Mysterious, including a hidden meaning in it, inacceffible to the underftanding, awfully obfcure.

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Napbiba, P. L. i. 729, a very pure, clear, and thin mineral fluid, of a very pale yellow, with a caft of brown in it. It is of fo unctuous and fiery a nature, that it kindles at approaching the fire, or the fun-beams.

Nard, P. L. v. 293. spikenard,

Natblefs, P. L. i. 299. nevertheless.

Navel, P. xvi. 520. the middle, the interior part.

To Need, P. L. x. 80. S. A. 1554. to be wanting.

Nepenthes, P. xvi. 675. a drug that drives away all pains.

Night, P. L. v. 93. for the viñons and dreams frequent in it.
Nocent, P. L. ix. 186. hurtful, mischievous.

Notus, P. L. x. 702. the fouth wind.

Number, P. L. iii. 580. measure, harmony.

Number'd, P. L. viii. 19. numerous.

To Oblige, P. L. ix. 980 to render obnoxious to guilt or punishment, It is used in the large fenfe of the Latin obligo.

Of, P. L. iv. 411. for among.

Offal, P. L. x. 633. carrion, coarfe meat.

Omnific, P. L. vii. 217. all creating.

Ooze, P. L. vii. 303. foft mud, mire at the bottom of water, flime. Opal, P. L. ii. 1049. a precious stone of diverfe colours, partaking of the carbuncle's faint fire, the amethyst's bright purple, and the emerald's cheering green.

Opiate, P. L. xi. 133. foporiferous, fomniferous, narcotie, caufing Aeep.

Orc, P. L. xi. 835. a large kind of fea-beaft,

Oread, P. L. ix. 387. à mountain-nymph.

Orgies, P. L. i. 415. mad rites of Bacchus, frantic revels.

Orient, P. xvi. 65. bright, fhining, glittering, gaudy, sparkling,

Orijons, a prayer, a fupplication.

Ounce, a lynx, a panther.

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Pat, P. R. iv. 191. the technical term for the contracts of forcerers with the devil; a bargain, a covenant.

Palmer, P. xvi. 189. a pilgrim; they who returned from the holy Jand carrying branches of palm, whither they had made a vow to go, and are therefore called votarifts.

To Pamper, P. L. v. 214. to be overgrown with fuperfluous leaves and fruitless branches; from the French pampre, of the Latin pompinus, a vine-branch full of leaves.

Pan, P. L. iv. 266, natnre.

Pandemonium, the capital, or chief refidence of the devils,
Panim, P. Le i. 765. P. R. iii. 343. pagan, infidel,

Panoply,

Panoply, P. L. vi. 527. armour from head to foot; from the Greek mavonλia, armour at all points.

Pany, P. L. ix. 1040. a'kind of violet.

To Paragon, P. L. x. 426. to compare, to be equal to, like to; of mapa juxta, and ayov certamen; an exact idea or likeness of a thing, able to conteft with the original.

Paranymph, S. A. 1020. a brideman, one who leads the bride to her marriage.

Pard, P. L. iv. 344. the leopard, a fpotted beaft of prey.

Parle, P. L. vi. 296. conversation, talk,

Parly, P. L. xvi. 241. talk, conference,
To Peer, P. iii. 140. to come juft in fight.
Peerless, unequalled, having no peer.
Peccant, P. L. xi. 70. guilty, criminal.

Pen, P. L. vii. 421. a feather; from penna.

Penance, P. L. ii. 92. punishment, fuffered as an expreffion of repentance for fin.

*Pennon, P. L. ii. 933. vulgarly spelt pinion, a wing; from penna, Pernicious. P. L. vi. 520. quick, fpeedy; from the Latin pernix. Petrific, P. L. x 294. having the power to change to flone. Phylatery, P. xix. 17. a bandage on which was infcribed fome me morable fentence.

Pied, P. xiii. 75. variegated, particoloured.

Pilafter, P. L. i. 713. a pillar jutting out of the wall.

Platan, P. L. iv. 478. the plane tree, fo named from the breadth of its leaves. Inalus, Gr. abroad.

Plate, P. L. vi. 368. broad solid armour.

Pledge, P. xvii. 107. a child; as children were fimply called by the

Latins pignora, pledges.

Pleiades, P. L. vii. 374. a northern conftellation.

To Plight, P, xvi. 301. .0 plait, to braid, to weave.

Plurality, P. xix. 3. more cures of fouls than one.

