humours inflaming the braine so is a Lethargie by cold Phlegmaticke humours oppressing the braine in such sort that the Patient can doe nothing but sleepe whereby he becommeth forgetfull with losse in a manner of reason and all the senses of his body Lethe A Poeticall word signifying a feyned Riuer in hell the water whereof being drunken causeth forgetfulnesse of all that is past Leucoma A fruite in India so called much like vnto a Chestnut Leueret A yong Hare * Leuesell A bush Leuitie Lightnesse Lexicon A Greek Dictionarie for words Liable Subiect to belonging to * Liard Nimble wilde Libard A spotted wilde beast the male of a Panther See Panther Libell A little Booke somtime a defamatorie scroll or slanderous writing or inuectiue written against one without any knowne name of the Author Libertine One of loose life or carelesse of Religion Libidinous Lustfull leacherous Licenciate One that hath studied the Ciuill Law fiue yeares Licentious Loose wanton Licentiousnesse Too much libertie loosenesse wantonnesse Lieu. In stead or place of another thing Lignum Aloes See Aloes Lignum vitae See Guaiacum Limit A bound or end Also to set bounds Limitation An appointing of bounds Lineall Downeright like a line Lineament The forme draught or proportion of the body Linguist One skilfull in languages Lipothymie A fainting or swounding when the vitall spirits being suddenly opprest a man sinketh down as if he were dead Liquid Thin and moist Liquefaction A melting Liquefie To melt Liquid Amber A sweete Rosin brought from the West Indies comfortable to the braine or any griefe proceeding from cold causes Lizard A little beast much like our Euet but without poyson breeding in Italy other hot countries The dung of this beast is good to take away spots in the eye cleereth the sight And the head thereof being bruised and laid to draweth out thorns or any thing sticking within the flesh Litanies Prayers or supplications so called of the Greeke verbe Litaneuo which signifieth to beseech or entreat Litargie The fome that riseth from lead when it is tried It is cold of operation and often vsed by Surgeons in Oyntments and Plaisters being of a gentle drying cleansing and binding nature See Lethargie Literature Learning knowledge in bookes Litherlie Slothfull Litigious Contentious full of strife Liturgie Publike seruice of the Church Locall Of or belonging to place Locust A great Flye or Grashopper with long legges breeding in India and other hot Countries There are two kindes of them One with winges not good to be eaten and the other without winges which the inhabitants vse for food * Lodemanage Skill of nauigation Lodestar A Starre that guideth one Lodestone A stone of the colour of rusty iron which hath an admirable vertue not onelie to draw iron to it selfe but also to make any iron vpon which it is rubbed to draw Iron also It is written notwithstanding that beeing rubbed with the iuyce of Garlicke it cannot then draw Iron as likewise if a Diamond bee laid close vnto it This stone is found in the Indian Sea and also in the Countrey of Trachonitis It is of greatest vse in Nauigation for by it Saylers finde out the certaine course of their voyage the needle in their compasse tempered herewith still standing directlie toward the North and South Logician One skilfull in Logicke Logicke The art of reason Lohoc A physicall word It is a thicke sirupe or other soft substance which must not bee swallowed but suffered to melt of it selfe in the mouth that so it may gently slide downe and thereby haue the more vertue against diseases of the breast lungs and throate Lone Lending somtime single or solitarie Longanimitie Long sufferance or forbearance Longitude The length of any thing In Astronomy it signifieth the distance of any Star or Planet from the first degree of the signe Aries Loquacitie Much talke or babling * Lore Learning knowledge Lorimer One that maketh bits for bridles and such like instruments * Lorrell A deuourer * Losell A lout sometime a craftie fellow Losenger A flatterer a Lyar. Lotion A washing * Louke A fellow receiuer Lubricitie Slippernesse Lucerns A beast almost as big as a Wolfe breeding in Muscouia and Ruscia of colour betweene red and browne mingled with blacke spots Lucre. Gaine profit Lunacie A disease wherin one is distracted in his wits at certaine times of the Moone Lunaticke Sicke of a Lunacie Lupines A little flat Pulse almost like a small beane but much lesse and bitter in taste They be not very good meate but are sometime vsed in Physicke against worms in children and the decoction of them taketh away spots and freckles of the face * Lushbrough A base coine in the time of king Edward the third Luster A shining or great brightnesse Lutum Clay Luxurie Riotousnesse leacherie Luxurious Riotous wanton leacherous Lyncuris A bright shining stone and sometimes of a dark yelow colour like Saffron This stone groweth of the vrine of the beast Lynx being congealed which vrine the Lynx hideth as Plinie writeth because men should not find it Some say it is good against the paine of the stomacke yellow Iaundise loosenesse of the belly Lynx A spotted beast like vnto a Wolfe and hauing a very perfect sight This beast breedeth cheefely in countries of the East is often found in the woods of Almaine Sclauonia Lyrike A Poet which maketh verses to be sung vnto the harp The best of these Poets among the Grecians was Pindarus and among the Latines Horace M MAcerate To steepe or soake in water somtime to afflict or vexe To make leane Machil An Hebrew word It signifieth the rich Robe of the Ephod worn by the high Priest of the old law hauing about the skirts therof 72. Pomegarnats of blew silke purple scarlet and as many belles of gold between thē round about Machination A deuising or subtil contriuing of a matter Machiuilian A politicke states man a cunning Polititian such as Machiuell was Macrologie Long and tedious talke Maculate To blemish or blot Madrigals A kind of Sonnets Magician A cunning man a Sorcerer a great learned Clark a Coniurer Magike At first this word signified great learning or knowledge in the nature of things now it is most commonly taken for inchantment and sorcerie Magistracie The bearing of office authoritie rule gouernment Magnanimitie Great courage Magnanimous Noble minded one of great courage Magnificence Sumptuousnesse great port and statelinesse Magnificent Sumptuous honorable stately Magnifico Ah honorable personage Magnitude Greatnesse Mainpernours Those that are sureties for a man and vndertake that he shall appeare at a certine day before Iudges in a Court. Maineprise The bayling of a man out of prison vpon securitie giuen that hee shall be forth comming Maior The greater or more auncient Maladie A disease Malecontent Not contented ill pleased Malediction A cursing Malfactor An euill doer Maleuolent Ill minded spitefull enuious Malignant Enuious spitefull mischeeuous Maligne Spitefull or to spite and hate Malignitie
