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AN
ENGLISH
EXPOSITOR: 
TEACHING THE INTER­ 
pretation of the hardest words vsed
in our Language. 

WITH SVNDRY EXPLICATI­
ons, Descriptions, and Discourses. 

By I. B. Doctor of Physicke.

Εργονγ ὅδὲν  ὄγειδοσ.

LONDON,
Printed by IOHN LEGATT. 
1616.














TO THE RIGHT
HONORABLE AND VER­
TVOVS, HIS SINGVLAR 
GOOD LADIE, THE LADIE
IANE Vicountesse Mountagne, all
honour and happinesse. 

BEing perswaded (Right
Noble Ladie) by some
friends, for publike bene­
fit to make this Collecti­
on of words common, 
which at first was inten­
ded onely for priuate vse, 
(as written in my youth, at the request of a
worthy Gentleman, one whose loue preuailed
much with me) I could not finde in heart to
send it forth, no better furnished than with a
bare Title; left like an vnknowne Infant, it
should be exposed to ouer hard vsage, or per­
aduenture scornefully reiected, aduenturing
abroad without countenance of any friend or
commaunder.  Vpon sure knowledge there­






fore of your most honourable disposition, 
and former experience of your Ladyships fa­
uour toward me, I am emboldned to present
this little Pamphlet vnto your Honour, with
hope that by your Patronage it shall not one­
ly bee protected from iniuries, but also finde
fauourable entertainment,and perhaps grace­
fully admitted among greatest Ladies and
studious Gentlewomen, to whose reading (I
am made beleeue) it will not prooue altoge­
ther vngratefull.  And although I may well
be taxed of folly or presumption, that for cre­
dit of a slender trifle, craue the assistance of so
eminent a Person, yet such (I confesse) is my
care thereof (since I must not deny it for my
owne) and my duty and deuotion so affected
to your Honour, and all yours; that I haue, 
(hoping of your Ladiships  pardon) wilfullie
repelled al reasons which might disswade me, 
choosing herein not so much what may seem
most seemly, as what I suppose most behooue­
full for me.

Accept therefore I beseech your Honour, 
and receiue vnder your noble tuition this lit­
tle vocabulary Treatise, which hauing beene
many yeares restrained of libertie, is now glad
of enlargement, especially recommended vn­
to so worthy a Patronesse.  The glorious Sun






loseth not the least point of his heighth by  
liberall lending downe his light, and quicke­
ning with his influence the lowest creatures; 
neither is any eminency disgraced, that easily
condescendeth to others desired good: 
which is also confirmed by the Poet, who
saieth; 

Conspicitur nunquam meliore potentia causa, 
Quàm quoties vanas non sinit esse preces.

Not thinking needfull therefore to trouble
your Honour with many words of entreatie
(vpon assured confidence of your wel known
Charitie and goodnesse) I conclude, sincerely
wishing to your Ladiship, the best that may
be wished, and resting my selfe euer,

Your Honours to be
commaunded,

IO.  BVLLOKAR.









To the Courteous Reader. 

HEre haue you (Gentle Reader) that
which at first was not made for you, 
though now willingly (for your be­
nefite if you embrace it) offered to
your kind acceptance.  Commend it
my selfe I will not, lest I should giue
occasion to some quick heads, to come
vpon me with the verse, Auror o­
pus laudat &c. Yet this I will say
(and say truely) that in my yonger yeares it hath cost mee
some obseruation, reading, study, and charge; which you may
easily beleeue, considering the great store of strange words, our
speech doth borrow, not only from the Latine, and Greeke, (and
some from the ancient Hebrew) but also from forraine vulgar
Languages round about vs: beside sundry olde words now
growne out of vse, and diuers termes of art, proper to the lear­
ned in Logicke, Philosophy, Law, Physicke, Astronomie, &c. 
yea, and Diuinitie it selfe, best knowen to the seuerall profes­
sors thereof.  And herein I hope such learned will deeme no
wrong offered to themselues or dishonour to Learning, in that
I open the signification of such words, to the capacitie of the
ignorant, whereby they may conceiue and vse them as well as
those which haue bestowed long study in the languages; for
considering it is familiar among best writers to vsurpe
strange words, (and sometime necessary by reason our speech
is not sufficiently furnished with apt termes to expresse all






meanings) I suppose withall their desire is that they should
also be vnderstood; which I (knowing that bonum quò
communius eo melius) haue endeauoured by this Booke, 
though not exquisitely, yet (I trust) in some reasonable
measure to performe.  It is easier (all know) to find faults, 
then to mende them, and easier to mend faults in anothers
worke already written, then to write any new worke free from
all fault. If therefore any fault finder, or ouer curious Cri­
ticke (for from the best learned I expect best vsage) shall to
shew his skill grow captious, and quarrell at my interpretati­
ons, I will desire him to forbeare bitternesse, and temper a
while his choler, till hauing laide this worke aside, hee trauell
himselfe in the same or some other new argument; and then I
doubt not but he will either become more indifferent, or giue
others occasion to bid him English the olde Prouerbe, Medice
cura teipsum. But as for you (iudiciall or courteous Reader) 
whose fauour I desire, and whose counsell or friendly correcti­
on I will not refuse, if to you (I say) any thing herein shall
occurre, which seemeth by me omitted, mistaken, or not fully
satisfactory to your expectation, (for indeed there are almost
slipt away seuen yeeres since I had any leasure as much as to
looke on it) I promise that vpon warning hereof giuen to me
or the Printer, at a second Impression it shall be amended or
supplyed. Meanewhile vse this as you finde it, and I perswade
my selfe your honesty will say it is worth the money you
paide for it.  So committing my selfe and Booke to your fauo­
rable good liking, I commit you to God.  From my house 
at Chicester in Sussex, this 17. day of October. 1616. 

Your hearty well willer, 

Io: Bullokar.









An Instruction to the Reader.


HAue care to search euery word ac­
cording to the true Orthography
thereof, as for Phœnix in the Letter
P. not in F. for Hypostaticall in Hy: not in
Hi: Remember also that euery word mar­
ked with this marke * is an olde word, onely
vsed of some ancient writers, and now
growne out of vse.  Lastly, if a word bee of
different significations, the one easie, the other
more difficult, I onely speake of interpretati­
on of the hardest; as in the words Tenne,
Girle, Garter, may appeare.









ABandon.  To for­
sake: to cast off,

Abate.  To make
lesse: In our common
Law it signifieth, to enter
into any inheritance, be­
fore the right heire take
possession, with intent to
keepe the said heire out
of it.

Abatement.  The action
or enterprise of him which
abateth in the common
Lawe.

Abba.   An Hebrewe
word signifying Father. 

Abbett.  To helpe or
assist one in euill.

Abbettour.  Hee that
counselleth or comfortheth
another to doo any euill.

Abbot  A spirituall Lord
ouer a religious house of
Monkes. 

Abbreuiate.  To make
short: to abridge.

Abbreuiation.  A making
short, an abridgement.

Abdicate.  To refuse or
 forsake, to renounce. 

Abeston. A stone found
in Arabia, of the colour of
iron, which being once set
on fire, can hardly bee
quenched.

Abiect. Vile, base, of no
estimation.

Abiure. To sweare or
forsweare: a terme some­
time vsed in Lawe, when
one hauing committed a
capitall offence flyeth to a
Church, or Churchyard;
and chooseth rather per­
petuall banishment: viz.
to abiure the Realme, then
stand to tryall of Lawe.
This Law was instituted
by S. Edward the Confes­
sour in fauour of life, but
now is not in vse.

Abiuration. A renoun­
cing by oath: see Abiure.

Ablepsie. Want of fight,
blindnesse, vnaduisednesse.

Ablution. A washing.

Abolition. A taking a­
way, destroying or aboli­
shing.

Abortion. The birth of a






child before due time; or
the destroying in  the mo­
thers wombe.

Abortiue. That which
is vntimely borne.

Abrahams Baume. A little
tree of the kind of Withies
growing in Italy, and o­
ther hot countreyes, bea­
ring round fruit like Pep­
per cornes. It is very hot
and drie; and hath a sin­
gular propertie to procure
chastitie, for which cause
Phisitians haue named it
Agnus castus.

Abridge. To shorten,
to cut off, to gather onely
the principall points.

Abrogate. To abolish:
to disanull, by publike au­
thoritie to alter and make
a Law, which was in force,
to be of no effect.

Abrupt. Broken off.

Abruptly. By peece­
meale: out of order, with­
out obseruing of due cir­
cumstance.

Absolue. To pardon, ac­
quite, or discharge.

Absolute Perfect: ac­
complished.

Absolution Pardon, ac­
quitall, forgiuenesse.

Abstinence. A forbea­
ring from gluttony, or vn­
lawfull taking other mens
goods.

Abstinent. Sober, tem­
perate, content with his
owne.

Abstract. A little booke,
or gathering taken out of
a greater.

Abstraction. A taking a­
way: or a short draught
taken out of a greater 
thing.

Abstruse. Hidden: se­
cret, not easie to vnder­
stand.

Absurde. Foolish, with­
out any wit or grace.

Absurditie. Foolishnesse.

Abusiue. That which of­
fereth abuse.

Abisse. A bottomelesse
pit, any deepnesse so great
that it cannot be sounded.

Acatia. A little thorne
growing in Egypt, out of
the leaues and fruit wher­
of they draw a iuyce or
blacke liquour, which be­
ing dryed, is called Acatia,
and is very astrictiue or
binding. Our Apotheca­
ries haue not the right A­
catia, but insteed thereof,






they vse the iuice of Sloes,
being of the same vertue
that Acatiais.

Academie. A Vniuersitie
or great publike schoole:
the name hereof first came
of a place in Athens, cal­
led Academia, where Plato
taught.

Academicall. Belonging
to an Vniuersitie, or Aca­
demie.

Academicke. A Philoso­
pher of the sect of Plato.
They acknowledged one
God, and beleeued the
immortality of soules; Pla­
to hauing learned many
things of the Hebrewes,
then the peculiar people of
God.

Accelerate. To hasten.

Acceleration A haste­
ning.

Accesse. Liberty or pow­
er to come to a place.

Accessible. Which may
be gone too

Accessory. He that coun­
selleth or commandeth
another to commit any
offence: or comforteth, or
hideth him, knowing that
he hath committed an of­
fence.

Accident. That which
happeneth by chaunce:
sometime it signifieth that
which belongeth to a
thing, and yet is no part of
the substance, as the quan­
titie, qualitie and such like.

Accidentall. Happening
by chance: or belonging
to an Accident.

Acclamation. A crying
out to one.

Accomodate. To make
fit: to apply.

Accoutrement. Attire, or
dressing.

Accoste. To draw neere
to one.

Accrew. To grow, arise,
or increase.

Accumulate. To heape
vp.

Accumulation. A heaping
together.

Acerbity. Sowrenesse.

Acheeue. To performe:
or bring to passe.

Acolite. A Minister ser­
uing to bring water, wine
and light to the altar.

Aconitum. A venemous
herbe, hauing a root much
like to a Scorpion, and shi­
ning within like alabaster.
Poets saine that Cerberus






the three headed dogge of
hell, being dregged vp in a
chaine of Adamant by
Hercules, did cast some of
his fome vpon this herbe,
whereby it became so ve­
nemous.

Acquire. To get, or pro­
cure.

Acquisition. A getting or
purchasing.

Acquite. To discharge,
or free one.

Acquitall. A freeing of
one from being guiltie of
an offence wherewith hee
was charged.

Action. A deed done:
or the doing of any thing.
In our common Lawe it
signifieth a suite commen­
ced against any man, and
is commonly diuided into
three differing kindes.
viz.

1. Action personall.
which is for debt, goods,
cattell.

2. Action popular. which
any man may sue, as vpon
the breach of a penall sta­
tute, where some aduan­
tage is allowed to him that
will sue for it.

3. Action reall: when one
claimeth title to any lands
tenements, rents, or com­
mon, in fee simple, fee
taile, or for terme of life.

Actiue. Liuely, strong,
nimble.

Actiuitie. Strong nim­
blenesse.

Actor. A doer, some­
time a Player.

Actuall. That which is
done or committed.

Acute. Sharpe, wittie.

Adage. A prouerbe.

Adamant. A precious
stone commonly called a
Diamond, brought out of
Arabia and Cyprus. It is
the hardest of all stones, in­
somuch that it cutteth
glasse, and yieldeth neither
to stroke of hammer nor
fire, for which cause the
Greekes name it Adamas,
which in their tongue sig­
nifieth Inuincible : Not­
withstanding it is softened
with goats blood, being
steeped therein new and
warme. It is of contrary
nature to the loadstone, in
so much that being laide
neere it, the loadstone can­
not draw yron, hauing the
vertue thereof ouermaste­






red by the Adamant.

Addict. To apply, or
giue ones selfe much to a­
ny thing.

Additament. Any thing
added.

Addition. An adding or
putting to. In our common 
law it signifieth any title
giuen to a man beside his
name which title sheweth
his estate, trade, course
of life, and also dwelling
place.

Adhere. To cleaue to.

Adherence. A cleauing
to, or belonging to any
thing.

Adherent. That which
cleaueth or ioyneth close
to a thing.

Adiacent That which
lyeth neere to another
thing.

Adiourne. To deferre
or put off till another
time.

Adiournement. A terme
in law when any Court is
dissolued, and appointed
to be kept vpon some o­
ther time, or at any other
place.

Adiunct. A qualitie
ioyned to a thing, as
heate to fire, coldenesse to
Snow.

Adiure. To binde
by oath: to make one to
sweare.

Adiuration. A swearing,
a binding by oath.

Administer. To do ser­
uice: sometime to take 
charge and dispose of a
dead mans goods, by ap­
pointment of the Ordina­
rie.

Administration. The do­
ing or handling of a busi­
nesse; or the disposing of
a dead mans goods, that
made no will.

Administrator. Hee to
whom the Ordinary com­
mitteth in charge the
goodes of a man dying
without will.

Admire. To wonder, to
honour or esteeme highly.

Admiration. A wonde­
ring.

Admission. A recei­
uing or giuing one leaue
to enter.

Admit. To let in, to al­
low of.

Admixtion. A mingling
of things together.

Admonish. To warne.






Admonishment. A war­
ning giuen one.

Adopt. To choose one
to be his sonne.

Adoption. The choosing
and making one to bee as
his sonne to him.

Adore. To worship, to
giue diuine reuerence.

Adoration. A worship­
ping.

Adorne. To decke, to
set out, to beautifie.

Adornation. A decking,
or trimming.

Aduent. A comming:
Certaine weekes before
Christmas are so called,
because then is made in 
the Church solemne pre­
paration for the comming
of our Sauiour.

Aduentaile. A coate of
Armour.

Aduerse. contrary.

Aduert. To marke.

Aduertise. To giue
knowledge of a thing.

Adulation. Flatterie.

Adulatory. Which flat­
tereth.

Adulterate. To cor­
rupt or counterfeit.

Aduocate. He that plea­
deth for another.

Aduouson. The right
which a man & his heires
haue to present a Clerke
to the Ordinary, to be ad­
mitted to a spirituall be­
nefice when it becommeth
voide.

Adust. Burnt, scorched.

Adustion. A burning.

Aedile. An officer a­
mong the ancient Ro­
manes, who had charge
to see that Temples, pri­
uate houses and highwaies,
were kept in good repara­
tion.

Aegipan. A Poeticall
word, signifying a monster
hauing the body of a man
and legs like a Goat.

Aerie. A nest of Haukes
is so called.

Aeriall. Ayrie, or of the
aire.

Affability. Courtesie in
speech: gentlenesse, kind­
nesse.

Affable. Courteous or
kinde in speech.

Affect. To loue: some­
time to moue affection.

Affectation. Too much
curiosity: an extreme la­
bouring without discreti­
on to imitate another, or






doe any thing well.

Affiance. Trust: confi­
dence.

Affianced. Betrothed.

Affinitie. Kindred by
marriage: sometime like­
nesse or agreement.

Affirmatiue. Which affir­
meth.

Affluence. Plenty: a­
boundance.

Affront. To come bold­
ly before one: to looke
boldly in ones face.

Africa. One of three
parts of the world, lying
toward the South; herein
is Barbary and all Ethiope
contained. The people of
these countries liued in
times past very vnciuilly,
feeding much vpon ser­
pents flesh: It is called A­
frica of the Greeke worke
Phrice, which signifieth
Colde: and the particle A.
which in that language,
being placed before a
word, changeth the sense
thereof: so that Africa
signifieth a country hotte
or without cold.

Agarick: A kind of mush­
rome or tadstoole of
great account in Physicke.
It groweth vpon the Larch
tree in Italy, and is white,
light, brittle, and sponge­
ous. It expelleth cold
fleame and grosse raw hu­
mours out of the body, o­
pening obstructions of the
Liuer, and by this meanes
amendeth an euill colour.

Agast. Amazed with
feare: dismaide.

Agent. A dooer or med­
ler in a matter.

Aggrauate. To make a­
ny thing in words more
grieuous, heauier or worse
then it is.

Agilitie. Nimblenesse.

Agitation. A shaking, iog­
ging or mouing.

Agnition. Knowledge:
acknowledgement.

Agnize. To acknowledge

Agnus castus. See Abra­
hams baume before.

Agony. A torment of bo­
dy and mind: great feare
and trembling.

Agriculture. Tillage of
land: husbandry.

Alabaster. A kinde of
marble white and very
cleare, which by reason of
the naturall coldnes ther­
of doth preserue things






long from corruption; and
therefore they vsed to
make boxes of it to keepe
sweete ointments, and
toombes to bury Princes
and great Personages in.

Alacritie. Cheereful­
nesse: courage, a quicke­
nesse.

Alchymie. The art of
melting and dissoluing the
nature of mettals, by sepa­
rating the pure from the
impure parts thereof.

Alchymist. Hee that is
skilfull in Alchymie.

Alcion. A small bird that
maketh her nest in the
sea, and then it is a signe
of faire weather: some call
it a kings fisher.

Alcoran. A booke wher­
in Mahomets law and reli­
gion is written.

* Alderan  A starre in
the necke of the figure
Leo.

Algate. Notwithstan­
ding: if so be, seeing that.

Alien. A stranger borne,
an outlandish man.

Alienate. To estrange
and withdraw the minde,
sometime to sell.

Alienation. An estran­
ging, a selling away.

Aliment. Nourishment.

Alkakengi. Otherwise
called winter cherries: An
herb which beareth round
berries and red, that are
good against the stoppings
of the Liuer, the stone and
grauell, and diuers diseases
of the kidneyes and blad­
der.

Allay. To qualifie or a­
bate the strength or vio­
lence of any thing. It is
also a terme of hunting,
when they set hounds in
a readinesse where they
thinke a Deere will passe,
and cast them off when the
rest of the Kennell comes
in.

Allegation. A telling of
some proofe or reason of a
matter.

Allegiance. Obedience
of a subiect to his Prince.

Allegorie. A sentence
consisting of diuers tropes
which must be vnderstood
otherwise then the litterall
interpretation sheweth; as
when Saint Iohn Baptist
speaking of our Sauiour,
Matth. 3said: Whose fanne
is in his hand, and he shall






make cleane his floore, and ga­
ther the wheat into his barne
but the chaffe he shall burne
with vnquenchable fire:
The meaning whereof is,
that Christ being su­
preme Iudge of all, shall
separate the good from
the euill, rewarding the
one in heauen, and puni­
shing the other in hell fire.

Allegoricall. Of, or be­
longing to an allegorie:
spoken by an allegorie.

Alleluia. An Hebrew word
or rather two Hebrewe
words ioyned in one, vsed
as a signe of exultation,
and is interpreted, Prayse
ye our Lord. Paulus Diaco­
nus writeth, that when the
Britaines were inuaded by
the Saxons and Picts, and
on a time ready to fight a
battell against them, they
were admonished by Ger­
manus a French Bishop,
(who was sent hither with
Saint Lupus to confute the
Pelagian  heresie) that they
should doe as he did; and
forthwith he cryed aloude
Alleluia: which when the
whole armie of Britaines
had done, the sound there­
of strooke such a terrour
into the enemies, that 
they presently fledde a­
way, whereby the Bri­
taines had the victory.
De gestis Rom.lib.15

Allie. Of kinne to one
by marriage.

Alliance. Kindred and
affinitie, league or frien­
ship.

Allot. To appoint, or
giue by lotte.

Allude. To speake any
thing which hath resem­
blance, or privilie is di­
rected to touch another
matter.

Allusion. A likening or
priuy resembling of one
matter to another. See Al­
ude.

* Alnath. A starre in the
hornes of the figure A­
ries.

Aloes, or Lignum Aloes.
 A precious wood vsed in
Phisicke, which comfor­
teth the heart, and openeth
obstructions. It is knotty,
browne of colour, and bit­
ter in taste. Being burned
it fometh, and yieldeth a
sweete perfume. Some af­
firme it to grow vppon






mountaines in the East,
neere the rising of the fa­
mous Riuer Nilus, from
which mountaines falling
downe, it is carried by the
streame into India, where
being taken vp in nets, it is
cleansed, and made apt for
physicke.

Aloesuccotrina. The iuyce
of an herbe brought hither
dry out of India; the best
whereof is cleere, cleane
and red, like to the colour
of a lyuer. It is very bitter,
but an excellent medicine
to purge cholericke hu­
mours out of the stomack;
yet not good to bee taken
inwardly of such as are
troubled with the Hemor­
rhoides.

Alpha. The first letter of 
the Greekes : wherefore it
is sometime taken for the
first or cheef in any thing.

Alphabet. The crosserow
of letters, the A, B, C.

Alphabeticall. Belonging
to the Alphabet.

Alps. High mountaines
between France and Lom­
bardie: the rockes where­
of Hannibal (the great
Captaine of the Carthagi­
nians) softened in diuers
places with fire and vine­
ger, to cut out a way for his
army to passe into Italy.

Altercation. An angrie
reasoning or wrangling in
words.

Alternall. Done by turne
or course, one after ano­
ther.

Altitude. Highth.

Amate. To dismay: to
make afraid.

Amazon. A woman of
the Country Amazonica.
Amazones were warlike
women of Scythia, which
kept a Countrey to them­
selues without men, yet to
haue children companied
with the bordering people.
Their Sonnes they eyther
destroyed or sent home to
the father, but their daugh­
ters they kept, bringing
them vp in hunting, ry­
ding, shooting and feates
of armes. They burned
the right breast of their
children, lest it should hin­
der their archerie, where­
fore they had the name
Amazons, which (in
Greeke) signifieth women 
wanting a breast.






Ambage. A long circum­
stance of words.

Amber. A kinde of hard
yellow gumme, wherewith
they make beades. Mesue
saith, the tree whereon it
groweth is called Ibex Ro­
mana; but what this tree
is, I cannot yet learne. Dio­
scorides saith, that it falleth
in manner of a liquor from
Poplar trees into the riuer
Po in Italy, where it con­
gealeth and becommeth
hard, in that forme as wee
see it.

Ambergrise. Mesue saith
it is the spawne of the
Whale fish: Auicen affir­
meth it to grow in the sea.
Others write onely, that
it is cast vp on the shore,
and found cleauing to
stones there: the fume
thereof is good against the
falling sicknesse, and com­
fortable to the braine.

Ambia. A clammy li­
quor of the colour of ho­
ny, brought out of India.
It is said to haue great ver­
tue in healing old aches or
griefes, proceeding from
cold diseases.

Ambidexter. He that can
vse both hands alike: a
crafty follow, that can play
on both parts.

Ambiguitie. Doubtful­
nesse.

Ambiguous. Doubtfull:
vncertaine.

Ambition. Vnlawfull, or
immoderate desire of so­
ueraignty.

Ambrosie. A sweet shrub
or little tree, wherewith
some people were wont to
make Garlands. In poetry
it vsually signifieth the
meat of the heathen gods.
It is sometime taken for
immortalitie.

Ambulatorie. A place to
walke in.

Ambuscado. A company
of Souldiours, hid in some
wood or other couert, to
entrap their enemies vn­
wares.

Amenitie. Pleasantnesse,
delectablenesse.

Amerce. To punish one
by enioyning him to pay a
certaine small summe of
money, at the discretion of
him that lawfully com­
mandeth it.

Amercement. A punish­
ment by the purse: See A­
merce.






Amethist. A precious
stone of a purple colour, fit
to graue any thing in, be­
cause it is not ouerhard. It
withstandeth drunkennes,
as the name in Greeke sig­
nifieth.

Amiable. Louely.

Amitie. Friendshippe,
loue.

Ammoniacke. A kinde of
gum almost like to Fran­
kincense, so called because
it groweth in Lybia, neere
the place where the Tem­
ple of Ammon was. There 
is also a kind of salt so cal­
led, which is found in A­
frica vnder sand, and is like
vnto allume.

Amorous. Louing, or gi­
uen to loue.

Amphibolie. A speech ha­
uing a doubtfull sence, or
which may bee taken di­
uers manner of waies.

Amphibologie. The same
that Amphibolie is.

Amphiscians. Such peo­
ple as dwell vnder the bur­
ning Zone, neere the E­
quinoctiall line, so called
because their shadowes at
noone are sometimes to­
wards the Nort, some­
times toward the South.

Amphitheater. A place
hauing seates and scaffolds
in it, vsed among the olde
Romanes to shew specta­
cles and strange sights in.
Offenders condemned to
dye, and Prisoners taken
in warre, were often
brought to this place to
fight and be deuoured by
wilde beastes, the people
sitting in safe places a­
boue, & inhumanely spor­
ting themselues thereat:
Also the Gladiators or
Sword-players did fight
here.

Ample. Large, great.

Amplifie. To enlarge.

Amplification. An enlar­
ging.

Amplitude. Largenesse,
greatnesse.

Amulet. Any thing han­
ged about the neck, to pre­
serue one from inchant­
ment.

Anagramme. An inuen­
tion that by altering the
places of the letters of
ones name, changeth the
word, and turneth it to
some other sence, as if for
Iohn, one would write,  Ho-






ni: there beeing iust the
same letters in them both.

Analogie. Proportion, a­
greement, or likenesse of
one thing to another.

Analysis. A resolution or
explicating of an intricate
matter.

Anarchie. Lacke of go­
uernment: all the time
when the people is with­
out a Prince or Gouernour.

Anathema. Any thing
hanged vp in a Church, as
an offering to God: some­
time it signifieth excom­
munication; or a man ex­
communicated and deli­
uered to the power of the
diuell.

Anathematize. To hang
vp a thing as consecrated
to God: somtime to curse,
sweare, or betake to the di­
uell.

Anatomie An incision or
cutting. The art of know­
ing the situation, office,
and nature of all the parts
of mans body.

Anatomize. To cut and
search euery part.

Anchouie. A Spanish fish
lesse then our Sprat, pre­
serued in pickle, and vsed
by Gallants to draw down
drinke.

Anchoresse. A religious
woman that liueth solitarie
in some close place by her
selfe.

Anchorite. A religious
man liuing solitary alone
in some close place.

Angelicall. Like an An­
gell.

Angle. A corner.

Anguish. Griefe of mind:
vexation.

Angust. Streight, nar­
row.

Animaduersion. A mar­
king.

Animate. To encourage;
to harten on.

Anime. A white gumme
or rosin brought out of the
West Indies: It is verie
pleasant to smel, and being
cast into the fire consu­
meth very quickly.

Animositie. Courage.

Annalls. Chronicles of
things done from yeare to
yeare.

Annats. First fruits paid
of a spirituall liuing.

Annex. To knit or ioin to.

Annihilate. To make






voide, or bring to nothing.

Anniuersarie. A solem­
nitie kept euery yeare at a
set time.

Annotation. A note, mark,
or exposition made vpon 
any writing.

Annuall. Yearely.

Annuitie. A yearely pay­
ment of money to one, not
in way of rent, but vpon
some other occasion.

Annull. To make voide.

Annunciate. To tell or
declare.

Antagonist. An enemie:
an aduersarie.

Antartike Pole. The south
pole of the world.

Antecedent. That which
goeth before.

Antheme. See Antiphone.

Antichrist. An aduersary
to Christ: It is compoun­
ded of the Greeke prepo­
sition Anti, and Christus,
which signifieth contrary
or against Christ.

Anticipate. To preuent:
to take before another.

Anticipation. A preuen­
ting; or taking before.

Antidate. The dating of
a letter or other writing
on some day already past.

Antidote. A medicine a­
gainst poyson, or which
serueth to amend any di­
stemperature of the body.

Antike worke. A worke in
painting or caruing, of di­
uers shapes of beasts, birds,
flowers, &c. vnperfectlie
mixt and made one out of
another.

Antimonie. A white stone
found in siluer mines.

Antipathie. A contrariety
of great disagreement of
qualities.

Antiperistalsis. A terme v­
sed in Philosophy, when
heat being kept in by cold,
waxeth the stronger in it
selfe, or cold kept in by
heate, groweth more ve­
hement.

Antiphone. Any verse or
litle sentence, which church­
men do by course sing one
after another.

Antipodes. People vnder
vs that goe with their feete
toward ours.

Antique. Old, auncient.

Antiquarie. One studious
in matters of antiquity, or
well acquainted in old Hi­
stories.

Antiquate. To make old,






or of no account.

Antithesis. A contrarietie
of things placed against o­
ther; as the spokes be in a
wheele.

Antlier. The lower
branch of a Harts horne.

Anxietie. Carefulnesse,
sadnesse.

Anxious. Carefull: sad.

Aphorisme A short sen­
tence, briefely expressing
the properties of a thing:
or which serueth as a max­
ime or principle to guide a
man to any knowledge,
specially in Philosophy
and Phisicke.

Apocalypse A diuine book
written by Saint Iohn E­
uangelist, while he was ba­
nished in the Ile Pathmos:
so called because it contei­
neth many profound my­
steries there reuealed vnto
him. In English it signifi­
eth a Reuelation.

Apocrypha. That which
is hidden and not knowne.
Doubtfull.

Apocynon. A little bone
in the left side of a Frog,
of great vertue as some
thinke.

Apogeon. A terme in A­
stronomy, signifying the
farthest distance of a Pla­
net from the earth.

Apologie. A defence: a
speech or written answere
made in iustification of a­
ny person.

Apologicall. That which
is spoken in defence.

Apophthegme. A short
quick sentence worthy the 
noting.

Apoplexie. A very dange­
rous disease, wherin a man
lyeth without sense or mo­
tion, as if hee were dead,
with his eyes close, and
great difficulty in fetching
his breath. It commeth
for the most part of colde
and grosse flegmaticke hu­
mors, oppressing the brain
in such sort that the ani­
mall spirits, cannot passe
from thence into the sin­
newes, as they were wont.

Apostasie. A reuolting
or falling away from true
religion.

Apostata. He that reuol­
teth or falleth from true
religion: Iulianus one of
the olde Emperours was
most infamous for this
crime.






Apostaticall. Of or be­
longing to an Apostata.

Apostle. One sent in mes­
sage: an Embassadour.

Apostolicall. Of or be­
longing to an Apostle.

Apozeme. A drinke made
with water and diuers spi­
ces and herbs, vsed insteed
of sirupes.

Appall. To make afraid:

Apparant. Cleare, mani­
fest, certaine.

Appariter. A sumner: he
that attacheth or summo­
neth one to appeare at a
Court.

Apparition. An appea­
ring: or vision.

Appeach. To accuse: dis­
close, or bewray.

Appeale. A terme in law,
when a malefactour accu­
seth or discloseth those
that were his confederates
in the same offence or any
other. Also when the de­
fendant refuseth a Iudge,
and desireth to haue his
cause tryed by a superiour
power, he is said then to
appeale: as Saint Paul ap­
pealed from Pestus to Cæsar
the Emperour.

Appellant. He which ap­
pealeth.

Appellation. A naming or
calling.

Appendix. That which
dependeth or hangeth vp­
on another thing.

Appertenances. That which
appertaineth or belongeth
to an other thing.

Applaude. To shew loue
or liking to a thing, by
clapping the hands, or o­
ther signe of reioycing.

Applause. A reioycing or
clapping the hands for
ioy.

Application. An applying
of one thing to another.

Apposition. A putting of
one thing to another.

Approbate. To like, to al­
lowe.

Approbation. An allow­
ance, or liking.

Appropriate. To chal­
lenge to ones selfe: to
keepe to himselfe alone.

Appropriation. A terme v­
sed when any body corpo­
rate, or priuate man, hath
the right vnto a parsonage
in themselues, and may
receiue the profite thereof,
by maintaining a Vicar to
serue in the place.

Arbiter. A iudge in a






controuersie, chosen indif­
ferent for both parties.

Arbiterment. An agree­
ment  made betweene par­
ties, by an indifferent man
to them both.

Arbitrary. Belonging to
arbiterment.

Arbitrate. To iudge, to
make an agreement.

Arbitratour. See Arbiter.

* Arblaster. A Crosse-
bow.

Architect. A chiefe work­
man.

Architecture. The art or
Science of building and
comely contriuing a house.
It is written that this Sci­
ence did beginne in Caine,
because hee was the first
that euer built a city, which
hee called by his sonnes
name Enoch, as appeareth,
Gen.4.

Ardent. Burning hot:
vehement.

Ardour. Heat: earnestnes.

Argent. Siluer or siluer
colour: sometime white.

Argonautes. The Wor­
thies that went into Col­
chos to fetch the golden
Fleece; so called of the
shippe Argo in which they
sailed. The chiefe of them
were Iason, Typhis, Castor,
Pollux, Hercules and The­
seus.

Ariditie. Drinesse.

Ariopagite. A Lawyer or
chiefe Iudge in Capitall
matters in the Citie of A­
thens: so called of a cer­
taine street in that citie de­
dicated to Mars, in which
those Iudges were wont to
sit. They were so seuere
in their iudgements, that
they satte to heare and de­
termine matters in the
night time, to the end they
would not behold the par­
ties which were to be iud­
ged, but onely heare what
could be obiected and an­
swered. Saint Dionisius
conuerted to the Christi­
an faith by Saint Paul,
was one of those iudges.

Aristocratie. A kinde of
gouernment, where the
noble men, or cheefe per­
sons beare all the sway.

Aristocraticall. Of or
belonging to Aristocra­
tie.

Arithmetike. The art of
numbring: It is written
that Abraham first taught






this art to the Egyptians,
and that afterward Pytha­
goras did much increase it.

Arke. In holy scripture
it signifieth two things: 1.
The Arke made by Noe at
the commandement of
God, which was 300. cu­
bits long: 50.cubits broad,
and 30.high: Gen.6. Se­
condly it signifieth a most
precious and consecrated
cofer or chest, called the
Arke of testament, made of
the wood Sethim,  and pla­
ted within and without all
ouer with gold: It had
fowre corners, and in each
corner a golden ring, tho­
rough which were putte
barres of the same wood
Sethim, couered likewise
with gold, which serued
for the carriage thereof.
This Arke was two cubits
and a halfe long, one cubit
and a halfe broad, and one
cubit & a half deepe. Exod.
25. In it was kept part of
the Manna in a pot of gold,
also the two Tables of the
Law, and Aarons rod that
had budded: Heb.9.

Armadilio. A beast in
India of the bignesse of a
young pigge, couered ouer
with small shels like vnto
armour; for which cause
he is called Armadilio,  to
wit, an armed beast. This
beast liueth in the ground
like a mole, and the bone
of his taile hath vertue to
cure diseases and noise in
the head.

Armipotent. Mightie,
strong.

Aromaticall. Sweete of
sauour: smelling like spice.

Arrerages. Mony or rent
behind, not yet paid.

Arrian. An heretike of
the sect of Arrius bishop of
Alexandria, who deuised a
blasphemous doctrine a­
gainst the diuinitie of our
Sauiour.

Arride. To please well,
to content with delight.

Arrogancie. Pride, loftines

Arrogant. Proud, boa­
sting.

Arrogate. To chalenge,
proudly more honour or
praise than is due.

Arterie. A veine with
two coates, or a hollow si­
new in which the spirits of
life doe passe through the
body. These kind of veines






proceed all from the heart,
where the vitall spirits are
made, and are those which
pant or beate, called com­
monly the pulses.

Articulate. To set downe
articles or conditions of a­
greement.

Artificiall. Cunning, wel
contriued, skilfull.

Articke pole. The North
pole of the world.

Artillerie. Great ordnance
for the wars.

Artisan. A handy crafts
man.

Artist. He that is skilfull
in any art.

Asa fœtida. A dried gum
or liquor, brought out of
Media and Syria, of a
strong lothsome sauour;
and is sometime applyed
outwardly to the body.

Ascance. Sidewaies, or
looking on one side.

Ascribe. To impute, ap­
ply, or account.

Asia. One of the three
parts of the world boun­
ding toward the East, in
which is Pontus, Bithynia,
Phrygia, Paphlagonia,
Cappadocia, Armenia,
Cyprus, Syria, Palestine,
or the holy land, Arabia,
Mesopotamia, (so called
because it is in the midst
betweene the two great ri­
uers, Tigris and Euphra­
tes) Assyria, Media, Per­
sia, and diuers other coun­
tries.

Aspe. A venemous Ser­
pent of a blacke earthie
colour and sometime yel­
low. The superstitious E­
gyptians did honour them,
and their Kings vsed to
weare the figure of an Aspe
in their Diadems. They go
alwaies two and two toge­
ther, and if it happen that
one of them be killed, the
other will presently pursue
him that slue his fellow, in
such sort that he shal hard­
ly escape, vnlesse he make
great hast or passe ouer a
riuer. If one be bitten by
this Serpent, the best re­
medy is presently to cut
off the member so bitten,
if it be possible; otherwise
he shall fall into a deadly
sleep, & within few houres
goe away, as it were in a
trance. Cleopatra Queene
of Egypt, after the death
of Marcus Antonius (whom






she loued as her Husband)
slue her selfe wilfully, by
applying one of these aspes
to her body; because shee
would not bee carryed in
triumph to Rome, by Au­
gustus Cæsar, who had van­
quished her and Antonie.

Aspect. Sight or the be­
holding of any thing. In
Astronomy it signifieth
the distance betweene the
planets & heauenly signes:
And there are foure such
Aspects. The first called a
Trine aspect (because it
diuideth the heauens into
three euen partes) is the
distance of foure signes
from each other; as Aries
beholdeth Leo and Sagit­
tarius with a Trine aspect,
because these are distant
foure signes, the one be­
fore, the other after Aries.
The second called a Quar­
till, is the distance of three
signes, as Aries beholdeth
Cancer and Capricorne, with
a Quartill aspect, because
they are distant three
signes from him. The
third called a Sextill as­
pect, is the distance of two
signes, as Aries  beholdeth
Gemini and Aquarius with
this Sextill aspect, beeing
but two signes distant
from them. The fourth
called an Opposite aspect,
is the farthest distance that
can be, namely a distance
of sixe signes asunder; as
Aries  beholdeth Libra
with this opposite aspect,
and Libra  beholdeth Aries
with the same. The like is
of all the other signes, or
Planets placed in them.
For example; Taurus be­
holdeth Cancer and Pisces
with a Sextill, Leo and A­
quarius with a Quartill,
Virgo and Capricorne with a
Trine, and Scorpio with an
opposite aspect. The di­
stance of one or fiue signes
is not called an Aspect.

Asperitie. Sharpnesse.

Aspersion. A sprinkling.

Aspire. To hope to come
to a thing: to seek aduance­
ment.

Aspiration. A breathing,
or pronouncing the letter
H. before a vowell.

Assasinate. A robbing,
spoiling, or murthering in
the high way.

Assecure. To make one






sure or certain, to giue one
assurance.

Assentation. Flatterie.

Assertion. An affirming
or auouching of any thing.

Assets. A terme in the
Common Law, when
wee would signifie that a
man hath goods enough
come to his hands, to dis­
charge a dead mans debts
or legacies giuen by him.

Asseueration. An earnest
affirming.

Assiduitie. Continuance,
or continuall attendance.

Assigne. To appoint: al­
so one that is appointed in
anothers behalfe.

Assignation. An appoint­
ment.

Assignement. An appoin­
ting or passing of a thing
ouer to another.

Assistant. A helper.

Associate. To accompa­
nie.

Association. A ioyning
together in fellowship.

Assoile. To acquite,
cleere, or pardon.

Assume. To take to him­
selfe.

Assumpsit. When one for
some consideration giuen
him, vndertaketh anything.

Assumption. A lifting or
taking vp.

Astipulation. An affir­
ming; an agreement.

Astriction. A binding.

Astrictiue. Which hath
power to binde.

Astringent. The same that
Astrictiue is.

Astrolabe. An instru­
ment of Astronomie to
gather the motion of the
Starres by.

Astrologie. See Diuina­
tion.

Astrologer. One skilfull
in Astrologie.

Astronomie. An art that
teacheth the knowledge of
the course of the planets &
Stars. This art seemeth to
be very auncient, for Iose­
phus: lib. prim. Antiq.  writ­
teth, that the Sons of Seth,
Nephewes to Adam (for
Seth was Adams sonne) did
first find it out: who hea­
ring their Grandfather A­
dam  foretel of the vniuersal
flood which should shortly
drown the world, they ther­
upon erected two great pil­
lars, engrauing in them the






principles of Astronomie;
which pillars were the one
of bricke, the other of
stone; because if the water
should haply wash away the
bricke, yet the stone might
preserue the knowledge
hereof for posterity.

Astronomicall. Belonging
to Astronomy.

Atcheuement. A terme
of Heraldry, signifying the
armes of any Gentleman
set out fully with al that be­
longeth to it. Also the per­
formance of any great
matter.

Atheisme. The damnable
opinion of the Atheist.

Atheist. He that wickedly
beleeueth there is no God,
or no rule of Religion.

Atomie. A mote flying
in the sunne. Any thing so
small, that it cannot bee
made lesse.

Atrocitie. Cruelty: out­
ragiousnesse.

Attache. To take: to lay
hands on.

Attainder. A conuiction
or prouing one guilty of a
capitall offence.

Attaynt. Conuicted or
prooued guilty of some
great crime.

Attentiue. Diligentlie
harkening.

Attestation. A witnessing.

Attired. A terme vsed a­
mong Heralds, when they
haue occasion to speake of
the hornes of a Bucke or
Stag.

Attract. To draw or pull
to.

Attraction. A drawing or
pulling too.

Attractiue. Drawing or
which hath vertue to draw.

Attrectation. A handling
or feeling.

Attribute. To giue to, or
impute. It signifieth some­
time a fit title or terme ap­
plyed to any thing.

Attrition. Sorrow, repen­
tance.

Atturnie. He that by mu­
tual consent taketh charge
of any other mans busi­
nesse.

Atturnment. The paying
of any small penee of mo­
ny by a Tenant, in token
that he acknowledgeth the
party to whom hee payeth
it, to bee now his Land­
lord.

Auarice. Couetousnesse.






Aucupation. Hunting af­
ter a thing.

Audacious. Bold, hardy.

Audacitie. Boldnesse.

Audible. That which is
so spoken that it may bee
heard.

Auditor. An Officer of
accounts: It is often taken
for a hearer.

Audience. A hearing or
hearkening: sometime it
signifieth an assembly of
people harkening to some
thing spoken.

Auerre. To iustifie, a­
uouch or maintain a thing

Auerment. A terme in
Law when one offereth to
prooue that his plea is 
good.

Auersion. A turning a­
way, a disliking.

Auert. To turne away.

Augment. To increase.

Augmentation. An increa­
sing.

Augur. See Diuinati­
on.

Auiditie. Greedinesse.

Auowable. That which
one may iustifie and main­
taine.

Auow. To iustifie or
maintaine.

Auowrie. A Law terme,
when a Bayliffe or other
Officer, auoweth or iusti­
fieth the lawfull taking of
a distresse from any man.

Auricular. Spoken in
ones eare.

Auripigmentum. See Orp­
ment.

Aurora. The morning.

Auspicious. Lucky: for­
tunate.

Austere. Sharpe, seuere,
cruell.

Austeritie. Sharpnesse,
hard vsage.

Authenticall. That which
is vndeniable, and appro­
ued of all men.

Authentike. The same as 
Authenticall. 

Autumne. Haruest time:
one of the foure quarters
of the yeare; the other
three are winter, spring­
tide, and sommer.

Autumnal. Of, or be­
longing to Autumne.

Axiome. A proposition
or short sentence generally
allowed to be true; as in
saying, the whole is greater
than a part. It signifieth
also in Logicke, any per­
fect sentence, that affir­






meth or denyeth a thing,
as in saying, Cæsar is mer­
cifull, or Cæsar is not mer­
cifull.

* Aye. For euer

Azymes. A solemnity of
seuen dayes among the
Iewes, in which it was not
lawfull to eate leauened
bread: the Pasche or Ester
of the Iewes.

Azure. A fine blew co­
lour.


B
BAboone. A beast much
like an Ape, but grea­
ter.

Bacchanals. The feasts
of Bacchus.

Badger. He that buyeth
corne or victuall in one
place, to carry into ano­
ther. It is also a beast of
the bignesse of a young
Hog, liuing in the woods,
commonly called a Brock.

* Bale. Sorrow: great
miserie.

Balase. Grauell or any
thing of weight laid in the
bottome of ships to make
them goe vpright.

Balefull. Sorrowfull.

Balke. A little peece of
ground in earable land,
which by mischance the
Plough slippeth ouer, so
that it is not ploughed at
all.

