A dictionary of barbarous French, or, A collection, by way of alphabet, of obsolete, provincial, mis-spelt, and made words in French taken out of Cotgrave's dictionary with some additions : a work much desired, and now performed, for the satisfaction of such as read Old French / by Gvy Miege ...

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A dictionary of barbarous French, or, A collection, by way of alphabet, of obsolete, provincial, mis-spelt, and made words in French taken out of Cotgrave's dictionary with some additions : a work much desired, and now performed, for the satisfaction of such as read Old French / by Gvy Miege ...
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Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?
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1679.
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"A dictionary of barbarous French, or, A collection, by way of alphabet, of obsolete, provincial, mis-spelt, and made words in French taken out of Cotgrave's dictionary with some additions : a work much desired, and now performed, for the satisfaction of such as read Old French / by Gvy Miege ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69797.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.

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  • PAccages, pastures, or pasture∣grounds.
  • Pace, as mettre en pace, to bury.
  • Pache, a bargain, or contrall.
  • Pacifiement, an appeasing, or pa∣cifying.
  • Pacifiquer, a peace-maker.
  • Pacifiquement, peaceably, quiet∣ly.
  • Pacquette, honey-wort.
  • Pact, for pacte, a bargain or con∣tract.
  • Pactieux, covenanting, contract∣ing.
  • Pactionné, covenanted, bargain∣ed.
  • Pactioner, to covenant, to bargain.
  • Padane, a kind of open bit which gives much liberty to the tongue of a horse.
  • Padoën, Padoënce, Padouën, a common Pasture.
  • Padouir les uns sur les autres, Neigh∣bours to lead their beasts each in∣to others Pastures, or to common one upon the other.
  • Paduentage, Common of pasture in one or divers Parishes.
  • Paellerée, a shovel full.
  • Paellette, a little shovel.
  • Paellier, the landing place of a half∣pace stair, every broad step thereof.
  • Paellonet, a small pan, or skillet.
  • Pageat, Pageau, Paget, Pageot, a little ruddy sea-bream.
  • Pagerot, a little Page.
  • Pagnon, the pinion of a Clock, the nut in whose notches the teeth of the wheels do run.
  • Pagnotte, one that hath neither wit nor courage.
  • Pagre, a kind of Sea-bream.
  • Pagrure, Pagul, Pagure, a Grampel, Grit, or Pungar.
  • Païnisme, Paganism.
  • Paignon, a little loaf of bread.
  • Pailerée, as Paellerée.
  • Paillace, for Paillasse, a straw-bed.
  • Paillarde, a Whore.
  • Paillé, a stack of straw; also a straw-colour; also a Bishops Pall. Droict du paillée, the Priviledge of the Pall, or of wearing a Pall, due only to some Bishops.
  • Paille-maille, as palemaille.
  • Pailles, spangles; also the flakes or sparkles that fly from hammered and red-hot iron.
  • Pailleux, strawy, chaffy; also full of flaws.
  • Paillisson, a small frying pan.
  • Pailliz, a heap of straw, or of chaff.
  • Pailloté, as terre paillotée, earth mingled with chaff or straw.
  • Paincture, for peinture, painting.
  • Paindre, for peindre, to paint.
  • Paineux, full of bread.
  • Paintre, for Peintre, a Painter.
  • Paisibleté, peaceableness, quietness.
  • Paissage de bestes, the pasturing, or feeding of Cattel.
  • Paisse solitaire, a mountain-bird like a Throstle or Owzel.
  • Paissemment, as paissage.
  • Paissiere, a bank or causey held up, or in, by stakes.
  • Paisson, the herbage of Woods or Forrests; the feeding for Cattle therein.
  • Paissonner, to feed, or brouze in Woods, &c.
  • Paissu, fed on, grazed, eaten by Cattel.
  • Pal, a stake, or pole; also a putting to death by a stake thrust long∣ways through the body; a way much used amongst the Turks.
  • Palabre, as parole in the N. D.
  • Palabreur, a pratler, an idle talk∣er.
  • Paladin, a Knight of the round table. Il sait bied de son Paladin, he swaggers very much.
  • Palalalan, the sound of the French March.
  • Palamide, a young Tuny; also the Bonito fish.
  • Palamie, the bloody rifts; a disease or impostumation in the roof of a horses mouth.
  • Palatin, as lettres palatines, such letters as are pronounced by the help of the palate, as, g, t, r, &c.
  • Palemaille, a Game wherein a round box or bowl is with a mallet struck through a high arch of iron (standing at either end of an alley one) which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed on, wins.
  • Palene, the pennant, a rope which helps to hoise up the boat, and all heavy merchandise aboard a Ship.
  • Palerée, a pail full of.
  • Palerons des espaules, the shoulder∣blades.
  • Paleter du chanvre, to bruise hemp with a pestle or beetle.
  • Pal-fer, an iron-headed shovel, spade, or stake, used by Gardeners.
  • Pali, a pale, or thick lath; a stack, pole, or pile.
  • Paliatif, cloaking, biding, colou∣ring. Medecines paliatives, me∣decines which ease for a while, but heal not altogether.
  • Paliation, a cloaking, hiding, or colouring.
  • Palicer, as palisser.
  • Palier, for pailier, to palliate, cloak, or disguise.
  • Palifié, impaled, defended with a Palissado.
  • Paligenesie, regeneration, or diver∣sity of generation.
  • Palinotode, diversity of birth.
  • Palis, as Pali.
  • Paliser, to publish.
  • Palisse, for palissade, a palissa∣do.
  • Palissé, palissadoed, paled about.
  • Palisser, to inclose with pales.
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  • Palisson, a flat iron or shovel to bake a cake on.
  • Palicure, the shrub called Ram of Lybia, or Christs thorn.
  • Pall-allant, a strutting Braggado∣chio, or as Palalan.
  • Pallamente, part of the Orelop, or upper deck of a Galley.
  • Pallares, a kind of Indian pulse.
  • Palle, for pale, a shovel; also as palletoc; also the beazil, or head of a ring.
  • Palle, for pale, pale.
  • Palle, party par-pale, (in Heral∣dry.)
  • Pallemail, as palemaille.
  • Pallement, palely.
  • Paller, for parler, to speak.
  • Pallerons, as palerons.
  • Palleter, to scuffle, or fight with.
  • Palletie, a scuffling, or fighting.
  • Palletoc, a long and thick pelt or cas∣sock; a garment like a short cloak with sleeves.
  • Palletoqué, that weareth a palletoc.
  • Pallette, for palette, a little shovel.
  • Palleur, for pâleur, paleness.
  • Palliatif, Palliation, as Paliatif, paliation.
  • Pallier (Subst.) as Palluyer; also the landing place of a half-pac'd stair.
  • Pallir, for pâlir, to grow pale.
  • Pallis, as pali.
  • Palisade, for palissade, a palissado.
  • Pallissement, paleness, or a grow∣ing pale.
  • Pallonneau, as palonneau.
  • Palluyer, an Officer who with a sho∣vel unlades or lades the Salt which is for the Kings store.
  • Palmaire, belonging to, or being in the palm of the hand.
  • Palmant, he that bids most rent for a Lease, or money for an Inheritance which is to be let or sold.
  • Palmée, an out-bidding of all for a Lease, or an Inheritance.
  • Palmer, to stroke, smooth, or lay down with the palm of the hand. Palmer les chevaux des Orgueil∣leux, to abate the huff of the proud.
  • Palmier, (Adj.) of, or belonging to the Palm-tree; also a bearing a branch of Palm. Heritage pal∣mier, an Inheritance exposed unto sale.
  • Palmite, the low or little wild date-tree.
  • Palmule, a date.
  • Palon, the broad end of a wooden shovel; or as masserotte.
  • Palonneau, a piece of a strong rope doubled, and having a knot with an eye in the middle of it, where∣by it serves to fasten draught-hor∣ses unto the thill of a Cart or Carriage.
  • Palot, as tenir palot à, to hold tack, or keep even with; also a dunce.
  • Palouäde, a kind of Spanish fish.
  • Palper, to handle gently, to stroak, or touch gingerly; also to sooth, or flatter.
  • Palpitation, a panting, or often beat∣ing.
  • Palpiter, to pant, or throb; to beat, move, or stir very often.
  • Palte, a soft, and delicate Indian fruit like a great pear.
  • Palthoc, as palletoc.
  • Paltoquier, as palletoqué.
  • Paltret, a Cleaver.
  • Palu, a fen, or marsh.
  • Paludement, a Coat-armor, or horse∣mans coat, a jacket reaching to the knees.
  • Paludeux, as palustre, or full of mar∣shes, fens, or moors.
  • Palvesate, a Targuet-fence, under which the Souldiers that make approaches, or are upon entring of a breach, be shrowded.
  • Palumbe, a ring-dove, stock-dove.
  • Palustre, fenny, marshy, moorish.
  • Paluyer, as palluyer.
  • Pam, for empan, a span.
  • Pamp, for pampre, a vine-leaf.
  • Pamphage, eat all, devouring all.
  • Pamphedron, a hornet, or ox-flie.
  • Pampier, of, or belonging to a vine∣leaf; also, bearing only leaves.
  • Pampillettes, spangles.
  • Pampré, full of vine-leaves.
  • Panaillon, as penaillon.
  • Panax, as panais in the N. D.
  • Pançart, a great gut.
  • Panceron, a great belly, or paunch; the full stuffed belly of a doublet.
  • Pancerotte, Pancetre, a little paunch.
  • Panchaïque, as odeur panchaïque, the smell of Arabian Frankin∣cense.
  • Panchement, for pante, a bending, leaning, or bowing forward; an inclination.
  • Pançu, as pançart.
  • Pand, as pan in the N. D.
  • Pandectaire, containing, or belong∣ing to all manner of books; or books that intreat of all matters.
  • Pané, of bread. Eau panée, a panado.
  • Panegyric, for Panegyrique, a Pa∣negyrick.
  • Panerée, a basket full.
  • Paneron, Panerot, a little basket.
  • Panes, red pimples, or freckles in the face.
  • Paneté, made into bread.
  • Panets, as Panais in the N. D.
  • Paneux, full of bread.
  • Panice, a sudden and madding fear.
  • Panicle, a little loaf.
  • Paniere, as panniere.
  • Panifice, bread-making; also bread.
  • Panifier, to make, or bake into bread.
  • Panil, for panic, panick.
  • Panilliere, the grine.
  • Paniz, for panic, panick.
  • Pannader, a horse to prance, curvet, or bound.
  • Pannades, the curvettings, praun∣cings, or boundings of lusty hor∣ses.
  • Pannoye de soye, plush.
  • Panneau, a young Peacock; also as paneau in the N. D.
  • Pannicule, a little clowt; also the skin wherein a Child lies wrapt in the womb.
  • Panniere, as pain de panniere, a great white loaf yielded by the Tenants of S. Gondon sur Loire, to their Lords yearly, and besides their Cens.
  • Pannilliere, as panilliere,
  • Pannoyer un baston, to wield, or toss a stick.
  • Panomphée, of all Nations and Speeches.
  • Panoplique, compleatly armed.
  • Panosse, vicille panosse, an old hag.
  • Panouere, a little basket, or dosser.
  • Panoye, le Jeu de la panoye, a game, or kind of Wrestling.
  • Pans, a kind of large Imposthumes.
  • Pansard, as pançart.
  • Panser, as penser in the N. D.
  • Pansotte, a small paunch.
  • Panseron, as Panceron.
  • Pansu, as Pançart.
  • Pantagone, for pentagone, five-cor∣nered.
  • Pantagrueliste, a good fellow.
  • Pantagruellion, hemp.
  • Pantais, a difficulty of breathing in hawks, &c.
  • Pantarbe, a certain black stone which resisteth fire.
  • Pantarque, as Pancarte in the N. D.
  • Panteine, a great Net, or Toil, used for the catching of wild beasts.
  • Pantharbe, the name of an artificial Heaven, devised by one Joachas, an Indian Magician.
  • Panthelement, a panting, or puffing.
  • Pantheologie, the whole sum of Di∣vinity.
  • ...

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  • Pantherien, of a Panther, or like a Panther.
  • Panthiere, a great drawing net.
  • Panthois, for pantois, short-winded.
  • Pantiere, as panthiere.
  • Pantime, a bundle of raw silk.
  • Pantiser, to breathe very fast.
  • Pantodiables, all, or whole Devils.
  • Pantoiment, a panting, or often blowing. Pantoiment tourmen∣ter, to vex one so, as to make him scarce able to draw his breath.
  • Pantoiser, to be short-winded, or be out of breath.
  • Pantomime, an Actor of many parts in one play.
  • Pantoufleux, full of, or fit for slip∣pers.
  • Pantoyer, as pantoiser.
  • Panurge, an old Fox.
  • Pao, for par, by.
  • Paonneau, a young Peacock.
  • se Paonner, to take a pride in him∣self.
  • Paonnesse, a Pea-hen.
  • Paonnien, of, or belonging to a Pea∣cock; peacock-like.
  • Paour, for peur, fear.
  • Paovre, for pauvre, poor.
  • Paovret, a poor sneak.
  • Paoureusement, fearfully.
  • Paoureux, fearful.
  • Papacité, Popedome, Popery.
  • Papafigue, a gnat-snapper, or fig-eater.
  • Paparot, pap, or a poultice.
  • Papechieu, a Lapwing, a black Plover.
  • Papefigue, as papafigue.
  • Papegau, as Papegay in the N. D.
  • Papelard, a dissembler, a flatte∣rer.
  • Papelarder, to dissemble.
  • Papelardie, Papelardise, hypocrisie, flattery.
  • Papeligosse, the Country of Butter∣flies.
  • Paperassé, rifled, or often tossed o∣ver, as the papers of a Student.
  • Paperasses, old papers.
  • Paperat, a Paper- (or Note-) book.
  • Papet, as papin.
  • Papetasié, as papetassé; also much fumbled, as a bundle of written papers.
  • Papetassé, patched, or poorly made up with paper.
  • Papetasser, to patch, or stop up with paper.
  • Papieter, not to eat heartily, to dally with his meat.
  • Papifigue, a scorner of the Pope.
  • Papille, the Nipple of a womans breast.
  • Papillot, a little Butter-fly; also a Plague-sore.
  • Papillotage, a spatling; also the twinkling of spangles, &c.
  • Papilloté, as papillotté.
  • Papilloter, to glisten, or to shake like spangles, to set with span∣gles; to bespattle.
  • Papillotte, for papillote, a spangle; also thistle-down, or the soft down blown from the tops of flowers by the wind. Papillottes de bouë, spots of dirt. Il croid que les estoiles sont papillottes, he thinks the Moon is made of green Cheese.
  • Papilotté, bespangled, or set off with spangles; also bespattled.
  • Papillottement, a bespangling; also a bespaiting.
  • Papillotter, as papilloter.
  • Papilloteux, all bespangled.
  • Papimanes, Papists, or doters on the Pope.
  • Papimanie, Papistry.
  • Papin, pap for children.
  • Papoage, Inheritance by kindred, or ancient descent.
  • Papoal, as Biens papoaux, an estate coming from an Ancestor, or by descent.
  • Papon, pap for children.
  • Papoter, as papieter.
  • Pappe, Thistle-down; also the soft down which grows on the leaves and stalks of some herbs.
  • Paqueter, for empaqueter, to pack up.
  • Paquette, as pasquette.
  • Parabande, the rail that runs along on a rank of Ballisters in a Ter∣race, &c.
  • Parable, easie to be got, or come by.
  • Parabrin, a gratulation, or wel∣come.
  • Paraclitique, that hath an ill name.
  • Paradoxique, against common opi∣nion.
  • Parager, a copartner, or as Para∣geau in the N. D.
  • Paragon, for parangon, a paragon, or peerless one; the most compleat piece in any kinde whatsoever; a pattern, or touch-stone, whereby the goodness of things is tryed.
  • Paragonner, to paragon; to match, or compare with; to try the good∣ness of a thing by comparing it with others.
  • Parin, for parrain, a God-father.
  • Paralellogramme, a long Square.
  • Paralogizer, to reason captiously, to argue deceitfully.
  • Parangonneux, full of comparisons.
  • Paranniser, to perpetuate.
  • Parapel, as parapet in the N. D.
  • Parasangue, as parasange in the N.D.
  • Parasceve, a preparation. Jour pa∣rasceve, Good-friday among Chri∣stians, & among Jews any Friday.
  • Paraseline, as paraselene in the N. D.
