De poules, & de pauvreté on en est bien tost engé: Prov. Pulleine, and pouertie are quickly increased. Le regnard est pris lasche les poules: Prov. Looke Regnard. Le regnard presche aux poules: Pro. (Sayed when a notable Imposter talks vnto, or treats with, sillie and ignorant people.) Par trop trotter la poule, & la femme se perdent facilement: Prov. Women, and hennes, that gad ore-*much, are quickly lost. Qui suit les poules apprend à grater la terre: Pro. He that followes a henne soone learnes to scrape; imitation is, most commonly, too good a Schoolemistresse. Tel perd l'appareil d'vne poule à faute d'achepter pour vn liard d'espices: Prov. Some by the sparing of a little cost, bereaue themselues of daintie sod, and rost.
Poulemart: m. A weapon like a Hanger. À fil de poulemart. With th' edge, or dint of the sword.
Poulener. as Poulainer. Poulenne. See Poulaine. Poulet: m. A chicken; also, a loue-letter, or loue-message. Veau mal cuict, & poulets cruds, font les cimitieres bossus: Prov. Raw veale, and chickens, make swelling Churchyards.
Poulette: f. A pullet, or young henne.
Poulie: f. A pullie.
Poulier: m. A Poulter; also, a brood-house, henne-house, or henne-roost; also, as Bicoque. Poulinement: m. A foling.
Pouliner. A mare to fole, or bring forth a coult.
Poulion: m. A little pullie.
Pouliot: m. Penniroyall, Pulial royall, pudding-grasse, Lurkydish. Pouliot de Iardin. Garden Penniroyall, vpright Penniroyall. Pouliot de montaigne. Puliall mountaine, hearbe Masticke, Horse-time. Pouliot sauvage. Wild Penniroyall, Corn-mint, Corn-calamint, stinking Calamint.
Poullailler: m. A Poulter, or keeper of pullaine; also, as Poulailler. Poullarde: f. The Sea-henne; a fish; Looke Poule de mer. Poullart. bled poul. S. Peters corne.
Poullaze: f. Th' Indian Rauen.
Poulle: f. Seeke Poule. Poullé. Bled poullé. The wall Barlie, called S. Peters corne.
Poullier. as Poulier. Poullion: m. A little pullie.
Poulmelée: f. Wild, or bastard, blacke Hellebore, called ordinarily, Beares-fooot, Setterwort, and Settergrasse; and by some also, Lungwort.
Poulmon: m. The lights, or lungs.
Poulmon de mer. A certaine round, spungie, and transparent excrescence, or creature of the sea, which swimming aboue water is the signe of an approaching storme, and taken out of the water seemes dead; but cut into many peeces, they will stirre for two or three daies after.
Herbe aux poulmons. The hearbe called Sage of Bethlem, Sage of Jerusalem, spotted Comfrey, and by some also, Lungwort; also, the, the mosse called Lungwort; also, sea Lungwort, Oyster-greene.
Batre à tout poulmon. To pant exceedingly, to be almost out of breath. Il ne sçait sur quelle fueille de poulmon respirer. He knowes not whether to addreße himselfe, or how to behaue himselfe; he knowes not what in the world to doe. Souffler à tous poulmons. To blow with might and maine, or with all the force he hath.
Poulmonnie: f. The cough, or any infirmitie of the lungs.
Poulpe: m. as Poupe: m. also, the Pourcontrell, Preke, or many-footed fish. Poulpe musqué. A kind thereof, whose head yeelds a strong muskie sauor, and is therfore much hunted after by Lampreyes.
Poulpe: f. Pulpe; or as Polpe. Poulpelé. Seeke Poupelé. Poulpeux: m. euse: f. Pulpie, or full of pulpe; fleshie, brawnie, pithie.
Poulpie: f. The hearbe Purslane.
Poulpied: m. The same.
Poulpitre: m. A Lecterne, (high) Deske, or Pulpit; also, a Presse for bookes to stand in; also, a Stage, or part of a Theater wherein Players act; also, a roome for Musicians in th' vpper part of a Stage; also, a threshold, or ground-sill; or, as Marche-pied. Poulpre. as Pourpe. Pouls: m. The pulse; the beating, or motion of an Arterie; or th' Arterie so beating. Mettre au pouls failli. To giue a period vnto his pulses beating; to bring to the last gaspe, or vnto the gates of death.
Poulse: m. & f. Looke Pousse: m. & f. Poulsé: m. ée: f. Pushed, thrust, iustled, ioulted; inforced, compelled, violently put on; also, driuen, or beaten in; also, turned, as wine, &c. Le jeu de dames poulsées. Draughts. Bien poulsé longuement chancelle: Prou. He that is pushed soundly staggers long; men after blowes or losses great, are long ere they recouer.
Poulse-avant: m. Any thing that thrusts another forward; and (more particularly) an Ouerseer, and forwarder of a worke that requires hast. Ieu de poulse-avant. Lecherie.
Poulsée: f. as Poulcée; also, as Poulsement; or as Poussée. Poulsement: m. A pushing, thrusting; ioulting, violent putting on; a driuing, or beating in.
Poulser. To push, thrust; inforce, compell, or violently put, on; to driue, or beat in, or on; also, to iustle, or ioult; also, to turne, or be troubled, as wine, &c, by ioulting, &c.
Poulse poulse. (Words of incouragement) forward forward, on on.
Poulser du coude. Proudly, to shoulder, or elbow euerie one thats next him; or to attempt the displacing, or disappointing of others.
Poulser a toute haleine. Seeke Haleine.
Poulser de sa reste. Desperately to set his whole rest, or aduenture all; resolutely to imploy his best meanes, or vtmost indeuor.
Poulser à la rouë. To further, or helpe forward, by all meanes possible.
Poulser le temps à l'espaule. To vse delayes; also, to driue off, or passe away, the time vainely; or as he may; or he knowes not, or cares not, how.
Vn clou sert à poulser l'autre: Prov. One nayle serues to driue out another.
