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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

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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.
the making of Confits Comfits sweet-meats Confectioner a maker of sweet-meats Confectionary the same also the place where they are kept Confeder to joyn together in a league Confederate as Confoederate Confertion a stuffing Confessionary f. belonging to auricular Confession also the confession seat Confessour he to whom you confess your self Conficient finishing procuring working Confide l. to trust rely upon Confidence boldness assurance Confident bold sure assured sometimes impudent also he to whom trust and secresie is committed Configulate l. play the potter Configulation l. making of earthen ware Configuration l. likeness of figures the mutual aspects of Plane●s Confin●s f. borders of a Country Confer l. compare also to talk or reason together Conference a meeting together for discourse Confine to limit to imprison Confinement imprisonment or being ty'd to a certain place Confirmation l. a strengthening or making sure Confiscation l. taking away goods as forfeited to the Fi●cus or publick treasury Confitent penitent confessor Conflagitate l. to desire a thing importunately Conflagration a great burning Conflagrant burning also earnestly desiring Conflature l. the melting or casting of metal Confluctuate l. to flow together to be uncertain what to do Confluence flux l. a flowing or meeting together Confluxibility an aptness to flow or be mingled together Confaederate joyned together by Covenant Conforaneous l. of the same court or Market-place Conformable agreeable suitable Conformist one that doth Conform suit himself to the Church of England Confrairie f. fraternity society brotherhood Confrication l. a rubbing Confreers freres f. Brethen or fellows of the same house Confront f. come face to face oppose also compare Confusion l. pouring mixing or jumbling together disorder disturbance also blushing or being out of countenance Congayne o. convince Congaye o. send away Congé f. leave also a ceremony bowing c. in taking ones leave Congé d' accorder f. leave to agree desiring the Justice to give them leave to agree Congé d' elire or eslire f. leave to choose the Kings per●wassion to a Dean and Chapter to choose a Bishop Cong●able lawfull or law●ull●●one Cong●nerous nious l. of the same sort or kinred Congeniality a being Congenial l. alike in Genius fancy or disposition Congelation l. a congealing freezing or growing like to Ice Congelative having the power to Congeal or dry up Congeon o. a Dwarffe Conger l. a large Sea-Eel Cong●riate pile up heap together Congersbury a Town in Somersetshire from Congar an Eremite there affirmed by Capgrav● to be the Emperors Son of Constantinople Congius l. a Gallon and a little more Congiary l. a Great persons gift to the people Conglaciate l. to freeze also to be idle Congleton a town in Chesh. Conglobation l. a gathering round into a Globe Conglomeration l. a rolling or winding up into a bottom or heap Conglutinative that which hath strength to Conglutinate l. glue or joyn together Conglutination l. a gluing together Congratulation l. a rejoycing with another Congregational belonging to Congregation l. an Assembly assembling or gathering together Congregationalists Independants Dissenting Brethren who gathered particular Congregations in a middle way between Presbytery and Browni●m Congress l. a meeting encounter Congruence uity l. agreeableness a being Congruous convenient fit Conical belonging to a Cone Conical sections make the Ellipsis hyperbole and parabola Conjectural belonging to Conjecture l. guess Coninesborough a Castle in Yorkshire where Hengist was beheaded Conif●rous tre●s bearing Cones or Clogs as the fit pine c. Conjugal belonging to marriage Conjugates l. things of the same rank order or original Conjugation deriving of things under the same order particularly of verbs in their moods tenses c. Conjunction l. a joyning or meeting together also the particle that joyns or disjoyns words and sentences Conjunctive belonging thereto Conjunctive mood Subjunctive Conjunctiva a Coat of the eye sticking fast Conjuncture a joyning together Conjuration l. a conspiracy or plot also a Charm Conjurer he that doth Conjure l. raise or deal with the devil Conjúre swear together also to swear one in the name and power of another Conizee as Cognisee Conizour as Cognisour Connascency l. a being born or springing together Conne ken learn without book Connen o. Can. Connexive having the power of or belonging to Connexion l. a knitting or joyning together Connex in Logick things joyn'd without any dependence or Consecution Connictation a twinkling of the eye Connivence l. a winking at a