farcino to stuff Farragirous from farrago inis that is mixed with sundry grains together or with good and bad Vul. Er. Farinaceous or Farinous farinaceus mealy or full of meal bemealed beflowred Farreation farreatio a Sacrifice whereby Priests confirmed marriage Farsang is three of our English miles or a League among the Persians Herb. tra Fasciate fascio to swaddle or bind Fascicular facicularis belonging to a bundle or fardel Fasciculate To tye up into a bundle or fascicle Fascicle fasciculus a handful bound together a packet also any thing carried in the hand to smell Fascinate fascino to bewitch to forespeak or inchant Fascination A bewitching a charm a forespeaking Fascination is the power and intensitive act of the imagination upon the body of another Faâ—tidious fastidiosus disdainful loathing soon offended Fastigate Fastigiate fastigio to raise up or grow up to a sharp top Fasâ—s A strong hold an inaccessible place Bac. Fastuosity fastuositas disdain pride Fatality from fatum fatalness also unavoidableness as of a thing appointed by destiny Cotg. Fate fatum destiny that which must of necessity come to pass by Gods secret appointment Fatal fatalis pertaining to destiny or fate Fatidical fatidicus that telleth fortunes or destinies Fatiferous fatifer that brings fate or destiny Fatigable from fatigo which may be wearied or tired Fatigate fatigo to make weary to trouble much Fatigue Fr. weariness tediousness trouble toyl as we say the Fatigues of war or of a long journey Fatiloquent fatiloquus that soothsaith or prophecieth Fatuate fatuor to play the fool Fatuity fatuitas foolishness blockishness idiotism Favaginous from favus like or full of honey or honey comb Faunes Fauni Gods of the fields and woods Faunick faunicus wild woodish rude Favontan Favonius pertaining to the west-wind favorable Faustity faustitas good luck happiness Fautor Lat. a favorer a furtherer or maintainer Fautresse fautrix she that favors or maintains Fealty of the Fr. feaulte i. fidelitas signifies in our Common Law an oath taken at the admittance of every Tenant to be true to the Lord of whom he holds his Land And he that holds Land by this oath of fealty onely holds in the freest manner that any man in Engl. under the King may hold Because all with us that have Fee hold per fidem fiduciam that is by fealty at the least Smith de Repub. Anglor l. 3. c. 8. Act 1656. c. 4. Feasible Fr. faisable effectable which may be performed acted or done Febricitate febricito to be sick-of a Feaver or Ague Febriculous febriculosus that hath or is subject to a Feaver Februate februo to purge Souls by Sacrifice or Prayer Fecial faecialis pertaining to the Herald that denounceth war or peace The manner was thus The Faecialis carried a Lance or Spear headed with Iron and half burnt with fire and strewed herbs all the way in sign of peace even to the confines of those against whom he was to menace war there in the presence of three men of good years declared that he and the people of Rome did denounce war against them c. And then threw the Lance as far as he could upon their ground When they proclaimed Peace the Faecialis took up a stone in his hand which after certain solemn words pronounced and those to be read in Godwins Anthol lib. 4. cap. 1. he cast out of his hand c. And of these Foeciales or Heralds there were in Rome a Colledge of twenty the principal of them was Pater patratus Feculency foeculentia filthiness fulness of dregs Feculent foeculentus soul unclean loathsom full of dregs Fecundity foecunditas plenty fertility abundance Fedity foeditas filthiness foulness dishonesty Feid Feed or Feud Is that ill custom which hath been much used in Scotland and the North of England viz. a combination of kindred to revenge the death of any of their blood against the killer and all his race These deadly Feids King James in his Basilicon Doron advised his son to redress with all care possible The word signifies hatred See Feud Fee feodum alias feudum is in our Law an equivocal word but most usually taken for an estate of inheritance in Lands to one and his Heirs for ever or to one and the heirs of his body But it is also used for the compass or extent of a Mannor and in the common acceptance the word is well known Fee-farm is when a Tenant holds of his Lord in Fee-simple paying him a yearly rent to half or a third part of the value of the Land more or less Fee-simple feodum simplex is when any person holds Lands or Rent to him and his Heirs for ever and these words his Heirs make the Estate of inheritance for if Land be given to a man for ever yet he hath but an Estate for life Feisible See Feasible Fellifluous fellifluus flowing of the Gall. Felicitaeâ— felicito to make prosperous or hapyy Felth. And I have read Felicify Felicitous from felix happy or made happy Felion from fel i. choler or grief of mind an angry blister or wheal most commonly on the finger or thumbs end Felo de se Is he that commits Felony by murthering himself See Crompt Just of Peace fo 28. and Lamb. Eiren. l. 2. c. 7. p. 243. Feloqur See Falouque Fencemonth is a moneth wherein it is unlawful to hunt in the Forest because the female Deer fawn in this month which begins fifteen days before Midsomer and ends fifteen days after So that to this moneth there are 31 days assigned See Manwood part 1. of his Forest Laws p. 80. but more at large part secunda c. 13. per totum Fenestral fenestralis belonging to a window Felony felonia seems to come of the Fr. felonnie i. impetuositas atrocitas immisericordia We account any offence Felony that is in degree next to petty Treason and compriseth divers particulars under it as Murther Theft killing of a mans self Sodomy Rape wilful burning of houses and divers such like which are to be gathered especially out of Statutes whereby many offences are daily made Felony that before were not Felony is discern'd from lighter offences by this that the punishment thereof is death Howbeit Petit Larceny which is the stealing of any thing under the value of twelve pence is Felony as appears by Brook tit Coron n. 2. His reason is because the Indictment against such a one must run with these words felonicè cepit and yet this is not punished by death though it be loss of goods A man may call that Felony which is under petit Treason and punished by death And of this there are two sorts one lighter that for the first time may be relieved by Clergy another that may not and these are to be known by the Statutes for Clergy is allowed where it is not expresly taken away Vid. Stanf. l. 1. pl. Cor. à fine cap. 2. usque ad 39. Lamb. Just P. l. 2. cap. 7. and Crompt J.P. fol.
