Reforme To amend to correct Refractorie Stubborne which will not bend Refuge A place of succour Refute To disprove to confound by sence and reason Refutation A disproving a confuting Regall Kingly belonging to a King Regalitie The estate or authority of a King Regardant A tearme in Heraldrie when a beaste is painted looking backewards at one Regenerate To beare againe in birth to renew Regeneration A new birth Regent A Prince Ruler or Governour Regiment A government or the place where one hath authoritie Register Writings of record kept for memory Also he that keepeth such writings in a spirituall Court Regratour He that in a faire or market buyeth any dead victuall whatsoever and selleth the same againe in any faire or market kept there or within foure miles thereof Regresse A going backe againe Regression The same Regular Vnder rule or living according to a set rule Reject To cast off to despise Rejoynder A second answere made by the defendant after his first answere hath beene replyed unto Reiterate To do againe to do a thing often Relapse A backe slyding Relate To tell to declare Relation A rehearsall or telling of a matter Relaxation A releasing a refreshing or setting at libertie Relay A tearme of hunting when they set hounds in readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe and cast them off after the other hounds are past by Releese A payment which some Heires make after the death of their Auncestour to the Lord of whom their lands are holden Relent To waxe soft to yeeld Relinquish To leave off to forsake Reliques Things left or remaning Most commonly it is taken for the bodies or some part of the bodies or somwhat which hath toucht the bodies of Saints now in heaven Remainder A possibility in any to enjoy lands tenements or rents after anothers estate is ended Remisse Slack negligent or carelesse Remit To send backe sometime to release or forgive Remora A little Fish which cleaving to the bottome of a shippe doth verie strangely stay the shippe that she cannot moove Remorse Doubtfulnesse in conscience to doe a thing a staggering in minde sometime pitifulnesse or repentance of a bad done Remote Farre distant Remunerate To reward Remuneration A reward a requitall Renovate To renew Renovation A renewing Repast Food Repeale To call backe againe to disallow Repell To thrust backe Repercussive That which striketh backe againe or reboundeth backe Repetition A new rehearsall Replevine A Warrant sent from the Sheriffe or his Bayliffe that a man shall have his cattell or a distresse taken from him restored to him againe upon surety sound to answer the party grieved in the Law Replication The answer made to the defendant after the defendant hath answered Repose To lay upon sometime to take rest Repositorie A storehouse a place to lay up things in Repossede To possesse againe Reprehend To reprove Reprehension A reproving Represse To stay backe to keepe downe by force Reprises All payments and charges that issue yearelie out of a Mannor Reprobate One past grace a wicked person a cast away Republike A Common-wealth Repudiate To refuse properly to put away ones Wife Repugne To resist Repugnancie Disagreement contrarietie Repugnant Contrary or resisting Repute To esteeme to account Reputation Estimation or account Requiem Rest ceasing from labour Rereward The hindemost part of a battell Rescouse A forcible deliverie or setting at liberty of one that hath beene arrested Reserved To keep by it selfe to keepe for some purpose Reservation A keeping of some thing apart Reside To alight sinke downe or to abide in a place Resident Abiding in a place Resigne To give or yeeld up Resignation A yeelding up of a thing to another Resolve To open to weaken to make loose sometime to expound and declare Resolute Determinately bent to doe any thing Respective Awfull which beareth great respect to one Respiration A fetching of breath Resplendent Bright cleere shining Respondent He that answereth Response An answer Restauration A repayring a making againe Restie Dull heavie Restitution A restoring backe Restriction A restrayning or holding back Result To rebound to leape backe Resume To take againe Resurrection A rising againe Resuscitation A stirring up againe Retaile To sell in small parcels that which was formerly bought Retention A keeping Retentive Having power to binde retaine or keepe Retire To return backward Retort To throw or shoote backe againe Retract To call backe againe to revoke Retractation A calling backe a recanting a denying of a thing before affirmed Retreate A calling backe of Souldiers from fight a returning or going backe Retribution A reward a recompence Retrive A seeking againe Retrograde That which goeth backward A planet is said to be retrograde when he goeth backward contrarie to the course of the signes as from Taurus to Aries c. Retrogradation A going backward Revels Players and dancings with other pleasant devices used sometimes in the Kings Court and elsewhere in great houses Revenew Yearely rent received for lands or tenements Reverberation A beating backe againe Reversed A tearme in Heraldrie when a mans armes is given him turned the lower part upward Reuert To returne Revise To peruse to looke over againe Reunite To joyne together againe Revocable Which may be called backe againe Revocation A calling back againe Revoke To call backe Revolt To forsake ones captaine or company and goe to another Revolve To tosse up and downe in ones minde to muse or thinke much of a matter Revolution A turning or winding about especially in the course of time Rhetoricke The art of eloquent speaking Rheubarb See Rubarb Ridiculous Worthy to be laughed at foolish without wit Rigid Stiffe hard stubborne Rigor Hardnesse stiffenesse extreame dealing Rigorus Hard cruell unmercifull Rime A mist or foggie dew Ringwalke A round walk made by Hunters Rinocere A great beast having a horne in his nose bending upward which he whetteth often against rockes to fight therewith against the Elephant Riot In the law it signifieth when three or moe persons being assembled to commit forcibly an unlawfull act do accordingly execute the same Rite A ceremony a custome Rivall One that sueth for the same thing with another Robustious Strong Roode In land it signifieth a quarter of an acre It is sometime taken for the picture of our Saviour upon the Crosse Rotunditie Roundnesse Rougecrosse The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Rougedragon The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Route A disorderly assembly of three or moe persons moving forward to commit by force an unlawfull act It signifieth also a heard or great company of wolves together Rubarbe A costly roote much used in Phisicke to purge choler is brought hither out of Barbary Being toasted and dried it is then good against the bloodie flixe and all manner of laskes if it be so drunke with some binding liquor as the juyce of Plantaine red Wine and such like Rubricke An order or rule written Rubricated Marked with red or
