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
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
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
Arabia of the colour of yron which being oâ—ce set on fire can hardly be quenched Abject Vile base of no estimation Abjure To sweare or forsweare a terme sometime used in Law when one having committed a capitall offence flyeth to a Church or Churchyard and chooseth rather perpetuall banishment viz. to abjure the Realme then stand to tryall of Law This Law was instituted by S. Edward the Confessor in favour of life but now is not in use Abjuration A renouncing by oath see Abjure Ablepsie Want of sight blindnes unadvisednes Ablution A washing Abolition A taking away destroying or abolishing Abortion The birth of a child before due time or the destroying in the mothers wombe Abortiva That which is untimely born Abrahams Baume A little tree of the kind of Withies growing in Italy and other hot countreys bearing round fruit like Pepper cornes It is very hot and dry and hath a singular propertie to procure chastitie for which cause Physicians have named it Agnus castus Abridge To shorten to cut off to gather onely the principall points Abrogate To abolish to disanull by publike authoritie to alter and make a Law which was in force to be of no effect Abrupt Broken off Abruptly By peece-meale out of order without observing of due circumstance Absolve To pardon acquite or discharge Absolute Perfect accomplished Absolution Pardon acquitall forgivenesse Abstinence A forbearing from gluttony or unlawfull taking other mens goods Abstinent Sober temperate content with his own Abstract A little booke or gathering taken out of a greater Abstraction A taking away or a short draught taken out of a greater thing Abstruse Hidden secret not easie to understand Absurde Foolish without any wit or grace Absurditie Foolishnesse Abusive That which offereth abuse Abisse A bottomlesse pit any deepnesse so great that it cannot be sounded Acatia A little thorne growing in Egypt out of the leaves and fruit whereof they draw a juyce or black liquor which being dryed is called Acatia and is very astrictive or binding Our Apothecaries have not the right Acatia but insteed thereof they use the juyce of Sloes being of the same vertue that Acatia is Academie A Vniversitie or great publike schoole the name hereof first came of a place in Athens called Academia where Plato taught Academicall Belonging to an Vniversitie or Academie Academicke A Philosopher of the sect of Plato They acknowledged one God and beleeved the immortalitie of souls Plato having learned many things of the Hebrews then the peculiar people of God Accelerate To hasten Acceleration A hastening Accesse Liberty or power to come to a place Accessible Which may be gone too Accessary He that counselleth or commandeth another to commit any offence or comforteth or hideth him knowing that he hath committed an offence Accident That which happeneth by chance sometime it signifieth that which belongeth to a thing and yet is no part of the substance as the quantitie qualitie and such like Accidentall Happening by chance or belonging to an Accident Acclamation A crying out to one Accomodate To make fit to apply Accoutrement Attire or dressing Accoste To draw neere to one Accâ—ew To grow arise or increase Accumulate To heape up Accumulation A heaping together Acerbity Sowrenesse Acheeve To performe or bring to passe Acolite A Minister serving to bring water wine and light to the altar Aconitum A venemous herbe having a root much like to a Scorpion and shining within like alabaster Poets faine that Cerberus the three headed dog of hell being dregged up in a chaine of Adamant by Hercules did cast some of his some upon this herbe whereby it became so venomous Acquire To get or procure Acquisition A getting or purchasing Acquite To discharge or free one Acquitall A freeing of one from being guiltie of an offence wherewith he was charged Action A deed done or the doing of any thing In our common Law it signifieth a suit commenced against any man and is commonly divided into three differing kinds viz 1. Action personall which is for debt goods cattell 2. Action popular which any man may sue as upon the breach of a penall statute where some advantage is allowed to him that will sue for it 3 Actionreall when one claimeth title to any lands tenements rents or common in fee simple fee taile or for terme of life Active Livelie strong nimble Activitie Strong nimblenes Actor A doer sometime a Player Actuall That which is done or committed Acute Sharp wittie Adage A proverbe Adamant A precious stone commonly called a Diamond brought out of Arabia and Cyprus It is the hardest of all stones insomuch that it cutteth glasse and yeeldeth neither to stroke of hammer nor fire for which cause the Greeks name it Adamas which in their tongue signifieth Invincible Notwithstanding it is softened with goats blood being steeped therein new and warme It is of contrarie nature to the loadstone in so much that being laid near it the loadstone cannot draw yron having the vertue thereof overmastered by the Adamant Addict To apply or give ones selfe much to any thing Additament Any thing added Addition An adding or putting to In our common law it signifieth any title given to a man beside his name which title sheweth his estate trade course of life and also dwelling place Adhere To cleave to Adherence A cleaving to or belonging to any thing Adherent That which cleaveth or joineth close to a thing Adjacent That which lyeth neare to another thing Adjourne To deferre or put off till another time Adjournement A terme in law when any Court is dissolved and appointed to be kept upon some other time or at any other place Adjunct A qualitie joyned to a thing as heate to fire coldnesse to Snow Adjure To binde by oath to make one to sweare Adjuration A swearing or binding by oath Administer To do service sometime to take charge and dispose of a dead mans goods by appointment of the Ordinarie Administration The doing or handling of a busines or the disposing of a dead