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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33754	An English dictionary explaining the difficult terms that are used in divinity, husbandry, physick, phylosophy, law, navigation, mathematicks, and other arts and sciences : containing many thousands of hard words, and proper names of places, more than are in any other English dictionary or expositor : together with the etymological derivation of them from their proper fountains, whether Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, or any other language : in a method more comprehensive than any that is extant / by E. Coles ...	Coles, Elisha, 1640?-1680.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5071; ESTC R13911	383,305	374

tree the droppings of whose juice i● thought by some to congeal into the Onyx g. the nail a precious stone of the colour of ones nail by some called a Chalcedony Oost East Som. a kiln Opacity a being Opacous aque l. shady Opal g. a precious stone of divers colours mixt yellowish green and purple Openhe●m a town in the Palatinate of the Rhin● Openheed o. bare headed Opera l. labour an Italian Recitative play performed by voices adorned with Musick and Perspective Scenes Operarious belonging to Operation a working or to an Operator a workman Operculated close-covered Operiment l. a covering Oper●sity a being Operose l. busie at work laborious also curiously wrought Opertaneous l. done covertly in secret or within doors Ophthalmy g. an inflammation of the outermost skin of the eye Ophiogenes g. generated of Serpents Ophites g. a kind of marble speckled like a Serpent Ophiuchus a Constellation in Sagittary Ophiusa a Balearick Island full of Serpents Ope-land Sf. loose or open plowed up every year Opiate l. a Confection of Opium Opiferous bringing help Opifice l. workmanship Opimous l. fat wealthy Opinable l. capable of Opination thinking or supposing Opinator a supposer not a positive affirmer of things Opinative Opiniative wedded to his own opinion or humour full of Opiniatrety f. Opiniastrete cy o. Opiniativeness obstinacy self-willedness Opiparous l. sumptuous Opisthograph g. a thing written on the back or both sides Opisthographical belonging thereto Opitulate l. to help or aid Opium l. the juice of black Poppy causing sleep Opobalsame mum g. the gum distilling from the balm-tree Opoponax g. the sap of Panax a hot-Country plant or by Dr. Wilkins the gummy juice of the root of Hercules all-heal Oppication l. a covering with pitch Oppidan l. a towns-man Oppig●orate l. to pawn Oppilation l. an Obstruction or Stoppage in the inward parts Oppilative obstructive stoping Oppletion l. a filling up Opponent l. an Antagonist or contradicter opposing the Respondent Opportunely seasonably Opposite l. contrary or over against Opposites things opposed or set against one another Opposition a resisting or setting against and in Astrology the being six signs distant Opprobrious reproachful Oppugn l. to assault besiege or violently oppose Opprist o. uprisen Ops Daughter of Caelus and Vesta wife and Sister of Saturn Opsimathy g. a learning late Opsonation l. a catering Opsonator l. a caterer manciple Optable l desirable Optation l. a wishing Optative wishing or desiring Optic● cal g. belonging to the sight Optick sinews which bring the virtue of seeing to the eyes Optimacy l. Government by the Nobles Optimity l. profitableness excellency Option choice election Opulency wealth a being Opulent l. rich plentiful Opuscule cle l. a small work Or o. Li. for erre Ora as Ore Or f. Gold colour Orache age Atriplex an insipid pot-herb Oracle l. an answer or counsel given by God a Prophesie Oracles of Apollo Jupiter c. illusions of the Devil in imitation of the real ones which ceased upon the coming of Christ. Oracular belonging thereto