An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 601

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 601

O. Fr. _padou-ir_, L. B. _padu-ire_, to pasture; whence _padouen_ and _paduentum_, pasture.


PAITLATTIS, _s. pl._ Uncertain.


_Dunbar._


PALAD, _s._


V. ~Pallat~.


PALAVER, _s._ Idle talk, S.


Hisp. _palabra_, Fr. _palabre_, a word.


_To_ ~Palaver~, _v. n._ To use a great many unnecessary words, S.


_To_ PALE, _v. a._ To make an incision in a cheese, S.


_Ramsay._


Flandr. _poel-en_, excavare.


~Pale~, _s._ The instrument used for trying the quality of a cheese, S.


PALYARD, _s._ A lecher, a rascal.


Fr. _paillard_, id.


_Lyndsay._


~Palyardry~, s. Wh.o.r.edom.


_Douglas._


PALL, PEAL, _s._ Any rich or fine cloth.


_Gawan and Gol._


Isl. _pell_, textum pretiosum; O. Fr. _paile_, seric.u.m.


PALLACH, PALLACK, _s._


1. A porpoise, S.


_Sibbald._


2. A l.u.s.ty person, S. B.


_Journ. Lond._


PALLALL, PALLALLS, _s._ A game of children, in which they hop on one foot through different triangular s.p.a.ces chalked out, driving a bit of slate or broken crokery before them, S.; in E. _Scotch-hop_.


PALLAT, PALAD, _s._ The crown of the head, S.


_Douglas._


O. Fr. _palet_, sorte darmure de tete; Roquef.


PALLET, _s._ A ball.


Fr. _pelotte_, id.


_Burel._


PALLET, _s._ A sheeps skin not dressed, S. B.


E. _pelt_, Su. G. _palt_, a garment.


PALM-SONDAY, _s._ The sixth Sabbath in Lent, S.


_Wyntown._


A. S. _palm sunnan daeg_.


PALM, PALME, _s._ The index of a clock or watch, S.


_Z. Boyd._


Fr. _paulme_, or E. _palm_, used as _hand_, S. to denote the index of any time-piece.


PALTRIE, _s._ Trash.


V. ~Peltrie~.


PALWERK, _s._ Spangled work.