[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
pa paw.
pa See palle.
Pa III, 244, B (Child #155 B) 1: unintelligible and doubtless corrupt. Percy, who supposed that Mirryland toune might be corrupted from Milan, Germ. Mailand, understands Po, although, as he observes, the Adige, not the Po, runs through Milan.
pack IV, 69, (Child #200 E) 12: familiar.
pad V, 114, 1: (in canting language) highway.
pae I, 333, (Child #38 G) 3: peacock.
pakets V, 165, (Child #294 A) 6: pockets. (V, 306, 9, has pouches.
pale (of a puncheon), II, 81, (Child #62 J) 45: tap, spigot.
pale and the covring that these lovers had was the clouted cloak an pale, I, 305, (Child #33 G) 12: a derivation from Lat. pallium, coverlet, cloak, O. Fr. paile, palle, has been suggested, and as to meaning would suit; but if the word were popular it should be heard of elsewhere. Possibly an error for fale, turf, which is the bed-covering in P 6, p. 304; though the combination with cloak would be strange.
palle, pale, paule, pa I, 68, (Child #5 A) 7; 333, 1; II, 139, (Child #67 A) (Child #67 B) 4; 256, L 4; 259, A a 3, b 3, C c 3; 483, 5: fine cloth.
pallions III, 300, (Child #161 C) 15; IV, 500, 16: pavilions.
palmer I, 232, (Child #21 A) (Child #21 B) 3-5, 12, B 1; 284, 8: pilgrim. III, 3, (Child #114 A) 10, 11; 4, 4, 5; 180, B 8; 186, 10, 11, 17; 189, A 8, B 3; IV, 445, 3, 4, 20; V, 16, (Child #267 B) 9, 17: tramp, vagabond, beggar.
pannells V, 86, (Child #273 app) 29: riding-pads or cushions.
papeioyes I, 328, 33: popinjays.
paramour I, 68, (Child #5 A) 4; 70, 4: in A 4, the word, coming between bouted flour and baken bread, should signify something eatable; B has attempted to make easy sense by inserting the. Paramour as lover, lady-love, in the honest sense occurs II, 86, (Child #63 A) 19, 21; 412, 2; V, 182, (Child #304 A) 7. the love was like paramour, II, 407, 8: like amorous passion (?). Quite unintelligible in II, 409, (Child #101 B) 4, a red rose flower, was set about with white lilies, like to the paramour; again, 410, 2.
parand heir and parand, II, 447, (Child #109 B) 2, 4: parand, in 4, might appear to be meant for apparent, but we have his parand and his heir, in 2. There is more ignorance of the meaning of words in the piece.
pardon I, 411, (Child #45 A) 8: leave of absence.
part God, Christ haue part(e) of the (me), III, 58, (Child #117 A) 39; 329, 8: perhaps, make me an object of his care (as prendre part en = take an interest in); or, take me for his, number me among the saved.
part part the quick, II, 231, (Child #77 C) (Child #77 D) 9; parte our company, III, 71, (Child #117 A) 307: quit, part from.
partakers III, 138, (Child #126 A) 7, 8: helpers.
parti vppone a parti, III, 308, (Child #162 A) 19: aside. March-parti, III, 310, (Child #162 A) 58: Border-side. Marche-partes, III, 310, (Child #162 A) 67.
party nane to party me, V, 127, (Child #282 A) 19: be of part with.
