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CLAMATION, shouting.

CLAWING, tickling, flattering.
CLIMACTER, the point in a man's life
(supposed to be his sixty-third
year) when his powers begin to fail.
CODRUS, the last King of Athens.
COMMISSURE, juncture, joining.
COMMODITIES, advantages.
COMPAGE, framework or system of
conjoined parts (H. E. D.).
COMPLEMENT, completeness.
COMPLEMENTAL, slight and subsidiary,
merely making up weight.
COMPLEXIONALLY, by temperament.
COMPOSITION, compounding, but in
the next line (by a play of words)
composed=created.

COMPRODUCTION, joint production.
COMPROPORTIONS,

gether.

proportions

COMPUTE, Computation.

CONCEIT, Conception, idea, jest. CONCEIT, to imagine.

to

CONCLAMATION, noise made by several people shouting together. CONCOMITANCIES, accompaniments. CONCOURSE, help.

CONSIDERATION UNTO, value when compared with.

CONSIDERATIONS, considerers. CONSORTION, the consorting with others.

CONSTELLATED UNTO, by the constellation of my birth adaptive to. CONTEMPERED, diluted.

CONTIGNATION, framing together of beams.

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DAMOCLES,a flatterer of Dionysius (J.). DASTARD, vb., to make craven. DECIMATION, selection of every tenth man for punishment (J.). DECIPIENCY, state of being deceived, hallucination (Webster).

DECUSSATION, Crossing of lines in the form of the figure X. DELATOR, informer.

DEMONSTRATIONS, truths capable of demonstration.

DEPRAVE, to malign, to spoil; DEPRAVEDLY, in a corrupt form. DERIVED, Secondary in source (i..., from the sun?)

DESIRES, desirers.

DEVOTIONS, devout men.

DIAMETER WITH (to stand in), to be diametrically opposed to. DICHOTOMY, division into two. DIFFERENCE, vb., to show the difference between, to define. DIGLADIATION, fencing match (J.). DIOGENES (testament of). "Who willed his friend not to bury him, but to hang him up, with a staffe in his hand, to frighten away the crowes." [Note by Sir T. B.J DISCRUCIATING, excruciating. DISSENTANEOUS unto, contrary to. DITTY, speech.

DIUTURNITY, long duration.
DONATIVES, gifts.

DORADO, a fish, probably either the gilt-head or dorade or the gold-fish. IGNORANT DORADOES are rich men of no education. [Condensed from Greenhill.]

DORMATIVE, sleeping draught.
DRAUGHT, drawing.

ECLIPTICALLY, in the direction of the
sun's apparent motion.
EDIFIED, formed.

EFFRONT, to embolden.

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ELATER, spring," elasticity (H. E. D.). ELEEMOSYNARIES, beggars.

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ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION, composition of elements" (Greenhill). ELIAS (prophecy of), "That the world may last but six thousand years." [Note by Sir T. B.] EMPHATICAL, "designated emphatically, or par excellence" (H. E. D.). EMPYREAL, in old astronomy, all beyond the tenth heaven. ENOCH'S PILLARS. "Josephus does not mention Enoch, but says the descendants of Seth erected two pillars, on which were engraven all the discoveries then known to mankind. [Condensed from Greenhill.]

ENQUIRIES, enquirers. ENTELECHIA, the realized, as distinct from the merely possible being of anything.

EPHEMERIDES, NOT OLYMPIADS, par ticular journals of every day, not abstracts comprehending several years under one notation (J.). EPHEMERIDES, schedules showing the position of the heavenly bodies from day to day, used for purposes of divination.

EPICYCLE, a small revolution made
by one planet in the wider orbit of
another planet (J.).
EQUABLE, just.

EQUAL, impartial; equitable.
EQUIVOCAL, doubtful.

ERGOTISMS, conclusions deduced according to the forms of logic (J.). ETHNICK, gentile.

EVULSION, extraction by force.
EXALTATION, refining.

