Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	flower_n	root_n	small_a	4,140	5	5.8526	4	true

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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

with his foot caused a fountaine forthwith to spring in the place Bacchus obtaining by this meanes his desire built a Temple there of exceeding huge greatnesse in the middle whereof he erected an Idoll to Iupiter in the likenesse of a Ram which Idol afterward gave Oracles and was called the Oracle of Ammon because it was situated in a dry sandy place for Ammos in Greeke signifieth Sand. The other Oracle was at Delphi a Citie of Beotia in Greece where Apollo was said to give answers Oratorie A place to pray in Oratour One that pleadeth causeth an eloquent speaker Orbe Any perfect round circle hollow in the midst Orbicular Round like an Orbe Orchall A stone like Allume used sometime by Diers to raise a red colour Ordinary A Judge that hath Ordinary jurisdiction in Ecclesiasticall causes Ordure Dung filth Orgall The lees of Wine dried used by Diers to make their cloth to drinke in the colour throughly Organicall That which consisteth of divers substantiall parts members Organist A player upon Organs Organ Ling. A kinde of Ling brought out of the North Countries Orgies Rude ceremonies instituted by the Poet Orpheus to be kept every third yeere in the honour of Bacchus Orient The East Orient Pearles Glistring Pearles of great price Orientall Of or belonging to the East Orifice The mouth of any thing or the outward hole of a wound Originall The first beginning The first of any thing Oringos Certaine roots growing in some places neere the Sea side The Plant is called Sea holly bearing prickly broad leaves and round sharpe prickly heads set about with small sky coloured floures These roots are very long and deepe into the ground of an ashie colour in the outside and full of joynts They use scraping of the outer rinde of these roots and pulling out the pith to preserve them by boyling them with Sugar or Honie a litle Cinamon and Ginger which preserve is very good for aged people and such as are consumed in their bodie to nourish them again Orisons Prayers Ornament A garnishing Ornature A garnishing a setting forth Ornifie To garnish Orphan He that wanteth father and mother friendlesse Orpment A soft yellow kind of Arsenik like unto Brimstone It is commonly taken for Rats-bane Orthodoxall That which belongeth to a true and right faith or Religion Orthographie The art of writing words truly as Sonne of man with an O Sun that shineth with the vowell V. Orthographist He that professeth or is skilfull in Orthographie Osanna See Hosanna Osprey A kinde of ravenous Fowle which hovereth over pooles to take Fish Ostentation Boasting vain craking or vaunting A proud setting forth to shew Ostiarie An officer having authoritie to keepe unworthy persons out of the Church Ostracisme A banishment among the Athenians for ten yeers so called because they used to write the names of the partie so condemned in Oyster shelles This punishment was chiefely used to abate the over great power of noble men Ovall A long round circle made like an egge such as pictures are sometimes drawn in Overture An overturning a sudden change Oxgang Thirteene acres of land Oxymell A sirupe made of Hony Vineger and water good to cut and clense grosse slegmatick humors sometime there are boyled certaine roots and seeds with it and then is it called Oxymell compositum sometime it is made with Honey Vineger and the Sea Onion and then it is named Oxymel Scylliticum which also is of two sorts to wit simple and compound P PAcal A tree in India so called Pacification An appeasing or pacifying Pacificatorie Which appeaseth or pacifieth Pact A bargain Page A written side of a leafe of paper Pagan A Heathen an infidell Paganisme The beliefe of the Pagans Paico An hearbe in India good against the griefe of the stone in the Kidnies which cometh of windinesse or cold causes Palate The upper hollow part of the mouth wherein lyeth the sense of tasting as in the tongue Palestricall Of or belonging to wrastling Also that which is done decently with comely gesture of the bodie Pali●ode A recantation or denying of an opinion formerly maintained * Palliard A Whooremonger * Palliardise Whooredome Palliate To cloke to cover Pallizado Great postes set up in the entrie to a Camp for a defence against great shot Palme The tree which beareth Dates growing plentifully in the holie land There are of these trees found also in some parts of Egypt but they beare no fruit or if they beare any it is unpleasant The branches of this tree were wont to be carried as a token of victory because they are of that nature that they wil stil shoot upward though oppressed with never so great weight the leaves thereof never fall Of this tree there is male and female the male beareth only blossomes no fruit but the female beares both In old times some people used to write with Paper made of leaves of the Palme tree Palmer A poore Pilgrime that visiteth all holy places Palmister He that telleth ones fortune by looking in his hand Palmistry See divination Palpable That which may be felt with the fingers m●nifest notorious Pamphlet A little book Pandar A base fellow that keepeth or attendeth upon Harlots Pandect A booke treating of all matters also the Volume of the Civill Law called Digests is so called Panegyricall That which is spoken flatteringly in praise of some great person Also it signifieth stately honorable magnificent or a speech made of many great matters together Panther A fierce wilde beast having a sweet smell and a faire spotted skin wherewith she allureth other beasts to looke on her hiding her head lest it should make them afraid and by this means getteth her prey more easily The male of this beast is the libard The panthers as is written have on their shoulder a spot which groweth and waineth like the Moon This beast is so fearfull of the Hyena that in his presence she dareth not doe any thing in so much that if one have but a peece of the skinne of a Hyena the Panther will not touch him and it is said that if both their skins be hanged together the haire of the Panthers skin will fall off Panyme A heathen a gentile Parable A similitude or resemblance made of a thing Para●elsian A Physitian that followeth the method of Paracelsus and his manner of curing which was by exceeding strong oyles and waters extracted out of the nature of things Paraclere A comforter Paradise A garden or pleasant place Paradox An opinion maintained contrary to the common allowed opinion as if one affirme that the earth doth move round and the heavens stand still Paragon A beautifull peece a lovely creature Paragraph It properly signifieth any marke set in a m●rgent to note the different discourses in a Booke or long Chapter wherefore such divisions in writing are commonly called Paragraphs Paralipomenon Omitted or not spoken of There are two bookes in the old testament so call'd because many worthy