Dictionary P

• Pa Dictionary P - noun A shortened form of Papa.
• Paage Dictionary P - noun A toll for passage over another person's grounds.
• Paard Dictionary P - noun The zebra.
• Paas Dictionary P - noun Pace.
• Pabular Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.
• Pabulation Dictionary P - noun The act of feeding, or providing food.
• Pabulous Dictionary P - adjective Affording pabulum, or food; alimental.
• Pabulum Dictionary P - noun The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.
• Pac Dictionary P - noun A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper.
• Paca Dictionary P - noun A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.
• Pacable Dictionary P - adjective Placable.
• Pacane Dictionary P - noun A species of hickory. See Pecan.
• Pacate Dictionary P - adjective Appeased; pacified; tranquil.
• Pacated Dictionary P - adjective Pacified; pacate.
• Pacation Dictionary P - noun The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.
• Pace Dictionary P - noun A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
• Paced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pace.
• Pacing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pace.
• Pacer Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
• Pachacamac Dictionary P - noun A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the universe.
• Pachak Dictionary P - noun The fragrant roots of the Saussurea Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the ancients.
• Pachalic Dictionary P - adjective & noun See Pashalic.
• Pachisi Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parchesi.
• Parchesi Dictionary P - noun A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
• Pachometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.
• Pachonta Dictionary P - noun A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.
• Pachy- Dictionary P - A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl.
• Pachycarpous Dictionary P - adjective Having the pericarp thick.
• Pachydactyl Dictionary P - noun A bird or other animal having thick toes.
• Pachydactylous Dictionary P - adjective Having thick toes.
• Pachyderm Dictionary P - noun One of the Pachydermata.
• Pachydermal Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to the pachyderms; as, pachydermal dentition.
• Pachydermata Dictionary P - noun plural A group of hoofed mammals distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is now considered an artificial group.
• Pachydermatous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.
• Pachydermoid Dictionary P - adjective Related to the pachyderms.
• Pachyglossal Dictionary P - adjective Having a thick tongue; - applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas.
• Pachymeningitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.
• Pachymeter Dictionary P - noun Same as Pachometer.
• Pachyote Dictionary P - noun One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.
• Pacifiable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.
• Pacific Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.
• Pacificable Dictionary P - adjective Placable.
• Pacifical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to peace; pacific.
• Pacification Dictionary P - noun The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.
• Pacificator Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.
• Pacificatory Dictionary P - adjective Tending to make peace; conciliatory.
• Pacfier Dictionary P - noun One who pacifies.
• Pacified Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pacify.
• Pacifying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pacify.
• Pacify Dictionary P - verb transitive To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.
• Pacinian Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.
• Pack Dictionary P - noun A pact.
• Packed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pack.
• Packing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pack.
• Package Dictionary P - noun Act or process of packing.
• Packer Dictionary P - noun A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• Packet Dictionary P - noun A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
• Packeted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Packet.
• Packeting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Packet.
• Packfong Dictionary P - noun A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.
• Pack herse Dictionary P - See under 2d Pack.
• Packhouse Dictionary P - noun Warehouse for storing goods.
• Packmen Dictionary P - pleural of Packman.
• Packman Dictionary P - noun One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• Pack saddle Dictionary P - Alt. of Pack thread.
• Pack thread Dictionary P - See under 2d Pack.
• Packwax Dictionary P - noun Same as Paxwax.
• Packway Dictionary P - noun A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.
• Paco Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pacos.
• Pacos Dictionary P - noun Same as Alpaca.
• Pact Dictionary P - verb An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
• Paction Dictionary P - noun An agreement; a compact; a bargain.
• Pactional Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction.
• Pactitious Dictionary P - adjective Setted by a pact, or agreement.
• Pactolian Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.
• Pacu Dictionary P - noun A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.
• Pad Dictionary P - noun A footpath; a road.
• Padded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pad.
• Padding Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pad.
• Padar Dictionary P - noun Groats; coarse flour or meal.
• Padder Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pads.
• Paddle Dictionary P - intransitive verb To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
• Paddled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paddle.
• Paddling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paddle.
• Paddlecock Dictionary P - noun The lumpfish.
• Paddlefish Dictionary P - noun A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
• Paddlewood Dictionary P - noun The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
• Paddock Dictionary P - noun A toad or frog.
• Paddy Dictionary P - adjective Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
• Paddies Dictionary P - pleural of Paddy.
• Padelion Dictionary P - noun A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.
• Padella Dictionary P - noun A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, - used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.
• Pademelon Dictionary P - noun See Wallaby.
• Padesoy Dictionary P - noun See Paduasoy.
• Padge Dictionary P - noun The barn owl; - called also pudge, and pudge owl.
• Padishah Dictionary P - noun Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; - a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.
• Padlock Dictionary P - noun A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, - used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.
• Padlocked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Padlock.
• Padlocking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Padlock.
• Padnag Dictionary P - noun An ambling nag.
• Padow Dictionary P - noun A paddock, or toad.
• Padroni Dictionary P - pleural of Padrone.
• Padrones Dictionary P - pleural of Padrone.
• Padrone Dictionary P - noun A patron; a protector.
• Paduasoy Dictionary P - noun A rich and heavy silk stuff.
• Paducahs Dictionary P - noun plural See Comanches.
• Paean Dictionary P - noun An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
• Paedobaptism Dictionary P - noun Pedobaptism.
• Paedogenesis Dictionary P - noun Reproduction by young or larval animals.
• Paedogenetic Dictionary P - adjective Producing young while in the immature or larval state; - said of certain insects, etc.
• Paeon Dictionary P - noun A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.
• Paeonine Dictionary P - noun An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.
• Paeony Dictionary P - noun See Peony.
• Pagan Dictionary P - noun One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
• Pagandom Dictionary P - noun The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.
• Paganic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paganical.
• Paganical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish.
• Paganish Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish.
• Paganism Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Paganity Dictionary P - noun The state of being a pagan; paganism.
• Paganized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paganize.
• Paganizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paganize.
• Paganize Dictionary P - verb transitive To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.
• Paganly Dictionary P - adverb In a pagan manner.
• Page Dictionary P - noun A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body.
• Paged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Page.
• Paging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Page.
• Pageant Dictionary P - noun A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
• Pageantry Dictionary P - noun Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.
• Pagehood Dictionary P - noun The state of being a page.
• Paginae Dictionary P - pleural of Pagina.
• Pagina Dictionary P - noun The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.
• Paginal Dictionary P - adjective Consisting of pages.
• Pagination Dictionary P - noun The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number.
• Pagod Dictionary P - noun A pagoda. R. "Or some queer pagod.".
• Pagoda Dictionary P - noun A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, - usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
• Pagodite Dictionary P - noun Agalmatolite; - so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.
• Paguma Dictionary P - noun Any one of several species of East Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They resemble a weasel in form.
• Pagurian Dictionary P - noun Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
• Pah Dictionary P - interjection An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.
• Pahi Dictionary P - noun A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
• Pahlevi Dictionary P - noun Same as Pehlevi.
• Pahoehoe Dictionary P - noun A name given in the Sandwich Islands to lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.
• PahUtes Dictionary P - noun plural See Utes.
• Paid Dictionary P - imperative,particle p., & adjective Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
• Paideutics Dictionary P - noun The science or art of teaching.
• Paien Dictionary P - noun & adjective Pagan.
• Paigle Dictionary P - noun A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.
• Paijama Dictionary P - noun Pyjama.
• Pail Dictionary P - noun A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, - used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
• Pailfuls Dictionary P - pleural of Pailful.
• Pailful Dictionary P - noun The quantity that a pail will hold.
• Paillasse Dictionary P - noun An under bed or mattress of straw.
• Pailmall Dictionary P - noun & adjective See Pall-mall.
• Pain Dictionary P - noun Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
• Pained Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pain.
• Paining Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pain.
• Painable Dictionary P - adjective Causing pain; painful.
• Painful Dictionary P - adjective Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.
• Painim Dictionary P - noun A pagan; an infidel; - used also adjectively.
• Painless Dictionary P - adjective Free from pain; without pain.
• Pains Dictionary P - noun Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; - plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
• Painstaker Dictionary P - noun One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work.
• Painstaking Dictionary P - adjective Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive.
• Painsworthy Dictionary P - adjective Worth the pains or care bestowed.
• Painted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paint.
• Painting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paint.
• Paint Dictionary P - verb transitive To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.
• Painter Dictionary P - noun A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.
• Painterly Dictionary P - adjective Like a painter's work.
• Paintership Dictionary P - noun The state or position of being a painter.
• Paintless Dictionary P - adjective Not capable of being painted or described.
• Painture Dictionary P - verb transitive The art of painting.
• Painty Dictionary P - adjective Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
• Pair Dictionary P - noun A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs..
• Pairs Royal Dictionary P - pleural of Pair.
• Paired Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pair.
• Pairing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pair.
• Pairer Dictionary P - noun One who impairs.
• Pairment Dictionary P - noun Impairment.
• Pais Dictionary P - noun The country; the people of the neighborhood.
• Paisano Dictionary P - noun The chaparral cock.
• Paise Dictionary P - noun See Poise.
• Pajock Dictionary P - noun A peacock.
• Pakfong Dictionary P - noun See Packfong.
• Pal Dictionary P - noun A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate.
• Palace Dictionary P - noun The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.
• Palacious Dictionary P - adjective Palatial.
• Paladin Dictionary P - noun A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.
• Palaeo- Dictionary P - See Paleo-.
• Palaeographer Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palaeographic.
• Palaeographic Dictionary P - adjective See Paleographer, Paleographic, etc.
• Palaeotype Dictionary P - noun A system of representing all spoken sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
• Palaestra Dictionary P - noun See Palestra.
• Palaestric Dictionary P - adjective See Palestric.
• Palaetiologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in palaetiology.
• Palaetiology Dictionary P - noun The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth.
• Palamme Dictionary P - pleural of Palama.
• Palama Dictionary P - noun A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.
• Palamedeae Dictionary P - noun plural An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; - called also screamers. In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.
• Palampore Dictionary P - noun See Palempore.
• Palanka Dictionary P - noun A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.
• Palanquin Dictionary P - noun An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles, - used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a single person from place to place.
• Palapteryx Dictionary P - noun A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.
• Palatability Dictionary P - noun Palatableness.
• Palatable Dictionary P - adjective Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable food; palatable advice.
• Palatableness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.
• Palatably Dictionary P - adverb In a palatable manner.
• Palatal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.
• Palatalize Dictionary P - verb transitive To palatize.
• Palate Dictionary P - noun The roof of the mouth.
• Palatial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures.
• Palatic Dictionary P - adjective Palatal; palatine.
• Palatinate Dictionary P - noun The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine.
• Palatine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal privileges.
• Palative Dictionary P - adjective Pleasing to the taste; palatable.
• Palatize Dictionary P - verb transitive To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; as, to palatize a letter or sound.
• Palato- Dictionary P - A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.
• Palatonares Dictionary P - noun plural The posterior nares. See Nares.
• Palatopterygoid Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.
• Palaver Dictionary P - noun Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
• Palavered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palaver.
• Palavering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palaver.
• Palaverer Dictionary P - noun One who palavers; a flatterer.
• Pale Dictionary P - intransitive verb Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.
• Paled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pale.
• Paling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pale.
• Paleae Dictionary P - pleural of Palea.
• Palea Dictionary P - noun The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
• Paleaceous Dictionary P - adjective Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
• Palearctic Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
• Paleechinoidea Dictionary P - noun plural An extinct order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also Palaeechini.
• Paleface Dictionary P - noun A white person; - an appellation supposed to have been applied to the whites by the American Indians.
• Paleichthyes Dictionary P - noun plural A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.
• Palely Dictionary P - adjective In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
• Palempore Dictionary P - noun A superior kind of dimity made in India, - used for bed coverings.
• Paleness Dictionary P - noun The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
• Palenque Dictionary P - noun plural A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.
• Paleo- Dictionary P - A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography.
• Paleobotanist Dictionary P - noun One versed in paleobotany.
• Paleobotany Dictionary P - noun That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
• Paleocarida Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Merostomata.
• Paleocrinoidea Dictionary P - noun plural A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks.
• Paleocrystic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
• Paleogaean Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere.
• Paleograph Dictionary P - noun An ancient manuscript.
• Paleographer Dictionary P - noun One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.
• Paleographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paleographical.
• Paleographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paleography.
• Paleographist Dictionary P - noun One versed in paleography; a paleographer.
• Paleography Dictionary P - noun An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography.
• Paleolae Dictionary P - pleural of Paleola.
• Paleola Dictionary P - noun A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.
• Paleolith Dictionary P - noun A relic of the Paleolithic era.
• Paleolithic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to an era marked by early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.
• Paleologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.
• Paleology Dictionary P - noun The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archaeology.
• Paleontographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.
• Paleontography Dictionary P - noun The description of fossil remains.
• Paleontological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paleontology.
• Paleontologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in paleontology.
• Paleontology Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.
• Paleophytologist Dictionary P - noun A paleobotanist.
• Paleophytology Dictionary P - noun Paleobotany.
• Paleornithology Dictionary P - noun The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.
• Paleosaurus Dictionary P - noun A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.
• Paleotechnic Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art.
• Paleothere Dictionary P - noun Any species of Paleotherium.
• Paleotherian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.
• Paleotherium Dictionary P - noun An extinct genus of herbivorous Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long neck like that of a llama.
• Paleotheroid Dictionary P - Resembling Paleotherium.
• Paleotype Dictionary P - noun See Palaeotype.
• Paleous Dictionary P - adjective Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous.
• Paleozoic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to, or designating, the older division of geological time during which life is known to have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.
• Paleozoology Dictionary P - noun The Paleozoic time or strata.
• Paleozooogy Dictionary P - noun The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
• Palesie Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Palesy.
• Palesy Dictionary P - noun Palsy.
• Palestinian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palestinean.
• Palestinean Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Palestine.
• Palestrae Dictionary P - pleural of Palestra.
• Palestras Dictionary P - pleural of Palestra.
• Palestra Dictionary P - noun A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.
• Palestrian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palestrical.
• Palestric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palestrical.
• Palestrical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.
• Palet Dictionary P - noun Same as Palea.
• Paletot Dictionary P - noun An overcoat.
• Palette Dictionary P - noun A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
• Palewise Dictionary P - adverb In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise.
• Palfrey Dictionary P - noun A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
• Palfreyed Dictionary P - adjective Mounted on a palfrey.
• Palgrave Dictionary P - noun See Palsgrave.
• Pali Dictionary P - noun plural of Palus.
• Palification Dictionary P - noun The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make it firm.
• Paliform Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
• Palilogy Dictionary P - noun 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.".
• Palimpsest Dictionary P - noun A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second.
• Palindrome Dictionary P - noun A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
• Palindromic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palindromical.
• Palindromical Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
• Palindromist Dictionary P - noun A writer of palindromes.
• Palingenesia Dictionary P - noun See Palingenesis.
• Palingenesis Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Palingenesy.
• Palingenesy Dictionary P - noun A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued existence in different manner or form.
• Palingenetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process.
• Palinode Dictionary P - noun An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
• Palinodial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
• Palinody Dictionary P - noun See Palinode.
• Palinurus Dictionary P - noun An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass.
• Palisade Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Palisaded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palisade.
• Palisading Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palisade.
• Palisadoes Dictionary P - pleural of Palisado.
• Palisado Dictionary P - noun A palisade.
• Palish Dictionary P - adjective Somewhat pale or wan.
• Palissander Dictionary P - noun Violet wood.
• Palissy Dictionary P - adjective Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
• Palkee Dictionary P - noun A palanquin.
• Pall Dictionary P - noun Same as Pawl.
• Palled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pall.
• Palling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pall.
• Palla Dictionary P - noun An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
• Palladian Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.
• Palladic Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Palladious Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, palladium; - used specifically to designate those compounds in which palladium has a lower valence as compared with palladic compounds.
• Palladium Dictionary P - noun Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
• Palladiumized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paladiumize.
• Palladiumizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paladiumize.
• Paladiumize Dictionary P - verb transitive To cover or coat with palladium.
• Pallah Dictionary P - noun A large South African antelope (Aepyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also roodebok.
• Pallas Dictionary P - noun Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.
• Pallbearer Dictionary P - noun One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; - so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
• Pallet Dictionary P - noun A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
• Pallial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.
• Palliament Dictionary P - noun A dress; a robe.
• Palliard Dictionary P - noun A born beggar; a vagabond.
• Palliasse Dictionary P - noun See Paillasse.
• Palliate Dictionary P - adjective Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
• Palliated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palliate.
• Palliating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palliate.
• Palliation Dictionary P - noun The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
• Palliative Dictionary P - adjective Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
• Palliatory Dictionary P - adjective Palliative; extenuating.
• Pallid Dictionary P - adjective Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
• Pallidity Dictionary P - noun Pallidness; paleness.
• Pallidly Dictionary P - adverb In a pallid manner.
• Pallidness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
• Palliobranchiata Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Brachiopoda.
• Palliobranchiate Dictionary P - adjective Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.
• Pallia Dictionary P - pleural of Pallium.
• Palliums Dictionary P - pleural of Pallium.
• Pallium Dictionary P - noun A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.
• Pall-mall Dictionary P - noun A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall.
• Pallone Dictionary P - noun An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
• Pallor Dictionary P - adjective Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion.
• Palm Dictionary P - noun The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
• Palmed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palm.
• Palming Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palm.
• Palmaceous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
• Palma Christi Dictionary P - A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; - called also castor-oil plant.
• Palmacite Dictionary P - noun A fossil palm.
• Palmar Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.
• Palmaria Dictionary P - pleural of Palmarium.
• Palmarium Dictionary P - noun One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
• Palmary Dictionary P - adjective Palmar.
• Palmate Dictionary P - noun A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.
• Palmated Dictionary P - adjective Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
• Palmately Dictionary P - adverb In a palmate manner.
• Palmatifid Dictionary P - adjective Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
• Palmatilobed Dictionary P - adjective Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
• Palmatisect Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Palmatisected.
• Palmatisected Dictionary P - adjective Divided, as a palmate leaf, down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
• Palmcrist Dictionary P - noun The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.).
• Palmer Dictionary P - verb transitive One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
• Palmerworm Dictionary P - noun Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.
• Palmette Dictionary P - noun A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; - often called the honeysuckle ornament.
• Palmetto Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Palmic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); - formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
• Palmidactyles Dictionary P - noun plural A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
• Palmiferous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing palms.
• Palmigrade Dictionary P - adjective Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
• Palmin Dictionary P - noun A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
• Palmiped Dictionary P - adjective Web-footed, as a water fowl.
• Palmipedes Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Natatores.
• Palmister Dictionary P - noun One who practices palmistry.
• Palmistry Dictionary P - noun The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.
• Palmitate Dictionary P - noun A salt of palmitic acid.
• Palmite Dictionary P - noun A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
• Palmitic Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Palmitin Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Palmitolic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
• Palmitone Dictionary P - noun The ketone of palmitic acid.
• Palm Sunday Dictionary P - The Sunday next before Easter; - so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.
• Palmy Dictionary P - adjective Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
• Palmyra Dictionary P - noun A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
• Palola Dictionary P - noun An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
• Pallometa Dictionary P - noun A pompano.
• Palp Dictionary P - noun Same as Palpus.
• Palpability Dictionary P - noun The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
• Palpable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
• Palpation Dictionary P - noun Act of touching or feeling.
• Palpator Dictionary P - noun One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
• Palpebrae Dictionary P - pleural of Palpebra.
• Palpebra Dictionary P - noun The eyelid.
• Palpebral Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
• Palprbrate Dictionary P - adjective Having eyelids.
• Palped Dictionary P - adjective Having a palpus.
• Palpi Dictionary P - noun plural of Palpus. (Zool.) See Palpus.
• Palpicorn Dictionary P - noun One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennae, and long maxillary palpi.
• Palpifer Dictionary P - noun Same as Palpiger.
• Palpiform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a palpus.
• Palpiger Dictionary P - noun That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
• Palpigerous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing a palpus.
• Palpitant Dictionary P - adjective Palpitating; throbbing; trembling.
• Palpitated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palpitate.
• Palpitating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palpitate.
• Palpitate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To beat rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; - said specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from excitement.
• Palpitation Dictionary P - noun A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
• Palpless Dictionary P - adjective Without a palpus.
• Palpocil Dictionary P - noun A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
• Palpus Dictionary P - noun A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also palp. See Illust. of Arthrogastra and Orthoptera.
• Palsgrave Dictionary P - noun A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
• Palsgravine Dictionary P - noun The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
• Palsical Dictionary P - adjective Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic.
• Palsied Dictionary P - adjective Affected with palsy; paralyzed.
• Palstave Dictionary P - noun A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.
• Palster Dictionary P - noun A pilgrim's staff.
• Palsies Dictionary P - pleural of Palsy.
• Palsy Dictionary P - noun Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis.
• Palsying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palsy.
• Palsywort Dictionary P - noun The cowslip (Primula veris); - so called from its supposed remedial powers.
• Paltered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Palter.
• Paltering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Palter.
• Palter Dictionary P - intransitive verb To haggle.
• Palterer Dictionary P - noun One who palters.
• Palterly Dictionary P - adjective & adverb Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.
• Paltock Dictionary P - noun A kind of doublet; a jacket.
• Paltrily Dictionary P - adverb In a paltry manner.
• Paltriness Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being paltry.
• Paltry Dictionary P - superlative Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
• Paludal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.
• Paludament Dictionary P - noun See Paludamentum.
• Paladumenta Dictionary P - pleural of Paludamentum.
• Paludamentum Dictionary P - noun A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.
• Paludicolae Dictionary P - noun plural A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.
• Paludicole Dictionary P - adjective Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae.
• Paludinae Dictionary P - pleural of Paludina.
• Paludinas Dictionary P - pleural of Paludina.
• Paludina Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.
• Paludinal Dictionary P - adjective Inhabiting ponds or swamps.
• Paludine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a marsh.
• Paludinous Dictionary P - adjective Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.
• Paludism Dictionary P - noun The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.
• Paludose Dictionary P - adjective Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
• Palule Dictionary P - noun See Palulus or Palus.
• Paluli Dictionary P - pleural of Palulus.
• Palulus Dictionary P - noun Same as Palus.
• Palus Dictionary P - noun One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.
• Palustral Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.
• Palustrine Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.
• Paly Dictionary P - adjective Pale; wanting color; dim.
• Pam Dictionary P - noun The knave of clubs.
• Pament Dictionary P - noun A pavement.
• Pampano Dictionary P - noun Same as Pompano.
• Pampas Dictionary P - noun plural Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
• Pampered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pamper.
• Pampering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pamper.
• Pamper Dictionary P - verb transitive To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
• Pamperer Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pampers.
• Pamperize Dictionary P - verb transitive To pamper.
• Pampero Dictionary P - noun A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
• Pamperos Dictionary P - noun plural A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.
• Pamphlet Dictionary P - noun A writing; a book.
• Pamphleteer Dictionary P - noun A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
• Pampiniform Dictionary P - adjective In the form of tendrils; - applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
• Pampre Dictionary P - noun An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
• Pamprodactylous Dictionary P - adjective Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.
• Pan- Dictionary P - Alt. of Panto-.
• Panta- Dictionary P - Alt. of Panto-.
• Panto- Dictionary P - Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.
• Pan Dictionary P - noun A part; a portion.
• Panned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pan.
• Panning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pan.
• Panabase Dictionary P - noun Same as Tetrahedrite.
• Panacea Dictionary P - noun A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
• Panacean Dictionary P - adjective Having the properties of a panacea.
• Panache Dictionary P - noun A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
• Panada Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Panade.
• Panade Dictionary P - noun Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
• Panama hat Dictionary P - A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).
• Pan-American Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
• Pan-Anglican Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
• Panary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
• Pancake Dictionary P - noun A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
• Pancarte Dictionary P - noun A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
• Pance Dictionary P - noun The pansy.
• Panch Dictionary P - noun See Paunch.
• Panchway Dictionary P - noun A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.
• Pancratian Dictionary P - adjective Pancratic; athletic.
• Pancratiast Dictionary P - noun One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
• Pancratiastic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
• Pancratic Dictionary P - adjective Having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; - said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.
• Pancratical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
• Pancratist Dictionary P - noun An athlete; a gymnast.
• Pancratium Dictionary P - noun An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
• Pancreas Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pancreatic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
• Pancreatin Dictionary P - noun One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
• Pancy Dictionary P - noun See Pansy.
• Panda Dictionary P - noun A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.
• Pandanus Dictionary P - noun A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
• Pandar Dictionary P - noun Same as Pander.
• Pandarism Dictionary P - noun Same as Panderism.
• Pandarize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To pander.
• Pandarous Dictionary P - adjective Panderous.
• Pandean Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to the god Pan.
• Pandect Dictionary P - noun A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
• Pandemic Dictionary P - adjective Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.
• Pandemonium Dictionary P - noun The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
• Pander Dictionary P - noun A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
• Pandered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pander.
• Pandering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pander.
• Panderage Dictionary P - noun The act of pandering.
• Panderism Dictionary P - noun The employment, arts, or practices of a pander.
• Panderly Dictionary P - adjective Having the quality of a pander.
• Pandermite Dictionary P - noun A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.
• Panderous Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.
• Pandiculated Dictionary P - adjective Extended; spread out; stretched.
• Pandiculation Dictionary P - noun A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
• Pandit Dictionary P - noun See Pundit.
• Pandoor Dictionary P - noun Same as Pandour.
• Pandora Dictionary P - noun A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
• Pandore Dictionary P - noun An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
• Pandour Dictionary P - noun One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; - so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.
• Pandowdy Dictionary P - noun A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
• Pandurate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Panduriform.
• Panduriform Dictionary P - adjective Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.
• Pane Dictionary P - noun The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
• Paned Dictionary P - adjective Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash.
• Panegyric Dictionary P - adjective An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.
• Panegyrical Dictionary P - adjective Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.
• Panegyris Dictionary P - noun A festival; a public assembly.
• Panegyrist Dictionary P - noun One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.
• Panegyrized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Panegyrize.
• Panegyrizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Panegyrize.
• Panegyrize Dictionary P - verb transitive To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.
• Panegyry Dictionary P - noun A panegyric.
• Panel Dictionary P - noun A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
• Paneled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Panel.
• Panelled Dictionary P - of Panel.
• Paneling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Panel.
• Panelling Dictionary P - of Panel.
• Panelation Dictionary P - noun The act of impaneling a jury.
• Paneless Dictionary P - adjective Without panes.
• Panelwork Dictionary P - noun Wainscoting.
• Paneulogism Dictionary P - noun Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise.
• Panfuls Dictionary P - pleural of Panful.
• Panful Dictionary P - noun Enough to fill a pan.
• Pang Dictionary P - noun A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
• Pangenesis Dictionary P - noun An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.
• Pangenetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pangenesis.
• Pangful Dictionary P - adjective Full of pangs.
• Pangless Dictionary P - adjective Without a pang; painless.
• Pangolin Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pangothic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races.
• Panhellenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.
• Panhellenism Dictionary P - noun A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.
• Panhellenist Dictionary P - noun An advocate of Panhellenism.
• Panhellenium Dictionary P - noun An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.
• Panic Dictionary P - noun A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
• Panical Dictionary P - adjective See Panic, a.
• Panicle Dictionary P - noun A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.
• Panicled Dictionary P - adjective Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.
• Panic-stricken Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Panic-struck.
• Panic-struck Dictionary P - adjective Struck with a panic, or sudden fear.
• Paniculate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paniculated.
• Paniculated Dictionary P - adjective Same as Panicled.
• Panicum Dictionary P - noun A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.
• Panidiomorphic Dictionary P - adjective Having a completely idiomorphic structure; - said of certain rocks.
• Panier Dictionary P - noun See Pannier, 3.
• Panification Dictionary P - noun The act or process of making bread.
• Panim Dictionary P - noun See Painim.
• Panislamism Dictionary P - noun A desire or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world.
• Panivorous Dictionary P - adjective Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
• Pannade Dictionary P - noun The curvet of a horse.
• Pannage Dictionary P - noun The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; - called also pawns.
• Pannary Dictionary P - adjective See Panary.
• Pannel Dictionary P - noun A kind of rustic saddle.
• Pannier Dictionary P - noun A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass.
• Panniered Dictionary P - adjective Bearing panniers.
• Pannikel Dictionary P - noun The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest.
• Pannikin Dictionary P - noun A small pan or cup.
• Pannose Dictionary P - adjective Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.
• Pannus Dictionary P - noun A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.
• Panoistic Dictionary P - adjective Producing ova only; - said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.
• Panomphean Dictionary P - adjective Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining.
• Panoplied Dictionary P - adjective Dressed in panoply.
• Panoply Dictionary P - noun Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.
• Panopticon Dictionary P - noun A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
• Panorama Dictionary P - noun A complete view in every direction.
• Panoramic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Panoramical.
• Panoramical Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama.
• Panorpian Dictionary P - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the genus Panorpa.
• Panorpid Dictionary P - noun Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice.
• Panpharmacon Dictionary P - noun A medicine for all diseases; a panacea.
• Panpresbyterian Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.
• Pansclavic Dictionary P - Alt. of Pansclavonian.
• Pansclavism Dictionary P - Alt. of Pansclavonian.
• Pansclavist Dictionary P - Alt. of Pansclavonian.
• Pansclavonian Dictionary P - See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc.
• Panshon Dictionary P - noun An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, - used for holding milk and for various other purposes.
• Pansied Dictionary P - adjective Covered or adorned with pansies.
• Panslavic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to all the Slavic races.
• Panslavism Dictionary P - noun A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.
• Panslavist Dictionary P - noun One who favors Panslavism.
• Panslavonian Dictionary P - adjective See Panslavic.
• Pansophical Dictionary P - adjective All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.
• Pansophy Dictionary P - noun Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 - 1671), a Moravian educator.
• Panspermatist Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Panspermist.
