of God you may read described Exod. 26. It was made like a Tent to remove to and fro as occasion required it had in it one room called Sanctum Sanctorum wherein the high Priest entered but once a year and another room called the Holy place c. Heb 9.2 3 4. There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the 15. day of the Seventh moneth and continued seven days during which time the Israelties lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance â—hat their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the Land of Egypt Now the feast of Tabernacles drew near Lev. 23.34 Tabernarious tabernarius belonging to Shops or Taverns Tabid tabidus corrupted consuming pining away Tabifical tabificus that brings into consumption pyning or rotting away contagious corrupt poysonous Tabuha Heb. Roe-Buck a womans name Laws of the 12 Tables leges 12 tabularum were certain Grecian Laws brought for the most part from Athens by the decemviri unto Rome and there written in 12. Tables of brass and set up in the Market place by which Laws Justice was ever after administred to the Roman people Excellency of the Civil Law p. 134. See Decemvirate Table of Apelles was a picture drawn by Apelles that famous Painter the moral whereof was on the one side to represent the excellency of abstinence and sobriety in the life of man and on the other the deformity of drunkenness and gluttony c. you may read the story at length in part 1. Tr. of times fol. 609. Tabouret Fr. a Pincase also a little low stool for a child to sit on In France the privilege of the Tabouret is of a stool for some particular great Ladies to sit in the Queens presence Tabular tabularis whereof boards plancks or tables may be made long and large Tabulary tabularium a chest or place wherein Registers or Evidences are kept in a City the Chancery or Exchequer Office Tabularious tabularius pertaining to writings or accounts also belonging to tables or good for them Tabulate tabulo to board a floor or other place to make a thing of boards Taces armour for the thighs so called because they are tached or tacked on with straps of leather to the corslet Tachygraphy Gr. the art or description of swift writing Taciturnity taciturnitas silence secresie of tongue keeping of counsel Taciâ—e tacitus that holds his peace and is still quiet saying nothing without noise Tacticks tactici they whose office is to set an Army in array also books treating of that subject Taction tactio a touching Tagliacotian Nose an inhabitant of Bruxiels had his Nose cut off in a combate and a new one of another mans flesh set on in its sted by Tagliacotius a famous Chyrurgeon of Bononia a Nose of wax Dr. Charl. Tagus a River in Spain parting Castile from Portugal where hath been found gravel like gold Tâ—le from the Fr. Taille i. a cut or cutting signifies in our Common Law a kind of inheritance in Fee as when a man holds lands to him and the Heirs of his body lawfully begotten This Tail is different and as it were cut from Fee-simple or free inheritance because it is not in the Tenants free power to dispose of those lands being as it were Taille cut from him or divided by the first giver and entailed or tyed on his issue c. Tail is either general or special whereof you may read at large in Littleton Tailes Kentish men are said to have tails which thus took its origen St. Thomas of Canterbury being in disfavor with Hen. 2. rode from the Court towards Canterbury upon a poor Jade and some common people the more to vilifie him cut off his horse tail for which crime the successors of those people are said to have had tails as a judgment from heaven for some generations now long since ceased And from hence the French do in derision call us in general Caudaté Tailage or Taliage from the Fr. taille a tax tribute or imposition Hence also Tailagiers in Chaucer for tax or toll-gatherers Tainct a kinde of red-coloured Spider found in the summer-time It is so little of body that ten of the largest will hardly outweigh a grain this by Country people is accounted a deadly poison to Cows and Horses But see Vul. Err. p. 177. Talaries talaria shooes with wings which Mercury wore as Poets feign Talassion talassio a song used to be sung at marriages see Thalassio Talent talentum a value of money of divers sorts Among the Greeks there were two Talents the greater and the less the greater valued about 233 l. sterl the less about 175 l. Among the Hebrews the Talent of silver contained of ours 375 l. The Talent of Gold was 4500 l. It also signifies a faculty or aability as we say a man of good talents i. of good parts or abilities Tales de Circumstantibus see Circumstantibus Taley or tally from the Fr. taille i. cut or slit because a taley is a score made of a stick of wood slit in two pieces to keep account between two parties one part of it remaining in the custody of the one and the other of the other so that one cannot score up any thing without the other Talion or lex talionis a Law where each suffered what they had done to others eye for eye one bad turn for another Deut. 19.21 and Aul. Gell. lib. 11. ca. 1. Talismans Arab. images or figures made under certain constellations Magical Characters see Gaffarels curiosities p. 147. for their antiquity and use see Gamahes Talismanical belonging to such Images Tallage see Taliage Talmud or Thalmud from the Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 talmid .i disciplina a superstitious and blasphemous Book containing the body of the Jewish Law composed by their Rabbins and of great authority among them Talmudical pertaining to the Talmud superstitious Talmudist a Student or Professor of the superstitions contained in the Talmud Talpicide talpicida the taking or killing Moles or Woants Talwood Ann. 33. 35. H. 8. ca. 3. A. 7 Ed. 6. ca. 7. 42 Eliz. ca. 14. Talshide ibid. It is a long kinde of shide of wood riven out of the tree which shortned is made into Billets Tamarinds tamarindi a fruit brought hither out of India like green Damascens the tree whereof is like a Date tree they are cold of operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heat and choler Tamarisk tamarice a shrub whereof there are two kinds the greater which bears fruit like the lesser oak apples or galls the less bearing gayish leaves without fruit The decoction of which lesser Tamarisk in wine and a little vinegar being drunk iâ— of great vertue against the lardness or stopping of the spleen or Milt Tamburine an old kind of instrument which by some is supposed to be the Clarion-Spencer Tampeon or Tampkin Fr. Tampon a bung or
one another As Father and Son superior and inferior Husband and Wife c. Correption correptio a correcting in words a rebuking a snatching away Correptory from corripio that rebuketh or chastiseth that snatches away Correspond correspondeo i. concorditer respondeo to answer concordingly agreeingly or in the same proportion to accord or consent together to run one and the same course together Correspondent agreeable proportionable or answerable to another thing Corridor A curtain in Fortification Corrigible corrigibilis that may be corrected or amended Corrivals corrivales they who have water from or use the same River And metaphorically a Competitor in love or they that love one and the same woman Corrivality corrivalitas the love of a Corrival a corrivalship Corroborate corroboro to make strong to harden or confirm Corrode corrodo to gnaw about to eat away Also to back-bite Corrodie See Corodie Corrodible corrodibilis that may be gnawn or eaten away Vul. Er. Corrosive corrosivus gnawing or eating about biting as it were a nipping the very heart Also a fretting plaister or any thing which being laid to the body raiseth blisters and makes it sore Corrugation corrugatio a wrinkling or furrowing of the skin a frowning Corsary Fr. Corsaire a Courser Corslet from the Ital Corsalletto armor for the breast and back Corse-present See Mortuary Corticated corticatus that hath a rind or bark Corvine corvinus pertaining to or like a Raven or Crow black as a Crow Coruscant coruscans glistering shining or lightning Coruscation coruscatio a flash of lightning or a kind of seeming sparkling fire which appears in Mines by night 'T is saith an Author a glistering of fire rather then fire indeed and a glimmering of lightning rather then lightning it self Corveâ— Ital. a prancing or continual dancing of a horse of Service Hence to corvet is to leap or prance as a Horse of Service doth Corâ—bant Corybantes Cybeles or Cybelles Priests so called from Corybantus one of her first Attendants To play the Corybant is to run madly up and down playing on a Cymbal and wagging the head as those Priests were wont to do Also to sleep with open eyes Coscâ—mancy coscinemantia a divining by a Sieve Co-siâ—ificativâ— from con and significo of the same signification with another thing Cosmâ—s Gr. mundus the world Hence Cosmarchy cosmarchia the power of the Devil the government of the world Cosmical cosmicus of the world worldly In Astronomy we term that the Cosmical ascension of a Star when it ariseth together with the Sun or the same degree of the Ecliptick wherein the Sun abides Vul. Er. 224. Cosmodelyte may be derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mundus and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 timidus or miser and so Englished one fearful of the world or a worldly wretch Cosmography cosmographia the description of the world in general This Art by the distance of the Circles in Heaven divides the Earth under them into her Zones and Climats and by the elevation of the Pole considers the length of the day and night with the perfect demonstration of the Suns rising and going down c. And is best handled by Pliny in his Natural History Cosmographer cosmographus a describer of the world Cosmographical pertaining to Cosmography Cosmology Gr. a speaking of the world Cosmopolite from Cosmos mundus and Polites Cives a Citizen of the world or Cosmopolitan Cosmometry Gr. a measuring of the world It is thus defined Cosmometry shewes the reason of the world by measures of degrees and minutes of the Heavens and the differences of Climates days and nights the elevation of the Poles diversity of the noon Tides and shadows in Dyals and divides it self into Cosmography and Geography 1. part Treasury Costrel or Casâ—rel a kind of bottle to carry wine or such like in Couchant Fr. couching or lying on the ground See Levant and Counchant Covent or Câ—vent conventus a multitude of men assembled together The whole number of religious persons dwelling in one house together which according to Chaucer in the Sompners Tale is but thirteen viz. twelve and the Confessor A Cloister or Abby of Monks or Nuns Hence Covent-Garden took denomination because it belonged to that Covent or religious House now called Whitehal which heretofore belonged to the Black Friers by the gift of the Earl of Kent Stow. Sur. 487. Coverture is a French word and signifies any thing that covers as Apparrel a Coverlet c. In our Common Law it is particularly applied to the estate and condition of a married woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under coverture or Covert baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her husbands consent or privity or without his allowance or confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Coulant Fr. gliding slipping slowing gently along Count Fr. Comte an Earl Couldray is the name of a noble House belonging to the Lord Viscount Montagu in Sussex in French it signifies a Hasel wood or Grove whence perhaps it took denomination Counter-compone a term in Herauldry as if you say a Cross Counter-compone that is a Cross compounded of two sundry colours or three See Accidence of Armory fol. 54. The Counter or Contor Is the name of two Prisons in London wherein Debtors and others for misdemeanors are imprisoned so called from a Contor which in high Dutch signifies locus seclusus a Prison Countermure or Counter scarf in a fortified Town is a bank of a Ditch or Mount opposite against the wall See Contramure A Counterround Fr. contreronde when one round goes one way and another another Also a certain number of Officers and Commanders going to visit the Watch of the Corps de guard Sentinels or the Rounds to see if they are diligent in performing their duty Countertaile or Countertallie Fr. Contretaile a Tally to confirm or confute another Tally It is a peece of wood which the one party keeps that is cut off from another peece kept by the other party and so when both meet with their Tallies they score up the number of what is delivered and received by cutting a notch with a knife Min. Coupant Fr. cutting cleaving lopping mowing carving Court-Baron Curia Baronis is a Court that every Lord of a Mannor which in antient times were called Barons hath within his own Precincts Of this and Court Leet read Kitchin Couâ—tisan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or waiting woman of the Court Also but less properly a professed Strumpet famous or infamous Whore Courteue of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a man marry an Inheritrix seized of Land in Fee-simple or in fee-Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a child of her that comes alive into the world though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in possession he shall keep the land during his life and is called Tenant by the Curtesie of England Glanvil l. 7 ca. 18.
