ABSTRACT
Pont au asnes. Any shift, euasion, helpe at a pinch for th ‘ignorant; any ease, or direction vnto dull, or vnlear-ned people, for the resolution of difficulties which other-wise they cannot concerne; as, a Dictionarie; and, in Logicke, the conuersion of Propositions. (Randle Cotgrave; F6r)
