_Posse Mobilitatis_, the whole Rabble in a Body. _Post_, Employment, Office, Station; also an advanced, or advantagious piece of Ground: A Pillar in the Way or Street. _From Pillar to Post_, from Constable to Constable. _Pot-hooks_, Scrawls or bad Writing. _Pot-valiant_, Drunk. _Pot and Spit_, Boyl’d and Roast. _A little Pot is soon Hot_, or a little Fellow soon made angry. _The Pot calls the Kettle black A——_, when one accuses another of what he is as Deep in himself. _Poulain_, a Bubo. _Powder-monkey_, Boys planted at the Guns a Bord the Ship, to fetch Gun-powder _&c._ in the Engagement. _Powdring-Tub_, the pocky Hospital at _Kingsland_ near _London_. _Poyson’d_, Big with Child. _Poyson-pate_, red Hair’d. _Prancer_, c. a Horse. _Prancers-nab_, c. a Horse’s Head used in a Sham-Seal to such a Pass. _Prancers-poll_, c. the same as before; also the Sign of the Nag’s Head. _Mount the Prancer_, c. get on the Horse’s Back. _Pranks_, Tricks. _Pratts_, c. Buttocks; also a Tinder-box or Touch-box. _Prating-cheat_, c. a Tongue. _Prateroast_, a Talking Boy. _Precarious_, what is Disputable and uncertain, as being purely at the Pleasure and Courtesy of another. _Precaution_, Forecast, or the Wisdom of Prevention, which is beyond that of Remedy. _Precipitate_, Rash, Headstrong, Unadvised, Inconsiderate, hurrying in Business. _Precisians_, Strait-laced, Squeemish, Foolishly Scrupulous. _Preservatives_, Antidotes to keep off, or prevent Diseases. _Priest-craft_, the Art of awing the People, managing their Consciences, and diving into their Purses. _Pretext_, Show, Colour, Pretence, or Excuse. _Prey_, c. Money. _Prick_, the first Head of a Fallow Deer; also a Skewer. _Pricker_, a Huntsman on Horse Back. _Pricketh_, the Footing of a Hare on the hard Highway, when it can be perceived. _Prickear’d Fellow_, a Crop, whose Ears are longer than his Hair. _Prick louse_, a Taylor. _Pricks_, decayed Wine, tending to Sower. _The Prick and Praise of our Town_, that bears the Bell from all the Rest, in all Exercises, as Wrestling, Running, Leaping, Vaulting, Pitching of the Barr, _&c._ _Priest-link’d_, Married. _Priest-ridden_, wholly influenc’d and absolutely govern’d by that Tribe. _Prig_, c. a Thief, a Cheat; also a Nice beauish, silly Fellow, is called _a meer Prig_. _Priggs_, c. the Ninth Rank of Canting Rogues, Thieves. _Priggers_, c. Thieves. _Prigging_, c. Riding; also Lying with a Woman. _Prigstar_, c. a Rival in Love. _Priggish_, c. Thievish. _Prig-napper_, c. a Horse-Stealer; also a Thief-taker. _Priggers of the Cacklers._ c. Poultry-Stealers. _Priggers of Prancers_, c. the Sixth Order of the Canting Crew, Horse-Stealers, who carry a Bridle in their Pockets, a small Pad Saddle in their Breeches. _Primero_, an old German Game at Cards. _Prim_, a silly empty starcht Fellow. _Princock_, a pert, forward Fellow.