('Parenchymous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma\n   of a tissue or an organ; as, parenchymatous degeneration.'),('Parenesis','n.','Exhortation.'),('Parenetic','a.','Alt. of Parenetioal'),('Parenetioal','a.','Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive.'),('Parent','n.','One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a\n   mother.'),('Parent','n.','That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as,\n   idleness is the parent of vice.'),('Parentage','n.','Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors\n   considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth;\n   as, a man of noble parentage.'),('Parental','a.','Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental\n   authority; parental obligations.'),('Parental','a.','Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender;\n   affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.'),('Parentally','adv.','In a parental manner.'),('Parentation','n.','Something done or said in honor of the dead;\n   obsequies.'),('Parentele','n.','Kinship; parentage.'),('Parentheses','pl. ','of Parenthesis'),('Parenthesis','n.','A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or\n   explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be\n   grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved\n   lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.'),('Parenthesis','n.','One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic\n   word or phrase.'),('Parenthesize','v. t.','To make a parenthesis of; to include within\n   parenthetical marks.'),('Parenthetic','a.','Alt. of Parenthetical'),('Parenthetical','a.','Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or\n   expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a\n   parenthetic remark.'),('Parenthetical','a.','Using or containing parentheses.'),('Parenthetically','adv.','In a parenthetical manner; by way of\n   parenthesis; by parentheses.'),('Parenthood','n.','The state of a parent; the office or character of a\n   parent.'),('Parentticide','n.','The act of one who kills one\'s own parent.'),('Parentticide','n.','One who kills one\'s own parent; a parricide.'),('Parentless','a.','Deprived of parents.'),('Parepididymis','n.','A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated\n   near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a\n   remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body.'),('Parer','v. t.','One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.'),('Parergon','n.','See Parergy.'),('Parergy','n.','Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.'),('Paresis','n.','Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.'),('Parethmoid','a.','Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; --\n   applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some\n   fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals.'),('Parethmoid','n.','A parethmoid bone.'),('Paretic','a.','Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.'),('Parfay','interj.','By my faith; verily.'),('Parfit','a.','Perfect.'),('Parfitly','adv.','Perfectly.'),('Parforn','v. t.','Alt. of Parfourn'),('Parfourn','v. t.','To perform.'),('Pargasite','n.','A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or\n   hornblende.'),('Pargeboard','n.','See Bargeboard.'),('Pargeted','imp. & p. p.','of Parget'),('Pargeting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parget'),('Parget','v. t.','To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the\n   interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.'),('Parget','v. t.','To paint; to cover over.'),('Parget','v. i.','To lay on plaster.'),('Parget','v. i.','To paint, as the face.'),('Parget','n.','Gypsum or plaster stone.'),('Parget','n.','Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for\n   stuccowork.'),('Parget','n.','Paint, especially for the face.'),('Pargeter','n.','A plasterer.'),('Pargeting','n.','Plasterwork; esp.: (a) A kind of decorative plasterwork\n   in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and\n   external decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the\n   plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface\n   and help the draught.'),('Pargetory','n.','Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster.'),('Parhelic','a.','Of or pertaining to parhelia.'),('Parhelia','pl. ','of Parhelion'),('Parhelion','n.','A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light,\n   sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and\n   sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an\n   anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf.\n   Paraselene.'),('Parhelium','n.','See Parhelion.'),('Pari-','','A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate,\n   paripinnate.'),('Pariah','n.','One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by\n   the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually\n   the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.'),('Pariah','n.','An outcast; one despised by society.'),('Parial','n.','See Pair royal, under Pair, n.'),('Parian','a.','Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea\n   noted for its excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble.'),('Parian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Paros.'),('Parian','n.','A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of\n   which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.'),('Paridigitata','n. pl.','Same as Artiodactyla.'),('Parjdigitate','a.','Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the\n   feet.'),('Parietes','pl. ','of Paries'),('Paries','n.','The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of\n   a barnacle.'),('Parietal','a.','Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to\n   buildings or the care of them.'),('Parietal','a.','Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.'),('Parietal','a.','Of pertaining to the parietes.'),('Parietal','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal\n   bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the\n   frontals and occipitals.'),('Parietal','a.','Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the\n   axis; -- said of a placenta.'),('Parietal','n.','One of the parietal bones.'),('Parietal','n.','One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back\n   of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.'),('Parietary','a.','See Parietal, 2.'),('Parietary','n.','Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st\n   Pellitory.'),('Parietes','n. pl.','The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal\n   parietes; the parietes of the cranium.'),('Parietes','n. pl.','The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.'),('Parietic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in the\n   lichen Parmelia parietina, and called also chrysophanic acid.'),('Parietine','n.','A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.'),('Parieto-','','A combining form used to indicate connection with, or\n   relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal segment of the skull;\n   as, the parieto-mastoid suture.'),('Parigenin','n.','A curdy white substance, obtained by the decomposition\n   of parillin.'),('Parillin','n.','A glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of\n   sarsaparilla, smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline\n   substance; -- called also smilacin, sarsaparilla saponin, and\n   sarsaparillin.'),('Paring','v. t.','The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of\n   anything.'),('Paring','v. t.','That which is pared off.'),('Paripinnate','a.','Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side;\n   having no odd leaflet at the end.'),('Paris','n.','A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris;\n   truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.'),('Paris','n.','The chief city of France.'),('Parish','n.','That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one\n   parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.'),('Parish','n.','The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with\n   its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.'),('Parish','n.','An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by\n   territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite\n   under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also,\n   loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.'),('Parish','n.','In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in\n   other States.'),('Parish','a.','Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish\n   church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as,\n   parish poor.'),('Parishen','n.','A parishioner.'),('Parishional','a.','Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial.'),('Parishioner','n.','One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.'),('Parisian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Paris, the capital of France.'),('Parisian','a.','Of or pertaining to Paris.'),('Parisienne','n.','A female native or resident of Paris.'),('Parisology','n.','The use of equivocal or ambiguous words.'),('Parisyllabic','a.','Alt. of Parisyllabical'),('Parisyllabical','a.','Having the same number of syllables in all its\n   inflections.'),('Paritor','n.','An apparitor.'),('Paritory','n.','Pellitory.'),('Parity','n.','The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent; A\n   like state or degree; equality; close correspondence; analogy; as,\n   parity of reasoning.'),('Park','n.','A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the\n   chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king\'s grant.'),('Park','n.','A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or\n   adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of game, for walking,\n   riding, or the like.'),('Park','n.','A piece of ground, in or near a city or town, inclosed and\n   kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park\n   in New York.'),('Park','n.','A space occupied by the animals, wagons, pontoons, and\n   materials of all kinds, as ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital\n   stores, provisions, etc., when brought together; also, the objects\n   themselves; as, a park of wagons; a park of artillery.'),('Park','n.','A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are grown.'),('Parked','imp. & p. p.','of Park'),('Parking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Park'),('Park','v. t.','To inclose in a park, or as in a park.'),('Park','v. t.','To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park\n   the artillery, the wagons, etc.'),('Parker','n.','The keeper of a park.'),('Parkeria','n.','A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in\n   the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are\n   of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.'),('Parkesine','n.','A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor\n   oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for\n   vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.'),('Parkleaves','n.','A European species of Saint John\'s-wort; the tutsan.\n   See Tutsan.'),('Parlance','n.','Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in\n   legal parlance; in common parlance.'),('Parlando','a. & adv.','Alt. of Parlante'),('Parlante','a. & adv.','Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to\n   be sung or played in the style of a recitative.'),('Parle','v. i.','To talk; to converse; to parley.'),('Parle','n.','Conversation; talk; parley.'),('Parleys','pl. ','of Parley'),('Parley','n.','Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an\n   oral conference with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.'),('Parleyed','imp. & p. p.','of Parley'),('Parleying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parley'),('Parley','v. i.','To speak with another; to confer on some point of mutual\n   concern; to discuss orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with\n   an enemy; to treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners,\n   an armistice, or terms of peace.'),('Parliament','n.','A parleying; a discussion; a conference.'),('Parliament','n.','A formal conference on public affairs; a general\n   council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people\n   having authority to make laws.'),('Parliament','n.','The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom\n   of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords\n   temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House\n   of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when\n   summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the\n   nation, and to enact and repeal laws.'),('Parliament','n.','In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the\n   several principal judicial courts.'),('Parliamental','a.','Parliamentary.'),('Parliamentarian','a.','Of or pertaining to Parliament.'),('Parliamentarian','n.','One who adhered to the Parliament, in opposition\n   to King Charles I.'),('Parliamentarian','n.','One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament\n   or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished\n   parliamentarian.'),('Parliamentarily','adv.','In a parliamentary manner.'),('Parliamentary','a.','Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary\n   authority.'),('Parliamentary','a.','Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary\n   act.'),('Parliamentary','a.','According to the rules and usages of Parliament or\n   of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion.'),('Parlor','n.','A room for business or social conversation, for the\n   reception of guests, etc.'),('Parlor','n.','The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates\n   are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors\n   and friends from without.'),('Parlor','n.','In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and\n   for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the\n   drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having\n   few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually\n   on the ground floor.'),('Parlor','n.','Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room\n   where visitors are received and entertained.'),('Parlous','a.','Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.'),('Parlous','a.','Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.'),('Parmesan','a.','Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.'),('Parnassia','n.','A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white\n   flowers; grass of Parnassus.'),('Parnassian','a.','Of or pertaining to Parnassus.'),('Parnassian','n.','Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to\n   the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World\n   and in America.'),('Parnassus','n.','A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses,\n   and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.'),('Paroccipital','a.','Situated near or beside the occipital condyle or the\n   occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the\n   skull in some animals.'),('Parochial','a.','Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish;\n   as, parochial duties.'),('Parochialism','n.','The quality or state of being parochial in form or\n   nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.'),('Parochiality','n.','The state of being parochial.'),('Parochialize','v. t.','To render parochial; to form into parishes.'),('Parochially','adv.','In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by\n   parishes.'),('Parochian','a.','Parochial.'),('Parochian','n.','A parishioner.'),('Parodic','a.','Alt. of Parodical'),('Parodical','a.','Having the character of parody.'),('Parodist','n.','One who writes a parody; one who parodies.'),('Parodies','pl. ','of Parody'),('Parody','n.','A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author\n   is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what\n   is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of\n   burlesque; travesty.'),('Parody','n.','A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.'),('Parodied','imp. & p. p.','of Parody'),('Parodying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parody'),('Parody','v. t.','To write a parody upon; to burlesque.'),('Paroket','n.','See Paroquet.'),('Parol','n.','A word; an oral utterance.'),('Parol','n.','Oral declaration; word of mouth; also, a writing not under\n   seal.'),('Parol','a.','Given or done by word of mouth; oral; also, given by a\n   writing not under seal; as, parol evidence.'),('Parole','n.','A word; an oral utterance.'),('Parole','n.','Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith; especially\n   (Mil.), promise, upon one\'s faith and honor, to fulfill stated\n   conditions, as not to bear arms against one\'s captors, to return to\n   custody, or the like.'),('Parole','n.','A watchword given only to officers of guards; --\n   distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards.'),('Parole','n.','Oral declaration. See lst Parol, 2.'),('Parole','a.','See 2d Parol.'),('Paroled','imp. & p. p.','of Parole'),('Paroling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parole'),('Parole','v. t.','To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole prisoners.'),('Paromology','n.','A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen\n   one\'s own argument.'),('Paronomasia','n.','A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is\n   used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in\n   opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the\n   sentence; punning.'),('Paronomastic','a.','Alt. of Paronomastical'),('Paronomastical','a.','Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a\n   play upon words.'),('Paronomasy','n.','Paronomasia.'),('Paronychia','n.','A whitlow, or felon.'),('Paronym','n.','A paronymous word.'),('Paronymous','a.','Having the same derivation; allied radically;\n   conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc.'),('Paronymous','a.','Having a similar sound, but different orthography and\n   different meaning; -- said of certain words, as al/ and awl; hair and\n   hare, etc.'),('Paronymy','n.','The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of\n   paronymous words.'),('Paroophoron','n.','A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some\n   animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male.'),('Paroquet','n.','Same as Parrakeet.'),('Parorchis','n.','The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of\n   the excretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffian\n   body.'),('Parosteal','','Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal\n   ossification.'),('Parostosis','n.','Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous\n   tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.'),('Parostotic','a.','Pertaining to parostosis.'),('Parotic','a.','On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external\n   ear.'),('Parotid','a.','Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the\n   salivary gland near the ear.'),('Parotid','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.'),('Parotid','n.','The parotid gland.'),('Parotitis','n.','Inflammation of the parotid glands.'),('Parotoid','a.','Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to\n   cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.'),('Parotoid','n.','A parotoid gland.'),('Parousia','n.','The nativity of our Lord.'),('Parousia','n.','The last day.'),('Parovarium','n.','A group of tubules, a remnant of the Wolffian body,\n   often found near the ovary or oviduct; the epoophoron.'),('Paroxysm','n.','The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that\n   occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.'),('Paroxysm','n.','Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or\n   action; a convulsion; a fit.'),('Paroxysmal','a.','Of the nature of a paroxysm; characterized or\n   accompanied by paroxysms; as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal temper.'),('Paroxytone','a.','A word having an acute accent on the penultimate\n   syllable.'),('Parquet','n.','A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater\n   nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of\n   a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.'),('Parquet','n.','Same as Parquetry.'),('Parquetage','n.','See Parquetry.'),('Parqueted','a.','Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and\n   differently colored figures.'),('Parquetry','n.','A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an\n   inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, --\n   used especially for floors.'),('Parquette','n.','See Parquet.'),('Parr','n.','A young salmon in the stage when it has dark transverse\n   bands; -- called also samlet, skegger, and fingerling.'),('Parr','n.','A young leveret.'),('Parrakeet','n.','Alt. of Parakeet'),('Parakeet','n.','Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a\n   graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet\n   and paraquet.'),('Parral','n.','Alt. of Parrel'),('Parrel','n.','The rope or collar by which a yard or spar is held to the\n   mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or lowered at pleasure.'),('Parrel','n.','A chimney-piece.'),('Parraqua','n.','A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.'),('Parrhesia','n.','Boldness or freedom of speech.'),('Parricidal','a.','Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.'),('Parricide','n.','Properly, one who murders one\'s own father; in a wider\n   sense, one who murders one\'s father or mother or any ancestor.'),('Parricide','n.','The act or crime of murdering one\'s own father or any\n   ancestor.'),('Parricidious','a.','Parricidal.'),('Parrock','n.','A croft, or small field; a paddock.'),('Parrot','n.','In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci.'),('Parrot','n.','Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other\n   genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets,\n   macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a\n   naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of\n   Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots\n   (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds,\n   readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases.'),('Parrot','v. t.','To repeat by rote, as a parrot.'),('Parrot','v. i.','To chatter like a parrot.'),('Parroter','n.','One who simply repeats what he has heard.'),('Parrotry','n.','Servile imitation or repetition.'),('Parrot\'s-bill','n.','The glory pea. See under Glory.'),('Parried','imp. & p. p.','of Parry'),('Parrying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parry'),('Parry','v. t.','To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a\n   thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.'),('Parry','v. t.','To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.'),('Parry','v. i.','To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow,\n   argument, etc.'),('Parries','pl. ','of Parry'),('Parry','n.','A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet\n   exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in\n   debate or other intellectual encounter.'),('Parsed','imp. & p. p.','of Parse'),('Parsing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Parse'),('Parse','n.','To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out\n   the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by\n   government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.'),('Parsee','n.','One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian\n   religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire\n   worshiper; a Gheber.'),('Parsee','n.','The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of\n   the Parsees.'),('Parseeism','n.','The religion and customs of the Parsees.'),('Parser','n.','One who parses.'),('Parsimonious','a.','Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of\n   money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy.'),('Parsimony','n.','Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; --\n   generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.'),('Parsley','n.','An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum),\n   having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a\n   garnish.'),('Parsnip','n.','The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the\n   cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant\n   which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.'),('Parson','n.','A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and\n   corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial\n   church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the\n   cure of souls.'),('Parson','n.','Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is\n   in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.'),('Parsonage','n.','A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for\n   the maintenance of the parson of a parish.'),('Parsonage','n.','The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a\n   parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance\n   or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.'),('Parsonage','n.','Money paid for the support of a parson.'),('Parsoned','a.','Furnished with a parson.'),('Parsonic','a.','Alt. of Parsonical'),('Parsonical','a.','Of or pertaining to a parson; clerical.'),('Parsonish','a.','Appropriate to, or like, a parson; -- used in\n   disparagement.'),('Part','n.','One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is\n   divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number,\n   quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others,\n   a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or\n   not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a\n   constituent.'),('Part','n.','An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like\n   quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which\n   it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.'),('Part','n.','A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a\n   member; an organ; an essential element.'),('Part','n.','A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty;\n   talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.'),('Part','n.','Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.'),('Part','n.','Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number\n   of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; --\n   the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a\n   geometrical figure.'),('Part','n.','That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or\n   which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion;\n   lot; interest; concern; duty; office.'),('Part','n.','One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a\n   controversy; a faction.'),('Part','n.','A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed\n   personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a\n   character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To\n   act a part, under Act.'),('Part','n.','One of the different melodies of a concerted composition,\n   which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each\n   voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin\n   part, etc.'),('Parted','imp. & p. p.','of Part'),('Parting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Part'),('Part','n.','To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two\n   or more parts or pieces; to sever.'),('Part','n.','To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to\n   apportion; to share.'),('Part','n.','To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from\n   contact or contiguity; to sunder.'),('Part','n.','Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt,\n   as combatants.'),('Part','n.','To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or\n   secretion; as, to part gold from silver.'),('Part','n.','To leave; to quit.'),('Part','v. i.','To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to\n   become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the\n   middle.'),('Part','v. i.','To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other;\n   hence, to die; -- often with from.'),('Part','v. i.','To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection\n   of any kind; -- followed by with or from.'),('Part','v. i.','To have a part or share; to partake.'),('Part','adv.','Partly; in a measure.'),('Partable','a.','See Partible.'),('Partage','n.','Division; the act of dividing or sharing.'),('Partage','n.','Part; portion; share.'),('Partook','imp.','of Partake'),('Partaken','p. p.','of Partake'),('Partaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Partake'),('Partake','v. i.','To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with\n   others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to\n   partake of a feast with others.'),('Partake','v. i.','To have something of the properties, character, or\n   office; -- usually followed by of.'),('Partake','v. t.','To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.'),('Partake','v. t.','To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a\n   part to.'),('Partake','v. t.','To distribute; to communicate.'),('Partaker','n.','One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.'),('Partaker','n.','An accomplice; an associate; a partner.'),('Partan','n.','An edible British crab.'),('Parted','a.','Separated; devided.'),('Parted','a.','Endowed with parts or abilities.'),('Parted','a.','Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to\n   the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used\n   chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc.'),('Parter','n.','One who, or which, parts or separates.'),('Parterre','n.','An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or\n   plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of\n   gravel or turf for walking on.'),('Parterre','n.','The pit of a theater; the parquet.'),('Partheniad','n.','A poem in honor of a virgin.'),('Parthenic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Spartan Partheniae, or sons of\n   unmarried women.'),('Parthenogenesis','n.','The production of new individuals from virgin\n   females by means of ova which have the power of developing without the\n   intervention of the male element; the production, without\n   fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the\n   phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.'),('Parthenogenesis','n.','The production of seed without fertilization,\n   believed to occur through the nonsexual formation of an embryo\n   extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.'),('Parthenogenetic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or produced by,\n   parthenogenesis; as, parthenogenetic forms.'),('Parthenogenitive','a.','Parthenogenetic.'),('Parthenogeny','n.','Same as Parthenogenesis.'),('Parthenon','n.','A celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis\n   at Athens. It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important\n   influence on art.'),('Partenope','n.','One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in\n   despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.'),('Partenope','n.','One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter,\n   descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.'),('Parthian','a.','Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.'),('Parthian','n.','A native Parthia.'),('Partial','n.','Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general\n   or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.'),('Partial','n.','Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a\n   question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge\n   should not be partial.'),('Partial','n.','Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably;\n   foolishly fond.'),('Partial','n.','Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel\n   is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by\n   a partial petiole.'),('Partialism','n.','Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the\n   Partialists.'),('Partialist','n.','One who is partial.'),('Partialist','n.','One who holds that the atonement was made only for a\n   part of mankind, that is, for the elect.'),('Partiality','n.','The quality or state of being partial; inclination to\n   favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue\n   bias of mind.'),('Partiality','n.','A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than\n   to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or\n   painting.'),('Partialize','v. t. & i.','To make or be partial.'),('Partially','adv.','In part; not totally; as, partially true; the sun\n   partially eclipsed.'),('Partially','adv.','In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind; with\n   unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially.'),('Partibility','n.','The quality or state of being partible; divisibility;\n   separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance.'),('Partible','a.','Admitting of being parted; divisible; separable;\n   susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may\n   be partible.'),('Participable','a.','Capable of being participated or shared.'),('Participant','a.','Sharing; participating; having a share of part.'),('Participant','n.','A participator; a partaker.'),('Participantly','adv.','In a participant manner.'),('Participate','a.','Acting in common; participating.'),('Participated','imp. & p. p.','of Participate'),('Participating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Participate'),('Participate','v. i.','To have a share in common with others; to take a\n   part; to partake; -- followed by in, formely by of; as, to participate\n   in a debate.'),('Participate','v. t.','To partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.'),('Participate','v. t.','To impart, or give, or share of.'),('Participation','n.','The act or state of participating, or sharing in\n   common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.'),('Participation','n.','Distribution; division into shares.'),('Participation','n.','community; fellowship; association.'),('Participative','a.','Capable of participating.'),('Participator','n.','One who participates, or shares with another; a\n   partaker.'),('Participial','a.','Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a\n   participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.'),('Participial','n.','A participial word.'),('Participialized','imp. & p. p.','of Participialize'),('Participializing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Participialize'),('Participialize','v. t.','To form into, or put in the form of, a\n   participle.'),('Participially','adv.','In the sense or manner of a participle.'),('Participle','n.','A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and\n   adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but\n   taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the\n   sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not hear; exhausted\n   by toil he will sleep soundly, -- written, being, and exhaustedare\n   participles.'),('Participle','a.','Anything that partakes of the nature of different\n   things.'),('Particle','n.','A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little\n   bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.'),('Particle','n.','Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as,\n   he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue.'),('Particle','n.','A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.'),('Particle','n.','The smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the\n   laity.'),('Particle','n.','A subordinate word that is never inflected (a\n   preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used\n   except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.'),('Particolored','a.','Same as Party-colored.'),('Particular','a.','Relating to a part or portion of anything; concerning a\n   part separated from the whole or from others of the class; separate;\n   sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a\n   constellation.'),('Particular','a.','Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or thing;\n   belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal;\n   peculiar; singular.'),('Particular','a.','Separate or distinct by reason of superiority;\n   distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as, he brought\n   no particular news; she was the particular belle of the party.'),('Particular','a.','Concerned with, or attentive to, details; minute;\n   circumstantial; precise; as, a full and particular account of an\n   accident; hence, nice; fastidious; as, a man particular in his dress.'),('Particular','a.','Containing a part only; limited; as, a particular\n   estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.'),('Particular','a.','Holding a particular estate; as, a particular tenant.'),('Particular','a.','Forming a part of a genus; relatively limited in\n   extension; affirmed or denied of a part of a subject; as, a particular\n   proposition; -- opposed to universal: e. g. (particular affirmative)\n   Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise.'),('Particular','n.','A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a\n   whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item, which\n   may be considered separately; as, the particulars of a story.'),('Particular','n.','Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or character;\n   individuality; interest, etc.'),('Particular','n.','One of the details or items of grounds of claim; --\n   usually in the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as,\n   a particular of premises.'),('Particularism','n.','A minute description; a detailed statement.'),('Particularism','n.','The doctrine of particular election.'),('Particularism','n.','Devotion to the interests of one\'s own kingdom or\n   province rather than to those of the empire.'),('Particularist','n.','One who holds to particularism.'),('Particularities','pl. ','of Particularity'),('Particularity','n.','The state or quality of being particular;\n   distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.'),('Particularity','n.','That which is particular'),('Particularity','n.','Peculiar quality; individual characteristic;\n   peculiarity.'),('Particularity','n.','Special circumstance; minute detail; particular.'),('Particularity','n.','Something of special or private concern or interest.'),('Particularization','n.','The act of particularizing.'),('Particularized','imp. & p. p.','of Particularize'),('Particularizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Particularize'),('Particularize','v. t.','To give as a particular, or as the particulars;\n   to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or\n   specify in detail.'),('Particularize','v. i.','To mention or attend to particulars; to give\n   minute details; to be circumstantial; as, to particularize in a\n   narrative.'),('Particularly','adv.','In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific\n   reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.'),('Particularly','adv.','In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a\n   particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure.'),('Particularment','n.','A particular; a detail.'),('Particulate','v. t. & i.','To particularize.'),('Particulate','a.','Having the form of a particle.'),('Particulate','a.','Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as dust,\n   minute germs, etc.'),('Parting','v.','Serving to part; dividing; separating.'),('Parting','v.','Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting\n   salute.'),('Parting','v.','Departing.'),('Parting','v.','Admitting of being parted; partible.'),('Parting','n.','The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted;\n   division; separation.'),('Parting','n.','A separation; a leave-taking.'),('Parting','n.','A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.'),('Parting','n.','The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it\n   meets that of another section.'),('Parting','n.','The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the\n   separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.'),('Parting','n.','A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.'),('Parting','n.','The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.'),('Parting','n.','Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some\n   other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.'),('Partisan','n.','An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is\n   strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.'),('Partisan','n.','The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged\n   in making forays and harassing an enemy.'),('Partisan','n.','Any member of such a corps.'),('Partisan','a.','Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the\n   character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party;\n   as, blinded by partisan zeal.'),('Partisan','a.','Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a\n   partisan officer or corps.'),('Partisan','n.','A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon; a staff.'),('Partisanship','n.','The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a\n   party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.'),('Partita','n.','A suite; a set of variations.'),('Partite','a.','Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple\n   separated down nearly to the base.'),('Partition','v.','The act of parting or dividing; the state of being\n   parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a\n   kingdom.'),('Partition','v.','That which divides or separates; that by which different\n   things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating\n   boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall\n   dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like,\n   from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.'),('Partition','v.','A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a\n   compartment.'),('Partition','v.','The servance of common or undivided interests,\n   particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties,\n   or by compulsion of law.'),('Partition','v.','A score.'),('Partitioned','imp. & p. p.','of Partition'),('Partitioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Partition'),('Partition','v. t.','To divide into parts or shares; to divide and\n   distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.'),('Partition','v. t.','To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.;\n   as, to partition a house.'),('Partitionment','n.','The act of partitioning.'),('Partitive','a.','Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.'),('Partitive','n.','A word expressing partition, or denoting a part.'),('Partitively','adv.','In a partitive manner.'),('Partlet','n.','A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders\n   and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a\n   ruff.'),('Partlet','n.','A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers.'),('Partly','adv.','In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly.'),('Partner','n.','One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker;\n   an associate; a sharer. \"Partner of his fortune.