_Princes-metal_, a mixt Metal, betwixt Brass and Copper, and of a mixt Colour between both, not so Pale as the one, nor so Red as the other, the late Invention of Prince _Rupert_. _Prince Prig_, c. a King of the Gypsies; also a Top-Thief, or Receiver General. _Prinking_, nicely Dressing. _Prinkt up_, set up on the Cupboards-head in their best Cloaths, or in State. Stiff-starched. _Mistress Princum-Prancum_, such a one. _Print_, the Treading of a Fox. _To set in Print_, with Mouth skrew’d up and Neck Stretcht out. _Prisme_, a Triangular Crystal-Glass or Fools Paradise, that by refraction reflects imaginary Blew, Red, and Yellow Colours upon all Objects seen through it; also any Saw-dust. _Prittle-Prattle_, idle impertinent Chat. _Proclamations_, _his Head is full of Proclamations_, much taken up to little Purpose. _Prog_, c. Meat. _Rum Prog_, c. nice Eating _The Cull tipt us Rum Prog_, c. the Gentleman Treated us very High. _Projectors_, Busybodies in new inventions and Discoveries, Virtuoso’s of Fortune, or Traders in unsuccesful if not impracticable Whimms, who are alwaies Digging where there is no more to be found. _Proling_, Hunting or Searching about in quest of a Wench, or any Game. _Property_, a meer Tool, or Implement, to serve a Turn, a Cat’s foot; also a natural Quality or Talent, and the highest right a Man can have to any thing, _Liberty and Property_, two Inestimable Jewells. To change the Property, or give it another turn, with a new Dress, or the Disguise of a Wig and a false Beard. _Proud Bitch_, desirous of Copulation. _Prying_ Fellow, that is very curious to enquire into other Men’s Secrets and Affairs. _Provender_, c. he from whom any Money is taken on the Highway. _Puke_, to Spue. _Pug_, _Pugnasty_, _a meer Pug_, a nasty Slut, a sorry Jade, of a Woman; also a Monkey. _Puling_, Sickly. _Pummel_, the Hilt, Handle, or round Knob of a Sword, or Saddle; also to Beat. I _Pummel’d his Sides for him_, I Beat him soundly. _Pump_, to wheedle Secrets out of any one; Bailives, Serjeants, Pick-pockets, _&c._ _Pumpt dry_, not a Word left to say. _Pun_, to Play with Words and Sounds. _Punch_, Brandy and Water, with Limes or Lemon-juice; also a thick short Man. _Punch Nag_, a short, thick, fat, squat, strong Horse. _Punch houses_, Bawdy-houses. _Punchable_, old passable Money, _Anno_ 1695. _Punk_, a little Whore. _Puny_ Child, weak little _Puny Stomack_. _Puny Judge_, the Junior or Youngest. _Pure_, c. a Mistress. _Purest-pure_, c. a Top-Mistress, or Fine Woman. _Pupil-mongers_, Tutors at the Universities, that have many Pupils, and make a Penny of them. _Puritans_, _Puritanical_, those of the precise Cut, strait-laced Precisians, _whining_ (as Osborn saies) _for a Sanctity God never yet trusted out of Heaven_. _Purl_, Worm-wood infus’d in Ale. _Purl-Royal_, Canary with a dash of Wormwood. _Pursenets_, c. Goods taken upon Trust by young Unthrifts at treble the Value; also a little Purse.