'A's got a power of plaguy long spikes all auver's body.'—Wilts Tales, p. 118.
Powlts. (1) Peas and beans grown together.—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) (2) See Poult and Polt.
*Poyn. To pen sheep (D.).
Prawch. To stalk, to swagger. 'I see un come a prawchin' along up the coort.'—N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.)
Preterites. A few specimens may be given, as craup, or crope, crept; drowd, threw; flod, flew; fot, vot, or vaught, fetched; hod, hid; hut, hit; lod, led; obloge, obliged; raught, reached; scrope, scraped; slod, slid; woc, awoke; seed, seen, saw.
Pretty-money. Coins, such as old George-and-dragon crowns, or new Jubilee pieces, given to a child to keep as curiosities, not to be spent.—N.W.
Pride. (1) The ovary of a sow.—N.W. *(2) The mud lamprey (H.).
'Petromyzon branchialis. L., ... in the southern part of England is locally known as the Pride.'—Seeley, Fresh-water Fishes of Europe, p. 427.
'Lumbrici ... are lyke to lampurnes, but they be muche lesse, and somewhat yeolowe, and are called in Wilshyre prides.'—Elyotes Dictionarie, 1559, quoted by Hal.
Primrose soldiers. Aquilegia vulgaris, L., Garden Columbine.—N.W. (Huish.)
*Prin it. Take it (A.H.Wr.).—N.W.