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 on the Bur (which see) of a Stag.

Peck, c. Meat.

Peckidge, c. Meat. Rum Peck, c. good Eating. ''The Gentry Cove tipt us rum Peck and rum Gutlers, till we were all Bowsy, and snapt all the Flickers'', the Gentleman gave us so much good Victuals, and Canary, that we were all Damn'd Drunk, and broke all the drinking Glasses.

Peculiars, Plants, Animals and Fossiles, proper and particular to some one Country, and rarely if ever found in others, as English Scurvy-grass, Sarsa, Sassafras and Guajacum, all West Indian Druggs; and so for Animals, English Maistiffs, Irish Greyhounds, Barnacles, and Soland Geese peculiar to Scotland, as Puffins, to the Isle of Man; also Parishes exempt from other Ordinaries, and peculiarly belonging to the See of Canterbury. Peculiar, c. a Mistress; also particular, private, proper.

Pedant, a meer Scholar, a School-master, a Man of one kind of Learning or Business, out of which he is good for nothing.

Pedantry, a Learning and Skill of one Colour.

Ped, a Basket.

Pedlars, Scoth Merchants; also English Retailers of Goods, that stroll from Town to Town.

Pedlars-French, a sort of Gibrish or made Language, easy to be Learnt and Understood, used by Gypsies, &c. Also the Beggers Cant.

Peeking Fellow, a meer Sneaks, one that peeps in every Hole and Corner; also a thin, weasel-faced Fellow.

Peeper, c. a Looking-glass. ''Track the Dancers, and pike with the Peepers'', c. whip up the Stairs, and trip off with the Looking-glass.