counterfeit Aduocate He that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which a man his heires haue to present a Clerke to the Ordinary to be admitted to a spirituall benefice when it becommeth voide Adust Burnt scorched Adustion A burning Aedile An officer among the ancient Romanes who had charge to see that Temples priuate houses and highwaies were kept in good reparation Aegipan A Poeticall word signifying a monster hauing the body of a man and legs like a Goat Aerie A nest of Haukes is so called Aeriall Ayrie or of the aire Affability Courtesie in speech gentlenesse kindnesse Affable Courteous or kinde in speech Affect To loue sometime to moue affection Affectation Too much curiosity an extreme labouring without discretion to imitate another or doe any thing well Affiance Trust confidence Affianced Betrothed Affinitie Kindred by marriage sometime likenesse or agreement Affirmatiue Which affirmeth Affluence Plenty aboundance Affront To come boldly before one to looke boldly in ones face Africa One of three parts of the world lying toward the South herein is Barbary and all Ethiope contained The people of these countries liued in times past very vnciuilly feeding much vpon serpents flesh It is called Africa of the Greeke worke Phrice which signifieth Colde and the particle A. which in that language being placed before a word changeth the sense thereof so that Africa signifieth a country hotte or without cold Agarick A kind of mushrome or tadstoole of great account in Physicke It groweth vpon the Larch tree in Italy and is white light brittle and spongeous It expelleth cold fleame and grosse raw humours out of the body opening obstructions of the Liuer and by this meanes amendeth an euill colour Agast Amazed with feare dismaide Agent A dooer or medler in a matter Aggrauate To make any thing in words more grieuous heauier or worse then it is Agilitie Nimblenesse Agitation A shaking iogging or mouing Agnition Knowledge acknowledgement Agnize To acknowledge Agnus castus See Abrahams baume before Agony A torment of body and mind great feare and trembling Agriculture Tillage of land husbandry Alabaster A kinde of marble white and very cleare which by reason of the naturall coldnes therof doth preserue things long from corruption and therefore they vsed to make boxes of it to keepe sweete ointments and toombes to bury Princes and great Personages in Alacritie Cheerefulnesse courage quickenesse Alchymie The art of melting or dissoluing the nature of mettals by separating the pure from the impure parts thereof Alchymist Hee that is skilfull in Alchymie Alcion A small bird that maketh her nest in the sea and then it is a signe of faire weather some call it a kings fisher Alcoran A booke wherin Mahomets law and religion is written * Alderan A starre in the necke of the signe Leo. Algate Notwithstanding if so be seeing that Alien A stranger borne an outlandish man Alienate To estrange and withdraw the minde sometime to sell Alienation An estranging a selling away Aliment Nourishment Alkakengi Otherwise called winter cherries An herb which beareth round berries and red that are good against the stoppings of the Liuer the stone and grauell and diuers diseases of the kidneyes and bladder Allay To qualifie or abate the strength or violence of any thing It is also a terme of hunting when they set hounds in a readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe and cast them off when the rest of the Kennell comes in Allegation A telling of some proofe or reason of a matter Allegiance Obedience of a subject to his Prince Allegorie A sentence consisting of diuers tropes which must be vnderstood otherwise then the litterall interpretation sheweth as when Saint Iohn Baptist speaking of our Sauiour Matth. 3 said Whose fanne is in his hand and he shall make cleane his floore and gather the wheat into his barne but the chaffe he shall burne with vnquenchable fire The meaning whereof is that Christ being supreme Iudge of all shall separate the good from the euill rewarding the one in heauen and punishing the other in hell fire Allegoricall Of or belonging to an allegorie spoken by an allegorie Alleluia An Hebrew word or rather two Hebrewe words ioyned in one vsed as a signe of exultation and is interpreted Prayse ye our Lord. Paulus Diaconus writeth that when the Britaine 's were inuaded by the Saxons and Picts and on a time ready to fight a battell against them they were admonished by Germanus a French Bishop who was sent hither with Saint Lupus to confute the Pelagian heresie that they should doe as he did and forthwith he cryed aloude Alleluia which when the whole armie of Britaines had done the sound thereof strooke such a terrour into the enemies that they presently fledde away whereby the Britaines had the victory De gestis Rom. lib. 15. Allie Of kinne to one by marriage Alliance Kindred and affinitie league or friendship Allot To appoint or giue by lotte Allude To speake any thing which hath resemblance or priuilie is directed to touch another matter Allusion A likening or priuy resembling of one matter to another See Allude * Alnath A starre in the hornes of the signe Aries Aloes or Lignum Aloes A precious wood vsed in Phisicke which comforteth the heart and openeth obstructions It is knotty browne of colour and bitter in taste Being burned it fometh and yieldeth a sweete perfume Some affirme it to grow vppon mountaines in the East neere the rising of the famous Riuer Nilus from which mountaines falling downe it is carried by the streame into India where being taken vp in nets it is cleansed and made apt for physicke Aloesuccotrina The iuyce of an herbe brought hither dry out of India the best whereof is cleere cleane and red like to the colour of a lyuer It is very bitter but an excellent medicine to purge cholericke humours out of the stomack yet not good to bee taken inwardly of such as are troubled with the Hemorrhoides Alpha. The first letter of the Greekes wherefore it is sometime taken for the first or cheef in any thing Alphabet The crosserow of letters the A B C. Alphabeticall Belonging to the Alphabet Alps. High mountaines between France and Lombardie the rockes whereof Hannibal the great Captaine of the Carthaginians softened in diuers places with fire and vineger to cut out a way for his army to passe into Italy Altercation An angrie reasoning or wrangling in words Alternall Done by turne or course one after another Altitude Highth Amate To dismay to make afraid Amazon A woman of the Country Amazonica Amazones were warlike women of Scythia which kept a Countrey to themselues without men yet to haue children companied with the bordering people Their Sonnes they eyther destroyed or sent home to the father but their daughters they kept bringing them vp in hunting ryding shooting and feates of armes They burned the right breast of their children lest it should hinder their archerie wherefore they had the name Amazons which in Greeke
Geomancie is a kinde of diuination practised by making prickes and lines in the earth as the name in Greeke signifieth So Hydromancie 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 Romans had with King Mithridates Pyromancie is a diuination made by the fire or spirits appearing in the fire Coscinomancie is a ridiculous kinde of diuination made with a sieue which at this day is vsed by some simple women and appeareth to bee of antiquitie for in the third Idylle of Theocritus there is mention made hereof Palmistrie or Chiromancie is a diuination practised by looking vpon the lines of the fingers and hands an art still in vse among fortune tellers Egyptians and iuglers Besides these there were also other diuinations as namely 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 accounted 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 witnesseth first permitted by Moses vnto the Israelites for the hardnesse of their hearts that men might rather put their wiues away 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 hereafter I will lay no claime to thee And this writing was called a bil of diuorce But with Christians this custome is abrogated sauing onely in case of adulterie The auncient Romanes also had a custome of diuorce and amongst them it was as lawfull for the wiues to put away their husbands as for the husband to dismisse his wife but