Navigation Cardiacal cardiacus of or pertaining to the heart cordial comforting the heart Cardinal cardinalis a high dignity in the Church of Rome whereof there are about 70 in number and were first instituted by P. Paschal the first Minsh derives the word from Cardo inis the hook or hinge of a door for as the door hangs or depends on the hinges so the Church on the Cardinals The word taken Adjectively is pertaining to a hook or hinge also chief or principal the four Cardinal Vertues are 1 Prudence 2 Temperance 3 Justice 4 Fortitude So called because they are the principal foundations of a vertuous well-ordered life and as it were the hinges on which all other moral vertues depend the four principal winds East West North and South are also called Cardinal Winds Cardiognostick Gr. that knows the heart an attribute peculiar to God alone Mr. How Carefox or Carfax A Market-place in Oxford so called which may come of the French Quarrefour or carrefour signifying any place or part of a Town where four streets meet at a head as at Carfox in Oxford for there is the Quarre the square and quadrant Min. Or according to Mr. Sumner it may be a corruption from the French quatre voyes i. four ways Caâ—eâ—e Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Caret Lat. it wanteth it is the name for this mark which is made in writing where any thing is wanting left out or enterlined or to shew where an interlineation comes in Cargazon or Cargaison from the Span. Carga i.e. a load the fraight or lading of a ship Carine carina the Keel or Bottom of a Ship Any kind of bringing a ship over to lie on one side to be trim'd she being on float is called Careening Carity caritas dearth scarcity dearness Cark is a quantity of wool whereof 30 make a Sarplar A. 27. H. 6. cap. 2. Carmasal or Carmusal a kind of Turkish ship or Galley Carmelite had beginning and name at and from Mount Carmelus in Syria where Elias the Prophet lived long solitary a strict order of Friers instituted by Almericus Bishop of Antioch An. 1122. They followed St. Basil and were reformed by the vertuous Spanish Virgin St. Teresa who made them certain constitutions confirmed by Pope Pius the fourth Ann. 1565. Heyl. Carminate carmino to card wooll or hatchel flax to sever the good from the bad Carnage Fr. flesh time or the season wherein 't is lawful to eat flesh It is also a term of Venery signifying that flesh which is given to the dogs after hunting Carnalist One that is devoted to carnalities a carnal man Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a licentious or dissolute season Carnel work The building of ships first with their Timbers and Beams and after bringing on their Planks is called Carnel-work to distinguish it from Clinch-work Carnify carnifico to quarter or cut in peeces as the Hang-man doth to torment Carnous carnosus full of flesh fleshy gross thick Carnivorous carnivorus that devoureth flesh Carnificine carnificina the place of execution or the office of a Hangman Carnogan Brit. a little kind of a wooden dish with hoops a Piggin Carol A Christmas song or Hymn in honor of our Saviours birth it comes from Cantare i. to sing and Rola an interjection expressing joy for heretofore in the burden of delightful songs and when men were jocound they were wont to sing Rola Rola as sometimes they now do Hey down derry derry It was an antient custom among the Christians in their Feasts to bring every one into the midst and incite him to sing unto God as well as he could either out of holy Scriptures or out of his own wit and invention Tertul. lib. adv Gentes cap. 39. Carous Gar in the old Teutonick signified all and aus out so that to drink Garaus is to drink all out hence by corruption to drink Carous and now we say to Carous it i. to drink all out Carpatian-Sea so called from an adjacent Island called Carpathos now Scarpanto a Sea lying between Rhodes and Crete Carpâ—cratians a sort of Hereticks so called Carrat Fr. carat among Goldsmiths and Mintmen is the third part of an ounce among Jewellers or Stone-cutters but the 192 part for eight of them make but one sterlin and a sterlin is the four and twentieth part of an ounce Three grains of Assize or four grains of Diamond weight make a carrat A fool of twenty five carrats is an egregious fool a fool beyond all proportion the finest gold being but of four and twenty carrats which is the essay by which the fineness of the gold is known Cotgr. Carrick Carrack a ship of a great burthen so called of the Italian word carico or carco a burthen or charge you have this word An. 2. R. 3. ca. 4. and 1. Jac. ca. 33. Carriere Fr the ring or circle where they run with great horses also their course or full speed Cartage See Cartouch Cartel Fr. a Letter of defiance or a challenge for a single Combate Lo. Herbert uses it often in his Hen. 8. Carthusians a religious order of Monks instituted by St. Bruno a native of Collein who being a Parisian Doctor of Divinity and a Canon of Rheims abandoned the world and with six associats began his austere Heremitical course of life on the Carthusian Mountains in the Diocess of Gratianopolis with the licence of Hugh then Bishop thereof and from thence his Order took the name of Carthusians he flourished in the time of Pope Vrban the second and died 1101. Those of his rule have at this day near 100 Monasteries they eat no flesh never meet but on Sundays labour with their hands watch pray c. their robe is white with a short cape Cartilage cartilago a gristle Physitians define it to be a similary part dry and hard yet not so as a bone flexible which a bone is not framed to stay the soft parts and to repel the injuries of external hard bodies Reads Anat. Cartilagineous cartilagineus of a gristle or full of gristles Carrucate of Land carrucata terrae is a word much used in the antient Charters and Land-evidences of this nation and signifies as much land as may be tilled in a year by one Plough it is also called in the antient Laws Hilda vel Hida terrae and in others Carue de terre now a Plough-land Carrucata is a corruption from the French Carruë a Plough Cartouche Fr. a charge of powder and shot ready made up in a paper we corruptly call it a cartage Also a roll in Architecture Carvel a kind of ship Caspian Sea mare Caspium a Sea near Hyrcania that hath no passage into any other Sea but is a huge Lake and neither ebbs nor flows Therefore Sir Philip Sidney to note that he persisted always one depainted out this Sea surrounded with his Shoars and over it this Motto Sine refluxu for his Devise Case-Mate Fr. a loop-hole in a fortified wall to shoot out at or
who maintains the suit signifies in our common Law a maintenance of any man in his Suit depending upon condition to have part of the thing be it Lands or Goods when it is recovered Fitzh nat br fol. 171. and for this the party is to be fined by the Stat. 33. Ed 1. Lamb. 441. Champertors are those that move Pleas or Suits or cause them to be moved either by their own procurement or by others and pursue them at their proper costs to have part of the land in variance or part of the gain An. 33. E. 1. Stat. 2. in fine See more of this in Cowel Chanfton The name of an Italian coyn worth about xx d. Chanterie Fr. from the Lat. canto to sing was a Chappel commonly annexed to some Parochial or Cathedral Church endowed with lands or other yearly Revenues for the maintenance of one or more Priests daily to sing Mass for the Souls of the Donors or such others as they did appoint 37 Hen. 8.4 1. Edw. 6.14 Of these Chanteries there were forty seven within St. Pauls Church London See Mr. Fullers Ch. Hist l. 6. f. 357. Chanticleer Fr. one that sings clear a Cock. Chaomancy a kind of divination by the air Chaos Gr. a huge immense and formless mass the rude and undigested first heap of natural elements the world so called before it was formed as in Ovid. Vnus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe Quem dixere Chaos And metaphorically any thing without a shape a general confusion Chaperon Fr. a Hood or French-Hood for a woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1. R. 2.7 And among Heraulds it is that little Escotcheon which is fixed in the forehead of the horses that draw the Herse Chapin Span. Shooes with high cork or wooden soles Chaplet Fr. chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Chapter Capitulum signifies in the common and Canon Law whence it is borrowed Congregationem Clericorum in Ecclesiâ Cathedrali conventuali regulari vel collegiata why this collegiate company should be called a Chapter i. a little head of the Canonists is for that this Company or Corporation is a kind of Head not onely to rule and govern the Diocess in the vacancy of the Bishoprick but also in many things to advise the Bishop when the See is full Character Gr. a mark sign seal or print of any thing a Branding-iron a letter or figure A Character in Chronology is a certain note whereby an infallible judgement is made of the time proposed Greg. The Printers Characters or names of their several sorts of Letters are 1. Pearl which is the least 2. Non-Pareil 3. Breviar 4. Minion 5. Long-Primer 6. Smal Piquy 7. Piquy 8. English Roman 9 Great Primer 10. Double Piquy 11. Small Canon 12. Fat Canon 13. Capitals And all these except the first and four last have an English or black letter corresponding Characteristique pertaining to a character mark sign or figure Characterize characterizo to note mark or describe To write in Short-hand or in characters See Brachygraphy Charientism charientismus pleasantness good grace in speaking It is a trope or manner of speaking which mitigates hard matters with pleasant words