to those parts from the liuer beeing many times healthfull to the patient by preuenting other diseases and therefore ought not hastily to be stopt vnlesse through continuance the body bee too much weakened by them Henchman A page of honour neere attendant to a Prince or other great personage * Hend Gentle * Hent To catch or lay hold of Herbage Pasture or the feeding of cattel in pasture Herball A booke of the nature of herbes Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretiâ—e He that maketh â—is owne choice what â—oints of religion he will â—eleeue and what he will â—ot belâ—eue Heredâ—arie That which â—ommeth to one by inheritance Herio The best liuing â—east which a Tenant hath 〈◊〉 his death which in some â—lannoâ—s is due to the â—ord of whom the land is holden Hermaphorodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwlling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to deuotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermite dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round solde by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much vsed against all gouts purging slimy fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must bee taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will ouerturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Hiâ—eroscians Any people dwelling vnder a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewte A little copse or groue Heyward A bayliffe or officer hauing charge to looke to the fields Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be a hundred acres Hidage A taxe or payment for euery hide of land Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaueth to their sides Hideous Terrible vgly Hiena See Hyena Hierapiera A bitter confection made of Aloe succotrina and other simples often vsed in Physicke to purge Choler out of the stomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which conteining nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in euery three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superiour are Seraphines Cerubines and Thrones the middle Dominations principalities Powers The inferiour vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kind of writing vsed chiefely in times past among the Pagan priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and diuers other figures and could hardly bee vnderstood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternity or Euerlâ—stingnesse they expresseâ— by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye 〈◊〉 the toppe thereof A mâ—â—ter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberâ—tion or aduice by an Aâ—chor which stayeth a ship in the waues With a thousand such deuices not subiect to common capacities to finde out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew meâ—sure or moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagâ—â—nus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelue egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiâ—grapher A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wilde bore of three yeares old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserued Holt. A groue Homage In Court Barons the Iury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a seruil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Landes by homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands between his saith as followeth I become your man from this day forward of life and member and of earthly honour and to you shall bee faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to holde of you sauing the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth of oweth homage Homicide A manslayer sometime manslaughter Homilie A talking together a speech or a Sermon Homonymie A terme in Logicke when one word signifieth diuers things as hart signifying a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In herauldry the vpper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the breadth thereof is diuided into three euen parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a shippe Horizon All imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heauens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight diuiding the heauens vnderneath vs from that which is aboue The Sun rising and going downe is euer in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The Ascedent of ones natiuity to witte that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a childe is borne Astrologers call it the first house Horride Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastly base slanderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Saue I beseech thee Hospitality Entertainement of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of couenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemy malicious harmefull Hostility Enmity hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Lawe when a daughter which hath had giuen vnto her any lands in Frankemarriage clayming to bee coheire after her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land giuen her before her fathers death to bee put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the landes whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall diuision may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hallow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire couering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanity Gentlenesse courtesie ciuill behauiour also manhood or the nature of manhood Humide Moist Humidity Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making low or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to prouoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flowre called crowcoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerius which hauing one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing vp in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancy See Diuination Hydromell A physicall sweete drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter
