To PURLOIN, to pilfer, to filch.
PURLEU, PURLIEU, all that Space near any Forest, which being antiently Forest is afterward separated from the same by Perambulation
PURPLE, a purple Colour, also the Dignity of Archbishop, Bishop, &c
PURPORT, Meaning, the Tenour or Substance of a Writing
PURPOSE, Design, Resolution, also Subject Matter of Discourse
To PURPOSE, to design, to intend, to resolve
PURR, a Bird, also small Cyder, a Drink.Purr: not found in these senses in OED.
To PURR, to make a noise like a Cat.
PURSE, a little Bag to put Money in.
PURSER, an Officer on Board a Ship, who has Charge of the Victuals, and keeps a List of the Ship's Company, and sets down exactly the Day of each Man's Admittance
PURSEVANT, PURSUIVANT, a Messenger attending upon the King in an Army, also at the Council Table, Exchequer, and elsewhere to be sent upon any Message
PURSINESS, a Disease, a Shortness of Breath.
PURSLAIN, an Herb for Sallads.
PURSUANCE, what follows, Consequence, a pursuing
PURSUANT, following, according or agreeable to.
To PURSUE, to follow or run after, to go on with, to carry on.
PURSUIT, running after, Diligence, or Trouble to get any thing.
PURSY, over fat, short or broken winded
PURTENANCE, what belongs to a thing
To PURVEY, to provide
PURVEYOR, an Officer who provides Corn, Fewel, Victuals, &c for the King's House.
To PUSH, to thrust or shove.
A PUSH. See Pustule.
PUSILLANIMOUS, fainthearted, cowardly.
A PUSLE, a dirty Wench.
PUSS, a Name given to a Cat.
PUSTLE, a Push, Blister or little Wheal upon the Skin
To PUT, to lay, place, dispose, &c.
To PUT upon, to impose upon
PUTID, stinking, nasty, unpleasant.
PUTNEY, a Town in Surrey on the Bank of the River Thames.
PUTREFACTION, Corruption, Rottenness.
PUTRID, corrupt, rotten.
To PUTRIFY, to corrupt or rot, to grow rotten.
PUTTY, a Paste used by Glaziers
A PUZZLE, See Pustle.
To PUZZLE, to confound or put to a Nonplus.
PYE, a Magpye, a Bird, also a Dish of baked Fruit, Meat, &c.
PYEBALD, of two Colours.
PYGMIES, very small Creatures
PYRAMID, an Obelisk, &c.
PYRAMIDAL, in form of a Pyramid
PYRITES, the Fire Stone.
PYTHAGORAS, a famous Philosopher at Samos, who held the Transmigration of Souls, and forbad the eating of Flesh.
PYX, a Vessel in which the Host is kept in Popish Countries.
Q.
QUAB, a Fish, otherwise called a Water Weesel.
QUACK, a Mountebank, an ignorant Pretender to the Art of Physick.
To QUACK, to make a noise like a Duck.
QUADRANGLE, a Figure having four Angles, and as many Sides.
QUADRAGESSIMA Sunday, forty Days from Easter, the first Sunday before Lent.
QUADRANT, a fourth part
QUADRATE, foursquare.
To QUADRATE, to agree with or answer
QUADRATICK, foursquare.
QUADRATURE, the squaring of any thing
QUADRENNIAL, belonging to the Space of four Years.
QUADRILATERAL, having four Sides.
QUADRISYLLABLE, a Word consisting of four Syllables.
QUADRUPEDE, a four footed Beast
QUADRUPEDAL, having four Feet.
QUADRUPLE, four times as much, four fold
QUADRUPLICATE, a thing folded or repeated four times.
QUÆRE, QUÆRY, a Doubt.
To QUAFF, to drink large Draughts, to tipple.
QUAGMIRE, a marshy or boggy Place.
QUAIL, a Bird.
QUAINT, neat, fine, accomplished; also odd, strange.
To QUAKE, to tremble, to shake or shiver.
QUAKERISM, the Doctrine or Opinion of the Quakers.
QUAKERS, a modern Sect, who were so called from their quaking Fits.
QUALIFICATION, a particular Quality or Endowment.
To QUALIFY, to give one a Qualification, to make one fit; also to temper, appease or pacify.
QUALITY, Condition, Nature, Inclination, Habit, also Title of Honour, noble Birth.
QUALM, a fainting Fit; also a Scruple of Conscience.
QUALMISH, troubled with or subject to Qualms.
QUANDARY, a Study or Doubt what do to, Suspence of Mind.
QUANTITY, any thing that is susceptible of more or less of Number or Measure, as Bigness, Extent, Number.
QUARANTAIN, a denying of Entrance into a healthful Place for forty Days, to those Persons who are supposed to come from an infected Place.
QUARREL, Strife, Wrangle, Dispute.
QUARREL of Glass, a Square Piece of Pane of Glass
To QUARREL, to fall out, to dispute, to find fault with.
QUARRELSOME, apt to quarrel