• Panspermist Dictionary P - noun A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
• Panspermic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.
• Panspermy Dictionary P - noun The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.
• Panstereorama Dictionary P - noun A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.
• Pansies Dictionary P - pleural of Pansy.
• Pansy Dictionary P - noun A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
• Panted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pant.
• Panting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pant.
• Pant Dictionary P - intransitive verb To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
• Pantable Dictionary P - noun See Pantofle.
• Pantacosm Dictionary P - noun See Cosmolabe.
• Pantagraph Dictionary P - noun See Pantograph.
• Pantagruelism Dictionary P - noun The theory or practice of the medical profession; - used in burlesque or ridicule.
• Pantalet Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pantaloon Dictionary P - noun A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.
• Pantaloonery Dictionary P - noun The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery.
• Pantamorph Dictionary P - noun That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.
• Pantamorphic Dictionary P - adjective Taking all forms.
• Pantascope Dictionary P - noun A pantascopic camera.
• Pantascopic Dictionary P - adjective Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.
• Pantastomata Dictionary P - noun plural One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
• Pantechnicon Dictionary P - noun A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.
• Pantelegraph Dictionary P - noun See under Telegraph.
• Panter Dictionary P - noun One who pants.
• Panteutonic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races.
• Pantheism Dictionary P - noun The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.
• Pantheist Dictionary P - noun One who holds to pantheism.
• Pantheistic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pantheistical.
• Pantheistical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.
• Pantheologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in pantheology.
• Pantheology Dictionary P - noun A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology.
• Pantheon Dictionary P - noun A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
• Panther Dictionary P - noun A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoologists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.
• Pantheress Dictionary P - noun A female panther.
• Pantherine Dictionary P - adjective Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.
• Pantile Dictionary P - noun A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).
• Pantingly Dictionary P - adverb With palpitation or rapid breathing.
• Pantisocracy Dictionary P - noun A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.
• Pantisocrat Dictionary P - noun A pantisocratist.
• Pantisocratic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.
• Pantisocratist Dictionary P - noun One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.
• Pantler Dictionary P - noun The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry.
• Pantochronometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial.
• Pantofle Dictionary P - noun A slipper for the foot.
• Pantograph Dictionary P - noun An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
• Pantographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pantographical.
• Pantographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pantograph; relating to pantography.
• Pantography Dictionary P - noun A general description; entire view of an object.
• Pantological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pantology.
• Pantologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.
• Pantology Dictionary P - noun A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.
• Pantometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.
• Pantometry Dictionary P - noun Universal measurement.
• Pantomime Dictionary P - noun A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
• Pantomimic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pantomimical.
• Pantomimical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.
• Pantomimist Dictionary P - noun An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.
• Panton Dictionary P - noun A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
• Pantophagist Dictionary P - noun A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.
• Pantophagous Dictionary P - adjective Eating all kinds of food.
• Pantophagy Dictionary P - noun The habit or power of eating all kinds of food.
• Pantopoda Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Pycnogonida.
• Pantoscopic Dictionary P - adjective Literally, seeing everything; - a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.
• Pantries Dictionary P - pleural of Pantry.
• Pantry Dictionary P - noun An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.
• Panurgic Dictionary P - adjective Skilled in all kinds of work.
• Panurgy Dictionary P - noun Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft.
• Panyard Dictionary P - noun See Pannier.
• Panym Dictionary P - noun & adjective See Panim.
• Panzoism Dictionary P - noun A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.
• Paolo Dictionary P - noun An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.
• Pap Dictionary P - noun A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.
• Papa Dictionary P - noun A child's word for father.
• Papabote Dictionary P - noun The upland plover.
• Papacy Dictionary P - noun The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
• Papagay Dictionary P - noun See Popinjay, 1 (b).
• Papain Dictionary P - noun A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.
• Papal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.
• Papalist Dictionary P - noun A papist.
• Papality Dictionary P - noun The papacy.
• Papalize Dictionary P - verb transitive To make papal.
• Papally Dictionary P - adverb In a papal manner; popishly.
• Papalty Dictionary P - noun The papacy.
• Papaphobia Dictionary P - noun Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Paparchy Dictionary P - noun Government by a pope; papal rule.
• Papaver Dictionary P - noun A genus of plants, including the poppy.
• Papaveraceous Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples.
• Papaverine Dictionary P - noun An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.
• Papaverous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy.
• Papaw Dictionary P - noun A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.
• Papboat Dictionary P - noun A kind of sauce boat or dish.
• Pape Dictionary P - noun A spiritual father; specifically, the pope.
• Papejay Dictionary P - noun A popinjay.
• Paper Dictionary P - noun A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
• Papered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paper.
• Papering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paper.
• Paperweight Dictionary P - noun See under Paper, n.
• Papery Dictionary P - adjective Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper.
• Papescent Dictionary P - adjective Containing or producing pap; like pap.
• Papess Dictionary P - noun A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.
• Papeterie Dictionary P - noun A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.
• Paphian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus, or her rites.
• Papier-mache Dictionary P - noun A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixed with sise or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usually by means of molds.
• Papilio Dictionary P - noun A genus of butterflies.
• Papilionaceous Dictionary P - adjective Resembling the butterfly.
• Papiliones Dictionary P - noun plural The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.
• Papilionides Dictionary P - noun plural The typical butterflies.
• Papillae Dictionary P - pleural of Papilla.
• Papilla Dictionary P - noun Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.
• Papillar Dictionary P - adjective Same as Papillose.
• Papillary Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillae; bearing, or covered with, papillae; papillose.
• Papillate Dictionary P - verb transitive & intransitive To cover with papillae; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillae.
• Papilliform Dictionary P - adjective Shaped like a papilla; mammilliform.
• Papillomata Dictionary P - pleural of Papilloma.
• Papilloma Dictionary P - noun A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
• Papillomatous Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, papillomata.
• Papillose Dictionary P - adjective Covered with, or bearing, papillae; resembling papillae; papillate; papillar; papillary.
• Papillote Dictionary P - noun a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
• Papillous Dictionary P - adjective Papillary; papillose.
• Papillulate Dictionary P - adjective Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.
• Papion Dictionary P - noun A West African baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
• Papism Dictionary P - noun Popery; - an offensive term.
• Papist Dictionary P - noun A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; - an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.
• Papistic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Papistical.
• Papistical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; - used disparagingly.
• Papistry Dictionary P - noun The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.
• Papized Dictionary P - adjective Conformed to popery.
• Papoose Dictionary P - noun A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.
• Pappiform Dictionary P - adjective Resembling the pappus of composite plants.
• Pappoose Dictionary P - noun Same as Papoose.
• Pappose Dictionary P - adjective Furnished with a pappus; downy.
• Pappous Dictionary P - adjective Pappose.
• Pappus Dictionary P - noun The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
• Pappy Dictionary P - adjective Like pap; soft; succulent; tender.
• Papuan Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Papua.
• Papuars Dictionary P - noun plural The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the adjacent islands.
• Papulae Dictionary P - pleural of Papula.
• Papula Dictionary P - noun A pimple; a small, usually conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion, accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.
• Papular Dictionary P - adjective Covered with papules.
• Papules Dictionary P - pleural of Papule.
• Papule Dictionary P - noun Same as Papula.
• Papulose Dictionary P - adjective Having papulae; papillose; as, a papulose leaf.
• Papulous Dictionary P - adjective Covered with, or characterized by, papulae; papulose.
• Papyraceous Dictionary P - adjective Made of papyrus; of the consistency of paper; papery.
• Papyrean Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.
• Papyrine Dictionary P - noun Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.
• Papyrograph Dictionary P - noun An apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink, is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph, Hectograph, Manifold.
• Papyrography Dictionary P - noun The process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the papyrograph.
• Papyri Dictionary P - pleural of Papyrus.
• Papyrus Dictionary P - noun A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
• Paque Dictionary P - noun See Pasch and Easter.
• Par Dictionary P - noun See Parr.
• Para- Dictionary P - A prefix signifying alongside of, beside, beyond, against, amiss; as parable, literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is contrary to opinion; parachronism.
• Para Dictionary P - noun A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.
• Parabanic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); - also called oxalyl urea.
• Parablast Dictionary P - noun A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.
• Parablastic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.
• Parable Dictionary P - adjective Procurable.
• Parabolas Dictionary P - pleural of Parabola.
• Parabola Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Parabole Dictionary P - noun Similitude; comparison.
• Parabolic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parabolical.
• Parabolical Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.
• Parabolically Dictionary P - adverb By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.
• Paraboliform Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a parabola in form.
• Parabolism Dictionary P - noun The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
• Parabolist Dictionary P - noun A narrator of parables.
• Paraboloid Dictionary P - noun The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
• Paraboloidal Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.
• Parabronchia Dictionary P - pleural of Parabronchium.
• Parabronchium Dictionary P - noun One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.
• Paracelsian Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century.
• Paracelsist Dictionary P - noun A Paracelsian.
• Paracentesis Dictionary P - noun The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
• Paracentric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paracentrical.
• Paracentrical Dictionary P - adjective Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center.
• Parachordal Dictionary P - adjective Situated on either side of the notochord; - applied especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each side of the anterior part of the notochord.
• Parachronism Dictionary P - noun An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.
• Parachrose Dictionary P - adjective Changing color by exposure.
• Parachute Dictionary P - noun A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.
• Paraclete Dictionary P - noun An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; - a term applied to the Holy Spirit.
• Paraclose Dictionary P - noun See Parclose.
• Paracmastic Dictionary P - adjective Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.
• Paraconic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids.
• Paraconine Dictionary P - noun A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
• Paracorolla Dictionary P - noun A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.
• Paracrostic Dictionary P - noun A poetical composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the first letters of all the verses of the poem.
• Paracyanogen Dictionary P - noun A polymeric modification of cyanogen, obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating mercuric cyanide.
• Paracymene Dictionary P - noun Same as Cymene.
• Paradactyla Dictionary P - pleural of Paradactylum.
• Paradactylum Dictionary P - noun The side of a toe or finger.
• Parade Dictionary P - verb transitive The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
• Paraded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parade.
• Parading Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parade.
• Paradigm Dictionary P - noun An example; a model; a pattern.
• Paradigmatic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paradigmatical.
• Paradigmatical Dictionary P - adjective Exemplary.
• Paradigmatized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paradigmatize.
• Paradigmatizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paradigmatize.
• Paradigmatize Dictionary P - verb transitive To set forth as a model or example.
• Paradisaic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paradisaical.
• Paradisaical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal.
• Paradisal Dictionary P - adjective Paradisiacal.
• Paradise Dictionary P - noun The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
• Paradisean Dictionary P - adjective Paradisiacal.
• Paradised Dictionary P - adjective Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise.
• Paradisiac Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paradisiacal.
• Paradisiacal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise.
• Paradisial Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paradisian.
• Paradisian Dictionary P - adjective Paradisiacal.
• Paradisic Dictionary P - adjective Paradisiacal.
• Paradisical Dictionary P - adjective Paradisiacal.
• Paradoses Dictionary P - pleural of Parados.
• Parados Dictionary P - noun An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
• Paradoxes Dictionary P - pleural of Paradox.
• Paradox Dictionary P - noun A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
• Paradoxal Dictionary P - adjective Paradoxical.
• Paradoxical Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a paradox.
• Paradoxer Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paradoxist.
• Paradoxist Dictionary P - noun One who proposes a paradox.
• Paradoxides Dictionary P - noun A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
• Paradoxology Dictionary P - noun The use of paradoxes.
• Paradoxure Dictionary P - noun Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.
• Paradoxy Dictionary P - noun A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
• Paraffin Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paraffine.
• Paraffine Dictionary P - noun A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.
• Parage Dictionary P - noun Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance.
• Paragenesis Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.
• Paragenic Dictionary P - adjective Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first commencement of an individual; - said of peculiarities of structure, character, etc.
• Paraglobulin Dictionary P - noun An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin.
• Paraglossae Dictionary P - pleural of Paraglossa.
• Paraglossa Dictionary P - noun One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.
• Paragnath Dictionary P - noun Same as Paragnathus.
• Paragnathous Dictionary P - adjective Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.
• Paragnathi Dictionary P - pleural of Paragnathus.
• Paragnathus Dictionary P - noun One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.
• Paragoge Dictionary P - noun The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
• Paragogic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paragogical.
• Paragogical Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word.
• Paragon Dictionary P - noun A companion; a match; an equal.
• Paragonite Dictionary P - noun A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps.
• Paragram Dictionary P - noun A pun.
• Paragrammatist Dictionary P - noun A punster.
• Paragrandine Dictionary P - noun An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr/le.
• Paragraph Dictionary P - noun Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.
• Paragraphed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paragraph.
• Paragraphing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paragraph.
• Paragrapher Dictionary P - noun A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.
• Paragraphic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paragraphical.
• Paragraphical Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs.
• Paragraphist Dictionary P - noun A paragrapher.
• Paragraphistical Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to a paragraphist.
• Para grass Dictionary P - A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.
• Paragrele Dictionary P - noun A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms.
• Paraguayan Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Paraguay.
• Paraguay tea Dictionary P - See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly.
• Parail Dictionary P - noun See Apparel.
• Parakeet Dictionary P - noun Same as Parrakeet.
• Paralactic Dictionary P - adjective Designating an acid called paralactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
• Paralbumin Dictionary P - noun A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
• Paraldehyde Dictionary P - noun A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.
• Paraleipsis Dictionary P - noun A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, "I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice.".
• Paralepsis Dictionary P - noun See Paraleipsis.
• Paralian Dictionary P - noun A dweller by the sea.
• Paralipomenon Dictionary P - noun plural A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of Chronicles.
• Paralipsis Dictionary P - noun See Paraleipsis.
• Parallactic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parallactical.
• Parallactical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parallax.
• Parallax Dictionary P - noun The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.
• Parallel Dictionary P - adjective Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
• Paralleled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parallel.
• Paralleling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parallel.
• Parallelable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.
• Parallelism Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being parallel.
• Parallelistic Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
• Parallelize Dictionary P - verb transitive To render parallel.
• Parallelless Dictionary P - adjective Matchless.
• Parallelly Dictionary P - adverb In a parallel manner; with parallelism.
• Parallelogram Dictionary P - noun A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; - sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles.
• Parallelogrammatic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.
• Parallelogrammic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parallelogrammical.
• Parallelogrammical Dictionary P - adjective Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• Parallelopiped Dictionary P - noun A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
• Parallelopipedon Dictionary P - noun A parallelopiped.
• Paralogical Dictionary P - adjective Containing paralogism; illogical.
• Paralogism Dictionary P - noun A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulae; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
• Paralogized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paralogize.
• Paralogizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paralogize.
• Paralogize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To reason falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises.
• Paralogy Dictionary P - noun False reasoning; paralogism.
• Paralyse Dictionary P - verb transitive Same as Paralyze.
• Paralysis Dictionary P - noun Abolition of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively.
• Paralytic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.
• Paralytical Dictionary P - adjective See Paralytic.
• Paralyzation Dictionary P - noun The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.
• Paralyzed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paralyze.
• Paralyzing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paralyze.
• Paralyze Dictionary P - verb transitive To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy.
• Param Dictionary P - noun A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C2H4N4); - called also dicyandiamide.
• Paramagnetic Dictionary P - adjective Magnetic, as opposed to diamagnetic.
• Paramagnetism Dictionary P - noun Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism.
• Paramaleic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic acid, and now called fumaric acid.
• Paramalic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric with malic acid.
• Paramastoid Dictionary P - adjective Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the temporal bone; paroccipital; - applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
• Paramatta Dictionary P - noun A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino.
• Parament Dictionary P - noun Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; - chiefly in the plural.
• Paramento Dictionary P - noun Ornament; decoration.
• Paramere Dictionary P - noun One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
• Parameter Dictionary P - noun A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.
• Parametritis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the vicinity of the uterus.
• Paramiographer Dictionary P - noun A collector or writer of proverbs.
• Paramitome Dictionary P - noun The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.
• Paramos Dictionary P - pleural of Paramo.
• Paramo Dictionary P - noun A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.
• Paramorph Dictionary P - noun A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.
• Paramorphism Dictionary P - noun The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.
• Paramorphous Dictionary P - adjective Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.
• Paramount Dictionary P - adjective Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty.
• Paramountly Dictionary P - adverb In a paramount manner.
• Paramour Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Paramours Dictionary P - adverb By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; - sometimes written as two words.
• Paramylum Dictionary P - noun A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.
• Paranaphthalene Dictionary P - noun Anthracene; - called also paranaphthaline.
• Paranoia Dictionary P - noun Mental derangement; insanity.
• Paranthracene Dictionary P - noun An inert isomeric modification of anthracene.
• Paranucleus Dictionary P - noun Some as Nucleolus.
• Para nut Dictionary P - The Brazil nut.
• Paranymph Dictionary P - noun A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride.
• Paranymphal Dictionary P - adjective Bridal; nuptial.
• Parapectin Dictionary P - noun A gelatinous modification of pectin.
• Parapegm Dictionary P - noun An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.
• Parapeptone Dictionary P - noun An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
• Parapet Dictionary P - noun A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
• Parapetalous Dictionary P - adjective Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
• Parapeted Dictionary P - adjective Having a parapet.
• Paraph Dictionary P - noun A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.
• Paraphed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paraph.
• Paraphing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paraph.
• Parapherna Dictionary P - noun plural The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.
• Paraphernal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.
• Paraphernalia Dictionary P - noun plural Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.
• Paraphimosis Dictionary P - noun A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.
• Paraphosphoric Dictionary P - adjective Pyrophosphoric.
• Paraphragmata Dictionary P - pleural of Paraphagma.
• Paraphagma Dictionary P - noun One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.
• Paraphrase Dictionary P - noun A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; - opposed to metaphrase.
• Paraphrased Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paraphrase.
• Paraphrasing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paraphrase.
• Paraphraser Dictionary P - noun One who paraphrases.
• Paraphrasian Dictionary P - noun A paraphraser.
• Paraphrast Dictionary P - noun A paraphraser.
• Paraphrastic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paraphrastical.
• Paraphrastical Dictionary P - adjective Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free.
• Paraphyses Dictionary P - pleural of Paraphysis.
• Paraphysis Dictionary P - noun A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.
• Paraplegia Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paraplegy.
• Paraplegy Dictionary P - noun Palsy of the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by disease of the spinal cord.
• Parapleurae Dictionary P - pleural of Parapleura.
• Parapleura Dictionary P - noun A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
• Parapodia Dictionary P - pleural of Parapodium.
• Parapodium Dictionary P - noun One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; - called also foot tubercle.
• Parapophyses Dictionary P - pleural of Parapophysis.
• Parapophysis Dictionary P - noun The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.
• Paraptera Dictionary P - pleural of Parapterum.
• Parapterum Dictionary P - noun A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.
• Paraquet Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paraquito.
• Paraquito Dictionary P - noun See Parrakeet.
• Parasang Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Parascenia Dictionary P - pleural of Parascenium.
• Parascenium Dictionary P - noun One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.
• Parasceve Dictionary P - noun Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath.
• Paraschematic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
• Paraselenae Dictionary P - pleural of Paraselene.
• Paraselene Dictionary P - noun A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.
• Parasita Dictionary P - noun plural An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
• Parasital Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.
• Parasite Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Parasitic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parasitical.
• Parasitical Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
• Parasiticide Dictionary P - noun Anything used to destroy parasites.
• Parasitism Dictionary P - noun The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
• Parasol Dictionary P - noun A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.
• Parasolette Dictionary P - noun A small parasol.
• Parasphenoid Dictionary P - adjective Near the sphenoid bone; - applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals.
• Parastichy Dictionary P - noun A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
• Parasynaxis Dictionary P - noun An unlawful meeting.
• Parasynthetic Dictionary P - adjective Formed from a compound word.
• Paratactic Dictionary P - adjective Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.
• Parataxis Dictionary P - noun The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; - opposed to syntax.
• Paratheses Dictionary P - pleural of Parathesis.
• Parathesis Dictionary P - noun The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.
• Parathetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to parathesis.
• Paratonnerre Dictionary P - noun A conductor of lightning; a lightning rod.
• Paraunter Dictionary P - adverb Peradventure. See Paraventure.
• Parauque Dictionary P - noun A bird (Nyctidromus albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
• Paravail Dictionary P - adjective At the bottom; lowest.
• Paravant Dictionary P - adverb Alt. of Paravant.
• Paraventure Dictionary P - adverb Peradventure; perchance.
• Paraxanthin Dictionary P - noun A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
• Paraxial Dictionary P - adjective On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
• Paraxylene Dictionary P - noun A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.
• Parboiled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parboil.
• Parboiling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parboil.
• Parboil Dictionary P - verb transitive To boil or cook thoroughly.
• Parbreak Dictionary P - verb intransitive & transitive To throw out; to vomit.
• Parbuckle Dictionary P - noun A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.
• Parbuckled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parbuckle.
• Parbuckling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parbuckle.
• Parcae Dictionary P - noun plural The Fates. See Fate, 4.
• Parcase Dictionary P - adverb Perchance; by chance.
• Parcel Dictionary P - noun A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
• Parceled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parcel.
• Parcelled Dictionary P - of Parcel.
• Parceling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parcel.
• Parcelling Dictionary P - of Parcel.
• Parcel-mele Dictionary P - adverb By parcels or parts.
• Parcenary Dictionary P - noun The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.
• Parcener Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Parched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parch.
• Parching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parch.
• Parch Dictionary P - verb transitive To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.
• Parchedness Dictionary P - noun The state of being parched.
• Parchment Dictionary P - noun The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
• Parcity Dictionary P - noun Sparingless.
• Parclose Dictionary P - noun A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.
• Pard Dictionary P - noun A leopard; a panther.
• Pardale Dictionary P - noun A leopard.
• Parde Dictionary P - adverb noun interjection Alt. of Pardie.
• Pardie Dictionary P - adverb noun interjection Certainly; surely; truly; verily; - originally an oath.
• Pardine Dictionary P - adjective Spotted like a pard.
• Pardo Dictionary P - noun A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
• Pardon Dictionary P - verb transitive The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
• Pardoned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pardon.
• Pardoning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pardon.
• Pardonable Dictionary P - adjective Admitting of pardon; not requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; - applied to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable fault, or culprit.
• Pardonableness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin.
• Pardonably Dictionary P - adverb In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.
• Pardoner Dictionary P - noun One who pardons.
• Pared Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pare.
• Paring Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pare.
• Pare Dictionary P - verb transitive To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
• Paregoric Dictionary P - adjective Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
• Parelcon Dictionary P - noun The addition of a syllable or particle to the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
• Parelectronomic Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.
• Parelectronomy Dictionary P - noun A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.
• Parella Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parelle.
• Parelle Dictionary P - noun A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and R. Hydrolapathum).
• Parembole Dictionary P - noun A kind of parenthesis.
• Parement Dictionary P - noun See Parament.
• Paremptosis Dictionary P - noun Same as Parembole.
• Parenchyma Dictionary P - noun The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.
• Parenchymal Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.
• Parenchymatous Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parenchymous.
• Parenchymous Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.
• Parenesis Dictionary P - noun Exhortation.
• Parenetic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parenetioal.
• Parenetioal Dictionary P - adjective Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive.
• Parent Dictionary P - noun One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
• Parentage Dictionary P - noun Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
• Parental Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.
• Parentally Dictionary P - adverb In a parental manner.
• Parentation Dictionary P - noun Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies.
• Parentele Dictionary P - noun Kinship; parentage.
• Parentheses Dictionary P - pleural of Parenthesis.
• Parenthesis Dictionary P - noun A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
• Parenthesize Dictionary P - verb transitive To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.
• Parenthetic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parenthetical.
• Parenthetical Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.
• Parenthetically Dictionary P - adverb In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses.
• Parenthood Dictionary P - noun The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
• Parentticide Dictionary P - noun The act of one who kills one's own parent.
• Parentless Dictionary P - adjective Deprived of parents.
• Parepididymis Dictionary P - noun A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.
• Parer Dictionary P - verb transitive One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.
• Parergon Dictionary P - noun See Parergy.
• Parergy Dictionary P - noun Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
• Paresis Dictionary P - noun Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.
• Parethmoid Dictionary P - adjective Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; - applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.
• Paretic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.
• Parfay Dictionary P - interjection By my faith; verily.
• Parfit Dictionary P - adjective Perfect.
• Parfitly Dictionary P - adverb Perfectly.
• Parforn Dictionary P - verb transitive Alt. of Parfourn.
• Parfourn Dictionary P - verb transitive To perform.
• Pargasite Dictionary P - noun A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.
• Pargeboard Dictionary P - noun See Bargeboard.
• Pargeted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parget.
• Pargeting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parget.
• Parget Dictionary P - verb transitive To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
• Pargeter Dictionary P - noun A plasterer.
• Pargetory Dictionary P - noun Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster.
• Parhelic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to parhelia.
• Parhelia Dictionary P - pleural of Parhelion.
• Parhelion Dictionary P - noun A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.
• Parhelium Dictionary P - noun See Parhelion.
• Pari- Dictionary P - A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.
• Pariah Dictionary P - noun One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
• Parial Dictionary P - noun See Pair royal, under Pair, n.
• Parian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.
• Paridigitata Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Artiodactyla.
• Parjdigitate Dictionary P - adjective Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet.
• Parietes Dictionary P - pleural of Paries.
• Paries Dictionary P - noun The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.
• Parietal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
• Parietary Dictionary P - adjective See Parietal, 2.
• Parietic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.
• Parietine Dictionary P - noun A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
• Parieto- Dictionary P - 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.
• Parigenin Dictionary P - noun A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.
• Parillin Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Paripinnate Dictionary P - adjective Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
• Paris Dictionary P - noun A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
• Parish Dictionary P - noun That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
• Parishen Dictionary P - noun A parishioner.
• Parishional Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.
• Parishioner Dictionary P - noun One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
• Parisian Dictionary P - noun A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.
• Parisienne Dictionary P - noun A female native or resident of Paris.
• Parisology Dictionary P - noun The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.
• Parisyllabic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parisyllabical.
• Parisyllabical Dictionary P - adjective Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.
• Paritor Dictionary P - noun An apparitor.
• Paritory Dictionary P - noun Pellitory.
• Parity Dictionary P - noun The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as, parity of reasoning.
• Park Dictionary P - noun A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
• Parked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Park.
• Parking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Park.
• Parker Dictionary P - noun The keeper of a park.
• Parkeria Dictionary P - noun A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
• Parkesine Dictionary P - noun A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; - called also xylotile.
• Parkleaves Dictionary P - noun A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• Parlance Dictionary P - noun Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
• Parlando Dictionary P - adjective & adverb Alt. of Parlante.
• Parlante Dictionary P - adjective & adverb Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
• Parle Dictionary P - intransitive verb To talk; to converse; to parley.
• Parleys Dictionary P - pleural of Parley.
• Parley Dictionary P - noun Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
• Parleyed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parley.
• Parleying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parley.
• Parliament Dictionary P - noun A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
• Parliamental Dictionary P - adjective Parliamentary.
• Parliamentarian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Parliament.
• Parliamentarily Dictionary P - adverb In a parliamentary manner.
• Parliamentary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.
• Parlor Dictionary P - noun A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
• Parlous Dictionary P - adjective Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
• Parmesan Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.
• Parnassia Dictionary P - noun A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus.
• Parnassian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
• Parnassus Dictionary P - noun A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
• Paroccipital Dictionary P - adjective Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; - applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.
• Parochial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties.
• Parochialism Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
• Parochiality Dictionary P - noun The state of being parochial.
• Parochialize Dictionary P - verb transitive To render parochial; to form into parishes.
• Parochially Dictionary P - adverb In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.
• Parochian Dictionary P - adjective Parochial.
• Parodic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parodical.
• Parodical Dictionary P - adjective Having the character of parody.
• Parodist Dictionary P - noun One who writes a parody; one who parodies.
• Parodies Dictionary P - pleural of Parody.
• Parody Dictionary P - noun A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
• Parodied Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parody.
• Parodying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parody.
• Paroket Dictionary P - noun See Paroquet.
• Parol Dictionary P - noun A word; an oral utterance.
• Parole Dictionary P - noun A word; an oral utterance.
• Paroled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parole.
• Paroling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parole.
• Paromology Dictionary P - noun A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
• Paronomasia Dictionary P - noun A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning.
• Paronomastic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Paronomastical.
• Paronomastical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon words.
• Paronomasy Dictionary P - noun Paronomasia.
• Paronychia Dictionary P - noun A whitlow, or felon.
• Paronym Dictionary P - noun A paronymous word.
• Paronymous Dictionary P - adjective Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; - said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.
• Paronymy Dictionary P - noun The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
• Paroophoron Dictionary P - noun A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.
• Paroquet Dictionary P - noun Same as Parrakeet.
• Parorchis Dictionary P - noun The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian body.
• Parosteal Dictionary P - Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• Parostosis Dictionary P - noun Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.
• Parostotic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to parostosis.
• Parotic Dictionary P - adjective On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.
• Parotid Dictionary P - adjective Situated near the ear; - applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.
• Parotitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the parotid glands.
• Parotoid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling the parotid gland; - applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.
• Parousia Dictionary P - noun The nativity of our Lord.
• Parovarium Dictionary P - noun A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron.
• Paroxysm Dictionary P - noun The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.
• Paroxysmal Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.
• Paroxytone Dictionary P - adjective A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
• Parquet Dictionary P - noun A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.
• Parquetage Dictionary P - noun See Parquetry.
• Parqueted Dictionary P - adjective Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.
• Parquetry Dictionary P - noun A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, - used especially for floors.
• Parquette Dictionary P - noun See Parquet.
• Parr Dictionary P - noun A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse bands; - called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.
• Parrakeet Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parakeet.
• Parral Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parrel.
• Parrel Dictionary P - noun The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.
• Parraqua Dictionary P - noun A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.
