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To Overget. _v. a._ To overtake.
To Overlook, _v. a._ To bewitch.
Overlookt. _part._ Bewitched.
Over-right, Auver-right. _adv._ Opposite; fronting.
Overs. _s. p._ The perpendicular edge, usually covered with gra.s.s, on the sides of salt-water rivers is called _overs_.
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Pack-an-Penny-Day. _s._ The last day of a fair when bargains are usually sold. [_Pack, and sell for pennies._]
Parfit. _adj._ Perfect.
Parfitly. _adv._ Perfectly.
To Par'get. _v. a._ To plaster the inside of a chimney with mortar of cowdung and lime.
Par'rick. _s._ A paddock.
To Payze. _v. a._ To force, or raise up, with a lever.
To Peach. _v. a._ To inform against; to impeach.
Peel. _s._ A pillow, or bolster.
To Peer. _v. n._ To appear.
Pen'nin. _s._ The enclosed place where oxen and other animals are fed and watered; any temporary place erected to contain cattle.
Pick. _s._ A pitch-fork: a two p.r.o.nged fork for making hay.
Pigs-Hales. _s. pl._ Haws; the seed of the white thorn.
Pigs-looze. _s._ A pigsty.
Pilch, Pilcher. _s._ A baby's woollen clout.
Pill-coal. _v._ A kind of peat, dug most commonly out of rivers: peat obtained at a great depth, beneath a stratum of clay.
Pil'ler. _s._ a pillow.
Pilm. _s._ Dust; or rather fine dust, which readily floats in air.
Pink. _s._ A chaffinch.
Pip. _s._ A seed; applied to those seeds which have the shape of apple, cuc.u.mber seed, &c.; never to round, or minute seeds.
To Pitch. _v. a. To lay unhewn and unshaped stones together, so as to make a road or way.
_To Pitch_, in the West of England, is not synonymous with _to pave_. _To pave_, means to lay flat, square, and hewn stones or bricks down, for a floor or other pavement or footway. A _paved_ way is always smooth and even; a _pitched_ way always rough and irregular. Hence the distinguis.h.i.+ng terms of _Pitching_ and _Paving_.
Pit'is. _adj._ Piteous; exciting compa.s.sion.
Pit'hole. _s._ The grave.
To Pix, To Pixy. _v. a._ To pick up apples after the main crop is taken in; to glean, applied to an orchard only.
Pix'y. _s._ A sort of fairy; an imaginary being.
Pix'y-led. _part._ Led astray by pixies.
Plad. _v._ Played.
Pla'zen. _s. pl._ Places.
To Plim. _v. n._ To swell; to increase in bulk.
Plough. _s._ The cattle or horses used for ploughing; also a waggon and horses or oxen.
Pock'fredden. _adj._ Marked in the face with small pox.
To Pog. _v. n._ and _v. a._ To thrust with the fist; to push.
Pog. _s._ A thrust with the fist; a push; an obtuse blow.
Pollyantice. _s._ Polyanthus.
To Pom'ster. _v. n._ To tamper with, particularly in curing diseases; to quack.
Pont'ed. _part._ Bruised with indentation. Any person wkose skin or body is puffed up by disease, and subject to occasional pitting by pressure, is said to be _ponted_; but the primary meaning is applied to fruit, as, a _ponted_ apple; in both meanings incipient decay is implied.
Pook. _s._ The belly; the stomach; a vell.
Popple. _s._ A pebble: that is, a stone worn smooth, and more or less round, by the action of the waves of the sea.
Pottle-bellied. _adj._ Potbellied.
To Pooat, To Pote. _v. a._ To push through any confined opening, or hole.
Pooat-hole, Pote-hole. _s._ A small hole through which anything is pushed with a stick; a confined place.
Pooaty. _adj._ Confined, close, crammed.
