(n.) One who, or that which, purifies or cleanses; a cleanser; a refiner.

(a.) In the form of pus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purify

(a.) Alt. of Puristical

(n.) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Purple

(a.) Somewhat purple.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purpose

(n.) One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.

(n.) One who forms a purpose; one who intends.

(n.) A close or inclosure; the compass of a manor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.

(a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.

(n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.

(n.) All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill a purse.

(n.) An annual plant (Portulaca oleracea), with fleshy, succulent, obovate leaves, sometimes used as a pot herb and for salads, garnishing, and pickling.

(a.) Acting in consequence or in prosecution (of anything); hence, agreeable; conformable; following; according; -- with to or of.

(adv.) Alt. of Pursuantly

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pursue

(a.) Consisting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Purvey

(n.) One who provides victuals, or whose business is to make provision for the table; a victualer; a caterer.

(n.) An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.

(n.) a procurer; a pimp; a bawd.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

(a.) Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustulate.

(n.) Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

(a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child.

(imp. & p. p.) of Putter

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Putty

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puzzle

(n.) Alt. of Puzzolana

(pl. ) of Pycnidium

(n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

() A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.

() The female of the hen harrier.

() The sea eagle.

(n.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

(a.) Producing or generating pus.

(n.) See Pyramidoid.

(n.) A transparent body found in the chromatophores of certain Infusoria.

(a.) Alt. of Pyrexical

(n.) A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaines, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.

(a.) Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.

(v. t.) To convert into pyrites.

(n.) Pyritohedron.

(a.) Pyritic.

(n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat.

(n.) A substance convertible into peptone.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paper

(a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.

(n.) A floor of wood; also, a plank.

(n.) The under side of a cornice; a soffit.

(v. t.) To form of planks.

(n.) A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

(pl. ) of Pantry

(a.) Skilled in all kinds of work.

(n.) A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.

(n.) The upland plover.

(n.) A papist.

(n.) The papacy.

(v. t.) To make papal.

(v. i.) To conform to popery.

(n.) Government by a pope; papal rule.

(n.) A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.

(pl. ) of Penwoman

(n.) A female writer; an authoress.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of People

(a.) Vulgar.

(n.) Alt. of Peperino

(n.) A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (PtCl4).

(a.) Having the quality of a pander.

(n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

(a.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

(n.) An example; a model; a pattern.

(n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

(n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

(n.) Same as Papoose.

(n.) A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

(n.) The quality or state of being paradoxical.

(n.) Alt. of Paraffine

(n.) A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution.

(adv.) In utter confusion; with confused violence.

(a.) Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.

(n.) The state of being a page.

(a.) Free from pain; without pain.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paint

(n.) The act or employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or colors.

(a.) Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

(n.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

(pl. ) of Padrone

(n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff.

(n.) The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.

(n.) The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

(n.) The state of being a pagan; paganism.

(v. t.) To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.

(v. i.) To behave like pagans.

(n.) Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

(n.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

(n.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.

(pl. ) of Pailful

(imp. & p. p.) of Pacify

(imp. & p. p.) of Packet

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paddle

(a. & n.) See Pashalic.

(n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.

() of Panel

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Panel

(n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.

(n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

(n.) Similitude; comparison.

(a.) Affording pabulum, or food; alimental.

(n.) The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.

(n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

(n.) A child's game; bopeep.

(n.) A pedicel.

(a.) Shaped like a foot.

(n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

(n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

(n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

(n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plank

(n.) The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

(n.) The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.

(a.) Having no plan.

(a.) Having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.

(a.) Covered with, or characterized by, papulae; papulose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.

(n.) Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

(n.) Any compound ascidian of the genus Pyrosoma. The pyrosomes form large hollow cylinders, sometimes two or three feet long, which swim at the surface of the sea and are very phosphorescent.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.

(n.) A common mineral occurring in monoclinic crystals, with a prismatic angle of nearly 90¡, and also in massive forms which are often laminated. It varies in color from white to dark green and black, and includes many varieties differing in color and composition, as diopside, malacolite, salite, coccolite, augite, etc. They are all silicates of lime and magnesia with sometimes alumina and iron. Pyroxene is an essential constituent of many rocks, especially basic igneous rocks, as basalt, gabbro, etc.

(a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

(a.) Having a pyxidium.

(n.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

(n.) The theca of mosses.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pepper

(n.) A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper.

(n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) A panegyric.

(n.) The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.

(n.) Coaptation.

(v. t.) To blow through.

(adv.) By force; of necessary; at any rate.

(v. t.) To force; to compel.

(a.) Without panes.

(n.) A forming in panels; panelwork.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parade

(n.) A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.

(n.) An acid obtained by sybjecting another acid to the action of heat. Cf. Pyro-.

(a.) Petty; insignificant.

(n.) One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

(n.) A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.

(n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

(n.) A pillow block; a low housing.

(n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

(n.) Pedagogics; pedagogism.

(a.) Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.

(n.) The act of measuring by paces.

(a.) Alt. of Pedantical

(n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

(n.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peddle

(n.) The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

(n.) Trifling; trickery.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Preen

(v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

(n.) Pungency.

(n.) The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia.

(a.) Of a bright red or purple color.

(imp. & p. p.) of Preface

(n.) The writer of a preface.

(n.) Same as Parrakeet.

(n.) A dweller by the sea.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plash

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plash

(n.) The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.

(n.) The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

(n.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

(n.) A complete view in every direction.

(n.) Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice.

(n.) The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc.

(n.) That which is planted; a plantation.

(n.) The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation.

(n.) A little plant.

(n.) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

(pl. ) of Planula

(pl. ) of Plateau

(pl. ) of Plateau

(n.) Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.

(n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

(n.) A place laid out after a model.

(n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.

(n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.

(n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.