term of Heraldry when any member of a beast seems torn from the body Erasmus Gr. amiable or to be beloved a mans name Erastianism the Tenets or Opinions of the Erastians Erastians A sort of modern Hereticks so called from one Thomas Erastus a Doctor in Physick their first Author born at Baden in Switzerland and died at Basil about the year 1583. Among other Tenets he held that the power of Excommunication in a Christian State principally resides in secular power c. Erato One of the nine Muses who as Ovid saith Nomen amoris habet Erean aereus made of brass or copper brasen Erebus Hell or a River in hell Eremetical eremiticus pertaining to an Hermite or one that dwells in the wildernss Ereption ereptio a violent taking away Eretriack a Sect of Philophers the same with the Eleack but changed into this name from Menedemus who was born at the City Eretria an eminent Philospher of this Sect. Ergotism Arguing quarrelling sophistry quiddities from the Lat. Ergo. a word much used in Syllogisms and Arguments Eriferous aerifer bringing forth or bearing Brass or Copper Erimanthian Belonging to Erimanthus a Mountain in Arcadia where Hercules slew a huge wild-Bore that wasted the Country hence this Beast is called the Erymanthian Monster in Il. Pastor Fido. Ermines Fr. a little beast less then a Squirrel the fur whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great persons It hath a tail of a thumb long Ermine in Heraldry sometimes signifies white powdered with black and sometimes black powdered with white Bull. Eristical from eris idis contentious full of strife Mr. White Apol. for Tradition Eristicks from eris Books or Treatises of Controversie or Disputes Erivate erivo to draw water away by a stream to dry up Erogation erogatio a bestowing or liberal distribution Erosion erosio a consuming or eating up a gnawing or eating into Erumnate aerumno to impoverish to make miserable or wretched Erratique erraticus that wanders or creeps up and down Errant errans wandring or straying out of the way it is also attributed to Justices of Circuit Pl Cor. fol. 15. Errata Lat. errors or faults committed of ignorance they are most commonly taken for those faults or omissions which escape correction in printing See Theta Errhâ—ne errhinum a medicine which being made either liquid or in dry powder is used to stop bleeding at the nose to provoke sneezing to cause child-birth and to purge the brain Bac. Erroneous erroneus full of errors or mistakes Erubescency erubescentia blushing for shame Eructate eructo to belch or break wind upward to send or cast out Eructation eructatio a belching Erudition eruditio learning knowledge or instruction Erugate erugo to take away wrinckles Eruginous aeruginosus full of rust cankered corrupted blasted Eruncate erunco to weed out to pull out weeds Eruption eruptio a violent issuing or breaking forth Erysipely erysipelas a bile or swelling full of heat and redness Also St. Anthonies sore Erysipelatous erysipelatosus troubled with that disease or grief Erâ—tâ—an Sea the Red-Sea otherwise called the Arabian Gulf or Gulf of Mecha so called from King Erythraeus It is called the Red Sea not from any material redness therein but from the redness of the earth and sands and from the great abundance of Coral which grows plentifully in the bottom of this Sea See more in Vul. Er. 320. Esay Heb reward of the Lord. Escal escalis pertaining to meat fit to be eaten Escambio is a Licence granted to one for the making over a Bill of Exchange to a man beyond Sea Register Original fol. 199. a. Escheat from the Fr. Escheoir i. cadere signifies in our Common Law any Lands or other profits that fall to a Lord within his Manor by way of forfeiture or the death of his Tenant dying without heir general or special or leaving his heir within age unmarried Magna Charta Cap. 31. Fitz. nat br fol. 143. Escheator An Officer that observes the Escheats of the King in the County where he is Escheator and certifies them into the Exchequer He continues in his Office but one year nor can he be Escheator above once in three years An. 1. H. 8. Cap. 8. An. 3. esusdem Cap. 2. See more of this in Cromptons Justice of Peace Escotcheon Fr. Escusson a Buckler or Shield whereof in Europe we have onely two kinds in use the Lozenge excepted viz. that we use in England France Germany c. the Oval they bear in Italy which form they yet from the old Romans hold in use The word Escutcheon is derived from the French un Escù that from the Latin Scutum and that again from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek which signifies Leather because the Antients had their Shields of tanned Leather the skins laid thick one over another as appears by that of Vlysses upbraiding Ajax Quae nisi fecissem frustrà Telamone creatus Gestasset laevâ taurorum tergora septem Escuage from the Fr. Escu i. clypeus a Buckler or Shield in our Common Law signifies a kinde of Knights service called service of the Shield the Tenant holding thereby is bound to follow his Lord into the Scottish or Welch wars at his own charge c. Fitz. nat br fo 84. C. Esculent esculentus that may be eaten or pertaining to eating Escutial Span. but some affirm it to be an Arabick word and to signifie Domus lucis is the name of that incomparable Edifice built by Philip the Second King of Spain in twenty four years times and at eight millions charge and is termed the eighth wonder of the world It contains first the King of Spains Palace Secondly St. Lawrence Church Thirdly the Monastery of Hieronymites And fourthly Free-Schools it hath eleven or twelve several Quadrangles every one with Cloisters Quade By extension of the word or by metaphor it may be taken for any other magnificent Palace or Structure Esnecy aesnecia is a Prerogative given to the eldest Coparcener to chuse first after the Inheritance is divided Flet. l. 