  • Parastrates, the conduits or passages whereby the seed goes from the Kidneys in the act of generation; or two Kernels which grow at the end of the Bladder, and re∣ceive the seed brought unto them by Vasa deferentia; also stones set to, or about a pillar.
  • Paravant, heretofore.
  • Parcage, a Park, or Inclosure, a Pound.
  • Parcellé, peece-mealed.
  • Parchage, as parcage.
  • Parcheminerie, a parchment ma∣king; also the street or place wherein parchment is sold.
  • Parcheminier, a parchment-maker.
  • Parciere, as Terres baillées à par∣ciere, land set out for part of the crop.
  • Parcion, a Copartners portion.
  • Parcité, parcity, scantness, frugality.
  • Parçon, as parcion.
  • Parçonnier, for parsonnier, a part∣ner.
  • Parcoulé, strained through.
  • Parcouler, to strain through.
  • Parcours, custome, usage; ancient proceedings in point of commerce between the Towns or Countries of several Lords. Bourgeois de parcours, Freemen of the Juris∣diction of Sens in Champagne, who by a bare challenge, may ad∣vow themselves to be also the Kings Freemen.
  • Parcreu, as parcru.
  • Parcroissant, ripening.
  • Parcroistre, to ripen, or make an end of growing; to come to its full pitch; also, to grow among.
  • Parcru, full grown, throughly ripe, come to perfection; also grown, or sprung up among.
  • Pardigoince, the name of a great and delicate plum.
  • Pardil, a dark-spotted gray colour of a horse.
  • Pardonnement, a pardoning.
  • Pardonnigere, a Pardon-bearer, one that carries and makes sale of the Popes Pardons up and down 〈◊〉〈◊〉 country.
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  • Pardormir, to sleep soundly; to fi∣nish or sleep out his sleep.
  • Pardurable, as perdurable.
  • Pareade, a certain fiery-coloured, quick-sighted, and wide-mouthed Serpent, not very venomous.
  • Pareatis, the Conclusion of a perem∣ptory Warrant or Injunction, like unto our Hereof fail ye not, &c.
  • Parecoup, a ward-blow; or any thing that serves to put by a blow.
  • Parefrenier, for Palefrenier, a Groom.
  • Parence, a Livery. or Suit.
  • Parénnité, as perenneité.
  • Parensus, an overplus.
  • le Parensus, the before-named.
  • Parentelle, affinity, consanguinity.
  • Parergue, an addition, or appendix; any thing that is beside the prin∣cipal question, point, or purpose in hand.
  • Paresser, to loiter, to live idly.
  • Paresseusement, slothfully, lazily.
  • Paret, a wall.
  • Paretoine, a certain fatty Painters white.
  • Pareure, as parure.
  • Parfaire, to perfect, to finish.
  • Parfaiseur, a perfecter, or finisher.
  • Parfiler, to spin all.
  • Parfin, as à la parfin, at length, at last.
  • Parfondeur, for profondeur, depth.
  • se Parforcer, to do his utmost.
  • Parsournir, to furnish, or make up.
  • Parfumatoire, used in, or for per∣fumes.
  • Pargoys, cousteau pargoys, a little childs knife.
  • Parguarir, to cure perfectly.
  • Parietaux, the name of two bones in the upper end and forepart of the Scull.
  • Parité, parity, equality.
  • Paritoire, for parietoire, Pellitory of the wall.
  • Parjurement, for parjure, a perjury, or forswearing.
  • Parlementerie, a parley, a confe∣rence.
  • Parleresse, as langue parleresse, a pratling tongue, a tongue that never lieth.
  • Parlerie, a pratling,
  • Parlier, a Pleader, an Attorney.
  • Parlier, (Adj.) speaking; of, or be∣longing unto speech.
  • Parlire, to read over.
  • Parloer, for parloir, a Parlour.
  • Parloire, a pratling, or idle discourse.
  • Parlouer, a Parliament, or Assem∣bly of the States; a publick Con∣ference. Parlouer aux Bour∣geois, an Assembly, Meeting, or common Council of Citizens.
  • Parmentier, a Taylor.
  • Parnage, pawnage.
  • Parnombrer, to tell all out, to rec∣kon all over.
  • Paroccir, to kill outright.
  • Parodelle, a kinde of Cheese-cake.
  • Paroice, for paroisse, a Parish.
  • Paroir, (Subst.) a Farriers paring Knife, or paring Iron.
  • Paroîr, for paroître, to appear.
  • Parolette, a little word, but a word or two.
  • Parolle, for parole, a word, or speech.
  • Paron, a dam, an old one that hath young ones.
  • Parronnel, the name of a pear.
  • Parons, for parens, kinred.
  • Paronychie, Whitlo-grass, or Nail-wort, (a weed.)
  • Paroximique, of, or in the sit of an ague.
  • Paroxisme, the return, or fit of an ague.
  • Parpaigne, a pillar, buttress, or sup∣porter of stone-works, serving to bear up a beam, or summer in a wall.
  • Parpaillon, as parpillon.
  • Parpaing, Parpeine, as parpaigne.
  • Parpillon, a Shrimp.
  • Parpillottes, spangles.
  • Parpin, a great lump of stone un∣squared, or newly cut out of the Quarry.
  • Parquage, as parcage.
  • Parquoi, therefore, wherefore.
  • Parrasme, Stone-rosin.
  • Parricider, to murder his own fa∣ther; also to commit any hainous or unnatural murder.
  • Parrin, for Parrain, a Godfather.
  • Parrodelle, as parodelle.
  • Parroquet, for perroquet, a Par∣rat.
  • Parservir, to serve throughly.
  • Parsimonie, parsimony, or thrift.
  • Parsoy, à parsoy, by himself; al∣so from him, by his intreaty or means.
  • Part, for naissance, a birth.
  • Partageable, fit to be divided.
  • Partiaire, in parts, for parts, of parts.
  • Partiali••••••, to be partial.
  • Participial, of, or belonging to a Participle.
  • Participalement, as a Participle.
  • Partiment, Partissement, a parting, or dividing; also a departing.
  • Partisseur, a parter, or divider.
  • Partizant, Part-prenant, a par∣taker.
  • Partroublé, extreamly troubled, mo∣lested, or perplexed.
  • Partroublement, an extream trou∣ble.
  • Partuer, to kill outright.
  • Parvenche, for pervenche, the herb Perwinkle.
  • Parvité, smalness, littleness.
  • Parure, a decking, or trimming; an apparel, a suit.
  • Pascage, a grazing, or feeding of cattle.
  • Paschal, for pascal, of, or belonging to Easter.
  • Paschier, a pasture ground.
  • Pascrit, faded, dried, out of season.
  • Paslement, palely, bleakly.
  • Pasmaison, for pâmaison, a fainting fit.
  • Pasqueages, pastures.
  • Pasquenade, a Parsnip.
  • Pasquerages, Pasqueraiges, pastures.
  • Pasquerette, a little dairy.
  • Pasquil, and Pasquille, for pasquin, a Pasquil, a Libel clapt upon a post.
  • Passadoux, an arrow.
  • Passager, for passer, to pass, to go on; to remove often. Passager & varier la voix, to warble, or divide in singing.
  • Passageur, a ferryman.
  • Passagier, for passager, a passenger.
  • Passature, a straining; also the thing that is strained.
  • Passe, time, accidents, occurrences, or things past; also a Hen-spar∣row; the rack of a Cross-bow; the iron goal or arch of a Mâll. Passe de Canarie, a Canary-bird.
  • Passefilé, curled.
  • Passe-filons, small ear-locks, or cur∣led locks drawn out on either side; any tufts of hair.
  • Passéfillonné, curled.
  • Passe-fin, excellent fine cloth.
  • Passemarrel de temps, a merry sport or pastime.
  • Passement, for passage, a passing; also a straining through, Passe∣ment de Tesmoings, an exami∣nation of Witnesses.
  • Passe par tout, a resolute fellow. Une passe par tout, a double Key that opens all the doors in the Court.
  • Passe-passée, a juggling trick.
  • Passe-pied, a caper; also a kinde of dance peculiar to the Youth of the higher Brittany.
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  • Passe-poil, a snipped, or jagged welt of Tassata and the like in a garment.
  • Passe-porte, a Bill of lading.
  • Passe-prouesse, exceeding valiant.
  • Passerat, a Sparrow.
  • Passerelles, Passerilles, raisins of the Sun.
  • Passerin, Sparrow-like; of, or be∣longing to a Sparrow. Langue passerine, the fruit of the Ash, called Ashen-keys.
  • Passe-rose, the name of a rose.
  • Passe-vent, swifter than the wind.
  • Passeur, a Ferry-man.
  • se Passioner, to grow passionate.
  • Passionnerement, passionately.
  • Passon, a posset.
  • Passules, small raisins.
  • Pastenague, Pastenaille, parsenip.
  • Pastenaque, the Fork-fish; also a parsnip.
  • Pasteux, full of dough; clammy, as bread which is dough-baked.
  • Pasticerie, for pâtissierie, pastry.
  • Pasticier, for pâtissier, a Pastry-Cook.
  • Pastilles, little lumps of wood.
  • Pastin, past, a little piece of past or dough.
  • Pastinage, past-meat.
  • Pastis, a pasture-ground not inclo∣sed; also pasture, or feeding for cattle.
  • Pastissage, a making or baking of pyes or past-meats.
  • Pastisser, to make pies or paste-meats.
  • Paston, a mash of meal for a horse; also a certain paste, or mealy oyntment that comforts or streng∣thens his hoof; also the piece of leather wherewith the toe of a shooe is lined.
  • Pastophores, sacred Priests among the ancient Egyptians.
  • Pastorat, a Pastoral office.
  • Pastoreau, Pastoureau, a young, or mean Pastor.
  • Pastourelle, a Shepherdess.
  • Pastre, a Shepherd.
  • Pasturable, which may be turned in∣to, or put unto pasture; which may be fed on.
  • Pasturement, a pasturing, grazing, or feeding.
  • Pasturer, to pasture, graze, or feed. Vain pasturer, to turn his cat∣tle into, or let them run in grounds held Vaine pasture.
  • Pasturier, a Grazier.
  • Pasturon, as paturon.
  • Patact, a tack, dap, or knock.
  • Patafle, the size of bread allowed by Authority.
  • Pataflerie, foppery, foolery.
  • Pataque, a Neapolitan coyn worth 200 Quadrins.
  • Patarasse, as petarasse.
  • Patart, a Low-country-coyn worth a Stiver, five whereof amount to six pence Sterling.
  • Pataut, gross, corpulent, big, fat.
  • Pate, for patte, a paw; also a plate or band of iron, &c. for the strengthening of a thing.
  • Paté, pawed, broad-footed.
  • Pateade, as pareade.
  • Patelion, for patelineur, a cogger, a flatterer.
  • Patelle, the ball, or whirl-bone of the knee; also the little shell-fish called Lympine.
  • Pateller, to chatter, to warble.
  • Patellette de la testiere, the head-dag, the broad piece of leather that runs through the top of a head-stall.
  • Patenostrages, beads.
  • Patenostrier, a maker, or seller of beads; also an hypocrite; also a string of beads.
  • Patent, patent, evident.
  • Patepelue, hairy-handed, rough-footed.
  • Paterliquer, to be fatherly.
  • Pathologie, that part of Physick which intreats of the causes, qua∣lities, and differences of Disea∣ses.
  • Pathologique, of, or belonging to Pathologie.
  • Pathonomique, a necessary and un∣doubted signe.
  • Patible, passive, sufferable.
  • Patibulaire, of, or belonging to the gallows, deserving the gallows. Fourche (signe) patibulaire, a gibbet, or gallows. Justice pa∣tibulaire, high Jurisdiction, power to hang offenders.
  • Paticier, for pâtissier, a Pye-maker.
  • Patientie, for patience, herb pa∣tience, Monks-rhubarb.
  • Patine, the cover of a Chalice.
  • Patiner, to handle rudely, or care∣lesly; to toss and turn a brittle thing often between the fingers.
  • Patinostres, beads.
  • Patinostrier, as patenostrier.
  • se Pationner, as se passionner.
  • Patouil, a dabbling, or slabbering.
  • Patouillard, a dabbler, a slabber∣er.
  • Patouillas, a plash, or puddle.
  • Patouille, for Patrouille, a still night-watch in War.
  • Patouillé, dabbled in with the feet, slabbered.
  • Patouiller, to dabble in with the feet, to slabber.
  • Patriarchie, Patriarkship.
  • Patricotage, a wrangling, or bran∣gling.
  • Patriot, a Father, or Protector of the Country or Commonwealth; also as
  • Patriote, ones Countryman.
  • Patrociner, to protect, or support.
  • Patronal, of, or belonging to a Pa∣tron; done in remembrance of a Patron.
  • Patronner, to take into protection; also to make or frame by a pat∣tern, to imitate.
  • Patronymique, derived of the Fa∣thers, or Ancestors names.
  • Patrouillé, besmeared; also swept, or made clean.
  • Patrouillement, a besmearing; also a sweeping with a maulkin; al∣so a padling in the water.
  • Patrouiller, to besmear; to deprave; to sweep, or make clean with a maulkin; to paddle or pudder in the water.
  • Patrouilleur, a besmearer; also a malicious carper, or depra∣ver.
  • Pattepelue, as patepelue.
  • Pattiner, as patiner.
  • Pattouquis, the pelting sound made by anvil-beating hammers.
  • se Pavaner, as se pavonasser.
  • Pavanier, a Pavine-maker; a dan∣cer of pavines.
  • Paucher, as pocher in the N. D.
  • Paucité, paucity, fewness.
  • Pavesade, for pavoisade, a Target-fence.
  • Pavescher, to shelter.
  • Pavide, fearful.
  • Pavidité, fear.
  • Pavigeade, as pavesade.
  • Pavis, a nectarin.
  • Paulcer, as pocher in the N. D.
  • Paulé, staked, or set with stakes.
  • Paulle, an Italian coyn worth about 11 d. sterl.
  • Paulmelle, Beer-barley.
  • Paumée, a clap, stroke, or blow with the hand.
  • Paumiere, a woman that keeps a Tennis-court.
  • Paumon, the navel-gall (a horses disease.)
  • Paumoule, beer-barley.
  • Pavoisier, a Targeteer.
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  • Pavoiseux, as pavoisier.
  • se Pavonasser, se Pavonner, to take a pride in himself.
  • Pausément, leisurely, fair and soft∣ly.
  • Paute, for patte, a paw.
  • Pautoniere, as Pautonniere.
  • Pautonnier, a lewd, stubborn, or saucy knave.
  • Pautonniere, lewdness, sauciness.
  • Pauzade, a pausing or resting; also a resting seat or place.
  • Payelle, a little round pan; also a little frying pan.
  • Payennerie, Paganism.
  • Payenneté, Heathenishness.
  • Payennie, Paganism.
  • Payrastre, a step-father.
  • Peageau, as Chemin peageau, a Road wherein Toll may be ta∣ken.
  • Peagier, for Peager, a Toll-gather∣er.
  • Peaucier, a Skinner, a Fell-mon∣ger.
  • Peaucier, (Adj.) skinny; of, in, or belonging to the skin.
  • Peaultre, as peautre.
  • Peaussu, skinny, or thick-skinned; also limber, or slaggy, like the loose skin of a withered body.
  • Peautraille, scrapings, or offals of skins, a serue of scoundrels.
  • Peautraillerie, scurvy old stuff of skins or leather.
  • Peccadille, a little sin.
  • Peccant, sinning, offending, trespas∣sing; also offensive.
  • Peccatrice, for pecheresse, a woman sinner.
  • Pece, as perrot.
  • Pecile, a pide, or skude colour of a horse.
  • Pecoul, the tail, or arse; the stalk of any fruit.
  • Pect, the breast, or udder.
  • Pectoncle, a Cockle, or small Cal∣lop.
  • Peculateur, one that robs the publick Treasure, or converts it unto his private use.
  • Peculativement, by robbing of the Prince's, or publick Treasure.
  • Pecule, a stock or substance gotten by private industry or toil.
  • Pecune, coin, money.
  • Pedagogisme, an instructing, or teaching; the office of a Teacher; also Pedantism.
  • Pedales, a horses kickings, or fling∣ings out with the heel.
  • Peder, for peter, to fart.
  • Pederotte, an opal.
  • Pedicule, the stalk of a leaf, or of fruit.
  • Pedieux, the name of a certain Muscle.
