P

P

• • Pack

  • to practise unlawful confederacy

  • Pack

  • a number of people confederated

  • Paddock

  • a toad

  • Paid

  • punished

  • Palabras

  • words, a cant term, from the Spanish

  • Pale

  • to enclose

  • Pall

  • to wrap as with a pall

  • Palled

  • impaired

  • Palmer

  • one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having
    made a pilgrimage to Palestine

  • Palmy

  • victorious

  • Parcelled

  • belonging to individuals

  • Pard

  • the leopard

  • Paritor

  • an apparitor

  • Parle

  • talk

  • Parlous

  • perilous
    keen, shrewd

  • Parted

  • endowed, gifted

  • Partizan

  • a pike

  • Pash

  • the face

  • Pash

  • to strike violently, to bruise, crush

  • Pass

  • to practise
    To surpass expectation

  • Passant

  • a term of heraldry, applied to animals
    represented on the shield as passing by at a trot

  • Passing

  • surpassingly, exceedingly

  • Passion

  • to have feelings

  • Passionate

  • to suffer

  • Passy-measure

  • a kind of dance

  • Pastry

  • the room where pastry was made

  • Patch

  • a mean fellow

  • Patched

  • dressed in motley

  • Patchery

  • trickery

  • Path

  • to walk

  • Pathetical

  • affected, hypocritical

  • Patient

  • to make patient, to compose

  • Patine

  • the metal disc on which the bread is placed in
    the administration of the Eucharist

  • Pattern

  • to give an example of
    Afford a pattern for

  • Pauca Verba

  • few words

  • Paucas

  • few, a cant word

  • Pavin

  • a dance

  • Pax

  • a small image of Christ

  • Pay

  • to despatch

  • Peat

  • a term of endearment for a child

  • Pedascule

  • a pedant, schoolmaster

  • Peer

  • to peep out

  • Peize

  • to balance, weigh down

  • Pelting

  • paltry

  • Perdu

  • lost

  • Perdurable

  • durable

  • Perdy

  • a euphemism for Par Dieu

  • Perfect

  • certain

  • Perfect

  • to inform perfectly

  • Periapts

  • charms worn round the neck

  • Perjure

  • a perjured person

  • Persever

  • to persevere

  • Perspective

  • a telescope, or some sort of optical glass

  • Pew-fellow

  • a comrade

  • Pheeze

  • to comb, fleece, curry

  • Pia-mater

  • the membrane covering the brain, the brain
    itself

  • Pick

  • to pitch, throw

  • Picked

  • chosen, selected

  • Pickers

  • (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously

  • Picking

  • insignificant

  • Pickt-hatch

  • a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives
    of Windsor

  • Pied

  • motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a
    jester

  • Pieled

  • shaven

  • Plight

  • pitched

  • Pilcher

  • a scabbard

  • Pill

  • to pillage

  • Pin

  • a malady of the eye
    The centre of a target

  • Pinfold

  • a pound, a place to confine lost cattle

  • Pioned

  • digged

  • Placket

  • a petticoat-front

  • Plain Song

  • a simple air

  • Plaited

  • intricate

  • Planched

  • made of boards

  • Plantation

  • colonizing, planting a colony

  • Plausive

  • plausible

  • Pleached

  • interwoven

  • Point

  • a lace furnished with a tag by which the
    breeches were held up

  • Point-de-vice

  • faultless

  • Poise

  • balance
    Doubt

  • Polled

  • bare

  • Pomander

  • a perfumed ball

  • Pomewater

  • a kind of apple

  • Poor-john

  • a herring

  • Popinjay

  • a parrot

  • Port

  • pomp, state

  • Port

  • a gate

  • Portable

  • bearable

  • Portance

  • conduct, behavior

  • Possess

  • to inform

  • Potch

  • to push violently

  • Potent

  • a potentate

  • Pouncet-box

  • a box for holding perfumes

  • Power

  • forces, army

  • Practise

  • wicked stratagem

  • Practisant

  • a confederate

  • Prank

  • to dress up

  • Precept

  • a justice's summons

  • Preciously

  • in business of great importance

  • Pregnancy

  • fertility of invention

  • Pregnant

  • fertile of invention
    Ready
    Obvious

  • Prenominate

  • to name beforehand, to prophesy

  • Pre-ordinance

  • old-established law

  • Presence

  • the presence-chamber
    High bearing

  • Prest

  • ready

  • Pretence

  • design

  • Pretend

  • to portend
    To intend

  • Prevent

  • to anticipate

  • Prick

  • the mark denoting the hour on a dial

  • Prick

  • to incite
    To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the
    name

  • Prick-song

  • music sung in parts by note

  • Pricket

  • a stag of two years

  • Pride

  • heat

  • Prig

  • to steal

  • Prime

  • rank, lecherous

  • Primer

  • more-important

  • Primero

  • a game at cards

  • Principality

  • that which holds the highest place

  • Princox

  • a coxcomb

  • Priser

  • a prize-fighter

  • Procure

  • to bring

  • Preface

  • interj. much good may it do you

  • Profane

  • outspoken

  • Progress

  • a royal ceremonial journey

  • Project

  • to shape or contrive

  • Prompture

  • suggestion

  • Prone

  • ready, willing

  • Proof

  • strength of manhood

  • Propagate

  • to advance, to forward

  • Propagation

  • obtaining

  • Proper-false

  • natural falsehood

  • Propertied

  • endowed with the properties of

  • Properties

  • scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre

  • Property

  • to take possession of

  • Propose

  • to suppose, for the sake of argument
    To converse

  • Propose

  • conversation

  • Prorogue

  • to defer

  • Provand

  • provender

  • Provision

  • forecast

  • Pucelle

  • a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc

  • Pudency

  • modesty

  • Pugging

  • thieving

  • Pun

  • to pound

  • Purchase

  • to acquire, win

  • Purchase

  • gain, winnings

  • Put

  • to compel

  • Putter-on

  • an instigator

  • Putter-out

  • one who lends money at interest

  • Putting-on

  • instigation

  • Puttock

  • a kite