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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33754	An English dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, phylosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences : containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor : together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language : in a method more comprehensive than any that is extant / by E. Coles ...	Coles, Elisha, 1640?-1680.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5071; ESTC R13911	383,305	374

Chief Judge in the Chancery Court of Equity and Conscience moderating the severity of Common law Chanfron an Italian Coin about 20 pence Chantepleur f. he that sings and weeps both together Chanter a Church singer Chanticleer f. the Cock Chaomancy divination by the air Chaonia the hilly part of Epirus from Chaon Priam's son slain by chance by his brother Helenus in hunting Chaos g. a confused heap Chaperon f. a hood also the little Scutcheon on the horses forehead Chapin sp a high Cork-heel'd shooe Chapelry is to a Chapel as a Parish to a Church Chaplet Garland for the head Chapt c. dry thirsty Chapter piter the top or head of a pillar also a Company of Cathedral or Collegiate Clergy men who choose the Bishop Char a particular business also a kind of trout Character g. the print of any thing or mark in short-hand or any letter also as Characterism a lively description of a person Characters in printing are 1. Pearl 2. Non-pareil 3. Breviar 4. Minion 5. Long primer 6. Smal pica 7. Pica 8. English Roman 9. Grea primer 10. Double pica 11 Smal Canon 12. Fat Canon 13. Capitals And most o● these have a black English letter answering them Characteristick cal belongin thereto also distinguishing also that letter which immediately precedes the varying termination of any word Characterize to describe also to take in Characters or short-hand Charactery a writing by Characters C●aratux as Caratux Chardford Cerdeford a Tow● in Hantshire Charde a Town in Somerset Chare a fish proper to Winnandermer in Lancashire Chare the Cow stop or turn her Charge that which fills the field of an Escutcheon in a ship the water she draws Charientism g. gracefulness also a pleasant piece of raille●y softening a taunting expression Charing-Cross erected by King Edward 1. in memory of Queen Eleanor who suck● the poison out of his wound● made by a Moors envenom'd sword at the holy war Charites g. the Graces Thalia Aglaia Euph●osyne Charivary f. a publick defaming or traducing of another Charlatanerie f. a Cheating or cogging from Charlatan a Mountebank Charles Sa. all Noble Charles-wain stars near the North pole l●ke 4 wheels and horses drawing them Charlock wild mustard among corn with a yellow flower Charmer one that useth Charms bewitching or unbewitching expressions Charnel-house where dead ●ones are laid Charon the souls ferry-man over the Stygian-lake Chart l. paper parchment or written deed Charter-house Chartreuse a Monastery of the Chartreux Carthusian Fryers Suttons Hospital founded by Sir Walter Marny of Henault who served under Edward 3. in the French wars also a town in Somerset Charter-land holden by Charter Letters patents of ●riviledges granted by the King Charter-party an Agreement between a Merchant ●nd the Master of a ship Chartis reddendis a writ against him that refuses to deliver Charters of feofment entrusted with him Chartulary keeper of a Register or reckoning book Charvil Chervil an herb Charybdis Gorophar● a Gulph in the bay of Sicily Chasmatical belonging to a Chasm ma g. a wide gap or opening of the earth or ●ir Chasteleyn o. a Gentleman ●r Woman of a great house C●astillein● as Castellaine Chasuble f. a kind of Cope worn a● Mass. Chats c. the gallows Chattels all kind of goods except free-hold Chatteswort● a statelie house ●n Darbyshire Chaufynges o. heatings Chaumound an ancient and Noble Family in Cornwall Chau●-mille sc. a fault committed in a sudden tumult Chavish Ss. a prating noise Chauncel the most sacred ●eparated part of a church or ●emple Chaunce-medley killing of a ●an by chance Chauncery as Chancery Chaundler a candlestick Chaun●ry f. a church chappel or quire endowed with maintenance for singers of Divine service Chaworth a noble