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 Perse: f. The piercing of a vessell.

Persecuté: m. ée: f. Persecuted, prosecuted; followed with extremitie; vexed, afflicted continually.

Persecuter. To persecute, prosecute; follow with extremitie; vex, or afflict continually.

Persecution: f. Persecution, prosecution, a cruell following of, extreame pursuit after.

Perseguier. as Perfiguier. Perse-pierre. See Perce-pierre. Perser. Looke Percer. Perseveramment. Perseueringly, continuingly, constantly, stedfastly.

Perseverance: f. Perseuerance, continuance, constancie, a resolute sticking to, or abiding by.

Perseverant. Perseuering, persisting, stedfast, constant, continuing to the end in.

Perseverer. To perseuer, persist, continue, or abide by; to hold stiffly, maintaine stoutly, stedfastly to remaine in, a good course, or opinion.

Persicaire. Dead Arsesmart, dead Culerage, Ciderage, Peachwort.

Persien. Persian, of Persia; whence, Feu Persien''. Looke'' Feu. Persil: m. Parsely.  Persil aigrun. Wild Parseley, great water Parseley, sallade Parseley, Belldars, Bellrags.  Persil Alexandrin. Alexanders.  Persil d'asne. Asse-Parseley, wild Cheruill, mocke Cheruill, great Cheruill, sweet Cheruill, Mirrhis Cash, or Kex.  Persil bastard. Bastard Parseley, Hennes-foot.  Persil d'eau. Water Parseley, sallade Parseley; also, as Persil de marais. Persil de Macedoine. Hearbe Alexanders, or Ali-*saunders; also, rocke Parseley, stone Parseley.  Persil de marais. Smallage; or, wild water Parseley.  Persil de montaigne. Mountaine Parseley.  Persil de roc, ou de rocher. Rocke Parseley, stone Parseley, strange Parseley, true Parseley.  Persil sauvage. Wild Parseley.  Persil vray. Stone Parseley; (though the least common, yet held the truest, Parseley.)  Grand persil. Great Parseley, hearbe Alexanders.  Gresler sur le persil. To venture boldly on, or swagger extreamely with, a knowne-weake aduersarie.

Persin. as Persil. Persister. To persist, perseuer, continue, hold out, stand to, abide by.

Persoir: m. A Piercer.

Personat: m. A Place, or Title of honor, enioyed by a beneficed person, without any manner of Jurisdiction, in the Church.

Personate: f. The Clote, or great Burre.

Personier. See Personnier. Personnage: m. A personage, bodie, person; also, a part in a Play, or part-player; an actor; also, a counterfeit, image, resemblance, of; also, a visard, a false or masking, face.  Vn livre à personnages. A Dialogue.  Faict à personnages. Wrought with Jmagerie, or Antickes.

Personne: f. A person, wight, creature, bodie; also (with a Negatiue) no bodie. Les Meubles suyvent la personne; viz. are disposed of according to the custome of the place wherein a man dwelled at the time of his death; so that by Personne not so much his bodie, as the place of his ordina-* *rie residence, is vnderstood (in the customes of Amiens, Arras, & Cambray.)

Personnel: m. elle: f. Personall, in person, bodilie, belonging to the person, or bodie.  Cour personnelle. Wherein suitors are to appeare, and plead, in person, and not by atturney.  Debtes personnelles. Debts due by a Bill, or Scroll, or vpon a bare promise.  Tailles personnelles. Jmposed, or leuied by Poll; and whereunto not the land, but the person, of the subiect is lyable.

Personnellement. Personally, in person, by presence, bodily, with the bodie.

Personnerie: f. A Partnership, or Coparcenership; a contributing, sharing, ioyning, or enioying, with another.

Personnier: m. A Partner, in trading; also, a Coheire, or Coparcener; and, a Joint-tenant, or Tenant in common; also, a contributor with others in the payment of taxes, or other publicke duties; also, one that ioynes in an Action, or Suit with another; also, an accessarie, or complice in an offence, or tres-*paße.

Personnier: m. ere: f. Partaking, sharing; contributing; acceßarie; ioyning, or enioying, with another.  Moulin personnier. A common Mill.

Perspective: f. The Perspectiue, Prospectiue, or Opticke (Art.)

Perspicacité: f. Perspicacitie; quicke sight, nimble insight, readie apprehension, sharpe vnderstanding.

Perspicuité: f. Perspicuitie, cleerenesse, or plainenesse of speech.

Perspirable: com. Which may be breathed through.

Perspiration: f. A perspiration, or breathing through.

Perspité: m. ée: f. Sprinckled, bedeawed, moistened.

Perstraindre. as Perstreindre. Perstreindre. To wring, or squeeze hard; also, to course, checke, chide, be verie round with.  Pour le perstreindre en vn mot. To be briefe, or make short; to restraine it within, knit it vp in, comprehend it vnder, one word.

Persuadé: m. ée: f. Persuaded; moued, induced, exhorted, aduised vnto.

Persuader. To persuade; aduise, exhort, moue, induce, vnto; to make beleeue, breed beliefe, put into the head, make sinke into the thought, or mind.

Persuadeur: m. A persuader; aduiser, counsellor, mouer, inducer vnto.

Persuasible: com. Persuasible, persuadeable.

Persuasiblement. Persuadeably.

Persuasif: m. iue: f. Persuasiue, persuading, aduising, inducing, mouing.

Persuasion: f. A persuasion; aduice, inducement; beliefe.

Persuasoire: com. Persuasorie, persuasiue, persuading.

Pert. Il pert. of Paroir; it appeareth.

Perte: f. Losse, dammage, detriment; hinderance; ruine, decay. Perte de finance. Losse of the publicke treasure by a violent robberie; decay of priuat substance by exceßiue, or needlesse Vsurie; whence, Prendre à perte de finance. Looke Prendre. Perte des fruicts. Is incurred by a vassall, when a Lord hath entred on his land for want of homage, and due seruices done him; the like is; La pure perte du vassal.