languages which was there caused it was anciently the chief seat of the Assyrian Monarchs being built by Nimrod and afterwards walled by Semiramis it is now called Bagadeth or Bagda Bablac a Town in Oxfordshire situate upon the River Isis where Sir R. Vere Earle of Oxford Marquesse of Dublin and Duke of Ireland being in great favour and Authority with King Richard the second was defeated by the Nobles forced to swim over the River and to fly his Countrey Babys the brother of Marsyas he committing the like insolency as his brother was also to have been flead by Apollo but that he was saved at the intercession of Pallas Bacchanals the feast of Bacchus Baccharach or Bachrag wines are those which we call Rhenish wines from Baccharag a Citie situate upon the Rhine Bacchus the inventour of wine he was the son of Jupiter and Semele who desiring to lye with Jupiter in all his glory was burnt up with Thunder and Bacchus being cut out of her Womb was inserted into Jupiter's Thigh untill the birth were mature he is also called Dionysius Liber Pater and Osiris Bacciferous Lat. bearing Berries Bacheler French an unmarried man also a Bacheler of a Company a Bacheler of Arts is he who takes the first degree in the profession of any Art or Science the second being licenciate and the last Doctor A Bacheler Knight vide Knight Backberond Saxon a Term in Common-law signifying a Thief that is taken with the manner being followed with huy and cry with those things he hath stollen whether it be money or any thing else it is by some taken for an offender against Vert or Venison in the Forrest Bactriana a Provice of Scythia beyond Assyria Badbury a Town in Dorsetshire where King Edward the Elder put to flight his Cozin Aethelwald who had conspired with the Danes against him Badge the same as Armes or Cognisance Badger a Carrier of Corn or like provision from one place to transport it to another Badinage French foolery buffonry Badonicus the ancient name of a Hill in Sommersetshire now called Bannesdown-hill where King Arthur defeated the English Saxons in a great battail Boetica a part of Spain formerly so called from the River Boetis now called Gnadalquivir Bagatel French a toy a trifle Baggeth old word disdaineth Baile French a Term in Common-law signifying the taking charge of one arrested upon action either Civil or Criminal under surety taken for his appearance at a day and place certainly assigned See Main-prize Baily or Bailiffe French a Magistrate appointed within a Province or praecinct to execute Justice to maintain the peace and to preserve the people from wrongs and vexations and is principal Deputy to the King or Supream Lord also the Officers of each hundred and of Towns Corporate are called Bayliffs there are also Bayliffs of husbandry belonging to private men who are Lords of Mannours Bailywick the Jurisdiction of a Baily Bain French a bath or hot house Bainards Castle a house in London belonging at this day to the Earles of Pembrock it was so called from William Bainard Lord of Dunmow whose possession formerly it was Baisemaines Fr. kissing of the hands Complementing Baiton Kaiton the belly of the Whale an Arabick word Baize a fine sort of Freeze from Baii a Citie of Naples where it was first made Balade French a Ballet or roundelay also a Dance Balasse a Saxon word signifying Gravel laid in the bottom of a ship to keep it upright Balatron Ital. a babler a prating knave Balcone Ital. a bay-window Baldwin Germ. a proper name signifying bold victor and answering to the Greek Thrasynâ—achus Bale French a pack of Merchants wares Balefull sorrowfull woefull Balk Dutch a ridge between two furrows Ball French a dancing meeting Balladin French a dancer of Galliards A Ballance French a pair of Scales Ballast see Balasse Balliol Colledge a Colledge in the University of Oxford built by John Balliol of Bernards Castle in the Bishoprick of Durham and father of Balliol King of Scots Ballist Lat. an Engin to cast or shoot stones Ballon French a Term in Architecture signifying the round Globe of a Pillar also a great Ball. Ballotation a kind of casting lots or making election by Balls Ballustrad a Term in Architecture signifying a jutting out of a window or portal Balm the juyce or Oyl of a certain plant growing in Judaea otherwise called Balsamum or Opobalsamum Balmerinoch an Abby in Fife a County of Scotland built by Queen Ermengard wife to King William Balneary Lat. a bathing place Balthasar an Hebr. word signifying without treasure it was the name of one of the wise-men who came out of the East to worship our Saviour See Sands his Travels 181. Baltia an Island in the German Ocean by Xenophon called Lampsacenus now Scandia or Scandinavia from this Island the Baltick Sea derives its name which Philemon calls Marimorusa Hecataeus Amalchium Bambalio a faint-hearted fellow A Band French a Company of foot Souldiers Bandie French to follow a faction Banditi Ital. out-laws from Bando a Proclamation because they are condemned by Proclamation the Dutch call them Nightinghals and Free-booters Bandle an Irish measure of two foot in length A Bandog a Mastive Bandon French free Licence or liberty also a company or Sect. Bandore Ital. a kinde of Musical instrument Bane poyson destruction Banes French in Canon-law are Proclamations but more especially taken for the publick proclaiming of Marriage in Churches Bangle-ear'd having hanging ears like a Spaniel Bangue a pleasant drink used in the Eastern Countreys A Banker one who in forreign Countreys delivers forreign money for his own Countreys Coyn. Bankrout or Bankrupt a decoctor one that hath consumed his estate Bannavenna or Bennaventa a Town in Northhamptonshire anciently so called now Wedon in the street once the Royal seat of Wolpher King of the Mercians and by his daughter Werbury a holy Virgin converted into a Monastery Banner French a Standard or Ensign Banneret or Knight Banneret vide Knight Banneroll French a little Flagge or Streamer Baptisme Greek a Sacrament used in the Church for the initation of children into the Christian Religion it signifies a washing or dipping in water Baptist Greek a proper name first given to St. John who was the first that baptized Baptistery Greek a Vessel to wash in a Font to baptize in Barbara the name of a holy woman martyred under the Emperour Maximian the word signifieth in Latin strange or unknown Barbaria the chief part of Africk which is divided into four Kingdomes Morocco Fesse Telessina and Tunis Barbarisme Greek a rudenesse of behaviour a clownish pronunciation of words Barbe a mask or visard Barbel a kinde of fish a little Sammon Barbican French a Term in architecture and fortification an out-work in a building a bulwark a watch Towr Barbitist a Lutinist Barce the chief Citie of Lybia Bards the ancient Poets among the Brittains and the Gaules Bardes also or barbes signifie the trappings or caparisons of horses Bardulph
thing into cinders especially metals Calcitrate Lat. to kick or spurn Calcule Lat. an accounting also a Ches-man or Counter Caleb a proper name signifying in Hebr. hearty Calcent a great Mart-Town in India situate upon the Indian Sea The Caledonian vvood a great vvood in Scotland whence Scotland it self hath been anciently called Caledonia or Calydonia Calefaction Lat. a heating or warming Calender a Term used by Linnen-drapers signifying to set a glosse upon cloath A Calender Lat. an Almanack Calends Lat. a word used among the Romans for the Computation of their moneths and signifies the first day of every moneth and if any number be added it stands for so many as precede the Calends Calenture a Spanish word signifying heat also a burning feavour Caletum a Port Town in France called by Caesar Portus Iccius by the Moderns Calis Calidity Lat. heat Caliduct a kinde of Furnace used by the ancients to convey heat from one room to another through certain pipes Caligation Lat. dimnesse of sight Caligula the fourth Emperour of Rome so called from certain Military Buskins which he used to wear named Caligae Caliph a Persian word signifying King or Emperour at first all the chief Princes of the Mahumetan Religion were called Caliphs as the Caliph of Aegypt c. Calisto one of Diana's Nymphs and daughter of Lycaon King of Arcadia she was got with Child by Jupiter and turn'd out of Diana's train Calked old word cast Callidity Lat. subtilty Calligraphy Greek fair or handsome writing Calliope the name of one of the nine Muses the mother of Orpheus she was believed to be the Inspiresse of Heroick verse Callipolis one of the Islands in the Aegoean Sea called Cyclades Callirrhoe the daughter of Phocus King of Boeotia she complaining to her Countrey-men against her thirty suiters who had killed her father they fled to Hippote a Town of Thebes but being pursued by the Boeotians the Town was taken and the murtherers burnt to death Calliver a kinde of great Gun or Arquebuse Callot an old Saxon word signifying a leâ—d or wanton woman Calour Lat. warmth also a heat of desire or affection Calpe a high hill in the uttermost part of Spain which is faign'd to be one of Hercules his pillars Calsounds a kinde of linnen drawers usually worn among the Turks Caltrope French certain instruments used in War being great pricks of iron four-square to cast in an enemies way when they would break in on the contrary side Calvinist one of the opinion of Calvin a famous reformer Calvity Lat. baldnesse Calumniatour Lat. signifies in Com-law him that in his accusation alleadgeth faults never committed Camarina a Lake in Sicily which when the people dried up contrary to the advice of the Oracle they were overcome by their enemies Cambel a famous Castle in Argile in Scotland from whence the great family of the Cambels derive their name Cambio Spanish a Burse or Exchange whence comes Cambsor a Banker or Mony-changer Cambles a King of the Lydians of so greedy an apetite that one night he devoured his wife Cambren a British word signifying a crooked stick Cambria the Countrey of Wales so called from Camber the son of Brutus Cambridge the chief Town of Cambridge-shire so called from a Bridge built over the River Cam In this Town hath flourished for many ages a famous University consisting of sixteen Colledges it hath been anciently reported that this Academy was founded by Cantabar a Spaniard 375 years before Christ and repaired by Sebert King of the East Angles in the year of our Lord 630. afterwards it was defaced by the Danes under Sueno but being restored again by the Normans it hath stood unviolated by War to this day Camelot a Town in the Shriefdom of Stirling in Scotland which seems to be the same with that which was called Corta Damniorum Cambyses King of Persia the son of Cyrus he added Aegypt to his Dominions he died of a wound which he gave himself as he was getting up to horse Cameracum a Citie of the Low-countreys now call'd Cambray where the linnen cloath we call Cambrick is made Camelion a beast like a Lizard that turneth himself into all colours and lives by the aire Camelopardal a kinde of beast half Camel half Pardal or Panther Camerade Spanish a Cabin or chamber-fellow Camerated Vaulted or Arched a Term used in Architecture Camisado Spanish a suddain assault or surprisal Cammock a kinde of Herb that hath a hard and big root Camois a British word signifying crooked Camomil an Herb of a fragrant smell which grows and spreads by being trampled on Campain French a plain field also a military word signifying an armies expedition or taking the field Campania a Countrey of Italy in the Kingdom of Naples called Terra del Lavoro whose chief Citie is Capua Campernulphs the ancient name of a great family of Cornwall Lords of the Town of Modbury they are commonly called Champernouns in Latin Records de Campo Arnulphi Campus lapideus a field of Gallia Narbonensis where Hercules fought with Alcion and Bergion the sons of Neptune but his darts failing him Jupiter sent him down a showr of stones wherewith he killed the Giants Campus Martius a field near Rome dedicated to Mars where the Romaus used to exercise and the people assembled to give their suffrages Campus sceleratus a place where the Vestal Nuns were punish't if they admitted of any familiarity with men Camulodunum or Camoludunum the chief Town of Essex in England vulgarly called Colchester or rather Maldon Camulus a name anciently attributed to Mars the heathen God of War Canace the daughter of Aeolus she was got with childe by her brother Macareus whence they use to call an Incestuous woman Canace Canachus a Fountain near Nauplia where Juno used to bath her self that she might recover her Virginity Canacus a high hill in Spain on the top whereof is a Well whose depth cannot be â—ounded Canariae certain Islands in the Adriatick Sea anciently called the fortunate Islands from thence it is that we have our Canary wines Cancel Lat. to rase to blot out from Cancelli Lattices or crosse-bars Canceline chamlet a word used by Chaucer Cancer one of the 12 signs of the Zodiack into which the Sun enters in the Moneth of June the word signifies in Latin a Crab. Candia an Island in the Mediterranean Sea anciently called Creet where Jupiter was born and Minos reign'd it is at present in the powr of the Venetian Candid Lat. white also innocent sincere Candida Casa the ancient name of a Town in Galloway in Scotland vulgarly Whithern the Episcopal seat of Ninian who first converted the Scottish Picts to Christianity it seemeth to be the same with Ptolomies Leucopibia Candidates Lat. were those among the Romans who use to stand for any place or Office of Dignity and were clad in white Robes Candiope the daughter of Oenopian and sister to Theodotion who going a hunting with her brother and being drawn into a Cave and
sentences were very brief whence Chilonick signifieth compendious Chimaera a Hill of Lycia on the top whereof were many Lions in the midst fed Goates and at the bottom were Serpents which Bellerophon made habitable Whence the Poets feigned that Bellerophon killed the Monster Chimaera who had the head of a Lion the belly of a Goat and the tail of a Dragon VVhence Chimaera's are taken for idle conceits Chimbe the uttermost part of a barrel Chaucer A Chime of Bells a pleasant tune rung upon the Bells Some say from the Latin word Cymbalum Chimin French a law-term signifying the Kings highway where there is free passage for him and his people Chiminage a toll for wayfarage or passage thorough a Forrest China a great Country in Asia which is all under one King whom they call Lord of the VVorld and Son of Heaven Chincherie niggardlinesse a word used by Chaucer Chione the daughter of Deucalion and wife of Paeonius the Epidaurian she being got with child by Phoebus and Mercury brought forth twins Autolycus to Mercury Philammon to Phoebus Chios an Island in the Aegean Sea between Lesbos and Samos It is 900 furlongs in circuit Chiragrical Greek having the gout in ones hands Chirking old word a chattering noise Chirographer a law-term signifying him who in the Common-pleas office ingrosseth fines acknowledged in that Court into a perpetual Record also he that giveth a bill of his hand Chirograph signifying in Greek ones own hand writing Chirologie Greek a talking by signs made with the hand Chiromancy Greek a divination by looking on the lines and marks of the hand This art is also called Palmestry Chiron the son of Saturn and Philyra who by reason that Saturn lay with Philyra in the shape of a horse had his upper parts like a man his lower parts like a horse he grew famous for physick brought up Achilles and Aesculapius and at length was placed among the Stars and called Sagittarius Chirrichote a Spanish word used in derision toward the Frenchmen Chirurgery Greek the Art of cureing wounds vulgarly called Surgery Chivalrie French horsemanship valour also a law-term signifying a tenure of land by Knights-service Chivauchie the same as Chivalrie Chloris the wife of Zephyrus she was called Flora or the Goddesse of Flowers also the daughter of Amphion and Niobe who married Meleus and brought forth Nestor Chocolate a compounded Indian drink whose chief ingredient is a fruit called Cocao Cholmondley a Town in Cheshire which gave name and habitation to the Noble Family of the Cholmondley's or Cholmley's by contraction Chorall a law-term one that by vertue of the ancient orders of the Clergy was admitted to serve God in the quire Chord a term in Geometry being a right line subtending an arch of a Circle Choriambick Greek a foot in Verse consisting of 4 syllables two long ones at each extream and two short ones in the middle Chorion Greek the outermost tunicle that enwraps the Birth Chorister Greek a singing-man of a quire Chorographer Greek a describer or decipherer of Countries and Kingdoms Chorus a company of Singers in a quire also that which is sung or played in a Tragedie or Comedy between every act Chrysmatory Greek a vessel wherein they put the holy ointment used by those of the Roman Church in the Sacrament of Baptisme which is called Chrism Chrisome Greek a white cloth put about a child newly christned in token of Baptism Christian a proper name of women first derived from the profession it self Christianism the profession of Christian Religion Christopher Greek a proper name of men signifying Christ carrier Chromatic Greek keeping its colour also pleasant delightful also a soft kind of musick which by the Ancients was taxed of effeminacy Chronical Greek temporal A Chronicle Greek a History of the times Chronodix Greek a certain kind of Dial or Instrument to shew how the time passeth away A Chronogram Greek a verse wherein the figurative letters being joyned together make up the year of our Lord. Chronography Greek a writing of Annals Chronology Greek a computation of years whereby is shown the coherence of Histories Chrysocol Greek a kind of green earth called Borax wherewith Goldsmiths soder gold and other mettals together Chrysolite a kind of pretious stone of a gold-colour Chrysopase another sort of precious stone of a greenish colour Chrysopolis a Promontory of Asia now called Scytary Chrysostomus signifying in Greek golden mouth it was the name of an ancient Bishop of Byzantium famous for his eloquence Chrystalline heaven it is the ninth heaven mentioned Gen. 1. which divideth the water from the waters Chyle Greek a white substance or milky juice into which the nutriment is converted by the heat of the stomack and which being there brought to that pefection passes thence away thorough Mesaraic veines into the Liver Chylification the act or faculty of converting nutriment into Chyle Chymistry the art of dissolving mettals and of extracting the quintessence out of any thing Chymere a coat or jacket also a Heralds coat of arms C I Cibarious Lat. belonging to meat Ciboire French a cup or box wherein the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is kept among the Roman Catholicks A Cicatrice Lat. a scar or mark which is left after a wound is healed up Cicely a proper name of women from the Latin word Caecilia i. Greyeyd Cicero the name of a most famous Oratour and Philosopher among the Romans whence Ciceronical is used for eloquent To Cicurate Lat. to tame Cid from the Arabick Caide which signifies a Lord or great man This word is used among the Spaniards for a valiant man or great Captain Cierges waxcandles lamps Chaucer Cilerie a term in Architecture signifying the draperie or leavage which is wrought upon the heads of pillars Cilicia a Country of Asia the Lesse now called Caramania or Turcomania Cilicious Lat. belonging to a Cilice or haircloath Cilinder see Cylinder Cimbick Lat. a niggard or peny-father Cimbrians a northern and warlick people anciently inhabiting that Country which is now called Denmark Cimeliark Lat. a Vestry also a place to put Jewels in Cimice a small red insect or worm A Cimiter see Scymitar Cimmerians a northern people whose Country by reason of its distance from the Sun is alwayes dark whence Cimmerian darknesse is taken for a very thick obscurity They live near a certain narrow sea which from them is called Bosphâ—rus Ciâ—imerius There is also a people of Italy so called living between Baiae and Cumae incompassed about with high hills Cinamon an Hebrew word signifying a kind of spice Cincantenier French a Commander of 50 men also the name of an Officer in Paris Cincture Lat. an encompassing with a girdle Ciniph Lat. a gnat Cinkefoile an herb called five leaved-grasse Cinnaber a red stone found in Mines which is used for a Vermilion colour Cinople or Sinople a kind of red-lead from the City Sinope whence it is digged Cinque-ports five Havens which lie toward France on the East part of England
