werts whereof some doe vse to bleede often and some bleede not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent to these 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 Heretike He that maketh his owne choice what points of religion he will beleeue and what he will not beleeue Hereditarie That which commeth to one by inheritance Heriot The best liuing 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 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 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 ouerturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Heteroscians 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 bailiefe or officer hauing charge to looke to the fieldes Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be a hundred acres Hidage A taxe or paiment for euery hide of lād Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaueth to their sides Hideous Terrible vgly Hiena See Hyena Hiera picra A bitter confectiō made of Aloe succotrina other simples oftē vsed in Phisicke 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 superior are Seraphines Cherubines and Thrones the middle Dominations principalities Powers The inferior vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kind of writing vsed chiefely 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 beastes and diuers other figures and could hardly bee vnderstood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternity or euerlastingnesse they expressed by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye in the toppe thereof A mat-of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberation or aduice by an Anchor which stayeth a ship in the waues With a thousand such deuices not subiect 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 twelue 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 kind of whetstone Hogsteere A wilde bore of three yeeres 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 betweene 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 hold 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 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 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 bredth thereof is diuided into three euen parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a shippe Horizon An 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 rysing and going downe is euer in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The ascendent of ones natiuitie to wit 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 Beastlie base slaunderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Saue I beseech thee Hospitalitie Entertainement of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of couenants 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 giuen vnto her any lands in Frankemarriage clayming to be 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 bee 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 couering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanitie Gentlenesse courtesie ciuill behauiour also manhood or the nature of mankind Humide Moiste Humiditie Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making lowe or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to prouoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flowre called crow-toes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerna which hauing one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing vp in the place Hercules fought with
where note that if the two endes of the Enthymeme are like in speech then the Minor is wanting if the two beginnings be like the Maior is omitted as may easily appeare by the foregoing example Enueloped Wrapped Enuiron To cōpasse 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 find 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 when in any yeare the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeares true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleuen In al other nūbers the Epast 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 euerie 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 was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Scarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set 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 sixe youngest that the High Priest entering into the Sanctum Sanctorum 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 be without paine and enioy pleasure of body and minde Epigramme It properly signifieth a supersciption or writing set vpon any thing now it is commonly takē for a short wittie poeme which vnder a fained name doth couertly praise or tax 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 expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some 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 manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because thē 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 Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantiue to expresse some qualitie 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 qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgemēt or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of hart quietnesse of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing iust in the midst betweene the two poles of heauen to which line the sun coming twice a yeare 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 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 answere with a secret meaning reserued in ones own mind which peraduenture the hearers do not vnderstand Equiuocation A speech or answere made with a secret meaning reserued in ones mind Equiuoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torn from the body Erebus Hell 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 than 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 cheefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that obserueth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as doe 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 VVales somtime in this tenure the Tenant only payeth a yearely rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the VVest 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 Iewes which liued a very strict life
