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 Tant tonne qu'il pleut: Prov. Of big words come bloudwipes; after much consultation round execution.

Ployable: com. Pliable, bowable, bendable.

Ployant. Plying, bowing, bending; arching; foulding.

Ploye: f. A bend, bought; vault, arch; also, a bending, bowing; vaulting, arching.

Ployé: m. ée: f. Bowed, bent, plied; foulded; arched, vaulted.

Ployer. To plie, bow, bend; also, to arch, or vault; also, to fould; Looke Plier. Ployer l'amende. Celuy ployoit l'amende, qui en ployant le pan de sa robbe, ou cotte, faisoit amende honorable, & disoit, ie le vous amende: ¶Ragueau. Pluau: m. The South wind.

Plucquoter. To picke nicely.

Plumaceau: m. as Plumart; also, a soft fold of linnen laid next aboue the plaister, on a wound.

Plumage: m. Feathers; or, as Plumart; also, a pluming.

Plumail: m. A Goose wing, or duster of feathers; also, a plume of feathers; also, birds, or feathered fowle.

Plumart: m. A plume, or bunch of feathers; also, as Plumail. Plumassier: m. A feather-maker.

Plume: f. A feather (especially, a soft, or short one;) also, a penne; also (in old French) a plume of feathers; also, casting for a Hawke.  Alun de plume. Stone Allum, itching powder; a hard white Allum, or Allum-like simple, which being well pounded, and steeped in water may be spunne into a kind of thread, and matches or candleweekes made of it; and they, once fired, will not out as long as they haue any matter to worke on.  Relief de plume (&, Rente de plume.) A rent Capon, Henne, or Chicken, paid for a Reliefe.   Faict au poil, & à la plume. Made vnto all kind of sport, practised in all kind of trades, fit for any imployment, good at any game.  Iecter la plume au vent: & mettre sa plume au vent. To grow, desperate, retchlesse, carelesse; or, as vnder Iecter; or vnder Vent. Passer la plume par la bec à. Looke Passer. Vanner les plumes au vent. To play the foole, to loose time.  À dure enclume marteau de plume: Prov. Seeke Enclume, or Marteau. Plumé: m. ée: f. Plumed, plucked, fleeced.

Plumement: m. A pluming, or plucking the feathers from; hence also, a fleecing.

Plumer. To plume, or plucke the feathers of; thence also, to fleece; to rob, denude, or bare of; to shake out of, all.  Plumer vne chastaigne. To pill, or vnhuske, a chest-*nut; to turne, or take, it out of the rough coat wherein tis bred; which because few can doe easily, or with vnprickt fingers, they say of a man to whom a thing is like to proue costlie, or painefull, Il en plumera la chastaigne. On plume l'oye sans la faire crier: Prov. The sillie Goose complaines not when she's pluckt.

Plumeteur: m. A Scribe, Clerke, Penne-man, Scriuener, Penster; one that getteth his liuing by his penne.

Plumetis: m. A summarie, or short relation of the substance of a cause, deliuered, in writing, vnto the Judges; also, short, and cursarie notes, or instructions, for the draught of a Pleading, or Euidence, taken from the mouth of a Client (or otherwise) by a Clerke, or Notarie publicke. Plumette: f. A little feather, a small penne.

Plumeur: m. A plumer, feather-plucker; fleecer.

Plumeux: m. euse: f. Full of pennes, or feathers.

Pluralité: f. Pluralitie, or morenesse; more then one of.

Plure d'une voulte. The bought, bent, or compasse of a vault.

Plus. More.  À plus prés. Within a little.  Au plus. At the most; Au plus prés. As neere as possible can be; Au plus tost. At the soonest.  Le moins de mon plus. The most I can, the least I should.  Non plus. (Ils n'auront qu'un non plus.) Neither.  Qui a il plus? ''What is behind? what ouerplus remaines there?''  Tant & plus. Exceeding much, or, as much as may be.  Qui plus vit plus a à souffrir: Prov. The longer life the more affliction.

Pluserois: m. The name of a (prohibited) fishnet, or fish-destroying engine.

Plusieur: m. as Pluserois. Plusieurs. Many, a great number, a great sort.

Plustost. Rather, sooner; also, moreouer, or, which is more; also, faster, with more speed.  Au plustost. At the most; &, Au plustost que faire se peut. With the first, with the soonest; with as much speed as may be.

Plus-valeur: f. An ouer-value; a surplusage, ouerplus, remainder; or a thing thats ouer and aboue the value of.  Plus-valeurs d'estat. Looke Estat. Pluvial: m. ale: f. Rainie, of raine; like to raine; waterish.

Pluvier: m. A Plouer.

Pluvieux: m. euse: f. Raine, much raining, full of raine.

Pluvine: f. A Salamander, or Deafe-worme; also, as Pleuvine. Pluvir. Looke Pleuvir. Pluye: f. Raine; also, a Plaice.  La pluye des mois. A womans monthlie flux; or the immoderate fall thereof.  La pluye l'a prins. He is wet through; he hath taken his liquor throughly.  Pluye de Fevrier vaut esgout de fumier: Prov. Februarie raine is th' husbandmans gaine.

Pluyr. as Plouvoir. Ply. Looke Pli. Plye: f. A Plaice.

Poacre: f. A kind of scab about the nose, or muzzle of a sheepe, gotten by feeding too early in the deawie fallowes, and a verie great hinderance to her feeding.

Poacre: com. Looke Poüacre. Poale: m. A stoue, or hot-house; also, as Poille. Poale: f. as Paelle; A frying-panne; also, a little panne.

Poallier: m. The brasse wherein the stock of a bell rests, or turnes.

Poalon: m. A Skillet.

Poche: f. A pocket, pouch, or poke; also, a meale-sacke, or corne-sacke; also, a pursenet; also, the fowle called, a Shoueler; also, the crop, or craw of a bird; also, the little narrow, and long Violin (hauing the backe of one peece) which French dauncers, or dauncing Maisters, carrie about with them in a case, when they goe to teach their Schollers.