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virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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A19044	The English dictionarie: or, An interpreter of hard English vvords Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young schollers, clarkes, merchants, as also strangers of any nation, to the vnderstanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing. Being a collection of the choisest words contained in the Table alphabeticall and English expositor, and of some thousands of words neuer published by any heretofore. By H.C. Gent.	Cockeram, Henry, fl. 1650.; Cawdry, Robert. Table alphabeticall. aut; J. B. (John Bullokar). English expositor. aut	1623 (1623)	STC 5461.2; ESTC S118706	133,393	332

in the hot burning sands of Asia And seeing nature hath framed nothing but hath his equall this Serpents destruction is only the Weasell Boa a Serpent of that bignesse that being found dead there was a childe found whole in his belly Hydra a monstrous Serpent on the lake of Lerna who hauing one head cut off immediatly had two other heads grew vp in the same place Hercules fought with him and slue him Renocerote a small Serpent which windes himselfe about the leg of an Elephant who with his truncke seeking to rid him when forthwith the Serpent creepes into the truncke and so kills the Elephant but long he enioyes not the conquest for the Elephant kils the Renocerote with his fall Scorpean a venemous Serpent with seuen feet his sting is in his taile sometime they eate their young ones and are of diuers colours the female is the biggest and hath the sharpest sting The Arcadean Scorpions will not hurt their Countrie-men Nor the Syrean Snakes nor Tyrinthean Serpents Viper a most venemous Serpent the Male hath but one tooth of each side but the female more when they engender the male putteth his head into the females mouth which she biteth off and their young doe gnaw their dammes belly and so kill them to get forth the sooner Wyuer a cruell serpent much like vnto a Dragon The 7. Starres AMbrosia Eudor Pasithore Coronis Plexaura Pytho and Tythe Or after some called MAia Electra Halcyone Celaeno Asterope Taygete and Merope Stones ABeston a stone of iron colour which being once made hot can euer hardly be cooled Achate a pretious stone Adamant commonly called a Diamond the most pretious and hardest of all stones insomuch as it cutteth glasse and yeeldeth not either to stroke of hammer or fire for which cause the Greekes name it Adamas signifying inuincible notwithstanding it is softened with Goates bloud being steeped therein new and warme it is of contrary nature to the Loadstone in so much that being laid neere to it the Loadstone cannot draw iron hauing the vertue thereof ouer-mastered by the Adamant Ametheist a pretious stone of a purple colour Bezill a pretious stone Bezar-stone a costly rich stone of great esteeme in Phisick Bole-Armoniack a kinde of reddish stone very good against the plague Baptes a soft stone of an excellent sauour Calcedone a pretious stone Carbuncle a most rich and pretious stone of the colour of fire also a dangerous Plague sore Chrisopbasus a pretious stone Chrisolite a stone of golden colour which shineth brightest in the morning fire is much hurtfull to it Dendritis a pretious stone which being put vnder a tree keepeth the Ax that cutteth it from dulling Emerald a pretious stone of colour greene Galactides a very blacke stone which being broken yeeldeth liquor much like vnto milke Gallerinus a stone which linnen Drapers vse to make their cloath white Gemites an excellent stone hauing the figure of two hands clasped together Geniones a pretious stone procuring punishment to ones enemies Ammonis-Cornu a pretious stone of golden colour representing the shape of a Rammes horne which is said to cause true dreames Amphitane a pretious stone of gold colour square and of the nature of the Loadstone but that it is said to draw golde to it Androdomas hard and heauie bright like siluer and in forme of diuers little squares it putteth away fury and anger and rage of lecherie Abadir a stone that Saturne deuoured in steed of Iupiter Hesphesite a pretious stone of red fiery colour hauing the nature of a looking glasse Hone a kinde of fine Wherstone Geodes a stone being hollow hauing earth within the hollownesse thereof and being put to a mans eare it maketh a kinde of sound Iacinth a kinde of stone wherof there be two kinds one a pale yellow tother a bright yellow the which is held to be the best Iasper a pretious stone of diuers colours the best is greene transparent with red vaines and shewes fairest set in siluer Iasponix a precious stone white of colour hauing likewise red strakes in it Iazull a pretious stone of a perfect blew and azure colour Indico a stone wherewith Diers