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Spalmer. To breeme and graue, or make cleane a ship.

Sparaillon: f. The purple fish; (not the purple shell-fish, but a kind of small Guilt-head, or yellow Sea-breame, which hath a blacke spot on her tayle.)

Spargirie: f. Alchymie; extraction of quinteßences.

Spargirique: com. An Alchymist, or extractor of quintessences.

Spargitide. Terre spar. Terra sigillata, Lemnian earth.

Spariée: f. A sea-wrecke; or, as Varech. Sparte: m. as Sparton. Sparton: m. Spanish broome, or bastard Spanish broome, whereof bands to tye Vines, and (as in old time) roapes for shipping, may be made; also, Matweed.

Spase, ou peis Espase. The sea-fox, or fox dog-fish; ash-coloured on the backe, and white on the bellie; little mouthed, but sharpe-toothed; shorter, and thicker bodied, but hauing a longer tayle, then any other dog-fish; for that (somewhat like a short, and crooked sword-*blade) is longer then her bodie. ¶Gascon. Spasmatique: com. Troubled with a crampe, or a convulsion.

Spasme: m. The crampe; a conuulsion, shrinking, or plucking vp of the sinewes.

Spasmé: m. ée: f. Cramped; or, as Spasmatique. Spasmeux: m. euse: f. Full of the crampe; or, conuulsiue, cramp-breeding.

Spatieusement. Spaciously, widely, amply, largely, broadly.

Spatieux: m. euse: f. Spacious, roomie, wide, large, ample, broad.

Spatule: f. The slice wherewith a Surgeon spreadeth salues, &c.

Spaze: f. A sword; and as Spase. ¶Gasc. Speans d'une vache. A Cowes duddes.

Speautre. Looke Espeautre. Special: m. ale: f. Speciall, particular, proper, peculiar, chiefe, especiall.

Specialement. Especially, namely, chiefely, particularly, peculiarly.

Specieux: m. euse: f. Specious, goodlie, faire, gracefull in apparance, outwardly beautifull, honourable in shew.

Specifier. To specifie, particularize, declare, signifie, denote.

Specifique: com. Speciall, particular.

Specifiquement. Specially, particularly.

Spectable: com. Visible, worthie the seeing, noteable, goodlie, renowmed.

Spectacle: m. A spectacle; a publike sight, shew, pageant, play.

Spectateur: m. A spectator, beholder, on-looker.

Spectatrice: f. A spectatrix; a woman that giues a (publike) thing the looking on.

Spectre: m. An Image, or Figure, seene either truly, or but in conceit; (thence) also, a spirit, ghost, vision, apparition, fantasme.

Speculaire: com. Cleere, transparent; also, helping the sight. Pierre speculaire. as Pierre à miroir, vnder Miroir. Speculateur: m. A speculator, contemplator, obseruer, considerer; watcher, viewer, beholder.

Speculation: f. Speculation, contemplation; a considering, or obseruing; a viewing, watching, or spying out from a high place.

Speculatrice: f. A speculatrix; a contemplatiue, obseruing, aduised, or watchfull woman.

Speculer. To speculate, contemplate, obserue, consider, search out; behold seriously, watch hard; looke or see farre, espie a farre off.

Spelonque: f. A hole in a rocke; a wild beasts denne.

Speltre: m. as Espeautre. Spengitide. ¶Rab. Looke Sphengitide. Spermatique: com. Spermatick; containing, or full of, sperme. Veine spermatique. Looke Veine. Spermatiser. To spermatize; to shed, eiect, or iniect sperme.

Sperme: m. Sperme, seed, nature, generatiue moisture.

Spet: m. A slender, long, rauenous, great-eyed, sharpe-nosed, crooked-toothed, white-bellied, blackish-backt sea-fish, called by some the Spit-fish, and by others (because it somewhat resembles a Pike) the sea-Pike.

Sphacelé: m. ée: f. Mortified by inflamation.

Sphaceler. To mortifie by inflamation.

Sphatule. Looke Spatule. Sphengitide. Transparent. ¶Rab. Sphenoïde. Os sphen. The cuneall bone.

Sphere: f. A sphere, circle, rundle, bowle; any round figure, or thing. Spheres. The round knobs on the borders of some French-hoods. Sphere droicte. That sphere wherein one sees both the Poles vnder his horizon, the Equator standing iust ouer his head. Sphere oblique. An oblique sphere; that wherein one of the Poles is raised aboue our horizon, and the other hidden vnder it.

Spherique: com. Sphericall, orbicular, globe-like, round.

Sphicie: f. A kind of spider like a great Waspe.

Sphinge: m. The Sphinga, or Sphinx; an Jndian, and Ethyopian beast, rough-bodied like an Ape (of the kind whereof he is) yet hairelesse betweene his necke, and breast; round, but out, faced; and breasted like a woman; his vnarticulate voice like that of a hastie speaker; more gentle, and tameable then an ordinarie Ape, yet fierce by nature, and reuengefull when he is hurt: hauing eaten meat ynough, he reserues his chaps-full to feed on when he feeles himselfe hungrie againe.

Spicaire. Roman Spike, or Lauender.

Spicquenard: m. The hearbe Spikenard.

Spinal: m. ale: f. Of, or in, the chine, or back-bone. Spinale medulle, ou mouëlle. The marrow of the back-bone; deriued from the braine, and like a maine stocke, from which all the sinewes vnder the head doe grow.

Spinelle: f. A kind of verie red Gurnet.

Spineux. as Espineux. Spinul: m. A splent in a horses leg.

Spique: f. Spike, Lauender, Lauender Spike.

Spiquenard: m. The hearbe Spikenard. Spiquenard vulgaire. Lauender Spike.

Spiracle: m. A breathing hole; a hole to let ayre, breath, or smoake in and out; also, a hole that euaporates a strong, or pestilent ayre; a damp-hole.

Spiracle: com. Giuing breath, breathing life, infusing spirit into.

Spiral: m. ale: f. Circling, wreathing about, winding or turning round.

Spire: f. A rundle, round, or circle; a turning or winding compasse; the coyling, or making vp of a Cable; also, a Quadrant, or Square in the bottome of a Pillar.

Spiriteux. Looke Spirituëux.