Spitefulnesse enuy malice Mammon An Assyrian word of the singular number and Masculine Gender as Saint Hierome affirmeth It is interpreted riches Manage To rule order or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragoras See Mandrake following Mandrake A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe is great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legges of a man This roote especiallie the barke thereof is extreamely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quicklie kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in VVine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the cold operation thereof causeth sleepe and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heauen to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seede with which the Israelites liued fortie yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the borders of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manhu viz. What is this Which seemeth to be the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hot countreyes vpon trees doth there congeale almost like to crummes of whitebread and is gathered choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may be caryed in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slaue or bondman free which was in olde time thus The lord of the slaue holding him by the head arme or other part saide before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoued him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A handwriting a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantity that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it bee golde siluer brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to be any stone out of which fire may be stricken Marches The boundes or limits lying betweene two countreyes commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marchionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Olde condemned Heretikes so called of their first master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Litle pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oisters whereof some haue holes in them and some haue none The best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in yong shels Some write that in Thunder the Oisters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sandes They are sometimes vsed by Physitiōs in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stoppe issues of blood or any loosenesse of the body Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordring neere the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of a good conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grieuous torment for constant perseuerance in true religion Martyrologie A historie of the death of Martyres A booke of the memorie of Martyres Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumme of a sweet sauour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Iland Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe vse to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as bee loose Mastuerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternall Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematickes sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens natiuities or vndertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematickes A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmeticke musicke Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A graue motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturitie Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a maine point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a deuice like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cānot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cuppe to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great fauour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horace and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometime a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubarbe It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soeuer with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liuer and all the inward parts Mediate To deale betweene two to make meanes of agreement as an indifferēt party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator He that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterrannean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the fowre humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellifluous Sweet as hony Membrane The vpmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often vsed when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial that which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggerie Meninges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Phisitians Dura mater which is
Cullion The stone of any liuing thing Culpable Faultie Culture Tillage dressing of land Culuertaile A strong kind of building by fastening boards or tymber with artificiall ioynts so firmely togither that they cannot fall asunder Cummune An herbe the seed whereof is much vsed in Phisicke It is hot and dry good to breake or dissolue windinesse in any part of the body Cumulation A heaping vp or increasing Cunctation Slackenesse delay lingering Capglasse A hollow round Glasse with a hole in the bottome vsed by Physitians sometimes to drawe blood or wind out of the body for it sucketh with great strength by reason of a little flame of fire made in it Cupiditie Desire couetousnesse Curfew A bell which ringing about bedtime giueth folkes warning to go to rest and couer their fire Cursorilie Swiftly as when one readeth a booke ouer with speed Curtezane A harlot Curtilage Any peece of ground as a yarde backeside or garden plotte adioyning to a house Custodie Safe keeping Cutchoneale A little flie as some thinke brought from beyond the Sea dried wherewith diers die Stammell and colours in Graine but indeed it is a fruit Cynicall Doggish See Cynike Cynike Doggish or currish There was in Greece an old sect of Philosophers so called because they did ouersharply barke at mens vices and were not so respectiue in their behauiour as ciuilitie required The chiefe of this sect were Antisthenes and Diogenes Cypher A circle in Arithmetike like the letter O which of it selfe is of no value but increaseth the value of other figures after which it is ioyned wherefore we sometime say of one that in company of others doth nothing himselfe that he standeth for a Cypher Cypresse A tree which groweth on drie mountaines very tall and slender the tymber thereof is yellowish and of a pleasant smell especially set neere the fire I carieth no leafe but greene small twigs D * DAffe A dastard * Dagges Latchets cut of Lether Daine To vouchsafe Dandruffe Small scales that sticke to the skinne of the head and often hang about the haires They are caused by salt fleame or some other corrupted humours piercing insensibly the pores and then slightly congealed by the aire and may be taken away by washing the head with salte water or vineger warme Darnell A naughty graine almost like wheate but much lesse and groweth among wheate often It may be vsed in Phisicke against some outward diseases but taken inwardly it is harmefull as beeing too hot and making the head giddy Darreigne To attempt or challenge Deaurate Guilded glistering like gold Debilitate To weaken Debilitie Weakenesse Debitor A debtor Debonaire Gentle milde curteous Decad. The number of tenne Decalog The ten commandements Decent Comely hansome Decencie Comelinesse Decide To determine or end a Controuersie or doubt Decipher To write after a strange fashion that none shall reade it also to find out the