• Parrhesia Dictionary P - noun Boldness or freedom of speech.
• Parricidal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.
• Parricide Dictionary P - noun Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.
• Parricidious Dictionary P - adjective Parricidal.
• Parrock Dictionary P - noun A croft, or small field; a paddock.
• Parrot Dictionary P - noun In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.
• Parroter Dictionary P - noun One who simply repeats what he has heard.
• Parrotry Dictionary P - noun Servile imitation or repetition.
• Parrot's-bill Dictionary P - noun The glory pea. See under Glory.
• Parried Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parry.
• Parrying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parry.
• Parry Dictionary P - verb transitive To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
• Parries Dictionary P - pleural of Parry.
• Parsed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Parse.
• Parsing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Parse.
• Parse Dictionary P - noun To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
• Parsee Dictionary P - noun One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber.
• Parseeism Dictionary P - noun The religion and customs of the Parsees.
• Parser Dictionary P - noun One who parses.
• Parsimonious Dictionary P - adjective Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.
• Parsimony Dictionary P - noun Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; - generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
• Parsley Dictionary P - noun An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.
• Parsnip Dictionary P - noun The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.
• Parson Dictionary P - noun A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls.
• Parsonage Dictionary P - noun A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
• Parsoned Dictionary P - adjective Furnished with a parson.
• Parsonic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parsonical.
• Parsonical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical.
• Parsonish Dictionary P - adjective Appropriate to, or like, a parson; - used in disparagement.
• Part Dictionary P - noun One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.
• Parted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Part.
• Parting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Part.
• Partable Dictionary P - adjective See Partible.
• Partage Dictionary P - noun Division; the act of dividing or sharing.
• Partook Dictionary P - imperative of Partake.
• Partaken Dictionary P - past participle of Partake.
• Partaking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Partake.
• Partake Dictionary P - intransitive verb To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others.
• Partaker Dictionary P - noun One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.
• Partan Dictionary P - noun An edible British crab.
• Parter Dictionary P - noun One who, or which, parts or separates.
• Parterre Dictionary P - noun An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
• Partheniad Dictionary P - noun A poem in honor of a virgin.
• Parthenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of unmarried women.
• Parthenogenesis Dictionary P - noun The production of new individuals from virgin females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the intervention of the male element; the production, without fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.
• Parthenogenetic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.
• Parthenogenitive Dictionary P - adjective Parthenogenetic.
• Parthenogeny Dictionary P - noun Same as Parthenogenesis.
• Parthenon Dictionary P - noun A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important influence on art.
• Partenope Dictionary P - noun One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.
• Parthian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.
• Partial Dictionary P - noun Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.
• Partialism Dictionary P - noun Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
• Partialist Dictionary P - noun One who is partial.
• Partiality Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
• Partialize Dictionary P - verb transitive & intransitive To make or be partial.
• Partially Dictionary P - adverb In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun partially eclipsed.
• Partibility Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.
• Partible Dictionary P - adjective Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible.
• Participable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being participated or shared.
• Participant Dictionary P - adjective Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
• Participantly Dictionary P - adverb In a participant manner.
• Participate Dictionary P - adjective Acting in common; participating.
• Participated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Participate.
• Participating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Participate.
• Participation Dictionary P - noun The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
• Participative Dictionary P - adjective Capable of participating.
• Participator Dictionary P - noun One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.
• Participial Dictionary P - adjective Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.
• Participialized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Participialize.
• Participializing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Participialize.
• Participialize Dictionary P - verb transitive To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
• Participially Dictionary P - adverb In the sense or manner of a participle.
• Participle Dictionary P - noun A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by toil he will sleep soundly, - written, being, and exhaustedare participles.
• Particle Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Particolored Dictionary P - adjective Same as Party-colored.
• Particular Dictionary P - adjective Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation.
• Particularism Dictionary P - noun A minute description; a detailed statement.
• Particularist Dictionary P - noun One who holds to particularism.
• Particularities Dictionary P - pleural of Particularity.
• Particularity Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.
• Particularization Dictionary P - noun The act of particularizing.
• Particularized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Particularize.
• Particularizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Particularize.
• Particularize Dictionary P - verb transitive To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
• Particularly Dictionary P - adverb In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.
• Particularment Dictionary P - noun A particular; a detail.
• Particulate Dictionary P - verb transitive & intransitive To particularize.
• Partisan Dictionary P - noun An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
• Partisanship Dictionary P - noun The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.
• Partita Dictionary P - noun A suite; a set of variations.
• Partite Dictionary P - adjective Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
• Partition Dictionary P - verb The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
• Partitioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Partition.
• Partitioning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Partition.
• Partitionment Dictionary P - noun The act of partitioning.
• Partitive Dictionary P - adjective Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.
• Partitively Dictionary P - adverb In a partitive manner.
• Partlet Dictionary P - noun A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.
• Partly Dictionary P - adverb In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.
• Partner Dictionary P - noun One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.
• Partnership Dictionary P - noun The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.
• Partridge Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.
• Parture Dictionary P - noun Departure.
• Parturiate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To bring forth young.
• Parturiency Dictionary P - noun Parturition.
• Parturient Dictionary P - adjective Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.
• Parturifacient Dictionary P - noun A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.
• Parturious Dictionary P - adjective Parturient.
• Parturition Dictionary P - noun The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
• Parturitive Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.
• Parties Dictionary P - pleural of Party.
• Party Dictionary P - verb A part or portion.
• Party-coated Dictionary P - adjective Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
• Party-colored Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Parti-colored.
• Parti-colored Dictionary P - adjective Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower.
• Partyism Dictionary P - noun Devotion to party.
• Parumbilical Dictionary P - adjective Near the umbilicus; - applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
• Parusia Dictionary P - noun A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events.
• Parvanimity Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind; pettiness; meanness; - opposed to magnanimity.
• Parvenu Dictionary P - noun An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
• Parvis Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parvise.
• Parvise Dictionary P - noun a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; - sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.
• Parvitude Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Parvity.
• Parvity Dictionary P - noun Littleness.
• Parvolin Dictionary P - noun A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.
• Parvoline Dictionary P - noun A liquid base, C/H/N, of the pyridine group, found in coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric substances of which it is the type.
• Pas Dictionary P - noun A pace; a step, as in a dance.
• Pasan Dictionary P - noun The gemsbok.
• Pasch Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pascha.
• Pascha Dictionary P - noun The passover; the feast of Easter.
• Paschal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs.
• Paseng Dictionary P - noun The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.
• Pash Dictionary P - verb transitive To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.
• Pasha Dictionary P - noun An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.
• Pashalic Dictionary P - noun The jurisdiction of a pasha.
• Pashaw Dictionary P - noun See Pasha.
• Pasigraphic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pasigraphical.
• Pasigraphical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.
• Pasigraphy Dictionary P - noun A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be understood and used by all nations.
• Pasilaly Dictionary P - noun A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal language.
• Pask Dictionary P - noun See Pasch.
• Paspy Dictionary P - noun A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; - called also passing measure, and passymeasure.
• Pasque Dictionary P - noun See Pasch.
• Pasquil Dictionary P - noun See Pasquin.
• Pasquilant Dictionary P - noun A lampooner; a pasquiler.
• Pasquiler Dictionary P - noun A lampooner.
• Pasquin Dictionary P - noun A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.
• Pasquinade Dictionary P - noun A lampoon or satirical writing.
• Passed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pass.
• Passing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pass.
• Pass Dictionary P - intransitive verb To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; - usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc.
• Passable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
• Passableness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being passable.
• Passably Dictionary P - adverb Tolerably; moderately.
• Passacaglia Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Passacaglio.
• Passacaglio Dictionary P - noun An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
• Passade Dictionary P - intransitive verb Alt. of Passado.
• Passado Dictionary P - intransitive verb A pass or thrust.
• Passage Dictionary P - intransitive verb The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
• Passager Dictionary P - noun A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.
• Passageway Dictionary P - noun A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
• Passant Dictionary P - intransitive verb Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
• Passe Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Passee.
• Passee Dictionary P - adjective Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passee belle.
• Passegarde Dictionary P - noun A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
• Passement Dictionary P - noun Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
• Passementerie Dictionary P - noun Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.
• Passenger Dictionary P - noun A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
• Passe partout Dictionary P - noun That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
• Passer Dictionary P - noun One who passes; a passenger.
• Passer-by Dictionary P - noun One who goes by; a passer.
• Passeres Dictionary P - noun plural An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.
• Passeriform Dictionary P - adjective Like or belonging to the Passeres.
• Passerine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Passeres.
• Passibility Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
• Passible Dictionary P - adjective Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
• Passibleness Dictionary P - noun Passibility.
• Passiflora Dictionary P - noun A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
• Passim Dictionary P - adverb Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
• Passingly Dictionary P - adverb Exceedingly.
• Passion Dictionary P - noun A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
• Passioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Passion.
• Passioning Dictionary P - particle pr & verb noun of Passion.
• Passional Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions.
• Passionary Dictionary P - noun A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
• Passionate Dictionary P - adjective Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature.
• Passionately Dictionary P - adverb In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
• Passionateness Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being passionate.
• Passionist Dictionary P - noun A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.
• Passionless Dictionary P - adjective Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
• Passiontide Dictionary P - noun The last fortnight of Lent.
• Passive Dictionary P - adjective Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
• Passively Dictionary P - adverb In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
• Passiveness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
• Passivity Dictionary P - noun Passiveness; - opposed to activity.
• Pass-key Dictionary P - noun A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
• Passless Dictionary P - adjective Having no pass; impassable.
• Passmen Dictionary P - pleural of Passman.
• Passman Dictionary P - noun One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
• Passover Dictionary P - noun A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.
• Pass-parole Dictionary P - noun An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.
• Passport Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Passus Dictionary P - pleural of Passus.
• Passuses Dictionary P - pleural of Passus.
• Password Dictionary P - noun A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
• Passymeasure Dictionary P - noun See Paspy.
• Past Dictionary P - verb Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.
• Paste Dictionary P - noun A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
• Pasted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paste.
• Pasting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paste.
• Pasteboard Dictionary P - noun A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.
• Pastel Dictionary P - noun A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
• Paster Dictionary P - noun One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.
• Pastern Dictionary P - noun The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.
• Pasteurism Dictionary P - noun A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
• Pasteurization Dictionary P - noun A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140 F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.
• Pasteurize Dictionary P - verb transitive To subject to pasteurization.
• Pasticcio Dictionary P - noun A medley; an olio.
• Pastil Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pastille.
• Pastille Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pastime Dictionary P - noun That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• Pastor Dictionary P - noun A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
• Pastorage Dictionary P - noun The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.
• Pastoral Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
• Pastorale Dictionary P - noun A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
• Pastorally Dictionary P - adverb In a pastoral or rural manner.
• Pastorate Dictionary P - noun The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
• Pastorless Dictionary P - adjective Having no pastor.
• Pastorling Dictionary P - noun An insignificant pastor.
• Pastorly Dictionary P - adjective Appropriate to a pastor.
• Pastorship Dictionary P - noun Pastorate.
• Pastries Dictionary P - pleural of Pastry.
• Pastry Dictionary P - noun The place where pastry is made.
• Pasturable Dictionary P - adjective Fit for pasture.
• Pasturage Dictionary P - noun Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
• Pasture Dictionary P - noun Food; nourishment.
• Pastured Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pasture.
• Pasturing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pasture.
• Pastureless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of pasture.
• Pasturer Dictionary P - noun One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
• Pasty Dictionary P - adjective Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
• Pasties Dictionary P - pleural of Pasty.
• Patted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pat.
• Patting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pat.
• Pat Dictionary P - verb transitive To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
• Pataca Dictionary P - noun The Spanish dollar; - called also patacoon.
• Patache Dictionary P - noun A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.
• Patacoon Dictionary P - noun See Pataca.
• Patagia Dictionary P - pleural of Patagium.
• Patagium Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Patagonian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Patagonia.
• Patamar Dictionary P - noun A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
• Patas Dictionary P - noun A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
• Patavinity Dictionary P - noun The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; - so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.
• Patch Dictionary P - noun A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
• Patched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Patch.
• Patching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Patch.
• Patcher Dictionary P - noun One who patches or botches.
• Patchery Dictionary P - noun Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
• Patchingly Dictionary P - adverb Knavishy; deceitfully.
• Patchouli Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Patchouly.
• Patchouly Dictionary P - noun A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
• Patchwork Dictionary P - noun Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.
• Patchy Dictionary P - adjective Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
• Pate Dictionary P - adjective See Patte.
• Pated Dictionary P - adjective Having a pate; - used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.
• Patee Dictionary P - noun See Pattee.
• Patefaction Dictionary P - noun The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
• Patela Dictionary P - noun A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; - called also puteli.
• Patellae Dictionary P - pleural of Patella.
• Patella Dictionary P - noun A small dish, pan, or vase.
• Patellar Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
• Patelliform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a patella.
• Patellulae Dictionary P - pleural of Patellula.
• Patellula Dictionary P - noun A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
• Paten Dictionary P - noun A plate.
• Patena Dictionary P - noun A paten.
• Patency Dictionary P - noun The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
• Patent Dictionary P - adjective Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
• Patented Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Patent.
• Patenting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Patent.
• Patentable Dictionary P - adjective Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
• Patentee Dictionary P - noun One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
• Patent-hammered Dictionary P - adjective Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
• Patently Dictionary P - adverb Openly; evidently.
• Paterae Dictionary P - pleural of Patera.
• Patera Dictionary P - noun A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
• Paterero Dictionary P - noun See Pederero.
• Pateresfamilias Dictionary P - pleural of Paterfamilias.
• Paterfamilias Dictionary P - noun The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
• Paternal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.
• Paternalism Dictionary P - noun The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.
• Paternally Dictionary P - adverb In a paternal manner.
• Paternity Dictionary P - noun The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
• Paternoster Dictionary P - noun The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
• Paths Dictionary P - pleural of Path.
• Path Dictionary P - noun A trodden way; a footway.
• Pathed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Path.
• Pathing Dictionary P - pr.particle & verb noun of Path.
• Pathematic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering.
• Pathetic Dictionary P - adjective Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
• Pathetical Dictionary P - adjective Pathetic.
• Pathetism Dictionary P - noun See Mesmerism.
• Pathfinder Dictionary P - noun One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
• Pathic Dictionary P - noun A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.
• Pathless Dictionary P - adjective Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
• Pathmaker Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
• Pathogene Dictionary P - noun One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; - opposed to zymogene.
• Pathogenesis Dictionary P - noun Pathogeny.
• Pathogenetic Dictionary P - adjective Pathogenic.
• Pathogenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
• Pathogeny Dictionary P - noun The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
• Pathognomonic Dictionary P - adjective Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
• Pathognomy Dictionary P - noun Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.
• Pathologic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pathological.
• Pathological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pathology.
• Pathologist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
• Pathologies Dictionary P - pleural of Pathology.
• Pathology Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
• -ias Dictionary P - pleural of Pathopoela.
• Pathopoela Dictionary P - noun A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
• Pathos Dictionary P - noun That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
• Pathway Dictionary P - noun A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.
• Patible Dictionary P - adjective Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.
• Patibulary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.
• Patibulated Dictionary P - adjective Hanged on a gallows.
• Patience Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
• Patient Dictionary P - adjective Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
• Patiently Dictionary P - adverb In a patient manner.
• Patin Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Patine.
• Patine Dictionary P - noun A plate. See Paten.
• Patina Dictionary P - noun A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
• Patio Dictionary P - noun A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
• Patly Dictionary P - adverb Fitly; seasonably.
• Patness Dictionary P - noun Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.
• Patois Dictionary P - noun A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
• Patonce Dictionary P - adjective Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; - said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.
• Patrial Dictionary P - adjective Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; - said of a noun.
• Patriarch Dictionary P - noun The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; - usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
• Patriarchal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
• Patriarchate Dictionary P - noun The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
• Patriarchdom Dictionary P - noun The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
• Patriarchic Dictionary P - adjective Patriarchal.
• Patriarchism Dictionary P - noun Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.
• Patriarchship Dictionary P - noun A patriarchate.
• Patriarchy Dictionary P - noun The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.
• Patrician Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
• Patricianism Dictionary P - noun The rank or character of patricians.
• Patriciate Dictionary P - noun The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.
• Patricidal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.
• Patricide Dictionary P - noun The murderer of his father.
• Patrimonial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.
• Patrimonially Dictionary P - adverb By inheritance.
• Patrimonies Dictionary P - pleural of Patrimony.
• Patrimony Dictionary P - noun A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
• Patriot Dictionary P - noun One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.
• Patriotic Dictionary P - adjective Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.
• Patriotical Dictionary P - adjective Patriotic; that pertains to a patriot.
• Patriotism Dictionary P - noun Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
• Patripassian Dictionary P - noun One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.
• Patrist Dictionary P - noun One versed in patristics.
• Patristic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Patristical.
• Patristical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.
• Patristics Dictionary P - noun That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.
• Patrizate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To imitate one's father.
• Patrocinate Dictionary P - verb transitive To support; to patronize.
• Patrocination Dictionary P - noun The act of patrocinating or patronizing.
• Patrociny Dictionary P - noun See Patrocination.
• Patrolled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Patrol.
• Patrolling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Patrol.
• Patrol Dictionary P - intransitive verb To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
• Patrole Dictionary P - noun & verb See Patrol, n. & v.
• Patrolmen Dictionary P - pleural of Patrolman.
• Patrolman Dictionary P - noun One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.
• Patron Dictionary P - noun One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
• Patronage Dictionary P - noun Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author.
• Patronal Dictionary P - adjective Patron; protecting; favoring.
• Patronate Dictionary P - noun The right or duty of a patron; patronage.
• Patroness Dictionary P - noun A female patron or helper.
• Patronization Dictionary P - noun The act of patronizing; patronage; support.
• Patronized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Patronize.
• Patronizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Patronize.
• Patronize Dictionary P - verb transitive To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.
• Patronizer Dictionary P - noun One who patronizes.
• Patronless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of a patron.
• Patronomayology Dictionary P - noun That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.
• Patronymic Dictionary P - adjective Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• Patronymical Dictionary P - adjective Same as Patronymic.
• Patroon Dictionary P - noun One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.
• Patroonship Dictionary P - noun The office of a patroon.
• Patte Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pattee.
• Pattee Dictionary P - adjective Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; - said of a cross. See Illust. -8 of Cross.
• Pattemar Dictionary P - noun See Patamar.
• Patten Dictionary P - noun A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.
• Pattened Dictionary P - adjective Wearing pattens.
• Pattered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Patter.
• Pattering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Patter.
• Patter Dictionary P - intransitive verb To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
• Patterer Dictionary P - noun One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.
• Pattern Dictionary P - noun Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
• Patterned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pattern.
• Patterning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pattern.
• Patties Dictionary P - pleural of Patty.
• Patty Dictionary P - noun A little pie.
• Pattypan Dictionary P - noun A pan for baking patties.
• Patulous Dictionary P - adjective Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.
• Pau Dictionary P - noun See Pah.
• Pauciloquent Dictionary P - adjective Uttering few words; brief in speech.
• Pauciloquy Dictionary P - noun Brevity in speech.
• Paucispiral Dictionary P - adjective Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.
• Paucity Dictionary P - noun Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.
• Paugies Dictionary P - pleural of Paugy.
• Paugie Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paugy.
• Paugy Dictionary P - noun The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.
• Pauhaugen Dictionary P - noun The menhaden; - called also poghaden.
• Paul Dictionary P - noun See Pawl.
• Pauldron Dictionary P - noun A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
• Paulian Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Paulianist.
• Paulianist Dictionary P - noun A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.
• Paulician Dictionary P - noun One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.
• Paulin Dictionary P - noun See Tarpaulin.
• Pauline Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.
• Paulist Dictionary P - noun A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.
• Paulownia Dictionary P - noun A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.
• Paum Dictionary P - verb transitive & intransitive To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.
• Paunce Dictionary P - noun The pansy.
• Paunch Dictionary P - noun The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.
• Paunched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paunch.
• Paunching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paunch.
• Paunchy Dictionary P - adjective Pot-bellied.
• Paune Dictionary P - noun A kind of bread. See Pone.
• Pauper Dictionary P - noun A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
• Pauperism Dictionary P - noun The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.
• Pauperization Dictionary P - noun The act or process of reducing to pauperism.
• Pauperized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pauperize.
• Pauperizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pauperize.
• Pauperize Dictionary P - verb transitive To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
• Pauropoda Dictionary P - noun plural An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.
• Pause Dictionary P - noun A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
• Paused Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pause.
• Pausing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pause.
• Pauser Dictionary P - noun One who pauses.
• Pausingly Dictionary P - adverb With pauses; haltingly.
• Pauxi Dictionary P - noun A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.
• Pavage Dictionary P - noun See Pavage.
• Pavan Dictionary P - noun A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; - so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
• Pave Dictionary P - noun The pavement.
• Paved Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pave.
• Paving Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pave.
• Pavement Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Paven Dictionary P - noun See Pavan.
• Paver Dictionary P - noun One who paves; one who lays a pavement.
• Pavesade Dictionary P - noun A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
• Pavese Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pavesse.
• Pavesse Dictionary P - noun Pavise.
• Paviage Dictionary P - noun A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.
• Pavian Dictionary P - noun See Pavan.
• Pavid Dictionary P - adjective Timid; fearful.
• Pavidity Dictionary P - noun Timidity.
• Pavier Dictionary P - noun A paver.
• Paviin Dictionary P - noun A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.
• Pavilion Dictionary P - noun A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts.
• Pavilioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pavilion.
• Pavilioning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pavilion.
• Pavin Dictionary P - noun See Pavan.
• Pavior Dictionary P - noun One who paves; a paver.
• Pavise Dictionary P - noun A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.
• Pavisor Dictionary P - noun A soldier who carried a pavise.
• Pavo Dictionary P - noun A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
• Pavon Dictionary P - noun A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.
• Pavone Dictionary P - noun A peacock.
• Pavonian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a peacock.
• Pavonine Dictionary P - adjective Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.
• Paw Dictionary P - noun The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
• Pawed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Paw.
• Pawing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Paw.
• Pawk Dictionary P - noun A small lobster.
• Pawky Dictionary P - adjective Arch; cunning; sly.
• Pawl Dictionary P - noun A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.
• Pawn Dictionary P - noun See Pan, the masticatory.
• Pawned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pawn.
• Pawning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pawn.
• Pawnable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being pawned.
• Pawnbroker Dictionary P - noun One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
• Pawnbroking Dictionary P - noun The business of a pawnbroker.
• Pawnee Dictionary P - noun One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.
• Pawnees Dictionary P - noun plural A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.
• Pawner Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pawnor.
• Pawnor Dictionary P - noun One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.
• Pawpaw Dictionary P - noun See Papaw.
• Pax Dictionary P - noun The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
• Paxillose Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a little stake.
• Paxilli Dictionary P - pleural of Paxillus.
• Paxillus Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Paxwax Dictionary P - noun The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.
• Paxywaxy Dictionary P - noun See Paxwax.
• Pay Dictionary P - verb transitive To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
• Paying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pay.
• Payable Dictionary P - adjective That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.
• Payee Dictionary P - noun The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.
• Payen Dictionary P - noun & adjective Pagan.
• Payer Dictionary P - noun One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
• Paymaster Dictionary P - noun One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.
• Payment Dictionary P - noun The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
• Payn Dictionary P - noun Bread. Having.
• Payndemain Dictionary P - noun The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; - called also paynemain, payman.
• Paynim Dictionary P - noun & adjective See Painim.
• Paynize Dictionary P - verb transitive To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
• Payor Dictionary P - noun See Payer.
• Payse Dictionary P - verb transitive To poise.
• Paytine Dictionary P - noun An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
• Pea Dictionary P - noun The sliding weight on a steelyard.
• Peas Dictionary P - pleural of Pea.
• Pease Dictionary P - pleural of Pea.
• Peabird Dictionary P - noun The wryneck; - so called from its note.
• Peabody bird Dictionary P - An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called also White-throated sparrow.
• Peace Dictionary P - verb A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose.
• Peaceable Dictionary P - adjective Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.
• Peacebreaker Dictionary P - noun One who disturbs the public peace.
• Peaceful Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Peaceless Dictionary P - adjective Without peace; disturbed.
• Peacemaker Dictionary P - noun One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.
• Peach Dictionary P - verb transitive To accuse of crime; to inform against.
• Peach-colored Dictionary P - adjective Of the color of a peach blossom.
• Peacher Dictionary P - noun One who peaches.
• Peachick Dictionary P - noun The chicken of the peacock.
• Peachy Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a peach or peaches.
• Peacock Dictionary P - noun The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
• Peafowl Dictionary P - noun The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.
• Peage Dictionary P - noun See Paage.
• Peagrit Dictionary P - noun A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.
• Peahen Dictionary P - noun The hen or female peafowl.
• Pea-jacket Dictionary P - noun A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.
• Peak Dictionary P - noun A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
• Peaked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peak.
• Peaking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peak.
• Peakish Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
• Peaky Dictionary P - adjective Having a peak or peaks.
• Peal Dictionary P - noun A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
• Pealed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peal.
• Pealing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peal.
• Pean Dictionary P - noun One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
• Peanism Dictionary P - noun The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.
• Peanut Dictionary P - noun The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
• Pear Dictionary P - noun The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
• Pearch Dictionary P - noun See Perch.
• Pearl Dictionary P - noun A fringe or border.
• Pearlaceous Dictionary P - adjective Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
• Pearlash Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pearl-eyed Dictionary P - adjective Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
• Pearlfish Dictionary P - noun Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
• Pearlins Dictionary P - noun plural Alt. of Pearlings.
• Pearlings Dictionary P - noun plural A kind of lace of silk or thread.
• Pearlite Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pearlstone.
• Pearlstone Dictionary P - noun A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
• Pearlwort Dictionary P - noun A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
• Pearly Dictionary P - adjective Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
• Pearmain Dictionary P - noun The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
• Pear-shaped Dictionary P - adjective Of the form of a pear.
• Peart Dictionary P - adjective Active; lively; brisk; smart; - often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
• Peasant Dictionary P - noun A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
• Peasantlike Dictionary P - adjective Rude; clownish; illiterate.
• Peasantly Dictionary P - adjective Peasantlike.
• Peasantry Dictionary P - noun Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
• Peascod Dictionary P - noun The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
• Peases Dictionary P - pleural of Pease.
• Peasen Dictionary P - pleural of Pease.
• Peastone Dictionary P - noun Pisolite.
• Peasweep Dictionary P - noun The pewit, or lapwing.
• Peat Dictionary P - noun A small person; a pet; - sometimes used contemptuously.
• Peaty Dictionary P - adjective Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
• Peba Dictionary P - noun An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; - called also tatouhou.
• Pebble Dictionary P - noun A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
• Pebbled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pebble.
• Pebbling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pebble.
• Pebblestone Dictionary P - A pebble; also, pebbles collectively.
• Pebbly Dictionary P - adjective Full of pebbles; pebbled.
• Pebrine Dictionary P - noun An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
• Pecan Dictionary P - noun A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
• Pecary Dictionary P - noun See Peccary.
• Peccability Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin.
• Peccable Dictionary P - adjective Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
• Peccadillos Dictionary P - pleural of Peccadillo.
• Peccadillo Dictionary P - noun A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.
• Peccancy Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being peccant.
• Peccant Dictionary P - adjective Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
• Peccantly Dictionary P - adverb In a peccant manner.
• Peccaries Dictionary P - pleural of Peccary.
• Peccary Dictionary P - noun A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.
• Peccavi Dictionary P - I have sinned; - used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.
• Pecco Dictionary P - noun See Pekoe.
• Peck Dictionary P - noun The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
• Pecked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peck.
• Pecking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peck.
• Pecker Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
• Peckish Dictionary P - adjective Inclined to eat; hungry.
• Peckled Dictionary P - adjective Speckled; spotted.
• Pecopteris Dictionary P - noun An extensive genus of fossil ferns; - so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
• Pecora Dictionary P - noun plural An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
• Pectate Dictionary P - noun A salt of pectic acid.
• Pecten Dictionary P - noun A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; - also called marsupium.
• Pectic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.
• Pectin Dictionary P - noun One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.
• Pectinal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
• Pectinate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pectinated.
• Pectinated Dictionary P - adjective Resembling the teeth of a comb.
• Pectinately Dictionary P - adverb In a pectinate manner.
• Pectination Dictionary P - noun The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.
• Pectineal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pecten.
• Pectinibranch Dictionary P - noun One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
• Pectinibranchiata Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.
• Pectinibranchiate Dictionary P - adjective Having pectinated gills.
• Pectiniform Dictionary P - adjective Comblike in form.
• Pectize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.
• Pectolite Dictionary P - noun A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.
• Pectoral Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
• Pectorally Dictionary P - adverb As connected with the breast.
• Pectoriloquial Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.
• Pectoriloquism Dictionary P - noun Pectoriloquy.
• Pectoriloquous Dictionary P - adjective Pectoriloquial.
• Pectoriloquy Dictionary P - noun The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.
• Pectose Dictionary P - noun An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.
• Pectosic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.
• Pectostraca Dictionary P - noun plural A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.
• Pectous Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.
• Pectora Dictionary P - pleural of Pectus.
• Pectus Dictionary P - noun The breast of a bird.
• Pecul Dictionary P - noun See Picul.
• Peculated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peculate.
• Peculating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peculate.
• Peculate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
• Peculation Dictionary P - noun The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
• Peculator Dictionary P - noun One who peculates.
• Peculiar Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Peculiarities Dictionary P - pleural of Peculiarity.
• Peculiarity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
• Pecularized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peculiarize.
• Pecularizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peculiarize.
• Peculiarize Dictionary P - verb transitive To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
• Peculiarly Dictionary P - adverb In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• Peculiarness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.
• Peculium Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pecunial Dictionary P - adjective Pecuniary.
• Pecuniarily Dictionary P - adverb In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.
• Pecuniary Dictionary P - adjective Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.
• Pecunious Dictionary P - adjective Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.
