To OVERSET, to overturn.
To OVERSHOOT, to shoot beyond the Mark, to go too far in any Business.
OVERT ACT, a plain Matter of Fact, serving to prove a Design.
To OVERTAKE, to come up to.
To OVERTHROW, to turn topsey-turvey, to defeat, or rout, to disappoint.
OVER-THWART, a-cross, from Side to Side
OVERTURE, an opening or disclosing a Matter, also a piece of Musick before the Scenes are spoken in a Play
To OVERWHELM, to cover over, to plunge, or sink in
St. Mary OVERY, a Street or Parish in the Borough of Southwark.
OUGHT, somewhat.
OUNCE, the sixteenth Part of a Pound, Averdupois Weight, the twelfth part of a Pound Troy.
OUNCLE, a Town in Northamptonshire, 54 Miles from London
OUR, belonging to us.
OUT, without.
To OUT, to put out, to displace.
To OUTBID, to bid more than another.
To OUTBRAVE, to boast more than another, to silence, or dash
An OUTCAST, a Person cast off as forlorn
To OUTDO, to excel.
OUTER, outward.
OUTERMOST, most outward.
OUTLANDISH, foreign, of another Land.
OUTLAW, deprived of the Benefit of the Law, and the King's Protection.
OUTLAWRY, is the Loss of the Benefit of a Subject, and the King's Protection.
OUTMOST, the outermost.
OUTRAGE, a grievous Injury or Affront, a violent Assault.
OUTRAGEOUS, cruel, fierce, highly injurious, violent.
OUTWARD, to the Outside.
OUZE, a sort of miry Sedge.
OUZY, moist, wet, plashy.
To OWE, to be indebted to.
OWEN, a proper Name.
OWL, a well known night Bird.
OWLER, one who conveys Wooll, or prohibited Goods, by night to the Sea side, to be shipped off contrary to Law.
To OWN, to have the Property of, to lay claim to, to confess
OWN, proper, belonging to.
OX, a Beast well known.
OXEYE, a little Bird, also an Herb
OXFLY, an Insect.
OXFORD, the County Town of Oxfordshire, famous for its University, 47 Miles from London.
OYER and Terminer, a special Commission granted to certain Judges, to hear and determine criminal Causes.
OYES, hear ye, a Word used by publick Cryers when they make Proclamation of any thing.
OZIER, a sort of Willow Tree.
P.
P. Stands for Physick, as P.D. Doctor of Physick.
PACE, a Step, a rate or manner of going, also a Measure of two Foot and a half, but a geometrical Pace five Foot.
PACIFICATION, Peace-making, Mediation, or treating for Peace.
PACIFICATOR, a Peacemaker, a Mediator.
PACIFICK, making Peace, appeasing
A PACK, a Bundle, or Parcel of Commodities packed up, also a Company.
PACK OF CARDS, a Set.
To PACK UP, to bundle up.
PACK OF WOOL, a Quantity of about 240 Pound, a Horse Load.
PACKER, one whose Business or Trade is to pack up Goods
To PACK UP HIS AULS, to prepare to march off, to go away in haste.
PACKET, a Bundle, or Parcel.
PACT, a Bargain, Covenant, or Agreement
PAD NAG, a Horse that goes easy.
To PAD, to travel on foot; also to rob on Foot upon the Road.
A Foot PAD, one who robs on foot upon the Road.
To PADDLE, to move the Water with Hands and Feet.
PADDOCK COURSE, a Place in a Park paled in, for Hounds to run Matches in.
A PADLOCK, a Lock to hang on the outside of a Door.
PADSTOW, a Town in Cornwall, 194 Miles from London.
PÆDAGOGUE, a SchoolMaster, an Instructor of Children.
PAGAN, a Heathen.
PAGANISM, the Principles and Practices of the Pagans.
PAGE, one side of the Leaf of a Book, also a young Gentleman who waits on great Persons at ceremonial Visits
PAGEANTRY, Pomp, Shew, Ostentation, fine Appearance.
PAIL, a Milk Pail, a Vessel to hold liquid Things in.
PAIN, Toil, or Labour of the Body, Disquiet of Mind, Torment, Torture.
To PAIN, to affect with Pain.
PAINED, affected with Pain.
PAINFUL, causing Pain, laborious
PAINFULNESS, the being affected with Pain.
To PAINT, to design, or daub with Colours
PAINT, Colour for Painting.
PAINTER, one who paints.
PAINTING, the Art of representing things in their proper Colours and Figures.
A PAIR, a Couple, Fellows, as Gloves, &c.
PALACE, a Court or Mansion House of a Prince.
PALATABLE, agreeable to the Palate, pleasant to the Taste.
The PALATE, the Roof of the Mouth, the Taste.
PALATINATE, the Country or Seat of a Count Palatine, or chief Officer in the Palace or Court of an Emperor or Sovereign Prince
Elector PALATINE, one of the Electors of Germany.
PALE, wan, whitely-looked.
PALENESS, Whiteness, Wanness of Countenance, a weak or faint Colour.
To grow PALE, to grow wan or whitely.
A PALE, a Stake of Wood.
To PALE, to fence with Pales.
PALENESS, Wanness.
PALFRY, a Horse of State for a Princess or great Lady, a pacing Horse.
PALING, a sort of fencing Work for Fruit Trees planted in Fields.
PALISH, somewhat pale or wan.
PALLISADE, a Fence of Pales.
To PALLISADE, to fence with Pallisades.