family of Alesbury Cheapgild a restitution made by the county or hundred for wrong done by one in plegio Chec●iface Chechivache f. a starved hungry cow see Chi●tyface Check when a hawk forsakes her natural flight to follow other Birds that come in view Check-roll Checquer-roll containing the names of the Kings or other great persons menia●●ervants Cheeks thick spliced clamps of wood at the top of a mast Cheerte charity o. Checkie in heraldry consisting of three panes of checquer-work Cheffes o. chevins or else calves Chegford a Town in Devon Cheigo a small Barbados animal getting into ones feet and tormenting them Chief as Capite also a line in the chief or upper part of the Escutcheon containing one third of it Chiefage Chevage Chivage gium head-service money paid by Villains to their Lords Chief-pledge Headborough Chekelaton o. a stuff like Motly Chelandri aundre o. a goldfinch or a lark Chelidonius a precious stone in a swallows belly Chelidonie Celandine Chelmerford Chelmesford Chensford a Town in Essex Chelonophagi people feeding only upon Tortoises covering their houses and building ships with the shels Chelsey g. Shelfsey in Middlesex Cheltonham a Town in Glocestershire Chemnis a floting Island Chent corruptly for Kent Chentsers quit-rent or chief Rent Chepe o. buy Cherset as Churchesset Cherisaunce o. comforts Chersonesus Cherro g. Peninsula l. a tract of land almost environ'd with the Sea Cherketh o. Chirpeth Cherme o. a company of birds Chert Cheort Chierte o. love also jealousie Chertes o. merry people Cherubim h. bin ch the plural number of Cherub h. fulness of knowledge the second of the nine orders of Angels Chervel Charwel a River on the East side of Oxford famous for dressing of Leather Ches●ip hog louse a little vermin turning it self round like a pea Chese o. chose Ch●ss-●owls Cheese-bowls C●esten tin f. Chesnut Chester as West-chester Chesterfield a Town in Darbyshire Chestoul Poppy Cherenes two small pieces with holes to which the tack is haled down Cheve o. to thrive Cheveril f. a wild goat Cheverel leather see Chervel Chevesal sayl o. a gorget Chevice o. redeem Chevin a fish with a great head Ch●visaunce ssance f. Composition between Creditor and Debtour Chevitiae iscae head-lands Chevrons f. the strong rafters meeting at the house-top also one of the Ordinaries of a Escutcheon made in fashion of a triangle Chevronel half a Cheveron in Blazon Chibbol a little Onion Chiche chicket niggardly f. Chicanerie f. wrangling impertinent perplexing of a cause Chichester Cissancester in Sussex built by Cissa King of the South Saxons Chidleigh a Town in Devonshire Chieve succeed befall Childermas Innocents day Childing plants who 's ofspring exceeds the number of the ordinary kind Childwit power to take a fine of your bondwoman gotten with child without your consent also of the reputed Father of a Bastard Chiliad g. a thousand Chiliarch g. a Colonel Chiliasm Opinion of the Chiliasts Millenaries holding that Christ shall reign personally upon earth a thousand years Chilonick ian belonging to Chilo one of the seven wise men of Greece who 's sentences were very brief Chilperick a worthless King of France Chiltern sa the hilly cold and chalky part of Buckinghamshire Chily an American Kingdom Chimaera a hill in Lycia who 's top middle

Recheat a Hunters lesson when they lose the game c. Recidivation l. a relapse Recidivous l. falling back Reciprocal l. mutual Reciprocation an interchanging Recision l. a cutting off Recitation a rehearsing Recitative rehearsed in Operaes Reck Ret h o. care Reclaim to tame a hawk Reclamation l. a crying out against Recluse l. one cloister'd up Recogitate to ponder upon Recognition a review considering or acknowledgement Recognitors l. the Jury-men Recognitione adnullanda c. a writ for the disannulling a forced recognisance Recognize to consider again Recognizee to whom is made a Recognizance a bond of record from the Recognizor who acknowledges the Debt in Court c. Recognizance is also the Verdict of the Jury Recollect l. to call to mind Recollects a sort of Franciscans Reconvention a contrary Action in Civil Law brought by the Defendant Record an Act committed to writing in any of the Kings Courts and is when that Term is ended uncontroulable Recordation a