Prussian Blue. After its inventor, Diesbach of Berlin, in 1710.
Prussic Acid. Originally the acid of “Prussian Blue,” but nowadays obtained from cyanide of iron.
Pye Street (Old and New). See “[New Way].”
Pymmes Park. This new suburban “lung” at Edmonton comprised the grounds in connection with the lordly mansion built by William Pymme, which was mentioned in 1593 as the residence of the great Lord Burleigh, and in 1612 as that of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
Pythagoreans. The school of philosophy founded by Pythagoras.
Public-house. A house of public resort for refreshment and conviviality. It may be either an inn or a tavern in the modern sense.
Pudding. From Stow’s description of “Pudding Lane” it would seem that the puddings of his day were scarcely edible productions. The word is derived from the Celtic poten, a bag, and was applied originally in the sense of a modern hog’s pudding or black pudding--to wit, a sausage.
Pudding Lane. Whether or not the Great Fire of London broke out in the house of the King’s baker, as generally stated, the lane did not receive its name from the royal bakery. Old Stow tells us it was so called “because the butchers of Eastcheap have their scalding-house for hogs there, and their puddings with other filth of beasts are voided down that way to their dung boats on the Thames.”
Pudding-time. The old name for “dinner-time,” because, as still is the custom in some parts of the country, the pudding was served before the meat.
Pueblo Indian. One who in the western states has been brought under Catholic influences, and lives in a village, where he subsists by agriculture. The word Pueblo is Spanish for village.