Angels c. See Epiphan Haeres 9. 14. and Moses and Aaron p. 48. Sambenito Span. or Sanbenito properly santo Benito St Benet but it is usually taken for a coat of course Sackcloth in which Penitents in Spain are reconciled to the Church And in that respect it may be called Sanbenito quasi Saco benedicto a blessed Sackcloth Sambuâ— sambuca an instrument of Musick which we commonly take for a Dulcimer Also an Engin of War set by a rowling Tower which by Ropes and Pullies clapt the Bridge suddenly from the Tower to the besieged walls Samian samius of or pertaining to the Isle Samos or to an earthen pot or a Whetstone because there were good ones in that Isle Samplar a corruption from Examplar a pattern or copy to imitate an extract or draught most used for a pattern of several sorts of needle-work Sampson Heb. there the second time Samuel Hebr. placed of God Sanable sanabilis that may be healed curable Sanative sanativus healing curing Bac. Sance Bell campana sancta the sanctus Bell a little Bell formerly in every Church which was rung when the Priest said Sanctus sanctus sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth Sâ—tification sanctificatio a hallowing sanctifying or making holy a separation of things or persons from common or prophane use Sanctiloquent sanctiloquus that speaks holily Sanctimony sanctimonia holiness devoutness religiousness Sanction sanctio a Law a Decree established also a penal Statute Sanctuary sanctuarium a holy or sanctified place as Temple Church or Chappel In the old Law it was the most holy place of the Tabernacle wherein God gave visible tokens of his presence Psal 20.2 And more particularly it is a place priviledged by the Prince for the safe-guard of offenders lives being founded on the Law of Mercy and on the great reverence and devotion which the Prince bears to the place whereunto he grants such a Priviledge Of this you may read Stawnf pl. Cor. lib. 2. ca. 38. This seems to have taken beginning from the Cities of Refuge which Moses appointed them to flie unto for safeguard of their lives that had casually slain a man Exod. 21. In bastardly imitation whereof first the Athenians then Romulus erected such a place of immunity which they and he after them called Asylum The Emperors of Rome made the places of their own Statues or Images and Churches also places of Refuge as appears Cod. l. 1. tit 15. But among all other Nations the antient Kings of England seem to have attributed most to these Sanctuaries permitting them to shelter such as had committed both Felonies and Treasons so that within Forty days they acknowledged their fault and submitted themselves to banishment During which time if any man expelled them if he were Lay he was Excommunicated if a Clerk he was made irregular but after forty days no man might relieve them see Fleta lib. 1 cap. 29. And how by degrees they have been taken away you may read partly in him and partly in several Statutes Sanctum Sanctorum i.e. the Holy of Holys was the holiest place of the Jewes Temple where the Ark was kept and whereinto none entred but the High Priest and he but once a year Sandal Heb. sandal Lat. sandalium a Slipper or Pantofle also a kind of old fashioned shoo open and fastned with Latchets on the Instep such as religious persons wear Also Sandal or Saunders santalum a precious wood brought out of India whereof there are three kinds to wit red yellow and white Saunders They are all of a cooling nature especially the red which is often used in Physick against hot diseases Sandarack sandaracha the best red Arsenick or Orpine a bright Painters red whereof there are two kinds one the right and better found in Mines of Gold and Silver the other made of burned Ceruse Sanglant Fr. bloody bleeding embrued or full of blood Sanglier Fr. a wilde Bore five years old Sanguinary sanguinarius cruel thirsty bloody desirous of or delighted in shedding blood Sanguine Sanguineous sanguineus bloody full of blood cruel red Sanguin colour is a blood red colour or my Ladies Blush Sanguin in Heraldry signifies a murrey colour but is commonly taken for a complexion most inclineable to blood Sanguin flesh caro sanguinea is that which is engendred of blood of which sort is the flesh compounded in the Muscles the Heart and the rest of Sanguin Substance the Anatomists call it the proper flesh and Exanguis the improper Sanguinolent sanguinolentus bloody full of blood merciless Sanhedrim or Sanhedrin Hebr. Synedrion or Synedrium Gr. signifies generally the place where Counsellors meet to consult of and determine matters also the Assembly it self But by an appropriation of the word it is commonly taken for the highest Court of Judicature or supreme Council of the Jews which consisted of the High Priest and seventy Seniors or Elders from which number it was called by them in Hebrew words signifying Domus judicii septuaginta unius i. a Court of seventy and one Judges and it was as it were their Parliament to consult about to judge and decide the greatest matters that could arise in their Ecclesiastical or Civil Common-wealth as to determine the Controversies that might happen concerning their High Priest true and false Prophets differences betwixt Nation and Nation Tribe and Tribe c. This High Court was first by the commandment of God instituted in the Wilderness by Moses whilst under his conduct the children of Israel were on their journey out of Egypt towards the Land of Promise and afterwards it continued still in vigor till our Saviors Passion Besides this great Sanhedrim called Sanhedrim Gedola the Jews had two lesser or inferior to it the one consisting of three Judges to the Examination and Decision of which Court the most petty actions were subject As private Quarrels Thefts and the like this they called by words of their Language signifying Domus judicii trium virum The Court of three Judges The other consisted of twenty and three and so was termed Domus judicii viginti trium to whose Court belonged the Decision of weightier Sutes and capital Causes These Courts were erected in several places according to the exigence and commodity of their Country whereas their other supreme Court after their possession of the Land of Promise and the settlement of their Common-wealth was only held in Jerusalem Jews might appeal from those inferior Courts to this but from this there lay no appeal Four kinds of death were in their power Stoning Burning Sword Strangling and they fasted all that day when they condemned any to death See Moses and Aaron p. 189. The Talmudists use the word Sinhedriin for the aforesaid great Council Synedrians synedri are the Counsellors Judges or Members of that Court. Sanity sanitas health soundness good estate of wit and memory Saniacks or Sansiakes are Governors of Cities among the Turks Sante Santoâ— or Sancton Span. a holy man a great Saint Saphire sapphirus a precious stone
Clancular clancularius secret or unknown Clandestine clandestinus secret hidden private Clangor Lat. the sound of a Trumpet the cry of an Eagle or other bird Clarentius or Clarentiaux A King at Arms in degree second to the Garter and was ordained by Edward the fourth for he attaining the Dukedom of Clarence by the death of George his brother whom he put to death for aspiring the Crown made the Herauld that properly belonged to the Duke of Clarence a King at Arms and called him Clarentius His Office is to marshal and dispose the Funerals of all Knights and Esquires through the Realm on the south side of Trent Pol. Vir. See Harald Claricords instruments so called Claricymbal See Clavecymbal Clarigation clarigatio a clearing a proclaiming or denouncing war c. See Reprizal Clarion Fr. Clairon a kinde of small straight-mouthed and shrill-sounding Trumpet used commonly as a treble to the ordinary one Min. Clarifie clarifico to make clear or fair Clarisonant clarisonus sounding clear loud or shril Classe classis a ship or Navy an order or distribution of people according to their several Degrees In Schools wherein this word is most used a Form or Lecture restrained to a certain company of Scholars Classical classicus pertaining to a ship or belonging to a form or degree approved Servius Tullius caused a general valuation of every Citizens estate throughout Rome to be taken upon record with their age and according to their estates and age he divided the Romans into six great Armies or Bands which he called Classes The valuation of those in the first Classe was not under two hundred pounds and they alone by way of excellency were termed Classici And hence figuratively are our best and most approved authors viz. such as are of good credit and authority in the Schools termed Classici Scriptores Classical Authors God-win Claudicate claudico to halt to be lame or feeble to fail Apol. for learning Claudity clauditas lameness Clavecymbal clavecymbalum a pair of Virginals or â—laricords so called because the strings are wrested up with clavis a key Min. Clavicularious clavicularius of or pertaining to a key Clavigerous claviger that bears or keeps keys Claustral claustralis of or pertaining to a Cloister or close place Clementines part of the Canon-Law so called from Pope Clement the third who compiled it and was published about the year 1308. Min. Cleped Sax. called named Clepsydre clepsydra a water-Dyal a vessel that measureth hours by the running of water thereout Also a Gardiners watering-pot an hour-glass Cleromancy cleromantia a divination by lots Clickets Fr. Clicquets flat bones wherewith a pretty ratling noise is made by children Cot. Cliental clientalis of or belonging to a Client Clientele clientela a multitude of Clients Also safeguard or protection Climacter climactera an account or reckoning made by degrees the perillous time of mans life at every seven or nine years end Some have hereby divided the age of mans life in this manner The seventh year they reckon dangerous and by this account the 14 21 28 35 c. are climacterical years likewise the ninth year is esteemed equally dangerous and so the 18 27 36 c. and 81 especially which is nine times nine But the most dangerous and climacterical year is at the age of 63. because both accounts meet in this number namely seven times nine and nine times seven See a learned discourse of these climaterical years in Dr. Browns Vulgar Errors fol. 208. Climacterical Climaterical climactericus of or pertaining to Climacter supra Cliff is properly a broken mountain on the Sea-side and comes from our Verb to cleave for that it seems to our view as cleft or cloven from the part that sometimes belonged to it Climate or Clime clima a term used in Cosmography and signifies a space of the earth comprehended between two parallels or three lesser innominate Circles They serve to distinguish the length and brevity of the dayes in all places For under the Aequator the days are of the just length of twelve hours but after in every Clime they increase the length of half an hour so that there are numbred forty eight Parallels or twenty four Climates before the dayes extend to twenty four hours length which once attained they increase by weeks and moneths till they come to the length of half a year We therefore are to reckon twenty four Climates Northward and as many Southward Heyl. Clinopaly clinopale overmuch use of Lechery or wrestling in the bed Cloaca Lat. the Channel or Sink of a Town whereby all filthy things pass An House of Office Also the Paunch of a Glutton Hence Cloacal pertaining to such filth Clothe one of the three destines See Lachesis Clove is the 32 part of a Weigh of Cheese i. eight pound An. 9. H. 6. c. 8. Cluniacks cluniacenses religious persons of the order of St Benedict but reformed by Odo Abbot of Cluni in Burgundy who lived An. Dom. 913 and thence took name of these we had a Convent at Barnstable and elsewhere in England Clusive clusus shut up compassed Clysterise from Clyster eris to give a Clyster to purge or wash to convey by Clyster up into the guts Coacervation coacervatio heaping or gathering together Bac. To Coacervate To heap together Coâ—ction coactio heaping together a compulsion or constraining Coadjutor Lat. a fellow-helper one that labors in the same affair with another Coadjuvate coadjuvo to help or assist together Coadunation from coaduno a gathering assembling uniting or joyning together Coagitate coagito to move or stir together Coagulate coagulo to joyn or congeal together to gather into a cream or curd to make that which was thin thick Coalesce coaleseo to grow together to close again to increase Dr. Charlton Coalition coalitio a nourishing or increasing together Coangustation a making one thing strait with another a making narrow Coarctate coarcto to strain to gather a matter into few words to shorten Coassation coassatio a planking with boards a boarding or joyning a floor Coxation coaxatio the croaking of Frogs or Toads Dr Featly in his Dipper Coccineau coccineus died into scarlet or crimson colour Coctible coctibilis easie to be sod or baked Cochinâ—al or Cuchanel Lat. Coccus Spa Cochinilla a kinde of dust or grain wherewith to die the Crimson or Scarlet colour it is a little worm breeding in a certain shrub which they call Holy-Oke or Dwarf Oke and is found in Cephalonia and other places on the leaves whereof there ariseth a tumor like a blister which they gather and rub out of it a certain red dust that converts after a while into worms which they kill with wine as is reported when they begin to quicken Bac. Nat. Hist Cocket is a seal pertaining to the Custom-house Regist Orig. fol. 192. a. Also a Scrowle of Parchment sealed and delivered by the Officers of the Custom-house to Merchants as a warrant that their Merchandize is customed An. 11. H. 6. cap. 16. This word
