sores in the bodie Exulte To reioyce greatly to triumph ouer one Exultation A great reioycing F FAbricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easinesse Faction A sect or diuision into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome vnquiet Factor Hee that buyeth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his businesse Facultie Power ability a trade or course of life a priuiledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priuiledge he could not doe Facundite Eloquencie Fage A fable Falding A kind of course cloth Fallacie Deceit in words Falsitie To counterfeite or make false Falsification A counterfeiting or making false Faâ—â—â—ie Falsehood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping vlcer growing in knottes and following along some veine Farced Stuffed full Fascinate To bewitch Fastidious Disdainfull loathing proud Fate Destiny that which must of necessitie come to paste by Gods secret appointment Fatall That which happeneth or commeth to passe by fate Faunes Poeticall gods of the woods Fauorite One in great fauour Fealtie A ceremony done by some tenants to the Lord of whome they hold lands which is in laying their right hand vpon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beauty Fecundity Fruitfulnes Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicity Happinesse Fell. A skinne sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemonth A month so called because the it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the does then do fawn This month beginneth about the ninth of Iune and continueth till the ninth of Iuly Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seede whereof is much vsed in Physicke It is yellow beeing hot in the second degree and dry in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolue Feodarie An officer who is to be present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to suruey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deede witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liuery of seisiae and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the the Feofer and the party to whome it is made the Feofee Feriae Any day of the weeke kept holy Fers The Queene in chesse play Fertile Fruitfull yeelding much Fertility Fruitfulnesse Feruent Hot. Feruour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in schooles vpon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scutcheon whose breadth is diuided into three euen parts Festiuall Merry ioyfull belonging to a feast Festiuitie Mirth reioycing pleasantnes merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Deere Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badget Fiction A feined deuice a lye Fidelity Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine deuice a lye a counterfeit tale Figuratiue That which figureth or serueth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skinne within the body deuiding the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeares Finall Of or belonging to an ende 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 hidde but Philosophers affirme it to be a great vnequall exhalation inflamed betweene two Cloudes the one hot the other colde which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hotte Cloud being greater than the rest maketh it seeme like a belly and both ends like vnto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers vnderstand by this word the eighth spheare next aboue the spheres of the seauen Planets in which all the fixt Starres are placed Firmity Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hotte countries not much vnlike a small hasell nutte They are very good against the stoppings of the liuer being steeped all night in some sweete wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to vnstop 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 meate Fistula A daungerous vlcer or sore still running It goeth vp 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 verie lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Iupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to dye he thereupon went presently out of his office It was not lawful for him to abide one night out of the City nor yet to affirme any thing by oath for his word was held of sufficient credite 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 fleagme or inclining to fleagme Flexibility Aptnesse to bend Flexible Pliant easie to bend * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coyne Whereof there be two sorts one about the valew of three shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence fatthing Fluent Which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of bloud Fluxibility 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 black and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foson Great plenty store Foiterers Vagabonds Folio A sheete 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 applied warme to the body to mitigate paine or for some other purpose Footstall The lower part of a pillar wheron it standeth Foppe A foole Foppery Foolishnesse a vaine matter Forage Prouision for horses and cattell in the warres Forcer A cofer or little chest Forester Hee that hath charge to looke to a forrest or some part of Foreloyne A tearme in hunting when a hound meeteth a chace and goeth away with it before the rest Forlorne Vtterly vndone in a desperate estate Formalitie An obseruing 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
