a rascall, or base crue of scoundrells.
Peautraillerie: f. Scuruie old stuffe of skinnes or leather.
Peautre: f. The sterne of a ship.
Peccadille: f. An escape, little sinne, small fault, veniall offence.
Peccant: m ante: f. Sinning, offending, trespassing; also, offensiue; whence; L'humeur peccante. The corrupt, or corrupting humor in the bodie.
Peccatrice: f. as Pecheresse. Pece. as Perrot; or, an Oake, or tree of a middle size.
Peché: m. A sinne, crime, fault, offence, trespasse, transgression; also, a pot of earth, or stone, &c. Contre peché est vertu medecine: Pro. Vertue's a salue gainst sinne. De grand peché grand pardon: &; De petit peché petit pardon: Prov. As is the fault so must the pardon be. Vieux peché fait nouvelle honte: Prov. Looke Honte. Charité oingr*, & peché poind: Prov. Loue couers, hate increases, errours; or, loue is the soules baulme, sin her bane. En coffre ouvert le iuste peché: Prov. An open coffer the theefe excuses. Ou richesse est peché est: Prov. Where wealth is offences are. Quand tous pechés sont vieux avarice est encore ieune: Prov. When all sinnes else be old is auarice young.
Pecher. To sinne, offend, trespasse, transgresse, commit a fault, faile in duetie, doe amisse. Il peche sagement qui fait folie par conseil: Prov. He erres discreetly that erres by aduise.
Pecheresse: f. A female sinner.
Pecheur: m. A sinner, transgressor, offendor, trespassor. À grand pecheur esclandre: Prov. Shame is the lot of sinne.
Pecile. A pide, or skude colour of a horse.
Pecore: f. A sheepe; and sometimes (more generally) any simple, or sottish beast; whence; Va va grosse pecore. Away thou filthie doult; &; Il luy faudroit fendre les pieds, & l'envoyer paistre comme vne pecore. He is fitter to graze among cattell then to conuerse among men.
Pecoul: m. The taile, or arse; and (peculiarly) the staulke, steale, or taile of any fruit: ¶Langued. Pect: m. (sometimes vsed) in stead of Pis; the breast, or vdder.
Pectoncle: m. A Cockle, or small Scallop.
Pectoral: m. A breastplate; petrell; stomacher, or stomack-cloth.
Pectoral: m. ale: f. Pectorall; of, or belonging to, the breast; also, breast-curing, breast-comforting, breast-defending.
Peculat: m. A robbing of the Princes, or publicke treasure; a conuerting it vnto his priuate vse by theeuerie, vsurie, &c.
Peculateur: m. One that robs the publicke treasure; or conuerts it, by indirect meanes, vnto his priuate vse.
Peculativement. By robbing of the Princes, or publick treasure.
Pecule: m. A stocke, or substance, gotten by priuate industrie, or toyle.
Peculier: m. ere: f. Peculiar, priuate, proper, ones owne.
Pecune: f. Coyne, money.
Pecuniaire: com. Pecuniarie, of money, in coyne.
Pecunieux: m. euse: f. Well moneyed, full of money.
Pedagogie: f. An instructing, or teaching; th' Office of a Teacher; also, Pedantisme.
Pedagogisme: m. as Pedagogie. Pedagogue: m. A Schoolemaister, Instructor, Teacher, Tutor, Pedant.
Pedales: f. (A horses) kickings, winsings, yearkings, or flingings out with the heeles.
Pedanées. Iuges pedanées. Countrey-Judges, Judges of villages, inferiour Judges.
Pedant: m. A Pedant, or ordinarie Schoolemaister.
Pedanteries: f. Pedanticall humors, phrase-affectings, inkhorne-tearmes.
Pedantesque: com. Pedanticall, inkhornizing, pedant-*like.
Pedantizer. To pedantize it, or play the Pedant; to domineere ouer lads; also, to inkhornize it.
Peder. for Petter; To fart: ¶Rab. Pederotte: f. An Opall.
Pediculaire: com. Lowsie.
Pedicule: m. The staulke of a leafe, or of fruit.
Pedieux. A certaine muscle, which issuing from the heele, and going along on th' instup, ends in fiue little gristles, couched each on the side of a toe.
Pedion: m. The part of th' instup thats next vnto the toes, and containes fiue bones answerable vnto them.
Pegade: f. A glasse-full: ¶Langued. Pegase: m. A Pegasus, or flying horse.
Pege: f. Pitch.
Pegé: m. ée: f. Pitched, bepitched.
Pegmate: m. A stage, or frame whereon Pageants be set, or carried.
Pegouse: f. A kind of Sole-fish, that hath eye-like spots on her backe.
Pehoulle: f. Sea-coale, or stone-coale.
Peignarre: m. A Combe-maker.
Peigne: m. A combe; also, as Metacarpe; also, as Parpaigne. Peigne d'Aleman. Foure fingers and a thumb. Peigne de Venus. Ladies combe, wild Cheruill, Shepheards-needle, mocke-Cheruill. Faire vn peigne. To flie, auoid, giue the slip, slinke away. Faire peigne vuide. The same. Tuer vn mercier pour vn peigne. To take a sore renenge of a sleight offence; or, to inflict a great penaltie on a small offendor. Iamais teigneux n'aima le peigne: Pro. Those that are tainted loue no reprehension.
Peigné: m. ée: f. Combed.
Peigner. To combe.
Peignerre: m. A Combe-maker.
Peigneur: m. A comber; or as Peignier. Peignier: m. A Combe-maker.
Peignoir: m. A comb-case.
Peignouoir. The same.
Peinct: m. cte: f. Painted, purtrayed, limmed; spotted, speckled; coloured, or set out in liuelie colours; described, delineated.
Peinctre: m. A Painter; Pourtrayer, Limmer, Colourer.
Peincture: f. A picture, counterfeit, peece of painting; also, painting; th' Art, or act of Painting.
Sot en bosse, & platte peincture. An absolute foole, compleat asse, excellent gull, hoydon in graine.
Le Marbre de soy n'a que faire de peincture: Pro. Looke Marbre.