Pack-an-Penny-Day. _s._ The last day of a fair when bargains
are usually sold. [_Pack, and sell for pennies._]
Parfit. _adj._ Perfect.
Parfitly. _adv._ Perfectly.
To Par'get. _v. a._ To plaster the inside of a chimney with
mortar of cowdung and lime.
Par'rick. _s._ A paddock.
To Payze. _v. a._ To force, or raise up, with a lever.
To Peach. _v. a._ To inform against; to impeach.
Peel. _s._ A pillow, or bolster.
To Peer. _v. n._ To appear.
Pen'nin. _s._ The enclosed place where oxen and other animals
are fed and watered; any temporary place erected to contain
cattle.
Pick. _s._ A pitch-fork: a two pronged fork for making hay.
Pigs-Hales. _s. pl._ Haws; the seed of the white thorn.
Pigs-looze. _s._ A pigsty.
Pilch, Pilcher. _s._ A baby's woollen clout.
Pill-coal. _v._ A kind of peat, dug most commonly out of
rivers: peat obtained at a great depth, beneath a stratum of clay.
Pil'ler. _s._ a pillow.
Pilm. _s._ Dust; or rather fine dust, which readily floats in
air.
Pink. _s._ A chaffinch.
Pip. _s._ A seed; applied to those seeds which have the shape
of apple, cucumber seed, &c.; never to round, or minute seeds.
To Pitch. _v. a. To lay unhewn and unshaped stones together, so
as to make a road or way.
_To Pitch_, in the West of England, is not synonymous with
_to pave_. _To pave_, means to lay flat, square, and
hewn stones or bricks down, for a floor or other pavement or
footway. A _paved_ way is always smooth and even; a
_pitched_ way always rough and irregular. Hence the
distinguishing terms of _Pitching_ and _Paving_.
Pit'is. _adj._ Piteous; exciting compassion.
Pit'hole. _s._ The grave.
To Pix, To Pixy. _v. a._ To pick up apples after the main
crop is taken in; to glean, applied to an orchard only.
Pix'y. _s._ A sort of fairy; an imaginary being.
Pix'y-led. _part._ Led astray by pixies.
Plâd. _v._ Played.
Pla'zen. _s. pl._ Places.
To Plim. _v. n._ To swell; to increase in bulk.
Plough. _s._ The cattle or horses used for ploughing; also a
waggon and horses or oxen.
Pock'fredden. _adj._ Marked in the face with small pox.
To Pog. _v. n._ and _v. a._ To thrust with the fist; to
push.
Pog. _s._ A thrust with the fist; a push; an obtuse blow.
Pollyantice. _s._ Polyanthus.
To Pom'ster. _v. n._ To tamper with, particularly in curing
diseases; to quack.
Pont'ed. _part._ Bruised with indentation. Any person wkose
skin or body is puffed up by disease, and subject to occasional
pitting by pressure, is said to be _ponted_; but the primary
meaning is applied to fruit, as, a _ponted_ apple; in both
meanings incipient decay is implied.
Pook. _s._ The belly; the stomach; a vell.
Popple. _s._ A pebble: that is, a stone worn smooth, and more
or less round, by the action of the waves of the sea.
Pottle-bellied. _adj._ Potbellied.
To Pooät, To Pote. _v. a._ To push through any confined
opening, or hole.
Pooät-hole, Pote-hole. _s._ A small hole through which
anything is pushed with a stick; a confined place.
Pooäty. _adj._ Confined, close, crammed.
Port'mantle. _s._ A portmanteau.
Poti'cary. _s._ An apothecary.
To Poun. _v._ To pound [to put into the pound, to "lock up"].
A Power of rain. A great deal of rain.
Pruv'd. _v._ Proved.
To pray. _v. a._ To drive all the cattle into one herd in a
moor; _to pray the moor_, to search for lost cattle.
Prankin. _s._ Pranks.
Pud. _s._ The hand; the fist.
Pulk, Pulker. _s_ A small shallow-place, containing water.
Pull-reed. _s._ [Pool reed.] A long reed growing in ditches
and pools, used for ceiling instead of laths.
Pultry. . Poultry.
Pum'ple. _adj._ Applied only, as far as I know, in the
compound word _pumple-voot_, a club-foot.
Put. _s._ A two-wheeled cart used in husbandry, and so
constructed as to be turned up at the axle to discharge the load.
Pux'ie. _s._ A place on which you cannot tread without danger
of sinking into it; applied most commonly to places in roads or
fields where springs break out.
Pwint. _s._ Point.