the foregoing example Enveloped Wrapped Environ To compasse about Enumerate To reckon up to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciative Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmed or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in use every yeer to find the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yeerly and is made by the addition of eleven to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeer but alwaies so that both those numbers exceed not the number of 30. For if they amount to above 30. theâ— must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeere 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleven for the next yeers Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeere 1617. Note also when in any yeere the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeeres true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleven In al other numbers the Epact is still made as before by eleven And these Epacts are ever changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomie in use among such as erect figures to cast mens nativities by which booke is shewne how all the Planets are placed everie day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure containing about five pecks of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It covered the back and was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Skarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set two great precious Onix stones and in them graven the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob called the twelve Patriarchs in the right shoulder the six eldest and in the left the six youngest that the High Priest entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom he was to pray unto God Epicycle A terme used in Astronomie It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the upper part of this Eâ—icycle the five Planets Saturne Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to be two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signs Epicure It is commonly â—aken with us for a man given over much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to be without paine and enjoy pleasure of bodie and mind Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set upon any thing now it is commonly taken for a short witty poeme which under a faigned name doth covertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folkare subject This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striving to expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some at the mouth Spilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an entâ—â—lude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because theÌ„ the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Saviour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set upon a tombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantive to expresse some qualitie of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie unbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous unbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of heart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing just in the midst between the two poles of heaven to which line the sun coming twice a yeer namely about the xj of March and the xj of September maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra do both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or provision for horsemanship especially in triumph or turnaments Equivalence The equall value of one thing with another Equivalent Of equall value to another thing Equivocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserved in ones own mind which peradventure the hearers do not understand Equivocation A speech or answermade with a secret meaning reserved in ones mind Equivoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hell or a river in hell Erect To lift up Erection A lifting up Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with black and Ermines black powdred white Errant Wandring having no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceived Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To be forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that observeth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate unto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charg to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant onely payeth a yeerly rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The being or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Jewes which lived a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essentiall That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme in the common Law when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is
to be stopt unlesse through continuance the body bee too much weakened by them Henchman A page of honour neere attendant to a Prince or other great personage * Hend Gentle * Hent To catch or lay hold of Herbage Pasture or the feeding of cattel in pasture Herball A booke of the nature of herbs Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretike He that maketh his owne choice what points of religion he will believe and what he will not believe Hereditarie That which commeth to one by inheritance Heriot The best living beast which a Tenant hath at his death which in some Mannors is due to the lord of whom the land is holden Hermaphrodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwelling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to devotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermit dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round sold by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much used against all gouts purging