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Practise, 73/13, s. practice, experience. 
Practisie, 19/5, s. conduct, practices. 
Praies, 113/18, s. praise. 
Prating, 64/27, s. talking, chattering. 
Pray, 113/25, s: prey, booty, plunder. 
Preferment, 10/57, s. advancement, 
assistance. 
Prentise, 92/4, v. apprenticeship, busi- 
ness. 
Prentiships, 60, s. f/. periods of seven 
years, that being the duration of 
an apprenticeship, or ’prenticeship. 
Prest, 56/43, adj. ready. 
Prest, 63/7, aaj. neat, tidy. Tusser 
Redivivus says, ‘‘ An old word for 
Neat or Tight; I suppose comes 
from women being stvazt-laced.” 
Ital. presto. O. Fr. prest, Fr. prét. 
Prest, 49/8, Ap. pressed. Fr. presser. 
Pretie, 86/7, aa. pretty, dainty. <A.S. 
pretiz. 
Preuenting, 10/62, gv. Z. anticipating. 
Lat. prevenire, to go before. 
Price, 113/16, s. renown, high estima- 
tion. Lat. pretium. 
Pricketh, 77/22, v. gr. ¢. makes proud 
or puffs up. 
Pricking, 67/16, v. embroidering, doing 
fancy work. 
Pride, 19/12, s. excessive richness. ‘‘ The 
ground having his fv7de abated in 
the first crop.”—G. Markham. 
Prie, 35/15, s. privet. 
Prim, 15/42, s. another name for the 
‘privet ;”’ called also ‘‘ primwort.” 
Prime, 14/3, s. the time of the new 
moon, as change is the time of the 
full moon. 
Prime grass, 35/18, s. earliest grass. 
See footnote. 
Priuie, 10/12, aaj. aware, acquainted. 
Priuie, 15/42, s. privet. Lzgustrum 
vulgare. 
Procureth, 64/3, v. gv. ¢. contrives, 
brings about. 
Promooters, 64/11, s. £/. informers. 
Prooue, 46/1, v. zm. try, have some 
experience of. 
*Prouision, 4, foresight. Lat. Arovidere. 
*Pullein, 37, Pullen, 87/5, s. 4/7. poultry, 
fowls. ‘* Pullayne, poullane, Zoz/- 
laille.” — Palsgrave. See also 
Pulter. 
Pullet, 63/16, s. chicken. 
Pulter, 21/9, s. fowl keeper or breeder. 
“© Poullailler, m. a poulter or 
keeper of pullaine.”—Cotgrave. 
Glossary. 
Pultrie, 21/9, s. poultry. 
Purkey Wheat, 19/17, maize. 
Purloiners, 10/54, s. f/. thieves, pil- 
ferers. Spelt ‘‘/roloiners ” in edit. 
of 1577. 
Purse penniles, 10/28, adj. a purse 
without a penny, empty pursed. 
Purslane, 40/10, s. water purslane. 
Portulaca domestica. — Gerard’s 
Herball, ed. 1633. From forcellus, 
a little pig; the plant being a 
favourite food of swine. 
Put to, 10/30, v. place. 
Puttocks,’. 38/33, s. f/. kites, hawks. 
“ Puttok, bryd, #z/vus.’”’—Prompt. 
Parv. In 99/3 the meaning is, vo- 
racious fellows. 
Q. 
Quaile, 15/34, v. fail. 
Quaile, 91/6, s. be shaken. 
Quamier, 33/56, s. quagmire, bog. O. 
Eng. quavemire. 
Queenes_ gilleflowers, 43/27, s. the 
Dame’s Violet, also called Rogue’s 
or Winter gilliflower. Hesferis 
matronalts, L. 
Queere, 113/6, s. choir. ‘* Queere, 
chorus.” —Cath. Anglicum. 
Quickset, 18/33, s. quickset hedge. 
Quick setted, 85/45, ff. enclosed with 
a quickset hedge. 
Quieter, 63/22, adv. more easily, quietly. 
Quight, 114/2, adv. completely, en- 
tirely. 
Quite, 15/7, v. gr. ¢. requite, repay. 
R. 
Rabetstock, 17/20, s. a rabbet-plane, a 
joiner’s tool for cutting rabbets. 
Rable, 22/17, s. crowd, number. 
Rage, 113/35, adj. wild, dissipated. 
Raise, 9/16, v. stir up. 
Rampions, 40/12, s. rampion, vapun- 
tium.—Gerard’s Herball. 
Ranke, 53/17, adj. strong, rank. 
Ranker, 10/6, s. ill-feeling, quarrelling. 
Raskabilia, 10/54, s. packs of rascals. 
Cf. Mid. Eng. rascaille. ‘‘ Rascalye, 
or symple puple, A/ebs.”—Prompt. 
arv. 
Ratling, 19/34, s. the rattle. 
Rawing, 16/25,.5. the aftermath of a 
Meadow Water.—T.R. ‘‘ Raweyne, 