amongst the Israelites this prerogatiue was onely permitted to the husband Diureticall That which is of vertue to cause one to make water Diumall Of or belonging to a day Also a booke wherein daily actions or accounts are set downe Diuturmitie Long continuance 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 quicknesse of vnderstanding Document A lesson an instruction Dogdayes Certain dayes in Iuly and August so called of the Starre Canis the Dogge which then rising with the Sun doeth greatly increase the heate thereof Dogmaticall Which is held or maintained in som mens opinion Dole Sorrow heauinesse griefe sometimes almes giuen to many poore folkes Dolefull Heauie sorrowfull Dolorous Greeuous painefull Dolphine A fish friendlie to man and especially to children the Females of this fish haue breasts like to women which are well stored with milke They are very faithfull to one another 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 pronounced a iudgement Doomesman A Iudge Domesticall One of the house or any thing belonging to the house Domesticke See Domesticall Domineere To beare rule or great sway Dominicall Belonging to sunday or our Lordes day Dominion Lordship rule Donarie A gift properly 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 chamber vsed onely for religious men to sleepe in Dowager A Widdow Princesse hauing dowrie in the countrey which was in subiection to her deceased 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 lamentable 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 Pagane 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 estimation among the people that all controuersies were referred to their determination and a great penaltie laid on such as disobeied their sentence They beleeued 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 worship done to Angels and Saints Duplication A doubling Duplicitie Doublenesse Durabilitie Long continuance Dwale An hearb of cold operation hauing power to make one sleepe some call it Nightshade E EAglet A yong Eagle Ebene A tree which groweth in Ethiopia bearing neither leaues nor fruit It is blacke and hath no graine like other wood and is sharp byting in tast Being burned it yeildeth a pleasant smell neither is the smoake thereof offensiue but the greene wood is so full of sap that it will flame like a candle It is good against many diseases of the eyes That which groweth in India is spotted with white and yellow being not in such estimation as the Ethiopian Ebene is Ebionits Certaine olde Heretikes which affirmed that Christ was not before his mother the B. Virgin Against these Heretickes Saint Iohn writ his Gospel after he returned from his banishment in the I le Pathmos Ebonie See Ebene Ebrictie Drunkennesse Eccho A rebounding or sounding backe of any noyse or voyce in a wood valley or hollow place Poets feine that this Eccho was a Nymphc so called which beeing reiected of one whom she loued pyned away for sorrow in the woods where her voyce still remaineth answering the outcryes of all complaints Ecclesiasticall Of or belonging to the Church Ecclesiasticus Of or belonging to a Preacher The name of a Booke in the olde Testament is so called Eclipse A fayling or want of any thing Commonly it signifieth a want of light and there be two such Eclipses namely of the Moone and of the Sunne Eclipse of the Moone neuer happeneth but at the full Moone neither then alwaies but whē she is in such a point that the shadow of the earth depriueth her of the Sunne beames from whence she taketh her light Eclipse of the Sunne is not so vsuall and happeneth only at the change of the Moone namely when the Moone being betweene the Sunne and vs doth with her dark body hide part of her light from vs which was the cause that Dionysius Areopagita seeing the Sunne so admirably eclipsed at our Sauiours
passion contrarie to all reason when the Moone was not in any neerenesse to hinder his light cryed out in amazement Aut Deus naturae patitur aut machina mundi dissoluetur Either the God of nature suffereth or else the frame of the world will be destroyed Ecliptike line An imagined line running thorough the midst of the twelue signes in which the sunne alwaies keepeth his course Eclog. It is commonly taken for a poeme conteining a communication of slepherds but the word in Greeke signifieth a collection or choice gathering of things together Eden An Hebrew word signifying delectation or a place of pleasure and delight Paradise Edible Which may bee eaten Edict An ordinance made by any in authorithority A proclamation or decree Edifie To build to frame sometime to instruct Edifice A building a frame Edification A buildding but most commonlie it is taken for an instruction so plainely deliuered that the hearer profiteth by it Edition A setting forth or publishing Educate To bring vp to nourish Education A bringing-vp Effectuate To performe Effeminate Womanish nice Efficacie Strength vertue force Efficiencie A bringing to passe Efficient Which bringeth to passe or performeth Effusion A powring out a large spending Eftsoones Againe often Egregious Notable excellent Egresse A going forth from any place Egritude Griefe of mind or paine of bodie Eiect To cast out Eiection A casting out Eiulation A howling a pittifull crying out Elaborate Curious done with great paines Elate Lifted vp aduanced proud loftie Elation A lifting vp pride loftinesse Elaterium The iuyce of wilde cucumbers dried Being taken inwardly it purgeth waterish humours and is good against the dropsie But it must bee mixed with somewhat to restraine the malice of it for otherwise it will bee painfull in operation * Eld. Old age Elect. To choose or one that is chosen Election Choice Electuarie Any medicine taken inwardly made of diuers powders mixed together and by tempering with some syrupes or hony brought to a soft liquid forme Elegancie Finenes neatnesse Elegant Fine neate picked trim Elegie A mournefull song vsed in funerals or other passions of sorrow Elegiacke Mournefull Element The first matter of visible substance from whence all things take their beginning wherof there be foure namely fire ayre water and earth Sometime it signifieth a letter as A.B.C. sometime the first foundation principle or instruction of any thing Elementarie Which consisteth of Elements Eleemosynarie Giuen in almes or which giueth almes Elench A subtill argument Eleuate To lift vp to aduance Eleuation A lifting vp Elixir An Arabian word of the same signification that Quintessence is in latine see Quintessence Elke A kinde Yew to make bowes with Elocution Vtterance eloquence Eloine To put giue or sell away Elong To put or set farre off Elude To mocke or deceiue Elusion A mocking a deceite Elysian Of or belonging to Elysium Elysium A supposed place of pleasure below where Poets imagined the soules of good men did rest Embalme To annoint with baulme Embassie An embassage a message from one Prince to another Embellish To make beautifull Embezill To steale to conuey away Embleme It properly signifieth any fine worke cunningly set in wood or other substance as we see in chesse boards and tables notwithstanding it is commonly taken for a picture or other deuice shaddowing some matter to be learned by it Embost A tearme vsed by hunters when a Deere is so weary that he fometh at the moâ—th Embracer A law terme of him that when a matter is in triall commeth for reward to the barre being no lawyer nor witnes and speaketh in fauour of one of the parties or which laboureth the Iury or vseth any vnlawful practise to make them giue their verdit as hee would haue them Embrion A childe vnperfect in the mothers wombe Emendation