Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27470	The treasury of drugs unlock'd, or, A full and true description of all sorts of drugs and chymical preparations sold by druggists whereby you may know the place of their growth and how to distinguish the good from the bad : very useful for all gentlemen, merchants, druggists, doctors, apothecaries, chirurgeons, and their apprentices ... the whole work alphabetically digested with a compleat catalogue of all drugs, &c. / by Jo. Jacob Berlu ...	Berlu, Jo. Jacob (John Jacob)	1690 (1690)	Wing B1980; ESTC R36588	41,585	206

white and clear is the best The same is now made here and in Holland and Germany c. Hordeum Perlatum PEarl Barley so called because it doth very much resemble the larger sort of Seed-Pearl being very round and small white well-flowred over fresh and not musty the smaller the better 't is likewise done as aforesaid but twice or thrice over to make it the finer the best cometh from Germany and in all used to be preferred before the French Barley I. Ichthyocolla Icing-Glass in High-Dutch Hauson blass Low-Dutch Huysen blassen is the product of a great Fish in the Danube called in Latin Huso of a glewy substance without Bones or grissel Bones except in the Head sometimes four and twenty foot in length and without Scales he being desirous of fresh-water cometh out of the Euxine Sea into the Danube most Icing Glass is made in Muscovy the best is the Patriarch sort four square very thin and white almost transparent the large Horse-shooe sort in thin Rings and clear called the Czars sort is the next that which is yellow and brown within a thick sort is inferiour that in square Books or Cakes the worst of all Jujubae JUjubes is the fruit of a Tree called Ziziphus of the bigness of a large Luke Olive of a red colour like a Cherry of tast of Raisins of the Sun having a Stone within like Prunes the best are plum full of Pulp and come from Italy there is another sort cometh from France which are lean and hungry a lighter red colour but nothing near so good * Juncus Odoratus SQuinanth alias Camelshay is brought from Turky and said to grow in Arabia that which is good is of a strong Aromatick smell is well coloured bright of a good length being often times made up in small bundles of a Pyramid fashion the short grayish and knotty sort is nothing near so much to be esteemed L. Lac Sulphuris IS made of Flower of Brimstone and Salt of Tartar by a Chymical Preparation c. Lapis Amethystus THE Amethyst Stone is of a dark Peach or a live and light Purple but a great deal paler the best is of the East-Indies or Oriental sort which is fit to be set in Rings the other and that which we use in Physick is courser and not so well coloured which is brought to us out of Germany Lapis Amianthus IS a reddish Stone the best coming from the East-Indies those which come from Bohemia and other parts of Germany are not so good This Stone is of very little use and very little sold amongst Druggists Lapis Armenus THE Armenian Stone is of several spots green blewish gold-colour'd and a little inclining to black this Stone is so called because it is brought from Armenia * Lapis Bezoar Occidentalis THE West-India Bezoar cometh mostly from the Spanish West-Indies of several sizes and bigness some bigger than a Turky-Hens-Egg others no bigger than a Hasel-Nut c. The right is of an Ash-gray colour some inclining to black it shivers pieces from pieces as well as the Oriental Bezoar though in vertue by fair inferiour * Lapis Bezoar Orientalis ORiental Bezoar is found in the inner parts of a Beast of several Forms and Shapes some round Oval longish and square and sometimes in it a straw a bean a stalk a myrobalan Kernel a Hair and pibble Stone They are of several bigness those in sort not exceeding a dram others of half or one Ounce but those of two and three Ounces are Rarities They are of a dark green Olive colour smooth and glissening Lapis Calaminaris IS a grayish Stone inclining to yellow and red 't is very heavy and used in the making Brass out of Copper and this Stone it comes from Germany and several other parts as also from Bristol and others parts of England * Lapis Contrayerva IS a made Stone of Contrayerva-Roots Pearls Coral Amber Crabs-eyes and several other Ingredients which after is gilded over smelleth strong of the Root Lapis Dentalis ARE littte bones out of a Haddock or large Whiting having two in every Head they have as it were little Teeth at one side of them from which I suppose the name is derived Lapis Gagates JEtt or Gett is a bituminous Stone very shining and hard 't is so called from Gaga a River in Sicily It comes likewise from Asia and Turky * Lapis de Goa GOA Stones by some not rightly called Lapis Jaspar Antonicus is a made Stone by the Portugees of Goa being the chief place the Portugoise have near China in the East-Indies some say of Seed-pearl Bezoar Gold and other Ingredients they are of a dark green colour mixed with Gold Streaks in shape almost of a large Olive cutting very fine within of a gray colour Lapis Granatas GRanat is a dark reddish Stone some as large as a small Pistol-shot others are small like Guinea Grains There is a great many found in Bohemia and other parts of Germany the clearest and redest like Rubies are the best Lapis Haematites SOme call it Blood-stone being of a blood red colour the best are long and do shiver sharp at one end like a Needle They are found in Bohemia and Silesia near Breslaw Lapis Hyacinthus HYacinth Stones are of a light brown or Beer colour the best are small flat and a rough outside There is a large sort which looks as if they were cut or pollished of a red colour The Oriental and best are finer than both of the colour of red fiery Flames The former are found near a River in Silesia the other come from France and the best from East-India Lapis Jaspis IAsper Stone is of a reddish colour and not as some say of a green interwoven with red spots it comes from the East-Indies Lapis Judaicus IS a longish Stone of the bigness of a Finger some shorter 't is of a gray colour those which come from Syria are best esteemed Lapis Lazuli IS a blewish Stone of a most excellent colour if fine of which Ultramarine is made some are with Golden or rather Brass Veins interwoven the courser is mixt with white like rough Alabaister the best is that which holds its colour in Fire and comes from the East-Indies and Turky That which is found in Germany is nothing near so good Lapis Lyncis IS a Stone of various colour but mo●t betwixt a gray and brown sharp at one end like an Arrow and Pyramid fashion the bigness of a little Finger They are found in Candia Pomerania Helvetia and other parts of Germany Lapis Magnes LOad-stone is of an Iron colour and looks sometimes rusty if good it will draw Iron strongly to it by vertue of which Sailers and Mariners find out all parts of the World 'T is found near Iron Mines in Norway Germany Italy Sweedland and Cornwal here in England * Lapis Manateae LApis Manateae is a whitish bone of a Fish called Manatea which is plentiful in America and the West-Indies viz.