The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on HuntingEdward, of Norwich
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The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting
Edward, of Norwich
Hunting -- Early works to 1800
OURSHETTE, overshoot, 159
OUYR, over
OWETH, OWEN, ought
OWRERS, harriers
OYE, eye, 157
OYLE, oil, 102
PAAS, PIZ, chest, 114
PAAS, pace, to walk slowly
PACE, slot, track of stag, 132
PAMED, palmated
PARASCEVE, PARASSEUE, Good Friday
PARFITERS, PARFITORS, PARFITOURS, PARFYTEIROS, the third or last relay
of hounds 7, 10
PARTEL, a part of portion
PARTEYNETH, appertaineth
PARTIE, part
PASE, pace, to step slowly, 130
PEARLS, the excrescences on the stag's antlers, App.
PECE, piece
PEECHTRE, PEOCHETRE, peach-tree, 102
PEL, Fr. _peau_, skin
PERCEL, parsley, 101
PERCHE, the main beam of the stag's antler, App.
PERFITE, PERFEET, PERFIT, perfect; also note sounded on the horn, 174
PERITORIE, wall pellitory (_Parietaria_), 101
PESEN, peas, 26
PESETH, paceth, 149
PEYN, pain
PIERRURES, "pearls" or excrescences on the stag's antlers
PILCHES, pelisse, a coat of skin or fur, 63
PLAYN CONTRE, clear open country, 19, 65
PLAYNES, plains
PLAYSTIRE, plaster
PLECKE, PLEK, PLECK, PLECCA, piece of ground, place, 183
PLEYN, PLEYNETH, complain, lament, 51
PLEYN, PLAYNETH, PLEIGNEN, Fr. _pleigner_, complain, lament
POINTYNG, pointing, track of hare
POLCATTES, polecats, 73
POMELED, mottled, dappled, spotted, 45
POONDE, POON, pond
POORT, parts, behaviour, manners, 4
POPY, puppy
PORCHE. _See_ PERCHE
POUERE, POUER, power, 164
POUTURE, keep, food, used in connection with hounds
POYNTED, painted
PREEF, proof, 88
PREES, press, crowd, 118
PREUYD, proved, 90
PREUYLI, PRIUYLI, privily, 149
PRICE, PRISE, PRIEE, take, capture
PRICKET, PRIKET, the fallow buck in his second year, App.
PRIK, PRICK, to hunt, 116
PRIKHERID CURRIS, rough-coated curs, App.
PRIKKYNG, PRICKING, footprint of hare, App.
PRIME, noon (_hie prime_), midday
PRISE, PRIZE, PRYCE, a horn signal blown in France for the buck, in
England for the hart and buck after the kill, 175
PRIVE, tame
PROCATOURS, proctors, 195
PROFITENESS, perfectness, 2
PULEGRUN, pennyroyal (_Mentha pulegium_), 20
PULLETH, POILETH, take the hair off, Fr. _poiler_, 90
PURSNETTIS, purse-nets, 67
PURUEAUNCE, perseverance, 80
PUTTES, pits
PYCHE, pitch
PYLES, PILES, the skin of the boar, wolf, and smaller animals
PYNSOURS, pincers, 98
QUALES, quails, 119
QUARRY, the reward given to the hounds. _See_ CURÉE, App.
QUAT, couched, lying down, used for deer, 172
QUATTELL, to quat, to squat, to crouch, to lie down, App.
QUESTY, QUEST, to hunt, to give tongue, 110, 130, 155
QUYERE, QUYRRE, QUIR, QUARE, curée, quarry for hounds, reward, App.
QUYK, EUELIS, QUICKEVIL, a disease of hounds
QUYRRCIS, reward given to hounds. _See_ CURÉE, App.
RACCHES, hounds, 3, 74, 167
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