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.

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wall rises perpendicularly from the foundation.
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Py'e. s. A wooden guide, or rail to hold by, in passing over a narrow wooden bridge.