Pasch, Pasche II, 146, (Child #68 B) 9; 147, 7: Easter.
pass for III, 138, (Child #126 A) 15: care for.
passe vppon V, 51, (Child #271 A) 67: pass, go, on.
passe III, 73, (Child #117 A) 357: extent? In 84, 357, and 88, 357, the reading is, compasse.
passage IV, 515, 1: occurrence, incident, adventure.
passilodion V, 71 b; 72 a: a drinking-word.
passments IV, 343, (Child #238 E) (Child #238 F) 4: laces, trimmings for dresses.
pat pot.
pat, patt, paut I, 396, (Child #43 C) (Child #43 D) 20; II, 123, (Child #65 H) 29: strike the ground with the feet, stamp, pat the ball, III, 261 L 1, 2: kick, patted wi her lips, II, 83 a: struck together, smacked (?).
pat, patt pret. of pit, put, I, 107, (Child #8 A) 7; 465, 2, 3; V, 218, 2.
pat-fit I, 302, B (Child #33 B) 8: pot-foot.
paughty II, 364, (Child #96 E) 21: haughty, malapert.
pauky V, 115, (Child #279 app) 1: sly.
pautit I, 397, D (Child #43 D) 9, 11: patted, struck with the foot, stamped. See pat.
pavag, pauage, pawage III, 109 f., (Child #121 A) 5, 11-13: Fr. pavage, road-tax. See Ducange, pavagium. (passage, III, 114 f., (Child #121 app) 130, 180, 181, etc.)
paw a slight motion, neer played paw, III, 480, (Child #187 B) 14: never stirred again.
pay n., I, 285, (Child #30 A) 32; III, 28, (Child #116 A) 128; 59, 66: satisfaction.
pay, paye v., I, 328, 37; II, 478, (Child #111 A) 12: satisfy, please.
pay III, 142, (Child #127 A) 36; 161, 26; V, 105, A (Child #277 A) 5, 6; 106, E 6: beat.
payetrelle I, 326, (Child #37 C) 9: poitrail, part of the harness on the breast of a horse.
payrelde, parelde I, 327, 16, 17: apparelled.
peak pick.
peak peck.
peak-staff pike-staff.
pean-kniff pen-knife.
pear, peare V, 110 f., (Child #279 A) 2, 4, 6, etc.: poor.
pearled apron, IV, 67, (Child #200 B) (Child #200 C) 12: bordered or trimmed with lace.
pearlin, pearlins III, 9 f., (Child #114 G) (Child #114 H) 6, 14; IV, 448 a, 2d line: pearls.
pearling, pearlin II, 323, (Child #93 A) (Child #93 B) 6; IV, 326, (Child #236 D) (Child #236 E) 16: lace.
pearting parting, separation.
peat I'se gar ye dance upon a peat, V, 104 b (a threat): on a (burning) peat, make it hot for you.
pecis III, 65, (Child #117 A) 175: vessels (of silver), probably cups.
peed IV, 316, (Child #235 D) 14: pu'd, pulled.
peel I, 403, (Child #44 A) 9: pool.
peel a tower, stronghold; climbing the peel seems inappropriate at IV, 6, (Child #190 A) 4; V, 249, 4, unless the meaning be that the peel was "ransakled" for valuables (since kye would not be kept in the peel).
peeped V, 10, (Child #266 A) (Child #266 B) 3: spoke faintly, whined.
peerls peerls many, IV, 134, (Child #209 H) (Child #209 I) 10: poor folk (Chaucer's poraille). B 8, C 6, D 10, F 8, G 4, etc., poor folk many.
peers pears.
peit I, 22, (Child #3 A) 3: a peat carried to school as a contribution to the firing.
pellettes III, 430, (Child #178 A) 12: bullets.
pendles IV, 296, (Child #232 F) (Child #232 G) 8: pendants, ear-rings.
penned in of windows, II, 330, G (Child #93 G) 3: fastened, perhaps pinned. See pin, v.
penny-brown III, 281, (Child #158 C) 10: brown as a penny, penny-gray, III, 281, (Child #158 C) 8, at best would mean gray as a silver penny; but silver is called white money. It is just possible that the word is legitimate, and that, penny-brown being understood as very brown, penny-gray might come into use for very gray. Possibly penny-brown (gray) might mean dappled with brown (gray) spots.
penny-fee, penny-fie I, 491, 10; IV, 444, 10: gift of a penny largess, pour-boire. (I, 490, 6, penny instead of penny-fee.) II, 469, (Child #110 F) 25, 26: simply, money.
peny shete a peny, III, 97, (Child #119 A) 10: shoot for a penny, as 104, 6.
