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.