Curriedow a curry-favour or flatterer Current a running stream from Currere to run Cursiter a Clerk belonging to the Chancery who makes original writs for the Shier which is allotted him Curvetta or Corvetta Ital. a prauncing of a horse of service from the Latin Curvus crook'd because they bend in their feet Curvity lat crookednesse Curules lat those of the Roman Senators which were carried to Court in Chariots Curulis Sella an ivory seat which was placed in the Roman Consuls Chariot Cusco the chief Citie of that part of the new world which contains Brasilia and Peru. Cuspidate lat to make sharp at the end from Cuspis a point Cuspe the entrance of any house or first beginning which is the line whereon the figure and degree of the Zodiack is placed as you finde it in the Table of Houses Custode admittendo a Writ for the removing or admitting of Guardians Custody lat safe-hold Custome both in Common and Civil Law signifieth a Law or Rite not written which being established by long use and the consent of our Ancestours hath been and is dayly practised Custos brevium a Clerk belonging to the Court of Common-pleas whose Office is to receive and keep all the Writs and put them upon files every return by it self and at the end of every Term to receive of the prothonotaries all the Records of nisi prius called the postea Custos Rotulorum is he that hath the custody of the Rolls or Records of the Sessions of peace and of the Commission it self he is thought to be the same with Custos placitorum Coronae Custos spiritualium or of the spiritualities he that exerciseth Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of any Diocesse during the Vacancy of the See which by the Canon Law belongs to the Dean and Chapter Cuthbert Sax. famous knowledge a proper name Cuticle lat signifieth in Anatomy the Membrane or thin skin which covereth the thicker skin all over the body and is called in Greek Epidermis Cutter of the Tallies an Officer in the Exchecquer that provideth wood for the Tallies and cutting the summe paid upon them casteth the same into the Court to be written upon Cuttle-fish a certain kinde of fish called in Latin Sepia which throwing a black juyce like ink into the water becomes hid in that obscurity and so escapes the fisher Cutilia a Lake in the Reatine grounds in Italy where there is a wooddy Island which continually moves up and down Cutwater a Term in Navigation the sharpnesse of the ship before C Y Cyamba a Citie in Asia where they use Coral instead of money and have great store of Aloes and all kinde of Spices Cybele the daughter of Coelus and Terra and the wife of Saturn she is otherwise called Ops Rhea Vesta Magna Mater or Grand-mother of the Gods also â—indymene Berecynthia Cyclades 50 Islands in the Aegean Sea called by the Italians Isole dell Archipelago Cycle Greek a Term in Astronomy Cycle of the Sun is the revolution of 28 years Cycle of the Moon the revolution of 19 years in which time both of their motions recur to the same point Cyclopaedie Greek the whole Circle of Arts and Sciences Cyclâ—ps the sons of Neptune and Amphitrite or as Apollodorus Atheniensis saith of Coelus and Terra they were the servants of Vulcan and made Thunder-bolts for Jupiter having each of them one great eye in their forehead their names were Bronte Serope and Pyracmon whom Apollodorus calleth Harpe others say they were a very ancient people of Sicily of a very Gyantly stature Cycnus the son of Mars who was kill'd in a Combate with Hercules whom Mars to revenge his sons death resolved to fight with but before they came to blows Jupiter parted them with a clap of Thunder there was another Cycnus the son of Neptune who being invulnerable fought with Achilles and could not be killed till Achilles throwing him upon the ground kneel'd upon his neck and stiffled him Cydippe see Acontius Cygnus vide Swan Cylinder Greek a Geometrical body being long flat at both ends and equally round from one end to the other also a rolling stone to smooth Garden allies being just of that figure in the art of Gunnery it signifies that part of the bore of a piece which remains empty when the piece is laden Cymace from the Greek word Cyma a wave it is a Term in Architecture signifying carved work which resembles waves Cymbal a Musical instrument made of plates of brasse resembling a kinde of boat called Cymba Cymraecan language the Welsh or old Brittish language Cynanthrophy lat a kinde of Phrensie or disease which possesseth a man with a conceit that he is turned into a Dogge Cynegeticks Greek books treating of the art of hunting Cynical Greek crabbed severe from a certain Sect of Philosophers who were called Cynicks Cynosure Greek a constellation of stars near the North-pole called Vrsa Minor by which the saylers are directed in their course Cynthius a name attributed to Apollo as Cynthia to Diana from Cynthus a Hill in Delos where Latona brought them forth being Twins Cyprian Greek a proper name of men from Cypria one of the names of Venus Cyprus an Island in the Carpathian Sea which was anciently dedicated to Venus it is now under the Turks Dominion Cyrenaica a Countrey of Africa called also Pentapolitana because it contained these five Cities Beronice Arsinoe Ptolemais Apollonia and Cyrene Cyrus the son of Cambyses and Mandana he was King of Persia overthrew the Assyrian Monarchy conquered all Asia but was at length overcome and slain by Thomyris Queen of Scythia who causing his head to be cut off and cast into a tub of bloud cried out now satisfie thy self with bloud after which thou hast alwayes thirsted Cystick Greek belonging to the bag of Gall which is call'd Cystis Cystick vein signifieth in Anatomy a branch of the Port vein which ascendeth up to the neck of the Gall and there divideth it self Cyzicus an Island in the Propontis joyned to the continent with two bridges having a Citie in it of the same name D DAae a people of that part of Scythia which is called Nomades mentioned by Virgil in his eight book of Aeneids Dabuze a kinde of weapon carried before the Grand Signor in the nature of our Mace Dacia a Countrey of Scythia Europaea which at this day is divided into Transilvania Zypserland the seven Campes Ruscia Servia and Bulgaria Dactyle Greek the fruit of the Palm-tree a Date also a foot in verse consisting of one long syllable and two short also a finger Dactylogy Greek a discoursing by signs made with the finger Daedalus a famous Artist who made the famous Labyrinth in Crete into which he was shut up himself with his son Icarus for having made a woodden Heifer in which Pasiphae was injoyed by Jupiter in the shape of a Bull but he making artificial wings for himself and his son flew out of Crete into Sardinia but Icarus soaring too high melted the
he thought upon the misery of the World Herald see Harald Herawdes old word feates of activity Herbage signifieth in Common Law the fruit of the earth provided by nature for the cattel also the liberty that a man hath to feed his cattel in another mans ground or in the Forrest Herbert a proper name of men signifying in Dutch famous Lord. Herbigage or Herborow old word lodging Herbalist or Herbary lat one that hath knowledge in the nature and temperaments of herbs Herbenger see Harbenger Herbert a proper name signifying in Dutch bright Lord. Herbipolis a City of Germany now called Wirtzberg Herbosity lat plenty of herbs Herbulent lat grassy full of herbs Hercinia a great Wood in Germany sixty dayes journeys in length and nine in breadth Herculean belonging to Hercules the cheif of which name was Hercules the son of Jupiter and Alcmena he being hated by Juno because he was born of a Concubine was by her ingaged in 12 very dangerous enterprises which are called Hercules his 12 labours all which he overcame to his great renown whence every great atcheivment came to be called a Herculean labour He is said to have built two pillars on Mount Calpe and Mount Avila as the utmost bounds of the Western World with the inscription of Nil ultra and at this day those places are called Hercules pillars This name Hercules signifieth in Greek Glory or Illumination of the Air. Here de Caesar a certain Epoch or Account from which the Saracens and Arabians used to compute their number of yeares as we do from the year of our Lord. It was also used in Spain for a great while the word signifieth as much as the Monarcy of Caesar. Hereditary or Haereditary lat coming by Inheritance Hereditaments signifie in Common Law all such things as descend to a man and his heirs by way of Inheritance and fall not within the compasse of an Executor as Chattels do Hereford the cheif City of Herefordshire anciently called Tresawith from the Beech-trees growing thereabout It was built as some say by King Edward the Elder in that tract of the Country called of old Ereinuc or Archenfeild out of the ruines of the ancient Ariconium the fame of this City was augmented by the Martyrdom of Ethelbert King of East England who going to wooe the daughter of Offa King of the Mercians was here forelaid and murthered by the procurement of Quendred Offa's wife Heremitage or Ermitage French a solitary place a dwelling for Hermites i. persons that devote themselves to a religious solitude Heresie see Haeresie Heresiarch or Haeresiarch Greek the principall Author of any Heresie or Sect. Heretog or Hertogh a Leader of an Army or a Duke from the Saxon words Here an Army and Toga to draw out Herility lat Masterly Authority Heriot or Hariot hath formerly been used to signifie a tribute given by a Tenant to the Lord of the Mannour for his better preparation toward war Here in the Saxon tongue signifying an Army but now it is taken for the best chattel that a Tenant hath at the hour of his death which is due unto the Lord by custom Herlaxton a Town in Lincolnshire near which was ploughed up a brazen vessel wherein a Golden Helmet beset with pretious Stones which was given as a present to Catherine of Spain wife to King Henry the eighth was found Herman see Harman Hermaphrodite Greek a word compounded of Hermes i. Mercury and Aphrodite i. Venus and signifieth one of both Sexes Man and Woman See the story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis elegantly described in the fourth Book of Ovids Metamorphosis Hermetical Greek belonging to Mercury the messenger of the gods who is called in Greek Hermes or to Hermes Trismegistus the great Aegyptian Philosopher Hermione the daughter of Menelaus she was betrothed by her father after the end of the Trojan war to Pyrrhus the son of Achilles which Orestes to whom she had been before espoused by her Grandfather Tyndarus taking ill he slew Pirrhus in the Temple of Apollo Hermitage Hermite see Heremitage Hermotimus a certain man of Clazomena whose Soul used to leave his body and wander up and down bringing him news of things that were done a great way off his body lying in the mean while as it were asleep but at length his enemies finding his body burnt it so that his Soul had no habitation left to return to Hernious lat bursten bellied Herod sirnamed Antipater a King of the Jews created by the Roman Senate he destroyed the Temple built by Zorobabel and erected another more magnificient in its place he put his wife Mariaâ—ne to death and his two sons Aristobulus and Alexander Heroick or Heroical Greek noble lofty becoming a Heroe whence Heroick Poem is a Poem treating of Heroic actions or persons Heroine a woman of a noble spirit and excellent virtues A Heron a kinde of bird called in Latin Ardea ab ardendo because its dung burns whatsoever it touches Herophila the name of the Erythraean Sibil who having asked Tarquin a very great price for her three books of Prophesies and being refused it she burnt 2. and afterwards received as much for that one that was left as she demanded for all the three Herostratus one that to purchace himself fame burnt the Temple of Diana Hersilia the wife of Romulus who after her death was worshipp'd by the name of Hora or the goddesse of youth Hertford i. e. the Ford of Harts the chief Town of Hertford-shire having a Castle upon the River Lea built as some say by King Edward the Elder and augmented by Gislebert de Clare who was Earle of this Town in King Henry the seconds dayes Bede treating of the Synode that was held here in the year 670. calleth it Herudford i. e. Redford Herthus a goddesse worshipt by the ancient Saxons in the same nature as Tellus by the Latins some think the word earth to be thence derived Hesione the daughter of Laomedon King of Troy whom Hercules having freed her from a great Whale gave in marriage to his friend Telamon after he had ransack't Troy because her father Laomedon performed not his promise to him Hesperus the son of Japetus and brother of Atlas who flying from his Countrey went and inhabited in Italy whence that Countrey came to be called Hespâ—ria he had three daughters Aegle Arethusa and Hesperethusa called the Hesperides who lived in the Hesperian Garden whose Trees bare golden Apples that were kept by a watchfull Dragon whom Hercules slew it is also faigned of Hesperus that after his death he was changed into the Evening Star Hests old word commands or decrees Hete old word a vow offer or promise Heteroclite in Grammar is taken for a Nown that hath a different way of declining from other Nouns Heterodox Greek being of another opinion or judgement then what is generally received Heterogeneal Greek being of another or different kinde Heteroscians Greek people that live between the Aequator and the Tropicks whose
her maids and teaching them to sing they by the sweetnesse of their Musick so allayed the spirit of Megares that his wife ever after lived a better life with him for which benefite to her she in thankfulnesse built pillars of brasse to their glory and caused them to be honoured in all the Temples thereabout Megacosme Greek the great world Megaera the name of one of the three Furies the other two being Alecto and Tisiphone Megalesian games were certain games celebrated in ancient times at Rome in honour of Cybele or the great goddesse Megalopsychie Greek Magnanimity or greatnesse of minde Megara the daughter of Creon King of Thebes she was given in marriage to Hercules upon condition that he should free the Thebans from the oppression of Erginus King of the Orchomenii which he performed but Juno being highly incenc't against him for killing Lycus possest him with such a madnesse that he slew his wife Megara and all the Children he had by her Megrim a distemper which causeth a great pain in the temples and fore part of the head the word seems to be contracted from the Greek word Hemicrania Meire a term in Blazon See Varry Cuppy Melampod in Greek Melampodium a certain kind of herb otherwise called Hellebore Melampus the son of Amythaon and Dorippe who laying him abroad in the Sun and covering all his body except his feet they were so scorched by the Sun that they became black whence he was called Melampus i. Blackfoot He was a famous Physitian and understood the voices of birds and beasts he cured the daughters of Praetus of their madnesse one of whom named Iphianassa he married Melancholick Greek sad pensive troubled with melancholy i. e. black choler one of the 4 humours of the body also a distemper caused by the abounding of that humour Melantho the daughter of Proteus who had a humour to ride upon a Dolphins back up and down the Sea which Neptune observing turned himself into a Dolphin and carrying her to shore upon his back ravisht her and begot Amycus Melanthus the son of Andropompis he being a Messenian was driven out of his Country by the Heraclidae he went and helpt the Athenians against the Boeotians and killed their Captain Xanthus for which he was chosen King of the Athenians in the place of Thymoetes Melborn a Castle in Darbyshire where John Duke of Barbon taken prisoner at Agincourt was detained prisoner 19 years under the custody of Sir Nicholas de Mountgomery the younger Melchior the name of one of the Magi or Wise men of the East who offered gifts to our Saviour He offered Gold as to a King the second call'd Jasper frankincense as unto God the third called Balthasar Myrrh as to one that was to die also the name of a great Heretick the founder of that sect called the Melchiorists Melchites a sort of Christians in Syria subject to the Patriarch of Antioch they are so called from Melchi which in the Syriack tongue signifies a King because they used to follow the Emperours injunctions in matters of Religion Melicent French honey-sweet a Christian name of women Meleager the son of Oeneus King of Calidonia and Althaea he gathered a company of valiant youths together to slay a wild Bore that wasted the Country of Aetolia and having slain it presented the head to Atalanta the daughter of Jasius King of Argos which Plexippus and Toxâ—us the brothers of Althaea indeavouring to take away he slew them both and married Atalanta but Althaea enraged at the death of her brothers threw the brand into the fire which she had saved from the Destinies when he was borne which as it burnt he consumed away Melimele see Pome Paradise Melioration lat a making better an improving Melissa see Mellona Mellation lat the driving away of the Bees and taking the honey out of the Hives Mellification lat a making Honey Melliâ—â—uous lat flowing with Honey full of sweetnesse Melliloquent lat speaking sweetly as it were speaking Honey Mellilote or Melilote a certain herb bearing round leaves with slender branches from the Greek word meli i. honey and Lotus the Lote-tree as it were the Lote bearing honey Mellona a certain goddesse worshipt by the ancient Romans as the Patronesse of Bees perhaps the same with Melissa who first found out the use of Honey whom the Poets feign to have been turned into a Bee she was the daughter of Melissus King of Creet and the sister of Amalthea the Nurse of Jupiter Melody a musical sound or sweet aire from the Greek words meli i. honey and ode i. a song as it were a honey'd or sweet song Melpomene the name of one of the nine Muses the first inventresse of Tragedies Membrane lat a certain little thin skin which covereth every part of the body also a skin of parchment also the pill between the bark and the tree Memnon the son of Tithonus and Aurora and brother of Laomedon he was slain by Achilles in the Trojan War and his body being burnt it is reported that there flew out certain Birds which are thence called Memnonian Birds who are said every year to come out of Aethiâ—pia to visit the Tomb of Memnon Memorandum lat a short note or token for the better remembrance of any thing or as we commonly say an Iâ—em Memorable lat easie to be remembred worthy of remembrance Memorial lat a remembrancer or that which puts one in mind of any thing Memphis the chief City of Aegypt built by Ogdous and called after his daughters name and from whence the Aegyptians are anciently named Memphians it is now vulgarly called Alcairo Menalippus a Theban who having given Tydeus a mortal wound was slain by the friends of Tydeus who causing Menalippus his head to be brought to him tore it in pieces for revenge and immediately after died †Mendaciloquent lat speaking false telling lyes Mendication lat a begging whence a Friar Mendicant is one that goes up and down begging almes Menelaus the son of Atreus and Aerope he marrying Helena the daughter of Jupiter and Leda she was in his absence stollen away by Paris the son of Priam which was the occasion of the Trojan war wherein after 9 years siege Troy was destroyed and Helena recovered Menestheus the son of Peleus he with the help of the Tyndaridae raising a sedition against Theseus became King of the Atheniaâ—â— but going to the siege of Troy he there died Menial or Moenial servant one that lives within the walls of his masters house from the Latin word Moenia i. walls or from the old word Meny which significes a Family Meninges Greek two thin skins which enwrap the brain the one called dura mater next to the skull the other pia mater which immediately covereth the brain Meniver a kind of Fur being as some think the skin of a Squirrels belly or as others say of a little white beast like to a wesel breeding in Muscovy Mennow from the French word Menu i.