slimie fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must be taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will overturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Heteroscians Any people dwelling under a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewle A little copse or grove Heyward A bailiefe or officer having charge to looke to the fieldes Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be an hundred acres Hidage A taxe or paiment for every hide of lād Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaveth to their sides Hideous Terrible ugly Hiena See Hyena Hiera picra A bitter confection made of Alo◠succotrina and other simples often used in Physicke to purge Choler out of the flomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which containing nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in every three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superior are Seraphines Cherubines and Thrones the middle Dominations Principalities Powers The inferior vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kinde of writing used chiefly in times past among the Pagane Priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and divers other figures and could hardly bee understood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternitie or everlastingnesse they expressed by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye in the top thereof A matter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberation or advice by an Anchor which stayeth a ship in the waves With a thousand such devices not subject to common capacities to find out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew measure of moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagninus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelve egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of a History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiographer A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old Histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wild Bore of three yeeres old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserved Holt A grove Homage In Court Barons the Jury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a servil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Lands by homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands between his saith as followeth I become your man from this day forward of life and member and of earthly honour and to you shall be faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to hold of you saving the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth or oweth homage Homicide A manslayer sometime manslaughter Homilie A talking together a speech or a Sermon Homonymie A terme in Logicke when one word signifieth divers things as Hart signifieth a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In Herauldry the upper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the bredth thereof is divided into three even parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a ship Horizon An imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heavens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight dividing the heavens underneath us from that which is above The Sun rising and going downe is ever in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The ascendent of ones nativitie to wit that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a child is born Astrologers call it the first house Horrid Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastlie base flaunderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Save I beseech thee Hospitalitie Entertainment of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of covenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemie malicious harmefull Hostilitie Enmitie hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Law when a daughter which hath had given unto her any lands to be coheire after in Franke marriage clayming her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land given her before her fathers death to be put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the lands whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall division may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hollow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire covering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanitie Gentlenesse courtesie civill behaviour also manhood or the nature of mankind Humide Moist Humiditie Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making lowe or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to provoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flower called crowtoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerna which having one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing up in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancie See Divination Hydromell A physicall sweet drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe having a mane and long haires over all the bodie It is the subtillest as some
