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Show PE Pi ri{ts an Milton kall Hav [ fearl and eye. adj Pra'RLEYED her in tuo aight to aged Nereus Sowe peafon and beans in the wane of the moon Who foweth them fooner, he foweth too foone Tuffer Peafe, deprived of any aromatic parts, are mil and demulcent; but, being full of aerial particles Arbuihnot are flatulent *Tis low ebb with his accufers, when.fuc pe rg ch th l fy t t p ar e t cadillos u Pe'ccancy quality Pea'rRLY. adj 1. Aboundin [from pearl. pearls wit containin pearls = Some in their pearly fhells at eafe, atten Milton's Paradife Loft Moift nutriment Refembling pearls Which when fhe heard, full pearly flood Drayton 1 in her eyes might view >Tis fweet the bluthing morn to view Dryden And plains adorn'd with pearly dew For what the day devours, the nightly de Dryden Shall to the morn in pearly drops renew Another was invefted with a pearly fhell, having the futures finely difplayed upon its furface Woodwvard Pearmar'n #./ An apple Pearmain is an excellent and well know fruit Mortime PeEa'RTREE [pear and tree. 7. / tree that bears pears The peartree criticks wil nam of nvg PEASANT hind; on bour hav to borro hi Bacon fire la ». /. [ paifant, French. whofe bufinefs is rura He holdeth himfelf a gentleman, and fcornet to work, which, he faith, is the life of a peafan Spenfer or churl I'had rather<coin my heart, than wrin From the hard hands of peafants their vile trafh Shakefpeare Th in ‘the Alpin poor peafant countries di -vertifed themfelves in the fields, and after their labour, would be lively and brifk. Brown's Trawvels >Tis difficult for us, who are bred up with th fame infirmities about us with which we were born to raife our thoughts and imaginations to thofe intelleCtual perfections that attended our nature i the time of innocence, as it is for a peafant bre up in the obfcurities of a cottage, to fancy in hi South mind the unfeen fplendours ofa court The citizens bring two thoufand men, wit which they ceuld make head againft twelve thouAddifon fand peafants 7. / Pea'sanTrY country people Peafants rufticks How many then fhould cover, that ftand bare How much low peafantry would then be gleane From the true feed of honour ? how much honou Pickt from the chaft? Shakefp. Merch. of Venice The peafantry in France, under a_much heavie preflure of wantand poverty than the day-labourer of England of the reformed religion, underftood i muc bette amon us tha thof of a highe conditio Laocke FPea'scop }nf [ pea, cod and jhell. Pea'SHELL The hufk that contain peas Thou art a theal'd peafcod. Shakefp. King Lear 1 faw a green caterpiliar as big as a fmall peafcod Walton As peafeods once I pluck'd, I chanc'd to fe One that was clofely fill'd with three times'three I o'cr the door the fpell in fecret laid Gay Peask n. /. [Pea, when it is mentione as a fingle body, makes peas but whe fpoken of collettively, as food or fpecies, it is called peafe, ancientl peafon ;5 piyra, Saxon; pozs, French tifo, Ltalian ; gifum, Latin. Food o peale A littl Peat. n. /. [from petit, French. Through the midft of it ran a fweet brook which did both hold the eye open with her azur ftreams, and yet feek to clofe the eye with th upo the pebble-fiones it ra Sidney The bifhop and the duk Forbidden late to carry an Have fill'd their pockets ful Suddenly a file of boy of Glo'fter's men weapon of pebblcflones. Shakefp delivered fuch a thowe purling noife it mad over of pebbles loofe fhot that I was fain to draw min Shakefpeare honour in You may fee pebbles gathered together, and cruft of cement between them, as hard as th pebbles Bacon Colleéting toys As children gath'ring pebbles on the thove. Milton Winds murmur'd through the leaves your lon delay And fountains o'er the pebbles chid your ftay Dryden Another body, that hath only the refemblanc of an ordinary pebble, fhall yield a metallic an valuable matter Woodward Pe'BBLE-CrRYSTAL 7. f The cryftal, in form of nodules, isfound lodge in the earthy ftrata left in a train by the water de parting at the conclufion of the deluge : this fort called by the lapidaries pebble-cryflal, is in fhap irregular Woodward PL'8BLED. adj. [from pebble. or