An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language - LightNovelsOnl.com
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PAAL, _s._ A post, S. B.
A. S. _pal_, Su. G. _paale_.
PAB, _s._ The refuse of flax, Loth. _pob_, S. B.
_Ess. Highl. Soc._
PACE, _s._
1. The weight of a clock, S.
2. Used metaphorically.
_Rutherford._
PACK, _adj._ Intimate, S.
_Burns._
Su. G. _pack-a_, constringere.
PACKALD, _s._ A pack.
_Rutherford._
Belg. _pakkaadie_, luggage.
PACKHOUSE, _s._ A warehouse for receiving goods, S.
Teut. _packhuys_, id.
PACKMAN, _s._ A pedlar, one who carries his _pack_, S.
PACT, _s. To spend the pact_, to waste one's substance; _to perish the pact_, S.
_Maitland Poems._
PADDLE, _s._ The Lump fish, Orkn.
PADDOCK-HAIR, _s._
1. The down that covers unfledged birds, S.
2. The down on the heads of children born without hair, S.
Teut. _padden-hayr_, lanugo.
PADDOCK-PIPES, _s. pl._ Marsh horse-tail, S.
_Lightfoot._
PADDOCK-RUDE, _s._ The sp.a.w.n of frogs, S. also _paddock-ride_.
_Ramsay._
PADDOCK-STOOL, _s._ The Agaricus in general; especially the varieties of the Agaricus fimetarius, S.
Teut. _padden-stoel_, fungus.
PADE, _s._
1. A toad.
_Sir Gawan._
2. Apparently a frog.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _pade_, Germ. Belg. _padde_, id.
PADELL, _s._ Expl. "a small leathern bag."
_Bannatyne Poems._
Teut. _buydel_, bulga.
PADYANE, PADGEAN, _s._ A pageant.
_Dunbar._
PAFFLE, _s._ A small possession in land, Perths.
