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
once set on fire can hardly bee quenched Abiect Vile base of no estimation Abiure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime vsed in Lawe when one hauing committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abiure the Realme then stand to tryall of Lawe This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessour in fauour of life but now is not in vse Abiuration A renouncing by oath see Abiure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnesse vnaduisednesse 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 Abortiue That which is vntimely borne Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreyes bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and drie and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Phisitians haue 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 obseruing of due circumstance Absolue To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgiuenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or vnlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his owne 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 vnderstand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusiue That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomelesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot bee sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaues and fruit whereof they draw a iuyce or blacke liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictiue or binding Our Apothecaties haue not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they vse the iuice of sloes beeing of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniuersitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniuersitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeued the immortality of soules Plato hauing learned many things of the Hebrewes 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 Accessory 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 chaunce sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantity quality 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 drawe neere to one Accrew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape vp Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeue To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister seruing to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe hauing a root much like a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dogge of hell being dregged vp in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his fome vpon this herbe whereby it became so venemous Acquire To gette or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guilty of an offence wherewith hee was charged Action A deede done or the doing of any thing In our common Lawe it signifieth a suite commenced against any man and is commonly diuided into three differing kindes viz. 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as vpon the breach of a penall statute where some aduantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3. Action reall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Actiue Liuely strong nimble Actiuity Strong nimblenesse Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharpe witty Adage A prouerbe 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 yieldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Inuincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goates blood beeing steeped therein new and warme It is of contrary nature to the loadstone in so much that beeing laide neere it the loadstone can not draw yron hauing the vertue thereof ouer mastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or giue ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our commō law it signifieth any title giuen to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleaue to Adherence A cleauing to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaueth or ioyneth close to a thing Adiacent That which lyeth neere to another thing Adiourne To deferre or put off till another time Adiournement A terme in lawe when any Court is dissolued and appointed to be kept vpon some other time or at any other place Adiunct A qualitie ioyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adiure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adiuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To doe seruice sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinary Administration The doing or handling of a businesse or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator Hee to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goodes of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honor or esteeme highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiuing or giuing one leaue to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning giuen one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to bee as his sonne to him Adore To worship to giue diuine reuerence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifie Adornation A decking or trimming Aduent A comming Certaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemne preparation for the comming of our Sauiour Aduentaile A coate of Armour Aduerse Contrary Aduert To marke Aduertise To giue knowledge of a thing Adulacion Flattery Adulatory Which flattereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterfeit Aduocate Hee that pleadeth for another Aduouson The right which
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
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