  • Pedion, the part of the instep that's next unto the toes, and contains five bones answerable unto them.
  • Pegade, a glass full.
  • Pege, pitch.
  • Pegé, pitched, bepitched.
  • Pegmate, a stage, or frame whereon Pageants be set, or carried.
  • Pegouse, a kinde of Sole-fish, that hath Eye-like spots on her back.
  • Pehoulle, Sea-coal.
  • Peignarre, Peignerre, Peigneur, Peignier, a Comb-maker.
  • Peignoir, Peignouoir, a Comb-case.
  • Peincturer, to paint.
  • Pejorer, to impair; to make, or to grow worse.
  • Peis, for poisson, a fish; also the breast.
  • Pel, for peau, skin; also lime, or plaister, for the walls of an house.
  • ...Pelain, ••••••ners lime-pit.
  • Pelard, a round stick pilled, or bar∣ked.
  • Pelasse, the pilling of the skin; also the paring of an apple; also the rind or bark of a tree.
  • Peldure, the name of a certain hard-skinned sig.
  • Pele, the boult of a lock.
  • Pelegrin, for pelerin, a Pilgrime.
  • Pelerinant, going on pilgrimage.
  • Pelerine, a Pilgrimess. Pelerine de Venus, a Whore.
  • Pelet, a little hair.
  • Pelication, a depilatory, or pitchy Plaister, serving to pull off hair.
  • Pelice, for pelisse, a skin of fur.
  • Pelicé, furred.
  • Pelicieux, wanton, lascivious.
  • Pelis, short wool.
  • Pelisson, a furred petticoat, or frock; also a kinde of white meat much used in Poictou
  • Pellage, the colour of the hair.
  • Pelle, the bolt of a lock; also a shovel.
  • Pelle-bosse, herb-willow.
  • Pellerelle, the falling of the hair.
  • Pellet, the 24 part of a Prime (an exceeding small weight.)
  • Pelliculeux, full of little skins, or thin rinds.
  • Pellucide, bright, shining.
  • Pelon, the outmost rugged husk of a green Chesnut.
  • Pelorde, a little and thick-shelled Cockle, that lives and lies al∣together in the mud.
  • Pelosses, bullace, or little wilde plums.
  • Pelourde, as pelorde.
  • Peluette, the herb Mouse-ear.
  • Pelusse, the paring of fruit; also the pilling, or white and inner rinde of trees.
  • Penade, a bounding, or praun∣cing.
  • Penader, to bound, or praunce.
  • Penaillous, rags, tatters, pat∣ches.
  • Penal, penal, inflicting penalties.
  • Penancier, as penencier.
  • Penard, a melancholy old-man; a poor wretched fellow; also a feather, or plume of feathers; also a mans yard.
  • Penates, houshold-goods.
  • Penault, a Burgundian measure con∣taining 12 Quarts.
  • Penaut, (Adj.) ashamed, out of countenance.
  • Pencer, & Pencher, for pancher, to bend, or lean downward.
  • Penchon, a declining, or weighty inclining; a stooping.
  • Pendage, a hanging.
  • Pendante, a label pendant.
  • Pendardeau, a little Crack-rope.
  • Pendement, a hanging.
  • Pendentif, the Key or Scutcheon of a Vault, that which hangs di∣rectly down in the middle thereof. En pendentif, steep down.
  • Pendereau, as pendardeau.
  • Penderie, a hanging.
  • Pendesyllable, of five Syllables.
  • Pendiculation, a stretching in the approach of an Ague.
  • Pendille, a thing that hangs dan∣glingly.
  • Pendiller, to hang danglingly, loose∣ly, or but by hales.
  • Pendileches, Pend-oreilles, pen∣dants.
  • Pene, the bolt of a lock.
  • Peneau, a flag, or streamer; also a rag, or tatter; also a slut.
  • Peneliere, as penil.
  • Penencier, he that after confession made, or a notorious offence com∣mitted, enjoyns the Confessant or Offender his penance.
  • Pener, to take great pains; also to trouble, ex, or molest.
  • Penusement, defectedly, in a dump.
  • Penide, a pe••••e, the little wreath of sugar taken in a cold.
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  • Penidial, as sucre penidial, fine white Sugar whereof Pennets be made; also the Pennets them∣selves.
  • Penil, a mans, (or most properly) a womans groin.
  • Penillier, belonging to the groin.
  • Penillons, as penaillons.
  • Penit, French wheat.
  • Penitencieux, very penitent.
  • Pennache, a bunch, or plume of Fea∣thers; also a hat or cap after the old French fashion. Penna∣che de boeuf, a fair pair of horns. Pennache de mer, a certain crea∣ture which is neither fish nor plant, at one end resembling a feather, and the uncovered nut of a mans yard at the other. It shines by night like a star.
  • Pennade, as penade.
  • Pennader, as penader.
  • Pennarol de Chirurgien, a Surgeons Case, the box wherein he carries his Instruments.
  • Penneton d'une clef, the bit, or neb of a key.
  • Pennon, a pennon, flag, or strea∣mer. Les pennons d'une fleche, the feathers of an arrow.
  • Pennonceau, Pennoncel, a pennon on the top of a launce; a little flag, or streamer.
  • Pennule, Penon, a small piece of flesh, or of our body, not altoge∣ther separated from the whole.
  • Pensement, a thought, a thinking; a physicking of.
  • Penseresse, Penseuse, a woman that thinks.
  • Penseur, a thinker.
  • Pensil, slightly hanging.
  • Pensioniste, a Pensioner.
  • Pensionné, hired by pension, that takes a yearly stipend.
  • Pensiveté, cark, thoughtfulness.
  • Pent d'un rets, a whole pane, piece, or fold of a net.
  • Pentaphylle, five-leaved grass.
  • Penteur, a Penant, the name of one of the ropes which pass over the top of a mast.
  • Penthiere, as panthiere.
  • Penture, the hinge of a door.
  • Penule, a long Cloak, fit to be worn in rainy weather.
  • Penurie, penury, scarcity, want.
  • Pepelon, the nipple of a dug.
  • Pepetiller, to crackle.
  • Pephage, as pamphage.
  • Pepiement, Pepier, for pepie the pip.
  • Pepier, (the Verb) to peep, cheep, or pule, as a young bird in the nest. Pepier de soif, the tongue to peel by reason of an extream thirst.
  • Pepieur, a peeper, cheeper, puler.
  • Pepinerie, for pepiniere, a seed-plot.
  • Pepin-percé, the name of a certain dry sweet apple.
  • Pepon, a Pompion, or Melon.
  • Pepré, peppered.
  • Pequatille, a peccadillo, a small sin.
  • Peque, a mare.
  • Per, for Pair, a Peer, a Paragon; also a mate, match, or companion; also a certain Game at Cards.
  • Peragration, a wandering about.
  • Peramese, a ninth, in Musick.
  • Peratre, a step-father.
  • Perattendre, to wait for an opportu∣nity.
  • Perce-fueille, Through-leaf, (an herb.)
  • Percele, blue-bottle, corn-flower.
  • Percellé, struck, beaten down.
  • Perce-pain, an Ear-wig.
  • Percepceux, taken, gathered, recei∣ved.
  • Perceptible, for percevable, percep∣tible, receivable.
  • Perception, a perceiving; a gather∣ing, taking, or receiving.
  • Percet, a Peach; also a piercer.
  • Percheux, belonging to, or full of pearches.
  • Perclorre, to benum, to take away the use of the limbs.
  • Perclusion, a numness.
  • Perdable, sit to be lost.
  • Perdement, a losing.
  • Perdeur, a loser.
  • Perdigonne, the name of a plum.
  • Perdriau, for perdreau, a young Partridge.
  • Perdrisur, a Partridge-taker; al∣so an Officer that hath the com∣mand of that Game in France.
  • Perduellisme, Treason against Prince or Country.
  • Perdurable, perdurable.
  • Perdurablement, for ever.
  • Peré, for poiré, Perry.
  • Peregrin, a stranger, a foreiner.
  • Peregrin, (Adj.) forein, outlan∣dish. Faulcon peregrin, a pas∣senger.
  • Peregrination, peregrination, long travel.
  • Peregriner, to take long Journeys.
  • Peregrineux, as peregrin (Adj.)
  • Peregrinité, for••••n speech, habit, cu∣stom, behaviour, &c.
  • Peremptorisé, Heritage perempto∣risé, an Inheritance whose Challen∣gers having after summons made default, are no more admitted to prosecute or continue their claim.
  • Peremptoriser, to peremptorise, to grant, or pass away peremptorily; or to exclude a Challenger after a default made by him.
  • Perenne, Perennel, perpetual, conti∣nual. Eau perenne, water con∣tinually running, never dry.
  • Perenniser, to perpetuate.
  • Perennité, perennity, eternity.
  • Perequant, an equal rater, or as∣sessor of others; (Adjectively) e∣qualling, rating equally.
  • Perequation, an equalling, or ma∣king even; an equal rating.
  • Perfique, a Pear-plum.
  • Perfiquier, a Pear-plum-tree.
  • Perflable, which may be blown through.
  • Perfoliate, through-leaf, (an herb.)
  • Perforatif, boring, piercing, or thru∣sting through.
  • Perfum, Perfumer, &c. See par∣fum, parfumer in the N. D.
  • Perger, to proceed, or go on.
  • Pergude, perished, lost.
  • Periapte, a medicine hanged about any part of the body.
  • Pericharie, excessive joy.
  • Periclimene, the Wood-bine, or Ho∣ney-suckle.
  • Pericliter, to jeopard, hazard, en∣danger.
  • Pericraine, for pericrane, the Peri∣cranion, the whole skin of the skull.
  • Perier, the gisern of a hen, &c.
  • Periller, to be in some peril, or ha∣zard, to perish.
  • Perilleusement, dangerously.
  • Perimer, to spoil, abolish, over∣throw.
  • Perinée, the seam, or line that runs between the fundament and the cods.
  • Periodic, for periodique, periodi∣cal.
  • Perioste, the skin wherewith the ribs be covered; or the thin skin wherein any bone is covered.
  • Peripherée, the circumference, edge, or border of a circle, &c.
  • Peristile, a Cloister, a walking-place set about with pillars.
  • Perjure, forsworn.
  • Perlette, a small pearl.
  • Perlon, a Rotchet, or Gurnard-fish.
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  • Permanable, permanent.
  • Permeable, quickly running, or pas∣sing through.
  • Permistion, a mingling together.
  • Permutateur, a barterer, exchan∣ger.
  • Permutation, a bartering, or ex∣changing.
  • Permuter, to barter, or exchange.
  • Pernis, as perpins.
  • Perons, startups, high-shooes; fishers boots; also bags, or fatchels of leather.
  • Peroration, the conclusion of an O∣ration.
  • Peroximes, fits of an ague.
  • Perpaigne, as parpaigne.
  • Perpetrer, to perpetrate, act, com∣mit.
  • Perpetuation, a perpetuation.
  • Perpetuller, to tickle.
  • Perpetuons, perpetually begging Friars.
  • Perpins, Perpenders, or Perpent-stones; stones made just as thick as a wall, and shewing their smoothed ends on either side there∣of.
  • Perplex, perplexed, intricate.
  • Perplexement, perplexedly, intri∣cately.
  • Perprendre, to seize, or take into his hands ground that lies waste or common.
  • Perprlnse, Perprison, a seizing, or taking into his own hands (with∣out leave of Lord, or other) ground that lies waste or com∣mon.
  • Perpuce, for prepuce, the foreskin.
  • Perquisiteur, a diligent searcher.
  • Perresine, rosin.
  • Perrie, a Peerdom.
  • Perrier, the ship-Artillery called a fowler.
  • Perriere, as perrier; also a quarry of stone.
  • Perrot, an Oak which hath been (or might have been for the age there∣of) twice lopped.
  • Perruqué, wearing a Perruke; long-hair'd.
  • Perruquet, one that wears an effe∣minate lock or frizled tuft of hair.
  • Perserutation, a through search, or diligent inquiry.
  • Perse, the piercing of a vessel.
  • Perseguier, as persiguier.
  • Perse-pierre, as perce-pierre in the N. D.
  • Perser, for percer, to bore, to pierce.
  • Persin, for persil, Parsley.
  • Persoir, a piercer.
  • Personat, a place or title of honour enjoyed by a beneficed person, with∣out any manner of Jurisdiction in the Church.
  • Personate, the clot, or great bur.
  • Personier, as personnier.
  • Personnage, for personne, a per∣son.
  • Personnerie, a partnership; a sha∣ring, or enjoying with ano∣ther.
  • Personnier, a partner; a joynt Te∣nant, or Tenant in common; al∣so a contributer with others in the payment of Taxes, or other pub∣lick duties; also one that joyns in an Action or Suit with ano∣ther; also a Complice.
  • Personnier, (Adj.) joyning, or enjoy∣ing with another. Moulin per∣sonnier, a common mill.
  • Perspicacité, perspicacity, ready ap∣prehension.
  • Perspirable, which may be breathed through.
  • Perspiration, a perspiration, or brea∣thing through.
  • Perspiré, sprinkled, moistened.
  • Perstraindre, or Perstreindre, to wring, or squeeze hard; also to check, or chide. Pour le per∣streindre en un mot, to be short.
  • Persuadeur, a perswader; an indu∣cer unto.
  • Persuasoire, perswasory.
  • Il Pert, it appeareth.
  • Pertroubler, to trouble.
  • Pertuis, for trou, a hole.
  • Pertuisanon, a little Partisan.
  • Pertuisé, full of holes.
  • Pertuiser, to make a hole, to bore full of holes.
  • Perturber, to trouble, or to di∣sturb.
  • Perversion, perversion. Perversion de bouche, a convulsion whereby the mouth is drawn awry.
  • Pervertissement, a perverting, or depraving.
  • Pervis, as parvis in the N. D.
  • Pes, as peis.
  • Pesade, as posade.
  • Pesart, the disease called the Night∣mare.
  • Peschage, a fishing, or place to fish in.
  • Pescheable, which may be fished in.
  • Pesche-amande, the almond-peach.
  • Pesche-coing, the quince-peach.
  • Peschement, a fishing.
  • Pesche-noix, the nut-peach.
  • Pescher, for Vivier, a fish-pond; also a Peach-tree.
  • Pescheresse, a Woman-fisher. Gre∣nouille pescheresse, the Sea-frog, or Sea-toad.
  • Pescheteau, the Sea-frog, Sea-toad, or Sea-devil.
  • Pescheux, full of fishing.
  • Peschier, for pécher, a Peach-tree. Couleur de fleur de peschier, a peach-colour.
  • Pesle, the bolt of a lock. Il fait le doux Dieu dessous une pesle, he behaves himself gently, he is a fair-conditioned man; or he minces it too much.
  • Pesle-meslé, confusedly mingled.
  • Pesles, thrums, or that which hangs at the end of a piece of cloth like fringe.
  • Pesne, the bolt of a lock.
  • Pesqueur, a Fisherman.
  • Pessaire, a pessary, a great supposito∣ry made of soft wool, and fashio∣ned like a finger.
  • Pesseau, for Paisseau, a stake.
  • Pesson, as paisson.
  • Pesteil, a Pestle.
  • Pesteux, plagy, pestilent, infe∣ctions.
  • Pestifere, pesti••••••ous.
  • Pestilentiel, pestilential.
  • Pestiller, to paddle, to crackle; to beat thick and short.
  • Pestrissure, a kneading.
  • Petacé, pieced, be patched.
  • Petalisme, a form or sentence of ba∣nishment among the old Syra∣cusans, writing his name whom they would be rid of in an Olive-leaf.
  • Petarasse, a clap, or stroke on the but∣tocks; the farting of a lusty horse.
  • Petas, a mole, or wart; also a kinde of Rouncival-pease.
  • Petasite, lag-wort, butter-bur.
  • Petaud, Petault, a farter; also a footman.
  • Petauristique, tumbling, vaulting, going upon ropes.
  • Petelement, as petelis.
  • Peteler, to stamp, trample, or tread hard upon.
  • Petelis, a stamping, or trampling upon.
  • Petereau, a little fart, or squib.
  • Peteuse, the name of a fish.
  • Petillages, the Orders and Customs observed by Merchants in their trading and custom-paying.
  • Petiot, very little.
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  • Petiteur, for petitesse, smalness, mean∣ness.
  • Petitose, the garbage of fowl.
  • Peton, a little foot; also the slen∣der stalk of a leaf or fruit.
  • Petonner, to pat, or tread down the earth by often trampling on it.
