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
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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed by IOHN LEGATT 1621. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND VERTVOVS HIS SINGVLAR GOOD LADIE THE LADIE IANE Vicountesse Mountague all honour and happinesse BEing perswaded Right Noble Lady by some friends for publike benefit to make this collection of words common which at first was intended only 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 find in heart to send it forth no better furnished than with a bare Title least like an vnknowne Infant it should be exposed to ouer hard vsage or peraduenture scornefully reiected aduenturing abroad without countenance of any friend or commander 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 be protected from iniuries but also finde fauourable entertainment and perhaps gracefully admitted among greatest Ladies studious Gentlewomen to whose reading I am made beleeue it will not proue altogether vngratefull And although I may well be taxed of folly or presumption that for credit of a slender trislle 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 Ladiships pardon wilfully repelled all reasons which might disswade me choosing herein not so much what may seeme most seemely 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 years restrained of liberty is now glad of enlargement especially recommended vnto so worthy a Patronesse The glorious Sun loseth not the least point of his heighth by liberall lending downe his light and quickning 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 therfore to trouble your Honour with many words of entreaty vpon assured confidence of your wel known Charity and goodnesse I conclude sincerely wishing to your Ladiship the best that may be wished and resting my selfe euer Your Honours to be commanded 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 laudat 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 some 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 Philosophy 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 long study in the languages for considering it is familiar among best writers to vsurpe strange words and sometime necessary be reason ou◠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 years 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 Abbert To helpe or assist one in euill Abbertour 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 Abeston A stone found in Arabia of the colour of yron which being
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 auncient Romanes who had charge to see the Temples priuate houses high waies were kept in good reparation Aegypan 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 gentlenes kindnesse Affable Courteous or kind in speech Affect To loue sometime to mooue 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 Plentie 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 colde 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 a 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 moouing Agnition Knowledge acknowledgement Agnize To acknowledg Agnus castus See Abrahams baume before Agony A torment of body and minde 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 tombes 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 bind 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 wherein 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 themoss when the rest of the Kennell comes in Allegation A telling of some proofe or reason of a matter Allegiance Obedience of a subiect to his Prince Allegorie A sentence consisting of diuers tropes which must be vnderstood otherwise then the literall interpretation sheweth as when Saint Iohn Baptist speaking of our Sauiour Matth. 3. said Whose fanne is in his hand and hee shall make cleane his floore and gather the wheate 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 victorie 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 priuily is directed to touch another matter Allusion A likening or priuie 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 openeth obstructions It is knottie browne of colour and bitter in taste Being burned it fometh and yeeldeth a sweete perfume Some affirme it to growe vpon 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 chiefe 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 away for his army to passe into Italy Altercation An angry 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 either destroyed or sent home to the father but their daughters they kept bringing them vp in hunting riding 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 signifieth women wanting a breast Ambage A long circumstance of words Amber
A kinde of hard yellow gumme wherwith 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 maner 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 fellow that can play on both parts Ambiguity 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 immortality Ambulatorie A place to walke in Ambuscado A company of Souldiours hid in some wood or other couert to entrappe their enemies vnawares Amenity 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 with standeth drunkennes as the name in Greek signifieth Amiable Louely Amitie Friendshippe loue Ammowacke 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 is like vnto allume Amorous Louing or giuen to loue Amphiboly A speech hauing a doubtfull sence or which may be taken diuers manner of wares Amphibologie The same that Amphibole 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 seats and scaffolds in it vsed among the old 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 bee deuoured by wilde beastes the people sitting in safe places aboue and inhumanely sporting themselves thereat Also the Gladiatours or the 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 inchauntment Anagramme An inuention that by altering the places of the letters of ones â—â—me 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 Prince or Gouernour Anathema Any thing hanged vp in a Church as an offering to God sometime it signifiethexcommunication or a man excommunicated and deliuered to the power of the diuell Anathematize To hang vp a thing as consecrated to God sometime to curse sweare or betake to the diuell Anatomie An incision