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  Verrue pensile. A great wart that hangs but by a small thread, or root.

Pension: f. A pension, stipend, fee; an yerelie payment; also, money payed for the tabling, or boording of children, &c.

Pensioniste: m. A Pensioner.

Pensionnaire: com. A Pensioner; one that hath, or payeth, an yearelie pension; also, a tabler, or boorder; also, a Scholler, who lyes within a Colledge, and is tied, and subiect, onely vnto it; therein differing from Galloche, who lying abroad, is at more libertie.

Pensionné: m. ée: f. Pensioned, stipended, hired by pension, that takes an yearelie stipend.

Pensiveté: f. Pensiuenesse, carke, sorrow, heauinesse.

Pent d'un rets. A whole pane, peece, or fould of a Net. La figure hexagone à six pents. Hauing six Cants.

Pentagone: com. Fiue-cornered.

Pentametre: m. A Pentameter, or verse consisting of fiue feet.

Pentaphylle. Cinkefoyle, Cinkefield, Fiue-finger grasse, Fiue-leaued grasse.

Pente: f. The declining, downeward bent, slopenesse, or slope-hanging of a hill, ditch, roofe, &c; also, a peece of hanging; also, an inclining towards a fall. Les pentes d'vn lict. The Valance. Donner de pente à. (In wrastling) to giue an aduantage vnto.

Penteur: m. A Penant; the name of one of the ropes which passe ouer the top, or vpper part, of a Mast.

Penthiere. as Panthiere. Penture: f. The hindge of a doore.

Penule: f. A long cloake fit to be worne in rainie weather.

Penurie: f. Penurie, scarcitie, need, necessitie, dearth, lacke, want.

Peone: f. Peonie, Kings-bloome, Rose of the Mount.

Pepelon: m. The nipple of a dug.

Pepetiller. To crackle, or sparkle often.

Pephage. Looke Pamphage. Pepiant: m. ante: f. Cheeping, peeping, puling, or crying like a young bird; also, lisping.

Pepie: f. The Pip.

Pepiement: m. The cheeping, or peeping of yong birds; any such puling noise; also, a lisping, or faultering in speech.

Pepier: m. as Pepiement. Pepier. To peepe, cheepe, or pule, as a young bird in the neast; also, to lispe. Pepier de soif. The tongue to peele by reason of an extreame thirst.

Pepieur: m. A peeper, cheeper; puler.

Pepin: m. A Pippin, or kernell; the seed of fruit. Les pepins des raisins. The stones of grapes. Or de pepin. Looke Or. Pepinerie: f. A Seed-plot, Nurserie, Nursing Orchard, or part of an Orchard, wherein the pippins, kernells, or stones of fruit be sowen.

Pepiniere: f. as Pepinerie. Pepin-percé. (The name of) a certaine drie sweet apple.

Pepon: m. A Pompion, or Melon. Pepon Turquois. as Pompon Turquois. Pepré: m. ée: f. Peppered; seasoned with Pepper.

Pequatille: f. A Peccadillo; or as Peccadille. Peque: f. A mare.

Per: m. as Pair; A Peere; or Paragon; also, a match, make, fellow, companion; also, a paire, at game; also, a

game at Cards wherein foure rewes be laid; one for a paire; the second for most of a suit; the third for flush; and the fourth for a sequence. Per à compaignon. A Peere, match, mate, equall fellow, comerade. Per ou non per. The game called Euen and odde. Il entend bien son per. He vnderstands well ynough what he goes about. Pris à per et à la couche. as in Pris. Peragration: f. A peragration, going about, wandering through, trauelling ouer.

Peramese: f. A Ninth, or a proportion of nine, in Musicke.

Peratre. as Parastre. Perattendre. To attend throughly, or seasonably; to attend vntill he haue a fit opportunitie; whence; Mal attend que ne perattend: Prov. Perce: f. as Percement; also, that kind of Loach which hath a prickle neere vnto either of her gills. Mettre le vin en perce. To pierce, or broach wine.

Percé: m. ée: f. Pierced, bored, gored, thrust into, or through; transfixed; open, full of holes, or windowes. Chaire percée. A close stoole.

Perce-fueille: f. Through-wax, through-leafe; (an hearbe.)

Percele. Blew-bottle, Blew-blaw, Corne-flower.

Perce-lettre: f. The little instrument wherewith Secretaries make ouertures for the labells with which they close their letters.

Percellé: m. ée: f. Pierced, strucken; ouerthrowne, beaten downe; abated, abashed, appalled; vexed, troubled.

Percement: m. A piercing, boring, or goring; a thrusting into, or through.


Perc'-oreille. (The worme, or Insect called) an Earewig.

Perce-pain. as Perce-oreille. Percepceux: m. euse: f. (fruicts percepceus.) Taken, gathered, receiued.

Percepierre: f. (A generall name for most stone-breaking hearbes; but chiefly for those which we call) Saxifrage, and Samphire. Percepierre rouge. Red Saxifrage, Filipendula, Dropwort.

Perceptible: com. Perceptible; perceiuable, apprehensible, sensible; also, takeable, gatherable, receiuable.

Perception: f. A perception; a perceiuing, apprehending, vnderstanding; also, a gathering, taking, receiuing, of.

Percer. To pierce, gore, transfix; thrust into, bore through. Percer vne maison. To breake open, or into, a house. Percer le mors. A horse to thrust his tongue with ease, and at libertie, vnder the Port of his Bit.

Percet: m. A Peach.

Perceu: m. euë: f. Taken, gathered, receiued.

Perche: f. A pearch to hang things, or set Hawkes, on; also, the Pearch-fish; also, the Beame of a Bucks head, and, the broach of a Stags; also, the pearch, pole, or big rod wherwith land is measured; and which though it contain not, all France ouer, one and the same number of feet (for in some places it is 20, in others 22, in others 25, and in others but 18 (the most generall, and most vsuall one) yet is it euerie where six faddomes, or Toises, the different scantling wherof, causes so great a difference of Perches, in seuerall places.
  Les perches d'un boue sauvage. The head, or hornes of a wild Goat.