sort Fortifie To make strong Fortification A hold any place made strong Fortitude Courage strength valour Forewelked Dried vp Foster To cherish to bring vp to keepe Fother A waineloade of 2000. weight Fracture A breaking Fragilitie Weakenesse britlenesse Fragment A broken peece a cantle Fragrant Sweete smelling * Frape A companie a rabble Fraternitie A brotherhood Fraud Deceit cousenage Fraudulent Deceitfull Fray Harts or stags are said to fray their heads when they rubbe them to make the pilles of their new hornes come of * Frend. Strange Frequent Often common also to haunt or resort much to a place Frequentation A haunting or resorting to a place Frication A rubbing Friction A rubbing Friuolous Vaine foolish of no account Froise A pancake a tansie Front A forehead the first part of a battell an entrance or beginning Frontire The bounds or limits of a countrey Frontlet Any thing worne on the forehead * Frownce A wrinckle Fructisie To beare fruite Frugall Thriftie sparing Frugalitie Thriftinesse good husbandry Frustrate To make void to deceiue to disappoint Fugitiue One likely to runne away a vagrant person a run-away Fumigation A perfume any thing which being cast on hot coales maketh a sweet smell Function An office a charge which one hath a course of life Fundamentall Of or belonging to the foundation or to the maine chiefe and principall point Funerall A solemne buriall of some great person Furies Three imaginarie hags or spirits in hell hauing snakes growing on them in stead of haires Poets feyned them to bee daughters of Acheron a riuer in hell and of the night and to haue the office of tormenting the soules of wicked men Their names were Alecto Megara and Tisiphone Fusible That may bee molten Future That which shall be hereafter G * GAb. To prate or lye Gabbing Lying Gabions Baskets of earth to keepe off great shot Gable The fore-front or end of a house comming downe right Gaynest Most profitable or neerest * Gadling Stragling Galingale An herbe so called the roote whereof is hot and drie in the third degree and much vsed in physicke Galbanum A gumme or liquor drawne forth of a plant in Syria called Metopion It is of a strange sauour and very pure close and firme neither too moist not too drie It is good against an olde rough and for such as cannot easily fetch breath and the perfume thereof driueth Serpents from the place where it is burned * Galiard Lustie frolike * Galoch A kinde of shooe * Galpe To belch Gangrene A dangerous disease when any fleshie part of the body after some great inflammation or other griefe losing the or other colour beginneth to grow insensible and by degrees to waxe dead Garbe A terme in Heraldrie It signifieth sheafe of Wheate or any other graine Garbell To purifie or cleane spice or other things from the droffe or dust which is mingled with it Gargarize To wash or scowre the mouth with any Physicall liquor Gargarisme A liquor to wash the mouth Gargill The same that Gargarize * Gargoning Strange speaking Garrulitie Pratling vaine babling Garter It sometime signifieth the principall of our English Heralds called the King at armes Gatherbag The bagge or skin inclosing a yong red Deere in the Hyndes belly Gauelkinde Customes annexed vnto certaine lands in Kent called Gauelkinde lands whereof one is that if the Father be hanged for fellony the Sonne shall enioy all his landes and tenements holden in Gauelkinde Other customes there are of Gauelkinde too long to bee rehearsed in this plrce Gawgeour An officer hauing authoritie to giue a marke of allowance to all Tuns Hogsheads Pipes Barrels c. of Wine Oyle Hony and Butter before they ought to bee sold * Gawre To stare Gahenna It properly signifieth a place in a valley in the Tribe of Beniamin where the Israelites erected abhominable altars there sacrificing their children in fire to the Idoll Moloch notwithstanding it is vsually taken for hell Gemme A iewell Geneologie A pedegree a declaration of ones linage stocke or race Generable Which may be begotten Generate To beget Generositie Noblenesse of minde Gentlemanlike courage Generous Noble valiant vertuous Genesis A generation The first Booke of Moses is so called in Greeke and Latine because it declareth the creation and generation of all things Genet A goodly horse of Spaine Genets A beast almost of the bignesse of a Cat breeding in Spaine There are two colours of them blacke and gray but the furre of the blacke is most esteemed Genius The spirit or soule A good Angell or a familiar euill spirit Gentill Among the Iewes all were Gentiles that were not of one of the twelue tribes now we commonly call them Gentiles that professe not the faith of Christ Gentilisme The opinion or beleefe of the Gentiles Gentilitie The fame that Gentilisme is Geographie A description of the earth as we see in Maps Geomancie See Diuination Geometrie An art of due proportion consisting in lineaments formes distances and greatnesse There are foure principles hereof to wit 1. A prick or point 2. A line 3. a superfices or outside 4. a bodie This art was of great estimation among the auncient Grecians Geometrician One skilfull in Geometrie Gâ—orgikes Bookes treating of husbandrie and tillage of land * Gerifull Changeable sometime cruell * Gesseran A breastplate Gesticulation A moouing of the fingers hands or othet parts eyther idle wantonnesse or to expresse some matter by signes in dauncing singing or other such like exercise Gestes Deeds noble acts Geules A tearme among Heralds It signifieth a vermilion colour * Gibbon A doublet a light cote * Gipsere A bagge or pouch