An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words vsed in our language. With sundry explications, descriptions, and discourses. By I.B. Doctor of Phisicke.

• ABandon. To for∣sake: to cast off,
• Abate. To make lesse: In our common Law it signifieth, to enter into any inheritance, be∣fore the right heire take possession, with intent to keepe the said heire out of it.
• Abatement. The action or enterprise of him which abateth in the common Lawe.
• Abba. An Hebrewe word signifying Father.
• Abbett. To helpe or assist one in euill.
• Abbettour. Hee that counselleth or comforteth another to doe any euill.
• Abbot A spirituall Lord ouer a religious house of Monkes.
• Abbreuiate. To make short: to abridge.
• Abbreuiation. A making short, an abridgement.
• Abdicate. To refuse or forsake, to renounce.
• Abeston. A stone found in Arabia, of the colour of iron, which being once set on fire, can hardly bee quenched.
• Abiect. Vile, base, of no estimation.
• Abiure. To sweare or forsweare: a terme some∣time vsed in Lawe, when one hauing committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church, or Churchyard, and chooseth rather per∣petuall banishment: viz. to abiure the Realme, then stand to tryall of Lawe. This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confes∣sour in fauour of life, but now is not in vse.
• Abiuration. A renoun∣cing by oath: see Abiure.
• Ablepsie. Want of sight, blindnesse, vnaduisednesse.
• Ablution. A washing.
• Abolition. A taking a∣way, destroying or aboli∣shing.
• Abortion. The birth of a

• child before due time; or the destroying in the mo∣thers wombe.
• Abortiue. That which is vntimely borne.
• Abrahams Baume. A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy, and o∣ther hot countreyes, bea∣ring round fruit like Pep∣per cornes. It is very hot and drie; and hath a sin∣gular propertie to procure chastitie, for which cause Phisitians haue named it Agnus castus.
• Abridge. To shorten, to cut off, to gather onely the principall points.
• Abrogate. To abolish: to disanull, by publike au∣thoritie to alter and make a Law, which was in force, to be of no effect.
• Abrupt. Broken off.
• Abruptly. By peece∣meale: out of order, with∣out obseruing of due cir∣cumstance.
• Absolue. To pardon, ac∣quite, or discharge.
• Absolute. Perfect: ac∣complished.
• Absolution. Pardon, ac∣quitall, forgiuenesse.
• Abstinence. A forbea∣ring from gluttony, or vn∣lawfull taking other mens goods.
• Abstinent. Sober, tem∣perate, content with his owne.
• Abstract. A little booke, or gathering taken out of a greater.
• Abstraction. A taking a∣way: or a short draught taken out of a greater thing.
• Abstruse. Hidden: se∣cret, not easie to vnder∣stand.
• Absurde. Foolish, with∣out any wit or grace.
• Absurditie. Foolishnesse.
• Abusiue. That which of∣fereth abuse.
• Abisse. A bottomelesse pit, any deepnesse so great that it cannot be sounded.
• Acatia. A little thorne growing in Egypt, out of the leaues and fruit wher∣of they draw a iuyce or blacke liquour, which be∣ing dryed, is called Acatia, and is very astrictiue or binding. Our Apotheca∣ries haue not the right A∣catia, but insteed thereof,

• they vse the iuice of Sloes, being of the same vertue that Acatia is.
• Academie. A Vniuersitie or great publike schoole: the name hereof first came of a place in Athens, cal∣led Academia, where Plato taught.
• Academicall. Belonging to an Vniuersitie, or Aca∣demie.
• Academicke. A Philoso∣pher of the sect of Plato. They acknowledged one God, and beleeued the immortality of soules; Pla∣to hauing learned many things of the Hebrewes, then the peculiar people of God.
• Accelerate. To hasten.
• Acceleration. A haste∣ning.
• Accesse. Liberty or pow∣er to come to a place.
• Accessible. Which may be gone too
• Accessory. He that coun∣selleth or commandeth another to commit any offence: or comforteth, or hideth him, knowing that he hath committed an of∣fence.
• Accident. That which happeneth by chaunce: sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing, and yet is no part of the substance, as the quan∣tine, qualitie and such like.
• Accidentall. Happening by chance: or belonging to an Accident.
• Acclamation. A crying out to one.
• Accomodate. To make fit: to apply.
• Accoutrement. Attire, or dressing.
• Accoste. To draw neere to one.
• Accrew. To grow, arise, or increase.
• Accumulate. To heape vp.
• Accumulation. A heaping together.
• Acerbity. Sowrenesse.
• Acheeue. To performe▪ or bring to passe.
• Acolite. A Minister ser∣uing to bring water, wine and light to the altar.
• Aconitum. A venemous herbe, hauing a root much like to a Scorpion, and shi∣ning within like alabaster. Poets faine that Cerberus

