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 243 Prinked up^ or Prinkt up. Dressed up in fine clothes. "Dressed to the nines." Frankt, Spenser. Prinking along. Walking in an affected manner. Prong. A silver fork ; a hay fork. Proper. Prim, handsome. " Being so pvper'' Shahpere in King Lear. Proud flesh. Overgrowth of the flesh in a healing wound. Prophecy table. For casting the matrimonial horo- scope. IN CORNWALL. ELSEWHERE. Tinker. Soldier. Tailor. Sailor. Soldier. Tinker. Sailor. Tailor. Bich man. Gentleman. Poor man. Apothecary Apothecary. Ploughman. Thief Thief. Pry an lode. A flookan lode, as a soft clayey vein of tin. In Celtic Cornish pryan or pian means, clayey ground. Pudlock. A short beam for supporting the planks of a scaffold. One end in the wall, the other tied to the scaffold pole. PuUan. This is a Celtic Cornish word, meaning a pit, a pond. (A salt water pool. M.A.c.)