5. cap. 10. in divisionem Esons-bath Aeson in his old age as Poets feign had youth and vigor restored to him by the Prayers of Medea a notable Sorceress c. See Medea Hence we may imagine Aesons-bath to have had the vertue of restoring youth to aged persons the phrase is used in Rel. Medici Esopical aesopicus fabulous or pertaining to such tales or fables as those of Aesop Esples expletia from the Lat. expleo seem to be the full profit that the ground or land yields as the hay of the Meadows the feed of the pasture the corn of the arable the Rents Services and such like issues Cow Esquier armiger is in letters little altered from the Fr. Escuier i. scutiger it signifies with us that degree of Gentry which is next to a Knight Sir Tho. Smith is of opinion that at the first these were bearers of Arms to Lords and Knights and by that had their name and dignity See Cam.
a horse-race Hippogryph hippo-gryps a kind of feigned beast in part horse in part Griffin Hippomachy hippomachia a justing or tilting on horseback Hircine hircinus goatish of a Goat Hirculation hirculatio a disease in the Vine when it bears no fruit Hirsuts hirsutus rough hairy full of bristles sharp Hirundinous from â—hirundo inis of or pertaining to a swallow Hispanian Hispanus of or belonging to Spain born in Spain Hispid hispidus bristled or rough-haired terrible Historiography historiographia the writing an History Histriographer historiographus an historian a writer of Histories Histrionick histrionicus player-like fit for or belonging to a Stage-player or Stage-play Histrionically after the manner of a Stage-Player Hithe as Queen-Hithe in London is a petit Haven to land wares out of vessels or boats New Book of Enteries fol. 3. Col. 3. Hoane Sax. a fine kind of Whetstone softer then that which is most commonly called a Whetstone Hoblers hobellarii In Ireland there were certain Knights so called because they were wont to serve in the wars upon Hobbies also with us certain persons who were by their tenure tyed to maintain a little light Nag which in Ireland they call a Hobby and hence we say a Hobby-horse for the certifying of any invasion made by Enemies or such like peril towards the Sea side as Portsmouth c. Of these you shall read A. 18. Ed. 3. Stat. 2. cap. 7. An. 25. ejusdem Stat. 5. cap. 8. Antiq. Hibâ—rn p. 35. Hocktyde or Hockstyde of old thus Hardiknute the last King of the Danes in this Nation dying suddainly at Lambeth in the year 1042 his death was so welcome to his Subjects that the time was annually celebrated for some hundreds of years after with open pastimes in the streets and called Hockstide in some parts of this Nation not yet out of memory but observed the week after Easter signifying scorning or contempt which fell upon the Danes by his death Sir Rich. Baker See Fugalia Hocus-pocus a Jugler one that shews tricks by slight of hand Hodiernal hodiernus of to day or at this time Hodgee Persian a holy man a Priest among the Persians Herb. Ho-goo in true Fr. Haut-goust a high taste smatch or savour it is usually taken for any dish of meat that has some more then ordinary taste or savor Hogshead Brit. Hogsed is a measure of Wine or Oyl containing the fourth part of a Tun that is 63 Gallons A. 1. R. 3. cap. 13. Holocaust holocaustum a Burnt-Offering a Sacrifice wherein the whole beast was offered and no part reserved Holographical holographicus wholly written with his own hand from whom it is sent Homage Fr Hommage i. fides clientularis service fidelity In Court Barons the Jury sworn to enquire of matters is so called It signifies also a servile ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holds Lands by Homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sits and holds the Tenants hands between his saith as follows I become your man from this day forth for life for member and for worldly honor and shall owe you my faith for the Land I hold of you saving the faith I owe to our Soveraign Lord the King and to my other Lords And then the Lord sitting must kiss the Tenant An. 17. Ed. 2. Stat. 2. Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 1. Homageable that is subject to or ought to do homage Homeology homoeologia likeness of speech Homerical after the manner of Homer Homer like Bac. Homicide homicida a murtherer a man-slayer Homicide homicidium the slaying of a man and is divided into voluntary and casual homicide voluntary is that which is deliberate and committed of a set mind and purpose to kill And this is either with precedent malice or without the former is murther and is the fellonious killing through malice prepensed of any person living in this Realm under the Kings protection West par 2. Sym. tit Inditements sect 37 c. usque ad 51. where you may see divers subdivisions of it See also Glanvile l. 14. ca. 3. Bract. lib. 3. tract 2. cap. 4.15 and 17. Brit. cap. 5 6 7. Also a sort of knives so called Act. 1656. ca. 20. Homily homilia a familiar speech of men together a kind of Sermon properly of an inferior kind such as is delivered out of a Book or Manuscript by those that are not able to preach otherwise Homodox 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is of the same opinion with another Homogeneal homogeneus of one or the same kind congenerous Homography homographia like writing or painting Homologation homologatio an admission allowance or approbation a consent unto Homology homologia an agreement a confession Homonymy Gr. when divers things are signified by one word or name as Hart signifies a beast and a prinicipal Member of the body a likeness or sameness of name It is a term in Logick Holy War Homonymous Gr. whose name onely is common their essence divers doubtful ambiguous Honi soit qui maly â—ense Fr. signifies Evil or shame be to him that evil thinks it is the Motto belonging to the Order of Knights of the Garter