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 *ther; (whence) also, to plash.

Plissure: f. A foulding, or plaiting; also, a fould, plait, lap, wrinkle; also, a plashing, of trees, &c.

Ploïable. as Ployable. Ploïer. Seeke Ployer. Plomant: m. ante: f. Pluming, or trying the straightnesse of worke by a plumbe-rule.

Plomb: m. Lead; also, a Carpenters plummet, or plomb-*line; also, a bullet for a Musket, or Caleeuer; also, as Plion. Plomb blanc. Tinne; or a kind thereof; as Estaim de glace. Plomb à chaas. A kind of plomb-rule, or instrument of copper, &c, whereby (as by the plomb-rule) Masons doe gouerne, and iudge of, the straightnesse, or euennesse of their worke, from top to bottome.  Plomb de mine. Blacke lead. Mine de plomb. as in Mine. Plomb noir. Ordinarie lead.  Plomb à rieulle, ou à ruyle. A Masons plomb-rule.  À plomb. Perpendicularly, downe-right; whence;  La muraille est bien à plomb. The wall is verie straight, or stands boult vpright; &, À plomb sur. Direct, or downe-right, vpon.  À pied de plomb. Slowly, dully, heauily, with leaden heeles.  À pied de plomb, & de pompe. The same; and, stately, maiestically, with a Spanish grauitie; Rodomont-like.  Il a du plomb en teste. He hath a sad, aduised, or discreet pate of his owne.  Mis à plomb, & au fin. Throughly fined, or tried, exactly purified.   Dans vne gaine d'or vn cousteau de plomb. (Appliable to the faire outside of a foule inside; or to a pranked coxcombe, or faire foole;) a leaden whittle in a sheath of gold.

Plombagine: f. Pure lead turned almost into ashes by the vehemence of the fire: This is th' artificiall Plombagine, and comes of lead put into a furnace with gold, or siluer oare, to make them melt the sooner; (by which imployment it gaines some part in the worth of those mettalls;) There is also a naturall, or minerall Plombagine, which (as Mathiolus thinketh) is no other then siluer mingled with lead-stone, or oare.

Plombasse: com. Lead-like, lead-coloured, sallow, bleake, wanne.

Plombature: f. Solder of lead, or tinne.

Plombé: m. ée: f. Leaded, or tinned; soldered with lead; also, leaden, or leadie; dull, heauie, sad; also, lead-coloured, or blacke and blew after stripes; also, sounded with a leaden plummet; also, marked, or stamped, with lead.

Plombeau: m. A plummet; or weight of lead; whence;  Le poids à plombeau. The Roman beame or Stel-*leere.  Le plombeau d'un'espée. The pommell.

Plombée: f. A plummet, or pellet of lead.

Plombelé. as Plombé; also, bearing lead.

Plombement: m. A leading, or tinning; also, a souldering; also, a marking of wares, with lead; also, a sounding with a plummet.

Plomber. To lead, or tinne; also, to soulder, or colour with lead; also, to marke wares with lead, or set leaden seals, or stamps on them; also, to sound the depth of a place with a plummet. Plomber de coups de boulets. To lead, or turne into lead, with multitude of shot; to bestow more shot on then the skinne can hold.  Se plomber le sein. To thump, or beat his own breast.

Plomberie: f. A leading; or the leads of a Church, house, &c.

Plombet. as Plombée; also, the plomb-line, or plomb-rule used by Architects.

Plombeure: f. as Plombement; whence; Agraphes de fer à plombeure. Iron hookes fastened, or souldered together, with lead.

Plombier: m. A Plummer.

Plombier: m. ere: f. Leadie, lead-like, of lead.  Pierre plombiere. Lead oare, or lead-stone before it be tried.

Plomeau: m. A plummet, or little ball of lead.

Plomer. To plumme; a Mason to trie, or iudge of, the straightnesse of his worke by his plomb-rule.

Plommée: f. as Plombée; or, a weight of lead.  Traineau à plommée. Looke Traineau. Plommer. as Plomer; or, as Plomber. Plongé: m. ée: f. Plunged; ducked, diued; thrust farre into, ouer head and eares in.

Plongeant. Plunging, diuing, ducking; also, thrusting farre into.

Plongement: m. A plunging, diuing, or ducking; also, a thrusting farre into.

Plongeon: m. The water-fowle called a Ducker; or a generall name for water-fowle which vse to ducke often, or on their weake legs (which they lamely traile after them) can goe but a little.  Plongeon de mer. A Puffin.  Plongeon de riviere. A certaine fresh-water fowle, that resembles the Puffin.  Grand plongeon. A Cormorant.  Petit plongeon. A Dydopper, or Arsefoot.  À plongeons. Ducking, plunging; or, by plunges.

Plongeons. (The Plurall of Plongeon; also) rickes, or stackes of corne. Plonger. To plunge, diue, ducke; runne ouer head and eares, thrust, farre into.

Plonget. as Plongeon; or particularly, the Dydopper.

Plongeur: m. A plunger, ducker, diuer.

Plorer. See Pleurer. Plot: m. A blocke: ¶Bourbon. Plote. as Pelote; A ball.

Ploter. as Peloter. Ploton: m. A clue, or bottome of; also, a low Buffet stoole.

Plotte. as Pelotte. Plourement: m. A weeping.

Plourer. See Pleurer. Ploustre: m. A Rowler; also, (but somewhat improperly) a Harrow.

Ploustrement: m. A leuelling of ground, or breaking of clods with a Rowler.

Ploustrer. To leuell ground, or breake clods, with a Rowler.

Ploustreur: m. A clod-breaker; or, one that smoothes ground, or breaks clods, with a Rowler.

Ploutroer: m. A Rowler; he rowling Instrument wherewith ground is leuelled; and clods broken.

Plouvier: m. A Plouer.

Plouviner. To mizzle, to bedew.

Plouvoir. To raine, showre; powre downe wet. En hyver par tout pleut, en Esté là ou Dieu veut: Prov. Raine falls in Winter euerie where, in Summer onely by fauour; (somewhat like whereunto is;) Là ou Dieu veut il pleut: Prov.