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es A briefe Catalogue ofthe words of Art, with the 
explanation thereof, 
A 
Bort, ot abortive fruit, is an untimely 
birth. , 
Abfterfive,i,.{couring, cleanfing, or wi- 
ping away, fuch as the Greeks call Smecti- 
ca, and they enter into fope and wafhing 
balls. 
Accefe,i.a fit, whethet it be of an ague, falling 
ficknefle, or any fuch difeafes as returne at 
times. 
Acetabulum,or Acetable,a meafure among the 
Romans of liquor efpecially but yet of diié 
things alfo : the fame that Oxybaphon in 
Greeke: and for that (as both words do im- 
port) they ufed to dip their meats in vine- 
gre out of fuch, it may well goe fora faucer 
with us :forit containeth (as fome thinke) 
fifteen drams, which grow near to two oun- 
ces, of which capacitie our {mall faucers 
are: but as others fuppofe, it receiveth two 
ouncesand an halfe, the meafure of ordina- 
rie faucers. 
_ eAcrimonie, i, Sharpnefle. 
“‘Adtually, 7 fenfibly and prefently as fire is aQtu- 
ally hot. 
cAditiales, or Adyciales epule, were great and 
fumptuous fealts or {uppers , held by the 
Pontifices or high priefts, in teftimonie of 
publicke joy. 
Almonds, See Amygdals. 
Amphora, ameature inRome of liquors only: 
It feemeth to have taken that name of the 
twoears which it had, of either fide one: it 
contained eight Congios,which are much 
abouteight wine gallons,or rather between 
feven and eight : fo as inround reckoning it 
may go for a ferkin,halfe kilderkin, or halfe 
fefterne with us. 
Amygdzis, be kernils at the root of the tongue, 
fubjeCt to inflammations and {wellings, oc- 
cafioned by deflux or falling downe of hu- 
mours from the head : they be called Antia- 
des, Parifthmia, and Tonfillz : the forefaid 
infirmities alfo incident unto them, do like- 
wile carie the fame denominations. 
A 
(Antidotes,é. countrepoifons properly,defen- 
fatives, or ptefervatives againft poifons,pe- 
ftilence, or any maladie whatfoever, 
Antipathie,z, contrarietie, enmitie, and repug- 
nancie in nature, as between fire and water, 
the viné and the Colewort;&c. 
S, Aathonies fieis arifing in the skin occafio- 
ned by hote bloud mixe with abundance of 
choller, andfuch bethe (hingles and other 
wildfires called in Greeke Eryfipelas, 
Aguofities, be waterifh humours,apt to engen- 
der the dropfies called Afcites and Leuco- 
phlegmatia. 
AromattXed,i, Spiced. 
Arthriticall griefs,fuch as poffefle the joynts, 
as all the forts of gout. 
A firidive or Affringent,be fuch things as 
bind the bodie or any part thereof, 
~ Attractive, 7, drawing ; as the loadftone draw. 
eth yron, amber ftraws or bents, DiQamnus 
arrow heads or fpillsout of the bodie, and 
cupping-glaffes (or ventofes) humours and 
wind, r; 
Auftere,harth or hard, asin fruits unripe, and 
hard wines of hedge grapes, 
Axinomantic,a kind of magicke divination by 
an axe head red hot. | 
B 
B,4/sina compound medecine is,that drug 
or fimple which is predominant and carieth 
the greaceft force in it,as the ground therof, 
whereupon the whole taketh the name; as 
Poppiein Diacodion, Quinces in Diacy= — 
donium,&c. 
Bole, is the forme of a medecine when it may 
be given in groffe manner at a knives point 
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to the quantitie of anutmeg at a time, un- 
till the whole receit be taken. 
Browuing,a tearme ufuall in the mouths of ma- 
riners and winnowers of corne, when they 
are calmed and doe call for wind. 
Bulbs , although Plinie feemed to give that 
name unto fome one fpeciall hearbe, yerie 
A ij fignifieth 
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