person above any one besides but especially in an amorous sence it is also used adjectively for neat spruice polisht or adorn'd Minious lat of a red or Vermilion colour Ministery lat service or charge in any imployment but used more especially in a spiritual sence for the Priestly function Miniver see Menivâ—r The Minor in a syllogisme the latter part or assumption Minoration lat a diminishing or making lesse Minority lat nonage or being under age Minos a King of Creet the son of Jupiter or as some say of Xanthus and Europa he having great wars with the Athenians and Megareans because they slew his son Androgeus had Megara delivered to him by the treachery of Scylla he intertained Daedalus an Athenian being banisht from his Country who being an excellent Artist made that famous Labyrinth into which the Minotaur was put But afterwards for making a wooden Heifer into which Pasiphae the wife of Minos being included received the Bull again by which she had formerly had the Minotaur he was shut up into the Labyrinth himself together with his son Icarus but he making waxen wings for himself and his son fled away into Sicily where he was stifled in a Bath by the daughter of King Crocalus his son having melted his wings by the way and fallen into the Sea which was thence called the Icarian Sea Minotaurus the Monster which Pasiphae the wife of Minos brought forth having had carnal copulation with a Bull it had partly the form of a man partly of a Bull to this Monster the Athenians overcome by Minos were bound by covenant to sent yearly seven of their noblest youths to be devoured but in the third year Theseus the son of Aegeus was sent to slay the Minotaur which having done he escaped with the help of Ariadne out of the Labyrinth by a clew of thread Minouery from the French word Main-ovre i. handy-work is a trespasse committed by a mans handy-work in the Forrest as an engine to catch Dear c. Minster a Saxon word signifying a Monastery Mint a certain herb so called from Minthe the daughter of Cocytus who being taken away with Proserpina by Pluto was changed into a plant of the same name also the place where the Kings coin is formed which at present is at the Tower of London but in ancient times it was at Caleis Minute lat little small whence Minution a diminishing or making little also a Minute is substantively used for a moment or the smallest part of time †Mirabile lat wonderful strange to be admired Miraculous lat the same Mirmillions lat a sort of gladiators or sword-fighters Mirour or Mirrour French a looking-glasse Misanthropy Greek a man-hateing a flying the company of men Mirach the Girdle of Adromeday Misaventure in Common Law is the killing of a man partly by negligence and partly by chance as by throwing a stone carelessely shooting an arrow or the like Misbode old word wrong Miscellanies lat a mixture of several things together a collection of divers notions treating of different matters Miscreant French an Infidel or unbeliever Mise a French word signifying in an action of right or property the point whereupon the parties proceed to trial either by Assize or Battle as issue is in an action personal Misericordia in Common Law is an arbitrary punishment very moderate and rather lesse than the offence Miskenning is a changing of speech in Court The Misne or Misen-sail of a Ship is that which is between the poop and the main-sail Misogamy Greek a hating or contempt of marriage Misoginy Greek a hating of women Misprision from the French word mespris signifieth in Common Law a neglect or oversight as a misprision of Felony c. is a neglect or light account had of Felony committed by not revealing it when we know it to be committed To Misqueam old word to displease Missale lat a breviary or masse-book Misseltoe or Misseldin in Dutch Mistel a certain plant which grows not upon the ground but upon other trees of which it is reported that Thrushes eating the berries of this plant and afterwards sitting to roust all night and shitting upon it causeth it to bear bird-lime whence cometh the Proverb The Thrush shits her own sorrow Missile lat a dart or arrow also a term in Heraldry being a mixture of several colours together Mission lat a sending it is also taken peculiarly for a power given by the Church of Rome to go into other Countries and preach the Catholick Faith and those that are thus sent are called Missionaries or fathers of the Mission A letter Missive lat a letter which is sent from one friend to another Mister old word need want Mistery French Mistier Latin Magisterium a craft trade or occupation but coming from Mysterium it signifieth a secret or hidden businesse Mithridates a King of Pontus who spake 22 Languages he rebelling against the Romans was overcome by Sylla near Dardanus and afterwards by Lucullus near Cyzicus and flying to Tigranes King of Armenia he renewed the war but at length was totally overthrown by Pompey and besieged in his own Palace where having in vain attempted to poison himself he assisted Gallus the Executioner when his hand trembled in the murdering of himself He was the first inventour of that excellent Antidote against infection and poison called from his own name Mithridate Mitigation lat a pacifying or asswaging Mittins in French Mitains certain winter gloves made of cloth or furs Mittimus a Justice of peace his warrant to send an offender to the Goale or prison Mitylene an ancient City of Lesbos not far from Methymna from this City the whole Island now takes its denomination Mixen old word from Meoxe i. dung a dunghill Mixture lat a mingling of several things together Mizmor Span. a Dungeon M N Mnemosyne a certain Nimph who being got with child by Jupiter brought forth the nine Muses the word signifieth in Greek memory Mnesteus see Menesteus M O Mobbi a certain drink made of Potato roots much used in the Island of Barbado's Mobility lat moveablenesse inconstancy Modality lat a School-term signifying the manner of a thing in the abstract Modder from the Dutch word Modde or Moddekin i. a Maid or Virgin a young girle or wench Moderation lat temperance government discretion Moderatour lat a discreet governour a decider of any controversie Modern lat of late time Modicum lat a little matter a small pittance Modification lat a qualifying a setting a measure or limit to any thing Modulation lat an exact singing a keeping time and measure in singing Mogontus a certain heathen god worshipped by the ancient Brittains in Northumberland like as Bellotucardus in Cumberland and Andates in Essex Moguntia a City of Germany now called Mentz the Arch-Bishop of this place is one of the three spiritual Electors of the Empire Moiles in Latin Mallei a kind of highsoaled-shooes worn in ancient times by Kings and great persons Moitie French the
vessels Tasck an old Brittish word signifying as much as Tribute from whence haply cometh our word Task which is a duty or labour imposed upon any one Tassel French a Term in Falconry the Male of any Hawk Titus Tatius a Captain of the Sabines who after great Wars with the Romans at length concluding a peace with them was received as a sharer in the Government Tavistoke or Teavistok a Town in Devonshire so called from the River Teave it hath been famous in times past for the Abbey built by Ordolph the son of Ordgare Earle of Devonshire in the year 961. he being admonished as some say by a Vision from Heaven this Abby was destroyed by the Danes but afterwards flourish'd again and in it Lectures were instituted of the English Saxon tongue Tawnton or Thonton a Town in Somersetshire so called as it were a Town watered by the River Thone here Iâ—a King of the West-saxons built a Castle which Desburgio his wife rased to the ground after she had expelled from thence Eadbritch King of the South-saxons Taurine or Taurean lat belonging to a Bull. Taurinum a Citie by the Alps in Piedmont vulgarly called Turin Taurus a very great ridge of mountains stretched out a mighty length through divers Countreys and called by several names as Imaus Parapomisus Circius Taurus Cauâ—asus Sarpedon Ceraunius c. also the name of one of the twelve signes of the Zodiack the word signifying in Latin a Bull. Tautologie Greek a repeating of one thing several times over in different expressions Taximagulus a petty King of Kent one of those that opposed Julius Caesar when he made War with the Brittains Taygetus a very steep Hill by the Citie of Sparta T E Team or Theam Sax. a Royalty granted by the Kings Charter to a Lord of a Mannour Teasels a kind of Plant called in Greek Dipsacus in Latin labrum veneris Technical Greek artificial done by Art Tectonick lat belonging to a building Tedder a tying of any beast in a roap that he may graze within a certain compasse Tediferous lat bearing a Taper or Torch Tegea a Town in Arcadia whose inhabitants having great Wars with the Phaeneatae it was decided in a Duel between the three sons of Rherimachus for the Tegeans and the three sons of Demostratus for the Phaeneatae like that of the Horatii and Curiatii Tegment lat a covering or cloathing Teifidale a Countrey in the South-part of Scotland so called as it were a Dale by the River Teif Telarie lat belonging to a Weavers Web. Teliferous lat carrying or bearing darts Tellers of the Exchequer four Officers appointed to receive all monies due to the King and to give a Bill to the Clark of the Pell to charge him therewith Telamon the son of Aeacus King of Salamis he was the first that got upon the Walls of Troy when Hercules besieged it whereupon he gave him Hesione the daughter of Laomedon Telegonus the son of Vlisses and Circe who slew his father at Ithaca not knowing him afterwards going into Italy he built Tusculum Telephus the son of Hercules and the Nymph Auge who being exposed to the Woods by his Grand-father was brought up by a Hart afterward becoming King of Mysia he was wounded by Achilles whom he denied passage through his Countrey going to the Wars of Troy but at length was cured by the same dart that wounded him Telescope Greek a certain Mathematical instrument by which the proportion of any thing is discerned at a great distance Tellus the goddesse of the earth and oftentimes taken for the earth it self Temerity lat rashnesse unadvisednesse Tempe certain pleasant fields in Thessaly five miles long six miles broad watered by the River Penâ—us which makes them so ever green and flourishing that all delightfull places are by Metaphor called Tempe Temperament lat a moderate and proportionable mixture of any thing but more peculiarly of the four humours of the body Temperance lat moderation and abstinence a restraining the violence of a mans affections or passions Temperature lat the same as temperament Tempestivity lat seasonablenesse due or convenient time Templars or Knights of the Temple see in Knight Temporaneous or Temporary lat belonging to time done suddenly or a certain time Temporalities of Bishops such Lands or Revenues as are added to Bishops Sees by great persons of the Land Temporize to live according to the times to comply with the times Temulency lat drunkennesse Tenacity lat an aptnesse to keep or hold fast Tenderlings a Term among Hunters the soft tops of Deers Horns when they begin to shoot forth Tendons lat certain small ligaments or chords in which the muscles do end Tendrells the young branches of a tree and chiefely of a vine Tenebres certain divine Services performed among the Catholicks some dayes of the week before Easter Sunday in representation of our Saviours Agony in the Garden there being put out of the 15 lamps which they light one at the end of every Psalm they repeat untill all the lights are extinguished Tenebrion lat one that lurks in the night to pilfer or steal also a night-spirit Tenebrosity lat darknesse or obscurity Tenedos an Island in the Aegaean Sea between Lesbos and the Hellespont hither the Greeks retired while the Trojans received the great horse Tenerity lat tendernesse or softnesse Tenne a kind of tawny colour a term used in Heraldry Tenon a term in Building a piece of a rafter put into a mortisehole to bear it up Tenor lat the effect or purport of any thing also a rule or proportion also one of the five parts in Musick Tensil lat easie to be bent or stretcht out Tensity lat stiffnesse or a being stretched out hard Tent among Jewellers is that which they put under table Diamonds when they set them in work it signifieth also a Pavillion also a Chirurgions Instrument to search wounds with Tentation lat a tempting trying or proving Tentorian lat belonging to a Tent or Pavillion Tenuity lat smallnesse thinnesse slendernesse whence Tenuation a making thin or slender Tenure in Common Law is the manner whereby Tenants hold Lands of their Lord. Tepefaction lat a making luke-warm Tepidity lat lukewarmnesse Tercera one of the Isles which the Spaniards call Acores Terebinthine lat belonging to Terebinth i. the Turpentine-tree as also a certain Gum issuing out of that tree Terebration lat a boring through Tereus see Philomela Tergeminous lat three born at a birth also threefold Tergiversation lat a turning ones back a flinching or withdrawing also a non-suit in Law Terminals lat certain Feasts made in honour of Terminus an ancient god among the Romans called the god of bounds because after the banishment of Saturn he used to decide the controversies of Husbandmen falling out about the limits of their grounds Termination lat a limiting ending or bounding Ternary or Ternion lat the number three Terra Lemnia an exceeding red earth of the Island of Lemnos digged from a red
that I shall neverthelesse fall short of answering the curiosities of some critical expectations Mr. Minshaw that spent his life and estate in scrutinizing into Languages still remaines obnoxious to the misconstructions of many But let such invading censurers well consider the infinity of mechanical words how every Art hath its peculiar Terms and then if they are in their right wits it will seem almost impossible to them for one man though a healthful person that hath spent the best part of the leasure of his life to erect such a Pyramid more especially if those difficulties are rightly pondered that are to be waded through the conduct of costs in that continued converse that must be had with Artists besides the great labour with which the most generous Forrainers that have gone about to manage such happy designs have been wasted and tired out these considerations being ingeniously weighed by the wiser sort of men I hope the learned charitable Critick will intertain a favourable approbation of these labours as he cannot find me wanting at least of a more than ordinary industry to compleat this Work both in examining and right digestion of my own papers as also for that tender care that hath been had of those happy contributions I received from others Most Reverenced Sisters my greatest ambition is your affectionate esteem which having but obtained I shall ever strive to imploy the best strength of my life and studies in your service in the mean space I question not but I have already done my Country so much good service as to have stript away those obsolete termes that have defaced our language not degrading too much from its primitive integrity nor declining what with judge I might insert To conclude I have illustrated and refined it instated it in its proper majesty rendred it admirably useful for all persons on all occasions worthy of the greatest masteries of Rhetoricians and the tongues of our Vernaculous Oratours with a no lesse honourable submission have I prostrated these my Indeavours at your Learned Feet EDW. PHILLIPS To the truly Noble and Perfect Lover and Incourager of Arts and Sciences Sir WILLIAM PASTON Knight and Baronet SIR IT hath not been the least of my care that this present Work might be as happy in the fortune of its addresse as in the publicknesse of its design which is the General advancement of Learning and Arts nor could it have been more advantagiously fortified against the various and uncertain suffrages of the World then by being adopted into the Patronage of such a Person whose accomplishment in the Arts and Ingenuities renders him capable to judge of what is written well or amisse in any of them and that this attribute doth belong properly to your self is evident to the World by more then a few instances Your admirable skill in Physick manifested in your frequent Cures of the most desperate Diseases and those happy receits you have consecrated to the benefit of mankind Your exquisite knowledge in Husbandry and Horsemanship Your deep insight into the Mathematicks and the more delicate sort of the Mechanicks as appears by your excellent choice of Jewels and your rare fancy and invention in Carvings Turning Paintings and Annealings in which the very Artists you have imployed have submitted to your politer judgement Your diligent search into the greatest curiosities of Nature wherein how much you have exceeded all others of our Nation that have been famous in their Collections your Musaeum abounding with an infinite variety of the most choice and admired Rarities can sufficiently testifie And indeed What qualities lesse noble then these I have mentioned could spring from the vertuous inclinations of your youth which for many years was spent in useful travels not so much to see fashions as to learn experience and the true knowledge of men and manners of which the Learned Mr. Greaves makes an honourable mention in his Survey of the Pyramids of Egypt These vertues together with the enlargednesse of your mind in making your House the Center of Hospitality to Strangers and Ingenuous Persons are no lesse a true mark of the Noblenesse of your Family then the Supporters of your Armes a bearing which is very rare and onely peculiar to the most ancient Houses Vpon this foundation it is that I build my confidence but to me a person little meriting in my self the honour of your acceptance my propitious Stars have been assistant on this occasion and have so brought it about that not I but two Famous Vniversities and the greatest Artists of our time should throw this Work at your feet and in so doing they have obliged me by a favour which nothing can equal but the Honour of your receiving it from them by my hands If what is here more particularly contained of the more Noble Mechanick Arts come not up to that heighth as to satisfie the curiosity of your excellent judgement in them yet thus much our Volume may without arrogance pretend to That there is here a fairer way begun then ever for the promoting of that most useful part of Learning especially since it could not intend that alone but takes in all the other parts beside which all together with one consent like the needle tending towards the North present themselves to wait upon you who have so great an influence upon them erecting a Monument to your fame great as the glory I aspire to in stiling my self Sir Your most humble and most devoted servant EDW. PHILLIPS To the truly Noble and Acomplisht Gentlemen Sir ROBERT BOLLES of Scampton in the County of Lincoln Baronet AND EDWARD HUSSY of Cathorp in the County of Lincoln Esquire AT such a time chiefly it is Most Honoured Sirs that a Nation may be truly said to flourish when those that are the most considerable in fortune and outward splendour are also the most conspicuous for Learning and inward Worth nor can the greatest Sciences and most noble Qualities be look't upon by any with so true an esteem and value as by those who have themselves attained the highest perfection in them and among the rest whom such qualifications make to be reputed the Ornament of the Age it had been impossible that the World should be unacquainted with two such Eminent Persons as your selves who being as inseparable in friendship and alliance as in the â—ffinity of your vertues could not without injury to so happy an union have been separated in this addresse Though decency will not permit me to speak over-high of this Work wherewith I here present you yet this I may say That Fame hath usher'd it into the World with the attest of so many Worthy hands that never yet in English any Piece came forth with happier Auspices to which there could have been nothing wanting to Crown its fortune absolutely but your most equal receptions for which it is prepared with this return of gratitude That besides all those other Arts and Sciences of which both of you are
solid arguments of Verstegan and those that have writ most judiciously concerning the Original of the Brittains nothing seems to me more consonant to truth then that the Brittains anciently descended from the Gaules and that Brutus rather a Gallick then a Trojan Prince changed the name of Albion into that of Brittain but certain it is that of this ancient Brittish there remains scarsely any track or footstep in the language spoken at this day in the main part of England but hath remained intire from the Saxon Conquest to this very time in that part which is commonly called Cambro-Brittania or Wales to which being a mountanous Countrey and strong for defence and which onely of all the rest of the Island was left unconquered by the Saxons a great number of the Native inhabitants betook themselves by flight preserving both their ancient race and speech which from the Countrey Wales is now called Welsh In the same manner the Cantabrian or ancient tongue of Spain notwithstanding the frequent invasions of that Countrey by the Carthaginians Moors Romans and Vandals is yet preserved in Biscay Guipuscoa and Navarrâ— and in the Mountains of Granata called Alpuxarras the Arabick is still retained together with the off-spring of the Moors that in times past possessed the greatest part of Spain as also in Armorica or Brittany in France the old Gallick is spoken at this day which very near resembling the Welsh is a great argument of the ancient affinity of these two tongues From this so total a subversion of the Brittish Empire by the English-Saxons followed as total a subversion of the Brittish language and even of the very name of Brittain which from the ancient habitation of the Saxons near the Baltick Sea was named Anglia or England a thing which was neither effected by the Roman nor the Norman Conquest for neither the Provincial Latin could extinguish the Native Brittish nor the French brought in by King Williams followers the Saxon which was then in use for it is observable that where the Conquerours over-power the former inhabitants in multitude their language also by little and little prevails over that of the Countrey otherwise it wasts and spends it self till it be in a manner utterly lost like a small quantity of water thrown upon a heap of sand Since therefore these Saxons were a people of Germany and their speech very little if at all differing from the rest of the Germans it is hence evident that our language derives its Original from the Dutch or Teutonick which seems to be of greater Antiquity then any other language now spoken in Europe and to have continued the same without any considerable alteration and in the same Countrey where it was first planted through a long tract of many ages for not to urge the opinion of Goropius Becanus who affirmeth it to have been the first language of the world and spoken by Adam in Paradise it is certainly the common consent of most Authentick Writers that the Dutch tongue still in use and possessing a large compasse of ground is no lesse ancient then the very first coming in of the Teutones into Germany under the conduct of Tuisco which is no wonder if we consider that the Teutones or Germans being the very first people that ever inhabited Germany have continued in the possession of it to this very day uncorrupted unsubdued and as their language so themselves unmixed with any forraigne Nation Nor is the large extent of this language lesse considerable for as much as it is spoken throughout all Germany Denmark Norwey Swethland Belgia the Iland of Thule now called Iseland and divers of the Northern Iles besides those places into which it hath spread it self by conquest as into Gallia by the Franck's and by the Saxons into this Iland where it yet remaineth in a very great measure And though our English tongue hath of late ages intertained so great a number of forraign words that every age it seemeth to swerve more and more from what it was originally yet if we compare it diligently with the Dutch we shall soon finde that almost all the chief material words and those which are oftnest used in the most familiar and vulgar discourse are all either meer Dutch or palpably derived from the Dutch For example the most primitive and uncompounded words appellatives the names of natural things animals vegetals as Earth Heaven Winde Oak Man Bird Stone c. words that imply a relation as Father Brother Son Daughter Pronouns and Monosyllable Verbs as Mine Thine This What Love Give besides all our numerals particles conjunctions and the like Concerning these words it is very remarkable that most of them consisting but of one syllable neverthelesse the things that are understood by them are as significantly express't as the same things in other tongues are by words of two or more syllables as the word Good is as proper as either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek or Bonus in Latin a matter of no small advantage for if that sentence be judged most praise-worthy that containeth most matter in fewest words why may we not commend that word which consisting of fewest syllables is yet of as great force as if it had more No lesse considerable is the proper and most pertinent signification of some words which are produced by the coalition or clapping together of two of these monosyllables into one as the word Wisdome which is compounded of these two words Wise i. e. Grave Sage Prudent and the old Saxon word Dome i. e. judgement or sentence since wisdome may most properly be said to be the result of a Grave and solid judgement By this that hath been said it is evident that the Saxon or German tongue is the ground-work upon which our language is founded the mighty stream of forraigne words that hath since Chaucers time broke in upon it having not yet wash't away the root onely it lies somewhat obscur'd and overshadow'd like a Rock or Fountain overgrown with bushes Whether this innovation of words deprave or inrich our English tongue is a consideration that admits of various censures according to the different fancies of men Certainly as by an invasion of strangers many of the old inhabitants must needs be either slain or forced to fly the Land so it happens in the introducing of strange â—ords the old ones in whose room they come must needs in time â—e forgotten and grow obsolete sometimes indeed as Mr. Cambden observes there is a peculiar significancy in some of the old Saxon words as in stead of fertility they had wont to say Eordswela which is as much as the wealth or riches of the earth yet let us not bewail the losse of them for this for we shall finde divers Latin words whose Etymology is as remarkable and founded upon as much reason as in the word intricate which coming from Tricae i. e. those small threads about Chickens legs that are an encombrance to them in their going
