Owl in an ivy bush.  He looks like an owl in an ivy
  bush; frequently said of a person with a large frizzled wig,
  or a woman whose hair is dressed a-la-blowze.

OWLERS.  Those who smuggle wool over to France.

Ox house.  He must go through the ox house to bed; a saying
  of an old fellow who marries a young girl.

OYES.  Corruption of oyez, proclaimed by the crier of all
  courts of justice.

Oyster.  A gob of thick phlegm, spit by a consumptive
  man; in law Latin, UNUM VIRIDUM GOBBUM

P’s.  To mind one’s P’s and Q’s; to be attentive to the
  main chance.

P.P.C.  An inscription on the visiting cards of our modern
  fine gentleman, signifying that they have called pour
  PRENDRE CONGE, i.e. ‘to take leave,’ This has of late been
  ridiculed by cards inscribed D.I.O. i.e.  ‘Damme, I’m off.’

Packet.  A false report.

Packthread.  To talk packthread; to use indecent language
  well wrapt up.

Pad.  The highway, or a robber thereon; also a bed.  Footpads;
  foot robbers.  To go out upon the pad; to go out
  in order to commit a robbery.

Pad borrowers.  Horse stealers.

To pad the hoof.  See To beat the hoof.

Paddington fair day.  An execution day, Tyburn being
  in the parish or neighbourhood of Paddington.  To dance
  the Paddington frisk; to be hanged.

Paddy.  The general name for an Irishman:  being the
  abbreviation of Patrick, the name of the tutelar saint of that
  island.

Painter.  I’ll cut your painter for you; I’ll send you off;
  the painter being the ropfe that holds the boat fast to the
  ship.  Sea term.

Pair of wings.  Oars.  Cant.

To palaver.  To flatter:  originally an African word for a
  treaty, talk, or conference.

PALLIARDS.  Those whose fathers were clapperdogens, or
  beggars born, and who themselves follow the same trade: 
  the female sort beg with a number of children, borrowing
  them, if they have not a sufficient number of their own,
  and making them cry by pinching in order to excite
  charity; the males make artificial sores on different parts of
  their bodies, to move compassion.

Pall.  A companion.  One who generally accompanies
  another, or who commit robberies together.

Pam.  The knave of clubs.

PANNAM.  Bread.

Pannier man.  A servant belonging to the Temple and
  Gray’s Inn, whose office is to announce the dinner.  This
  in the Temple, is done by blowing a horn; and in Gray’s
  Inn proclaiming the word Manger, Manger, Manger, in
  each of the three courts.