_Purse-proud_, haughty because Rich. _Pursy_, Fuggy, Fat. _Pushers_, Canary-birds new Flown that cannot Feed themselves. _Pushing School_, a Fencing School; also Bawdy-house. _At a Push_, at a pinch or strait. _At Push of Pike_, at Defiance. _Push-pinn_, Childrens Play. _To Push on one’s Fortune_, to advance, or run it up. _Put._ _A Country-Put_, a silly, shallow-pated Fellow. _Put to it_, Beset. Q _Quacking-cheat_, c. a Duck. _Quack_, an Empirick, or meer pretender to Physic. _Quaffing_, _Quaff off_, carousing, to carouse. _Quag_, _Quagmire_, marshy moorish Ground. _Quailing of the Stomack_, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy. _Quail-pipe_, a Woman’s Tongue; also a Device to take the Birds of that Name, which are fine food, the French esteem’d the best; tho’ both those and the English are of a Currish Nature, and will beat themselves against the Cage, sides and top, being with difficulty brought to Feed: Wheat is usually given them, but Hempseed is a great deal better. _Quaint_, curious, neat; also strange. _Quaking cheat_, c. a Calf or a Sheep. _Qualified_, Accomplisht, Statesman, Soldier, Scholar. _Qualifications_, Accomplishments that render any of them Compleat; also Conditions. _Qually-Wines_, Turbulent and Foul. _Qualm_, a Stomack-Fit; also Calmness, and the Cry of Ravens. _Qualmish_, Crop-sick, queasy Stomackt. _Quarrel-picker_, a Glazier; also a contentious Fellow, a Trouble Company. _Quarron_, c. a Body. _Quarte_, Nails of the Sword-Hand quite up. _Quarting upon the streight Line_, keeping the Head and Shoulders very much back from the Adversary’s Sword, when one thrusts with his own. _Quash_, to Suppress, Annul, or Overthrow. _To Quash the indictment._ _Quean_, a Whore, or Slut. _A dirty Quean_, a very Puzzel or Slut. _Queasy_ Stomacht, Crop-sick, Qualmish. _Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket-pistol_, a Brass-Cannon of a prodigious Length at _Dover-Castle_. _Queere_, c. base, Roguish, naught. _How Queerely the Cull Touts?_ c. how roguishly the Fellow looks. _Queere Birds_, c. such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of Roguing and Thieving. _Queere-bluffer_, c. a sneaking, sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house or Inn-keeper. _Queere-bung_, c. an empty Purse. _Queere-clout_, c. a sorry, coarse ord’nary or old Handkerchief, not worth _Nimming_. _Queere cole_, c. Clipt, Counterfeit, or Brass Money. _Queere cole-maker_, c. a false-Coyner. _Queere cole-fencer_, c. a Receiver and putter off false Money. _Queere-cove_, c. a Rogue. _Queere-cuffin_, c. a Justice of Peace; also a Churl. _Queere-cull_, c. a Fop, or Fool, a Codshead; also a shabby poor Fellow. _Queere-degen_, c. an Iron, Steel, or Brass-hilted Sword. _Queere-diver_, c. a bungling Pick-pocket. _Queere-doxy_, c. a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench. _Queere-drawers_, c. Yarn, coarse Worsted, ord’nary or old Stockings. _Queere duke_, c. a poor decayed Gentleman; also a lean, thin, half Starved Fellow.