Charlatan Fr. a Mountebanck a cousening Drug-seller a pratling Quacksalver Mr. Montagu uses it See Mountebank Charlatancry Fr. cousening or gulling speech cogging lying extream commendation of a trifle thereby to make it more saleable Charls in the antient Teutonick from whence this name takes original was first Garedel whereof by abbreviation it became Careal now in the modern Teutonick it is Barle Gar did signifie all and edel or ethel noble so that Charles signifies all or wholly noble In the old Saxon it was Ceorl Verst Charles-wain certain Stars winding about the north Pole of the world in fashion like four Wheels and horses drawing it Bull. Charmer one that useth conjurations is said to be he that speaks words of a strange language without sence that if one say so or so to a Serpent it cannot hurt him He that whispers over a wound or reads over an Infant that it may not be frighted or lays the Bible on a child that it may sleep c Moses and Aaron p. 175. Charnel-house Fr. Charneir a place wherein the Souls and bones of the dead are laid Charons-boat Poetically thus Charon is feigned to be the Ferry-man of Hell that carries the souls of the dead in a boat over three Rivers i. Acheron Styx and Cocytus Chart charta paper parchment or any thing to write on Also a writing or written Deed. Charter Fr. Chartes i. instrumenta It is taken in our common Law for written evidence of things done between man and man which Briton in his 39 chapter divides into Charters of the King and Charters of private persons Charters of the King are those whereby the King passeth any Grant to any person or more or to any body politique as a Charter of exemption that a man shall not be empanelled upon any Jury c. Cowel charter-Charter-land terra per Chartam is such as a man holds by Charter that is by evidence in writing otherwise called Free-hold an 19. H. 7. c. 13. and Kitch fol. 86. Charter-partie is an Indenture of Covenants and agreements made between Merchants and Mariners concerning their Sea affairs Stat. 32. H. 8.14 1649. 21. Charybdig A Gulph or Whirl-pit on Sicily side of the narrow Seas between Sicily and Italy which violently attracting all vessels that come too nigh it devours them and casts up their wrecks at the shoar of Tauronia not far from Catana Opposite to this in Italy stands the dangerous Rock Scylla at whose foot many little Rocks shoot out on which the waters strongly beating make that noise which the Poets feign to be the barking of Dogs This passage between these two being to unskilful Marriners exceeding perillous gave rise to the proverb Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim Who seeks Charybdis for to shun Doth often times on Scylla run Heyl. Chasmatical chasmaticus pertaining to a chasm which is the gaping or opening of the earth or firmament Chatharist See Catharist Chasuble Fr. a fashion of Vestment or Cope that 's open onely in the sides and is worn at Mass both by the Priest who hath it round and his assistant Deacon and sub-Deacon who have it square in the bottom Cotg. Chattels See Catals Chauldron See Chaldron Chaunce-medley Is in our Common Law the casual slaughter of a man not altother without the fault of the slayer See Man-slaughter Cheapside the famous London street is so called from the Sax. Ceapan i. to traffick buy or sell hence also comes to cheapen Chenix Lat. chaenix a measure containing a Sextary and half or about two pints and a quarter Chersonese chersonesus the same with penâ—insula a tract of Land which being almost encompassed
to speak out of theit belly England Sax. engla-Engla-land was so first named after the common opinion by Egbert the first sole and absolute Monarch of the English men Engonasâ— or Engonnasâ— the name of one of the Constellations commonly taken for Hercules who in the Globe is figured with his right knee bent in the manner of kneeling and with his left foot treading part of the head of the Dragon Min. Engyscope from the Gr. an instrument for discerning the proportion of small things Enharmoniack enharmonion one of the three general sorts of Musick song of of many parts or a curious concent of sundry Tunes Enigma Aenigma a Riddle a dark speech or intricate sentence Enigmatical aenigmaticus obscure hard to understand full of Riddles Enigmatist aenigmatistes he that makes or propounds Riddles or hard questions Ennead enneas adis nine the number of nine Ennealogue Gr. a speaking or treating of nine points an Oration or Treatise divided into nine parts or Chapters Enoch or Enos pillars The story runs shortly thus Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam who is held to be the first Author of Astrology having heard his Grandfather Adam say all things should be destroyed by the universal Flood was desirous that Science should not perish before it came to the knowledge of men did therefore erect two Pillars one of stone the other of brick to the intent if the brick wasted with water or storms yet the stone should preserve the Letters whole and perfect and in these Pillars were graved all that concerns the observations of the stars c. one of which Josephus affirms remained even in his time See Astronomy Enodate enodo to unknit to cut away the knot to declare or make manifest to untie Enormitâ— enormitas want of measure or rule unevenness hugeness Ensiferous ensifer that bears or carries a Sword Enquest Inquisitio is in our Common Law especially taken for that Inquisition or Enquest of Jurors or by Jury which is the most usual tryal of all causes both criminal and civil in our Land Entaile feudum talliatum comes of the Fr entaillé And in our Common Law is a Substantive abstract signifying Fee tayl or Fee entailed See Fee and Tail Entelechie entelechia a soul or form that hath power or motion within herself Entendment Fr. wit or understanding It signifies in our Common Law so much as the true meaning or signification of a word or sentence Of which see Kitch fo 224. To Enterfeir from the Lat. inter and ferire to rub or dash one heel against the other to exchange some blows Enthalamize from Thalamus to bring the Bride-groom and Bride to their Bed-chamber Enthean or Entheater entheatus inspired with God Enthusiasts or Enthusiasiâ—s a Sect of people that thought themselves inspired with a Divine Spirit and to have a clear sight of all things they believed c. Spondanus says they sprung from the Anabaptistical Sect of Nicholas Stork of Silesia in the year 1522. Enthusiasm or Enthysiasm enthysiasmus an inspiration a ravishment of the â—pirit divine motion Poetical fury Enthysâ—asmicaâ— pertaining to an inspiration Enthymeme enthymema is a term of Logick and signifies an imperfect Syllogism which wants either the major or minor Proposition As for example Every sin deserveth correction Every theft is a sin Therefore every theft deserves correction Now if we leave out the first part called the major and say thus Every theft is a sin Therefore every theft deserves correction Or omit the second part called the minor and say Every sin deserves correction therefore every theft deserves correction then it is called an Enthymeme to wit a keeping in the mind for so the word properly signifies because one of these parts is concealed in the mind and not uttered and in that regard it is called truncatus Syllogismus a lame or maimed Syllogism Enthymematical pertaining to an Enthymeme Entitatively entitativè a term in Philosophy and is when a thing is taken according to its essence form or being Entitie entitas a being or subsistence Enucleate enucleo to take out the kernel to declare or explicate a difficulty to interpret or expound To Envelope Sp. Envelopér to wrap unfold involve or inclose also to poster or incumber Enumerate enumero to reckon up to declare to number Enunciative enunciatum Subst any thing pronounced or spoken a proposition or speech which simply affirms or denies any thing as to say Peter is a Scholar Peter is no Scholar To Enunciate enuncio to pronounce utter or reveal Enure See Inure Eolian pertaining to Aeolus the god of the winds also inconstant as the wind Epact epacta the day put to or added to make the Leap year or it is a number of eleven days in which the common Solar year exceeds the common Lunar year the one consisting of 365 days the other of 354 days and therefore they add the excess unto the Lunar year to coequal them For Epacta comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies intercalare or addere by the addition of which excess in every four years there is gotten a number more then 30 which is greater then the Epact can be because from Change to Change there can be but Thirty days therefore Thirty must be taken from that excess and the remainder is the Epact for the next year As 1659. the Epact is Seventeen whereto add Eleven which makes Twenty eight that is the Epact for the next year To get the Epact for ever do thus Multiply the Prime by Eleven parting the Product by Thirty and the Remainder is the Epact Or see the age of the Moon the Eleven Kalends of April for that is the number of the Epact Hop Concord Epatride were Noble men among the Athenians and held the like dignity with them as the Patricii did at Rome Eparch Eparchus the President of a Province or the chief of all the Provincial Presidents Epheby ephebus a Stripling of fourteen years of age and upwards An Ephemeran or Ephemerides ephemeris idis a book wherein daily Acts are registred a Journal or Diary commonly it is taken for a book of Astronomy in use among such as erect figures to cast mens Nativities by which is shewn how all the Planets are placed every day and hour of the year Ephemeridian belonging to such a Register or Day-book Ephemerist One that registreth daily actions or one that casteth Nativities with the help of an Ephemerides a maker of an Ephemerides Ephesian Temple i. The Temple of Diana at Ephesus See Diana Ephesian Moan may be taken for a sad and continual lamentation and is deduced from Heraclitus a Philosopher of Ephesus who always wept at the miseries of the world and mortal men The phrase is used by Du Bartas Ephi or Epha an Hebrew measure containing nine Gallons of ours Ephialtes Gr. the night Mare it is a kinde of disease commonly called the Elfe or Night-Mare with which whoever is affected he supposes himself to be invaded by some spirit which
