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A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]

Having small, deep-set eyes.

A word of endearment for a girl or woman. [Obs.] [Written also pigsnie, pigsny, etc.] Chaucer.

mens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of Ant: thrum-eyed.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as…

Having small eyes. Holland.

See Play. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An old term for a river boat.

A young coalfish.

See Poky.

Without horns; polled. [Prov. Eng.] "That poley heifer." H. Kingsley.

A figure supposed to resemble an apple; a roundel, -- always of a green color.

See Purveyance.

t by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder. And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest. Num. xxxi. 12.

One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer. Hooker.

Disposed to take prey. [Obs.] The preyful brood of savage beasts. Chapman.

To raise or lift by means of a pulley. [R.] Howell.

de, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser.

viding or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser.

One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.