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A33754 An English dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, phylosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences : containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor : together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language : in a method more comprehensive than any that is extant / by E. Coles ... Coles, Elisha, 1640?-1680. 1677 (1677) Wing C5071; ESTC R13911 383,305 374

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sixth every fiftieth year and by Sixtus the fourth as it now stands every 25 year beginning it first Anno 1475. Jucatan a Peninsula of New Spain Jucundity l. pleasantness Judah Jehudah h. Confession Judaea Chananaea Canaan part of Syria the holy land or land of promise Judaick cal Jewish Judaism the Faith Custom or Religion of the Jews also a Mortgage Judas Jude as Judah Judas tree with broad leaves whereon he is supposed by some to hang himself Ju●gement Judicium the second part of Logick disposing Arguments as the first part Invention finds them out Judicabl● which may be judged Judication the giving of judgment Judicatory ture l. a place of judgment Judicial ary belonging to a Judge or Judgement Jud●cious full of judgment wise Judicium Dei tryal of Ordel Judith h. praising St. Ives a town in Huntington Ivetot a town of lower Normandy in France whose governour was called King of Ivetot one of a great Title and small inheritance Jugal l. belonging to a Yoke or Wedlock Jugament l. a yoking or coupling Jugular arie belonging to the throat Jugulation l. a killing or cutting ones throat Jugum terrae half a plough-land Jugurth tha King of Numidia taken by the Romans after a long war and brought to Rome where he died in prison Ivingoe a town in Bucks Juise o. Judgement trial examination Jujubes uves Jubeb-fruit Italian plums like Olives Juitland Jut North and South parts of D●nmark Juke to pearch or roost as a hawk Julep A. a preparative of Syrups c. to open the inward parts and prepare for a purgation from Julap P. a kind of Rose-water I●lian nus a Roman Emperour who apostatized from Christiani●y to Heathenism Iulian na Gilian a Womans name Iuli●n Law among the Romans made Adulte●y death Iul●an Are●unt Old Engl●sh acc●unt where●y the year consists of 365 dayes and 6 hours a Correction of the Calendar made 44 years before the birth of Christ by Iulius Caesar the first Roman Emperour he subdued France Spain Britain and the greatest part of Germany reigned 3 years and was stab'd in the Senate-house Iuliers an Imperial town and Dukedome Iulio an Italian coyn about 6 d. value in the papacy of Pope Iulius Iülus g. soft-haired or mossy-bearded Ascanius the son of Aenaeas also a son of Ascanius Iullaber a little hill in Kent where they say Iullaber a Giant or Witch was buried or where Laberius Durus a Captain of Iulius Caesars was slain Iuly Quintilis the fifth Moneth from March so called in honour of Iulius Caesar Iumbals certain sweet-meats Iumentarious belonging to a Iument l. a horse or any labouring beast Iument f. a mare Iuncaria a soil where rushes grow Iuncto Iunta Sp. a Caba● Combination of particular persons Juncture l. a joynt or joyning ●uncture of time the very nick or moment Juncture of affairs the present posture Jungible which may be joyned Junk any piece of an old Cable Junonian ick belonging to Juno Twin-sister and Wife to Jupiter Juno's tears the plant Vervain Juniority a being Junior l Younger Jun●o Sp. as Juncto a meeting of men to sit in Council Juon o. John Ivory f. Elephants Teeth Jupart o. Jeopardy Jupiter Son of Saturn and Ops he conspired against his Father expelled him and divided the Empire between Himself Neptune and Pluto Jupiter Belus second King of Babylon Son of Nimrod or Saturn Jupiters distaffe Mullein Candelaria a kind of Clary Jura Regalia as Regalia Juration l. a swearing Jurate l. sworn Jurates Aldermen or Sheriffs Jurden Jurdan Jordan Jourdon q. Gor-den sa stercus cubilis a Chamber-pot Juridick cal l. belonging to the Law lawful actionable Juridical-day a Court-day Jurisdiction l. authority also the compass or extent thereof Juris prudence l. knowledge or skill in the Laws also the stile or form of the Law Jurist a Lawyer Jurn-choppers as Journ Juror one of the Jury a Company of men sworn to deliver a truth upon such evidence as shall be delivered to them Grand Jury twenty four grave and substantial men Petit Jury twelve men at least Juris utrum a writ for the incumbent whose Predecessour hath alienated his Lands or Tenements Jury mast made at Sea in case of necessity Ivry a Town in Normandy Jus Coronae Crown-Right part of the Law of England and in many things differs from the General Law Jus Curialitatis Angliae the Courtesie of England Jus Patronatus the right of Patronage or presenting a Clerk to a Benefice Jussel a minced dish of several meats Jussulent l. full of or stewed in broth Justes f. Turnaments or Tiltings on horse-back with spears and lances Justice cer eier f. a Judge or Administrer of Justice Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench he hears and determines all Pleas of the Crown Treasons Felonies c. L●rd Chief Justice of the common-Common-Pleas he hears and determines all causes at the Common-Law that is all Civil causes personal and real between common persons Lord Justice of the Forest Justice in eyre of the Forest one which hath Jurisdiction over all the Forest on this side Trent and another over all beyond Justices of Assise sent by special commission into this or that but not his own County to take Assises for the Peoples ease Justices of Oyer and Terminer deputed upon special and extraordinary occasions to hear and determine some particular causes Justices errants or in Eyre were sent with Commissions into the Country to determine the Pleas of the Crown for the ease of the Subject who must else have com'n to the Courts at Westminster Justices of Gaol-delivery sent with Commission to hear and determine all causes belonging to any cast into Gaol Justice of the hundred the Lord or Alderman of the Hundred Justices of Labourers appointed to redresse their frowardness who would either not work or have unreasonable wages Justices of Nisi prius are now the same with Justices of Assises Some make this difference that the first have jurisdiction in causes personal as well as real and these in strict acception deal only in Possessory writs Justices of Trail-●aston f. draw-staff Inquisitours appointed by King Edward the first on occasion of great disorders in the Realm during his absence in the Scotish and French wars Justices of the Pavilion authorised by the Bishop of Winchester at a fair held near that City by virtue of a grant from King Edward the fourth Justices of the P●ace appointed by the Kings Commission to attend the peace of the County where they dwell Justicements all things belonging to Justice Justicies a writ for the Sheriff to dispatch some special cause above the ordinary reach of his county-County-Court Justiciable subject to authority or Law Justicium Lawsteed vacation a stay or ceasing from ministration of Justice Justifical executing or doing Justice Justification a justifying clearing maintaining making good or shewing a good reason for Justificators Compurgators which by oath justifie the Innocency report or oath of another Justinians Fryers and Nuns instituted 1412 in St. Justines
finable by the Justices before whom the party is attainted Misqueme o. to displease Missate q. mis-sate o. became not was misbecoming Miss for Mistress Missal l. a Mass-book Misselden Meseldine Missel●● Mess an excrementitious plant with slimy white berries growing upon trees M●ssen as Misen whereof some long ships have two viz. the Main-Miss●n next the main-mast and the Bonaventure-missen next the poop Missil l. a dart or any thing shot or thrown also in Heraldry a mixture of several colours together Mission l. a sending also a Popish Commission to preach the Roman Faith in other Countries Missionaries the Priests that are so sent also as Fathers of the Mission in France they go by pairs in imitation of the Apostles to assist the Clergy with obedience to the Bishop Missive l. a sending also sent and that which witnesseth ones being sent Mis-trial a false or erroneous trial Mister o. need want also as Mistery f. Mestir a craft or trade Mis-us●r an abuse of liberty or benefit Miswoman o. a whore Misy Copper shining like like gold found in Egypt and Cyprus Misthrown o. cast thine eye the wrong way Mistimed o. Mis-spent the time Mites Vermin smaller than lice about the heads and Nostrils of hawks Mitches o. Manchets Mithridate Meth an Antidote against infection invented by Mithridates a King of Pontus who spake 22 Languages rebelling and being overcome by the Romans he would have poison'd himself but could not Mitigate l. to pacify or quiet Mitta ten bu●hels Mittens f. thick winter gloves without distinction of fingers Mitte o. Mighty Mittimus we send a writ by which Records are transmitted from one Court to another also a Justices warrant to a Jailor to receive and keep an Offender Mittendo Manus●riptum pedis finis a Writ for the searching and transmitting the foot of a fine from the Exchequer to the common-Common-pleas Mitral l. belonging to a Mitre was to a Bishop as a Crown to a King Mytelene an ancient City and now the whole Isle of Le●bos Mixen S. a Dunghill Mixolydian q. Mixt Lydian Musick lamentable fit for Tragedies Mixt-tithes of Cheese milk the young of beasts c. Mize as Mise Mizzy No. a quagmire Miz-maze as Maze Mizmor Sp. a Dungeon Mnas a famous Italian Pirate Mnason q. Mneson g. an Exhorter Mnemosyne g. Memory the Mother of the Muses by Jupiter Mnestheus as Menestheus Moabites the Offspring of Moab h. Of the Father Mobbi a drink in Barbados made of Potato roots Mobility l. moveableness inconstancy Mockel Muckle o. Mickle Mockadoes a kind of stuff Modality the manner or qualification of a thing in the abstract Modbury a town in Devonshire Modder D. Modde and Mawther Da. Moër Nf. a young girl Modefy f. to moderate or put into the Mode f. fashion Modena the chief City of Modenois an Italian Dutchy Moderata Misericordia a Writ for the abating an immoderate amerciament Modo et formâ l. in manner and form Moderation l. temperance discretion government Moderatour tor l. a Discreet Governour and Decider of Controversies