probably at the cart's tail, of course a whore. Should we read perhaps overscrubbed? Scrubbed MV.5, 1. gives a fit meaning. Or overscragged? Oversight, fault, mistake. bHd. 2, 3. Overt, open. 0.1, 3. French ouvert. Overteemed, exhausted by teeming. H. 2, 2. Overweening, arrogant, presumtive, proud, selfconceited. TN. 2, 5. TAn. 2, 1. TG. 3, 1. Ounce, tigercat. MD. 2, 3.

Ouph, fairy or sprite. MW. 4, 4. 5, 5. CE. 2, 2. (where it is the proper reading for owles. Variety of alp, awf, elph.

Ouphen, belonging to ouphs, or fairies. MW. 5, 5. Conjectural reading proposed by Warburton, for orphan.

Ousel, ouzel, blackbird. MD. 3, 1. From oisel oldfr. for oiseau, sax.,osle. But H. 3, 2. for the modern ouzle the old editions read weasel, which is now adopted.

Out, full, completely, quite. T. 1, 2. Out of, without. Cy. 1, 1. Hh. 1, 1. To be out with, to fall out, to have done with, to be at odds, to quarrel and err. JC. 1, 1.

Out, alas! exclamation of grief. WT. 4, 3. RJ. 4, 5.

to Outcraft, to excell in cunning. Cy. 3, 4. to Outlustre, to excel in brightness. Cy. 1, 5. Outlawry, ban, proscription. JC. 4, 3. to Outparamour, to excel in loving. KL.3, 4. to Outstare, to outbrave. Hh. 1, 1. MV. 2, 1. AC. 3, 11. end.

to Outstrip, to surpass, escape. T. 4, 1. Rc. 4, 1. He. 4, 1.

to Owe, to own, have, possess. T. 1, 2. CE. 3, 1. LL. 2, 1. MD. 2, 3. AW. 2, 1. 2, 5. 3, 2. 5, 3. KJ. 2, 1. AC. 4, 8. M. 1, 4.

Owl was a baker's daughter according to a legendary tale alluded to H. 4, 5. by which a baker's daughter, who refused bread to our Saviour, was by him transformed in an owl. Baker, is it perhaps kin to the gr. baxis, bazō, phatis?

Orlip, the greater cowslip, germ. Maaslieb, primula veris elatior. MD. 2, 2.

P.

Pace, certain and prescribed walk. AW. 4, 5. to Pace, to lead, conduct. MM. 4, 4. Pack, crowd, rabble, joined with sects KL. 5, 3. Horne Tooke Div. of P. II, 369. derives pack, patch, page from paecan, paeccean, to deceive by false appearances, imitation, resemblance, semblance or representation, to counterfeit, to delude, illude, dissemble, impose upon. It seems also kin to the gr. pago, pegō, pegnymi, lat. pango, engl. baggage, fagot.

to Pack, to agree, to join, bHf. 3, 2. to unite in bad designs, to complot. M.5, 1; to mingle cards artfully, to put them together in an unfair manner. KL. 3, 1. AC. 4, 12

to Paddle, to dally fingering. WT. 1, 2. H. 3, 4. 0. 2, 1. So virginalling upon his palm WT. 1, 2. Kin to the gr. patassō. Paddock, toad. H. 3, 4. Perhaps from the gr. batrachos. Douce's Ill. of Sh. 1, 368. to Page, to tend like a page. TA. 4, 8. Page seems to originate in the gr. pais, paidion, paidiskos.

Pageant, show exhibited on solemnities of every kind chiefly a puppet, or drama. They were presented on stages erected in the streets.

Originally they were dumb shows but before Sh. enlivened by the introduction of speaking personages, characteristically habited. Very costly ornaments were bestowed on them. S. Warton's hist. of poetry II, 199. 202.; metaphorically pompous appearance, deluding glittering show. T. 4, 1. TG. 4, 8. MD. 3, 2. MV. 1, 1. AL. 2, 7. 3, 4. Rc. 4, 1. bHf. 1, 2. Re. 4, 4. AC. 4, 12. TC. 3, 3. O. 1, 3. It seems kin to the gr. paignion, paignia.

Pail, bucket. TS. 2, tow. end. By pailfuls T. 2, 2. Kin to the gr. pella, pelle, pellas, pelys, pelix, lat. pelvis, lowsax. balje, tub, tray, piggin, bowl, gr. pyelos, pyelis, phiale.

Painted cloth; a species of hangings for rooms, really cloth or canvas, pointed in oil, with various devices and mottos, the subject of allusion in AL. 3, 2.