certaine rednesse It hath a strong smell and is not pleasant in taste Being put into a vessell of water it will sinke downe to the bottome like a round pearle without breaking and may be taken up againe with the point of a knife It is an excellent medicine to take any skar out of the body and for divers other purposes but very costly and rarely gotten Saladinus writes that there was but one vineyard of these in the whole world and that belonged to the great Turke Balneo A bath Balsamum See Balme Baptisme It commonly signifieth a dipping or washing Baptist A washer S. John the sonne of Zacharias was so called for that he first began to Baptize or wash men in the River Jordan to the remission of sins Barbarisme Rudenesse in speech or behaviour outragious crueltie * Bardes Poets * Bargaret A kinde of dance Barrester He that is allowed to plead causes at the barre Barretter A common quarreller one that is ever suing and molesting others without cause Barricado A warlike defence of emptie Barrels and such like vessels laid at the breach of a wall to keepe out the enemies Barriers A warlike exercise of men fighting together with short swords and within some appointed compasse Barter To bargaine or exchange commodities for commodities Base In Architecture it signisieth the foot of a pillar or the foundation that supporteth any thing Basiliske Otherwise called a Cockatrise the most venemous serpent that is It breaketh stones and blasteth all plants with the breath thereof burning every thing that it goeth over neither can any herbe growe neere the place where it lyeth It is poyson to poyson and driveth away all other serpents with only hissing If a man touch it but with a sticke it will kill him and if it see a man a farre off it destroyeth him with his looks This serpent is not above a foot long of color between black yellow having red eyes a very sharpe head and a white spot thereon like a crown wherefore he is called by some in Latine Regulus viz. a little king It goeth not winding like other serpents but upright unto the middle holding up the brest thereof It breedeth onely in the hot burning sands of Africa Of this Basiliske the Poet Lucane writeth thus lib. 9. Sibilaque effundens cunct as terrentia pestes Ante venena nocens late sibi submovet omne Vulgus in vacua regnat Basiliscus arena With deadâ—y hiss the Basiliske all other plagues doth fright And speedier kils then poisons can with his infectious sight Hee 'le have no neighbour dwell neer him he loves to live alone And tyrantlike reignes by himself in cave of sandy stone Bassae A noble man or great Commander under the great Turke Bastinado A staffe a cudgell Baston A staffe or cudgell sometime it signifieth an officer of the Fleet attending in the Kings Court with a red staffe to convey such to ward as are there committed Battry A beating or striking Bauhee A small coine a farthing * Baine A Bathe Bdellium A Gumme brought out of Arabia and the Holy land of a sweet smell and bitter taste It hath vertue to mollifie and ripen hard swellings and is good against the stiffenesse of sinews or other parts and against the biting of venemous beasts Beades of Saint Elline Certain round roots brought out of Florida which being dry are very hard on the outside black and inwardly white of a sweet smel and good taste They are of great vertue against griefs of the stomack as also of the kidnies or reines Beame The maine horn of a Hart or Stag. Beatitude Blessednesse Beaver In armour it signifieth that part of the helmet which may be lifted up to take breath the more freely It is also a be ast of very hot nature living much in the water His two forefeet are like the feet of the beast called Gattus as Joannes de Sancto Amando writeth but what this Gattus is I doe not well understand only I suppose it to be an Ottter Vpon these feet he hath very sharp claws wherewith he taketh his prey and hangeth upon water banks His hinder feet are madelike to the foot of a Goose wherewith hee swimeth He hath very sharpe teeth and doth much harme to trees with knawing the roots and rynds of them It is written that if a Beaver come into a strange place where he hath not been bred the other Beavers will make him their slave to provide them meat and pull off all the haire from his backe that he may be known The stones of this beast are sold in Apothecaries shops by the name of Castoreum they are much used in Physick being very good against palsies and cold diseases of the sinews But the skin is of more valew then the stones Beeglue That which Bees doe make at the entry of their Hive to keep out cold Beestings The first milke that commeth from the Teat after the birth of any thing Belial An Hebtew word signifying a wicked naughtie person An Apostata one without yoke and is many times taken for the devill Belive By and by anon Bellona Warre or the goddesse of Warre among the Heathen Belt A girdle Belzebub An Hebrew word compounded of Bel which in that language signifieth an Idol and Zebub a Fly so that Belzebub signifieth the Idoll of Flies notwithstanding commonly it is taken for the devill Benediction A blessing Benefactor A friend one that doth good Beneficence A doing good Beneficent Liberall loving Benevolence Good will Benevolent Loving friendly well wishing Benigne Friendly gentle favourable Benignitie Friendlinesse libertie courtesie * Benison A blessing Benzwine A sweet smelling gumme good against hoarsenesse and the cough being dissolved in water and drunken It hath many other excellent properties to be used in Physicke The tree upon which it groweth is not with us certainly known Berill A precious stone brought out of India cut most commonly with sixe corners because otherwise it would not shew so faire if the sticking out of the corners did not make the brightnesse more manifest It is of a greenish colour like the water of the Sea Bestiall Beastly dishonest Bestialitie Beastlinesse Bevie A herd of row Bucks most commonly with us it signifieth a great number of Quails in company together Beviegreace The fat of a Row Deere Beza stone A stone of excellent vertue against poyson very costly and of great account in Physick It is commonly of the bignesse of an Acorne or Chestnut being compounded of certain thin scales one upon another like the scales of an Onion It is easie to be scraped or cut and if it continue long in water it melteth The middle part is something hollow and full of powder of the same substance that the stone is of And this is a marke to know whether the stone be fine and true for the Indians doe counterfeit them sometimes and deceive many This stone is taken out of the bowels of a beast in India much like a Hart
