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
Prevent, _to forestall_, _anticipate_, ii. 250;
vii. 233;
xii. 101;
_go before_, xiii. 473
Prey, _prize_, ii. 360
Price, _prize_, _renown_, iii. 28
Prick, _to ride_, iv. 92
Prick-eared cur, i. 87
Prick-eared song, i. 48
Pricked, _dressed_, i. 244
Pricket, _a young buck_, ix. 149
Prickle, _prick_, v. 46;
_to prick_, xiv. 318
Pricks (on a gall), i. 14
Prick-shafts, xiii. 39
Prick-song, i. 48;
xi. 144
Priesthade, _priesthood_, vi. 72
Prime, _spring_, ix. 231
Primero, _term used in card-playing_, ix. 387
Prims, _pretty lasses_, i. 181
Princock, _a dandy_, ii. 170;
iv. 308
Princocks, vii. 442
Princox, _coxcomb_, xi. 126;
xii. 524
Prinkox, _a fop_, ii. 260
Prink up, iii. 6
Print, _to impress_, ii. 275
Privity, _secresy_, i. 34
Privy council, _secret council_, i. 157
Proface, _note_, viii. 160
Proine, _to prune_, x. 160
Promise is debt, i. 137
Propagation, _conception_, i. 290
Proper, "a proper wench," i. 26;
_well-behaved_, i. 426;
_own_, viii. 148
Properties, (of a theatre), xiii. 274
Property, (of a stage), _a scene_ (?), viii. 316
Propriety, _property_, xiv. 364
Prospective, _a view_, vii. 269
Provand, _plain_, _common_, xiv. 385
Prune, _to pick clean_, _trim_, xi. 361
Pucellage, _maidenhead_, i. 77
Pudder, _pother_, _disturbance_, xiv. 444
Pudding-time, iii. 319
Pugging, _pulling_, iv. 120
Puisne, _puny_, x. 25
Puissance, _power_, i. 41
Puissant, _powerful_, xiii. 343
Pullen, _poultry_, iii. 239;
_chicken_, ix. 491
Pumps, _dancing-shoes_, xv. 360
Pums, _a term of endearment_, i. 405
Punk, _a prostitute_, xiv. 60
Punks, ix. 471
Punto, _note_, xiv. 284
Purchase, _to obtain, get_, viii. 402;
_robbery_, xi. 304;
_a prize_, xii. 232;
xiii. 406
Purchasing, _getting_, xi. 490
Purfled, _trimmed_, ix. 417
Purgation, _cleansing_, i. 213
Purls, _hem or fringe_, xi. 134
Purple, _a disease_, i. 175
Purporting, iv. 173
Purpose (to), _to the purpose_
Purpur, _purple_, i. 252
Pursy, _fat_, viii. 369
Purvey, _to provide_, i. 25
Putting out, _lending money at interest_, xi. 190
Pye, ii. 22
Pyketh, _picks_, xii. 242
Pyrdewy, i. 156
Quadragesimal, _lenten_, xii. 268
Quail, _to terrify_, vi. 266;
_to languish_, vii. 48, 204
Quaintly, _fitly_, xiii. 158
Quapp, _to quake_, xii. 242
Quarled, _curdled_, x. 84
Quarry, xi. 404;
_game_, xiv. 379
Quashed, _smashed_, i. 399
Quass, _to quaff_, iii. 327
Quatorzain, viii. 88
Quaver, _to sing_, ii. 117
Quean, _woman_, ii. 346
Queasy, _sickly_, ii. 112;
xiii. 45;
xiv. 145
Queck, _blow_ (?), ii. 8
Queen's game, ii. 34
Quell, _to kill_, _subdue_, i. 79
Quere, _quire_, i. 194
Quest, _jury_, ii. 176;
_inquiry_, xiv. 343
Quick, _living_, _alive_, i. 110;
v. 248
Quick brimstone, _gunpowder_, i. 179
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