Die blew withall Loadstone a stone coloured like rusty iron of vertue not onely to draw iron to it selfe but also to make any iron on which it is rubbed to draw iron also some say that if a Diamond be laid close to it or if that it be rubd with the iuice of Garlick this stone looseth his vertue Lyncuris a bright shining stone and sometime of a darke yellow colour like Saffron this stone groweth of the vrine of the beast Lynx being congealed which vrine the beast hideth as Plinie writeth because men should not finde it others say it is good against the paine of the stomack the yellow laundies and loosenesse of the belly Magnes the same that Loadstone is Nax a kinde of Whetstone Melanes a stone which yeeldeth a iuyce like honey Obeliske a great broad stone square beneath and rising of an admirable height smaller and smaller towards the top I haue read of one 240. yards high Onix a pretious stone of the colour of ones naile Opall a pretious stone of diuers colours wherein appeareth the fierie shining of the Carbuncle the purple colour of the Amatheist and the greene shew of the Emerald very strangely mixed together Pyramides the like that Obelisk is Pansebastes a pretious stone taking away barrennesse Sardius a black onix Saphire a pretious stone of a cleare skie colour and the best sort hath in it as t were Cloues enclining to a certaine rednesse this stone is said to be of a cold nature Sardonix a kinde of a pretious stone Thracias a flint stone of a meruailous nature being steeped in water it burneth and sprinkles but it is quenched with oyle Topase a pretious stone whereof there are two kindes one of gold colour the other of a Saffron colour not so good as the other this stone put into boyling water it doth so presently coole it that presently one may take it forth with his hand Schistos a stone of Saffron colour easie to be cleft into thin plates Selenite a stone wherein is a white that decreaseth and encreaseth as the Moone groweth Siderite a stone like iron hauing power to set variance amongst men Sipinus a stone soft of nature but being heat in oyle it waxeth hard Synochite a stone whereby as Magitians say ghosts be called vp Toas a stone like a Peacock Theamedes a stone of a contrary nature to the Loadstone Tricus a stone of three sort of colours at the root blacke the middle sanguine and at the top white Townes ALbendona Abbington Dubris Douer Durobratae Dorchester Garionouum Yarmouth Gobannium Abergauennie Longouicum Lancaster Maridunum Caermarden Meatae Northumberland Oppellum Chester town Presidium Warwick Ratae Leicester Trisontonis portus South-hampton Vxella Crewkernwell Trees CErbas an Indean tree fifteene fathom about Corall a tree that groweth in the bottome of the Sea there are two sorts

Marica Sea Goddesses Egeria the Goddesse whom women with childe did sacrifice vnto Empanda the Goddesse of things abroad Feronia the Goddesse of VVoods Flora and Cloris Goddesses of flowers Fortuna Suadelia heathen Goddesses Hebe and Juuenta Goddesses of youth Hippona the Goddesse whom horse-breakers did worship Iune the Goddesse of Kingdomes and wealth Lauerina the Goddesse vnder whose protection theeues were in Rome there were many more adored by the Romanes Albunia Bonadea Concordia Felicitas Hora Libertas Cardea Melonia Nundina Natio Orbana and Prosa c. Libitina a Goddesse vnder whose commaund and in whose Temple were solde such things as pertained to Sepulchers Lucina the Goddesse of birth Mania the Goddesse of Hobgoblins Garlicke and Poppy tops Mena the Goddesse of womens Fluxes Mnemosyne the mother of the Goddesses called the Muses Murcea the Goddesse of sloath Myncrua and Pallas the Goddesses of wisedome and all Arts. Nemesis the Goddesse of reuenge Occasio Goddesse of opportunity Pales the Shepheards Goddesse Parce the Goddesse of destinie Pomona the Goddesse of fruit Proserpina and Ops the Goddesses of hell sometime Proserpina is taken for the Moone Pytho the Goddesse of eloquence Ruma the Goddesse of womens breasts and young children Runcina Goddesse of weeding Salacia the Goddesse of water Suada Goddesse of perswasion Segesta a Goddesse of Corne. Tutelina a Goddesse which had the tuition of Corne in the fields Vacana Goddesse of rest after labour Vallonia the Goddesse of vallies Venus the Goddesse of loue and beauty Vesta the Goddesse of chastity Viriplaca and Miracabilia Goddesses in whose Temple women were reconciled to their husbands Voluptia the Goddesse of pleasure The 3. Graces AGlaia Thalia Euphrosyne so were they called they were three sisters supposed to be the daughters of Jupiter and Venus the morallity of this inuention was to expresse the cheerfull conuersation which ought to be amongst friends for they were painted naked to signifie that friendship ought to be plaine without dissimulation smiling and merry to shew that