An amending Emeralde A precious stone the greenest of all other for which cause it is very comfortable to the sight The best of these stones are brought out of Scythia And some affirme them to bee taken out of the Griffons neastes who doe keepe this stone with great crueltie It is found by experience as Albertus writeth that if the Emerald be good it inclineth the bearer thereof to chastitie and cannot endure the action of lust There is also a disease sounding neere this word for which see Hemorrhode Eminence Highnes dignitie honour Eminent High lofty honourable Emmanuel An Hebrew word expressing the dignity of our Sauiour and is interpreted God with vs. Emolument Profit gaine aduantage Empannelâ— To make vp a iurie of twelue or more men Emphasis An expresse or most plaine signification of ones mind Emphaticall That which is vttered with most expresse signification in such sort that it setteth forth to the full the intent of the speaker Empiricke A physition that getteth skill by his owne practise Emplaster A plaister or salue made of herbes powders and oyle boyled together Empleade To sue one Emprimed A terme vsed by hunters when a Hart first forsaketh the heard Empyriall heauen The highest heauen aboue the firmament so called by a Greeke name because of the bright shining of it Emulate To enuie to striue to doe as another doth Emulation Enuie an earnest desire to doe as an other doth Enarration A telling or declaring Enchiridion It is commonly taken for a little booke which one may stil carrie in his hand Encomium A praise Encroche To creepe or presse vpon a man vnlawfully to get more then his due Encrochment A law terme when one man vnlawfully presseth too farre vpon another as in setting his pale oo farre vpon anothers land the more to enlarge his owne or in taking more rent then is due Endorse To write on the outside of a Letter Endorsed A terme of Herauldrie when two beastes are painted with their backs turned to each other Energeticall Very forcible and strong Energie Force vertue strength * Enewed Made new Enfranchise To make free to admit or receiue one into any corporation Enfranchisement A making free Enhance To aduance or make greater Enigma A riddle a darke speech Enigmaticall Obscure darke hard to vnderstand spoken in a riddle * Enmoised Comforted Enormitie A going out of rule a great disorder Enormous Wicked very bad Enquest A Iury of twelue or moe men Ensigne A banner borne in warres a flagge or any ornament seruing for a marke of some dignitie Entalented Ingrafted Enthymeme A terme of Logick It signifieth an imperfect syllogisme which wanteth either the Maior or Minor as for example Euery sinne deserueth correction Euery theft is a sinne Therefore euery theft deserueth correction Now if wee will leaue the first part called the Maior and say thus Euery theft is a sinne Therefore Euery theft deserueth correction Or omit the second part named the Minor and say Euery sinne deserueth correction therefore euery theft deserueth correction Then it is called an Enthymeme to wit a keeping in the minde for so the word properly signifieth because one of these parts is vnderstood in the minde
AN ENGLISH EXPOSITOR TEACHING THE INTERpretation of the hardest words vsed in our Language WITH SVNDRY EXPLICATIons Descriptions and Discourses By I. B. Doctor of Physicke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT 1616. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS HIS SINGVLRA GOOD LADIE THE LADIE IANE Vicountesse Mountague all honour and happinesse BEing perswaded Right Noble Ladie by some friends for publike benefit to make this Collection of words common which at first was intended onely for priuate vse as written in my youth at the request of a worthy Gentleman one whose loue preuailed much with me I could not finde in heart to send it forth no better furnished than with a bare Title lest like an vnknowne Infant it should be exposed to ouer hard vsage or peraduenture scornefully reiected aduenturing abroad without countenance of any friend or commaunder Vpon sure knowledge therefore of your most honourable disposition and former experience of your Ladyships fauour toward me I am emboldned to present this little Pamphlet vnto your Honour with hope that by your Patronage it shall not onely bee protected from iniuries but also finde fauourable entertainment and perhaps gracefully admitted among greatest Ladies and studious Gentlewomen to whose reading I am made beleeue it will not prooue altogether vngratefull And although I may well be taxed of folly or presumption that for credit of a slender trifle craue the assistance of so eminent a Person yet such I confesse is my care thereof since I must not deny it for my owne and my duty and deuotion so affected to your Honour and all yours that I haue hoping of your Ladishps pardon wilfullie repelled al reasons which might disswade me choosing herein not so much what may seem most seemly as what I suppose most behoouefull for me Accept therefore I beseech your Honour and receiue vnder your noble tuition this little vocabulary Treatise which hauing beene many yeares restrained of libertie is now glad of enlargement especially recommended vnto so worthy a Patronesse The glorious Sun loseth not the least point of his heighth by liliberall lending downe his light and quickening with his influence the lowest creatures neither is any eminency disgraced that easily condescendeth to others desired good which is also confirmed by the Poet who saieth Conspicitur nunquam meliore potentia causa Quà m quoties vanas non sinit esse preces Not thinking needfull therefore to trouble your Honour with many words of entreatie vpon assured confidence of your wel known Charitie and goodnesse I conclude sincerely wishing to your Ladiship the best that may be wished and resting my selfe euer Your Honours to be commaunded IO. BVLLOKAR To the Courteous Reader HEre haue you Gentle Reader that which at first was not made for you though now willingly for your benefite if you embrace it offered to your kind acceptance Commend it my selfe I will not lest I should giue occasion to some quick heads to come vpon me with the verse Autor opus land at c. Yet this I will say and say truely that in my yonger yeares it hath cost mee some obseruation reading study and charge which you may easily beleeue considering the great store of strange words our speech doth borrow not only from the Latine and Greeke and som from the ancient Hebrew but also from forraine vulgar Languages round about vs beside sundry olde words now growne out of vse and diuers termes of art proper to the learned in Logicke Philosâ—phy Law Physicke Astronomie c. yea and Diuinitie it selfe best knowen to the seuerall professors thereof And herein I hope such learned will deeme no wrong offered to themselues or dishonour to Learning in that I open the signification of such words to the capacitie of the ignorant whereby they may conceiue and vse them as well as those which haue bestowed lonâ— study in the languages for considering it is familiar among best writers to vsurpe strange words and sometime necessary by reason our speech is not sufficiently furnished with apt termes to expresse all meanings I suppose withall their desire is that they should also be vnderstood which I knowing that bonum quò communius eo melius haue endeauoured by this Booke though not exquisitely yet I trust in some reasonable measure to performe It is easier all know to find faults then to mende them and easier to mend faults in anothers worke already written then to write any new worke free from all fault If therefore any fault finder or ouer