waver doubt or be uncertain Fluctisonant fluctisonus sounding or roaring with waves or billows Fluctivagant fluctivagus wandering on the water or Sea tossed by the waves Fluctuous fluctuosus troublous unquiet boysterous Fluent Fluid fluens flowing or gushing out waterish Fluidity fluiditas wetness or flowing Fluminous fluminosus full of rivers Fluvial fluvialis of or belonging to a River Fluvious fluviosus flowing much Flux fluxus a flowing or issue Fluxibility Aptness to flow Focillate focillo to nourish comfort or refresh Fodder or Fother Sax. a certain weight of Lead or Tin about 2000 pound or a Wain-load it is mentioned in Acts 1656 9. Fodient fodiens that digs or thrusts into To Foine pungo to prick or sting Rider Foines A kinde of Fur brought for the most part out of France The top whereof is black and the ground whitish the beast that bears it is about the bigness of a Cat. Foliaceous foliaceus of or like a leaf Folio folium a sheet or large leaf of paper We say a book is in Folio when two leaves of it make a sheet in Quarto when four leaves make a sheet in Octavo when eight leaves make a sheet Duodecimo or in Twelves when the sheet is made into twelve leaves c. Every folio or leaf hath two pages Foliatanes from folia i. leaves an order of religious persons who lived onely upon leaves which the Pope put down as finding leaves unable to nourish mans body Folcland Sax Copy-hold Lands were so called in the time of the Saxons and Charter-lands were called Bock-land Kitch 174. fundus sine scripto possessus says Mr. Sumner Folkmoote is a Saxon word compounded of Folk i. populus and Gemettan i. convenire It signifies according to Mr. Lambert in his exposition of Saxon words verbo conventus two kinds of Courts one now called the County Court the other called the Sheriffs Turn This word is still in use among the Londoners and signifies Celebrem ex omni Civitate conventum Stow. Surv. But Mr. Manwood in his first part of Forest Laws p. 111 hath these words Folkmote is the Court holden in London wherein all the folk and people of the City did complain of the Mayor and the Aldermen for misgovernment within the City Foliage Fr. Fueillage branched work in painting or Tapestry also leasiness Follicle folliculus a little bag purse or bladder Foliate foliatus leaved or having leaves Gold foliate is leaf Gold Bac. Foment fomento to warm comfort cherish Fomentation fomentatio a fomenting comforting or asswaging In Physick it properly signifies powdry or dry things in bags or any liquor in a Spunge or Bladder applied warm to the body to metigate pain or make way by opening the â—pores for ointments or plaisters to be applied Fons Solis a Fountain near the Temple of Jupiter Hammon in Lybia that at midnight is as hot as boiling water and at noon as cold as any ice which may the rather be credited since our Bathes in England are much warmer in the night then in the day Sir Wa. Ral. History of the World l. 4. f 184. Font fons a Fountain or Water-spring What the Font of a Church is every one knows but not why so called The Rites of Baptism in the primitive times were performed in Fountains and Rivers both because the Converts were many and those ages unprovided of other Baptisteries and in this Rite we still retain the name for hence t is we call our Baptisteries Fonts which when Religion found peace were built and consecrated for the more reverence and respect of the Sacrament Rationale Fontal fontalis pertaining to a Fountain or Well Forable forabilis that may be boared or pierced Foraminous foraminosus full of holes Foraneous foraneus belonging to a Market or Court Forcinated forcipatus bended like a hook Foreloin a term in hunting when a Hound meets a chase and goes away with it before the rest of the Cry Forensal forensis pertaining to the Common-place used in pleading or in the Judgment place Forestal from the Belg. Veur i. ante and Stallen Merces disponere is to buy Corn Cattle or other Merchandize by the way as it comes towards the Fair or Market to be sold to the intent to sell the same again at a dearer price Forestaller is he that forestalls and buys things in such sort Forelorn Hopâ— a party of Souldiers sent before the whole body of the Army to skirmish with the Enemy the French call it Enfans perdues the Roman Velites were in a manner answerable hereunto Forelorn comes from the Belg. Verloren i. perditus lost The Forelorn-Hope is given for lost in respect it is most commonly desperate Service See Perdu Formalist from forma one that is very punctual or precise in his actions or words Formator Lat. he that instructeth maketh or formeth Formalize to form to give or add form unto Formidable formidabilis dreadful to be feared terrible Formidolous formidolosus fearful that feareth dreadful dangerous Formosity formositas comeliness beauty Formulary Fr. Formulaire the stile or manner of proceeding in the Law a President for doing any thing Fornication fornicatio Whoredom Letchery spoken of single persons if either party be married then it is Adultery It is punished by three moneths imprisonment for the first offence the second is made Felony by Act 1650. c. 10. Fortitude fortitudo strength valour courage It is one of the four Cardinal Vertues and is thus defined Fortitude is a vertue that moderates the irascible power according to reason and so it helps us to overcome those difficulties which require courage in chusing one harm to avoid another Fit Cat. Fortuitous Fortuite fortuitus that hapneth by chance sudden casual accidental Fosse way from fossus dig'd it was originally one of the four grand High-ways of England so called because t is conceived to be digged or made passable by the antient Romans or ditched at least on one side but now several inferior High-ways are so called See Watling-street Fosset cistella a little chest Fossion fossio a digging or delving Fossile fossilis that which is or may be digged Fotion fotio a nourishing or keeping warm Fotive fotus nourished kept warm Fougade Fr. a Mine or up-blowning Fire-work or Wild-fire Rel. Med. Foulk or Fulkâ— a mans name some derive it from the German Volig i. noble and gallant But I from Fole the English Saxon word for people as though it were the same with Publius of the Romans and onely translated from Publius as beloved of the people and Commons Fracid fracidus more then ripe rotten-ripe putrified Faction fractio a breaking or bursting Fragile fragilis frail brittle soon broken mortal weak Bac. Fragility fragilitas brittleness weakness inconstancy Fragment fragmentum a peece or gobbet of a thing broken Fragor Lat. the noise made with the fall of any thing a cracking or crashing of things broken asunder a great noise or busling Sands Fragrancy fragrantia a sweet smell or savour Franc is a French coyn of
twenty sols tournois which amounts to near 2 s. sterl Francis Ger. from Franc that is free not servile or bound The same with the Gr. Eleutherius and the Lat. Liberius Cam. Franciscans or Franciscan Friers a Religious Order instituted by St. Francis an Italian about the year of our Lord 1198. and confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third His rule prescribed Chastity Obedience Poverty much fasting and other austerities to all that should be admitted of that Order Of which you may read more in St. Bonaven de vita St Francisci Out of this great Order have sprung divers others as Observantes Conventuales Minimi Capuciani Collectanei c. Frangible frangibilis that may be broken breakable Franchise Fr. liberty freedom exemption also good breeding free-birth it is taken with us for a priviledge or exemption from ordinary Jurisdiction and sometimes an immunity from tribute c. Frank-Almoin libera Eleemosyna in French Franc Aumosne signifies in our Common Law a Tenure or Title of Lands Britton Cap. 66. num 5. saith thus of it Frank-Almoine is Lands or Tenements bestowed upon God that is given to such people as bestow themselves in the service of God for pure and perpetual Almes whence the Feoffers or givers cannot demand any terrestrial service so long as the Lands remain in the hands of the Feoffees Frank marriage Fr. Franc-marriage is a Tenure in Tayl special growing from these words in the gift Sciant c. Me T.B. de O. dedisse c. I.A. filio meo Marg. uxori ejus filiae verae T.N. in liberum maritagium unum Messagium c. West p. 1. Symb. l. 2. Sect. 303. The effect of which words is that they shall have the Land to them and the Heirs of their bodies and shall do no fealty to the Donor till the fourth Degree c. Frank pledge franciplegium is compounded of franc i. libâ—r and pledge i. fidejussor a free-pledge or surety and signifies in our Common Law a pledge or surety for free-men Fraternize from frater to agree as brothers to concur with or be near unto also to admit into a Fraternity Brotherhood or Society Fraternal fraternalis of or belonging to a brother Fratricelli a Sect of Hereticks broached by one Hermannius an Italian about the year of Christ 1304. in time of Pope Benedict the