Palabras, words; Spanish. MA. 3, 4. corrupted in paucas pallabris TS. 1, 1.

Pale, division, place set apart from another. WT. 4, 2. as the english pale in Ireland, comprehending the four counties of Louth, Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Carlow. S. Gifford's Ben Jons. VII, 239; hedge. aHf. 4, 2. Rb. 3, 4. Kin to pile, and balk.

to Pale, to encompass, inclose with pales, piles, stakes, He. 5. chor. AC. 2, 7; to put on a pale. clif. 1, 4.

Pale, bleak. TS. 2, 1. Rc. 2, 1. Kin to the gr. phalos, phalios, germ. fahl, gr. polios, peleios, lat. pallere, helvus, gilvus, germ. gelb. Palfray, horse, steed, courser. bHf. 4, TɅn. 5, 2. He. 3, 7. French palefroi, ital. palafreno, middlelat. paraveredus, paraveredum, parafredus, palafredus. The word is much disfigured, probably from the germ. Pferd, pers. and arab. paras, hebr. pharash, phered; lat. veredus from veheredus, according to Festus, by vehere, by which it is assimilated and explained.

to Pall, to grow flat, unsavoury. H. 5, 2. AC. 2, 7; to cover, veil. M. 1, 5. The word floats between to appall, from pale, wh. s. and pallium, pall.

Pallet, pallat, straw. bHd. 3, 1. From paille. Palliament, a robe, the white gown of a roman candidate. TAn. 1, 2. Palmer, a wandering votary of religion, vowed to have no settled home, so called from carrying a staff or bough of palm, especially when he came from Jerusalem. AW. 3, 5. bHƒ. 5, 1. S. Staveley's romish horseleach 1769. p. 93. in Dodsley's old plays I, 49.

Palmy, grown to full height, victorious, glorious. H. 1, 1.

Palsy, paralysis (whereof it is contraction) gout. Rb. 2, 3. bHf. 4, 7. TC. 5, 1. 1, 3. to Palter, to shuffle with ambiguous expressions, or to speak contradictorily, to deceive, delude, dodge. M. 5, 7. JC. 2, 1. AC. 3, 9. TC. 5, 2. Co. 3, 1. Kin to the gr. pallein, ballein, properly to squander away an estate. Paltry, sorry, bad, pitiful. MW. 2, 1. TS. 4, 3. AC. 5, 2. Kin to the preceding by pallein, lat. pellere. Lowsax. palterig, ragged, tattered, Palten, rags cut or torn off.

to Pamper, to cram, fill with food, or luxnriously, to fatten chiefly with dainties. bHd. 2, 4. Rc. 2, 2. Kin to the prov. germ. pampen, Bämme, gr. bamba for bamma, from baptō, to dive, to put into the deep. Pancy. S. pansy.

foot and the coronet of a horse; the legs of a human creature, in contempt. He. 3, 7. No doubt kin to the gr. patos, pus, foot, germ. Patsche, fr. patte, engl. patten, paw, germ. Pfote.

Past, in compounding with substantives, as past care, past hope, past recovery, out of Pastry, the place where pastry work is made. RJ. 4, 4. From paste, wh. s. Pat, fit, convenient, forthwith, exactly suitable to time or place. MD. 3, 1. 5, 1. KL. 1, 2. H. 3, 3. Kin to the gr. patos, of course patasso. The original and general notion of it seems to have been the beating and marking of the measure, whence in germ. klappen for to be suitable, to fit, and the lowsax. phrase klapp und klar.

to Patch, to mend a defect, or breach, to piece. MA. 5, 1. bld. 2, 4. Co. 3, 1. Variety of to bodge, and botch, kin to the ital. pezzo, fr. pièce, hebr. put, scrap, fr. rapétusser, venet. bezzo, a small coin, lat. dispesco, and passus from pando; germ. Fetzen, hamb. Fudden, rags; brem. fuddeln, germ. pfuschen. Patch, a fool, a patch'd fool (MD. 4, 1.) MD. 3, 3. MV. 2, 5. Perhaps there assonates the ital. pazzo.

Pate, head. MW. 2, 1. O. 2, 1. bHf. 5, 1. Cy. 2, 1. Abbreviation of patella, patina; from patere.