to those parts from the liuer beeing many times healthfull to the patient by preuenting other diseases and therefore ought not hastily to be stopt vnlesse 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 herbes Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretiâ—e He that maketh â—is owne choice what â—oints of religion he will â—eleeue and what he will â—ot belâ—eue Heredâ—arie That which â—ommeth to one by inheritance Herio The best liuing â—east which a Tenant hath 〈◊〉 his death which in some â—lannoâ—s is due to the â—ord of whom the land is holden Hermaphorodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwlling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to deuotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermite dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round solde by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much vsed against all gouts purging slimy fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must bee taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will ouerturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Hiâ—eroscians Any people dwelling vnder a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewte A little copse or groue Heyward A bayliffe or officer hauing charge to looke to the fields Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be a hundred acres Hidage A taxe or payment for euery hide of land Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaueth to their sides Hideous Terrible vgly Hiena See Hyena Hierapiera A bitter confection made of Aloe succotrina and other simples often vsed in Physicke to purge Choler out of the stomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which conteining nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in euery three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superiour are Seraphines Cerubines and Thrones the middle Dominations principalities Powers The inferiour vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kind of writing vsed chiefely in times past among the Pagan priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and diuers other figures and could hardly bee vnderstood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternity or Euerlâ—stingnesse they expresseâ— by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye 〈◊〉 the toppe thereof A mâ—â—ter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberâ—tion or aduice by an Aâ—chor which stayeth a ship in the waues With a thousand such deuices not subiect to common capacities to finde out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew meâ—sure or moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagâ—â—nus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelue egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiâ—grapher A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wilde bore of three yeares old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserued Holt. A groue Homage In Court Barons the Iury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a seruil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Landes 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 bee faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to holde of you sauing the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth of 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 diuers things as hart signifying a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In herauldry the vpper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the breadth thereof is diuided into three euen parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a shippe Horizon All imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heauens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight diuiding the heauens vnderneath vs from that which is aboue The Sun rising and going downe is euer in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The Ascedent of ones natiuity to witte that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a childe is borne Astrologers call it the first house Horride Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastly base slanderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Saue I beseech thee Hospitality Entertainement of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of couenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemy malicious harmefull Hostility Enmity hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Lawe when a daughter which hath had giuen vnto her any lands in Frankemarriage clayming to bee coheire after her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land giuen her before her fathers death to bee put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the landes whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall diuision may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hallow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire couering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanity Gentlenesse courtesie ciuill behauiour also manhood or the nature of manhood Humide Moist Humidity Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making low or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to prouoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flowre called crowcoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerius which hauing one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing vp in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancy See Diuination Hydromell A physicall sweete drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter
if the two beginnings be like the Maior is omitted as may easily appeare by the foregoing example Enueloped Wrapped Enuiron To coÌ„passe about Enumerate To reckon vp to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciatiue Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmeth or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in vse euery yeare to finde the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yearly and is made by the addition of eleuen to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeare but alwaies so that both those numbers exceede not the number of 30. For if they amount to aboue 30. then must you cast away the 30 and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeare 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleuen for the next yeares Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeare 1617. Note also wheÌ„ in any yeere the Epact is â—9 you must adde 12. to find out the next yeares true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleuen In al other nuÌ„bers the Epact is stil made as before by adding eleuen And these Epacts are euer changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day-acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomy in vse among such as erect figures to cast mens natiuities by which booke is shewen how all the Planets are placed euery day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure conteining about fiue peckes of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It couered the backe and was curiously wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Scarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were