Packing of Parties and Elections. A common Pack-horse, a Hackney or common Drudge, one made a Slave of.
Pad, c. the High Way, and a Robber thereon; also a Bundle. Rum Pad, c. a daring or stout Highway-man. Paddington-Fair, c. an Execution of Malefactors at Tyburn; also a real Fair at the Village of that Name, near that Place. Goes upon the Pad, or a Padding, c. Robbs upon the High-*way. A Pad, an easy Pacing Horse. Padds, worn by the Women to save their Sides from being Cut or Mark'd with the Strings of their Petty-coats.
Pageant, a thing Drest up and set out to make a Show. A Piece of Pageantry, a thing that makes a Figure in a Show or Play, as Play-house Kings and Generals Strut and Stalk upon the Stage. Pain, not in Pain, not in Care or Concern.
Painter, the Rope that lies in the Ship's Long-*boat, or Barge, alwaies ready to Fasten her, or Hale her on Shoar. I'll Cut your Painter for ye, I'll prevent ye doing me any Mischief; the Tar-Cant, when they Quarrel one with another. What pleases the Painter, when any Representation in the Productions of his or any Art is unaccountable, and so is to be resolv'd purely into the good Pleasure of the Artist.
Pale of the Church, in or out of the Church's Enclosure.
Pall'd, Flat, Dispirited, or Dead Drink.
Pallet, a little Bed; also the Receiver of the Painter's Colours mingled, as the Shells are of his several Colours unmingled; also one half of the Pale in Heraldry.
Palm, the Attire of a Buck.