Girle A Roe Bucke of two yeares * Gisarnie A certaine weapon * Gite A gowne Giue A fetter or chaine Glaine A weapon like an halberd * Glede Fire embers flame ashes sometime a bird called a Puttoke * Glee Mirth or ioyfulnesse * Gleere White * Glinne A little village or part of a village Glister A liquor made sometime with sodden flesh sometime with decoction of hearbes or other things which by a pipe is conueyed into the lower parts of the body It is written that the vse hereof was first learned from a bird in Egypt called Ibis much like vnto a Storke which Bird doth often with her bill open her hinder parts when nature of her selfe doth not expell what is needfull Globe A great round Bowle or a description of the world made in such a forme Glosse A short exposition of any darke speech Glow To be hot and red to shine to burne * Gnarre A hard knotte in wood sometime a short thicke fellowe a chub Gnathonicall Flattering deceitfull in words soothing ones humour to get by him * Gnesse A Foole a Churle Goldfoile A thin leafe of gold Golden number A number which changeth euery yeare by adding one to the golden number of the yeare going before vntill it grow as high as nineteene and then the golden number returneth to one againe For example this yeare 1616. the golden
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
winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe hauing a mane and long haires ouer all the body It is the subtillest as some say of all beastes and will counterfeite the voyce of a man to drawe sheepeheardes out of their houses in the night to the ende hee may kill them It is written that he changeth sex often being some time male and sometime female Hymen A poeticall word it is taken for the god of marriage sonne vnto Bacchus and Venus and sometime for a song at a mariage feast Hymne A song to praise God Hyperbole A figure when one speaketh a great deale more then is precisely true Hyperbolicall Any thing spoken above all beleefe as in saying higher than heauen swifter than lightning c. is called an Hyperbolicall speech Hypocrite It properly signifieth one that doth counterfeite the gesture of another man but it is commonly taken fot a dissembler that with feined holines would seeme better then hee is indeed Hypoquistidos In diuers hote countries there groweth a plant called Cistus hauing about the root thereof a certaine Mushroome which being bruised yeeldeth a liquor called by Apothecaries Hypoquistidos This liquour brought hither dry is cold of operation and of vertue to stoppe all bleedings laskes and fluxes of the belly Hypostaticall Belonging to substance or that which consisteth in the substance of a thing Hypotheticall In Logike those propositions which haue a coniunction in thē and so consist of two parts are called Hypotheticall propositions as in saying If the Sunne be in our Hemisphere it is day Hysteron proteron A Greek terme sometime vsed in derision of that which is spoken or done preposterously or quite contrary We call it in English The catt before the horsse I IAcent Lying along Iacynth A precious stone found in Ethiopia whereof there are two kindes the one of a pale yellow colour and the other of a cleer bright yellow which is accounted the better It is cold of nature comfortable to the body and prouoketh sleepe Iacobs staffe An instrument in Geometry Iaculatory That which is suddenly cast from one like a dart Iambes Postes susteining both sides of the dore Iambeux Armour for the legs Iasmine A limmer weake plant full of ioynts or knottes which groweth in manner of a hedge or quickset and must be staied vp as roses and vines are Iasper A precious stone of diuers colours but the best is greene transparent with red veines and sheweth fairest being set in siluer it is good to stoppe any issue of blood Iasponyx A precious stone white of colour and hauing red strakes Iazul A precious stone of a blew azure colour Ibis A tall strong bird in Egypt with a long bill which doth much good there in destroying serpents Jeleeped Named called * Icond Learned Idea The forme or figure of any thing conceiued in the minde Identitie The selfe same thing Idiome The forme of speech or propertie of any language Idiote It is commonly taken for a foole naturall notwithstanding it sometime signifieth a man vnlearned Ides Eight daies in euery moneth so called because they diuide the moneth almost in the middle In March May Iuly and October these eight daies beginne at the eighth day of the moneth and continue to the fifteenth in other months they begin at the sixt day and continue to the thirteenth Where note that the last day onely is called Ides and the first of these dayes the eighth Ides the second the seuenth Ides that is the eighth or seuenth day before the Ides and so of the rest Idolaster An Idolater Iehonah The inestable name of God signifying his diuine essence The Hebrewes did not vse to read this word when they came to it in any writing so much reuerence did they beare vnto it but in stead thereof they pronounced Adonai which signifieth Lord. Iesus A Sauiour * Iewise Reward by reuenge also a gibbet * Ifere Together * Ifietten Deuoured Ignoble Base that is not noble Ignominie Shame reproch infamie Ignominious Shamefull vile reprochfull * Ikend Knowne Iliads A booke written in Greek by Homer of the destruction of Troy * Ilke The same Illation A bringing in of a matter Illaudable Not worthy of praise Illegitimate Vnlawfull not lawfully begotten Illiberall Not liberall miserable base Illiberalitie Niggardnesse properly in a great man that ouer slightly rewardeth