EXCEPTING ONE (king). Christian
IV., King of Denmark, who began
to reign in 1588, and was still on the
throne when the book was written.
EXCEPTION, objection or reservation.
EXENTERATION, disembowelling.
EXEQUIES, funeral rites.
EXILITY, Smallness.
EXISTIMATION, estimation.

EXOLUTION, in medicine, great physical weakness; in mystical theology, dreamy exaltation of mind. EXPANSED, expanded.

EXPATIATE, to roam about.

EXPILATORS, pillagers.

EXPLICATION, unfolding.

EXPRESSIONS, marks.

Exsuccous, dry.

EXTANCES, existences.
EXTEMPORARY, intuitive.
EXTENUATION, emaciation.

EXTRAMISSION, by the passage of sight from the eye to the object (J.). EXUPERANCES, exaggerations.

FACES ("so many imperial"), an allusion, probably to his collection

of coins.

FACULTY, authority, power. FAITH, believer, abstract for concrete. FAMILIST, a member of the "family of love," a religious sect which appeared about 1575. FASCIATIONS, bandages.

FATHER ("that great"), probably St. Chrysostom.

FAVAGINOUS, cellular, like a honeycomb.

FERITY, ferocity, savageness.
FESTINATION, haste.

FIAT LUX, let there be light.

FICTILE, moulded. FILED, placed in order. FINGER ("one little ").

"According

to the ancient arithmetick of the hand, wherein the little finger of the right hand contracted, signified an hundred." [Note by Sir T. B.] FLAW, sudden gust of wind. FLUX, flow.

FOL, mad, of the characteristic Englishman.

FORAMINOUS, full of holes.

FORM, the essence of anything apart from the actual material of which it is composed. FOUGADE,

a small mine for blowing

up walls" (Greenhill).

FRUSTRUM, any part except the vertex cut off from a cone (Greenhill). FULCIMENT, fulcrum.

FUNAMBULATORY, narrow, like the walk of a rope-dancer (J.). FURDLING, furling.

FUSIL, heraldic lozenge.

term, elongated

GALLATURE, germ in an egg.
GALLIARDISE, merriment.

GARAGANTUA, or Gargantua, Rabelais' giant.

GEOMANCER, one who divines by the earth.

GERMANY ("defection of the Maid
of "). Nothing is known of this
personage except that she is men-
tioned in one of the MSS. as having
"lived without meat on the smell
of a rose." In default of any evi-
dence concerning the Maid, the pre-
cise meaning of the word "defec-
tion" is not clear; detection "9
has been suggested in place of it.
[Condensed from Greenhill.]
GLOME, a clue of yarn.

GOMPHOSIS, immovable articulations
like teeth in their sockets (Green-
hill).
GORDIANUS (" the epitaph of "). "In
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic,
Egyptian, defaced by Licinius the
Emperor." [Note by Sir T. B.]
GRAFFS, grafts.

GRAIN, dye in grain. "Not grain'd," not deeply tinged (J.).

GRAPHICAL, composed of letters.
GUSTATION, tasting.

HAGGARD, wild, untamed, a term in falconry.

"A

HANGING PLAYED BEFORE THEM. barbarous pastime at feasts [among the Thracians], when men stood upon a rolling globe, with their necks in a rope, and a knife in their

hands, ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away; wherein if they failed they lost their lives, to the laughter of their spectators." [Note by Sir T. B.]. HELIACAL, spiral.

HELIX, a screw or spiral line: to run upon a helix, to be continually moving spirally. HELLUOS, gluttons (J.).

HELMONT OR PARCELSUS, enthusiastic authors of romantic chemistry (J.).

HERMES' ROD, which procured sleep by a touch (J.).

HERMETICAL PHILOSOPHERS, followers of Hermes Trismegistus, addicted to chemistry and alchemy. HIPPOCRATES PATIENTS.

In some of the treatises of the Hippocratic collection rough notes of cases are found giving the names and addresses of the patients. The point of the comparison lies in its showing how the dead live only in their names; nothing more is known of them.

HISTRIONISM (of happiness), theatrical representation, mere show. HORE COMBUSTE, the time when the moon is in conjunction and obscured by the sun.

