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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• * DAffe. A dastard.
• * Dagges. Lat∣chets cut of Lether.
• Daine. To vouchsafe.
• Dandruffe. Small scales that sticke to the skinne of the head, and often hang about the haires. They are caused by salt fleame, or some other corrupted hu∣mours, piercing insensibly the pores, and then slight∣ly congealed by the aire, and may be taken away by washing the head with salte water or vineger warme.
• Darnell. A naughty graine almost like wheate, but much lesse, and groweth among wheate often. It may be vsed in Phisicke, against some outward dis∣eases, but taken, inwardly it is harmefull, as beeing too hot, and making the head giddy.
• Darreigne. To attempt, or challenge.

• Deaurate. Guilded, gliste∣ring like gold.
• Debilitate. To weaken.
• Debilitie. Weakenesse.
• Debitor. A debtor.
• Debonaire. Gentle, milde, curteous.
• Decad. The number of tenne.
• Decalog. The ten com∣mandements.
• Decent. Comely, han∣some.
• Decencie. Comelinesse.
• Decide. To determine, or end a Controuersie or doubt.
• Decipher. To write after a strange fashion, that none shall reade it, also to find out the meaning of a thing so written.
• Decision. A determination, or end made of a contro∣uersie
• Declayme. To speake e∣uill: to reproach.
• Declamation. An oration or speech made of purpose in reproach of any person or thing.
• Declaymer. He that ma∣keth a declamation.
• Decline. To bend downe∣ward.
• Declination. A bending downeward.
• Decliuitie. A steepe ben∣ding downward, as on the side of a hill.
• Decoct. To seethe, to boyle.
• Decoction. A boyling or seething. In Phisicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicina∣ble rootes, herbes, seedes, flowers, or any other thing hath beene boyled.
• Decollation. A beheading.
• Decorum. Comely, or comelinesse.
• Decrepit. Weake, or very feeble with age.
• Decressant. The Moone in the last quarter.
• Decretals. Ordinances, decrees.
• Dedicate. To offer, giue, or appoint for some speci∣all purpose.
• Dedication. An offering, a giuing vp.
• Deduce. To take away, to abate.
• Deduct. To take away.
• Deduction. A taking a∣way.
• Defamation. A defaming, a speaking ill of one.

• Defamatorie. Slanderous: which defameth.
• Defatigation. Wearinesse.
• Defeasance. An ouer∣throwing, or vndoing that which was formerly done. A writing testifying that some other writing shall be of no force.
• Defeate. To deceiue, or beguile: to take craftilie from one.
• Defect. A failing or want in any thing.
• Defection. A falling away a reuolting.
• Defectiue. Faultie, which wanteth something.
• Defendant. He which an∣swereth to an accusation or challenge.
• Defensiue. That which defendeth, or is spoken or done in defence.
• Deferre. To put off, to prolong.
• Define. To declare, shew or describe a thing plaine∣lie.
• Definition. A sentence which expresly declareth what a thing is.
• Definitiue. Which de∣fineth or concludeth a matter.
• Defloration. A deflou∣ring.
• Defloure. To corrupt, spoile or marre.
• Deforme. To disfigure, to spoyle the forme of any thing.
• Deformation. A difigu∣ring.
• Deformitie. Ill fauourd∣nesse: vncomelinesse.
• Defraude. To deceiue, to beguile.
• Deft. Little and pretty, feat and handsome.
• Defunct. Dead.
• Degenerate. To turne out of kind.
• Degrade. To take away the priuiledge of holy or∣ders from one.
• Degradation. A taking a∣way of Ecclesiasticall au∣thoritie, from a Clerke conuinced of some noto∣rious crime.
• Degree. A terme often v∣sed in Astronomie and phisicke. In Astronomie it signifieth the thirtieth part of a signe: viz. of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, &c. For in∣to so many parts or de∣grees are all the signes di∣uided. In phisicke it sig∣nifieth

