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 Pompes: f. Armour, called Pullie-peeces, for the knees; also, Bosses.

Pompette: f. A pumple, or pimple on the nose, or chinne.  Pompette d'imprimeur. A Printers Pumpet-ball; the ball wherewith he beates, or layes Jnke on, the Formes.

Pompeusement. Pompously, magnificently, solemnely, sumptuously, gorgiously.

Pompeux: m. euse: f. Pompous, magnificent, statelie, maiesticall; sumptuous, gorgious, glorious.

Pompholige: f. Nil; the light oare, or foyle of Brasse.

Pompile. A kind of Pourcontrell fish that swimmeth with her bellie vpwards; also, that kind of Tunnie which followeth ships while they are in the Mayne, and leaues them when they draw towards the shore.

Pompon: m. A Pumpion, or Melon.  Pompon d'hyver. Our ordinarie Winter Pumpion.  Pompon succrin. A Muske Melon.  Pompon Turquin. A kind of darke-greene Melon.

Pomponne: f. The longest, and smoothest kind of Pumpion.

Ponant: m. The West.

Ponce. Pierre ponce. A Pumeise stone.

Ponceau: m. A little bridge; also, Corne-rose, red Poppie, shadow Poppie.

Poncel: m. A little bridge.

Poncer. To smooth, polish, rub ouer, with a Pumeise stone.

Ponceure: f. A smoothing, polishing, rubbing ouer with a Pumeise stone.

Poncille: f. The Assyrian Citron; a fruit as big as two big Leymons, and of a verie good smell, but of a faint-*sweet, or wallowish taste.

Poncire: f. A Pome-Citron.

Poncon: m. Halfe a Tunne; or, as Poinson. Ponctuel: m. elle: f. Punctuall, distinct, direct, exact.

Ponctuellement. Punctually, distinctly, point after point; directly, exactly, throughly.

Ponderamment. Ponderously, weightily, heauily.

Pondereux: m. euse: f. Ponderous, heauie, weightie, burthensome; massiue, substantiall; of great consequence.

Ponderosité: f. Ponderositie, or ponderousneße, heauineße, weightineße, massiueneße.

Pondre. To lay (egges.)  Elle y peut bien pondre, mais elle n'y couvera pas. She may soiourne there for a while, but she shall not continue long.  Geline qui poind, & ne pond pas. (Said of) an idle, vnprofitable, barren, curst, or scolding, wife.  Il fait accroire que les lievres pondent, & font des oeufs; (Applyable to a most notorious lyer;) Seeke Lievre. Pondu: m. uë: f. Layed, as an egge.

Poneau: m. A close stoole.

Ponent: m. The West; also, the arse, tayle, bumme.

Poneropole. The Towne of the wicked. ¶Rab. Pongneor. as Piqueur; (an old word.)

Ponhete. A kind of Vine.

Ponneresse. Geline pon. A laying Henne.

Ponneuse. as Ponneresse.

Pont: m. A Bridge. Pont aux asnes. C'est le pont aux asnes. (Applyable when such as are ignorant of the true reason, or cause of things, impute them to witchcraft, for-* *tune, &c,) a shift, euasion, helpe at a pinch, for a dunce.  Pont aux asnes de Logique. The conuersion of Propositions. ¶Rab. Pont de corde. The netting, or close fight, of a Ship of warre.  Pont de Gournay. See Gournay. Pont levis. A draw-bridge.  Conscience à pont levis. A verie large conscience.  Soulier à pont levis. A shooe hauing a Polonian, or high-raised, heele.  Pont volant. The ladder of a ship; the bridge, or ladder, whereby men get aboord her.  En pont, en planche, & en riviere, vallet devant,  maistre derriere: Prov. Ore waters deepe, and bridges weake or hollow, the man must lead the way, the maister follow.  Le temps renverse les ponts: Pro. Jn time are bridges (all things) ouerthrowne.  Vn fol dessus vn pont est vn tambour en la riviere. A foole on a bridge is a drumme in a riuer; Looke Tambour. Pontage: m. Bridge-worke, Bridge-making; also, Pontage, or Bridge-toll.

Pontail: m. as Pont volant. Pontanage: m. Pontage; the toll taken for passage ouer a Bridge.

Ponte: f. A laying of egges.

Ponté: m. ée: f. Bridged; that hath a Bridge ouer it, or belonging to it.

Pontenage. as Pontanage. Ponthieu. An Earledome in France, called thus because there be many Bridges in it.

Pontif, & Pontife: m. A (chiefe) Bishop, or Prelate; also, a Pontificall fellow.

Pontifical: m. ale: f. Pontificall, Prelate-like; lordlie, statelie, sumptuous.

Pontificalement. Pontifically, lordlily, stately, sumptuously.

Pontificat: m. A Prelateship, or Prelacie; a chiefe Bishopricke; the estate, function, or dignitie of a (chiefe) Bishop, or Prelate.

Pontille: f. A pricke, or little point.

Pontique. Ponticall, or of Pontus, a part of Asia; whence;  Noix Pontique. The red Filberd.

Pontis: m. A little Bridge.

Ponton: m. A Wherrie, or Ferrie-boat; also, a Stilling, or Gauntrie for Caske to stand on.

Pontonnier: m. A Ferrie-man.

Ponts. The name of a Towne in Saintonge, called so of the many Bridges about it.

Pontueux: m. euse: f. Bridgie, full of Bridges.

Popelin: m. A little finicall darling.  Popelins. Soft cakes made of fine flower, kneaded with milke, sweet butter, and yolkes of egges; and fashioned, and buttered, like our Welsh Barrapyclids.

Popin: m. ine: f. Spruce, neat, briske, trimme, fine; quaint, nice, daintie, prettie.

Se Popiner. To trimme, or tricke vp himselfe.

Popisme: f. The popping, or smacking sound wherewith Riders incourage, or cherish, their horses.

Poplitée. as Poplitique.

Poplitique. A large veine in the middle of the thigh; also, a sinew neere to the gartering place, and seruing to turne the leg inwards.