ayre hardened into the forme of a stone as we see it It is cold and dry in operation good to be hanged about childrens neckes as well to rub their gums as to preserue them from the falling sickenesse Corbell A shouldering peece cut out in stone as we may see in walles to beare vp a poste summer or other weight Corbets Places in walles where Images stand Corbona A chest or cofer in the Temple of Hierusalem where the treasure that serued for the Priests vse was kept Cordiall Hearty that which comforteth the heart Cordwyner A Shooe-maker Corodie An ancient term vsed when the founders of Abbies or other religious houses reserued aright in themselues and heires to appoint some person to haue allowance of meate and drinke or other maintenance out of the house and this allowance was called a Corodie Coronell A Captaine ouer many bands Coronation The crowning of a King or Queene Corporall Of or belonging to the bodie Coporation A bodie politick hauing by the kings grant and common seale a chiefe Officer and inferiour persons belonging to it Corpulencie Grossenesse fatnesse Corpulent Fat and grosse Correlative A tearme of Logicke applyed to such words as cannot bee spoken but there must be supposed some other word which is necessarily a dependant vpon it as a Father and a Sonne a Master and a Seruant a Captaine and a Souldiour a Husband and a Wife Correspondence An agreeablenesse or proportion answering to some other thing Correspondent Agreeable or answerable to another thing Corrigible That which may bee corrected or amended Corriuall He that is suiter with another to a woman for marriage Corroborate To strengthen to confirme Corrode To gnaw asunder Corrosiue A fretting plaister any thing which laid to the body raiseth blisters and maketh it sore Cosignificatiue Of the same signification with another thing Cosmographie An art touching the description of the whole world This art by the distance of the circles in heauē diuideth the earth vnder them into her Zones and climats and by the eleuation of the Pole considereth the length of the day night with the perfect demonstration of the Sunnes rising and going downe Couent The whole number of religious men together dwelling in one house Couerture A couering In the common Law it signifieth all the time that a man and wife are coupled in marriage Couchant Couching or lying on the ground Couert Hidden secret Couertbaron A marryed wife a woman subiect to a husband Couerture In our common Law it is sometime taken for marriage Couine Deceit cousenage Countermand To giue commandement contrary to that which was commanded Countermine To mine or dig in the earth against another Countermure A wal made in defence of another wall Counterpane The fellow coppy of a deed indented Counterpoise Any thing laid in waight against another thing Counteruaile To bee of equall value to another thing Coupee Cutt off Crampefish A fish whose nature is to make the hands of such as touch it to be benummed or astonied though they touch it with a long pole Crannie A little hole or chinke Crauen A coward Crazie Sickly weake of vnperfect health Credence Beleefe trust Credible That which may be beleeued Creditor He that lendeth or trusteth another with mony or wares Credulitie Easinesse of beleefe Credulous He which easily beleeueth a thing Cressant In Heraldrie it signifieth the newe Moone Crime An offence or fault committed Criminall Faultie or that which belongeth to a fault or accusation Crisis A Greeke word which is interpreted iudgment In Phisicke it signifieth the conflict between nature and sicknesse that is the time when either the patient suddenly becommeth well or suddenly dyeth or waxeth better or worse according to the strength of his bodie and violence of the disease Crispe Curled Cristall A substance like cleere glasse There are two kindes hereof One which groweth vpon extreame cold mountaines being there congealed like yee by the minerall vertue of the place as Albertus writeth Another kinde groweth in the earth in some places of of Germanie Cristalline Made of Cristall or shining like a Cristall Criticall In Phisicke the fourth and seuenth dayes are called Critical because in them Phisitians vse to iudge of the danger of a disease But the seuenth is accounted the chiefe Criticall day the fourth a token or signe what the seuenth day will be if the Patient liue so long This account must bee made according to the number of weekes thus In the first weeke the fourth day is the token or Critical of the seuenth day In the second weeke the eleuenth is the Critical of the fourteenth In the third the seuentieth is the Critticall of the twentieth for Hippocrates reckoneth the twentieth day for the last to the third weeke In the fourth week 24. is the Criticall of the 27. In the fifty the 31. the Criticall of the 34. In the sixt weeke the 37. the Criticall of the 40. And so foorth to a hundred Criticke The same that Criticall is Also it signifieth sometime one that hath authoritie or taketh vpon him to censure other mens acts or workes written Crocodile A harmefull beast liuing most about the Riuer Nilus in Aegypt It is hatched of an egge and groweth vnto a wonderfull greatnesse sometime to twentie or thirtie foot long This beast hath no tongue and in feeding mooueth onely the vpper iawe He hath eyes like a Hogge and cruell sharpe teeth Hee hath no haire but is made much after the fashion of an Euet with a long taile a long belly and backe couered all ouer with scales close ioyned of great strength Vpon his feete hee hath strong sharpe clawes In the day time hee can see farre and liueth on land in the night he is almost blind and keepeth in the water He is very bold vpon those he seeth afraid of him and fearefull if he be assaulted It is written that he will weepe ouer a mans head when he hath deuoured the body and then will eate vp the head two Wherefore in Latine there is a probere Crocodili Iachrymae Crocodiles teares to signifie such teares as are fained and spent onely with intent to deceiue or doe harme I saw once one of these beasts in London brought thither dead but in perfect forme of about three yards long Croches The little buds or branches at the top of a Harts horne Crosselet A melting pot Crotayes Dung of a Hare Crownet A little crowne also a part of a horse hoose is so called Crude Rawe not well digested Cruditie Rawnesse ill digestion Cubebs A certaine fruite sold by Apothecaries like vnto Pepper It commeth out of India and is hotte and drie in operation It comforteth the braine much and quickeneth the spirits being held chewed in the mouth It is also very good to open the stoppings of the Liuer Cubite Halfe a yard the measure from a mans elbow to the toppe of his middle finger Cullion The stone of any liuing thing Culpable Faultie Culture Tillage dressing of land Culuertaile
