PIGTAIL, s. Twisted tobacco, S., resembling the tail of a pig.
To PIK, v. a. To strike lightly with any
thing sharp-pointed, S.
Ruddiman.
Su. G. pick-a, minutis ictibus tundere.
Pik, Pyk, s. A light stroke with what is
sharp-pointed, S.
Douglas.
PIK, PYK, PICK, s. Pitch, S.
Barbour.
A. S. pic, Belg. picke, id.
PIKARY, PICKERY, s.
1. Rapine.
Bellenden.
2. Pilfering, S.
Erskine.
Fr. picor-ée, plundering; picor-er, to rifle.
To PIKE, v. a. To select.
Douglas.
To PIKE, v. a. To sail close by.
Doug.
Su. G. pek-a, to point towards the land.
PYKIS, s. pl.
1. Prickles.
Dunbar.
Su. G. pigg, stimulus.
2. Short withered heath.
Gl. Shirr.
PIKKY, adj. Pitchy.
Douglas.
PIKKIT, part. pa. Covered with pitch.
Teut. pick-en, Lat. pic-are.
Douglas.
PIKLAND, part. pr. Picking up.
Douglas.
From pick, or Teut. pickel-en, scalpere.
PIK-MIRK, adj. Dark as pitch, S. corr.
pit-mirk.
Ramsay.
PYK-MAW, PICK-MAW, s. A kind
of gull.
Houlate.
PILCH, s.
1. A gown made of skin.
A. S. pylece, toga pellicea.
Douglas.
2. A tough skinny piece of meat, S.
3. Any thing short and gross, S.
Pilch, adj. Thick, gross, S.
PILE, PYLE, s.
1. In pl. the soft hair,
which first appears on the faces of young
men.
Douglas.
2. A tender blade, S.
Douglas.
3. A single grain, S.
Gl. Shirr.
Teut. pyl, Fr. poil, Lat. pil-us, a hair.
PYLE, s. A small javelin; or an arrow
for a cross-bow.
Stat. Will.
Su. G. pil, Lat. pil-um, a javelin.
PYLEFAT, s. L. gylefat, q. v.
Lyndsay.
PILGET, PILGIE, s. A broil, S. B.
Poems Buch. Dial.
Belg. belgh-en, to combat.
PILGREN, PYLGRYNE, s. A pilgrim,
Fr. pelegrin.
Burel.
To PILK, v. a.
1. To take out of a husk
or shell, S. B.
2. To pilfer, S. B.
E. pluck, or Teut. plock-en, id.
PILLAN, s.
A species of sea-crab, Fife.
Sibbald.
PILLOUR, s.
V. Pelure.
PILLOW, s. A tumultuous noise, S. B.
V. Hillie-billow.
PILTOCK, s. The coal fish, a year old, Orkn.
PIN, s. Summit.
Dunbar.
Teut. pinne, Germ. pfin, summitas.
PINALDS, s. A spinet; Fr. espinet.
Mellvill's MS.
PINCH, PUNCH, s. An iron lever, S.
Fland. pinsse, Fr. pince, id.
To PYNE, v. a. To subject to pain, S.
Isl. pyn-a, A. S. pinan, torquere.
Wall.
Pyne, s.
1. Pain, S.
Wyntown.
2. Labour, pains.
Douglas.
A. S. pin, Teut. pyne, cruciatus.
PYNE DOUBLET, a concealed coat of mail.
Su. G. pin-a, coarctare.
Cromerty.
PINERIS, PYNORIS, s. pl. Pioneers.
Knox.
To PINGE.
V. Peenge.
To PINGIL, PINGLE,
1. v. n. To strive,
to labour assiduously without making
much progress, S.
Douglas.
2. To vie with.
Douglas.
3. To toil for a scanty sustenance.
Dunbar.
4. v. a. To reduce to straits.
Douglas.
Su. G. pyng, labour, anxiety.
Pingil, Pingle, s.
1. A strife, S.
Ramsay.
2. Difficulty, S.
Journal Lond.
3. Hesitation.
Ramsay.
Pingling, s. Difficulty, S.
Pitscottie.
PINYIONE, s. A handful of armed men.
Acts Marie.
To PINK, v. n. To contract the eye, to glimmer, S.
Teut. pinck-ooghen, oculos contrahere.
Pinkie, adj. Applied to the eye, when
small, or contracted, S.
Ramsay.
To PINK, v. n. To trickle, to drop, S. B.
Ross.
PINKIE, s. The little finger, Loth.