To Poife, P. L. ii. 905. to give weight or ballaft to; to hold or place

in equiponderance.

Ponent, P. L. x. 704. fetting, wettern.

Pontifical, P. L. x. 313. bridge-building.

Pontifice, P. L. x. 348. bridge-work, edifice of a bridge.

Porcupine, S. A. 1138. a hedgehog, a creature wholly covered with quilis.

To Port, P. L. iv. 980, to carry in form. Ported fpears, fpears borne pointed towards Satan.

Portcullis, P. L. ii. 874. a fort of machine like a harrow, hung over the gates of a city, to be let down to keep out an enemy.

To Prank, P. xvi. 759. to drefs, to decorate; to dress, or adjust to oftentation.

Predicament, P. ii. 56. a clafs or arrangement of beings or fubftances ranked according to their natures.

Bretend, P. L. x, 872, to hold or place before; to hold out as a

delufive

delufive appearance; to exhibit as a cover of femething hidden; from the Latin prætendere.

Pride, P. L. vi. 40. a kind of exceffive and vitious felf-esteem, that raifes men in their own opinions above what is just and right. See Ambition.

Probi, P. L. iv. 347. the fnout or trunk of an elephant. Procin, P. . vi. 19. complete preparation, preparation brought to the point of action. In precine, ready girded; in allufion to the ancients, who just before the battle used to gird their garments clofe to them, which on other occafions they wore very loose. Proof, P. L. v. 384. for armour.

Provifion, P. L. ix. 623. what is provided for men, accumulation of ftores before band, ftock collected. It ufually fignifies what men have provided.

To Prowl, P. L. iv. 183, to prey, to plunder.

Punctual, P. L. viii. 23. comprised or confifting in a point, no bigger than a point.

Puny, P. L. ii. 367. weak, little, born fince, created long after; from the French puis ne.

To Purfle, P. xvi. 995. to decorate with a wrought or flowered border, to embroider. Purfled, flourished, or wrought upon with a

needle.

Purlieu, P. L. vi. 404. border, inclosure.

To Purloin, P. ii. 946. to steal, to take by theft,
To Purvey, P. L. ix. 1021. to procure provifions.

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Quaint, P. L. viii. 78. fubtly excogitated, finefpun.

Quality, P. ii. nature relatively confidered; or property, accident. Quantity, P. ii. that property of any thing which may be increafed or

diminished.

Quaternion, P. L. v. 181. a fourfold mixture and combination. Quintessence, an extract from any thing, containing all its virtues in a fmall quantity.

Quip, P. xiii. 27. a sharp jest, a taunt, a sarcasm.

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Ratbe, P. xvii. 142. early, coming before the time..

To Reak, P. L. viii, 256. to fleam, to fmoke, to emit vapour; from the Saxon rec, fmoke.

Realty, P. L. iv. 115. loyalty. A word peculiar to Milton.

Rebec P. xiii. 94. a three-ftringed fiddle.

Rebell'd, P. L. vi. 737. for thofe who have rebelled, rebellious.

To Reck, to care, to heed, to mind, to make account of, to rate at much.

To Record, P. L. vii. 338. to celebrate, to cause to be remembered, Recreant, P. R. iii. 138. apoftate, false.

Reign, P. L. i. 543. kingdom; ufed like regnum.

Relation,

thing.

Relation, P. ii. manner of belonging to any person or
Religion, P. L. i. 372. religious rites; or a fyftem of worship oppofite
to others.

Reluctant, P. L. vi. 58. unwilling, acting with repugnance.

To Remark, S.A. 1309. to diftinguish, to point out, to mark.

To Repeal, P. L. vii. 59. to abrogate, to revoke. In the fame fenfe
as a law is faid to be repealed, when an end is put to all the force
and effect of it; fo when doubts are at an end, they may be said to
be repealed.

Reprobate, P. L. i. 697, loft to virtue, loft to grace, abandoned.
Reptile, P.L. vii. 388. an animal that creeps upon many feet.
To Retain, P. L. ix. 601. to confine,

Rheum, P. L. xi. 488. a thin watry matter oozing through the glands,
chiefly about the mouth.

Rbomb, a figure of four fides; which being converted into one of three
makes a wedge. P. R. iii. 309.

Rubied, red as a ruby.

Ruin, P. L. i. 46. falling with violence and precipitation.

To Ruin, P. L. iv. 868. to fall down with ruin and precipitation.
Ruffet, P. xiii, 71. ruftic.

