[126] Pam, Knave of Clubs, the highest card in the game of Loo, derived from “palm,” as “trump” from “triumph.”
[137] Partridge, a maker of prophetic almanacs, who was ridiculed by Swift as type of his bad craft.
[94b] Peakish hull, hill by the Peak of Derbyshire.
[19] Pose, catarrh. First English, gepósu.
“By the pose in thy nose,
And the gout in thy toes.”—Beaumont and Fletcher.
[88b] Prow, profit. Old French, prou, preu—“Oïl voir, sire, pour vostre preu i viens.”—Garin le Loharain.
[91a] Qu, Scottish = W. Quhair, where; quhois, whose; quheill, wheel; quha, quho, who; quhat, what.
[82a] Ray, striped cloth.
[151d] Rigwoodie, tough. Rigwiddie is the rope crossing the back of a horse yoked in a cart; rig, back, and withy, a twig. Applied to anything strong-backed.
[82c] Rise, “cherries in the rise,” cherries on the twig. First English, hris, a twig, or thin branch. The old practice of selling cherries upon shoots cut from the tree ended in their sale by pennyworths with their stalks tied to a little stick of wood. So they were sold in London when I was a boy.