(v. t.) To place on a platform.

(v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perch

(n.) The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Punish

(n.) One who inflicts punishment.

(n.) Punishment.

(a.) Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice.

(a.) Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.

(n.) A young strumpet.

(n.) The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.

(a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.

(a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.

(a.) Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.

(n.) A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.

(n.) Direction conformable to that of another line,

(n.) Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.

(n.) False reasoning; paralogism.

(v. t.) Same as Paralyze.

(v. t.) To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.

(v. t.) Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.

(v. t.) To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a discord.

(v. t.) To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark; to discern; to see; to understand.

(v. t.) To be affected of influented by.

(n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.

(n.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.

(n.) Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.

(n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

(n.) A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or used as a text for a sermon.

(n.) The outer layer of bark.

(n.) The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc.

(n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

(n.) The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

(n.) A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plat

(n.) A border of flowers in a garden, along a wall or a parterre; hence, a border.

(n.) A flat molding, or group of moldings, the width of which much exceeds its projection, as the face of an architrave.

(n.) A list or fillet between the flutings of a column.

(a.) Of the nature of plaster.

(n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

(n.) One of the Pedipalpi.

(n.) A lava field.

(n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

(n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

(a.) Hawking; acting as a peddler.

(n.) A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast.

(n.) An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.

(n.) A pun.

(a.) Belonging to planets.

(a.) Alt. of Planetical

(a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave.

(n.) A comparison made; elaborate tracing of similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden and Pope.

(n.) Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prefix

(v. t.) To elect beforehand.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Punch

(n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

(n.) A punctator.

(a.) Consisting in a point; limited to a point; unextended.

(a.) Observant of nice points; punctilious; precise.

(a.) Appearing or done at, or adhering exactly to, a regular or an appointed time; precise; prompt; as, a punctual man; a punctual payment.

(n.) The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

(n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin.

(pl. ) of Pulvillus

(n.) Premature decay.

(n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece.

(n.) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

(v. t.) To make smooth with pumice.

(v.) To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

(v.) To shut out by anticipative action; to prevent or hinder by necessary consequence or implication; to deter action of, access to, employment of, etc.; to render ineffectual; to obviate by anticipation.

(n.) A forerunning.

(n.) A beater; a striker.

(n.) That which beats or throbs in working.

(a.) Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

(n.) The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

(n.) One who fights with his fists; esp., a professional prize fighter; a boxer.

(a.) Powerful; strong; mighty; forcible; as, a puissant prince or empire.

(n.) One who presides.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Press

(a.) Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.

(n.) The act of pressing; pressure.

(n.) An endeavor to move.

(a.) Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.

(pl. ) of Pressman

(n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

(n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

(n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.

(n.) Urgency; as, the pressure of business.

(n.) Impression; stamp; character impressed.

(n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.

(imp. & p. p.) of Polish

(a.) Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.

(n.) One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

(adv.) In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.

(adv.) In a polite manner; with politeness.

(n.) The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

(n.) The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.

(v. i.) To play the politician; to dispute as politicians do.

(v.) Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.

(pl. ) of Polity

(a.) Covered with pollen.

(pl. ) of Pollex

(imp. & p. p.) of Presume

(n.) One who presumes; also, an arrogant person.

(a.) Alt. of Pretenceless

(n.) Alt. of Pretence

(n.) The act of laying claim; the claim laid; assumption; pretension.

(n.) The act of holding out, or offering, to others something false or feigned; presentation of what is deceptive or hypocritical; deception by showing what is unreal and concealing what is real; false show; simulation; as, pretense of illness; under pretense of patriotism; on pretense of revenging Caesar's death.

(n.) That which is pretended; false, deceptive, or hypocritical show, argument, or reason; pretext; feint.

(n.) Intention; design.

(a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

(a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.

(n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

(pl. ) of Pollinium

(n.) Alt. of Polliwog

(n.) A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pollute

(a.) Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

(n.) One who pollutes.

(n.) A polliwig.

(n.) Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also xyloquinone.

(adv.) In a pretty manner.

(n.) An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.

(a.) Base; vile; contemptible; cowardly.

(a.) Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atom capable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases; as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

(n.) See Delphin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

(a.) Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.

(n.) Same as Multifoil.

(n.) The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

(n.) The state or habit of having more than one mate.

(n.) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.

(n.) The theory that living organisms originate in cells or embryos of different kinds, instead of coming from a single cell; -- opposed to monogenesis.

(a.) Containing, or made up, of, several languages; as, a polyglot lexicon, Bible.

(n.) A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.

(a.) Producing, or produced by, the action of light; -- formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.

(n.) An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.

(n.) A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.

(a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages.

(n.) One who speaks several languages.

(n.) A book containing several versions of the same text, or containing the same subject matter in several languages; esp., the Scriptures in several languages.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Polygonum.

(n.) A figure consisting of many lines.

(n.) The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.

(n.) Talkativeness.

(a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phrase

(n.) An object which has a variety of names.

(n.) A polynomial name or term.

(n.) Same as Polypidom.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.

(n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.

(n.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick

(n.) One of the ordinary zooids of the Bryozoa.

(n.) A polypidom.

(n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian.

(n.) Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

(n.) A fossil coral.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Polypodium.

(a.) Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking the tentacles or other parts.

(a.) Resembling a polypus in appearance; having a character like that of a polypus.

(a.) Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.

(n.) Method of expression; association of words.

(n.) The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases.

(a.) Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.

(n.) That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances.

(n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

(n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

(n.) Same as Nicking.

(n.) A sensation of being pricked.

(n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

(n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

(n.) A colorless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthalein, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.

(n.) The hypothetical radical of phthalic acid.

(n.) Same as Phthisis.

(n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.

(a.) Full of pride; haughty.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prig

(n.) Priggism.

(a.) Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.