Patent, privilege, charter. MD. 1, 1. AW.4, 5. 0.4, 1.

to Path, to go on as in a path. JC. 2, 1. Kin to the gr. pateo, pus, engl. foot, wade etc. Pathetical, affected, or affecting falsely. LL. 4, 1. AL. 4, 1.

to Patient, to compose, tranquillize. TɅn. 1, 2.

of the mass was given to be kissed at the time of offering. Dufresne. He. 3, 6. where the old quarto spelt packs. Its general form was that of a flat iron, for smoothing linen, except that it is so much smaller, on the surface of which is represented the crucifixion, in embossed figures, with the Virgin and some others standing at the foot of the cross. Nares.

to Peach, to impeach. alid. 2, 2. MM. 4, 3. to Peak, to look, or be sickly, sickish. M. 1,3; to sneak. H. 2, 2. MW. 3, 5. Kin to fickle, wh. s.

Peal, loud echoing quaking sound as of guns, bells etc. M. 3, 2. allƒ. 2, 3. TɅn. 2, 2. to Pear, to appear. H. 4, 5. MW. 4, 2. Pearl, any thing very valuable, the choice or best part. M. 5, 7. From the germ. Beerlein. Peascod, the shell of pease growing or gathered; formerly used as an ornament in dress, and represented with the shell open exhibiting the peas. LL. 2, 4. Drake's Sh. and his time II, 95. Cod is the germ. Schote, from kyo, kytkō, keuthō, kin to cottage, wh. s.

Peat, pet, a delicate person, applied usually to a young female, but often ironically as meaning a spoiled, fondled, pampered favourite. TS. 1, 1. From petit.

Pedigree, genealogical tree. cHf. 3, 3. He. 2, 4. From the gr. pais, boy, and degré, gradus.

Pedlar, pedler, hawker, wandering merchant. WT. 4, §. bHf. 4, 2. From ped, a basket. Peel'd, stripped or bald, whether by shaving or disease. Applied to monks and other ecclesiastics. aHf. 1, 8. cf. MM. 1, 2. Peer, s. to 'Pear.

Peevish, as term of contempt, foolish, idle, trifling. He. 3, 7; childish. aHf. 5, 3. cHf. 5,6; wilful, stubborn, headstrong. Rc. 4, 4. Cy. 1,6: irascible, morose, sullen, sour, gloomy, mad. CE. 4, 1. 2. weak, silly. AL. 3, 5. From babe, kin to boy, analogically to pettish, gr. paidiskos, paizein, meaning the whole irritable nature of a child, chiefly its wilfulness, stubbornness and morosity arising from physical unwieldiness.

Pega-Ramsey, old song alluded to TN. 2, 3. indecent, says Percy.

to oppress. Rc. 5, 3; to protract, whence it is joined with to draw out in length and to eke MV. 3, 2; to weigh, estimate. bă. 2, 1. From the fr. peser, poids, lat. pondus.

Pelf, paltry, stuff, money, riches, chiefly contemptible. TA. 1, 2. Anciently pelfry, pelfray, middlelat. pelfra. It is identified to paltry by Todd. The etymology however seems uncertain, unless paille, palea, peel, or somewhat of this kind may transpire.

Pelt, to knock, throw, cast, strike, smite. 0.2, 1. aHf. 3, 1; to chafe, fret and fume, to be clamorous as men are in passion. Pelting, the chafe, rage, bluster. KL. 3, 4; mean, paltry, contemptible, wee, despicable. MD.5, 1. MM. 2,2. Rc. 2, 1. TC. 4, 5. KL.2, 3. In this last meaning pelting seems for pelted, cast away. The word belongs partly to pallein, pellein, ballein, lat. pulsare, germ. poltern, partly to peel.

to Pen up, to close up. T. 1, 2. Cy. 1, 2. RJ. 1, 1. blif. 2, 4. cHf. 1, 3. Pent, pressed, anxious, afflicted. Rc. 1, 4. A conglomeration,

Pensioners, gentlemen about the prince, or court attendants always ready with their speare, or spearet, unto whom was assigned the sum of 50 pounds yearly for the maintenance of themselves, and every man two horses, or one horse and a gelding of service. MW. 2, 2. MD. 5, 1. Perdu, a soldier sent on a forlorn hope, any person in a desperate state. KL. 4, 7. Fr. enfant perdu.