• a proportion of heat, cold, moisture or dri∣nesse, in the nature of simples; and there are foure such proportions or degrees: The first degree is so smal, that it can scarce be perceiued. The second, that which may be mani∣festly perceiued without hurting the sense. The third, that which some∣what offendeth the sense. The fourth, which so much offendeth, that it may destroy the body. For exrmple: Sweet Almonds Rice, Buglosse, ripe Grapes are hot in the first degree: Parsley, Saffron, Hony, in the second degree; Cum∣mine, Galingall, Pepper in the third degree: and Garlike, Spourge, Euphor∣bium, in the fourth degree. So Barly is cold in the first degree, cucumbers in the second, Sengreene in the third, and Hemlocke in the fourth degree. Where note that in heat, cold, and drinesse, there may bee foure degrees, and in moi∣sture but two.
• Dehort. To disswade: to aduise one to the con∣trary.
• Dehortation. A perswasi∣on or admonition to re∣fraine from doing some thing.
• Deiect. To throw down, to debase.
• Deiection. A throwing downe, a debasement.
• Deitie. Godhead, or a God.
• Delineate. To draw the first proportion of a thing.
• Delinquent. An offender.
• Delude. To mocke, to scorne, to deceiue.
• Deluge. An vniuersall o∣uerflowing of waters, Noes floud.
• Delusion. A mocking.
• Demaynes. The Lords Mannor house, and the landes which he and his auncestors haue alwayes vsed.
• Demeane. To behaue or carry ones selfe.
• Demeanour. Behauiour.
• Demerit. A desert.
• Demise. To giue or graunt.
• Democratie. A kind of go∣uernment wherin the peo∣ple bere rule without other

• superiours sauing such as they appoint.
• Democraticall. Of or be∣longing to the estate of Democratie.
• Demolish. To pull downe.
• Demolition. A pulling downe.
• Demoniacke. Possessed with a diuell.
• Demonstrable. Which may be shewed or made manifest.
• Demonstrate. To shew.
• Demonstration. A shewing plaine of any thing.
• Demurre. A pause or stay, a standing still.
• Demy. Halfe, sometime little.
• Deneere. A penny, a small peece of mony.
• Denizen. A straunger borne, that obtaineth the Kings letters patents, and becommeth his Maiesties subiect, enioying thereby al priuiledges, as if he were an Englishman.
• Denominate. To name one.
• Denomination. A naming.
• Denotate To note or marke, to signifie.
• Denotation. A noting or marking.
• Denounce. To giue war∣ning, to declare, to threa∣ten.
• * Denwere. Double.
• Deodand. When a man is casually killed by a Cart, Horse, or Mill, &c. that which mooued and was thereby cause of his death, being forfeit to the King, appertaineth to his Maie∣sties Almoner to bestow in deedes of charity, and is therefore called a Deodand, as being to be giuen away for Gods sake.
• Depend. To hang vpon an other thing.
• Dependant. That which hangeth vpon an other thing.
• Deplore. To lament; to bewaile.
• Deploration. A lamenting.
• Depopulate. To waste or spoile a countrey.
• Depopulation. A spoiling or wasting of a countrey.
• Depose. To take away ones authority, to thrust out of his kingdome, some∣time to sweare.
• Depositum. A pledge, any thing layd vp with one