of our Lord and dividing the whole by 28. so to the year 1639 if nine be added the numerus factus will be 1648 which divided by 28 leaves 24 for the Cycle of the Sun The Cycle of the Moon is the revolution of 19 years in which space though not precisely the Lunations recur For because of the Sun and Moons unequal motions the changes falliâ—g out inconstantly the time of conjunction could not be still the same This variety the Antients perceiving to be periodical endeavoured to comprehend what Circle it made in going about The learned Metoâ— finding the Revolution was not compleated in less time then the space of 19 years set forth his Ennedecaetris within the Circle whereof the Lunations though not exactly do indeed recur so that if the quadrature of the Moon shall fall out as this day of this year the like shall return again the same day of the 19 year succeeding This Cycle is therefore called Cyclus decennovennalis and from the Author Annus Metonicus from whose Athenians the Egyptians may seem to have received it as the Romans from them in Letters of gold from whence if not from the more precious use of it it obtained to be called as it still is the numerus aureus or Golden number It was made Christian by the Fathers of the Nicene-Council as being altogether necessary to the finding out the Neomenia Paschalis upon which the Feast of Easter and all the moveable rest depended It self is found by adding an unite to the year of our Lord and dividing the whole by 19. the remainder shall be the Cycle of the Moon or if nothing remain the Cycle is out that is nineteen Mr. Gregory de Aeris Epochis p. 133. Cyclomâ—try cyclometria a measuring of Circles Cyclopedâ— cyclopedia the universal knowledge of all Sciences Fuller Cycloâ—s cyclopes an ancient and big-bonâ—d sort of people which had but one eye and that in the midst of the forehead inhabiting the Island of Sicily The Poets called them Gyants because they were people of a mighty stature of which rank was the so much famoused Polyphemus that with such humanity entertained Vlysses and his companions Rider Hence Cycloptick Cyclopean belonging to those Gyants or Cyclops Monstrous one-eyed furious Eicon Basil Cylinder cyclindrus a Geometrical figure round and long consisting from top to toe of two equal parallel Circles Also it is taken for that part of the bore of a gun which remains empty when the Gun is loaden a Roler to beat Clods Cylindrical pertaining to or like a Cylinder Vul. Er. Cymace cymatium a kind of Pillar so graven that the carved work resembles the waves or a ledge or outward member in Architecture fashioned somewhat like a Roman S and termed a Wave or Ogee Cymbal cymbalum was a kind of instrument composed of thin plates of brass with certain small bars of Iron fastned and cross billeted in the plates wherewith they made a great noise Others think Cymbals are bells which according to the opinion of some were consecrated to the service of the Church by Pope Sabinian Caussin Cymracean from the Brit. Cymraeg i. Welsh Cambrian Welsh or British Mr. How Cymbalist cymbalistes he that plays on the Cymbal Cyâ—anthropie Gr. a frenzy which makes a man haunt unfrequented places with a conceit that he is turned into a dog Cotgr. Cynical Cynick cynicus dogged currish or churlish like a dog There was in Greece an old Sect of Philosophers called â—ynicks first instituted by Antisthenes and were so called because they did ever bark at and rebuke mens Vices and were not so respective in their behavior as civility required Diogenes was so famous in this kind of Philosophy that he was surnamed the Cynick Câ—egeâ—icks cynegetica books treating of hunting whereof Oppianus wrote four Câ—ocâ—halist cynocephalis a beast like an Ape but having the face of a Dog a Baboon Cyâ—orexiâ— cynorexia a greediness and unnatural appetite of meat Cynosure cynosura a figure of stars in Heaven Cyntâ—us A hill in Delos where Latona brought forth Apollo and Diana whence Apollo and the Sun are called Cynthius Diana and the Moon Cynthia Cyprine cyprinus of or belonging to the Cypress-Tree which is destinated to the dead in that being once cut it never re-flourisheth Câ—renaick a Sect of Philosophers so called from Aristippus a Disciple of Socrates and Professor of Philosophy who after the death of Socrates returned into his Country at Cyrene in Africa his Schollers took this name from Cyrene the place but by some called Hedonick or voluptuous from the doctrine Cystique Vein See in Vein D DAbuzâ— a weapon like a Mace carried before the Grand Turk Dactyle dactylus a foot in a verse consisting of three syllables the first long and the two last short as Carmina Also a Date the fruit of the Palm-Tree Dactylogie dactylogia finger-talk speech made with the fingers A Dâ—gsâ—in gausape a rough Mantle or hairy Garment Rid. Dagon the Idol of the Philistines mentioned 1 Sam. 5.4 It had the upper part like a man the neather like a fish See Moses and Aaron p. 156. Daâ—maâ—ick Dalmatica vestis the Vestment of a Deacon or sub-Deacon properly belonging to his Order so called because they were first made in Dalmatia Damage Cleâ—r Damna Clericorum was originally no other then a gratuity given the Prothonotaries and their Clerks for drawing special Writs and pleadings but afterwards it came to a certainty of 2 s in the pound which is taken away by Act 1650. cap 44. Damage-fesâ—nt a term in our Common Law is when a strangers beasts are in another mans ground without licence of the Tenant of the ground and there feed or otherwise spoil the corn grass woods c. In which case the Tenant whom they hurt may therefore distrain and impound them as well in the night as in the day But in other cases as for Rent and services and such like none may distrain in the night New Terms of the Law Dandruff or Dandraff furfur a scurff or a kind of smal scales that stick to the skin of the head and often hang about the hairs They are caused by salt flegm or some other corrupt humors piercing insensibly the pores and then slightly congealed by the air and may be taken away by washing the head with salt water or Vinegar warm Danegelt Daneâ—gâ—lt or Danegold compounded of Dane and gelt i. pecunia was a tribute laid upon our Ancestors of twelve pence for every Hide of Land through the Realm by the Danes Stow in his Annals p. 118. saith this Tribute came to 48000. l. per an and that it was released by Edward the Confessor Heylin saith by King Steven Daneâ—nge See Merchenlage Danism danisma usury Danist An Usurer Danistick danisticus pertaining to usury Dapatical dapaticus sumptuous costly magnificent Daphnamancy from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i laurus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Divinatio divination by a Lawrel Tree Dapifeâ— Lat. he that serves
farcino to stuff Farragirous from farrago inis that is mixed with sundry grains together or with good and bad Vul. Er. Farinaceous or Farinous farinaceus mealy or full of meal bemealed beflowred Farreation farreatio a Sacrifice whereby Priests confirmed marriage Farsang is three of our English miles or a League among the Persians Herb. tra Fasciate fascio to swaddle or bind Fascicular facicularis belonging to a bundle or fardel Fasciculate To tye up into a bundle or fascicle Fascicle fasciculus a handful bound together a packet also any thing carried in the hand to smell Fascinate fascino to bewitch to forespeak or inchant Fascination A bewitching a charm a forespeaking Fascination is the power and intensitive act of the imagination upon the body of another Faâ—tidious fastidiosus disdainful loathing soon offended Fastigate Fastigiate fastigio to raise up or grow up to a sharp top Fasâ—s A strong hold an inaccessible place Bac. Fastuosity fastuositas disdain pride Fatality from fatum fatalness also unavoidableness as of a thing appointed by destiny Cotg. Fate fatum destiny that which must of necessity come to pass by Gods secret appointment Fatal fatalis pertaining to destiny or fate Fatidical fatidicus that telleth fortunes or destinies Fatiferous fatifer that brings fate or destiny Fatigable from fatigo which may be wearied or tired Fatigate fatigo to make weary to trouble much Fatigue Fr. weariness tediousness trouble toyl as we say the Fatigues of war or of a long journey Fatiloquent fatiloquus that soothsaith or prophecieth Fatuate fatuor to play the fool Fatuity fatuitas foolishness blockishness idiotism Favaginous from favus like or full of honey or honey comb Faunes Fauni Gods of the fields and woods Faunick faunicus wild woodish rude Favontan Favonius pertaining to the west-wind favorable Faustity faustitas good luck happiness Fautor Lat. a favorer a furtherer or maintainer Fautresse fautrix she that favors or maintains Fealty of the Fr. feaulte i. fidelitas signifies in our Common Law an oath taken at the admittance of every Tenant to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his Land And he that holds Land by this oath of fealty onely holds in the freest manner that any man in Engl. under the King may hold Because all with us that have Fee hold per fidem fiduciam that is by fealty at the least Smith de Repub. Anglor l. 3. c. 8. Act 1656. c. 4. Feasible Fr. faisable effectable which may be performed acted or done Febricitate febricito to be sick-of a Feaver or Ague Febriculous febriculosus that hath or is subject to a Feaver Februate februo to purge Souls by Sacrifice or Prayer Fecial faecialis pertaining to the Herald that denounceth war or peace The manner was thus The Faecialis carried a Lance or Spear headed with Iron and half burnt with fire and strewed herbs all the way in sign of peace even to the confines of those against whom he was to menace war there in the presence of three men of good years declared that he and the people of Rome did denounce war against them c. And then threw the Lance as far as he could upon their ground When they proclaimed Peace the Faecialis took up a stone in his hand which after certain solemn words pronounced and those to be read in Godwins Anthol lib. 4. cap. 1. he cast out of his hand c. And of these Foeciales or Heralds there were in Rome a Colledge of twenty the principal of them was Pater patratus Feculency foeculentia filthiness fulness of dregs Feculent foeculentus soul unclean loathsom full of dregs Fecundity foecunditas plenty fertility abundance Fedity foeditas filthiness foulness dishonesty Feid Feed or Feud Is that ill custom which hath been much used in Scotland and the North of England viz. a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood against the killer and all his race These deadly Feids King James in his Basilicon Doron advised his son to redress with all care possible The word signifies hatred See Feud Fee feodum alias feudum is in our Law an equivocal word but most usually taken for an estate of inheritance in Lands to one and his Heirs for ever or to one and the heirs of his body But it is also used for the compass or extent of a Mannor and in the common acceptance the word is well known Fee-farm is when a Tenant holds of his Lord in Fee-simple paying him a yearly rent to half or a third part of the value of the Land more or less Fee-simple feodum simplex is when any person holds Lands or Rent to him and his Heirs for ever and these words his Heirs make the Estate of inheritance for if Land be given to a man for ever yet he hath but an Estate for life Feisible See Feasible Fellifluous fellifluus flowing of the Gall. Felicitaeâ— felicito to make prosperous or hapyy Felth. And I have read Felicify Felicitous from felix happy or made happy Felion from fel i. choler or grief of mind an angry blister or wheal most commonly on the finger or thumbs end Felo de se Is he that commits Felony by murthering himself See Crompt Just of Peace fo 28. and Lamb. Eiren. l. 2. c. 7. p. 243. Feloqur See Falouque Fencemonth is a moneth wherein it is unlawful to hunt in the Forest because the female Deer fawn in this month which begins fifteen days before Midsomer and ends fifteen days after So that to this moneth there are 31 days assigned See Manwood part 1. of his Forest Laws p. 80. but more at large part secunda c. 13. per totum Fenestral fenestralis belonging to a window Felony felonia seems to come of the Fr. felonnie i. impetuositas atrocitas immisericordia We account any offence Felony that is in degree next to petty Treason and compriseth divers particulars under it as Murther Theft killing of a mans self Sodomy Rape wilful burning of houses and divers such like which are to be gathered especially out of Statutes whereby many offences are daily made Felony that before were not Felony is discern'd from lighter offences by this that the punishment thereof is death Howbeit Petit Larceny which is the stealing of any thing under the value of twelve pence is Felony as appears by Brook tit Coron n. 2. His reason is because the Indictment against such a one must run with these words felonicè cepit and yet this is not punished by death though it be loss of goods A man may call that Felony which is under petit Treason and punished by death And of this there are two sorts one lighter that for the first time may be relieved by Clergy another that may not and these are to be known by the Statutes for Clergy is allowed where it is not expresly taken away Vid. Stanf. l. 1. pl. Cor. à fine cap. 2. usque ad 39. Lamb. Just P. l. 2. cap. 7. and Crompt J.P. fol.
