Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	grow_v	root_n	small_a	3,915	5	5.8532	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

belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenarie A hireling one that worketh for hire Mercurian Eloquent as Mercury was Meridian Of or belonging to noone day or the South part of the world Merit Desert or to deserve Meritorious Which doth much deserve Messias The same in Hebrew that Christ is in Greek to wit Anointed Our Lord and Saviour is often so called Metamorphise To change the outward shape Metamorphosis A change from one shape to another Metaphore The changing of a word from the naturall sense into another sense like to it as in saying Covetousnesse is the roote of all evill Where the word Root is called a Metaphore because it signifieth the cause and beginning of all evill even as a root is the cause from whence a Plant springeth Metaphoricall Spoken by a Metaphore Metaphysicks Arts which lifting themselves above the changeable nature of things doe consider of such as do subsist in their own essence not subject to any alteration so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall and everlasting things and in this sense Schoole Divinitie is the highest part of the Metaphysicks being chiefly occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and souls of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the aire as raine snow haile thunder lightning blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapours pours or exhalations drawn up from the earth and Sea by attractive vertue of the Sun Meter Measure or a verse made by measure Method A direct way to teach or do any thing Metonymie A figure in speaking when the cause is put for the effect the subject for the adjunct or contrarily Metropelitan The chiefe or mother citie An Archbishop Microcosmus It properly signifieth a little world This terme is sometime applyed to man who is therefore called a Microcosmus or little world because his body being compared to the baser part of the world and his soule to the blessed Angels seemeth to signifie that man is as it were a little world and that the whole world doth resemble a great man Midriffe A sinewie skin passing overthwart in mans body which divideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guts and liver lest the vitall parts should be offended with any ill vapour coming from them Migrame A disease coming by fits either in the right or left side of the head caused by distemperate rumours or vapours brought thither from the veines or arteries at certain times Militant Warring or which is in warfare Militarie Warlike or belonging to Warre Mimicall That which belongeth to scoffing behaviour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton jester a counterfeit foole Minatorie Threatning Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniver A fine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrils some say it is the skin of a little white Vermine breeding in Muscovia Minor The lesser the younger Minoritie A mans time before he be of full age in the law to dispose of his goods and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like a man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candie and fed with mans flesh where at last he was slaine by Theseus as Poets report Miscreant An infidell a false beleever Misprision An offence inclinable to fellonie or treason but not so capital as fellonie or treason is in which the offendour shall be punished by fine losse of goods forfeit of lands during his life or perpetuall imprisonment according to the quality of his offence Mission A sending Missive That which witnesseth ones being sent Mistleden A plant which hath slender branches and greene thick leaves growing never upon the ground but upon other trees The best is that which groweth upon an oake and the leaves and fruit thereof are good to soften and ripen any cold hard swellings Misy A kinde of yellow copperas shining like gold brought out of Egypt and the I le of Cyprus It is of a fretting burning nature as the common Copperas is Mithridate A great confection like treacle invented by King Mithridates from whom it taketh the name It is of singular vertue against poyson and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken inwardly before it be above sixe moneths old Mitigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to convey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobilitie Aptnesse to move Moderate Measurable temperate also to governe or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet governour he that keepeth both parties from being too extreame Moderne Living now in our age Modicum A little a poore pittance Modulation A pleasant tuning or sweet singing Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees Moitie Half Moleboute A great fish which maketh a grunting noyse when he is taken Molestation A troubling Mollifie To make soft Mollification A making soft Moloch The name of an Idol in the vally of Ennon in the tribe of Benjamin to which the Israelites did abhominably offer their children in sacrifice of fire This Idoll was made in the likenesse of a Calfe Moment A minute or very little time sometime the valew or weight of a thing Momentanie Of short continuance which lasteth a very little while Monarch A King or Prince that ruleth alone without any equall Monarchie The rule of one Prince alone or a countrey so governed Monasterie A religious house of Monks Monasticall Solitary belonging to a Monastery Monition A warning Monologie A speaking still of one thing a long tale of one matter Monomachie A single fight betweene two hand to hand Monopolie When a man doth ingrosse or get commodities into his hands in such fashion that none can sell them or gain by them but himself Moote To argue or reason a case in law Morall Of or belonging to good manners some time one of good behaviour sometimes the meaning of a fable Moralitie Goodnesse of manners civilitie Morgage To lay house or land to pawne in such sort that they are forfeit if the money be not repayed at a certaine time Morositie Frowardnesse waywardnesse Morpheus Sleep or the God of sleep Mortifie To kill sometime to tame to breake the courage or take away ones delight Mortification A killing a pulling away of ones pleasure Mortmaine A terme in the Law when lands were given to a house of religion or to a company corporate by the Kings grant for then such land is said to come into Mortmaine that is a dead hand and by a statute the King or Lord of whom it is holden may enter into it Mortuarie A payment due in some places for the buriall of the dead which is foure shillings and foure pence where the goods of the deceased partie are above the valew of twentie nobles and under thirtie pounds sixe shillings and eight pence where the goods exceed thirtie pounds and ten shillings where