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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	foul_a	great_a	91	3	2.1023	3	false

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

of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Hierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Golierdise Hee that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure containing more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fed from Heaven with Manna in the desert received every one this measure full for a daies allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knot which cannot be loosed Gorgon A terrible fighting Woman Poets feine there were foure such Daughters to King Phorcus their names were Scylla Medusa Stenio and Euryale Gossomer Things that flye like Copwebs in the ayre Gourmand A glutton Gourmandize Gluttony sometime to eate like a Glutton Graces A poeticall fiction of three Sisters supposed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne The moralitie of this invention was to expresse the mutual love and cheerefull conversation which ought to be amongst friends For they were painted naked to signifie that friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smiling and merry to shew that men should do good willingly young and maidenlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefit bestowed doth again return to the giver Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Gradual That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospel Graduate He that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniversitie Graines of Paradise A little seed brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtill substance and often used in Physicke For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beasts and divers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruit like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Devised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turn Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turn Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuitie A benefit or gift given onely for good will sometime thankfulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we rejoyce at the prosperitie of another Gratulation A rejoycing for anothers good A thanksgiving Gravitie Heavinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeantie An old tenure in the Common Law when a man holds lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the wars or to beare his banner lead his host or do some such like service Graunge A village or lone house in the country * Gree. Good part Griffine A strange Bird in India with foure feet armed with cruell clawes being from the breast upward fashioned like an Eagle but of purple colour with red fierie eyes and whitish wings and in the hinder part blacke made much like a Lion This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very yong for he will adventure on any man is so fierce that he often killeth Elephants Dandragons He is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgil in his eight Eclog bringeth in the shepherd Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Junguntur jam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are joyn'd with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacatane An herbe growing in the west Indies of great vertue against the piles or griefs proceeding from cold or windinesse Guaiacum A wood called by some Lignum vitae It is much used in physick against the French disease Guaiavas A fruit growing in India much like unto apples Guerdon A reward Guerdonles Vnrewarded * Guerring Brawling Gumme Arabicke A kind of gumme growing on a thorne tree called Acacia in Egypt Guzes The ball of the eye A terme in heraldrie Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwaies naked and lived solitary in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Hierome writeth cont Iovinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H. HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit The outward attire of the body whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of a Gentleman is different from the habit of a Merchant and the habit of a Handi-crafts man differing from them both Sometime it signifieth a qualitie in the bodie or minde not naturall but gotten by long custome or insused by God as an Orator still exercised in making orations hath gotten a habit of eloquent speaking and the holy Apostles had a habit to understand and speak languages without studie Habitable Which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Grown to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleevelesse jacket Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valley * Hameled Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made upon the bones of a shoulder of mutton all the flesh being first taken off Hamlet A village in the countrey Hague A hand-gunne of about three quarters of a yard long Haguebut A gunne or harquebuse Harbinger One that taketh up lodging for others Hariant A tearme in herauldry when a fish is painted standing upright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweet pleasant delightful to the eare Harpyes A Poeticall word It signifieth certaine monstrous birds with maiden faces crooked sharp talons so called because of their rapine which they used They lived in Stymphalis a Lake of Arcadia and were sent by the Gods if we beleeve Poets to snatch away and defile the meat of Phineus king of that countrey because he at the perswasion of his second wife had destroyed the children which he had by his first they were at last driven away by Zetus and Calais the sonnes of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello Ocypete Celeno and Thyella Harquebuze A hand Gun Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gun * Harrow An old word signifying away sie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To return Hawberke A Gorget Hearse A buriall coffin covered with black Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beasts Hecticke A Fever inflaming the heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heavens that part of the heavens which is still visible to us Hemistich Half a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of veines in the fundament like werts whereof some doe use to bleed often and some bleed not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent to these parts from the Liver being many times healthfull to the patient by preventing other diseases and therefore ought not hastily

this herbe is great and white like a Radish root and is divided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This root especially the barke thereof is extreamely cold and dry even to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receive inwardly for that the least quantity too much will quickly kill one Surgeons use to steep this root in Wine and give it to be drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the cold operation thereof causeth sleep and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heaven to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seed with which the Israelites lived forty yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manbu viz. What is this Which seemeth to be the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kind of dew which falling in hot Countries upon trees doth there congeale almost like to crums of white bread and is gathered and choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may be carryed in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slave or bondman free which was in old time thus The lord of the slave holding him by the head arme or other part said before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoved him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A hand writing a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantity that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it be gold silver brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may be stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly between Wales Englād or between England and Scotland Marchionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Old condemned Heretikes so called of their first Master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher pher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell-fish especially in Orsters whereof some have holes in them and some have none The best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in young shels Some write that in thunder the Oisters doe cast them up as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes used by Physitiās in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings having vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenes of the body Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordering neer the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of agood conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grievous torment for constant perseverance in true Religion Martyrology A history of the death of Martyrs A booke of the memorie of Martyrs Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kind Masticke A white and cleere Gumme of a sweet savour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Island Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe use to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as be loose Mastuerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternall Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematicks sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens nativities or undertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematicks A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmetick Musick Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A grave motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturitie Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a main point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a device like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cannot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cup to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great favour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horacc and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometime a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas Mechanichall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish root brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubarbe It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soever with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liver and all the inward parts * Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent partie to both Mediation A means of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator He that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterrannean Sea A sea which divideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours of the body the grossest of all other which if it abound too much causeth heavinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellifluous Sweet as honey Membrane The upmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often used when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Meninges Thin skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skins one called by Physitians Dura mater which is the stronger of the two and next unto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first being more tender and fine and close wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes bee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath upon her the monethly courses or which