Moderator, a chairman or president (at a debate or other proceedings), 76. Moderate, act as moderator, control the talk, 102.

Moil, labour, 105.

Momus, in the fable, found fault with a house for not being built on wheels, so that its occupant might get away from bad neighbours (133).

Morris dance, a dance of mummers on May-day, 9.

Mought, might, 46, 68, 82, 108, 112.

Muniting, fortifying, 10.

Mystery, secret or hidden meaning, 15. Mysteries are due to secrecy: i.e. the man who can keep silence is the right person to impart mysteries to (18).

Naught, bad, evil, worthless, 108, 156.

Nephews, grandsons, 82.

Newel, the central column of a winding staircase; where the steps are pinned into the wall and there is no central pillar, the staircase is said to have an open newel (134).

Nice, scrupulous, "particular," 92; nice or dainty, over-delicate or pretty," 115.

Niceness, fastidiousness, 6.

Note, notice, 25; are in note, are noticed or observed, 154; something notified, information, 149.

Nourish little, receive little nourishment, 60.

Obnoxious, exposed, liable, or subject (to), 65, 114; submissive, 131.
Obtain, attain (to), 17; obtaineth, prevails, wins its cause, 164.
Odds, eminent, marked advantage or superiority, 146.

Oes, small round discs or "spangles" (like the letter O), 115.
Of long, for long, 163.

Officious, forward to do offices, ready to serve, 131, 146.

Opinion, reputation, credit, 79, 158, 160; to have openness in fame and opinion, i.e. to have a reputation for frankness, 19; opinion of the touch of a man's reputation, i.e. the belief that one's repu tation is touched or attacked, 167.

Orbs, spheres, 43, 153; orbits, 52.
Ought, aught, anything, 171.

Overcome, become master of, make one's own, 108.

Over-speaking, addicted to over-much speaking, 163.

Owing a man, etc. :=which he will have to pay for in old age, 98.

Pack the cards, arrange or shuffle the cards fraudulently to the advantage of one's own hand, 68.

Pairs, impairs, 74.

Palm, a hand's-breadth, 58.

Pardon, by, by making allowances, 129.

Particular, partial, 168, 169. (In his own) particular = particular case or affairs, 47

Passable, of tolerable ability, 146; passable with, acceptable to, 152.

Passages,? the connecting portions of a speech, serving for transition from one topic to another, 77.

Passport, leave of departure, 101.

Paul's, St. Paul's Cathedral or "Paul's Walk," used as a general promenade and place of resort in Bacon's time, 70.

Pawns, pledges, 124.

Perfect in, skilled or accomplished in, 68, 155.

Period, termination, conclusion, 76, 128.

Perish, cause to perish, injure, 83.

Personal, awarded to individuals, 96.

Personate, to assign a part or character to, II.

Philology, the literature of a subject, 173.

Piece, fit in (as one piece), 74. Pieced (up), patched up, 10, 106. Pine-apple trees, pine-trees, 137.

Piony, peony, 137.

Place, precedence, 55; a topic, 174, To take little place, to have but small weight or effect, 149.

Placebo: see Index of Phrases.

Plant, to colonise; plantation, a colony, colonising, 104-6.
Platform, outline or general plan, 142.

Plausible, praiseworthy, deserving applause, 27, 42.

Play-pleasure, the pleasure felt in witnessing a play or drama, 24. Pleasing, complaisant, 99.

Ply, a bend (given to the mind: cf. pliant just before), 120.

Point, a subject or matter (defined by what follows): thus, point of estate the State, something that concerns the State, 165; from the point of contempt, i.e. from any implication of contempt, 167.

Point, to appoint, 135, 172.

Point device, fashioned or adjusted with extreme precision, 155. Politic, (spelt politique and politicke in orig. edition), political, belonging to or concerned with the State: politic person or man =politician, 26, 67; politic ministers=ministers of State, 95; politic body body politic, the State, 35, 95.

Politics, politicians, statesmen, 9, 17, 38.

Politics, the, the science of politics or statecraft, 174.

Poll, a "head" or unit of population; the hundred (=hundredth) poll, i.e. one man in a hundred, 91.

Poller, one who exacts money, 165.

Polling, plundering, exacting fees, 164. (See Catchpole.)

Popular, courting the favour of the people, 48; so popularity, 146. Poser, an examiner or questioner in the Schools, 103.

Practice, plotting, intrigue, crafty dealing, 11, 68, 108, 145.

Praying in aid of alchymists, calling in alchemists to help the case,

83.

Precisely, look, keep a keen watch, 124.

Pre-occupateth, anticipates, 6.

Prescription, title (to be considered lucky), 144.

Present, a formal message or injunction, 94.

Present wit, a ready mind, 151.

Presently, straightway, immediately, 85, 124.

Presseth, depresses, 40.

Prest, prompt, 95.

Pretendeth, makes a pretext of, 75; cf. 94, as may be pretended.

Prevent, anticipate, 163.

Pricked, planted, 141; so perhaps prick in, 56.

Primum mobile: see Index of Phrases.

Principial, initial, III.

Private, for his own; i.e. private benefit, 105.

Proceeder, small, one who makes small progress, 117.

Proof, the result of trial or experience: the proof is best it is found

to turn out best, 20.

Proper (of words), having a personal application, 167.

Propriety, special character, 8.

Prospectives, "perspective glasses," an optical contrivance of the stereoscope-kind, 78.

Proyning, cultivating, pruning, 150.

Purchase, to obtain, acquire, 13, 160; a new purchase, a new acquisition, 153..

Purchasing, acquisition of landed property, 124.
Pure, free (of inhabitants), unoccupied, 104.

Purpose of, intentionally, purposely, 27.