valour Forewelked Dried up Foster To cherish to bring up to keep Fother A wain-load of 2000. weighr Fracture A breaking Fragilitie Weakenesse brittlenesse Fragment A broken peece a cantle Fragrant Sweet smelling * Frape A companie a rabble Fraternitie A brotherhood Fraud Deceit cousenage Fraudulent Deceitfull Fray Harts or stags are said to fray their head◠when they rub them to make the pilles of their new horns come off * Fremd 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 Frivolous Vain 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 Fronilet Any thing worne on the forehead * Frownce A wrinckle Fruitifie To beare fruit Frugall Thriftie sparing Frugalitie Thriftinesse good husbandry Frustrate To make voyd to deceive to disappoint Fugitive One likely to run 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 having snakes growing on them in stead of haires Poets feined them to be daughters of Acheron a river in hell and of the night and to have the office of tormenting the soules of wicked men Their names were Alecto Megaera and Tisiphone Fusible That may be molten Future That which shall be hereafter G * Gab. To prate or lye Gabbing Lying Gabions Baskets of earth to keep off great shot Gable The fore-front or end of a house coming down right Gaynest Most profitable or neerest * Gadling Stragling Galangale An herbe so called the root whereof is hot and dry in the third degree and much used in physicke Galbanum A gumme or liquor drawne forth of a plant in Syria called Metopion It is of a strange savour and very pure close and firme neither too moist nor too dry It is good against an olde cough and for such as cannot easily fetch breath and the perfume thereof driveth Serpents from the place where it is burned * Galiard Lustie frolike * Galoch A kinde of shooe * Gaipe To belch Grangrene A dangerous disease when any fleshie part of the body after some great inflamation or other griefe losing the naturall colour beginneth to grow insensible and by degrees to waxe dead Garbe A tearme in Heraldrie It signifieth sheafe of Wheat or any other grain Garbell To purifie or cleanse spice or other things from the drosse 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 principal of our English Heralds called the King at armes Gatherbag The bag or skin inclosing a young red Deere in the Hindes bellie Gavelkinde Customes annexed unto certain lāds in Kent called Gavelkinde lands whereof one is that if the Father be hanged for Felony the Sonne shall enjoy all his lands and tenements holden in Gavelkinde Other customes there are of Gavelkinde too long to be rehearsed in this place Gawgeour An officer having authority to give a marke of allowance to all Tuns Hogsheads Pipes Barrels c. of Wine Oyle Honie and Butter before they ought to be sold * Gawre To stare Gehenna It properly signifieth a place in a valley in the Tribe of Benjamin where the Israelites erected abhominable altars there sacrificing their children in fire to the Idoll Moloch notwithstanding it is usually taken for hell Gemme A jewell Genealogie 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 Moyses 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 black is most esteemed Genius The spirit or soule A good Angel or a familiar evill spirit Gentill Among the Jews all were Gentiles that were not of one of the twelve Tribes now we commonly call them Gentiles that professe not the faith of Christ Gentilisme The opinion or beliefe of the Gentiles Gentilitie The same that Gentilisme is Geographie A description of the earth as we see in Maps Geomancie See Divination 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 superficies or outside 4. A bodie This Art was of great estimation among the ancient Grecians Geometrician One skilfull in Geometrie Georgikes Books treating of husbandry and tillage of land * Gerifull Changeable sometime cruell * Gesseran A breast plate Gesticulation A mooving of the fingers hands or other parts either in idle wantonnesse or to expresse some matter by signes in dancing singing or other such like exercise Gestes Deeds noble acts Geules A tearme among Heralds It signifieth a vermilion colour * Gippon A doublet a light cote * Gipsere A bagge or pouch Girle A Roe Bucke of two yeeres * Gisarme A certaine weapon * Gite A gown Give A weapon like an Halberd Glede Fire embers flame ashes sometime a bird called a Puttoke * Glce Mirth or joyfulnesse Gleire White Glinne A little village or part of a village Glister A liquor made sometime with sodden flesh sometime with decoction of hearbs or other things which by a pipe is conveyed into the lower parts of the body It is written that the use hereof was first learned from a Bird in Egypt called Ibis much like unto 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 knot in wood sometime a short thicke fellow a club Gnathonicall Flattering deceitfull in words soothing ones humour to get by him * Gnoffe A Foole a Churle Goldfoile A thin leafe of gold Golden number A number which changeth every yeere by adding one to the golden number of the yeere going before untill it grow as high as nineteene and then the golden number returneth to one again For example this yeere 1616. the golden number is two the next yeer therefore it will be three c. This golden number was devised to finde out the feast
belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenarie A hireling one that worketh for hire Mercurian Eloquent as Mercury was Meridian Of or belonging to noone day or the South part of the world Merit Desert or to deserve Meritorious Which doth much deserve Messias The same in Hebrew that Christ is in Greek to wit Anointed Our Lord and Saviour is often so called Metamorphise To change the outward shape Metamorphosis A change from one shape to another Metaphore The changing of a word from the naturall sense into another sense like to it as in saying Covetousnesse is the roote of all evill Where the word Root is called a Metaphore because it signifieth the cause and beginning of all evill even as a root is the cause from whence a Plant springeth Metaphoricall Spoken by a Metaphore Metaphysicks Arts which lifting themselves above the changeable nature of things doe consider of such as do subsist in their own essence not subject to any alteration so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall and everlasting things and in this sense Schoole Divinitie is the highest part of the Metaphysicks being chiefly occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and souls of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the aire as raine snow haile thunder lightning blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapours pours or exhalations drawn up from the earth and Sea by attractive vertue of the Sun Meter Measure or a verse made by measure Method A direct way to teach or do any thing Metonymie A figure in speaking when the cause is put for the effect the subject for the adjunct or contrarily Metropelitan The chiefe or mother citie An Archbishop Microcosmus It properly signifieth a little world This terme is sometime applyed to man who is therefore called a Microcosmus or little world because his body being compared to the baser part of the world and his soule to the blessed Angels seemeth to signifie that man is as it were a little world and that the whole world doth resemble a great man Midriffe A sinewie skin passing overthwart in mans body which divideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guts and liver lest the vitall parts should be offended with any ill vapour coming from them Migrame A disease coming by fits either in the right or left side of the head caused by distemperate rumours or vapours brought thither from the veines or arteries at certain times Militant Warring or which is in warfare Militarie Warlike or belonging to Warre Mimicall That which belongeth to scoffing behaviour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton jester a counterfeit foole Minatorie Threatning Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniver A fine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrils some say it is the skin of a little white Vermine breeding in Muscovia Minor The lesser the younger Minoritie A mans time before he be of full age in the law to dispose of his goods and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like a man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candie and fed with mans flesh where at last he was slaine by Theseus as Poets report Miscreant An infidell a false beleever Misprision An offence inclinable to fellonie or treason but not so capital as fellonie or treason is in which the offendour shall be punished by fine losse of goods forfeit of lands during his life or perpetuall imprisonment according to the quality of his offence Mission A sending Missive That which witnesseth ones being sent Mistleden A plant which hath slender branches and greene thick leaves growing never upon the ground but upon other trees The best is that which groweth upon an oake and the leaves and fruit thereof are good to soften and ripen any cold hard swellings Misy A kinde of yellow copperas shining like gold brought out of Egypt and the I le of Cyprus It is of a fretting burning nature as the common Copperas is Mithridate A great confection like treacle invented by King Mithridates from whom it taketh the name It is of singular vertue against poyson and hath so many and strong simples in it that it ought not to be taken inwardly before it be above sixe moneths old Mitigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to convey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobilitie Aptnesse to move Moderate Measurable temperate also to governe or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet governour he that keepeth both parties from being too extreame Moderne Living now in our age Modicum A little a poore pittance Modulation A pleasant tuning or sweet singing Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees Moitie Half Moleboute A great fish which maketh a grunting noyse when he is taken Molestation A troubling Mollifie To make soft Mollification A making soft Moloch The name of an Idol in the vally of Ennon in the tribe of Benjamin to which the Israelites did abhominably offer their children in sacrifice of fire This Idoll was made in the likenesse of a Calfe Moment A minute or very little time sometime the valew or weight of a thing Momentanie Of short continuance which lasteth a very little while Monarch A King or Prince that ruleth alone without any equall Monarchie The rule of one Prince alone or a countrey so governed Monasterie A religious house of Monks Monasticall Solitary belonging to a Monastery Monition A warning Monologie A speaking still of one thing a long tale of one matter Monomachie A single fight betweene two hand to hand Monopolie When a man doth ingrosse or get commodities into his hands in such fashion that none can sell them or gain by them but himself Moote To argue or reason a case in law Morall Of or belonging to good manners some time one of good behaviour sometimes the meaning of a fable Moralitie Goodnesse of manners civilitie Morgage To lay house or land to pawne in such sort that they are forfeit if the money be not repayed at a certaine time Morositie Frowardnesse waywardnesse Morpheus Sleep or the God of sleep Mortifie To kill sometime to tame to breake the courage or take away ones delight Mortification A killing a pulling away of ones pleasure Mortmaine A terme in the Law when lands were given to a house of religion or to a company corporate by the Kings grant for then such land is said to come into Mortmaine that is a dead hand and by a statute the King or Lord of whom it is holden may enter into it Mortuarie A payment due in some places for the buriall of the dead which is foure shillings and foure pence where the goods of the deceased partie are above the valew of twentie nobles and under thirtie pounds sixe shillings and eight pence where the goods exceed thirtie pounds and ten shillings where
