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 Pique seiche. An vnarmed Pikeman.  Bransler la pique. To frig.  Iouër à pique en cul. See Cul. I'ay passé par leurs piques. I haue beene throughly coursed, or canuassed by them; I haue felt their vtmost efforts; I haue escaped them faire.

Piqué: m. ée: f. Pricked; stung, nettled; pierced, or thrust into; nipped, pinched, vexed; ridden, or spurred; also, quilted, or set thick with oylet-holes; also, wrought, or broken vp, with a pickax; also, fastened, planted, or driuen into the ground.

Pique-boeuf: m. (A nickname for) a clowne, plough-*churle, hind.

Piquement: m. A pricking; sticking, piercing, or thrusting into; a stinging, or nettling; a spurring; nipping, pinching; vexing; also, a quilting.

Piquenaire: m. A Pikeman. (v.m.) Pique papier: m. A Scribe, Scriuener, meane Clerke, base Pettifogger.

Pique-poule. The name of a certaine grape.

Piquer. To pricke, pierce, or thrust into; also, to nettle, or sting; also, to spurre; also, to ride a horse; also, to nip, cut, quip, taunt, gird; vexe, vrge, exasperate with sharp or biting words; also, to quilt; and thence also, to stiffen a coller, &c; also, to worke, dig, or breake vp, with a pickax; also, to fasten, plant, or set, into the ground.  Se piquer. To be titchie, soone offended, quickly moued; (also, to prouoke, or exite himselfe, vnto the doing of a thing; Se piquer à.)  Piquer l'avoine. To ride a horse verie hard, to make him earne his prouender.  Piquer les chiens. To gallop after (and in galloping, to put on) the hounds.  Le poisson pique. Begins to haue a tacke, or ill tast; begins to be stale.  Il ne sent point quand on luy pique la chair. A phrase appliable both to a lazer; and to a cowardlie, thicke-skinned, or sencelesse, lozell.  Qui se fait piquer à tous les pas. That must be spurred euerie foot; (appliable, from a dull iade, vnto any dullard.)

Piqueron: m. A prickle; small pricke, sting, spurre, goad; also, a publicke exactor; a poller, or plumer of the Commonwealth; also, as Picqueron. Pique-seiche. Looke vnder Pique. Piquet. as Picquet. Piqueton: A prickle, as of a thorne, &c.

Piquette: f. A sower drinke, or veriuyce, made of wild apples (by the Picards) or of plummes (by the Normands.)

Piqueu: m. A pricklie Thistle, tearmed so about Blois. Piqueur: m. A pricker; also, a Rider; and (in hunting) one that on horsebacke pursues the dogs in their full speed.

Piqueure: f. A pricking, &c; as Piquement; also, a pricke, sting; pinch, cut, quip.

Piquier: m. A Pikeman.

Piquoté: m. ée: f. Looke Picoté. Piquotement: m. A frequent pricking, or stinging; an often piercing; also, a spotting, peckling, or speckling.

Piquoter. To pricke, sting, or pierce often; also, to spot, peckle, or speckle all ouer.

Piquoteure: f. A pricke, sting; spot, freckle, speckle; also, as Piquotement. Piquoteure de bran de Iudas. Red pimples rising in the face.

Piquotte: f. Small wine, seruants wine; or, as Piquette. Piramidal: m. ale: f. Piramidall; broad beneath, and sharpening vpwards.

Piramide: f. A Piramides; any peece of building made broad, and square below, and the higher it goes the smaller growing.  Piramide d'un trepane. The little point, or prickle, appearing, or peering out at th' end, or head of a Tre-*pane.

Pirate: m. A Pirat, Rouer, Sea-robber.

Piraterie: f. Piracie, rouing, sea-robbing.

Piratique: com. Piraticall, Pirat-iike; of, or belonging to, a Pirat.

Pirauste. A Fire-flie; or a worme bred, and liuing in the fire, from which if it bee but a little too farre, it dieth presently.

Pire: com. Worse, badder, lewder, naughtier; meaner, vnworthier; of smaller value, of lesse account; (sometimes) also, bad; whence; Vrayement, voilà que n'est pas pire. Truely there's no great fault to be found with that.

Piretre: m. Hearbe Bartram, bastard Pellitorie, right Pellitorie of Spaine.

Pirevollet: m. A whirligig.

Pirole: f. Wild Beets; or, th' hearbe Pirola.

Piromantie: f. Diuination by fire: ¶Rab. Pirope. as Pyrope. Pirot: m. The Pirot, or Hag-fish; a kind of long shell-*fish.

Pirou: m. A greene Goose: ¶Poictevin. Piroüette: f. A Whirligig; also, a whirling about, a quick turne often redoubled; and hence, a dauncers turning on the toe.

Piroüetter. To whirle, twirle, trill, turne swiftly about.

Piroüetteux: m. euse: f. Whirling, twirling, trilling, turning swiftly about.

Pis: m. The breast, bosome, or stomacke of a man; the dug, or vdder of a Cow, Yew, she Goat, &c; the brisket of an Oxe, or Beefe; the nauell of a dog.

Pis. (Adverb.) Worse; also, worst; whence;  Au pis aller. Howsoeuer, be it how it will be, let the worst come to the worst.

Pisay: m. as Pizé. Piscantine: f. A kind of small, or well-watered wine.

Piscine: f. A fish-pond; also, a poole to water horses, or keepe Duckes, &c, in.

Pissasphalte: m. Pissasphaltum; or Pitch mingled with Bitumen, either by accident, or Art; The former is much the better, & comes from Apollonia in Epirus, where it first comes by that mixture.

Pissat: m. Pisse, vrine, lant, stale.

Pissaulict. A fuße-ball, puckfusse, puffiste, or bull-*fiste.

Pissé. Pissed, staled.  Il a pissé en beaucoup de neiges. He hath liued many a Winter.

Pisse-chaude: f. A burnt P. also, the Venerian flux; the Gonorrhean, or contagious, running.

Pissement: m. A pissing.

Pissenez. serfs pissenez. The bastards of villaines, or slaues

Pissenlict: m. Dandelion, Priests crowne, Monks head, Swines snowt.

Pisser. To pisse, to stale, to make water. Le laict pisse. The milke spinnes out of her breasts, or dugs. Les bonnes gens, pour cela, ne pisseront pas plus roide. Will not bee much, or shall bee neuer a whit,