Honor does sometimes signifie the most noble sort of Seigniories on which other inferior Lordships or Mannors depend by performance of some Customs or Services to the Lords of such Honors And it seems there are no Honors but such as did originally belong to the King and have since been given in Fee to Noble men Of this sort are the Honors of Windsor Greenwich Tickhil c. And Courts there held are called Honor-Courts 37 H. 8.18.33 H. 8.37 Honour point In Heraldry the upper part of an Escoutcheon is so called when its breadth is divided into three even parts Honorary honorarius pertaining to honour which is made for honor more then use Honorificabilitudinity honorificabilitudinitas honorableness Honorifical honorificus that brings or causeth honor Honâ—-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Hoguâ—ton Fr. a fashion of short Coat Cassock or Jacket without sleeves Horary horarius of the space of an hour hourly Hoplochrism from the Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arma and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unguentum an anointing of arms or weapons as they do in the use of the weapon salve Dr. Charl. Hoplochristical pertaining to the Weapon-salve Horcentrick Fr. out of the Center clean without the Compass of Mathematicians apply this word to the Sun when his Center being at the full height of his Epicycle is farthest from the Center of the earth Cot. Horizon Gr. a Circle immoveable dividing the half-Sphear of the Firmament which we see from the other half we see not it hath the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. termino to bound or limit because it limits our sight For example imagine you stood upon Highgate or the Tower-hill at Greenwich so far as you
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
fineness Tenure from tenere to hold is the manner whereby Lands and Tenements are holden of their Lords What may make a Tenure and what not See Perkins Reservations 70. By Act of Parl. 1656. ca. 4. all Tenures are now turned into free and common Soccage Tepefie tepefacio to make warm Tephragmantie Gr. divination by ashes blown or cast up in the air Tepid tepidus mean between cold and hot luke-warm also cold and nothing earnest in a matter Tepidity tepiditas lukewarmness Tepor idem Teraphim the Heb. word Taraph signifies in general the compleat image of a man in particular an Idol or Image made for mens private use in their own houses Gen. 31.30 Iudges 17.5 Teribinthine terebinthinus belonging to Turpentine or the tree out of which it issues Terebrate terebro to bore or make a hole with a wimble or awger to pierce to thirle Terebration terebratio a boring or piercing Bac. Tergeminous tergeminus three fold triple one of or the three born at the same time Tergiductor Lat. the hinder man or bringer up of a file of Soldiers Tergiment tergimentum that which is put into the scales to makes weight Tergiversation tergiversatio a flinching withdrawing shifting slinking shrinking back or dodging a non-suit in Law a hasting a runing away yet fighting still See Calumniate Termagant from ter and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. magnus thrice great or great in the superlative degree Sir W.D. Terminals terminalia feasts instituted to the honor of Terminus the god of Bounds and kept in February at the eighth Calends of March because between terminalia and refugium the odd days of the Leap year were put in Terminate termino to end to finish to bound to appoint or assign bounds or marches to limit Terminus the God of Bounds who was wont to end the strifes and controversies of Countrey people in dividing their lands See Lactantius l. 1. c. 20. Ternary Ternarious ternarius belonging to the number three Ternion ternio the number three Terra-sigillata Lat. an earth brought from the Isle Lemnos it was used to be sent from thence sealed therefore called sigillata and said to be good for curing wounds stopping fluxes expelling poisons c. Tertae-filius i. son of the earth the name of the Fool in the Acts at Oxford Terrene terrenus earthly that lives on the earth or is done on the earth Terrestrial Idem Terrestrify to make earthly or like earth Br. Terrar or Terrer from terra a particular or survey of a Mannor or of ones whole estate of lands containing the quantity of acres and boundaries thereof In the Exchequer there is a Terrar of all the Glebelands in England made about the II. of Edw. 3. Sometimes used for a suit-roll or catalogue of all the tenants and Residents names within a Mannor and what Lands they hold terre-Terre-tenant i. tenens terram is he who hath the natural actual possession of the land which we otherwise call the occupation A. 39 Eliz. cap. 7. For example a Lord of a Mannor hath a Freeholder who lets out his free land to another this third person is called the terre-Terre-tenant West part 2. Simb tit Fines sect 137. Terricrepant terricrepus that rebuketh terribly or bitterly Terrisonant terrisonus that sounds terribly Territory territorium the Country or Continent of land lying within the bounds of a City Town or Lordship Terrulent terrulentus earthy or earthly made of earth Terse tersus clean pure neat as a terse Oration i. neat or well-pen'd Tertiate tertio to Till ground or do any thing the third time to tri-fallow as they say in Herefordshire Tertiary tertiarius of or belonging to the third or the third sort tertian Tessera Lat. a thing in every part square as a Dye Also a watchword or signal a note mark or token c. Tesserarious tesserarius belonging to Tessera or a Dye Test is a broad instrument made of Maribone ashes hooped about with iron on which Refiners do fine refine and part gold and silver from other Mettals or as we use to say put them to the Test Testaceous testaceus made of tile brick or baked earth that hath a shell Testaceous animals are such as