peasantry (pezantri)

[ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary peasantry A bold peasantry , their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 4346 21. Rusticity; coarsene . As a gentleman, you could never have descended to such peasantry of language. Butler , Remains (Thyer's ed.), p. 332. ( Latham . ) peascod, n. See peasecod . peasel (pēz), n.; pl. pease, formerly peasen, pea son. [ME. pese, pyse, pl. pesen, pes on, pesyn, also peses (and, with lo of the plural suffix, pese, to which, regarded as a plural, is due the mod. E. form pea I ), Not unlike unto the unskilfull painter, who having drawn the twinnes of Hippo crates (who were as like as one pease is to another). Lyly , Euphues and his England. Lenticula is a poultz [pulse] called chittes, whiche I translate peason . Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 101, margin. 2. Peas collectively. For the distinction between peas and pease , see peal . Hit most be a cnect, a crouned wyght That knowth that quaysy [sickne ] from ben & pese . Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 215. Al kyndes of pulse, as beanes, peason , fytches, tares, and suche other, are rype twyse in the yeare (in Hispaniola]. R. Eden , tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, [ed. Arber, p. 73). 3. A small size of coal: same as pea - coal. R. Wilson, Steam Boilers, p. 268. pease2t (pēz), v. t. Same as peace. Send it her, that may her harte pease . Court of Love , 1. 397. For the peasynge of the saied quarrel les and debates. Hall, Henry VI., an. 4.