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 96 SAST OOBNWALL GLOSSART. Orerlooky to bewitch ; to have under spell ; to cast an evil eye on. Beahrew your eyes They have <^erlo6k^d me. — Shaksfebb, Mtrchami of Vmice. Oiely the windpipe. Paddiol^ a small pitcher. Palace, a cellar for the bulking and storing of pilchards. This cellar is usually a square building with a pent-house roof, encUmng an open area or court. Has our word any connection with that applied to a regal mansion which had a court (area circa cBdea), for giving audience P Palohed, patched. A confirmed invalid is said to be a palched, or patched up man. Paager, a pannier. Pank, to pant. Pay^ to lay on a coat of pitch or tar. Peendy, tainted (aj^plied to flesh). The peculiar taste or smell just short of decomposition. Peiie, to weigh ; to poise. I speak too long, but tis to jmte the time To eke it, and to draw it out in length. — Shaxspebb. Tho* soft, yet lasting, with just balance paiaed. — ^Fletches's Purple i Island. I Norden also uses it, 1684. Pendy to shut in. In Finglish we retain the participle past, pent. Penny-oake, the herb navel-wort, Cotyledon umbilicus. Penny-liggy, penniless. Pildh, a warm, flannel outer garment for children. Pill, a pool in a creeks Even as a sturgeon or a pike doth scour The creeks and piUa in rivers where they lie. Silvesteb's Du BarUu. PiUua, the oat grass, Avena (Woigan op. cit.). Pilm, Pillem, dust. '' The dust which riseth." Carew, who says that this was one of the rude terms with which Devon or Gomishmen were often twitted. Pimpey, the afteivcider made by throwing water on the nearly* euausted cheese or alternate layer of apple and straw.. It is some- times called beverage, and is only fit for immediate use« PiiinilriH| puny. Piiky, an elf or fairy* Pittis, pale and wan. Qy. piteous.