HOUR-GLASSES, "call for many hourglasses." Ancient pleaders talked by a clepsydra, or measurer of time.

HUMOUROUS, the result of some
humour or individual trait.
HYDROPICAL, dropsical.
HYPOSTASIS, distinct substance.

IDEATED, pictured in idea, in fancy. IDES, time when money laid out at interest was commonly repaid. (J.).

IMMORTALITY, exemption from death. IMPASSIBLE, impregnable to suffering and decay.

IMPOSTORS (the three). The Emperor
Ferdinand II. was accused by Pope
Gregory I. of maintaining that the
world had been deceived by three
impostors-Jesus Christ, Moses, and
Mahomet. A book with this title
was said to have existed, but no
trace of it remains (Greenhill).
IMPROPERATIONS, insulting language.
INCESSION, progression.
INCINERABLE, reducible to ashes; IN-
CINERATED, reduced to ashes.

INCRASSATION, thickening.
INCREMABLE, incombustible.
INCURVATE, to make crooked.

INDIFFERENCY, impartiality; (pl.) in

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LASH, soft and watery, but without flavour (Forby's vocabulary of East Anglia).

LAUREAT DRAUGHT, a picture with laurel (Greenhill).

LAZY OF BRAZIL, sloth (J.).
LIGATION, binding.

LION ("we sleep in lions' skins "), in armour, in a state of military vigilance (J.).

the

LIPARA, the Liparæan Islands, near
Italy, being volcanoes, were fabled
to contain the forges of
Cyclops (J.).
LIQUATION, melting.
LIVELY, vividly.

LIVERY ("without a "), without recompense or fee.

LIXIVIOUS, impregnated with alkaline salts.

LURE, bait, a term used in falconry. LUX EST UMBRA DEI, "light is the shadow of God."

MAGNE... VITIA, "Great virtues, and no smaller vices." MAGNALITIES, great works from small beginnings (Greenhill).

MAGNETICALLY ("stand magnetically upon that axis"), with a position as immutable as that of the magnetical axis (J.).

MALIZSPINI, born about 1540, the author of the "Ducento Novelle." MANIPLE, handful.

MARASMUS, wasting disease.

MASCLE, heraldic term: a lozenge voided.

MATERIAL (vb.), to materialize. MATILDA. "A piece of Maud, the Empress, said to be found in Buckenham Castle, with this inscription: Elle n'a d'elle.'" [Note by Sir T. B.]

MATURATION, maturing, ripening.
MEANNESS, low estate.

MEDIOCRITY, moderation.

MEMORY (whose), recollection

which.

of

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PANTAGRUEL'S library. Rabelais, in his "Pantagruel" (liv. ii., ch. vii.), gives a list of sham titles of books for an imaginary library. PAPPOUS, downy.

PARALLAXIS, the parallax of a star is
the difference between its real
and apparent place (J.).
PARALOGICAL, illogical.
PARAMOURS, lovers.

PARTICULARITIES, peculiarities.
PASSIVES, passive principles.
PATRON, vb., to patronize.
PENDULOUS, hanging.

PERFLATION, blowing through of the air.

PERIOD, term, end.

PERICECI ("to be but their periœci "), only placed at a distance in the same line (J.).

us.

PERISCIAN, with shadows all round The Periscii, living within the Polar circle, see the sun move round them, and consequently project their shadows in all directions (J.). PERISH upon, to die for the sake of. PERSPECTIVE, telescope. PHILOPEMEN, chief of the Achæan League in Rome's second Macedonian War." PHILOSOPHER.

"Alluding either to Antisthenes or Aristippus, for the story is told of each of these philosophers" (Greenhill).

PHYLACTERY, a writing bound upon the forehead containing something to be kept constantly in mind. This was practised by the Jewish doctors with regard to the Mosaic Law (J.). PHYTOGNOMY, "discerning the nature of plants from their outward forms " (Greenhill).

PHYTOLOGY, Science of plants.
PIAE FRAUDES, pious frauds.
PICKTHANK, flatterer.

PINAX, tablet, register; hence list or scheme inscribed on a tablet (Webster).

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