subs. (old cant).—A beggar ‘faked out’ with sores; ‘a WASHMAN is called a PALLIARD [q.v.], but not of the right making. He vseth to lye in the hye way with lame or sore legs or armes to beg. These men ye right Palliards wil often times spoile, but they dare not complayn. They be bitten with spickworts, and sometime with rats bane’ (AWDELEY, The Fraternitye of Vacabondes, 1561).
