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A66045 An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language by John Wilkins ... Wilkins, John, 1614-1672.; Wilkins, John, 1614-1672. Alphabetical dictionary. 1668 (1668) Wing W2196; Wing W2176_CANCELLED; ESTC R21115 531,738 644

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or Spirit whether Vegetative more Imperfect such Bodies as grow in Veins of the Earth which though they are not commonly owned and reckoned under this Rank yet several Learned men have heretofore reduced them hither as being a more imperfect kind of Vegetable because when Mines have seemed to be totally exhausted of them yet there hath remained behind some kind of Seminal or Spermatic parts whereby they have in process of time been renewed again and continued to propagate their kinds 1. MINERAL Perfect whether according to the General name 2. PLANT Vegetable Special kinds denoting either that tribe of Plants that are most small tender and numerous Or those kinds amongst these which are commonly fed upon by beasts c. 3. HERB Wort Weed Botanic GRASS Grase Greensword Sensitive 4. ANIMAL Brute-ish Rational 5. MAN Woman Human-ity Folk VI. Besides those General parts into which the World may be divided there is likewise consideration to be had of those Imaginary CIRCLES by which men have agreed to divide both the Celestial and Terrestrial Globe for the better explaining of the Distances and Motions of the Starrs and the several Climates of the Earth to which may be adjoyned for Affinity the Notion of ORBE Sphere These Circles are either Greater dividing the Sphere into two equal parts Indeterminately namely that which separates the upper and visible part of the Globe from that which by reason of its being below us we cannot see terminating our vision 1. HORIZON tall Determinately as to Northern and Southern parts whether Directly wherein the Sun makes every-where equal day and night 2. AEQUATOR Aequinoctial the Line Obliquely namely that Line wherein the Sun is supposed constantly to move in its Annual course to which may be adjoyned that Circular superficies on each side of this which terminates the motion of the Planets 3. ECLIPTIC ZODIAC Eastern and Western parts wherein the Sun makes mid-day or mid-night to which those other Circles correspond which pass through the Poles of the Horizon as the former do through the Poles of the World 4. MERIDIAN Colure AZIMUTH Lesser dividing the Sphere into two unequal parts whether Polar described by the supposed motion of the Poles of the Ecliptic ‖ either Northern or Southern 5. ARTIC ANTARTIC Tropic terminating the motion of the Sun in its greatest Declination ‖ Northern or Southern 6. TROPIC of ♋ Summer Solstice TROPIC of ♑ Winter Solstice Parallels relating ‖ either to the Aequator or to the Horizon 7. PARALLEL ALMACANTAR CHAP. III. I. Of Elements and Meteors II. Of Stones III. Of Metals WHereas men do now begin to doubt whether those that are called the Four ELEMENTS be really the Primordia rerum First Principles of which all mixed Bodies are compounded therefore may they here be taken notice of and enumerated without particular restriction to that Notion of them as being onely the great Masses of natural Bodies which are of a more simple Fabric then the rest For which reason the word METEOR may be annexed to Element for its affinity in this respect signifying the several kinds of Bodies which are of a more imperfect mixture These are according to the common Theory distinguishable into More simple whether Real such as do actually exist Lighter FIRE I. AIR II. Heavier WATER III. EARTH IV. APPARENT V. More mixed denoting various modes of Air. WEATHER VI. I. The hottest and lightest kind of those that are counted Elements is called FIRE Burn Scald Singe Kindle Tind Light The several Notions referring to the Parts or Kinds of it are distinguishable by their Magnitude Place Duration Shape c. The General parts or kinds of Fire are ‖ either greater which seem to be enkindled Air or less being a small separated portion of Fire 1. FLAME Blaze Coruscation Flash Leam Light fire SPARK Strike fire The Special sorts of Fiery Bodies to which custom hath given particular names are such as are either More considerable in respect of their Lastingness continuing for some time in the same place and then ‖ vanishing or falling 2. COMET Standing Blazing starr FALLING STARR Suddenness being ‖ either the Shining and flash of inflamed Exhalations or the Sound made by such Inflammations 3. LIGHTNING Flash Coruscation THUNDER Fulminate Less considerable More high in