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=Present=, _n. _ ? 1. The money or other property one has on hand.
1. 5. 20.
2. The existing emergency; the temporary condition. 2. 6. 70.

=President=, _n. _ ? A ruling spirit. 3. 5. 38.

=Presume=, _v. _ To rely (upon). 2. 2. 30.

=Pretend=, _v. _ 1. To lay claim (to). 2. 4. 16; 3. 3. 102.
? 2. To aspire to. 1. 6. 36.

=Price=, _n. _ Estimated or reputed worth; valuation. 2. 8. 105.

=Priuate=, _n. _ ? Priuate account. 5. 4. 23.

=Processe=, _n. _ _Law. _ Summons; mandate. 3. 3. 72; 3. 3. 139.

=Prodigious=, _a. _ ? Portentous; disastrous. 2. 7. 19.

=Profer=, _n. _ ? An essay, attempt. 5. 6. 43.

=Proiect=, _v. _ 1. _tr. _ To devise. 1. 8. 10.
? 2. _intr. _ To form projects or schemes. 3. 3. 42.

=Proiector=, _n. _ One who forms schemes or projects for enriching men.
1. 7. 9. See the passage.

=Pronenesse=, _n. _ Inclination, _spec. _ to sexual intercourse.
4. 4. 233.

=Proper=, _a. _ Well-formed. Now only prov. Eng. 1. 6. 218.

=Proportion=, _n. _ 1. Allotment; share. 2. 3. 36.
2. Calculation; estimate. 2. 1. 90; 3. 3. 127.

=Prostitute=, _a. _ Debased; worthless. 3. 2. 19.

||=Pro'uedor=, _n. _ [Sp. _proveedor_=Pg. _provedor_. ] A purveyor.
3. 4. 35.

=Prouinciall=, _n. _ "In some religious orders, a monastic
superior who has the general superintendence of his fraternity
in a given district called a province. " _CD. _ 5. 6. 64.

||=Prouocado=, _n. _ [<Sp. _provocar_, to challenge. ]
Challengee; one challenged. 3. 3. 143.

||=Prouocador=, _n. _ [<Sp. _provocador_, _provoker_. ]
Challenger. 3. 3. 142.

=Pr'y thee=. [A weakened form of _I pray thee_. ] Jonson
uses the following forms: Pray thee. 1. 2. 30. Pr'y thee.
2. 1. 78. 'Pr'y the. 1. 3. 22.

=Publication=, _n. _ Notification; announcement: _spec. _
the notification of a 'depending' quarrel by a preliminary
settlement of one's estate. 3. 3. 137.

=Pug=, _n. _ ? 1. An elf; a spirit; a harmless devil.
The Persons of the Play.
2. A term of familiarity or endearment. ? _Obs. _ 2. 2. 128.

=Pui'nee=, _a. _ [For _puisne_, _arch. _ form of _puny_, retained
in legal use. ]
1. _Law. _ Inferior in rank.
2. Small and weak; insignificant; pr. with a quibble on 1.
1. 1. 5.

? =Punto=, _n. _ ? _Obs. _ Eng. fr. Sp. or It. _punto_.
A delicate point
of form, ceremony, or etiquette; the 'pink' of style. 4. 4. 69.

=Purchase=, _n. _ ? Plunder; ill-gotten gain. 3. 4. 32.

=Purt'nance=, _n. _ The inwards or intestines. ? _Arch. _ 5. 8. 107.

=Put=, _v. _ 1. _intr. _ To move; to venture. 1. 1. 24.

Phrases. 1. _Put downe_: To put to rout, vanquish
(in a contest). 1. 1. 93.
2. _Put off_: To dismiss (care, hope, etc. ). 2. 2. 48;
3. 4. 25. To turn aside, turn back; divert (one from a
course of action). 1. 4. 68.
3. _Put out_: To invest; place at interest. 3. 4. 23.
4. _Put vpon_: To instigate; incite. 5. 8. 141.
To foist upon; palm off on. 3. 3. 174.


=Quality=, _n_. 1. Character, nature. Now _rare_. 3. 4. 37.
2. High birth or rank. Now _arch. _ 1. 1. 111.

=Quarrell=, _v. _ To find fault with (a person); to reprove angrily.
_Obs. _ exc. Sc. (Freq. in 17th c. ). 4. 7. 12.

=Quit=, _v. _ ? To free, rid (of). 3. 6. 61.


=Read=, _v. _ ? To discourse. 4. 4. 248.

=Repaire=, _v. _ To right; to win reparation or amends for (a person).
? _Obs. _ 2. 2. 59.

||=Rerum natura=, _phr. _ L. The nature of things; the physical
universe. 3. 1. 35.

=Resolu'd=, _ppl. a. _ 1. Determined. 2. 7. 13.
With quibble on 2.
2. Convinced.

=Retchlesse=, _a. _ [Form of _reckless_. ] ? Careless; negligent.
3. 6. 34.

=Reuersion=, _n. _ A right or hope of future possession or enjoyment;
hence, phr. in _reuersion_: In prospect; in expectation. 5. 4. 44.

=Rhetorique=, _n. _ Rhetorician. ? _Obs. _ 1. 4. 102.

? =Ribibe=, _n. _ A shrill-voiced old woman. 1. 1. 16.

=Right=, _a. _ True; real; genuine. _Obs. _ or _arch. _ 2. 2. 103.

=Roaring=, _a. _ ? Roistering, quarreling. Phr. _roaring manner_:
The fashion of picking a quarrel in a boisterous, disorderly manner.
3. 3. 69.

=Rose=, _n. _ A knot of ribbon in the form of a rose used as
ornamental tie of a shoe. 1. 3. 8.

? =Rose-marine=, _n. _ [The older and more correct form of _rosemary_
<OF. _rosmarin_ L. _rosmarinus_, lit. 'sea-dew. '] Rosemary. 4. 4. 19.

||=Rouistico= [Same as _ligustro_], _n. _ It. 'Priuet or
prime-print . . . also a kind of white flower. ' Florio.
'Pianta salvatico. ' Bassano. 4. 4. 55.

=Royster=, _n. _ A rioter; a 'roaring boy'. _Obs. _ or _arch. _ 1. 1. 68.

=Rug=, _n. _ ? A kind of coarse, nappy frieze, used especially for
the garments of the poorer classes; a blanket or garment of this
material. 5. 1. 47.


? =Salt=, _n. _ [L. _Saltus_. ] A leap.