• to keepe.
• Deposition. A deposing or putting from great au∣thority, also a laying down, sometime an oath or testi∣mony giuen by oath.
• Depraue. To corrupt or marre, sometime to speake euill of one.
• Depresse. To crouch downe, to keepe vnder.
• Depriue. To take away.
• Depriuation. A losse of any thing.
• Depute. To appoint.
• Deride. To mocke, or floute.
• Derision. A mocking.
• Deriue. To take or draw from another thing.
• Deriuatiue. That which is deriued from an other thing or word.
• Deriuation. A deriuing, or drawing from some thing.
• Derogate. To empaire, diminish, or take away.
• Derogation. A taking a∣way from ones honour or estimation.
• Derogatorie. That which empaireth or hindereth the credit of any one.
• Descend. To go down∣ward.
• Describe. To expresse plainly the outward forme of a thing.
• Description. A plaine expressing of the outward forme of a thing, or the manner how a thing was done.
• Designe. To appoint.
• Designement. An enter∣prise or purpose which a man hath.
• Desist. To leaue off.
• Deteine. To keep from one.
• Detect. To discouer, to disclose.
• Detection. A discouerie, a disclosing.
• Detract. To speake euill of one.
• Detraction. Slanderous speaking.
• Detriment. Losse, harme, hinderance.
• Deuastation. A wasting of a country.
• Deuest. To vncloath.
• Deuiant. Farre out of the way.
• Deuoire. Endeauour.
• Deuolue. To rolle down.
• Deuolution. A rolling along.
• Dewlap. The hollow part

• of the throate, hanging downe in some beasts.
• Dexter. Belonging to the right hand.
• Dexteritie. Nimblenes, quicknesse, skilfulnesse.
• Diabolicall. Diuellish.
• Diacatholicon. An electu∣ary much vsed in physicke, so called because it serueth as a gentle purge for al hu∣mours.
• Diacinnamon. A physicall mixture of cinnamom and diuerse spices in powder together, which helpeth digestion and is good a∣gainst colde moist diseases of the stomacke.
• Diacodion. A cold sirupe made of the tops of pop∣pies, vsed in phisicke some∣time against hote diseases, and to stay the falling downe of humours out of the head.
• Diacurcuma. A confe∣ction made of Saffron and diuers other simples, vsed against the dropsie and old diseases of the stomacke, spleene and liuer.
• Diadem. A Kings crowne, or an attire for Princes to weare on their heads, made of purple silke, and pearle.
• Diagalanga. A confecti∣on made of Galingale and hotte spices, good against the winde colicke and cold distemperature of the in∣ward parts.
• Diagridium. There is a plant called Scammonie growing in farre hot coun∣tries, the iuice of the roote whereof being dryed, is a very strong and violent purgatiue medicine, called also Scammonie: which be∣fore it can be vsed in phy∣sicke, must bee boyled in Quinces, to abate the ma∣lice of it: now the Scammo∣ny boyled and prepared in this sort, is called by Apo∣thecaries Diagridium.
• Dialacca. A confection made of the gumme Lacca, and diuerse hotte simples, good against cold diseases of the stomack, stoppings, of the liuer, and all causes that may draw one to the dropsie.
• Dialect. A difference of some words, or pronunci∣ation in any language: as in England the Dialect or manner of speech in the

• North, is different from that in the South, and the Western Dialect differing from them both. The Grecians had fiue especi∣all Dialects: as 1. The property of speech in A∣thens: 2. In Ionia: 3 In Doris: 4. In Eolia: and 5. that manner of speech which was generally vsed of them all. So euery countrey hath common∣ly in diners parts thereof some difference of lan∣guage, which is called the Dialect of that place.
• Dialecticall. Of or be∣longing to the art of Lo∣gicke.
• Dialog. A talke, reaso∣ning, or disputation be∣tweene two parties or moe, or a discourse written where such a conference is set downe.
• Diamber. A comforta∣ble confection made of di∣uers hot spices, good to be giuen in wine or other li∣quor, to strengthen the stomacke, reuiue the spi∣rits, and warme the inward parts.
• Diameter. A streight line which passing throught the middle of any figure, di∣uideth it in two equall parts.
• Diapason. A concord in musicke of all.
• Diaphoenicon. An Ele∣ctuary vsed often by Phi∣sitions to purge fleame and choler.
• Diaper. A fine kind of linnen not wouen after the ordinarie fashion but in certaine workes, Di∣amonds, knots, or other deuices.
• Diapred. Diuersified: of diuers colours, or garni∣shings.
• Diaprunum. An Electu∣ary made of Damaske Prunes, and diuers other simples, good to coole the body in hot burning Fe∣uers. After it is made, phisitians vse often to adde Diagridium to it, and then it becommeth very Purgatory, and is called Diaprunum soluti∣uum; soluble, or laxatiue Diaprunum.
• Diarhodon. A comfor∣table confection good to refresh and strengthen all