meaning of a thing so written Decision A determination or end made of a controuersie Declayme To speake euill to reproach Declamation An oration or speech made of purpose in reproach of any person or thing Declaymer He that maketh a declamation Decline To bend downeward Declination A bending downeward Decliuitie A steepe bending downward as on the side of a hill Decoct To seethe to boyle Decoction A boyling or seething In Phisicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicinable rootes herbes seedes flowers or any other thing hath beene boyled Decollation A beheading Decorum Comely or comelinesse Decrepit Weake or very feeble with age Decressant The Moone in the last quarter Decretals Ordinances decrees Dedicate To offer giue or appoint for some speciall purpose Dedication An offering a giuing vp Deduce To take away to abate Deduct To take away Deduction A taking away Defamation A defaming a speaking ill of one Defamatorie Slanderous which defameth Defatigation Wearinesse Defeasance An ouerthrowing or vndoing that which was formerly done A writing testifying that some other writing shall be of no force Defeate To deceiue or beguile to take craftilie from one Defect A failing or want in any thing Defection A falling away a reuolting Defectiue Faultie which wanteth something Defendant He which answereth to an accusation or challenge Defensiue That which defendeth or is spoken or done in defence Deferre To put off to prolong Define To declare shew or describe a thing plainelie Definition A sentence which expresly declareth what a thing is Definitiue Which defineth or concludeth a matter Defloration A deflouring Defloure To corrupt spoile or marre Deforme To disfigure to spoyle the forme of any thing Deformation A difiguring Deformitie Ill fauourdnesse vncomelinesse Defraude To deceiue to beguile Deft Little and pretty feat and handsome Defunct Dead Degenerate To turne out of kind Degrade To take away the priuiledge of holy orders from one Degradation A taking away of Ecclesiasticall authoritie from a Clerke conuinced of some notorious crime Degree A terme often vsed in Astronomie and phisicke In Astronomie it signifieth the thirtieth part of a signe viz. of Aries Taurus Gemini c. For into so many parts or degrees are all the signes diuided In phisicke it signifieth a proportion of heat cold moisture or drinesse in the nature of simples and there are foure such proportions or degrees The first degree is so smal that it can scarce be perceiued The second that which may be manifestly perceiued without hurting the sense The third that which somewhat offendeth the sense The fourth which so much offendeth that it may destroy the body For exrmple Sweet Almonds Rice Buglosse ripe Grapes are hot in the first degree Parsley Saffron Hony in the second degree Cummine Galingall Pepper in the third degree and Garlike Spourge Euphorbium in the fourth degree So Barly is cold in the first degree cucumbers in the second Sengreene in the third and Hemlocke in the fourth degree Where note that in heat cold and drinesse there may bee foure degrees and in moisture but two Dehort To disswade to aduise one to the contrary Dehortation A perswasion or admonition to refraine from doing some thing Deiect To throw down to debase Deiection A throwing downe a debasement Deitie Godhead or a God Delineate To draw the first proportion of a thing Delinquent An offender Delude To mocke to scorne to deceiue Deluge An vniuersall ouerflowing of waters Noes floud Delusion A mocking Demaynes The Lords Mannor house and the landes which he and his auncestors haue alwayes vsed Demeane To behaue or carry ones selfe Demeanour Behauiour Demerit A desert Demise To giue or graunt Democratie A kind of gouernment wherin the people bere rule without other superiours sauing such as they appoint Democraticall Of or belonging to the estate of Democratie Demolish To pull downe Demolition A pulling downe Demoniacke Possessed with a diuell Demonstrable Which may be shewed or made manifest Demonstrate To shew Demonstration A shewing plaine of any thing Demurre A pause or stay a standing still Demy Halfe sometime little Deneere A penny a
purpose Extrinsecall Outward or on the outside Exulcerate To raise blisters or sores Exulceration A rising of blisters or sores in the odie Exulte To reioyce greatly to triumph ouer one Exultation A greate reioycing F Fabricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easines Faction A sect or diuision into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome vnquiet Factor He that buieth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his buisinesse Faculty Power ability a trade or course of life a priuiledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priuiledge he could not doe Facundite Eloquencie Fage A fable Falding A kind of course cloth Fallacie Deceit in words Falsitie To counterfeit or make false Falsification A counterfeiting or making false Falsitie Falsehood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping vlcer growing in knots and following alongst some veine Farced Stuffed full Fascinate To bewitch Fastidious Disdainfull loathing proud Fate Destinie that which must of necessitie come to passe by Gods secret appointment Fatall That which happeneth or commeth to passe by fate Faunus Poeticall gods of the woodes Fauorite One in great fauour Fealtie A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whome they hold lands which is in laying their right hand vpon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beautie Fecunditie Fruitfulnes Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicitie Happinesse Fell. A skinne sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemonth A month so called because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the does then do fawn This month beginneth about the ninth of Iune and continueth till the ninth of Iuly Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seede whereof is much vsed in phisike It is yellow being hot in the second degree and drie in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolue Feodarie An officer who is to bee present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to suruey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deede witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liuerie of seisine and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer and the partie to whome it is made the Feofee Ferie Any day of the weeke not kept holy Fers The Queene in chesse play Fertile Fruitfull yeelding much Fertilitie Fruitfulnesse Feruent Hot. Feruour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in schooles vpon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scucheon whose bredth is deuided into three euen parts Festiuall Merry ioyfull belonging to a feast Festiuitie Mirth reioycing pleasantnes merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Deere Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badger Fiction A feined deuice a