V. ~Pleuchirnes~.
_To_ PLUNK, _v. n._ To plump, S.
C. B. _plwngk-io_, id.
_To_ PLUNK, _v. n._ To play the truant, S. O.
Teut. _plenck-en_, vagari, to straggle.
PLUNTED, probably for painted.
_Leg. St Androis._
POB, POB-TOW, _s._ Refuse of flax, S. B. also _pab_.
_Statist. Acc._
POCK-ARRS, _s. pl._ The marks left by the smallpox.
V. ~Arr~.
POCKED SHEEP, old sheep having a disease resembling scrofula, S.
POCKMANTEAU, _s._ Literally, a _cloak-bag_, S.
_Meston._
POCK-SHAKINGS, _s. pl._ The youngest child of a family, S.
A very ancient Goth. idiom. Isl. _belguskaka_, ultimus parentum natus vel nata, from _belg-ur_, a bag or _pock_, and _skak-a_, to shake.
POD, _s._ Perhaps a toad; Teut. _pode_, id.
_Montgomerie._
PODLE, _s._ A tadpole, S.; Teut. _podde_, a frog.
PODLIE, PODLEY, _s._
1. The fry of the coal fish, Loth., Fife, Orkn.
_Statist. Acc._
2. The green-backed pollack, Loth., Fife.
_Sibbald._
3. The true pollack, or Gadus pollachius, S.; Fland. _pudde_, mustela piscis.
PODEMAKRELL, _s._ A bawd.
_Douglas._
Fr. _putte_, meretrix, and _maquerelle_, lena.
POID, _s._
V. ~Pod~.
_Pal. Hon._
_To_ POIND, POYND, _v. a._
1. To distrain, S., a forensic term.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
2. To seize in warfare.
_Wyntown._
A. S. _pynd-an_, to shut up; Germ. _pfand-en_, to distrain.
~Poynd~, ~Pownd~, _s._
1. That which is distrained, S.
_Stat. Rob. I._
2. The prey taken in an inroad.
_Wynt._
~Poindable~, _adj._ Liable to be distrained, S.