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GLOSSARY,
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peapm, gut, pi. -ma)*, (juts, intestina. But
i> sm£El}>eapme, Lb. IL xxxi. Da'Sybhe
ajynep hme mib limbe]ie]ibe fceaj.Te on
Saec fmael'Seajime, P.A. 55. a, Then
Ahner stabbed him with the hinder end of
his spearshaft in the small gut. Gl. R. has
both fma;l{ea]imaj- and smajle Jjeajimaj-,
74.
pepejiopn, Jjejanjjojm, niasc, gen. -ej-,
" tufty thorn," buckthorn, Bhamnus catharticus
and H.frangula, Lb. I. Ixiv.
"Ramni. i. J^efe'horn," GL Harl. 978.
So Gl. Arundel, 42, Gl. Dun., Gl. M. M.
p. 162 a, 24.
pegian for t>isan, press, pierce, by contraction
Jjyn, -which see. Lb. L xvii. 1.
pupfce seK^sebe, C.E., p. 92, line 17.
Lacn. 114.
pelma, masc, gen. by analogy in -an
lib. I. XXXV. Fojijjylmian in the Lambeth
Psalter is obscurare. Foji'Son J^e
)jeo)'tpu ne beo^' }0]i>ylmobe vel yoy\-
j*]'0]icene to J^e :
T niht )*pa j-pa dasg bi5
onlihceb. Quia tenebraj non obscurabuntur
a te, et nox sicut dies illuminabitur,
Ps. cxxxviii. 11. Ne J^eapy he
hopian no • Jiyj^jnim fojihylmeb
• \> he
Jjonan more, Judith x. = p. 2.3, line 1 2,
Thwaites. Combined with burning brands
of fire in Cod. Exon. p. 217, line 23 =
MS. fol. 60 a, line 4. Compare Aia to
eTrt(p4p€ii' Tovs Kara Trviyfihy Kivovvovs Koi
Kai^iv T^v (fxipvyya, Dioskor. iv. 156, with
Hb. clxxxi. 2, last words, pelma and heat
go together in the Lb. In Hb. cxl. 1 , I do
not find the words the Saxon had before
him, but translate as guided by clxxxi.
peoh hpeojiya, masc, kneecap, Lorica, Gl.
llarl. ,
ge7iusculum. So " Whirl booau,
the round bone of the knee, the patella,"
Gl. to Tim Bobbin. The bone has
some similarity to lumbar and caudal
vertebrae.
peop, the dry disease, fern., gen. -e. See
Jjeopabl. Fem. Lb. III. xxx., contents ;
if Jjseiie be correct.
peojiabl, fem., the dry disease or wasting
away. Lb. II. Ixiii. A different signifipeopabl
conl.
cation was assigned by Somner, whose
words are " Deop, '5eo]ie, morbus qui-
" dam,fortasse, inflammatio, phlegmone,
" an inflammation, a blistering heat of
" the blood or a swelling against nature
" being hot and red." Probably this
conjecture of Somners was founded
partly on the etymological considerations
which follow, peoji seems to have for
its
kindred words )>j\i dry, J'ypjT thirst,
that is, dryness, the German dorre, dry,
and a large number of other words, for
which see Spoon and Sparrow, arts 478,
592, etc. In the German Diirrsucht
(dry sickness') atrophy, meagreness, consumption,
the withering efi'ects of dryness
have produced the expression. The
Latin equivalent for these ideas would
be Tabes, which is treated of by Celsus
(iii.
atrophy,
22) as having for its species arpocpia,
Kaxe^ia, corrupt habit of body,
and (pdiais, consumption, peojiabl appearing
in the feet. Lb. xlvii., is Tabes
iu pedibus, such a wasting away of the
feet as arises from ulceration produced
by an over long journey on foot. That
the disease is spoken of as local sometimes
follows from the teaching of
Celsus :
" Huic (scil. cachexiae) prater
" tabem, illud quoque nonnunquam ac-
" cidere solet, ut per assiduas pustulas
" aut ulcera, simama cutis exasperetur,
" vel aliquas corporis partes intumes-
" cant." That worms belong to the
disease is paralleled in German, which
has its Diirremaden, worms which cause
a meagre habit and atrophy.
peo]i]'yp-, 'Syo]i]'ypr, fem., gen. -e, plough
man's spikenard.
Inula conyza, formerl}-
called C. squarrosa. Germ. Durrwurz,
Doorkraut ;
which is as above. Lb. III.
xxx. Lacn. 40.
pymel, a thumbstall. Lb. I. Ixxv. Thimble
is the same word, the material is not in
the syllables. Cf. Gemi. Diiumling, a
thumbstall;
Dutch, Duymelinck, tegmen
sive munimen pollicis, theca pollicts