Ballon. The round Globe
or top of a pillar.

Balme. A precious iuice
or liquor, otherwise called
Balsamum, or Opobalsa­
mum. It droppeth by cut­
ting out of a little lowe
plant (about a yard high)
hauing leaues like Rue, but
whiter, which plant grow­
eth in Egypt, and some
places  of the holy Land.
This iuice is somewhat
like to oyle, but more
clammie, and inclining to
a certaine rednesse. It hath
a strong smell, and is not
pleasant in taste: Being
put into a vessell of water,
it will sinke downe to the
bottome like a round
pearle, without breaking,
and may bee taken vp a­
gaine with the point of a
knife. It is an excellent
medicine to take any scar
out of the body, and for
diuers other purposes, but
very costly and rarely got­






ten. Saladinus writes that
there was but one vine­
yard of these in the whole
world, and that belonged
to the great Turke.

Balneo. A bath.

Balsamum: See Balme.

Baptisme. It commonly
signifieth a dipping or
washing.

Baptist. A washer. S.Iohn
the sonne of Zacharias was
so called, for that hee first
began to Baptize or wash
men in the riuer Iordan
to the remission of sinnes.

Barbarisme. Rudenesse in
speech, or behauiour, out­
ragious crueltie.

* Bardes. Poets.

* Bargaret. A kind of
dance.

Barrester. He that is al­
lowed to pleade causes at
the barre.

Barretter. A common
quarreller: one that is e­
uer suing and molesting o­
thers without cause.

Barricado. A warlike de­
fence, of emptie Barrels,
and such like vessels, laide
at the breach of a wall
to keepe out the ene­
mies.

Barriers. A warlike ex­
ercise of men fighting
together with short swords,
and within some appoin­
ted compasse.

Barter. To bargaine or
exchange commodities
for commodities.

Base. In Architecture
it signifieth the foote of a
pillar, or the foundati­
on that supporteth any
thing.

Basiliske. Otherwise cal­
led a Cockatrice: the most
venemous serpent that is.
It breaketh stones and
blasteth all plants with the
breath thereof, burning e­
uery thing that it goeth o­
uer; neither can any herbe
growe neere the place
where it lyeth. It is poy­
son to poyson, and driueth
away all other serpents,
with only hissing. If a man
touch it but with a sticke,
it will kill him, and if it
see a man a farre off, it de­
stroyeth him with his
lookes. This serpent is not
aboue a foot long, of color
betweene black & yellow,
hauing red eyes, a very
sharpe head, and a white






spot thereon like a crowne
wherefore he is called by
some in Latine Regulus,
viz. a little king. It goeth
not winding like other ser­
pents, but vpright vnto
the middle, holding vp the
brest thereof. It breedeth
onely in the hot burning
sands of Africa: Of this
Basiliske the Poet Lucane
writeth thus. lib.9.
Sibilaque effundens cunctas terrentia pestes.
Ante venena nocens, late sibi submouet omne
Vulgus, & in vacua regnat Basiliscus arena.
With deadly hiss: the Basiliske,
   all other plagues doth fright.
And speedier kils then poisons can,
   with his infectious sight.
Heele haue no neighbour dwell neere him,
   he loues to liue alone.
And tyrantlike reignes by himselfe,
   in caue of sandy stone.

Bassae. A noble man, or
great Commander vnder
the great Turke.

Bastinado. A staffe: a
cudgell.

Baston. A staffe, or cud­
gell: sometime it signifi­
eth an officer of the Fleet,
attending in the kings
Court, with a red staffe, to
conuey such to ward, as
are there committed.

Battry. A beating or stri­
king.

Banbee. A small coine: a
farthing.

* Baine. A Bathe.

Bdellium. A Gumme
brought out of Arabia, and
the Holy land, of a sweete
smell and bitter taste. It
hath vertue to mollifie and
ripen hard swellings, and
is good against the stiffe­
nesse of sinewes or other
parts, and against the bi­
ting of venemous beastes.

Beades of Saint Elline. Cer­
taine round roots brought
out of Florida, which
being drie are very hard,
on the outside blacke, and
inwardly white: of a sweet
smel and good taste. They






are of great vertue against
griefs of the stomack, as al
so of the kidnies or reines.

Beame. The maine horne
of a Hart or Stagge.

Beatitude. Blessednesse.

Beauer. In armour it sig­
nifieth that part of the hel­
met which may bee lifted
vp, to take breth the more
freely: It is also a beast of
very hotte nature, liuing
much in the water. His
two forefeet are like the
feete of the beast called
Gattus, (as Ioannes de San­
cto Amando writeth:) but
what this Gattus is, I doe
not well vnderstand, only
I suppose it to be at Otter.
Vpon these feet hee hath
very sharpe clawes, where­
with hee taketh his prey,
and hangeth vpon water
bankes. His hinder feet are
made like to the foot of a
Goose, wherewith hee
swimmeth. Hee hath very
sharpe teeth, and doeth
much harme to trees, with
knawing the rootes and
ryndes of them. It is writ­
ten that if a Beauer come
into a strange place, where
he hath not beene bred,
the other Beauers will
make him their slaue, to
prouide them meate, and
pull off all the haire from
his backe that he may bee
knowen. The stones of
this beast are sold in Apo­
thecaries shoppes, by the
name Castoreum: they
are much vsed in Phisicke,
being very good against
palsies and cold diseases of
the sinewes: But the skin
is of more valew then the
stones.

Beeglue. That which
Bees doe make at the en­
try of their Hiue, to keepe
out cold.

Beestings. The first milke
that commeth from the 
Teate, after the birth of a­
ny thing.

Belial. An Hebrew word
signifying a wicked naugh­
ty person. An Apostata;
one without yoke, and is
many times taken for the
diuell.

* Beliue. By and by, a­
non.

Bellona. Warre, or the
goddesse of Warre among 
the Heathen.

Belt. A girdle.






Belzebub. An Hebrew
word compounded of Bel,
which in that language
signifieth an Idoll, and
Zebub, a Fly: so that Bel­
zebub  signifieth the Idoll
of Flies: notwithstanding
commonly it is taken for
the diuell.

Benediction. A blessing.

Benefactor. A friend, one
that doth good.

Benificence. A dooing
good.

Beneficent. Liberall, lo­
uing.

Beneuolence. Good will.

Beneuolent. Louing, friend­
ly, well wishing.

Benigne. Friendly, gentle,
fauourable.

Benignitie. Friendlinesse:
liberty, courtesie.

* Benison. A blessing.

Benzwine. A sweet smel­
ling gumme, good against
hoarsenesse and the cough,
being dissolued in water
and dronken. It hath ma­
ny other excellent proper­
ties to be vsed in Physicke.
The tree vpon which it
groweth is not with vs cer­
tainely knowne.

Berill. A precious stone
brought out of India, cut
most commonly with sixe
corners, because otherwise
it would not shew so faire,
if the sticking out of the
corners did not make the
brightnesse more mani­
fest. It is of a greenish
colour, like the water of
the sea.

Bestiall. Beastly: disho­
nest.

Bestialitie. Beastlinesse.

Beuie. A heard of row
Buckes: most commonlie
with vs it signifieth, a great
number of Quails in com­
pany together.

Beuie greace. The fat of a
Row Deere.

Bezar stone. A stone of
excellent vertue against
poyson, very costly and of
great account in Physick.
It is commonly of the 
bignesse of an Acorne or
Chestnut, being compoun­
ded of certaine thin scales,
one vpon another, like
the scales of an Onion. It
is easie to bee scraped or
cut, and if it continue
long in water, it melteth.
The middle part is some­
thing hollow, and full of






powder of the same sub­
stance that the stone is of.
And this is a marke to
know whether the stone
bee fine and true: for the
Indians doe counterfeite
them sometimes and de­
ceiue many. This stone
is taken out of the bow­
els of a beast in India,
much like a Hart, sauing
that his hornes are like 
a goates. The occasion
of the growing of the
stones (as some write) is
thus. These Harts or wilde
Goates (for they resem­
ble both) going to the
dennes of Serpents in 
those countries, doe with
their breathing compell
them to come forth, and
then eate them: after
they goe whereas water
is, and plunge themselues
therein vntil they perceiue
the furie of the venome
bee past, and till then they
will not drinke a droppe:
beeing come foorth of
the water, they goe into
the fieldes, where feeding
vpon many healthfull
hearbes (knowne to them
by naturall instinct to bee
of vertue against poyson)
they are perfectlie freed
from all danger; and by
the mixture of these herbs
with the Serpents eaten
before, these Bezar stones
are verie strangely (as is
sayd) ingendered within
them: growing by little
and little, as appeareth
by the scales thereof
one folded vpon an o­
ther.

Bezill. The broad part
of a ring, in which the
stone or signet is set.

Bice. A fine blew colour
vsed by painters.

Bigamie. The marriage
of two wiues; not both to­
gether, but seuerally after
the death of the first.

Bigamur. Twice marri­
ed, he that hath had two
wiues. Such an one the
Romish Church admit­
teth not to the Ministe­
rie.

Bipartite. Diuided in two
parts.

Birgandes. A kinde of
wilde goose.

Bissextile. Leape yeare,
so called, because the sixt
Calendes of March are in






that yeare twice reckoned:
viz. on the 24. and 25. of
Februarie, so that leape
yeare hath one day more
than other yeares haue.
This leape yeare is obser­
ued euery fourth yeare, and
was first deuised by Iulius
Cæsar, to accommodate or
make the yeare agree with
the course of the sunne.

Bitumen. A kind of clay,
naturally clammy like pitch;
growing in some coun­
tries of Asia. It was of old
vsed in phisicke: The best
is heauy, bright, and cleere,
of purple colour, and ha­
uing a strong smell. The
black is accounted naught.
This Bitumen was vsed in
stead of morter, at the
building of the tower of
Babel, as appeareth in Gen.
cap. 11. There is also a
kind of Bitumen, like vnto
a liquour, flowing out of
some fountaines in the Isl­
land Sicilie, which is vsed
in stead of oyle to burne
in lampes.

Blankemanger. A custard.

Blemishes. Markes made
by hunters, to shew where
a deere hath gone in.

Blend. to mixe or min­
gle together.

Blewmantle. The name of
an office of one of the Pur­
seuants at armes.

* Blith. Merry, frolicke,
ioyfull.

Blomarie. The first forge,
through which the iron
passeth, after it is once mel­
ted out of the myne.

Bloudstone. A stone
growing in Ethiopia and
Arabia; of nature astri­
ctiue, stopping any issue of
bloud, and eating proud
flesh out of woundes. It is
of a darke colour, like vnto
congealed bloud.

Bole armoniacke. A red­
dish stone like to ruddle, of
a very binding nature, and
of great vertue against the
plague.

Bonayre. Gentle, milde,
curteous.

Bone breaker. A kinde of
Eagle, hauing so strong a
beake that therewith shee
breaketh bones.

Bolus. A medicine which
must be eaten: a mouthfull.

Bonnet. A hat or cap.

Boone. A request, a suite,
a demand; sometime it sig­






nifieth good: as a boone
companion, a good com­
panion.

Boras. A white substance
like vnto saltpeter, where­
with goldsmiths vse to sol­
der gold and siluer: some
write it is the gumme of a
tree, which is very vnlike­
ly: others affirme it to bee
made of old lees of oyle,
by art and drying in the
sunne brought to be white;
notwithstanding I suppose
it rather to be a minerall.

Boreas. the northeast winde.

Braces. In building it
signifieth the peeces of
timber, which bend for­
ward on both sides, and
beare vp the rafters.

Brachmans. A sect of
philosophers in India, that
liued onely by hearbes,
rootes, and fruite.

Brachygraphie. A short
kinde of writing, as a letter
for a word.

Braket. A drinke made
of water and hony.

Brandish. To shake, pro­
perlie a sword or such like
weapon. 

Braynsicke. Mad, foolish,
furious. 

* Bretfull. Top full.

Breuitie. Shortnesse.

Brigandine. A coate of
defence.

Brigantine. A kinde of
small light ship.

Brime. A tearme vsed a­
mong hunters when the
wilde Boare goeth to the
femall.

Brocage. Meanes vsed by
a spokesman.

Broches. The first head
or hornes of a Hart or
Stagge.

Brocke. See Badger.

Brocket. A red Deere two
yeere old.

Brothell. A house of di­
shonesty.

Brothelrie. Dishonestie,
bauderie.

Bruite. A report spread
abroad.

Brumall. Of or belon­
ging to winter.

Brute. Beastly, barba­
rous.

Brutish. The same.

Brutishnesse. Beastlinesse,
barbarous behauiour.

Budge. A futre of a kind
of Kid in other countries.

Buffe. A Beast like a
Bull, with a very long






mane; This beast bree­
deth in the woods of Ger­
many.

Bugle. The same that
buffe is: sometime a blacke
horne.

Bullion. Siluer vnrefined,
not yet made in money.

Burdon. A deep base.

Burganet. A Helmet, a
Head-peece.

Burglarie. The breaking
and entring into a house
by night, with intent to
steale or kill.

Burnet. A hood or attire
for the head.

Burnish. To make a
thing to glister or looke
faire by rubbing it. It is al­
so a terme among hunters,
when Harts spread their
hornes, after they be fraied
or new rubbed.

* Burled. It sometimes
signifieth Armed.

Burlie. grosse, fat, great.

Burre. The round rolle
of horne, next the head of
a Hart.

Bursholder. A Headbo­
rough, or officer in a bo­
rough.

Buttresses. Staies for to
beare vp any building, or
make it strong.

Buxome. Pliant, amiable,
obedient.

Buxomnes. Lowlinesse,
humblenesse. 


C
CAbal. The tradition
of the Iewes doctrine
of religion.

Cabalist. One skilfull in
the doctrine of the Iewes
religion.

Cachos. An hearbe of
red colour, growing in In­
dia, which is of vertue a­
gainst the stone, and to
prouoke vrine.

Cadence. The falling of
the voice.

Calaber. A little gray
beast of the bignesse of a
Squirrell, whose skinne is
vsed for furre.

Calamarie. A fish which
hath his head betweene his
hinder part and his belly,
with two bones, one like a
knife, the other like a quill,
whereof he is called by
some a Cutle fish.

Caltinate. To burne.

Calcine. To burne.

Calcination. A burning,






a turning into ashes.

Calculate. To cast ac­
count, to reckon.

Calends. It signifieth pro­
perly, the first day of euery
moneth, being spoken a­
lone by it selfe. If Pridie be
placed before it, then it
signifieth the last day of
the moneth going before,
as Pridie Calend. Ianuarij.
is the last day of Decem­
ber. If any number bee
placed with it, it signifieth
that day in the former
moneth, which commeth
so much before the mo­
neth named; as the tenth
Calends of March is the
twentieth day of February,
because if one beginne at
March, and reckon backe­
wards, that twentieth day
is the tenth day before
March. In March, May,
Iuly, and October, the
Calends beginne at the
sixeteenth day, in other
moneths at the fourteenth
which Calends must euer
beare the name of the
moneth following, and be
numbred backeward from
the first day of the saide
following moneths.

Calfe. The Fawne or
young one of a Redde
Deere.

Califie. To make warme.

Calefaction. A making
warme.

Callette. A lewd woman.

Calliditie. Subtiltiy, craf­
tines.

Calthrope. An instru­
ment vsed sometime in
Warre. It is a little thing
made with foure prickes
of yron; of such a fashi­
on, that which way soeuer
it be throwen, one point
will alwayes sticke vp like
a naile, to spoile the ene­
mies horsefeete.

Caligraphie. Faire wri­
ting.

Calumniate. To slaun­
der: to belie one shame­
fully.

Calumniation. Slaunde­
rous lying.

* Camoyse. Crooked vp­
ward, as commonly, the
noses of blacke Moores
bee.

Camphire. A kinde of
Gumme, as Auicen wri­
teth. But Platearius affir­






meth it to be the iuice of
an herbe. It is white of
colour, and cold and dry
in operation.

Cancel. To deface, cut
or blot out.

* Canceline. Chamlet.

Canicular. See dogge­
dayes.

Canker. A hard swelling
in the veines, being ouer­
charged with hot melan­
choly humors. It is cal­
led a Canker, because the
veines so swollen are like
vnto the clawes of a Crab.
This disease may happen
in any part of the body,
but most commonly in
womens breasts; by reason
of their spongie hollow­
nesse, and great number of
veines there meeting. If
it continue long it is very
hard to cure, because gen­
tle medicines will doe no
good, and strong doe in­
crease the raging malice
of it.

Canniball. A barbarous
sauage person: one that
eateth mans flesh.

Canon. A Greeke word,
properly signifying a rule
or line, to make any thing
straight, or to trie the
straightnesse of it. Here­
of Lawes or decrees for
Church gouernement are
called Canons. And cer­
taine times of prayer vsed
by Churchmen, were cal­
led Canonicall houres of
prayer. 

Canonicall. Approoued
by common or exact
rule.

Canonier. He that shoo­
teth in great Ordinance.

Canonize. To declare
and pronounce one for a
Saint.

Canonization. The so­
lemnitie or Canonizing
or pronouncing one to be
a Saint.

Cantharides. Certaine
Flies shining like golde,
breeding in the toppes of
Ashe and Oliue trees be­
yond Sea. They are some­
time vsed by Physitions, to
raise blisters in the body;
but their heades, wings,
and feete must bee cast a­
way. The iuice of them is
poisonous.

Cape. A corner of land
shooting out into the
Sea.






Capabilitie. An aptnesse
to containe, or receiue.

Capable. Which can con­
taine or hold a thing.

Capacitie. Aptnesse to re­
ceiue and hold.

Capers. A prickly plant,
almost like to brambles,
growing in Spaine, Italy,
and other hot countries.
The roote hereof is much
vsed in Phisicke, against
obstructions of the spleen
or milte. The flowers and
leaues are brought hither
from Spaine, preserued in
brine, and are commonly
eaten with Mutton. They
stirre vp the appetite,
warme the stomacke, and
open the stoppings of the 
liuer and milt.

Capitall. Chiefe, princi­
pall; sometime deadly, ab­
hominable.

Capite. A tenure, when
a man holdeth lands, im­
mediately of the king, as
of his crowne.

Capitole. An ancient pa­
lace in Rome, so called.

Capitulate. To draw or
bring into Chapters.

Capriole. Leaping of a
horse aboue ground, cal­
led by horsemen, the
Goates leape.

Capstand. An instru­
ment to wind vp things of
great weight: some call it
a Crane.

Captious. Short, quicke,
quarrelsome in demaunds.

Captiuate. To take pri­
soner.

Captiuitie. Bondage, im­
prisonment.

Caranna. A Gumme
brought out of the West
Indies, of great vertue a­
gainst aches proceeding of
cold causes.

Carbonado. A rasher vp­
on the coales.

Carbuncle. It hath two
significations, namely a
precious stone, and a dan­
gerous sore. 1. Carbun­
cle stone, is bright, of the
colour of fire. It hath ma­
ny vertues, but chiefely
preuaileth against the dan­
ger of infectious aire. The
best of these stones will
shine in darkenesse, like a
burning coale, as Albertus
writeth, himselfe hath
seene. Others shine but
a little, and are lesse estee­
med; but such as shine not






at all, are scarce of any rec­
koning: these stones are
found in some countreyes
of Africa. 2. Carbuncle
disease, is a botch or vlcer.
( otherwise called by a
Greeke name, Anthrax )
caused of grosse hot blood,
which raiseth blisters, and
burneth the skinne: This
vlcer is euer accompanied
with a Feuer.

Cardones. An herbe in
India, of vertue to heale
sores.

Carlo Sancto. A roote
growing in the West In­
dies, of a pleasant smell
and bitter taste, the rynde
whereof beeing chewed
draweth downe steame
and humours from the
head, and being drunken
in powder is good against
diuers inward diseases.

Carcanet. A small
chaine.

Cardinall. Chiefe, prin­
cipall.

Carnall. Fleshly.

Carnalitie. Fleshlinesse.

Carol. A song: some­
time a dance.

Carpe. To checke, taunt
or rebuke.

Carreere. A short swift
race with a horse, as at
Iusts, Tournaments.

Carrike. A great shippe
of burden.

Casani. India bread.

Casia. It is commonly
taken for Cinnamome.
Poets vnderstand often by
it, some sweete smelling
herbe: as Virg. Eclog.2.
Tum Casia atque aljis intexens suauibus herbis.
Also Ouid. 
Quo simul ac Casias & nardi lenis aristas,
Quassaque cum sulua substrauit Cinnama myrrha.
Lactantius 
also: 
De Phœnice.
Cinnama dehinc, auramque procul spirantis amomi;
Congerit & mixto balsama cum folio.
Non Casia mitis, nec olentis vimen acanthi,
Nec thuris Lachryma, guttaque pinguis abest.

Where wee see that
Casia and Cinnamome,
signifie two things. Some
thinke it to be Lauender






For mine owne part, I
know not certainely what
English name or interpre­
tation to giue it.

Cassia fistula. A fruite
growing in Arabia and
Syria, which is round,
blacke, and long, almost
as ones arme, of the big­
nesse of a Thumbe. The
outside hereof is hard:
within it, is contained the
seede, and a blacke sub­
stance soft and sweete,
which is much vsed in
Physicke, as a gentle
purger of the inwarde
partes.

Cassia lignea. A sweete
wood much like Cinna­
mome, and of the nature
of Cinnamome.

Castigate. To chastise, to
correct.

Castigation. A chasticing,
a correction.

Castleward. A payment
made by some dwelling
within a certaine compasse
of a Castle, for the main­
tenance of those that do
watch and ward the Ca­
stle; Also the circuite of
land, which oweth this
seruice.

Castoreum. See Beuer.

Casuall. That which
happeneth by chaunce,
doubtfull, vncertaine.

Casualtie. Chance: for­
tune, hap-hazard.

Catadupa. A place in E­
thiopia so called, where
the great riuer Nilus,  fal­
leth from high Mounta­
nous rockes with such vi­
olence, that the continu­
all noise thereof, maketh
the people there dwelling
to become deafe.

Catalogue. A roll, a bill, a
register of names or other
things.

Cataplasma. It signifi­
eth properly a medicine,
which is made of diuers
herbes, either bruised or
boyled in water, and so
applied outwardly to the
body. If there be oyle ad­
ded, it is not then called a
Cataplasme, but an Em­
plaister.

Cataract. A destillation
of humours out of the
eyes.

Catarrhe. A destillati­
on of waterish humors out
of the head, into the mouth
and throate, caused by a






cold and sometime hotte
distemperature of the
braine.

Catastrophe. The con­
clusion or end of Come­
die: a sudden alteration.

Catechumen. A nouice,
or one newly instructed in
matters of faith, by word
of mouth.

Categorie. In the Greeke
tongue it properly signifi­
eth an accusation. It is al­
so a terme vsed in Logike,
which shall after be expli­
cated in the word Predica­
ment.

Categoricall axiome. A
simple axiome or propisi­
tion, not compounded of
any coniunction, as, Pe­
ter is a man.

Cathedrall. Of or belong­
ging to a Bishops Chaire.

Catholike. A Greeke
word, signifying vniuersall
or generall.

Catoblepa. A strange
beast that killeth a man
onely with the sight of it:
some thinke it to bee the
Basiliske, or Cockatrise.

Cauearee. A strange
meate like blacke sope,
made, (as is said) of the
Roe of a Sturgeon.

Caueat. A warning, an
admonition to take heede.

Cauerne. A hole or
Caue in the earth.

Cauille. To mocke or
flout in words, to reason
ouerthwartly.

Cauitie. Hollownesse.

Causticke. A medicine
that burneth; and is vsed
when a disease cannot o­
therwise be mastered.

Cautele. A taking heed.

Cautelous. Warie, cir­
cumspect.

Cauterize. To burne: to
seare.

Caution. A warning or
watchword giuen to take
heed: sometime a great
heedfulnesse, or warie ca­
riage in thing.

Cedar. A tall great tree,
which groweth in Africa,
and Syria, straight vpright
like the Firre tree. The
leaues are smal and thicke,
of a sweete smell: This
Tree hath fruit on it,
all times of the yeere,
which fruite is like that
of the Pine and Firre
Tree, but greater and har­
der.






Celebrate. To speake or
write very honourablie in
praise of any thing: also
to rehearse often: and
sometime to keepe a festi­
ual day, or other time with
great solemnity.

Celebration. The solem­
nization of a feast.

Celebritie. Great resort to
a place: famousnesse.

Celeritie. Swiftnes, speed.

Celestiall. Heauenly.

Celsitude. Highnesse.

Cement. Morter: Lime.

Censer. A vessell to burne
Frankincense in.

Censor. A graue Officer
hauing authority to con­
trolle and correct maners.

Censorean. Belonging to
a Censor.

Censure. A iudgement:
an opinion.

Centaures. People of
Thessalie, which because
they first rid on horses,
were supposed to be halfe
men and half horses. Poets
feine they were begotten
by Ixion vpon a cloud,
made in the likenes of Iu­
no. They warred on the La­
pithes, and were ouercome
by Hercules.

Center. The point in the
midst of a round circle, or
the inward middle part of
a globe. {W}herefore the
earth is called the Center
of the world, because it is
in the midst thereof.

Centurion. A Captaine o­
uer a hundred footmen.

Certes. Surely: certaine­
lie.

Certificate. A writing
which testifieth the cer­
tainty of a thing.

Cerusse. {W}hite Lead,
oftentimes vsed by Surge­
ons in oyntments & play­
sters. Some women make
painting therewith.

Ceterach. Otherwise cal­
led Fingerferne: An herbe
which hath neither stalke,
flower, nor seed. It is much
vsed in Phisick against the
blacke Iaundise, quartaine
agues, and stopping of the
spleene.

Chalons. Blankets, Coue­
rings.

Chameleon. A little beast
like a Lizard, hauing a
rough scaly skin, straight
legs, sharpe clawes, a slow
pace like a Torteyes, and a 
long wreathed taile: Hee






changeth himselfe quickly
into any colour that he sit­
teth vpon, except white &
red: wherefore men that
are inconstant and fickle,
are sometime called Cha­
meleons. This beast (as is
saide) is nourished onely
with aire.

Chamfering. A smal gut­
ter or furrow made by art
vpon some pillars of stone
or timber.

Champertie. See Cham­
pertours.

Champertours. Those that
stirre others to go to law,
& beare the charges there­
of themselues, to the end
they may haue part of the
land, or other thing in va­
riance.

Chancellour. A chiefe of­
ficer in a spirituall Court:
Also the Lord or cheefe
Iudge in the Chancerie.

Chancerie. The Court of
equity & good conscience.

Chantor. A singer.

Chaos. A great confused
and disorderly heape, out
of which Poets imagined
all thing to be made.

Chaplet. An attire for
the head, made of Gold,
Pearle, or other costly, or
curious stuffe, vsed to bee
fastned behinde; in man­
ner of a foulded rolle or
garland.

Character. The forme of
a letter. A marke, signe, or
stamp made in any thing.

Characterie. A writing by
Characters or by strange
markes.

Charles Wayne. Certaine
Starres winding about the
North pole of the world,
in fashion like foure
wheeles and horses draw­
ing it. Poets feine that Ca­
listo, King Lycaons daugh­
ter, hauing had a childe by
Iupiter, was by Iuno  in de­
spight turned into a Beare,
and that Iupiter changing
Calisto afterward, into this
figure of Starres, for that
cause, in Greeke it is called
Arctos, which signifieth a
Beare.

Charnell house. A place to
lay sculles, and bones of
dead men in.

Chart. A writing, a writ­
ten deed.

Charter. A writing wher­
by the King makes a grant
to any person or persons of






any liberty, priuiledge, par­
don, or other thing: Also
writings betweene priuate
men, are somtime so called.

Chattell. A Law tearme,
wherof there be two kinds,
namely Chattels reall, and
Chattels personall. Chat­
tels reall, are leases, or
wards. Chattels personall
are all moueable goods, as
money, plate, cattell, &c.

Chaunter. A singer.

Cheate. To cousin, to de­
ceiue.

Cheating. Cousenage.

Cherubin. One of the
highest Order of Angels:
See Hierarchie.

Cheeftaine. A Captaine.

Cheeke varnish. Painting
vsed by some women.

Cheuisance. Merchandise,
bargaining.

China. A hard knotty
roote brought out of the
East Indies, of a reddish
colour: It is very comfor­
table to nature, and vsed
often in restoratiues and
dyet drinkes.

Chiromancie. See Diui­
nation.

Chiualrie. Knighthood:
the knowledge of a Knight
or Nobleman in feats of
armes.

Chiuancie. Chiualrie: ri­
ding.

Chrisme. A Greeke
word, signifying an Oynt­
ment: Sometime it is ta­
ken for a white linnen
cloth, wrapped about an
infant after it is newlie
christened.

Chrismatorie. A vessell
to cary oyle in.

Christ. The surname of
our Sauiour, signifying an­
nointed.

Chronologer. One skilfull
in Chronicles.

Chronologie. The know­
ledge of old Stories.

Chrysocoll. A kinde of
minerall found like Sand
in the veines of some met­
talles.

Chrysolite. A stone of
the colour of Gold, which
shineth brightest in the
morning, and receiueth
harm if it be held too nere
the fire.

Chymera. A strange mon­
ster, hauing the head and
breast like a Lyon, the bel­
ly like a Goate, the tayle
like a Dragon.






Chymicall. Of, or belon­
ging to a Chymist.

Chymist. A Physition
following the method of
Paracelsus.

Cimball. An old musicall
instrument, made in some
places of two or mo plates
of brasse, which with bea­
ting together made a ring­
ing noyse.

Cimisse. A noysome little
worme, flat and red, which
raiseth wheals where it bi­
teth: If it bee broken, it
yieldeth a stinking smell.

Cinoper. A soft red stone,
found in mines, otherwise
cald Vermilion. The Pay­
nims did vse to paint their
Idols therwith, and them­
selues in publike feasts and
solemnitiss, as wee reade
that Camillus when he try­
umphed in Rome was
painted with this Vermili­
on: So Virgill speaking in
his tenth Eclog,  of the shep­
heards God Pan, saith that
he was seene,
Sanguintis ebuli baccis minioque rubentem.
With bloody Walwort berries staynd,
and with Vermilion red.

Cinque Ports. Fiue hauen
townes in our Countrey,
which haue many liber­
ties. They are Hasting,
Romnie, Hethe, Douer,
and Sandwich.

Circular. That which is
round in compasse.

Circumcise. To cut off
the foreskin of a mans pri­
uy parts: which was a re­
ligious ceremony among
all the Hebrewes after A­
braham, to whom God first
commanded it.

Circumcision. A cutting
off of the foreskinne. See
Circumcise.

Circumference. The outer
part of any round circle:
The ring or round com­
passe of a wheele.

Circumlocution. A long 
circumstance; a speaking
of many words, where few
may suffice.

Circumscribe. To compasse
round, to draw a line about

Circumscriptible. That
which may bee limited or
contained within bounds.

Circumspect. Wise, warie
heedfull. 






Circumuent. To compasse
in; to deceiue one craftily.

Cite. To warne one 
to appeare.

Citation. A warning one
one to appeare.

Citrine. Yellow.

Cittadell. A castle with a 
small garrison to keepe a 
towne in awe.

Ciuet. A sweet substance
like muske. It is said to be
the dung of the beast Hye­
na.

Ciuilize. To make ciuill.

Clamour. A great cry or
noise.

Clamorous. Crying out or
exclaiming.

Clandestine. Priuy, close,
secret.

Clarentius. One of the
Kings of armes, whose of­
fice is to dispose the fune­
rals of Knightes & Esquires
of the southside of Trent.

Clarifie. To make cleere.

Claritie. Noblenesse,
cleerenesse.

Clause. A short sentence.

* Cleepe. An olde word,
signifying to name, or to
call.

Clemencie. Mercy, gen­
tlenesse.

Clement. Mercifull, pitti­
full.

Client. One that asketh
counsell of a Lawyer.

Clime. See Climate.

Climactericall. A Greeke
word signifying an account
or reckoning, made by cer­
taine degrees or steppes.
Some haue heereby diui­
ded the age of mans life
after this manner. The
seuenth yeare they reckon
for dangerous; and by this
account the 14. 21. 28. 35.
&c. are climactericall
yeares. Likewise the ninth
yeare is esteemed equallie
as dangerous, and by this
account, the 18. 27. 36.
&c. are called Climacteri­
call yeares. But the most
noted and famous Clima­
ctericall yeare, is at the
age of 63.because both ac­
counts doe meete in this
number; namely 7. times
9. and 9. times 7. And this
is held the most dangerous
yeare of all other.

Climate. A terme vsed
in Cosmographie. It sig­
nifieth a portion of the
world, betweene North
& South, conteining some






notable difference in the
sunne  rising.

Cloke. To couer or
hide.

Closhe. An vnlawfull
game, called by some
nine pinnes, cules, or kit­
tles.

* Clum. A note of si­
lence.

Coaction. Constraint.

Coactiue. Constraining.

Coadiutor. A fellow hel­
per.

Coagulate. To turne to
curde.

Coca. An hearbe in In­
dia, the leaues whereof be­
ing bruised and mixt with
the powder of Cockles or
Oysters in their shelles
burnt, the Indians vse in
little balles to carry in
their mouthes, to preserue
them from famine or great
dryth.

Cockatrice. See Basi­
liske.

Coequall. Equal in degree
with another.

Coessentiall. Of the same
essence or substance.

Coeternall. Equall in eter­
nity with another.

Cogitation. A thinking.

Cognition. Knowledge.

Cohere. To cleaue, stick,
or hang together.

Coherence. An agreement
or hanging together.

Collaterall. Sidewaies, or
ioyning to the side. Eue­
rie degree of kindred is ei­
ther lineall or collaterall:
The lineall is that which
cometh from the Grand­
father to the Father, from
the Father to the Son, and
so still right downeward:
Collaterall is that which co­
meth sidewaies, as first be­
tweene brothers & sisters,
then betweene their chil­
dren, &c. Also Vnckles,
Aunts, and all Cousins
are conteined vnder this
tearme of Collaterall  kin­
dred.

Collation. A short ban­
quet.

Colleague. A companion,
or one ioyned in office
with another.

Collect. To gather toge­
ther.

Collection. A gathering.

Collocation. A placing
together.

Colloquie. A talking or
conferring together.






Collusion. Deceite, couse­
nage. It is also a terme vsed
in law, when an action is
brought against one, by his
owne agreement.

Collyrie. A physicall terme
signifying any medicine
for the eyes.

Colon. A marke of a
sentence not fully ended;
which is made with two
prickes, thus (:)

Colonie. Among the Ro­
mans, when their cittie was
too ful of inhabitants, they
vsed to withdraw a certaine
number, to dwell in some
other place, which number
so withdrawne, as also the
place to which they were
sent, was called by the
name of Colonie.

Coloquintida. A kinde of
wilde Gourd, which the
Persians name Gall of
the earth, because it de­
stroyeth all hearbes, neere
which it groweth. It is
round, hauing a thinne
yellow rinde (when it is
ripe) and the inner part
open, and spongie full of
gray seede. If there grow
but one vpon a plant, it
must bee throwne away,
because it will bee too
violent in operation. This
fruite is often vsed in phy­
sicke to purge slimie grosse
humours from the sin­
newes and ioynts; but
must be well prepared, for
that otherwise it is verie
dangerous.

Colosse. An image or sta­
tue of exceeding great­
nesse, made sometime by
the olde Emperours of
Rome. There was one
such image in the Ile of
Rhodes, dedicated to the
sunne, of one hundred and
fiue foot long, the thumbe
of which image few men
could fathome.

Columbine. Douelike.

Columne. A pillar.

Coluri. Two imagined
circles in the heauens,
drawne both through the
Poles; whereof one pas­
seth through Aries and
Libra, the other through
Cancer and Capricorne:
So that they deuide the
Zodiacke, and the whole
heauens into foure euen
parts.

Combat. A fight between
two, allowed by the law






for triall of some contro­
uersie.

Combatant. He that figh­
teth or is to fight a Com­
bat.

Combine. To couple or
ioyne together.

Combination. A coupling
or ioyning together.

Combust. Burnt or scor­
ched: a planet is said to be
combust, when he is vnder
the sunne beames, or with­
in certaine degrees of
them.

Combustible. That which
wil soone be set on fire and
consumed.

Combustion. A burning.

Comedie. A play or
interlude, the beginning
whereof is euer full of
troubles, and the end ioy­
full. Among the Greekes
Eupolis, Aristophanes and
Cratinus, were the chiefe
comicall Poets, among the
Latines Plautus and Te­
rence.

Comedian. A Player or
writer of Comedies.

Comet. A blazing starre.
It is properly a great quan­
tity of hot and drye exha­
lations drawne vp from the
earth, by the attractiue
vertue of starres into the
highest region of the ayre,
where beeing neere the
Element of fire, it is infla­
med, and there mooued
round, according to the
motion of the starre, vnder
which it is growen, or the
motion of the ayre, in
those high parts.

Comicall. That which
pertaineth to Comedies:
also pleasant or merry.

Comma. A marke often
vsed in writing and prin­
ting, which is made thus (,)

Commemorate. To re­
hearse or make mention.

Commemoration. A re­
hearsall, a remembrance.

Commence. To begin, to
enter an action against
one.

Commendatorie. which
recommendeth one.

Comment. Notes of in­
struction set in some
bookes, to expound such
things as cannot easily bee
vnderstood. Sometime it
is taken for a lie or fayned
tale.

Commentarie. See Com­
ment.






Commendatorie. That
which hath commedati­
ons onely written in it.

Commerce. Conuersation, 
entercourse of merchan­
dise.

Commination. A threat­
ning.

Commiserate. To take
pittie or compassion vpon
any.

Commiseration. Pittie or
compassion.

Commissarie. One that
hath spirituall iurisdiction
in some out places of a
diocesse, so farre distant
from the chiefe citty, that
it were too great trouble to
summon people to it.

Commission. A writing
testifying that one or ma­
ny haue some authoritie in
a matter of trust, commit­
ted to their charge.

Commissioner. He that is
in authoritie by vertue of a
commission.

Committee. He to whom
a matter is committed to
be decided or ordered.

Commixe. to mingle to­
gether.

Commixtion. A mingling
together.

Commodious. Fit, profita­
ble.

Commotion. A great stir,
a hurly burly.

Communicable. That
which may be imparted
vnto an other.

Communion. A partaking
together.

Communitie. Fellowship
in partaking together.

Commutation. A chan­
ging.

Compact. Hard knit, close
ioyned together, sometime
a bargaine, agreement.

Compassionate. Pittifull,
which grieueth at others
harmes.

Compendious. Briefe, short,
sauing.

Compendium. A short
way, a sauing course.

Competencie. Sufficiency,
fitnesse.

Competent. Conuenient,
fit, necessary.

Competitor. He that sueth
for the same thing with an
other.

Compile. To make, frame,
or set together.

Complement. Fulnesse,
perfection, fine behauiour.

Compleate. Full, perfect.






Complexion. The tempe­
rature of the humors in
mans body, which causeth
the colour: sometime it
signifieth painting vsed by
women.

Complices. Fellowes or
confederates, in leawde
matters.

Compose. To frame; or
set together.

Composition. A ioyning
or putting together.

Compositor. He that com­
poseth or setteth a thing in
order.

Comprehend. To con­
taine, or conceiue in the
minde.

Comprehensible. Which
may be contained or con­
ceiued.

Comprehension. A taking,
a conceiuing, or vnderstan­
ding.

Compression. A pressing
together.

Compremise. An agree­
ment made by indifferent
parties chosen on both
sides.

Comprise. To containe.

Compulse. Constraint,
enforcement.

Compulsion. Constraint.

Compunction. Griefe, re­
morse.

Computate. To account,
cast, or reckon.

Computation. An account,
or reckoning.

Comrade. A compani­
on, a good fellow.

Concaue. Hollow.

Concauitie. Hollownes.

Concinnitie. Apt fitnes,
a feate contriuing, or han­
some setting a thing toge­
ther.

Concise. Briefe, short.

Conclaue. A priuate
roome, a closet.

Concoct. To digest, to
boile.

Concoction. Digestion of
meate in the body.

Concourse. A great assem­
bly.

Concupiscence. Lust, flesh­
lye desire.

Concurre. To meete to­
gether.

Condescend. To agree,
to ioyne together.

Condigne. Worthy, due,
deserued.

Condole. To lament
with an other, to bemone.

Conduce. To helpe, or
be profitable.






Conduct. To guide one in
the way.

Confection. A mingling to­
gether: or that which is
mingled.

Confederate. One ioyned
in friendship, or linked
with another in any prac­
tise.

Conferre. To compare to­
gether: sometime to talke
or reason with another.

Conference. A reasoning
together, or a comparing
of one thing with another.

Confidence. Trust, credite.

Confident. Very bold, as­
sured; nothing doubtfull.

Confine. To appoint
bounds, to limit.

Confines. The bounds or
borders of a Country.

Confiscate. Forfeited: sei­
sed to the Kings vse.

Confiscation Forfeiture of
ones goods, or seising them
to the Kings vse.

Conflict. A fight, a skir­
mish, a bickering.

Confluence. A flowing to­
gether: a great multitude:
great store.

Conforme. To apply or
frame ones selfe to any 
thing which is required of
him.

Conformitie. Likenesse or
agreement with another
thing.

Confront. To come or
stand boldly before ones
face: to face one.

Confuse. Mixt together:
mingled, out of order.

Confusion. A disorderlie
mingling.

Confute. To disproue, to
ouerthrow by argument.

Congeale. To freeze, to
grow stiffe, or cling toge­
ther with cold.

Conglutinate. To glew
together: to ioyne.

Conglutination. A glew­
ing together.

Congratulate. To reioyce
in anothers behalfe with
him: or to signifie that we
so reioyce.

Congratulation. A reioy­
cing together.

Congregate. To gather
together.

Congruent. Agreeable,
meet, fit.

Congruity. Good agreement.

Coniecturall. Vncertaine,
which may, & may not be.

Conioyne. To ioyne toge­
ther.

Coniugall. Belonging
to wedlocke.






Coniunction. A ioyning or
coupling together.

Coniure. To sweare or
conspire together: to bind
by oath, or vnder a great
penalty.

Connex. To knit or tye
together.

Connexion. A knitting to­
gether.

Conniuence. A suffering, or
winking at a matter.

Consanguinitie. Kindred
by blood.

Consecrate. To hallow or
make holy.

Consecration. A making
holy.

Consequence. That which
followeth another thing
going before.

Consequent. Following or
necessarily comming after
another thing.

Conserue. To preserue or
keepe.

Conserues. The iuyce or
substance of any thing boi­
led with Sugar and so kept.

Considerate. Discreet, wise.

Consistorie. An assembly of
Magistrates, a iudgement
place.

Consolatorie. Comforting,
which comforteth.

Consolation. Comfort.

Consolidate. To make
firme or strong.

Consonant. Agreeable. Al­
so euery letter not being a
vowell, is so called, as B,
C, D.

Consort. A company: or
a company of Musitions
together.

Conspicuous. Bright, cleere.

Conspurcation. A defiling
or making foule.

Constellation. A company
of starres together: or the
influence which they work.

Consternation. Amazement:
a great feare.

Constitute. To ordaine,
to appoint.

Constitution. A decree, an 
ordinance.

Construction. A ioyning of
words and sentences toge­
ther.

Consubstantiall. Of the
same substance.

Consubstantialitie. Agree­
ment in substance: the be­
ing of the same substance
that another is of.

Consull. A cheefe officer
among the Romans: there
were two chosen yearly to
gouerne the Citty: These






Magistrates first began af­
ter the Kings were expel­
led, and were caled Consuls,
of the latin word Consulere,
because they were by their
office to prouide and take
care for the good of the
common wealth.

Consult. To take aduice
together.

Consultation. An aduice
or deliberation taken to­
gether.

Consummate. To finish,
to make an end.

Consummation. An end,
a finishing of a matter.

Consumption. A consu­
ming: Also a disease, wher­
in the lungs being exulce­
rated, there followeth a
leannesse of all the body.

Contagion. An infection.

Contagious. Infectious.

Contaminate. To defile.

Contamination. A defiling.

Contemne. To despise.

Contemplate. To behold
in the mind: to muse vpon.

Contemplation. A beholding
in mind; a thinking vpon.

Contemptible. Base, vile,
of no account.

Contemptuous. Despiteful.

Continencie. Chastitie,
temperatenesse.

Continent. Chaste, sober,
temperate.

Continent land. That which
is no Iland, maine land.

Contingent. Casual, doubt­
full, vncertain: which may
and may not be.

Continuate. To ioyn close
together.

Contract. A bargaine, an
agreement made.

Contraction. A shrinking
together.

Contradict. To gainsay or
speake against.

Contradiction. A speaking
against; a withstanding in
words.

Contribute. To giue with
others; to allow as others
do.

Contributarie. Which al­
loweth or giueth as others
do.

Contribution. A giuing
with others, when many
giue together.

Contristate. To make sad
or sorrowfull.

Contrite.  Broken: very sor­
rowfull: hartily repentant.

Contrition. Great inward
sorrow for sin committed.

Controuert. To contend,
striue, or be at variance a­






bout a matter.

Contumacie. Stubbornnes,
disobedience: selfe will.