mans goods that made no will Administrator He to whom the Ordinary committeth in charge the goods of a man dying without will Admire To wonder to honour or esteem highly Admiration A wondering Admission A receiving or giving one leave to enter Admit To let in to allow of Admixtion A mingling of things together Admonish To warne Admonishment A warning given one Adopt To choose one to be his sonne Adoption The choosing and making one to be as his sonne to him Adore To worship to give divine reverence Adoration A worshipping Adorne To decke to set out to beautifiâ— Adornation A decking or trimming Advent A comming Câ—rtaine weekes before Christmas are so called because then is made in the Church solemn preparation for the comming of our Saviour Adventaile A coate of Armour Adverse Contrary Advert To marke Advertise To give knowledge of a thing Adulation Flattery Adulâ—tory Which flaâ—tereth Adulterate To corrupt or counterate Adâ—ocate He that pleadeth for
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
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
valour Forewelked Dried up Foster To cherish to bring up to keep Fother A wain-load of 2000. weighr Fracture A breaking Fragilitie Weakenesse brittlenesse Fragment A broken peece a cantle Fragrant Sweet smelling * Frape A companie a rabble Fraternitie A brotherhood Fraud Deceit cousenage Fraudulent Deceitfull Fray Harts or stags are said to fray their head◠when they rub them to make the pilles of their new horns come off * Fremd Strange Frequent Often common also to haunt or resort much to a place Frequentation A haunting or resorting to a place Frication A rubbing Friction A rubbing Frivolous Vain foolish of no account Froise A pancake a tansie Front A forehead the first part of a battell an entrance or beginning Frontire The bounds or limits of a countrey Fronilet Any thing worne on the forehead * Frownce A wrinckle Fruitifie To beare fruit Frugall Thriftie sparing Frugalitie Thriftinesse good husbandry Frustrate To make voyd to deceive to disappoint Fugitive One likely to run away a vagrant person a run-away Fumigation A perfume any thing which being cast on hot coales maketh a sweet smell Function An office a charge which one hath a course of life Fundamentall Of or belonging to the foundation or to the maine chiefe and principall point Funerall A solemne buriall of some great person Furies Three imaginarie hags or spirits in hell having snakes growing on them in stead of haires Poets feined them to be daughters of Acheron a river in hell and of the night and to have the office of tormenting the soules of wicked men Their names were Alecto Megaera and Tisiphone Fusible That may be molten Future That which shall be hereafter G * Gab. To prate or lye Gabbing Lying Gabions Baskets of earth to keep off great shot Gable The fore-front or end of a house coming down right Gaynest Most profitable or neerest * Gadling Stragling Galangale An herbe so called the root whereof is hot and dry in the third degree and much used in physicke Galbanum A gumme or liquor drawne forth of a plant in Syria called Metopion It is of a strange savour and very pure close and firme neither too moist nor too dry It is good against an olde cough and for such as cannot easily fetch breath and the perfume thereof driveth Serpents from the place where it is burned * Galiard Lustie frolike * Galoch A kinde of shooe * Gaipe To belch Grangrene A dangerous disease when any fleshie part of the body after some great inflamation or other griefe losing the naturall colour beginneth to grow insensible and by degrees to waxe dead Garbe A tearme in Heraldrie It signifieth sheafe of Wheat or any other grain Garbell To purifie or cleanse spice or other things from the drosse or dust which is mingled with it Gargarize To wash or scowre the mouth with any Physicall liquor Gargarisme A liquor to wash the mouth Gargill The same that Gargarize * Gargoning Strange speaking Garrulitie Pratling vaine babling Garter It sometime signifieth the principal of our English Heralds called the King at armes Gatherbag The bag or skin inclosing a young red Deere in the Hindes bellie Gavelkinde Customes annexed unto certain lāds in Kent called Gavelkinde lands whereof one is that if the Father be hanged for Felony the Sonne shall enjoy all his lands and tenements holden in Gavelkinde Other customes there are of Gavelkinde too long to be rehearsed in this place Gawgeour An officer having authority to give a marke of allowance to all Tuns Hogsheads Pipes Barrels c. of Wine Oyle Honie and Butter before they ought to be sold * Gawre To stare Gehenna It properly signifieth a place in a valley in the Tribe of Benjamin where the Israelites erected abhominable altars there sacrificing their children in fire to the Idoll Moloch notwithstanding it is usually taken for hell Gemme A jewell Genealogie A pedegree a declaration of ones linage stocke or race Generable Which may be begotten Generate To beget Generositie Noblenesse of minde Gentlemanlike courage Generous Noble valiant vertuous Genesis A generation The first Booke of Moyses is so called in Greeke and Latine because it declareth the creation and generation of all things Genet A goodly horse of Spaine Genets A beast almost of the bignesse of a Cat breeding in Spaine There are two colours of them blacke and gray but the furre of the black is most esteemed Genius The spirit or soule A good Angel or a familiar evill spirit Gentill Among the Jews all were Gentiles that were not of one of the twelve Tribes now we commonly call them Gentiles that professe not the faith of Christ Gentilisme The opinion or beliefe of the Gentiles Gentilitie The same that Gentilisme is Geographie A description of the earth as we see in Maps Geomancie See Divination Geometrie An art of due proportion consisting in lineaments formes distances and greatnesse There are foure principles hereof to wit 1. A prick or point 2. A line 3. A superficies or outside 4. A bodie This Art was of great estimation among the ancient Grecians Geometrician One skilfull in Geometrie Georgikes Books treating of