Ruth, P. xvii, 163. pity, mercy, tenderness, forrow for the misery of

another.

Sable, P. L. ii. 962. black. A fable is a creature whofe skin is of the
greater price, the blacker it is,

Sad, P. L. vi. 541. four and fullen, ferious or in carneft.

Sadly, P. xvi. 509. foberly, feriously.

Sagacious, P. L. x. 281. quick of scent.

Saphir, a precious fone of a blue colour.

Saw, P. xvi. 110. a maxim, a saying, a fentence, a proverb.

Scape, P. R. ii. 189. a loofe act of vice or lewdness..

To Scatbe, P. L. i. 613. to damage, to hurt, to waffe, to deftroy.

Sciental, P. L. ix. 837. producing fcience or knowledge.

Scrannel, P. xvii. 124. vile, worthlefs, grating to the found.

Scull, P. L. vii. 402. a fhoal or vaft multitude of fish.

To Sdeign, P. L. iv. 50. to difdain.

Senfible, P. L. ii. 278. the fenfe. To fenfible, the adjective used for a
fubftantive.

Senefball, P. L. ix. 38. one who had in great houses the care of feats,
or domeftic ceremonies; a fteward,

Sere, P. L. x, 1071. P. xvii. 2. dry, withered; from the Greek
ěnge.

Serenate, P. L. iv. 769. mufic or fongs with which ladies are enter-
tained by their lovers in the night.

To Sorry, P. L. i. 548. vi. 599. to prefs clofe; to drive hard to-
gether; to link and clafp together; from the French ferrer, to
lock, to fhut close.

Servitude, P. L. xii. 132. fervants; the abstract for the concrete,

Server,

Server, P. L. ix. 38. an officer who ferves up a feaft,

Sextile, P. L. x. 659, a pofition or afpect of two planets, when at fixty degrees diftant, or at the distance of two figns from one another.

To Shatter, P. L. x. 1066. P. xvii. 5. to fhake or break in pieces, to break fo as to fcatter the parts.

Sbeen, brightness, fplendor.

Sbeen or Sheeny, bright, glittering, fhewy.

Sbeer, clean, quick at once.

Shifter, P. xi. 5. one who plays tricks, a man of artifice,

Shoon, P. xvi. 635. fhoes.

Sideral, x. 693. ftarry, aftral.

Sirocco, P. L. x. 706. the fouth east or Syrian wind,

Sky-tin&tured, P. L. y. 285. sky-coloured, dyed in grain, to expref

beauty and durableness.

Smouldring, P. iii. 159. burning and fmoking without vent.

Soldan, P. L. i. 764. a Sultan, the Emperor of the Turks.

Solitary, P. L. vi. 139. fingle.

Sootb, truft. In footb, indeed.

Sooth, P. xvi. 283, truth, faithful, pleafing, delightful.

Sord, P. L. xi. 433. turf, grally ground.

Soul, P. L. v. 197. an intelligent being, any creature that has life

besides man.

Speculation, P. L. xii. 589. a watching on a tower or high place, thence a discovery.

Squat, P. L. iv. 800. cowering, close to the ground.

To Stand, P. L. viii, 3. to remain, to continue.

Station, of a planet, P. L. vii. 563. a term of art, when the planet appears neither to go backwards nor forwards, but to ftand fill and keep the fame place in its orbit.

Statift, P. R. iv. 354 a ftatefman, a politician.

To Subfcribe, P. L. 182. to affent, to agree to. Subfcribere literally fignifies to underwrite, thence to agree to.

Subftance, P. ii. a being fubfifting in and by itself.

Succefs, P. L. ii. 9. vi. 161. for ill fuccefs. It imports the termina. tion of any affair happy or unhappy; but without any epithet it is commonly taken for good fuccefs.

Succinct, P. L. iii. 643. ready, prepared; the metaphorical fenfe of the word. Literally it fignifies girded, or tucked up.

Sufufion, P. L. iii. 26. that which is fuffufed or fpread.

To Sum, P. L. vii. 421. P. R. i. 14. to have feathers full grown, or their full frength; to want nothing of the fum of its feathers. A term in falconry.

Superior, free from emotion or concern, unconquered.

To Supplant, P. L. x. 513. to trip up one's heels, to overthrow ; from the Latin fupplanto, a planta pedis fubtus emota.

Swart, black, gloomy, malignant, Swart ftar, P. xvii, 138, the dog-ftar.

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