Modern l. New of late time Modiation a measuring by the bushel Modher as Modder Modicum l. a small pittance Modificable capable of Modification the act of Modifying qualify●ng measuring lim●ting Modus decimandi any composition for Ti●hes in kind Modul●tion l. an exact sing●ng or warbling Modwall a bird that destroyes bees Moeble o. f. Meuble Muable Moveable Moeris an Egyptian King who undertook and finished the Moeris an admirable lake receiving the superfluity of Nilus and supplying them with water in time of drought Mognions f. Arms for the shoulders Mogontus an ancient British Idol in Northumberland M●guntine belonging to Moguntia Mentz in Germany where printing was invented An. 1440. Mohatra Sp. a taking up money upon usury Moiety Moitié f. the half of any thing Moile o. a dish of marrow and grated bread Moiles Mullci high-soald shoes anciently worn by Kings and great persons Moison o. f. Moisson harvest ripeness of corn Mokes Ss. the meishes of a Net Mokel sa Bigness Molar l. belonging to a mill Molar teeth Cheek-teeth Grinders five on each side both above and beneath Molasses the refuse Sirrup ●n boiling Sugar Mole a Peer or Fense against the Sea Molebou●e a great grunting ●●sh Molech h. as Moloch Molendarious dina belonging to a mill Molendinum ad ventum a wind-mill Molendinum ●ladonicum bladum de blado a Corn-mill Molestation l. a vexing or troubling Moliminous having using or requiring much strength Molinists great opposers of the Jansenists and followers of Molina a Spanish Jesuit maintaining that God did not premove the will in free acts c. Molli●ion l. an attempting or endeavouring Mollificative having power-to Mollify l. to soften or cause Mollitude l. softness tenderness effeminateness Mollock Meore o. dirt or dung Moloch Molech h. railing or a King an Idol having the brazen body of a man with the head of a Calf Molter No. Mill-toll Molochi●e as Malachite Molucques Asian Islands Moly an herb of great use and virtue among the Gods whose root was supposed dangerous for mortals to dig up Momblishness o. talk muttering Mombelliard a town in Franche County Mome mus a feigned Deity Son of Nox and Somnus whose business was to find fault and carp at all the other Gods Moment l. a minute also weight or concernment Momentary of short continuance Mompellier a City of Languedoc in France Mon o. Might q. Mun or Must. Mon Mona Anglesey Mona●hal Monial belonging to Monachism g. the state and condition of a Monk Monadical belonging to Monas g. unity the number of one Mon amy f. My friend Mon-Castel a town in Flanders Monarchical belonging to Monarchy g. Government by a Monarch g. one Man or Woman ruling alone Monasterial belonging to Monasteries colledges for Monasticks g. Monks or Solitary Religious people Mond f. a golden globe the Ensign of an Emperour challenging a kind of right to the whole world Mone o. q. Mond a globe Monedule l. a Jack-daw Moneresse o. a She-Mourner at Funerals Moneth Four weeks or Eight and twenty daies Twelve-Moneth a whole year Twelve moneths to be reckoned by 28 dayes to the moneth Calendar Moneth as exprest in every yearly Almanack Moneth of apparition 26 daies and 12 hours the Moon being in combustion with the Sun and disappearing the other 3 daies Moneth of Consecution or Progression from one conjunction to another 26 dayes and an half Medical or Decretorial Moneth 26 dayes and 2● houres Moneth of Peragration 2● dayes and 8 hours the Moons revolution from any part of the Zodiack to the same again Moneths-mind Sa. The 30th day after any ones death Mong-corn o. Maslin Monger a small Sea-vessel for fishing Monger Mangere Sa. a Merchant Moniers Moneyors the Mint-men or Coyners Monitory l. the place of Monition l. admonition warning the work of a Monitor l. an admonishes or Counsellour Monks-hood Consolida Regalis a flower Monmedi a town of Luxemburg Monmouth a town and County in Wales Monoceros rote g. an
to keep corroding pouders in Bursholder Burrow-holder Headborough Busca cus under-wood brush Busk o. bush also to shut up Buscum ducis He●tog●nbush in Brabant Buscurles Buze Seamen Bush a Foxes tail Busiris a Tyrant slain by Hercules Buskin a kind of boot Busones Buzones Comitatûs Justices Bustard Bistard a great sluggish bird But sc. without But my lest o. Except I list Butchers broom a shrub like Myrtle but prickly But-end the fore-end of ships But-heads the ends of planks Buthus a wrestler that ate an ox every day Butlerage impost on wines paid the Kings butler Buttens Burls the first puttings up of a stags head Butterburre pestilent wort Butterwort Yorkshire-Sanicle Buttington a Welch Town Buttress a prop supporting the but-end of a building Buttock the ships breadth right-a-stern from the tuck upwards Butyrum Saturni the sweetest liquor of Lead Buxiferous l. box-bearing Buxom Bucsom D. boogs●em pliant obedient also blithe merry Buxioning for Burjoning budding Buzzar a Market-place among the Persians Buzzard a large Kite Bye o. habitation Bydding o. abiding Byblus a Town of Phaenicia Byg Bigg o. build Byker o. a fray By By r Bur-laws determined by persons elected by common consent of Neighbours Bym● for By me Byndon a Town in Dorset Byraft bereft o. Byram The Turks Carneval or Shrovetide Byramlick a Turkish present like our New-years-gift By-spel sa Proverb Byssine g. made of silk Bytrent o. catcheth about Byw●pen Bywoopen o. made senseless Byzantium Nova Roma Constantinople in Thrace Byzantine see Besant C CAas f. Chance Cab h. three pints Caback a Russian Inne or Victualling-house Cabades King of Persia. Cabal l. a jade horse Cabalistick belonging to Cabal la h. receiving Jewish tradition their secret science of expounding divine mysteries also a secret Council Cabalist one skil'd therein Cabaline fountain of the Muses Cabanne f. a Tilt-boat Cabane Cabin a Cottage also a little room in a ship Cabern the same Cabbage that part of the Deers head where the horns are planted Cablish Brush-wood Cabos'd sp having the head cut off close to the Shoulder Cabura a fountain of Mesopotamia where Juno used to wash Caburn small yarn-line to bind Cables with●l Cacams Jewish Doctors Cacafuego fogo sp shite-fire Cacao an Indian tree also the fruit and kernel thereof Cachectick g. having a Cachexy ill disposition of body Cachinnation l. loud Laughter Cacique Casique an Indian King Cackling-cheat c. a Chicken Cackling-farts c. Egges Cackrel a kind of fish Cacochymy g. ill juice through bad digestion Cacodemon g. evil spirit Cacography g. ill-writing Cacology g. ill language Cacophony g. ill sound or pronunciation Cacosynthet●n g. a bad composition of words Cacozelous g. ill affected Cacuminate l. make sharp at the top Cacus an Italian Shepherd slain by Hercules for stealing his Oxen drawing them backward into his Cave Cadaverous l. like or full of Carcasses Cadbait-fly Caddis Cadworm a bait for trouts c. Cadbury a Town in Somerset Cade l. a Pipe two hogsheads of Herrings 500. of Sprats 1000. also as Caddee a. Lord Magistrate Caddow Nf. a Jack-daw Cad●-lamb brought up by hand Cadence cy l. a falling also prose Caden● houses are the 3d 6th 8th and 12th houses of a Scheme Cadet f. a Younger Brother Cadge on which they bring hawks to sell. Cadier Arthur King Arthurs Chair the top of a Hill in Brecknockshire Cadis Cadiz Cales Calis-Malis in Spain Cadmine belonging to Cadmia lapis Calaminaris Brass-oar Cadmus Son of Agenor Brother of Europa and founder of Thebes whither he brought the Greek letters from Phaenicia Cadrou Cadzou a Barony in Scotland Caducean belonging to Caduce l. Mercury's snaky staff wherewith he kil'd or made alive also the Roman Heralds staff a sign of peace Caduciferous carrying the same Caecity l. blindness Caelibat l. a single life Caeneus an invulnerable man transformed from Caenis a Thessalian Virgin ravished by Neptune Caer br a City Caercaradoc a hill in Shropshire so called from Caratacus a British King Caerdiff a Town in Glamorganshire Caerfuse Caersus● a Town in Montgomeryshire Caermarden Maridunum the birth-place of Merlin Caernarvon the birth-place of King Edward 2. built by King Edward 1. where the Princes of Wales kept their Chancery Exchequer and Courts of Justice Caesar Keisar Czar Emperour Caesura making a short syllable after a compleat foot long Caeyx as Alcyon or Halcyon Cageole f. to prate much to little purpose also to inve●gle one with fair words Cajole the same Cainsham Canes a Town in Sommerset Cainsham smoke a mans weeping when beat by his Wife Cair Cairo Grand Cairo Cairus Alcairus Bab●lon Aegyptia a great City of Aegypt Caishoberry a great house by Watf●rd in Hertfordshire Caitive I. wretched wicked Caitisned o. chained Calaber a kind of Squirril Calabria part of Italy Calaen an East-Indian mineral Calamary Cuttle-fish Calamina as Cadmia Calamint l. the herb Mountain mint also a green Frog Calamist a Player upon Calamus l. a reed Calamus Aromaticus a Physical sweet cane Calamity l. misery Calamize to pipe Cala peregrinorum Tartar Calangium a challenge or claim Calasticks purging Oyntments Calatravo in Spain Calcanthous belonging to Calcanth Vitriol Calcar l. a spur also a calcining furnace Calcation l. treading Calccate l. to shooe Calcedon ny a precious stone also a 〈◊〉 in a Ruby c. Calcetum eata a causey or Causway Chalky or flinty Calc●ya Casea Calsetum and Calceis Caucies the same Calchas seeing a Serpent devour 10 young Sparrows prophesied that Troy should be taken the tenth year Calcine nate nize l. reduce metals to a calx or crumbling substance Calcitrate l. kick Calcule I. an accounting also a Chesman or Counter Calculosity l. fulness of stones or Counters Calcent a great Mart Town of India Caleb h. dog or hearty Caledonian belonging to Caledonia Calyd Scotland Calefactive l. causing Calefaction l. a warming Calefie to heat Calendar l. Almanack Calender to set a glo●s upon Clo●h Calends l. the first day of every month Calent l. hot or warm Calenture sp heat also a burning Fever Calewise o. warmly Caletum Calis in France Caliburn Prince Arthurs sword Calico stuff that comes from Calicut a Country in India Calid l. hot also fierce Calidity l. heat Caliduct l a stove Califactory l. the warming room in a Monastery Caligate l. one wearing stockings Caligate Soldier a common Soldier also a faint hearted Coward Caliginous dim Caligation l. dimness Caligula the 4th Emperor of Rome Caliph a Persian King or Emperour Calisto one of Diana's Nymphs corrupted by Jupiter and turn'd out of her train Caliver Call a small Sea-gun Calked o. cast out or rather up Calk the Ship beat in Okum between every plank Calle c. a Cloak Call o. bravery Callent lid l. Crafty Callidity l. subtilty Calligraphy g. fair writing Calliope one of the nine Muses Callipolis one of the Aegaean Islands called Cyclades Callirrhoe her 30 suiters having kil'd her Father Phocus King of Baeotia were burnt to death Callosity hardness or thickness
