pointure, n.f., (print.) point; (of shoes) size.
poire, n.f., (bot.) pear; weight (of a steel-yard). — d’angoisse; choke-pear. Entre la — et le fromage; at dessert. — à poudre; powder-horn, powder-flask. Garder une — pour la soif; to lay up something for a rainy day. —s secrètes; pear-bit (of a bridle). — de Messire Jean; a kind of very sweet pear.
poiré, n.m., perry.
poireau or porreau, n.m., (bot.) leek; (vet.) wart.
poirée, n.f., (bot.) white beet.
poirier, n.m., pear-tree.
pois, n.m., (bot.) pea, peas, pease. Cosse de —; pea-cod. — ramés; branch peas. — carrés; marrow-fats. — chiches; chick-peas; dwarf pea. — cassés; split peas. — verts or petits —; green peas. Il donne un — pour avoir une fève; he gives a sprat to catch a herring.
poison, n.m., poison, venom.
poissard, -e, adj., vulgar, low. Style —; Billingsgate style.
poissarde, n.f., fishwoman, fish-fag; low or vulgar woman.