husbandry and tillage of land * Gerifull Changeable sometime cruell * Gesseran A breast plate Gesticulation A mooving of the fingers hands or other parts either in idle wantonnesse or to expresse some matter by signes in dancing singing or other such like exercise Gestes Deeds noble acts Geules A tearme among Heralds It signifieth a vermilion colour * Gippon A doublet a light cote * Gipsere A bagge or pouch Girle A Roe Bucke of two yeeres * Gisarme A certaine weapon * Gite A gown Give A weapon like an Halberd Glede Fire embers flame ashes sometime a bird called a Puttoke * Glce Mirth or joyfulnesse Gleire White Glinne A little village or part of a village Glister A liquor made sometime with sodden flesh sometime with decoction of hearbs or other things which by a pipe is conveyed into the lower parts of the body It is written that the use hereof was first learned from a Bird in Egypt called Ibis much like unto a Storke which Bird doth often with her bill open her hinder parts when nature of her selfe doth not expell what is needfull Globe A great round Bowle or a description of the world made in such a forme Glosse A short exposition of any darke speech Glow To be hot and red to shine to burne * Gnarre A hard knot in wood sometime a short thicke fellow a club Gnathonicall Flattering deceitfull in words soothing ones humour to get by him * Gnoffe A Foole a Churle Goldfoile A thin leafe of gold Golden number A number which changeth every yeere by adding one to the golden number of the yeere going before untill it grow as high as nineteene and then the golden number returneth to one again For example this yeere 1616. the golden number is two the next yeer therefore it will be three c. This golden number was devised to finde out the feast
of Easter Golgotha A Syrian word signifying a place of dead mens sculles It was a place at Hierusalem on the North side of Mount Sion so called because there lay the sculles of offenders put to death * Golierdise Hee that hath a fowle great mouth Gomor The name of an Hebrew measure containing more than a Gallon The Israelites when they were fed from Heaven with Manna in the desert received every one this measure full for a daies allowance * Gonfennon A little flag Gordian knot A knot which cannot be loosed Gorgon A terrible fighting Woman Poets feine there were foure such Daughters to King Phorcus their names were Scylla Medusa Stenio and Euryale Gossomer Things that flye like Copwebs in the ayre Gourmand A glutton Gourmandize Gluttony sometime to eate like a Glutton Graces A poeticall fiction of three Sisters supposed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus They were called Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosyne The moralitie of this invention was to expresse the mutual love and cheerefull conversation which ought to be amongst friends For they were painted naked to signifie that friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smiling and merry to shew that men should do good willingly young and maidenlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefit bestowed doth again return to the giver Gradation A going by steps or a speaking by certaine degrees Gradual That which was said or sung betweene the Epistle and the Gospel Graduate He that hath taken degree of learning in a publike Vniversitie Graines of Paradise A little seed brought out of Armenia of a strong sweet smell and somewhat sharp in taste It is hot and dry of a subtill substance and often used in Physicke For it warmeth the inward parts and is good against the falling sicknesse the Sciatica the Strangurie bytings of venemous beasts and divers other diseases * Grame Sorrow mishap anger Gramaticall Of or belonging to Grammer Granadillia A fruit like a Pomegranat growing in India Grand Great Grandour Greatnesse * Graythed Devised * Gratch Apparell Gratefull Thankfull Gratifie To pleasure one to offer one a kindnesse To do a good turn Gratification A pleasuring of one a good turn Gratis Freely without cost Gratitude Thankfulnes Gratuitie A benefit or gift given onely for good will sometime thankfulnesse or a reward Gratulate To signifie that we rejoyce at the prosperitie of another Gratulation A rejoycing for anothers good A thanksgiving Gravitie Heavinesse also sagenes great discretion Graund Sergeantie An old tenure in the Common Law when a man holds lands or tenements of the king to go with him into the wars or to beare his banner lead his host or do some such like service Graunge A village or lone house in the country * Gree. Good part Griffine A strange Bird in India with foure feet armed with cruell clawes being from the breast upward fashioned like an Eagle but of purple colour with red fierie eyes and whitish wings and in the hinder part blacke made much like a Lion This bird neasteth in the high mountaines and is exceeding hard to be taken except very yong for he will adventure on any man is so fierce that he often killeth Elephants Dandragons He is most enemy to horses for which cause Virgil in his eight Eclog bringeth in the shepherd Damon who wondered at a strange marriage speaking thus Junguntur jam gryphes equis c. The Griffins fierce are joyn'd with horses now * Grith Agreement Gruell Potage Guacatane An herbe growing in the west Indies of great vertue against the piles or griefs proceeding from cold or windinesse Guaiacum A wood called by some Lignum vitae It is much used in physick against the French disease Guaiavas A fruit growing in India much like unto apples Guerdon A reward Guerdonles Vnrewarded * Guerring Brawling Gumme Arabicke A kind of gumme growing on a thorne tree called Acacia in Egypt Guzes The ball of the eye A terme in heraldrie Gymnosophists Certaine Philosophers in India that went alwaies naked and lived solitary in woods the first beginner of which sect was as S. Hierome writeth cont Iovinian named Buddas * Gyre A trance H. HAberdepoise A pound weight which conteineth sixteene ounces Habit The outward attire of the body whereby one person may be distinguished from another as the habit of a Gentleman is different from the habit of a