the foregoing example Enveloped Wrapped Environ To compasse about Enumerate To reckon up to declare Enumeration A reckoning a rehearsall Enunciative Any thing pronounced or spoken A proposition or speech which simply affirmed or denyeth any thing as Cicero is vertuous Cicero is not vertuous Epact A number which is in use every yeer to find the age of the Moone by This Epact changeth yeerly and is made by the addition of eleven to the former Epact both which numbers are the Epact for the following yeer but alwaies so that both those numbers exceed not the number of 30. For if they amount to above 30. theâ— must you cast away the 30. and the remaining number shall be the Epact As for example in this yeere 1616. the Epact is 22. to which if you adde eleven for the next yeers Epact it maketh 33. from which if you take away 30. there will remaine three which is the Epact for the next yeere 1617. Note also when in any yeere the Epact is 29. you must ad 12. to find out the next yeeres true Epact that casting away thirty the Epact may come to be eleven In al other numbers the Epact is still made as before by eleven And these Epacts are ever changed on the first day of March. Ephemerides A booke wherein day acts are registred Commonly it is taken for a Booke of Astronomie in use among such as erect figures to cast mens nativities by which booke is shewne how all the Planets are placed everie day and houre of the yeare Ephi An Hebrew measure containing about five pecks of ours Ephod A holy garment worne by the high Priest of the Hebrewes when he executed his function It covered the back and was curiouslie wrought with gold and twisted silke of Purple Skarlet and Violet colour On the shoulders there were set two great precious Onix stones and in them graven the names of the twelve sonnes of Iacob called the twelve Patriarchs in the right shoulder the six eldest and in the left the six youngest that the High Priest entring into the Sanctum Sanctorum which was the holiest place of the Temple might beare with him the names of the people for whom he was to pray unto God Epicycle A terme used in Astronomie It signifieth a lesser circle whose center or middle part is in the circumference of a greater circle In the upper part of this Eâ—icycle the five Planets Saturne Jupiter Mars Venus and Mercury doe goe forward according to the course of the signes as Aries to Taurus c. in the lower part they are retrograde that is goe backward as from Gemini to Taurus from Taurus to Aries againe Betweene these two motions are said to be two stations namely when a Planet ceaseth going forward and beginneth to be retrograde or comming to the farthest point of his retrogradation goeth forward againe so that in the Epicycle these Planets wheele about somtime according sometime contrary to the order of the signs Epicure It is commonly â—aken with us for a man given over much to pleasure especially in gluttony In ancient times it signified one that followed the sect of a Philosopher named Epicurus who taught that the greatest happines was to be without paine and enjoy pleasure of bodie and mind Epigramme It properly signifieth a superscription or writing set upon any thing now it is commonly taken for a short witty poeme which under a faigned name doth covertly praise or tax some particular person or thing Epilepsie The falling sicknesse whereto most commonly children and yong folkare subject This disease is caused by some humor or vapor suddenly stopping the passage of spirits in the braine which the brain striving to expel causeth the patient to fall downe and commonly some at the mouth Spilog The conclusion or end of a matter A speech made after an entâ—â—lude or play is ended Epiphanie An appearing or manifestation The feast of Twelfe day at Christmas is so called because theÌ„ the appearing of a new star did manifest the birth of our Saviour Episcopall Of or belonging to a Bishop Epitaph An inscription or writing set upon a tombe most commonly in lamentation or praise of the party there buried Epithete Any word or short sentence added to a Noune substantive to expresse some qualitie of it as in saying Barbarous crueltie unbridled lust anger the short madnes of the mind where barbarous unbridled and the short madnesse of the mind are Epithetes expressing the qualitie of crueltie lust and anger Epitome An abridgement or short gathering of any matter in writing Epitomize To make an abridgement or short gathering Equanimitie Vprightnes of heart quietnes of mind Equinoctiall An imagined line passing just in the midst between the two poles of heaven to which line the sun coming twice a yeer namely about the xj of March and the xj of September maketh the daies and nights of equall length in all the world for which cause it is called Equinoctiall The signes Aries and Libra do both begin at this line Equipage Furniture or provision for horsemanship especially in triumph or turnaments Equivalence The equall value of one thing with another Equivalent Of equall value to another thing Equivocate To speak or answer with a secret meaning reserved in ones own mind which peradventure the hearers do not understand Equivocation A speech or answermade with a secret meaning reserved in ones mind Equivoke When one word signifieth two things Erased