Belg. pink, digitus minimus.
PINKIE, s. The weakest kind of table beer, S.
PINKIE, s. The smallest candle that is made, S.
O. Teut. pincke, cubicularis lucerna simplex.
PINNER, s.
1. A female head-dress, having
lappets pinned to the temples reaching
down to the breast, and fastened
there.
Ramsay.
2. A fleeing pinner, such a head-dress,
having the ends of the lappets hanging
loose, Ang.
O. Fr. pignoir seems to be synon.
PINNER-PIG, s.
V. Pirlie-pig.
PINNING, s. A small stone for filling a
crevice in a wall, S.
Statist. Acc.
Q. employed as a pin.
PINSEL, s. A streamer.
V. Pensel.
PIN-THE-WIDDIE, s. A small dried haddock not split, Aberd. corruptly penny-widdie.
PINTILL-FISH, s. The Pipe-fish; or
the Launce.
Monroe.
PYOT, s. A magpie.
V. Pyat.
PIPES. To tune one's pipes, to cry, S.
To PYRL, v. n. To prick.
Wallace.
Su. G. pryl, a long needle, pryl-a, stylo pungere.
To PIRL, v. n. To whirl, S. A.
V. Birle.
J. Nicol.
PIRL-GRASS, s. Creeping wheat-grass, S.
Stat. Acc.
PIRLIE-PIG, PURLIE-PIG, s. A circular earthen vessel, which has no opening save a slit at the top, no larger than to receive a halfpenny; used by children for keeping their money, S. B. Pinner-pig, S. O.
Perh. q. birlie-pig, from A. S. birl-ian, to drink; as forming a common stock. Pinner may be allied to Teut. penne-waere, merx; Dan. penger, money.
PIRN, s.
1. A quill, or reed, S.
Stat. Acc.
2. The yarn wound on a reed, S.
Ruddiman.
3. To wind one a pirn, to make a person
repent his conduct.
Ramsay.
4. To redd a ravell'd pirn, to clear up
something difficult, or to get free of
some entanglement, S.
Shirrefs.
Isl. prion-a, to weave.
Pirn, s. The wheel of a fishing-rod, S.
Sir J. Sinclair.
Pirnyt, Pyrnit, part. pa. Striped with
different colours.
Douglas.
Pirnie, adj. Having unequal threads, or
different colours, S.
Cleland.
Isl. prion, lanificium textile.
PIRR, s. A gentle breeze, S.
Isl. byr, bir, ventus secundus.
PIRRIEHOUDEN, adj. Fond, doating, Perths.
PIRZIE, adj. Conceited, Loth.
Fr. parsoy, by one's self.
PYSAN, s. A gorget.
V. Pesane.
PISMIRE, s. A steelyard, Orkn.
V. Bismar.
Brand.
PISSANCE, s. Power.
Douglas.
Fr. puissance, id.
Pissant, adj. Powerful.
Douglas.
Fr. puissant, id.
PIT and GALLOWS, a privilege conferred
on a baron, according to our old
laws, of having on his ground a pit for
drowning women, and gallows for hanging
men, convicted of theft.
Bellenden.
Teut. Put ende Galghe.
PITTAL, s. Rabble.
V. Pettail.
PYTANE, s. A young child; a term of endearment, S.
Fr. petit un, my little one; or peton, a fondling term used by nurses in Fr.
To PITY, v. n. To regret.
Baillie.
Pitiful, adj. To be regretted, S.
Id.
PITTIL, s. Some kind of fowl.
Houlate.
To PITTER-PATTER, v. n.
1. To repeat
prayers after the Romish manner.
Watson.
2. To make a chattering noise by inconstant
motion of the feet, S.
V. Patter.
L. Hailes.
PLACAD, PLACKET, s. A placard, S.
Pitscottie.
Teut. plackaet, decretum, from placken, to fix.
PLACE, s.
1. The mansion-house on an
estate, S.
Spalding.
2. A castle, a strong hold.
Keith.
Fr. place, a castle.
PLACEBOE, s. A parasite.
Knox.
Lat. placebo, I will please; still used in France.
PLACK, PLAK, s.
1. A billon coin.
Acts Ja. III.
2. A small copper coin, formerly current
in S., equal to the third part of an
English penny.
Morysone.
Fr. plaque, Teut. placke, L. B. placa; a small coin of various value according to the country.
Plackless, adj. Moneyless, S.
PLAGE, s. Quarter, point.
Pal. Hon.
Lat. plag-a, id.
PLAID, s. Plea.
