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 leined Riuer in hell the water whereof beeing drunken causeth forgetfulnesse of all that is past Leueoma A fruite in India so called much like vnto a Chestnut Leueret A young Hare * Leuesell A bush Leuitie Lightnesse Lexicon A Greek Dictionary 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 sometime 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 Libiainous 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 vita 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 vital spirits being suddenly opprest a man sinketh down as if he were dead Liquid Thin and moist Liquefaction A melting Liquesie To melt Liquid Amber A sweete Rosin brought from the West Indies comfortable to me braine any griefe proceeding from cold causes Lizard A little beast much like our Euer 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 thoâ—ns 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 some that riseth from lead when it is tried It is cold of operation and often vsed by Surgeons in Oyntments and Plaisters beâ—ing of a gentle drying cleansing and binding nature See Lethargie Literature Learning knowledge in bookes Litherly Slothfull Litigious Contentious full of strife Piturgie 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 bee 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 â—usty iron which hath an admirable vertue not onely to draw yron to it selfe but also to make any yron vpon which it is rubbed to draw yron also It is written notwithstanding thru beeing rubbed with the iuyce of Garlicke it cannot then darw Iron as likewise if a Diamond hee laide 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 directly toward the North and South Logician One skilfull in Logicke Logicke The art of reason Lohor A physicall word It is a thicke sirupe or other soft substance which must not bee swallowed must 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 sometime single or solitary Longanimity 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 Loquacity 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 crafty fellow Losengar A flatterer a lyar Lotion A washing * Louke A fellow receiuer Lubricity Slippernesse Lucerus A beast almost as big as a Wolfe breeding in Musconia and Ruscia of colour betweene redde and browne mingled with blacke spots Lucre. Gaine profit Lunary A disease wherin one is distracted in his wittes at certaine times of the Moone Lunaticke Sicke of a Lunacy Lupines A little flatte Pulse almost like a small beane but much lesse and bitter in tast They be not very good meate but are sometime vsed in Physicke against worms in children the decoction of them taketh away spots freekles of the face * Lushbrough A base coine in the time of king Edward the third Luster A shining or great brightnesse Lutum Clay Luxury Riotousnesse leachery Luxurious Riotous wanton leacherous Lyncuris A bright shining stone and sometimes of a dark yellow color like saffron This stone groweth of the vrine of the beast Lynx being congealed which vrine the Lynx hideth as Pliny writeth because men should not find it Some say it is good against the paine of the stomack yellow Iaundise and loosenesse of the belly Lynx A spotted beast like vnto a Wolfe and hauing a very perfect sight This beast breedeth chiefely in countries of the East is often found in the woods of Almaine Sclauonia Tyrike 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 sometime 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 skirtes therof 72. Pomgarnats of blew silk purple scarlet and as many bels of golde between theÌ„ round about Machination A deuising or subtil contriuing of a matter Machiuilion A politicke states mania cunning Polititian such as Machiuel was Macrologie Long and tedious talke Maculate To blemish or blot Madrigals A kind of sonnet Magician A cunning mania Sorcerer a great learned Clark a Conturer Magike At first this word signified great learning or knowledge in the nature of things now it is most commonly taken for inchantment and sorcery Magistraâ—y The bearing of office authority rule gouernment Magnanimity Great courage Magnanimous Noble minded one of great courage Magnificence Sumptuousnesse great port and statelinesse Magnificent Sumptuous honourable stately Magnifico An honorable personage Magnitude Greatnesse Manipernours Those that are sureties for a man and vndertake that he shall appeare at a certen day before Iudges in a Court. Maineprise The bayling of a man out of prison vpon security giuen that hee shall bee foorth comming Maior The greater or more ancient Malady A disease Malecoâ—â—ent Mot contented ill pleased Malediction A cursing Malefactor An euil doer Maleuolâ—nt Ill minded spitefull enuious Malignant Enuious spitefull mischieuous Maligne Spitefull or to spite and hate Malignity Spitefulnesse enuy malice Mammon An Assyrian word of the singular number and masculine Gender as Saint Hierome affirmeth It is interpreted riches Manage To rule order
once set on fire can hardly bee quenched Abiect Vile base of no estimation Abiure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime vsed in Lawe when one hauing committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abiure the Realme then stand to tryall of Lawe This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessour in fauour of life but now is not in vse Abiuration A renouncing by oath see Abiure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnesse vnaduisednesse Ablution A washing Abolition A taking away destroying or abolishing Abortion The birth of a child before due time or the destroying in the mothers wombe Abortiue That which is vntimely borne Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreyes bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and drie and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Phisitians haue named it Agnus castus Abridge To shorten to cut off to gather onely the principall points Abrogate To abolish to disanull by publike authoritie to alter and make a Law which was in force to be of no effect Abrupt Broken off Abruptly By peece-meale out of order without obseruing of due circumstance Absolue To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgiuenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or vnlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his owne Abstract A little booke or gathering taken out of a greater Abstraction A taking away or a short draught taken out of a