Lay her by the Lee with all her sails flat against the Masts and the wind on her broad-side Le Br. a place Lee Lew Ss. Calm under the Wind. Lee-fang a rope reeved into the Creengles of the courses to hale in the bottom of a sail Lee-ward tide when the wind and tide go both one way Le●c● the outside or skirt of a sail from the Earing to the Clew Leech-lines fasten'd to the leech of the top-sails Lecchyd o. dressed seasoned Leed Lid o. March q. Loud month Hence L●de-pills o. Cow-hides Leeds a Castle in K●nt also a town in Yorkshire Leek a town in Staffordshire Leer the place where a Deer lies to dry himself from the dew Leero-way Lyra-way a tuning or playing on the Viol differing from that of Alphonse Lees o. to release Lees Dregs of wine c. also for Leesing o. Lying Leeten you Che. Make your self pretend to be Leet a Law-day Court-Leet a Kings Court of Record in whose mannor soever it be kept it Enquires of all offenses under High Treason punisheth some and certifies the rest to the Justices of Assise Lefe o. q. loveth answering the Latin and Greek is wont also willing and as Leve Liefe o. dear beloved Leethwake No. limber pliable Legacy a particular thing given by a last Will and Testament Legality l. lawfulness keeping the law the condition of a Legalis homo Rectus in Curia Not out-lawed Excommunicated or Defamed Legation l. an Embassy the office of a Legate l. an Ambassadour or Oratour Legatee tary tory he or she to whom any thing is bequeathed Leged o. q. legged layed resident Leggen o. to allay asswage Legging o. lodging Legend l. a writing about the edge of a piece of Coin Golden Legend dary a Popish book of the lives of Saints very fabulous Legeolium Castle-ford in York-shire Leger-book a register belonging to Notaries or merchants Legerdemain f. slight of hand Legergild as Lairwit Legiaunce o. Allegiance Legible l. which may be readd Legiferous l. making or giving Laws Legionary belonging to a Legion l. a Brigade or part of a Roman Army consisting at first of 3000 Foot and 300 Horse encreased by degrees to 6000 Foot and 3000 or as some say 730 Horse by some it is said to be an Army of 6666. Legislative belonging to the making of Laws Legislatour l. a Law-giver Legist ter l. a Lawyer Legitimation a making Legitimate l. lawfull Leguminous l. belonging to pulse Legs of the Martnets small ropes a foot long put through the bolt-ropes of the main and fore-sail in the Eeech and being splised into themselves have a little eye whereinto the Martnets are made Leicester Legeocester Legecestria Leogora the cheif Town in Leicester-shire Leid sc. a Language Leiden Leyden an University in Holland erected by William Prince of Orange 1575. Leigh Ley a pasture or as Le. Leighton-Buzzard a Town in Bedfordshire Leipsick a Town in Misnia Leinster Lemster Leighnigh a Province in Ireland Leit o. Light Leith a Town by Edenburgh in Scotland Lele o. q. lawly lawful Léman q. lead-man or rather L' Aimant-te f. a Sweet-heart or Lover He or She but vulgarly the Concubine of a Priest or married man Lemán nus the Lake upon whith Geneva stands Lemes o. lights flames Lemnian belonging to Lemnos an Aegaean Isle into which sell the Lemnian God Vulcan thrown out of Heaven by Jupiter Lemnian Earth Vermillion or red Earth Lemburgh a Town in Podolia Lemgow a free City of Westphalia Lemster ●re famous wool of Lemster tir Leonminster a Town in Herefordshire Lemures l. Hobgoblins Lends o. the loyns Lene o. to lend Lenitive Lenient softening asswaging causing Lenity tude l. softness meekness gentleness Lenham a Town in Kent Lennox a County in South Scotland Lenonian l. belonging to a bawd Lentiginous full of freckles or pimples like Lentils small round and flat pulse growing in hot Countries Lent D. the Spring the forty dayes of abstinence next before Easter appointed here first by Ercombert King of Kent An. 641. Lentiscine belonging to the Lentisk the Mastick-tree Lentour l. stiffness clamminess Lentous l. pliant tender limber also idle L' envoy f. the message also the conclusion of a Poem serving for dedication or short repetition Leonine belonging to Leo l. a Lion one of the 12 signs also the Names of several Emperours and Popes Leocorion a Monument erected by the Athenians in honour of Leo the Son of Orpheus who sacrificed his three Daughters to appease the Gods and divert a great Plague Leodegar Leodgard keeper of the people Leodium Liege a City in Germany Leofstan sa most beloved or precious-stone Leofwin sa win-love Leoh sa Light Leon a Spanish Province and City Leonard sa of a Lion-like nature Leonidas a famous Captain and King of the Lacedemonians Leopard Libbard an Affrican spotted beast begotten between a Pard and Lioness Leopold Leodpold sa defender of the people Leopolis Lewenberg a town in Russia nigra Leorning-Cnight sa a disciple or Scholer Lòpande o. leaping Lep and lace four pence paid the Lord of Writtel Mannour in Essex for every cart except a Noblemans that passes over Greenbury part thereof Lepanto Naupactum a City of Locris Lepid●ty a being Lepid l. neat or pleasant Leporean rine l. belonging to a hare Leporarius a Grey-hound Leprosity a being Leprous full of Lepry rosie a white scars all over the body Leproso amovendo a writ for the removing of a Leper Leptology g. a description of minute and sordid things Lere o. for leather also l'air f. the air of the face or complexion Lerida a Town in Catalonia Lernean belonging to Lerna g. a water-serpent also the Lake where Hercules slew the Serpent Hydra Lerp●ol a Town in Lancashire Without Les o. incessantly Lesbian belonging to Lesbos an Aegean Isle very exact in their buildings Lescar a City of Béarne in France Lesinage I. thriftiness good husbandry from Lesina I. a Coblers awl Lesingour o. a Lyar. Lesion l. a hurting Lespegend sa Young-men Lessee to whom the Lease is made Lesser sor who lets the Lease Lesses the dung of a Bear or any ravenous beast Lessel o. a shady bush or hovel Lessian diet very moderate prescribed by Lessius a famous modern Physician Lest o. for lust Lestage as Lastage Lestrigones a barbarous and Giant-like people of Italy whose King Antiphates tore one of Vlysses's Companions in pieces with his Teeth Letchland a Town in Glocestershire Letany as Litany Leth as Lathe Lete o. to cease or leave Letest fare o. lettest go makest a show Lethality l. a being Lethal l. deadly mortal Letherwite corruptly for Letherwite or Lairwite Lethargick sick of or belonging to the Lethargy g. the Drousie evil a cold distemper causing excessive sleeping the loss of sense and memory Lethaean belonging to Leth● g. a supposed River of Hell causing forgetfulness Lethiferous l. deadly Lethy o. as Lither Letifical Laet l. making glad Letter-missive an Epistle or letter sent Letter of Atturney Authorising an Atturney that is a man appointed to do a
Dissipable capable of Dissipation l. a scattering dispersing Dissite l. remote Dissociation l. a separating Dissology Dialogue Dissolve l. Melt destroy undo put an end to Dissolute loose debauched lawless Dissoluble capable of Dissolution l. a dissolving also death Dissonance l. disagreement in sound Disswade l. perswade against Disswasion a perswading against Dissyllable g. a word of two syllables Distantial belonging to Distance l. space a being Distant asunder far off Distaunce o. Discord Distemper sickness also size for ancient painting Distend l. stretch out enlarge Distention an enlarging Disterminate l. divide place from place Distick g. a couple or pair of verses Distillation l. a dropping down a Distilling extracting the moisture of things by heat and condensing the vapour again by cold Distillatio per descensum when the liquor falls into a vessel below the distilled matter Distinction l. Distinguishing putting a difference between shewing the several meanings of a thing Distorquement the same as Distorsion tion l. a wresting writhing pulling awry Distrain take away goods for the payment of a debt also to grieve vex o. Distress a distraining also great affliction Distract l. draw asunder perplex also to cause Distraction Madness Distreine o. Constrain Distreineth o. Effecteth Distributive l. belonging to Distribution l. a dividing among many resolving the whole into parts also as Diaeresis Districation Disentangling ridding out of trouble Disturn o. turn away District tus l. jurisdiction the compass within which a man may be compel'd to appear or be distrained Distrigilation l. a currying Distringas a writ for the Sheriff to distrain Distringent wiping off also troubling Disturbance ation l. a causing of trouble Disveloped as Developed Disvirgin Deflour Disunited l. severed Dite o. for indite a treatise Dithyramb f. a jovial song to Bacchus Dition l. Dominion jurisdiction territory Dittander Dittany Dictamnum Lepidium Pipirites Pepperwort a cleansing herb from Dicte a Promontory of Creet Ditto I. the same the said Dittology g. a double reading or meaning Ditty Song Divagation l. a going astray Dival Divine Divan no the Turkish and Persian great solemn Council or Court of Justice Divaporation exhalation of vapour by fire Divarication l. a being Divaricated spread as a fork Divelled pulled away ravished Diventilate winnow Diverberation l. a beating Diversity l. vary alter Diversity l. a being Diverse l. different in circumstance Divers many several Diversiloquent speaking diversly Diverticle l. a turning a by-way also a shifting device Divertisement f. recreation Dividend l. the thing to be divided the dividing also the division or share Dividual l. apt to be divided Dividuity division aptness to divide Divinale ail o. a ridle Divination l. foretelling of things to come Divine l. guess also heavenly also a professour of Divinity l. the mystery of heavenly things also as Deity Divinistre o. a smatterer in Divinity Divinize to make Divine Divisibility l. a being Divisible capable of Division Dividing or being divided Divitiate enrich Divitiosity a being very rich Divitiacus