Pellican: m. as Pelican; also, a veßell of circulation, or extraction; a fashion of Lymbeck.
Pellicule: f. A little skinne, a small or thinne rinde.
Pelliculeux: m. euse: f. Full of little skinnes, or thinne rindes.
Pellucide: com. Bright, shining.
Pelon: m. Th' outmost rugged huske of a greene Chest-*nut.
Pelorde: f. A certain little, and thick-sheld Cockle, that liues, and lyes, altogether hid in the mud.
Pellosses: f. Bullace; or, little wild plummes.
Pelote: f. A (hand) ball, or tennis ball; any little ball to play with; See Pelotte. Peloter. To play at ball; also, to tosse like a ball.
Peloton: m. A clue, or (round) bottome of thread, &c.
Pelotte: f. as Pelote; also, a small casket to keepe rings in. Pelotte marine. A ball, or little bundle of haire, commonly found among mosse which the working of the sea hath cast ashore. Il iouë de moy à la pelotte. Hee tosses me vp and downe at his pleasure, he handles me as he lists himselfe.
Pelourde. as Pelorde. Pelouse: f. A Bullace, or Sloe; also, a little hill; also, the lower hazard in a Tennis-court; also, a womans priuities.
Pelouze. as Pelouse. Pelu: m. uë: f. Hairie, full of, rough with, haire. Pate peluë. See Patepeluë. Peluche: f. Shag, plush.
Peluette: f. The hearbe Mouse-eare.
Pelure: f. The pill, skin, rinde, or paring of fruit; also, the pilling, or white and inner rinde, of trees.
Pelusse: f. as Pelure, especially in the last sence.
Penade: f. A bounding, prauncing; bragging, vaunting, brauing it.
Penader. To bound, praunce; brag, vaunt, braue it; Looke se Pennader. Penaillons: m. Rags, tatters; patches, old clowts.
Penal: m. ale: f. Penall, inflicting penalties.
Penancier. as Penencier. Penard: m. A melancholie old man; a selfe-afflicting Menedemus; or a poore abashed fellow, whose head hangs continually downewards, either for shame, or as a true signe of his miserie; also, a feather, or plume of feathers; (and sometimes) also, as the Latine Penis; a mans yard.
Penates. ¶Rab. Houshold Gods.
Penault: m. A Bourgonian measure containing twelue Quarts. Penault: m. aude: f. Abashed, ashamed, out of countenance.
Pencer. Looke Pancher. Pencher. as Pancher. Penchon: m. A declining, or weightie inclining; weightie pressure, or a stooping, or bowing through weight.
Pend. de guet à pend. Wittingly, willingly.
Pendable: com. Hangable, that deserues hanging, thats fit to be hanged. Cas pendable. A hanging matter.
Pendage: m. A hanging.
Pendant: m. A pendant; a hanger; any thing that hangeth, or whereat another thing hangs.
Les pendans d'une bourse. The strings of a purse.
Pendant de clef. A key-clog; or the string whereat keyes are hanged.
Les pendants d'un Cor. The strings, and tassells of a Hutchet.
Pendant d'oreille de gibet. One that excellently becomes, or would become, a gibbet. Elle s'en va par le pendant. So say they of a purse whose strings are almost worne in peeces; alluding whereto they say likewise of one thats going, or like, to be hanged, Il s'en va par le pendant. Pendant: m. ante: f. Hanging; depending, suspended; stooping, declining, dangling or falling downwards. Seau pendant à double queuë. A Seale hanging by a double labell; and metaphorically, one that hangs on a paire of gallowes.
Pendant cela. (Aduerbially;) in the meane while, in the meane time, in the meane season. Pendant que. Whiles, or, the whilest, that. Ce pendant. Looke Cependant. Pendante: f. A labell pendant.
Pendard: m. A rakehell, crackrope, gallowclapper; one for whom the gallowes longeth.
Pendardeau: m. A little crackrope, young slipstring.
Pendement: m. A hanging.
Pendentif: m. The key or scutchion of a vault; that which hangs directly downe in the middle thereof. En pendentif. Steepe-hanging, steepe-downe; or as, À dos d'Asne, vnder Dos. Pendereau. as Pendardeau. Penderie: f. A hanging.
Pendesyllable: com. Of fiue sillables.
Pendiculation: f. A pendiculation; or, a stretching in th' approach of an Ague.
Pendillant: m. ante: f. Dangling, hanging loossely, or hanging but halfe.
Pendille. A thing that hangs danglingly.
Pendiller. To hang danglingly, loossely, or but by halues.
Pendiloches: f. Jags, danglings, or things that hang danglingly.
Pend-oreille. A Pendant.
Pendre. To hang, stoope, incline, or bow, downewards; to hang, dangle, fall, or lye downe, vpon; to hang, depend, rest, or stay, on; to hang ouer, about, or vnto; also, to hang, twitch vp, or strangle, on a paire of gallowes, &c. Pendre à l'oreille. Seeke Oreille. Dire pis que pendre. To reuile, or extreamly raile on. Il leur en pend autant à l'oeil. They are as much subiect vnto this mischief, they are in as great danger euerie way; they must one day drink of the same cup, tast of the same sauce, run the same course. Argent fait pendre les gens: Pro. Money brings many a man to the gallowes. Les gros larrons menent pendre les petits: Prov. as vnder Larron. Nul ne sçait ce qu'à l'oeil luy pend: Prov. No man knowes how neere he is to a mischiefe, or, what miserie may befall him. Ou rendre, ou pendre, ou mort d'enfer attendre: Prov. A thiefe must restore, or be hangd, or looke to be damd. Qui a à pendre n'a pas à noyer: Prov. He thats ordaind to be hangd will neuer be drownd (say we.) Qui plus qu'il n'a vaillant despend, il fait la corde à quoy se pend: Prov. He that dispends more then he hath, makes vp a rope his necke to swath.
Pendu: m. uë: f. Hanged; hanging. Langue bien penduë. A smooth, glib, eloquent, or well-speaking tongue. Procez pendu au croc. See Croc. Relasche de pendu. A graceleße crackrope, or, one for whom the gallowes grones.
Pene: m. The boult of a locke.