Merchant and the habit of a Handi-crafts man differing from them both Sometime it signifieth a qualitie in the bodie or minde not naturall but gotten by long custome or insused by God as an Orator still exercised in making orations hath gotten a habit of eloquent speaking and the holy Apostles had a habit to understand and speak languages without studie Habitable Which may be dwelled in Habitation A dwelling place Habituall Grown to a habit by long custome * Hailse Charge * Haine Hatred * Haketon A sleevelesse jacket Halituous Vaporous thin moist which may be voided out by the pores * Halse A necke * Halke A corner a valley * Hameled Cut off abated Hamkin A pudding made upon the bones of a shoulder of mutton all the flesh being first taken off Hamlet A village in the countrey Hague A hand-gunne of about three quarters of a yard long Haguebut A gunne or harquebuse Harbinger One that taketh up lodging for others Hariant A tearme in herauldry when a fish is painted standing upright Harmonie Delightfull musicke of many notes Harmonious Sweet pleasant delightful to the eare Harpyes A Poeticall word It signifieth certaine monstrous birds with maiden faces crooked sharp talons so called because of their rapine which they used They lived in Stymphalis a Lake of Arcadia and were sent by the Gods if we beleeve Poets to snatch away and defile the meat of Phineus king of that countrey because he at the perswasion of his second wife had destroyed the children which he had by his first they were at last driven away by Zetus and Calais the sonnes of Boreas These Harpyes were named Aello Ocypete Celeno and Thyella Harquebuze A hand Gun Harquebuzier He that shooteth in a hand Gun * Harrow An old word signifying away sie Haubergion A coate of male Hauoire Possession * Hauselins Breeches * Hawbacke To return Hawberke A Gorget Hearse A buriall coffin covered with black Hecatombe A great sacrifice wherein were offered a hundred beasts Hecticke A Fever inflaming the heart and soundest parts of the body Heisugge A bird which hatcheth the Cuckooes egges Hemisphere Halfe the compasse of the heavens that part of the heavens which is still visible to us Hemistich Half a verse Hemorrhodes A swelling of veines in the fundament like werts whereof some doe use to bleed often and some bleed not at all They are caused by superfluitie of grosse melancholy blood sent to these parts from the Liver being many times healthfull to the patient by preventing other diseases and therefore ought not hastily
say of all beasts and will counterfeit the voice of a man to draw sheepheards out of their houses in the night to the end he may kill them It is written that he changeth sex often being somtime male and sometime femall Hymen A poeticall word it is taken for the God of marriage sonne unto Bacchus and Venus and sometime for a song at a mariage feast Hymn A song to praise God Hyperbole A figure when one speaketh a great deal more than is precisely true Hyberbolicall Any thing spoken above all beliefe as in saying higher than heaven swifter than lightening c. is called an Hyperbolicall speech Hypocrite It properly signifieth one that doth counterfeit the gesture of an other man but it is commonly taken for a dissembler that with fained holines would seeme beter than he is indeed Hypoquistidos In divers hote countries there groweth a plant called Cistus having about the root thereof a certaine Mushroome which being bruised yeeldeth a liquor called by Apothecaries Hypoquistidos This liquour brought hither dry is cold of operation and of vertue to stop all bleedings laskes and fluxes of the belly Hypostaticall Belonging to substance or that which consisteth in the substance of a thing Hypotheticall In Logike those propositions which have a conjunction in them and so consist of two parts are called it Hypotheticall propositions as in saying If the Sunne be in our Hemisphere it is day Hysteron proteron A Greeke terme sometime used in derision of that which is spoken or done preposterously or quite contrary We call it in English The cart before the horse I IAcent Lying along Jacynth A precious stone found in Ethiopia whereof there are two kindes the one of a pale yellow colour and the other of a cleere bright yellow which is accounted the better It is cold of nature comfortable to the body and provoketh sleep Jacobs staffe An instrument in Geometry Jaculatory That which is suddenly cast from one like a dart Jambes Postes susteining both sides of the doore Jambeux Armour for the legs Jasmine A limmer weake plant full of joynts or knots which groweth in manner of a hedge or quickset and must be stayed up as roses and vines are Jasper A precious stone of divers colours but the best is greene transparant with red veines and sheweth fairest being set in silver it is good to stop any issue of blood Jasponix A precious stone white of colour and having red strakes Iazul A precious stone of a blew azure colour Ibis A tall strong bird in Egypt with a long bill which doth much good there in destroying serpents Icleeped Named called * Icond Learned Idea The forme or figure of any thing conceived in the minde Identitie The selfe same thing Idiome The forme of speech or propertie of any language Idiote It is commonly taken for a foole naturall notwithstanding it sometime signifieth a man unlearned Ides Eight daies in every moneth so called because they devide the moneth almost in the middle In March May July and October these eight daies begin at the eighth day of the moneth and continue to the fifteenth in other moneths they begin at the sixt day and continue to the thirteenth Where note that the last day onely is called Ides and the first of these dayes the eighth Ides the second the seventh Ides that is the eigthth or seventh day before the Ides and so of the rest Idolaster An Idolater Iehovah The ineffable name of God signifying his divine essence The Hebrews did not use to reade this word when they came to it in any writing so much reverence did they beare unto it but in stead thereof they pronounced Adonai which signifieth Lord. Iesus A Saviour * Iewise Reward by