with pride Amputation Lat. a curtailing a lopping off Amsanctus a place in the midst of Italy where are many waters full of Brimstone which send forth a pestilent and noisome smell and are inclosed round about with Woods which gave occasion to the Poets to faign that the infernal Ghosts had their abode there Amstelodamum the chief Citie of Holland now called Amsterdam Amulet Lat. a kinde of composition somewhat like a Pomander to wear about one which preserveth from the plague poyson or inchantment Amulius King of the Latin's he disposest his brother Numitor of the Kingdom and made a Vestal of his Neece Rhea Silvia but she being got with Childe by Mars as it was reported brought forth Romulus and Remus who afterwards reigned Amycus King of the â—ebrycii the son of Neptune and Melie who challenging all strangers to fight with him with whirlebats was at length slain by Pollux Amymone one of the fifty daughters of Danae she was ravish't by Neptune and brought forth Nauplius Amyris an inhabitant of Sybaris who foretelling the ruine of his Countrey fled away with all his goods A N Ana a Greek adverb used by Physitians in their bills to signifie the like quantity of each also a kind of Indian beasts with long teeth and sharp nails Anabaptists a Sect of Hereticks first begun in Germany as some say by one Nicholas Stork in the year 1521. their chief Tenet is that men ought not be baptized till they are able to render an account of their faith †Anabathrum Greek a place whereunto we ascend by steps Anacardium Greek a kinde of bean growing in Malaga Anachorite Greek a kinde of religious person that gives himself up to a religious life Anacreon a famous Lyrick Poet of Teus in Jonia who was choaked with the husk of a raison †Anacrisis Greek question of the guilty either by torment or by interrogation Anachronisme Greek a word used in Chronology signifying a false collection of time Anadem Greek a Garland Anadesme Greek a swath a cloath to tie up wounds Anadiplosis Greek a figure in Rhetorick i. e. when one verse begins with the same word the last ended with Anaetis a Goddesse among the Lydians to whom the chiefest Noble men used to Dedicate their daughters Anaglyphick Greek belonging to the art of Carving or Embossing Anagnostick Greek a Curate or one that serveth to read to another †Anagogical Greek skilled in deep matters well read in mysterious learning Anagram Greek a transposing the letters of any ones name so as to make another word of it which art some say was invented by Lycophron Anagraph Greek a register an inventory Analects Greek scraps which are gathered from the Table also Metaphorically taken for any collections Analemme Greek a Mathematical instrument to finde out the course or elevation of the Sun or any Planet Analogisme Greek a logical argument from the cause to the effect Analogie Greek proportion correspondence Analysis Greek a resolution of doubtfull matters also a distribution of the whole into parts Ananias Hebr. the grace of the Lord a proper name Anapaest Greek a foot in a verse consisting of two short syllables and one long Anaphora a Rhetorical figure being a repetition of the same sound in the beginning of several sentences or verses also the ascention of the signs from the East by the dayly course of the firmament Anapologetical Greek having no excuse without any Apology Anarchy Greek a disorder in government a being without rule or Prince Anarand a Brittish proper name corrupted from Honoratus i. e. Honourable Anaretas see Interfector Anathema Greek with e short is a person solemnly curs't or devoted to destruction Anathema Gr. that which is offered to an Idol Anatocisme Greek the yearly receipt of usury when at the years end the use is become principal Anatomy Greek the dissection of a body for the more exact discovery of all the inward parts Anaxarete a beautifull Virgin of Salamis who disdaining the love of Iphis was the cause that he hang'd himself before the her door and was afterwards for her hard heartednesse turned into a stone Anaximander a great Milesian Philosopher the Successour of Thales Ancoeus the son of Neptune he being much given to Agriculture and going to drive a wilde Boar out of a Vineyard he had planted was slain by the Boar. Ancaster a Town or long street in Lincolnshire by Antoninus called Crocolana in which the memory of Antiquity is continued by the Roman Coines and Vaults under ground oftentimes discovered Anchises the son of Capys he was carried by his son Aeneas from the sack of Troy but died in his journy toward Italy Anchoret see Anachorite Anchurus the son of Midas he after Midas was warned by the Oracle to throw what he had most precious into a great gap of the earth about Celenon in Phrygia had thrown in his gold in vain her rode into the Abysse which had swallowed many men and afterwards it closed up Ancus Martius the fourth King of the Romans Ancil Lat. a kinde of sheild or buckler made after the fashion of a decrescent Moon the first of this form was reported to fall from heaven into the hands of Pompilius Numa in the time of a great plague who by the instinct of the Goddesse Egeria caused eleven more to be made and committed them to the keeping of the 12. Salii Ancona the chief Citie of Picenum in Italy first built by the Sicilians Andalusia a Countrey in Spain first called Baetica Andradswald a Wood in Sussex aciently 120 miles in length memorable for the death of Sigebert King of the West Saxons who having been deposed was stabbed in this place by a Swinheard Andrago Lat. a woman of manly countenance and carriage Andrastes or Andate a certain Goddesse worshipt by the ancient Brittains as the Goddesse of victory Andrew Greek a proper name signifying manly Androdamant Greek a kinde of precious stone Androgyne Greek one of both Sexes one that is both man and woman Andromache wife to Hector she was after his death married to Helenus the Prophet and son of Priam. Andromeda the daughter of Cepheus King of Aethiopia she was for her pride exposed to the cruelty of a Sea-monster but delivered by Perseus Androna Greek a place that was anciently made in ships onely for men to be in Anelate a kind of a wood knife Anemone Greek a kind of flower called a wind flower Anfractuosity Lat. an intricate turning and winding Angel in gold is a piece of Coyn that hath an Angel stamp't upon it and beares the value of 10 shillings Angelica an Herb so called Angelical Greek belonging to an Angel i. a messenger the Angels are also taken in holy Scripture for those immortal spirits which wait upon Almighty God in the highest heavens they are divided by Saint Paul into nine several orders Seraphim Cherubim Thrones Dominations Virtues Powers Principates Arch-Angel and Angel Angelot French a kind of small Cheese commonly made in France
Citie of Peloponesus not farre from Athens where many famous Kings reign'd Argus the son of Actor whom Juno set as a spy over Io being turned into a Cow Argute lat full of wit subtile Argyra an Island in India full of Gold and silver Also a Nymph whom Selenius being in love with died for grief and was changed by Venus into a River Ariadne the daughter of Minos and Pasiphae see more of her in Theseus Arided Arab. a Term in Astrology the tail of the Swan Aridity lat drynesse sterility Aries lat an Engin anciently used for the battering down of Citie walls so called from Aries a Ram by reason of the likenesse it had to that beast also one of the twelve signs Arietation lat a butting a battring with the Engine Aries Ariminum an ancient Town of Flaminia in Italie now called Rimini Ariobarzanes one of Darius his Captains who was slain by the Greeks Ariolation lat a sooth-saying Arion a famous Musician of the Isle of Lesbos he was in great favour with Periander Tyrant of Corinth as he was sayling from Italy the Mariners conspired to kill him for his riches but he casting himself into the Sea was carried by a Dolphin to Taenarus a Town of Laconia Arist old word he arose Aristaeus the son of Apollo and Ceres he was King of Arcadia and found out the use of Bees but because Euridice flying from him was slain by the bite of a Serpent the Nymphes destroyed his Bees to appease whom he having sacrificed four Oxen and four Heifers a multitude of Bees sprung from the dead Oxen. Aristides an Athenian famous for Justice Aristocracy Greek the Government of a Common-wealth wherein the Nobles bear chief sway Arite old word to Arest or stay Arithmetick Greek the art of numbring Arithmancy Greek a divination by numbers Armada Span. a great Navy Armagh a County in Ireland Armenia a Countrey of Asia divided into the greater and the lesser Armâ—nia Armiger lat a Squire one that beareth a Knights Arms. Armilet a little Bracelet for the arm Arminians a Sect of Hereticks instituted by Jacobus Arminius in the year 1605. they hold free grace and universal redemption Armipotent lat strong in arms powerfull Armoniack or Gumme Armonick a certain Gum issuing from a plant called fennel Gyant Armorick a Countrey in France now called Brittain Armory a place where armes are laid up and kept Armuzia a Countrey on the Borders of Carmania along the River Andanis where are many pleasant Vineyards Arobe a Portugal measure of Sugar containing 25 Bushels Aromatick lat Odoriferous having a spicy smell Arquebuze a little Gun a Caleever Arragon a great Province of Spain heretofore a Kingdom by it self Arraighn to set at the Bar of Justice to make guilty Arran a County in the North-part of Scotland anciently called Heglota as being scituate in the River Claâ—a now called Cluid Arrasse a certain rich cloath so called from Arras a Town of Artesia where it was made Arrearage French a debt due upon an old account Arrendare signifieth in the practick of Scotland to set lands to any one for yearly Rent Arreptitious lat suddenly caught also snatching away privily Arrere old word apart aside Arrest French a stay a resting quiet in a place also a putting a stop to proceedings in Common-law it signifieth an execution served upon a mans goods or person also a decree or final sentence of a Court. Arretteth layeth blame an old word used by Chaucer Arrians a Sect of ancient Hereticks instituted by one Arrius a Lybian about the year 315. they deny the son to be of the same substance with God the father Arride lat to manifest ones consent of a thing by smiling Arrogate lat to assume too much to ones self Arsenal French a kinde of Cittadel where Armour and Ammunition is laid up Arseâ—ick a mineral called Orpiment in English Raâ—s-bane Arseversie upside down preposterous Arsmart an Herb otherwise called water pepper Arson French a saddle-bow Artaxerxes the son of Xerxes King of Persia he had three sons by his wife and 112 by his Concubines he made Darius his Successour who rebelling from his father because he had taken from him his Concubine Aspasia was slain with 50 of his brothers Artemisia Queen of Halicarnassus and wife to Mausolus she built so stately a Sepulcher for her deceased husband that it was held for one of the seven wonders of the world Artemisia is also the name of an Herb called Mugwort Artemisian moneth the moneth of May. Arten to constrain an old word used by Chaucer Arteries Lat. those hollow membranous Vessels like to veins in which the most thin and hottest part of the bloud together with the vital spirits pass through the body Arteriotomy Greek a cutting of an Artery Arthritical disease the Gout from Arthritis a Greek word which signifies a joynt Arthur a famous warlike King of the Brittains who beat the Saxons in divers set battails this word signifieth in the Brittish tongue strong man Articular Lat. joynted Articulate lat to joynt also make Articles of agreement Artificer Lat. a work-man Artillery great brasse Guns Cannons Artisan or Artist a master of his Art Arval brothers a fraternity of Roman Priests twelve in number who besides their performance of publick sacrifices were appointed Judges of Land-marks Arvisian wine a sort of Greek wine from Arvis now called Amista in the Island Chios Arundel in Latine Aruntina vallis a Town in Sussex so called as it were Arundale i. a dale lying upon the River Arun it hath a strong Castle which Robert de Belismo keeping against King Henry the first he thereupon forfeited his estate and was proscribed Arundiferous Lat. bringing forth Reeds Aruspicy Lat. a certain kinde of divination anciently much in use among the Romans by looking into the bowels of beasts A S Asabaracca the Herb called Folefoot Asbate old word a buying Asbestes a people of Lybia about Cyrene where the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon was Asbestos a kinde of precious stone of an Iron colour which being once fir'd cannot be quencht Ascanius the son of Aeneas by Creusa the daughter of Priamus he raigned in Italy 30 years and built Alba. Ascaunces old word as though Ascendant an Astrological Term it being the point of the Ecliptick which riseth at some determinate moment when any one is born it is also called the Horoscope it signifieth also Metaphorically a predominant or powerfull influence over any one Cleopatra Ascertain to assure Ascetick Greek belonging to a Monk or Monastery Asclepiad a verse consisting of four feet Spondee Choriambus and two Dactyls Ascribe Lat. to attribute to impute Ashdown or Assendown which some interpret the Mount of Asses a Town in Essex where a great battel was fought between Edward Iron-side and Canutus the Dane Asia one of those four parts into which the whole world is divided it was so called from Asia wife to Iapetus and daughter of Oceanus and Thetis Asinine Lat. belonging to an Asse
word to build Byker old word a fray Byndon a Town in Dorcetshire where in the year 614. Kinegilsus the Saxon King in a doubtful and bloody battel overcame the Brittaines Byram a certain solemn Feast among the Turkes Byrlaw or Burlaw a term used in the practick of Scotland Laws of Burlaw are determined by consent of neighbours elected by common consent in the Courts called Burlaw Courts Byssine Lat. made of silk Bytrent old word catched about Bywopen old word made senselesse Byzantium a City of Thrace built by the Spartans under the command of Pausanias It was afterwards called Nova Roma But Constantine the Great making it the chief Seat of his Empire it was called Constantinople and is at this day the chief Seat of the Turkish Empire C A CAb an Hebr. measure of 3 pints Cabades a King of Persia who succeeded Perozes after he had vanquished him and cut off his whole army Cabala an Hebrew word signifying receiving also a science among the Jews comprehending the secret wayes of expounding the Law which were revealed by God to Moses Cabalin fountain see Hypocrene Cabin a cottage also a little room in a ship called also Cabern Cablish a term used by the writers of forrest laws signifying Brushwood Cabura an odoriferous fountain of Mesopotamia wherein Juno was used to wash Caburn a small line made of yarn to bind the cabel of a ship withal Cacams Doctors among the Jews Cacafuego a Spanish word signifying shitefire Cachexy Greek a physical term signifying an ill disposition of the body Cachinnations Lat. a loud laughter Cacique a certain King among the Indians Cackrell a kind of fish Cacochimie Greek a physical word signifying ill juice which is caused in the body through bad nutriment or ill digestion Cacodemon Greek an evil spirit Cacosyntheton Greek a vicious composition of words Cacozealous Greek ill affected or badly imitating Cacuminate Lat. to form into a sharpe top like a Pyramid Cacumination Lat. a making sharp at the top Cacus a shepherd of Aventinium in Italy who stealing some of the oxen which Hercules Recaranus had taken from Gorgon drew them backward by the taile to his cave that they might seem by their foot-steps to have gone an other way but the theft being discovered Hercules slew him with his club and recovered his oxen Cadaverus Lat. like a carcase full of dead carcases Cadbury a Town in Sommersetshire which is thought by some to have been that Cathbregion where K. Arthur overcame the English Saxons in a memorable battel Caddow a chough or daw Cade or Caddâ—e an Arabian word signifying a Lord or Magistrate among the Eastern people Cadence Lat. a just falling of the tone in a sentence a descending of notes in musick Cadâ—nt houses are the third sixth eight and twelfth houses of a scheme or figure Cadet French a younger brother among Gentlemen Cadier Arthur a high mountain in Brecknockshire whose two tops resembling the form of a chair it is thence vulgarly called K. Arthurs Chair Cadmus the King of the Phoenicians the son of Agenor and brother of Europa he brought the Greek letters out of Phoenicia he killed a serpent which had slain some of his companions sowing the teeth of it in the Earth out of which there sprung up armed men He built Thebes in the Country of Aonia which was afterwards called Boeotia but being driven thence with his wife Hermione by Zethus and Amphion he was changed into a serpent Cadrou or Cadzou a Barony in Scotland out of which was paid a yearly pension of 26 pounds 13 shillings and 4 pence to the Kings Exchequer Caduce the snaky staffe which Apollo gave to Mercury in recompence of his harp This staff had such vertue that with it he could kill or make alive It was also a rod among the Romans which was carried by their Heraulds in sign of peace whence an Embassadour is called Caduceator Caecity Lat. blindnesse Caelibate Lat. an unmarried state a bachelers life Caenis a Thessalian Virgin who was ravisht by Neptune and being turned into a man and called Caeneus was made invulnerable afterwards fighting against the Centaurs was buried alive by a great weight of trees thrown upon him Caercaradoc a hill in Shropshire where Caratacus an ancient King of the Brittans resolutely defended a stone Rampire against Ostorius Lieutenant of the Romans Caerdiff a Town in Glamorganshire fortified by Robert Fitz-Hamon whose Grandchild William Earle of Glocester was afterwards besieged in the Castle and taken prisoner by Yvor-Bach a Brittish Mountaineir In this Castle Robert Curthose son of William the Conqueror after he was bereft of his eyes lived till he was very old Caerfuse or Caersuâ—e a Town in Montgomeryshire anciently as they say a very famous City Caermarden by Ptolomy called Maridunum the chief Town of Caermardenshire the birth-place of Merlin the ancient Brittish Prophet Caernarvon the chief Town of Caernarvonshire where the Princes of Wales anciently kept their Chancery Exchequer and Courts of Justice it was built by K. Edward the first and the birth-place of K. Edward the second sirnamed thence Edward of Caernarvon Caesar a name attributed to the Emperours of Rome from Julius Caesar the first Emperour Caeyx see Halcyon Cageole French to prate to little purpose to canvas or dispute a businesse Cainsham a Town in Sommersetshire so called because it was built by Keina a devout Brittish Virgin of whom it was believed by the vulgar that she turned Serpents into stones because the high-way thereabout is full of stones which wreath about resembling a Serpent Cairus or Alcairus a great City of Aegypt formerly called Babylon Egyptia it was taken by the Turk Zelmi Caishoberry the name of a country Palace or great House near Watford in Hertfordshire it was begun by Sir Richard Morisin Knight Embassadour to several great Princes under K. Henry the eighth and K. Edward the sixth and finisht by Sir Charles Morisin his son It is now in the possession of the Lady Capell Dowager Caitive wretched wicked from the French Chetif or the Italian Cattivo Caitisned chained a word used by Chaucer Calabria a fruitful Country of Italy which now belongs to the kingdom of Naples Calamint an herb so called Calamist a Piper upon a reed from the Latin word Calamus Calamity Lat. misery but originally it signifies a destruction of corn from Calamus a stalk of corn Calasticks a physical word signifying purging ointments Calatrava a place in Spain which gives denomination to certain Knights who are called Knights of Calatrave Calcanth a Chymical word being the same as Vitriol Calcation Lat. a treading or stamping Calcedon a word used by Lapidaries being a certain forbe vein in a Ruby or Saphyre differing from the rest of the stone also the name of a precious stone Calchas a Grecian south-sayer the son of Thestor who seeing a Serpent devour ten Sparrow chickins prophesied that Troy should be taken the tenth year Calcine or Calcinate Lat. a Chymicall Term signifying to reduce any
