Philemon Holland

Accompany

Men say that they will drive away one another, . . . and not accompany together.

Accomplished

They . . . show themselves accomplished bees.

Affront

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.

Age

They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.

Agility

The agility of the sun's fiery heat.

Aloft

Fresh waters run aloft the sea.

Amuse

Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold.

Ancient

He wrought but some few hours of the day, and then would he seem very grave and ancient.

Animosity

Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth.

Answerable

What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course?

Appall

Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.

Appui

If a vine be to climb trees that are of any great height, there would be stays and appuies set to it.

Aquosity

Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly.

Arrive

[Æneas] sailing with a fleet from Sicily, arrived . . . and landed in the country of Laurentum.

Assignation

This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.

Astonish

The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others.

Astonishment

A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say.

Attrap

Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly?

Bastile

The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls.

Bate

About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.

Bicker

Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.

Bloodiness

All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature.

Bluntness

The multitude of elements and bluntness of angles.

Breviary

A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered.

Brewing

I am not able to avouch anything for certainty, such a brewing and sophistication of them they make.

Caitiff

Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave.

Carnosity

The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity.

Challenge

He complained of the emperors . . . and challenged them for that he had no greater revenues . . . from them.

Charge

Never, in any other war afore, gave the Romans a hotter charge upon the enemies.

Cheer

The parents . . . fled away with heavy cheer.

Circumgyration

A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration.

Claw

Rich men they claw, soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.

Concurrent

Menander . . . had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.

Consent

The melodious consent of the birds.

Coopery

Coopery vessels made of wood.

Cope

Some bending down and coping toward the earth.

Corrasive

Corrasive sores which eat into the flesh.

Cove

Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.

Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.

Covey

[Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch.

Craftsmaster

In cunning persuasion his craftsmaster.

Crick

To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward.

Curb

Crooked and curbed lines.

Deaf

If the season be unkindly and intemperate, they [peppers] will catch a blast; and then the seeds will be deaf, void, light, and naught.

Delicate

All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbors, -- are only of the Corinth metal.

Delirate

An infatuating and delirating spirit in it.

Demerit

By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation.

Depaint

In few words shall see the nature of many memorable persons . . . depainted.

Derive

For fear it [water] choke up the pits . . . they [the workman] derive it by other drains.

Despume

If honey be despumed.

Digress

Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.

Disseize

Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof.

Dissite

Lands far dissite and remote asunder.

Downfall

Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid.

Dropmeal

Distilling dropmeal, a little at once.

Dusk

After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

Earth

They [ferrets] course the poor conies out of their earths.

Earthmad

The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes.

Ebb

The water there is otherwise very low and ebb.

Egress

Embarred from all egress and regress.

Excursion

They would make excursions and waste the country.

Experience

When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.

Exploit

He made haste to exploit some warlike service.

Fawn

[The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.

Fellow

When they be but heifers of one year, . . . they are let go to the fellow and breed.

Fielden

The fielden country also and plains.

Fragility

The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius.

Frounce

The Commons frounced and stormed.

Gesture

The players . . . gestured not undecently withal.

Gist

These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.

Gravery

Either of picture or gravery and embossing.

Griff

A vein of gold ore within one spade's griff.

Hear

Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proceedings.

High

Men must high them apace, and make haste.

Humanity

Polished with humanity and the study of witty science.

Imager

Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager.

Impark

They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles.

Impression

A fiery impression falling from out of Heaven.

Impuissance

Their own impuissance and weakness.

Impunity

The impunity and also the recompense.

Incertitude

The incertitude and instability of this life.

Insession

Insessions be bathing tubs half full.

Intimation

They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.

Jag

Garments thus beset with long jags.

Joint

Quartering, jointing, seething, and roasting.

Joust

For the whole army to joust and tourney.

Kex

When the kex, or husk, is broken, he proveth a fair flying butterfly.

Kind

It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.

Kindle

The poor beast had but lately kindled.

Knap

The highest part and knap of the same island.

Knitch

When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls.

Knock

A loud cry or some great knock.

Lay

They bound themselves by a sacred lay and oath.

Lively

Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves.

Loveless

These are ill-favored to see to; and yet, as loveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues.

Magnet

Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone.

Mediterranean

Cities, as well mediterranean as maritime.

Moon

If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned.

Otherwhile

Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more.

Overdeal

The overdeal in the price will be double.

Pester

All rivers and pools . . . pestered full with fishes.

Popular

The smallest figs, called popular figs, . . . are, of all others, the basest and of least account.

Portoir

Branches . . . which were portoirs, and bare grapes.

Pudder

Others pudder into their food with their broad nebs.

Purposedly

A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war.

Rammel

Filled with any rubbish, rammel and broken stones.

Reach

The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches.

Renning

Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.

Resolution

Little resolution and certainty there is as touching the islands of Mauritania.

Restiness

The snake by restiness and lying still all winter.

Ridgebone

Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone.

Rover

Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships.

Runt

Neither young poles nor old runts are durable.

Scent

Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone.

Skull

These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.

Sonnet

He had a wonderful desire to chant a sonnet or hymn unto Apollo Pythius.

Spare

Killing for sacrifice, without any spare.

Stitch

In Syria the husbandmen go lightly over with their plow, and take no deep stitch in making their furrows.

Stith

He invented also pincers, hammers, iron crows, and the anvil, or stith.

Tablement

Tablements and chapters of pillars.

Team

A team of ducklings about her.

Temperature

Made a temperature of brass and iron together.

Titling

The titling, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird.

Toil

Places well toiled and husbanded.

Tormentress

Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor.

Troglodyte

In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the “mad lake.”

Tunicle

The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye.

Unhandsome

The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome.

Union

If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say “singular,” and by themselves alone.

Utterance

Annibal forced those captives whom he had taken of our men to skirmish one against another to the utterance.

Vastity

The huge vastity of the world.

Vermin

This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast, a dangerous vermin, used to both elements.

Wafer

The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.

Warish

Varro testifies that even at this day there be some who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

Wayfare

A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his.

Whereout

The cleft whereout the lightning breaketh.

Whirlpool

The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are; among which the whales and whirlpools, called “balaenae,” take up in length as much as four . . . arpents of land.

Winter-proud

When either corn is winter-proud, or other plants put forth and bud too early.