revenge also a gibbet * Ifere Together * Ifretten Devoured Ignoble Base that is not noble Ignominie Shame reproch infamie Ignominous Shamefull vile reprochfull * Ikend Known Iliads A booke written in Greeke by Homer of the destruction of Troy * Ilke The same Illation A bringing in of a matter Illaudable Not worthy of praise Illegitimate Vnlawfull not lawfully begotten Illiberall Not liberall miserable base Illiberalitle Niggardnesse properly in a great man that over slightly rewardeth a service or curtesie done to him by his inferiour Illiterate Vnlearned one that is not acquainted with letters Illude To mocke to deceive Illusion A mockerie a cunning slight to deceive one Illuminate To enlighten Illumination A shining or giving of light Illustrate To make famous or noble Illustration A making famous or noble Illustrious Famous noble very honourable Imagerie Painted or carved works of images Imaginarie That which is conceited in the mind Imbecillitie Weaknesse * Imeint Mingled Imitate To follow Imitation A following Imitator A follower of another Immaculate Vndefiled pure unspotted Immanitie Crueltie outragious fiercenesse Immarcessible Vncorruptible Immature Vnripe Immaturitie Vnripenesse Immediate That which commeth directly from one thing to another without any thing between Immedicable Which cannot be healed Immemorable Not worthy to be remembred Immense Vnmeasurable which cannot be measured Immensitie Exceeding greatnesse unmeasurablenesse Immoderate Vnreasonable contrary to modestie Immodest Not sober unmannerly saucy Immolate To offer in sacrifice Immolation An offering of sacrifice Immortall Not subject to death everlasting Immortality Everlastingnesse Immunitie Freedome or discharge from any publike busines Immure To shut up or inclose in a wall Immutable â—nchangeable Immutation A change Impacted Thrust hard together couched into Imparitie Vnequalnesse unlikenesse Imparlance When a man sued in the common law for debt trespasse or such like craveth and obtaineth of the Court some respite of time before he make his answer this stay of making his answer is called an Imparlance Impassibilitie A Freedome from any ability of feeling pain Impassible Which cannot feele any paine or passion Impeach To harme or hinder Impeachment A hinderance Impeachment of waste A restraint from making waste in Lands or Tenements Impediment A hinderance Impell To thrust on to constraine Impenetrable So hard that it cannot be pierced Imperious That commandeth with authoritie Lordlike stately Impertinent Not belonging to the matter Impetrable Which may be obtained Impetrate To obtain Impetuous Violent or hasty Impietie Wickednesse Impious Wicked Implacable Hard to be pacified or that cannot be appeased Implicite Wrapped up hidden Implore To beseech to intreat with teares Jmportance The weight or value of a thing Important Of great weight and value Importune To urge earnestly Importunate Very earnest which will not be answered Importunitie Vnreasonablenes too much earnestnes in asking Impose To lay on Imposition A laying on Impost Custome or tallage paid at Haven townes or elsewhere Impostume A quantity of evill humours gathered into one part of the body There are two kinds hereof One when inflamed blood being turned to corrupted matter filleth some place the other when without any inslammation nature thrusteth those humours into some part apt to receive them Imposture Deceit cousenage properly in selling counterfeit wares for currant or
Innate Naturall Innavigable That which cannot be sayled upon Innovate To make new Innovation A making new an alteration Inobservable Which cannot be observed or marked Jnoculate To graffe a bud by cutting a round hole in the barke of another tree and setting it on with clay Inquisition A searching Inquisitive Very desirous to know searching or enquiring after a matter Insatiable Which cannot be satisfied or filled Inscription A title or note written upon any thing Inscrutable Vnsearchable which cannot be perfectly found out Insculpe To cut or carve in Insensible Which cannot be perceived or one so foolish that he perceiveth nothing Insert To put in to adde Insertion A putting in Insinuate To put any thing into ones mind cunningly and closely also by little and little to creep into ones favour Insinuation A cunning speech to creep into ones favour Insist To continue or abide Insition Graffing Insociable Not apt to keep company Insolencie Pride Insolent Proud presumptuous also strange and unwonted Insoluble That which cannot be loosed unanswerable Inspection A looking in Inspersion A sprinkling Inspire To breathe into to put in ones mind Inspiration An inward instruction or motion comming from God Instance An example or similitude brought of a thing Instant Very earnest also quicknesse speedinesse present time Instaure To repaire or build a new Instigate To stirre up to provoke Instigation A stirring up a provoking Instinct A naturall inclination Institute To ordaine to appoint somtime to teach and instruct Institution An appointment an ordinance somtime a teaching or instruction Insult To vaunt proudly over one Insultation A proud crowing over one Insuperable Which cannot be overcome Insurrection A rising of many together in armes or disturbance of the peace Integritie Soundnesse upright dealing honestie Intellectuall Of or belonging to the understanding Intelligence Knowledge understanding sometime an Angel or heavenly spitit Intelligent One that understandeth Intelligible Which may be understood Intentive Which listeneth well and is earnestly bent to a thing Interceede To step between to intreat for one Intercept To take by the way before it come to him to whom it was sent Interception A taking of a thing by the way to the let or hinderance therof Intercesse See Interceed Intercession An intreating in ones behalfe Intercessor He that intreateth for another Intercourse Passing or sending one to another Interdict To forbid to barre or keepe away Interdiction A forbidding Interest Right or title sometime profit made by usurie Interfeere To knock the legs together in going Interim In the meane