Perce V, 298 a: Persia.
perelle I, 326, (Child #37 C) 8: pearl.
perfyte II, 72, (Child #62 B) (Child #62 C) 4; 75, 6; 78, 8: perfectly.
pestilett III, 430, (Child #178 A) 11: pistolet.
petty toes I, 133, L (Child #10 L) 9: pettitoes, feet (as in Winter's Tale, IV, 4), or a play upon words, little toes.
phat III, 318, (Child #163 A) 8: what.
philabeg IV, 234, (Child #222 A) 21; 271, 8; V, 266, 8: kilt, skirt worn by Highlanders, reaching from belly to knee.
pibrochs IV, 298, G b 14: bagpipe airs; seems here to be meant for the pipes.
pick pick a mill, I, 211, B (Child #18 B) 3, 4: sharpen the surface of a mill-stone when worn smooth by friction, picked a stane, II, 323, (Child #93 A) (Child #93 B) 1: dressed with a pick.
pick, pickle I, 16, C (Child #2 C) 14; IV, 481, 5; V, 206 a, 6: a grain.
pick n., IV, 2, (Child #189 A) 12: pitch.
pick, pict v., 380, 20: pitch (pict, II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 23, may be a misspelling).
picke III, 358, (Child #168 app) 77: pitch (throw).
pickle a grain. See pick.
pickle II, 147, (Child #68 C) 12, 14; 476, 16, 17: pick, collect.
picklory III, 132, (Child #124 B) 4: name of a cloth.
pickman pikeman.
pict v., II, 28, (Child #58 I) (Child #58 J) 23: pitch (probably a misspelling).
pig I, 305, (Child #33 G) 5; IV, 206, (Child #217 M) (Child #217 N) 9: an earthen vessel, earthen pitcher.
pig-staves V, 213 a, 1: pike-staves.
pile o corn, I, 18, H 7: a grain.
pile pile o the gravil green, gray, I, 350, (Child #39 G) 18, 19; pile that grows on gravel green, IV, 456, 11, 12: a fibre or blade of some velvety moss which grows on stones. See gravil.
pilk II, 473, (Child #110 H) 16: pick, collect. See pickle.
pilleurichie See pitleurachie.
pin, pinn an implement for raising the fastening of a door, tirled the pin, IV, 390, (Child #248 A) 4; 415, 5. tirled at the pin, I, 470, (Child #53 E) 23; II, 141, (Child #67 C) 8; 164, 3; 471, 8; 474, I 3, etc. tirled on the pin, II, 461, (Child #110 B) 11. thirled at the pin, II, 121, (Child #65 F) (Child #65 G) 15. thrild upon a pinn, II, 138, 10, 16. twirld at the pin, IV, 390, b 4. lifted, lifted up the pin, II, 104, (Child #64 A) 14; IV, 391, (Child #249 A) 3; 415, 6. "The pin was always inside, hung by a latch, or leather point, the end of which was drawn through a small hole in the door to the outside. During the day-time, the pin was attached to a bar or sneck in such a way that when the latch was pulled the door was free to open. But at night the pin was disconnected from the door-fastening and hung loose, so that when the latch was pulled the pin rattled." W. Forbes. (See tirled.) knocked at the pin, II, 387, (Child #99 F) (Child #99 G) 10; 468, 15; upon a pin, III, 105, (Child #120 A) 12; rappit at the pin, I, 472, (Child #53 F) (Child #53 G) 17; chapped at the pin, I, 481, (Child #53 N) 29, are probably corrupted from knocked, etc., at the ring (and so, tinkled at the pin, II, 253, (Child #81 H) (Child #81 I) 3); if not, the meaning must be, knocked at the door at the place of the latch, that so priuilye knowes the pinn, I, 433, (Child #48 A) 25, implies that there was some secret connected with the pin (like, knew not the gin, IV, 446 b, 3), which it is difficult to conceive in an arrangement so simple as that described above; but it is probable that complications were employed by the cautious. See gin.