curious Criticke for from the best learned I expect best vsage shall to shew his skill grow captious and quarrell at my interpretations I will desire him to forbeare bitternesse and temper a while his choler till hauing laide this worke aside hee trauell himselfe in the same or some other new argument and then I doubt not but he will either become more indifferent or giue others occasion to bid him English the olde Prouerbe Medice cura teipsum But as for you iudiciall or courteous Reader whose fauour I desire and whose counsell or friendly correction I will not refuse if to you I say any thing herein shall occurre which seemeth by me omitted mistaken or not fully satisfactory to your expectation for indeed there are almost slipt away seuen yeeres since I had any leasure as much as to looke on it I promise that vpon warning hereof giuen to me or the Printer at a second Impression it shall be amended or supplyed Meanewhile vse this as you finde it and I perswade my selfe your honesty will say it is worth the money you paide for it So committing my selfe and Booke to your fauorable good liking I commit you to God From my house at Chicester in Sussex this 17. day of October 1616. Your hearty well willer Io Bullokar An Instruction to the Reader HAue care to search euery word according to the true Orthography thereof as for Phoenix in the Letter P. not in F. for Hypostaticall in Hy not in Hi. Remember also that euery word marked with this marke * is an olde word onely vsed of some ancient writers and now growne out of vse Lastly if a word bee of different significations the one easie the other more difficult I onely speake of interpretation of the hardest as in the words Tenne Girle Garter may appeare ABandon To forsake to cast off Abate To make lesse In our common Law it signifieth to enter into any inheritance before the right heire take possession with intent to keepe the said heire out of it Abatement The action or enterprise of him which abateth in the common Lawe Abba An Hebrewe word signifying Father Abbett To helpe or assist one in euill Abbettour Hee that counselleth or comforteth another to doe any euill Abbot A spirituall Lord ouer a religious house of Monkes Abbreuiate To make short to abridge Abbreuiation A making short an abridgement Abdicate To refuse or forsake to renounce
signifieth women wanting a breast Ambage A long circumstance of words Amber A kinde of hard yellow gumme wherewith they make beades Mesue saith the tree whereon it groweth is called Ibex Romana but what this tree is I cannot yet learne Dioscorides saith that it falleth in manner of a liquor from Poplar trees into the riuer Po in Italy where it congealeth and becommeth hard in that forme as wee see it Ambergrise Mesue saith it is the spawne of the Whale fish Auicen affirmeth it to grow in the sea Others write onely that it is cast vp on the shore and found cleauing to stones there the fume thereof is good against the falling sicknesse and comfortable to the braine Ambia A clammy liquor of the colour of hony brought out of India It is said to haue great vertue in healing old aches or griefes proceeding from cold diseases Ambidexter He that can vse both hands alike a crafty follow that can play on both parts Ambiguitie Doubtfulnesse Ambiguous Doubtfull vncertaine Ambition Vnlawfull or immoderate desire of soueraignty Ambrosie A sweet shrub or little tree wherewith some people were wont to make Garlands In poetry it vsually signifieth the meat of the heathen gods It is sometime taken for immortalitie Ambulatorie A place to walke in Ambuscado A company of Souldiours hid in some wood or other couert to entrap their enemies vnwares Amenitie Pleasantnesse delectablenesse Amerce To punish one by enioyning him to pay a certaine small summe of money at the discretion of him that lawfully commandeth it Amercement A punishment by the purse See Amerce Amethist A precious stone of a purple colour fit to graue any thing in because it is not ouerhard It withstandeth drunkennes as the name in Greeke signifieth Amiable Louely Amitie Friendshippe loue Ammoniacke A kinde of gum almost like to Frankincense so called because it groweth in Lybia neere the place where the Temple of Ammon was There is also a kind of salt so called which is found in Africa vnder sand and is like vnto allume Amorous Louing or giuen to loue Amphibolie A speech hauing a doubtfull sence or which may bee taken diuers manner of waies Amphibologie The same that Amphibolie is Amphiscians Such people as dwell vnder the burning Zone neere the Equinoctiall line so called because their shadowes at noone are sometimes towards the North sometimes toward the South Amphitheater A place hauing seates and scaffolds in it vsed among the olde Romanes to shew spectacles and strange sights in Offenders condemned to dye and Prisoners taken in warre were often brought to this place to fight and be deuoured by wilde beastes the people sitting in safe places aboue inhumanely sporting themselues thereat Also the Gladiators or Sword-players did fight here Ample Large great Amplifie To enlarge Amplification An enlarging Amplitude Largenesse greatnesse Amulet Any thing hanged about the neck to preserue one from inchantment Anagramme An inuention that by altering the places of the letters of ones name changeth the word and turneth it to some other sence as if for Iohn one would write Honi there beeing iust the same letters in them both Analogie Proportion agreement or likenesse of one thing to another Analysis A resolution or explicating of an intricate matter Anarchie Lacke of gouernment all the time when the people is without a Prince or Gouernour Anathema Any thing hanged vp in a Church as an offering to God sometime it signifieth excommunication or a man excommunicated and deliuered to the power of the diuell Anathematize To hang vp a thing as consecrated to God somtime to curse sweare or betake to the diuell Anatomie An incision or cutting The art of knowing the situation office and nature of all the parts of mans body Anatomize To cut and search euery part Anchouie A Spanish fish lesse then our Sprat preserued in pickle and vsed by Gallants to draw down drinke Anchoresse A religious woman that liueth solitarie in some close place by her selfe Anchorite A religious man liuing solitary alone in some close place Angelicall Like an Angell Angle A corner Anguish Griefe of mind vexation Angust Streight narrow Animaduersion A marking Animate To encourage to harten on Anime A white gumme or rosin brought out of the West Indies It is verie pleasant in smel and being cast into the fire consumeth very quickly Animositie Courage Annalls Chronicles of things done from yeare to yeare Annats First fruits paid of a spirituall liuing Annex To knit or ioin to Annihilate To make voide or bring to nothing Anniuersarie A solemnitie kept euery yeare at a set time Annotation A note mark or exposition made vpon any writing Annuall Yearely Annuitie A yearely payment of money to one not in way of rent but vpon some other occasion Annull To make voide Annunciate To tell or declare Antagonist An enemie an aduersarie Antartike Pole The south pole of the world Antecedent That which goeth before Antheme See Antiphone Antichrist An aduersary to Christ It is compounded of the Greeke preposition Anti and Christus which signifieth contrary or against Christ Anticipate To preuent to take before another Anticipation A preuenting or taking before Antidate The dating of a letter or other writing on some day already past Antidote A medicine against poyson or which serueth to amend any distemperature of the body Antike worke A worke in painting