the Air Of Coherent parts in the shape of ‖ a standing perpendicular Column or of a Dart in motion 4. BEAM Trabs DART Iaculum Of Disjoyned parts of a shape ‖ bigger or lesser 5. CAPRA SALTANS SCINTILLAE VOLANTES More low in the Air loose wandring ‖ as that which appears often to Mariners at Sea and if single it is called St. Hermo Helena and is thought to portend Storms if double 't is styled Castor and Pollux signifying good weather Or that which adheres to and encompasses several Animals without hurting them being probably an Inflammation of their Effluvia 6. IGNIS FATUUS Will with a Wisp Iack with a Lanthorn IGNIS LAMBENS Within the Earth 7. DAMP II. The General name for that kind of Body which for its Levity and Warmth is counted the next Element to that of Fire is AER eal Wind Breath It is distinguishable by its Purity being ‖ either more remote from the Earth and its Exhalations or adjoyning to the Terrestrial Globe and impregnated by the Steams and Efflluvia that proceed from it 1. AETHER or aethereal Air Firmament Skie Welkin ATMOSPHERE Kinds of mixture according to the more General name or that particular kind which signifies a mixture of Watry parts 2 EXHALATION Steam Reek Effluvium volatile VAPOR Evaporate Breathe Particular kinds in respect of its mixture with ‖ Earthy or Fiery parts 3. FUME SMOKE Suffumigation bloting fume Motion Above ground ‖ Direct or Circular 4. WIND Blow Gale Breath Blast Puff Gust Flaw Monsoon Trade-wind Bellows Eolipile Fan Ventiduct WHIRLWIND He●ricano Tornado Vnder ground ‖ Violent or Gentle 5. EARTHQUAKE DAMP III. The third of those greater Masses of Body considerable for its Gravity and Moisture is styled WATER Aqueous Dip padle Drein The names belonging to this are such as concern either The smaller Particles of it ‖ whether Solid or Hollow 1. DROP Drip drible drizle trickle sprinkle run shed instil BUBBLE Froth Spume Fome Mantle Ebullition The Mixture of it with Air ‖ Vpper or Lower 2. CLOUD Overcast gloomy MIST Fogg nebulous The Condensation of it ‖ from a Cloud or from a Mist. 3. RAIN Drizie DEW The Congelation of it according to its more General acception or according to that special kind of it relating to the smaller particles of a Cloud styled 4 FROST Freeze Ice congele Isicle SNOW Particular restriction to the Drops ‖ of Rain or of Dew 5 HAIL RIME Hoar●frost The Kinds of Dew More Concrete of a sweet tast to which may be adjoyned that peculiar kind of physical Dew mixed with the Exudations of the Plant Ladanum 6. MANNA LADANUM More Liquid gathered from Plants by Bees to which may be adjoyned for its
called c. Charlock HS. IV. 9. A. Charm Witch with words Wizard with words Charnel Room for dead bodies Charr Fi. IX 3. A. Charring O. VI. 7. Charter Patent sp For grant of Privilege Chase. Treey Country sp for Deer Forrest Po. I. 2. A. to Hunt Drive Persue Chasm Emptiness in the Skie El. V. 5. Chast adj Chastity ●ree Sh. V. 1. Chastise Correct Chatt Loquacity Chattels Goods not inheritable Chatter with ones Tongue as Birds a. Swallow voice a. Pie voice Prate with ones Teeth Tremble sp with Sound aug Cheap adj Price Value dim Sorry TM I. 4. D. Cheapen Treat concerning the price Cheat Fraud Check Interrupt Motion Hinder Cohibit Reprove Checker vid. Exchequer ' d with Colours Q. II. 7. Cheef Principal Cheek PG. III. 7. Side Sp. III. 4. Cheer Diet Quantity of Food Face manner to Encourage Merry make Cheerful make Cheerfulness Alacrity Ha. IV. 3. Cheese Pro. I. 3. A. Cheeslip Sow Ex. II. 9. Cheesrunning Ladies bedstraw HL. IX 6. A. Cherish a. Fotion AC I. 4. Preserve indulgently Cherry Tr. II. 3. Birds Sh. II. 5. Winter HS. IX 8. Wildrock of Austria Sh. II. 5. A. Cherub Angel Image of Angel Chervil HF. V. 8. A. Chesil Prism for Cutting Carving Chess-playing Mo. V. 3. Chest. Box Pr. V. 2. of the Body Trunk sp the Cavity of it Chestnut Tr. IV. 4. Cheverel Leather of Gote's skin Cheveron Tooth like lines Chevin Chub. Fi. IX 8. A. Chew Mastication the Cud Re-masticate Chibbol Young Onion Chickling HS. II. 5. under-ground HS. II. 7. Chick Hen young weed HS. V. 9. A. Bastard HS. V. 10. berry bearing HS. IX 8. A. Chide Reprove angrily Chill Cold dim Chilblain S. III. 7. Child By Relation Natural RO. I. 2. O. to be with to have conceived in the womb Embryo birth Parturition bed the Bed in which adj a. pret Part●●ition lies in adj a. pret Parturition Adventitious Foster RO. III 2. O. God RO. III. 1. O. Ward RO. III. 4. O. By Age. Infant Boy Childhood Infancy Mea. VI. 1. Boy 's age Mea. VI. 1. A. Childish adj Child like Childless Not-parent Chime Tune with the Bells Ring melodiously Chimaera