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.

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• VAcant. Voyde, empty; without buisines
• Vacation. A ceasing from labour.
• Vacuitie. Emptines.
• Vacuum. Emptines.
• Vaile bonet. To putte off the hatt, to strike saile, to giue signe of submission.
• Valentinians. Certaine he∣retikes so called by the name of their first maister Valentinianus; who held o∣pinion that our Sauiour receiued not his flesh of the blessed virgin Mary.
• Validitie. Force, or strength.
• Variable. Changeable, which altereth often.
• Variation. An altering, or changing.
• Vaste. Huge and great.
• Vastation. A wasting or spoyling of a country.
• Vastitie. Exceeding great∣nes: also waste or spoile done to a country.
• Vauessour. A Lord.
• Vauntcourers. Forerun∣ners.
• Vauntlay. A terme of hunting, when they sette hounds in readynes, where they thinke a chace will passe, and cast them off be∣fore the rest of the kennell come in.
• Vaward. The foremost part of a battell.
• Vbiquitie. The presence of a person in all places at once.
• * Vechons. Hedgehogs.
• Vegetiue. That which lyueth and groweth as plants doc.
• Vehemencie. Earnestnes.
• Veile. To hide or couer: also any thing which hi∣deth or couereth.
• Velitations. Skirmishes, fightings.
• Velocitie. Swiftnes.
• Velume. Fine parchment of calues skynnes.
• Vendible. Saleable, which will quickly be sold.

• Venerable. Reuerent, graue, worshipfull.
• Veneration. A worship∣ping.
• Venery. Hunting: some∣time fleshly wantonnesse.
• Veneriall. See veneri∣ous.
• Venerious. Fleshly: giuen to lechery.
• Venie. A touch in the body at playing with wea∣pons.
• Veniall. Which may ea∣sily be pardoned.
• Ventoy. A fanne for a wo∣man.
• Ventosity. Windinesse.
• Ventricle. The stomacke of any liuing thing.
• Ventroloquie. A hollow inward speaking of a spirit in a possessed body.
• Ver. The spring time.
• Verbal. Of or belonging to words.
• Verbatim. Word by word, that which is precisely spoken, according as some∣thing was spoken before.
• Verbositie. Much talke, many words.
• Verdegrease. A greene substance, made of the rust of brasse or copper, which hath beene hanged cer∣taine dayes ouer strong vineger; It is of a fretting nature, and therefore to be vsed with great discreti∣on.
• Verdour. The name of a chiefe officer in a For∣rest: sometime it signifieth greenenesse.
• Verge. A rod or wanne.
• Verger. He that carryeth a white wande before a great officer.
• Verifie. To prooue, to make true.
• Veritie. Truth.
• Vermilion. See Cinoper.
• Vernall. Of or belong∣ing to the spring.
• Versifie. To make ver∣ses.
• Verte. A terme in He∣rauldry: it signifieth a greene colour.
• Vesper. The Euening.
• Vestals. Certaine virgins among the ancient Ro∣manes, consecrated to the Goddesse Vesta. They were alwayes chosen be∣tweene sixe and tenne yeeres of age, and conti∣nued thirtie yeeres in their office; whereof the

• first tenne yeares they be∣stowed in learning the ce∣remonies of their order, the second they employed in execution thereof, and the last tenne in teaching others, after it was law∣full for them to marry if they would. Their chiefe office was to keepe fire continually burning in a round temple at Rome in honour of Ve∣sta, and if it chanced to goe out, they were to renew it againe with no vsuall fire, but such as they could get by art from the Sunne beames. They were greatly honoured in the Cittie, and had diuerse priuiledges: for they were carried in Cha∣riots, and the chiefest Magistrates would doe reuerence to them. They had officers going before them, as the Consuls had, and if they met any who was ledde to be put to death, they had authori∣tie to deliuer him, taking an oath that they came not that way of purpose but by chance. They might also make a will, and dispose of their goods as they plea∣sed. But if any of them were found to liue vnchast, she was openly carried with sad silence to the gate called Collina, where being put into into a deepe pit, she was presently buried a∣liue. These Vestals were first instituted by Numa Pompi∣lius, or as some write, by Romulus.
• Vestment. A garment or clothing.
• * Viands. Victuals.
• Viaticum. Money or any necessarie prouision for a traueller.
• Viciate. To corrupt, to defile.
• Vicegerent. A deputie, one that supplieth the place of an other man.
• Vicinitie. Neighbour∣hood.
• Vicissitude. An inter∣changeable course of things, now one way, now an other.
• Victime. A sacrifice, a beast offered in sacrifice.
• Victimate. To offer in sacrifice, to kill and sacri∣fice.