• the three headed dogge of hell, being dregged vp in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules, did cast some of his fome vpon this herbe, whereby it became so ve∣nemous.
• Acquire. To get, or pro∣cure.
• Acquisition. A getting or purchasing.
• Acquite. To discharge, or free one.
• Acquitall. A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith hee was charged.
• Action. A deed done: or the doing of any thing. In our common Lawe it signifieth a suite commen∣ced against any man, and is commonly diuided into three differing kindes. viz.
  • 1. Action personall. which is for debt, goods, cattell.
  • 2. Action popular: which any man may sue, as vpon the breach of a penall sta∣tute, where some aduan∣tage is allowed to him that will sue for it.
  • 3. Action reall: when one claimeth title to any lands tenements, rents, or com∣mon, in fee simple; fee taile, or for terme of life.
• Actiue. Liuely, strong, nimble.
• Actiuitie. Strong nim∣blenesse.
• Actor. A doer, some∣time a Player.
• Actuall. That which is done or committed.
• Acute. Sharpe, wittie.
• Adage. A prouerbe.
• Adamant. A precious stone commonly called a Diamond, brought out of Arabia and Cyprus. It is the hardest of all stones, in∣somuch that it cutteth glasse, and yieldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire, for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas, which in their tongue sig∣nifieth Inuincible: Not∣withstanding it is softened with goats blood, being steeped therein new and warme. It is of contrary nature to the loadstone, in so much that being laide neere it, the loadstone can∣not draw yron, hauing the vertue thereof ouermaste∣red

• by the Adamant.
• Addict. To apply, or giue ones selfe much to a∣ny thing.
• Additament. Any thing added.
• Addition. An adding or putting to. In our commō law it signifieth any title giuen to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate, trade, course of life, and also dwelling place.
• Adhere. To cleaue to.
• Adherence. A cleauing to, or belonging to any thing.
• Adherent. That which cleaueth or ioyneth close to a thing.
• Adiacent. That which lyeth neere to another thing.
• Adiourne. To deferre or put off till another time.
• Adiournement. A terme in law when any Court is dissolued, and appointed to be kept vpon some o∣ther time, or at any other place.
• Adiunct. A qualitie ioyned to a thing, as heate to fire, coldenesse to Snow.
• Adiure. To binde by oath: to make one to sweare.
• Adiuration. A swearing, or binding by oath.
• Administer. To do ser∣uice: sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods, by ap∣pointment of the Ordina∣rie.
• Administration. The do∣ing or handling of a busi∣nesse; or the disposing of a dead mans goods, that made no will.
• Administrator. Hee to whom the Ordinary com∣mitteth in charge the goodes of a man dying without will.
• Admire. To wonder, to honour or esteeme highly.
• Admiration. A wonde∣ring.
• Admission. A recei∣uing or giuing one leaue to enter.
• Admit. To let in, to al∣low of.
• Admixtion. A mingling of things together.
• Admonish. To warne▪

• Admonishment. A war∣ning giuen one.
• Adopt. To choose one to be his sonne.
• Adoption. The choosing and making one to bee as his sonne to him.
• Adore. To worship, to giue diuine reuerence.
• Adoration. A worship∣ping.
• Adorne. To decke, to set out, to beautifie.
• Adornation. A decking, or trimming.
• Aduent. A comming: Certaine weekes before Christmas are so called, because then is made in the Church solemne pre∣paration for the comming of our Sauiour.
• Aduentaile. A coate of Armour.
• Aduerse. contrary.
• Aduert, To marke.
• Aduertise. To giue knowledge of a thing.
• Adulation. Flatterie.
• Adulatory. Which flat∣tereth.
• Adulterate. To cor∣rupt or counterfeit.
• Aduocate. He that plea∣deth for another.
• Aduouson. The right which a man & his heires haue to present a Clerke to the Ordinary, to be ad∣mitted to a spirituall be∣nefice when it becommeth voide.
• Adust. Burnt, scorched.
• Adustion. A burning.
• Aedile. An officer a∣mong the ancient Ro∣manes, who had charge to see that Temples, pri∣uate houses and highwaies, were kept in good repara∣tion.
• Aegipan. A Poeticall word, signifying a monster hauing the body of a man and legs like a Goat.
• Aerie. A nest of Haukes is so called.
• Aeriall. Ayrie, or of the aire.
• Affability. Courtesie in speech: gentlenesse, kind∣nesse.
• Affable. Courteous or kinde in speech.
• Affect. To loue: some∣time to moue affection.
• Affectation. Too much curiosity: an extreme la∣bouring without discreti∣on to imitate another, or