V. Plede.
PLAID, s. An outer loose weed of striped
and variegated cloth, worn by the
Highlanders, S.
Pennant.
Gael. plaide, id.; Teut. plat, what is plain and broad.
PLAIDEN, PLAIDING, s. Coarse
woollen cloth, that is tweeled, S.
St. Acc.
From plaid; or C. B. pleth-u, to wreath.
PLAY-FEIR, PLAY-FERE, PLAY-FAIR,
s.
1. A playfellow.
Lyndsay.
From play, and fere, a companion, q. v.
2. Improperly, a toy, S.
Ferguson.
PLAIK, s. A plaid, Ang.
Su. G. Isl. plagg, vestimentum.
PLAYN, PLAYNE. In playne,
1. Clearly.
Wallace.
2. Out of hand; like Fr. de plain.
Ibid.
To PLAINYIE, v. n. To complain.
Fr. plaindre, id.
Pitscottie.
PLAINSTANES, s. pl.
1. The pavement, S.
2. The exchange, as being paved, S.
To PLAINT, PLENT, v. n. To complain
of, S.
Knox.
PLAYOKIS, s. pl. Playthings, S. O.
Wyntown.
PLAITINGS, s. pl. Pieces of iron which go below the plough-share. Fife.
PLANE, adj. Full, consisting of its different
constituent branches; applied to
parliament.
Acts Ja. II.
Fr. plane, pleine court, id.
PLANE-TREE, s. The maple, S.
Lightfoot.
To PLASH, v. n.
1. To make a noise by
dashing water, S.
Pleesk, S. B.
Ramsay.
2. To splash, S.
3. Applied to any thing, which, from
being thoroughly drenched, emits the
noise occasioned by the agitation of water,
S.
Su. G. plask-a, aquam cum sonitu movere.
PLASH of rain, a heavy fall of rain, S.
Belg. plasregen, praeceps imber.
PLASMATOR, s. Maker; Gr.
Complaynt S.
PLASTROUN, s. Perhaps, a harp.
Sir Egeir.
Gr. πληκτρον, the instrument with which the strings of an harp are struck.
To PLAT, PLET, v. a. To plait.
Wyntown.
PLAT, adj.
1. Flat, level.
Douglas.
2. Low, opposed to heiche.
Maitland P.
3. Close, near.
Douglas.
Su. G. platt, Teut. plat, planus.
Plat, adv. Flatly.
Douglas.
PLAT, PLATT, s. A plan.
Douglas.
Teut. plat, exemplar.
PLAT, PLATT, PLATE, s.
1. A dash.
Douglas.
2. A blow with the fist.
Lyndsay.
A. S. plaett-as, cuffs, blows.
To PLAT UP, v. a. To erect.
Baillie.
PLATFUTE, s. A term of reproach; applied
to a plain-soled person, and thence
ludicrously to some dance.
Lyndsay.
Teut. plat-voet, planipes.
PLEDE, PLEID, PLEYD, s.
1. Debate.
Wyntown.
2. A quarrel, a broil.
Chr. Kirk.
3. Care, sorrow.
Dunbar.
Belg. pleyte, lis, Fr. plaid.
To Plede, Pleid, v. n. To contend.
Doug.
To PLEDGE, v. a. To invite to drink, by promising to take the cup after another, S.; a vestige of the ancient custom of one drawing his dagger, as a token that he pledged his life for that of another, while he was drinking.
To PLEESK, v. n.
V. Plash.
PLEY, PLEYE, s.
1. A debate, S.
Poems Buchan Dial.
2. An action at law, whether criminal
or civil, S.
Reg. Maj.
A. S. pleo, pleoh, danger, debate.
To Pley, v. n. To answer in a court.
Burr. Lawes.
PLEINYEOUR, s. A complainer.
Acts Ja. II.
To PLENYE, v. n.
V. Plainyie.
To PLENYS, PLENISH, v. a.
1. To
furnish a house; to stock a farm, S.
2. To supply with inhabitants.
Wallace.
Plennissing, Plenising, s. Household
furniture.
Burr. Lawes.
R. Bruce.
To PLENT, v. n.
V. Plaint.
PLENTEOUS, adj. Complaining.
Bar. Courts.
PLEP, s. Any thing weak or feeble, S. B.
Pleppit, adj. Not stiff; creased. A pleppit dud, a garment become quite flaccid by wearing or tossing, Ang.
Perh. q. flappit, E. flapped; or from Isl. flap-r, aura inconstans.
PLESANCE, s. Pleasure.