• Ped Dictionary P - noun A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
• Pedage Dictionary P - noun A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.
• Pedagog Dictionary P - noun Pedagogue.
• Pedagogic Dictionary P - adjective See Pedagogics.
• Pedagogical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.
• Pedagogics Dictionary P - noun The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.
• Pedagogism Dictionary P - noun The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues.
• Pedagogue Dictionary P - noun A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
• Pedagogy Dictionary P - noun Pedagogics; pedagogism.
• Pedal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
• Pedalian Dictionary P - adjective Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.
• Pedality Dictionary P - noun The act of measuring by paces.
• Pedaneous Dictionary P - adjective Going on foot; pedestrian.
• Pedant Dictionary P - noun A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
• Pedantic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pedantical.
• Pedantical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.
• Pedantically Dictionary P - adverb In a pedantic manner.
• Pedanticly Dictionary P - adverb Pedantically.
• Pedantism Dictionary P - noun The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
• Pedantize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
• Pedantocracy Dictionary P - noun The sway of pedants.
• Pedantry Dictionary P - noun The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
• Pedanty Dictionary P - noun An assembly or clique of pedants.
• Pedarian Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pedaries Dictionary P - pleural of Pedary.
• Pedary Dictionary P - noun A sandal.
• Pedata Dictionary P - noun plural An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.
• Pedate Dictionary P - adjective Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; - said of a leaf.
• Pedatifid Dictionary P - adjective Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; - said of a leaf.
• Peddle Dictionary P - intransitive verb To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
• Peddled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peddle.
• Peddling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peddle.
• Peddler Dictionary P - noun One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
• Peddlery Dictionary P - noun The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.
• Pederast Dictionary P - noun One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
• Pederastic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pederasty.
• Pederasty Dictionary P - noun The crime against nature; sodomy.
• Pederero Dictionary P - noun A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.
• Pedesis Dictionary P - noun Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.
• Pedestal Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pedestaled Dictionary P - adjective Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.
• Pedestrial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.
• Pedestrially Dictionary P - adverb In a pedestrial manner.
• Pedestrian Dictionary P - adjective Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
• Pedestrianism Dictionary P - noun The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
• Pedestrianized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pedestrianize.
• Pedestrianizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pedestrianize.
• Pedestrianize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To practice walking; to travel on foot.
• Pedestrious Dictionary P - adjective Going on foot; not winged.
• Pedetentous Dictionary P - adjective Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
• Pedi- Dictionary P - Alt. of Pedo-.
• Pedo- Dictionary P - Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.
• Pedial Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.
• Pedicel Dictionary P - noun A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
• Pediceled Dictionary P - adjective Pedicellate.
• Pedicellariae Dictionary P - pleural of Pedicellaria.
• Pedicellaria Dictionary P - noun A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Pedicellate Dictionary P - adjective Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
• Pedicellina Dictionary P - noun A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.
• Pedicle Dictionary P - noun Same as Pedicel.
• Pedicular Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
• Pediculate Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.
• Pediculati Dictionary P - noun plural An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.
• Pediculation Dictionary P - noun Phthiriasis.
• Pedicule Dictionary P - noun A pedicel.
• Pediculina Dictionary P - noun plural A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.
• Pediculous Dictionary P - adjective Pedicular.
• Pediculi Dictionary P - pleural of Pediculus.
• Pediculus Dictionary P - noun A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
• Pediform Dictionary P - adjective Shaped like a foot.
• Pedigerous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing or having feet or legs.
• Pedigree Dictionary P - noun A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
• Pediluvy Dictionary P - noun The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.
• Pedimana Dictionary P - noun plural A division of marsupials, including the opossums.
• Pedimane Dictionary P - noun A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.
• Pedimanous Dictionary P - adjective Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
• Pediment Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pedimental Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pediment.
• Pedipalp Dictionary P - noun One of the Pedipalpi.
• Pedipalpi Dictionary P - [[n plural A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.
• Pedipalpous Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.
• Pedipalpus Dictionary P - noun One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.
• Pedireme Dictionary P - noun A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.
• Pedlar Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pedler.
• Pedler Dictionary P - noun See Peddler.
• Pedobaptism Dictionary P - noun The baptism of infants or of small children.
• Pedobaptist Dictionary P - noun One who advocates or practices infant baptism.
• Pedomancy Dictionary P - noun Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
• Pedometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.
• Pedometric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pedometrical.
• Pedometrical Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.
• Pedomotive Dictionary P - adjective Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
• Pedotrophy Dictionary P - noun The art of nourishing children properly.
• Pedregal Dictionary P - noun A lava field.
• Peduncle Dictionary P - noun The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
• Peduncled Dictionary P - adjective Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.
• Peduncular Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
• Pedunculata Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.
• Pedunculate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pedunculated.
• Pedunculated Dictionary P - adjective Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
• Pee Dictionary P - noun See 1st Pea.
• Peece Dictionary P - noun & verb See Piece.
• Peechi Dictionary P - noun The dauw.
• Peek Dictionary P - intransitive verb To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
• Peekaboo Dictionary P - noun A child's game; bopeep.
• Peel Dictionary P - noun A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
• Peeled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peel.
• Peeling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peel.
• Peele Dictionary P - noun A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
• Peeler Dictionary P - noun One who peels or strips.
• Peelhouse Dictionary P - noun See 1st Peel.
• Peen Dictionary P - noun A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
• Peenge Dictionary P - intransitive verb To complain.
• Peeped Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peep.
• Peeping Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peep.
• Peep Dictionary P - intransitive verb To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
• Peeper Dictionary P - noun A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
• Peephole Dictionary P - noun A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
• Peeping hole Dictionary P - See Peephole.
• Peepul tree Dictionary P - A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree.
• Peered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peer.
• Peering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peer.
• Peer Dictionary P - intransitive verb To come in sight; to appear.
• Peerage Dictionary P - noun The rank or dignity of a peer.
• Peerdom Dictionary P - noun Peerage; also, a lordship.
• Peeress Dictionary P - noun The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
• Peerie Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Peery.
• Peery Dictionary P - adjective Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.
• Peerless Dictionary P - adjective Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.
• Peert Dictionary P - adjective Same as Peart.
• Peerweet Dictionary P - noun Same as Pewit (a & b).
• Peevish Dictionary P - adjective Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
• Peevishly Dictionary P - adverb In a peevish manner.
• Peevishness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
• Peevit Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Peewit.
• Peewit Dictionary P - noun See Pewit.
• Peg Dictionary P - noun A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
• Pegged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peg.
• Pegging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peg.
• Pegador Dictionary P - noun A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.
• Pegasean Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.
• Pegasoid Dictionary P - adjective Like or pertaining to Pegasus.
• Pegasus Dictionary P - noun A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
• Pegger Dictionary P - noun One who fastens with pegs.
• Pegm Dictionary P - noun A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.
• Pegmatite Dictionary P - noun Graphic granite. See under Granite.
• Pegmatitic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.
• Pegtatoid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.
• Pegomancy Dictionary P - noun Divination by fountains.
• Pegroots Dictionary P - noun Same as Setterwort.
• Pehlevi Dictionary P - noun An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings.
• Pein Dictionary P - noun See Peen.
• Peirameter Dictionary P - noun A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.
• Peirastic Dictionary P - adjective Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.
• Peise Dictionary P - noun A weight; a poise.
• Peitrel Dictionary P - noun See Peytrel.
• Pejorative Dictionary P - adjective Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.
• Pekan Dictionary P - noun See Fisher, 2.
• Pekoe Dictionary P - noun A kind of black tea.
• Pela Dictionary P - noun See Wax insect, under Wax.
• Pelage Dictionary P - noun The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.
• Pelagian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagian shells.
• Pelagianism Dictionary P - noun The doctrines of Pelagius.
• Pelagic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the ocean; - applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.
• Pelargonic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also nonoic acid) found in the leaves of the geranium (Pelargonium) and allied plants.
• Pelargonium Dictionary P - noun A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceae, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.
• Pelasgian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pelasgic.
• Pelasgic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.
• Pelecan Dictionary P - noun See Pelican.
• Pelecaniformes Dictionary P - noun plural Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi.
• Pelecoid Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pelecypoda Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Lamellibranchia.
• Pelegrine Dictionary P - adjective See Peregrine.
• Pelerine Dictionary P - noun A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.
• Pelf Dictionary P - noun Money; riches; lucre; gain; - generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.
• Pelfish Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pelf.
• Pelfray Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pelfry.
• Pelfry Dictionary P - noun Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash.
• Pelican Dictionary P - noun Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.
• Pelick Dictionary P - noun The American coot (Fulica).
• Pelicoid Dictionary P - noun See Pelecoid.
• Pelicosauria Dictionary P - noun plural A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation.
• Peliom Dictionary P - noun A variety of iolite, of a smoky blue color; pelioma.
• Pelioma Dictionary P - noun A livid ecchymosis.
• Pelisse Dictionary P - noun An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.
• Pell Dictionary P - verb transitive To pelt; to knock about.
• Pellack Dictionary P - noun A porpoise.
• Pellage Dictionary P - noun A customs duty on skins of leather.
• Pellagra Dictionary P - noun An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.
• Pellagrin Dictionary P - noun One who is afficted with pellagra.
• Pellet Dictionary P - noun A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.
• Pelleted Dictionary P - adjective Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets.
• Pellibranchiata Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.
• Pellicle Dictionary P - noun A thin skin or film.
• Pellicular Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pellicle.
• Pellile Dictionary P - noun The redshank; - so called from its note.
• Pellitory Dictionary P - noun The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; - also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.
• Pell-mell Dictionary P - noun See Pall-mall.
• Pellmell Dictionary P - adverb In utter confusion; with confused violence.
• Pellucid Dictionary P - adjective Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
• Pellucidity Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pellucidness.
• Pellucidness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air.
• Pellucidly Dictionary P - adverb In a pellucid manner.
• Pelmata Dictionary P - pleural of Pelma.
• Pelma Dictionary P - noun The under surface of the foot.
• Pelopium Dictionary P - noun A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.
• Peloponnesian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece.
• Peloria Dictionary P - noun Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.
• Peloric Dictionary P - adjective Abnormally regular or symmetrical.
• Pelotage Dictionary P - noun Packs or bales of Spanish wool.
• Pelt Dictionary P - noun The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
• Pelted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pelt.
• Pelting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pelt.
• Peltae Dictionary P - pleural of Pelta.
• Pelta Dictionary P - noun A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.
• Peltate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Peltated.
• Peltated Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Pelter Dictionary P - noun One who pelts.
• Peltiform Dictionary P - adjective Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate.
• Peltry Dictionary P - noun Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.
• Peltryware Dictionary P - noun Peltry.
• Peludo Dictionary P - noun The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).
• Pelusiac Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.
• Pelvic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.
• Pelvimeter Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the pelvis.
• Pelvis Dictionary P - noun The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.
• Pemmican Dictionary P - noun Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
• Pemphigus Dictionary P - noun A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.
• Pen Dictionary P - noun A feather.
• Penned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pen.
• Penning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pen.
• Pent Dictionary P - of Pen.
• Penal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence.
• Penality Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.
• Penalize Dictionary P - verb transitive To make penal.
• Penally Dictionary P - adverb In a penal manner.
• Penalties Dictionary P - pleural of Penalty.
• Penalty Dictionary P - noun Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
• Penance Dictionary P - noun Repentance.
• Penanced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Penance.
• Penanceless Dictionary P - adjective Free from penance.
• Penang nut Dictionary P - The betel nut.
• Penannular Dictionary P - adjective Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring.
• Penary Dictionary P - adjective Penal.
• Penates Dictionary P - noun plural The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
• Penaunt Dictionary P - noun A penitent.
• Pence Dictionary P - noun plural of Penny. See Penny.
• Pencel Dictionary P - noun A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; - called also pennoncel.
• Penchant Dictionary P - noun Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
• Penchute Dictionary P - noun See Penstock.
• Pencil Dictionary P - noun A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
• Penciled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pencil.
• Pencilled Dictionary P - of Pencil.
• Penciling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pencil.
• Pencilling Dictionary P - of Pencil.
• Pencillate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pencillated.
• Pencillated Dictionary P - adjective Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.
• Pencraft Dictionary P - noun Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.
• Pend Dictionary P - noun Oil cake; penock.
• Pended Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pend.
• Pending Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pend.
• Pendant Dictionary P - noun Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.
• Pendence Dictionary P - noun Slope; inclination.
• Pendency Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
• Pendent Dictionary P - adjective Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.
• Pendentive Dictionary P - noun The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.
• Pendently Dictionary P - adverb In a pendent manner.
• Pendice Dictionary P - noun A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse.
• Pendicle Dictionary P - noun An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant.
• Pendicler Dictionary P - noun An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft.
• Pendragon Dictionary P - noun A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; - a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.
• Pendular Dictionary P - adjective Pendulous.
• Pendulate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To swing as a pendulum.
• Pendule Dictionary P - noun A pendulum.
• Penduline Dictionary P - noun A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers.
• Pendulosity Dictionary P - noun The state or quality of being pendulous.
• Pendulous Dictionary P - adjective Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
• Pendulously Dictionary P - adverb In a pendulous manner.
• Pendulousness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.
• Pendulums Dictionary P - pleural of Pendulum.
• Pendulum Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Penelope Dictionary P - noun A genus of curassows, including the guans.
• Penetrability Dictionary P - noun The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
• Penetrable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively.
• Penetrail Dictionary P - noun Penetralia.
• Penetralia Dictionary P - noun plural The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.
• Penetrance Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Penetrancy.
• Penetrancy Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
• Penetrant Dictionary P - adjective Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold.
• Penetrated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Penetrate.
• Penetrating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Penetrate.
• Penetrate Dictionary P - verb transitive To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
• Penetratingly Dictionary P - adverb In a penetrating manner.
• Penetration Dictionary P - noun The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
• Penetrative Dictionary P - adjective Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun.
• Penetrativeness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being penetrative.
• Penfish Dictionary P - noun A squid.
• Penfold Dictionary P - noun See Pinfold.
• Pengolin Dictionary P - noun The pangolin.
• Penguin Dictionary P - noun Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.
• Penguinery Dictionary P - noun A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
• Penholder Dictionary P - noun A handle for a pen.
• Penhouse Dictionary P - noun A penthouse.
• Penible Dictionary P - adjective Painstaking; assidous.
• Penicil Dictionary P - noun A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
• Penicillate Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.
• Penicilliform Dictionary P - adjective Penicillate.
• Peninsula Dictionary P - noun A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
• Peninsular Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
• Peninsulated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peninsulate.
• Peninsulating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peninsulate.
• Peninsulate Dictionary P - verb transitive To form into a peninsula.
• Penis Dictionary P - noun The male member, or organ of generation.
• Penitence Dictionary P - noun The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.
• Penitencer Dictionary P - noun A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.
• Penitency Dictionary P - noun Penitence.
• Penitent Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Penitential Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears.
• Penitentially Dictionary P - adverb In a penitential manner.
• Penitentiary Dictionary P - adjective Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
• Penitentiaries Dictionary P - pleural of Penitentiary.
• Penitentiaryship Dictionary P - noun The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
• Penitently Dictionary P - adverb In a penitent manner.
• Penk Dictionary P - noun A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.
• Penknives Dictionary P - pleural of Penknife.
• Penknife Dictionary P - noun A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
• Penmen Dictionary P - pleural of Penman.
• Penman Dictionary P - noun One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.
• Penmanship Dictionary P - noun The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
• Pennae Dictionary P - pleural of Penna.
• Penna Dictionary P - noun A perfect, or normal, feather.
• Pennaceous Dictionary P - adjective Like or pertaining to a normal feather.
• Pennach Dictionary P - noun A bunch of feathers; a plume.
• Pennached Dictionary P - adjective Variegated; striped.
• Pennage Dictionary P - noun Feathery covering; plumage.
• Pennant Dictionary P - noun A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.
• Pennate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pennated.
• Pennated Dictionary P - adjective Winged; plume-shaped.
• Pennatulae Dictionary P - pleural of Pennatula.
• Pennatulas Dictionary P - pleural of Pennatula.
• Pennatula Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.
• Pennatulacea Dictionary P - noun plural A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.
• Penner Dictionary P - noun One who pens; a writer.
• Penniform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a feather or plume.
• Pennigerous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing feathers or quills.
• Penniless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.
• Penninerved Dictionary P - adjective Pinnately veined or nerved.
• Pennipotent Dictionary P - adjective Strong of wing; strong on the wing.
• Pennon Dictionary P - noun A wing; a pinion.
• Pennoncel Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pennoncelle.
• Pennoncelle Dictionary P - noun See Pencel.
• Penny Dictionary P - adjective Denoting pound weight for one thousand; - used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
• Pennies Dictionary P - pleural of Penny.
• Penny-a-liner Dictionary P - noun One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.
• Pennyroyal Dictionary P - noun An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor.
• Pennyweight Dictionary P - noun A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
• Pennywort Dictionary P - noun A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets.
• Pennyworth Dictionary P - noun A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
• Penock Dictionary P - noun See Pend.
• Penological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to penology.
• Penologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in, or a student of, penology.
• Penology Dictionary P - noun The science or art of punishment.
• Penrack Dictionary P - noun A rack for pens not in use.
• Pens Dictionary P - noun plural of Penny.
• Pensative Dictionary P - adjective Pensive.
• Pensel Dictionary P - noun A pencel.
• Pensible Dictionary P - adjective Held aloft.
• Pensile Dictionary P - adjective Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
• Pensileness Dictionary P - noun State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
• Pension Dictionary P - noun A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
• Pensioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pension.
• Pensioning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pension.
• Pensionary Dictionary P - adjective Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
• Pensionaries Dictionary P - pleural of Pensionary.
• Pensioner Dictionary P - noun One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.
• Pensive Dictionary P - adjective Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
• Pensived Dictionary P - adjective Made pensive.
• Pensively Dictionary P - adverb In a pensive manner.
• Pensiveness Dictionary P - noun The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.
• Penstock Dictionary P - noun A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
• Penta- Dictionary P - A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.
• Pentabasic Dictionary P - adjective Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; - said of certain acids.
• Pentacapsular Dictionary P - adjective Having five capsules.
• Pentachenium Dictionary P - noun A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.
• Pentachloride Dictionary P - noun A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.
• Pentachord Dictionary P - noun An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
• Pentacid Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Pentacle Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pentacoccous Dictionary P - adjective Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.
• Pentaconter Dictionary P - noun See Penteconter.
• Pentacrinin Dictionary P - noun A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.
• Pentacrinite Dictionary P - noun Any species of Pentacrinus.
• Pentacrinoid Dictionary P - noun An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus.
• Pentacrinus Dictionary P - noun A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.
• Pentacra Dictionary P - pleural of Pentacron.
• Pentacrons Dictionary P - pleural of Pentacron.
• Pentacron Dictionary P - noun A solid having five summits or angular points.
• Pentacrostic Dictionary P - noun A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times - the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.
• Pentad Dictionary P - noun Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.
• Pentadactyl Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pentadactyle.
• Pentadactyle Dictionary P - adjective Having five digits to the hand or foot.
• Pentadactyloid Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb.
• Pentadecane Dictionary P - noun A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; - so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.
• Pentadecatoic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or designating an acid related to it.
• Pentadecylic Dictionary P - adjective Same as Quindecylic.
• Pentadelphous Dictionary P - adjective Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden.
• Pentafid Dictionary P - adjective Divided or cleft into five parts.
• Pentaglot Dictionary P - noun A work in five different tongues.
• Pentagon Dictionary P - noun A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.
• Pentagonal Dictionary P - adjective Having five corners or angles.
• Pentagonally Dictionary P - adverb In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.
• Pentagonous Dictionary P - adjective Pentagonal.
• Pentagram Dictionary P - noun A pentacle or a pentalpha.
• Pentagraphic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pentagraphical.
• Pentagraphical Dictionary P - adjective Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• Pentagynia Dictionary P - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants, having five styles or pistils.
• Pentagynian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pentagynous.
• Pentagynous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.
• Pentahedral Dictionary P - adjective Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure.
• Pentahedrical Dictionary P - adjective Pentahedral.
• Pentahedron Dictionary P - noun A solid figure having five sides.
• Pentahedrous Dictionary P - adjective Pentahedral.
• Pentail Dictionary P - noun A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; - so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.
• Pentalpha Dictionary P - noun A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; - used as a symbol.
• Pentamera Dictionary P - noun plural An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.
• Pentameran Dictionary P - noun One of the Pentamera.
• Pentamerous Dictionary P - adjective Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.
• Pentamerus Dictionary P - noun A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian.
• Pentameter Dictionary P - noun A verse of five feet.
• Pentamethylene Dictionary P - noun A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; - so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.
• Pentandria Dictionary P - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having five separate stamens.
• Pentandrian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pentandrous.
• Pentandrous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens.
• Pentane Dictionary P - noun Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.
• Pentangle Dictionary P - noun A pentagon.
• Pentangular Dictionary P - adjective Having five corners or angles.
• Pentapetalous Dictionary P - adjective Having five petals, or flower leaves.
• Pentaphyllous Dictionary P - adjective Having five leaves or leaflets.
• Pentapody Dictionary P - noun A measure or series consisting of five feet.
• Pentaptote Dictionary P - noun A noun having five cases.
• Pentaptych Dictionary P - noun A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.
• Pentarchy Dictionary P - noun A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.
• Pentaspast Dictionary P - noun A purchase with five pulleys.
• Pentaspermous Dictionary P - adjective Containing five seeds.
• Pentastich Dictionary P - noun A composition consisting of five verses.
• Pentastichous Dictionary P - adjective Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.
• Pentastomida Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Linguatulina.
• Pentastyle Dictionary P - adjective Having five columns in front; - said of a temple or portico in classical architecture.
• Pentateuch Dictionary P - noun The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; - called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.
• Pentateuchal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.
• Pentathionic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; - so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.
• Pentathlon Dictionary P - noun A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
• Pentatomic Dictionary P - adjective Having five atoms in the molecule.
• Pentavalent Dictionary P - adjective Having a valence of five; - said of certain atoms and radicals.
• Penteconter Dictionary P - noun A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
• Pentecost Dictionary P - noun A solemn festival of the Jews; - so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); - hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.
• Pentecostal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.
• Pentecostals Dictionary P - noun plural Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.
• Pentecoster Dictionary P - noun An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
• Pentecosties Dictionary P - pleural of Pentecosty.
• Pentecosty Dictionary P - noun A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; - called also pentecostys.
• Pentelic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pentelican.
• Pentelican Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.
• Pentene Dictionary P - noun Same as Amylene.
• Penthouse Dictionary P - noun A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.
• Pentice Dictionary P - noun A penthouse.
• Pentile Dictionary P - noun See Pantile.
• Pentine Dictionary P - noun An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene.
• Pentoic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.
• Pentone Dictionary P - noun Same as Valylene.
• Pentoxide Dictionary P - noun An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.
• Pentremite Dictionary P - noun Any species of Pentremites.
• Pentremites Dictionary P - noun A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
• Pentroof Dictionary P - noun See Lean-to.
• Pentrough Dictionary P - noun A penstock.
• Pentyl Dictionary P - noun The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.
• Pentylic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol.
• Penuchle Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pinocle.
• Pinocle Dictionary P - noun A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
• Penult Dictionary P - noun The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.
• Penultima Dictionary P - noun Same as Penult.
• Penultimate Dictionary P - adjective Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.
• Penumbra Dictionary P - noun An incomplete or partial shadow.
• Penumbrala Dictionary P - Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.
• Penurious Dictionary P - adjective Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
• Penury Dictionary P - noun Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
• Penwiper Dictionary P - noun A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
• Penwomen Dictionary P - pleural of Penwoman.
• Penwoman Dictionary P - noun A female writer; an authoress.
• Peon Dictionary P - noun See Poon.
• Peonage Dictionary P - noun The condition of a peon.
• Peonism Dictionary P - noun Same as Peonage.
• Peonies Dictionary P - pleural of Peony.
• Peony Dictionary P - noun A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
• People Dictionary P - noun The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
• Peopled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of People.
• Peopling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of People.
• Peopleless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of people.
• Peopler Dictionary P - noun A settler; an inhabitant.
• Peoplish Dictionary P - adjective Vulgar.
• Peorias Dictionary P - noun plural An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
• Pepastic Dictionary P - adjective & noun Same as Maturative.
• Peperine Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Peperino.
• Peperino Dictionary P - noun A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.
• Peplis Dictionary P - noun A genus of plants including water purslane.
• Peplus Dictionary P - noun An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.
• Pepo Dictionary P - noun Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
• Pepper Dictionary P - noun A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
• Peppered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pepper.
• Peppering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pepper.
• Pepperbrand Dictionary P - noun See 1st Bunt.
• Peppercorn Dictionary P - noun A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).
• Pepper dulse Dictionary P - A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency.
• Pepperer Dictionary P - noun A grocer; - formerly so called because he sold pepper.
• Peppergrass Dictionary P - noun Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; - called also pepperwort. All the species have a pungent flavor.
• Pepperidge Dictionary P - noun A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) with very tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, - the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo.
• Peppermint Dictionary P - noun An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.
• Pepperwort Dictionary P - noun See Peppergrass.
• Peppery Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.
• Pepsin Dictionary P - noun An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.
• Pepsinhydrochloric Dictionary P - adjective Same as Peptohydrochloric.
• Pepsinogen Dictionary P - noun The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.
• Peptic Dictionary P - adjective Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
• Peptics Dictionary P - noun The science of digestion.
• Peptogen Dictionary P - noun A substance convertible into peptone.
• Peptogenic Dictionary P - adjective Same as Peptogenous.
• Peptogenous Dictionary P - adjective Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone.
• Peptohydrochloric Dictionary P - adjective Designating a hypothetical acid (called peptohydrochloric acid, pepsinhydrochloric acid, and chloropeptic acid) which is supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute (0.1-0.4 per cent) hydrochloric acid are mixed together.
• Peptone Dictionary P - noun The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
• Peptonize Dictionary P - verb transitive To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.
• Peptonoid Dictionary P - noun A substance related to peptone.
• Peptonuria Dictionary P - noun The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.
• Peptotoxine Dictionary P - noun A toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid.
• Pequots Dictionary P - noun plural A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut.
• Per- Dictionary P - A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much.
• Per Dictionary P - preposition Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
• Peract Dictionary P - verb transitive To go through with; to perform.
• Peracute Dictionary P - adjective Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.
• Peradventure Dictionary P - adverb & conjecture By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.
• Peraeopod Dictionary P - noun One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea.
• Peragrate Dictionary P - verb transitive To travel over or through.
• Peragration Dictionary P - noun The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution.
• Perambulated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perambulate.
• Perambulating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perambulate.
• Perambulate Dictionary P - verb transitive To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
• Perambulation Dictionary P - noun The act of perambulating; traversing.
• Perambulator Dictionary P - noun One who perambulates.
• Perameles Dictionary P - noun Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.
• Perbend Dictionary P - noun See Perpender.
• Perbreak Dictionary P - noun See Parbreak.
• Perbromate Dictionary P - noun A salt of perbromic acid.
• Perbromic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine.
• Perbromide Dictionary P - noun A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.
• Perca Dictionary P - noun A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.
• Percale Dictionary P - noun A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, - used for women's and children's wear.
• Percaline Dictionary P - noun A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.
• Percarbide Dictionary P - noun A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon.
• Percarburet Dictionary P - noun A percarbide.
• Percarbureted Dictionary P - adjective Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.
• Percase Dictionary P - adverb Perhaps; perchance.
• Perce Dictionary P - verb transitive To pierce.
• Perceivable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perceived; perceptible.
• Perceivance Dictionary P - noun Power of perceiving.
• Perceived Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perceive.
• Perceiving Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perceive.
• Perceive Dictionary P - verb transitive 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.
• Perceiver Dictionary P - noun One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb).
• Percely Dictionary P - noun Parsley.
• Percentage Dictionary P - noun A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
• Percept Dictionary P - noun That which is perceived.
• Perceptibility Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color.
• Perceptible Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.
• Perception Dictionary P - noun The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
• Perceptive Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.
• Perceptivity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.
• Percesoces Dictionary P - noun plural An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
• Perch Dictionary P - noun Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis).
• Perched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perch.
• Perching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perch.
• Perchance Dictionary P - adverb By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• Perchant Dictionary P - noun A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering.
• Percher Dictionary P - intransitive verb One who, or that which, perches.
• Percheron Dictionary P - noun One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; - called also Percheron-Norman.
• Perchlorate Dictionary P - noun A salt of perchloric acid.
• Perchloric Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; - called also hyperchloric.
• Perchloride Dictionary P - noun A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series.
• Perchromic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.
• Perciform Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the Perciformes.
• Perciformes Dictionary P - noun plural An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families.
• Percipience Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Percipiency.
• Percipiency Dictionary P - noun The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.
• Percipient Dictionary P - adjective Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being.
• Perclose Dictionary P - noun Same as Parclose.
• Percoid Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae.
• Percoidea Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Perciformes.
• Percolated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Percolate.
• Percolating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Percolate.
• Percolate Dictionary P - verb transitive To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
• Percolation Dictionary P - noun The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.
• Percolator Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, filters.
• Percomorphi Dictionary P - noun plural A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds.
• Perculaced Dictionary P - adjective Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.
• Percurrent Dictionary P - adjective Running through the entire length.
• Percursory Dictionary P - adjective Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.
• Percussed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Percuss.
• Percussing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Percuss.
• Percuss Dictionary P - verb transitive To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.
• Percussion Dictionary P - noun The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.
• Percussive Dictionary P - adjective Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.
• Percutient Dictionary P - adjective Striking; having the power of striking.
• Perdicine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges.
• Perdie Dictionary P - adverb See Parde.
• Perdifoil Dictionary P - noun A deciduous plant; - opposed to evergreen.
• Perdition Dictionary P - noun Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death.
• Perditionable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition.
• Perdix Dictionary P - noun A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.
• Perdu Dictionary P - adjective One placed on watch, or in ambush.