King of the Gauls Divorce to separate also the separation from the bond of Wedlock Diuretical g. provoking urine Diurnal l. belonging to the day also a day-book or News-book Diuturnity l. lastingness Divulgation l. a publishing abroad Divulsion l. a pulling asunder Dizain f. half a score Dize No. put tow on a distaffe Dizen'd No. drest D. La sol re the fifth note in the common Gamut or Scale of Musick Dobeler a great dish or platter Dobuni antient inhabitants of Oxford and Glocestershire Doced Douced a Dulcimer Docility Docibility l. a being Docile teachable apt to learn Docilize make tractable Dock a place where ships are built or laid up also the fleshy part of a Boars chine between the middle and the buttock Docket a brief in writing or a subscription under the Letters Patents by the clerk of the Dockets Doctiloquent l. speaking learnedly Doctoral belonging to a Doctor l. teacher he that hath taken the highest degree in Divinity Physick Civil-law or Musick Doctorate f. Doctorship Document l. instruction Dodded o. having the branches or horns cut off Dodder a weed winding about herbs Dodecaedrie dron g. a figure of twelve sides Dodecagon g. a figure of 12 Angles Dodecatemorie g. one of the twelve parts of the Zodiack Dodkin by some a farthing by others the 8th part thereof Dodman So. Hodmand●d Nf. a shel-snail Dodona a City in Greece near which Jupiter had an Oracle in a wood whose trees were supposed to be vocal and to return the answers of the Oracle Dodo Dors Dors f. sleep sleep lullaby Dodonoeus a Physician of Mechlin in Germany author of a famous herbal Dodrantal of nine ounces Dodu a chuffe or fat-chaps Dogana a custom-house in the East-Indies Doeg h. careful Dog-days in July and August when the Dog-star rising with the Sun encreases his heat Dog-draw when a man is found drawing after a Deer by the sent of a dog in his hand Doge Duke of Venice Dogger a kind of ship Dogget as Docket Dogmatical imposing his own opinions also prudent Dogmatist introducer of new opinions Dogmatize to impose a Doctrine also to instruct Dogs-bane a dog-killing herb Dogs-grass common in Gardens and ploughed fields Doke E. Sf. deep dint or furrow Dolation l. a smoothing plaining Dole or Dool No. q. dale a long unplowed green in a plowed field Dole l. deceit grief also a distributing of Alms. Doleans f. a lamentation Dole-fish which the north-sea Fishers do by custom receive for their allowance Dolg-●ote Dolgbot satisfaction for a wound Dollar a dutch crown less than ours Dolgelle a Town in Merioneth-shire Dolling o. warming Dolorous l. painful Dolphin a fish that loves men the eldest Son of France also a Constellation of nine bright stars Dolt sot block-head Dolven o. buried Doly Dooly o. mourning sad Dolyman a Turkish garment Domable l. tameable Dome I a Town-house Domestick cal l. belonging to the house or Family Domes-man o. confessor or Judge Domicil l. a dwelling-place Dominative belonging to Domination l. a ruling or Lording Dominical of the Lord. Dominica in ramis palmarum Palm-sunday Dominica in albis Whitsunday Dominical Letter shewing the Lords-daies in an Almanack Dominicide l. killer of his Master Dominicans an order of Fryers instituted 1206. by Dominick a Spaniard the author as they say of the Inquisition Domicellus la titles given John of Gaunts Son and Daughter in their naturalization Domino a hood worn by Canons also a womans mourning veil Domitian a persecuting Emperour of Rome who was wont when alone to kill flies Dompte-vilain f. tame-knave a good cudgel Domition ture l. a taming Dommera● c. a madman Domo reparanda a writ against him that lets his house go to decay and endanger his neighbours Domus Conversorum a house appointed by King Henry the third for Jews converted to the Christian Faith now the rolls Don Doun sa a hill Donary l. a gift or present Donatists hereticks detracting from the Son and Holy Ghost and holding the true
l. a great rejoycing Exundation l. an overflowing Exuperable l. that may be exceeded got over or overcom'n Exuperation Exsu l. an excelling or surpassing Exustion l. a burning or parching Exuthenismus g. an extenuation or speaking contemptibly of any person or thing Ey o. an egge also a watery place Eye of a plant where the bud puts forth also the bud it self Eye-bite to bewitch with the eyes Ey-bright Euphrasia an herb good for eyes brain and memory Ey of Pheasants the whole brood of young ones the same as Covey in Partridges E●ess a watery-eyed hawk brought up under a Kite Eyet Eyght a little Island Eyleth o. aileth Eyre the Court of Justices Iterant Eyre of the forest the Court which was wont to be kept every three years by the Justices of the Forest. Eyth Eth o. easie Eywood a Town in Surrey Ezechias Hezekiah or Hizkiah h. strength of the Lord. Ezechiel h. seeing or strength of God Ezenden a town in Rutland Ez●a h. an helper Ezzab a Province of Africa F. FA●al h. belonging to a b●an Fabellator l. an inventer of little tales Fabianus Bishop of Rome martyred under Decius Fabius Maximus a Roman General famous for tiring and overthrowing Annibal Fabrication l. the making a Fabrick l. a building also a work-house Fabrick-lands given for the building or repairing of a Church Colledge c. Fabulator list an inventer or teller of Tales Fabulinus the God suppos'd to look to Children when they begin to speak Fabulosity a being Fabulous full of Fables l. invented tales Fac-totum l. do-all a border in whose midle any letter may be put for use and taken out again Façade f. the front or outside of a house Facetious l. wittily-merry Facile l. easie Facility easiness Facinorous l. belonging to notable exploits Fack one circle of any queiled rope Facrere o. dissimulation Fact l. an act or deed Factious given to Faction a withdrawing any number from the main body of Church or state governing themselves by their own Councels and openly opposing the established Government Factist a poet or play-maker Factitious l. counterfeited made like another Factor l. a Merchants Agent beyond-sea Facture l. the making or doing of a thing Faculty l. power or ability also a licence or dispensation also a tr●de mystery or profession Faculent l. bright clear Facundate l. to make Facundous full of Facundity l. Eloquence Fader o. Father Fadom Fathom Six foot Fage o. a merry tale Faint Feint or Fained Action whereby nothing can be recovered though the words of the writ be true Fain o glad Faint pl●ader a false and deceitful pleading Fair-pleading beau-pleader a writ on the statute of Marl-bridg providing that no fines shall be taken for not pleading to the purpose Fairie Goblin Phantasm also o. a goodly sight Fairy-sparks Shel-fire K. often seen on clothes in the night Faisible f. possible to be done Faitours idle vagabonds Fakenham a town in Norfolk Falang f. a jacket or close coat Fall of a Planet an essential debility opposite to his exaltation Falarick l. belonging to a dart thrown from towers besieged Falcator l. a cutter with a bill or hook Falcation l. a mowing Falchon a short hooked sword Falcidius a Roman Consul author of the Falcidian-law treating of the Citizens right to dispose of his own goods Falciferous l. bearing a hook or bill Falcon a great Gun next to the minion Falda a sheepfold Faldage the Lords liberty of folding his Tenants sheep Falding a kind of course cloth Faldi●dory dorium tory the Bishops seat within the Chancel Fald-stool placed on the Southside of the Altar at which the Kings of England kneel at their Coronation Falern Fall a disease in hawks known by their white talons Falernian wine growing in Falernus a Field of Campania in Italy Falesia a hill or Down by the Sea-side Fallacy l. Sophism g. a proposition framed for deceit Fallaciloquence deceitfull speech Fallacious deceitfull Fallax l. the same also deceit Fall-off when the ship keeps not near enough to the wind Falls the different lyings of the deck higher or lower Falls of the tackle the small ropes which they hale by Falouque f. a kind of Barge or Brigantine Falso returno brevium a writ against the Sheriff for false returning of writs False-keel another keel put under the first when the ship is too floaty Falstre an Island in the Baltick Sea False-stem another stem put on the first being too flat Falsed o. falsifyed Falsification l. the same as Falsifying counterfeiting working or speaking of Falsity Falshood untruth Famagosta the chief City in the Isle of Cyprus Fambles c. hands Famble-ch●ais c. rings or Gloves Fam-grasp c. agree with Famicide l. a slanderer destroyer of ones good name Famigeration a divulging reporting abroad Familiar belonging to a Family or houshold also an hide Manse Carucata or a Plough-land Familiar spirit with whom there is a league or contract made Familist one of the Family of Love Hereticks following one H. Nicholas 1550 whose chief Tenet was That Christ is already com'n to judgment Famulers o. helpers Fanatical belonging to Fanatick Pha l. frantick mad also a dissenter from the Church of England Fane a weathercock also a Temple Fannian law repressing excessive banquets Fannel f. an ancient ornament of Priests left arm in sacrificing Fantastick cal whimsical Fantome as Phantome also lank or light No. Fanus a Heathen Deity representing the year Faonatio Feo the fawning of Does Fapesmo a Syllogism whose first Proposition is an universal affirmative the 2d an universal negative and the last a particular negative Farantly No. handsome Farandman sc. pilgrim or stranger Farce f. any stuffing in meat a knavish jig at the end of an interlude a fond and dissolute play Farced l. Fassed o. stuffed Farcie cines fashions scurffe lepr●sie a knotty creeping ulcer Farcinate l. to stuffe Fardingdeal Farundel of Land the fourth part of an Acre Farding or Farthing of Gold a Gold-coin worth 20 pence Fardel of Land the 4th part of a yard-land or rather as Noy saies two fardels make a nook and four nooks make a yard-land Fare sa the price of a passage also for Face Farrinaceous nous l. made or full of Corn or meal Farl●y-leu something paid at the death of a Tenant in stead of a herriot Of Farlie or Ferlie things for Of Yeorly early or ancient things Farnham a Town in Surrey Farriginous belonging to a Farrago l. maslin a mixture of several grains together Farreation l. a Ceremony whereby the Priests confirmed marriage Farringdon a Town in Barkshire Farrow to bring forth as a Sow Farsang Parasang a Persian league three miles Farth●ling as Farling Farthing of Land a yard-land Fascicular made into a Fas●icle l. a fardel bundle Fasciculate to tye up into a bundle Fascination l. a bewitching by the eye Fasciate to bind with Fascia l. a swathe Fasguntide Fasting-tide Ns. Shrove-tide the beginning of Lent Fashion-pieces Timbers in fashion of a great pair of ●orns to which all the
