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.

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