\" Shak. Hence: (a) A\n   husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c)\n   One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in\n   the gains and losses, of a business.'),('Partner','n.','An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a\n   partnership. See Partnership.'),('Partner','n.','A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a\n   deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the\n   like.'),('Partner','v. t.','To associate, to join.'),('Partnership','n.','The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be\n   in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a\n   family or a state.'),('Partnership','n.','A division or sharing among partners; joint possession\n   or interest.'),('Partnership','n.','An alliance or association of persons for the\n   prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a\n   company; a firm; a house; as, to form a partnership.'),('Partnership','n.','A contract between two or more competent persons for\n   joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of\n   them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit\n   between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade,\n   business, or adventure.'),('Partnership','n.','See Fellowship, n., 6.'),('Partook','','imp. of Partake.'),('Partridge','n.','Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds\n   of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family\n   Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird.'),('Partridge','n.','Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging\n   to Colinus, and allied genera.'),('Partridge','n.','The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus).'),('Parture','n.','Departure.'),('Parturiate','v. i.','To bring forth young.'),('Parturiency','n.','Parturition.'),('Parturient','a.','Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young;\n   fruitful.'),('Parturifacient','n.','A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give\n   relief in childbearing.'),('Parturious','a.','Parturient.'),('Parturition','n.','The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of,\n   young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.'),('Parturition','n.','That which is brought forth; a birth.'),('Parturitive','a.','Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.'),('Parties','pl. ','of Party'),('Party','v.','A part or portion.'),('Party','v.','A number of persons united in opinion or action, as\n   distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or\n   association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on\n   questions of public policy.'),('Party','v.','A part of a larger body of company; a detachment; especially\n   (Mil.), a small body of troops dispatched on special service.'),('Party','v.','A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a\n   select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as,\n   to give a party.'),('Party','v.','One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part\n   with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to\n   the contract.'),('Party','v.','The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit, whether an\n   individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.'),('Party','v.','Hence, any certain person who is regarded as being opposed\n   or antagonistic to another.'),('Party','v.','Cause; side; interest.'),('Party','v.','A person; as, he is a queer party.'),('Party','v.','Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the\n   ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.'),('Party','v.','Partial; favoring one party.'),('Party','adv.','Partly.'),('Party-coated','a.','Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors.'),('Party-colored','a.','Alt. of Parti-colored'),('Parti-colored','a.','Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a\n   party-colored flower.'),('Partyism','n.','Devotion to party.'),('Parumbilical','a.','Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or\n   more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the\n   epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.'),('Parusia','n.','A figure of speech by which the present tense is used\n   instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of\n   past, or in the prediction of future, events.'),('Parvanimity','n.','The state or quality of having a little or ignoble\n   mind; pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.'),('Parvenu','n.','An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.'),('Parvis','n.','Alt. of Parvise'),('Parvise','n.','a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a\n   church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of\n   meeting, as for lawyers.'),('Parvitude','n.','Alt. of Parvity'),('Parvity','n.','Littleness.'),('Parvolin','n.','A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of\n   albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.'),('Parvoline','n.','A liquid base, C/H/N, of the pyridine group, found in\n   coal tar; also, any one of the series of isometric substances of which\n   it is the type.'),('Pas','n.','A pace; a step, as in a dance.'),('Pas','n.','Right of going foremost; precedence.'),('Pasan','n.','The gemsbok.'),('Pasch','n.','Alt. of Pascha'),('Pascha','n.','The passover; the feast of Easter.'),('Paschal','a.','Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a\n   paschal lamb; paschal eggs.'),('Paseng','n.','The wild or bezoar goat. See Goat.'),('Pash','v. t.','To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.'),('Pash','v. t.','The head; the poll.'),('Pash','v. t.','A crushing blow.'),('Pash','v. t.','A heavy fall of rain or snow.'),('Pasha','n.','An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey,\n   as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier\n   form was bashaw.'),('Pashalic','n.','The jurisdiction of a pasha.'),('Pashaw','n.','See Pasha.'),('Pasigraphic','a.','Alt. of Pasigraphical'),('Pasigraphical','a.','Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.'),('Pasigraphy','n.','A system of universal writing, or a manner of writing\n   that may be understood and used by all nations.'),('Pasilaly','n.','A form of speech adapted to be used by all mankind;\n   universal language.'),('Pask','n.','See Pasch.'),('Paspy','n.','A kind of minuet, in triple time, of French origin, popular\n   in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and for some time after; -- called also\n   passing measure, and passymeasure.'),('Pasque','n.','See Pasch.'),('Pasquil','n.','See Pasquin.'),('Pasquil','v. t.','See Pasquin.'),('Pasquilant','n.','A lampooner; a pasquiler.'),('Pasquiler','n.','A lampooner.'),('Pasquin','n.','A lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.'),('Pasquin','v. t.','To lampoon; to satiraze.'),('Pasquinade','n.','A lampoon or satirical writing.'),('Pasquinade','v. t.','To lampoon, to satirize.'),('Passed','imp. & p. p.','of Pass'),('Passing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pass'),('Pass','v. i.','To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred\n   from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a\n   following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of\n   motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly,\n   smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge,\n   across the field, beyond the border, etc.'),('Pass','v. i.','To move or be transferred from one state or condition to\n   another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo\n   transition; as, the business has passed into other hands.'),('Pass','v. i.','To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to\n   pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to\n   depart from life; to die.'),('Pass','v. i.','To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and\n   go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to\n   come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present\n   transitorily.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as,\n   their vacation passed pleasantly.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and\n   taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general\n   acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; --\n   followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation.'),('Pass','v. i.','To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to\n   validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power\n   to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted;\n   as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be\n   approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not\n   expect to pass.'),('Pass','v. i.','To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to\n   continue; to live along.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance\n   or opposition; as, we let this act pass.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess.'),('Pass','v. i.','To take heed; to care.'),('Pass','v. i.','To go through the intestines.'),('Pass','v. i.','To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other\n   instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a\n   deed.'),('Pass','v. i.','To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.'),('Pass','v. i.','To decline to take an optional action when it is one\'s\n   turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to\n   decline to make the trump.'),('Pass','v. i.','In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the\n   ball, etc., to another player of one\'s own side.'),('Pass','v. t.','To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed\n   from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a\n   boundary, etc.'),('Pass','v. t.','To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live\n   through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.'),('Pass','v. t.','To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take\n   no note of; to disregard.'),('Pass','v. t.','To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.'),('Pass','v. t.','To go successfully through, as an examination, trail,\n   test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body;\n   as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.'),('Pass','v. t.','To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one\n   person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to\n   hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch\n   was passed from hand to hand.'),('Pass','v. t.','To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence,\n   to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.'),('Pass','v. t.','To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on\n   with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically,\n   to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve\n   as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the\n   senate passed the law.'),('Pass','v. t.','To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass\n   counterfeit money.'),('Pass','v. t.','To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as,\n   to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.'),('Pass','v. t.','To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.'),('Pass','v. t.','To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a\n   sail in furling, and make secure.'),('Pass','v. t.','To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.'),('Pass','v. i.','An opening, road, or track, available for passing;\n   especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise\n   impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain\n   pass.'),('Pass','v. i.','A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an\n   adversary.'),('Pass','v. i.','A movement of the hand over or along anything; the\n   manipulation of a mesmerist.'),('Pass','v. i.','A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the\n   rolls.'),('Pass','v. i.','State of things; condition; predicament.'),('Pass','v. i.','Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a\n   psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad\n   or theater pass; a military pass.'),('Pass','v. i.','Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.'),('Pass','v. i.','Estimation; character.'),('Pass','v. i.','A part; a division.'),('Passable','a.','Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed,\n   penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is\n   passablein boats.'),('Passable','a.','Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated;\n   acceptable; generally receivable; current.'),('Passable','a.','Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection;\n   tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.'),('Passableness','n.','The quality of being passable.'),('Passably','adv.','Tolerably; moderately.'),('Passacaglia','n.','Alt. of Passacaglio'),('Passacaglio','n.','An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow\n   three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a\n   chaconne.'),('Passade','v. i.','Alt. of Passado'),('Passado','v. i.','A pass or thrust.'),('Passado','v. i.','A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the\n   same spot of ground.'),('Passage','v. i.','The act of passing; transit from one place to another;\n   movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as,\n   the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird;\n   the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or\n   channels of the body.'),('Passage','v. i.','Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water,\n   carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of\n   passing; conveyance.'),('Passage','v. i.','Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay\n   one\'s passage.'),('Passage','v. i.','Removal from life; decease; departure; death.'),('Passage','v. i.','Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which\n   one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a\n   common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.'),('Passage','v. i.','A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected\n   or continuous series; as, the passage of time.'),('Passage','v. i.','A separate part of a course, process, or series; an\n   occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.'),('Passage','v. i.','A particular portion constituting a part of something\n   continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition;\n   a paragraph; a clause.'),('Passage','v. i.','Reception; currency.'),('Passage','v. i.','A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.'),('Passage','v. i.','A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.'),('Passage','v. i.','In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a\n   proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of\n   consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the\n   bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other\n   proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the\n   final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence,\n   adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading\n   was delayed.'),('Passager','n.','A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.'),('Passageway','n.','A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.'),('Passant','v. i.','Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.'),('Passant','v. i.','Curs/ry, careless.'),('Passant','v. i.','Surpassing; excelling.'),('Passant','v. i.','Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which\n   is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.'),('Passe','a.','Alt. of Passee'),('Passee','a.','Past; gone by; hence, past one\'s prime; worn; faded; as, a\n   passee belle.'),('Passegarde','n.','A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn\n   the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.'),('Passement','n.','Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.'),('Passementerie','n.','Beaded embroidery for women\'s dresses.'),('Passenger','n.','A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.'),('Passenger','n.','A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach,\n   steamboat, railroad train, etc.'),('Passe partout','n.','That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.'),('Passe partout','n.','A master key; a latchkey.'),('Passe partout','n.','A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or\n   the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes\n   serving for several pictures.'),('Passer','n.','One who passes; a passenger.'),('Passer-by','n.','One who goes by; a passer.'),('Passeres','n. pl.','An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that\n   half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines),\n   together with many other small perching birds.'),('Passeriform','a.','Like or belonging to the Passeres.'),('Passerine','a.','Of or pertaining to the Passeres.'),('Passerine','n.','One of the Passeres.'),('Passibility','n.','The quality or state of being passible; aptness to\n   feel or suffer; sensibility.'),('Passible','a.','Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions\n   from external agents.'),('Passibleness','n.','Passibility.'),('Passiflora','n.','A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is\n   the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen\n   genera and two hundred and fifty species.'),('Passim','adv.','Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim\n   in the poem.'),('Passing','n.','The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of\n   going by or away.'),('Passing','a.','Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond,\n   through, or away; departing.'),('Passing','a.','Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.'),('Passing','adv.','Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing\n   fair; passing strange.'),('Passingly','adv.','Exceedingly.'),('Passion','n.','A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any\n   suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the\n   suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death,\n   esp. in the garden upon the cross.'),('Passion','n.','The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external\n   agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.'),('Passion','n.','Capacity of being affected by external agents;\n   susceptibility of impressions from external agents.'),('Passion','n.','The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and\n   influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular\n   faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or\n   uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or\n   anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or\n   inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so\n   affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate,\n   jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or\n   for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.'),('Passion','n.','Disorder of the mind; madness.'),('Passion','n.','Passion week. See Passion week, below.'),('Passioned','imp. & p. p.','of Passion'),('Passioning','p. pr & vb. n.','of Passion'),('Passion','v. t.','To give a passionate character to.'),('Passion','v. i.','To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to\n   be extremely agitated.'),('Passional','a.','Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting,\n   influenced by, or ministering to, the passions.'),('Passional','n.','A passionary.'),('Passionary','n.','A book in which are described the sufferings of saints\n   and martyrs.'),('Passionate','a.','Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different\n   passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved\n   to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature.'),('Passionate','a.','Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in\n   feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.'),('Passionate','a.','Suffering; sorrowful.'),('Passionate','v. i.','To affect with passion; to impassion.'),('Passionate','v. i.','To express feelingly or sorrowfully.'),('Passionately','adv.','In a passionate manner; with strong feeling;\n   ardently.'),('Passionately','adv.','Angrily; irascibly.'),('Passionateness','n.','The state or quality of being passionate.'),('Passionist','n.','A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737,\n   and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order\n   unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of\n   the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most\n   Holy Cross.'),('Passionless','a.','Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily\n   excited; calm.'),('Passiontide','n.','The last fortnight of Lent.'),('Passive','a.','Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving\n   impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors\n   in the scene.'),('Passive','a.','Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or\n   active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not\n   opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.'),('Passive','a.','Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red\n   phosphorus is comparatively passive.'),('Passive','a.','Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or\n   dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with\n   deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.'),('Passively','adv.','In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.'),('Passively','adv.','As a passive verb; in the passive voice.'),('Passiveness','n.','The quality or state of being passive; unresisting\n   submission.'),('Passivity','n.','Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.'),('Passivity','n.','The tendency of a body to remain in a given state,\n   either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.'),('Passivity','n.','The quality or condition of any substance which has no\n   inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.'),('Pass-key','n.','A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.'),('Passless','a.','Having no pass; impassable.'),('Passmen','pl. ','of Passman'),('Passman','n.','One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman,\n   2.'),('Passover','n.','A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the\n   sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the\n   Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked\n   with the blood of a lamb.'),('Passover','n.','The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the\n   paschal lamb.'),('Pass-parole','n.','An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.'),('Passport','n.','Permission to pass; a document given by the competent\n   officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or\n   travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.'),('Passport','n.','A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of\n   war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a\n   sea letter.'),('Passport','n.','A license granted in time of war for the removal of\n   persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.'),('Passport','n.','Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and\n   general acceptance.'),('Passus','pl. ','of Passus'),('Passuses','pl. ','of Passus'),('Passus','n.','A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers\n   Plowman. See 2d Fit.'),('Password','n.','A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a\n   watchword; a countersign.'),('Passymeasure','n.','See Paspy.'),('Past','v.','Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present\n   nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past\n   offences.'),('Past','n.','A former time or state; a state of things gone by.'),('Past','prep.','Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the\n   reach or influence of.'),('Past','prep.','Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.'),('Past','prep.','Above; exceeding; more than.'),('Past','adv.','By; beyond; as, he ran past.'),('Paste','n.','A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or\n   milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making\n   potter\'s ware.'),('Paste','n.','Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of\n   pies and the like; pastry dough.'),('Paste','n.','A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water,\n   or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in\n   bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for\n   mordant or color.'),('Paste','n.','A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored,\n   used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.'),('Paste','n.','A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit,\n   licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.'),('Paste','n.','The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.'),('Pasted','imp. & p. p.','of Paste'),('Pasting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Paste'),('Paste','v. t.','To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.'),('Pasteboard','n.','A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several\n   single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and\n   pressed into molds, etc.'),('Pasteboard','n.','A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding\n   board.'),('Pastel','n.','A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with\n   gum water.'),('Pastel','n.','A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria);\n   also, the dye itself.'),('Paster','n.','One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.'),('Paster','n.','A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be\n   pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed\n   ballot.'),('Pastern','n.','The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals,\n   between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.'),('Pastern','n.','A shackle for horses while pasturing.'),('Pastern','n.','A patten.'),('Pasteurism','n.','A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for\n   preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations\n   with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.'),('Pasteurism','n.','Pasteurization.'),('Pasteurization','n.','A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or\n   checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure\n   to a temperature of 140¡ F., thus destroying the vitality of the\n   contained germs or ferments.'),('Pasteurize','v. t.','To subject to pasteurization.'),('Pasteurize','v. t.','To treat by pasteurism.'),('Pasticcio','n.','A medley; an olio.'),('Pasticcio','n.','A work of art imitating directly the work of another\n   artist, or of more artists than one.'),('Pasticcio','n.','A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of\n   parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.'),('Pastil','n.','Alt. of Pastille'),('Pastille','n.','A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin,\n   cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the\n   air of a room.'),('Pastille','n.','An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.'),('Pastille','n.','See Pastel, a crayon.'),('Pastime','n.','That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably;\n   sport; amusement; diversion.'),('Pastime','v. i.','To sport; to amuse one\'s self.'),('Pastor','n.','A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.'),('Pastor','n.','A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister\n   having the charge of a church and parish.'),('Pastor','n.','A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains\n   of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy\n   greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.'),('Pastorage','n.','The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor;\n   pastorate.'),('Pastoral','a.','Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural\n   life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.'),('Pastoral','a.','Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a\n   church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.'),('Pastoral','n.','A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a\n   poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl;\n   a bucolic.'),('Pastoral','n.','A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for\n   instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical\n   composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.'),('Pastoral','n.','A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a\n   letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a\n   letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.'),('Pastorale','n.','A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8\n   or 12-8 time.'),('Pastorale','n.','A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.'),('Pastorally','adv.','In a pastoral or rural manner.'),('Pastorally','adv.','In the manner of a pastor.'),('Pastorate','n.','The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.'),('Pastorless','a.','Having no pastor.'),('Pastorling','n.','An insignificant pastor.'),('Pastorly','a.','Appropriate to a pastor.'),('Pastorship','n.','Pastorate.'),('Pastries','pl. ','of Pastry'),('Pastry','n.','The place where pastry is made.'),('Pastry','n.','Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of\n   paste, as pies, tarts, etc.'),('Pasturable','a.','Fit for pasture.'),('Pasturage','n.','Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.'),('Pasturage','n.','Grass growing for feed; grazing.'),('Pasturage','n.','The business of feeding or grazing cattle.'),('Pasture','n.','Food; nourishment.'),('Pasture','n.','Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the\n   food of cattle taken by grazing.'),('Pasture','n.','Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.'),('Pastured','imp. & p. p.','of Pasture'),('Pasturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pasture'),('Pasture','v. t.','To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass\n   as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture\n   forty cows.'),('Pasture','v. i.','To feed on growing grass; to graze.'),('Pastureless','a.','Destitute of pasture.'),('Pasturer','n.','One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See\n   Agister.'),('Pasty','a.','Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.'),('Pasties','pl. ','of Pasty'),('Pasty','n.','A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a\n   crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat\n   pie.'),('Patted','imp. & p. p.','of Pat'),('Patting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pat'),('Pat','v. t.','To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke\n   lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.'),('Pat','n.','A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.'),('Pat','n.','A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.'),('Pat','a.','Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.'),('Pat','adv.','In a pat manner.'),('Pataca','n.','The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.'),('Patache','n.','A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men,\n   orders, or treasure.'),('Patacoon','n.','See Pataca.'),('Patagia','pl. ','of Patagium'),('Patagium','n.','In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore\n   limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form\n   the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore\n   limb with the body.'),('Patagium','n.','One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the\n   bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of\n   Butterfly.'),('Patagonian','a.','Of or pertaining to Patagonia.'),('Patagonian','n.','A native of Patagonia.'),('Patamar','n.','A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of\n   Bombay and Ceylon.'),('Patas','n.','A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the\n   red monkey.'),('Patavinity','n.','The use of local or provincial words, as in the\n   peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called\n   from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy\'s nativity.'),('Patch','n.','A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or\n   otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an\n   old garment to cover a hole.'),('Patch','n.','A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a\n   patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.'),('Patch','n.','A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to\n   hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.'),('Patch','n.','A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a\n   rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.'),('Patch','n.','Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground;\n   a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.'),('Patch','n.','A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect\n   of dispart, in sighting.'),('Patch','n.','A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.'),('Patched','imp. & p. p.','of Patch'),('Patching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Patch'),('Patch','v. t.','To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather,\n   or the like; as, to patch a coat.'),('Patch','v. t.','To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on;\n   to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.'),('Patch','v. t.','To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.'),('Patch','v. t.','To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches;\n   to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to\n   patch up a truce.'),('Patcher','n.','One who patches or botches.'),('Patchery','n.','Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.'),('Patchingly','adv.','Knavishy; deceitfully.'),('Patchouli','n.','Alt. of Patchouly'),('Patchouly','n.','A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East\n   Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is\n   made.'),('Patchouly','n.','The perfume made from this plant.'),('Patchwork','n.','Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of\n   various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous\n   or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing\n   putched up.'),('Patchy','a.','Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.'),('Pate','a.','See Patte.'),('Pate','n.','A pie. See Patty.'),('Pate','n.','A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form,\n   and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified\n   place.'),('Pate','n.','The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.'),('Pate','n.','The skin of a calf\'s head.'),('Pated','a.','Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated;\n   shallow-pated.'),('Patee','n.','See Pattee.'),('Patefaction','n.','The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open\n   declaration.'),('Patela','n.','A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river\n   Ganges; -- called also puteli.'),('Patellae','pl. ','of Patella'),('Patella','n.','A small dish, pan, or vase.'),('Patella','n.','The kneepan; the cap of the knee.'),('Patella','n.','A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of\n   limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common\n   European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.'),('Patella','n.','A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat,\n   and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.'),('Patellar','a.','Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.'),('Patelliform','a.','Having the form of a patella.'),('Patelliform','a.','Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.'),('Patellulae','pl. ','of Patellula'),('Patellula','n.','A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.'),('Paten','n.','A plate.'),('Paten','n.','The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the\n   Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is\n   usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.'),('Patena','n.','A paten.'),('Patena','n.','A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.'),('Patency','n.','The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.'),('Patency','n.','The state of being patent or evident.'),('Patent','a.','Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest;\n   public; conspicuous.'),('Patent','a.','Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring\n   some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under\n   3d Letter.'),('Patent','a.','Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by\n   official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal\n   of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent\n   medicines.'),('Patent','a.','Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or\n   branch; as, a patent leaf.'),('Patent','a.','A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document,\n   issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some\n   person or party.'),('Patent','a.','A writing securing to an invention.'),('Patent','a.','A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.'),('Patent','a.','The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence,\n   figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.'),('Patented','imp. & p. p.','of Patent'),('Patenting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Patent'),('Patent','v. t.','To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to\n   secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent\n   public lands.'),('Patentable','a.','Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.'),('Patentee','n.','One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by\n   patent.'),('Patent-hammered','a.','Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer\n   the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.'),('Patently','adv.','Openly; evidently.'),('Paterae','pl. ','of Patera'),('Patera','n.','A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the\n   Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.'),('Patera','n.','A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in\n   relief on friezes, and the like.'),('Paterero','n.','See Pederero.'),('Pateresfamilias','pl. ','of Paterfamilias'),('Paterfamilias','n.','The head of a family; in a large sense, the\n   proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.'),('Paternal','a.','Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the\n   disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as,\n   paternal care.'),('Paternal','a.','Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a\n   paternal estate.'),('Paternalism','n.','The theory or practice of paternal government. See\n   Paternal government, under Paternal.'),('Paternally','adv.','In a paternal manner.'),('Paternity','n.','The relation of a father to his child; fathership;\n   fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.'),('Paternity','n.','Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as,\n   the paternity of a child.'),('Paternity','n.','Origin; authorship.'),('Paternoster','n.','The Lord\'s prayer, so called from the first two words\n   of the Latin version.'),('Paternoster','n.','A beadlike ornament in moldings.'),('Paternoster','n.','A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.'),('Paths','pl. ','of Path'),('Path','n.','A trodden way; a footway.'),('Path','n.','A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has\n   moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of\n   a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a\n   course of life or action.'),('Pathed','imp. & p. p.','of Path'),('Pathing','pr.p. & vb. n.','of Path'),('Path','v. t.','To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).'),('Path','v. i.','To walk or go.'),('Pathematic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or\n   suffering.'),('Pathetic','a.','Expressing or showing anger; passionate.'),('Pathetic','a.','Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or\n   grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.'),('Pathetical','a.','Pathetic.'),('Pathetism','n.','See Mesmerism.'),('Pathfinder','n.','One who discovers a way or path; one who explores\n   untraversed regions.'),('Pathic','n.','A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.'),('Pathic','a.','Passive; suffering.'),('Pathless','a.','Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable;\n   as, pathless woods.'),('Pathmaker','n.','One who, or that which, makes a way or path.'),('Pathogene','n.','One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria\n   found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to\n   be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic\n   bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.'),('Pathogenesis','n.','Pathogeny.'),('Pathogenetic','a.','Pathogenic.'),('Pathogenic','a.','Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as,\n   a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.'),('Pathogeny','n.','The generation, and method of development, of disease;\n   as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.'),('Pathogeny','n.','That branch of pathology which treats of the generation\n   and development of disease.'),('Pathognomonic','a.','Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease;\n   indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.'),('Pathognomy','n.','Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by\n   which human passions are indicated.'),('Pathologic','a.','Alt. of Pathological'),('Pathological','a.','Of or pertaining to pathology.'),('Pathologist','n.','One skilled in pathology; an investigator in\n   pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to\n   determine the causes of the diseases.'),('Pathologies','pl. ','of Pathology'),('Pathology','n.','The science which treats of diseases, their nature,\n   causes, progress, symptoms, etc.'),('-ias','pl. ','of Pathopoela'),('Pathopoela','n.','A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the\n   passion.'),('Pathos','n.','That quality or property of anything which touches the\n   feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens\n   tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth\n   of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of\n   a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.'),('Pathway','n.','A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used\n   figuratively.'),('Patible','a.','Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.'),('Patibulary','a.','Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.'),('Patibulated','a.','Hanged on a gallows.'),('Patience','n.','The state or quality of being patient; the power of\n   suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs,\n   as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.'),('Patience','n.','The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for\n   something due or hoped for; forbearance.'),('Patience','n.','Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.'),('Patience','n.','Sufferance; permission.'),('Patience','n.','A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America\n   than in Europe; monk\'s rhubarb.'),('Patience','n.','Solitaire.'),('Patient','a.','Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer\n   or bear.'),('Patient','a.','Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring\n   or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble;\n   long-suffering.'),('Patient','a.','Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly\n   diligent; as, patient endeavor.'),('Patient','a.','Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty;\n   not overeager; composed.'),('Patient','a.','Forbearing; long-suffering.'),('Patient','n.','ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive\n   recipient.'),('Patient','n.','A person under medical or surgical treatment; --\n   correlative to physician or nurse.'),('Patient','v. t.','To compose, to calm.'),('Patiently','adv.','In a patient manner.'),('Patin','n.','Alt. of Patine'),('Patine','n.','A plate. See Paten.'),('Patina','n.','A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.'),('Patina','n.','The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art;\n   especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and\n   medals.'),('Patio','n.','A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or\n   where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect\n   intermixture and amalgamation.'),('Patly','adv.','Fitly; seasonably.'),('Patness','n.','Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness;\n   convenience.'),('Patois','n.','A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial\n   form of speech.'),('Patonce','a.','Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the\n   end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.'),('Patrial','a.','Derived from the name of a country, and designating an\n   inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.'),('Patrial','n.','A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman\n   of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.'),('Patriarch','n.','The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his\n   family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of\n   families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history\n   to those who lived before the time of Moses.'),('Patriarch','n.','A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as,\n   the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.'),('Patriarch','n.','A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.'),('Patriarchal','a.','Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs;\n   possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or\n   jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.'),('Patriarchal','a.','Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.'),('Patriarchal','a.','Having an organization of society and government in\n   which the head of the family exercises authority over all its\n   generations.'),('Patriarchate','n.','The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.'),('Patriarchate','n.','The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.'),('Patriarchate','n.','A patriarchal form of government or society. See\n   Patriarchal, a., 3.'),('Patriarchdom','n.','The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch;\n   patriarchate.'),('Patriarchic','a.','Patriarchal.'),('Patriarchism','n.','Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.'),('Patriarchship','n.','A patriarchate.'),('Patriarchy','n.','The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.'),('Patriarchy','n.','Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.'),('Patrician','a.','Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or\n   senators, or patricians.'),('Patrician','a.','Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high\n   birth; noble; not plebeian.'),('Patrician','n.','Originally, a member of any of the families constituting\n   the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development\n   of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special\n   privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.'),('Patrician','n.','A person of high birth; a nobleman.'),('Patrician','n.','One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers;\n   one versed in patristic lore.'),('Patricianism','n.','The rank or character of patricians.'),('Patriciate','n.','The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office\n   of patriarch.'),('Patricidal','a.','Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.'),('Patricide','n.','The murderer of his father.'),('Patricide','n.','The crime of one who murders his father. Same as\n   Parricide.'),('Patrimonial','a.','Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from\n   ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.'),('Patrimonially','adv.','By inheritance.'),('Patrimonies','pl. ','of Patrimony'),('Patrimony','n.','A right or estate inherited from one\'s father; or, in a\n   larger sense, from any ancestor.'),('Patrimony','n.','Formerly, a church estate or endowment.'),('Patriot','n.','One who loves his country, and zealously supports its\n   authority and interests.'),('Patriot','a.','Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.'),('Patriotic','a.','Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one\'s\n   country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one\'s\n   country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.'),('Patriotical','a.','Patriotic; that pertains to a patriot.'),('Patriotism','n.','Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one\'s\n   country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which\n   inspires one to serve one\'s country.'),('Patripassian','n.','One of a body of believers in the early church who\n   denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who,\n   accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.'),('Patrist','n.','One versed in patristics.'),('Patristic','a.','Alt. of Patristical'),('Patristical','a.','Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian\n   church.'),('Patristics','n.','That departnent of historical theology which treats of\n   the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.'),('Patrizate','v. i.','To imitate one\'s father.'),('Patrocinate','v. t.','To support; to patronize.'),('Patrocination','n.','The act of patrocinating or patronizing.'),('Patrociny','n.','See Patrocination.'),('Patrolled','imp. & p. p.','of Patrol'),('Patrolling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Patrol'),('Patrol','v. i.','To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse\n   a police district or beat.'),('Patrol','v.','t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman;\n   