Contumelie. Reproach;
spite, disgrace.

Contumelious  Reprochful:
spitefull, disgracefull.

Contund. To pound or
beate in a morter.

Contusion. A beating, brui­
sing or pounding.

Conuent. To bring one
before a Iudge.

Conuenticle. A litle assem­
bly; most commonly for
an ill purpose.

Conuention. An appearing
before a Iudge.

Conuerse. To vse ones
company, to liue with.

Conuersant. Vsing much
in ones company.

Conuersion. A turning from
euill to good.

Conuict. Proued guilty of
the crime whereof hee is
accused.

Conuiction. A condemna­
tion or proofe of beeing
guiltie.

Conuince. To ouercome,
or confute: To proue one
guiltie.

Conuocate. To call toge­
ther.

Conuocation. An assem­
bling or calling together:
sometime the company as­
sembled.

Conuulsion. A shrinking,
or pulling together of the
sinewes; a cramp, a pang.

Cooperate. To worke to­
gether; to helpe.

Cooperation. A working
with another, a helping.

Cope. A Church vestment
much like a large cloke.

Copall. A white Rosin of
much brightnesse brought
from the West Indies: the
people there were wont to
make perfumes thereof in
their sacrifices. It is hot in
the second degree, and
moyst in the first, and is
vsed heere to bee burnt a­
gainst cold diseases of the
braine.

Copie. Great plentie.

Copious. Plentifull, aboun­
dant.

Copulation. A coupling or
ioyning together.

Corall. There are two sorts
hereof, the one white, the
other red; but the red is
best. It groweth like a tree
in the bottome of the sea,
from whence being taken,






it is by the ayre hardened
into the forme of a stone,
as we see it. It is cold and
dry in operation, good to
be hanged about childrens
neckes, as well to rub their
gums, as to preserue them
from the falling sick­
nesse.

Corbell. A shouldering
peece cut out in stone, as
we may see in wals, to bear
vp a poste, summer, or o­
ther weight.

Corbets. Places in walles
where Images stand.

Corbona. A chest or cofer
in the Temple of Hieru­
salem, where the treasure
that serued for the Priests
vse was kept.

Cordiall. Hearty; that
which comforteth the
heart.

Cordwayner. A Shooema­
ker.

Corodie. An ancient term,
vsed when the founders of
Abbies or other religious
houses, reserued a right in
themselues and heires, to
appoint some person to
haue allowance of meate
and drinke, or other main­
tenance out of the house;
and this allowance was
called a Corodie.

Coronell. A Captain ouer
many bands.

Coronation. The crow­
ning of a King or Queen.

Corporall. Of, or belong­
ing to the bodie.

Corporation. A body po­
litick, hauing by the kings
graunt a common seale,
a cheefe Officer, and in­
feriour persons belonging
to it.

Corpulencie. Grossenesse,
fatnesse.

Corpulent. Fat & grosse.

Correlatiue. A tearme
of Logicke applyed to
such words as cannot bee
spoken, but there must be
supposed some other word,
which is necessarily a de­
pendant vpon it: as a Fa­
ther and a Sonne; a Mai­
ster and a Seruant; a Cap­
taine and a Souldiour; a
Husband and a Wife.

Correspondence. An a­
greeablenesse, or proporti­
on answering to some o­
ther thing.

Correspondent. Agreeable,
or answerable to another
thing. 






Corrigible. That which
may be corrected or amen­
ded.

Corriual. He that is sui­
ter with another, to a wo­
man for marriage.

Corroborate. To streng­
then, to confirme.

Corrode. To gnaw asun­
der.

Corrosiue. A fretting plai­
ster: any thing which laid
to the body, raiseth blisters
and maketh it sore.

Cosignificatiue. Of the
same signification with an­
other thing.

Cosmographie. An art tou­
ching the description of
the whole world. This art
by the distance of the cir­
cles in heauen, diuideth the
earth vnder them into her
Zones and climats, and by
the eleuation of the Pole,
considereth the length of
the day and night, with the
perfect demonstration of
the Sunnes rising and go­
ing downe.

Couent. The whole num­
ber of religious men toge­
ther dwelling in one house.

Couerture. A couering.
In the Common Law it
signifieth all the time, that
a man and wife are coupled
in marriage.

Couchant. Couching or
lying on the ground.

Couert. Hidden, secret.

Couertbaron. A marryed
wife: a woman subiect to
a husband.

Couerture. In our Com­
mon Law it is sometime
taken for marriage.

Couine. Deceit, cousenage.

Countermand. To giue com­
mandement contrarie to
that which was comman­
ded before.

Countermine. To mine
or dig in the earth against
another.

Countermure. A wall made
in defence of another 
wall.

Counterpane. The fellow
coppy of a deed indented.

Counterpoise. Any thing
laid in waight against ano­
ther thing.

Counteruaile. To bee of
equall value to another
thing.

Coupee. Cut off.

Cramp fish. A fish whose
nature is to make the
hands of such as touch it,






to be benummed or asto­
nied, though they touch it
with a long pole.

Crannie. A little hole or
chinke.

Crauen. A coward.

Crazie. Sickly, weake, of
vnperfect health.

Credence. Beleefe, trust.

Credible. That which
may be beleeued.

Creditor. He that lendeth
or trusteth another with
mony, or wares.

Credulitie. Easines of be­
leefe.

Credulous. He which ea­
sily beleeueth a thing.

Cressant. In Heraldrie
it signifieth the newe
Moone.

Crime. An offence, or
fault committed.

Criminall. Faultie: or
that which belongeth to a
fault or accusation.

Crisis. A Greeke word,
which is interpreted iudg­
ment. In Phisicke it signi­
fieth the conflict betweene
nature and sickenesse: that
is, the time, when either
the patient suddenly be­
commeth well, or sudden­
ly dyeth, or waxeth better
or worse, according to the
strength of his bodie, and
violence of the disease.

Crispe. Curled.

Cristall. A substance like
cleere glasse. There are
two kindes hereof. One
which groweth vpon ex­
treame cold mountaines,
being there congealed like
yce, by the minerall vertue
of the place, as Albertus
writeth. Another kinde
groweth in the earth in
some places of Germa­
nie.

Cristalline. Made of Cri­
stall, or shining like Cri­
stall.

Criticall. In Phisicke the
fourth and seuenth dayes
are called Critical, because
in them Phisitians vse to
iudge of the danger of a
disease: But the seuenth
is accounted the chiefe
Criticall day, & the fourth
a token or signe what the
seuenth day will be, if the
Patient liue so long. This
account must bee made
according to the number
of weekes thus. In the first
weeke the fourth day is 
the token or Critical of the






seuenth day. In the second
weeke the eleuenth is the
Critical of the fourteenth.
In the third the seuenteenth
is the Criticall of the
twentieth: for Hippocrates
reckoneth the twentieth
day for the last of the third
weeke: In the fourth week
24. is the Criticall of
the 27. In the fift, the 31.
the Criticall of the 34.
In the sixt weeke the 37.
the Criticall of the 40.
And so foorth to a hun­
dred.
Criticke. The same that
Criticall is. Also it signi­
fieth sometime, one that
hath authoritie, or taketh
vpon him to censure other
mens acts or works written.

Crocodile. A harmefull
beast liuing most about
the Riuer Nilus in Egypt.
It is hatched of an egge,
and groweth vnto a won­
derfull greatnesse, some­
time to twentie or thirtie
foot long. This beast hath
no tongue, and in feeding
moueth onely the vpper
iawe: He hath eyes like a
Hogge, and cruell sharpe
teeth: Hee hath no haire,
but is made much after
the fashion of an Euet,
with long taile, a long
belly, and backe couered
all ouer with scales close
ioyned & of great strength.
Vpon his feete hee hath
strong sharpe clawes. In
the day time hee can see
farre, and liueth on land,
in the night he is almost
blind, and keepeth in the
water. He is very bold vp­
on those he seeth afraid of
him, and feareful if he bee
assaulted. It is written that
he will weepe ouer a mans
head, when he hath deuou­
red the body, and then wil
eate vp the head two.
Wherefore in Latine there
is a prouerbe, Crocodili La­
chryma, Crocodiles tears,
to signifie such teares as
are fained, and spent onely
with intent to deceiue, or
doe harme. I saw once one
of these beasts in London
brought thither dead, but
in perfect forme, of about
three yards long.

Croches. The little buds
or branches, at the top of
a Harts horne.

Crosselet. A melting pot.






Crotayes. Dung of a Hare.

Crownet. A little crowne,
also a part of a horse
hoofe is so called.

Crude. Rawe, not well
digested.

Cruditie. Rawnesse: ill
digestion.

Cubebs. A certaine fruite
sold by Apothecaries like
vnto Pepper. It commeth
out of India, and is hotte
and drie in operation. It
comforteth the braine
much, and quickeneth the
spirits, being held & chew­
ed in the mouth. It is also
very good to open the
stoppings of the Liuer.

Cubite. Halfe a yarde:
the measure from a mans
elbow to the toppe of his
middlefinger.

Cullion. The stone of a­
ny liuing thing.

Culpable. Faultie.

Culture. Tillage, dressing
of land.

Culuertaile. A strong kind
of building, by fastening
boards or tymber, with ar­
tificiall ioynts, so firmely
togither, that they cannot
fall asunder.

Cummine. An herbe, the
seed whereof is much vsed
in Phisicke. It is hot and
dry, good to breake or dis­
solue windinesse in any
part of the body.

Cumulation. A heaping
vp, or increasing.

Cunctation. Slackenesse,
delay, lingering.

Capglasse. A hollow round
Glasse, with a hole in the
bottome, vsed by Physiti­
ans sometimes, to drawe
blood or wind out of the
body, for it sucketh with
great strength, by reason of
a little flame of fire made
in it.

Cupiditie. Desire, coue­
tousnesse.

Curfew. A bell which
ringing about bedtime, gi­
ueth folkes warning, to go
to rest and couer their fire.

Cursorilie. Swiftly: as
when one readeth a booke
ouer with speed.

Curtezane. A harlot.

Curtilage. Any peece
of ground, as a yarde,
backeside, or garden
plotte, adioyning to a
house.

Custodie. Safe kee­
ping. 






Cutchoneale. A little flie
(as some thinke) brought
from beyond the Sea, dri­
ed, wherewith diers die
Stammell and colours in
Graine: but indeed it is
a fruit.

Cynicall, Doggish, See
Cynike.

Cynike. Doggish or cur­
rish: There was in Greece
an old sect of Philoso­
phers so called, because
they did ouersharply barke
at mens vices, and were
not so respectiue in their
behauiour as ciuilitie re­
quired. The chiefe of this
sect were Antisthenes and
Diogenes.

Cypher. A circle in Arith­
metike like the letter O;
which of it selfe is of no
value, but increaseth the
value of other figures af­
ter which it is ioyned:
wherefore we sometime
say of one, that in compa­
ny of others doth nothing
himselfe, that he standeth
for a Cypher.

Cypresse. A tree which
groweth on drie moun­
taines, very tall and slen­
der: the tymber thereof is
yellowish and of a pleasant
smell, especially set neere
the fire. It  carieth no leafe,
but greene small twigs.


D
* DAffe. A dastard.

* Dagges. Lat­
chets cut of Lether.

Daine. To vouchsafe.

Dandruffe. Small scales
that sticke to the skinne of
the head, and often hang
about the haires. They are
caused by salt fleame, or
some other corrupted hu­
mours, piercing insensibly
the pores, and then slight­
ly congealed by the aire,
and may be taken away by
washing the head with 
salte water or vineger
warme.

Darnell. A naughty graine
almost like wheate, but
much lesse, and groweth
among wheate often. It
may be vsed in Phisicke,
against some outward dis­
eases, but taken inwardly
it is harmefull, as beeing
too hot, and making the
head giddy.

Darreigne. To attempt, or
challenge. 






Deaurate. Guilded, gliste­
ring like gold.

Debilitate. To weaken.

Debilitie. Weakenesse.

Debitor. A debtor.

Debonaire. Gentle, milde,
curteous.

Decad. The number of
tenne.

Decalog. The ten com­
mandements.

Decent. Comely, han­
some.

Decencie. Comelinesse.

Decide. To determine, or
end a Controuersie or
doubt.

Decipher. To write after
a strange fashion, that
none shall reade it, also to
find out the meaning of a
thing so written.

Decision. A determination,
or end made of a contro­
uersie

Declayme. To speake e­
uill: to reproach.

Declamation. An oration
or speech made of purpose
in reproach of any person
or thing.

Declaymer. He that ma­
keth a declamation.

Decline. To bend downe­
ward.

Declination. A bending
downeward.

Decliuitie. A steepe ben­
ding downward, as on the
side of a hill.

Decoct. To seethe, to
boyle.

Decoction. A boyling or
seething. In Phisicke it
signifieth commonly any
liquor in which medicina­
ble rootes, herbes, seedes,
flowers, or any other thing
hath beene boyled.

Decollation. A beheading.

Decorum. Comely, or
comelinesse.

Decrepit. Weake, or very
feeble with age.

Decressant. The Moone
in the last quarter.

Decretals. Ordinances,
decrees.

Dedicate. To offer, giue,
or appoint for some speci­
all purpose.

Dedication. An offering,
a giuing vp.

Deduce. To take away,
to abate.

Deduct. To take away.

Deduction. A taking a­
way.

Defamation. A defaming,
a speaking ill of one.






Defamatorie. Slanderous:
which defameth.

Defatigation. Wearinesse.

Defeasance. An ouer­
throwing, or vndoing that
which was formerly done.
A writing testifying that
some other writing shall
be of no force.

Defeate. To deceiue, or
beguile: to take craftilie
from one.

Defect. A failing or want
in any thing.

Defection. A falling away
a reuolting.

Defectiue. Faultie, which
wanteth something.

Defendant. He which an­
swereth to an accusation
or challenge.

Defensiue. That which
defendeth, or is spoken or
done in defence.

Deferre. To put off, to
prolong.

Define. To declare, shew
or describe a thing plaine­
lie.

Definition. A sentence
which expresly declareth
what a thing is.

Definitiue. Which de­
fineth or concludeth a
matter.

Defloration. A deflou­
ring.

Defloure. To corrupt,
spoile or marre.

Deforme. To disfigure, to
spoyle the forme of any
thing.

Deformation. A difigu­
ring.

Deformitie. Ill fauourd­
nesse: vncomelinesse.

Defraude. To deceiue, to
beguile.

Deft. Little and pretty,
feat and handsome.

Defunct. Dead.

Degenerate. To turne out
of kind.

Degrade. To take away
the priuiledge of holy or­
ders from one.

Degradation. A taking a­
way of Ecclesiasticall au­
thoritie, from a Clerke
conuinced of some noto­
rious crime.

Degree. A terme often v­
sed in Astronomie and
phisicke. In Astronomie it
signifieth the thirtieth part 
of a signe: viz. of Aries,
Taurus, Gemini, &c.  For in­
to so many parts or de­
grees are all the signes di­
uided. In phisicke it sig­






nifieth a proportion of
heat, cold, moisture or dri­
nesse, in the nature of
simples; and there are
foure such proportions or
degrees: The first degree
is so smal, that it can scarce
be perceiued. The second,
that which may be mani­
festly perceiued without
hurting the sense. The
third, that which some­
what offendeth the sense.
The fourth, which so
much offendeth, that it
may destroy the body. For
example: Sweet Almonds
Rice, Buglosse, ripe Grapes
are hot in the first degree:
Parsley, Saffron, Hony, in
the second degree; Cum­
mine, Galingall, Pepper
in the third degree: and
Garlike, Spourge, Euphor­
bium, in the fourth degree.
So Barly is cold in the first
degree, cucumbers in the
second, Sengreene in the
third, and Hemlocke in
the fourth degree. Where
note that in heat, cold, and
drinesse, there may bee
foure degrees, and in moi­
sture but two.

Dehort. To disswade:
to aduise one to the con­
trary.

Dehortation. A perswasi­
on or admonition to re­
fraine from doing some
thing.

Deiect. To throw down,
to debase.

Deiection. A throwing
downe, a debasement.

Deitie. Godhead, or a
God.

Delineate. To draw the
first proportion of a thing.

Delinquent. An offender.

Delude. To mocke, to
scorne, to deceiue.

Deluge. An vniuersall o­
uerflowing of waters, Noes
floud.

Delusion. A mocking.

Demaynes. The Lords
Mannor house, and the
landes which he and his
auncestors haue alwayes
vsed.

Demeane. To behaue or
carry ones selfe.

Demeanour. Behauiour.

Demerit. A desert.

Demise. To giue or
graunt.

Democratie. A kind of go­
uernment wherin the peo­
ple bere rule without other






superiours sauing such as
they appoint.

Democraticall. Of or be­
longing to the estate of
Democratie.

Demolish. To pull downe.

Demolition. A pulling
downe.

Demoniacke. Possessed
with a diuell.

Demonstrable. Which
may be shewed or made
manifest.

Demonstrate. To shew.

Demonstration. A shewing
plaine of any thing.

Demurre. A pause or
stay, a standing still.

Demy. Halfe, sometime
little.

Deneere. A penny, a
small peece of mony.

Denizen. A straunger
borne, that obtaineth the
Kings letters patents, and
becommeth his Maiesties
subiect, enioying thereby
al priuiledges, as if he were
an Englishman.

Denominate. To name
one.

Denomination. A naming.

Denotate To note or
marke, to signifie.

Denotation. A noting or
marking.

Denounce. To giue war­
ning, to declare, to threa­
ten.

* Denwere. Double.

Deodand. When a man
is casually killed by a Cart,
Horse, or Mill, &c. that
which mooued and was
thereby cause of his death,
being forfeit to the King,
appertaineth to his Maie­
sties Almoner to bestow in
deedes of charity, and is
therefore called a Deodand,
as being to be giuen away
for Gods sake.

Depend. To hang vpon
an other thing.

Dependant. That which
hangeth vpon an other
thing.

Deplore. To lament, to
bewaile.

Deploration. A lamenting.

Depopulate. To waste or
spoile a countrey.

Depopulation. A spoiling
or wasting of a countrey.

Depose. To take away
ones authority, to thrust
out of his kingdome, some­
time to sweare.

Depositum. A pledge,
any thing layd vp with one






to keepe.

Deposition. A deposing
or putting from great au­
thority, also a laying down,
sometime an oath or testi­
mony giuen by oath.

Depraue. To corrupt or
marre, sometime to speake
euill of one.

Depresse. To crouch
downe, to keepe vnder.

Depriue. To take away.

Depriuation. A losse of
any thing.

Depute. To appoint.

Deride. To mocke, or
floute.

Derision. A mocking.

Deriue. To take or draw
from another thing.

Deriuatiue. That which is
deriued from an other
thing or word.

Deriuation. A deriuing,
or drawing from some
thing.

Derogate. To empaire,
diminish, or take away.

Derogation. A taking a­
way from ones honour or
estimation.

Derogatorie. That which
empaireth or hindereth
the credit of any one.

Descend. To go down­
ward.

Describe. To expresse
plainly the outward forme
of a thing.

Description. A plaine
expressing of the outward
forme of a thing, or the
manner how a thing was
done.

Designe. To appoint.

Designement. An enter­
prise or purpose which a
man hath.

Desist. To leaue off.

Deteine. To keep from one.

Detect. To discouer, to
disclose.

Detection. A discouerie,
a disclosing.

Detract. To speake euill
of one.

Detraction. Slanderous
speaking.

Detriment. Losse, harme,
hinderance.

Deuastation. A wasting
of a country.

Deuest. To vncloath.

Deuiant. Farre out of
the way.

Deuoire. Endeauour.

Deuolue. To rolle down.

Deuolution. A rolling
along.

Dewlap. The hollow part






of the throate, hanging
downe in some beasts.

Dexter. Belonging to
the right hand.

Dexteritie. Nimblenes,
quicknesse, skilfulnesse.

Diabolicall. Diuellish.

Diacatholicon. An electu­
ary much vsed in physicke,
so called because it serueth
as a gentle purge for al hu­
mours.

Diacinnamon A physicall
mixture or cinnamom and
diuerse spices in powder
together, which helpeth
digestion and is good a­
gainst colde moist diseases
of the stomacke.

Diacodion. A cold sirupe
made of the tops of pop­
pies, vsed in phisicke some­
time against hote diseases,
and to stay the falling
downe of humours out of
the head.

Diacurcuma. A confe­
ction made of Saffron and
diuers other simples, vsed
against the dropsie and old
diseases of the stomacke,
spleene and liuer.

Diadem. A Kings crowne,
or an attire for Princes to
weare on their heads, made
of purple silke, and pearle.

Diagalanga. A confecti­
on made of Galingale and
hotte spices, good against
the winde colicke and cold
distemperature of the in­
ward parts.

Diagridium. There is a
plant called Scammonie
growing in farre hot coun­
tries, the iuice of the roote
whereof being dryed, is a
very strong and violent
purgatiue medicine, called
also Scammonie: which be­
fore it can be vsed in phy­
sicke, must bee boyled in
Quinces, to abate the ma­
lice of it: now the Scammo­
ny boyled and prepared in
this sort, is called by Apo­
thecaries Diagridium.

Dialacca. A confection
made of the gumme Lacca,
and diuerse hotte simples,
good against cold diseases
of the stomack, stoppings,
of the liuer, and all causes
that may draw one to the
dropsie.

Dialect. A difference of
some words, or pronunci­
ation in any language: as
in England the Dialect or
manner of speech in the






North, is different from
that in the South, and the
Western Dialect differing
from them both. The
Grecians had fiue especi­
all Dialects: as 1. The
property of speech in A­
thens: 2. In Ionia: 3. In
Doris: 4. In Eolia: and
5. that manner of speech
which was generally vsed
of them all. So euery
countrey hath common­
ly in diuers parts thereof
some difference of lan­
guage, which is called the
Dialect of that place.

Dialecticall. Of or be­
longing to the art of Lo­
gicke.

Dialog. A talke, reaso­
ning, or disputation be­
tweene two parties or
moe, or a discourse written
where such a conference
is set downe.

Diamber. A comforta­
ble confection made of di­
uers hot spices, good to be
giuen in wine or other li­
quor, to strengthen the
stomacke, reuiue the spi­
rits, and warme the inward
parts.

Diameter. A streight line
which passing through the
middle of any figure, di­
uideth it in two equall
parts.

Diapason. A concord in
musicke of all.

Diaphœnicon. An Ele­
ctuary vsed often by Phi­
sitions to purge fleame
and choler.

Diaper. A fine kind of
linnen not wouen after
the ordinarie fashion but
in certaine workes, Di­
amonds, knots, or other
deuices.

Diapred. Diuersified: of
diuers colours, or garni­
shings.

Diaprunum. An Electu­
ary made of Damaske
Prunes, and diuers other
simples, good to coole the
body in hot burning Fe­
uers. After it is made,
phisitians vse often to
adde Diagridium to it,
and then it becommeth
very Purgatory, and is
called Diaprunium soluti­
uum; soluble, or laxatiue
Diaprunum.

Diarhodon. A comfor­
table confection good to
refresh and strengthen all






the inward parts, after
long hot diseases.

Diasena. A purging E­
lectuary good against
quartane Agues, and all
other diseases proceeding
from melancholy.

Diatragacanthum. A con­
fection made of the Gum
Tragacanth, and other sim­
ples, good against hot dis­
eases of the breast, the
cough, pleurisie & inflam­
mation of the lungs.

Diatrionpiperion. A con­
fection so called, because
it is principally compoun­
ded of the three kindes of
Pepper, to wit, long, white
and blacke Pepper. It is
good to helpe digestion
when the stomacke wan­
teth heat to concoct that
which it hath receiued.

Diatrionsantalon. A cold
confection made of the
wood Sanders, good a­
gainst burning Agues, and
to refresh the inward parts
inflamed with too much
heate.

Diaturbith An Electu­
arie which principally
purgeth flegmaticke grosse
humours.

Dicacitie. Much talke, or
prating.

Dichotomie. A diuiding
into two parts, or a diuisi­
on made by two and two.

Dicker. Tenne hides of
Lether.

Dictate. To endite; also
that which one writeth
from anothers mouth while
he speaketh.

Dictator. A chiefe Offi­
cer among the Romanes;
neuer chosen but vpon
great necessity in dange­
rous troubles of the com­
mon wealth. This Dictator
could continue in office
but onely sixe moneths,
and then vnder paine of
treason was to giue vp his
authority: He could bee
named by none but the
Consull, and that in the
night time, with great si­
lence and attention. After
he was once chosen all o­
ther Magistrates were out
of office, except onely the
Tribune of the people; so
that the Dictator, during
his time, had (as it were) a
kingly authority aboue al.

Diffcult. Hard: vnea­
sie.






Difficulty. Hardnesse, vn­
easinesse.

Diffidence. Distrust.

Diffident. Mistrustfull.

Diffuse. To spread a­
broad.

Digamma. The letter F.
so called, because he bea­
reth a forme, like the
Greeke Letter Gamma,
made double.

Digest. To dispose or set
in order.

Dight. Made ready: ap­
parrelled, dressed.

Digresse. To turne aside, to
leaue the matter that is in
hand and speak of another
thing.

Digression. A turning to
speake of another thing.

Dilaniation. A tearing in
pieces.

Dilate. To spread abroad
to enlarge, to drawe in
length.

Dilatation. A drawing in
length, speaking of a thing
at large.

Dilemma. A kind of ar­
gument, which conuinceth
ones aduersary both waies:
as in saying: If hee bee a
good man, why doe you
speake euill of him? If he
be naught, why doe you
keepe him company?

Dimension. The true mea­
sure of a thing.

Diminution. A dimini­
shing.

Diminutiue. Little, small,
or a word which betoke­
neth a little thing, as,
lambekinne, a little 
lambe.

Dinumeration. A num­
bring, a reckoning.

Dire. Fierce, cruell, terri­
ble.

Directorie. That which
directeth one.

Direption. A violent cat­
ching away.

Disanull. To disalowe.

Disappeare. To vanish
out of sight. To be seene
no more.

Disastrous. Vnluvkie: vn­
fortunate.

Disauow. To deny or
refuse by vowe.

Disciple. A Scholler, one
that learneth.

Discipline. Instructi­
on.

Disclayme. To de­
nie.

Disconsolate. Vncom­
fortable.






Discordant. Disagree­
ing.

Discrepant. Much diffe­
ring.

Discusse. To examine,
debate, or trie a matter.

Discussion. An examining,
a sifting or tryall of a mat­
ter.

Disfranchise. To take a­
way freedome.

Disfranchisement. A ta­
king away of ones free­
dome.

Disgust. Dislike.

Dislocation. A putting
out of the right place.

Dismall. Vnluckie: grie­
uous.

Dismantle. To vnclothe:
to vnfurnish, to leaue vn­
prouided.

Dismisse. To discharge,
to put away.

Disparage. To disgrace:
to ioyne with vnequall
match.

Disparagement. Disho­
nour: disgrace, It proper­
ly signifieth a shame or
disgrace done by a Guar­
dian to his word, in mary­
ing him vnder yeeres, to
a woman vnfitte for his
calling, or to one past
childe-bearing, or which
hath some great defor­
mitie, lamenesse, or some
horrible disease.

Disparates. A terme of
Logicke, applyed to such
wordes as are onely diffe­
ring one from another,
but not contrary: as heate
and cold are contraries,
but heate and moisture
are Disparates: viz. two
contrarie qualities.

Disparitie. Vnlikenesse:
vnequalitie.

Disperpelled. A terme in
Herauldrie, when any
thing of soft substance,
doth by falling from high
shoot it selfe out into di­
uers corners or endes.

Disperse. To scatter a­
broad.

Dispersion. A scattering
abroad.

Displayed. Wide spread,
opened.

Disputable. Any thing
that a man may dispute
on.

Disrobe. To vnclothe:
properly of rich, or gar­
ments of estate.

Dissent. To disagree.

Disheuelled. Bare hay­






red, without any attyre
on the head, the haire han­
ging at length.

Dissimilitude. Vnlike­
nesse.

Dissipate. To scatter, or
spread abroad.

Dissipation, A scatte­
ring, a wasting.

Dissolue. To vndoe,
weaken, or destroy: to
plucke downe.

Dissolute. Loose, wanton,
giuen much to vaine plea­
sures.

Dissolution. A breaking,
weakening, or pulling a­
sunder of any thing.

Dissonant. Of a contra­
ry sound, not agreeing.

Disswade. To perswade
one from a thing.

Disswasion. A perswa­
ding of one from some
thing.

Distich. Two verses;
or a sentence  conteined in
two verses.

Distinguish. To put a
difference between things.

Distinction. A difference
put betweene things.

Distract. To drawe a­
way: to trouble ones
minde.

Distraction. A pulling
asunder, or drawing away
of the mind.

Distresse. Any goods
taken and detained for
not paiment of rent, or
to enforce one to answere
to a suite. Sometime it
signifieth great affliction,
or misery.

Distribution. A diuiding
among many.

Disturbe. To trouble,
to vexe.

Disunion. A disioyning,
a seuering.

Disunite. To part, to
diuide, to seuer.

Diuert. To turne a­
side.

Diuident. That which
diuideth.

Diuine. Heauenly be­
longing to God. Some­
time to gesse or foretell
a thing to come.

Diuination. A fore­
telling of a thing before
it happeneth: which may
(as I take it) bee diui­
ded into three different
kindes; namely, super­
naturall, naturall, and su­
perstitious Diuination.
Supernaturall Diuination






(onely reuealed to man
by God,) is not properly
called Diuination, but
prophecie, with which all
the holy Prophets haue in
former times beene inspi­
red. Naturall Diuination
may be diuided into two
branches; whereof the
first is, that which hath
in former times been prac­
tise by wicked spirits in o­
racles and answeres giuen
by them in Idoles, and is
at this day sometime seene
in possessed persons, who
by suggestion of the diuell
may foretell often things
to come: and this is but a
naturall Diuination: For
although to vs it seeme
miraculous, because of our
ignorance in the causes
and course of things, yet in
those spirits, it is but natu­
rall, who by their long ex­
perience and great obser­
uation, beside the know­
ledge of secrets in nature,
and their quicke intelli­
gence from all places, are
able to foresee much more
then wee by nature can.
The second branch of na­
turall Diuination, is that
which a wise man may
foretell by probable con­
iecture, being no way of­
fensiue, so long as it is on­
ly guided by reason, and
ouerruled by submitting
it selfe to the almightie
power of GOD. And
to this second kinde of
Diuination, may also A­
strologie bee referred
(which by the motion
and influence of Starres
and Planets doeth pro­
mise to foretell many
things) so long as it kee­
peth it selfe in due limits,
and arrogateth not too
much to the certainetie
thereof: into which ex­
cesse of vanitie if it should
breake foorth, it can then
be no longer called na­
turall Diuination, but
superstitious and wicked:
for the Starres may in­
cline but not impose a
necessitie in particular
things. The third and
last manner of Diuinati­
on, is that which wee cal­
led superstitious, where­
of there hath among the
Gentiles beene diuers dif­
ferent kinds, namely Au­






guration, Aruspicie, Necro­
mancie, Geomancie, Hydro­
mancie, Pyromancie, Cosci­
nomancie, Palmistrie or Chi­
romancie.

Auguration, was a diui­
nation made of things to
come, by the flying, fee­
ding, & chirping of birds:
the professors whereof cal­
led Augurs, were of great
account among the heathen
Romans, in so much that
there was a Colledge of
them in the citty; neyther
would the Romans vnder­
take any publike matter of
importance, without asking
their assent. But the vanity
hereof was well derided by
a wise Iew, named Mosso­
lamus; as Iosephus writes.
For an Augur in the wars
once requiring, that the
army which was then mar­
ching, might stand still a
while, till he tooke obser­
uation of a bird there by, to
foreknow the successe of
that expedition, this Iew
whilst the Augur was bu­
sie in his art, shot at the
Bird with an arrow, and
by chance killed her:
whereat the Augur and
others being highly offen­
ded: Are you so foolish
(quoth the Iew) to ima­
gine, this poore Bird can
tell what will happen to
vs, that could not foresee
her owne death so neere
at hand? Aruspicie, is a
diuination, which by ope­
ning and viewing the bo­
wels of beasts, did vnder­
take to foretell things to
come: the professors
whereof were called A­
ruspices. Necromancie, the
worst of all others, is
that diuination, which is
practised by coniuration,
and calling vp Diuels or
dead mens Ghosts. Which
manner of diuination we
reade practised by King
Saul (I. Reg. cap. 28.)
when he required a Sor­
ceresse to call vp the spirit
of Samuell to him. Geo­
mancie, is a kinde of diui­
nation practised by making
prickes and lines in the
earth; as the name in
Greeke signifieth. Hy­
dromancie, is a diuination
made by some apparition
in water, as Varro writeth,
that a Boy saw in water,






one bearing the forme of
Mercurie, who foretold in
one hundred and fiftie
verses, the euent of the
warre which the Ro­
mans had with King
Mithridates. Pyromancie
is a diuination made by
the fire, or spirits ap­
pearing in the fire. Cos­
cinomancie is a ridiculous
kinde of diuination made
with a sieue; which at this
day is vsed by some sim­
ple women, and appea­
reth to bee of antiquitie,
for in the third Idylle of
Theocritus there is men­
tion made hereof. Palmi­
strie or Chiromancie, is
a diuination practised, by
looking vpon the lines of
the fingers and hands,
an art still in vse, among
fortune tellers, Egypti­
ans, and iuglers. Besides
these there were also o­
ther diuinations, as name­
ly Aeromancie, that which
is gathered by apparitions
in the aire. Capnomancie,
by the flying of smoake.
Catoptromancie by visions
shewne in a glasse. All
which beeing euen by the
Pagans themselues ac­
counted deceitfull and
vaine, it remaineth that of
Christians they be vtterly
reiected and abhorred.

Diuorce. A separation of
man and wife, which was
(as our Sauiour witnes­
seth) first permitted by
Moses vnto the Israelites,
for the hardnesse of their
hearts, that men might
rather put their wiues a­
way, whome they grew
wearie of, than vse them
with too great extremitie,
to shorten their liues, as
many did. The woman so
diuorced was to haue of
her husband, a writing (as
Iosephus witnesseth) to this
effect. I promise, that here­
after, I will lay no claime
to thee: And this writing
was called a bil of diuorce.
But with Christians this
custome is abrogated, sa­
uing onely in case of a­
dulterie. The auncient
Romanes also had a cu­
stome of diuorce, and a­
mongst them, it was as
lawfull for the wiues to
put away their husbands,
as for the husband to dis­






misse his wife: but amongst
the Israelites, this preroga­
tiue was onely permitted
to the husband.

Diureticall. That which
is of vertue, to cause one to
make water.

Diurnall. Of or belong­
ing to a day: Also a booke,
wherein daily actions or
accounts are set downe.

Diuturmitie. Long con­
tinuance.

Diuulge. To publish, or
tell abroad.

Diuulgation. A telling,
or reporting abroad.

Docibilitie. See docilitie.

Docible. See docill.

Docill. Easie to bee
taught, one that wil soone
learne.

Docilitie. Aptnesse, quick­
nesse of vnderstanding.

Document. A lesson, an
instruction.

Dogdayes. Certain dayes
in Iuly and August, so cal­
led of the Starre Canis, the
Dogge: which then ri­
sing with the Sun, doeth
greatly increase the heate
thereof.

Dogmaticall. Which is
held or maintained in som
mens opinion.

Dole. Sorrow, heaui­
nesse, griefe: sometimes
almes giuen to many
poore folkes.

Dolefull. Heauie, sorrow­
full.

Dolorous. Greeuous,
painefull.

Dolphine. A fish friend­
lie to man, and especial­
ly to children; the Fe­
males of this fish, haue
breasts like to women,
which are well stored
with milke. They are ve­
ry faithfull to one ano­
ther, and bring foorth
yong ones like whelpes,
after tenne moneths, and
in Sommer time. They
sometime breake foorth
of the Sea, but presently
die as soone as they touch
land.

Doome. A sentence pro­
nounced: a iudgement.

Doomesman. A Iudge.

Domesticall. One of
the house: or any thing
belonging to the house.

Domesticke. See Dome­
sticall.

Domineere. To beare
rule, or great sway.






Dominicall. Belonging
to sunday or our Lordes
day.

Dominion. Lordship, rule.

Donarie. A gift; proper­
ly that which is hanged
vp in a Church.

Donation. A giuing.

Donee. Hee to whom a
thing is giuen or granted.

Donour. A giuer.

Dormant. Sleeping.

Dormitorie. A place to
sleepe in: or that which
hath vertue to make one
sleepe.

Dorter. A cell or cham­
ber vsed onely for religi­
ous men to sleepe in.

Dowager. A Widdow
Princesse, hauing dowrie
in the countrey which was
in subiection to her decea­
sed husband.

Doulcets. The stones of
a Hart or Stag.

Drachme. See dram.

Dramme. A smal weight,
the eight part of an ounce:
It conteineth in it three
scruples, euery scruple
beeing of the weight of
twentie Wheate cornes:
so that a dramme is the
iust weight of 60. cornes
of wheate.

Drerie. Sorrowfull: la­
mentable.

Dromedarie. A kinde of
camel, hauing two bunches
on the backe, which is very
swift, and can trauell two
or three daies without
drinke.

Drone. An idle Bee that
will not labour.

Druides. Ancient Pa­
gane Priests in France,
which liued naked in
woods, giuing themselues
to the study of Philosophy,
and auoyding all company
so much as they might.
They were of such estima­
tion among the people,
that all controuersies were
referred to their determi­
nation, and a great penal­
tie laid on such as disobei­
ed their sentence. They be­
leeued the immortalitie of
soules, but supposed (with
Pythagoras) that they still
passed by death from one
body to another.

Dryades. Nymphs of the
woods, so called of the
Greek word Drys: which
signifieth an Oake.

Duall. Of, or belonging
to two.






Dubious. Doubtfull.

Dubitable. Doubtfull.

Dulia. Seruire: a wor­
ship done to Angels and
Saints.

Duplication. A doubling.

Duplicitie. Doublenesse.

Durabilitie. Long conti­
nuance.

Dwale. An hearb of cold
operation, hauing power
to make one sleepe: some
call it Nightshade.


E
EAglet. A yong Eagle.

Ebene. A tree which
groweth in Ethiopia, bea­
ring neither leaues nor
fruit. It is blacke and hath
no graine like other wood,
and is sharp byting in tast:
Being burned it yeildeth a
pleasant smell, neither is
the smoake thereof offen­
siue: but the greene wood
is so full of sap, that it will
flame like a candle. It is
good against many disea­
ses of the eyes. That which
groweth in India, is spot­
ted with white and yellow,
being not in such estima­
tion as the Ethiopian E­
bene is.

Ebionits. Certaine olde
Heretikes, which affirmed
that Christ was not before
his mother, the B. Virgin.
Against these Heretickes,
Saint Iohn writ his Gos­
pel, after he returned from
his banishment in the Ile
Pathmos.

Ebonie. See Ebene.

Ebrietie. Drunkennesse.

Eccho. A rebounding or
sounding backe of any
noyse or voyse, in a wood,
valley or hollow place. Po­
ets feine that this Eccho
was a Nymphe so called,
which beeing reiected of
one, whom she loued, py­
ned away for sorrow in the
woods, where her voyce
still remaineth answering
the outcryes of all com­
plaints.

Ecclesiasticall. Of, or be­
longing to the Church.

Ecclesiasticus. Of, or be­
longing to a Preacher.
The name of a Booke in
the olde Testament is so
called.

Eclipse. A fayling or
want of any thing: Com­






monly it signifieth a want
of light; and there be two
such Eclipses, namely of
the Moone and of the
Sunne. Eclipse of the
Moone; neuer happeneth
but at the full Moone, nei­
ther then alwaies, but when
she is in such a point, that
the shadow of the earth de­
priueth her of the Sunne
beames, from whence she
taketh her light. Eclipse of
the Sunne is not so vsuall,
and happeneth only at the
change of the Moone,
namely when the Moone
being betweene the Sunne
and vs, doth with her dark
body, hide part of her light
from vs: which was the
cause that Dionysius Areo­
pagita, seeing the Sunne
so admirably eclipsed at
our Sauiours passion, con­
trarie to all reason, when
the Moone was not in a­
ny neerenesse to hinder his
light, cryed out in amaze­
ment: Aut Deus natura
patitur, aut machina mun­
di dissoluetur. Either the
God of nature suffereth,
or else the frame of the 
world will be destroyed.

Ecliptike line. An ima­
gined line, running tho­
rough the midst of the
twelue signes, in which the
sunne alwaies keepeth his
course.

Eclog. It is commonly
taken for a poeme contei­
ning a communication of
shepherds, but the word
in Greeke signifieth a
collection or choice ga­
thering of things toge­
ther.

Eden. An Hebrew word
signifying delectation, or
a place of pleasure and de­
light. Paradise.

Edible. Which may bee
eaten.

Edict. An ordinance
made by any in au­ 
thority: A proclamation
or decree.

Edifie. To build, to
frame, sometime to in­
struct.

Edifice. A building, a
frame.

Edification. A build­
ding: but most common­
lie it is taken for an in­
struction, so plainely de­
liuered that the hearer
profiteth by it.






Edition. A setting forth
or publishing.

Educate. To bring vp,
to nourish.

Education. A bringing
vp.

Effectuate. To performe

Effeminate. Womanish,
nice.

Efficacie. Strength, ver­
tue, force.

Efficiencie. A bringing to
passe.

Efficient. Which bringeth
to passe or performeth.

Effusion. A powring out,
a large spending.

Eftsoones. Againe, of­
ten.

Egregious. Notable, ex­
cellent.

Egresse. A going forth
from any place.

Egritude. Griefe of mind,
or paine of bodie.

Eiect. To cast out.

Eiection. A casting out.

Eiulation. A howling, a
pittifull crying out.

Elaborate. Curious, done
with great paines.

Elate. Lifted vp, aduan­
ced, proud, loftie.

Elation. A lifting vp,
pride, loftinesse.

Elaterium. The iuyce of
wilde cucumbers dried:
Being taken inwardly, it
purgeth waterish humours,
and is good against the
dropsie. But it must bee
mixed with somewhat to
restraine the malice of it,
for otherwise it will bee
painfull in operation.

* Eld. Old age.

Elect. To choose, or one
that is chosen.

Election. Choice.

Electuarie. Any medi­
cine taken inwardly, made
of diuers powders mix­
ed together, and by tem­
pering with some syrupes
or hony, brought to a soft
liquid forme.

Elegancie. Finenes, neat­
nesse.

Elegant. Fine, neate, pic­
ked, trim.

Elegie. A mournefull
song vsed in funerals,
or other passions of sor­
row.

Elegiacke Mournefull.

Element. The first mat­
ter of visible substance,
from whence all things
take their beginning: wher­
of there be foure, namely






fire, ayre, water, and earth.
Sometime it signifieth a
letter, as A.B.C. Sometime
the first foundation, prin­
ciple, or instruction of any
thing.

Elementarie. Which con­
sisteth of Elements.

Eleemosynarie. Giuen in
almes, or which giueth
almes.

Elench. A subtill argu­
ment.

Eleuate. To lift vp, to
aduance.

Eleuation. A lifting vp.

Elixir. An Arabian word
of the same signification
that Quintessence is in la­
tine: see Quintessence.

Elke. A kinde Yew to
make bowes with.

Elocution. Vtterance, e­
loquence.

Eloine. To put, giue, or
sell away.

Elong. To put, or set
farre off.

Elude. To mocke or de­
ceiue.

Elusion. A mocking, a
deceite.

Elysian. Of or belon­
ging to Elysium.

Elysium. A supposed
place of pleasure below,
where Poets imagined the
soules of good men did
rest.

Embalme. To annoint
with baulme.

Embassie. An embassage,
a message from one Prince
to another.

Embellish. To make
beautifull.

Embezill. To steale, to
conuey away.

Embleme. It properly sig­
nifieth any fine worke,
cunningly set in wood or
other substance, as we see
in chesse boards and ta­
bles; notwithstanding it is
commonly taken for a
picture or other deuice,
shaddowing some matter
to be learned by it.

Embost. A tearme vsed
by hunters, when a Deere
is so weary that he fometh
at the mouth.

Embracer. A law terme
of him, that when a matter
is in triall, commeth for
reward to the barre, being
no lawyer, nor witnes, and
speaketh in fauour of one
of the parties: or which
laboureth the Iury, or v­






seth any vnlawful practise
to make them giue their
verdit, as hee would haue
them.

Embrion. A childe vn­
perfect in the mothers
wombe.

Emendation. An amen­
ding.

Emeralde. A precious
stone, the greenest of all o­
ther, for which cause it is
very comfortable to the
sight. The best of these
stones are brought out of
Scythia. And some affirme
them to bee taken out of
the Griffons neastes, who
doe keepe this stone with
great crueltie. It is found
by experience (as Albertus
writeth) that if the Emerald
be good, it inclineth the
bearer thereof to chastitie,
and cannot endure the a­
ction of lust. There is also
a disease sounding neere
this word, for which see
Hemorrhode.

Eminence. Highnes, dig­
nitie, honour.

Eminent. High, lofty, ho­
nourable.

Emmanuel. A Hebrew
word expressing the digni­
ty of our Sauiour, and is in­
terpreted God with vs.