Fr.
K. Quair.
To PLET, v. a. To reprehend.
Douglas.
Teut. pleyt-en, litigare.
PLEVAR, s. A plover.
Houlate.
PLEUCH, PLEUGH, s.
1. A plough,
S.
Douglas.
A. S. Su. G. plog, Alem. pluog.
2. That constellation called Ursa Major;
supposed to resemble a plough, S.
Douglas.
Pleuch-gang, Plough-gang, s. As much
land as can be properly tilled by one
plough; also, a pleuch of land, S.
Stat. Acc.
Pleuch-gate, Plough-gate, v. The same
with plough-gang, S.; gate being synon.
with gang.
Stat. Acc.
Pleuchgeire, v. The furniture belonging
to a plough, S.
Acts Ja. VI.
Pleuchgraith, s. The same with pleuchgeire,
S.
Skene.
Pleuch-irnes, Plwyrnys, s. pl. The iron
instruments belonging to a plough, S.
Wyntown.
Isl. plogiarn, the ploughshare.
PLY, s. Plight, condition, S.
Dunbar.
Fr. pli, habit, state.
PLY, s. A fold, a plait, S.
PLYCHT, s. Punishment.
Henrysone.
Belg. plicht, judicium.
To PLISH-PLASH, v. n. To emit the
sound produced by successive shocks in
any liquid body, S.
V. Plash, v.
J. Nicol.
Plish-Plash, adv. To play plish-plash, to make a flashing sound, S.
PLISKIE, s. A trick, properly of a mischievous
kind; though not necessarily
including the idea of any evil design, S.
J. Nicol.
A. S. plaega, play, sport, with the termination isc, or isk, expressive of increment.
PLODDERE, s. A banger, a mauler.
Wyntown.
O. Fr. plaud-er, to bang, to maul.
PLOY, s.
1. A harmless frolic, properly
of a social kind, S.
Sir J. Sinclair.
2. A frolic, which, although begun in
jest, has a serious issue, S.
Ross.
A. S. pleg-an, to play.
To PLOT, v. a.
1. To scald, S.
Ramsay.
2. To make any liquid scalding hot, S.
3. To burn, in a general sense.
Forbes.
PLOTCOCK, s. The devil.
Pitscottie.
According to some, Pluto, whose Isl. name is Blotgod. Our term may be q. Blotkok, "the swallower of sacrifices;" from blot, sacrificing, and kok-a, deglutire.
PLOUD, s. A green sod, Aberd.
Stat. Acc.
Fland. plot-en, membranam exuere.
PLOUT, s. A heavy shower of rain, S.
Belg. plots-en, to fall down plump.
To PLOUTER, v. n. To make a noise among water, to be engaged in any wet and dirty work, S., plowster, S. A.
Germ. plader-n, humida et sordida tractare; Teut. plots-en, plotsen int water, in aquam irruere.
Plouter, s. The act of floundering through
water or mire, S.
Popular Ball.
PLUCK, s. The pogge, a fish, S.
PLUCKUP, PLUKUP, s.
Poems 16th Cent.
At the plukup, q. ready to pluck up every thing by the roots.
PLUFFY, adj. Flabby, chubby, S.
Su. G. plufsig, facies obesa.
PLUKE, PLOUK, s. A pimple, S.
Gael. plucan, id.
R. Bruce.
Plukie-faced, adj. Having a pimpled
face, S.
Ritson.
PLUME-DAMES, s. A Damascene
plumb, S.
Acts Ja. VI.
PLUMP, adj. A plump shower, a heavy shower that falls straight down, S.
E. plumb, perpendicular; q. like lead, Teut. plomp, plumbeus.
PLWYRNYS, s. pl.
V. Pleuchirnes.
To PLUNK, v. n. To plump, S.
C. B. plwngk-io, id.
To PLUNK, v. n. To play the truant, S. O.
Teut. plenck-en, vagari, to straggle.
PLUNTED, probably for painted.
Leg. St Androis.
POB, POB-TOW, s. Refuse of flax, S. B.
also pab.
Statist. Acc.
POCK-ARRS, s. pl. The marks left by
the smallpox.
V. Arr.
POCKED SHEEP, old sheep having a disease resembling scrofula, S.
POCKMANTEAU, s. Literally, a cloak-bag,
S.
Meston.
POCK-SHAKINGS, s. pl. The youngest child of a family, S.
A very ancient Goth. idiom. Isl. belguskaka, ultimus parentum natus vel nata, from belg-ur, a bag or pock, and skak-a, to shake.