greater thing Abstruse Hidden secret not easie to vnderstand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusiue That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomelesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot bee sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaues and fruit whereof they draw a iuyce or blacke liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictiue or binding Our Apothecaties haue not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they vse the iuice of sloes beeing of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniuersitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniuersitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeued the immortality of soules Plato hauing learned many things of the Hebrewes then the peculiar people of God Accelerate To hasten Acceleration A hastening Accesse Liberty or power to come to a place Accessible Which may be gone too Accessory He that counselleth or commandeth another to commit any offence or comforteth or hideth him knowing that he hath committed an offence Accident That which happeneth by chaunce sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantity quality and such like Accidentall Happening by chance or belonging to an Accident Acclamation A crying out to one Accomodate To make fit to apply Accoutrement Attire or dressing Accoste To drawe neere to one Accrew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape vp Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeue To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister seruing to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe hauing a root much like a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dogge of hell being dregged vp in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his fome vpon this herbe whereby it became so venemous Acquire To gette or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guilty of an offence wherewith hee was charged Action A deede done or the doing of any thing In our common Lawe it signifieth a suite commenced against any man and is commonly diuided into three differing kindes viz. 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as vpon the breach of a penall statute where some aduantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3. Action reall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Actiue Liuely strong nimble Actiuity Strong nimblenesse Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharpe witty Adage A prouerbe Adamant A precious stone commonly called a Diamond brought out of Arabia and Cyprus It is the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth glasse and yieldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Inuincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goates blood beeing steeped therein new and warme It is of contrary nature to the loadstone in so much that beeing laide neere it the loadstone can not draw yron hauing the vertue thereof ouer mastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or giue ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our commō law it signifieth any title giuen to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleaue to Adherence A cleauing to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaueth or ioyneth close to a thing Adiacent That which lyeth neere to another thing Adiourne To deferre or put off till another time Adiournement A terme in lawe when any Court is dissolued and appointed to be kept vpon some other time or at any other place Adiunct A qualitie ioyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adiure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adiuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To doe seruice sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinary Administration The doing or handling of a businesse or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator Hee to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goodes of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honor or esteeme highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiuing or giuing one leaue to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning giuen one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to bee as his sonne to him Adore To worship to giue diuine reuerence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifie Adornation A decking or trimming Aduent A comming Certaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemne preparation for the comming of our Sauiour Aduentaile A coate of Armour Aduerse Contrary Aduert To marke Aduertise To giue knowledge of a thing Adulacion Flattery Adulatory Which flattereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterfeit Aduocate Hee that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which
winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe hauing a mane and long haires ouer all the body It is the subtillest as some say of all beastes and will counterfeite the voyce of a man to drawe sheepeheardes out of their houses in the night to the ende hee may kill them It is written that he changeth sex often being some time male and sometime female 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 then is precisely true Hyperbolicall Any thing spoken above all beleefe as in saying higher than heauen swifter than lightning c. is called an Hyperbolicall speech Hypocrite It properly signifieth one that doth counterfeite the gesture of another man but it is commonly taken fot a dissembler that with feined holines would seeme better then hee is indeed Hypoquistidos In diuers hote countries there groweth a plant called Cistus hauing about the root thereof a certaine Mushroome which being bruised yeeldeth 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 thē 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 Greek terme sometime vsed in derision of that which is spoken or done preposterously or quite contrary We call it in English The catt before the horsse 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 cleer 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 knottes which groweth in manner of a hedge or quickset and must be staied 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 Jeleeped 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 moneth so called because they diuide the moneth almost in the middle In March May Iuly and October these eight daies beginne at the eighth day of the moneth 