Poll.  The head, jolly nob, napper, or knowledge box;
  also a wig.

POLT.  A blow.  Lend him a polt in the muns; give him a
  knock in the face.

To pommel.  To beat:  originally confined to beating with
  the hilt of a sword, the knob being, from its similarity to
  a small apple, called pomelle; in Spanish it is still called
  the apple of the sword.  As the clenched fist likewise
  somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the
  term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

Pomp.  To save one’s pomp at whist, is to score five before
  the adversaries are up, or win the game:  originally derived
  from pimp, which is Welsh for five; and should be, I
  have saved my pimp.

POMPAGINIS.  Aqua pompaginis; pump water.  See
  aqua.

POMPKIN.  A man or woman of Boston in America:  from,
  the number of pompkins raised and eaten by the people
  of that country.  Pompkinshire; Boston and its dependencies.

PONEY.  Money.  Post the poney; lay down the money.

Pontius Pilate.  A pawnbroker.  Pontius Pilate’s guards,
  the first regiment of foot, or Royal Scots:  so intitled from
  their supposed great antiquity.  Pontius Pilate’s counsellor;
  one who like him can say, Non invenio causam, I can find
  no cause.  Also (Cambridge) a Mr. Shepherd of Trinity
  College; who disputing with a brother parson on the comparative
  rapidity with which they read the liturgy, offered
  to give him as far as Pontius Pilate in the Belief.

Pope.  A figure burned annually every fifth of November,
  in memory of the gunpowder plot, which is said to have
  been carried on by the papists.

Pope’s nose.  The rump of a turkey.

Pops.  Pistols.  Popshop:  a pawnbroker’s shop.  To pop;
  to pawn:  also to shoot.  I popped my tatler; I pawned my
  watch.  I popt the cull; I shot the man.  His means are
  two pops and a galloper; that is, he is a highwayman.

POPLERS.  Pottage.  Cant.

Pork.  To cry pork; to give intelligence to the undertaker
  of a funeral; metaphor borrowed from the raven, whose
  note sounds like the word pork.  Ravens are said to smell
  carrion at a distance.

Porker.  A hog:  also a Jew.

Porridge.  Keep your breath to cool your porridge; i. e.
  held your tongue.

Porridge island.  An alley leading from St. Martin’s
  church-yard to Round-court, chiefly inhabited by cooks,
  who cut off ready-dressed meat of all sorts, and also sell
  soup.

Posey, or poesy.  A nosegay.  I shall see you ride backwards
  up Holborn-hill, with a book in one hand, and a
  posey in t’other; i.e.  I shall see you go to be hanged. 
  Malefactors who piqued themselves on being properly
  equipped for that occasion, had always a nosegay to smell
  to, and a prayer book, although they could not read.