(n.) The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig.

(n.) Roguery; thievery.

(n.) Tin extracted from the slag.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prim

(a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.

(n.) The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

(n.) The chief of a phyle, or tribe.

(n.) A mineral related to ottrelite.

(n.) Clay slate; argillaceous schist.

(n.) Same as Phyllodium.

(n.) A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

(a.) Resembling a leaf.

(n.) A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.

(a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

(a.) Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.

(a.) Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.

(adv.) In a princely manner.

(a.) Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material; natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the body is the physical part of man.

(a.) Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.

(a.) Perceptible through a bodily or material organization; cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to chemical, characters of a mineral.

(a.) Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.

(n.) A division into many members.

(n.) A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc. (see citation); as, a polytype in relief.

(a.) Of or pertaining to polytypes; obtained by polytyping; as, a polytype plate.

(v. t.) To produce a polytype of; as, to polytype an engraving.

(n.) Any species of Polyzoa; one of the Polyzoa.

(n.) A polyzoon.

(n.) One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan.

(n.) A perfume to be carried with one, often in the form of a ball.

(n.) A box to contain such perfume, formerly carried by ladies, as at the end of a chain; -- more properly pomander box.

(a.) Having the nostril covered with a scale.

() A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.

(n.) Alt. of Princox

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prink

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Print

(imp. & p. p.) of Pommel

(n.) The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

(n.) Physiogmony.

(n.) One of the Physopoda; a thrips.

(n.) A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printing office.

(n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.

(n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior.

(n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

(a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

(a.) Precedence; superior rank.

(pl. ) of Priory

(a.) Pompous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Ponder

(a.) Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from numeral; as, a ponderal drachma.

(n.) One who ponders.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of American fresh-water fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae; -- called also pond perch, and sunfish.

(n.) Alt. of Phytomeron

(a.) Expiatory; atoning.

(a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.

(n.) A small piano; a pianino.

(n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba.

(n.) A body that approaches to the form of a prism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prison

(n.) One who is confined in a prison.

(n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court.

(a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.

(n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.

(n.) Any aquatic plant of the genus Potamogeton, of which many species are found in ponds or slow-moving rivers.

(n.) A high priest; a pontiff.

(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; papal.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Picariae.

(n.) One of the Picariae.

(n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Piciformes.

(adv.) On the back.

(n.) A young or small pike.

(n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

(n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

(imp. & p. p.) of Picket

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickle

(n.) An instrument for picking locks.

(n.) One who picks locks; a thief.

(n.) See Picnic.

(n.) Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

(a.) Alt. of Pictorical

(a.) Pictorial.

(n.) A picture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Picture

(a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

(n.) One who makes pictures; a painter.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piddle

(a.) Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.

(n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

(n.) Same as Piecer, 2.

(n.) The state of being pied.

(n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pierce

(a.) Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.

(n.) A place for pigeons; a dovecote.

(a.) Having small, deep-set eyes.

(pl. ) of Pigsty

(n.) See Pintail, 1.

(n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.

(n.) A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.

(a.) Having the form of a cap for the head.

(a.) Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head.

(n.) The teredo.

(n.) A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pilfer

(n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.

(n.) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.

(a.) Resembling hairs or down.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pillage

(n.) The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

(n.) A petty or deputy pope.

(n.) An adherent of the pope.

(n.) The green woodpecker.

(n.) A parrot.

(n.) A target in the form of a parrot.

(n.) A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb.

(a.) Popliteal.

(n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

(n.) Populace.

(a.) Populous.

(v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

(v. i.) To propagate.

(a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

(a.) Popular; famous.

(a.) Common; vulgar.

(a.) Numerous; in large number.

(a.) Valuable.

(pl. ) of Prizeman

(n.) The winner of a prize.

(n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

(a.) Capable of being proved.

(a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely.

(a.) Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption.

(adv.) In a probable manner; in likelihood.

(a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture.

(n.) Porosity.

(a.) Alt. of Poristical

(a.) Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.

(n.) A little pillar.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pillow

(a.) Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head resting on, or as on, a pillow.

(n.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called peppergrass.

(n.) The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pilot

(n.) The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.

(n.) The compensation made or allowed to a pilot.

(n.) Guidance, as by a pilot.

(n.) Alt. of Pilotry

(a.) Like a pill; small; insignificant.

(n.) An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.

(n.) The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.

(n.) An examiner; an approver.

(n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.

(n. pl.) That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

(n. pl.) An order of large birds; the Ratitae; -- called also Proceri.

(a.) Next; nearest.

(n.) A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.

(n.) A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type.

(n.) A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinch

(n.) A pig; a porket.

(n.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

(n.) The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

(adv.) In a porous manner.

(n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

(n.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.

(n.) A state of complete readiness for action.

(v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.

(v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.

(a.) Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

(n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

(a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.

(pl. ) of Pinery

(n.) A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

(a.) Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.

(n.) See Pinkster.

(adv.) In a pining manner; droopingly.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pinion

(n.) A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

(a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

(a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.

(n.) A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.

(n.) See Port, carriage, demeanor.

(a.) Having wings or pinions.

(n.) Quality or state of being pink.

(n.) The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

(n.) A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.

(n.) An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).

(n.) See Porteass.

(n.) A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

(n.) One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.

(n.) See Portass.

(pl. ) of Portico

(n.) A curtain hanging across a doorway.

(n.) The portoise. See Portoise.

(imp. & p. p.) of Procure

(n.) One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means.

(n.) One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prod

(a.) Given to extravagant expenditure; expending money or other things without necessity; recklessly or viciously profuse; lavish; wasteful; not frugal or economical; as, a prodigal man; the prodigal son; prodigal giving; prodigal expenses.

(n.) One who expends money extravagantly, viciously, or without necessity; one that is profuse or lavish in any expenditure; a waster; a spendthrift.