Emolument. Profit, gaine,
aduantage.

Empannele. To make vp a
iurie of twelue, or more
men.

Emphasis. An expresse
or most plaine significati­
on of ones mind.

Emphaticall. That which
is vttered with most ex­
presse signification, in such
sort, that it setteth forth to
the full, the intent of the
speaker.

Empiricke. A physition
that getteth skill by his
owne practise.

Emplaster. A plaister or
salue made of herbes, pow­
ders and oyle boyled toge­
ther.

Empleade. To sue one.

Emprimed. A terme vsed
by hunters when a Hart
first forsaketh the heard.

Empyriall heauen. The
highest heauen aboue the
firmament; so called (by a
Greeke name) because of
the bright shining of it.

Emulate. To enuie, to
striue to doe as another
doth.






Emulation. Enuie: an
earnest desire to doe as an
other doth.

Enarration. A telling or
declaring.

Enchiridion. It is com­
monly taken for a little
booke, which one may stil
carrie in his hand.

Encomium. A praise.

Encroche. To creepe or
presse vpon a man vnlaw­
fully, to get more then his
due.

Encrochment. A law terme
when one man vnlawful­
ly presseth too farre vpon
another, as in setting his
pale too  farre vpon ano­
thers land, the more to
enlarge his owne, or in ta­
king more rent then is
due.

Endorse. To write on the
outside of a Letter.

Endorsed. A terme of
Herauldrie, when two
beastes are painted with
their backs turned to each
other.

Energeticall. Very forci­
ble, and strong.

Energie. Force, vertue,
strength.

* Enewed. Made new.

Enfranchise. To make
free, to admit or receiue
one into any corporation.

Enfranchisement. A ma­
king free.

Enhance. To aduance, or
make greater.

Enigma. A riddle, a darke
speech.

Enigmaticall. Obscure:
darke, hard to vnderstand,
spoken in a riddle.

* Enmoised. Comforted.

Enormitie. A going out
of rule: a great disorder.

Enormous. Wicked: ve­
ry bad.

Enquest. A Iury of twelue
or moe men.

Ensigne. A banner borne
in warres: a flagge, or any
ornament seruing for a
marke or some dignitie.

Entalented. Ingrafted.

Enthymeme. A terme of
Logicke: It signifieth an im­
perfect syllogisme, which
wanted either the Maior
or Minor: as for example. 
Euery sinne deserueth
correction.
Euery theft is a sinne.
Therefore euery theft
deserueth correction.
Now if wee will leaue






the first part (called the
Maior) and say thus: Euery
theft is a sinne: Therefore
Euery theft deserueth cor­
rection. Or omit the second
part (named the Minor)
and say: Euery sinne deser­
ueth correction, therefore
euery theft deserueth cor­
rection, Then it is called
an Enthymeme, to wit, a
keeping in the minde (for
so the word properly sig­
nifieth) because one of
these parts is vnderstood
in the minde: where note
that if the two endes
of the Enthymeme are
like in speech, then the
Minor is wanting, if the
two beginnings be like, the
Maior is omitted, as may
easily appeare by the fore­
going example.

Enueloped. Wrapped.

Enuiron. To compasse about.

Enumerate. To reckon
vp: to declare.

Enumeration. A recko­
ning: a rehearsall.

Enunciatiue. Any thing
pronounced or spoken. A
proposition or speech,
which simply affirmeth or
denyeth any thing; as
Cicero is vertuous: Cicero is
not vertuous.

Epact. A number which
is in vse euery yeare, to find
the age of the Moone by:
This Epact changeth year­
ly, and is made by the ad­
dition of eleuen to the for­
mer Epact; both which
numbers are the Epact for
the following yeare, but al­
waies so, that both those
numbers exceede not the
number of 30. For if they
amount to aboue 30. then
must you cast away the 30.
and the remaining number
shall be the Epact. As for
example, in this yeare
1616. the Epact is 22. to
which if you adde eleuen
for the next yeares Epact,
it maketh 33. from which
if you take away 30. there
will remaine three; which
is the Epact for the next
yeare 1617. Note also:
when in any yeare the E­
pact is 29. you must ad 12.
to find out the next yeares
true Epact, that casting a­
way thirty, the Epact may
come to be eleuen. In al o­
ther nunbers the Epact is stil
made (as before) by adding






eleuen. And these Epacts
are euer changed on the
first day of March.

Ephemerides. A booke
wherein day acts are regi­
stred. Commonly it is ta­
ken for a Booke of Astro­
nomy (in vse among such
as erect figures to cast
mens natiuities) by which
booke is shewen how all
the Planets are placed, e­
uerie day and houre of the
yeare.

Ephi. An Hebrew mea­
sure conteining about fiue
peckes of ours.

Ephod. A holy garment
worne by the high Priest
of the Hebrewes, when he
executed his function. It
couered the backe, & was
curiouslie  wrought with
gold and twisted silke of
Purple, Scarlet, and Vio­
let colour. On the shoul­
ders there were set two
great precious Onix
stones, and in them grauen
the names of the twelue
sonnes of Iacob, called the
twelue Patriarches, in the
right shoulder the sixe el­
dest, and in the left the sixe
youngest; that the High
Priest entering into the
Sanctum Sanctorum (which 
was the holiest place of the
Temple) might beare with
him the names of the peo­
ple, for whom hee was to
pray vnto God.

Epicycle. A terme vsed in
Astronomy. It signifieth
a lesser circle, whose cen­
ter or middle part is in the
circumference of a greater
circle. In the vpper part of
this Epicycle, the fiue Pla­
nets Saturne, Iupiter, Mars,
Venus, and Mercurie, doe
goe forward according to
the course of the signes;
as Aries to Taurus, &c. in
the lower part they are re­
trograde, that uis, goe back­
ward, as from Gemini to 
Taurus, from Taurus to
Aries againe. Betweene
these two motions, are
said to bee two stations;
namely when a Planet
ceaseth going forward,
and beginneth to be retro­
grade, or comming to the
farthest point of his retro­
gradation, goeth forward
againe: so that in the Epi­
cycle, these Planets wheele
about somtime according,






sometime contrary to the
order of the signes. 

Epicure. It is common­
ly taken with vs, for a man
giuen ouer much to plea­
sure, especially in gluttony.
In ancient times it signi­
fied one that followed the
sect of a Philosopher na­
med Epicurus, who taught
that the greatest happines
was, to be without paine,
and enioy pleasure of body
and minde.

Epigramme. It pro­
perly signifieth a super­
scription or writing set vp­
on any thing; now it is
commonly taken for a short
wittie poeme, which vnder
a fained name, doth co­
uertly praise or tax some
particular person or thing.

Epilepsie. The falling
sicknesse, whereto most
commonly children and
yong folk are subiect This
disease is caused by some
humor or vapor, suddenly
stopping the passage of spi­
rits in the braine, which
the brain striuing to expel,
causeth the patient to fall
downe, and commonly
fome at the mouth.

Epilog. The conclusion or
end of a matter. A speech
made, after an enterlude or
play is ended.

Epiphanie. An appearing
or manifestation. The feast
of Twelfe day at Christ­
mas is so called, because
then the appearing of a new
star did manifest the birth
of our Sauiour.

Episcopall. Of, or belon­
ging to a Bishop.

Epitaph. An inscription
or writing set vpon a
toombe; most commonly
in lamentation or praise of
the party there buried.

Epithete. Any word or
short sentence, added to a
Noune substantiue, to ex­
presse some qualitie of it:
as in saying, Barbarous cru­
eltie, vnbridled lust: anger
the short madnes of the mind:
where barbarous, vnbridled,
and the short madnesse of the
mind, are Epithete expres­
sing the qualitie of cruel­
tie, lust and anger.

Epitome. An abridgement 
or short gathering of any
matter in writing.

Epitomize. To make an
abridgement or short ga­
thering.






Equanimitie. Vprightnes
of hart, quietnesse of mind.

Equinoctiall. An imagined
line, passing iust in the 
midst betweene the two
pole of heauen, to which
line, the sun coming twice
a yeare (namely about the
xj. of March and the xj. of
September) maketh the
daies and nights of equall
length in all the world; for
which cause it is called E­
quinoctiall: The signes A­
ries and Libra doe both be­
gin at this line.

Equipage. Furniture or
prouision for horseman­
ship; especially in triumphs
or turnaments.

Equiualence. The equall
value of one thing with
another.

Equiualent. Of equal va­
lue to another thing.

Equiuocate. To speak or
answere with a secret mea­
ning reserued in ones own
mind; which peraduenture
the hearers do not vnder­
stand.

Equiuocation. A speech
or answere made, with a se­
cret meaning reserued in
ones mind.

Equiuoke. When one
word signifieth two things.

Erased. A terme of He­
raldrie, when any mem­
ber of a beast seemeth torn
from the body.

Erebus. Hell, or a riuer
in hell.

Erect. To lift vp.

Erection. A lifting vp.

Eremite. See Hermite.

Ereption. A taking away.

Ermines. A little beast
lesse than a Squirrell, the
furre whereof is very cost­
ly, worne onely by Prin­
ces or great Potentates.
It hath a taile of a thumbe
length, and is browne. Er­
mine in Heraldry somtime
signifieth white powdred
with blacke, and Ermines,
blacke powdred white.

Errant. Wandring: ha­
uing no certaine abode.

Erroneous. Full of error:
deceiued.

Erst. Heretofore.

Erudition. Learning, in­
struction.

Eruption. A violent brea­
king out.

Escheate. To bee forfei­
ted to the King, or cheefe
Lord.






Escheater. An Officer
that obserueth and certifi­
eth into the Exchequer,
such things as doe escheate
vnto the King.

Escript. A writing.

Escuage. A tenure of
lands, whereby the tenant
is bound at his own charge
to follow his Lord into the
warres : either in Scot­
land or {W}ales: somtime
in this tenure, the Tenant,
only payeth a yearely rent.

Escuerconera An hearbe
in the {W}est Indies, so na­
med because it is of great
vertue against the deadly
stingings or bitings of cer­
taine venemous beastes,
which in that country they
call Escuercos.

Esperance. Hope.

Essayes. Tryals.

Essence. The being or
naturall substance of any
thing.

Essenes. Certaine religi­
ous men among the Iewes,
which liued a very strict
life, abstaining from wine,
flesh, and women.

Essentiall. That which
belongeth to the essence
of a thing.

Essoine. A tearme in the
common Law, when a
man cannot well appeare
at a day appointed in court,
and is therfore allowed by
the Court to bee absent
without penaltie.

Estreate. A copy which
is taken of any writing.

Estouers. Plots of wood,
growing in heathes, com­
mons, and other places,
where it is lawfull for te­
nants to take fewell, and
timber to repayre their te­
nements.

Eternall. {W}hich hath
no beginning nor end.

Eternity. Euerlastingnes.

Etheriall. Heauenly, or
belonging to the celestiall
spheres.

Ethikes. Bookes of mo­
rall Philosophy, treating
of ciuil behauiour and ma­
ners.

Ethnike. A gentill: a
Heathen: one that is no
Christian.

Etymologie. The true ex­
position or reason giuen
of any word.

Euacuate. To emptie.

Euacuation. An emp­
tying.






Euade. To escape: to get
away.

Euangelicall. Of or be­
longing to the Gospell:
commaunded in the Gos­
pell.

Euangelist. A bringer of
good tydings: wherefore
Saint Mathew, Saint Mark,
S. Luke, and S. Iohn, are
called Euangelists, because
they first in writing publi­
shed the ioyfull History of
our Redemption by the
Sonne of God.

Euaporate. To consume
away in vapour.

Euaporation. A vapor or
smoake passing from any
thing.

Euasion. An escape: a
starting hole to get out.

Eucharist. It properly sig­
nifieth a giuing of thanks.
In Ecclesiasticall writings
it is often taken for the B.
Sacrament of the body &
blood of Christ.

Euecke. A kind of wilde
beast like a Goate.

Euent The end or suc­
cesse of a matter.

Euert. To ouerthrow.

Euersion. An ouerthrow­
ing.

Euiction. An ouerthrow
in Law.

Euitable. Which may be
auoided.

Eunuche. A gelded man.

Euphorbium. A gum or
teare of a strange plant,
growing on the mount
Atlas in Lybia. It is yello­
wish, cleere, and brittle. It
may be vsed in oyntments
against palsies, cramps,
and shrinking of sinewes:
but to be taken inwardly is
very dangerous, vnlesse the
malice thereof be wel cor­
rected; for it scaldeth and
is exceeding hot, neere the
fourth degree.

Europe. One of the three
parts of the world lying
toward the West. In it are
contained England, Spain,
France, Germany, Italie,
all Greece, Crete, or 
Candy, beside many other
kingdoms, great countries
and Ilands. Some affirme
it to be caled Europe of Eu­
ropa, King Agenors daugh­
ter, whom Iupiter (as Po­
ets feine) in likenesse of a
Bull, carried ouer sea, into
the Iland Candy.

Exact. To demaund






with great earnestnesse, or
with constraint: also it sig­
nifieth perfect and accom­
plished.

Exaction. A pilling or ta­
king vp of mony by con­
straint.

Exaggerate. To increase
or amplifie a matter: pro­
perly, with words to make
a thing more than it is.

Exaggeration. An increa­
sing or amplyfying by
words.

Exanimate. To amaze.

Exanimation. An amaze­
ment.

Exasperate. To anger, or
prouoke one greatly to an­
ger.

Exasperation. A prouo­
king or stirring one to an­
ger.

Excesse. Which excee­
deth or is too much.

Excite. To stirre vp.

Exclamation. A crying
out.

Exclude. To shut out.

Exclusion. A shutting out.

Excogitate. To deuise.

Excommunicate. To cast
out of the communion of
the Church.

Excommunication. A ca­
sting out of the Church.

Excrement. Any thing
which naturally growing
or being in the body, may
bee taken away without
harme to the body.

Excression. A growing out:
a swelling or bunch.

Excruciate. To torment.

Excursion. A running out,
a light skirmish.

Execrable. Wicked, wor­
thy to be detested.

Execration. A cursing.

Exemplarie. Of, or be­
longing to an example.

Exemplifie. To declare a
matter at large, to alledge
examples.

Exempt. Free or priuiled­
ged from any payment or
seruice.

Exemption. A freedome
or a priuiledge from any
businesse.

Exequies. Funeral solem­
nities in honour of the
dead.

Exhale. To cast or send
forth a breath or fume.

Exhalation. A fumie
smoake, hot and dry,
drawne out of the earth by
the heate of the Sunne,
which being inflamed, is






the materiall cause of di­
uers fierie impressions in
the ayre.

Exhaust. To consume,
spend, or waste.

Exhibite. To present, of­
fer, or giue.

Exhilarate. To make
merry, to comfort.

Exhortatorie. Which ex­
horteth or perswadeth to
doe a thing.

Exiccate. To dry, to make
dry.

Exigent. A straight, a
hard pinch.

Exile. Banishment.

Exinanite. To make
emptie, to spoile, weaken,
or make of no force.

Exodus. A going forth.
The second Booke of
Moyses, is so called, because
it teacheth of the manner
how the children of Isra­
el went out of Egypt.

Exonerate. To vnburden,
to acquite or discharge.

Exorable. Which may be
intreated.

Exorbitant. That which
goeth out of due propor­
tion, or the right way.

Exorcize. To adiure, to
binde by oath: to charge
one vpon conscience or
greeuous penaltie, to speak
truly, or doe any thing re­
quired.

Exorcisme. An adiuring
or binding by oath.

Exordium. The first en­
trance of a sermon, orati­
on, or such like speech.

Expect. To looke for be­
fore it come.

Expectation. A looking
for, a longing.

Expedite. Quick, readie.

Expeditate. To cut off the
balles or (as some say) cer­
taine clawes of great dogs
feete, which are kept neere
a forest, that they may not
harme the Kings Deere.
The dogs so cut, are said
to be expeditated.

Expedition. Quicke dis­
patch, speede, sometime a
setting forth vnto warre; a
voiage.

Expell. To thrust out, to
driue away.

Experiment. An experi­
ence, proof or triall.

Expert. Cunning, skil­
full.

Expiable. Which may be
purged or satisfied for.

Expiate. To pacifie, to






appease, to recompence.

Expiation. Pacifying,
appeasing by sacrifice.

Expire. To dye, end, pe­
rish, or decay.

Expiration. A dying, a
breathing out, an end.

Explane. To make plain,
to declare plainely.

Explanation. A making
plaine, a declaring.

Explicate. To vnfolde,
open, or to declare at
large.

Explication. An vnfolding
or opening.

Explode. To driue out
with clapping the hands.

Explosion. A driuing a­
way.

Expose. To set forth: to
set to view; to put abroad
in hazard.

Exposition. An interpre­
tation or expounding.

Expositour. An expoun­
der or interpreter.

Expostulate. To reason
angerly with one; to chide
or complaine, as finding
himselfe grieued.

Expostulation. An an­
gry reasoning or com­
plaint.

Expression. A wringing
or squeasing out.

Exprobrate. To vpbraid,
to cast in ones teeth.

Exprobation. An vpbrai­
ding.

Expugne. To conquer:
to win by assault.

Expugnation. A conquest:
a winning by fight.

Expulse. To thrust out.

Expulsion. A thrusting
out, a driuing away.

Exquisite. Excellent, cu­
rious.

Extant. That which stan­
deth abroad or in sight;
which may be found.

Extempore. Out of hand;
presently, without studie.

Extend. To stretch forth,
to shew at length.

Extension. A stretching
out.

Extenuate. To diminish:
to make by words, a thing
seeme lesse than it is.

Extenuation. A dimini­
shing.

Exterior. Outward.

Exterminate. To banish:
to driue away.

Extermination. A destroy­
ing, or rooting out.

Externe. Forren: outlan­
dish, strange, outward.






Externall. Outward,
strange.

Extinguish. To quench,
to put out.

Extinct. Quenched,
dead, put out.

Extirpe. To destroy, To
roote out.

Extirpate. To root vp:
to destroy.

Extirpation. A rooting
vp.

Extort. To wrest away,
to take by force.

Extortion Wrong done
by any officer, in taking
greater fees or rewards, for
executing his office, than
the lawes will allow him.

Extortioner. He that
committeth extortion.

Extract. To draw forth.

Extraction. A drawing
out.

Extrauagant. Wande­
ring, disordered, when
there are many neede­
lesse matters or wordes
brought in beside the pur­
pose.

Extrinsecall. Outward,
or on the outside.

Exulcerate. To raise
blisters or sores.

Exulceration. A rising
of blisters or sores in the
bodie. 

Exulte. To reioyce
greatly, to triumph ouer
one.

Exultation. A greate
reioycing,


F

Fabricate. To frame, to
build.

Fabrike. A frame a buil­
ding.

Fabulous. False as a
fable.

Facile. Easie.

Facilitie. Easines.

Faction. A sect or diui­
sion into sundry opinions.

Factious. Contentious,
troublesome, vnquiet.

Factor. He that buieth
and selleth for a merchant,
or that looketh to his bui­
sinesse.

Faculty. Power, ability,
a trade or course of life,
a priuiledge or power
granted, that a man may
doe something, which
without such priuiledge he
could not doe.

Facundite. Eloquencie.

Fage. A fable.

Falding. A kind of course
cloth.






Fallacie. Deceit in words.

Falsifie. To counterfeit,
or make false.

Falsification. A counter­
feiting, making false.

Falsitie. Falsehood, de­
ceit.

Fanaticall. Distracted,
mad, franticke, out of his
wits.

Farcines. A disease in
beasts: it is a creeping vl­
cer growing in knots,
and following alongst
some veine

Farced. Stuffed, full.

Fascinate. To bewitch.

Fastidious. Disdainfull,
loathing, proud.

Fate. Destinie, that
which must of necessitie
come to passe, by Gods
secret appointment.

Fatall. That which hap­
peneth or commeth to
passe by fate.

Faunes. Poeticall gods
of the woodes.

Fauorite. One in great
fauour.

Fealtie. A ceremonie
done by some tenants to
the Lord of whome they
hold lands: which is in
laying their right hand
vpon a booke, and promi­
sing fidelitie to him by
oath.

Feature. Hansomnesse,
comelinesse, beautie.

Fecunditie. Fruitfulnes.

Fleere. A companion, a
husband or wife.

Felicitie. Happinesse.

Fell. A skinne, sometime
it signifieth fierce, terrible,
or frowning.

Feminine. Of or belon­
ging to the female.

Fincemonth. A month,
so called, because then it is
not lawfull to hunt in any
forrest for that the does
then do fawn. This month
beginneth about the
ninth of Iune, and con­
tinueth till the ninth of
Iuly.

Fengreeke. A plant or
herbe, the seede whereof
is much vsed in phisike.
It is yellow, being hot in
the second degree and drie
in the first, and hath pow­
er to mollifie and dis­
solue.

Feodarie. An officer
who is to bee present with
the Escheater, at the fin­
ding of any office, and






to suruey wards lands, and
to rate them.

Feofment. A deede wit­
nessing the sale or gift
of lands in fee simple,
with liuerie of seisine,
and possession thereof. He
that maketh the Feofment
is called the Feofer, and
the partie to whome it is
made, the Feofee.

Ferie. Any day of the
weeke not kept holy.

Fers. The Queene in
chesse play.

Fertile. Fruitfull, yeelding
much.

Fertilitie. Fruitfulnesse.

Feruent. Hot.

Feruour Heate.

Ferula. A rod, sticke, or
thinne paulmer, where­
with children are cor­
rected in schooles vpon
the hand.

Fessepoint. The middle
part of a scucheon, whose
bredth is deuided into
three euen parts.

Festiuall. Merry, ioyfull,
belonging to a feast.

Festiuitie. Mirth re­
ioycing, pleasantnes, mer­
rinesse.

Feud. Hatred, enmitie,
strife.

Fewmets, or Fewmi­
shing. The dung of a
Deere.

Fiants. The dung of a
Fox or Badger.

Fiction. A feined deuice,
a lye.

Fidelitie. Faithfulnesse.

Figment. A vaine deuice,
a lye, a counterfeit tale.

Figuratiue. That which
figureth or serueth but as a
representation of another
thing.

Filiall. Of or belonging
to a sonne.

Filme. A fine thinne
skinne within the bodie,
deuiding the flesh or any
neere member one from
another.

Fine. An end: some­
time money payed when
one first taketh land for
yeares.

Finall. Of or belon­
ging to an end, the
last.

* Finance. An end.

Finite. which hath an
end.

Fire-drake. A fire some­
time seene, flying in the






night like a Dragon.
Common people thinke
it a spirit, that keepeth
some treasure hid: but
Philosophers affirme it to
bee a great vnequall exha­
lation; inflamed betweene
two Cloudes, the one hot,
the other colde (which is
the reason that is also smo­
keth:) the middle part
whereof, according to the
proportion of the hote
Cloud, being greater than
the rest, maketh it seeme
like a bellie, and both
ends like vnto a head and
taile.

Firme. Strong, stable,
stedfast.

Firmament. Astronomers
vnderstand by this word,
the eighth spheare, next
aboue the spheres of the
seauen Planets, in which
all the fixt Starres are pla­
ced.

Firmitie. Strength, sted­
fastnesse.

Fistike nuts. Outlandish
nuts, brought out of Syria
and other hot Countries,
not much vnlike a small
Hasell nut. They are very
good against the stoppings
of the liuer, being steeped
all night in some sweete
wine, and so eaten in the
morning. They are good
also to vnstop the lungs,
and for such as are trou­
bled with shortnesse of
breath, and are comforta­
ble for the stomacke; yet
they nourish but little, be­
ing taken as meate.

Fistula. A dangerous
vlcer or sore still running.
It goeth vp into the body,
with a long narrow hole,
like a pipe, and is com­
monlie hard in the out­
side.

Fitch. The furre of the
Polecat.

Fixe. To fasten.

Fixed. Fastened.

Flagitious. Wicked, verie
lewd.

Flamine. A great Priest
amongst the Gentiles.
There were three such at
Rome. One called Fla­
men Dialis: the Priest of
Iupiter: who ware rich vest­
ments, and had a chaire
of Estate. If his Wife
chanced to dye, he there­
upon went presentlie out
of his office: It was






not lawfull for him to a­
bide one night out of the
Citty, nor yet to affirme
any thing by oath; for his
word was held of sufficient
credit. The other two Fla­
mins, were the Flamine  of
Mars, and the Flamine of
Romulus, called Quirinus.

Flankards. Hunters call
so two knots or nuts, in the
flanke of a Deere.

Flebotomie. See Phlebo­
tomie.

Flegmaticke. Full of
fleagme, or inclining to
fleagme.

Flexibilitie. Aptnes to
bend.

Flexible. Pliant, easie to
bend.

* Flo. An arrow.

Floreine. A coyne, wherof
there be two sorts: one a­
bout the valew of thre shil­
lings foure pence, the o­
ther about two shillings
ten pence farthing.

Fluent. which floweth
or aboundeth.

Flux. A flowing or issue
of bloud.

Fluxibilitie. Aptnes to
flow or spread abroad.

Fluxible. Which is apt to
flow or run abroad.

Foyling. The print of a
Deers foote in graffe, when
it cannot well be seene.

Foemen. Enemies.

Foines. A kinde of furre
brought for the most part
out of France: the top of
this furre is blacke, and the
ground whitish: the beast
that beareth it, is about the
bignesse of a Cat.

Foison. Great plenty, store.

Foiterers. Vagabonds.

Folio. A sheete or large
leafe of paper.

Fomentation. In physick
it properlie signifieth, pow­
ders or drie things in bags,
or any liquour in a sponge
or bladder, applied warme
to the bodie, to mitigate
paine, or for some other
purpose.

Footstall. The lower part
of a pillar, whereon it stan­
deth.

Foppe. A Foole.

Foppery. Foolishnesse, a
vaine matter.

Forage Prouision for
horses and cattell in the
wars.

Forcer. A cofer, or little
chest.






Forester. He that hath
charge to looke to a for­
rest, or some part of it.

Foreloyne. A tearme in
hunting, when a hound
meeteth a chace, and goeth
away with it before the
rest.

Forlorne. Vtterly vndone,
in a desperate estate.

Formalitie. An obseruing
of good forme or order.

Formall. That which
keepeth due forme.

Formositie. Beautie, faire­
nesse.

Forestall. To buy victu­
all or other merchandise
by the way before it come
to the faire or market; to
sell it againe at a dearer
price.

Forestaller. He that doth
forestall, and buy things in
such sort.

Fortifie. To make strong.

Fortification. A hold, any
place made strong.

Fortitude. Courage,
strength, valour.

Forewelked. Dried vp.

Foster. To cherish, to
bring vp, to keepe.

Fother. A waineloade of
1000. weight.

Fracture. A breaking.

Fragility. Weakenesse,
britlenesse.

Fragment. A broken
peece, a cantle.

Fragrant. Sweete smel­
ling.

* Frape. A companie, a
rabble.

Fraternitie. A brother­
hood.

Fraud. Deceit, couse­
nage.

Fraudulent. Deceitfull.

Fray. Harts or stags are
said to fray their heads,
when they rubbe them, to
make the pilles of their
new hornes come of.

* Fremd. Strange.

Frequent. Often, com­
mon, also to haunt or re­
sort much to a place.

Frequentation. A haun­
ting or resorting to a
place.

Frication A rubbing.

Friction. A rubbing.

Friuolous. Vaine, foolish,
of no account.

Froise. A pancake, a tan­
sie.

Front. A forehead, the
first part of a battell, an en­
trance or beginning.






Frontire. The boundes
or limits of a countrey.

Frontlet. Any thing
worne on the forehead.

* Frownce. A wrinckle.

Fructifie. To beare fruite.

Frugall. Thriftie, spa­
ring.

Frugalitie. Thriftinesse,
good husbandry.

Frustrate. To make void,
to deceiue, to disappoint.

Fugitiue. One likely to
runne away, a vagrant per­
son, a run-away.

Fumigation. A perfume,
any thing which being cast
on hot coales, maketh a
sweet smell.

Function. An office, a
charge which one hath, a
course of life.

Fundamentall. Of or be­
longing to the foundation,
or to the maine, chiefe, and
principall point.

Funerall. A solemne bu­
riall of some great person.

Furies. Three imagina­
rie hags or spirits in hell,
hauing snakes growing on
them in stead of haires.
Poets feyned them to bee
daughters of Acheron (a ri­
uer in hell) and of the
night, and to haue the of­
fice of tormenting the soules
of wicked men. Their
names were Alecto, Mega­
ra, and Tisiphone.

Fusible. That may be
molten.

Future. That which shall
be hereafter.


G
* Gab. To prate or lye.

Gabbing. Lying.

Gabions. Baskets of earth,
to keepe off great shot.

Gable. The fore-front
or end of a house com­
ming downe right.

Gaynest. Most profitable
or neerest.

* Gadling. Stragling.

Galangale. An herbe so
called, the roote whereof is
hot and drye in the third
degree, and much vsed in
physicke.

Galbanum. A gumme or
liquor drawne forth of a
plant in Syria called Meto­
pion. It is of a strange sa­
uor, and very pure, close
and firme, neither too
moist, nor too dry. It is
good against an olde






cough, and for such as
cannot easily fetch breath:
and the perfume thereof
dryueth Serpents from
the place where it is bur­
ned.

* Galiard. Lustie: frolike.

* Galoch. A kinde of
shooe.

* Galpe. To belch.

Gangrene. A dangerous
disease when any fleshie
part of the body, after som
great inflammation or other
griefe, losing the naturall
colour, beginneth to grow
insensible, and by degrees
to waxe dead.

Garbe. A tearme in He­
raldrie. It signifieth sheafe
of Wheate, or any other
graine.

Garbell. To purifie or
cleanse spice or other
things, from the drosse or
dust which is mingled with 
it.

Gargarize. To wash or
scowre the mouth with a­
ny Physicall liquor.

Gargarisme. A liquor to
wash the mouth.

Gargill. The same that
Gargarize.

* Gargoning. Strange
speaking.

Garrulitie. Pratling, vaine
babling.

Garter. It sometime sig­
nifieth the principal of our
English Heralds, called the
King at armes.

Gatherbag. The bag or
skinne, inclosing a young
red Deere in the Hyndes
belly.

Gauelkinde. Customes
annexed vnto certain lands
in Kent, called Gauelkinde
lands: whereof one is,
that if the Father be han­
ged for fellony, the Sonne
shall inioy all his landes
and tenements holden in
Gauelkinde. Other cu­
stomes there are of Ga­
uelkind, too long to be re­
hearsed in this place.

Gawgeour. An officer ha­
uing authority, to giue a
marke of allowance, to all
Tuns, Hogsheads, Pipes,
Barrells, &c. of Wine,
Oyle, Hony, and Butter,
before they ought to be
sold.

* Gawre. To stare.

Gehenna. It properly
signifieth a place in a
valley, in the Tribe of






Beniamin, where the Israe­
lites erected abhominable
altars, there sacrificing
their children in fire to the
Idoll Moloch: notwith­
standing it is vsually taken
for hell.

Gemme. A iewell.

Genealogie. A pedegree;
a declaration of ones li­
nage, stocke, or race.

Generable. Which may
be begotten.

Generate. To beget.

Generositie. Noblenesse
of minde, Gentlemanlike
courage.

Generous. Noble, vali­
ant, vertuous.

Genesis. A generation.
The first Booke of Moyses
is so called in Greeke and
Latine, because it decla­
reth the creation and ge­
neration of all things.

Genet. A goodly horse
of Spaine.

Genets. A beast almost
of the bignesse of a Cat
breeding in Spaine. There
are two colours of them,
blacke and gray; but the
furre of the blacke is most
esteemed.

Genius. The spirit or
soule: A good Angell, or
a familiar euill spirit.

Gentill. Among the
Iewes, all were Gentiles,
that were not of one of
the twelue Tribes: now
we commonly call them
Gentiles, that professe not
the faith of Christ.

Gentilisme. The opinion
or beleefe of the Gen­
tiles.

Gentilitie. The same that
Gentilisme is.

Geographie. A descripti­
on of the earth, as we see
in Maps.

Geomancie. See Diuina­
tion.

Geometrie. An art of
due proportion consisting
in lineaments, formes,
distances, and greatnesse.
There are foure principles
hereof: to wit, 1. A prick
or point: 2. A line. 3. a
superficies or outside: 4. a
bodie. This art was of
great estimation among
the auncient Grecians.

Geometrician. One skil­
full in Geometrie.

Georgikes. Bookes trea­
ting of husbandrie and til­
lage of land.






* Gerifull. Changeable:
sometime cruell.

* Gesseran. A breastplate.

Gesticulation. A moo­
uing of the fingers, hands
or other parts, eyther
in idle wantonnesse, or to
expresse some matter by
signes, in dauncing, sing­
ing, or other such like ex­
ercise.

Gestes. Deeds, noble acts.

Geules. A tearme among
Heralds: It signifieth a
vermilion colour.

* Gippon. A doublet: a
light cote.

* Gipsere. A bagge or
pouch.

Girle. A Roe Bucke of
two yeares.

* Gisarme. A certaine
weapon.

* Gite. A gowne.

Giue. A fetter or chaine.

Glaiue. A weapon like an
Halberd.

* Glede. Fire: embers;
flame, ashes: sometime a
bird called a Puttoke.

* Glee. Mirth or ioyful­
nesse.

* Gleire. White.

* Glinne. A little vil­
lage, or part of a Village.

Glister. A liquour made
sometime with sodden
flesh, sometime with deco­
ction of hearbes or other
thinges, which by a pipe,
is conueyed into the lo­
wer parts of the body. It
is written that the vse
hereof was first learned
from a Bird in Egypt, cal­
led Ibis, much like vnto a
Storke, which Bird doth
often with her bill, open
her hinder parts, when
nature of her selfe dooth
not expell what is neede­
full.

Globe. A great round
Bowle: or a description of
the world made in such a
forme.

Glosse. A short expositi­
on of any darke speech.

Glow. To be hot and red,
to shine, to burne.

* Gnarre. A hard knot
in wood: sometime a
short thicke fellowe, a
chub.

Gnathonicall. Flattering;
deceitfull in words: soo­
thing ones humour, to get 
by him.

* Gnoffe. A Foole, a
Churle.






Goldfoile. A thin leafe of
gold.

Golden number. A num­
ber which changeth euery
yeare, by adding one to
the golden number of the
yeare going before, vntill
it grow as high as nine­
teene, and then the gol­
den number returneth to
one againe. For example,
this yeare 1616. the gol­
den number is two: the
next yeare therefore it will
be three, &c. This golden
number was deuised to
finde out the feast of Ea­
ster.

Golgotha. A Syrian
word, signifying, a place
of dead mens sculles. It
was a place at Hierusalem
on the North side of
Mount Sion, so called be­
cause there lay the sculles
of offenders put to death.

* Golierdise. Hee that
hath a fowle great mouth.

Gomor. The name of an
Hebrew measure, contey­
ning more than a Gallon.
The Israelites when they
were fed from Heauen
with Manna in the desert,
receiued euery one, this
measure full for a daies al­
lowance.

* Gonfennon. A little
flag.

Gordian knot. A knot
which cannot be loosed.

Gorgon. A terrible figh­
ting Woman. Poets feine,
there were foure such,
Daughters to King Phor­
cus: their names were
Scylla, Medusa, Stenio, and
Euryale.

Gossomar. Things that
flye like Copwebs in the
ayre.

Gourmand. A glutton.

Gourmandize. Gluttony:
sometime to eate like a
Glutton.

Graces. A poeticall fic­
tion of three Sisters, sup­
posed the Daughters of
Iupiter and Venus. They
were called Aglaia, Thalia,
and Euphrosyne. The mo­
ralitie of this inuention
was, to expresse the mutual
loue and cheerefull con­
uersation which ought to
be amongst friends: For
they were painted naked,
to signifie that friendship
ought to be plain without
dissimulation; smiling and






merry, to shew that men
should do good willingly;
yong & maidenlike, to teach
that friendship should con­
sist in honest things; and
holding hands together in
a round ring, to shew that
a benefit bestowed, dooth
againe returne to the gi­
uer.

Gradation. A going by
steps, or a speaking by cer­
taine degrees.

Gradual. That which
was said or sung, betweene
the Epistle and the Gos­
pell.

Graduate. He that hath
taken degree of learning
in a publike Vniuersity.

Graines of Paradise. A li­
tle seede, brought out of
Armenia, of a strong sweet
smell, and somewhat sharp
in taste. It is hot and dry,
of a subtill substance, and
often vsed in Physicke. For
it warmeth the inward
parts, and is good against
the falling sicknesse, the
Sciatica, the Strangurie,
bytings of venomous
beasts, and diuers other
diseases.

* Grame. Sorrow, mis­
hap: anger.

Gramaticall. Of, or be­
longing to Grammer.

Granadillia. A fruit like
a Pomegranat growing in
India.

Grand. Great.

Grandour. Greatnesse.

* Graythed. Deuised.

* Gratch. Apparell.

Gratefull. Thankfull.

Gratifie. To pleasure one,
to offer one a kindnesse.
To do a good turne.

Gratification. A pleasu­
ring of one, a good turne.

Gratis. Freely, without
cost.

Gratitude. Thankfulnes.

Gratuitie. A benefit or
gift giuen onely for good
will: sometime thankful­
nesse, or a reward.

Gratulate. To signifie
that we reioyce at the pros­
perity of another.

Gratulation. A reioycing
for anothers good. A
thanksgiuing.

Grauitie. Heauinesse: al­
so sagenes, great discretion.

Graund Sergeantie. An
old tenure in the Com­
mon Law, when a man
holdes lands or tenements
of the king, to go with him






into the warres, or to beare
his banner, leade his host,
or doe some such like ser­
uice.

Graunge. A village, or lone
house in the countrey.

* Gree. Good part.

Griffine. A strange Bird
in India, with foure feete
armed with cruell clawes,
being from the breast vp­
ward fashioned like an Ea­
gle, but of purple colour,
with red fierie eies, and
whitish wings, and in the
hinder part blacke, made
much like a Lyon. This
bird neasteth in the high
mountaines, and is excee­
ding hard to be taken, ex­
cept very yong; for he wil
aduenture on any man, &
is so fierce, that hee often
killeth Elephants and Dra­
gons. He is most enemy
to horses: for which cause
Virgill in his eight Eclog,
bringeth in the sheppheard
Damon, who wondered at a
strange marriage, speaking
thus: Iunguntur iam gry­
phes equis:&c. The Grif­
fins fierce are ioyned with
horses now.

* Grith. Agreement.

Gruell. Potage.

Guacatane. An herbe
growing in the west Indies
of great vertue against the
piles, or griefes proceeding
from colde or windinesse.

Guaiacum. A wood cal­
led by some Lignum vitæ.
It is much vsed in physicke
against the French disease.

Guaiauas. A fruit grow­
ing in India much like vn­
to apples.

Guerdon. A reward.

Guerdonles. Vnrewarded.

* Guerring. Brawling.

Gumme Arabicke. A kind
of gumme, growing on a
thorne tree, called Acacia
in Egypt.

Guzes. The ball of the
eye. A terme in heraldrie.

Gymnosophists. Certaine
Philosophers in India, that
went alwaies naked, and li­
ued solitarie in woods; the
first beginner of which
sect, was (as S. Hierome wri­
teth cont. Iouinian.) na­
med Buddas.

* Gyre. A trance.


H
HAberdepoise. A pound
weight which contei­
neth sixteene ounces.






Habit. The outward at­
tire of the bodie, whereby
one person may be distin­
guished from another; as
the habit of a Gentleman,
is different from the habit
of a merchant, and the ha­
bit of a Handi-crafts man
differing from them both.
Sometime it signifieth a
qualitie in the bodie or
minde, not naturall, but
gotten by long custome, or
infused by God: as an O­
rator still exercised in ma­
king orations, hath gotten
a habit of eloquent spea­
king; and the holy Apo­
stles had a habit to vnder­
stand and speake languages
without studie.

Habitable. which may be
dwelled in.

Habitation. A dwelling
place.

Habituall. Growne to a
habit by long custome.

* Hailse. Charge.

* Haine. Hatred.

* Haketon. A sleeuelesse
iacket.

Halituous. Vaporous,
thin, moist, which may be
voided out by the pores.

* Halse. A necke.

* Halke. A corner, a val­
ley.

* Hameled. Cut off, aba­
ted.

Hamkin A pudding made
vpon the bones of a shoul­
der of mutton, all the flesh
being first taken off.

Hamlet. A village in the
countrey.

Hague. A hand-gunne
of about three quarters of
a yard long.

Haguebut. A gunne or
harquebuse.

Harbinger. One that ta­
keth vp lodging for others.

Hariant. A tearme in
herauldry when a fish is
painted standing vpright.

Harmonie. Delightfull
musicke of many notes.

Harmonious. Sweete, plea­
sant, delightful to the eare.

Harpyes. A poeticall
word. It signifieth certaine
monstrous birds, with mai­
den faces, & crooked sharp
talons, so called because of
their rapine which they
vsed. They liued in Stym­
phalis a lake of Arcadia,
and were sent by the Gods
(if wee beleeue Poets)
to snatch away and defile






the meate of Phineus, king
of that countrey, because
he at the perswasion of his
second wife, had destroyed
the children which he had
by his first; they were at
last driuen away by Zetus,
and Calais the sonnes of
of Boreas.  These Harpyes
were named, Aello, Ocypete,
Celeno, and Thyella.

Harquebuze. A hande
Gunne.

Harquebuzier. He that
shooteth in a hand Gunne.

* Harrow. An old word
signifying, away, fie.

Haubergion. A coate of
male.

Hauoire. Possession.

* Hauselins. Breeches.

* Hawbacke. To returne.

Hawberke. A Gorget.

Hearse. A buriall coffin
couered with blacke.

Hecatombe. A great sa­
crifice wherein were offe­
red a hundred beastes.

Hecticke. A Feuer infla­
ming the Heart, and soun­
dest parts of the body.

Heisugge. A bird which
hatcheth the Cuckooes
egges.

Hemisphere. Halfe the
compasse of the heauens:
that part of the heauens
which is still visible to vs.

Hemistich. Halfe a verse.

Hemorrhodes. A swelling
of veines in the funda­
ment like werts: whereof
some doe vse to bleede of­
ten, and some bleede not at
all. They are caused by
superfluitie of grosse me­
lancholy blood, sent to
these parts from the li­
uer, beeing many times
healthfull to the patient,
by preuenting other disea­
ses; and therefore ought
not hastily to be stopt, vn­
lesse through continuance,
the body bee too much
weakened by them.

Henchman. A page of
honour, neere attendant to
a Prince, or other great
personage.

* Hend. Gentle.

* Hent. To catch or lay
hold of.

Herbage. Pasture, or the
feeding of cattel in pasture

Herball. A booke of the
nature of herbes.

Herbinger. See harbinger.

Hereticall. Obstinate in
a false beleefe, belonging
to an Heretick. 






Heretike. He that maketh
his owne choice, what
points of religion he will
beleeue, and what he will
not beleeue.

Hereditarie. That which
commeth to one by inhe­
ritance.

Heriot. The best liuing
beast which a Tenant hath
at his death, which in some
Mannors is due to the
lord of whom the land is
holden.

Hermaphrodite. Of both
natures: which is both
man and woman.

Hermite. One dwelling
solitarie in the wildernesse
attending onely to deuo­
tion.

Hermitage. A lone house
where an hermite dwelleth.

Hermodactiles. Little roots
white, and round, solde by
Apothecaries. They are
hot and dry in the second
degree, and are much vsed
against all gouts, purging
slimie fleame from farthest
parts of the body: but they
must be taken with Gin­
ger, Anniseed or Cum­
min, and a little Masticke,
or else by stirring windi­
nesse, they will ouerturne
the stomacke.

Heroes. Great Noble
men.

Heroycall. Noble, hono­
rable, couragious.

Heroike. The same, as
Heroicall.

Hests. Commandements
or decrees.

Heteroscians. Any people
dwelling vnder a tempe­
rate Zone: so called be­
cause their shadowes at
noone bend still but one
way.

Hew. Colour.

Hewte. A little copse or
groue.

Heyward. A bailiefe, or
officer hauing charge to
looke to the fieldes.

Hiacinth. See Hyacinth.

Hide of land. Some affirme
it to be a hundred acres.

Hidage. A taxe or pai­
ment for eueryhide of land.

Hidebound. A disease in
cattell when the skin clea­
ueth to their sides.

Hideous. Terrible, vgly.

Hiena. See Hyena.

Hiera picra. A bitter con­
fection made of Aloe succo­
trina, & other simples, often






vsed in Phisicke to purge
Choler out of the sto­
macke.

Hierarchie. The holy or­
der of Angels, which con­
teining nine degrees (as
some affirme) is a mystical
resemblance of the B. Tri­
nitie, there being in nine,
thrice three, and in euery
three thrice one. So that
there are three supe­
riour, three inferiour, and
three middle degrees
The superiour are Sera­
phines, Cherubines, and
Thrones; the middle, Do­
minations, principalities,
Powers: The inferior, ver­
tues, Archangels, and An­
gels.