pin, gallows-pin, gallou-pine I, 146, (Child #11 B) 25; 150, 17; III, 388, (Child #173 D) (Child #173 E) 18; V, 247, 18; hanged them out-oer a pin, III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 18; hang you on a pin before my door, V, 26, (Child #268 A) 15: the projecting, or horizontal beam of the gallows? Any projection upon which a rope could be fastened.
pin v., pin my windows in, V, 295, 5, 6: fasten. See penned.
pindee II, 326, (Child #93 D) 2, of windows, pinned-ee for rhyme, or, possibly, for in, as penned in, II, 330, G (Child #93 G) 3.
pinder, pindar, pinner III, 131 ff., A (Child #124 A) 1-5, etc.; B 1-3; II, 484, C (Child #112 C) 6, 7; 491 a, 5, b, 5: pounder.
pine, pyne I, 464, (Child #53 A) 8; 470, 15, 32; 474 f., 36, 41; IV, 430 f., (Child #261 A) 4, 23; V, 219, 25: suffering, pain. Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, (Child #117 A) 391; V, 79, (Child #273 app) 18: suffering, distress, passion.
pine I, 453, (Child #52 C) (Child #52 D) 3: (pind, poind) distrain, seize.
piner-pig III, 385, (Child #173 A) (Child #173 B) 7: an earthen vessel for keeping money.
pingo, pingo white IV, 213, (Child #219 B) 12: pinkie (?).
Pinnatree The Gold, V, 141 b: name of a ship.
pinner See pinder.
pint point.
Pirie in Pirie's chair you'll sit, the lowest seat o hell: I, 429, (Child #47 B) (Child #47 C) 30, 31. For the derivation Sir W.D. Geddes suggests as possible le pire, which would be in the way of the Scottish "ill chiel." Professor Cappen writes: "Familiar name in doggerel lines recited by boys in their games. One boy stood back against the wall, another bent towards him with his head on the pit of the other's stomach; a third sat upon the back of the second. The boy whose head was bent down had to guess how many fingers the rider held up. The first asked the question in doggerel rhyme in which Pirie, or Pirie's chair, or hell, was the doom threatened for a wrong answer. I remember Pirie (pron. Peerie) distinctly in connection with the doom. Pirie's chair probably indicates the uncomfortable position of the second boy (or fourth, for there may have been a fourth who crouched uncomfortably on the ground below the boy bending), whose head or neck was confined in some way and squeezed after a wrong answer."
pistol-pece III, 432, (Child #178 B) (Child #178 C) 9: pistol.
pit I, 86, (Child #6 A) 31; 467, 17; V, 219, 10: put. pit mee down, II, 131, (Child #66 B) (Child #66 C) 4: be my death, pit back, IV, 510, W 3: stop the growth or development of. pret. pat. p.p. pitten, putten.
pith hammer o the, II, 374, B (Child #98 B) 2: sounds like nonsense. The smith's anvil being of gold and his bellows-cords of silk, his hammer should be of some precious material. To say his hammer was wielded with force would be out of keeping, and very flat at best.
pitleurachie, pilleurichie III, 320, A a 20, b 20: hubbub, discord. See lierachie.
pit-mirk III, 495 a, after 7; IV, 517, 14: dark as a pit.
pitten p.p. of pit, put, I, 463 f., (Child #53 A) 2, 14.
place in place, V, 84 f., (Child #273 app) 10, 25: presence, in place, III, 422, (Child #177 A) 76: (means only) there.
plaet pret., IV, 465, 40: plaited.
plaiden IV, 257, (Child #226 A) (Child #226 B) 3, 5: coarse woollen cloth diagonally woven.