A terme of Heraldrie when any member of a beast seemeth torne from the body Erebus Hell or a river in hell Erect To lift up Erection A lifting up Eremite See Hermite Ereption A taking away Ermines A little beast lesse then a Squirrell the furre whereof is very costly worn onely by Princes or great Potentates It hath a taile of a thumbe length and is browne Ermine in Heraldry somtime signifieth white powdred with black and Ermines black powdred white Errant Wandring having no certaine abode Erroneous Full of error deceived Erst Heretofore Erudition Learning instruction Eruption A violent breaking out Escheate To be forfeited to the King or chiefe Lord. Escheater An Officer that observeth and certifieth into the Exchequer such things as do escheate unto the King Escript A writing Escuage A tenure of lands whereby the tenant is bound at his own charg to follow his Lord into the warres either in Scotland or Wales sometime in this tenure the Tenant onely payeth a yeerly rent Escuerconera An hearbe in the West Indies so named because it is of great vertue against the deadly stingings or bitings of certaine venemous beastes which in that country they call Escuercos Esperance Hope Essayes Tryals Essence The being or naturall substance of any thing Essenes Certaine religious men among the Jewes which lived a very strict life abstaining from wine flesh and women Essentiall That which belongeth to the essence of a thing Essoine A tearme in the common Law when a man cannot well appeare at a day appointed in court and is
to be stopt unlesse through continuance the body bee too much weakened by them Henchman A page of honour neere attendant to a Prince or other great personage * Hend Gentle * Hent To catch or lay hold of Herbage Pasture or the feeding of cattel in pasture Herball A booke of the nature of herbs Herbinger See harbinger Hereticall Obstinate in a false beleefe belonging to an Hereticke Heretike He that maketh his owne choice what points of religion he will believe and what he will not believe Hereditarie That which commeth to one by inheritance Heriot The best living beast which a Tenant hath at his death which in some Mannors is due to the lord of whom the land is holden Hermaphrodite Of both natures which is both man and woman Hermite One dwelling solitarie in the wildernesse attending onely to devotion Hermitage A lone house where an hermit dwelleth Hermodactiles Little roots white and round sold by Apothecaries They are hot and dry in the second degree and are much used against all gouts purging slimie fleame from farthest parts of the body but they must be taken with Ginger Anniseed or Cummin and a little Masticke or else by stirring windinesse they will overturne the stomacke Heroes Great Noble men Heroycall Noble honorable couragious Heroike The same as Heroicall Hests Commandements or decrees Heteroscians Any people dwelling under a temperate Zone so called because their shadowes at noone bend still but one way Hew Colour Hewle A little copse or grove Heyward A bailiefe or officer having charge to looke to the fieldes Hiacinth See Hyacinth Hide of land Some affirme it to be an hundred acres Hidage A taxe or paiment for every hide of lād Hidebound A disease in cattell when the skin cleaveth to their sides Hideous Terrible ugly Hiena See Hyena Hiera picra A bitter confection made of Alo◠succotrina and other simples often used in Physicke to purge Choler out of the flomacke Hierarchie The holy order of Angels which containing nine degrees as some affirme is a mystical resemblance of the B. Trinitie there being in nine thrice three and in every three thrice one So that there are three superiour three inferiour and three middle degrees The superior are Seraphines Cherubines and Thrones the middle Dominations Principalities Powers The inferior vertues Archangels and Angels Hieroglyphikes A darke mysticall kinde of writing used chiefly in times past among the Pagane Priests and learned men of Egypt to hide their knowledge from the vulgar sort This writing was by making the formes of beasts and divers other figures and could hardly bee understood without exposition or great knowledge in the nature of things For example Eternitie or everlastingnesse they expressed by a round circle which hath no end A king by a scepter with an eye in the top thereof A matter of haste by a Dolphin the swiftest of all fishes And a matter of deliberation or advice by an Anchor which stayeth a ship in the waves With a thousand such devices not subject to common capacities to find out Hight Was named Hillocke A little hill Hin An Hebrew measure of moist things containing by Agricolas account foure pottles and a quart of ours Santes Pagninus affirmeth it to contain threescore and twelve egges Hip. The red berry on the bryer Hipocrite See Hypocrite Historian A writer or teller of a History Historicall Of or belonging to a History Historiographer A writer of Histories Historiologie The knowledge and telling of old Histories Hoane A fine kinde of whetstone Hogsteere A wild Bore of three yeeres old Holocaust A sacrifice wherein the whole beast is offered and no part reserved Holt A grove Homage In Court Barons the Jury that are sworne to enquire of matters are so called It signifieth also a servil ceremony of duty by