  • Petrar, a wilde Sparrow, less than the tame one.
  • Petrarquifer, to write like a passio∣nate lover.
  • Petreux, Os petreux, the bone of the temples, one of the eight bones whereof the skull consists.
  • Petrification, petrification.
  • Petrinal, a Petronel, or horsemans piece.
  • Petrol, petrole, or petrolle, naph∣ta.
  • Petteler, as peteler.
  • Petulance, petulancy, sauciness.
  • Petum, Tobacco.
  • Peucedane, Horse-strong, Sulpher∣wort.
  • Pevier, as Canon pevier, a Cannon pevier.
  • Peuille, Peulle, part of a new piece of coyn amongst Mint-men, speci∣fying the quantity, weight, allay, and day of delivery out of the coyn.
  • Pevoesne, or Pevoisne, for pivoine, peony.
  • Peuplaye, a grove of Poplar-trees.
  • Peuple, for peuplier, the Poplar-tree.
  • Peupleraye, as peuplaye.
  • Peuresie, for pleuresie, Pleuri∣sie.
  • Pezar, a whole Pease, or Bean∣stalk.
  • Pezart, as pesart.
  • Pezze, the Pitch-tree.
  • Phagediane, a kinde of ulcerous Canker.
  • Phagoue, as fagoue.
  • Phaisander, as faisander in the N. D.
  • Phalange, the name of a most ve∣nomous spider; also a four-square Troop, or Battalion of eight or ten thousand men, ranked so as they may incounter the Enemy e∣very way.
  • Phalene, a small Butter-fly, or moth, which in the night loves to be flattering about candles.
  • Phaleré, trapped, as a Souldiers great horse.
  • Phalerer, to furnish with trap∣pings.
  • Phaleres, Horse-trappings.
  • Phaleuces, verses of eleven sylla∣bles.
  • Phalot, and Phanot, for falot, a cres∣set-light.
  • Phanal, for fanal, the lanthorn of a galley, or ship.
  • Phantasié, fancied, or conceived in minde; also fantastically made.
  • Phantosme, as fantôme in the N. D.
  • Pharasse, a cresset.
  • Pharien, high, or light, as a Watch-tower on the Sea-coast.
  • Pharique, a kinde of dangerous poi∣son.
  • Pharmacie, a curing with drugs.
  • Pharmakeutie, Physick which much cureth by drugs or simples.
  • Pharmaque, a simple, or drug.
  • Pharol, pharot, as Phanal.
  • Phaseoles, Phasiols, and Phasioles, French-beans.
  • Phavier, a Ring-dove.
  • Phée, a Fairy, or one of the Desti∣nies.
  • Phée, fatal; inchanted, bewitched.
  • Phelandrion, Small-burnet, Saxi∣frage.
  • Phengite, the name of a certain bright stone.
  • Phenicé, crimson, scarlet.
  • Philactere, and Philacterie, as phy∣lactere.
  • Philadelphe, a lover of his brother.
  • Philargirie, love of silver, covetous∣ness.
  • Phillyrée, Mock-privet.
  • Philocrise, love of gold.
  • Philogrobolizé du cerveau, that hath got a worm in his head, crack-brained.
  • Philologue, a lover of learning, stu∣dy, or discourse.
  • Philomesse, a lover of the Mass.
  • Philophanes, a lover of light.
  • Philosophalement, philosophical∣ly.
  • Philotheamon, a lover of our Gods.
  • Philotime, ambitious, affecting ho∣nour.
  • Philotome, a lover of Passions.
  • Philtatodelphe, an excessive lover of his brother.
  • Phiphre, a Fife, or small pipe.
  • Phisicalement, naturally.
  • Phissane, a certain tumbling trick; or a licentious way of dancing or singing, used in some places by Buffoons, or Vices in Plays.
  • Phlebotomer, to let bloud.
  • Phlebotomie, bloud-letting.
  • Phlegmagogue, a medicine that pur∣geth flegm.
  • Phlegmon, a certain inflammation of the bloud which causeth a hot and red swelling; also a little and long wart breeding among the hair of the eye-lids.
  • Phlegmoneux, swelling with inflam∣mation; also full of flegm.
  • Phlegmonné, swoln with hot bloud; or troubled with a phlegmon.
  • Phlomie, Phlymouse, physiogno∣my.
  • Phoebe, the Moon.
  • Phoenicoptere, a certain crimson-winged bird.
  • Pholade, as Pelorde.
  • Phoque, a Sea-calf.
  • Phogue, for fougue, a sudden pas∣sion.
  • Phrene, the midriss.
  • Phrigie, as Phrygie.
  • Phrontiste, the first rank.
  • Phrontistere, the front of a building.
  • Phrygie, Phrygian melody; a kinde of tune or musick wherein there seemed to be a divine fury.
  • Phryllelimeuse, Phryllelimouse, phy∣siognomy.
  • Phrymeuse, Phrymouse, the same.
  • Phryson, a Friezland-horse.
  • Phthiriase, the lousie evil.
  • Phthise, for phthisie, phthisick.
  • Phylaciste, Phylacte, a Goaler.
  • Phylactere, a Prison; or as
  • Phylacterie, a scroll of parchment with the ten Commandments written in it, worn by the Pha∣risees about their heads and arms.
  • Phylomie, and Physonomie, for physionomie, physiognomy.
  • Physetere, the Whirl-pool, (a huge fish.)
  • Physiognomie, for physionomie, physiognomy.
  • Physiologie, a reasoning out of the nature of things; also anatomi∣zing physick, or that part of Phy∣sick which treats of the composi∣tion or structure of mans bo∣dy.
  • Physis, nature.
  • Piaffard, Piaffeur, a braggard, a vain-glorious man.
  • Piaffeusement, braggingly, proud∣ly.
  • Piailler, for pioler, to cry like a chick; to scold, to tipple, or drive away time by drinking.
  • Piailleur, a scolding man; also a sipper.
  • Piaison, a tippling, or immoderate drinking.
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  • Pialet, Dodder, (a weed.)
  • Pian, as marcher pian, to march leisurely, to go fair and softly.
  • Pianelle, a Night-slipper.
  • Pianelleux, wearing, or full of slip∣pers.
  • Piat, a young Pie.
  • Piaux, newly hatched chickens, or birds.
  • Pibale, a young Lamprey.
  • Pible, the pizzle of a beast.
  • Pibole, a kinde of Bag-pipe.
  • Piboleur, a Piper.
  • Picadilles, as piccadilles.
  • Picardent, as piquardant.
  • Picardiser, to speak, or do like a Pi∣card.
  • Pication, a pitching, or bepitching.
  • Piccadilles, the several divisions or pieces fastened together about the brim of the collar of a doublet, &c.
  • Piccon, a prickle, or small prick.
  • Picé, pitched, or full of pitch.
  • Piceastre, the wild Pitch-tree.
  • Picée, the Pitch-tree.
  • Pichier, a pitcher.
  • Picmart, a Woodpecker.
  • Picorer, to forrage, rifle, or ran∣sack.
  • Picoreur, a boothaler, a ravening Souldier.
  • Picotage, a pricking here and there; also a spotting, or speckling.
  • Picote, the small pox.
  • Picoterie, a nipping, a dispute.
  • Picoteure, Picoture, a prick; a spot; a freckle, or pimple.
  • Picquamment, piercingly.
  • Picquois, a Pick-ax.
  • Picquot, a prickle, or small prick.
  • Picte, a French farthing, the fourth part of a Denier.
  • Pictre, the breast, bosome, or stomack.
  • Picts, the bulk, or pitch of the body.
  • Pie, for boisson, drink, liquor. C'est un Croque la pie, he is a notable Toss-pot. But pie signifies besides a Goose, the broyled thick skin of a piece of beef, the monstrous ap∣petite of Maids and big-bellyed Women unto coles, ashes, paper, and other such unnatural meats.
  • Pie, for pieux, pious, godly. It sig∣nifies also merciful, black and white as a Magpye.
  • Pieça, long ago, a great while since; also heretofore, in times past.
  • Piecette, a little bit, or piece.
  • Pied-bornier, a Tree that serves to divide several Tenements or In∣heritances.
  • Piedfief, a Fief dismembred, which a Vassal may for his benefit alien to whom he list.
  • Pîed-gris, a clown, a boor.
  • Pied-leger, as pied-viste.
  • Pied-poul, the round-rooted Crow∣foot.
  • Pieds-corniers, certain trees marked out for limits unto the sale of Wood; also as pied-bornier.
  • Pied-sonnant, trampling, or making the ground ring again with his proud steps.
  • Pied-terre, an alighting, or setting foot on the ground.
  • Pied-viste, light-footed, swift of foot.
  • Pienne, rose de pienne, peony.
  • Piepou, as pied-poul.
  • Pier, to sip.
  • Pierigot, as manganese.
  • Pierrerie, for pierriere, a quarry of stone; also stone-work.
  • Pierrette, a little stone.
  • Pierriz, heaps, or walls of dry or un∣mortared stones.
  • Pierron, as perron in the N. D.
  • Pierrotte, a small stone; also a sto∣ny, flinty, or gravelly soil.
  • Pierrou, the name of a certain base Coyn.
  • Piesante, a path, or small way, some two foot and a half broad.
  • Piesette, a piece, or compartment; the joynt whereat the players are hanged in the port, or upset of a bit.
  • Pietaille, a footing, or footman∣ship; also a footman; or a com∣pany of footmen.
  • Piete, a kinde of spade, or digging tool.
  • Pietonner, to fetch thick and short steps.
  • Pietonneux, treading thick and short.
  • Pietre, in bad plight, beggarly, nee∣dy.
  • Pietrement, poorly, wretchedly.
  • Pietrer, to tread down, or to trample under the feet.
  • Pietrerie, wretchedness.
  • Piette, a Pewet.
  • Pieuler, for pioler, to cry like a chick.
  • Pieumart, as piemart, a Wood-pecker.
  • Pieur, for pire, worse.
  • Pige, as pis, or as pinge.
  • Pigeassé, pied, party-coloured.
  • Pigeonnade, a billing, or Pigeon-like bussing.
  • Pigeonelle, a very young Pigeon.
  • Pigeonner, to catch pigeons; also to bill, or kiss like a Pigeon; also to cheat, or cousen a silly fel∣low.
  • Pigeonnerie, the billing of Pigeons; a long and lascivious kissing.
  • Pigeonnet, a young, or little Pi∣geon.
  • Pignaresse, a flax-woman.
  • Pignates, pots, or balls of wilde-fire.
  • Pignaux de Collier, the nails, or prickles of a bandogs Collar.
  • Pigne, for paigne, a comb. Pignes, the griftly parts of the eye-lids.
  • Pignolat, the preserved kernel of a Pine-apple, or conserve of Pine-kernels.
  • Pignoratif, ingaging by suretiship, or with a pawn.
  • Pignoration, a straining, or distrain∣ing; a seising, or taking for a distress,; also an impledging.
  • Pignore, a distress, or a thing that's taken Damage-fesant.
  • Pignorer, to distrain, to seize or take for a distress, or in respect of damage done; also to im∣pledge.
  • Pignouer, a comb-case.
  • Pilée, Pilement, a beating, or brui∣sing in a mortar.
  • Pilette, a little ball; pile; body of a tree; funt; or mortar.
  • Pilettes, pimples about the nose or chin.
  • Piliforme, one of the smallest Mem∣branes of the Eye, before whose glassy humour it stands.
  • Pillard, a pilserer, filcher, purloi¦ner.
  • Pillemaille, as palemaille, a Christ∣mas-box.
  • Pillement, Pillerie, a robbing, or rifling.
  • Pillier, for pilier, a pillar.
  • Pillolet, wild, (running) Tyme.
  • Pillorier, Pilloriser, to set on the Pillory.
  • Pillot, a small pile, or heap.
  • Pillotage, a pile-work, or driving down of piles; a foundation, causey, or water-work made of, or strengthened with piles.
  • Pilloter, to pick, or take up here and there; to gather one by one.
  • Pilloterie, a picking, or taking up here and there, a gathering one by one; also a robbing, or ri∣fling.
  • Pilloti, for piloti, pile, or piles.
  • Piloir, for pilon, a pestle.
  • Pilorier, as pillorier.
  • Piloselle, pilosella, mouse-ear.
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  • Pilot, for Pilote, a Pilot.
  • Piloter, as pilloter; also as
  • Pilotier, to do the part of a Pilot, to sound the depth of water with a line and plummet.
  • Pilotiser, to pile, or strengthen with piles.
  • Pilure, a pill.
  • Pimard, as picmart, a wood-peck∣er.
  • Pimbesche, a subtil Quean, a cun∣ning Drab.
  • Piment, Oak of Jerusalem, or Oak of Paradise (an herb;) also a kind of wholsome pear.
  • Pimente, spurge-olive, widow-wail (a shrub.)
  • Pimer, to crawl, move, or stir.
  • Pimpé, spruce, curiously pranked up.
  • Pimpenauder, to prank up.
  • Pimpenelle, for pimpinelle, bur∣net.
  • Pimper, to make spruce or fine.
  • Pimperneau, a Grig, or Spitch-cock.
  • Pimpernelle, for pimpinelle, bur∣net.
  • Pimpompet, a kind of Game where∣in three it each other on the bum with one of their feet.
  • Pimpreneau, as pimperneau; also a knave, or rascal.
  • Pimprenelle, for pimpinelle, burn∣t.
  • Pinard, Pinart, an exceeding small piece of money; also such a title as is our fellow, &c.
  • Pinastre, the wild pint-tree.
  • Pinatelle, a copper-coyn, having some small quantity of Silver in it, and worth about five liards.
  • Pinatellier, a Coyner of pinatelles.
  • Pinates, as pignates.
  • Pinaux, the name of a kind of grapes.
  • Pincersi, Pincervin, the Linden-tree.
  • Pinces, for pincettes, pincers, tongs.
  • Pinceter, to pinch thick; to nip, or twitch often; to touch a Lute, &c. nimbly; to pull off hairs, or moats with small pincers.
  • Pinche, as pine, in the latter sense.
  • Pinchon, as piochon.
  • Pinçotter, to pinch, or i often.
  • Pine, a pi, a kail, a prick, mem∣ber, bable.
  • Pincau, the seed or kernel of a grape; also a kind of white and longish grape. Vin pineau, excellent strong wine.
  • Pinet, hogs sennel, sulphur-wort.
  • Pinette, a kind of Cider made of water mingled with the juice of Crabs; also a grove of pine-ap∣ples.
  • Pineux, of, or belonging to pine-trees; also full of pine-trees.
  • Pinge, a pillock, member, bable, &c.
  • Pingres, aux pingres, a womanish play with ivory-balls.
  • Pinguereaux, a kind of sweet cher∣ries.
  • Pinhadar, a young, or little wild-pine.
  • Pinier, the rosen-tree, or any other whose fruit resembles a pine apple, as the great Cedar, Cypras, &c.
  • Piniolat, as pignolat.
  • Pinne, the shell-fish called a Naker; also the sin of a fih; also the broad and grislly part of the ear; also as pinge. Pinne du nez, the gristle of the nose, the bone where∣by the nostrils are divided.
  • Pinneux, full of sins.
  • Pinnophylace, a kind of little sea-fish.
  • Pinnothere, a little shell-fish of the kind of Shrimps.
  • Pinnule, a little sin of a fish.
  • Pinnules, the sights belonging to the albidada of an Astrolabe.
  • Pinocque, the name of an Indian fruit of the higness of a Cherry.
  • Pinon, for pignon, the piion of a clock.
  • Pinot, the name of a red-stocked and round-leaved Vine.
  • Pinsegreneur d'Amadis, a Phrase∣monger, a spruce discourser.
  • Pinses, as pinces.
  • Pinsoir, certain Engine (made of iron headed stakes) wherewith fish is caught.
  • Pinteler, to tipple, or ply the pot.
  • Pintelette, a little pint.
  • Pinteur, a tipler, a pot-companion.
  • Pintier, a Pewterer.
  • Pinton, as pinteur.
  • Pinules, as pinnules.
  • Piocher, to dig, or break up the earth with a pioche.
  • Piocheur, a labouring man, one that breaks up the earth with a pioche.
  • Piochon, a little pick-ax.
  • Piolé, sputted, speckled. Piolé riolé, ••••gaudy, st out with sundry colours.
  • Piolement, the cheeping of young birds.
  • Piolet de Caille, a Quail-pipe.
  • Pioleur, a cheeper, or chirper.
