John Arbuthnot

Abstemious

Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious.

Accumbent

The Roman . . . accumbent posture in eating.

Another-guess

It used to go in another-guess manner.

Apposition

It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter.

Assimilate

Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood.

Astrict

The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted.

Attrition

Effected by attrition of the inward stomach.

Audit

Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed.

Babble

These [words] he used to babble in all companies.

Betty

The powerful betty, or the artful picklock.

Boon

A boon companion, loving his bottle.

Cabbage

Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth.

Captain

The Rhodian captain, relying on . . . the lightness of his vessel, passed, in open day, through all the guards.

Case

A proper remedy in hypochondriacal cases.

Cavity

An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon.

Centesimal

The neglect of a few centesimals.

Characterize

European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized.

Classic

Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins].

Coast

The ancients coasted only in their navigation.

Cohesion

Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid.

Coinage

The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates.

Communicate

The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.

Communication

The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.

Commutation

The use of money is . . . that of saving the commutation of more bulky commodities.

Complaint

One in a complaint of his bowels.

Complicate

When the disease is complicated with other diseases.

Concentrate

Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength.

Concentric

Concentrical rings like those of an onion.

Congelation

The capillary tubes are obstructed either by outward compression or congelation of the fluid.

Conglutination

Conglutination of parts separated by a wound.

Consistence

Let the expressed juices be boiled into the consistence of a sirup.

Constrict

Such things as constrict the fibers.

Constringe

Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids.

Contractible

Small air bladders distable and contractible.

Contrariwise

Everything that acts upon the fluids must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise.

Conversion

The conversion of the aliment into fat.

Cooler

If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case.

Corrective

Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali.

Cranny

He peeped into every cranny.

Crawl

He was hardly able to crawl about the room.

Creditable

He settled him in a good creditable way of living.

Crimp

The evidence is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves.

Cringe

Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing.

Crossgrained

She was none of your crossgrained, termagant, scolding jades.

Crumble

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel.

Cuff

He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band, short cuffs, and a peaked beard.

Current

That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

Dead

The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger.

Debility

The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death.

Decoction

If the plant be boiled in water, the strained liquor is called the decoction of the plant.

Default

Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones.

Dejection

A dejection of appetite.

Derive

From these two causes . . . an ancient set of physicians derived all diseases.

Diluent

There is no real diluent but water.

Disinclination

Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.

Door

Martin's office is now the second door in the street.

Downright

She fell downright into a fit.

Dun

To be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun.

Elaborate

The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.

Equilibrium

Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers.

Euthanasia

The kindest wish of my friends is euthanasia.

Extravagance

The income of three dukes was enough to supply her extravagance.

Extremity

They sent fleets . . . to the extremities of Ethiopia.

Flatulent

Vegetables abound more with aërial particles than animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.

Flaunt

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.

Flower

The flowers of grains, mixed with water, will make a sort of glue.

Flush

Lord Strut was not very flush in ready.

Flux

By the perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of them is thrown out of the body.

Generate

Whatever generates a quantity of good chyle must likewise generate milk.

Go

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.

Haunt

The haunt you have got about the courts.

Immeability

Immeability of the juices.

Incurable

A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable.

Incursion

The incursions of the Goths disordered the affairs of the Roman Empire.

Index

Tastes are the indexes of the different qualities of plants.

Infancy

The infancy and the grandeur of Rome.

Ingredient

Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

Inhale

Martin was walking forth to inhale the fresh breeze of the evening.

Intention

In [chronical distempers], the principal intention is to restore the tone of the solid parts.

Intolerant

The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.

Jackanapes

A young upstart jackanapes.

Juice

An animal whose juices are unsound.

Kind

Tax on tillage was often levied in kind upon corn.

Lenient

O relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic.

Long

Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea.

Longevity

The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious.

Loquacity

Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits.

Manacle

Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot ?

Mastication

Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion.