fit two great precious Onix stones and in them grauen the names of the twelue sonnes of Iacob called the twelue Patriarches in the right shoulder the sixe eldest and in the left the fixe youngest that the High Priest entering into the Sanstum Sanctorium which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom hee was to pray vnto God Epicycle A terme vsed in Astronomy It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the vpper part of this Epicycle the fiue Planets Saturne Iupiter Mars Venus and Mercurie 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 bee 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 signes Epicure It is commonly taken with vs for a man giuen ouer 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 bee without paine and enioy pleasure of body and minde Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set vpon any thing now it is coÌ„monly taken for a short wittie poeme which vnder a fained name doth couertly praise or taxe some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folk are subiect This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striuing to excel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly fome at the mouth Epilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an enterlude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestatioÌ„ The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because then the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Sauiour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set vpon a toombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithere Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantiue to expresse some quality of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie vnbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous vnbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the quality of cruelty lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Ephitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimity Vprightnes of hart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing iust in the midst betweene the two poles of heauen to which line the sun coÌ„ming twice a yeare namely about the xi of March and the xi of September maketh the dates and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra doe both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or prouision for horsemanship especially in triumphs or turnaments Equiualence The equall value of one thing with another Equiualent Of equal value to another thing Equiuocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserued in ones own mind which peraduenture the hearers do not vnderstand Equiuocation A speech or answer made with a secret meaning reserued in ones mind Equiuocke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hel or a riuer in hell Erect To lift vp Erection A lifting vp Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worne 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 blacke and Ermines blacke powdred white Errant Wandring hauing no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceiued Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To bee forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An officer that obserueth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate vnto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charge to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant only payeth a yearely 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 beeing or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Iews which liued a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essential That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme
or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragorus See Mandrake following Mandrak A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe it great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This roote especially the barke thereof is extremely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quickly kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in Wine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the colde operation thereof causeth sleepe and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heauen to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seede with which the Israelites liued fortie yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the bordeâ—s of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manhu viz. What is this Which seemeth to bee the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hotte countries vpon trees doth there congeale almost like to crummes of whitebread and is gathered 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 bee carried in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slaue or bondman free which was in olde time thus The lord of the slaue holding him by the head arme or other part saide before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoued him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A handwriting a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantitie 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 bee golde siluer brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may bee stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marcionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Olde condemned Heretikes so called of their first master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oysters wherof some haue holes in them and some haue 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 yong shels Some write that in Thunder the Oysters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes vsed by Physitions in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenesse of the bodie Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordring neere the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of a good conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grieuous torment for constant perseuerance in true religion Martyrologie A historie 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 kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumee of a sweete sauour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Iland 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 vse to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as