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Populace: f. The rascall people, base multitude, meaner sort of the vulgar.

Populaire: m. The common people, the vulgar.

Populaire: com. Popular; people-fauouring, people-pleasing, people-wooing; also, belonging to the people.

Populairement. Popularly.

Populeon. Popilion, or Pompillion; an ointment made of blacke Poplar buds.

Populeux: m. euse: f. Populous, full of people.

Populo: m. A Roll, or List of the fees, or augmentation of fees, accruing to the King by the Chauncerie Seale; made, and kept monthly, by one of the 54 Secretaries, or Clarkes of that Court; also, a prettie plump-faced, and cherrie-cheekt boy; or a representation, or picture of such a one; whereupon demaunding how a mans children doe, they say, Comment se portent vos petis populos? Populosité: f. Populositie, abundance of people.

Populotier: m. The Clarke of the Chauncerie, who, in his turne, is to make, and keepe the Populo. Popyle. The fish Pourcontrell. ¶Rab. Porc: m. A Porke, Hog, Swyne; also, Porke, or Swynes flesh; also, a hard-skaled sea-fish, resembling a Gurnard; also, as Bernadet. Porcs de Dieu. Bishops, Abbots, and other Prelates, which haue great, and fat Benefices. Porc espic. A Porcupine; See Porc-espi. Porcs du Roy. Financiers, Exchequer men. Du porc salé. Bakon, or Lard. Groing de porc. The head, or vpper part of the shoulder-blade; also, the hearbe Dandelion, Priests Crowne, Piss-abed. Homme de porc, & de bœuf. A clowne, boore, churle, carle; an vnmannerlie, grosse-headed, ill-nurtured hynde. C'est vn porc à l'auge. He feeds like a Hog, or so excessiuely as he is readie to burst withall. S'escoutant parler comme vn porc qui pisse. (Jn derision of a selfe-affecting Fop;) Looke Parler. Le porc a tout bon en soy fors que la merde: Pro. (Yet is the dung of a Hog an excellent remedie for bloud-spitting; but it must first be eaten, fryed with sweet butter, and some of the bloudie spittle.)

Porcausou. Sowsed Hogs flesh. ¶Rab. Porceau: m. A Hog, Porke, Swyne; Looke Pourceau. Porcelaine: f. as Pourcelaine. Porcelet: m. A Pig-hog, or young Hog. Porcelet de S. Anthoine. A Cheslop, or Woodlowse. Porcelet farci. A Pig roasted, or boyled with a pudding in his bellie.

Porcelette: f. A shell-fish, called otherwise Pourcelaine; also, a kind of little Sturgeon.

Porc-espi: m. A Porcupine. Porc-espi de mer. The sea Porcupine; a certaine round fish armed all ouer with prickles.

Porche: f. A Porch.

Porche. Jn stead of Pource; (an old word.)

Porchereau: m. A sea-Hog. ¶Rab. Porcherie: f. A Hogs-stye.

Porchet: m. A stake, or pole.

Porchier: m. A Hog-heard, or Swyne-heard.

Porchin: m. ine: f. Of a Hog, like a Hog; whence; Taisson porchin. A Hog-badger; Looke Taisson. Porcille: f. A sea-Hog.

Porcin: m. ine: f. Hoggish, of Hogs, belonging, or like, vnto Hogs.
  Bestes porcines. Swyne, Hogs.

  Pain porcin. The hearbe Sow-bread, Swynes-bread, Hogs-bread.

Porcorau: m. The mosse, or mossie hearbe, called Liuer-*wort.

Pore: m. A pore; Looke Pores. Poreau: m. A wart; also, as Cal; or any corne, or hard skinne, comming by labor on the hands, or feet.

Porée: f. as Porrée. Beetes; also, pot-hearbes; and thence also, pottage made of Beetes, or with other hearbes. Femme lecheresse ne fera ja porée espaisse: Prov. A lickorous houswife seldome makes thicke pottage. On ne fait pas de rien grasse porée: Prov. Fat broth cannot be made of nothing.

Pores: m. Pores; the small, and inuisible holes in the skinne, through which the sweat, and vapours passe out of the bodie.

Poreux: m. euse: f. Porie, full of pores; also, fearefull.

Porfil. as Pourfil. Porfile: f. The verie middle, or middle line of a mans face, considered from top to bottome; that part whereat a iust diuision may be made thereof. En porfile. Side-wayes; &, Face representée en porfile. A halfe-faced, or side-faced, picture.

Porfiler. as Pourfiler. Porion: m. The wild Bulbus, wild Onyon, Corne-Leeke, wild Leeke, Bulbine, Starre of Bethlem.

Porosité: f. Porinesse, the being full of pores.

Porositez. Pores.

Porphire. as Porphyre. Porphirion: m. A certaine red-beaked, and long-legd bird, which in drinking seemes to bite the water.

Porphyre. Porphirie; a darke-red marble spotted with white; also, an East-Jndian, toothleße, white-headed, and purple-bodied Serpent, whose vomit is most venomous.

Porque: f. A Sow.

Porque: com. Hoggish; or, Sow-like.

Porquet: m. A Porket, or shote Pig; also, young Porke.

Porquette: f. A Pig, or young Porke.

Porracé: m. ée: f. Greene as a Leeke; of a Leeke; made like a Leeke.

Porreau: m. A Leeke; also, a Wart. Porreau de chien. Dogs Leeke, wild Leeke, French Leeke, Leeke of the Vine. Porreau sectil, ou tondu. The cut Leeke, maidens Leeke, blade Leeke, vnset Leeke. Porreau testu. The headed or knobbed Leeke, set Leeke, vncut Leeke. Porreau de vigne. The Leeke of the Vine, dogs Leeke, French Leeke. Petit porreau. as Porreau sectil. Bourse liée avec fueilles de porreaux. A purse thats readie, or easie, to be opened.

Porrée: f. The hearbe called Beet, or Beetes; also, as Porée. Porrée blanche. The common white Beet. Porrée de chien. as Porreau de chien. Porrée noire. The blacke Beet; an hearbe, whose boyled root cures all manner of itches; and is good against the stinging of Serpents. Porrée de pré. Hearbe Pyrola, Winter-greene. Porrée rouge. The hearbe called Blite, or Blits; also, the red Beet, Romane Beet.

Porrette: f. Maidens Leeke, bladed Leeke, vnset Leeke.
  Vigne porrette. as Porreau de chien.