Abeston A stone found in Arabia of the colour of iron which being 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 be sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaues and fruit wherof they draw a iuyce or blacke liquour which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictiue or binding Our Apothecaries haue not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they vse the iuice of Sloes being 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 quantine qualitie 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 draw 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 to 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 get or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith hee was charged Action A deed 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 Actiuitie Strong nimblenesse Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharpe wittie 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 goats blood being steeped therein new and warme It is of contrary nature to the loadstone in so much that being laide neere it the loadstone cannot draw yron hauing the vertue thereof ouermastered 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 law 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 coldenesse to Snow Adiure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adiuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To do seruice sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinarie 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 honour 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 Adulation Flatterie Adulatory Which flattereth Adulterate To corrupt or
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 or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragoras See Mandrake following Mandrake A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe is great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legges of a man This roote especiallie the barke thereof is extreamely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quicklie kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in VVine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the cold 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 borders 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 be the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hot countreyes 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 be caryed 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 quantity 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 be any stone out of which fire may be stricken Marches The boundes or limits lying betweene two countreyes commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marchionesse 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 Litle pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oisters whereof 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 Oisters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sandes They are sometimes vsed by Physitiōs in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stoppe issues of blood or any loosenesse of the body 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 Martyres A booke of the memorie of Martyres Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumme of a sweet 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 Mastuerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternall 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 frō 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 Maturitie 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 cānot 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 sometime a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubarbe 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 meanes of agreement as an indifferēt party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator He that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterrannean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the fowre humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellifluous 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 Beggerie Meninges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Phisitians Dura mater which is
much vsed in Phisicke to purge choler is brought hither out of Barbarie Being toasted and dried it is then good against the bloodie flixe and all manner of laskes if it bee so drunke with some binding liquor as the iuice of Plantaine red Wine and such like Rubrike An order or rule written Rubricated Marked with red or written in red letters Rudiments The first grounds or principles of an art or any knowledge Ruine Vtter ouerthrow destruction Ruminate To chew ouer againe as beasts doe that chew the cud wherfore it is often taken for to studie and thinke much of a matter Running of the reines A disease when by reason of weakenesse seede passeth often from one against his will Ruption A breaking Rupture A breaking Rurall Of or belonging to the countrey Rusticall Countrey-like homely rude Rusticitie Rudenesse clownish behauiour S SAbaoth Hostes or armies of men Sable In armorie it signifieth blacke It is also a rich Furre of a beast so called which beast is made like a polecat of colour betweene black and browne and breedeth in Russia but most in Tartaria Sabboth A day of rest Saciety Fulnesse Sacrament A mystical ceremony instituted by our Sauiour Sacred Holy Sacriledge The robbing of a Church the stealing of holy things or abusing of Sacraments or holy mysteries Sacrilegious Very wicked and abhominable Saduce