A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
Poignant (sword), _sharp_, ii. 250
Poignet, _a little bodkin_, i. 351
Poinard, _poignard_, ix. 117
Point-device, _with great exactness_, i. 23, 44
Pointed, _appointed_, i. 33
Pointment, _appointment_, i. 33, 37
Points (untrussed), ix. 41
Poise, _weight_, x. 119, 146, 190
Poking-stick, _note_, viii. 161
Politicly, _craftily_, xii. 52
Poll, _to pill_, _rob_, i. 199
Poll'd, _having the hair cut_, iv. 81, 82
Polldennery, _extortion_, ix. 229
Polling, _plunder_, iii. 118
Polt, _lame_, viii. 91
Pomander, _balls of perfume_, ix. 419
Ponderosity, _heaviness_, i. 14
Poopnoddy, _a fool_, ix. 242
Popinjay, _a parrot_, ii. 117
Porkling, _a pig_, viii. 369
Port, _manner_, _bearing_, _behaviour_, _courage_, ii. 248, 335;
vii. 293
Portace, }
Portass, }
Portesse,} _prayer-book_, _breviary_, iii. 24;
vii. 464;
viii. 393
Portraiture, _painting_, i. 62
Pose, _to question_, vii. 291
Poser, _examiner_, ix. 139
Posnets, _little pots_, xii. 328
Possems, _possets_, xiv. 296
Possess, _to inform_, ix. 483
Possessed, _acquainted_, _informed_, xiii. 144, 175
Possing, _pushing_, iii. 183
Post, _term used in dicing_, ii. 35;
_haste_, iv. 18, 19;
viii. 399;
_to haste_, v. 11;
vii. 203;
_messenger_, viii. 154;
x. 488;
"to ride post," ix. 102
Posting, _hastening_, xi. 488
Posts, _supports_ (?), i. 75
Pot (go to), ii. 252;
vi. 66;
vii. 302
Potgun, _popgun_, iii. 141
Pothecary, _apothecary_, i. 178;
i. 346
Potluck, viii. 87
Pottle, _a half-gallon_, xi. 136, 195
Poult-foot, _club-foot_, xiv. 308
Pouped, _deceived_, iii. 194
Powdered, _salted_, viii. 320
Power, _force_, iv. 260
Poynado, _poignard_, xii. 524
Poynant, _sharp_, xii. 286
Practic, _practical_, xi. 98
Practice, _treason_, _plotting_, _plot_, vii. 451;
xiv. 128, 149
Præstigiatory, _juggling_, xi. 324
Praise-worth, _praiseworthy_, vii. 73
Prancome, _a trick_, iii. 177
Prank, _trick_, ii. 117, 230;
iii. 198;
_to adorn_, ix. 231
Pranker, _finer_, ix. 431
Prater, _a chatterer_, ii. 255
Pratty, _pretty_, viii. 23
Praty, _pretty_, i. 71, 165
Preachment, _a declaration_, ix. 307
Preacquainted, xiii. 487
Prease, _crowd_, vii. 53
Prebends, i. 226
Precious thief, ii. 143
Preciousness, xv. 103
Predication, _preaching_, i. 235
Predycacyon, _preaching_, xv. 426
Prefe, _proof_, i. 179
Pregnant, _full of wit_, xii. 111
Pregnant wits, i. 7
Prenticehood, _apprenticeship_, iii. 310
Presence, _company_, i. 35
Presently, _at once_, xi. 82
Presentment, _representation_, xiv. 280, 281
Prest, _ready_, i. 82, 248
Prester-Johnian, xii. 229
Prestly, _readily_, i. 253
Pretence, _intention_, iii. 307
Pretend, _to intend_, vii. 178;
ix. 283
Pretended, _intended_, iii. 13
Pretty man, i. 19
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