or caruing of diuers shapes of beasts birds flowers c. vnperfectlie mixt and made one out of another Antimonie A white stone found in siluer mines Antipathie A countrariety or great disagreement of qualities Antiperistasis A terme vsed in Philosophy when heat being kept in by cold waxeth the stronger in it selfe or cold kept in by heate groweth more vehement Antiphone Any verse or litle sentēce which churchmen do by course sing one after another Antipodes People vnder vs that goe with their feete toward ours Antique Old auncient Antiquaric One studious in matters of antiquity or well acquainted in old Histories Antiquate To make old or of no account Antithesis A contrarietie of things placed against other as the spokes be in a wheele Antlier The lower branch of a Harts horne Anxietie Carefulnesse sadnesse Anxious Carefull sad Aphorisme A short sentence briefely expressing the properties of a thing or which serueth as a maxime or principle to guide a man to any knowledge specially in Philosophy and Phisicke Apocalypse A diuine book written by Saint Iohn Euangelist while he was banished in the I le Pathmos so called because it conteineth many profound mysteries there reuealed vnto him In English it signifieth a Reuelation Apocrypha That which is hidden and not knowne Doubtfull Apocynon A little bone in the left side of a Frog of great vertue as some thinke Apogeon A terme in Astronomy signifying the farthest distance of a Planet from the earth Apologie A defence a speech or written answere made in iustification of any person Apologicall That which is spoken an defence Apophthegme A short quick sentence worthy the noting
to draw a line about Circumscriptible That which may bee limited or contained within bounds Circumspect Wise warie heedfull Circumuent To compasse in to deceiue one craftily Cite To warne one to appeare Citation A warning one to appeare Citrine Yellow Cittadell A castle with a small garrison to keepe a towne in awe Ciuet. A sweet substance like muske It is said to be the dung of the beast Hyena Ciuilize To make ciuill Clamour A great cry or noise Clamorous Crying out or exclaiming Clandestine Priuy close secret Clarentius One of the Kings of armes whose office is to dispose the funerals of Knights Esquires of the southside of Trent Clarifie To make cleere Claritie Noblenesse cleerenesse Clause A short sentence * Cleepe An olde word signifying to name or to call Clemencie Mercy gentlenesse Clement Mercifull pittifull Client One that asketh counsell of a Lawyer Clime See Climate Climactericall A Greeke word signifying an account or reckoning made by certaine degrees or steppes Some haue heereby diuided the age of mans life after this manner The seuenth yeare they reckon for dangerous and by this account the 14.21.28.35 c. are climactericall yeares Likewise the ninth yeare is esteemed equallie as dangerous and by this account the 18.27.36 c. are called Climactericall yeares But the most noted and famous Climactericall yeare is at the age of 63. because both accounts doe meete in this number namely 7. times 9. and 9. times 7. And this is held the most dangerous yeare of all other Climate A terme vsed in Cosmographie It signifieth a portion of the world betweene North South conteining some notable difference in the sunne rising Cloke To couer or hide Closhe An vnlawfull game called by some nine pinnes cules or kittles * Clum A note of silence Coaction Constraint Coactiue Constraining Coadiutor A fellow helper Coagulate To turne to curde Coca An hearbe in India the leaues whereof being bruised and mixt with the powder of Cockles or Oysters in their shelles burnt the Indians vse in little balles to carry in their mouthes to preserue them from famine or great dryth Cockatrice See Basiliske Coequall Equal in degree with another Coessentiall Of the same essence or substance Coeternall Equall in eternity with another Cogitation A thinking Cognition Knowledge Cohere To cleaue stick or hang together Coherence An agreement or hanging together Collaterall Sidewaies or ioyning to the side Euerie degree of kindred is either lineall or collaterall The lineall is that which cometh from the Grandfather to the Father from the Father to the Son and so still right downeward Collaterall is that which cometh sidewaies as first betweene brothers sisters then betweene their children c. Also Vnckles Aunts and all Cousins are conteined vnder this tearme of Collaterall kindred Collation A short banquet Colleague A companion or one ioyned in office with another Collect. To gather together Collection A gathering Collocation A placing together Colloquie A talking or conferring together Collusion Deceite cousenage It is also a terme vsed in law when an action is brought against one by his owne agreement Collyrie A physicall terme signifying any medicine for the eyes Colon. A marke of a sentence not fully ended which is made with two prickes thus Colonie Among the Romans when their cittie was too ful of inhabitants they vsed to withdraw a certaine number to dwell in some other place which number so withdrawne as also the place to which they were sent was called by the name of Colonie Coloquintida A kinde of wilde Gourd which the Persians name Gall of the earth because it destroyeth all hearbes neere which it groweth It is round hauing a thinne yellow rinde when it is ripe and the inner part open and spongie full of gray seede If there grow but one vpon a plant it must bee throwne away because it will bee too violent in operation This fruite is often vsed in physicke to purge slimie grosle humours from the sinnewes and ioynts but must be well prepared for that otherwise it is verie dangerous Colosse An image or statue of exceeding greatnesse made sometime by the olde Emperours of Rome There was one such image in the I le of Rhodes dedicated to the sunne of one hundred and fiue foot long the thumbe of which image few men could fathome Columbine Douelike Columne A pillar Coluri Two imagined circles in the heauens drawne both through the Poles whereof one passeth through Aries and Libra the other through Cancer and Capricorne So that they deuide the Zodiacke and the whole heauens into foure euen parts Combat A fight between two allowed by the law for triall of some controuersie Combatant He that fighteth or is to fight a Combat Combine To couple or ioyne together Combination A coupling or ioyning together Combust Burnt or scorched a planet is said to be combust when he is vnder the sunne beames or within certaine degrees of them Combustible That which wil soone be set on fire and consumed Combustion A burning Comedie A play or interlude the beginning whereof is euer full of troubles and the end ioyfull Among the Greekes Eupolis Aristophanes and Cratinus were the chiefe comicall Poets among the Latines Plautus and Terence Comedian A Player or writer of Comedies Comet A blazing starre It is properly a great quantity of hot and drye exhalations drawne vp from the earth by the attractiue vertue of starres into the highest region of the ayre where beeing neere the Element of fire it is inflamed and there mooued round according to the motion of the starre vnder which it is growen or the motion of the ayre in those high parts Comicall That which pertaineth to Comedies also pleasant or merry Comma A marke often vsed in writing and printing which is made thus Commemorate To rehearse or make mention Commemoration A rehearsall a remembrance Commence To begin to enter an action against one Commendatorie which recommendeth one Comment Notes of instruction set in some bookes to expound such things as cannot easily bee vnderstood Sometime it is taken for a lie or fayned tale Commentarie See Comment Commendatorie That which hath commendations onely written in it Commerce Conuersation entercourse of merchandise Commination A threatning Commiserate To take pittie or compassion vpon any Commiseration Pittie or compassion Commissarie One that hath spirituall iurisdiction in some out places of a diocesse so farre distant from the chiefe citty that it were too great trouble to summon people to it Commission A writing testifying that one or many haue some authoritie in a matter of trust committed to their charge Commissioner He that is in authoritie by vertue of a commission Committee He to whom a matter is committed to be decided or ordered Commixe to mingle together Commixtion A mingling together Commodious Fit profitable Commotion A great stir a hurly burly Communicable That which may be imparted vnto an other Communion A partaking together Communitie Fellowship in partaking together Commutation A changing Compact Hard knit