32 c. Feminine foemininus of the female kinde Feneration foeneratio usury or the practice thereof Feneratitious foeneratitius taken or given to usury or pertaining thereto Feodarie alias Feudarie alias Feudatarie feudatarius was an Officer authorised and made by the Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries by Letters Patents under the Seal of that Office his Function was to be present with the Escheator at the finding any Office to give evidence for the King as well concerning the value as the tenure to survey the Land of the Ward after the Office found and to rate it he was also to assign the Kings widows their Dowers and to receive all the Rents of the Wards Lands within his Circuit and to answer them to the Receiver of the Court of Wards and Liveries This Office is mentioned An. 32. H. 8. cap. 46. Feofment from the Gottish word feudum and signifies Donationem feudi is in our Common Law any gift or grant of any Honors Castles Manors Messuages Lands or other corporal immoveable things of like nature to another in Fee-simple by the delivery of seism and possession of the thing given whether the gift be made by word or writing and when it is in writing it is called a Deed of Feofment and in every Feofment the giver is called the Feoffer and he that receives by vertue thereof the Feoffee And Littleton says that the proper difference between a Feoffer and Donor is that the Feoffer gives in Fee-simple and the Donor in Fee-tayl Feracity feracitas fruitfulness Feral feralis deadly mortal dangerous lamentable Ferial ferialis of or belonging to holy days idle vacant unimployed Feriation feriatio quietness idleness Ferient feriens striking hitting or knocking Ferine ferinus wild as a beast Ferit Ital. ferite a wound or blow Ferity feritas cruelty fierceness Fermentarious fermentarius made of leaven leavened Ferment fermentum leaven Fermented Fermentated leavened puffed up Fermentation fermentatio a fastning or setling a leavening as of bread a mixing or incorporating also a working as of Ale or Beer Ferocious from ferox ocis fierce harsh cruel proud haughty Ferocity ferocitas fierceness harshness cruelty Feronia a Goddess of the Woods Ferrean ferreus of iron iron-like also hard-hearted cruel Ferried from fero or ferre born or carried as ferried over a River Ferruginous ferruginosus like to or of the colour of rusty iron Ferruminate ferrumino to soulder or fasten together properly in matters of iron Fertility fertilitas fruitfulness abundance Fertilize Fr. fertilizer to make fertile fruitful or rank also to increase or grow fruitful Fervent fervens Fervid fervidus scalding burning fierce vehement Ferular ferula a wooden Instrument wherewith the Master strikes boys hands in Schools for correction called also a Palmer Fervor Lat. a burning heat earnestness vehemency of passion Fesse point from the Lat. Fascia the middle part of an Escutecheon whose breadth is divided into three even parts Fessitude fessitudo weariness tiredness Festinate festino to make haste to do a thing speedily Festivous festivus merry pleasant delightful provoking mirth pertaining to holy days Festivity festivitas mirth pleasantness a good grace Festucous from festuca belonging to a young tender sprig or stalk of a tree or herb from the root upward Fetiferous foetifer fruitful that brings forth fruit or young Feuid foetidus stinking filthy ill-smelling Fetor foetor a stink or ill-savor Feud or Feid or deadly Feud feuda a profession of an unquenchable hatred till we be revenged even by the death of our enemy and is deduced from the German word Feid which as Hotoman saith in verbis feudalibus modo bellum modo capitales inimicitias significat This word is used 43. El. c. 13. See Feid Feudal Fr. of or belonging to a Fief Manor Fee or Fee-simple also held in Fief or in Fee Cotg. Feudary See Feodary Feud-boote Sax. Faehth-bote a recompence for engaging in a Feud or Faction and for the damages consequent it being the custom of antient times for all the kindred to engage in their Kinsmans quarrel according to that of Tacitus de Morib German Suscipere tam inimicitias seu patris seu propinqui quam amicitias necesse est Sax. Dict. Feudist One that bears a feud or enmity also one that writes of Fees Inheritances Feuge See Fugue Fewmets or Fewmishing the dung of a Deer Fiants Fr. fiens the dung of a Fox or Badger a term of hunting Fibers fibrae the small threads or hair-like strings of roots also the threads or strings of Muscles and Veins Fibrous fibrosus full of hair-like threads or strings Fibulate fibulo to joyn or fasten together Fictile fictilis earthen or made of earth Bac. Fictitious fictitius dissembled feigned counterfeit Fideicide a Faith-destroyer a breaker of word or trust Fideicommissor Lat. he that commits a thing to the disposure of another Fidejussor Lat. a Surety for another in a mony matter Fidius the god of faithfulness and Son of Jupiter Fiduciary fiduciarius taken substantively is a Feoffee in trust or one intrusted on condition to restore adjectively trusty or sure A Fiduciary Father See Emancipate Fiduciate fiducio to commit a trust or to make condition of trust Fierabras from the Fr. fier a bras fierce at arms a name for a Braggadocia or desperate fellow Fifteenth Decima quinta is a Tribute or Imposition of money laid upon every City Burrough and other Town through the Realm not by the Poll or upon this or that man but in general upon the whole City or Town so called because it amounts to one fifteenth part of that which the City or Town hath been valued at of old Figment figmentum a forged tale a lye Figurative figurativus that is spoken by way of figure Filaceaus from filum or the Fr. filace of or pertaining to fine flax or thread Filament filamentum a thread string or rag or any thing like thereto the beard of a root Rel. Med. Filanders Fr. filandres small worms that breed in bruised surfeited or foul-fed Hawks also nets to catch wild Beasts with Filazer filazarius of the Fr. filace is an Officer in the Common Pleas whereof there are fourteen They make out all original Process as well real as personal and mixt File filum is a thread or wyer whereon Writs or other exhibits in Courts are fastned for the more safe keeping them It is also a term in War where six Musketeirs or Pike-men or as many as go a breast make a File or Rot. See Brigade Filial filialis of or belonging to a son Filiaster Fr. filiastre a Son in Law or Son by a former marriage Filme from the Belgick velme quod idem denotat a fine thin skin within the body dividing the flesh or any near member one from another Also a skin like a cap wherein divers children are born And the skins in wrapping the brains are called Filmes the inmost which is next the brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the
name Herrogh and the Germans write it Herirog Verst Herility herilitas Mastership Hericano See Haracanâ—a Heriot alias Hariot heriotum in the Saxon Heregeat from here i. exercitus it signified in our Saxon time a tribute given to the Lord for his better preparation toward war The name is still retained but the use altered for whereas by Mr. Lamberts opinion it signified as much as Relief doth now with us it is taken now for the best Chattel that the Tenant hath at the hour of his death due to the Lord by custom be it Horse Oxe or any such like Hermaphrodite hermaphroditus one that is both man and woman Hermes sire See Furole Hermetical pertaining to or like Hermes or Mercury Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hermopaly hermopolium a place where Images are sold Heroical heroicus noble stately excellent the three Heroical vertues are 1. Moderation of Anger 2. Temperance in Covetousness 3. The despising of Pleasures Heroick Poem so called for that it treats of the manners of Heroes or heroick persons not natural Causes manners presented not dictated and manners fained as the name of Poesie imports not found in men The part of an heroick Poem is to exhibite a venerable and amiable Image of heroick vertue Mr. Hobbs See Poesie Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Arethusa and Hesperethusa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore golden fruit kept by a vigilant Dragon which Hercules slew and robbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Heteroclite heterocliton that is declined otherwise then common Nouns are Heteroclital belonging to an Heteroclite Heteriark heteriacha the Captain of the Bands of the Allyes and Ayds also an Abbot Heterodox Gr. that is of another or different opinion Heterodoxy Gr. different opinion variety of judgment Heterogenâ—al heterogeneus of another kind Heterogencity from the Gr. the being of another kind Dr. Charleton Heteroscians heteroscii those people that dwell under either of the temperate Zones so called because their shadows at noon bend still but one way either North or South Hexagonal hexagonus that has six corners or angles Hexameter Lat. a Verse consisting of six feet all either Dactyls or Spondees save that a Dactyl is proper to the fifth place and a Spondee to the last other places are capable of either foot as Oâ—ia damnantur quae nulla negotia tractant These are also called Heroiques and were used to represent the memorable actions of those the Antients called Demi-Gods This Hexameter the Latins found most grave and decent for their Epique Poems instead of which we use the line of ten syllables recompencing the neglect of their quantity with the diligence of Rhyme Hobbs Hexastick hexasticum six Verses together or a sentence contained in six Verses H.S. See in I. I.S. Hiation hiatio a gaping Hibernian of or pertaining to Ireland Hichel Sax. a certain instrument with iron teeth to kâ—mb flax or hemp Hidage or Hydage was an extraordinary tax to be paid for every Hide of Land See Bract. lib. 2. cap. 6. Hide or Hyde of Land hida terrae Saxonice Hideâ—andes is a certain measure or quantity of Land by some mens opinion that may be plowed with one Plow in a year Terms of Law By others it is an hundred Acres By Beda who calls it familiam it is as much as will maintain a family Crompt in his Juris fol. 220. saith it consists of an hundred Acres And again fol. 222. A Hide of Land contains a hundred Acres and eight Hides or eight hundred Acres contain a Knights Fee Of this read more in Mr. Lamberts explication of Saxon words in Hida terrae Hidromel See Hydromel Hierarchy hierarchia an holy governance or principality The Hierarchy or Holy Order of Angels contains as some affirm nine degrees and is a mystical resemblance of the Blessed Trinity there being in nine thrice three and in every three thrice one So that there are three superior three inferior and three middle degrees The superior are Seraphins Cherubins and Thrones the middle Dominations Principalities and Powers the inferior Vertues Archangels Angels Bull. Hierarchical hierarchicus pertaining to a holy Governnour or government Hieratical hieraticus sacred holy destined to things sacred As Hieratick Paper fine Paper dedicated onely to Religious Books Hieroglyphicks hieroglyphica mystical Letters or Cyphers among the Egyptians by Images signifying holy Sentences which were to them instead of writing As for a Moneth they painted a Palm-tree because at every New Moon it sends forth a bew branch For God a Faulcon as well for that he soars so high as that he governs the lesser birds They described Envy by the Eele because it never keeps company with other fishes The liberal man was figured by a right hand wide open As contrariwise the avaritious niggard by a left hand close grip'd c. Hierograms from the Gr. sacred Letters or writings Hierographie Gr. a description or pourtraying of divine things Rerum divirarum adumbratio per quaedam signa Scap. Hierome Gr. a holy name St Hierome a Reverend Father of the Church much honored for translating the Bible lived in the year of Christ 384. Hiâ—rommiâ—ns a Religious Order that had their beginning of St. Hierome who leaving his Native Country went into Jury and there not far from Bethelem lived in a Monastery very devoutly the latter end of his life and died in the 91 year of his age and of Christ 421. The Monks of this Order wear their Cloaths of a brown colour and a Cope plaited over their Coat girt with a leathern Girdle There were also certain Hermites called Hieronimians of the foundation of one Charls Granel of Florence who about the year of Christ 1365 became an Hermite in the Mountains of Fessulus Hierosolymilan from Hierosolyma of or pertaining to Jerusalem Hilarity hilaritas mirth pleasantness chearfulness Hiâ—uâ—m Hebr. praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate friends To Himple Sax. to halt used in the North of England Hine seems to be used for a servant at Husbandry and the Master Hine a servant that oversees the rest An. 12. R 2. cap. 4. See Henchman Hinnible hinnibilis that can neigh as a horse apt to neigh. Hipocras or Hippocras a compound Wine mixed with several kinds of Spices so called from Hippocrates the Physitian said to be the first inventer of it Hipparch hipparchus the Master of the horses See the quality of this Office among the antient Athenians in part 1. Treas of Times p. 115. Hippiedes Gr. images of women on horse-back Hippiaticks Gr. books treating of horses Hippicon or Hippicun Gr. a measure of ground containing eight miles or rather four furlongs Hist of Philos Hippocentâ—ure hippocentaurus a Monster having in part the shape of a horse See Centaur Hippona the Goddess of horses Hippodrome hippodromus a Tilt-yard a place where horses are broken or exercised in running