have shels as all shel-fish snails c. Testament testamentum i. testatio mentis the witness of of the minde as the last Will Testament is of which there are two sorts viz. nuncupatory and in writing The first is when a man being sick and for fear least death want of memory or speech should come so suddenly upon him that he should be prevented if he staid the writing his Will desires his neighbours and friends to bear witness of his last Will and then declares the same by words before them which after his decease being proved by the witnesses and put in writing by the Ordinary stands in as good force except for lands as if it had in his life time been put in writing c. Some distinguish Testaments from Wills as if the first concerned lands onely and the other personal estate Of this read the Duty of Executors Testamentatious testamentarius belonging to a Testament or last Will. Testation testatio a witness bearing Testator Lat. he that makes a Will or Testament Testatrix Lat. she that does so Testicular testicularis belonging to the stones of man or beast Teston Fr. a piece of silver coyn worth about 18 d. sterl Testification testificatio a proving by witness a witness-bearing Testudineous testudineus belonging to or bowing like the shell of a Tortoise vaulted Also pertaining to that antient War-engine called Testudo or to the Target-fence of both which see Godw. Anthol p. 180. Tetanical tetanicus that hath the crick in the neck or a kinde of cramp which holds the neck so stiff that it cannot bow Tetra Gr. four hence Tetracord tetrachordium an antient instrument with four strings but now it is taken for every fourth in the Scale of Musick or Gamut Tetrade Fr. a quaternity or mess the proportion or number of four Tetraglottical Gr. that hath or consists of four Tongues or Languages Tetragonal tetragonus that is four square as a tetragon or quadrangle Tetragrammaton Gr. that hath four letters The Hebrews so called the great Name of God Jehovah because in their language it was written with four letters and was held in such reverence among them that it was unlawful to pronounce it Tetralogie Gr. a speaking or writing in four parts Among the Antients it was a kind of Tragedy consisting of four Dramma's as the manner was when they contested to be presented at four several Festivals Tetrameter Gr. a kind of verse having but four feet or measures Tetraptote tetraptotum declined in four cases Tetrach Gr. a Governor of the fourth part of a Country Tetrarchy tetrachia the goverment of the fourth part of a Country or a government of the whole by four persons Tetrastick tetrastichon a sentence or Epigram comprised in four verses Tetrasyllabical tetrasyllabicus that hath or contains four syllables
sui Anchoral anchoralis pertaining to the Anchor or Cable Anchoresse a religious woman that lives solitarily in a Cell Vide Anachorite Ancil ancile was a short Buckler or Scutcheon which was formed without corners being rebated on each side in the fashion of a decressant or Moon in the last quarter This Ancile as they say fell from Heaven into the hands of King Numa in time of a plague at Rome and he being advertised by Egeria that it was for the health of the City and ought to be kept safe caused eleven more to be made so like as they could not be known from the pattern which hereby was preserved the keeping hereof was committed to the 12. Salii Livy Fern. Andrew Gr. Andreas manly or manful Androgynal androgynus pertaining to male and female Hermaphroditical Androgyne androgynus he that is male and female an Hermophrodite Anelate a Faulchion or wood-knife which I gather out of M. Par. p. 535. 542. Angelical angelicus of or like an Angel Anfractuosity See Amfractuosity Angelot Fr. a kind of little Cheeses in France so called Angle angulus a corner nook or secret place It is also a Geometrical term for a corner included by two lines of which there are three sorts to wit a right an acute and obtuse angle 1. A Right Angle is when the two lines meeting do frame a just square Angle of 90 degrees 2. An Acute is when the two lines inclose less then a square thereby becoming more sharp and therefore Acute 3. An Obtuse Angle is when the two lines include more then the square making it thereby the more blunt and dull and is therefore called Obtuse Enchirid. of fortificat Anglicism the form or manner of speech proper to the English Angor Lat. anguish or grief either of body or mind Anguineous anguineus of or belonging to a Snake Angular angularis which hath angles or corners crooked Angularity Fulness of Angles or corners the being of a thing cornerwise Angust angustus strait narrow slender Anhelation anhelatio shortness of breath difficulty of breathing the Phthisique Anheled anhelus which breatheth with pain or difficulty puffed up broken winded Anility Anity anilitas old age of women dotage Animable animabilis that which may have life or soul Animadversion animadversio an observing considering or giving attention unto also a punishment or correction Animal Lat. ab anima a living creature that hath sense man or beast sometimes we call a Block-head or dull-head an Animal Animal spirit See in Vital Animalillio Span. a little Animal Animality animalitas the essence or being of a living creature Animate animo to hearten or encouarge to give life or inspire with life Animosity animositas liveliness courage stoutness also heart-burning or stomaching Annals annales brief histories or Chronicles of memorable things done from year to year properly spoken of acts done in former ages not in present Tacitus applies to Annals matters of State to Diaries acts and accidents of a meaner nature Annalist he that makes or writes such Annals or yearly Chronicles Annatian Law was a Law among the Romans first proposed by L. Julius a Tribune of the Commons touching the year of the age requisite