business Feu a very high Mountain in China Feud feed feid Ge. a deadly and implacable hatred Feudal belonging to or held in fief or fee. Feud-●oot Sa. a recompence for engaging in a feud or faction Feudist one that bears a feud or writes of Fee c. Feverfew Febrifuga Parthenia Maetricaria Motherwort a cleansing and opening herb Feveriere rere o. February Feversham a town in Kent where K. Stephen his Wife and Son lie buried Feuterer a dog-keeper or leader of a Lime-hound c. Few No. to change Fewmets mishing the dung of a Deer F●y Sc. Foolish Fey or Feigh it No. to do any thing notably Fey meadows ponds c. Cleanse them F fa ut the seventh musick note the Cliff-note of the basse-part Fiants f. the dung of a Badger Fox and all vermine Fib c. to beat Fibrous belonging to Fibres l. small strings about roots veins c. Fibulation l. a buttoning or joyning together Fictile l. made of Earth Fictitious l. feigned invented Fiction l. a feigning also the thing feigned ●icus l. Alanisca Sycon Sycosis Haemorrhoides the piles in the fundament Fid Okum put into the touch-hole and covered with lead to keep the powder dry also an iron pin to open the strands in splising of ropes Fideicide a faith-destroyer breaker of his word or trust Fideicommissor l. he that commits a thing to anothers trust or dispose Fidelity l. Faithfulness Fide-jussor l. a pledge or surety Fidius the God of faithfulness for Filius the Son of Jupiter Fiduciary l. trusty also a Feoffee in trust Fiduciate l. to committ a trust or make condition of trust Fiera●ras f. fierce at arms a Braggadocia Fieri facias a writ for the Sheriff to levy within the year and day the debt or damages recovered Fife an Eastern County of Scotland Fifteenth a Parliament-tribut on every City or Borough in the Realm Fightwite Sa. a forfeiture for fighting and breaking the peace Fights Coverts any places where men may stand unseen and use their arms in a ship Figment l. a feigned story Figulated l. made of earth Figurati●n as Ethopaeit Figurative belonging to or spoken by a Figure a word or speech not strictly proper or literal in Grammar a distinguishing of words into simple and compo●nd in Logick a threefold disposition of the Argument or middle term with the two ex●reams viz. Sub prae prim● Bis prae secunda Tertia bis su● Figuretto a kind of stuff Figured or flowered Fi●aceous l. made of thread or flax also full of Filaments l as Fibres Filanders little worms in hawks also Nets for wild beasts Filazers Fourteen Officers in the Common pleas filing original writs that issue from the Chancery and making out process thereupon Filch c. a staff with a hole for a hook upon occasion Fildale Fi●kale Fictale Sothale an extortion under pretense of Compotation by Bailiffs in their hundreds File f. a thread or wire a difference in Cout-Armours also the order of Soldiers in depth usually six File-leaders all in the first rank Filial l. belonging to a son Filiaster f. a Son in law Filiation Son-ship Filjan-ta●eas a Cap that the Turkish Sultanas wear Filiolus l. a little son also a Godson Nephew c. Fill●mot fueille mort f. the colour of a dead leaf Filipendula Dropwort Fillet a line added under the Chief in Heraldry Fill o. pleased or thought convenient Filly-foal a Mare-colt Film a thin skin Filipinas Indian Islands found and reduced by Philip the 2d King of Spain Filoz●lla a kind of stuff Filtration l. a straining or distilling through a felt woollen-cloth c. hung over the brim of a pot Fimashing as Fewmets Fimble hemp So. Early ripe Fimbriated l. edged or bordured with another colour in heraldry Final l. belonging to brought to or having an end Finan●er a receiver or teller in the Exchequer Finance cy f. Wealth Revenue treasure Finders searchers for goods not customed Find the Ships trim find how she will sail best Findible l. which may be cleft Fine a mulct or penalty also a formal conveyance of Land c. before a Judge by acknowledging a final agreement Fine adnullando levato c. a writ to Justices for disannulling a fine levied of Lands holden in ancient Demesn to the prejudice of the Lord. Fine capiendo pro terris a writ for one committed to Prison and his goods in the Kings hand to be released for his fine Fine levando de tenementis c. a writ licensing the Justices of common-Common-pleas to admit a fine for the sale of Lands holden in Capite Fine non capiendo c. a writ forbidding Officers of Courts to take fines for fair pleading Fine pro redisseisina c. a writ for the release of one laid in prison for a Redisseisin upon a reasonable fine Fine force f. an absolute necessity or constraint Finesse f. craft subtilty Finite l. limited bounded Finland part of Sw●ethland Finors of Gold c. as Parters and Departers Fin● skiles o. it finds or feigns skills Firdstole as Fridstole Firebares o. Beacons Fire-boot allowance of competent fire-wood to the Tenant Fire-drake a fiery Meteor a great unequal exhalation inflamed between a hot and a cold cloud Fire-cross a Scotch Proclamation by fire brands on a spear for all between 16 and 60. to repair to a place of Rendezvous Firkin a vessel of nine gallons Firma sc. the duty which the Tenant paies to his Landlord Firmament l. the starry heaven finishing its course in 250 thousand years Firmity l. firmness stableness constancy Firmus a Roman Emperour of a vast strength First-fruits Annates one years profits of every benefice Firth for Frith Firthe Fyrte Fyrt o. a bugbear a Ghost or apparition Fiscal belonging to a Fisque l. a treasury or Exchequer Fish-garth a dam or wear for the taking of fish Fishing piecing of masts or yards to strengthen them Fissility l. aptness to be cleft Fissiped l. cloven-footed Fissure l. a cleft or division Fiste-nuts brought out of hot countries and useful in Physick Fistulary belonging to a Fistula l. a pipe also an ulcer eating in and running like a pipe Fitch the fur of the polecate Fitchtel a town of Mecklenburgh in Germany Fitched sharp at the end See Cross. Fithwite as Fightewite Fitz f. Fils a son Five-finger a fish like a spur●owel to be destroyed by the Admiralty law because destructive to Oysters Fixation l. a fixing making any volatil spiritual body to endure the fire Fixed stars not varying their distance from one another and corruptly as Faxed stars Comets from Fax o. hair Fiz-gig a dart to strike fishes as they swim Fiz●n Foison Sf. the heart or natural juice of herbs c. Flabellation an airing with a Flabel l. a fan Flaccid l. flagging drooping Flacket No. a bottle in fashion of a barrel Flag c. a groat Flagellantes l. Hereticks going up and down and using Flagellation whipping or scourging of themselves Flagitation l. earnest begging Flagitious l. hainous wicked Flagrancy l. a
Sisters of the Gorgons they had all but one eye and one Tooth which they used by turns Graffer Greff●er f. a Notary or Scrivener Graffically g. exactly curiously Graie Grey a brock or badger Graie-Fryer as Cordelier Grains of Paradise Carda●ome Graith o. made ready Grame o. anger sorrow also mis-hap and punishment Gramercy f. Grand-merci great thanks Gramineal eous l. grassy or made of grass green Graminous l. full of or overgrown with grass Grammatical belonging to Grammar g. the Art of Speaking Reading and Writing Grammatist ticaster a young Grammarian one skilled in Grammer Grampus a fish somewhat less than a Whale Grampound a Town in Cornwall Granadil sp a small Granado sp a Pome-granate also a hollow bullet filled with wild-fire and shot from a morter-piece there are also hand-granadoes Granary l. a place to lay Corn in Granate l. a precious stone resembling a Pomegranate-stone Grand f. great also as Grandee a great or leading man Grand-dayes as Gau●y-days Grandaevity l. greatness of age Antiquity Eldership Grand Cape see Cape Grand-distress of all the Lands or goods a man hath within the County or Bailywick Grandezza I. deza sp d●ur f. greatness of state or Spirit Grandiloquence quy l. greatness of speech or style a being Grandiloquent quous l. using high words Grandimontensers a Religious Order erected An. 1076. having their Abbey on a Mountain in Aquitane Grandinous l. belonging to or full of hail Grand Seignior the Great Turk Grandity l. greatness Grand Sergeanty a holding Lands of the King by service to be done him in person as to bear his banner spear c. Grange f. a barn a great farm with barns c. Granicus a River in Bithynia where Alexander slew and took above 600 thousand Persians Granito I. a kind of speckled Italian marble Grannam c. Corn. Granson a French Poet whom Chaucer translates Graniferous l. bearing grains or kernels Granivorous l. corn-devouring Grantham a Town in Lincolnshire Grans a Town in the Earldom of Mont-belgard Granulation l. a Chymical reducing of metals and minerals into Granula ules l. small grains Graphical g. curiously described or wrought Graplings Grapness a kind of Anchors with four flooks and no stock used also in Grapling or fastening of Ships together in a Fight Grassatim l. a robbing spoiling and making havock Grateolent l. smelling gratefully or pleasantly Gratiae expectativae Popish Bulls or Mandates for livings not yet void Gratch o. Apparel Gratianople a City of Narbon in France Gratianus Eunarius a Roman Emperour perfidiously slain by his Captain Andragathius at Lions in France Gratification l. fying rewarding making amends Gratings small ledges a cross over one another like a Port-cullis in close Fights c. Gratis l. for thanks freely for nothing undeservedly Gratuity l. a free reward or gift Gratton Ss. an ersh or eddish Gratton k. stubble Grats a Town in Stiria Gratulatory belonging to or full of Gratulation l. thanking or rejoycing on anothers behalf Grave Greve D. Earl o● Governour Grave o. a ditch also a wood Grave the ship burn off the old stuff and lay on new with train-oyl Rosin and Brimstone boild together Graveling a Town in Flanders Gravesend a Town in Kent Graven o. buried Gravet o. a grove Graveolence l. a rank or strong sent a being Graveolent smelling rank stinking Graver a graving-steel also an instrument to take off scales