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Rh *perseus, persicus:—peach - coloured.
 * persona:—a person; a parson or rector.
 * persona impersonata:—a parson imparsonee, a lawful incumbent in actual possession.
 * personabilis:—able to maintain a plea.
 * personagium:—a parsonage; a benefice.
 * personalis:—the office of a parson; a benefice.
 * pertica:—a perch or pole of land, now 16½ feet, in the thirteenth century 24 or 25 feet; a square perch, now 30¼ yards; a crossbeam; the beam of a buck's head or branch of a stag's.
 * perticalis:—a percher candle, placed on a crossbeam.
 * pertirarius:—a beadle; an apparitor.
 * perticata:—a square perch . See pertica.
 * perticia terre:—the same as perticata.
 * perticulus:—a staff; a bat.
 * partinentia:—appurtenance.
 * pertizona:—distribution of alms (?).
 * pertum:—a broom.
 * perula:—a pearl.
 * pervisum. See parvisa.
 * pesa. See pensa.
 * pesagium:—pesage, custom paid on weighing goods.
 * pesarius:—a weigher.
 * pesor:—a weigher, an Exchequer officer.
 * pessagium. See pesagium.
 * pessellum:—a bolt (pessulum).
 * pesso, pessona:—mast.
 * pessularia:—a stockade.
 * pestellus:—a leg of pork. O. E. pestle.
 * peta:—peat.
 * petagium. See pedagium.
 * petalum:—a paving stone.
 * petancia. See pietancia.
 * petilio, petilla:—a crossbow bolt; a pestle.
 * petillarius:—a boltinaker.
 * petillium:—a crossbow bolt.
 * petitorium:—a claim; a writ of right.
 * petra:—a stone weight.
 * petraria:—a stone quarry; an engine to cast stones.
 * petrmia:—a gun.
 * pettum:—a crack of a whip; a report of a gun.
 * petulium:—a bolt.
 * petulus:—with white feet.
 * peytrellum:—a poitrel.
 * phalesia:—a cliff on the sea-shore.
 * phano:—a banner.
 * pheliparius:—a fripperer.
 * phila:—a file.
 * philaterium, philaternum:—a phylactery; an amulet; a reliquary, worn suspended from the neck.
 * philipparius:—a fripperer.
 * phoracra. See foracra.