Chapter 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.

_Bellenden._

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.

_Erskine._

~Poinding~, _s._ The act of poinding, S.

~Poynder~, ~Pundare~, _s._ One who distrains, S.

_Stat. Rob. I._

POINER, _s._ One who lives by digging and selling _feal_, _divots_ or clay, Inverness.

_Law Case._

O. Fr. _pionnier_ is used in a similar sense.

V. Roquefort.

POYNIES, _s. pl._ Gloves.

_Skene._

Fr. _poing_, the fist.

POYNTAL, _s._

1. A sharp sword or dagger.

_Douglas._

Fr. _pointille_, a prick or point. O. Fr. _punhal_, a dagger.

2. A quill for playing on the harp.

_Douglas._

_To_ POIST, PUIST, _v. a._ To push.

V. ~Poss~.

POKE, _s._ A swelling under the jaw; a disease of sheep, S., perhaps as resembling a _pock_ or _bag_.

_Statist. Acc._

POLDACH, _s._ Marshy ground lying on the side of a body of water, Ang.

Belg. _polder_, a marsh, a meadow on the shore.

POLICY, POLLECE, _s._ The pleasure-ground about a gentleman's seat, S.

Fr. _police_.

_Acts Ja. V._

POLIST, _adj._ Artful; generally as including the idea of fawning, S.

E. _polish_; Fr. _polir_, to sleek.

POLKE, POK, _s._ A kind of net.

_Acts Ja. VI._

POLLAC, s. Apparently the gwiniad, a fish.

_Statist. Acc._

POLLIE-COCK, POUNIE-COCK, _s._ A turkey, S.

Fr. _paon_, also _poule_, d'Inde, id.

POLLIS, _s. pl._ Paws.

_Wallace._

POLLOCK, s. The young of the coalfish, Shetl.

_Statist. Acc._

POME, _s._ Perhaps pomatum.

_Douglas._

POMELL, _s._ A globe; metaph. the breast.

_Maitland Poems._