POSSESSIONS

BY OECONOMICAL POSSESSIONS. Estate, Goods, Substance, Stock, Ability, Chattels, hold, injoy, seized of, occupy, indow, in hand enter upon, are intended such kinds of things as are necessary upon several accounts for the use, preservation, and well-being of a Family. And though divers of these things, as Land, Buildings, &c. be common as well to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies, yet do they (as was said before) originally belong to Families, to which all other Associations were subsequent, and in which they were founded. To this may be adjoyned that other Notion signify∣ing the benefit accruing to us by our Possessions, styled REVENUE, In∣come, Intrado, Patrimony, Rent, Profit, Endowment, Steward, Fee, Vails, Perqui∣sites, the proceed.

These Possessions do refer either to things

• Natural, as LAND. I.
• Artificial; whether
  • Buildings, considered according to their
    • KINDS. II.
    • Parts.
      • GREATER. III.
      • LESSER. IV.
  • Things serviceable for
    • CARRIAGE. V.
    • FURNITURE, Vtensils. VI.

I. That part of the Earth wherein any man hath a propriety, is styled LAND, Earth. And if he commonly resides upon it, 'tis called his DWEL∣LING, Habitation, Mansion, Home, inhabit, reside, Inmate, Desert, Wilderness, Solitude, abide, settle, stay.

The several Notions belonging to this, may be distinguished into such as signifie

• Both Land and Habitation, ‖ sufficient for one Family: or a small aggre∣gate of such.
  • FARM, Grange, Mesuage, Tenement, Tenant, Copyhold.
  • MANOR, Lordship, Village, Thorp, Homage, Tithing, Liberty.
• LAND, Land alone; according to the
  • General name: or the name denoting a larger extent of it.
    • FIELD, Grounds, Croft.
    • FORREST, Chase, Verderer, Purliew.
  • Particular kinds; distinguishable according to their
    • Vses; either for ‖
      • Herbs: or Fruit-Trees.
        • GARDEN.
        • ORCHARD, Nursery.
      • Corn: or Hay.
        • ARABLE, tilled Land, ear Land, Fallow▪ Lay Land.
        • MEDOW, Mead.
      • Tame Beasts: or wild Beasts.
        • PASTURE, Down, Lawn, Herbage, Hayward, Lease, Panage.
        • PARK, Warren, Paddock, Keeper.
      • Fish: or Fowl.
        • POND▪ Stew.
        • DECOY.
      • Fewel; ‖ greater: or less.
        • WOODS, Sylvan, Thicket, Cops, Grove.
        • HEATH.
  • Qualities; being either of
    • Equal wetness; ‖ from fresh: or from salt Water.
      • FEN.
      • MARSH.
    • Vnequal wetness; whereof the excess is either ‖ on the surface: or under the surface, within the Land.
      • MOOR, plashy, slabb.
      • BOGG, Quagmire, Slough, Fastness.

II. Those kinds of Helps or Contrivances whereby men preserve the Pla∣ces of their abode from the Injuries of Weather,* and other Inconvenien∣cies, are styled by the common name of BUILDINGS, Edifice, Structure, Fabric, erect, Architecture, Superstructure, Substruction.

To which may be opposed the Notion of buildings decayed, called RUINS, dilapidate, demolish, raze, Dissolution, Wrack, Rubble, Rubbish, fall, break, subvert, throw down, lay wast.

These may be distinguished, according to their Uses, into such as are for

• Room
  • Ordinary habitation; whether ‖ immoveable: or moveable.
    • HOUSE, Mansion, Mesuage, Cote, Cottage, Hut, Shed, Hovel, Lodge, Place, domestic, Ining.
    • TENT, Tabernacle, Pavilion, Booth, Bowre.
  • Grandeur: or Strength.
    • PALACE, Seraglio.
    • CASTLE, Cittadel.
  • Height and beauty; either with ‖ a flat: or sharp top.
    • TOWER, Turret.
    • STEEPLE, Pinnacle, Shaft, Spire.
  • Religious worship; for Invocation or Preaching: or for Sacrifice.
    • TEMPLE, Church, Chappel, Sanctuary, Synagogue, Mosque, Cathe∣dral, Chancel, Quire.
    • ALTAR.
  • Warmth, Cleanliness or Health; whether by ‖ warm Air: or Water.
    • STOVE, Hot house.
    • BATH, Stew, Bain, drencht.
• PASSAGE; either

III. To the GREATER PARTS OF which BUILDINGS do con∣sist, and into which they may be distributed, may be adjoyned that usu∣al kind of division styled BAY.

These are either

• More general; concerning the
  • Main design of the Timber-work: or the dividing part.
    • FRAME, Compages, Skeleton.
    • PARTITION, Wall.
  • Principal places; whether ‖ segregate: or aggregate.
    • ROOM, Chamber, Cabbin, Cell, Hall, Parlour, &c. Kennel, Sty, Stable, &c. Lobby, Loft, &c.
    • APARTMENT.
  • Vacancies or Passages; ‖ without: or within.
    • COURT, Yard, Back-side.
    • ENTRY, Passage, enter.
• More particular; distinguished according to their Uses and Situations; being either for
  • Support.
    • Intern.
      • Lower; whether ‖ erect: or transverse.
        • FOUNDATION, Ground-work, Substruction, Base, Bottom, fundamental, underpinning, ground-pinning.
        • FLOOR, Ground, Deck, Contignation.
      • Higher; ‖ erect: or transverse.
        • Oblong and narrow.
          • PILLAR, Column, Post, Iambe, Pile, Pillester.
          • BEAM, Sparr, Rafter, Mantle, Transom, Summer.
        • Flat: or Curve.
          • WALL, Sepiment, immure, countermure, mural
          • ARCH, Vault, embowed.
  • Extern; ‖ put to: or built to the part which it supports.
    • PROP, till, support, uphold, stay up, shore up, shoulder up, under-prop, under-set.
    • BUTTRESS.
• Covering; whether ‖ highest: or subordinate.
  • ROOF, Covering, Tilt, Penthouse, Leads, Thatch, Tiling, Slate, Shingles.
  • SIELING.
• Warmth▪ either ‖ Simple: or with a Tube to it for passage of the Smoke.
  • HEARTH.
  • CHIMNEY, Tunnel, Mantle.

IV. LESSER PARTS OF BUILDINGS are distinguishable into such as are serviceable; either for

• Passage upwards and downwards; being either ‖ immoveable: or moveable.
  • STAIRS
  • LADDER, Scale.
• Passage in and out; either of ‖ Persons: or fresh Air; considered according to the
  • Whole.
    • GATE SEMANTOGRAMS, DOOR , Port-er, Wicket, Postern, Hatch, Porch, Portal.
    • WINDOW, Casement, Balcony.
• Parts relating to a Door chiefly, or Window.
  • Without it; ‖ above: or below.
    • THRESHOLD, Sill, Groundsill.
    • LINTEL.
  • Vpon it; for the
    • Opening and shutting of it.
      • More artificial; ‖ the fixed: or loose part.
        • LOCK, Padlock.
        • KEY.
      • More simple; to open ‖ from within onely: or both wayes.
        • BOLT, Barr, Sparr.
        • LATCH.
    • Motion of it; ‖ concave: or convex.
      • HINGE.
      • STAPLE, Hook.

• CARRIAGE

• furniture