remembering Recordare or Recordari facias a writ for the Sheriff to remove a cause from an inferiour Court to the Kings Bench or Common-Pleas Recorder whom the Magistrate of any Town having a Court of Record associates to himself for direction in Law Recordo et Processu Mi●tendis calling a Record and the whole process from an Inferiour to the Kings Court. Recovery the obtaining a thing by Trial of Law Recoupe f. to defalk or discount Recourse l. refuge retreat Recoyl f. to draw back the tail Recrean●e o against hope Recreandise o. Infidelity Recreant f. eating his words Recreantise f. Cowardise Recreation l. a refresh●ent Recrementitious full of Recrement l. dross dregs Recrimination l. the returning a reproach or accusation Recruit supply fill up Rectangle l. an even angle Rectanguled having right angles or corners Rectification l. a rectifying or making streight Rectilineal of right lines Recto a writ of right trying both for possession and property and if the Cause be lost there is no remedy Recto de dote whereby a woman demands her whole Dower Récto de dote unde nihil habet whereby having no Dower assured she demands her Thirds Recto de rationabili parte for a Coparcener c. to recover his share Recto de advocatione Ecclesiae for him that claims the Advowsen to himself and his Heirs in fee. Recto de custodiâ terrae et haeredis for a Guardian in socage or appointed by the Ancestors will Recto quando dominus remisit when the Lord i● whose Seigneury the Land lies remits the Cause to the Kings Court. Recto sur disclaimer when the Lord avows upon the Tenant who disclaims to hold of him Rectorial belonging to a Rector l. a Governour Rector Ecclesiae Parochialis A Parson with a Vicaridge Rectory a Parsonage with all the appurtenancies Rectitude l. uprightness Rectus in Curiâ he that stands at the Bar and has nothing brought against him Reculade f. a recoyling Reculver a Town in Kent Recuperatory belonging to Recuperation l. a recovering Recure o. recover Recurrent l. running back Recursion l. a running back Recurvate l. to bend back Recusants Romanists or any that refuse to come to Church Red o. meaning Red-Sea the Long-Sea dividing Africa and Asia Redacted l. forced back Redaman●y mation l. a loving them that love us Redargue to re or dis prove Redarguation a controlling Redborn a Town in Hertfordshire Reddendum the reservation of Rent to the Lessor Redditive belonging to Reddition l. a restoring or yielding in Law an acknowledgment that the thing belongs not to himself Reddour o. q. roideur violence Rede o. advise help Redeless o. help less Redford a Town in Nottinghamshire Redemptions l. Ransomes Redevable f. obliged Redhibition a forcing one to take that again which he sold. Rediculus a certain God worshipt for ●righting Hannibal from Rome Redient l. returning new Redintegration l a renewing Redisseisin a second disseisin Redition l. a returning Redituaries a sort of Francis●ans having Lands c. Redolent l. sweet-smelling Redon●te l. to restore Redoubted reverenced Redoubt the jurting out of the corners of a Fort. Redound l. to abound Redour q. redoubleur o. turning doubling Redowbting o. praising Red shanks Irish Scots Redstert a red-taild-bird Redubbers Ad they that buy stolen cloth and turn it to some other form or colour Reduction l. a bringing back Redversies de Riparijs the family of the Riverses in Cornwal Redulcerate l. to renew a wound Redundancy l. a being Redundant overflowing having too much Reduplicate l. to double again Reduplication as Anadipl●sis Reduplicative which doubles or may be doubled often Reed o. red Reem La. to cry Reëntery the resuming a possession we had lately forgone Reer-County as Rier Reeve Reve Greve sa a Governour the Bailiff of a Franchise or Mannour Reeve the rope in the block put it through Reevo Sp. arriva up Reëxtent a second extent upon Lands or Tenements Refection l. a refreshing Refectory tuary a Hall or dining-room R●fel l. to disprove Referendaries Rapporteurs Officers under the Masters of Requests in Germany and France Reflection l. a bending or beating back Reflux l. the flowing back Refocillate l. to cherish Reformado Sp. an Officer who having lost his men is either cashier'd or put lower Reforms the hawk prunes her feathers Refracted l. weakned