some Tenants to their Lords after this manner The Tenant that holdeth Lands by homage kneeling on both knees before the Lord who sitteth and holdeth the Tenants hands between his saith as followeth I become your man from this day forward of life and member and of earthly honour and to you shall be faithfull and true and shall beare to you faith for the Lands I claime to hold of you saving the faith that I owe to our Lord the King And then the Lord sitting must kisse the Tenant Homager One that doth or oweth homage Homicide A manslayer sometime manslaughter Homilie A talking together a speech or a Sermon Homonymie A terme in Logicke when one word signifieth divers things as Hart signifieth a beast and a principall member of the body Honour point In Herauldry the upper part of a Scutcheon is so called when the bredth thereof is divided into three even parts * Hopesteres Pilots to guide a ship Horizon An imaginary line compassing the lowest part of the heavens that we can see so called because it limiteth our sight dividing the heavens underneath us from that which is above The Sun rising and going downe is ever in this line Horologe A Clocke or Dyall Horoscope The ascendent of ones nativitie to wit that part of the firmament which ascendeth from the East when a child is born Astrologers call it the first house Horrid Terrible fearefull to looke on Horrour Great feare or trembling * Horrow Beastlie base flaunderous Hosanna An Hebrew word which signifieth Save I beseech thee Hospitalitie Entertainment of strangers good house keeping Hostage A pledge left in warres for performance of covenants Hostile Of or belonging to an enemie malicious harmefull Hostilitie Enmitie hatred open warre Hotchpot A terme in our common Law when a daughter which hath had given unto her any lands to be coheire after in Franke marriage clayming her fathers death to other lands with some sisters is constrained to suffer that part of land given her before her fathers death to be put in Hotchpot that is to be mingled together with the lands whereof her Father dyed seised so that an equall division may be made of the whole * Howgates How Howsell To minister Sacraments to a sicke man in danger of death Howten To hollow Hulke To open a hare or cony to take out the garbage * Hulstred Hidden Huke A Dutch attire covering the head face and all the body Humane That which belongeth or may happen to man Humanitie Gentlenesse courtesie civill behaviour also manhood or the nature of mankind Humide Moist Humiditie Moisture Humiliate To make humble Humiliation A making lowe or humble Humorous Full of humors * Hurtelen To thrust to provoke Hyacinth The red blew or yellow lilly also a purple flower called crowtoes Hydra A monstrous serpent in the Lake Lerna which having one head cut off had forthwith two other heads growing up in the place Hercules fought with this serpent and slew him Hydromancie See Divination Hydromell A physicall sweet drinke made of water and hony Hyemall Belonging to winter winterly Hyena A beast like a Wolfe having a mane and long haires over all the bodie It is the subtillest as some
artificiall joynts so firmely together that they cannot fall asunder Cummine An herbe the seed whereof is much used in Physicke It is hot and dry good to breake or dissolve windinesse in any part of the body Cummulation A heaping up or increasing Cunctation Slacknesse delay lingering Cupglasse A hollow round Gâ—â—sse with a hole in the bottome used by Physicians sometimes to draw 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 covetounsnesse Curfew A bell which ringing about bedtime giveth folkes warning to go to rest and cover their fire Cursoritie Swiftly 〈◊〉 as when one readeth a booke over with speed Curtezane A harlot Curtilage Any peece of ground as a yard backe-side or garden-plot adjoyning to a house Custodie Safe keeping Cuichoncale A little flie as some thinke brought from beyond the Sea dried wherewith Diers dye 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 over sharply barke at mens vices and were not so respective in their behaviour as civilitie required The chief of this Sect were Antisthenes and Diogenes Cypher A circle in Arithmetike like the letter O which of it self is of no value but increaseth the value of other figures after which it is joyned wherefore we sometime say of one that in company of others doth nothing himself that he standeth for a Cypher Cypresse A tree which groweth on drie mountains very tall and slender the timber thereof is yellowish of a pleasant smell especially set neere the fire It carryeth no leaf but greene small twigs D * DAffe A dastard * Dags Latches 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 fleame or some other corrupted humours piercing insensibly the pores and then sleightly congealed by the aire and may be taken away by washing the head with salt water or vineger warme Darnell A naughty grain almost like wheat but much lesse and groweth among wheat often It may be used in Physicke against some outward diseases but taken inwardly it is harmefull as being too hot and making the head giddy Darreigne To attempt or challenge Deaurate Gilded glistering like gold Debilitate To weaken Debilitie Weaknesse Dehitor A debtor Debonaire Gentle mild curteous Decad. The