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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
day_n	degree_n	minute_n	pole_n	4,710	5	12.3043	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30077	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words used in our language : with sundry explications, descriptions and discourses / by I.B., doctor of physick.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1641 (1641)	Wing B5429; ESTC R29141	109,869	224

histories omitted in the bookes of Kings are there related Parallels Lines running of an equall distance from each other which can never meete though they be drawne infinitely in length thus In Astronomie there are five such imagined lines running circlewise about the round compasse of the heavens The first is the Equinoctiall line just in the middle of the world betweene the two Poles The second northward from the Equinoctiall is the Tropike of Cancer to which line the Sunne commeth about the twelfth day of June The third yet more northward is the northern ●ircle within 23. degrees and 50. minutes of the north-North-pole The fourth line is the Tropike of Capricorne declining Southward from the Equinoctiall as much as the Tropike of Cancer doth northward and to this line the Sunne cometh about the twelfth of December The fift and last line is the Southern circle being as neere the South pole as the Northerne circle before spoken of is to the North pole Paralogisme A deceitfull syllogisme a manner of arguing which seemeth true when it is not as in saying He that affirmeth William to be a living creature saith true He that affirmeth William to be a Horse affirmeth him to be a living creature Therefore he that affirmeth William to be a Horse saith true Paramounte The chiefe Lord of the fee. Paramour A Sweet-heart one dearely beloved Paraphrase A free manner of translation or interpretation wherein a man doth not tye himselfe to expresse every word as it lyeth in the copie but to explicate and adorne the matter more at large and to abridge some things yet still keeping the sense of the Author any such translation is called a Paraphrasticall translation Parasite A flatterer a trencher friend One that is still hanging one some rich man and flatteringly feedeth his humor because he would be partaker of his good cheere Parcitie Sparingnesse niggardlinesse Parenthesis Any word or sentence thrust into an other sentence in such sort that it may be left out in speaking and yet the sense of the matter still remaine whole Such word or sentence is commonly marked with two half circles thus Paricide One that hath killed his owne Father or Mother Among the ancient Romans if any committed so horrible a crime he was sowed alive in a leather bag with a Cock an Ape and an Adder put to him and as some write a Dog so were thrown together into the river Tyber where the miserable Caytife must needs die a lingring death being depriued of the use of all elements save only a little aire to draw his wretched life in torment the longer Paritie Equality likenesse Parley A talking together Poroxysme The sharp assault or fit of an ague Pa●simonie Thriftines good husbandry Parsimonious Thrifty paring Particularise To draw or divide things in speaking into certain particulars or small parcels Partisan A weapon like a Halberd Paschall Of or belonging to the Feast of Easter Pasche The feast of Easter Passant Walking passing along Passi●le Which may suffer or feele pain Passion A suffering Pastor A shepheard Pastorall Of or belonging to a shepheard Paternall Fatherly Patheticall Passionate or that which moveth passions in a man Patriarch A great ancestour a great Bishop or father Patrimonie Goods or lands left one by his father or some other ancestor Patrone A defender a great friend that supporteth one Patronage Defence Patronize To defend Paucitie Fewnesse Pavice A great large shield that covereth the whole bodie Pavilion A tent for war Paunage The feeding of swine in any forrest wood or other place with mast Peccavi I have offended Pectorall Belonging to the breast or which hangeth before the breast Pecuniarie Of or belonging to money Pellican A bird that wanteth food feedeth her yong ones as is said with her own blood Pellmell Confusedly running disorderly together Penall Of or belonging to pain or punishment Pendant Hanging downward Penetrable Which may be pearsed thorow Penetrate To pearse thorow Penitentiall Belonging to penance or repentance Penitent He that is heartily sorry and repenteth Penon An ensigne or banner borne in warre Pension A yeerely fee or wages for some service done Pensive Sad heavie Pentateuch The five bookes of Moses to wit Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numeri and Deuteron●mie Pentecost The feast of Whitsontide so called because it is fiftie daies