the foregoing example Enveloped Wrapped Environ To compasse about Enumerate To reckon up to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciative Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmed or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in use every yeer to find the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yeerly and is made by the addition of eleven to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeer but alwaies so that both those numbers exceed not the number of 30. For if they amount to above 30. theâ— must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeere 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleven for the next yeers Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeere 1617. Note also when in any yeere the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeeres true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleven In al other numbers the Epact is still made as before by eleven And these Epacts are ever changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomie in use among such as erect figures to cast mens nativities by which booke is shewne how all the Planets are placed everie day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure containing about five pecks of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It covered the back and was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Skarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set two great precious Onix stones and in them graven the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob called the twelve Patriarchs in the right shoulder the six eldest and in the left the six youngest that the High Priest entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom he was to pray unto God Epicycle A terme used in Astronomie It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the upper part of this Eâ—icycle the five Planets Saturne Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to be two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signs Epicure It is commonly â—aken with us for a man given over much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to be without paine and enjoy pleasure of bodie and mind Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set upon any thing now it is commonly taken for a short witty poeme which under a faigned name doth covertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folkare subject This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striving to expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some at the mouth Spilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an entâ—â—lude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because theÌ„ the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Saviour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set upon a tombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantive to expresse some qualitie of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie unbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous unbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of heart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing just in the midst between the two poles of heaven to which line the sun coming twice a yeer namely about the xj of March and the xj of September maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra do both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or provision for horsemanship especially in triumph or turnaments Equivalence The equall value of one thing with another Equivalent Of equall value to another thing Equivocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserved in ones own mind which peradventure the hearers do not understand Equivocation A speech or answermade with a secret meaning reserved in ones mind Equivoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hell or a river in hell Erect To lift up Erection A lifting up Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with black and Ermines black powdred white Errant Wandring having no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceived Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To be forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that observeth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate unto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charg to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant onely payeth a yeerly rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The being or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Jewes which lived a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essentiall That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme in the common Law when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is
FAbricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easinesse Faction A sect or division into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome unquiet Factor He that buyeth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his businesse Facultie Power abilitie a trade or course of life a priviledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priviledge he could not doe Facundite Eloquencie Fage A fable Falding A kind of course cloth Fallacie Deceit in words Falsitie To counterfeit or make false Falsification A counterfeiting or making false Falsitie Falshood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping ulcer growing in knots and following along some veine Farced Stuffed full Fascinate To bewitch Fastidious Disdainfull loathing proud Fate Destinie that which must of necessitie come to passe by Gods secret appointment Fatall That which happeneth or cometh to passe by fare Faunes Poeticall gods of the woods Favorite One in great favour Fealtie A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whom they hold lands which is in laying their right hand upon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beautie Fecunditie Fruitfulnesse Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicitie Happinesse Fell. A skin sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemoneth A moneth so called because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the Does then doe fawne This moneth beginneth about the ninth of June and continueth till the ninth of July Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seed whereof is much used in physicke It is yellow being hot in the second degree and drie in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolve Feodarie An officer who is to be present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to survey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deed witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liverie of seisine and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer and the partie to whom it is made the Feofee Ferie Any day of the weeke not kept holy Fers The Queene in chesse play Fertile Fruitfull yeelding much