a horse-race Hippogryph hippo-gryps a kind of feigned beast in part horse in part Griffin Hippomachy hippomachia a justing or tilting on horseback Hircine hircinus goatish of a Goat Hirculation hirculatio a disease in the Vine when it bears no fruit Hirsuts hirsutus rough hairy full of bristles sharp Hirundinous from â—hirundo inis of or pertaining to a swallow Hispanian Hispanus of or belonging to Spain born in Spain Hispid hispidus bristled or rough-haired terrible Historiography historiographia the writing an History Histriographer historiographus an historian a writer of Histories Histrionick histrionicus player-like fit for or belonging to a Stage-player or Stage-play Histrionically after the manner of a Stage-Player Hithe as Queen-Hithe in London is a petit Haven to land wares out of vessels or boats New Book of Enteries fol. 3. Col. 3. Hoane Sax. a fine kind of Whetstone softer then that which is most commonly called a Whetstone Hoblers hobellarii In Ireland there were certain Knights so called because they were wont to serve in the wars upon Hobbies also with us certain persons who were by their tenure tyed to maintain a little light Nag which in Ireland they call a Hobby and hence we say a Hobby-horse for the certifying of any invasion made by Enemies or such like peril towards the Sea side as Portsmouth c. Of these you shall read A. 18. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 7. An. 25. ejusdem Stat. 5. cap. 8. Antiq. Hibâ—rn p. 35. Hocktyde or Hockstyde of old thus Hardiknute the last King of the Danes in this Nation dying suddainly at Lambeth in the year 1042 his death was so welcome to his Subjects that the time was annually celebrated for some hundreds of years after with open pastimes in the streets and called Hockstide in some parts of this Nation not yet out of memory but observed the week after Easter signifying scorning or contempt which fell upon the Danes by his death Sir Rich. Baker See Fugalia Hocus-pocus a Jugler one that shews tricks by slight of hand Hodiernal hodiernus of to day or at this time Hodgee Persian a holy man a Priest among the Persians Herb. Ho-goo in true Fr. Haut-goust a high taste smatch or savour it is usually taken for any dish of meat that has some more then ordinary taste or savor Hogshead Brit. Hogsed is a measure of Wine or Oyl containing the fourth part of a Tun that is 63 Gallons A. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Holocaust holocaustum a Burnt-Offering a Sacrifice wherein the whole beast was offered and no part reserved Holographical holographicus wholly written with his own hand from whom it is sent Homage Fr Hommage i. fides clientularis service fidelity In Court Barons the Jury sworn to enquire of matters is so called It signifies also a servile ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holds Lands by Homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sits and holds the Tenants hands between his saith as follows I become your man from this day forth for life for member and for worldly honor and shall owe you my faith for the Land I hold of you saving the faith I owe to our Soveraign Lord the King and to my other Lords And then the Lord sitting must kiss the Tenant An. 17. Ed. 2. Stat. 2. Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 1. Homageable that is subject to or ought to do homage Homeology homoeologia likeness of speech Homerical after the manner of Homer Homer like Bac. Homicide homicida a murtherer a man-slayer Homicide homicidium the slaying of a man and is divided into voluntary and casual homicide voluntary is that which is deliberate and committed of a set mind and purpose to kill And this is either with precedent malice or without the former is murther and is the fellonious killing through malice prepensed of any person living in this Realm under the Kings protection West par 2. Sym. tit Inditements sect 37 c. usque ad 51. where you may see divers subdivisions of it See also Glanvile l. 14. ca. 3. Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 4.15 and 17. Brit. cap. 5 6 7. Also a sort of knives so called Act. 1656. ca. 20. Homily homilia a familiar speech of men together a kind of Sermon properly of an inferior kind such as is delivered out of a Book or Manuscript by those that are not able to preach otherwise Homodox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the same opinion with another Homogeneal homogeneus of one or the same kind congenerous Homography homographia like writing or painting Homologation homologatio an admission allowance or approbation a consent unto Homology homologia an agreement a confession Homonymy Gr. when divers things are signified by one word or name as Hart signifies a beast and a prinicipal Member of the body a likeness or sameness of name It is a term in Logick Holy War Homonymous Gr. whose name onely is common their essence divers doubtful ambiguous Honi soit qui maly â—ense Fr. signifies Evil or shame be to him that evil thinks it is the Motto belonging to the Order of Knights of the Garter Honor does sometimes signifie the most noble sort of Seigniories on which other inferior Lordships or Mannors depend by performance of some Customs or Services to the Lords of such Honors And it seems there are no Honors but such as did originally belong to the King and have since been given in Fee to Noble men Of this sort are the Honors of Windsor Greenwich Tickhil c. And Courts there held are called Honor-Courts 37 H. 8.18.33 H. 8.37 Honour point In Heraldry the upper part of an Escoutcheon is so called when its breadth is divided into three even parts Honorary honorarius pertaining to honour which is made for honor more then use Honorificabilitudinity honorificabilitudinitas honorableness Honorifical honorificus that brings or causeth honor Honâ—-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Hoguâ—ton Fr. a fashion of short Coat Cassock or Jacket without sleeves Horary horarius of the space of an hour hourly Hoplochrism from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arma and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unguentum an anointing of arms or weapons as they do in the use of the weapon salve Dr. Charl. Hoplochristical pertaining to the Weapon-salve Horcentrick Fr. out of the Center clean without the Compass of Mathematicians apply this word to the Sun when his Center being at the full height of his Epicycle is farthest from the Center of the earth Cot. Horizon Gr. a Circle immoveable dividing the half-Sphear of the Firmament which we see from the other half we see not it hath the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. termino to bound or limit because it limits our sight For example imagine you stood upon Highgate or the Tower-hill at Greenwich so far as you
of Judgement Insipience insipientia dotage folly indiscretion ignorance Incision incisio a grafting or sciencing Insolation insolatio a bleaching or laying a thing in the Sun Br. Insoluble insolubilis that cannot be loosed or undone indissoluble indissolvable Insomnious insomniosus troubled with dreams that dreameth much in his sleep Inspection inspectio a prying or looking into a viewing or looking on speculation over-seeing Insperable insperabilis that no man would look or hope for Inspersion inspersio a sprinkling or casting on Inspissate inspisso to make thick gross or massy Bac. Instability instabilitas inconstancy unsteadiness fickleness Instauration instauratio a restoring renewing repairing re-edifying Instigate instigo to move stir or prick forward to provoke or egg on Instillation instillatio a gentle infusion a letting or falling in drop by drop a pouring in by little and little Instinct instinctus an inward stirring motion or perswasion an inspiration Institute institurum an Ordinance or Instruction a precept preparing a way to some art a good manner or custom As Justinians Book of Institutes so called because they are as it were Instructors to the ignorant and shew an easie way to the obtaining the knowledge of the Civil as my Lord Cokes Institutes do of the Common Law Insubid insubidus rash without consideration heady Insular insularis belonging to an Island Insulsity insulsitas foolishness unsavoriness lack of grace and pleasantness Inculture incultura a springing or leaping in or upon a triumphing in words a boasting Insuperable insuperabilis that cannot be overcome invincible unvanquishable Intabulate intabulo to write in Tables Intarissable Fr. not to be withered or dryed up Integument integumentum a covering a cloak a thing spoken covertly and darkly Bac. Intellect intellectus the vertue or faculty of understanding Also understanding apprehension capacity judgement knowledge discretion Intellectualist one exceeding in the faculty of understanding a quick apprehender Intelligible intelligibilis that may be understood Intempestive intempestivus out of due time and season abortive disordered also unlucky or ill presaging Intenebrate intenebro to endarken or obscure Intenerate from in and tener to make tender or soft to make merciful or pliant Intense intensus set or fixed intentive diligently bent to a thing Intensively See Appreciatively Intentable intentabilis that cannot be tempted Intentation intentatio a menacing or threatning Intercalarity intercalaritas the burden of a Song the putting between as the burden is between the verses Intercalation intercalatio an interlacing a putting or setting an odd thing between even ones most commonly spoken of the odd day of Leap year inserted in February and called dies intercalaris See Julian Account Intercident day intercidens dies the extraordinary and preternatural critical day forced by the malice of the disease Intercision intercisio a cutting off in the midst Interclusive interclusus enclosed shut in stopped Intercolumniation a term in Architecture signifies the distance between two columns or a placing some work between two Pillars S.H.W. Intercostal intercostalis between the ribs Intercurrent intercurrens running or going between Intercutaneous intercutaneus that which is within the skin Interdict interdictum an injunction prohibition or forbidding Interdiction interdicto the same It is used in the Common Law as in the Canon where it is thus defined Interdictio est censura Ecclesiastica prohibens administrationem divinorum c. quod in te de paenitent remiss In the Decretals And thus it is used Ann. 24. H. 8. ca. 12. Interdicted of water and fire were in old time those who for some crime were banished Which Judgment although it was not by express sentence pronounced yet by giving order that no man should receive such an one into his house but deny him fire and water the two necessary Elements of life he was condemned as it were to a civil death and this was called Legitimum exilium Livie Interduct interductus a space between full sentences in printing or writing Interemption interemptio a killing or slaying Interequitate interequito to ride between Interfaction interfactio an interrupting of ones tale a speaking whilst another speaks Interfeir See Enterfeir Interfection interfectio murder a killing or slaying Interfluent Interfluous interfluus that flows or runs between Interjacercy from interjaâ—eo a lying or being between Interim Lat. in the mean time or season Also a Book so called compiled at Ausperge by the Emperor Charles the Fifth comprehending a form of doctrine to be observed till the next General Council Interjected interjectus put cast or placed between being as it were a mean between S.H.W. Interition interitio a decaying a perishing Interlocution interlocutio an interposition or interruption of speech a speaking between Interlopers Leapers or runners between it is usually applied to those that intercept the Trade or Traffick of a Company and are not legally authorized Interlucation interlucatio a cutting off boughs where they let or hinder the light Interlude interludium a Play or Comedy Interlunary interlunis belonging to the season between the going out of the old and coming in of the new Moon when the Moon gives no light Intermedian intermedius that lyes or is between two Intermeate intermeo to go or flow between to pass through Intermicate intermico to shine in the midst or among Interminant interminus boundless borderless uncertain Intermit intermitto to leave or put off for a time to cease or discontinue Intermural intermuralis that is betwern two walls Internecion internecio an universal slaughter al killing or slaying so that one is not left alive Internigrant internigrans having black interlaced among other colours Internodial from inter and nodus that is between knots or joynts Br. Internunciate internuncio to go in message between two parties Interpel interpello to interrupt to disturb or trouble to demand or require a thing Interpellation interpellatio a let in ones business a disturbing and interruption a calling one when he is speaking or doing Interpolation interpolatio a new dressing or polishing a thing a scouring or furbishing Interpose interpono to put or set between to intermeddle or intermingle Interposition interpositio a putting or setting between an intermedling Interpunction interpunctio a distinction by points Interregency interregnum the space of Government between the death or deposition of one King or Cheif Magistrate and the Coronation or Election of another Interrex Lat. a Regent Vice-Roy or Protector that governs a State from the death or deposition of one Prince to the entrance or election of another Interrogation interrogatio a question or demand An Interrogation point is made thus and is used at the end of a question asked Interscindent interscindens that cuts in the midst or hews asunder Interscript interscriptum an interlacing of a line an interlining Intersection intersectio a cutting off in the middle or between Intersonant intersonans that sounds between or in the mean season Interspersed interspersus bestrewed scattered or sprinkled between Interspiration interspiratio a breathing between Interstiâ—e interstitium a distance or space