• doe any thing well.
• Affiance. Trust: confi∣dence.
• Affianced. Betrothed.
• Affinitie. Kindred by marriage: sometime like∣nesse or agreement
• Affirmatiue. Which affir∣meth.
• Affluence. Plenty: a∣boundance.
• Affront. To come bold∣ly before one: to looke boldly in ones face.
• Africa. One of three parts of the world, lying toward the South; herein is Barbary and all Ethiope contained. The people of these countries liued in times past very vnciuilly, feeding much vpon ser∣pents flesh: It is called A∣frica of the Greeke worke Phrice, which signifieth Colde: and the particle A. which in that language, being placed before a word, changeth the sense thereof: so that Africa signifieth a country hotte or without cold.
• Agarick: A kind of mush∣rome or tadstoole of great account in Physicke. It groweth vpon the Larch tree in Italy, and is white, light, brittle, and sponge∣ous. It expelleth cold fleame and grosse raw hu∣mours out of the body, o∣pening obstructions of the Liuer, and by this meanes amendeth an euill colour.
• Agast. Amazed with feare: dismaide.
• Agent. A dooer or med∣ler in a matter.
• Aggrauate. To make a∣ny thing in words more grieuous, heauier or worse then it is.
• Agilitie. Nimblenesse.
• Agitation. A shaking, iog∣ging or mouing.
• Agnition. Knowledge: acknowledgement.
• Agnize. To acknowledge
• Agnus castus. See Abra∣hams baume before.
• Agony. A torment of bo∣dy and mind: great feare and trembling.
• Agriculture. Tillage of land: husbandry.
• Alabaster. A kinde of marble white and very cleare, which by reason of the naturall coldnes ther∣of doth preserue things

• long from corruption; and therefore they vsed to make boxes of it to keepe sweete ointments, and toombes to bury Princes and great Personages in.
• Alacritie. Cheereful∣nesse: courage, quicke∣nesse.
• Alchymie. The art of melting or dissoluing the nature of mettals, by sepa∣rating the pure from the impure parts thereof.
• Alchymist. Hee that is skilfull in Alchymie.
• Alcion. A small bird that maketh her nest in the sea, and then it is a signe of faire weather: some call it a kings fisher.
• Alcoran. A booke wher∣in Mahomets law and reli∣gion is written.
• * Alderan. A starre in the necke of the signe Leo.
• Algate. Notwithstan∣ding: if so be, seeing that.
• Alien. A stranger borne, an outlandish man.
• Alienate. To estrange and withdraw the minde, sometime to sell.
• Alienation. An estran∣ging, a selling away.
• Aliment. Nourishment.
• Alkakengi. Otherwise called winter cherries: An herb which beareth round berries and red, that are good against the stoppings of the Liuer, the stone and grauell, and diuers diseases of the kidneyes and blad∣der.
• Allay. To qualifie or a∣bate the strength or vio∣lence of any thing. It is also a terme of hunting, when they set hounds in a readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe, and cast them off when the rest of the Kennell comes in.
• Allegation. A telling of some proofe or reason of a matter.
• Allegiance. Obedience of a subject to his Prince.
• Allegorie. A sentence consisting of diuers tropes which must be vnderstood otherwise then the litterall interpretation sheweth; as when Saint Iohn Baptist speaking of our Sauiour, Matth. 3 said: Whose fanne is in his hand, and he shall

• make cleane his floore, and ga∣ther the wheat into his barne but the chaffe he shall burne with vnquenchable fire: The meaning whereof is, that Christ being su∣preme Iudge of all, shall separate the good from the euill, rewarding the one in heauen, and puni∣shing the other in hell fire.
• Allegoricall. Of, or be∣longing to an allegorie: spoken by an allegorie.
• Alleluia. An Hebrew word or rather two Hebrewe words ioyned in one, vsed as a signe of exultation, and is interpreted, Prayse ye our Lord. Paulus Diaco∣nus writeth, that when the Britaines were inuaded by the Saxons and Picts, and on a time ready to fight a battell against them, they were admonished by Ger∣manus a French Bishop, (who was sent hither with Saint Lupus to confute the Pelagian heresie) that they should doe as he did; and forthwith he cryed aloude Alleluia: which when the whole armie of Britaines had done, the sound there∣of strooke such a terrour into the enemies, that they presently fledde a∣way, whereby the Bri∣taines had the victory. De gestis Rom. lib. 15.
• Allie. Of kinne to one by marriage.
• Alliance. Kindred and affinitie, league or friend∣ship.
• Allot. To appoint, or giue by lotte.
• Allude. To speake any thing which hath resem∣blance, or priuilie is di∣rected to touch another matter.
• Allusion. A likening or priuy resembling of one matter to another. See Allude.
• * Alnath. A starre in the hornes of the signe A∣ries.
• Aloes, or Lignum Aloes. A precious wood vsed in Phisicke, which comfor∣teth the heart, and openeth obstructions. It is knotty, browne of colour, and bit∣ter in taste. Being burned it fometh, and yieldeth a sweete perfume. Some af∣firme it to grow vppon