Fertilitie Fruitfulnesse Fervent Hot. Fervour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in Schooles upon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scutcheon whose bredth is divided into three even parts Festivall Merry joyfull belonging to a feast Festivitie Mirâ—h rejoycing pleasantnesse merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Decre Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badger Fiction A feined device a lye Fidelitie Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine device a lye a counterfeit tale Figurative That which figureth or serveth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skin within the body dividing the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeers Finall Of or belonging to an end the last * Finance An end Finite Which hath an end Fire-drake A fire sometime seene flying in the night like a Dragon Common people thinke it a spirit that keepeth some treasure hid but Philosophers affirme it to be a great unequall exhalation inflamed between two Cloudes the one hot the other cold which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hote Cloud being greater then the rest maketh it seeme like a bellie and both ends like unto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers understand by this word the eighth spheare next above the spheres of the seven Planets in which all the sixt Stars are placed Firmitie Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hot Countries not much unlike a small Hasell nut They are verie good against the stoppings of the liver being steeped all night in some sweet wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to unstop the lungs and for such as are troubled with shortnesse of breath and are comfortable for the stomacke yet they nourish but little being taken as meat Fistula A dangerous ulcer or sore still running It goeth up into the body with a long narrow hole like a pipe and is commonly hard in the outside Fitch The furre of the Polecat Fixe To fasten Fixed Fastened Flagitious Wicked very lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Jupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to die he thereupon went presently out of his office It was not lawfull for him to abide one night out of the Citie nor yet to affirme any thing by oath for his word was held of sufficient credit The other two Flamins were the Flamine of Mars and the Flamine of Romulus called Quirinus Flankards Hunters call so two knots or nuts in the flanke of a Deere Flebotomie See Phlebotomie Flegmaticke Full of flegme or inclining to flegme Flexibilitie Aptnesse to bend Flexible Pliant easie to end * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coine whereof there be two sorts one about the value of three shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence farthing Fluent Which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of blood Fluxibilitie Aptnesse to flow or spread abroad Fluxible Which is apt to flow or run abroad Foyling The print of a Deers foot in grasse when it cannot well be seene Foemen Enemies Foines A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France the top of this furre is blacke and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foison Great plenty store Foiterers Vagabonds Folio A sheet or large leafe of paper Fomentation In physick it properly signifieth powders or dry things in bags or any liquor in a sponge or bladder applyed warme to the bodie to mitigate paine or for some other purpose Footstall The lower part of a pillar whereon it standeth Foppe A Foole. Foppery Foolishnesse a vaine matter Forage Provision for horses and cattell in the wars Forcer A coffer or little chest Forester He that hath charge to looke to a forrest or some part of it Foreloyne A tearme in hunting when a hound meeteth a chace and goeth away with it before the rest Forlorne Vtterly undone in a desperate estate Formalitie An observing of good forme or order Formall That which keepeth due forme Formositie Beautie fairenesse Forestall To buy victuall or other merchandise by the way before it come to the faire or market to sell it againe at a dearer price Forestaller He that doth forestall and buy things in such sort Fortifie To make strong Fortification A hold any place made strong Fortitude Courage strength
to be stopt unlesse through continuance the body bee too much weakened by them Henchman A page of honour neere attendant to a Prince or other great personage * Hend Gentle * Hent To catch or lay hold of Herbage Pasture or the feeding of cattel in pasture Herball A booke of the nature of herbs Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretike He that maketh his owne choice what points of religion he will believe and what he will not believe Hereditarie That which commeth to one by inheritance Heriot The best living beast which a Tenant hath at his death which in some Mannors is due to the lord of whom the land is holden Hermaphrodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwelling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to devotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermit dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round sold by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much used against all gouts purging slimie fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must be taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will overturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Heteroscians Any people dwelling under a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewle A little copse or grove Heyward A bailiefe or officer having charge to looke to the fieldes Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be an hundred acres Hidage A taxe or paiment for every hide of lād Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaveth to their sides Hideous Terrible ugly Hiena See Hyena Hiera picra A bitter confection made of Alo◠succotrina and other simples often used in Physicke to purge Choler out of the flomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which containing nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in every three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superior are Seraphines Cherubines and Thrones the middle Dominations Principalities Powers The inferior vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kinde of writing used chiefly in times past among the Pagane Priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and divers other figures and could hardly bee understood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternitie or everlastingnesse they expressed by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye in the top thereof A matter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberation or advice by an Anchor which stayeth a ship in the waves With a thousand such devices not subject to common capacities to find out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew measure of moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagninus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelve egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of a History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiographer A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old Histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wild Bore of three yeeres old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserved Holt A grove Homage In Court Barons the Jury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a servil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Lands by homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands between his saith as followeth I become your man from this day forward of life and member and of earthly honour and to you shall be faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to hold of you saving the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth or oweth homage Homicide A manslayer sometime manslaughter Homilie A talking together a speech or a Sermon Homonymie A terme in Logicke when one word signifieth divers things as Hart signifieth a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In Herauldry the upper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the bredth thereof is divided into three even parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a ship Horizon An imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heavens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight dividing the heavens underneath us from that which is above The Sun rising and going downe is ever in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The ascendent of ones nativitie to wit that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a child is born Astrologers call it the first house Horrid Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastlie base flaunderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Save I beseech thee Hospitalitie Entertainment of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of covenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemie malicious harmefull Hostilitie Enmitie hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Law when a daughter which hath had given unto her any lands to be coheire after in Franke marriage clayming her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land given her before her fathers death to be put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the lands whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall division may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hollow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire covering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanitie Gentlenesse courtesie civill behaviour also manhood or the nature of mankind Humide Moist Humiditie Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making lowe or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to provoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flower called crowtoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerna which having one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing up in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancie See Divination Hydromell A physicall sweet drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe having a mane and long haires over all the bodie It is the subtillest as some
this herbe is great and white like a Radish root and is divided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This root especially the barke thereof is extreamely cold and dry even to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receive inwardly for that the least quantity too much will quickly kill one Surgeons use to steep this root in Wine and give it to be drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the cold operation thereof causeth sleep and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heaven to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seed with which the Israelites lived forty yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manbu viz. What is this Which seemeth to be the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kind of dew which falling in hot Countries upon trees doth there congeale almost like to crums of white bread and is gathered and choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may be carryed in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slave or bondman free which was in old time thus The lord of the slave holding him by the head arme or other part said before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoved him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A hand writing a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantity that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it be gold silver brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may be stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly between Wales Englād or between England and Scotland Marchionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Old condemned Heretikes so called of their first Master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher pher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell-fish especially in Orsters whereof some have holes in them and some have none The best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in young shels Some write that in thunder the Oisters doe cast them up as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes used by Physitiās in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings having vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenes of the body Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordering neer the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of agood conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grievous torment for constant perseverance in true Religion Martyrology A history of the death of Martyrs A booke of the memorie of Martyrs Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kind Masticke A white and cleere Gumme of a sweet savour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Island Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe use to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as be loose Mastuerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternall Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematicks sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens nativities or undertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematicks A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmetick Musick Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A grave motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturitie Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a main point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a device like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cannot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cup