lapicida a digger or hewer of stones a Stone-cutter or Free-Mason Lapidable lapidabilis that may be stoned Lapidary lapidarius a Jeweller or one that works with or in stones or that sells polishes or is skil'd in stones Lapidarious lapidarius pertaining to stones Lapidation lapidatio stoning One of the four sorts of death among the Jews the other were Burning Beheading and Strangling See Moses and Aaron p. 198. Lapideous lapideus hard like a stone stony Lapidescence from lapidesco a waxing hard like a stone Lapidifical lapidificus that makes or breeds stones Lapidification a making stony or hard like a stone Lappacean lappaceus of or like a bur Lappise a term of hunting when Hounds open their mouthes in the Liam or string or a Greyhound in his course Lapse lapsus a fall sliding or a slip In our Laws it is a slip or departure of a right of presenting to a void Benefice from the original Patron neglecting to present within six moneths to the Ordinary For we say that Benefice is in lapse or lapsed whereunto he that ought to present hath omitted or slipped his opportunity Ann. 13. Eliz. cap. 12. c. Laqueary laquear the roof of a Chamber vaulted Larceny from the French Larcin i. theft is defined by West part 2. Symb. tit Inditements to be theft of personal Goods or Chattels in the owners absence and in respect of the things stoln it is either great or small Great Larceny is when the things stoln though severally exceed the value of twelve pence and Petit Larceny is when the Goods stoln exceed not the value of twelve pence Hitherto Mr. West But he differs from Bracton lib. 3. Tract 2. ca. 32. num 1. Of this see more in Stawnf Pl. Cor. l. 1. ca. 15 16 17 18 19. Lare Lar an Idol that the Heathens worshipped sometimes taken for a god of the fields or ways sometimes for a domestick or home-god a familiar spirit Largess Fr. bounty liberality handfuls of money cast among people or a Donative bestowed on Souldiers Largifical largificus that bestows bountifully that gives frankly liberal Largiloquent largiloquus full of words that is liberal of his tongue Largitional largitionalis an Officer that looks to the bestowing of gifts Larval larvalis belonging to a night-spirit goblin or masker haggish ghastly dreadful Lascivate from lascivia to play the wanton to give ones self to lust and lechery Lascivious lascivus wanton in behaviour dishonest lecherous womanish Laske laxitas intestinorum the looseness of the inward guts the Wherry-go-nimble a Flux Lassitude lassitudo weariness laziness a disease like the Green-sickness Br. Last Sax. signifies a burden in general as also particularly a certain weight for as we say a Last of Herrings so they say Ein last Corns Last Wines c. thence comes Lastage which see in Lestage A Last of Herrings contains ten thousand An. 31. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. ca. 2. A Last of Pitch and Tar or of Ashes contains fourteen Barrels An. 32. H. 8. ca. 14. A Last of Hides An. 1. Jac. ca. 33. contains twelve dozen of Hides or Skins A Last of Corn is ten Quarters Dalton Latebrous latebrosus that is full of holes and dens to hide in Latent latens lurking hiding or lying hid Lateran one of the Popes Pallaces in Rome so called from Lateranus a Partician of Rome whose house was given by Constantine to the Pope and his Successors and so continues Lateral lateralis à latus belonging to the side Lateral motions are movings to a side contradistinguished from Circular motions which mount upright or descend downward Laterality the side-being or being side-ways of a thing Lateritious lateritius made of brick or like brick Latifolious latifolius that hath broad leaves or folio's Lation latio a carrying bearing ordaining giving Latirostrous from latus and rostrum that hath a broad or flat bill Latirostrous birds are Ducks Geese and such like Dr. Brown Latitancy from latito a lying hid a lurking Br. Latitat the third person of latito to lye hid is the name of a Writ whereby all men in personal actions are called originally to the Upper Bench. Fitz. nat br fol. 78. M. And it hath the name from this because in respect of their better expedition a man is supposed to lurk so as not to be found upon a former Writ and therefore being served with this Writ he must put in security for his appearance at the day for Latitare est se malitiose occultare animo fraudandi creditores suos agere volentes L. Fulcinius Latitude latitudo breadth largeness wideness prolonging in speech In Geography the latitude of a place is the Arch of a Meridian contained between the Equinoctial and the Zenith of the place that was given The latitude of a Star is the Arch of a great circle drawn by the Poles of the Ecliptic contained between the Star and the Ecliptic Wrights use of the Sphear Latomy latomia a Quarry of stones Latonian latonius belonging to Latona on whom Jupiter say the Poets begot Apollo and Diana hence we use Latonian lights for the Sun and Moon Latona's children Lator Lat. a bearer a Porter a Messenger Latrocination latrocinatio theft robbery Lavatory lavatorium a vessell or place to wash in such is that at the Buttery door of the Inner Temple where the Gentlemen wash their hands also a Laundry Lauds laudes praises but more particularly they are a part of those prayers used by Roman Catholicks called our Ladies Office or of the Priests Office which is between the Nocturns and the Hours They are called Lauds from the Psalms Laudate Dominum de coelis c. and Laudate Dominum in sanctis ejus c. therein contained c. Vide Primer Laudanum Ladanum or Labdanum Lat. Ladanum a sweet-smelling transparent Gum gathered from the leaves of Cistus Ledon a shrub of which they make Pomanders it smels like wine mingled with Spices It is hot and dry and being annointed on the head with oyl of Myrtles it strengthens the skin and keeps hair from falling off Laudative laudativus of or belonging to commendation wherein praise is contained sometimes used substantively Lave lavo to wash to rinse to purge Laverna a Goddess to whom Theeves were wont to supplicate Launcelot or Lancelot from lanâ—ea a Fleam or Chyrurgeons Instrument which is used in letting blood also a mans name Launcepesado See Lancepesado Lavolta Ital. a Dance so called also a course held in sailing or wandring See Volta Laureate or Laureated laureatus crowned with Laurel wearing a Garland of Bayes Laureated letters were Letters bound up in Bay leaves which the Roman Generals sent to the Senate when their contents were Victory and Conquest newly by them obtained Laurel laurus a Bay-tree In antient Rome the Triumphers used to be crowned with Laurel and the Captain that triumphed carried a branch of it in his hand So is the Triumph of Scipio Affricanus described by Appianus Alexandrinus Plin. lib. 6. The Laurel was
it self and serving often times as a dedication or repetition of the whole Cot. Leonine leoninus of or pertaining to a Lion Lion-like Lepid lepidus neat pleasant jocund of a good grace Lepidity lepiditas delectableness or good grace in speech Leporean Leporine leporinus of or pertaining to an Hare delicate delicious Leprosity full of the Leprosie or leprous disease Lernean lerneus of or belonging to the water-Serpent called Lerna Lesion laesio a hurting or annoying Lesbian Rule or Square The Lesbians were such perfect work-men that they made Rules and Squares by their work and not their work by the rule and hence the phrase Dub. Lestage or Lastage from the Saxon Last i. onus is a custom challenged in Fairs and Markets for carrying of things Rastals Exposition of words Or a custom challenged in Cheapings or Fairs Saxon in the description of England ca. 11. Lastage An. 27. R. 2. ca. 18. seems to be the ballance or Ballast of a Ship and so the French use it Fleta terms it Lesting saying Quod significat acquietantiam Lestagii lib. 1. ca. 47. Lessee Lessor terms in our Law Lessee is he to whom the Lease is made for term of years life or will and the Lessor he that Leaseth or makes the Lease Lesses Fr. the dung of a ravenous beast as Bear Bore or Wolf Lessian pertaining to Lessius a modern Writer who wrote a Rule of severe temperance wherein he prescribed fourteen ounces every day whence that is called a Lessian Diet. Lestrigons lestrigones a kind of Giants or fierce people of Sicily often mentioned in Homers Odysses Lethal lethalis mortal deadly noysom pestilent Lethality lethalitas mortality frailty Lethargy lethargus a disease contrary to Frensie for as Frensie is caused by hot Humors inflaming the Brain Lethargy is by cold Flegmatick Humors oppressing it in such sort that the Patient can do nothing but sleep whereby he becomes forgetful with loss in a manner of Reason and all the Senses This disease is by some called the Drowsie evil Lethargick lethargicus pertaining to or sick of that disease also dull sleepy forgetful Lethe Gr. a feigned River of Hell the water whereof being drunk causeth forgetfulness of all that is past Hence it is used for Oblivion or forgetfulness Lethean letheus forgetful Also Lethean from Laetheus deadly mortal pestiferous Lethiferous lethifer that bringeth death deadly Letifical letificus that maketh glad or rejoyceth Letters of Mart. See Law of Marque Letters Patents See Patent Levant Fr. the East the East wind or Country Levant and Couchant is a Law term when a strangers Cattel have been feeding and lying down in another mans ground or have remained there a good space of time Levation levatio an easing or diminishing of grief or pain Leucophlegmatick leucophlegmaticus a dropsie arising from white Flegm Level-Cotle from the Fr. leuer le Cul i. to raise or remove the Buttock is when three play at Tables or other Game where onely two can play at a time and the loser removes his Buttock and sits out and therefore called also Hitch-Buttock Levigation laevigatio a levelling smothing or making plain Levisomnous levisomnus watchful soon waked Leviathan Hebr. a great water-Serpent or a kind of Whale Sometimes it is taken for the Devil Levites Levitae ex filiis Levi those of the Tribe of Levi in the old Law which Tribe was particularly allotted for the Church and whose maintenance was from the Tenths First-fruits Offerings and Sacrifices of the people Josh 18.17 The Priesthood of the Lord was their inheritance There were of them four kinds First Punies or Tirones who from their childhood to the five and twentieth year of their age learned the duties of their Offices Secondly Graduates who having spent four years in the study of the Law were able to answer and oppose in it Thirdly Licentiates who did actually exercise the Priestly function And fourthly Doctors Rabbins they used to call them who were the highest in degree Levi had three Sons Gershon Cohath and Merari and accordingly the whole company of the Levites were distinguisht into three Orders Gershonites Coathites and Merarites Moses and Aaron p. 19. Lexicon Gr. a Dictionary of words a vocabulary Lex talionis See Talion and Retaliate Libament or Libation libamen a Sacrifice any thing tasted and offered especially liquid things Libanomancy libanomantia Divination by Incense or Frankincense Libeâ— libellus literally signifies a little book but by use it is the original Declaration of any Action in the Civil Law An. 2. H. 5. ca. 3. and A. 2. Ed. 6. ca. 13. It signifies also a defamatory Scrol slanderous writing or invective of any man cast abroad or otherwise unlawfully published but then for distinction sake it is called an infamous Libel famosus Libellus Libertinage Fr. Epicurism sensuality licentiousness dissoluteness Libertine libertinus one that is manumitted or one that is born of him that was once bound and is now free a freeman also one of loose life or careless of Religion Libertinism Libertinage or Libertinity libertinitas the state of him that of Bond is made free Licentiousness Epicurism In Divinity it is thus defined Libertinism is nothing else but a false liberty of belief and manners which will have no other dependence but on peculiar fancy and passion It is a strange monster whereof it seems Job made description under the figure of Behemoth as much to say as a creature composed of all sorts of beasts of which it bears the name Iob 40. Causs in his Maxims Libethrides Dict. Ã Lebethra Magnesiae fonte the Muses so called Libidinist from libido inis a Sensualist or one that gives himself over to lust or unlawful desires Felth. Libidinous libidinosus lustful lascivious incontinent Libidinosity libidinositas lustfulness lasciviousness luxury incontinency Libitude libitudo will pleasure Ad libitum at will or pleasure Libitina the Goddess of funerals and after a sort the superintendent of Sepulchres in whose Temple were all things to be sold necessary for the interring and burial of the dead whereupon they also who were employed to carry forth and bury Corps were called Libitinarians as well as Vespilons Livie Libra Lat. the ballance or one of the twelve Signs of the Zodiack This Sign is so called because when the Sun enters it the day is in equal ballance with the night not one longer or shorter then another Virg. Geor. 1. Libra die somnique paresubi fecerit horas Libral libralis that is or pertains to a pound weight or measure also belonging to the Sign Libra Librarious librarius pertaining to books Licanthropy licanthropia or lycanthropia a frenzy or melancholy wherewith some being haunted think themselves turned into Wolves fly the company of men and hide themselves in caves and holes howling like Wolves Licentiate licentiatus one that hath licence in any Faculty most used in Divinity In the Common Law an Utter-Barrister Before he comes to be a Licentiate in the Civil Law he must have studied five years
passing over thwart in mans body which divides the Heart and Lungs from the Stomack Guts and Liver lest the vital parts should be offended with any ill vapor coming from them See Diaphragm Migrame See Megrime Migration migratio a flitting or removing by travel Mile milliare is with us a quantity of 1760 yards otherwise described to contain eight Furlongs and every Furlong forty Lugs or Poles and every Lug or Pole to contain sixteen foot and a half An. 35. Eliz. 6. See League and Furlong Militant militans going to war fighting Church Militant is the Church here on earth subject to trials combats and temptations Militia Lat. Warfare or all implements of war Millenarians a sort of Hereticks See Chiliasts Mimical mimicus belonging to wanton tricks scoffing apish Mimick a wanton Jester a counterfeit fool that imitates the gests and countenances of others a fool in a Play also certain Poems or Plays more lascivious then Comedies Mimographer mimographus a writer of wanton matters Minacity minacitas threatning by words or signs menacing Minature from minator he that treatneth threatning Mine See Meen Mineral minera any thing that grows in Mines and contains mettal Mineralist one that is well skilled in Minerals Minerva the Goddess of Wisdom and of all the Arts the President of Learning Minerval Lat. a reward given to Masters for teaching and properly a Banquet or Supper before a vacation Miniature from minium i. read lead the art of drawing Pictures in little being commonly done with red lead Minime Fr. a slow time in Musick Minims religious persons See Bonhomes Miniographer miniographus he that paints or writes with Vermillion or any red colour Minion Fr. Mignon a Darling the best beloved a Favorite also a piece of Ordnance so called Minious minius red of the colour of Vermillion Ministery ministerium service labor the charge of a work commonly taken for that of the Church Miniver or Meniver a fine white Fur made of the bellies of Squirrils some say it is the skin of a little white Vermine breeding in Muscovia Minnyng days from the Sax. Gemynde i. the mind q. Mynding days Bede hist lib. 4. ca 30. Commemorationis dies days which our Ancestors called their Moneths minde their Years mind and the like being the days whereon their Souls after their deaths were had in special remembrance and some Office or Obsequies said for them as Obits Dirges c. This word is still retained in Lancashire but elsewhere more commonly called Anniversary days Minor Lat. the lesser younger or smaller The minor or assumption of a Syllogism See Syllogism Minoration minoratio a making less or diminishing Minorative minorativus that which diminisheth or is apt to make less Minorites See Bonhomes Minority minoritas nonage underage Minors See Friar Minos a King of Creet who for his great justice is feigned to have been made a Judge in hell c. Hence as just as Minos proverbially Minotaur Minotaurus a Poetical monster half like a Man half like a Bull was kept in the Labyrinth of Candy and fed with mans flesh where at last he was slain by Thesus through the help of Ariadne This Fable was built upon this foundation that one Taurus a Servant of Minos got his Mistris Pasiphae with child from whence the Infant was named Minotaurus Minster Sax. a Monastery