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OWERWELT (a word difficult to define,) ; a (beep 

 which gets laid upon its back, in a hollow is laid to 

 be in an owerwelt. 



FAIT ; a badger. 



PALMS (pronounced pawns] j the male catkins of 

 the fallow, which are worn in the hat (if the feafon 

 permitj on Palm Sunday. Palm-crofts are alfo 

 made, on that day, of the twigs of the fame tree. 



To PAN j to frame or proffer, as a learner : " He 

 pans weel." 



PANKIN j any fmall earthen jar. 



PARING-AND-BURNING j burnbeating ; den- 

 fliering ; fodbu/ning. 



PARING-SPADE ; a breaft-plow. 



PAWKY ; arch ; cunning ; artful. 



To PEFF ; to cough (hort and faintly, asfhecp. 



PESSCOD-SCALDING ; a kind of merry-making, 

 in fummer-evenings : the treat, green field peas, 

 boiled in the {hells. 



To PET ; to indulge ; to fpoil by over-indulgence. 



PET ; a child fpoiltby improper indulgence. 



PET-LAMB ; a lamb reared by hand ; a cade lamb. 



To PICK j to pufh, or fhove, with the arms or bo- 

 dy : " He picked me down." 



To PICK-UP; to vomit. 



PICKS j the fuit of diamonds, in cards. 



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