this serpent and slew him Hydromancie See Diuination Hydromell A physicall sweete drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe hauing a mane and long haires ouer all the bodie It is the subtillest as some say of all beasts and will counterfeit the voice of a man to draw sheepheards out of their houses in the night to the end hee may kill them It is written that hee changeth sex often being sometime male and sometime femall Hymen A poeticall word it is taken for the God of marriage sonne vnto Bacchus and Venus and sometime for a song at a mariage feast Hymne A song to praise God Hyperbole A figure when one speaketh a great deale more than is precisely true Hyperbolicall Any thing spoken aboue all beleefe as in saying higher than heauen swifter than lightening c. is called an Hyperbolicall speech Hypocrite It properly signifieth one that doth counterfeite the gesture of an other man but it is commonly taken for a dissembler that with feined holines would seeme better than hee is indeede Hypoquistidos In diuers hote countries there groweth a plant called Cistus hauing about the root thereof a certaine Mushroome which being bruised yieldeth a liquor called by Apothecaries Hypoquistidos This liquour brought hither dry is cold of operation and of vertue to stoppe all bleedings laskes and fluxes of the belly Hypostaticall Belonging to substance or that which consisteth in the substance of a thing Hypotheticall In Logike those propositions which haue a coniunction in them and so consist of two parts are called Hypotheticall propositions as in saying If the Sunne be in our Hemisphere it is day Hysteron proteron A Greeke terme sometime vsed in derision of that which is spoken or done preposterously or quite contrary We call it in English The cart before the horse I IAcent Lying along Iacynth A precious stone found in Ethiopia whereof there are two kindes the one of a pale yellow colour and the other of a cleere bright yellow which is accounted the better It is cold of nature comfortable to the body and prouoketh sleepe Iacobs staffe An instrument in Geometry Iaculatory That which is suddenly cast from one like a dart Iambes Postes susteining both sides of the dore Iambeux Armour for the legs Iasmine A limmer weake plant full of ioynts or knots which groweth in manner of a hedge or quickset and must be stayed vp as roses and vines are Iasper A precious stone of diuers colours but the best is greene transparent with red veines and sheweth fairest being set in siluer it is good to stoppe any issue of blood Iasponyx A precious stone white of colour and hauing red strakes Iazul A precious stone of a blew azure colour Ibis A tall strong bird in Egypt with a long bill which doth much good there in destroying serpents Icleeped named called * Icond Learned Idea The forme or figure of any thing conceiued in the minde Identitie The selfe same thing Idiome The forme of speech or propertie of any language Idiote It is commonly taken for a foole naturall notwithstanding it sometime signifieth a man vnlearned Ides Eight daies in euery month so called because they deuide the month almost in the middle In March May Iuly and October these eight daies beginne at the eighth day of the month and continue to the fifteenth in other months they begin at the sixt day and continue to the thirteenth Where note that the last day onely is called Ides and the first of these dayes the eighth Ides the second the seuenth Ides that is the eighth or seuenth day before the Ides and so of the rest Idolaster An Idolater Iehouah The ineffable name of God signifying his diuine essence The hebrewes did not vse to reade this word when they came to it in any writing so much reuerence did they beare vnto it but in stead thereof they pronounced Adonai which signifieth Lord. Iesus A Sauiour * Iewise Reward by reuenge also a gibbet * Ifere Together * Ifretten Deuoured Ignoble Base that is not noble Ignominie Shame reproch infamie Ignominious Shamefull vile reprochfull * Jkend Knowne Iliads A booke written in greeke by Homer of the destruction of Troy * Ilke The same Illation A bringing in of a matter Illaudable not worthy of praise Illegitimate Vnlawfull not lawfully begotten Illiberall Not liberall miserable base Jlliberalitie Niggardnesse properly in a greate man that ouer slightly rewardeth a seruice or curtesie done to him by his inferiour Illiterate Vnlearned one that is not acquainted with letters Illude To mocke to deceiue Jllusion A mockerie a cunning slight to deceiue one Illuminate To enlighten Illumination A shining or giuing of light Jllustrate To make famous or noble Illustration A making famous or noble Illustrious Famous noble very honourable Imagerie Painted or carued workes of images Jmaginarie That which is conceited in the minde Imbecillitie Weakenesse * Imeint Mingled Imitate To follow Imitation A following Imitator A follower of another Jmmaculate Vndefiled pure vnspotted Jmmanitie Crueltie outragious fiercenesse Jmmarcessible Vncorruptible Immature Vnripe Immaturitie Vnripenesse Immediate That which commeth directly from one thing to another without any thing betweene Immedicable Which cannot be healed Immemorable Not worthy to be remembred Immense Vnmeasurable which cannot be measured Immensitie Exceeding greatnesse vnmeasurablenesse Jmmoderate Vnreasonable contrarie to modesty Immodest Not sober vnmannerly saucy Immolate To offer in sacrifice Immolation An offering of sacrifice Immortall Not subiect to death euerlasting Immortality Euerlastingnesse Jmmunitie Freedome or discharge from any publike businesse Jmmure To shut vp or inclose in a wall Immutable Vnchangeable Immutation A change Impacted Thrust hard together couched into Imparitie Vnequalnesse vnlikenesse Imparlance When a man sued in the common law for debt trespasse or such like craueth and obtaineth of the Court some respite of time before hee make his answere this stay of making his answere is called an Imparlance Impassibilitie A Freedome from any abilitie of feeling paine Impassible Which cannot feele any paine or passion Impeach To harme to hinder Impeachment A hinderance Impeachment of waste A restraint from making waste in landes or Tenements Impediment A hinderance Impell To thrust on to constraine Impenetrable So hard that it cannot bee pierced Imperious That commandeth with authoritie Lordlike stately Impertinent Not belonging to the matter Impetrable Which may be obtained Impetrate To obtaine Impetuous Violent or hasty Impietie Wickednesse Impious Wicked Implacable Hard to bee pacified or that cannot be appeased Implicite Wrapped vp hidden Implore To beseech to entreat with teares Importance The weight or valew of a thing Important Of great weight and valew Importune To vrge earnestly Importunate Very earnest which will not bee answered Importunitie Vnreasonablenesse too much earnestnesse in asking Impose To lay on Imposition A laying on Impost Custome or tallage paid at Hauen townes or elsewhere Impostume A quantitie of euill humours gathered into one part of the body There are