Hence the Minster-Church so called because it formerly belonged to some Monastery Minute minutus adj diminished small or little mean or simple Minution minutio a diminishing or making less Mirabilary from mirum may be taken for a book of wonders as vocabulary a book of words Bac. Miradical miradicus that speaks strange things Mirifical mirificus marvellous wonderfully done strangely wrought Mirmillon mirmillo onis a challenger at fighting with swords one sort of Gladiatores called also Galli upon whose crests was portraited a fish Perottus Mis is a Particle in composition which for the most part signifies to err or do ill As to mis-interpret to err in interpreting Misanthropie misanthropia an hating of men Misanthropist misanthropos he that hates the company of men Miscellanies miscellanea a hotch pot of sundry collections without any form or method a mixture of things together without order Miscellaneous miscellaneus mixed together without order Miscreant q. mis-croyant a mis-beleever an Infidel Miserâ—ick Vein See Vein Miserer i. have mercy It is the name and beginning of one of the Penitential Psalms and is commonly that Psalm which the Judge gives to such guilty persons as have the benefit of the Clergy allowed by the Law and is caled the Psalm of Mercy There is also a disease called Miserere mei which is a voiding of the Excrements upwards coming of the obstruction of the small guts and is very painful the patient imagining that his guts are pulled out and broken Misiâ—ennâ—g is a changing of speech in Court Saxon in the description of England cap. 11. But Stow defines it thus Est quietum esse de amerciamento pro querela coram quibuscunque in transumptione prolata Survey fol. 919. Misogamie misogamia hating of mariage Misogynie misogynia the hate or contempt of women Misogyuist Gr. a hater of women Fuller Misprision from the Fr. Mespris i. contempt despising signifies in our Law negligence or over-sight As for example Misprision of Treason or Felony is a neglect or light account shewed of Treason or Felony committed by not revealing it when we know it to be committed Stawnf Pl. Cor. lib. 1. ca. 19. Misprision of Treason incurs imprisonment during the Kings pleasure loss of goods and profits of lands during life Misprision of Felony seems onely finable by the Justices before whom the party is attainted Misprision signifies also a mistaking 14. Ed. 3. Stat. 1. c. 6. Missal missale the Mass-book Misseiden Messeito or Me cidine from the Belg. Mistei a plant having slender branches and green thick leaves and never grows upon the ground but upon other trees the best is that which grows on the Oak its leaves and fruit are good to soften and ripen any cold hard swellings Of the berry of this vegetable Birdlime is made But that the Thrush eating these berries and not able to digest them and so from her inconverted muting this plant should arise as the Antients afirmed is doubted by Dr. Brown fo 98. From this conceit that the Thrush did cack Misselto which made Birdlime the bane of the bird arose that old proverb Turdus sibi malum cacat Appliable to such as are authors of their own misfortune Missil missile a dart stone arrow or other thing thrown or shot a term of Heraldry Missionatics persons sent commonly spoken of Priests sent to unbelieving Countries to convert the people to Christian Faith Also a particular institute in France called the Fathers of the Mission who go by pairs in imitation of the Apostles preach and catechize and perform other pastoral Offices in assistance of the Clergy and with obedience to the Bishop Mission missio a sending away
fashion that none can sell them or gain by them but himself Monopolist monopola he that doth so ingross Commodities or he that hath the grant of a Monopoly Monops Gr. a kind of beast in Peonia by some called a Bonasus as big as a Bull being narrowly pursued it voideth a kind of sharp Ordure deadly to such as it lights upon Monoptick monopticus that sees onely with one eye Monoptote monoptotum a word having but one Case Monostick monostichon which consists of one onely verse Monasyllable monosyllabus that hath but one syllable Monothelites monothelitae certain Hereticks that lived in the year of Christ 640 and were within five years after condemned by a Council They held there was but one will in Christ c. Monstrable monstrabilis that may be shewn or declared Monstrosity monstrositas which is done against the course of nature monstrousness Montanists a sort of Hereticks so called from Montanus their first Author they held the Holy Ghost was not given to the Apostles but onely to them c. Montanous montanus belonging to the Mountains Monteflasce a kind of delicious wine so called from Montefiascone a City in Italy where it is made Montera Span. a hunters or Sea-man Cap which was not long since much in request with us Monticulous monticulosus full of hills or mountains Montivagant montivagus that wandreth on the mountains To Moor or More a ship from moror to stay is to lay out her Anchors as is most fit for the ship to ride by in that place where she is and of this there are several ways among Seamen but a ship cannot properly be said to be Moored with less then two Anchors a ground Moot a term used in the Inns of Court and signifies the handling or arguing a Case for exercise As in the Universities there are Disputations Problems Sophisms and such like Acts It seems to be derived from the French word Mot i. verbum Quasi verba facere aut Sermonem de aliqua re habere Mootmen are those Students that argue Readers cases in houses of Chancery both in Terms and grand Vacations Of Mootmen after some years study are chosen Outward Baristers of which degree after they have been Twelve years they are commonly chosen Benchers or Antients of which one of the younger sort reads yearly in Summer Vacation and is called a single Reader and one of the Ancients that have formerly read reads in Lent Vacation and is called a double Reader and it is usual between his first and second Reading nine or ten years some of these Readers are afterwards called ad statum gradum Servientis ad legem and of Sergeants are constituted the honorable Judges and Sages of the Law For the entrance of the young Student who commonly comes from one of the the Universities were first instituted and erected eight Houses of Chancery to learn there the Elements of the Law viz. Cliffords-Inn Lions-Inn Clements-Inn Bernards-Inn Staple-Inn Furnivals-Inn Davies-Inn and New Inn And each of these Houses consist of forty persons or more For the Readers Utter-Baristers Mootmen and inferior Students there are four famous and renowned Colledges or Inns of Court called 1. The Inner Temple to which the first three Houses of Chancery appertain Grayes-Inn to which the next two belong Lincolns-Inn which enjoys the last two saving one and the Middle Temple which hath onely the last Each of these Houses of Court consist of Benchers above twenty of Vtter Baristers above thrice so many of Young Gentlemen about the number of 160 or 180 who there spend their time in study of Law and commendable Exercises The Judges of the Law and Sergeants being commonly above the number of twenty are equally distributed into two higher and more eminent Houses called Sergeants Inns. All these are not far distant one from another and all together make the most famous University for profession of Law onely or of any one human Science in the world and advanceth it self above all others Quantum inter viburna cupressus Lo. Coke Mopsical mopsicus that cannot see well Hence perhaps comes our phrase mop-ey'd Moral moralis of or belonging to manners or civility The four Moral or Cardinal Vertues are 1. Prudence 2. Justice 3. Temperance 4. Fortitude and are so called because they concern the manners or behaviour belonging properly to the actions of man onely as he is man Moralize moralizo to expound morally to give a moral sence unto As in the Fables of Aesop the parties named are Foxes Asses and such like Beasts with Birds and Fishes yet there is a latent moral sence therein appliable to the persons of men and women and which may serve for rules of good manners and this is called the moral or morality of the Fable Moration moratio a staying or tarrying Morbidezza Ital. tenderness softness Sir H. Wotton Morbifical morbificus that causeth disease or sickness Morbulent morbulentus full of diseases sickly Morbus Galicus otherwise called Morbus Indicus Neopolitanus Hispanicus in Lat. Lues Venerea the French Pox or the great Pox. In the City of Naples about the year 1494. This disease was first known in Christendom and is said to be brought thither out of America See American disease The French report that at the siege of Naples certain wicked Merchants barrel'd up the flesh of some men that had been lately slain in Barbary and sold it for Mummy and upon that foul and high nourishment was the original of this disease Lo Bac. nat hist Mordacity Mordancie mordacitas biting sharpness of speech detraction bitted tearms Mordicate mordico to hurt with biting Mordicative mordicativus biting or stinging Moresk work Fr. Moresque a rude or Antick painting or carving wherin the feet and tails of beasts c. are intermingled with or made to resemble a kind of wilde leaves c. Cotgr. Morglay mot-glaive a killing or mortal sword Glaive in old French signifying a sword Cleiv Poems Morigerous morigerus obedient dutiful doing as he did Morling alias Mortling seems to be that wooll which is taken from the skin of dead sheep whether dying of the rot or being killed En. 27. Hen. 6. ca. 2. This is written Morkein An. 3. Jac. cap. 8. See Morkein Morion from the Ital. Morione a Head-piece or Cap of steel Morisco Span. a Moor also a Dance so called wherein there were usually five men and a Boy dressed in a Girles habit whom they call the Maid Marrion or perhaps Morian from the Ital. Morione a Head-piece because her head was wont to be gaily trimmed up Common people cal it a Morris-Dance Morkein or Morkin from mors death among Huntsmen is a Deer that dies by some disease or mischance See Morling Morology morologia a foolish speaking Moromantie Gr. foolish divination Morosity morositas frowardness waywardness peevishness aversness to please Moraus morosus wayward froward pensive teasty hard to please Morphew from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. forma certain whitish spots in the bodies
or compassing about A man is said to be obsest when an evil spirit hants him troubling him often and seeking opportunity to enter into him Obsibilate obsibilo to make a whistling noise as Trees stirred with winds Obsidian stone obsidianus a precious stone mentioned in Pliny Gondibert Obsidional obsidionalis of or pertaining to a siege The Obsidional Crown Corona obsidionalis was given onely to him that relieved a City or Town besieged This Crown was made of green Leaves or of the Grass and Herbs of the same Field where the enemy had been over-thrown or forced to flight The great Quintus Fabius received this Crown for defending and delivering Rome from the siege of Hannibal Obsolete obsoletus decayed old grown out of use worn as a Garment when it is thredbare Obstetricate obstetrico to do the office of a Midwife Obstâ—triciâ—us from obstetricium pertaining to the Ministery of Midwives or their Feat Ostipate obstipo to stop chinks Obstreperous obstreperus that makes a noise roars or crys out against Obstrigillation obstrigillatio a reprehension a resisting or repugning Obstruction obstructio a shutting or stopping up a â—amming up Obstupifie obstupefacio to make abashed or astonied Obtenebrate obtenebro to make cloudy or dark Obâ—est obtestor humbly to beseech to desire for Gods sake Obtestation obtestatio an humble desiring a taking God to witness for a thing a hearty beseeching Obticence obticentia silence holding ones peace Obtorted obtortus wreathed wrested or wrenched Obtrectation obtrectatio detraction depravation back-biting slandering Obtrite obtritus worn bruised trod under foot Obturation obturatio a stopping or shutting up Obtuse obtusus dull dim blunt without spirit Obvention obventio a meeting with a coming against hapning or chancing unto Also revenue or rents Obvert obverto to turn against back or about Obviate obvio to meet with one also to resist or withstand Obvious obvius that which meets with one meeting in the way gentle and easie Obumbrate obumbro to shadow over and over also to make dark obscure or dim Obuncous obuncus very crooked Obundation obundatio a flowing against Obvolate obvolo to flie against Occident occidens the going down of the Sun the West part of the world And adjectively declining decaying falling going down Occidental occidentalis pertaining to the West western westernly Occiduous occiduus that goes down that will decay Occipital from occiput belonging to the Noddle or hinder part of the head Occision occisio a slaughter or death of men or Cattel a killing or slaying Occlusion occlusio a shutting up fast a stopping Occular See Ocular Occulcation occulcatio a treading on or spurning Occult occultus hid privy not known very secret Occultation occultatio a hiding or keeping close a concealing Occupative occupativus that is busied employed or Possessed of or that busieth An Occupative Field is that which being deserted by its proper owner or tiller is possessed by another Occurre occurro to meet with come in place be in the way or offer it self Oceanick Oceanine oceaninus belonging to the Ocean or main Sea encompassing the world Ochlocracy Gr. a kinde of Government wherein the multitude or common rout bear rule Ocious ociosus idle careless restful at ease that hath little to do unemployed Octangular octangulus that hath eight corners eight-cornered Octave octavus an eighth in Musick a proportion or the number of eight Octaves octavae an usual term in Courts of Justice and in the Roman Calender and signifies the eighth day next after some principal Feasts of the year called also the Vtas D. Aug. Epist 118. See Vtas Octennial octennalis that is done every eighth years Octonary octonarius the same with Octave Octogon Gr. a figure consisting of eight Angles Octostic See Ogdastic Ocular ocularius pertaining to the eyes or sight Oculate oculatus full of eyes or holes quick of sight circumspect as Oculate Faith that is confirmed by the eye-sight or such a Faith as represents the thing believed as it were to the eye a seeing Faith Oculist one skilled in curing the diseases of the eyes or in preserving the eye-sight Oculus Christâ— so called because it conduces much to the cure of the infirmities of the eyes an Herb called Wilde Clary Gerard. Ode oda a Song or Poem pronounced with singing Odelet Dimin of Ode a small or short Ode Odible odibilis odious worthy to be hated Odor Lat. savor sent smell Odoramincuâ— from Odoramen inis smelling sweet fragrant