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 Velours à deux poils. Two-pile Veluet.  Velours a long poil. Shag, plush; or (most properly) vnshorne Veluet.  Bas de poil. Lowlie, or bearing a low sayle; of poore meanes, of small authoritie, that can doe but little any way.  Eschauffer le poil à. To irritate, or prouoke vnto anger; also, to bestow a painefull heating on, to bang or bethwacke the skinne-coat of.  Faire changer de poil. To reforme by cudgelling, or by seuere courses; (from a Groome, who currying a yong horse throughly, makes the colour of his coat to alter.)  Fait au poil, & à la plume. A Generalist; one thats fit for, or can make one in, any imployment, or sport; (from dogs which are good at all kind of Game.)  Monter sur vn cheval à poil. To get on a horses bare backe.  Né à tout le poil (le Diable l'a chié en volant.) A monstrous Cutter, a terrible Gallant, a horrible braue man.   Prendre du poil de la beste. Looke Beste. Des paroles ils viennent au poil. From words they fall to worke, from taunting to knocking.  Nous prendrons ce nom au poil plus court. We will vnderstand it more strictly, or in a neerer sence; or in a sence against which least may be sayed.  Vn poil fait ombre: Pro. The little haire a shadow casts; the least things haue their vse one way, or other.  Pour vn poil Martin perdit son Asne: Pro. Looke Asne. En maigre poil a morsure: Pro. Looke Morsure. Le Loup alla à Rome, & y laissa de son poil, & rien de ses coustumes: Pro. A knaue will returne a knaue from the best place in the world; or as vnder Loup. Poilant. Pilling, paring, barking, taking the rinde, coat, or vpmost crust of.

Poile: m. as Poille; also, as Poale. Poile: f. A frying-panne; whence;  Saulter de la poile, & se iecter dedans les braises. From ill to worse; out of the frying-panne into the fire.

Poilé: m. ée: f. Rewed, vneuenly dyed; also, pilled, pared, barked, vnrinded.

Poiler. To pill &c, as Peler; also, to rew; to dy or colour vneuenly.

Poille: m. The square Canopie thats borne ouer the Sacrament, or a Soueraigne Prince, in solemne Processions, or Passages of State; Hence also, a Hearse, Hearse-*cloth, or rich cloth, layed ouer the Beere of a dead person; also, a cloth spred, in the Church, ouer a new-married couple; also, an Vmbrello, or great weather-fanne; also, as Poale. Poillu: m. uë: f. Hairie; rugged, or rough by much haire.

Poilon: m. A Skellet; or, as Poeslon. Poinçon: m. A bodkin; a punchion; Looke Poinson. Poinçonner. as Poinsonner. Poinçonnet: m. A little bodkin; or punchion.

Poinconneux: m. euse: f. Pricking, as a bodkin.

Poinct: m. A point; a pricke; a centre; a period, or full point; a minute, instant, or moment of time; a dram, iot, crum, as little as may be of any thing; also, a stitch in sowing; also, a Stitch in the side; also, the dawning, or breake of the day, twylight; also, the point, principall head, maine proposition, of an Argument; the state, or issue, of a cause; also, the order, trimme, array, plight, health, estate, case, taking, one is in; also, the length, or measure of a man in his stirrup.  Poinct doré. A stitching vp of incisions, or wounds, with golden thread.  Le poinct des pieds. as Nadaïr. Le poinct vertical. The Zenith, or point of the Firmament which is directly ouer our heads.  Haut poinct. Honneur au haut p. Honour in eminence, or of a high pitch.  Petit poinct. Au petit poinct. Throughly, soundly, closely.  Despescher au petit poinct. Looke Despescher. Poinct à poinct. Throughly; also, fitly, iustly, decently, handsomely, in good order.  À poinct. Aptly, fitly, conueniently, to purpose, in good time, in due season; whence;  Prendre son à poinct. To take his fittest oportunitie for; to make his best aduantage of.  Prendre quelqu'un à son mal à point. To take one vnprouided.  Venir tout à poinct. To come in an excellent season, in pudding time, in the nicke.  À poinct nommé. Fitly, seasonably, at the time prefixed; iust at the time, or at the verie same time; also, expressely, or of set purpose.  Donner à poinct nommé. To hit point-blanke, to strike the marke he shoots at.  De tout poinct. Quite and cleane.  En poinct. Jn order, in case, in fashion, in array.  Se mettre en poinct. To prepare himselfe; to set himselfe in a readineße.  En bon poinct; ou, bien en poinct. Handsome, faire, fat, well liking, in good taking.  Sur le poinct de. Readie, or about, to.  Sur le poinct que. Then, iust when.   C'est vn poinct qui trop me poind. This point too neerely pointeth at me; by this pricke I am ouer-deepely pierced.  Ils le chaussent à moins de poincts que. They make his foot, or shoe, of a leße size then.   Pour vn poinct Martin perdit son Asne: Prov. (This Martin being Abbot of a Cloister called Asellus, and setting ouer the Gate thereof, Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto, was depriued of his Place for putting a Comma after the word nulli.)  Tout vient à poinct qui peut attendre: Prov. He that is patient any thing may compasse.  Tout vient à poinct qui tient mesnage: Prov. He that keepes house makes vse of euerie thing.

Poincte: f. A bodkin, or nawle; also, a pricke, a goad; a sting; also, the point of a weapon, or toole; also, quicknesse, sharpeneße, subtiltie; an edge; also, vehemence, eagernesse, earnestneße, the first (violent) brunt of things; also, the middle-sized wax-candle vsed in Churches (the biggest being tearmed Cierge, and the least Bougie.) Poinctes de houseaux. Spurres. Poincte des morceaux. La premiere p. The first course, as Sallades, &c. La Poincte du nez. The tip, or end of the nose. La Poincte de l'oeil. The sight of the eye; or the piercing looke, or cast of a liuelie eye. La Poincte d'un rocher. The point, or sharpe top, of a Rocke. Chausses en poincte. Looke Chausse. Cul sur poincte. Vpside downe, topsie turuie, top ouer tayle. Chatouilleux à la poincte. Quicke on the spurre;