Selected quad for the lemma: earth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	north_n	pole_n	south_n	3,753	5	10.5697	5	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

diuide or separate because by their feined deuotion they seemed to separate themselues from the other people Pheere See Feere Phenix The rarest Bird in the world It is written that there was neuer any but one of this kind liuing at one time and that only in Arabia of the bignesse of an Eagle of a purple colour hauing a bright colour of golde about his necke a goodly faire taile and a tuft of feathers vpon his head He liueth aboue 600. yeares and being old buildeth him a nest of Cinnamon and the twigs of Frankincence which he filleth with spices then with the labouring of his wings in the Sun setting it on fire is there consumed in it out of whose Ashes there groweth a Worme and of the worme another Phenix Pheon A terme in Heraldry It signifieth the head of a Dart. Philosopher A louer of wisedome It is commonly vsed for a learned man of great knowledge in the nature of things Philosophy The study of wisedome a deepe knowledge in the nature of things There are three different kindes hereof 1 Rationall Philosophy including Grammar Logik and Rhetoricke 2 Naturall Philosophy teaching the nature of all things and conteining besides Arithmetick Musick Geometry and Astronomy 3. Morall Philosophy which consisteth in the knowledge and practise of ciuility and good behauiour Philtre An amorous potion a drinke to procure loue Phlebotomy Letting of blood Physitions as is written learned this practise first of a beast called Hyppopotamus liuing in the riuer Nilus which beeing of a rauenous nature and therefore often ouercharged with much eating is wont to seek in the banks for some sharpe stubbe of a Reed vpon which pricking his leg he thereby easeth his ful body stopping the bleeding afterward with mud Phlegmon A hot swelling of inflamed blood Phrase A manner of speaking Phylactery A scroll of parchment which the Pharises wrote on their foreheads hauing the ten commandements written in it Physignomie An arte to iudge of ones nature or conditions by his visage and forme of his body Phytonisse A woman possessed with a spirit therby foretelling things to come Pia mater The inmost skin which incloseth the braine round about Pickage Money paide at Faires for breaking the ground to set vp boothes Piety Godlinesse Pigmen A painting Pight Set or placed Pine tree A tall strong tree not subiect to wormes or rottennesse and therefore much vsed where it groweth to make shippes The leaues of this tree are hard pointed sharpe and narrow continuing greene all the yeare and the shaddow thereof will not suffer any plant to grow vnder it Pinipinichi A milkie iuyce drawne out of certaine trees in India It is somewhat thick and clam my and with great vehemency purgeth cholerike humours Pinnas A fruite growing in India good for the stomacke and heart Pioner A labourer in an army vsed to cast trenches or vndermine forces Pious Godly vertuous Pipe A measure of halfe a Tunne that is 126. gallons Piepowders A court held in faires for redresse of disorders these committed Pirate A robber by sea Pistacke See Fistik-nuts Placable Gentle milde that will soone bee pacified Placability Gentlenes mildenes Placard A licence to maintain vnlawfull games Plaintife Hee that complaineth Plane tree A tree wide spreading with broade leaues in times past greatly esteemed in Italy onely for the shadow thereof in so much that they often bedewed it with wine to make it grow The Romans were wont to banquet much vnder these trees Planet A wandering Starre mooued onely in a spheare by himself there are seauen such Starres to wit the Sun Venus Mercury the Moone Saturne Iupiter and Mars They are called Planets of a greeke word signifying to wander or goe astray because these Starres passe through the twelue signes and are sometimes wide distant sometimes neere to each other Plaudite A signe of reioycing a clapping of the hands Plausible That which greatly pleaseth or reioyceth Plebeian One of the common people Pleget A linnen cloath dipped in any water to wash or lay to a sore place Plenary Full whole intire Plenitude Fulnesse Pleurisie A disease when the inward skin of the ribs in mans body is idflamed with to much blood flowing vnnaturally to it In this disease there is a hardnesse to fetch breath a cough a continuall ague and a pricking paine about the ribs Plonkets A kind of wollen cloth Plume A feather Plurall More than one Plurality The being or hauing more than one Poeme Any short matter wittingly contriued in verse Poesie The writing of a Poet a Poets worke Poet. One that writeth well in verse Poetaster A counterfeite Poet a bad Poet. Poeticall Like a Poet belonging to a Poet Poetize To write like a Poet. Poetrie The same that Poesie is Poise Weight heauines Pole The end of the axle-tree whereon the heauens do moue that part or point of the heauens which neuer moueth There are two such Poles of the world one called the north pole visible to vs in the North farre aboue the earth the other called the south pole farre out of our sight beeing as much vnder the earth in the South as the North pole is aboue it Polish To make faire or bright Polite Bright trim fine Pollute To defile Pollution A defiling an vncleannesse Polygamie The hauing of moe wiues than one often marriage Polype A fish hauing many feete and changing colour often wherfore inconstant persons are sometimes said to be Polypes Polypodium Okeferne a kind of hearbe like Ferne growing much about the roots of oakes The roote of this hearbe is vsed in Phisicke to purge melancholike grosse and phlegmaticke humors Pompe A great shew a solemne traine Pompou● Stately very solemne Ponderous Heauy of great weight Pontage Money paid toward the maintenance and repayring of bridges Pontificacy Popedome Pontificall Stately honorable Bishoplike Popular In great fauour with the common people Populous Full of people Pores Little holes in the skin out of which sweate droppeth or vapors breath out of the body Porphyrie A kinde of red marble Port. A hauen or hauen towne sometime a stately crame or behauiour Portable Which may easily be carried Portage Carriage transporting Portend To foreshew or signifie before hand Portent A monstrous thing which foresheweth some great matter Portculise A falling gate to keepe out enemies from a City or keepe them in Portgreue A chiefe officer in certaine Port townes Portrature An image a picture Portsale A selling at the hauen Pose A rheume or humor which falleth into the no●e stopping the nostrills and hindering the voyce Position A setting or placing sometimes a sentence propounded Positiue Expresly set down and decreed Postscript That which is written in the end after an other thing Posterior The later the hinder part Postilion A speedy poste or messenger Postulation A demand a request Potent Mighty strong able Potentate A prince a great ruler Potion A Physicall drinke Pourcontrell The same that Polype is Poundage A Subsidie granted to the kings Maiestie