  • Pionnier, (Adj.) made by, or belonging to a Pioneer; Pioneer-like.
  • Piorioler, to diversify with variable colours.
  • Pioter, to cheep, or chirp; also to tipple.
  • Pipeau, an oaten pipe; a bird-call.
  • Piperelle, nigella, Bishops-wort.
  • Pipet, a small pipe, Fowlers pipe, or bird-call.
  • Pipette, the little knot, or tuft, on the top of a cap.
  • Pipeusement, deceitfully.
  • Pipeux, deceitful.
  • Pipion, a Spanish Coyn, worth about eighteen pence Sterling.
  • Pipis, for pipy, the chirping of small birds.
  • Pippeau, as pipeau.
  • Pipper, as piper in the N. D.
  • Pippis, as pipis.
  • Piquant, for pointe, the point of a dart, spear, &c. the prickle, or sharp top of some kind of leaves, as of the holly, &c. also the nose, beck, or stem-end of a ship; also a kind of prickly thistle.
  • Piquardnt, the name of a grape that yields an excellent ••••ite wine.
  • Piquassat, a speckled gilliflower.
  • Pique-boeuf, a clown, a boor.
  • Piquement, a pri••••••••ng, or stinging; also a quilting.
  • Piquenaire, a like-man.
  • Pique-papier, a Scribe, a Scrivener.
  • Pique-poul, the name of a certain grape.
  • Piqueton, a prickle, as of a thorn.
  • Pique••••, a prickly thistle.
  • Piquoter, to prick, or sting often; al∣so to spot, or speckle all over.
  • Piquotement, Piquoteure, a frequent pricking or stinging; also a spot∣ting, or specking. Piquoteure de bran de Judas, red pimples ri∣sing in the face.
  • Piquotte, small wine, servants wine.
  • Piramidal, broad beneath and sharpe∣ning upwards, like a pyramid.
  • Piratique, Piratical, Pirat-like; of, or belonging to a Pirat.
  • Pirauste, a fire-fly, or a worm bred and living in the fire.
  • Pirette, bastard-pellitory.
  • Pirevollet, a whirligig.
  • Pirole, wild beets, or the herb Pirola.
  • Piromantie, divination by fire.
  • Pirope, as Pyrope.
  • Pirot, the Pirot, or hag-fish; a kind of long shell-fish.
  • Pirou, a green Goose.
  • Pirouëtteux, whirling, or turning swiftly about.
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  • Pis, (Subst.) the breast, bosome, or stomack of a man; the dug or udder of a cow, ewe, she-goat, &c. the brisket of an ox or beef, the navel of a dog.
  • Pisay, as pizé.
  • Piscantine, a kinde of small and well-watered Vine.
  • Piscine, a fish-pond; also a pool to water Horses, or to keep Ducks in.
  • Pissasphalte, pitch mingled with bi∣tumen.
  • Pisse-chaude, for chaudepisse, a clap.
  • Pissement, a pissing.
  • Pissenez, as Serfs pissenez, the ba∣stards of Villains or Slaves.
  • Pisseux, pissing much and often; also full of piss.
  • Pissolaire, the sheath or skin of a horses yard.
  • Pisson, a pipkin.
  • Pissoter, to piss often.
  • Pissotiere, the pissing tool; or the receptacle of piss; also a pissing place; also the running of a buc∣king tab.
  • Pistace, for pistache, a pistachoe.
  • Pistacher, the pistacho, (or fistick-nut) tree.
  • Pistaulendrier, a mans yard.
  • Pisté, stamped, pounded, brayed.
  • Pisteau, a pestle.
  • Pister, to bray, pound, or stamp; also to go where one would have him.
  • Pistolade, a pistol-shot.
  • Pistolandier, as pistaulendrier.
  • Pistolier, a Horseman that serves with a pistol.
  • Pistolochie, a kinde of long Birth-wort.
  • Piston, a pestle. Canon à piston, a certain Bit, which gives the tongue liberty without a port.
  • Pistrine, a hake-house, or a house wherein, before the invention of Mills, the Romans caused their Slaves and unruly Servants to bray all their corn in mortars.
  • Pit, as pis.
  • Pitance, any thing that one eats with bread.
  • P••••ancier, the Mancipler, or Distri∣••••ter of Victuals in a Monastery.
  • P••••••••••ier, (Adj.) of a pittance, or ••••••••ng for a pittance.
  • P••••••••der, to behave himself rude∣.
  • P〈8 letters〉〈8 letters〉e, rudeness, clownish∣••••••••.
  • P••••a••••••, a clown.
  • Pitel, the pan of a close-stool.
  • Piteux, pitiful, merciful; also wretched, or in pitiful case. Vous nous la baillez bien piteuse, you tell us but a sorry tale.
  • Pitois, the vermine (or beast) called a Fitch.
  • Piton, as piston; also an eye for a curtain-rod, &c. Piton à vìs, a serue with an eye.
  • Pitroy, dirt, mud, mire.
  • Pittasse, as elle saisoit chere pitasse, her behaviour was full of discon∣tentment.
  • Pittouer, a Bittern.
  • Pituitaire, flegmatick.
  • Pituiteux, full of flegm.
  • Pityocampe, a venomous worm that breeds in Pine-trees.
  • Pive, the fruit of the pine, or pitch-tree.
  • Piugarreau, as bigarreau in the N. D.
  • Piuler, to pule, or chep, like a little Chick.
  • Pivoesne, for pivoine, P••••ny.
  • Pivotter un huis, to hang a door on pivots.
  • Pizé, as murailles de pizé, earthen walls.
  • Placardé, fastned, or pasted, as a Si quis, &c. on a post.
  • Placcar, as huis qui se serment à doubles placears, doors which are shut with double locks.
  • Placide, milde, peac••••ble, ••••i••••.
  • Placidement, mildly, peaceably, q••••••tly.
  • Placitre, a fair large Court before a C•••••••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 great House.
  • Plasagourde, a made word, of some affinity with our Gixy, Punk, &c.
  • Plagiaire, one that steals, or takes free people out of one Country, and sells them in another for slaves; a s••••aler, or shorner of mens Chil∣dren or Servants, for the same or like purpose; also a Book-thief, or one that fathers other mens works upon himself.
  • Plagie, stealth, or subornation of mens Children and Servants, with an intent to sell them.
  • Plaict, as plect.
  • Plaidasserie, a wrangling, or liti∣gious pleading.
  • Plaidereau, a litigious Brangler, one that is never out of Law.
  • Plaideresque, Lawyer-like.
  • Plaiderie, a pleading; a Sute in Law.
  • Plaidoirie, a plea, an argument; the Pleading, or opening of a Cause.
  • Plaidoyer, for plaider, to go to law, to plead.
  • Plaidoyeur, for plaideur, a Pleader, or a Lawyer.
  • Plaineure, the superficies; the plain, level, or flat ground of.
  • Plainte, (m.) a Plaintiff.
  • Plaisanter, to jest, or quip merrily.
  • Plaisanteur, a jester, a buffoon.
  • Plait, for plaid, debate; a plea, or pleading. Faire du plait, to make a deal ado. Il me tient plait, he holds me tack, he findes me chat enough.
  • Plameuse, a fifty-cuff.
  • Plan, for plane, the Plane-tree.
  • Plan, for bellement, softly.
  • Planare, a Plane-tree.
  • Planchage, a planking, boording, or flooring.
  • Planchayé, planked, boorded, floo∣red.
  • Planchayer, to plank, boord, or floor.
  • Plancheer, Plancheter, as plan∣chayer.
  • Planchette, a womans stirrup; also the plate or bottome of a stirrup wheron the foot resteth; also a busk.
  • Planchier, for plancher, a boarded floor.
  • Plane, (f.) a Joyners plane; also a plaice.
  • Planer, for applanir, to make smooth, or even; also to raze, blot, or put out.
  • Planetaire, of, or belonging to the Planets. Heures planetaires, 12 hours for the day, and as ma∣ny for the night.
  • Plani, for applani, smoothed.
  • Planier, (Adj.) plain, flat, even, smooth.
  • Planier, (a Verb) to shave, as a Tanner doth his ides.
  • Planir, to level, even, or make smooth.
  • Plant, for plan, the ground-plot of a building.
  • Plantage, a planting, or setting.
  • Plantail, as plantal.
  • Plantaire, the least of the six hinder Muscles of the leg, ending in the sole of the foot.
  • Plantal, a plant or set, the cions of a tree, or slip of an herb, set or planted.
  • Plantars, Willow-plants, or great branches or poles of water-trees lopped off, and reserved to be set.
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  • Plantas, a planting, or setting; also a place to plant, or set trees in; also as
  • Plantat, a Plant, and particularly the branch of a Willow, or other water-tree fit to be planted.
  • Planté, for abondance, plenty, store, abundance.
  • Planteau, a young plant, or as plan∣tal.
  • Plantemalan, a caltro.
  • Plantier, in, or belonging to the sole or bottom of the foot.
  • Planton, a young plant, or stock transplanted, and kept to be graf∣ted on.
  • Plantureusement, largely, plentiful∣ly.
  • Plantureux, abundant, plentiful.
  • Planure, a plain; a large, open, and even piece of ground.
  • Plasmateur, a Potter, or a maker of earthen Images, &c.
  • Plasmation, potters work; or the making of Images, &c. of clay or earth.
  • Plassage, a fee paid in some Towns by Merchants and Tradesmen, for the shewing of their Commodities in the Market-place, or publick Streets.
  • Plastras, rubbish; clods, or pieces of old and dry plaister.
  • Plastronné, breast-plated.
  • Platane, for plane, a plane-tree.
  • Plateaux, flat and thin stones, flakes of stones, &c. Fumées en pla∣teaux, flat grattiching, fewmish∣ing, or dung of a Deer.
  • Platelée, a Platter (or dish) full.
  • Plat-escuelle, a deep dish, or plat∣ter.
  • Platin, a flat near the Sea. Platin de fer, a cart-clowt of iron.
  • Platis, a flat shelf, or shallow place in the water.
  • Platte, a Bleak-fish.
  • Platteaux, as plateaux.
  • Plattebande, a flat band.
  • Plattiz, as platis.
  • Platuse, a Plaice-fish.
  • Plau, the South-wind.
  • Plauton, for peloton, a clue, or bot∣tom.
  • Playé, wounded.
  • Player, to wound.
  • Playt, as plait.
  • Plect & cheval de service, due in some places and cases from the Vassal to the Lord feudal, as un∣der-service.
  • Plectre, the quill, or bow, wherewith a viol is plaid on.
  • Plegerie, suretiship.
  • Plegeur, a Plaintiff in an Action.
  • Pleinfoncé, wide, or spacious.
  • Pleintisse, Pleintithe, the full scope, or whole compass of.
  • Pleïon, long straw softened in wa∣ter, thereby to be pliant, and sit for the binding of Vines, &c.
  • Plejure, a pledging, or suretispip. Homme de plejure, a pledge, or surety; or a Vassal who may be a Bail for his Lord.
  • Plenté, plenty.
  • Pleonasmique, superfluous.
  • Plessé, plashed, as young boughs.
  • Plesser, to plash, to bow young bran∣ches one within another; to thic∣ken a hedge, or cover a walk, by plashing.
  • Plessis, the plashing of trees; also a hedge, or walk of plashed trees.
  • Plet, as plect.
  • Plethore, fulness, or abundance of good humours in the body; also head-ach by the superfluity there∣of.
  • Plethorique, fat, corpulent, ever full of good humours.
  • Plevi, warranted, assured, whose goodness or sufficiency is underta∣for. Fille plevie, a Virgin pro∣mised in marriage.
  • Plevine, a warrant, warranty, or undertaking for the goodness or sufficiency of.
  • Pleviner, Plevier, to undertake, or promise for, to be surety.
  • Pleurable, fit to be wept for.
  • Pleurard, a weeper, or whiner.
  • Pleure, a thin and smooth skin where∣with the inside of the rib is cover∣ed.
  • Pleurement, a weeping, or shedding of tears.
  • Pleure-pain, a niggardly wretch, a miser.
  • Pleuretique, sick of, or subject unto a Pleurisie.
  • Pleureux, full of tears; also ever weeping.
  • Pleuvi, as plevi; also quit, absol∣ved, released.
  • Pleuvine, as plevine.
  • Pleuviner, as pleviner; also as plouviner.
  • Pleuvir, as pluvir.
  • Pliage, Pliaison, Plicature, Pliement, a folding, or plaiting.
  • Plie, a Plaice (especially a great one.)
  • Plieur, (Adj.) folding, bending. Muscles plieurs, two muscles (a great, and a little one) whereby the toes are bowed.
  • Plion, a kinde of stiff Osier.
  • Plionner, to wrinkle.
  • Plomant, plumming, or trying the straightness of work by a plumb-rule.
  • Plombagine, pure lead turned almost into ashes by the vehemence of the fire.
  • Plombasse, lead-like, lead-colour∣ed.
  • Plombature, soder of lead or tin.
  • Plombeau, a Plummet, or weight of lead.
  • Plombelé, leaded, sodered (or co∣vered) with lead; bearing lead.
  • Plombement, a leading, or tinning; a sodering, a marking of wares with lead a sounding with a plummet.
  • Plomberie, a leading, or the leads of a Curch, house, &c.
  • Plombet, as plombeau; also the plumb-line used by Archit••••••
  • Plombeure, as plombement a∣phes de fer à plomb•••••• iron-hooks fastened, or sodered together with lead.
  • Plombier, (Adj.) lead-like, of lead. Pierre plombiere, Lead-oar, or lead-stone before it be tried.
  • Plomeau, a plummet, or little ball of lead.
  • Plomer, to plum; a Mason to try or judge of the straightness of his work by his plumb-rule.
  • Plommée, for plombée, the leaden weights of a Clock.
  • Plommer, as plomer; or as plom∣ber in the N. D.
  • Plongement, a plunging, diving, or ducking; a thrusting far in∣to.
  • Plonget, for plongeon, a ducker.
  • Plorer, for pleurer, to cry, or to weep.
  • Plot, a block.
  • Plote, Ploter, Ploton, as pelote, pe∣loter, peloton in the N. D.
  • Plourer, as plorer.
  • Ploustre, a rowler; also a harrow.
  • Ploustrement, a levelling of ground, or breaking of clods with a row∣ler.
  • Ploustrer, to level ground, or break clods with a rowler.
  • Ploustreur, a clod-breaker, or one that breaks clods with a row∣ler.
  • Ploutroer, a rowler; the rowling instrument wherewith ground is levelled, and clods broken.
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  • Plouvier, a plover.
  • Plouviner, to mizzle.
  • Plouvoir, for pleuvoir, to rain.
  • Ploye, an arch, or vault; a bending, or bowing.
  • Pluau, the South-wind.
  • Plucquoter, to pick nicely.
  • Plumaceau, a soft fold of linnen laid next above the plaister on a wound; also a bunch of fea∣thers.
  • Plumage, feathers, a bunch of fea∣thers.
  • Plumement, a plucking the feathers from; also a fleecing.
  • Plumeteur, a Scribe, Clark, or Pen∣man.
  • Plumetis, a summary, or short rela∣tion of the substance of a Cause de∣livered in writing unto the Jud∣ges; also short notes and instru∣ctions for the draught of a plea∣ding or evidence taken from the mouth of a Client (or otherwise) by a Clerk or Notary publick.
  • Plumette, a little feather, a small pen.
  • Plumeux, full of pens, or feathers.
  • Plure d'une voulte, the ent, or compass of a Vault.
  • Pluserois, Plusieur, the name of a prohibited fish-net, or fish-destroy∣ing engine.
  • Plus-valeur, an over-value, surplu∣sage, overplus, or remainder.
  • Pluvial, for pluvieux, rainy.
  • Pluvine, a Salamander, or Deaf-worm; also as plevine.
  • Pluvir, Pluir, for pleuvoir, to rain.
  • Plye, for plie, a Plaice.
  • Poacre, a kinde of scab about the nose or muzzle of a sheep; also as pouäcre.
  • Poale, a stove, or hot-house; also a frying-pan; a little pan.
  • Poalon, for poilon, a skillet.
  • Pocheculier, a shoveler.
  • Pochée, a pocket full.
  • Poçon, as posson.
  • Podagre, (Subst) the gout in the legs or feet. Podagre de lin, the weed Dodder.
  • Podagreux, full of the gout.
  • Poderaste, a Sodomite, a boy-bugger∣er.
  • Podimetrie, foot-measure, or mea∣suring by the foot.
