quakers, a modern Sect of religious En∣thusiasts, who take that denomination from their strange gestures and quaking fits which come upon them in their pub∣lick Assemblies.
• Quandary, (as it were quando ara, i. when will the altar be ready) a studying or doubting what to do.
• Quarantain, (French) Lent, or the term of 40 dayes before Easter.
• Quardecue, (French) the fourth part of a French crown.
• Quare impedit, the name of a Writ that lyeth for him that hath purchased a Ma∣nour with an advouson thereunto belong∣ing, against him that disturbeth him in the right of his advouson.
• Quarentine, a right allowed by the Law of England to the Widow of a landed man deceased▪ of continuing 40 dayes after his decease in his chief Manour-house.
• Quarry, a place whence stones are dig∣ged out, also a term in Hunting, being a reward given to hounds after they have hunted.
• Quarril, (French) a kind of coin va∣luing 3 half pence of our mony, the fourth part of a real.
• Quartan, (lat.) belonging to the fourth.
• Quartary, (lat.) the fourth part of a sextary, i. two pound.
• Quarter, a term in Blazon, being a fourth part of an Escutcheon.
• Quartile aspect, a term in Astronomy, the distance of three signs between one star and another.
• Quarto, a book is said to be in Quarto, when it consisteth of sheets doubled into 4 leaves a piece.
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• Quassation, (lat.) a shaking or brandi∣shing.
• Quater cosins, fourth cosins, the last degree of kindred; also such whose friendship declines.
• Quaternion, or Quaternity, (lat.) the number of four.
• Quaver, one of the quickest times or pauses in Musick.
• Queenborough, a Town in Kent, built by King Edward the third in honour of Queen Philip his wife, who built Queens Colledge in Oxford.
• Queint, (old word) quenched, also strange.
• Quercine, (lat.) belonging to an oak.
• Querimonious, (lat.) mourning, bewail∣ing, complaining.
• Quern, a hand-mill.
• Querpo, see Cuerpo.
• Querulous, (lat.) singing or cherping sorrowfully, declaring ones complaints.
• Quest, or Inquest, a meeting of Citizens to inquire what misdemeanours are com∣mitted in every Ward.
• Questour, or Quaestour, (lat.) the Cham∣berlain of a City, a publick Treasurer.
• Quicksilver, a certain Mineral, being a slimy water, mixt with a pure white earth.
• Quiddity, a term in School-philosophy, the essence of any thing, also a quirk or subtile question.
• Quid pro quo, signifieth in Common Law, a mutual performance of a contract by both parties.
• Quincupedal, (lat.) having five feet, or of the measure of five feet.
• Quingenarious, (lat.) belonging to five hundred.
• Quinquagesime Sunday, the fiftieth Sun∣day before Easter called Shrove Sun∣day.
• Quinquangle, (lat.) having 5 corners or angles.
• Quinquennial, (lat.) five years old, or lasting five years.
• Quinquepartite, (lat.) divided into 5 parts.
• Quinquereme, (lat.) a Gally having 5 ranks of oares, or wherein every oare hath 5 men; as the Quadri••eme consisted of 4. and the Trireme of 3.
• Quinsiesme, in Common Law, is a cer∣tain tax laid upon the subject by the Prince, being the fifteenth part of mens lands or goods.
• Quintain, (French) a certain Game formerly much in request at marriages, being a running a Tilt with poles against a thick plank or Buttresse of wood, where∣in he that shewed most actively, had a Pea∣cock for prize.
• Quintal, (French) a hundred weight.
• Quintessential, (lat.) belonging to Quin∣tessence, i. the purest substance extracted out of any body, the chief force or ver∣tue of any thing.
• Quintile, (lat.) the moneth of July, being the fifth moneth from March.
• Quintuple, (lat.) five-fold.
• Quinzain, (French) a stanza or staff of 15 verses.
• Quirinal hill, one of the 7 hills of Rome, there is also a gate called Porta Quiri∣nalis.
• Quirister, see Chorister.
• Quiritation, (lat.) a crying, calling or shouting.
• Quirites, a name anciently given to the Romans.
• Quite claim, in Common Law, is an ac∣quitting of a man for any action that he hath against him.
• Quodlibetical questions, certain questions disputed pro and con in the Schooles.
• Justices of the Quorum, four Justices of the peace in any County, whose presence is required in all businesses of importance, their Commission beginning thus, Quorum vos A B &c. unum esse volumus.
• Quotidian, (lat.) daily, done every day.
• Quotient, (lat.) a term in Arithmetick, the number that riseth out of the divi∣sour.
• Quoyl, a term in Navigation, a rope laid up round, one take over another.
• Quoyn, a thing which Gunners set un∣der their Ordnance to mount them higher or let them lower.

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• RAbbettings, a term in Navigation, the letting in of the planks to the keel.
• Rabbinical, belonging to a Rabbi or Rabbin, i. a Doctor or Teacher among the Jews.
• Rabid, (lat.) mad or raging.
• Racemation, (lat.) a gathering of grapes after the clusters are gone.
• Racemiferous, (lat.) bearing clusters of grapes.
• Rachel, the proper name of a woman, signifying in Hebrew a sheep.
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• Radegund, (Sax.) favourable counsel, a Christian name of women.
• Rade vore, (Sax.) Tapestry or Loom-work.
• Radiant, (lat.) bright, shining, or glittering like the Sun-beams.
• Radiation, a darting forth of beames.
• Radical, (lat.) belonging to the root, whence Radical moisture, the natural, and vital moisture spread like a dew, through all parts of the body; in Astrology a ra∣dical question, is a question propounded, when the Lord of the ascendent, and Lord of the hour are of one nature and tripli∣citie.
• Radication, (lat.) a taking root.
• Raffinage, (French) a refining.
• Raffle, (French) a kinde of Game at Dice, also a rifling.
• Raft, a kinde of Boat, or floating Ves∣sel.
• Ragounces, (Sax.) a kinde of precious stone.
• Raillery, (French) jesting, sporting, or scoffing.
• Raimund, (Germ.) a proper name, sig∣nifying quiet; answering to the Greek He∣sychius.
• Rainbow, a Meteor of diverse colours, fiery, blue, and green, when the Sunne beams are in a Geometrical opposition to a shallow, and moist cloud.
• Rally, (French) to reunite, to gather together dispersed Troups.
• Ralf, (Germ.) a proper name of men, contracted from Rodulph, i. help coun∣sell.
• Ramagious, (French) wilde, belonging to Ramage, i. boughs, or branches.
• Rambooz, a kinde of compound drink.
• Ramberge, (French) a kinde of swift Gally, or long ship.
• Ramist, a follower of Ramus, a modern writer, famous for reducing many of the arts into a handsom method and abridge∣ment.
• Ramosity, (lat.) fulnesse of branches, or boughs.
• Rampant, a Term in Heraldry, being spoken of a beast climbing, or rearing up his fore-feet.
• Rampier, or Rampert, (French) a Term in fortification, the wall of a bulwark, or fortresse.
• Ramsey, a famous Abby in Huntington∣shire, so called as it were Rams Island; it was built in the time of King Edgar, by his Kinsman Ailwin, sirnamed Healf-Ko∣ning, i. half King, and inlarged by Bishop Oswald.
• Rancidity, or Rancour, (lat.) mouldi∣nesse, rottennesse, mustinesse; also malice, or inward grudging.
• Randal, (Sax.) a proper name, from Ranulph, i. fair help.
• Ransome, (French, contract: a redemp∣tion) a summe of money paid for the re∣deeming of a Captive, or for the pardo∣ning of some hainous Crime.
• Rapacity, (lat.) ravenousnesse, extor∣tion, greedinesse.
• Rapes, certain divisions of the County of Sussex; as Kent is divided into Wapen∣takes, these Rapes are six in all, namely of Chicester, Arundel, Brembe, Lewise, Peven∣sey and Hastings.
• Raphael, a proper name, signifying in Hebrew the physick of God.
• Rapidity, (lat.) swiftnesse, quicknesse, hastinesse.
• Rapine, (lat.) Robbery, Pillaging, a ta∣king a thing by open force, or violence.
• Rapsodie, (Greek) a contexture, or joyning together of divers verses, or sen∣tences.
• Rapture, (lat.) a snatching away by violence; also an Ecstasie, or Transport∣ment.
• Rarity, thinnesse, it is by the Phylo∣sophers opposed to Density, and that bo∣dy is said to be rare, whose quantity is more, and its substance lesse.
• Rarefaction, (lat.) a rarefying, or ma∣king thin.
• Raskail, (old world) trash.
• Raspatory, (French) a Butlers instru∣ment, wherewith he chips bread.
• Raspis, a kinde of fruit growing on a shrub, called in French Framboise; as it were a wood Strawberry.
• Ras-Algense, a Star in the Twin.
• Ras-Alden, the head of Junonius.
• Rasure, (lat.) a shaving, or scraping.
• Ratiocination, (lat.) a reasoning, ar∣guing, or discoursing.
• Ratification, (lat.) a ratifying, confir∣ming, or making sure.
• Rational, (lat.) reasonable indued with reason; it is also substantively taken for a certain Priestly attire among the Jews.
• Ravage, (French) havock, spoyl, ran∣sack.
• Ra••city, (lat.) hoarsnesse.
• Ravenna, a famous Citie of Italie, where anciently the Exarchs belonging to the Emperour of Constantinople had their re∣sidence;

• it is situate upon the Adriatick Seashore.
• Ravishment, or Rape, the violent de∣flouring of a woman; also in Common-law, it is used for the taking away, either of a woman, or an Heir in Ward.
• Raunge, (Fr.) the Office of a Raunger, who is to drive back the wilde beasts of the Forest, as often as they Raunge out of the same into any of the Purlues.
• Ray, (French) a beam of the Sun, or any other Star; also Metaphorically ta∣ken for the lustre of any glorious object. Cleopatra.

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• Reach, a Term in Navigation, the di∣stance of any two points of Land, which bear in a direct line one towards ano∣ther.
• Reading, the chief Town in Bark-shire, so called from the River Rhea, or from Brittish word Redin, i. Fern, which grow∣eth thereabout in great plenty; here an∣ciently the Danes fortified themselves, and made a Rampier between Kenet and Ta∣mis, when they were defeated by King Aethelwolf.
• Read, or Rede, (old word) councel, ad∣vice, help.
• Real, (Span.) a kinde of Spanish Coyn, valuing about six pence of our money.
• Ream, a certain measure of paper, con∣sisting of twenty quires.
• Reasonable aid, in Common-law, is a duty that the Lord of the fee claimeth, holding by Knights service, or in soccage to marry his daughter, or make his son Knight.
• Rebate, see Chamfering.
• Rebate, a Term used among merchants, to allow so much as the interest of any summe of money amount to, for the time of antepayment; also a Term in Faulcon∣ry, vide to Bate.
• Rebecca, (Hebr.) fat and full, a proper name of women.
• Rebeck, an old Trot, Chaucer; also a certain Musical instrument of 3 strings, called in Latin Sistrum, or Fidicula.
• Rebellion, (Lat. as it were a rewarring) a second resistance of such, as being for∣merly overcome in battel by the Romans, had yielded themselves to their subje∣ction.
• Rebus, the expressing of any name, con∣ceit, motto, or devise by a picture; see Camdens Remains.
• Rebutter, a Term in Law, is, when the Donnee by virtue of a Warrantry made by the Donour repelleth the Heir.
• Recalcitration, (lat.) a striking back with the heel.
• Recantation, (lat.) a revoking, or un∣saying what was said before.
• Recapitulation, (lat.) a brief Repeti∣tion, a summing up the heads of a former discourse.
• Recargaison, (French) a lading of a ship homeward, a backfraught.
• Recede, (lat.) to retire, to go back.
• Recent, (lat.) fresh, new, lately done.
• Recension, (lat.) a rehearsing, reckoning or numbring.
• Receptacle, (lat.) a place fit to receive, or contain any thing, a ware-house, or store-house.
• Reception, when two Planets are in each others dignity, then they are said to re∣ceive one another, and it is manifold, by house, by exaltation, by triplicity, term, or face.
• Recesse, (lat.) a recoyling, or going back, a place of recreat, or retirement.
• Recheat, a certain lesson, which Hun∣ters wind on their Horn, when the Hounds have lost their Game.
• Recidivous, (lat.) falling, or sliding back, to the same passe as it was before.
• Reciprocal, (lat.) mutual, or interchange∣able, whence Reciprocation.
• Recision, (lat.) a cutting away.
• Recitation, (lat.) a reciting, or rehear∣sing, whence Recitative stile in Musick is a kinde of singing, wherewith Heroick, or Dramatick Poems are rehearsed upon the stage.
• Reck, (old word) to care.
• Recluse, (lat.) shut up, retired, cloyster'd up in a solitary place.
• Recognisance, (Fr.) signifieth in Com∣mon-law, a Bond of Record, testifying from the Recognisour to the Recognizee, a certain summe of money, which is acknow∣ledged in some Court of Record before a Judge, or other Officer of the Court.
• Recognition, (lat.) a revising, re-acknow∣ledging, or calling to minde.
• Recollects, a certain Order of Fryars.
• Recommendation, (lat.) a commending any one to another.
• Recopilation, (Span.) a picking, or choo∣sing out the best from among a great many things.
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• Record, (French) in Common-law, sig∣nifieth an authentical, or uncontroulable testimony in writing.
• Recordation, (lat.) a remembring, or calling to minde.
• Recorder, one whom the Magistrate of a Town doth associate unto him, for his better direction in matters of Justice, and proceedings according to Law.
• Recovery, in Common-law, signifieth an obtaining of any thing by Judgement, or Tryal of Law.
• Recourse, (lat.) refuge, or retreat.
• Recoyle, (French Reculeer as it were, re∣trahere culum, i. to draw back the tail) to retire, or go back.
• Recreant, (French) fainthearted, not standing to ones challenge; also treache∣rous.
• Recreation, (lat. as it were a making, or creating anew) a refreshing, reviving, or restoring.
• Recrement, (lat.) the drosse scum, or dregs of any thing.
• Recrimination, (lat.) a retorting back a fault upon the accuser.
• Rectangle, (lat.) a right, or streight an∣gle, or corner, which is made by the fal∣ling of one line perpendicular upon an∣other.
• Rectification, (lat.) a rectifying, a ma∣king right, or streight.
• Recto sur disclamer, a Writ that lieth where the Lord in the Kings Court doth avow upon his Tenant, and the Tenant disclaimeth to hold of him.
• Rectour, (lat.) a Governour, also he that hath the charge, or cure of any Parish Church.
• Rectus in curia, he that standeth at the Bar, and hath no man to object any thing against him.
• Reculade, (French) a recoiling, or going back, also a secret corner.
• Reculver, an ancient Town in Kent, heretofore called Regulbium, here the Cap∣tain of the first Band of the Vetasians lay in Garrison; it is also famous for the Palace, built by Aethelbert, King of Kent, and the Monastery built by Brightwald, the eight Arch-bishop of Canterbury, from which the Town came to be called Raculf∣minster.
• Recuperation, (lat.) a recovering.
• Recurvation, (lat.) a crooking, bowing, or bending backward.
• A Recusant, a Roman Catholick, so cal∣led from refusing to submit to the Disci∣pline of the Reformed Church.
• Redamation, (lat.) a loving again.
• Redargution, (lat.) a disproving, a con∣vincing of falsity by solid arguments.
• Redborn, (signifying as much as redwa∣ter) a Town in Hertford-shire, seated up∣on the Military High-way, commonly cal∣led Watling-street, it hath been famous heretofore for the Reliques of Amphibalus, who suffered Martyrdom under Diocle∣sian, and who converted St. Alban to the Christian faith.
• Reddition, (lat.) a restoring, or giving back.
• Redevable, (French) being in arrear∣age, or behinde in payment, whence it is used in a translate sence, for obleiged, or beholding to. Cleopatra.
• Redhibition, (lat.) the causing of any one by Law, to take that again which he sold.
• Rediculus, a certain God worshipt a∣mong the ancient Romans, without the Porta Capena, upon occasion of Hannibals returning from Rome, being frighted with certain apparitions.
• Redintegration, (lat.) a renewing, a ma∣king whole again.
• Redition, (lat.) a returning, or coming back.
• Redituaries, a certain Order of Fryars, being a branch of the Franciscans.
• Redolent, (lat.) yielding a sweet smell, fragrant.
• Redonation, (lat.) a giving back, that which was taken away.
• Redoubt, a Term in fortification, the jutting out of the angles, or corners of any work.
• A Redstert, a certain bird, otherwise called a Robin Redbreast, in Latin Rubi∣cilla.
• Redshanks, the Irish-Scots, are so called from Reuda, an Irish Captain, who anci∣ently, by force of Arms, seated himself in a part of Scotland.
• Redubbours, those that buy Cloath, which they know to be stollen, and turn it into 〈◊〉〈◊〉 other form, or fashion.
• Reduction, (lat.) a reducing, or bring∣ing back.
• Redversies, commonly called Rivers's, the name of an honourable Family in Cornwal, who have been heretofore Earles of Devonshire, and Barons of Plimpton, they are stiled in Latin Records, de Ripariis.
• Redundancy, (lat.) an overflowing, a∣bounding, or exceeding.
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• Reduplication, (lat.) a redoubling, a Rhetorical figure, called in Greek Anadi∣plosis, wherein a verse, or sentence ends in the same word as the following begins.
• Reentry, in Common Law, is a resum∣ing or taking again possession of what we had last forgon.
• Reev, or Greve, from the Saxon word Gerefa, the Bailiff of a Franchise or Ma∣nour.
• To Reeve, a term in Navigation, and spoken of ropes, signifieth as much as to put in or to put through.
• Refection, (lat.) a repast or meale.
• Refectory, or Refectuary, a place in Mo∣nasteries, where the Monks and Fryars eat together.
• To Refell, (lat.) to disprove by argu∣ments, to confute, to prove false.
• Referendary▪ (lat.) an officer who makes report of Petitions or Requests exhibited to any Prince, more particularly one un∣der the Master of Requests in France.
• Reflection, (lat.) a bowing or bending back, a beating or striking back; also by metaphor a casting back ones minde upon things past.
• Reflux, (lat.) a flowing back, an eb∣bing of the Sea or any River.
• Refocillation, (lat.) a cherishing, com∣forting, or reviving; also a kindling or keeping warm.
• Reformado, (Span.) an officer who ha∣ving lost his men, is continued in pay as an inferiour souldier.
• To Reform, a term in Faulconry, for a Hawk is not said to prune, but to reform her feathers.
• Refractary, (lat. as it were irrefran∣gible, i. unbreakable) stubborn or ob∣stinate.
• Refranation, is when a Planet is ap∣plying to another, either by conjunction or aspect, and before he comes joyned, he becomes retrograde.
• Refret, (French Refrain) the burthen of a Ballade or Song.
• Refrigeration, (lat.) a refreshing or cooling again.
• Refuge, (lat.) a flying for succour or safety, a place of respite or succour.
• Refulgent, (lat.) shining bright.
• To Refund, (lat.) to dissolve or melt again, also to pay back.
• Refutation, (lat.) a confuting by argu∣ments, a disapproving.
• Regal, (lat.) Kingly, Royal, Stately; also a Regal signifieth a Ring or Jewel of great value.
• To Regale, (French) to fare like a King, to intertain Royally.
• Regalia, (lat.) the rights and privi∣ledges of a King.
• Regardant, (French) looking back, a term in Heraldry.
• Regarder of the Forrest, is an officer of the Kings Forrest, who is sworn to make the regard of the Forrest, to surview all other officers, and to inquire of all of∣fences, as well of Vert as of Venison, within all that ground that is parcell of the Forrest which is called the Regard.
• Regards, (French) attentive mark∣ings or observings of men and actions. Cleopat.
• Regency, (lat.) a ruling, but more par∣ticularly the Protectourship of a King∣dom.
• Regeneration, (lat.) a new-birth, a be∣ing born again spiritually.
• Regermination, (lat.) a sprouting forth or budding again.
• Regicide, (lat.) a King-killer.
• Regifugium, a certain Feast celebrated by the ancient Romans the seventh Ca∣lends of March, on which day Tarquin and Kingly government were banished Rome.
• Regiment, a body of souldiers con∣sisting of 10 Companies or Troops.
• Register, (lat.) a Memorial or Record▪ more particularly our ancientest Book of the Law, containing the Original Writs of the Common Law.
• Regl••tination, (lat.) a glueing again.
• Regrater, a word anciently used in the Common Law for him that bought by the great, and sold by retaile; also one that trimmes up old wares for sale, a huckster.
• Regression, or Regresse, (lat.) a return∣ing or going back.
• Regret, (French) desire, also sorrow or reluctance.
• Regularity, (lat.) order, rule, or pre∣script; also a Canonical life.
• Marcus Attilius Regulus, a famous Ro∣man, who being taken by the Carthagi∣nians, had leave given him to treat about the exchange of prisoners, upon his word given to return by such a time, which ha∣ving performed, he was put to death with exquisite torments.
• Regurgitation, (lat.) a swallowing up again.
• Rejection, (lat.) a casting off.
• To Reinbosce, (Span.) to return to the wood, to lie in ambush again.
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• Rejoynder, in Common Law, signifieth a second answer made by the defendant, or an exception to a replication: the Ci∣vilians call it Duplication.
• Reister, (French) or Ruyter, (Dutch) a horseman (whence Swartrutter, a horse∣man with black armour) also a long horse∣mans cloak.
• Reiteration, (lat.) a saying or doing the same thing over again, a repeat∣ing.
• Relaps, (lat.) a falling back into any sicknesse.
• Relative, (lat.) having relation or near∣nesse to some other thing.
• Relaxation, (lat.) a loosening, a relea∣sing, a setting at liberty.
• Relay, a term in Hunting, a setting of hounds in a readinesse where the Deer are likely to passe.
• Release, in the Common Law, is an in∣strument, whereby estates, rights, titles, entrys, actions, and other things, are sometimes extinguished sometimes inlar∣ged, sometimes transferred, and some∣times abridged.
• Relief, in Common Law, is a certain summe of money that the Tenant holding by knights-service, grandsergeantry, or other Tenure, for which homage or regal service is due, or by soccage for which no homage is due; and being at full age at the death of his Ancestour, doth pay to his Lord at his entrance. Also a term in Architecture.
• Releg••tion, (lat.) a sending or convey∣ing away, a banishing.
• To Relent, (lat.) to grow soft; it is also used metaphorically for to melt into pitty or compassion.
• Relevation, (lat.) a raising or lifting up again.
• Relict, (lat.) a thing forsaken or left destitute; also the Widow of a deceased husband, is called the Relict of such a one.
• Reliquary, (French) a shrine or casket where reliqnes (i. something preserved either of the body or cloths of deceased Saints) are kept.
• Relo••i••in, a returning to the same point again.
• Reliquation, (lat.) remains, or a being in arrearage.
• Reluctation, or Reluctance, (lat.) a stri∣ving, wrestling, or strugling against.
• Remainder, in Common Law, signifieth a power or hope to enjoy Lands, Rents or Tenements, after the estate of another expired.
• Remancipation, (lat.) a returning back a commodity into the hands of him of whom it was first bought.
• Remembrancers, three officers belonging to the Exchequer; the first is called the Kings Remembrancer, who entreth in his office all recognisanses taken before the Barons, and maketh bonds for any of the Kings debts, or for appearance or obser∣ving of orders, and maketh proces for the breach of them. The second the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer, who puts him and the rest of the Justices in remem∣brance of such things as are to be dealt in for the Princes behoof. The third is the Remembrancer of the first fruits and tenths, who taketh all composition for first fruits and tenths, and maketh process against such as pay not the same.
• Remigation, (lat.) a rowing with oares.
• Reminiscence, (lat.) a remembring, or calling to mind.
• Remisse, (lat.) slack, negligent.
• Remissible, (lat.) pardonable, or to be forgiven.
• Remitter, in Common Law, is a resti∣tution of him that hath two titles to Lands, unto that which is more an∣cient.
• Remonstrance, (lat.) a declaring, shew∣ing, or giving of reasons.
• Remora, a fish called a Sea-lamprey or Suckstone, which stoppeth the course of a Ship; also taken metaphorically for any delay or hindrance.▪
• Remorse, (lat.) as it were a rebiting or gnawing again, the sting of conscience, or troubles of mind for former evil actions.
• Remuneration, (lat.) a rewarding or recompensing for former good turus.
• Remus, the brother of Romulus, who slew him that he might obtain the whole dominion to himself.
• Rencounter, (French) an unexpected adventure, or meeting of two adverse parties.
• Renavigation, (lat.) a sailing back.
• Rendevous, (a word signifying in French render your selves) a place where souldiers are mustred.
• Rendlesham, or Rendlisham, a Town in Suffolk, anciently the Mansion house of Redwald King of the East Saxons, who be∣ing the first of that Kingdom that was

• baptized, neverthelesse by his wifes se∣ducement, he had in the same Church one altar for Christian Religion, and another for his old heathen superstition.
• Renegado, (Span.) a souldier that re∣volts to the enemy.
• Renimed, or Runningmead, a famous meadow in the County of Middlesex, where in the year of our Lord 1215 the Barons of England assembled in great numbers to claim their liberties of King John.
• Renitency, (lat.) a resistance or striving against.
• Renodation, (lat.) an unknitting or undoing of a knot.
• Renovation, (lat.) a making new or fresh, a renewing.
• Rent, in Common Law, is a summe of money or other consideration issueing yearly out of Lands or Tenements.
• Renversed, (French) turned the con∣trary.
• Renumeration, (lat.) a numbring, count∣ing, or paying back.
• Renunciation, (lat.) a bringing word back again.
• Renvoy, (French) a dismission or send∣ing back.
• Repandous, (lat.) bowed or bent back.
• Reparation, (lat.) a mending or making up again.
• Repast, (French, as it were a feeding again) a meale.
• Repastination, (lat.) the altering of grounds with often digging.
• Repensation, (lat.) a recompensing, or making satisfaction.
• Repentine, (lat.) sudden, unawares, unexpected.
• Repercussion, (lat.) a beating or strik∣ing back.
• Repertitious, (lat.) found by chance.
• Repignoration, (lat.) a redeeming a pawn or gage.
• Repletion, (lat.) a stuffing, or filling full.
• Replevy, the bringing of a Writ called replegiari facias by him that hath his cattel or other goods distraind, and put∣ting in surety to the Sheriff that upon delivery of the thing distrained, he will pursue the action against him.
• Replication, (lat.) an unfolding, also a second answering or making a reply.
• Report, in Common Law, is a relation or repetition of a case debated or argued.
• Reposition, (lat.) a putting back, a set∣ting again in his place.
• Repository, (lat.) a storehouse, or place to keep things in▪ more peculiarly by the Architects, such places as are built for the laying up of rareties either in picture or other arts are called Repositories.
• Reprehension, (lat.) a blaming or re∣proving.
• Representation, (lat.) a making the re∣semblance or likenesse of any thing.
• Reprise, (French) a taking back again, also any deduction or duty paid yearly out of a Manour.
• Reprisell, (French) a seizing on for a pawn or prize. See Law of Marque.
• To Reprive, in Common Law, is to take back a prisoner from the execution or proceeding of the Law.
• Reprobation, (lat.) a reproving, also a rejecting or casting out of favour, whence a Reprobate is taken for a wicked per∣son or one cast out of gods favour.
• Reptitious, (lat.) stealing or creeping on by degrees.
• Repton, a Town in Darbyshire, famous in old times, for being the burial place of King Aethelbald, and also for the misfor∣tune of Burthred, the last King of the Mer∣cians, who was here deprived of his King∣dom by the Danes.
• Republique, (lat.) a Common-wealth or Free-State.
• Repudiation, (lat.) a refusing, a putting away or divorcing.
• Repugnancy, (lat.) resistance, contra∣riety of one thing to another.
• Repullulation, (lat.) a budding forth, a springing up again.
• Repumication, (lat.) a slicking, or rai∣zing with a pumice.
• Reputation, (lat.) esteem, reckoning, or good opinion.
• Request, (French) a petition or desire, also a Court of the same nature with the Chancery, redressing by equity the wrongs that divers men suffer, either by Law or otherwise, at the hands of those that are more powerfull than them∣selves.
• To sing a Requiem, signifieth to sing a Masse for the eternal rest of the soules of those that are deceased, the word Re∣quies signifying in Latin rest.
• Resceyt, (lat. receptio) in Common Law is an admission of a third person to plead his right in a cause between other two.
• To Rescind, (lat.) to take away, to

• destroy, or repeal, whence a Rescissorian Act, is that which makes void a former Act, or Law.
• Rescissorian action, (lat.) an action that nulleth, or maketh void.
• Rescous, in Common-law, is a resistance of lawfull authority, by taking away, or procuring the escape of any one arrested by a Bayliffe.
• Rescrib••ndary, a certain Officer belong∣ing to Rome, who sets a value upon in∣dulgencies and supplications.
• Rescript, (lat.) a writing, which is in answer to any Letter, Petition, Writ, &c.
• Research, (French) a constant perse∣verance, a continual repetition of services. Cleopatra.
• Resentment, or Ressentiment, (French) a sensible feeling, or true apprehension of any thing.
• Reseration, (lat.) an unlocking, or un∣bolting.
• Reservation, (lat.) a reserving, or keep∣ing in store; also in Common-law, it is ta∣ken for that Rent, or service, which the Granter in any Grant tieth the Grantee to perform unto him; also Reservation, or Reservednesse, is used in Romances for that distance and state, which Ladies observe in their behaviour toward those that Court them.
• Resiance, (French) a mans abode, or continuance in a place.
• Residence, (lat.) the same, but more pe∣culiarly; it is used for the continuance of a Parson, or Vicar upon his bene∣fice.
• Residue, (lat.) the rest, or remainder.
• Resignation, (lat.) an unsealing, also a surrendring up, but more particularly, the resigning up a benefice into the hands of the Ordinary.
• Resilition, (lat.) a rebounding, or leap∣ing back.
• Resinous, (lat.) full of Rosin.
• Resipiscence, (Latin, as it were a being wise again) a repenting, a changing ones minde from doing foolishly.
• Resistence, (Lat. as it were a withstand∣ing) a Term in Philosophy, taken for the property of a solid body, which resisteth and opposeth whatsoever comes against it.
• Resolution, (lat.) in the primitive ac∣ception, signifieth a loosening, or untying, but it is generally taken onely for a full purpose, or intention to do any thing, perhaps, because by untying, all knots, and hindrances are taken away.
• Resonant, (lat.) resounding, ringing, or ecchoing out aloud.
• Resource, (French) a new source, a re∣covery.
• Respight of homage, signifieth the for∣bearing of homage, which ought first of all to be performed by the Tenant that holdeth by homage.
• Respiration, (lat.) a breathing, or ta∣king ••espite.
• Resplendent, (lat.) shining bright, or glistering.
• Response, or Responsion, (lat.) an An∣swer.
• Responsory song, an Anthem, wherein they sing by turns as it were, one answer∣ing the other.
• Restagnation, (lat.) an overflowing, a bubling up.
• Restauration, (lat.) a restoring, making new, or repairing.
• Restible, (lat.) tilled every year, also flourishing, or bearing fruit every year.
• Restipulation, (lat.) a putting in a pledge or gage for the assurance of ones answer unto an action in Law.
• Restitution, (lat.) a restoring back; in Common-law it is taken for the setting him in possession of Lands, or Tenements, that hath been unlawfully disseised of them.
• Restive, (French) unwilling, stubborn, obstinate.
• Restriction, (lat.) a holding, or restrain∣ing.
• Resuery, (French) madnesse, sottish∣nesse.
• Resultancy, or Result, (French) a re∣bounding, or leaping back; also the issue, or event of a businesse; also a conclusion drawn from any thing.
• Resumption, (lat.) a taking back again, particularly a taking back into the Kings hands, as before he had delivered to the Heir, or granted by Letters Patents to any man.
• Resupination, (lat.) a lying along on the back with the face upward.
• Resurrection, (lat.) a rising again.
• Resuscitation, (lat.) a raising up again.
• Retailler, (French) a seller by retail, i. by pieces, or parcels, and not by the grosse.
• Retainer, in Common-law, is taken for a servant not maenial, but onely using his masters name, or bearing his livery.
• Retaliation, (lat.) a doing like for like, a requiting, either good, or bad.
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• Retardation, (lat.) a forslowing, lin∣gring, or staying.
• Retention, (lat.) a retaining, or holding back; in Common-law, it is meant, when a Court pronounceth not a full arrest, or judgement, but reserves somewhat to be afterwards ordered.
• Retentive, (lat.) apt to retain, or hold in, whence Retentive faculty, the retain∣ing powr of nature, which keeps in the nourishment within the body, so long as is convenient.
• Reticence, (lat.) a being silent, or hold∣ing ones peace.
• Reticle, (lat.) a little Net.
• Retinacle, (lat.) that which retains, or holds back another thing.
• Retortion, (lat.) a twisting, or writhing backward.
• Retraction, (lat.) a drawing back; also a shifting, or going off from ones word.
• Retraxit, in Common-law is an excep∣tion against one that formerly commenc't an action, and withdrew it, or was non-suit before tryal.
• Retreat, (French) a retiring, also a place of accommodation and security.
• Retribution, (lat.) a giving back, a ma∣king recompence, or requital.
• Retriment, (lat.) the drosse, or dregs of metal, also any kinde of rubbish.
• Retrive, (from the French Retrover, to finde again) a Term in Hawking, to spring Partridges again, after they have once sprung already; also to recover a thing given for lost.
• Retroaction, (lat.) a driving backward.
• Retrocession, (lat.) a going backward.
• Retrocopulation, (lat.) a coupling back∣ward.
• Retroduction, (lat.) a leading, or bring∣ing back.
• Retrogradation, (lat.) a recoiling, or go∣ing back; a Planet goes Retrogade, when it goes contrary to the succession of the signs.
• Retrogression, (lat.) the same as Retro∣gradation.
• Return in Common-law, signifieth the return of a Writ by Sheriffs and Bay∣liffs, which is a Certificate made to the Court where the Writ directeth him, of that which he hath done touching the serving of the same Writ.
• Reuda, a certain Irish Captain, who by force of Arms seated himself in a part of Scotland.
• Revelation, (lat.) a revealing laying open, or discovering.
• Revels, sports of dancing, masking, come∣dies, &c. formerly used in the Kings house and Inns of Court, from the French Re∣veiller, to awake, because they were per∣formed in the night time.
• Reverberation, (lat.) a reflecting, a beat∣ing, or striking back.
• Reverbitorie, (lat.) a kinde of Fornace, or Limbeck.
• Reverse, (French) a back-blow in fen∣cing.
• Reversed, turned backward, or upside down, a Term in Heraldry, being the a∣batement of a Cote proper to him that ra∣vishes a Maid, or Widow, or flies from his soveraigns Banner.
• Reversion, (lat.) a returning, also in Common-law, is a possibility reserved to mans self, and his Heirs to have again, Lands, or Tenements made over condi∣tionally to others, upon the failing of such conditions.
• Revestiary, a place where the Church Vestments are kep••, a Vestry.
• Reviviction, (lat.) a reviving, a coming again to ones self.
• Revocation, (lat.) a calling back.
• Revolution, (lat.) a rowling back, the turning back of caelestial bodies to their first point, and finishing their circular course.
• Revulsion, (lat.) a plucking back, or drawing away, in Physick it is an evacua∣tion of the Morbisick matter, by places op∣posite to the seat of the humour.
• Rewish, (Dutch) lecherous, a word ap∣plied to the copulation of Doves.