Hieroglyphikes. A darke
mysticall kind of writing,
vsed chiefely in times past
among the Pagane priests
and learned men of Egypt
to hide their knowledge
from the vulgar sort. This
writing was by making the
formes of beastes and di­
uers other figures, and
could hardly bee vnder­
stood without exposition,
or great knowledge in the
nature of things. For ex­
ample: Eternity or euerla­
stingnesse, they expressed
by a round circle, which
hath no end: A king, by
a scepter with an eye in
the toppe thereof: A mat­
ter of haste, by a Dolphin, the
swiftest of all fishes. And a
matter of deliberation or
aduice, by an Anchor,
which stayeth a ship in the
waues. With a thousand
such deuices, not subiect to
common capacities to find
out.

Hight. Was named.

Hillocke. A little hill.

Hin. An Hebrew mea­
sure of moist things, con­
taining (by Agricolas ac­
count) foure pottles and a
quart of ours.  Santes Pangni­
nus affirmeth it to con­
tain, threescore and twelue
egges.

Hip. The red berry on
the bryer.

Hipocrite. See Hypocrite.

Historian. A writer or
teller of a History.

Historicall. Of or belong­
ing to a History.

Historiographer. A wri­
ter of Histories.

Historiologie. The know­






ledge and telling of old
Histories.

Hoane. A fine kind of
whetstone.

Hogsteere. A wilde bore
of three yeeres old.

Holocaust. A sacrifice
wherein the whole beast
is offered, and no part re­
serued.

Hole. A groue.

Homage. In Court Ba­
rons, the Iury that are
sworne to enquire of mat­
ters, are so called. It signifi­
eth also a seruil ceremony,
of duty by some Tenants
to their Lords, after this
manner. The Tenant that
holdeth Landes by ho­
mage, kneeling on both
knees before the Lord
(who sitteth and holdeth
the Tenants hands be­
tweene his) saith as follow­
eth.

I become your man, from
this day forward, of life
and member, and of earthly
honour, and to you shall bee
faithfull and true, and shall
beare to you faith for the
Lands I claime to hold of
you, sauing the faith that I
owe to our Lord the King.
And then the Lord sitting
must kisse the Tenant.

Homager. One that doth
or oweth homage.

Homicide. A manslayer:
sometime manslaughter.

Homilie. A talking toge­
ther: a speech, or a Ser­
mon.

Homonymie. A terme in
Logicke, when one word
signifieth diuers things:
as Hart: signifying a
beast, and a principall
member of the body.

Honour point. In Heraul­
dry the vpper part of a
Scutcheon is so called,
when the bredth thereof,
is diuided into three euen
parts.

* Hopesteres. Pilots to
guide a shippe.

Horizon. An imagina­
ry line compassing the
lowest part of the heauens
that we can see; so called
because it limiteth our
sight, diuiding the heauens
vnderneath vs, from that
which is aboue. The Sun
rysing and going downe
is euer in this line.

Horologe. A Clocke, or
Dyall.






Horoscope. The ascendent
of ones natiuitie, to wit,
that part of the firmament
which ascendeth from the
East, when a childe is
borne. Astrologers call it,
the first house.

Horride. Terrible: feare­
full to looke on.

Horrour. Great feare or
trembling.

* Horrow. Beastlie; base
slanderous.

Hosanna. An Hebrew
word, which signifieth,
Saue I beseech thee.

Hospitalitie. Entertaine­
ment of strangers, good
house keeping.

Hostage. A pledge left
in warres for performance
of couenants.

Hostile. Of or belong­
ing to an enemie: malici­
ous, harmefull.

Hostilitie. Enmitie: ha­
tred, open warre.

Hotchpot. A terme in
our common Law, when
a daughter which hath had
giuen vnto her any lands
in Frankemarriage, clay­
ming to be coheire after
her fathers death, to other
lands with some sisters,
is constrained to suffer
that part of land, giuen her
before her fathers death,
to bee put in Hotchpot,
that is, to be mingled to­
gether with the landes
whereof her Father dyed
seised, so that an equall di­
uision may bee made of
the whole.

* Howgates. How.

Howsell. To minister
Sacraments to a sicke
man in danger of death.

Howten. To hol­
low.

Hulke. To open a hare
or cony, to take out the
garbage.

* Hulstred. Hidden.

Huke. A Dutch attire
couering the head, face,
and all the body.

Humane. That which
belongeth or may happen
to man.

Humanitie. Gentle­
nesse, courtesie, ciuill be­
hauiour: also manhood
or the nature of man­
kind.

Humide. Moiste.

Humiditie. Moisture.

Humiliate. To make
humble.






Humiliation. A ma­
king lowe or humble.

Humorous. Full of hu­
mors.

* Hurtelen. To thrust,
to prouoke.

Hyacinth. The red, blew,
or yellow lilly: also a pur­
ple flowre called crow­
toes.

Hydra. A monstrous
serpent in the Lake Lerna,
which hauing one head
cut off, had forthwith two
other heads growing vp in
the place. Hercules fought
with this serpent and slew
him.

Hydromancie. See Diui­
nation.

Hydromell. A physicall
sweete drinke, made of wa­
ter and hony.

Hyemall. Belonging to
winter, winterly.

Hyena. A beast like a
Wolfe, hauing a mane
and long haires ouer all
the bodie. It is the
subtillest (as some say)
of all beasts, and will
counterfeit the voice of
a man, to draw sheep­
heards out of their hou­
ses in the night, to the
end hee may kill them.
It is written that hee chan­
geth sex often, being some­
time male, and sometime
femall.

Hymen. A poeticall word,
it is taken for the God of
marriage, sonne vnto Bac­
chus and Venus; and some­
time for a song at a mari­
age feast.

Hymne. A song to praise
God.

Hyperbole. A figure
when one speaketh a great
deale more than is precise­
ly true.

Hyperbolicall. Any thing
spoken aboue all be­
leefe, as in saying, high­
er than heauen, swifter
than lightening, &c. is
called an Hyperbolicall
speech.

Hypocrite. It properly
signifieth one that doth
counterfeite the gesture
of an other man: but
it is commonly taken
for a dissembler, that
with feined holines would
seeme better than hee is
indeede.

Hypoquistidos. In di­
uers hote countries there






groweth a plant called Ci­
stus, hauing about the root
thereof, a certaine Mush­
roome, which being brui­
sed yieldeth a liquor, cal­
led by Apothecaries Hypo­
quistidos. This liquour
(brought hither dry) is
cold of operation, and of
vertue to stoppe all blee­
dings, laskes, and fluxes of
the belly.

Hypostaticall. Belonging
to substance; or that which
consisteth in the substance
of a thing.

Hypotheticall. In Logike,
those propositions, which
haue a coniunction in
them, and so consist of
two parts, are called Hypo­
theticall propositions, as in
saying. If the Sunne be in
our Hemisphere, it is day.

Hysteron proteron. A
Greeke terme, sometime
vsed in derision of that
which is spoken or done
preposterously or quite
contrary. We call it in En­
glish, The cart before the
horse.


I
IAcent. Lying
along.

Iacynth. A precious stone
found in Ethiopia, where
of there are two kindes;
the one of a pale yellow
colour, and the other of a
cleere bright yellow, which
is accounted the better. It
is cold of nature, comfort­
able to the body, and pro­
uoketh sleepe.

Iacobs staffe. An instru­
ment in Geometry.

Iaculatory. That which
is suddenly cast from one,
like a dart.

Iambes. Postes sustei­
ning both sides of the
dore.

Iambeux. Armour for the
legs.

Iasmine. A limmer weake
plant, full of ioynts or
knots, which groweth in
manner of a hedge or
quicklet, and must be stay­
ed vp, as roses and vines
are.

Iasper. A precious stone
of diuers colours; but the
best is greene, transparent
with red veines, and shew­
eth fairest being set in sil­
uer: it is good to stoppe a­
ny issue of blood.

Iasponyx. A precious
stone, white of colour,






and hauing red strakes.

Iazul. A precious stone
of a blew azure colour.

Ibis. A tall strong bird
in Egypt, with a long bill,
which doth much good
there in destroying ser­
pents.

Icleeped. named, called.

* Icond. Learned.

Idea. The forme or fi­
gure of any thing concei­
ued in the minde.

Identitie. The selfe same
thing.

Idiome. The forme of
speech, or propertie of any
language.

Idiote. It is commonly
taken for a foole naturall:
notwithstanding it some­
time signifieth a man vn­
learned.

Ides. Eight daies in eue­
ry month, so called, because
they deuide the month al­
most in the middle. In
March, May, Iuly, and
October, these eight daies
beginne at the eighth day
of the month, and conti­
nue to the fifteenth: in o­
ther months they begin at
the sixt day, and continue
to the thirteenth. Where
note that the last day onely
is called Ides, and the first
of these dayes, the eighth
Ides, the second the seuenth
Ides: that is, the eighth or
seuenth day before the
Ides, and so of the rest.

Idolaster. An Idolater.

Iehouah. The ineffable
name of God, signifying
his diuine essence. The he­
brewes did not vse to reade
this word, when they came
to it in any writing, so
much reuerence did they
beare vnto it; but in stead
thereof they pronounced
Adonai, which signifieth
Lord.

Iesus. A Sauiour.

* Iewise. Reward by re­
uenge, also a gibbet.

* Ifere. Together.

* Ifretten. Deuoured.

Ignoble. Base, that is not
noble.

Ignominie. Shame, re­
proch, infamie.

Ignominious. Shamefull,
vile, reprochfull.

* Jkend. Knowne.

Iliads. A booke written
in greeke by Homer, of the
destruction of Troy.

* Ilke. The same.






Illation. A bringing in
of a matter.

Illaudable. not worthy of
praise.

Illegitimate. Vnlawfull,
not lawfully begotten.

Jlliberall. Not liberall,
miserable, base.

Illiberalitie. Niggard­
nesse: properly in a greate
man, that ouer slightly re­
wardeth a seruice or curte­
sie done to him by his in­
feriour.

Illiterate. Vnlearned, one
that is not acquainted with
letters.

Illude. To mocke, to
deceiue.

Jllusion. A mockerie, a
cunning slight to deceiue
one.

Illuminate. To enligh­
ten.

Illumination. A shining 
or giuing of light.

Jllustrate. To make fa­
mous, or noble.

Illustration. A making
famous or noble.

Illustrious. Famous, no­
ble, very honourable.

Imagerie. Painted or
carued workes of images.

Jmaginarie. That which
is conceited in the minde.

Imbecillitie. Weakenesse.

* Imeint. Mingled.

Imitate. To follow.

Imitation. A following.

Imitator. A follower of
another.

Jmmaculate. Vndefiled,
pure, vnspotted.

Jmmanitie. Crueltie, out­
ragious, fiercenesse.

Jmmarcessible. Vncor­
ruptible.

Immature. Vnripe.

Immaturitie. Vnripenesse.

Immediate. That which
commeth directly from
one thing to another, with­
out any thing betweene.

Immedicable. Which can­
not be healed.

Immemorable. Not wor­
thy to be remembred.

Immense. Vnmeasurable,
which cannot be measu­
red.

Immensitie. Exceeding
greatnesse, vnmeasurable­
nesse.

Jmmoderate. Vnreasona­
ble, contrarie to modesty.

Immodest. Not sober, vn­
mannerly, saucy.

Immolate. To offer in sa­
crifice.






Immolation. An offering
of sacrifice.

Immortall. Not subiect to
death: euerlasting.

Immortality. Euerlasting­
nesse.

Jmmunitie. Freedome,
or discharge from any
publike businesse.

Jmmure. To shut vp, or
inclose in a wall.

Immutable. Vnchange­
able.

Immutation. A change.

Impacted. Thrust hard
together: couched in­
to.

Imparitie. Vnequalnesse,
vnlikenesse.

Imparlance. When a man
sued in the common law,
for debt, trespasse, or such
like, craueth and obtai­
neth of the Court, some
respite of time, before hee
make his answere, this
stay of making his an­
swere, is called an Impar­
lance.

Impassibilitie. A Free­
dome from any abilitie of
feeling paine.

Impassible. Which can­
not feele any paine, or pas­
sion.

Impeach. To harme, to
hinder.

Impeachment. A hinde­
rance.

Impeachment of waste.
 A restraint from making
waste in landes, or Tene­
ments.

Impediment. A hinde­
rance.

Impell. To thrust on, to
constraine.

Impenetrable. So hard
that it cannot bee pier­
ced.

Imperious. That com­
mandeth with authoritie:
Lordlike, stately.

Impertinent. Not belon­
ging to the matter.

Impetrable. Which may 
be obtained.

Impetrate. To obtaine.

Impetuous. Violent: or
hasty.

Impietie. Wickednesse.

Impious. Wicked.

Implacable. Hard to bee
pacified, or that cannot be
appeased.

Implicite. Wrapped vp,
hidden.

Implore. To beseech, to
entreat with teares.

Importance. The weight






or valew of a thing.

Important. Of great
weight and valew.

Importune. To vrge ear­
nestly.

Importunate. Very ear­
nest: which will not bee
answered.

Importunitie. Vnreasona­
blenesse: too much ear­
nestnesse in asking.

Impose. To lay on.

Imposition. A laying on.

Impost. Custome or tal­
lage paid at Hauen townes
or elsewhere.

Impostume. A quantitie
of euill humours, gathered
into one part of the body.
There are two kinds here­
of. One when inflamed
blood, beeing turned to
corrupted matter, filleth
some place: the other
when without any inflam­
mation, nature thrusteth
those humours into some
part apt to receiue them.

Imposture. Deceit, cou­
senage: properly in sel­
ling counterfet wares for
currant, or in craftie illu­
sions done by Sorcerers,
Egyptians and Iuglers.
The party so deceiuing
is called an Impostor.

Impotency. Weakenesse.

Impotent. Weake, Fee­
ble.

Imprecate. To curse and
wish euill.

Imprecation. A cursing, a
wishing euill.

Impregnable. That which
cannot be taken or ouer­
come.

Impresa. A deuice pain­
ted vpon a shield.

Impresse. To import the
forme of a thing.

Imprimis. First of all.

Improbabilitie. Vnlikeli­
hood.

Improbable. Vnlikely to
be true; that which can­
not be proued true.

Improbitie. Naughtinesse,
lewdnesse, dishonesty.

Impropriation. A parso­
nage, or Ecclesiasticall li­
uing comming to one by
inheritance.

Improoue. To raise rents
higher.

Improuidence. Want of foresight.

Improuident. Which fore­
casteth not, or taketh no
care what shall come af­
ter.






Imprudence. Foolishnesse,
want of wit.

Imprudent. Vnwise, not
discreet.

Impudence. Shameles­
nesse.

Impudent. Shamelesse,
past shame.

Impugne. To assault, or
fight against.

Impulse. To con­
straine.

Impulsion. A con­
straint.

Impunitie. Lacke of pu­
nishment.

Impuritie. Vnclean­
nesse.

Impute. To lay to ones
charge: to ascribe.

Imputation. An impu­
ting or laying by coniec­
ture to ones charge.

Imputatiue. Which is im­
puted to one.

Inaccessible. Which can­
not bee come vnto, vn­
approchable.

Inanitie. Emptinesse.

Inaugurate. To dedi­
cate, or consecrate.

Inauspicious. Vnluckie,
vnfortunate.

Incantation. A charme.

Incapable. Which can­
not conceiue or con­
teine.

Incendiary. He that bur­
neth or setteth any thing
on fire.

Incense. To inflame, to
stirre vp to anger: being
a nowne it signifyeth the
best frankincense.

Incest. Carnall know­
ledge betweene neere kin­
dred.

Incestuous. Wicked,
which committeth In­
cest.

Inchepinne. The lower
gut of a Deere.

Incident. That which
happeneth or belongeth
to a thing.

Incision. A cutting: A
terme vsed in Chirurgerie,
when they launce a wound,
the better to come to the
bottome; or any impo­
stume, or such like to let
out euill humours.

Incite. To stirre vp.

Incitation. A stirring
vp.

Inclemencie. Vngentle­
nesse; cruelty.

Include. To containe, to
shut in.

Inclusiue. Which con­






taineth, or is contained.

Incoact. Vnconstrained.

Incompact. Slight, not
close ioyned.

Incompatible. Disagree­
ing: vnreconcileable: al­
so mischieuous: not suf­
ferable.

Incomprehensible. Which
cannot be comprehended
or conteined.

Inconcinnitie. Vnaptnes:
ill agreeing, disproportion.

Incongruitie. Disagree­
ment: false speaking, dis­
proportion.

Incongruous. Disagreea­
ble: absurd; against rule
of Grammar.

Inconsiderate. Foolish,
vndiscreete,

Inconsideration. Foolish­
nesse: vnaduisednesse.

Inconsolable. Comfort­
lesse.

Incontinent. Vnchaste:
also forthwith, by and by.

Incorporate. To mixe two
or moe substances toge­
ther.

Incorrigible. That which
cannot be corrected or a­
mended.

Increate. Which is not
created or made.

Incredibilitie. Impossibi­
lity of beliefe.

Incredible. Which can­
not be beleeued.

Incredulity. Want of be­
leefe.

Incredulous. One that
will not beleeue.

Increment. An increase.

Incressant. A terme of
Herauldry, signifying the
Moone past the prime,
and not yet come to the 
full.

Incroch. See Encroch.

Incubus. The night mare,
when a man in his sleepe
supposeth he hath a great
weight lying on him, and
feeleth himselfe almost
strangled; in such sort
that he cannot turne him­
selfe nor sit vp, nor call for
helpe. The vulgar thinke
it some spirit, but the Phi­
sitions affirme it to bee
a naturall disease, caused
by humours vndigested in
the stomacke, which fu­
ming vp to the braine, doe
there trouble the animall
spirits, stopping their pas­
sing into the sinewes, so
that the body cannot
mooue.






Inculcate. To repeat a
thing often, thereby to
make one remember it.

Jnculcation. An often re­
peating, a beating into the
braines.

Inculpable. Blamelesse,
without fault.

Incumbent. Hee that is in
possession of a benefice, or
spirituall liuing.

Incursion. A running in.

Jndecorum. Vncomely.

Indifinite. Not precisely
exprest: vndefined.

Indemnity. Escaping with­
out dammage or hurt.

Index. A Table in a
booke.

Jndico. A stone brought
out of Turkie, wherewith
dyers vse to die blew.

Indiction. The space of
fifteene yeeres, by which
account Charters & pub­
like writings are dated at
Rome: euery yeere still
increasing one, till it come
to fifteene, and then re­
turning to one againe.

Indigence. Want: pouer­
tie.

Jndigestion. Want of di­
gestion: or euill diges­
tion.

Indignitie. Disgrace, dis­
honour.

Indiuiduum. That which
cannot bee diuided: A
terme in Logicke, when
we directly expresse, and
seeme to point to that
thing which we speake of:
as in saying, This horse,
That man: For, although
the words Horse, or Man,
may bee applyed to any
horse or man, yet being so
expresly pointed at, they
cannot then be drawen to
signifie other then those
two.

Indocible. Which can­
not be taught, hard to
learne.

Induce. To bring in.

Jnducement. That which
bringeth or draweth one
in.

Induction. A drawing in:
or a forme of argument
proceeding from particu­
lars to vniuersals.

Indulgence. Gentle­
nesse, too much cocke­
ring.

Jndulgences. Pardons.

Induration. A harde­
ning.

Jndustrie. Diligence:






painefull endeauours.

Industrious. Diligent:
painefull.

Ineffable. That which can­
not be spoken, vnutterable.

Ineuitable. That which
cannot be auoyded.

Inexorable. Which can­
not be intreated.

Inexperience. Want of ex­
perience.

Inexpiable. So grieuous
that one cannot make sa­
tisfaction for it: vnmerci­
full, deadly.

Inexplicable. Which
cannot bee vnfolded, ope­
ned or declared.

Inextricable. So confu­
sed or difficult, that a man
cannot winde himselfe out
of it.

Infallible. Certaine: sure
wherein one cannot bee
deceiued,

Infamous. Lewd: ill spo­
ken of, base, vile.

Infatigable. Vnwearyed.

Infatuate. To make foo­
lish.

Infecundity. Vnfruitfulnes.

Infelicitie. Vnhappinesse.

Inferior. Lower, more base.

Infernall. Hellish, or be­
longing to hell.

Inferre. To bring in by
way of argument, to con­
clude.

Inference. A bringing in,
or concluding vpon some­
what going before.

Infestation. A troubling,
a molesting.

Infinity. Endlesnesse: vn­
measurablenesse.

Infirme. Weake, feeble.

Infixe. To fasten, or
sticke in.

Inflammation. An infla­
ming: a hot angry swel­
ling.

Inflate. To puffe vp: to
make proude.

Inflation. A puffing vp:
a swelling.

Inflexible. Very hard,
which will not bend.

Inflict. To lay punish­
ment, or some penaltie vp­
on one.

Influence. A flowing in:
most commonly it is ta­
ken for the power which
Planets and Stars haue in
mouing of inferior things.

Information. An instructi­
on, or giuing one to vnder­
stand.

Infringe. To breake: to
transgresse.






Infuse. To poure in.

Infusion. A powring in.
Also a liquor wherein any
medicinable thing is layed
warme to steepe, that the
vertue thereof may passe
into it: Physitions vse
these infusions often, when
they haue to deale with de­
licate persons, that wil not
endure strong medicines.

Ingenerable. Which can­
not be bred or begotten.

Ingenious. Witty: quicke
conceited.

Ingenuous. Gentleman­
like.

Ingot. A small masse or
little wedge of fined gold.

Ingrate. Vnthankfull.

Ingratitude. Vnthankful­
nesse.

Ingredience. A going in:
or that which goeth into
the making of a thing.

Ingresse. A going in.

Ingrosse. To buy vp all
for himselfe: sometime to
write a thing fayre in a
booke.

Ingrosser. One that buy­
eth corn growing, or dead
victuall, to sell againe: ex­
cept it be by retaile, as vic­
tuallers vse, or buying bar­
ly for Malt; Oates for
Oatmeale, oiles or spices.

Ingulfe. To drowne, to
swallow vp.

Ingurgitation. A swilling
or swallowing in.

Inhabitable. Which canot
be dwelled in.

Inherent. Cleauing too, or
abiding in a thing.

Inhibit. To forbid.

Inhibition. A forbidding.

Inhospitable. Harbourles:
not fit to entertaine one.

Inhumane. Cruel, vnman­
like, vnciuill.

Inhume. To bury.

Inhumanitie. Cruelty, vn­
manlike behauiour.

Iniection. A liquor which
Surgeons doe squirt into a
deepe wound.

Inimitable. Which can­
not be followed.

Iniunction. An inioyning
or commanding one to do
a thing.

Innate. Naturall.

Innauigable. That which
cannot be sayled vpon.

Innouate. To make new.

Innouation. A making
new: an alteration.

Inobseruable. Which can­
not be obserued or marked






Inoculate. To graffe a
bud, by cutting a round
hole in the barke of ano­
ther tree, and setting it on
with clay.

Inquisition. A searching.

Inquisitiue. Very desirous
to know: searching or en­
quiring after a matter.

Insatiable. Which can­
not bee satisfied or fil­
led.

Inscription. A title or
note written vpon any
thing.

Inscrutable. Vnsearcha­
ble: which cannot be per­
fectly found out.

Insculpe. To cut or carue
in.

Insensible. Which cannot
bee perceiued: or one so
foolish that he perceiueth
nothing.

Insert. To put in; to
adde.

Insertion. A putting in.

Jnsinuate. To put any
thing into ones mind cun­
ningly and closely: also
by little and little to creepe
into ones fauour.

Insinuation. A cunning
speech to creepe into ones
fauour.

Jnsist. To continue or a­
bide.

Insition. Graffing.

Insociable. Not apt to
keepe company.

Insolencie. Pride.

Insolent. Proud, pre­
sumptuous: also strange
and vnwonted.

Insoluble. That which
cannot be loosed: vnanswe­
rable.

Inspection. A looking in.

Inspersion. A sprinkling.

Inspire. To breathe into;
to put in ones minde.

Inspiration. An inward in­
struction or motion com­
ming from God.

Instance. An example or
similitude brought of a
thing.

Instant. Very earnest: al­
so quicknesse, speedinesse,
present time.

Instaure. To repayre or
builde anew.

Instigate. To stirre vp: to
prouoke.

Instigation. A stirring vp:
a prouoking.

Instinct. A naturall incli­
nation.

Institute. To ordaine, to
appoint: somtime to teach
and instruct. 






Institution. An appoint­
ment, an ordinance: som­
time a teaching or instruc­
tion.

Insult. To vaunt proudly
ouer one.

Insultation. A proud
crowing ouer one.

Insuperable. Which can­
not be ouercome.

Insurrection. A rising of
many together in armes or
disturbance of the peace.

Integritie. Soundnesse;
vpright dealing: honestie.

Intellectuall. Of, or belon­
ging to the vnderstanding.

Intelligence. Knowledge,
vnderstanding: sometime
an Angell or heauenly spi­
rit.

Intelligent. One that vn­
derstandeth.

Intelligible. Which may
be vnderstood.

Intentiue. Which liste­
neth well, and is earnestly
bent to a thing.

Intercede. To step be­
tween, to intreate for one.

Intercept. To take by the
way before it come to him
to whom it was sent.

Interception. A taking of
a thing by the way, to
the let or hinderance ther­
of.

Intercesse.  See Interceed.

Intercession. An intreating
in ones behalfe.

Intercessor. He that intrea­
teth for another.

Intercourse. Passing or
sending one to another.

Interdict. To forbid: to
barre or keepe away.

Interdiction. A forbidding.

Interest. Right, or title:
sometime profite made by
vsurie.

Interfeere. To knock the
legs together in going.

Interim. In the meane
while.

Interior. Inward.

Interlace. To ioyne with­
all, to mixe together.

Interline. To write be­
tweene two written lines.

Interlocution. A speaking
betweene.

Interlude. A Play, a Co­
medie.

Intermission. A leauing
off for a time.

Intermit. To leaue off for
a time, to discontinue.

Intermixe. To mingle
with other things.

Internall. Inward: a ve­






ry deerely esteemed, or fa­
miliar with one.

Interpellation. An inter­
rupting or troubling one
while he speaketh.

Interpose. To put between,
to step in betweene two: to
busie himselfe where hee
needeth not.

Interposition. A putting
betweene.

Interre. To bury.

Interreigne. The space of
time between the old king
and the new.

Interrogation. An asking
a question.

Interrogatiue. Which as­
keth a question.

Interrogatorie. Asking of a
question: a demaund.

Interrupt. To breake be­
tweene, to trouble one as
he is speaking.

Interruption. A breaking
off: a troubling.

Interuall. A distance of
time or place.

Intestate. That dyeth
without making any testa­
ment or will.

Intestine. Bred in the bo­
wels: Intestine warre: Ci­
uill warre.

Intimate. To signifie, or
touch a matter closely.

Intimation. A cunning or
close signifying of a matter

Intire. Whole, sound,
perfect.

Intolerable. Which can­
not be endured.

Intoxicate. To bewitch,
to amaze, or extreamely
dull ones spirit.

Intractable. Stubborne,
which cannot bee ordered
or handled.

* Intresse. Lyning.

Intricate. Wrapped, entan­
gled, hard to bee vnder­
stood.

Intrinsecall. Inward.

Introduct. To leade or
guide in.

Introduction. That which
leadeth or directeth one.

Intrude. To thrust boldly
in.

Intrusion. A thrusting in,
properly into a void tene­
ment, whereto one hath no
right.

Inuade. To set vpon: to
assault.

Inualiditie. Weakenesse,
want of strength.

Inuasion. A setting vpon:
an assault.

Jnuectiue. A sharp speech






made in ones disgrace.

Inueigh. To speak bitterly
against one.

Jnueigle. To allure, to
entice.

Inveloped. Wrapped, co­
uered.

Inventorie. A writing of
the quality and value of a
mans goods.

Inuersion. A turning in,
or a turning vpside downe.

Jnuert. To turne contra­
rie to the right forme.

Inuest. To clothe.

Inueterate. Old, aunci­
ent.

Inuincible. Which cannot
be conquered.

Inuiolate. Safe, whole,
not wronged or broken.

Inuisible. Which cannot
be seene.

Inuite. To request, to
bid to a feast.

Inundation. An ouerflo­
wing of water.

Inuocate. To call vpon.

Inuocation. A calling vp­
on.

Inuolue. To roule vp in a
thing: to couer.

Inuulnerable. Which can­
not be wounded.

Iocund. Merrie, plea­
sant.

Ioynture. Lands or Te­
nements which a man as­
sureth vnto his Wife, for
terme of her life, or other­
wise, in respect of his mar­
rying her.

* Ioleyning. Ioyfull.

* Ionglerie. Iugling.

Iouiall. Noble, excellent;
also  liuely, pleasant, and
merrie.

Ioyeux. Ioyfull.

Irascible. Which hath
power to be angry.

Iris. The Rainebow.

Ironie. A speaking by
contraries, as in calling
blacke, white.

Ironicall. That which
is spoken in iest or moc­
kingly, contrarie to his
meaning that speaketh
it.

Irradiation. A shining 
vpon.

Irrationall. Vnmeasura­
ble.

Irrefragable. Vndenia­
ble.

Irregular. Contrarie to
rule: somtime it signifieth
one not capable of holie
orders.

Irregularitie. A going out






of right rule. In the olde
Canon Law it is taken for
any impediment, which
hindereth a man from ta­
king holy Orders. As if
he be base borne, or noto­
riouslie defamed of any
notable crime, or be may­
med or much deformed, or
haue consented to procure
anothers death, with di­
uers other impediments
too long to be rehearsed in
this place.

Irremediable. Which can­
not be remedied.

Irreparable. Which can­
not be repaired.

Irreprehensible. Which can­
not be reproued.

Irresolute. Not fully re­
solued: vncertaine.

Irreuocable. Which can­
not bee called backe a­
gaine.

Irrision. A mocking.

Irritate. To prouoke: to
moue to anger.

Irritation. A prouoking.

Irruption. A breaking
into.

Isthmos. A narrow part
of a Country between two
seas.

Iterate. To repeate or do
againe.

Iteration.  A doing again,
a doing twice.

* Iub. A bottle.

Iubilation. A great shout
for ioy, a great reioycing.

Iubilie. A publike reioy­
cing or a great shout for
ioy. Among the Hebrewes
euery fiftith yeare, was cal­
led the yeare of Iubilie; for
then were bond-men of
their owne Country made
free, possessions returned
againe to the first owners,
neither was it lawfull to
plant or sow any thing
that yeare. Among Chri­
stians this solemnitie of
keeping a yeare of Iubilie,
was first instituted by Bo­
nifacius the eight, in the
yeare of our Lord 1300.
who ordained that it
should bee obserued euery
hundreth yeare. After this
Clement the sixt, instituted
it to be kept euerie fiftith
yeare. And last, Sixtus
the fourth brought it to
be celebrated euery fiue
and twentieth yeare, be­
ginning it first in the
yeare of our Lord God,
1475.






Iucunditie. Pleasantnes,
mirth.

Iudaisme. The religion
and beleefe of the Iewes.

Iudiciall. Belonging to
iudgement: also wise, graue,
of great iudgement.

Iudicious. See Iudiciall.

Iuiubes. Certaine plumbs
of Italy, solde here by A­
pothecaries. This fruite is
in colour white or red, in
fashion round or like an
oliue, in tast sweete, hauing
a hard long stone like an
oliue stone, but much lesse.
If these plumbes bee kept
long, they waxe drie, and
full of wrinckles. They are
temperate in heate and
colde, and are good a­
gainst the cough, roughnes
of the throate, and against
all exulcerations and in­
flammations of the kid­
neis and bladder: but be­
ing eaten for meate, they
are of hard digestion.

Iulep. A physicall cleere
drinke made of distilled
waters, and sugar, vsed to
coole the bodie, or quench
thirst in hot diseases: some­
time the Iuleps haue sirupes
or other mixtures put to
them.

Iuncture. A ioynt, a ioy­
ning together.

Iuorie. The Elephants
tooth; it is of a binding
nature, and the scraping
thereof is good against
sores, growing vnder the
rootes of the nayles.

Iuridicall. Of or apper­
taining to iudgement.

Iurisdiction. Lawfull au­
thoritie in any place.

Iustification. A iustify­
ing or making iust.

* Iwympled. Muffled,


K
Kalends. See Calends.

Keele. The bottome of
a ship.

Keene. Sharpe edged.

Kell. The caule about
the paunch of a Hart or
Stagge.

* Kemelling. A brewers
vessell.

* Kepe. It is sometimes
taken for care or regard.

* Keynard. A micher, a
hedge-creeper.

* Kitchell. A kinde of
cake.

Kintall. A certaine






weight of about an hun­
dred.

Kirat. An Arabian word
signifying the weight of
three graines.

Kith. Acquaintance.

Kitkaies. The fruite of
the ashen tree: they are
little narrow huskes han­
ging together in clusters,
wherein is contained the
seede of the ashe which is
bitter. This prouoketh v­
rine, and is sought by some
for other purpose.

* Knarrie. Stubbie.

Knight-seruice. An aun­
cient tenure of lands, by
which a man was bound
to beare armes in warre,
for the defence of the
Realme.


L
LAas. A nette or
gynne.

Laborious. Painefull, full
of labour.

Labyrinth. An intricate
building or place made
with so many turnings and
windings, that whosoeuer
went into it, could neuer
get out without a perfect
guide, or a thred to direct
him, the end of which
threed must be tyed at the
doore where he entreth.
Some heathen Princes
bestowed infinite charge,
to build such deuices in a
stately forme. There were
fowre principall labyrinths
in the world. The first in
Egypt, made for a sepul­
cher of one of their Kings,
or (as some write) in ho­
nour of the sunne. The se­
cond in the Iland of Can­
die, built at the comman­
dement of King Minos, by
the ingenious workeman
Dædalus, who tooke his
patterne, from that which
he had seene in Egypt, the
third in the Ile Lemnos,
the fourth in Italy built by
King Porsenna, of great
square stones, for his owne
sepulcher.

Lacca. A kinde of red
gumme, brought out of
Arabia, and solde heere by
Apothecaries, good a­
gainst diseases of the
breast, and comfortable to
the lyuer.

Laudanum. A yellowish
gumme, as some write;






notwithstanding other af­
firm it to be made of a dew,
which falleth vpon a cer­
taine herbe in Greece. A­
uicen sayth, it is taken han­
ging on the haire of Goats
beards, that haue fed vpon
that plant. It is hot and
drie, and sweete of smell, if
it be pure. It is often vsed
in pomanders, and being
annointed vpon the head
with oyle of myrtles, it
doth strengthen the skin,
and keepeth haire from
falling off.

Laike. A lay man.

Laitie. The estate or de­
gree of a lay man, lay men.

Lake. A faire red colour
vsed by painters.

Laire. The place where
any Deere harboureth by
day.

Languishment. A feeble­
nesse, a fainting.

Languor. Feeblenesse,
sicknesse, infirmitie.

Lapidarie. One that sel­
leth or polisheth precious
stones: a Ieweller.

Lappise. A terme vsed
among hunters, when
hounds open their mouthes
on the string, or a grey­
hound in his course.

Larch Turpentine. A kind
of Turpentine or rosen
growing vpon the Larch
tree in Italie, vsed often in
oyntments and emplai­
sters, to cleanse or heale
wounds. It may be also ta­
ken inwardly with honie,
and then it cleanseth the
breast, looseth the belly,
and expelleth the stone
and grauell.

* Larson. Robberie.

Largesse. Liberality.

Lasciuious. Wanton, di­
shonest.

Lasciuiousnesse. Wanton­
nesse.

Lassitude. Wearinesse.

Lastage. Any heauy
weight or balasse, layd in
the bottome of ships to
make them goe vpright: It
is also a terme in the com­
mon law, which signifieth
to be quite of a certaine
payment in faires and mar­
kets, for carrying of things
where a man will.

Latitude. The breadth
of any thing: in Astrono­
my it signifieth the dis­
tance, north, or southward,
from the Equinoctiall line:






or the distance of the Pole
from the Horizon.

Latria. Diuine honour.

Laude. Praise.

Laudable. Worthy of
praise.

Laureate. Crowned with
Laurell.

Laurell. The Bay tree,
or a garland of Bayes.

* Laye. A song.

* Leyuers. Thongs of
lether.

Lazer. A Leaper, a poore
man full of sores and
scabs.

Lazule stone. A blewish
greene stone of the kinde
of marble, vsed sometime
in physicke. It is in operati­
on hot and drie, and being
rightly prepared (accor­
ding to an art knowne to
Apothecaries) is good a­
gainst melancholy diseases,
and by cleansing the bloud
to preserue one from the
leaprosie.

League. Truce, friend­
ship, peace: sometimes it
signifieth a space of three
mile or thereabout.

Leasing. Lying.

Lector. A reader.

* Lectorne. A Deske.

Lecture. A reading, a les­
son.

* Leede. An olde name of
the moneth of March.

Leete. A court or law-day
holden commonly euerie
halfe yeare.

Legacie. Any thing gi­
uen by ones will or testa­
ment.

Legall. Of or belonging 
to the law.

Legate. An Embassadour.

Legend. A story of olde
matters.

Legible. Which may be
read.

Legion. An armie of men.
The Romane Legion con­
sisted of ten bands, wherof
the first band conteyned
1105. footemen; and 123.
horsemen, in which band
the Standard was alwayes
carried. The other nine
bands had euery one 555.
footemen, and 66. horse­
men; so that a Legion made
vp the number of 6100.
footemen, and 726. horse­
men.

* Legisters. Lawyers.

Legitimate. Lawfull, law­
fully begotten.

Legitimation. A making






of one legetimate.

Lenitie. Gentlenes, mild­
nesse, mercie.

Lentils. A kind of small
pulse growing in hot coun­
tries, round and flat, of co­
lour sometimes blacke,
sometimes white, & some­
times browne. Being boy­
led but once, they loose the
belly, but at the second
boyling in another water,
they are of a binding na­
ture, being then good to
stop the bloody flixe or a­
ny loosenesse of the bo­
die.

Lentiske. A tree growing
in diuers hot Countries,
which beareth the notable
Gumme called Masticke:
The leaues and barke of
this tree stop al loosenesse,
and issues of blood what­
soeuer.

Lessee. He that taketh a
lease.

Lesses. Dongue of a raue­
nous beast, as of a Beare,
Bore, &c.

Lessour. He that letteth
lands or tenements to an­
other.

Lethargie. A disease con­
trarie to phrensie: for as
phrensie is caused by hot
humours inflaming the
braine, so is a Lethargie
by cold Phlegmaticke hu­
mours, oppressing the
braine in such sort, that
the Patient can doe no­
thing but sleepe, whereby
he becommeth forgetfull,
with losse (in a manner) of
reason and all the senses of
his body.

Lethe. A Poeticall word,
signifying a feyned Riuer
in hell, the water whereof
being drunken, causeth
forgetfulnesse of all that is
past.

Leucoma. A fruite in In­
dia so called, much like vn­
to a Chestnut.

Leueret. A yong Hare.

* Leuesell. A bush.

Leuitie. Lightnesse.

Lexicon. A Greek Dicti­
onarie for words.

Liable. Subiect to, belon­
ging to.

* Liard. Nimble, wilde.

Libard. A spotted wilde
beast, the male of a Pan­
ther: See  Panther.

Libell. A little Booke:
somtime a defamatorie
scroll, or slanderous wri­






ting or inuectiue written a­
gainst one, without any
knowne name of the Au­
thor.

Libertine. One of loose
life, or carelesse of Religi­
on.

Libidinous. Lustfull, lea­
cherous.

Licenciate. One that hath
studied the Ciuill Law fiue
yeares.

Licentious. Loose, wan­
ton.

Licentiousnesse. Too much
libertie, loosenesse, wan­
tonnesse.

Lieu. In stead or place of
another thing.

Lignum Aloes.  See  A­
loes.

Lignum vitæ. See Guaia­
cum.

Limit. A bound or end.
Also to set bounds.

Limitation. An appoin­
ting of bounds.

Lineall. Downeright like
a line.

Lineament. The forme,
draught, or proportion of
the body.

Linguist. One skilfull in
languages.

Lipothymie. A fainting or
swounding, when the vitall
spirits being suddenly op­
prest, a man sinketh down,
as if he were dead.

Liquid. Thin and moist.

Liquefaction. A mel­
ting.

Liquefie. To melt.

Liquid Amber. A sweete
Rosin brought from the
West Indies, comfortable
to the braine, or any griefe
proceeding from cold cau­
ses.

Lizard. A little beast
much like our Euet, but
without poyson, breeding
in Italy & other hot coun­
tries. The dung of this
beast is good to take away
spots in the eye, & cleereth
the sight. And the head
thereof being bruised and
laid to, draweth out thorns,
or any thing sticking with­
in the flesh.

Litanies. Prayers or sup­
plications, so called of the
Greeke verbe Litaneuo,
which signifieth to beseech
or entreat.

Litargie. The fome that
riseth from lead, when it is
tried. It is cold of opera­
tion, and often vsed by






Surgeons in Oyntments
and Plaisters, being of a
gentle drying, cleansing,
and binding nature. See  
Lethargie.

Literature. Learning:
knowledge in bookes.

Litherlie. Slothfull.

Litigious. Contentious,
full of strife.

Liturgie. Publike seruice
of the Church.

Locall. Of, or belonging
to place.

Locust. A great Flye or
Grashopper with long
legges, breeding in India,
and other hot Countries.
There are two kindes of
them: One with winges,
not good to be eaten, and
the other without winges,
which the inhabitants vse
for food.

* Lodemanage. Skill of
nauigation.

Lodestar. A Starre that
guideth one.

Lodestone. A stone of the
colour of rusty iron, which
hath an admirable vertue
not onelie to draw iron to
it selfe, but also to make
any iron, vpon which it is
rubbed, to draw Iron also.
It is written nothwithstan­
ding, that beeing rubbed
with the iuyce of Gar­
licke, it cannot then draw
Iron, as likewise if a Dia­
mond bee laid close vnto
it. This stone is found in
the Indian Sea, and also
in the Countrey of Tra­
chonitis: It is of greatest
vse in Nauigation, for
by it Saylers finde out the 
certaine course of their
voyage; the needle (in
their compasse) tempered
herewith, still standing di­
rectlie toward the North
and South.

Logician. One skilfull in
Logicke.

Logicke. The art of rea­
son.

Lohoc. A physicall word;
It is a thicke sirupe or o­
ther soft substance, which
must not bee swallowed,
but suffered to melt of it
selfe in the mouth, that
so it may gently slide
downe, and thereby haue
the more vertue against
diseases of the breast, lungs
and throate.

Lone. Lending: somtime
single or solitarie.






Longanimitie. Long suf­
ferance or forbearance.

Longitude. The length
of any thing: In Astrono­
my it signifieth the di­
stance of any Star or Pla­
net from the first degree of
the signe Aries.

Loquacitie. Much talke,
or babling.

* Lore. Learning, know­
ledge.

Lorimer. One that ma­
keth bits for bridles, and
such like instruments.

* Lorrell. A deuourer.

* Losell. A lout, some­
time a craftie fellow.

Losenger. A flatterer, a
Lyar.

Lotion. A washing.

* Louke. A fellow recei­
uer.

Lubricitie. Slippernesse.

Lucerns. A beast almost
as big as a Wolfe breeding
in Muscouia, and Ruscia,
of colour betweene red
and browne, mingled with
blacke spots.

Lucre. Gaine, profit.

Lunacie. A disease wher­
in one is distracted in his
wits, at certaine times of
the Moone.

Lunaticke. Sicke of a Lu­
nacie.

Lupines. A little flat
Pulse almost like a small
beane, but much lesse and
bitter in taste. They be not
very good meate, but are
sometime vsed in Physicke
against worms in children,
and the decoction of them
taketh away spots and frec­
kles of the face.

* Lushbrough. A base coine
in the time of king Edward
the third.

Luster. A shining or great
brightnesse.

Lutum. Clay.

Luxurie. Riotousnesse,
leacherie.

Luxurious. Riotous, wan­
ton, leacherous.

Lyncuris. A bright shining
stone, and sometimes of a
dark yelow colour like Saf­
fron. This stone groweth
of the vrine of the beast
Lynx, being congealed,
which vrine the Lynx hi­
deth (as Plinie writeth) be­
cause men should not find
it. Some say it is good a­
gainst the paine of the sto­
macke, yellow Iaundise, &
loosenesse of the belly.






Lynx. A spotted beast like
vnto a Wolfe, and hauing a
very perfect sight. This
beast breedeth cheefely in
countries of the East, & is
often found in the woods
of Almaine & Sclauonia.

Lyrike. A Poet which ma­
keth verses to be sung vnto
the harp. The best of these
Poets among the Grecians
was Pindarus, and among
the Latines, Horace.


M
MAcerate. To steepe or
soake in water; som­
time to afflict or vexe. To
make leane.

Machil. An Hebrew word;
It signifieth the rich Robe
of the Ephod, worn by the
high Priest of the old law,
hauing about the skirts
therof 72. Pomegarnats of
blew silke, purple & scarlet,
and as many belles of gold
between then round about.

Machination. A deuising or
subtil contriuing of a mat­
ter.

Machiuilian. A politicke
states man: a cunning Po­
lititian, such as Machiuell
was.

Macrologie. Long and te­
dious talke.

Maculate. To blemish or
blot.

Madrigals. A kind of Son­
nets.

Magician. A cunning
man: a Sorcerer, a great
rned Clark, a Coniurer.

