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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._