odoriferous pertaining to odor Odoriferous odorifer sweet in savor bringing spices and sweet smelling things Oeconomie oeconomia the guiding and ordering of things pertaining to houshold also an order in doing a thing Oeconomical oeconomicus pertaining to the order or government of an house or family Oeconomist one that orders or rules a family Oecumenical oecumenicus universal general pertaining to the whole world Oedâ—stine oedastinus that is cunning in the knowledge of weights and measures Oedematous from Oedema full of or subject to a slegmatick and painless sweling which being pressed down with the finger retains the impression thereof and is called an Oedeme Br. Oenopolist oenopola a Vintner or seller of Wine Offertory offertorium an offering or place where offerings are offered or kept also a part of the Mass so called Official officialis of or belonging to offices or duties It is a word diversly used some apply it to such as have the sway of temporal Justice others to the Minister or Apparitor of a Magistrate or Judge In the Cannon Law iâ— is especally taken for him to whom any Bishop generally commits the charge of his Spiritual Jurisdiction and in this sence one in every Diocess is Officialis Pricipalis whom the old Statutes and Laws of this Nation call Chancelors An. 32. Hen. 8. cap. 15. And are sometimes termed Commissaries the difference of the two powers you may read in Lindwoâ—od tit De sequest posses cap. 1. Verbo Officialis But this word Official in our Statutes and Common Law signifies him whom the Archdeacon substitutes for executing his Jurisdiction Officinator Lat. an Artificer or Crastsman Vitruvius lib. 6. cap. 11. distinguishes the Officinator from the Architect this designs the Idea of the whole work that is but a second superintendent over all the under-Art sins Officine officina a Shop or Work-house Offuscate offusco to make black or dark to shadow or make dim or duskish Ogdastick ogdastichon a Sentence or Epigram comprized in eight verses or a Stanza of eight verses Ogive or Ogee Fr. Augive or Ogive a wreath circlet or round band in Architecture Oisteriot a weed so called as it were laid among Oisters Min. Oke a measure among the Turks near the bigness of our quart How Oleaginous oleaginus of an Olive-tree or of the colour of an Olive-tree Oleity oleitas the time of gathering Olives or the Olives when they are gathered to make oyl of also oyliness Olfactory olfactorium a Posie or Nose gay any thing to smell to Oleron Laws or Laws of Oleron so called for that
all and not to any one in particular The Pilgrim might go at his own charge the Palmer must profess wilful poverty The Pilgrim might give over his profession the Palmer must be constant till he had obtained the Palm that is victory over his spiritual enemies and life by death Chauc Pillaâ—e a kind of ordinanary meat among the Turks which is no other then Rice sod with the fat of Mutton Pilosity pilositas hairiness roughness Bac. Pilot Ital. Pilóta a Steersman he that directs the course of a ship the Belgick call him a Lootsman see Lodemenage Pilotage or Pilotism the Office or art of a Pilot the skilful guiding or conduct of a ship Pimpleaâ— from Pimplea a Fount in Macedon sacred to the Muses and is therefore often used as an Epithete for them Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an antient kind of Dutch artificial drunkenness the cup commonly of wood had a pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the pin by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This devise was of old the cause of so much debauchery in England that one of the constitutions of a Synod held at Westminster in the year 1102. was to this effect That Priests should not go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnas bibant nor drink at Pins Pinguefie pinguefacio to make fat or gross some have used pinguedinize in the same sence Pinguedinous pinguedinosus that is fat gross rude or unweildy Piniferous pinifer which beareth Pine-trees Pinnigerous pinniger that hath fins finned like a fish Pinsor Lat. that brayes or stamps in a Morter a Baker Pirules two small Tablets in the Alhidada of an Astrolabe having in them two little holes through which the height of the Sun c. is taken some call them the sights of the Alhidada Cot. Pioner or Pionor from the Fr. Pionniâ—r a laborer in an Army used to cast trenches or undermine Forts Ann. 2 3. Ed. 6. cap. 20. Pipation pipatio a cry of one that weeps Pipe Fr. a measure of Wine or Oyl containing half a Tun that is One hundred twenty and six Gallons An. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Piepowders Court or a Pourt of Pypoudre from the Fr. pied a foot and pouldreux dusty is a Court held in Fairs for the redress of all disorders committed there which because they are most frequented in Summer the word was given of the dusty feet of the comers Of this see Cromp. Juris fol. 221. Piquant Fr. pricking sharp piercing stinging nipping Mr. Montagu in his Miscel Piqueron see Picqueron Piquy see Character Piramid see in Py Piratical piraticus of or belonging to a Pirate or Robber on the Sea Pirate-like Piromantie see in Py Pirenean of or pertaining to the fountain Pirene at the foot of the mountain Acrocorinthus fained to have been made by the horse Pegasus dashing his foot against a rock Piscary piscaria a fish-market or place where fish are Piscary in our Common Law signifies a liberty of fishing in another mans waters Piscation piscatio a fishing Dr. Br. Piscicle pisciculus a little fish Piscinal piscinalis of or belonging to a Fish-Pond Pisculent pisculentus full of fishes or that may be fished Pissâ—sphaâ— pissasphalium Pitch mingled with Bitumen either by accident or art the former is much the better and comes from Apollonia in Epiâ—s where it first received that mixture Coâ— Pâ—ssuâ—mâ—st or the Stone is a disease in a Horse when he would fain stale but cannot at all and therefore may well be called the suppression of the Urine Markham Pistacâ—oes pistachia a kind of small nuts called Pistake nuts that grow in Syria and are sold by Apothecaries The word in the Persian tongue signifies small nuts Pistrius pistrina a Bake-house a Mill or grinding house Pistick pisticus pressed or bruised Pistillation from pistillum a pounding or braying with a Pestil in a Mortar Pistorical or pistorian pistoricus belonging to a Baker baking or Pastry Pithian Games See Pyth. Pituitous pituitosus full of flegm flegmatick waterish Br. Pix see Pyx Placable placabilis easie to be pleased or appeased soon qualified Placability placibilitas when a person is easie to be appeased or pacified gentleness Placard Fr. plaquard an Inscription set up a Table wherein Laws Orders c. are written and hung up also a Bill or Libel set upon a post In our Common Law it is taken for a licence whereby a man is permitted to maintain unlawful Games 2 3 â—h and Mar. ca. 7. Placidity placiditas quietness peaceableness Placid placidus gentle patient milde peaceable Placit placitum a firm consent or opinion a Decree or Ordinance Plagiary plagiarius one that steals or takes free people out of one Country and sells them in another for slaves a stealer or suborner of mens children or servants for the same or like purpose in which sense we term him a Slockster also a Book-stealer or book thief one that fathers other mens works upon himself Cot. a Court kept in Haven Towns as Swainmot in the Forest It is sometimes called the Portmoot Court An. 43. Eliz. 15. Portsale Ann. 35 H. 8. cap. 7.1 sale of fish presently upon return in the Haven Among the antient Romans those things were rightly sold in Portsale which were publickly sold Per Praeconem sub hasta i. by the Cryer under a Spear sticked up for that purpose and some Magistrate making good the sale by delivery of the goods which were sold to him who would bid most for them Sigonius Posade Fr. a lighting down of Birds a laying down a burthen a breathing pause resting or resting place from the Span. Posada an Inn. Pose a Physical term signifying a rheume or humor which falls into the Nose stopping the Nostrils and hindering the voyce Possessive possessivus pertaining to possession or property Posterganeous posterganeus belonging to the backside or hinder part of the body Posteriority posterioritas the being or coming after or behinde It is a word of comparison and relation in tenure the correlative whereof is priority for a man holding Lands or Tenements of two Lords holds of his antienter Lord by priority and of his latter by posteriority Stawnf Praerog fol. 10.11 Posthume posthumus a childe born after the Fathers death and by Metaphor a Book published after the Authors death It is sometimes used for a mans Christen name Posthumian postumus following or to come that shall be Postick posticus that dwels on the backside that is behinde us Postil postillum a short exposition upon the Gospel wherein more is observed then hath been by others so called from these words Postillos dies which are very frequent in holy Writ Postulon Fr he that rides upon the sixth Coach-horse a guide or Post-boy Postlimintage postliminium a return of one who was thought to be dead and so restored to his house not by going over the threshold but by making a hole in the wall a Law whereby
anciently written Seaxen or Seaxes and the Welshmen wrote them Saisons as they yet write us The learned Engelhusus of this weapon Seaxe and name Saxon hath this Latin Rime Quippe brevis gladius apud illos Saxa vocatur Vnde sibi Saxo nomen traxisse putatur Saxifical saxificus that turns into a stone or is made stony Saxifragrant saxifragus that breaks stones or is broken against stones Scabious scabiosus mangy scabby scurvy Scabrous scabrosus rough ragged uneven impolite As a Scabrous stile an unpleasant kind of writing Scaevola See Scevola Scalado from the Span. Escaláda and that from the Lat. Scala i. a Ladder a scaling or getting up the Ladder a term of War and most commonly applied to the gaining a Castle or Town by scaling it with Ladders Scalar Scalary scalaris leaning one way ladderwise not bolt upright Scale an eminent place in the City Zant where after fourteen days one stands and publickly cites offenders Sands Scalae Gemoniae See Gemony Scalp pericranion the skin compassing and covering all the skull Scalpture scalptura a graving in mettal a cutting or scratching Scalper or Scalping Iron scalprum a Surgeons instrument to scrape or take away corrupt flesh from the bones a Lance to let blood with Scandalize scandalizo to offend by giving ill example to give one occasion to sin or be offended also to slander or defame Scandalum Magnaâ—um Lat. is the special name of a wrong done to any high personage of the Land as Prelates Dukes Earls Barons and other Nobles as also of the great Officers of the Realm by false news or Messages whereby debates and discords betwixt them and the Commons or any scandal to their persons may arise An. 2 R. 2. c. 5. Scanderbeg i. Great Alexander the nick name of that valiant Commander George Castriot the late terror of the Turks who is said in his whole life time to have slain three thousand of them with his own hands Scandular scandularis pertaining to wooden Tiles or Shingles Scapular scapularis belonging to the shoulder It is also used substantively for a narrow and square piece of cloth c worn by Monks and Friers over the rest of their Habit and falling over the shoulders on both sides from the neck which goes through it by a slit or hole made for that purpose down almost to the foot Scarabee scarabeus the black flie bred commonly in Dung called a Beetle Scarifie scarifico to launce or open a soar to make little incisions and holes or openings either that the blood and humor may the easier come out or to prepare a place for the better extraction of Cupping-Glasses Scarification sacrificatio a cutting or lancing a scraping the skin with a fleam that one may bleed the better Scatinian Law Lex Scatinia was a Law made by Scatinius wherein the use of preposterous venery was chastised Scarpe Fr. Escarpe a Scarf worn by Commanders in the Field and so named in Heraldry Leigh Scaturiginous scaturiginosus that bursts out or runs over out of which water riseth Scavage otherwise called Shewage is a kinde of Toll or Custom exacted by Majors and Bayliffs of Cities and Burrough Towns of Merchants for Wares shewed to be sold within their Precinct which is forbidden by the Statute of 19 H. 7.8 It comes of the Saxon word Sceaw to behold or view or to shew and hence the word Sceaw-stow a Theatre or Shew-place a beholding place Verstegan Scavenger from the Belg. Scâ—avan i. to scrape or shave away an Officer well known in London that makes clean the streets by scraping up and carrying away the dust and durt The Germans call him a Drecksimon from one Simon who was appointed Scavenger of Marpurg Scelestique scelestus wicked ungracious mischievous full of naughtiness Sceleâ—on Gr. is that which the vulgar call an Anatomy the whole Fabrick or dry frame of human Bones The dry carkass of a man or woman with bones and ligaments onely For Sceletos in Greek signifies bony or dry as a bone Scellum or Schellum from the Belg. Schelm a Rogue Villain or wicked person and some times taken in the same sence with Renegado Scene scena the front or forepart of a Theatre or Stage or the partition between the Players Vestry and the Stage a Comedy or Tragedy or the division of a Play into certain parts viz. first into Acts those again into Scenes which somtimes fall out more sometimes fewer in every Act The definition of a â—cene being mutatio personarum In old time it signified a place covered with Boughs or the room where the Players made them ready Scenical scenicus of or belonging to a Scene Stage or Comedy or to Players on Stages Scenography scenographia is the model or draught of any work presented with its shadows according as the work it self shews with its dimensions according to the Rules of prospective Enchir. of Fort. See Sciagraph Sceptical scepticus that contemplates or always seeks and never finds The Philosophers called Scepticks were such as used to search into and consider much of things but leave them in suspence without any determination affirming they know nothing of this Sect Phyrro was Author Sceâ—ticium the Doctrine or opinion of the Scepticks Sceptriferous sceptrifer that bears a Scepter Sâ—evâ— scaevitas unluckiness lefthandedness Scevola scaevola the Surname of Q. Mutius a noble Roman who voluntarily burnt off his own right hand c. hence the word is used for a lefthanded man or one that hath but one hand Br. Schammatâ—a Hebr. an Excommunication to death the same with Maranatha see Moses and Aaron p. 183. Schediasm schediasma a sudden invention or a work extempore Schedical schedicus hasty sudden extemporary not labored Schedule schedula a leaf or scroll of Paper or Parchment containing the particulars of goods or other things an Inventory Scheme schema the outward fashion or habit of any thing the adorning a speech with Rhetorical figures Schism schisma properly a cutting in two a disagreeing of minds a division in the Church of Christ consisting with an unity in matters of Faith Schism says an Author is an uncharitable division or recession of any member from the unity of the whole Church As Hereâ—ie is a departing from the Communion of the Church in respect of Doctrine so Schism is a dividing or cutting off ones self for external things Schismatick schismaticus one that is divided from the external Communion of the Church Schismatical schismaticus of or pertaining to Schism or such division in the Church Scholastica Gr. a womans name and signifies leasure from business Scholastic scholasticus belonging to a Schollar or School Schollarly Scholy or Scholion scholium a close a short or compendious exposition a critical note And Scholiast one that writes such Expositions or critical notes Sciagraph schigrapha a description of the whole frame and contrivance of every room as the Carpenters shews with a Lath how the Work will fall out a Platform see Scenography Sciamachy scimachia a counterfeit