• the inward parts, after long hot diseases.
• Diasena. A purging E∣lectuary▪ good against quartane Agues, and all other diseases proceeding from melancholy.
• Diatragacanthum. A con∣fection made of the Gum Tragacanth, and other sim∣ples, good against hot dis∣cases of the breast, the cough, pleurisie & inflam∣mation of the lungs.
• Diatrionpiperion. A con∣fection so called, because it is principally compoun∣ded of the three kindes of Pepper, to wit, long, white and blacke Pepper. It is good to helpe digestion when the stomacke wan∣teth heat to concoct that which it hath receiued.
• Diatrionsantalon. A cold confection made of the wood Sanders, good a∣gainst burning Agues, and to refresh the inward parts inflamed with too much heate.
• Diaturbith An Electu∣arie which principally purgeth flegmaticke grosse humours.
• Dicacitie. Much talke: or prating.
• Dichotomie. A diuiding into two parts, or a diuisi∣on made by two and two.
• Dicker. Tenne hides of Lether.
• Dictate. To endite; also that which one writeth frō anothers mouth while he speaketh.
• Dictator. A chiefe Offi∣cer among the Romanes; neuer chosen but vpon great necessity in dange∣rous troubles of the com∣mon wealth. This Dictator could continue in office but onely sixe moneths, and then vnder paine of treason was to giue vp his authority: He could bee named by none but the Consull, and that in the night time, with great si∣lence and attention. After he was once chosen all o∣ther Magistrates were out of office, except onely the Tribune of the people; so that the Dictator, during his time, had (as it were) a kingly authority aboue al.
• Diffcult. Hard: vnea∣sie.

• Difficulty. Hardnesse, vn∣easinesse.
• Diffidence. Distrust.
• Diffident. Mistrustfull.
• Diffuse. To spread a∣broad.
• Digamma. The letter F. so called, because he bea∣reth a forme, like the Greeke Letter Gamma, made double.
• Digest. To dispose or set in order.
• Dight. Made ready: ap∣parrelled, dressed.
• Digresse. To turne aside, to leaue the matter that is in hand and speak of another thing.
• Digression. A turning to speake of another thing.
• Dilaniation. A tearing in pieces.
• Dilate. To spread abroad to enlarge, to drawe in length.
• Dilatation. A drawing in length, speaking of a thing at large.
• Dilemma. A kind of ar∣gument, which conuinceth ones aduersary both waies: as in saying: If hee bee a good man, why doe you speake euill of him? If he be naught, why doe you keepe him company?
• Dimension. The true mea∣sure of a thing.
• Diminution. A dimini∣shing.
• Diminutiue. Little, small, or a word which betoke∣neth a little thing, as, lambekinne, a little lambe.
• Dinumeration A num∣bring, a reckoning.
• Dire. Fierce, cruell, terri∣ble.
• Directorie. That which directeth one.
• Direption. A violent cat∣ching away.
• Disanull. To disalowe.
• Disappeare. To vanish out of sight. To be seene no more.
• Disastrous. Vnluckie: vn∣fortunate.
• Disauow. To deny or refuse by vowe.
• Disciple. A Scholler, one that learneth.
• Discipline. Instructi∣on.
• Disclayme. To de∣nie.
• Disconsolate. Vncom∣fortable.