An Heretical sect among the Iewes which denyed the resurrection they called themselues Saduces of the Hebrew word Tsedek Which signifieth Iustice because they tooke themselues to liue more vprightly and iuster then other men Safeconduite A securitie and protection giuen by a Prince or any other person in authoritie for a mans safe comming or going to or from a place Sagacitie Quickenesse of vnderstanding wittinesse Sage Graue wise discreete Sagapenum The sappe or Gum of a plant growing in Media of a yellowish colour without and white within It is hot and dry of a strong smell like garlicke and is vsed in Physicke against diuers cold diseases Saint Antonies fire A disease rising of hot cholericke blood which beginning first with a blister groweth after to a sore or scab like a tetter Salamander A little beast like a lisard with foure feet and a short taile hauing diuers spottes in the body thereof It is of a byting venemous nature and as some affirme will abide in the fire without harme and at last put it cleare out Salarie Wages or hyre Salgemma A cleere kind of salt like Chrystall vsed sometime in Physicke and is found plentifully in Hungaria Saliant A terme in Herauldry when a beast seemeth rampand but lifteth not the fore pawes so high as the rampande doth Salubritie Healthfulnesse Sanctifie To make holie Sanctification A making holy Sanctimonie Holinesse Sanctitie Holinesse Sanctuary A place whither offenders or indebted persons may flie for succour from being punished or arested Sanctum Sanctorum The holiest place of the Iewes temple where the Arke was kept and whither none entred but the high Priest euery yeere Sandall An ancient kind of shooe Sanders A precious wood brought out of India whereof there are three kindes to wit red yellow and white Sanders They are all of a cooling nature especially the red which is often vsed in Physicke against hot diseases Sanglier A wilde Bore fiue yeeres old Sanguine In Herauldry it signifieth a murrey colour but commonly it signifieth a complexion most inclining towarde blood Sanguinolent Bloody Sanity Health Saphire A precious stone brought out of East India of a cleare skie colour and the best sort of them hath as it were cloudes therein inclining to a certaine rednesse This stone is said to be of a cold nature Sapience Wisdome knowledge Sarcaparillia A plant of India the root whereof is often vsed in dyet drinkes against the French and other diseases Sarcocolla A Gumme brought out of Persia which is red and bitter in taste It is of a healing nature and therefore often vsed to close vp woundes and fill corrupted vlcers with new flesh For which cause it is named in Greek Sarcocolla which signifieth a glewer or healer vp of the flesh Sassafras A tree of great vertue which groweth in the Florida of the West Indies the rinde hereof hath a sweet smell like Cinnamome It comforteth the lyuer and stomack and openeth obstructions of the inward parts being hotte and dry in the second degree The best of the Tree is the roote next the boughes then the body but the principall goodnesse of all resteth in the ryndes Satan An enemie Satiate To fill Satiety Fulnesse Saturitie Fulnesse Satyr A strange monster in India hauing the body of a man all hairy with legs and feet like a Goat which monsters the ancient Poets were wont to call gods of the woods It signifieth also a sharpe byting kind of verse wherin mens vices were laid open Satyricall Sharpe or biting as Satyrs were commonly written Sauine A little low tree bearing leaues almost like Tamariske and of a hotte scowring nature Saults Iumpes leapes Saunce Without Sawe An olde saying Saxifrage An herbe bearing seed like Parsley seed but more hot and byting which seede or the roote being boiled in wine and drunken breaketh the stone of the kidneyes and bladder Scalpe The haire skinne of the head Scammonie The iuyce of the roote of an herbe brought hither drie out of Asia and Mysia It is a violent purger of choler and dangerous to take inward vnlesse it bee well prepared See Diagridium Scandall An offence or that which causeth one to fall stumble or take offence Scandalize To offend by euill example or giue one occasion to bee offended Scarifie To scrape cut launce or open a sore Scarification A scraping or cutting Scedule A little rowle or written bill Scene A play a Comody a Tragedy or the diuision of a play into certaine parts In old time it signified a place couered with boughes or the roome where the players made them ready Scheme A figure in speaking Shisme Diuision or strife in matters of religion Schismaticall Diuided in fellowship from the other part erroneous Schismaticke One diuided from the vnitie of the Church Scholasticall Learned belonging to Schollers Sciatica A gout in the hippe caused by grosse and flegmaticke humours gathered in the hollownes of the ioynt thereof Science Knowledge Scolopendra A fish that feeling himselfe taken with a hooke casteth out his bowels vntill hee hath vnloosed the hooke and then swalloweth them vp againe Scope The end or marke that one aimeth at Scorpion A venemous worme with seuen feet bearing his sting in his taile with which hee striketh mischieuously They are of diuers colours and the femall is the greater hauing withall a sharper sting then the male They way be killed with fasting spittle of a sound man There are also great Scorpions with wings which are caryed in some hotte countreyes with the winde from one place to another Scoute One sent out to espie and bring tydings of the enemies purpose or of any danger likely to happen