_adv._ Opposite; fronting.
Overs. _s. p._ The perpendicular edge, usually covered with
grass, on the sides of salt-water rivers is called _overs_.
P.
Pack-an-Penny-Day. _s._ The last day of a fair when bargains
are usually sold. [_Pack, and sell for pennies._]
Parfit. _adj._ Perfect.
Parfitly. _adv._ Perfectly.
To Par'get. _v. a._ To plaster the inside of a chimney with
mortar of cowdung and lime.
Par'rick. _s._ A paddock.
To Payze. _v. a._ To force, or raise up, with a lever.
To Peach. _v. a._ To inform against; to impeach.
Peel. _s._ A pillow, or bolster.
To Peer. _v. n._ To appear.
Pen'nin. _s._ The enclosed place where oxen and other animals
are fed and watered; any temporary place erected to contain
cattle.
Pick. _s._ A pitch-fork: a two pronged fork for making hay.
Pigs-Hales. _s. pl._ Haws; the seed of the white thorn.
Pigs-looze. _s._ A pigsty.
Pilch, Pilcher. _s._ A baby's woollen clout.
Pill-coal. _v._ A kind of peat, dug most commonly out of
rivers: peat obtained at a great depth, beneath a stratum of clay.
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