Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant ... / Collected by several hands, the mathmatical part by G. Gordon, the botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd ... by N. Bailey.
- Nathan Bailey
- Date:
- 1730
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant ... / Collected by several hands, the mathmatical part by G. Gordon, the botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd ... by N. Bailey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![V VAlentine [Valentinus, L. of valent ftrong, mighty] a proper name of men, and particularly of a Bilhop of Rome. U B s f o R D ? [#. e. the ford of Vbba or Vffa the firft King Ufford $ ot Eafi-Englip] the name of a Village. Verulam [of bir tan Ut, Brir, i. e. upon the Bank of the river Baxter] a town now called St. Albans. Vincent [vincentius of vine ere, L. to overcome] a pro¬ per name of men. Vintry Ward, fo called becaufe anciently the wines were landed and laid up in vaults there. St. Andrew Under shaft of Portfoken or Aldgate Ward, London. This church took its name of Underpaft, from a great fliaft or may-pole which was formerly fet up in the middle of the ftreet, before the iouth-door of the church ; which ihaft, when it was ere&ed, was higher than the ffeeple. This Ihaft or may-pole had never been ere&ed after Evil May-day, fo called on account of an infurre&ion of the apprentices, &c. againft aliens, in the year 1517* but was laid on hooks, and under the pent-houfes of a row of houles and alley-gate, called Shaft-alley in Lime-fireet ward, till in 'the reign of king Edward VI, one Sir Stephen, a curate of St. Katharine’s Chrifi-Church, preaching at St. Paul’s-Crofs, told the people, that this ihaft was made an idol, by giving the name of XJnderJbaft to the church : whereupon, in the afternoon of that Sunday, the neigh¬ bours, over whofa doors the ihaft hung, having firft dined to make themfclves ftrong, took the ihaft off from the hooks, where it had hung for 3 2 years, and faw d it in pieces, every min taking fo much as had lain over his premifes. Urban [Urbanus, L. courteous] a proper name of men. UrdEHEAD [of ojib, Sax. an edge and head, q. d. a piked promontory] a place in Scotland. Ure [Urns, L. in the Roman time it waihed Jfurium] a town of the Brigantines now called Aldborough. Urus was afterwards by the Saxons called Oujie, Sax. now Owfe] a river in Torkjbire. Uriah [iTHIK, Heb. i.e. the fire of Jab or Jehovah] one of king.D/KftVPs chief captains. Uriel [7niK, r. e. the fire of God] the name of an angel. , UzziEL [Tip, Heb. i.e. the goat of God] 3 proper name. W , W Ain fleet [of battl a marfti and ylee'c a ftream, &>c Baxter] the name of a place. Wareman [q. d. watchman] the title of a chief ma- giftrate of Kippon in Torkjbire ; alio a proper name. Walbrook [took its name of a brook which anci¬ ently ran through the ftreet, and Wall, probably that ftream of water let through the wall of the city about Moorgate. Waldwin? [of pealfcan, Sax. to rule and pmnan, Wa LwIN S Sax-to win] a proper name 0f men. Wall fleet [of pall. Sax. a wall and yleo*c, Sax. a river, &c. ] a place in EJfex noted for oifters. Wallingford [Eualen'gajroji'o and Wallen^ayop'o, Sax. of gual ft:», C. Br. i. e. the old wall and ford] a town in Berkjbire. Walltown, a place in Northumberland, anciently a royal palace, where Seghert, king of the Eafi Saxons, was baptized by St. Paulinus. Wall 1 send [i.e. the end of the wall or trenches] a place in Northumberland. Walmer [probably of pall, Sax. and mare, L. the fea, q. d. a fea-wall] a place in Kent. Walsingham [of p*l, Sax. a whirlpool of paclpan, Sax. to wallow and ham, Sax. an habitation, q. d. a dirty boggy town ; or of pashPe, Sak. fouthernwood growing there in great plenty] a town in Norfolk, from whence comes a firnamc. Walter [of pal's, Sax. a wood and here a mafter, or of pealtan, Sax. to rule and hepe, Sax. an army] a proper name of men. Waltham [of peal's, Sax. a wood and Vam, Sax. an habitation, q. d. a town by a wood] a town in EJfex famous for a ftatcly abby, whofe abbot was a member of parlia¬ ment. WaLwick [of bolb bfg, Brit. i.e. the head of the flood, Baxter] the