Profytablest, _adj. superl._ most profitable, 37/5. Promesse, _s._ promise, 157/16, 21. Propertie, _s._ method, 12/17. Prouander, _s._ provender, 23/11. Proued, _pp._ tried, 141/22, 23. Prycke-eared, _pp._ with sharply pointed erect ears, 77/1. Cf. the phr. ‘to _prick up_ one’s ears.’ Pulled, _pp._ gathered, 146/41. Pursy, _s._ short-windedness (in a horse), 84/1. See _Pursy_ in my Etym. Dict. Pursynes, _s._ short-windedness, 87/4. Put, _v._ push, 70/42. Pygges, _s. pl._ pigs, 146/89. Pyke, _v._ pick, 35/3. Pykforke, _s._ pitchfork, 5/6, 25/4. Pyl, _v._ to peel, 134/23; _imp. s._ 134/11. _See_ Pill. Pylate, Pilate, 166/26. Pyllynge, _s._ strip of bark, 136/22. Pymples, _s. pl._ pimples, 49/2, 93/3. Pyn-awgur, _s._ a boring-tool for making holes for pins or pegs, probably a gimlet as distinguished from a _rest-awgur_, 5/32. Pynder, _s._ the petty officer of a manor, whose duty it was to impound all strange cattle straying on the common, 148/25, 39. Pynfolde, _s._ pound, 148/26. Pynte, _s._ pint, 58/31. Pypes, _s. pl._ hollow stalks, 70/9. Pyrre-stocke, _s._ a pear-stock, 137/10. Pysell, _s._ pizzle, 56/7. Pytchers, _s. pl._ pitchers, 141/68. Quicke, _adj._ alive; waxe quicke, become alive, 91/5. Quikens, _s. pl._ live things, 55/16. Quiteth, _pr. s._ requites, repays, 14/13. Quyche, _s._ couch-grass, 14/17. Quyche-hey, _s._ hay of couch-grass, 25/21. Quycke, _adj._ alive, 102/4. Quycke, _s._ quicke, sensitive part, 115/2. Quycke-sande, _s._ quicksand, 128/24. Quyckeset, _v._ make quickset hedges, 123/8. Quycksettes, _s. pl._ quickset hedges, 124/3. Rache, _s._ a streak or mark on a horse’s forehead (misprinted _rathe_ in ed. 1534), 68/64. See the spelling _ratch_ in the note to the line. ‘_Raitch_, a white line in a horse’s face; _Yorksh._’ --Wright. _See_ Rase. Radel-marke, _s._ a mark made on sheep with ruddle, or red ochre, 52/5. Raine, _s._ gutter, water-course, furrow between ridges, 13/7; rayne, 7/20. See _Rean_ in Wright, and below. Ranke, _adj._ rank, strong, 10/10, 12/20; fertile, 17/29. Ranknes, _s._ abundance, repletion, 101/1. Rapes, _s. pl._ turnips, 20/9. O. F. _rabe_, _rave_, ‘a rape or turnep’; Cotgrave. Rase, _s._ streak, mark, 73/1. _See_ Rache. Ratch. _See_ Rache. Rate, _s._ rate, 121/12. Rathe, _s._ an error, (in ed. 1534) for _rache_, 68/64. _See_ Rache. Rather, _adv. compar._ sooner, quicker, easier, 46/3, 66/22, 133/5. Rathes, _s. pl._ frames of wood placed on a cart to make it broader, for carrying hay, 5/22. (Also called _raves_.) Raunsome, _s._ ransom, 148/28. Raye, _pr. s. subj._ have diarrhœa, 41/1. “I _beray_, I fyle ones clothes with spottes of myer, properly aboute the skyrtes, _ie crotte_;” Palsgrave. Rayment, _s._ raiment, apparel, 151/9.