POD, s. Perhaps a toad; Teut. pode, id.
Montgomerie.
PODLE, s. A tadpole, S.; Teut. podde, a frog.
PODLIE, PODLEY, s.
1. The fry of
the coal fish, Loth., Fife, Orkn.
Statist. Acc.
2. The green-backed pollack, Loth.,
Fife.
Sibbald.
3. The true pollack, or Gadus pollachius,
S.; Fland. pudde, mustela piscis.
PODEMAKRELL, s. A bawd.
Douglas.
Fr. putte, meretrix, and maquerelle, lena.
POID, s.
V. Pod.
Pal. Hon.
To POIND, POYND, v. a.
1. To distrain,
S., a forensic term.
Bellenden.
2. To seize in warfare.
Wyntown.
A. S. pynd-an, to shut up; Germ. pfand-en, to distrain.
Poynd, Pownd, s.
1. That which is distrained,
S.
Stat. Rob. I.
2. The prey taken in an inroad.
Wynt.
Poindable, adj. Liable to be distrained,
S.
Erskine.
Poinding, s. The act of poinding, S.
Poynder, Pundare, s. One who distrains,
S.
Stat. Rob. I.
POINER, s. One who lives by digging
and selling feal, divots or clay, Inverness.
Law Case.
O. Fr. pionnier is used in a similar sense.
V. Roquefort.
POYNIES, s. pl. Gloves.
Skene.
Fr. poing, the fist.
POYNTAL, s.
1. A sharp sword or dagger.
Douglas.
Fr. pointille, a prick or point. O. Fr. punhal, a dagger.
2. A quill for playing on the harp.
Douglas.
To POIST, PUIST, v. a. To push.
V. Poss.
POKE, s. A swelling under the jaw; a
disease of sheep, S., perhaps as resembling
a pock or bag.
Statist. Acc.
POLDACH, s. Marshy ground lying on the side of a body of water, Ang.
Belg. polder, a marsh, a meadow on the shore.
POLICY, POLLECE, s. The pleasure-ground about a gentleman's seat, S.
Fr. police.
Acts Ja. V.
POLIST, adj. Artful; generally as including the idea of fawning, S.
E. polish; Fr. polir, to sleek.
POLKE, POK, s. A kind of net.
Acts Ja. VI.
POLLAC, s. Apparently the gwiniad, a
fish.
Statist. Acc.
POLLIE-COCK, POUNIE-COCK, s. A turkey, S.
Fr. paon, also poule, d'Inde, id.
POLLIS, s. pl. Paws.
Wallace.
POLLOCK, s. The young of the coalfish,
Shetl.
Statist. Acc.
POME, s. Perhaps pomatum.
Douglas.
POMELL, s. A globe; metaph. the
breast.
Maitland Poems.
L. B. pomell-us, globulus.
POYNYE, POYNYHÉ, POYHNÉ,
PONYHÉ, s. A skirmish.
Barbour.
O. Fr. poignée, id. Lat. pugna.
PONYEAND, adj. Piercing.
Wallace.
Fr. poignant, id.
PONNYIS, s. Weight, influence; Teut. pondigh, ponderosus.
Gl. Sibb.
PONNYIS, Leg. pennyis, money.
Houlate.
POO, s. A crab, E. Loth. Pulloch, Ang.
O. Fr. pole, sorte de poisson.
POORTITH, s. Poverty.
V. Purtye.
POPE'S KNIGHTS, s. pl. A designation
formerly given to priests of the
church of Rome, who were at the same
time distinguished by the title of Sir.
V. Schir.
Spotswood.
POPIL, s. A poplar.
Complaynt S.
Fr. peuple, Lat. popul-us, id.
POPIL, adj. Perhaps plebeian.
Teut. popel, plebs.
Bellenden.
POPINGOE, s.
V. Papejay.
To POPLE, PAPLE, v. a.
1. To bubble
up like water, expressing also the noise
of ebullition, S.
Douglas.
2. To boil with indignation, S. B.
V. Paple.
Teut. popel-en, murmur edere, C. B. pwmbl-u, to bubble, pwmpl, a bubble.
POPLESY, s. Apoplexy.
Bellenden.
Teut. popelcije, id.
POPPILL, POPPLE, s. Corn campion
or cockle, S. papple, C. B. popple, id.
Bannatyne Poems.
POR, s. A thrust with a sword.
Teut. porr-en, urgere.
Mellvill's MS.