R H

• Rhabdomancy, (Greek) divination by a wand staff, or rod.
• Rhadamanthus, the son of Jupiter and Europa, who for his severity in Justice was faign'd by the Poets to have been one of the three infernal Judges, the other two being Aeacus and Minos.
• Rhaetia, a Countrey of Europe, bordering upon Helvetia, and the Lake Larius, it is divided into higher and lower Rhetia, the inhabitants of the higher are called Gri∣sons of the lower Boiarii.
• Rhapsodie, (Greek) see Rapsodie.
• Rhedarious, (lat.) belonging to a Car, or Coach.
• Rhedarious, (lat.) belonging to a Wag∣gon, or Cart.
• Rhesus, a King of Thrace, the son of Stry∣mon

• and Euterpe, he came with his white horses to the aide of the Trojans, and was killed by Diomed and Vlisses, with the help of Dolon, those white horses, upon which the fate of Troy depended, being brought away by the Greeks.
• Rhetorical, (lat.) eloquent, full of Rhe∣torick, i. the art of speaking well, and elo∣quently.
• Rhinoceros, (Greek) a kinde of Indian beast, having a horn on his nose.
• Rhodus, a famous Island in the Carpa∣thian Sea, formerly consecrated to the Sun, in honour of whom a mighty Colos∣sus was made, 50 Cubits in length.
• Rhomb, or Roumb, (lat.) a certain Geo∣metrical square figure, consisting of equal sides, but unequal angles; also a spinning wheel, also a Mariners Compasse, or Sea Chart.
• Rhonchisonant, (lat.) sounding like one that snorts in his sleep.
• Rhythmical, (Greek) belonging to Rhythme, or Meeter in verse; as also to proportion, or harmony in Musick.

R I

• Rialto, a stately place in Venice, like to our Royal Exchange.
• Ribadavia, a Town in Gallicia, a Pro∣vince of Spain, from whence is brought a sort of wine much esteemed.
• Riband, is lesse then a Cost, and con∣tains the eighth part of a Bend.
• Ribauldry, (Ital.) whoredom, unclean∣nesse, or the carriage of a Ruffian.
• Ribibble, (old word) a Fiddle, or Cit∣tern.
• Richmond, q. rich mount, the chief Town of Richmondshire; it was walled about, and fortified with a strong Castle against the Danes, by Allan the first Earle thereof, also the name of one of the Kings houses in Surrey, where King Edward the third died.
• Ribolla, a kinde of strong wine, so cal∣led.
• Riches, by the Hunters taken for a Company, and so they say a riches of Marterns.
• Richard, a proper name of a man, signi∣fying in the Saxon tongue powerfull dis∣position.
• Ricture, (lat.) a grinning or shewing the teeth like a dog, also a fretting or chasing inwardly.
• To Ride in Navigation, is, when a ship is held in so fast by her Anchors, that she doth not drive away by the tide, or winde.
• Riding Clark, one of the six Clarks of the Chancery, who takes his turn for his year to have the controling of all Grants which passe the great Seal.
• Rier County, a publick place, which the Sheriffe appointeth for the receit of the Kings money, after the end of his County.
• Rigation, (lat.) a bedewing, watering, or sprinkling.
• Rigidity, or Rigour, (lat.) stifnesse with cold, or frost; also surlinesse, strictnesse, severity.
• Rigel, the left foot of Orion.
• Rigols, a certain Musical instrument, called a Clericord, it comes from the French Regalliadir, i. to rejoyce.
• Ringtail, a kinde of Puttock, or Kite, having whitish feathers about his tail.
• Ringwalk, a Term in hunting, being a round walk made by Hunters.
• Riot, in Common-law, is the forcible doing of an unlawfull act, by three, or more persons assembled together for that purpose.
• Riphaean-hills, certain Hills of Scythia, so called from the Greek word Ripe, i. the violent force of windes blowing from those parts, they are also called Hyperbo∣rean Mountains.
• Ripiers, those that use to bring fish from the Sea-coast to the inner parts of the land, it comes from the Latin word Ripa, a Bank, or Shore.
• Risible, (lat.) subject to laughter.
• Risingham, (signifying in the Brittish tongue the Gyants habitation) a certain Town in Northumberland, of which the old Brittains fabulously reported, that it was defended by their god Magon, a∣gainst a Soldan, or great Prince in those times.
• Rituals, certain books, which prescribe the Rites and Ceremonies of the Roman Church.
• Rivage, (French) the water-side, or Sea-Coast.
• Rivality, (lat.) envy between Rivals, i. two persons loving one, and the same woman, being a Metaphor borrowed from those that fetch water from the same river.
• Rivulet, (lat.) a Brook, or little river.
• Rixation, (lat.) a brawling, or wrang∣ling.
• Rizon, a Citie of Illyria, seated upon a River of the same name.

R O

• Roan colour, a kinde of dark, or Ches∣nut colour, being most properly spoken of a Horse.
• Robert, the proper name of a man, signi∣fying in Dutch famous in Councel.
• Robigalia, certain feasts kept in May, by the ancient Romans in honour of Ro∣bigus, who was worshipt as a God among them, for that he was thought to keep the Corn from blasting.
• Robiginous, (lat.) full of rust, also blasted as Corn.
• Roboration, (lat.) a strengthning, or ma∣king strong, from Robur, i. an Oak.
• Robustous, (lat.) strong as an Oak.
• Roch, (old word) a Rock.
• Rochester, a Citie in Kent, called in La∣tin Roffa, from one Rhufus, but more an∣ciently Durobrevis, in the year 676. it was laid waste by Aetheldred, King of the M••r∣cians, and many a time afterwards sacked by the Danes.
• Rochet, a kinde of fish, so called; also a kinde of surplice, or Bishops Robe.
• Rod, a certain Land measure, see Pearch.
• Rode, a station for ships, from the Dutch word Reed.
• Rodknights, or Radknights, certain servi∣tours, which hold by serving their Lord on hors-back.
• Rodnet, a Net to catch Black-birds, or Wood-cocks in.
• Rodomontade, (Span.) a vain-glorious bragging, or boasting.
• Roe, or Roebuck, a kinde of Deer, cal∣led in French la Chevrelle.
• Rogation, (lat.) an asking, demanding, or intreating, whence Rogati••n week, the next week but one before Whi••sunday; so called from the duty of fasting and prayer injoyned at that time by the Church, as a preparative to the feast of the Ascention, it is also called Gang week, and by some Grasse week.
• Roger, the proper name of a man, from the Dutch word Ruger, i. quiet, or Rod∣gar, i. strong Councel.
• Rogitation, (lat.) an asking often, an intreating earnestly.
• Roiston, a Town in Hertfordshire, an∣ciently called Roises Crosse, from a Crosse built by Dame Roise (as some think) Countesse of Norfolk, but being augmen∣ted by Eustace de Marck, it came to be called Roiston, q. Roises Town.
• The Rolls, a place appointed by Ed∣ward the third, for the keeping of the Rolls, or Records of Chancery, the master whereof in the absence of the Lord Chan∣celour sitteth as Judge.
• Rollo, a famous Captain, who with a se∣lect Company of Danish youths going to seek out new habitations, setled in that part of France, which is now called Nor∣mandy, the French at last after much War were glad to make a league with them, and to allow them quiet possession of what they had conquered, and Rollo marrying the daughter of Charls the simple, was both himself baptised, and likewise cau∣sed all his people to imbrace the Christian faith.
• Roma, the chief Citie of Italy, and most famous of the world, built by Romulus and Remus, the Grand-children of Numi∣tor, the inhabitants of this Citie and parts adjacent, called the Romans, were anciently a people renowned, both in warre and peace, and masters of a great part of the world.
• Romance, a feigned history from Ro∣mant, the most eloquent sort of French, or Roman, which hath heretofore been used to signifie any thing written, or expressed eloquently.
• Rome, (old word) to wander, or walk up and down.
• Romescot, or Romefeoh, a certain tribute paid to Rome, commonly called Peter-pence.
• Romulus and Remus, the sons of Sylvia, (as some suppose by Mars) the daughter of Numitor, King of the Albans, they were preserved from the cruelty of their Unkle Amulius by Laurentia (of which see more in Laurentia) Romulus having slain his brother Remus, obtained the sole Govern∣ment of the Citie to himself; he overcam•• the Veientes (who made warre upon the Romans, because that they wanting wives, had ravisht the Virgins that came from Neighbouring places to see their shews called Consualia) dedicating the spoiles to Jupiter Feretrius; he also overcame the Fidenates and the Sabines, whom he caused with Titus Toetius their King, to inhabit Rome, and to joyn into one Common-wealth with the Romans, at length in a great Assembly at the Lake of Caprea, a sudden Tempest arising, he vanisht away, none knowing what became of him.
• ...

• Roncevalles, anciently called Rocida Val∣is, a Town of Navar, famous for the bu∣rial of Rowland, kinsman to Charles the Great.
• Rondacher, (French) he that carrieth a Rondach, i. a Target, or Buckler.
• Rondelier, (French) the same, also a Tar∣get maker.
• Rood, the same as Rod, or Pearch, also a Crosse.
• Roodloft, (Saxon) a shrine, a place to put a rood, or crosse in, or the image, or relique of any Saint.
• Rorid, Roral, or Rorulent, (lat.) dewy, bespringled with dew.
• Rosamunda, the daughter of Cunimun∣dus, King of the Gepidae, she was married to Alboinus, King of the Lombards, who having made a feast, drank a health to her out of a Cup made of his fathers skull, for which she procured his death by the means of Herminges, with whom she fled to Lon∣ginus, Exarch of Ravenna, and married him, but afterwards being in hopes to marry Longinus, she offered a potion to Helminges in the bath, which was poison, which he suspecting, forced her to drink it her self, the word signifieth in Saxon rose of peace.
• Rosarie, (lat.) a place where Roses grow; also a short prayer book, or a pair of beads, containing 150 Pater Nosters, and 150 Avemaria's.
• Roscid, (lat.) the same as rorid.
• Roscoman, a County of Ireland, in the Province of Conaught.
• Rose, a Christian name of divers wo∣men, the signification well known.
• Rosion, (lat.) a gnawing.
• Rosse, a Countrey of Scotland, denomi∣nated from the Brittish word Rosse, i. a heath, or place of lings.
• Rostration, (lat.) a thrusting in the beak or bill.
• Rotation, (lat.) a wheeling, or moving about like a wheel.
• To say a lesson by Rote, to say it as roundly and currently, as a wheel runs in his rote, or track.
• Rotundity, (lat.) roundnesse.
• Rou, (old word) ugly, froward.
• Rouge, Crosse, see Pursuivant.
• Roundin, a Term in Navigation, is a let∣ting rise the main, or foretack, and haling aft the foresheat to the cathead, and main sheat to the cabridge-head, when the wind larges upon the main and foresail.
• Roundel, a Term in Heraldry, being the figure of a round ball.
• Roundelay, a Sheapherds song, or dance.
• Roundlet, a wine measure, containing 8 Gallons and a half.
• Rounds, a Term in Sculpture, the frag∣ments of statues.
• Rowland, a proper name of a man, signi∣fying in Dutch Councel for the land.
• To Rowze a Hart, to raise him from his harbour.
• Rowze, the Forresters say a rowz of Wolves; in Faulconry a Hawk is said to rowse, not shake her self.
• Rous-in, a Term in Navigation, to make a Cable tight when it is slack upon the water.
• A Routurier, (Fr.) a Pesant, or Plough-man.
• Colour de Roy, a violet colour, which is the French Kings proper colour.
• Royal, (French) kingly, belonging to a King, whence Royalties, the Rights, or Prerogative of a King: Royal is also a Term in Hunting, see Torch Royal.

R U

• Rubefaction, (lat.) a making red.
• Rubet, a stone found in the head of a Toad, commonly called a Toad-stone.
• Rubicon, a River of Italy, between Rimini and Ravenna, which ••loweth into the A∣driatick Sea; it is now called Runcone▪ or Piscatello.
• Rubicund, (lat.) bloud red.
• Rubie, a certain red Gem shining in the dark like a spark of fire.
• Rubiginous, (lat.) see Robigus.
• Rubrication, (lat.) a making red, whence Rubricative, a plaister so strongly drawing that it makes the part look red.
• Rubrick, a special Title of the Law, or a noted sentence of any book marked with red Letters; also a Calender of Saints and Festivals.
• Ructation, (lat.) a belching.
• Rudheath, a place in Cheshire, where there was formerly a sanctuary for those that had trespassed against the Law, to re∣main secure for a year and a day.
• Rudiments, (lat.) the first Elements, or principles of any art, or faculty, because those that come first to be instructed are to be imagined, altogether rude and igno∣rant.
• Ruffe, a certain kinde of fish, by some called an Aspredo.
• Rugosity, (lat.) ruggednesse, fulnesse of wrinkles.
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• Ruinous, (lat.) going to wrack, falling to decay.
• A Carpenters Rule, an instrument to measure board, or timber with.
• Rumbe, see Rhombe.
• Rumia, a certain goddesse among the ancient Romans, who was said to have the care of sucking children, from Rumi, an ancient Latin word, signifying womens paps.
• To Rumidge, in Navigation, is to remove goods, or luggage out of a ships howld, whence it is also used upon other occa∣sions.
• Rumigeration, (lat.) a carrying tales, a spreading a rumour, or report abroad.
• Rumination, (lat.) a chewing of the cud, a pondering in ones minde, or earnestly thinking upon any thing.
• Ruminus, a sirname of Jupiter, affording teats to every creature.
• Runcina, the goddesse of weeding.
• Ruption, (lat.) a breaking, or burst∣ing.
• Rural, (lat.) belonging to the Coun∣trey.
• Russia, a Countrey of Europe, bordering upon Hungary toward the South.
• Rustication, (lat.) a dwelling in the Country.
• Rusticity, (lat.) a Countrey Garb, or carriage; also clownishnesse.
• Rut, to desire copulation, a Term most properly applied to Deer.
• Rutilation, (lat.) a shining, glistring, or glaring.
• Ruttier, (French) a direction for the finding out of courses by Land, or Sea; al∣so an old beaten Souldier.

S A

• SAbaoth, (from the Hebrew Scabath to rest,) a celebration of the seventh day of the week; as a day of rest among the Jews, in remembrance of Gods resting from the work of the creation on that day, instead of which the first day of the week, called the Lords day, hath been ever ob∣served by Christians, in remembrance of Christs Resurrection.
• Sabbatarians, those that observe the Jewish-Sabbath.
• Sabbatical, (lat.) belonging to the Sab∣bath.
• Sabellians, a sort of Hereticks; so called from Sabellius their first Author, they af∣firmed the Father, Son, and holy Ghost, to be one onely person, having three names.
• Sable, (French) the colour black in He∣raldry; also a certain rich furre, taken from a Russian beast, so called.
• Sabrina, the name of a very fair, and pleasant River, springing out of Plimlim∣mon Hills in Wales, and taking its course through Shropshire, Worcestershire, and se∣veral other Shires; it is vulgarly called Severn, see Severn.
• Saburrate, (lat.) to ballast a ship with Gravel.
• Sacerdotal, (lat.) priestly, belonging to a Priest.
• Saccus cum brochia, a service of finding a sack, and a broach to the King by vir∣tue of a Tenure, for the use of his Army.
• Sachem, a general name for any great Prince, or Ruler among the people of the West-Indies.
• Sack, a measure of Wool, containing 26 stone, and 14 pound.
• Sacramental, (lat.) belonging to a Sa∣crament, or Oath.
• Sacrificial, (lat.) belonging to a Sacri∣fice, or holy offering.
• Sacrilegious, (lat.) committing Sacri∣ledge, i. a robbing of Churches, or viola∣ting of holy things.
• Sacristie, or Sacrary, (lat.) a Vestry, a place where the Priests Vestments, and things belonging to the Church are kept.
• Sadduces, a Sect among the Jews; so cal∣led from Sadock their first Author, they denied the being of Angels, and the Re∣surrection of the body.
• Safe conduct, see Passeport.
• Sagacity, (lat.) quicknesse of under∣standing, or apprehension, sharpnesse of judgement, or wit.
• Sagamore, a King, or Supream Ruler among the Indians.
• Sagbut, (Span.) a kinde of Musical in∣strument, somewhat resembling a Trum∣pet.
• Sagination, (lat.) a cramming, or ma∣king fat.
• Sagittal, (lat.) belonging to an Ar∣row.
• Sagittarius, one of the 12 signes of the Zodiack, see ••hiron.
• Sagittipotent, (lat.) powerfull in darts, or arrows.
• Saguntus, a Town of Valentia, a Province of Spain, now called Morviedro, situate upon the River Ibero; it was destroyed

• by Hannibal, which was the cause of the second Punick war.
• Saker, a kind of Hawk, (called in Greek Hierax, i. holy) also a great piece of Ord∣nance.
• Saie, a kinde of stuffe to make Cloaths of, called in Spanish Saietta.
• Saint Anthonies fire, see Erysipely.
• Salacity, (lat.) wantonnesse, or inclina∣tion to Venery, perhaps from Salacia a goddesse of the water, whom the ancients held to be the wife of Neptune, and that she caused the fluctuation, or moving up and down of the Sea; also the Ebbing and flowing of the Sea was called by the Ro∣mans in old time Salicia and Venilia.
• Salade, (French) a kinde of head-piece or helmet; called also Salet.
• Salamander, a kinde of little beast like a Lizard, vulgarly believed to subsist in the hottest fire, and to quench it.
• Salarie, (lat.) a servants stipend, or wages; so called as Pliny saith from Sal, i. Salt, both being alike necessary.
• Salenae, the ancient name of a Town in Bedfordshire, now called Salndy, Sandy.
• Salebrous, (lat.) rugged, rough, un∣even.
• Saliant, (lat.) leaping, a Term in He∣raldry.
• Saligot, (Fr.) a water-nut, or Caltrop.
• Salii, the 12 Priests of Mars instituted by Numa Pompilius.
• Marcus Livius Salinator, a famous Ro∣man Captain, Consull with Claudius Nero, he overcame Asdrubal in the second Punick warre.
• Salique Law, a Law whereby the Crown of France cannot fall from the Lance to the distaffe, i. cannot be inherited by wo∣men; it is so called, either from these words si aliqua, often mentioned in the Law (which as some say was made by Pharamond, others by Philip the fair) or else from the River Sala, near unto which the Francks anciently inhabited.
• Salisbury, the chief Citie of Wiltshire, risen up out of the ruines of a very an∣cient Town called Sorbiodunum, and by vulgar Latinists Sarum, and Sarisburia, this place is famous for a stately Minster, built here in the reign of King Henry the third, by Richard Poor, then Bishop of Salisbury; this Cathedral hath as many windows as there are dayes in the year, as many pillars as there are hours in a year, and the gates are answerable in number to the 12 moneths.
• Salivation, (lat.) a fluxing, or drawing humours out of the mouth by spettle.
• Salligot, (French) a kinde of fruit, cal∣led water Nuts.
• Sallow, (latin Salix) the Goats willow-tree.
• Sally, to issue out of a besieged Town, from the Spanish word Salir.
• Salmacis, a Fountain of Caria, near Ha∣licarnassus; so called from Salmacis, a Nymph, who falling in love with Herma∣phroditus, the son of Mercury and Venus, when she could by no other means draw him to her love, she leapt into the Foun∣tain, and imbracing him, prayed unto the gods that they might grow into one, whereupon they immediately became one person, having both Sexes; also at the prayers of Hermaphroditus the Fountain contracted this quality, that who ever en∣tred into it, were transformed into both Sexes, and called Hermaphrodites.
• Salmoneus, a King of Elis, the son of Aeolus, who aspiring to be a god, drove his Chariot over a brazen bridge, which he had made, that he might imitate Thunder, at which Jupiter inraged, struck him down to Hell with a Thunderbolt.
• Salomon, a proper name, signifying in Hebrew peaceable.
• Salsamentarious, (lat.) belonging to salt things, brine, or pickle.
• Salsure, (lat.) a salting, seasoning, or powdering.
• Saltation, (lat.) a dancing, or leap∣ing.
• Saltimbanco, (Ital.) a Mountebank, or Quacksalver.
• Saltire, a Term in Heraldry, see Sau∣toir.
• Salvatel Vein, see Vein.
• Salubrity, (lat.) wholsomnesse, or health∣fulnesse.
• Salutatory, (lat.) a place where people stand to salute great men.
• Salutiferous, (lat.) bringing health, or safety.
• Samaria, a Countrey of Palaestine, bor∣dering upon Judaea.
• Sambenito, (Span.) a Coat of course sackcloth, in which Paenitents are recon∣ciled to the Church.
• Sambuke, a Musical instrument, cal∣led also a Dulcimer; also a warlike En∣gine.
• Samonds, the sirname of a very ancient family of Barons, who heretofore had their chief habitation at Bromham in Wilt∣shire,

• they are stiled in Latin Records de Sancto Amando.
• Samos, the name of two Islands, the one near Ionia over against Ephesus, sacred to Juno, anciently called Parthenia, the o∣ther in the bay of▪ Ambracia, over against Epirus, anciently called Cephalenia.
• Samothracia, an Island of the Aegaean Sea, not far from Thrace, heretofore cal∣led Dardania.
• Samplar, corrupted from Examplar, a pattern or coppy.
• Sampson, a proper name, signifying in Heb. there the second time.
• Samuel, another proper name, signify∣ing in Heb. placed of God.
• Sanable, (lat.) to be healed or cured.
• Sanchia, a Christian name of divers women from the Latin Sancta, i. holy.
• Sanctification, (lat.) a sanctifying, hal∣lowing, or making holy.
• Sanctimony or Sanctity, (lat.) the pro∣fession of holinesse.
• Sanction, (lat.) a decreeing, enacting, or establishing, any Law or Ordi∣nance.
• Sanctuary, (lat.) a sanctified or holy place; also a place priviledged by the Prince for the safeguard of offenders lives, founded upon the great reverence which the Prince beareth unto the place whereunto he granteth such a privi∣ledge.
• Sanctum Sanctorum, the innermost and holiest place of the Jews Temple where the Arke was kept.
• Sandal, a kind of pantofle or slipper; also a pretious sort of Indian wood.
• A Sandapile, (lat.) a coffin or beer to carry dead bodies on.
• Sandarach, a kind of red painting, o∣therwise called Orpine or red Arse∣nick.
• A Sand-bag, in Etching or Graving, is that on which they use to turn their plate.
• Sanglant, (French) bloody, or imbrued with blood.
• Sanglier, (French) a Bore of five years old.
• Sanguin, or Sangnineous, (lat.) full or abounding with blood; also of a com∣plexion where that humour is predomi∣nant; also in Heraldry it is taken for a kind of ruddy or murrey colour.
• Sanguinolent, (lat.) bloody or cruel.
• Sanhedrim, (Heb.) the Supream Coun∣cil or Court of judicature among the Jews, consisting of the high Priest and 70 Seniors or Elders who were to consult a∣bout the greatest matters of the Common∣wealth, both Ecclesiastical and Civil.
• Sanity, (lat.) health, soundnesse.
• Sanjacks, the Governours of Cities a∣mong the Turks.
• Sanicle, a kind of herb called self-heal.
• Sankfin, (from the French words Sang, i. blood, and fine, i. ended) a finall end of any lineal race or descent of kin∣dred.
• Saphaena vein, see vein.
• Saphick verse, a kind of verse consisting of a trochee, spondee, dactyle, and two trochee's, and having at the end of every three verses an Adonic which consists of a dactyl and spondee. This kind of verse was first invented by Sapho a famous Poetesse of Mitylene.
• Saphire, a kind of Gem or pretious Stone of an azure colour.
• Sapidity, or Sapor, (lat.) savorinesse, well season'dnesse, pleasantnesse of taste or savour.
• Sapience, (lat.) wisdom or prudence.
• Sapphick, see Saphick.
• Saraband, (Ital.) a kind of Lesson or Air in Musick going with a quick time.
• Sarah, a proper name of a woman sig∣nifying in Heb. Mistresse or Dame.
• Sarcasm, (Greek) a bitter jest, scoff, or taunt.
• Sarcell, the pinion of a Hawk.
• Sarcenet, a kind of thin Taffata.
• Sarcination, (lat.) a loading with packs or fardells.
• Sarconia, (Greek) a bunch of flesh growing upon the nose.
• Sarcophage, (Greek) a certain stone wherein dead bodies being inclosed, do consume away within a short time; also a Tomb or Sepulchre.
• Sarcotick, (Greek) breeding new flesh.
• Sarculation, (lat.) a weeding or pluck∣ing up of weeds, whence the time that Countrymen weed their corn in is vul∣garly called Sarcling time.
• Sardanapalus, the last King of Assyria, against whom for his luxury and effemi∣nacy, Arbaces, the Satrap of Media and Belochus of Balylon rebelling, transferred the Empire to Media and Babilonia. Sar∣danapalus, as soon as he saw himself in danger, throwing himself and all his riches into a burning Pyre, which

• he built for that purpose.
• Sardel, or Sardine, a kind of fish called a pilcher.
• Sardinia, an Island in the Ligustick Ocean, so called from Sardus the son of Hercules, who planted himself here.
• Sardonick laughter, an immoderate and deadly laughter, from the herb Sardon, which being eaten causeth it.
• Sardonyx, a kind of Gem or pretious Stone of a dark or blackish colour, being also called a Corneol or Onyx of Sar∣dinia.
• Sarmatia, a very large Country, reach∣ing from the borders of Germany and the River Vistula, as far as Hircania, and is divided into Sarmatia, Europaea, and Sar∣matia Asiatica.
• Sarmentitious, (lat.) belonging to branches or twigs.
• Sarpedon, a King of Lycia, he was the son of Jupiter by Laodamia the daughter of Bellerophon, and going to help the Tro∣jans was killed by Patroclus, and carried out of the field by Apollo at Jupiters command.
• Sarplar, or Serplath, a quantity of wool consisting of 80 Tod, each Tod being two stone, and each stone 14 pound.
• A Sarse, a sive of hair.
• Sarsaparilla, the root of a certain tree called Smilax Peruviana.
• Sassafras, the wood of another Indian tree very useful in Physick.
• Satanical, belonging to Satan, i. the Devil, from the Hebrew word sitnath, i. hatred.
• It Sate me sore, (old word) it touch't me greatly.
• Satellite, (lat.) a Yeoman of the Guard, also a Catchpole.
• Satiety, (lat.) fullnesse, glutting, whence satiation, a filling or cloying.
• Satisdation, (lat.) a putting in bail or surety.
• Satisfaction, (lat.) a satisfying or ma∣king amends; also a taking great con∣tent or pleasure in any thing.
• Satorious, (lat.) belonging to sowing or sowers.
• Satrap, (Greek) a title anciently given to the chief Governour of any Province under the King of Persia.
• Saturity, (lat.) the same as Satiety.
• Saturnals, (lat.) Feasts dedicated to Saturn, an ancient heathen deity, the son of Coelus and Vesta, who married his sister Ops and cut off the genital members of his father Coelus, and threw them into the Sea, out of the froth of which sprung Venus, from thence called Aphrodite, he sought to devour all his male children, wherefore Ops as soon as she was delivered of Jupiter, and Juno at a birth, she gave him instead of Jupiter a great stone wrapt up in swadling-clouts, which he devour∣ed; next she brought forth Neptune, whom she concealed, as also Pluto and Glaucus whom she had at a birth; He was overthrown by his brother Titan who made war against him for the Kingdom, and shut up him and his wife in prison, whence he was delivered by his son Ju∣piter, against whom also making war him∣self, he was driven out of his Kingdom, and fled into Italy to Janus whom he taught Husbandry and the use of the Vine. Saturn is also the name of one of the 7 Planets, the slowest in motion and of the melancholiest influence; also a∣mong Chymists it is taken for lead.
• Satyre (from Satyrus) a certain deity of the Wood, much spoken of by ancient Poets, resembling in the upper part of their bodies the shape of a man, in the lower part, of a goat, and being all over hairy, (from Satyra) a kind of sharp and invective Poem full of taunting ex∣pressions against any person or thing.
• Satyrical (lat.) bitter, invective, taunt∣ing, or scoffing.
• Sauciation, (lat.) a wounding.
• Saucidg••, (in French Saucisse) a kind of pudding made of meat chopped very small.
• Savine, a kind of herb so called, be∣cause it was had in great veneration a∣mong the Sabines an ancient people of Italy.
• Saultoir, or Sautoir, (French) a term in Heraldry, being a figure resembling St. Andrews crosse.
• Saunders, a kind of spice or sweet wood, called in Latin Santalum.
• Saws, (old word) sayings.
• Saxony, a Country of Germany, lying between the Rivers Albis and Rhine, whose inhabitants anciently under the conduct of their Queen Angela vanquisht Brittany and called it England.
• Saxifrage, (from the Lat. Saxum i. a stone, and frangere, i. to break) a kind of herb so called because it breakes the stone in the kidney.

