To Pix. v. a. To pick up apples after the main To Pixy. crop is taken in; to glean, applied to an orchard only.

Pix'y. s. A sort of fairy; an imaginary being.
Pix'y-led. part. Led astray by pixies.
Plazen. s. pl. Places.

To Plim. v. n. To swell; to increase in bulk. Plough. s. The cattle or horses used for ploughing; also a waggon and horses, or waggon and oxen.

Pock fredden. adj. Marked in the face with small pox. To Pog. v. n. and v. a. To thrust with the fist; to push.

Pog. s. A thrust with the fist; a push; an obtuse blow.

Poh! interj. An expression of contempt.

Todd's Johnson has not this word, but surely it ought to be there; it is not merely a provincialism.

To Pom'ster v. n. To tamper with, particularly in curing diseases; to quack.

Pont'ed. part. Bruised with indentation.

I think there is also the verb to pont, but I have no recollection of its application. Any person whose skin or body generally is puffed up by disease, and subject to occasional pitting by pressure, is said to be ponted; but the primary meaning is applied to fruit, as, a ponted apple: in both meanings incipient decay is implied.

Pook. s. The belly; the stomach; a vell.

Popple. s. A pebble: that is, a stone worn smooth, and more or less round, by the action of the waves of the sea.

Pottle-bellied. adj. Potbellied.

To Pooät. v. a. To push through any confined To Pote. opening, or hole.

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Pooät-hole. s. A small hole through which any Pote-hole. thing is pushed with a stick; a confined place.

Pooäty. adj. Confined, close, crammed.

To Pray. v. a. To drive all the cattle into one' herd in a moor; to pray the moor, to search for lost cattle.

Pud. s. The hand; the fist.

Pulk. s. A small, shallow-place, containing Pulker. water.

Pull-reed. s. [Pool reed.] A long reed growing in ditches and pools, used for ceiling instead of laths. Pul'try. s. Poultry.

Pum'ple. adj. Applied only, as far as I know, in

the compound word pumple-voot, a club-foot. Put. s. A two-wheeled cart used in husbandry, and so constructed as to be turned up at the axle to discharge the load.

Pux'ie. s. A place on which you cannot tread without danger of sinking into it: applied most commonly to places in roads or fields where springs break out.

Pwint. s. Point.

Pwine-end. The sharp-pointed end of a house, Pwinin-end. where the wall rises perpendicularly from the foundation.

Py'er. s. A wooden guide, or rail to hold by, in passing over a narrow wooden bridge.

Q.

QUARE. adj. Queer; odd.

Quar'rel. s. [Quarré. French.] A square of window glass.

To Quar. v. a. To raise stones from a quarry.
Quar. s. A quarry.

Quar-man. s. A man who works in a quarry.
Quine. s. Coin, money.

To Quine. v. a. To coin.
Quine. s. A corner.

R.

To RAKE UP. v. a. To cover; to bury. Rames. s. pl. The dead stalks of potatoes, cucumbers, and such plants; a skeleton. Rams-claws. s. pl. The plant called gold cups; ranunculus pratensis.

Ram'shackle. adj. Loose; disjointed.

Ram'ping. part. Distracted, obstreperous: ramping mad, outrageously mad.

Ran'dy..

Ran'din.

s. A merry-making; riotous living.

Range. s. A Sieve.

To Rangle. v. n. To twine, or move in an irregular or sinuous manner. Rangling plants,

are plants which entwine round other plants, as the woodbine, hops, &c.

Ran'gle. s. A sinuous winding.

Rasty. adj. Rancid; gross; obscene.
Raught. part. Reached.

To Rawn. v. a. To devour greedily.

Raw'ny. adj. Having little flesh: a thin person, whose bones are conspicuous, is said to be

rawny.

To Ray. v. a. To dress.

To Read. v. a. To strip the fat from the intestines; to read the inward.

Read'ship. s. Confidence, trust, truth.
To Ream. v. a. To widen; to open.

Rea'mer. s. An instrument used to make a hole larger.

Reballing. s. The catching of eels with earthworms attached to a ball of lead, suspended by a string from a pole.

Reed. s. Wheat straw prepared for thatching.

Reen.
Rhine.

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s. A water-course; an open drain.

To Reeve. v. a. To rivel; to draw into wrinkles. Rem'let. s. A remnant.

Rev'el. s. A wake.

To Rig. v. n. To climb about; to get up and down a thing in wantonness or sport.

Hence the origin of the substantive rig, as used in John Gilpin, by CowPER: "He litttle dreamt of running such a rig." To Rig. v. a. To dress.

Hence, I suspect, the origin of the rigging of a vessel.

Rip. s. A vulgar, old, unchaste woman.

Hence, most probably, the origin of

Demirep.

Robin-Riddick. s. A redbreast.

Rode. s. To go to rode, means, late at night or early in the morning, to go out to shoot wild fowl which pass over head on the wing.

To Rose. v. n. To drop out from the pod, or other seed vessel, when the seeds are over-ripe. Round-dock. s. The common mallow; malva sylvestris.

Called round-dock from the roundness of its leaves. CHAUCER has the following expression, which has a good deal puzzled the glossarists:

"But canst thou playin raket to and fro,

"Nettle in Docke out, now this, now that, Pandare?" Troilus and Cressida, Book IV.

The round-dock leaves are used at this day as a remedy, or supposed remedy or charm, for the sting of a nettle, by being rubbed on the stung part; and the rubbing is accompanied, by the more superstitious, with the following words

In dock, out nettle,

Nettle have a stingd me.

That is, Go in dock, go out nettle. Now, to play Nettle in Dock out, is to make use of such expedients as shall drive away or remove some previous evil, similar to that of driving