PORRIDGE, s. Hasty-pudding; oat-meal,
sometimes barley-meal, stirred on
the fire in boiling water till it be considerably
thickened, S.
Stat. Acc.
PORT, s. A catch, a lively tune, Gael.
id. S.
Kelly.
Port-youl, Port-yeull. To sing Port-youl,
to cry, S.
Kelly.
Port, and youl to cry.
PORTAGE, s. Cargo put onboard ship,
Fr.
Douglas.
POTATIBUS, not understood.
Houlate.
PORTEOUS, PORTUOS, PORTOWIS,
PORTUISROLL, s. A list
of persons indicted to appear before the
Justiciary Aire, given by the Justice-clerk
to the Coroner, that he might attach
them in order to their appearance.
Acts Ja. I.
Probably from Fr. port-er, as being carried to the Aires or circuit-courts; O. Fr. porteis, portatif.
PORTIONER, s. One who possesses part
of a property which has been originally
divided among co-heirs.
V. Parsenere.
Stat. Acc.
PORTURIT, adj. Pourtrayed.
Doug.
PORTUS, s. A skeleton, Ang.
POSE, POIS, POISE, s. A secret hoard
of money, S.
Knox.
A. S. posa, Dan. pose, Su. G. posse, a purse.
POSNETT, s. A bag in which money is
put; q. a net used as a purse.
Burr. Lawes.
To POSS, v. a. To push; S. pouss.
V. Pouss.
Douglas.
Fr. pouss-er, Lat. pulsare.
POSSODY, s. A term of endearment,
used ludicrously.
V. Powsowdie.
Evergreen.
To POSTULE, v. a. To elect one for a bishop who is not in all points duly eligible.
L. B. postulari.
Wyntown.
POSTROME, s. A postern.
Bellenden.
L. B. posturium, id.
To POT, v. a. To stew in a pot, S.
POT, POTT, s.
1. A pit, a dungeon.
Douglas.
2. A pond or pit full of water, S.
Rudd.
3. A pool or deep place in a river, S.
Ruddiman.
4. A deep hole scooped out in a rock,
by the eddies of a river, S.
Minstr. Bord.
5. A moss-hole from whence peats have
been dug.
V. Pete-pot.
Teut. put, fovea; lacuna, palus; given as synon. with pool.
POTARDS, s. pl. L. dotards.
More.
POTENT, adj. Wealthy, q. powerful in
money, S.
Priests Peblis.
POTENT, s.
1. A gibbet.
Compl. S.
2. A crutch.
Gl. Sibb.
Fr. potence, a gibbet; also a crutch.
POTTINGAR, s. An apothecary.
Evergreen.
L. B. Potagiar-ius, coquus pulmentarius.
Pottingry, s. The work of an apothecary.
Dunbar.
POUDER, POWDER, s. Dust; Fr.
poudre.
R. Bruce.
POUERALL, PURELL, s. The rabble.
Barbour.
O. Fr. povrail, paurail, paupertinus.
POUNCE, s. Long meadow-grasses,
Orkn.
Neill.
Isl. punt-r, gramen barbatum, a sharp-pointed grass.
POUNE, POWNE, s. A peacock; S.
pownie.
Douglas.
Fr. paonneau, a young peacock.
To POUNSE, PUNSE, v. a. To carve,
to emboss.
Douglas.
Teut. ponts-en, punts-en, caelare, scalpere.
POURIN, s. A very small quantity of any liquid, S., from E. to pour.
POURIT, part. adj. Impoverished.
V. Pure, v.
Gl. Sibb.
POURPOURE, s. Purple.
Douglas.
Fr. pourpre, id.
To POUSS, v. n.
1. To push, S.
Bp. Forbes.
2. To drive clothes hastily backwards
and forwards in the water in the act of
washing, S.
Teut. polss-en int water, quatere aquas.
Pouss, s. A push, S.
Fr. pousse.
POUST, s. Bodily strength, S.
O. Fr. poesté, pooste, id.
Pousté, Powsté, s. Power.
Douglas.
Lege poustie, full strength, i. e. legitima
potestas.
Reg. Maj.
Pousture, s. Bodily ability. To lose the
pousture of a limb, to lose the power of
it, S. B.
Ruddiman.
POUT, s.
1. A young partridge or moor-fowl,
S.
Acts Ja. VI.
Fr. poulet, a pullet; Lat. pullus.
2. The chicken of any domesticated
fowl, S.
3. A young girl, a sweetheart.
Ross.
To Pout, v. n. To shoot at young partridges;
also, to go a-pouting, to go to
shoot at pouts, S.