(n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.

(v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

(a.) Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.

(a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.

(n.) One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.

(n.) One of the Pinnipedes.

(pl. ) of Pinnula

(n.) Same as Parclose.

(n.) Conclusion; end.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plant

(n.) In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town.

(n.) The gunwale of a ship.

(n.) The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.

(n.) Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

(v. t.) To portray; to draw.

(n.) A female porter.

(n.) A breviary.

(n.) See Polliwig.

(n.) A forerunner; a precursor.

(imp. & p. p.) of Produce

(n.) One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

(n.) One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

(n.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel.

(pl. ) of Pintado

(adv.) So as to pose or puzzle.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Posit

(n.) The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

(n.) The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.

(n.) Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.

(n.) Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.

(n.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.

(v. t.) To indicate the position of; to place.

(a.) Having a real position, existence, or energy; existing in fact; real; actual; -- opposed to negative.

(a.) Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute; -- opposed to relative; as, the idea of beauty is not positive, but depends on the different tastes individuals.

(a.) Definitely laid down; explicitly stated; clearly expressed; -- opposed to implied; as, a positive declaration or promise.

(a.) Hence: Not admitting of any doubt, condition, qualification, or discretion; not dependent on circumstances or probabilities; not speculative; compelling assent or obedience; peremptory; indisputable; decisive; as, positive instructions; positive truth; positive proof.

(a.) Prescribed by express enactment or institution; settled by arbitrary appointment; said of laws.

(a.) Fully assured; confident; certain; sometimes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons.

(a.) Having the power of direct action or influence; as, a positive voice in legislation.

(a.) Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

(a.) Electro-positive.

(a.) Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.

(a.) Introductory; prefatory; preliminary.

(n.) That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

(n.) That which settles by absolute appointment.

(n.) The positive degree or form.

(n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative.

(n.) The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

(n.) See Posture.

(n.) The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

(a.) Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.

(adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.

(a.) Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.

(a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Profane

(n.) One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.

(n.) The inferior vena cava.

(a.) Relating to a fact that occurs after another.

(n.) A fact that occurs after another.

(imp. & p. p.) of Profile

(imp. & p. p.) of Profit

(a.) Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.

(a.) Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.

(a.) Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.

(a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.

(n.) The deep; the sea; the ocean.

(n.) An abyss.

(a.) Alt. of Posthumed

(n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.

(n.) A voluntary at the end of a service.

(n.) The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.

(v. t.) To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.

(n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.

(pl. ) of Papilla

(a.) Same as Papillose.

(a.) Alt. of Papistical

(a.) Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.

(a.) Alt. of Pulicous

(a.) Abounding with fleas.

(adv.) With whining or complaint.

(a.) Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.

(n.) A pulmonic medicine.

(n.) A preacher.

(n.) The teaching of the pulpit; preaching.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pulsate

(n.) A puffball.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pucker

(n.) One who, or that which, puckers.

(n.) A puffball.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puddle

(n.) The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

(n.) Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2.

(n.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

(n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

(n.) Modesty; chastity.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.

(n.) One of the Pteropoda.

(pl. ) of Pteryla

(n.) Same as Pterylosis.

(n.) One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

(n.) Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.

(adv.) With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

(adv.) In the name of the community.

(n.) Virginity.

(n.) The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.

(n.) A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

(n.) A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.

(a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.

(a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.

(a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.

(n.) The pterotic bone.

(pl. ) of Pterygium

(a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.

(n.) Itching.

(a.) Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

(adv.) In a prying manner.

(n.) A stringed instrument of music used by the Hebrews, the form of which is not known.

(n.) A species of micaceous sandstone.

(n.) Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

(n.) A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

(n.) Psychology.

(n.) The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

(a.) Same as Pruinose.

(a.) Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

(a.) Frosty; pruinose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Precede

(n.) A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

(n.) A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.

(n.) A species of dried plum; prunelle.

(n.) A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

(n.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church.

(n.) The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prowl

(a.) Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey.

(n.) A negotiator; a factor.

(adv.) Toward a proximal part; on the proximal side of; proximally.

(a.) Toward or nearest, as to a body, or center of motion of dependence; proximate.

(a.) Situated near the point of attachment or origin; as, the proximal part of a limb.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that which is proximal; as, the proximal bones of a limb. Opposed to distal.

(a.) Talkative.

(n.) Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

(n.) Practice; habits.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prattle

(n.) One who prattles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Preach

(n.) A introductory portion; an introduction or preface, as to a book, document, etc.; specifically, the introductory part of a statute, which states the reasons and intent of the law.

(v. t. & i.) To make a preamble to; to preface; to serve as a preamble.

(a.) See Predial.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Praise

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prance

(a.) Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prank

(a.) Full of pranks; frolicsome.

(imp. & p. p.) of Provoke

(imp. & p. p.) of Provide

(conj.) On condition; by stipulation; with the understanding; if; -- usually followed by that; as, provided that nothing in this act shall prejudice the rights of any person whatever.

(n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.

(n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.

(n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.

(n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.

(n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

(n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.

(v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.

(v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.

(v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.

(v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.

(v. t.) To make use of; to employ.

(v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

(v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

(v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.

(v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.

(v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

(v. t. & i.) See Practice.

(a.) Doing; active.

(n.) The superior vena cava.

(n.) A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it.

(n.) A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.

(n.) One who provides, furnishes, or supplies; one who procures what is wanted.

(n.) A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

(n.) A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

(n.) A region of country; a tract; a district.

(n.) A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.

(n.) The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

(n.) Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.

(pl. ) of Proviso

(n.) One who provides; a purveyor.

(n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house.

(n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5.

(n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6.

(a.) Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

(v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.

(v. t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.

(a.) Somewhat proud.

(a.) Capable of being proved; demonstrable.