to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great favour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horacc and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometime a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas Mechanichall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish root brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubarbe It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soever with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liver and all the inward parts * Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent partie to both Mediation A means of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator He that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterrannean Sea A sea which divideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours of the body the grossest of all other which if it abound too much causeth heavinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellifluous Sweet as honey Membrane The upmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often used when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Meninges Thin skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skins one called by Physitians Dura mater which is the stronger of the two and next unto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first being more tender and fine and close wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes bee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath upon her the monethly courses or which
Arabia of the colour of yron which being oâ—ce set on fire can hardly be quenched Abject Vile base of no estimation Abjure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime used in Law when one having committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abjure the Realme then stand to tryall of Law This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessor in favour of life but now is not in use Abjuration A renouncing by oath see Abjure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnes unadvisednes Ablution A washing Abolition A taking away destroying or abolishing Abortion The birth of a child before due time or the destroying in the mothers wombe Abortiva That which is untimely born Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreys bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and dry and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Physicians have named it Agnus castus Abridge To shorten to cut off to gather onely the principall points Abrogate To abolish to disanull by publike authoritie to alter and make a Law which was in force to be of no effect Abrupt Broken off Abruptly By peece-meale out of order without observing of due circumstance Absolve To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgivenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or unlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his own Abstract A little booke or gathering taken out of a greater Abstraction A taking away or a short draught taken out of a greater thing Abstruse Hidden secret not easie to understand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusive That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomlesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot be sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaves and fruit whereof they draw a juyce or black liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictive or binding Our Apothecaries have not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they use the juyce of Sloes being of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniversitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniversitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeved the immortalitie of souls Plato having learned many things of the Hebrews then the peculiar people of God Accelerate To hasten Acceleration A hastening Accesse Liberty or power to come to a place Accessible Which may be gone too Accessary He that counselleth or commandeth another to commit any offence or comforteth or hideth him knowing that he hath committed an offence Accident That which happeneth by chance sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantitie qualitie and such like Accidentall Happening by chance or belonging to an Accident Acclamation A crying out to one Accomodate To make fit to apply Accoutrement Attire or dressing Accoste To draw neere to one Accâ—ew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape up Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeve To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister serving to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe having a root much like to a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dog of hell being dregged up in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his some upon this herbe whereby it became so venomous Acquire To get or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith he was charged Action A deed done or the doing of any thing In our common Law it signifieth a suit commenced against any man and is commonly divided into three differing kinds viz 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as upon the breach of a penall statute where some advantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3 Actionreall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Active Livelie strong nimble Activitie Strong nimblenes Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharp wittie Adage A proverbe Adamant A precious stone commonly called a Diamond brought out of Arabia and Cyprus It is the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth glasse and yeeldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greeks name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Invincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goats blood being steeped therein new and warme It is of contrarie nature to the loadstone in so much that being laid near it the loadstone cannot draw yron having the vertue thereof overmastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or give ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our common law it signifieth any title given to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleave to Adherence A cleaving to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaveth or joineth close to a thing Adjacent That which lyeth neare to another thing Adjourne To deferre or put off till another time Adjournement A terme in law when any Court is dissolved and appointed to be kept upon some other time or at any other place Adjunct A qualitie joyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adjure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adjuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To do service sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinarie Administration The doing or handling of a busines or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator He to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goods of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honour or esteem highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiving or giving one leave to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning given one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to be as his sonne to him Adore To worship to give divine reverence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifiâ— Adornation A decking or trimming Advent A comming Câ—rtaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemn preparation for the comming of our Saviour Adventaile A coate of Armour Adverse Contrary Advert To marke Advertise To give knowledge of a thing Adulation Flattery Adulâ—tory Which flaâ—tereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterate Adâ—ocate He that pleadeth for
