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Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century

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2017
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PERDU, concealed, lost.

PERIPATETIC, walking, wandering.

PESSIMI EXEMPLI, the worst possible example.

PETTLE, a plough-staff.

PHALARIS’S BULL, a furnace shaped like a bull into which the

tyrant Phalaris used to cast his victims.

PISCATOR, fisherman.

PISTOLE, a gold coin worth about 16s.

PLACK, a small copper coin, equal to one-third of an English penny.

PLEACH, interweave.

PLICATIONS, folds, wrinkles.

PLOY, a frolic.

POCK-PUDDING, a contemptuous term applied to Englishmen

POINT D’ESPAGNE, Spanish lace.

POKE, pocket.

PORT ROYAL, a monastery near Paris which became the headquarters

of the Jansenists, the opponents of the Jesuits.

POSSE COMITATUS, the civil force of a county.

POUND SCOTS, worth about 1s. 8d. English money.

PRACTIQUES, practices of the profession.

PRECOGNITION, examination prior to prosecution.

PRECOGNOSCED, to take precognition of.

PRETERMIT, omit, pass by.

PURSUIVANTS, an officer-at-arms, in rank below a herald.

QUAERE, query, a question.

QUEAN, a young woman, a wench.

QUI VIVE, alert, cautious.

QUID, piece of tobacco to chew.

QUID TIBI CUM LYRA, what hast thou to do with the lyre?

QUORUM, the body of justices, so called from a word used in the

commission appointing them.

RANT, a noisy dance-tune.

RAPPAREE, an Irish plunderer; a worthless fellow,

RATIONE OFFICII, by virtue of his position.

RATTLING, lively, brisk.

RAX, stretch.

REAMING, frothing, foaming.

REDD, clear up, tidy.

REGIAM MAJESTATEM, a collection of Scotch laws.

REIVER, robber.

REMEDIUM JURIS, legal remedy.

RIGDUM-FUNNIDOS, a courtier in H. Carey’s burlesque,

CHRONONHOTONTHOLOGOS.

RIPE, search.

RUDAS, a scold, a virago.

RUG, a share, a good mouthful.

SANCTA WINIFREDA, ORA PRO NOBIS, Saint Winifred, pray for us.

SARTUM ATQUE TECTUM, repaired and covered.

SAT EST, it is enough.

SAWNEY, a nickname for a Scotchman.

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