number of ten Decalog The ten commandements Decent Comely hansome Decencie Comelinesse Decide To determine or end a Controversie 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 controversie Declayme To speake evill 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 downward Declination A bending downward Declivitie A steep bending downward as on the side of a hill Decoct To seethe to boyle Decoction A boyling or seething In Physicke it signifieth commonly any liquor in which medicinable roots herbs seeds flowers or any other thing hath been boyled Decollation A beheading Decorum Comely or comelinesse Decrepit Weake or very feeble with age Decressant The Moon in the last quarter Decretals Ordinances decrees Dedicate To offer give or appoint for some speciall purpose Dedication An offering a giving up Deduce To take away to abate Deduct To take away Deduction A taking away Defamation A defaming a speaking ill of one Defamatory Slanderous which defameth Defatigation Wearinesse Defeasance An overthrowing or undoing that which was formerly done A writing testifying that some other writing shall be of no force Defeate To deceive or beguile to take craftily from one Defect A sailing or want in any thing Defection A falling away a revolting Defective Faultie which wanteth something Defendant He which answereth to an accusation or challenge Defensive That which defendeth or is spoken or done in defence Deferre To put off to prolong Define To declare shew or describe a thing plainlie Definition A sentence which expressely declareth what a thing is Definitive 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 favourednesse uncomelinesse Defraud To deceive to beguile Deft Little and prettie feat and handsome Defunct Dead Degenerate To turne out of kinde Degrade To take away the priviledge of holy orders from one Degradation A taking away of Ecclesiasticall authoritie from a Clerke convinced of some notorious crime Degree A terme often used in Astronomie and Physick 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 divided In Physick 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 perceived The second that which may be manifestly perceived 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 Honey 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 be foure degrees and in moisture but two Dehort To disswade to advise one to the contrary Dehortation A perswasion or admonition to refraine from doing something Deject To throw down to debase Dejection A throwing down 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 deceive Deluge An universall overflowing of waters Noes floud Delusion A mocking Demaynes The Lords Mannor house and the Lands which he and his Ancestors have alwayes used Demeane To behave or carry ones self Demeanour Behaviour Demerit A desert Demise To give or grant Democraty A kind of government wherin the people bare rule without other superiours saving such as they appoint Democraticall Of or belonging to the estate of Democratâ—â—â— Denâ—â—ish To pull down Demolition A pulling down Demoniacke Possessed with a devill Demonstrable VVhich may be shewed or made manifest Demonstrate To shew Demonstration A shewing plain of any thing Demurre A pause or stay a standing still Demy Half sometime little Deneere A penny a small peece of money Denizen A stranger born that obtaineth the Kings letters patents and becometh his Majesties subject enjoying thereby all priviledges as if he were
FAbricate To frame to build Fabrike A frame a building Fabulous False as a fable Facile Easie Facilitie Easinesse Faction A sect or division into sundry opinions Factious Contentious troublesome unquiet Factor He that buyeth and selleth for a merchant or that looketh to his businesse Facultie Power abilitie a trade or course of life a priviledge or power granted that a man may doe something which without such priviledge 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 Falshood deceit Fanaticall Distracted mad franticke out of his wits Farcines A disease in beasts it is a creeping ulcer growing in knots and following along 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 cometh to passe by fare Faunes Poeticall gods of the woods Favorite One in great favour Fealtie A ceremonie done by some tenants to the Lord of whom they hold lands which is in laying their right hand upon a booke and promising fidelitie to him by oath Feature Hansomnesse comelinesse beautie Fecunditie Fruitfulnesse Fleere A companion a husband or wife Felicitie Happinesse Fell. A skin sometime it signifieth fierce terrible or frowning Feminine Of or belonging to the female Fencemoneth A moneth so called because then it is not lawfull to hunt in any forrest for that the Does then doe fawne This moneth beginneth about the ninth of June and continueth till the ninth of July Fengreeke A plant or herbe the seed whereof is much used in physicke It is yellow being hot in the second degree and drie in the first and hath power to mollifie and dissolve Feodarie An officer who is to be present with the Escheater at the finding of any office and to survey wards lands and to rate them Feofment A deed witnessing the sale or gift of lands in fee simple with liverie of seisine and possession thereof He that maketh the Feofment is