PEA 
PEA 
The pangs of death do make him grin; 
Difturb him not, let him pafs peaceably. Shakefpeare. 
PEACE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: forty 
miles fouth of Goorackpour. 
PEACEFUL, adj. Quiet; not in war ; a poetical word: 
That rous’d the Tyrrhene realms with loud alarms, 
And peaceful Italy involved in arms. Dryden. 
Pacific ; mild: 
The peaceful power that governs love repairs 
To feaft upon foft vows and lilent pray’rs. Dryden. 
Undifturbed ; Hill; fecure : 
Succeeding monarchs heard the fubjedls’ cries, 
Nor faw difpleas’d the peaceful cottage rife. Pope. 
PEACEFULLY, adv. Without war. Quietly ; with¬ 
out difturbance : 
Our lov’d earth ; where peacefully we flept, 
And far from heaven quiet pofieflion kept. Dryden. 
Mildly; gently. 
PE'ACEFULNESS, f Quiet ; freedom from war or 
difturbance, 
PE'ACELESS, adj. Wanting peace ; difturbed : 
Terrours, which with nature war, affright 
Our peacslefs fouls : the world hath loft its light : 
Heaven, and the deep below, our guilt purfue. Sandys. 
PEACH, f. [ peche , Fr. a contradlion of Perficum 
( malum underftood), or Perfica (arbor). A tree and 
fruit originally brought from Perfia into Italy. See 
Amygdalus.] — September is drawn with a chearful 
countenance : in his left hand a handful of millet, withal 
carrying a cornucopia of ripe peaches, pears, and pome¬ 
granates. Peachatn. 
The funny wall, 
Prefents the downy peach. Thomfon's Autumn. 
To PEACH, v. n. [corrupted from impeach .] To accufe 
of fome crime.—When man and wife fall to peaching, 
what foul loathes it not ? Whateley's Bride-Bujh, 1617.— 
If you talk of peaching, I’ll peach- fit ft, and fee whofe oath 
will be believed. Dryden. 
To PEACH, v. a. To accufe.— Peche men of treafon 
prevyly T can. Old Mor.of IIy eke Scorner. 
PE'ACH-COLOURED, adj. Of a colour like a peach. 
— One Mr. Caper comes to jail at the fuit of Mr. Three- 
pile the mercer, for fome four fnits of peach-coloured 
fattin, which now peaches him a beggar. Shakefpeare's 
Mens, for Meas. 
PEACH-I'SLAND, an ifland of Canada, in Lake St. 
Clair, containing about 100 acres of land fit for tillage; 
the reft meadow and marfli. ' ■ 
PE'ACHAM, a poft-town of America, in Caledonia 
county, Vermont, weft of Barnet, on Connecticut river; 
containing 1301 inhabitants. 
PE'ACHAM (Henry), author of a book, entitled 
“The Complete Gentleman,” publilhed in the reign of 
James I. It treats of “ nobilitie in generall; of dignitie 
and neceflitie of learning in princes and nobilitie; the 
time of learning ; the duties of parents in their children’s 
education; of a gentleman’s carriage in the univerfitie ; 
of ftile in fpeaking, writing, and reading hiftory ; of 
cofmography ; of memorable obfervation in the furvey 
of the earth ; of geometry; of poetry; of muficke; of 
ftatuesand medalls; of drawing and painting in oyle ; of 
lundry blazonnes both ancient and modern ; of armory 
or blazing armes; of exercife of body; of reputation and 
carriage; of travaile; of warre; of filhing.” He was 
certainly a man of general knowledge, good tafte, and 
acute obfervation. He refided a confiderable time in 
Italy, where he learnt raulic of Orazio Vecchi. He was 
intimate with all the great mailers of the time at home; 
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many on the continent. His opinions concerning their 
works are very accurate, and manifeft great knowledge 
of all that was underftood at the time relpefting practical 
raulic. He feems to have been a travelling tutor, for 
which he appears to have been particularly well qualified. 
But with all his accomplilhments, he is faid to have been 
reduced to poverty in his old age, and chiefly to have 
fubfifted by writing little penny books, which are the 
common amnfement of children. 
PEACHER, /’. An accufer.—Certain thieves that were 
named “ appellatores,” accufers or peacliers of others that 
were guiltlefle. Fox's Acts and Mon. 
PE'ACHICK, J'. The chick of a peacock.—Does the 
fnivelling peachich think to make a cuckold of me ? 
Southern. 
PEACOCK, J'. [Of this word the etymology is not 
known : perhaps it is peak- cock, from the tuft of feathers 
on its head ; the peak of women being an ancient orna¬ 
ment : if it be not rather a corruption of beau-coy, Fr. 
from the more linking luftre of its fpangled train. See 
Pavo.] A fowl eminent for the beauty of his feathers, 
and particularly of his tail.—The birds that are hardeft to 
be drawn, are the tame birds; as cock, turky-cock, and 
peacock. Peacham. 
Let frantick Talbot triumph for a while ; 
And, like a peacock, fweep along his tail. Shahejpcare. 
PEACOCK (Reginald), a worthy prelate, was fuc- 
ceflively bilhopof St. Afaph and of Chichefter, by favour 
of Humphrey, the good duke of Gloucefter; but he was 
depofed for refilling the papal authority, and denying the 
doftrine of tranfubftantiation, with other articles of the 
Roman-catholic faith. He was not equal to fuffering in 
a righteous caufe, but recanted his notions, and his books 
were publicly burnt. He then retired to an abbey, pro¬ 
bably mortified and afhamed of his timidity, where he 
died about the year 1+86. 
PEA'GE DE PIZAN^ON', a town of France, in the 
department of the Drome, on the fouth fide of the Ifere, 
oppofite Romans. 
PEAHEN, f. The female of the peacock. 
PEAK,yi [Sax. pique, pic, Fr.) The top of a hill or 
eminence: 
Thy lifter feek 
Or on Meander’s bank or Latrnus’ peak. Prior. 
Any thing acuminated : 
He has mew’d your head, has rubb’d the fnow oft’, 
And run your beard into apeak of twenty. Beaum. and FI. 
The rifing forepart of a head-drefs. 
To PEAK, v. 71. [ pequaio , Span, little.] To look 
fickly : 
Weary fe’nnights, nine times nine, 
Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine. Shahefpeare's Macbeth. 
To make a mean figure ; to fneak.—The peaking cornufo 
her hulband, dwelling in a continual larum of jealoufy, 
comes me in the inftant of our encounter. Shakefpeare. 
Why Hand’ll thou here, 
Sneaking, and peaking, as thou would’ft Heal linen ? 
Beaum. and FI. Wild Gooje Chafe. 
PEAK, a mountain of England, which gives name to 
a diftrift, in the county of Derby, between the Derwent 
and the Dove, which laft river feparates it from Stafford- 
Ihire. It is mountainous, rocky, and barren ; but abounds 
in mines of lead, iron, coal, and antimony ; mill-ftones 
and grind-ftones are likevvife dug here. The Wonders 
of the Peak, as they are ftyled, have been deferibed fuc- 
ceflively under the articles Bakeyvell, Buxton, and 
Derbyshire. 
PEAKE BA'Y, a bay on the fouth coaft of Jamaica. 
Lat. 17. 59. N. Ion. 76. 58. W. 
PE'AKIRK, a village of England, in the county of 
Northampton, between Pafton and Market Deeping in 
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