as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat.'),('Patrol','v. i.','A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and\n   between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men,\n   to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.'),('Patrol','v. i.','A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of\n   outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy\'s\n   whereabouts.'),('Patrol','v. i.','The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a\n   detachment whose duty it is to patrol.'),('Patrol','v. i.','Any perambulation of a particular line or district to\n   guard it; also, the men thus guarding; as, a customs patrol; a fire\n   patrol.'),('Patrole','n. & v.','See Patrol, n. & v.'),('Patrolmen','pl. ','of Patrolman'),('Patrolman','n.','One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who\n   patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.'),('Patron','n.','One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.'),('Patron','n.','A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some\n   paternal rights over him.'),('Patron','n.','A man of distinction under whose protection another person\n   placed himself.'),('Patron','n.','An advocate or pleader.'),('Patron','n.','One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a\n   furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.'),('Patron','n.','One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.'),('Patron','n.','A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.'),('Patron','n.','See Padrone, 2.'),('Patron','v. t.','To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.'),('Patron','a.','Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection;\n   tutelary.'),('Patronage','n.','Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or\n   aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters;\n   patronage given to an author.'),('Patronage','n.','Business custom.'),('Patronage','n.','Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.'),('Patronage','n.','The right of nomination to political office; also, the\n   offices, contracts, honors, etc., which a public officer may bestow by\n   favor.'),('Patronage','n.','The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical\n   benefice; advowson.'),('Patronage','v. t.','To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.'),('Patronal','a.','Patron; protecting; favoring.'),('Patronate','n.','The right or duty of a patron; patronage.'),('Patroness','n.','A female patron or helper.'),('Patronization','n.','The act of patronizing; patronage; support.'),('Patronized','imp. & p. p.','of Patronize'),('Patronizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Patronize'),('Patronize','v. t.','To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance;\n   to favor; to aid.'),('Patronize','v. t.','To trade with customarily; to frequent as a customer.'),('Patronize','v. t.','To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and\n   protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as, to patronize\n   one\'s equals.'),('Patronizer','n.','One who patronizes.'),('Patronizing','a.','Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of\n   airs of a superior toward another.'),('Patronless','a.','Destitute of a patron.'),('Patronomayology','n.','That branch of knowledge which deals with personal\n   names and their origin; the study of patronymics.'),('Patronymic','a.','Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.'),('Patronymic','n.','A modification of the father\'s name borne by the son; a\n   name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of\n   Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald;\n   Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family\n   name.'),('Patronymical','a.','Same as Patronymic.'),('Patroon','n.','One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with\n   manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch\n   governments of New York and New Jersey.'),('Patroonship','n.','The office of a patroon.'),('Patte','a.','Alt. of Pattee'),('Pattee','a.','Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or\n   having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of\n   Cross.'),('Pattemar','n.','See Patamar.'),('Patten','n.','A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring,\n   worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.'),('Patten','n.','A stilt.'),('Pattened','a.','Wearing pattens.'),('Pattered','imp. & p. p.','of Patter'),('Pattering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Patter'),('Patter','v. i.','To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp\n   sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.'),('Patter','v. i.','To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.'),('Patter','v. i.','To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.'),('Patter','v. t.','To spatter; to sprinkle.'),('Patter','v. i.','To mutter; as prayers.'),('Patter','n.','A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of\n   rain; the patter of little feet.'),('Patter','n.','Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.'),('Patter','n.','The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves\'s patter; gypsies\'\n   patter.'),('Patterer','n.','One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street\n   peddler.'),('Pattern','n.','Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an\n   exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated;\n   as, a pattern of a machine.'),('Pattern','n.','A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a\n   specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.'),('Pattern','n.','Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.'),('Pattern','n.','Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a\n   beautiful pattern.'),('Pattern','n.','Something made after a model; a copy.'),('Pattern','n.','Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or\n   forming objects; as, a dressmaker\'s pattern.'),('Pattern','n.','A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to\n   receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several\n   parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.'),('Patterned','imp. & p. p.','of Pattern'),('Patterning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pattern'),('Pattern','v. t.','To make or design (anything) by, from, or after,\n   something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.'),('Pattern','v. t.','To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.'),('Patties','pl. ','of Patty'),('Patty','n.','A little pie.'),('Pattypan','n.','A pan for baking patties.'),('Pattypan','n.','A patty.'),('Patulous','a.','Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts\n   loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of\n   flowers.'),('Pau','n.','See Pah.'),('Pauciloquent','a.','Uttering few words; brief in speech.'),('Pauciloquy','n.','Brevity in speech.'),('Paucispiral','a.','Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral\n   operculum or shell.'),('Paucity','n.','Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.'),('Paucity','n.','Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity\n   of blood.'),('Paugies','pl. ','of Paugy'),('Paugie','n.','Alt. of Paugy'),('Paugy','n.','The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.'),('Pauhaugen','n.','The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.'),('Paul','n.','See Pawl.'),('Paul','n.','An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.'),('Pauldron','n.','A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of\n   the body piece and arm piece.'),('Paulian','n.','Alt. of Paulianist'),('Paulianist','n.','A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in\n   the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.'),('Paulician','n.','One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in\n   Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the\n   part of the New.'),('Paulin','n.','See Tarpaulin.'),('Pauline','a.','Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings;\n   resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline\n   epistles; Pauline doctrine.'),('Paulist','n.','A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St.\n   Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York.\n   The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.'),('Paulownia','n.','A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceae,\n   consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.'),('Paum','v. t. & i.','To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.'),('Paunce','n.','The pansy.'),('Paunch','n.','The belly and its contents; the abdomen; also, the first\n   stomach, or rumen, of ruminants. See Rumen.'),('Paunch','n.','A paunch mat; -- called also panch.'),('Paunch','n.','The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.'),('Paunched','imp. & p. p.','of Paunch'),('Paunching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Paunch'),('Paunch','v. t.','To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to\n   disembowel.'),('Paunch','v. t.','To stuff with food.'),('Paunchy','a.','Pot-bellied.'),('Paune','n.','A kind of bread. See Pone.'),('Pauper','n.','A poor person; especially, one development on private or\n   public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper\n   labor.'),('Pauperism','n.','The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent\n   persons requiring support from the community.'),('Pauperization','n.','The act or process of reducing to pauperism.'),('Pauperized','imp. & p. p.','of Pauperize'),('Pauperizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pauperize'),('Pauperize','v. t.','To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the\n   peasantry.'),('Pauropoda','n. pl.','An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs\n   of legs and destitute of tracheae.'),('Pause','n.','A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action;\n   interruption; suspension; cessation.'),('Pause','n.','Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt.'),('Pause','n.','In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension\n   of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their\n   parts.'),('Pause','n.','In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and\n   nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach\n   the pupil to mind the pauses.'),('Pause','n.','A break or paragraph in writing.'),('Pause','n.','A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.'),('Paused','imp. & p. p.','of Pause'),('Pausing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pause'),('Pause','n.','To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit\n   speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.'),('Pause','n.','To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.'),('Pause','n.','To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.'),('Pause','n.','To stop in order to consider; hence, to consider; to\n   reflect.'),('Pause','v. t.','To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.'),('Pauser','n.','One who pauses.'),('Pausingly','adv.','With pauses; haltingly.'),('Pauxi','n.','A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often\n   domesticated.'),('Pavage','n.','See Pavage.'),('Pavan','n.','A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state\n   costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to\n   those of the peacock.'),('Pave','n.','The pavement.'),('Paved','imp. & p. p.','of Pave'),('Paving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pave'),('Pave','v. t.','To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so\n   as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages,\n   or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other\n   solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.'),('Pave','v. t.','Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a\n   path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an\n   enterprise.'),('Pavement','n.','That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of\n   solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for\n   travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles\n   or colored bricks.'),('Pavement','v. t.','To furnish with a pavement; to pave.'),('Paven','n.','See Pavan.'),('Paver','n.','One who paves; one who lays a pavement.'),('Pavesade','n.','A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the\n   side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the\n   operations on board.'),('Pavese','n.','Alt. of Pavesse'),('Pavesse','n.','Pavise.'),('Paviage','n.','A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.'),('Pavian','n.','See Pavan.'),('Pavid','a.','Timid; fearful.'),('Pavidity','n.','Timidity.'),('Pavier','n.','A paver.'),('Paviin','n.','A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the\n   Horse-chestnut family.'),('Pavilion','n.','A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee;\n   esp., a tent raised on posts.'),('Pavilion','n.','A single body or mass of building, contained within\n   simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or\n   garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an\n   angle or central feature of a large pile.'),('Pavilion','n.','A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.'),('Pavilion','n.','Same as Tent (Her.)'),('Pavilion','n.','That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle\n   and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.'),('Pavilion','n.','The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of\n   the Fallopian tube.'),('Pavilion','n.','A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.'),('Pavilioned','imp. & p. p.','of Pavilion'),('Pavilioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pavilion'),('Pavilion','v. t.','To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or\n   tents.'),('Pavin','n.','See Pavan.'),('Paving','n.','The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some\n   place with a pavement.'),('Paving','n.','A pavement.'),('Pavior','n.','One who paves; a paver.'),('Pavior','n.','A rammer for driving paving stones.'),('Pavior','n.','A brick or slab used for paving.'),('Pavise','n.','A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a\n   pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it.'),('Pavisor','n.','A soldier who carried a pavise.'),('Pavo','n.','A genus of birds, including the peacocks.'),('Pavo','n.','The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.'),('Pavon','n.','A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight\'s\n   lance; a pennon.'),('Pavone','n.','A peacock.'),('Pavonian','a.','Of or pertaining to a peacock.'),('Pavonine','a.','Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.'),('Pavonine','a.','Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a\n   peacock, as in colors; iridescent.'),('Paw','n.','The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat,\n   etc.'),('Paw','n.','The hand.'),('Paw','v. i.','To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape\n   with the forefoot.'),('Pawed','imp. & p. p.','of Paw'),('Pawing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Paw'),('Paw','v. t.','To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws;\n   hence, to handle fondly or rudely.'),('Paw','v. t.','To scrape or beat with the forefoot.'),('Pawk','n.','A small lobster.'),('Pawky','a.','Arch; cunning; sly.'),('Pawl','n.','A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine,\n   adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part,\n   as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one\n   direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch,\n   click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.'),('Pawl','v. t.','To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.'),('Pawn','n.','See Pan, the masticatory.'),('Pawn','n.','A man or piece of the lowest rank.'),('Pawn','n.','Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the\n   payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.'),('Pawn','n.','State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a\n   promise.'),('Pawn','n.','A stake hazarded in a wager.'),('Pawned','imp. & p. p.','of Pawn'),('Pawning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pawn'),('Pawn','v. t.','To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the\n   payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one\'s\n   watch.'),('Pawn','v. t.','To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to\n   risk; to wager; to hazard.'),('Pawnable','a.','Capable of being pawned.'),('Pawnbroker','n.','One who makes a business of lending money on the\n   security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.'),('Pawnbroking','n.','The business of a pawnbroker.'),('Pawnee','n.','One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who\n   takes anything in pawn.'),('Pawnees','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly\n   occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the\n   Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include\n   also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.'),('Pawner','n.','Alt. of Pawnor'),('Pawnor','n.','One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the\n   payment of borrowed money or of a debt.'),('Pawpaw','n.','See Papaw.'),('Pax','n.','The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now\n   substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.'),('Pax','n.','A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of\n   the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by\n   the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory.\n   It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.'),('Paxillose','a.','Resembling a little stake.'),('Paxilli','pl. ','of Paxillus'),('Paxillus','n.','One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of\n   certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which\n   is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in\n   Appendix.'),('Paxwax','n.','The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds.\n   It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical\n   vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and\n   packwax.'),('Paxywaxy','n.','See Paxwax.'),('Pay','v. t.','To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with\n   tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to\n   smear.'),('Paid','imp. & p. p.','of Pay'),('Paying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pay'),('Pay','v. t.','To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another\n   person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge\n   one\'s obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to\n   remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants.'),('Pay','v. t.','Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite\n   according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.'),('Pay','v. t.','To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving\n   or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to\n   the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering\n   (money owed).'),('Pay','v. t.','To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render\n   duty, as that which has been promised.'),('Pay','v. t.','To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay\n   attention; to pay a visit.'),('Pay','v. i.','To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or\n   satisfaction; to discharge a debt.'),('Pay','v. i.','Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or\n   trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or\n   pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait;\n   politeness always pays.'),('Pay','n.','Satisfaction; content.'),('Pay','n.','An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or\n   services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation;\n   recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a\n   soldier.'),('Payable','a.','That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid;\n   justly due.'),('Payable','a.','That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.'),('Payable','a.','Matured; now due.'),('Payee','n.','The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the\n   person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount\n   is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.'),('Payen','n. & a.','Pagan.'),('Payer','n.','One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or\n   note has been, or should be, paid.'),('Paymaster','n.','One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites;\n   specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an\n   employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep\n   account of the same.'),('Payment','n.','The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge\n   of a debt or an obligation.'),('Payment','n.','That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a\n   debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward;\n   recompense; requital; return.'),('Payment','n.','Punishment; chastisement.'),('Payn','n.','Bread. Having'),('Payndemain','n.','The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages;\n   -- called also paynemain, payman.'),('Paynim','n. & a.','See Painim.'),('Paynize','v. t.','To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling\n   kyanizing.'),('Payor','n.','See Payer.'),('Payse','v. t.','To poise.'),('Paytine','n.','An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of\n   the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.'),('Pea','n.','The sliding weight on a steelyard.'),('Pea','n.','See Peak, n., 3.'),('Peas','pl. ','of Pea'),('Pease','pl. ','of Pea'),('Pea','n.','A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties,\n   much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the\n   pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.'),('Pea','n.','A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed\n   of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.)\n   esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of\n   the seed.'),('Peabird','n.','The wryneck; -- so called from its note.'),('Peabody bird','','An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a\n   conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called\n   also White-throated sparrow.'),('Peace','v.','A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance\n   or agitation; calm; repose'),('Peace','v.','Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies.'),('Peace','v.','Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law.'),('Peace','v.','Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions;\n   tranquillity of mind or conscience.'),('Peace','v.','Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.'),('Peace','v. t. & i.','To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.'),('Peaceable','a.','Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not\n   disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.'),('Peacebreaker','n.','One who disturbs the public peace.'),('Peaceful','a.','Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war,\n   tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a\n   peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.'),('Peaceful','a.','Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation;\n   pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.'),('Peaceless','a.','Without peace; disturbed.'),('Peacemaker','n.','One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at\n   variance.'),('Peach','v. t.','To accuse of crime; to inform against.'),('Peach','v. i.','To turn informer; to betray one\'s accomplice.'),('Peach','n.','A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or\n   two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which\n   bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is\n   hard and inedible.'),('Peach-colored','a.','Of the color of a peach blossom.'),('Peacher','n.','One who peaches.'),('Peachick','n.','The chicken of the peacock.'),('Peachy','a.','Resembling a peach or peaches.'),('Peacock','n.','The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at\n   least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East\n   Indies.'),('Peacock','n.','In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a\n   peafowl.'),('Peafowl','n.','The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.'),('Peage','n.','See Paage.'),('Peagrit','n.','A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.'),('Peahen','n.','The hen or female peafowl.'),('Pea-jacket','n.','A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by\n   sailors in cold weather.'),('Peak','n.','A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in\n   a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.'),('Peak','n.','The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range,\n   ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when\n   isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.'),('Peak','n.','The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in\n   many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.'),('Peak','n.','The narrow part of a vessel\'s bow, or the hold within it.'),('Peak','n.','The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.'),('Peaked','imp. & p. p.','of Peak'),('Peaking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peak'),('Peak','v. i.','To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear\n   as, a peak.'),('Peak','v. i.','To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look\n   thin or sicky.'),('Peak','v. i.','To pry; to peep slyly.'),('Peak','v. t.','To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so;\n   as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set\n   it nearer the perpendicular.'),('Peaked','a.','Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.'),('Peaked','a.','Sickly; not robust.'),('Peaking','a.','Mean; sneaking.'),('Peaking','a.','Pining; sickly; peakish.'),('Peakish','a.','Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a\n   mountainous region.'),('Peakish','a.','Having peaks; peaked.'),('Peakish','a.','Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence,\n   sickly.'),('Peaky','a.','Having a peak or peaks.'),('Peaky','a.','Sickly; peaked.'),('Peal','n.','A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.'),('Peal','v. i.','To appeal.'),('Peal','n.','A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells,\n   thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.'),('Peal','n.','A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic\n   scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.'),('Pealed','imp. & p. p.','of Peal'),('Pealing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peal'),('Peal','v. i.','To utter or give out loud sounds.'),('Peal','v. i.','To resound; to echo.'),('Peal','v. t.','To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud\n   sounds; to noise abroad.'),('Peal','v. t.','To assail with noise or loud sounds.'),('Peal','v. t.','To pour out.'),('Pean','n.','One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or\n   tufts or.'),('Pean','n.','A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.'),('Peanism','n.','The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.'),('Peanut','n.','The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis\n   hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its\n   fruit.'),('Pear','n.','The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus\n   communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also,\n   the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.'),('Pearch','n.','See Perch.'),('Pearl','n.','A fringe or border.'),('Pearl','v. t. ','To fringe; to border.'),('Pearl','n.','A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant\n   luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle\n   and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters\n   and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually\n   due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign\n   particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl.\n   Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly\n   esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.'),('Pearl','n.','Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something\n   very precious.'),('Pearl','n.','Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.'),('Pearl','n.','A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.'),('Pearl','n.','A light-colored tern.'),('Pearl','n.','One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a\n   deer\'s antler.'),('Pearl','n.','A whitish speck or film on the eye.'),('Pearl','n.','A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some\n   liquid for medicinal application, as ether.'),('Pearl','n.','A size of type, between agate and diamond.'),('Pearl','a.','Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of\n   mother-of-pearl.'),('Pearl','v. t.','To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.\n   Used also figuratively.'),('Pearl','v. t.','To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round\n   grains; as, to pearl barley.'),('Pearl','v. i.','To resemble pearl or pearls.'),('Pearl','v. i.','To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.'),('Pearlaceous','a.','Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality\n   or appearance.'),('Pearlash','n.','A white amorphous or granular substance which consists\n   principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction.\n   It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and\n   has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in\n   making soap, glass, etc.'),('Pearl-eyed','a.','Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the\n   cataract.'),('Pearlfish','n.','Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in\n   manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.'),('Pearlins','n. pl.','Alt. of Pearlings'),('Pearlings','n. pl.','A kind of lace of silk or thread.'),('Pearlite','n.','Alt. of Pearlstone'),('Pearlstone','n.','A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly\n   luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the\n   curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under\n   Perlitic.'),('Pearlwort','n.','A name given to several species of Sagina, low and\n   inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.'),('Pearly','a.','Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as,\n   pearly shells.'),('Pearly','a.','Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent;\n   iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.'),('Pearmain','n.','The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue\n   pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.'),('Pear-shaped','a.','Of the form of a pear.'),('Peart','a.','Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to\n   convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.'),('Peasant','n.','A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest\n   class of tillers of the soil in European countries.'),('Peasant','a.','Rustic, rural.'),('Peasantlike','a.','Rude; clownish; illiterate.'),('Peasantly','a.','Peasantlike.'),('Peasantry','n.','Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.'),('Peasantry','n.','Rusticity; coarseness.'),('Peascod','n.','The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.'),('Peases','pl. ','of Pease'),('Peasen','pl. ','of Pease'),('Pease','n.','A pea.'),('Pease','n.','A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.'),('Peastone','n.','Pisolite.'),('Peasweep','n.','The pewit, or lapwing.'),('Peasweep','n.','The greenfinch.'),('Peat','n.','A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.'),('Peat','n.','A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and\n   fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a\n   kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more\n   or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.'),('Peaty','a.','Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.'),('Peba','n.','An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas\n   to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.'),('Pebble','n.','A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn\n   and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.'),('Pebble','n.','Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian\n   pebble; -- so called by opticians.'),('Pebbled','imp. & p. p.','of Pebble'),('Pebbling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pebble'),('Pebble','v. t.','To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered\n   with small rounded prominences.'),('Pebbled','a.','Abounding in pebbles.'),('Pebblestone','','A pebble; also, pebbles collectively.'),('Pebbly','a.','Full of pebbles; pebbled.'),('Pebrine','n.','An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the\n   presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.'),('Pecan','n.','A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North\n   America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is\n   one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong\n   nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and\n   well-flavored meat.'),('Pecary','n.','See Peccary.'),('Peccability','n.','The state or quality of being peccable; lability to\n   sin.'),('Peccable','a.','Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.'),('Peccadillos','pl. ','of Peccadillo'),('Peccadillo','n.','A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.'),('Peccancy','n.','The quality or state of being peccant.'),('Peccancy','n.','A sin; an offense.'),('Peccant','a.','Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant\n   angels.'),('Peccant','a.','Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.'),('Peccant','a.','Wrong; defective; faulty.'),('Peccant','n.','An offender.'),('Peccantly','adv.','In a peccant manner.'),('Peccaries','pl. ','of Peccary'),('Peccary','n.','A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.'),('Peccavi','','I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or\n   acknowledgment of an offense.'),('Pecco','n.','See Pekoe.'),('Peck','n.','The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts;\n   as, a peck of wheat.'),('Peck','n.','A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.'),('Pecked','imp. & p. p.','of Peck'),('Pecking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peck'),('Peck','v.','To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird\n   pecks a tree.'),('Peck','v.','Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a\n   pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated\n   quick movements.'),('Peck','v.','To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to\n   bite; to eat; -- often with up.'),('Peck','v.','To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument;\n   as, to peck a hole in a tree.'),('Peck','v. i.','To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed\n   instrument.'),('Peck','v. i.','To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.'),('Peck','n.','A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a\n   pointed instrument.'),('Pecker','n.','One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks\n   holes in trees; a woodpecker.'),('Pecker','n.','An instrument for pecking; a pick.'),('Peckish','a.','Inclined to eat; hungry.'),('Peckled','a.','Speckled; spotted.'),('Pecopteris','n.','An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from\n   the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.'),('Pecora','n. pl.','An extensive division of ruminants, including the\n   antelopes, deer, and cattle.'),('Pectate','n.','A salt of pectic acid.'),('Pecten','n.','A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous\n   humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and\n   fishes; -- also called marsupium.'),('Pecten','n.','The pubic bone.'),('Pecten','n.','Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and\n   numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.'),('Pecten','n.','The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).'),('Pectic','a.','Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an\n   acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous\n   substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.'),('Pectin','n.','One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable\n   jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom,\n   especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is\n   extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are\n   soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.'),('Pectinal','a.','Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.'),('Pectinal','n.','A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.'),('Pectinate','a.','Alt. of Pectinated'),('Pectinated','a.','Resembling the teeth of a comb.'),('Pectinated','a.','Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and\n   regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf;\n   pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennae.'),('Pectinated','a.','Interlaced, like two combs.'),('Pectinately','adv.','In a pectinate manner.'),('Pectination','n.','The state of being pectinated; that which is\n   pectinated.'),('Pectination','n.','The act of combing; the combing of the head.'),('Pectination','n.','Comblike toothing.'),('Pectineal','a.','Of or pertaining to the pecten.'),('Pectineal','a.','Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.'),('Pectinibranch','n.','One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.'),('Pectinibranchiata','n. pl.','A division of Gastropoda, including those\n   that have a comblike gill upon the neck.'),('Pectinibranchiate','a.','Having pectinated gills.'),('Pectiniform','a.','Comblike in form.'),('Pectize','v. i.','To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.'),('Pectolite','n.','A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous\n   crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.'),('Pectoral','a.','Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the\n   pectoral muscles.'),('Pectoral','a.','Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs;\n   as, a pectoral remedy.'),('Pectoral','a.','Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral\n   sandpiper.'),('Pectoral','n.','A covering or protecting for the breast.'),('Pectoral','n.','A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.'),('Pectoral','n.','A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.'),('Pectoral','n.','A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially\n   the lungs.'),('Pectorally','adv.','As connected with the breast.'),('Pectoriloquial','a.','Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.'),('Pectoriloquism','n.','Pectoriloquy.'),('Pectoriloquous','a.','Pectoriloquial.'),('Pectoriloquy','n.','The distinct articulation of the sounds of a\n   patient\'s voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in\n   auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or\n   pleural cavity.'),('Pectose','n.','An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom,\n   esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is\n   converted into substances of the pectin group.'),('Pectosic','a.','Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose;\n   specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely\n   ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.'),('Pectostraca','n. pl.','A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the\n   Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.'),('Pectous','a.','Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.'),('Pectora','pl. ','of Pectus'),('Pectus','n.','The breast of a bird.'),('Pecul','n.','See Picul.'),('Peculated','imp. & p. p.','of Peculate'),('Peculating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peculate'),('Peculate','v. i.','To appropriate to one\'s own use the property of the\n   public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one\'s care; to embezzle.'),('Peculation','n.','The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the\n   public by appropriating to one\'s own use the money or goods intrusted\n   to one\'s care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.'),('Peculator','n.','One who peculates.'),('Peculiar','a.','One\'s own; belonging solely or especially to an\n   individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or\n   characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in\n   participation.'),('Peculiar','a.','Particular; individual; special; appropriate.'),('Peculiar','a.','Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a\n   peculiarappearance.'),('Peculiar','n.','That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a\n   prerogative; a characteristic.'),('Peculiar','n.','A particular parish or church which is exempt from the\n   jurisdiction of the ordinary.'),('Peculiarities','pl. ','of Peculiarity'),('Peculiarity','n.','The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality;\n   singularity.'),('Peculiarity','n.','That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive\n   characteristic or habit; particularity.'),('Peculiarity','n.','Exclusive possession or right.'),('Pecularized','imp. & p. p.','of Peculiarize'),('Pecularizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peculiarize'),('Peculiarize','v. t.','To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an\n   exclusive possession.'),('Peculiarly','adv.','In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and\n   striking degree; unusually.'),('Peculiarness','n.','The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.'),('Peculium','n.','The saving of a son or a slave with the father\'s or\n   master\'s consent; a little property or stock of one\'s own; any\n   exclusive personal or separate property.'),('Peculium','n.','A special fund for private and personal uses.'),('Pecunial','a.','Pecuniary.'),('Pecuniarily','adv.','In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.'),('Pecuniary','a.','Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a\n   pecuniary reward.'),('Pecunious','a.','Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.'),('Ped','n.','A basket; a hammer; a pannier.'),('Pedage','n.','A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to\n   safe-conduct and protection.'),('Pedagog','n.','Pedagogue.'),('Pedagogic','a.','See Pedagogics.'),('Pedagogic','a.','Alt. of Pedagogical'),('Pedagogical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or\n   characteristic of, a pedagogue.'),('Pedagogics','n.','The science or art of teaching; the principles and\n   rules of teaching; pedagogy.'),('Pedagogism','n.','The system, occupation, character, or manner of\n   pedagogues.'),('Pedagogue','n.','A slave who led his master\'s children to school, and had\n   the charge of them generally.'),('Pedagogue','n.','A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach\n   the young; a schoolmaster.'),('Pedagogue','n.','One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or\n   pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a\n   pedant.'),('Pedagogue','v. t.','To play the pedagogue toward.'),('Pedagogy','n.','Pedagogics; pedagogism.'),('Pedal','a.','Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or\n   figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a\n   mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.'),('Pedal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.'),('Pedal','a.','A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to\n   raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a\n   treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.'),('Pedal','a.','A pedal curve or surface.'),('Pedalian','a.','Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.'),('Pedality','n.','The act of measuring by paces.'),('Pedaneous','a.','Going on foot; pedestrian.'),('Pedant','n.','A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.'),('Pedant','n.','One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain\n   display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.'),('Pedantic','a.','Alt. of Pedantical'),('Pedantical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or\n   resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer;\n   a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.'),('Pedantically','adv.','In a pedantic manner.'),('Pedanticly','adv.','Pedantically.'),('Pedantism','n.','The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.'),('Pedantize','v. i.','To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.'),('Pedantocracy','n.','The sway of pedants.'),('Pedantry','n.','The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain\n   ostentation of learning.'),('Pedanty','n.','An assembly or clique of pedants.'),('Pedarian','n.','One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not\n   yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote;\n   -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to\n   the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.'),('Pedaries','pl. ','of Pedary'),('Pedary','n.','A sandal.'),('Pedata','n. pl.','An order of holothurians, including those that have\n   ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.'),('Pedate','a.','Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more\n   segments; -- said of a leaf.'),('Pedatifid','a.','Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes\n   distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.'),('Peddle','v. i.','To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to\n   place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as,\n   to peddle without a license.'),('Peddle','v. i.','To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to\n   piddle.'),('Peddled','imp. & p. p.','of Peddle'),('Peddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peddle'),('Peddle','v. t.','To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying\n   around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very\n   small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.'),('Peddler','n.','One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels\n   about, retailing small wares; a hawker.'),('Peddlery','n.','The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small\n   retail business, like that of a peddler.'),('Peddlery','n.','Trifling; trickery.'),('Peddling','a.','Hawking; acting as a peddler.'),('Peddling','a.','Petty; insignificant.'),('Pederast','n.','One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.'),('Pederastic','a.','Of or pertaining to pederasty.'),('Pederasty','n.','The crime against nature; sodomy.'),('Pederero','n.','A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered\n   ordnance.'),('Pedesis','n.','Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.'),('Pedestal','n.','The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the\n   like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three\n   parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding.