PACK to practise unlawful confederacy

PACK a number of people confederated

PADDOCK a toad

PAID punished

PALABRAS words, a cant term, from the Spanish

PALE to enclose

PALL to wrap as with a pall

PALLED impaired

PALMER one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having made a pilgrimage to Palestine

PALMY victorious

PARCELLED belonging to individuals

PARD the leopard

PARITOR an apparitor

PARLE talk

PARLOUS perilous keen, shrewd

PARTED endowed, gifted

PARTIZAN a pike

PASH the face

PASH to strike violently, to bruise, crush

PASS to practise To surpass expectation

PASSANT a term of heraldry, applied to animals represented on the shield as passing by at a trot

PASSING surpassingly, exceedingly

PASSION to have feelings

PASSIONATE to suffer

PASSY-MEASURE a kind of dance

PASTRY the room where pastry was made

PATCH a mean fellow

PATCHED dressed in motley

PATCHERY trickery

PATH to walk

PATHETICAL affected, hypocritical

PATIENT to make patient, to compose

PATINE the metal disc on which the bread is placed in the administration of the Eucharist

PATTERN to give an example of Afford a pattern for

PAUCA VERBA few words

PAUCAS few, a cant word

PAVIN a dance

PAX a small image of Christ

PAY to despatch

PEAT a term of endearment for a child

PEDASCULE a pedant, schoolmaster

PEER to peep out

PEIZE to balance, weigh down

PELTING paltry

PERDU lost

PERDURABLE durable

PERDY a euphemism for Par Dieu

PERFECT certain

PERFECT to inform perfectly

PERIAPTS charms worn round the neck

PERJURE a perjured person

PERSEVER to persevere

PERSPECTIVE a telescope, or some sort of optical glass

PEW-FELLOW a comrade

PHEEZE to comb, fleece, curry

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

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 of Windsor

PIED motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a jester

PIELED shaven

PLIGHT pitched

PILCHER a scabbard

PILL to pillage

PIN a malady of the eye The centre of a target

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 Doubt

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 Ready Obvious

PRENOMINATE to name beforehand, to prophesy

PRE-ORDINANCE old-established law

PRESENCE the presence-chamber High bearing

PREST ready

PRETENCE design

PRETEND to portend To intend

PREVENT to anticipate

PRICK the mark denoting the hour on a dial

PRICK to incite To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the name

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 To converse

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