bee loose Masluerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternal Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematickes sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens natiuities or vndertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematickes A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted froÌ„ bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmeticke Musicke Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A graue motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturity Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a maine point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a deuice 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 cuppe 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 fauour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horace and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometinâ—â— a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenis Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubaâ—be It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soeuer with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liuer and all the inward parts Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator Hee that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterranean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellistuous Sweet as hony Membrane The vpmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often vsed when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Menniges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Physitians Dicta mater which is the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first beeing more tender and sine and close
sometime in Warre It is a little thing made with foure prickes of yron of such a fashion that which way soeuer it be throwen one point will alwaies sticke vp like a naile to spoile the enemies horse feete Caligraphic Faire writing Calumniate To slaunder to belie one shamefully Columniation Slaunderous lying * Camoyse Crooked vpward as commonly the noses of blacke Moores bee Camphire A kinde of Gumme as Auicen writeth But Platearius affirmeth it to be the iuice 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 ouercharged with hot melancholy humours It is called a Canker because the veines so swollen are like vnto the clawes of a Crab. This disease may happen in any part of the bodie but most commonly in womens breasts by reason of their spongie hollownesse and great number of veines their 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 sauage 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 Lawes or decrees for Church gouernement are called Canons And certaine times of prayer vsed by Churchmen were called Canonicall houres of prayer Canonicall Approoued by common or exact rule Canonier He that shooteth in great Ordinance Canonize To declare and pronounce one for a Saint Canonization The solemnity of Canonizing or pronouncing one to bee a Saint Cantharides Certaine Flies shining like golde breeding in the toppes of Ashe and Oliue trees beyond Sea They are sometime vsed by Physitions to raise blisters in the body but their heads wings and feete must be cast away The iuice of them is poysonous Cape A corner of land shooting out into the Sea Capabilitie An aptnesse to containe or receiue Capable Which can containe or hold a thing Capacitie Aptnesse to receiue and hold Capers A prickly plant almost like to brambles growing in Spaine Italy and other hot countries The roote hereof is much vsed in Physicke against obstructions of the spleen or milte The flowers and leaues are brought hither from Spaine preserued in brine and are commonly eaten with Mutton They stirre vp the appetite warme the stomacke and open the stoppings of the liuer and milt Capitall Chiefe principall sometime deadly abhominable Capite A tenure when a man holdeth lands immediately of the king as of his crowne Capitole An ancient palace in Rome so called Capitulate To draw or bring into Chapters Capriole Leaping of a horse aboue ground called by horsemen the Goates leape Capstand An instrument to wind vp things of great weight some call it a crane Captious Short quicke quarrelsome in demands Captiuate To take prisoner Captiuity Bondage imprisonment Caranna A Gumme brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against aches proceeding of cold causes Carbonado A rasher vpon 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 chiefly preuaileth against the danger of infectious aire The best of these stones will shine in darkeness 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 countreies of Africa 2. Carbuncle disease is a botch or vlcer otherwise called by a Greeke name Anthrax caused of grosse hot blood which raiseth blisters and burneth the skinne This vlcer is euer accompanied with a Feuer Cardones An hearbe 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 beeing chewed draweth downe fleame and humours from the head being drunâ—en in powder is good against diuers inward diseases Carcanet A small chaine Cardinall Chiefe principall Carnall Fleshly Carnality Fleshlinesse Carol. A song sometime a dance Carpt To checke taunt or rebuke Carreere A short swift race with a horse as at lusts Tournaments Carrike A great shippe of burden Casani India bread Casia It is commonly taken for Cinnamome Poets vnderstand often by it some sweete smelling herbe as Virg. Eclog. 