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PALL . a partner; companion; associate; or accomplice.
PALM . to bribe, or give money, for the attainment of any object or indulgence; and it is then said that the party who receives it is palmed, or that Mr. Palmer is concerned.
PALMING-RACKET . secreting money in the palm of the hand, a game at which some are very expert.
PANNUM . bread.
PANNY . a house.
PARK . See BUSHY-PARK.
PATTER . to talk; as, He patters good flash, etc.
PATTER'D . tried in a court of justice; a man who has undergone this ordeal, is said to have stood the patter.
PEAR-MAKING . inlisting in various regiments, taking the bounty, and then deserting.
PENSIONER . a mean-spirited fellow who lives with a woman of the town, and suffers her to maintain him in idleness in the character of her fancy-man.
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