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 Il me pese sur le cœur. He vexeth me at the heart; J can in no sort abide him, I can by no meanes away with him.  À vn chascun son fardeau poise: Pro. Euerie one is sensible of his owne burthen.  Mal poise qui ne contrepoise: Pro. He weighes but ill that weighes not one with another.  Petite chose de loing poise; &,   Petit fardeau poise à la longue: Pro. A little truße farre-carried seemeth heauie.

Peseur: m. A peiser, weigher; ponderer.

Pesle: m. The boult of a locke.

Pesle: f. as Poile; whence;  Il fait le doux Dieu dessous vne pesle. He behaues himselfe gently, beares himselfe mildly, he is a faire conditioned man; or, he is too nice, quaint, precise; he minces, or simpers it too much.

Pesle-meslé: m. ée: f. Pell-melled, confusedly mingled.

Pesle-mesle. Pell-mell, confusedly, hand ouer head, all on a heape, one with another.

Pesles: f. Thrummes; or that which hangs at the end of a peece of cloth like fringe.

Pesne: m. The boult of a locke.

Peson: m. A wherue, or wherle to put on a spindle; See Pezon. Fusée avec ses pesons. The small Rundle, or Member of Architecture, called otherwise Astragale; and thus called, because it is (commonly) made to resemble many spindles and wherues threaded, or set together.

Pesqueur. as Pescheur. ¶Norm. Pessaire: m. A Peßarie; a great Suppositorie made of soft wooll, and fashioned like a finger.

Pesse. The Pitch tree; also, a kind of pretious stone. Pesseau. as Paisseau. Pesson. as Paisson. Peste: f. The plague, or pestilence; a death, contagion, infection; also, a pestiferous fellow; one that ruines, or spoyles, others.  Remede contre la peste par art, fuïr tost & loing, retourner tard: Prov. Art thus prescribes where plague doth raigne, fly soone and farre, turne late againe.

Pesteil: m. A pestle, or pestell.

Pesteux: m. euse: f. Plaguie, full of the plague; most pestilent infectious, contagious.

Pestifere: com. Pestiferous, pestilent, pernicious, deadlie, infectious, contagious.

Pestiferé: m. ée: f. Infected; or, that hath the plague.

Pestilence: f. A pestilence, or plague.

Pestilent: m. ente: f. Pestilent, plaguie, infectious, contagious.

Pestilentiel. Pestilentiall; or, as Pestilentieux. Pestilentieux: m. euse: f. Pestilentious, full of the pestilence.

Pestiller. To paddle; or, as Petiller; or to patter; to beat thicke and short.

Pestri: m. ie: f. Kneaded; wrought as dough.  Pestri d'eau froide. Effeminate, cowardlie, white-liuered, without spirit, vigor, mettall; dull, cold, and slack in all he does.  Pestri de folle farine. Fond, light, idle, vnprofitable, a trifling fellow.

Pestrir. To knead; to worke, settle, or soften (as dough) with the hands.

Pestrissement: m. A kneading.

Pestrisseur: m. A kneader; a Baker.

Pestrissure: f. A kneading. Pet: m. A fart; scape, tayle-shot, or cracke.  Pet de boulengier. Such a one as makes the Bren to follow.  Pet en gueule. The name of an Yew-game.  Pet de masson. A fart in syrrup, a squittering fart.  I'aymeroy autant tirer vn pet d'un Asne mort, que. J would as soone vndertake to get a fart of a dead man, as &c.   Chantez à l'asne il vous fera des pets: Pro. Looke Asne. Petacé: m. ée: f. Peeced, bepatched.

Petalisme: m. A forme, or sentence, of banishment among the old Syracusans, writing his name whom they would be rid of in an Oliue leafe.

Petarade. See Petarrade. Petarasse: f. A clap, yerke, or stroake on the buttockes; also, the farting of a lustie (and leaping) horse.

Petard. as Petart; also, a Squib.

Petardé: m. ée: f. Petarded, burst open with a Petard.

Petarder. To burst open with a Petard.

Petardier: m. A Petarder; one that vses, or shoots off, a Petard.

Petarrade: f. Gunshot of farting; also, a horses kicking, winsing, or yerking out behind, accompanied, for the most part, with farting.

Petart: m. A Petard, or Petarre; an Engine (made like a Bell, or Morter) wherewith strong gates are burst open.

Petas: m. A mole, or wart; also, a kind of (Rounciuall) Pease.

Petasite: f. Lagwort, Butter-burre (an hearbe.)

Petaud: m. A farter; also, a footman.  C'est la Court du Roy Petaud, ou chascun est maistre: Pro. Applyable to an Anarchie, or a disordered familie, wherein euerie one may doe what he listeth.

Petault. as Petaud. Petauristique: com. Tumbling, vaulting, going vpon ropes, running vpon staues, in the aire.

Petelement: m. as Petelis. Peteler. To stampe, trample, or tread hard, vpon.

Petelis: m. A stamping, or trampling vpon.

Peter. To fart; cracke, let a scape.

Petereau: m. A little fart, or Squib.

Peteuse: f. A small, and bitter fish of the Riuer Seine; as Bouviere. Petiere. Cane petiere. See Canepetiere. Petillages: m. The orders and customes obserued by Marchants in their trading, and custome-paying.

Petillant. Crackling; sparkling; also, stamping, or trampling; also, quaking, or shaking.

Petillement: m. A cracking, or sparkling; also, a quaking, shaking, panting, throbbing; also, a stamping, or trampling; also, the spitting of a candle, &c.

Petiller. To crackle, or sparkle; also, to quake, shake; throb, or pant; beat thicke and short; also, to stampe, or trample.  La lumiere petille. The candle sparkles, or spits.  Vn oeil qui petille. A sparkling, or often-twinckling eye.

Petiot: m. otte: f. Verie little.

Petit: m. The whelpe, cub, or puppie, the little one, or young one, of a beast; whence; Faire ses petits. as vnder Faire.

Petit: m. ite: f. Little, small; exile, slender; young, prettie; scant, scarce, meane, pettie; low, short.