adj Fiction thing Chimist O. VI. mech Chimny Po. III. 9. A. Chin. PG. III. 8. A. China root of an Indian climbing plant Chine Bone of the Back Chin-cough adj a. pret Duration aug Cough Chink Chap. Mag. V. 4. O. Chip TM VI. 5. to Cut into Chips From-cut the outside Chiromancy Wizarding by the sight of hand Chirp dim Singing AC III. 5. A. Voice of Birds a. Sparrow voice Chirurgeon adj RC. III. 2. person Chit Cat young Chitterling Smallest gu●s Chivalry War art sp adj Horseman Chives vid. Cive Chocolate Tr. IV. 7. Choice Subst Election RC. IV. 2. Diversity Many of divers Kinds Valors Adject Excellent Choke Strangle RC. V. 8. Choler PG. I. 6. A. adust melancholy Choleric adj Choler adj Anger apt Choose a. Election As to do AS IV. 5. As to Office RC. IV. 2. may is adj Liberty cannot but is adj p. Determination Chop Mince Pr. III. 6. A. ing knife Mincing inst ing block Supporting inst for the chopped thing Cut by striking of mutton From cut part sp adj Proportion in Come sudden Exchange Chord Mag. II. 6. A. Chorister adj Singing Off. Chorus together-Singers Aggr. Players together-speaking aggr Chough Bi. I. 6. A. Chrism Anointing Christ. G. II. Christen Baptize Christendom World of Christians Christianity RE. I. 4. Christmas Festival time of Christ's birth day Festival day of Christ's birth Chromis Fi. V. 7. Chronicle Relation of things done according to the Series of times Chronology History of times Computing art of times Chrysocoll Borax Chrysolite PP V. 6. A. Chub. Fi. IX 8. A. Chuckle Laugh augm sp Inwardly Church Society RE. aggr Temple Po. II. 4. warden adj Temple Off. yard Court of Temple Churching RE. IV. 6. Churl adj Churlishness person Churlishness Rusticity Man IV. 9. D. Moroseness Man IV. 7. D. op to Alms. Man III. 5. D. Roughness Churn Motion freq vicissitudinary Chur-worm Fen-Cricket Ex. II. 2. A. Chyle PG. I. 3. Chymic Operation O. VI. Cicada Ex. IV. 6. aquatica EX II. 4. A. Cicely Sweet HF. IV. 3. wi●d HF. IV. 3. A. Cicutaria   Cider Wine of Apples Cimex Punice Ex. II. 6. A. sylvestris Ex. II. 3. Cinders Fiery ashes of Sea-cole Charred remainders Cinnabar Met. III. 5. Cinna●ion Tr. VII 8. Cinqfoil HF. IX 2. Cipher adj Number sign Character Character Secret Character Number to adj a. Number art Nothing sign Character Cypres Transparent Linnen Tr. V. 6. Circle Mag. III. 2. By which the World is divided W. VI. Circuit Region Margin of Circle Circular adj Circle Circulate About-going Circumcision RE. VI. 5. Circumference Circle about adj Margin Circumflex Long sounding Circumlocution Express by many words Paraphrase D. V. 5. A. Circumscribe About a. compass Circumspect Cautious Circumstance T. VI. 3. Circumvent a. Fraud Cistern a. Keeping vessel for Water Citadel Castle Po. II. 2. Citation Summons RJ. II. 1. Quotation D. IV. 9. Citerior Sp. II. 2. E. City RC. III. 3. A. Citizen RC. I. 6. Citrine adj Citron colour Citrinella Bi. VI. 2. Citron Tr. I. 8. Citrull HS. VII 2. A. Cittern Little musical instr having brass strings Citysus Sh. II. 6. A. Cive HL. IV. 10. A. Civet Sweat of the Civet Cat. Cat. Be. IV. 4. A. Civil adj Civility adj City adj Civil relation Relation RC. Lawyer RC. II. 2. War War between men of the same Nation Common-wealth Civility Courtesie Man IV. 7. Complaisance Man IV. 8. Clack Knock freq sound a adj Knock machin Clad Clothed Clay El. IV. 4. Claim TA. I. 3. Clamber Climbe adv Difficult corr Clamminess Q. VI. 4. E. Clamor Exclaim AC III. 3. O. Clancular Secret Clandestine Secret Clap. AC V. 5. up Finish adv sudden Imprison sp suddenly of thunder sound imp of th Clapboard Oaken lamins for lining Rooms Clapper Box Pr. V. 2. Instrument Striking part of ringing instr Claret Red French Wine Clary HF. VII 10. Wild HF. VII 10. A. Clarifie Separating the course parts a. Clear make ● Clash against-Strike sp reciprocally a. Contention Clasp Hook Embrace Clasper Tendril PP II. 7. A. Class Series Classic Authentic Clatter Jarring Clause D. III. 1. Claw as of man Nail a back Fawner as of Beast PP VI. 5. A. as of Bird. PP V. 3. as of Shell-fish PP IV. 7. to Scratch Clean. Pure TM V. 6. Quite and perfectly Totally Cleanliness Man II. 6. Cleanse Clean make a. Innocent make Vndefiled make Un a. guilty make Clear Entire of it self ly Wholly Not mingled with other Simple sp not with worse Pure Not hinder'd from being doing Receiving perf E.g. in any genus as of Quality or Relation NP. understanding Und. perf sight Sight perf as to Mind Ingenuous Sprightly as to the Body Sound Indolent Beautiful Ha. repute Rep. perf sp Sagacious Sincere Man Candid Frank Quality Visible Lightsom weather El. VI. 1. Bright Transparent