  • Poeslier, a Tinker, or Brazier.
  • Poeste, homme de poeste, a Yeo∣man.
  • Poëtastre, an ignorant Poet.
  • Poëterie, for poësie, poetry.
  • Poëtiser, to make verses.
  • Poëtride, a Poetess.
  • Poëtrie, Poetry.
  • Poëtrons, ordinary yellow plums.
  • Poevrette, for poivrette, the herb Gith.
  • Poge, ou Pogge, the sheat, or cable which fastens the main yard on the right hand of a ship. A poge, at or on the right hand. Naviger à poge & à ourse, to hold an un∣certain course at Sea by reason of contrary winds.
  • Pognard, for poignard, a poniard, or dagger.
  • Poictrail, for poitral, a poitral.
  • Poictreux, as piece poictreuse, a piece of coyn that rises or bears out in the middle, and is flat or thin about the edge.
  • Poictrinal, a great and heavy petro∣nel, shorter (but of a wider bore) than a musquet.
  • Poictrinal, (Adj.) belonging to the breast or stomach; also stomachal, or comforting the breast.
  • Poictrinalier, one that serves with, or uses to shoot in a great and heavy petronel.
  • Poictrinette, a little breast.
  • Poictrineux, as poictrinal (Adj.) also as poictreux.
  • Poictron, the fundament.
  • Poifaict, sloth, negligence, idleness.
  • Poifaifant, a negligent, slothful, or idle fellow.
  • Poignalarde, a stab, or thrust with a poniard.
  • Poignalarder, to stab, or thrust into with a poniard.
  • Poignastre, the Viver, or little Sea-dragon.
  • Poiler, for peler, to pill; also to rew; to die, or colour uneven∣ly.
  • Poillu, for pelu, hairy, rough with much hair.
  • Poinçonner, as poinsonner.
  • Poinçonnet, a little bodkin, or pun∣cheon.
  • Poinçonneux, pricking as a bod∣kin.
  • Poincté, pointed, sharpened at the point; also stitched, quilted.
  • Poincteler, Poincter, to prick, or point often; to bud, or shoot out.
  • Poinez, as c'est un poinez raclé, tis a thing resolved on.
  • Poinrée, a Pear-tree.
  • Poinsonnade, a prick, or hole made with a bodkin; also a stamp, or mark set on with a pun∣c••••on, &c.
  • Poinsonner, to prick with a bod∣kin; to stamp, or mark with a puncheon, &c.
  • Pointade, a prick, thrust, or stitch; a sting.
  • Pointure, a prick; also a pricking; also a shooting, as of pain in the body; also the gout in the joints.
  • Poipre, the purples.
  • Poirasine, rosin.
  • Poirée, Beets.
  • Poisamment, for pesamment, heavi∣ly.
  • Poisée, Poisement, a poising, or weighing; also weight, or hea∣viness.
  • Poisillons, a kinde of small pease, or pulse.
  • Poislé, smeared with soot, or with the touch of a sooty Skillet, &c.
  • Poisler, to smear with soot, or with the touch of a sooty skillet, &c.
  • Poislier, a Brsier, or Tinker.
  • Poisliers, the posts which uphold the screw of a Vine-press.
  • Poislure, a smearing, a besoot∣ing.
  • Poisonneux, poisonous, full of poi∣son.
  • Poissage, a pitching, or bepitch∣ing.
  • Poissard, a filcher, a pilserer; one whose fingers are as so many lime-twigs.
  • Poissement, as poissage.
  • Poisseux, pitchy, or full of pitch.
  • Poissillon, Poissonnet, a little, or a young ••••••h.
  • Poissonneux, full of, or abounding in fih.
  • Poissonnier, (Adj.) abounding i, or belonging to fish.
  • Poissure, as pois••••e.
  • Poisteau, a little bird like a i∣rt.
  • Poistrir, fr p••••rir, to k••••ad.
  • Poitron, the tail, ase, or bum; al∣so a kinde of H••••••-plum.
  • Poixement, as oiage.
  • Poixer, for poier, to pit h, to be∣pitch.
  • Poizer, for pser, to weigh.
  • Pol, for pole, a pole.
  • Polaine, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it 〈…〉〈…〉 of 〈…〉〈…〉 in the Prw of a 〈…〉〈…〉 as poulaine.
  • ...Polemoine, 〈…〉〈…〉 also the shrubby 〈◊〉〈◊〉, called Make-at.
  • Polican, for polican, a Plia.
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  • Policier, (Adj.) of, or belonging to Government.
  • Poliément, for poliment, smoothly, neatly.
  • Polieul, Pell a mountain, or Polly, (an herb.)
  • Poliot, for pouliot, Penny-royal.
  • Polipragmon, a busie-body.
  • Polisyllable, for polysyllabe, of ma∣ny Syllables.
  • Polpe, for poulpe, the pulp, or fleshy part.
  • Polsonnets, two buttons with hooks at their ends, passing through the branch, and holding the water-chain of a bit.
  • Poltronesque, cowardly, faint-hear∣ted; lazy, idle.
  • Poltronesquement, cowardly, faint-heartedly; lazily, idly.
  • Poltronie, for plotronnerie, cowar∣dise, faint-heartedness; laziness, idleness.
  • Poltroniser, to be a coward, to slug it.
  • Polygraphie, a divers manner of writing.
  • Polymixe, a candle having many wicks.
  • Polypeux, that hath a Noli me tan∣gere in the nose.
  • Polyphilie, affection divided, love unto many.
  • Polypus, as polype in the N. D.
  • Polytric, Polytricon, black Venus hair, our Ladies hair.
  • Pomardiere, an Orchard of Apples.
  • Pomcirade, for poncirade, Balm-gentle, herb Balm.
  • Pomelée, Bear-foot.
  • Pommé, Cider.
  • Pommelaye, Pommelée, as pomelée.
  • Pommelette, a little apple; also a daple.
  • Pommelle, the pommel of a sword, &c.
  • Pommelu, plump, or round as an apple.
  • Pommelure, plumpness, roundness; also dapleness.
  • Pommer, to grow round, or apple-like.
  • Pommeraye, an Orchard, or Apple-yard.
  • Pommette, a little apple; also the ball of the cheek. La pommette du nez, the tip, or end of the nose. Piece à Pommette, a little plea∣sant rowl in the mouth of a bit.
  • Pommeux, full of apples.
  • Pomon, for poumon, the lungs.
  • Pompes, bosses; pully-pieces for the knees.
  • Pompette, a pimple on the nose or chin.
  • Pompholige, the light oar, or foil of brass.
  • Pompile, a kinde of Pourcontrel fish; also a kinde of Tunny which follows ships while they are in the Main, and leaves them when they draw towards the shore.
  • Pompon, a pumpion, or melon.
  • Pomponne, the longest and smoo∣thest kind of pumpion.
  • Ponceau, Poncel, for petit pont, a little bridge.
  • Poncer, to polish with a pumice-stone.
  • Ponceure, a polishing with a pumice-stone.
  • Poncille, the Assyrian Citron.
  • Poncire, a Pome-citron.
  • Ponçon, half a tun.
  • Ponderamment, heavily.
  • Pondereux, heavy.
  • Ponderosité, heaviness.
  • Poneau, a close-stool.
  • Poneropole, the Town of the wicked.
  • Pongneor, as piqueur in the N. D.
  • Ponhete, a kinde of Vine.
  • Ponneresse, Ponneuse, as geline ponneresse, a laying hen.
  • Pontage, Bridge-work; also Pon∣tage, or Bridge-toll.
  • Pontail, as pont volant.
  • Pontanage, as pontage.
  • Ponte, a laying of eggs.
  • Ponté, bridged, that hath a bridge over it, or belonging to it.
  • Pontenage, as pontanage.
  • Ponteux, full of bridges.
  • Pontif, for Pontife, a chief Bishop, or Prelate.
  • Pontille, a prick, or little point.
  • Pontique, of Pontus.
  • Pontis, a little bridge.
  • Pontonnier, a Ferry-man.
  • Popin, spruce, neat, or fine.
  • se Popiner, to trim up himself.
  • Popisine, the smacking sound where∣with Riders incourage or cherish their horses.
  • Poplitée, Poplitique, a large Vein in the middle of the Thigh; also a Sinew near to the gartering place, and serving to turn the leg inwards.
  • Populaire, for le peuple, the common people, the vulgar.
  • Populeon, Popilion, an Oyntment made of black poplar buds.
  • Populeux, populous, full of people.
  • Populo, a Roll or List of the Fees, or augmentation of Fees, accruing to the King by the Chancery-Seal; also a pretty plump-faced and cherry-cheekt boy; or a picture of such an one.
  • Populosité, abundance of people.
  • Populotier, the Clerk of the Chan∣cery, who in his turn is to make and keep the Populo.
  • Popyle, the fish Pourcontrel.
  • Porcausou, sowsed hogs-flesh.
  • Porcelette, a kind of shell-fish; also a kinde of little Sturgeon.
  • Porche, for parce que, because.
  • Porchereau, a Sea-hog.
  • Porcherie, a hog-sty.
  • Porchet, a stake, or pole.
  • Porchier, for Porcher, a Swine-herd.
  • Porchin, of, or like a hog. Taisson porchin, a hog-badger.
  • Porcille, a Sea-hog.
  • Porcin, as porchin. Pain porcin, the herb Sow-bread.
  • Porcorau, Liverwort.
  • Poreau, a wart; also any corn or hard skin coming by labour on the hands or feet.
  • Porée, Beets; pot-herbs; also pot∣tag made of beets, or with other herbs.
  • Porfil, and Porfile, as pourfil in the N. D.
  • Porfiler, as pourfiler in the N. D.
  • Porion, wild onion, or wild leek.
  • Porositez, for pores, pores.
  • Porque, a Sw.
  • Porque, (Adj.) hoggish, or Sow-like.
  • Porquet, Porquette, a young pork.
  • Porracé, green as a leek; of, or like a leek.
  • Porrée, as porée.
  • Porriere, a bed of leeks.
  • Porrion, as porion.
  • Portache, as procace.
  • Portage, carriage; also the custome, fare, or fee paid for carriage.
  • Portatisse, portative, portable.
  • Port'-aubans, chain-wales, pieces of wood nailed on both the Outsides of a ship, to keep them from being worn or galled by the shrowds.
  • Porte-brandons, fiery, flaming. Ciel porte-brandons, the starry Fir∣mament.
  • Porte-ciel, heaven-bearing.
  • Porte-colle, as protecole in the N. D.
  • Porte-eseritoire, a Notaries Boy, one that serves but to carry his pen and inkhorn after him.
  • Porte-flambeux, as Ciel porte-flam∣beaux, the starry Sky.
  • Porte-fleurs, flouri hing, flower-bear∣ing. L'Element porte-fleurs, the Earth.
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  • (wrought, or embroidered, and cut into divers panes.)
  • Porte-guidon, an Ensign-bearer un∣to a Troop of horse.
  • Porte-harnois, a Cross, the cross-like pearch whereon Armour is usually hanged.
  • Porte-hanbans, as port-aubans.
  • Portement, a carrying, or bearing; a wearing; a supporting, or up∣holding; also health, or likeing.
  • Porte-mors, the cheek-piece, or cheek-band of a bridle.
  • Portente, a prodigious, or monstrous thing.
  • Portenreux, prodigious, monstrous, strange.
  • Porte-panier, a basket-carrier; also a Pedlar.
  • Porte-parole, a message-carrier be∣tween party and party.
  • Porte-peine, laborious, painful, pains-taking.
  • Porte-piece, a Shoomakers punch, or punchion.
  • Porte-poche, a bag (or a pouch) bearer, he that carries the Scrip or Wallet for a company of Beg∣gars.
  • Porte-poulet, a bawd, or carrier of Love-messages.
  • Porte-queue, a Train-bearer.
  • Portereau, a little or less Gate ad∣joyning unto a greater for a Pa∣lace or House of State; also a Floud-gate, or kinde of Sluce, whereby the course of a River is diverted into a Gut on the one side thereof, cut out for the turn∣ing of some Mill, &c.
  • Porte-roolle, a prompter of one that makes an Oration, or acts a part, in publick.
  • Porte-sac, as porte-poche.
  • Porte-semelle, the upper leather of a Galoshe.
  • Port-estrieux, the plate of a stir∣rup.
  • Porte-tablettes, a Pedlar, or one that carries Table-books, &c. to sell.
  • Porteure d'une semme, a womans burden, or Child-bearing.
  • Portier, (Adj.) carrying, bearing. Brebis portiere, a bearing Ewe.
  • Portinal, a portal.
  • Portioniste, a Prebend in a Cathe∣dral Church.
  • Portionné, rated, shared, measured out; also stinted.
  • Portionner, to rate, share, or mea∣sure out; also to stint.
  • Portiuncule, an Indulgence obtain'd (as some report) by S. Francis, of the Virgin Mary, for the remission of all the sins of those, who (en payant) came in at one, and went out at another, door of a Church, dedicated unto her in Angiers.
  • Portoir des Vignes, the branch that bears the Grapes.
  • Portoire, Portouoire, any thing that helps to carry another thing; and particularly a Vessel like a half Tub, wherein Grapes be carried on horseback from a remote Vine-yard.
  • Portueux, full of Ports; also of, or belonging unto a Port or Ha∣ven.
  • Portugaise, Portugalle, Portugaloise, a Portegue, a sort of Golden Coyn.
  • Porture, a carrying, bearing, or wearing. La porture d'une bre∣bis, the little skin or film, where∣in a Lamb comes wrapped out of the Ewes belly.
  • Posade, a lighting down of birds; a laying down of a burden; a resting place; a stop made by a horse. Etre à la posade, to rest him self, to sit still.
  • Posement, a putting, s tting, or placing.
  • Posément, staidly.
  • Posque, a potion, or drink made of vinegar and water.
  • Possesseresse, Possesseuse, a Woman that possesses, holds, or enioys.
  • Possessoire, (Subsl.) a possession, or a thing possessed.
  • Posion, the quarter of a Chopine; a little measure for milk, ver••••i, and vinegar, not altogether so big as the quarter of our pins.
  • Postelé, as poupelé.
  • Poster, to ri•••• post, to make h••••e.
  • Posteral, as posterol.
  • Posteres, the posteriorums, or hinder parts.
  • Posterieur, posteriour, hinder, infe∣riour.
  • Posterol, the red Sea-nettle (an ugly and imperfect Sea-fish.)
  • Posteux, hasty, or in post-haste.
  • Postille, a postil, gloss, or compen∣dious exposition.
  • Postilleux, much using, or loving to ride post.
  • Postillonner, to ride post.
  • Postiquer, to play the vagrant Im∣postor, or wandring Jugler.
  • Postiqueries, jugling devices, tricks f legerdemain.
  • Postiqueur, a wandring Impostor, a roguing Jugler.
  • Postulation, a demand, sute, re∣quest, or supplication; also a com∣plaint, or expostulation.
  • Postulé, demanded, required, sued for; also admitted, elected, a∣dopted; also joyned in office, linked in company with.
  • Postuler, to sue, demand, or require; also to plead, or argue at the bar; also to sue, accuse, or com∣plain of.
  • Postules, wheals, powks.
  • Postuleux, full of wheals, or powks.
  • Posturable, sequetrable.
  • Potagé, made pottage, reduced into pottage.
  • Potager, (Subst.) a by-place in a Country-house, instead of a Lar∣der, for the laying up of raw or cold meats; also a porridge-belly, or a great purridge-eater.
  • Potager, (a Verb) to make pottage; also to have in his power. Se potager, to play the good hus∣band, or give himself wholly to husbandry; to apply his business at home.
  • Potagerie, herbs, or any other stuff, whereof pottage is made.
  • Potaif, pot-plying, tipling square.
  • Pote, the great Sea-nettle; also swoln, or benummed with cold.
  • Poté, plump.
  • Potée, brass, copper, tin, pewter, &c. burnt or calcinated; also a pot full of any thing.
  • Potein, naturally lame, or defective in a limb.
  • Potelée, (Subst.) plumpness.
  • Potentiel, strong, forcible, powerful in operation.
  • Potentille, wild Tansey, Silver-weed.
  • Poterne, a potern, or postern-gate, a back-door to a Fort, &c.
  • Potes, a kinde of shining fish made somewhat like a Cap.
  • Potestat, a principal Officer, or chief Magistrate.
  • Potie, a knot in ••••••llen cloth; or a rotten thread or threads and rea∣dy to fall from cloth.
