peaseboltt (pezbolt)

Peaseor pulse-straw. Davies . IMG:content-2514.png:[blocks in formation] Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod , or a codling when 'tis almost an apple. Shak., T. N., i. 5. 167. Were women as little as they are good, A pescod would make them a gown and a hood. Wits' Recreations (1654). ( Nares.) The pea that may be extracted from a ripe peascod is a living body, in which, however, the vital activities are, for the time, almost quiescent. Huxley , Physiography, p. 220.