a seruice or curtesie done to him by his inferiour Illiterate Vnlearned one that is not acquainted with letters Illude To mocke to deceiue Illusion A mockerie a cunning slight to deceiue one Illuminate To enlighten Illumination A shining or giuing of light Illustrate To make famous or noble Illustration A making famous or noble Illustrious Famous noble very honourable Imagerie Painted or carued workes of images Imaginarie That which is conceited in the minde Imbecillitie Weakenesse * Imeint Mingled Imitate To follow Imitation A following Jmitator A follower of another Immaculate Vndefiled pure vnspotted Immanitie Cruelty outragious fiercenesse Immarcessible Vncorruptible Immature Vnripe Immaturity Vnripenesse Immediate That which commeth directly from one thing to another without any thing betweene Immedicable Which cannot be healed Immemorable Not worthy to be remembred Jmmense Vnmeasurable which cannot be measured Immensitie Exceeding greatnesse vnmeasurablenesse Immoderate Vnreasonable contrarie to modesty Immodest Not sober vnmannerly saucy Immolate To offer in sacrifice Immolation An offering of sacrifice Immortall Not subiect to death euerlasting Immortalitie Euerlastingnesse Immunitie Freedome or discharge from any publike businesse Immure To shut vp or inclose in a wall Immutable Vnchangeable Immutation A change Impacted Thrust hard together couched into Imparitie Vnequalnesse vnlikenesse Imparlance When a man sued in the common law for debt trespasse or such like craueth and obtaineth of the Court some respite of time before hee make his answere this stay of making his answer is called an Imparlance Impassibilitie A Freedome from any abilitie of feeling paine Impassible Which cannot feele any paine or passion Impeach To harme to hinder Impeachment A hinderance Impeachment of waste A restraint from making waste in lands or Tenements Impediment A hinderance Impell To thrust on to constraine Impenetrable So hard that it cannot bee pierced Imperious That commandeth with authoritie Lordlike stately Impertinent Not belonging to the matter Impetrable Which may be obtained Impetrate To obtaine Impetuous Violent or hasty Impietie Wickednesse Impious Wicked Implacable Hard to bee pacified or that cannot be appeased Implicite Wrapped vp hidden Implore To beseech to entreat with teares Importance The weight or valew of a thing Important Of great weight and valew Importune To vrge earnestly Importunate Very earnest which will not be answered Importunitie Vnreasonablenesse too much earnestnesse in asking Impose To lay on Imposition A laying on Impost Custome or tallage paid at hauen townes or elsewhere Impostume A quantitie of euill humours gathered into one part of the body There are two kinds hereof One when inflamed blood beeing turned to corrupted matter filleth some place the other when without any inflammation nature
Iniection A liquor which Surgeons doe Squirt into a deepe wound Inimitable Which cannot be followed Iniunction An inioyning or commanding one to doe a thing Innate Naturall Innauigable That which cannot be fayled vpon Jnnouate To make new Jnnouation A making new an alteration Inobseruable Which cannot be obserued or marked Inoculate To grasse a bud by cutting a round hole in the barke of another tree and setting it on with clay Inquisition A searching Inquisitiue Very desirous to know searching or enquiring after a matter Insatiable Which cannot bee satisfied or filled Inscription A title or note written vpon any thing Inscrutable Vnsearchable which cannot be perfectly found out Insculpt To cut or carue in Insensible Which cannot bee perceiued or one so foolish that he perceiueth nothing Insert To put in to adde Insertion A putting in Insinuate To put any thing into ones mind cunningly and closely also by little and little to creepe into ones fauour Insinuation A cunning speech to creepe into ones fauour Insist To continue or abide Insition Graffing Insociable Not apt to keepe company Insolencie Pride Insolent Proud presumptuous also strange and vnwonted Insoluble That which cannot be loosed vnanswerable Inspection A looking in Inspersion A sprinkling Inspire To breathe into to put in ones minde Inspiration An inward instruction or motion comming from God Instance An example or similitude brought of a thing Instant Very earnest also quicknesse speedinesse present time Instaure To repayre or build anew Instigate To stirre vp to prouoke Instigation A stirring vp a prouoking Instinct A naturall inclination Institute To ordaine to appoint somtime to teach and instruct Institution An appointment an ordinance sometime a teaching or instruction Insult To vaunt proudly ouer one Insultation A proude crowing ouer one Insuperable Which cannot be ouercome Insurrection A rising of many together in armes or disturbance of the peace Integritie Soundnesse vpright dealing honesty Intellectuall Of or belonging to the vnderstanding Intelligence Knowledge vnderstanding sometime an Angell or heauenly spirit Intelligent One that vnderstandeth Intelligible Which may be vnderstood Intentiue Which listeneth well and is earnestly bent to a thing Intercede To step between to intreare for one Intercept To take by the way before it come to him to whom it was sent Interception A taking of a thing by the way to the let or hinderance therof Intercesse See Interceed Intercession An intreating in ones behalfe Intercessor He that intreaeth for another Intercourse Passing or sending one to another Interdict To forbid to barre or keepe away Interdiction A forbidding Interest Right or title sometime profite