  • Potié, as poupelé.
  • Potieux, over-dainty, nice, cu∣rious; also peevish, froward, pet∣tish.
  • Potingues, drinking exploits.
  • Potiron, a Toad-stool; also a kinde of Dolphin-like fish.
  • Potonnier, as pautonnier.
  • Pottée, as potée.
  • Pottein, broken pieces of metal,

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  • or of old vessels, mingled one with another.
  • Pottelé, for potelé, plump.
  • Pottin, as pottein; also soder of metal.
  • Potus, physical potions.
  • Pouae, faugh (an Interjection, used when any filthy thing is said, or shewed.)
  • Pouäcre, filthy, nasty, on that is ever spitting, or blowing his nose; also la••••••, slothful, idle.
  • Pouallier, as poalier in the N. D.
  • Poucher, as pocher in the N. D.
  • Poueiniere, as poulsiniere.
  • Pouein, a Chicken.
  • Pouctau, the wilde Poppy, or red Corn-rose.
  • Poueyrade, the herb called Balm.
  • Poudroyer, as pouldroyer.
  • Poveau, the pan of a close-stool.
  • Pouée, the ridge of a bed in a Vine∣yard.
  • Pouelle, for poile, a Stove.
  • Pouër, to go up; to hale against wind and tide; to pile, or heap up. Pouër la Vigne, to raise the beds of a Vineyard into rid∣ges.
  • Pouillard, lousie.
  • Poul, for pou, a louse.
  • Poulaine, as Souliers à poulaine, old-fashion shooes held on the feet by single latchets running overthwart the inslep, which otherwise were all open; also, those that had a fashion of long hooks sticking out at the end of ther toes. Ventre à la poulaine, a huge belly.
  • Poulainement, a foling.
  • Poulainer, to fole.
  • Poulcée, an inch, or inch-measure, the breadth of a thumb.
  • Poulceon, the 24 part of a Cho∣pine.
  • Poulcepied, the Pourcontrel, or ma∣ny-footed fish.
  • Poulcier, as poulcée.
  • Pouldre, and its Derivatives in use. See them without l in the N.D.
  • Pouldrement, a powdering; a tur∣ning into powder.
  • Pouldrette, fine powder, small dust. Temps de pouldrette, the sea∣son wherein a husbandman breaks the clods of his plowed land.
  • Pouldreux, dusty, full of dust. Avoir les pieds pouldreux, to be of a nim∣ble or active constitution, or of a stragling or wandering disposi∣tion.
  • Pouldroyement, a powdering, pul∣verising.
  • Pouldroyer, to powder, to pulve∣rise.
  • Poulemart, a weapon like a han∣ger. A fil de poulemart, with edge or dint of the sword.
  • Poulener, as poulainer.
  • Poulenne, as poulaine.
  • Poulette, a young hen.
  • Poulinement, a foling.
  • Pouliner, a mare to sole, or bring forth a colt.
  • Poullailler, for poulailler, a poulter, or keeper of pullen.
  • Poullarde, the Sea-hen (a fish.)
  • Poullart, bled poullart, St. Peter's corn.
  • Poullaze, the Indian Raven.
  • Poulle, for poule, a hen.
  • Poullé, as bled poullé, the wall-barley called St. Peter's-corn.
  • Poullier, for poulier, a hen-house.
  • Poullion, for poulion, a little pul∣ly.
  • Poulmelée, Bears-foot, Setterwort.
  • Poulmonnie, for pulmonie, any in∣firmity of the lungs.
  • Poulpelé, as poupelé.
  • Poulpie, Poulpie, for pourpier, Purslane.
  • Poulpre, as pourpe.
  • Poulser, and its Derivatives in use. See them with an s instead of l in the N. D.
  • Poulse-avant, any thing that thrusts another forward; an Overseer and forwarder of a work that re∣quires haste. Jeu de poulse a∣vant, lechery.
  • Poulsier, for poussiere, dust.
  • Poulsin, for poussin, a chick.
  • Poulsiner, to hatch, breed, or bring forth chickens.
  • Poulsniere, the seven stars.
  • Poultis, a little gate or door accom∣panying a great one before, or be∣longing to a draw-bridge, &c.
  • Poulx, for poux, lice.
  • Poupart, an infant, or young childe; also a milk-sop.
  • Poupe, the ••••at of a woman; the dug of a ravenous beast; also pulp; also the cancrous disease of the nose called Noli me tange∣re.
  • Poupes de chenilles, bunches, or clusters of caterpillars.
  • Poupeau, a little teat, or dug.
  • Poupelé, pithy, brawny, full of pulp; also plump, fleshy.
  • Poupetier, a baly (or puppet) ma∣ker.
  • Poupette, a little baby, a puppet.
  • Poupier, of, or belonging to the Poop of a ship. Vent poupier, a full (or whole) wind at sea.
  • Poupillons, little teats, or dugs.
  • Poupin, as popin.
  • Poupine, as pompon. Enter en poupine, to lodge a graft within a slit made into the top of a stock, and withal to hood it.
  • Poupinement, neatly, sprucely, quaint∣ly.
  • Pouple, a Poplar-tree.
  • Poupon, an Infant, suckling, or young baby; also as pompon.
  • Poupper, to dandle.
  • Pourbondir, to bound, leap, or jump over; also to manage a horse, to make him leap, or bound.
  • Pourbouiller, to parboil.
  • Pource que, for parce que, because.
  • Pourcelet, for porcelet, a young hog.
  • Pourchaille, for pourpier, Purslane.
  • Pourchas, eager pursuit, earnest chace after.
  • Pouvret, somewhat por.
  • Pourfendre, to cleave through.
  • Pourfendu, cleft through.
  • Pourfier, to affirm boldly.
  • Pourfit, for profit, profit.
  • Pourfiterolle, as profiterolle.
  • Pourject, Pourjecter, as projet, projetter in the N. D.
  • Pourmener, and its Derivatives. See promener, &c. in the N. D.
  • Pourneant, in vain, for nothing, to no purpose.
  • Pourparlement, Pourparlé, Pour∣parler, a Treaty, or Conference about an agreement to be made, or thing to be done.
  • Pourpe, for poulpe, or polype, the fish Pourcontrel.
  • Pourpens, great thought, care, stu∣dy.
  • Pourpensé, seriously thought of.
  • Pourpenser, to bethink himself, to think or consider of.
  • Pourpied, for pourpier, the herb Purslane.
  • Pourplanté, planted throughout, set all over.
  • Pourplantement, a planting, or set∣ting all over.
  • Pourplanter, to plant, or set all o∣ver.
  • Pourpointerie, a Doublet-makers shop, or a Doublet-makers row, or street.
  • Pourpointier, a Doublet-maker.
  • Pourprendre, to hold, or take up all.
  • Pourprins, fully held.
  • Pourprinse, Pourpris, a Close, or In∣closure; or one inclosure of divers

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  • rooms or closes. Le pourpris d'un Manoir, the Out-rooms, Courts, Gardens, Orchards, Park, Wood, or Warren, lying round about or near unto a Mannor; and being within one hedge, ditch, pale, or wall.
  • Pourquerre, to search, or seek hard after.
  • Pourquines, a kind of small black figs.
  • Pourquis, searched, or sought hard after.
  • Pourreau, for porreau, a leek.
  • Pourris, a suppuration, a rotting, a turning out of blood into healing.
  • Pourrissable, soon rotting, likely to grow rotten.
  • Pourrisseur, a rotter; also the spot∣ted and short-tailed Serpent, no bigger than a little Viper, but presently rotting whatsoever part of the body is stung by her.
  • Pourrissure, for pourriture, rotten∣ness.
  • Poursaillir, to leap out of, to bound over.
  • Poursemé, sowed throughout, or all over. Poursemé de rougeolle, full of the measles.
  • Poursemer, to sow throughout, or all over.
  • Poursuir, for poursuivre, to pursue, to prosecute.
  • Poursuivable, pursuable.
  • Poursuivir, Poursuyr, to follow; also to wander from Country to Country.
  • Pourtoir, as portoir.
  • Pourtraict, Pourtraicture, for por∣trait, a picture.
  • Pourvende, a Prebendry, the place of a Prebend.
  • Pourvoy, a provision, help, remedy.
  • Pousade, as posade.
  • Poussade, a push, thrust, or jouit.
  • Pousse, as de pleine pousse, at once, at one p••••h.
  • Pousse, (f.) short wind, pursiness; also the hinder part of a ows belly, or the parts whereon her hinder teats are. Pousse de bled, the chaff of corn.
  • Pousse-avant, as poulse-avant.
  • Poussepied, the Pourcontrel fish.
  • Pousset de bronze, the scaly dust that falls from brass, after it hath been melted, or much heat∣ed.
  • Poussier, for poussiere, dust.
  • Poussoir, an impulsory Instrument used by Surgeons for the forcing through of a forked arrow-head.
  • Poussouer, the Iron-pin wherewith Joyners drive out wooden pegs.
  • Poustaignade, a brood, nest, or lay∣ing of eggs.
  • Pousteau, for pôteau, a post.
  • Poustelé, as poupelé.
  • Poutie, & Poutieux, as potie, po∣tieux.
  • Poutriages, beams; posts.
  • Poux, for legume, pulse.
  • Pouy, fy.
  • Pouyr, as tout n'y sçauroit pouyr, all cannot go in.
  • Pouzaranque, an Instrument where∣with water is drawn out of Gar∣den-wells.
  • Poy, for pu, little.
  • Poyle, a stone.
  • Poytois, as putois.
  • Poyvre, and its Deriatives in use. See them with an i instead of y in the N. D.
  • Poivrier, the pepper-plant.
  • Practic, for pratique, practical.
  • Practicien, Pragmaticien, a Practi∣tioner in Law, a Sollicitor.
  • Pragmatizer, to practice, to soli∣cite.
  • Praguerie, league, faction, rebelli∣on.
  • Prain, great with young.
  • Prairier, of, or belonging to a Mea∣dow. Sergent prairier, a Mea∣dow-keeper, an Officer that looks unto Meadows.
  • Pranchette, a womans stirrup.
  • Prangeler, cattle to chew their cud in the afternoon.
  • Praquerie, as praguerie.
  • Prat, for pré, a Meadow.
  • Preau, a little Meadow, or a green close; also a smooth green seat un∣der an Arbour.
  • Preaux, the name of a white, small, and sweet apple.
  • Prebender, to bandy, at Tennis.
  • Prebstre, for Pretre, a Priest.
  • Precairement, par precaire, by in∣treaty, request, or desire; also at another mans will and pleasure; or only for a while.
  • Precellence, pr••••••llny, an excel∣lency, or surprising.
  • Preceller, to excel, to surpass.
  • Preception, a precept.
  • Preceptorizer, to tutor, to go∣••••••••.
  • Preceprice, teaching, instructing.
  • Precesseur, a forgoer; also a Pre∣d••••••ssr.
  • Prehantr, to sing before the rest; to begin a Song.
  • Precipite, for precipice, a precipice.
  • Precipiteux, headlong, fool-hardy, hair-brained.
  • Preclare, excellent.
  • Precogiter, to think of before-hand.
  • Precognition, Precognoissance, fore∣knowledge, or former notice of.
  • Precognoistre, to fore-know.
  • Preconter, to abate, or defaulk part of a sum due upon a former rec∣koning.
  • Precordial, belonging to the midriff; near to, or about the heart.
  • Precordiaux, the midriff; also the heart-strings, or siln of the heart; also the parts which be near or about the heart; also the sides of the belly under the ribs; and sometimes also the whole num∣bles.
  • Predestinée satale, fatal destiny.
  • Predial, consisting of, growing in, belonging unto Meadows.
  • Predicant, for Predycateur, a Prea∣cher.
  • Predivination, a foreghessing, or pre∣saging.
  • Prediviner, to ghess at before∣hand.
  • Prée, for pré, a Meadow.
  • Preer, to turn into Meadows.
  • Pre-eslu, pre-elected, fore-chosen.
  • Prefigé, prefixed, appointed before∣hand.
  • Prefiger, to prefix, to appoint before∣hand.
  • Prefim, determined, appointed, li∣mited beforehand.
  • Prefinir, to determine, appoint, or limit beforehand.
  • Pregnamment, pregnantly, forcibly, strongly.
  • Pregnant, pregnant, forcible, strong.
  • Preguste, a fore-ta ler.
  • Prehster, to precipitate, to hasten extreamly.
  • Preignant, as pregnant.
  • Preigne, fall, or with young; also with child.
  • Preignement, as pregnamment.
  • Preigneur, a being great with child, or with young.
  • Preïr, as preer.
  • Prejudicier, to prejudice.
  • Prejugé, (a Parti,) fore-judged.
  • Prejugement, a fore-judgement, or former judgment, a Case ruled in Law; a prejudice or hurt doe to a Cause by a Precedent.
  • Preluger, to fore-judge, to rule or direct the opinion of Judges by a former judgement.
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  • Prelasser, to carry himself gravely, portly, pompously; to square it like a Prelate.
  • Prelation, preferment before others in purchasing.
  • Prelingant, a boasting ass, or proud coxcomb.
  • Prematurité, forward or timely growth.
  • Premesse, as presmesse.
  • Premie, a reward, or recompense.
  • Premisse, a fore-placing, a setting before.
  • Premonstré, portended, or foretold. Freres de la Premonstrée, an Or∣der of Friars which wear white habits.
  • Premourant, dying first, or before another.
  • Prenoncé, foretold, or declared be∣forehand.
  • Prenoncer, to foretell, or declare beforehand.
  • Prent, as prent.
  • Prenus, as & ubi prenus? and where will y•••• take or find them?
  • Preparatoire, preparatory.
  • Preparement, a preparing, or pro∣viding.
  • Prepatour, a Vineyard, or Vine-close for the best or choicest plants.
  • Preplantement, a fore-planting.
  • Prepostere, preposterous, or disor∣derly.
  • Preposterer, to place, or set preposte∣rously, to put the cart before the horse.
  • Presagier, to presage, or fore-tell.
  • Presagieux, Presagiant, presaging, fore-telling; full of presages.
  • Presbyteral, Priestly, belonging to a Priest.
  • Presbytere, a Parsonage, Vicarage, or Priests house.
  • Preschement, a preaching.
  • Prescience, a prescience, or fore-knowledge.
  • Preservatif, (Adj.) preserving.
  • Presignifié, foretold, signify'd be∣fore-hand.
  • Presle, as prele.
  • Presme, a near kinsman by father and mother, or in a direct lie. Presme d'esmeraude, a base or course emerald.
  • Presmesse, near kindred, the be∣ing next of kin, or the privi∣lege of recovery, or disinga∣ging of land, due unto the next kinsman.
  • Pres-prenant, Crediteur pres-prenant, an hard or strict Cre∣ditor, one that will be satisfied to the utmost.
  • Presseance, for preseance, prece∣dency.
  • Pressier, the tree that bears the peach called presse.
  • Pressif, for pressant, urgent.
  • Pressis, cullises, or stained meats.
  • Pressoirage, as pressurage in the N. D.
  • Pressoireur, for pressurier, he that works at the Wine-press.
  • Pressouoir, for pressoir, a Wine-press.
  • Prest, for vîte, quickly.
  • Prestable, which may be lent.
  • Prestance, worthiness, or excellency. Un homme de belle prestance, a proper, or personable man.
  • Prestation, a loan; also a lending; a paying of duties, rents, or ser∣vices.
  • Preste-charitez, a back-biter.
  • Prestement, as prest.
  • Prestere, a tempest, or whirl-wind.
  • Prestesse, readiness, quickness, or nimbleness.
  • Presteux, lending, putting out un∣to loan.
  • Prestiges, deceits, tricks, impostures.
  • Prestigiateur, a Jugler.
  • Prestitué, appointed.
  • Prestolant, a Steward, or Overseer, a Surveyer over a Farm.
  • Prest-oreille, attentive.
  • Prestraille, paultry Priests.
  • Prestraillerie, a pack of scurvy Priests; also the order of Priest∣hood.
  • Prestral, Priestly, of, or belonging un∣to Priests; also Priest-like.
  • Prestrot, a little Priest; an under-Priest or Curate; also a little bird something like a linnet.
  • Presure, as pressure in the N. D.
  • Pretendu, (Subst.) a thing pretended unto, or stood for.
  • Pretente, a pretence, purpose, pro∣ject, or intent.
  • Pretermettre, to pretermit, or omit.
  • Pretermis, pretermitted, omit∣ted.
