P.

_Paladore_, a traditional name of Shaftesbury, the British _Caer Paladr_,

said by British history to have been founded by _Rhun Paladr-bras_,

'Rhun of the stout spear.'

_Pank_, pant.

_Par_, to shut up close; confine.

_Parrick_, a small enclosed field; a paddock--but paddock was an old

word for a toad or frog.

_Pa'sels_, parcels. _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Peärt_ (1, 4), pert; lively.

_Peaze_, _Peeze_ (2), to ooze.

_Peewit_, the lapwing.

_Pitch._ _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Plesh_, (2) _Plush_ (a hedge), to lay it.

To cut the stems half off and peg them down on the bank where they

sprout upward.

To plush, shear, and trim a hedge are sundry handlings of it.

_Plim_, to swell up.

_Plock_, a hard block of wood.

_Plow_, a waggon, often so called.

The plough or plow for ploughing is the Zull.

_Plounce_, a strong plunge.

_Pluffy_, plump.

_Pont_, to hit a fish or fruit, so as to bring on a rotting.

_Pooks._ _See_ Haÿmeäkèn.

_Popple_, a pebble.

_Praïse_ (5, 1), prize, to put forth or tell to others a pain or ailing.

"I had a risèn on my eärm, but I didden praïse it," say anything

about it.

_Pummy_, pomice.

_ps_ for _sp_ in clasp, claps; hasp, haps; wasp, waps.

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