Glossary.
Letter P
- PACK
- to practise unlawful confederacy
- PACK
- a number of people confederated
- PADDOCK
- a toad
- PAID
- punished
- PALABRAS
- words, a cant term, from the Spanish
- PALE
- to enclose
- PALL
- to wrap as with a pall
- PALLED
- impaired
- PALMER
- one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having made a pilgrimage to Palestine
- PALMY
- victorious
- PARCELLED
- belonging to individuals
- PARD
- the leopard
- PARITOR
- an apparitor
- PARLE
- talk
- PARLOUS
- perilous
- keen, shrewd
- PARTED
- endowed, gifted
- PARTIZAN
- a pike
- PASH
- the face
- PASH
- to strike violently, to bruise, crush
- PASS
- to practise
- To surpass expectation
- PASSANT
- a term of heraldry, applied to animals
- represented on the shield as passing by at a trot
- PASSING
- surpassingly, exceedingly
- PASSION
- to have feelings
- PASSIONATE
- to suffer
- PASSY-MEASURE
- a kind of dance
- PASTRY
- the room where pastry was made
- PATCH
- a mean fellow
- PATCHED
- dressed in motley
- PATCHERY
- trickery
- PATH
- to walk
- PATHETICAL
- affected, hypocritical
- PATIENT
- to make patient, to compose
- PATINE
- the metal disc on which the bread is placed in the administration of the Eucharist
- PATTERN
- to give an example of
- Afford a pattern for
- PAUCA VERBA
- few words
- PAUCAS
- few, a cant word
- PAVIN
- a dance
- PAX
- a small image of Christ
- PAY
- to despatch
- PEAT
- a term of endearment for a child
- PEDASCULE
- a pedant, schoolmaster
- PEER
- to peep out
- PEIZE
- to balance, weigh down
- PELTING
- paltry
- PERDU
- lost
- PERDURABLE
- durable
- PERDY
- a euphemism for Par Dieu
- PERFECT
- certain
- PERFECT
- to inform perfectly
- PERIAPTS
- charms worn round the neck
- PERJURE
- a perjured person
- PERSEVER
- to persevere
- PERSPECTIVE
- a telescope, or some sort of optical glass
- PEW-FELLOW
- a comrade
- PHEEZE
- to comb, fleece, curry
- PIA-MATER
- the membrane covering the brain, the brain itself
- PICK
- to pitch, throw
- PICKED
- chosen, selected
- PICKING
- insignificant
- PICKT-HATCH
- a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives
- of Windsor
- PIED
- motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a jester
- PIELED
- shaven
- PLIGHT
- pitched
- PILCHER
- a scabbard
- PILL
- to pillage
- PIN
- a malady of the eye
- The centre of a target
- PINFOLD
- a pound, a place to confine lost cattle
- PIONED
- digged
- PLACKET
- a petticoat-front
- PLAIN SONG
- a simple air
- PLAITED
- intricate
- PLANCHED
- made of boards
- PLANTATION
- colonizing, planting a colony
- PLAUSIVE
- plausible
- PLEACHED
- interwoven
- POINT
- a lace furnished with a tag by which the breeches were held up
- POINT-DE-VICE
- faultless
- POISE
- balance
- Doubt
- POLLED
- bare
- POMANDER
- a perfumed ball
- POMEWATER
- a kind of apple
- POOR-JOHN
- a herring
- POPINJAY
- a parrot
- PORT
- pomp, state
- PORT
- a gate
- PORTABLE
- bearable
- PORTANCE
- conduct, behavior
- POSSESS
- to inform
- POTCH
- to push violently
- POTENT
- a potentate
- POUNCET-BOX
- a box for holding perfumes
- POWER
- forces, army
- PRACTISE
- wicked stratagem
- PRACTISANT
- a confederate
- PRANK
- to dress up
- PRECEPT
- a justice's summons
- PRECIOUSLY
- in business of great importance
- PREGNANCY
- fertility of invention
- PREGNANT
- fertile of invention
- Ready
- Obvious
- PRENOMINATE
- to name beforehand, to prophesy
- PRE-ORDINANCE
- old-established law
- PRESENCE
- the presence-chamber
- High bearing
- PREST
- ready
- PRETENCE
- design
- PRETEND
- to portend
- To intend
- PREVENT
- to anticipate
- PRICK
- the mark denoting the hour on a dial
- PRICK
- to incite
- To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the name
- PRICK-SONG
- music sung in parts by note
- PRICKET
- a stag of two years
- PRIDE
- heat
- PRIG
- to steal
- PRIME
- rank, lecherous
- PRIMER
- more-important
- PRIMERO
- a game at cards
- PRINCIPALITY
- that which holds the highest place
- PRINCOX
- a coxcomb
- PRISER
- a prize-fighter
- PROCURE
- to bring
- PREFACE
- interj. much good may it do you
- PROFANE
- outspoken
- PROGRESS
- a royal ceremonial journey
- PROJECT
- to shape or contrive
- PROMPTURE
- suggestion
- PRONE
- ready, willing