eleventh and Albertus the first Emperor they were otherwise called fratres de paupere vita brothers of a poor life 1. They taught promiscuous beddings that nothing was to be held proper or ones own that Christians are not to be Governors of a Commonwealth with other foolish errors condemned by Pope Boniface the eigth Fratricide fratricidium brother-slaughter Fratruelâ— fratrueles brothers children cousin Germans Fraudation fraudatio a deceiving or beguiling Fradulent fradulentus crafty deceitful full of guil Free-booters See Banditi Frederic Germ. Rich peace or as the Monk which made this allusion would have it peaceable reign Est adhibenda fides rationi nominis hujus Compositi Frederic duo componentia cujus Sunt Frederic Frith quid nisi Pax Ric quid nisi regum Sic per Hendiaden Fredericus quid nisi vel Rex Pacificus vel regia Pax Pax pacificusque For Frederic the English have commonly used Frery and Fery which has been now a long time a Christian name in the antient Family of Tilney and lucky to their house as they report Cam. Freed-stool Sax. i. sedes pacis was of old a refuge for malefactors at Beverley in Yorkshire where St. John of Beverley Archbishop of York erected a Monastery which King Athelstan made a Sanctuary to secure offenders against all legal prosecution Frement fremens gnashing or grinding the teeth roaring or braying Frenigerent fraeniger that ruleth the bridle Frescades Fr. refreshments as in Summer time light garments cool air cool places cool drinks Bowres or shades over-spread with green boughs Fresco Ital. fresh cool coldish also unsalt new laid new made sweet green or lusty As we say to walk or drink in Fresco i. to walk in the cool or fresh air or to drink cool or fresh wine Fretrots a sort of Sectaries which wore a secret Crown on their heads incestuous as Adamites by night and suppressed in the year 1310. Friable friabilis that may be crummed or broken smal Bac. Frication or Friation fricatio a rubbing or fretting together Friar or Frier from the Lat. Frater or from the Fr. frére i. a brother there are four principal Orders reckoned of them An. 4. H. 4. ca. 17. viz. Minors Grey Friers or Franciscans Augustins Dominicans or Black Friers and White Friers or Carmelites from these four Orders the rest descended See in Zecchius de Repuh Eccl. p. 380. And Linwood tit de Relig. Domibus ca. 1. verbo St. Augustin Frier Observant frater observans is an Order of Franciscans it is to be noted that of these four Orders mentioned in the word above the Franciscans are Minores tam observantes quam conventuales Capuchini Zecch de Repub. Eccl. tract de regular cap. 2. These Friers Observant mentioned An. 25. H. B. ca. 12. are so called because they are not combined together in any Cloister Covent or Corporation as the Conventuals are but onely tye themselves to observe the Rules of their Order and more strictly then the Conventuals do and upon a singularity of zeal separate themselves from them living in certain places and companies of their own chusing and of this you may read Hospinian de Orig prog Monachatus fol. 878. ca. 38. Fricasse Fr. fricassee any meat fried in a pan Friga an Hermaphroditical Idol adored by the old Saxons on the day now called Friday which thence took its denomination and was of old called Frigedeag Verst p. 63. Frigefaction frigefactio a making cool Frigerate frigero to cool Frigeratory frigeratorium a Cooling-house or place Frigid frigidus cold faint negligent flow also that is unable for carnal copulation Frigidity frigiditas coldness Frigifie frigifacio to cool or make cold Frigor Lat. coldness Frigorifical frigorificus that makes or procures cold Friperer from the Fr. Fripier i. interpolator one that scowres up and mends old Apparel to sell again a Broker This word is used for a bastardly kind of Broker A. 1. Ja. ca. 21. Fripery The use of that kind of Trade Brocage also a Brokers shop or a street of Brokers Fritiniancy Fritiniency from fritinio is a chirping like a Swallow Frize and Cornice the Crests furnitureÌ„ and finishing at the upper end of a Column or Pillar a term of Architecture Frondiferous frondifer that bears leaves or branches Frondosity frondositas leaviness or aptness to bear leaves Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire for the forehead or a plaister applied to the Forehead It is also used Adjectively Frontispiece frontispicium the fore-front of an house or other building also the Title or first page of a book done in picture Frontiniac a luscious kind of rich wine made at a Town so
encloses a number of veins called Meseraick or Mesenterick Veins being branches of the great carrying vein by which both the guts are nourished and the juyce of the meat concocted is conveyed to the Liver to be made blood Mesenterick Arteries or Veins See in Artery and Vein Mesn medius seems to come from the Fr. maisné i. minor natu younger by birth It signifies in our Common Law him that is Lord of a Mannor and thereby hath Tenants holding of him yet holding himself of a superior Lord. Mesnagerie Fr. husbandry Huswisry and the use or practice thereof Mesnalty medietas comes of Mesn and signifies nothing but the right of the Mesn As the Mesnalty is extinct Old nat br fo 44. if the Mesnalty descend Kitch fol. 147. Messalians or Massilians Messalini a sort of Hereticks who among other gross absurdities held the B Sacrament of the Eucharist and Baptism did neither good nor harm to the Receivers And that Prayer alone was sufficient to salvation c. which Heresie was impugned by St. Augustine and Epiphanius Messias Hebr. Mashiahh signifies as much as Christ in Gr. i. Anointed Our Saviour is often so called because he was anointed with the oyl of gladness for those that believe in him St. Augustin says Messias signifies in the Punick Language as much as Anointed Messile or Missil from misseo to mingle a kind of bearing so called in Blazon because of the intermixture of one colour with another Messor Lat. a Reaper or Mower Messorious messorius belonging to reaping Mestier Fr. a Trade Occupation or Mystery also need or necessity Mestifical moestificus that makes heavy or sad Metâ— is a Greek Preposition which being set before several Cases has several significations Scapula Metacism metacismus a fault in pronouncing Metachronism Gr. an error in the connexion of things or times by reckoning or accounting short or beyond the truth Greg. Metaleptick metalepticus that hath the power of participating or pertains to the figure Metalepsis whereby a word is put from his proper or common signification Metalliferous metallifer that brings forth mettals Metalline or Metallick metallicus pertaining to metals Metamorphosis Gr. a transformation a changing of one likeness into another or of one shape and figure into another Hence To Metamorphize to transform or change shape Metaphor metaphora i. translatio is the friendly and neighborly borrowing one word to express another with more light and better note or when a word is changed from his own signification into some other near unto it as laetas segetes luxuriantia prata c. Swords hungry of blood Heads disinherited of their natural Seigniories c. This of all other figures is the most used and useful Metaphorical metaphoricus spoken by Metaphor Metaphysicks metaphysica à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 post vel trans 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi trans-physica quod rerum physicarum cognitionem transcendunt a Science which lifting it self above the changeable nature of things considers of such as subsist in their own essence not subject to any alteration dealing onely with Universals abstracting from Individuals School Divinity is the highest part of it consisting chiefly in contemplative knowledge of God Angels souls of men c. Physick says my Lord Bacon is that which enquires of the efficient cause and of the matter Metaphysick that which enquires of the form and end Advanc of Learn fol. 143. Metaplasm metaplasmus i. transformatio a figure in Rhetorique when by reason of the verse c some thing is necessarily changed Metathesis Gr. i. transpositio when one letter is put for another Metempsychosis Gr. a passing of the soul from one body to another Pythagoras his error Hence Metempsychosed that so passeth or is passed Meâ—aâ—or Lat. a planter or setter in order a mesaurer out of the place for a Camp to pitch in a measurer of Land Meteor Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. sublimis an apparition or any imperfect mixt substance ingendred on high in the air as Rain Snow Thunder Hail Lightning Blazing-Stars Clouds and Wind all which are made of vapors or exhalations drawn up from the Earth and Sea by the attractive vertues of the Sun Vide Aristot Meteorolog Meteorology Gr. a discoursing of Meteors or sublime things Meteorologist meteorologus one that studies or speaks of high matters as of Meteors Stars and other celestial things Metheglin Br. Meddiglin a kind of drink in Wales made of Wort Herbs Spice and honey sodden together Methodist one that puts things into a method or ready way or one that treats or writes of methods a good disposer of things into their proper places The Galenists are usually so called Bac. Methodical methodicus pertaining to a method or a ready way to teach or do any thing Methridate See Mithridate Methuselah Hebr. the name of the oldest man before the flood who lived 969 years Hence t is used proverbially to live the years of Methuselah for a very old age Meticulosity meticulositas fearfulness timerousness Meticulous meticulosus fearful timerous Metient metiens measuring esteeming Metonymie Gr. transnominatio a putting one name