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 96 THE DIALECT OF Paak, a stye on the eyelids. Paand. See Potmd, and Kew Eoad to Earnley in Preface. Paddle, vb, to lead by the hand. Paddle, or Peddle, ab, a huckster's cart; a hand cart. [In form, a diminutiTe ofpedy a basket.— W. W. S.] Padfoot (pronounced padfooU), a kind of ghost, or goblin, still often talked about here, and probably believed in by soma It is described as being something like a large sheep, or dog; sometimes to have rattled a chain, and been accustomed to accompany persons on their night walks, much as a dog might; keeping by their side, and makinff a soft noise with its feet — pad, pad, pad — whence its name. It had large eyes as big as ' tea-plates.' To haye seen it was of course a portent of yarious disasters. See PrefEUse, Padfoot. Padinoddy, or Palinoddy (a in had), funk; agitation; or embarrass- ment. Pagmag, odds and ends; nonsense. J. B. made a dish of bacon, fowls, and greens; and, being a strong-stomached man, he actually added a tallow candle. He called it a pctgmag. Pail, or Pale (pronounced as pay-il; gl. pai'h'l), to hit hard; to drive; to thrash. Said to one thrashing com, ' Pail it out.' Paise waise, or nearly Pisewise {gh paa*iz waa-iz; a in father, i in dt), %.e. pax- wax, the li<2^mental matter of the neck of ruminating animals. Here understood of the gristle in a neck of mutton. Also said of what is tough. Pale away, work away; push along. See PaiL Palm (pronounced pawin or poam), the tree so called. Sallow buds are so called. We find the following in a note on p. 334 of Ads of the Chapter of Ripon (Surtees Society, vol. Ixiv.) : * Our forefathers used any substitutes for the Oriental folm that came most readily to hand : in Italy, olive branches; in France, box or laurel; in Russia, some kind of sallow; in England, the yellow flowering sallow, yew, and box; in Scotland^ the sallow; ia Ireland, the yew. The term palm is popularly apphed in the north of England and in Scotland to the yeuow Fallow, and in the south to the yew. In North Torkshire cottages till the next year; so, in Ireland, tufts of vewthat have been bless^ as palms. In the prayer of benediction of the palms, the words of the Roman missal are, '* henedic etiam et lioa ramospalmce et olivae; " in the Parisian, " hos frondium ramM; " in Sarum, xork, and Here- ford, ** ho8 palmar um casterarumque arborum ramos.^* There is no mention of the custom previous to the eighth or ninth century.'
 * palm crosses' are made ever^r Palm Sunday, and hung up in tho