plain fields IV, 432 f., (Child #262 A) 2, 10, 17, 21: open fields.
plainsht III, 360, (Child #168 app) 121: plenisht, filled.
plainstanes IV, 152, (Child #212 B) (Child #212 C) (Child #212 D) 5: pavement.
plaow n., V, 304, 5, 12: plough.
plat I, 101, (Child #7 B) (Child #7 C) 19; II, 285, (Child #87 A) (Child #87 B) 20, pret. of plet: plaited, inter-folded.
plate-jack IV, 147, (Child #211 A) 22: a defensive upper garment laid with plates.
platen I, 243 f., (Child #23 A) 8, 11: plates, pieces.
play-feres III, 244, (Child #155 A) (Child #155 B) 2, 6; 245, 4, 5: play-fellows.
plea I, 169, (Child #13 A) (Child #13 B) 7; II, 282, (Child #86 A) 2: quarrel.
plea enter plea att my iollye, III, 278, (Child #158 A) (Child #158 B) 32. See enter.
plead III, 277, (Child #158 A) 10, 12: contend.
pleasure drink his, V, 307 a, 4: drink as much as he wishes.
plee III, 165, (Child #135 A) 72: plea (your offer to give up your money is but a slight ground for a plea to be spared? or a slight argument to enforce the justification previously attempted?).
pleuch, pleugh n., II, 190, (Child #73 E) (Child #73 F) 9; 194, 10: plough. IV, 196, (Child #217 D) (Child #217 E) 19; 197, 19: (of land) plough, which see.
plewed feathers plewed with gold, II, 435, (Child #107 A) 49: not understood.
plight I lay, IV, 433, (Child #262 A) 21: the pledge I did lay? condition in which I should lie? (Very obscurely expressed stanza.)
plight pret., II, 52, (Child #60 A) 24; 364, 24; V, 50, (Child #271 A) 45: plighted.
plooky II, 47, (Child #59 B) 14: pimpled.
plough, pleugh, pleuch, plow IV, 194, (Child #217 A) (Child #217 B) (Child #217 C) 18, 11; 195, 18; 196, 19; 197, 19; etc. (of land): as much land as one plough will till in a year.
plucke fyght a plucke, III, 128, (Child #123 app) 85: (blow, stroke) a bout.
plucke-buffet they shote, III, 77, (Child #117 A) 424: at taking and giving a buffet for missing. (This supposes pluck = take, get; it may be the noun pluck, blow.)
plummet of swords, III, 466, (Child #185 A) 40: pommel.
pock III, 160, (Child #134 A) 5, 16; 163, 68, 74, 83: bag.
pocket-napkin IV, 468, 2: pocket-handkerchief.
poind pret., poinded, p.p., II, 429 b, 3; IV, 80 b; IV, 492 a, 3: distrained.
poll lighter than the poll, IV, 434, (Child #263 A) 1 (not recognized as Scottish by any of my correspondents): boll, lint-bow, the seed-pod of flax? Not probable.
poorly IV, 444, 35: feebly. V, 10, (Child #266 A) (Child #266 B) 3; 266 b, 2: faint-heartedly.
portioner IV, 81 a: possessor of a part of a property originally divided among co-heirs. Jamieson.
portly III, 280, (Child #158 B) 24: of imposing appearance.
pot II, 144 f., (Child #68 A) 14, 24; 153, 22; 154 f., 17, 31, 34, 35; 474, J 6; IV, 181, (Child #215 D) (Child #215 E) 13; 189 f., 7, 22, 28: deep place or pool in a river.
potewer I, 271, (Child #29 A) 6: read potener, French pautonniere, pouch, purse. "pawtenere, cassidile." Prompt. Parv. "Marsupium, a pawtenere, a powche... Cassidile est pera aucupis, vel mercipium, vel sacculns, a pautenier or a pouche. Cassidile dicitur pera... crumena, etc. cremena, a pautener." (Way's note.)