name of a place. Walvvin [of pealcan, Sax. to govern and pinnan, to Win] a proper name or firnamc. Wandsworth [anciently called Wandlefworth of the river Wanile or Vandali and pop’s, Sax. a village, or, as others fuppofe, of battb, Dan. water and worth, q. d. a town by the water-fide] a town lituatc on the bank of the river Thames in Surrey. Wans dike [r. e. Woden’s Dfke, or the ditch ofWoden or Oden, a God worlhipped by the Saxons fuppofed to be the fame with the Mercury of the Romans] a prodigious long ditch in Wiltpire, anciently the limit of the Weji- Saxons and Mercii. Ward wick [of Huiccii or Iceni and peajVc, Sax. i.e. a garrilon of the people called Iceni, Baxter] the name of a place. Ware [of peajij Sax. a ditch made to keep off the overflowing of the water] a town in Hertfordfiire. Warrington [bar 0 tilt ut, Brit. i. e. upon the river Tine, Baxter] the name of a place. Warwick [of guartl), C. Br. a fafeguard or garrilon and pic, Sax. a port or city, according to Camden-, Som- ner fays it was anciently called Wearing Wic of peajnn^ a wear and Pic, Sax. a fort. The Welfi call it (fcardeoit, i. e. the camp of the Legion, becaufe there the major of the Dalmatian horfe adted under the command of the duke of Britain] the county town of Warwickpire. Wat Ling fireet [fome fuppofe it to be fo called of W- tellianus a Roman ; but Somnerus fuppofes of petola, Sax. a beggar or pe^lian, Sax. to beg, became beggars conftantly fat in that ftreet to ask alms] It was one of the 4 Roman ftreets or high-ways, dividing London in the mi dft from louth to north, reaching from Dover to London, Dunfiable, Toucefier, Atterjlon and the Severn near the Wrekin in Sbropjbire, ex¬ tending it felt to Anglefey in Wales. The three other Roman ftreets or ways were Ikeneld ftreet, Erminage fireet, and the Foffe. WenTsbEcK [of the river Went and betU, Dart, a river] a little river in Northumberland, by the fide of which the town called Glenoventa anciently flood. Worth [Weep'S, Sax. a farm] Hence matiy of our country-villages end in worth, as Thifile worth, Wandfworth, &c. West bur y [». *. Weftern-town] a town in Hamppire. Westchester [is fo called to diftinguiih.it from Chefier upon the ftreet in Durham, which lies to the eaft as this does to the weft. The Saxons called it Lea^a-ccayTeji, Sax. i. e. the legion’s town, becaufe a Roman legion did quarter therei Westminster [Werfcmmrtpe, Sax.] took its name from its weftward fituation and a minfier or abbey founded there by Sebert, king of the Eafi-Saxons, out of the ruins of a temple of Apollo, which flood there and fell by an earthquake about the year of our lord 605. Weymouth [i.e. the mouth of the river Wey] a port- town in Dorfetflire. Whaley [of pelltan, Sax. to be full of fprings and lea£ a field, q. d. a field well-watered] a place in Lan- cajbire. Whitby [i.e. a white town or bay, called in the Saxons time StpeanePheale, i. e. Strean’s hill] a place in Torkjbire. White-hall Tork-place, built by cardinal Woolfey, and taken from him by king Henry VIII. Whitney [of hpit, Sax. white and ea Sax. water, or i£e, Sax. an ifland] a town in Oxfordfbire. The Jjle of Wight [called anciently Whitlan'o, Sax; it. white land, and alfo Wic-ea, Sax. the Welp called it ti&uitt), which fignifies a divifion or reparation, becaufe it was thought that this ifland was formerly cut off and fe- parated from the reft of England by the force of the fea. An ifland over-againft Portsmouth and over-againft South¬ hampton. Wig MORE [WifcanSemepe, Sax. probably of pic, Sax. a fortrefs and (Wop, Sax. a moor] a town in Herefordpire. Wigtown [of big, Brit, or paSan, Sax. to wag and •Cun a town] the name of a place- WilbeRHaM [anciently called WilbuPsham, or put. Sax. wild and hupS and ham, Sax ] a town in Kent. Wilcocks ? [ofboalb a wood and cock, q.d. wood- Wilcox 3 cock] a firname. Wilfred [ofpilla, Sax. a will and icpe'ce, Sax. peace] a'proper name. , , . , , , r St. Wilfred’* Needle, a narrow hole in the church ot Rippon in Torkpire, in which in times of old they ufed to g mak»](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30449819_0821.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
