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Peepers, c. Eyes.

Peepy, c. Peeping, c. Drowsy, Sleepy. As the Cull Peeps let's Mill him, c. when the Man is a Sleep, let's Kill him.

Peery, c. fearful, shy, sly. The Cull's Peery, c. the Rogue's afraid to venture.

Peeter, c. a Portmantle or Cloak-bag. Bite the Peeter, c. to whip off the Cloak-bag. Biter of Peeters, c. one that makes a Trade of whipping Boxes and Trunks from behind a Coach or out of a Waggon, or off a Horse's Back.

Pea-goose, a silly Creature.

Peg at Cocks, to throw at them at Shrovetide. Gon to Pegtrantums, Dead.

Pel-mel, helter-skelter,

Pelt, a Heat or Chafe 'f' or 's' here. Could be either depending on interpretation? ]. What a Pelt you are in? what a Chafe your in? Also the Dead Body of any Fowl the Hawk has killd.

Pelts, Beast Skinns. Pelting~village, Blind, Obscure. Penelope's Web, to do and undo. Pennance-bord, c a Pillory. Pennites, that Faction of Quakers that follow most and are in the Interest of William Pen, the chief Proprietor and Governor of Pensylvania, a Country lying betwixt Forty and Forty five Degrees of Latitude, in America, much improv'd, and like to florish. Penny-worth. I'll fetch my-Pennyworth out of him, or make him earn what he cost me. Penny-white, said of her, to whom Fortune has been kinder than Nature. Penny-wise and Pound-foolish, Sparing in a little and Lavish in a great Deal, save at the Spiggot and let it out at the Bung-*hole. A Penny-worth for one's Penny, for what is worth one's Money. To get a Penny, to endeaver to Live; to turn and