up was rased to the ground by Rhese ap Gruffin Cardinal Lat. belonging to a Hinge also chief principal also an Ecclesiastical dignity instituted by Pope Paschal the First Cardiognostick Greek a Knower of hearts a prerogative onely attributed to God Cardoon French a dish of meat made of the stalk of an Artichoke Carduus Benedictus an herb called Blessed Thistle Careening a Term in Navigation a way of trimming of a ship under-water Carefox quasi quatrefour or a place parted into four wayes a market-place in Oxford so called Carecks old word marks Caresbroke a Town in the Isle of Wight contracted from Whitgaraburgh i. the Town of Whitgar for to him it was given by the Lord Cerdic the first English Saxon that subdued the Island Caresses French cherishings great expression of friendship and indearment Cleopatra Cargazon Spanish the Fraight of a ship Caria a Country of Asia the Lesse between Lycia and Ionia Carm Latine the keel of a ship Carinthia a Country joyning on the South to the Alpes being under the Duke of Austria Carity Lat. dearth scarsity Cark a quantity of wool whereof 30 make a Sarpler Carle a clown from the Saxon word Ceorle Carlile an ancient City in Cumberland almost encompast with the Rivers Eden Peteril and Cand it was called by the Romans Luguballia by the ancient Brittains Caerlnalid Egfrid King of Northumberland made a deed of gift of it to St. Cuthbert this City being depopulated by the Danes and lying buried in Rubbish for 2000 years began to flourish again in the time of William Rufus by whom it was first repaired Carline Thistle a certain plant by which Charls the great preserved his army from the Pestilence Carlings Timbers which lie along a ship from one beam to another Carmania a Country of Asia the Greater Carmasal a Turkish ship Carmelites an order of Fryars instituted at Carmelus in Syria by Almericus Bishop of Antioch in the year 1122. Carmenta an Arcadian Prophetesse the mother of Euander so called because she was the first that gave the Oracle in Verse she was also called Nicostrata Carminate Lat. to card wool Carmouth a Town in Dorsetshire where the Danes obtained a great victory against King Egbert in the year 831 and afterwards against Ethelwolph in the same place Carnage French the season wherein flesh may be eaten also a term in hunting signifying the flesh that is given to the dogs after the chace Carnality Lat. Fleshlinesse Carnation a kind of colour resembling raw flesh Carnaval French a time of dissolutenesse also the season called Shrovetide Carnificine Lat. the Executioners office also a place of execution Carnivorous Lat. Flesh-devouring Carnogan an old Brittish word signifying a kind of wodden dish a Piggin Carnoose the base ring in a great gun Carnocity lat corpulency fulnesse of flesh Carodunum the chief City of Poland called Cracovia Caroll a Christmasse song or hymn sung at Christmasse in honour of our Saviours birth Carove a kind of fruit also a root called St. Johns bread Carouse a lusty drinking a drinking all out from the dutch words Gar altogether and ausz out Carpathus an Island in the Mediterranean sea between Rhodes and Crete now called Scarpanto Carpocratians a sort of Hereticks that held a very dangerous opinion The Carp stone a triangular stone found in the chap of a Carp white without and yellow within Carrack or Carrick a great ship from the Italian word Carico a burthen Carrat French a term used by mintmen Goldsmiths and Jewellers in gold and silver it signifies the third part of an ounce in Jewels the 192d part Carricta or Carrict a province of the South part of Scotland standing upon Dunbritain Frith Carriere French a running of horses in their full speed also a circle where horses run Cartel French a challenge or letter of defiance Carthage the chief City of Africa anciently called Carthedon it was built by Dido and grew at length to that power and greatnesse that it waged war with the Romans for a long while with equal advantage There is also a City of Hispania Tarraconensis formerly called Carthago Vetus now Villa Franca Carthismandua a famous Brittish Lady Queen of the Brigantes who casting off her husband Venusius married Vellocatus his Harnesse-bearer and crowned him King being countenanced by the Romans and aided by their forces yet Venusius making war against her drove her to great straights and recovered the Kingdom Carthusians an order of Monks instituted by St. Bruno a native of Cullen 1101 who first led a Hermeticall life upon the Carthusian Mountains Cartilagineous latine full of gristles Carucata terrae from the French word Charrue a Plough it signifies in the ancient charters as much land as can be ploughed in a year by one Plough In the ancient laws it is called Hilda terrae which we call a hide of land Cartilagindous lat of a gristly substance Cartouch French a word used in Architecture signifying a roll with which they adorn the Cornish of a pillar also a charge of powder and shot made ready in a paper called also a Carthrage Carvage is to be quit if the King should tax his land by Carves Carve of land see Carrucata terrae Casemate Ital. a term in fortification a loop-hole in a wall to shoot out at Cashire French to break up a company of souldiers Caspian sea a sea between the Caspian and Hircanian Mountains Cassandra the daughter of Priam and Hecuba she being beloved of Apollo received the gift of prophesie from him at the sack of Troy she was ravisht in the Temple by Ajax Oileus and afterwards in the dividing the spoil she fell to Agamemnons lot Cassation lat a nulling or making void Cassia or Cassia fistula a kind of Reed or shrub growning in Egypt it is also called Canell from the French word Canelle Cassia lignea a sweet wood like to Cinnamon Cassiope or Cassiopea the daughter of Cepheus King of Ethiopia and mother of Andromeda who for her mothers pride in boasting her self fairer than the Nereides was exposed to the fury of a sea-monster they were afterwards placed both among the stars See Andromeda Cassivellaunus or Cassibellinus an ancient King of the Brittains under whose conduct they defended themselves with great courage against the Romans for a long time when they invaded this Island but at last he was constrained to surrender himself to Julius Caesar. Castaldie a Stewardship from the Latin word Gastaldius Castalia a certain Nymph as some think the daughter of Achelous who flying from Apollo was turned into a Fountain near Parnassus called the Castalian Fountain by some the Cabaâ—line Fountain sacred to the Muses Castanetts a certain sort of snappers which dancers tying about their fingers keep time with them as they dance they are so called from their resemblance of a a Chesnut called in Latin Castanea Castellain an officer called the Constable of a Castle which some think to be the same with Gnastaldus also in the Forrest laws it signifies an
Officer of the Forrest Castigate lat to punish to chastize Castlesteed a word anciently used for any Fortresse or Bulwark Castleward an Imposition upon such as dwell within a certain compasse of any Castle toward the maintenance of such as watch and ward the Castle it is taken also for the circuit it self which is inhabited by such as are subject to this service Castor and Pâ—llux the sons of Jupiter and Leda whom he lay with in the shape of a Swan they being grown to age freed the sea of Pirates and were therefore counted gods of the sea they went with Jason to Colchos and coming home they recovered their sister from Theseus and won the Town Aphydna wherein Castor died Pollux who was born in the same Egge with Helena and so became immortal desired of Jupiter that his brother might partake of immortality with him whereupon they were both reported to live and die by turns Castrated Lat. gelded cut away Casual Lat. accidental hapning by chance Casu consimili a Writ of Entry granted where a Tenant in courtesie or for Term of life doth Alienate in Fee or in Tail Casu proviso a Writ of Entry granted by the Statute of Gloâ—ester Casuit a vvriter of Cases of conscience Casule a kinde of vestment in which the Priest sayes Masse resembling the purple Robe of derision which was put upon our Saviour Catabaptist Greek an enemy or abuser of the Sacrament of baptisme Catachresis Greek a Rhetorical figure the using of another word in stead of the proper word Cataclysme Greek an inundation or deluge Catadrome Greek an Engin like a Crane which builders use also a Tilt-yard or place where horses run for prizes Cataglottisme Greek a thrusting out the tongue in kissing Catagraph Greek the first draught of a picture Catalia see Chattels A Catalepsie Greek occupation also a disease in the head which causeth a deprehension of the spirits Catalogue Greek a roul of names Catalonia a Province in Spain Catamidiate to put one to open shame for some notorious offence A Catamite Lat. an Ingle a boy kept for Sodomy Cataphora Greek a kinde of disease in the head which causeth heavinesse and deep sleep Cataplasme Greek an unctuous and moist composition made of Meal and Herbs like a Pultis but of a thicker substance Cataphrygians a Sect of Hereticks who baptized their dead forbid second marriage and had other erroneous opinions they were broached by Montanus and Apelles who were of the Countrey of Phrygia in the year 181. Catapuce an Herb called Spurge Catapult Lat. the same as Balista Catarract Greek a great fall of waters from a high place a flood-gate a post-cullis also a disease in the eyes caused by a coagulation of flegme between the Uveoâ—s Tunicle and the Christalline humour hindring the egresse and ingresse of the visual spirits Catarractonium or Caturactonium the name of a Town near Richmond anciently very famous so called from a great waterfall near unto it in the year 769. it was burnt by the Tyrant Beanred but afterwards it flourish't again in the time of King Ethelred who solemnised his marriage with King Offa's daughter in this Town it is now called Catarrick-bridge Catarrh Greek a Rheum a distillation of humours out of the head into the mouth or throat Catastasis Greek the third Act of a Comedy or Tragedy wherein things are brought to a full perfection and ripenesse Catastrophe the conclusion of a businesse also the last Act of a Comedy or Tragedy Catechize Greek to instruct or inform A Catechumen Greek one that is Catechiz'd for the receiving of the Communion Category Greek an accusation also a Predicament which is a Term in Logick Catenate Lat. to chain Caterlogh or Carlogh a Countrey of Ireland joyning on the East to the County of Kilkenny Cathanesse or Cathnesse a Province of the South-part of Scotland the people were called by Ptolomy Catini Cathaea a Countrey in India where beauty is so much regarded that they choose the hansomest man for their King Catharine Greek pure chaste a proper name of women Catharians a Sect of Hereticks who held themselves pure from sin rejected baptisme and denied original sin Catharists another sort of Hereticks who were counted a branch of the Manichees Catharticks Greek the general name in Physick for all purging Medicines Cathay a great Country Eastward divided into 9 Realmes under the great Cham. It was formerly called Scythia now Sinarum Regio the chief City is Issedon Cathedral Lat. belonging to a chair also a Cathedral Church is the chief Church in a Bishops See Cathelaunum or Catalaunum a Citie of Champagne in France now called Chaalons near unto which are Campi Cathelauni those famous fields where Attila the Hun was overthrown Caâ—ethus a Mathematical Term the Perpendicular side of a right angled Triangle Catholick Greek general universal defending the Christian faith a Title attributed to the King of Spain Catholicon a physical word signifying a general purging Medicine Cathorius a Term used in the practick of Scotland signifying the value of 9 kine it being a penalty set upon him who breaks the Kings peace to give to the King 22 Kine and 3 Cathores or for every Cathorius 9 Kine Catini an ancient people of Scotland see Cathanesse Cato the name of several famous men of Rome whereof the chief were Cato Porcius Cato Censorius and Cato Vticensis Catoptrick Greek belonging to a kinde of Optick glasse which is called Catoptron Catry a place where Cates or victuals are set Cat in Navigation is a piece of Timber fastned aloft right over the Hawse to trise up the Anchor from the Hawse to the fore-castle Cattieuchlani an ancient people of this Island inhabiting those parts which are now called Buckinghamshire Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire they were as Camden believeth more anciently called Cassii and govern'd by Cassivellaunus Cavalier a brave man a Knight or Gentle-man serving on hors-back from the Italian word Cavallo Cavazion a Term in Art Architecture being the hollowing or underdigging of the earth for cellerage allowed to be the sixth part of the highth of the whole Fabrick Caucasus a high Hill which parteth India from Scythia being part of the mountain Taurus Caveare a certain kind of meat which comes from the River Volgha in Russia made of the roes of several sorts of fish Caveat Lat. a caution or warning also a Term in Civil Law being a writing which is entered by an Executor to keep others from medling in the administratorship Cavechin or Cavesan a false rein to lead a horse in A Cavern Lat. a Cave Cavillation Lat. a mocking or jesting also a wrangling Cavity Lat. hollownesse Caulk a ship to fill the holes and chinks with Ockam and Towe Cavon a County of Ireland called anciently East Breanny lying to the West of Louth Caupes or Calpes a Scotch-Law Term signifying any gift which a man gives in his own life time to his master especially to the head and chief of the Clan for his maintenance and protection
an acknowledging of a Fine also a hearing a thing judicially moreover a Cognisance of a Plea is a priviledge that a Citie or Town hath of the Kings Grant to hold a Plea of all Contracts and of Lands within the Precincts of the Franchise and that when any man is impleaded for any such thing at the Kings Court the Mayor or Bayliffs of such Franchises may ask Cognisance of the Plea that is that the matter be determined before them Cognisee is he to whom a Fine is acknowledged Cognisour is he who acknowledgeth a Fine Cognition lat a knowing or judging of a thing Cognitionibus admittendis a VVrit directed to a Justice or any that hath power to take a Fine commanding him to certifie it in the Court of Common-Pleas Cognominate lat to give a sirname to any one Coherence lat a sticking unto an agreeing or hanging together Cohibition lat a keeping back or restraining Cohobation lat a Term in Chymistry which signifies a powring of the distill'd liquor on its faeces and distilling it again A Cohort among the Romans was the tenth part of a legion and contained five hundred Souldiers Cohortation lat an exhorting or perswading Coincident lat falling out together hapning at the same time Coines corners of a wall also pieces of wood wherewith Gunners mount Ordnance Coint old word strange Coition lat an assembling together also carnal copulation Coition of the Moon is also when the Moon is in the same sign and degree with the Sun To Colaphize lat to cuff or buffet with the fist Colbrand the Danish Giant who was overcome by Guy Earle of Warick Colchis a country of Asia near Pontus where Aeaetes raigned with whom the Argonauts made war about the Golden Fleece Collactaneous lat nursed together sucking at the same time Collapsed lat fallen to decay ruined Collateral lat equal with either side Collateral relations or kindred are brothers or sisters children or those that descend from them Collateral security is that security which is given over and above the deed it self Collation lat a joyning or comparing together also a Banquet also Collation of a benefice is the bestowing of a benefice by the Bishop who hath it in his own gift or patronage whereas the institution into a benefice is performed by the Bishop at the presentation of another who is Patron of the place or hath a Patrons right It is moreover a term used by Booksellers and signifies a looking upon the letters at the bottom of every page to see that the book be perfect Collative a unanimous contribution of the people toward any publick work To Collaud lat to joyn with others in the praise of any one A Colleague lat a fellow or copartner in any office A Collection lat a gathering or levie Collection is when two principal significates do not behold one another but both of them cast several aspects to a more weighty Planet than themselves and they both receive him in some of their essential dignities then shall the Planet which thus collects both their lights bring the thing demanded to perfection Collects things gathered out of other mens Works also certain select prayers in the Common-prayer book with the Epistles and Gospels for such and such dayes Colledge lat a place set apart for the society and cohabitation of Students Collerage a pecuniary mulct in France exacted for the collars worn by wine-drawing horses or men Collet the same as Beazel of a ring Collieth a term in Faulconrie when they say the Hawk collieth and not beaketh Colligate lat to fasten or tye together Collimation lat an aiming at a mark Colliquation lat a dissolving or melting Collision lat a crushing or bruising together Collistrigium or Collistridium a word used in the practick of Scotland and signifies a pillory or stocks Collocation lat a placing in order a letting out to hire Collock an old Saxon word signifying a paile with one handle To Collogue to flatter from the Latin word Colloquium a talking together A Colonel a Commander in chief of a Regiment or Brigade from the Latin word Columna a pillar because he is one of the chief props and pillars of an Army Colloquy lat a talking of two men together Colluctation lat a strugling together Collusion lat a dealing deceitfully in Common-law it signifieth an action commenc't against another on purpose to defraud him Collybist Greek a money-changer Collyrie Greek a term in Physick signifying a medicinable water for the eyes Colobe an ancient kind of short coat reaching to the knees Coloieros a certain religious Order among the Greeks Colon Greek a mark or pause of a sentence not fully ended also one of the three great guts Colony lat a company of men sent out of one country to inhabite another Coloquintida a kind of wild gourd used by Physitians in purging medicines Coloss a statue of a vast bignesse the most famous Coloss in the World was that of the Sun in the Port of Rhodes Colostration a term in physick being a disease in children caused by sucking bad milk Colpindach or Cowdach a word used in the practick of Scotland signifying a young cow or heifer Colran a Country of Ireland anciently called Krine bordering south upon Tir Oen. Colubraria an Island of the Iberian sea abounding with snakes from the Latin word Coluber a snake Coludum the ancient name of a Town of the Province of Merch in Scotland called also Coldana by Ptolomy Colania now Coldingham where there was a famous Monastery the Nuns whereof with their Prioresse Ebba cut off their lips and noses to avoid the lustful violence of the Danes A Columbarg lat a Dove-house Columbine a kind of Flower so called Column lat a pillar Columnae Herculis or Hercules pillars two mountains in the West the one in Europe called Calpe the other in Africa called Abyla which Hercules separated the one from the other Others say they were two pillars of Brasse in the Isles of Cades Colures two great circles in the Globe of the World which passing through the Poles and the 4 principal points of the Zodiack cut themselves equally and divide the Glob into equal parts Colus a beast of whitish colour that hath a head like a hog and that drinks in water thorough the nostrils Coma Berenices a figure like a triangle in the tail of Leo. Comald a strict Order of Fryers instituted in Italy in the year 1012. by one Romoald of Ravenna Combat in the Common law signifies a formal trial of a doubtful cause by the sword or bastons of two Champions wherein if the defendant can defend himself till the stars be seen in the firmament and demand judgement if he ought to fight any longer then judgement is to be given on the defendants side Combination lat a joyning together also a term in law signifying the entring of two or more into a conspiracy to perform any unlawful or mischeivous design Combustible lat apt to take fire easily inflamed
wax and fell into the sea Daemoniack Greek possessed with a Devil or evil spirit Doemonologie Greek a discourse of Angels Spirits or Devils Daff old word a Coward or a Dastard Daffadill a kinde of flowr otherwise called Narcissus A Dagg a Pistoll so called from the Dacians who first used them Dagswain a rough or course mantle D' alanson the name of an ancient and Noble Family in Lincolnshire commonly called by contraction Dallison Dalmatian Dap a flour otherwise called a Tulip because it was brought from Tulippa a Promontory of Dalmatia which is a part of Illyricum a Countrey of Greece Dalmatick a kinde of vestment worn by the Priests so called also from Dalmatia where it was first made Dalrendini the ancient name of a certain people of Scotland so called from Renda an Irish Captain who conquered those parts Damascus the chief Citie of Syria whence we have our best sort of Pruines which are called Damask Pruines or Damasines Dammage a Term in Common-law any hurt or hinderanâ—e that a man taketh in his estate also a part of that the Jurors are to enquire of passing for the Plaintiffe in a civil action Dammage fesant in Common-law is when a strangers beasts are in another mans ground and there feed without Licence of the Tenant spoiling the Grasse or Corn in which case the Tenant may impound them Dammask a kinde of fine stuffe first made in the Citie of Damascus Damnation lat a condemning or giving sentence Damocrita a Roman Matron whose husband Alcippus being banish't and she forbid to follow him and her daughters prohibited marriage that his race might be extinct she in revenge when the chief women of the Citie were met in a house to sacrifice set fire on the house and when she saw people run to their aid she first killed her daughters then her self Danae the daughter of Acrisius King of Argos see Acrisius Danaus the son of Belus and brother of Aegyptus he was King of Argos and from him the Greeks were called Danai Dancett is much like indented but differs from it in regard the lines are deeper and wider Dandelion a kind of plant vulgarly called Pissebeds Dandruff a kind of scruff or small scales sticking to the skin of the head which look like brann Daneguilt from Dane and gelt which signifies money It was a tribute anciently laid upon our Ancestors by the Danes of 12 pence for every hide of land thorough the Realm Dangwallet Excessive quasi making the wallet to dangle down Dania a Country of Europe almost invironed with the northern Ocean bordering upon Saxony and is now called Denmark Daniel Hebr. judgement of God Danisme Greek Usury Dank moist from the Dutch word Dampight Danmonii the ancient name of a people in old time inhabiting that part of this Island now called Cornwal and Devonshire Dantiscum a famous Mart Town in Poland called Dantzâ—â—k Danwort a kind of plant called dwarf-elder in French Hieble from Hybla a mountain of Sicily where it chiefely grows Danubius or Ister the greatest River in Europe which rising from the mountain Arnoba runneth through many Countries It is now called the Danow Daphne the daughter of Peneus she flying from Apollo who became in love with her for her beauty was turned into a Laurel-tree Daphnomancy Greek a divination by Laurels Dapper fine neat spruice from an old Latin word Toper i. e. swift or the Duch word Dapfer stout agil or else from Dapifer which signifies in Latin a sewer or he that serves up the first dish at a Feast Darby the chief Town of Darbyshire so called by contraction form Derwentby because it standeth upon the River Derwent the Town was won in old time by Ethelfleda that victorious Lady of the Mercians from the Danes of whom she made a very great slaughter Darcy's or Adrecy's the name of an ancient Family of Barons in Lincolnshire descended from Norman de Adrecy or Darcy de Nocton who lived in great favour and esteem with Henry the third Dardanus the son of Jupiter and Electra who having killed his brother Jasius fled to Samothrace afterwards he went into Asia where he built Dardanum or Troy Darick a kind of ancient coin bearing the value of two shillings which had upon it the Image of Darius Darius a King of Persia there were several of that name whereof the last was Darius Codomannus who was overcome by Alexander the Great Darnel cockle-weed from the Dutch word Deren to hurt Darrein from the French word Dernier i. e. last as Darrein presentment last presentment Darreighn old word an attempt Dartos one of the membranes that involve the stones Darford or Darenford a Town in Kent so called from the River Daren where K. Edward the third built a Nunnery which was afterward converted into a Royal Palace Datary an office in Rome for the collation of Ecclesiastical Benefices Date the fruit of Palm-tree also the day of the moneth or year wherein any Letter is written Datism Greek an often rehearsal of the same thing by a heaping of synonyma's together from Datis a Satrape of Greece the Dative Case the third of the 6 Cases in Grammar used in actions of giving or attributing Davenport or by contraction Damport a Town in Cheshire which gave name to an ancient Family so called David Hebr. beloved Daunsette a term in Heraldry being almost the same with a line indented but onely it is deeper and wider Dantry the name of a very ancient Famiâ—y in Sussex stiled in Latin Records de Alta ripa Day signifieth in law a day in bank before ordinary Judges wherein the party should appear and plead as for the Astronomical and Political distinction of dayes and the parts thereof see Macrobius and Censorinus D E Dea bona or Good Goddesse a name attributed by the old Heathen to the Earth whom they worshipped as a Goddesse she was also called Ops Fatua and Fauna the Poets feign that being drunk with a wine made of Myrtle-berries called Myrtidanum she was whipt to death by her husband Faunus with Myrtle twiges Dea viri-placa a certain Goddesse a-among the ancient Romans in whose Chappel man and wife after they had fallen out were reconciled again Deacon from the Greek Diaconus a minister or servant is an officer of the Church that is appointed to distribute alms to the poor Deadpledge land or moveables pawned for money which is to be the Creditours for ever if the money be not repaid at the time agreed on it is also called Mortgage Deadwater the eddy water at the stern of a ship Dean an Ecclesiastical Magistrate that hath power over ten Canons and those which have a jurisdiction assigned them by the Bishop over other Ministers and Parishes near adjoyning are called Deans rurall Deauration lat a gilding over Debaucherie or Desboâ—cherie French riot disorderly revelling Debellation lat a overcoming in war or duell De bene esse a term used in Common law as when a Defendants deposition is onely allowed