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 Iehonah The inestable name of God signifying his diuine essence The Hebrewes did not vse to read 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 * Ifietten Deuoured Ignoble Base that is not noble Ignominie Shame reproch infamie Ignominious Shamefull vile reprochfull * Ikend Knowne Iliads A booke written in Greek 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 Illiberalitie Niggardnesse properly in a great 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 Illusion A mockerie a cunning slight to deceiue one Illuminate To enlighten Illumination A shining or giuing of light Illustrate To make famous or noble Illustration A making famous or noble Illustrious Famous noble very honourable Imagerie Painted or carued workes of images Imaginarie That which is conceited in the minde Imbecillitie Weakenesse * Imeint Mingled Imitate To follow Imitation A following Jmitator A follower of another Immaculate Vndefiled pure vnspotted Immanitie Cruelty outragious fiercenesse Immarcessible Vncorruptible Immature Vnripe Immaturity 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 Jmmense Vnmeasurable which cannot be measured Immensitie Exceeding greatnesse vnmeasurablenesse Immoderate 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 Immortalitie Euerlastingnesse Immunitie Freedome or discharge from any publike businesse Immure 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 answer 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 lands 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 be 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 two kinds hereof One when inflamed blood beeing turned to corrupted matter filleth some place the other when without any inflammation nature
or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragorus See Mandrake following Mandrak A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe it great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This roote especially the barke thereof is extremely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quickly kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in Wine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the colde operation thereof causeth sleepe and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heauen to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seede with which the Israelites liued fortie yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the bordeâ—s of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manhu viz. What is this Which seemeth to bee the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hotte countries vpon trees doth there congeale almost like to crummes of whitebread and is gathered choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may bee carried in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slaue or bondman free which was in olde time thus The lord of the slaue holding him by the head arme or other part saide before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoued him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A handwriting a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantitie that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it bee golde siluer brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may bee stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marcionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Olde condemned Heretikes so called of their first master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oysters wherof some haue holes in them and some haue none the best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in yong shels Some write that in Thunder the Oysters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes vsed by Physitions in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenesse of the bodie Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordring neere the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of a good conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grieuous torment for constant perseuerance in true religion Martyrologie A historie of the death of Martyrs A booke of the memorie of Martyrs Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumee of a sweete sauour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Iland Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe vse to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as bee loose Masluerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternal Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematickes sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens natiuities or vndertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematickes A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted froÌ„ bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmeticke Musicke Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A graue motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturity Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a maine point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a deuice like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cannot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cuppe to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great fauour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horace and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometinâ—â— a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenis Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubaâ—be It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soeuer with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liuer and all the inward parts Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator Hee that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterranean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellistuous Sweet as hony Membrane The vpmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often vsed when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Menniges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Physitians Dicta mater which is the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first beeing more tender and sine and close