  • Pretermission, pretermission, omissi∣on.
  • Pretrot, as Prestrot, in the last sense.
  • Preu, as preux.
  • Prevalence, that which remains of the price of land sold for the pay∣ment of a debt.
  • Preudefemme, a virtuous and dis∣creet Matron.
  • Preudes gents, valiant, or honest persons.
  • Preud'homme, a stout man; also an honest or discreet man; also the herb Clary.
  • Preud'hommier, stout, valiant; ho∣nest, faithful.
  • Preveil, an ordinary Meeting of Spin∣sters and Youngsters at a certain Place where they work and make merry together.
  • Prevenement, a preventing.
  • Prevenu, (Subst.) a preventing (in Law) of whatsoever may be ob∣jected.
  • Prevostablement, by Martial Law.
  • Prevostaire, Prevostal, Prevostel, of, or like a Provost; subject unto the Jurisdiction of a Provost; crimi∣nal.
  • Preut, first, first of all.
  • Preux, stout, valiant; also loyal, faithful, honest, worthy; also dis∣creet, skilful, ready. Les neuf Preux, the nine Worthies.
  • Preyer, a kind of Linnet.
  • Priapisme, a lustless extension, or swelling of the yard.
  • Priement, a praying, an intreat∣ing.
  • Prim, as presme.
  • Prim, (Adj.) prime, first, forward; also thin, small. Prime barbe, the down, or a mossy beard on a young mans chin.
  • Prime, as le prime des Chevaliers, a prime Knight, the flower of Knights; also the first hour of the day; also a small Goldsmiths weight, whereof 24 make but one grain. Soupes de prime, Monasti∣cal brewes; cheese and bread put into pottage; or chopped parsley stewed or laid together with the fat of th b••••••s-pot on the bread.
  • Prime, (Ad.) chiefly; ••••nest. A prime, but just now. Retournez vous au prime, came you again but now?
  • Primement, chiefly, expresly; also thinly, narrowly; also exactlly, curiously.
  • Primerain, Primeroge Primerouge, early, timely, forward. Figues primeroges, the first figs that come, which being too forward commonly thrie not.
  • Primes, Or primes, now at the last; only at this time, but now.
  • Primeur, salness, slenderness; also primness, excellency; also for∣wardness.
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  • Primices, for premices, the first fruits.
  • Primicial, of, or belonging to first fruits.
  • Primordial, first rising, beginning from.
  • Prin, as prim.
  • Principesque, Princely.
  • Principié, begun, or in breeding.
  • Principion, a petty Prince.
  • Prinfief, as le Seigneur de Prinfies, the Lord Paramount, or immedi∣ate Lord of an Inheritance, char∣ged with Rent.
  • Pringalle, a fashion of warlike En∣gine used in old time.
  • Pringert, a kinde of small bird.
  • Prins, for pris, taken.
  • Prinsault, de prinsault, suddenly, out of hand.
  • Prinsautier, a starter, a nimble um∣per.
  • Prinsautier, (Adj.) sudden, quick, or nimble.
  • Prinse, for prise, a taking, or sei∣••••••g.
  • Printaner, to spring, or flourish as the Spring.
  • Pris, for prix, price.
  • Prisage, Prisée, Priserie, a rating, or aluing, a rate, or aluation.
  • Prisme, as prime.
  • Priste, a kinde of Whale.
  • Pristine, former, old, atient; wo∣t••••••, accustomed; also late, or bt little past.
  • Privaise, the place where the Privy is; also a pipe, or sunnel, for the avoiding of the ill air of a Privy.
  • Privement, a depriving, or berea∣ing.
  • Privoité, for privauté, privacy.
  • Probaleté, for probabilité, probabi∣lity.
  • Probation, a proof, an approbation.
  • Probatique, as Piscine probatique, a Pond for the washing of the sheep that were by the Law to be sacri∣ficed.
  • Probosce, a big snout, a huge nose.
  • Proboscide, the trunk, or snout of an Elephant.
  • Procace, the Post, or Carrier that goes weekly between Rome and Naples.
  • Procerité, height, talness.
  • Processeux, Processif, litigious, al∣ways in Sutes.
  • Processional, Processional; belong∣ing to, or serving for a Processi∣on.
  • Prochainement, nearly, next, or last.
  • Prochaineté, for proximité, near∣ness, neighbourhood.
  • Prochas, a purchase, a pursuit.
  • Prochasser, for pourchasser, to pro∣secute, to pursue.
  • Prochesief, the Fif, or Inheritance that's held of a Lord by a direct and immediate Tenure.
  • Procidence, a falling down of a thing out of its right place.
  • Proclameur, for proclamateur, a Proclaimer.
  • Proclif, prone, apt, or inclining.
  • Procours, as parcours.
  • Procrastination, a procrastination, or delay.
  • Procrastiné, procrastinated, or de∣lay'd.
  • Proculteur, for Procureur, a Solli∣citor.
  • Prodenou, a rope which compasseth the Sail-yard of a Ship.
  • Prodigal, for prodigue, a prodigal.
  • Prodigalisé, la hed.
  • Prodigaliser, Prodiger, to la••••••h.
  • Proditeur, a Traytor, a tra••••co•••• fellow.
  • Prodition, a treason, or treachery.
  • Prodrome, the fore-runner, or news-bringer of another mans coming; a preparer of the way for ano∣ther.
  • Prodromes, the Winds which rise a little before the Dog-days.
  • Proé, for prouë, the sore-castle of a Ship.
  • Proësme, a neighbour; also a Pro∣m.
  • Profanement, a profaning, or pro∣fanation.
  • Profanément, prophanely.
  • Professoirement, by profession.
  • Proficiat, a e or benevolence be∣stowed on Bishops in manner of a Welcome, immediately after their Installments.
  • Profiterolle, as pourfiterolle. Pro∣fiterolles, Servants vails.
  • Profondé, deepned; searched for into; pressed, or sank down into the bottom.
  • Profonder, to sound, search, or go deep into; to dive, or sink unto the bottom of; to press down.
  • Prosondité, for profondeur, profun∣dity, depth.
  • Profuseur, a pourer out; a profuse, or lavish man.
  • Progenié, progeny, off-spring.
  • Progenier, to procreae, to propagate; to breed, or to beget.
  • Progeniteur, a progenitor, ancestor, or forefather.
  • Prognostication, for prognostique, a prognostication, an argument or sign of a future thing.
  • Progreder, to proceed, or go for∣ward.
  • Prohibeur, a prohibiter, a forbid∣der.
  • Proisme, as presme.
  • Prolation, an utterance, or delivery of Words.
  • Prolectation, a pleasant enticement, a delightsom provocation.
  • Prolepsie, a natural fore-knowledge conceived in the minde.
  • Prolifique, fruitful, or breeding a∣pace.
  • Prolixe, prolix, long, tedious; large, abundant.
  • Prolixement, prolixly, tediously, at length, at large; liberally, a∣bundantly.
  • Promarginaire, extended on the margent.
  • Prome, a Butler, or Drawer; also a Yeoman of the Larder.
  • Promenement, a walking.
  • Prominence, a prominency, a jutting out; a p••••t-house.
  • Prominent, prominent, or jutting out.
  • Promiscue, promiscuous, indifferent; also confused, without order.
  • Promiscuement, promiscuously, in∣differentr, confusedly.
  • Promptuaire, a Store-house, a But∣tery.
  • Pronateurs, certain Msles, whereby the hand is bent or bowed down∣wards.
  • Pronau, a pulpit, or the place out of which the prone is delivered.
  • Prone, (Adj.) prone, ready, apt, in∣clining.
  • Prononçable, fit to be pronounced.
  • Pronostique, a prognostication.
  • Pronube, a Bride-maid. Juno pro∣nube, Juno the Goddess of Mar∣riage.
  • Propelet, a sp•••••• or a quaint fellow.
  • ...Propens••••••, ••••ensit, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or in∣••••ination.
  • Prophyloctice, an antidote, a coun∣terpoison; or that part of Phy∣sick which concerns the preserva∣tion of 〈…〉〈…〉.
  • Propine, drinking money, or some∣what to drink.
  • Propitier, to make propitious, to a••••oe, to pa••••••y.
  • Proposeur, a propounder, a proposer.
  • ...Propret, eat, spr••••e.
  • Proprictairement, in property, as an owner, his own.
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  • Propugnacule, a Fortress, or strong hold.
  • Propulsation, a driving back, or putting away.
  • Proriter, to provoke.
  • Prosenette, as Proxenette.
  • Proserie, a Place appointed for the nourishment of poor people.
  • Prosner, a Priest to pronounce the Prône.
  • Prospective, the Perspective, or Op∣tick art; also a bounded Pro∣spect; a limited Vin or Survey. En prospective, openly, for a shew, to be seen.
  • Prosperément, prosperously, happily.
  • Prostates, certain Kernels in the neck of the Bladder.
  • Prostration, a prostrating, a falling at the feet of.
  • Prosyllognine, a second Syllogisme proving the first.
  • Protelé, shifted off, put back; delayed.
  • Proteler, to shift off, to put back; to delay.
  • Proterve, froward, curst, snappish; also proud, saucy, impudent.
  • Protervement, frowardly; also proudly, saucily, impudently.
  • Protervie, Protervité, frowardness, curstness, peevishness; also pride, sauciness, or impudency.
  • Prothocolle, Protocole, as Protecole in the N. D.
  • Protodiables, the first, or chiefest of Devils.
  • Protomartyre, the first Martyr.
  • Prou, enough. Bon prou leur face, much good may it do them.
  • Provateure, a kinde of green Cheese made in Italy, of the milk of Buf∣fels.
  • Provect, well grown in age, or of good years; forward in the course of Arts.
  • Provende, for Prebende, a Pre∣bendry; also provender.
  • Provenir, to proceed.
  • Proufit, and its Derivatives. See them without an u in the N. D.
  • Proufiterolle, as profiterolle.
  • Provide, provident, circumspect, wa∣ry, fore-casting.
  • Providemment, providently, with good fore-cast.
  • Proujecter, for projeter, to project, or design.
  • Provignable, propagable.
  • Provignage, for provignement, a planting (or setting) of Vine-sprigs for increase.
  • Proviseur, a Purveyor, or Provider.
  • Provisoire, provisory, conditional.
  • Proumeu, for promeu, promoted, preferred.
  • Proumouvoir, to promote, or prefer.
  • Provocatoire, a provocatory, a wri∣ting whereby one is provoked; a challenge.
  • Provoquement, a provoking.
  • Provoqueur, a provoker, a challenger.
  • Prouveu, Prouvoir, Prouvoyance, & Prouvoyant. See them with pour instead of prou in the N. D.
  • Proxenete, a Broker, a Huckster, a man-dealer between party and party.
  • Proyer, as preyer.
  • Prunelat, the name of a Vine or Grape.
  • Prunelette, a little plum.
  • Prunier, (Adj.) bearing, or aboun∣ding with plums; of, or belong∣ing to plums; loving plums.
  • Prurir, to itch, to tickle; to desire lustfully.
  • Prurit, an itching, or tickling; a la••••ful desire of, or affection un∣to.
  • Pruver, as preyer.
  • Psalme, for pseaume, a Psalm.
  • Psaultier, for pseautier, a Psalter, a book of Psalms.
  • Pseudonard, Lavender.
  • Psilothre, Britony, Tettarberry; al∣so an Oyntment for the taking of hair away.
  • Psoloente, a kinde of Lightning, whose flash destroys whatsoever it lights on.
  • Ptoschalazon, a medler, a busie-body.
  • Ptyade, a kinde of Serpent, which raising up her neck and head, spits venome at those whom she cannot reach with her teeth.
  • Puantise, for puanteur, a stink, or stench.
  • Puberté, youth, or the age wherein hair begins to grow about the privities.
  • Publicain, a Publican, or Toll-ga∣therer; a Farmer, or Levyer of publick Revenue.
  • Puceal, maidenly, or maiden-like.
  • Puceler, for depuceler, to get a Vir∣gins maidenhead, to deflour her.
  • Pucher, to take up.
  • Pudibunde, shame-faced, bashful. Parties pudibundes, the privy parts.
  • Pueille, as peulle.
  • Puel, as Bois estans en puel, having been lately cut, or lopped.
  • Puer la vigne, to cut a Vine; or as pouër.
  • Puerilité, boyishness, childishness, simplicity.
  • Puette, a peg in a hogshead of wine; also the peg-hole.
  • Pugnitif, warlike, contentious, quar∣relsome.
  • Puinne, Puisne, spindle-tree, prick-wood, prick-timber.
  • Puitier, a Well-maker.
  • Puits, for puis, a Well.
  • Pulceau, the name of a Vine.
  • Pulceaux, full of fleas.
  • Pulcier, of a flea, or full of fleas.
  • Pulciere, flea-wort; also fleabane.
  • Pulçot, a little flea; a Vine-fretter.
  • Pulege, Penny-royal.
  • Pulluler, to bud, shoot, or spring out.
  • Pulmonée, as poulmelée.
  • Pulpe, the pulp, or pith of plants, &c. also the brawn, or solid and mu∣sculy flesh of the body.
  • Pulpite, for poupitre, a desk.
  • Pulsatil, knocking, beating.
  • Pulsatille, pass-flower, flaw-flower.
  • Pulsation, a knocking, thumping, or beating.
  • Pulte, a poultice.
  • Pulverin, the touch-hole of a piece of Ordnance.
  • Pulvinaire, a bolster for a Princes bed; also a banquetting Bed made in the Roman Temples to the honour and for the ease of their Gods.
  • Pulviné, furnished with cushions, or pillows.
  • Pumice, pierre pumice, a Pumice-stone.
  • Punaisie, stink, or stench.
  • Punctille, as pointille in the N. D.
  • Punction, a pricking, or stinging; also a pointing.
  • Punctual, for punctuel, punctual.
  • Punctuation, Punctué, & Punctuer. See ponctuation, ponctué, and ponctuer in the N. D.
  • Punesie, Pleurisy.
  • Pupe, the fish Pourcontrel.
  • Pupilaire, pupillary, of, or belonging to a Pupil.
  • Pupilarité, nonage.
  • Pupine, the name of an apple.
  • Puput, a Whoop, or Dunghil-cock; also a kinde of frog.
  • Puputer, to whoop, or cry like the Whoop.
  • Purer, for suppurer, to grow unto a head, or mattar; to yield mattar.
  • Purge, a Purge; also a clearing, or justification, or the endeavour which a delinquent uses to purge himself.
  • Purgement, a purging.
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  • Purificatif, purifying.
  • Puron, a botch, or blain full of or∣dure or filthy mattar.
  • Pusillanime, pusillanimous, coward∣ly.
  • Pusillanimement, cowardly.
  • Pusillanimité, pusillanimity, coward∣liness.
  • Pussons, the small green flies that lie cluttering under the leaves of herbs, and within a while devour them.
  • Pustuleux, blistered, or full of bli∣sters.
  • Putanier, as Putier.
  • Putasser, to follow whores.
  • Putasserie, a whoring, or wenching.
  • Puteal, of a pit; deep as a pit.
  • Puterbe, an Hermit (or any other) whose breath is tainted by much feeding on herbs.
  • Puterie, as putasserie.
  • Putier, a Wencher, a Whoremonger.
  • Putoir, a stink, or rank smell; a Wencher; or as
  • Putois, a Fitch, or Fulmart.
  • Putput, as puput.
  • Putredineux, full of rottenness.
  • Putride, rotten, putrified.
  • Putte, a Wench, or a whorish Lass.
  • Puye, as appuye.
  • Puyne, as puinne.
  • Py, as pis.
  • Pyafer, or Pyapher, for piaser, to be stately, to carry it proudly.
  • Pype-pou, the round-rooted Crow-foot.
  • Pygmé, little, of a small stature.
  • Pyment, as piment.
  • Pynthe, for pinte, a pint.
  • Pyralide, a Fire-fly.
  • Pyrate, & Pyraterie, as Pirate, Piraterie in the N. D.
  • Pyratique, Pyratical; of, or belong∣ing to a Pirat.
  • Pyronomie, the art of governing or ordering Alchymistical fires.
  • Pyrope, a kinde of fiery-red Car∣buncle.
  • Pyrotechnie, the making of Fire∣works.
  • Pyrothique, caustick, and corro∣sive.
  • Pyrouët, for volant, a shittlecock.
  • Pyrouëtte, as pirouëtte.
  • Pyvoine, for pivoine, Peony.
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