if the two beginnings be like the Maior is omitted as may easily appeare by the foregoing example Enueloped Wrapped Enuiron To coÌ„passe about Enumerate To reckon vp to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciatiue Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmeth or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in vse euery yeare to finde the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yearly and is made by the addition of eleuen to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeare but alwaies so that both those numbers exceede not the number of 30. For if they amount to aboue 30. then must you cast away the 30 and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeare 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleuen for the next yeares Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeare 1617. Note also wheÌ„ in any yeere the Epact is â—9 you must adde 12. to find out the next yeares true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleuen In al other nuÌ„bers the Epact is stil made as before by adding eleuen And these Epacts are euer changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day-acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomy in vse among such as erect figures to cast mens natiuities by which booke is shewen how all the Planets are placed euery day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure conteining about fiue peckes of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It couered the backe and was curiously wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Scarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were fit two great precious Onix stones and in them grauen the names of the twelue sonnes of Iacob called the twelue Patriarches in the right shoulder the sixe eldest and in the left the fixe youngest that the High Priest entering into the Sanstum Sanctorium which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom hee was to pray vnto God Epicycle A terme vsed in Astronomy It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the vpper part of this Epicycle the fiue Planets Saturne Iupiter Mars Venus and Mercurie doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to bee two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signes Epicure It is commonly taken with vs for a man giuen ouer much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to bee without paine and enioy pleasure of body and minde Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set vpon any thing now it is coÌ„monly taken for a short wittie poeme which vnder a fained name doth couertly praise or taxe some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folk are subiect This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striuing to excel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly fome at the mouth Epilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an enterlude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestatioÌ„ The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because then the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Sauiour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set vpon a toombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithere Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantiue to expresse some quality of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie vnbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous vnbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the quality of cruelty lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Ephitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimity Vprightnes of hart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing iust in the midst betweene the two poles of heauen to which line the sun coÌ„ming twice a yeare namely about the xi of March and the xi of September maketh the dates and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra doe both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or prouision for horsemanship especially in triumphs or turnaments Equiualence The equall value of one thing with another Equiualent Of equal value to another thing Equiuocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserued in ones own mind which peraduenture the hearers do not vnderstand Equiuocation A speech or answer made with a secret meaning reserued in ones mind Equiuocke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hel or a riuer in hell Erect To lift vp Erection A lifting vp Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worne onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with blacke and Ermines blacke powdred white Errant Wandring hauing no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceiued Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To bee forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An officer that obserueth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate vnto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charge to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant only payeth a yearely rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The beeing or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Iews which liued a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essential That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme
or handle a thing well Mandate A commandement Mandragorus See Mandrake following Mandrak A strange hearbe bearing yellowe round Apples The roote of this hearbe it great and white like a Radish roote and is diuided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This roote especially the barke thereof is extremely cold and drie euen to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receiue inwardly for that the least quantitie too much will quickly kill one Surgeons vse to steepe this root in Wine and giue it to bee drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the colde operation thereof causeth sleepe and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heauen to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seede with which the Israelites liued fortie yeares in the Wildernesse till they came to the bordeâ—s of the land of Canaan At the first sending hereof the people were in such admiration that they said to each other Manhu viz. What is this Which seemeth to bee the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kinde of dew which falling in hotte countries vpon trees doth there congeale almost like to crummes of whitebread and is gathered choicely kept as a gentle purger of choler Mansion A tarying or abiding also a dwelling house Mansuetude Gentlenes mildenesse Manuall Handy or that which may bee carried in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slaue or bondman free which was in olde time thus The lord of the slaue holding him by the head arme or other part saide before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoued him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A handwriting a written booke Marchasite A stone participating with the nature of some mettall yet in so small quantitie that the mettall cannot be melted from it but will vapour away in smoake the stone turning to ashes These Marchasites are commonly in colour like to the mettall mixed