pottinger IV, 609 b, 13: apothecary.
pottle V, 86, (Child #273 app) 35: a measure of two quarts.
pow II, 476, (Child #110 K) (Child #110 L) 16: head.
powd III, 268, (Child #157 B) (Child #157 C) 7: pulled.
powder IV, 514, 17: dust (?).
power above (loved), II, 286, (Child #87 B) (Child #87 C) 2: beyond (ordinary) capacity or intensity.
powther powder.
prah v., V, 303 a: pray.
praise III, 204, (Child #145 C) 29: prize.
praise V, 115, (Child #279 app) 5: = God.
praisin III, 455, D (Child #182 D) 1: if the line is genuine, all the meaning praisin can have will be, the laudation of the queen for her generous behavior.
pran V, 220 f., 6, 7, 9: bran.
prece, prese, prees III, 24, (Child #116 A) 36; 67, 218: press, crowd. III, 62, (Child #117 A) 116: thick of a conflict.
pree I, 81 a: taste. See prey.
preen n., I, 430, (Child #47 C) (Child #47 D) 13: pin.
preen v., I, 147, (Child #11 C) (Child #11 D) (Child #11 E) 13; III, 436, (Child #178 G) 3; V, 105, B (Child #277 B) 7: pin. See prin.
prees, prese See prece.
preke n., III, 112, (Child #121 A) 52. See pricke.
preke v. See prekyd.
preker V, 79, (Child #273 app) 13: rider.
prekyd, prycked V, 78, (Child #273 app) 6; 80, 40: spurred, rode fast, the hors prekyd, 80, 42: ran, scampered, sped.
prese See prece.
present III, 199, (Child #145 A) 19: represent, act as representatives of.
presentting wine, IV, 37, (Child #195 A) (Child #195 B) 16: holding out the cup or glass towards the person saluted.
presently III, 400 a (7): at present.
president III, 231, (Child #154 A) 82: precedent.
press V, 111, (Child #279 A) (Child #279 B) 22: closet.
prest the made them prest, III, 111, (Child #121 A) 45: ready, berdys sang preste, III, 112, (Child #121 A) 63: freely, con amore. III, 171, 10: in haste.
prestly III, 27, (Child #116 A) 113: quickly.
pretend I, 110, (Child #8 C) 18; V, 57, (Child #271 B) 66: purpose, design.
prevayle III, 313, (Child #162 B) 55: avail.
prey II, 490 b, 12-14: (prie, pree) taste.
price III, 358, (Child #168 app) 63: estimation.
prick them to the gin IV, 480, 4: pin to the fastening.
prick, pricke, pryke, prycke, preke rod or wand, used as a mark in shooting = pricke-wand: III, 93, (Child #118 A) 28, 30; 202, 34. he cleffed the preke on three, III, 112, (Child #121 A) 62. 'have at the pryke!' 'and Y cleue the styke,' III, 90 b. a mark or butt generally, III, 29, (Child #116 A) 145. slise, cleue the wand = cleffe the preke, III, 70, (Child #117 A) 292; 75, 401.
pricked pret., II, 266, (Child #83 A) (Child #83 B) 28: stuck.
pricke-wande III, 93, (Child #118 A) 31: a rod set up for a mark.
prickt p.p., I, 345, C (Child #39 C) 1: prinkt, deckt.
priefe V, 81, (Child #273 app) 14: prove, experience, enjoy.
pril V, 73 a: a drinking word, to which the response must be wril.
prime, pryme I, 254, (Child #26 A) 9: the first canonical hour.
prin w. and v., I, 345, C (Child #39 C) 1; 431, 10; II, 109, (Child #64 F) 17, 19; III, 388, (Child #173 D) (Child #173 E) 17; IV, 189, (Child #216 B) (Child #216 C) 4, 6; V, 105, B (Child #277 B) 7 (preened): pin.
prinkling II, 386, (Child #99 E) (Child #99 F) 20: seems to be used (perhaps an error) for trinkling, trickling.