after Easter For Pentecost in Greeke signifieth the fiftieth Penurie Want povertie Penurious Poore in want Perambulation A walking Perceptible Which may be perceived Perch A kinde of fish It signifieth also a rod or long pole used in measuring of land being of 16. foot and a half in length and in some places more Percullis The name of an office of one of the Pursivants at armes Percussion A striking Perdition Destruction Perdurable Lasting of long continuance Peregrination A travelling into a strange land Peremptorie Resolute short quicke Perennitie Long continuance Perfidious Treacherous not to be trusted Perfidiousnesse Treachery disloyalty Perfunctory Carelesly done Perigion The nearest distance of the Planets from the earth Period The perfect end of a sentēce marked commōly with a full point thus Peripatetickes Philosophers of the sect of Aristotle so called because they walked in their readings and disputations for Peripateo in Greeke signifieth to walke Periphrasis A long speaking a speaking of one word by many Periscians People dwelling so neare either of the two Poles that their shadowes goe round about them like a wheele Perjury A forswearing Permission Sufferance leave Permutation A changing Pernicious Deadly dangerous Peroration The conclusion of a long speech or Oration Perpendicular Directly downe right Perpetrate To commit any unlawfull thing Perpetuity Everlastingnesse Perplexity Great doubtfulnesse intanglednesse Perquisits Profits comming to Lords of mannors by casualty or uncertainly as escheats heriots releafes strayes forfeitures Persist To continue to the end Personate To represent the person of another Perspecuity Cleerenesse plainnesse Perspicuous Cleere plain manifest Perswasive Which doth or may perswade Pertinacy Stubbornnesse wilfulnesse Perturbe To trouble Perturbation A trouble a great disquietnesse Perverse Froward contrary Pervert To corrupt or marre to turne one from good to bad Pestiferous Mortal deadly poisonous Potition A suite a demand a request Petroll A substance strained out of the naturall Bitumen spoken of before It is for the most part white and somtime black and being once set on fire can hardly be quenched Petty Being placed before other words it signifieth little Petty Sergeanty A tenure of lands holden of the King by yeelding to him a Buckler Arrow Bow or such like service Petulancy Wanton saucinesse malepart boldnesse Phantasme A vision or imagined appearance Pharisee A sect of Iewes professing more holinesse than the common sort did They wore on their foreheads little scrols wherein were written the ten commandements and were called Pharises of the Hebrew word Phares which signifieth to divide or separate because by their feined devotion they seemed to separate themselves from the other people Pheere See Feere Phenix The rarest Bird

Judiciall Belonging to judgment also wise grave of great judgement Judicious See Judiciall Iujubes Certain plumbs of Italy sold here by Apothecaries This fruit is in colour white or red in fashion round or like an olive in tast sweet having a hard long stone like an olive stone but much lesse If these plumbes be kept long they waxe drie and full of wrinckles They are temperate in heate and cold and are good against the cough roughnesse of the throat and against all exulcerations and inflammations of the kidnies and bladder but being eaten for meate they are of hard digestion Iulip A physicall cleere drinke made of distilled waters and sugar used to coole the bodie or quench thirst in hot diseases sometimes the Iuleps have sirups or other mixtures put to them Iuncture A joynt a joyning together Ivorie The Elephants tooth it is of a binding nature and the scraping thereof is good against sores growing under the rootes of the nayles Iuridicall Of or appertaining to judgement Iurisdiction Lawfull authority in any place Iustification A justifying or making just * Iwympled Muffled K Kalends See Calends Keele The bottome of a ship Keene Sharpe edged Kell The caule about the paunch of a Hart or Stagge * Kemelling A brewers vessell * Kepe It is sometimes taken for care or regard * Keynard A micher a hedge-creeper * Kitchell A kinde of cake Kintall A certaine weight of about an hundred Kirat An Arabian word signifying the weight of three graine Kith Acquaintance Kitkaies The fruite of the ashen tree they are little narrow huskes hanging together in clusters wherein is contained the seed of the ashe which is bitter This provoketh urine and is sought by some for other purpose * Knarrie Stubbie Knight-service An auncient tenure of lands by which a man was bound to beare armes in warre for the defence of the Realme L LAas A nette or gynne Laborious Painfull full of labour Labyrinth An intricate building or place made with so many turnings and windings that whosoever went