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• Scabious, (lat.) scabby or mangy.
• Scabrous, (lat.) rough, rugged, un∣polished.
• Scaevity, (lat.) left-handednesse, un∣luckinesse.
• Scaevola, see Mutius.
• Scalary, (lat.) belonging to a scale or ladder, but in Geometry scale is also ta∣ken for a measure proportionable to the draught.
• Scalion, a kind of Plant otherwise cal∣led an Onion, or Chibbol, or young Cive.
• Scaldis, a river of the Low Countries running by Antwerp, called in Dutch Scheldt.
• Scallop, (Span. Chalupe) a ship-boat, called also a shallop; also a kind of fish called in Latin Pecten.
• Scalp, the hairy part of the head, which encompasseth the skull; it is called in Greek Pericranium.
• Scalper, or Scalping Iron, (from the Lat. Scalpere, i. to scrape or scratch) a Chirurgions Instrument to scrape or cleanse wounds withall.
• Scamander, see Xanthus.
• Scammony, a kind of herb otherwise called purging Bindweed.
• Scandalous, (lat.) giving scandal, i. offence, ill example, or occasion of other mens sinning.
• Scandalum Magnatum, signifieth in Common Law, a wrong done to any of the Nobles of the land, as Prelates, Dukes, Earles, &c.
• Scanderbeg, a name attributed to George Castriot, the son of John Castriot Prince of Epirus and Albania, who having been brought up by Amurath the second, the Turkish Emperour, at last caused Epirus and Macedonia to revolt and valiantly kept Croia against a mighty power of the Turks, which caused Amurath to die rage∣ing mad.
• Scandia, or Scandinavia, a great Island in the North Ocean, near ajoyning to the Continent of Russia, it was anciently cal∣led Beltia or Basilia.
• Scapular, (lat.) belonging to the shoul∣ders; whence Scapulary a Monks hood or cowl reaching down to the shoulders.
• Scar, an old word, signifying a steep rock, whence Scarborow Castle in York∣shire is denominated, as it were a Burgh upon the Scar or steep Rock.
• Scarabee, (lat.) a kind of fly commonly called a beetle.
• Scarf, a term in Navigation, when the end of one timber is let into the other very close and even, or as they term it wood and wood.
• Scarification, (lat.) a launcing a sore, or making an incision.
• Scariole, a kind of herb otherwise cal∣led broadleaved endive.
• Scarpe, a term in Fortification, the slopenesse of the wall; also in Heraldry it is the resemblance of a scarf worn by Commanders in the field.
• To Scathe, to hurt, from the Dutch word Schaed, i. damage.
• Scaturiginous, (lat.) overflowing, or running over.
• Scavage, or Shewage, a kind of toll or custom exacted of Merchants by Mayors or Bailiffs of Towns for wares shewed to be sold within their Precincts which are forbidden by Statute.
• Scavenger, (from the Dutch word Scaven, i. to pare away) an officer that makes clean the streets and pares away the dirt.
• Scedasus, a certain rich Boeotian whose two daughters Hippone and Milesia were ravished in his absence, and afterwards thrown into a Well and drowned, where∣upon he killed himself for grief.
• Sceleton, (Greek) the whole structure of the bones of a mans body, the flesh, veines, and muscles being taken a∣way.
• Scellum, or Schellum, (Dutch) a rogue, villain, or vagabond.
• Scenical, (lat.) belonging to a Scene, i. the changing of persons in every Act of a Comedy or Tragedy; also the forepart of a Stage or Theater.
• Scenography, (lat.) a term in Perspe∣ctive, the model or description of a Scene, or any work presented with its sha∣dows.
• Sceptical, (Greek) contemplative, whence Scepticks are a sort of Philoso∣phers who onely consider and contemp∣late of things without determining any thing.
• Sceptriferous, (Latin) bearing a Scepter.
• Schediasm, (Greek) a sudden inven∣tion.
• Schedule, (lat.) a little leaf, bill, or scrowl of paper.
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• Scheme, (Greek) the form, or outward draught of any thing.
• Schirrus, a hard swelling without pain, yet not without sences.
• Schiph, (Latin Scapha) a ship-boat, whence Schipper, or Scipper, a Sea-man, or Mariner.
• Schisme, (Greek) a cleaving, rending, or dividing in two, but more peculiarly a division, or separation in the Church, cau∣sed by a dissenting in opinion.
• Schismatical, inclining to schisme.
• Scholastick, (Greek) belonging to a School, or Schollar.
• Scholiast, (Greek) a Writer of a Scholy, i. a short exposition upon any Author.
• Sciagraph, (Greek) a platform, or de∣scription of a house, with the contrivance of every room.
• Sciater, (lat.) a certain instrument made use of for the better designing. out the situation of a Citie.
• Sciatica, (lat.) the Gout in the hip.
• Science, (lat.) knowledge, skill, or learning.
• Scilcester, a Town in Northumberland, by some thought to have been the same with that, which in old time was called Cilurnum; here Ethwald, King of the Nor∣thumbers was treacherously murthered by Sigga a Noble-man.
• Scintillation, (lat.) a sparkling.
• Sciolist, (lat.) one that maketh much stir with a little knowledge, a smatterer in learning.
• Sciomanty▪ (Greek) a divining by sha∣dows.
• Scion, (from the latin word Scindere. i. to divide) a grasse, or tender shoot.
• Scipio, the name of several famous Ro∣mans, as Scipio Africanus, the son of Cor∣nelius, he overthrew the Carthaginians in Spain, taking new Carthage, afterwards wa••ting over his Army into Africa, he utterly defeated Hannibal in a mighty battel; Scipio Aemilianus, the adopted son of Africanus, who demolish't new Car∣thage, and Numantia in Spain, and was killed by a conspiracy of the Gracchi; Scipio Nasica, a man very eloquent, skil∣full in the Law, and much beloved of the people, by whom he was called Corculum; Scipio the father in Law of Pompey the Great▪ first succesfull, afterwards unfor∣tunate in the wars against Caesar.
• Scire facias, a Writ Judicial, to call a man to shew a cause unto the Court from which it is sent, why execution of a judge∣ment passed should not be made.
• Sciron, a famous Pirate about Megara, who was slain by Theseus.
• Scirrous, (Greek) belonging to a Schir∣rus, i. a hard swelling in the body with∣out pain.
• Scissure, (lat.) a cutting, cleaving, or dividing asunder.
• Scitament, (lat.) a pleasant witty pas∣sage in discourse.
• Sclavonia, a Countrey joyning West∣ward upon the Adriatick Sea, divided in∣to Istria, Carinthia, Croatia, Carnia, and Martia; Slavonia vulgarly called Windish∣mark.
• Scolopender, (Greek) a kinde of vene∣mous Worm, by some called an Ear-wig; also a certain fish, which having swallow∣ed a hook vomited up its entrails, and rid of it, sucketh them in again.
• Scom, (Greek) a mocking, scoffing, or scurrilous jest.
• Sconse, (Dutch) a Term in fortifica∣tion, a block-house, or chief fortresse, whence Metaphorically it is taken for the head.
• Scopulous, (lat.) Rocky, full of Rocks.
• Scorbutical, (lat.) belonging to the Scorbute, i. a disease called the Scurvy.
• Scordium, a kinde of Herb, growing plentifully in Cambridgeshire, called in English Water-germander.
• Scorpion, a kinde of venemous Serpent, also the name of one of the 12 signs of the Zodiack; also a kinde of warlike Engin.
• Scot and Lot, a customary contribution laid upon all subjects, according to their ability: Escot signifying in French a Sym∣bole, shot, or reckoning.
• Sc••tal, where an Officer doth keep an Ale-house without the Forrest, under co∣lour of his Office from Scot and Ale, i. pay∣ing the shot for Ale.
• Scotomy, (Greek) a Vertigo, or dizzi∣nesse in the head, which causeth a dimnesse in the eyes.
• Scovel, see Malkin.
• Scout, (in Dutch showt) an Officer of an Army appointed to discover an Enemies designs.
• Screation, (lat.) a spitting.
• Screkingham, a Town in Lincolnshire, where Alfrick the second Earle of Leicester was slain by Hubba, a Dane.
• Scribe, (lat.) a Writer, Notary, or Srivener; also an Expounder of the Law among the Jews.
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• Scriptorian, (lat.) belonging to writing, or writers.
• Scruple, or Scrupulosity, (lat.) a doubt∣ing, or nicenesse in point of conscience; also scruple is the third part of a dram, i. seven grains and a half, troy weight.
• Scrutation, (lat.) a searching, or in∣quiring.
• Scrutiny, (lat.) the same.
• Sculpture, (lat.) a graving, or carving.
• Scurrility, (lat.) offensive jesting, or scoffing.
• Scut, (a Term in Hunting) the tayl of a Hare, or Cony.
• Scutchion, see Escotchion, also the bud of a Tree cut off for inoculation.
• Scutiferous, (lat.) bearing a sheild, or buckler.
• Scuttle, a square hole cut through the hatch, or deck of a ship, to go down by into any room.
• Scyld, (Saxon) debt, or default.
• Scylla, the daughter of Nysus, King of Megara, which being besieged by Minos, King of Creet was betrayed into his hands by Scylla, who falling in love with Minos, cut off her fathers purple lock (upon which the fate of the Citie depended) and sent it to him; but afterwards seeing her self despised, and dying for grief, she was turned into a Partridge, and Nisus into a Hawk; also the daughter of Phorcus, who falling in love with Glaucus, was envied by Circe, who poisoning the water wherein she used to bath her self, the lower part of her body became altogether like the grinning of Dogs; whereupon she threw her self headlong down the next praeci∣pice, and was transformed to a Rock over against Charybdis.
• Scyllas, one so skilfull in diving, that he regained a great quantity of gold and sil∣ver, which had been lost in a shipwrack.
• Scymitar, see Semitar.
• Scythia, the most Northern Countrey of the world, divided into Europaea and Asiatica; it was so called from Scythes the son of Hercules by one that was half a woman, and half a viper; it is at this day called Tartarick.
• Scytale, (lat.) a kinde of secret way of writing; also a kinde of Serpent, also a field Mouse, called an Ermine, or a shrew.

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• Seasnapple, a kinde of Shell-fish, called in Latin Cochlea veneris, i. Venus shell.
• Seax, a kinde of sword, anciently in use among the Saxons.
• Sebastocrator, (Greek) a great Officer in the ancient Constantinople Empire, from Sebastos, i. Honourable, & Crator, power∣full.
• Sebastian, a proper name, signifying in Greek reverend, or Majestical.
• Sebesten, a kinde of Assyria plumb, called in Greek My••aria.
• Secandunum, the ancient name of a Town in Warwick-shire, now called Sec∣kinton, where Athelbald, King of the Mer∣cians, was in a Civil war slain by Beared, who usurping the Kingdom, was soon af∣ter slain himself by Offa.
• Secant, (a Term in Geometry) is a line drawn from the Center through one ex∣tream of the given Arch, till it meet with the Tangent raised from the Diameter, at the other extream.
• Secation, (lat.) a cutting.
• Secession, (lat.) a separating ones self, a departing from any side, a revolting.
• Seclusion, (lat.) a shutting forth, a put∣ting out of doors.
• A Second in surveying, is the tenth part of a prime, and contains one inch, and 49 of 50 parts of an inch.
• Second deliverance, a Writ that lieth after the return of Cattel replevied, for the repleving of the same Cattel again, by reason of some default in the party that replevied.
• Secondary, (lat.) the second man in any place, he, who is next to any Chief, Officer, as Secondary of the fine Office, &c.
• Secondine, (lat.) the after-birth, or skin wherein an Infant is wrapt, while it is in the womb.
• Sectary, (lat.) one of a Sect, a follower of new opinions in matters of religion.
• Section, (lat.) a cutting, or dividing; also a certain division in a Chapter.
• Sector, a Mathematical instrument, con∣sisting of two right lines, containing an Angle at the Center, and of the circumfe∣rence assumed by them.
• Secular, (lat.) belonging to an age, or the space of an hundred years, whence se∣cular playes were certain Games among the Romans performed every hundred years; also a secular Priest, one who is conversant in the world, and not tied to a Monastical life.
• Secundary, see Secondary.
• Secundation, (lat.) a secunding, for∣warding, or making prosperous.
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• Securiferous, (lat.) bearing a hatchet, or axe.
• Sedation, (lat.) a quieting, or asswa∣ging.
• Sedentarie, (lat.) sitting much, studious, unactive.
• Sediment, (lat.) the dregs, or lees of any thing setling, or sinking down to the bot∣tome.
• Sedition, (latin as it were feorsum itio, i. a going apart) a stirring up to rebellion or discord, a raising a faction, or mutiny.
• Seduction, (lat.) a seducing, or leading out of the right way.
• Sedulity, (lat.) diligence.
• See, (old word) a seat.
• Seeling, in Navigation, is the sudden tumbling of a ship to one side, or other, when the wave of the Sea is past from un∣der her.
• Segmentation, (lat.) a dividing into Segments, i. small parts, or pieces of any thing.
• Segnity, (lat.) sluggishnesse, or sloth.
• Segregation, (lat.) as it were a setting apart from the flock, a severing, or part∣ing.
• Sejant, (French) sitting upright, a term in Heraldry.
• Sejanus, a great favorite of Tiberius the Roman Emperour, of whom he was so highly esteemed, that he had the chief management of state affairs, but at last by reason of his pride and ambition he came to a miserable end.
• Seignorage, (French) a prerogative of the King, whereby he challengeth allow∣ance for gold and silver, brought in the Masse to the exchange for Coin.
• Seignorie, (French) dominion, or Juris∣diction; also a Mannour, or Lordship.
• Seimours, the sirname of an ancient and honourable family, stiled in Latin Re∣cords de Sancto Mauro, in whom continue to this day the titles of Vicount Beau∣champ, and Marques of Hertfort.
• Seisin, in Common-law, is the possession of Lands, or inheritance.
• Sejunction, (lat.) a severing, or putting asunder.
• Seker, (old word) in like manner.
• Sela, or Selah, an Hebrew word, used in several of Davids Psalms; being as some think a pause, or resting time in Musick.
• Sele-graving, a Term in Sculpture, or the art of graving, being that which is done in steel or copper, that which is done in wood, is called graving in ••••at••tich.
• Selenite, a certain stone wherein there is a white spot, which increaseth and de∣creaseth, according to the course of the Moon.
• Seleucus, one of the Captains of Alexan∣der the Great, who after Alexanders death possessed himself of Syria, where he reign∣ed twenty years.
• Selimus, the ninth Emperour of the Turks, who added Aegypt and Arabia to the Turkish Empire.
• Selion, a ridge of land lying between two furrows.
• Sellander, a kinde of disease in a horse.
• Sellengers, contracted from St. Legers, a sirname of great note and antiquity, stiled in Latin Records de Sancto Leodegaria.
• Sellarie, (lat.) a place where benches, or forms are set.
• Semblance, (French) a likenesse, see••∣ing, or outward appearance.
• Semele, the daughter of Cadmus, King of Thebes, who being got with Childe by Jupiter, brought forth Bacchus.
• Sementation, (lat.) a bringing forth seed.
• Semicircular, (lat.) in fashion of a half Circle.
• Semicolon, a half Colon, or Member, being a point in writing, or printing, thus marked (;)
• Semidole, (lat.) a pipe, or measure, con∣taining half a Tun.
• Seminary, (lat.) a seed-plot, or Nursery of young Plants; it is also Metaphorically taken for a School, or Colledge, which is a Nursery of learning.
• Semination, or Sementation, (lat.) a sowing, or bringing forth seed.
• Seminifical, (lat.) producing seed for generation.
• Semipedal, (lat.) consisting of half a foot in measure.
• Semiquadrate, an Aspect consisting of 45 degrees.
• Semiquintile, an Aspect consisting of 36. degrees.
• Semiramis, a famous Queen of the As∣syrians, the wife first of Maenon praefect of Syria, afterward of Ninus, whom she made away, and succeeded in the King∣dom, she much inlarged the bounds of her Empire, and built a wall of brick about the Citie of Babylon, and as some say, she died in an expedition into India, against Staurobates.
• Semitar, or Scymitar, a kind of a short Persian sword, being also much in use a∣mong the Turks.
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• Sempiternal, (lat.) everlasting, perpe∣tual, without end.
• Semuncial, (lat.) belonging to a se∣munee, i. half an ounce.
• Senatorian, (lat.) belonging to a Sena∣tour, or to a Senate, i. a Supream Coun∣cil of a Nation, a Parliament.
• Sendal, (French) a kind of Cyprus silk, Greek Sidon.
• Seneca, a famous Philosopher born in Corduba, a City of Andalusia, a Province of Spain, he caused himself to bleed to death for fear of Nero who was his schollar.
• Senescal, or Seneschal, (French) a Mar∣shall or Steward.
• Senescent, (lat.) growing old, wai∣ning.
• Sengreen, a kind of herb, otherwise called Houseleek, in Latin Sedum, also Semper∣vivum, i. alwayes green.
• Senie, the leaf of a medicinable herb which purgeth cholerick and melancho∣lick humours.
• Seniour, (lat.) elder.
• Sensiferous, (lat.) bringing sense or feeling.
• Sensory, (lat.) an organ of the sense.
• Sensuality, (lat.) a pleasing or indul∣ging to the sense, a satisfying the carnal appetite.
• Sententious, (lat.) full of sentences, i. grave or wise sayings.
• Sentiment, (French) sensiblenesse, ap∣prehension, also passion or a tender feel∣ing of the effects of love. Cleopatra.
• Sentinell, (French) a Military Scout or Watchman, from the Latin Sentire, i. to perceive, because he is to perceive and look narrowly into the enemies de∣signs.
• Senvie, a certain plant called in La∣tin Sinapis, of whose seed mustard is made.
• Separation, (lat.) a setting apart, a put∣ting asunder; also when two Planets have been in partile aspect or conjunction, and part from it.
• Separatory, (French) a Chirurgions In∣strument wherewith to pick splinters of bones out of a wound.
• Sepiment, (lat.) a fence, pale, or hedge.
• Seplasiary, (lat.) a compounder or sel∣ler of sweet ointments; also a nice effe∣minate man.
• Seposition, (lat.) a setting apart, a put∣ting asunder.
• September, so called being the seventh moneth from March.
• Septempedal, (lat.) containing seven foot in measure.
• Septenary, (lat.) the number 7.
• Septennial, (lat.) of seven years space.
• Septentrional, (lat.) belonging to the North.
• Septimestre, (lat.) of seven moneths space
• Septuagenary, (lat.) belonging to the number of 70.
• Septuagesimal, (lat.) the same, also be∣longing to Septuagesime, Sunday.
• The Septuagint translation of the Bible, the most original and authentick Tran∣slation of it by the 70 Elders of the Jews at the appointment of Ptolomaeus Philadel∣phus King of Egypt.
• Septunical, (lat.) containing 7 ounces.
• Sepulchral, (lat.) belonging to a Sepul∣chre or Grave.
• Sepulture, (lat.) a burying, or interring in the ground.
• Sequele, (lat.) a following, a conclusion or consequence of any thing.
• Sequence, (lat.) a following of things in order, one just after another.
• Sequestration, (lat.) a separating a thing in controversie from the possession of both those that contend for it. But it is now commonly taken for a seizing upon the rents of Delinquents estates, for the use of the Common-wealth.
• Seraglio, (Ital.) the Grand Signors Palace at Constantinople.
• Serain, (French) the fresh evening air; also a mildew or damp vapour.
• Seraph, a Turkish coin of gold.
• Seraphical, celestical, bright, divine, like a Seraphim or one of the highest order of Angels.
• Seraphis, a kind of Serpent anciently worshipt by the Aegyptians.
• Serenade, (French) an evening-song sung by a Lover under his Mistresses win∣dow.
• Serenity, (lat.) clearnesse of the skie, fair weather.
• Serge, a kind of woollen cloth, called in Italian Sargia, in Dutch Rasch.
• Sergeanty, see Petty Sergeanty, and Grand Sergeanty.
• Sergreant, a Griffin so termed in He∣raldry.
• Sericated, clothed in silk, which is cal∣led in Latin Sericum.
• Series, (lat.) an order, row.
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• Sermocination, (lat.) communing, or holding a discourse.
• Serosity, (lat.) the thinner or waterish part of the masse of blood.
• Serotine, (lat.) late, done about the evening time.
• Serpentary, a kind of herb called vipers-grasse.
• Serpentine, (lat,) belonging to serpents or snakes; whence Serpentine verses, those that begin and end with the same word.
• Serpet, a kind of basket.
• Serred, (lat.) sawed, also (from the French Serre) compact, joyned close to∣gether.
• Sertorius, a famous Roman Captain who took part with Marius and Cinna, af∣ter Scylla, returning from the Mithridatick War, had got possession of Rome, he fled into Spain, and being chosen Captain by the Lusitanians overthrew the Romans in several battles, at last having stoutly de∣fended himself against Pompey, he was slain by Perpenna as he sate at supper. Di∣ana is said to have attended him in all his designs, in the form of a Hart.
• Servile, (lat.) belonging to a servant, slavish; whence Servitude, slavery or thraldom.
• Serviteur, (French) a serving-man or waiter, also a poor schollar in the Uni∣versity.
• Seselie, (Greek) a kind of plant other∣wise called Hartwort.
• Sesostris, a King of Aegypt, the son of Moeris, he indeavoured to make a navi∣gable River out of the Mediterranean into the Red Sea.
• Sesquipedal, or Sesquipedalian, (lat.) containing a foot and a half in measure.
• Sesquitertian, (lat.) containing a third part over and above another thing.
• Session, (lat.) a sitting; Sessions are more particularly taken for a quarterly sitting of Justices in Court upon their Commission.
• Sesterce, (lat.) an ancient coin among the Romans containing 4 denarii, which value about a half penny of our money; the Sesterce was commonly marked with this Character H-S.
• Sestain, (French) a stanza consisting of 6 verses.
• Sethin, see Sittim.
• Setigerous, (lat.) bearing bristles.
• Setterwort, a kind of herb so called from settering, i. curing of cattel.
• Settwall, a kind of herb growing near walls, called also Valerian.
• Severance, in Common Law, is the singling of two or more that joyne in one Writ.
• Severians, a kind of Hereticks that con∣demned Marriage and eating of flesh.
• Severity, (lat.) gravity, strictnesse, sournesse, or austerenesse.
• Severn, a famous River of England, in Latin Sabrina, so denominated as Geffrey of Monmouth affirmeth from a Virgin so called, who was here drowned by the meanes of her Step-mother Guendolen.
• Sevocation, (lat.) a calling aside, a draw∣ing apart.
• Sewar, he that cometh before the meat of any great personage, and placeth it upon the table; also a gutter which car∣rieth into the Sea or any River.
• Sewel, a term in Hunting, being a thing set to keep a Deer out of any place.
• Sexagism Sunday, the Sunday before Shrove-Tuesday.
• Sexennial, (lat.) of six years conti∣nuance.
• Sextant, (lat.) a kind of coin of a very small value; also a weight of two ounces by some called Obolus.
• Sextary, (lat.) an ancient Roman mea∣sure, containing in liquid things some∣what more than a pint, in dry things 24 ounces or 2 pound Roman, a pound and a half aver du pois.
• Sexten, contract from Sacristian, an of∣ficer that looks to the Church and keeps the Priests Vestments.
• Sextile, (lat.) the moneth August, being the sixth from March, or an aspect con∣sisting of 60 degrees, thus character'd *.
• Sextule, (lat.) the sixth part of an ounce, also a land-measure.
• Sextuple, (lat.) sixfold, or containing any thing 6 times over.

S H

• Shallop, see Scallop.
• Shafment, a kind of measure containing an handbreadth.
• Shaftsbury, a Town in Dorcetshire, so called from the Churches spire-steeple, such as they anciently termed Scheafts, in Latin Septonia. This place is famous for Aquila (some say a reall Eagle, o∣thers a Prophet so called) who foretold that the Brittish Empire, after the Saxons

• and the Normans should return again to the ancient Brittains.
• Shamois, see Chamois.
• Shamsheer, a kind of sword among the Persians somewhat like a Scy∣mitar.
• Shapournet, a term in Heraldry, being a resemblance of that kind of hood which in French is called Chaperon.
• Shash, see Turbant.
• Shaw, (Persian) a King.
• Sheen, or Shene, (old word) bright-shining.
• To Shend, (old world) to blame.
• Sherbet, a kind of pleasant drink, much in request among the Turks and Per∣sians.
• Shiloh, (Heb.) a Saviour, it is a word used in the Scripture for our Saviour Christ.
• Shingles, (from the Latin scinder, i. to cleave) lath's or slates to cover houses with; also (from cingere, i. to gird) a certain disease which causeth a rednesse in the brest, belly, or back.
• Shireev, (Saxon) a Questor or Prefect of a County or Shire, of whose office and authority see Lord Cooks reports.
• Shoares, a term in Navigation, pieces of timber set to bear up any other from sink∣ing or falling.
• Shoud, a certain Magistrate among the Turks.
• Shrew, a kind of field-mouse which doth great hurt to cattel; whence the word Shreud, i. leud or curst.
• Shrewsbury, the chief Town of Shrop∣shire, anciently called Schroesbury, for that it was a Thicket of shrubs upon a Hill; it is called in the Brittish tongue Ymwithig from Mewithaw, which is as much as Pla∣centia or Plaisance, in regard that for the pleasantnesse of the situation, the Princes of Wales chose it in times past for their chief Seat. Here Edrick Streona Duke of the Mercians lay in wait for Prince Af∣helm, and slew him as he rode on hunting. This Town is also commonly called Salop, and in Latin Salopia.
• Shrift, (Saxon, from the Latin Scri∣nium, i. the inward brest) auricular con∣fession; whence Shrovetide among the Catholicks is the time of shrivng or con∣fessing of their sins.
• Shrine, (lat. Scrinium) a chest or ca∣binet; also the same as Roodloft.

S I

• Sib, (Saxon) Kindred; whence Gos∣sip is commonly used for a Godfather, i. a kin in God.
• Sibilation, (lat.) a hissing.
• Sicambre, an ancient people of Germany inhabiting on either side the Rhine. Some think them to be the same with those which at this day are called Gueldrois, onely of a larger extent, haply posses∣sing also that part which is called Zut∣phany.
• Siccity, (lat.) drouth, drynesse.
• Sicily, an Island in the Mediterrean Sea, so called from Siculus the son of Nep∣tune; it was of old called Trinacria.
• Sicle, (Heb. Shekel) a weight of Silver or Gold, containing 4 drachms, or 384 grains.
• Sidelays, (a term in Hunting) when the dogs set upon a Deer by the way as he passes.
• Sidemen, the same as Questmen, see Quest.
• Siderated, (lat.) blasted or planet-struck.
• Sidereal, or Siderean, (lat.) belonging to Stars.
• Siderite, a Loadstone, from the Greek word Sider••n, i. Iron; also a kind of plant so called.
• Sidneys, the sirname of a very honour∣able Family, whose chief seat is Pensherst in Kent; they derive themselves from William de Sidney Chamberlain to King Henry the second; but the flower and chief glory of this Family, was that most accomplisht Gentleman Sir Philip Sidney, who valiantly fighting before Zutphen in Gelderland, lost his life.
• Sidon, a City of Phoenicia, so called from the plenty of fish which is there, Sidon signifying in the Phoenician tongue, a fish.
• Sigalion, see Harpocrates.
• Sigillar, (lat.) belonging to a seal or sealing.
• Sigles, (lat.) initial letters which by abbreviation are put for whole words, as S. P. Q. R. Senatus Populusque Ro∣manus.
• Signature, (lat.) a signing, marking, or sealing; also the resemblance of any Plant or Mineral unto a mans body, or any of the parts thereof.
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• Signiferous, (lat.) bearing an Ensign or Standard.
• Silentiary, (lat.) an Usher, one that makes room, or keeps silence.
• Silerie, see Cilerie.
• Siliceous, (lat.) flinty, full of flint, of a flinty substance.
• Silures, an ancient name given to the people of South-Wales.
• Similar, (lat.) like, or of the same sub∣stance; whence similar parts of the body, are those which are altogether composed of the same substance.
• Similitude, (lat.) likenesse.
• Simon, a proper name, signifying in Heb. obedient.
• Simoniacal, (lat.) belonging to Simony, i. a buying or selling Church-livings; so called from Simon Magus, who would have bought the gift of the Spirit for money of the Apostles.
• Simonides, a famous Lyrick Poet of Thessaly, of such an exact memory, that when divers men were killed by the fall of a house, and were so disfigured they could not be known, he could exactly tell who every one of them was by the order in which he had observed them to have been placed.
• Simous, (lat.) having a flat nose.
• Simplist, (French) one that understands the nature of Plants and Drugs.
• Simulacre, (lat.) an Image, Picture, or Idol.
• Simulation, (lat.) a faigning, counter∣feiting, or making a resemblance of any thing.
• Simultaneous, (lat.) bearing a private grudge or inward malice toward any one.
• Sincerity, (lat.) purenesse, upright∣nesse, plain-dealing.
• Sine, (lat.) a Mathematical term used in Astronomy and Surveying, and signi∣fies the angle of meeting between the mi∣nute and the degree, it being a right line falling perpendicularly from one extream of the given Arch upon the Diameter drawn to the other extream of the Arch.
• Singeries, (French) apish tricks.
• Single, a term in Hunting, the taile of a Buck, Roe, or any other Deer.
• Sinister, (lat.) belonging to the left side; also unlucky, unfortunate; also unhandsome or dishonest.
• Sinister aspect, is according to the suc∣cession of the Signs.
• Sinister point, in Heraldry, is the place in an Escutcheon near the left corner of the chief. The Sinister base point, is un∣der it at the lower part of the Escut∣cheon.
• Sinon, the son of Sisyphus and grand∣child of Autolycus, the thief, he went with Vlisses to the wars of Troy, and betrayed that City to the Grecians by the means of the Trojan Horse.
• Sinoper, see Cinnabar.
• Sinople, a kind of red lead, so called from Sinopis a City of Pontus; it is vul∣garly called Ruddle.
• Sipback, (Arab.) the inner rim of the belly, joyned to the cawl, where the en∣trailes are covered.
• Si quis, (lat. i. if any one) a bill stuck upon a wall or post, to proclaim any thing that is lost.
• Sirens, certain Sea-deities, three in number, Parthenope, Ligea, and Leucosia, the daughters of Achelous and Calliope, having their upper part like maids, and their lower parts like fishes; they used by the sweetnesse of their voices to allure Mariners to the rocks and cause them to be cast away: which Vlisses foreseeing, stopt the ears of his associates with soft wax, and caused himself to be bound to the mast of the ship; whereupon they see∣ing themselves contemned, cast themselves headlong into the Sea.
• Sirius, a star in the mouth of that con∣stellation which is called Canicula or the Dog, which toward the latter end of Sum∣mer casts forth a vehement and raging heat; whence the Dog-dayes derive their name.
• Sirocc••, (Ital.) a Southeast wind.
• Sisamnes, a Judge whom Cambyses caused to be flead for bribery, and his skin to be hung upon the Tribunal.
• Sisken, or Sirkin, a little bird, other wise called a Finch, in Greek Acanthis or Ligurinus.
• Sisley, see Cicely.
• Sisyphus, the son of Aeolus, who was slain by Theseus for his robberies, and is faigned by the Poets to rowl a great stone in Hell up to the top of a mountain, which still falls down again and makes an endlesse labour.
• Site, or Situation, (lat.) the seat or standing of any house or building.
• Sitient, (lat.) thirsting.
• Sitomagus, the ancient name of a Town in Northfolk, now called Thetf••rt; this

• Town was sack't by the Danes, in the year 1004. for the recovery whereof Bishop Arfast removed his Episcopal See from Elmham hither.
• Sittim, or Sethim, (Hebr.) a certain wood growing in Judaea, of which the Ark was made.
• Sixain, see sestain.
• Size, a Term used among the Schollars in the University of Cambridge, signifying so much bread, or beer set upon any of their names in the buttery book, as a∣mounts to the value of a farthing.