called the Feofer and the partie to whom 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 Fervent Hot. Fervour Heate Ferula A rod sticke or thinne paulmer wherewith children are corrected in Schooles upon the hand Fessepoint The middle part of a scutcheon whose bredth is divided into three even parts Festivall Merry joyfull belonging to a feast Festivitie Mirâ—h rejoycing pleasantnesse merrinesse Feud Hatred enmitie strife Fewmets or Fewmishing The dung of a Decre Fiants The dung of a Fox or Badger Fiction A feined device a lye Fidelitie Faithfulnesse Figment A vaine device a lye a counterfeit tale Figurative That which figureth or serveth but as a representation of another thing Filiall Of or belonging to a sonne Filme A fine thinne skin within the body dividing the flesh or any neere member one from another Fine An end sometime money payed when one first taketh land for yeers 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 be a great unequall exhalation inflamed between two Cloudes the one hot the other cold which is the reason that it also smoketh the middle part whereof according to the proportion of the hote Cloud being greater then the rest maketh it seeme like a bellie and both ends like unto a head and taile Firme Strong stable stedfast Firmament Astronomers understand by this word the eighth spheare next above the spheres of the seven Planets in which all the sixt Stars are placed Firmitie Strength stedfastnesse Fistike nuts Outlandish nuts brought out of Syria and other hot Countries not much unlike a small Hasell nut They are verie good against the stoppings of the liver being steeped all night in some sweet wine and so eaten in the morning They are good also to unstop 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 meat Fistula A dangerous ulcer or sore still running It goeth up 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 very lewd Flamine A great Priest amongst the Gentiles There were three such at Rome One called Flamen Dialis The Priest of Jupiter who ware rich vestments and had a chaire of Estate If his Wife chanced to die he thereupon went presently out of his office It was not lawfull for him to abide one night out of the Citie 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 flegme or inclining to flegme Flexibilitie Aptnesse to bend Flexible Pliant easie to end * Flo. An arrow Floreine A coine whereof there be two sorts one about the value of three shillings foure pence the other about two shillings ten pence farthing Fluent Which floweth or aboundeth Flux A flowing or issue of blood Fluxibilitie 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 blacke and the ground whitish the beast that beareth it is about the bignesse of a Cat. Foison Great plenty store Foiterers Vagabonds Folio A sheet 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 applyed 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 Provision for horses and cattell in the wars Forcer A coffer 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 undone in a desperate estate Formalitie An observing of good forme or order Formall That which keepeth due forme Formositie Beautie fairenesse Forestall To buy victuall or other merchandise by the way before it come to the faire or market to sell it againe at a dearer price Forestaller He that doth forestall and buy things in such sort Fortifie To make strong Fortification A hold any place made strong Fortitude Courage strength
this herbe is great and white like a Radish root and is divided into two or moe parts growing often almost like to the legs of a man This root especially the barke thereof is extreamely cold and dry even to the fourth degree It is therefore very dangerous to receive inwardly for that the least quantity too much will quickly kill one Surgeons use to steep this root in Wine and give it to be drunken of such as they must cut sawe or burne in any part for the cold operation thereof causeth sleep and maketh the body insensible for a time Manna In holy Scripture it signifieth a delicate food which God sent from heaven to the Israelites in manner of a dew white and somewhat like Coriander seed with which the Israelites lived forty 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 Manbu viz. What is this Which seemeth to be the cause why it was after called Manna In Physicke it is taken for a kind of dew which falling in hot Countries upon trees doth there congeale almost like to crums of white bread and is gathered and 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 carryed in the hand Manumission A making one free from bondage Manumitte To make a slave or bondman free which was in old time thus The lord of the slave holding him by the head arme or other part said before witnesse I will that this man goe free and in so saying shoved him forward out of his hand Manure To till to dresse land Manuscript A hand writing 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 be gold silver brasse or any other Some affirme a Marchasite to bee any stone out of which fire may be stricken Marches The bounds or limits lying betweene two countries commonly between Wales Englād or between England and Scotland Marchionesse A great Lady a Wife to a Marquesse Marcionists Old condemned Heretikes so called of their