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 Poitrir. Looke Pestrir. Poitron: m. The tayle, arse, bumme; also, a kind of Horse-Plumme.

Poivre. Pepper; Looke Poyvre. Poivrette: f. Gith, Nigella, Bishops-wort, Sweet-fauor, S. Catherins flower.

Poix: m. Weight; Looke Poids. Poix: f. Pitch.  Poix blanche de Bourgongne. Burgundie Pitch; as  Poix Grecque. Poix blanche de Cordouannier. White Shoomakers Wax.  Poix fonduë. Tarre.  Poix Grecque. Greeke Pitch; a light-yellow Pitch, much vsed in plaisters.  Poix liquide. Tarre.  Poix navale. Ship-Pitch; is scraped from Ships, and then mingled with Wax, and Bay Salt (for Phisicall vses;) also, ordinarie Pitch is by some called Pix navalis. Poix picatoire. A kind of Pitch compounded of Rosen and Pitch.  Poix resine. Rosen.  Poix seiche. Stone Pitch, ordinarie Pitch.

Poixement: m. A pitching, or bepitching.

Poixer. To pitch, to bepitch.

Poix-resine: f. Rosen.

Poizage. Droict de p. A fee due, in some places, to the King for the weighing of commodities with a publike Balance, or Beame.

Poizer. Looke Peser. Pol: m. Paule.  Grace de S. Pol. See Grace. Pierre de S. Pol. A certaine medecinable stone found in a Maltean caue, wherein (they say) S. Paule preached; some also call the Samien earth so.  Descouvrir S. Pierre pour couvrir S. Pol. To build, or inrich one Church with the ruines, or reuenues of another.

Pol: m. A Pole; the end, or point of one of the Axletrees, whereon (say Astronomers) the heauens moue.  Pol Antartique. The Antarticke, or South Pole; a starre not seene in our Hemisphere.  Pol Artique. The North Pole, the North Starre.

Polaine. The furniture of a Peece (consisting of diuers peeces) of timber in the prow of a Ship, called, La Fleche; also, as Poulaine. Polaire: com. Of, or belonging to, the Poles.   Estoille polaire. A starre which maketh the tayle of Vrsa minor; called so, because it is the neerest of all others vnto the North Pole.

Pole: f. The Sole-fish called, a Dogs-tongue, or kind foole.

Polemoine: m. Spattling Poppie, frothie Poppie, white Ben; also, the shrubbie Trefoile called, Make-bate.

Poli: m. ie: f. Polished, smoothed, burnished, sleeked; also, fine, trimme, neat, spruce, polite.

Polican. Looke Pelican.

Police: f. Policie; politicke regiment, ciuill gouernment; or as a French Lawyer defines it, C'est le réglement de la Cité; or as another, C'est la forme, & le réglement estably aux choses necessaires à la vie humaine; whence; Droict de police. Power to make particular Orders for the Gouernment of all the inhabitants of a Towne, or Territorie; this Power (extending chiefely vnto three things, viz. small commodities (as victuals, &c;) Trades, or Occupations; and streetes, or high wayes;) though often challenged by the officers of the King (to whom all generall policie without question belongs) yet is (or should be) enioyed by euerie Lord in France, from the Chattelain vpwards.

Policé: m. ée: f. Ordered, gouerned, ruled, aduisedly disposed.

Policer. To order, gouerne, rule aduisedly, dispose of wisely.

Policier: m. ere: f. Belonging or looking to, taking notice or care of, hauing by office, or in charge, the gouernment, and ordering of, particular matters in a Towne, or Territorie.

Poliément. Smoothly, sleekely, brightly, cleanely, neatly, trimly.

Polieul: m. Pellamountaine, or Pollie, an hearbe.

Poligamie: f. Poligamie; the hauing of many wiues, or of moe then one.

Poligarchie: f. A Monarchie diuided into sundrie parts; or such a diuision.

Poligone: f. A Geometricall figure that hath many corners.

Poliment: m. Smoothnesse, sleekenesse, a glosse, a polished lustre.

Poliot. See Pouliot. Polipragmon: m. A Polipragmon, medler, busie bodie.

Polipus. Looke Polypus. Polir. To polish; to smooth, sleeke, burnish, brighten, beautifie; to scoure, cleanse, furbish, trim vp, make neat, set a glosse on, giue a lustre vnto.

Polissable: com. Polishable, burnishable, furbishable.

Polissement: m. A polishing, burnishing, brightening, smoothing, sleeking; a furbishing, or trimming vp.

Polisseur: m. A polisher, burnisher; sleeker, smoother; furbisher.

Polisseure: f. as Polissure. Polissoir: m. A polisher; a polishers burnishing stone.

Polissoire: f. The same.

Polissure: f. Polissure, burnishment, smoothneße, sleekeneße, neatnesse, cleanlinesse; also, as Polissement. Polisyllable: com. Of many sillables.

Politesse: f. Politeneße; polishednesse; smoothneße, sleekenesse; neatnesse, cleanlineße; trimnesse, briskenesse.

Politric. See Polytric. Politure. as Polissure. Polles. Certaine forbidden Engines, or Nets, wherewith fish may be caught.

Pollisyllabe: com. Of many sillables.

Pollu: m. uë: f. Polluted; defiled, distained; corrupted, dishonested, violated.

Polluer. To pollute; soyle, distaine, defile; corrupt, violate, infect.

Polpe: f. The pulpe; the brawne of flesh, or fleshie part of the bodie; the substance, or hard pith, of any thing.

Polsonnets: m. Two buttons with hookes at their ends, passing through the branch, and holding the water*-chayne, of a Bitt.

Poltron: m. A knaue, rascall, varlet, scowndrell; also, a dastard, coward; sluggard, lazie-backe, base idle fellow.

Poltronesque: com. Knauish, rascallie, base-humored; cowardlie, faint-hearted, cullion-like; lazie, lozellie, sluggish, idle.

Poltronesquement. Roguishly, basely, lazily, cowardly, cullion-like.

Poltronie: f. Knauerie, vilenesse, baseneße; cowardice, dastardie; sluggishnesse, lazineße; vnworthineße.