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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
A69015	An Englis[h] expositor[:] teaching the in[ter]pretation of the harde[st] words [vsed] in our language. With sundry [ex]plicat[ions, de]scriptions [, and d]iscourses. By I.B. ...	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1621 (1621)	STC 4084; ESTC S115630	109,867	269

number is two the next yeare therefore it wil be three c. This golden number was deuised to finde out the feast of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Ierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Goherdise He that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure conteyning more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fedde from heauen with Manna in the desert receiued euery one this measure full for a dayes allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knotte 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 Gossomor Things that flye like Cobwebs 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 Iupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphorsyne The morality of this inuention was to expresse the mutual loue and cheerefull conuersation 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 yong maidēlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefite bestowed doth againe returne to the giuer Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Graduall That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospell Graduate Hee that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniuersitie Graines of Paradise A litle seede brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtil substance and often vsed in Physick For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beastes and diuers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruite like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Deuised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turne Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turne Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuity A benefite or gift giuen onely for good will sometime thankefulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we reioyce at the prosperity of another Gratulation A reioycing for anothers good A thanksgiuing Grauity Heauinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeanty An olde tenure in the Common Lawe when a man holds lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the wars or to beare his banner leade his host or doe some such like seruice Graunge A village or lone house in the countrey * Gr●e Good part Griffine A strange bird in India with foure feete armed with cruell clawes being from the breast vpward 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 Lyon This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very young for he wil aduenture on any man and is so fierce that hee often killeth Elephants Dragons Hee is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgill in his eight Eclog bringeth in the shepheard Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Iungunturiam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are ioyned with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacata● An herb 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 vita It is much vsed in Physick against the French disease Guaiauas A fruit growing in India much like vnto 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 heraldry Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwayes naked liued solitary in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Ierome writeth cont Iouinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit. The outward attire of the bodie whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of Gentleman is d●●ferent from the habit of a merchant and the habit of 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 infused 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 vndersand and speake languages without studie Habitable Which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Growne to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleeuelesse ●acke● Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valey * Hamelet Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made vpon 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 vp lodging for others Hariam A tearme in Herauldry when a fish is painting standing vpright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweete 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 vsed They liued in Stymphalis a lake of Arcadia and were sent by the gods if we beleeue Poets to snatch away and defile the meate 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 driuen away by Ze●us and Calais the sonnes of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello O●yp●te Cel●no and Thy●lla Harquebuze A hand Gunne Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gunne * Harrow An old word signifying away fie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To returne Hawberke A gorget Hearse A buriall coffin couered with blacke Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beasts Hecticke A Feuer inflaming the Heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heauens that part of the heauens which is still visible to vs. Hemistich Halfe a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of the veines in the fundament like werts whereof some doe vse to bleede often and some bleede not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent

or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragorus See Mandrake following Mandrak A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe it great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This roote especially the barke thereof is extremely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quickly kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in Wine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the colde operation thereof causeth sleepe and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heauen to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seede with which the Israelites liued fortie yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the borde●s of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manhu viz. What is this Which seemeth to bee the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hotte countries vpon trees doth there congeale almost like to crummes of whitebread and is gathered choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may bee carried in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slaue or bondman free which was in olde time thus The lord of the slaue holding him by the head arme or other part saide before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoued him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A handwriting a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantitie that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it bee golde siluer brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may bee stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marcionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Olde condemned Heretikes so called of their first master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oysters wherof some haue holes in them and some haue none the best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in yong shels Some write that in Thunder the Oysters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes vsed by Physitions in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenesse of the bodie Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordring neere the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of a good conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grieuous torment for constant perseuerance in true religion Martyrologie A historie of the death of Martyrs A booke of the memorie of Martyrs Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumee of a sweete sauour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Iland Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe vse to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as bee loose Masluerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternal Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematickes sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens natiuities or vndertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematickes A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmeticke Musicke Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A graue motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturity Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a maine point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a deuice like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cannot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cuppe to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great fauour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horace and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometin●● a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenis Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Ruba●be It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soeuer with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liuer and all the inward parts Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator Hee that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterranean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellistuous Sweet as hony Membrane The vpmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often vsed when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Menniges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Physitians Dicta mater which is the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first beeing more tender and sine and close