Oral l. belonging to the Mouth Face or Voyce Orange a town on the Rhone in France Oration l. prayer also a speech Oratory l. Eloquence also a place of Prayer Oratory of St. Jerome a place at Rome frequented by and giving name to the Oratorians Fryers instutited by Philip Nerius a Florentine and confirmed by Pope Pius IV. 1564. Oratour l. an Eloquent speaker or pleader Orbation l. a depriving or taking away Orbiculated l. made Orbical cular round in the form of an Orbe l. a globe or sphere a body contained under one round superficies Orbity l. a want or privation of Parents Children c. Orbona a Roman Goddess implored against Orbity Orcades the thirty British Isles of Orkney Orch Or●k a monstrous fish the Whales enemy called a whirl-pool also a Butt for Wine or Figs. Orchal a stone like All●m used by Dyers to raise a red Orchamus King of Babylon who Buried his Daughter Leucothoe alive for lying with Apollo Orchanet A. Alcanet Anchusa wild Bugloss Orc●el as Orchal seems in some old Statutes to be a kind of Cork Orches a Town in Flanders Orchestre g. the place where the Chorus danceth or where the Musician sit Orchis Satyrion Dogs-stones Orcus a Thessalian River flowing out of the Stygian Lake so thick that it floats on the River Peneus Ordael deal Sa. Judgment Fine Ordeal a purging ones self from a Crime imputed by walking blindfold and bare-foot over red-hot Plow-shares Water Ordeal a purgation by putting ones Arms up to the Elbows in seething hot water O●dalian Law ordaining the foresaid trial abrogated in the time of King John Orde Sa. the point Order in Files three foot and the open Order six Order in Ranks six foot and the open Order twelve Ordinal belonging to Orders also a Book of Direction for Bishops or of Orders in a Colledge c. Ordinal Numbers First Second Third c. Ordinatione contra servientes a Writ against Servants that leave their Masters Ordinary in Civil-Law any Judge having Power to take knowledge of causes in his own right as he is Magistrate and not by Deputation Ordinary in Common-Law he that hath ordinary Jurisdiction in causes Ecclesiastical Ordinaries Proper Charges belonging to the Art of Heraldry Ordination daies the second Sunday in Lent Trinity Sunday the Sunday following the Wednesday after September 14. and December 13. Ore the out-part of any thing also an old Coin of 16 pence mentioned in Dooms-day book Oreads g. Nymphs of the mountains Oreb h. a Crow or Pleasant Oredelph Ore lying under ground also the liberty of claiming the Ore found in a mans own ground Oreford a Town in Suffolk Orestes the son of Agamemnon and Friend of Pylades his body being digged up was found to be seven cubits long Orewell a Haven in Essex Orewood Sea-wrack a kind of Sea-weed which in Cornwall they manure their land with Orfgild Sa. a restitution of cattel or penalty for taking them away or by Lambert a restitution made by the Hundred of any wrong done by one in pledge Orford a town in Suffolk Orfraies f. a frizled cloth of Gold worn heretofore both by the Clergy and Kings themselves Orgal the lees of wine dried and used by Dyers to make cloth drink in their colours Orgallous guil o. proud Organ Ling for Orkney Ling where the best is taken Organical belonging to an Organ g. an instrument Organick veins as Iliack Organist an Organ-player Organie Origanum wild Marjerom growing much on Mountains Orgeis Organ Ling the greatest sort of North-Sea fish Orgeis Revels instituted by Orpheus to the honour of Bacchus every third year Orial Colledge in Oxford built by King Edward the second Orichalcum a Copper metal like gold and another factitious Orientality the lustre of the East the being Oriental belonging to the Orient l. the East Orifice the mouth hole or entrance of a wound c. Oriflambe as Auriflambe the holy purple standard of St. Denis Original l.

