if the two beginnings be like the Maior is omitted as may easily appeare by the foregoing example Enueloped Wrapped Enuiron To coÌ„passe about Enumerate To reckon vp to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciatiue Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmeth or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in vse euery yeare to finde the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yearly and is made by the addition of eleuen to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeare but alwaies so that both those numbers exceede not the number of 30. For if they amount to aboue 30. then must you cast away the 30 and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeare 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleuen for the next yeares Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeare 1617. Note also wheÌ„ in any yeere the Epact is â—9 you must adde 12. to find out the next yeares true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleuen In al other nuÌ„bers the Epact is stil made as before by adding eleuen And these Epacts are euer changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day-acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomy in vse among such as erect figures to cast mens natiuities by which booke is shewen how all the Planets are placed euery day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure conteining about fiue peckes of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It couered the backe and was curiously wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Scarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were fit two great precious Onix stones and in them grauen the names of the twelue sonnes of Iacob called the twelue Patriarches in the right shoulder the sixe eldest and in the left the fixe youngest that the High Priest entering into the Sanstum Sanctorium which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom hee was to pray vnto God Epicycle A terme vsed in Astronomy It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the vpper part of this Epicycle the fiue Planets Saturne Iupiter Mars Venus and Mercurie doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to bee two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signes Epicure It is commonly taken with vs for a man giuen ouer much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to bee without paine and enioy pleasure of body and minde Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set vpon any thing now it is coÌ„monly taken for a short wittie poeme which vnder a fained name doth couertly praise or taxe some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folk are subiect This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striuing to excel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly fome at the mouth Epilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an enterlude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestatioÌ„ The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because then the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Sauiour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set vpon a toombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithere Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantiue to expresse some quality of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie vnbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous vnbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the quality of cruelty lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Ephitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimity Vprightnes of hart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing iust in the midst betweene the two poles of heauen to which line the sun coÌ„ming twice a yeare namely about the xi of March and the xi of September maketh the dates and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra doe both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or prouision for horsemanship especially in triumphs or turnaments Equiualence The equall value of one thing with another Equiualent Of equal value to another thing Equiuocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserued in ones own mind which peraduenture the hearers do not vnderstand Equiuocation A speech or answer made with a secret meaning reserued in ones mind Equiuocke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hel or a riuer in hell Erect To lift vp Erection A lifting vp Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worne onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with blacke and Ermines blacke powdred white Errant Wandring hauing no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceiued Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To bee forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An officer that obserueth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate vnto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charge to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant only payeth a yearely rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The beeing or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Iews which liued a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essential That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme
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
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 bee taken vp againe with the point of a knife It is an excellent medicine to take any scar out of the body and for diuers 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 Balnco A bathe Balsanium See Balme Baptisme It commonly signifieth a dipping or washing Baptist A washer S. Iohn the sonne of Zacharias was so called for that hee first began to Baptize or wash men in the riuer of Iordan to the remission of sinnes Barbarisme Rudenesse in speech or behauiour outragious crueltie * Bardes Poets * Bargaret A kinde of dance Barrester He that is allowed to pleade causes at the barre Barretter A common quarreller one that is euer suing and molesting others without cause Barricado A warlike defence of emptie Barrels and such like vessels laide 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 signifieth the foote 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 euery thing that it goeth ouer neither can any herbe growe neere the place where it lyeth It is poyson to poyson and driueth 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 lookes This serpent is not aboue a foote long of colour between black yellow hauing red eye a very sharpe head and a white spot thereon like a crowne wherefore he is called by some in Latine Regulus viz. a little king It goeth not winding like other serpents but vpright vnto the middle holding vp 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 cunctas terrentia pestes Ante venena nocens late sibi submouet omne Vulgus in vacua regnat Basiliscus arena With deadly hisse the Basiliske all other plagues doth fright And speedier kils then poisons can with his infectious sight Hee le haue no neighbour dwell neere him he loues to liue alone And tyrantlike reignes by himselfe in caue of sandy stone Bassae A noble man or great Commander vnder 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 conuey such to ward as are there committed Battry A beating or striking Baubee A small coine a farthing * Baine A Bathe Bdellium A Gumme brought out of Arabia and the Holy land of a sweete smell and bitter taste It hath vertue to mollifie and ripen hard swellings and is good against the stiffenesse of sinewes or other parts and against the biting of venemous beasts Beades of Saint Elline Certaine round roots brought out of Florida which being drie are very hard on the outside blacke and inwardly white of a sweet smell and good taste They are of great vertue against griefs of the stomack as also of the kidnies