_Pack_, 339. Agreement, and though not a mere variant of it, pact.
_Paire of cards_, 335. Our pack. So a pair-royal is composed of
three aces, kings, etc.
_Palme_, 268. See note.
_Passible_, 496. Passable, able to pass away, temporary.
_Peevishness_, 483. Foolishness. Greene seems sometimes to use the
adjective for perverse or rascally, _Planetomachia_, 40, 22—95, 18,
etc., ed. Grosart.
_Perbreake_, 310, or _Parbreak_. Vomit.
_Perceived_, 131. Seen through, truly understood.
_Periapts_, 230. Cf. text. Περιαπτω, I bind, wrap around, attach to.
_Perish_, 407. Causal sense, make to perish.
_Perspective_, 315, etc. Not our perspective, but the arrangement
of glasses and mirrors so as to show other things than you expect
to see, etc.
_Perspicuous_, _A_ v. Perspicacious.
_Philosophie, did_, 454. See note.
_Pile_, 385. Pile and crosse = our heads and tails.
_Pioners._ Diggers. The word is now confined to military diggers.
_Pitie_, 369. Verb used in causal sense.
_Plashes, water_, 64. Pools, puddles.
_Plumme_, 238. Was this word then used in this way? Scot was not
too squeamish. Cf. “etish”, p. 246, etc.
_Podware_, 223. Agricultural produce producing pods.
_Points_, 341. Tags or tying laces.
_Pollusions_, 447. Pollutions.
_Practive_, 326, marg. Able to practise readily, practised.
_Pregnancy_, 358. Ability to conceive or understand.
_Pregnant_, 75. Able to become pregnant.
_Prelacies_, 390. Wier’s _prælaturæ_ seems to have been used by him
generally, but Du Cange makes it specific as the office of a dean,
and Holyokes Rider as that of an archdeacon.
_Present_, 238. Immediate.
_Prest, in_, 360. In readiness, therefore in loan, in advance.
_Pretended_, 474. Latinate, set forth. Under 20 this is its main
meaning, but the sentence shows how it came to mean our pretend.
_Prevent_, 417. Latinate, come or go before. Its lapse into our
sense is well shown in 30.
_Progeny_, 32. Offspring. Noted because Shakespeare and others
sometimes used it as progenitors.
_Proposeth_, 361. Setteth forth.
_Proprieties_, 210, 303. Properties. So _Trevisa on Barthol._ 1379
(t. page, I think).
_Prove_, 255. _Proved_, 21. Try, attempt.
_Purchase_, 430. Obtain. The same usage (found in other authors)
shows that the thieves’ cant ridiculed in Shakespeare was but an
appropriation of this.