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2$O GLOSSARY
PACKING, (a) packing up, for a PASSION, suffering; 4. 5. 187
journey, (b) plotting; 3. 4. 211 PATIENCE, permission; 3. 2. 105
PADDLE (vb.), finger idly or fondly PEAK (vb.), mope about, 'make a
(cf. Wint. 1. 2. 115 'paddling mean figure, sneak' (Dr John-
palms'); 3.4. 185 son); 2. 2. 570
PADDOCK, toad; 3. 4. 190 PEASANT (adj.), base; 2. 2. 553
PALL (vb.), grow vapid, fail (cf. PECULIAR, private. 'The single
1
A. & C. 2. 7. 88 'I'll never fol- and peculiar life = the life of the
low thy palled fortunes more'); private individual; 3. 3. 11
5. 2. 9 PEEVISH, obstinate, perverse (cf.
PARAGON, ' the perfection, or flower Cyntb. T. 6. 54 ' He is strange and
of; the most complete, most peevish'); 1. 2. 100
absolute, most excellent peece, PELICAN. The female was said to
in any kind whatsoever' (Cot- feed or revive her young with her
grave; cf. Two Gent. 2. 4. 144 own blood; 4. 5. 146
'She is an earthly paragon'); PELION, a lofty range of mountains
2. 2. 311 in Thessaly, famous in Greek
PARDON (sb.), permission to depart; mythology; 5. r. 247
1.2.5653.2.318 PERDITION, loss, diminution (cf.
PARLE,(i) conference under a truce; Temp. 1. 2. 30 'No, not so
I. 1. 62; (ii) conversation, with much perdition as an hair'); 5.
a quibble on sense i; 1. 3. 123 2. 117
PART (sb.), (i) (a) quality, charac- PERDY, pardie, by God, verily; 3.
teristic, (b) actor's part; 3. 2. 2.294
102; (ii) capacity, talent; 4. 7. PERIWIG-RATED, all wig and no
72; (Hi) (a) as at 4. 7. 725 brains. The wig was a mark of
\b) foreign parts; 5. 2. 115 the actor at this period, when
PARTISAN, 'A spear with a broad gentlemen still wore their own
head, the weapon of the guards, hair; 3. 2. 9
and at this day seen in the hands PERPEND, ponder; 2. 2. 10J
of the Yeomen of the Guard.' PERUSAL, study; 2. 1. 87
It was 'about nine feet with a PERUSE, examine, study; 4. 7. 135
staff of stiff ash' and was carried PETAR, petard, mortar, a small
by officers (SA. Eng. i. 137-38). engine of war used to blow up
Not the same as a halberd; gates, walls, etc.; 3. 4. 207
I. 1. 140 PHILOSOPHY, natural philosophy,
PASS (sb.), (i) bout (of fencing); science as then understood (in-
5. 2. 1675 (ii) lunge, thrust; cluding demonology); I. 5. 167;
5. 2. 61; 'pass of practice,' 2.2. 37 I
(a) a bout for exercise, (b) PHRASE, phraseology, language;
treacherous thrust; 4. 7. 137 2. 2. 447
PASS (vb.), thrust; 5. 2. 296 PICKED, (a) fastidious, finical,
PASSAGE, passing to the next exquisite (cf. L.L.L. 5. 1. 13
world, death; 3. 3. 86; 5. 2. 396 'He is too picked, too spruce,
PASSAGES OF PROOF, well-attested too affected'), (b) peaked, pointed
cases; 4. 7. 111 (possibly in reference to 'picked