púca
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A goblin, mischievous spirit Púca larbula, An. Ox. 23, 2. Wandrigende púcan (printed wucan) uagantes demonas, Germ. 388, 37. ¶ in a place-name :-- Ðis synd ðá landgemǽru ðe sceótað dún tó Púcanwylle, C. D. iii. 423, 28. ¶ Cf. (?)
Linked entry: púcel
pusa
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A bag, scrip 'Nolite portare sacculum ne peram : ' 'Ne bere gé mid eow pusan oððe codd' ... Hwæt mǽnþ se pusa búton woruldlíce byrþene, Homl. Th. ii. 532, 19-24. Se ríca berþ máre ðonne hé behófige tó his fórmettum, se þearfa berþ æmtigne pusan, i. 254
Linked entry: posa
púcel
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A goblin, demon Wudewásan faunos, púcelas priapos, Germ. 394. 242
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pudd
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A ditch, furrow Puddas sulcos, Germ. 399, 338 [cf. puddle]
punt
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a punt, flat-bottomed boat Punt pontonium, Wrt. Voc. i. 47, 63 : caudex, 56, 26 : trabaria vel caudex, 63, 36
pull
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v. mǽr-, mylen-pull. Add
ǽle-puta
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Myne vel ǽlepúte capito, Wrt. Voc. i. 55, 75. and add
pucian
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to poke (?), strike Pucigende repens, Germ. 397, 493
pull
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A pool, creek Ondlong ðære strǽt tó máwpul ; andlang pulles, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 79, 30-31. Of seges mere in ðæs pulles heáfod ... of þornbrycge in ðone pull, and æfter ðam pulle in baka brycge ... in dodhǽma pull, of ðam pulle in streám, 386, 12-19
pund
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A Pound. as a weight without reference to money Án uncia stent on feówer and twentig penegum ; twelf síðon twelf penegas beóþ on ánum punde, Anglia viii. 335. 18. Libra is pund on Englisc, Ælfc. Gr. 50, 30; Som. 52, 8. Pund praesorium (pressorium), Wrt
Linked entries: mund-bryce borh-leás
pund
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a pound, an enclosure. Cf. Si pundbreche, i. infractura parci, fiat, L. H. I. 40; Th. i. 540, 5. See also pyndan
pung
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A small bag, purse Pung cassidele, Txts. 54, 297 : Wrt. Voc. i. 291, 19: ii. 13, 39
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púcel
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Add: [v. N. E. D. puckle]
pund
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Add .X. pund caeses, C. D. i. 293, 10. Se sester sceal wegan twá pund be sylfyrgewyht, Lch. iii. 92, 14. <b>II a.</b> add :-- Man geald ǽrest gafol Deniscan mannum . . . ꝥ wæs .x. þúsend punda, Chr. 991; P. 127, 5. Twá and twéntig þúsend
pung
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Pung cassidile, Wrt. Voc. ii. 129, 26. Add
purs
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a purse Purs ł seód fiscus, An. Ox. 18 b, 36
ǽle-puta
An EEL-POUT ⬩ capito
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An EEL-POUT; capito Hwilce fixas geféhst ðú? mynas and ǽleputan what fishes catchest thou? minnows and eel-pouts, Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 33
pur
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a bittern(?) Hæferblǽte vel pur bicoca, Wrt. Voc. i. 21, 42. Ráradumbla, ðæt is pur onocrotalus, 62, 21
wæter-pund
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pur
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Add: [v. N. E. D. purre]