Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	half_a	ounce_n	pound_n	16,501	5	9.1854	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10819	The compleat cannoniere: or, The gunners guide Wherein are set forth exactly the chiefe grounds and principals of the whole art, in a very briefe and compendious forme, never by any set forth in the like nature before. With divers excellent conclusions, both arithmeticall and geometricall belonging thereunto: as also sundry serviceable fireworkes, both for sea and land service. A study delightfull and very usefull for men of the best quality, and imbrac'd by the greatest princes. Written by Iohn Roberts of Weston neere Bathe, Gentleman, practitioner and professor in the arte thereof.	Roberts, John, of Weston.	1639 (1639)	STC 21092; ESTC S115980	33,830	71

when you would use the same bore it through with a B●…dkin and fill the holes full of fine powder bruised To make Bullets of wilde-fire to shoote out of a Trunke which will be as hard as a stone TAke Sulphure in meale sixe part of Rosen in meale sixe parts melting the same in some pot over a slow fire then take stone pitch one part of hard waxe one part of Tarre ¼ part of Aqua vitae ½ part of Linseed oyle ½ part of Verdigrease ¼ part of Campheire ⅛ part melting all these together Likewise stirre into the same of Peter in meale two parts and taking it from the fire put therein foure parts of bruised powder working the same well together in your hands and rowle it round of the bignesse you meane to make your balls of boring two holes through the same crosse-wayes which must be primed with bruised powder These balls being cold will grow very hard and fired will burne furiously To make Hedge-hogges TO make Hedge-hogges or Balles you must fill them with the same receipts you doe your Arrowes and Pikes and let them be five inches in the diameter and well armed with twine before you coat them and after bored two holes and primed with fine powder then put in two sticks and using them pull them out againe and at the said holes fire them The spikes ends of Iron must bee like Deaths arrow heads five or sixe stirts a peece to hang in the sayles or stick in or upon any place assigned and remember in the arming to leave a noose to throw him being fired out of your hand To make Powder pots THey are made of blacke Potters clay or thick glasse round Bottles with eares to tye matches lighted at both ends the pots or glasses are to be filled with drye fine powder and thrown upon the decks or other where which will much prejudice the enemy and many times fire their owne powder-chests To make Powder-chests THey are to be made first of three boords two to be nayl●…d together like the ridging of a house and one longer and broader to the bottome thereof betwene which three boords put your Cartredge then make it up like a Sea-chest and fill it with stones nayles and what such like you will then naile the cover on and the ends to the decks in such a place that you may fire the powder underneath through a hole made to put a Pistoll in To make Roche-Sulphure ROche-Sulphure is made one pound of Sulphure molten on a slow fire and one quarter of a pound of mealed powder put thereto by little and little and in the cooling put three ounces of Corne-powder mixing them well together to which put one pound of molten suet so have you made good Roche-Sulphure A true receite of a Composition that will burne and feed upon the Water TAke Masticke halfe a pound white Frankin sence Gumme Sandrake Quicklime Brimstone Bitumen Camphire and of the best and dryest Gun-powder of each of these one pound and a halfe Rozin one pound Salt-peter foure pounds and a halfe mixe them all together and you have your desire A Receite of a Composition that will burne under water TAke Brimstone one pound Gun-powder ten Ounces of the best Salt-peter you can get one pound and a halfe Camphire beaten with Sulphur and Quicksilver mixe them well together with oyle of Peter or for want of it let it be Linseed oyle boyled unill it will scald a Feather fill a Canvas ball with this Composition arme it and ballast it with Lead at the bottome make a little vent at the top fire it well and cast it into the water and you shall finde the experience worth your labour A Receite of a Composition that will kindle with the water TAke of Oyle of Tyle one pound Linseed-oyle three pounds oyle of yelke of Egges one pound new quick-lime eight pounds Brimstone two pounds Camphire foure ounces Bitumen two Ounces mingle all together very well and you shall have your desire How to know the iust time or houre that any quantity of a lighted Match shall doe execution at the time desired TAke our ordinary Match which is used for the Musket rub or beate it against a post to soften it then either dip the same in the water of our ordinary Salt-peter then dry it very well either by the fire or in the Sun according as your haste requires or else beate a little Brimstone very small and put a little fine Gunne-powder amongst it and rub the Match with them being made liquid with a little Aqua vitae and dryed as before said then try first how long one yard of this Match thus prepared will burne which imagine to be about a quarter of an houre and if one yard will burne so long then foure yards will be just an houre Take therefore as much of this Match as will burne so long as you will have it to be ere your worke should fire binde the one end unto your worke lay loose powder well dryed under and about it lay the rest of the Match in hollow or turning so that one part of it touch not another and fire it For Fire-pikes 4 pound a peece for one dozen Powder 20 pound Peter-roch 5 pound Peter-meale 5 pound Sulphur 3 pound Rozen 2 pound ½ Turpentine 1 pound Linseed oyle 1 pound Summe 38 pound 8 ounces For arming Sulphur 6 pound Turpentine ½ pound Threed 4 pound Summe 10 pound ½ For Arrows 2 dozen each 1 pound Powder 12 pound Sulphur 3 quarters of a pound Rozen 3 quarters of a pound Roch-peter halfe a pound Peter-meale 3 qua of a pound Summe 15 pound 3 quarters For coating Sulphur 5 pound Peter-Roch 2 pound Peter-meale 1 pound 1 yard of Canvas marle Summe 9 pounds For2dozen of balls wetworks of 4 pound a peece Powder 48 pound Peter-roch 16 pound Pitch 2 pound Rozen 2 pound Turpentine 8 pound ½ Linseed oyle 1 pound Traine-oyle 1 pound Sūme totall 90 pound ½ For Coating Pitch 14 pound Rozen 2 pound Sulphure 8 pound Canvas 4 yards Small Marle 3 pound Summe 31 pound ½ For 1 dozen of pots each one 1 pound ¼ Corn-powder 1 pound ½ Serp. powder 9 pound Sulphure 3 pound Peter-roch 1 pound ●… ●… Summe 15 pound For Capping Canvas 1 yard Okam ¼ of a pound Sulphure three fourth pound Packthred 1 ounce Sūme 1 pound 9 Ounces A short View of the Chiefest Heads which are contained in this Booke of GVNNERY Viz. FIrst of the principles of Philosophy sit to bee knowne page 1. A Table of the Square A table of Cubes pag. 2 How to extract the square root pag. 2. How to know the neerest root of a number not square p. 3. ●…oure severall questions upon the same and all fully answered pag. 4 5 6. How to extract the Cubicke root with the manner how it is to be done pag. 7. How to find the neerest Cubicke root and not cubicall p. 8. A question of two Cubes pag. 9. A