passhen (A.S.) 431, _to crush_
pawme (A.N.) 356, _the palm of the hand_
pece (A.N.) 276, _a piece_
peeren (A.N.) 320, _make themselves equal_
peeren (A.N.) 11, _to appear_
pees (A.N.) _peace_. preide hem be pees, 405, _prayed them to be quiet_
peire (A.N.) _a pair_
peiren (A.N.) 50, _to diminish, injure_. _see_ apeiren
peis (A.N.) 91, _weight_
peisen (A.N.) 90, _to weigh_
pelure (A.N.) 420, _fur_
pens (A.S.) _pence_
peraunter (A.N.) 202, _peradventure, by chance_
percell, _pl._ parcelles (A.N.) 177, 220, 349, _a parcel, part_
percel-mele (A.N.) 48, _piecemeal_
percile (A.N.) 134, _parsley_
pere (A.N.) 139, _a peer, an equal_
perfourne (A.N.) 251, _to finish, complete, to furnish_
perillousli (A.N.) _dangerously, rudely_
y-perissed (A.N.) 359, _perished, destroyed_
perree (A.N.) 173, _precious stones, jewellery_
persaunt (A.N.) 24, _piercing_
person (A.N.) 441, _a parson_. personage, _a parsonage_
pertliche (A.N.) 78, _openly_
pese (A.N.) _pease_
petit (A.N.) _little_
picche (A.S.) 123, _to pick_
pie (A.N.) 150, _a magpie_
pik (A.S.) _a pike_
pikstaf (A.S.) 123, _a pike-staff_
piken (A.S.) _to pick_
pyke-harneys (A.N.) 440, _plunderers_
pykoise (A.N.) 61, _a hoe_
pil, pyl, _pl._ piles (A.S.) 331, 332, 417, _a pile_
+pilche (A.S.) 465, _a coat of hair or some rude material_. We find the
word used by Lydgate, ed. Halliwell, p. 154:--
Houndys for favour wyl nat spare,
To pynche his _pylche_ with greet noyse and soun.
And in Caxton's Reynard the Foxe, cap. v, Reynard having turned hermit,
bare "his slayvne and _pylche_, and an heren sherte therunder."
+pild (A.N.) 500, _bald_
pilen (A.N.) 422, _to rob_
pilour (A.N.) 371, 420, _a thief_
+pylion (A.S. ?) 500, _a kind of cap_
pyne (A.N.) peyne, _pl._ peynes, _pain, punishment_
pyne, 78. _See_ wynen
pynynge-stoole (A.S.) 47, literally, _a stool of punishment, a
cucking-stool_
pynne (A.S.) 442, _to bolt_
piones (A.N.) 95, _the seed of the piony_, which was used as a spice. In
the Coventry Mysteries (ed. Halliwell, p. 22) we find the word joined, as
here, with pepper:--
Here is pepyr, _pyan_, and swete lycorys,
Take hem alle at thi lykying
pyries (A.N.) 78, _pear-trees_
pisseris (A.N.) 438 (?)
pistle (A.N.) _an epistle_
pitously (A.N.) _piteously, for the sake of pity_
pleyen (A.S.) _to play_. _pret. s._ pleide, _pl._ pleiden
pleyn (A.N.) _full_
pleyne (A.N.) 53, _to commiserate, to complain, make a complaint_
plener (A.N.) 209, 336, _full, fully_
pleten (A.N.) _to plead_. _pret. pl._ pleteden, 140
platten (A.N.) _to fall or throw down flat_. _pret. s._ platte, 81
plot (A.N.) 263, _pl._ plottes, 265, _a patch_
plow-foot (A.S.) 123, _a part of a plough_
po (A.S.) 243, _a peacock_
+poynttyl (A.N.) 462, the signification of this word appears to be the
_square tiles_ used for paving floors. See Warton's Hist. of Engl. Poetry,
ii, 99
poke (A.S.) 150, 259, 275, 288, _a sack_
poken (A.N.) _to urge, push forwards, poke, thrust_
pol, 205, polle (A.S.) 261, 430, _a head, poll_
polshen (A.N.) 105, _to polish_
pondfold (A.S.) 346, _the pinfold or pound_
poraille (A.N.) _the poor people_
poret (A.N.) _pl._ porettes, 134, 135, _a kind of leek_
porthors (A.N.) 302, _a breviary_, (_portiforium_, Lat.)
pose (A.N.) 365, _to place, put as a supposition_
possen (A.N.) _to push_
potente (A.N.) 156, _a club, staff_
pouke (A.S.) 256, 285, 333, 346, _the devil_