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Peincturer. To picture, to paint.

Peindre. To paint, picture, pourtray; counterfeit, colour, or set out in colours; to delineate, or describe; also, to write. Peindre à fraiz. Looke Fraiz. Peindre. és nuées. To attempt impossibilities, or to loose time. Cela est pour nous achever de peindre. There wanteth but that to the filling vp of our misfortunes measure; that being once done we are vtterly vndone.

Peine: f. A paine, penaltie, forfeiture, punishment; also, paines, labour, toyle, swinke, trauell; indeuor; also, paine, trouble, restlesnesse, affliction, anguish, vexation, carke, thought. Peine de faux. Death; Looke Faux. Peine de hart. Hanging. À peine. Scant, scarcely, hardly, not without much adoe. I'ay peine à le croire. I can hardly beleeue it. C'est grand'peine d'aller à cheval, & vne mort d'aller à pied: Prov. A toyle it is to ride, a death to goe on foot. C'est grand'peine que d'estre vieux, mais il ne l'est pas qui veut: Prov. Though it be painefull to be old, yet each one is not so that would. Nuls bien sans peine: Prov. No goods (or good thing) without griefe. Nul pain sans peine: Prov. &, Rien sans peine: Prov. Nor bread, nor ought is gotten without paines. Qui d'autruy tromper se met en peine, souvent luy advient la peine: Prov. Hee that doth labour other to beguile, payes oftentimes full deerely for his wile.

Peiner. Looke Pener. Peintre. as Peinctre. Peinture: f. as Peincture. Pejorer. To impaire; to make, or grow worse.

Peis. as Poisson; A fish: ¶Gascon; & Provençal; whence; Peis d'auriou. A Mackerell. Peis carpa. The sea Carpe; See Carpe. Peis escome. The sea Pike, or Spit-fish. Peis espase. The sea Fox, or sea Dog-fish. Peis de mesnage. as Belenne. Peis mular. The huge fish called a Whirlepoole. Peis rey. The Kings fish; or, as Maigre. Peis: m. The breast, &c; as Pis. Pel: m. as Peau; also, lome, dawbing, or plaister for the walls of a house.

Pelade: f. The falling of the haire.

Pelage: m. Hairinesse; haire; also, the colour of the haire.

Pelain: m. A Tanners lime-pit.

Pelamide. as Palamide. Pelard: m. A round, and pilled, or barked sticke.

Pelasse: f. The pilling of the skin; also, the paring of an apple, &c; also, the rinde, or barke of a tree.

Pelaudé: m. ée: f. Thwacked, swindged, canuassed, curried; vsed roughly, intreated rudely.

Pelauder. To thwack, swindge, belabour, canuasse, cudgell, currie soundly; to vse roughly, intreat hardly, handle rudely.

Pelauderie: f. A thwacking, a swindging, a canuassing, or cudgelling; rude handling, hard dealing with, rough intreatie of; also, filthie matter, beastlie, or ouglie stuffe.

Peldure. The name of a certaine hard-skind fig.

Pele: m. The boult of a locke.

Pelé: m. ée: f. Pild, hairelesse, bauld; also, pilled, flayed; barked.

Pelegrin. as Pelerin. Pelement: m. A pilling; a pulling off the haire; a paring, or barking of.

Peler. To bauld, or pull the haire off; also, to pill, pare, barke, vnrinde, vnskinne. Il en pelera la prune. He will smart, or be plagued, for it; he is like to haue the worst of it. Aller, & venir font le chemin peler: Prov. Much trauelling makes bad way. Nul ne pele son fromage qui n'y ait honte, ou dommage: Prov. No man pares his cheese without shame, or losse.

Pelerin: m. A Pilgrim, Palmer, wanderer, way-faring man; a traueller in a strange countrey; also, a fantasticall, giddie, harebraind, or odde-humored fellow; also, a kind of long-winged, small-trained, and great-headed Faulcon; and (more generally) the Faulcon tearmed a Passenger. Dieu sçait qui est bon pelerin: Prov. God knowes who's a good Pilgrim; the hearts of Pilgrims are best knowne to God. Le rouge soir, & blanc matin, font resjouïr le pelerin: Prov. The euening red and morning gray, are hopefull signes of a faire day.

Pelerin: m. ine: f. Peregrine, forraine, strange, way-*faring, wandering. Faulcon Pelerin. A Paßenger; or, as before in Pelerin. Pelerinage: m. A Peregrination, or Pilgrimage.

Pelerinant: m. ante: f. Peregrinating, wandering, or going on Pilgrimage.

Pelerine: f. A Pilgrimesse; a woman that goes on Pilgrimage. Pelerine de Venus. A punke, a whore.

Pelet: m. A little haire. Ie ne l'en estime vn pelet moins. I thinke not a iot the worse of him for it.

Pelican: m. The bird called a Pellican; also, a Snap, or Dog; the toole wherewith Barbers pull out teeth.

Pelication: f. A depilatorie, or pitchie plaister seruing to pull off haire.

Pelice: f. A skin of furre.

Pelicé: m. ée: f. Furred.

Pelicieux: m. euse: f. Penne pelicieuse. A dissolute, wanton, or lasciuious penne.

Pelis: m. The short wooll, or growth of wooll, vpon sheep which haue beene shorne some little time before, pulled from their fells by the Tawyer, &c.

Pelisse. as Pelice. Pelisson: m. A furd petticoat, or frocke; also, a kind of white meat much vsed in Poictou. Pellage. Looke Pelage. Pelle: m. The boult of a locke.

Pelle: f. as Paelle; also (in some parts of France) as Robbe. Pellebosse: f. Loosse-strife, Willow hearbe, or hearbe Willow.

Pellerelle: f. The shooting, or falling of the haire (by disease, or infirmitie.)

Pellet: m. The 24 part of a Prime; (an exceeding small weight;) Looke Prime. Pelleterie: f. The trade, or shop of a Skinner, Furrier, or Peltmonger.

Pelletier: m. A Skinner, Fellmonger; Furrier; whence;
  En fin les regnards se trouvent chez le pelletier: Prov. At length doe subtiltie, and villanie meet with their meed.