Purprise, enclosure, enclosed area, 164.

Pursuit, pursuit of office, canvassing, 81.

Push, pustule, blister, 157.

Put you in way for, put you in the way of, 85.

Puzzle, distraction, 31.

Pyramides, pyramids (the Latin pl.; elsewhere Bacon uses the

sing. pyramis), 140.

Pythonissa, a woman possessed with a spirit of divination, 110.

Quadlins, codlings, 138.

Quarrel, reason, plea, 23; cf. grounds and quarrels, 95.

Quarter, keep, keep its proper place, 40; kept good quarter between themselves, kept on friendly terms, 70.

Queching either (1) flinching or (2) crying out, 119.

Quicken, give life to, stimulate, 125, 144, 149.

Quickest, most vivid, 160.

Quire, choir, 115.

Race, the extent to which a thing goes, 166.
Rasps, raspberries, 138.

Ravisheth, carries away violently or hastily, 52.
Reason (it is, it were), reasonable, 22, 31, 41.

reason of their case is much the same, 132.

Recamera, inner chamber, back chamber, 136.

Much like is the

Receipt, receptacle, 140; recipe, prescription, 81, 84, 151. Reciproque, reciprocal; the reciproque = reciprocal affection, 30. Reduce, carry back, trace up, 32.

Reduced, brought within limits, 172.

Referendaries, referees, 148.

Regard upon out of personal regard, 155. In regard, because,

92.

Regiment, regimen, Essay xxx.

Reiglement, regulation, 125.

Relate himself, tell his thoughts, 84.

Remover, one who is always moving about or stirring, 122. Reparation of a denial: the gaining of one's suit, on a second urging, after it has been once refused, 149.

Reputed of, well, having a good reputation, 48.

Resemblance, comparison, likening, 165; resembled, likened, compared, 63.

Resorts, springs, starting-points, sources; or the springs or movements (of machinery), 71.

Respect, have regard to, 99. Respected, attended to, 20. Respects, regard for persons, personal considerations, punctilious observances, 33, 40, 155; Essay lii. (title). In respect, in case, 87. In respect of, in comparison with, as compared with, 96,

122.

Rest, set up their, staked everything (upon an issue), 96.
Restrained, confined, restricted (to), 84, 126.

Returns, wings or side-buildings built out at the back of a house, 134. The row of return, the line of these buildings, on either side of the "court," 135.

Ribes, currants, 138.

Rid, despatch, get done, 93.

Rise, though it be of the best, i.e. come from the best source,

109.

Rise in his suit, i.e. begin by asking little, and gradually increase his demands, 149.

Round (dealing), straightforward, direct, 4; spoil the feathers of round flying, i.e. prevent their flying direct to the mark, 19.

Scope, aim, object aimed at, 94.

Season, in, in their happy time, at the time when they come out strongest, 38.

Secure, without care, at ease, 44; security, serene freedom from

care, sense of safety, 15.

Seek for, to, at a loss for, 125.

Seeled, having the eyelids sewn up (a term of falconry), 113.

Seelings, panellings, wainscotings, 159.

Sensible (of), sensitive (to), 22, 34, 95, 114, 166.

Sentence, judgement, opinion, 168.

Several, separate, distinct, different, 17, 61, 133, 134, 152.

Severally, differently, 134.

Sharings, partnerships, 108.

Shrewd, mischievous, hurtful, 72.

Shut itself out to take, debar itself from taking, 125.

Side (oneself), to take a side, adhere to one party, 33, 153.

Slide, smoothness of motion, 41, 122.

Slight it over, dismiss it slightly, slur it over, 36.

Slope, sloping, 140.

Slug, drag, hindrance to motion, 124.

Smother, pass in, be smothered or stifled, 84; cf. keep in smother,

100.

Soap-ashes, alkalis, 105.

Softly, with slow or gentle movement, 17, 43.

Solecism, a gross error or blunder, 58.

Sort with, agree or harmonise with, match, suit, 17, 86, 118; associate or consort with, 20; sorteth to, turns to, results in, 21, 81; it sorted with them, things turned out in their case, they feared (accordingly), 93.

Spaces, intervals, 118.

Spangs, spangles, 115.

Speculative into, disposed to pry into, 64.

Spials, spies, 131. (Cf. Espials.)

Spirits, good, men of good or noble spirit, 7.

Spoken to, spoken upon, discussed, 65.

Sponne, spun, III.

Staddles, young trees left standing in a copse when other trees and underwood are cut down, 91.

Stages, the "theatre" of wars, 170.

State, an estate, 87, 109; government, statecraft, 98; a rank or order of persons, 60 (of the clergy), 92. (Cf. Estate.)

State, to keep, to observe some degree of formality, to be dignified, 154.

Stately, statelily, in a stately manner, 3, 137.

Statua, statue, 84; pl. statuas, 116, 134, 136, 141, 143.

Stay at a, at rest, 168; stand at a stay, stand still, 36, 41, 57; give stay to, arrest the progress of, 170.

Steal it, do it stealthily, 33.

Stick, hesitate, scruple, 70, 162.

Stirps, stocks, families, 40.

Stond, impediment, stoppage, 121, 151.

Stood upon, insisted upon, 94.

Store, a good quantity, 105, 106.

Stoved, kept in a hothouse, 137.

Success, result, issue, 144, 148.

Sufficiency, ability, 33, 62, 78, 79, 146, 161. Sufficient, able,

competent, capable, 89, 155.

Suit, "suite," sequence, 169.

Surcharge, excess of population (greater than the land will support)

106.

Suspect, suspicious, 153; a suspect, an object for suspicion, 75,

156.

Sustentation, sustenance, 171.