Amphore. An auncient measure of about 36 quarts; it was commonly of earth, had two eares, and was a foot square euery way.
Amphytane. A square, and golden-coloured stone, of the nature of a Loadstone; or more powerfull; for it also drawes gold vnto it.
Ample: com. Full, ample, wide, large, scopefull, spacious, of great compasse; also, copious, abundant; sumptuous; huge. Fief ample. A whole fief, or knights fee; for a Heriot whereof the Landlord takes his deceased tenants best horse, and part of his armour, or if he had no horse, lx. s. Tournois. Amplement. Amply, largely, widely, spaciously; fully; copiously, aboundantly; sumtuously; hugely, verie greatly.
Ampliateur: m. An amplifier, inlarger, increaser.
Ampliation. An inlarging, amplification, increase, augmentation.
Amplié: m. ée: f. Amplified, inlarged; augmented, increased.
Amplier. as Amplifier. Amplificateur. An amplifier, inlarger; augmenter, increaser.
Amplification: f. Amplification, inlargement; augmentation, increase.
Amplifier. To amplifie, inlarge; augment, increase.
Ampois: m. Starch.
Ampoule: f. A small blister, wheale, powke, or rising of the skin; Looke, Empoule. Ampoulé: m. ée: f. Beblistered; full of water-poukes, or wheales.
Amprise. as Entreprise; (corruptly;) An enterprise. Amputation. An amputation, a cutting away; or paring about; a ridding, or taking away.
Amputé: m. ée: f. Cut away; pared about; rid, or taken away.
Amputer. To cut away, or pare about; to rid, or take away, superfluities.
Amuletier: m. A counter-charmer, wisard, or good witch.
Amulette: f. A counter-charme.
Amurer. as Amarrer; also, to wall vp. Amusé: m. ée: f. Amused; put into a muse, driuen into a dumpe; held, stayed, or delayed by a discourse, question, &c.
Amuse-fol: m. One that with vaine pratling, or toying, holds fond people at gaze.
Amuseller. To muzzle; to close, or couer the mouth with a muzzle.
Amusement: m. An amusing, or amusement.
Amuser. To amuse; to make to muse, or thinke of; wonder, or gaze at; to put into a dumpe; to stay, hold, or delay from going forward by discourse, questions, or any other amusements. s'amuser sur la vinaigrette. To stand on trifles.
Amuseur. An amuser of people; one that holdeth folkes at gaze, or putteth them into dumps.
Amusoire: m. A thing to wonder at; a gazing stocke; a subiect, or cause, for amusement.
Amusse. as Aumuce. Amuté. Chasse amutée. A close running, or hunting of dogs together; or; dogs that be sembled, or held vp close together; also, a well-sorted crie of dogs.
Amy. as, Ami.
Amydon: m. Fine wheat flower steeped in water; then strained, and let stand vntill it settle at the bottome; then drained of the water, and dried at the Sunne;
vsed for bread, or in brothes it is very nourishing; also, starch made of wheat.
Amye: f. Looke, Amie. Amygdales. Kernels rising in the necke, or vnder the root of the tongue; also, Almonds.
An: m. A yeare, a tweluemonth. Ans vieux. Old age, decrepit yeares. En cent ans civiere, en cent ans banniere: Prov. Sometimes a wheelebarrow, sometimes a banner; those that are poore now, may be potent hereafter; no family holds very long at one stay. Le mal an entre en nageant: Pro. Th' ill (or vnseasonable) yeare comes swimming in; viz. begins with much raine.
Anacampserote. A certaine hearbe whose touch renueth decayed loue betweene man and man (as some haue imagined.)
Anacarde: m. Th' East-Indian fruit called Anacardium, or Beane of Malaca. Anacardin: m. ine: f. Of Anacardium; whence; Miel anacardin. A certaine venomous, and causticke oyle found, between the kernell, and outward rinde, of th' Anacardium. Anacephaleose: f. A briefe rehearsall, a recapitulation of things spoken.
Anachorete: m. The Hermit called an Ankrosse, or Anchorite.
Anafile. as Agnafile. Anagal: m. The hearbe Pimpernell.
Anagnoste: m. A reader; a Clarke that reades to a writer; a boy that reades to his master, &c.
Anagrammatiser. To make an Anagram; to frame a conceit, or sentence, of the letters of a name set together.
Anagrammatisme. A making of Anagrams; or the art of making Anagrams.
Anagramme: m. An Anagram; a Sentence, Poesie, or pretie conceit framed of the letters of a name.
Anagyre. The plant called Beane Trifolie, or Pescod tree.
Analemme: m. An instrument whereby the course, and eleuation of the Sunne is found.
Analogie: f. An Analogie, example, proportion, similitude, conformitie, correspondencie, comparison.
Analogique: com. Analogicall; conformable vnto some other thing; answering in proportion vnto another thing; correspondent.
Analogiser. To compare, conforme, and ioyne, by affinitie or proportion, one thing with another.
Anangé. Fatall, or of destinie.
Anaphore. An ascention of the planets from the East, by daily course of the firmament; also, a figure called Repetition, when two verses begin with one word.
Anaporique. A kind of circular dyall for the Winter.
Anaquil. as Anafile. Anarche: com. Without kingdome, or commaund; without Prince; without beginning; licentious, vnbrideled, vnruled, vnruly.
Anarchie: f. An Anarchie; a Commonwealth without a head, or Gouernour; a confused state, wherein one is as good as another; also, want of gouernment, libertie, licentiousnesse, dissolutenesse.
Anarchique: com. Belonging to an Anarchie; without rule, gouernment; beginning, or order; dissolute, licentious.
Anastomose: f. The communication of veines with arteries, whereby they helpe one another.