while Interior Inward Interlace To joyn withall to mixe together Interline To write between two written lines Interlocution A speaking betweene Interlude A Play a Comedie Intermission A leaving off for a time Intermit To leave off for a time to discontinue Intermixe To mingle with other things Internall Inward very deerely esteemed or familiar with one Interpellation An interrupting or troubling one while he speaketh Interpose To put between to step in between two to busie himselfe where he needeth not Interposition A putting between Interre To bury Interreigne The space of time between the old king and the new Interrogation An asking a question Interrogative Which asketh a question Interrogatorie Asking of a question a demaund Interrupt. To breake between to trouble one as he is speaking Interruption A breaking off a troubling Intervall A distance of time or place Intestate That dyeth without making any testament or will Intestine Bred in the bowels Intestine warre Civill warre Intimate To signifie or touch a matter closely Intimation A cunning tor close signifying of a matâ—er Intire Whole sound perfect Intolerable Which cannot be endured Intoxicate To bewitch to amaze or extreamely dull ones spirit Intractable Stubborne which cannot be ordered or handled * Intresse Lyning Intricate Wrapped entangled hard to be understood Intrinsecall Inward Introduct To leade or guide in Introduction That which leadeth or directeth one Intrude To thrust boldly in Intrusion A thrusting in properly into a void tenement whereto one hath no right Invade To set upon to assault Invaliditie Weaknesse want of strength Invasion A setting upon an assault Invective A sharp speech made in ones disgrace Inveigh To speak bitterly against one Inveigle To allure to entice Inveloped Wrapped covered Inventorie A writing of the quallity and value of a mans goods Inversion A turning in or a turning upside downe Invert To turne contrarie to right forme Invest To clothe Inveterate Old auncient Invincible Which cannot be conquered Inviolate Safe whole not wronged or broken Invisible Which cannot be seene Invite To request to bid to a feast Inundation An overflowing of water Invocate To call upon Invocation A calling upon Involve To roule up in a thing to cover Invulnerable Which cannot be wounded Joâ—und Merrie pleasant Joynture Lands or Tenements which a man assureth unto his Wife for terme of her life or otherwise in respect of his marrying her * Joleyning Joyfull * Jonglerie Jugling Joviall Noble excellent also lively pleasant and merrie Joyeux Joyfull Irascible Which hath power to be angry Iris The rainebow Ironie A speaking by contraries as in calling blake white Ironicall That which is spoken in jest or mockingly contrary to his meaning that speaketh it Irradiation A shining upon Irrationall Vnmeasurable Irrefragable Vndeniable Irregular Contrarie to rule somtime it signifieth one not capable of holy orders Irregularitie A going out of right rule In the old Canon Law it is taken for any impediment which hindereth a man from taking holy Orders As if he be base borne or notoriously defamed of any notable crime or be maymed or much deformed or have consented to procure anothers death with divers other impediments too long to be reheatsed in this place Irremediable Which cannot be remedied Irreparable Which cannot be repaired Irreprehensible Which cannot be reproved Irresolute Not fully resolved uncertaine Irrevocable Which cannot be called backe againe Irrision A mocking Irritate To provoke to move to anger Irritation A provoking Irruption A breaking into Isthmos A narrow part of a Country between two seas Iterate To repeate or do againe Iteration A doing again a doing twice * Jub A bottle Jubilation A great shout for joy a great rejoycing Jubilie A publike rejoycing or a great shout for joy Among the Hebrewes every fiftieth year was called the yeare of Jubilie for then were bond-men of there owne Country made free possessions returned againe to the first owners neither was it lawfull to plant or sow any thing that yeare Among Christians this solemnitie of keeping a yeere of Jubilie was first instituted by Bonifacius the eight in the yeare of our Lord 1300. who ordained that it should be observed every hundreth yeare After this Clement the sixt instituted it to be kept every fiftieth yeare And lastly Sixtus the fourth brought it to be celebrated every five and twentieth yeare beginning it first in the yeare of our Lord God 1475. Jucunditie Pleasantnes mirth Judaisme The religion or beliefe of the Jewes
Judiciall Belonging to judgment also wise grave of great judgement Judicious See Judiciall Iujubes Certain plumbs of Italy sold here by Apothecaries This fruit is in colour white or red in fashion round or like an olive in tast sweet having a hard long stone like an olive stone but much lesse If these plumbes be kept long they waxe drie and full of wrinckles They are temperate in heate and cold and are good against the cough roughnesse of the throat and against all exulcerations and inflammations of the kidnies and bladder but being eaten for meate they are of hard digestion Iulip A physicall cleere drinke made of distilled waters and sugar used to coole the bodie or quench thirst in hot diseases sometimes the Iuleps have sirups or other mixtures put to them Iuncture A joynt a joyning together Ivorie The Elephants tooth it is of a binding nature and the scraping thereof is good against sores growing under the rootes of the nayles Iuridicall Of or appertaining to judgement Iurisdiction Lawfull authority in any place Iustification A justifying or making just * Iwympled Muffled K Kalends See Calends Keele The bottome of a ship Keene Sharpe edged Kell The caule about the paunch of a Hart or Stagge * Kemelling A brewers vessell * Kepe It is sometimes taken for care or regard * Keynard A micher a hedge-creeper * Kitchell A kinde of cake Kintall A certaine weight of about an hundred Kirat An Arabian word signifying the weight of three graine Kith Acquaintance Kitkaies The fruite of the ashen tree they are little narrow huskes hanging together