(a.) Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore.

(n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.

(n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.

(n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Powder

(a.) Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

(a.) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.

(a.) Same as Seme.

(v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

(v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

(n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

(v. t.) To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

(v. t.) To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

(v. i.) To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project.

(n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

(n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more.

(n.) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.

(v. t.) To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

(n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.

(n.) A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.

(n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.

(n.) A pounded or pulverized substance.

(n.) The original copy of any writing, as of a deed, treaty, dispatch, or other instrument.

(n.) The minutes, or rough draught, of an instrument or transaction.

(n.) A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

(n.) A convention not formally ratified.

(n.) An agreement of diplomatists indicating the results reached by them at a particular stage of a negotiation.

(v. t.) To make a protocol of.

(v. i.) To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.

(n. f.) One under the care and protection of another.

(n.) Extension.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pouch

(n.) A long pointed shoe. See Cracowes.

(n.) See Pauldron.

(n.) A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.

(v. t.) To apply a poultice to; to dress with a poultice.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pounce

(n.) The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.

(n.) Decorative perforation of cloth.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pound

(a.) Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic (that is, radial or tibial) side of the axis of a limb.

(n.) A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.

(n. pl.) Potash.

(n.) The act of drinking.

(n.) A draught.

(n.) Drink; beverage.

(pl. ) of Potato

(a.) Of or pertaining to drinking.

(n.) An apothecary.

(adv.) With great force or energy; powerfully; efficaciously.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pother

(n.) Alt. of Potshare

(n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot.

(n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

(imp. & p. p.) of Potter

(a.) Having columns in front.

(n.) A prostyle portico or building.

(n.) A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

(n.) An amorphous nitrogenous substance found in the spermatic fluid of salmon. It is soluble in water, which an alkaline reaction, and unites with acids and metallic bases.

(n.) A proposition; a maxim.

(n.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis.

(n.) The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.

(v. t.) To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

(v. t.) To affix a date to after the event.

(a.) Made or done after the date assigned.

(n.) A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

(n.) An alehouse.

(v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

(v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.

(v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.

(v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.

(n.) A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.

(n.) A book of dramatic compositions; a book of the play.

(n.) An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.

(n.) Public or open sale; auction.

(n.) A writer of prose.

(v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

(v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

(v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

(v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.

(v. t.) To repel; to drive off or away.

(v. t.) To end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business.

(n.) That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.

(n.) A writer of prose; an unpoetical writer.

(n.) A mold; a matrix.

(n.) Same as Bee glue, under Bee.

(n.) That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage.

(n.) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract.

(imp. & p. p.) of Propose

(n.) One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.

(n.) A speaker; an orator.

(v. t.) To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.

(v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

(n.) The porch, vestibule, or entrance of an edifice.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prorate

(v. t.) To protract; to prolong; to extend.

(v. t.) To defer; to delay; to postpone; as, to proroguedeath; to prorogue a marriage.

(a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

(a.) Propriety; correctness.

(v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities.

(v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.

(n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.

(n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.

(n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

(v. t.) To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.

(v. i.) To utter predictions; to make declaration of events to come.

(v. i.) To give instruction in religious matters; to interpret or explain Scripture or religious subjects; to preach; to exhort; to expound.

(n.) The ketone of propionic acid, obtained as a colorless fragrant liquid.

(n.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical, C3H5, isomeric with allyl and glyceryl, and regarded as the essential residue of glycerin. Cf. Allyl, and Glyceryl.

(a.) That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

(a.) An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

(a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

(a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

(a.) Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness.

(adv.) In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

(adv.) Individually; after one's own manner.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prop

(n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.

(v. t.) To oblige; to confer a favor on.

(v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.

(n.) The person to whom a promise is made.

(n.) One who promises.

(n.) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.

(imp. & p. p.) of Promote

(n.) One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy.

(n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like.

(n.) One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition.

(n.) An informer; a makebate.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prompt

(n.) One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action.

(n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater.

(adv.) In a prompt manner.

(v. t.) To promulgate; to publish or teach.

(n.) A muscle which produces pronation.

(a.) Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.

(n.) The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

(a.) Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

(a.) Proliferous.

(adv.) In a prolix manner.

(n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance

(n.) One who delivers a prologue.

(v. t.) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

(n.) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Promise

(n.) The chicken of the peacock.

(n.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

(n.) The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum.

(v. i.) To fall down or out; to protrude.

(v. t.) To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

(v. t.) To hinder; to debar; to prevent; to preclude.

(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.

(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.

(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.

(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.

(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.

(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.

(a.) Subsequent.

(a.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.

(a.) Having the postage prepaid, as a letter.

(v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.

(a.) Of or pertaining to posture.

(imp. & p. p.) of Posture

(n.) One who postures.

(v. t.) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.

(v. i.) To dive deeply; to penetrate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prog

(v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

(v. t.) To postpone.

(n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.

(v. t.) To make penal.

(v. t.) To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.

(n.) An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant.

(a.) Pendulous.

(n.) Impairment.

(a.) Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ.

(imp. & p. p.) of Penance

(a.) Pleasing to the taste; palatable.

(v. t.) To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pencil

(a.) Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.

(a.) Radiated; having pencils of rays.

(a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines.

(n.) Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.

(n.) The art of composing or writing; authorship.

(n.) The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit.

(n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

(n.) A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.

(n.) A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.

(n.) The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture.

(n.) Color laid on; paint.

(n.) A depicting by words; vivid representation in words.

(v. t.) The art of painting.

(n.) Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.

(n.) Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

(n.) Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.

(n.) See Penstock.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C.

(n.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.

(a.) Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.

(a.) Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.

(n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.

(n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

(n.) The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Palsy

(imp. & p. p.) of Palter

(n.) One who palters.