Refraction l. a breaking open or a rebounding Refreide o. refrain for fear Refractory l. stubborn Refranation a Planets becoming retrograde while he is applying to another Refret f. refrain the burden of a song Refrete o. full fraught 〈◊〉 Refrigerate l. to cool refresh Refroiden o. to cool Refrynyd hawk o. neezing and casting water through her nostrils Refuge l. a place of succour Refulgent l. glistering Refund l. to melt again pour or pay back Refuite use o. refuge Refusion l. a pouring back Refute l. to disprove Regal l. Royal Kinglike Regal of Franc● a costly ring offered by a King of France to St. Thomas of Canterbury worn afterwards by King Henry VIII Regal Fishes Whales and Sturgeons Regale f. to feast like a King Regalia l. the rights of a King Regality l. Kingship Regalo Sp. a Royal dainty Regardant f. looking back or to Regard the Office and jurisdiction of the Regarder the Overseer of all other Forest-Officers Regards f. observations Regency rule government Regeneration l. a being R●generate ted born again Regenspurg a town of lower Bavaria Regent l. ruling Regerminate l. to spring again Regible l. that may be ruled Regicide l. a King-killer Regifical l. Royal stately Regifugium l. a feast kept Feb. 23. for the banishment of Tarquin Regio assensu the writ of the Royal Assent to chuse a Bishop Regiment l. Government also the command of a Colonel abo●t ten Companies Register a Record or Recorder Registry his Office and Books Reg●utinate l. to unglue or glue again Regnardise to practise Regnardism the subtilty of Regnard f. a Fox Regi●s Professor reader of Divinity Hebrew Greek Law or Physick founded by Hen. VIII in each University Regrate o.

finable by the Justices before whom the party is attainted Misqueme o. to displease Missate q. mis-sate o. became not was misbecoming Miss for Mistress Missal l. a Mass-book Misselden Meseldine Missel●● Mess an excrementitious plant with slimy white berries growing upon trees M●ssen as Misen whereof some long ships have two viz. the Main-Miss●n next the main-mast and the Bonaventure-missen next the poop Missil l. a dart or any thing shot or thrown also in Heraldry a mixture of several colours together Mission l. a sending also a Popish Commission to preach the Roman Faith in other Countries Missionaries the Priests that are so sent also as Fathers of the Mission in France they go by pairs in imitation of the Apostles to assist the Clergy with obedience to the Bishop Missive l. a sending also sent and that which witnesseth ones being sent Mis-trial a false or erroneous trial Mister o. need want also as Mistery f. Mestir a craft or trade Mis-us●r an abuse of liberty or benefit Miswoman o. a whore Misy Copper shining like like gold found in Egypt and Cyprus Misthrown o. cast thine eye the wrong way Mistimed o. Mis-spent the time Mites Vermin smaller than lice about the heads and Nostrils of hawks Mitches o. Manchets Mithridate Meth an Antidote against infection invented by Mithridates a King of Pontus who spake 22 Languages rebelling and being overcome by the Romans he would have poison'd himself but could not Mitigate l. to pacify or quiet Mitta ten bu●hels Mittens f. thick winter gloves without distinction of fingers Mitte o. Mighty Mittimus we send a writ by which Records are transmitted from one Court to another also a Justices warrant to a Jailor to receive and keep an Offender Mittendo Manus●riptum pedis finis a Writ for the searching and transmitting the foot of a fine from the Exchequer to the Common-pleas Mitral l. belonging to a Mitre was to a Bishop as a Crown to a King Mytelene an ancient City and now the whole Isle of Le●bos Mixen S. a Dunghill Mixolydian q. Mixt Lydian Musick lamentable fit for Tragedies Mixt-tithes of Cheese milk the young of beasts c. Mize as Mise Mizzy No. a quagmire Miz-maze as Maze Mizmor Sp. a Dungeon Mnas a famous Italian Pirate Mnason q. Mneson g. an Exhorter Mnemosyne g. Memory the Mother of the Muses by Jupiter Mnestheus as Menestheus Moabites the Offspring of Moab h. Of the Father Mobbi a drink in Barbados made of Potato roots Mobility l. moveableness inconstancy Mockel Muckle o. Mickle Mockadoes a kind of stuff Modality the manner or qualification of a thing in the abstract Modbury a town in Devonshire Modder