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paigles. In Suffolk the Cuckoo 
flower. See note. 
Paier, 17/13, s. pair, couple. 
Paine, 3/1, s. pains, trouble. 
Painfull, 77/15, adj. painstaking, care- 
ful 
Painfull, 2/13, adj. full of trouble, re- 
quiring care. 
Painted, 5/3, #f. adorned ; the sermo 
ornatus of Cicero. 
Paltrie, 57/30, adj. poor, worthless. 
Panel, 17/5, s. a pannier. A fannel 
and fed have this difference : the 
one is much shorter than the other, 
and raised before and behind, and 
serves for smaller burdens ; the 
other is longer and made for Bur- 
dens of Corn. These are fastened 
with a leathern Girt called a 
‘Wantye.—T.R. 
Parasites, 10/27, s. #4. 
hangers on. 
Pare, 2/7, v. injure, damage, impair. 
Pared, 46/4, 2. cleaned and cleared of 
all superfluous roots. 
Partition, page 2, s. division. 
Pas, 48/6, v. pr. ¢. care. ‘‘ As for these 
silken-coated staves, I ass not.” — 
Shakspere, 2 Henry VI. iv. 2. 
Pask, 46/2, s. Easter. Lat. Pascha. 
Passeth, 102/3, v. gy. ¢. think, reflect. 
See Pas. 
Pasties, 90/7, s. p/. pies. 
Patch, 51/32, s. originally a fool, jester, 
here = the farm labourer. _ Ital. 
pazz0, which Florio (‘‘ New Worlde 
of Wordes”’) defines as ‘‘ foolish, 
fond, mad, rash, doting, rauing or 
simple. Also a foole, a gull, an 
idiot, a mad man, a naturall.” By 
some, however, it is derived from 
the patched or motley coat of the 
jester. 
Patches, 53/2, s. #7. places where the 
shearer has cut the skin of the 
sheep, wounds. é 
Pates, 63/9, s. 7. persons. 
Pauncies, 43/24, s. pansies, heartsease. 
‘“*There’s pansies, that’s for 
thoughts.”” — Shakspere, Hamlet, 
flatterers, 
iv. 5. 
Pay, 77/11, v. pay home =give a strong, 
sharp blow. 
Peake, 67/27, v. to look thin or sickly, 
“‘Dwindle, feak and pine.”— 
Shakspere, Macbeth, i. 3. 
Pearch, 87/5, v. perch, roost. 
Glossary. 
Peasebolt, 18/38, s. ‘* pease in the Hawm 
or Straw.” —T.R. 
Peaseetch, 19/5, s. the aftermath of a 
crop of peas. See Etch. 
Peasefed, 18/27, adj. fed on peas. 
Peason, 53/9, s. £/. pease. 
“ Prick Jeason and beanes, if thy garden 
At gases Af the moone, and in beauti- 
ful skye.” 
Almanack, 1615. 
Peccantem, 35/28. See note. 
Peck, 17/12, s. a peck measure. 
Ped, 17/5, s. a pannier, a large capa- 
cious basket, in which fowls, eggs, 
fish, etc., are hawked about the 
country. Peder, a small farmer 
(Lincoln), ‘‘ Pedde, idem quod 
panere, calathus.’”—Prompt. Parv. 
“‘ Pedder, vevolus, mnegociator.’— 
Cathol. Anglic. See also Halli- 
well, sub. voc. 
Peeces, 2/7, s. pieces, in parts. 
Peele, 75/6, v. strip. ‘‘Peler. To bauld, 
or pull the haire off ; also to pill, 
pare, barke, unrinde, unskin,”— 
Cotgrave. 
Peeler, 35/51, s. an impoverisher. 
Peeling, 33/51, s. impoverishing. 
Pelfe, 55/1, s. apparatus, implements. 
Peneriall, 39/29, s. penny-royal. AZentha 
pulegium, from Lat. puleium re- 
gium, through Dutch Zo/ey, in the 
old Herbals called pzlzol royal ; its 
Latin name being derived from 
its supposed efficacy in destroying 
fieas (pulices). See Pliny (b. xx. 
cap. 54). 
Penie, 2/13, s. penny, money. 
Penurie, 9/6, s. destitution, want. 
Perareplums, 34/18, s. £7. some variety 
of plum either lost or unknown (if 
not a misprint). 
Perceley, 39/28, s. parsley. A.S. Zeter- 
selige. Lat. petroselinum. 
Percer, 17/6, s. a piercer, gimlet. 
Perie, 18/48, s. perry. 
Perle, 96/28, s. pearl, jewel, ornament. 
Perseneps, 41/8, s. 47. parsnips. Spelt 
in the old herbals Pasvzep and Past- 
nip, from Lat. pastinaca. 
Pester, 48/14, v. overcrowd with stock, 
abbreviated from O.Fr. empestrer = 
to entangle the feet or legs, to em- 
barrass, from Fr. fastwvon, L. Lat. 
pastorium, a fetter by which horses 
are prevented from wandering in 
the pastures. 