• Perdue Dictionary P - adjective Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.
• Perduellion Dictionary P - noun Treason.
• Perdulous Dictionary P - adjective Lost; thrown away.
• Perdurability Dictionary P - noun Durability; lastingness.
• Perdurable Dictionary P - noun Very durable; lasting; continuing long.
• Perdurance Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Perduration.
• Perduration Dictionary P - noun Long continuance.
• Perdure Dictionary P - intransitive verb To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.
• Perdy Dictionary P - adverb Truly. See Parde.
• Pere Dictionary P - noun A peer.
• Peregal Dictionary P - adjective Fully equal.
• Peregrinate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
• Peregrination Dictionary P - noun A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.
• Peregrinator Dictionary P - noun One who peregrinates; one who travels about.
• Peregrine Dictionary P - adjective Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.
• Peregrinity Dictionary P - noun Foreignness; strangeness.
• Perel Dictionary P - noun Apparel.
• Perempt Dictionary P - verb transitive To destroy; to defeat.
• Peremption Dictionary P - noun A quashing; a defeating.
• Peremptorily Dictionary P - adverb In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.
• Peremptoriness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.
• Peremptory Dictionary P - adjective Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.
• Perennial Dictionary P - adjective ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
• Perennially Dictionary P - adverb In a perennial manner.
• Perennibranchiata Dictionary P - noun plural Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.
• Perennibranchiate Dictionary P - adjective Having branchae, or gills, through life; - said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
• Perennity Dictionary P - noun The quality of being perennial.
• Pererration Dictionary P - noun A wandering, or rambling, through various places.
• Perfect Dictionary P - adjective Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.
• Perfected Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perfect.
• Perfecting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perfect.
• Perfecter Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, makes perfect.
• Perfectibilian Dictionary P - noun A perfectionist.
• Perfectibilist Dictionary P - noun A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.
• Perfectibility Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perfectible.
• Perfectible Dictionary P - adjective Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.
• Perfection Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.
• Perfectional Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection.
• Perfectionate Dictionary P - verb transitive To perfect.
• Perfectionism Dictionary P - noun The doctrine of the Perfectionists.
• Perfectionist Dictionary P - noun One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
• Perfectionment Dictionary P - noun The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of having attained to perfection.
• Perfective Dictionary P - adjective Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; - usually followed by of.
• Perfectively Dictionary P - adverb In a perfective manner.
• Perfectly Dictionary P - adverb In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
• Perfectness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.
• Perfervid Dictionary P - adjective Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.
• Perficient Dictionary P - adjective Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual.
• Perfidious Dictionary P - adjective Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend.
• Perfidiously Dictionary P - adverb In a perfidious manner.
• Perfidiousness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.
• Perfidies Dictionary P - pleural of Perfidy.
• Perfidy Dictionary P - noun The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
• Perfit Dictionary P - adjective Perfect.
• Perfix Dictionary P - verb transitive To fix surely; to appoint.
• Perflable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being blown through.
• Perflate Dictionary P - verb transitive To blow through.
• Perflation Dictionary P - noun The act of perflating.
• Perfoliate Dictionary P - adjective Having the basal part produced around the stem; - said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.
• Perforata Dictionary P - noun plural A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; - opposed to Aporosa.
• Perforated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perforate.
• Perforating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perforate.
• Perforate Dictionary P - verb To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.
• Perforation Dictionary P - noun The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
• Perforative Dictionary P - adjective Having power to perforate or pierce.
• Perforator Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a cephalotome.
• Perforce Dictionary P - adverb By force; of necessary; at any rate.
• Performed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perform.
• Performing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perform.
• Perform Dictionary P - verb transitive To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
• Performable Dictionary P - adjective Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
• Performance Dictionary P - noun The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
• Performer Dictionary P - noun One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
• Perfricate Dictionary P - verb transitive To rub over.
• Perfumatory Dictionary P - adjective Emitting perfume; perfuming.
• Perfumed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perfume.
• Perfuming Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perfume.
• Perfume Dictionary P - verb transitive To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
• Perfumer Dictionary P - noun One who, oe that which, perfumes.
• Perfumery Dictionary P - noun Perfumes, in general.
• Perfunctorily Dictionary P - adverb In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.
• Perfunctoriness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perfunctory.
• Perfunctory Dictionary P - adjective Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.
• Perfuncturate Dictionary P - verb transitive To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do negligently.
• Perfused Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perfuse.
• Perfusing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perfuse.
• Perfuse Dictionary P - verb transitive To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
• Perfusion Dictionary P - noun The act of perfusing.
• Perfusive Dictionary P - adjective Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
• Pergamenous Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pergamentaceous.
• Pergamentaceous Dictionary P - adjective Like parchment.
• Perhaps Dictionary P - adverb By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.
• Peri- Dictionary P - A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee, point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed; perispherical, quite spherical.
• Peris Dictionary P - pleural of Peri.
• Peri Dictionary P - noun An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
• Periagua Dictionary P - noun See Pirogue.
• Perianth Dictionary P - noun The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.
• Perianthium Dictionary P - noun The perianth.
• Periapt Dictionary P - noun A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
• Periastral Dictionary P - adjective Among or around the stars.
• Periastron Dictionary P - noun That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.
• Periauger Dictionary P - noun See Pirogue.
• Periblast Dictionary P - adjective The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast, or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.
• Periblem Dictionary P - noun Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.
• Peribolos Dictionary P - noun In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one surrounding a temple.
• Peribranchial Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial cavity.
• Pericambium Dictionary P - noun A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.
• Pericardiac Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pericardial.
• Pericardial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.
• Pericardian Dictionary P - adjective Pericardiac.
• Pericardic Dictionary P - adjective Pericardiac.
• Pericarditus Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the pericardium.
• Pericardium Dictionary P - noun The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.
• Pericarp Dictionary P - noun The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• Pericarpial Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pericarpic.
• Pericarpic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pericarp.
• Pericellular Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces surrounding ganglion cells.
• Perichaeth Dictionary P - noun The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perichaetium; perichete.
• Perichaetial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the perichaeth.
• Perichaetia Dictionary P - pleural of Perichaetium.
• Perichaetium Dictionary P - noun Same as Perichaeth.
• Perichaetous Dictionary P - adjective Surrounded by setae; - said of certain earthworms (genus Perichaetus).
• Perichete Dictionary P - noun Same as Perichaeth.
• Perichondrial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage.
• Perichondritis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the perichondrium.
• Perichondrium Dictionary P - noun The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.
• Perichordal Dictionary P - adjective Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal.
• Periclase Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Periclasite.
• Periclasite Dictionary P - noun A grayish or dark green mineral, consisting essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms or in isometric crystals.
• Periclinia Dictionary P - pleural of Periclinium.
• Periclinium Dictionary P - noun The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers.
• Periclitate Dictionary P - verb transitive To endanger.
• Periclitation Dictionary P - noun Trial; experiment.
• Pericope Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pericranial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pericranium.
• Pericranium Dictionary P - noun The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
• Periculous Dictionary P - adjective Dangerous; full of peril.
• Pericula Dictionary P - pleural of Periculum.
• Periculum Dictionary P - noun Danger; risk.
• Periderm Dictionary P - noun The outer layer of bark.
• Peridiastole Dictionary P - noun The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.
• Peridia Dictionary P - pleural of Peridium.
• Peridium Dictionary P - noun The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.
• Peridot Dictionary P - noun Chrysolite.
• Peridotite Dictionary P - noun An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.
• Peridrome Dictionary P - noun The space between the columns and the wall of the cella, in a Greek or a Roman temple.
• Periecians Dictionary P - noun plural See Perioecians.
• Perienteron Dictionary P - noun The primitive perivisceral cavity.
• Periergy Dictionary P - noun Excessive care or diligence.
• Periganglionic Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.
• Perigastric Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the stomach; - applied to the body cavity of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.
• Perigean Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the perigee.
• Perigee Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Perigeum.
• Perigeum Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Perigenesis Dictionary P - noun A theory which explains inheritance by the transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to another.
• Perigenetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to perigenesis.
• Perigone Dictionary P - noun Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.
• Perigonia Dictionary P - pleural of Perigonium.
• Perigonium Dictionary P - noun Same as Perigone.
• Perigord pie Dictionary P - A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.
• Perigraph Dictionary P - noun A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.
• Perigynia Dictionary P - pleural of Perigynium.
• Perigynium Dictionary P - noun Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae.
• Perigynous Dictionary P - adjective Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; - said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.
• Perihelia Dictionary P - pleural of Perihelium.
• Perihelion Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Perihelium.
• Perihelium Dictionary P - noun That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; - opposed to aphelion.
• Peril Dictionary P - noun Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
• Periled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peril.
• Perilled Dictionary P - of Peril.
• Periling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peril.
• Perilling Dictionary P - of Peril.
• Perilla Dictionary P - noun A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• Perilous Dictionary P - adjective Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.
• Perilymph Dictionary P - noun The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.
• Perilymphangial Dictionary P - adjective Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.
• Perilymphatic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph.
• Perimeter Dictionary P - noun The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.
• Perimetric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Perimetrical.
• Perimetrical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.
• Perimetry Dictionary P - noun The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.
• Perimorph Dictionary P - noun A crystal of one species inclosing one of another species. See Endomorph.
• Perimysial Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding a muscle or muscles.
• Perimysium Dictionary P - noun The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.
• Perinaeum Dictionary P - noun See Perineum.
• Perineal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the perineum.
• Perineoplasty Dictionary P - noun The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.
• Perineorrhaphy Dictionary P - noun The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
• Perinephritis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney.
• Perineum Dictionary P - noun The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.
• Perineurial Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium.
• Perineurium Dictionary P - noun The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.
• Perinuclear Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
• Period Dictionary P - noun A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
• Periodate Dictionary P - noun A salt of periodic acid.
• Periodic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.
• Periodical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
• Periodicalist Dictionary P - noun One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
• Periodically Dictionary P - adverb In a periodical manner.
• Periodicalness Dictionary P - noun Periodicity.
• Periodicities Dictionary P - pleural of Periodicity.
• Periodicity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.
• Periodide Dictionary P - noun An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
• Periodontal Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the teeth.
• Periodoscope Dictionary P - noun A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women.
• Perioeci Dictionary P - noun plural Alt. of Perioecians.
• Perioecians Dictionary P - noun plural Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.
• Periople Dictionary P - noun The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
• Perioplic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the periople; connected with the periople.
• Periosteal Dictionary P - adjective Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• Periosteum Dictionary P - noun The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.
• Periostitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the periosteum.
• Periostraca Dictionary P - pleural of Periostracum.
• Periostracum Dictionary P - noun A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; - called also epidermis.
• Periotic Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.
• Peripatecian Dictionary P - noun A peripatetic.
• Peripatetic Dictionary P - adjective Walking about; itinerant.
• Peripatetical Dictionary P - adjective Peripatetic.
• Peripateticism Dictionary P - noun The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2.
• Peripatus Dictionary P - noun A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
• Peripetalous Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.
• Peripheral Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.
• Peripheric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Peripherical.
• Peripherical Dictionary P - adjective See Peripheral.
• Peripheries Dictionary P - pleural of Periphery.
• Periphery Dictionary P - noun The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
• Periphrase Dictionary P - noun The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.
• Periphrased Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Periphrase.
• Periphrasing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Periphrase.
• Periphrases Dictionary P - pleural of Periphrasis.
• Periphrasis Dictionary P - noun See Periphrase.
• Periphrastic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Periphrastical.
• Periphrastical Dictionary P - adjective Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.
• Periphrastically Dictionary P - adverb With circumlocution.
• Periplast Dictionary P - noun Same as Periblast.
• Peripneumonia Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Peripneumony.
• Peripneumony Dictionary P - noun Pneumonia.
• Peripneumonic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.
• Periproct Dictionary P - noun The region surrounding the anus, particularly of echinoderms.
• Periproctitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.
• Peripteral Dictionary P - adjective Having columns on all sides; - said of an edifice. See Apteral.
• Peripterous Dictionary P - adjective Peripteral.
• Perisarc Dictionary P - noun The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.
• Periscian Dictionary P - adjective Having the shadow moving all around.
• Periscians Dictionary P - noun plural Alt. of Periscii.
• Periscii Dictionary P - noun plural Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass.
• Periscope Dictionary P - noun A general or comprehensive view.
• Periscopic Dictionary P - adjective Viewing all around, or on all sides.
• Perished Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perish.
• Perishing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perish.
• Perish Dictionary P - intransitive verb To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
• Perishability Dictionary P - noun Perishableness.
• Perishable Dictionary P - adjective Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
• Perishableness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perishable; liability to decay or destruction.
• Perishably Dictionary P - adverb In a perishable degree or manner.
• Perishment Dictionary P - noun The act of perishing.
• Perisomata Dictionary P - pleural of Perisoma.
• Perisoma Dictionary P - noun Same as Perisome.
• Perisome Dictionary P - noun The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.
• Perisperm Dictionary P - noun The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is formed outside of the embryo sac.
• Perispheric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Perispherical.
• Perispherical Dictionary P - adjective Exactly spherical; globular.
• Perispomena Dictionary P - pleural of Perispomenon.
• Perispomenon Dictionary P - noun A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable.
• Perispore Dictionary P - noun The outer covering of a spore.
• Perissad Dictionary P - adjective Odd; not even; - said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad.
• Perisse Dictionary P - intransitive verb To perish.
• Perissodactyl Dictionary P - noun One of the Perissodactyla.
• Perissodactyla Dictionary P - noun plural A division of ungulate mammals, including those that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros; - opposed to Artiodactyla.
• Perissological Dictionary P - adjective Redundant or excessive in words.
• Perissology Dictionary P - noun Superfluity of words.
• Peristalsis Dictionary P - noun Peristaltic contraction or action.
• Peristaltic Dictionary P - adjective Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement.
• Peristeria Dictionary P - noun A genus of orchidaceous plants. See Dove plant.
• Peristerion Dictionary P - noun The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).
• Peristerite Dictionary P - noun A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.
• Peristeromorphous Dictionary P - adjective Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columbae.
• Peristeropodous Dictionary P - adjective Having pigeonlike feet; - said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.
• Peristole Dictionary P - noun Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.
• Peristomata Dictionary P - pleural of Peristoma.
• Peristoma Dictionary P - noun Same as Peristome.
• Peristome Dictionary P - noun The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.
• Peristomial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a peristome.
• Peristomium Dictionary P - noun Same as Peristome.
• Peristrephic Dictionary P - adjective Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).
• Peristyle Dictionary P - noun A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.
• Perisystole Dictionary P - noun The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.
• Perite Dictionary P - adjective Skilled.
• Perithecium Dictionary P - noun An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.
• Peritomous Dictionary P - adjective Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.
• Peritonaeum Dictionary P - noun Same as Peritoneum.
• Peritoneal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.
• Peritoneum Dictionary P - noun The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac.
• Peritonitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the peritoneum.
• Peritracheal Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the tracheae.
• Peritreme Dictionary P - noun That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.
• Peritricha Dictionary P - noun plural A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.
• Peritrochium Dictionary P - noun The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.
• Peritropal Dictionary P - adjective Rotatory; circuitous.
• Peritropous Dictionary P - adjective Peritropal.
• Perityphlitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the connective tissue about the caecum.
• Periuterine Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the uterus.
• Perivascular Dictionary P - adjective Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.
• Perivertebral Dictionary P - adjective Surrounding the vertebrae.
• Perivisceral Dictionary P - adjective Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.
• Perivitelline Dictionary P - adjective Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.
• Periwig Dictionary P - noun A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.
• Perwigged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Periwig.
• Perwigging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Periwig.
• Periwinkle Dictionary P - noun Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.
• Perjenet Dictionary P - noun A kind of pear.
• Perjured Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perjure.
• Perjuring Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perjure.
• Perjure Dictionary P - verb transitive To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; - often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
• Perjurer Dictionary P - noun One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.
• Perjurious Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Perjurous.
• Perjurous Dictionary P - adjective Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.
• Perjuries Dictionary P - pleural of Perjury.
• Perjury Dictionary P - verb False swearing.
• Perked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perk.
• Perking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perk.
• Perk Dictionary P - verb transitive To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
• Perkin Dictionary P - noun A kind of weak perry.
• Perkinism Dictionary P - noun A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, - first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.
• Perky Dictionary P - adjective Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
• Perlaceous Dictionary P - adjective Pearly; resembling pearl.
• Perlid Dictionary P - noun Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See Stone fly, under Stone.
• Perlite Dictionary P - noun Same as Pearlite.
• Perlitic Dictionary P - adjective Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.
• Perlous Dictionary P - adjective Perilous.
• Perlustration Dictionary P - noun The act of viewing all over.
• Permanable Dictionary P - adjective Permanent; durable.
• Permanence Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Permanency.
• Permanency Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.
• Permanent Dictionary P - adjective Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
• Permanently Dictionary P - adverb In a permanent manner.
• Permanganate Dictionary P - noun A salt of permanganic acid.
• Permanganic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.
• Permansion Dictionary P - noun Continuance.
• Permeability Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being permeable.
• Permeable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; - used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.
• Permeably Dictionary P - adverb In a permeable manner.
• Permeant Dictionary P - adjective Passing through; permeating.
• Permeated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Permeate.
• Permeating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Permeate.
• Permeate Dictionary P - verb transitive 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.
• Permeation Dictionary P - noun The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
• Permian Dictionary P - adjective Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.
• Permians Dictionary P - noun plural A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.
• Permiscible Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being mixed.
• Permiss Dictionary P - noun A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.
• Permissibility Dictionary P - noun The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
• Permissible Dictionary P - adjective That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
• Permission Dictionary P - noun The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
• Permissive Dictionary P - adjective Permitting; granting leave or liberty.
• Permissively Dictionary P - adverb In a permissive manner.
• Permistion Dictionary P - noun The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture.
• Permitted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Permit.
• Permitting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Permit.
• Permit Dictionary P - verb transitive To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.
• Permittance Dictionary P - noun The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.
• Permittee Dictionary P - noun One to whom a permission or permit is given.
• Permitter Dictionary P - noun One who permits.
• Permix Dictionary P - verb transitive To mix; to mingle.
• Permixtion Dictionary P - noun See Permission.
• Permutable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being permuted; exchangeable.
• Permutation Dictionary P - noun The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.
• Permute Dictionary P - verb transitive To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
• Permuter Dictionary P - noun One who permutes.
• Pern Dictionary P - verb transitive To take profit of; to make profitable.
• Pernancy Dictionary P - noun A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
• Pernel Dictionary P - noun See Pimpernel.
• Pernicion Dictionary P - noun Destruction; perdition.
• Pernicious Dictionary P - adjective Quick; swift (to burn).
• Pernicity Dictionary P - noun Swiftness; celerity.
• Pernio Dictionary P - noun A chilblain.
• Pernoctalian Dictionary P - noun One who watches or keeps awake all night.
• Pernoctation Dictionary P - noun The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night.
• Pernor Dictionary P - verb One who receives the profits, as of an estate.
• Pernot furnace Dictionary P - A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, - used in making steel.
• Pernyi moth Dictionary P - A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.
• Perofskite Dictionary P - noun A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals.
• Perogue Dictionary P - noun See Pirogue.
• Peronate Dictionary P - adjective A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes powdery.
• Peroneal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.
• Perorate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To make a peroration; to harangue.
• Peroration Dictionary P - noun The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
• Peroxidation Dictionary P - noun Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide.
• Peroxide Dictionary P - noun An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.
• Peroxidized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peroxidize.
• Peroxidizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peroxidize.
• Peroxidize Dictionary P - verb transitive To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide.
• Perpend Dictionary P - verb transitive To weight carefully in the mind.
• Perpender Dictionary P - noun A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on both sides of it, and acting as a binder; - called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.
• Perpendicle Dictionary P - noun Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.
• Perpendicular Dictionary P - adjective Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
• Perpendicularity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perpendicular.
• Perpendicularly Dictionary P - adverb In a perpendicular manner; vertically.
• Perpend stone Dictionary P - See Perpender.
• Perpension Dictionary P - noun Careful consideration; pondering.
• Perpensity Dictionary P - noun Perpension.
• Perpent stone Dictionary P - See Perpender.
• Perpession Dictionary P - noun Suffering; endurance.
• Perpetrable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perpetrated.
• Perpetrated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perpetrate.
• Perpetrating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perpetrate.
• Perpetrate Dictionary P - verb transitive To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.
• Perpetration Dictionary P - noun The act of perpetrating; a doing; - commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
• Perpetrator Dictionary P - noun One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense or crime.
• Perpetuable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perpetuated or continued.
• Perpetual Dictionary P - adjective Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.
• Perpetually Dictionary P - adverb In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.
• Perpetualty Dictionary P - noun The state or condition of being perpetual.
• Perpetuance Dictionary P - noun Perpetuity.
• Perpetuated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perpetuate.
• Perpetuating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perpetuate.
• Perpetuate Dictionary P - verb transitive To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.
• Perpetuation Dictionary P - noun The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
• Perpetuity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws.
• Perplexed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perplex.
• Perplexing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perplex.
• Perplex Dictionary P - adjective To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
• Perplexities Dictionary P - pleural of Perplexity.
• Perplexity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
• Perplexiveness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex.
• Perplexly Dictionary P - adverb Perplexedly.
• Perpotation Dictionary P - noun The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout.
• Perquisite Dictionary P - noun Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.
• Perquisited Dictionary P - adjective Supplied with perquisites.
• Perquisition Dictionary P - noun A thorough inquiry of search.
• Perradial Dictionary P - adjective Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate.
• Perrie Dictionary P - noun Precious stones; jewels.
• Perrier Dictionary P - noun A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
• Perroquet Dictionary P - noun See Paroquet, Parakeet.
• Perruque Dictionary P - noun See Peruke.
• Perruquier Dictionary P - noun A marker of perukes or wigs.
• Perry Dictionary P - noun A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
• Pers Dictionary P - adjective Light blue; grayish blue; - a term applied to different shades at different periods.
• Persalt Dictionary P - noun A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.
• Persant Dictionary P - adjective Piercing.
• Perscrutation Dictionary P - noun A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.
• Persecot Dictionary P - noun See Persicot.
• Persecuted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Persecute.
• Persecuting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Persecute.
• Persecute Dictionary P - verb transitive To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.
• Persecution Dictionary P - noun The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship.
• Persecutor Dictionary P - noun One who persecutes, or harasses.
• Persecutrix Dictionary P - noun A woman who persecutes.
• Perseid Dictionary P - noun One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.
• Perseus Dictionary P - noun A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa.
• Persever Dictionary P - intransitive verb To persevere.
• Perseverance Dictionary P - noun The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
• Perseverant Dictionary P - adjective Persevering.
• Persevered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Persevere.
• Persevering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Persevere.
• Persevere Dictionary P - intransitive verb To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.
• Persian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
• Persic Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to Persia.
• Persicaria Dictionary P - noun See Lady's thumb.
• Persicot Dictionary P - noun A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit.
• Persiflage Dictionary P - noun Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.
• Persifleur Dictionary P - noun One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.
• Persimmon Dictionary P - noun An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious.
• Persis Dictionary P - noun A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.
• Persism Dictionary P - noun A Persian idiom.
• Persisted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Persist.
• Persisting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Persist.
• Persist Dictionary P - intransitive verb To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; - sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
• Persistence Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Persistency.
• Persistency Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.
• Persistent Dictionary P - adjective Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.
• Persistently Dictionary P - adverb In a persistent manner.
• Persistive Dictionary P - adjective See Persistent.
• Persolve Dictionary P - verb transitive To pay wholly, or fully.
• Person Dictionary P - noun A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
• Personae Dictionary P - pleural of Persona.
• Persona Dictionary P - noun Same as Person, n., 8.
• Personable Dictionary P - adjective Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
• Personage Dictionary P - noun Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.
• Personal Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
• Personalism Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being personal; personality.
• Personalities Dictionary P - pleural of Personality.
• Personality Dictionary P - noun That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality.
• Personalized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Personalize.
• Personalizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Personalize.
• Personalize Dictionary P - verb transitive To make personal.
• Personally Dictionary P - adverb In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally.
• Personalty Dictionary P - noun The state of being a person; personality.
• Personated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Personate.
• Personating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Personate.
• Personate Dictionary P - verb transitive To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
• Personation Dictionary P - noun The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
• Personator Dictionary P - noun One who personates.
• Personeity Dictionary P - noun Personality.
• Personification Dictionary P - noun The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
• Personifier Dictionary P - noun One who personifies.
• Personified Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Personify.
• Personifying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Personify.
• Personify Dictionary P - verb transitive To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.
• Personize Dictionary P - verb transitive To personify.
• Personnel Dictionary P - noun The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; - distinguished from materiel.
• Perspective Dictionary P - noun Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.
• Perspectively Dictionary P - adverb Optically; as through a glass.
• Perspectograph Dictionary P - noun An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.
• Perspectography Dictionary P - noun The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.
• Perspicable Dictionary P - adjective Discernible.
• Perspicacious Dictionary P - adjective Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
• Perspicacity Dictionary P - noun The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
• Perspicacy Dictionary P - noun Perspicacity.
• Perspicience Dictionary P - noun The act of looking sharply.
• Perspicil Dictionary P - noun An optical glass; a telescope.
• Perspicuity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
• Perspicuous Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.
• Perspirability Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perspirable.
• Perspirable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perspired.
• Perspiration Dictionary P - noun The act or process of perspiring.
• Perspirative Dictionary P - adjective Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.
• Perspiratory Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts.
• Perspired Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Perspire.
• Perspiring Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Perspire.
• Perspire Dictionary P - intransitive verb To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
• Perstreperous Dictionary P - adjective Noisy; obstreperous.
• Perstringe Dictionary P - verb transitive To touch; to graze; to glance on.
• Persuadable Dictionary P - adjective That may be persuaded.
• Persuaded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Persuade.
• Persuading Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Persuade.
• Persuade Dictionary P - verb transitive To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
• Persuader Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, persuades or influences.
• Persuasibility Dictionary P - noun Capability of being persuaded.
• Persuasible Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
• Persuasion Dictionary P - noun The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
• Persuasive Dictionary P - adjective Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.
• Persuasory Dictionary P - adjective Persuasive.
• Persulphate Dictionary P - noun A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.
• Persulphide Dictionary P - noun A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; - formerly called persulphuret.
• Persulphocyanate Dictionary P - noun A salt of persulphocyanic acid.
• Persulphocyanic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.
• Persulphocyanogen Dictionary P - noun An orange-yellow substance, produced by the action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of potassium; - called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and formerly sulphocyanogen.
• Persulphuret Dictionary P - noun A persulphide.
• Pert Dictionary P - adjective Open; evident; apert.
• Pertained Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pertain.
• Pertaining Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pertain.
• Pertain Dictionary P - intransitive verb To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.
• Perterebration Dictionary P - noun The act of boring through.
• Perthiocyanogen Dictionary P - noun Same as Persulphocyanogen.
• Perthite Dictionary P - noun A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.
• Pertinacious Dictionary P - adjective Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
• Pertinacity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy; perseverance; persistency.
• Pertinacy Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.
• Pertinate Dictionary P - adjective Pertinacious.
• Pertinately Dictionary P - adverb Pertinaciously.
• Pertinence Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pertinency.
• Pertinency Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness.
• Pertinent Dictionary P - adjective Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.
• Pertly Dictionary P - adverb In a pert manner.
• Pertness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pert.
• Pertransient Dictionary P - adjective Passing through or over.
• Perturb Dictionary P - verb transitive To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.
• Perturbability Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perturbable.
• Perturbable Dictionary P - adjective Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.
• Perturbance Dictionary P - noun Disturbance; perturbation.
• Perturbate Dictionary P - verb transitive To perturb.
• Perturbation Dictionary P - noun The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.
• Perturbational Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.
• Perturbative Dictionary P - adjective Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing.
• Perturbator Dictionary P - noun A perturber.
• Perturbed Dictionary P - adjective Agitated; disturbed; troubled.
• Perturber Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
• Pertusate Dictionary P - adjective Pierced at the apex.
• Pertuse Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pertused.
• Pertused Dictionary P - adjective Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.
• Pertusion Dictionary P - noun The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein.
• Pertussis Dictionary P - noun The whooping cough.
• Peruke Dictionary P - noun A wig; a periwig.
• Perulae Dictionary P - pleural of Perula.
• Perula Dictionary P - noun One of the scales of a leaf bud.
• Perule Dictionary P - noun Same as Perula.
• Perusal Dictionary P - noun The act of carefully viewing or examining.
• Perused Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peruse.
• Perusing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peruse.
• Peruse Dictionary P - verb transitive To observe; to examine with care.
• Peruser Dictionary P - noun One who peruses.
• Peruvian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.
• Pervaded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pervade.
• Pervading Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pervade.
• Pervade Dictionary P - verb transitive To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
• Pervasion Dictionary P - noun The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.
• Pervasive Dictionary P - adjective Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality.
• Perverse Dictionary P - adjective Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
• Perversed Dictionary P - adjective Turned aside.
• Perversedly Dictionary P - adverb Perversely.
• Perversely Dictionary P - adverb In a perverse manner.
• Perverseness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perverse.
• Perversion Dictionary P - noun The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use.
• Perversity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.
• Perversive Dictionary P - adjective Tending to pervert.
• Perverted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pervert.
• Perverting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pervert.
• Pervert Dictionary P - verb transitive To turnanother way; to divert.
• Perverter Dictionary P - noun One who perverts (a person or thing).
• Pervertible Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being perverted.
• Pervestigate Dictionary P - verb transitive To investigate thoroughly.
• Pervestigation Dictionary P - noun Thorough investigation.
• Pervial Dictionary P - adjective Pervious.
• Pervicacious Dictionary P - adjective Obstinate; willful; refractory.
• Pervicacity Dictionary P - noun Obstinacy; pervicaciousness.
• Pervicacy Dictionary P - noun Pervicacity.
• Pervigilation Dictionary P - noun Careful watching.
• Pervious Dictionary P - adjective Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
• Perviousness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass.
