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Pack-an-Penny-Day. s. The last day of a fair when bargains are usually sold. [Pack, and sell for pennies.]
Parfit. adj. Perfect.
Parfitly. adv. Perfectly.
To Par'get. v. a. To plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar of cowdung and lime.
Par'rick. s. A paddock.
To Payze. v. a. To force, or raise up, with a lever.
To Peach. v. a. To inform against; to impeach.
Peel. s. A pillow, or bolster.
To Peer. v. n. To appear.
Pen'nin. s. The enclosed place where oxen and other animals are fed and watered; any temporary place erected to contain cattle.
Pick. s. A pitch-fork: a two pronged fork for making hay.
Pigs-Hales. s. pl. Haws; the seed of the white thorn.
Pigs-looze. s. A pigsty.
Pilch, Pilcher. s. A baby's woollen clout.
Pill-coal. v. A kind of peat, dug most commonly out of rivers: peat obtained at a great depth, beneath a stratum of clay.
Pil'ler. s. a pillow.
Pilm. s. Dust; or rather fine dust, which readily floats in air.
Pink. s. A chaffinch.
Pip. s. A seed; applied to those seeds which have the shape of apple, cucumber seed, &c.; never to round, or minute seeds.
To Pitch. _v. a. To lay unhewn and unshaped stones together, so as to make a road or way.
To Pitch, in the West of England, is not synonymous with to pave. To pave, means to lay flat, square, and hewn stones or bricks down, for a floor or other pavement or footway. A paved way is always smooth and even; a pitched way always rough and irregular. Hence the distinguishing terms of Pitching and Paving.
Pit'is. adj. Piteous; exciting compassion.
Pit'hole. s. The grave.
To Pix, To Pixy. v. a. To pick up apples after the main crop is taken in; to glean, applied to an orchard only.
Pix'y. s. A sort of fairy; an imaginary being.
Pix'y-led. part. Led astray by pixies.
Plâd. v. Played.
Pla'zen. s. pl. Places.
To Plim. v. n. To swell; to increase in bulk.
Plough. s. The cattle or horses used for ploughing; also a waggon and horses or oxen.
Pock'fredden. adj. Marked in the face with small pox.
To Pog. v. n. and v. a. To thrust with the fist; to push.
Pog. s. A thrust with the fist; a push; an obtuse blow.
Pollyantice. s. Polyanthus.
To Pom'ster. v. n. To tamper with, particularly in curing diseases; to quack.
Pont'ed. part. Bruised with indentation. Any person wkose skin or body is puffed up by disease, and subject to occasional pitting by pressure, is said to be ponted; but the primary meaning is applied to fruit, as, a ponted apple; in both meanings incipient decay is implied.
Pook. s. The belly; the stomach; a vell.
Popple. s. A pebble: that is, a stone worn smooth, and more or less round, by the action of the waves of the sea.
Pottle-bellied. adj. Potbellied.
To Pooät, To Pote. v. a. To push through any confined opening, or hole.
Pooät-hole, Pote-hole. s. A small hole through which anything is pushed with a stick; a confined place.
Pooäty. adj. Confined, close, crammed.
Port'mantle. s. A portmanteau.
Poti'cary. s. An apothecary.
To Poun. v. To pound [to put into the pound, to "lock up">[.
A Power of rain. A great deal of rain.
Pruv'd. v. Proved.
To pray. v. a. To drive all the cattle into one herd in a moor; to pray the moor, to search for lost cattle.
Prankin. s. Pranks.
Pud. s. The hand; the fist.
Pulk, Pulker. s A small shallow-place, containing water.
Pull-reed. s. [Pool reed.] A long reed growing in ditches and pools, used for ceiling instead of laths.
Pultry. . Poultry.
Pum'ple. adj. Applied only, as far as I know, in the compound word pumple-voot, a club-foot.
Put. s. A two-wheeled cart used in husbandry, and so constructed as to be turned up at the axle to discharge the load.
Pux'ie. s. A place on which you cannot tread without danger of sinking into it; applied most commonly to places in roads or fields where springs break out.
Pwint. s. Point.
Pwine-end \
} The sharp-pointed end of a house, where the
wall rises perpendicularly from the foundation.
Pwinin-end./
Py'e. s. A wooden guide, or rail to hold by, in passing over a narrow wooden bridge.