S K

• Skeg, in Navigation, is that little part of the Keel, which is cut slaunting, and is left a little without the stern post.
• Skinker, (Dutch) a filler of drink, a Cup-bearer, or Butler.
• Skuppers, the holes close to the decks, through the ships side, whereat the water runs forth of the ship from the decks.

S L

• Slay of a Weavers Loom, a certain in∣strument, having teeth like a Comb, it comes from Slaegen Dutch, i. to strike.
• Slego, a County of Ireland in the Pro∣vince of Connaght.
• Slockster, (Dutch) a plagiary, or one that inticeth away mens servants.
• Slot, the print of a stags foot, a Term in Hunting.
• Slough, (old word) a Ditch.

S M

• Smalt, a kinde of blue colour used in painting.
• Smaragd, a precious stone of a green colour, otherwise called an Emerald.
• Smectymnus, the title of a certain book; so called from the first letters of those Mi∣nisters names that composed it.
• Smegmatick, (Greek) belonging to Soap, of a scouring faculty.
• Smeth, a certain oyntment to take away hair.
• Smilas, the name of a fair Virgin, who falling in love with Crocus, and being de∣spised by him pined away, and was turned into a plant of that name, called in Eng∣lish a Kidney-bean.
• Smired, (Sax.) anointed.
• Smoterlich, (old word) snout-fair.
• Smyrna, a Citie of Ionia, watered by the River Milete, built as some think by Smyrna the Amazonian, who possessed Ephesus in this Citie most conclude Homer was born.

S N

• Snakeweed, a kinde of plant, otherwise called Adderswort.
• Snapdragon, a plant called in Latin An∣tirrinum; also a kinde of Hobgoblin.
• Snaphaunce, a Firelock, a kinde of Gun that strikes fire without a match.
• Snette, (a Term in Hunting) the fat of all sorts of Deer.

S O

• Soccage, a certain Tenure of Lands by inferiour husbandry services, from the French Soc, i. a Plough-share.
• Sociality, (lat.) fellowship, company.
• Socinians, a certain Sect that deny the Divinity of Christ, first spred by Faustus Socinus of Siena.
• Socome, a Term in Common-law, signi∣fying a custome of grinding at the Lords Mill.
• Socord, (lat.) sluggish, idle, slothfull.
• Socrates, a famous Athenian Philo∣sopher, the son of Sophronius a statuary and Phanareta a Midwife, he was approved by the Oracle the wisest of men, at length being condemned to death by the Magi∣stracy, he had a Hemlock potion given him to drink, which he took with much constancy and patience.
• Sodality, (lat.) fellowship, brotherhood or society.
• Sodomitical, (lat.) belonging to Sodo∣my, i. buggery, or unnatural lust.
• Sokmans, those Tenants that hold by Soc••age Tenure.
• Solace, (lat.) comfort, or delight.
• Solar, (lat.) belonging to Sol, i. one of the seven Planets, Apollo, or the Sun.
• Solarie, (lat.) a yearly pension paid to the Prince to live free from publick bu∣sinesse; also a yearly rent paid for a house from Solum, i. the ground, or floor.
• Soldures, among the old Gauls, were such as vowed friendship to any, and to take part with them in their good, or bad fortunes.
• Soleated, (lat.) shod, having on shooes, or sandals.
• Solegrove, an old name for the moneth of February.
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• Solemnity, a Pomp, or Ceremony per∣formed yearly, from the Latin Solum, i. alone, and annus, i. a year.
• Solicitation, (lat.) a moving to do a thing.
• Solicitude, (lat.) care, anguish of mind.
• Solidation, (lat.) a making firm, or so∣lid.
• Solifidian, one that depends upon faith alone without works.
• Solifuge, (lat.) a certain venemous ani∣mal, found chiefly in the silver Mines of Sardinia.
• Soliloquy, (lat.) a talking, or discoursing with ones self alone.
• Solitude, (lat.) lonelynesse, private∣nesse.
• Solivagant, (lat.) wandring alone.
• Sollar, (lat.) an upper roof of a house, the story next the tiles.
• Soloecisme, (Greek) a speaking contrary to the rules of Grammar, from Soli, a bar∣barous people of Pamphilia.
• Solon, one of the seven wise-men of Greece, he made excellent Laws for the government of Athens, and abolished those of Draco; afterwards he flying his Coun∣trey, went first into Aegypt, next to Cyprus: Lastly to Craesus of Lydia, see Craesus.
• Sol••titial, (lat.) belonging to the Sol∣stice, or Sunstead, ••. the time when the Sun being in Capricorn, the dayes & nights are at the longest, which is about the midst of June.
• Solve, (lat.) to loosen, or undo, whence Solution a loosning, or undoing; also a resolving a doubt.
• A Sommer, vide a Summer.
• Somniferous, (lat.) bringing, or causing sleep.
• Sonorous, (lat.) sounding, or making a loud noise.
• Sontage, a Tax of fourty shillings laid upon every Knights fee.
• Sontick, (lat.) hurtfull, or noysome.
• Sophia, a proper name of a woman, sig∣nifying in Greek wisdom.
• Sophisme, (Greek) a cunning evading Argument, or Oration; whence Sophister, a suttle caviller in words.
• Sophistication, (lat.) a falsifying, coun∣terfeiting, or adulterating.
• Sophronia, (Greek) prudent and tem∣perate, a Christian name of several wo∣men.
• Sophy, (Arab. Tzaophi, i. pure and holy) the Monarch of Persia is so called.
• Sopition, (lat.) a laying to sleep.
• Soporation, (lat.) the same.
• Soporiferous, (lat.) bringing sleep.
• Sorb, (lat.) a kinde of fruit, called a Service.
• Sorbition, (lat.) a supping.
• Sorbonists, the Divines of a Colledge in Paris, called the Sorbone, from one Robert de Surbonne, who was the founder of it.
• Sorcory, or Sorcelery, (French) a kinde of witchcraft, or inchantment, perhaps der••ved from the Lat••n Sortilegium.
• Sordet, or Sordine, (French) a pipe put into the mouth of a Trumpet, to make it sound lower.
• Sordid, (lat.) foul, filthy, sluttish; also base, or dishonest.
• A Sore, or Sore-el, a Male fallow Deer of three year old.
• A Sorel colour, a kinde of a brownish, dun, or dark red.
• Sorites, (Greek) a kind of a Syllogism, consisting of divers propositions heaped together.
• S••rorcation, (lat.) a swelling, or beco∣ming round, and embossed like a young Virgin's breasts.
• Sorority, (lat.) sisterhood.
• Sortilegie, (lat.) a divination by lots.
• Sortition, (lat.) a casting of lots.
• Sospitation, (lat.) a keeping safe and in health, a preserving from danger.
• Sote, (old word) sweet.
• Sothale, a kinde of intertainment made by Bayliffs to those of their hundred for their gain; it is also called Filctale.
• Sothernwood, a kinde of plant, called in Latin Abrotonum.
• Sothfast, (Sax.) true, faithfull.
• So••lack, a great Officer among the Turks.
• Sour••e, (French) a spring-head; also a rise, or beginning of any thing from the Latin word Surgere to arise.
• Sourd, (lat.) deaf.
• Sourdet, see Sordet.
• Sous, a kinde of French Coin, valuing about a penny.
• Southhampton, or South-Anton, the chief Citie of Hantshire, so called as being si∣tuate on the South-side of the River Test, named in times past Anton; some think it to be the same with that Town, which Antonine calleth Clausentum, from the Brit∣tish Cladh-Henton, i. the Haven of Henton▪ in the wars between King Edward the third, and Philip Valoise, it was burnt to the ground by the French, out of the ashes

• whereof immediately sprung up the Town which is now in being.
• Sown, a word proper to the Exchequer, signifying as much as to be leviable, or possible to be gathered.
• Sownder, a term used by Hunters for a company of wild Bores, as a herd for Deer.

S P

• Spade, (lat.) gelded.
• Spadiceous, (lat.) of a bright bay colour, from Spadix the branch of a Date-tree.
• Spagyrical, (lat.) belonging to chymi∣cal operations.
• Spahy, (Persian Espawhee) a Turkish Horseman compleatly armed.
• Spaid, a term used by Hunters, a red male Deer of three years old.
• Sparsion, (lat.) a sprinkling.
• Sparta, a famous City of Peloponnessus, built by Spartus the son of Phoroneus, or as some say, by Sparta the daughter of Eurotas; it is otherwise called Lace∣daemon.
• Spartacus, a Thracian gladiatour or swordplayer, who with Chrysus and Oeno∣maus, broke out of Capua, got together an Army of slaves, and overthrew Clodius, Glaber, Lentulus, and Cassius; thereby ma∣king himself very formidable to the Ro∣mans; at last he was put to flight by Cr••ssus, but afterwards making head a∣gain, was vanquisht and slain.
• Spasmatical, (Greek) troubled with a Spasm, i. a cramp or shrinking in of the sinews.
• Spathule, or Spat, (lat.) an instrument wherewith Chirurgians spread their plai∣sters; it is also called a splatter or slice.
• Spatiation, (lat.) a walking at length, or in a large compasse.
• Species, (lat.) a different kind or form of any thing; in Logick it is reckoned one of the 5 Predicables.
• Specifical, (lat.) special, distinguishing the species or kind.
• Specification, (lat.) a signifying, de∣claring, or manifesting.
• Specious, (lat.) beautiful to the sight, fair to behold.
• Spectacle, (lat.) a publick or solemn shew.
• Spectatour, (lat.) a beholder, or looker on.
• Spectre, (lat.) a frightful apparition, a vision, ghost, or spirit.
• Speculation, (lat.) a spying or watching, also a contemplating or considering.
• Spel, (Sax.) a word or saying; also vulgarly used for a charm.
• Spelt, a kind of corn growing in some parts of the World, called in Latin Zea.
• Sperage, a kind of plant called in Latin Asparagus.
• Spermatical, (Greek) belonging to sperm, i. the natural seed of any living creature.
• Sperma Ceti, see Parmaceti.
• Speustick, (Greek) done or made up in haste.
• Sphacelism, (Greek) a kind of ulcer or dangerous inflammation.
• Sphaerical, (lat.) belonging to a sphere, i. a round globous figure, commonly ta∣ken for the round compasse of the Hea∣ven.
• Sphaeromachy, (Greek) a playing at bowls or tennis.
• Sphinx, the name of a certain Monster that kept anciently near Thebes, proposing a riddle to all passengers that came that way, and none being able to unfold it, she destroyed them all: at last Oedipus com∣ing that way and expounding it, she threw her self headlong down a rock for grief.
• Spiciferous, (lat.) bearing eares of corn.
• Spicilegy, (lat.) a gleaning, a gathering eares of corn.
• Spigurnells, a word now out of use, an∣ciently the sealers of the Kings Writs were known by that term, which office together with the Sergeancy of the Kings Chappel, John de Bohun, the son of Franco resigned unto King Edward the first.
• Spinal, (lat.) belonging to a Spine, i. a thorn, prickle, or sting; also the back∣bone.
• Spinosity, (lat.) a being full of spines or thorns.
• Spinster, a Law term, being appropria∣ted to unmarried women in all deeds, bonds, and evidences.
• Spintrian, (lat.) inventing new actions of lust.
• Spiracle, (lat.) a breathing-hole, a place through which smoak may have a vent.
• Spiral, (lat.) belonging to a pyramid or spire-steeple.
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• Spiration, (lat.) a breathing or ex∣haling.
• Spiritualities, the profits which a Bishop receiveth from his spiritual living.
• Spissitude, (lat.) thicknesse or grosse∣nesse.
• Spitter, see Brocket or Pricket.
• A Spittle-house, (Ital. Spedale) see Hospital.
• Spleget, the same as Pleget.
• Splendid, (lat.) bright, cleer, shining, glorious.
• Splenetick, (lat.) troubled with a di∣sease or ill humours in the spleen or milt, i. a Bowel in the left side under the mid∣rife, over against the liver.
• Spoliation, (lat.) a robbing or spoiling; also a Writ that lieth for one incumbent against another, when the right of patro∣nage cometh not in debate.
• Spondee, (Greek) a foot in a verse, con∣sisting of two long syllables.
• Spondyles, (Greek) the vertebres or turning joynts of the back-bone.
• Spongious, (lat.) full of holes like a sponge, which is a kind of plant-animal growing under the sea-rocks.
• Sponsal, or Sponsalitious, (lat.) belong∣ing to a spouse.
• Sp••nsion, (lat.) a bargain or promise; but more especially relating to Mar∣riage.
• Spontane, (lat.) done willingly, uncon∣strained, or of ones own accord.
• Sporades, certain Islands that lie scat∣tered up and down in the Carpathian Sea.
• Spraints, a term among Hunters, the dung of an Otter.
• Spray, (old word) a bou••h or sprig.
• Spretion, (lat.) a contemning, despi∣sing, or scorning.
• Spr••ghts, a sort of short or flight ar∣rows.
• Spring-tides, see Neap-tides.
• Springal, (Dutch) a stripling or young∣man.
• Spume, (lat.) foam, froth, or scum.
• † Spurcidical, (lat.) speaking filthily or uncleanly.
• Spurious, (lat.) baseborn; also counter∣feit.
• Spurkets, a term in Navigation, the spaces between the futtocks by the ship sides fore and aft, above and be∣low.

S Q

• Squadron, (French) a certain number of souldiers formed into a square body
• Squalid, (lat.) unclean, sluttish, ill-favoured.
• Squamigerous, (lat.) bearing scales scaly.
• Squill, (lat.) a kind of plant otherwise called the Sea-onion.
• Squinancy, or Squincy, a kind of disease which causeth a swelling in the throat, called in Latin Angina.
• Squinanth, (lat.) a kind of plant other∣wise called the Sweet-rush.

S T

• Stability, (lat.) stablenesse, firmnesse, surenesse.
• Stabulation, (lat.) a standing of cattel in a stable or stall.
• Stade, (lat.) a furlong, or the eighth part of an Italian mile, which consisteth of a thousand paces.
• Stafford, the chief Town of Stafford∣shire, called in ancient times Betheny, where Berteline, a holy man led an Eremites life; it hath a Castle on the south bank of the River built in the year 914 by King Edw. the Elder.
• Staggard, (a term in Hunting) a red male Deer of 4 years old.
• Stagira, a Town in Macedonia, where Aristotle was born; whence that Philo∣sopher is called the Stagirite.
• Stainand colours, in Heraldry, are taw∣ney and murrey.
• Stallage, (French) in Common Law, signifieth money paid for setting of stalls in Markets or Faires.
• Stallion, (Ital.) a horse kept for mares.
• Standard, (French) the chief Ensign of an Army, belonging to the King or Gene∣ral; also the standing measure of the King or State, to which all other measures are framed.
• Stanford, in Saxon Steanford, a Town in Lincolnshire, situate upon the River Welland; it is so called as being built of rough stone, Stean signifying in the Saxon tongue a stone. In this Town, under the reign of King Edward the third, an Uni∣versity was instituted, and publick pro∣fession of Arts began to flourish; but this Academy continued not long, it being soon after provided by oath, that no Stu∣dent

• in Oxford should publickly professe at Stanford to the prejudice of Oxford. There is also another Stanford situate upon the River Avon in Northampton∣shire.
• The Stannaries, (lat.) the Mines or Tin-works in Cornwall. See Lodework.
• Stanza, (Ital.) a certain number of verses commonly called a staffe, at the ending of which the stroph is conclu∣ded.
• Staple, a City or Town where the Mer∣chants by common order carry their com∣modities, for the better utterance of them by the great.
• Staple-Inne, see Inne.
• Star-chamber, (so called from a Cham∣ber in Westminster beautified with Stars, wherein this Court was first kept) a Court consisting of the members of the Kings Council, wherein are controverted all matters in which appeal is made from subjects to their Prince.
• Start, applied to a Hare, when you force her to leave her seat or form; for then you are said to start a Hare.
• Starrulet, (diminutive) a little Star.
• Stasiarch, (Greek) a Captain or chief Ringleader in any tumult or sedition.
• Stater, (Greek) a certain ancient coin, valuing about two shillings in silver, seven∣teen shillings in gold.
• Staticks, (Greek) a mechanick Art, treating about weights and measures.
• Station, (lat.) a standing-place; also a bay or rode for ships.
• Station-staff, an instrument used in Surveying, being a streight pole divided into feet, inches, and parts of inches, from the bottom upward.
• Stationary, is when a Planet stands still and moves neither backward nor fore∣ward.
• Statuary, (lat.) a Graver of Statues or Images.
• Statumination, (lat.) an underprop∣ping or setting up.
• Statute, (lat.) signifieth in Common Law, a Decree or Act of Parliament.
• Statute Merchant, and Statute Staple, are certain bonds made between Creditor and Debtor, in the form of a Statute, and acknowledged before the Mayor and chief Warden of any City, and two Merchants assigned for that purpose.
• Statute Sessions, are certain petty Sessi∣ons or Meetings in every hundred.
• Stec••ado, (Span.) the lists, a place rail'd in for the beholding of any famous Com∣bat.
• Stede, (old word) place.
• Stedship, (old word) firmnesse or sure∣nesse.
• To Steer, in Navigation, is to govern the ship with the helm; also by metaphor to govern or manage any affair.
• Stellar, (lat.) belonging to a star.
• Stellation, (lat.) a blasting.
• Stelliferous, (lat.) starry, bearing stars.
• Stellion, (lat.) a little beast, so called from certain little spots upon its skin, al∣most in the fashion of stars.
• Stellionate, (lat.) deceit, cousenage, counterfeiting any kinde of merchan∣dize.
• Stemme, (Greek) the stalk of any herb or flower; also a stock, linage or pedi∣gree.
• Stenography, (Greek) the Art of short-writing.
• Stentorian voice, a roaring loud voice, from Stentor a Greek, whose voice was as loud as 50 mens voices together.
• Stephen, the proper name of a man, sig∣nifying in Greek a Crown.
• Stercoration, (lat.) a dunging or cover∣ing with dung.
• Sterility, (lat.) barrennesse.
• Sterling, see Easterling.
• Stern, the aftermost part of a ship; also among Hunters the taile of a Greyhound is so called, as also the taile of a Woolf.
• Sternutation, (lat.) a sneezing.
• Sterquilinious, (lat.) belonging to a dunghil.
• Stesimbrotus, the son of Epaminondas, a famous Theban Captain, he was put to death by his father for fighting against the enemy contrary to his command.
• Stews, (from the French word Estuve, a Hot-house) brothel houses or places where women prostitute their bodies for gain.
• Sthenelus, a famous Captain in the wars of Troy, the son of Capaneus and Euadne.
• Sthenobaea, the daughter of Jobatas King of the Lycians, and the wife of Praetus King of the Corinthians, who receiving a repulse from Belleroph••n, complained to her husband, as if he would have offered vio∣lence unto her.
• Stibium, a kind of Mineral whereof there is great plenty in Darbyshire Mines; it is commonly called Antimony.
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• To Stigmatize, (Greek) to brand, or mark with a hot Iron.
• Stilletto, or Steletto, (Ital.) a sharp pointed Dagger, or Ponyard.
• Stillatory, (lat.) dropping, or distilling; also a place to put a Still, or Lim∣beck in.
• Stillicide, (lat.) a dropping from the eves of a house.
• Stillyard, a place in London, where in old time the Merchants of Haunse and Almain used to reside; it is so called as it were Steel-yard, because Steel used to be sold there.
• Stimulation, (lat.) a provoking, moving, or stirring up.
• Stipation, (lat.) a guarding, or inviro∣ning about.
• Stipendial, or Stipendiary, (lat.) serving for wages, or hire, paying tribute.
• Stipone, a kinde of sweet compounded drink used in hot weather.
• Stiptical, (Greek) stopping, or binding a word, used in Physick.
• Stipulation, (lat.) a solemne Covenant made by ordinary words in the Law.
• Stiricide, (lat.) a dropping of Isicles from the eves of a house.
• Stirling, a County in the Southpart of Scotland.
• Stoaked, a Term in Navigation, when the water cannot come to the Well, by reason that ballast, or something else is got into the limber holes.
• Stoccado, (Span.) a prick, stab, or thrust with a weapon.
• Stoical, (Greek) belonging to, or of the humour of the stoicks, i. a certain Sect of Philosophers at Athens, they were so cal∣led from Stoa, i. a Porch, because Zeno their first founder taught in a Porch of the Citie.
• Stoke, a Village in Nottinghamshire, where Sir John de la Pool, Earle of Lin∣coln pretending a title to the Crown of England, was overthrown in a great pitch∣ed battel, and slain.
• Stole, (Greek) a long Robe, or Gar∣ment of honour, among the ancient Ro∣mans it is now more especially taken for a Priestly Ornament.
• Stolidity, (lat.) foolishnesse, fondnesse, dulnesse, blockishnesse.
• Stomachous, (lat.) angry, disdainfull.
• Stomatick, (Greek) having a sore mouth.
• Stone of Wool, see Sarplar.
• Stonefaulcon, a kind of Hawk that builds her Nest in Rocks.
• Stonehenge, a wonderfull Pile of stones upon Salisbury plain, erected within the Circuit of a Ditch, in manner of a Crown in three ranks, one within another, where∣of some are 28 foot high, and seven foot broad, upon the heads of which others lie overthwart with Mortises; so as the whole frame seemeth to hang; it is termed by the old Historians Chorea Gigantum, i. the Gyants dance.
• Stooming of Wine, a putting baggs of herbs, or other infusions into it.
• Stork, a kinde of bird, so called from the Greek word Storge, i. natural affe∣ction, because of the care which is ob∣served in these kinde of birds toward their Parents, when they grow old.
• To Stow, a Term in Navigation, to put any victuals, or goods in order in the hold of a ship.
• Stounds, (old word) sorrows, dumps.
• Stours, (old word) shocks, or bronts.
• Strabisme, (Greek) a looking a squint.
• Strage, (lat.) a felling of Trees, a great ruine, or fall of any thing; also a great slaughter in an Army.
• The Strake of a wheel, the Iron where∣with the Cartwheel is bound.
• Straineth, a Term in Faulconry they say, the Hawk straineth, and not snatcheth.
• Strangurie, (Greek) a certain disease, wherein the Urine is voided drop by drop, and with great pain; it is vulgarly called the Strangullion.
• Strappado, (Ital.) a certain kinde of punishment inflicted on Souldiers for some hainous offence, by drawing them up on high with their arms tied backward.
• Stratagem, (Greek) a policy, or subtle invention in war.
• Strath, an old Brittish word, signifying a Vale, or Dale, whence are derived the names of several places, as Strathdee, i. the Vale of Dee, Strathearn, the Vale of Earn.
• Stratiotick, (Greek) belonging to Soul∣diers, warlike.
• A Streight, a narrow passage at Sea, between two Lands.
• Stremeworks, see Lodeworks.
• Strenuous, (lat.) stout, valiant, hardy.
• Streperous, (lat.) jarring, making a noise.
• Stricture, (lat.) a gathering, or crop∣ping of fruit; also a spark that flies from red hot Iron.
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• Strident, or Stridulous, (lat.) making a creaking noise.
• Strigilation, (lat.) a currying of a Horse.
• Strigment, (lat.) the filth, which is wiped off from the body, or any part of it.
• To Strike sayl, a Term in Navigation, to pull down the sayls, in token of re∣spect to another ship.
• Stromatick, (Gr.) belonging to strew∣ings, or any thing that is spread upon the ground.
• Strond, or Strand, a shore, or street lying upon the Sea, or River side.
• Structure, (lat.) a building, frame, or Fabrick of any thing.
• Strumatick, (lat.) troubled with a Strume, i. an Impostume, or swelling in the neck.
• Studious, (lat.) seriously bent upon a thing, musing, or meditating, intent upon books, or study, whence formerly Acade∣mies were called Studia, i. studies, as the study of Oxford, &c.
• Stultiloquy, (lat.) a speaking, or talking foolishly.
• Stupefaction, (lat.) a making stupid, i. dull, sencelesse, astonished, or dismaid.
• Stupration▪ (lat.) a committing a rape, a deflowring a Virgin.
• Stygian, (lat.) belonging to the River Styx, i. a Fountain near Nonacris in Ar∣caedia, whose waters are of a nature so ve∣hemently cold, that nothing but the hoo•• of a Mule is able to contain them; the Poets fained it to be a River of Hell, and that the most solemne Oath, which the gods swore by, was by the waters of Styx.
• Stylo Novo, the new computation of time, according to the Gregorian account, as Stylo veteri is the computation, accord∣ing to the Julian account.
• Styptick, or Styptical, (lat.) of a stop∣ping, or binding quality.

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• Suada, a certain goddesse among the Romans called the goddesse of eloquence, as Pitho was among the Greeks.
• Suasory, (lat.) apt to perswade, or ex∣hort.
• Suaviation, (lat.) an amorous kissing.
• Suaviloquy, (lat.) a sweet, or pleasant manner of speaking.
• Suavity, (lat.) sweetnesse.
• Subaction, (lat.) a bringing under, or subduing; also a kneading.
• Subagitation, (lat.) a driving to and fro; also a solliciting, also a knowing a woman carnally.
• Subalbid, (lat.) whitish, inclining to white.
• Subaltern, (lat.) taking turns under an∣other.
• Subaudition, (lat.) a hearing a little, a perceiving somewhat.
• Subclavicular Vein, see Vein.
• Subcutaneous, (lat.) being under the skin.
• Subdial, (lat.) being under the sky, or in the open aire.
• Subdititious, (lat.) put under, or laid in the room of another.
• Subdolous, (lat.) somewhat crafty, or de∣ceitfull.
• Subduction, (lat.) a bringing, or lead∣ing under; also a leading away, or with∣drawing.
• Subject, (lat.) cast, or brought under; also in Logick, it is taken substantively for▪ that substantial body, to which any quality adheres; also the matter which any art, or science treats of.
• Subingression, (lat.) a subtile, or undis∣cerned entring into.
• Subitaneous, (lat.) done suddenly, or hastily.
• Subjugaetion, (lat.) a bringing under the yoke, a subduing.
• Subjunctive, (lat.) joyning under.
• Subhastation, (lat.) an ancient manner of selling things among the Romans, which were confiscate to the publick use, namely under a Spear, or Javelin.
• Sublation, (lat.) a taking away.
• Subl••vation, (lat.) a lifting up; also a helping, or easing.
• Subligation, (lat.) a binding, or tying underneath.
• Sublimation, (lat.) a raising, or carry∣ing up on high; also a Chymical opera∣tion wherein dry exhalations ascending upward, stick to the sides of the Alem∣bick.
• Sublimity, (lat.) heighth.
• Sublition, (lat.) a plaistering, or daub∣ing underneath, in painting it is the gra∣sing, or laying the ground colour under the perfect colour.
• Submersion, (lat.) a plunging under wa∣ter.
• Submission, (lat.) a sending under;

• also a submitting, yielding, or humbling ones self.
• Subordinate, (lat.) placed, or appointed under another.
• Suborn, (lat.) to prepare, instruct, or set any one on upon the bearing false witnesse, or any other mischievous de∣sign.
• Subpedaneous, (lat.) set under foot, used as a footstool.
• Subpaena, a Writ to call a man into the Chancery, upon such case onely as the Common-law faileth in; also a Writ for the calling in of witnesses to te∣stifie.
• Subreptitious, (lat.) see Surreptitious.
• Subrision, (lat.) a smiling.
• Subrogation, (lat.) see Surrogation.
• Subsannation, (lat.) a mocking, jeering, or scoffing.
• Subscription, (lat.) a writing under∣neath, a setting ones name at the bottom of a Letter, Bond, or Indenture.
• Subsidence, (lat.) a setling to the bot∣tome.
• Subsidiary, (lat.) sent to the aid, suc∣cour, or assistence of any one.
• Subsidie, a Tax, or Tribute assessed by Parliament, after the rate of four shillings in the pound for Lands, and two shillings 8••. for goods.
• Subsortition, (lat.) a choosing by lot, after others have chosen.
• Substitution, (lat.) a putting in the place or room of another.
• Substracti••n, (lat.) a drawing a lesser, number out of a greater.
• Substruction, (lat.) a Term in Archite∣cture, an underbuilding, a laying the foun∣dation of an Aedifice.
• Subsultation, (lat.) a leaping under.
• Subterfluous, (lat.) flowing under.
• Subterfuge, (lat.) an evasion, or cun∣ning shift; also a safe retreat, or re∣fuge.
• Subterraneous, (latin) being under ground.
• Subtiltie, (lat.) craft, cunning, whence subtilties, quirks, or witty sayings.
• Subventaneous, (lat.) lying under the winde.
• Subversion, (lat.) an overturning, or overthrowing.
• Suburbian, (lat.) belonging to the Sub∣urbs of a Town, or Citie.
• Succedaneous, (lat.) succeeding, or co∣ming in the room of another.
• Succedent houses, second, fifth, ninth, eleventh.
• Succentour, (lat.) vulgarly Sincantour, see Incentour.
• Succenturiation, (lat.) a Term in War, a recruiting a filling up the number of Souldiers wanting in any Company, or Troup.
• Succernation, (lat.) a bolting, or sifting of Meal.
• Succiduous, (lat.) tottering, ready to fall.
• Succinct, (lat.) fenced, or girt about; also brief, or short.
• Succinous, (lat.) belonging to Succi∣num, i. Amber.
• Succollation, (lat.) a bearing on the shoulders.
• Succubus, (lat.) see Incubus.
• Succulent, (lat.) juicy, full of juice.
• Succussation, or Succussion, (lat.) a vio∣lent jolting, or shaking.
• Suction, (lat.) a sucking.
• Sudation, (lat.) a sweating, whence su∣datory, a stew, or hot-house.
• Sudorifick, (lat.) bringing, or causing sweat.
• Suecia, a Kingdom of Europe, lying on the North of Germany, anciently inhabited by the Goths, the chief Citie of which is called Stockholm.
• Suffarraneous, or Subfarraneous, (lat.) being under another servant; it being an ancient custome among the Romans, that the chief servant took his portion of Corn from the master, the under servant from him.
• Suffection, (lat.) a putting under, or in the room of another.
• Suffition, (lat.) a perfuming by casting perfumes upon hot Coales.
• Sufflamination, (lat.) a stopping the wheels of a Coach, or Cart, with an Instrument called a Sufflamen, or Trig∣ger.
• Suffl••tion, (lat.) a puffing up, a making to swell with blowing.
• S••ffocation, (lat.) a choaking, stifeling, or stopping up of the breath.
• Suffossion, (lat.) an undermining, or digging under.
• Suffragation, (lat.) a giving suffrage, i. ones vote or voice in favour of any per∣son or design.
• A Suffragan, is one who hath a voice in Ecclesiasticall causes, and executes the office of a Bishop, but hath not the title.
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• Suffumigation, (lat.) a fuming or smoak∣ing underneath; in Physick it is taken for a conveying a fume into the body from under a close-stoole.
• Suffusion, (lat.) a pouring or spreading abroad; also a disease in the eye called a pin and web.
• Suggestion, (lat.) a prompting or put∣ting into ones mind.
• Sugillation, (lat.) a beating black and blew; allo a reproaching or slander∣ing.
• Suhit, see Gazul.
• Sulcation, (lat.) a making furrows.
• Sulphureous, (lat.) full of sulphur or brimstone.
• Sultan, or Soldan, among the Turks is taken for a King or Prince.
• Sultana, or Sultanin, a kind of Turkish coin of Gold, valuing about seven shil∣lings six pence.
• Sumach, or Sumack, a kind of rank-smelling plant with a black berry where∣with Curriers use to dresse their cloth.
• Sumage, (from the French word Som∣me, i. a burden, or seam, which in the Western parts signifieth a horse-load) a toll for carriage on horseback.
• Summary, (lat.) a briefe gathering together of the whole matter in few words.
• A Summer, in Architecture, is a great piece of timber or beam which supporteth the building.
• Summity, (lat.) the highest part, or top of any thing.
• Superable, (lat.) to be overcome or van∣quisht.
• Sumpter horse, a horse that undergoes the burthen of things convenient for a journey, from the Latin Sumptus, charges or expences.
• Superaffusion, (lat.) a shedding upon, a pouring on the top.
• Superannuation, (Ital.) an out-living, or growing out of date.
• Superbiloquent, (lat.) speaking proud∣ly or haughtily.
• Superchery, (lat.) wrong, injury, an outragious assaulting.
• Supercilous, (lat.) having great eye∣brows; also of a sour countenance, severe in carriage.
• Supereminence, (lat.) excellent, or au∣thority above others.
• Supererogation, (lat.) a performing more good works than a man is bound to do▪ a term in Theology.
• Superfaetation, (lat.) a second con∣ceiving before the first young is brought forth, a breeding of young upon young, as Hares and Conies do.
• Superficiary, (lat.) he that builds a house upon another mans ground, and payes quit-rent.
• Superficies, (lat.) the surface or utter∣most part of any thing. In Geometry it is defined to be a magnitude consisting of lines having onely length and breadth without profundity.
• Superfluity, (lat.) excesse, an over-abounding, more than enough.
• Superjection, (lat.) a casting upon.
• To Superinduce, (lat.) to bring or draw one thing over another.
• Superintendent, (lat.) an Overseer.
• Superiority, (lat.) a being Superiour, i. higher, set above or over others.
• Superiour Planets, those that are above the Sun. ♄ ♃ ☉ ••.
• Suparlative, (lat.) highest advanc't; in Grammar Suparlative degree is the highest degree of comparison.
• Supermeation, (lat.) a flowing or pas∣sing over.
• Supernal, (lat.) coming from above.
• Supernatation, (lat.) a swimming over, or upon.
• Supernatural, (lat.) being above nature or natural cause.
• Superscription, (lat.) a writting over or on the out side of any thing.
• To Supersede, (lat.) to omit▪ to leave off, to let passe.
• Supersedeas, a Writ signifying a com∣mand to stay the doing of that which in appearance of Law were to be done.
• Superstition, (lat.) over-scrupulousnesse in Religion, over much ceremony in di∣vine worship.
• Supervacaneous, (lat.) more than, just, or, serveth for common use, needless, vain, unnecessary.
• To Supervene, (lat.) to come upon on a sudden or unexpected.
• To Supervive, see Survive.
• Supine, (lat.) lying with the face up∣ward; also negligent or carelesse.
• Suppedaneous, (lat.) see Subpedaneous.
• Suppeditation, (lat.) a supplying, mini∣stering, or affording what is needful.
• Suppilation, (lat.) a pilfring, or steal∣ing underhand.
• To supplant, (lat.) to plant or set un∣der, also to deceive or beguile.
• Supplement, (lat.) a supplying the which