2. Tum Casia atque alijs intexens suanibus herbis Also Ovid. Quo simul ac Casias nardilenis aristas Quassaque cum fulua substrauit Cinnama myrrha Lictantius also De Phoenice Cinnama dehint auramque procul spirantis amomâ— Congerit mixto balsama cum folio Non Casia mitis nec olentis vinuen acanthi Nec thuris Lachrymae guttaque pinguis abest Where wee see that Casia and Cinnamome signifie two things Some think it to bee Lauender For mine owne part I know not certainely what English name or interpretation to giue it Cassia fistula A fruite growing in Arabia and Syria which is round blacke and long almost as ones arme of the bignesse of a Thumbe The outside hereof is hard within it is contained the seede and a blacke substance soft and sweete which is much vsed in Physicke as a gentle purger of the inward parts Cassia lignea A sweete wood much like cinnamome and of the nature of cinnamome Castigate To chastise to correct Castigation A chasticing a correction Castleward A payment made by some dwelling within a certaine compasse of a castle for the maintenance of those that doe watch and ward the castle Also the circuite of land which oweth this seruice Castoreum See Beuer. Casual That which happeneth by chance doubtfull vncertaine Casualtie Chance fortune hap-hazard Catadupa A place in Ethiopia so called where the great riuer Nilus falleth from high Mountanous rockes with such violence that the continuall noise thereof maketh the people there dwelling to become deafe Catalogue A roll a bill a register of name or other things Cataplasma It signifieth properly a medicine which is made of diuers hearbes eyther bruised or boyled in water and so applyed outwardly to the body If there bee 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 humors out of the head into the mouth and throate caused by a colde and sometime hotte distemperance of the braine Catastrophe The conclusion or end of a Comedy a sudden alteration Catecheumen A nouice or one newly instructed in matters of faith by word of mouth Category In the Greeke tongue it properly signifieth an accusation It is also a terme vsed in Logike which shall after the explicated in the word Predicament Categoricall axiome A simple axiome or proposition not compounded of any coniunction as Peter is a man Cathedrall Of or belonging to a Bishops chaire Catholike A Greek word signifying vniuerfal or generall Catobleya A
ayre hardened into the forme of a stone as we see it It is cold and dry in operation good to be hanged about childrens neckes as well to rub their gums as to preserue them from the falling sickenesse Corbell A shouldering peece cut out in stone as we may see in walles to beare vp a poste summer or other weight Corbets Places in walles where Images stand Corbona A chest or cofer in the Temple of Hierusalem where the treasure that serued for the Priests vse was kept Cordiall Hearty that which comforteth the heart Cordwyner A Shooe-maker Corodie An ancient term vsed when the founders of Abbies or other religious houses reserued aright in themselues and heires to appoint some person to haue allowance of meate and drinke or other maintenance out of the house and this allowance was called a Corodie Coronell A Captaine ouer many bands Coronation The crowning of a King or Queene Corporall Of or belonging to the bodie Coporation A bodie politick hauing by the kings grant and 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 bee spoken but there must be supposed some other word which is necessarily a dependant vpon it as a Father and a Sonne a Master and a Seruant 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 bee corrected or amended Corriuall He that is suiter with another to a woman for marriage Corroborate To strengthen to confirme Corrode To gnaw asunder Corrosiue A fretting plaister any thing which laid to the body raiseth blisters and maketh it sore Cosignificatiue 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 heauē diuideth the earth vnder them into her Zones and climats and by the eleuation of the Pole considereth the length of the day night with the perfect demonstration of the Sunnes rising and going downe Couent The whole number of religious men together dwelling in one house Couerture A couering 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 Couert Hidden secret Couertbaron A marryed wife a woman subiect to a husband Couerture In our common Law it is sometime taken for marriage Couine Deceit cousenage Countermand To giue commandement contrary to that which was commanded Countermine To mine or dig in the earth against another Countermure A wal made in defence of another wall Counterpane The fellow coppy of a deed indented Counterpoise Any thing laid in waight against another thing Counteruaile To bee of equall value to another thing Coupee Cutt off Crampefish 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 Crauen A coward Crazie Sickly weake of vnperfect health Credence Beleefe trust Credible That which may be beleeued Creditor He that lendeth or trusteth another with mony or wares Credulitie Easinesse of beleefe Credulous He which easily beleeueth a thing Cressant In Heraldrie it signifieth the newe Moone Crime An offence or fault committed Criminall Faultie or that which belongeth to a fault or accusation Crisis A Greeke word which is interpreted iudgment In Phisicke it signifieth the conflict between nature and sicknesse that is the time when either the patient suddenly becommeth well or suddenly dyeth or waxeth better or worse according to the strength of his bodie and violence of the disease Crispe Curled Cristall A substance like cleere glasse There are two kindes hereof One which groweth vpon extreame cold mountaines being there congealed like yee by the minerall vertue of the place as Albertus writeth Another kinde groweth in the earth in some places of of Germanie Cristalline Made of Cristall or shining like a Cristall Criticall In Phisicke the fourth and seuenth dayes are called Critical because in them Phisitians vse to iudge of the danger of a disease But the seuenth is accounted the chiefe Criticall day the fourth a token or signe what the seuenth day will be if the Patient liue so long This account must bee made according to the number of weekes thus In the first weeke the fourth day is the token or Critical of the seuenth day In the second weeke the eleuenth is the Critical of the fourteenth In the third the seuentieth is the Critticall of the twentieth for Hippocrates reckoneth the twentieth day for the last to the third weeke In the fourth week 24. is the Criticall of the 27. In the fifty the 31. the Criticall of the 34. In the sixt weeke the 37. the Criticall of the 40. And so foorth to a hundred Criticke The same that Criticall is Also it signifieth sometime one that hath authoritie or taketh vpon him to censure other mens acts or workes written Crocodile A harmefull beast liuing most about the Riuer Nilus in Aegypt It is hatched of an egge and groweth vnto a wonderfull greatnesse sometime to twentie or thirtie foot long This beast hath no tongue and in feeding mooueth onely the vpper iawe He hath eyes like a Hogge and cruell sharpe teeth Hee hath no haire but is made much after the fashion of an Euet with a long taile a long