fault Connubial belonging to wedlock Connutritious nourished or brought up together Connuvium Conwey in Wales Conquassation l. a shaking or dashing together Conquest f. Victory also Lands held by some private Title not by Inheritance Conquestion l. a Complaining together Conradus Ge. able Counsel Consanguinity Kindred by Bloud Consarcination l. a patching together Conscensi●m l. a Climbing Conscientious according to Conscicnce the witness of ones own heart Conscious l. knowing ones self guilty Conscission a cutting Con●cissure a gash cut or rent C●nscription l. a registering Consecration l. Hallowing setting apart for divine service Consectaneous cutif tive following or succeeding Consectary l. That which follows upon the demonstration of an argument Consectatour He that follows or pursues Consecution A following Consecution-month the space between each Conjunction of the Moon with the Sun Conseminate l. Sow divers seeds together Consentient l. Agreeing Consequence l. a following or conclusion Also weight and moment Consequent Following or a following Conclusion Consequentious important necessarily following Conservation A preserving Conservator l. Keeper overseer Conservatory A place for preserving or keeping Conserves f. Fruits being Conserved Condited Consession A sitting together Consideration An advising or taking heed also a condition upon which a thing is done an allowance Consignificative Of the same signification with another Consignation Ones own signing of a Bil. Consign Present deliver assign over Consimilarity Likeness Consistence a being also setling and growing stiff or hard Consistent Agreeable also standing not fluid Consistory l. An Assembly of Church-men also the place Consition l. A planting together Consolatory Comforting belonging to Consolation l. A Comforting Consolidation A strengthening or making sold also the uniting a Benefices also the joyning of possession or profit with the property Consomniation A sleeping or dreaming together Consonant agreeing in sound also a letter which is not a vowel Consort A Companion also a company of Musicians Consound Cumfry backwort knit-back Conspersion a sprinkling Conspicuous l. easie to be seen Conspiratione a writ against Conspiratours guilty o● Conspiracy evil and malicious plotting together Conspurcation a defiling Consputation a spitting upon Consputator he that spits upon others Constablerie o. the office jurisdiction and dignity of a Constable f. q. Comes stabuli master of the horse High Consta●les are over hundreds Petty Constables in Parishes for conservation of the peace Constable of the Tower Dover-Castle c. cheif Governour Constant l. standing firm Constantin●ple Byzantium the Port the seat of the Great Turk repaired beautify'd and named from
Mosses La. Moorish and boggy places Mospach a town in the Palatinate of the Rhine Moss-troopers like the Irish Yories and Italian Banditi that live in the North of England by Robbery and Rapine Mostick q. Malstick Ge. paint-stick which the Painters rest upon while they are at work Mosul Nineve Mote sa gem●te a Court Plea or Convention also a Castle and as moot Mot f. Motto I. a word Emblem Impress or Device also a lesson which Huntsmen wind on their horn Mote o. Must. Motable l. alwaies moving Motacism l. the dashing out of the Letter Motet f. a verse or stanza in Musick a short poem Mother a painfull rising of the Womb for which all sweet smells are bad and stinking ones good Motherwort Cardiaca a cleansing astringent herb Mother-tongues having no affinity with one another Motion l. a moving Motive moving also a moving cause or argument Moveable Feasts which alwayes keep the day of the week but ●●ry in the day of the moneth Motred o. muttered Mouch o. to eat up all Mougnon f. the but-end of a thing the brawny pa●t of the arm also a brassel or Armour for the arm South Moulton a town in Devonshire Mound q. Muniment a sence or hedge Mounsoun an East-India wind blowing constantly three months one way and the next three contrary Mounster an Irish Province Mount a piece lay her on the Carriages also lay her mouth higher Mountabour a town in Westphalia Mountain of Piety a Charitable stock raised and lent for a small consideration to the Poor to free them from the usury and extorsion of the Jews Mountaunce as Mountenance Mountebank Montimbanco I. Charlatam f. Quacksalver D. a wandring and jugling Physician Mounts●rrel a town in Leicester-shire Mountenance o. f. Mo●tance the price that any thing amounts to the quantity Mourdant o. the tongue of a buckle Mourning of the Chine a disease in Horses exulcetating the Liver corrupting the Heart and killing Mous-ear Pilosella a binding and cleansing herb Mous-●ole a town in Corn●al Mow f. amas a pile or stack of Corn or Hay Mowe o. I may Mowlen o. moulder away or moulded Mower c. a Cow