or reines Beame The maine horne of a hart or Stagge Beatitude Blessednesse Beauer In armour it signifieth that part of the helmet which may bee lifted vp to take breath the more freely It is also a beast of very hotte nature liuing much in the water His two forefeete are like the feete of the beast called Gattus as Ioannes de Sancto amando writeth but what this Gattus is I doe not well vnderstand onely I suppose it to be an Otter Vpon these feete hee hath very sharpe clawes wherewith hee taketh his prey and hangeth vpon water bankes His hinder feet are made like to the foot of a Goose wherewith hee swimmeth Hee hath very sharpe teeth and doeth much harme to trees with knawing the rootes and ryndes of them It is written that if a Beauer come into a strange place where hee hath not beene bred the other Beauers will make him their slaue to prouide them meate and pull off all the haire from his backe that hee may be knowne The stones of this beast are sold in Apothecaries shoppes by the name of Castoreum they are much vsed in Physick beeing very good against palsies and cold diseases of the sinewes But the skin is of more valew then the stones Beeglue That which Bees doe make at the entry of their hiue to keepe out cold Beestings The first milke that commeth from the Teate after the birth of any thing Belial An Hebrew word signifying a wicked naughty person An Apostata one without yoke and is many times taken for the diuell * Beliue 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 Idoll and Zebub a Fly so that Belzebub signifieth the Idoll of Flies notwithstanding commonly it is taken for the diuell Benediction A blessing Benefactor A friend one that doth good Benificence A dooing good Beneficent Liberall louing Beneuolence Good will Beneuolent Louing friendly well wishing Benigne Friendly gentle fauourable Benignity Friendlinesse liberty courtesie * Benison A blessing Benz vine A sweet smelling gumme good against hoarsenesse and the cough beeing dissolued in water and drunken It hath many other excellent properties to be vsed in Physick The tree vpon which it groweth is not with vs certenly knowne 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 Beastiall Beastly dishonest Bestiality Beastlinesse Beuie A heard of row Buckes most commonly with vs it signifieth a great number of Quails in company Beuie greace The fat of a row Deere Bezar stone A stone of excellent vertue against poyson very costly and of great account in Physick It is commonly of the bignesse of an A corne or Chestnut being compoūded of certain thin scales one vpon another like the scales of an Onion It is easie to bee scraped or cutte 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 bee fine and true for the Indians doe counterfeite them sometimes and deceiue many This stone it taken out of the bowels of a beast in India much like
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
wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes hee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath vpon her the monethly courses or which belongeth to them Mensuration A measuring Mentall That which is only thought in the mind Mercenary 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 deserue Meritorious Which doth much deserue Messias The same in Hebrew that Christ is in Greeke to wit Annointed Our Lord and Sauiour 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 Couetousnesse is the roote of all euill Where the word Root is called a Metaphore because it signifieth the cause and beginning of all euill euen as a root is the cause from whence a Plante springeth Metaphoricall Spoken by a Metaphore Metaphysikes Arts which lifting themselues aboue the changeable nature of things doe consider of such as doe subsist in their owne essence not subiect to any alteration so that the Metaphysicks dealeth onely with incorporall and euerlasting things and in this sense schoole Diuinity is the highest part of the Metaphysickes being chiefely occupied in contemplatory knowledge of God angels and soules of men Meteore Any imperfect mixt substance ingendred in the ayre as rayne snowe hayle thunder lightning blazing starres cloudes and winde all which are made of vapors or exhalations drawn vp from the earth and Sea by attractiue vertue of the Sunne Meter Measure or a verse made by measure Method A direct way to teach or doe any thing Metonymie A figure in speaking when the cause is put for the effect the subiect for the adiuact or contrarily Metropolitan The chiefe or mother city an Arch-Bishop 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 doeth resemble a great man Midrisse A sinewie skin passing ouerthwarte in mans body which diuideth the heart and lungs from the stomacke guttes liuer lest the vitall parts should bee oftended with any ill vapour comming from them Migrant A disease coming by sits eyther in the right or left side of the head caused by distemperate humours or vapours brought thither from the veines or arteries at certaine times Militant Warring or which is in warfare Military Warlike or belonging to warre Mimicall That which belongeth or scoffing behaviour or wanton gesture Mimicke A wanton gester a counterfet foole Minatory Threatning Minerall Mettall or any thing digged out of the earth Miniature A small proportion a little figure Miniuer A sine white Furre made of the bellies of Squirrels some say it is the skinne of a little white Vermin breeding in Muscouia Minor The lesser the yonger Minority A mans time before he be of full age in the lawe to dispose of his goods and lands Minotaure A poeticall monster halfe like man halfe like a Bull. This monster was kept in the Labyrinth of Candy and fedde with mans flesh where at last he was slaine by Theseus as Poets report Miscreant An infidell a false beleeuer Misprision An offence inclinable to fellony or treason but not so capital as fellony or treason is in which the offendour shall be punished by fine losse of goods forfeite 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 Mistledon A plant which hath slender branches and greene thick leaues growing neuer vpon the ground but vpon other trees The best is that which groweth vpon an oake and the leaues and fruit hereof 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 inuented 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 bee taken inwardly before it bee aboue sixe moneths old Mittigate To asswage or pacifie Mitigation A pacifying an asswaging Mittimus A warrant made to conuey an offender to prison Mixture A mingling Mobility Aptnes to mooue Moderate Measurable temperate also to gouerne or temper with discretion Moderation A due proportion temperance good discretion Moderator A discreet gouernour hee that keepeth both parties from beeing too extreame Moderne Liuing now in our age Modicum A little a poore pittance Modulation A pleasant tuning or sweete singing Modwall A bird which destroyeth bees Moity Halfe. 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 Beniamin 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 a very little time sometime the valew or weight of a thing Momentany 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 gouerned Monasterle A religious house of Monkes Monasticall Solitarie belonging to a Monasterie 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 sel them or gaine by them but himselfe Moote To argue or reason a case in law Morall Of or belonging to good manners some time one of good behauiour sometimes the meaning of a fable Moralitie Goodnesse of manners ciuilitie 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 way wardnesse Morpheus Sleepe or the God of sleepe 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 giuen 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 statue 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 party are aboue
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
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