Magike. At first this word
signified great learning or
knowledge in the nature of
things; now it is most
commonly taken for in­
chantment and sorcerie.

Magistracie. The bearing
of office: authoritie, rule,
gouernment.

Magnanimitie. Great cou­
rage.

Magnanimous. Noble
minded: one of great cou­
rage.

Magnificence. Sumptuous­
nesse: great port and state­
linesse.

Magnificent. Sumptuous:
honorable, stately.

Magnifico. An honorable
personage.

Magnitude. Greatnesse.

Mainpernours. Those that
are sureties for a man, and
vndertake that he shall ap­
peare at a certine day, be­
fore Iudges in a Court.






Maineprise. The bayling
of a man out of prison,
vpon securitie giuen, that
hee shall be forth com­
ming.

Maior. The greater or
more auncient.

Maladie. A disease.

Malecontent. Not conten­
ted: ill pleased.

Malediction. A cursing.

Malfactor. An euill doer.

Maleuolent. Ill minded:
spitefull, enuious.

Malignant. Enuious, spite­
full, mischeeuous.

Maligne. Spitefull: or to
spite and hate.

Malignitie. Spitefulnesse:
enuy, malice.

Mammon An Assyrian
word of the singular num­
ber, and Masculine Gen­
der, as Saint Hierome affir­
meth: It is interpreted ri­
ches.

Manage. To rule, order
or handle a thing well.

Mandate. A commande­
ment.

Mandragoras. See Man­
drake following.

Mandrake. A strange
hearbe, bearing yellowe
round Apples. The roote 
of this hearbe is great and
white like a Radish roote,
and is diuided into two or
moe parts, growing often
almost like to the legges of
a man. This roote, espe­
ciallie the barke thereof,
is extreamely cold and
drie, euen to the fourth
degree: It is therefore ve­
ry dangerous to receiue
inwardly, for that the least
quantitie too much, will
quicklie kill one. Surge­
ons vse to steepe this root
in {W}ine, and giue it to
bee drunken of such as
they must cut, sawe, or
burne in any part, for the
cold operation thereof
causeth sleepe, and maketh
the body insensible for a
time.

Manna. In holy Scrip­
ture it signifieth a delicate
food, which God sent
from heauen to the Israe­
lites, in manner of a dew,
white and somewhat like
Coriander seede: with
which the Israelites liued
fortie yeares in the Wil­
dernesse, till they came to
the borders of the land
of Canaan. At the first






sending hereof, the peo­
ple were in such admira­
tion, that they said to each
other, Manhu? viz. What
is this? Which seemeth
to be the cause, why it
was after called Manna.
In Physicke it is taken for
a kinde of dew, which fal­
ling in hot countreyes vp­
on trees, doth there con­
geale, almost like to
crummes of whitebread,
and is gathered & choice­
ly kept, as a gentle purger
of choler.

Mansion. A tarying or a­
biding: also a dwelling
house.

Mansuetude. Gentlenes:
mildenesse.

Manuall. Handy: or that
which may be caryed in
the hand.

Manumission. A making
one free from bondage.

Manumitte. To make a
slaue or bondman free,
which was in olde time
thus. The lord of the slaue
holding him by the head,
arme, or other part, saide
before witnesse, I will that
this man goe free, and in
so saying, shoued him
forward out of his hand.

Manure. To till, to dresse
land.

Manuscript. A handwri­
ting: a written booke.

Marchasite. A stone par­
ticipating with the nature
of some mettall, yet in so
small quantity, that the
mettall cannot be melted
from it, but will vapour a­
way in smoake, the stone
turning to ashes. These
Marchasites are common­
ly in colour like to the
mettall mixed with them;
whether it bee golde, sil­
uer, brasse, or any other.
Some affirme a Marcha­
site to be any stone out
of which, fire may be stric­
ken.

Marches. The boundes,
or limits lying betweene
two countreyes, common­
ly betweene Wales and
England, or betweene En­
gland and Scotland.

Marchionesse. A great
Lady: a Wife to a Mar­
quesse.

Marcionists. Olde con­
demned Heretikes, so cal­
led of their first master
Marcion, a stoicke Philoso­






pher, who held a detesta­
ble opinion that Christ
was not the Sonne of
God.

Margarites. Litle pearles
found in the shell fish, es­
pecially in Oisters, where­
of some haue holes in
them, and some haue
none. The best are brought
out of India, yet they are
also found in our English
Seas, as also in the Fle­
mish and Almaine, and
the fairest Margarits grow
in yong shels. Some write
that in Thunder, the Oi­
sters doe cast them vp, as
it were in way of aborti­
on, which is the cause that
they are often found in
the sandes. They are some­
times vsed by Physitions in
cordiall confections, for
they comfort the spirits,
and are therefore good a­
gainst swoundings, hauing
vertue also in them to
stoppe issues of blood, or
any loosenesse of the bo­
dy.

Margent. A brimme, or
border.

Marginall. Written in the
Margent.

Marine. Belonging to the
Sea.

Maritall. Husbandlike.

Maritime. Bordring neere
the Sea.

Marte. A great faire or
Market.

Martiall. Warlike.

Martyr. A witnesse: one
that dyeth for the testimo­
ny of a good conscience.

Martyrdome. A suffering
of death or grieuous tor­
ment for constant perse­
uerance in true religi­
on.

Martyrologie. A historie
of the death of Martyres.
A booke of the memorie
of Martyres.

Massacre. A great slaugh­
ter or murder of many
people together.

Masculine. Of the male
kinde.

Masticke. A white and
cleere Gumme, of a sweet
sauour. This Gum grow­
eth on the Lentiske tree,
especially in the Iland
Chios. It is temperate in
heat, and of a dry binding
nature; wherfore it streng­
theneth the stomacke,
stayeth vomiting, and






stoppeth any issue of
blood. Some doe vse to
rub their teeth herewith,
as well to whiten them, as
to fasten such as bee
loose.

Mastuerco. An herbe in
India, of great vertue to
heale wounds.

Materiall. Which hath
matter or substance in
it.

Maternall. Motherly.

Mathematician. One
skilfull in the Mathema­
tickes: sometime it is ta­
ken in a worse sense, for
one that superstitiously ca­
steth mens natiuities, or
vndertaketh to find things
lost, or foretell what is to
come.

Mathematickes. A terme
applyed to such arts, as
treate onley of quantities
imaginarily abstracted from
bodies. The arts common­
ly so called, are Arithme­
ticke, musicke, Geometry,
Geography, Astronomie,
Cosmography, and Astro­
logy.

Matrimoniall. Belon­
ging to Matrimony or
Wedlocke.

Matrixe. The wombe
or place of conception.

Matrone. A graue mo­
therly woman.

Mature. Ripe.

Maturitie. Ripenesse.

Matutine. Of or belon­
ging to the morning.

Maugre. In despite of ones
heart: whether one will or
no.

Maxime. A principall
matter, a maine point, a ge­
nerall rule.

Maze. An astonish­
ment: sometime a deuice
like a labyrinth made in
some gardens in manner
of a knot, out of which a
man cannot get easily, if he
once enter in.

Mazar. A broad flat stan­
ding cuppe to drinke in:
There is also a kinde
of small Cherries so cal­
led.

Mecœnas. It was the pro­
per name of a noble Ro­
mane, who being in great
fauour with Augustus the
Emperour, was a speciall
friend to the Poets Virgill
and Horace, and generally
a supporter of all learned
men: wherefore sometime






a great friend or patron is
called a Mecœnas.

Mechanicall. Of or be­
longing to handicrafts.

Mechoacan. A whitish
roote brought out of In­
dia, called by some Indian
or white Rubarbe. It is
hot in the first, and dry
in the second degree, and
purgeth all humours of
what kinde soeuer with
much ease. It cleanseth
and comforteth the liuer
and all the inward parts.

Mediate. To deale be­
tweene two, to make
meanes of agreement, as
an indifferent party to both.

Mediation. A meanes of
agreement by a friend to
both parties.

Mediator. He that ma­
keth meanes or speaketh
for another.

Medicable. Which may
be healed.

Medicament. A medicine.

Mediocritie. A meane, a
measure.

Mediterrannean Sea. A sea
which diuideth Europe
from Africa.

Megasine. A storehouse
for warre.

Melancholy. One of the
fowre humours in the bo­
dy, the grossest of al other,
which if it abound too
much, causeth heauinesse
and sadnesse of minde.

Melioritie. A bettering.

Mellifluous. Sweet as ho­
ny.

Membrane. The vpmost
thin skin in any part of the
body.

Memorable. That which
is worthy of remem­
brance.

Memorandum. A terme
often vsed, when we write
of a thing which we would
remember.

Memorial. that which put­
teth one in remembrance.

Mendicitie. Beggerie.

Meninges. Thinne skins
in which the braine is
contained. There are two
such skinnes: one called
by Phisitians, Dura mater,
which is the stronger of
the two, and next vnto the
scull. The other named Pia
mater, is within this first,
being more tender and
fine, and close wrapping
the braine it selfe. If any
of these skinnes bee






wounded, it causeth spee­
dy death.

Menstruous. Which hath
vpon her the monthly
courses, or which belon­
geth to them.

Mensuration. A measu­
ring.

Mentall. That which is
only thought in the mind.

Mercenarie. A hireling:
one that worketh for
hire.

Mercurian. Eloquent as
Mercury was.

Meridian. Of or belon­
ging to noone day, or the
South part of the world.

Merit. Desert, or to de­
serue.

Meritorious. Which doth
much deserue.

Miscias. The same in
Hebrew, that Christ is in
Greeke: to wit, Annoin­
ted. Our Lord and Saui­
our is often so called.

Metamorphise. To change
the outward shape.

Metamorphosis. A change
from one shape to another.

Metaphore. The chan­
ging of a word, from the
naturall sense, into ano­
ther sense like to it: as in
saying, Couetousnesse is the
roote of all euill: Where
the word Root, is called a
Metaphore, because it sig­
nifieth, the cause and be­
ginning of all euill, euen
as a root is the cause, from
whence a Plante sprin­
geth.

Metaphoricall. Spoken by
a Metaphore.

Metaphysikes. Arts which
lifting themselues aboue
the changeable nature of
things, doe consider of
such as doe subsist in their
owne essence, not subiect
to any alteration; so that
the Metaphysickesdealeth
onely with incorporall,
and euerlasting things;
and in this sense schoole
Diuinitie is the highest
part of the Metaphysickes,
being chiefly occupied in
contemplatory knowledge
of God, angels, and soules
of men.

Meteore. Any imper­
fect mixt substance ingen­
dred in the aire; as raine,
snow, haile, thunder,
lightening, blazing starres,
cloudes, and winde: all 
which are made of va­






pours or exhalations
drawen vp from the earth
and Sea, by attractiue ver­
tue of the Sunne.

Meter. Measure, or a
verse made by measure.

Method. A direct way,
to teach or doe any thing.

Metonymie. A figure in
speaking, when the cause is
put for the effect, the sub­
iect for the adiunct, or con­
trarily.

Metropolitan. The chiefe
or mother city: An Arch­
bishop.

Microcosmus. It proper­
ly signifieth a little world.
This terme is sometime
applyed to man, who is
therefore called a Micro­
cosmus or little world, be­
cause his body being com­
pared to the baser part of
the world, and his soule to
the blessed Angels, see­
meth to signifie, that man
is as it were a little world
and that the whole world
doeth resemble a great
man.

Midriffe. A sinewie skin
passing ouerthwarte in
mans body, which diui­
deth the heart and lungs,
from the stomacke, guttes,
and liuer, left the vitall
parts should be offended
with any ill vapour com­
ming from them.

Migraine. A disease com­
ming by fits, either in the
right or left side of the
head; caused by distempe­
rate humours or vapours,
brought thither from the
veines or arteries at cer­
taine times.

Militant. Warring or
which is in warfare.

Militarie. Warlike: or
belonging to Warre.

Mimicall. That which
belongeth to scoffing be­
hauiour, or wanton ge­
sture.

Mimicke. A wanton ie­
ster, a counterfet foole.

Minatorie. Threatening.

Minerall. Mettall or any
thing digged out of the
earth.

Miniature. A small
proportion: a little figure.

Miniuer. A fine white
Furre made of the bel­
lies of Squirrils: some say
it is the skinne of a little
white Vermine, breeding
in Muscouia.






Minor. The lesser, the
yonger.

Minoritie. A mans time
before he be of full age in
the law, to dispose of his
goodes and lands.

Minotaure. A poeticall
monster, halfe like a man,
halfe like a Bull. This
monster was kept in the
Labyrinth of Candie, and
fedde with mans flesh,
where at last he was slaine
by Theseus, as Poets report.

Miscreant. An infidell, a
false beleeuer.

Misprision. An offence
inclinable to fellonie or
treason, but not so capitall,
as fellonie or treason is;
in which the offendour
shall be punished by fine,
losse of goods, forfeite of
lands, during his life, or
perpetuall imprisonment,
according to the quality of
his offence.

Mission. A sending.

Missiue. That which wit­
nesseth ones being sent.

Mistleden. A plant which
hath slender branches, and
greene thicke leaues, grow­
ing neuer vpon the ground
but vpon other trees. The
best is that which groweth
vpon an oake, and the
leaues and fruit hereof are
good to soften and ripen
any colde hard swellings.

Misy. A kind of yellow
copperas, shining like gold,
brought out of Egypt and
the Ile of Cyprus: It is of
a fretting burning nature,
as the common coppe­
ras is.

Mithridate. A great con­
fection like treacle, inuen­
ted by King Mithridates,
from whome it taketh the
name. It is of singular ver­
tue against poison, and
hath so many and strong
simples in it, that it ought
not to be taken inwardly
before it be aboue sixe
moneths olde.

Mitigate. To asswage or
pacifie.

Mitigation. A pacifying,
an asswaging.

Mittimus. A warrant
made to conuey  an offen­
der to prison.

Mixture. A mingling.

Mobilitie. Aptnes to
moue.

Moderate. Measurable,
temperate, also to gouerne






or temper with discretion.

Moderation. A due pro­
portion, temperance, good
discretion.

Moderator. A discreet go­
uernour, he that keepeth
both parties from beeing
too extreame.

Moderne. Liuing now in
our age.

Modicum. A little, a poore
pittance.

Modulation. A pleasant
tuning or sweete singing.

Modwall. A bird which
destroyeth bees.

Moitie. Halfe.

Moleboute. A great fish
which maketh a grunting
noyse when he is taken.

Molestation. A troubling.

Mollifie. To make soft.

Mollification. A making
soft.

Moloch. The name of an
Idoll, in the vally of Ennon,
in the tribe of Beniamin, to
which the Israelites did
abhominably offer their
children, in sacrifice of fire.
This Idoll was made in
the likenesse of a Calfe.

Moment. A minute, a
very little time, sometime
the valew or weight of a
thing.

Momentanie. Of short
continuance, which lasteth
a very little while.

Monarch. A King or
Prince that ruleth alone,
without any equall.

Monarchie. The rule of
one Prince alone, or a
countrey so gouerned.

Monasterie. A religious
house of Monkes.

Monasticall. Solitarie, be­
longing to a Monasterie.

Monition. A warning.

Monologie. A speaking
still of one thing, a long
tale of one matter.

Monomachie. A single
fight betweene two, hand
to hand.

Monopolie. When a man
doth ingrosse or get com­
modities into his hands, in
such fashion that none can
sell them, or gaine by them
but himselfe.

Moote. To argue or rea­
son a case in law.

Morall. Or or belonging
to good manners: some
time one of good behaui­
our: sometimes the mea­
ning of a fable.

Moralitie. Goodnesse of






manners, ciuilitie.

Morgage. To lay house
or land to pawne, in such
sort that they are forfeit, if
the money be not repayed
at a certaine time.

Morositie. Frowardnesse,
waywardnesse.

Morpheus. Sleepe, or the
God of sleepe.

Mortifie. To kill: some­
time to tame, to breake the
courage, or take away ones
delight.

Mortification. A killing,
a pulling away of ones
pleasure.

Mortmaine. A terme in
the Law, when lands were
giuen to a house of religi­
on, or to a company cor­
porate by the Kings grant;
for then such land is said to
come into Mortmaine, that 
is, a dead hand, and by a
statute, the King or Lord
of whom it is holden may
enter into it.

Mortuarie. A payment
due in some places for the
buriall of the dead: which
is foure shillings and foure
pence, where the goods of
the deceased party are a­
boue the valew of twentie
nobles, and vnder thirtie
poundes: sixe shillings
and eight pence, where the
goods exceede thirtie
poundes; and ten shillings
where the goods amount
aboue the valew of three­
score poundes.

Mosaicall. A cunning
kinde of painting, which
seemeth to bee embossed
and grauen in some places.

Mother. A disease in wo­
men, when the wombe ri­
seth with paine vpward. In
this disease the smelling to
all sweet savours is harme­
full, as contrarily the smel­
ling to al strong loathsome
sauours, profitable.

Motion. A moouing from
place to place, or the moo­
uing of a matter to haue it
considered of.

Motiue. A cause moouing
one to any thing.

Motte. A word, or short
sentence.

Mountibancke. A base
deceitfull merchant (espe­
cially of Apothecaries
drugs) that with impudent
lying doth for the most
part sell counterfeite stuffe
to the common people.






Mugwet. See Gather­
bag.

Mulct. A fine or penal­
ty layd on one.

Mullet. A kinde of deyn­
ty fish: it is also a tearme in
heraldrie, which signifieth
a spot descending from
high, and deuided into fiue
corners or ends out of one
drop.

Mummia. A thing like
pitch, solde by Apotheca­
ries. Some affirme it is ta­
ken out of olde Toombes,
being a corrupted humour
that droppeth there from
embalmed bodies: others
say it is made of mans flesh
boyled in pitch. It is hot in
the second degree, and
good against all bruisings,
spetting of bloud, and di­
uerse other diseases.

Mundane. Worldly.

Mundifie. To make
cleane.

Mundification. A making
cleane.

Municipall. Of or be­
longing to the state of a
Free-man or Burgesse of a
Citty.

Munificence. Liberality.

Munificent. Liberal, boun­
tifull.

Munition. Great Ordi­
nance for the warre, great
shot.

Muscle. In physicke it
signifieth a knitting toge­
ther of flesh with veines,
arteries and sinnewes, ser­
uing specially for the moti­
on of some part of the bo­
dy, by reason of sinnewes
in it.

Muses. The feyned god­
desses of poetry, and mu­
sicke, which were nine in
number and daughters vn­
to Iupiter and Mnemosyne:
Their names were Cleio,
Melpomene, Thaleia, Euterpe,
Terpsichore, Erato, Calliope,
Vrania and Polymneia.

Muske. It is brought out
of India and other hote
countries, taken there from
a beast like a Roe, sauing
that it hath two crooked
teeth bending inward like
two hornes; within which
beast the muske groweth,
conteyned in a little bag or
bladder. It is comfortable
to the heart and braine, by
reason of the sweete smell
thereof; beeing hote and
dry in operation: and it






conueyeth the vertues
of diuerse medicines, to
those the two principall
parts.

Mutation. A change.

Mute. Dumbe.

Mutable. Changea­
ble.

Mutabilitie. Changeable­
nesse.

Mutinie. An vprore: a
troublesome assembly of
people together.

Mutinous. Apt to breed
quarrels, or discord a­
mong the people.

Mutuall. That which
passeth one from ano­
ther.

Mutulate. To maime,
cut off, or make lame.

Muzrole. A ring or band
of yron, to come ouer a
horses nose.

Myrobalanes. A fruite
growing in Egypt and Sy­
ria, like Plummes, or
Damsens. There are fiue
kindes hereof, distingui­
shed by these names,
Citrina, Jnda, Cepula,
Emblica, and Bellirica.
They are colde in ope­
ration, and comfortable
to nature; The first of
these purgeth choler,
the second melancho­
lie, and the three last
fleame.

Myrrhe. A Gumme
brought out of Arabia,
and Assyria, of colour
betweene white and red,
It is hotte and drie in the
second degree, or as
some write in the third,
and is often vsed in Phy­
sicke, being of an ope­
ning, cleansing, and dis­
soluing nature. Poets
feine that Myrrhe, first
came by reason of a kings
daughter, named Murrha.
who for a grieuous crime
committed, was by the
Gods turned into a lit­
tle Tree, out of the bran­
ches wherof this Gumme
still droppeth in man­
ner of teares, as a token
of her repentant sor­
rowe.

Myrtle. A little lowe
Tree growing in some
hotte countreyes, hauing
small darke leaues, and
bearing berries, which
are of a binding nature,
good to stop any issue of
blood. This myrtle is a






tender plant, not able to
endure cold, and was wont
to bee worne of the Ro­
mane captaines garland­
wise in triumph, when
they had obtained any
victory, without slaugh­
ter of men: Poets con­
secrated this Tree to Ve­
nus.

Myster. Vnknowen:
strange.

Mysticall. Darke, which
hath a mystery in it.

Mysterious. Darke spo­
ken in a mystery, hard to
vnderstand.


N
NAdir. That point in
the heauens which is
direct vnder our feet.

Naiades. The water
Nimphes.

Naperie. Linnen for the
Table.

Narcoticall. That which
hath power to prouoke
sleepe, or to make the bo­
dy insensible.

* Narre. Neerer.

Narration. A declaration
of the matter whereof
one purposeth to speake.
A report, a discourse.

Natiue. Naturall: That
place where one was
borne.

Naturalize. To make
naturall.

Naue. The middle part
of a wheele.

Nauigable. Any water
where ships may saile.

Nauigation. A sailing by
Sea.

Nauigator. A Sayler: a
Marriner.

Nazarite. In Hebrew
it signifieth a man separa­
ted or diuided. The Iewes
so called those that had
vowed themselues for
some time to God: And
these Nazarites, while
their vow lasted, were to
abstaine from wine and
Grapes, either greene or
dry, and generally from all
whatsoeuer came from the
vine tree, or might make a
man drunke. They also cut
not their haire, by suffe­
red it still to grow, and ob­
serued diuers other cere­
monies. The date of their
vowe being expired, they
presented themselues to






the Priest, who offered a
sacrifice for them; and
then was the Nazarites
haire cutte, and burnt with
the sacrifice. After which
time it was lawfull, for the
Nazarites to drinke wine
as before.

Necromancy. See Diui­
nation.

Nectar. Poets faine it to
be a delicate pleasant li­
quor, which the gods vsed
to drinke.

Nefarious. Very wic­
ked.

Negation. A denying.

Negatiue. A denyall,
or that which denyeth.

Negotiate. To trafike in
merchandise: to follow
much businesse.

Negotiation. A buying
and selling: a trafike of
merchandise.

Neophyte. Any thing
lately planted or set:
wherefore it is often taken
for one, who is newly con­
uerted to the faith: a
nouice, or young lear­
ner.

Nerue. A sinnew.

Neuter. Neither on the
one side, nor the other.
An indifferent partie.

Neutralitie. A retch­
lesse beeing on neither
side.

Nicotiane. The herbe
Tobacco, so called of a
French mans name who
first brought the know­
ledge of this Herbe into
Fraunce.

Niefe. In our common
Law, it signifieth a bond
woman.

Niter. A substance like
Salt, but sometime of a
light red colour. It is hot
and dry, of a strong fret­
ting nature: some take it
to be salt Peter.

Nobilitate. To make No­
ble.

Nocent. Hurtfull.

Nocturne. Psalmes and
Prayers vsed at certaine
houres of the night.

Nocturnall. Belonging to
the night.

Noli me tangere. A dis­
ease by some so called. It
is a peece of flesh growing
in the nostrill, in such sort
that it often stoppeth the
winde.

Nombrill. In Heraldry
it signifieth the lower part






of a scuchion which is di­
uided by the breadth, into
three euen parts.

Nominate. To name, to
appoint.

Nomination. A naming.

Nonage. A childes age,
vnder 21. yeares old.

Nonresidencie. Vnlawfull
absence from the place of
ones charge.

Nonresident. Absent from
his charge, or where hee
ought to dwell.

Nones. In March, May,
Iulie, and October, they
are the sixe dayes, next
following the first day:
In other moneths, they are
the foure dayes next after
the first; but the last of
these dayes is properly cal­
led Nones, and the other
reckoned backeward ac­
cording to the number
distant from the Nones; as
the third, fourth, or fift
Nones. They are called
Nones, because they are iust
nine dayes before the Ides.

Nonplus. No more, a
terme sometime vsed, when
a man can speake no fur­
ther, or make no answer to
an obiection.

Nonsuite. The letting
of a suite fall.

Norroy. One of the He­
rauldes, hauing the same
authoritie beyond Trent
northward, that Clarentius
hath from Trent south­
ward.

Notice. Knowledge.

Notifie. To make
knowne.

Noueltie. Newes, a new
matter.

Nouice. A young lear­
ner, one that hath no expe­
rience.

Nouitie. Newnesse.

Nullifidian. Of no hone­
stie, of no religion.

Nullitie. Nothing.

Numeration. A number­
ing.

Nuncupation. A na­
ming.

Nuptiall. Of or belon­
ging to marriage.

Nutriment. Nourish­
ment.

Nutritiue. Which nouri­
sheth.

Nymphe. A Virgine, a
faire young Maide.








OBdurate. To harden,
also hard, or vnrelen­
ting.

Obduration. A harde­
ning.

Obeliske. A great square
stone, broad beneath, and
rising of an admirable
hight, smaller and smal­
ler, toward the toppe.
There were diuers of these
Obeliskesin Egypt, con­
secrated in honour of the
Sunne: whereof foure
were principall erected
by King Sochis, of two
hundred and fortie yards
high: In time of the Ro­
mane Emperours, many
Obeliskes were likewise
set at Rome.

Obiect. That which is
placed before ones eyes,
or the thing that one la­
boureth to attaine.

Obiection. A laying to
ones charge.

Obiurgate. To chide, to
reprooue sharpely.

Obiurgation. A chi­
ding.

Oblation. A sacrifice, an
offering.

Oblige. To binde.

Oblique. Crooked: o­
uerthwart.

Obliquitie. Crooked­
nesse.

Obliterate. To blotout.

Obliuion Forgetfulnesse.

Obliuious. Forgetfull.

Obloquie. Slander; euill
report.

Obnoxious. Subiect to
danger.

Obscene. Filthy, adhomi­
nable, dishonest.

Obscenity. Filthy talke.

Obscure. Darke.

Obscuritie. Darkenesse.

Obsecrate. To intreate:
to beseech.

Obsecration. A besee­
ching.

Obsequie. A Funerall:
a solemne buryall.

Obsequious. Dutifull:
diligent, seruiceable.

Obseruance. Diligent
heede, or attendance.

Obseruant. Dutifully
watching, diligent.

Obsesse. To beseege: or
compasse about: A man
is said to be obsest, when
an euill spirit followeth
him, troubling him diuers






times and seeking oportu­
nitie to enter into him.

Obsolete. Olde, stale,
growne out of vse.

Obstacle. A hinderance or
lette.

Obstruction. A stopping,
commonly in the bo­
die.

Obtestation. A beseech­
ing.

Obtrectation. A slande­
ring behind ones backe.

Obtrude. To thrust forth,
to cast vpon one.

Obtuse. Dull; blunt.

Occidentall. Of or belon­
ging to the West.

Occurre. To come in the
way: to meete with one.

Occurrent. That which
happeneth or commeth in
the way.

Ocean. The vniuersall
maine Sea, compassing
the greater part of the
earth.

Octanes. Eight dayes
next after some principall
feasts of the yeare.

Ode. A song.

Odious. Hatefull.

Odour. A sweet smell.

Odoriferous. Sweet smel­
ling.

Oeconomie. The know­
ledge of well ordering
matters belonging to
houshould.

Oeconomicall. Of or be­
longing to houshold.

Oecumenicall. Vniuersall:
generall.

Oedeme. A waterish swel­
ling, in the body without
paine, caused by some fleg­
maticke or vaporous hu­
mour, and leauing a hol­
low dent or pit therein, if
one presse it downe with
the finger.

Offensiue. Which offen­
deth.

Officious. Seruiceable:
willing to please.

Officiall. An Officer.

Olibanum. The right
frankincense, which is a
Gumme, growing in Ara­
bia; whereof there are two
kindes: the femall or
smaller frankincense, and
the male, the greater,
whiter, and stronger: of
which Virgill speaketh:
Eclog. 8. Burne Verueine
fatte, and strong male
frankincense. It is hotte
and dry, good for per­
fumes to correct infecti­






ous ayre, and to be put in
plaisters for green wounds.
The weight of two or
three Wheate cornes swal­
lowed downe, doth helpe
digestion, and maketh the
breath sweete. Where note
that the right Olibanum or
Frankincense will burne
like a candle, and that
which is counterfeit con­
sume away in smoake.

Oligarchie. A common
wealth where a few princi­
pall persons gouerne al the
rest.

Olympicke games. So­
lemne games or running,
riding, wrastling, and o­
ther feates of actiuitie,
kept euery fift yeare on a
high hill in Greece, called
Olympus. The reward to
those that ouercame in
these trials, was nothing
but a Garland of Oliue
branches, least couetous­
nesse, rather than vertue
should make men striue for
victorie: which was the
cause that Tigranes Sonne
of Artabanus, seruing in 
the huge army of King
Xerxes, who then inuaded
Greece, said to Mardonius,
who had perswaded the
King to that enterprize;
against what a people haue
you brought vs to fight,
that more esteeme honour
than money? Thinking it
impossible to ouercome
such Nations as were so 
affected.

Omen. A hausening.

Ominous. Hausening: that
which signifieth som good
or bad lucke to ensue.

Omission. A letting slip:
a leauing vndone.

Omit. To forbeare: to
leaue vndone.

Omnipotencie. Almigh­
tinesse.

Omnipotent. Almightie.

Omniregencie. The ha­
uing all authoritie in ones
owne hands.

Onerate. To burden or
ouercharge.

Onyx. A precious stone
found in the Mountaines
of Arabia, of the colour of
a mans naile. Some write,
that it is congealed of a
iuyce dropping from a tree
called Ony ha, which is the
cause that it smelleth sweet
being cast into the fire, as
also that it is often found






with diuers pictures in it,
being easily therein fashi­
oned, before the stone bee
throughly hardened.

Opall. A precious stone
of diuers colours, wherein
appeareth the fierie shi­
ning of the Carbuncle, the
purple colour of the Ame­
thyst, and the greene shew
of the Emerald, very
strangely mixed together.

Operate. To worke.

Operatiue. Which work­
eth, of hath power to
worke.

Ophthalmie. An inflam­
mation or the outer skinne
of the eye, caused by hot
fretting humours flowing
thither.

Opinionate. Bent to his
own opinion: selfewilled.

Opium. The iuice of black
Poppie, sold dry by Apo­
thecaries. It is sometime
vsed in Physicke to make
one sleepe, or to asswage
excessiue paine; but then
it must be mixed with o­
ther things, and giuen with
great discretion; for taken
alone it will cast one into
a deadlie sleepe; beeing
cold and dry in the fourth
degree.

Opobalsamum. See Balme.

Opopanax. A sappe or li­
quor flowing in some hot
Countries out of a Plant
called Panax. It is brought
hither dry, being of a yel­
low colour on the outside,
and white within, it if bee
not ouerstale. It is good a­
gainst cold shiuerings of
agues, & to be drunke with
meade, of such as are squat
or bruised therein.

Oportunelie. Fitly, in due
time.

Oppilation. A stopping.

Opponent. He which ap­
poseth, or asketh questi­
ons.

Oppose. To obiect; to set
one thing against another.

Opposite. Contrarie, or
placed ouer against.

Opposition. A putting, set­
ting, or standing against.

Opprobrious. Reprochfull,
naughtie, wicked.

Oppugne. To resist, to
fight against.

Optike. Belonging to the
sight.

Option. A wish.

Opulencie. Great wealth,
riches.






Or. Gold, or golden co­
lour.

Oracle. An answere or
counsel giuen by God. A­
mong the Gentiles, these
Oracles were but illusions
of the diuel, who answered
for the most part doubt­
fully in Idols, to questions
or demaunds made vnto
him. There were two
such principall places of
Oracles: One of Ammon
or Iupiter, in Lybia, which
was founded vpon this oc­
casion. When Bacchus after
his conquests in India,
came into the hot burning
country of Lybia, and
wanted there water to re­
leeue his Army, it is said
that he praied to his father
Iupiter to helpe him in that
distresse: whereupon there
appeared a Ramme vnto
him, which stamping vpon
the ground with his foote,
caused a fountaine forth­
with to spring in the place.
Bacchus obtaining by this
meanes his desire, built
a temple there of excee­
ding huge greatnesse, in
the middle whereof, hee
erected an Idoll to Iupiter,
in the likenesse of a Ram;
which Idol afterward gaue
Oracles, and was called
the Oracle of Ammon; be­
cause it was situated in a
dry sandie place; for Am­
mos in Greeke signifieth
Sand. The other Oracle
was at Delphi, a Cittie
of Beotia in Greece, where
Apollo was said to giue an­
sweres.

Oratorie. A place to pray
in.

Oratour. One that plea­
deth causes: an eloquent
speaker.

Orbe. Any perfect round
circle hollow in the midst.

Orbicular. Round like an
Orbe.

Orchall. A stone like Al­
lume, vsed somtime by Di­
ers to raise a red colour.

Ordinarie. A Iudge that
hath Ordinary iurisdiction
in Ecclesiasticall causes.

Ordure. Dung, filth.

Orgall. The lees of Wine
dried, vsed by Diers to
make their cloth to drinke
in the colour throughly.

Organical. That which con­
sisteth of diuers substantial
parts and members.






Organist. A player vpon
Organs.

Organ Ling. A kinde of
Ling brought out of the
North Countries.

Orgies. Rude ceremonies
instituted by the Poet Or­
pheus, to bee kept euerie
third yeare in the honour
of Bacchus.

Orient. The East.

Orient Pearles. Glistring
Pearles of great price.

Orientall. Of, or belon­
ging to the East

Orifice. The mouth of a­
ny thing, or the outward
hole of a wound.

Originall. The first be­
ginning. The first of any
thing.

Oringos. Certaine rootes
growing in some places,
neere the Sea side. The
Plant is called Sea hollie,
bearing prickly broad
leaues, and round sharpe
prickly heads, set about
with small sky coloured
floures. These rootes are
very long and deepe into
the ground, of an ashie co­
lour in the outside and full
of ioynts. They vse, scra­
ping of the outer rinde of
these rootes, and pulling out
the pith, to preserue them
by boyling them with Su­
gar or Hony, & a litle Ci­
namon and Ginger; which
preserue is very good for a­
ged people, and such as are
consumed in their bodie,
to nourish them againe.

Orisons. Prayers.

Ornament. A garnishing.

Ornature. A garnishing,
a setting forth.

Ornifie. To garnish.

Orphan. He that wanteth
Father & Mother: friend­
lesse.

Orpment. A soft yellow
kind of Arsenik, like vnto
Brimstone: It is common­
ly taken for Rats-bane.

Orthodoxall. That which
belongeth to a true and
right faith, or Religion.

Orthographie. The art of
writing words truely; as
Sonne of man, with an O:
Sunne that shineth, with the
vowell V.

Orthographist. Hee that
professeth or is skilfull in
Orthographie.

Osanna. See Hosanna.

Osprey. A kinde of raue­
nous Fowle, which houe­






reth ouer pooles to take
Fish.

Ostentation. Boasting;
vaine craking or vaunting.
A proud letting forth to
shew.

Ostiarie. An officer ha­
uing authority to keep vn­
worthy persons out of the
Church.

Ostracisme. A banish­
ment among the Atheni­
ans for ten yeares, so called
because they vsed to write
the names of the party so
condemned, in Oyster
shelles. This punishment
was cheefely vsed, to abate
the ouergreat power of no­
ble men. 

Ouall. A long round cir­
cle made like an egge. such
as pictures are sometimes
drawne in.

Ouerture. An ouerturning,
a sudden change.

Oxgang. Thirteene acres
of land.

Oxymell. A sirupe made
of Hony, Vineger and wa­
ter, good to cut and clense
grosse flegmatick humors:
sometime there are boy­
led certain roots and seeds
with it; and then is it cal­
led Oxymel compositum:
sometime it is made with
Hony, Vineger, and the
Sea Onion, and then it is
named Oxymel Scylliticum:
which also is of two sorts,
to wit, simple and com­
pound.


P
PAcal. A tree in India
so called.

Pacification. An appea­
sing or pacifying.

Pacificatorie. Which ap­
peaseth or pacifieth.

Pact. A bargaine.

Page. A written side of a
leafe of paper.

Pagan. A Heathen: an
infidell.

Paganisme. The beleefe
of the Pagans.

Paico. An hearbe in In­
dia, good against the griefe
of the stone in the Kid­
nies, which commeth of
windinesse or cold cau­
ses.

Palate. The vpper hollow
part of the mouth, where­
in lieth the sense of tasting,
as in the tongue.






Palestricall. Of, or be­
longing to wrastling. Also
that which is done decent­
lie with comely gesture of
the body.

Palinode. A recantation
or denying of an opinion
formerly maintained.

* Palliard. A Whoore­
monger.

* Palliardise. Whoore­
dome.

Palliate. To cloke, to co­
uer.

Pallizado. Great postes
set vp in the entry to a
Camp, for a defence a­
gainst great shot.

Palme. The tree which
beareth Dates, growing
plentifully in the holy
land. There are of these
trees found also in some
parts of Egypt, but they
beare no fruit, or if they
beare any it is vnpleasant.
The branches of this tree,
were wont to be carried as
a token of victory, because
they are of that nature, that
they will stil shoot vpward,
though oppressed with ne­
uer so great weight, & the
leaues thereof neuer fall.
Of this tree there is male
and female: the male bea­
reth only blossomes & no
fruit, but the female beares
both. In old times, some
people vsed to write with
Paper, made of leaues of
the Palme tree.

Palmer. A poore Pil­
grime, that visiteth all ho­
ly places.

Palmister. He that tel­
leth ones fortune by loo­
king in his hand.

Palmistrie. See Diuination.

Palpable. That which
may bee felt with the fin­
gers: manifest, notorious.

Pamphlet. A little booke.

Pandar. A base fellow
that keepeth or attendeth
vpon Harlots.

Pandect. A booke trea­
ting of all matters: also
the Volume of the Ciuill
Law called Digests, is so
called.

Panegyricall. That which
is spoken flatteringly in
praise of some great per­
son: Also it signifieth,
stately, honorable, magni­
ficent, or a speech made of
many great matters toge­
ther.

Panther. A fierce wilde






beast, hauing a sweet smel,
and a faire spotted skinne,
wherewith shee allureth o­
ther beasts to looke on
her; hiding her head lest it
should make them afraid,
and by this meanes, getteth
her prey more easily. The
male of this beast is the li­
bard. The panthers (as is
written) haue on their
shoulder a spot, which
groweth and waineth like
the moone. This beast is so
feareful of the Hyena, that
in his presence shee dareth
not doe any thing; in so
much that if one haue but
a peece of the skinne of a
Hyena, the panther will
not touch him, and it is
said, that if both their
skinnes bee hanged toge­
ther, the haire of the Pan­
thers skin will fall of.

Panyme. A heathen, a
gentile.

Parable. A similitude or
resemblance made of a
thing.

Paracelsian. A physition
that followeth the me­
thod of Paracelsus, and his
manner of curing, which
was by exceeding strong
oyles and waters extracted
out of the nature of things.

Paraclete. A comforter.

Paradise. A garden or
pleasant place.

Paradox. An opinion
maintained contrary to the
common allowed opinion,
as if one affirme that the
earth doth mooue round,
and the heauens stand still.

Paragon A beautifull
peece, a louely creature.

Paragraph. It properly
signifieth any marke set in
a margent, to not the dif­
ferent discourses in a
booke, or long chap­
ter, wherefore such di­
uisions in writing, are
commonly called Para­
graphs.

Paralipomenon. Omitted,
or not spoken of: There
are two bookes in the old
testament so called, because
many worthy histories o­
mitted in the bookes of
Kings, are there related.

Parallels. Lines running
of an equall distance from
each other, which can ne­
uer meete, though they
bee drawne infinitely in
length, thus, {graphic}.






In astonomie there
are fiue such imagined
lines, running circlewise
about the round com­
passe of the heauens. The
first is the Equinoctiall
line iust in the middle of
the world betweene the
two Poles. The second
northward from the Equi­
noctiall, is the Tropike of
Cancer, to which line the
sunne commeth about the
the twelfth day of Iune.
The third (yet more
northward) is the northern
circle, within 23. degrees
and 50. minutes of the
North-pole. The fourth
line is the Tropike of Ca­
pricorne, declining south­
ward from the Equinocti­
all, as much as the Tro­
pike of Cancer doth north­
ward, and to this line the
sunne commeth about the
twelfth of December. The
fift and last line is the sou­
therne circle, beeing as
neere the South pole, as
the northerne circle (be­
fore spoken of) is to the
North pole.

Paralogisme. A deceitfull
syllogisme, a maner of ar­
guing which seemeth true,
when it is not: as in saying,
He that affirmeth William
to be a liuing creature, sayth
true.

He that affirmeth William 
to be a Horse, affirmeth him
to be a liuing creature.

Therefore he that affirmeth
William to be a Horse saith
true.

Paramounte. The chiefe
Lord of the see.

Paramour. A Sweete­
heart, one dearely beloued.

Paraphrase. A free man­
ner of translation or inter­
pretation, wherein a man
doth not tye himselfe to
expresse euery word as it
lieth in the coppie, but to
explicate and adorne the
matter more at large, and
to abridge some things, yet
still keeping the sense of
the Author, any such tran­
slation is called a Paraphra­
sticall translation.

Parasite. A Flatterer, a
trencher friend. One that
is still hanging on some
rich man, and flatteringlie
feedeth his humor because
he would bee partaker of
his good cheere.






Parcitie. Sparingnesse,
niggardlinesse.

Parenthesis. Any word
or sentence, thrust into an
other sentence, in such sort
that it may be left out in
speaking, and yet the sense
of the matter still remaine
whole. Such word or sen­
tence is commonly mar­
ked with two halfe circles
(thus).

Paricide. One that hath
killed his owne Father or
Mother. Among the aun­
cient Romans if any com­
mitted so horrible a crime,
he was sowed aliue in a
leather bag, with a Cocke,
an Ape, and an Adder put
to him (and as some write,
a Dog)& so were throwne
together into the riuer
Tyber, where the misera­
ble Caytife must needes
die a lingering death, being
depriued of the vse of all e­
lements, saue onely a little
aire, to draw his wretched
life in torment the longer.

Paritie. Equality, like­
nesse.

Parley. A talking toge­
ther.

Paroxysme. The sharpe
assaulte or fit of an ague.

Parsimonie. Thriftines,
good husbandrie.

Parsimonious. Thriftie,
sparing.

Particularise. To draw
or deuide things in spea­
king, into certaine particu­
lars or small parcels.

Partisan. A weapon like
a Halberd.

Paschall. Of or belon­
ging to the feast of Easter.

Pasche. The feast of
Easter.

Passant. Walking, passing
along.

Passible. Which may suf­
fer, or feele paine.

Passion. A suffering.

Pastor. A shepheard.

Pastorall. Of or belon­
ging to a shepheard.

Paternall. Fatherly.

Patheticall. Passionate, or
that which mooueth passi­
ons in a man.

Patriarth. A great aunce­
stour, a great Bishop or
father.

Patrimonie. Goods or
lands left one by his fa­
ther, or some other aunce­
stour.

Patrone. A defender, a






great friend that suppor­
teth one.

Patronage. Defence.

Patronize. To defend.

Paucitie. Fewnesse.

Pauice. A great large
shield that couereth the
whole bodie.

Pauilion. A tent for war.

Paunage. The feeding of
swine in any forrest, wood,
or other place with mast.

Peccaui. I haue offended.

Pectorall. Belonging to
the breast, or which han­
geth before the breast.

Pecuniarie. Of or belon­
ging to money.

Pellican. A bird that wan­
ting food, feedeth her
yong ones (as is said) with
her owne blood.

Pellmell. Confusedly,
running disorderly toge­
ther.

Penall. Of or belonging
to paine or punishment.

Pendant. Hanging, down­
ward.

Penetrable. Which may
be pearsed through.

Penetrate. To pearse tho­
rough.

Penitentiall. Belonging to
penance or repentance.

Penitent. He that is hear­
tily sorrie and repenteth.

Penon. An ensigne or
banner borne in warre.

Pension. A yearely fee or
wages for some seruice
done.

Pensiue. Sad, heauy.

Pentateuch. The fiue
bookes of Moses, to wit,
Genesis, Exodus, Leuiticus,
Numberi, and Deuteronomie.

Pentecost. The feast of
Whitsontide, so called be­
cause it is fiftie daies after
Easter. For Pentecost in
Greeke signifieth the fif­
tieth.

Penurie. Want, pouertie.

Penurious. Poore, in
want.

Perambulation. A wal­
king.

Perceptible. Which may
be perceiued.

Perch. A kinde of fish,
It signifieth also a rod or
long pole vsed in measu­
ring of land, being of 16.
foote & a halfe in length,
and in some places more.

Percullis. The name of
an office of one of the
Pursiuants at armes.

Percussion. A striking.






Perdition. Destruction.