from the Teeth Gravidity l. a being Gravid l. great with chi●● or any young Graviloquence l. a grave speech or speaking gravely Gravity heaviness 〈◊〉 weight also graveness or soberness in behaviour Grauntee to whom is given a Graunt Grant a gift in writing of such things as cannot fitly be passed by word only Graunt mercy o. for Gramercy Grayeth o. q. arrayeth maketh trim Graythed o. devised Greach-breach as Grith-breach Grease the fat of a bore or hare Great Men temporal Lords in Parliament and sometimes the Commons Greaves f. armour for the Legs Grecians men of Greece also as opposed to Hebrews Heathens Grecism l. a greek idiom Gree Gré f. willingness agreement satisfaction also in Heraldry a step or degree Greek Church differs in some things from the Roman viz. in denying the Holy Ghosts proceeding from the Father and the Son admitting only painted images admitting none but marryed men into orders c. Grede o. to cry Green-Cloth a Court of Justice sitting in the Counting-house of the Kings Court. Green-hew Vert every green thing growing within a Forest Green-silver a yearly half-peny paid the Lord of Writtel Mannour in Essex for every fore-door opening towards Greenbury Green-war Estreats delivered to the Sheriffs under the Exchequer Seal in Green-wax to be levied in their several Counties Green-wich a Town in Kent where Humphrey Duke of Glocester built the Pallace called Placence Greece Grece o. gray Grei●ed o. made Greith o. to remove or bring Greathly No. handsomely towardly In Gr●ath well Greet yowl Cu. weep and cry Greese l. a step or stair Gregal l. belonging to a flock or company Gregory g. watchfull Gregorian cap of hair first made among us by Gregory a Barber in the Strand Gregorian Lilian Forreign or New Account a correction of the Calender through the advice of Antonius Lilius and other Mathematicians 1584. by Pope Gregory the XIII who made the year to consist of 365 dayes 5 hours 49 minutes and 12 seconds And that the Vernal Equinox which was then March 11 might be reduced to March 21 as it was at the time of the first Nic●n● Council he Commanded the 4th to be the 14th of October Grenhead o. q. Greenhead rashness Gresham Colledge the house of Sir Thomas Gresham who endowed it with Revenues for the maintenance of Professours of Divinity Law Physick Astronomy Geometry and Musick Gremial ious l. belonging to the lap or bosom Grest-feders o. Crest-feathers Grete o. as Grede to cry Greves o. q. Groves Trees Boughs Grass Greve as Grave a Lord Griffe graffe f. by hook or by crook any way Griffenberg a Town in lower Ponurania Grigg a young Eel Grills a kind of small fish Grill o. cold q. gresse f. hail Grilliade lade f. a dish of broyled meat Grimace f. a sour crabbed look a wry ill-favoured face made Grimsbie a Town in Lincolnshire Grim●ald moald ge power over anger Grinstead a Town in Sussex Grint o. for grinded ground Grinders c. Teeth Grise as Greese Gripe the sharpness of the stem under water The ship Gripes when she is apt to run her nose too much to the wind Griph o. a riddle Grip Gripe a little trench Grishild ge Grey-Lady Grispe o. gripe or grasp Grisly o. fearfully horribly Grith o. agreement Grit a Grample-fish Grith breach Grich sa breach of the peace Grith-stole as Frodmortel Grobianism f. slovenliness the practice of a Grobian f. a sloven Groffe Gruff Growff o. Groveling Groine o. a froward grunting look Groening ghen the chief Town of Groening-land a Province of the Neatherlands Grommyts little rings on the upper side of
representing variety of colours Pristine l. ancient accustomed Pristis l. a long and slender fish also such a Ship Privado Sp. a favourite or private friend Privation l. a depriving or taking away Privative depriving c. Priviledge l. a liberty granted besides the Course of Common Law Privity f. private familiarity Privy in Law a partaker or he that hath an interest in any action or thing Privy to acquainted with Privy Artery passing from the descendent branch of the great Artery and bestowing it self among the privities Privy-Seal used after the Privy signet and before the Great Seal and in some smaller things that do not pass the Great Seal at all Prize that which is taken by conquest letters of Marque Robbery c. any kind of booty as also the Combat or contention for it Probability l. likelyhood Probate of Testaments proving of Wills in the spiritual Court either in common form by the Executors oath or to avoid future debate by witnesses also Probatick pond g. the Sheeps pool Bethesda Probatical ional belonging to Probation l. a proving Probatine piscant o. the Sheeps pool Probationer a trier also he that is to be tried or approved before he be admitted Probator a prover or App who was to prove his allegation by battel or the Countrey as the Appealed would Probatory l. the place or instrument of proof Probatum est l. it is approved Probe f. curette an instrument to search the depth of wounds Probity l. honesty Problematical belonging to a Probleme g. a hard question Proboscide g. the Elephants trunk Procacity l. Malepertness Procatartick cause foregoing or causing another cause Procedendo a Writ sending a suit back to the Inferiour Court whence it had been called Procerity a being Procere l. tall Procers Irons hooked at the ends used by Glass-makers Process all proceeding at law and particularly that by which a Man is called into any Temporal Court Procession a going forward also a visiting the bounds of the parish in Rogation-week Processional belonging to process or proceeding Processum continuando a writ for the continuing of a process after the death of the Chief Justice c. Prochein amay f. he that is next of kin to a Child in his Nonage Prochronism g. a setting down too much in computing of time Prochyta a Tyrrhene Isle arising they say from a Mountain of the Isle Inarime thrown into the sea by an Earthquake Prociduous belonging to Procidence l. a falling down Procinct l. readiness Pro●livity a being Proclive l. eas●y apt enclining Procon●ul l. a Deputy Consul Procrastinate l. to delay Procreate l. to beget Pro confesso for granted as a bill is taken after a fourth in sufficient answer Proctors soliciting other mens business gathering their tithes c. Proctors of the Clergy chosen and appointed to sit in the Convocation house in time of Parliament Proctors of the Vniversity two chosen yearly to see goods Orders kept Proculcation l. a trampling under foot Procurations proxies paid the Bishop or Arch-deacon yearly in respect of Visitation Procurator l. a Proctor and at Venice the second person in dignity Procyon g. the lesser dog-star Prodigality l. a being Prodigal wastfull riotous Prodigence l. unthriftiness Prodigious belonging to a Prodigy l. a monstrous wonderfull and strange sight Proditorious l. Traitor-like Prodrome g. a fore-runner Product cate brought forth out of another Production l. a bringing forth or lengthening Proecthesis the producing a reason to clear or defend himself Proeme g. a preface Prof Prove an Enquest Profectitions belonging to Profection l. a going Profer the time appointed for the Accompts of Sheriffs and other Officers in the Exchequer twice a year Profession the entering into any Religious Order Professour l. a publick Reader Proficient l. profiting or one that hath profited Profile I. the picture of a thing drawn sidewaies Profligate to put to flight also debauched Profluence l. an abundance Profundure f. dity l. a being Profound l. very deep Profuse l. lavishing Profusion a pouring out lavishly Progenitors Forefathers Progeny l. an Off-spring Progne Philomela's Sister Prognosticate l. to foretell Prognosticks boding sign● Progression l. a going on Progressional belonging thereto Prohibition a forbidding or hindering Prohibitio de vasto c. a writ forbidding the waste of land in controversy Prohibitory tive forbidding Projection l. a casting forward or a contriving Projectitious l. exposed cast out Pro indiviso the possession of Coparceners before partition Projecture l. the jutting out of buildings Prolation l. a pronouncing Prolatation l. a deferring Proleptical belonging to● Prolepsis sie g. a conceiving in the mind before hand a preventing what another thought to alledge Proletaneous arian ious l. having many Children and little to maintain them vulgar Prolification a making Prolifical l. fruitfull Prolixity l. a being Prolix liberal tedious Prologue g. the speech before a play Proloquutor l. The Speaker of either Convocation House Prolusion l. as Preludium Prolyte g. a Licentiate that hath studied the Law 4 years Promenade f. as Pourmenade Promesse f. a promise Prometheus Son to Jape●us stealing fire from heaven to put life in his Image was chain'd to Caucasus where a Vulture gnaw'd his liver Prominence a being Prominent l. jutting out or over others Promiscuous l. mingled Promissary to whom a promise is made Promissory l. belonging to a promise Promontory l. a hill butting into the sea Promoters mooters who for reward complain of Offenders Promptitude a being Prompt l. ready quick Promptuary l. a buttery Promulgation l. a publishing Prone l. with face downward Pronephew l. a Nephews son Pronotary as Protono Prooem as Proeme Propagate l to spread abroad or plant young vines Pro partibus liberandis a writ for the partition of Lands between Co-heirs Propelled thrust forward Propension ity l. a being Propense heavy inclined Properate l. to make hast Property the highest right a man can have to a thing also a natural quality Properties the Accoutrements of Actors Prophecies in Law Wizzardly foretellings Prophetize to prophesy or foretell things to come Prophecical belonging thereto Prophylactie g. preservative Propination l. a drinking to one Propinquity l. nearness Propitiate l. to appease by Sacrifice Propitiation atonement Propitiatory belonging thereto also the Mercy-seat or place where God was Propitious favourable Propontis the sea from the streights of Hell●spont to Thracian Bosphorus Proportion l. answerableness Proposition l. a sentence or matter propounded Propounders seems to be Monopolists or else Projectors Propraetor a Deputy Praetor Proprietary tor f. the owner whose the Propriety is Propudious l. shamefull Propugnacle l. a fortress Propugnator l. a stiff maintainer Propulsation l. a driving back Propulsory serving thereto Proreption l. a creeping on Prorex l. a Vice-Roy Proritate l. to stir up Proroked himself o. hid himself in a Rock Prorogued l. put off for some time but not ended By Prorogation in open Court there is a Session and then such Bills as had not Royal assent must the next assembly begin again But