Reforme To amend to correct Refractorie Stubborne which will not bend Refuge A place of succour Refute To disprove to confound by sence and reason Refutation A disproving a confuting Regall Kingly belonging to a King Regalitie The estate or authority of a King Regardant A tearme in Heraldrie when a beaste is painted looking backewards at one Regenerate To beare againe in birth to renew Regeneration A new birth Regent A Prince Ruler or Governour Regiment A government or the place where one hath authoritie Register Writings of record kept for memory Also he that keepeth such writings in a spirituall Court Regratour He that in a faire or market buyeth any dead victuall whatsoever and selleth the same againe in any faire or market kept there or within foure miles thereof Regresse A going backe againe Regression The same Regular Vnder rule or living according to a set rule Reject To cast off to despise Rejoynder A second answere made by the defendant after his first answere hath beene replyed unto Reiterate To do againe to do a thing often Relapse A backe slyding Relate To tell to declare Relation A rehearsall or telling of a matter Relaxation A releasing a refreshing or setting at libertie Relay A tearme of hunting when they set hounds in readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe and cast them off after the other hounds are past by Releese A payment which some Heires make after the death of their Auncestour to the Lord of whom their lands are holden Relent To waxe soft to yeeld Relinquish To leave off to forsake Reliques Things left or remaning Most commonly it is taken for the bodies or some part of the bodies or somwhat which hath toucht the bodies of Saints now in heaven Remainder A possibility in any to enjoy lands tenements or rents after anothers estate is ended Remisse Slack negligent or carelesse Remit To send backe sometime to release or forgive Remora A little Fish which cleaving to the bottome of a shippe doth verie strangely stay the shippe that she cannot moove Remorse Doubtfulnesse in conscience to doe a thing a staggering in minde sometime pitifulnesse or repentance of a bad done Remote Farre distant Remunerate To reward Remuneration A reward a requitall Renovate To renew Renovation A renewing Repast Food Repeale To call backe againe to disallow Repell To thrust backe Repercussive That which striketh backe againe or reboundeth backe Repetition A new rehearsall Replevine A Warrant sent from the Sheriffe or his Bayliffe that a man shall have his cattell or a distresse taken from him restored to him againe upon surety sound to answer the party grieved in the Law Replication The answer made to the defendant after the defendant hath answered Repose To lay upon sometime to take rest Repositorie A storehouse a place to lay up things in Repossede To possesse againe Reprehend To reprove Reprehension A reproving Represse To stay backe to keepe downe by force Reprises All payments and charges that issue yearelie out of a Mannor Reprobate One past grace a wicked person a cast away Republike A Common-wealth Repudiate To refuse properly to put away ones Wife Repugne To resist Repugnancie Disagreement contrarietie Repugnant Contrary or resisting Repute To esteeme to account Reputation Estimation or account Requiem Rest ceasing from labour Rereward The hindemost part of a battell Rescouse A forcible deliverie or setting at liberty of one that hath beene arrested Reserved To keep by it selfe to keepe for some purpose Reservation A keeping of some thing apart Reside To alight sinke downe or to abide in a place Resident Abiding in a place Resigne To give or yeeld up Resignation A yeelding up of a thing to another Resolve To open to weaken to make loose sometime to expound and declare Resolute Determinately bent to doe any thing Respective Awfull which beareth great respect to one Respiration A fetching of breath Resplendent Bright cleere shining Respondent He that answereth Response An answer Restauration A repayring a making againe Restie Dull heavie Restitution A restoring backe Restriction A restrayning or holding back Result To rebound to leape backe Resume To take againe Resurrection A rising againe Resuscitation A stirring up againe Retaile To sell in small parcels that which was formerly bought Retention A keeping Retentive Having power to binde retaine or keepe Retire To return backward Retort To throw or shoote backe againe Retract To call backe againe to revoke Retractation A calling backe a recanting a denying of a thing before affirmed Retreate A calling backe of Souldiers from fight a returning or going backe Retribution A reward a recompence Retrive A seeking againe Retrograde That which goeth backward A planet is said to be retrograde when he goeth backward contrarie to the course of the signes as from Taurus to Aries c. Retrogradation A going backward Revels Players and dancings with other pleasant devices used sometimes in the Kings Court and elsewhere in great houses Revenew Yearely rent received for lands or