first Master Marcion a stoicke Philosopher pher who held a detestable opinion that Christ was not the Sonne of God Margarites Little pearles found in the shell-fish especially in Orsters whereof some have holes in them and some have 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 young shels Some write that in thunder the Oisters doe cast them up as it were in way of abortion which is the cause that they are often found in the sands They are sometimes used by Physitiās in cordiall confections for they comfort the spirits and are therefore good against swoundings having vertue also in them to stop issues of blood or any loosenes of the body Margent A brimme or border Marginall Written in the Margent Marine Belonging to the Sea Maritall Husbandlike Maritime Bordering neer the Sea Marte A great faire or Market Martiall Warlike Martyr A witnesse one that dyeth for the testimony of agood conscience Martyrdome A suffering of death or grievous torment for constant perseverance in true Religion Martyrology A history 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 kind Masticke A white and cleere Gumme of a sweet savour This Gum groweth on the Lentiske tree especially in the Island 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 use to rub their teeth herewith as well to whiten them as to fasten such as be 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 Mathematicks sometime it is taken in a worse sense for one that superstitiously casteth mens nativities or undertaketh to find things lost or foretell what is to come Mathematicks A terme applyed to such arts as treate onely of quantities imaginarily abstracted frō bodies The arts commonly so called are Arithmetick Musick Geometry Geography Astronomie Cosmography and Astrology Matrimoniall Belonging to Matrimony or Wedlocke Matrixe The wombe or place of conception Matrone A grave 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 main point a generall rule Maze An astonishment sometime a device 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 cup 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 favour with Augustus the Emperour was a speciall friend to the Poets Virgill and Horacc and generally a supporter of all learned men wherefore sometime a great friend or patron is called a Mecoenas Mechanichall Of or belonging to handicrafts Mechoacan A whitish root 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 soever with much ease It cleanseth and comforteth the liver and all the inward parts * Mediate To deale betweene two to make means of agreement as an indifferent partie to both Mediation A means 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 divideth Europe from Africa Megasine A storehouse for warre Melancholy One of the foure humours of the body the grossest of all other which if it abound too much causeth heavinesse and sadnesse of minde Melioritie A bettering Mellifluous Sweet as honey Membrane The upmost thin skin in any part of the body Memorable That which is worthy of remembrance Memorandum A terme often used when we write of a thing which we would remember Memorial That which putteth one in remembrance Mendicitie Beggery Meninges Thin skins in which the braine is contained There are two such skins one called by Physitians Dura mater which is the stronger of the two and next unto the scull The other named Pia mater is within this first being more tender and fine and close wrapping the braine it selfe If any of these skinnes bee wounded it causeth speedy death Menstruous Which hath upon her the monethly courses or which
Reforme To amend to correct Refractorie Stubborne which will not bend Refuge A place of succour Refute To disprove to confound by sence and reason Refutation A disproving a confuting Regall Kingly belonging to a King Regalitie The estate or authority of a King Regardant A tearme in Heraldrie when a beaste is painted looking backewards at one Regenerate To beare againe in birth to renew Regeneration A new birth Regent A Prince Ruler or Governour Regiment A government or the place where one hath authoritie Register Writings of record kept for memory Also he that keepeth such writings in a spirituall Court Regratour He that in a faire or market buyeth any dead victuall whatsoever and selleth the same againe in any faire or market kept there or within foure miles thereof Regresse A going backe againe Regression The same Regular Vnder rule or living according to a set rule Reject To cast off to despise Rejoynder A second answere made by the defendant after his first answere hath beene replyed unto Reiterate To do againe to do a thing often Relapse A backe slyding Relate To tell to declare Relation A rehearsall or telling of a matter Relaxation A releasing a refreshing or setting at libertie Relay A tearme of hunting when they set hounds in readinesse where they thinke a Deere will passe and cast them off after the other hounds are past by Releese A payment which some Heires make after the death of their Auncestour to the Lord of whom their lands are holden Relent To waxe soft to yeeld Relinquish To leave off to forsake Reliques Things left or remaning Most commonly it is taken for the bodies or some part of the bodies or somwhat which hath toucht the bodies of Saints now in heaven Remainder A possibility in any to enjoy lands tenements or rents after anothers estate is ended Remisse Slack negligent or carelesse Remit To send backe sometime to release or forgive Remora A little Fish which cleaving to the bottome of a shippe doth verie strangely stay the shippe that she cannot moove Remorse Doubtfulnesse in conscience to doe a thing a staggering in minde sometime pitifulnesse or repentance of a bad done Remote Farre distant Remunerate To reward Remuneration A reward a requitall Renovate To renew Renovation A renewing Repast Food Repeale To call backe againe to disallow Repell To thrust backe Repercussive That which striketh backe againe or reboundeth backe Repetition A new rehearsall Replevine A Warrant sent from the Sheriffe or his Bayliffe that a man shall have his cattell or a distresse taken from him restored to him againe upon surety sound to answer the party grieved in the Law Replication The answer made to the defendant after the defendant hath answered Repose To lay upon sometime to take rest Repositorie A storehouse a place to lay up things in Repossede To possesse againe Reprehend To reprove Reprehension A reproving Represse To stay backe to keepe downe by force Reprises All payments and charges that issue yearelie out of a Mannor Reprobate One past grace a wicked person a cast away Republike A Common-wealth Repudiate To refuse properly to put away ones Wife Repugne To resist Repugnancie Disagreement contrarietie Repugnant Contrary or resisting Repute To esteeme to account Reputation Estimation or account Requiem Rest ceasing from labour Rereward The hindemost part of a battell Rescouse A forcible deliverie or setting at liberty of one that hath beene arrested Reserved To keep by it selfe to keepe for some purpose Reservation A keeping of some thing apart Reside To alight sinke downe or to abide in a place Resident Abiding in a place Resigne To give or yeeld up Resignation A yeelding up of a thing to another Resolve To open to weaken to make loose sometime to expound and declare Resolute Determinately bent to doe any thing Respective Awfull which beareth great respect to one Respiration A fetching of breath Resplendent Bright cleere shining Respondent He that answereth Response An answer Restauration A repayring a making againe Restie Dull heavie Restitution A restoring backe Restriction A restrayning or holding back Result To rebound to leape backe Resume To take againe Resurrection A rising againe Resuscitation A stirring up againe Retaile To sell in small parcels that which was formerly bought Retention A keeping Retentive Having power to binde retaine or keepe Retire To return backward Retort To throw or shoote backe againe Retract To call backe againe to revoke Retractation A calling backe a recanting a denying of a thing before affirmed Retreate A calling backe of Souldiers from fight a returning or going backe Retribution A reward a recompence Retrive A seeking againe Retrograde That which goeth backward A planet is said to be retrograde when he goeth backward contrarie to the course of the signes as from Taurus to Aries c. Retrogradation A going backward Revels Players and dancings with other pleasant devices used sometimes in the Kings Court and elsewhere in great houses Revenew Yearely rent received for lands or tenements Reverberation A beating backe againe Reversed A tearme in Heraldrie when a mans armes is given him turned the lower part upward Reuert To returne Revise To peruse to looke over againe Reunite To joyne together againe Revocable Which may be called backe againe Revocation A calling back againe Revoke To call backe Revolt To forsake ones captaine or company and goe to another Revolve To tosse up and downe in ones minde to muse or thinke much of a matter Revolution A turning or winding about especially in the course of time Rhetoricke The art of eloquent speaking Rheubarb See Rubarb Ridiculous Worthy to be laughed at foolish without wit Rigid Stiffe hard stubborne Rigor Hardnesse stiffenesse extreame dealing Rigorus Hard cruell unmercifull Rime A mist or foggie dew Ringwalke A round walk made by Hunters Rinocere A great beast having a horne in his nose bending upward which he whetteth often against rockes to fight therewith against the Elephant Riot In the law it signifieth when three or moe persons being assembled to commit forcibly an unlawfull act do accordingly execute the same Rite A ceremony a custome Rivall One that sueth for the same thing with another Robustious Strong Roode In land it signifieth a quarter of an acre It is sometime taken for the picture of our Saviour upon the Crosse Rotunditie Roundnesse Rougecrosse The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Rougedragon The name of an office of one of the Pursevants at armes Route A disorderly assembly of three or moe persons moving forward to commit by force an unlawfull act It signifieth also a heard or great company of wolves together Rubarbe A costly roote much used in Phisicke to purge choler is brought hither out of Barbary Being toasted and dried it is then good against the bloodie flixe and all manner of laskes if it be so drunke with some binding liquor as the juyce of Plantaine red Wine and such like Rubricke An order or rule written Rubricated Marked with red or