a louely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a margent to note the different discourses in a booke or long chapter wherefore such diuisions in writing are commonly called Paragraphs Paralipomenon Omitted or not spoken of There are two bookes in the old testament so called because many worthy histories omitted in the bookes of Kings are there related Parallels Lines running of an equall distance from each other which can neuer meete though they bee drawne infinitely in length thus In astronomie there are fiue such imagined lines running circlewise about the round compasse of the heauens The first is the Equinoctiall line iust in the middle of the world betweene the two Poles The second northward from the Equinoctiall is the Tropike of Cancer to which line the sunne commeth about the the twelfth day of Iune The third yet more northward is the northern circle within 23. degrees and 50. minutes of the North-pole The fourth line is the Tropike of Capricorne declining southward from the Equinoctiall as much as the Tropike of Cancer doth northward and to this line the sunne commeth about the twelfth of December The fift and last line is the southerne circle beeing as neere the South pole as the northerne circle before spoken of is to the North pole Paralogisme A deceitfull syllogisme a maner of arguing which seemeth true when it is not as in saying He that affirmeth William to be a liuing creature sayth true He that affirmeth William to be a Horse affirmeth him to be a liuing creature Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true Paramounte The chieft Lord of the fee. Paramour A Sweete-heart one dearely beloued Paraphrase A free manner of translation or interpretation wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse euery word as it lieth in the coppie but to explicate and adorne the matter more at large and to abridge some things yet still keeping the sense of the Author any such translation is called a Paraphrasticall translation Parasite A Flatterer a trencher friend One that is still hanging on some rich man and flatteringlie feedeth his humor because he would bee partaker of his good cheere Parcitie Sparingnesse niggardlinesse Parenthesis Any word or sentence thrust into an other sentence in such sort that it may be left out in speaking and yet the sense of the matter still remaine whole Such word or sentence is commonly marked with two halfe circles thus Paricide One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother Among the auncient Romans if any committed so horrible a crime he was sowed aliue in a leather bag with a Cocke an Ape and an Adder put to him and as some write a Dog so were throwne together into the riuer Tyber where the miserable Caytife must needes die a lingering death being depriued of the vse of all elements saue onely a little aire to draw his wretched life in torment the longer Paritie Equality likenesse Parley A talking together Paroxysme The sharpe assaulte or fit of an ague Parsimonie Thriftines good husbandrie Parsimonious Thriftie sparing Particularise To draw or deuide things in speaking into certaine particulars or small parcels Partisan A weapon like a Halberd Paschall Of or belonging to the feast of Easter Pasche The feast of Easter Passant Walking passing along Passible Which may suffer or feele paine Passion A suffering Pastor A shepheard Pastorall Of or belonging to a shepheard Paternall Fatherly Patheticall Passionate or that which mooueth passions in a man Patriarch A great auncestour a great Bishop or father Patrimonie Goods or lands left one by his father or some other auncestour Patrone A defender a great friend that supporteth one Patronage Defence Patronize To defend Paucitie Fewnesse Pauice A great large shield that couereth the whole bodie Pauilion A tent for war Paunage The feeding of swine in any forrest wood or other place with mast Peccaui I haue offended Pectorall Belonging to the breast or which hangeth before the breast Pecuniarie Of or belonging to money Pellican A bird that wanting food feedeth her yong ones as is said with her owne blood Pellmell Confusedly running disorderly together Penall Of or belonging to paine or punishment Pendant Hanging downward Penetrable Which may be pearsed through Penetrate To pearse thorough Penitentiall Belonging to penance or repentance Penitent He that is heartily sorrie and repenteth Penon An ensigne or banner borne in warre Pension A yearely fee or wages for some seruice done Pensiue Sad heauy Pentateuch The fiue bookes of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leuiticus Numeri and Deuteronomie Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide so called because it is fiftie daies after Easter For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fiftieth Penurie Want pouertie Penurious Poore in want Perambulation A walking Perceptible Which may be perceiued Perch A kinde of fish It signifieth also a rod or long pole vsed in measuring of land being of 16. foote a halfe in length and in some places more Percullis The name of an office of one of the Pursiuants at armes Percussion A striking Perdition Destruction Perdurable Lasting of long continuance Peregrination A trauelling into a strange land Peremptorie Resolute short quicke Perennitie Long continuance Perfidious Treacherous not to be trusted Perfidiousnesse Treacherie disloyaltie Perfunctorie Carelesly don Perigeon The neerest distance of the Planets from the earth Period The perfect end of a sentēce marked commōly with a full point thus Peripatetickes Philosophers of the sect of Aristotle so called because they walked in their readings and disputations for Peripateo in Greeke signifieth to walke Periphrasis A long speaking a speaking of one word by many Periscians People dwelling so neere either of the two Poles that their shadowes goe round about them like a wheele Periurie A forswearing Permission Sufferance leaue Permutation A changing Pernicious Deadly dangerous Peroration The conclusion of a long speech or Oration Perpendicular Directlie downe right Perpetrate To commit any vnlawfull thing Perpetuitie Euerlastingnesse Perplexitie Great doubtfulnesse intanglednesse Perquisits Profits comming to Lords of mannors by casualtie or vncertainely as escheats heriots releefes strayes forfeitures Persist To continue to the end Personate To represent the person of another Perspicuitie Cleerenesse plainnesse Perspicuous Cleere plain manifest Perswasiue Which doth or may perswade Pertinacie Stubbornnes wilfulnesse Perturbe To trouble Perturbation A trouble a great disquietnesse Peruerse Froward contrarie Peruert To corrupt or marre to turne one from good to bad Pestiferous Mortal deadly poysonous Petition A suite a demaund a request Petroll A substance strained out of the naturall Bitumen spoken of before It is for the most part white and somtime black and being once set on fire can hardly be quenched Pettie Being placed before other words it signifieth little Pettie Sergeantie A tenure of lands holden of the King by yeilding to him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like seruice Petulancie Wanton saucinesse malepart boldnesse Phantasme A vision or imagined appearance Pharisee A sect of Iewes professing more