• is defective, a filling up a place that is va∣cant or empty.
• A Suppliant, (French) a petitioner or humble suiter.
• Supplication, (lat.) a petitioning or making an humble request.
• Supplice, (lat.) punishment or corre∣••ion.
• Supplosion, (lat.) a making a noise by stamping with the feet.
• Supposititious, (lat.) laid in the place or room of another.
• Suppository, (lat.) put under; also in Physick it is used substantively for any solid composition put up into the body to make it soluble.
• To Suppresse, (lat.) to presse under, to stifle or keep down.
• Suppuration, (lat.) a ripening of a bile or imposthume, a gathering or resolving into matter.
• Supputation, (lat.) a pruning of trees; also a counting or casting up.
• Supremacy, (lat.) a being Supreme, i. highest in power and authority.
• Surannation, (lat.) the same as Super∣annuation.
• A Surbating, (French) a beating or gal∣ling on the soles of ones feet.
• To Surcease, (French) to give over.
• Surcharge, (French) charge upon charge, or load upon load.
• A Surcharger of the Forrest, he that commons with more beasts than a man hath right to common withal.
• A Surcingle, (French) an upper girth or girdle.
• Su••rc••at, (French) a coat of Armes to wear over armour.
• Surcrew, (French) an over-growing; also advantage, amends, over-measure.
• Surculation, (lat.) a pruning of trees, a cutting off Surcles, i. young graffs, shoots, or sprigs.
• Surdity, (lat.) deafness••.
• Surge, a wave, from the Latin Surgere, i. to rise.
• Sureby, a Port Town in Yorkshire, which some think to be the same with that an∣cient Town called by Antonine 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Gabrantovicorum, and by the Latins Sinus port••osus & salutaris, each of these names implying as much as, sure or safe Ha∣ven.
• Surface, (French) the same as Super∣ficies.
• Surkney, a kind of white garment like a rotchet.
• To Surmo••••••, (French) to excell, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 overcome.
• To Surpasse, (French) the same.
• Suria, the name of a certain goddesse to whom an altar was anciently erected at Melkrig in Northumberland by Licinius Clemens a Captain under Calphurnus Agri∣cola, Lieutenant to Augustus.
• Surplusage, (French) signifieth in Com∣mon Law, a superfluity or addition more than needeth, which is a cause sometimes that the Writ abateth.
• Surprizal, (French) a sudden assault∣ing or setting upon, a coming upon a man unawares.
• Surquedry, (old word) pride, presump∣tion.
• Surrejoynder, (French) a second defence of the Plaintiffs action, opposite to the Defendants rejoynder. The Civilians call it Triplication.
• A Surrender, in Common Law, is an instrument or writing, signifying a Te∣nants consent or agreement to yield and give up his lands to the possession of him that hath the next immediate remainder or reversion.
• Surrentum, a Town of Campania in Italy, built by the Greeks, anciently cal∣led Petrae Sirenum.
• Surreptitious, (lat.) taken deceitfully, or by stealth.
• Surrogation, (lat.) an appointing as De∣puty in the roome of another.
• To Survive, (French) to out-live; whence a Surviver in Common Law, is taken for the longer liver of two joynt∣tenants.
• Susan, the proper name of a woman, sig∣nifying in Heb. Lilly.
• Susception, (lat.) an enterprising or un∣dertaking a thing.
• Susceptible, (lat.) plyable, apt to receive any impression.
• Suscitation, (lat.) a raising, quickning or stirring up.
• Suspension, (lat.) a hanging up; also a being in doubt or uncertainty: in Com∣mon Law it is taken for a temporal stop of a mans right.
• Suspiral, (French) a breathing-hole, a vent or passage for air; also a spring of water, passing under ground to a Con∣duit.
• Suspiration, (lat.) a fetching a deep sigh.
• Susurration, (lat.) a whispring, or mut∣tring.
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• Sutherland, the name of a Countrey in the North-part of Scotland.
• Sutorious, (lat.) belonging to a Shoo∣maker.
• Suture, (lat.) a seam, or sewing toge∣ther, a fastning together of bones. There are three remarkable Sutures in the head, the Coronal, Lamdoidal, and Sagittal.

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• Swainmot, (Sax.) a Court of Freehol∣ders within the Forrest kept by the Char∣ter of the Forrest thrice a year.
• Swallows-taile a term among Archi∣tectours and Carpenters, a fastning toge∣ther of two pieces of timber so strongly, that they cannot fall asunder.
• Swan, a celestial Constellation.
• Swart ruiter, see Ruiter.
• To Sweep, a Hawk after she hath fed, is said to sweep, not wipe her beake.
• Swepe, a certain instrument with crosse∣beams, to draw water with.
• Swilpough, a Dilling, or child born when the Parents are old.
• Swink, (old word) labour.
• Swithin, a proper name, signifying in the Saxon tongue, very high. There was a Bishop of Winchester famous for holi∣nesse called St. Swithin.

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• Sybaritical, dainty, wanton, effeminate, from the Sybariae, the inhabitants of the City Sybaris, a people advanced to that height of luxury and voluptuousnesse, that they had their horses taught to dance to the sound of the Flute, by which means, the Crotoniatae who waged war with them, bringing pipers along with them into the field, made their horses to fall a dancing; whereupon they rushed in among them, broke their ranks, and utterly overthrew them, and destroyed their City.
• Sybill, (Heb.) divine doctrine, a Chri∣stian name of divers women.
• Sybilline, (lat.) belonging to the Sybills, who were certain women that prophesied concerning the birth of our Saviour Christ; they were thought to be ten in number, the Persian, Cumaean, Lybian, Delphian, Erythraean, Samian, Hellespon∣tian, Phrygian, Tiburtine, Cuman.
• Sycomore, (Greek) a kind of fair tree, abounding in many parts of Aegypt, par∣taking partly of the Fig-tree, partly of the Mulberry.
• To Sycophantise, (Greek) to play the sycophant, i. a parasite, flatterer, or tale-bearer.
• Syderati••n, (lat.) a blasting. Syderation, in Physick is when not onely the solid parts but the bones also are corrup∣ted.
• Sylla, a famous Roman Captain, who brought Jugurth in chaines to Rome, over∣came Mithridates, broke the tyranny of Cinna, and banished Marius: afterwards being made Dictatour, he became Tyran∣nical himself, till at last the Common∣wealth being setled, he retired to Puteo••i, where he lived a private life.
• Syllabical, (Greek) consisting of syl∣lables.
• Syllogistical, (Greek) belonging to a Syllogisme, i. a kind of argumentation wherein some things being granted, there follows necessarily a conclusion different from those things which were granted.
• Sylvanectum, a Town of Picardy in France, now called Senlis.
• Sylvanus, the son of Valerius, by his daughter Valeria Tusculanaria, he was called the god of the Woods, and by some thought to be the same with Pan.
• Sylvatical, or Sylvestrious, (lat.) woody, full of trees, belonging to Woods or For∣rests.
• Symbolycal, (Greek) belonging to a Symbol, i. a sign or token, a secret note, a short or mysterious sentence.
• Symmachy, (Greek) a joyning in war a∣gainst a common enemy.
• Symmetry, (Greek) a due proportion of each part in respect of the whole
• Sympathetical, (Greek) having a sym∣pathy, i. a natural agreement or consent in mutual affection or passion.
• Symphoniacal, (Greek) belonging to Symphony, i. consent in Harmony, agree∣ment in tune or time.
• Symposiast, (Greek) the Master or Over∣seer of a Feast or Banquet.
• Symptomatical, (Greek) belonging to a Symptome, i. an accident or effect, ac∣companyin•• any disease, as the Ague doth the headach.
• Synagogical, (Greek) belonging to a Synagogue, i. a Congregation or As∣sembly.
• Synalaepha, (Greek) a contraction of two vowels into one.
• Syncategorematical, (Greek) a term in

• Logick, having no predicamental or self-signification.
• Synchronical, (Greek) being or done together at the same time.
• Syncope, (Greek) a figure wherein a letter or syllable is taken out of the mid∣dle of a word; also in Physick it is taken for a certain disease which causeth a sud∣den decay of the spirits.
• Synchrism, (Greek) a kind of liquid or spreading ointment.
• Synchronism, (Greek) a hapning of two things at the same time.
• Syncope, a sudden or hasty decay of the strength caused by a disolution of the na∣tural heat.
• Syndick, (Greek) one that hath Com∣mission to deal in the affairs of the Com∣mon-wealth, a Controller or Censor.
• Syndrome, (Greek) a concourse, meet∣ing or running together.
• Synecdochical, (Greek) belonging to the figure Synecdoche, i. a taking a part for the whole.
• Syneresis, or Synaeresis, (Greek) the same as Synalaepha.
• Syngraph, (Greek) a deed or writing signed with ones own hand.
• Synodical, (Greek) belonging to a Sy∣nod, i. an Assembly or meeting together of Ecclesiastical persons, to consult about the affairs of the Church.
• Synonimous, or Synonimal words, (Gr.) several words having all the same signifi∣cation.
• Synople, (French) a term in Heraldry, signifying Green.
• Synopsie, (Greek) a brief summing up of things contained in a large Trea∣tise.
• Syntagme, (Greek) an ordering, dispo∣sing, or placing of things together.
• Syntax, (Greek) the same; also in Grammar it is taken for a joyning toge∣ther of the several parts of Speech in an orderly construction.
• Synteresie, (Greek) a remorce, or sting of conscience.
• Syntheme, (Greek) a watch-word; also an intricate sentence; also the same as Diploma.
• Syracuse, the chief City anciently of the Isle of Sicily, where the Poet Theo∣critus was born.
• Syria, a Region of Asia, by some divi∣ded into Syria, Assyria, Coelosyria, and Leucosyria.
• Syrinx, an Arcadian Nimph, one of the Naiades, who flying from the violence of Pan, was turned into a reed, of which Pan made his pastoral pipe, which for her sake he much delighted to play upon.
• Syrtes, two dangerous creeks in the Lybian Sea, called the greater Syrtis and the lesser Syrtis.
• Systatique, (Greek) compacting, or∣dering, or placing together.
• Sysigie, (Greek) a conjunction, a joyn∣ing or coupling together.
• System, (Greek) a composing, or put∣ting together; also a Treatise or body of any Art or Science, also the compasse of a Song.
• Systole, (Greek) a contraction or draw∣ing together; also in Physick it is taken for that motion of the pulse which com∣presses the heart and arteries as Diastole dilates them; also a making short a long vowel.

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• St. TAbbs, or St. Ebbes, a Town in the Bishoprick of Durham, otherwise called Ebbechester, from Ebba, a Virgin of the blood Royal of the Northumbers, who for the great opinion that was conceived of her Sanctimony, was Canonized among the Saints.
• Tabefaction, (Greek) a melting, cor∣rupting, or consuming.
• Tabellary, or Tabellion, (lat.) a Scri∣vener or publick Notary; also a Letter-carrier.
• Taberd, (Sax.) a jerkin or coat without sleeves; also a Heralds coat of Arms in service.
• Tabernacle, (lat.) a Booth, or little Shop; also a Pavilion or Tent for War. There was anciently among the Jews a certain holy Structure so called, which was made to remove up and down from place to place.
• Tabernarious, (lat.) belonging to Ta∣verns or Shops.
• Tabid, (lat.) wasting or pining away.
• Tabitha, the proper name of a woman, signifying in Hebrew Roebuck.
• Tabouret, (French) a little stool to sit on.
• Tabularious, (lat.) belonging to wri∣tings, evidences or accounts.
• Tabulation, (lat.) a fastning together of planks or boards, a making a floor.
• Taces, (in French Cuisseaux) armour for the thighs.
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• Tachos, a King of Aegypt, who for jeer∣ing at the short stature of Agesilaus, was the cause of the breach of the league be∣tween them, and of the losse of his own Kingdom.
• Tachygraphy, (Greek) the art of swift writing.
• Tacite, (lat.) silent.
• Taciturnity, (lat.) a being silent, a hold∣ing ones peace.
• Tackle, a Term in Navigation, the small ropes of a ship.
• Tacticks, (Greek) books treating of the ordering of Souldiers in an Army.
• Taction, (lat.) a touching.
• Taenarum, a Promontory in the Coun∣trey of Lacaedemon, near which is the Den where Hercules ascended, when he brought Cerberus out of the deep.
• Tages, the Grand-child of Jupiter, and son of Genius, he is said to have taught the Hetrurians the art of divining, when he was a boy of twelve year old.
• Tagliacotius, a famous Chirurgion of Bononia, who could put on new noses.
• Tagus, a river of Portugal famous among the ancients, for its gravel resembling Gold.
• Taile, in Common-law, is a kinde of inheritance in fee, when a man holdeth certain Lands to him, and the Heirs of his body Lawfully begotten, and is taken op∣posite to fee-simple.
• Tainct, a little red coloured insect, be∣ing a kinde of Spider that infesteth Cat∣tel in the Summer time.
• Takel, (old word) a Feather, or Ar∣row.
• Talaries, (lat.) the winged shooes, which the Poets faigne that Mercury wore.
• Talent, (lat.) a certain weight of silver, differing in value, both among Hebrews and Greeks.
• Tales, (lat.) i. such like) it is used in Common-law, for a supply of men em∣pannell'd upon a Jury▪ and not appear∣ing, or chalenged as not indifferent.
• Talismannical, belonging to Talismans, (Arab.) i. images, or figures made under certain constellations.
• Tallage, or Tailage, (French) a Tax, Tribute, or Imposition.
• Tallion, see Lex Talionis.
• Tally, or Taley, (from the French Tail∣ler, i. to cut) a score, or stick of wood divided into two pieces, for the keeping of a reckoning between two parties.
• Talmudical, belonging to the Talmud, i. a certain book compiled by the Rabbins, containing the Law, Ceremonies, and Re∣ligious Rites of the Jews.
• Talus, a sisters son of Daedalus, he found out the use of the saw, by seeing the Jawbone of a Serpent, and invented the Potters wheel, but was at length treacher∣ously slain by his Unkle, who envied his art and ingenuity.
• Tamarinds, a kind of Indian fruit some∣what like a Damascene, much used in Phy∣sick.
• Tamarisk, a kinde of shrub, having a red bark, and a leaf like heath.
• Tamerlane, a Scythian, who invaded the Dominion of the Turks, with a vast mul∣titude of men, and having overthrown and taken Bajazeth, the Emperour of the Turks, he led him up and down all Asia in an Iron Cage, he was, as some say, at first a Swinheard, but by a full gale of for∣tune, was blown up into the Imperial Thrown.
• Tamesis, the chief River of England, which from the confluence of Tame, and Isis, two Rivers, which meeting together, joyn into one stream, thenceforth assumes a name compounded of them both.
• Tampoy, a kind of pleasant drink, much used in the M••luc••oes.
• Tampoon, or Tampkin, a small piece of wood serving for a bung, or stopple to a piece of Ordnance.
• Tamworth, a Town so called from the River Tame, and the Saxon word Weordh, which signifieth a Barton, Ferm-house, or River Island; it is situate partly in War∣wick-shire, partly in Stafford-shire, and was anciently the chief residence of the Kings of the Mercians. this Town after it had suffered much by the Danish Wars, was repaired by Aethelfleda, Lady of the Mer∣cians; also Edith King Eadgar's sister founded here a Religious house for veiled Virgins.
• Tanacles, certain instruments of torment like pincers.
• Tanet, an Island in Kent, so called, as some vainly imagin 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i. from the death of Snakes, here the Saxons first seated themselves, but were vanquish't with a great slaughter at Stovar; never∣thelesse, afterwards at Whipped-fleet, a place so called from Whipped, a Saxon there slain, Hengist overthrew the Brit∣tains, and put them to flight.
• Tangent, (lat.) a Mathematical Term used chiefly in Astronomy, and signifies, a

• right line perpendicular, to the Diameter drawn by the one extream of the given Arch, and terminated by the Secant, and drawn from the Center through the other extream of the said Arch.
• Tangible, (lat.) that may be toucht.
• Tanistry, a certain ancient custome in Ireland, whereby he that had most powr, or policy inherited in any principality, or Lordship; it comes from the Saxon word Thane, i. a Nobleman.
• Tantalus, an ancient King of Phrygia, the son of Jupiter by the Nymph Plotis, he inviting the gods to a feast, killed his son Pelops, and set before them to eat, for which he was condemned to this punish∣ment in Hell, namely to stand up to the chin in water, and to have pleasant apples hang over his head, and yet to be neither able to eat nor to drink, whence a man that is brought near to happinesse, and yet deprived of it, is commonly said to be Tantaliz'd.
• To Tap, vide, to Beat.
• Taphus and Telebus, the sons of Pterelas, the son of Neptune and Hippothoe, the daughter of Nestor; their Successours, the Taphi••, and Teleboae inhabited the Taphian, or Echinades Islands, see Amphitryon.
• Tapinage, (French) a lurking, or lying secret, whence Tapissant, lurking, or squat∣ting, a Term in Hunting.
• Taprobane, an Island in the Indian Sea, 1000 mile long, and 625 mile broad, now called Sumatra.
• Taratantarize, (Greek) to imitate the sound of a Trumpet, which seemeth to expresse the word Taratantara.
• Tarantula, a kinde of venemous Crea∣ture, abounding in Tarantum, a Citie in the Kingdom of Naples, which casteth forth a sting, onely curable by the sound of Musick.
• Tardigrade, (lat.) going a slow place.
• Tardity, (lat.) slownesse, or delay∣ing.
• Tarentum, a Citie of Magna Graecia in Italy, built by Tarentus the son of Nep∣tune, and augmented by Phalantus, a La∣cedaemonian.
• Tarpawling, a Term in Navigation, a piece of Canvasse that is all tarr'd over to lash upon a deck, or grating, to keep the rain from soaking through.
• Tarpeia, a vestal Virgin, the daughter of Tarpeius, she betrayed the Roman Capitol to the Sabines, desiring for a reward what ever they carried upon their right Arms, whereupon they all threw their sheilds upon her, and pressed her to death.
• Tarquinius Priscus, the son of Demara∣tus a Corinthian, who by the perswasion of his wife Tanaquil went to Rome, where by insinuating himself into the favour of Ancus Martius, he at length obtained the Kingdom.
• Tarquinius Superbus, the seventh King of the Romans, whose son Tarquinius Sextus ravishing Lucretia, the wife of Tarquinius Collatinus, was the cause that kingly Go∣vernment was utterly expelled out of Rome.
• Tarracon, a famous Citie of Arragon, anciently called Tarraconia, a Province of Spain.
• Tarrasse, see Terrasse.
• Tarsus, a famous Citie of Cilicia, where St. Paul was born, which Citie together with Anchialus are said to have been built in one day, by Perseus the son of Danae.
• Tartarean, (lat.) belonging to Tarta∣rus, i. a deep place in Hell often mentio∣ned by the Poets.
• Tartaria, a large Countrey of Asia, containing Sarmatia, Asiatica, the two Scythia's and Cataia.
• Tarter, the Lees of Wine; also a kinde of Gravelly-stone, growing in the inside of Wine vessels.
• Tasck, an old Brittish word, signifying as much as Tribute, from whence haply cometh our word Task, which is a duty, or labour imposed upon any one.
• Tassel, (French) a Term in Falconry, the Male of any Hawk.
• Titus Tatius, a Captain of the Sabines, who after great Wars with the Romans, at length concluding a peace with them, was received as a sharer in the Government.
• Tavistoke, or Teavistok, a Town in De∣vonshire; so called from the River Teave, it hath been famous in times past, for the Abbey built by Ordolph, the son of Ord∣gare, Earle of Devonshire, in the year 961. he being admonished, as some say by a Vision from Heaven; this Abby was de∣stroyed by the Danes, but afterwards flou∣rish'd again, and in it Lectures were insti∣tuted of the English Saxon tongue.
• Tawnton, or Thonton, a Town in Somer∣setshire; so called as it were a Town wa∣tered by the River Thone, here I••a King of the West-saxons, built a Castle, which Desburgio his wife rased to the ground, after she had expelled from thence Ead∣britch, King of the South-saxons.
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• Taurine, or Taurean, (lat.) belonging to a Bull.
• Taurinum, a Citie by the Alps in Pied∣mont, vulgarly called Turin.
• Taurus, a very great ridge of mountains, stretched out a mighty length through divers Countreys, and called by several names; as Imaus, Parapomisus, Circius, Tau∣rus, Cau••asus, Sarpedon, Ceraunius, &c. also the name of one of the twelve signes of the Zodiack, the word signifying in La∣tin a Bull.
• Tautologie, (Greek) a repeating of one thing several times over in different ex∣pressions.
• Taximagulus, a petty King of Kent, one of those that opposed Julius Caesar, when he made War with the Brittains.
• Taygetus, a very steep Hill by the Citie of Sparta.

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• Team, or Theam, (Sax.) a Royalty granted by the Kings Charter, to a Lord of a Mannour.
• Teasels, a kind of Plant, called in Greek Dipsacus, in Latin labrum veneris.
• Technical, (Greek) artificial, done by Art.
• Tectonick, (lat.) belonging to a build∣ing.
• Tedder, a tying of any beast in a roap, that he may graze within a certain com∣passe.
• Tediferous, (lat.) bearing a Taper, or Torch.
• Tegea, a Town in Arcadia, whose inha∣bitants having great Wars with the Phae∣neatae; it was decided in a Duel between the three sons of Rherimachus for the Te∣geans, and the three sons of Demostratus for the Phaeneatae, like that of the Horatii and Curiatii.
• Tegment, (lat.) a covering, or cloathing.
• Teifidale, a Countrey in the South-part of Scotland, so called as it were a Dale, by the River Teif.
• Telarie, (lat.) belonging to a Weavers Web.
• Teliferous, (lat.) carrying, or bearing darts.
• Tellers of the Exchequer, four Officers appointed to receive all monies due to the King, and to give a Bill to the Clark of the Pell to charge him therewith.
• Telamon, the son of Aeacus, King of Sala∣mis, he was the first that got upon the Walls of Troy, when Hercules besieged it, whereupon he gave him Hesione the daughter of Laomedon.
• Telegonus, the son of Vlisses and Circe, who slew his father at Ithaca not know∣ing him, afterwards going into Italy he built Tusculum.
• Telephus, the son of Hercules, and the Nymph Auge, who being exposed to the Woods by his Grand-father, was brought up by a Hart, afterward becoming King of Mysia, he was wounded by Achilles, whom he denied passage through his Countrey going to the Wars of Troy, but at length was cured by the same dart that wounded him.
• Telescope, (Greek) a certain Mathema∣tical instrument, by which the proportion of any thing is discerned at a great di∣stance.
• Tellus, the goddesse of the earth, and of∣tentimes taken for the earth it self.
• Temerity, (lat.) rashnesse, unadvised∣nesse.
• Tempe, certain pleasant fields in Thessaly, five miles long, & six miles broad, watered by the River Pen••us, which makes them so ever green and flourishing, that all de∣lightfull places are by Metaphor called Tempe.
• Temperament, (lat.) a moderate and proportionable mixture of any thing, but more peculiarly of the four humours of the body.
• Temperance, (lat.) moderation and ab∣stinence, a restraining the violence of a mans affections, or passions.
• Temperature, (lat.) the same as tempe∣rament.
• Tempestivity, (lat.) seasonablenesse, due or convenient time.
• Templars, or Knights of the Temple, see in Knight.
• Temporaneous, or Temporary, (lat.) be∣longing to time done suddenly, or a cer∣tain time.
• Temporalities of Bishops, such Lands, or Revenues as are added to Bishops Sees by great persons of the Land.
• Temporize, to live according to the times, to comply with the times.
• Temulency, (lat.) drunkennesse.
• Tenacity, (lat.) an aptnesse to keep, or hold fast.
• Tenderlings, a Term among Hunters, the soft tops of Deers Horns, when they be∣gin to shoot forth.
• Tendons, (lat.) certain small ligaments, or chords, in which the muscles do end.
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• Tendrells, the young branches of a tree, and chiefely of a vine.
• Tenebres, certain divine Services per∣formed among the Catholicks some dayes of the week before Easter Sunday, in representation of our Saviours Agony in the Garden, there being put out, of the 15 lamps which they light, one at the end of every Psalm they repeat, untill all the lights are extinguished.
• Tenebrion, (lat.) one that lurks in the night to pilfer or steal; also a night-spirit.
• Tenebrosity, (lat.) darknesse or obscu∣rity.
• Tenedos, an Island in the Aegaean Sea, between Lesbos and the Hellespont, hither the Greeks retired while the Trojans re∣ceived the great horse.
• Tenerity, (lat.) tendernesse or soft∣nesse.
• Tenne, a kind of tawny colour, a term used in Heraldry.
• Tenon, a term in Building, a piece of a rafter put into a mortisehole to bear it up.
• Tenor, (lat.) the effect or purport of any thing; also a rule or proportion; also one of the five parts in Musick.
• Tensil, (lat.) easie to be bent or stretcht out.
• Tensity, (lat.) stiffnesse, or a being stretched out hard.
• Tent, among Jewellers, is that which they put under table Diamonds when they set them in work; it signifieth also a Pa∣villion, also a Chirurgions Instrument to search wounds with.
• Tentation, (lat.) a tempting, trying, or proving.
• Tentorian, (lat.) belonging to a Tent or Pavillion.
• Tenuity, (lat.) smallnesse, thinnesse, slendernesse; whence Tenuation, a making thin or slender.
• Tenure, in Common Law, is the man∣ner whereby Tenants hold Lands of their Lord.
• Tepefaction, (lat.) a making luke∣warm.
• Tepidity, (lat.) lukewarmnesse.
• Tercera, one of the Isles which the Spaniards call Acores.
• Terebinthine, (lat.) belonging to Tere∣binth, i. the Turpentine-tree; as also a certain Gum issuing out of that tree.
• Terebration, (lat.) a boring through.
• Tereus, see Philomela.
• Tergeminous, (lat.) three born at a birth; also threefold.
• Tergiversation, (lat.) a turning ones back, a flinching or withdrawing; also a non-suit in Law.
• Terminals, (lat.) certain Feasts made in honour of Terminus, an ancient god a∣mong the Romans, called the god of bounds, because after the banishment of Saturn, he used to decide the controver∣sies of Husbandmen falling out about the limits of their grounds.
• Termination, (lat.) a limiting, ending, or bounding.
• Ternary, or Ternion, (lat.) the num∣ber three.
• Terra Lemnia, an exceeding red earth of the Island of Lemnos, digged from a red hill.
• Terra Samia, a kind of white, stiff, and tough earth, from the Isle of Samos.
• Terra Sigillata, (lat.) a kind of earth much used in physick, so called because it used to be sent from the Isle of Lemnos sealed.
• Terrae filius, (lat.) one that is allowed to make lepid or jesting speeches at an Act at Oxford.
• Terraqueous, (lat.) composed of earth and water together.
• Terrar, (lat.) a survey of the whole quantity of acres in any mans land.
• Terrasse, (French) a Bullwark of earth; also an open Walk or Gallery on the top of an house.
• Terrene, or Terrestrial, (lat.) earthy, belonging to the earth.
• Terretenant, in Common Law, is a land tenant, or he that hath a natural and actual possession of land which is other∣wise called occupation.
• Terrisonant, (lat.) sounding terribly.
• Territory, (lat.) lands that belong to the jurisdiction of any State, City, or Common-wealth.
• Terse, (lat.) neat, clean, polite.
• Tertiation, (lat.) a dividing into three, also a doing any thing the third time.
• Tesserarious, (lat.) belonging to a Tessera, i. a die; also a signal or watch∣word.
• Testaceous, (lat.) made of tile, brick, sherd, or the shell of a fish.
• Testamentarious, (lat.) belonging to a Testament, i. a mans last Will, which is of two sorts, either in writing or nuncupa∣tory.
• Testation, (lat.) a witnessing.
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• Testator, (lat.) a bearer of witness; also he that makes a Will and Testament.
• Testicular, (lat.) belonging to the Te∣sticles or Stones.
• Testif, (old word) wild-brained, fu∣rious.
• Testification, (lat.) a proving by wit∣ness.
• Testudineous, (lat.) belonging to, or like a Testude, i. a Tortoise-shell; also an Engine of War used among the an∣cients.
• Tetchie, (old word) froward, peevish.
• Tethys, the goddess of the Sea, the daughter of Coelus and Vesta, and the wife of Neptune.
• Tetrachord, (Greek) an instrument of four strings.
• Tetragonal, (Greek) quadrangle, or having four angles.
• Tetragrammaton, (Greek) the ineffable Name of God Jehovah, among the He∣brews so called, because it consisteth of four Hebrew letters.
• Tetraptote, (Greek) a term in Gram∣mar, a Noun declined with four Cases.
• Tetrarch, (Greek) a Prince or Ruler of a fourth part of a Kingdom.
• Tetrastick, (Greek) an order of four verses.
• Tetrasyllabical, (Greek) consisting of four syllables.
• Tetricity, or Tetritude, (lat.) four∣nesse, or severity of countenance.
• Teucer, a King of Troy, the son of Tela∣mon and Hesione.
• Teuthras, a King of Cilicia and Misia, the son of Pandion, he had 50 daughters who were all got with child by Hercules in one night.
• Teutonick, (lat.) belonging to an Al∣main or German, so called as some think from Tuisco the son of Mercury.
• Tewkesbury, a Town in Glocestershire, called by the Saxons Theoc'sbury, by the Latins Theoci curia, from one Theocus who here led an Hermites life. Here was fought that memorable battle between the Houses of York and Lancaster, where King Edward the fourth had the Victory, and Prince Edward the onely son of King Henry the sixth was killed in a barbarous manner: this Town is also famous for making of woollen cloth, and the best mustard.
• Textile, (lat.) woven or knit.
• Texture, (lat.) a weaving or knitting.

