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 Acheter chat en poche. (Like our) to buy a Pig in a poke.  Il a bien rempli ses poches. He hath filled his bags, or stuffed his budgets, vp to the top; he hath made good vse of his time, J warrant you.  La poche sent tousiours l'harenc: Prov. Corrupted once, we are tainted euer; once get a blot, y' are stained alwayes.

Poché: m. ée: f. Poched; thrust or digged out with the fingers; also, blurred.  Oeil poché. A blacke, or bloud-shot eye (by a blow, &c.)  Oeuf poché. A potched egge.

Pocheculier: m. A Shoueler.

Pochée: f. A pocket-full, poke-full, sack-full, of.

Pocher. To thrust, or dig out with the fingers.  Pocher le labeur d'autruy. To poche into, or incroach vpon, another mans imployment, practise, or trade.  Cet encre poche. This Inke blurres.

Pochette: f. A little pocket; a poke, or little sacke; also, a purse-net.

Poçon. Looke Posson. Podagre: f. The Gowt (in the legs, or feet.)  Podagre de lin. The weed Dodder; See Lin. Podagte: com. Gowtie-legd.

Podagreux: m. euse: f. Full of the Gowt.

Poderaste, for Pederaste. A Sodomite, boy-louer, or boy-buggerer.

Podimetrie: f. Foot-measure, measuring by the foot.

Poelle: m. A Stoue, or Hot-house.

Poëme: m. A Poeme; a composition, or worke in Verse.

Poësie: f. Poesie, Poetrie.

Poesle: m. A Stoue, or Hot-house.

Poesle: f. as Paelle. Poeslier: m. A Tinker, Brasier, Skellet-maker.

Poeslon: m. A Skellet, or Posnet; also, a little Frying-panne.

Poeste. Homme de poeste. A yeoman, Roturier, vnnoble subiect, vassall, or tenant.

Poëtastre: m. An ignorant Poet.

Poëte: m. A Poet, Maker, Versifier.  Bon poëte mauvais homme: Prov. A good Poet an ill man.

Poëterie: f. Poetrie; (an old word.)

Poëtiquement. Poetically, Poet-like.

Poëtiser. To poetize it; to make Verses.

Poëtride: f. A Poetesse.

Poëtrie: f. Poetrie.

Poëtrons: m. (Ordinarie) yellow Plummes.

Poevrette. as Poivrette. Poge, ou Pogge: f. The sheat, or cable which fastens the maine yard, on the right hand of a Ship; whence, À poge; at, or on, the right hand.  Naviger à poge, & à ourse. To hold an vncertaine course at sea, by reason of contrarie winds, laying tacke aboord sometimes on the right, and sometimes on the left, side of the Ship.

Pognard: m. as Poignard. Poictevine: f. A woman of Poictou; also, a French farthing, or the fourth part of the Denier Tournois. Poictrail: m. A Petrell for a horse; also, the beame, or summer whereby rafters, or ioists are vpheld.

Poictreux: m. euse: f. Whence, Piece poictreuse. A peece of coyne that rises, bulches, or beares out in the middle, and is flat, or thinne, about the edge.

Poictrinal: m. A great, and heauie Petronell; shorter, but of a wider bore, then a Musket. Poictrinal: m. ale: f. Belonging to the breast, or stomack; also, stomacall, breast-comforting.

Poictrinalier: m. One that serues with, or vses to shoot in, a great and heauie Petronell.

Poictrine: f. The breast, bosome, stomacke; also, a breast-plate, or armour for the breast.  Poictrine empeschée. Obstruction of the stomacke; or a drie, and soft Cough (which we call a Sheepes Cough) proceeding thereof.

Poictrinette: f. A little breast, prettie bosome.

Poictrineux: m. euse: f. as Poictrinal; also, as Poictreux. Poictron: m. The arse, nockandroe, fundament.

Poids: m. A peise, or weight; also, peise, weight; also, substance, or soundnesse.  Poids de Marc. Halfe a pound, or eight ounces; Looke Marc. Poids Marchand. The weight vsed by Marchants, and Tradesmen, is in some (few) places after fourteene, in others after eighteene, but in the most after sixteene, ounces to the pound.  Poids medecinal. The weight vsed by Phisitions, &c, is after twelue ounces to the pound.  Poids de Midy. One of the Pyrrhenian mountaines, called so, because euer about noone the Sunne shines on it.  Poids de neuf heures. Another, called so because the Sunne is euer on it about nine a clocke in the morning.  Poids du Roy. Is after sixteene ounces to the pound, eight ounces to the Marc, and eight Gros to the ounce.  Gros poids. Is after 26 ounces to the pound.  Petit poids. Troy weight; twelue ounces to the pound.

Poifaict: m. Sloath, negligence, idlenesse. ¶Breton. Poifaisant: m. A negligent, sloathfull, or carelesse fellow; one thats euer behind-hand with his busineße. ¶Breton. Poignalade: f. A stab, or thrust with a Poniard.

Poignalarder. To stab, or thrust into with a Poniard.

Poignant: m. ante: f. Pricking, stinging; also, peeping, or peering out.

Poignard: m. A Poinadoe, or Poniard.

Poignardé: m. ée: f. Poniarded, stabbed with a Poniard.

Poignarder. To poniard, to stab with a Poniard.

Poignastre. The Viuer, or little sea-Dragon.

Poignée: f. A handfull, fistfull, or gripe of; also, the handle of a sword, or dagger.

Poignet: m. The wrist; the ioint thats betweene the hand and the arme; also, a handle.  Poignet de la chemise. The wrist-band, or gathering at the sleeue-band, of a shirt.  Il a bien foncé le poignet. He hath gained soundly, he hath gotten sweetly, he hath licked his fingers throughly; (A Phrase ofetn vsed in disgrace of the partie it is applyed vnto, and taxing him of no lesse then theeuerie, or grosse cousenage.)

Poil: m. A haire. Poil de chat. A running sore, or tettar, which we also tearme, a Cats haire; also, a Whitlow in the finger. Poil folet. A young mossie beard; also, the first downe, or soft feathers of a young bird. Couleur de poil de souris. A Mouse-colour, or Mouse-dunne. Fente en poil. A cleft in a bone, so little, as it is almost inuisible.