D. Modde and Mawther Da. Moër Nf. a young girl Modefy f. to moderate or put into the Mode f. fashion Modena the chief City of Modenois an Italian Dutchy Moderata Misericordia a Writ for the abating an immoderate amerciament Modo et formâ l. in manner and form Moderation l. temperance discretion government Moderatour tor l. a Discreet Governour and Decider of Controversies Modern l. New of late time Modiation a measuring by the bushel Modher as Modder Modicum l. a small pittance Modificable capable of Modification the act of Modifying qualify●ng measuring lim●ting Modus decimandi any composition for Ti●hes in kind Modul●tion l. an exact sing●ng or warbling Modwall a bird that destroyes bees Moeble o. f. Meuble Muable Moveable Moeris an Egyptian King who undertook and finished the Moeris an admirable lake receiving the superfluity of Nilus and supplying them with water in time of drought Mognions f. Arms for the shoulders Mogontus an ancient British Idol in Northumberland M●guntine belonging to Moguntia Mentz in Germany where printing was invented An. 1440. Mohatra Sp. a taking up money upon usury Moiety Moitié f. the half of any thing Moile o. a dish of marrow and grated bread Moiles Mullci high-soald shoes anciently worn by Kings and great persons Moison o. f. Moisson harvest ripeness of corn Mokes Ss. the meishes of a Net Mokel sa Bigness Molar l. belonging to a mill Molar teeth Cheek-teeth Grinders five on each side both above and beneath Molasses the refuse Sirrup ●n boiling Sugar Mole a Peer or Fense against the Sea Molebou●e a great grunting ●●sh Molech h. as Moloch Molendarious dina belonging to a mill Molendinum ad ventum a wind-mill Molendinum ●ladonicum bladum de blado a Corn-mill Molestation l. a vexing or troubling Moliminous having using or requiring much strength Molinists great opposers of the Jansenists and followers of Molina a Spanish Jesuit maintaining that God did not premove the will in free acts c. Molli●ion l. an attempting or endeavouring Mollificative having power-to Mollify l. to soften or cause Mollitude l. softness tenderness effeminateness Mollock Meore o. dirt or dung Moloch Molech h. railing or a King an Idol having the brazen body of a man with the head of a Calf Molter No. Mill-toll Molochi●e as Malachite Molucques Asian Islands Moly an herb of great use and virtue among the Gods whose root was supposed dangerous for mortals to dig up Momblishness o. talk muttering Mombelliard a town in Franche County Mome mus a feigned Deity Son of Nox and Somnus whose business was to find fault and carp at all the other Gods Moment l. a minute also weight or concernment Momentary of short continuance Mompellier a City of Languedoc in France Mon o. Might q. Mun or Must. Mon Mona Anglesey Mona●hal Monial belonging to Monachism g. the state and condition of a Monk Monadical belonging to Monas g. unity the number of one Mon amy f. My friend Mon-Castel a town in Flanders Monarchical belonging to Monarchy g. Government by a Monarch g. one Man or Woman ruling alone Monasterial belonging to Monasteries colledges for Monasticks g. Monks or Solitary Religious people Mond f. a golden globe the Ensign of an Emperour challenging a kind of right to the whole world Mone o. q. Mond a globe Monedule l. a Jack-daw Moneresse o. a She-Mourner at Funerals Moneth Four weeks or Eight and twenty daies Twelve-Moneth a whole year Twelve moneths to be reckoned by 28 dayes to the moneth Calendar Moneth as exprest in every yearly Almanack Moneth of apparition 26 daies and 12 hours the Moon being in combustion with the Sun and disappearing the other 3 daies Moneth of Consecution or Progression from one conjunction to another 26 dayes and an half Medical or Decretorial Moneth 26 dayes and 2● houres Moneth of Peragration 2● dayes and 8 hours the Moons revolution from any part of the Zodiack to the same again Moneths-mind Sa. The 30th day after any ones death Mong-corn o. Maslin Monger a small Sea-vessel for fishing Monger Mangere Sa. a Merchant Moniers Moneyors the Mint-men or Coyners Monitory l. the place of Monition l. admonition warning the work of a Monitor l. an admonishes or Counsellour Monks-hood Consolida Regalis a flower Monmedi a town of Luxemburg Monmouth a town and County in Wales Monoceros rote g. an