men should doe good willingly young and maydenlike to teach that friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew that a benefit bestowed doth againe returne to the giuer Short winged Hawkes AN Eagle the male is called an Iran A Goshawke the male is called the Tercell A Sparrow Hawke the male is a Musket Long winged Hawkes A Gerfalcon the male is called the Tercell Ierkin thereof A Falcon the male is called a Tercell gentle A Leonard the male is called a L●neret A Merlin the male is called a Iack. The Castrill male a Iack. Hearbs A Chimedis an hearb which being cast into an Army in time of battell causeth the soldiers to be in feare Anacramseros an hearbe the touch thereof causeth loue to grow betwixt man and man Buphonium an hearbe wherof if Oxen eate they die of the Squincie an hearbe good against the stone Chenomycon an hearbe whereof Geese are fearefull Hippice an hearb borne in ones mouth keepes one from hunger and thirst Condurdon an hearbe which in August beareth a flower which cures the Kings euill Leomina an hearb whose flower is like a Lyons mouth when he gapeth Mychophonos an hearbe that killeth Mice Nepenthe an hearb which being steeped and dranke in wine expelleth sadnesse Nyctegritum an hearbe which shineth farre off in the night Madder an hearb wherewith Wooll is died Callicia an hearb wherewith water freezeth Ophiasta an hearbe dangerous to looke on and being drunke it doth terrefie the minde with a sight of dreadfull serpents that condemned persons for feare thereof doe kill themselues Siumea an hearb wherewith Beggars vse to make their flesh raw withall Octhiopis an hearb wherwith Enchanters vse to dry vp Riuers and open locks withall Errogennoton an hearbe causing loue Gelorophi●is an hearbe dranke with Wine and Myrrhe causeth much laughter Yarrow an hearb wherewith Achilles is said to kill or cure Telaphus Vlex an hearb like Rosemary which drawes gold to it The Hesperides EAgle Aretusa Hisperetusa Three sisters who had an Orchard of golden Apples kept by a Dragon which Hercules slue when he tooke away the Apples Hills Mountaines AEtna a hill whence riseth horrible smoake and great flames of fire and sometimes burning stones in great number Alpes high Mountaines deuiding Italy from France Ararat the Mountaine whereon Noahs Arke landed Chaphareus a Mountaine which greatly afflicted the Greekes Nauie Horses ABaster Alaster the Horses of Pluto Bucephalus the Horse of great Alexander he would suffer none to backe him but his Master he liued till hee was forty yeeres old Dromidarie a kinde of Horse or rather Cammell he runnes very swift and can trauell two or three daies without drinke Eous one of the horses of the Sunne or the East Equiculus the little horse of Bacchus Orphneus one of the Horses of Hell Pegasus a winged horse Pyrosus one of the horses of the Sunne Iles. BAleares two Iles in the Spanish Seas 30. miles asunder the Inhabitants thereof doe pitch the Poles in the ground and on the top of the poles they set meat which their children must with slings hit downe before they can haue any meat to eate Cassiterides are ten Iles in the Spanish sea Colidos an Ile so high that no bird can flie ouer Moniole Iles beyond the Ombris one of the fruitfull Iles. Maniole Iles beyond the riuer Ganges hauing rockes of Adamant wh●ch drawes all kinde of ships vnto them that haue any iron pinnes in them and doe by vertue thereof hold them fast as being no way able to stirre Paphos an I le wherein it neuer rayned Scyron the I le wherein Achilles was by his Mother hidden in a womans apparell because shee would not haue him goe to fight against the Troians Maides that died for loue ECcho a Virgin reiected of her Louer pined away in the woods for sorrow where her voice still remaineth answering the out-cries of all complaints Hero drowned her selfe for Leanders loue Sappho for the loue of a Boy drowned her selfe Scylla for loue she bare to Minos her Fathers enemy stole from him his purple haire and gaue it Minoes whereby he ouercame her but he loathing the trecherie cleane forsooke her whereupon she drowned her selfe in the sea Thisbie slue her selfe with a sword for the loue she bare her Pyrainus Maides chaste and beautifull ATalanta a Maiden huntresse chast and swift of foot Baldraca a poore Maid that could ●ot be brought to prostitute her body to the Emperour Otho albe he proffered her great rewards Claudia a vestall Virgin who made triall of her chastity by drawing the Image of Cybele vp the riuer Tyber by her girdle which by no other force could be moued Brisies a fai●e Maid being giuen to Achill●s was by Agamemnon taken from him whereupon arose great d●ssention among the Greeks before Troy Charmione ●●eene Cleopatraes Maide which brought her the Aspes wherewith the Queene kill●d her selfe and the Maid did the like for the loue shee euer