in clusters wherein is contained the seed of the ashe which is bitter This provoketh urine and is sought by some for other purpose * Knarrie Stubbie Knight-service An auncient tenure of lands by which a man was bound to beare armes in warre for the defence of the Realme L LAas A nette or gynne Laborious Painfull full of labour Labyrinth An intricate building or place made with so many turnings and windings that whosoever went into it could never get out without a perfect guide or a threed to direct him the end of which threed must be tyed at the doore where he entreth Some heathen Princes bestowed infinite charge to build such devices in a stately forme There were foure principall labyrinths in the world The first in Egypt made for a sepulcher of one of their Kings or as some write in honour of the sunne The second in the Iland of Candie built at the commandement of King Minos by the ingenious workeman Daedalus who tooke his patterne from that which he had seene in Egypt the third in the I le Lemnos the fourth in Italy built by King Porsenna of great square stones for his owne sepulcher Lacca A kinde of red gumme brought out of Arabia and sold here by Apothecaries good against diseases of the breast and comfortable to the Liver Laudanum A yellowish gumme as some write notwithstanding others affirm it to be made of a dew which falleth upon a certaine herbe in Greece Avicen sayth it is taken hanging on the haire of Goats beards that have fed upon that plant It is hot and drie and sweet of smell if it be pure It is often used in pomanders and being annointed upon the head with oyle of myrtles it doth strengthen the skin and keepeth haire from falling off Laike A lay man Laitie The estate or degree of a lay man lay men Lake A faire red colour used by painters Laire The place where any Deere harboureth by day Languishment A feeblenesse a fainting Languor Feeblenesse sicknesse infirmitie Lapidarie One that selleth or polisheth precious stones a Jeweller Lappise A terme used among hunters when hounds opē their mouthes in the string or a greyhound in his course Larch Turpentine A kind of Turpentine or rosen growing upon the Larch tree in Italie used often in oyntments and emplaisters to cleanse or heale wounds It may be also taken inwardly with honey and then it cleanseth the breast looseth the belly and expelleth the stone and gravell * Larfon Robberie Largesse Liberality Lascivious Wanton dishonest Lasciviousnesse Wantonnesse Lassitude Wearinesse Lastage Any heavy weight or balasse layd in the bottome of ships to make them goe upright It is also a terme in the common law which signifieth to be quite of a certaine payment in faires and markets for carrying of things where a man will Latitude The breadth of any thing in Astronomy it signifieth the distance north or southward from the Equinoctiall line or the distance of the Pole from the Horizon Latria Divine honour Laude Praise Laudable Worthy of praise Laureate Crowned with Laurell Laurell The Bay tree or a garland of Bayes * Laye A Song * Layvers Thongs of lether Lazer A Leaper a poore man full of sores and scabs Lazule stone A blewish greene stone of the kind of marble used sometime in physick It is in operation hot and dry and being rightly prepared according to an art known to Apothecaries is good against melācholy diseases and by cleansing the bloud to preserve one from the leprosie League Truce friendship peace sometimes it signifieth a space of three mile or thereabout Leasing Lying Lector A reader * Lectorne A Deske Lecture A reading a lesson * Leede An old name of the moneth of March. Leete A court or law-day holden commonly every halfe yeare Legatie Any thing given by ones will or testament Legall Of or belonging to the law Legate An Embassadour Legend A story of old matters Legible Which may be read Legion An army of men The Romane Legion consisted of ten bands wherof the first band contained 1105. footmen and 123. horsemen in which band the Standard was alwayes carried The other nine bands had every one 555. footmen and 66. horsemen so that a Legion made up the number of 6100. footmen and 726. horsemen * Legisters Lawyers Legitimate Lawfull lawfully begotten Legitimation A making of one legitimate Lenity Gentlenes mildnes mercy Lentils A kind of small pulse growing in hot countries round and flat of colour sometimes blacke somtimes white and sometimes browne Being boyled but once they loose the belly but at the second boyling in another water they are of a binding nature being then good to stop the bloody flixe or any loosenes of the body Lentiske A tree growing in divers hot Countries which beareth the notable Gumme called Masticke The leaves and barke of this tree stop all loosenes and issues of blood whatsoever Lessee He that taketh a Lease Lesses Doung of a ravenous beast as of a Beare Bore c. Lessour He that letteth lands or tenements to another Lethargy A disease contrary to phrensie for as phrensie is caused by hot humours inflaming the braine so is a Lethargy by cold flegmaticke humours oppressing the braine in such sort that the Patient can doe nothing but sleep whereby he becommeth forgetfull with losse in a manner of reason and all the senses of his body Lethe A poeticall word signifying a
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