(a. & adv.) Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.

(adv.) In a paltry manner.

(a.) Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.

(n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

(n.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.

(n.) A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pistol

(n.) A small pistol.

(a.) Web-footed, as a water fowl.

(n.) A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.

(n.) The eyelid.

(n.) Same as Palpiger.

(n.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

(a.) Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.

(n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.

(v. t.) To erect beforehand.

(n.) An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).

(v. t.) To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

(v. t.) To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.

(n.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

(n.) A slipper for the foot.

(n.) A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.

(n.) An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.

(n.) See Pastel, a crayon.

(a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.

(a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.

(n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

(n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.

(n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.

(a.) Appropriate to a pastor.

(pl. ) of Pastry

(imp. & p. p.) of Pasture

(n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

(n.) See Pataca.

(n.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

(n.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patch

(n.) Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.

(pl. ) of Patella

(a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

(imp. & p. p.) of Patent

(n.) One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

(adv.) Openly; evidently.

(n.) See Pederero.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.

(a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.

(a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

(a.) Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.

(a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.

(a.) Patron; protecting; favoring.

(a.) Wearing pattens.

(imp. & p. p.) of Patter

(n.) One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.

(n.) A pan for baking patties.

(n.) A patty.

(a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.

(n.) A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paunch

(n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.

(v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

(n.) Timidity.

(n.) A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.

(n.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.

(n.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.

(n.) Same as Tent (Her.)

(n.) That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.

(n.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.

(n.) A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.

(v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a peacock.

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

(a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent.

(a.) Capable of being pawned.

(n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.

(a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.

(a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.

(n.) Alt. of Pearlstone

(n.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

(n.) Pisolite.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pebble

(a.) Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.

(n.) The quality or state of being peccant.

(n.) A sin; an offense.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.

(n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.

(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.

(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.

(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.

(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.

(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.

(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

(v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

(a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.

(a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.

(a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.

(n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

(n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

(n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.

(n.) A special fund for private and personal uses.

(a.) Pecuniary.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plain

(n.) Complaint.

(a.) Complaining.

(n.) The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or seeds are attached.

(adv.) In a placid manner.

(n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.

(n.) A court, or cause in court.

(v. i.) To commit plagiarism.

(n.) A manstealer; a kidnaper.

(n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist.

(n.) Plagiarism; literary thief.

(a.) Kidnaping.

(a.) Practicing plagiarism.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plague

(adv.) In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.

(n.) Plaid cloth.

(n.) A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamaerops, / Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.

(n.) The science or art of punishment.

(v. i.) To exist previously; to exist before something else.

(a.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra.

(n.) The prostate gland.

(n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

(n.) That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.

(n.) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.

(n.) A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.

(n.) Love; gallantry.

(adv.) Alt. of Paramours

(n.) Mental derangement; insanity.

(n.) An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paraph

(n.) Alt. of Paraquito

(n.) A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

(n.) One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.

(n.) A small pan or cup.

(n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.

(n.) Excessive care or diligence.

(n.) A bombastic or labored style.

(a.) Pertaining to the perigee.

(n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

(n.) Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.

(n.) In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.

(n.) A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the gonophore of a hydroid.

() of Peril

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peril

(a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.

(a.) Daring; reckless; dangerous.

(n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like.

(n.) An animal having broad feet, or a broad foot.

(n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

(a.) Applauding; manifesting praise.

(a.) Plausible, specious.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the perineum.

(n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.

(a.) Alt. of Periodical

(n.) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.

(n.) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.

(n.) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.

(n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.

(n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.

(a.) At the bottom; lowest.

(adv.) Alt. of Paravant

(adv.) In front; publicly.

(adv.) Beforehand; first.

(a.) On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

(v. i. & t.) To throw out; to vomit.

(n.) Vomit.

(n.) A playfellow.

(n.) One who frequents playhouses, or attends dramatic performances.

(n.) The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.

(a.) Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.

(n.) A periotic bone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Parcel

(n.) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parch

(n.) See Pachisi.

(a.) Scorching; burning; drying.

(n.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.

(n.) A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

(a.) Playful; wanton; sportive.

(n.) Time for play or diversion.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pleach

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plead

(n.) The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Please

(a.) Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners.

(n.) An object of pleasure.

(n.) The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.

(n.) Amusement; sport; diversion; self-indulgence; frivolous or dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc.

(n.) What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose.

(n.) That which pleases; a favor; a gratification.

(v. t.) To give or afford pleasure to; to please; to gratify.

(v. i.) To take pleasure; to seek pursue pleasure; as, to go pleasuring.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.

(n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.

(n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

(n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

(n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

(n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perish

(n.) Same as Perisome.

(n.) The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pardon

(n.) One who pardons.

(n.) A seller of indulgences.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pledge

(n.) Alt. of Pledgor

(n.) The state of a benefice when occupied.

(a.) Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.

(a.) Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.

(n.) See Parergy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Parget

(n.) A plasterer.

(pl. ) of Plenty

(n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

(n.) One who is addicted to pleonasm.

(pl. ) of Pleopod

(n.) Pleasance.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perjure

(a.) Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.

(n.) One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.

(a.) Of or pertaining to parhelia.

(pl. ) of Parhelion

(pl. ) of Paries

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.

(a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.

(a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.

(a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.

(n.) One of the parietal bones.

(n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.

(n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

(n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.

() A combining form used to indicate connection with, or relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid suture.

(n.) A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and sarsaparillin.

(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.

(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.

(n.) Plethora.

(n.) Alt. of Plethrum

(n.) A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

(n.) An inflammation of the pleura, usually accompanied with fever, pain, difficult respiration, and cough, and with exudation into the pleural cavity.

(n.) Same as Pleuron.

(a.) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.

(a.) Passing through; permeating.

(v. t.) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.