for another a figure when the cause is put for the effect the subject for the adjunct or contrarily Metonymical metonymicus pertaining to that figure Metopes metopae a term in Architecture and signifies the distance or space between Dentieles and Triglyphes which is either left plain or garnished with Lances Bones Bull-heads Binding-bands and Labels Vitruvius Metopomancie Gr. a divination by the face or forehead Metoposcopy Gr. the Art of telling mens natures and inclinations by looking on their faces Metrical metricus pertaining to a meeter or verse Metropolis Gr. the chief head or Mother City or Town Metropolitan metropolitanus an Archbishop so called because his Sea is in the Mother City of the Province Of these we had two in England viz. the Archbishop of Canterbury and York The stile of the first was by the Popes decision Metropolitanus Primas totius Angliae of the later Metropolitanus Primas Angliae Fâ—llers Church hist lib. 3. p. 39. Miasm Gr. a defiling or pollution a flagitious act a sin Dr. Charl. To Miche from the Fr. Musér i. otiari cessare secretly to hide or absent ones self as Truants do from School Mickle or Miccle Sax. Micel Scot. Meikil Hebr. Michlol Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 much Microcosmus Gr. properly signifies a little world This word is sometimes applied to man who is therefore called a Microcosmus or little world as being a Compendium of all other creatures his body being compared to the baser part of the world and his soul to the blessed Angels Microcosmical pertaining to a little world or to man Micrologie micrologia curiosity about things of no value a speaking or treating of potty affairs Midas a rich King of Phrygia who desired of Bacchus that whatever he touched might be turned into gold c. Hence Midas is used proverbially for a rich covetous man Mâ—dâ—iff diaphragma a sinewy skin
all and not to any one in particular The Pilgrim might go at his own charge the Palmer must profess wilful poverty The Pilgrim might give over his profession the Palmer must be constant till he had obtained the Palm that is victory over his spiritual enemies and life by death Chauc Pillaâ—e a kind of ordinanary meat among the Turks which is no other then Rice sod with the fat of Mutton Pilosity pilositas hairiness roughness Bac. Pilot Ital. Pilóta a Steersman he that directs the course of a ship the Belgick call him a Lootsman see Lodemenage Pilotage or Pilotism the Office or art of a Pilot the skilful guiding or conduct of a ship Pimpleaâ— from Pimplea a Fount in Macedon sacred to the Muses and is therefore often used as an Epithete for them Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an antient kind of Dutch artificial drunkenness the cup commonly of wood had a pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the pin by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This devise was of old the cause of so much debauchery in England that one of the constitutions of a Synod held at Westminster in the year 1102. was to this effect That Priests should not go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnas bibant nor drink at Pins Pinguefie pinguefacio to make fat or gross some have used pinguedinize in the same sence Pinguedinous pinguedinosus that is fat gross rude or unweildy Piniferous pinifer which beareth Pine-trees Pinnigerous pinniger that hath fins finned like a fish Pinsor Lat. that brayes or stamps in a Morter a Baker Pirules two small Tablets in the Alhidada of an Astrolabe having in them two little holes through which the height of the Sun c. is taken some call them the sights of the Alhidada Cot. Pioner or Pionor from the Fr. Pionniâ—r a laborer in an Army used to cast trenches or undermine Forts Ann. 2 3. Ed. 6. cap. 20. Pipation pipatio a cry of one that weeps Pipe Fr. a measure of Wine or Oyl containing half a Tun that is One hundred twenty and six Gallons An. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Piepowders Court or a Pourt of Pypoudre from the Fr. pied a foot and pouldreux dusty is a Court held in Fairs for the redress of all disorders committed there which because they are most frequented in Summer the word was given of the dusty feet of the comers Of this see Cromp. Juris fol. 221. Piquant Fr. pricking sharp piercing stinging nipping Mr. Montagu in his Miscel Piqueron see Picqueron Piquy see Character Piramid see in Py Piratical piraticus of or belonging to a Pirate or Robber on the Sea Pirate-like Piromantie see in Py Pirenean of or pertaining to the fountain Pirene at the foot of the mountain Acrocorinthus fained to have been made by the horse Pegasus dashing his foot against a rock Piscary piscaria a fish-market or place where fish are Piscary in our Common Law signifies a liberty of fishing in another mans waters Piscation piscatio a fishing Dr. Br. Piscicle pisciculus a little fish Piscinal piscinalis of or belonging to a Fish-Pond Pisculent pisculentus full of fishes or that may be fished Pissâ—sphaâ— pissasphalium Pitch mingled with Bitumen either by accident or art the former is much the better and comes from Apollonia in Epiâ—s where it first received that mixture Coâ— Pâ—ssuâ—mâ—st or the Stone is a disease in a Horse when he would fain stale but cannot at all and therefore may well be called the suppression of the Urine Markham Pistacâ—oes pistachia a kind of small nuts called Pistake nuts that grow in Syria and are sold by Apothecaries The word in the Persian tongue signifies small nuts Pistrius pistrina a Bake-house a Mill or grinding house Pistick pisticus pressed or bruised Pistillation from pistillum a pounding or braying with a Pestil in a Mortar Pistorical or pistorian pistoricus belonging to a Baker baking or Pastry Pithian Games See Pyth. Pituitous pituitosus full of flegm flegmatick waterish Br. Pix see Pyx Placable placabilis easie to be pleased or appeased soon qualified Placability placibilitas when a person is easie to be appeased or pacified gentleness Placard Fr. plaquard an Inscription set up a Table wherein Laws Orders c. are written and hung up also a Bill or Libel set upon a post In our Common Law it is taken for a licence whereby a man is permitted to maintain unlawful Games 2 3 â—h and Mar. ca. 7. Placidity placiditas quietness peaceableness Placid placidus gentle patient milde peaceable Placit placitum a firm consent or opinion a Decree or Ordinance Plagiary plagiarius one that steals or takes free people out of one Country and sells them in another for slaves a stealer or suborner of mens children or servants for the same or like purpose in which sense we term him a Slockster also a Book-stealer or book thief one that fathers other mens works upon himself Cot. a Court kept in Haven Towns as Swainmot in the Forest It is sometimes called the Portmoot Court An. 43. Eliz. 15. Portsale Ann. 35 H. 8. cap. 7.1 sale of fish presently upon return in the Haven Among the antient Romans those things were rightly sold in Portsale which were publickly sold Per Praeconem sub hasta i. by the Cryer under a Spear sticked up for that purpose and some Magistrate making good the sale by delivery of the goods which were sold to him who would bid most for them Sigonius Posade Fr. a lighting down of Birds a laying down a burthen a breathing pause resting or resting place from the Span. Posada an Inn. Pose a Physical term signifying a rheume or humor which falls into the Nose stopping the Nostrils and hindering the voyce Possessive possessivus pertaining to possession or property Posterganeous posterganeus belonging to the backside or hinder part of the body Posteriority posterioritas the being or coming after or behinde It is a word of comparison and relation in tenure the correlative whereof is priority for a man holding Lands or Tenements of two Lords holds of his antienter Lord by priority and of his latter by posteriority Stawnf Praerog fol. 10.11 Posthume posthumus a childe born after the Fathers death and by Metaphor a Book published after the Authors death It is sometimes used for a mans Christen name Posthumian postumus following or to come that shall be Postick posticus that dwels on the backside that is behinde us Postil postillum a short exposition upon the Gospel wherein more is observed then hath been by others so called from these words Postillos dies which are very frequent in holy Writ Postulon Fr he that rides upon the sixth Coach-horse a guide or Post-boy Postlimintage postliminium a return of one who was thought to be dead and so restored to his house not by going over the threshold but by making a hole in the wall a Law whereby