Antiquary.
To POUT, POUTER, v. n. To poke, to
stir with a long instrument, S.
Waverley.
Su. G. pott-a, digito vel baculo explorare; Belg. poter-en, fodicare.
Pout, s. A poker, S. A.
Pout-net, s. A round net fastened to two
poles, by means of which the fishers
poke the banks of rivers, to force out
the fish, S.
Courant.
Poutstaff, s. A staff or pole used in fishing
with a small net.
Wallace.
To POUZLE, v. n. To search about with uncertainty for any thing, S. B.; q. to puzzle.
To Pouzle, v. n. To trifle, Fife.
Teut. futsel-en, nugari.
POW, s. The head, the poll, S.
Ramsay.
To POW, v. a. To pluck, to pull, S.
Wallace.
POW, s. A pool.
Sir Tristrem.
POW, POU, pron. poo, s.
1. A slow-moving
rivulet in flat lands, S.
Statist. Acc.
2. A watery or marshy place, Stirlings.
Statist. Acc.
3. A small creek, affording a landing-place
for boats, Clackm.
Statist. Acc.
4. The wharf itself, ibid.
Radically the same with E. pool.
POWART, s. A tadpole; powrit, Fife.
Statist. Acc.
POW-EE, s. A small fresh haddock, Montrose.
POW-HEAD, s. A tadpole; pron. powet,
S. powie, Perths.
Gl. Tristrem.
Mod. Sax. pogghe, a frog, q. pogghe-hoofd, the head of a frog.
POWIN, s. The peacock.
Evergreen.
Fr. paon, id.
POWLINGS, s. pl. Some disease.
Montgomerie.
POWSOWDIE, s.
1. Sheepshead broth,
q. poll-sodden.
Ritson.
2. Milk and meal boiled together, S. B.
PRAELOQUUTOUR, s. An advocate.
V. Prolocutor.
PRAY, s. A meadow.
Douglas.
Fr. pré, id. Lat. pratum.
PRAP, s. A mark, S.
V. Prop.
To Prap, v. a.
1. To set up as a mark, S.
2. To prap stanes at any thing, to throw
stones, by taking aim at some object,
S. B.
PRAT, PRATT, s.
1. A trick, S.
Doug.
2. A wicked action, S.
Forbes.
A. S. praett, craft, Isl. prett-ur, guile.
Pratty, adj. Tricky, S.; pretty, S. B. often
ill-pretty.
Ruddiman.
PRATTIK, PRETTIK, PRACTIK,
PRACTIQUE, s.
1. Practice, experience.
Lyndsay.
2. A stratagem in war; protick, S. B.
Douglas.
3. Form of proceeding in a court of law;
a forensic term.
Fr. practique.
Baillie.
4. An artful means.
Dunbar.
5. A trick of legerdemain, S.
Gl. Sibb.
6. A necromantic exploit, S.
Dunbar.
7. A mischievous trick, or any wicked
act, S.
Ramsay.
Su. G. praktik, craft; Mod. Sax. practycke, astrology.
To PRECELL, v. n. To excel.
Lyndsay.
PRECLAIR, adj. Supereminent, Fr.
Lyndsay.
To PREFFER, v. a. To excel; Lat.
praefer-o.
Complaynt S.
To PREIF, PRIEVE, PREVE,
PREE, v. a.
1. To prove.
Douglas.
2. To taste; corr. prie, S.
Pal. Hon.
3. To find by examination.
Wallace.
PREYNE, PRENE, PREIN, PRINE,
PRIN, s.
1. A pin made of wire, S.
Ramsay.
2. A thing of no value, S.
Wallace.
Su. G. Dan. pren, any sharp instrument; Isl. prionn, a needle, or large pin.
To Prein, Prene, Prin, v. a. To pin, S.
Dunbar. Ramsay.
Prein-cod, s. A pin-cushion, S.
PREIS, PRES, s. Heat of battle.
Wyntown.
To PREK, PRYK, v. n. To gallop.
Douglas.
A. S. pricc-ian, Belg. prick-en, pungere.
To PRENE, v. a.
V. Prein, v.
To PRENT, v. a.
1. To print, S.
Acts Marie.
Isl. prent-a, typis excudo.
2. To coin.
Douglas.
Su. G. prent-a, imprimere; from pren, a graving tool.
Prent, s.
1. Print, S.
Abp. Hamiltoun.
2. Impression of a die.
Acts Ja. III.
3. A deep impression made on the mind.
Wallace.
