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 Pouille: A part of Naples, whose inhabitants are held verie dangerous in conuersation; whence the Prouerbe; Compere de la Pouille couste, & despouille. Blanc de Pouille. Ceruse, or white Lead.

Pouiller. To lowse, to picke out lice, to wait, or looke into, a head, for lice.

Pouillerie: f. Lowsinesse; also, beggerie; sluttish, or nastie pouertie.  Ce n'est que toute pouillerie. There's no one good, nor faire peece; there's nought but trash, in all his stuffe.

Pouilles: f. Lice: ¶Bourg. Chanter, ou dire pouilles. To raile, reproach, reuile, giue most filthie words.

Pouilleux: m. euse: f. Lowsie, full of lice; also, beggerlie, of small, or no, meanes.  Herbe aux pouilleux. Lice-bane, Lowse-wort, Lowse-powder, Stauesaker.

Poul: m. A lowse; also, the Ninmurder, a yellowish bird, and the smallest of birds.  Poul de mer. The sea Lowse; a fish thats no bigger then a beane.  Herbe aux poulx. as Herbe aux pouilleux. Poulaille: f. Poultrie; Hennes, Chickens.

Poulailler. A Henne-house, or Henne-roost.

Poulaillerie: f. Poultrie.

Poulaillier: m. A Poulter; also, a breeder, or keeper of Poultrie.

Poulain: m. A fole, or coult; also, the rope wherewith wine is let downe into a seller; a pullie rope; also, a botch in the groine, a Winchester Goose.  Pied de poulain. Fole-foot, Coults-foot, Horse-foot, Hall-foot, (an hearbe.)  Ce que poulain prend en dompture, il le maintient tant comme il dure: Prov. The tricks a coult getteth at his first backing, will while he continueth neuer be lacking.  Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien: Prov. The coult that breakes not his halter is not worth a halfepenie.

Poulainant. Foling, as a mare.

Poulaine: f. Whence; Souliers à poulaine. Old fashioned shooes, held on the feet by single latchets running ouerthwart th' instup, which otherwise were all open; also, those that had a fashion of long hookes sticking out at th' end of their toes.  Ventre à la poulaine. A gulching, or huge, bellie; a bellie as big as a tunne.

Poulainement: m. A foling.

Poulainer. (A mare) to fole.

Poulce: m. The thumbe.  Le poulce du pied. The great toe.  Poulce, & event, ou vent. The breadth of a thumbe giuen betweene euerie yard, in measuring.  À poulce suant. The same.  Les poulces à la ceincture. Idlely, sloathfully, carelesly.  Mordre les poulces. To bite his thumbes for anger.

Poulcée: f. An inch, or inch-measure; the breadth of a thumbe.

Poulceon: m. The 24 part of a Chopine; a verie small measure, seldome vsed except it be for the gaging of the little Demi sextier, whereof it maketh a twelfth part.

Poulcepied: m. The Pourcontreil, Preke, or many-footed fish.

Poulcier: m. as Poulcée. Pouldre: f. Powder, dust.  Pouldre Agrippine. Any meat that prouokes, or enables, vnto lust.  Pouldre blanche. A powder compounded of Ginger, Cinnamon, and Nutmegs; much in vse among Cookes.  Pouldre de duc. A powder made of Sugar and Cinnamon, & hauing (sometimes) other Aromaticall simples added vnto them.  Pouldre à gripper. Any luxurious, or lasciuious meat.  Pouldre de Poussol. A kind of sand gottē at Poussole, hard by Naples; & vsed in the cutting af Marbles.  Pouldre rouge. Precipitate; sublimed, or calcinated, Quickesiluer.  Il iettera à tous les autres la pouldre aux yeux. He will outstrip all his competitors, the victorie will without doubt be his; (metaphorically, from the swiftest runner in a sandie race, who to make his fellowes follow aloofe, casteth dust with his heeles into their enuious eyes.)

Pouldré: m. ée: f. Powdered, bedusted.

Pouldrement: m. A powdering; a turning into powder.

Pouldrer. To powder; dust, or bedust; to make, beat, or turne into; to season, sprinkle, or dredge with, powder, or dust.

Pouldrette: f. Fine powder, small dust.  Temps de pouldrette. The season wherein a husbandman breakes the clods of his plowed land.

Pouldreux: m. euse: f. Dustie, full of dust.  Avoir le pieds pouldreux. To be of a nimble or actiue constitution, a stragling or wandering disposition; said also of one who being in further debt then he hath will, or meanes, to come out of, playes, for the most part, least in sight.

Pouldrier: m. A dust-bag; also, a Gunpowder maker.

Pouldriere: f. Dust, or dustinesse.

Pouldroyement: m. A puluerising; or powdering; a reducing vnto dust, or into powder.

Pouldroyer. To puluerize; to make, or turne into powder, or dust.

Poule: f. A Henne. Poule d'eau. A Coot, Moorehenne, Fenducke. Poule griesche. A Moorehenne; the henne of the Grice, or Mooregame. Poule d'Inde. A Turkie henne. Poule Lombarde. A Kentish henne, a great henne, a henne of the Game. Poule de mer. A small-mouthed, sharpe-toothed, broad-scaled, little-eyed, rocke-fish; whose finnes bee transparent, and both they, and her whole bodie, powdered ouer with beautifull, and sundrie-coloured spots. La poule, & les poulsins. The seuen starres. Cul de poule. The tops of the fingers, and thumb ioyned, or closed together; also, a hard swelling on th' edge of a Fistula. Docte annicheur de poules. An excellent Cot-*queane. Courir la poule. To forrage, ransacke, or rob countrey houses; (from the custome of rauening souldiers, who leaue not a Henne where they come.) Faire la poule. To play the coward. Faire de ses oeufs poules. Looke Oeuf. Iamais mauvaise poule ne le couva. He is of a gentle, or gentlemanlie humour; he hath no one iot of ill breeding in him.