belly and backe couered all ouer with scales close ioyned of great strength Vpon his feete hee hath strong sharpe clawes In the day time hee can see farre and liueth on land in the night he is almost blind and keepeth in the water He is very bold vpon those he seeth afraid of him and fearefull if he be assaulted It is written that he will weepe ouer a mans head when he hath deuoured the body and then will eate vp the head two Wherefore in Latine there is a probere Crocodili Iachrymae Crocodiles teares to signifie such teares as are fained and spent onely with intent to deceiue or doe 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 horne Crosselet A melting pot Crotayes Dung of a Hare Crownet A little crowne also a part of a horse hoose is so called Crude Rawe not well digested Cruditie Rawnesse ill digestion Cubebs A certaine fruite sold by Apothecaries like vnto Pepper It commeth out of India and is hotte and drie in operation It comforteth the braine much and quickeneth the spirits being held chewed in the mouth It is also very good to open the stoppings of the Liuer Cubite Halfe a yard the measure from a mans elbow to the toppe of his middle finger Cullion The stone of any liuing thing Culpable Faultie Culture Tillage dressing of land Culuertaile
number is two the next yeare therefore it wil be three c. This golden number was deuised to finde out the feast of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Ierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Goherdise He that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure conteyning more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fedde from heauen with Manna in the desert receiued euery one this measure full for a dayes allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knotte 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 Gossomor Things that flye like Cobwebs 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 Iupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphorsyne The morality of this inuention was to expresse the mutual loue and cheerefull conuersation 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 yong maideÌ„like to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefite bestowed doth againe returne to the giuer Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Graduall That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospell Graduate Hee that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniuersitie Graines of Paradise A litle seede brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtil substance and often vsed in Physick For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beastes and diuers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruite like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Deuised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turne Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turne Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuity A benefite or gift giuen onely for good will sometime thankefulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we reioyce at the prosperity of another Gratulation A reioycing for anothers good A thanksgiuing Grauity Heauinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeanty An olde tenure in the Common Lawe when a man holds lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the wars or to beare his banner leade his host or doe some such like seruice Graunge A village or lone house in the countrey * Grâ—e Good part Griffine A strange bird in India with foure feete armed with cruell clawes being from the breast vpward 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 Lyon This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very young for he wil aduenture on any man and is so fierce that hee often killeth Elephants Dragons Hee is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgill in his eight Eclog bringeth in the shepheard Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Iungunturiam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are ioyned with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacataâ— An herb 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 vita It is much vsed in Physick against the French disease Guaiauas A fruit growing in India much like vnto 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 heraldry Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwayes naked liued solitary in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Ierome writeth cont Iouinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit. The outward attire of the bodie whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of Gentleman is dâ—â—ferent from the habit of a merchant and the habit of 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 infused 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 vndersand and speake languages without studie Habitable Which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Growne to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleeuelesse â—ackeâ— Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valey * Hamelet Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made vpon 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 vp lodging for others Hariam A tearme in Herauldry when a fish is painting standing vpright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweete 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 vsed They liued in Stymphalis a lake of Arcadia and were sent by the gods if we beleeue Poets to snatch away and defile the meate 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 driuen away by Zeâ—us and Calais the sonnes of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello Oâ—ypâ—te Celâ—no and Thyâ—lla Harquebuze A hand Gunne Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gunne * Harrow An old word signifying away fie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To returne Hawberke A gorget Hearse A buriall coffin couered with blacke Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beasts Hecticke A Feuer inflaming the Heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heauens that part of the heauens which is still visible to vs. Hemistich Halfe a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of the veines in the fundament like werts whereof some doe vse to bleede often and some bleede not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent
ones self or to take ones diet in Refell To disprooue to prooue false Reflect To turne or cast backe againe Reflection A rebounding backe or turning backe againe Reforme To amend to correct Refractorie Stubborne which will not bend Rufuge A place of succour Refute To disprooue to confound by scene and reason Refutation A disproouing a confuting Regall Kingly belonging to a King Regalitie The estate or authoritie of a King Regardant A terme in Heraldrie when a beast is painted looking backewards at one Regenerate To beare againe in birth to renew Regeneration A new birth Regent A Prince Ruler or Gouernour Regiment A gouerment or the place where one hath authoritie Register Writings of record kept for memory Also hee that keepeth such writings in a spirituall Court Regratour He that in a faire or market buyeth any dead victuall whatsoeuer 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 liuing according to a set rule Reiect To cast off to despise Reioynder A second answer made by the defendant after his first answer hath beene replyed vnto 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 terme 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 Releefe 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 leaue off to forsake Reliques Things left or remaining 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 heauen Remainder A possibility in any to enioy lands tenements or rents after anothers estate is ended Remisse Slacke negligent or carelesse Remit To send backe somtime to release or forgiue Remora A little Fish which cleaning to the bottome of a shippe doth very strangely stay the shippe that shee cannot mooue Remorse Doubtfulnesse in conscience to doe a thing a staggering in minde sometime pittifulnes or repentance of a ball deed done Remote Farre distant Remunerate To reward Remuneration A reward a requitall Renouate To renew Renouation A renewing Repast Food Repeale To call backe aganie to disallow Repell To thrust backe Repercussiue That which striketh backe againe or reboundeth backe Repetition A new rehearsing Repleuine A Warrant sent from the Sheriffe or his Bayliffe that a man shall haue his cattell or a distresse taken from him restored to him again vpon surety found to answer the party grieued in the Law Replication The answer made to the defendant after the defendant hath answered Repose To lay vpon sometime to take rest Repository A storehouse a place to lay vp things in Repossede To possesse againe Reprehend To reprooue Reprehension A reproouings Represse To stay backe to keepe downe by force Reprises All payments and charges that issue yearely 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 Repugnancy Disagreement contrariety Repugnant Contrary or resisting Repute To esteeme to account Reputation Estimation or account Requiem Rest ceasing from labour Rereward The hindmost part of a battell Rescouse A forcible deliuery or setting at liberty of one that hath beene arrested Rescrue To keepe by it selfe to keepe for some purpose Rescruation A keeping of some thing apart Reside To alight sinke downe or to abide in a place Resident Abiding in a place Resigne To giue or yeild vp Resignation A yeelding vp of a thing to another Resolue To open to weaken to make loose sometime to expound and declare Resolute Determinately bent to doe any thing Respectiue Awfull which beareth great respect to one Respiration A fetching of breath Resplendent Bright cleere shining Respondent Hee that answereth Response An answer Restauration A repayring a making againe Restie Dull heauy Restitution A restoring backe Restriction A restraining or holding backe Result To rebound to leape backe Resume To take againe Resurrection A rising againe Resuscitation A stirring vp againe Retaile To sell in small parcels that which was formerly bought Retention A keeping Retentiue Hauing power to binde retaine or keepe Retire To returne backward Retore To throwe or shoote backe againe Retract To call backe againe to reuoke Retractation A calling backe a recanting a denying of a thing before affirmed Retrate A calling backe of Souldiours from sight a returning or going backe Retribution A reward a recompence Retriue A seeeking againe Retrogade That which goeth backward A planet is sayde to bee retrograde when he goeth backeward contrary to the course of the signes as from Taurus to Aries c. Retrogradation A going backward Reuels Players and dancings with other pleasant deuices vsed sometimes in the Kings Court and elsewhere in great houses Reuenew Yearely rent receiued for lands or tenements Reuerberation A beating backe againe Reuersed A tearme in Heraldry when a mans armes is giuen him turned the lower part vpward Reuert To returne Reuise To peruse to look ouer againe Reunite To ioyne together againe Reuocable Which may be called backe againe Reuocation A calling back againe Reuoke To call backe Reuolt To forsake ones captaine or company and goe to another Reuolue To tosse vp and downe in ones minde to muse or thinke much of a matter Reuolution A turning or winding about especially in the course of time Rhetoricke The arte of eloquent speaking Rheubarbe See Rubarb Ridiculous Worthy to be laughed at foolish without wit Rigid Stiffe hard stubborne Rigor Hardnesse stiffenesse extreme dealing Rigorous Hard cruell vnmercifull Rime A mist or foggie dew Ringwalke A round walk made by Hunters Rinocere A great beast hauing a horne in his nose bending vpward which he whetteth often against rockes to fight therewith against the Elephant Riot In the law it signifieth when three or moe persons beeing assembled to commit forcibly an vnlawfull act do accordingly execute the same Rite A ceremony a custome Riuall 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 Sauiour vpon the crosse Rotundity Roundnesse Rougecrosse The name of an office of one of the Purseuants at armes Rougedragon The name of an office of one of the Purseuants at armes Route A disorderly assembly of three or moe persons moouing forward to commit by force an vnlawful act It signifieth also a heard or great company of wolues together Rubarbe A costly root much vsed in physicke to purge choler is brought hither out of Barbaria Being toasted and dryed it is then good against the bloody flixe and all manner of laskes if