to his father Iupiter to helpe him in that distresse whereupon there appeared a Ramme vnto him which stamping vpon the ground with his foote caused a fountaine forthwith to spring in the place Bacchus obtaining by this meanes his desire built a temple there of exceeding huge greatnesse in the middle whereof hee erected an Idoll to Iupiter in the likenesse of a Ram which Idol afterward gaue Oracles and was called the Oracle of Ammon because it was situated in a dry sandy place for Ammos in Greeke signifieth Sand. The other Oracle was at Delphi a Cittie of Beotia in Greece where Apollo was said to giue answers Oratorie A place to pray in Oratour One that pleadeth causes an eloquent speaker Orbe Any perfect round circle hollow in the midst Orbicular Round like an Orbe Orchall A stone like Allume vsed somtime by Diers to raise a red colour Ordinarie A Iudge that hath ordinary iurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes Ordure Dung filth Orgall The lees of Wine dried vsed by Diers to make their cloth to drinke in the colour throughly Organicall That which consisteth of diuers substantiall parts members Organist A player vpon Organs Organ Ling. A kinde of Ling brought out of the North Countries Orgies Rude ceremonies instituted by the Poet Orpheus to bee kept euery third yeare in the honour of Bacchus Orient The East Orient Pearles Glistring Pearles of great price Orientall Of or belonging to the East Orifice The mouth of any thing or the outward hole of a wound Originall The first beginning The first of any thing Oringos Certaine rootes growing in some places neere the Sea side The Plant is called Sea hollie bearing prickly broad leaues and round sharpe prickly heads set about with small skie coloured floures These rootes are very long and deepe into the ground of an ashie colour in the outside and full of ioynts They vse scraping of the outer rinde of these roots pulling out the pith to preserue them by boyling them with Sugar or Hony a little Cinamon and Ginger which preserue is very good for aged people and such as are consumed in their bodie to nourish them againe Orisons Prayers Ornament A garnishing Ornature A garnishing a setting forth Ornifie To garnish Orphan He that wanteth Father and Mother friendlesse Orpment A soft yellow kind of Arsenik like vnto Brimstone It is commonly taken for Rats-bane Orthodoxall That which belongeth to a true and right faith or Religion Orthographie The art of writing words truly as Sonne of man with an O Sunne that shineth with the vowell V. Orthographist Hee that professeth or is skilfull in Orthographie Osanna See Hosanna Osprey A kinde of rauenous Fowle which houereth ouer pooles to take Fish Ostentation Boasting vaine craking or vaunting A proude setting foorth to shew Ostiary An officer hauing authority to keep vnworthy persons out of the Church Ostracisme A banishment among the Athenians for ten years so called because they vsed to write the names of the party so condemned in Oyster shelles This punishment was chiefely vsed to abate the ouergreat power of noble men Ouall A long round circle made like an egge such as pictures are sometimes drawne in Ouerture An ouerturning a sudden change Oxgang Thirteene acres of land Oxymel A sirupe made of Hony Vineger and water good to cut and clense grosse flegmatick humors sometime there are boyled certen roots and seeds with it and then it is called Oxymell compositum sometime it is made with Hony Vineger and the Sea Onion and then it is named Oymel Scilliticum which also is of two sorts to witte simple and compound P. PAcal A tree in India so called Pacification An appeasing or pacifying Pacificatory Which appeaseth or pacifieth Pact A bargaine Page A written side of a lease of paper Pagan A Heathen an infidell Paganisme The beleefe of the Pagans Paico An hearbe in India good against the griefe of the stone in the Kidnies which commeth of windinesse or colde causes Palate The vpper hollow part of the mouth wherin lieth the sense of tasting as in the tongue Palestricall Of or belonging to wrastling Also that which is done decently with comely gesture of the body Palinode A recantation or denying of an opinion formerly maintained * Palliard A Whooremonger * Palliardise Whooredome Palliate To cloke to couer Pallizado Great posts set vp in the entry to a Camp for a defence against great shot Palme The tree which beareth Dates growing plentifully in the holy land There are of these trees found also in some parts of Egypt but they beare no fruite or if they beare any it is vnpleasant The branches of this tree were wont to be carried as a token of victory because they are of that nature that they wil stil shoot vpward though oppressed with neuer so great weight the leaues thereof neuer fall Of this tree there is male and female the male beareth only blossomes no fruit but the female beares both In olde times some people vsed to write with Paper made of leaues of the Palme tree Palmer A poore pilgrime that visiteth all holy places Palmister He that telleth ones fortune by looking in his hand Palmistry See Diuination Palpable That which may be felt with the fingers manifest notorious Pamphlet A little booke Pandar A base fellow that keepeth or attendeth vpon Harlots Pandect A booke treating of all matters also the Volume of the Ciuill Lawe called Digests is so called Panegyricall That which is spoken flatteringly in praise of some great person Also it signifieth stately honorable magnificent or a speech made of many great matters together Panther A fierce wilde beast hauing a sweet smel and a faire spotted skinne wherewith shee allureth other beastes to looke on her hiding her head least it should make them afraid and by this means getteth her prey more easily The male of this beast is the libard The panthers as is written haue on their shoulder a spotte which groweth and waineth like the moon This beast is so fearfull of the Hyena that in his presence shee dareth not doe any thing in so much that if one haue but a peece of the skinne of a Hyena the Panther will not touch him and it is sayde that if both their skins be hanged together the haire of the Panthers skin will fall of Panyme A heathen a gentile Parable A similitude or resemblance made of a thing Paracelsian A physition that followeth the method of Paracelsus and his manner of curing which was by exceeding strong oyles and waters extracted out of the nature of things Paraclete A comforter Paradise A garden or pleasant place Paradox An opinion maintained cōtrary to the common allowed opinion as if one affirme that the earth doth mooue round and the heauens stand stil Paragon A beautifull peece 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
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