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HAMPSHIRE OLOSSART. 69 blow at the small head, as into a bladder, till it be full of winde, and then suddenly strike on it with your other hand, it will give a great orack or pop. —B. Turner, Botanologia^ p. 124 (1664). Fopple-ttone [pop'l-stoan], eh, a pebble. — J. Fops [pops], ah. pi, the same as Poppers. — ^W.; J. B. Pot-lug [pot-lug], ah, the same as the Iwj^ lugatick, or rugatick. See Bugstick. Pouchy [pou'chi], adj. soft; as land softened by rain. — J. Poult [pultl], a blow with a stick. *Ak. Also, to give one a pulting with a stick, now commonly called a quilting. — Wise. Powdering-tub [pou'dring tub], ah. a salting-tub.- Pranked [prank'id], adj variegated, spotted. Ex. * A pranked butterfly; a pranked kerchiel* — J. Pride [preid], ah. a kind of lamprey; ammocretea hranchialia, Dunu See jflot's Oxfordshire. Note by Key. L. Jenyns to White's Nat, Hist, of Sdhornej Letter xi. 'Pright [preit], adj. and adv. upright — N. H. Prinit [prin-it], i. a. take it Fr. prenez. *Ak. Prise [preiz], v. to raise by means of a leyer. — Cooper. Prong [prong], ah. a hay-fork, a dung-fork; used only of forks with two tines or points. — N. H. Proud-flesh [proud-flesh], ah. the flesh when swollen and inflamed round a sore or wound, which is removed by vitriol or caustic — F. M.; Com. Pruff [pruf], for proof; hard, insensible to pain. — Winch, 8eh. GL Obstinate. — Adams' Wykehamica, p. 431. Puck [puk], ah. a sheaf of barley or oats. Puok, ah. a New Forest sprite. — Wise, New Foreat, p. 174. See Oolt-pixey. Puok, V. to put up sheaves, especially of barley or oats. Wheat ia put up in hilea. — Wise, New Forest, . Puoker [puk*ur], ah, irritation; temper, peiplezityy vexation. Ex. ' I be in a terrible pucker .^ — J. Puokeridge [pukmridj], ah. {1) The fern-owl or goat-sucker. (2) A disea^ e in calves. ' The country-people have a notion that the fern owl, or chum-owl, or eve-jar, which the^ also call a puckeridge, • is very injurious to weaning-calves, byinfiictmg, as it strikes at them, ' a fatal distemper known to cow-leeches by the name of piKkerukfe.' — Miacdlaneoua Ohservations, by Bev. GKlbert White. See Jar-Bird. Note the numerous names of this bird; viz. fern-owl, ehum-owlf eve^- jar, Jar-hirdy night-^ar^ night-hawky night-crow^ ground-hawk, and puckeridge, all of which seem known in Hants. Puckets [puk*ets], ah.pl. nests of caterpillars. — Cooper. Puok-ueedle [puk-nee*dl], ah, Scandix Pee^e;t.—HoUo way's DieHon,- ary. — J. B.