or cuting The art of knowing the situation office and nature all the parts of mans body Anatomize To cut and search euery part Anchouie A Spanish fish lesse then our Spratte preserued in pickle and vsed by Gallants to draw down drinke Anchoresse A religious woman that liueth solit by in some close place by her selfe Anchorite A religious man liuing solitary alone in some close place Angelicali â— Like an Angell Angle A corner Anguish Griefe of mind vexation August 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 coÌ„sumeth very quickly Animositie Courage Annals 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 void or bring to nothing Aniuersary A solemnitie kept euery yeare at a set time Annotation A note mark or exposition made vpon any writing Annuall Yearely Annuitie A yearly payment of mony â—o one not in way of rent but vpon some other occasion Annull so make voide Annunciate To tell or declare Antagonist An enemie an aduersary 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 work in painting or caruing of diuers shapes of beasts birds flowers c. vnperfectly mixt and made one out of another Antimony A white stone found in siluer mines Antipathie A contrariety 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 senteÌ„ce which church men do by course sing one after another Antipodes People vnder vs that goe with their feet toward ours Antique Old ancient Antiquary One studious in matters of antiquity or well acquainted in old Histories Antiquate To make old or of no account Antithesis A contrariety 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 Philosophie 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 Planet from the earth Apologie A defence a speech or written answere made in iustification of any person Apologicall That which is spoken in defence Apophthegme A short quick sentence worthy the noting Apoplexie A very dangerous disease wherin a man lyeth
Wise warie heedfull Circumuent To compasse in to deceiue one craftily Cite To warne one to appeare Citation A warning one to appeare Citrene Yellow Citradell A castle with a small garrison to keepe a towne in awe Ciuet. A sweet substance like muske It is said to bee the dung of the beast Hycan Ciuilike 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 Clarisie To make cleere Clarity Noblenesse cleerenesse Clause A short sentence * Cleepe An olde word signifying to name or to call Clemency Mercy gentlenesse Clement Mercifull pittifull Client One that asketh counsell of a Lawyer Clime See Climate Climactericall A Greek word signifying an accouÌ„t or reckoning made by certaine degrees or steps 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 equally 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 Cosmography It signifieth a portion of the world betweene North South conteining some notable difference in the sunne rising Cloake 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 hel per. Coagulate To turne to curde Coca An hearbe in India the leaues whereof being bruished and mixt with the powder of Cockles or Oysters in their shelles burnt the Indians vse in litle balles to carry in their mouthes to preserue them from famin or great dryth Cockatrice See Basiliske Coequal Equal in degree with another Coessentiall Of the same essence or substance Coeternal Equall in eternity with another Cogitation A thinking Cognition Knowledge Cohere To cleaue sticke or hang together Coherence An agreement or hanging together Collaterall Sidewaies or ioyning to the side Euery degree of kindred is either lineall or collaterall The lineall is that which commeth from the grandfather to the Father from the Father to the Son and so still right downeward Collaterall is that which commeth sidewaies as first betweene brothers and sisters then betweene their children c. Also Vncles Aunts and all Cousins are conceiued 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 a tearme vsed in lawe when an action is brought against one by his owne agreement Collyrie A physical 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 city was too ful of inhabitants they vsed to withdraw a certain 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 Ground 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 spoâ—gie 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 physick to purge slimie grosse humours from the sinnewes and ioynts but must be well prepared for that otherwise it is very dangerous Colosse An image or statue of exceeding greatnesse made sometime by the olde Emperours of Rome There was one such image in the yle of Rhodes dedicated to the sunne of one hundred and fiue foot long the thun be of which image fewe 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 or for triall of some controuersie Combatant He that sighteth 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 sunnne beames or within certaine degrees of them Combustible That which will soon be set on fire and consumed Combustion A burning Comelie A play or Interlude the beginning whereof is euer full of troubles and the end ioyfull Among the Greeks Eupolis Aristophanes and Cratinus were the chiefe comical Poets among the Latines Plantus and Terence Commedian A Player or writer of comedies Comet A blazing starre It is properly a great quaÌ„tity of hot and drye exhalations drawn vp from the earth by the attractiue vertue of starres into the highest region of the aire where beeing neere the Element of fire it is inflamed and there mooued round according to the motioÌ„ of the starre vnder which it is growen or the motion of the ayre in those high pares 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 remembrance Commence To begin to enter an action against one Commenâ—atory Which recommendeth one Comment Notes of instruction set in some bookes to expound such things as cannot easily be vnderstood Sometime it is taken for a lye or fained tale Commentary 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 Citie 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 bee imparted vnto an other Communion A partaking together Communitie Fellowship in partaking together Commutation A changing Compact Hard knit close ioyned together somtime a bargaine agreement Compassionate Pittifull which grieueth at others harmes
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
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