• Victor. A conquerer.
• Victorious. That hath gotten the victorie.
• Videlicet. To wit, that is to say.
• View. The print of the foote of a fallow Deere in the ground.
• Vigilancie. Watchfulnes.
• Vigilant. Watchfull.
• Vigill. The eeue or day next before a great festi∣uall day. It signifieth also a portion of the night deui∣ded into foure equall parts, the first Vigill beganne at sixe of the clocke in the euening, and continued till nine. The second Vigill began at nine, and continu∣ed till twelue. The third was from twelue till three. And the fourth was from three, till sixe of the clocke in the morning.
• Vigour. Strength, liueli∣nesse, force.
• Vigorous. Liuely, strong, lusty.
• Vilifie. To make base.
• Vilitie. Basenesse.
• Vindictiue. Reuengefull, or apt to reuenge.
• Vintage. The time of yeare when wine is made.
• Violate. To offer vio∣lence, to corrupt or defile, to transgresse or breake a law.
• Violation. An offering of violence, a breaking.
• Viper. A venemous ser∣pent in some hot countries lying much in the earth, hauing a short taile, which grateth and maketh a noise as he goeth. They are of a yellow colour, and some∣time red. The male hath but one tooth in euery side, but the female hath moe. It is written that when they ingender, the female biteth off the males head, which he putteth in∣to her mouth, and that the young ones doe gnaw the dams belly, and so kill her to get forth the sooner.
• Virago. A stout woman of manly courage.
• Virginall. Of or belon∣ging to a Virgin.
• Virilitie. Mans estate.
• Virulent. Poisonous, deadly, infectious.
• Visible. Which may be seene.
• Visibilitie. The abilitie or powre of seeing.

• Vitall. Liuing, or ap∣pertaining to life.
• Vitiate. To corrupt or defile.
• Vitious. Full of vice, lewde, wicked.
• Vitriol. Copperas: It is of a middle nature betweene stone and mettall.
• Vituperate. To re∣proach, blame, or dis∣praise.
• Vituperation. A blaming, a rebuking.
• Viuacitie. Long life, liuelinesse.
• Viuification. A quicke∣ning, a reuiuing.
• Vlcer. A sore, or botch.
• Vlcerate. To make sores or blisters to arise.
• Vlcerous. Full of sores.
• Vmbilike. The Nauell, the middle part.
• Vmbrated. Shadowed.
• Vnaccessible. Vnapproch∣able, which cannot be come vnto.
• Vnanimitie. One con∣sent of minde, concord, a∣greement.
• Vncouth. Strange.
• Vnction. An annointing.
• * Vneth. Scarce, hardly, with difficulty.
• Vnguent. An oyntment.
• Vniforme. Of one forme and fashion.
• Vniformitie. One forme and fashion.
• Vnintelligible. Which cannot be vnderstood.
• Vnion. A ioyning to∣gether, concord, agree∣ment: also there is a preci∣ous pearle so called.
• Vnitie. Concord, a∣greement.
• Vniuersall. The whole, all in generall.
• Vniuersalitie. The whole state, all in generall.
• Vnsatiable. Which can∣not be filled or satisfied.
• Vocabularie. Of or be∣longing to words, which consisteth onely of words.
• Vocall. Of or belonging to the voice.
• Vocation. A calling, or course of life that one is called to.
• Volant. Flying.
• Volubilitie. The quicke turning of any thing: in∣constancie, changeablenes.
• Voluntarie. Willing.
• * Voluper. A Kercher.
• Voluptuous. Giuen to pleasure, wanton.

• Voluptuousnesse. Pleasure of bodie, wantonnesse.
• Vomite. To cast, to rid the stomacke.
• Voracity. A deuouring.
• Votarie. Hee that maketh a vow, or bindeth himselfe by vow.
• Vowell. A letter which maketh a perfect sound of it selfe, as a, e, i, o, u.
• Vrbanitie. Courtesie in speech or behauiour, ciui∣litie, gentlnesse.
• Vrgent. Which vrgeth or compelleth a man to go a∣bout a matter.
• Vreters. The water pipes or conduits by which the vrine passeth from the kid∣nies to the bladder.
• Vrim. An Hebrew word, which the high Priest of the Iewes wore with the word Thummim, in the plaits of the Rationall vp∣on his brest: Saint Hierome interpreteth it, Learning.
• Vrine. Water of man or beast.
• Vrne. A box, or litle vessel.
• Vtas. The eighth day fol∣lowing any terme or feast.
• Vtenfils. Necessaries be∣longing to a house or ship.
• Vtility. Profit, commo∣dity.
• Vulgar. Common or much vsed of the common people.
• Vultur. A rauenous fel∣low, a cruell Cormorant.
• Vuula. A little peece of flesh in the inmost roofe of the mouth, which some∣time hangeth loose down∣ward, and hindereth from speaking and swallowing the meat.