prittle I, 59, (Child #4 E) (Child #4 F) 15: a doublet of prattle.
priving V, 115, (Child #279 app) 8: tasting.
process III, 164, (Child #134 A) 90: occurrences, story of occurrences.
propine I, 79, (Child #5 F) (Child #5 G) 24: present, gift, in thy propine, I, 227 b: to be had by thee as a gift.
propose n., V, 207 b, No 5: proposal.
proselya the reef was o the proseyla, I, 333, (Child #38 G) 5: in other copies the roof is of beaten gold, the floor of cristal a'. The roof here might be of proseyl a', if that would help, but I know no more of proseyl than of proseyla. The nearest I can come to cristal is, porcelain.
pressed proceed.
proue II, 446, (Child #109 A) 81: try? Poor sense and no rhyme. The Manuscript reading is perhaps praie, which is, however, not preferable. Press is a northern word for talk (Halliwell), and the corresponding verb would suit here.
prowed proud.
Prudents I, 471, (Child #53 E) (Child #53 F) 2, 4: black people of the Holy Land.
pruel made her heart to pruel, II, 376, (Child #98 C) 32: to ache or shiver with fear. (Dr. Davidson.) To preel in Aberdeenshire is to cool. (Principal Barbour.)
pryce III, 63, (Child #117 A) 137: prize.
prycke n. See pricke.
prycked as faste as he myght ronne, III, 296, (Child #161 A) 21: sped; and so V, 80, (Child #273 app) 42. See prekyd.
pryckynge III, 67, (Child #117 A) 229: spurring, riding briskly, should probably be rakynge; the yeomen are on foot. Cf. III, 123, (Child #123 A) 12; 180, 9, 11.
pryke n. See pricke.
pryme, prime III, 23, (Child #116 A) 9; 25, 72: the first canonical hour, first hour of the day.
pryse I, 327, 16, 17; value, most(e) of pryse = most richly.
pu, pow pull.
pudding-pricks III, 160, (Child #134 A) 19: wooden skewers to fasten the end of a gut containing a pudding.
puggish II, 427, (Child #105 A) 6: in a later copy, ragged. Mr. Ebsworth suggests the meaning, tramper's. (puggard, thief; pugging, thieving.)
purchase III, 203, (Child #145 C) 20: booty, prize.
purchast p.p., III, 36, (Child #116 app) 48: acquired (perhaps, stolen).
pure poor.
pusin n. and v., poison.
puss-pay V, 110, (Child #279 A) 9, 10: hare or rabbit pie (still in use: W. Walker).
put down See putten down.
put on (intransitively), II, 92, (Child #63 E) 21; 255, 22; 278, 7; IV, 190, (Child #216 C) 25: dressed, put on him, II, 162, (Child #69 D) (Child #69 E) 12: jogged, pushed.
putten, putn p.p. of put, I, 446, (Child #50 A) 10; 469, 3; III, 433, (Child #178 C) (Child #178 D) 3.
putten down, put down II, 178, (Child #72 C) (Child #72 D) 39; III, 393, (Child #173 I) 15; IV, 14, (Child #191 D) (Child #191 E) 11; 66, A 10; 70, 13: hanged. IV, 32, (Child #194 B) (Child #194 C) 12: put to death by violence.
putting-stane II, 421, (Child #103 B) 28: as the stone is thrown, there is no propriety in the hitting and kepping (catching) in 29.
pyet, pyot magpie: II, 93, (Child #63 E) (Child #63 F) 6; 148 f., 11, 13, 15, 17.
pyght III, 296, (Child #161 A) 19: pitched (fixed in the ground the pole of).
pygrall III, 410 b, note: paltry.
pylled hatte, III, 179 a: (bald) that has lost the nap.
pyne Goddes, Creystys, pyne, III, 75, (Child #117 A) 391; V, 79, 18: passion. See pine.
pyot See pyet.
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