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• Thalassiarch, (Greek) a Supream officer at Sea, an Admiral.
• Thalassion, (lat.) a Nuptial Song, from Thalassius the god of Marriage Rites a∣mong the Romans.
• Thales, an ancient Greek Philosopher, reckoned among the seven Wisemen. He is said to have first found out Geometry, and the motion of the Sphears.
• Thalestris, a Queen of the Amazons, who went thirty dayes journey to Alex∣ander the Great, and was according to her request got with child by him.
• Thane, (Sax.) a Nobleman or Magi∣strate, called also Thingus or Thegne.
• Thavies Inne, see Innes of Chancery.
• Theano, the wife of Metapontus King of Icaria, she, wanting children of her own, brought up two twins the sons of Nep∣tune and Menalippe the daughter of Des∣montes; but afterwards bringing forth two sons of her own, which were likewise twins, and seeing her husbands affections inclining more to Menalippe's sons, than to her own, she was much troubled, and as soon as her sons came of age, she set them on to kill their supposed brethren; but Neptune their father coming to their aid, they killed the sons of Theano, which as soon as she came to hear, she killed her self.
• Theatral, (lat.) belonging to a Theater, i. a place where publick Shews or Playes are exhibited.
• Theatins, an order of Religious per∣sons instituted by John Peter Caraff Bishop of Theate in the Kingdom of Naples.
• Thebae, or Thebes, vulgarly called Stibes, the chief City of Thebais in Aegypt, built by King Busiris, and called also Hecatom∣pyl••s, from its hundred gates; also a City of Boeotia built by Cadmus.
• Theftbote, (Sax.) a maintaining a thief, by receiving stollen goods from him.
• Themis, the daughter of Coelus and Terra, who flying the Nuptialls of Jupi∣ter, was ravisht by him in Macedonia; she was worshipt as the goddesse that first taught men right and justice, and had an ancient Oracle in Boeotia.
• Themiscyra, a Region bordering upon Cappadocia, and watred by the River Thermodon, having also its chief City of the same name.
• Themistocles, a famous Athenian Captain,

• who fortified the Pyraeum, and overcame the Persians at Salamina; but afterwards being banished his Country, he was inter∣tained by Xerxes and made Captain of an army against the Athenians, whereupon he drank Oxes blood and poisoned him∣self, that he might neither be ingratefull to the King, nor fight against his Coun∣trymen.
• Theodamas, a King of Chaonia, against whom Hercules made war, because he de∣nied him provisions when he came to Dryope with Dejanira and his son Hyllus, and having got the Victory he slew Theo∣damas, carrying away his son Hylas whom he alwayes had in very great esteem.
• Theobald, the proper name of a man, signifying in Saxon, bold over the people.
• Theodolite, a certain Mathematical In∣strument, chiefely used in Surveying, con∣sisting of the Planisphere, Geometrical square, Quadrant, and Scale.
• Theodom, (Sax.) servitude.
• Theodoricus, a King of the East Goths, who having overcome Od••acer, was Crowned King of Italy, and reigned there 33 years; also the name of a King of the Gaules, who with his favorite Ebroinus was deposed, and Childerick set up in his room: the word signifieth in Dutch, rich in people.
• Theodorus, a proper name of several famous men, the word signifying in Greek a gift of God.
• Theod••sia, a Christian name of women, answering to Theodorus or Theodosius in men.
• Theodosius, the name of two famous Em∣perours of Constantinople, the first the son of the Emperour Gratian, the second the son of Arcadius and E••doxia, he had wars with the Persians, Vandalls, and Hunns.
• Theogonie, (Greek) the generation of the gods.
• Theological, (Greek) belonging to Theo∣logy, i. Divinity or discourse of God and Divine things.
• Theomachy, (Greek) a warring or fight∣ing against God.
• Theomagical, (Greek) belonging to Di∣vine Magick, or the wisdom of God.
• Theomancy, (Greek) a divination by calling upon the names of God.
• Theophilus, a proper name of a man, sig∣nifying a friend or lover of God.
• Theorba, (Ital. Tiorba) a Musical In∣strument, being a kind of base Lute.
• Theorematick, (Greek) belonging to a Theoreme, i. an axiom or undoubted truth of any Art.
• Theorie, (Greek) the contemplation or study of any Art or Science without practice.
• Therapeutick, (Greek) healing or cur∣ing.
• Theraphim, (Heb.) an Image made in the form of a man.
• Theriacal, (Greek) belonging to Treacle, i. a Medicine against poison, made of the flesh of a wild beast.
• Thermometre, (Greek) a certain Instru∣ment whereby one may guesse at the change of weather, a weather-glasse.
• Thermopylae, a long ridge of mountains in Greece, at whose streights Leonidas the Spartan King with 300 Lacedaemonians stoutly fighting, were all cut off by Mar∣donius the Persian.
• To Thesaurize, (Greek) to treasure or heap up riches.
• Theseus, the son of Aegeus King of A∣thens, he overcame the Amazonians, and brought away their Queen Hippolyte, on whom he begat Hippolytus, he slew the Minotaur at Creet, and brought away Ari∣adne and Phaedra the daugh••ers of Minos, the last of whom he took to wife. He over∣threw three famous theeves, Sciron, Pro∣crustes, and Schinis; Lastly he went down with Pirithous into Hell to fetch away Pro∣serpina. See Pirithous.
• Thesis, (Greek) a general argument or position.
• Thessalia, a Region of Greece lying be∣tween Boeotia and Macedon, it was ancient∣ly called Pelasgicus, from Pelasgus, Aemo∣nia, from King Aemon, Pyrrhaea from Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion.
• Thetford, see Sitomagus.
• Thetis, the daughter of Nereus and Doris, whom Jupiter being about to have married, was disswaded by Prometheus, so that she married Peleus the son of Aeacus, to whom she brought forth Achilles.
• Thiller, a horse which is put under the Thills, i. the beam of a Cart or Wain, called in Latin Temo.
• Thole, (lat.) a term in Building, the scutchin or knot in the midst of a timber vault, also a place in Temples where D••∣naries are hung up.
• Thomas, the proper name of a man, sig∣nifying in Hebrew, deep, or, as some say, twinne.
• Thomyris, a Queen of Scythia, who

• inraged that Cyrus had slain her son Spar∣gapises in a battle, recollected all her for∣ces, overthrew his Army, and slew him, and putting his head in a tub of blood, said in an upbraiding manner, Fill thy self with the blood for which thou hast thirsted.
• Thon, a King of Canopus, who falling in love with Helena, was slain by Mene∣laus.
• Thongcaster, a Castle in Lincolnshire, commonly called Castor, in Brittish Caere∣gary, it took the name from the same oc∣casion as Byrsa a Castle of the Cartha∣ginians; for Hengi•• obtaining so much ground in this tract, of Vortigern, as he could measure out with an Oxehide, cut the hide out into very small laners, which we commonly call Thongs, and therewith measuring out the ground, built upon it this Castle.
• Thor, a certain Idol worshipped by the ancient Saxons, thought to be the same with Jupiter, or the god of Thunder; whence Thursday took its denomina∣tion.
• Thoracique, (lat.) belonging to the stomack or brest.
• Thorp, an ancient Saxon name, for a Village or Country Town.
• Thowles, the small pins which they bear against with their Oares when they row.
• Thracia, a Country of Europe, lying on the East of Macedonia, now called Roma∣nia.
• Thrasonical, (Greek) insolently boast∣ing.
• Thrasybulus, an Athenian exile, who freed the City from the oppression of the thirty Tyrants.
• Thrave, a certain quantity of corn con∣taining 4 shocks, each shock consisting of six sheaves.
• Threnody, (Greek) the singing of a Threne, i. a mourning or funeral-Song.
• To Threpe, (Sax.) to affirm.
• Thrilled, or Thirled, (Sax.) killed.
• Thridboroughs or Thirdborough, a word used in some old Acts, for a Headborough or Constable.
• Throb, (Sax.) the vehement beating or panting of the heart.
• Thrones, see Angel.
• Thucydides, an elegant Greek Historian who writ the Peloponnesian war.
• Thule, an Island on the north of Scot∣land, now called Island.
• Thummim, see Vrim.
• Thuriferous, (lat.) bearing Frankin∣cense.
• Thyestes, the son of Pelops and Hippo∣damia, and the brother of Atreus. see Atreus.
• Thymaetes, a Trojan, who marrying Arisbe the daughter of Priamus, had a son born on the same day with Paris, and because the Augurs had foretold that one born that day should be the destruction of Troy, Priamus commanded that both the chil∣dren should be slain; but Paris being sa∣ved by his mother, Thymaetes son was one∣ly killed, for which he bearing a revenge in his mind, was the first that caused the Trojan horse to be let in.
• Thymick vein, see vein.
• Thymomancy, (Greek) a kind of presag∣ing from a mans own hopes and fears.
• Thyrse, (Greek) a stalk or stem of any herb, or a trunchion wrapped with Ivy, which was anciently used by the Bacchi∣des in the Feasts of Bacchus.

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• Tiara, a certain ornament for the head used anciently among the Persians; whence some think our word Tire to be derived.
• Tibial, (lat.) belonging to a Pipe or Flute.
• Tibicination, (lat.) a playing on a Pipe.
• Tiercel, (French) the same as Tass••l.
• Tierce, (French) a certain liquid mea∣sure containing the third part of a Pipe which is two Tuns.
• Tiercet, (French) a stanza or staff of three verses.
• Tigrine, (lat.) belonging to, or like a Tiger.
• Timariots, certain souldiers among the Turks, who out of conquered lands have a certain portion allowed them during term of life, to serve on horseback.
• Timbers of Ermine, a term in Armory or Blazon, the rows or ranks of Ermine in the Noblemens Capes.
• Timbrel, (Dutch Trommel) a kind of musical Instrument, by some called a Taber.
• Timidity, (lat.) timerousnesse, fear∣fulnesse.
• Timochares, one that belonged to Pyrrhus King of Epirus, who would have

• covenanted with Fabricius the Consul, to have poisoned Pyrrhus, but Fabricius dis∣daining so great a basenesse revealed the intention to Pyrrhus.
• Timocracie, (Greek) a certain Govern∣ment, wherein the richest men bear sway.
• Timoleon, a famous Corinthian Captain, who at the request of Dion, the Syracusian freed Syracuse from the Tyranny of Dio∣nysius.
• Timon, a sowr Athenian, who shund and hated the company of all men.
• Timotheus, the son of Conon an Athenian Captain, who had his statue erected in the Market place, for the great victory he ob∣tained over the Lacedaem••nians, it being also a proper name of many men, signify∣ing in Greek an honourer of God.
• Tincel, a kinde of Cloath composed of silk and silver, glistering like starers, or sparks of fire, from the French Estincelle, a sparkle.
• Tincture, (lat.) a staining, or dying; also a Term in Heraldry, signifying a variable hew of Arms.
• Tinm••uth▪ see Tunnocellum.
• Tinniment, (lat.) a tingling, or sound∣ing of metals.
• Tintamar, (French) a kind of clashing, or gingling noise.
• Tintinnation, (lat.) a ringing like a bell.
• Tiresias, a Theban Sooth-sayer, who be∣ing struck blinde by Juno, received in re∣compence thereof the gift of Prophesie from Jupiter, see Ovid. Metamorph. ••. 3.
• Tissue, (French) a kind of Cloath, or silver woven.
• Titanick, belonging to Titan, i. the son of Caelus and Vesta, and the brother of Sa∣turn, he is by the Poets oftentimes taken for the Sun.
• Tithing, a company of ten men, with their families joyned together in a socie∣ty, the chief whereof is called a Tithing man.
• Tithonus, the son of Laomedon, King of Troy, with whom Aurora falling in Love, snatch't him up into her Chariot, and car∣ried him into Aethiopia, where she had Memnon by him, being at length grown very old, he was changed into a Grasse∣hopper.
• Titillation, (lat.) a tickling, or pleasant itching.
• Title in Law, is a lawfull cause to claim a thing, which another man hath, he ha∣ving no action for the same.
• Titubation, (lat.) a stumbling.
• Titular, (lat.) belonging to a title, ha∣ving a title.
• Tityus, the son of Jupiter and Elara, the daughter of Orchomenus; he, for in∣deavouring to force Latona, was slain by Apollo, and cast down into Hell, where a Vulture is said continually to gnaw upon his Liver, which grows again as fast as it is devoured.

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• Tlepolemus, the son of Hercules and Astioche, he was of a vast stature and strength, and raigned over three Cities in Rhodes, at last he was slain by Sarpe∣don, in the Trojan war.

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• Tmolus, a Mountain near Sardes in Ly∣dia, out of which riseth the River Pacto∣lus, famous for its Golden Sands.

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• Tobacco, a certain Plant, whose smoak taken in pipes, is generally in much re∣quest; it was first brought into these parts out of the Indies, by Sr. Francis Drake, and is so called as some say, from an Island of that name.
• Tobias, a proper name of a man, signify∣ing in Hebrew the Lord is good.
• Tod, of Wool, see Sarplar.
• Toll, a liberty to buy, and sell within the Precincts of a Mannour; also Tribute, or Custome.
• Toletum, or Toledo, the chief City of new Castile in Spain, begirt with a strong Wall, and a hundred and fifty little Towers.
• Tolsey, a kinde of Exchange, or place where Merchants meet in Bristow.
• Toman, a kinde of Persian Coyn.
• Tomarus, a mountain in Thesprotia, where there are a hundred Fountains.
• Tome, (lat.) a part, or volume of a book.
• Tomin, a certain weight among Jewel∣lers, weighing about three Carrats.
• Tonicul, (lat.) belonging to a Tone, or Accent.
• Tonitruation, (lat.) a thundring.
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• Tonnage, a Custome due for merchan∣dize brought, or carried in Tuns.
• Tonsils, (lat.) certain kernels at the root of the tongue.
• Tonsorious, (lat.) belonging to trimming, or barbing.
• Toparch, (Greek) a Governour, or Ru∣ler of any place.
• Topaze, a kinde of precious stone, of a Gold, or Saffron colour.
• Topical, (Greek) belonging to Topicks, i. a part of Logick treating of places of invention.
• Topography, (Greek) a particular de∣scription of any place.
• Torce, a Term in Heraldry, see Wreath.
• Torch Royal, a Term in Hunting, the next start in a Stag's head growing above the Royal.
• Torcularious, (lat.) belonging to a Vine presse.
• Torcular vein, see Vein.
• Tormentill, a kinde of Plant, called in English Setfoil, good against gripings of the guts.
• Torminous, (lat.) troubled with Tor∣mins, i. gripings of the Belly.
• Tornad••, (Span.) a sudden, or violent storm of ill weather at Sea.
• Torosity, (lat.) brawninesse, or fulnesse of flesh.
• Torpedo, (lat.) a kind of fish of that stu∣pefying quality, that if any one touch it with a long pole, it benums his hand.
• Torpid, (lat.) num, also slow, or dull.
• Torquated, (lat.) wearing, a Chain, or Collar.
• Titus Manlius Torquatus, the son of Man∣lius, surnamed the Imperious, he overcame the Gaul that challenged the stoutest of the Romans to fight with him, and took off his Golden Chain, whence Torquatus became a name to him and all his family, he caused his sonne to be beheaded for fighting against his command; notwith∣standing he had obtained the victory, whence Manlian severity became a pro∣verb.
• Torrefaction, (lat.) a parching, scorch∣ing, or roasting.
• Torrent, (lat.) a strong stream, or vio∣lent floud running down a Hill.
• Torrid, (lat.) burning, or parching.
• Torsion, (lat.) a wresting, or wringing of any thing.
• Torteauxes, (French) a sort of round figures in Heraldry, by some called wa∣stells.
• Tortuosity, (lat.) a winding, or crooking in and out.
• Torvity, (lat.) sowrnesse, crabbednesse, or grimnesse of Aspect.
• Totality, (lat.) the whole sum of any number; also the whole, or intire part of any thing.
• Totilas, a King of the Goths, who over∣came the Romans, and took most of the imperial Cities.
• Tournement, (French) a revolution, turn∣ing, or changing; also a justing, or tilt∣ing.
• Tournois, a kinde of French Coyn, va∣luing the tenth part of a penny.
• To Tow, a Term in Navigation, to drag any thing a stern a ship in the water.
• Towton, a Town in York-shire, where in the year 1461. a mighty pitch't battel was fought between the 2 houses of York and Lancaster, where 30000 men were left dead upon the place, but the victory fell to York.
• Towrus, when a Roe desires copulation, he is said to go to his Towrus, (Term of Hunting.)
• Toylet, (French) a kinde of bag to put night-cloaths in.

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• Trabal, (lat.) belonging to a beam.
• Tracasserie, (French) a needlesse hur∣rying, or restlesse travelling up and down.
• Traces, among Hunters, signifieth the foot-steeps of wild beasts.
• Tract, (lat.) a continued line, a long road; also a discourse drawn in length. Tract is also the footing of a Boar, (Term in Hunting.)
• Tractable, (lat.) gentle, or easie to be managed, or ordered.
• Tractate, (lat.) a handling, or treating of any thing, a treatise.
• Tradition, (lat.) a delivering; also a bequeathing any Doctrine to posterity from age to age.
• Traduction, (lat.) a translating, or con∣veying from one thing, or place to ano∣ther; also a defaming, or slandering.
• Tragecomoedie, (Greek) a play that is half Tragedy and half Comedy.
• Tragedian, or Tragediographer, (Greek) a writer of Tragedies, i. a sort of Drama∣tick Poetry, or Stage-play, representing murthers, sad and mournfull actions, and

• setting forth the highest and noblest sort of persons.
• Tragical, (Greek) belonging to Tra∣gedies, sad, blondy, disastrous.
• Tragelaph, (Greek) a stone-buck, or Goat-hart; so called, because it is begot∣ten between a Goat and a Deer.
• Tragematopolist, (Greek) a Comfit∣maker, a seller of Preserves and Confe∣ctions.
• Trajection, (lat.) a passing, or convey∣ing over.
• Tralucencie, (lat.) a being through clear, a shining through.
• Tramontane, (Ital.) Nothward, or be∣yond the Mountains from Italy.
• Tranquillity, (lat.) calmnesse, quietnesse, stillnesse.
• Transaction, (lat.) a finishing, or dis∣patching any businesse.
• Transalpine, (lat.) being beyond the Alps.
• Transcendent, (lat.) surpassing, exceed∣ing, or excelling.
• Transcript, (lat.) that which is written out from an Original.
• Transcurrence, (lat.) a running over quickly.
• Transduction, the same as Traduction.
• Transfiguration, (lat.) a transforming, or changing out of one shape into an∣other.
• Transfix, (lat.) to run through any thing with a Dart, Sword, or any other sharp weapon.
• Transfretation, (lat.) a passing over a River, or crosse the Sea.
• Transfusion, (lat.) a powring out of one thing into another.
• Transgression, (lat.) a going beyond ones bounds, a committing a Trespasse, or Crime.
• Transjection, (lat.) see Trajection.
• Transition, (lat.) a passing from one thing to another, in Rhetorick it is a part of an Oration, wherein they passe from one subject to another.
• Transitory, (lat.) soon passing away, fa∣ding, or perishing.
• Translation, (lat.) a changing from one thing, or place to another, a turning out of one language into another; also when a light Planet separateth from a more weighty one, and presently applieth to one more heavy.
• Translucid, (lat.) the same as Transpa∣rent, shining through.
• Transmarine, (lat.) being beyond the Seas.
• Transmeation, (lat.) a passing through, or beyond.
• Transmew, (old word) to change.
• Transmigration, (lat.) a removing ones habitation from one place to another.
• Transmission, (lat.) a conveying through, a sending from one place to another.
• Transmutation, (lat.) a changing from one thing to another.
• Transome, in Architecture, is an over∣thwart beam, or brow-post.
• Transparent, (lat.) to be seen through.
• Transparency, a Term in Heraldry, vide adumbration.
• Transpiration, (lat.) an evaporating, ex∣haling, or breathing forth.
• A Transport, or Transportation, a car∣rying over the Seas, or any River; also a sudden trance, or rapture of minde.
• Transposition, (lat.) an inverting, or changing the order of things.
• Transsylvania, a Countrey lying beyond the Carpathian Mountains, now called Si∣bemburghen, which together with Servia and Wallachia were heretofore called Da∣cia.
• Transubstantion, (lat.) a converting, or changing of one substance into another, more especially among the Papists; it is taken for the bread in the Sacrament, be∣ing changed into the body of Christ.
• Transvection, (lat.) a carrying over.
• Transvers, (lat.) acrosse, or over∣thwart.
• Transvolation, (lat.) a flying over.
• Traperzium, a figure consisting of some unequal sides, and as many un-equal an∣gles.
• Trave, (French) a Term in Architecture, a trevise, or little room.
• Traverse, (French) to go acrosse, or overthwart, in Common-law, it signifieth to deny any point of the matter where∣with one is charged; also in Navigation it is taken for the way of a ship, in respect of the points whereon they sayl.
• Traverses, (French) turnings and wind∣ings; it is also taken figuratively for trou∣bles and vexations. Cleopatra.
• Travested, (French) shifted in apparel, disguised.
• Traumatick, (Greek) belonging to wounds.
• Treasure trove, mony which being found in any place, and not owned, belongeth to the King.
• Treated, (French) handled, also inter∣tained.
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• Tredeale, an Aspect of 108. d.
• Tree-nells, in Navigation are certain pins made of the heart of Oak, wherewith they fasten all the planks unto the Tim∣bers.
• Trellis, (French) a Lattice, Grate, or Crosse bar.
• Tren, (French) a certain instrument, wherewith Marriners kill fish.
• Trenchant, (French) sharp, also bow∣ing.
• Trentalls, (French) obsequies, dirges, or funeral songs.
• Trepan, a kinde of Chirurgions instru∣ment.
• To Trepan, or Trapan, (Ital. Trapola∣re) to intrap, or insnare, but more espe∣cially in that manner, which is used by Whores and Ruffians.
• Trepidation, (lat.) a trembling.
• Trestle, a Trevet, or Stool with three feet.
• Triacle, a kind of Antidote against poi∣son, called in Latin Theriaca.
• Triangular, (lat.) made in the fashion of a Triangle, i. a figure having 3 angles, or corners.
• Triarchie, (Greek) a government by three.
• Triarians, (lat.) one of the Orders of the Roman Souldiers, who were divided into Principes, Hastati, Triarii, and Ve∣lites.
• Tribe, (lat.) a kindred, family, or com∣pany dwelling in the same Ward.
• Tribunal, (lat.) a Judgements-seat.
• Tribune, (lat.) an Officer of great Au∣thority among the Romans, of which there were two sorts, Tribunus Plebis, i. a Tri∣bune of the people, and Tribunus Militum, i. a Tribune of the Souldiers.
• Tributary, (lat.) paying Tribute, i. mo∣ney exacted out of mens Estates.
• Trica, the hair of Berenice.
• Tricennial, (lat.) of 30 years.
• Tricliniary, (lat.) belonging to a dining Room, or Parlour.
• Tricornous, (lat.) having 3 horns.
• Trichotomy, (Greek) a dividing into 3 parts.
• Trident, (lat.) a three forked instru∣ment, but more peculiarly it is taken for that Mace, which the Poets faign to have been born by Neptune, as an Ensign of his command.
• Tridentine, (lat.) belonging to Trent, a Citie in the Countrey of Tyrol.
• Triduan, (lat.) continuing three dayes.
• Triennial, (lat.) continuing three years.
• Triental, (lat.) a Vessel containing half a pint, or the third part of a Sex∣tary.
• Trieterick, (Greek) done every 3 year.
• Trifarious, (lat.) divided into three, or done three manner of wayes.
• Trifole, (lat.) a kinde of Plant, called three-leaved grasse; also a resemblance of that Plant in Heraldry.
• Triform, (lat.) having three forms.
• Trifurcous, (lat.) three forked.
• Trigamist, (Greek) having three wives.
• Trigeminous, (lat.) three brought forth at a birth; also treble, or threefold.
• Trigliph's, (Greek) a Term in Archi∣tecture, or Masonry, being certain Com∣partiments, or Borders graven like three furrow's.
• Trigonal, (Greek) having three angles, or corners.
• Trillo, (Ital.) a gracefull shake, or trembling of the voyce in singing.
• Trimenstruous, (lat.) of three moneths.
• Trinacria, the ancient name of the Island of Sicily, called also Triquetra, from its three Promontories Lilybaeum, Pachy∣num, and Pelorum.
• Trine, (lat.) belonging to the number 3. an Aspect of 120 d. thus marked Δ.
• Trinitarians, (lat.) a sort of Hereticks that deny the Mystery of the Trinity.
• Trinity, (lat.) the number three; also the distinction of three persons in the Unity of the Godhead.
• Trinobantes, a certain people anciently inhabiting the East part of the Brittish Island.
• Tripontium, the ancient name of a Town in Northamptonshire, implying as much as a Town that hath three Bridges, and therefore it seemeth to be the same with that Town which is commonly called Torcester, which is cut through by three special channels, which have three several Bridges over them.
• Trinodal, (lat.) having three knots.
• Trinquet, (French) the highest sail or top-gallant of any ship; it is also taken metaphorically for any gay trifling thing.
• Triobol••r, (lat.) as it were worth but three half pence, vile, little set by, or esteemed.
• Triours, in Common Law, are such as are chosen by the Court to examine whe∣ther

• a challenge made to any of the Pan∣nel be just or no.
• Tripartite, (lat.) divided into three parts.
• Tripedal, or Tripedaneous, (lat.) con∣taining three foot in measure.
• Triplicity, (lat.) a being treble or three∣fold; whence Triplication, a trebling.
• Tripode, (Greek) a stool, or any thing that standeth upon three feet.
• Tripoly, a kind of Plant by some called Turbit, by others blew Camomile; also a stone which being reduced to powder, is made use of by Lapidaries to polish their Jewels.
• Triptote, (Greek) a term in Gram∣mar, being a Noun declined with three Cases.
• Tripudiation, (lat.) a trippling on the toe in a Dance.
• Trireme, (lat.) a Gally with three oares on each side.
• Mercurius Trismegistus, a famous Egyp∣tian in ancient times, who was both a great Philosopher, Priest, and King.
• Trisulk, (lat.) three furrowed.
• Trisylla••ical, (Greek) consisting of three syllables.
• Trite, (lat.) worn, old, made common with much use.
• Tritheites, (Greek) a sort of Here∣ticks which held the Trinity to be divi∣ded into three distinct Godheades.
• Triticean, (lat.) made of wheat.
• Tritis, the immunity of a man dwel∣ling in the Forrest from his attendance therein.
• Triton, a Sea Deity, the son of Neptune and Salacia, faigned by the Poets to have been the Trumpeter of Neptune.
• Trituration, (lat.) a threshing of Corn.
• Trivial, (lat.) scattered in the high∣way, common, little esteemed or valued, from trivium, a place where three wayes meet.
• Triumphal, (lat.) belonging to a Tri∣umph, i. a solemn shew at the return of a General from some noted Victory. See Ovation.
• Triumvirat, (lat.) an ancient Magistra∣cy in Rome, wherein three men had an equal authority.
• Trochisk, (Greek) a certain medicinal composition made of powders, and formed round in fashion of a little wheel.
• Troglodytes, a people anciently inhabit∣ing the farthest part of Aethiopia, of a fierce salvage nature dwelling in caves, and feeding upon raw flesh.
• Troilus, the son of Priamus and Hecuba, who venturing to fight with Hercules, was slain by him.
• Tromperie, (French) deceit, or cou∣senage.
• Trophy, (Greek) any thing set upon in token of victory.
• Trophonius, a certain Prophet inhabit∣ing a Cave, called the Trophonian Den, into which who ever entred, became in∣capable of laughter. In this Cave there was an Oracle of Jupiter, who was thence called Jupiter Trophonius.
• Tropical, (Greek) belonging to a Trope, i. a kind of Rhetorical figure.
• Tropicks, (from the Greek word tre∣pein, i. to turn) two imaginary circles of the Sphear, being the utmost bound, of the Suns course; the one is called the Tropick of Cancer, the other the Tropick of Capricorn.
• Trosque, the same as Trochisk.
• Troy weight, in measuring, is an allow∣ance of 12 ounces onely to the pound.
• Trover, in Common Law, is an action against him who having found another mans goods, refuseth to deliver them upon demand.
• Trowel, (French) an Instrument used by Masons to dawbe mortar withal.
• Truand, (French) a vagabond or lazy loytring fellow, a common beggar.
• Truchman, see Drogoman.
• Trucidation, (lat.) a cruel murdering.
• Truculent, (lat.) of a cruel, rough, or threatning countenance.
• Trullissation, (lat.) a plaistering with mortar.
• Truncation, (lat.) a lopping, maiming, or cutting short.
• Trunck, (lat.) a stock, stem, or body of a tree; also a mans body having the head, arms, and legs cut away.
• Trutination, (lat.) a weighing or bal∣lacing; also a strict examining or consi∣dering well of a thing.