in Adjournment or Continuance there is no Session and therefore all things continue in their former state For every several Session of Parliament is in Law a several Parliament Prosaick l. being in or belonging to Prose not verse Proscission l. a cutting up Proscription a making one Proscript l. an Outlaw exposed to every mans sword Prosecutor who follows a Cause in anothers name Proselyte g. a stranger converted to our Religion formerly to the Jewish Proserpine the Daughter of Jupiter and Ceres ravisht to hell by Pluto Prosimetrical g. part prose and part verse Prosodian one skil'd in Prosody g. the Art of accenting aright Prosopopaeia g. a feigning of a person to speak Prospect l. a view afar off Prospicuous l. fair to behold Prospicience l. foresight Prosteanation l. a laying flat Prosthesis g. an addition to the beginning of a word Prostitute l. to let out the use of her body Prostrate l. to lay or lying flat along Prosyllogism g. an auxiliary syllogism to help the main one Protatick belonging to Protasis g. a proposition also the first part of a Comedy Protection l. a guarding or being guarded Protelation l. a driving away Protend l. to stretch forth Protervity l. frowardness Protesilaus going to the Trojan war contrary to the Oracles advice was slain by Hector Protest a bill of Exchange declare on the Exchange that you are not satisfied by his Factor and the Law of Merchants allows you satisfaction out of his goods if he have any in the Realm Protestants so called at Spires in Germany 1529 from their Protestation l. an open declaration of ones mind also a form of pleading when one doth not directly affirm or deny the thing alledged Proteus a Sea-God who they say turn'd himself into all kind of shapes Prothonotary as Proto Protocol g. the first draught of a Deed c. also the upper title-part of a leaf Protofole g. the first leaf Proto-●orestarius was the Chief Justice of Windsor Forest. Protolicia supposed to be Prudhow Castle in Northum●erland Protologie g. a preface Protomartyr g. the first Gospel Martyr St. Stephen Protonotary a chief Clerk three in the common-Common-Pleas and one in the Upper-Bench Protoplast g. the first formed Adam Prototype g. the first pattern Prototypographer g. the chief Printer Protozeugma Zeugma with the verb in the beginning Protraction l. a deferring Protractor l. a prolonger also a surveying instrument Protreptick g. Doctrinal Protrude l. to thrust forward Protrusion a thrusting c. Protuberant l. swelling out Protype g. a pattern for moulds Provango a whale-bone-instrument to cleanse the Stomach Proveditores l. the Venetian Overseers join'd to the general Provedore vid the Governour of Zant Isle Prover as Approver Provence a large French Province Prover●ial belonging to a Proverb l. an old pithy saying Provident l. wary Provincial belonging to a Province the Arch-Bishops jurisdiction Vnited Provinces Gelderland Holland Zealand Zutphen West-friezland Vtrecht Over-Yssel Groening Provincial among Fryers the chief of their Order in such or such a Province Provining f. laying a branch of a vine c. to take root Provision providing one with a Benefice Provisional for a season by way of foresight or Proviso I. a caveat or condition Provisor a pourveyor Provocation l. a stirring up or challenging Provocative apt to provoke Proul to pil●er by night Provost Marshal an Officer in the Navy having charge of the Prisoners taken at Sea Provostal belonging to a Provost f. prevost the President of a Colledge and several other Officers in France Prow the fore-part of a ship or any jutting like it also o. honour and profit Prowess f. courage Proxie a Proctors warrant from his Client also any deputy Proxies as Procurations Proximity l. the greatest nearness Proyns o. as Prunes Pruce o. Borussla Preusland Spruceland Prudentiality an aptness to breed prudence Pruinous l. frosty Prunel sickle-wort Prunella's a restorative fruit like small figs. Prunes the hawk picks and annoi●s her self Prurient l. itching Pruriginous l. itchy Prussia part of Poland Pru●enicks Mathematical tables dedicated to Albert●● Marquis of Brandenburgh and Duke of Prussia 1551. Pry o. for pray Psallocitharist g. a finger to the harp Psalm g. a Divine Song Psalmist the composer of it Psalmody g. a singing of Psalms Psalmography g. a writing of Psalms Psaltery g. a shalm like a harp with 10 strings Psephism g. a Decree Pseudodox g. false glory or falsely glorious Pseudography g. false writing Pseudologer a practiser of Pseudologie g. lying Pseudomancy g. false divination Pseudomartyr g. a false Martyr or witness Pseudonymal g. having a false name Pseudoprophet g. a false Prophet Psorophthalmy g. an itching scurf on the eye-brows Psychomachy g. a war of the soul and body Ptisa●e l. barley-broth Ptolomaeus the name of several Egyptian Kings Puberty l. the signs of ripe age Pubescent growing to ripe age Publick Faith on which the Parliament rais'd money to to carry on the war Publican l. a farmer of publick Rents or Revenues Publication l. a making common Pucelage l. Virginicy Puckets Ss. nests of Caterpillars Pucle-Church a town in Glocestershire Puddings ropes nail'd to the ends of the yard-arms to save the Robbins from galling Pudhepec for Wu Sa. a selling of Wood in the Park Forest c. Pudibund dons l. bashfull Pudi●ity l. Chastity Pudor l. shamefac'dness Pudzeld as Woodgeld Puerility l. childishness Puerperous l. Child-bearing Pugil l. half a handfull Pugillation the exercise of Pugils l. Champions fist-fighters Pugnacity l. a desire of fighting Pugnatory l. belonging to a fighter Puisné f. Younger born after puny Puissancie f. power Pulchritude l. comeliness Pulicine l. belonging to a flea Pulicosity l. a being Pulicous full of fleas Pullail f. poulaille wild-fowl Pullation l. a breeding Chickens Pullulate l. to bud Pullhely a town in Carnarvanshire Pulmentarious l. belonging to water-gruel Pulmonarious l. diseased in the lungs Pulmonary l. Lung-wort Pulmonical belonging to ●he lungs Pulp l. the substantial 〈◊〉 of any thing also a Guttle-fish Pulsation l. a beating upon Pulsator l. a striker Pultifical l. serving to make pottage or pap Pultrie o. for poultry Pulverisation izing l. a reducing to pouder Pulverulent reous l. Dusty Pumicate l. to smooth with a Pumice stone a spungy stone the scum of Etna and other burning hills Pump-brake the handle Pump dale in which the water runs to the Scupper-holes Pumpet-ball as Pompet Punch a mixture of Brandy Water Limons and Sugar Punchion of wine f. poinson 80. gallons Punctilio I. a little Punct● I. a point Punctual l. exactly to a hairs●breadth Pundonnore f. point d' honore a bravado Punbrech Sa. a breaking open the pound Pungency l. a pricking Punick Carthaginian Punick faith falshood Puny as Puisné Punition l. a punishment Pupil l. the apple of the eye also an Orphan under age and tuition also a Disciple of a Colledg-Tutor Pur●eck a demy-Island on which stands Crof Castle in Dorsetshire Purc●asing the getting a rope in by haling c. It is easier though longer
purchasing upon a block of three sheevers than two Pu●fle f. pourfile a border or fringe Purslew in Heraldry all Furs used in Borders Purgation the clearing one self of a crime Purgatory l. the Papists place of cleansing by fire between Death and Heaven Purgative purging Purification l. a cleansing Purificatory the little linnen cloth that wipes the Chalice Purification of the Virgin Mary Candlemas February 2. Purim P. the feast of Lots kept for deliverance from Haman Puritans a Ni●k-name of Calvinists Purlue f. pur lieu all that space that is severed by perambulations from the antient forest Purlieu-man who being able to spend 40 shillings per annum of free hold is licensed to hunt on his own ground within the Purlieu Purloin f. to pilfer Purport the true meaning Purpurean l. of purple Pu●presture as Pour Purprisum an enclosure Purrel a list ordered 33 Eliz. to be made at the end of Kersies Pursivant as Pour Purtrey o. for Pourtray Purveyour as Pour Purvieu f. a pa●ent the body of the Act beginning with Be it enacted Purulent l. filthy mattery Pusillanimity l. a being Pusillanimous faint-hearted Pustulous l. full of Pustules blisters pushes Putage f. Fornication on the womans part Putative l. supposed Putatory belonging to Putation l. pruning Puteal l. of a well Putid l. stinking Putor l. a stink Putre f. puterie Fornication Putrescence a rotting Putrid l. rotten corrupt Putrifaction l. rottenness Puts over the Hawk removes her meat from her Gorge into her Bowels Puttocks small shrowds from the main to the top-mast-shrowds for the E●sie going into the top Putty a powder of calcin'd tin used by Artificers Putura q. potura a Custom claimed by some Keepers and Bailiff to take Mansmeat horse-meat and Dogs meat gratis wihin the perambulation of the Forest or hundred Pycar Pyker a kind of ship mentioned 31 Edw. 3. Pygmachy g. a fighting with clubs or hurlbats Pygmies Mountainous Indian dwarfs said to have perpetual war with the Cranes Pyladion as Piladion Pynant o. a starveling Pyramidal dical like a Pyramid g. an Egpptian building like a Spire-Steeple Pyramidography g. a treatise concerning it Pyrate as Pirate Pyre g. a pile of wood to burn the cor●s Pyrenaean hills dividing France and Spain Pyrites g. the fire-stone Pyromancy g. divination by fire Pyroti●ks g. burning medicines Pyrotechny g. a making of fire-works Pyrrhonian belonging to Pyrrho a Greek Sceptick who thought nothing certain Pyrrhonism that Philosophy Pyrrhus King of Epirus slain at the taking of Argos by the fall of a Tile Pythagorical belonging to Pythagoricism the Tenet of Pythag●ras Authour of the M●tempsychosis Pythian games in the honour of Apollo who slew Python a monstrous serpent also a prophecying spirit and one possest therewith Pythoness a She-Python or Prophetess Pythonical belonging to or practising Pythonism the art of prophesying by a Devilish spirit Pyx l. the vessel containing the Roman Hoste also an antient yearly solemn weighing of Gold in the Star-Chamber Q. QVintus the fifth Q. quasi as if it were Quab a Water-weasel or Eel-pout Quack D. Frivolous trifling Quacking cheat c. a duck Quack salver D. a Mountebank Quad D. Bad. Quadragenarious l. of 