lye Fidelitie Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine deuice a lye a counterfeit tale Figuratiue That which figureth or serueth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skinne within the bodie deuiding the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeares Finall Of or belonging to an end the last * Finance An end Finite which hath an end Fire-drake A fire sometime seene flying in the night like a Dragon Common people thinke it a spirit that keepeth some treasure hid but Philosophers affirme it to bee a great vnequall â—â—â—alation inflamed betweene two Cloudes the one hot the other colde which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hote Cloud being greater than the rest maketh it seeme like a bellie and both ends like vnto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers vnderstand by this word the eighth spheare next aboue the spheres of the seauen Planets in which all the fixt Starres are placed Firmitie Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hot Countries not much vnlike a small Hasell nut They are very good against the stoppings of the liuer being steeped all night in some sweete wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to vnstop the lungs and for such as are troubled with shortnesse of breath and are comfortable for the stomacke yet they nourish but little being taken as meate Fistula A dangerous vlcer or sore still running It goeth vp into the body with a long narrow hole like a pipe and is commonlie hard in the outside Fitch The furre of the Polecat Fixe To fasten Fixed Fastened Flagitious Wicked verie lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Iupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to dye he thereupon went presentlie out of his office It was not lawfull for him to abide one night out of the Citty nor yet to affirme any thing by oath for his word was held of sufficient credit The other two Flamins were the Flamine of Mars and the Flamine of Romulus called Quirinus Flankards Hunters call so two knots or nuts in the flanke of a Deere Flebotomie See Phlebotomie Flegmaticke Full of fleagme or inclining to fleagme Flexibilitie Aptnes to bend Flexible Pliant easie to bend * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coyne wherof there be two sorts one about the valew of thre shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence-farthing Fluent which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of bloud Fluxibilitie Aptnes to flow or spread abroad Fluxible Which is apt to flow or run abroad Foyling The print of a Deers foote in grasse when it cannot well be seene Foemen Enemies Fâ—â—â—es A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France the top of this furre is blacke and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foison Great plenty store â—oâ—erers Vagabonds Folio A sheete or large leafe of paper Fomentation In physick it properlie signifieth powders or drie things in bags or any liquour in a sponge or bladder applied warme to the bodie to mitigate paine or for some other purpose Footstall The lower part of a pillar whereon it standeth Foppe A Foole. Foppery Foolishnesse a vaine matter Forage Prouision for horses and cattell in the wars Forcer A cofer or little chest Forester He that hath charge to looke to a forrest or some part of it Foreloyne A tearme in hunting when a hound meeteth a chace and goeth away with it before the rest Forlorne Vtterly vndone in a desperate estate Formalitie An obseruing of good forme or order Formall That which keepeth due forme Formositie Beautie fairenesse Forestall To buy victuall or other merchandise by the way before it come to the
Reentrie An entrance againe Reeue An old name of an officer in Lordshippes much like to those that we call Bayliffes now Refection A refreshing Refectorie A place to refresh ones self or to take ones diet in Refell To disproue to proue false Reflect To turne or cast backe againe Reflection A rebounding backe or turning back againe Reforme To amend to correct Refractorie Stubborne which will not bend Refuge A place of succour Refute To disprooue to coufound by sence and reason Refutation A disprouing 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 Gouernour Regiment A gouernment 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 answere made by the defendant after his first answere 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 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 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 yeilde 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 Slack negligent or carelesse Remit To send backe sometime to release or forgiue Remora A little Fish which cleauing to the bottome of a shippe doth verie strangelie stay the shippe that shee cannot mooue Remorse Doubtfulnesse in conscience to doe a thing a staggering in minde sometime pittifulnesse or repentance of a bad done Remote Farre distant Remunerate To reward Remuneration A reward a requitall Renouate To renew Renouation A renewing Repast Food Repeale To call backe againe to disallow Repell To thrust backe Repercussiue That which striketh backe againe or reboundeth backe Repetition A new rehearsall 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 againe vpon suretie found to answer the partie grieued in the Law Replication The answer made to the defendant after the defendant hath answered Repose To lay vpon sometime to take rest Repositorie A storehouse a place to lay vp things in Repossede To possesse againe Reprehend To reprooue Reprehension A reproouing 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 a properly to put away ones Wife Repugne To resist Repugnancie Disagreement contrarietie Repugnant Contrarie 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 deliuerie or setting at libertie of one that hath beene arrested Reserue To keepe by it selfe to keepe for some purpose Reseruation 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 He that answereth Response An answere Restauration A repayring a making againe Restie Dull heauie Restitution A restoring backe Restriction A restrayning 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 Retort To throw or shoote backe againe Retract To call backe againe to reuoke Retractation A calling backe a recanting a denying of a thing before affirmed Retreate A calling back of Souldiers from fight a returning or going backe Retribution A reward a recompence Retriue 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 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 Heraldrie when a mans armes is giuen him turned the lower part vpward Reuert To reurne 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 especiallie 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 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 Rotunditie 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 vnlawfull act It signifieth also a heard or great company of wolues together Rubarbe A costly roote