(v. t.) To enter and spread through; to pervade.

(n.) A parishioner.

(n.) Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

(a. & adv.) Alt. of Parlante

(a. & adv.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

(pl. ) of Plexus

(n.) One who permutes.

(n.) A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.

(a.) A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.

(v. i.) To make a peroration; to harangue.

(n.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.

(imp. & p. p.) of Parley

(a.) Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plight

(n.) One who, or that which, plights.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plod

(a.) Progressing in a slow, toilsome manner; characterized by laborious diligence; as, a plodding peddler; a plodding student; a man of plodding habits.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plot

(n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

(a.) Without a pang; painless.

(n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

(n.) Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator.

(n.) The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.

(n.) One of the imaginary circles on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.

(n.) One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.

(n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page.

(v. t.) To place or set so as to be parallel; to place so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with, something else.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make to conform to something else in character, motive, aim, or the like.

(v. t.) To equal; to match; to correspond to.

(v. t.) To produce or adduce as a parallel.

(v. i.) To be parallel; to correspond; to be like.

(n.) See Plaster.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plait

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plan

(imp. & p. p.) of Pander

(a.) Having the properties of a panacea.

(n.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.

(n.) A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pitch

(a.) Without a palpus.

(n.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

(n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.

(n.) A fisherman; an angler.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.

(a.) Palatal; palatine.

(n.) A palatal letter.

(n.) Same as Setterwort.

(n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

(a.) Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets.

(n.) A thin skin or film.

(n.) One who writes a parody; one who parodies.

(pl. ) of Parody

(imp. & p. p.) of Parody

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parole

(n.) The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.

(n.) Same as Parrakeet.

() of Plough

(n.) See Peruke.

(a.) Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.

(n.) A parotoid gland.

(n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.

(n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

(a.) Alt. of Ploughable

(n.) Alt. of Ploughbote

(n.) One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughfoot

(n.) Alt. of Ploughgang

(n.) Alt. of Ploughgate

(n.) Alt. of Ploughhead

(n.) Alt. of Plougland

(n.) Alt. of Ploughtail

(n.) The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pluck

(adv.) In a plucky manner.

(n.) A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.

(v. t.) To pay wholly, or fully.

(n.) One who simply repeats what he has heard.

(n.) Servile imitation or repetition.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parry

(a.) Furnished with a parson.

(a.) Alt. of Parsonical

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plug

(n.) The act of stopping with a plug.

(n.) The material of which a plug or stopple is made.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plumb

(n.) Leadwork

(n.) Same as Graphite.

(n.) A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

(a.) Alt. of Plumbeous

(n.) The business of a plumber.

(n.) A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.

(n.) The art of casting and working in lead, and applying it to building purposes; especially, the business of furnishing, fitting, and repairing pipes for conducting water, sewage, etc.

(n.) The lead or iron pipes, and other apparatus, used in conveying water, sewage, etc., in a building.

(n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.

(a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire.

(a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms.

(a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another.

(a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks.

(a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.

(n.) A movable; a chattel.

(a.) See Partible.

(p. p.) of Partake

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.

(n.) A small plume.

(a.) Having feet covered with feathers.

(n.) A plumiped bird.

(n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plump

(n.) One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.

(n.) An accomplice; an associate; a partner.

(n.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

(n.) The pit of a theater; the parquet.

(a.) Relating to a plumule.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plunge

(v. i.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.

(v. i.) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.

(v. t.) To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.

(v. t.) To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.

(v. t.) To try to influence.

(v. t.) To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.

(v. t.) To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.

(v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.

(n.) Persuasion.

(a.) Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.

(n.) A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

(n.) Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.

(n.) A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.

(n.) The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.

(n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.

(adv.) In a plural manner or sense.

(n.) A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.

(n.) The quality or state of being pert.

(a.) Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.

(a.) Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peruse

(imp. & p. p.) of Pervade

(a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.

(a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.

(n.) An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

(n.) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

(n.) Any member of such a corps.

(a.) Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.

(a.) Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps.

(n.) A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.

(a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

(a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.

(a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.

(a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.

(n.) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pester

(n.) Devotion to party.

(n.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.

(n.) The jurisdiction of a pasha.

(n.) A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.

(n.) See Pneumonia.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poach

(n.) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.

(n.) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.

(n.) One who pesters or harasses.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pestle

(a.) Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.

(n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pocket

(n.) A mark or pit made by smallpox.

(n.) Lignum-vitae.

(a.) Fit for drink.

(a.) Alt. of Podagrical

(n.) pain in the foot, due to gout, rheumatism, etc.

(n.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

(n.) A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.

(n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.

(a.) Petaline.

(a.) Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peter

(n.) See Pederero.

(pl. ) of Peterman

(a.) Alt. of Petiolary

(a.) Petiolate.

(n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.

(n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.

(v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor.

(v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.

(a.) Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.

(a.) Petrifying; petrifactive.

(a.) Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.

(a.) Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.

(a.) Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.

(adv.) Tolerably; moderately.

(n.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

(a.) Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.

(n.) A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.

(a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone.

(n.) A petrosal bone.

(n.) The auditory capsule.

(v. i.) To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

(v. t.) To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.

(n.) A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.

(a.) Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.

(a.) Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.

(a.) Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Poetize

(n.) The state or personality of a poet.

(a.) Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.

(a.) Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical.

(a.) Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

(a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.

(n.) Alt. of Petuntze

(n.) Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

(n.) One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.

(a.) Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.

(pl. ) of Pfennig

(pl. ) of Pfennig

(n.) A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

(a.) Having no pass; impassable.

(n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.

(n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.

(n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.

(n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.

(pl. ) of Passus

(n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.

(a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.

(a.) Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.

(a.) Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth.

(n.) A pregnant woman.

(a.) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.

