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 Picardiser. To Picardize it; to speake, or doe like a Picard.

Picarel: m. The small, and white Cackarell fish, whereof the best Garum, or pickle is made.

Pication: f. A pitching, or bepitching.

Piccadilles: f. Piccadilles; the seuerall diuisions or peeces fastened together about the brimme of the collar of a doublet, &c.

Piccon: m. A prickle, or small pricke.

Piccoter. as Piquoter. Piccotin. See Picotin. Picé: m. ée: f. Pitched, or pitchie.

Piceastre. The wild Pitch tree.

Picée: f. The Pitch tree.

Pichier: m. A Pitcher (pot.) ¶Langued. Picmart: m. A Speight, Woodpecker, Highaw, Hickway.

Picorée: f. Picorie; a forraging, ransacking, spoyling of, or preying on, the (poore) countreyman (friend, or foe.)

Picorer. To forrage, ransacke, rifle, rob, or prey vpon, the poore husbandman, be he friend, or foe.

Picoreur: m. A boothaler (in a friends countrey;) a rauening, or filching souldior.

Picotage: m. A pricking here and there; also, a spotting, or speckling.

Picote: f. The small Pocks.

Picoté: m. ée: f. Spotted, specked, or speckled; also, pricked, or stung often.

Picoter. See Piquoter. Picoterie: f. A girding, nipping, or quipping, in speeches; a iarre, odds, or dispute, in words.

Picoteure: f. A pricke; a spot; a freckle, or pimple; See Piquoteure. Picotin: m. A (French) Pecke; or, the fourth part of a Boisseau; comes to about fiue Pints of our measure; and is vsed onely in the measuring of Oates.

Picoture: f. as Picoteure. Picquamment. Prickingly, piercingly.

Picquant. See Piquant. Picque: f. A Spade, at Cards; also, as Pique. C'est bien rentré de picques noires. Yea marry sir, now you haue hit it; (Ironically.)

Picquement, & Picquer. as Piquement, & Piquer. Picqueron: m. A little Pike; a Jaueline, or Dart; See Piqueron. Picque-seiche. Looke Pique-seiche. Picquet: m. A little Pickax, or Mattocke; also, the peg, or sticke thrust downe into the earth by a Surueyor that measures with cord, or chaine.

Picqueure. as Piqueure. Picquier: m. A Pike-man, a Corselet.

Picquois: m. A Pickax.

Picquot: m. A prickle, or small pricke.

Picquoté, & Picquoter. See Piquoté, & Piquoter. Picte. A (French) farthing; the fourth part of the Denier.

Pictre. The breast, bosome, or stomacke.

Picts: m. The bulke, or pitch of the bodie; (or more properly) as Pis. Pié: m. as Pied; a foot, &c.

Pie: f. A Pye, Pyannat, Meggatapye. Pie ancrouëlle, ou engroüée. A Waryangle; or, as vnder Engroüé. Pie escrayere. The same. ¶Savoyard. Pie griesche. The same; a rauenous bird, not altogether so big as a Thrush. Pie de mer. The Oliue, or sea-Pye; a daintie fowle.  Maigre comme vne pie. We say (to the same purpose) as fat as a Henne's on the forhead.  Monté iusques au nid de la pie. At his full height; as great, rich, or powerfull as euer he can, or will, be.  Vous ne fustes onques de mauvaise pie couvez. You are of no ill progenie; you haue no taint of ill breeding in you.

Pie: f. Drinke, bowsing, liquor; also, a Goose, the broyled thicke skinne of a peece of Beefe; also, the monstrous appetite of maides, and big-bellied women, vnto Coales, Ashes, Paper, and such other vnnaturall meats.  C'est vn croque la pie. He is a notable toße-pot, or licke-spiggot.

Pie: com. Pious, godlie, religious, holie, deuout; mercifull, gentle; also, pied; or blacke and white as a Pie.  Pie mere de la teste. Looke Mere. Pieça. A great while since, long agoe; also, heretofore, or in times past.

Piece: f. A peece, parcell, part, fragment; morcell; gobbet, lumpe, cantill; share of.  La piece du chef. A French Coyfe; the Sattin Coyfe worne now-adayes by diuers of our Ladies, and Gentlewomen.  Piece de drap. A whole Cloth (as well as a peece of Cloth.)  Piece de huict heures. as Aloyau; tearmed so, because the Clarks of the Palace commonly fetch it at the Cookes about eight of the clocke in the morning.  Piece à pommette. Looke Pommette. Les pieces d'un Procez. The Bookes, Pleadings, or Copies of Jnstruments, vsed in a Suit.  Gens de toutes pieces. Men of all sorts, and qualities, tag-rag, wise and fooles, rich and poore, one with another.  La grande piece. The vpmost, and broadest peece of a Pouldron; or, a broad peece of Armour thats placed betweene the bottome of the helmet, and the Pouldron.  La haute piece. The Pouldron.  En piece. Of a long time, of a great while.  Ie n'aurois en piece dit, ne fait, cela. I would not for any thing haue done, &c, the least part of that.  À chef de piece. Jn the end, at the length; or, after a long time.  Il n'y a piece d'eux. There is not one among them.  Tout d'une piece. All of a peece; also, of one whole colour; of onely one colour all ouer.  Ie ne sçay quelle piece couldre à cecy. J know not what helpe to apply, what art to imploy, in this; J know not how to remedie, supply, repaire, it.

Piecette: f. A shred, bit, morsell, mammocke; a small parcell, or peece.

Pied: m. A foot; a paw; also, a footing, or setting of the foot; also, a Basis, or Base; a root, or bottome; a foot-*stall, or foundation; also, the measure of a foot; (for which looke the next Marginall word.) Pied d'Alexandre. Bartrane, or Bertram; Pellitorie of Spaine. Pied d'Alouëtte. Larkes spurre, Larkes claw, Larkes heele, Monkes-hood, Kings Consound. Pied de biche. The end of the Gafle of a Crosse-bow. Pieds blancs. Looke Blanc. Pied de canard. Goose-foot, wild Orache. Pied d'un cancre. The clee, or claw of a Crab.