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.

People of sundry qua∣lities.

ABarians, People whose feet are turned quite backwards.

Aborigeni, People whose

beginning are not known.

Abidenie, People which being a long time besie∣ged, grew mad, and then slue their wiues and chil∣dren, and lastly them∣selues.

Abidochemie, People that boast themselues of their owne vertues.

Agrigantines, People that delighted in sumptuous building.

Agriophagie, People that liue Lyons and Pan∣thers flesh.

Amphisceans, People that dwell vnder the burning Zone, neere the Equino∣ctiall, whose shadow is sometime to the North, and sometime to the South,

Angilie, People whose wiues (their marriageday) may commit carnall copu∣lation with whom they list, but euer after they must liue chaste on paine of death.

Antipodes, People right vnder vs, their feet are to ours.

Arabiaus, People making Footes of the shells of Tortoyses.

Archadeans, People which first found out the Bag∣pipe.

Arimaspi, People of Scy∣thia with one eye.

Arimpeans, People which liue on Mast and berries.

Acridophgie, the blacke∣moores neere the desert of Acthiope.

Artoterites, People that offerd bread and cheefe to their god.

Asachae, People which liue on the flesh of Ele∣phants.

Bacchaides, the people of Corinth.

Brigantes, People of Ire∣land.

Blemmeans, People with∣out heads, their eyes and mouth are in their breasts.

Canniballs, People that eate mens flesh.

Capillatines, People which inhabite the Alpes.

Aegipanes, People which haue feet like Goates.

Aeneads, People of Troy.

Belgeans, People of the low Countries, Sommer∣set-shire, Wiltshire and Hampshire.

Androgynie, People which are both men and women.

Centaures, People of Thes∣saly, who because they first ridde on horsebacke, were thought to bee halfe men and halfe horses; there were seuen chiefetaines of them; Chiron, Euritus, Amy∣cus, Rhetus, Arneus, Gryneus and Lycidas.

Chelonophagie, People which liue by eating of Tortoisses, and they couer their Caues with their shells.

Colonie, People which are sent from one place to dwell in another.

Day, People of Persia, which were all Shepheards and Grasiers.

Derbeci, People of Asia, who when their friends came to the age of 60. yeeres they kill them and eat them, calling their neighbours to the feast.

Cordistie, People which hold gold in no estima∣tion.

Cymmerians, People in the North, which in halfe a yeere together see no Sunne, nor in halfe a yeere haue no night.

Drausi, People in Thrace, which waile and weepe when children are borne, but reioyce at their death.

Essidonie, People which eat their friends being dead, and drinke in their sculls.

Essenie, People which abstaine from flesh, wine and women, among the Iewes.

Hieri, People that bee bald and flat nosed, but in their dealings they are ve∣ry iust.

Heterosceans, any people that dwell vnder a tempo∣rate zone, so called be∣cause their shadowes at noone bend but one way alwaies.

Hyppopodes, People ha∣uing feet like Horses, they run very swift.

Icthiophagie, People that liue only by fish.

Lacedemonians, People that first found the vse of Sword, Speare, and Hel∣met.

Lestrigans, Italians which feed on mens flesh.

Monomerie, People which haue but one leg, they goe by leaps faster then any beast.

Monoscelie, People with one leg, who couer them∣selues therewith from the heat of the Sunne.

Myrmidones, People which accompanied Achil∣les to Troy.

Omophagie, People which liue on raw flesh.

Ophiophagie, People which eat Serpents, and if they be stung by them, they cure themselues by touch∣ing the place only with their finger.

Perisceans, People dwel∣ling so neere either of the two Poles, that their sha∣dowes runne round about them like a wheele.

Pfillie, People whose bo∣dies are venome to Ser∣pents, and they cure the stinging of Serpents, by sucking the place with their mouthes where the Serpents haue stung.

Pigmies, little Indian people of a cubit in length, their women bring forth children at fiue yeeres, and at eight they are accounted olde: they haue continuall wars with Cranes, who doe often put them to the worst.

Scipiodes, People with one legge wherewith they shadow themselues, and runne very swift.

Scitheans, People which found the vse of Bowes and Arrows.

Swissers, People which did execute their owne children, if they were con∣demned, because they had not brought them vp bet∣ter in their Infancie.

Sybariticanes, People which in their Feasts vsed to bid their guests a whole yeere before hand, only for prouisions sake.

Tapyrie, People who ha∣uing three or foure chil∣dren giue their wiues to other men.

Thratians, People which first found out Hawking.

Valentineans, certaine he∣retiques, who held opini∣on that our Sauiour recei∣ued not his flesh from the blessed Virgin.

Zigantes, People that

feede on Apes flesh.

Cattieuchlani, Bucking∣ham, Bedford, and Hart∣fordshire men or people.

Coritanes, Norhampton, Lester, Rutland, Notting∣ham and Derbishire Men.

Cornauins, Warwicke, Worster, Stafford, Shrop∣shire and Cheshire Men.

Belgians, Summerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire men.

Brigantines, Yorkeshire, Lancashire, Durham, Westmerland and Cum∣berlandshire men.

Danmonij, Deuonshire and Cornish men.

Dimetae, Carmardin, Pen∣broch, and Cardican-shire men in west Wales.

Dobuni, Gloster and Ox∣fordshire men.

Durotriger, Dorsetshire men.

Iceni, Suffolke, Surry, Sussex, Norfolke, Cam∣bridge and Huntingdon∣shire men.

Tritobantes, Middlesex, and Essex men or people.