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OUTSHOT, _s._ a projection.
OUTSPECKLE, _s._ a laughing-stock.
OUTSPOKEN, _s._ free of speech; undisguised in conversation or opinion.
OUTSTRIKING, s. an eruption.
OUTWAILE, OUTWYLE, _s._ the refuse.
_To_ OUTWAIR, _v. a._ to expend.
OUTWITH, _prep_, without; on the outer side or exterior; outwards; out from.
OVERLY, _adj._ careless.
OWKLY, _adj._ weekly.
OXTAR, OXTER, _s._ the armpit.
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PACKMAN, _s._ a pedlar.
PADDOCK-STOOL, _s._ a toad-stool; agaricus in general.
PAFFLE, _s._ a small landed estate.
PAFFLER, _s._ a farmer of a small estate.
_To_ PAIK, _v. a._. to beat; to drub.
PAIKER, _s. a causey-paiker_, a street-walker.
PAILIN, PAILING, _s._ a fence of stakes.
PAINCHES, _s._ tripe.
PALAVER, _s._ idle talk.
_To_ PALE, _v. a._ to make an incision in cheese to try its quality.
PALLACH, _s._ a porpoise; a l.u.s.ty person.
PAND, _s._ a pledge.
PAN-KAIL, _s._ broth made of cole-worts, thickened with oatmeal.
PANNEL, _s._ one brought to the bar of a court for trial.
PAP-O'-THE-Ha.s.s, s. uvula.
PAPE, PAIP, _s._ the pope.
PAPEJAY, PAPINGAY, _s._ a parrot.
PARITCH, PARRITCH, _s._ hasty-pudding; oatmeal and water boiled together.
PARROT-COAL, _s._ cannel coal which burns clearly.
PARTAN, _s._ the common edible crab.
PARTICATE, _s._ a rood of land.
PARTRICK, PATRICK, _s._ a partridge.
PAT, _pret_. of put.
_To_ PATTER, _s._ to mutter uninterruptedly.
PATTLE, PETTLE, _s._ a stick wherewith a ploughman clears away the earth which adheres to his plough.
PAUK, _s._ art; wile.
PAUKY, _adj._ sly; artful.
PAWMIE, _s._ a stroke on the hand with the ferula.
p.a.w.n, _s._ a narrow curtain fixed to the roof or bottom part of a bed.
PAY, _s._ a drubbing.
PAYS-EGGS, _s. pl._ eggs boiled in dye of various colours, and given to children to amuse themselves during Easter.
PEARIE, _s._ a pegtop in the shape of a pear.
PEARLIN, _s._ a species of thread lace.
_To_ PECH, _v. n._. to puff; to pant.
PEEL, PEIL, _s._ a place of strength; a Border tower.
_To_ PEENGE, PINGE, _v. n._ to whine; to complain.
PEESWEIP, PEEWEIP, _s._ the lapwing.
PEG, _s._ a stroke.