to sue for any publique Office or to exercise the same Livy Annats First fruits paid of spiritual things so called because the rate so paid is also after one years profit These Annats says Pol. Virg. began first at the Popes own Benefices whereof he was Patron But Clement the fifth generally decreed it in the year 1305. Boniface the ninth and John the 22 th renewed that Decree Anne Hebr. Hannah gracious or merciful Anneale To paint upon glass to annoint or do any thing with oil Annicerians a Sect of Philosophers which took name from Anniceris Disciple to Paraebates Anniferous annifer that bears fruit all the year Annihilate annihilo is the opposite to creation as to create is to make something of nothing or to produce an effect without the help of precedent materials so to annihilate is utterly to destroy or to reduce something to its old nothing and as to create is an action proper onely to God himself so in like manner to annihilate is onely proper to Him whereas other kinds of productions and corruptions are the ordinary effects of sublunary and second Causes Anniversary anniversarius that comes every year at a certain time yearly or from year to year Those were of old called Anniversary days whereon the martyrdom or death-days of Saints were celebrated yearly in the Church or the days whereon at the years end men were wont yearly to pray for the souls of their deceased friends according to the continued custom of Roman Catholiques Annosity annositas old age agedness Annotation annotatio a noting or marking Annual annualis of or belonging to the year yearly or every year Annuity annuus reditus a yearly Rent to be paid for term of life or years or in Fee There are divers differences between a Rent and an Annuity whereof the first is that every Rent is going out of Land and an Annuity goes out of no Land but charges onely the person of the granter or his heirs that have Assets by descent The second difference is that for the recovery of an Annuity no Action lies but onely the Writ of Annuity against the Granter his heirs or successors but of a Rent the same Actions lie as do of Land as the case requires The third difference is that an Annuity is never taken for Assets because it is no Free-hold in Law nor shall it be put in execution upon a Statute-Merchant Statute-Staple or Elegit as a Rent may Doctor and Student Dial. 1. c. 3. and Dier fol. 345. num 2. speaks also to this effect Annul annihilo to frustrate make void or bring to nought Annulated annulatus that weareth Rings ringed Annulet annulus a Ring or any thing like a Ring Annunciate annuncio to declare unto to bring news or a message Anodynes anodyna medicines which by provoking sleep do asswage pains and grief Anoisance See Nusance Anomaly anomalia inequality irregularity unlikeness Anomalous anomalus inequal unlike irregular Anonymal anonymus without name without Author Anopsy Gr. want of sight dimness of sight darkness of colour Vul. Er. Anorexy anorexia queasiness of Stomack want of appetite Antagonist antagonista one that contends for mastery against another an adversary or enemy Antarchy Gr. an opposition to Government Antartick Circle antarcticus circulus a Circle in the Heavens southwards towards the Antipodes remote from our sight so called because it is opposite to the Arctick Circle and is 45 degrees distant from the Tropick of Capricorn Heyl. Antarctick Pole the South Pole of the world Ante-acts ante-acta deeds done in former times by-past actions Anteambulate anteambulo to go before as Ushers do Antecedaneous the same with Antecedent Apol. for Learning Antecede antecedo to go before to excell or surpass Antecedent antecedens that hath a Relative that goes before or excels
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-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.
the twentieth part of a drop Kalends See Calends Karobe or Karoble the fruit of the Carobe tree Also the twenty fourth part of a grain one of the least weights used by Goldsmiths Kenne Sax. to see or know within ken i. within view Kenodoxy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the love study or desire of vain-glory Scapula Kern in Ireland is a kind of Foot Souldier lightly armed with a Dart or Skeyn Antiq. Hibern p. 33. and 57. We take a Kern most commonly for a Farmer or Country Bumpkin Ketchef from the Fr. Couver chef i. to cover the head a linnen cloth that old women wear on their heads and hence Handkerchef though improperly King of Heralds Rex Heraldâ—rum is an Officer at Arms who has the preheminence of this Society See Harold This Officer among the Romans was called Pater Patratus Kings Evil A disease or swelling so called Edward the Confessor King of England was of that holiness of life that he received power from above to cure many diseases among others this of the Kings-Evil A Prerogative that continues as some think hereditary to his Successors of England Heyl. Keâ—l Belg. Kiel the bottom of a ship Keâ—e Sax. pottage a word still used in the north of England and in Scotland So Kelemuâ—t signifies Pottage-hearb which we to this day corruptly call Cole-worts Verstegan Kichel Sax. a Cake which Horace calls Libum Vtque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso It was of old with us called a Gods Kichel because Godfathers and Godmothers used commonly to give one of them to their Godchildren when they asked blessing Chaucers Interpret Kilderkin from the Belg. Kindeken Kenneken octava Cadi pars Dioscorides saith it is eleven Gallons and a Quart Agricola and Junius thirteen Gallons and a half Kym-Kam See Camoise Kin the antient diminutive of our Saxon tongue as Perkin is as much as little Peter Comkâ—r little Thomas and the like Kintal Span. Quintal is a certain weight of Merchandize to the value of an hundred or something under or over according to the divers uses