emergo an issuing or coming out a rising up out of the water Emergent emergens issuing or running out this word is often used when we speak of an Emergent occasion which is when it riseth out of somewhat done before Emerald from the Span. esmeralda Lat. Smaragdus a precious stone the greenest of all other and is therefore very comfortable to the sight The best of this sort are brought out of Scythia and some affirm them to be taken out of the Griffins nest It is found by experience as Albertus writes that if the Emrald be good it inclines the bearer to chastity and cannot endure the action of lust There is also a disease sounding near this word for which see Hemorroide Emâ—tique from the Gr. vomiting Emigration emigratio a departing a going from one place to live at another Emication emicatio a shining or appearing aloft Eminency eminentia excellency passing or standing above others Also a particular title of honor given to all Cardinals and is held to be above Excellency Emissary emissarius a suborned accuser a Spye a Tale-bearer one sent out a Scout Emâ—rsion from emergo a rising or appearing out a coming out Emission emissio a shooting sending or casting forth Emit emitto to send forth to publish abroad to cast out Emmanuel Hebr. God with us one of the names under which our Saviour Christ was foretold by the Prophets Isa 7.14 Matth. 1.23 The union of two natures in one person of our Redeemer is noted in this word Joh. 1.14 Emollid emollidus soft tender nice effeminate Emollient emolliens a making soft pliant or loose Emollient medicines i. mollifying or asswaging such are milk hony c. Emoâ—ument emolumentum profit gotten by labor and cost Emotion emotio a stirring or moving forth Empale See Impale Empanel A Law term and signifies the writing or entring the names of a Jury into a Parchment Schedule Roll or paper by the Sheriff which he hath summoned to appear for the performance of such publick service as Jurors are employed in Emparlâ—nce from the Fr. parler to speak signifies in our Common Law a desire or petition in Court of a day to pawse what is best to do or of a day of respite The Civilians call it Petitionem induciarum Emphasie emphasis earnestness or an express signification of ones intention a strong or vigorous pronuntiation of a word a significant force in either Emâ—ical emphaticus that which is uttered with most express signification in such sort that it sets forth to the full the intent of the Speaker forcible vigorous earnest or done with an Emphasie Emphyteuticary Emphyteuticarius he that makes a thing better then it was when he received it that raiseth his rents or improves Mr. Seld. Emphyteâ—icy emphyteuticus set out to farm hire or rent Empirick Empiricus a young and unskilful Physitian who without regard either of the cause of the disease or the constitution of the Patient applies those Medicines whereof either by observation of other mens Receipts or by his own practice he has had experience from some other work they how they will Empirically empiricé done like an Empirick unskilfully done by practice onely without Theory Emplastration emplastratio a plastering or dawbing a graffing by inoculation And in Physick the applying a salve or plaister Empory emporium a Mart-Town a place wherein a general Fair or Market is kept Emporetical emporeticus pertaining to Merchants or Markets Emprimed A term used by Hunters when a Hart first forsakes the Herd Emption emptio buying or purchasing Emptional emptionalis that may be bought or purchased Emptory See Empory Empyreal empyraeus fiery or burning The Empyreal Heaven is the highest Heaven above the Firmament so called because of the bright shining or fiery splendor of it the Mansion or dwelling place of God and his Elect. Emrods See Hemerrhoide Emucid emucidus very filthy mouldy or unclean Emulate aemulo to strive to exceed also to envy or disdain Emulgent emulgens from emulgeo milking or stroaking The Emulgent vein is one of the two main branches of the hollow vein which goes to the reins and there is divided into divers others some call it the Pumping vein Emulsion emulsio any kind of seed c. brayed in water and then strained to the consistence of an Almond milk also any kind of Cream or milky humor Emunctories emunctoria certain kernelly places in the body by which principal parts void their superfluities as under the Arm-pits for the Heart under the Ears for the Brain and the Groin for the Liver Also a pair of Snuffers Enargy enargia evidence clearness or a plain representing of a thing Encaustick encausticus enameled wrought with fire varnished Encheson A. 50. E. 3. c. 3. is a Law French word signifying as much as occasion cause or reason wherfore any thing is done See Skene de verb. sign Enchiridion Gr. a small Manual Book that one may clasp or carry in ones hand a handful of a thing Enclitick Enclitical encliticus that inclines or gives back Enclitical Conjunctions in Grammer are so called because they incline or cast back the accent to the syllable going before of which sort are these three què nè vè which are joyned to the end of other words As in this verse of Horace Indoctúsque pilae discÃve trohÃve quiescit Encomium Lat a praise or song in commendation of any person Encomiastick encomiasticus belonging to or one that writes an Encomium praising commending extolling Encrochment a Law term as when two mens grounds lying together the one presseth too far upon the other or when a Landlord takes more rent or services of his Tenant then of right is due they are called Encroachments c. Encyclical from encyclides pertaining to that learning which comprehnds all Liberal Sciences round Dr. Ham. Encyclopedy encyclopaedia that learning which comprehends all Liberal Sciences an Art that comprehends all others the perfection of all knowledge Enditement indictamentum comes of the French word Inditer i. to accuse or appeach and is a Bill or Declaration made in form of Law for the benefit of the Common-wealth of an accusation for some offence either criminal or penal exhibited to Jurors and by their verdict sound and presented to be true before an Officer having power to punish the same offence Endorsed a term in Heraldry when two beasts are painted with their backs turned to each other Also we call that endorsing when we write the title on the outside of a Letter Endrome endromis a course long-wool'd mantle which Wrastlers and Runners flung upon them when they were anointing and after they had exercised Energy energia efficacy effectual operation or strength Energetical very forcible or effectual Enervate enervo to weaken to cut off sinews to enfeeble Enervity enervitas weakness feebleness Enfranchise from the Fr. Enfranchir to make free to incorporate a man into any Society or Body Politick to make one a free Denizen Engastrimuches engastrimuchi wâ— those that being possessed seemed
fashion that none can sell them or gain by them but himself Monopolist monopola he that doth so ingross Commodities or he that hath the grant of a Monopoly Monops Gr. a kind of beast in Peonia by some called a Bonasus as big as a Bull being narrowly pursued it voideth a kind of sharp Ordure deadly to such as it lights upon Monoptick monopticus that sees onely with one eye Monoptote monoptotum a word having but one Case Monostick monostichon which consists of one onely verse Monasyllable monosyllabus that hath but one syllable Monothelites monothelitae certain Hereticks that lived in the year of Christ 640 and were within five years after condemned by a Council They held there was but one will in Christ c. Monstrable monstrabilis that may be shewn or declared Monstrosity monstrositas which is done against the course of nature monstrousness Montanists a sort of Hereticks so called from Montanus their first Author they held the Holy Ghost was not given to the Apostles but onely to them c. Montanous montanus belonging to the Mountains Monteflasce a kind of delicious wine so called from Montefiascone a City in Italy where it is made Montera Span. a hunters or Sea-man Cap which was not long since much in request with us Monticulous monticulosus full of hills or mountains Montivagant montivagus that wandreth on the mountains To Moor or More a ship from moror to stay is to lay out her Anchors as is most fit for the ship to ride by in that place where she is and of this there are several ways among Seamen but a ship cannot properly be said to be Moored with less then two Anchors a ground Moot a term used in the Inns of Court and signifies the handling or arguing a Case for exercise As in the Universities there are Disputations Problems Sophisms and such like Acts It seems to be derived from the French word Mot i. verbum Quasi verba facere aut Sermonem de aliqua re habere Mootmen are those Students that argue Readers cases in houses of Chancery both in Terms and grand Vacations Of Mootmen after some years study are chosen Outward Baristers of which degree after they have been Twelve years they are commonly chosen Benchers or Antients of which one of the younger sort reads yearly in Summer Vacation and is called a single Reader and one of the Ancients that have formerly read reads in Lent Vacation and is called a double Reader and it is usual between his first and second Reading nine or ten years some of these Readers are afterwards called ad statum gradum Servientis ad legem and of Sergeants are constituted the honorable Judges and Sages of the Law For the entrance of the young Student who commonly comes from one of the the Universities were first instituted and erected eight Houses of Chancery to learn there the Elements of the Law viz. Cliffords-Inn Lions-Inn Clements-Inn Bernards-Inn Staple-Inn Furnivals-Inn Davies-Inn and New Inn And each of these Houses consist of forty persons or more For the Readers Utter-Baristers Mootmen and inferior Students there are four famous and renowned Colledges or Inns of Court called 1. The Inner Temple to which the first three Houses of Chancery appertain Grayes-Inn to which the next two belong Lincolns-Inn which enjoys the last two saving one and the Middle Temple which hath onely the last Each of these Houses of Court consist of Benchers above twenty of Vtter Baristers above thrice so many of Young Gentlemen about the number of 160 or 180 who there spend their time in study of Law and commendable Exercises The Judges of the Law and Sergeants being commonly above the number of twenty are equally distributed into two higher and more eminent Houses called Sergeants Inns. All these are not far distant one from another and all together make the most famous University for profession of Law onely or of any one human Science in the world and advanceth it