T. S., A Jewel for Gentry (1614)
Date
1614
Author
Book title
A Iewell for Gentrie. Being an exact Dictionary, or true Method, to make any Man vnderstand all the Art, Secrets, and worthy Knowledges belonging to Hawking, Hunting, Fowling and Fishing. Together with the true Measures for Winding of the Horne
Publication place
London
Printer
Thomas Snodham
Publisher
John Helme
Transcription source
British Library C.31.c.4
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- fauna
- hawking and hunting
Summary
"The perfect rules or tearmes for Faulkners, belonging to Hawkes" (b3r), "For speciall tearmes belonging to Hawkes, when you shall haue any cause to commend them for diuers of their properties" (b3v), "The names of all the members of your Hawkes, with their conuenient tearmes" (b4r), "The names of Sparhawkes, as Ostregers and Speruiters haue determined" (e3v), "Now ye shall know the meaning of these tearmes, Randon, Creepe, Emewed" (e4r), "Marke this tearme, Draw" (e4v), "Here endeth the Booke of Hawking, and hereafter insueth the names of all manner of Hawkes, and to whom they belong" (f1v-f2r), "The names of the seuerall parts which make vp the umbles of a Deare" (g2v-g3r), "Of the Vantlay, the Lay, and Relay, with Furloyning, and such like tearmes" (g3r), "The names of diuers Hounds" (g3v-g4r), "The proper tearmes and names of companies of Beastes and Fowles, with others" (g4r-h1r), and "Here followeth the proper tearmes belonging to the breaking vp or dressing of diuers kinds of Beasts, and Fowles, and Fishes" (h1r-h1v)
Extent
17
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Marke this tearme, Draw.
SOme misuse this tearme Draw, and say that their Hawke will draw to the Riuer: and that tearme draw, is properly assigned to that Hawke that will slay a Rooke, or a Crow, or a Rauen vpon the land sitting: and then it may be said that such an Hawke doth draw well to a Rooke. (e4v)
sample: Marke this tearme, Draw.
SOme misuse this tearme Draw, and say that their Hawke will draw to the Riuer: and that tearme draw, is properly assigned to that Hawke that will slay a Rooke, or a Crow, or a Rauen vpon the land sitting: and then it may be said that such an Hawke doth draw well to a Rooke. (e4v)
Schafer
1486 C
STC
21520
Facsimiles
S., T., and Juliana Berners. A Jewell for Gentrie / T.S.. The English experience, no. 890. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1977.
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