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Captive, Taken or made Prifoner.
A Car, A Chariot or Cart.

A Caravan, A Company of Merchants travelling together. We fometimes call the Waggon that carrys Paffengers fo.

To Caroufe, To drink much and make merry.
Carreer, Running.

To Carefs, To make much of.

A Caffock, Upper clofe Garment.
A Cast, Turn, Shape, Form.

Catarrh, A falling down of Humours out of the
Head, into the Mouth.

A Cave, A Hole, Room, Houfe under-ground.
A Cell, A little Roomi.

Celeno, One of the Harpies.

There were three of 'em feigned to be Fowls, with their Faces like Virgins Ears like Bears, Bodies like Vultures, and Hands like Talons.

To Cenfure, To judge hard of, to blame.

Centaur, People of Theffaly, who were feigned to have the upper part like a Man, and the lower part like a Horfe..

Center, The Middle Point of the Circle, from which Point all Lines drawn are equal.

Century, The Space of an hundred Years.

Champion, A Fighter, or one that fights for another. Channel, The Pipe of a Conduit wherein Water runneth..

Chanticleer, A Cock; that is, a Singer clear, or a clear Singer.

Chaos, Matter without Form or Shape.

A Charge, A Truft, what one is to keep or look after.

Charger, A Difh for Eatables.

A Chafe, A hunting, following after.

To Chafe, To hunt, follow after, or drive. Csaftized, Found fault with, punished. Chimera,

Chimera, A Whimsey or idle Story.
A Choir or Chorus, A Company of Singers.
Chalick, Belly-ach, Pain of the Guts.
Choufed, Cheated.

Chyle, A white Juice coming from Meat digefted in the Stomach.

Circlet, A little Circle.

Circling, Rowling about.

Circuit, Going about, Courfe, &c.

Circumference, The Circle about a Thing, or what
contains any thing within its Space.
Circumfluous, That flows round or about.
Citharea, Venus.

A Clang, A great founding Noife..

Clarion, A Trumpet.

Clashing, Fighting againft, contending, quarrelling. Claffick-Authors, The chief or beft of the Greek or Roman Authors..

Clift, The fide of a Hill or Rock.

A Climate, A part of the World, of fuch a Breadth from North to South, that the Length of the artificial Day in one furpaffeth that in the other by half an Hour.

To Cloy, To fill with abundance. Cocternal, Together with Eternal. Coin, Money.

Colberteen, A fort of Lace.

A Colloquy, A Difcourfe between two or more Per fons, talking together.

Column, Pillar.

Combat, Fighting.

Comedy, A Play defcribing the Humours and Mar ners of the ordinary People.

A Comet, A Blazing-Star.

Comment, The explaining of, by adding other Words to fhew the Meaning.

Com

Commotion, à Disturbance, Trouble
Compacted, joined together

A Compass, a Saylor's Box to direct his Sailing :
Alfo room, within reach of, c
To compafs, to get, obtain

Compelled, forced

Complement, is the expreffing our Efteem for another by Words: As it were Compellamentum, the fpeaking kindly to a Man

A Complexion, the Colour of the Face, alfo the Temper of the Body

Compofing, making, putting together?

Concave, hollow, bending inward, as the Palm of the Hand

Convex, is bending outward as the back of the Hand

Conduct, Management, Behaviour

Confined, kept in, hindred, bounded

Confounded, mingled with another, diforder'd, ruined, put to fhame

Conglobing, Gathering round in a Heap like a Ball, Thickening

Congregated, gathered together

Conjugal, belonging to Marriage

Conjugal Affection, fuch Love as ought to be between Husband and Wife

Confcious, knowing with ones felf or another; pri

vy to

A Confort, a Companion. In Mufick it is Har

mony

To confpire, to joyn together against

Conftellation, a company of Stars; alfo the Figure or Pofition [Place] of the Stars at the time of one's Birth

Confummate, perfect, finifhed, compleat

To confummate, to finifh, to make an end of

Con

Contagious, that spreads its dangerous Quality to a nother, tainting

To contemplate, to behold, to confider of or upon Contest, Contention in Words

Contiguous, nigh, neighbouring, that touches Contracted, made fhort, drawn together. Controuled, kept under, watched, obferved, found Fault with.

Convex, fee Concave.
Copious, plentiful.

Coquet, An airy Lady, one that speaks fair to all Gallants.

A Cordial, a Medicine ftrengthening or comforting the Heart.

Cordial, Hearty, Sincere, as a Cordial Friend or Love, that is a fincere, &c.

Corporeal, Bodily, belonging to the Body.
Corpulence, Fatnefs, bignefs of Body.
1 Corpulent, having a great Body, Fat

To correct, to mend, to make right, affo to re-
prove or find Fault with, to punifh
To correfpond, to converfe with, to agree
Cofmetick, Beautifying, making clear or beautiful
Cot or Cottage, a little House

A Covert, a Covering, a Place for Protection, Defence or Hiding

To coufen, to cheat, to deceive

Cay, thy, turning from

Craggy, rough, rocky, from

Crag, a Rock

Creation, making

Creator, Maker

Creed, Belief, from the first Word of the Belief in Latin, Credo, I believe

Crested, that has a Creft, that is, a Comb; or Tuft or Plume of an Helmet

Critick

Crick, one that takes upon him to judge others Works or Writing

Crucifyed, faftened to a Cross

Crystalline, made of Cryftal, or like Crystal for Clearnefs

Cubit, a Measure, the Length from the Elbow to the Top of the Fingers

To Cull, to pick, chufe

Cupid, the God of Love, and Son of Venus
A Current, is a Stream

Current, common, ordinary,alfo approv❜d, the cur -
rent Year, that is, the prefent Year
Cybele, the Mother of the Gods.

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Daedalus, a moft ingenious Artist who made himself waxen Wings and flew with them.

Dagon, a God of the Philiftines

Dame, a Noble Woman, Mistress

Dank, moift, wet

Danube, the greatest River in Europe, it arifes in the lower Side of Germany, and runs into the Euxine Sea

Dawn, the beginning of the Morning

Decked or Decking, made fine, dressed out Declining, bending downwards, decaying, alfo avoiding

Deep, whofe Bottom is far from its Top; the Sea. To defame, to leffen the good Name or Reputation, to flander

Defect, Want, failing of a Thing

To defraud, to cheat

Degraded, put out of his Office or Honour, expofed to Shame

Dejected, caft down, forrowful

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