Mercantile

The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military.

Moderate

By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.

Mountebank

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.

Muddle

Often drunk, always muddled.

Muffle

Muffled up in darkness and superstition.

Navigate

The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean.

Necessitous

Necessitous heirs and penurious parents.

Neglectful

Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it.

Neighborly

Judge if this be neighborly dealing.

Now

I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.

Numskull

They have talked like numskulls.

Nuzzle

He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.

Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along.

Odd

Patients have sometimes coveted odd things.

Parcel

Two parcels of the white of an egg.

Pathognomonic

The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy.

People

People have lived twenty-four days upon nothing but water.

Pharos

He . . . built a pharos, or lighthouse.

Pillage

Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city.

Play

John naturally loved rough play.

Point

They will hardly prove his point.

Post

You have not posted your books these ten years.

Pragmatic

The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family.

Preoccupy

I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment.

Preparation

In the preparations of cookery, the most volatile parts of vegetables are destroyed.

Profitable

What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.

Quilt

The beds were covered with magnificent quilts.

Ram

A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid.

Ramify

When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify.

Rantipole

She used to rantipole about the house.

Ready

Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law, or to clear old debts.

Reconcilable

The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable.

Redundant

Notwithstanding the redundant oil in fishes, they do not increase fat so much as flesh.

Rejoice

Were he [Cain] alive, it would rejoice his soul to see what mischief it had made.

Remainder

If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt.

Reprimand

Germanicus was severely reprimanded by Tiberius for traveling into Egypt without his permission.

Rife

Before the plague of London, inflammations of the lungs were rife and mortal.

Round

Pliny put a round number near the truth, rather than the fraction.

Rove

For who has power to walk has power to rove.

Rub

Two bones rubbed hard against one another.

Rumination

Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it.

Rush

John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

Scoop

Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.

Scrawl

The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible.

Scrofulous

Scrofulous persons can never be duly nourished.

Seat

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

Sensible

Air is sensible to the touch by its motion.

Settle

Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense red.

Shameful

His naval preparations were not more surprising than his quick and shameful retreat.

Shove

He used to shove and elbow his fellow servants.

Shy

What makes you so shy, my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.

Sincere

There is no sincere acid in any animal juice.

Slabber

He slabbered me over, from cheek to cheek, with his great tongue.

Slip

He tried to slip a powder into her drink.

Sole

The “caliga” was a military shoe, with a very thick sole, tied above the instep.

Soluble

Sugar is . . . soluble in water and fusible in fire.

Species

There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now.

Spumous

The spumous and florid state of the blood.

Standard

By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver.

Staple

The customs of Alexandria were very great, it having been the staple of the Indian trade.

Starve

Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa.

Sterling

And Roman wealth in English sterling view.

Stick

Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will.

Subdivision

In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.

Superaddition

This superaddition is nothing but fat.

Swagger

What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!

Symposiac

Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance.

Tabid

In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative.

Tankard

Marius was the first who drank out of a silver tankard, after the manner of Bacchus.

Termagant

A termagant, imperious, prodigal, profligate wench.

Trade

A free port, where nations . . . resorted with their goods and traded.

Transmutable

The fluids and solids of an animal body are easily transmutable into one another.

Transport

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.

Twang

He has such a twang in his discourse.

Tweag

This put the old fellow in a rare tweague.

Twist

[He] shrunk at first sight of it; he found fault with the length, the thickness, and the twist.

Vacuity

Hunger is such a state of vacuity as to require a fresh supply of aliment.

Vaporous

The food which is most vaporous and perspirable is the most easily digested.

Vellicate

Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.

Vitrify

Chymists make vessels of animal substances, calcined, which will not vitrify in the fire.

Watery

The oily and watery parts of the aliment.

Wish

This is as good an argument as an antiquary could wish for.

Work

Knowledge in building and working ships.

Yonder

Yonder are two apple women scolding.