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To indite, to tell one what or how he fhould write.

Individual, not divided, particular

Indolence, Freedom from Pain, eafinefs of Mind from Bufinefs, Trouble

Infamous, that has an ill Name, known for fome bad. Quality

Infamy, ill name, difgrace

Inferiour, one that is below another in State, Qua lity, Place or Condition

Infirm, weak

Infirmity, weakness

Infused, poured in, infpired, alfo steeped in Liquor. Ingrateful, not thankful, that does not acknowledge a kindness receiv'd

Inhumane, not like a Man, cruel ́
Injunction, Command

Innumerable, that cannot be told or numbred, a vaft Number

Infects, Living Creatures increafing from a lefs to a greater Bignefs, as Caterpillars, Worms, r. fo called from that Cutting, or resemblance of Gutting that is common to moft of them in fome Part of their Bodies.

Infeparable, that cannot be parted
Infolent, proud, haughty, fwaggering
Infulting, the fame

Infpired, breathed into, alfo taught from above
To inftruct, to teach, to direct

Intellectual, belonging to the Understanding
Intelligent, one that understands

Internal, inward, infide

To interrupt, to make one not to go on in a Thing to hinder

Inteftine, inward, inteftine Wars, civil Wars, or among our felves.

Intrepid, not to be frighted, undaunted, bold.
Invifible, that cannot be seen.
Inundation, overflowing, food

Invoked, called upon, prayed to.
Involved, rowled up, intangled
Inured, used to.

Jocund, merry, brisk, pleafant.
Jordan, A River in the Holy Land.
Irradiate, Enlighten.

e, or land, Land furrounded with Water
Jue, Going out from, what comes of a Thing,
the Event, or Children

Jupiter, or Jove. The chief of the Heathen Gods.

K.

Ine, Cows; being a Contraction of Cow in the
old Plural

L.

LAir, The place where Deer harbour or lye
Lard, Fat of Swine, Bacon

Lambent-Fire, Rowling gently about

Lambkin, A little Lamb. See Eng. Gram. p. 173.
Lay, Song

Lazar-Houfe, or a Lazaretro, An Hofpital for
poor, fick and lame Perfons; that is, a place
where fuch as Lazarus was, having their Bodies
full of Sores, are kept for Cure

Lee, The Settling or Dregs of Wine

To Leer, To look aside, or askew

A Legend, A lying Story

Legion, A Regiment of Soldiers
Lenger, Longer

Lethargick, That causes Drowsiness and Forgetful

nefs

Lethaean Lake, From Lathe a River of Africa, the

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Drinking of whofe Waters would make People forget all things paft

Level, Plain, fmooth, equal
Leviathan,

Libbard, A Leopard

Libya, Africk

Limber, Supple, pliant, bending eafily
Limits, The Bounds of a Thing or Place
Liquid, Moift, wet

Livid, Black and Blue

Longitude, Length,Distance from the first Meridian To Lull, To entice to Rest

Luminary, A Light

Luftre, Shining, Brightness
Lyre, A Harp

M.

MAgick, Knowledge of obfcure natural Things

Witchcraft

Magnitude, Greatness, bigness

Majeftick, Stately, like a King
Malady, Difeafe

Malefactor, Evil-doer, an Offender

Malign, Envious, spiteful

Manfion, Dwelling-place

Mantling, Smiling, frothing

Manufacture, What is made with Hands

Marafmus, A wasting, a pining away
Mart, A Fair, or Market

Mafquerade, A Dance of disguised Perfons
A Mafs, A great Body, Lump

The Mafs, The Church-Service, properly the Communion-Service

Mattins, Morning-worship
Mature. Ripe

T

Maxim, A Rule

Meager, Lean

Meander, A large River of Phrygia that has a vast many Turnings and Windings Mechanick, Handicraft

Melody. A fine Tune or Song

Metamorphofis, Changing of the Kind

Metaphor, Is when a Word is tranflated or carried from its proper Signification to another. As the Fields laugh, for look pleasant; laughing being proper to a Man alone

Mien of the Face. See Air

To Mimick, To ape, imitate by Gestures
Minims, Little Creatures

A Minnow, or Menow, A fmall Fish
Minute, Small, little}

Mirrour, Looking-Glafs, thing fo excellent, that
it may be a Pattern for others
Mill. See Eng. Gram. p. 196.

To Milead, To lay afide, or wrong
To Mifplace, To place wrong

Mode, Manner, Fashion

To Mold, To Frame, Fashion

Monarch, Sole King, or King alone

Monarchy, Government, where only one Rules Monster, What is contrary to Nature

To Monopolize, When one or a few get Things up fo, as none can fell or gain but they

Morals, Manners

Morpheus, The God of Sleep

Mortal, Dying, or what causes Death; A mortal Difeafe

Mortals, Men or Women

Mouldring, Wafting away, crumbling

Mountainous, Belonging to, or as big as a Mountain Multiform, Of many Shapes

Mul

Multiplying-Glafs, A Glafs that makes things feein to be more

Mummy, A preferved dead Body

Murrain, Infectious Difeafes of Beafts; the Plague Mufe, A feigned Goddess of Verfe, there were Nine in Number. Alfo a Verfe

Mufing, Thinking, meditating

Muft, New Wine

Mystick, or Myfterious, Secret, concealed, alfo facred, religious, from Myftery, that is, holy Rites whereto the common fort might not come

N.

NArcillus, A beautiful Youth that beholding him

felf in the Water, fell in love with himself, and pining away, died, and was changed into a Flower, called after by his own Name Native, Where one was born

Nallau, The Name of King William's Family
Naufeous, That niakes one loath or diflike

Nectar, The Drink of the feigned Gods, as Ambrofia was their Food

Negative, A form of Speech that denies
Neptune, The God of the Sea

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A Nerve, Is a long and fmall Bundle of very fine Pipes or hollow Fibres, and ferve for Senfation, or perceiving

Niggard, A covetous, near, ftingy Perfon

Nilus, A River in Egypt

Nocturnal, Nightly

Noifom, Hurtful, offenfive

Note, Sign, Character; alfo Tone or Tune
Noxious, Hurtful

Numbers, Verfe, Poetry, because a Verse is tied up

to a fet Number of Feet

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