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Glossarial hidex. 



Peeke-wheate, s. peek-wheat, a kind 

 of poor wheat, 34/41. Cf. peeked, thin. 



Pees, s. pease, 10/ 14. See Pease. 



Pees-stubble, s. pea-stubble, 34/5. 



Pelte-rotte, s. rot in the fleece, 64/33. 



Penknyfe, s. penknife, 142/5. 



Penne, s. pen, I42/4. 



Pens, s. pi. pence, 54/io. 



Peny, s. penny, 36/ii. 



Peny-grasse, s. a kind of grasse that 

 never bears a flower, 54/8. It must 

 therefore be distinct from Rhinanthus 

 Crista-galli, also called penny-grass 

 by some ; see Old Country Words, 

 ed. Britten, p. 37. 



Perche, s. perch, 3o|^ sq. yards, I2/5. 



Perfyte, adj. perfect, I41/5. 



Perseth, /r. s. pierceth, 141/8. 



Peruse, v. to go through with, continue, 

 131/15 ; h?ip. s. 124/35 ; examine, 

 40/23 ; survey, 30/;. 



Perysshynge, s. piercing, 62/17. See 

 the note. 



Peter, St., I55/13. 



Peyhenne, s. peahen, 146/28. 



Peynes, s. pains ; a disease in a horse's 

 fetlocks, lll/i. 



Pikstaues, s. pi. pikestaves (but here 

 used, apparently, of a part of a cart, 

 possibly the supports of the shafts), 

 6/23. 



Pill, V. to peel, note to hhjxf). 



Plasshed, //. plashed, I21li<j. See 

 below. 



Plasshynge, s. plashing, 124/2. To 

 plash is to lower and close up a 

 broad-spread hedge, by partially 

 cutting off the branches, and entwin- 

 ing them with those left upright. 



Playster, s. plaister, 164/22. 



Pleched, pp. pleached, plashed, 127/22. 

 See Plasshynge. 



Pleytes, s. pi. plaits, folds, I5I/17. 



Ploughe-beame, s. plough-beam, 3/2, 9. 

 See note to 3/i. 



Ploughe-eare, s. plough-ear, 3/5, 42 ; 

 4/34. See note to 3/i. 



Ploughe-fote, s. plough-foot, 3/5, 38. 

 See note to 3/i. 



Plough-geare, s. instruments requisite 

 for ploughing, 6/45. 



Ploughehedde, s. the same as the share- 

 beam, 2/10. See Sharbeame. 



Ploughe-mal, s. plough-hammer or mal- 

 let, 3/6. See note to 3/i. 



Ploughe-shethe, s. plough-sheath, 2/3. 

 See note to 3/i. 



Plough-stylte, s. the right-hand handle 



of a plough, 3/21. See note to 3/i. 

 Ploughetayle, s. the left-hand and 



longer handle of the plough, 2/23 ; 



3/15, 19. 

 Ploughe-yren, s. plough-iron, iron part 



of a plough (share and coulter), 5/2 ; 



ploughe-yrons, //. 2/19. 

 Plowe, V. plough, 6/14. 

 Plowes, s. pi. ploughs, 2/r. 

 Plummes, s. pi. plums, 186/4, 140/i. 

 Plyenge, pres. pt. bending, 24/14. 

 Pockes, s.pl. pocks, pustules, a disease 



in sheep, 49/i. 

 Pole, 12/5. See Perche. 

 Polerd wheat, s. coarse wheat, pollard 



wheat, 34/23, So called because it 



has no awns : to poll is to clip, etc. 



See Pollard. 

 Poleyn, s. pi. poultry, fowls, 146/21. 

 Pollard, short-horned, said of a ram, 



note to 37/6. See Polerd. 

 Pommes, pumice, 142/4 J pomis, 100/6. 

 Ponch, s. punch, I39/9. 

 Pondre, v. to ponder, consider, 153/28. 

 Poores, s. pi. pores, 7O/26. 

 Popeler, s. poplar, 130/5. 

 Potte, s. pot ; good for the potte, good 



for boiling, I46/35. 

 Pottell, s. a pottle, two quarts, 44/8. 

 Potycarye, s. an apothecary, 120/8. 

 Pouertee, s. poverty, I47/15. 

 Pourpose, v. purpose, intend, '^Ijl^. 

 Poynte, s. a tagged lace, 142/5. 

 Practyue, s. practice, 4/29 ; practiue, 



141/21. 



Predication, s. preaching, I54/19. 



Prefixe, v. to fix beforehand, 157/^. 



Processe, s. relation, story, tale, 2/29, 

 120/13 ; in processe, in course of 

 time, 127/8. 



Profe, s. proof, I6I/24. 



Proferre, v. to put into, insert, I38/13. 



Profytablest, adj. superl. most profit- 

 able, 37/5. 



Promesse, s. promise, Xbllxd, 21. 



Propertie, s. method, I2/17. 



Prouander, j. ' provender, 23/ii. 



Proued, //. tried, 141/22, 23. 



Prycke-eared, pp. with sharply pointed 

 erect ears, 77/i. Cf. the phr. 'to 

 prick up one's ears.' 



Pulled,//, gathered, 146/41. 



Pursy, s. short-windedness (in a horse), 

 84/i. See Pursy in my Etym. Diet. 



Pursynes, j. short-windedness, 87/4. 



Put, V. push, 70/42. 