• Discordant. Disagree∣ing.
• Discrepant. Much diffe∣ring.
• Discusse. To examine, debate, or trie a matter.
• Discussion An examining, a sifting or tryall of a mat∣ter.
• Disfranchise. To take a∣way freedome.
• Disfranchisement. A ta∣king away of ones free∣dome.
• Disgust. Dislike.
• Dislocation. A putting out of the right place.
• Dismall. Vnluckie: grie∣uous,
• Dismantle. To vnclothe: to vnfurnish, to leaue vn∣prouided.
• Dismisse. To discharge, to put away.
• Disparage. To disgrace: to ioyne with vnequall match.
• Disparagement. Disho∣nour: disgrace, It proper∣ly signifieth a shame or disgrace done by a Guar∣dian to his word, in mary∣ing him vnder yeeres, to a woman vnfitte for his calling, or to one past childe-bearing, or which hath some great defor∣mitie, lamenesse, or some horrible disease.
• Disparates. A terme of Logicke, applyed to such wordes as are onely diffe∣ring one from another, but not contrary: as heate and cold are contraries, but heate and moisture are Disparates: viz. two contrarie qualities.
• Disparitie. Vnlikenesse: vnequalitie.
• Disperpelled. A terme in Herauldrie, when any thing of soft substance, doth by falling from high shoot it selfe out into di∣uers corners or endes.
• Disperse. To scatter a∣broad.
• Dispersion. A scattering abroad.
• Displayed. Wide spread, opened.
• Disputable. Any thing that a man may dispute on.
• Disrobe. To vnclothe: properly of rich, or gar∣ments of estate.
• Dissent. To disagree.
• Dissheuelled. Bare hay∣red,

• without any attyre on the head, the haire han∣ging at length.
• Dissimilitude. Vnlike∣nesse.
• Dissipate. To scatter, or spread abroad.
• Dissipation, A scatte∣ring, a wasting.
• Dissolue. To vndoe, weaken, or destroy: to plucke downe.
• Dissolute. Loose, wanton, giuen much to vaine plea∣sures.
• Dissolution. A breaking, weakening, or pulling a∣sunder of any thing.
• Dissonant. Of a contra∣ry sound, not agreeing.
• Disswade. To perswade one from a thing.
• Disswasion. A perswa∣ding of one from some thing.
• Distich. Two verses; or a sentence conteined in two verses.
• Distinguish. To put a difference between things.
• Distinction. A difference put betweene things.
• Distract, To drawe a∣way: to trouble ones minde.
• Distraction. A pulling asunder, or drawing away of the mind.
• Distresse. Any goods taken and detained for. not paiment of rent, or to enforce one to answere to a suite. Sometime it signifieth great affliction, or misery.
• Distribution. A diuding among many.
• Disturbe. To trouble, to vexe.
• Disunion. A disioyning, a seuering.
• Disunite. To part, to diuide, to seuer.
• Diuert. To turne a∣side.
• Diuident. That which diuideth.
• Diuine. Heauenly be∣longing to God. Some∣time to gesse or foretell a thing to come.
• Diuination. A fore∣telling of a thing before it happeneth: which may (as I take it) bee diui∣ded into three different kindes; namely, super∣naturall, naturall, and su∣perstitious Diuination. Supernaturall Diuination

• (onely reuealed to man by God,) is not properly called Diuination, but prophecie, with which all the holy Prophets haue in former times beene inspi∣red. Naturall Diuination may be diuided into two branches; whereof the first is, that which hath in former times been prac∣tise by wicked spirits in o∣racles and answeres giuen by them in Idoles, and is at this day sometime seene in possessed persons, who by suggestion of the diuell may foretell often things to come: and this is but a naturall Diuination: For although to vs it seeme miraculous, because of our ignorance in the causes and course of things, yet in those spirits, it is but natu∣rall, who by their long ex∣perience and great obser∣uation, beside the know∣ledge of secrets in nature, and their quicke intelli∣gence from all places, are able to foresee much more then wee by nature can. The second branch of na∣turall Diuination, is that which a wise man may foretell by probable con∣iecture, being no way of∣fensiue, so long as it is on∣ly guided by reason; and ouerruled by submitting it selfe to the almightie power of GOD. And to this second kinde of Diuination, may also A∣strologie bee referred (which by the motion and influence of Starres and Planets doeth pro∣mise to foretell many things) so long as it kee∣peth it selfe in due limits, and arrogateth not too much to the certainetie thereof: into which ex∣cesse of vanitie if it should breake foorth, it can then be no longer called na∣turall Diuination, but superstitious and wicked: for the Starres may in∣cline but not impose a necessitie in particular things. The third and last manner of Diuinati∣on, is that which wee cal∣led superstitious, where∣of there hath among the Gentiles beene diuers dif∣ferent kinds, namely Au∣guration,

