Sides for him, I Beat him soundly.
Pump, to wheedle Secrets out of any one; Bailives, Serjeants, Pick-pockets, &c. Pumpt dry, not a Word left to say.
Pun, to Play with Words and Sounds.
Punch, Brandy and Water, with Limes or Lemon-juice; also a thick short Man. Punch Nag, a short, thick, fat, squat, strong Horse.
Punch houses, Bawdy-houses.
Punchable, old passable Money, Anno 1695.
Punk, a little Whore.
Puny Child, weak little Puny Stomack. Puny Judge, the Junior or Youngest.
Pure, c. a Mistress.
Purest-pure, c. a Top-Mistress, or Fine Woman.
Pupil-mongers, Tutors at the Universities, that have many Pupils, and make a Penny of them.
Puritans, Puritanical, those of the precise Cut, strait-laced Precisians, whining (as Osborn saies) for a Sanctity God never yet trusted out of Heaven.
Purl, Worm-wood infus'd in Ale.
Purl-Royal, Canary with a dash of Wormwood.
Pursenets, c. Goods taken upon Trust by young Unthrifts at treble the Value; also a little Purse.
Purse-proud, haughty because Rich.
Pursy, Fuggy, Fat.
Pushers, Canary-birds new Flown that cannot Feed themselves.
Pushing School, a Fencing School; also Bawdy-house. At a Push, at a pinch or strait. At Push of Pike, at Defiance. Push-pinn, Childrens Play. To Push on one's Fortune, to advance, or run it up.
Put. A Country-Put, a silly, shallow-pated Fellow. Put to it, Beset.