made by vsurie Interfeere To knock the legs together in going Interim In the meane while Interior Inward Jnterlace To ioyne withall to mixe together Interline To write betweene two written lines Interlocution A speaking betweene Interlude A Play a Comedie Intermission A leauing off for a time Jntermit To leaue off for a time to discontinue Intermixe To mingle with other things Internall Inward very deerely esteemed or familiar with one Interpellation An interrupting or troubling one while he speaketh Interpose To put between to step in betweene two to busie himselfe where hee needeth not Interposition A putting betweene Interre To bury Interreigne The space of time betweene the olde king and the new Interrogation An asking a question Interrogatiue Which asketh a question Interrogatorie Asking of a question a demand Interrupt. To breake betweene to trouble one as he is speaking Interruption A breaking off a troubling Internall A distance of time or place Intesâ—ate That dyeth without making any testament or will Intestine Bred in the bowels Intestine warre Ciuill warre Intimate To signifie or touch a matter closely Intimation A cunning or close signifying of a matter Intire Whole sound perfect Intolerable Which cannot be endured Intoxicate To bewitch to amaze or extreamely dull ones spirit Intractable Stubborne which cannot be ordered or handled * Intresse Lyning Intricate Wrapped entangled hard to be vnderstood Intrinsecall Inward Introduct To lead or guide in Introduction That which leadeth or directeth one Intrude To thrust boldly in Intrusion A thrusting in properly into a void tenement whereto one hath no right Inuade To set vpon to assault Inualiditie Weakenesse want of strength Inuasion A setting vpon an assault Inuectiue A sharp speech made in ones disgrace Inueigh To speak bitterly against one Inueigle To allure to a entice Inueloped Wrapped couered Inuentory A writing of the quality and value of a mans goods Inuersion A turning in or a turning vpside down Inuert To turne contrary to right forme Inuest To cloth Inueterate Olde auncient Inuincible Which cannot be conquered Inuiolate Safe whole not wronged or broken Inuisible Which cannot be seene Jnuite To request to bid to a feast Inundation An ouerflowing of water Inuocate To call vpon Inuocation A calling vpon Inuolue To roule vp in a thing to couer Inuulnerable Which cannot be wounded Jocund Merry pleasant Ioynture Lands or Tenements which a man assureth vnto his wife for terme of her life or otherwise in respect of his marrying her * Ioleyning Ioyfull * Ionglery lugling Iouiall Noble excellent also liuely pleasant and merry Ioyeux Ioyfull Jrascible Which hath power to be angry Iris. The Rainebowe Ironie A speaking by contraries as in calling blacke white Ironicall That which is spoken in iest or mockingly contrary to his meaning that speaketh it Irradiation A shining vpon Irrationall Vnmeasurable Irrefragable Vndeniable Irregular Contrary to rule somtime it signifieth one not capable of holy orders Irregularity A going out of right rule In the olde Canon Law it is taken for any impediment which hindereth a man from taking holy Orders As if he be base borne or notoriously defamed of any notable crime or be maymed or much deformed or haue consented to procure anothers death with diuers other impediments too long to bee rehearsed in this place Irremediable Which cannot be remedied Irreparable Which cannot be repaired Irreprehensible Which cannot be reprooued Irresolute Not fâ—â—ly resolued vncertaine Irreuocable Which cannot bee called backe againe Irrision A mocking Irritate To prouoke to mooue to anger Irritation A prouoking Irruption A breaking into Isthmos A narrow part of a country between two seas Iterate To repeate or do againe Iteration A doing again adoing twice * Jub A bottle Inhilation A great shout for ioy a great reioycing Inbilie A publike reioycing or a great shout for ioy Among the Hebrewes euery fiftit a yeare was called the yeare of subile for then were bond men of their owne country made free possessions returned againe to the first owners neither was it lawfull to plant or sowe any thing that yeare Among Christians this solemnitie of keeping a yeare of Iubilie was first instituted by Bonifacius the eight in the yeare of our Lord. 1300. who ordayned that it should bee obscrued euery hundreth yeare After this Clement the sixt instituted it to be kept euery fiftieth yeare And lastly Sixtus the fourth brought it to bee celebrated
euery fiue and twentieth yeare beginning it first in the yeare of our Lord God 1475. Iucundity Pleasantes mirth Iudaisme The religion or beleefe of the Iewes Iudiciall Belonging to iudgement also wise graue of great iudgement Iudicious See Iudiciall Iuiubes Certaine plumbs of Italy solde here by Apothecaries This fruite is in colour white or red in fashion round or like an oliue in taft sweet hauing a hard long stone like an oliue stone but muchlesse If these plumbes bee kept long they waxe dry and full of wrinckles They are temperate in heate and cold and are good against the cough roughnes of the throate and against all exulcerations and inflammations of the kidness and bladder but beeing eaten for meate they are of hard digestion Iulep A physicall cleere drinke made of distilled waters and sugar vsed to coole the body or quench thirst in hot diseases sometime the Iuleps haue sirups or other mixtures put to them Iuncture A ioynt a ioyning together Iuory The Elephants tooth it is of a binding nature and the scraping thereof is good against sores growing vnder the rootes of the