• Aruspicie, Necro∣mancie, Geomancie, Hydro∣mancie, Pyromancie, Cosci∣nomancie, Palmistrie or Chi∣romancie.

  Auguration, was a diui∣nation made of things to come, by the flying, fee∣ding, & chirping of birds: the professors whereof cal∣led Augurs, were of great account among the heathē Romans, in so much that there was a Colledge of them in the citty; neyther would the Romans vnder∣take any publike matter of importance, without asking their assent. But the vanity hereof was well derided by a wise Iew, named Mosso∣lamus; as Iosephus writes. For an Augur in the wars once requiring, that the army which was then mar∣ching, might stand still a while, till he tooke obser∣uation of a bird there by, to foreknow the successe of that expedition, this Iew whilst the Augur was bu∣sie in his art, shot at the Bird with an arrow, and by chance killed her: whereat the Augur and others being highly offen∣ded: Are you so foolish (quoth the Iew) to ima∣gine, this poore Bird can tell what will happen to vs, that could not foresee her owne death so neere at hand? Aruspicie, is a diuination, which by ope∣ning and viewing the bo∣wels of beasts, did vnder∣take to foretell things to come: the professors whereof were called A∣ruspices. Necromancie, the worst of all others, is that diuination, which is practised by coniuration, and calling vp Diuels or dead mens Ghosts. Which manner of diuination we reade practised by King Saul (1. Reg. cap. 28.) when he required a Sor∣ceresse to call vp the spirit of Samuell to him. Geo∣mancie, is a kinde of diui∣nation practised by making prickes and lines in the earth; as the name in Greeke signifieth. So Hy∣dromancie, is a diuination made by some apparition in water, as Varro writeth, that a Boy saw in water,

• ...

  one bearing the forme of Mercurie, who foretold in one hundred and fiftie verses, the euent of the warre which the Ro∣mans had with King Mithridates. Pyromancie is a diuination made by the fire, or spirits ap∣pearing in the fire. Cos∣cinomancie is a ridiculous kinde of diuination made with a sieue; which at this day is vsed by some sim∣ple women, and appea∣reth to bee of antiquitie, for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is men∣tion made hereof. Palmi∣strie or Chiromancie, is a diuination practised, by looking vpon the lines of the fingers and hands, an art still in vse, among fortune tellers, Egypti∣ans, and iuglers. Besides these there were also o∣ther diuinations, as name∣ly Acromancie, that which is gathered by apparitions in the aire. Capnomancie, by the flying of smoake. Catoptromancie by visions shewne in a glasse. All which beeing euen by the Pagans themselues ac∣counted deceitfull and vaine, it remaineth that of Christians they be vtterly reiected and abhorred.