into it could never get out without a perfect guide or a threed to direct him the end of which threed must be tyed at the doore where he entreth Some heathen Princes bestowed infinite charge to build such devices in a stately forme There were foure principall labyrinths in the world The first in Egypt made for a sepulcher of one of their Kings or as some write in honour of the sunne The second in the Iland of Candie built at the commandement of King Minos by the ingenious workeman Daedalus who tooke his patterne from that which he had seene in Egypt the third in the I le Lemnos the fourth in Italy built by King Porsenna of great square stones for his owne sepulcher Lacca A kinde of red gumme brought out of Arabia and sold here by Apothecaries good against diseases of the breast and comfortable to the Liver Laudanum A yellowish gumme as some write notwithstanding others affirm it to be made of a dew which falleth upon a certaine herbe in Greece Avicen sayth it is taken hanging on the haire of Goats beards that have fed upon that plant It is hot and drie and sweet of smell if it be pure It is often used in pomanders and being annointed upon the head with oyle of myrtles it doth strengthen the skin and keepeth haire from falling off Laike A lay man Laitie The estate or degree of a lay man lay men Lake A faire red colour used by painters Laire The place where any Deere harboureth by day Languishment A feeblenesse a fainting Languor Feeblenesse sicknesse infirmitie Lapidarie One that selleth or polisheth precious stones a Jeweller Lappise A terme used among hunters when hounds opē their mouthes in the string or a greyhound in his course Larch Turpentine A kind of Turpentine or rosen growing upon the Larch tree in Italie used often in oyntments and emplaisters to cleanse or heale wounds It may be also taken inwardly with honey and then it cleanseth the breast looseth the belly and expelleth the stone and gravell * Larfon Robberie Largesse Liberality Lascivious Wanton dishonest Lasciviousnesse Wantonnesse Lassitude Wearinesse Lastage Any heavy weight or balasse layd in the bottome of ships to make them goe upright It is also a terme in the common law which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and markets for carrying of things where a man will Latitude The breadth of any thing in Astronomy it signifieth the distance north or southward from the Equinoctiall line or the distance of the Pole from the Horizon Latria Divine honour Laude Praise Laudable Worthy of praise Laureate Crowned with Laurell Laurell The Bay tree or a garland of Bayes * Laye A Song * Layvers Thongs of lether Lazer A Leaper a poore man full of sores and scabs Lazule stone A blewish greene stone of the kind of marble used sometime in physick It is in operation hot and dry and being rightly prepared according to an art known to Apothecaries is good against melācholy diseases and by cleansing the bloud to preserve one from the leprosie League Truce friendship peace sometimes it signifieth a space of three mile or thereabout Leasing Lying Lector A reader * Lectorne A Deske Lecture A reading a lesson * Leede An old name of the moneth of March. Leete A court or law-day holden commonly every halfe yeare Legatie Any thing given by ones will or testament Legall Of or belonging to the law Legate An Embassadour Legend A story of old matters Legible Which may be read Legion An army of men The Romane Legion consisted of ten bands wherof the first band contained 1105. footmen and 123. horsemen in which band the Standard was alwayes carried The other nine bands had every one 555. footmen and 66. horsemen so that a Legion made up the number of 6100. footmen and 726. horsemen * Legisters Lawyers Legitimate Lawfull lawfully begotten Legitimation A making of one legitimate Lenity Gentlenes mildnes mercy Lentils A kind of small pulse growing in hot countries round and flat of colour sometimes blacke somtimes white and sometimes browne Being boyled but once they loose the belly but at the second boyling in another water they are of a binding nature being then good to stop the bloody flixe or any loosenes of the body Lentiske A tree growing in divers hot Countries which beareth the notable Gumme called Masticke The leaves and barke of this tree stop all loosenes and issues of blood whatsoever Lessee He that taketh a Lease Lesses Doung of a ravenous beast as of a Beare Bore c. Lessour He that letteth lands or tenements to another Lethargy A disease contrary to phrensie for as phrensie is caused by hot humours inflaming the braine so is a Lethargy by cold flegmaticke humours oppressing the braine in such sort that the Patient can doe nothing but sleep whereby he becommeth forgetfull with losse in a manner of reason and all the senses of his body Lethe A poeticall word signifying a