overthrow Subvert To overthrow to destroy Succinct Briefe short Suffocate To strangle choak Suffocation A choaking a strangling Suffrage Favourable voyces in our behalfe as at the choosing of officers or Magistrates Suggest To put closely into ones minde Suggestion A prompting or putting of a thing into ones minde Sulphur Brimstone Summary A briefe gathering together an abridgment containing the whole effect of a matter in few words Summarily Briefly touching onely the chiefe points Summity The height or top of a thing Superabound To abound very much to be in great plenty Supereminence Authoritie or dignitie above others Supererogation Laying out of more then one hath received or the doing of more then a man is of necessity bound to doe Superficiall Going no farther then the outside slight bearing shew onely in the outside without any goodnesse within Superficies The outside of every thing which is alwayes in sight Superfluity More then needs to be overmuch Superfluous That which is too much also vaine or unprofitable Superlative The highest Superiour Higher above another Supernall That which commeth from above Superscription A writing set upon any thing as on the outside of a letter Supersedeas In our common Law it signifieth a commandement sent by writing forbidding an officer from the doing of that which otherwise he might and ought to doe Superstition An excesse of ceremonious worship false worship or honour given to God Supplant To trip one or to overthrow him craftily Supplement That which supplyeth or maketh up what is wanting Supply To fill up or adde too Suppliant He that maketh a supplication or humbly intreateth another Supplicate To beseech humbly Suppository Any thing put up into the Fundament to make the body soluble It is commonly made of honey boyled till it grow thick and so made into an apt forme for that purpose whereto sometime is added the yolke of an egge or salt when we will have it to worke the effect more speedily Suppresse To keepe downe to beate under sometime to conceale or keep close Supputation An account or reckoning Supreme Chiefe highest most excellent Surcease To give over leave off or cease * Surcote A gowne with a hood of the same Surplusage Overplus more then needs Surprise To come unawares to take upon a sudden Surprisall A taking unawares * Surquidrie Presumption Surrender To yeeld up lands or tenements to another Surreption A privy taking away Surround To compasse round about Survey To overlooke or oversee Surveyer He that hath the oversight of the kings or some great personages lands or works Survive To overlive or live after another Surviver He that liveth after another Suspend To stay one by authority for a time from executing his office to delay to deferre Suspence Doubtfulnesse uncertainty Suspiration A breathing or sighing Swallowes tayle In building it signifieth a fastening of two peeces of timber so strongly together that they cannot fall asunder Swaine A Servant Swaynemote A Court kept thrice a yeare touching matters belonging to a forrest * Sweven A dreame * Swynker A labourer Sycomore A tree like a fig tree having great branches and large leaves like a Mulberry It beares fruit three or foure times in a yeare much like a wilde Fig but without any seeds within The fruit groweth upon the very body of the tree and the great maine boughes and will never be ripe except it be scraped with an yron tool It is found plentifully in Caria Egypt and the I le of Rhodes especially in such places where Wheate will not grow Sycophant A Tale bearer a slanderer a false accuser Syllogisme An Argument consisting of three parts whereby somthing is necessarily prooved as thus Every vertue is honorable Patience is a vertue Therefore Patience is honourable The first part of a syllogisme is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sylvane Of or belonging to the woods Symbole A short gathering of principal points together Symmetrie Due proportion of one part with another Symmetrian Hee that considereth the due proportion of a thing and how well the parts agree with the whole Sympathy A likenesse in quantity or a like disposition or affection of one thing to another Symphony Harmony or consent in Musicke Symptome Any passion or griefe following a disease or sensibly joyned with it as headach with an Ague a pricking in the side with a Plurisie and such like Synagogue A Congregation or assembly commonly it signifies a church of the Iewes Synteresie The inward conscience or a naturall quality ingrafted in the soule which inwardly informeth a man whether he do well or ill Synod A generall councell a generall or universall assembly Synoper See Cinoper Synopsie A sight or full view of a thing T * TAas. An heape Tabernacle A shelter or a room made abroad with boords and boughes of trees There was of old among the Israelites a feast commanded by God called the feast of Tabernacles which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh moneth and continued seven dayes during which time the Israelites lived abroad in Tabernacles in remembrance that their Fathers a long time so lived after God had delivered them out of the land of Egypt Tacamabaca A Rosin brought out of the West Indies of great vertue against any cold humours rising of the Mother Toothache and divers other griefes Talent A certaine value of money Among the Greekes there were two kinds of talents the greater and the lesse The greater contained about two hundred thirty three pounds sterling the lesse about an hundred seventy five pounds Among the Hebrewes the greater talent of the Sanctuary contained 400. pounds the lesser Talent halfe so much Tallage Custome fraight Tamarinds A fruite brought hither out of India like unto green Damsens They are cold in operation and therefore good against burning Feavers and all inward diseases proceeding of heate and choler Tamariske A little tree bearing leaves not much unlike to heath the decoction whereof in Wine and a little Vineger being drunken is of great vertue against the hardnes or stopping of the spleene or Milt This tree doth by nature so wast the Milt that Swine which have been daily fed out of a vessell made thereof have beene found to have no Milt at all * Tapinage Secrecie slilinesse Tarantula A little beast like a Lizard having spots in his necke like starres Tardie Slow Tartar Leeâ—e of wine Tautologie A repeating of one speech or matter often Taxe To appoint what one shal pay to the Prince sometime to reprove Tearce A measure of moyst things being the sixt part of a tun and the third part of a pipe * Teene Sorrow Temerarious Rash hasty Temeritie Rashnesse Templaries Certaine Christian souldiers dwelling about the Temple at Hierusalem whose office was to entertain Christian strangers that came thither for devotion and to guard them in safetie when they went to visite the places of the holy Land They wore by their Order a white Cloake or upper Garment