\n   See Illust. of Column.'),('Pedestal','n.','A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a\n   jaw for holding a journal box.'),('Pedestal','n.','A pillow block; a low housing.'),('Pedestal','n.','An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at\n   the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.'),('Pedestaled','a.','Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively,\n   exalted.'),('Pedestrial','a.','Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or\n   feet.'),('Pedestrially','adv.','In a pedestrial manner.'),('Pedestrian','a.','Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian\n   journey.'),('Pedestrian','n.','A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler;\n   specif., a professional walker or runner.'),('Pedestrianism','n.','The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking\n   or running; traveling or racing on foot.'),('Pedestrianized','imp. & p. p.','of Pedestrianize'),('Pedestrianizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pedestrianize'),('Pedestrianize','v. i.','To practice walking; to travel on foot.'),('Pedestrious','a.','Going on foot; not winged.'),('Pedetentous','a.','Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.'),('Pedi-','','Alt. of Pedo-'),('Pedo-','','Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp,\n   pedireme, pedometer.'),('Pedial','a.','Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot;\n   pedal.'),('Pedicel','n.','A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether\n   solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See\n   Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.'),('Pedicel','n.','A slender support of any special organ, as that of a\n   capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.'),('Pedicel','n.','A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or\n   their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.'),('Pedicel','n.','The ventral part of each side of the neural arch\n   connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.'),('Pedicel','n.','An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the\n   antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.'),('Pediceled','a.','Pedicellate.'),('Pedicellariae','pl. ','of Pedicellaria'),('Pedicellaria','n.','A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large\n   numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two\n   movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile;\n   those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration\n   in Appendix.'),('Pedicellate','a.','Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.'),('Pedicellina','n.','A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a\n   bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under\n   Entoprocta.'),('Pedicle','n.','Same as Pedicel.'),('Pedicular','a.','Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper\n   (phthiriasis); lousy.'),('Pediculate','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.'),('Pediculati','n. pl.','An order of fishes including the anglers. See\n   Illust. of Angler and Batfish.'),('Pediculation','n.','Phthiriasis.'),('Pedicule','n.','A pedicel.'),('Pediculina','n. pl.','A division of parasitic hemipterous insects,\n   including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.'),('Pediculous','a.','Pedicular.'),('Pediculi','pl. ','of Pediculus'),('Pediculus','n.','A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the\n   common lice of man. See Louse.'),('Pediform','a.','Shaped like a foot.'),('Pedigerous','a.','Bearing or having feet or legs.'),('Pedigree','n.','A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a\n   register or record of a line of ancestors.'),('Pedigree','n.','A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a\n   horse.'),('Pediluvy','n.','The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.'),('Pedimana','n. pl.','A division of marsupials, including the opossums.'),('Pedimane','n.','A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.'),('Pedimanous','a.','Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe\n   opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.'),('Pediment','n.','Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular\n   space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as\n   a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or\n   broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.'),('Pedimental','a.','Of or pertaining to a pediment.'),('Pedipalp','n.','One of the Pedipalpi.'),('Pedipalpi','n pl.','A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions\n   (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to\n   include also the true scorpions.'),('Pedipalpous','a.','Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.'),('Pedipalpi','pl. ','of Pedipalpus'),('Pedipalpus','n.','One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In\n   some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate\n   in a claw.'),('Pedireme','n.','A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.'),('Pedlar','n.','Alt. of Pedler'),('Pedler','n.','See Peddler.'),('Pedobaptism','n.','The baptism of infants or of small children.'),('Pedobaptist','n.','One who advocates or practices infant baptism.'),('Pedomancy','n.','Divination by examining the soles of the feet.'),('Pedometer','n.','An instrument for including the number of steps in\n   walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in\n   the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body\n   causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.'),('Pedometric','a.','Alt. of Pedometrical'),('Pedometrical','a.','Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.'),('Pedomotive','a.','Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a\n   pedal or treadle.'),('Pedotrophy','n.','The art of nourishing children properly.'),('Pedregal','n.','A lava field.'),('Peduncle','n.','The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a\n   plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.'),('Peduncle','n.','A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are\n   attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.'),('Peduncle','n.','A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different\n   parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles\n   of the pineal gland.'),('Peduncled','a.','Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.'),('Peduncular','a.','Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a\n   peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.'),('Pedunculata','n. pl.','A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or\n   goose barnacles.'),('Pedunculate','a.','Alt. of Pedunculated'),('Pedunculated','a.','Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a\n   pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.'),('Pee','n.','See 1st Pea.'),('Pee','n.','Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).'),('Peece','n. & v.','See Piece.'),('Peechi','n.','The dauw.'),('Peek','v. i.','To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a\n   crevice; to peep.'),('Peekaboo','n.','A child\'s game; bopeep.'),('Peel','n.','A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.'),('Peel','n.','A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves\n   of bread from a baker\'s oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by\n   printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or\n   poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.'),('Peel','v. t.','To plunder; to pillage; to rob.'),('Peeled','imp. & p. p.','of Peel'),('Peeling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peel'),('Peel','v. t.','To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by\n   drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to\n   decorticate; as, to peel an orange.'),('Peel','v. t.','To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin\n   of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.'),('Peel','v. i.','To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin,\n   bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels\n   easily or readily.'),('Peel','n.','The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.'),('Peele','n.','A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea\n   capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The\n   horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very\n   sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.'),('Peeler','n.','One who peels or strips.'),('Peeler','n.','A pillager.'),('Peeler','n.','A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert\n   Peel.'),('Peelhouse','n.','See 1st Peel.'),('Peen','n.','A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer\n   or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.'),('Peen','n.','The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason\'s hammer.'),('Peen','v. t.','To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the\n   peen of a hammer or sledge.'),('Peenge','v. i.','To complain.'),('Peeped','imp. & p. p.','of Peep'),('Peeping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peep'),('Peep','v. i.','To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp;\n   to cheep.'),('Peep','v. i.','To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to\n   make the first appearance.'),('Peep','v. i.','To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a\n   crevice; to pry.'),('Peep','n.','The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.'),('Peep','n.','First outlook or appearance.'),('Peep','n.','A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of\n   concealment.'),('Peep','n.','Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna\n   minutilla).'),('Peep','n.','The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).'),('Peeper','n.','A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.'),('Peeper','n.','One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.'),('Peeper','n.','The eye; as, to close the peepers.'),('Peephole','n.','A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without\n   being discovered.'),('Peeping hole','','See Peephole.'),('Peepul tree','','A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind\n   of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree.'),('Peered','imp. & p. p.','of Peer'),('Peering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peer'),('Peer','v. i.','To come in sight; to appear.'),('Peer','v. i.','To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as,\n   the peering day.'),('Peer','n.','One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.;\n   an equal; a match; a mate.'),('Peer','n.','A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.'),('Peer','n.','A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the\n   British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a\n   peer of the realm.'),('Peer','v. t.','To make equal in rank.'),('Peer','v. t.','To be, or to assume to be, equal.'),('Peerage','n.','The rank or dignity of a peer.'),('Peerage','n.','The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.'),('Peerdom','n.','Peerage; also, a lordship.'),('Peeress','n.','The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or\n   by right of marriage.'),('Peerie','a.','Alt. of Peery'),('Peery','a.','Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.'),('Peerless','a.','Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.'),('Peert','a.','Same as Peart.'),('Peerweet','n.','Same as Pewit (a & b).'),('Peevish','a.','Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to\n   please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.'),('Peevish','a.','Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable\n   dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.'),('Peevish','a.','Silly; childish; trifling.'),('Peevishly','adv.','In a peevish manner.'),('Peevishness','n.','The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur;\n   sourness of temper.'),('Peevit','n.','Alt. of Peewit'),('Peewit','n.','See Pewit.'),('Peg','n.','A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards\n   together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe\n   peg.'),('Peg','n.','A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc.\n   Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext;\n   as, a peg to hang a claim upon.'),('Peg','n.','One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings\n   are strained.'),('Peg','n.','One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.'),('Peg','n.','A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase \"To take one down\n   peg.\"'),('Pegged','imp. & p. p.','of Peg'),('Pegging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peg'),('Peg','v. t.','To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to\n   peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.'),('Peg','v. t.','To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged\n   twelwe points.'),('Peg','v. i.','To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with\n   on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.'),('Pegador','n.','A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.'),('Pegasean','a.','Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.'),('Pegasoid','a.','Like or pertaining to Pegasus.'),('Pegasus','n.','A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of\n   Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his\n   hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from\n   Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with\n   the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.'),('Pegasus','n.','A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point.\n   Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form\n   the square of Pegasus.'),('Pegasus','n.','A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and\n   the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from\n   the East Indies and China.'),('Pegger','n.','One who fastens with pegs.'),('Pegging','n.','The act or process of fastening with pegs.'),('Pegm','n.','A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.'),('Pegmatite','n.','Graphic granite. See under Granite.'),('Pegmatite','n.','More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein\n   material in other rocks.'),('Pegmatitic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the\n   pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.'),('Pegtatoid','a.','Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.'),('Pegomancy','n.','Divination by fountains.'),('Pegroots','n.','Same as Setterwort.'),('Pehlevi','n.','An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly\n   represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d\n   century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and\n   later in religious writings.'),('Pein','n.','See Peen.'),('Peirameter','n.','A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw\n   wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.'),('Peirastic','a.','Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative;\n   treating of attempts.'),('Peise','n.','A weight; a poise.'),('Peise','v. t.','To poise or weight.'),('Peitrel','n.','See Peytrel.'),('Pejorative','a.','Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging;\n   unfavorable.'),('Pekan','n.','See Fisher, 2.'),('Pekoe','n.','A kind of black tea.'),('Pela','n.','See Wax insect, under Wax.'),('Pelage','n.','The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur,\n   or hair.'),('Pelagian','a.','Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as,\n   pelagian shells.'),('Pelagian','n.','A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later\n   part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of\n   the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.'),('Pelagian','a.','Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.'),('Pelagianism','n.','The doctrines of Pelagius.'),('Pelagic','a.','Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to\n   animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.'),('Pelargonic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called\n   also nonoic acid) found in the leaves of the geranium (Pelargonium) and\n   allied plants.'),('Pelargonium','n.','A large genus of plants of the order Geraniaceae,\n   differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular\n   corolla.'),('Pelasgian','a.','Alt. of Pelasgic'),('Pelasgic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of\n   Greece, of roving habits.'),('Pelasgic','a.','Wandering.'),('Pelecan','n.','See Pelican.'),('Pelecaniformes','n. pl.','Those birds that are related to the pelican;\n   the Totipalmi.'),('Pelecoid','n.','A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a\n   semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square\n   ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.'),('Pelecypoda','n. pl.','Same as Lamellibranchia.'),('Pelegrine','a.','See Peregrine.'),('Pelerine','n.','A woman\'s cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in\n   front than behind.'),('Pelf','n.','Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea\n   of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.'),('Pelfish','a.','Of or pertaining to pelf.'),('Pelfray','n.','Alt. of Pelfry'),('Pelfry','n.','Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash.'),('Pelican','n.','Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which\n   about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the\n   lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are\n   temporarily stored.'),('Pelican','n.','A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading\n   back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and\n   redistillation.'),('Pelick','n.','The American coot (Fulica).'),('Pelicoid','n.','See Pelecoid.'),('Pelicosauria','n. pl.','A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial\n   reptiles from the Permian formation.'),('Peliom','n.','A variety of iolite, of a smoky blue color; pelioma.'),('Pelioma','n.','A livid ecchymosis.'),('Pelioma','n.','See Peliom.'),('Pelisse','n.','An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or\n   lined with fur; a lady\'s outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.'),('Pell','v. t.','To pelt; to knock about.'),('Pell','n.','A skin or hide; a pelt.'),('Pell','n.','A roll of parchment; a parchment record.'),('Pellack','n.','A porpoise.'),('Pellage','n.','A customs duty on skins of leather.'),('Pellagra','n.','An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe\n   constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.'),('Pellagrin','n.','One who is afficted with pellagra.'),('Pellet','n.','A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper.'),('Pellet','n.','A bullet; a ball for firearms.'),('Pellet','v./.','To form into small balls.'),('Pelleted','a.','Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets.'),('Pellibranchiata','n. pl.','A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the\n   mantle itself serves as a gill.'),('Pellicle','n.','A thin skin or film.'),('Pellicle','n.','A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating\n   solution.'),('Pellicular','a.','Of or pertaining to a pellicle.'),('Pellile','n.','The redshank; -- so called from its note.'),('Pellitory','n.','The common name of the several species of the genus\n   Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called\n   wall pellitory, and lichwort.'),('Pellitory','n.','A composite plant (Anacyclus Pyrethrum) of the\n   Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers.\n   The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used as an irritant and\n   sialogogue. Called also bertram, and pellitory of Spain.'),('Pellitory','n.','The feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium); -- so called\n   because it resembles the above.'),('Pell-mell','n.','See Pall-mall.'),('Pellmell','adv.','In utter confusion; with confused violence.'),('Pellucid','a.','Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.'),('Pellucidity','n.','Alt. of Pellucidness'),('Pellucidness','n.','The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency;\n   translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air.'),('Pellucidly','adv.','In a pellucid manner.'),('Pelmata','pl. ','of Pelma'),('Pelma','n.','The under surface of the foot.'),('Pelopium','n.','A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown\n   to be identical with columbium, or niobium.'),('Peloponnesian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern\n   peninsula of Greece.'),('Peloponnesian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.'),('Peloria','n.','Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which,\n   being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical\n   repetition of the special irregularity.'),('Peloric','a.','Abnormally regular or symmetrical.'),('Pelotage','n.','Packs or bales of Spanish wool.'),('Pelt','n.','The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed\n   hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th\n   Fell.'),('Pelt','n.','The human skin.'),('Pelt','n.','The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.'),('Pelted','imp. & p. p.','of Pelt'),('Pelting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pelt'),('Pelt','v. t.','To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with\n   pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.'),('Pelt','v. t.','To throw; to use as a missile.'),('Pelt','v. i.','To throw missiles.'),('Pelt','v. i.','To throw out words.'),('Pelt','n.','A blow or stroke from something thrown.'),('Peltae','pl. ','of Pelta'),('Pelta','n.','A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic\n   form, or crescent-shaped.'),('Pelta','n.','A flat apothecium having no rim.'),('Peltate','a.','Alt. of Peltated'),('Peltated','a.','Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or\n   support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or\n   margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ.'),('Pelter','n.','One who pelts.'),('Pelter','n.','A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.'),('Peltiform','a.','Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate.'),('Pelting','a.','Mean; paltry.'),('Peltry','n.','Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them;\n   furs.'),('Peltryware','n.','Peltry.'),('Peludo','n.','The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).'),('Pelusiac','a.','Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt;\n   as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.'),('Pelvic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as,\n   pelvic cellulitis.'),('Pelvimeter','n.','An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the\n   pelvis.'),('Pelvis','n.','The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the\n   sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.'),('Pelvis','n.','The calyx of a crinoid.'),('Pemmican','n.','Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin\n   slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.'),('Pemmican','n.','Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the\n   sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and\n   compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small\n   compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.'),('Pemphigus','n.','A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the\n   development of blebs upon different part of the body.'),('Pen','n.','A feather.'),('Pen','n.','A wing.'),('Pen','n.','An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a\n   reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other\n   materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other\n   instrument for scratching or graving.'),('Pen','n.','Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.'),('Pen','n.','The internal shell of a squid.'),('Pen','n.','A female swan.'),('Penned','imp. & p. p.','of Pen'),('Penning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pen'),('Pen','v. t.','To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to\n   compose; as, to pen a sonnet.'),('Penned','imp. & p. p.','of Pen'),('Pent','','of Pen'),('Penning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pen'),('Pen','n. & v.','To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small\n   inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.'),('Pen','n.','A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.'),('Penal','a.','Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes\n   and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence'),('Penal','a.','Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the\n   penal code.'),('Penal','a.','Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact\n   of offense.'),('Penal','a.','Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as,\n   a penal colony or settlement.'),('Penality','n.','The quality or state of being penal; lability to\n   punishment.'),('Penalize','v. t.','To make penal.'),('Penalize','v. t.','To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.'),('Penally','adv.','In a penal manner.'),('Penalties','pl. ','of Penalty'),('Penalty','n.','Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the\n   suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial\n   decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.'),('Penalty','n.','The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a\n   person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of\n   nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.'),('Penalty','n.','A handicap.'),('Penance','n.','Repentance.'),('Penance','n.','Pain; sorrow; suffering.'),('Penance','n.','A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon\n   for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly\n   in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the\n   transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman\n   Catholic Church.'),('Penanced','imp. & p. p.','of Penance'),('Penance','v. t.','To impose penance; to punish.'),('Penanceless','a.','Free from penance.'),('Penang nut','','The betel nut.'),('Penannular','a.','Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring.'),('Penary','a.','Penal.'),('Penates','n. pl.','The household gods of the ancient Romans. They\n   presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.'),('Penaunt','n.','A penitent.'),('Pence','n.','pl. of Penny. See Penny.'),('Pencel','n.','A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a\n   lance; -- called also pennoncel.'),('Penchant','n.','Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.'),('Penchute','n.','See Penstock.'),('Pencil','n.','A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters\n   for laying on colors.'),('Pencil','n.','A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk,\n   slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod\n   intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for\n   drawing or writing. See Graphite.'),('Pencil','n.','Hence, figuratively, an artist\'s ability or peculiar\n   manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist,\n   descriptive writer, etc.'),('Pencil','n.','An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially\n   when diverging from, or converging to, a point.'),('Pencil','n.','A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of\n   intersection being called the pencil point.'),('Pencil','n.','A small medicated bougie.'),('Penciled','imp. & p. p.','of Pencil'),('Pencilled','','of Pencil'),('Penciling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pencil'),('Pencilling','','of Pencil'),('Pencil','v. t.','To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.'),('Penciled','a.','Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.'),('Penciled','a.','Radiated; having pencils of rays.'),('Penciled','a.','Marked with parallel or radiating lines.'),('Penciling','n.','The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling\n   in a picture.'),('Penciling','n.','Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint\n   in a brick wall.'),('Pencillate','a.','Alt. of Pencillated'),('Pencillated','a.','Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.'),('Pencraft','n.','Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.'),('Pencraft','n.','The art of composing or writing; authorship.'),('Pend','n.','Oil cake; penock.'),('Pended','imp. & p. p.','of Pend'),('Pending','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pend'),('Pend','v. i.','To hang; to depend.'),('Pend','v. i.','To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.'),('Pend','v. t.','To pen; to confine.'),('Pendant','n.','Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a\n   hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a\n   chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.'),('Pendant','n.','A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in\n   the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an\n   important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and\n   wood, which are mere decorative features.'),('Pendant','n.','One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant\n   to the other vase.'),('Pendant','n.','A pendulum.'),('Pendant','n.','The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.'),('Pendence','n.','Slope; inclination.'),('Pendency','n.','The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.'),('Pendency','n.','The quality or state of being undecided, or in\n   continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit.'),('Pendent','a.','Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous;\n   hanging; as, a pendent leaf.'),('Pendent','a.','Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.'),('Pendentive','n.','The portion of a vault by means of which the square\n   space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to\n   receive a cupola.'),('Pendentive','n.','The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and\n   springs from, one pier or corbel.'),('Pendently','adv.','In a pendent manner.'),('Pendice','n.','A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse.'),('Pendicle','n.','An appendage; something dependent on another; an\n   appurtenance; a pendant.'),('Pendicler','n.','An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft.'),('Pending','a.','Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a\n   pending suit.'),('Pending','prep.','During; as, pending the trail.'),('Pendragon','n.','A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title\n   assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.'),('Pendular','a.','Pendulous.'),('Pendulate','v. i.','To swing as a pendulum.'),('Pendule','n.','A pendulum.'),('Penduline','n.','A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus).\n   It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down\n   of willow trees and lined with feathers.'),('Pendulosity','n.','The state or quality of being pendulous.'),('Pendulous','a.','Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.'),('Pendulous','a.','Wavering; unstable; doubtful.'),('Pendulous','a.','Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved\n   stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.'),('Pendulously','adv.','In a pendulous manner.'),('Pendulousness','n.','The quality or state of being pendulous; the state\n   of hanging loosely; pendulosity.'),('Pendulums','pl. ','of Pendulum'),('Pendulum','n.','A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely\n   to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used\n   to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.'),('Penelope','n.','A genus of curassows, including the guans.'),('Penetrability','n.','The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of\n   being penetrated, entered, or pierced.'),('Penetrable','a.','Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used\n   also figuratively.'),('Penetrail','n.','Penetralia.'),('Penetralia','n. pl.','The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or\n   place, especially of a temple or palace.'),('Penetralia','n. pl.','Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as,\n   the sacred penetralia of the home.'),('Penetrance','n.','Alt. of Penetrancy'),('Penetrancy','n.','The quality or state of being penetrant; power of\n   entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy\n   of subtile effluvia.'),('Penetrant','a.','Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp;\n   subtile; as, penetrant cold.'),('Penetrated','imp. & p. p.','of Penetrate'),('Penetrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Penetrate'),('Penetrate','v. t.','To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to\n   effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.'),('Penetrate','v. t.','To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings;\n   to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to\n   penetrate one\'s heart with pity.'),('Penetrate','v. t.','To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner\n   contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to\n   comprehend; to understand.'),('Penetrate','v. i.','To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used\n   figuratively.'),('Penetrating','a.','Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading;\n   sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.'),('Penetrating','a.','Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a\n   penetrating mind.'),('Penetratingly','adv.','In a penetrating manner.'),('Penetration','n.','The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or\n   entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending,\n   anything difficult.'),('Penetration','n.','Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as,\n   a person of singular penetration.'),('Penetrative','a.','Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality;\n   piercing; as, the penetrative sun.'),('Penetrative','a.','Having the power to affect or impress the mind or\n   heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame.'),('Penetrative','a.','Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom.'),('Penetrativeness','n.','The quality of being penetrative.'),('Penfish','n.','A squid.'),('Penfold','n.','See Pinfold.'),('Pengolin','n.','The pangolin.'),('Penguin','n.','Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are\n   covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings,\n   which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their\n   wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King\n   penguin, under Jackass.'),('Penguin','n.','The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant\n   (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself,\n   which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for\n   hedges.'),('Penguinery','n.','A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.'),('Penholder','n.','A handle for a pen.'),('Penhouse','n.','A penthouse.'),('Penible','a.','Painstaking; assidous.'),('Penicil','n.','A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.'),('Penicillate','a.','Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil\n   of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel\'s-hair brush, as\n   the stigmas of some grasses.'),('Penicilliform','a.','Penicillate.'),('Peninsula','n.','A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and\n   connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.'),('Peninsular','a.','Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form;\n   peninsular people; the peninsular war.'),('Peninsulated','imp. & p. p.','of Peninsulate'),('Peninsulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peninsulate'),('Peninsulate','v. t.','To form into a peninsula.'),('Penis','n.','The male member, or organ of generation.'),('Penitence','n.','The quality or condition of being penitent; the\n   disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance;\n   contrition.'),('Penitencer','n.','A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in\n   extraordinary cases.'),('Penitency','n.','Penitence.'),('Penitent','a.','Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses;\n   repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and\n   resolved on amendment of life.'),('Penitent','a.','Doing penance.'),('Penitent','n.','One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his\n   transgressions.'),('Penitent','n.','One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one\n   undergoing penance.'),('Penitent','n.','One under the direction of a confessor.'),('Penitential','a.','Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance;\n   expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential\n   book; penitential tears.'),('Penitential','n.','A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions,\n   containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also\n   penitential book.'),('Penitentially','adv.','In a penitential manner.'),('Penitentiary','a.','Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of\n   penance.'),('Penitentiary','a.','Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.'),('Penitentiary','a.','Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.'),('Penitentiaries','pl. ','of Penitentiary'),('Penitentiary','n.','One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.'),('Penitentiary','n.','One who does penance.'),('Penitentiary','n.','A small building in a monastery where penitents\n   confessed.'),('Penitentiary','n.','That part of a church to which penitents were\n   admitted.'),('Penitentiary','n.','An office of the papal court which examines cases of\n   conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers\n   decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the\n   Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.'),('Penitentiary','n.','An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested\n   with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.'),('Penitentiary','n.','A house of correction, in which offenders are\n   confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they\n   are generally compelled to labor.'),('Penitentiaryship','n.','The office or condition of a penitentiary of the\n   papal court.'),('Penitently','adv.','In a penitent manner.'),('Penk','n.','A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.'),('Penknives','pl. ','of Penknife'),('Penknife','n.','A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making\n   and mending quill pens.'),('Penmen','pl. ','of Penman'),('Penman','n.','One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the\n   use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.'),('Penman','n.','An author; a composer.'),('Penmanship','n.','The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing;\n   style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.'),('Pennae','pl. ','of Penna'),('Penna','n.','A perfect, or normal, feather.'),('Pennaceous','a.','Like or pertaining to a normal feather.'),('Pennach','n.','A bunch of feathers; a plume.'),('Pennached','a.','Variegated; striped.'),('Pennage','n.','Feathery covering; plumage.'),('Pennant','n.','A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant\n   (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting,\n   carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board\n   pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a\n   commodore\'s vessel.'),('Pennant','n.','A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.'),('Pennate','a.','Alt. of Pennated'),('Pennated','a.','Winged; plume-shaped.'),('Pennated','a.','Same as Pinnate.'),('Pennatulae','pl. ','of Pennatula'),('Pennatulas','pl. ','of Pennatula'),('Pennatula','n.','Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and\n   allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The\n   zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.'),('Pennatulacea','n. pl.','A division of alcyonoid corals, including the\n   seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the\n   hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in\n   the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.'),('Penned','a.','Winged; having plumes.'),('Penned','a.','Written with a pen; composed.'),('Penner','n.','One who pens; a writer.'),('Penner','n.','A case for holding pens.'),('Penniform','a.','Having the form of a feather or plume.'),('Pennigerous','a.','Bearing feathers or quills.'),('Penniless','a.','Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.'),('Penninerved','a.','Pinnately veined or nerved.'),('Pennipotent','a.','Strong of wing; strong on the wing.'),('Pennon','n.','A wing; a pinion.'),('Pennon','n.','A pennant; a flag or streamer.'),('Pennoncel','n.','Alt. of Pennoncelle'),('Pennoncelle','n.','See Pencel.'),('Penny','a.','Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in\n   combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which\n   one thousand weight ten pounds.'),('Pennies','pl. ','of Penny'),('Pence','pl. ','of Penny'),('Penny','n.','An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the\n   twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four\n   farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation\n   d. (the initial of denarius).'),('Penny','n.','Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.'),('Penny','n.','Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.'),('Penny','n.','See Denarius.'),('Penny','a.','Worth or costing one penny.'),('Penny-a-liner','n.','One who furnishes matter to public journals at so\n   much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.'),('Pennyroyal','n.','An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a\n   North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor.'),('Pennyweight','n.','A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the\n   twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It\n   was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.'),('Pennywort','n.','A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with\n   roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets.'),('Pennyworth','n.','A penny\'s worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.'),('Pennyworth','n.','Hence: The full value of one\'s penny expended; due\n   return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.'),('Pennyworth','n.','A small quantity; a trifle.'),('Penock','n.','See Pend.'),('Penological','a.','Of or pertaining to penology.'),('Penologist','n.','One versed in, or a student of, penology.'),('Penology','n.','The science or art of punishment.'),('Penrack','n.','A rack for pens not in use.'),('Pens','n.','pl. of Penny.'),('Pensative','a.','Pensive.'),('Pensel','n.','A pencel.'),('Pensible','a.','Held aloft.'),('Pensile','a.','Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.'),('Pensileness','n.','State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.'),('Pension','n.','A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.'),('Pension','n.','A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past\n   services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age,\n   disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a\n   government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families\n   of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.'),('Pension','n.','A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of\n   tithes.'),('Pension','n.','A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium,\n   Switzerland, etc.'),('Pensioned','imp. & p. p.','of Pension'),('Pensioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pension'),('Pension','v. t.','To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in\n   consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by\n   off; as, to pension off a servant.'),('Pensionary','a.','Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as,\n   pensionary spies.'),('Pensionary','a.','Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for\n   maintenance.'),('Pensionaries','pl. ','of Pensionary'),('Pensionary','n.','One who receives a pension; a pensioner.'),('Pensionary','n.','One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.'),('Pensioner','n.','One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a\n   dependent.'),('Pensioner','n.','One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the\n   sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension,\n   or allowance, of £150 and two horses.'),('Pensioner','n.','In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays\n   for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.'),('Pensive','a.','Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection;\n   given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.'),('Pensive','a.','Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as,\n   pensive numbers.'),('Pensived','a.','Made pensive.'),('Pensively','adv.','In a pensive manner.'),('Pensiveness','n.','The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness;\n   seriousness.'),('Penstock','n.','A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a\n   water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.'),('Penstock','n.','The barrel of a wooden pump.'),('Pent','v. t.','Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.'),('Penta-','','A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.'),('Penta-','','Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality,\n   property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used\n   adjectively.'),('Pentabasic','a.','Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid\n   base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a\n   basic radical; -- said of certain acids.'),('Pentacapsular','a.','Having five capsules.'),('Pentachenium','n.','A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are\n   covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.'),('Pentachloride','n.','A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each\n   molecule.'),('Pentachord','n.','An ancient instrument of music with five strings.'),('Pentachord','n.','An order or system of five sounds.'),('Pentacid','a.','Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five\n   molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of\n   substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.'),('Pentacle','n.','A figure composed of two equilateral triangles\n   intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early\n   ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers\n   and mystics of the Middle Ages.'),('Pentacoccous','a.','Composed of five united carpels with one seed in\n   each, as certain fruits.'),('Pentaconter','n.','See Penteconter.'),('Pentacrinin','n.','A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of\n   the genus Pentacrinus.'),('Pentacrinite','n.','Any species of Pentacrinus.'),('Pentacrinoid','n.','An immature comatula when it is still attached by a\n   stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus.'),('Pentacrinus','n.','A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several\n   species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.'),('Pentacra','pl. ','of Pentacron'),('Pentacrons','pl. ','of Pentacron'),('Pentacron','n.','A solid having five summits or angular points.'),('Pentacrostic','n.','A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the\n   subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses\n   being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.'),('Pentad','n.','Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or\n   which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five\n   atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the\n   ammonium compounds.'),('Pentad','a.','Having the valence of a pentad.'),('Pentadactyl','a.','Alt. of Pentadactyle'),('Pentadactyle','a.','Having five digits to the hand or foot.'),('Pentadactyle','a.','Having five appendages resembling fingers or toes.'),('Pentadactyloid','a.','Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a\n   pentadactyl limb.'),('Pentadecane','n.','A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found\n   in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so\n   called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.'),('Pentadecatoic','a.','Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or\n   designating an acid related to it.'),('Pentadecylic','a.','Same as Quindecylic.'),('Pentadelphous','a.','Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those\n   of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the\n   flowers of the linden.'),('Pentafid','a.','Divided or cleft into five parts.'),('Pentaglot','n.','A work in five different tongues.'),('Pentagon','n.','A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently,\n   five sides; any figure having five angles.'),('Pentagonal','a.','Having five corners or angles.'),('Pentagonally','adv.','In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.'),('Pentagonous','a.','Pentagonal.'),('Pentagram','n.','A pentacle or a pentalpha.'),('Pentagraphic','a.','Alt. of Pentagraphical'),('Pentagraphical','a.','Pantographic. See Pantograph.'),('Pentagynia','n. pl.','A Linnaean order of plants, having five styles or\n   pistils.'),('Pentagynian','a.','Alt. of Pentagynous'),('Pentagynous','a.','Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna;\n   having five styles.'),('Pentahedral','a.','Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure.'),('Pentahedrical','a.','Pentahedral.'),('Pentahedron','n.','A solid figure having five sides.'),('Pentahedrous','a.','Pentahedral.'),('Pentail','n.','A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; --\n   so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the\n   base and plumose at the tip.'),('Pentalpha','n.','A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at\n   their bases; -- used as a symbol.'),('Pentamera','n. pl.','An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those\n   that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all\n   the known species of the Coleoptera.'),('Pentameran','n.','One of the Pentamera.'),('Pentamerous','a.','Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also,\n   arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five\n   sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.'),('Pentamerous','a.','Belonging to the Pentamera.'),('Pentamerus','n.','A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very\n   abundant in the Upper Silurian.'),('Pentameter','n.','A verse of five feet.'),('Pentameter','a.','Having five metrical feet.'),('Pentamethylene','n.','A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with\n   the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so\n   named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf.\n   Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.'),('Pentandria','n. pl.','A Linnaean class of plants having five separate\n   stamens.'),('Pentandrian','a.','Alt. of Pentandrous'),('Pentandrous','a.','Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five\n   stamens.'),('Pentane','n.','Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the\n   methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two\n   of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms\n   in the molecule.'),('Pentangle','n.','A pentagon.'),('Pentangular','a.','Having five corners or angles.'),('Pentapetalous','a.','Having five petals, or flower leaves.'),('Pentaphyllous','a.','Having five leaves or leaflets.'),('Pentapody','n.','A measure or series consisting of five feet.'),('Pentaptote','n.','A noun having five cases.'),('Pentaptych','n.','A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a\n   centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.'),('Pentarchy','n.','A government in the hands of five persons; five joint\n   rulers.'),('Pentaspast','n.','A purchase with five pulleys.'),('Pentaspermous','a.','Containing five seeds.'),('Pentastich','n.','A composition consisting of five verses.'),('Pentastichous','a.','Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the\n   leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.'),('Pentastomida','n. pl.','Same as Linguatulina.'),('Pentastyle','a.','Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or\n   portico in classical architecture.'),('Pentastyle','n.','A portico having five columns.'),('Pentateuch','n.','The first five books of the Old Testament,\n   collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of\n   Moses, etc.'),('Pentateuchal','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.'),('Pentathionic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur\n   obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur\n   dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.'),('Pentathlon','n.','A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great\n   national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing,\n   wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.'),('Pentatomic','a.','Having five atoms in the molecule.'),('Pentatomic','a.','Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.'),('Pentavalent','a.','Having a valence of five; -- said of certain atoms and\n   radicals.'),('Penteconter','n.','A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.'),('Pentecost','n.','A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because\n   celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of\n   the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan);\n   -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering\n   of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was\n   generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the\n   fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.'),('Pentecost','n.','A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in\n   commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which\n   occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.'),('Pentecostal','a.','Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.'),('Pentecostals','n. pl.','Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or\n   to the mother church, at Pentecost.'),('Pentecoster','n.','An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.'),('Pentecosties','pl. ','of Pentecosty'),('Pentecosty','n.','A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; --\n   called also pentecostys.'),('Pentelic','a.','Alt. of Pentelican'),('Pentelican','a.','Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens,\n   famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount\n   Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.'),('Pentene','n.','Same as Amylene.'),('Penthouse','n.','A shed or roof sloping from the main wall or building,\n   as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively.'),('Penthouse','a.','Leaning; overhanging.'),('Pentice','n.','A penthouse.'),('Pentile','n.','See Pantile.'),('Pentine','n.','An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series.\n   Same as Valerylene.'),('Pentoic','a.','Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also\n   valeric acid) derived from pentane.'),('Pentone','n.','Same as Valylene.'),('Pentoxide','n.','An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each\n   molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.'),('Pentremite','n.','Any species of Pentremites.'),('Pentremites','n.','A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They\n   have five petal-like ambulacra.'),('Pentroof','n.','See Lean-to.'),('Pentrough','n.','A penstock.'),('Pentyl','n.','The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of\n   its derivatives. Same as Amyl.'),('Pentylic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as,\n   pentylic alcohol'),('Penuchle','n.','Alt. of Pinocle'),('Pinocle','n.','A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all\n   the cards above the eight spots in two packs.'),('Penult','n.','The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding\n   the final one.'),('Penultima','n.','Same as Penult.'),('Penultimate','a.','Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last\n   syllable but one of a word.'),('Penultimate','n.','The penult.'),('Penumbra','n.','An incomplete or partial shadow.'),('Penumbra','n.','The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is\n   partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of\n   partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all\n   sides, and the full light.'),('Penumbra','n.','The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly\n   blends with the light.'),('Penumbrala','','Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra;\n   partially illuminated.'),('Penurious','a.','Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy;\n   miserly.'),('Penurious','a.','Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.'),('Penurious','a.','Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.'),('Penury','n.','Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme\n   poverty; destitution.'),('Penury','n.','Penuriousness; miserliness.'),('Penwiper','n.','A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning\n   ink from a pen.'),('Penwomen','pl. ','of Penwoman'),('Penwoman','n.','A female writer; an authoress.'),('Peon','n.','See Poon.'),('Peon','n.','A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a\n   messenger.'),('Peon','n.','A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish\n   American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified\n   servitude, to work out a debt.'),('Peon','n.','See 2d Pawn.'),('Peonage','n.','The condition of a peon.'),('Peonism','n.','Same as Peonage.'),('Peonies','pl. ','of Peony'),('Peony','n.','A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus\n   Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are\n   perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.'),('People','n.','The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation,\n   or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a\n   nation.'),('People','n.','Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women;\n   folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; --\n   sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and\n   man in German; as, people in adversity.'),('People','n.','The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class;\n   the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles\n   and people.'),('People','n.','One\'s ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my\n   people were English.'),('People','n.','One\'s subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.'),('Peopled','imp. & p. p.','of People'),('Peopling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of People'),('People','v. t.','To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with\n   people; to populate.'),('Peopled','a.','Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.'),('Peopleless','a.','Destitute of people.'),('Peopler','n.','A settler; an inhabitant.'),('Peoplish','a.','Vulgar.'),('Peorias','n. pl.','An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a\n   part of Illinois.'),('Pepastic','a. & n.','Same as Maturative.'),('Peperine','n.','Alt. of Peperino'),('Peperino','n.','A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of\n   sand, scoria, cinders, etc.'),('Peplis','n.','A genus of plants including water purslane.'),('Peplus','n.','An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.'),('Peplus','n.','A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen.'),('Pepo','n.','Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or\n   gourd. See Gourd.'),('Pepper','n.','A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried\n   berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.'),('Pepper','n.','The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber\n   (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes\n   opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension,\n   any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely\n   dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.'),('Pepper','n.','Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper;\n   as, the bell pepper.'),('Peppered','imp. & p. p.','of Pepper'),('Peppering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pepper'),('Pepper','v. t.','To sprinkle or season with pepper.'),('Pepper','v. t.','Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or\n   blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or\n   wounds.'),('Pepper','v. i.','To fire numerous shots (at).'),('Pepperbrand','n.','See 1st Bunt.'),('Peppercorn','n.','A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).'),('Peppercorn','n.','Anything insignificant; a particle.'),('Pepper dulse','','A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida)\n   distinguished for its pungency.'),('Pepperer','n.','A grocer; -- formerly so called because he sold pepper.'),('Peppergrass','n.','Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially\n   the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; -- called\n   also pepperwort. All the species have a pungent flavor.'),('Peppergrass','n.','The common pillwort of Europe (Pilularia globulifera).\n   See Pillwort.'),('Pepperidge','n.','A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) with very\n   tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, --\n   the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo.'),('Peppering','a.','Hot; pungent; peppery.'),('Peppermint','n.','An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M.\n   piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.'),('Peppermint','n.','A volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the\n   fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit (essence of\n   peppermint) obtained from it.'),('Peppermint','n.','A lozenge of sugar flavored with peppermint.'),('Pepperwort','n.','See Peppergrass.'),('Peppery','a.','Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of\n   pepper; hot; pungent.'),('Peppery','a.','Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.'),('Pepsin','n.','An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in\n   the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united\n   with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two\n   together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is\n   the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals.'),('Pepsinhydrochloric','a.','Same as Peptohydrochloric.'),('Pepsinogen','n.','The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance\n   contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric\n   glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.'),('Peptic','a.','Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as,\n   peptic sauces.'),('Peptic','a.','Able to digest.'),('Peptic','a.','Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of\n   digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding\n   pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.'),('Peptic','n.','An agent that promotes digestion.'),('Peptic','n.','The digestive organs.'),('Peptics','n.','The science of digestion.'),('Peptogen','n.','A substance convertible into peptone.'),('Peptogenic','a.','Same as Peptogenous.'),('Peptogenous','a.','Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone.'),('Peptohydrochloric','a.','Designating a hypothetical acid (called\n   peptohydrochloric acid, pepsinhydrochloric acid, and chloropeptic acid)\n   which is supposed to be formed when pepsin and dilute (0.1-0.4 per\n   cent) hydrochloric acid are mixed together.'),('Peptone','n.','The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into\n   which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of\n   the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from\n   albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute\n   acids.'),('Peptone','n.','Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products\n   resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or\n   pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products\n   (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed\n   with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.'),('Peptonize','v. t.','To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by\n   means of a proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.'),('Peptonoid','n.','A substance related to peptone.'),('Peptonuria','n.','The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the\n   urine.'),('Peptotoxine','n.','A toxic alkaloid found occasionally associated with\n   the peptones formed from fibrin by pepsinhydrochloric acid.'),('Pequots','n. pl.','A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern\n   Connecticut.'),('Per-','','A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an\n   intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts\n   throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate,\n   perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex,\n   literally, to entangle very much.'),('Per-','','Originally, denoting that the element to the name of which it\n   is prefixed in the respective compounds exercised its highest valence;\n   now, only that the element has a higher valence than in other similar\n   compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while\n   nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides\n   of those elements.'),('Per','prep.','Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for\n   each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals;\n   per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also\n   sometimes used with English words.'),('Peract','v. t.','To go through with; to perform.'),('Peracute','a.','Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever.'),('Peradventure','adv. & conj.','By chance; perhaps; it may be; if;\n   supposing.'),('Peradventure','n.','Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved\n   beyond peradventure.'),('Peraeopod','n.','One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of\n   Crustacea.'),('Peragrate','v. t.','To travel over or through.'),('Peragration','n.','The act or state of passing through any space; as, the\n   peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution.'),('Perambulated','imp. & p. p.','of Perambulate'),('Perambulating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perambulate'),('Perambulate','v. t.','To walk through or over; especially, to travel over\n   for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing;\n   specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or\n   parish, by walking over the whole line.'),('Perambulate','v. i.','To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he\n   perambulated in the park.'),('Perambulation','n.','The act of perambulating; traversing.'),('Perambulation','n.','An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a\n   parish, a forest, etc.'),('Perambulation','n.','A district within which one is authorized to make a\n   tour of inspection.'),('Perambulator','n.','One who perambulates.'),('Perambulator','n.','A surveyor\'s instrument for measuring distances. It\n   consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an\n   apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance\n   traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.'),('Perambulator','n.','A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing.'),('Perameles','n.','Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes\n   numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in\n   size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot.'),('Perbend','n.','See Perpender.'),('Perbreak','n.','See Parbreak.'),('Perbromate','n.','A salt of perbromic acid.'),('Perbromic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid,\n   HBrO4, of bromine.'),('Perbromide','n.','A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than\n   any other bromide of the same substance or series.'),('Perca','n.','A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.'),('Percale','n.','A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often\n   printed on one side, -- used for women\'s and children\'s wear.'),('Percaline','n.','A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one\n   color.'),('Percarbide','n.','A compound containing a relatively large amount of\n   carbon.'),('Percarburet','n.','A percarbide.'),('Percarbureted','a.','Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.'),('Percase','adv.','Perhaps; perchance.'),('Perce','v. t.','To pierce.'),('Perceivable','a.','Capable of being perceived; perceptible.'),('Perceivance','n.','Power of perceiving.'),('Perceived','imp. & p. p.','of Perceive'),('Perceiving','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perceive'),('Perceive','v. t.','To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive\n   impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of\n   the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the senses; to\n   see, hear, or feel; as, to perceive a distant ship; to perceive a\n   discord.'),('Perceive','v. t.','To take intellectual cognizance of; to apprehend by\n   the mind; to be convinced of by direct intuition; to note; to remark;\n   to discern; to see; to understand.'),('Perceive','v. t.','To be affected of influented by.'),('Perceiver','n.','One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb).'),('Percely','n.','Parsley.'),('Percentage','n.','A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of\n   interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.'),('Percept','n.','That which is perceived.'),('Perceptibility','n.','The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the\n   perceptibility of light or color.'),('Perceptibility','n.','Perception.'),('Perceptible','a.','Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible;\n   perceivable.'),('Perception','n.','The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or\n   intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what\n   is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.'),('Perception','n.','The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar\n   part, of man\'s constitution by which he has knowledge through the\n   medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending\n   material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from\n   conception.'),('Perception','n.','The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by\n   something external; sensation; sensibility.'),('Perception','n.','An idea; a notion.'),('Perceptive','a.','Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving;\n   having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.'),('Perceptivity','n.','The quality or state of being perceptive; power of\n   perception.'),('Percesoces','n. pl.','An order of fishes including the gray mullets\n   (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So\n   called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.'),('Perch','n.','Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other\n   allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow\n   perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P.\n   fluviatilis).'),('Perch','n.','Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging\n   to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more\n   or less, the true perches.'),('Perch','n.','A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support\n   for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any\n   elevated resting place or seat.'),('Perch','n.','A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod,\n   or pole.'),('Perch','n.','In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of\n   an acre.'),('Perch','n.','In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height,\n   and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25\n   cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework.'),('Perch','n.','A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring\n   carriage; a reach.'),('Perched','imp. & p. p.','of Perch'),('Perching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perch'),('Perch','v. i.','To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost.'),('Perch','v. t.','To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.'),('Perch','v. t.','To occupy as a perch.'),('Perchance','adv.','By chance; perhaps; peradventure.'),('Perchant','n.','A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds\n   by its fluttering.'),('Percher','v. i.','One who, or that which, perches.'),('Percher','v. i.','One of the Insessores.'),('Percher','v. i.','A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large\n   wax candle formerly set upon the altar.'),('Percheron','n.','One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche,\n   an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.'),('Perchlorate','n.','A salt of perchloric acid.'),('Perchloric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid\n   (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric.'),('Perchloride','n.','A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than\n   any other chloride of the same substance or series.'),('Perchromic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the\n   highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and\n   is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide.'),('Perciform','a.','Pertaining to the Perciformes.'),('Perciformes','n. pl.','An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes,\n   including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae);\n   the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids\n   (Serranidae), and some other related families.'),('Percipience','n.','Alt. of Percipiency'),('Percipiency','n.','The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception.'),('Percipient','a.','Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a\n   percipient being.'),('Percipient','n.','One who, or that which, is percipient.'),('Perclose','n.','Same as Parclose.'),('Perclose','n.','Conclusion; end.'),('Percoid','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family\n   Percidae.'),('Percoid','n.','Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the\n   family Percidae.'),('Percoidea','n. pl.','Same as Perciformes.'),('Percolated','imp. & p. p.','of Percolate'),('Percolating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Percolate'),('Percolate','v. t.','To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a\n   liquor; to filter; to strain.'),('Percolate','v. i.','To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as,\n   water percolates through porous stone.'),('Percolation','n.','The act or process of percolating, or filtering;\n   filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting\n   the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly\n   through it.'),('Percolator','n.','One who, or that which, filters.'),('Percomorphi','n. pl.','A division of fishes including the perches and\n   related kinds.'),('Perculaced','a.','Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2.'),('Percurrent','a.','Running through the entire length.'),('Percursory','a.','Running over slightly or in haste; cursory.'),('Percussed','imp. & p. p.','of Percuss'),('Percussing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Percuss'),('Percuss','v. t.','To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to\n   percuss the chest in medical examination.'),('Percuss','v. i.','To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See\n   Percussion, 3.'),('Percussion','n.','The act of percussing, or striking one body against\n   another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report.'),('Percussion','n.','Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory\n   shock; impression of sound on the ear.'),('Percussion','n.','The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body\n   in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound\n   emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to\n   be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some\n   interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called\n   mediate.'),('Percussive','a.','Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.'),('Percutient','a.','Striking; having the power of striking.'),('Percutient','n.','That which strikes, or has power to strike.'),('Perdicine','a.','Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or\n   partridges.'),('Perdie','adv.','See Parde.'),('Perdifoil','n.','A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen.'),('Perdition','n.','Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter\n   loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future\n   misery or eternal death.'),('Perdition','n.','Loss of diminution.'),('Perditionable','a.','Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition.'),('Perdix','n.','A genus of birds including the common European partridge.\n   Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied\n   genera.'),('Perdu','a.','One placed on watch, or in ambush.'),('Perdu','a.','A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.'),('Perdu','a.','Alt. of Perdue'),('Perdue','a.','Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close.'),('Perdue','a.','Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises;\n   hence, reckless; hopeless.'),('Perduellion','n.','Treason.'),('Perdulous','a.','Lost; thrown away.'),('Perdurability','n.','Durability; lastingness.'),('Perdurable','n.','Very durable; lasting; continuing long.'),('Perdurance','n.','Alt. of Perduration'),('Perduration','n.','Long continuance.'),('Perdure','v. i.','To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or\n   lasting.'),('Perdy','adv.','Truly. See Parde.'),('Pere','n.','A peer.'),('Peregal','a.','Fully equal.'),('Peregrinate','v. i.','To travel from place to place, or from one country\n   to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.'),('Peregrinate','a.','Having traveled; foreign.'),('Peregrination','n.','A traveling from one country to another; a\n   wandering; sojourn in foreign countries.'),('Peregrinator','n.','One who peregrinates; one who travels about.'),('Peregrine','a.','Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic.'),('Peregrine','n.','The peregrine falcon.'),('Peregrinity','n.','Foreignness; strangeness.'),('Peregrinity','n.','Travel; wandering.'),('Perel','n.','Apparel.'),('Perempt','v. t.','To destroy; to defeat.'),('Peremption','n.','A quashing; a defeating.'),('Peremptorily','adv.','In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.'),('Peremptoriness','n.','The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.'),('Peremptory','a.','Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of\n   question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final.'),('Peremptory','a.','Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial;\n   dogmatical.'),('Peremptory','a.','Firmly determined; unawed.'),('Perennial','a.','ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial\n   fountains.'),('Perennial','a.','Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual;\n   unceasing; never failing.'),('Perennial','a.','Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam,\n   or root, or plant.'),('Perennial','n.','A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more\n   than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.'),('Perennially','adv.','In a perennial manner.'),('Perennibranchiata','n. pl.','Those Batrachia which retain their gills\n   through life, as the menobranchus.'),('Perennibranchiate','a.','Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said\n   especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to\n   caducibranchiate.'),('Perennibranchiate','a.','Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.'),('Perennity','n.','The quality of being perennial.'),('Pererration','n.','A wandering, or rambling, through various places.'),('Perfect','a.','Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not\n   defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities\n   requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish;\n   without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct.'),('Perfect','a.','Well informed; certain; sure.'),('Perfect','a.','Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of\n   flower.'),('Perfect','n.','The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.'),('Perfected','imp. & p. p.','of Perfect'),('Perfecting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perfect'),('Perfect','a.','To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave\n   nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its\n   nature and kind.'),('Perfecter','n.','One who, or that which, makes perfect.'),('Perfectibilian','n.','A perfectionist.'),('Perfectibilist','n.','A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2.'),('Perfectibility','n.','The quality or state of being perfectible.'),('Perfectible','a.','Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.'),('Perfection','n.','The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so\n   that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate\n   culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or\n   degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science,\n   or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection.'),('Perfection','n.','A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely\n   excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of\n   complete excellence.'),('Perfection','v. t.','To perfect.'),('Perfectional','a.','Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by\n   perfection.'),('Perfectionate','v. t.','To perfect.'),('Perfectionism','n.','The doctrine of the Perfectionists.'),('Perfectionist','n.','One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending\n   to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to\n   moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.'),('Perfectionment','n.','The act of bringing to perfection, or the state of\n   having attained to perfection.'),('Perfective','a.','Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to\n   perfection; -- usually followed by of.'),('Perfectively','adv.','In a perfective manner.'),('Perfectly','adv.','In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection;\n   completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.'),('Perfectness','n.','The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.'),('Perfervid','a.','Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.'),('Perficient','a.','Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual.'),('Perficient','n.','One who performs or perfects a work; especially, one\n   who endows a charity.'),('Perfidious','a.','Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false\n   to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious\n   friend.'),('Perfidious','a.','Involving, or characterized by, perfidy.'),('Perfidiously','adv.','In a perfidious manner.'),('Perfidiousness','n.','The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.'),('Perfidies','pl. ','of Perfidy'),('Perfidy','n.','The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a\n   promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.'),('Perfit','a.','Perfect.'),('Perfix','v. t.','To fix surely; to appoint.'),('Perflable','a.','Capable of being blown through.'),('Perflate','v. t.','To blow through.'),('Perflation','n.','The act of perflating.'),('Perfoliate','a.','Having the basal part produced around the stem; -- said\n   of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.'),('Perfoliate','a.','Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any\n   kind.'),('Perforata','n. pl.','A division of corals including those that have a\n   porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa.'),('Perforata','n. pl.','A division of Foraminifera, including those having\n   perforated shells.'),('Perforated','imp. & p. p.','of Perforate'),('Perforating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perforate'),('Perforate','v.','To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed\n   instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to\n   pierce or penetrate the surface of.'),('Perforate','a.','Alt. of Perforated'),('Perforated','a.','Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having\n   transparent dots resembling holes.'),('Perforation','n.','The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing\n   through.'),('Perforation','n.','A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.'),('Perforative','a.','Having power to perforate or pierce.'),('Perforator','n.','One who, or that which, perforates; esp., a\n   cephalotome.'),('Perforce','adv.','By force; of necessary; at any rate.'),('Perforce','v. t.','To force; to compel.'),('Performed','imp. & p. p.','of Perform'),('Performing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perform'),('Perform','v. t.','To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve;\n   to accomplish; to execute; to do.'),('Perform','v. t.','To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform\n   a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.'),('Perform','v. t.','To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.'),('Perform','v. i.','To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit\n   one\'s self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to\n   act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform\n   poorly; the musician performs on the organ.'),('Performable','a.','Admitting of being performed, done, or executed;\n   practicable.'),('Performance','n.','The act of performing; the carrying into execution or\n   action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by\n   action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.'),('Performance','n.','That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done\n   or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an\n   action of an elaborate or public character.'),('Performer','n.','One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good\n   promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and\n   training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the\n   harp.'),('Perfricate','v. t.','To rub over.'),('Perfumatory','a.','Emitting perfume; perfuming.'),('Perfumed','imp. & p. p.','of Perfume'),('Perfuming','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perfume'),('Perfume','v. t.','To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.'),('Perfume','v.','The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a\n   sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.'),('Perfume','v.','A substance that emits an agreeable odor.'),('Perfumer','n.','One who, oe that which, perfumes.'),('Perfumer','n.','One whose trade is to make or sell perfumes.'),('Perfumery','n.','Perfumes, in general.'),('Perfumery','n.','The art of preparing perfumes.'),('Perfunctorily','adv.','In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.'),('Perfunctoriness','n.','The quality or state of being perfunctory.'),('Perfunctory','a.','Done merely to get rid of a duty; performed\n   mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial\n   manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions.'),('Perfunctory','a.','Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.'),('Perfuncturate','v. t.','To perform in a perfunctory manner; to do\n   negligently.'),('Perfused','imp. & p. p.','of Perfuse'),('Perfusing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perfuse'),('Perfuse','v. t.','To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.'),('Perfusion','n.','The act of perfusing.'),('Perfusive','a.','Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.'),('Pergamenous','a.','Alt. of Pergamentaceous'),('Pergamentaceous','a.','Like parchment.'),('Perhaps','adv.','By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.'),('Peri-','','A prefix used to signify around, by, near, over, beyond, or to\n   give an intensive sense; as, perimeter, the measure around; perigee,\n   point near the earth; periergy, work beyond what is needed;\n   perispherical, quite spherical.'),('Peris','pl. ','of Peri'),('Peri','n.','An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy,\n   represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise\n   till penance is accomplished.'),('Periagua','n.','See Pirogue.'),('Perianth','n.','The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the\n   calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.'),('Perianth','n.','A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in\n   most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.'),('Perianthium','n.','The perianth.'),('Periapt','n.','A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief;\n   an amulet.'),('Periastral','a.','Among or around the stars.'),('Periastron','n.','That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star\n   revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter.'),('Periauger','n.','See Pirogue.'),('Periblast','a.','The protoplasmic matter which surrounds the entoblast,\n   or cell nucleus, and undergoes segmentation.'),('Periblem','n.','Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.'),('Peribolos','n.','In ancient architecture, an inclosed court, esp., one\n   surrounding a temple.'),('Peribranchial','a.','Surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial\n   cavity.'),('Peribranchial','a.','Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the\n   peribronchial lymphatics.'),('Pericambium','n.','A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem,\n   in which layer certain new vessels originate.'),('Pericardiac','a.','Alt. of Pericardial'),('Pericardial','a.','Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the\n   heart.'),('Pericardian','a.','Pericardiac.'),('Pericardic','a.','Pericardiac.'),('Pericarditus','n.','Inflammation of the pericardium.'),('Pericardium','n.','The double baglike fold of serous membrane which\n   incloses the heart.'),('Pericarp','n.','The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts.\n   of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.'),('Pericarpial','a.','Alt. of Pericarpic'),('Pericarpic','a.','Of or pertaining to a pericarp.'),('Pericellular','a.','Surrounding a cell; as, the pericellular lymph spaces\n   surrounding ganglion cells.'),('Perichaeth','n.','The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of\n   mosses; perichaetium; perichete.'),('Perichaetial','a.','Of or pertaining to the perichaeth.'),('Perichaetia','pl. ','of Perichaetium'),('Perichaetium','n.','Same as Perichaeth.'),('Perichaetous','a.','Surrounded by setae; -- said of certain earthworms\n   (genus Perichaetus).'),('Perichete','n.','Same as Perichaeth.'),('Perichondrial','a.','Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated\n   around cartilage.'),('Perichondritis','n.','Inflammation of the perichondrium.'),('Perichondrium','n.','The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which\n   closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.'),('Perichordal','a.','Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See\n   Epichordal.'),('Periclase','n.','Alt. of Periclasite'),('Periclasite','n.','A grayish or dark green mineral, consisting\n   essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms\n   or in isometric crystals.'),('Periclinia','pl. ','of Periclinium'),('Periclinium','n.','The involucre which surrounds the common receptacle in\n   composite flowers.'),('Periclitate','v. t.','To endanger.'),('Periclitation','n.','Trial; experiment.'),('Periclitation','n.','The state of being in peril.'),('Pericope','n.','A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.),\n   a selection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches or\n   used as a text for a sermon.'),('Pericranial','a.','Of or pertaining to the pericranium.'),('Pericranium','n.','The periosteum which covers the cranium externally;\n   the region around the cranium.'),('Periculous','a.','Dangerous; full of peril.'),('Pericula','pl. ','of Periculum'),('Periculum','n.','Danger; risk.'),('Periculum','n.','In a narrower, judicial sense: Accident or casus, as\n   distinguished from dolus and culpa, and hence relieving one from the\n   duty of performing an obligation.'),('Periderm','n.','The outer layer of bark.'),('Periderm','n.','The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine\n   animals; the perisarc.'),('Peridiastole','n.','The almost inappreciable time which elapses between\n   the systole and the diastole of the heart.'),('Peridia','pl. ','of Peridium'),('Peridium','n.','The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the\n   puffballs and earthstars.'),('Peridot','n.','Chrysolite.'),('Peridotite','n.','An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of\n   chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite,\n   chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.'),('Peridrome','n.','The space between the columns and the wall of the cella,\n   in a Greek or a Roman temple.'),('Periecians','n. pl.','See Perioecians.'),('Perienteron','n.','The primitive perivisceral cavity.'),('Periergy','n.','Excessive care or diligence.'),('Periergy','n.','A bombastic or labored style.'),('Periganglionic','a.','Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic\n   glands of the frog.'),('Perigastric','a.','Surrounding the stomach; -- applied to the body cavity\n   of Bryozoa and various other Invertebrata.'),('Perigean','a.','Pertaining to the perigee.'),('Perigee','n.','Alt. of Perigeum'),('Perigeum','n.','That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to\n   the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of\n   the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc.\n   Called also epigee, epigeum.'),('Perigenesis','n.','A theory which explains inheritance by the\n   transmission of the type of growth force possessed by one generation to\n   another.'),('Perigenetic','a.','Of or pertaining to perigenesis.'),('Perigone','n.','Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a\n   perianth.'),('Perigone','n.','In mosses, the involucral bracts of a male flower.'),('Perigone','n.','A sac which surrounds the generative bodies in the\n   gonophore of a hydroid.'),('Perigonia','pl. ','of Perigonium'),('Perigonium','n.','Same as Perigone.'),('Perigord pie','','A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.'),('Perigraph','n.','A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything.'),('Perigynia','pl. ','of Perigynium'),('Perigynium','n.','Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the\n   bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some\n   other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae.'),('Perigynous','a.','Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne\n   on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.'),('Perihelia','pl. ','of Perihelium'),('Perihelion','n.','Alt. of Perihelium'),('Perihelium','n.','That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is\n   nearest to the sun; -- opposed to aphelion.'),('Peril','n.','Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or\n   property to injury, loss, or destruction.'),('Periled','imp. & p. p.','of Peril'),('Perilled','','of Peril'),('Periling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peril'),('Perilling','','of Peril'),('Peril','v. t.','To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril\n   one\'s life.'),('Peril','v. i.','To be in danger.'),('Perilla','n.','A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla\n   ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or\n   variegated foliage.'),('Perilous','a.','Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous;\n   hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.'),('Perilous','a.','Daring; reckless; dangerous.'),('Perilymph','n.','The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of\n   the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in\n   which the labyrinth lies.'),('Perilymphangial','a.','Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel.'),('Perilymphatic','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, perilymph.'),('Perilymphatic','a.','Perilymphangial.'),('Perimeter','n.','The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of\n   all the sides.'),('Perimeter','n.','An instrument for determining the extent and shape of\n   the field of vision.'),('Perimetric','a.','Alt. of Perimetrical'),('Perimetrical','a.','Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry;\n   as, a perimetric chart of the eye.'),('Perimetry','n.','The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field\n   of vision.'),('Perimorph','n.','A crystal of one species inclosing one of another\n   species. See Endomorph.'),('Perimysial','a.','Surrounding a muscle or muscles.'),('Perimysial','a.','Of or pertaining to the perimysium.'),('Perimysium','n.','The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle,\n   and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.'),('Perinaeum','n.','See Perineum.'),('Perineal','a.','Of or pertaining to the perineum.'),('Perineoplasty','n.','The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.'),('Perineorrhaphy','n.','The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.'),('Perinephritis','n.','Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the\n   kidney.'),('Perineum','n.','The region which is included within the outlet of the\n   pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.'),('Perineurial','a.','Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining\n   to the perineurium.'),('Perineurium','n.','The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle\n   of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.'),('Perinuclear','a.','Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a\n   nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.'),('Period','n.','A portion of time as limited and determined by some\n   recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of\n   the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months,\n   or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and\n   go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a\n   comet.'),('Period','n.','A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an\n   interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of\n   years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch;\n   as, the period of the Roman republic.'),('Period','n.','One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the\n   Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.'),('Period','n.','The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle,\n   series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an\n   end; a conclusion.'),('Period','n.','A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a\n   well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.'),('Period','n.','The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete\n   sentence, or of an abbreviated word.'),('Period','n.','One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually\n   marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in\n   numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.'),('Period','n.','The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or\n   of the paroxysm and intermission.'),('Period','n.','A complete musical sentence.'),('Period','v. t.','To put an end to.'),('Period','v. i.','To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] \"You may period\n   upon this, that,\" etc.'),('Periodate','n.','A salt of periodic acid.'),('Periodic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest\n   oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.'),('Periodic','a.','Alt. of Periodical'),('Periodical','a.','Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division\n   by periods.'),('Periodical','a.','Performed in a period, or regular revolution;\n   proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical\n   motion of the planets round the sun.'),('Periodical','a.','Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning\n   regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or\n   appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.'),('Periodical','a.','Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete\n   sentence.'),('Periodical','n.','A magazine or other publication which appears at stated\n   or regular intervals.'),('Periodicalist','n.','One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.'),('Periodically','adv.','In a periodical manner.'),('Periodicalness','n.','Periodicity.'),('Periodicities','pl. ','of Periodicity'),('Periodicity','n.','The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly\n   recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.'),('Periodide','n.','An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than\n   any other iodide of the same substance or series.'),('Periodontal','a.','Surrounding the teeth.'),('Periodoscope','n.','A table or other means for calculating the periodical\n   functions of women.'),('Perioeci','n. pl.','Alt. of Perioecians'),('Perioecians','n. pl.','Those who live on the same parallel of latitude\n   but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is\n   midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.'),('Periople','n.','The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse\n   and allied animals.'),('Perioplic','a.','Of or pertaining to the periople; connected with the\n   periople.'),('Periosteal','a.','Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the\n   periosteum.'),('Periosteum','n.','The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely\n   invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.'),('Periostitis','n.','Inflammation of the periosteum.'),('Periostraca','pl. ','of Periostracum'),('Periostracum','n.','A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many\n   shells; -- called also epidermis.'),('Periotic','a.','Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the\n   internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.'),('Periotic','n.','A periotic bone.'),('Peripatecian','n.','A peripatetic.'),('Peripatetic','a.','Walking about; itinerant.'),('Peripatetic','a.','Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle\n   (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or\n   to his followers.'),('Peripatetic','n.','One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.'),('Peripatetic','n.','A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.'),('Peripatetical','a.','Peripatetic.'),('Peripateticism','n.','The doctrines or philosophical system of the\n   peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2.'),('Peripatus','n.','A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South\n   Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order\n   Malacopoda.'),('Peripetalous','a.','Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.'),('Peripheral','a.','Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a\n   periphery; peripheric.'),('Peripheral','a.','External; away from the center; as, the peripheral\n   portion of the nervous system.'),('Peripheric','a.','Alt. of Peripherical'),('Peripherical','a.','See Peripheral.'),('Peripheries','pl. ','of Periphery'),('Periphery','n.','The outside or superficial portions of a body; the\n   surface.'),('Periphery','n.','The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.'),('Periphrase','n.','The use of more words than are necessary to express the\n   idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.'),('Periphrased','imp. & p. p.','of Periphrase'),('Periphrasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Periphrase'),('Periphrase','v. t.','To express by periphrase or circumlocution.'),('Periphrase','v. i.','To use circumlocution.'),('Periphrases','pl. ','of Periphrasis'),('Periphrasis','n.','See Periphrase.'),('Periphrastic','a.','Alt. of Periphrastical'),('Periphrastical','a.','Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are\n   necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory.'),('Periphrastically','adv.','With circumlocution.'),('Periplast','n.','Same as Periblast.'),('Peripneumonia','n.','Alt. of Peripneumony'),('Peripneumony','n.','Pneumonia.'),('Peripneumonic','a.','Of or pertaining to peripneumonia.'),('Periproct','n.','The region surrounding the anus, particularly of\n   echinoderms.'),('Periproctitis','n.','Inflammation of the tissues about the rectum.'),('Peripteral','a.','Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See\n   Apteral.'),('Peripterous','a.','Peripteral.'),('Peripterous','a.','Feathered all around.'),('Perisarc','n.','The outer, hardened integument which covers most\n   hydroids.'),('Periscian','a.','Having the shadow moving all around.'),('Periscians','n. pl.','Alt. of Periscii'),('Periscii','n. pl.','Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows,\n   during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every\n   point of the compass.'),('Periscope','n.','A general or comprehensive view.'),('Periscope','n.','an optical instrument of tubular shape containing an\n   arrangement of lenses and mirrors (or prisms), allowing a person to\n   observe a field of view otherwise obstructed, as beyond an obstructing\n   object or (as in submarines) above the surface of the water.'),('Periscopic','a.','Viewing all around, or on all sides.'),('Periscopic','a.','of or relating to a periscope{2}.'),('Perished','imp. & p. p.','of Perish'),('Perishing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perish'),('Perish','v. i.','To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be\n   lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.'),('Perish','v. t.','To cause perish.'),('Perishability','n.','Perishableness.'),('Perishable','a.','Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or\n   death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.'),('Perishableness','n.','The quality or state of being perishable; liability\n   to decay or destruction.'),('Perishably','adv.','In a perishable degree or manner.'),('Perishment','n.','The act of perishing.'),('Perisomata','pl. ','of Perisoma'),('Perisoma','n.','Same as Perisome.'),('Perisome','n.','The entire covering of an invertebrate animal, as\n   echinoderm or coelenterate; the integument.'),('Perisperm','n.','The albumen of a seed, especially that portion which is\n   formed outside of the embryo sac.'),('Perispheric','a.','Alt. of Perispherical'),('Perispherical','a.','Exactly spherical; globular.'),('Perispomena','pl. ','of Perispomenon'),('Perispomenon','n.','A word which has the circumflex accent on the last\n   syllable.'),('Perispore','n.','The outer covering of a spore.'),('Perissad','a.','Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of\n   radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder.\n   Contrasted with artiad.'),('Perisse','v. i.','To perish.'),('Perissodactyl','n.','One of the Perissodactyla.'),('Perissodactyla','n. pl.','A division of ungulate mammals, including those\n   that have an odd number of toes, as the horse, tapir, and rhinoceros;\n   -- opposed to Artiodactyla.'),('Perissological','a.','Redundant or excessive in words.'),('Perissology','n.','Superfluity of words.'),('Peristalsis','n.','Peristaltic contraction or action.'),('Peristaltic','a.','Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the\n   intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive\n   contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their\n   contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement.'),('Peristeria','n.','A genus of orchidaceous plants. See Dove plant.'),('Peristerion','n.','The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis).'),('Peristerite','n.','A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent\n   like a pigeon\'s neck.'),('Peristeromorphous','a.','Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columbae.'),('Peristeropodous','a.','Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those\n   gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and\n   megapods.'),('Peristole','n.','Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.'),('Peristomata','pl. ','of Peristoma'),('Peristoma','n.','Same as Peristome.'),('Peristome','n.','The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of\n   mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either\n   single or double.'),('Peristome','n.','The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell.'),('Peristome','n.','The membrane surrounding the mouth of an invertebrate\n   animal.'),('Peristomial','a.','Of or pertaining to a peristome.'),('Peristomium','n.','Same as Peristome.'),('Peristrephic','a.','Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a\n   peristrephic painting (of a panorama).'),('Peristyle','n.','A range of columns with their entablature, etc.;\n   specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a\n   court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used\n   in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a\n   Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.'),('Perisystole','n.','The interval between the diastole and systole of the\n   heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.'),('Perite','a.','Skilled.'),('Perithecium','n.','An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and\n   enveloping the masses of fructification.'),('Peritomous','a.','Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the\n   axis.'),('Peritonaeum','n.','Same as Peritoneum.'),('Peritoneal','a.','Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.'),('Peritoneum','n.','The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of\n   the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and,\n   turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly\n   closed, sac.'),('Peritonitis','n.','Inflammation of the peritoneum.'),('Peritracheal','a.','Surrounding the tracheae.'),('Peritreme','n.','That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds\n   the spiracles.'),('Peritreme','n.','The edge of the aperture of a univalve shell.'),('Peritricha','n. pl.','A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of\n   cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It\n   includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.'),('Peritrochium','n.','The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the\n   axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.'),('Peritropal','a.','Rotatory; circuitous.'),('Peritropal','a.','Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis\n   of the pericarp to which it is attached.'),('Peritropous','a.','Peritropal.'),('Perityphlitis','n.','Inflammation of the connective tissue about the\n   caecum.'),('Periuterine','a.','Surrounding the uterus.'),('Perivascular','a.','Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular\n   lymphatics.'),('Perivertebral','a.','Surrounding the vertebrae.'),('Perivisceral','a.','Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.'),('Perivitelline','a.','Situated around the vitellus, or between the\n   vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.'),('Periwig','n.','A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole\n   head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.'),('Perwigged','imp. & p. p.','of Periwig'),('Perwigging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Periwig'),('Periwig','v. t.','To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.'),('Periwinkle','n.','Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus\n   Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe\n   extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on\n   the American coast. See Littorina.'),('Periwinkle','n.','A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.'),('Perjenet','n.','A kind of pear.'),('Perjured','imp. & p. p.','of Perjure'),('Perjuring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perjure'),('Perjure','v. t.','To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make\n   oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to\n   forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured\n   himself.'),('Perjure','v. t.','To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and\n   protestations.'),('Perjure','n.','A perjured person.'),('Perjured','a.','Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.'),('Perjurer','n.','One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or\n   forswears, in any sense.'),('Perjurious','a.','Alt. of Perjurous'),('Perjurous','a.','Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.'),('Perjuries','pl. ','of Perjury'),('Perjury','v.','False swearing.'),('Perjury','v.','At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact\n   material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent\n   judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on\n   the making of willfully false affirmations.'),('Perked','imp. & p. p.','of Perk'),('Perking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perk'),('Perk','v. t.','To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make\n   a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one\'s\n   head.'),('Perk','v. i.','To exalt one\'s self; to bear one\'s self loftily.'),('Perk','a.','Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.'),('Perk','v. i.','To peer; to look inquisitively.'),('Perkin','n.','A kind of weak perry.'),('Perkinism','n.','A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities\n   of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part;\n   tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn.\n   See Metallotherapy.'),('Perky','a.','Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.'),('Perlaceous','a.','Pearly; resembling pearl.'),('Perlid','n.','Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See\n   Stone fly, under Stone.'),('Perlite','n.','Same as Pearlite.'),('Perlitic','a.','Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the\n   perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.'),('Perlous','a.','Perilous.'),('Perlustration','n.','The act of viewing all over.'),('Permanable','a.','Permanent; durable.'),('Permanence','n.','Alt. of Permanency'),('Permanency','n.','The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in\n   the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of\n   institutions; the permanence of nature.'),('Permanent','a.','Continuing in the same state, or without any change that\n   destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding;\n   durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.'),('Permanently','adv.','In a permanent manner.'),('Permanganate','n.','A salt of permanganic acid.'),('Permanganic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids\n   of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.'),('Permansion','n.','Continuance.'),('Permeability','n.','The quality or state of being permeable.'),('Permeable','a.','Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding\n   passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which\n   allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is\n   permeable to light.'),('Permeably','adv.','In a permeable manner.'),('Permeant','a.','Passing through; permeating.'),('Permeated','imp. & p. p.','of Permeate'),('Permeating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Permeate'),('Permeate','v. t.','To pass through the pores or interstices of; to\n   penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; --\n   applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose\n   texture; as, water permeates sand.'),('Permeate','v. t.','To enter and spread through; to pervade.'),('Permeation','n.','The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading\n   throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.'),('Permian','a.','Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the\n   formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing\n   the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.'),('Permian','n.','The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.'),('Permians','n. pl.','A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting\n   a portion of Russia.'),('Permiscible','a.','Capable of being mixed.'),('Permiss','n.','A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing\n   is committed to the decision of one\'s opponent.'),('Permissibility','n.','The quality of being permissible; permissibleness;\n   allowableness.'),('Permissible','a.','That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.'),('Permission','n.','The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent;\n   authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.'),('Permissive','a.','Permitting; granting leave or liberty.'),('Permissive','a.','Permitted; tolerated; suffered.'),('Permissively','adv.','In a permissive manner.'),('Permistion','n.','The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture.'),('Permitted','imp. & p. p.','of Permit'),('Permitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Permit'),('Permit','v. t.','To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to\n   tolerate; to put up with.'),('Permit','v. t.','To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act;\n   to authorize; to give leave; -- followed by an infinitive.'),('Permit','v. t.','To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit.'),('Permit','v. i.','To grant permission; to allow.'),('Permit','n.','Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a\n   written license or permission given to a person or persons having\n   authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty.'),('Permittance','n.','The act of permitting; allowance; permission; leave.'),('Permittee','n.','One to whom a permission or permit is given.'),('Permitter','n.','One who permits.'),('Permix','v. t.','To mix; to mingle.'),('Permixtion','n.','See Permission.'),('Permutable','a.','Capable of being permuted; exchangeable.'),('Permutation','n.','The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for\n   another; mutual transference; interchange.'),('Permutation','n.','The arrangement of any determinate number of things,\n   as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the\n   other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.'),('Permutation','n.','Any one of such possible arrangements.'),('Permutation','n.','Barter; exchange.'),('Permute','v. t.','To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.'),('Permute','v. t.','To exchange; to barter; to traffic.'),('Permuter','n.','One who permutes.'),('Pern','v. t.','To take profit of; to make profitable.'),('Pern','n.','The honey buzzard.'),('Pernancy','n.','A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or\n   tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.'),('Pernel','n.','See Pimpernel.'),('Pernicion','n.','Destruction; perdition.'),('Pernicious','a.','Quick; swift (to burn).'),('Pernicious','a.','Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive;\n   very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.'),('Pernicity','n.','Swiftness; celerity.'),('Pernio','n.','A chilblain.'),('Pernoctalian','n.','One who watches or keeps awake all night.'),('Pernoctation','n.','The act or state of passing the whole night; a\n   remaining all night.'),('Pernor','v.','One who receives the profits, as of an estate.'),('Pernot furnace','','A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving\n   hearth, -- used in making steel.'),('Pernyi moth','','A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon\n   the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.'),('Perofskite','n.','A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic\n   crystals.'),('Perogue','n.','See Pirogue.'),('Peronate','a.','A term applied to the stipes or stalks of certain fungi\n   which are covered with a woolly substance which at length becomes\n   powdery.'),('Peroneal','a.','Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the\n   fibula.'),('Perorate','v. i.','To make a peroration; to harangue.'),('Peroration','n.','The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final\n   summing up and enforcement of an argument.'),('Peroxidation','n.','Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to\n   a peroxide.'),('Peroxide','n.','An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of\n   the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest\n   oxides. Cf. Per-, 2.'),('Peroxidized','imp. & p. p.','of Peroxidize'),('Peroxidizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peroxidize'),('Peroxidize','v. t.','To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a\n   peroxide.'),('Perpend','v. t.','To weight carefully in the mind.'),('Perpend','v. i.','To attend; to be attentive.'),('Perpender','n.','A large stone reaching through a wall so as to appear on\n   both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend,\n   perpend stone, and perpent stone.'),('Perpendicle','n.','Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.'),('Perpendicular','a.','Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith;\n   at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line\n   from any point toward the center of the earth.'),('Perpendicular','a.','At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the\n   line ad is perpendicular to the line bc.'),('Perpendicular','n.','A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon;\n   a vertical line or direction.'),('Perpendicular','n.','A line or plane falling at right angles on another\n   line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.'),('Perpendicularity','n.','The quality or state of being perpendicular.'),('Perpendicularly','adv.','In a perpendicular manner; vertically.'),('Perpend stone','','See Perpender.'),('Perpension','n.','Careful consideration; pondering.'),('Perpensity','n.','Perpension.'),('Perpent stone','','See Perpender.'),('Perpession','n.','Suffering; endurance.'),('Perpetrable','a.','Capable of being perpetrated.'),('Perpetrated','imp. & p. p.','of Perpetrate'),('Perpetrating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perpetrate'),('Perpetrate','v. t.','To do or perform; to carry through; to execute,\n   commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be\n   guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.'),('Perpetration','n.','The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of\n   doing something wrong, as a crime.'),('Perpetration','n.','The thing perpetrated; an evil action.'),('Perpetrator','n.','One who perpetrates; esp., one who commits an offense\n   or crime.'),('Perpetuable','a.','Capable of being perpetuated or continued.'),('Perpetual','a.','Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited\n   time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous.'),('Perpetually','adv.','In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.'),('Perpetualty','n.','The state or condition of being perpetual.'),('Perpetuance','n.','Perpetuity.'),('Perpetuated','imp. & p. p.','of Perpetuate'),('Perpetuating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perpetuate'),('Perpetuate','v. t.','To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be\n   continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to\n   eternize.'),('Perpetuate','a.','Made perpetual; perpetuated.'),('Perpetuation','n.','The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from\n   extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of\n   time; continuance.'),('Perpetuity','n.','The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the\n   perpetuity of laws.'),('Perpetuity','n.','Something that is perpetual.'),('Perpetuity','n.','Endless time.'),('Perpetuity','n.','The number of years in which the simple interest of any\n   sum becomes equal to the principal.'),('Perpetuity','n.','The number of years\' purchase to be given for an\n   annuity to continue forever.'),('Perpetuity','n.','A perpetual annuity.'),('Perpetuity','n.','Duration without limitations as to time.'),('Perpetuity','n.','The quality or condition of an estate by which it\n   becomes inalienable, either perpetually or for a very long period;\n   also, the estate itself so modified or perpetuated.'),('Perplexed','imp. & p. p.','of Perplex'),('Perplexing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perplex'),('Perplex','a.','To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated,\n   and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with\n   doubts.'),('Perplex','a.','To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to\n   confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.'),('Perplex','a.','To plague; to vex; to tormen.'),('Perplex','a.','Intricate; difficult.'),('Perplexed','a.','Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd;\n   puzzled; doubtful; anxious.'),('Perplexing','a.','Embarrassing; puzzling; troublesome.'),('Perplexities','pl. ','of Perplexity'),('Perplexity','n.','The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled;\n   complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through\n   doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.'),('Perplexiveness','n.','The quality of being perplexing; tendency to\n   perplex.'),('Perplexly','adv.','Perplexedly.'),('Perpotation','n.','The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout.'),('Perquisite','n.','Something gained from a place or employment over and\n   above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered;\n   especially, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service.'),('Perquisite','n.','Things gotten by a man\'s own industry, or purchased\n   with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent.'),('Perquisited','a.','Supplied with perquisites.'),('Perquisition','n.','A thorough inquiry of search.'),('Perradial','a.','Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a\n   radiate.'),('Perrie','n.','Precious stones; jewels.'),('Perrier','n.','A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.'),('Perroquet','n.','See Paroquet, Parakeet.'),('Perruque','n.','See Peruke.'),('Perruquier','n.','A marker of perukes or wigs.'),('Perry','n.','A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.'),('Perry','n.','A suddent squall. See Pirry.'),('Pers','a.','Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different\n   shades at different periods.'),('Pers','n.','A cloth of sky-blue color.'),('Persalt','n.','A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed\n   respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.'),('Persant','a.','Piercing.'),('Perscrutation','n.','A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny.'),('Persecot','n.','See Persicot.'),('Persecuted','imp. & p. p.','of Persecute'),('Persecuting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Persecute'),('Persecute','v. t.','To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict;\n   to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict,\n   harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular\n   religious creed or mode of worship.'),('Persecute','v. t.','To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent\n   solicitations; to annoy.'),('Persecution','n.','The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the\n   infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed\n   or mode of worship.'),('Persecution','n.','The state or condition of being persecuted.'),('Persecution','n.','A carrying on; prosecution.'),('Persecutor','n.','One who persecutes, or harasses.'),('Persecutrix','n.','A woman who persecutes.'),('Perseid','n.','One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about\n   the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating\n   from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once\n   connected with a comet visible in 1862.'),('Perseus','n.','A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who\n   slew the Gorgon Medusa.'),('Perseus','n.','A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and\n   Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a\n   nebula.'),('Persever','v. i.','To persevere.'),('Perseverance','n.','The act of persevering; persistence in anything\n   undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or\n   enterprise begun.'),('Perseverance','n.','Discrimination.'),('Perseverance','n.','Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded\n   by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the\n   perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism.'),('Perseverant','a.','Persevering.'),('Persevered','imp. & p. p.','of Persevere'),('Persevering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Persevere'),('Persevere','v. i.','To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken;\n   to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose\n   in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to\n   give or abandon what is undertaken.'),('Persevering','a.','Characterized by perseverance; persistent.'),('Persian','a.','Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their\n   language.'),('Persian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Persia.'),('Persian','n.','The language spoken in Persia.'),('Persian','n.','A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings.'),('Persian','n.','See Persian columns, under Persian, a.'),('Persic','a.','Of or relating to Persia.'),('Persic','n.','The Persian language.'),('Persicaria','n.','See Lady\'s thumb.'),('Persicot','n.','A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines,\n   etc., with refined spirit.'),('Persiflage','n.','Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of\n   treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery.'),('Persifleur','n.','One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz.'),('Persimmon','n.','An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit,\n   found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance,\n   but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost,\n   when it becomes palatable and nutritious.'),('Persis','n.','A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens.'),('Persism','n.','A Persian idiom.'),('Persisted','imp. & p. p.','of Persist'),('Persisting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Persist'),('Persist','v. i.','To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to\n   continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of\n   conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying\n   an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.'),('Persistence','n.','Alt. of Persistency'),('Persistency','n.','The quality or state of being persistent; staying or\n   continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness;\n   obstinacy.'),('Persistency','n.','The continuance of an effect after the cause which\n   first gave rise to it is removed'),('Persistency','n.','The persistence of motion.'),('Persistency','n.','Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual\n   impression; auditory persistence, etc.'),('Persistent','a.','Inclined to persist; having staying qualities;\n   tenacious of position or purpose.'),('Persistent','a.','Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind\n   sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or\n   gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.'),('Persistently','adv.','In a persistent manner.'),('Persisting','a.','Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent.'),('Persistive','a.','See Persistent.'),('Persolve','v. t.','To pay wholly, or fully.'),('Person','n.','A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or\n   manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in\n   literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.'),('Person','n.','The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance;\n   as, of comely person.'),('Person','n.','A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal\n   or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.'),('Person','n.','A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any\n   person present.'),('Person','n.','A parson; the parish priest.'),('Person','n.','Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the\n   Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.'),('Person','n.','One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking,\n   that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a\n   noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the\n   subject.'),('Person','n.','A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound\n   Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense,\n   among the higher animals.'),('Person','v. t.','To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.'),('Personae','pl. ','of Persona'),('Persona','n.','Same as Person, n., 8.'),('Personable','a.','Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely;\n   of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.'),('Personable','a.','Enabled to maintain pleas in court.'),('Personable','a.','Having capacity to take anything granted.'),('Personage','n.','Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the\n   external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.'),('Personage','n.','Character assumed or represented.'),('Personage','n.','A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or\n   peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of\n   stature tall.'),('Personal','a.','Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.'),('Personal','a.','Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or\n   affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or\n   proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal\n   comfort; personal desire.'),('Personal','a.','Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance;\n   corporeal; as, personal charms.'),('Personal','a.','Done in person; without the intervention of another.'),('Personal','a.','Relating to an individual, his character, conduct,\n   motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as,\n   personal reflections or remarks.'),('Personal','a.','Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun.'),('Personal','n.','A movable; a chattel.'),('Personalism','n.','The quality or state of being personal; personality.'),('Personalities','pl. ','of Personality'),('Personality','n.','That which constitutes distinction of person;\n   individuality.'),('Personality','n.','Something said or written which refers to the person,\n   conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a\n   disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in\n   personalities.'),('Personality','n.','That quality of a law which concerns the condition,\n   state, and capacity of persons.'),('Personalized','imp. & p. p.','of Personalize'),('Personalizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Personalize'),('Personalize','v. t.','To make personal.'),('Personally','adv.','In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person;\n   not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter\n   personally.'),('Personally','adv.','With respect to an individual; as regards the person;\n   individually; particularly.'),('Personally','adv.','With respect to one\'s individuality; as regards one\'s\n   self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.'),('Personalty','n.','The state of being a person; personality.'),('Personalty','n.','Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real\n   property.'),('Personated','imp. & p. p.','of Personate'),('Personating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Personate'),('Personate','v. t.','To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.'),('Personate','v. t.','To assume the character of; to represent by a\n   fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to\n   feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.'),('Personate','v. t.','To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to\n   mask.'),('Personate','v. t.','To personify; to typify; to describe.'),('Personate','v. i.','To play or assume a character.'),('Personate','a.','Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed\n   by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower\n   of the snapdragon.'),('Personation','n.','The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or\n   character of another.'),('Personator','n.','One who personates.'),('Personeity','n.','Personality.'),('Personification','n.','The act of personifying; impersonation;\n   embodiment.'),('Personification','n.','A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or\n   abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality;\n   prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.'),('Personifier','n.','One who personifies.'),('Personified','imp. & p. p.','of Personify'),('Personifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Personify'),('Personify','v. t.','To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to\n   represent as a rational being.'),('Personify','v. t.','To be the embodiment or personification of; to\n   impersonate; as, he personifies the law.'),('Personize','v. t.','To personify.'),('Personnel','n.','The body of persons employed in some public service, as\n   the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel.'),('Perspective','n.','Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.'),('Perspective','n.','Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws,\n   of perspective.'),('Perspective','a.','A glass through which objects are viewed.'),('Perspective','a.','That which is seen through an opening; a view; a\n   vista.'),('Perspective','a.','The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects,\n   by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less\n   measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater\n   vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects.'),('Perspective','a.','The art and the science of so delineating objects that\n   they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called\n   also linear perspective.'),('Perspective','a.','A drawing in linear perspective.'),('Perspectively','adv.','Optically; as through a glass.'),('Perspectively','adv.','According to the rules of perspective.'),('Perspectograph','n.','An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a\n   picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in\n   their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.'),('Perspectography','n.','The science or art of delineating objects\n   according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.'),('Perspicable','a.','Discernible.'),('Perspicacious','a.','Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted;\n   sharp of sight.'),('Perspicacious','a.','Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen.'),('Perspicacity','n.','The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight\n   or of intelligence; acute discernment.'),('Perspicacy','n.','Perspicacity.'),('Perspicience','n.','The act of looking sharply.'),('Perspicil','n.','An optical glass; a telescope.'),('Perspicuity','n.','The quality or state of being transparent or\n   translucent.'),('Perspicuity','n.','The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding;\n   clearness of expression or thought.'),('Perspicuity','n.','Sagacity; perspicacity.'),('Perspicuous','a.','Capable of being through; transparent; translucent;\n   not opaque.'),('Perspicuous','a.','Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly\n   understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or\n   ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements.'),('Perspirability','n.','The quality or state of being perspirable.'),('Perspirable','a.','Capable of being perspired.'),('Perspirable','a.','Emitting perspiration; perspiring.'),('Perspiration','n.','The act or process of perspiring.'),('Perspiration','n.','That which is excreted through the skin; sweat.'),('Perspirative','a.','Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory.'),('Perspiratory','a.','Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as,\n   