to be paid by others proportionably with himself Deosculation lat a kissing with eagernesse Departer a Term in Law signifying he that pleading one thing at first in barre of an action and being replied thereunto doth in his rejoynder shew another matter contrary to his first plea also departers of Gold or Silver are those that purifie and part those mettals from the courser sort they are also called parters and finers Departure in despite of the Court is when the Tenet or Defendant appeareth to the action brought against him and hath a day over in the same term and does not appear but makes default it is called a departure in spight of the Court. Depauperation lat a making poor Depeculation lat a publick theevery or stealing from the Common-wealth Depend lat to stay or rely upon Depford a famous shipdock in Kent where the ships for the Kings Navy use to be built It was anciently called West-Greenwich and at the Conquest of England was given to Cislebert Mammignot one of William the Conquerours Souldiers Depilation lat a making bare of hairs a making bald Deploration lat a mourning for or bewailing Deplume lat to strip off feathers Deponent in Grammar signifieth a Verb which hath a passive termination and an active signification also in Common law it is he who deposeth or layeth down any matter upon oath Depopulation lat a spoiling or unpeopling of any Country Deportation lat a carrying away Deportment French carriage comportment or behaviour Depositum lat a pledge in feoffee or trust Depravation lat a spoiling corrupting or making nought Depraedation lat a preying upon a taking away by force Deprecation lat a diverting Gods judgements by prayer a praying against any calamity Deprehension lat a catching or taking unawares Depression lat a pressing downward also an humbling Deprivation lat a bereaving or taking away Depromption lat a bringing out Depudication lat a vitiating or corrupting Depulsion lat a driving from Deputy a Lieutenant one that governs in the place of another Dequace old word to dash Deradiation lat a casting forth of ray's or beames Dere old word to hurt Dereliction lat an utter forsaking Derein from the French word Desranger or the Norman word Desrene signifieth the proof of an action which a man affirmeth that he hath done and his adversary denies Derham in the Saxon tongue Deorham a Town in Glostershire where Ceaulin the Saxon King slew 3 Princes of the Britains Commeail Condidan and Fariemeiol and utterly subdued the Nation Deric a proper name of a man it being a word contracted from Theoderic Derision lat a scorning or laughing at Derivation lat a drawing or taking it is used in Grammar for the deriving of any word from its original also in Physick it is taken for a drawing of the humour from one part of the body to another Dertmouth a Port Town in Devonshire which in former times Mounsieur de Castel a French Pirate going about to invade was by the Country people intercepted and slain Derogation lat a lessening or detracting from the worth of any thing or any person Deruncination lat a taking away weeds or any thing that molesteth Derbices a people of Asia inhabiting near the mountain Caucasus who strangle their kindred as soon as they arrive at the age of 70 years and eat their flesh inviting their neighbours to the Feast And this they hold to be the most noble kind of burial Derceto the name of a certain Goddesse anciently worshipped at Askalon her forepart representing the shape of a woman her hinder part the shape of a fish Dercyllidas a famous Lacedemonian Commander who succeeded Thymbron he took Larissa Amaxitos and Colona and gained divers victories over the Persians Dervises an Order of religious persons among the Turks Descalsas Spanish a sort of Fryars in Spain that go barelegged Descant called in Latin frequentamentum vocis in French fredon is a term in Musick signifying the answering of quick notes in one part unto a slower measure in the other parti Descent lat a coming down also a deriving ones pedigree Description lat a setting forth the nature or property of any thing Descry from the French word cry or clamour to discover afar off Desection lat a cutting or mowing down Desert a Wildernesse or solitary place from the Latin word deserere to forsake but with the accent in the last syllable it signifieth merit from the French word deservir Desertion lat a forsaking or abandoning Desiccation lat a drying up Desidery from the Latin desiderium desire or lust It is a word used by Chaucer Designation or Design Lat. and French a purposing or contriving Designers see Deciners Desidious lat negligent lazy sluggish Desipience lat foolishnesse indiscretion also in Physick it is taken for the dotage of a sick person Desist lat to leave off to cease Deslavy leacherous beastly a word used by Chaucer Desmonia a County in Ireland anciently inhabited by the Vellabri and Iberni It is vulgarly called Desmond Desolation lat a lonelinesse or lying waste Despection lat a casting ones eyes downward Desperation lat a despairing or giving over Despicable lat lyable to contempt or to be despised Despoliation lat a robbing or spoiling Despondency lat a dejection of spirit or despairing Desponsation lat a betrothing a giving in marriage Despote Greek a great Title heretofore among the Greeks being as much as chief Lord or Governour of a Country Despotical dominion the power of a Master over his servant Despumation lat a taking off the scum or froth Destination lat an appointing or ordaining as it were by destiny Destiny Fate the three Destinies the three fatal Sisters See Atropos Destitution lat an utter forsaking or deserting Destruction lat a destroying or undoing Desuetude lat a desisting from any custom or use Desultorious lat given to vaulting Detection lat a revealing or laying open Detention lat a detaining or withholding †Deterioration lat a making worse Determination lat a purposing or intending Deterred lat frighted discouraged Detestation lat a detesting or abhorring Detinue French a Writ that lieth against him who having goods or chattels delivered him to keep refuseth to deliver them again Detorsion lat a wresting away Detraction lat a drawing away also a slandering Detriment lat hurt or dammage Detrition lat a wearing away Detrusion lat a thrusting a way Detruncation lat a cutting off a limb or branch Devastation lat a laying waste Devastaverunt bona testatoris a Writ lying against Executors for paying of Legacies without specialties before the debt upon the said specialties be due Deucaledonians a certain people inhabiting in old times the Western parts of Scotland They were vulgarly called Picts Deucalion the son of Prometheus he with his wife Pyrrha the daughter of Epimetheus were saved in the universal Deluge being carried in a ship to the top of Pernassus and consulting the Oracle of Themis what way they should take to restore mankind and
Turks and Persians Divarication lat a striding wide Diventilation lat a winnowing or tossing to and fro Diverberation lat a violent beating Diversified lat varied Diversity lat variety Diverticle lat a by-way also a device or shift Divertisment French recreation or pastime Dividend in Arithmetick is the number which is to be divided also the share which is equally divided among the Fellows of a Colledge Also Dividends in the Exchequer seem to be one part of an Indenture Dividual lat easie or apt to be divided Divinaile old word a riddle Divination lat a presageing of things to come Divine lat heavenly also it is taken substantively for a professour of Theology whom Chaucer calls a divinistre Divisibility Philosophic it signifies a capacity in a thing to be divided Division lat a dividing or cutting into two parts Divitiacus a King of the Gaules who as some say was King of the Brittains Divorce in Common law is a separation between two married together not onely from bed and board but from the bond of wedlock Divour see Dyvour Diuretical Greek that which provokes urine Diurnal lat belonging to the day It is also used substantively for a Pamphlet wherein the passages of every day are recorded Diuturnity lat lastingnesse or long continuance Divulgation lat a making known abroad Divulsion lat a pulling violently asunder Dizain French the number ten also a kinde of French Coyn of about the value of a penny also a song consisting of twelve Stanza's D O Dobeler a great dish or platter Dobuni ancient people of the Brittains who inhabited those parts which are now called Oxfordshire and Glostershire Doced or Douced a Musical instrument otherwise called a Dulcimer Docility Docibility lat aptnesse to learn that which is taught Docke a place where ships are built or laid up from the Greek word Cocheion a receptacle also a kinde of Herb called in Latin Lapathum Docket a Brief in writing Doctoral lat belonging to a Doctor i. e. Teacher or one that hath taken the highest degree in Divinity Physick or Civil Law Document lat a teaching or instructing Dodded old word in Latin Decornutus unhorned also lopped as a Tree having the branches cut off Dodder a certain weed winding about Herbs Dodecaedrie Greek a Geometrical figure of 12 sides Dodecagon Greek a Geometrical figure of 12 Angles Dodecatemorie Greek an Astronomical Term being one of the 12 parts into which the Zodiack is divided Dodkin a kinde of small piece of money which some think to be of the same value as our farthing Dodona a Citie of Chaonia a Countrey of Greece near to which there was a Temple and Oracle of Jupiter within a Wood sacred to the same Deity of which Wood it was fain'd that the Trees were vocal and returned the answers of the Oracle also the name of a Fountain whose water had a property both to quench and kindle fire Dotrantal lat of the weight or measure of nine ounces Dog-dayes see Canicular dayes Dogdraw a Term used in Forrest law is when any man is found drawing after a Deer by the scent of a hound which he leadeth in his hand being one of the four circumstances wherein a Forrester may arrest the body of an offender against Vert or Venison in the Forrest the other three being Stablestand Back berond and Bloudy-hand Doge of Venice is the supream Magistrate or Duke of Venice Dogger a kinde of ship Dogmatist Greek one that bringeth in any new Sect or opinion Dolation lat a making smooth or plain Dole lat deceit fraud also grief also a distributing or dealing of Almes or gifts Dollar a Dutch Coyn of the value of four shillings Dolling old word warming Dolorous lat painfull or sorrowfull Dolphin a kinde of fish so called as some say from the Delphi who were the first finders of it also the title of the eldest son of the King of France from Daulphin a Province of France also a constellation beautified with nine bright stars according to the number of the Muses Dolt a sot or blockhead from the Dutch word Doll Dolven buried from the old word Delve to dig Dolyman a kinde of Turkish Garment Domable lat tameable Dome Ital. a Town-house or chief meeting place of a Citie Domestick lat tame belonging to a family or houshold Domicil lat a dwelling-house or place of habitation Domination lat a ruling or lording over others dominations are also one of the nine orders of Angels Dominical letter the red Letter in the Calender wherewith Sunday or the Lords day is mark't Dominicans an Order of Fryars instituted by St. Dominick a Spaniard about the year 1206. Domino a kinde of hood worn by Canons also a mourning vail for women Domition or Domiture lat a taming Domo reparanda a Writ that lieth against one whose house going to decay may indanger his Neighbours house by falling Donary lat a gift or present Donatists a Sect of Hereticks whereof the more rigid sort are called Circumcellians they held the son to be lesse then the father and the holy Ghost lesse then the son and affirm'd the true Church to be onely in Africa they were instituted by Donatus Bishop of Carthage in the year 358. the more moderate sort were called Rogatists Donative lat apt to give it is substantively taken for a benefice meerly given by a Patron to any man also a Princes gift A Dondon old word a short fat woman Donee in Common-law is he to whom Lands are given as Donour is he who giveth them Donegal see Tyrconel Dooms-day-book a book made in the time of Edward the Confessour some say of William the Conquerour wherein all the ancient demeans of England were registred with the names of all those that possessed them Dooms-man a Judge from the Saxon word Doom a Judgement or sentence Dorcas the proper name of a woman the word signifieth a Deer Dorado Span. guilded over Dorchester the chief Town in Dorcetshire it was in old time called Durnovaria i. e. the River passage it was miserably harrass't by Sueno the Dane and afterwards by Hush the Norman but flourish't again in King Edwards dayes there is also another Town of this name in Oxfordshire by Leland called Hydropolis Dour signifying in the ancient Brittish tongue water Dorick dialect see Dialect Dorick Musick a kinde of grave and solemne Musick also Dorick work in Architecture see Corinthian Doris the daughter of Oceanus and Thetis she being married to Nereus brought forth a great number of Sea-nymphs called Nereides Dormant in Heraldry signifieth lying in a sleeping posture also in Law a writing Dormant is that which hath a blank to put in the name of any one also a Dormant-tree is a great beam which lieth crosse the house which some call a Summer Dormers window's made in the roof of a house Dorothy a womans name signifying in Greek the gift of God Dorp or Thorp a Countrey Town or Village Dorrie a kinde of fish so called because the sides
Greek a kind of pretious stone so called because it is white as milk Galanthis the servant maid of Alcmena who for deluding Juno that sought to hinder the birth of Hercules was turned into a Weasel Galathea a Sea Nimph the Daughter of Nereus and Doris who being beloved of Polypheme and prefering Acis before him Polypheme killed his rival with a great stone which he pluckt out of a rock whereupon Acis was turned into a River of the same name Galatia a region of Asia the Less called also Gallogrecia Galaxy Greek a broad white circle in the sky which is made by the light reflected from a great company of little Stars It is called the milky way Galbanum a kind of gum issuing out of a plant called Sagapane or Fennel Gyant Gale when the wind bloweth gently so that a ship may bear her top-sailes a trip it is called a loom gall when it is much wind a fresh or stiff gale Galege or Galage in French Galloches a kind of outward shooe worn in dirty weather which hath been anciently in use among the Gaules from whence the word is derived Galena the ancient name of a Town in Oxfordshire now called Wallingford Galenus a famous Physitian of Pergamus who flourished in the time of the Emperour Commodus and writ many excellent Volumes Galeon or Gallion French a great Ship of war Galeote French a small Gally also one that rows in a Gally Galgacus the name of a valiant Brittain who led an army against the Romans Galilaea a Region of Syria lying north of Judea Galingale the aromatical root of the rush Cypresse called Acorus Gallantry French compleatnesse accomplishment or a bold confident way of courtship Artam Gallego Span. an inhabitant of Galatia Gallia a great Country of Europe anciently inhabited by the Gaules now called France Galliard French lusty also substantively taken for a kind of dance Galliardise French lustiness livelyness Gallie-foist see Foist Galliegaskines or Galligascoines a kind of breeches first in use among the inhabitants of that part of France which is called Gascoine Gallimafry a kind of meat made up of several sorts of meats minced together It was so called either because it was allotted to the Gally-slaves or else because it was invented by the Gaules Galloches see Galege Gallon Spanish a measure containing two quarts Gaâ—loway a County of Scotland the people whereof were anciently called Novanti also a County of Ireland in the Province of Câ—naught Galloon a kind of Lace Gallulate lat to begin to have a great voice Gallus a River in Phrygia of which when the Priests of Cybele drank they were agitated with divine fury whence they were called Galli also the name of a young man who suffering Sol to discover the adultery of Mars and Venus was by Mars turned into a cock Galnes in the practick of Scotland signifies any kind of satisfaction for slaughter Gamahez in Arabick signifieth certain figures or images of things wrought exactly by nature Gamaliel Hebr. Gods reward Gambado a thing made of leather for a man to put his legges into when he rides Gamboles certain games or tricks which are in use about Christmasse time from the Italian word Gamba a leg Gammot an incision-knife Gamut the first note in the scale of Musick Ganch to put men to death as they do in Turky by letting them fall from a high place upon sharp hooks Ganges a very great River rising out of the Scythian Mountaines and running thorough the middest of India Gangflower a certain Flower which flourisheth in Procession or Rogation-week by some called Rogation-flower Gangiators or Gaugeators signifies in the practick of Scotland those that examine weights and measures mark cloth c. Gangraen lat a spreading sore an eating ulcer which mortifies the member by reason of the greatness of the exhalation Gang-week the next week but one before Whitsunday in which solemn prayer and procession used to be injoyned by the Church as a preparation to the Feast of the Ascension It is also called Rogation-week Gantlet or Gauntlet French a certain Military glove To run the Gantlope a punishment used among souldiers the offender being to run with his back naked through the whole Regiment and to receive a lash from every souldier It comes from Gant a Town in Flanders where it was invented and the Dutch word Lope which signifies running Ganymed the son of Tros whom for his excellent form Jupiter fell in love with and causing him to be brought up to Heaven upon an Eagles back made him his Cup-bearer instead of Heâ—e the daughter of Juno Also it is metaphorically taken for an ingle or boy hired to commit Sodomy Garamantes a people of Lybia so called from Garamas their King the son of Apollo Garbe a sheaf of Corn from the French word gerbe a bundle also handsomness graceful carriage from the Italian word Garbo also a sharp piquant relish in wine or beer Garbel or Garboord a plank next to the keel of a ship Garble to purifie to sort out the bad from the good an expression borrowed from Grocers who are said to garble their Spices i. e. to purifie them from the dross and dirt Garboile French tumult or trouble Garcifer in the practick of Scotland signifies a boy that serves in the Mill. Gard in Common Law is taken for a custody or care of defence as the education of children under age or the like Gardein in Common Law is he that hath the charge or custody of any person or thing especially he that hath the education of children and the government of their estates until they come to 20 years of age also that hath the charge of idiots or frantick persons during their lunacy he is called by the Civilians Tutor or Curator Gardein of the Spirituality is he to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of any Diocess is committed during the vacancy of the See Garderobe a kind of herb so called also the same as Wardrop Gardmanger French a storehouse or sellar for meat Gare a kind of very course wool Gargarism Greek the bubling of any liquor in the throat to wash the throat and mouth Gargarus the top of the Mountain Ida. Gargantua the name of a great Gyant or Monster from the Spanish word Garganta a throat Garner see Granary Garnet a tackle to hoise goods into a Ship Garnishment French signifieth in Common Law the issuing forth a Writ of scire facias against the Plaintiff for an action of Detinue of charters brought against the Defendant also a fee which prisoners give their keepers at their admittance into prison Garnison French preparation or furniture Garret a proper name See Gerrard Garrison French a Town or Strong hold fortified and kept by souldiers Garrulity lat much tatling or prateing Garter the chief of the three Kings at armes also half a bend in Blazon See Bend. Gasehound a certain sort of dogs of an excellent hunting kind being the same with that which among the old Greeks was called Agasaeus
August the first day of August otherwise called Lammas day in old Almanacks St. Peter ad Vincula it cometh from the French word Gueul i. e. a throat because on that day a certain maid having a disease in her throat was cured by kissing the Chains that St. Peter had been bound with at Rome Gulf or Gulph a streight passage between two Seas it comes from the Greek word Colpos Guloâ—ity lat gluttony Gultwit an old Saxon word signifying an amends for trespasse Gummilda the wife of Asmond King of Denmark she killed her self for grief that her husband had been slain in battel Gunora a Famous Norman Lady who flourished in Shropshire and Cheshire and held the Hamlet of Lanton in chief as of the honour of Mountgomery by the service of giving to the King a Barb'd-headed whensoever he should come into those parts to hunt in Cornedon Chace Gunwale a piece of Timber in a ship which reacheth from the half deck to the fore-castle on either side Gurgitation lat an ingulphing or swallowing up Gurnard a kinde of fish so called Gusset an abatement in Heraldry form'd of a Travers line drawn from the dexter chief and descending perpendicularly to the extream base parts or contrarywise Gust in Navigation is a sudden winde also taken by some for a stranger or guest Guttural lat belonging to the throat Guzes in Heraldry signifieth the ball of the eye Guy a proper name of men in Latin Guido from the French word Guide i. e. a leader or directour Guy a certain rope used in a ship to keep any thing from swinging in too fast G Y Gy old word a guide Gibbositie a bunchbacked the Moons 3. parts full of light Gyges a certain Lydian to whom Candaules the King having shown his wife naked she animated him to kill the King which he did by the help of a Ring which made him invisible and afterwards marrying her he made himself King Gymnasiarch Greek the chief governour of a Gymnase which is a place for all manner of exercise both of minde and body Gymnosophists Greek a Sect of Philosophers among the Indians who went naked living in desarts and feeding upon Herbs Gyndes a River not far from Euphrates which Cyrus besieging Babylon cut into 46 several Channels Gypsation lat a plaistering with Mortar Gyration lat a fetching a compasse from Gyre a great circle Gyron in Heraldry signifieth a quarter or half a Cube described by a Diagonal line Gysarme the same as Gisarme H A HAbberdasher one that sells a great many several wares from the Dutch words habt jhr das i. e. have you that Habeas Corpus a Writ which a man Indited before Justices of Peace and laid in prison may have out of the Kings bench to remove himself thither at his own charges Haberdepois see Averdupoise Habergeon a diminutive of Haubert see Haubert Habilement French cloathing also armour Hability lat an aptnesse or capacity Habit lat custome or use also the attire or cloathing of the body Habitation or Habitacle lat a dwelling a place of residence Habitual lat grown to a habit or custome Habitude lat the same as habit Hables French a haven or port Hachee or Hach French a certain French dish made of sliced meat Hadock a kinde of fish called a Cod-fish Hadrian the name of a great Roman Emperour who was so called from the Citie Hadria whence he deduced his original the word is derived by Gesner from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. grosse or wealthy Hadrianople Greek a Citie of Macedon in Greece Haemon a young man of Thebes who loving Antigone the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta hearing that she was put to death by Creon he killed himself over her Tomb. Haemorrhagie Greek a violent bursting out of bloud Haemorrhoides Greek a certain disease called in English the Piles Haemus a great Mountain dividing Thessaly from Thrace at the foot of which are the fields of Tempe it was so called from Haemus the son of Boreas and Orithya Haerede abducto a Writ that lieth for him who having the Wardship of his Tenant under age hath him conveyed away from him by another Haeresie Greek a division in the Church caused by some erroneous opinion contrary to the fundamental points of religion Haesitation lat a sticking at any thing a doubting Haga a word used in some old Writs for a house Hagard French untam'd unruly also a Hagard Hawk is taken for a wilde Hawk Hagiographer Greek a writer of holy things Haggase a kinde of pudding made of Hogs flesh Haie from the French word Haye a kinde of Net to catch Conies which is commonly pitch'tunder hedges Haile a word of salutation from the Saxon word Heal i. e. health Haire is when a Masculine and Diurnal Planet in the day time the earth or a Feminine nocturnal Planet in the night time under the earth Haimhaldatio Catallorum signifieth in the practick of Scotland a seeking restitution for goods wrongfully taken away Haketon a Jacket without sleeves Chaucer Halbert a kinde of weapon called in Spanish Halabarda Halcyon a bird called a King-fisher which builds its Nest and breeds upon the Sea-shore about the winter â—olâ—tice for the space of fourteen dayes wherein the weather useth to be very calm whence by Metaphor peaceable and quiet times are called Halcyon dayes the Poets feign that Halcyon the wife of Caeyx was turned into this bird See Alcyon Haledon a place in Northumberland where Oswald King of that County in a great pitcht feild against the Brittish King Cedwall having erected a cross unto Christ obtained the victory and afterwards became a devout Christian. This place was in old times called Heavenfeild Half-merk or Noble a piece of coine valueing 6 shillings 8 pence Half-seal is taken for the sealing of Commissions unto delegates appointed by an appeal in Ecclesiastical or Maritime causes Halicarnassus the chief City of Caria where the famous Tomb of Mausolus was built by Queen Artemisia Halidome Saxon holy judgement whence By my Halidome used anciently to be a great oath among country people Halieuticks Greek books treating of the Art of fishing Halifax signifying in old English holy hair a Town in Yorkshire so called from a Maides head that had been cut off by a Priest of that place which being hung upon a yew-tree as a holy matter was had in great veneration by the people who gathering of the sprigs of the tree took it for her hair Halinitre Greek a kind of Mineral commonly called Saltpeter Hall a Ship to call to her to know whence she is and whither bound Hallage French a fee due for clothes brought for sale to Blackwell Hall or to the Lord of a Market for commodities vended there Hallelujah see Allelujah Hâ—llucination lat error or blindness of judgement Halm from the Hebrew word halam to shake the stalk of corn from the ear to the root Halsier a term in Navigation he that draws the Halser or Cable wherewith boats are
