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PEW-FELLOW - a comrade

PHEEZE - to comb, fleece, curry

PIA-MATER - the membrane covering the brain, the brain

PICK - to pitch, throw

PICKED - chosen, selected

PICKERS - (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously

PICKING - insignificant

PICKT-HATCH - a place noted for brothels Merry Wives

PIED - motley-coated

PIELED - shaven

PLIGHT - pitched

PILCHER - a scabbard

PILL - to pillage

PIN - a malady of the eye

PINFOLD - a pound, a place to confine lost cattle

PIONED - digged

PLACKET - a petticoat-front

PLAIN SONG - a simple air

PLAITED - intricate

PLANCHED - made of boards

PLANTATION - colonizing, planting a colony

PLAUSIVE - plausible

PLEACHED - interwoven

POINT - a lace furnished with a tag by which the

- breeches were held up

POINT-DE-VICE - faultless

POISE - balance

POLLED - bare

POMANDER - a perfumed ball

POMEWATER - a kind of apple

POOR-JOHN - a herring

POPINJAY - a parrot

PORT - pomp, state

PORT - a gate

PORTABLE - bearable

PORTANCE - conduct, behavior

POSSESS - to inform

POTCH - to push violently

POTENT - a potentate

POUNCET-BOX - a box for holding perfumes

POWER - forces, army

PRACTISE - wicked stratagem

PRACTISANT - a confederate

PRANK - to dress up

PRECEPT - a justice's summons

PRECIOUSLY - in business of great importance

PREGNANCY - fertility of invention

PREGNANT - fertile of invention

PRENOMINATE - to name beforehand, to prophesy

PRE-ORDINANCE - old-established law

PRESENCE - the presence-chamber

PREST - ready

PRETENCE - design

PRETEND - to portend

PREVENT - to anticipate

PRICK - the mark denoting the hour on a dial

PRICK - to incite

PRICK-SONG - music sung in parts by note

PRICKET - a stag of two years

PRIDE - heat

PRIG - to steal

PRIME - rank, lecherous

PRIMER - more-important

PRIMERO - a game at cards

PRINCIPALITY - that which holds the highest place

PRINCOX - a coxcomb

PRISER - a prize-fighter

PROCURE - to bring

PREFACE - interj much good may it do you

PROFANE - outspoken

PROGRESS - a royal ceremonial journey

PROJECT - to shape or contrive

PROMPTURE - suggestion

PRONE - ready, willing

PROOF - strength of manhood

PROPAGATE - to advance, to forward

PROPAGATION - obtaining

PROPER-FALSE - natural falsehood

PROPERTIED - endowed with the properties of

PROPERTIES - scenes, dresses, &c used in a theatre

PROPERTY - to take possession of

PROPOSE - to suppose, for the sake of argument

PROPOSE - conversation

PROROGUE - to defer

PROVAND - provender

PROVISION - forecast

PUCELLE - a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc

PUDENCY - modesty

PUGGING - thieving

PUN - to pound

PURCHASE - to acquire, win

PURCHASE - gain, winnings

PUT - to compel

PUTTER-ON - an instigator

PUTTER-OUT - one who lends money at interest

PUTTING-ON - instigation

PUTTOCK - a kite

Q

QUAIL - to faint, be languid, be afraid

QUAINT - curiously beautiful

QUAKE - to cause to quake or tremble

QUALIFY - to moderate

QUALITY - those of the same nature

QUARREL - a suit, cause

QUARRY - game, a heap of game

QUART D'ECU - a quarter crown

QUARTER - the post allotted to a soldier

QUAT - a pimple; used in contempt of a person

QUEASY - squeamish, unsettled

QUELL - murder

QUENCH - to grow cool

QUERN - a hand-mill

QUEST - enquiry, search, inquest, jury

QUESTRIST - one who goes in search of another

QUICK - living, alive; running; hasty

QUICKEN - to come to life

QUIDDIT - a subtle question

QUILLET - quidebet, a subtle case in law

QUINTAIN - a post for tilting at

QUIP - sharp jest, a taunt

QUIRE - to sing in concert

QUIT - to requite, respond

QUIT - past tense of the verb to quit, quitted

QUITANCE - requital

QUIVER - active

QUOTE - to note

R

RABATO - a ruff

RABBIT-SUCKER - a weasel

RACE - breed; inherited nature

RACK - wreck

RACK - to enhance the price of anything

RAG - a term of contempt applied to persons

RAKE - to cover

RAPT - transported with emotion

RAPTURE - a fit

RASCAL - a lean deer

RASH - quick, violent

RATE - opinion, judgment

RATE - to assign, to value

RATOLORUM - a ludicrous