little thing made with foure pricks of iron of such a fashion that which way soever it be thrown one point will alwayes stick up like a naile to spoile the enemies horse feet Caligraphie Faire writing Calumniate To slander to belie one shamefully Calumniation Slanderour lying * Camoyse Crooked upward as commonly the noses of blacke Moores be Camphire A kinde of Gumme as Avicen writeth But Platearius affirmeth it to be the juyce of an herbe It is white of colour and cold and dry in operation Cancel To deface cut or blot out * Canceline Chamlet Canicular See Dogge-dayes Canker A hard swelling in the veines being overcharged with hot melancholy humors It is called a Canker because the veines so swollen are like unto the clawes of a Crab. This disease may happen in any part of the body but most commonly in womens breasts by reason of their spongie hollownesse and great number of veines there meeting If it continue long it is very hard to cure because gentle medicines will doe no good and strong doe increase the raging malice of it Canniball A barbarous savage person one that eateth mans flesh Canon A Greeke word properly signifying a rule or line to make any thing straight or to trie the straightnesse of it Hereof Laws or Decrees for Church government are called Canons And certaine times of prayer used by Churchmen were called Canonicall houres of prayer Canonicall Approoved by common or exact rule Canonier He that shooteth in great Ordnance Canonize To declare and pronounce one for a Saint Canonization The solemnitie of Canonizing or pronouncing one to be a Saint Cantharides Certaine Flies shining like gold breeding in the tops of Ashe and Olive trees beyond Sea They are sometime used by Physitions to raise blisters in the body but their heads wings and feet must be cast away The juyce of them is poisonous Cape A corner of land shooting out into the Sea Capabilitie An aptnesse to containe or receive Capable Which can containe or hold a thing Capacitie Aptnesse to receive and hold Capers A prickly plant almost like to brambles growing in Spaine Italy and other hot countries The root hereof is much used in Physicke against obstructions of the spleen or milt The flowers and leaves are brought hither from Spain preserved in brine and are commonly eaten with Mutton They stirre up the appetite warme the stomacke and open the stoppings of the liver and milt Capitall Chiefe principall sometime deadly abhominable Capite A tenure when a man holdeth lands immediately of the king as of his crown Capitole An ancient palace in Rome so called Capitulate To draw or bring into Chapters Capriole Leaping of a horse above ground called by horsemen the Goats leape Capstand An instrument to wind up things of great weight some call it a Crane Captious Short quicke quarrelsome in demands Captivate To take prisoner Captivitie Bondage imprisonment Caranna A Gumme brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against aches proceeding of cold causes Carbonado A rasher upon the coales Carbuncle It hath two significations namely a precious stone and a dangerous sore 1. Carbuncle stone is bright of the colour of fire It hath many vertues but chiefely prevaileth against the danger of infectious aire The best of these stones will shine in darkenesse like a burning coale as Albertus writeth himselfe hath seene Others shine but a little and are lesse esteemed but such as shine not at all are scarce of any reckoning these stones are found in some countreys of Africa 2. Carbunele disease is a botch or ulcer otherwise called by a Greeke name Anthrax caused of grosse hot blood which raiseth blisters and burneth the skin This ulcer is ever accompanied with a Feaver Cardones An herbe in India of vertue to heale sores Carlo Sancto A roote growing in the West Indies of a pleasant smell and bitter taste the rynde whereof being chewed draweth downe fleame and humours from the head and being drunken in powder is good against divers inward diseases Carcanet A small chaine Cardinall Chiefe principall Carnall Fleshly Carnalitie Fleshlinesse Carol. A song sometime a dance Carpe To check taunt or rebuke Carreere A short swift race with a Horse as at Justs Tournaments Carrike A great ship of burden Casani India bread Casia It is commonly taken for Cinnamome Poets understand often by it some sweet smelling herbe as Virg. Eclog. Tum Casia atque aliis intexens suavibus herbis Also Ovid Quo simul ac Casias nardi lenis aristas Quassaque cum fulva substravit Cinnama myrrha Lactantius also De Phoenice Cinnama dehinc auramque procul spirantis amomi Congerit mixto balsama cum folio Non Casiae mitis nec olentis vimen acanthi Nec thuris Lachrymae guttaque pinguis abest Where wee see that signifie two things Some Casia and Cinnamome thinke it to be Lavender For mine owne part I know not certainly what English name or interpretation to give it Cassia fistula A fruit growing in Arabia and Syria which is round black and long almost as ones arme of the bignesse of a Thumbe The outside hereof is hard within it is contained the seed and a black substance soft and sweet which is much used in Physick as a gentle purger of the inward parts Cassia lignea A sweet wood much like Cinnamome and of the nature of Cinnamome Castigate To chastise to correct Castigation A chastising a correction Castleward A payment made by some dwelling within a certain compasse of a Castle for the maintenance of those that do watch and ward the Castle Also the circuit of land which oweth this service Castoreum See Bever Casuall That which happeneth by chance doubtfull uncertain Casualtie Chance fortune hap-hazard Catadupa A place in Ethiopia so called where the great river Nilus falleth from high Mountanous rocks with such violence that the continuall noise thereof maketh the people there dwelling to become deafe Catalogue A roll a bill a register of names or other things Cataplasma It signifieth properly a medicine which is made of divers herbes either bruised or boyled in water and so applyed outwardly to the body If there be oyle added it is not then called a Cataplasme but an Emplaister Cataract A distillation of humours out of the eyes Catarrhe A distillation of waterish humours out of the head into the mouth and throat caused by a cold and sometime hot distemperature of the brain Catastrophe The conclusion or end of a Comedie a sudden alteration Catechumen A novice or one newly instructed in matters of faith by word of mouth Categorie In the Greeke tongue it properly signifieth an accusation It is also a terme used in Logick which shall after be explicated in the word Predicament Categoricall axiome A simple axiome or proposition not compounded of any conjunction as Peter is a man Cathedrall Of or belonging to a Bishops Chaire Catholike A Greeke word signifying universall or generall Catoblepa A strange beast that killeth a man