breathing between Interstitial lat having an interstice or space between Intertexture lat a weaving between Interval lat a distance or space either of place or time Intervenient lat coming between Intervert lat to turn upside down also to beguile or deceitfully to take away a thing committed to any ones trust Intervigilation lat a watching between whiles Intestable lat uncapable by the Law to make any Will or be taken for a witnesse Intestine lat inward lying within the entrailes Inthronization lat a placing upon a Throne or Seat of Majesty Intimation lat a signifying or secret declaring Intimidation lat a making timorous or fearful Intinction lat a dying a dipping into any coloured liquor Intire lat whole or sound Intitulation lat an intiteling an adding a title unto any thing Intollerable lat not to be born or endured Intonation lat a thundering or making a terrible noise Intoxication lat a poisoning or envenoming Intractable lat not to be managed or trained unmanageable Intrado Spanish an entrance also a yearly revenue Intraneous lat inward Intricacy or Intrique lat and Fr. an intanglednesse incumbrance or winding like a labyrinth Intrinsecal lat inward or secret Introduction lat a leading in also a beginning or preface to any discourse Introgression lat a going in Intromission lat a sending inward †Introruption lat a breaking in a rushing in by violence †Introversion lat a turning upside down also a turning ones thoughts within a looking a word used in practical Divinity Intrusion lat a wrongful or unmannerly thrusting in Intuition lat a clear seeing into a distinct beholding Intumescence lat a swelling or rising up into a heap Intumulation lat a throwing a heap upon a burying Invagination lat a putting into a sheath or scabbard Invalid lat of no force strength or value Invasion lat an assailing or setting upon anothers right or dominions Invecked from the Latin Invehere a term in Blazon as a bordure Invecked is when the line of which the bordure is made inverts its points not toward the field but into it self Invection lat a carrying in or against Invective lat railing sharp bitter in expressions as it were violently carried on against any one Inveigle to allure or intice from the Dutch word avanglen i. to cast alluring eyes Invellop see Envelope Inventory lat a certain writing wherein is contained a Catalogue or reckoning up of the Goods Chattels of a deceased party which are to be prized or valued by sufficient men and exhibited to the Ordinary Inversion lat a turning the inside out a changing the order of things or words Invest lat to give possession which used to be done by delivering the Tenant a rod and administring him an Oath also to instal with any honour or dignity Investigation lat a making diligent search or inquiry Investiture lat a giving possession an endowing with honour Inveterate lat grown old rooted and setled by long custome Invigilation lat a carefull watching a diligent over-seeing Invigorate to inspire vigour life and spirit Invincible lat not to be conquered or overcome Inviolable lat not to be violated or broken Inviron French to encompasse Invisible lat not to be seen or discerned Invitation lat an inviting bidding or calling unto Inumbration lat a casting a shadow upon Inunction lat an anointing thoroughly Inundation lat an overflowing with water Invocation lat an invoking or calling upon Involation lat a flying into or a flying upon Involve lat to wrap or fold in to entangle or overwhelm Involuntarie lat unwilling Inurbanitie lat incivility want of courtesie or affability Inure or Enure to accustome also in Common-law it signifieth to take effect or be available Inusitate lat not accustomed unwonted Inutility lat unprofitablenesse Invulnerable lat not to be wounded J O Io the daughter of Inachus King of the Argives she being beloved of Jupiter was transformed into a Cow that she might not be known of Juno who neverthelesse suspecting caused her to be watch't by Argus who had many eyes but Argus being slain by Mercury Juno sent a Gadfly to sting her which made her run up and down restlesse till at length she arrived at Aegypt where being restored to her former shape she was married to Osiris and called Isis. Joab Hebr. Fatherhood Joachim an Hebrew proper name signifying preparation of the Lord. Joan a proper name of women answerable to that of John in men it was the name of several great Queens as those of Aragon and Naples Joannitiques a certain order of Monks that wear the figure of a Chalice upon their breasts Job Hebr. sighing or sorrowing Joblin French a sot or gull Jocasta the daughter of Creon King of Thebes and the wife of Laius after whose death she was married unknowingly to her son Oedipus to whom she brought forth Eteocles and Polynices who slaying one another in a contest about the Kingdom she killed her self for grief Joculatory or Jocous lat jesting sportive done or spoken in jest Jocund in Latin Jucundus chearfull pleasant or joyfull from Jocus i. a jest John a proper name signifying in Hebrew gracious there have been divers great Kings and other famous men of this name as Kings of England Scotland Spain and Portugal 23 Popes of Rome also Joannes Hircanus a famous Captain of the Jews who conquered Samaria Idumaea and a great part of Syria Joannes Acutus or Hackwood an English-man who performed several great martial exploits in Italy under the Dukes of Milain Joannes Guttenberg a German who invented the Art of printing this name was anciently pronounced Juon Joinder in Common-law is the coupling of two in a suite one against another Joyning-issue a Term in Common-law the referring a point of a matter depending in suite to the tryal of the Jury Joynt-Tenants in Common-law are those that hold Lands or Tenements by one Title or without partition Joynture a Term in Law being a Covenant whereby a husband assureth unto his wife in respect of marriage lands or Tenements for Term of her life or otherwise Jolaus the Nephew of Hercules he drove his Unkles Chariot when he fought against Cycnus the son of Mars afterwards when he grew old he was restored to youth by the prayers of Hercules Jollitrin Fr. a youngster or young Gallant Jonas a proper name signifying in Hebrew a Dove Jonathan another Hebrew name signifying the gift of God Joncade French a certain kinde of spoon meat Ionia a Countrey of Asia the lesse having twelve great Cities whereof Miletus and Ephesus were the chief the inhabitants of this Countrey descended anciently from the Greeks whence their language was called the Ionick Dialect Ionick Order in Architecture see Corinthian Jopaean a certain expression used in Hymnes or songs of rejoycing Jopa◠an African King who was one of those that sought to have married Dido he was a great Musician and sung in verse of the course of the Moon and the motion of the Stars Jordan
and Stremeworks certain workes in the Stannery in Cornwall these are performed in the higher grounds by making deep wells which they call shafts those in the lower grounds by digging of trenches and diverting the course of the Rivers Lodge a Buck is by the Forresters said to lodge when he goes to his rest Log the name of an Hebrew measure and thought by some to be of the same quantity with Sextarius Aâ—ticus Logarithmes Greek are certain borrowed numbers which differ among themselves by Arithmetical proportion as the numbers which borrow them differ by Geometrical proportion Log-line a term in Navigation being a small line with a little piece of board at the end with a little lead to it to keep it edge-long in the water the use of which is by seeing how many fathom this runs in a minute to give a judgement how many leagues the ship will run in a watch Logician Greek one that hath skill in Logick i. the art of disputing probably in any argument Logist Greek one skilled in the Logistick Art i. the Art of reckoning or casting account also Logists were certain Officers among the Athenians ten in number to whom all such as had ended their Magistracy gave an account within 30 dayes of all those affairs whereof they had had the administration they also kept an account of the monies and of all matters belonging to the publick Revenue Logographers Greek those that write pleas in the Law or books of account Lawyers Clerks Logomachy Greek a verbal strife a contention in words Lohoch see Loach Lollards a Sect of Hereticks that abounded here in England in the dayes of Edward the third and Henry the fifth so called from one Gualter Lollard a German the first Author of them or as others say from lolium because they were accounted as darnel or cockle growing among wheat Lombard or Lombar a Bank for usury or pawns from the Longobardi or Lombards a people inhabiting the hithermost part of Italy formerly called Insubria much addicted to usury whence ofttimes Usurers are called Lombardeers Lome old word clay or mortar London the chief City of England situate in Middlesex so called as Cambden conjectureth either from Lhun which in the Brittish tongue signifieth a Grove or Lhong i. a ship and Dinas i. a City so that it may seem to have been anciently termed Lhundinas i. a City thick of trees or Lhongdinas i. a City of Ships from whence the Latins derive the word Londinum It was called Augusta and Troja Nova being first founded by Brutus who sprang of the Trojan race and repaired by King Lud and thence called Caerlud or Luds-town Longaevity lat length of age long life Longanimity lat as it were length of mind long-suffering patience forbearance Longinquity lat far distance or length of place Longitude lat the length of any thing also the Longitude of a Region City or Cape is the distance of it East numbred in the Equinoctial by Meridians from the first general and fixed Meridian The Longitude of a star is the arch of the Ecliptick intercepted between the beginning of Aries and the circle of the stars Latitude Long-Meg the name of a stone 15 foot high erected near Salkeld in Cumberland next which are 77 more erected in a circular manner which the country people call the Daughters of Long-Meg Long-primer one of the sorts of Characters used by Printers The Loof of a Ship is that part aloft of a Ship that lies before the ches-trees as far as the bulk-head of the castle A Ship Loomes a great or a small sail a term used in Navigation and signifieth as much as a Ship seems a great or a little Ship Lootsman see Lodesman Loover a place made open to let out the smoak on the top of a house from the French word l'overt open Lopum a great Desart in the Country of Bactria in which it is reported that certain evil spirits do abide by which strangers that passe that way being called by their names and following the voice perish miserably Loquacity lat talkativenesse or a being given to much babling Loquabre a Country in the North part of Scotland so called q. the mouth of the Lake Lorament lat that which is composed of thongs of leather Loray-law an article found in the memorials of the chamber of account in France which ordaineth that if a combat be once accepted and afterwards taken up by consent of the Lord of the Fee each of the parties is to pay two shillings six pence but if it be performed the party vanquisht forfeits 112 shillings Lordane or Lourdane a dull heavy fellow a lazy lubber it being a proverbial word taken from the tyranny of the Danes over the English who were forced to labour and till the ground for them while they sate idle and ate the fruits of their labours Lore Sax. learning or skill Loricated lat armed with mail Lorimers French the name of a Trade and Company in London that makes bits spurs and all kind of small iron-work and is by some derived from the Latin word Lorum Loriot French a Bird called a Witwall Woodpecker or Greenfinch Lorn the name of a County in the south part of Scotland Lorty's a great and ancient Family of Sommersetshire stiled in Latin records de Vrtiaco Losenger a flatterer a word used by Chaucer Lotharius the son of Ludovicus Pius Emperour of Germany and King of France he succeeded his father in the Empire but his brothers Charles and Lodowic not contented with their portions and raising an army against their brother a great battle was fought at Fontenay in the borders of France where Lotharius was put to flight but at last they came to an agreement and Lotharius after he had reigned about 15 years betook himself to the Prumiensian Monastery There were also several Kings of France and Dukes of Lorrain of his name Lothbrook i. Leatherbreech a certain Dane whose daughters were so skilful at needle-work that the Danes bare in their Ensign a Raven of their working with such an opinion of good successe that they imagined it would never be won Lotherwit see Leyerwit Lotion lat a washing or cleansing with water also in Physick it is used for the taking away of any superfluous quality out of any medicament or the bringing on of a new one Lotis or Lotus the daughter of Neptune she fleeing from Priapus who made an attempt upon her chastity and invoking the help of the gods was turned into the Lote-tree Lotophagi a certain people of Africa dwelling near the Syrtes so called because they feed much upon the Lote-tree which is a tree of that nature that when the companions of Vlisses being cast upon the coast of Africa had tasted of the fruit of it they could hardly be got from thence to return into their own Country whence the word is proverbially used for those that are forgetful of their Parents Country and Kindred Lovell's an ancient Family in Northamptonshire stiled in
within his fee. Man of War in Navigation is taken for a ship of War by the figure Metonymia Manqueller old word a murderer Mansion lat a remaining an abiding also a Manor-house or the Lords chief dwelling house within his fee. Manslaughter in Common Law is the unlawful killing of a man upon some sudden occasion or falling out without premeditated malice Mansuetude lat gentlenesse tractablenesse meeknesse Manteleth a term in Faulconry for when the Hawk stretcheth one of her wings along after her legs and so the other It is said she Manteleth Mathematicks Arts taught by demonstration which comprehend four of the liberal Arts Astronomy Arithmetick Musick and Geometry Manticore Ital. a kind of Indian beast faced like a Man and bodied like a Lion and having three rows of sharp teeth Manticulation lat a doing a thing slily a carrying on a businesse closely Mantle or Mantile lat a kind of long robe also in Heraldry it is that flourish which proceeds from the wreath and helm and descends on each side the Escutcheon Mantua a City of Italy situate upon the River Po and built by Ocnus who called it so from his mothers name Manto a Theban Prophetesse the daughter of Tiresias she after the death of her father fleeing from the tyranny of Creon King of Thebes went first into Asia and built the Temple of Apollo Clarius afterwards she came into Italy where being got with child by Tiberinus she brought forth Ocnus Manual lat belonging to the hand filling the hand it is also used substantively for a book of a small volume which may easily be carried in ones hand Manubiary lat belonging to the spoil or prey Manucaption lat a taking by the hand Manucaptors lat Sureties or Bailes Manuduction lat a leading by the hand a guiding Manuel in Common Law signifieth that whereof present profit may be made Manufacture lat handy-work Manumission lat an Enfranchising a making free a slave or bondman which in former time was performed with divers ceremonies before a Magistrate Manure from the French word Manouurier to work and labour the earth with the hand Manuscript lat a thing onely written with the hand Manutenentia a Writ used in the case of maintenance †Manutention lat a holding by the hand Marria or Mar the name of a Country in the North part of Scotland Marathon a Town of Greece about ten miles distant from Athens famous for the Victory of Theseus over the Marathonian Bull and of Miltiades over Darius his Army consisting of above 100000. men Maravedis a kind of Spanish coin of very small value 34 of them amounting but to a Royal which is about 6 pence of our money Marcellus a great General of the Romans who overcame the Captain of the Gaules in a single Duel vanqvisht Hannibal after he had given the Romans several great overthrows took Syracuse and at last was circumvented by Hannibal and slain Marcessible lat apt to putrifie or corrupt Marcgrave Dutch a Count or Earl of the Marches i. e. the Frontier of a Country whence the title of Marquesse seemeth to be derived also those Noblemen which from the Marches i. the limits between England and Wales or between England and Scotland were heretofore called Marchers and injoyed private Laws to themselves which now are worn out March so called because it was dedicated to Mars by his son Romulus Marchesite or Marquesite Span. a certain kind of stone intermingled among mettal and partaking of the nature and colour of the mettal it is mixt with it is by some called a firestone Marcheta a certain Law made by Eugenius King of Scotland which was that the Lord of the land should have the first nights lodging with every married woman within his jurisdiction the word signifying as some think the first carnal copulation with a woman but this law was abrogated by Malcolm the third Marchpane French a kind of Sugered paste made into little cakes it is called in Greek Saccharites in Latin Panis dulciarius also Sagunculus from Saguntum a Town in Spain where the best are made or Panis Martius because it had wont to be consecrated to Mars having towers castles and such like on it Marcidity or Marcour lat a withering away rottennesse Marcionists a sort of ancient Hereticks so called from one Marcion a Stoick they denied Christ to be the Son of God Marcus the praenomen of divers eminent Romans as Marcus Curtius who for the publick good devoted himself to the infernal powers and rid compleatly arm'd into a monstrous gap with which the earth opened and others See Regulus Salinatâ—r c. Maremaid see Syren Mareotis a great Lake in Aegypt on the south side of Alexandria having a large and commodious Port. Margaret Greek pearl the Christian name of divers women contracted Marget Margaritiferous lat bringing forth Margarites i. pearles which are found in Oysters and other kind of shell-fish Margery a Christian name of divers women some think it to be the same with Margaret others derive it from Marjora a kind of flower Marginal lat belonging to the margin or margent i. the brink or brim of any thing also written in the margin of a book which is the extream or uttermost part of a page which terminates the lines Mariandunum a Country of Asia famous for the Acherusian Den through which the Poets feign that Hercules went down into Hell Mariets French a sort of violets called also Marian violets some think from Maria the name of a woman who first discovered them Marigold a kind of flower of a yellow or golden colour called in Latin herba solaris in Greek Heliotropium because at night it contracts it self and at sun-rising opens and dilates it self Marine lat belonging to the Sea whence Mariner a Sailour a Seafaring-man Marital lat belonging to Wedlock or Mariage Maritime lat belonging to the Sea or being along the Sea side Marius a stout Roman born at Arpinas he overcame Jugurth King of Numidia and led him in Triumph before his Chariot after he had had five Consulships together conferred on him by the Romans being the sixth time Consul with Catulus he overthrew the Cimbrians in Gallia and the Teutones in Italy at length being overcome by Sylla he hid himself by the Lake Minturna from whence he fled into Africa but was recalled by Cinna and made Consul the seventh time Mark Hebr. high or from the Latin Marcus which name according to Varrow was given to those that were born in the moneth of March but according to Festus it signifies a hammer or mallet Mark a sort of coin or money valueing with us about thirteen shillings and four pence but a Mark of Gold is counted about eight ounces or thirty three shillings and four pence Marcab the pinion of the wing of Pegasus Marleborough a Town in Wiltshire seated upon the River Cunetio or Kenet so called from Marga or Marle because it standeth upon a chalky ground Alexander Necham calleth it Merlebrigia from