• Pervis Dictionary P - noun See Parvis.
• Pery Dictionary P - noun A pear tree. See Pirie.
• Pedes Dictionary P - pleural of Pes.
• Pes Dictionary P - noun The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.
• Pesade Dictionary P - noun The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.
• Pesage Dictionary P - noun A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.
• Pesane Dictionary P - noun See Pusane.
• Pesanted Dictionary P - adjective Made heavy or dull; debased.
• Peschito Dictionary P - noun See Peshito.
• Pese Dictionary P - noun A pea.
• Peseta Dictionary P - noun A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.
• Peshito Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Peshitto.
• Peshitto Dictionary P - noun The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament.
• Pesky Dictionary P - adjective Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
• Peso Dictionary P - noun A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
• Pessaries Dictionary P - pleural of Pessary.
• Pessary Dictionary P - noun An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.
• Pessimism Dictionary P - noun The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; - opposed to optimism.
• Pessimist Dictionary P - noun One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; - opposed to optimist.
• Pessimistic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.
• Pessimistical Dictionary P - adjective Pessimistic.
• Pessimize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism.
• Pessuli Dictionary P - pleural of Pessulus.
• Pessulus Dictionary P - noun A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
• Pest Dictionary P - noun A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
• Pestalozzian Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.
• Pestalozzianism Dictionary P - noun The system of education introduced by Pestalozzi.
• Pestered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pester.
• Pestering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pester.
• Pester Dictionary P - verb transitive To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
• Pesterer Dictionary P - noun One who pesters or harasses.
• Pesterment Dictionary P - noun The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.
• Pesterous Dictionary P - adjective Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome.
• Pestful Dictionary P - adjective Pestiferous.
• Pesthouse Dictionary P - noun A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
• Pestiduct Dictionary P - noun That which conveys contagion or infection.
• Pestiferous Dictionary P - adjective Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
• Pestiferously Dictionary P - adverb In a pestiferuos manner.
• Pestilence Dictionary P - noun Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
• Pestilent Dictionary P - adjective Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
• Pestilential Dictionary P - adjective Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
• Pestilentially Dictionary P - adverb Pestilently.
• Pestilentious Dictionary P - adjective Pestilential.
• Pestilently Dictionary P - adverb In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.
• Pestilentness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being pestilent.
• Pestilation Dictionary P - noun The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar.
• Pestle Dictionary P - noun An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
• Pestled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pestle.
• Pestling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pestle.
• Pet Dictionary P - noun A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
• Petted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pet.
• Petting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pet.
• Petal Dictionary P - noun One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
• Petaled Dictionary P - adjective Having petals; as, a petaled flower; - opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc.
• Petaliferous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing petals.
• Petaliform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
• Petaline Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
• Petalism Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Petalite Dictionary P - noun A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia.
• Petalody Dictionary P - noun The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.
• Petaloid Dictionary P - adjective Petaline.
• Petaloideous Dictionary P - adjective Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline.
• Petalosticha Dictionary P - noun plural An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.
• Petalous Dictionary P - adjective Having petals; petaled; - opposed to apetalous.
• Petala Dictionary P - pleural of Petalum.
• Petalum Dictionary P - noun A petal.
• Petar Dictionary P - noun See Petard.
• Petard Dictionary P - noun A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.
• Petardeer Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Petardier.
• Petardier Dictionary P - noun One who managed a petard.
• Petasus Dictionary P - noun The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.
• Petaurist Dictionary P - noun Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.
• Petechiae Dictionary P - noun plural Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.
• Petechial Dictionary P - adjective Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiae; spotted.
• Peter Dictionary P - noun A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,.
• Petered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Peter.
• Petering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Peter.
• Peterel Dictionary P - noun See Petrel.
• Peterero Dictionary P - noun See Pederero.
• Petermen Dictionary P - pleural of Peterman.
• Peterman Dictionary P - noun A fisherman; - so called after the apostle Peter.
• Petersham Dictionary P - noun A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.
• Peterwort Dictionary P - noun See Saint Peter's-wort, under Saint.
• Petiolar Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Petiolary.
• Petiolary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud.
• Petiolate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Petiolated.
• Petiolated Dictionary P - adjective Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.
• Petiole Dictionary P - noun A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
• Petioled Dictionary P - adjective Petiolate.
• Petiolulate Dictionary P - adjective Supported by its own petiolule.
• Petiolule Dictionary P - noun A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.
• Petit Dictionary P - adjective Small; little; insignificant; mean; - Same as Petty.
• Petition Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Petitioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Petition.
• Petitioning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Petition.
• Petitionarily Dictionary P - adverb By way of begging the question; by an assumption.
• Petitionary Dictionary P - adjective Supplicatory; making a petition.
• Petitionee Dictionary P - noun A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
• Petitioner Dictionary P - noun One who presents a petition.
• Petitor Dictionary P - noun One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.
• Petitory Dictionary P - adjective Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
• Petong Dictionary P - noun See Packfong.
• Petralogy Dictionary P - noun See Petrology.
• Petrary Dictionary P - noun An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
• Petrean Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to to rock.
• Petre Dictionary P - noun See Saltpeter.
• Petrel Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.
• Petrescence Dictionary P - noun The process of changing into stone; petrification.
• Petrescent Dictionary P - adjective Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
• Petrifaction Dictionary P - noun The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
• Petrifactive Dictionary P - adjective Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
• Petrific Dictionary P - adjective Petrifying; petrifactive.
• Petrificate Dictionary P - verb transitive To petrify.
• Petrification Dictionary P - noun See Petrifaction.
• Petrified Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Petrify.
• Petrifying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Petrify.
• Petrify Dictionary P - verb transitive To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
• Petrine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
• Petro- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
• Petrogale Dictionary P - noun Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata).
• Petroglyphic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.
• Petroglyphy Dictionary P - noun The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.
• Petrographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Petrographical.
• Petrographical Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to petrography.
• Petrography Dictionary P - noun The art of writing on stone.
• Petrohyoid Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.
• Petrol Dictionary P - noun Petroleum.
• Petrolatum Dictionary P - noun A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments.
• Petroleum Dictionary P - noun Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.
• Petroleur Dictionary P - noun f.]] Alt. of Petroleuse.
• Petroleuse Dictionary P - noun f.]] One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.
• Petroline Dictionary P - noun A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.
• Petrologic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Petrological.
• Petrological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to petrology.
• Petrologically Dictionary P - adverb According to petrology.
• Petrologist Dictionary P - noun One who is versed in petrology.
• Petrology Dictionary P - noun The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
• Petromastoid Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.
• Petromyzont Dictionary P - noun A lamprey.
• Petronel Dictionary P - noun A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.
• Petrosal Dictionary P - adjective Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.
• Petrosilex Dictionary P - noun Felsite.
• Petrosilicious Dictionary P - adjective Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex.
• Petrostearine Dictionary P - noun A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
• Petrous Dictionary P - adjective Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone.
• Pettichaps Dictionary P - noun See Pettychaps.
• Petticoat Dictionary P - noun A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.
• Pettifogged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pettifog.
• Pettifogging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pettifog.
• Pettifog Dictionary P - intransitive verb To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.
• Pettifogger Dictionary P - noun A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
• ies Dictionary P - pleural of Pettifoggery.
• Pettifoggery Dictionary P - noun The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
• Pettifogulize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
• Pettily Dictionary P - adverb In a petty manner; frivolously.
• Pettiness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
• Pettish Dictionary P - adjective Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
• Pettitoes Dictionary P - noun plural The toes or feet of a pig, - often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.
• Petto Dictionary P - noun The breast.
• Petty Dictionary P - superlative Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
• Pettychaps Dictionary P - noun Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
• Pettywhin Dictionary P - noun The needle furze. See under Needle.
• Petulance Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Petulancy.
• Petulancy Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
• Petulant Dictionary P - adjective Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
• Petulantly Dictionary P - adverb In a petulant manner.
• Petulcity Dictionary P - noun Wantonness; friskiness.
• Petulcous Dictionary P - adjective Wanton; frisky; lustful.
• Petunia Dictionary P - noun A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
• Petunse Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Petuntze.
• Petuntse Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Petuntze.
• Petuntze Dictionary P - noun Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.
• Petworth marble Dictionary P - A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; - called also Sussex marble.
• Petzite Dictionary P - noun A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
• Peucedanin Dictionary P - noun A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; - called also imperatorin.
• Peucil Dictionary P - noun A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.
• Pew Dictionary P - noun One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; - sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.
• Pewee Dictionary P - noun A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.
• Pewet Dictionary P - noun Same as Pewit.
• Pewfellow Dictionary P - noun One who occupies the same pew with another.
• Pewit Dictionary P - noun The lapwing.
• Pewter Dictionary P - noun A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
• Pewterer Dictionary P - noun One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.
• Pewtery Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.
• Pexity Dictionary P - noun Nap of cloth.
• Peyer's glands Dictionary P - Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; - called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
• Peytrel Dictionary P - noun The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. Spelt also peitrel. See Poitrel.
• Peziza Dictionary P - noun A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.
• Pezizoid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.
• Pfennigs Dictionary P - pleural of Pfennig.
• Pfennige Dictionary P - pleural of Pfennig.
• Pfennig Dictionary P - noun A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.
• Phacelli Dictionary P - pleural of Phacellus.
• Phacellus Dictionary P - noun One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
• Phacochere Dictionary P - noun The wart hog.
• Phacoid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
• Phacolite Dictionary P - noun A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.
• Phacops Dictionary P - noun A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.
• Phaeacian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.
• Phaenogam Dictionary P - noun Any plant of the class Phaenogamia.
• Phaenogamia Dictionary P - noun plural The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
• Phaenogamian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phaenogamic.
• Phaenogamic Dictionary P - adjective Same as Phaenogamous.
• Phaenogamous Dictionary P - adjective Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
• Phaenomenon Dictionary P - noun See Phenomenon.
• Phaeospore Dictionary P - noun A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.
• Phaethon Dictionary P - noun The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
• Phaeton Dictionary P - noun A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
• Phagedena Dictionary P - noun A canine appetite; bulimia.
• Phagedenic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of PhagedenicAL.
• PhagedenicAL Dictionary P - adjective Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.
• Phagedenous Dictionary P - adjective Phagedenic.
• Phagocyte Dictionary P - noun A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
• Phainopepla Dictionary P - noun A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.
• Phakoscope Dictionary P - noun An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.
• Phalaena Dictionary P - noun A linnaean genus which included the moths in general.
• Phalaenid Dictionary P - noun Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.
• Phalangeal Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phalangal.
• Phalangal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.
• Phalanger Dictionary P - noun Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.
• Phalanges Dictionary P - noun plural of Phalanx.
• Phalangial Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phalangian.
• Phalangian Dictionary P - adjective Phalangeal.
• Phalangides Dictionary P - pleural of Phalangid.
• Phalangid Dictionary P - noun One of the Phalangoidea.
• Phalangious Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.
• Phalangist Dictionary P - noun Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.
• Phalangister Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phalangistine.
• Phalangistine Dictionary P - noun Same as Phalangist.
• Phalangite Dictionary P - noun A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
• Phalangoidea Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen; and chelate jaws. They breathe by tracheae. Called also Phalangides, Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea.
• Phalanstere Dictionary P - noun A phalanstery.
• Phalansterian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phalansterianism.
• Phalansterism Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phalansterianism.
• Phalansterianism Dictionary P - noun A system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier; Fourierism.
• Phalanstery Dictionary P - noun An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.
• Phalanxes Dictionary P - pleural of Phalanx.
• Phalanx Dictionary P - noun A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.
• Phalarope Dictionary P - noun Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grallae), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.
• Phallic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.
• Phallicism Dictionary P - noun See Phallism.
• Phallism Dictionary P - noun The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.
• Phalli Dictionary P - pleural of Phallus.
• Phallus Dictionary P - noun The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.
• Phane Dictionary P - noun See Fane.
• Phanerite Dictionary P - adjective Evident; visible.
• Phanerocarpae Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Acraspeda.
• Phanerocodonic Dictionary P - adjective Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; - said of certain jellyfishes.
• Phanerocrystalline Dictionary P - adjective Distinctly crystalline; - used of rocks. Opposed to cryptocrystalline.
• Phanerodactyla Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Saururae.
• Phanerogamia Dictionary P - noun plural That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.
• Phanerogamian Dictionary P - adjective Phanerogamous.
• Phanerogamic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phanerogamous.
• Phanerogamous Dictionary P - adjective Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; - said of plants.
• Phaneroglossal Dictionary P - adjective Having a conspicious tongue; - said of certain reptiles and insects.
• Phantascope Dictionary P - noun An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; - called also phantasmascope.
• Phantasm Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Phantasma Dictionary P - noun A phantasm.
• Phantasmagoria Dictionary P - noun An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another.
• Phantasmagorial Dictionary P - adjective Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.
• Phantasmagoric Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial.
• Phantasmagory Dictionary P - noun See Phantasmagoria.
• Phantasmal Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
• Phantasmascope Dictionary P - noun See Phantascope.
• Phantasmatical Dictionary P - adjective Phantasmal.
• Phantasmatography Dictionary P - noun A description of celestial phenomena, as rainbows, etc.
• Phantastic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phantastical.
• Phantastical Dictionary P - adjective See Fantastic.
• Phantasy Dictionary P - noun See Fantasy, and Fancy.
• Phantom Dictionary P - noun That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.
• Phantomatic Dictionary P - adjective Phantasmal.
• Pharaoh Dictionary P - noun A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were designated.
• Pharaon Dictionary P - noun See Pharaoh, 2.
• Pharaonic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt.
• Phare Dictionary P - noun A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
• Pharisaic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pharisaical.
• Pharisaical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees.
• Pharisaism Dictionary P - noun The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.
• Pharisean Dictionary P - adjective Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic.
• Pharisee Dictionary P - noun One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.
• Phariseeism Dictionary P - noun See Pharisaism.
• Pharmaceutic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pharmaceutical.
• Pharmaceutical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations.
• Pharmaceutics Dictionary P - noun The science of preparing medicines.
• Pharmaceutist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.
• Pharmacist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.
• Pharmacodynamics Dictionary P - noun That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines.
• Pharmacognosis Dictionary P - noun That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; - called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.
• Pharmacognosy Dictionary P - noun Pharmacognosis.
• Pharmacography Dictionary P - noun See Pharmacognosis.
• Pharmacolite Dictionary P - noun A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color.
• Pharmacologist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in pharmacology.
• Pharmacology Dictionary P - noun Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.
• Pharmacomathy Dictionary P - noun See Pharmacognosis.
• Pharmacon Dictionary P - noun A medicine or drug; also, a poison.
• Pharmacopoeia Dictionary P - noun A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
• Pharmacopolist Dictionary P - noun One who sells medicines; an apothecary.
• Pharmacosiderite Dictionary P - noun A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
• Pharmacy Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pharo Dictionary P - noun A pharos; a lighthouse.
• Pharology Dictionary P - noun The art or science which treats of lighthouses and signal lights.
• Pharos Dictionary P - noun A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
• Pharyngal Dictionary P - adjective Pharyngeal.
• Pharyngeal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx.
• Pharyngitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the pharynx.
• Pharyngobranchial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiae; - applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal.
• Pharyngobranchii Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Leptocardia.
• Pharyngognathi Dictionary P - noun plural A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.
• Pharyngolaryngeal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.
• Pharyngopneusta Dictionary P - noun plural A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta.
• Pharyngotome Dictionary P - noun An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.
• Pharyngotomy Dictionary P - noun The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.
• pharynges Dictionary P - pleural of Pharynx.
• Pharynx Dictionary P - noun The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.
• Phascolome Dictionary P - noun A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.
• Phases Dictionary P - pleural of Phase.
• Phase Dictionary P - noun That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
• Phasel Dictionary P - noun The French bean, or kidney bean.
• Phaseless Dictionary P - adjective Without a phase, or visible form.
• Phaseolus Dictionary P - noun A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.
• Phaseomannite Dictionary P - noun Same as Inosite.
• Phasis Dictionary P - noun See Phase.
• Phasm Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phasma.
• Phasma Dictionary P - noun An apparition; a phantom; an appearance.
• Phasmid Dictionary P - noun Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.
• Phassachate Dictionary P - noun The lead-colored agate; - so called in reference to its color.
• Phatagin Dictionary P - noun The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla); - called also ipi.
• Pheasant Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pheasantry Dictionary P - noun A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.
• Phebe Dictionary P - noun See Phoebe.
• Pheer Dictionary P - noun See 1st Fere.
• Pheese Dictionary P - verb transitive To comb; also, to beat; to worry.
• Phelloderm Dictionary P - noun A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.
• Phellogen Dictionary P - noun The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
• Phelloplastics Dictionary P - noun Art of modeling in cork.
• Phenacite Dictionary P - noun A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.
• Phenakistoscope Dictionary P - noun A revolving disk on which figures drawn in different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping, etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may be projected upon a screen.
• Phenanthrene Dictionary P - noun A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.
• Phenanthridine Dictionary P - noun A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline.
• Phenanthroline Dictionary P - noun Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly nitrogenized.
• Phene Dictionary P - noun Benzene.
• Phenetol Dictionary P - noun The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.
• Phenic Dictionary P - adjective Of, pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.
• Phenician Dictionary P - adjective & noun See Phoenician.
• Phenicine Dictionary P - noun A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution of indigo is diluted with water.
• Phenicious Dictionary P - adjective Of a red color with a slight mixture of gray.
• Phenicopter Dictionary P - noun A flamingo.
• Phenixes Dictionary P - pleural of Phenix.
• Phenix Dictionary P - noun A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.
• Phenogamia Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Phaenogamia.
• Phenogamian Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phenogamous.
• Phenogamic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phenogamous.
• Phenogamous Dictionary P - adjective Same as Phaenogamian, Phaenogamic, etc.
• Phenol Dictionary P - noun A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal, etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.
• Phenolate Dictionary P - noun A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.
• Phenomenal Dictionary P - adjective Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.
• Phenomenalism Dictionary P - noun That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.
• Phenomenist Dictionary P - noun One who believes in the theory of phenomenalism.
• Phenomenology Dictionary P - noun A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.
• Phenomena Dictionary P - pleural of Phenomenon.
• Phenomenon Dictionary P - noun An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.
• Phenose Dictionary P - noun A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose.
• Phenyl Dictionary P - noun A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.
• Phenylamine Dictionary P - noun Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.
• Phenylene Dictionary P - noun A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.
• Phenylic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl.
• Pheon Dictionary P - noun A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.
• Phial Dictionary P - noun A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
• Phialed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phial.
• Phialing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phial.
• Philabeg Dictionary P - noun See Filibeg.
• Philadelphian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.
• Philalethist Dictionary P - noun A lover of the truth.
• Philander Dictionary P - intransitive verb To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
• Philanderer Dictionary P - noun One who hangs about women; a male flirt.
• Philanthrope Dictionary P - noun A philanthropist.
• Philanthropic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philanthropical.
• Philanthropical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic enterprise.
• Philanthropinism Dictionary P - noun A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.
• Philanthropinist Dictionary P - noun An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism.
• Philanthropist Dictionary P - noun One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
• Philanthropistic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist.
• Philanthropy Dictionary P - noun Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; - opposed to misanthropy.
• Philatelic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philately.
• Philatelist Dictionary P - noun One versed in philately; one who collects postage stamps.
• Philately Dictionary P - noun The collection of postage stamps of various issues.
• Philatory Dictionary P - noun A kind of transparent reliquary with an ornamental top.
• Philauty Dictionary P - noun Self-love; selfishness.
• Philharmonic Dictionary P - adjective Loving harmony or music.
• Philhellene Dictionary P - noun A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.
• Philhellenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philhellenism.
• Philhellenism Dictionary P - noun Love of Greece.
• Philhellenist Dictionary P - noun A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.
• Philibeg Dictionary P - noun See Filibeg.
• Philip Dictionary P - noun The European hedge sparrow.
• Philippian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Philippi, a city of ancient Macedonia.
• Philippic Dictionary P - noun Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.
• Philippium Dictionary P - noun A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been discovered in the mineral samarskite.
• Philippized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Philippize.
• Philippizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Philippize.
• Philippize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon.
• Philister Dictionary P - noun A Philistine; - a cant name given to townsmen by students in German universities.
• Philistine Dictionary P - noun A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
• Philistinism Dictionary P - noun The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.
• Phillipsite Dictionary P - noun A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; - called also christianite.
• Phillygenin Dictionary P - noun A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin.
• Phillyrea Dictionary P - noun A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.
• Phillyrin Dictionary P - noun A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.
• Philo- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.
• Philogynist Dictionary P - noun A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; - opposed to misogynist.
• Philogyny Dictionary P - noun Fondness for women; uxoriousness; - opposed to misogyny.
• Philohellenian Dictionary P - noun A philhellenist.
• Philologer Dictionary P - noun A philologist.
• Philologian Dictionary P - noun A philologist.
• Philological Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philologic.
• Philologic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philology.
• Philologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in philology.
• Philologize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To study, or make critical comments on, language.
• Philologue Dictionary P - noun A philologist.
• Philology Dictionary P - noun Criticism; grammatical learning.
• Philomath Dictionary P - noun A lover of learning; a scholar.
• Philomathematic Dictionary P - noun A philomath.
• Philomathic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philomathy.
• Philomathy Dictionary P - noun The love of learning or letters.
• Philomel Dictionary P - noun Same as Philomela, the nightingale.
• Philomela Dictionary P - noun The nightingale; philomel.
• Philomene Dictionary P - noun The nightingale.
• Philomot Dictionary P - adjective Of the color of a dead leaf.
• Philomusical Dictionary P - adjective Loving music. R.Busby.
• Philopena Dictionary P - noun A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself.
• Philopolemic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philopolemical.
• Philopolemical Dictionary P - adjective Fond of polemics or controversy.
• Philoprogenitive Dictionary P - adjective Having the love of offspring; fond of children.
• Philoprogenitiveness Dictionary P - noun The love of offspring; fondness for children.
• Philosophaster Dictionary P - noun A pretender to philosophy.
• Philosophate Dictionary P - intransitive verb To play the philosopher; to moralize.
• Philosophation Dictionary P - noun Philosophical speculation and discussion.
• Philosophe Dictionary P - noun A philosophaster; a philosopher.
• Philosopheme Dictionary P - noun A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle of reasoning.
• Philosopher Dictionary P - noun One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy.
• Philosophic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philosophical.
• Philosophical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool.
• Philosophism Dictionary P - noun Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.
• Philosophist Dictionary P - noun A pretender in philosophy.
• Philosophistic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philosophistical.
• Philosophistical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.
• Philosophized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Philosophize.
• Philosophizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Philosophize.
• Philosophize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.
• Philosophizer Dictionary P - noun One who philosophizes.
• Philosophies Dictionary P - pleural of Philosophy.
• Philosophy Dictionary P - noun Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
• Philostorgy Dictionary P - noun Natural affection, as of parents for their children.
• Philotechnic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Philotechnical.
• Philotechnical Dictionary P - adjective Fond of the arts.
• Philter Dictionary P - noun A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.
• Philtered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Philter.
• Philtering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Philter.
• Phimosis Dictionary P - noun A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.
• Phitoness Dictionary P - noun Pythoness; witch.
• Phizes Dictionary P - pleural of Phiz.
• Phiz Dictionary P - noun The face or visage.
• Phlebitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of a vein.
• Phlebogram Dictionary P - noun A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.
• Phlebolite Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phlebolith.
• Phlebolith Dictionary P - noun A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.
• Phlebology Dictionary P - noun A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.
• Phlebotomist Dictionary P - noun One who practiced phlebotomy.
• Phlebotomized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phlebotomize.
• Phlebotomizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phlebotomize.
• Phlebotomize Dictionary P - verb transitive To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.
• Phlebotomy Dictionary P - noun The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.
• Phlegm Dictionary P - adjective One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor.
• Phlegmagogue Dictionary P - noun A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.
• Phlegmasia Dictionary P - noun An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of the internal organs.
• Phlegmatic Dictionary P - adjective Watery.
• Phlegmatical Dictionary P - adjective Phlegmatic.
• Phlegmatically Dictionary P - adverb In a phlegmatic manner.
• Phlegmaticly Dictionary P - adjective Phlegmatically.
• Phlegmon Dictionary P - noun Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.
• Phlegmonous Dictionary P - adjective Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as, phlegmonous pneumonia.
• Phleme Dictionary P - noun See Fleam.
• Phleum Dictionary P - noun A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass.
• Phloem Dictionary P - noun That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; - distinguished from xylem.
• Phlogistian Dictionary P - noun A believer in the existence of phlogiston.
• Phlogistic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.
• Phlogistical Dictionary P - adjective Phlogistic.
• Phlogisticated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phlogisticate.
• Phlogisticating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phlogisticate.
• Phlogisticate Dictionary P - verb transitive To combine phlogiston with; - usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.
• Phlogistication Dictionary P - noun The act or process of combining with phlogiston.
• Phlogiston Dictionary P - noun The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
• Phlogogenous Dictionary P - adjective Causing inflammation.
• Phlogopite Dictionary P - noun A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.
• Phlogosis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of external parts of the body; erysipelatous inflammation.
• Phlogotic Dictionary P - noun Of or pertaining to phlogisis.
• Phloramine Dictionary P - noun A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.
• Phloretic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.
• Phloretin Dictionary P - noun A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.
• Phlorizin Dictionary P - noun A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc.
• Phloroglucin Dictionary P - noun A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of phenols. Called also phloroglucinol..
• Phlorol Dictionary P - noun A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.
• Phlorone Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Phlox Dictionary P - noun A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers.
• Phlyctenular Dictionary P - adjective Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.
• Phoca Dictionary P - noun A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and allied species. See Seal.
• Phocacean Dictionary P - noun Any species of Phoca; a seal.
• Phocal Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to seals.
• Phocenic Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Phocenin Dictionary P - noun See Delphin.
• Phocine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.
• Phocodont Dictionary P - noun One of the Phocodontia.
• Phocodontia Dictionary P - noun plural A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.
• Phoebe Dictionary P - noun The pewee, or pewit.
• Phoebus Dictionary P - noun Apollo; the sun god.
• Phoenician Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
• Phoenicious Dictionary P - adjective See Phenicious.
• Phoenicopterus Dictionary P - noun A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.
• Phoenix Dictionary P - noun Same as Phenix.
• Pholad Dictionary P - noun Any species of Pholas.
• Pholadean Dictionary P - noun Pholad.
• Pholades Dictionary P - pleural of Pholas.
• Pholas Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves in clay, peat, and soft rocks.
• Phonal Dictionary P - adjective Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.
• Phonascetics Dictionary P - noun Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.
• Phonation Dictionary P - noun The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.
• Phonautograph Dictionary P - noun An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.
• Phoneidoscope Dictionary P - noun An instrument for studying the motions of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.
• Phonetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
• Phonetically Dictionary P - adverb In a phonetic manner.
• Phonetician Dictionary P - noun One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.
• Phonetics Dictionary P - noun The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
• Phonetism Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of vocal sounds.
• Phonetist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.
• Phonetization Dictionary P - noun The act, art, or process of representing sounds by phonetic signs.
• Phonetize Dictionary P - verb transitive To represent by phonetic signs.
• Phonic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
• Phonics Dictionary P - noun See Phonetics.
• Phono- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. / sound, tone; as, phonograph, phonology.
• Phono Dictionary P - noun A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly transparent wings.
• Phonocamptic Dictionary P - adjective Reflecting sound.
• Phonogram Dictionary P - noun A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
• Phonograph Dictionary P - noun A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.
• Phonographer Dictionary P - noun One versed or skilled in phonography.
• Phonographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phonographical.
• Phonographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon phonography.
• Phonographically Dictionary P - adverb In a phonographic manner; by means of phonograph.
• Phonographist Dictionary P - noun Phonographer.
• Phonography Dictionary P - noun A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
• Phonolite Dictionary P - noun A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; - called also clinkstone.
• Phonologer Dictionary P - noun A phonologist.
• Phonologic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phonological.
• Phonological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phonology.
• Phonologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phonology.
• Phonology Dictionary P - noun The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.
• Phonometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.
• Phonomotor Dictionary P - noun An instrument in which motion is produced by the vibrations of a sounding body.
• Phonorganon Dictionary P - noun A speaking machine.
• Phonoscope Dictionary P - noun An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.
• Phonotypr Dictionary P - noun A type or character used in phonotypy.
• Phonotypic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phonotypical.
• Phonotypical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.
• Phonotypist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phonotypy.
• Phonotypy Dictionary P - noun A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.
• Phorminx Dictionary P - noun A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.
• Phormium Dictionary P - noun A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.
• Phorone Dictionary P - noun A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.
• Phoronis Dictionary P - noun A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.
• Phoronomia Dictionary P - noun See Phoronomics.
• Phoronomics Dictionary P - noun The science of motion; kinematics.
• Phosgene Dictionary P - adjective Producing, or produced by, the action of light; - formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.
• Phosgenite Dictionary P - noun A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a chlorocarbonate of lead.
• Phospham Dictionary P - noun An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.
• Phosphate Dictionary P - noun A salt of phosphoric acid.
• Phosphatic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules.
• Phosphaturia Dictionary P - noun The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.
• Phosphene Dictionary P - noun A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image.
• Phosphide Dictionary P - noun A binary compound of phosphorus.
• Phosphine Dictionary P - noun A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.
• Phosphinic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.
• Phosphite Dictionary P - noun A salt of phosphorous acid.
• Phosphonic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the sulphonic acid.
• Phosphonium Dictionary P - noun The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.
• Phosphor Dictionary P - noun Phosphorus.
• Phosphorated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phosphorate.
• Phosphorating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phosphorate.
• Phosphorate Dictionary P - verb transitive To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil.
• Phosphor-bronze Dictionary P - noun A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.
• Phosphoreous Dictionary P - adjective Phosphorescent.