nayles Iuridicall Of or appertaining to iudgement Iurisdiction Lawfull authority in any place Iustification A iustifying or making iust * Iwympled Muffled K Kalends See Calends Keele The bottome of a ship Keene Sharpe edged Kell The cause about the paunch of a Hart or Stagge * Kemelling A brewers vessell * Kepe It is sometimes taken for a care or regard * Keynard A micher a hedge-creeper * Kitchell A kinde of cake Kimall A certaine weight of about an hundred Kirat An Arabian word signifying the weight of three graines Kith Acquaintance Kitkaies The fruite of the athen tree they are little narrow huskes hanging together in clusters wherein is contained the seede of the ashe which is bitter This prouoketh vrine and is sought by some for other purpose * Knarry Stubbie Knight-seruice An auncient tenure of lands by which a man was bound to beare armes in warre for the defence of the Realme L LAas A nette or gynne Laborious Painefull full of labour Labyrinth An intricate building or place made with so many turnings and windings that whosoeuer went into it could neuer get out without a perfect guide or a thred to direct him the ende of which thred must be tyed at the doore where hee entreth Some heathen Princes bestowed infinite charge to build such deuices in a stately forme There were foure principall labyrinths in the world The first in Egypt made for a sepulcher of one of their Kings or as some write in honour of the sunne The second in the yland of Candie built at the commandement of King Minos by the ingenious workeman Daedalus who tooke his pattetne from that which he had seene in Egypt the third in the yle Lemnos the fourth in Italy built by King Porsenna of great square stones for his own sepulcher Lacca A kinde of redde gumme brought out of Arabia and solde heere by Apothecaries good against diseases of the breast and comfortable to the lyuer Laudanum A yellowish gumme as some write notwithstanding others affirme it to be made of a dew which falleth vpon a certaine herbe in Greece Auicen saith it is taken hanging on the haire of Goats beards that haue fed vpon that plant It is hot and drie and sweete of smell if it be pure It is often vsed in pomanders and being annointed vpon the had withoyle of myrtles it doth strengthen the skinne and keepeth hatre from falling off Laike A lay man Laitie The estate or degree of a lay man lay men Lake A faire red colour vsed by painters Laire The place where any Deere harboureth by day Languishment A feeblenesse a fainting Languor Feeblenesse sicknesse infirmitie Lapidarie One that selleth or polisheth precious stones a Ieweller Lappise A terme vsed among hunters when hounds opē their mouthes in the string or a greyhound in his course Larch Turpentine A kinde of Turpentine or rosen growing vpon the Larch tree in Italie vsed often in oyntments and emplaisters to cleanse or heale wounds It may be also taken inwardly with honie and then it cleanseth the breast looseth the belly and expelleth the stone and grauell * Larson Robberie Largesse Liberalitie Lasciuious Wanton dishonest Lasciuiousnesse Wantonnesse Lassitude Wearinesse Lastage Any heauy weight or balasse laide in the bottome of ships to make them goe vpright It is also a terme in the common law which signifieth to bee quit of a certaine payment in faires and markets for carrying of things where a man will Latitude The breadth of any thing in Astronomy it signifieth the distance north or southward from the Equinoctiall line or the distance of the Pole from the Horizon Latria Diuine honour Laude Praise Laudable Worthy of praise Laureate Crowned with Laurell Laurell The Bay tree or a garland of Bayes * Laye A song * Layuers Thongs of lether Lazer A Leaper a poore man full of sores and scabs Lezule stone A blewish greene stone of the kinde of marble vsed sometime in physicke It is in operation hot and drie and being rightly prepared according to an art knowne to Apothecaries is good against melancholy diseases and by cleansing the blood to preserue one from the leaprosie League Truce friendship peace sometimes it signifieth a space of three male or thereabout Leasing Lying Lector A reader * Lectorne A Deske Lecture A reading a lesson * Leede An olde name of the moneth of March. Leete A court or law-day holden commonly euery halfe yeare Legacie Any thing giuen by ones will or testament Legall Of or belonging to the law Legate An Embassadour Legend A story of olde matters Legible Which may bee read Legion An armie of men The Romane Legion consisted of ten bands whereof the first band conteined 1105. footemen and 123. horsemen in which band the Standard was alwaies carried The other nine bands had euery one 555. footemen and 66. horsemen so that a Legion made vp the number of 6100. footmen and 726. horsemen * Legisters Lawyers Legitimate Lawfull lawfully begotten Legitimation A making of one legitimate Lenitie Gentlenes mildnesse mercie Lentils A kinde of small pulse growing in hot countries round and flat of colour sometime blacke somtimes white and sometimes browne Being boyled but once hey loose the belly but at the second boyling in another water they are of a binding nature being then good to stop the bloody slixe or any loosenesse of the bodie Lentiske A tree growing in diuers hot Countries which beareth the notable Gumme called Masticke The leaues and barke of this tree stop all loosenes and issues of blood whatsoeuer Lessee He that taketh a lease Lesses Dung of a rauenous beast as of a Beare Bore c. Lessour Hee that letteth lands or tenements to another Lethargie A disease contrarie to phrensie for as phrensie is caused by hot humours inflaming the braine so the Lethargie by cold Phlegmaticke humours oppressing the braine in such sort that the Patient can doe nothing