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• Tube, (lat.) the pipe through which the marrow of the backbone runneth; also any long pipe through which water or o∣ther liquid substance is conveyed.
• Tuberous, (lat.) having wenns or fleshy bunches; also full of swellings.
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• Tubicination, (lat.) a sounding of a Trumpet, Pipe, or Cornet.
• Tubulation, (lat.) a making hollow like a pipe.
• Tudiculation, (lat.) a bruising or pound∣ing with Smiths hammers.
• Tuel, among Hunters, the fundament of any beast.
• Tuition, (lat.) a protecting, guarding, or safe keeping.
• Tulipant, a Shash or Wreath worn by the Indians instead of a Hat.
• Tullia, the daughter of Servius Tullius, who being married to Tarquinius Superbus, incited her Husband to kill her Father, that he might injoy the Kingdom himself.
• Tullus Hostilius, a warlike King of the Romans, who was the first that ordained tribute and custom and most of the En∣signs of authority used among the Ro∣mans, as the Sella curulis, toga picta, and P••ae••exta.
• Tu••brel, a certain Engin for the punish∣ing of sco••ds, called also a cucking-stool.
• Tumefaction, (lat.) a causing to swell.
• Tumid, (lat.) puft up or swollen.
• Tumour, (lat.) a swelling or rising of the flesh.
• Tumulation, (lat.) a burying or in∣tombing.
• Tumultuary, (lat.) done in haste, sud∣denly, or without advice.
• Tun, a certain liquid measure contain∣ing 252 gallons.
• Tunicle, (lat) a little coat; also a mem∣brane or thin skin, covering any part of the body: there are four especially which cover the eye, the Corneal or Hor∣ny, the Uveal, the Vitreal or glassy, and the Christalline, and to each of these there are foure humours an∣swerable. And four that cover the cods, the Scrotum, the Erythroides, the Epi∣didymis, and one other which is called Dartos.
• Tunnocellum, the ancient name of a Town in Northumberland, by Camden thought to be the same with that which we now call Tinmouth, q the mouth of the River Tine, where the first Cohort Aelia Classica was in pay for Sea-service. This Town hath a very strong Castle, which Robert Mowbray Earle of Northumberland holding against King William Rufus, was therein closely besieged and taken prisoner.
• Turbant, a certain Wreath or Ornament for the head used among the Turks and other Oriental Nations instead of Hats; it is made of a shash or whole piece of linnen called Telbent, and the Turbant it self is called by the Turks Saruck.
• Tur••ary, an interest to dig turfs upon a Common.
• Turbervills, the sirname of a very con∣siderable Family, who have had their an∣cient habitation at Bere in Dorcetshire; they are stiled in Latin Records, De Tur∣bida Villa.
• Turbination, (lat.) the fashioning of a thing small at the bottom, and broad a∣bove like a top.
• Turbin••ous, (lat.) belonging to a storm or whirl-wind.
• Turbith, a kind of plant called Tripoly; also a red Mineral, which being beaten to powder, is used in physick.
• Turbot, a kind of fish called in Greek Rhombus.
• Turbulent, (lat.) busie, troublesome, sedi••ious.
• Turgescence, (lat.) a swelling up, or growing big.
• Turgid, or Turgent, (lat.) swelling, ri∣sing, puft up.
• T••rgy, (in Greek Th••urgia) a con∣ference with good Angels; it is also cal∣led white Magick.
• Turingia, a Country of Saxony, once a Kingdom, now a Landgraviat; it lyeth upon the Rivers Sala and Werra, and hath the Hercynian Wood on the North: the chief City of this Country is called Erd∣fordia.
• Turneament, see Tournement.
• Turnsole, a kind of colour used in painting.
• Turpentine, (Greek terebinthina) a kind of Gum or Rosin distilling from the Larch tree.
• Turpitude, (lat.) filthinesse, basenesse, sordidnesse.
• Turriferous, (lat.) bearing Towers.
• Tuscane work, in Architect••re, one of the five sorts of pillars. See Corinthian.
• Tuscia, a Country of Italy, lying be∣tween the Rivers Ti••er and Macra; it was anciently called Tyrrh••nia, from Tyrrhenus the son of A••ys; also Hetruria and Toscany, from Tusculus (as some say) the son of Hercules.
• Tutelary, (lat.) having the guard, cu∣stody, or protection, of any thing.
• Tutia, a Vestal Virgin, who being ac∣cused of incest, would not fly to any man for her absolution, but putting a sive in∣to

• the River Tybur, prayed to Vesta that if she were free, she might have power to carry water in it to her Temple, which was immediately performed.
• Tutie, (lat.) the dust or foile of brasse, growing together into a kind of stone which is much used in physick.
• Tutilina, a certain goddesse among the Romans, who was said to have the care and protection of Corn.
• Tuisco, a certain Idol adored by the an∣cient Germans, thought by some to be the same with Mercury: from this Idol Tuesday took its denomination, and the people were called Duytsh people.

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• Twibil, (Dutch) a Carpenters Instru∣ment to make mortise-holes withal.
• Twilight, (Dutch) the time betwixt day and night, the dusk of the morning or evening.
• Twight, (Sax.) pulled.
• To Twyer, (Sax.) to sing.

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• Tybur, a City not far from Rome, built as some say by Catillus the Arcadian the Admiral of Euander; ••thers by Tyburtus the grandchild of Amphiaraus: it is now called Tivoli.
• Tydeus, the son of Oeneus King of Cale∣donia, he having slain his brother Menalip∣pus, fled to Adrastus, whose daughter Delphile he married; afterwards being sent by Polynices to his brother Eteocles, King of Thebes, he overcame all his guests at several Combats; whereupon at his return they set 50 young men to lie in wait for him under the command of Maeon the son of Aemon, and Lycophon the son of Autophonus, who were all slain by him ex∣cept Maeon, whom he sent back to carry news of the others deaths: at length he was mortally wounded by one Menalippus a Theban.
• Tymnaetes, a great Prophet, the son of Priamus and Aristia.
• Tympanist, he that playeth upon a Tym∣brel, Taber, or Drum, called Tympa∣num.
• Tympany, (Greek) a kind of disease wherein the body becomes swollen up with wind, a dropsie.
• Tyndarus, a King of Oebalia, whose wife Leda brought fourth two egges, in one whereof was contained Pollux and Helena, in the other Castor and Clytem∣nestra.
• Type, (Greek) see Typical.
• Typhoeus, the son of Titan and Terra, a Gyant of a very vast bignesse, who go∣ing to make War with Jupiter, was by him struck with Thunder.
• Typhon, a King of Aegypt, who killing his brother Osiris, and cutting him into several pieces, dispersed him through di∣vers Countreys.
• Typical, (Greek) bearing a Type, i. an example, figure, likenesse, or shadow of any thing.
• Typographer, (Greek) a Printer.
• Tyrannicide, (Greek) the killing of a Tyrant, or cruel Governour.
• Tyrconel, a County of Ireland, in the Province of Vlster.
• Tyre, a famous Citie of Phoenicia, an∣ciently called Sarra, which in the Phoeni∣cian language signifieth a fish, that place abounding with a kind of shell-fish, the liquour whereof coloureth of a purple dye.
• Tyro, a Thessalian Virgin, the daughter of Salmoneus and Alcidice, after the death of her own mother, she was very harshly dealt with by her mother in law Sidero, she being got with child by Neptune (who lay with her in the shape of Enipeus, with whom she was in love) brought forth twins, Pelias and Neleus, and afterwards being married to her Uncle Cretheus, she brought forth Aeson, Amythaon, and Pheres.
• Tyrociny, (lat.) an apprentiship, or new beginning in any Art or Faculty; but more peculiarly Military discipline, from Tyron, a rawe young souldier, one newly entred into the Art of war.
• Tyrrheni, a people inhabiting Tuscia or Tyrrhenia, being that part of Italy which lieth upon the Sea, called from thence the Tyrrhen Sea.

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• VAcation, or Vacancy, (lat.) a being at leasure, or ceasing from businesse. It is also commonly taken for that time which is between one Tearm and ano∣ther.
• Vaccary, in divers Statutes is taken for a place to keep Cows in; also a certain compasse of ground within the Forrest of Ashdown.
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• Vacchoris, an ancient King of Egypt, who relinquisht all his riches and state, to live a private austere life.
• Vacillation, (lat.) a wavering, totter∣ing or inconstancy.
• Vacive, (lat.) void, empty.
• Vacuity, (lat.) emptinesse, voidnesse.
• Vacuna, a certain goddesse among the ancient Romans, to whom the Husband∣men sacrificed at such times as they rest∣ed from their labours.
• Vadimony, (lat.) suretiship.
• Vafrous, (lat.) crafty, or subtile.
• Vagabond, (lat.) a wandering beggar, or idle fellow.
• Vagation, (lat.) a straying or wander∣ing up and down
• Vagination, (lat.) a sheathing.
• To Vail-bonnet, to strike sail in token of submission; also to put off ones Hat, or give any sign of respect.
• Vaire, a term in Blazon, being a Fur composed of 4 distinct colours, i. argent, gules, Or, and sable.
• Valasca, a certain Queen of the Bohe∣mians, who having made a conspiracy to shake off the dominion of men, raised a great Army of women, and having over∣come the men, reigned a good while like a Queen of the Amazons.
• Valdombreux, a certain religious Order of men instituted by Gualbert a Florentine, who betook himself to a private studious life in a place called Valdombre, or the shady Vale.
• Valect, see Valet.
• Valdo, a certain pious man, who was the first institutour of the Waldenses in Piemont.
• Valentine, a certain Roman Bishop, in remembrance of whom every fourteenth day of February is solemnized; about which time birds choose their mates; whence ariseth the custom of choosing Valentines upon that day.
• Valentinians, a sect of Hereticks insti∣tuted by one Valentinianus.
• Valerius, the name of divers famous men among the Romans, the chief whereof was called Valer••us Publicola, who Tri∣umphed over the Vei••ntes and the Sabines, and because having built him a house in a very strong place, he was suspected of affecting Tyranny, he caused his house to be pulled down.
• Valet, (French) the Groom of a cham∣ber; also a young Gentleman under age.
• Valetudinary, (lat.) sickly, also Subst. an Hospital, or place to keep sick people in.
• Validity, (lat.) strength, power, for e.
• Valtorts, the sirname of a very noble Family, who had their ancient residence at Saltash in Cornwall; they are stiled in Latin Records, De valle to••ta.
• Vambrace, or Vanbrace, (French) a Gantlet.
• Vancurriers, or Vaunteourers, (French) forerunners.
• Vandelbiria, the ancient name of a place in Camebridgeshire, so called for that in times past the Vandalls or Danes, there encamped themselves with a Trench and Rampire; it is thought to have been the same with that which is now called Wand∣lesbury.
• Vaniloq••ence, (lat.) a talking or babling vainly.
• V••ntguard, (French) the foremost part of an Army in battle.
• Vantrarius, a corrupt Latin word, used as a Law-term onely upon this occasion, Sir Richard Rockes••y, held Lands at Seaton by Sergeanty to be Vantrarius Regis do∣nec perusus fuerit Pari solutarum pretii 4^d. i. e. to be fore-footman to the King at some certain time, e. g. when he goeth into Gascoign, un••il he had worn out a pair of shooes prized 4^d.
• Vapid, (lat.) casting forth an ill smack or savour.
• Vaporation, (lat.) an exhaling or send∣ing forth of vapours, i. certain fumes or smoake drawn out of the earth by the heat of the Sun, and easily resolvable into water.
• Vapulation, (lat.) a being scourged or beaten.
• Variegation, (lat.) a beautifying with various colours.
• Varnish, is that wherewith a picture is rubbed over to make it shine and have a glosse; there is also a ground or varn••sh which is laid upon a plate that is to be etched.
• Varry, (French) in Heraldry is a mix∣ture of argent and azure together.
• Varry cuppy, a term also of Heraldry, signifying a Fur of cups; it is also called Varry tassa, or Meire.
• Varvells, (French) little rings of silver about hawks legs, having the owners name ingraven on them.
• Vasiferous, (lat.) carrying a vessel.
• Vassal, in Common Law is he that hold∣eth land in fee of his Lord; it is also

• taken for a Slave, or Inferiour Ser∣vant.
• Vastation, (lat.) a wasting, or destroy∣ing.
• Vastity, (lat.) excessive bignesse, huge∣nesse, or vastnesse of stature.
• Vatican Hill, one of the seven Hills of Rome, whereon there standeth a famous Palace and Library, built by Pope Sixtus the fourth.
• Vaticination, (lat.) a prophesying, or telling of things to come.
• Vavasours, or Valvasours, those that in degree are next unto Barons.
• Vaudevil, (French) a Countrey bal∣lade, roundelay, or song, it is also cal∣led a Virelay.
• Vauntlay, in Hunting, is the setting of Hounds in a readinesse, where the chace is to passe.
• Vawmure, an ancient word, signifying a Bulwark, or Outwork for defence.
• Vaward, see Vanguard.
• Vayvode, a Prince, or chief Ruler in Transilvania, and some of those Northern parts.

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• Vberty, (lat.) store, plenty, ferti∣lity.
• Vbiquitarians, a Sect of Hereticks, hold∣ing Christs body as well as his Godhead to be every where.
• Vbiquity, (lat.) a being in all places at one time.

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• Vecordy, (lat.) unsoundnesse of minde, dotage, stupidity.
• Vectarious, (lat.) belonging to a Wag∣gon, or carriage.
• Vection, (lat.) a carrying.
• To Veer, in Navigation, to put out more rope, or more sheat.
• Vegetable, Vegetal, or Vegetive, (Lat.) living after the manner of Plants and Mi∣nerals, indued with vigour, moisture and growth.
• Vehicular, (lat.) belonging to a Vehicle, i. a Cart, Wagon, or Coach, or any thing whereby another is carried, or con∣veyed.
• A Vein is defined by Anatomists to be a common Organ of the body, round, and oblong apted for the conveyance of bloud and natural spirits through all the parts, and according to the several parts, it pas∣seth through, it taketh several Denomina∣tions, as the Basilick vein, that which pas∣seth from the Liver through the inward processe of the arm, the Cephalick the head vein, the Coeliacal, that which runs into the blinde Gut, the Cystick, that which runs up toward the Neck of the Gall, the Epigastrick, the flank veins Gastroepi∣ploick, that which spreads it self through the bottom of the Ventricle, Intercostal, those which run through the upper Ribs. Port vein, that which is rooted in the Liver, and from thence passeth into the Ventricle, Mesentery, and other parts. Ranular, that which ascends from the Throat to the tongue. Salvatel, that which from the Liver runnes through the wrist into the hand; Saphaena that which runnes through the inward part of the Legge to the Ankle. Subclavicular, a branch of the hollow vein, which runnes under the Neck bone. Thymick, a branch of the Subclavicular. Torcular, that which ascends by the inside of the scull to the brain.
• Velification, (lat.) a hoising of sayls.
• Velites, (lat.) the light armed Souldiers among the Romans, see Triani, whence Velitation, a light skirmishing.
• Velivolent, (lat.) flying as it were with full sayl.
• Vellication, (lat.) a plucking, twitching, or giving a sudden pull. In Physick they are said to be certain convulsions that happen in the Fibers of the Muscles.
• Velocity, (lat.) swiftnesse.
• Venality, (lat.) a setting to sale, a being saleable.
• Venatick, or Venatorious, (lat.) be∣longing to hunting, or chacing.
• Vendible, (lat.) saleable, fit for sale.
• Vendication, (a challenging to ones self, a claiming.
• Venditation, (lat.) ostentation, a brag∣ging, or vain setting forth of ones self.
• Vendition, (lat.) a selling.
• Venedotia, the ancient name of all that part of Wales, which is otherwise called Guinethia, or N••rthwales.
• Venefick, or Veneficious, (lat.) belong∣ing to Venefice, i. the art of making poy∣sons; also witchcraft, or sorcery.
• Venenous, (lat.) venemous, or full of poyson.
• Veneration, (lat.) a reverencing, or wor∣shipping.
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• Venereal, or Venereous, (lat.) given to Venery, i. lust, or carnal desires.
• Venereal disease, (lat. Morbus Gallicus, or Lues Venerea) a certain virulent, and contagious disposition of the body, con∣tracted by immoderate Venerie, or coup∣ling with unsound persons; it is vulgarly called the French Pox.
• Venetiae, a famous Citie of Italy, built in the year 421. upon certain Islands of the Adriatick Sea, 60 in number, by the in∣habitants of Aquileia and Pavia, who fled thither for fear of the Huns; it is now be∣come a great Common wealth, and hath large Territories, both in Italy and other places.
• Venew, in Common-law, is taken for a a neighbouring, or near place.
• Venial, (lat.) worthy of pardon, or for∣givenesse; whence in Theologie they make a distinction between mortal sins, and Venial sins.
• Vent, (lat.) a winde, or breath; also a place for aire to come in, and out at.
• Venta Belgarum, the ancient name of Winchester, a pleasant Citie in Hantshire, called by the Brittains Caer Guente, by the Saxons Windanceaster, and by the vul∣gar Latins Wintonia; Venta giveth name also unto two other Towns, Caster in Northfolk, called Venta Icenorum, and Caerwent in Monmouthshire, called Venta Silurum.
• Ventelet, (Dimin.) a small gale of winde.
• Ventiduct, (lat.) a conveyance of winde by pipes, or otherwayes.
• Ventilation, (lat.) a fanning, or gather∣ing of winde; also a winnowing of Corn.
• Ventosity, (lat.) windinesse.
• Ventricle, (lat.) the stomack; it is also taken for any round concavity of the body.
• Ventriloquy, (lat.) a speaking inwardly, or as it were from the belly.
• Venundation, (lat.) a buying, or sel∣ling.
• Venus, (lat.) the goddesse of love, plea∣sures, and delights, whom the Poets faign to have sprung out of the foam of the Sea, after that the Testicles of Caelus had been cut off, and thrown in by Saturn, whence she was called Aphrodite; also the name of one of the seven Planets, or wandring Stars.
• Ven••station, (lat.) a making handsome, or beautifull.
• Veracity, (lat.) a saying truth.
• Verbal, (lat.) consisting of words, or delivered onely in words.
• Verbatim, (lat.) word for word.
• Verbeia, a certain goddesse, among the ancient Brittains, to whom the Captain of the second Cohort of the Lingones erected an Altar near Ilekly in York-shire, she is thought by Cambden to have been the Nymph, or goddesse of the River Wherf, which was also anciently called Verbeia.
• Verberation, (lat.) a beating, or strike∣ing.
• Verb••sity, (lat.) a being full of words.
• Verecund, (lat.) shamefaced, modest, bashfull.
• Verdant, (lat.) green, fresh, flourish∣ing.
• Verderer, (lat.) Viridarius) a judiciall Officer of the Kings Forrest, who receives and inrols the attachments of all manner of trespasses of the Forrest of Vert and Venison.
• Verdie, or Verdea, a kinde of rich Ita∣lian wine.
• Verdict, the answer of a Jury, or Inquest, made upon any cause, Civil, or Criminal committed by the Court to their conside∣ration, or tryal.
• Verdigrease, (lat.) Aerugo) a green sub∣stance taken from the rust of Brasse, or Copper.
• Verditure, a green colour among Pain∣ters.
• Verdoy, a Term in Heraldry, when a bordure is charged with leaves, fruits, and flowrs, and other the like vegetables
• Verdure, (French) greennesse.
• Verge, (French) a rod, wand, or Ser∣geants Mace; also the compasse about the Kings Court, that bounds the Jurisdiction of the Lord Steward of the Kings hous∣hold, and of the Coroner of the Kings house, and is accounted twelve miles com∣passe; also a rod whereby one is admitted Tenant holding it in his hand, and swear∣ing ••••alty to the Lord of the Mannour, and for that cause is called Tenant by the Verge.
• Vergobert, (French) a chief Officer, or Magistrate among the ancient Hedui.
• Veridical, (lat.) telling, or speaking truth.
• Veriloquent, (lat.) the same.
• Verisimility, (lat.) the probability, or likelyhood of a thing.
• Vermiculate, (lat.) worm-eaten; also imbroidered with several colours.
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• Vermillion, (French) a ruddy or deep red colour.
• Vermination, (lat.) a certain disease wherein worms are bred, and cause a gri∣ping of the guts.
• Vermiparous, (lat.) breeding or bring∣ing forth worms.
• Vernaccia, a kind of Italian Wine.
• Vernaculous, (lat.) proper and peculiar to a Country.
• Vernal, or Vernant, (lat.) flourishing or belonging to the Spring.
• Vernility, (lat.) servilenesse, or sla∣very.
• Verona, a famous City of Italy, built as some say, by Brennus the Gaul, heretofore governed by the Family of the Scaligeri, and now under the jurisdiction of the Venetians.
• Verrey, a term in Heraldry, the same as Varry, i. Fur consisting of Or and Azure, or Or and Vert.
• Verrucous, (lat.) full of warts or little excrescences of the flesh.
• Versatile, (lat.) apt to be wound or turned any way.
• Versation, (lat.) a turning or winding to and again.
• Versicle, (lat.) a little verse or sen∣tence.
• Versification, (lat.) a making of verses.
• Version, (lat.) a translation or turning out of one language into another.
• Vert, in Heraldry, a green colour; but in the Forrest Laws, it is every thing that grows and beares a green leaf within the Forrest that may cover and hide a Deer.
• Verterae, a Town of ancient memory in Westmoreland, where in the Romans time a Captain kept his residence with a Band of the Directores; this place remaineth yet a poor village, called Burgus sub Saxeto, or Burgh under Stanmore.
• Vertical point, in Astronomy, is that point of the Heavens which is directly over ones head.
• Vertiginous, (lat.) troubled with a Ver∣tigo, i. a swimming or giddinesse in the head.
• Vertumnus, a certain Deity worshipt by the ancient Latins who could change him∣self into all formes. See Pomona.
• Vervain, a kind of herb called in Latin Verbena, anciently used about sacred rites and ceremonies.
• Vervecine, (lat.) belonging to a weather.
• Vervise, a kind of cloth otherwise cal∣led plonkets.
• Verulamium, by Ptolomy called Vrola∣nium, the name of a City heretofore of very great repute in Hertfordshire, the ruines whereof appear at this day, near unto Saint Albans; the Saxons termed it Watlingacester, from the famous highway commonly called Watling-street, and also Werlamceaster.
• Very Lord and very tenant, in Common Law, are those that are immediate Lord and Tenant to one another.
• Vesanous, (lat.) mad, furious, out∣ragious.
• Vesculent, (lat.) to be eaten, fit for food.
• Vesicatory, (lat.) a Cupping-glasse; also a sharp plaister or ointment applied to raise blisters in the skin.
• Vesicle, (lat.) a little bladder.
• Vespers, evening-song, prayers said a∣bout evening time.
• Vespertine, (lat.) belonging to the evening.
• Vespilone, (lat.) one who in the time of a great sicknesse carryeth forth dead bo∣dies in the night time to be buried.
• Vesta, the daughter of Saturn and Ops, taken ofttimes by the Poets for the earth and sometimes for the fire, in honour of whom Numa Pompilius instituted many Rites and Ceremonies, and conscecrated to her service certain Virgins called Ve∣stalls, who were to take care of the Vestal fire, which when it went out, was not to be kindled by any earthly fire, but to be renewed by the beams of the Sun. They were injoyned to preserve their virginity inviolable so long as they remained in the service of the goddesse, and who ever was found faulty among them was buried alive.
• Vestiary, (lat.) a Wardrope or place to lay clothes or apparrel in.
• Vestible, (lat.) a porch or entry.
• Vestigation, (lat.) a seeking any one by the print of their foot, a searching dili∣gently.
• Vestige, (lat.) a footstep, or print of any ones foot.
• Vestment, or Vesture, (lat.) a garment, clothing, or attire.
• Vetation, (lat.) a forbidding.
• Veteran, (lat.) old, serving long in any place or office.
• Veteratorian, (lat.) crafty, expe∣rienced.
• Veterine, (lat.) belonging to carriages or burthens.
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• Vexillary, (lat.) belonging to an Ensign or Standard; also subst. a Standarn-bearer.

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• Vfens, a Captain of the Aequicolae who came to assist Turnus against Aeneas, and was slain by Gyas a Trojan.
• Vffkines, a name anciently given to the successours of Vffa, the first King of the E••st-English; they were vassals sometimes to the King of M••rcia, sometimes to the Kings of Kent.

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• Via combusta, the last 15 degrees of Li∣bra, and the first 15 degrees of Scorpio.
• Vial, (lat. Phiala) a pot or glasse with a wide mouth.
• Viand, (French) meat, food, victuals.
• Viatick, (lat.) belonging to a journey, or travelling by the high way; also subst. provision or things necessary for a jour∣ney.
• Viatorian, (lat.) belonging to travel∣lers.
• Vibius Virius, a Citizen of Capua, who causing that City to revolt to Hannibal, and being besieged by the Romans poi∣soned himself, and perswaded many of the Senatours to do the like.
• Vibration, (lat.) a shaking or winding about, a brandishing.
• Vibrissation, (lat.) a quavering, or sha∣king of the voice in singing.
• Vicenarious, or Vicesimal, (lat.) belong∣ing to twenty, or the twentieth in num∣ber.
• Viceroy, (French) a Deputy-King, one that governs in the place of a King.
• Vicinity, (lat.) neighbourhood, near∣nesse.
• Vicissitude, (lat.) a changing, or suc∣ceeding by turns.
• Vicount, (lat. Vicecomes) a kind of Magistrate, being the same as a Sheriff; also a Nobleman next in degree unto an Earle.
• Victime, (lat.) a sacrifice or oblation.
• Victour, (lat.) an Overcomer or Con∣querour.
• Vidame, (lat. Vicedominus) the Judge of a Bishops temporal jurisdiction, being originally the same to a Bishop, as a Vi∣count to an Earle.
• Viduation, (lat.) a depriving, making desolate, putting into the estate of Viduity or Widdow-hood.
• The Vies or Devizes, a Castle in Wilt∣shire, once a very stately and magnificent Structure, built at the vast expences of Roger Bishop of Salsbury in the reign of King Stephen; it is called in Latin by some Divisio, by others Divisae.
• View, signifieth in Hunting the print of a fallow Deers foot upon the ground.
• Viewers, in Common Law, those that are sent by the Court to take view of any place in question, for the better decision of the right; also upon other occasions, as of a man in case of sicknesse or of an offence.
• Vigone, (French) a Demicaster, or a kind of Hat made of the wool of a beast so called.
• Vigorous, (lat.) full of vigour, i. strength, courage, lustinesse.
• To Vilifie, (lat.) to set light by, to dis∣esteem, to make of no value.
• To Vilipend, (lat.) the same.
• Vility, (lat.) cheapnesse, a being base, or of little worth.
• Villenage, in common Law, is a servile Kind of Tenure such as Villeins, i. bond∣men, are fittest to performe: but there are several sorts of Villenage, not every one that holdeth in Villenage being a ser∣vant or bondman.
• Viminal, (lat.) belonging to Osier twigs.
• Vincible, (lat.) to be overcome, or van∣quished.
• Vincture, (lat.) a tying or binding.
• Vindelicia, a Country of Germany, bounded on each side with Rhaetia, Nori∣cum, Danubius, and the Alps.
• Vindemial, or Vindemiatory, (lat.) be∣longing to a Vintage, i. a Vine-harvest, or gathering of grapes.
• Vindication, (lat.) a revenging or pu∣nishing, also a delivering or saving from danger.
• Vindonum, the chief City, anciently of the Segontiaci, a people of Hantshire; it was called by the old Brittains, Britenden, now Silecester.
• Vinitorian, (lat.) belonging to the keeping of Vines, Vinyards, or Wine.
• Vinolent, (lat.) savouring of Wine, given to drink Wine.
• Violation, (lat.) a defiling, misusing; also a transgressing.
• Viperine, (lat.) belonging to vipers, being a sort of venemous Serpent in some hot Countries.
• Virago, (lat.) a manly or couragious woman.
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• Virason, a cool gale of wind.
• Virbius, the son of Theseus and Hippolyta, called also Hippolytus; it signifies twice a man.
• Virelay, see Vaudevill.
• Virge, certain rayes obliquely striking through a cloud, and signifying rain.
• Virginalls, a certain musical Instrument commonly known.
• Virgo, (lat.) one of the 12 Signs of the Zodiack, being phancy'd to bear the re∣semblance of a Maid or Virgin.
• Virgult, (lat.) a twig or company of young shoots or sprigs growing toge∣ther.
• Viriatus, a famous Portughese, who from a Hunter and noted Robber became at last a great Commander; he overthrew the two Roman Pretors Ventidius and Plancius, but at last was vanquished by a Consular Army, and slain treacherously by the counsel of Caepio.
• Viridity, (lat.) greennesse, also lusty∣nesse, strength, freshnesse.
• Virility, (lat.) mans estate, manlinesse; also ability to perform the part of a man in the act of generation.
• Viripotent, (lat.) ripe for man.
• Virtuoso, (Ital.) a man accomplisht in vertuous Arts and Ingenuitie.
• Virulent, (lat.) full of venome or dead∣ly poison.
• Visceral, (lat.) belonging to the bowels of any creature.
• Vicidity, or Viscosity, (lat.) a clam∣minesse, a sticking to any thing like glue or birdlime.
• Visibility, (lat.) an aptnesse to be seen or discerned.
• Visier, a Viceroy or chief Statesman a∣mong the Turks.
• Vision, (lat.) a seeing or discerning.
• Vistula, a famous River, vulgarly cal∣led Wixel, running out of the Carpathian Hill, and dividing Germany from Euro∣paean Sarmatia.
• Visual, (lat.) belonging to the sight.
• Vital, (lat.) belonging to, or sustain∣ing life.
• Vitation, (lat.) a shunning or avoid∣ing.
• Vitelline, (lat.) resembling the yolk of an egge.
• Vitemberga, the City of Wittenbergh in Germany.
• Vitiation, (lat.) a corrupting or de∣filing; also a deflowring.
• Vitiferous, (lat.) bearing vines.
• Vitoldus, a cruel Tyrant of Lithuania, who carried with him a bow and arrows wheresoever he went killing whomsoever he had a mind to kill, though upon never so slight an occasion, making it his chief∣est sport and recreation.
• Vitreal, or Vitrine, (lat.) belonging to, or made of glasse.
• Vitrification, (lat.) a making of glasse.
• Vitriolous, (lat.) belonging to Vitriol, i. a kind of middle substance between stone and mettal, called also Copperass.
• Vituline, (lat.) belonging to a Calf.
• Vituperation, (lat.) a blaming, repre∣hending, or dispraising.
• Vivacity, (lat.) livelinesse, lustinesse, vigour.
• Vivification, (lat.) an enlivening, re∣viving, quickning.
• Viviparous, (lat.) bringing their young alive.

U L

• Vladislaus, a King of Hungaria, who was slain in a great battle against the Turks; also the name of several other Kings of Hungaria and Bohemia.
• Vlceration, (lat.) a bli••••ering or break∣ing out into an ulcer or running sore.
• Vliginous, (lat.) plashy, wet, full of standing water.
• Vlisses, the son of Laertes and Anticlea, he married Penelope the daughter of Ica∣rius, by whom he had Telemachus; he was by Palamedes forced against his will to go to the wars of Troy where he proved very serviceable to the Greeks by reason of his great subtilty; for he brought Achilles to them who had hid himself among the daughters of Lycomed; He stole away the ashes of Laomedon which were kept in one of the gates of the City; He took away the Palladium, and with the help of Dio∣med slew King Rhaesus and brought away his white horses; He by a wile caused Pa∣lamed to whom he bore a grudge, to be stoned to death, and after Achilles was slain, he was preferred before Ajax by the common sentence of the Greeks, to have his armes: after the wars of Troy, intend∣ing to sail back to his own Country, he was cast by tempest together with his com∣panions upon unknown Regions; being cast upon Aeolia, he obtained of Aeolus the winds in a bottle, which was broken by his companions thinking there had been a treasure concealed in it; next coming to the Country of the Laestrigones,

• his companions were changed into beasts by Circe, whom he compelled to restore them to their former shapes, and lying with her he begat Telegonus; having scap't the charms of the Syrens, his companions were afterward cast away for killing the flocks of Phaethusa the daughter of the Sun, and he onely escaping, was cast up∣pon Ogygia and intertained by Calypso, on whom he begat Nausithous and Nausinous; at length he was intertained by Nausicaa the daughter of Al••inous King of the Phaea∣censes, and his wife Arete, he obtained of them a new ship and attendants, with whom he arrived safe at Ithaca, where he slew all his rivals, and was himself slain unknown by his son Telegonus.
• Vlophone, a kind of plant called the black Chamaeleon thistle; it is also called Vervilago.
• Vle-games, Christmas games or sports, from the French word Noel, i. Christmass, or the Latin jubilum.
• Vl••ter, a Province in Ireland, which containeth these following Counties, Louth, Cavon, Fermanagh, Monaghan, Armagh, Doun, Antrim, Londonderry, Tir Owen, Tirconel.
• Vltimate, (lat.) the last, extream, or utmost.
• Vltion, (lat.) a revenging.
• Vltramarin, (lat.) beyond the Seas; also a kind of colour used in painting.
• Vltramundane, (lat.) being beyond the visible World.
• Vlulation, (lat.) a howling like a dog or wolf.

U M

• Vmber, a kind of beast; also a dark yellowish colour used in painting.
• Vmbilical, (lat.) belonging to the navel.
• Vmbrage, (French) a shadow, also sus∣pition, also a pretence.
• Vmbragious, Vmbratical, or Vmbratile, (Fr. Lat.) shady, covert, obscure.
• Vmbrello, (Ital.) a great broad fan or skreen, which in hot Countries people hold over their heads to keep off the heat of the Sun.
• Vmple, a word used in some ancient Statutes for fine Lawn.

