The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened eBook

Kenelm Digby
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened.

The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened eBook

Kenelm Digby
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 332 pages of information about The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened.

Ana, of each.

Apple-Johns, or John Apples, apples considered best when
    shrivelled, so called because they are ripe about St. John’s Day.

Aume, aam, awm, a liquid measure used for wine and oil.  A Dutch aume
    of wine equalled about 41 English gallons.

Balneum, a vessel filled with water or sand, in which another vessel
    is placed to be heated.

Beatilies, beatilia, battalia, tit-bits (e.g. cockscombs or
    sweet-breads) in a pie.

Bragot, ale boiled with honey.

Bunt, the cavity or baggy part of a napkin when folded or tied as a
    bag.

Burthen, a quantity, here signifying no certain amount.

Call, a wedge.

Calvered, cut in thin slices when “fresh,” and pickled.

Canicular days, dog days.

Cock’s tread, “The opaque speck or germinal vesicle in the surface of
    the yolk in an impregnated egg.”  M.

Coddle, to boil gently, to stew.

Coffin, a mould of paste for a pie.

Cucurbite, a gourd-shaped vessel; also a shallow vessel with a wide
    mouth, used for distillation.

Demistier = demi setier, a measure of quarter-pint capacity.

Electuary, a medical conserve or paste of powder mixed with honey,
    syrup, etc.

Faeces, dregs.

Fearced, forced, stuffed.

Florenden, florentine, a kind of pie, of minced meats, currants,
    spices, etc., baked in a dish with a cover of paste.

Gambon, gammon, a smoked ham.

Garavanzas, chick-peas.

Gelt, castrated.

Ginet-moils, gennet-moil, a kind of apple ripe before others.

Hippocras, hypocras bag, a bag used in making hippocras, a
    medicinal drink consisting of spiced wines.

Humble-pie, a pie made of umbles or numbles (the heart, liver,
    kidneys, etc.) of the deer.

Kiver, kive, keever, a large vessel for fermenting liquors; a
    mashing tub.

Lardons, strips of bacon or salt pork used for larding.

Laton, latton, latten, a utensil made of thin brass, or mixed
    metal.

Lith, smooth, thick.

Lute, to close v., to adhere.

Magma, grounds.

Manchet, roll, or small loaf of fine white bread.

Marinate, to salt or pickle, and then preserve in oil or vinegar.

Medullos, medullose, having the texture of pith.

Mittoner, Fr. Mitonner.

Mother of wine, lees.

Must, new wine.

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