Pompes: f. Armour, called Pullie-peeces, for the knees; also, Bosses.
Pompette: f. A pumple, or pimple on the nose, or chinne. Pompette d'imprimeur. A Printers Pumpet-ball; the ball wherewith he beates, or layes Jnke on, the Formes.
Pompeusement. Pompously, magnificently, solemnely, sumptuously, gorgiously.
Pompeux: m. euse: f. Pompous, magnificent, statelie, maiesticall; sumptuous, gorgious, glorious.
Pompholige: f. Nil; the light oare, or foyle of Brasse.
Pompile. A kind of Pourcontrell fish that swimmeth with her bellie vpwards; also, that kind of Tunnie which followeth ships while they are in the Mayne, and leaues them when they draw towards the shore.
Pompon: m. A Pumpion, or Melon. Pompon d'hyver. Our ordinarie Winter Pumpion. Pompon succrin. A Muske Melon. Pompon Turquin. A kind of darke-greene Melon.
Pomponne: f. The longest, and smoothest kind of Pumpion.
Ponant: m. The West.
Ponce. Pierre ponce. A Pumeise stone.
Ponceau: m. A little bridge; also, Corne-rose, red Poppie, shadow Poppie.
Poncel: m. A little bridge.
Poncer. To smooth, polish, rub ouer, with a Pumeise stone.
Ponceure: f. A smoothing, polishing, rubbing ouer with a Pumeise stone.
Poncille: f. The Assyrian Citron; a fruit as big as two big Leymons, and of a verie good smell, but of a faint-*sweet, or wallowish taste.
Poncire: f. A Pome-Citron.
Poncon: m. Halfe a Tunne; or, as Poinson. Ponctuel: m. elle: f. Punctuall, distinct, direct, exact.
Ponctuellement. Punctually, distinctly, point after point; directly, exactly, throughly.
Ponderamment. Ponderously, weightily, heauily.
Pondereux: m. euse: f. Ponderous, heauie, weightie, burthensome; massiue, substantiall; of great consequence.
Ponderosité: f. Ponderositie, or ponderousneße, heauineße, weightineße, massiueneße.
Pondre. To lay (egges.) Elle y peut bien pondre, mais elle n'y couvera pas. She may soiourne there for a while, but she shall not continue long. Geline qui poind, & ne pond pas. (Said of) an idle, vnprofitable, barren, curst, or scolding, wife. Il fait accroire que les lievres pondent, & font des oeufs; (Applyable to a most notorious lyer;) Seeke Lievre. Pondu: m. uë: f. Layed, as an egge.
Poneau: m. A close stoole.
Ponent: m. The West; also, the arse, tayle, bumme.
Poneropole. The Towne of the wicked. ¶Rab. Pongneor. as Piqueur; (an old word.)
Ponhete. A kind of Vine.
Ponneresse. Geline pon. A laying Henne.
Ponneuse. as Ponneresse.
Pont: m. A Bridge.
Pont aux asnes. C'est le pont aux asnes. (Applyable when such as are ignorant of the true reason, or cause of things, impute them to witchcraft, for-*
*tune, &c,) a shift, euasion, helpe at a pinch, for a dunce. Pont aux asnes de Logique. The conuersion of Propositions. ¶Rab. Pont de corde. The netting, or close fight, of a Ship of warre. Pont de Gournay. See Gournay. Pont levis. A draw-bridge. Conscience à pont levis. A verie large conscience. Soulier à pont levis. A shooe hauing a Polonian, or high-raised, heele. Pont volant. The ladder of a ship; the bridge, or ladder, whereby men get aboord her. En pont, en planche, & en riviere, vallet devant, maistre derriere: Prov. Ore waters deepe, and bridges weake or hollow, the man must lead the way, the maister follow. Le temps renverse les ponts: Pro. Jn time are bridges (all things) ouerthrowne. Vn fol dessus vn pont est vn tambour en la riviere. A foole on a bridge is a drumme in a riuer; Looke Tambour. Pontage: m. Bridge-worke, Bridge-making; also, Pontage, or Bridge-toll.
Pontail: m. as Pont volant. Pontanage: m. Pontage; the toll taken for passage ouer a Bridge.
Ponte: f. A laying of egges.
Ponté: m. ée: f. Bridged; that hath a Bridge ouer it, or belonging to it.
Pontenage. as Pontanage. Ponthieu. An Earledome in France, called thus because there be many Bridges in it.
Pontif, & Pontife: m. A (chiefe) Bishop, or Prelate; also, a Pontificall fellow.
Pontifical: m. ale: f. Pontificall, Prelate-like; lordlie, statelie, sumptuous.
Pontificalement. Pontifically, lordlily, stately, sumptuously.
Pontificat: m. A Prelateship, or Prelacie; a chiefe Bishopricke; the estate, function, or dignitie of a (chiefe) Bishop, or Prelate.
Pontille: f. A pricke, or little point.
Pontique. Ponticall, or of Pontus, a part of Asia; whence; Noix Pontique. The red Filberd.
Pontis: m. A little Bridge.
Ponton: m. A Wherrie, or Ferrie-boat; also, a Stilling, or Gauntrie for Caske to stand on.
Pontonnier: m. A Ferrie-man.
Ponts. The name of a Towne in Saintonge, called so of the many Bridges about it.
Pontueux: m. euse: f. Bridgie, full of Bridges.
Popelin: m. A little finicall darling. Popelins. Soft cakes made of fine flower, kneaded with milke, sweet butter, and yolkes of egges; and fashioned, and buttered, like our Welsh Barrapyclids.
Popin: m. ine: f. Spruce, neat, briske, trimme, fine; quaint, nice, daintie, prettie.
Se Popiner. To trimme, or tricke vp himselfe.
Popisme: f. The popping, or smacking sound wherewith Riders incourage, or cherish, their horses.
Poplitée. as Poplitique.
Poplitique. A large veine in the middle of the thigh; also, a sinew neere to the gartering place, and seruing to turne the leg inwards.