• mountaines in the East, neere the rising of the fa∣mous Riuer Nilus, from which mountaines falling downe, it is carried by the streame into India, where being taken vp in nets, it is cleansed, and made apt for physicke.
• Aloesuccotrina. The iuyce of an herbe brought hither dry out of India; the best whereof is cleere, cleane and red, like to the colour of a lyuer. It is very bitter, but an excellent medicine to purge cholericke hu∣mours out of the stomack; yet not good to bee taken inwardly of such as are troubled with the Hemor∣rhoides.
• Alpha. The first letter of the Greekes: wherefore it is sometime taken for the first or cheef in any thing.
• Alphabet. The crosserow of letters, the A, B, C.
• Alphabeticall. Belonging to the Alphabet.
• Alps. High mountaines between France and Lom∣bardie: the rockes where∣of Hannibal (the great Captaine of the Carthagi∣nians) softened in diuers places with fire and vine∣ger, to cut out a way for his army to passe into Italy.
• Altercation. An angrie reasoning or wrangling in words.
• Alternall. Done by turne or course, one after ano∣ther.
• Altitude. Highth.
• Amate. To dismay: to make afraid.
• Amazon. A woman of the Country Amazonica. Amazones were warlike women of Scythia, which kept a Countrey to them∣selues without men, yet to haue children companied with the bordering people. Their Sonnes they eyther destroyed or sent home to the father, but their daugh∣ters they kept, bringing them vp in hunting, ry∣ding, shooting and feates of armes. They burned the right breast of their children, lest it should hin∣der their archerie, where∣fore they had the name Amazons, which (in Greeke) signifieth women wanting a breast.

• Ambage. A long circum∣stance of words.
• Amber. A kinde of hard yellow gumme, wherewith they make beades. Mesue saith, the tree whereon it groweth is called Ibex Ro∣mana; but what this tree is, I cannot yet learne. Dio∣scorides saith, that it falleth in manner of a liquor from Poplar trees into the riuer Po in Italy, where it con∣gealeth and becommeth hard, in that forme as wee see it.
• Ambergrise.Mesue saith it is the spawne of the Whale fish: Auicen affir∣meth it to grow in the sea. Others write onely, that it is cast vp on the shore, and found cleauing to stones there: the fume thereof is good against the falling sicknesse, and com∣fortable to the braine.
• Ambia. A clammy li∣quor of the colour of ho∣ny, brought out of India. It is said to haue great ver∣tue in healing old aches or griefes, proceeding from cold diseases.
• Ambidexter. He that can vse both hands alike: a crafty follow, that can play on both parts.
• Ambiguitie. Doubtful∣nesse.
• Ambiguous. Doubtfull: vncertaine.
• Ambition. Vnlawfull, or immoderate desire of so∣ueraignty.
• Ambrosie. A sweet shrub or little tree, wherewith some people were wont to make Garlands. In poetry it vsually signifieth the meat of the heathen gods. It is sometime taken for immortalitie.
• Ambulatorie. A place to walke in.
• Ambuscado. A company of Souldiours, hid in some wood or other couert, to entrap their enemies vn∣wares.
• Amenitie. Pleasantnesse, delectablenesse.
• Amerce. To punish one by enioyning him to pay a certaine small summe of money, at the discretion of him that lawfully com∣mandeth it.
• Amercement. A punish∣ment by the purse: See A∣merce.

• Amethist. A precious stone of a purple colour, fit to graue any thing in, be∣cause it is not ouerhard. It withstandeth drunkennes, as the name in Greeke sig∣nifieth.
• Amiable. Louely.
• Amitie. Friendshippe, loue.
• Ammoniacke. A kinde of gum almost like to Fran∣kincense, so called because it groweth in Lybia, neere the place where the Tem∣ple of Ammon was. There is also a kind of salt so cal∣led, which is found in A∣frica vnder sand, and is like vnto allume.
• Amorous Louing, or gi∣uen to loue.
• Amphibolie. A speech ha∣uing a doubtfull sence, or which may bee taken di∣uers manner of waies.
• Amphibologie. The same that Amphibolie is.
• Amphiscians. Such peo∣ple as dwell vnder the bur∣ning Zone, neere the E∣quinoctiall line, so called because their shadowes at noone are sometimes to∣wards the North, some∣times toward the South.
• Amphitheater. A place hauing seates and scaffolds in it, vsed among the olde Romanes to shew specta∣cles and strange sights in. Offenders condemned to dye, and Prisoners taken in warre, were often brought to this place to fight and be deuoured by wilde beastes, the people sitting in safe places a∣boue, & inhumanely spor∣ting themselues thereat: Also the Gladiators or Sword-players did fight here.
• Ample. Large, great.
• Amplifie. To enlarge.
• Amplification. An enlar∣ging.
• Amplitude. Largenesse, greatnesse.
• Amulet. Any thing han∣ged about the neck, to pre∣serue one from inchant∣ment.
• Anagramme. An inuen∣tion that by altering the places of the letters of ones name, changeth the word, and turneth it to some other sence, as if for Iohn, one would write, Ho∣ni:

