An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 634
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 634
_Statist. Acc._
4. The wharf itself, ibid.
Radically the same with E. _pool_.
POWART, _s._ A tadpole; _powrit_, Fife.
_Statist. Acc._
POW-EE, _s._ A small fresh haddock, Montrose.
POW-HEAD, _s._ A tadpole; p.r.o.n. _powet_, S. _powie_, Perths.
_Gl. Tristrem._
Mod. Sax. _pogghe_, a frog, q. _pogghe-hoofd_, the head of a frog.
POWIN, _s._ The peac.o.c.k.
_Evergreen._
Fr. _paon_, id.
POWLINGS, _s. pl._ Some disease.
_Montgomerie._
POWSOWDIE, _s._
1. Sheepshead broth, q. _poll-sodden_.
_Ritson._
2. Milk and meal boiled together, S. B.
PRAELOQUUTOUR, _s._ An advocate.
V. ~Prolocutor~.
PRAY, _s._ A meadow.
_Douglas._
Fr. _pre_, id. Lat. _pratum_.
PRAP, _s._ A mark, S.
V. ~Prop~.
_To_ ~Prap~, _v. a._
1. To set up as a mark, S.
2. _To prap stanes_ at any thing, to throw stones, by taking aim at some object, S. B.
PRAT, PRATT, _s._
1. A trick, S.
_Doug._
2. A wicked action, S.
_Forbes._
A. S. _praett_, craft, Isl. _prett-ur_, guile.
~Pratty~, _adj._ Tricky, S.; _pretty_, S. B. often _ill-pretty_.
_Ruddiman._
PRATTIK, PRETTIK, PRACTIK, PRACTIQUE, _s._
1. Practice, experience.
_Lyndsay._
2. A stratagem in war; _protick_, S. B.
_Douglas._
3. Form of proceeding in a court of law; a forensic term.
Fr. _practique_.
_Baillie._