4. Likeness.
Douglas.
Prentar, s. A printer.
PRES, s. Throng.
V. Preis.
PRESERVES, s. pl. Spectacles which magnify little or nothing, S.
PRESOWNE, s. A prisoner.
Wyntown.
PRESSYT. L. prissyt, praised.
Barbour.
PREST, PRETE, part. pa. Ready. Fr.
Douglas.
PRESTABLE, adj. Payable.
Act Sed.
Fr. prest-er, Lat. praest-are.
PRETTY, adj.
1. Small; pron. e as ai in
fair, S. B.
2. Including the idea of neatness, conjoined
with smallness of size, S. B.
3. Mean, contemptible.
Douglas.
4. Handsome, well-made, S.
Spalding.
5. Polite, accomplished, S.
V. Proty.
Sir J. Sinclair.
PRETTY-DANCERS, s. pl. The aurora borealis, S. B.
To PREVADE, v. n. To neglect.
Baillie.
To PREVENE, PREVEEN, v. a. To prevent.
Lat. praevenio.
Douglas.
PREVENTATIVE, s. Preventive, S.
To PREVERT, v. a. To anticipate.
Lat. praevert-o.
Douglas.
PREVES, pl.
1. Proofs.
2. Witnesses.
Acts Ja. VI.
PRYCE, PRICE, PRYS, PREIS, s.
1. Praise.
Henrysone.
Su. G. prisa, Dan. prise, Belg. prijs, id.
2. Prize.
Teut. prijs, pretium.
Douglas.
PRICK, s.
1. A wooden skewer, securing
the end of a gut containing a pudding,
S.
Kelly.
2. An iron spoke.
Mellvill's MS.
To Prick, v. a. To fasten by a wooden
skewer.
Kelly.
Pricksworth, s. Any thing of the lowest imaginable value, S.
PRICKED HAT, part of the dress required
of those who bore arms in this
country.
Acts Ja. II.
PRICKER, s. The basking shark, S. B.
Brand.
PRICKER, s. pl. A light horseman.
V. Prek.
Spotswood.
PRICKMEDAINTY, s. One who is finical in dress or carriage, S.; q. I prick myself daintily.
Teut. pryck-en, ornare.
PRICKSANG, s. Pricksong.
Pal. Hon.
PRIDEFOW, adj. Proud, S.
PRIDYEAND, part. pr.
Houlate.
Q. setting themselves off. Su. G. pryd-a, id.
PRIEST.
To be one's priest, to kill him,
S. B.
To PRIEVE, v. a.
V. Preif.
To PRIG, v. n.
1. To haggle, S.
Doug.
2. To importune, S. B.
P. Buch. Dial.
Belg. prachg-en, to beg.
Prigging, s.
1. Haggling, S.
Rutherford.
2. Entreaty, S.
To PRYK, v. n.
V. Prek.
To PRYME, v. a. To stuff.
Douglas.
PRIMSIE, s. Demure, precise, S. from
E. prim.
Burns.
To PRIMP, To deck one's self in a stiff and affected manner.
Primpit, part. pa.
1. Stiffly and affectedly
dressed, S.
2. Ridiculously stiff in demeanour, S.
Su. G. pramper-a, to be proud.
To PRIN, v. a.
V. Prein, v.
PRYNES, s. pl. Cribs of some kind for
catching fish.
Acts Ja. III.
To PRINK, To deck, to prick, S.
Teut. pronck-en, ornare.
Evergreen.
To PRINKLE, v. n. To thrill, to tingle,
S.
Hogg. Kelly.
PRINTS, s. pl. Newspapers, S.
PRYS, s. Praise.
V. Pryce.
PRIVY SAUGH, Common privet, S.
Lightfoot.
To PRIZE UP, v. a. To force open a lock or door, S.
Fr. press-er, to force.
PROBATIONER, s. One who is licensed
to preach in public, as preparatory
to his being called by any congregation,
S.
Acts Assembly.
To PROCESS, v. a. To proceed legally
against one, S.
Baillie.
To PROCH, v. a. To approach.
Wallace.
Fr. proche, near.
PROCHANE, PROCHENE, adj. Neighbouring, Fr.
Complaynt S.
PROCURATOR, s.
1. An advocate in
a court of law.
Acts Ja. VI.
2. A solicitor, who is allowed to speak
before an inferior court, although not
an advocate; corr. procutor, S.
L. B. procurator.
PROD, s. A wooden skewer, Ang.
Su. G. brodd, Dan. brod, cuspis, aculeus.