PANTER. A hart: that animal is, in the Psalms, said to
pant after the fresh water-brooks. Also the human
heart, which frequently pants in time of danger. CANT.
PANTILE SHOP. A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting
house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also
a cock-pit.
PANTLER. A butler.
PAP. Bread sauce; also the food of infants. His mouth is full of pap; he is still a baby.
PAPER SCULL. A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
PAPLER. Milk pottage.
PARELL. Whites of eggs, bay salt, milk, and pump water, beat together, and poured into a vessel of wine to prevent its fretting.
PARENTHESIS. To put a man's nose into a parenthesis: to pull it, the fingers and thumb answering the hooks or crochets. A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison.
PARINGS. The chippings of money. CANT.
PARISH BULL. A parson.