Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	root_n	small_a	stalk_n	2,951	5	11.5477	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11815	Naturall philosophy, or, A description of the world, namely, of angels, of man, of the heauens, of the ayre, of the earth, of the water and of the creatures in the whole world.; Rerum naturalium doctrina methodica. English	Scribonius, Wilhelm Adolf, fl. 1576-1583.; Widdowes, Daniel.; Wydowes, I.	1621 (1621)	STC 22111; ESTC S971	34,963	68

in Summer to restore appetite to meate Yet too much of it hurteth the eyes and boyld with womans milke cureth burnings Beetes haue two coullours the one white the other blacke and red both of them for their salt disgest and cleanse but the white is more salt and bindeth yet being boyled it looseneth It cureth obstructions of the liuer especially if it be taken with vinegar and mustard It also cureth those that be sicke of the splene Purslaine hath round thicke fat and white leaues on the backe a red stalke yellow flowers like a Starre They of the Garden haue broad leaues and a thicke stalke the wilde lesser and more leaues It is colde in the first and moyst in the second degree it is tart his iuyse helpeth a hot stomacke and hot diseases it being somewhat binding helpeth fluxes and euacuations of bloud if it be vsed with Barley flower Garden Mallowes grow with a round leafe and high stalke his flowers be red or white wilde Mallowes mollifie and a little digest Garden are moyst and weaker The decoction of Mallowes drunke cureth an old cough his leaues sod and vsed with common oyle heale burning The Onion hath a subtell stalke round and hollow arising from a round roote wound about with many fouldings it is hot almost in the fourth degree it is of thicke partes his iuyse is a dry substance and hot An Onion all night layd in colde water and drunke killeth wormes and being beaten with salt it draweth away warts by the rootes his iuyse put in the eare cureth deafenesse The Leeke groweth almost like Onions and is of the same qualitie it doth dissolue swellings and congealed bloud being applyed like a Plaster Parsley hath leaues like Cycuta it is hot and dry in the third degree it peirceth and dissolueth prouoking vrine the seed is more effectuall then the herbe It dissolueth the stone it consumeth ill moysture and sores of the head These herbes following are vsed for Garlands or physicke some of them smelling sweetly The Violet hath leaues lesser and thinner then Ivie but more blacke his stalke commeth from the midst of his roote beareth a purple flower and a seed full of graynes It springeth in woods and shadowie places wilde but not sweete it is colde in the first and moyst in the second and cooleth hot diseases and inflamations Of it there be diuers kindes and cullors as the Pancey or Harts-ease The Daisie hath leaues somewhat round aboue and small below and the roote in the ground wheeling about it is colde in the second degree The Ielly-flowre hath sharpe leaues growing like grasse with flowers of sundry coullours it hath an attractiue force and the iuyse healeth wounds in the head Maioram hath almost a woodden stalke with many rough round leaues and it smelleth sweetly It is hot and dry in the fourth degree it is of thin parts and of a disgesting facultie It healeth disgesteth and prouoketh vrine Rosemary is hot and dry in the third degree and smelleth like Frankincense It mollifieth disgesteth and dryeth Spicknard is hot in the first and dry in the second degree Lauender heateth and dryeth in the second degree White Daffodill is hot and dry It is of diuerse kindes Rose Campion is an herbe with an Ash coulloured stalke as it were cotton long leaued and white bearing purple flowers growing vp like the Prim-rose his seede is hot and dry almost in the second degree it preuaileth against the stinging of Scorpions Herbes vsed in medicine are Aromatike or ordinary Aromatike doe comfort and strengthen the spirits Thence they take their name Saffron is hot in the second and dry in the first degree it a little bindeth and concocteth it may with good keeping be preserued fiue yeares It comforteth the heart and stomacke it maketh pure bloud and prouoketh vrine it scowreth the brest it is deadly if it be taken too much Ginger waxeth greene twise or thrise in the yeare it heateth in the third and is moyst in the first it is of more subtell parts then Pepper Zadury or Wormeseede heateth and dryeth in the second degree it is that we doe call the roote of China like Ginger but not so biting Gallingall is the roote of a plant growing in Memphis and Syria it groweth like the flouredeluce but with prickes and is broader and thicker from the roote It is hot and dry in the third degree as is the roote of Cyprus Callamus Aromaticus is an herbe of India growing like reeds or figs. It is hot and dry in the second degree and a little binding Acorus is a plant growing with leaues like Iris but smaller or like segges the roote is white sweetly smelling It is hot and dry in the second degree There be sexes of Herbes as of other liuing things some of which more helpe namely the Male or Female according to their kindes A Feeling soule is a power apprehending and perceiuing things placed without the bodie of liuing creatures This facultie is exercised by the sences and by motion accompanying the sences The sences are outward or inward The outward onely perceiue things present And euery one of these haue their proper subiect and the most haue a middle instrument of all which if there be a certaine mutuall consent and iust proportion the sences become of morce force but if any one of them haue too excellent an obiect or his instrument be corrupt they are dull and vnfit to be vsed This is the cause of blindnes to those that walke in snow and of deafenesse vnto Smithes c. Furthermore sences are common to the whole bodie or proper to some part thereof The sence in the whole bodie is touching This is a sence by meanes of flesh full of sinewes apprehending tactill qualities His instrument is flesh full of sinewes or rather a nerue like a hayre dispersed throughout the whole bodie In man for the aboundance of nerues is this sence most quicke his meanes is flesh and skin for though the skin be remoued yet a man feeleth hurt Sences of certaine partes are more or lesse noble The nobler are Seeing and Hearing whose meanes are the water and ayre Sight by the eye perceiueth bright and colloured things The subiect thereof is light c. Greene a most temperate coullour is most acceptable to the sight His instrument is the Nerue Optick which from the braine cometh to both the eyes Hearing is a sence perceiuing soundes his instrument is a little skin in the lowest winding or turning of the eare dry and full of holes the skin is double one below which couereth a little bone like an Anvile Another aboue containing a little bone as it were a small Mallet The vpper striken by the soundes striketh the lower and stirreth vp the spirits in the nerues to perceiue the sound The more vn-noble sences are Tasting and Smelling Tasting apprehendeth tastes His instrument is a nerue stretched like a Net vpon the flesh of the tong which is full of little pores His meanes