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Perissable: com. Perishable, momentarie, looseable, or subiect vnto loße; which by ouer-long keeping will be spoyled, and lost.

Peristile: m. A cloister, walking place, or long entrie set about with pillars.

Peritoine: m. The inner thinne rind, kell, or skin wherewith the intralls be couered.

Perjure: com. Periured, forsworne.

Perle: f. A Pearle; an Vnion; also, a Berrie. Perle de compte. A Paragon; an orientall, or faire great Pearle. Herbe aux perles. Pearle-plant, Lichwall Gromell.

Perlé: m. ée: f. Rough, rugged, or not smooth; whence, Dragée perlée is opposed vnto Dragée vnie. Fil perlé. Hard-twisted thread. Tesse bien perlée. Whose Burre is well spotted, and curled.

Perles: f. The little spotted Curlings wherewith the Burre of a Deeres head is powdered.

Perlette: f. A small Pearle.

Perlon: m. A Rochet, Redfish, Gurnard, &c, (tearmed so in Xaintonge.)

Perlure: f. as Perles; or the Burre it selfe.

Permanable: com. Permanent, constant, remaining, durable, abiding.

Permanent. as Permanable. Permeable: com. Quickly running, or passing through.

Permettre. To permit, suffer, tollerate, beare with, wink at, giue libertie or way, graunt authoritie or power, vnto.

Permis: m. ise: f. Permitted, tollerated, suffered, borne with, winked at; also, licenced, or lawfull.

Permission: f. A permission, tolleration, sufferance; leaue, licence, allowance; (Permission s'octroye par le Roy pour vn temps, & tant que bon luy semblera, par lettres patentes addressées aux Maistres des Forrests.) Permistion: f. A mixing, mingling, tempering together.

Permutateur: m. A barterer, exchanger; alterer.

Permutation: f. Permutation, bartering, trucking, exchanging.

Permuter. To barter, trucke, exchange.

Pernicieusement. Perniciously, pestilently, mischieuously, noisomely, most hurtfully.

Pernicieux: m. euse: f. Pernicious, deadlie, mortall, destroying, most dangerous, mischieuous, noisome, hurtfull. Pernis. Pierres de pernis. as Parpaignes, or Perpins. Perons: m. Startups, high shooes; fishers boots; also, bags, powtches, or satchels of leather.

Peroration: f. A peroration; the conclusion of an Oration, applyed to the humors, or praying the fauors, of the Auditorie.

Perot. Looke Perrot. Peroximes. Fits of an ague.

Perpeigne. as Parpaigne; or Perpin. Perpendiculaire: com. Pependicular, downe-right, plumpe downe, directly downe.

Perpendiculairement. Perpendicularly.

Perpetrer. To perpetrate, act, commit.

Perpetuation: f. A perpetuation, or perpetuating.

Perpetuel: m. elle: f. Perpetuall, eternall, continuall, euerlasting, ay-during.

Perpetuellement. Perpetually, eternally, euerlastingly, continually.

Perpetuer. To perpetuate, eternize, immortalize, make euerlasting.

Perpetuité: f. Perpetuitie, eternitie, immortalitie, endlesnesse, euerlastingnesse.

Perpetuller. To tickle; (an old word.)

Perpetuons: m. Perpetually-begging Friers.

Perpins: m. Perpenders, or perpent stones; stones made iust as thick as a wall, and shewing their smoothed ends on either side thereof.

Perplex: m. exe: f. Perplexed; intricate, intangled; vexed, or pestered in spirit, plunged, grauelled, in a maze, at his wits end.

Perplexement. Perplexedly, intricately, intangledly, troublesomely.

Perplexité: f. Perplexitie; intricacie, intanglednesse; vncertaintie, doubtfulnesse what to doe, or what to determine; and hence also, vexation, perturbation of mind.

Perprendre. To seize, or take into his hands ground that lyes wast, or common.

Perprinse. as Perprison. Perprison: f. A seizing, or taking into his owne hands (without leaue of Lord, or other) ground that lyes wast, or is vsed in common.

Perpuce. as Prepuce. Perquisiteur: m. A diligent searcher, an industrious seeker, a serious inquirer.

Perquisition: f. A perquisition, diligent search, or serious inquirie.

Perresine: f. Rosin.

Perrette, & Perrichon. Womens names, deriued from Pierre. Perrie: f. A Peeredome; the estate, or dignitie of a Peere.

Perrier: m. The Ship-Artillerie called, a Fowler.

Perriere: f. as Perrier; also, a quarrey of stone.

Perron: m. An open lodge, passage, or walke of stone raised, some quantitie of staires, directly before the fore-*dore of a great house; also, a square Base of stone, or mettall, some fiue or six foot high, whereon, in old time, Knights errant placed some discourse, challenge, or proofe, of an aduenture. À Noel au perron, à Pasques au tison: Prov. At Christmas warme thee in the Sunne, at Easter by the fire.

Perroquet: m. A Parrat; also, the hearbe Aloe, or Sea-*aigreene; also, a black-backt, yellow-bellied, and greene-find sea-fish, proportioned somewhat like the Riuer-Pearch. Bec de perroquet. See Bec. Graine à perroquet. Bastard Saffron, wild Saffron, mocke Saffron, Saffron Dorte.

Perrot: m. An Oake which hath beene (or might haue beene for the age thereof) twice lopped; also, a mans proper name, being a diminutiue, or deriuatiue of Pierre. Perruque: f. A locke, or tuft of haire. Vne fausse perruque. A Periwig, a Gregorian.

Perruqué: m. ée: f. Wearing a locke, or curled tuft; long-haired.

Perruquet: m. One that weares an effeminate locke, or frizled tuft of haire.

Perruquier: m. A Periwig-maker; also, as Perruquet. Perruquiere: f. A Tyre-maker, or Attire-maker; a woman that makes Perriwigs, or Attires.

Pers: m. Peeres.

Pers: m. Perse: f. Watchet, blunket, skie-coloured.

Perscrutation: f. A through search, diligent inquirie, neere collection, full scanning.