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Psalme: m. A Psalme; a song made of, or vnto, God.

Psalmiste: m. A Psalmist, a maker of Psalmes.

Psalmodie: f. The singing of Psalmes.

Psalmodier. To sing Psalmes.

Psalterion: m. A Psalterie; a melodious Jnstrument which resembles a Harpe.

Psaultier: m. A Psaulter; a booke of Psalmes.

Pseaume. Looke Psalme. Pseudonard. Spike, Lauender, Lauender Spike. Pseudonard femelle. Female Lauender, white Lauender; the smallest Lauender.

Psilothre: f. Brionie, Tettarberrie; also, an ointment for the taking of haire away.

Psoloente. A kind of lightning whose flash destroyes whatsoeuer it lights on. ¶Rab. Ptisane. as Tisanne. Ptoschalazon. A Polypragmon, medler, busie-bodie. ¶Rab. Ptyade: f. A greenish ash-coloured Aspe, which raising vp her necke and head, spits venome at those whom she cannot reach with her teeth.

Puamment. Stinkingly, most vnsauorily.

Puant: m. ante: f. Stinking, ranke, vnsauorie, strong; that hath an ill waft, or smell. Bestes puantes. Vermine; or beasts of the chase of the stinking foot; Looke vnder Beste. Herbe puante. Small stinking Fleabane Coniza. Debonnaire mire fait playe puante: Prov. A courteous Surgeon makes a corrupt sore.

Puanteur: f. A stinke, stench; rankeneße; a noysome waft, strong sauor, ill smell.

Puantise: f. as Puanteur. Puberté: f. Youth; or the age wherein haire begins to grow about the priuities.

Public: m. ique: f. Publike, vulgar, common; manifest, euident, apparant, in the eyes of the world.

Publicain: m. A Publican, a Tole-gatherer; a Farmer, or a leuier of publike reuenue.

Publication: f. A publication, diuulgation, manifestation, open discouerie, making of things common. Publication d'enquestes. C'est quand les enquestes sont rapportées, & receuës, & que les parties en prennent communication; apres laquelle ils ne sont plus receus à bailler reproches, & obiects de tesmoings. ¶Ragueau. Publication d'un livre. The edition, setting forth, or sending abroad, of a booke.

Publié: m. ée: f. Diuulged, published, set forth, manifested, made common.

Publier. To publish, diuulge, manifest, proclayme, noyse abroad, lay open, set forth, make common, or knowne.

Publieur: m. A publisher, cryer, proclaymer.

Publiquement. Publikely, commonly, manifestly, openly, all abroad, in the face, or eye of the world.

Puce. as Pulce. Puceal: m. ale: f. Virgine, maiden, or maidenlie; of a virgin or maiden, virgin or maiden-like.

Puceau: m. A man that hath not lost his virginitie; also, one that with a puffe lights a candle newly put out; also, a kind of Vine.

Pucelage: m. Pucellage, virginitie, maidenhead; also, the end of a maidens girdle hanging downe before; also, the hearbe called Periwinkle.

Puceler. To corrupt, or deflowre, a maid.

Pucelle: f. A maid, virgine; girle, damsell, mother; also, the riuer Pilchard; or, a young, or little Shad-*fish.
  Pucelle de Marolle. A crackt peece; a wench that

hath got a clap; one that rather goes for a maid then is one. Petites pucelles sont ensemble belles: Pro. Young girles looke faire when they together are.

Pucher. To take vp. ¶Norm. Pudeur: f. as Pudicité. Pudibunde: com. Shamefast, bashfull, modest, honest. Parties pudibundes. The priuie parts, or members.

Pudicité: f. Pudicitie, chastitie, modestie, puritie, vntaintednesse, cleanenesse of life.

Pudique: com. Chast, pure, vntainted, cleane; shamefast, modest, honest.

Pudiquement. Chastly, purely, vntaintedly, modestly, shamefastly.

Pueille. as Peulle. Puël. Bois estans en puël. Hauing beene lately cut, or lopped.

Puër la Vigne. To cut a Vine; or, as Pouër. Puerilité: f. Puerilitie, boyishneße, childishnesse, trifling, simplicitie.

Puëtte: f. A peg in a Hogshead, &c, of Wine; also, the peg-hole.

Pugnitif: m. iue: f. Warlike, fighting, contentious, quarrellsome.

Puinne: f. Spindle-tree, Prick-wood, Prick-timber.

Puir. To stinke, smell ranke, yeeld an ill waft, haue a bad sauor. Ce qu'on donne luit, ce qu'on mange puit: Prov. True bountie consists rather in giuing men meanes then meat; or, as vnder Luire. Puis: m. A Well, a Draw-well; a pit. Marier la cave, & le puis. To mingle wine and water together. Pendant que la corde est au puis. While we haue opportunitie, while occasion serues. Pierre en puis n'est pas pourrie: Pro. Looke vnder Pierre. Puis. (Of the Verbe Pouvoir;) J am able, J can.

Puis. Then, after, moreouer, furthermore. Puis que. Seeing that, since that. Et puis. Well then, so then; hoe, what sir, how then, what though, what of that, put the case it be so. Et puis; qu'en sera il? After all that, or suppose all that be said, or done, what will follow, or what come of it? (in disdaine.)

Puisé: m. ée: f. Drawne vp, taken in, sucked vp; drayned, or drawne dry.

Puisement: m. A drawing vp, or out of; a drayning, or drawing dry.

Puiser. To draw vp, take in, or sucke out; also, to drayne, or draw dry. La Navire puise. Leakes, or shippes in water apace.

Puiseur: m. A drawer, or drayner of water, &c.

Puisne: f. as Puinne. Puisné. Punie, younger, borne after.

Puissamment. Puißantly, powerfully, mightily, strongly, forcibly.

Puissance: f. Puißance, power, or powerfullnesse; force, might, strength; abilitie, possibilitie, wealth, sway, authoritie, iurisdiction; also, a power, armie, or great number of men.
  Puissance de fief. The power some Landlords haue to redeeme to their owne vses the land sold by their Tenant, by paying vnto the purchaser whatsoeuer he gaue for it, or defrayed about it.