• Phosphoresced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phosphoresce.
• Phosphorescing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phosphoresce.
• Phosphoresce Dictionary P - intransitive verb To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.
• Phosphorescence Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or the act of phosphorescing.
• Phosphorescent Dictionary P - adjective Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without sensible heat.
• Phosphoric Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous compounds.
• Phosphorical Dictionary P - adjective Phosphoric.
• Phosphorite Dictionary P - noun A massive variety of apatite.
• Phosphoritic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
• Phosphorize Dictionary P - verb transitive To phosphorate.
• Phosphorized Dictionary P - adjective Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.
• Phosphorogenic Dictionary P - adjective Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic rays.
• Phosphoroscope Dictionary P - noun An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring its duration.
• Phosphorous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.
• Phosphori Dictionary P - pleural of Phosphorus.
• Phosphorus Dictionary P - noun The morning star; Phosphor.
• Phosphoryl Dictionary P - noun The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.
• Phosphuret Dictionary P - noun A phosphide.
• Phosphureted Dictionary P - adjective Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.
• Photic Dictionary P - adjective Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.
• Photics Dictionary P - noun The science of light; - a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.
• Photos Dictionary P - pleural of Photo.
• Photo Dictionary P - noun A contraction of Photograph.
• Photo- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer.
• Photobiotic Dictionary P - adjective Requiring light to live; incapable of living without light; as, photobiotic plant cells.
• Photochemical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.
• Photochemistry Dictionary P - noun The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.
• Photochromic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Photochromatic.
• Photochromatic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.
• Photochromy Dictionary P - noun The art or process of reproducing colors by photography.
• Photodrome Dictionary P - noun An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.
• Photo-electric Dictionary P - adjective Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; - said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.
• Photo-electrotype Dictionary P - noun An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.
• Photo-engraving Dictionary P - noun The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.
• Photo-epinasty Dictionary P - noun A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light.
• Photogalvanography Dictionary P - noun The art or process of making photo-electrotypes.
• Photogen Dictionary P - noun A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a lubricant, illuminant, etc.
• Photogene Dictionary P - noun A photograph.
• Photogenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.
• Photogeny Dictionary P - noun See Photography.
• Photoglyphic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the art of engraving by the action of light.
• Photoglyphy Dictionary P - noun Photoglyphic engraving. See under Photoglyphic.
• Photoglyptic Dictionary P - adjective Same as Photoglyphic.
• Photogram Dictionary P - noun A photograph.
• Photograph Dictionary P - noun A picture or likeness obtained by photography.
• Photographed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Photograph.
• Photographing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Photograph.
• Photographer Dictionary P - noun One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.
• Photographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Photographical.
• Photographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera.
• Photographist Dictionary P - noun A photographer.
• Photographometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
• Photography Dictionary P - noun The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like.
• Photogravure Dictionary P - noun A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.
• Photoheliograph Dictionary P - noun A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking photographs of the sun.
• Photolithograph Dictionary P - noun A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.
• Photolithographer Dictionary P - noun One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography.
• Photolithographic Dictionary P - noun Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced by photolithography.
• Photolithography Dictionary P - noun The art or process of producing photolithographs.
• Photologic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Photological.
• Photological Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.
• Photologist Dictionary P - noun One who studies or expounds the laws of light.
• Photology Dictionary P - noun The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena; optics.
• Photomagnetic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photomagnetism.
• Photomagnetism Dictionary P - noun The branch of science which treats of the relation of magnetism to light.
• Photomechanical Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.
• Photometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.
• Photometric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Photometrical.
• Photometrical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.
• Photometrician Dictionary P - noun One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.
• Photometry Dictionary P - noun That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.
• Photomicrograph Dictionary P - noun An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.
• Photomicrography Dictionary P - noun The art of producing photomicrographs.
• Photophobia Dictionary P - noun A dread or intolerance of light.
• Photophone Dictionary P - noun An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of rays of light.
• Photophonic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to photophone.
• Photophony Dictionary P - noun The art or practice of using the photophone.
• Photopsia Dictionary P - noun An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.
• Photopsy Dictionary P - noun Same as Photopsia.
• Photorelief Dictionary P - noun A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic means and subsequent manipulations.
• Photoscope Dictionary P - noun Anything employed for the observation of light or luminous effects.
• Photoscopic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the photoscope or its uses.
• Photosculpture Dictionary P - noun A process in which, by means of a number of photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal may be made with great expedition.
• Photosphere Dictionary P - noun A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.
• Photospheric Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the photosphere.
• Phototonus Dictionary P - noun A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.
• Phototropic Dictionary P - adjective Same as Heliotropic.
• Phototype Dictionary P - noun A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.
• Phototypic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.
• Phototypography Dictionary P - noun Same as Phototypy.
• Phototypy Dictionary P - noun The art or process of producing phototypes.
• Photoxylography Dictionary P - noun The process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.
• Photozincograph Dictionary P - noun A print made by photozincography.
• Photozincography Dictionary P - noun A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.
• Phragmocone Dictionary P - noun The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• Phragmosiphon Dictionary P - noun The siphon of a phragmocone.
• Phrasal Dictionary P - adjective Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb.
• Phrase Dictionary P - noun A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
• Phrased Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Phrase.
• Phrasing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Phrase.
• Phraseless Dictionary P - adjective Indescribable.
• Phraseogram Dictionary P - noun A symbol for a phrase.
• Phraseologic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phraseological.
• Phraseological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.
• Phraseologist Dictionary P - noun A collector or coiner of phrases.
• Phraseology Dictionary P - noun Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
• Phratries Dictionary P - pleural of Phratry.
• Phratry Dictionary P - noun A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.
• Phreatic Dictionary P - adjective Subterranean; - applied to sources supplying wells.
• Phrenetic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phrenetical.
• Phrenetical Dictionary P - adjective Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy; delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic.
• Phrenic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve.
• Phrenics Dictionary P - noun That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy.
• Phrenism Dictionary P - noun See Vital force, under Vital.
• Phrenitis Dictionary P - noun Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; - called also cephalitis.
• Phrenograph Dictionary P - noun An instrument for registering the movements of the diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.
• Phrenologer Dictionary P - noun A phrenologist.
• Phrenologic Dictionary P - adjective Phrenological.
• Phrenological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phrenology.
• Phrenologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phrenology; a craniologist.
• Phrenology Dictionary P - noun The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.
• Phrenomagnetism Dictionary P - noun The power of exciting the organs of the brain by magnetic or mesmeric influence.
• Phrenosin Dictionary P - noun A nitrogenous body, related to cerebrin, supposed to exist in the brain.
• Phrensied Dictionary P - past particle & adjective See Frenzied.
• Phrensy Dictionary P - noun Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.
• Phrentic Dictionary P - noun & adjective See Phrenetic.
• Phryganeid Dictionary P - noun Any insect belonging to the Phryganeides.
• Phryganeides Dictionary P - noun plural A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; - called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera.
• Phrygian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.
• Phthalate Dictionary P - noun A salt of phthalic acid.
• Phthalein Dictionary P - noun One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well represented by phenol phthalein. Their alkaline solutions are fluorescent.
• Phthalic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances.
• Phthalide Dictionary P - noun A lactone obtained by reduction of phthalyl chloride, as a white crystalline substance; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which phthalide proper is the type.
• Phthalimide Dictionary P - noun An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido.
• Phthalin Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Phthalyl Dictionary P - noun The hypothetical radical of phthalic acid.
• Phthiriasis Dictionary P - noun A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.
• Phthisic Dictionary P - noun Same as Phthisis.
• Phthisical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.
• Phthisicky Dictionary P - adjective Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.
• Phthisiology Dictionary P - noun A treatise on phthisis.
• Phthisipneumonia Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phthisipneumony.
• Phthisipneumony Dictionary P - noun Pulmonary consumption.
• Phthisis Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Phthongal Dictionary P - adjective Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; - said of all the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonant consonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc.
• Phthongometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.
• Phthor Dictionary P - noun Fluorine.
• Phycite Dictionary P - noun See Erythrite, 1.
• Phycochrome Dictionary P - noun A bluish green coloring matter of certain algae.
• Phycocyanin Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phycocyanine.
• Phycocyanine Dictionary P - noun A blue coloring matter found in certain algae.
• Phycoerythrin Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phycoerythrine.
• Phycoerythrine Dictionary P - noun A red coloring matter found in algae of the subclass Florideae.
• Phycography Dictionary P - noun A description of seaweeds.
• Phycology Dictionary P - noun The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology.
• Phycomater Dictionary P - noun A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed to vegetate.
• Phycophaeine Dictionary P - noun A brown coloring matter found in certain algae.
• Phycoxanthin Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phycoxanthine.
• Phycoxanthine Dictionary P - noun A yellowish coloring matter found in certain algae.
• Phylacter Dictionary P - noun A phylactery.
• Phylactered Dictionary P - adjective Wearing a phylactery.
• Phylacteric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Phylacterical.
• Phylacterical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phylacteries.
• Phylacteries Dictionary P - pleural of Phylactery.
• Phylactery Dictionary P - noun Any charm or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease.
• Phylactocarp Dictionary P - noun A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecae.
• Phylactolaema Dictionary P - noun plural Alt. of Phylactolaemata.
• Phylactolaemata Dictionary P - noun plural An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.
• Phylactolaematous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Phylactolaema.
• Phylactolema Dictionary P - noun plural Alt. of Phylactolemata.
• Phylactolemata Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Phylactolaema.
• Phylarch Dictionary P - noun The chief of a phyle, or tribe.
• Phylarchy Dictionary P - noun The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.
• Phylae Dictionary P - pleural of Phyle.
• Phyle Dictionary P - noun A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.
• Phyllite Dictionary P - noun A mineral related to ottrelite.
• Phyllo- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. / a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy.
• Phyllobranciae Dictionary P - pleural of Phyllobranchia.
• Phyllobranchia Dictionary P - noun A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.
• Phyllocladia Dictionary P - pleural of Phyllocladium.
• Phyllocladium Dictionary P - noun A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.
• Phyllocyanin Dictionary P - noun A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.
• Phyllocyst Dictionary P - noun The cavity of a hydrophyllium.
• Phyllode Dictionary P - noun Same as Phyllodium.
• Phyllodineous Dictionary P - adjective Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.
• Phyllodia Dictionary P - pleural of Phyllodium.
• Phyllodium Dictionary P - noun A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.
• Phyllody Dictionary P - noun A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.
• Phylloid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a leaf.
• Phyllomania Dictionary P - noun An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.
• Phyllome Dictionary P - noun A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.
• Phyllomorphosis Dictionary P - noun The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons.
• Phyllophagan Dictionary P - noun One of a group of marsupials including the phalangists.
• Phyllophagous Dictionary P - adjective Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.
• Phyllophorous Dictionary P - adjective Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.
• Phyllopod Dictionary P - noun One of the Phyllopoda. Also used adjectively..
• Phyllopoda Dictionary P - noun plural An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.
• Phyllopodous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.
• Phyllorhine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
• Phyllosoma Dictionary P - noun The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp.
• Phyllostome Dictionary P - noun Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera, having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.
• Phylloltomid Dictionary P - noun A phyllostome.
• Phyllotactic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.
• Phyllotaxy Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phyllotaxis.
• Phyllotaxis Dictionary P - noun The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.
• Phyllous Dictionary P - adjective Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.
• Phylloxanthin Dictionary P - noun A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.
• Phylloxera Dictionary P - noun A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix) allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine, doing great damage, especially in Europe.
• Phylogenesis Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phylogeny.
• Phylogeny Dictionary P - noun The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
• Phylogenetic Dictionary P - adjective Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.
• Phyla Dictionary P - pleural of Phylon.
• Phylon Dictionary P - noun A tribe.
• Phylum Dictionary P - noun One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
• Phymata Dictionary P - pleural of Phyma.
• Phyma Dictionary P - noun A tubercle on any external part of the body.
• Physa Dictionary P - noun A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.
• Physalia Dictionary P - noun A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.
• Physaliae Dictionary P - noun plural An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.
• Physemaria Dictionary P - noun plural A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.
• Physeter Dictionary P - noun The genus that includes the sperm whale.
• Physianthropy Dictionary P - noun The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.
• Physic Dictionary P - noun The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.
• Physiced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Physic.
• Physicking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Physic.
• Physical Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Physically Dictionary P - adverb In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally.
• Physician Dictionary P - noun A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.
• Physicianed Dictionary P - adjective Licensed as a physician.
• Physicism Dictionary P - noun The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.
• Physicist Dictionary P - noun One versed in physics.
• Physico- Dictionary P - A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon, natural causes, or the science of physics.
• Physicochemical Dictionary P - adjective Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.
• Physicologic Dictionary P - noun Logic illustrated by physics.
• Physicological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to physicologic.
• Physicology Dictionary P - noun Physics.
• Physico-mathematics Dictionary P - noun Mixed mathematics.
• Physico-philosophy Dictionary P - noun The philosophy of nature.
• Physico-theology Dictionary P - noun Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.
• Physics Dictionary P - noun The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.
• Physiocrat Dictionary P - noun One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.
• Physiogeny Dictionary P - noun The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.
• Physiognomer Dictionary P - noun Physiognomist.
• Physiognomic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Physiognomical.
• Physiognomical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.
• Physiognomist Dictionary P - noun Same as Physiognomy, 1.
• Physiognomize Dictionary P - verb transitive To observe and study the physiognomy of.
• Physiognommonic Dictionary P - adjective Physiognomic.
• Physiognomies Dictionary P - pleural of Physiognomy.
• Physiognomy Dictionary P - noun The art and science of discovering the predominant temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward appearance, especially by the features of the face.
• Physiogony Dictionary P - noun The birth of nature.
• Physiographic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Physiographical.
• Physiographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to physiography.
• Physiography Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
• Physiolatry Dictionary P - noun The worship of the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship.
• Physiologer Dictionary P - noun A physiologist.
• Physiologic Dictionary P - adjective Physiological.
• Physiological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany or chemistry.
• Physiologically Dictionary P - adverb In a physiological manner.
• Physiologist Dictionary P - noun One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.
• Physiologize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
• Physiologies Dictionary P - pleural of Physiology.
• Physiology Dictionary P - noun The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.
• Physiophyly Dictionary P - noun The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, - being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.
• Physique Dictionary P - noun The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
• Physnomy Dictionary P - noun Physiogmony.
• Physoclist Dictionary P - noun One of the Physoclisti.
• Physoclisti Dictionary P - noun plural An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.
• Physograde Dictionary P - noun Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.
• Physophorae Dictionary P - noun plural An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.
• Physopod Dictionary P - noun One of the Physopoda; a thrips.
• Physopoda Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Thysanoptera.
• Physostigmine Dictionary P - noun An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; - formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.
• Physostomi Dictionary P - noun plural An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.
• Physostomous Dictionary P - adjective Having a duct to the air bladder.
• Phytelephas Dictionary P - noun A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
• Phytivorous Dictionary P - adjective Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals.
• Phyto- Dictionary P - A combining form from Gr. fyto`n a plant; as, phytochemistry, phytography.
• Phytochemical Dictionary P - adjective Relating to phytochemistry.
• Phytochemistry Dictionary P - noun Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.
• Phytochimy Dictionary P - noun Phytochemistry.
• Phytogenesis Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phytogeny.
• Phytogeny Dictionary P - noun The doctrine of the generation of plants.
• Phytogeographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phytogeography.
• Phytogeography Dictionary P - noun The geographical distribution of plants.
• Phytoglyphic Dictionary P - adjective Relating to phytoglyphy.
• Phytoglyphy Dictionary P - noun See Nature printing, under Nature.
• Phytographical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phytography.
• Phytography Dictionary P - noun The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.
• Phytoid Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a plant; plantlike.
• Phytolacca Dictionary P - noun A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.
• Phytolite Dictionary P - noun An old name for a fossil plant.
• Phytolithologist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.
• Phytolithology Dictionary P - noun The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; - usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.
• Phytological Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to phytology; botanical.
• Phytologist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
• Phytology Dictionary P - noun The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.
• Phytomer Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Phytomeron.
• Phytomeron Dictionary P - noun An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
• Phytons Dictionary P - pleural of Phyton.
• Phyton Dictionary P - noun One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.
• Phytonomy Dictionary P - noun The science of the origin and growth of plants.
• Phytopathologist Dictionary P - noun One skilled in diseases of plants.
• Phytopathology Dictionary P - noun The science of diseases to which plants are liable.
• Phytophaga Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.
• Phytophagic Dictionary P - adjective Phytophagous.
• Phytophagous Dictionary P - adjective Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.
• Phytophagy Dictionary P - noun The eating of plants.
• Phytophysiology Dictionary P - noun Vegetable physiology.
• Phytotomist Dictionary P - noun One versed in phytotomy.
• Phytotomy Dictionary P - noun The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.
• Phytozoaria Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Infusoria.
• Phytozoa Dictionary P - pleural of Phytozoon.
• Phytozoon Dictionary P - noun A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoophytes.
• Phyz Dictionary P - noun See Phiz.
• Pi Dictionary P - noun A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
• Pied Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pi.
• Pieing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pi.
• Piacaba Dictionary P - noun See Piassava.
• Piacle Dictionary P - noun A heinous offense which requires expiation.
• Piacular Dictionary P - adjective Expiatory; atoning.
• Piacularity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
• Piaculous Dictionary P - adjective Same as Piacular.
• Pial Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the pia mater.
• Pia mater Dictionary P - The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
• Pian Dictionary P - noun The yaws. See Yaws.
• Pianet Dictionary P - noun The magpie.
• Pianette Dictionary P - noun A small piano; a pianino.
• Pianino Dictionary P - noun A pianette, or small piano.
• Pianissimo Dictionary P - adjective Very soft; - a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.).
• Pianist Dictionary P - noun A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
• Piano Dictionary P - adjective & adverb Soft; - a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.).
• Pianoforte Dictionary P - adjective A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
• Pianograph Dictionary P - noun A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.
• Piapec Dictionary P - noun A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
• Piarist Dictionary P - noun One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
• Piassava Dictionary P - noun A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), #NAME?.
• Piaster Dictionary P - noun A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
• Piastre Dictionary P - noun See Piaster.
• Piation Dictionary P - noun The act of making atonement; expiation.
• Piatti Dictionary P - noun plural Cymbals.
• Piazzas Dictionary P - pleural of Piazza.
• Piazza Dictionary P - noun An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
• Pibcorn Dictionary P - noun A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, - used in Wales.
• Pibroch Dictionary P - noun A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
• Pic Dictionary P - noun A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
• Pica Dictionary P - noun The genus that includes the magpies.
• Picador Dictionary P - noun A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
• Picamar Dictionary P - noun An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
• Picapare Dictionary P - noun The finfoot.
• Picard Dictionary P - noun One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; - so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
• Picaresque Dictionary P - adjective Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
• Picariae Dictionary P - noun plural An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
• Picarian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Picariae.
• Picaroon Dictionary P - noun One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
• Picayune Dictionary P - noun A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
• Picayunish Dictionary P - adjective Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
• Piccadil Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Piccadilly.
• Piccadilly Dictionary P - noun A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, - worn by men in the 17th century.
• Piccage Dictionary P - noun Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
• Piccalilli Dictionary P - noun A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, - originally made in the East Indies.
• Piccolo Dictionary P - noun A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
• Pice Dictionary P - noun A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
• Picea Dictionary P - noun A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.
• Picene Dictionary P - noun A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
• Piceous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
• Pichey Dictionary P - noun A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
• Pichiciago Dictionary P - noun A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back.
• Pichurim bean Dictionary P - The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, - sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.
• Pici Dictionary P - noun plural A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
• Piciform Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Piciformes.
• Piciformes Dictionary P - noun plural A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
• Picine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
• Picked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pick.
• Picking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pick.
• Pick Dictionary P - verb To throw; to pitch.
• Pickaback Dictionary P - adverb On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
• Pickaninnies Dictionary P - pleural of Pickaninny.
• Pickaninny Dictionary P - noun A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.
• Pickapack Dictionary P - adverb Pickaback.
• Pickax Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pickaxe.
• Pickaxe Dictionary P - noun A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
• Pickback Dictionary P - adverb On the back.
• Pickedness Dictionary P - noun The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
• Pickeered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pickeer.
• Pickeering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pickeer.
• Pickeer Dictionary P - intransitive verb To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
• Pickeerer Dictionary P - noun One who pickeers.
• Picker Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, - as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
• Pickerel Dictionary P - noun A young or small pike.
• Pickering Dictionary P - noun The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
• Pickery Dictionary P - noun Petty theft.
• Picket Dictionary P - noun A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
• Picketed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Picket.
• Picketing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Picket.
• Picketee Dictionary P - noun See Picotee.
• Pick-fault Dictionary P - noun One who seeks out faults.
• Pickle Dictionary P - noun See Picle.
• Pickled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pickle.
• Pickling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pickle.
• Pickle-herring Dictionary P - noun A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
• Pickler Dictionary P - noun One who makes pickles.
• Picklock Dictionary P - noun An instrument for picking locks.
• Pickmire Dictionary P - noun The pewit, or black-headed gull.
• Picknick Dictionary P - noun See Picnic.
• Pickpack Dictionary P - adverb Pickaback.
• Pickpennies Dictionary P - pleural of Pickpenny.
• Pickpenny Dictionary P - noun A miser; also, a sharper.
• Pickpocket Dictionary P - noun One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
• Pickpurse Dictionary P - noun One who steals purses, or money from purses.
• Picksy Dictionary P - noun See Pixy.
• Pickthank Dictionary P - noun One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.
• Picktooth Dictionary P - noun A toothpick.
• Picke Dictionary P - noun A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
• Picnic Dictionary P - verb Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
• Picnicked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Picnic.
• Picnicking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Picnic.
• Picnicker Dictionary P - noun One who takes part in a picnic.
• Picoid Dictionary P - adjective Like or pertaining to the Pici.
• Picoline Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Picotee Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Picotine.
• Picotine Dictionary P - noun A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
• Picquet Dictionary P - noun See Piquet.
• Picra Dictionary P - noun The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
• Picrate Dictionary P - noun A salt of picric acid.
• Picric Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
• Picrite Dictionary P - noun A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.
• Picrolite Dictionary P - noun A fibrous variety of serpentine.
• Picromel Dictionary P - noun A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
• Picrotoxin Dictionary P - noun A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.
• Picryl Dictionary P - noun The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
• Pictish Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.
• Pictograph Dictionary P - noun A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
• Pictorial Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
• Pictoric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pictorical.
• Pictorical Dictionary P - adjective Pictorial.
• Picts Dictionary P - noun plural A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
• Pictura Dictionary P - noun Pattern of coloration.
• Picturable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.
• Pictural Dictionary P - adjective Pictorial.
• Picture Dictionary P - noun The art of painting; representation by painting.
• Pictured Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Picture.
• Picturing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Picture.
• Picturer Dictionary P - noun One who makes pictures; a painter.
• Picturesque Dictionary P - adjective Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
• Picturesquish Dictionary P - adjective Somewhat picturesque.
• Picturized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Picturize.
• Picturizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Picturize.
• Picturize Dictionary P - verb transitive To picture.
• Picul Dictionary P - noun A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135/ lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133/ lbs.; in Japan, 133/ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.
• Piculet Dictionary P - noun Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.
• Picus Dictionary P - noun A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.
• Piddled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Piddle.
• Piddling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Piddle.
• Piddle Dictionary P - intransitive verb To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
• Piddler Dictionary P - noun One who piddles.
• Piddock Dictionary P - noun Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.
• Pie Dictionary P - noun An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
• Piebald Dictionary P - adjective Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
• Piece Dictionary P - noun A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
• Pieced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Piece.
• Piecing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Piece.
• Pieceless Dictionary P - adjective Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• Piecely Dictionary P - adverb In pieces; piecemeal.
• Piecemeal Dictionary P - adverb In pieces; in parts or fragments.
• Piecemealed Dictionary P - adjective Divided into pieces.
• Piecener Dictionary P - noun One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
• Piecer Dictionary P - noun One who pieces; a patcher.
• Piecework Dictionary P - noun Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
• Piedmont Dictionary P - adjective Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.
• Piedmontite Dictionary P - noun A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
• Piedness Dictionary P - noun The state of being pied.
• Piedouche Dictionary P - noun A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
• Piedstall Dictionary P - noun See Pedestal.
• Piemen Dictionary P - pleural of Pieman.
• Pieman Dictionary P - noun A man who makes or sells pies.
• Piend Dictionary P - noun See Peen.
• Pieno Dictionary P - adjective Full; having all the instruments.
• Pieplant Dictionary P - noun A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
• Piepoudre Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Piepowder.
• Piepowder Dictionary P - noun An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge.
• Pier Dictionary P - noun Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
• Pierage Dictionary P - noun Same as Wharfage.
• Pierced Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pierce.
• Piercing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pierce.
• Pierce Dictionary P - verb transitive To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
• Pierceable Dictionary P - adjective That may be pierced.
• Piercel Dictionary P - noun A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; - called also piercer.
• Piercer Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pierces or perforates.
• Pierian Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.
• Pierid Dictionary P - noun Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
• Pierides Dictionary P - noun plural The Muses.
• Piet Dictionary P - noun The dipper, or water ouzel.
• Pieta Dictionary P - noun A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.
• Pietism Dictionary P - noun The principle or practice of the Pietists.
• Pietist Dictionary P - noun One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; - often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.
• Pietistic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pietistical.
• Pietistical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious.
• Pietra dura Dictionary P - Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.
• Piety Dictionary P - noun Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
• Piewipe Dictionary P - noun The lapwing, or pewit.
• Piezometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.
• Piffero Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Piffara.
• Piffara Dictionary P - noun A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.
• Pig Dictionary P - noun A piggin.
• Pigged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pig.
• Pigging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pig.
• Pigeon Dictionary P - noun Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species occur in nearly all parts of the world.
• Pigeon-breasted Dictionary P - adjective Having a breast like a pigeon, - the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• Pigeonfoot Dictionary P - noun The dove's-foot geranium (Geranium molle).
• Pigeon-hearted Dictionary P - adjective Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.
• Pigeonhole Dictionary P - noun A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; - so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
• Pigeon-livered Dictionary P - adjective Pigeon-hearted.
• Pigeonry Dictionary P - noun A place for pigeons; a dovecote.
• Pigeontoed Dictionary P - adjective Having the toes turned in.
• Pig-eyed Dictionary P - adjective Having small, deep-set eyes.
• Pigfish Dictionary P - noun Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; - called also hogfish.
• Pigfoot Dictionary P - noun A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.
• Pigg Dictionary P - noun A piggin. See 1st Pig.
• Piggeries Dictionary P - pleural of Piggery.
• Piggery Dictionary P - noun A place where swine are kept.
• Piggin Dictionary P - noun A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, - often used as a dipper.
• Piggish Dictionary P - adjective Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.
• Pig-headed Dictionary P - adjective Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.
• Pight Dictionary P - imperative & past particle Pitched; fixed; determined.
• Pightel Dictionary P - noun A small inclosure.
• Pig-jawed Dictionary P - adjective Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; - said of dogs.
• Pigmean Dictionary P - adjective See Pygmean.
• Pigment Dictionary P - noun Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
• Pigmental Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pigmentary.
• Pigmentary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.
• Pigmentation Dictionary P - noun A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.
• Pigmented Dictionary P - adjective Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.
• Pigmentous Dictionary P - adjective Pigmental.
• Pigmy Dictionary P - noun See Pygmy.
• Pignerate Dictionary P - verb transitive To pledge or pawn.
• Pignoration Dictionary P - noun The act of pledging or pawning.
• Pignorative Dictionary P - adjective Pledging, pawning.
• Pignora Dictionary P - pleural of Pignus.
• Pignus Dictionary P - noun A pledge or pawn.
• Pignut Dictionary P - noun See Groundnut (d).
• Pigpen Dictionary P - noun A pen, or sty, for pigs.
• Pigskin Dictionary P - noun The skin of a pig, - used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
• Pigsney Dictionary P - noun A word of endearment for a girl or woman.
• Pig-sticking Dictionary P - noun Boar hunting; - so called by Anglo-Indians.
• Pigsties Dictionary P - pleural of Pigsty.
• Pigsty Dictionary P - noun A pigpen.
• Pigtail Dictionary P - noun The tail of a pig.
• Pigtailed Dictionary P - adjective Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.
• Pigweed Dictionary P - noun A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters.
• Pigwidgeon Dictionary P - noun A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.
• Pika Dictionary P - noun Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.
• Pike Dictionary P - noun & verb A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
• Piked Dictionary P - adjective Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.
• Pike-devant Dictionary P - noun A pointed beard.
• Pikelet Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pikelin.
• Pikelin Dictionary P - noun A light, thin cake or muffin.
• Pikeman Dictionary P - pleural of Pikeman.
• Pikestaff Dictionary P - noun The staff, or shaft, of a pike.
• Piketail Dictionary P - noun See Pintail, 1.
• Pikrolite Dictionary P - noun See Picrolite.
• Pilage Dictionary P - noun See Pelage.
• Pilaster Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pilastered Dictionary P - adjective Furnished with pilasters.
• Pilau Dictionary P - noun See Pillau.
• Pilch Dictionary P - noun A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
• Pilchard Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pilcher Dictionary P - noun A scabbard, as of a sword.
• Pilcrow Dictionary P - noun a paragraph mark, /.
• Pile Dictionary P - noun A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
• Piled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pile.
• Piling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pile.
• Pileate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pileated.
• Pileated Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a cap for the head.
• Pileiform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.
• Pilement Dictionary P - noun An accumulation; a heap.
• Pilenta Dictionary P - pleural of Pilentum.
• Pilentum Dictionary P - noun An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.
• Pilorhizae Dictionary P - pleural of Pileorhiza.
• Pileorhiza Dictionary P - noun A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
• Pileous Dictionary P - adjective Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.
• Piler Dictionary P - noun One who places things in a pile.
• Piles Dictionary P - noun plural The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. The singular pile is sometimes used..