tenements Reverberation A beating backe againe Reversed A tearme in Heraldrie when a mans armes is given him turned the lower part upward Reuert To returne Revise To peruse to looke over againe Reunite To joyne together againe Revocable Which may be called backe againe Revocation A calling back againe Revoke To call backe Revolt To forsake ones captaine or company and goe to another Revolve To tosse up and downe in ones minde to muse or thinke much of a matter Revolution A turning or winding about especially in the course of time Rhetoricke The art of eloquent speaking Rheubarb See Rubarb Ridiculous Worthy to be laughed at foolish without wit Rigid Stiffe hard stubborne Rigor Hardnesse stiffenesse extreame dealing Rigorus Hard cruell unmercifull Rime A mist or foggie dew Ringwalke A round walk made by Hunters Rinocere A great beast having a horne in his nose bending upward which he whetteth often against rockes to fight therewith against the Elephant Riot In the law it signifieth when three or moe persons being assembled to commit forcibly an unlawfull act do accordingly execute the same Rite A ceremony a custome Rivall One that sueth for the same thing with another Robustious Strong Roode In land it signifieth a quarter of an acre It is sometime taken for the picture of our Saviour upon the Crosse Rotunditie Roundnesse Rougecrosse The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Rougedragon The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Route A disorderly assembly of three or moe persons moving forward to commit by force an unlawfull act It signifieth also a heard or great company of wolves together Rubarbe A costly roote much used in Phisicke to purge choler is brought hither out of Barbary Being toasted and dried it is then good against the bloodie flixe and all manner of laskes if it be so drunke with some binding liquor as the juyce of Plantaine red Wine and such like Rubricke An order or rule written Rubricated Marked with red or
overthrow Subvert To overthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choak Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Favourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde 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 Superabound To abound very much to be in great plenty Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie above others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath received 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 every thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needs to be overmuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or unprofitable Superlative The highest Superiour Higher above another Supernall That which commeth from above Superscription A writing set upon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement 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 given to God Supplant To trip one or to overthrow him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting Supply To fill up or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put up into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of honey 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 we will have it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate under sometime to conceale or keep close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To give over leave off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Overplus more then needs Surprise To come unawares to take upon a sudden Surprisall A taking unawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yeeld up lands or tenements to another Surreption A privy taking away Surround To compasse round about Survey To overlooke or oversee Surveyer He that hath the oversight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Survive To overlive or live after another Surviver He that liveth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse uncertainty 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 Servant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweven A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree having great branches and large leaves like a Mulberry It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree and the great maine boughes and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Tale bearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby somthing is necessarily prooved as thus Every vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sylvane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing and how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathy A likenesse in quantity or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphony Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Plurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or universall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a room 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 began on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth and continued seven dayes during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamabaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothache and divers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary contained 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like unto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger being 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 have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof have beene found to have no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard having spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Leeâ—e of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprove Tearce A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiers dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment