Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	according_a	place_n	zone_n	170	3	13.4996	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17230	An English expositor teaching the interpretation of the hardest words vsed in our language. With sundry explications, descriptions, and discourses. By I.B. Doctor of Phisicke.	J. B. (John Bullokar)	1616 (1616)	STC 4083; ESTC S107055	109,871	224

like a tree in the bottome of the sea from whence being taken it is by the ayre hardened into the forme of a stone as we see it It is cold and dry in operation good to be hanged about childrens neckes as well to rub their gums as to preserue them from the falling sicknesse Corbell A shouldering peece cut out in stone as we may see in wals to bear vp a poste summer or other weight Corbets Places in walles where Images stand Corbona A chest or cofer in the Temple of Hierusalem where the treasure that serued for the Priests vse was kept Cordiall Hearty that which comforteth the heart Cordwayner A Shooemaker Corodie An ancient term vsed when the founders of Abbies or other religious houses reserued a right in themselues and heires to appoint some person to haue allowance of meate and drinke or other maintenance out of the house and this allowance wa● called a Corodie Coronell A Captain oner many bands Coronation The crowning of a King or Queen Corporall Of or belonging to the bodie Corporation A body politick hauing by the kings graunt a common seale a cheefe Officer and inferiour persons belonging to it Corpulencie Grossenesse fatnesse Corpulent Fat grosse Correlatiue A tearme of Logicke applyed to such words as cannot bee spoken but there must be supposed some other word which is necessarily a dependant vpon it as a Father and a Sonne a Maister and a Seruant a Captaine and a Souldiour a Husband and a Wife Correspondence An agreeablenesse or proportion answering to some other thing Correspondent Agreeable or answerable to another thing Corrigible That which may be corrected or amended Corriuall He that is suiter with another to a woman for marriage Corroborate To strengthen to confirme Corrode To gnaw asunder Corrosiue A fretting plaister any thing which laid to the body raiseth blisters and maketh it sore Cosignificatiue Of the same signification with another thing Cosmographie An art touching the description of the whole world This art by the distance of the circles in heauen diuideth the earth vnder them into her Zones and climats and by the eleuation of the Pole considereth the length of the day and night with the perfect demonstration of the Sunnes rising and going downe Couent The whole number of religious men together dwelling in one house Couerture A couering In the Common Law it signifieth all the time that a man and wife are coupled in marriage Couchant Couching or lying on the ground Couert Hidden secret Couertbaron A marryed wife a woman subiect to a husband Couerture In our Common Law it is sometime taken for marriage Couine Deceit cousenage Countermand To giue cōmandement contrarie to that which was commanded before Countermine To mine or dig in the earth against another Countermure A wall made in defence of another wall Counterpane The fellow coppy of a deed indented Counterpoise Any thing laid in waight against another thing Counteruaile To bee of equall value to another thing Coupee Cut off Cramp fish A fish whose nature is to make the hands of such as touch it to be benummed or astonied though they touch it with a long pole Crannie A little hole or chinke Crauen A coward Crazie Sickly weake of vnperfect health Credence Beleefe trust Credible That which may be beleeued Creditor He that lendeth or trusteth another with mony or wares Credulitie Easines of beleefe Credulous He which easily beleeueth a thing Cressant In Heraldrie it signifieth the newe Moone Crime An offence or fault committed Criminall Faultie or that which belongeth to a fault or accusation Crisis A Greeke word which is interpreted iudgment In Phisicke it signifieth the conflict betweene nature and sickenesse that is the time when either the patient suddenly becommeth well or suddenly dyeth or waxeth better or worse according to the strength of his bodie and violence of the disease Crispe Curled Cristall A substance like cleere glasse There are two kindes hereof One which groweth vpon extreame cold mountaines being there congealed like yee by the minerall vertue of the place as Albertus writeth Another kinde groweth in the earth in some places of Germanie Cristalline Made of Cristall or shining like Cristall Criticall In Phisicke the fourth and seuenth dayes are called Critical because in them Phisitians vse to iudge of the danger of a disease But the seuenth is accounted the chiefe Criticall day the fourth a token or signe what the seuenth day will be if the Patient liue so long This account must bee made according to the number of weekes thus In the first weeke the fourth day is the token or Critical of the seuenth day In the second weeke the eleuenth is the Critical of the fourteenth In the third the seuenteeth is the Criticall of the twentieth for Hippocrates reckoneth the twentieth day for the last of the third weeke In the fourth week 24. is the Criticall of the 27. In the fift the 31. the Criticall of the 34. In the sixt weeke the 37. the Criticall of the 40. And so foorth to a hundred Criticke The same that Criticall is Also it signifieth sometime one that hath authoritie or taketh vpon him to censure other mens acts or works writtē Crocodile A harmefull beast liuing most about the Riuer Nilus in Egypt It is hatched of an egge and groweth vnto a wonderfull greatnesse sometime to twentie or thirtie foot long This beast hath no tougue and in feeding moueth onely the vpper iawe He hath eyes like a Hogge and cruell sharpe teeth Hee hath no haire but is made much after the fashion of an Euet with a long taile a long belly and backe couered all ouer with scales close ioyned of great strength Vpon his feete hee hath strong sharpe clawes In the day time hee can see farre and liueth on land in the night he is almost blind and keepeth in the water He is very bold vpon those he seeth afraid of him and feareful if he bee assaulted It is written that he will weepe ouer a mans head when he hath deuoured the body and then wil eate vp the head two Wherefore in Latine there is a prouerbe Crocodili Lachrymae Crocodiles tears to signifie such teares as are fained and spent onely with intent to deceiue or doe harme I saw once one of these beasts in London brought thither dead but in perfect forme of about three yards long Croches The little buds or branches at the top of a Harts horne Crossclet A melting pot Crotayes Dung of a Hare Crownet A little crowne also a part of a horse hoofe is so called Crude Rawe not well digested Cruditie Rawnesse ill digestion Cubebs A certaine fruite sold by Apothecaries like vnto Pepper It commeth out of India and is hotte and drie in operation It comforteth the braine much and quickeneth the spirits being held chewed in the mouth It is also very good to open the stoppings of the Liuer Cubite Halfe a yarde the measure from a mans elbow to the toppe of his middlefinger