business Feu a very high Mountain in China Feud feed feid Ge. a deadly and implacable hatred Feudal belonging to or held in fief or fee. Feud-●oot Sa. a recompence for engaging in a feud or faction Feudist one that bears a feud or writes of Fee c. Feverfew Febrifuga Parthenia Maetricaria Motherwort a cleansing and opening herb Feveriere rere o. February Feversham a town in Kent where K. Stephen his Wife and Son lie buried Feuterer a dog-keeper or leader of a Lime-hound c. Few No. to change Fewmets mishing the dung of a Deer F●y Sc. Foolish Fey or Feigh it No. to do any thing notably Fey meadows ponds c. Cleanse them F fa ut the seventh musick note the Cliff-note of the basse-part Fiants f. the dung of a Badger Fox and all vermine Fib c. to beat Fibrous belonging to Fibres l. small strings about roots veins c. Fibulation l. a buttoning or joyning together Fictile l. made of Earth Fictitious l. feigned invented Fiction l. a feigning also the thing feigned ●icus l. Alanisca Sycon Sycosis Haemorrhoides the piles in the fundament Fid Okum put into the touch-hole and covered with lead to keep the powder dry also an iron pin to open the strands in splising of ropes Fideicide a faith-destroyer breaker of his word or trust Fideicommissor l. he that commits a thing to anothers trust or dispose Fidelity l. Faithfulness Fide-jussor l. a pledge or surety Fidius the God of faithfulness for Filius the Son of Jupiter Fiduciary l. trusty also a Feoffee in trust Fiduciate l. to committ a trust or make condition of trust Fiera●ras f. fierce at arms a Braggadocia Fieri facias a writ for the Sheriff to levy within the year and day the debt or damages recovered Fife an Eastern County of Scotland Fifteenth a Parliament-tribut on every City or Borough in the Realm Fightwite Sa. a forfeiture for fighting and breaking the peace Fights Coverts any places where men may stand unseen and use their arms in a ship Figment l. a feigned story Figulated l. made of earth Figurati●n as Ethopaeit Figurative belonging to or spoken by a Figure a word or speech not strictly proper or literal in Grammar a distinguishing of words into simple and compo●nd in Logick a threefold disposition of the Argument or middle term with the two ex●reams viz. Sub prae prim● Bis prae secunda Tertia bis su● Figuretto a kind of stuff Figured or flowered Fi●aceous l. made of thread or flax also full of Filaments l as Fibres Filanders little worms in hawks also Nets for wild beasts Filazers Fourteen Officers in the Common pleas filing original writs that issue from the Chancery and making out process thereupon Filch c. a staff with a hole for a hook upon occasion Fildale Fi●kale Fictale Sothale an extortion under pretense of Compotation by Bailiffs in their hundreds File f. a thread or wire a difference in Cout-Armours also the order of Soldiers in depth usually six File-leaders all in the first rank Filial l. belonging to a son Filiaster f. a Son in law Filiation Son-ship Filjan-ta●eas a Cap that the Turkish Sultanas wear Filiolus l. a little son also a Godson Nephew c. Fill●mot fueille mort f. the colour of a dead leaf Filipendula Dropwort Fillet a line added under the Chief in Heraldry Fill o. pleased or thought convenient Filly-foal a Mare-colt Film a thin skin Filipinas Indian Islands found and reduced by Philip the 2d King of Spain Filoz●lla a kind of stuff Filtration l. a straining or distilling through a felt woollen-cloth c. hung over the brim of a pot Fimashing as Fewmets Fimble hemp So. Early ripe Fimbriated l. edged or bordured with another colour in heraldry Final l. belonging to brought to or having an end Finan●er a receiver or teller in the Exchequer Finance cy f. Wealth Revenue treasure Finders searchers for goods not customed Find the Ships trim find how she will sail best Findible l. which may be cleft Fine a mulct or penalty also a formal conveyance of Land c. before a Judge by acknowledging a final agreement Fine adnullando levato c. a writ to Justices for disannulling a fine levied of Lands holden in ancient Demesn to the prejudice of the Lord. Fine capiendo pro terris a writ for one committed to Prison and his goods in the Kings hand to be released for his fine Fine levando de tenementis c. a writ licensing the Justices of Common-pleas to admit a fine for the sale of Lands holden in Capite Fine non capiendo c. a writ forbidding Officers of Courts to take fines for fair pleading Fine pro redisseisina c. a writ for the release of one laid