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A28464 Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue with etymologies, definitions and historical observations on the same : also the terms of divinity, law, physick, mathematicks and other arts and sciences explicated / by T.B. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1661 (1661) Wing B3335; ESTC R25635 507,622 698

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yearly revenue to the value of forty shillings Sterling The former Etymology of the name he likes not making question whether it comes of the Dutch Yoncker or not which in the Low-Countries signifies a mean Gentleman or a Gay-fellow but he that hath added the Marginal Notes to that Book seems to draw it from the Saxon Geman which signifies a married man Verstegan cap. 10. saith Gemen among the ancient Teutonicks and Gemaene in the old Saxon signifies as much as Common and that the first letter G. is in this word as in many others turned into Y. and so written Yemen and that therefore Yemen or Yeomen signifies Commoners Yoman signifies an Officer in the Kings House who is in the middle place between the Serjeant and the Groom As Yoman of the Chaundry and Yoman of the Scullery An 33 Hen. 8. cap. 12. This word Yongmen is used for Yomen in the Statute of 33 H. 8. cap. 10. To Yex is that we do when we have the Hicket or Hick up some take it to sob or sigh Yewl See Vle Yoncker Belg. a lusty Lad a gay-fellow Z. ZAchary Heb. the memory of the Lord. Zane Ital. the name of John in some parts of Lombardy but commonly used for a Silly John a simple fellow a servile drudge or foolish Clown in any Comedy or Interlude Flo. Zanni Ital. men that with foul mouths unseemly speeches disfigured faces mimique gestures and strange actions profess to procure laughter used also for cross biting cunning-catching knaves Zecchine Ital. a coyn of Gold currant in Venice worth about seven shillings and six pence sterling But the Turkish Zecchine is valued at nine shillings Sterl Zelots Zelotes they that fear lest the thing they love should be common to another they that envy at one or assay to follow another in living but most used for those that are zealous or fervent in matters of Religion Zelotypie Zelotypia jealousie Zenith Arab. the point of the Firmament directly over ones head called the vertical point See Nadir Zephirus Gr. the West-winde called also Favonius Zereth an Hebrew measure of nine inches Zero Fr. a Cyphre in Arithmatick a thing that stands for nothing Zodiack zodiacus is an oblique imiginary circle in the Firmament dividing the Sphear athwart the Aequinoctial into two points viz. the beginning of Aries and Libra in the midst whereof is the Ecliptick line It s utmost limits are the two Tropicks Cancer and Capricorn its length three hundred and sixty degrees and breadth Sixteen It is divided into Twelve signs Six Northernly and Six Southerly the Northern are Aries Taurus Cancer Gemini Leo Virgo the Southern Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces he turns upon his own Poles from West to East Zoilus was a back-biting Poet who wrot against Homers Works from whence he was called Homeromastix i.e. Homers scourge Hence all envious persons or such as back-bite or carp at other mens works are called Zoilists Zone zona a Girdle In Cosmography it signifies a division made of the Heavens into five parts whereof one is extream hot two extream cold and two temperate The hot or torrid Zone is all that part of the Heavens which is contained between the two Tropicks of Cancer and Capricorn in which Zone the Sun continually keeps his course The two cold or frigid Zones are scituate between the two Polar Circles and the very Poles continually wanting the neighbourhood of the Sun The two temperate are betwixt the Tropicks of Cancer and the Artick and betwixt the Tropick of Capricorn and the Antartick Circles enjoying an indifferency between heat and cold So that the parts next the torrid Zone are the hotter and those next the frigid are the colder These five Zones are disposed according to the order of the five Zones in Heaven Vtque duae dextra Coelum totidemque sinistra Parte secant Zona quinta est arden●ior illis Sic onus inclusum numero distinxit eodem Cura Dei totidemque plagae tellure premuntur Quarum quae media est non est habitabilis aestu Nix tegit alta duas totidem inter utramque locavit Temperiemque dedit mistá cum frigore flamma Ovid. Zone also signifies a Soldiers Belt or Marriage Girdle the Soldiers Belt was lined in the inside where when they went to war they put their money whence Horace saith of a man that has lost his money Zonam perdidit Young Maids when they were married were wont to have a Marriage-Girdle tied about their middle which their Husbands the first might did untie whence Zonam solvere has been translated to deflowr a Virgin Zonarious zonarius of or belonging to a Girdle Purse or Zone Zonigrism zonigrismus an Instrument with a long and narrow neck to convey potions into the stomack with little taste of bitterness Zoography zoographia the painting or picturing of beasts Zoographer zoographus a Painter or one that draws the pictures of beasts Dr Br. Zoophytes zoophyta that are in part living creatures in part plants as Oysters Spunges c. Zygostatical Zygostaticus belonging to the pound weight of Sixteen ounces or to a Clark of a Market that looks to weights Ipse mihi plaudo nam stulta è fece popelli Hic scripsisse feret me benè ille malé FINIS ERRATA In AMort read what al a●ort Applumbuture read applum●atura Auxil Forces r. Countries For Babe● r. Babel Banes r. Abannan r. Battalogy Batavians r. Ba●a●i Bel r. ●miramis Belzebu● ● C●wley's Note Brigantine ● Faleque Bugge●ie r. 25 Hen. 8. cap. 6. r. Cacafuego Capuched dele into the. Chronogram r. 1638. Commaterial r. matter o● Concords r. which is Conservator r. conductuum Cristal r. crystalius Crosier r. French Creix Diatessaron r. of four Direption r. them away Dissidence r. or disagreeing Edish r. aftermath Enclitick r. trochivè Esquilinus r. Hills and the better r. Euintegrous Exceptor r. Writes Excommunication r. of the lawfull communication of the. Eximietie r. eximietas r. Expatiate and Exorcist For Feuid r. Feud Flamens r. of woollen For Gazel r. Gazet. r. Geld or Gelt Germination r. germinatio For Gipsony r. Gipsous Girasole r. Opals r. Giromantie Grilliade r. broiled on Haleyon r. times Haleyan Harold r. use of them with r. Harmonick Hayward r. Haye Hellespont r. Propontis● r. Hierosolymitan Hypocaust r. Ste● Jannock r. Avenaceum For Jesuats r. Jesuati and C●ant●ius In Inhibition r. a writ r. Insulture insultura r. Intersation intersatio Knoll r. duni pacis r. ●as●iviate r. Locuplecity locuplecitas Lombardeer r. See Caursines Longanimity r. expelling Loray Law r. if it were r. Lushbrough Malachite r. dark green Measure r. Fadom six foot Meridian r. meridies Messile r. Mis●eo Moly r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Morglay r. Mortglai●e r. Morose Multivious Mumie r. mu●ia Muses r. beatu Musteline r. VVeesel r. Mutilate and Mynning Numerical dele the last one Pilgrim r. differ thus Piepowders r. court Plenilunary r. full moon Portgreve r. Prafectus Dele Prepositor in a School Pullation r. bringing r. Pyrenean Mountains Rapine r. rapina Refection r. refreshing r. Residentiary Rouge Cross r. Rouge dragon Sanhedrim r. trium virorum Sooterkin for Bat r. Rat. r. Sphear sphaera Spiritualities r. Prestation r. Spissity spissita● r. Stenographie Stenogr r. Strand or Strond For Splendit r. Splendid r. Subte●fluous Surrender r. in intendment Synoper r. Synopis r. Tephramantie and Tetarch r. Tonnage and Tornada Transalpine r. Italian r. Trinominal and Tripedaneous Turneament r. temere Vertumnals r. treating With some other literal faults In Pref in Com. on Littl.