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 Petit bras. The vpper part of the arme, from the elbow to the shoulder.  Petit cheval de Dieu. The little Jnsect called, a Lady-*cow.  Petits choux. A kind of puffe-cakes of two sorts; the one round, and plump as an apple; the other also round, but much flatter.  La petite oye. The Goose-giblets; Looke Oye. Petit pied. See Pied. Petit à petit. Faire and softly, now one and then one, wiredrawer-like; by leisure, degrees, pawses, little peeces, or parcels.  Faire le petit. To bow, encline, or humble himselfe; to lowte it, or beare himselfe lowly; also, to liue meanely, neerely, or poorely; to make no manner of shew in the world.  Petit à petit on va bien loing: Pro. Faire and softly goeth farre.  Petite chose de loing poise; &, Petit fardeau poise à la longue: Prov. A light thing farre borne heauie growes.  Petit homme abat grand chesne: Pro. A low man fells a tall Oke.  Petite pluye abat grand vent: Pro. See Grand. Les petis ruisseaux font les grandes rivieres: Pro. Of narrow brookes come nauigable riuers.  De petit petit, & d'assez assez: Prov. Of a little take a little, of a mickle mickle.  De petite chose peu de plaid: Prov. A sleight cause needeth but sleight canuassing.  De petit enfant petit dueil: Pro. Seeke Enfant. De petit esguillon poind on bien grande asnesse: Pro. The little goad pricks on the great she Asse.  De petit peché petit pardon: Prov. Small pardon will suffice for a small fault.  Du petit vient on au grand: Pro. See Grand. En petit buisson trouve on grand lievre; &,  En petite cheminée fait on bien grand feu; &,   En petite maison Dieu à grand part; &,   En petite teste gist grand sens; &,   Es petites boistes met on les bons onguens. (Prouerbs in commendation of little things.)  De grands vanteurs petis faiseurs: Pro. Great boast, and small roast; big words poore worke; the more you talke the leße you will doe.  Tel est petit qui boit bien: Prov. A little man may haue a great swallow.

Petitement. Smally, slenderly; scarcely, scantly; meanely, poorely, lowlily; shortly, lowly.

Petitesse: f. Smallnesse, littlenesse; prettinesse; exilitie, slendernesse, exiguitie; scarcitie, scantneße; poorenesse, meanenesse; lowlinesse; shortnesse, lowneße, youngnesse.

Petiteur: f. as Petitesse. Petition: f. A petition; suit, request, requirall, demaund.

Petitoire: m. A petition; clayme, demaund.

Petitoire: com. Petitorie; clayming, demaunding, requiring.  Action petitoire. A Cloyme; a Writ of right, an action of demaund.

Petitose: f. The garbage of fowle; (an old word.)

Peton: m. A little foot; also, the slender staulke of a leafe, or of a fruit.  Mon peton. My prettie springall, my gentle impe; (any such flattering, or dandling phrase, bestowed by nurses on their suckling boyes.)

Petoncle: m. A Cockle, or small Scallop. Petonner. To pat, or tread downe the earth by often stepping, or trampling on it.

Petoucle. as Petoncle. Petrar: m. A wild Sparrow, leße then the tame one. ¶Orlean. Petrarquiser. To Petrarkise it, to write like a passionate louer.

Petreux. Os pet. The bone of the Temples; one of the eight bones whereof the skull consists.

Petrification: f. A petrification; a making stonie, a turning into stone.

Petrifié: m. ée: f. Made stonie, turned into stone.

Petrifier. To make stonie, to turne into stone.

Petrinal: m. A Petronell, or horsemans peece.

Petrir. Seeke Pestrir. Petrol: m. Petrole, & Petrolle: f. as Naphte. Petteler. as Peteler. Petulance: f. Petulancie, malapertnesse, impudencie, sawcinesse.

Petum: m. Tobacco.  Petum femelle. English Tobacco; the right yellow Henbane; or a small kind of Nicotian.  Petum masle. Nicotian, French Tobacco.

Peu. (A Participle of the verbe Paistre) fed, eaten, repasted, pastured.

Peu. (Of the Verbe Pouvoir) I'ay peu. I could, or might haue beene able.

Peu. (An Aduerbe of quantitie) little, small, scant, scarce, few; a pittance, modicum, small deale, slender companie, almost nothing, or no bodie.  Peu à peu. See Petit à petit. Peu plus peu moins. Little more or leße, thereabouts.  Peu s'en faut; &, à peu pres. Almost, wellnigh, verie neere, lacking but little, missing but narrowly, likelie to haue beene.  Peu souvent. Seldome, rarely, not verie often.  Homme de peu. A worthlesse, poore, or weake-spirited, fellow.  C'est trop peu d'un. One is too few; or thats too few by one.  Tant soit peu. But verie sleightly, neuer so little.  Peu de chose ne fait qu'un peu de mal: Prov. A little thing does but a little harme.  Peu à peu le loup mange l'oye: Prov. Bit after bit the Wolfe eates vp the Goose.  Peu & paix est don de Dieu: Pro. A little with quietnesse is Gods owne gift.  De peu de chose peu de prose: Pro. Little done soone deliuered, little acted quickly vttered.  Qui peu seme peu prend: Prov. Of small seeding a small crop.  Trois beaucoup, & trois peu destruisent l'homme: Pro. viz. To speake much, and know but little; to spend much, and haue but little; to presume much, and be but little.

Peucedane: m. Horse-strong, Hore-strange, Sow fennell, Sulpherwort.

Pevier. Canon pevier. A Cannon Peuier, or Perrier; See Canon.

Peuille. as Peulle.

Peulle: f. Before new money be deliuered out of the Mint, an Officer called L'Essayeur diuides a peece thereof into foure parts; one he giues to the Maister, a second vnto the Wardens of the Mint; the other two he keepes, and touches, or makes a triall of, one of them: Now each of these parts wrapt vp in a peece of paper, (specifying the quantitie, weight, allay, and day of deli-*