is cold and dry in operation good to be hanged about childrens necks as well to rub their gums as to preserve them from the falling sicknesse Corbell A shouldering piece cut out in stone as we may see in wals to bear up a poste summer or other weight Corbets Places in walles where Images stand Corbona A chest or coffer in the Temple of Hierusalem where the treasure that served for the Priests use was kept Cordiall Heartie that which comforteth the heart Cordwayner A Shooe maker Corodie An ancient term used when the founders of Abbies or other religious houses reserved a right in themselves and heires to appoint some person to have allowance of meate and drinke or other maintenance out of the house and this allowance was called a Corodie Coronell A Captain over many bands Coronation The crowning of a King or Queene Corporall Of or belonging to the body Corporation A body politick having by the kings grant a common seale a chiefe Officer and inferiour persons belonging to it Corpulencie Grossenesse fatnesse Corpulent Fat and grosse Correlative A tearme of Logicke applyed to such words as cannot be spoken but there must be supposed some other word which is necessarily a dependant upon it as a Father and a Son a Master and a Servant a Captaine and a Souldiour a Husband and a Wife Correspondence An agreeablenesse or proportion answering to some other thing Correspondent Agreeable or answerable to another thing Corrigible That which may be corrected or amended Corrivall He that is suiter with another to a woman for marriage Corroborate To strengthen to confirme Corrode To gnaw asunder Corrosive A fretting plaiâ—ter any thing which laid to the body raiseth blisters and maketh it sore Cosignificative Of the same signification with another thing Cosmographie An art touching the description of the whole world This art by the distance of the circles in heaven divideth the earth under them into her Zones and climats and by the elevation of the Pole considereth the length of the day and night with the perfect demonstration of the Suns rising and going downe Covent The whole number of religious men together dwelling in one house Coverture A covering In the Common Law it signifieth all the time that a man and wife are coupled in marriage Couchant Couching or lying on the ground Covert Hidden secret Covertharon A married wife a woman subject to a husband Coverture In our Common Law it is sometime taken for marriage Covine Deceit cousenage Countermand To give coÌ„mandement contrarie to that which was commanded before Countermine To mine or did in the earth against another Countermure A wall made in defence of another wall Counterpane The fellow copy of a deed indented Counterpoise Any thing laid in weight against another thing Countervaile To be of equall value to another thing Coupee Cut off Cramp-fish A fish whose nature is to make the hands of such as touch it to be benummed or astonied though they touch it with a long pole Crannie A little hole or chinke Craven A coward Crazie Sickly weake of unperfect health Credence Beliefe trust Credible That which may be believed Creditor He that lendeth or trusteth another with money or wares Credulitie Easines of beliefe Credulous He which easily beleeveth a thing Cressant In Heraldrie it signifieth the new Moon Crime An offence or fault committed Criminall Faultie or that which belongeth to a fault or accusation Crisis A Greeke word which is interpreted judgement In Physicke it signifieth the conflict between nature and sicknesse that is the time when either the patient suddenly becometh well or suddenly dyeth or waxeth better or worse according to the strength of his body and violence of the disease Crispe Curled Cristall A substance like cleere glasse There are two kinds hereof One which groweth upon extreame cold mountaines being there congealed like yce by the minerall virtue of the place as Albertus writeth Another kinde groweth in the earth in some places of Germanie Cristalline Made of Cristall or shining like Cristall Criticall In Physicke the fourth and seventh dayes are called Critical because in them Physitians use to judge of the danger of a disease But the seventh is accounted the chiefe Criticall day the fourth a token or signe what the seventh day will be if the Patient live so long This account must be made according to the number of weeks thus In the first weeke the fourth day is the token or Critical of the seventh day In the second weeke the eleventh is the Critical of the fourteenth In the third the seventeenth is the Criticall of the twentieth for Hippocrates râ—ckoneth the twentieth day for the last of the third weeke In the fourth weeke 24. is the Criticall of the 27 In thâ— fift the 31. the Criticaâ—l of the 34. In the sixt weeke the 37. the Criticall of the 40. And so forth to a hundred Criticke The same that Criticall is Also it signifieth sometime one that hath authoritie or taketh upon him to censure other mens acts or works wriâ—â—eÌ„ Crocrodile A harmefull beast living most about the River Nilus in Egypt It is hatched of an egge and groweth unto a wonderfull greatnesse sometime to twentie or thirtie foot long This beast hath no tongue and in feeding moveth onely the upper jawe He hath eyes like a Hogge and cruell sharpe teeth He hath no haire but is made much after the fashion of an Evet with a long taile a long belly and backe covered all over with scales close joyned of great strength Vpon his feete he hath strong sharpe clawes In the day time hee can see farre and liveth on land in the night he is almost blind and keepeth in the water He is very bold upon those he seeth afraid of him and feare full if he be assaulted It is written that he will weepe over a mans head when he hath devoured the body and then will eate up the head too Wherefore in Latine there is a proverbe Crocodili Lachrymae Crocodiles teares to signifie such teares as are fained and spent onely with intent to deceive or do harme I saw once one of these beasts in London brought thither dead but in perfect forme of about three yards long Croches The little buds or branches at the top of a Harts horn Crosselet A melting pot Crotaves Dung of Hare Crownet A little crown also a part of a Horse hoofe is so called Crude Rawe not well digâ—sted Crudiâ—â—e Rawnesse ill dig slion Cubebs A certaine fruit sold by Apothecaries like unto Pepper It cometh out of India and is hot and dry in operation It comforteth the braine much and quickeneth the spirits being held chewedin the mouth It is also very good to open the stoppings of the Liver Cubite Halfe a yard the measure from a mans elbow to the top of his middle finger Cullion The stone of any living thing Culpable Faultie Culture Tillage dressing of land Culvertaile A strong kinde of building by fastening boards or timber with
