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Pisseux: m. euse: f. Pissing much, and often; also, full of pisse; whence;  Lange pisseuse. A childs pisse-clowt.  Orange pisseuse. An Orange full of liquor, or which yeeldeth store of liquor.

Pissoir: m. A pissing place.

Pissolaire: m. The sheath, or skinne of a horses yard.

Pisson: m. A Pipkin.

Pissoter. To pisse often.

Pissotiere: f. The pissing toole; or, the receptacle of pisse; also, a pissing place; also, the running of a bucking tub.

Pistaces: f. Pistachoes, fisticke nuts.

Pistacher: m. The Pistacho tree, the Fisticke nut-tree.

Pistaches. as Pistaces. Pistaulendrier: m. A mans yard.

Piste: f. The strayne, or view of a Deere; the print of any foot.

Pisté: m. ée: f. Stamped, pounded, brayed.

Pisteau: m. A Pestell.

Pister. To bray, pound, or stampe.

Pistolade: f. The shot of a Pistoll; the blow giuen by a discharged Pistoll.

Pistolandier. as Pistaulendrier. Pistole: f. A Pistoll; a great (horsemans) Dag.  Pistole de Sancerre. A Sling.

Pistolet: m. A Pistolet; a Dag, or little Pistoll; also, the golden coyne tearmed a Pistolet.

Pistolier: m. A Pistoleere; a horseman that serues with a Pistoll.

Pistolochie: f. A kind of (the hearbe) long Birthwort.

Piston: m. A Pestell, or pounding sticke.  Canon à piston. A certaine Bit which giues the tongue libertie without a Port.

Pistrine: f. A Bakehouse, or house wherein, before th' inuention of Mills, the Romanes caused their slaues, and vnrulie seruants, to bray all their corne in morters.

Pit: m. as Pis: ¶Breton. Pitance: f. Meat, food; acates; victuall of all sorts (bread and drinke excepted.)

Pitancier: m. The Manciple, or distributor of victualls, in a Monasterie.

Pitancier: m. ere: f. Seruing for a Pittance; of a Pittance.

Pitaulder. To behaue himselfe rudely, to play the clowne.

Pitaulderie: f. Rudenesse, clownishnesse, vnmannerlinesse, inciuilitie, churlishnesse.

Pitault: m. A clowne, boore, swaine, lob, carle, churle, clusterfist.

Pite: f. The halfe of a Maille, a (French) farthing; also, a Moath, or Mite.

Pitel: m. The panne of a close-stoole.

Piteux: m. euse: f. Pitifull, mercifull, charitable, tender, gentle, kind; also, wretched, miserable, distressefull, afflicted, in pitifull case, ill taking, wofull estate.  Vous nous la baillez bien piteuse. You make vs a homelie relation, you tell vs but a sorie tale.  Vn piteux medecin fait vne mortelle playe: Prov. Looke Playe. Femme trop piteuse fait sa famille teigneuse: Pro. A pitifull housewife makes a pitifull houshold; The like is;  Mere piteuse fait sa fille roigneuse: Prov. Pitié: f. Pitie, ruth, compassion, commiseration; charitie, kindnesse, or tendernesse of disposition; also, grace, clemencie, mercifulnesse.

Pitois: m. The vermine (or beast) called a Fitch.

Piton. as Piston; also, an Eye for a curtaine rod, &c; or a pinne of mettall, sharpe at th' one end to enter into wood, &c, & hauing a round eye at th' other for a curtaine-rod, &c, to enter into; and hence;  Piton à vis. A skrue with an eye; or such a pinne made skruing at the end where th' ordinarie Piton is plaine.

Pitroy: m. Durt, mud, mire.

Pittasse. whence; elle faisoit chere pit. Her behauiour was full of discontentment; or, she chawed her spittle in stead of falling to her vittle.

Pittouër: m. A Bittor (corruptly.)

Pituitaire: com. Flegmaticke: sniuellie, snottie; slauering.  Glande pituitaire. See Glande. Pituite: f. Fleame, sniuell.

Pituiteux: m. euse: f. Full of fleame; sniuell, slauering, snot.

Pityocampe. A venomous worme that breeds in Pine trees.

Pive: f. The fruit of the Pine, or Pitch tree.

Piverd: m. A Woodpecker, Hickway, Greenpeake.

Piugarreau: m. A great, whitish, and sweetish Cherrie, whose hard pulpe cleaues hard vnto the stone.

Piuler. To pule, or cheepe like a little chicken.

Pivoesne. as Pivoine. Pivoine: f. Peonie, Pionie, Kings Bloome, Rose of the mount; also, a little blacke-headed, and blacke-taild bird, called a Gnat-snapper; also, a Bullfinch, or Nowp.  Pivoine femelle. The female Peonie, whereof there be diuers kinds; as the double, red, and white, Peonies; the maiden or virgine Peonie; and others.  Pivoine masle. Male Peonie.

Pivot: m. The Piuot, or (as some call it) the Tampin of a gate, or great doore: (a peece of yron, &c, made, for the most part, like a Top, round & broad at th' one end, and sharpe at th' other, wherby it enters into the Crappaudine ; and serues as well to beare vp the gate (in whose bottome it is placed) as to facilitate the motion thereof. It is also made, sometimes twofold in the vpper part, and nailed vnto both sides of the Chardonnereau; and sometimes like a Spindle, sharpe at both ends, th' vpper sticking in the said Chardonnereau;) Hence also, the principall Stay, Support, or Piller of a Kingdome, State, Citie, House, or Familie; also, a kind of Vine.

Pivotter vn huis. To hang a doore on Pivots. Pizé. whence; Murailles de pizé. Earthen walls.

Placard. See Plaquard. Placardé: m. ée: f. Fastened, or pasted, as a Siquis, &c, on a post.

Placart. as Plaquard. Placcar. as Plaquard. Huis qui se ferment à doubles placcars. Doores which are shut with double locks.

Place: f. A place, roome, seat; a space; a stead; also, an Office, Function, Dignitie, Charge; also, a plaine and vnhoused, ground, soyle, or shore; and hence, a spacious plaine, or plot of ground in the middest of a town; and vsed as a Market stead, or as an Exchange for Marchants; or as an Auditorie, for the deciding of controuersies (but then there is a Tribunal, or some open house vpon it;) also, a faire large Court before a Church, or house; also, a Castle, Fort, Fortresse, or Hold; also, a spot, or dapple, on a horse. Place mage. Looke Mage. Place marchande. A Market place, or place of ordinarie bargaining; hence, any free, or indifferent place wherat men may meet, or deale, on euen tearmes.