to those parts from the liuer beeing many times healthfull to the patient by preuenting other diseases and therefore ought not hastily to be stopt vnlesse through continuance the body bee too much weakened by them Henchman A page of honour neere attendant to a Prince or other great personage * Hend Gentle * Hent To catch or lay hold of Herbage Pasture or the feeding of cattel in pasture Herball A booke of the nature of herbes Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretiâ—e He that maketh â—is owne choice what â—oints of religion he will â—eleeue and what he will â—ot belâ—eue Heredâ—arie That which â—ommeth to one by inheritance Herio The best liuing â—east which a Tenant hath 〈◊〉 his death which in some â—lannoâ—s is due to the â—ord of whom the land is holden Hermaphorodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwlling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to deuotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermite dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round solde by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much vsed against all gouts purging slimy fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must bee taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will ouerturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Hiâ—eroscians Any people dwelling vnder a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewte A little copse or groue Heyward A bayliffe or officer hauing charge to looke to the fields Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be a hundred acres Hidage A taxe or payment for euery hide of land Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaueth to their sides Hideous Terrible vgly Hiena See Hyena Hierapiera A bitter confection made of Aloe succotrina and other simples often vsed in Physicke to purge Choler out of the stomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which conteining nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in euery three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superiour are Seraphines Cerubines and Thrones the middle Dominations principalities Powers The inferiour vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kind of writing vsed chiefely in times past among the Pagan priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and diuers other figures and could hardly bee vnderstood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternity or Euerlâ—stingnesse they expresseâ— by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye 〈◊〉 the toppe thereof A mâ—â—ter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberâ—tion or aduice by an Aâ—chor which stayeth a ship in the waues With a thousand such deuices not subiect to common capacities to finde out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew meâ—sure or moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagâ—â—nus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelue egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiâ—grapher A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wilde bore of three yeares old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserued Holt. A groue Homage In Court Barons the Iury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a seruil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Landes by homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands between his saith as followeth I become your man from this day forward of life and member and of earthly honour and to you shall bee faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to holde of you sauing the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth of oweth homage Homicide A manslayer sometime manslaughter Homilie A talking together a speech or a Sermon Homonymie A terme in Logicke when one word signifieth diuers things as hart signifying a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In herauldry the vpper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the breadth thereof is diuided into three euen parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a shippe Horizon All imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heauens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight diuiding the heauens vnderneath vs from that which is aboue The Sun rising and going downe is euer in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The Ascedent of ones natiuity to witte that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a childe is borne Astrologers call it the first house Horride Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastly base slanderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Saue I beseech thee Hospitality Entertainement of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of couenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemy malicious harmefull Hostility Enmity hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Lawe when a daughter which hath had giuen vnto her any lands in Frankemarriage clayming to bee coheire after her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land giuen her before her fathers death to bee put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the landes whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall diuision may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hallow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire couering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanity Gentlenesse courtesie ciuill behauiour also manhood or the nature of manhood Humide Moist Humidity Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making low or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to prouoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flowre called crowcoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerius which hauing one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing vp in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancy See Diuination Hydromell A physicall sweete drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter
Doubtfulnesse difficulty Scrupulous Doubtfull fearefull one that casteth many doubts Scrutinie Search enquiry Scull A great company of fish swimming together Sculpture A caruing a grauing Scurril Scoffing beastly dishonest filthy Scurrility Saucy scoffing ribauldry Scurrillous The same that Scurrill is Scut The tale of a hare or cony Scacalfe Great fishes that bellow like oxen and haue their bodyes couered with hayre They breede like beastes on the land and sleepe there often in the night Sealamprie A fish called by some Remora which stayeth a shippe vnder a saile Sebestens Little plums brought out of Italy of a blewish colour and sweete in taste They are cold and moist in operation and are often vsed by Physitians in hotte agues and inward inflammations of the body Seclude To shut apart to shut out Seclusion A shutting apart Sect. A particular opinion of some few Sectary One that followeth priuate opinions in religion Section A diuision or cutting off Secular Worldly or belonging to the world Secundine The after birth the skinne wherin a child it wrapped in his mothers wombe Secure Carelesse void of feare Security Assurance from feare or danger Sediment The dregges of any liquor which sinketh to the bottome Seduce To deceiue to misleade Sedulity Diligence carefulnesse Segregate To diuide to seuer Seiant A terme in Herauldry when a beast is painted sitting vpright Select To choose to pick out Semblable Like Semblance A shew a colour Semblant Like Semicircle Halfe a circle Seminary A seede plot Semitary A crooked sword a faucheon Sempiternall Euerlasting Sena A little plant growing in Italy and other hot countryes but the best is brought from Alexandria It is hot and dry and the leaues thereof are often boyled in Physicke to purge the body of melancholicke grosse humours and to cleanse the blood but there must beee Anniseede Cinamon or Ginger added to it for that therwise it will prouoke windinesse and gripings in the belly Senate The Counsell house where the Magistrates of a city assemble themselues Senator An Alderman or graue Magistrate of a city Senior The Elder Sensible That may bee felt or perceiued sometime witty or of good conceite Sensuall That pleaseth the senses wanton giuen to please the flesh Sensuality Bodily pleasure wanton delight Sentinell A man standing in some conuenient place to discry what company cometh neere an army or towne of warre Sententious Full of sentences or wise speeches Septentrionall Of or belonging to the North. Septuagints Seuenty learned men which translated the Old Testament out of Hebrew into Greeke Sepulture Buriall Sequell That which followeth the matter following Sequester To diuide to withdrawe To put by it selfe Sequestration A putting apart a placing in seuerall by it selfe Seraine A foggy mist or dampish vapour falling in Italy about sunne-set at which time it is vnwholesome to be abroad especially bareheaded Seraphicall Inflamed with diuine loue like Seraphin Seraphin The highest order of Angels See Hierarchie Serenity Faire and cleere weather Sergreant A tearme applyed in Heraldly only to the Griffine which is so called Serious Earnest weighty of great importance Serpintene Of the nature of a Serpent Seruile Base slauish belonging to a bondman or seruant Seruility Bondage base estate Seruitude Bondage Sessions A sitting of Iudges Sethim A kinde of tree like a white Thorne the timber whereof neuer rotteth Of this tree was made the holy Arke of the Old Testament Seuere Iust graue hard Seuerity Grauity great constancy in ministring iustice Sewell A Paper clour or any thing hanged vp to keep a Deere from entring into a place Sewer He that goeth before the meate of a Prince or great personage to place it on the table also one that hath authority to ouerlooke water courses Shamoise A wilde Goat keeping the mountaines Shankes Theinue of the shanke of a kinde of Kidde Shingles A disease about the breast belly or backe wherein the place affected looketh red increasing circlewise more and more It is chiefly cured with Cats blood or if it goe round the body it killeth Shrew A kinde of field Mouse which if hee goe ouer a beastes backe will make him lame in the chine and if hee bite the beast swelleth to the heart and dyeth Shrine A Toombe or place where the body of some Saint is buried or remaineth Siatica See Sciatica before Sibbe One of kinne Sybill A woman inspired with a spirit of prophesie so called of the greeke words Sios which signifieth God and Boyle which signifieth counsell because such women had knowledge as was saide of the counsell of God There were tenne Sybils famous aboue the rest The first was Sybilla of Persia the second of Lybia the third of the City Delphos in Greece the fourth of Cunia a city in Aeolis the first of Erythrae a city of Asia the sixt of the I le Samos the seauenth of Cumae a city of Campania in Italy This Sibylla of Cumae as it is written came on a time to Tarquine king of Rome in the habit of a strange olde woman offering to sell him nine hookes full as she said of diuine oracles for which shee demanded three hundred crownes of golde the King not much regarding and besides thinking them too deere at that price she burned three of them before his face and then asked if hee would haue the other sixe for which she demaunded no lesse than she had done at first for the nine Hereat the King deriding her and thinking her halfe made she burned three more of them and tolde him that he should giue her the same price for those three that were left The King much wondering at the womans constant earnestnesse and therefore thinking the books contained no common matter commanded three hundred crownes to bee giuen her for them which she receiuing presently vanished out of sight These bookes were after kept by the Romans very carefully who in great matter of doubt alwaies had recourse to them as to an assured Oracle The eighth Sibyll was called Sibylla of Helespontus in Greece the ninth was of Phrygia the tenth and last of Tybur a citie neere Rome in Italy All these Sibylls prophecied of the incarnation of our Sauiour Christ Sicle In coyne it signifieth foure sterling groates of eight to an ounce in weight it is halfe an ounce Sidelayes Dogs layd in the way to bee let slip at a Deere as he passeth by Signet A seale Significatiue Which expresseth a matter plainly Signiorie A Lordship Silence Holding ones peace Similitude A likenesse Simonie The selling of spirituall things for mony This name first was deriued from one Simon a sorcerer of Samaria who offered mony to the Apostles that he might haue power to giue the holy Ghost vnto any that hee should lay his hands on for which cause hee was sharpely reprooued by Saint Peter Simulachre A picture or image Simulation Dissembling Sincere Vpright plaine without dissimulation Sinden Fine linnen cloth Single The taile of a Stagge or other Deere Singularitie Priuate opinion a desire to bee odde