of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Hierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Golierdise Hee that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure containing more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fed from Heaven with Manna in the desert received every one this measure full for a daies allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knot which cannot be loosed Gorgon A terrible fighting Woman Poets feine there were foure such Daughters to King Phorcus their names were Scylla Medusa Stenio and Euryale Gossomer Things that flye like Copwebs in the ayre Gourmand A glutton Gourmandize Gluttony sometime to eate like a Glutton Graces A poeticall fiction of three Sisters supposed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne The moralitie of this invention was to expresse the mutual love and cheerefull conversation which ought to be amongst friends For they were painted naked to signifie that friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smiling and merry to shew that men should do good willingly young and maidenlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefit bestowed doth again return to the giver Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Gradual That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospel Graduate He that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniversitie Graines of Paradise A little seed brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtill substance and often used in Physicke For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beasts and divers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruit like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Devised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turn Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turn Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuitie A benefit or gift given onely for good will sometime thankfulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we rejoyce at the prosperitie of another Gratulation A rejoycing for anothers good A thanksgiving Gravitie Heavinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeantie An old tenure in the Common Law when a man holds lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the wars or to beare his banner lead his host or do some such like service Graunge A village or lone house in the country * Gree. Good part Griffine A strange Bird in India with foure feet armed with cruell clawes being from the breast upward fashioned like an Eagle but of purple colour with red fierie eyes and whitish wings and in the hinder part blacke made much like a Lion This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very yong for he will adventure on any man is so fierce that he often killeth Elephants Dandragons He is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgil in his eight Eclog bringeth in the shepherd Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Junguntur jam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are joyn'd with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacatane An herbe growing in the west Indies of great vertue against the piles or griefs proceeding from cold or windinesse Guaiacum A wood called by some Lignum vitae It is much used in physick against the French disease Guaiavas A fruit growing in India much like unto apples Guerdon A reward Guerdonles Vnrewarded * Guerring Brawling Gumme Arabicke A kind of gumme growing on a thorne tree called Acacia in Egypt Guzes The ball of the eye A terme in heraldrie Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwaies naked and lived solitary in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Hierome writeth cont Iovinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H. HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit The outward attire of the body whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of a Gentleman is different from the habit of a Merchant and the habit of a Handi-crafts man differing from them both Sometime it signifieth a qualitie in the bodie or minde not naturall but gotten by long custome or insused by God as an Orator still exercised in making orations hath gotten a habit of eloquent speaking and the holy Apostles had a habit to understand and speak languages without studie Habitable Which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Grown to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleevelesse jacket Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valley * Hameled Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made upon the bones of a shoulder of mutton all the flesh being first taken off Hamlet A village in the countrey Hague A hand-gunne of about three quarters of a yard long Haguebut A gunne or harquebuse Harbinger One that taketh up lodging for others Hariant A tearme in herauldry when a fish is painted standing upright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweet pleasant delightful to the eare Harpyes A Poeticall word It signifieth certaine monstrous birds with maiden faces crooked sharp talons so called because of their rapine which they used They lived in Stymphalis a Lake of Arcadia and were sent by the Gods if we beleeve Poets to snatch away and defile the meat of Phineus king of that countrey because he at the perswasion of his second wife had destroyed the children which he had by his first they were at last driven away by Zetus and Calais the sonnes of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello Ocypete Celeno and Thyella Harquebuze A hand Gun Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gun * Harrow An old word signifying away sie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To return Hawberke A Gorget Hearse A buriall coffin covered with black Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beasts Hecticke A Fever inflaming the heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heavens that part of the heavens which is still visible to us Hemistich Half a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of veines in the fundament like werts whereof some doe use to bleed often and some bleed not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent to these parts from the Liver being many times healthfull to the patient by preventing other diseases and therefore ought not hastily