Perdurable. Lasting, of
long continuance.

Peregrination. A trauel­
ling into a strange land.

Peremptorie. Resolute,
short, quicke.

Perennitie. Long conti­
nuance.

Perfidious. Treacherous,
not to be trusted.

Perfidiousnesse. Treache­
rie, disloyaltie. 

Perfunctorie. Carelesly don.

Perigeon. The neerest di­
stance of the Planets from
the earth.

Period. The perfect end of
a sentence, marked common­
ly with a full point thus (.)

Peripatetickes. Philoso­
phers of the sect of Aristo­
tle: so called because they
walked in their readings
and disputations: for Peri­
pateo, in Greeke, signifi­
eth to walke.

Periphrasis. A long spea­
king, a speaking of one
word by many.

Periscians. People dwel­
ling so neere either of the
two Poles, that their sha­
dowes goe round about
them like a wheele.

Periurie. A forswearing.

Permission. Sufferance,
leaue.

Permutation. A changing.

Pernicious. Deadly, dan­
gerous.

Peroration. The conclu­
sion of a long speech or
Oration.

Perpendicular. Directlie
downe right.

Perpetrate. To commit
any vnlawfull thing.

Perpetuitie. Euerlasting­
nesse.

Perplexitie. Great doubt­
fulnesse, intanglednesse.

Perquisits. Profits com­
ming to Lords of mannors
by casualtie, or vncertaine­
ly, as escheats, heriots, re­
leefes, strayes, forfeitures.

Persist. To continue to
the end.

Personate. To represent
the person of another.

Perspicuitie. Cleerenesse,
plainnesse.

Perspicuous. Cleere, plain,
manifest.

Perswasiue. Which doth
or may perswade.

Pertinancie. Stubbornnes,
wilfulnesse.

Perturbe. To trouble.

Perturbation. A trouble, a






great disquietnesse.

Peruerse. Froward, con­
trarie.

Peruert. To corrupt or
marre: to turne one from
good to bad.

Pestiferous. Mortal, dead­
ly, poysonous.

Petition. A suite, a de­
maund, a request.

Petroll. A substance strai­
ned out of the naturall
Bitumen spoken of before.
It is for the most part
white, and somtime black,
and being once set on fire,
can hardly be quenched.

Pettie. Being placed be­
fore other words, it signi­
fieth little.

Pettie Sergeantie. A tenure
of lands, holden of the
King, by yeilding to him, a
Buckler, Arrow, Bow, or
such like seruice.

Petulancie. Wanton sau­
cinesse, malepart bold­
nesse.

Phantasme. A vision or
imagined appearance.

Pharisee. A sect of Iewes,
professing more holinesse
than the common sort did.
They wore on their fore­
heads little scrols, wherein
were written the ten com­
maundements; and were
called Pharises, of the He­
brew word Phares, which
signifieth to diuide or se­
parate, because by their fei­
ned deuotion they seemed
to separate themselues
from the other people.

Pheere. See Feere.

Phenix. The rarest Bird
in the world. It is written,
that there was neuer any
but one of this kind liuing
at one time, and that only
in Arabia; of the bignesse
of an Eagle, of a purple
colour, hauing a bright co­
lour of golde about his
necke, a goodly faire taile,
and a tuft of feathers vpon
his head. He liueth aboue
600. years and being old,
buildeth him a nest of
Cinnamom and the twigs
of Frankincense, which he
filleth with spices, & then
with the labouring of his
wings in the Sun, setting it
on fire, is there consumed
in it; out of whose Ashes
there groweth a {W}orme,
and of the worme another
Phenix.

Pheon. A terme in Heral­






drie: It signifieth the head
of a Dart.

Philosopher. A louer of
wisedome. It is commonly
vsed for a learned man, of
great knowledge in the na­
ture of things.

Philosophie. The study of
wisedome: a deepe know­
ledge in the nature of
things. There are three
different kindes hereof. 1.
Rationall Philosophy, in­
cluding, Grammer, Logick,
and Rhetorick. 2. Naturall
Philosophy teaching the
nature of all things, and
conteining besides Arith­
metick, Musick, Geometry
and Astronomy. 3. Morall
Philosophy, which consi­
steth in the knowledge and
practise of ciuilitie & good
behauiour.

Philtre. An amorous po­
tion: a drinke to procure
loue

Phlebotomie. Letting of
blood. Phisitions (as is
written) learned this prac­
tise first of a beast called
Hyppopotamus, liuing in the
riuer Nilus; which being
of a rauenous nature, and
therefore often ouerchar­
ged with much eating, is
wont to seeke in the banks,
for some sharpe stub of a
Reede; vpon which prick­
ing his leg, he thereby ea­
seth his full body, stopping
the bleeding afterward
with mud.

Phlegmon A hot swelling
of inflamed blood.

Phrase. A manner of
speaking.

Phylacterie. A scroll of
parchment which the Pha­
rises wore on their fore­
heads, hauing the ten com­
mandements written in it.

Physiognomie. An art to
iudge of ones nature or
conditions by his visage
and forme of his bodie.

Phytonisse. A woman pos­
sessed with a spirit, & there­
by foretelling things to
come.

Pia mater. The inmost
skin which incloseth the
braine round about.

Pickage. Money paide at
Faires for breaking the
ground to set vp boothes.

Pietie. Godlinesse.

Pigment. A painting.

Pight. Set or placed.

Pine tree. A tall strong






tree not subiect to wormes
or rottennesse, and there­
fore much vsed, where it
groweth to make ships.
The leaues of this tree are
hard pointed, sharpe and
narrow, continuing greene
all the yeare, and the shad­
dow thereof will not suffer
any plant to grow vnder it.

Pinipinichi. A milkie
iuice drawne out of cer­
taine trees in India. It is
somewhat thick and clam­
my, and with great vehe­
mency purgeth cholerike
humours.

Pinnas. A fruite grow­
ing in India, good for the 
stomacke and heart.

Pioner. A labourer in an
armie, vsed to cast trenches
or vndermine fortes.

Pious. Godly, vertuous.

Pipe. A measure of halfe
a Tunne; that is, 126. Gal­
lons.

Piepowders. A court
held in faires for redresse
of disorders there com­
mitted.

Pirate. A robber by
sea.

Pistacke. See Fistik­
nuts.

Placable. Gentle, milde,
that will soone be pacifi­
ed.

Placabilitie. Gentlenes,
mildenesse.

Placard. A licence to
maintaine vnlawful games.

Plaintife. He that com­
plaineth.

Plane tree. A tree wide
spreading, with broade
leaues, in times past great­
ly esteemed in Italy onely
for the shadow thereof, in
so much that they often
bedewed it with wine to
make it grow. The Ro­
mans were wont to ban­
quet much vnder these
trees.

Planet. A wandering
Starre mooued onely in
a spheare by himself: there
are seauen such Stars, to
wit, the Sunne, Venus, Mer­
curie, the Moone, Saturne,
Iupiter, and Mars. They are
called Planets of a greeke
word signifying to wander 
or goe astray, because
these Starres passe through
the twelue signes, and
are sometimes wide di­
stant, sometimes neere to
each other.






Plaudite. A signe of re­
ioycing: a clapping of the
hands.

Plausible. That which
greatly pleaseth or reioy­
ceth.

Plebeian. One of the
common people.

Pleget: A linnen cloath
dipped in any water to
wash, or lay to a sore place. 

Plenarie. Full, whole, in­
tire.

Plenitude. Fulnesse.

Pleuresie. A disease when
the inward skin of the ribs
in mans body, is inflamed
with too much blood, flow­
ing vnnaturally to it. In
this disease there is a hard­
nesse to fetch breath, a
cough, a continuall ague,
and a pricking paine about
the ribs.

Plonkets. A kind of wol­
len cloth.

Plume. A Feather.

Plurall. More than one.

Pluralitie. The being or
hauing more than one.

Poeme. Any short matter,
wittingly contriued in
verse.

Poesie. The writing of a
Poet; a Poets worke.

Poet. One that writeth
well in verse.

Poetaster. A counterfeit
Poet: a bad Poet.

Poeticall. Like a Poet:
belonging to a Poet.

Poetize. To write like a
Poet.

Poetrie. The same that
Poesie is.

Poise. Weight, heauines.

Pole. The end of the axle­
tree whereon the heauens
do moue; that part or point
of the heauens, which ne­
uer moueth. There are two
such Poles of the world;
one called the North pole,
visible to vs in the North,
farre aboue the earth: the
other caled the south pole,
farre out of our sight, being
as much vnder the earth in
the South, as the North
Pole is aboue it.

Polish. To make fayre or
bright.

Polite. Bright, trim, fine.

Pollute. To defile.

Pollution. A defiling, an
vncleannesse.

Polygamie. The hauing
of moe Wiues than one:
often marriage.

Polype. A fish hauing many






feete, and changing co­
lour often: wherefore in­
constant persons are some­
times said to be Polypes.

Polypodium. Okeferne: a
kind of hearbe like Ferne,
growing much about the
roots of oakes: The roote
of this hearbe is vsed in
Phisicke to purge melan­
cholike, grosse, and phleg­
maticke humors.

Pompe. A great shew, a
solemne traine.

Pompous. Stately, verie
solemne.

Ponderous. Heauie, of
great weight.

Pontage. Mony paid to­
ward the maintenance and
repayring of bridges.

Pontificacie. Popedome.

Pontificall. Stately, ho­
norable, Bishoplike.

Popular. In great fauour
with the common peo­
ple.

Populous. Full of peo­
ple.

Pores. Little holes in the
skin, out of which sweate
droppeth, or vapors breath
out of the body.

Porphyrie. A kinde of red
marble.

Port. A hauen, or hauen
towne, sometime a statelie
traine or behauiour.

Portable. Which may ea­
sily be caried.

Portage. Carriage, trans­
porting.

Portend. To foreshew, or
signifie before hand.

Portent. A monstrous
thing which foresheweth
some great matter.

Portcullise. A falling gate
to keepe out enemies from 
a Cittie, or keepe them
in.

Portgreue. A chiefe officer
in certaine Port townes.

Portrature. An image, a
picture.

Portsale. A selling at the
hauen.

Pose. A rheume or humor
which falleth into the 
nose, stopping the no­
strills and hindering the
voyce.

Position. A setting or pla­
cing: sometimes a sentence
propounded.

Positiue. Expresly set
downe and decreed.

Postscript. That which is
written in the end after an­
other thing.






Posterior. The later, the
hinder part.

Postilion. A speedy poste
or messenger.

Postulation. A demaund,
a request.

Potent. Mighty, strong, a­
ble.

Potentate. A prince, a
great ruler.

Potion. A Physicall
drinke.

Pourcontrell. The same
that Polype is.

Poundage. A Subsidie
graunted to the kings Ma­
iesty, of tweluepence in
the pound, for all mer­
chandise, brought hither,
or caryed away by euery
merchant denizen, or alien.

Practicall. Of or belon­
ging to practise.

Practique. The same that
practicall is.

Prauity. Leudnes, naugh­
tinesse.

Preamble. A speech, spo­
ken before we enter into a
discourse, a flourish or en­
trance into a matter.

Prebend A portion of
maintenance, which euery
member or Canon of a
Cathedrall Church recei­
ueth in the right of his
place.

Prebendarie. Hee which
hath a Prebend, or yeerely
maintenance, out of the
lands of a Cathedrall
Church, and is member
of the same Church.

Precede. To goe before.

Precedent. Going before.

Precept. A commande­
ment.

Precinct. The compasse,
or circuit of a place.

Precipitate. To throwe
downe headlong. It is also
the name of a corosiue
pouder, commonly called,
red Mercury, vsed by Chi­
rurgians, to eate corrup­
ted flesh.

Precontract. A former
bargaine, or contract.

Precursor. A forerunner,
a foregoer.

Predestinate. To appoint
before hand, what shal fol­
low after.

Predestination. An ap­
pointment beforehand what
shall follow.

Predecessor. Hee that was
in place or office before
another.

Predicable. That which






may be reported or spoken
of. In Logicke it signifi­
eth certaine generall
wordes, or vniuersalities;
whereof there are fiue, to
wit, Genus, Species, Differen­
tia, Proprium, and Acci­
dens.

Predicament. A terme of
Logicke: It signifieth a
different order in the na­
ture of things, or certaine
generall heads, to which
they may be referred; and
there are commonly recko­
ned ten such predicaments.
The first called Substance,
includeth all substances
whatsoeuer, as the foure
Elements, and all other
creatures. The second na­
med Quantity, containeth
all quantities, as ten, twen­
ty, a yard, a furlong, a mile.
The third called Quality,
hath vnder it all qualities.
as wisedome, art, fortitude,
diligence, sloth. The fourth
named Relation, is properly
of such words, as depend
mutually one vpon ano­
ther, as a husband and
wife, a master and seruant,
a father and child. The o­
ther sixe are, 5. Action or
doing: 6. Passion or suffe­
ring: 7. Where: 8. When:
9. Situation or placing: 10.
the Habit or outward co­
uering of a thing.

Predicate. To tell abroad,
to report. In Logicke, it
signifieth the later part of
a proposition, as in saying,
Paul is an Apostle: The
word Apostle is called pre­
dicate, because it is spoken
or affirmed of the subiect
Paul.

Prediction. A foretelling.

Predominant. That ruleth
or beareth sway.

Preface. That which is
spoken or written before.

Prefect. A chiefe Magi­
strate, a Gouernour.

Prefigure. See prefigurate.

Prefigurate. To foreshew
any thing by a figure.

Prefiguration. A foreshew­
ing by a figure.

Prefixe. To fasten before,
or to appoint a time afore­
hand.

Pregnant. Quickewitted,
that will soone conceiue.

Pregnancy. Quickewit­
tednesse.

Preiudicate. To iudge
rashly, without due tryall.






Preiudication. A iudging
before hand.

Preiudice. A iudgement
giuen before due tryall, or
a iudgement formerly gi­
uen of the same matter:
sometime it signifieth
harme, or hinderance.

Preiudiciall. Which iud­
geth before due time,
sometime hurtfull, or
euill.

Prelate. A Bishop, a great
Clergie man.

Premeditate. To thinke
before hand.

Premeditation. A thin­
king, or musing vpon a
thing aforehand.

Premise. To send before,
to speake before.

Premonish. To warne be­
fore.

Premunire. A punishment
wherein the offender lo­
seth all his goods for euer,
and libertie during life.

Preordaine. To ordaine
before hand.

Preordinate. Ordained be­
fore.

Preposterous. Disorderly,
vntoward, contrary to due
course.

Prepose. To preferre, to
set before.

Prepuce. The foreskinne
of a mans yard, which the
Hebrewes vsed to cut off
in circumcision.

Prerogatiue. Priuiledge
or authority aboue o­
ther.

Presage. A foretelling,
or coniecture made of a
thing beforehand.

Presbytery. Priesthood,
eldershippe.

Prescience. A knowing be­
forehand.

Prescript. A commande­
ment or appointment by
writing.

Prescription. Possession
and vse of a thing, time
out of minde.

Preseruatiue. Which pre­
serueth or defendeth from
sickenesse.

President. A chiefe Iudge
or ruler.

Pressure. An oppressi­
on.

Prestigious. Deceitfull:
blinding the sight.

Pretermission. A let­
ting passe, a leauing
out.

Pretermit. To ouer­
passe.






Pretext. A colourable ex­
cuse, or pretence.

Pretor. A chiefe Iudge,
a great officer.

Preuarication. Deceit,
false dealing: when he that
seemeth to helpe a mans
cause, doth craftily seeke
to hinder it.

Pricker. A Huntsman on 
horsebacke.

Pricket. A Fallow Deere
two yeeres old.

Pricking. The print of a
Hares foot on the ground.

Prigge. to filch, to steale.

Prigging. Stealing.

Prime. The morning:
sometime the spring, some­
time the chiefe.

Primacie. Chiefe autho­
rity, or iurisdiction.

Primate. An Archbishop.

Primitiue. The first, the
most ancient.

Prioritie. The more ex­
cellent state or dignity.

Pristine. Old, ancient.

Priuation. A depriuing,
or taking away.

Probable. Which may be
prooued.

Probation. A proofe, a
tryall.

Probatum. Proued, tryed.

Probitie. Honesty, good­
nesse.

Probleme. A darke sen­
tence, with a question ioy­
ned vnto it.

Procliue. Inclining, or
bent to a thing.

Procliuity. An inclinati­
on, a bending to.

Proconsull. A deputy vn­
to a Consull, or one en­
dewed with a Consuls au­
thoritie.

Procrastination. A de­
laying, a prolonging.

Procreate. To breede, to
bring forth.

Procreation. A breeding,
a bringing foorth

Procurator. A steward, he
that taketh charge to o­
uersee anothers businesse.

Prodigie. A rare thing
seldome seene, which sig­
nifieth that some strange
matter shall after follow.

Prodigious. Strange, won­
derfull.

Prodition. A betraying.

Produce. To bring forth, 
to draw at length.

Profane. To put holy
things to a common vse.

Profanation. A putting of
holy things to common
vses. 






Proficient. One that hath
well profited.

Profligate. To ouerthrow,
to driue away.

Profunditie. The depth
of a thing.

Profuse. Wastefull, lauish
in spending.

Progenie. A generation,
an of-spring, a stocke, or
kindred.

Progenitor. An Ancester,
a forefather.

Prognosticate. To knowe
or coniecture before hand.

Progresse. A going for­
ward.

Progression A going for­
ward.

Proheme. A beginning
of a matter: a preface be­
fore a booke.

Prohibit. To forbid.

A forbid­
ding. 

Proiect. A plot, or the
contriuing of any thing.

Prolix. Long, or large: te­
dious.

Prolixitie. Length, or
largenesse, tediousnesse.

Prolocutour. The first
speaker.

Prologue. A preface, a
forespeech.

Promoscuous. Confused,
mingled one with ano­
ther.

Promontorie. A hill lying
out, like an elbow into the
Sea.

Promote. To aduance, to
lift vp.

Promoter. He which ac­
cuseth another, for the
breach of some law, and
hath thereby part of the
penaltie for his paine.

Prompe. Ready, or quick:
sometime to tell one pri­
uily, to teach what hee
should say.

Promptitude. Readinesse.

Promulgate. To publish,
to speake abroad.

Promulgation. A publi­
shing of a Lawe or De­
cree.

Prone. Stooping downe­
ward: also bending or in­
clined to a thing.

Propagate. To spreade
abroad, inlarge, or multi­
ply.

Propagation. An increa­
sing, or breeding.

Propense. Ready, apt, or
giuen to a thing.

Propheticall. Of or be­
longing to a Prophet.






Propinquitie. Neerenesse,
sometime kindred.

Propitiation. An obtai­
ning of pardon, or a sacri­
fice to appease Gods dis­
pleasure.

Propitiatorie. A table set
on the Arke of the Olde
Testament; on either side
whereof was a Cherubin
of golde, with the wings
spread ouer the Propiti­
atorie, and their faces
looking one toward ano­
ther.

Propitious. Gentle, fauou­
rable, mercifull.

Propose. To set foorth, to
offer, to appoint.

Proposition. A short sen­
tence containing the
summe of what wee will
speake.

Proprietarie. Hee that
hath the fruites of a Be­
nefice, to him and his
heires or successors.

Propulse. To beate off,
to put away by force.

Prorogue. To prolong:
to delay, to continue.

Prorogation. A prolong­
ing.

Proscription. Banish­
ment, or open sale made
of goodes beeing for­
fet.

Prosecute. To follow:
to pursue.

Proselyte. A stranger
conuerted to our religi­
on.

Prosodie. True pronoun­
cing of wordes.

Prospect. A large sight,
or a place where one may
see farre.

Prostitute, To set to o­
pen sale: to offer to euery
man for money.

Prostrate. To fall downe,
at ones feet.

Protest. To affirme ear­
nestly.

Protestation. A declara­
tion of ones minde.

Protomartyr. The first
Martyr.

Prototypon. The first copie
or patterne of a thing.

Protract. To drawe in
length, to prolong.

Prouiso. A prouision
or condition made in any
writing.

Proule. To goe about
in the night: to pilfer or
steale small things.

Prowe. The forepart of
a ship.






Prowesse. Strength, man­
hood, courage.

Proximitie. Neere­
nesse.

Prudent. Discreete,
wise.

Prunellas. A fruite like
small Figges, good for
restoratiue, and to comfort
the heart.

Psalmist. A maker or
singer of Psalmes.

Psalmodie. A singing of
Psalmes.

Psalterie. A sweet Instru­
ment like a Harpe.

Pseudo. Note, that
words which beginne with
Pseudo, signifie counter­
fet or false, as Pseudo­
martyr, a false Martyr,
or witnesse: Pseudopro­
phet, a false prophet.

Psisane. A Physicall
drinke of Barley, and cold
herbes sod together.

Publicane. Hee that
hyreth the reuenewes or
common profites of the
CITIE at a certaine
Rent. This was an odi­
ous name among the
Iewes, because they were
commonly men of ill con­
science, which exercised
that office.

Publike. Common, open
abroad.

Pulcritude. Beauty, faire­
nesse.

Pulpe. The fleshie part
of any thing.

Pulse. A beating veine:
also pease, beanes, lupines,
and such other Graine are
so called.

Puluerisated. Beaten to
powder.

Punctuall. Not missing
a haires breadth: which
is short, and direct to the
purpose.

Pupill. A Ward, a yong
Scholler, one vnder
age.

Purgatiue. Which hath
vertue to purge.

Purgatorie. A place of
purging.

Purlue. A place neere
ioining to a Forrest, where
it is lawfull for the owner
of the ground to hunt, if
hee can dispend fortie
shillings by the yeere of
freeland.

Purporte. A purpose, or
meaning.

Pusillanimitie. Little­






nes of courage, faintheart­
ednesse.

Pustule. A wheale, or
bladder risen in the body.

Putrifaction. A rotten­
nesse or corruption.

Putrifie. To be rotten
or corrupted.

Pygmies. Little people
in India, not aboue a foote
and a halfe long: their wo­
men bring forth children
at fiue yeares and at eight
are accounted old. They
haue continuall warre with
Cranes, who do often put
them to the worst.

Pyramides. A steeple or
pillar, broad and square be­
neath, and sharpe aboue.

Pyromancie. See Diuina­
tion

Python. A spirit which
possesseth one; or a man
possessed with a spirit.


Q
Quadrangle. A figure
made with foure corners.

Quadrant. foure square,
or the fourth part of a
thing.

Quadripartite. Diuided
into foure parts.

Quadruplication. A foure­
folde doubling.

Quaint. Fine and strange.

Quarentine. A terme in
the common law, when a
woman after the death of
her husband remaineth
fortie dayes in the chiefe
Mannor place, within
which time her dower shall
be assigned.

Quarrie. A place or pit
where stones are digged.
Among hunters it signifi­
eth a reward giuen to
Houndes after they haue
hunted, or the Venison
which is taken by hunting.

Quauiuer. A sea Dra­
gon.

Quaternion. Foure, or
any thing diuided by the 
number of foure.

Queach. A thicke bushie
plot.

Querimonious. Full of
complayning.

Querulous. Complay­
ning.

Quest. A search or in­
quirie.

Quidditie. A short darke
speech, an intricate que­
stion.

Quiddanet. A sweete






mixture thicker than a si­
rupe, and not so thicke nor
stiffe as marmalet.

Quid pro quo. A terme
amongst all Apothecaries,
when in stead of one thing
they vse another of the
same nature.

Quintessence. The fift
substance. That which re­
maineth in any thing after
the corruptible Elements
are taken from it.

Quippe. A quicke checke,
a pretty taunt.

Quotidian. Daily.


R
Rabbine. A Master, a
Lord, a great Doctour, a 
teacher.

Racha. An Hebrew word
of reproch, neuer spoken
but in extreame anger.

Radiant. Bright shining,
glistering with beames.

Radiation. A glistering,
a casting of beames.

Radicall. Of or belon­
ging to the roote, naturall.

Radicall moisture. The
naturall moisture spread
like a dew in all parts of
the body; wherewith such
parts are nourished; which
moisture beeing once wa­
sted can neuer be restored.

Raindeere. A beast like a
Hart, but hauing his head
fuller of Antliers.

Rampant. A terme of He­
rauldry, when a beast is
painted ramping vpright
with the forefeete.

Rancor. Hatred, malice.

Rape. A violent rauishing
of a woman against her
will. There is also a roote
like a Turnep so called.
Sometime it signifieth a
diuision made in some
shires; as the county of
Sussex is deuided into sixe
Rapes, to wit, the Rape of
Chichester, of Arundell, of
Bramber, of Lewis, of Pe­
uensie, and of Hastings.

Rapacitie. A rauening, a
violent catching.

Rapiditie. A snatching, a
catching.

Rapine. Robberie, cat­
ching, extortion.

Rapsodie. A ioyning of
diuerse verses together.

Rarification. A making of
that thin, which is thicke
or close ioyned together.

Rarifie. To make thin,






to pull a thing abroad.

Raritie. Fewnesse, thin­
nesse.

Rasure. A shauing away.

Ratifie. To confirme, to
allowe.

Rationall. Reasonable. It
signifieth also an orna­
ment, which the high
Priest of the Iewes ware
on his breast, when he exe­
cuted his function, being
foure square, of the length
of a span, made curiously
of gold and twisted silke of
diuers colours, wherein
were set twelue precious
stones in foure rankes of
gold, and in euery stone
grauen one of the names
of the twelue sonnes of Ia­
cob.

Reall. Which is in very
deede.

Reassume. To take a­
gaine.

Recant. To deny an o­
pinion formerly by him­
selfe maintained.

Recapitulate. To rehearse
briefelie that which was
spoken before.

Recapitulation. A briefe
rehearsall of that which
hath beene formerly spo­

ken at large.

Receptacle. A place of
receit, or any vessell to re­
ceiue a thing in.

Recesse. A bye-place, a
going backe or aside.

Recidiuation. A backe­
sliding, or falling backe a­
gaine.

Reciprocall. That which
returneth backe, or hath
respect to some thing go­
ing before.

Reclaime. To winne, to
make gentle.

Recluse. Shut vp.

Recognisance. An ac­
knowledgment. A band
wherein a man before a
lawfull Iudge, acknowled­
geth himselfe to owe a cer­
taine summe of money to
the King, if he faile in per­
formance of a condition
thereto ioyned.

Recoile. To flie backe.

Recollect. To gather a­
gaine, to call his wits toge­
ther.

Rectifie. To direct, to
make streight.

Recreant. He that deni­
eth his owne challenge, hee
that goeth from what hee
hath sayd, or eateth his
word. 






Rector. A Ruler, a Go­
uernour.

Recurre. To run backe.

Recursion. A running
backe.

Recursant. He that refu­
seth to doe any thing.

Redolent. Sweete in
smell.

Redoubted. Greatly re­
uerenced, most noble.

Redound. To abound, or
ouerflow.

Redobbour. He that wit­
tingly buieth stollen cloth,
and turneth it into some
other fashion.

Reduce. To bring back,
to restore.

Reduction. A bringing
backe.

Reedifie. To build again,
to repaire.

Reenter. To enter a­
gaine.

Reentrie. An entrance a­
gaine.

Reeue. An old name of
an officer in Lordshippes,
much like to those that we
call Bayliffes now.

Refection. A refresh­
ing.

Refectorie. A place to
refresh ones self, or to take
ones diet in.

Resell. To disproue, to
proue false.

Reflect. To turne or cast
backe againe.

Reflection. A rebounding
backe: or turning back a­
gaine.

Reforme. To amend, to
correct.

Refractorie. Stubborne,
which will not bend.

Refuge. A place of suc­
cour.

Refute. To disprooue,
to confound  by sence and
reason.

Refutation. A disprouing,
a confuting.

Regall. Kingly; belong­
ing to a King.

Regalitie. The estate or
authority of a King.

Regardant. A tearme in
Heraldrie, when a beaste
is painted, looking backe­
wards at one.

Regenerate. To beare a­
gaine in birth, to renew.

Regeneration. A new 
birth.

Regent. A Prince, Ruler
or Gouernour.






Regiment. A gouernment,
or the place where one
hath authoritie.

Register. Writings of re­
cord kept for memory. Al­
so hee that keepeth such
writings in a spirituall
Court.

Regratour. He that in a
faire or market, buyeth a­
ny dead victuall whatsoe­
uer, and selleth the same a­
gaine in any faire or mar­
ket kept there, or within
foure miles thereof.

Regresse. A going backe
againe.

Regression. The same.

Regular. Vnder rule, or
liuing according to a set
rule.

Reiect. To cast off, to de­
spise.

Reioynder. A second an­
swere made by the defen­
dant, after his first an­
swere hath beene replyed
vnto.

Reiterate. To do againe,
to do a thing often.

Relapse. A backe sly­
ding.

Relate. To tell, to de­
clare.

Relation. A rehearsall or
telling of a matter.

Relaxation. A releasing, a
refreshing or setting at li­
bertie.

Relay. A tearme of hun­
ting, when they set hounds
in readinesse, where they
thinke a Deere will passe,
and cast them off after
the other hounds are past 
by.

Releefe. A payment which
some Heires make (after
the death of their Aunce­
stour) to the Lord of
whom their lands are hol­
den.

Relent. To waxe soft, to
yeilde.

Relinquish. To leaue off,
to forsake.

Reliques. Things left or
remaining. Most common­
ly it is taken for the bo­
dies, or some part of the
bodies, or somwhat which
hath toucht the bodies of
Saints now in heauen.

Remainder. A possibility
in any, to enioy lands, te­
nements, or rents, after an­
others estate is ended.

Remisse. Slack, negligent
or carelesse.

Remit. To send backe:






sometime to release or for­
giue.

Remora. A little Fish
which cleauing to the bot­
tome of a shippe, doth
verie strangelie stay the
shippe that shee cannot
mooue.

Remorse. Doubtfulnesse
in conscience, to doe a
thing: a staggering in
minde: sometime pittiful­
nesse or repentance of a
bad done.

Remote. Farre distant.

Remunerate. To reward.

Remuneration. A reward,
a requitall.

Renouate. To renew.

Renouation. A renewing.

Repast. Food.

Repeale. To call backe a­
gaine, to disallow.

Repell. To thrust backe.

Repercussiue. That which
striketh backe againe, or
reboundeth backe.

Repetition. A new rehear­
sall.

Repleuine. A Warrant
sent from the Sheriffe or
his Bayliffe, that a man
shall haue his cattell or a
distresse taken from him, 
restored to him againe; vp­
on suretie found to answer
the partie grieued, in the
Law.

Replication. The answer
made to the defendant af­
ter the defendant hath an­
swered.

Repose. To lay vpon:
sometime to take rest.

Repositorie. A storehouse,
a place to lay vp things
in.

Repossede. To possesse a­
gaine.

Reprehend. To reprooue.

Reprehension. A reproo­
uing.

Represse. To stay backe,
to keepe downe by force.

Reprises. All payments
and charges that issue
yearelie out of a man­
nor.

Reprobate. One past
grace: a wicked person, a
cast away.

Republike. A Common­
wealth.

Repudiate. To refuse:
properly to put away ones
Wife.

Repugne. To resist.

Repugnancie. Disagree­
ment, contrarietie.

Repugnant. Contrarie or






resisting.

Repute. To esteeme, to
account.

Reputation. Estimation
or account.

Requiem. Rest: ceasing
from labour.

Rereward. The hinde­
most part of a battell.

Rescouse. A forcible de­
liuerie or setting at libertie
of one that hath beene  ar­
rested.

Reserue. To keepe by it
selfe, to keepe for some
purpose.

Reseruation. A keeping
of some thing apart.

Reside. To alight, sinke
downe, or to abide in a
place.

Resident. Abiding in a
place.

Resigne. To giue or yeild
vp.

Resignation. A yeelding
vp of a thing to another.

Resolue. To open, to
weaken, to make loose:
sometime to expound and
declare.

Resolute. Determinately
bent to doe any thing.

Respectiue. Awfull, which
beareth great respect to
one.

Respiration. A fetching of
breath.

Resplendent. Bright, cleere,
shining.

Respondent. He that an­
swereth.

Response. An answere.

Restauration. A repay­
ring, a making againe.

Restie. Dull, heauie.

Restitution. A restoring
backe.

Restriction. A restray­
ning, or holding backe.

Result. To rebound, to
leape backe.

Resume. To take a­
gaine.

Resurrection. A rising a­
gaine.

Resuscitation. A stirring
vp againe.

Retaile. To sell in small
parcels: that which was
formerly bought.

Retention. A keeping.

Retentiue. Hauing po­
wer to binde, retaine, or
keepe.

Retire. To returne back­
ward.

Retort. To throw, or
shoote backe againe.

Retract. To call backe






againe, to reuoke.

Retractation. A calling
backe, a recanting, a de­
nying of a thing before af­
firmed.

Retreate. A calling back
of Souldiers from fight:
a returning or going
backe.

Retribution. A reward, a
recompence.

Retriue. A seeking a­
gaine.

Retrograde. That which
goeth backward. A planet
is said to be retrograde,
when he goeth backward
contrarie to the course of
the signes, as from Taurus
to Aries &c.

Retrogradation. A going
backward.

Reuels. Players and dan­
cings, with other pleasant
deuices, vsed sometimes in
the Kings Court, and else­
where in great houses.

Reuenew. Yearely rent
receiued for lands and tene­
ments.

Reuerberation. A beating
backe againe.

Reuersed. A tearme in
Heraldrie when a mans
armes is giuen him, turned
the lower part vpward.

Reuert. To returne. 

Reuise. To peruse, to look
ouer againe.

Reunite. To ioyne toge­
ther againe.

Reuocable. Which may
be called backe againe.

Reuocation. A calling back
againe.

Reuoke. To call backe.

Reuolt. To forsake ones
captaine or company, and
goe to another.

Reuolue To tosse vp and
downe in ones minde: to
muse or thinke much of a
matter.

Reuolution. A turning or
winding about: especiallie
in the course of time.

Rhetoricke. The art of e­
loquent speaking.

Rheubarb. See Rubarb.

Ridiculous. Worthy to be
laughed at: foolish; with­
out wit.

Rigid. Stiffe, hard, stub­
borne.

Rigor. Hardnesse, stiffe­
nesse, extreame dealing.

Rigorous. Hard, cruell,
vnmercifull.

Rime. A mist or foggie
dew.






Ringwalke. A round walk
made by Hunters.

Rinocere. A great beast,
hauing a horne in his nose,
bending vpward, which he
whetteth  often against
rockes, to fight therewith
against the Elephant.

Riot. In the law it signifi­
eth when three or moe
persons, beeing assembled
to commit forcibly an vn­
lawfull act, do accordingly
execute the same.

Rite. A ceremony, a cu­
stome.

Riuall. One that sueth
for the same thing with
another.

Robustious. Strong.

Roode. In land it signifi­
eth a quarter of an acre. It
is sometime taken for the
picture of our Sauiour vp­
on the Crosse.

Rotunditie. Roundnesse.

Rougecrosse. The name of
an office of one of the Pur­
seuants at armes.

Rougedragon. The name
of an office of one of the
Purseuants at armes.

Route. A disorderly as­
sembly of three or moe
persons moouing forward
to commit by force an vn­
lawfull act. It signifieth al­
so a heard or great compa­
ny of wolues together.

Rubarbe. A costly roote
much vsed in Phisicke to
purge choler, & is brought
hither out of Barbarie.  Be­
ing toasted and dried it is
then good against the
bloodie flixe, and all man­
ner of laskes; if it bee so
drunke with some binding
liquor, as the iuice of Plan­
taine, red Wine, and such
like.

Rubrike. An order or rule
written.

Rubricated. Marked with
red; or written in red let­
ters.

Rudiments. The first
grounds or principles of
an art or any knowledge.

Ruine. Vtter, ouerthrow,
destruction.

Ruminate. To chew ouer
againe as beasts doe, that
chew the cud: wherfore it
is often taken for to studie
and thinke much of a mat­
ter.

Running of the reines. A
disease when by reason of
weakenesse, seede passeth






often from one against his
will.

Ruption. A breaking.

Rupture. A breaking.

Rurall. Of or belonging
to the countrey.

Rusticall. Countrey-like,
homely, rude.

Rusticitie. Rudenesse:
clownish behauiour.


S
SAbaoth. Hostes or ar­
mies of men.

Sable. In armorie it sig­
nifieth blacke. It is also a
rich Furre of a beast so
called, which beast is made
like a polecat, of colour be­
tweene black, and browne,
and breedeth in Russia, but
most in Tartaria.

Sabboth. A day of rest.

Saciety. Fulnesse.

Sacrament. A mystical ce­
remony instituted by our
Sauiour.

Sacred. Holy.

Sacriledge. The robbing
of a Church: the stealing
of holy things, or abusing
of Sacraments or holy
mysteries.

Sacrilegious. Very wicked
and abhominable.

Saduce. An Heretical sect
among the Iewes, which
denyed the resurrection:
they called themselues Sa­
duces of the Hebrew word
Tsedek.: Which signifieth
Iustice, because they tooke
themselues to liue more
vprightly, and iuster then
other men.

Safeconduite. A securitie
and protection giuen by
a Prince or any other per­
son in authoritie, for a
mans safe comming or
going to or from a place.

Sagacitie. Quickenesse of
vnderstanding; wittinesse.

Sage. Graue, wise, dis­
creete.

Sagapenum. The sappe
or Gum of a plant grow­
ing in Media, of a yellow­
ish colour without, and
white within.  It is hot and
dry, of a strong smell like
garlicke, and is vsed in
Physicke against diuers
cold diseases.

Saint Antonies fire. A dis­
ease rising of hot chole­
ricke blood, which begin­
ning first with a blister,
groweth after to a sore, or
scab like a tetter.






Salamander. A little beast
like a lisard, with foure
feet and a short taile, ha­
uing diuers spottes in the
body thereof. It is of a
byting venemous nature,
and (as some affirme) will
abide in the fire without
harme, and at last put it
cleare out.

Salarie. Wages, or
hyre.

Salgemma. A cleere kind
of salt like Chrystall, vsed
sometime in Physicke, and
is found plentifully in
Hungaria.

Saliant. A terme in He­
rauldry, when a beast see­
meth rampand, but lifteth
not the fore pawes so
high, as the rampande
doth.

Salubritie. Healthful­
nesse.

Sanctifie. To make ho­
lie.

Sanctification. A making
holy.

Sanctimonie. Holinesse.

Sanctitie. Holinesse.

Sanctuary. A place whi­
ther offenders, or indebted
persons may flie for suc­
cour, from being punished
or arested.

Sanctum Sanctorum. The
holiest place of the Iewes
temple, where the Arke
was kept, and whither
none entred but the high
Priest euery yeere.

Sandall. An ancient kind
of shooe.

Sanders. A precious wood
brought out of India,
whereof there are three
kindes, to wit, red, yellow,
and white Sanders. They
are all of a cooling nature,
especially the red, which is
often vsed in Physicke a­
gainst hot diseases.

Sanglier. A wilde Bore,
fiue yeeres old.

Sanguine. In Herauldry,
it signifieth a murrey co­
lour: but commonly it
signifieth a complexion
most inclining towarde
blood.

Sanguinolent. Bloody.

Sanity. Health.

Saphire. A precious stone
brought out of East India:
of a cleare skie colour, and
the best sort of them hath
as it were cloudes therein,
inclining to a certaine re­
nesse.  This stone is said to
be of a cold nature.






Sapience. Wisdome, know­
ledge.

Sarsaparillia. A plant of
India, the root whereof is
often vsed in dyet drinkes,
against the French, and o­
ther diseases.

Sarcocolla. A Gumme
brought out of Persia,
which is red, and bitter in
taste.  It is of a healing na­
ture, and therefore often
vsed to close vp woundes,
and fill corrupted vlcers
with new flesh.  For which
cause it is named in Greek
Sarcocolla, which signifieth
a glewer or healer vp of
the flesh.

Sassafras. A tree of great
vertue, which groweth in
the Florida of the West In­
dies: the rinde hereof hath
a sweet smell like Cinna­
mome.  It comforteth the
lyuer, and stomack, and o­
peneth obstructions of the
inward parts, being hotte
and dry in the second de­
gree.  The best of the Tree
is the roote, next the
boughes, then the body,
but the principall good­
nesse of all resteth in the
ryndes.

Satan. An enemie.

Satiate. To fill.

Satiety. Fulnesse.

Saturitie. Fulnesse.

Satyr. A strange mon­
ster in India, hauing the
body of a man all hairy,
with legs and feet like a
Goat: which monsters the
ancient Poets were wont
to call gods of the woods.
It signifieth also a sharpe
byting kind of verse, wher­
in mens vices were laid o­
pen.

Satyricall. Sharpe or bi­
ting, as Satyrs were com­
monly written.

Sauine. A little low tree,
bearing leaues almost like
Tamariske, and of a hotte
scowring nature.

Saults. Iumpes, leapes.

Saunce. Without.

Sawe. An olde say­
ing.

Saxifrage. An herbe bea­
ring seed like Parsley seed,
but more hot and byting,
which seede or the roote
being boiled in wine and
drunken, breaketh the
stone of the kidneyes and
bladder.






Scalpe. The haire skinne
of the head.

Scammonie. The iuyce of
the roote of an herbe,
brought hither drie out of
Asia, and Mysia. It is a
violent purger of choler,
and dangerous to take in­
ward, vnlesse it bee well
prepared. See Diagridi­
um.

Scandall. An offence, or
that which causeth one
to fall, stumble, or take
offence.

Scandalize. To offend by
euill example, or giue one
occasion to bee offen­
ded.

Scarifie. To scrape, cut,
launce, or open a sore.

Scarification. A scraping,
or cutting.

Scedule. A little rowle, or
written bill.

Scene. A play, or Comody,
a Tragedy, or the diuision
of a play into certaine
parts. In old time it signi­
fied a place couered with
boughes, or the roome
where the players made
them ready.

Scheme. A figure in spea­
king.

Shisme. Diuision or strife
in matters of religion.

Schismaticall. Diuided in
fellowship from the other
part: erroneous.

Schismaticke. One diui­
ded from the vnitie of the
Church.

Scholasticall. Learned,
belonging to Schollers.

Sciatica. A gout in the
hippe, caused by grosse
and flegmaticke humours,
gathered in the hollownes
of the ioynt thereof.

Science. Knowledge.

Scolopendra. A fish that
feeling himselfe taken
with a hooke, casteth out
his bowels, vntill hee hath
vnloosed the hooke, and
then swalloweth them vp
againe.

Scope. The end or marke
that one aimeth at.

Scorpion. A venemous
worme with seuen feet,
bearing his sting in his
taile; with which hee stri­
keth mischieuously. They
are of diuers colours, and
the femall is the greater,
hauing withall a sharper
sting then the male.  They
may be killed with fasting






spittle of a sound man.
There are also great Scor­
pions with wings, which
are caryed in some hotte
countreyes with the winde
from one place to ano­
ther.

Scoute. One sent out to
espie and bring tydings
of the enemies purpose, or
of any danger likely to
happen.

Scribe. A writer, a Clerke
a publike notarie.

Scruple. Doubt, difficul­
tie: In Physicke it signifi­
eth a small weight of
twenty wheat cornes; the
third part of a dramme.

Scrupulositie. Doubtful­
nesse. difficultie.

Scrupulous. Doubtfull,
fearefull: one that casteth
many doubts.

Scrutinie. Search: enqui­
rie.

Scull. A great company
of fish swimming toge­
ther.

Sculpture. A caruing, a
grauing.

Scurrill. Scoffing, beastly,
dishonest, filthy.

Scurrilitie. Saucy scoffing,
ribauldry.

Scurrillous. The same
that Scurrill is.

Scut. The taile of a
Hare or cony.

Seacalfe. Great fishes
that bellow like oxen, and
haue their bodies couered
with haire.  They breed
like beastes on the land,
and sleep there often in the
night.

Sealamprie. A fish called
by some Remora, which
stayeth a shippe vnder a
saile.

Sebestens. Little plums
brought out of Italy, of a
blewish colour and sweete
in taste.  They are cold and
moist in operation, and
are often vsed by Physiti­
ans in hotte agues and
inward inflammations of
the body.

Seclude. To shut apart, to
shut out.

Seclusion. A shutting a­
part.

Sect. A particular opini­
on of some few.

Sectarie. One that fol­
loweth priuate opinions
in religion.

Section. A diuision or
cutting off.






Secular. Worldly, or be­
longing to the world.

Secundine. The after
birth, the skinne, wherein
a childe is wrapped in his
mothers wombe.

Secure. Carelesse, voyde
of feare.

Securitie. Assurance from
feare or danger.

Sediment. The dregs of
any liquor which sinketh
to the bottome.

Seduce. To deceiue, to
misleade.

Sedulity. Diligence, care­
fulnesse.

Segregate. To diuide, to
seuer.

Seiant. A terme in 
Herauldrie, when a
beast is painted sitting vp­
right.

Select. To choose, to
picke out.

Semblable. Like.

Semblance. A shew, a co­
lour.

Semblant. Like.

Semicircle. Halfe a cir­
cle.

Seminarie. A seede
plot.

Semitarie. A crooked
sword: a faucheon.

Sempiternall. Euerla­
sting.