Mow-heater c. a d●over Moylery o. pains Welly Moyder'd Che. almost distracted M. S. Manuscript Muccilaginous Mucculent Mucu l. full of snot filth or flegme Mu●idity Mucour hoariness filthiness or being Mucid l. mouldy sinewed Muckre o. to hoard up Muck Li. moist Mucronated l. sharp-pointed Mudereeses Turkish Readers instructing Scholars in all Church duties c. Muckson up to the Buckson Dev. dirty up to the knuckles Mue a place where Hawks are kept while they Mu● f. change their Feathers The Mues the Kings Stables where formerly his Hawks were kept Muffling-cheat c. a Napkin Mufti Tu. Oracle or answerer of doubts the chief-Priest among the Turks created by the Emperour himself Mugient l. lowing or bellowing Mugwet as Gatherbag Mugwort Artemisia an herb which they say removes weariness Mulatto Sp. one whose Father or Mother only was a black Mulberg a town in Misnia Mulcible l. which may be appeased Mulct l. a fine or amerciament Mulcto I. a moil or great mule used to carry sumpters Mulhausen a town in Alsatia Mulheim a town of Berg in Germany Muliebrity l. womanliness delicateness Mulierosity unlawful lust after Women Mulier l. a woman that hath known man also a wife Muliertie Mulerie the being or condition of a Mulier q. Melieur f better filius mulieratus the the lawful Issue preferred before an Elder Brother born out of Matrimony Mullar f Mouleur the upper stone which Painters grind their colours with upon the grinding stone Mulled sack Molli●unt burnt and Sugar'd Mullock N● dirt or rubbish Mullet a barbel also in Heraldry a starlike spot falling with five ends signifying a third brother also a Chirurgeons small pincer-like instrument Mulse l. honeyed wine Mulsulmans Muss A. faithful people Mahometans so called among themselves Multa or Multra Episcopi a fine paid by the Bishops to the King for power to make their own wills and have the probate of other mens Multatitious Mulct l. gotten by fine or forfeit Multifarious l. of divers sorts or divided many ways Multiferous l. bearing much Multifidous l. having many clefts Multiformity a being Multiform l. having many forms or shapes Multiloquent quous l. full of words Multinominal l. having many names Multiparous l. bringing forth many at a birth Multiplicity a being Multiplicio●s l. manifold Multiplicable capable of Multiplication augmenting making much or many Multiplication of Gold or Sil●er forbidden 5. H 4. Multipotent l. able to do much Multiscious l. knowing much Multisonant l. sounding much Multitudinous having many or belonging to a Multitude by some ten persons at le●st others leave it to the discretion of the Judge Multivious l. having many wayes Multivagant l. wandring much Multivolent l. of many minds mutable Multure f. the grist also the Millers toll Mum a kind of Physical Beer made originally at Brunswick in Germany with husks of walnuts infused Mummery f. a personating others in a mask or antick habit Mumpers c. gentile beggars Mumps a swelling of the chaps Mumial belonging to Mumy Mummy l. Pissa sphaltum Pici-bitumen a pitthy substance either from bodies embalmed in Arabia or made of Jews lime and bitumen Muncer the Ring-leader of the Munc●rians a sort of rebellious Anabaptists in Germany Mundane l. worldly Mundani●y worldliness Mundatory as Purificatory Mundbrech sa a breach of mounds or fences Munlick a hard stony substance found in the Tin-ore Mundif●●ative belonging to Mundification l. the act of Mundifying purifying cleansing Mundivagant l. wandring about the world Mun●rate l. to reward or recompense Munger as Monger Municipal pial l. enjoying or belonging to the freedom of a City Munick the chief City of Bavaria Muniferous l. gift-bearing Munificence l. liberality a being Munificent cal bountiful Muniment l. a fence or Fort. Muniment-house a little strong room for the keeping of plate and Muniments Min Charters evidences c. Munite l. to fortifie also as Munited armed fenced Munster a Province in Ireland and a City in Westphalia Munk-scam the strongest way of sewing sails with the edge of one canvas over the edge of the other Muns c. the face Murage a toll taken of every laden Cart or Horse toward the building or repairing the walls of that City or Town Mural l. belonging to a wall Mural Crown given to him that first scaled the walls of an Enemies City Murcia part of Spain Murcid l. cowardly sloathful Murder a wilful killing of a man upon premeditated malice Murderers small canon carrying Murdering-shot to clear the Decks when men enter Murengers yearly Officers in Westchester who keep the walls in repair Muret a Town of Gascoigne in France Muricide l. a Mouse-killer Muriel a womans name Muring the raising of walls Murk No. dark Murklins No. in the dark Murnival f. Morni●● a trick four cards of a kind Murrain a kind of disease or rot among Cattel Murray Moravia part of