stone and 14 pound Sacramental lat belonging to a Sacrament or Oath Sacrificial lat belonging to a Sacrifice or holy offering Sacrilegious lat committing Sacriledge i. a robbing of Churches or violating of holy things Sacristie or Sacrary lat a Vestry a place where the Priests Vestments and things belonging to the Church are kept Sadduces a Sect among the Jews so called from Sadock their first Author they denied the being of Angels and the Resurrection of the body Safe conduct see Passeport Sagacity lat quicknesse of understanding or apprehension sharpnesse of judgement or wit Sagamore a King or Supream Ruler among the Indians Sagbut Span. a kinde of Musical instrument somewhat resembling a Trumpet Sagination lat a cramming or making fat Sagittal lat belonging to an Arrow Sagittarius one of the 12 signes of the Zodiack see â—hiron Sagittipotent lat powerfull in darts or arrows Saguntus a Town of Valentia a Province of Spain now called Morviedro situate upon the River Ibero it was destroyed by Hannibal which was the cause of the second Punick war Saker a kind of Hawk called in Greek Hierax i. holy also a great piece of Ordnance Saie a kinde of stuffe to make Cloaths of called in Spanish Saietta Saint Anthonies fire see Erysipely Salacity lat wantonnesse or inclination to Venery perhaps from Salacia a goddesse of the water whom the ancients held to be the wife of Neptune and that she caused the fluctuation or moving up and down of the Sea also the Ebbing and flowing of the Sea was called by the Romans in old time Salicia and Venilia Salade French a kinde of head-piece or helmet called also Salet Salamander a kinde of little beast like a Lizard vulgarly believed to subsist in the hottest fire and to quench it Salarie lat a servants stipend or wages so called as Pliny saith from Sal i. Salt both being alike necessary Salenae the ancient name of a Town in Bedfordshire now called Salndy Sandy Salebrous lat rugged rough uneven Saliant lat leaping a Term in Heraldry Saligot Fr. a water-nut or Caltrop Salii the 12 Priests of Mars instituted by Numa Pompilius Marcus Livius Salinator a famous Roman Captain Consull with Claudius Nero he overcame Asdrubal in the second Punick warre Salique Law a Law whereby the Crown of France cannot fall from the Lance to the distaffe i. cannot be inherited by women it is so called either from these words si aliqua often mentioned in the Law which as some say was made by Pharamond others by Philip the fair or else from the River Sala near unto which the Francks anciently inhabited Salisbury the chief Citie of Wiltshire risen up out of the ruines of a very ancient Town called Sorbiodunum and by vulgar Latinists Sarum and Sarisburia this place is famous for a stately Minster built here in the reign of King Henry the third by Richard Poor then Bishop of Salisbury this Cathedral hath as many windows as there are dayes in the year as many pillars as there are hours in a year and the gates are answerable in number to the 12 moneths Salivation lat a fluxing or drawing humours out of the mouth by spettle Salligot French a kinde of fruit called water Nuts Sallow latin Salix the Goats willow-tree Sally to issue out of a besieged Town from the Spanish word Salir Salmacis a Fountain of Caria near Halicarnassus so called from Salmacis a Nymph who falling in love with Hermaphroditus the son of Mercury and Venus when she could by no other means draw him to her love she leapt into the Fountain and imbracing him prayed unto the gods that they might grow into one whereupon they immediately became one person having both Sexes also at the prayers of Hermaphroditus the Fountain contracted this quality that who ever entred into it were transformed into both Sexes and called Hermaphrodites Salmoneus a King of Elis the son of Aeolus who aspiring to be a god drove his Chariot over a brazen bridge which he had made that he might imitate Thunder at which Jupiter inraged struck him down to Hell with a Thunderbolt Salomon a proper name signifying in Hebrew peaceable Salsamentarious lat belonging to salt things brine or pickle Salsure lat a salting seasoning or powdering Saltation lat a dancing or leaping Saltimbanco Ital. a Mountebank or Quacksalver Saltire a Term in Heraldry see Sautoir Salvatel Vein see Vein Salubrity lat wholsomnesse or healthfulnesse Salutatory lat a place where people stand to salute great men Salutiferous lat bringing health or safety Samaria a Countrey of Palaestine bordering upon Judaea Sambenito Span. a Coat of course sackcloth in which Paenitents are reconciled to the Church Sambuke a Musical instrument called also a Dulcimer also a warlike Engine Samonds the sirname of a very ancient family of Barons who heretofore had their chief habitation at Bromham in Wiltshire they are stiled in Latin Records de Sancto Amando Samos the name of two Islands the one near Ionia over against Ephesus sacred to Juno anciently called Parthenia the other in the bay of Ambracia over against Epirus anciently called Cephalenia Samothracia an Island of the Aegaean Sea not far from Thrace heretofore called Dardania Samplar corrupted from Examplar a pattern or coppy Sampson a proper name signifying in Heb. there the second time Samuel another proper name signifying in Heb. placed of God Sanable lat to be healed or cured Sanchia a Christian name of divers women from the Latin Sancta i. holy Sanctification lat a sanctifying hallowing or making holy Sanctimony or Sanctity lat the profession of holinesse Sanction lat a decreeing enacting or establishing any Law or Ordinance Sanctuary lat a sanctified or holy place also a place priviledged by the Prince for the safeguard of offenders lives founded upon the great reverence which the Prince beareth unto the place whereunto he granteth such a priviledge Sanctum Sanctorum the innermost and holiest place of the Jews Temple where the Arke was kept Sandal a kind of pantofle or slipper also a pretious sort of Indian wood A Sandapile lat a coffin or beer to carry dead bodies on Sandarach a kind of red painting otherwise called Orpine or red Arsenick A Sand-bag in Etching or Graving is that on which they use to turn their plate Sanglant French bloody or imbrued with blood Sanglier French a Bore of five years old Sanguin or Sangnineous lat full or abounding with blood also of a complexion where that humour is predominant also in Heraldry it is taken for a kind of ruddy or murrey colour Sanguinolent lat bloody or cruel Sanhedrim Heb. the Supream Council or Court of judicature among the Jews consisting of the high Priest and 70 Seniors or Elders who were to consult about the greatest matters of the Common-wealth both Ecclesiastical and Civil Sanity lat health soundnesse Sanjacks the Governours of Cities among the Turks Sanicle a kind of herb called self-heal Sankfin from the French words Sang i. blood and fine
i. ended a finall end of any lineal race or descent of kindred Saphaena vein see vein Saphick verse a kind of verse consisting of a trochee spondee dactyle and two trochee's and having at the end of every three verses an Adonic which consists of a dactyl and spondee This kind of verse was first invented by Sapho a famous Poetesse of Mitylene Saphire a kind of Gem or pretious Stone of an azure colour Sapidity or Sapor lat savorinesse well season'dnesse pleasantnesse of taste or savour Sapience lat wisdom or prudence Sapphick see Saphick Saraband Ital. a kind of Lesson or Air in Musick going with a quick time Sarah a proper name of a woman signifying in Heb. Mistresse or Dame Sarcasm Greek a bitter jest scoff or taunt Sarcell the pinion of a Hawk Sarcenet a kind of thin Taffata Sarcination lat a loading with packs or fardells Sarconia Greek a bunch of flesh growing upon the nose Sarcophage Greek a certain stone wherein dead bodies being inclosed do consume away within a short time also a Tomb or Sepulchre Sarcotick Greek breeding new flesh Sarculation lat a weeding or plucking up of weeds whence the time that Countrymen weed their corn in is vulgarly called Sarcling time Sardanapalus the last King of Assyria against whom for his luxury and effeminacy Arbaces the Satrap of Media and Belochus of Balylon rebelling transferred the Empire to Media and Babilonia Sardanapalus as soon as he saw himself in danger throwing himself and all his riches into a burning Pyre which he built for that purpose Sardel or Sardine a kind of fish called a pilcher Sardinia an Island in the Ligustick Ocean so called from Sardus the son of Hercules who planted himself here Sardonick laughter an immoderate and deadly laughter from the herb Sardon which being eaten causeth it Sardonyx a kind of Gem or pretious Stone of a dark or blackish colour being also called a Corneol or Onyx of Sardinia Sarmatia a very large Country reaching from the borders of Germany and the River Vistula as far as Hircania and is divided into Sarmatia Europaea and Sarmatia Asiatica Sarmentitious lat belonging to branches or twigs Sarpedon a King of Lycia he was the son of Jupiter by Laodamia the daughter of Bellerophon and going to help the Trojans was killed by Patroclus and carried out of the field by Apollo at Jupiters command Sarplar or Serplath a quantity of wool consisting of 80 Tod each Tod being two stone and each stone 14 pound A Sarse a sive of hair Sarsaparilla the root of a certain tree called Smilax Peruviana Sassafras the wood of another Indian tree very useful in Physick Satanical belonging to Satan i. the Devil from the Hebrew word sitnath i. hatred It Sate me sore old word it touch't me greatly Satellite lat a Yeoman of the Guard also a Catchpole Satiety lat fullnesse glutting whence satiation a filling or cloying Satisdation lat a putting in bail or surety Satisfaction lat a satisfying or making amends also a taking great content or pleasure in any thing Satorious lat belonging to sowing or sowers Satrap Greek a title anciently given to the chief Governour of any Province under the King of Persia. Saturity lat the same as Satiety Saturnals lat Feasts dedicated to Saturn an ancient heathen deity the son of Coelus and Vesta who married his sister Ops and cut off the genital members of his father Coelus and threw them into the Sea out of the froth of which sprung Venus from thence called Aphrodite he sought to devour all his male children wherefore Ops as soon as she was delivered of Jupiter and Juno at a birth she gave him instead of Jupiter a great stone wrapt up in swadling-clouts which he devoured next she brought forth Neptune whom she concealed as also Pluto and Glaucus whom she had at a birth He was overthrown by his brother Titan who made war against him for the Kingdom and shut up him and his wife in prison whence he was delivered by his son Jupiter against whom also making war himself he was driven out of his Kingdom and fled into Italy to Janus whom he taught Husbandry and the use of the Vine Saturn is also the name of one of the 7 Planets the slowest in motion and of the melancholiest influence also among Chymists it is taken for lead Satyre from Satyrus a certain deity of the Wood much spoken of by ancient Poets resembling in the upper part of their bodies the shape of a man in the lower part of a goat and being all over hairy from Satyra a kind of sharp and invective Poem full of taunting expressions against any person or thing Satyrical lat bitter invective taunting or scoffing Sauciation lat a wounding Saucidgâ— in French Saucisse a kind of pudding made of meat chopped very small Savine a kind of herb so called because it was had in great veneration among the Sabines an ancient people of Italy Saultoir or Sautoir French a term in Heraldry being a figure resembling St. Andrews crosse Saunders a kind of spice or sweet wood called in Latin Santalum Saws old word sayings Saxony a Country of Germany lying between the Rivers Albis and Rhine whose inhabitants anciently under the conduct of their Queen Angela vanquisht Brittany and called it England Saxifrage from the Lat. Saxum i. a stone and frangere i. to break a kind of herb so called because it breakes the stone in the kidney S C Scabious lat scabby or mangy Scabrous lat rough rugged unpolished Scaevity lat left-handednesse unluckinesse Scaevola see Mutius Scalary lat belonging to a scale or ladder but in Geometry scale is also taken for a measure proportionable to the draught Scalion a kind of Plant otherwise called an Onion or Chibbol or young Cive Scaldis a river of the Low Countries running by Antwerp called in Dutch Scheldt Scallop Span. Chalupe a ship-boat called also a shallop also a kind of fish called in Latin Pecten Scalp the hairy part of the head which encompasseth the skull it is called in Greek Pericranium Scalper or Scalping Iron from the Lat. Scalpere i. to scrape or scratch a Chirurgions Instrument to scrape or cleanse wounds withall Scamander see Xanthus Scammony a kind of herb otherwise called purging Bindweed Scandalous lat giving scandal i. offence ill example or occasion of other mens sinning Scandalum Magnatum signifieth in Common Law a wrong done to any of the Nobles of the land as Prelates Dukes Earles c. Scanderbeg a name attributed to George Castriot the son of John Castriot Prince of Epirus and Albania who having been brought up by Amurath the second the Turkish Emperour at last caused Epirus and Macedonia to revolt and valiantly kept Croia against a mighty power of the Turks which caused Amurath to die rageing mad Scandia or Scandinavia a great Island in the North Ocean near ajoyning to the Continent of Russia it was anciently called Beltia or Basilia Scapular lat belonging to the
of Dogs whereupon she threw her self headlong down the next praecipice and was transformed to a Rock over against Charybdis Scyllas one so skilfull in diving that he regained a great quantity of gold and silver which had been lost in a shipwrack Scymitar see Semitar Scythia the most Northern Countrey of the world divided into Europaea and Asiatica it was so called from Scythes the son of Hercules by one that was half a woman and half a viper it is at this day called Tartarick Scytale lat a kinde of secret way of writing also a kinde of Serpent also a field Mouse called an Ermine or a shrew S E Seasnapple a kinde of Shell-fish called in Latin Cochlea veneris i. Venus shell Seax a kinde of sword anciently in use among the Saxons Sebastocrator Greek a great Officer in the ancient Constantinople Empire from Sebastos i. Honourable Crator powerfull Sebastian a proper name signifying in Greek reverend or Majestical Sebesten a kinde of Assyria plumb called in Greek Myâ—aria Secandunum the ancient name of a Town in Warwick-shire now called Seckinton where Athelbald King of the Mercians was in a Civil war slain by Beared who usurping the Kingdom was soon after slain himself by Offa. Secant a Term in Geometry is a line drawn from the Center through one extream of the given Arch till it meet with the Tangent raised from the Diameter at the other extream Secation lat a cutting Secession lat a separating ones self a departing from any side a revolting Seclusion lat a shutting forth a putting out of doors A Second in surveying is the tenth part of a prime and contains one inch and 49 of 50 parts of an inch Second deliverance a Writ that lieth after the return of Cattel replevied for the repleving of the same Cattel again by reason of some default in the party that replevied Secondary lat the second man in any place he who is next to any Chief Officer as Secondary of the fine Office c. Secondine lat the after-birth or skin wherein an Infant is wrapt while it is in the womb Sectary lat one of a Sect a follower of new opinions in matters of religion Section lat a cutting or dividing also a certain division in a Chapter Sector a Mathematical instrument consisting of two right lines containing an Angle at the Center and of the circumference assumed by them Secular lat belonging to an age or the space of an hundred years whence secular playes were certain Games among the Romans performed every hundred years also a secular Priest one who is conversant in the world and not tied to a Monastical life Secundary see Secondary Secundation lat a secunding forwarding or making prosperous Securiferous lat bearing a hatchet or axe Sedation lat a quieting or asswaging Sedentarie lat sitting much studious unactive Sediment lat the dregs or lees of any thing setling or sinking down to the bottome Sedition latin as it were feorsum itio i. a going apart a stirring up to rebellion or discord a raising a faction or mutiny Seduction lat a seducing or leading out of the right way Sedulity lat diligence See old word a seat Seeling in Navigation is the sudden tumbling of a ship to one side or other when the wave of the Sea is past from under her Segmentation lat a dividing into Segments i. small parts or pieces of any thing Segnity lat sluggishnesse or sloth Segregation lat as it were a setting apart from the flock a severing or parting Sejant French sitting upright a term in Heraldry Sejanus a great favorite of Tiberius the Roman Emperour of whom he was so highly esteemed that he had the chief management of state affairs but at last by reason of his pride and ambition he came to a miserable end Seignorage French a prerogative of the King whereby he challengeth allowance for gold and silver brought in the Masse to the exchange for Coin Seignorie French dominion or Jurisdiction also a Mannour or Lordship Seimours the sirname of an ancient and honourable family stiled in Latin Records de Sancto Mauro in whom continue to this day the titles of Vicount Beauchamp and Marques of Hertfort Seisin in Common-law is the possession of Lands or inheritance Sejunction lat a severing or putting asunder Seker old word in like manner Sela or Selah an Hebrew word used in several of Davids Psalms being as some think a pause or resting time in Musick Sele-graving a Term in Sculpture or the art of graving being that which is done in steel or copper that which is done in wood is called graving in â—â—atâ—tich Selenite a certain stone wherein there is a white spot which increaseth and decreaseth according to the course of the Moon Seleucus one of the Captains of Alexander the Great who after Alexanders death possessed himself of Syria where he reigned twenty years Selimus the ninth Emperour of the Turks who added Aegypt and Arabia to the Turkish Empire Selion a ridge of land lying between two furrows Sellander a kinde of disease in a horse Sellengers contracted from St. Legers a sirname of great note and antiquity stiled in Latin Records de Sancto Leodegaria Sellarie lat a place where benches or forms are set Semblance French a likenesse seeâ—ing or outward appearance Semele the daughter of Cadmus King of Thebes who being got with Childe by Jupiter brought forth Bacchus Sementation lat a bringing forth seed Semicircular lat in fashion of a half Circle Semicolon a half Colon or Member being a point in writing or printing thus marked Semidole lat a pipe or measure containing half a Tun. Seminary lat a seed-plot or Nursery of young Plants it is also Metaphorically taken for a School or Colledge which is a Nursery of learning Semination or Sementation lat a sowing or bringing forth seed Seminifical lat producing seed for generation Semipedal lat consisting of half a foot in measure Semiquadrate an Aspect consisting of 45 degrees Semiquintile an Aspect consisting of 36. degrees Semiramis a famous Queen of the Assyrians the wife first of Maenon praefect of Syria afterward of Ninus whom she made away and succeeded in the Kingdom she much inlarged the bounds of her Empire and built a wall of brick about the Citie of Babylon and as some say she died in an expedition into India against Staurobates Semitar or Scymitar a kind of a short Persian sword being also much in use among the Turks Sempiternal lat everlasting perpetual without end Semuncial lat belonging to a semunee i. half an ounce Senatorian lat belonging to a Senatour or to a Senate i. a Supream Council of a Nation a Parliament Sendal French a kind of Cyprus silk Greek Sidon Seneca a famous Philosopher born in Corduba a City of Andalusia a Province of Spain he caused himself to bleed to death for fear of Nero who was his schollar Senescal or Seneschal French a Marshall or Steward Senescent lat growing old waining Sengreen
famous Portughese who from a Hunter and noted Robber became at last a great Commander he overthrew the two Roman Pretors Ventidius and Plancius but at last was vanquished by a Consular Army and slain treacherously by the counsel of Caepio Viridity lat greennesse also lustynesse strength freshnesse Virility lat mans estate manlinesse also ability to perform the part of a man in the act of generation Viripotent lat ripe for man Virtuoso Ital. a man accomplisht in vertuous Arts and Ingenuitie Virulent lat full of venome or deadly poison Visceral lat belonging to the bowels of any creature Vicidity or Viscosity lat a clamminesse a sticking to any thing like glue or birdlime Visibility lat an aptnesse to be seen or discerned Visier a Viceroy or chief Statesman among the Turks Vision lat a seeing or discerning Vistula a famous River vulgarly called Wixel running out of the Carpathian Hill and dividing Germany from Europaean Sarmatia Visual lat belonging to the sight Vital lat belonging to or sustaining life Vitation lat a shunning or avoiding Vitelline lat resembling the yolk of an egge Vitemberga the City of Wittenbergh in Germany Vitiation lat a corrupting or defiling also a deflowring Vitiferous lat bearing vines Vitoldus a cruel Tyrant of Lithuania who carried with him a bow and arrows wheresoever he went killing whomsoever he had a mind to kill though upon never so slight an occasion making it his chiefest sport and recreation Vitreal or Vitrine lat belonging to or made of glasse Vitrification lat a making of glasse Vitriolous lat belonging to Vitriol i. a kind of middle substance between stone and mettal called also Copperass Vituline lat belonging to a Calf Vituperation lat a blaming reprehending or dispraising Vivacity lat livelinesse lustinesse vigour Vivification lat an enlivening reviving quickning Viviparous lat bringing their young alive U L Vladislaus a King of Hungaria who was slain in a great battle against the Turks also the name of several other Kings of Hungaria and Bohemia Vlceration lat a bliâ—â—ering or breaking out into an ulcer or running sore Vliginous lat plashy wet full of standing water Vlisses the son of Laertes and Anticlea he married Penelope the daughter of Icarius by whom he had Telemachus he was by Palamedes forced against his will to go to the wars of Troy where he proved very serviceable to the Greeks by reason of his great subtilty for he brought Achilles to them who had hid himself among the daughters of Lycomed He stole away the ashes of Laomedon which were kept in one of the gates of the City He took away the Palladium and with the help of Diomed slew King Rhaesus and brought away his white horses He by a wile caused Palamed to whom he bore a grudge to be stoned to death and after Achilles was slain he was preferred before Ajax by the common sentence of the Greeks to have his armes after the wars of Troy intending to sail back to his own Country he was cast by tempest together with his companions upon unknown Regions being cast upon Aeolia he obtained of Aeolus the winds in a bottle which was broken by his companions thinking there had been a treasure concealed in it next coming to the Country of the Laestrigones his companions were changed into beasts by Circe whom he compelled to restore them to their former shapes and lying with her he begat Telegonus having scap't the charms of the Syrens his companions were afterward cast away for killing the flocks of Phaethusa the daughter of the Sun and he onely escaping was cast uppon Ogygia and intertained by Calypso on whom he begat Nausithous and Nausinous at length he was intertained by Nausicaa the daughter of Alâ—inous King of the Phaeacenses and his wife Arete he obtained of them a new ship and attendants with whom he arrived safe at Ithaca where he slew all his rivals and was himself slain unknown by his son Telegonus Vlophone a kind of plant called the black Chamaeleon thistle it is also called Vervilago Vle-games Christmas games or sports from the French word Noel i. Christmass or the Latin jubilum Vlâ—ter a Province in Ireland which containeth these following Counties Louth Cavon Fermanagh Monaghan Armagh Doun Antrim Londonderry Tir Owen Tirconel Vltimate lat the last extream or utmost Vltion lat a revenging Vltramarin lat beyond the Seas also a kind of colour used in painting Vltramundane lat being beyond the visible World Vlulation lat a howling like a dog or wolf U M Vmber a kind of beast also a dark yellowish colour used in painting Vmbilical lat belonging to the navel Vmbrage French a shadow also suspition also a pretence Vmbragious Vmbratical or Vmbratile Fr. Lat. shady covert obscure Vmbrello Ital. a great broad fan or skreen which in hot Countries people hold over their heads to keep off the heat of the Sun Vmple a word used in some ancient Statutes for fine Lawn U N Vnanimity lat a being of one mind or will a consenting or according together Vncial lat containing an ounce or inch Vnction lat an anointing with oil or any oily substance Vncouth Sax. unknown in Common Law it is more peculiarly taken for one for whom his Host is not bound to answer for any offence committed by him he being not counted a guest till the third night Vndation lat a waving or rising of waves Vnderâ—ide Sax. the evening time Vndulate lat Chamolet wrought or painted like waves Vndulation of the air the waving of the air to and fro Vneth old word scarse difficult Vnguent lat an ointment or liquid salve Vnicornous lat having but one horn Vniformity lat a being of one and the same form figure and fashion Vnion lat a joyning together a growing into one also a kind of pearl growing in couples also a combining of two Churches in one which is done by the consent of the Bishop Patron and Incumbent Vniparous lat bringing forth one onely at a birth Vnison French an agreement of two notes in one tone Vnity lat a being one in substance or in mind union concord Vnity of possession in Common Law is a joynt possession of two rights by several titles It is called by Civilians consolidatio usus fructus Vniversal lat general extending to all Vniversity lat in the Civil Law is taken for a body politique or corporation also an Academy Vniversity Colledge the most ancient Colledge of Oxford begun by King Aelfred who founded this Academy and reedified by William Arch-deacon of Durham Vnivocal lat consisting of one voice name or sound in Logick it is when under one name one thing is signified Vnkennel To unkennel a Fox that is to drive or force him from his hole Vnselinesse Sax. unhappinesse Vnweather Sax. a storm or tempest V O Vocabulary lat a Dictionary or Index of words Vocal lat belonging to or consisting in the voice Vocation lat a profession calling or course of life Vociferation lat a putting forth the