40 years Quadragesimal belonging to lent or to Quadragesima Sunday the first in Lent being about 40 daies before Easter Quadran f. a Sun-dial Quadrain f. a staff of 4 verses Quadrangular like a Quadrangle l. a 4 square figure Quadrant l. a quarter of a circle or of any measure Quadrantal 4 fingers thick also a figure like a die Quadrantata terrae as Farding-deal Quadra● l. a square to take the distance or height of a place Quadrat● tick made 4 square Quadrature l. a squaring Quadricornous l. with 4 horns Quadriennial of 4 years Quadrigamist one four times married Quadrigarious belonging to a Coach or Coachman with 4 horses Quadrigenarious of fourty Quadrilateral of 4 sides Quadrin f. Llard a small coyn about a farthing Quadringenarious of four hundred Quadripartite l. divided into 4. Quadrireme l. a Gally of 4 oars on a seat or 4 men to an oar Quadrisyllable of 4 syllables Quadrivial l. having 4 waies or turnings Quadrugata terrae a Teemland tilled with 4 horses Quadrupedal l. with 4 feet Quadrupedant going on 4 feet Quadrupedian Signs representing four footed beasts Quadruple l. 4 fold Quadruplation a d●ubling 4 times Quadruplicate to fold or repeat a thing 4 times Quae plura was a writ to enquire what land there was more than was found by th'Escheators inquisition Quakenburg a Town in Westphalia Quakers friends a sort of modern Enhtusiasts Quaint gires o. strange fits Quale jus a writ for the Escheator to enquire between Judgment and Execution whether the Clerk have right to recover and there be no Collusion to defraud the true Lord. Qualify l. to make fit or quiet Qualifications Conditions Qualm o. calmness also the cry of Ravens Quamdiu se bene gesserii a formal clause in the gran● of Offices and is no more than the Law implies if the Office were granted for life Quantum meruit an Action of the Case grounded on a promise of paying a man so much as he should deserve Quandary Qu'●n diray-●e f. what shall I say to't● a study or doubt what to d● Quap o. for quake Quaplod a town in Lincolnshire Quarantain f. Lent or any space of 40 daies of prayers cessation of arms or tarrying on Ship-bord when you come from a place infected Quaranty Sp. fourty days Quardecue Quart d' êeu f. the fourth part of a French Crow● Quare ejecit infra terminum a writ for a Lesse● cast out before his time is expired Quare impedit a writ for one disturbed in the right of his purchased Advowzon Quare incumbravit a writ against the Bishop conferring a Benefice within six months whilest others are contending for the right of presenting Quare intrusit c. a writ that lay against a Ward marrying and entering on his Lands without the consent of his Lord and Guardian Quarels Querels l. complaints all Actions personal and real Quare non permittit a writ for one that has right for a turn to present Quare non admisit a writ against the Bishop refusing to admit his Clerk who has recovered in a plea of Advowzen Quare obstruxit a writ for him who cannot have his right in passing through his Neighbours ground Quarentena ●a●enda a writ for a widow to enjoy her Quarentene tine 40 drys continuance in the chief Mansion-house of her deceased husband Quareria a stone-quarrey Quarrels ● arrow-heads Quarril f. 1 d. ob the fourth part of a Spanish Royal. Quarron c. a body Quarry the fowl that is flown at and slain also the Hounds reward after hunting and the Venison it self Quart●●e Ague returning every fourth day Quartary the 4th part of a Sextary also a quarter of a pound Quartation a separation into 4 parts Quarter 8 striked bushels also a piece of timber 4 square and 4 inches thick Quarter-Sessions a Court held every quarter by
the Justices of Peace in every County Ships-Quarter from the Steeridge to the Transom or fashion-piece Quarter-bullet quartered in to four parts Quarter-Deck over the Steeridg as far as the Masters Cabin Quarter pierced in Heraldry a square hole in the midle of a Cross. Quartering sailing with Quarter-winds coming in abaft the Main-mast shrowds just with the quarter when all sails may draw together Quartile aspect the distance of 3 a quarter of 12 Signs Quarto with four leaves in a sheet Quartz a kind of flint with lead and Silver in 't Quash to annul or overthrow Quassation l. a shaking Quater Cosins f. fourth or last Cosins good friends Quaternary belonging to Quaternion ity the number of four by which the Pythagoreans swore because of the Elements and name of God which in most languages consisteth of 4 letters Quaviver q. aqua a Sea-Dragon Quaver in Musick half a Crochet Queach o. a quickset Quechord perhaps shovel bord a game prohibited 17 Edward 4th Queen-Gold a duty belonging to every Queen-Consort upon divers grants of the King Queens Colledge in Oxford built by Philip the wife of Edward 3 d. who in honour of her built Queenborough a town in Kent Quee● q. Quade o. the Devil Queest o. as Culver Que estate which estate Que est le me s●●e f. which is the same thing Queint o. quenched also strange Quem reddiium reddat a writ to cause a Tenant to atturn c. Quercin● culane l. Oken Querela coram Rege et Consilio a writ calling one to justifie a Complaint made before the King and Council Querimonious l. complaining Queintises o. devises Queme Sa. to please Querrour o. a stone-miner Quercy a French Province Quern D. a hand-mill Querpo as Cuerpo Querulous full of complaint Query quaere a Question Quest Inquest inquiry into misdemeanours in the Ward Quest-men who are chosen and meet about Christmas to that purpose Questor l. a Publick Treasurer also a Judge Questuary rious exercising a trade to gain thereby Questus est Nobis a writ against him to whom the thing is alienated which causeth the Nusance Qui bien aime tard ●ublie f. he that loves well forgets late Qui est la f. who is there Quia improvide a supersedeas granted where a writ is erroniously sued out c. Quick-silver a slimy water mixt with pure white earth Quiddity the essence of a thing also a Quirk or Subtile question Quiddanet a Confection between a Syrup and Marmalade Quidditative essential Quid juris clamat a writ for the Grantee of a reversion when the particular Tenant will not atturn Quid pro quo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one for another a mutual performance of Contracts Quiescent l. resting not sounding Quietancia as Acquiet Quie●us est an acquittance given Accountants in the Exchequer Quietus est granted the Sheriff discharges him of all accounts due to the King Quilibet quippe the proportion every Bencher of the Inner Temple payes at the Terms end for Battles or Exceedings Quimpercorintin a City of lower Britany Quinary l. of five Quincuncial belonging to Quin●unx l. five ounces also five trees or more so set together that a regular angularity and thorow prospect is left on every side Quincupedal of 5 foot Quindecimuir one of the 15 Joint-Governours of a Common-wealth Quingenarious of 500. Quinible q. whinable a noble Quinquagesima Sunday Shrove-Sunday being about 50 dayes before Easter Quinquangle 5 cornered Quinque-libral of five pound Quinquennal nial of 5 years Quinquepartite divided into 5. Quinque portus the Cinque ports Quinquereme a ship of 5 oars on a side also a Galley of 5 men to an oar Quinquevir one of 5 in Joint-authority Quinquiplicate to make it 5 times double Quinsieme Quinzime f. the 15th day after any feast also the 15th part of every town in England an ancient tax but not levied now without the Parliament Quintage the laying out a fifth part for younger Brethren Quintain f. a wedding-sport in Shropshire c. running a-tilt with poles against a Quintin a thick plank set fast in the high-way c. Quintal as Kintal Quintessential belonging to Quintessence l. the virtue or purest substance extracted out of any thing Quint-exact Quinto exactus the last call of a Defendant when if he appear not he is returned Outlawed Quintile July the 5th Month from March. Quiniuple l. five-fold Quinzain f. fifteen dayes or a staff of 15 verses Quire Queer c. base roguish Quirinal belonging to Quirinus Romulus Qu●rister as Chorister Quiritation a complaining or calling for help Quirites Romanes Quistron o. a beggar Quite-claim a quitting of ones Claim or Title Quit-Rent White-Rent a small Rent of acknowledgment Quitter the dross of tin Quod Clerici non eligantur a writ for a Clerk who by reason of his land is like to be made Bailiff c. Quod Clerici beneficia●i a writ exempting a Clerk of the Chancery from contributing towards the Proctors of the Clergy in Parliament Quod et deforceat a writ against him or his heir that took away land recovered by a Tenant in Tail Dower or for Life Quod o. for quoth saith Quodlibetical belonging to Quodlibets Quirks or Quiddities School-Questions Quodlibitaries that follow their own fancies Quod permittat a writ for his heir that is disseised of his Common of pasture against the heir of the Disse●sor Quod persona nec prebendarij c. a writ for Clerks distrained for their fifteenths Quo Jure a writ to compel one to shew by what right he challenges Common of pasture Quo minus a writ against the Grantor making such wast in his woods that the Grantee cannot enjoy his grant of House-bote and Hay-bote or for any that paies the King a fee-farm Rent against another for debt or damage Quorum Of which Justices He is to be one Quotidian l. daily Quotient Quoties l. how often the number arising out of any Division Quotted Ss. Cloy'd glutted Qu● Warranto a writ against him that usurps a Franchise of the Kings or him that intrudes as heir Quoyl a rope laid round one take over another Quoyn a wedg-like-piece of timber to put under Ordnance in mounting them Cantick-Quoyns short three-edged ones to put between Cask c. Quyke o. a quick or living beast Quyre of a Boar the hounds fee perhaps from Coeur f. the heart Quysschen o. a Cushion R. RAa o. a Roe Raab Javarin a Hungarian Fortress Raba●es the hawk recovers the bearers fist Rabbeting a close kind of joining boards by laying them over to keep out wind or dust also the letting in of the planks to the Ships keel Rabbinical belonging to the Rabbies bins h. the Jewish Masters or Doctors Rabbinist one skil'd in their works also a dunce Rabdomancy g. divination by rods Rabid l. raging mad Racemation l. grape-gleaning Racemiferous cluster-bearing Racha Raca h. rascal a term of reproach Rachel h. a sheep or lamb Rachetum hat Thief-bote the compensation or redemption of a Thief Racine