Glossary. 
Pestring, 53/11, v. being in the way 
or troublesome. ‘* Amzfestrer, to 
pester, intricate, intangle, trouble, 
incomber.”—Cotgrave. 
Petigree, 118/11, s. pedigree, genea- 
logy. 
Pewter, 85/11, s. pewter vessels. 
Philip and Jacob, 51/1. The feast of 
Saints Philip and James, Ist May. 
Phraies, 113/8, s. phrase, language. 
Pickle, 56/17, s. condition, state. 
Piddling, 56/48, v. ‘‘ going about pre- 
tending to work but doing little or 
nothing, as after illness a man is 
said to go piddling about, though 
as yet unable to do much.”— Halli- 
well. 
Pie, 63/3, s. magpie. 
Piggen, 16/14, s. pigeons. 
Pike, 17/15, s. a pitching fork with two 
or three prongs for cocking corn 
not put into sheaves. 
Pilch, 15/39, v. pr. ¢. pilfer. 
Filchers. 
Pilcrowe, page 2, s. the mark 4. 
“* Pylcrafte in a booke, asteriskus.” 
—Prompt. Parv. 
Pilferie, 9/4, s. theft, fraud. O. Fr. 
pelfrer, to plunder. 
Pinched, 10/30, ff. in straitened cir- 
cumstances, in need or want. 
Pinching, 9/6, aaj. extreme, pressing. 
Pinching, 97/3, s. economy. 
See also 
Pinwood, 17/20, s. pegwood, z.e. wood 
that does not split, for making 
wooden pins or pegs of. 
Pionées, 45/16, s. g/. The peony. 
Peonia corallina. The seeds of 
this plant were used as a spice, and 
also as a medicine. See note in 
Liber Albus, p. 351. 
Pismier, 110, s. ant. 
Pitch and pay, 113/24, pay ready money. 
Placing, 56/32, v. arranging, stacking. 
Plagards, 113/6, s. #7. commissions, in- 
struments. 
Planked, 17/2, Ap. boarded. 
Plantine, 44/10, s. Plantain. The 
Water-plantain was formerly re- 
garded as a specific against hydro- 
phobia: from Jlanta, sole of the 
foot, from the shape of the leaf. 
Plash, 36/15, v. zp. to lower and 
narrow a broad-spread hedge by 
partially cutting off the branches 
and entwining them with those left 
behind. “ P/esser, to plash, fould, 
Sie) 
to bow, or plait young branches 
one within another ; also to thicken 
a hedge, or cover a walke, by 
plashing.”—Cotgrave. In 36/15 it 
means to ~leach down a hedge over 
the burrow, so as to protect it. 
Pleasure, 7/6, v. to please. 
Plight, 16/34, s. condition. 
Plot, 9/7, s. piece of ground, farm. 
Plot, 12/1, s. plan, rule. 
Plough Monday, 90/2. The Monday 
next after Twelfth Day. See note. 
Ploughstaff, 17/11, s. an instrument 
like a paddle for cleaning a plough, 
or clearing it of weeds, stalks, etc. 
Plowmeat, 47/12, s. food made of corn. 
Plowwrite, 58/5, s. plough wright. 
Plump, 19/41, v. 2g. throw in. 
Pod, 17/6, s. ‘‘a box or old leather 
bottle nailed to the side of the cart 
to hold necessary implements, or 
perhaps grease.” —Mavor. Cf. Ped. 
Poke, 16/3, s. a bag, sack, ‘‘ buy a pig 
in a poke” =to buy without seeing 
what one is buying. 
Poling, 35/45, s. supporting with poles. 
Pollard, 19/16, s. a mixture of bran 
and meal. 
Pollenger, 35/13, s. pollard trees, brush- 
wood. 
Pompions, 41/7, s. 7. pumpkins. Fr. 
pompon. 
Poppie, 45/17, s. poppy. A.S. papie. 
Poret, 39/31, s. a scallion ; a leek or 
small onion. O. Fr. porette. Lat. 
porrum ; called Forrectes in the 
Forme of Cury, p. 41. 
Porkling, 19/34, s. young swine. Cf. 
Bulchin, q.v. 
Posie, 97/1, s. a poetical inscription. 
Udal writes it pozsee. ‘* There was 
a superscription or fozsee written 
on the toppe of the crosse.’””—St. 
Luke, c. 23. 
Pot, 15/43, s. the pot for cooking pur- 
poses. 
Pottage, 76/2, s. pottage, soup. Fr. 
potage. 
Pottle, 21/12, s. a pottle, a measure of 
two quarts. 
Pouch, 62/16, s. pocket, purse. 
pocca. 
Poucheth, 35/46, v. pr. ¢. pockets. 
Pound, 1138/21, v. fight, beat. 
*Powlinges, 66, s. A/. the branches or 
shoots of pollard trees. Still called 
Pollengers. 
A.S. 