• there beeing iust the same letters in them both.
• Analogie. Proportion, a∣greement, or likenesse of one thing to another.
• Analysis. A resolution or explicating of an intricate matter.
• Anarchie. Lacke of go∣uernment: all the time when the people is with∣out a Prince or Gouer∣nour.
• Anathema. Any thing hanged vp in a Church, as an offering to God: some∣time it signifieth excom∣munication; or a man ex∣communicated and deli∣uered to the power of the diuell.
• Anathematize. To hang vp a thing as consecrated to God: somtime to curse, sweare, or betake to the di∣uell.
• Anatomie An incision or cutting. The art of know∣ing the situation, office, and nature of all the parts of mans body.
• Anatomize. To cut and search euery part.
• Anchouie. A Spanish fish lesse then our Sprat, pre∣serued in pickle, and vsed by Gallants to draw down drinke.
• Anchoresse. A religious woman that liueth solitarie in some close place by her selfe.
• Anchorite. A religious man liuing solitary alone in some close place.
• Angelicall. Like an An∣gell.
• Angle. A corner.
• Anguish. Griefe of mind: vexation.
• Angust. Streight, nar∣row.
• Animaduersion. A mar∣king.
• Animate. To encourage: to harten on.
• Anime. A white gumme or rosin brought out of the West Indies: It is verie pleasant in smel, and being cast into the fire consu∣meth very quickly.
• Animositie. Courage.
• Annalls. Chronicles of things done from yeare to yeare.
• Annats. First fruits paid of a spirituall liuing.
• Annex. To knit or ioin to.
• Annihilate. To make

• voide, or bring to nothing.
• Anniuersarie. A solem∣nitie kept euery yeare at a set time.
• Annotation. A note, mark, or exposition made vpon any writing.
• Annuall. Yearely.
• Annuitie. A yearely pay∣ment of money to one, not in way of rent, but vpon some other occasion.
• Annull. To make voide.
• Annunciate. To tell or declare.
• Antagonist. An enemie: an aduersarie.
• Antartike Pole. The south pole of the world.
• Antecedent. That which goeth before.
• Antheme. See Antiphone.
• Antichrist. An aduersary to Christ: It is compoun∣ded of the Greeke prepo∣sition Anti, and Christus, which signifieth contrary or against Christ.
• Anticipate. To preuent: to take before another.
• Anticipation. A preuen∣ting; or taking before.
• Antidate. The dating of a letter or other writing on some day already past.
• Antidote. A medicine a∣gainst poyson, or which serueth to amend any di∣stemperature of the body.
• Antike worke. A worke in painting or caruing, of di∣uers shapes of beasts, birds, flowers, &c. vnperfectlie mixt and made one out of another.
• Antimonie. A white stone found in siluer mines.
• Antipathie. A countrariety or great disagreement of qualities.
• Antiperistasis. A terme v∣sed in Philosophy, when heat being kept in by cold, waxeth the stronger in it selfe, or cold kept in by heate, groweth more ve∣hement.
• Antiphone. Any verse or litle sentēce, which church∣men do by course sing one after another.
• Antipodes. People vnder vs that goe with their feete toward ours.
• Antique. Old, auncient.
• Antiquaric. One studious in matters of antiquity, or well acquainted in old Hi∣stories.
• Antiquate. To make old,

• or of no account.
• Antithesis. A contrarietie of things placed against o∣ther; as the spokes be in a wheele.
• Antlier. The lower branch of a Harts horne.
• Anxietie. Carefulnesse, sadnesse.
• Anxious. Carefull: sad.
• Aphorisme A short sen∣tence, briefely expressing the properties of a thing: or which serueth as a max∣ime or principle to guide a man to any knowledge, specially in Philosophy and Phisicke.
• Apocalypse A diuine book written by Saint Iohn E∣uangelist, while he was ba∣nished in the Ile Pathmos: so called because it contei∣neth many profound my∣steries there reuealed vnto him. In English it signifi∣eth a Reuelation.
• Apocrypha. That which is hidden and not knowne. Doubtfull.
• Apocynon. A little bone in the left side of a Frog, of great vertue as some thinke.
• Apogeon. A terme in A∣stronomy, signifying the farthest distance of a Pla∣net from the earth.
• Apologie. A defence: a speech or written answere made in iustification of a∣ny person.
• Apologicall. That which is spoken an defence.
• Apophthegme. A short quick sentence worthy the noting.
• Apoplexie. A very dange∣rous disease, wherin a man lyeth without sense or mo∣tion, as if hee were dead, with his eyes close, and great difficulty in fetching his breath. It commeth for the most part of colde and grosse flegmaticke hu∣mors, oppressing the brain in such sort that the ani∣mall spirits, cannot passe from thence into the sin∣newes, as they were wont.
• Apostasie. A reuolting or falling away from true religion.
• Apostata. He that reuol∣teth or falleth from true religion: Iulianus one of the olde Emperours was most infamous for this crime.