(n.) A pale green mineral occurring in crystalline aggregates having a botryoidal or mammillary structure, and rarely in distinct crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

(v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand.

(a.) Alt. of Prelatical

(n.) Prelaty; prelacy.

(v. t.) To limit previously.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prelude

(n.) One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude.

(v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.

(a.) Serving to reward; rewarding.

(a.) Rich in gifts.

(imp. & p. p.) of Premise

(a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.

(n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.

(a.) Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off.

(a.) Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

(a.) Being or happening before birth.

(n.) See Praenomen.

(v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.

(n.) The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

(n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.

(n.) A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.

(n.) See Fantasy, and Fancy.

(a.) Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.

(n.) One who, or that which, prepares, fits, or makes ready.

(v. t.) To weigh or consider beforehand; to premeditate.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Point

(n.) The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

(n.) A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an apothecary's shop.

(v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.

(v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense.

(n.) The act of sharpening.

(n.) The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.

(n.) The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.

(n.) The act of filling and finishing the joints in masonry with mortar, cement, etc.; also, the material so used.

(n.) The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.

(n.) The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model.

(n.) A graving tool.

(imp. & p. p.) of Poison

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.

(n.) The ruffed grouse.

(a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.

(n.) A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

(imp. & p. p.) of Presage

(n.) One who poisons.

(a.) Infested by pokers; adapted to excite fear; as, a pokerish place.

(a.) Stiff like a poker.

(n.) See Poke, the plant.

(n.) The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.

(pl. ) of Phenix

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Phial

(n.) See Filibeg.

(n.) One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.

(n.) Same as Presbyope.

(v. t.) To cut off; to abstract.

(adv.) In a polary manner; with polarity.

(n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

(n.) A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a given point determines a corresponding right line and a given right line determines a corresponding point. See Polar, n.

(v. t.) To communicate polarity to.

(n.) Self-love; selfishness.

(n.) See Filibeg.

(v. t.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.

(n.) The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

(n.) The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.

(n.) Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.

(n.) The whole of the personal qualities of an individual; person; personality; especially, the person of a superior, as a sovereign.

(n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility; noble company.

(n.) Port, mien; air; personal appearence.

(a.) Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.

(n.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

(n.) A polemic.

(n.) Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

(n.) A guide or director.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Police

(a.) Relating to the police.

(pl. ) of Policy

(n.) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

(v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.

(v. t.) To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, as sugar, salt, etc.; to season and prepare for remaining in a good state, as fruits, meat, etc.; as, to preserve peaches or grapes.

(v. t.) To maintain throughout; to keep intact; as, to preserve appearances; to preserve silence.

(v. i.) To make preserves.

(v. i.) To protect game for purposes of sport.

(n.) That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.

(n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.

(imp. & p. p.) of Preside

(n.) The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perfume

(n.) One who, oe that which, perfumes.

(n.) One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perfuse

(n.) The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

(n.) A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

(n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

(a.) Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.

(imp. & p. p.) of Placate

(a.) In the appointed place.

(pl. ) of Placeman

(n.) One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.

(n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

(n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pamper

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol

(n.) Alt. of Pinocle

(n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.

(n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.

(n.) The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

(n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

(n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

(a.) Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.

(n.) A pit; a pockmark.

(a.) Pithy; robust.

(a.) Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

(a.) Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

(a.) Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.

(n.) A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.

(n.) An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.

(n.) A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an inconsiderable salary or compensation.

(a.) Having the form of, or resembling, bran.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pivot

(a.) Led by pixies; bewildered.

(n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a marsh.

(n.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

(a.) Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

(a.) Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.

(n.) One who, or that which, pampers.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

(n.) A writing; a book.

(n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.

(v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

(n.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

(a.) Divided or cleft into five parts.

(n.) A white person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.

(pl. ) of Premise

(pl. ) of Premium

(n.) A kneeling desk for prayers.

(n.) the act of becoming a pupa.

(n.) The state of being a pupil.

(v. t.) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

(v. t.) To obtain by paying money or its equivalent; to buy for a price; as, to purchase land, or a house.

(v. t.) To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.; as, to purchase favor with flattery.

(v. t.) To expiate by a fine or forfeit.

(v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

(v. t.) To buy for a price.

(v. t.) To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; as, to purchase a cannon.

(v. i.) To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert one's self.

(v. i.) To acquire wealth or property.

(v. t.) The act of seeking, getting, or obtaining anything.

(v. t.) The act of seeking and acquiring property.

(v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

(v. t.) That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

(v. t.) That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

(v. t.) Any mechanical hold, or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle, capstan, and the like; also, the apparatus, tackle, or device by which the advantage is gained.

(v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

(n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

(n.) Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

(n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

(pl. ) of Piracy

(n.) A born beggar; a vagabond.

(n.) A lecher; a lewd person.

(a.) Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.

(a.) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.

(adv.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.

(a.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

(n.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, "The living, the living, he shall praise thee."

(n.) An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.

(n.) Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Puppy

(a.) Like a puppy.

(n.) Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.

(a.) Wholly blind.

(a.) Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.

(n.) Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.

(v. t.) To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

(n.) A palisade.

(v. t.) To palisade.

(n.) A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species.

(n.) Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.

(a.) Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life.

(a.) Doing penance.

(n.) One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

(n.) One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.

(n.) One under the direction of a confessor.

(n.) A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.

(n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.

(a.) Made pensive.

(n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

(n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.

(n.) The quality or state of being piquant.

(v. t.) To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.

(v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults.

(v. t.) To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease.

(adv.) In a pallid manner.

(pl. ) of Pallium

(a.) Winged; plume-shaped.

(a.) Same as Pinnate.

(n.) Same as Arapaima.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pirate

(n.) A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.

(n.) See Palinode.

(n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.

(a.) Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.

(a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

(a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.

(a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.

(a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

(n.) A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.