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 Pas de larron. See Larron. Pas de Lion. Lions foot, Lions paw, great Sanicle, our Ladies mantle.  Le pas de la mort. The path of death; a step vnto it, or, the point of it.  Trois pas, & vn saut. The Almond, or Alman, leape.  Vn pas, & vn saut. A Pace, and a Leape; a Manage, or Ayre in Horsemanship, tearmed otherwise, the Paßasalto, or Gallop Galliard.  Lettres de pas. Passes, or Pasports.  Vn faux pas. A slip, or misse, in footing; and hence, a fault, error, or mistaking; also, a false, or hollow peece of ground that sinkes vnder a mans foot as he goes.  Mauvais pas. Jll way.  Plus viste que le pas. Exceeding fast, or as fast as his legs would carrie him.  Aller à pas menu. To goe nicely, tread gingerly, mince it like a maid.  Aller le pas. To pace, or goe a foot pace, to walke faire and softly, or faire and leisurely.  Courir en deux pas vn saut. To runne speedily, swiftly, in hast, apace.  I'auray fait en deux pas & vn saut. J shall haue dispatched in a trice.  Entamer le pas. To begin, or breake the ice; to lead the way, or the daunce; to make an entrie, or ouerture, vnto.  Fermer le pas à. To stop the way, to interrupt or stay the proceeding of.  La Mort l'attend à deux pas pres. Death is at his elbow, within an ynch of him, readie to seize on him.  Passer le pas. To goe the way of all flesh; to dye.  Plaindre ses pas. Looke Plaindre. Tailler le pas à. as Entamer le pas. To begin vnto.  Pas à pas le bœuf prend le lievre: Pro. Step after step the Ox doth catch a Hare; by diligence, and continuance in a direct course the dullest wit comes to great knowledge.  Pas à pas on va bien loing: Pro. Step after step goes farre.

Pas. (A Particle that euer inforces, or addes weight vnto, a Negatiue;) not at all, no way possibly, by no manner of meanes.  Non pas? ''Art thou not? is it not? are we not? &c.''

Pascage: m. Grasing, feeding, or pasturing of Cattell.

Pascal. as Paschal. Paschal: m. ale: f. Paschall; of, in, or belonging to, the feast of Easter.  L'Agneau paschal. The Paschall Lambe; or the Paße-*ouer.

Paschier: m. A Pasture Ground; or a Ground thats fit, or serues, for nought but the pasturing of cattell.

Pascrit: m. ite: f. Faded, discoloured, dryed, out of season.

Pasle: com. Pale, wan, bleake, whitish.  Les pasles couleurs. The greene Sicknesse.  Couleur pasle. The decayed, vaded, or imperfect yellow colour of Box-wood, &c.

Paslement. Palely, wanly, bleakely.

Pasleur: f. Paleneße, wannesse, lewneße, bleaknesse, whitishnesse.

Se Paslir. To wax pale, wan, bleake.

Pasmaison: f. A Crampe; or, as Pasmoison. Pasmé: m. ée: f. Fallen in a swoone.  Vn Dauphin d'argent pasmé. Hariant (in Blason.)

Se Pasmer. To swoone; to fall into a traunce, or swoone.

Pasmoison: f. A swoone, or swoonding; a traunce (caused by an extreame crampe, or conuulsion.)

Pasnage: m. Pawnage; Mastage; the money receiued, or profit made, by the Lord of a Forrest for the Agistement, or feeding of Swine with the Mast, or (wherein our pawnage commeth short, and the French is not generall) of Cattell with the herbage, thereof.

Pasque, ou Pasques. (The feast of) Easter.  Pasques closes. Rogation Sunday.  Pasque fleurie. Palme Sunday.  Pasque de soles. The same.  Devoir de Pasques. A Lambe at Easter, due vnto the Curates of some places from euerie Sheepmaister within their Parishes.  Oeufs de Pasques. Paste-egges; egges giuen to children at Easter.  Donner des oeufs de Pasques à toutes restes. To thwacke soundly.  Faire Pasques. To communicate; or, to receiue the Sacrament.  Se faire marchand de poisson la vieille de Pasques; &, se faire poissonnier la vigile de Pasques. To enter into a course, or vndertake an action, in an vnfit, or vnseasonable time.  Pasques long temps desirées sont en vn iour tost passées: Prov. The long-desired Passeouer is in a day past ouer.  Apres Pasques, & Rogatons fy de prestre, & d'oignons: Prov. Looke Oignon. À Noel au perron, à Pasques au tison: Prov. At Christmas in the Sunne, at Easter by the fire.

Pasqueages. Pastures, or pasture grounds.

Pasquenade: f. A Parsenip.

Pasquerages, & Pasqueraiges. as Paschiers. Pasquerette: f. A little Daisie.

Pasques. Looke Pasque. Pasquette: f. A Daisie.

Pasquil. as Pasquille; or, as Pasquin. Pasquille: f. A Pasquill; a Libell clapt on a Poste, or Jmage.

Pasquin: m. The name of an Image, or Poste in Rome, whereon Libels and defamatorie Rimes are fastened, and fathered; also, as Pasquille. Pasquis: m. Pastures, or pasture grounds.  L'Oison n'est pas digne de monstrer les pasquis à l'oye: Pro. Looke vnder Oison. Passable: com. Passable, tollerable, indifferent, currant enough; also, which may be trauelled through, or passed ouer.

Passablement. Paßably, tollerably, indifferently, reasonably, meanely, so so.

Passade: f. An almes, beneuolence, or intertainment giuen by, or to, a passenger; also, the manage for combat, or souldiors manage; a gallopping, or managing of a horse forward, and suddainely backe the same way; any course backward, and forward.  La mer se manie à passades. (A speech whereby the swift course of the flowing, and ebbing of the sea, on the Sandes, or Washes, is meant.)  Prendre la passade. To refresh himselfe, in a long iourney, at a friends house, or elsewhere.

Passadoux: m. An Arrow. ¶Gasc.