_Pedant_, a meer Scholar, a School-master, a Man of one kind of Learning or Business, out of which he is good for nothing. _Pedantry_, a Learning and Skill of one Colour. _Ped_, a Basket. _Pedlars_, Scotch Merchants; also English Retailers of Goods, that stroll from Town to Town. _Pedlars-French_, a sort of Gibrish or made Language, easy to be Learnt and Understood, used by Gypsies, &c. Also the Beggers _Cant_. _Peeking Fellow_, a meer Sneaks, one that peeps in every Hole and Corner; also a thin, weasel-faced Fellow. _Peeper_, c. a Looking-glass. _Track the Dancers, and pike with the Peepers_, c. whip up the Stairs, and trip off with the Looking-glass. _Peepers_, c. Eyes. _Peepy_, c. _Peeping_, c. Drowsy, Sleepy. _As the Cull Peeps let’s Mill him_, c. when the Man is a Sleep, let’s Kill him. _Peery_, c. fearful, shy, sly. _The Cull’s Peery_, c. the Rogue’s afraid to venture. _Peeter_, c. a Portmantle or Cloak-bag. _Bite the Peeter_, c. to whip off the Cloak-bag. _Biter of Peeters_, c. one that makes a Trade of whipping Boxes and Trunks from behind a Coach or out of a Waggon, or off a Horse’s Back. _Pea-goose_, a silly Creature. _Peg at Cocks_, to throw at them at Shrovetide. _Gon to Pegtrantums_, Dead. _Pel-mel_, helter-skelter. _Pelt_, a Heat or Chafe. _What a Pelt you are in?_ what a Chafe your in? Also the Dead Body of any Fowl the Hawk has killd. _Pelts_, Beast Skinns. _Pelting-village_, Blind, Obscure. _Penelope’s Web_, to do and undo. _Pennance-bord_, c. a Pillory. _Pennites_, that Faction of Quakers that follow most and are in the Interest of _William Pen_, the chief Proprietor and Governor of _Pensylvania_, a Country lying betwixt Forty and Forty five Degrees of Latitude, in _America_, much improv’d, and like to florish. _Penny-worth._ _I’ll fetch my Pennyworth out of him_, or make him earn what he cost me. _Penny-white_, said of her, to whom Fortune has been kinder than Nature. _Penny-wise and Pound-foolish_, Sparing in a little and Lavish in a great Deal, _save at the Spiggot and let it out at the Bung-hole_. _A Penny-worth for one’s Penny_, for what is worth one’s Money. _To get a Penny_, to endeaver to Live; _to turn and winde the Penny_, to make to most of one’s Money, or Lay it out at the best Advantage, _Pennyless_, poor, sharp, bare of Money. _Penurious_, pinching, hard, parsimonious, little. _Pentice Nab_, a very broad-brm’d Hat. _Pepper’d off_, Damnably Clapt; or Poxt. _Pepper-proof_, not Clapt or Poxt. _Pericranium_, the Head or Skull. _Perking_, the late D. of M. also any pert forward silly Fellow. _To Perk up_, to hold up the Head after Drooping. _Periwinkle_, a Perruque or Periwig; also the same as _Pinpatches_. _Pestilent-fine_, Tearing-fine. _Pet_, a Fret. _To be in a Pet_, or out of Humor. _Peter Lug_, _Who is Peter Lug?_ Who let’s the Glass stand at his Door? _Petrify_, to turn to Stone.