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 Peace-and-Plenty. A kind of small double white garden Saxifrage. S.W. 
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_ Peakid, Peaky, Picked, Picky. Wan or sickly-looking. N.W. 
Peart. (1) Impertinent. (A.) NW. 
(2) In good health. “ How be’ee?” “Oh, pretty peart, thank’ee.”N.& S.W. 
(3) Clever, quick, intelligent. S.W. 
(4) Stinging, sharp, as a blister. 8.W. 
Peck. (1) 2. A pickaxe. N. & S.W. 
(2) v. To use a pickaxe, N. & S.W. 
(3) v. Of a horse, to trip or stumble: also Peck-down. N.W. 
Pecky. Inclined to stumble. ‘“Th’old hoss goes terr’ble pecky.” N.W. 
Peel. (1) A lace-making pillow. (A.B.) A little “ Peel lace” is still made 
about Malmesbury. 
*(2) The pillow over the axle of a waggon. (D.) 
(3) The pole, with a flat board at end, for putting bread into the oven. N.W. 
Pelt. Rage, passion. (A.) ‘A come in, in such a pelt.” N.W. 
Perkins. The same as Ciderkin. N.W. 
~ Perk up. To get better, to brighten up. . S.W. 
~Peth. ‘The crumb of bread. N.W. 
Pethy. Crumby, as “a pethy loaf.” N.W. 
Pick. (1) A haymaking fork (A.B.D.), a stable-fork (D.). Pick=pitch, as 
in pitch-fork (Skeat.) N. & S.W. 
(2) The fruit of the sloe. 
a Picked (two syll.). (1) Sharp- pentet Piggid on Som. bord. “That 
there prong yunt picked enough.” N. & S.W. 
(2) With features sharpened by ill-health. N.W. 
2s -Pickpocket. Capsella Bursa-pastoris, L., Shepherd’s Purse. N.W.(Enford.) 
—*Pie- -curr, Fuligula cristata, Tufted Duck. (Birds of Wilts, p.190.) 8.W. 
Pigs. See Boats. S.W. (Hants bord.) 
a ig-all, Pig-haw. Fruit of the hawthorn. (A.) Peggles (Jefferies, 
Marlborough Forest, etc.) NW 
Pig-berry. Fruit of the hawthorn. N. & S.W. 
Pig-nut. (1) Bunium flewuosum, With., Earth-nut. N. & S.W. 
(2) The very similar root of Carum Bulbocastanum, Koch., Tuberous 
Caraway. N.W., occasionally. 
q Pig-potatoes. Small potatoes, usually boiled up for the pigs. N. & S.W. 
a3 ig-weed. Symphytum officinale, L., Comfrey. N.W. (Enford.) 
ai imrose. A primrose. Also used in Hants. N. & S.W. 