• Diuorce. A separation of man and wife, which was (as our Sauiour witnes∣seth) first permitted by Moses vnto the Israelites, for the hardnesse of their hearts, that men might rather put their wiues a∣way, whome they grew wearie of, than vse them with too great extremitie, to shorten their liues, as many did. The woman so diuorced was to haue of her husband, a writing (as Iosephus witnesseth) to this effect. I promise, that here∣after, I will lay no claime to thee: And this writing was called a bil of diuorce. But with Christians this custome is abrogated, sa∣uing onely in case of a∣dulterie. The auncient Romanes also had a cu∣stome of diuorce, and a∣mongst them, it was as lawfull for the wiues to put away their husbands, as for the husband to dis∣misse

• his wife: but amongst the Israelites, this preroga∣tiue was onely permitted to the husband.
• Diureticall. That which is of vertue, to cause one to make water.
• Diumall. Of or belong∣ing to a day: Also a booke, wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe.
• Diuturmitie. Long con∣tinuance.
• Diuulge. To publish, or tell abroad.
• Diuulgation. A telling, or reporting abroad.
• Docibilitie. See docilitie.
• Docible. See docill.
• Docill. Easie to bee taught, one that wil soone learne.
• Docilitie. Aptnesse, quick∣nesse of vnderstanding.
• Document. A lesson, an instruction.
• Dogdayes. Certain dayes in Iuly and August, so cal∣led of the Starre Canis, the Dogge: which then ri∣sing with the Sun, doeth greatly increase the heate thereof.
• Dogmaticall. Which is held or maintained in som mens opinion.
• Dole. Sorrow, heaui∣nesse, griefe: sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes.
• Dolefull. Heauie, sorrow∣full.
• Dolorous. Greeuous, painefull.
• Dolphine. A fish friend∣lie to man, and especial∣ly to children; the Fe∣males of this fish, haue breasts like to women, which are well stored with milke. They are ve∣ry faithfull to one ano∣ther, and bring foorth yong ones like whelpes, after tenne moneths, and in Sommer time. They sometime breake foorth of the Sea, but presently die as soone as they touch land.
• Doome. A sentence pro∣nounced: a iudgement.
• Doomesman. A Iudge.
• Domesticall. One of the house: or any thing belonging to the house.
• Domesticke. See Dome∣sticall.
• Domineere. To beare rule, or great sway.

• Dominicall. Belonging to sunday or our Lordes day.
• Dominion. Lordship, rule.
• Donarie. A gift; proper∣ly that which is hanged vp in a Church.
• Donation. A giuing.
• Donee. Hee to whom a thing is giuen or granted.
• Donour. A giuer.
• Dormant. Sleeping.
• Dormitorie. A place to sleepe in: or that which hath vertue to make one sleepe.
• Dorter. A cell or cham∣ber vsed onely for religi∣ous men to sleepe in.
• Dowager. A Widdow Princesse, hauing dowrie in the countrey which was in subiection to her decea∣sed husband.
• Doulcets. The stones of a Hart or Stag.
• Drachme. See dram.
• Dramme. A smal weight, the eight part of an ounce: It conteineth in it three scruples, euery scruple beeing of the weight of twentie Wheate cornes: so that a dramme is the iust weight of 60. cornes of wheate.
• Drerie. Sorrowfull: la∣mentable.
• Dromedarie. A kinde of camel, hauing two bunches on the backe, which is very swift, and can trauell two or three daies without drinke.
• Drone. An idle Bee that will not labour.
• Druides. Ancient Pa∣gane Priests in France, which liued naked in woods, giuing themselues to the study of Philosophy, and auoyding all company so much as they might. They were of such estima∣tion among the people, that all controuersies were referred to their determi∣nation, and a great penal∣tie laid on such as disobei∣ed their sentence. They be∣leeued the immortalitie of soules, but supposed (with Pythagoras) that they still passed by death from one body to another.
• Dryades. Nymphs of the woods, so called of the Greek word Drys: which signifieth an Oake.
• Duall. Of, or belonging to two.

• Dubious. Doubtfull.
• Dubitable. Doubtfull.
• Dulia. Seruire: a wor∣ship done to Angels and Saints.
• Duplication. A doubling.
• Duplicitie. Doublenesse.
• Durabilitie. Long conti∣nuance.
• Dwale. An hearb of cold operation, hauing power to make one sleepe: some call it Nightshade.