with them whether it bee golde siluer brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may bee stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly betweene Wales and England or betweene England and Scotland Marcionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Olde condemned Heretikes so called of their first master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell fish especially in Oysters wherof some haue holes in them and some haue none the best are brought out of India yet they are also found in our English Seas as also in the Flemish and Almaine and the fairest Margarits grow in yong shels Some write that in Thunder the Oysters doe cast them vp as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes vsed by Physitions in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings hauing vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenesse of the bodie Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordring neere the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of a good conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grieuous torment for constant perseuerance in true religion Martyrologie A historie of the death of Martyrs A booke of the memorie of Martyrs Massacre A great slaughter or murder of many people together Masculine Of the male kinde Masticke A white and cleere Gumee of a sweete sauour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Iland Chios It is temperate in heat and of a dry binding nature wherfore it strengtheneth the stomacke stayeth vomiting and stoppeth any issue of blood Some doe vse to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as bee loose Masluerco An herbe in India of great vertue to heale wounds Materiall Which hath matter or substance in it Maternal Motherly Mathematician One skilfull in the Mathematickes sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens natiuities or vndertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematickes A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted froÌ„ bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmeticke Musicke Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A graue motherly woman Mature Ripe Maturity Ripenesse Matutine Of or belonging to the morning Maugre In despite of ones heart whether one will or no. Maxime A principall matter a maine point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a deuice like a labyrinth made in some gardens in manner of a knot out of which a man cannot get easily if he once enter in Mazar A broad flat standing cuppe to drinke in There is also a kinde of small Cherries so called Mecoenas It was the proper name of a noble Romane who being in great fauour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horace and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometinâ—â— a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenis Mechanicall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish roote brought out of India called by some Indian or white Rubaâ—be It is hot in the first and dry in the second degree and purgeth all humours of what kinde soeuer with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liuer and all the inward parts Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent party to both Mediation A meanes of agreement by a friend to both parties Mediator Hee that maketh meanes or speaketh for another Medicable Which may be healed Medicament A medicine Mediocritie A meane a measure Mediterranean Sea A sea which diuideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours in the body the grossest of al other which if it abound too much causeth heauinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellistuous Sweet as hony Membrane The vpmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often vsed when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Menniges Thinne skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skinnes one called by Physitians Dicta mater which is the stronger of the two and next vnto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first beeing more tender and sine and close
A strong kind of building by fastening boards or timber with arteficiall ioynts so firmely together that they cannot fall asunder Cummine 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 goe to rest and couer their fire Cursorily Swiftly as when one readeth a booke ouer with speede Curtezane A harlot Curtilage Any peece of ground as a yard 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 olde 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 wee 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 mountaine◠very tall and slender the timber thereof is yellowish and of a pleasant smell especially set neere the fire It 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 skin of the head and often hang about the haires They are caused by salt sleame or some other corrupted humours piercing insensibly the pores and then slightly congealed by the ayre and may be taken away by washing the head with salt water or vineger warme Darnell A naughtie 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 Debility Weaknesse Debitor A debtor Debonaire Gentle mild curteous Decad. The number of tenne Decalog The tenne commandements Decent Comely hansome Decency Comelinesse Decide To determine or end a controuersie or doubt Decypher 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 Hee that maketh a declamation Decline To bend downward Declination A bending downeward Decliuity A steepe bending downward as on the side of a hill Decoct To seethe to boyle Decoction A boyling or seething In Physick 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 comeiinesse 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 craftily 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 disfiguring Deformitie Ill-fauourdnesse vncomelinesse Defraude To deceiue to beguile Deft Little and pretty feat and handsome Defunct Dead Degenerate To turne out of kinde 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 example 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 Garlick 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 downe 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 lands which hee and his auncestors haue alwaies vsed Demeane To behaue or carry ones selfe Demeanour Behauiour Demerit A desert Demise To giue or grant Democritie A kind of gouernement wherein the people beare rule without other superiours sauing such as they appoint Democraticall Of or belonging to the estate of Democratic Demolish To pull downe Demolition A pulling downe Demoniacke Possessed with a diuell Demonstrable Which may bee 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 small peece of mony Denizen A straunger borne that obtaineth the Kings letters patents and becommeth
sores in the bodie Exulte To reioyce greatly to triumph ouer one Exultation A great reioycing F FAbricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easinesse Faction A sect or diuision into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome vnquiet Factor Hee that buyeth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his businesse Facultie Power ability a trade or course of life a priuiledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priuiledge he could not doe Facundite Eloquencie Fage A fable Falding A kind of course cloth Fallacie Deceit in words Falsitie To counterfeite or make false Falsification A counterfeiting or making false Faâ—â—â—ie Falsehood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping vlcer growing in knottes and following along some veine Farced Stuffed full Fascinate To bewitch Fastidious Disdainfull loathing proud Fate Destiny that which must of necessitie come to paste by Gods secret appointment Fatall That which happeneth or commeth to passe by fate Faunes Poeticall gods of the woods Fauorite One in great fauour Fealtie A ceremony done by some tenants to the Lord of whome they hold lands which is in laying their right hand vpon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beauty Fecundity Fruitfulnes Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicity Happinesse Fell. A skinne sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemonth A month so called because the it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the does then do fawn This month beginneth about the ninth of Iune and continueth till the ninth of Iuly Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seede whereof is much vsed in Physicke It is yellow beeing hot in the second degree and dry in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolue Feodarie An officer who is to be present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to suruey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deede witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liuery of seisiae and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the the Feofer and the party to whome it is made the Feofee Feriae Any day of the weeke kept holy Fers The Queene in chesse play Fertile Fruitfull yeelding much Fertility Fruitfulnesse Feruent Hot. Feruour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in schooles vpon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scutcheon whose breadth is diuided into three euen parts Festiuall Merry ioyfull belonging to a feast Festiuitie Mirth reioycing pleasantnes merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Deere Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badget Fiction A feined deuice a lye Fidelity Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine deuice a lye a counterfeit tale Figuratiue That which figureth or serueth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skinne within the body deuiding the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeares Finall Of or belonging to an ende the last * Finance An end Finite Which hath an end Fire-drake A fire sometime seene flying in the night like a Dragon Common people thinke it a spirit that keepeth some treasure hidde but Philosophers affirme it to be a great vnequall exhalation inflamed betweene two Cloudes the one hot the other colde which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hotte Cloud being greater than the rest maketh it seeme like a belly and both ends like vnto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers vnderstand by this word the eighth spheare next aboue the spheres of the seauen Planets in which all the fixt Starres are placed Firmity Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hotte countries not much vnlike a small hasell nutte They are very good against the stoppings of the liuer being steeped all night in some sweete wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to vnstop the lungs and for such as are troubled with shortnesse of breath and are comfortable for the stomacke yet they nourish but little being taken as meate Fistula A daungerous vlcer or sore still running It goeth vp into the body with a long narrow hole like a pipe and is commonly hard in the outside Fitch The furre of the Polecat Fixe To fasten Fixed Fastened Flagitious Wicked verie lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Iupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to dye he thereupon went presently out of his office It was not lawful for him to abide one night out of the City nor yet to affirme any thing by oath for his word was held of sufficient credite The other two Flamins were the Flamine of Mars and the Flamine of Romulus called Quirinus Flankards Hunters call so two knots or nuts in the flanke of a Deere Flebotomie See Phlebotomie Flegmaticke Full of fleagme or inclining to fleagme Flexibility Aptnesse to bend Flexible Pliant easie to bend * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coyne Whereof there be two sorts one about the valew of three shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence fatthing Fluent Which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of bloud Fluxibility Aptnesse to flow or spread abroad Fluxible Which is apt to flow or run abroad Foyling The print of a Deers foot in grasse when it cannot well be seene Foemen Enemies Foines A kinde of furre brought for the most part out of France the top of this furre is black and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foson Great plenty store Foiterers Vagabonds Folio A sheete or large leafe of paper Fomentation In Physick it properly signifieth powders or dry things in bags or any liquor in a sponge or bladder applied warme to the body to mitigate paine or for some other purpose Footstall The lower part of a pillar wheron it standeth Foppe A foole Foppery Foolishnesse a vaine matter Forage Prouision for horses and cattell in the warres Forcer A cofer or little chest Forester Hee that hath charge to looke to a forrest or some part of Foreloyne A tearme in hunting when a hound meeteth a chace and goeth away with it before the rest Forlorne Vtterly vndone in a desperate estate Formalitie An obseruing of good forme or order Formall That which keepeth due forme Formositie Beautie fairenesse Forestall To buy victuall or other merchandise by the way before it come to the faire or market to sell it againe at a dearer price Forestaller He that doth forestall and buy things in such
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