Sembrief q. Semibrief a slow time in Musick Sementation sementatio a bringing forth seed Sementine sementinus belonging to sowing continuing to seed time Semi or Semis from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a word much used in composition for half Semicastration semi castratio half gelding the taking away one Testicle Br. Semicircular semicircularis that hath the form of a half Circle Semicolon half a Colon or a point in writing or printing made thus the Colon thus most commonly in or neer the middle of a sentence the Period thus the Comma thus the Admiration point thus as when we say O tempora O mores The Interogation point thus when we ask any question A Circumflex is over the second a when we say amâsti for amavisti An Apostroph is when some vowel is cut off 't was for it was and the like Semi-cupe is a half Bath up to the navel of the patient Semidole semidolium a vessel containing half a Tun a Pipe Semiferous femifer half wilde Semihore semihora half an hour Simimarinâ— semimarinus belonging partly to the Sea partly to the Land Seminality from semina a belongingness to seed an aptness to have or bear seed Br. Seminary seminarium a seed plot a place where plants are set to be removed a Nurcery a tree whereof Plants and Graffs are taken Also the first begining or chief cause of any good or evil and by metaphor a Colledge or Nursery of young Students Seminate semino to sow breed or ingender Seminifical seminificus that causeth or brings forth seed for generation Males are said to be seminifical and pubescent at fourteen years of age as Aristotle says bis septem annis exactis c. Br. Semipeda semipedalis half a foot in quantity or height Semipelagians a Sect differing from the Pelagians onely in this that grace was necessary to the perseverance in good works though not to the beginning of them see Pelagians Semitate semito to make pathes to divide into pathes or ways Semivowels semivocales certain Consonants so called because they have half the sound of Vowels as f l m n s Therefore of old s and still m in the end of words before vowels are cut off like vowels see Nat. Hist fol 46. Semiustulated semiustulatus half burned half roasted or broiled Sempiternal sempiternus perpetual endless lasting always continual immortal eternal Semuncial semuncialis of or belonging to half an ounce Senarie senarius that contains or belongs to the number six A verse of six feet Senatorian senatorius of or belonging to a Senator or Councellor of State Senescal Fr. Seneschal a Steward As the High Seneschal or Steward of England Pl. Cor. fol. 152. It is also used for the Steward of a Court. Kitch fol. 83. Senescent senescens waxing old gowing in age wearing away drawing to the wain Senesce senesco to wax old to grow in age to begin to decay or wear away Senior Lat. the elder Sensation sensatio prudence intelligibleness sensibleness Also the exercise or art of the Senses Sensiferous sensifer that brings sence or feeling Sensory the organs or powers of the five Senses or of apprehending thinking or judging Bac. Nat. Hist Sensuality sensualitas libertinism epicurism the pleasing of sense contentment given to the appetite satisfaction to the flesh Sententiosity sententiositas fulness of sentences which are concise and pithy pieces of wit containing much matter in few words Sententious sententiosus full of sentences pithy full of matter Sentinel Fr. a Sentry a Common Souldier appointed to stand and watch in a certain place Separatory Fr. separatoire the Chizel or Instrument wherewith Chyrurgegeons cut out the pieces of bones left between the holes which they bore with a Trepan Separatist separans one that separates severs or withdraws himself from the communion of the Church Sepiment sepimentum an hedge pale mound or inclosure Seplasiator Lat. he that makes sweet ointments Seposition sepositio a putting apart or laying aside a separating or distinguishing Sept septum a Park or any place enclosed a fold for sheep Septs are multitudes of the same name and pretended Family or Linage in Ireland so called Septangular septangulus that hath seven corners a Septangle Septemfluous septemfluus divided or flowing into seven branches or streams that flows seven contrary ways that hath seven currents Septempedal septempedalis belonging to seven feet that is seven foot long Septemvirate septemviratus the authority of seven Officers in like power Septenarious Septenary septenarius of or belonging to seven containing seven in number Septenary is also used substantively for a seventh a proportion or number of seven Septennial septennis of seven years space Septentrional septentrionalis belonging to the North northern Septical septicus putrifactive or corrosive that makes rotten or ripe as mattar in a sore Septifarious septifarius of seven manner of fashions sorts or ways Septifluous see Septemfluous Septimane septimana a week or seven-night also whatsoever falls out on the seventh day month year c. Septimarians certain Officers in Monasteries which were chosen every week whence they took name Septuagenary septuagenus pertaining to seventy or threescore and ten Septuagesima is a Sunday certain being always the next but one before Shrove Sunday from which till the Octaves of Easter the solemnizing of marriage is by the Cannon Laws forbidden that being a time of mourning for the fall of Adam and misery of man thereon ensuing And Easter with its Octaves is a time of Christs glorification and so of ours also in him for his and by him our conquest over death and sin And that therefore all carnal affection ought during that space to be wholy mortified in us See Quinquagesima Septuagesimal septuagesimus pertaining to the number seventy or Septuagesima Sunday Septuagints septuaginta properly signifie the seventy Translators of the holy Bible out of Hebrew into Greek who were in truth Seventy two viz six chosen out of every one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel by Eleazer the High-Priest at the request of Prolomaeus Philadelphus King of Aegypt for the richest ornament of his memorable Library These by compendious speech are called the seventy Interpreters as the Centum viri among the Romans who were indeed One hundred and five three out of a Tribe and thirty five Tribes Budaeus Septuary from Septem may be applied to any thing composed of the number seven Dr. Br. uses it for a week consisting of seven days Septuncial septuncialis of seven ounces or seven parts of the whole Sepulchral sepulchralis of or belonging to a Grave or Sepulchre Sepulchred buried put or made into a Sepulchre Bac. Sepuliâ— sepelio to bury interr or lay in the Earth Sepulture sepultura a laying in the ground a burying an interring or intombing Sequele sequela the following consequence issue or success of a thing also a train or retinue Sequences sequencia answering Verses or Verses that answer one another sequentially things that follow one another in order Sequesâ—er Sequestiate sequestro to separate
was first found out by Paracelsus Of this see Dr. Charltons Paradoxes p. 1. Wedding nuptiae comes from the Germ. wed i pignus a pledge and wedde in Scotland signifies so much at this day Skene Wednesday See VVoden Weigh is a certain weight of Cheese or Wool containing 256 pounds of Avoir-du-pois And in some parts of this land it signifies a quantity of corn most commonly Barley or Malt containing six Quarters or forty eight Strikes Weights pondera there are two sorts of them in use with us the one called Troy weight which has Twelve ounces in the pound and by this Pearl precious Stones Electuaries or Medicinal things Gold Silver and Bread are weighed the other Avoir-du-pois which contains sixteen ounces in the pound by this all other things are weighed that pass between man and man by weight saving onely those above named Why the one should be cal'd Troy weight I have not learned though I read it libram unciam Trojanam as if it came from Troy The other seems to be so termed by reason of the more full weight for Avoir du pois in French is to have good weight but by these words Avoir du pois are somtimes signified such merchandize as are bought and sold by this kind of weight Fleta l. 2. c. 12. saith 15 ounces make the merchants pound which 't is like though an ounce less should be all one in signification with the pound Avoir-du-pois and the other Pound called by Fleta Trone weight plainly appears to be all one with that which we cal Troy weight and I find not Troy weight mentioned by any other that ever I read upon this subject but onely our own Countrimen See Tronage One Phidon an Argive is said to have bin the first finder out of VVeights and Measures See Ounce Sarplar Welken or Welkin Sax. a cloud but now commonly taken for the Sky or Element Welsh the people of VVales which were the old Britans and those a people of the Gauls from whence the Saxons according to their manner of speech instead of Gallish called them VVallish and by abbreviation Walch or Welsh Were-wulf or Were-wolf were in the old Sax. was sometimes used for man this name remains still known in the Teutonick and is as much as Man-wolf which is a certain Sorcerer who having anointed his body with an Ointment made by instinct of the Devil and putting on a certain inchanted Girdle does not only to the view of others seem as a VVolf but to his own thinking hath both the shape and nature of a VVolf so long as he wears the said Girdle and accordingly worries and kills humane creatures Of these sundry have been taken in Germany and the Neatherlands One Peter Stump for being a Were-wolf and having killed thirteen children two women and one man was at Bedhur not far from Cullen in the year 1589. put to a very terrible death Verst Westphalia Bacon so called from the Country VVestphalia a Province in Germany from whence it comes which Province is wonderfully stored with Acorns that feed Swine of an exceeding pleasant taste and nourishment Westsaxonlage See Merchenlage Wharf from the Belg. Werf idem is a broad plain place neer a Creek or Hithe of the water to lay Wares upon that are brought to or from the water Or it is a working place for Shipwrights Wharfage is a Fee due for any thing that is landed at the VVharf or brought upon the VVharf to be carried by water Wharfinger is the Keeper of a VVharf An. 7. Ed. 6. cap. 7. Whead or Wheadle is a late word of fancy and signifies to draw one in by fair words or subtile insinuation to act any thing of disadvantage or reproof Whirlebat See VVhorlebat White-hall in Henry the eighth's time was called York-house as being the Archbishop of Yorks Palace otherwise called Cardinal VVolsey upon whose conviction in a Premâ—nire it fell to that King who beautified and enlarged it and called it VVhitehall Whitsunday Pentecost Whitsontide i. albi solis tempus is a solemn Feast in memory and honor of the coming of the holy Ghost upon the heads of the Apostles in tongues as it were of fire Act. 2.3 Pentecost in Greek signifies the fiftieth it being the fiftieth day from the Resurrection It is also called VVhitsunday from the Catechumens who were clothed in white and admitted on the Eve of this Feast to the Sacrament of Baptism Verstegan says it was anciently called Wied Sunday i. sacred Sunday for wied or wihed signifies sacred in the old Saxon. Whole-chase Boots are whole hunting or large riding Boots and Demichase are with the French half hunting or as we call them Summer riding Boots though some of our Shoomakers do ignorantly apply the word Demiâ—chase to a certain colour of the leather Whorlebat caestus is a Weapon with Plummets of lead used in Games for exercise by the antient Romans Wicket from the Fr. Huisset a little door commonly where great gates are Wickâ—viâ—s or Wickâ—vâ—tes the followers of VVicklif who was Curate of Lutterworth in Leicestershire about the year 1380 See his opinions in Mr. Fullers hist lib. 1. p. 131. Wildfire what it is is well enough known was invented by the Grecians about the year of our Lord 717. when Caliph Zulciman besieged Constantinople and therefore the Latines call it Graecus ignis Will of the Wisp See Ignis fatuus Willâ—am Tent. for sweeter sound drawn from Wiâ—helm which is interpreted by Luther much defence to many as Wilwald Ruling many Wildred much reverend fear or awful Wilfred much peace Wiâ—bert much increase Cam. Wimple Belg Wimpel a Streamer or Flag but it is most commonly taken for the linnen plaited cloth which Nuns and Religious women wear about their necks Winefred if Saxon signifies win or get peace but some conceive it to be a Brittish word corrupted from Gwen fremi Frewi was the Saints name at first but had the addition Gwen which signifies white in the Feminine Gender from the white circle that remained in her neck after she was revived by Benno the Priest and Pastor of the Church as the story goes by joyning her cut off head to her dead body For it is a Tradition among the Britans that in the very place where her head was cut off by wicked Cradacus there sprung the Well that has to this day continued under the name of St Winefreds Well in Flintshire esteemed to be the most plentiful and miraculous Spring in the world â—frid i. An Obtainer of Concord or a win peace for so it signifies in the old Saxon. An Englishman of that name was by means of Charls the Great made Arch-Bishop of Magunce by Pope Gregory the Second and was afterwards called Boniface he is accounted an Apostle of Germany for his preaching and converting much people to the Christian Faith in Saxony and thereabouts At Doccum in Freezland hath been reserved unto our time a Book of the four Gospels all written with his own hand