The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.

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The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.
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Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.
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London :: Printed [by Eliot's Court Press] for Edmund Weauer, and are to be sold at his shop at the great north gate of Pauls Church,
1623.
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"The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19044.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2025.

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Iles.

BAleares, two Iles in the Spanish Seas 30. miles asunder. the Inhabitants thereof doe pitch the Poles in the ground, and on the top of the poles they set meat which their children must with slings hit downe before they can haue any meat to eate.

Cassiterides, are ten Iles in the Spanish sea.

Colidos an Ile so high, that no bird can flie o∣uer.

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Moniole, Iles beyond the Ombris, one of the fruit∣full Iles.

Maniole, Iles beyond the riuer Ganges, hauing rockes of Adamant, whch drawes all kinde of ships vnto them that haue any iron pinnes in them, and doe by vertue thereof hold them fast, as being no way able to stirre.

Paphos, an Ile wherein it neuer rayned.

Scyron, the Ile wherein Achilles was by his Mother hidden in a womans appa∣rell, because shee would not haue him goe to fight against the Troians.

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