• Pilei Dictionary P - pleural of Pileus.
• Pileus Dictionary P - noun A kind of skull cap of felt.
• Pileworm Dictionary P - noun The teredo.
• Pile-worn Dictionary P - adjective Having the pile worn off; threadbare.
• Pilewort Dictionary P - noun A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.
• Pilfered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pilfer.
• Pilfering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pilfer.
• Pilfer Dictionary P - intransitive verb To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.
• Pilferer Dictionary P - noun One who pilfers; a petty thief.
• Pilfery Dictionary P - noun Petty theft.
• Pilgarlic Dictionary P - noun One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.
• Pilgrim Dictionary P - noun A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.
• Pilgrimage Dictionary P - noun The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.
• Pilgrimize Dictionary P - intransitive verb To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.
• Pildia Dictionary P - pleural of Pilidium.
• Pilidium Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pilifera Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Mammalia.
• Piliferous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.
• Piliform Dictionary P - adjective Resembling hairs or down.
• Piligerous Dictionary P - adjective Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.
• Pill Dictionary P - noun The peel or skin.
• Pilled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pill.
• Pilling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pill.
• Pillage Dictionary P - noun The act of pillaging; robbery.
• Pillaged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pillage.
• Pillaging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pillage.
• Pillager Dictionary P - noun One who pillages.
• Pillar Dictionary P - noun The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament.
• Pillar-block Dictionary P - noun See under Pillow.
• Pillared Dictionary P - adjective Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars.
• Pillaret Dictionary P - noun A little pillar.
• Pillarist Dictionary P - noun See Stylite.
• Pillau Dictionary P - noun An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter.
• Pilled-garlic Dictionary P - noun See Pilgarlic.
• Piller Dictionary P - noun One who pills or plunders.
• Pilleries Dictionary P - pleural of Pillery.
• Pillery Dictionary P - noun Plunder; pillage.
• Pillion Dictionary P - noun A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.
• Pillorize Dictionary P - verb transitive To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory.
• Pillories Dictionary P - pleural of Pillory.
• Pillory Dictionary P - noun A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
• Pilloried Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pillory.
• Pillorying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pillory.
• Pillow Dictionary P - noun Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.
• Pillowed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pillow.
• Pillowing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pillow.
• Pillowcase Dictionary P - noun A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
• Pillowy Dictionary P - adjective Like a pillow.
• Pill-willet Dictionary P - noun The willet.
• Pillworm Dictionary P - noun Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.
• Pillwort Dictionary P - noun Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; - sometimes called peppergrass.
• Pilocarpine Dictionary P - noun An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.
• Pilose Dictionary P - adjective Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.
• Pilosity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.
• Pilot Dictionary P - noun One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
• Piloted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pilot.
• Piloting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pilot.
• Pilotage Dictionary P - noun The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels.
• Pilotism Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pilotry.
• Pilotry Dictionary P - noun Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.
• Pilour Dictionary P - noun A piller; a plunderer.
• Pilous Dictionary P - adjective See Pilose.
• Pilser Dictionary P - noun An insect that flies into a flame.
• Pilular Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.
• Pilulous Dictionary P - adjective Like a pill; small; insignificant.
• Pilwe Dictionary P - noun A pillow.
• Pily Dictionary P - adjective Like pile or wool.
• Pimaric Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.
• Pimelic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.
• Pimelite Dictionary P - noun An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.
• Piment Dictionary P - noun Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3.
• Pimenta Dictionary P - noun Same as Pimento.
• Pimento Dictionary P - noun Allspice; - applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.
• Pimlico Dictionary P - noun The friar bird.
• Pimp Dictionary P - noun One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.
• Pimped Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pimp.
• Pimping Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pimp.
• Pimpernel Dictionary P - noun A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
• Pimpillo Dictionary P - noun A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); - called also pimploes.
• Pimpinel Dictionary P - noun The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.
• Pimple Dictionary P - noun Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
• Pimpled Dictionary P - adjective Having pimples.
• Pimply Dictionary P - adjective Pimpled.
• Pimpship Dictionary P - noun The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.
• Pin Dictionary P - verb transitive To peen.
• Pinned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pin.
• Pinning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pin.
• Pi a cloth Dictionary P - A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.
• Pinacoid Dictionary P - noun A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
• Pinacolin Dictionary P - noun A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.
• Pinacone Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pinacotheca Dictionary P - noun A picture gallery.
• Pinafore Dictionary P - noun An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
• Pinakothek Dictionary P - noun Pinacotheca.
• Pinaster Dictionary P - noun A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.
• Pinaces Dictionary P - pleural of Pinax.
• Pinax Dictionary P - noun A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
• Pince-nez Dictionary P - noun Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.
• Pincers Dictionary P - noun plural See Pinchers.
• Pinched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pinch.
• Pinching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pinch.
• Pinch Dictionary P - verb transitive To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
• Pinchbeck Dictionary P - noun An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• Pinchcock Dictionary P - noun A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• Pinchem Dictionary P - noun The European blue titmouse.
• Pincher Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pinches.
• Pinchers Dictionary P - noun plural An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; - used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
• Pinchfist Dictionary P - noun A closefisted person; a miser.
• Pinchingly Dictionary P - adverb In a pinching way.
• Pinchpenny Dictionary P - noun A miserly person.
• Pincoffin Dictionary P - noun A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.
• Pincpinc Dictionary P - noun An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).
• Pincushion Dictionary P - noun A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.
• Pindal Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pindar.
• Pindar Dictionary P - noun The peanut (Arachis hypogaea); - so called in the West Indies.
• Pindaric Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.
• Pindarical Dictionary P - adjective Pindaric.
• Pindarism Dictionary P - noun Imitation of Pindar.
• Pindarist Dictionary P - noun One who imitates Pindar.
• Pinder Dictionary P - noun One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
• Pine Dictionary P - noun Woe; torment; pain.
• Pined Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pine.
• Pining Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pine.
• Pineal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
• Pineapple Dictionary P - noun A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; - so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• Pineaster Dictionary P - noun See Pinaster.
• Pine-clad Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pine-crowned.
• Pine-crowned Dictionary P - adjective Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.
• Pinedrops Dictionary P - noun A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.
• Pinefinch Dictionary P - noun A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus); - called also pine siskin, and American siskin.
• Pinenchyma Dictionary P - noun Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• Pineries Dictionary P - pleural of Pinery.
• Pinery Dictionary P - noun A pine forest; a grove of pines.
• Pinesap Dictionary P - noun A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
• Pinetum Dictionary P - noun A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.
• Pineweed Dictionary P - noun A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
• Piney Dictionary P - adjective See Piny.
• Pin-eyed Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Pinfeather Dictionary P - noun A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
• Pinfeathered Dictionary P - adjective Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• Pinfish Dictionary P - noun The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).
• Pinfold Dictionary P - noun A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.
• Ping Dictionary P - noun The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
• Pinged Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Ping.
• Pinging Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Ping.
• Pingle Dictionary P - noun A small piece of inclosed ground.
• Pingster Dictionary P - noun See Pinkster.
• Pinguicula Dictionary P - noun See Butterwort.
• Pinguid Dictionary P - adjective Fat; unctuous; greasy.
• Pinguidinous Dictionary P - adjective Containing fat; fatty.
• Pinguitude Dictionary P - noun Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.
• Pinhold Dictionary P - noun A place where a pin is fixed.
• Pinic Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, - now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.
• Piningly Dictionary P - adverb In a pining manner; droopingly.
• Pinion Dictionary P - noun A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
• Pinioned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pinion.
• Pinioning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pinion.
• Pinionist Dictionary P - noun Any winged creature.
• Pinite Dictionary P - noun A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
• Pink Dictionary P - noun A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.
• Pinked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pink.
• Pinking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pink.
• Pink-eyed Dictionary P - adjective Having small eyes.
• Pinkish Dictionary P - adjective Somewhat pink.
• Pinkness Dictionary P - noun Quality or state of being pink.
• Pinkroot Dictionary P - noun The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).
• Pinkster Dictionary P - noun Whitsuntide.
• Pink stern Dictionary P - See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.
• Pink-sterned Dictionary P - adjective Having a very narrow stern; - said of a vessel.
• Pinky Dictionary P - noun See 1st Pink.
• Pinnae Dictionary P - pleural of Pinna.
• Pinnas Dictionary P - pleural of Pinna.
• Pinna Dictionary P - noun A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
• Pinnace Dictionary P - noun A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; - called originally, spynace or spyne.
• Pinnacle Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pinnacled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pinnacle.
• Pinnacling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pinnacle.
• Pinnage Dictionary P - noun Poundage of cattle. See Pound.
• Pinnate Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Pinnated.
• Pinnated Dictionary P - adjective 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.
• Pinnately Dictionary P - adverb In a pinnate manner.
• Pinnatifid Dictionary P - adjective Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• Pinnatilobate Dictionary P - adjective Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.
• Pinnatiped Dictionary P - adjective Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.
• Pinner Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
• Pinnet Dictionary P - noun A pinnacle.
• Pinniform Dictionary P - adjective Shaped like a fin or feather.
• Pinnigrada Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Pinnipedia.
• Pinnigrade Dictionary P - noun An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.
• Pinniped Dictionary P - noun One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.
• Pinnipedes Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Steganopodes.
• Pinnipedia Dictionary P - noun plural A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; - opposed to Fissipedia.
• Pinnock Dictionary P - noun The hedge sparrow.
• Pinnothere Dictionary P - noun A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.
• Pinnulae Dictionary P - pleural of Pinnula.
• Pinnula Dictionary P - noun Same as Pinnule.
• Pinnulate Dictionary P - adjective Having each pinna subdivided; - said of a leaf, or of its pinnae.
• Pinnulated Dictionary P - adjective Having pinnules.
• Pinnule Dictionary P - noun One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
• Pinnywinkles Dictionary P - noun plural An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.
• Pinole Dictionary P - noun An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.
• Pi on Dictionary P - noun The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.
• Pinpatch Dictionary P - noun The common English periwinkle.
• Pint Dictionary P - noun A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, - used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.
• Pintados Dictionary P - pleural of Pintado.
• Pintado Dictionary P - noun Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.
• Pintail Dictionary P - noun A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.
• Pin-tailed Dictionary P - adjective Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; - said of birds.
• Pintle Dictionary P - noun A little pin.
• Pintos Dictionary P - noun plural A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.
• Pinule Dictionary P - noun One of the sights of an astrolabe.
• Pinus Dictionary P - noun A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.
• Pinweed Dictionary P - noun Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.
• Pinworm Dictionary P - noun A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• Pinxit Dictionary P - A word appended to the artist's name or initials on a painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens painted (this).
• Pinxter Dictionary P - noun See Pinkster.
• Piny Dictionary P - adjective Abounding with pines.
• Pioned Dictionary P - adjective A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., "abounding in marsh marigolds.".
• Pioneer Dictionary P - noun A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
• Pioneered Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pioneer.
• Pioneering Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pioneer.
• Pioner Dictionary P - noun A pioneer.
• Piony Dictionary P - noun See Peony.
• Piot Dictionary P - noun The magpie.
• Pious Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
• Piously Dictionary P - adverb In a pious manner.
• Pip Dictionary P - noun A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.
• Pipped Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pip.
• Pipping Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pip.
• Pipas Dictionary P - pleural of Pipa.
• Pipa Dictionary P - noun The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.
• Pipage Dictionary P - noun Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.
• Pipal tree Dictionary P - Same as Peepul tree.
• Pipe Dictionary P - noun A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.
• Piped Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pipe.
• Piping Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pipe.
• Pipe clay Dictionary P - A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, - used in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring cloth, and in cleansing soldiers' equipments.
• Pipeclay Dictionary P - verb transitive To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.
• Pipefish Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pipelayer Dictionary P - Alt. of Pipe layer.
• Pipe layer Dictionary P - One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.
• Pipelaying Dictionary P - Alt. of Pipe laying.
• Pipe laying Dictionary P - The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.
• Pipemouth Dictionary P - noun Any fish of the genus Fistularia; - called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.
• Piper Dictionary P - noun See Pepper.
• Piperaceous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperaceae) of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities.
• Piperic Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
• Piperidge Dictionary P - noun Same as Pepperidge.
• Piperidine Dictionary P - noun An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.
• Piperine Dictionary P - noun A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species.
• Piperonal Dictionary P - noun A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.
• Piperylene Dictionary P - noun A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain piperidine derivatives.
• Pipestem Dictionary P - noun The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
• Pipestone Dictionary P - noun A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.
• Pipette Dictionary P - noun A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, - used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
• Pipevine Dictionary P - noun The Dutchman's pipe. See under Dutchman.
• Pipewort Dictionary P - noun Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.
• Pipistrel Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pipistrelle.
• Pipistrelle Dictionary P - noun A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); - called also flittermouse.
• Pipit Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.
• Pipkin Dictionary P - noun A small earthen boiler.
• Pippin Dictionary P - noun An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.
• Pippul tree Dictionary P - Same as Peepul tree.
• Pipras Dictionary P - pleural of Pipra.
• Pipra Dictionary P - noun Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridae. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.
• Piprine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the pipras, or the family Pipridae.
• Pipsissewa Dictionary P - noun A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine.
• Pipy Dictionary P - adjective Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.
• Piquancy Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being piquant.
• Piquant Dictionary P - adjective Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.
• Piquantly Dictionary P - adverb In a piquant manner.
• Pique Dictionary P - noun A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, - used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
• Piqued Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pique.
• Piquing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pique.
• Piqueer Dictionary P - intransitive verb See Pickeer.
• Piqueerer Dictionary P - noun See Pickeerer.
• Piquet Dictionary P - noun See Picket.
• Piracies Dictionary P - pleural of Piracy.
• Piracy Dictionary P - noun The act or crime of a pirate.
• Piragua Dictionary P - noun See Pirogue.
• Pirai Dictionary P - noun Same as Piraya.
• Pirameter Dictionary P - noun A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.
• Pirarucu Dictionary P - noun Same as Arapaima.
• Pirate Dictionary P - noun A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.
• Pirated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pirate.
• Pirating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pirate.
• Piratic Dictionary P - adjective Piratical.
• Piratical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.
• Piraya Dictionary P - noun A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.
• Pirie Dictionary P - noun See Pirry.
• Piririgua Dictionary P - noun A South American bird (Guira guira) allied to the cuckoos.
• Pirl Dictionary P - verb transitive To spin, as a top.
• Pirn Dictionary P - noun A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.
• Pirogue Dictionary P - noun A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.
• Pirouette Dictionary P - noun A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
• Pirouetted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pirouette.
• Pirouetting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pirouette.
• Pirry Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pirrie.
• Pirrie Dictionary P - noun A rough gale of wind.
• Pisasphaltum Dictionary P - noun See Pissasphalt.
• Pisay Dictionary P - noun See Pise.
• Piscary Dictionary P - noun The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.
• Piscation Dictionary P - noun Fishing; fishery.
• Piscator Dictionary P - noun A fisherman; an angler.
• Piscatorial Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Piscatory.
• Piscatory Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.
• Pisces Dictionary P - noun plural The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.
• Piscicapture Dictionary P - noun Capture of fishes, as by angling.
• Piscicultural Dictionary P - adjective Relating to pisciculture.
• Pisciculture Dictionary P - noun Fish culture. See under Fish.
• Pisciculturist Dictionary P - noun One who breeds fish.
• Pisciform Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.
• Piscina Dictionary P - noun A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.
• Piscinal Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.
• Piscine Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.
• Piscivorous Dictionary P - adjective Feeding or subsisting on fish.
• Pise Dictionary P - noun A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; - called also pise work.
• Pish Dictionary P - interjection An exclamation of contempt.
• Pishu Dictionary P - noun The Canada lynx.
• Pisiform Dictionary P - adjective Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.
• Pismire Dictionary P - noun An ant, or emmet.
• Pisolite Dictionary P - noun A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; - called also peastone, peagrit.
• Pisolitic Dictionary P - adjective Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.
• Pisophalt Dictionary P - noun Pissasphalt.
• Piss Dictionary P - verb transitive & intransitive To discharge urine, to urinate.
• Pissabed Dictionary P - noun A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
• Pissasphalt Dictionary P - noun Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
• Pist Dictionary P - noun See Piste.
• Pistachio Dictionary P - noun The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; - called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.
• Pistacia Dictionary P - noun The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.
• Pistacite Dictionary P - noun Epidote.
• Pistareen Dictionary P - noun An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.
• Pistazite Dictionary P - noun Same as Pistacite.
• Piste Dictionary P - noun The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
• Pistel Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pistil.
• Pistil Dictionary P - noun An epistle.
• Pistic Dictionary P - adjective Pure; genuine.
• Pistillaceous Dictionary P - adjective Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil.
• Pistillate Dictionary P - adjective Having a pistil or pistils; - usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.
• Pistillation Dictionary P - noun The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.
• Pistillida Dictionary P - pleural of Pistillidium.
• Pistillidium Dictionary P - noun Same as Archegonium.
• Pistilliferous Dictionary P - adjective Pistillate.
• Pistillody Dictionary P - noun The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.
• Pistol Dictionary P - noun The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one hand, - now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names. See Illust. of Revolver.
• Pistoled Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pistol.
• Pistoling Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pistol.
• Pistolade Dictionary P - noun A pistol shot.
• Pistole Dictionary P - noun The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.
• Pistoleer Dictionary P - noun One who uses a pistol.
• Pistolet Dictionary P - noun A small pistol.
• Piston Dictionary P - noun A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.
• Pit Dictionary P - noun A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation.
• Pitted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pit.
• Pitting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pit.
• Pita Dictionary P - noun A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, - used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.
• Pitahaya Dictionary P - noun A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit.
• Pitapat Dictionary P - adverb In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.
• Pitch Dictionary P - noun A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
• Pitched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pitch.
• Pitching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pitch.
• Pitch-black Dictionary P - adjective Black as pitch or tar.
• Pitchblende Dictionary P - noun A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.
• Pitch-dark Dictionary P - adjective Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.
• Pitcher Dictionary P - noun One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
• Pitcherfuls Dictionary P - pleural of Pitcherful.
• Pitcherful Dictionary P - noun The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• Pitch-faced Dictionary P - adjective Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; - said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.
• Pitchfork Dictionary P - noun A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• Pitchiness Dictionary P - noun Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• Pitch-ore Dictionary P - noun Pitchblende.
• Pitchstone Dictionary P - noun An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• Pitchwork Dictionary P - noun The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• Pitchy Dictionary P - adjective Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
• Piteous Dictionary P - adjective Pious; devout.
• Pitfall Dictionary P - noun A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.
• Pitfalling Dictionary P - adjective Entrapping; insnaring.
• Pith Dictionary P - noun The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.
• Pitheci Dictionary P - noun plural A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.
• Pithecoid Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
• Pithful Dictionary P - adjective Full of pith.
• Pithily Dictionary P - adverb In a pithy manner.
• Pithiness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being pithy.
• Pithless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.
• Pit-hole Dictionary P - noun A pit; a pockmark.
• Pithsome Dictionary P - adjective Pithy; robust.
• Pithy Dictionary P - superlative Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.
• Pitiable Dictionary P - adjective Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
• Pitier Dictionary P - noun One who pities.
• Pitiful Dictionary P - adjective Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
• Pitiless Dictionary P - adjective Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.
• Pitmen Dictionary P - pleural of Pitman.
• Pitman Dictionary P - noun One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
• Pitot's tube Dictionary P - A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.
• Pitpan Dictionary P - noun A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America.
• Pitpat Dictionary P - noun & adverb See Pitapat.
• Pitta Dictionary P - noun Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the true thrushes.
• Pittacal Dictionary P - noun 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.
• Pittance Dictionary P - noun An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.
• Pitter Dictionary P - noun A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
• Pittle-pattle Dictionary P - intransitive verb To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
• Pituitary Dictionary P - adjective Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane, or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.
• Pituite Dictionary P - noun Mucus, phlegm.
• Pituitous Dictionary P - adjective Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
• Pities Dictionary P - pleural of Pity.
• Pity Dictionary P - noun Piety.
• Pitied Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pity.
• Pitying Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pity.
• Pityriasis Dictionary P - noun A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.
• Pityroid Dictionary P - adjective Having the form of, or resembling, bran.
• Piu Dictionary P - adverb A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.
• Pivot Dictionary P - noun A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
• Pivoted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Pivot.
• Pivoting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Pivot.
• Pivotal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
• Pix Dictionary P - noun & verb See Pyx.
• Pixies Dictionary P - pleural of Pixie.
• Pixy Dictionary P - noun Alt. of Pixie.
• Pixie Dictionary P - noun An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
• Pixy-led Dictionary P - adjective Led by pixies; bewildered.
• Pizzicato Dictionary P - A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.).
• Pizzle Dictionary P - noun The penis; - so called in some animals, as the bull.
• Placability Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
• Placable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
• Placableness Dictionary P - noun The quality of being placable.
• Placard Dictionary P - noun A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
• Placarded Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Placard.
• Placarding Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Placard.
• Placate Dictionary P - noun Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
• Placated Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Placate.
• Placating Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Placate.
• Placation Dictionary P - noun The act of placating.
• Place Dictionary P - noun Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.
• Placed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Place.
• Placing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Place.
• Placebo Dictionary P - noun The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
• Placeful Dictionary P - adjective In the appointed place.
• Placeless Dictionary P - adjective Having no place or office.
• Placemen Dictionary P - pleural of Placeman.
• Placeman Dictionary P - noun One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government.
• Placement Dictionary P - noun The act of placing, or the state of being placed.
• Placentae Dictionary P - pleural of Placenta.
• Placentas Dictionary P - pleural of Placenta.
• Placenta Dictionary P - noun The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.
• Placental Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.
• Placentalia Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
• Placentary Dictionary P - adjective Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• Placentation Dictionary P - noun The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
• Placentiferous Dictionary P - adjective Having or producing a placenta.
• Placentiform Dictionary P - adjective Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.
• Placentious Dictionary P - adjective Pleasing; amiable.
• Place-proud Dictionary P - adjective Proud of rank or office.
• Placer Dictionary P - noun One who places or sets.
• Placet Dictionary P - noun A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc.
• Placid Dictionary P - adjective Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.
• Placidity Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity.
• Placidly Dictionary P - adverb In a placid manner.
• Placidness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being placid.
• Placit Dictionary P - noun A decree or determination; a dictum.
• Placitory Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.
• Placita Dictionary P - pleural of Placitum.
• Placitum Dictionary P - noun A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
• Plack Dictionary P - noun A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent.
• Placket Dictionary P - noun A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
• Placoderm Dictionary P - noun One of the Placodermi.
• Placodermal Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the placoderms.
• Placodermata Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Placodermi.
• Placodermi Dictionary P - noun plural An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.
• Placoganoid Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.
• Placoganoidei Dictionary P - noun plural A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.
• Placoid Dictionary P - adjective Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.
• Placoides Dictionary P - noun plural A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; - called also Placoidei.
• Placoidian Dictionary P - noun One of the placoids.
• Placophora Dictionary P - noun plural A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.
• Plagae Dictionary P - pleural of Plaga.
• Plaga Dictionary P - noun A stripe of color.
• Plagal Dictionary P - adjective Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; - said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.
• Plagate Dictionary P - adjective Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.
• Plage Dictionary P - noun A region; country.
• Plagiarism Dictionary P - noun The act or practice of plagiarizing.
• Plagiarist Dictionary P - noun One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.
• Plagiarized Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plagiarize.
• Plagiarizing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plagiarize.
• Plagiarize Dictionary P - verb transitive To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).
• Plagiary Dictionary P - intransitive verb To commit plagiarism.
• Plagiaries Dictionary P - pleural of Plagiary.
• Plagihedral Dictionary P - adjective Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
• Plagiocephalic Dictionary P - adjective Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
• Plagiocephaly Dictionary P - noun Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.
• Plagioclase Dictionary P - noun A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar.
• Plagionite Dictionary P - noun A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster.
• Plagiostomatous Dictionary P - adjective Same as Plagiostomous.
• Plagiostome Dictionary P - noun One of the Plagiostomi.
• Plagiostomi Dictionary P - noun plural An order of fishes including the sharks and rays; - called also Plagiostomata.
• Plagiostomous Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.
• Plagiotremata Dictionary P - noun plural Same as Lepidosauria.
• Plagiotropic Dictionary P - adjective Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.
• Plagium Dictionary P - noun Manstealing; kidnaping.
• Plagose Dictionary P - adjective Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master.
• Plague Dictionary P - noun That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
• Plagued Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plague.
• Plaguing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plague.
• Plagueful Dictionary P - adjective Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.
• Plagueless Dictionary P - adjective Free from plagues or the plague.
• Plaguer Dictionary P - noun One who plagues or annoys.
• Plaguily Dictionary P - adverb In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.
• Plaguy Dictionary P - adjective Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. Colloq. Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud.".
• Plaice Dictionary P - noun A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.
• Plaid Dictionary P - noun A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
• Plaided Dictionary P - adjective Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.
• Plaiding Dictionary P - noun Plaid cloth.
• Plain Dictionary P - intransitive verb To lament; to bewail; to complain.
• Plained Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plain.
• Plaining Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plain.
• Plainant Dictionary P - noun One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
• Plain-dealing Dictionary P - adjective Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing.
• Plain-hearted Dictionary P - adjective Frank; sincere; artless.
• Plain-laid Dictionary P - adjective Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.
• Plainly Dictionary P - adverb In a plain manner; clearly.
• Plainness Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being plain.
• Plainsman Dictionary P - noun One who lives in the plains.
• Plain-spoken Dictionary P - adjective Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words.
• Plaint Dictionary P - noun Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
• Plaintful Dictionary P - adjective Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.
• Plaintiff Dictionary P - noun One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; - opposed to defendant.
• Plaintive Dictionary P - noun Repining; complaining; lamenting.
• Plaintless Dictionary P - adjective Without complaint; unrepining.
• Plaisance Dictionary P - noun See Pleasance.
• Plaise Dictionary P - noun See Plaice.
• Plaister Dictionary P - noun See Plaster.
• Plait Dictionary P - noun A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
• Plaited Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plait.
• Plaiting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plait.
• Plaiter Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, plaits.
• Plan Dictionary P - adjective A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
• Planned Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plan.
• Planning Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plan.
• Planariae Dictionary P - pleural of Planaria.
• -rias Dictionary P - pleural of Planaria.
• Planaria Dictionary P - noun Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.
• Planarian Dictionary P - noun One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm.
• Planarida Dictionary P - noun plural A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.
• Planarioid Dictionary P - adjective Like the planarians.
• Planary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a plane.
• Planch Dictionary P - noun A plank.
• Planched Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Planch.
• Planching Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Planch.
• Plancher Dictionary P - noun A floor of wood; also, a plank.
• Planchet Dictionary P - noun A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.
• Planchette Dictionary P - noun A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.
• Plane Dictionary P - noun Any tree of the genus Platanus.
• Planed Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plane.
• Planing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plane.
• Plane-parallel Dictionary P - adjective Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.
• Planer Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a machine for planing wood or metals.
• Planer tree Dictionary P - A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.
• Planet Dictionary P - noun A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
• Plane table Dictionary P - See under Plane, a.
• Planetarium Dictionary P - noun An orrery. See Orrery.
• Planetary Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
• Planeted Dictionary P - adjective Belonging to planets.
• Planetic Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Planetical.
• Planetical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to planets.
• Planetoid Dictionary P - noun A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
• Planetoidal Dictionary P - adjective Pertaining to a planetoid.
• Plane tree Dictionary P - Same as 1st Plane.
• Planet-stricken Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Planet-struck.
• Planet-struck Dictionary P - adjective Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.
• Planetule Dictionary P - noun A little planet.
• Plangency Dictionary P - noun The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.
• Plangent Dictionary P - adjective Beating; dashing, as a wave.
• Plani- Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Plano-.
• Plano- Dictionary P - adjective Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave.
• Planifolious Dictionary P - adjective Flat-leaved.
• Planiform Dictionary P - adjective Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation.
• Planimeter Dictionary P - noun An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.
• Planimetric Dictionary P - adjective Alt. of Planimetrical.
• Planimetrical Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to planimetry.
• Planimetry Dictionary P - noun The mensuration of plane surfaces; - distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes.
• Planipennate Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to Planipennia.
• Planipennia Dictionary P - noun plural A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes.
• Planipetalous Dictionary P - adjective Having flat petals.
• Planished Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Planish.
• Planishing Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Planish.
• Planish Dictionary P - verb To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.
• Planisher Dictionary P - noun One who, or that which, planishes.
• Planisphere Dictionary P - noun The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.
• Planispheric Dictionary P - adjective Of or pertaining to a planisphere.
• Plank Dictionary P - noun A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.
• Planked Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plank.
• Planking Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plank.
• Plank-sheer Dictionary P - noun The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.
• Planless Dictionary P - adjective Having no plan.
• Planner Dictionary P - noun One who plans; a projector.
• Planoblast Dictionary P - noun Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.
• Plano-concave Dictionary P - adjective Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, a plano-concave lens. See Lens.
• Plano-conical Dictionary P - adjective Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other.
• Plano-convex Dictionary P - adjective Plane or flat on one side, and convex on the other; as, a plano-convex lens. See Convex, and Lens.
• Plano-horizontal Dictionary P - adjective Having a level horizontal surface or position.
• Planometer Dictionary P - noun An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface.
• Planometry Dictionary P - noun The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.
• Plano-orbicular Dictionary P - adjective Plane or flat on one side, and spherical on the other.
• Planorbis Dictionary P - noun Any fresh-water air-breathing mollusk belonging to Planorbis and other allied genera, having shells of a discoidal form.
• Plano-subulate Dictionary P - adjective Smooth and awl-shaped. See Subulate.
• Plant Dictionary P - noun A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.
• Planted Dictionary P - imperative & past particle of Plant.
• Planting Dictionary P - past particle & verb noun of Plant.
• Plantable Dictionary P - adjective Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.
• Plantage Dictionary P - noun A word used once by Shakespeare to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted.
• Plantain Dictionary P - noun A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
• Plantal Dictionary P