• Apostaticall. Of or be∣longing to an Apostata.
• Apostle. One sent in mes∣sage: an Embassadour.
• Apostolicall. Of or be∣longing to an Apostle.
• Apozeme. A drinke made with water and diuers spi∣ces and herbs, vsed insteed of sirupes.
• Appall. To make afraid:
• Apparant. Cleare, mani∣fest, certaine.
• Appariter. A sumner▪ he that attacheth or summo∣neth one to appeare at a Court.
• Apparition. An appea∣ring: or vision.
• Appeach. To accuse: dis∣close, or bewray.
• Appeale. A terme in law, when a malefactour accu∣seth or discloseth those that were his confederates in the same offence or any other. Also when the de∣fendant refuseth a Iudge, and desireth to haue his cause tryed by a superiour power, he is said then to appeale: as Saint Paul ap∣pealed from Feslus to Caesar the Emperour.
• Appellant. He which ap∣pealeth.
• Appellation. A naming or calling.
• Appendix. That which dependeth or hangeth vp∣on another thing.
• Appertenances. That which appertaineth or belongeth to an other thing.
• Applaude. To shew loue or liking to a thing, by clapping the hands, or o∣ther signe of reioycing.
• Applause. A reioycing or clapping the hands for ioy.
• Application. An applying of one thing to another.
• Apposition. A putting of one thing to another.
• Approbate. To like, to al∣lowe.
• Approbation. An allow∣ance, or liking.
• Appropriate. To chal∣lenge to ones selfe: to keepe to himselfe alone.
• Appropriation. A terme v∣sed when any body corpo∣rate, or priuate man, hath the right vnto a parsonage in themselues, and may receiue the profite thereof, by maintaining a Vicar to serue in the place.
• Arbiter. A iudge in a

• controuersie, chosen indif∣ferent for both parties.
• Arbiterment. An agree∣ment made betweene par∣ties, by an indifferent man to them both.
• Arbitrary. Belonging to arbiterment.
• Arbitrate. To iudge, to make an agreement
• Arbitratour. See Arbiter.
• * Arblaster. A Crosse-bow.
• Architect. A chiefe work∣man.
• Architecture. The art or Science of building and comely cōtriuing a house. It is written that this Sci∣ence did beginne in Caine, because hee was the first that euer built a city, which hee called by his sonnes name Enoch, as appeareth, Gen. 4.
• Ardent. Burning hot: vehement.
• Ardour. Heat: earnestnes.
• Argent. Siluer or siluer colour: sometime white.
• Argonautes. The Wor∣thies that went into Col∣chos to fetch the golden Fleece; so called of the shippe Argo in which they sailed. The chiefe of them were Iason, Typhis, Castor, Pollux, Hercules and The∣scus.
• Ariditie. Drinesse.
• Ariopagite. A Lawyer or chiefe Iudge in Capitall matters in the Citie of A∣thens: so called of a cer∣taine street in that citie de∣dicated to Mars, in which those Iudges were wont to sit. They were so seuere in their iudgements, that they satte to heare and de∣termine matters in the night time, to the end they would not behold the par∣ties which were to be iud∣ged, but onely heare what could be obiected and an∣swered. Saint Dionisius conuerted to the Christi∣an faith by Saint Paul, was one of those iudges.
• Aristocratie. A kinde of gouernment, where the noble men, or cheefe per∣sons beare all the sway.
• Aristocraticall. Of or belonging to Aristocra∣tie.
• Arithmetike. The art of numbring: It is written that Abraham first taught

• this art to the Egyptians, and that afterward Pytha∣goras did much increase it.
• Arke. In holy scripture it signifieth two things: 1. The Arke made by Noe at the commandement of God, which was 300. cu∣bits long: 50. cubits broad, and 30. high: Gen. 6. Se∣condly it signifieth a most precious and consecrated cofer or chest, called the Arke of testament, made of the wood Sethim, and pla∣ted within and without all ouer with gold: It had fowre corners, and in each corner a golden ring, tho∣rough which were putte barres of the same wood Sethim, couered likewise with gold, which serued for the carriage thereof. This Arke was two cubits and a halfe long, one cubit and a halfe broad, and one cubit & a half deepe. Exod. 25. In it was kept part of the Manna in a pot of gold, also the two Tables of the Law, and Aarons rod that had budded: Heb. 9.
• Armadilio. A beast in India of the bignesse of a young pigge, couered ouer with small shels like vnto armour; for which cause he is called Armadilio, to wit, an armed beast. This beast liueth in the ground like a mole, and the bone of his taile hath vertue to cure diseases and noise in the head.
• Armipotent. Mightie, strong.
• Aromaticall. Sweete of sauour: smelling like spice.
• Arrerages. Mony or rent behind, not yet paid.
• Arrian. An heretike of the sect of Arrius bishop of Alexandria, who deuised a blasphemous doctrine a∣gainst the diuinitie of our Sauiour.
• Arride. To please well, to content with delight.
• Arrogancie. Pride, loftines
• Arrogant. Proud, boa∣sting.
• Arrogate. To chalenge, proudly more honour or praise than is due.
• Arterie. A veine with two coates, or a hollow si∣new in which the spirits of life doe passe through the body. These kind of veines