in prison for a Redisseisin upon a reasonable fine Fine force f. an absolute necessity or constraint Finesse f. craft subtilty Finite l. limited bounded Finland part of Sw●ethland Finors of Gold c. as Parters and Departers Fin● skiles o. it finds or feigns skills Firdstole as Fridstole Firebares o. Beacons Fire-boot allowance of competent fire-wood to the Tenant Fire-drake a fiery Meteor a great unequal exhalation inflamed between a hot and a cold cloud Fire-cross a Scotch Proclamation by fire brands on a spear for all between 16 and 60. to repair to a place of Rendezvous Firkin a vessel of nine gallons Firma sc. the duty which the Tenant paies to his Landlord Firmament l. the starry heaven finishing its course in 250 thousand years Firmity l. firmness stableness constancy Firmus a Roman Emperour of a vast strength First-fruits Annates one years profits of every benefice Firth for Frith Firthe Fyrte Fyrt o. a bugbear a Ghost or apparition Fiscal belonging to a Fisque l. a treasury or Exchequer Fish-garth a dam or wear for the taking of fish Fishing piecing of masts or yards to strengthen them Fissility l. aptness to be cleft Fissiped l. cloven-footed Fissure l. a cleft or division Fiste-nuts brought out of hot countries and useful in Physick Fistulary belonging to a Fistula l. a pipe also an ulcer eating in and running like a pipe Fitch the fur of the polecate Fitchtel a town of Mecklenburgh in Germany Fitched sharp at the end See Cross. Fithwite as Fightewite Fitz f. Fils a son Five-finger a fish like a spur●owel to be destroyed by the Admiralty law because destructive to Oysters Fixation l. a fixing making any volatil spiritual body to endure the fire Fixed stars not varying their distance from one another and corruptly as Faxed stars Comets from Fax o. hair Fiz-gig a dart to strike fishes as they swim Fiz●n Foison Sf. the heart or natural juice of herbs c. Flabellation an airing with a Flabel l. a fan Flaccid l. flagging drooping Flacket No. a bottle in fashion of a barrel Flag c. a groat Flagellantes l. Hereticks going up and down and using Flagellation whipping or scourging of themselves Flagitation l. earnest begging Flagitious l. hainous wicked Flagrancy l. a

Tear-botle sometimes buried with ancient ur●s Lachrymae Christi Wine made near the Mountain Vesuvius Lack an East-India gum gathered by Ants which makes the best wax Lacken o. contemned lessened Lacker a varnish whose chief ingredient is gum-lack used in imitation of Gilding Laconick cal belonging to Laconia Zaconia a Country of Peloponnesus Laconize to use Laconism the Lacedaemonian short and pithy speech or hard life Lactary l. a Dairy-house or man Lacte o. an Offense Lacteal eous l. milky Lactifical l. breeding milk Lactucina a Roman Goddess over Corn when the ears began to fill Lacunation l. a making of holes Ladanum as Labdanum Ladas Alexanders page who ran so swiftly that the print of his foot could not be di●cerned in the sand Lad o. fed Ladde o. q. leaded led Lade to load also a passage of waters Ladenberg a town in the Palatinate of the Rhine Laden another Ladies-bedstraw an herb in dry pastures with small leaves and yellow flowers Ladies-bower a plant with abundance of small branches and leaves fit to make Arbours for Ladies Ladies-mantle with a neat indented leaf almost like a star Ladies-smocks a kind of water Cresses Lady traces a kind of Satyrion or Orchis Ladogo a town and a large Lake in Moscovy Ladon an Arcadian River where Syri●x was turn'd into a reed Laft for left o. left off also enclosed Lafordswick sa a betraying ones Lord or Master Laga sa Law Lagan See Flotson Lagemen Lahmen sa Good men of the Jury Lage c. water Lagen q. flagon a measure of six Sextaries Laghslite sa a mulct for breach of the law Lagophthalmie g. a sleeping like a hare with the eyes open Laguibray a town in Normandy Lahor a town and Kingdom under the Mogul Laiazzo a Town in Anatolia Laick cal belonging to the Laity opposed to Clergy the people not in holy Orders Laid-sterne sc. q. Lead-star the pol-star Lain●s q. Layings Courses or ranks of stone or brick in building Lair● the place where a Deer harbours by day Lairwite Le●herwite Leger-geldum an ancient custom of punishing Adultery and fornication by the Lord● of some Mannors Lais a Sicilian harlot living at Corinth whose excessive rates made Demosthe●● say He would not buy Repentance so dear By her instigation Alexander burnt Persepolis She was killed by the women of Thessaly in the Temple of