Pump.  A thin shoe.  To pump; to endeavour to draw a
  secret from any one without his perceiving it.  Your
  pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a
  person who is attempting to pump him.  Pumping was
  also a punishment for bailiffs who attempted to act in
  privileged places, such as the Mint, Temple, &c.  It is also
  a piece of discipline administered to a pickpocket caught
  in the fact, when there is no pond at hand.  To pump
  ship; to make water, and sometimes to vomit.  Sea phrase.

Pump water.  He was christened in pump water; commonly
  said of a person that has a red face.

Punch.  A liquor called by foreigners Contradiction, from
  its being composed of spirits to make it strong, water to
  make it weak, lemon juice to make it sour, and sugar to
  make it sweet.  Punch is also the name of the prince of
  puppets, the chief wit and support of a puppet-show. 
  To punch it, is a cant term for running away.  Punchable;
  old passable money, anno 1695.  A girl that is ripe for
  man is called a punchable wench.  Cobler’s Punch. 
  Urine with a cinder in it.

Punk.  A whore; also a soldier’s trull.  See trull.

Puny.  Weak.  A puny child; a weak little child.  A
  puny stomach; a weak stomach.  Puny, or puisne judge;
  the last made judge.

Pupil mongers.  Persons at the universities who make it
  their business to instruct and superintend a number of
  pupils.

Puppy.  An affected or conceited coxcomb.

Purblind.  Dim-sighted.

Purl.  Ale in which wormwood has been infused, or ale
  and bitters drunk warm.

Purl royal.  Canary wine; with a dash of tincture of
  wormwood.

Purse proud.  One that is vain of his riches.

PURSENETS.  Goods taken up at thrice their value, by young
  spendthrifts, upon trust.

Purser’s pump.  A bassoon:  from its likeness to a syphon,
  called a purser’s pump.

Pursy, or PURSIVE.  Short-breathed, or foggy, from being
  over fat.

Pushing school.  A fencing school; also a brothel.

Put.  A country put; an ignorant awkward clown.  To
  put upon any one; to attempt to impose on him, or to
  make him the but of the company.

Puzzle-cause.  A lawyer who has a confused understanding.

Puzzle-text.  An ignorant blundering parson.

Quack.  An ungraduated ignorant pretender to skill in
  physic, a vender of nostrums.

Quack-salver.  A mountebank:  a seller of salves.

Quacking cheat.  A duck.

Quag.  Abbreviation of quagmire; marshy moorish around.