Pouille: A part of Naples, whose inhabitants are held verie dangerous in conuersation; whence the Prouerbe; Compere de la Pouille couste, & despouille. Blanc de Pouille. Ceruse, or white Lead.
Pouiller. To lowse, to picke out lice, to wait, or looke into, a head, for lice.
Pouillerie: f. Lowsinesse; also, beggerie; sluttish, or nastie pouertie. Ce n'est que toute pouillerie. There's no one good, nor faire peece; there's nought but trash, in all his stuffe.
Pouilles: f. Lice: ¶Bourg. Chanter, ou dire pouilles. To raile, reproach, reuile, giue most filthie words.
Pouilleux: m. euse: f. Lowsie, full of lice; also, beggerlie, of small, or no, meanes. Herbe aux pouilleux. Lice-bane, Lowse-wort, Lowse-powder, Stauesaker.
Poul: m. A lowse; also, the Ninmurder, a yellowish bird, and the smallest of birds. Poul de mer. The sea Lowse; a fish thats no bigger then a beane. Herbe aux poulx. as Herbe aux pouilleux. Poulaille: f. Poultrie; Hennes, Chickens.
Poulailler. A Henne-house, or Henne-roost.
Poulaillerie: f. Poultrie.
Poulaillier: m. A Poulter; also, a breeder, or keeper of Poultrie.
Poulain: m. A fole, or coult; also, the rope wherewith wine is let downe into a seller; a pullie rope; also, a botch in the groine, a Winchester Goose. Pied de poulain. Fole-foot, Coults-foot, Horse-foot, Hall-foot, (an hearbe.) Ce que poulain prend en dompture, il le maintient tant comme il dure: Prov. The tricks a coult getteth at his first backing, will while he continueth neuer be lacking. Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien: Prov. The coult that breakes not his halter is not worth a halfepenie.
Poulainant. Foling, as a mare.
Poulaine: f. Whence; Souliers à poulaine. Old fashioned shooes, held on the feet by single latchets running ouerthwart th' instup, which otherwise were all open; also, those that had a fashion of long hookes sticking out at th' end of their toes. Ventre à la poulaine. A gulching, or huge, bellie; a bellie as big as a tunne.
Poulainement: m. A foling.
Poulainer. (A mare) to fole.
Poulce: m. The thumbe. Le poulce du pied. The great toe. Poulce, & event, ou vent. The breadth of a thumbe giuen betweene euerie yard, in measuring. À poulce suant. The same. Les poulces à la ceincture. Idlely, sloathfully, carelesly. Mordre les poulces. To bite his thumbes for anger.
Poulcée: f. An inch, or inch-measure; the breadth of a thumbe.
Poulceon: m. The 24 part of a Chopine; a verie small measure, seldome vsed except it be for the gaging of the little Demi sextier, whereof it maketh a twelfth part.
Poulcepied: m. The Pourcontreil, Preke, or many-footed fish.
Poulcier: m. as Poulcée.
Pouldre: f. Powder, dust. Pouldre Agrippine. Any meat that prouokes, or enables, vnto lust. Pouldre blanche. A powder compounded of Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmegs; much in vse among Cookes. Pouldre de duc. A powder made of Sugar and Cinnamon, & hauing (sometimes) other Aromaticall simples added vnto them. Pouldre à gripper. Any luxurious, or lasciuious meat. Pouldre de Poussol. A kind of sand gottē at Poussole, hard by Naples; & vsed in the cutting af Marbles. Pouldre rouge. Precipitate; sublimed, or calcinated, Quickesiluer. Il iettera à tous les autres la pouldre aux yeux. He will outstrip all his competitors, the victorie will without doubt be his; (metaphorically, from the swiftest runner in a sandie race, who to make his fellowes follow aloofe, casteth dust with his heeles into their enuious eyes.)
Pouldré: m. ée: f. Powdered, bedusted.
Pouldrement: m. A powdering; a turning into powder.
Pouldrer. To powder; dust, or bedust; to make, beat, or turne into; to season, sprinkle, or dredge with, powder, or dust.
Pouldrette: f. Fine powder, small dust. Temps de pouldrette. The season wherein a husbandman breakes the clods of his plowed land.
Pouldreux: m. euse: f. Dustie, full of dust. Avoir le pieds pouldreux. To be of a nimble or actiue constitution, a stragling or wandering disposition; said also of one who being in further debt then he hath will, or meanes, to come out of, playes, for the most part, least in sight.
Pouldrier: m. A dust-bag; also, a Gunpowder maker.
Pouldriere: f. Dust, or dustinesse.
Pouldroyement: m. A puluerising; or powdering; a reducing vnto dust, or into powder.
Pouldroyer. To puluerize; to make, or turne into powder, or dust.
Poule: f. A Henne.
Poule d'eau. A Coot, Moorehenne, Fenducke.
Poule griesche. A Moorehenne; the henne of the Grice, or Mooregame.
Poule d'Inde. A Turkie henne.
Poule Lombarde. A Kentish henne, a great henne, a henne of the Game.
Poule de mer. A small-mouthed, sharpe-toothed, broad-scaled, little-eyed, rocke-fish; whose finnes bee transparent, and both they, and her whole bodie, powdered ouer with beautifull, and sundrie-coloured spots.
La poule, & les poulsins. The seuen starres.
Cul de poule. The tops of the fingers, and thumb ioyned, or closed together; also, a hard swelling on th' edge of a Fistula.
Docte annicheur de poules. An excellent Cot-*queane.
Courir la poule. To forrage, ransacke, or rob countrey houses; (from the custome of rauening souldiers, who leaue not a Henne where they come.)
Faire la poule. To play the coward.
Faire de ses oeufs poules. Looke Oeuf.
Iamais mauvaise poule ne le couva. He is of a gentle, or gentlemanlie humour; he hath no one iot of ill breeding in him.