abounding with pebbles Sprinkle adj [from pebble. T homjon Ful o pebbles Strow'd bibulous above I fee the fands The pebbly gravel next Thomfon Peccasr'tity. = /. [from peccable. State of being fubje to fin Where the common peccability of mankin i urged to induce commiferation towards the offenders; if this be of force in fin, where the concurrence of the will renders the perfon more inex cufable, it will furely hold much more in bar error which is purely involuntary. Decay of Piety PE‘CCABLE. adj. [from pecco, Lat. Liable to fin Peccani'vro n. /. [Spanith; peccadille French.] A petty fault; a flight crime a venial offence He means thofe littl and the defefts of th at moft the peccadillo tragical vices to whic unruly paffions vices, which we call follie human underftanding, o of life, rather than th men are hurried by thei Dryden ‘.'\4" Bz H;J; PE v(,AIN L. adj. [ peccant, French ar 5 cans Latin. 1. Guilty criminal From themI will not hid My judgments, how with mankind proceed As how with peccant angels late they faw. M,'/ That fuch a peccant creature fhould difap m: an repent of every violation of the ruleg of ju and honeft, this right reafon could not byt infer South's Sermmg, 2. 1lI difpofed t th body corrupt; bad; offenfiy injurious to health, [ #i is chiefly ufed in medical writers With laxatives preferve your body found And purge the peccant humours that abound Dy Such as have the bile peccant or deficient ar 1 relieved by Ditters, which are a fort of fubfidiar gall 3 Wrong ; bad Arbutbm deficient; unformal Nor is the party cited bound to appearif, th Ay citation be peccart in form or matter Peck. . /. [from pocca, or perhaps from rac, a veffel Skinner. 1. The fouarth part of a buthel JIA i Burn ourvefiels, likea ne i fi Scal'd peck or buthel, for being true Hudlra Te every hill of afhes, fome puta peck o flacke they cover with the afhe whic lime rain flacks the lime, and then they fpread them Mortimer's Hufbandrye 4 He drove about his turnips in a cart And from the fame machine fold pecks of peaf 2. Proverbially great deal [In low language. Her finger was fo fmall, the rin Would not ftay on which they did bring It was too wide a peck It look'd like the great collar juf Suctlng About our young colt's neck 7o PECK. @. a. [becquer, French; pickay | Dutch. 1. To ftrike with the beak as bird "Hai 2. To pick up food with the beak. i de pr h_ h a y j l o She was hi She, when he walk'd, went pecking by hlsDfi;?Zh \ con Can any thing be more furprifing, than to & 1 fider Cicero obferving, with a religious :\l:tent!gfl: if ;f i c p n k i c t e n m after wha This bank fair fpreading in a pebbled fhore Pe'BBLY [from teceant, It Is now commonly called pez n. /. [pzbolyzana PE'BBLE A fton Saxon. PE'BBLESTONE. diftin& from flints, being not in layers but in one homogeneous mafs, thoug Popularl fometimes of many colours a fmall ftone o f Atterbayy the peccancy of the humours, fondling; a darling ; a dear play thing A pretty peat! it is beft put finger in the eye An fhe knew why. Shakefp. Taming of the Shrew A citizen and his wif Both riding on one horfe, upon the wa Donne I overtook; the wench a pretty peat. Apply refrigerants without any prece ing eyqpy ‘ I:j g 8 tion, becaufe the difeafe too its origina] mere from the difaffetion of the art Pear. n. /. A fpecies of turf ufed for fire Turf and peat, and cowtheards, are cheap fuel Bacor's Natural Hiffory and laft long Carew, in his furvey of Cornwall, mentions nut found in peat earth two miles eaft of St. Michael' Woodward mount b oo of corn thrown them \n mu i t i p a t w 3. To ftrik atfixtee o a o i o a ki ‘ t W long, fharpened at the one end to_P"k' fifl ' ir l ht i d t h o t a heade Carew''s Sirvey of cleave rocks 4. To firike; to make blows.veteraalle i i t b n i é f r r n c T of our church, which the){' are P‘:"fi'z and ftrikin at with th fame maut z : l m c m a a a h k m l w e T fl ' z o a i c p ind li wherea man rn to piecesthey are t s M o 5. The following paflage 15 per};:p properly written to gick, t0 t:hepal"d{" w Get up o' th' rail, I'll peck you 06t Shakefpar® Pr'ckER. 7. /. [fi-ompttf- 1 of bird: 2. A kin d o { , q ; l Th k n a f And Progne with h i |
