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121. panāde n.

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A long knife or dagger.

122. pannāǧen v.

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To release (swine) in a forest to feed on acorns, etc.

123. perambulāciǒun n.

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A journey or tour of inspection; maken perambulacioun, to walk around the borders of a territory in order to establish its boundaries.

124. pēte n.(2)

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(a) A peat, piece of peat; counten at on pete, to respect (sb.), give a straw for; (b) pete gardin, an area of land used for cutting peat; pete hous, a building for storing peats; pete hous dore; pete

125. pichtel n.

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(a) A small, enclosed piece of land; a pightle; (b) in place names; -- often preceded by the genitive of a personal name.

126. pikāǧe n.

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(a) A toll paid at a fair or market, usually for breaking up ground for a booth; (b) the right to collect such a toll.

127. pilfre n.

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(a) Despoiling, plundering; (b) spoils, booty, plunder; nimen (taken) pilfre, to take spoils; taken pilfre of, despoil or strip (dead soldiers).

128. pilocelle n.

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A plant with hairy leaves, mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella).

129. pire adj.

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?Fiery.

130. pit n.

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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is…

131. planching ger.

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The construction of floors, flooring; planching bord, flooring board.

132. plānisperīe n.

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A celestial map made by projection of a portion of the heavenly sphere on a plane.

133. plater n.

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A platter, charger; plate, dish; also fig.; plater molde, a mold for casting pewter platters.

134. plaunche n.

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(a) A large board, a plank; also, as surname; (b) plaunche(s bord, planking, planks; plaunche(s nail, nails for fastening planks.

135. plauncher n.

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(a) A plank, beam; also, planking, beams; (b) a wooden floor, floor made of planks.

136. pliris n.

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A medicinal ointment.

137. plūriēs n.

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Law A third writ of attachment, issued when the first and second prove ineffectual; writ of) pluries capias.

138. podōrius n.

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Mus. ?The hypodorian mode.

139. poffǒun n.

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(a) Any of various sea-birds of the family Alcidae, a puffin; (b) ?as surname.

140. pōke n.

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(a) A sack, pouch, bag [in some quots. perhaps a measure of quantity, but see quot.: a1500]; pissinge poke, provande poke, sond poke [see pissinge, provende, sond]; (b) a full, elongated type of…