Venus Lait o. allure Laius J●casta's husband after whose death she married his son Oedipus Lake No. to play Lake a purple-colour paint see Lacca Lake D. Laecken o. fine cloth Lawn Lamaunt f. l'aimant ● ● lover Lambdacism an insisting too much upon Lambda g. the Letter L. Lambdoides Lamd La●d the hindmost seam of the skull Lambeth by th Lomebith a town in Surrey Lambeth-house a Palace belonging to the Arch-bishops of Canterbury built by the Arch-bishop Baldwin 1183. where Hardy-C●ute the 〈◊〉 died suddenly in the midst of his excessive luxury Lambert Sa. Fair lamb or far famous Lambition l. a licking or light touching of a thing Lambitive licking or lapping Lamborne a town in Berkshire Lamech h. poor or humbled Lamel l. a little thin plate Lamers o. thongs Lamia a harlot to whom the Thebans built a Temple Lamiae l. fairies or female Spirits Lamination l. a beating into a Lamina l. a thin plate of metal Lammas-day q. Lamb-mass or Loaf-mass the first day of August La Mothe a town in Lorrain Lampass preys a Disease in a horses mouth cured by burning with a hot Iron Lampadios a constellation in the head of Taurus Lampetia and Phaëthusa kept the Sheep of their Father Phaebus in Sicily Lampoon a libel in verse Lamprey Suck-stone a fish with holes on the sides like eyes Lamsacus a town upon the Hellespont Lanarious Laneous belonging to wool Lancaster Lon the chief town upon the River Lone in Lancashire Lancelot a lance-Knight one of king Arthurs knights Lance-pesado Launce Lan e-presado f. Lance-pessade the lowest Officer in a foot-Company Commander of ten Lancet a Chirurgeons instrument in letting bloud Lanciano a City of Naples Lanch to put a ship a flote Lanciferous l. Lance-bearing Landa Lawnd an open field without wood Land●oc a Deed whereby lands are holden Landegandman One of the inferiour tenants of a Mannour Landcheap a Customary fine to a Town c. at every alienation of Land in the same Landaffe a Church on the River Taff a City in Wales Land La. Urine Land-cape an end of Land reaching farther into the sea than other parts of the Continent Good Land-fall when we see the Land according to the day of our own reckoning Landgable a tax or rent issuing out of land Landgraviate the Country which belongs to a Land-Grave Lands Land-drossard D. a Count or Earl of a Province whereof in Germany there are four Landes a County of Gascoigne Landimers Measurers of Land Land-locked having the land round about us and the Sea no where open upon us Landrecy a town in Hainault Land-loper D. a Vagabond that runs up and down the Country Landman Land-tenant the same as T●rre-tenant Land-mark whereby the Pilot knows how they bear by the compass Land-mate Heref. He that reaps with another on the same ridge of ground Land-pirates High way men Landskip Lantskip D. Païsage f. Parergon g. By-work All that in a picture which is not of the Body or Argument also a description of a fair prospect Landsperg a City of Brandenburgh and of the higher Bavaria Landshut a City of lower Bavaria Land-to just so far off at sea as one may discern the land Land-turn the same from off the land by night as a Brieze is off the Sea by day Lanfrank an Italian Arch-Bishop of Canterbury 1060. Langate Languet f. a long and narrow piece of Land c. Langot No. Latchet of the shoe Lang de beuf f. Langue de baeuf a kind of yellow-flower'd bugloss Langemanni having So● and Sac. Langrel a loose-shot going into the piece with a shackle and shortned but flying out at length with half-bullets at the ends Langporte a town in Somerset Langland an Island in the Baltick Sea Langres a City of Champagne Langu●d tongued having the tongue Gules Azure c. Languedoc part of France where the Goths continued long and who say O instead of Ouy Languerth goreth ● languisheth Languid l. weak faint Languifical l. causing Languor l. a languishing decaying drooping Laniation l. a tearing like a Butcher Laniferous l. bearing wool or Cotton Lanifical l. making wool or woollen Cloth pertaining to such work Lanionious l. belonging to a Butcher Lanipendious l. weighing wool spinning or making yarn Lanis de crescentiâ Walliae c. a writ for the passing over of wool without custom being paid in Wales Lank o. slender weak Lanner ret f. Faulcon Lanier a kind of hawk Lanniers small ropes reeved into the Deadmens eyes of all the shrowds to loosen them or set them taught Lanthong an Abbey in Monmouthshire enclosed with such high Hills that the Sun is not to be seen there but between the hours