self above all others Quantum inter viburna cupressus Lo. Coke Mopsical mopsicus that cannot see well Hence perhaps comes our phrase mop-ey'd Moral moralis of or belonging to manners or civility The four Moral or Cardinal Vertues are 1. Prudence 2. Justice 3. Temperance 4. Fortitude and are so called because they concern the manners or behaviour belonging properly to the actions of man onely as he is man Moralize moralizo to expound morally to give a moral sence unto As in the Fables of Aesop the parties named are Foxes Asses and such like Beasts with Birds and Fishes yet there is a latent moral sence therein appliable to the persons of men and women and which may serve for rules of good manners and this is called the moral or morality of the Fable Moration moratio a staying or tarrying Morbidezza Ital. tenderness softness Sir H. Wotton Morbifical morbificus that causeth disease or sickness Morbulent morbulentus full of diseases sickly Morbus Galicus otherwise called Morbus Indicus Neopolitanus Hispanicus in Lat. Lues Venerea the French Pox or the great Pox. In the City of Naples about the year 1494. This disease was first known in Christendom and is said to be brought thither out of America See American disease The French report that at the siege of Naples certain wicked Merchants barrel'd up the flesh of some men that had been lately slain in Barbary and sold it for Mummy and upon that foul and high nourishment was the original of this disease Lo Bac. nat hist Mordacity Mordancie mordacitas biting sharpness of speech detraction bitted tearms Mordicate mordico to hurt with biting Mordicative mordicativus biting or stinging Moresk work Fr. Moresque a rude or Antick painting or carving wherin the feet and tails of beasts c. are intermingled with or made to resemble a kind of wilde leaves c. Cotgr. Morglay mot-glaive a killing or mortal sword Glaive in old French signifying a sword Cleiv Poems Morigerous morigerus obedient dutiful doing as he did Morling alias Mortling seems to be that wooll which is taken from the skin of dead sheep whether dying of the rot or being killed En. 27. Hen. 6. ca. 2. This is written Morkein An. 3. Jac. cap. 8. See Morkein Morion from the Ital. Morione a Head-piece or Cap of steel Morisco Span. a Moor also a Dance so called wherein there were usually five men and a Boy dressed in a Girles habit whom they call the Maid Marrion or perhaps Morian from the Ital. Morione a Head-piece because her head was wont to be gaily trimmed up Common people cal it a Morris-Dance Morkein or Morkin from mors death among Huntsmen is a Deer that dies by some disease or mischance See Morling Morology morologia a foolish speaking Moromantie Gr. foolish divination Morosity morositas frowardness waywardness peevishness aversness to please Moraus morosus wayward froward pensive teasty hard to please Morphew from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. forma certain whitish spots in the bodies
of some persons so called Morpheus somni minister sleep or the God thereof Morta one of the destines Mortal sin See Venial Mortgage Fr. mort i. mors and gage i. pignus merces signifies in our Common Law a pawn of Land or Tenement or any thing movable laid or bound for money borrowed peremptorily to be the Creditors for ever if the mony be not repaid at the day agreed on And the Creditor holding such Land or Tenement is called Tenant in Mortgage Mortiferous mortifer deadly that brings death Mortification mortificatio a mortifying a queling taming or punishing the flesh a deading the appetite a killing of lust Mortmain Fr. i. a dead hand signifies in Law an alienation of Lands or Tenements to any Corporation Guild or Fraternity and their Successors As Bishops Parsons Vicars c. which may not be done without license of the King and the Lord of the Mannor c. See more of this in Cowel Mortress a meat made of boyled Hens crums of bread yolkes of eggs and Saffron all boyled together Chauc Mortuary mortuarium is a gift left by a man at his death to his Parish Church in recompence of his personal Tithes and Offerings not duely paid in his life time Heretofore if a man had three or more Cattel of any kind the best being kept for the Lord of the Fee as a Herriot The second was wont to be given to the Parson in Right of the Church But by the Statute of 21 H. 8. ca. 6. a rate in money is set down for Mortuaries viz. three shillings four pence where the goods of the deceased are above the value of twenty Nobles and under thirty pound six shillings eight pence where the goods exceed thirty pound and under forty pound and ten shillings where the goods amount above the value of forty pound c. These Mortuaries are due but in some particular places and were also called Corse or Corps-presents Mosaique or Musaical work Mosaicum musaeacum vel Musivum opus is a most curious work wrought with stones of divers colours and divers mettles into the shape of knots flowers and other devices with that excellency of cunning that they seem all to be one stone and rather the work of Nature then Art Sir Henry Wotton describes it thus Mosaique is a kind of painting in smal Pebbles Cockles and shels of sundry colours and of late dayes likewise with peeces of glass figured at pleasure An ornament in truth of much beauty and long life but of most use in Pavements and floarings El. of Archit p. 261. St. Marks Church in Venice abounds with curiosity of this Work of which the Venetians vaunt themselves to be the Authors See Marquetry Mosaical of or pertaining to Moses or to Mosaick work Mosche or Mosque a Temple or Church among the Turks and Saracens the Persians call it a Moschea Motable motabilis alwayes moving still in motion Motacism motacismus the dashing out a letter Mother a disease in women when the womb riseth with pain for which the smelling to all sweet savors is harmful as contrarily to all strong and loathsom good Mot Fr. Motto Ital. a word But in a restrained sence it is properly taken for the Word or short sentence applied to an Imprése or Devise See Devise There are also Motto's belonging to the Coats of Arms of most of the Nobility and Gentry which are seldom in the English tongue Mot is also a Note which a Huntsman winds on his horn Motet Fr. a verse in Musick or of a Song a Pâ—sie a short-lay Mountain of Piety mons pietatis is a stock of money raised by the charity of good people who observing the poor ruined by the usury of Jews voluntarily contributed good store of treasure to be preserved and lent to them whereby they upon security might have money at a low rate to relieve their wants which because the mass is great and the thing pious and charitable in it self is called a Mountain of Piety But in respect the Officers and incident charges cannot be had without some emolument therefore the borrower payes somewhat by the moneth for the loan of that he receives Cajet opusc de monte Pietat c. 1. Mountebank Ital. Montimbanco Span. Saltaenbanco Fr. Charlatan Tent. Landstreicher Belg. Quaksalvar a cousening Drug-seller a base deceitful Merchant especially of Apothecaries Drugs that with impudent Lying does for the most part sell counterfeit stuff to the common people Muccâ—lâ—ginous comes from the Latin muccago or muccus or mucus snot or snivil snivilish snotty filthy and thence flegmy and the like Dr. Br. Mucculent or Muculent muculentus full of snot or snivel Mucid mucidus sinued hoâ—ry mouldy filthy Mucor Lat. hoariness filthiness Mue from the Fr. Muer to change a kind of Cage where Hawks are wintered or kept when they mue or change their feathers whence those great Stables belonging to Whitehall took denomination that place having been antiently full of Mues where the Kings Hawks were kept Mufti i. an Oracle or answerer of doubts a chief Priest among the Turks who is created by the Emperor and hath four several orders or Sects subordinate to him viz. 1. The Calenderim 2. The Haggiemlar 3. The Torlocchi 4. The Dervislar c. See Sir Hen. Blounts Voyage into the Levant p. 79. See Brachman Mugient mugiens lowing bellowing crying Mulato Span. the son of a woman Blackmore and a man of another Nation or è contra one that is of a mongril complexion Dr. Br. Mulcible mulcibilis which may be appeased Mulct mulcta a fine an amerciament a punishing by the purse Muleto a Moil or great Mule a beast much used in France for carrying Sumpters c. It may also be taken for a diminutive of Mule and so signifies a little Mule Muliebrity muliebritas tenderness delicateness womanliness Mulier Lat. signifies a woman that has had the company of a man but in our Law it signifies one that is lawfully begotten and born contradistinguished to Bastard Mulierosity mulierositas unlawful lust after women properly married or defiled women Mullar from the Lat. molo to grind is the upper stone which Painters and Limners use to grind their colours the neather stone is called the grinding stone The French call it a Moulleur Mullet mullus a kind of dainty fish Also a term in Heraldry signifying a Star-like spot and divided into five corners or ends and is the distinction for a third Brother Mulse mulsum water and honey sod together also sweet wine Mulsulmans Arab. the Turks or Mahumetists so called the word signifies as much as a people faithful in their Law or Religion Multatitious multatitius gotten by fine or forfeit Multifarious multifarius divers in conditions many ways divided Lo. Bac. Multiferous multifer bearing much or many fruitful Multifidous multifidus having many slits or clefts divided into many parts manifold Multiformity multiformitas diversity of form shape or figure Multiloquent multiloquus full of speech that hath many words