U N

• Vnanimity, (lat.) a being of one mind or will, a consenting or according together.
• Vncial, (lat.) containing an ounce or inch.
• Vnction, (lat.) an anointing with oil, or any oily substance.
• Vncouth, (Sax.) unknown in Common Law, it is more peculiarly taken for one for whom his Host is not bound to answer for any offence committed by him, he be∣ing not counted a guest till the third night.
• Vndation, (lat.) a waving or rising of waves.
• Vnder••ide, (Sax.) the evening time.
• Vndulate, (lat.) Chamolet wrought, or painted like waves.
• Vndulation of the air, the waving of the air to and fro.
• Vneth, (old word) scarse, difficult.
• Vnguent, (lat.) an ointment or liquid salve.
• Vnicornous, (lat.) having but one horn.
• Vniformity, (lat.) a being of one and the same form, figure, and fashion.
• Vnion, (lat.) a joyning together, a grow∣ing into one; also a kind of pearl growing in couples; also a combining of two Churches in one, which is done by the consent of the Bishop, Patron, and In∣cumbent.
• Vniparous, (lat.) bringing forth one onely at a birth.
• Vnison, (French) an agreement of two notes in one tone.
• Vnity, (lat.) a being one in substance or in mind, union, concord.
• Vnity of possession, in Common Law, is a joynt possession of two rights by several titles. It is called by Civilians consolida∣tio usus fructus.
• Vniversal, (lat.) general, extending to all.
• Vniversity, (lat.) in the Civil Law, is taken for a body politique or corpora∣tion; also an Academy.
• Vniversity Colledge, the most ancient Colledge of Oxford, begun by King Ael∣fred who founded this Academy, and re∣edified by William Arch-deacon of Dur∣ham.
• Vnivocal, (lat.) consisting of one voice, name, or sound; in Logick it is, when un∣der one name one thing is signified.
• Vnkennel, To unkennel a Fox, that is to drive or force him from his hole.
• Vnselinesse, (Sax.) unhappinesse.
• Vnweather, (Sax.) a storm or tempest.

V O

• Vocabulary, (lat.) a Dictionary or In∣dex of words.
• Vocal, (lat.) belonging to, or consisting in the voice.
• Vocation, (lat.) a profession, calling, or course of life.
• Vociferation, (lat.) a putting forth the voice, a crying out, or exclaiming.
• Voculation, (lat.) a giving a word its right tone or accent.
• Vogue, (French) powr, swey, authority.
• Voidance, a want of an incumbent upon a benefice.
• Voider, a Term in Heraldry, being an Ordinary, consisting of an Archline mo∣derate bowing from the corner of the chief toward the Nombrill of the Escot∣cheon.
• Voiding, a Term in Heraldry, being an exemption of some part of the inward sub∣stance of things voidable, by reason where∣of the field is transparent through the charge.
• Vo••sinage, (French) neighbourhood.
• Volant, or Volatical, (lat.) flying, or passing swiftly away.
• Volatil, (lat.) a Term in Chimystry, un∣fixt, apt to evaporate.
• Volitation, (lat.) a flying often.
• Volta, (Ital.) a course, or turn in riding or in dancing.
• Volubility, (lat.) facility, or aptnesse in turning about, or changing; also a quick and easie delivery in speech, or pronuncia∣tion.
• Voluntary, (lat.) done willingly, with∣out force, or constraint.
• Voluptuous, (lat.) given to pleasures, or delights.
• Volutation, (lat.) a tumbling, rolling, or wallowing.
• Volutina, a certain goddesse among the Romans, who according to Varro was said to be the overseer of the little cups, or sheaths of Corn, wherein the Grain is in∣closed, which in Latin is called Involucrum, as Hostilina was to take care that the Corn was supplied with new ears, which is called in Latin Exaequatio, or Hostimen∣tum.
• Vomanus, a River of Picenum in Italy.
• Vomition, (lat.) a vomiting, or spewing.
• Voracity, (lat.) greedinesse, gluttony, aptnesse to devour.
• Voraginous, (lat.) swallowing up like a Vorago, i. a Whirlpool, Gulf, or Quag∣mire.
• Voration, (lat.) a devouring.
• Votary, (lat.) he that binds himself to the performance favour.
• Voucher, in Common-law, is a calling of one into the Court to warrant, or make good Lands bought with warranty, for the secure injoying thereof against all men.
• Vowel, a letter which soundeth of it self, without the help of a consonant.

U R

• Vrania, see Muses.
• Vranoscopy, (Greek) a viewing, or con∣templating of the heavens.
• Vrbanity, (lat.) the fashion of the City, civility, courtesie, gentlenesse in speech, or behaviour.
• Vreter, (Greek) the passage of the Urine from the Reins to the Bladder.
• Vricornium, in old times a very famous Citie, and the principal in Shropshire, built by the Romans, the Saxons called it Wre∣kencoaster, from the Hill Wreken, near which it stood, it is now but a poor Vil∣lage, and called Wreckceter, or Wrox∣cester.
• Vrim and Thummim, (Hebrew, lights and perfections) 12 precious stones in the breast-plate of the High-priest, which shon like the flame of fire.
• Vrinator, (lat.) a diver, or swimmer under water.
• Vrn, (lat.) a certain Vessel among the ancients, where the ashes of dead bodies that had been burnt were kept, hence it is taken for any grave, or sepulcher, it signi∣fieth also a certain liquid measure, con∣taining two gallons and a pottle.
• Vroscopy, (Gr.) an inspection of Urines, commonly called a casting of water.
• Vrsa Major, the great Bear, a constel∣lation in the heaven.
• Vrsine, (lat.) belonging to a Bear.
• Vrsula, the proper name of a woman, sig∣nifying in Latin, a little she Bear.
• Vre, (Greek, from Oros a mountain) a kinde of wilde Oxe.

U S

• Vsquebagh, a strong liquour used among the Irish, signifying in that language as much as Aqua vitae.
• Vstion, (lat.) a burning.
• Vstulation, (lat.) the same, also a cur∣ling with hot irons.
• Vsufructuary, (lat.) reaping the profit of that thing, whose propriety belongs to an∣other.
• Vsury, (lat.) the taking of interest, or use-money for any summe lent.
• Vsurpation, (lat.) a having, or possessing against right, or equity.

U T

• Vtas, the eighth day following any term, or feast.
• Vtensil, (lat.) houshold-stuff, that which is usefull and necessary about a house.
• Vterine, (latin) belonging to the womb.
• Vtlarie, (in Latin Vtlagatio) a punish∣ment for such as being called into Law, do contemptuously refuse to appear, whereby they forfeit their goods, or lands to the King, or State.
• Vtopia, the feigned name of a Countrey described by Sir Thomas More, as the pat∣tern of a well govern'd Common-wealth; hence it is taken by Metaphor for any imaginary, or feigned place.

U V

• Vveal, (lat.) belonging to a Grape, like a Grape.
• Vvid, (lat.) moist, or wet.
• Vulcan, the God of fire, the son of Jupi∣ter and Juno, he was thrown out of hea∣ven for his deformity, into the Isle of Lem∣nos, by which fall he became lame, he was brought up by Eurynome, the daughter of Oceanus and Thetis, he was the master of the Cyclops, and made Thunderbolts for Jupiter; also Hermione's bracelet, Ariadne's Crown, the Chariot of the Sun, the Ar∣mour of Achilles and Aeneas, &c. he would have married Minerva, but she refusing him, he married Venus, whom he having caught in bed with Mars, threw a Net over them, and exposed them to the view of all the gods.
• Vulgarity, (lat.) a being common, vul∣gar, or publickly known.
• Vulneration, (lat.) a wounding, or hurt∣ing.
• Vulpine, (lat.) belonging to, or like a Fox, crafty, subtle.
• Vulsion, (lat.) a pulling.
• Vulturine, (lat.) belonging to a Vul∣tur, or Geyr, being a ravenous kind of bird.
• Vulturnus, a certain Town of Campania, with a River of the same name.
• Vvula, (lat.) the pallat of the mouth.

U X

• Vxellodunum, a Town of Quercy in France, vulgarly called Cadenack.
• Vxorious, (lat.) belonging to a wife; al∣so fond, or doating upon a wife.

U Z

• Vzita, a Citie of Africa, called by Stra∣bo Uxitas.

W A

• WAdham Colledge, a Colledge in the University of Oxford, so cal∣led from the name of him that erected it.
• Wafters, (a Term in Navigation) men of War, that attend merchants ships to conduct them safe along.
• Wage, see Gage.
• To Wage Law, to prosecute a law sute.
• A Wagtail, a kinde of bird, otherwise called a Waterswallow, in Latin Motacilla, in Ital. Ballarina.
• Waif, or Waive, the same which the Civilians call derelictum, any thing (whe∣ther it be Cattel strayed, or goods stolen and quitted upon Hue and Cry) which being found are to be proclaimed sundry Market dayes, and if they challenge them

• within a year and a day are to be restored, otherwise they are to belong to the Lord of the Franchise; also as a man forsaken of the Law, to which he was sworn is said out-lawed, so a woman not being sworn to the Law is called Waive.
• Wain, (Dutch) a decreasing, defect, or want.
• Waive, see Waif.
• Wakes, certain feasts and solemnities, which use to be kept the week after that Saints day, to whom the Parish Church was dedicated.
• Walbury, (Sax.) gratious, an ancient proper name of several women.
• Waldwin, a proper name, signifying in the German tongue a Conquerour, answerable to the Latin name Victor, for Waldin we now use Gawen.
• Walereared, a Term in Navigation, not shipshapen, or when a ship is built right up.
• Walter, the proper name of a man, sig∣nifying in Dutch a Pilgrim, or as others say a Woodman.
• Wandsdike, (contracted from the Saxon Wodensdike, i. the Ditch of Woden, the Brittish Mars) a Ditch of wonderfull work in Wiltshire, many miles in length, near which Ina, King of the West Saxons, and Ceo••red King of the Mercians joyned bat∣tel, and departed the field on even hand.
• Wantage, in the Saxon tongue Wanading, a place in Bark-shire, anciently a Mannour house of the Kings of England, famous for being the birth-place of Alfred, that pru∣dent and learned Prince.
• Wapentake, a certain division of a Coun∣ty, called also a hundred, it is so called from an ancient custome, wherein he that came to take the government of a hundred was met by all the better sort, who came and touch't his Lance, or Weapon, by which Ceremony they were sworn and confederate.
• Warbling of the wings, a Term in Faul∣conry; for after a Hawk hath mantled her self, she crosses her wings together over her back; which action is called the warbling of the wings.
• Ward, a portion of the Citie committed to the special charge of one of the 24 Al∣dermen; also a part, or division of a For∣rest; also the Heir of the Kings Tenant, holding by Knights service, during his nonage, is called Ward, whence Warden, a Guardian, or Oversee-er.
• Warin, a proper name, in Latin Guari∣nus, it comes from the German Gerwin, i. all victorious.
• Wardmote, a Court kept in every Ward in London.
• Wardstaff, a kinde of petty Sergeanty, which is a holding of Lands by this ser∣vice, namely to carry a load of straw in a Cart with six horses, two roaps, two men in harnesse to watch the said Wardstaff, when it is brought to the place appointed.
• Wardwit, see Warwit.
• Wardrobe, (Ital. Guardaroba) a place where the Garments of Kings, or great persons use to be kept, and he that keeps the inventory of all things belonging to the Kings Wardrob, is called Clark of the Kings great Wardrobe.
• Wards and Liveries, a certain Court erected in the time of King Henry the eighth.
• Warrant, or Warranty, in Common-law, is a Covenant made in a deed by one man unto another, to warrant and secure him∣self and his Heirs, against all men whatso∣ever, for the injoying of any thing agreed upon between them; it is called by the Ci∣vilians A••tipulati••.
• Warren, (lat. Varrenna, or Vivarium) a prescription, or grant to a man from the King, of having Pheasants, Partridges, Conies, and Hares, within certain of his Lands.
• Warscot, a contribution, that was wont to be made towards Armour in the Saxons time.
• Warwick, the principal Town of War∣wick-shire, which with much probability is judged to be the same with that, which an∣ciently was called praesidium, i. a Garrison; for the Saxons, called it Warringwyck, the Brittains, Caer G••arvick, both which words seem to have sprung from the Brit∣tish word Guarth, which also signifieth a Garrison; here the Captain of the Dal∣matian hors-men kept his residence, un∣der the command of Dux Britanniae, this Town is situate over the River Avon, upon a steep Rock, fortified with strong walls, and a Castle toward the South-west.
• Warwit, or Wardwit▪ a being quit of gi∣ving money for keeping of watches.
• Wassail, (Sax. Waesheal, i. be in health) an ancient Ceremonious custome, still used upon twelf day at night, of going about with a great bowl of Ale, drinking of healths, taken from Rowena, the daughter

• of Hengistus, her Ceremony to King Vorti∣ger, to whom at a banquet she delivered with her own hands a Golden Cup full of wine.
• Wast, in Common-law, is, where a Te∣nant for Term of years, or otherwise doth, to the prejudice of the Heir, or of him in the reversion make waste, or spoyl of hou∣ses, woods, gardens, orchards, by pulling down the House, cutting down Timber, &c.
• Water-line, (a Term in Navigation) that line which ought to be the depth, that a ship should swim in when she is la∣den a head, and a stern.
• Watling street, see Ikenild street.
• Wavey, a Term in Blazon, bearing a re∣semblance of the swelling wave of the Sea.

W E

• Weald of Kent, the wooddy part of the Countrey, from the Dutch word Wald, which signifieth a Forrest, or Wood.
• Wega, the shining Harp.
• Weapon salve, that which cures a wound by being applied to the weapon that made it.
• Weathercoil, is, when a ship being a Hull, layeth her head the other way, without loosing any of her sayl, which is done by bearing up the Helm.
• Weed, or Wede, (Sax.) a garment, or suit of apparel.
• Wedding, a joyning in marriage, from the Dutch word Wed, i. e. a pledge.
• Weigh, a certain weight of Cheese, or Wool, containing 256 pounds of Av••ir du pois.
• Weights, see Aver du pois, and Troy weight.
• Welken, an old Saxon word, signifying a Cloud; also the Element, or Sky.
• Weold, or Wold, (Sax.) a Forrest.
• Werewolf, or Manwolf (Were signifying in the Saxon language a man) a kinde of Sorcerer, who by anointing his body, and putting on an enchanted girdle, takes upon him the shape, and nature of a Wolf, worrying and killing humane Crea∣tures.
• Weroance, a name given to any great Lord, among the West-Indians.
• Werre, or Were, a certain pecuniary mulct, anciently set upon a mans head for killing of a man.
• Werregelt theft, a thief that may be re∣deemed by Werre.
• Westphalia, a Province of Germany, and one of the 12 Circles of the Empire, con∣taining in it 6 Bishopricks, 3 principalities, 7 free Cities, with divers great Earle∣doms.

W H

• Wharfage, a fee due, for things landed at a wharf, or brought thither to be ex∣ported.
• While, (Sax.) which.
• Whitehart silver, see Blacklow Forrest.
• Whitespurres, certain Squires made by the King.
• Whitsuntide, as it were the time of the white son; also Whitsunday seemeth to signify as much as sacred Sunday; from the Saxon word Wihed, i. sacred, being a cer∣tain feast celebrated, in memory of the holy Ghost, descending upon the Apostles in fiery tongues; it is called in Greek Pen∣tecost, as being the 50^th. day from the Re∣surrection.
• Whole-chace-boots, large hunting, or win∣ter riding bootes; summer riding bootes, being called demichace.
• Wh••odings, plancks, which are joyn'd and fastned along the ship-sides into the stem.
• Whorlbat, (in lat. Caestus) a certain game or exercise among the ancients, wherein they whirled leaden plummets at one an∣other.

W I

• Wigornia, the chief Citie of Worcester∣shire, commonly called Worcester, the Brit∣tains call'd it Caer-Wrangon, and Caer∣Guarangon, the Saxons Weorgaceaster; it was set on fire in the year 1041. by Hardy Cnute the Dane, in revenge, because the Citizens had slain his Huscarles; it was also very much harrassed in the time of the Civil Wars, in King Stephens reign, but soon it flourish't again, with greater splendour then before.
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• Wilfred, (Sax.) much peace, a proper name of men.
• Saint Wilfrid's needle, a certain narrow hole in the Church of Wakeman, in York∣shire, wherein womens honesties were in times past tried, for such as were chaste did easily passe through, but such as had been faulty, were miraculously held fast, and could not get through.
• William, (Dutch Wilhelm) the proper name of a man, the word signifying a de∣fence to many.
• Wilton, a Town of Wiltshire, in an∣cient times the principal Town of the whole Shire, and from which it took its denomination, that it was heretofore cal∣led Ellandunum, appears by the Testi∣mony of old Records, when Weolstan be∣ing stiled Earle of Ellandunum; it is far∣ther added, that is to say of Wilton, here in a very bloudy battel, Egbert King of the West-Saxons, overcame Beorwulf, King of Mercia, in the year of our salvation 821. here also about fifty years after King Aelfrid, joyning battel with the Danes, was at length put to the worst.
• Wimple, a plaited linnen cloath, which Nuns wear about their necks; also a flag or streamer.
• Wimund, (Sax.) sacred peace, a proper name.
• Winchester, see Venta.
• Windlasse, a piece of Timber placed from one side of the ship to the other close abast the stem.
• Windsore, a Town in Bark-shire, by the Saxons called Windleshore, haply from the Winding-shore; it is famous for a most stately Castle, built by King Edward the third, who in this Castle held prisoners at the same time, John King of France, and David King of Scots; he also founded that Noble Order of the Garter, of which see more in the word Knight, there is likewise a magnificent Church begun by the same King, and consecrated to the Virgin Marie, but finisht by King Henry, and Sir Reginald Bray.
• Winefrid, the name of an ancient Brit∣tish Virgin Saint, of whom it is reported that after her head was cut off by Cra∣dacus, there sprung up in the same place the Well, which at this day is called Saint Winefrids Well, and that Benno the Priest joyned her head again to her body; it is also the proper name of divers women, the word signifying in the Saxon tongue an obtainer of peace.
• Winwidfield, a place near Leeds in York-shire, so called from the great vi∣ctory, which Oswy, King of Northumber∣land had over Penda, King of the Mer∣cians, wherein Penda was utterly over∣thrown.
• Wippedfleed, see Tanet.
• Wisard, a witch, a cunning man, one that telleth where things are that were lost, some think it comes from the Saxon word Witega, i. a Prophet.
• Wiseacre, the same, from the Dutch words Waer, i. truth, and Sagen, i. to tell; it is vulgarly taken for a fool.
• Witchcraft, a certain evil Art, where∣by with the assistance of the Devil, or evil Spirits, some wonders may be wrought, which exceed the common ap∣prehension of men. It cometh from the Dutch word Wiechelen, i. to divine, or guesse; it is called in Latin Veneficium, in Greek Pharmaceia, i. the art of making poysons.
• Withernam, (from the Dutch words Wider, i. again, and Namp, i. a taking) is in Common Law, when a distresse is ta∣ken and driven into a hold or out of the County, so that the Sheriff cannot upon the replevin, make delivery thereof to the party distreined.

W O

• Woad, a certain herb wherewith cloth is dyed blew; it is called in Latin, Gua∣dum, Glastum, or Pastellum.
• Woden, a certain Idol worshipt by the ancient Saxons, and thought to be the same with Mars, or the god of Battle; whence the fourth day of the week came to be called Wodensday, or Wednseday.
• Wodensburgh, (q. the Burgh or Town of Woden, the abovenamed Idol) a village in Wiltshire, where in the year 590 Ceaulin King of the West-Saxons, was in a bloody battle vanquisht by the Brittains, and for∣ced to end his dayes in exile.
• Wolds, (Sax.) mountains or hills with∣out woods; whence that part of Leicester∣shire lying Northward beyond the Wreken, is called the Wold or Would of Leicester∣shire, as being hilly without woods.
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• Wolfetchsod, (Sax.) the condition of an Utlary, upon whose head the same price was formerly set, as on a Wolfs head to whomsoever should kill him.
• Woodstock, (Sax. a wooddy place) a Town in Oxfordshire, where King Ethel∣red assembled the States of the Kingdom and enacted Laws; here King Henry the first built a very magnificent Royal Pa∣lace, in which King Henry the second, that he might keep his Paramour Rosamund Clifford concealed, built a Labyrinth with many intricate turnings and windings, which was called Rosamunds Bower; but it is so utterly effaced, that at this day it is not to be discerned where it was. In this Town Geffery Chau••er a most famous En∣glish Poet was brought up.
• Woodward, an officer of the Forrest, whose function is to present any offence of Vert or Venison done within his charge, and if he find any Deer killed or wound∣ed, to give the Verderer notice of it.
• Woolwinders, those that wind up fleeces of wool into a kind of bundle to be packt and sold by weight.
• Worcester, see Wigornia.
• Wormatia, a famous City of Germany, built upon the River Rhene; it is vulgar∣ly called Worms, and hath been sometime an Arch-Bishops See.

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• Wreath, in Heraldry, is that which is be∣tween the Mantle and the Crest, called also a Torce; also a Boares tail so termed among Hunters.
• Wreck, (Fr. Varech, Lat. Veriscum & naufragium) is when a ship perisheth at sea, and no man escapeth alive, in which case whatever goods are cast upon land belong to the King or the Lord of the soile; but if any person come to land, or if either dog or cat escape alive, the goods return to the owner if he claim them with∣in a year and a day.
• Wreedt, (Dutch) angry, fierce, furious; whence the word wroth is commonly used by us for anger or fury.
• Writ, (Lat. Breve because the intention of it is expounded in few words) signi∣fieth in Common Law, the Kings precept whereby any thing is commanded to be done touching the suit of action, as a de∣fendant to be summoned, a distresse to be taken, &c. It is called by the Civilians, Actio or Formula.

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• Wulpher, (Sax.) helper, the proper name of a King of Middle-England, it answers to the Greek names Alex••as or Epicurus.
• Wulfrunes Hampton, (from Wulfrune a devout woman who inriched the Town) a Town in Staffordshire vulgarly called Wolverhampton.

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• XAnthi, a certain people of Asia who were utterly destroyed by Cyrus his Lieutenant Harpagus.
• Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, a wo∣man of a very froward and petulant dispo∣sition, insomuch as Alcibies told Socrates that he wondred how he could indure to live with her, to which he answered, that he kept her to exercise his patience at home, that he might the better bear the petulancy of others abroad.
• Xantippus, a famous Captain among the Lacedaemonians, who assisting the Cartha∣ginians, overcame the Romans in a great battle, and took Regulus the Consul pri∣soner.
• Xantho, one of the Sea-Nimphs, the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
• Xanthus, a River of Troas, called also Scamander.

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• Xenocrates, a famous Chalcedonian Phi∣losopher, who succeeded in the Academy of Speusippus, he was a man of a very strict and severe conversation.
• Xenodochy, (Gr.) an Inne or Hospital, a place for the receiving of Pilgrims Stran∣gers, and Travellers.
• Xenophon, the son of Gryllus a famous Athenian Philosopher and expert Captain, he went with an Army of 10000 men a∣long with Cyrus into Persia, and after Cyrus was slain, brought back his Army with lit∣tle losse through many strange Countries and divers great difficulties and dangers. He was for his Eloquence stiled the Attick Muse, and writ many choice and elegant books.
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• Xeriff, the title of a Prince or Supream Ruler in Barbary.
• Xerophthalmie, (Gr.) a certain disease in the eyes which causeth a rednesse or sorenesse, without any running or swelling.
• Xerxes, a King of Persia, the grandchild of Cyrus and son of Darius and Atossa; he with an Army of 1700000 men, and a Na∣vy so vast that it filled the whole Helle∣spont and joyned the two Continents to∣gether, was vanquisht at Thermopylae by 4000 men, and afterwards in a Sea-fight at Salamis by Themi••tocles, and his General whom he left in Boeotia, was faine to re∣tire with almost all his forces cut off, he was at length slain in his own Palace by Artabanus one of his own Captains.

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• Xilinous, (lat.) belonging to cotton.

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• Xylobalsame, (Gr.) a certain sweet wood, whereof baulm is produced.

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• YArdland, a certain quantity of land called in Saxon Gyrdlander, in Latin Virgata terrae.

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• Ybel, an old Brittish proper name of a man, it seems contracted from the Greek Eubulus, i. Good Counsellour.

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• Year and Day, a certain time in constru∣ction of Common Law thought fit in ma∣ny cases to determine a right in one, and prescription in another, as in case of an Estray, of No claim, of Protection, of a Wreck &c.
• Yeoman▪ (contract, a youngman) the next degree to a Gentleman, and called in Latin Ingenuus; in our Laws he is defined to be a freeborn man, who can dispend of his own free land in yearly revenue to the summe of 40 shillings Sterling.

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• Yonker, (Dutch Junker, i. a Knight or Nobleman) a lusty lad.
• York, see Eboracum.
• Youthwort, a kind of plant called in La∣tin ros solis.

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• Ythel, (Brittish) a proper name, contra∣cted from the Greek Euthalius, i. very flourishing.

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• ZAchary, the proper name of a man, signifying in Heb. Memory of the Lord.
• Zachynthus, an Island of the Ionian Sea, between Cephalenia, and Achaia, now cal∣led Zante.
• Zaleucus, a famous Lawgiver among the Locrians, who having made a Law for the punishing Adultery, and his son hapning to be found guilty of the same crime, he that he might fulfill the Law and miti∣gate his sons punishment, caused one of his sons eyes to be put out, and one of his own.
• Zameis, the fifth King of Assyria, the son of Ninus and Semiramis, otherwise called Ninias.
• Zany, (French) one that in ridiculous manner, imitates other mens actions to stir up laughter.

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• Zebennia, the wife of Odenatus King of the Palmyreni, who behaved himself with much gallantry against Sapores King of Persia; she after the death of her husband injoyed the Kingdom with her sons He∣rennianus and Timolaus.
• Zecchine, (Ital.) a certain Coin of Gold, valuing about 7 shillings 6 pence Sterling.
• Zelot, (Greek) one that is envious or jealous of anothers actions; also one that is hot and fervently zealous in Reli∣gion.
• Zelotypie, (Greek) jealousie.
• Zenith, (Arab.) the vertical point, or that point of Heaven which is directly over our heads, and opposite to the Nadir.
• Zeno, a famous Greek Philosopher, who was the first Authour of the Sect of the Stoicks, he strangled him self in the 72 year of his age, after he had broke his

• finger by hitting it against a stone. There was also another Zeno of Elea a hearer of Parmenides, he having conspired against the Tyrant Nearchus, and being put upon the rack to make him confesse who were the rest of the conspiratours, he bit off a piece of his tongue and spit it in the Ty∣rants face; whereupon the Citizens stoned the Tyrant to death.
• Zenobia, called also Zebennia, a Queen of Palmyrene, and the wife of Odatus, she governed the Roman Provinces in Syria, being reckoned among the 30 Tyrants who usurpt the government of the World in the time of Galenus; she was at length overcome by the Emperour Aurelian, and led in Triumph through the City of Rome with Golden Chains: Yet he in compassion afterwards gave her a posses∣sion in Tybur. She understood the Aegyp∣tian, Greek, and Roman Languages, and brought up her sons Herennianus and Ti∣molaus in learning, of whom it is not known what became, whether they died a natural death or were killed by Aure∣lian.
• Zephyrus, the West-wind so called by the Greeks; by the Latins, Favonius, and begins to blow as Varr•• affirms, about the beginning of February.
• Zereth, an Hebrew measure containing nine inches.
• Zethes, the son of Boreas and Orithy••, and the brother of Calais; these two brothers went with the Argonants to Col∣chos, & because they had wings they were sent to drive away the Harpys from Phi∣neus his Table, whom they pursued to the Strophades Islands.
• Zethus, the son of Jupiter and Antiope the wife of Lycus King of the Thebans, who divorcing Antiope, married Dirce; after which Jupiter falling in love with Antiope, got her with child, which Dirce perceiving, fearing lest she might come again into favour with her Husband, she put her in prison; but the time of her delivery drawing nigh, she was set at li∣berty, and flying to the mountain Cithe∣ron, she brought forth twins in the high∣way, and the children being afterwards found by the Shepherds, were brought up by them, and called the one Zethus, the other Amphion, who coming to age, and hearing of the injuries which Dirce had done to their mother, they tied her to the tail of a wild Bull, whereby she was draged through rough and stony wayes to a miserable death, and changed by Bacchus into a Fountain.
• Zeuxis, a famou•• Painter of Greece, who contended with Timantes, Androcides, E••∣pompus, and Parrhasius, all excellent Pain∣ters of his time; he painted a Boy car∣rying Grapes, the Grapes being done with so much life, that the Birds taking them for true Grapes, flew to them to peck at them, whereat he grew very angry at his own work, saying, That if the Boy had been drawn as well as the Grapes, they would not have peckt at them for fear of the Boy.

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• Zodiack, one of the greater imaginary Circles, being 12 degrees in breadth, and 360 in length, and dividing the Sphere obliquely into two parts, and containeth the 12 Signs, which are called Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, through the whole length of this Circle runneth a line just in the middle which is called the Ecliptick line, or the path-way of the Sun, because in that line the Sun performeth its course. The word Zodiack cometh from the Greek Zodio••, because of the representations of sundry animals which it containeth; in Latin it is called Signifer.
• Zoilus, a Sophist of Amphipolis, who lived in the time of Ptolomaeus King of Ae∣gypt, and writ a book against Homer, (whence he was called Homeroma••tix) which he presented to P••olomy expecting a great reward; but when he saw that he gave him nothing, he being compelled by want, set on some friends to beg some∣thing of him; but Ptolomy answe••ed that since Homer, so many Ages past deceased had fed so many men, he wondred how Zoilus could want so much, being more learned than Homer. Concerning his death some say, that being convicted of Parricide, he was crucified at the com∣mand of Ptolomy. Others that returning into Greece, he was thrown down head∣long from the rock S••yron. From him every envious carping Critick is called a Zoilus.
• Zone, (Greek) a belt or girdle, more particularly it is taken for a gird••e worn anciently by maides about their middle

• when they were near marriage, which the Husband untied the first night of their marriage; also a souldiers belt; also in Cosmography it is used for a certain space or division of the Heavens or Earth, boun∣ded by the lesser circles, whereof there are 5 in all; namely, the Torrid Zone inclu∣ded between the two Tropicks, the two Temperate Zones included between the Tropicks and the Polar Circles, and the two Frigid Zones which are included be∣tween the Polar Circles and the Poles themselves.
• Zoography, (Greek) a discription of beasts, a painting of any kind of animals.
• Zoophytes, (Greek) certain substances which partake of the nature partly of plants, partly of animals, and are also called Plantanimals.
• Zophyrus, a Nobleman of Persia, who when Darius had besieged Babylon a long time in vain, he fled to the Babylonians as a fugitive, cutting off his eares and his lips, complaining of the cruelty of his King; whereupon being received by them, he was made their Captain, and betrayed the City to Darius, who notwithstanding would often say, That he had rather have one Zophyrus whole, than take twenty Babylons.
• Zoroaster, the first King of the Bactrians, who, as Pliny saith, was the first inventour of Magick among the Persians, he is said to have laught the first day he was born, and his brain is said to have beat so strongly, that it repelled any ones hand which was laid on, which was held to be a signe of his future sagacity, he wrote the liberal arts upon seven pillars of brick, and also upon seven of brasse; he wrote also one volume concerning nature, one of precious stones, with several other works; some say, he was consumed with fire from heaven, and that he foretold to the Assyrians, that if they preserved his ashes, their Kingdom should never fail, others say, he was slain in the wars he had with Ninus, King of Assyria.

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• Zulemon, a Captain of those Saracens, inhabiting Asia, who invading Thrace with a numerous Army, part of them be∣sieged Constantinople, part making an ir∣ruption into Bulgaria, were overcome by the Bulgarians.
• Zuventebaldus, a Duke of the Marave∣ni, to whom Arnolphus gave the Duke∣dom of Bohemia, he rebelling against the Emperour, overcame him with the help of the Hungarians.

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• Zygactes, a River of Thrace, near the City Philippi, in the passing of which, Pluto is said to have broke his Chariot, when he ravish't Proserpina.
• Zygostat, (Greek) one appointed to look to weights, a Clark of a market.

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