• proceed all from the heart, where the vitall spirits are made, and are those which pant or beate, called com∣monly the pulses.
• Articulate. To set downe articles or conditions of a∣greement.
• Artificiall. Cunning, wel contriued, skilfull.
• Articke pole. The North pole of the world.
• Artillerie. Great ordnance for the wars.
• Artisan. A handy crafts man.
• Artist. He that is skilfull many art.
• Asa foetidae. A dried gum or liquor, brought out of Media and Syria, of a strong lothsome sauour; and is sometime applyed outwardly to the body.
• Ascance. Sidewaies, or looking on one side.
• Ascribe. To impute, ap∣ply, or account.
• Asia. One of the three parts of the world boun∣ding toward the East, in which is Pontus, Bithynia, Phrygia, Paphlagonia, Cappadocia, Armenia, Cyprus, Syria, Palestine, or the holy land, Arabia, Mesopotamia, (so called because it is in the midst betweene the two great ri∣uers, Tigris and Euphra∣tes) Assyria, Media, Per∣sia, and diuers other coun∣tries.
• Aspe. A venemous Ser∣pent of a blacke earthie colour and sometime yel∣low. The superstitious E∣gyptians did honour them, and their Kings vsed to weare the figure of an Aspe in their Diadems. They go alwaies two and two toge∣ther, and if it happen that one of them be killed, the other will presently pursue him that slue his fellow, in such sort that he shal hard∣ly escape, vnlesse he make great hast or passe ouer a riuer. If one be bitten by this Serpent, the best re∣medy is presently to cut off the member so bitten, if it be possible; otherwise he shall fall into a deadly sleep, & within few houres goe away, as it were in a trance. Cleopatra Queene of Egypt, after the death of Marcus Antonius (whom

• she loued as her Husband) flue her selfe wilfully, by applying one of these aspes to her body; because shee would not bee carryed in triumph to Rome, by Au∣gustus Caesar; who had van∣quished her and Antonie.
• Aspect. Sight or the be∣holding of any thing. In Astronomy it signifieth the distance betweene the planets & heauenly signes: And there are foure such Aspects. The first called a Trine aspect (because it diuideth the heauens into three euen partes) is the distance of foure signes from each other; as Aries beholdeth Leo and Sagit∣tarius with a Trine aspect, because these are distant foure signes, the one be∣fore, the other after Aries. The second called a Quar∣till, is the distance of three signes, as Aries beholdeth Cancer and Capricorne, with a Quartill aspect, because they are distant three signes from him. The third called a Sextill as∣pect, is the distance of two signes, as Aries beholdeth Gemini and Aquarius with this Sextill aspect, beeing but two signes distant from them. The fourth called an Opposite aspect, is the farthest distance that can be, namely a distance of sixe signes asunder; as Aries beholdeth Librae with this opposite aspect, and Libra beholdeth Aries with the same. The like is of all the other signes, or Planets placed in them. For example; Taurus be∣holdeth Cancer and Pisces with a Sextill, Leo and A∣quarius with a Quartill, Virgo and Capricorne with a Trine, and Scorpio with an opposite aspect. The di∣stance of one or fiue signes is not called an Aspect.
• Asperitie. Sharpnesse.
• Aspersion. A sprinkling.
• Aspire. To hope to come to a thing: to seek aduance∣ment.
• Aspiration. A breathing, or pronouncing the letter H. before a vowell.
• Assasinate. A robbing, spoiling, or murthering in the high way.
• Assecure. To make one

