• Scientific roots of nature

By WORLD, Vniverse, is meant the Compages or Frame of the whole Creation,* with more especial reference to those Principal and more Gene∣ral parts of which it consists; whether

• SPIRITUAL and immaterial. I.
• Corporeal, considered according to the
  • Parts into which it is divided, whether
  • CELESTIAL. II.
  • Terrestrial: either
    • Inanimate.—
      • LAND. III.
      • WATER. IV.
  • ANIMATE. V.
  • CIRCLES by which it is divided. VI.

• celestial

• land

• WATER
• WATER BODIES

IV To the word WATER, as it denotes the watry part of this Terre∣strial Globe, may be adjoyned the word SEA, Marine, Maritim; which de∣notes the more general name of the greater parts of Water, as Country or Region does of Land.

The more considerable Notions under this Head may be distinguished as the other, with respect to its

Figure, whether equal or unequal, Convex or Concave

• AEQUOR, Calm Sea, Smooth Sea.
  • WAVE, Billow, Surge, Vndulation, Rough.
  • WHIRL-POOL, Vorago, Gulf, Swallow.

• On all sides, whether
  • Great, more great, or less great.
    • OCEAN, Main-sea.
    • LAKE, Meer, Pond, Plash.
  • Less, whether obround and deep, or oblong.
    • WELL, Head.
    • SPRING, Fountain, Source, Rivulet.
• On three sides, greater, or less.
  • BAY, Gulf, Creek, Arm of the Sea, Harbour, Port, Key.
  • PENE-LAKE, Haven, Harbour, Port, Key.
• On two sides, greater, or less
  • FRETUM, Streight, Narrow sea, Sound.
  • CHANNEL.
• On one side, either according to the more general name, or that parti∣cular kind which is sometimes higher, and sometimes lower upon the Land.
  • SHORE, Margo aquea.
  • TIDE, Ebb, Flow, High-water, Low-water, Neap-tide, Spring-tide.

• STREAM, River, Brook, Current, flow, pour, gush, Bourn, Rill, Rivulet, Eddy, Gullet, Flood, Deluge, Inundation, Torrent, Ca∣taract, Water-course, Running-water.
• STAGNUM, Pool, Puddle, Pond, stagnate, standing-water, Dead-water.

Imperfect; such Bodies as grow in Veins of the Earth, which though they are not commonly owned and reckoned under this Rank, yet several Learned men have heretofore reduced them hither, as being a more imperfect kind of Vegetable; because when Mines have seem∣ed to be totally exhausted of them, yet there hath remained behind some kind of Seminal or Spermatic parts, whereby they have in pro∣cess of time been renewed again, and continued to propagate their kinds.

• MINERAL.

Perfect; whether according to the

• General name;
  • PLANT, Vegetable.
• Special kinds; denoting either, that tribe of Plants that are most small, tender and numerous; Or those kinds, amongst these, which are com∣monly fed upon by beasts, &c.
  • HERB, Wort, Weed, Botanic.
  • GRASS, Grase, Greensword.

• ANIMAL, Brute-ish.

• MAN, Woman, Human-ity, Folk.

• celestial circles