P

Pack

Intimate, familiar; twelve stone of wool.

Paidle, Paidlen

To walk with difficulty, as if in water.

Painch

Paunch.

Pang

To cram.

Parishen

Parish.

Parle

Courtship.

Parritch

Oatmeal pudding, a well-known Scotch dish.

Pat

Did put, a pot.

Pattle, or Pettle

A small spade to clean the plough.

Paughty

Proud, haughty.

Pawky, Pawkie

Cunning, sly.

Pay't

Paid; beat.

Peat-reek

The smoke of burning turf; a bitter exhalation; whiskey.

Pech, Pechin'

To fetch the breathe shortly, as in asthma, respiring with difficulty.

Pechan

The crop, the stomach.

Pet

A domesticated sheep, etc.; a favourite.

Pettle

To cherish.

Philabeg, or Philibegs

The kilt; short petticoats worn by Highlanders.

Phrase

Fair speeches, flattery, to flatter.

Pibroch

A martial air.

Pickle

A small quantity, one grain of corn.

Pigmy-scraper

A little fiddler; a term of contempt for a bad player.

Pine

Pain, uneasiness

Pingle

A small pan for warming children's sops.

Pint-stoup

A two-quart measure.

Pit

To put.

Placad

A public proclamation, to publish publically.

Plack

An old Scotch coin, the third part of an English penny.

Plackless

Penniless, without money.

Plaidie

Diminutive of plaid.

Platie

Diminutive of plate.

Plew, or Pleugh

A plough.

Plisky

A trick.

Plumrose

Primrose.

Pock

A meal-bag.

Poind

To seize on cattle, or take the goods as the laws of Scotland allow, for rent, etc.

Poortith

Poverty.

Posie

A nosegay, a garland.

Pou, Pou'd, Pou't

To pull, pulled.

Pouk

To pluck.

Pouse

To pluck with the hand.

Poussie

A hare or cat.

Pout

A polt, a chick.

Pouthery, Pouther, of Powther

Fiery, active, like powder; gunpowder.

Pow

The head, the skull.

Pownie

A little horse, a pony.

Preclair

Super-eminent.

Pree'd

Stealthily kissed.

Preen

A pin.

Prent

Printing, print.

Prie

To taste; prie'd, tasted.

Prief

Proof.

Prig

To cheapen, to dispute; priggin, cheapening.

Primsie

Demure, precise.

Propone

To lay down, to propose.

Pund, Pund o' tow

Pound, pound weight of the refuse of flax.

Pyet

A magpie.

Pyle, a pyles o' caff

A single grain of chaff.

Pystle

Epistle.