Sena. A little plant grow­
ing in Italy and other hot
countreyes, but the best is
brought from Alexandria.
It is hot and dry, and the
leaues thereof are often
boyled in Physicke, to
purge the body of melan­
cholicke grosse humours,
and to cleaue the blood:
but there must by Annis­
seede, Cinnamom or Gin­
ger added to it, for that o­
therwise it will prouoke
windinesse, and gripings in
the belly.

Senat. The Counsell
house, where the Magi­
strates of a citie assemble
themselues.

Senator. An Alderman,
or graue Magistrate of a
citie.

Senior. The
Elder.

Sensible. That may bee
felt or perceiued: some­
time witty or of good con­
ceite.

Sensuall. That pleaseth
the senses, wanton, giuen
to please the flesh.

Sensualitie. Bodily plea­
sure: wanton delight.






Sentinell. A man standing
in some conuenient place
to discry what company
cometh neere an army or
towne of warre.

Sententious. Full of sen­
tences, or wise speeches.

Septentrionall. Of, or be­
longing to the North.

Septuagints. Seuenty lear­
ned men which translated
the Old Testament out of
Hebrew into Greeke.

Sepulture. Buriall.

Sequell. That which fol­
loweth the matter follo­
wing.

Sequester. To diuide, to
withdraw.  To put by it
selfe.

Sequestration. A putting
apart: a placing in seuerall
by it selfe.

Seraine. A foggy mist or
dampish vapour falling in
Italie about sunne set, at
which time it is vnwhole­
some to be abroad especi­
ally bareheaded.

Seraphicall. Inflamed
with diuine loue like a Se­
raphin.

Seraphin. The highest or­
der of Angels: See Hie­
rarchie.

Serenitie. Faire and cleere
weather.

Sergeant. A tearme ap­
plyed in Heraldry onely to
the Griffine which is so
called.

Serious. Earnest, weigh­
ty, of great importance.

Serpentine. Of the nature
of a Serpent.

Seruile. Base, slauish, be­
longing to a bondman or
seruant.

Seruilitie. Bondage; base
estate.

Seruitude. Bondage.

Sessions. A sitting of Iud­
ges.

Sethim. A kinde of tree
like a white Thorne, the
timber whereof neuer rot­
teth.  Of this tree was made
the holy Arke of the Old
Testament.

Seuere. Iust, graue, hard.

Seueritie. Grauity, great
constancy in ministring iu­
stice.

Sewell. A Paper, clout,
or any thing hanged vp to
keep a Deere from entring
into a place.

Sewer. He that goeth be­
fore the meate of a Prince
or great personage, to






place it on the table: also
one that hath authoritie to
ouerlooke water courses.

Shamoise. A wilde Goate
keeping the mountaines.

Shankes. The skinne of
the shanke of a kinde of
Kidde.

Shingles. A disease about
the breast, belly, or backe,
wherein the place affected
looketh red, increasing cir­
clewise more and more.  It
is chiefely cured with Cats
bloud; or if it goe round
the bodie, it killeth.

Shrew. A kinde of field
Mouse, which if he goe o­
uer a beasts backe, will
make him lame in the
chine; and if he bite, the
beast swelleth to the heart,
and dieth.

Shrine. A Toombe or
place where the body of
some Saint is buried or re­
maineth.

Siatica. See Sciatica be­
fore.

Sibbe. One of kinne.

Sibyll. A woman inspi­
red with a spirit of prophe­
sie; so called of the greeke
wordes Sios, which signifi­
eth God, and Boyle, which
signifieth counsell, because
such women had know­
ledge (as was said) of the
counsell of God.  There
were ten Sibylls famous a­
boue the rest.  The first was
Sibylla of Persia, the se­
cond of Lybia, the third of
the citty Delphos in
Greece, the fourth of
Cuma, a citty in Æolis, the
fift of Erythræ, a citty of
Asia, the sixt of the Ile, Sa­
mos, the seuenth of Cu­
mæ, a citty of Campania
in Italy. This Sibylla of
Cumæ (as is written)
came on a time to Tarquine
King of Rome, in the habit
of a strange olde woman,
offering to sell him nine
bookes, full (as she sayd) of
diuine oracles; for which
she demanded three hun­
dred crownes of gold: the
King not much regarding,
and beside thinking them
too deere at that price, she
burned three of them be­
fore his face, and then as­
ked if he would haue the
other sixe, for which she
demanded no lesse, than
she had done at first for the
nine.  Hereat the King de­






riding her and thinking
her halfe made, she burned
three more of them, and
tolde him that he should
giue her the same price for
those three that were left.
The King much wonde­
ring at the womans con­
stant earnestnesse, and
therefore thinking the
bookes contained no com­
mon matter, commanded
three hundred crownes to
be giuen her for them,
which she receiuing, pre­
sently vanished out of
sight.  These bookes were
after kept by the Romans
very carefully, who in great
matters of doubte, alwayes
had recourse to them, as to
an assured oracle.  The
eighth Sibyll, was called
Sibylla of Helespontus in
Greece; the ninth was of
Phrygia; the tenth and last
of Tybur, a citty neere
Rome in Italy.  All these
Sibylls prophecied of the
incarnation of our Sauiour
Christ.

Sicle. In coyne it signi­
fieth foure sterling groates
of eight to an ounce: in
weight it is halfe an
ounce.

Sidelayes. Dogs layd in
the way to be let slip at a
Deere, as he passeth by.

Signet. A seale.

Significatiue. Which ex­
presseth a matter plainely.

Signiorie. A Lordship.

Silence. Holding ones
peace.

Similitude. A likenesse.

Simonie The selling of
spirituall things for mony.
This name first was deri­
ued from one Simon a sor­
cerer of Samaria, who offe­
red mony to the Apostles
that he might haue power
to giue the holy Ghost vn­
to any that he should lay
his hands on; for which
cause he was sharpely re­
prooued by Saint Peter.

Simulachre. A picture or
image.

Simulation. Dissembling.

Sincere. Vpright, plaine,
without dissimulation.

Sindon. Fine linnen
cloth.

Single. The taile of a
Stagge or other Deere.

Singularitie. Priuate o­
pinion, a desire to be odde
from other men.






Sinister. Vnhappy, naugh­
ty, lewde, harmefull.

Sinoper. A kinde of red
stone which some call
rudle.

Syren. A Mer-mayde:
Poets feine there were
three Mer-mayds or Sy­
rens, in the vpper part like
maidens, and in the lower
part fishes: which dwel­
ling in the sea of Sicilie,
would allure Saylers to
them, and afterward de­
stroy them; beeing first
brought asleepe with har­
kening to their sweete sin­
ging.  Their names were
Parthenope, Lygia, and Leu­
casia; wherefore sometime
alluring women are sayd
to be Syrens.

Site. The setting or
standing of a place.

Situation. The same that
Site is.

Slot. The view or print
of a Stags foote in the
ground.

Slowth. A heard or com­
pany of wild Boares toge­
ther.

Sluse. A frame or deuice
to keepe water in any
ground, or let it out.

Smaragde. A precious
stone called an Emerald:
See Emerald.

Socage. An ancient te­
nure of land, by doing
some inferiour seruice of
husbandry to the Lord of
the see.

Sociable. Kinde, louing,
one that will keepe com­
pany, or is curteous in
company.

Societie. Fellowship.

Sole. Alone, onely.

Solecisme. A false man­
ner of speaking, contrary
to rules of  Grammar.

Solegroue. An old name
of the moneth of Februa­
ry.

Solicite. To vrge, to
mooue, to prouoke.

Solicitude. Carefulnesse.

Solid. Whole, firme, not
hollow.

Soliditie. Wholenesse,
massiuenesse, soundnesse.

Solitarie. Alone, without
company.

Solitude. A desert place,
a wildernesse.

Solstice. The stay of the
Sunne when he cannot go
higher and lower, which is
(with vs) in sommer about






mid Iune, and in Winter a­
bout the middle of De­
cember.

Soluble. Loose, not bound

Solue. To vntie, to open,
to expound.

Solution. A paiment or
an expounding.

Sophister. A subtill cauil­
ler in wordes, a craftie dis­
puter, which will make a
false matter seeme true.

Sophisme. A false argu­
ment.

Sophisticall. Deceitfull:
captious.

Sophisticate. To counter­
fet, to deceiue.

Sophistrie. A false kinde
of argument seeming true
when it is not.

Sore. To flye vp aloft:
also it signifieth a Fallow
Deere foure yeeres olde.

Sorell. A Fallow Deere
three yeeres old.

Source. A waue of the sea.

Sownder. A company of
wilde Bores together.

Spaide. A Red Deere
three yeeres old.

Spatious. Large and
wide.

Species. The differing
kind of euery thing.

Spectator. A beholder.

Speculation. The inward
knowledge, or beholding
of a thing.

Speculatiue. That which
belongeth to Speculation,

Sperme. Seed.

Spermaceti. The seed of
the Whale fish: It is vsed
in Physicke against squats
and bruisings of the bo­
die.

Spermaticall. Of or be­
longing to seed: or the
veines which conteine the
seede.

Sphere. A round circle; It
is commonly taken for the
circled round compasse of
the heauens.

Sphericall. Round like a
sphere.

Spikenard. A kinde of
sweet herbe like Lauender.

Splene. The milte of
man or beaste: which is
like a long narrow tongue,
lying vnder the shorte
ribbes on the left side, and
hath this office of na­
ture, to purge the liuer of
superfluous melancholicke
blood: sometime it signi­
fieth anger or choler.

Splendour. Brightnesse.






Splendent. Bright shining.

Spongeous. Hollow, like a
Sponge.

Spousals. A marriage.

Spraints. Dung of an
Otter.

* Sprent. To sprinkle.

Spume. Fome or froth.

Squadron. A square forme
in a battell.

Squinanth. A kinde of
round rush, which is sweet,
and hath flowers very me­
dicinable.

Squincy. A swelling dis­
ease in the throat.

Stabilitie. Stedfastnesse:
constancie.

Stacte. A sweet oyle or
liquor which is drawen
out of new myrrhe, by
bruising and strayning it
according to art.

Staggerd. A red male
Deere, foure yeeres old.

Stanchhound. An old hound
well experienced.

Stannaries. Mines of
Tinne.

Staple. Any towne or ci­
tie appointed for mer­
chants of England to ca­
ry their Wooll, Cloth, 
Lead, Tinne, or such like
commodities vnto, for the
better sale of them to o­
ther merchants by the
great.

State. It is sometime ta­
ken for vrine of mans bo­
die.

Station. A standing or
resting place.

Statue. A carued, or cast
image, made in proportion
like a man.

Stauesaker. An herbe bea­
ring a three cornered seed
of a hot burning nature,
which beeing beaten to
powder, and mingled with
oyle, destroyeth lice, and
cureth all itchy mangines.

Stechados. A beautifull
herbe, bearing faire knops
or eares, which being boy­
led and drunken, doe open
the stoppings of all in­
ward parts, and are very
good against the paine of
the head, and diseases of
the brest.

Sterill. Barren.

Sterilitie. Barrennesse: vn­
fruitfulnesse.

Stigmaticall. See Stig­
maticke.

Stigmaticke. A notorious
leude fellow, which hath
been burnt with a hot y­






ron, or beareth other
markes about him, as a to­
ken of his punishment.

Stile. A manner or
forme of writing, or spea­
king.

Stillyard. A place in Lon­
don where the Easterling
merchants of Hawnse and
Almane, were wont to a­
bide.

Stipend. Wages, or hire
giuen one.

Stipendarie. Hee that re­
ceiueth yeerely wages, or
is hyred to doe a thing for
a certaine price.

Stipulation. A solemne
couenant or bargaine.

Stoicall. Of or belong­
ing to the Stoikes.

Stoike. A seuere secte
of Philosophers at Athens
which followed the do­
ctrine of Zeno, who taught
that a wise man ought to
bee free from all passions.
and neuer to bee mooued
either with ioy or griefe.
They were called Stoikes,
of the Greeke word Stoa,
(which signifieth a porch)
because Zeno taught his
followers in a common
porch of the citie.

Storax. A kinde of
sweet Gumme, good a­
gainst hoarsnesse, and the 
cough.

Storke. A bird famous
for naturall loue toward
his parents, whom he fee­
deth being olde and impo­
tent, as they fedde him,
being young.  The Egypti­
ans so esteemed this birde,
that there was a great pe­
naltie laid vpon any that
should kill him.

Strangurion. A disease
when one cannot make
water, but by drops, and
that with great paine.

Strategeme. A policie or
subtill deuice in warre,
whereby the enemie is of­
ten vanquished.

Strict. Hard, streight,
seuere.

Structure. A buil­
ding.

Student. One that stu­
dieth.

Studious. Giuen to studie.

Stupid. Blockish, with­
out wit: dull.

Stupiditie. Blockishnesse,
dulnesse: astonishment.

Stupifaction. A making
dull or senslesse.






Stygian. Belonging to
the riuer Styx.

Styx. A feined Riuer in
hell, by which the heathen
gods did vse to sweare:
And if they swore falsely,
they were depriued of
their godhead, for one
hundred yeares after.

Suauitie. Sweetnesse.

Subalterne. Placed vnder
another: or that which
succeedeth another by
course.

Subalternation. A succee­
ding by course.

Subiect. That which doth
support qualities belong­
ing vnto it: as the body
is the subiect in which is
health, or sickenesse, and
the minde the subiect that
receiueth into it vertues or
vices.

Sublime. High, lofty, ho­
nourable.

Sublimatum. A strong
corosiue powder called
white Mercury, vsed by
Chirurgians to eate and
consume corrupted flesh.

Sublimitie. Highnesse,
loftinesse.

Submisse. Lowly, hum­
ble.

Subordinate. Placed in
office vnder another

Subordination. An ap­
pointing or placing of one
thing vnder another.

Suborne. To bring one
in for a false witnesse: to
instruct one priuily how
to deceiue another.

Subpœna. A Writ where­
by one is summoned to
appeare in the Chancery
at a certaine time, vpon a
great penaltie, if he faile in
appearance.

Subscribe. To write vn­
der.

Subscription. A writing
vnder.

Subsist. To abide or con­
tinue in his owne bee­
ing.

Subsistence. The abiding
or continuance of a thing
in it owne estate.

Substitute. To appoint an
inferior officer: also he
that is in authoritie vnder
another, or which ruleth
in steed of another.

Subterfuge. A refuge, a
sauegard; a place to hide
or saue one in.

Subuersion. An ouer­
throw.






Subuert. To ouerthrow,
to destroy.

Succinct. Briefe, short.

Suffocate. To strangle:
choke.

. Suffocation. A choking,
a strangling.

Suffrage. Fauourable,
voyces in our behalfe, as
at the choosing of officers
or Magistrates.

Suggest. To put closely
into ones minde.

Suggestion. A prompting
or putting of a thing into
ones minde.

Sulphur. Brimstone.

Summarie. A briefe ga­
thering together; an a­
bridgment containing the
whole effect of a matter in
few words.

Summarilie. Briefly:
touching onely the chiefe
points.

Summitie. The height or
top of a thing.

Superabound. To abound
very much; to be in great
plentie.

Supereminence. Authori­
tie, or dignitie aboue o­
thers.

Supererogation. Laying
out of more then one hath
receiued; or the doing of
more then a man is of ne­
cessitie bound to doe.

Superficiall. Going no
farther then the outside;
slight, bearing shew onely
in the outside, without any
goodnesse within.

Superficies. The outside of
euery thing, which is al­
wayes in sight.

Superfluitie. More then
needes to bee, ouermuch.

Superfluous. That which is
too much: also vaine or
vnprofitable.

Superlatiue. The highest.

Superiour. Higher, aboue
another.

Supernall. That which
commeth from aboue.

Superscription. A writing
set vpon any thing, as on
the outside of a letter.

Supersedeas. In our com­
mon Law it signifieth a
commandement sent by
writing, forbidding an of­
ficer from the doing of
that, which otherwise hee
might and ought to doe.

Superstition. An excesse
of ceremonious worship,
false worship, or honour
giuen to God.






Supplant. To trip one, or
to ouerthrowe him craf­
tily.

Supplement. That which
supplyeth or maketh vp
what is wanting.

Supply. To fill vp or adde
too.

Suppliant. He that maketh
a supplication, or humbly
intreateth another.

Supplicate. To beseech
humbly.

Suppository. Any thing
put vp into the Funda­
ment, to make the body
soluble. It is commonly
made of hony boyled till
it grow thick, and so made
into an apt forme for that
purpose; whereto some­
time is added the yolke of
an egge, or salt, when wee
will haue it to worke the
effect more speedily.

Suppresse. To keepe
downe; to beate vnder:
sometime to conceale or
keepe close.

Supputation. An account
or reckoning.

Supreme. Chiefe, highest,
most excellent.

Surcease. To giue ouer,
leaue off or cease.

* Surcote. A gowne with
a hood of the same.

Surplusage. Ouerplus,
more then needes.

Surprise. To come vn­
wares: to take vpon a so­
daine.

Surprisall. A taking vn­
awares.

* Surquidrie. Presump­
tion.

Surrender. To yielde vp
lands or tenements to a­
nother.

Surreption. A priuie ta­
king away.

Surround. To compasse
round about.

Suruey. To ouerlooke,
or ouersee.

Surueyer. He that hath
the ouersight, of the kings
or some great personages
lands or workes.

Suruiue. To ouerliue, or
liue after another.

Suruiuer. He that liueth
after another.

Suspend. To stay one by
authoritie for a time, from
executing his office: to
delay, to deferre.

Suspence. Doubtfulnesse,
vncertainty.






Suspiration. A breathing
or sighing.

Swallowes tayle. In buil­
ding it signifieth, a faste­
ning of two peeces of tim­
ber so strongly together,
that they cannot fall asun­
der.

Swaine. A Seruant.

Swaynemote. A Court
kept thrice a yeare, tou­
ching matters belonging
to a forrest.

* Sweuen. A dreame.

* Swynker. A labourer.

Sycomore. A tree like a
fig tree, hauing great bran­
ches, and large leaues like
a Mulberrie. It beares fruit
three or foure times in a
yeare, much like a wilde
Fig, but without any seeds
within. The fruit groweth
vpon the verie bodie of
the tree, and the great
maine boughes, and will
neuer be ripe except it bee
scraped with an iron toole.
It is found plentifully in
Caria, Egypt, and the Ile
of Rhodes; especially in
such places, where Wheate
will not grow.

Sycophant. A Talebearer,
a slanderer, a false accu­
ser.

Syllogisme. An Argu­
ment consisting of three
parts, whereby something
is necessarily prooued, as
thus:

Euery vertue is honorable:
Patience is a vertue.

Therefore Patience is
honourable.

The first part of a syllo­
gisme is called the Propo­
sition or Maior; the se­
cond the Assumption or
Minor; and the third, the
Conclusion.

Syluane. Of, or belong­
ing to the woods.

Symbole. A short ga­
thering of principal points
together.

Symmetrie. Due pro­
portion of one part with
another.

Symmetrian. Hee that
considereth the due pro­
portion of a thing; & how
well the parts agree with
the whole.

Sympathie. A likenesse in
quantitie; or a like dispo­
sition or affection of one
thing to another.

Symphonie. Harmony or
consent in Musick.






Symptome. Any passion
or griefe following a dis­
ease, or sensibly ioyned
with it: as headach with an
Ague, a pricking in the
side with a Pleurisie, and
such like.

Synagogue. A Congre­
gation or assembly: com­
monly it signifies a church
of the Iewes.

Synteresie. The inward
conscience. or a naturall
qualitie ingrafted in the
soule, which inwardly in­
formeth a man, whether
he do well or ill.

Synod. A generall coun­
cell, a generall or vniuersal
assembly.

Synoper. See Cinoper.

Synopsie. A sight or full
view of a thing.


T
* TAas. An heape.

Tabernacle. A shel­
ter or a roome made a­
broad, with boords and
boughes of trees. There
was of old among the Is­
raelites, a feast commaun­
ded by God, called the
feast of Tabernacles;
which beganne on the fif­
teenth day of the seuenth
moneth, and continued
seauen dayes, during which
time the Israelites liued
abroad in Tabernacles,
in remembrance, that their
Fathers a long time so li­
ued, after God had deli­
uered them out of the land
of Egypt.

Tacamahaca. A Rosin
brought out of the {W}est 
Indies, of great vertue a­
gainst any cold humours,
rising of the Mother,
Toothach, and diuers o­
ther griefes.

Talent. A certaine value
of money. Among the
Greekes there were two
kindes of talents, the grea­
ter and the lesse: The
greater conteined about
two hundred thirty three
pounds sterling: the lesse
about an hundred seuenty
fiue pounds.  Among the
Hebrewes the greater Ta­
lent of the Sanctuary con­
teined 400. pounds, the
lesser Talent halfe so
much.

Tallage. Custome: fraight.






Tamarinds. A fruite
brought hither out of In­
dia, like vnto green Dam­
sens.  They are cold in o­
peration, and therefore
good against burning Fea­
uers and all inward disea­
ses, proceeding of heate
and choler.

Tamariske. A little tree
bearing leaues not much
vnlike to heath; the de­
coction whereof in Wine
and a little Vineger bee­
ing drunken, is of great
vertue against the hardnes
or stopping of the spleene
or Milt.  This tree doth
by nature so wast the Milt,
that Swine which haue
beene daily fedde out of a
vessell made thereof, haue
beene found to haue no
Milt at all.

* Tapinage. Secrecie, sli­
linesse.

Tarantula. A little beast
like a Lizard, hauing spots
in his necke like starres.

Tardie. Slow.

Tartar. Leeze of wine.

Tautologie. A repeating
of one speech or matter
often.

Taxe. To appoint what
one shal pay to the Prince:
sometime to reprooue.

Tearce. A measure of
moyst things beeing the
fixt part of a run, and the
third part of a pipe.

* Teene. Sorrow.

Temerarious. Rash, hasty.

Temeritie. Rashnesse.

Templaries. Certaine
Christian souldiours dwel­
ling about the Temple at
Hierusalem, whose office
was to entertain Christian
strangers that came thither
for deuotion, and to guard
them in safetie when they
went to visite the places
of the holy Land:  They
wore by their Order a
white Cloake or vpper
Garment, with a redde
Crosse.

Temporall. That which
endureth but a time.

Temporarie. The same 
that Temporal is.

Temporize. To follow the
time:  To seeke to please
the time.

Tenacitie. A holding fast,
a niggardnesse.

Tenderlings. The soft tops
of a Deeres hornes when
they are in blood.






Tendrells. Little sprigs of
Vines or other Plants,
wherewith they take hold
to grow or stay themselues
vp.

Tenne. A terme vsed among
Heralds, signifying an O­
renge or tawny colour.

Tenon. That part of a post
which is put into a mortise
hole to make it stand vp­
right, or to beare it vp.

Tenuitie. Littlenesse, slen­
dernesse.

Tergiuersation. Wrangling,
ouerthwart dealing.  A see­
ming to run away and yet
fight still.

Termination. An ending
or last part of a word.

Terrene. Earthly.

Terrestriall. Earthly.

Terrifie. To make afraid.

Territorie. Land lying
within the bounds of a 
Cittie.

Terrour. Feare, dread.

Tertian. The third, or re­
turning euery third day.

Testament. A written
will.

Testator. He that worketh
a will.

Testifie. To beare wit­
nesse.

Testification. A witnes­
sing.

Tetragrammaton. Ha­
uing foure Letters.  The
Hebrewes so called the
great name of God Ieho­
uah, because in their lan­
guage it was written with
foure letters.

Tetrarch. A Prince that
ruleth the fourth part of a
kingdome.

Theater. A place made
halfe rounde where people
sate to behold solemne
playes and games.

Theatricall. Of, or belon­
ging to the Theater.

Theme. A sentence or ar­
gument whereupon one
speaketh.

Theologie. Diuinitie: the
knowledge of Diuine
things.

Theologicall vertues. Faith, 
Hope and Charity are so
called, because they haue
their obiect & end in God.

Theoretical. That which
belongeth to contemplati­
on or inward knowledge
of a thing.

Theorick. The inward
knowledge or contempla­
tion of a thing.






* Thilke. The same.

* Thirle. To pearce.

Thorpe. A village.

Thrasonicall. Vainglorious,
full of boasting as Thraso
was.

Threues. Lamentations:
mournings.

* Threpe. To affirme.

Thummim. An Hebrew
word signifying perfection. 
See Vrim.

Tiara. A rich cap or hat
of silke vsed by Kings and
Priests of Persia: It coue­
red not the whole head
before, but was fastened
with ribbins behind, so that
it could not easily fall off.

Tiger. A fierce wild beast
in India & Hyrcania.  This
beast is the swiftest of all
other, wherefore they are
taken very young in the
dams absence, and carried
away by men on horse­
back; who hearing the cry
of the old Tiger following
swiftly after them, doe of
purpose let fall one of the
young whelpes, that while
she beareth that back, they
in the meane time may e­
scape safe with the other to
the ship.

Timerous. Fearefull.

Timiditie. Fearefulnesse.

Tincture. A dipping, co­
louring, or stayning of a
thing.

Titular. Which beareth
onely a Title.

Toft. A place where a
house hath stood.

Tolerate. To indure or
suffer.

Toleration. An induring;
a sufferance.

Tome. A part or diuision.

Tone. A tune, note, or ac­
cent of the voice.

Tonnage. A payment due
for merchandise carried in
tuns or such like vessels, af­
ter a certaine rate in euery
tunne.

Tonsure. A clipping or
cutting of the haire.

Topase. A precious stone
wherof ther are two kinds:
One of the colour of gold,
and the other of a Saffron
colour, not so good as the
first.  It is written that this
stone being put into see­
thing water, doth so coole
it, that one may presentlie
take it out with his hand.

Topikes. Places to finde
arguments.

Topographie. A description
of a place. 






Torrent. A little streame,
a brooke that runneth
swiftly.

Torride. Burning, excee­
ding hot.

Torteauxes. Cakes of
bread: a terme vsed in He­
raldrie.

Totall. The whole.

Trace. To follow by the
steps.

Traces. The print of feet
in beasts of rauine, as
wilde Boares, Beares, and
such like.

Tract. A discourse, a draw­
ing in length.

Tractable. Easie to be ru­
led and handled: gentle,
easie to be perswaded.

Tradition. A deliuerie:
that which is deliuered vs
from others.

Traduce. To speake euill
of one, to defame, to re­
proach.

Tragacanth. A kind of
Gum, the best whereof is
cleere, and somewhat sweet
in taste: It is often vsed a­
gainst coughes, and rough
hoarsenesse of the throate.

Tragedie. A play or Hi­
storie ending with great
sorrow and bloodshed.

Tragedian. A Player or
Writer of Tragedies.

Tragicall. Mournefull, la­
mentable, deadly, which
endeth like a Tragedy.

Tranquillitie. Quietnesse
of mind, calmenesse.

Transcendent. That which
clymeth ouer, and sur­
mounteth another thing;
In Logicke it signifieth a
word of such nature that it
cannot be included in a­
ny of the tenne predica­
ments.

Transcript. A writing or
a coppying out.

Transfer. To carry or con­
uey from one place to an­
other.

Transfiguration. An alte­
ring of the form or figure.

Transformation. A chan­
ging into another forme.

Transition. A passing o­
uer from one thing to ano­
ther.

Transitorie. Soone passing,
of short continuance.

Translucent. Cleere,
bright, which may be seen
through.

Transmigration. A remo­
uing to dwell, from one
place to another.






Transmitte. To send ouer
or away.

Transmutation. A chang­
ing.

Transparent. Cleere, that
may be seene through.

Transport. To send ouer
by shippe.

Transpose. To change or
alter the order of a thing.

Transubstantiation. A
changing of one substance
into another.

Trasonings. The crossings
or doublings of a Row
bucke before the hounds.

Traue. A treuise to shooe
a wild horse in.

Trauerse. To march vp
and downe or to moue the
feete with proportion, as in
dancing. In our common
Law it signifieth to make
contradiction, or to deny
the cheefe point of the
matter wherewith one is
charged.

Treble. Threefold, or to
make a thing thrice so
great as it is: sometime it
signifieth the highest note
in musicke.

Tremour. A trembling.

Trepandiron. An instru­
ment vsed by surgeons to
cut out a small bone, with­
all.

Tresses. Haire.

Triangled. Three corne­
red.

Tribe. A kindered; or
companie that dwelleth to­
gether in one ward.

Tribune. The name of
two cheefe officers in
Rome. The first was Tri­
bune of the people, who
was to defend their liber­
ties, and had therefore the
gates of his house standing
alwayes open day and
night. The other was cal­
led Tribune of the soul­
diours, who had charge to
see them well armed, and
ordered, being as the
Knight marshall is with vs.

Tribunall. A iudgement
seate.

Tributarie. which paieth
tribute.

Trine. The number of
three.

Trinitie. Three ioyned in
one, or three together.

Tripartite. Diuided into
three parts.

Tripp. A heard or flocke
of goates.

Triplicicie. Threefolde
being. 






Triuiall. Base, vile, of no
estimation, common euery
where.

Triumuirate. The office
of three together.

Trociskes. Little flatte
cakes sold by Apotheca­
ries, made of diuerse simple
medicines mingled toge­
ther.

Trope. The changing of
a word; or  a figuratiue man­
ner of speaking.

Trophie. Any thing set
vp in token of victorie.
This custome first began
among the Greekes who
vsed in that place, where
the enemies were van­
quished, to cut downe the
boughes of great trees, and
iin the stockes or bodies of
them to hang vp armour,
or other spoiles taken from
the enemies.

Tropicall. That which is
spoken by a trope or fi­
gure.

Tropikes. Two imagined
circles in the spheare, of e­
quall distance on either
side from the Equinoctiall
line. The one is called the
Tropike of Cancer, the o­
ther the Tropike of Capri­
corne. To the first the Sun
cometh in Iune, to the o­
ther in December. They
are called Tropikes of the
Greeke word Trepo which
signifieth to tourne, be­
cause when the Sun comes
to either of them, he turnes
his course another way.

Troy weight. A pound
weight of twelue ounces,
by which gold, siluer, pre­
cious stones, iewels and
bread are weighed.

Trucheman. An interpre­
ter.

Truculent. Fierce, cruell
and terrible.

Trunk. The body of a
tree.

Tuition. Defence, pro­
tection.

Tumor. A swelling.

Tumult. A sedition or
trouble, some gathering
together of the people.

Tumultuous. Seditious,
full of buisinesse, or trou­
ble.

Tunne. A measure of 252.
gallons. In weight it signi­
fieth twenty hundred.

Turbith. A roote much
vsed in Phisicke, to purge
slimie fleame out of the






body. The best is white
and hollow, and is com­
monly taken with a little
ginger, for then it will
worke the effect with more
ease.

Turbith minerall. A cer­
taine red powder (made
according to the Paracel­
sian practise) which is vsed
against the French disease.

Turbulent. Troublesome,
vnquiet.

Turkise. A precious
stone of a silke blew co­
lour.

Turpentine. A faire, cleere,
and moist kind of rosin,
which issueth out of the
Larx and Turpentine
tree. It is good to be put
into oyntments and em­
plaisters, for it gleweth,
cleanseth and healeth
wounds. It may be also
licked in with hony, and
then it cleanseth the brest,
and gently looseth the
belly, prouoking vrine and
driuing out the stone and
grauell.

Turpitude. Filthines, dis­
honesty.

Turtle doue. A birde lesse
than a pigeon, famous for
continencie in widowes e­
state. If the male or femall
of this bird dy, the other
euer remaineth single, as it
were in continuall sorrow.
In the Spring time they are
scarce seene, because they
then loose their fethers:
when they drinke, they lift
not vp their heads backe­
ward as other birds vse.
They liue commonly eight
yeares, and doe breede
twyce a yeare, not aboue
three egs at a tyme.

Tutmouthed. He that hath
the chin and nether iaw
sticking out farther than
the vpper.

Tutour. A defender, he
that hath charge to bring
vp a childe.

Twibill. An instrument v­
sed by Carpenters to make
mortise holes.

Tympanie. A disease
wherein the body waxing
leane, the bellie swelleth
vp, hauing great store of
wind and windy humours
gathered together be­
tweene the inner skinne
thereof and the guts.

Type. A figure, forme or
likenesse of any thing.






Typicall. mysticall, or that
which serueth as a shadow
and figure of an other
thing.

Tyrant. A cruell Prince,
One that ruleth vniustly.

Tyrannize. To play the
tyrant, to gouerne with
crueltie.


V
VAcant. Voyde, empty;
without buisines

Vacation. A ceasing from
labour.

Vacuitie. Emptines.

Vacuum. Emptines.

Vaile bonet. To putte off
the hart, to strike saile, to
giue signe of submission.

Valentinians. Certaine he­
retikes so called by the
name of their first maister
Valentinianus; who held o­
pinion that our Sauiour
receiued not his flesh of
the blessed virgin Mary.

Validitie. Force, or
strength.

Variable. Changeable,
which altereth often.

Variation. An altering, or
changing.

Vaste. Huge and great.

Vastation. A wasting or
spoyling of a country.

Vastitie. Exceeding great­
nes: also waste or spoile
done to a country.

Vauessour. A Lord.

Vauntcourers. Forerun­
ners.

Vauntlay. A terme of 
hunting, when they sette
hounds in readynes, where
they thinke a chace will
passe, and cast them off be­
fore the rest of the kennell
come in.

Vaward. The foremost
part of a battell.

Vbiquitie. The presence
of a person in all places at
once.

* Vechons. Hedgehogs.

Vegetiue. That which
lyueth and groweth as
plants doe.

Vehemencie. Earnestnes.

Veile. To hide or couer:
also any thing which hi­
deth or couereth.

Velitations. Skirmishes,
fightings.

Velocitie. Swiftnes.

Velume. Fine parchment
of calues skynnes.

Vendible. Saleable, which
will quickly be sold.






Venerable. Reuerent, graue,
worshipfull.

Veneration. A worship­
ping.

Venery. Hunting: some­
time fleshly wantonnesse.

Veneriall. See veneri­
ous.

Venerious. Fleshly: giuen
to lechery.

Venie. A touch in the
body at playing with wea­
pons.

Veniall. Which may ea­
sily be pardoned.

Ventoy. A fanne for a wo­
man.

Ventosity. Windinesse.

Ventricle. The stomacke
of any liuing thing.

Ventroloquie. A hollow
inward speaking of a spirit
in a possessed body.

Ver. The spring time.

Verbal. Of or belonging
to words.

Verbatim. Word by word,
that which is precisely
spoke, according as some­
thing was spoken before.

Verbositie. Much talke,
many words.

Verdegrease. A greene
substance, made of the rust
of brasse or copper, which
hath beene hanged cer­
taine dayes ouer strong
vineger; It is of a fretting
nature, and therefore to be
vsed with great discreti­
on.

Verdour. The name of a
chiefe officer in a For­
rest: sometime it signifieth
greenenesse.

Verge. A rod or wanne.

Verger. He that carryeth
a white wande before a
great officer.

Verifie. To prooue, to
make true.

Veritie. Truth.

Vermilion. See Cinoper.

Vernall. Of or belong­
ing to the spring.

Versifie. To make ver­
ses.

Verte. A terme in He­
rauldry: it signifieth a
greene colour.

Vesper. The Euening.

Vestals. Certaine virgins
among the ancient Ro­
manes, consecrated to
the Goddesse Vesta.  They 
were alwayes chosen be­
tweene sixe and tenne
yeeres of age, and conti­
nued thirtie yeeres in
their office; whereof the






first tenne yeares they be­
stowed in learning the ce­
remonies of their order,
the second they employed
in execution thereof, and
the last tenne in teaching
others, after it was law­
full for them to marry
if they would. Their
chiefe office was to keepe
fire continually burning
in a round temple at
Rome in honour of Ve­
sta, and if it chanced to
goe out, they were to
renew it againe with no
vsuall fire, but such as they
could get by art from
the Sunne beames.  They
were greatly honoured
in the Cittie, and had
diuerse priuiledges: for
they were carried in Cha­
riots, and the chiefest
Magistrates would doe
reuerence to them. They
had officers going before
them, as the Consuls
had, and if they met any
who was ledde to be put
to death, they had authori­
tie to deliuer him, taking
an oath that they came not
that way of purpose but by
chance. They might also
make a will, and dispose of
their goods as they plea­
sed. But if any of them
were found to liue vnchast,
she was openly carried
with sad silence to the gate
called Collina, where being
put into a deepe pit,
she was presently buried a­
liue. These Vestals were first
instituted by Numa Pompi­
lius, or as some write, by
Romulus.

Vestment. A garment or
clothing.

* Viands. Victuals.

Viaticum. Money or any
necessarie prouision for a
traueller.

Viciate. To corrupt, to
defile.

Vicegerent. A deputie, one
that supplieth the place of
an other man.

Vicinitie. Neighbour­
hood.

Vicissitude. An inter­
changeable course of
things, now one way, now
an other.

Victime. A sacrifice, a
beast offered in sacrifice.

Victimate. To offer in
sacrifice, to kill and sacri­
fice.






Victor. A conqueror.

Victorious. That hath
gotten the victorie.

Videlicet. To wit, that
is to say.

View. The print of the
foote of a fallow Deere in
the ground.

Vigilancie. Watchfulnes.

Vigilant. Watchfull.

Vigill. The eeue or day
next before a great festi­
uall day. It signifieth also a
portion of the night deui­
ded into foure equall parts,
the first Vigill beganne at
sixe of the clocke in the
euening, and continued till
nine. The second Vigill 
began at nine, and continu­
ed till twelue. The third
was from twelue till three. 
And the fourth was from
three, till sixe of the clocke
in the morning.

Vigour. Strength, liueli­
nesse, force.

Vigorous. Liuely, strong,
lusty

Vilifie. To make base.

Vilitie. Basenesse.

Vindictiue. Reuengefull,
or apt to reuenge.

Vintage. The time of
yeare when wine is made.

Violate. To offer vio­
lence, to corrupt or defile,
to transgresse or breake a
law.

Violation. An offering
of violence, a breaking.

Viper. A venemous ser­
pent in some hot countries
lying much in the earth,
hauing a short taile, which
grateth and maketh a noise
as he goeth. They are of
a yellow colour, and some­
time red. The male hath
but one tooth in euery
side, but the female hath
moe. It is written that
when they ingender, the
female biteth off the males
head, which he putteth in­
to her mouth, and that the
young ones doe gnaw the
dams belly, and so kill her
to get forth the sooner.

Virago. A stout woman
of manly courage.

Virginall. Of or belon­
ging to a Virgin.

Virilitie. Mans estate.

Virulent. Poisonous,
deadly, infectious.

Visible. Which may be
seene.

Visibilitie. The abilitie
or powre of seeing.






Vitall. Liuing, or ap­
pertaining to life.

Vitiate. To corrupt or
defile.

Vitious. Full of vice,
lewde, wicked.

Vitriol. Copperas: It is of
a middle nature betweene
stone and mettall.

Vituperate. To re­
proach, blame, or dis­
praise.

Vituperation. A blaming,
a rebuking.

Viuacitie. Long life,
liuelinesse.

Viuification. A quicke­
ning, a reuiuing.

Vlcer. A sore, or botch.

Vlcerate. To make sores
or blisters to arise.

Vlcerous. Full of
sores.

Vmbilike. The Nauell,
the middle part.

Vmbrated. Shadowed.

Vnaccessible. Vnapproch­
able, which cannot be
come vnto.

Vnanimitie. One con­
sent of minde, concord, a­
greement.

Vncouth. Strange.

Vnction. An annointing.

* Vneth. Scarce, hardly,
with difficulty.

Vnguent. An oyntment.

Vniforme. Of one forme
and fashion.

Vniformitie. One forme
and fashion.

Vnintelligible. Which
cannot be vnderstood.

Vnion. A ioyning to­
gether, concord, agree­
ment: also there is a preci­
ous pearle so called.

Vnitie. Concord, a­
greement.

Vniuersall. The whole,
all in generall.

Vniuersalitie. The whole
state, all in generall.

Vnsatiable. Which can­
not be filled or satisfied.

Vocabularie. Of or be­
longing to words, which
consisteth onely of words.

Vocall. Of or belonging
to the voice.

Vocation. A calling, or
course of life that one is
called to.

Volant. Flying.

Volubilitie. The quicke
turning of any thing: in­
constancie, changeablenes.

Voluntarie. Willing.

* Voluper. A Kercher.

Voluptuous. Giuen to
pleasure, wanton.






Voluptuousnesse. Pleasure
of bodie, wantonnesse.

Vomite. To cast, to rid
the stomacke.

Voracity. A deuouring.

Votarie. Hee that maketh
a vow, or bindeth himselfe
by vow.

Vowell. A letter which
maketh a perfect sound of
it selfe, as a, e, i, o, u.

Vrbanitie. Courtesie in
speech or behauiour, ciui­
litie, gentlnesse.

Vrgent. Which vrgeth or
compelleth a man to go a­
bout a matter.

Vreters. The water pipes
or conduits by which the
vrine passeth from the kid­
nies to the bladder.

Vrim. An Hebrew word,
which the high Priest of
the Iewes wore with the
word Thummim, in the
plaits of the Rationall vp­
on his brest: Saint Hierome
interpreteth it, Learning.

Vrine. Water of man or
beast.

Vrne. A box, or litle vessel.

Vtas. The eighth day fol­
lowing any terme or feast.

Vtensils. Necessaries be­
longing to a house or ship.

Vtility. Profit, commo­
dity.

Vulgar. Common or
much vsed of the common
people.

Vultur. A rauenous fel­
low, a cruell Cormorant.

Vuula. A little peece of
flesh in the inmost roofe
of the mouth, which some­
time hangeth loose down­
ward, and hindereth from
speaking and swallowing
the meat.


W
{W}Aife. Goods that a
Fellon flying, lea­
ueth for haste behind him,
which commonly are for­
fet to the lord of the soile,
if the right owner bee not
knowne.

Waiue. In our com­
mon law it signifieth a wo­
man that is outlawed.

* Wanger. A male or
bouget.

* Warison. Reward.

Wariangles. A kind of ra­
uenous birds.

Warpe. The threed that
goeth in the length of the
cloth.






* Wastell bread. Fine Cim­
nell.

* Waymenting. Lamen­
ting.

Weasand. The throat or
passage into the stomacke.

* Weene. To thinke.

* Welked. Withered.

Welkine. The whole com­
passe of the heauens: the
Firmament, the heauens.

* Wend. To go.

Whilke. Which.

* Whilome. Whilst. som­
time once, or in time past.

Whirlebone. A round bone
vpon the knee, which may
be mooued vp and downe.

Whorlebat. A weapon
hauing plummets of Lead
tyed to the end of it.

Wile. Deceit, crafti­
nesse.

Wilie. Subtile, craftie.

Wisard. A Wise man, a
Witch, a cunning man.

Withername. When hee
that hath taken a distresse
carrieth it to such a place,
where the Sheriffe may not
make deliuerance vpon a
a Repleuine, then the par­
tie distrayned may haue a
Writ to the Sheriffe, that
he take as many beastes,
or as much goods of the
other in his keeping,
till that he hath made deli­
uerance of the first di­
stresse, and this is called a 
Writ of Withername.

* Wone. Store.

* Wonne. To dwell, or a­
bide.

* Woodshaw. Woodside
or shadow.

Woofe. That threed in
weauing which goeth a
crosse.

Wooldriuer. He that buy­
eth wooll in the Country,
and carrieth it away on
horsebacke to sell it a­
gaine.

Wrethe. The tayle of a 
wilde Boare.

Wrecke. The losse of a­
ship at Sea by drowning:
also goods so lost and cast
vp on the sea shore.

* Wreme. To compasse
about.

Wright. A Carpenter.

* Wimple. A Kercher.

Wyuer. A serpent much
like a Dragon.


X
XYloaloes. See Lignum
Aloes.






Xylobalsamum. A sweet
wood out of which balme
droppeth. See Balme.


Y
YArdland. In some pla­
ces, it is 20. Acres of
land: in some, 24. and in
some 30.

Yarrow. Fearefull, faint­
hearted. Also there is an
herbe so called, good to
stop any bleeding.

Yate. A Gate.

Ycleeped. Called, named.

Yearne. To cry and
barke as Beagles doe at
their prey.

* Yede. Went.

Yexing. Sobbing.

Yore. Long agoe, of olde.

Yuca. An herbe in India,
wherewith they vse to
make bread.


Z
ZAnie. A foolish imi­
tator to a tumbler, or
such like.

Zenith. That part of the
heauens which is direct o­
uer our head.

Zephirus. The Weste
winde.

Zodiake. An imaginarie
winding circle in the hea­
uens, vnder which the pla­
nets are still moued, and
in which the twelue signes
are placed.

Zone. A girdle In Cos­
mographie, it signifieth a
diuision made of the hea­
uens into fiue parts, wher­
of one is extreme hot, two
extreme colde, and two
temperate. The hot Zone,
otherwise called the bur­
ning Zone, is all that part
of the heauens, which is
contained betweene the
two Tropickes of Cancer
and Capricorne,  in which
Zone, continually the Sun
keepeth his course. The
two cold Zones are vnder
the two Poles of the
world, or within 23. de­
grees neere them. The
two temperate are the
Zones betweene the far­
thest extreme cold and the
middleburning Zone. And
with these fiue Zones  of
the heauens, doeth the
earth vnder, agree in heat,
cold temperature.




FINIS.