Perdurably, lastingly. MM. 3, 1.
Perfect, certain, well informed. WT. 3, 3.
Cy. 3, 3. 4, 2. M. 4, 2.

to Perfect, to make perfect for some errand,
to instruct. MM. 4, 3.
Periapt, bandage tied on for magical purposes.
aHf. 5, 4. Amulets of different kinds were
worn about the neck (gr. periaptein), as reme-
dies against sickness, murderers, thieves,
hunger, evil spirits, hags, mad dogs etc. So
the agnus dei a flawn with a lamb and flag, and
head of Christ, in the mid the first chapter of
St. John.
Perigenia, or Periguna, daughter of Sinnis,
or Sinis, a great highwayman on the isthmus
between Greece and Morea, who tore the tra-
vellers by firs bent down and rebounding. MD.
2, 2.

to Period, to put a stop to, to end. TA. 1, 1. to Perish, actively, to destroy. bHf. 3, 2. to Perk up, to dress, adorn, trim, deck. Hh. 2, 3. Properly it means to prank, prance, prink, from the oldgerm. brehen, brennen; it belongs therefore to the hebr. boar, to burn, baer, burning; bright, gr. pyr, fire; germ. brecht, glancing, clear, cambr. berth, engl. pert, sax. beorht, byrht, clear, beorhte, light, byrhto, beorhtnysse, splendor, brilliantness; franc. beraht, bereht, breht, berth; germ. prangen, prunken, engl. to prance, prink, prank; sanscr. prakâshahah, light, splendor, lightning, day.

Perspective, a kind of optical deception, showing different objects through or in the glass from what appeared without it. TN. 5, 1. For perspective is the object seen, and that by or through what it is seen, as tube, glass. So AW. 5, 3. a metamorphotic glass; He. 5, 2. a spying glass; Rb. 2, 2. images on a furrowed board, which, rightly gaz'd upon Shew nothing but confusion, ey'd awry Distinguish form. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 117.

Pert, brisk, lively. MD. 1, 1. sly, cunning. LL.

5, 2.

gr. patein, pus, lat. pes, pedis.

Pew, churchseat. KL. 3, 4. From the ital. pieve, middlelat. plebes, plebs, laics of one parish church.

Pew fellow, a person who sat in the same pew at church; a companion. Rc. 4, 4. 1, 1. with Steevens.

Pewter, considered as costly furniture. TS. 2. tow. end. From the fr. espeautre, old peutre, germ. Spiautr.

to Pheeze, feaze, feize, to chastize, or beat, teaze, toze, harrass, plague, comb the head. TS. 1, 1. TC. 2, 3. From the germ. Fase, Fäslein, Fäschen, kin to Faden, whence properly to separate a twist into single threads, germ. ausfasen. In the same time there seems to assonate the gr. paiphassō, to move vehemently and rashly, sphadazō, phazō, phaō, sphaō, sphazō, to kill.

Philip, contr. Phip, a familiar appellation for a sparrow; hence the allusion KJ. 1, 1. to Physic, to give physic, cordial, to assuage. WT. 1, 1.

Philip's, St., daughters aHf. 1, 2. S. Actt.

21, 9.

Phlegmatic, inflammatory. TS. 4, 3. Phoenix tree T. 3, 3. date tree, with whom the phoenix was said to dye and to revive of itself, as the tree sprung again. S. Plin. H. N. 13, 4.

Physnomy, corrupt contraction for physiognomy, face, countenance. AW. 4, 5.

to Pick, to shoot, cast. Hh. 5, 3. Co. 1, 1. Fr. piquer.

Picked, nicely spruced out in dress. Metaphor taken from birds, who dress themselves by picking out or pruning their broken or superfluous feathers. LL. 5, 1. KJ. 1, 1. H. 5, 1. Picker, one who picks, culls; thief, stealer, with whom it is joined H. 3, 2. Picking. Steevens at bHd. 4, 1. explains it by piddling, insignificant, probably because it is joined there, as Sh. wants to do, with dainty, so that it would assonate the spanish pequeno. But wherefore should it not be gnowing, piercing?

Pickthank, flatterer, a person who is studious to gain favour, or to pick occasions for obtaining thanks. alld. 3, 2. Douce's Ill. of Sh. I, 433.

Pick thatch, a' tavern or brothel in Turnmill, commonly called Turnbull street, Cowcross, Clerkenwell, noted for bawdy houses, harbours for thieves and pickpockets. MW.2, 2. Gifford's Ben Jons. I, 17. IV, 48.

Piel'd. S. peerd.

Pier, pire (Euph. 42.) darn, dike, bank. He. 3. ch. Sax. per, pere, kin to the germ. Wehr, Werft, Werder, bar, barre, barrière, verrou. Pight, pitched. TC. 5,11; determined. KL. 2, 1. In the first meaning kin to the gr. pissa, it. pece; in the second to pēssō, pēttō, pēgnyō. pegō. S. pitch and pay. Pignut, earthnut. T. 2, 2.

Pilch, pilchard, pilcher, scabbard, sheath, furred case. RJ.3, 1. Gifford Ben Jons. II, 445. explains it by skin, covering of fur, woollen etc. Sh's contemporaries use it for a buff jerkin, or leather coat. It is from pelliceus, pellis,