of sundry Nations This word is mentioned by Plowden in the Case of Reniger and Fagossa Knave Sax. Cnaâ—a a boy or childe was not of old used as a name of disgrace or contempt as now it is but as the name of some kind of Servant or Lacquey as Scyld-Knapa was he that carried a noble persons Shield c. Verst See Esquire Kit-Kaies The fruit of the Ashen tree they are little narrow husks hanging together in clusters wherein is contained the â—eed of the Ash which is bitter This provokes Urine and is sought by some for other purposes Bull. Knight a title of dignity was heretofore by our Ancestors written Cnight and in the modern Teutonic it signifies Rider and answers to the French Chevalier which may be Englished a Horseman and so agrees with Eques in Latin Verst Knights Fee feudum militare is so much inheritance as is sufficient yearly to maintain a Knight with convenient Revenue which in Henry the thirds days was but fifteen pounds Cam. Brit. p. 111. But Sir Tho. Smith in his Repub Angl. l. 1. ca 18. rates it at forty pounds And I find in the Statute for Knights A. 1. E 2. ca. 1. that such as had twenty pound per an in Fee or for life might be compelled to be Knights Stow in his Annals p. 285. saith There were found in England at the time of the Conqueror 60211 Knights Fees Others say 60215. wherof the Religious houses before their suppression were possessed of 28015 Knights Fee is sometime used for the Rent that a Knight pays for his Fee to the Lord of whom he holds and this an uncertain sum some holding by forty shillings the Shield some by twenty shillings as appears by Bracton lib. 5. Tract 1. cap. 2. My Lo. Coke in his ninth Book of Reports saith A Knights Fee is estimated by the value of the Land viz. 20 l. annual An Hide of Land is as much as one Plough can break up in a year Relief the fourth part of the annual value of the Land viz. of a Knight 5 l. of a Baron 100 Marks an Earl a 100 l. a Marquis 200 Marks a Duke 200 l. Knighten gyld was a Gyld in London consisting of nineteen Knights which King Edgar founded giving them a portion of void ground lying without the City wall now called Portsoken Ward Stows Annals p. 151. Knights service an ancient tenure of Lands by which a man was bound to bear Arms in War for defence of the Realm But is now abolished by Act 1656. ca. 4. Knipperdollings a sort of Hereticks who took name from one Knipperdolling who lived in Germany about the year 1535 was contemporary with John of Leyden a follower of Muncer in matters of doctrine Lo. Herb. H. 8. Knoll Sax. Cnollâ— the top or cop of a Hill or Mountain a familiar word in Herefordshire as Birchers Knoll c. And in Scotland they call those Knolls of peace which are Mounts cast up by the labor of men in Latin Dumi pacis Korban See Corban Kyrie eleison omnibus linguis à Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. domine and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. miserere ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. misericordia q. miserere Domine Lord have mercy on us So Christe eleison i. Christ have mercy on us In the Greek Church these words are of great esteem and often repeated by their Priests and are also used in the Latin Church both in the Mass and Litany L LAbarum Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Church Banner a Flag or Streamer for the War Eusebius Pamphilus lib. 1. de vita Constantini describes this peculiar Standard very curiously The common form you may see in the 163 page of the Elements of Armories In the Labarum these things are more First The Banner was of purple where the pictures of the Emperor and his Children were wrought in gold and stones of wonderful value and beauty above the cross beam or traverse Staff of the Banner stood the two first Greek Capitals of Christs name and on the point or top of the Launce or Staff Imperial was advanced a Crown of gold set with precious stones All in honor of his miraculous conversion upon the apparition of the Cross Labdacismâ— labdacismus or rather lambdacismus from the Greek Letter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is when the Letter L is pronounced with too much force as when one says ellucet for elucet Labefaction labefactio a weakening or enfeebling a loosening or destroying Labial from labium a lip pertaining to the lips Labile labilis unstable unconstant that will soon or or easily fall Laboriferous laborifer that takes pains that endures labour painful difficult Laboriosity laboriositas painfulness laboriousness or laborosity Labrador Spa. a laborer a Ploughman a Country Swain Labrous labrosus that hath a brim bank or border Also that hath great lips Labyrinth labyrinthus a Maze or
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
one recovers again that was lost in war or taken from him by any unlawful means Postliminious from Postliminium pertaining to Postliminiage Postmeridian postmeridianus done in the afternoon Postnate postnatus born after taken substantively it may be the same with Posthume Postpone or Postpose postpono to set behinde to esteem less to omit or leave Postposure from postpono a setting behinde or esteeming less Mr. Montagu Postriduan postriduanus done the next day after or following Poâ—vene posâ—venio to come or follow after Postulate postulatum a request demand or suit Postulâ—toâ— postulatorius of or belonging to a request or demand Potable potabilis drinkable or which may be drunk Poteâ—als from potentia things apt to breed or give power strength or ability Potentially potenter powerfully mightily substantially effectually Potâ—states potestates men in authority Rulers great Magistrates Potorious potorius of or belonging to drink drinking Potulent potulentus any thing that may be drunk also half drunk Pouldabis Oulderness Medrinacles the course Canvas wherewith Taylors stiffen Dublets or whereof