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 Passer le pied sur la gorge à. Looke Passer. Perdre pied. To loose ground; or be driuen to a behind-hand (and thereupon, to his shifts.)  Planté sur le pied gauche. Setled in an euill posture, or on the wrong side; badly disposed in affection; or ingaged in an vniust cause.  Prendre pied à. To regard, heed; build vpon, make reckoning; take notice of; also, to be discontented, or aggrieued, at.  Rencontrer, ou trouver chausseure à leur pied. To meet with their matches, or with such as will hold them tacke; also, to light vpon stuffe for their purpose, or that which will serue their turne.  Saulter à deux pieds sur le ventre à. Looke Saulter. Seicher sur les pieds. ''To be in great perplexitie, or in a pecke of troubles. Looke'' Seicher. Tenir pied à. To keepe play, hold tacke or footing; march ranke in ranke, walke cheeke by iowle, with; also, to tarrie long, or abide by it.  Tenir pied à boale. To follow a businesse throughly; to stick hard, or stand close, vnto it (from the play at Nine-*pinnes, wherein a man must stand where his bowle doth lye.)  Tenir pied en soulier. Il leur fit tenir pied en soulier. He curbed them, kept them from raunging, held them in, or in awe.  Il en tirera pied ou aile. He will carrie away either leg or wing, either more or leße, one part or another, of it.  Le pied saisit le chef. The floore, or soyle, commaunds the house; he that is Lord of the one may seize the other; (or, he thats owner of the one may owne the other;) Area enim est pars vel maxima ædificij (say the Ciuilians;) The customes of Chalons, Art. 143. expound this Maxime otherwise; viz. that a man may build his house vpright as high as he will, and compell a neighbor to withdraw any thing that shall hinder him therein, of what continuance soeuer it haue beene. À l'Advocat le pied en main: Prov. viz. Of Partridges, Phesants, Capons, &c, wherewith they looke to be now and then presented.  À l'aise marche à pied qui meine son cheval par la bride: Prov. Looke Cheval. À panse chaude pied endormy: Pro. When a man is full, he is fitter to sleepe then to runne.  Assez escorche qui tient le pied: Prov. He does ill ynough that helps to doe euill.  Barbe rase pied ferrat: Pro. Looke Barbe. Bouche fresche, pied sec: Pro. A coole mouth, and a dry foot (preserue a man long time aliue.)  Le beau soulier blesse souvent le pied: Prov. Looke Soulier. Mieux vaut vn pied que deux eschasses: Prov. One foot is better then two stilts.  Mieux vaut vn pied nud que nul: Pro. Better a naked, then no, foot.  Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue: Prov. See Glisser. Qui veut aller les pieds nuds ne doit semer des espines: Prov. He that will bare-foot goe must plant no thornes.  Selon le pied la forme: Pro. Fashion your last according to your foot.  Tenez chaud le pied & la teste, au demeurant vivez en beste: Pro. The feet and head kept warme, the rest will take lesse harme.

Pied: m. A foot, in measure; the length of a foot (twelue ynches) in measuring.  Pied de bois. A certaine measure vsed at, and about, Bourdeaux; Looke Pied de ville. Pied de Clermont. Is but eleuen ynches long.  Pied cube. Is twelue ordinarie feet, and containes euerie way twelue times 144 ynches.  Pied d'Engoulesme. Is a sixteenth part longer then the ordinarie foot.  Pied Geometrique. Is foure hand-breadthes, or the breadth of sixteene fingers.  Pied Royal, ou de Roy. The ordinarie twelue-ynch foot, a foot according to the Standard; containes in square 144 ynches.  Pied de terre. Is longer then the ordinarie foot by an eight part in three quarters; and vsed about Bourdeaux for the measuring of land.  Pied de ville. Exceeds the ordinarie foot by fiue eight parts of an ynch; and is vsed at Bourdeaux in the measuring of Timber, Wainscot, and other wood.  Le petit pied. A small measure (belike some ynches shorter then the ordinarie foot) which French Masons, and Carpenters vsually carry about them.  Reduict au petit pied. Contracted, straitned, stinted; whose plumes are plucked, fortune scanted, meanes withdrawne; that cannot doe as he hath done; that is not the gallant he hath beene.  À pied. By line and leuell, by compasse and measure, proportionably.  Au pied de. According to; after the rate, proportion, or scantling of; whence, Au pied de la lettre; according to the literall sence, or literally.  À tout pied. Ames à tout pied. Soules of all sizes, spirits for all purposes.  Tout d'un pied. Euen, leuell, plaine, without any ascent, or descending.

Pied-bornier: m. A tree that serues to diuide seuerall Tenements, or Jnheritances.

Pied-bot: m. A club-foot, or stub-foot; also, one that hath verie great ankles, or heeles.

Piedefief. A fief dismembred, which a vaßall may, for his benefit, alien to whom he list.

Pied-gris: m. A clowne, hob, hinde, or boore of the countrey.

Pied-leger. as Pied-viste. Pied-poul: m. The round-rooted, or Onion-rooted Crow-*foot; some also call Purslane so.

Pieds-corniers: m. Certaine trees marked out for limits vnto the sale of Wood; or as bounds betweene Groues of Timber-wood, and Copses of Vnderwood; also, trees that diuide seuerall Tenements, or Jnheritances.

Pied-sonnant. Trampling, or making the ground ring againe with his proud steps.

Pied-stal: m. The pedestall, or footstall of a pillar; that whereon it stands an end.

Pied-terre. An alighting, or setting foot on the ground; whence, Cela a mis pied-terre à l'homme; hath set foot on earth for man.

Pied-viste: com. Light-footed, swift of foot.

Piege: m. A snare, ginne, or grinne.  Aujourd'huy en siege, demain en piege: Prov. To day in pompe, to morrow in prison.

Pienne. Rose de pienne. Peonie, Pionie, Kings-bloome, Rose of the Mount.

Piepou. as Pied-poul.

Pier. To bowse, bib, sip, swill. ¶Barrag.

Pierigot: m. as Manganese.

Pierre: m. Peter.