• sure or certain, to giue one assurance.
• Assentation Flatterie.
• Assertion. An affirming or auouching of any thing.
• Assets. A terme in the Commmon Law, when wee would signifie that a man hath goods enough come to his hands, to dis∣charge a dead mans debts or legacies giuen by him.
• Asseueration. An earnest affirming.
• Assiduitie. Continuance, or continuall attendance.
• Assigne. To appoint: al∣so one that is appointed in anothers behalfe.
• Assignation. An appoint∣ment.
• Assignement. An appoin∣ting or passing of a thing ouer to another.
• Assistant. A helper.
• Associate. To accompa∣nie.
• Association. A ioyning together in fellowship.
• Assoile. To acquite, cleere, or pardon.
• Assume. To take to him∣selfe.
• Assumpsit. When one for some consideration giuen him, vndertaketh any thing.
• Assumption. A lifting or taking vp.
• Astipulation. An affir∣ming; an agreement.
• Astriction. A binding.
• Astrictiue. Which hath power to binde.
• Astringent. The same that Astrictiue is.
• Astrolabe. An instru∣ment of Astronomie to gather the motion of the Starres by.
• Astrologie. See Diuina∣tion.
• Astrologer. One skilfull in Astrologie.
• Astronomie. An art that teacheth the knowledge of the course of the planets & Stars. This art seemeth to be very auncient, for Iose∣phus: lib. prim. Antiq. wri∣teth, that the Sons of Seth, Nephewes to Adam (for Seth was Adams sonne) did first find it out: who hea∣ring their Grandfather A∣dam foretel of the vniuersal flood which should shortly drown the world, they ther∣upon erected two great pil∣lars, engrauing in them the

• principles of Astronomie; which pillars were the one of bricke, the other of stone; because if the water should haply wash away the bricke, yet the stone might preserue the knowledge hereof for posterity.
• Astronomicall. Belonging to Astronomy.
• Atcheuement. A terme of Heraldry, signifying the armes of any Gentleman set out fully with al that be∣longeth to it. Also the per∣formance of any great matter.
• Atheisme. The damnable opinion of the Atheist.
• Atheist. He that wickedly beleeueth there is no God, or no rule of Religion.
• Atomie. A mote flying in the sunne. Any thing so small, that it cannot bee made lesse.
• Atrocitie. Cruelty: out∣ragiousnesse.
• Attache. To take: to lay hands on.
• Attainder. A conuiction or prouing one guilty of a capitall offence.
• Attaynt. Conuicted or prooued guilty of some great crime.
• Attentiue. Diligentlie harkening.
• Attestation. A witnessing.
• Attired. A terme vsed a∣mong Heralds, when they haue occasion to speake of the hornes of a Bucke or Stag.
• Attract. To draw or pull to.
• Attraction. A drawing or pulling too.
• Attractiue. Drawing or which hath vertue to draw.
• Attrectation. A handling or feeling.
• Attribute. To giue to, or impute. It signifieth some∣time a fit title or terme ap∣plyed to any thing.
• Attrition. Sorrow, repen∣tance.
• Atturnie. He that by mu∣tual consent taketh charge of any other mans busi∣nesse.
• Attumment. The paying of any small peece of mo∣ny by a Tenant, in token that he acknowledgeth the party to whom hee payeth it, to bee now his Land∣lord.
• Auarice. Couetousnesse.

• Aucupation. Hunting af∣ter a thing.
• Audacious. Bold, hardy.
• Audacitie. Boldnesse.
• Audible. That which is so spoken that it may bee heard.
• Auditor. An Officer of accounts: It is often taken for a hearer.
• Audience. A hearing or hearkening: sometime it signifieth an assembly of people harkening to some thing spoken.
• Auerre. To iustifie, a∣uouch or maintain a thing
• Auerment. A terme in Law when one offereth to prooue that his plea is good.
• Auersion. A turning a∣way, a disliking.
• Auert. To turne away.
• Augment. To increase.
• Augmentation. An increa∣sing.
• Augur. See Diuinati∣on.
• Auiditie. Greedinesse.
• Auowable. That which one may iustifie and main∣taine.
• Auow. To iustifie or maintaine.
• Auowrie. A Law terme, when a Bayliffe or other Officer, auoweth or iusti∣fieth the lawfull taking of a distresse from any man.
• Auricular. Spoken in ones eare.
• Auripigmentum. See Orp∣ment.
• Aurora. The morning.
• Auspicious. Lucky: for∣tunate.
• Austere. Sharpe, seuere, cruell.
• Austeritie. Sharpnesse, hard vsage.
• Authenticall. That which is vndeniable, and appro∣ued of all men.
• Authentike. The same as Authentica.
• Autumne. Haruest time: one of the foure quarters of the yeare; the other three are winter, spring∣tide, and sommer.
• Autumnal. Of, or be∣longing to Autumne.
• Axiome. A proposition or short sentence generally allowed to be true; as in saying, the whole is greater than a part. It signifieth also in Logicke, any per∣fect sentence, that affir∣meth

• or denyeth a thing, as in saying, Caesar is mer∣cifull, or Caesar is not mer∣cifull.
• * Aye. For euer
• Azymes. A solemnity of seuen dayes among the Iewes, in which it was not lawfull to eate leauened bread: the Pasche or Ester of the Iewes.
• Azure. A fine blew co∣lour.