Panny.  A house.  To do a panny:  to rob a house.  See
  the Sessions Papers.  Probably, panny originally meant
  the butler’s pantry, where the knives and forks, spoons,
  &c. are usually kept The pigs frisked my panney, and
  nailed my screws; the officers searched my house, and
  seized my picklock keys.  Cant.

Panter.  A hart:  that animal is, in the Psalms, said to
  pant after the fresh water-brooks.  Also the human
  heart, which frequently pants in time of danger.  Cant.

Pantile shop.  A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting
  house, frequently covered with pantiles:  called also
  a cock-pit.

PANTLER.  A butler.

Pap.  Bread sauce; also the food of infants.  His mouth is
  full of pap; he is still a baby.

Paper scull.  A thin-scull’d foolish fellow.

PAPLER.  Milk pottage.

PARELL.  Whites of eggs, bay salt, milk, and pump water,
  beat together, and poured into a vessel of wine to prevent
  its fretting.

Parenthesis.  To put a man’s nose into a parenthesis:  to
  pull it, the fingers and thumb answering the hooks or
  crochets.  A wooden parenthesis; the pillory.  An iron
  parenthesis; a prison.

Parings.  The chippings of money.  Cant.

Parish bull.  A parson.

Parish.  His stockings are of two parishes; i.e. they are
  not fellows.

Parish soldier.  A jeering name for a militiaman:  from
  substitutes being frequently hired by the parish from
  which one of its inhabitants is drawn.

Park PAILING.  Teeth.

Parson.  A guide post, hand or finger post by the road
  side for directing travellers:  compared to a parson,
  because, like him, it sets people in the right way.  See
  guide post. He that would have luck in horse-flesh,
  must kiss a parson’s wife.

Parson’s journeyman.  A curate.

Parson Palmer.  A jocular name, or term of reproach,
  to one who stops the circulation of the glass by preaching
  over his liquor; as it is said was done by a parson of that
  name whose cellar was under his pulpit.

Partial.  Inclining more to one side than the other,
  crooked, all o’ one hugh.

Pass bank.  The place for playing at passage, cut into
  the ground almost like a cock-pit.  Also the stock or
  fund.

Passage.  A camp game with three dice:  doublets, making
  up ten or more, to pass or win; any other chances
  lose.

Pat.  Apposite, or to the purpose.

Pate.  The head.  Carroty-pated; red-haired.