Sails of ships are made An. 1. Jac. 24. Poundage is a Subsidy granted to the King of all manner of Merchandizes of every Merchant Denizen and Alien carried out or brought into this Realm by way of Merchandise to the value of twelve pence in every pound An. 12. Ed. 6.13 An. 31. Eliz. cap. 5. and 1 Jac. 33. Pourcoutrel See Polypus Pourmenade Fr. a Walk Poursuivant Fr. a pursuer suitor or follower but more particularly a Messenger attending the King in Wars or the Council Table Exchequer c. to be sent upon any occasion or message Those that are used in Marshal causes are called Pursuivants at Arms. Anno 24. H. 8. cap. 13. whereof there are four of special names which see in Herald And Stow speaking of Richard the Thirds end p. 784. hath these words For his body was naked to the skin not so much as one clout about him and was trussed behinde a Pursuivant at Arms like an Hog or Calf c. The rest are used upon other Messuages in time of Peace especially in matters touching Jurisdiction Also a sort of mean persons that procure Commissions to prosecute the Romanists on the account of Religion Pourpresture from the Fr. Pourpris i. a close or enclosure is thus defined in Glanvile lib. 9. cap. 11. Pourprestura est propriè quando aliquid super Dominum Regem injustè occupatur c. Cromp. in his Jurisd fol. 152. defines it thus Pourpresture is properly when a man takes to himself or incroaches any thing that he ought not whether it be in any jurisdiction Land or Franchise and generally when any thing is done to the Nusance of the Kings Tenant c. Pourtrait pourtractus an Image Picture counterfeit or draught of Pourtraiture Fr. Portraicture a drawing or deliniating Powers the third order of the second Hierarchy of Angels so called by reason of their peculiar Jurisdiction over Fiends and all infernal spirits See Hierarchy Poynings Law is an Act of Parliament made in Ireland 10 Hen. 7. and was so called because Sir Edw. Poynings was Lieutenant of Ireland when that Law was made whereby all the Statutes of England were made of force in Ireland For before they were not neither are any now in force in Ireland which were made in England since that time Cokes 12 Rep. fol. 109. Practick Gr. pertaining to the practise or actual exercise of any Art or Science Pragmatical pragmaticus that is expert in doing things practised in the Law and in many matters Pragmatic Span. Pragmatica a Proclamation or Edict sometimes used for a kind of agreement or paction between a secular Prince and the Pope or some other Bishop c. Prandicle prandiculum a Breakfast a little Dinner a small pittance or repast Pransorious pransorius belonging to or serving for dinner Pratique from the Span. practica practise or a thing done by practise but among Merchants it is a Licence to Traffick as in the Ports of Italy and the Streights if the Mr. of the ship brings a Bill of Health that is a Certificate that the place from whence he came is not infected with any contagious disease then the Chief Magistrate or Signors of Health grant him Pratique that is leave to come in and Traffick Sands Pratical from the Span. done by practise or experience Pravity pravitas crookedness overthwartness lewdness naughtiness Prebend from praebeo to give is the portion which every member or Canon of a Cathedral Church receives in right of his place for his maintenance Prebendary praebendarius he that hath such a Prebend and is called so a Praebendo auxilium consilium Episcopo for to that end were Prebends ordained in Cathedral Churches that the Prebendaries thereof should be assistants and of Council to the Bishop in his Episcopal Function Pre Lat. prae a Preposition signifying before or in comparison often compounded Prebition praebitio a giving a shewing an offering a setting before one Precaution praecautio a preventing a thing before it comes a fore-seeing Precention praecentio a singing before the on-set or flourish of a Song Precarious praecarius granted to one by prayer and intreaty to use so long as it pleaseth the party and no longer Precedential from praecedens that goes before or surpasseth that gives a precedent or shews the way Precellâ—cy from praecello an exceeding surpassing excellency Bac. Precenâ—or Lat. the chanter he that beginneth the Tune It is used in an Act of Parliament of 31 July 1649. Preceptivâ— praeceptivus of or belonging to precepts Preceptor praeceptor a Master a Teacher an Instructer Precidaneous praecidaneus that which goes before or is cut or killed before Precinct praecinctus is used for a Territory or certain parcel of Land encompassed with some River Hedge or other mark to distinguish it from other lands adjacent Prâ—cipice praecipitium a steep place dangerous to go upon a downright pitch or fall Precipitate praecipito to hurl or cast down headlong to do unadvisedly or rashly It is also the name of a corrosive powder commonly called Red Mercury used by Chyrurgeons to eat corrupted flesh Precocity from praecox ocis early ripeness forwardliness in ripening over-hasâ—iness in ripening Dod. Grove Prâ—cognition praecognitio fore-knowledge prenotion or former notice of Preconious praeconius of or belonging to a Common-Crier also to praise or commendation Preconsultor Lat. a Pre-adviser there is a Colledge of these at Venice see Rel. Wotton p. 170. Precursor Lat. praecursor a fore-messenger a fore-rider a fore-runner or goer Predatory praedatorius of or belonging to robbing spoiling and piracy Predestination praedestinatio fore-appointment an ordaining before what shall come after It is most used in Divinity and is thus defined by Sir Walt. Ral. in his first Book fol. 16. We can saith he difference Predestination no otherwise from Providence and Prescience then in this That Prescience onely foresees Providence foresees and cares for and hath respect to all creatures even from the brightest