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
hee that is in authority vnder another or which ruleth in stead of another Subterfuge A refuge a sauegard a place to hide or saue one in Subuersion An ouerthrow Subuert To ouerthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle to choke Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Fauourable voices in our behalfe as at the choosing of of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones mind Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones mind Sulphur Brimstone Summary A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarily Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summity The height or top of a thing Seperabound To abound very much to bee in great plenty Supereminence Authority or dignity aboue others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath receiued or the doing of more then a man is of necessity bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of euery thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needes to be ouermuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or vnprofitable Superlatiue The highest Superiour Higher aboue another Supernall That which commeth from aboue Superscription A writing set vpon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Lawe it signifieth a commaundement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise he might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour giuen to God Supplant To trip one or to ouerthrow one craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh vp what is wanting Supply To fill vp or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put vp into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of hony boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when wee will haue it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate vnder sometime to conceale or keepe close Suppuration An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To giue ouer leaue off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Ouerplus more then needes Surprise To come vnwares to take vpon a sodaine Surprisall A taking vnawares * Surquidry Presumption Surrender To yeeld vp lands or tenements to another Surreption A priuy taking away Surround To compasse round about Suruey To ouerlooke or ouersee Surueyer Hee that hath the ouersight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Suruiue To ouerliue or liue after another Suruiuer He that liueth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse vncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A seruant Swainemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweuen A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree hauing great branches and large leaues like a Mulberrie It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth vpon the very bodie of the tree and the great maine boughes and will neuer be ripe except it bee scraped with an iron toole It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Talebearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby something is necessarily prooued as thus Euery vertue is honourable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Maior the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Syluane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principall points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathie A likenesse in quantitie or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphonie Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly ioyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with Pleurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synterisie The inward conscience or a naturall qualitie ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he doe well or ill Syynod A generall councell a generall or vniuersall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a roome made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which beganne on the fiftenth day of the seuenth moneth and continued seauen daies during which time the Israelites liued abroad in Tabernacles in reâ—embrance that their Fathers a long time so liued after God had deliuered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamahaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothach and diuers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater conteined about two hundred thirtie three pounds sterling the lesse about a hundred seuentie fiue pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary conteined 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like vnto green Damseâ— They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feauers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaues not much vnlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger beeing drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which haue beene daily fedde out of a vessell made thereof haue beene found to haue no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard hauing spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Leeze of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprooue Tearce A measure of moyst things beeing the fixt part of a tunne and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarius Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christain souldiours dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came