the perspiratory ducts.'),('Perspired','imp. & p. p.','of Perspire'),('Perspiring','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Perspire'),('Perspire','v. i.','To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete\n   fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.'),('Perspire','v. i.','To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the\n   pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.'),('Perspire','v. t.','To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to\n   sweat; to excrete through pores.'),('Perstreperous','a.','Noisy; obstreperous.'),('Perstringe','v. t.','To touch; to graze; to glance on.'),('Perstringe','v. t.','To criticise; to touch upon.'),('Persuadable','a.','That may be persuaded.'),('Persuaded','imp. & p. p.','of Persuade'),('Persuading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Persuade'),('Persuade','v. t.','To influence or gain over by argument, advice,\n   entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by\n   presenting sufficient motives.'),('Persuade','v. t.','To try to influence.'),('Persuade','v. t.','To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or\n   suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.'),('Persuade','v. t.','To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise;\n   to recommend.'),('Persuade','v. i.','To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.'),('Persuade','n.','Persuasion.'),('Persuaded','p. p. & a.','Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or\n   entreaty; convinced.'),('Persuader','n.','One who, or that which, persuades or influences.'),('Persuasibility','n.','Capability of being persuaded.'),('Persuasible','a.','Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.'),('Persuasible','a.','Persuasive.'),('Persuasion','n.','The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind\n   by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or\n   passions, or inclines the will to a determination.'),('Persuasion','n.','The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled\n   opinion or conviction, which has been induced.'),('Persuasion','n.','A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a\n   certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all\n   persuasions are agreed.'),('Persuasion','n.','The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness.'),('Persuasion','n.','That which persuades; a persuasive.'),('Persuasive','a.','Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading;\n   as, persuasive eloquence.'),('Persuasive','n.','That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an\n   exhortation.'),('Persuasory','a.','Persuasive.'),('Persulphate','n.','A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.'),('Persulphide','n.','A sulphide containing more sulphur than some other\n   compound of the same elements; as, iron pyrites is a persulphide; --\n   formerly called persulphuret.'),('Persulphocyanate','n.','A salt of persulphocyanic acid.'),('Persulphocyanic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow\n   crystalline substance (called also perthiocyanic acid), analogous to\n   sulphocyanic acid, but containing more sulphur.'),('Persulphocyanogen','n.','An orange-yellow substance, produced by the\n   action of chlorine or boiling dilute nitric acid and sulphocyanate of\n   potassium; -- called also pseudosulphocyanogen, perthiocyanogen, and\n   formerly sulphocyanogen.'),('Persulphuret','n.','A persulphide.'),('Pert','a.','Open; evident; apert.'),('Pert','a.','Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.'),('Pert','a.','Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.'),('Pert','v. i.','To behave with pertness.'),('Pertained','imp. & p. p.','of Pertain'),('Pertaining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pertain'),('Pertain','v. i.','To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on,\n   something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as,\n   saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.'),('Pertain','v. i.','To have relation or reference to something.'),('Perterebration','n.','The act of boring through.'),('Perthiocyanogen','n.','Same as Persulphocyanogen.'),('Perthite','n.','A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture\n   of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.'),('Pertinacious','a.','Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or\n   design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as,\n   pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.'),('Pertinacious','a.','Resolute; persevering; constant; steady.'),('Pertinacity','n.','The quality or state of being pertinacious; obstinacy;\n   perseverance; persistency.'),('Pertinacy','n.','The quality or state of being pertinent; pertinence.'),('Pertinacy','n.','Pertinacity.'),('Pertinate','a.','Pertinacious.'),('Pertinately','adv.','Pertinaciously.'),('Pertinence','n.','Alt. of Pertinency'),('Pertinency','n.','The quality or state of being pertinent; justness of\n   relation to the subject or matter in hand; fitness; appositeness;\n   relevancy; suitableness.'),('Pertinent','a.','Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand;\n   fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite;\n   material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent\n   evidence.'),('Pertinent','a.','Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining.'),('Pertly','adv.','In a pert manner.'),('Pertness','n.','The quality or state of being pert.'),('Pertransient','a.','Passing through or over.'),('Perturb','v. t.','To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to\n   disquiet.'),('Perturb','v. t.','To disorder; to confuse.'),('Perturbability','n.','The quality or state of being perturbable.'),('Perturbable','a.','Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be\n   disturbed or disquieted.'),('Perturbance','n.','Disturbance; perturbation.'),('Perturbate','v. t.','To perturb.'),('Perturbate','a.','Perturbed; agitated.'),('Perturbation','n.','The act of perturbing, or the state of being\n   perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.'),('Perturbation','n.','A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion\n   of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which\n   causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are\n   caused by their attraction on each other.'),('Perturbational','a.','Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the\n   perturbations of the planets.'),('Perturbative','a.','Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing.'),('Perturbator','n.','A perturber.'),('Perturbed','a.','Agitated; disturbed; troubled.'),('Perturber','n.','One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.'),('Pertusate','a.','Pierced at the apex.'),('Pertuse','a.','Alt. of Pertused'),('Pertused','a.','Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.'),('Pertusion','n.','The act of punching or piercing with a pointed\n   instrument; as, pertusion of a vein.'),('Pertusion','n.','A punched hole; a perforation.'),('Pertussis','n.','The whooping cough.'),('Peruke','n.','A wig; a periwig.'),('Peruke','v. t.','To dress with a peruke.'),('Perulae','pl. ','of Perula'),('Perula','n.','One of the scales of a leaf bud.'),('Perula','n.','A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides.'),('Perule','n.','Same as Perula.'),('Perusal','n.','The act of carefully viewing or examining.'),('Perusal','n.','The act of reading, especially of reading through or with\n   care.'),('Perused','imp. & p. p.','of Peruse'),('Perusing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peruse'),('Peruse','v. t.','To observe; to examine with care.'),('Peruse','v. t.','To read through; to read carefully.'),('Peruser','n.','One who peruses.'),('Peruvian','a.','Of or pertaining to Peru, in South America.'),('Peruvian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Peru.'),('Pervaded','imp. & p. p.','of Pervade'),('Pervading','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pervade'),('Pervade','v. t.','To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or\n   interstice; to permeate.'),('Pervade','v. t.','To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be\n   diffused throughout.'),('Pervasion','n.','The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the\n   whole extent of a thing.'),('Pervasive','a.','Tending to pervade, or having power to spread\n   throughout; of a pervading quality.'),('Perverse','a.','Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the\n   right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.'),('Perverse','a.','Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence,\n   wayward; vexing; contrary.'),('Perversed','a.','Turned aside.'),('Perversedly','adv.','Perversely.'),('Perversely','adv.','In a perverse manner.'),('Perverseness','n.','The quality or state of being perverse.'),('Perversion','n.','The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted;\n   a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or\n   object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong\n   end or use.'),('Perversity','n.','The quality or state of being perverse; perverseness.'),('Perversive','a.','Tending to pervert.'),('Perverted','imp. & p. p.','of Pervert'),('Perverting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pervert'),('Pervert','v. t.','To turnanother way; to divert.'),('Pervert','v. t.','To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert\n   from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to\n   misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one\'s words.'),('Pervert','v. i.','To become perverted; to take the wrong course.'),('Pervert','n.','One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error,\n   especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of\n   Convert.'),('Perverter','n.','One who perverts (a person or thing).'),('Pervertible','a.','Capable of being perverted.'),('Pervestigate','v. t.','To investigate thoroughly.'),('Pervestigation','n.','Thorough investigation.'),('Pervial','a.','Pervious.'),('Pervicacious','a.','Obstinate; willful; refractory.'),('Pervicacity','n.','Obstinacy; pervicaciousness.'),('Pervicacy','n.','Pervicacity.'),('Pervigilation','n.','Careful watching.'),('Pervious','a.','Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another\n   body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.'),('Pervious','a.','Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical\n   or mental vision.'),('Pervious','a.','Capable of penetrating or pervading.'),('Pervious','a.','Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to\n   the nostrils or birds.'),('Perviousness','n.','The quality or state of being pervious; as, the\n   perviousness of glass.'),('Pervis','n.','See Parvis.'),('Pery','n.','A pear tree. See Pirie.'),('Pedes','pl. ','of Pes'),('Pes','n.','The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including\n   the tarsus and foot.'),('Pesade','n.','The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he\n   keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.'),('Pesage','n.','A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.'),('Pesane','n.','See Pusane.'),('Pesanted','a.','Made heavy or dull; debased.'),('Peschito','n.','See Peshito.'),('Pese','n.','A pea.'),('Peseta','n.','A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about\n   nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.'),('Peshito','n.','Alt. of Peshitto'),('Peshitto','n.','The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament,\n   translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New\n   Testament.'),('Pesky','a.','Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an\n   intensive.'),('Peso','n.','A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian,\n   etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.'),('Pessaries','pl. ','of Pessary'),('Pessary','n.','An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in\n   the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.'),('Pessary','n.','A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass,\n   designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.'),('Pessimism','n.','The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is\n   ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; --\n   opposed to optimism.'),('Pessimism','n.','A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.'),('Pessimist','n.','One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed\n   to optimist.'),('Pessimist','n.','One who looks on the dark side of things.'),('Pessimist','a.','Alt. of Pessimistic'),('Pessimistic','a.','Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by\n   pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.'),('Pessimistical','a.','Pessimistic.'),('Pessimize','v. i.','To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism.'),('Pessuli','pl. ','of Pessulus'),('Pessulus','n.','A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and\n   ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the\n   syrinx of birds.'),('Pest','n.','A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.'),('Pest','n.','Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is\n   troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.'),('Pestalozzian','a.','Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of\n   elementary education which combined manual training with other\n   instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi\n   (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.'),('Pestalozzian','n.','An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.'),('Pestalozzianism','n.','The system of education introduced by Pestalozzi.'),('Pestered','imp. & p. p.','of Pester'),('Pestering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pester'),('Pester','v. t.','To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty\n   vexations.'),('Pester','v. t.','To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to\n   infest.'),('Pesterer','n.','One who pesters or harasses.'),('Pesterment','n.','The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered;\n   vexation; worry.'),('Pesterous','a.','Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering;\n   burdensome.'),('Pestful','a.','Pestiferous.'),('Pesthouse','n.','A house or hospital for persons who are infected with\n   any pestilential disease.'),('Pestiduct','n.','That which conveys contagion or infection.'),('Pestiferous','a.','Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health;\n   malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.'),('Pestiferous','a.','Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious;\n   hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue.'),('Pestiferously','adv.','In a pestiferuos manner.'),('Pestilence','n.','Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence,\n   any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and\n   devastating.'),('Pestilence','n.','Fig.: That which is pestilent, noxious, or pernicious\n   to the moral character of great numbers.'),('Pestilent','a.','Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.'),('Pestilential','a.','Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.'),('Pestilential','a.','Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally\n   destructive.'),('Pestilentially','adv.','Pestilently.'),('Pestilentious','a.','Pestilential.'),('Pestilently','adv.','In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.'),('Pestilentness','n.','The quality of being pestilent.'),('Pestilation','n.','The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a\n   mortar.'),('Pestle','n.','An implement for pounding and breaking or braying\n   substances in a mortar.'),('Pestle','n.','A constable\'s or bailiff\'s staff; -- so called from its\n   shape.'),('Pestle','n.','The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as,\n   a pestle of pork.'),('Pestled','imp. & p. p.','of Pestle'),('Pestling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pestle'),('Pestle','v. t. & i.','To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or\n   as with a pestle; to use a pestle.'),('Pet','n.','A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.'),('Pet','n.','Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a\n   fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.'),('Pet','n.','A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.'),('Pet','a.','Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet\n   lamb; a pet theory.'),('Petted','imp. & p. p.','of Pet'),('Petting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pet'),('Pet','v. t.','To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was\n   petted and spoiled.'),('Pet','v. i.','To be a pet.'),('Petal','n.','One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a\n   flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.'),('Petal','n.','One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the\n   black of certain Echini.'),('Petaled','a.','Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to\n   apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled,\n   etc.'),('Petaliferous','a.','Bearing petals.'),('Petaliform','a.','Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.'),('Petaline','a.','Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a\n   petal.'),('Petalism','n.','A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which\n   they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous\n   influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but\n   olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.'),('Petalite','n.','A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable\n   masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of\n   aluminia and lithia.'),('Petalody','n.','The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually\n   stamens, into petals.'),('Petaloid','a.','Petaline.'),('Petaloideous','a.','Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline.'),('Petalosticha','n. pl.','An order of Echini, including the irregular sea\n   urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.'),('Petalous','a.','Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous.'),('Petala','pl. ','of Petalum'),('Petalum','n.','A petal.'),('Petar','n.','See Petard.'),('Petard','n.','A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or\n   cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank,\n   to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges,\n   etc. It has been superseded.'),('Petardeer','n.','Alt. of Petardier'),('Petardier','n.','One who managed a petard.'),('Petasus','n.','The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed,\n   low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.'),('Petaurist','n.','Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus,\n   Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under\n   Flying, and Phalangister.'),('Petechiae','n. pl.','Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like\n   flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in\n   malignant fevers, etc.'),('Petechial','a.','Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiae; spotted.'),('Peter','n.','A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the\n   apostles,'),('Petered','imp. & p. p.','of Peter'),('Petering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Peter'),('Peter','v. i.','To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used\n   generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.'),('Peterel','n.','See Petrel.'),('Peterero','n.','See Pederero.'),('Petermen','pl. ','of Peterman'),('Peterman','n.','A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.'),('Petersham','n.','A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men\'s\n   overcoats; also, a coat of that material.'),('Peterwort','n.','See Saint Peter\'s-wort, under Saint.'),('Petiolar','a.','Alt. of Petiolary'),('Petiolary','a.','Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as,\n   a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar\n   gland; a petiolar bud.'),('Petiolate','a.','Alt. of Petiolated'),('Petiolated','a.','Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the\n   petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.'),('Petiole','n.','A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade\n   with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.'),('Petiole','n.','A stalk or peduncle.'),('Petioled','a.','Petiolate.'),('Petiolulate','a.','Supported by its own petiolule.'),('Petiolule','n.','A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.'),('Petit','a.','Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.'),('Petition','n.','A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty;\n   especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the\n   Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority;\n   also, a single clause in such a prayer.'),('Petition','n.','A formal written request addressed to an official person,\n   or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law),\n   a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the\n   granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a\n   memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written\n   document.'),('Petitioned','imp. & p. p.','of Petition'),('Petitioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Petition'),('Petition','v. t.','To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to\n   solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication,\n   or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition\n   the court; to petition the governor.'),('Petition','v. i.','To make a petition or solicitation.'),('Petitionarily','adv.','By way of begging the question; by an assumption.'),('Petitionary','a.','Supplicatory; making a petition.'),('Petitionary','a.','Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition;\n   as, a petitionary epistle.'),('Petitionee','n.','A person cited to answer, or defend against, a\n   petition.'),('Petitioner','n.','One who presents a petition.'),('Petitioning','n.','The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.'),('Petitor','n.','One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.'),('Petitory','a.','Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.'),('Petong','n.','See Packfong.'),('Petralogy','n.','See Petrology.'),('Petrary','n.','An ancient war engine for hurling stones.'),('Petrean','a.','Of or pertaining to to rock.'),('Petre','n.','See Saltpeter.'),('Petrel','n.','Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds\n   belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother\n   Carey\'s chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and\n   several allied genera.'),('Petrescence','n.','The process of changing into stone; petrification.'),('Petrescent','a.','Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent\n   water.'),('Petrifaction','n.','The process of petrifying, or changing into stone;\n   conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a\n   substance of stony hardness.'),('Petrifaction','n.','The state or condition of being petrified.'),('Petrifaction','n.','That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted\n   with stony matter; an incrustation.'),('Petrifaction','n.','Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.'),('Petrifactive','a.','Having the quality of converting organic matter into\n   stone; petrifying.'),('Petrifactive','a.','Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.'),('Petrific','a.','Petrifying; petrifactive.'),('Petrificate','v. t.','To petrify.'),('Petrification','n.','See Petrifaction.'),('Petrification','n.','Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.'),('Petrified','imp. & p. p.','of Petrify'),('Petrifying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Petrify'),('Petrify','v. t.','To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into\n   stone or stony substance.'),('Petrify','v. t.','To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze;\n   to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.'),('Petrify','v. i.','To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic\n   matter by calcareous deposits.'),('Petrify','v. i.','Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.'),('Petrine','a.','Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.'),('Petro-','','A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology,\n   petroglyphic.'),('Petrogale','n.','Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the\n   rock wallaby (P. penicillata).'),('Petroglyphic','a.','Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.'),('Petroglyphy','n.','The art or operation of carving figures or\n   inscriptions on rock or stone.'),('Petrographic','a.','Alt. of Petrographical'),('Petrographical','a.','Pertaining to petrography.'),('Petrography','n.','The art of writing on stone.'),('Petrography','n.','The scientific description of rocks; that department\n   of science which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.'),('Petrohyoid','a.','Pertaining to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the\n   skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.'),('Petrol','n.','Petroleum.'),('Petrolatum','n.','A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without\n   taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter\n   portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass,\n   transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a\n   bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in\n   ointments.'),('Petroleum','n.','Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or\n   greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the\n   upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by\n   pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of\n   various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much\n   in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by\n   distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline,\n   paraffin, etc.'),('Petroleur','n. f.','Alt. of Petroleuse'),('Petroleuse','n. f.','One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary\n   purposes.'),('Petroline','n.','A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in\n   India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.'),('Petrologic','a.','Alt. of Petrological'),('Petrological','a.','Of or pertaining to petrology.'),('Petrologically','adv.','According to petrology.'),('Petrologist','n.','One who is versed in petrology.'),('Petrology','n.','The department of science which is concerned with the\n   mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their\n   classification: lithology.'),('Petrology','n.','A treatise on petrology.'),('Petromastoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of\n   the temporal bone, periotic.'),('Petromyzont','n.','A lamprey.'),('Petronel','n.','A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in\n   France in the 15th century.'),('Petrosal','a.','Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal\n   part of the temporal bone.'),('Petrosal','a.','Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or\n   petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone.'),('Petrosal','n.','A petrosal bone.'),('Petrosal','n.','The auditory capsule.'),('Petrosilex','n.','Felsite.'),('Petrosilicious','a.','Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex.'),('Petrostearine','n.','A solid unctuous material, of which candles are\n   made.'),('Petrous','a.','Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of\n   the temporal bone.'),('Petrous','a.','Same as Petrosal.'),('Pettichaps','n.','See Pettychaps.'),('Petticoat','n.','A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the\n   body below the waist.'),('Pettifogged','imp. & p. p.','of Pettifog'),('Pettifogging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pettifog'),('Pettifog','v. i.','To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law\n   business in a petty or tricky way.'),('Pettifog','v. t.','To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as,\n   to pettifog a claim.'),('Pettifogger','n.','A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose\n   methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.'),('ies','pl. ','of Pettifoggery'),('Pettifoggery','n.','The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable\n   tricks; quibbles.'),('Pettifogging','a.','Paltry; quibbling; mean.'),('Pettifogging','n.','Pettifoggery.'),('Pettifogulize','v. i.','To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible\n   tricks.'),('Pettily','adv.','In a petty manner; frivolously.'),('Pettiness','n.','The quality or state of being petty or paltry;\n   littleness; meanness.'),('Pettish','a.','Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill\n   temper.'),('Pettitoes','n. pl.','The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food;\n   sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.'),('Petto','n.','The breast.'),('Petty','superl.','Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior;\n   subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.'),('Pettychaps','n.','Any one of several species of small European singing\n   birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the\n   chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).'),('Pettywhin','n.','The needle furze. See under Needle.'),('Petulance','n.','Alt. of Petulancy'),('Petulancy','n.','The quality or state of being petulant; temporary\n   peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.'),('Petulant','a.','Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.'),('Petulant','a.','Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured\n   freakishness; irritable.'),('Petulantly','adv.','In a petulant manner.'),('Petulcity','n.','Wantonness; friskiness.'),('Petulcous','a.','Wanton; frisky; lustful.'),('Petunia','n.','A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or\n   salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia\n   violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with\n   white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated\n   corollas.'),('Petunse','n.','Alt. of Petuntze'),('Petuntse','n.','Alt. of Petuntze'),('Petuntze','n.','Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the\n   manufacture of porcelain.'),('Petworth marble','','A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay\n   at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.'),('Petzite','n.','A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.'),('Peucedanin','n.','A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from\n   the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria),\n   and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.'),('Peucil','n.','A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating\n   turpentine hydrochloride with lime.'),('Pew','n.','One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low\n   partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; --\n   sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now\n   usually long and narrow.'),('Pew','n.','Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly\n   used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.'),('Pew','v. t.','To furnish with pews.'),('Pewee','n.','A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S.\n   fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.'),('Pewee','n.','The woodcock.'),('Pewet','n.','Same as Pewit.'),('Pewfellow','n.','One who occupies the same pew with another.'),('Pewfellow','n.','An intimate associate; a companion.'),('Pewit','n.','The lapwing.'),('Pewit','n.','The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema\n   ridibundus). See under Laughing.'),('Pewit','n.','The pewee.'),('Pewter','n.','A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally\n   consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the\n   addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.'),('Pewter','n.','Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers,\n   drinking vessels, tankards, pots.'),('Pewterer','n.','One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a\n   pewtersmith.'),('Pewtery','a.','Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.'),('Pexity','n.','Nap of cloth.'),('Peyer\'s glands','','Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the\n   small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer\'s patches. In\n   typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the\n   characteristic organic lesion of that disease.'),('Peytrel','n.','The breastplate of a horse\'s armor or harness. [Spelt also\n   peitrel.] See Poitrel.'),('Peziza','n.','A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some\n   of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.'),('Pezizoid','a.','Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike\n   form.'),('Pfennigs','pl. ','of Pfennig'),('Pfennige','pl. ','of Pfennig'),('Pfennig','n.','A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part\n   of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.'),('Phacelli','pl. ','of Phacellus'),('Phacellus','n.','One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric\n   cavity of certain jellyfishes.'),('Phacochere','n.','The wart hog.'),('Phacoid','a.','Resembling a lentil; lenticular.'),('Phacolite','n.','A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from\n   Leipa, in Bohemia.'),('Phacops','n.','A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian\n   formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.'),('Phaeacian','a.','Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring\n   people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.'),('Phaenogam','n.','Any plant of the class Phaenogamia.'),('Phaenogamia','n. pl.','The class of flowering plants including all which\n   have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.'),('Phaenogamian','a.','Alt. of Phaenogamic'),('Phaenogamic','a.','Same as Phaenogamous.'),('Phaenogamous','a.','Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs;\n   flowering.'),('Phaenomenon','n.','See Phenomenon.'),('Phaeospore','n.','A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order\n   (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.'),('Phaethon','n.','The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light,\n   or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the\n   chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the\n   world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter,\n   and hurled headlong into the river Po.'),('Phaethon','n.','A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.'),('Phaeton','n.','A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or\n   having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two\n   horses.'),('Phaeton','n.','See Phaethon.'),('Phaeton','n.','A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea,\n   Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots\n   and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; --\n   called also Baltimore.'),('Phagedena','n.','A canine appetite; bulimia.'),('Phagedena','n.','Spreading, obstinate ulceration.'),('Phagedenic','a.','Alt. of PhagedenicAL'),('PhagedenicAL','a.','Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the\n   treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.'),('PhagedenicAL','n.','A phagedenic medicine.'),('Phagedenous','a.','Phagedenic.'),('Phagocyte','n.','A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive\n   processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the\n   parts to be removed.'),('Phainopepla','n.','A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens),\n   native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a\n   uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black\n   flycatcher.'),('Phakoscope','n.','An instrument for studying the mechanism of\n   accommodation.'),('Phalaena','n.','A linnaean genus which included the moths in general.'),('Phalaenid','n.','Any moth of the family Phalaenidae, of which the\n   cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.'),('Phalangeal','a.','Alt. of Phalangal'),('Phalangal','a.','Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.'),('Phalanger','n.','Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus,\n   Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistidae. They are\n   arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral\n   parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.'),('Phalanges','n.','pl. of Phalanx.'),('Phalangial','a.','Alt. of Phalangian'),('Phalangian','a.','Phalangeal.'),('Phalangides','pl. ','of Phalangid'),('Phalangid','n.','One of the Phalangoidea.'),('Phalangious','a.','Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.'),('Phalangist','n.','Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The\n   vulpine phalangist (P. vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown\n   male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.'),('Phalangister','n.','Alt. of Phalangistine'),('Phalangistine','n.','Same as Phalangist.'),('Phalangite','n.','A soldier belonging to a phalanx.'),('Phalangoidea','n. pl.','A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy\n   longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have\n   long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen;\n   and chelate jaws. They breathe by tracheae. Called also Phalangides,\n   Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea.'),('Phalanstere','n.','A phalanstery.'),('Phalansterian','a.','Of or pertaining to phalansterianism.'),('Phalansterian','n.','One who favors the system of phalansteries proposed\n   by Fourier.'),('Phalansterism','n.','Alt. of Phalansterianism'),('Phalansterianism','n.','A system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier;\n   Fourierism.'),('-ies','pl. ','of Phalanstery'),('Phalanstery','n.','An association or community organized on the plan of\n   Fourier. See Fourierism.'),('Phalanstery','n.','The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.'),('Phalanxes','pl. ','of Phalanx'),('Phalanges','pl. ','of Phalanx'),('Phalanx','n.','A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files\n   close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx\n   varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.'),('Phalanx','n.','Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any\n   combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a\n   union.'),('Phalanx','n.','A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.'),('Phalanx','n.','One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the\n   metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.'),('Phalanx','n.','A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.'),('Phalarope','n.','Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small\n   wading birds (Grallae), having lobate toes. They are often seen far\n   from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.'),('Phallic','a.','Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.'),('Phallicism','n.','See Phallism.'),('Phallism','n.','The worship of the generative principle in nature,\n   symbolized by the phallus.'),('Phalli','pl. ','of Phallus'),('Phallus','n.','The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in\n   procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.'),('Phallus','n.','The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ\n   from which either may be derived.'),('Phallus','n.','A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor;\n   the stinkhorn.'),('Phane','n.','See Fane.'),('Phanerite','a.','Evident; visible.'),('Phanerocarpae','n. pl.','Same as Acraspeda.'),('Phanerocodonic','a.','Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with\n   a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.'),('Phanerocrystalline','a.','Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks.\n   Opposed to cryptocrystalline.'),('Phanerodactyla','n. pl.','Same as Saururae.'),('Phanerogamia','n. pl.','That one of the two primary divisions of the\n   vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering,\n   plants.'),('Phanerogamian','a.','Phanerogamous.'),('Phanerogamic','a.','Alt. of Phanerogamous'),('Phanerogamous','a.','Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens\n   and pistils; -- said of plants.'),('Phaneroglossal','a.','Having a conspicious tongue; -- said of certain\n   reptiles and insects.'),('Phantascope','n.','An optical instrument or toy, resembling the\n   phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also\n   phantasmascope.'),('Phantasm','n.','An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or\n   material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion;\n   a phantom; a dream.'),('Phantasm','n.','A mental image or representation of a real object; a\n   fancy; a notion.'),('Phantasma','n.','A phantasm.'),('Phantasmagoria','n.','An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The\n   figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the\n   glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the\n   instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or\n   to merge into one another.'),('Phantasmagoria','n.','The apparatus by which such an effect is produced.'),('Phantasmagoria','n.','Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images.'),('Phantasmagorial','a.','Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria;\n   phantasmagoric.'),('Phantasmagoric','a.','Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria;\n   phantasmagorial.'),('Phantasmagory','n.','See Phantasmagoria.'),('Phantasmal','a.','Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a\n   phantasm; spectral; illusive.'),('Phantasmascope','n.','See Phantascope.'),('Phantasmatical','a.','Phantasmal.'),('Phantasmatography','n.','A description of celestial phenomena, as\n   rainbows, etc.'),('Phantastic','a.','Alt. of Phantastical'),('Phantastical','a.','See Fantastic.'),('Phantasy','n.','See Fantasy, and Fancy.'),('Phantom','n.','That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition;\n   a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.'),('Phantomatic','a.','Phantasmal.'),('Pharaoh','n.','A title by which the sovereigns of ancient Egypt were\n   designated.'),('Pharaoh','n.','See Faro.'),('Pharaon','n.','See Pharaoh, 2.'),('Pharaonic','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient\n   Egypt.'),('Phare','n.','A beacon tower; a lighthouse.'),('Phare','n.','Hence, a harbor.'),('Pharisaic','a.','Alt. of Pharisaical'),('Pharisaical','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the\n   Pharisees.'),('Pharisaical','a.','Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a\n   show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal;\n   hypocritical; self-righteous.'),('Pharisaism','n.','The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees,\n   as a sect.'),('Pharisaism','n.','Rigid observance of external forms of religion, without\n   genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous\n   spirit in matters of morals or manners.'),('Pharisean','a.','Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic.'),('Pharisee','n.','One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict\n   and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of\n   the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to\n   separate themselves from the other Jews.'),('Phariseeism','n.','See Pharisaism.'),('Pharmaceutic','a.','Alt. of Pharmaceutical'),('Pharmaceutical','a.','Of or pertaining to the knowledge or art of\n   pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules\n   or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations.'),('Pharmaceutics','n.','The science of preparing medicines.'),('Pharmaceutist','n.','One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note\n   under Apothecary.'),('Pharmacist','n.','One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.'),('Pharmacodynamics','n.','That branch of pharmacology which considers the\n   mode of action, and the effects, of medicines.'),('Pharmacognosis','n.','That branch of pharmacology which treats of\n   unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and\n   pharmacomathy.'),('Pharmacognosy','n.','Pharmacognosis.'),('Pharmacography','n.','See Pharmacognosis.'),('Pharmacolite','n.','A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in\n   silky fibers of a white or grayish color.'),('Pharmacologist','n.','One skilled in pharmacology.'),('Pharmacology','n.','Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing\n   medicines.'),('Pharmacology','n.','A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.'),('Pharmacomathy','n.','See Pharmacognosis.'),('Pharmacon','n.','A medicine or drug; also, a poison.'),('Pharmacopoeia','n.','A book or treatise describing the drugs,\n   preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by\n   official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.'),('Pharmacopoeia','n.','A chemical laboratory.'),('Pharmacopolist','n.','One who sells medicines; an apothecary.'),('Pharmacosiderite','n.','A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or\n   yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.'),('Pharmacy','n.','The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs,\n   and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions\n   of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical\n   chemist.'),('Pharmacy','n.','A place where medicines are compounded; a drug store; an\n   apothecary\'s shop.'),('Pharo','n.','A pharos; a lighthouse.'),('Pharo','n.','See Faro.'),('Pharology','n.','The art or science which treats of lighthouses and\n   signal lights.'),('Pharos','n.','A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.'),('Pharyngal','a.','Pharyngeal.'),('Pharyngeal','a.','Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the\n   pharynx.'),('Pharyngeal','n.','A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the\n   lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch\n   in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials,\n   which are the dorsal elements in the complete branchial arches.'),('Pharyngitis','n.','Inflammation of the pharynx.'),('Pharyngobranchial','a.','Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the\n   branchiae; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the\n   branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal.'),('Pharyngobranchial','n.','A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone\n   or cartilage.'),('Pharyngobranchii','n. pl.','Same as Leptocardia.'),('Pharyngognathi','n. pl.','A division of fishes in which the lower\n   pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and\n   embioticoid fishes.'),('Pharyngolaryngeal','a.','Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.'),('Pharyngopneusta','n. pl.','A group of invertebrates including the\n   Tunicata and Enteropneusta.'),('Pharyngotome','n.','An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils,\n   etc.'),('Pharyngotomy','n.','The operation of making an incision into the pharynx,\n   to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.'),('Pharyngotomy','n.','Scarification or incision of the tonsils.'),('pharynges','pl. ','of Pharynx'),('Pharynx','n.','The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the\n   mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through\n   the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in\n   fishes and some amphibias.'),('Phascolome','n.','A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.'),('Phases','pl. ','of Phase'),('Phase','n.','That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which\n   anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying\n   appearances of the same object.'),('Phase','n.','Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension\n   or view; as, the problem has many phases.'),('Phase','n.','A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring\n   cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of\n   enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust.\n   under Moon.'),('Phase','n.','Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes,\n   as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave\n   or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction\n   from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of\n   equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.'),('Phasel','n.','The French bean, or kidney bean.'),('Phaseless','a.','Without a phase, or visible form.'),('Phaseolus','n.','A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean,\n   the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.'),('Phaseomannite','n.','Same as Inosite.'),('Phases','pl. ','of Phasis'),('Phasis','n.','See Phase.'),('Phasm','n.','Alt. of Phasma'),('Phasma','n.','An apparition; a phantom; an appearance.'),('Phasmid','n.','Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf\n   insect or a stick insect.'),('Phassachate','n.','The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to\n   its color.'),('Phatagin','n.','The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla); -- called\n   also ipi.'),('Pheasant','n.','Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds\n   of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family\n   Phasianidae, found chiefly in Asia.'),('Pheasant','n.','The ruffed grouse.'),('Pheasantry','n.','A place for keeping and rearing pheasants.'),('Phebe','n.','See Phoebe.'),('Pheer','n.','See 1st Fere.'),('Pheese','v. t.','To comb; also, to beat; to worry.'),('Pheese','n.','Fretful excitement.'),('Phelloderm','n.','A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the\n   inner side of the phellogen.'),('Phellogen','n.','The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.'),('Phelloplastics','n.','Art of modeling in cork.'),('Phenacite','n.','A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral\n   crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and\n   receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.'),('Phenakistoscope','n.','A revolving disk on which figures drawn in\n   different relative attitudes are seen successively, so as to produce\n   the appearance of an object in actual motion, as an animal leaping,\n   etc., in consequence of the persistence of the successive visual\n   impressions of the retina. It is often arranged so that the figures may\n   be projected upon a screen.'),('Phenanthrene','n.','A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and\n   obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.'),('Phenanthridine','n.','A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous\n   to phenanthrene and quinoline.'),('Phenanthroline','n.','Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon\n   bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly\n   nitrogenized.'),('Phene','n.','Benzene.'),('Phenetol','n.','The ethyl ether of phenol, obtained as an aromatic\n   liquid, C6H5.O.C2H5.'),('Phenic','a.','Of, pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or\n   phenol.'),('Phenician','a. & n.','See Phoenician.'),('Phenicine','n.','A purple powder precipitated when a sulphuric solution\n   of indigo is diluted with water.'),('Phenicine','n.','A coloring matter produced by the action of a mixture of\n   strong nitric and sulphuric acids on phenylic alcohol.'),('Phenicious','a.','Of a red color with a slight mixture of gray.'),('Phenicopter','n.','A flamingo.'),('Phenixes','pl. ','of Phenix'),('Phenix','n.','A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by\n   its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of\n   immortality.'),('Phenix','n.','A southern constellation.'),('Phenix','n.','A marvelous person or thing.'),('Phenogamia','n. pl.','Same as Phaenogamia.'),('Phenogamian','a.','Alt. of Phenogamous'),('Phenogamic','a.','Alt. of Phenogamous'),('Phenogamous','a.','Same as Phaenogamian, Phaenogamic, etc.'),('Phenol','n.','A white or pinkish crystalline substance, C6H5OH, produced\n   by the destructive distillation of many organic bodies, as wood, coal,\n   etc., and obtained from the heavy oil from coal tar.'),('Phenol','n.','Any one of the series of hydroxyl derivatives of which\n   phenol proper is the type.'),('Phenolate','n.','A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.'),('Phenomenal','a.','Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence,\n   extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.'),('Phenomenalism','n.','That theory which limits positive or scientific\n   knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.'),('Phenomenist','n.','One who believes in the theory of phenomenalism.'),('Phenomenology','n.','A description, history, or explanation of phenomena.'),('Phenomena','pl. ','of Phenomenon'),('Phenomenon','n.','An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or\n   spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the\n   phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or\n   memory.'),('Phenomenon','n.','That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or\n   unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or\n   occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.'),('Phenose','n.','A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained\n   indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose.'),('Phenyl','n.','A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential\n   residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic\n   derivatives.'),('Phenylamine','n.','Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as\n   formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.'),('Phenylene','n.','A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain\n   derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.'),('Phenylic','a.','Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl.'),('Pheon','n.','A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with\n   long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.'),('Phial','n.','A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for\n   medicines; a vial.'),('Phialed','imp. & p. p.','of Phial'),('Phialing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phial'),('Phial','v. t.','To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.'),('Philabeg','n.','See Filibeg.'),('Philadelphian','a.','Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one\n   of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.'),('Philadelphian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Philadelphia.'),('Philadelphian','n.','One of a society of mystics of the seventeenth\n   century, -- called also the Family of Love.'),('Philalethist','n.','A lover of the truth.'),('Philander','v. i.','To make love to women; to play the male flirt.'),('Philander','n.','A lover.'),('Philander','n.','A South American opossum (Didelphys philander).'),('Philander','n.','An Australian bandicoot (Perameles lagotis).'),('Philanderer','n.','One who hangs about women; a male flirt.'),('Philanthrope','n.','A philanthropist.'),('Philanthropic','a.','Alt. of Philanthropical'),('Philanthropical','a.','Of or pertaining to philanthropy; characterized by\n   philanthropy; loving or helping mankind; as, a philanthropic\n   enterprise.'),('Philanthropinism','n.','A system of education on so-called natural\n   principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of\n   Dessau.'),('Philanthropinist','n.','An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism.'),('Philanthropist','n.','One who practices philanthropy; one who loves\n   mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.'),('Philanthropistic','a.','Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a\n   philanthropist.'),('Philanthropy','n.','Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human\n   family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all\n   men; -- opposed to misanthropy.'),('Philatelic','a.','Of or pertaining to philately.'),('Philatelist','n.','One versed in philately; one who collects postage\n   stamps.'),('Philately','n.','The collection of postage stamps of various issues.'),('Philatory','n.','A kind of transparent reliquary with an ornamental top.'),('Philauty','n.','Self-love; selfishness.'),('Philharmonic','a.','Loving harmony or music.'),('Philhellene','n.','A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.'),('Philhellenic','a.','Of or pertaining to philhellenism.'),('Philhellenism','n.','Love of Greece.'),('Philhellenist','n.','A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of\n   the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for\n   independence against the Turks; a philhellene.'),('Philibeg','n.','See Filibeg.'),('Philip','n.','The European hedge sparrow.'),('Philip','n.','The house sparrow. Called also phip.'),('Philippian','a.','Of or pertaining to Philippi, a city of ancient\n   Macedonia.'),('Philippian','n.','A native or an inhabitant of Philippi.'),('Philippic','n.','Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes,\n   the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon.'),('Philippic','n.','Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in\n   acrimonious invective.'),('Philippium','n.','A rare and doubtful metallic element said to have been\n   discovered in the mineral samarskite.'),('Philippized','imp. & p. p.','of Philippize'),('Philippizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Philippize'),('Philippize','v. i.','To support or advocate the cause of Philip of\n   Macedon.'),('Philippize','v. i.','To write or speak in the style of a philippic.'),('Philister','n.','A Philistine; -- a cant name given to townsmen by\n   students in German universities.'),('Philistine','n.','A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast\n   region of southern Palestine.'),('Philistine','n.','A bailiff.'),('Philistine','n.','A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement;\n   one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of\n   humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests.'),('Philistine','a.','Of or pertaining to the Philistines.'),('Philistine','a.','Uncultured; commonplace.'),('Philistinism','n.','The condition, character, aims, and habits of the\n   class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.'),('Phillipsite','n.','A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a\n   zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often\n   cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.'),('Phillygenin','n.','A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the\n   decomposition of phillyrin.'),('Phillyrea','n.','A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of\n   the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive.'),('Phillyrin','n.','A glucoside extracted from Phillyrea as a bitter white\n   crystalline substance. It is sometimes used as a febrifuge.'),('Philo-','','A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached\n   to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.'),('Philogynist','n.','A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as\n   the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to misogynist.'),('Philogyny','n.','Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to\n   misogyny.'),('Philohellenian','n.','A philhellenist.'),('Philologer','n.','A philologist.'),('Philologian','n.','A philologist.'),('Philological','a.','Alt. of Philologic'),('Philologic','a.','Of or pertaining to philology.'),('Philologist','n.','One versed in philology.'),('Philologize','v. i.','To study, or make critical comments on, language.'),('Philologue','n.','A philologist.'),('Philology','n.','Criticism; grammatical learning.'),('Philology','n.','The study of language, especially in a philosophical\n   manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech,\n   the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical\n   development of languages; linguistic science.'),('Philology','n.','A treatise on the science of language.'),('Philomath','n.','A lover of learning; a scholar.'),('Philomathematic','n.','A philomath.'),('Philomathic','a.','Of or pertaining to philomathy.'),('Philomathic','a.','Having love of learning or letters.'),('Philomathy','n.','The love of learning or letters.'),('Philomel','n.','Same as Philomela, the nightingale.'),('Philomela','n.','The nightingale; philomel.'),('Philomela','n.','A genus of birds including the nightingales.'),('Philomene','n.','The nightingale.'),('Philomot','a.','Of the color of a dead leaf.'),('Philomusical','a.','Loving music. [R.]Busby.'),('Philopena','n.','A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social\n   game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself.'),('Philopolemic','a.','Alt. of Philopolemical'),('Philopolemical','a.','Fond of polemics or controversy.'),('Philoprogenitive','a.','Having the love of offspring; fond of children.'),('Philoprogenitiveness','n.','The love of offspring; fondness for children.'),('Philosophaster','n.','A pretender to philosophy.'),('Philosophate','v. i.','To play the philosopher; to moralize.'),('Philosophation','n.','Philosophical speculation and discussion.'),('Philosophe','n.','A philosophaster; a philosopher.'),('Philosopheme','n.','A philosophical proposition, doctrine, or principle\n   of reasoning.'),('Philosopher','n.','One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to,\n   philosophy.'),('Philosopher','n.','One who reduces the principles of philosophy to\n   practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules\n   of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with\n   calmness.'),('Philosopher','n.','An alchemist.'),('Philosophic','a.','Alt. of Philosophical'),('Philosophical','a.','Of or pertaining to philosophy; versed in, or imbued\n   with, the principles of philosophy; hence, characterizing a\n   philosopher; rational; wise; temperate; calm; cool.'),('Philosophism','n.','Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of\n   sophistry.'),('Philosophist','n.','A pretender in philosophy.'),('Philosophistic','a.','Alt. of Philosophistical'),('Philosophistical','a.','Of or pertaining to the love or practice of\n   sophistry.'),('Philosophized','imp. & p. p.','of Philosophize'),('Philosophizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Philosophize'),('Philosophize','v. i.','To reason like a philosopher; to search into the\n   reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign\n   rational causes for their existence.'),('Philosophizer','n.','One who philosophizes.'),('Philosophies','pl. ','of Philosophy'),('Philosophy','n.','Literally, the love of, including the search after,\n   wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by,\n   and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.'),('Philosophy','n.','A particular philosophical system or theory; the\n   hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.'),('Philosophy','n.','Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment;\n   equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with\n   philosophy.'),('Philosophy','n.','Reasoning; argumentation.'),('Philosophy','n.','The course of sciences read in the schools.'),('Philosophy','n.','A treatise on philosophy.'),('Philostorgy','n.','Natural affection, as of parents for their children.'),('Philotechnic','a.','Alt. of Philotechnical'),('Philotechnical','a.','Fond of the arts.'),('Philter','n.','A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.'),('Philtered','imp. & p. p.','of Philter'),('Philtering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Philter'),('Philter','v. t.','To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter\n   a draught.'),('Philter','v. t.','To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by\n   a potion.'),('Phimosis','n.','A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be\n   drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.'),('Phitoness','n.','Pythoness; witch.'),('Phizes','pl. ','of Phiz'),('Phiz','n.','The face or visage.'),('Phlebitis','n.','Inflammation of a vein.'),('Phlebogram','n.','A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a\n   vein, or of the venous pulse.'),('Phlebolite','n.','Alt. of Phlebolith'),('Phlebolith','n.','A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein\n   stone.'),('Phlebology','n.','A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.'),('Phlebotomist','n.','One who practiced phlebotomy.'),('Phlebotomized','imp. & p. p.','of Phlebotomize'),('Phlebotomizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phlebotomize'),('Phlebotomize','v. t.','To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.'),('Phlebotomy','n.','The act or practice of opening a vein for letting\n   blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.'),('Phlegm','a.','One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the\n   blood to be composed. See Humor.'),('Phlegm','a.','Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the\n   respiratory and digestive passages.'),('Phlegm','a.','A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous\n   liquor.'),('Phlegm','a.','Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest;\n   indifference; coldness.'),('Phlegmagogue','n.','A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.'),('Phlegmasia','n.','An inflammation; more particularly, an inflammation of\n   the internal organs.'),('Phlegmatic','a.','Watery.'),('Phlegmatic','a.','Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a\n   phlegmatic constitution.'),('Phlegmatic','a.','Generating or causing phlegm.'),('Phlegmatic','a.','Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull;\n   sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person.'),('Phlegmatical','a.','Phlegmatic.'),('Phlegmatically','adv.','In a phlegmatic manner.'),('Phlegmaticly','a.','Phlegmatically.'),('Phlegmon','n.','Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.'),('Phlegmonous','a.','Having the nature or properties of phlegmon; as,\n   phlegmonous pneumonia.'),('Phleme','n.','See Fleam.'),('Phleum','n.','A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum\n   pratense), which is highly valued for hay; cat\'s-tail grass.'),('Phloem','n.','That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to\n   the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.'),('Phlogistian','n.','A believer in the existence of phlogiston.'),('Phlogistic','a.','Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its\n   existence.'),('Phlogistic','a.','Inflammatory; belonging to inflammations and fevers.'),('Phlogistical','a.','Phlogistic.'),('Phlogisticated','imp. & p. p.','of Phlogisticate'),('Phlogisticating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phlogisticate'),('Phlogisticate','v. t.','To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the\n   form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated\n   substances.'),('Phlogistication','n.','The act or process of combining with phlogiston.'),('Phlogiston','n.','The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability,\n   regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.'),('Phlogogenous','a.','Causing inflammation.'),('Phlogopite','n.','A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronze-red\n   or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia,\n   with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of\n   crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.'),('Phlogosis','n.','Inflammation of external parts of the body;\n   erysipelatous inflammation.'),('Phlogotic','n.','Of or pertaining to phlogisis.'),('Phloramine','n.','A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an\n   astringent taste.'),('Phloretic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, an\n   organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.'),('Phloretin','n.','A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the\n   decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a\n   substitute for quinine.'),('Phlorizin','n.','A bitter white crystalline glucoside extracted from the\n   root bark of the apple, pear, cherry, plum, etc.'),('Phloroglucin','n.','A sweet white crystalline substance, metameric with\n   pyrogallol, and obtained by the decomposition of phloretin, and from\n   certain gums, as catechu, kino, etc. It belongs to the class of\n   phenols. [Called also phloroglucinol.]'),('Phlorol','n.','A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of\n   phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.'),('Phlorone','n.','A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar\n   unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood\n   tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also\n   xyloquinone.'),('Phlox','n.','A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or\n   purple flowers.'),('Phlyctenular','a.','Characterized by the presence of small pustules, or\n   whitish elevations resembling pustules; as, phlyctenular ophthalmia.'),('Phoca','n.','A genus of seals. It includes the common harbor seal and\n   allied species. See Seal.'),('Phocacean','n.','Any species of Phoca; a seal.'),('Phocal','a.','Pertaining to seals.'),('Phocenic','a.','Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said\n   of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be\n   identical with valeric acid.'),('Phocenin','n.','See Delphin.'),('Phocine','a.','Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.'),('Phocodont','n.','One of the Phocodontia.'),('Phocodontia','n. pl.','A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth\n   had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied\n   genera.'),('Phoebe','n.','The pewee, or pewit.'),('Phoebus','n.','Apollo; the sun god.'),('Phoebus','n.','The sun.'),('Phoenician','a.','Of or pertaining to Phoenica.'),('Phoenician','n.','A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.'),('Phoenicious','a.','See Phenicious.'),('Phoenicopterus','n.','A genus of birds which includes the flamingoes.'),('Phoenix','n.','Same as Phenix.'),('Phoenix','n.','A genus of palms including the date tree.'),('Pholad','n.','Any species of Pholas.'),('Pholadean','n.','Pholad.'),('Pholades','pl. ','of Pholas'),('Pholas','n.','Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of\n   the genus Pholas, or family Pholadidae. They bore holes for themselves\n   in clay, peat, and soft rocks.'),('Phonal','a.','Of or relating to the voice; as, phonal structure.'),('Phonascetics','n.','Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.'),('Phonation','n.','The act or process by which articulate sounds are\n   uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.'),('Phonautograph','n.','An instrument by means of which a sound can be made\n   to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially\n   of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end\n   by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane\n   records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving\n   cylinder or plate.'),('Phoneidoscope','n.','An instrument for studying the motions of sounding\n   bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which\n   is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands,\n   the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.'),('Phonetic','a.','Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.'),('Phonetic','a.','Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed\n   to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.'),('Phonetically','adv.','In a phonetic manner.'),('Phonetician','n.','One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.'),('Phonetics','n.','The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of\n   the human voice; phonology.'),('Phonetics','n.','The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and\n   written characters.'),('Phonetism','n.','The science which treats of vocal sounds.'),('Phonetist','n.','One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.'),('Phonetist','n.','One who advocates a phonetic spelling.'),('Phonetization','n.','The act, art, or process of representing sounds by\n   phonetic signs.'),('Phonetize','v. t.','To represent by phonetic signs.'),('Phonic','a.','Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound;\n   acoustic.'),('Phonics','n.','See Phonetics.'),('Phono-','','A combining form from Gr. / sound, tone; as, phonograph,\n   phonology.'),('Phono','n.','A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearly\n   transparent wings.'),('Phonocamptic','a.','Reflecting sound.'),('Phonogram','n.','A letter, character, or mark used to represent a\n   particular sound.'),('Phonogram','n.','A record of sounds made by a phonograph.'),('Phonograph','n.','A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp.\n   one used in phonography.'),('Phonograph','n.','An instrument for the mechanical registration and\n   reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists\n   of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily\n   indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate\n   carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a\n   sound, the stylus makes minute indentations or undulations in the soft\n   material, and these, when the cylinder or disk is again turned, set the\n   plate in vibration, and reproduce the sound.'),('Phonographer','n.','One versed or skilled in phonography.'),('Phonographer','n.','One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, the\n   phonograph. See Phonograph, 2.'),('Phonographic','a.','Alt. of Phonographical'),('Phonographical','a.','Of or pertaining to phonography; based upon\n   phonography.'),('Phonographical','a.','Of or pertaining to phonograph; done by the\n   phonograph.'),('Phonographically','adv.','In a phonographic manner; by means of\n   phonograph.'),('Phonographist','n.','Phonographer.'),('Phonography','n.','A description of the laws of the human voice, or\n   sounds uttered by the organs of speech.'),('Phonography','n.','A representation of sounds by distinctive characters;\n   commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a\n   modification of his system, much used by reporters.'),('Phonography','n.','The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.'),('Phonolite','n.','A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing\n   nephelite, hauynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck;\n   -- called also clinkstone.'),('Phonologer','n.','A phonologist.'),('Phonologic','a.','Alt. of Phonological'),('Phonological','a.','Of or pertaining to phonology.'),('Phonologist','n.','One versed in phonology.'),('Phonology','n.','The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered\n   by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions,\n   modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise\n   on sounds.'),('Phonometer','n.','An instrument for measuring sounds, as to their\n   intensity, or the frequency of the vibrations.'),('Phonomotor','n.','An instrument in which motion is produced by the\n   vibrations of a sounding body.'),('Phonorganon','n.','A speaking machine.'),('Phonoscope','n.','An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions\n   or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by\n   Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.'),('Phonoscope','n.','An instrument for producing luminous figures by the\n   vibrations of sounding bodies.'),('Phonotypr','n.','A type or character used in phonotypy.'),('Phonotypic','a.','Alt. of Phonotypical'),('Phonotypical','a.','Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic\n   alphabet.'),('Phonotypist','n.','One versed in phonotypy.'),('Phonotypy','n.','A method of phonetic printing of the English language,\n   as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and\n   many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound\n   by a separate character.'),('Phorminx','n.','A kind of lyre used by the Greeks.'),('Phormium','n.','A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species\n   (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.'),('Phorone','n.','A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike\n   odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from\n   certain camphor compounds.'),('Phoronis','n.','A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles\n   around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva\n   (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.'),('Phoronomia','n.','See Phoronomics.'),('Phoronomics','n.','The science of motion; kinematics.'),('Phosgene','a.','Producing, or produced by, the action of light; --\n   formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl\n   chloride. See Carbonyl.'),('Phosgenite','n.','A rare mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of a\n   white, yellow, or grayish color and adamantine luster. It is a\n   chlorocarbonate of lead.'),('Phospham','n.','An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by\n   passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.'),('Phosphate','n.','A salt of phosphoric acid.'),('Phosphatic','a.','Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric\n   acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules.'),('Phosphaturia','n.','The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.'),('Phosphene','n.','A luminous impression produced through excitation of the\n   retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of\n   light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf.\n   After-image.'),('Phosphide','n.','A binary compound of phosphorus.'),('Phosphine','n.','A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a\n   disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen\n   phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.'),('Phosphinic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous\n   to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and\n   derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.'),('Phosphite','n.','A salt of phosphorous acid.'),('Phosphonic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of\n   phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and analogous to the\n   sulphonic acid.'),('Phosphonium','n.','The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium,\n   and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.'),('Phosphor','n.','Phosphorus.'),('Phosphor','n.','The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star;\n   Lucifer.'),('Phosphorated','imp. & p. p.','of Phosphorate'),('Phosphorating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phosphorate'),('Phosphorate','v. t.','To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its\n   compounds; as, phosphorated oil.'),('Phosphor-bronze','n.','A variety of bronze possessing great hardness,\n   elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin\n   phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five\n   to fifteen per cent of tin.'),('Phosphoreous','a.','Phosphorescent.'),('Phosphoresced','imp. & p. p.','of Phosphoresce'),('Phosphorescing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phosphoresce'),('Phosphoresce','v. i.','To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to\n   emit a phosphoric light.'),('Phosphorescence','n.','The quality or state of being phosphorescent; or\n   the act of phosphorescing.'),('Phosphorescence','n.','A phosphoric light.'),('Phosphorescent','a.','Shining with a phosphoric light; luminous without\n   sensible heat.'),('Phosphorescent','n.','A phosphorescent substance.'),('Phosphoric','a.','Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling, or\n   containing, from us; specifically, designating those compounds in which\n   phosphorus has a higher valence as contrasted with the phosphorous\n   compounds.'),('Phosphoric','a.','Phosphorescent.'),('Phosphorical','a.','Phosphoric.'),('Phosphorite','n.','A massive variety of apatite.'),('Phosphoritic','a.','Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the\n   nature of, phosphorite.'),('Phosphorize','v. t.','To phosphorate.'),('Phosphorized','a.','Containing, or impregnated with, phosphorus.'),('Phosphorogenic','a.','Generating phosphorescence; as, phosphorogenic\n   rays.'),('Phosphoroscope','n.','An apparatus for observing the phosphorescence\n   produced in different bodies by the action of light, and for measuring\n   its duration.'),('Phosphorous','a.','Of or pertaining to phosphorus; resembling or\n   containing phosphorus; specifically, designating those compounds in\n   which phosphorus has a lower valence as contrasted with phosphoric\n   compounds; as, phosphorous acid, H3PO3.'),('Phosphori','pl. ','of Phosphorus'),('Phosphorus','n.','The morning star; Phosphor.'),('Phosphorus','n.','A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group,\n   obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a\n   characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must\n   be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary\n   temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It always occurs\n   compined, usually in phosphates, as in the mineral apatite, in bones,\n   etc. It is used in the composition on the tips of friction matches, and\n   for many other purposes. The molecule contains four atoms. Symbol P.\n   Atomic weight 31.0.'),('Phosphorus','n.','Hence, any substance which shines in the dark like\n   phosphorus, as certain phosphorescent bodies.'),('Phosphoryl','n.','The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of\n   certain compounds.'),('Phosphuret','n.','A phosphide.'),('Phosphureted','a.','Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.'),('Photic','a.','Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.'),('Photics','n.','The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed\n   when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.'),('Photos','pl. ','of Photo'),('Photo','n.','A contraction of Photograph.'),('Photo-','','A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as,\n   photography, phototype, photometer.'),('Photobiotic','a.','Requiring light to live; incapable of living without\n   light; as, photobiotic plant cells.'),('Photochemical','a.','Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or\n   produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of\n   the retina.'),('Photochemistry','n.','The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect\n   of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.'),('Photochromic','a.','Alt. of Photochromatic'),('Photochromatic','a.','Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by\n   photochromy.'),('Photochromy','n.','The art or process of reproducing colors by\n   photography.'),('Photodrome','n.','An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes,\n   which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of\n   light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the\n   succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or\n   to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.'),('Photo-electric','a.','Acting by the operation of both light and\n   electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric\n   light.'),('Photo-electrotype','n.','An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by\n   photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.'),('Photo-engraving','n.','The process of obtaining an etched or engraved\n   plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a\n   picture produced by such a process.'),('Photo-epinasty','n.','A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper\n   surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of\n   exposure to light.'),('Photogalvanography','n.','The art or process of making\n   photo-electrotypes.'),('Photogen','n.','A light hydrocarbon oil resembling kerosene. It is\n   obtained by distilling coal, paraffin, etc., and is used as a\n   lubricant, illuminant, etc.'),('Photogene','n.','A photograph.'),('Photogene','n.','A more or less continued impression or image on the\n   retina.'),('Photogenic','a.','Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating\n   light.'),('Photogeny','n.','See Photography.'),('Photoglyphic','a.','Pertaining to the art of engraving by the action of\n   light.'),('Photoglyphy','n.','Photoglyphic engraving. See under Photoglyphic.'),('Photoglyptic','a.','Same as Photoglyphic.'),('Photogram','n.','A photograph.'),('Photograph','n.','A picture or likeness obtained by photography.'),('Photographed','imp. & p. p.','of Photograph'),('Photographing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Photograph'),('Photograph','v. t.','To take a picture or likeness of by means of\n   photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.'),('Photograph','v. i.','To practice photography; to take photographs.'),('Photographer','n.','One who practices, or is skilled in, photography.'),('Photographic','a.','Alt. of Photographical'),('Photographical','a.','Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by\n   photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a\n   photographic camera.'),('Photographist','n.','A photographer.'),('Photographometer','n.','An instrument for determining the sensibility of\n   the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.'),('Photography','n.','The science which relates to the action of light on\n   sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images,\n   and the like.'),('Photography','n.','The art or process of producing pictures by this\n   action of light.'),('Photogravure','n.','A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a\n   picture is produced.'),('Photoheliograph','n.','A modified kind of telescope adapted to taking\n   photographs of the sun.'),('Photolithograph','n.','A lithographic picture or copy from a stone\n   prepared by the aid of photography.'),('Photolithograph','v. t.','To produce (a picture, a copy) by the process\n   of photolithography.'),('Photolithographer','n.','One who practices, or one who employs,\n   photolithography.'),('Photolithographic','n.','Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced\n   by photolithography.'),('Photolithography','n.','The art or process of producing photolithographs.'),('Photologic','a.','Alt. of Photological'),('Photological','a.','Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.'),('Photologist','n.','One who studies or expounds the laws of light.'),('Photology','n.','The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature\n   and phenomena; optics.'),('Photomagnetic','a.','Of or pertaining to photomagnetism.'),('Photomagnetism','n.','The branch of science which treats of the relation\n   of magnetism to light.'),('Photomechanical','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic\n   process in which a printing surface is obtained without the\n   intervention of hand engraving.'),('Photometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or,\n   more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different\n   lights, or their relative illuminating power.'),('Photometric','a.','Alt. of Photometrical'),('Photometrical','a.','Of or pertaining to photometry, or to a photometer.'),('Photometrician','n.','One engaged in the scientific measurement of light.'),('Photometry','n.','That branch of science which treats of the measurement\n   of the intensity of light.'),('Photomicrograph','n.','An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a\n   microscopic object. See Microphotograph.'),('Photomicrograph','n.','A microscopically small photograph of an object.'),('Photomicrography','n.','The art of producing photomicrographs.'),('Photophobia','n.','A dread or intolerance of light.'),('Photophone','n.','An apparatus for the production of sound by the action\n   of rays of light.'),('Photophonic','a.','Of or pertaining to photophone.'),('Photophony','n.','The art or practice of using the photophone.'),('Photopsia','n.','An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives\n   luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.'),('Photopsy','n.','Same as Photopsia.'),('Photorelief','n.','A printing surface in relief, obtained by photographic\n   means and subsequent manipulations.'),('Photoscope','n.','Anything employed for the observation of light or\n   luminous effects.'),('Photoscopic','a.','Of or pertaining to the photoscope or its uses.'),('Photosculpture','n.','A process in which, by means of a number of\n   photographs simultaneously taken from different points of view on the\n   same level, rough models of the figure or bust of a person or animal\n   may be made with great expedition.'),('Photosphere','n.','A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the\n   sun.'),('Photospheric','a.','Of or pertaining to the photosphere.'),('Phototonus','n.','A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to\n   light.'),('Phototropic','a.','Same as Heliotropic.'),('Phototype','n.','A plate or block with a printing surface (usually in\n   relief) obtained from a photograph; also, any one of the many methods\n   of processes by which such a printing surface is obtained.'),('Phototypic','a.','Of or pertaining to a phototype or phototypy.'),('Phototypography','n.','Same as Phototypy.'),('Phototypy','n.','The art or process of producing phototypes.'),('Photoxylography','n.','The process of producing a representation of an\n   object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.'),('Photozincograph','n.','A print made by photozincography.'),('Photozincography','n.','A process, analogous to photolithography, for\n   reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.'),('Phragmocone','n.','The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end\n   of a belemnite.'),('Phragmosiphon','n.','The siphon of a phragmocone.'),('Phrasal','a.','Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a\n   phrasal adverb.'),('Phrase','n.','A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually\n   two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a\n   portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.'),('Phrase','n.','A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often\n   employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.'),('Phrase','n.','A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any\n   one expreses himself; diction; expression.'),('Phrase','n.','A short clause or portion of a period.'),('Phrased','imp. & p. p.','of Phrase'),('Phrasing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Phrase'),('Phrase','v. t.','To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to\n   style.'),('Phrase','v. i.','To use proper or fine phrases.'),('Phrase','v. i.','To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See\n   Phrase, n., 4.'),('Phraseless','a.','Indescribable.'),('Phraseogram','n.','A symbol for a phrase.'),('Phraseologic','a.','Alt. of Phraseological'),('Phraseological','a.','Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a\n   peculiar form of words.'),('Phraseologist','n.','A collector or coiner of phrases.'),('Phraseology','n.','Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.'),('Phraseology','n.','A collection of phrases; a phrase book.'),('Phrasing','n.','Method of expression; association of words.'),('Phrasing','n.','The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form\n   distinct musical phrases.'),('Phratries','pl. ','of Phratry'),('Phratry','n.','A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.'),('Phreatic','a.','Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.'),('Phrenetic','a.','Alt. of Phrenetical'),('Phrenetical','a.','Relating to phrenitis; suffering from frenzy;\n   delirious; mad; frantic; frenetic.'),('Phrenetic','n.','One who is phrenetic.'),('Phrenic','a.','Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the\n   phrenic nerve.'),('Phrenics','n.','That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental\n   philosophy.'),('Phrenism','n.','See Vital force, under Vital.'),('Phrenitis','n.','Inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the\n   brain, attended with acute fever and delirium; -- called also\n   cephalitis.'),('Phrenitis','n.','See Frenzy.'),('Phrenograph','n.','An instrument for registering the movements of the\n   diaphragm, or midriff, in respiration.'),('Phrenologer','n.','A phrenologist.'),('Phrenologic','a.','Phrenological.'),('Phrenological','a.','Of or pertaining to phrenology.'),('Phrenologist','n.','One versed in phrenology; a craniologist.'),('Phrenology','n.','The science of the special functions of the several\n   parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various\n   faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.'),('Phrenology','n.','In popular usage, the physiological hypothesis of Gall,\n   that the mental faculties, and traits of character, are shown on the\n   surface of the head or skull; craniology.'),('Phrenomagnetism','n.','The power of exciting the organs of the brain by\n   magnetic or mesmeric influence.'),('Phrenosin','n.','A nitrogenous body, related to cerebrin, supposed to\n   exist in the brain.'),('Phrensied','p. p. & a.','See Frenzied.'),('Phrensy','n.','Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.'),('Phrensy','v. t.','To render frantic.'),('Phrentic','n. & a.','See Phrenetic.'),('Phryganeid','n.','Any insect belonging to the Phryganeides.'),('Phryganeides','n. pl.','A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes\n   the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera.'),('Phrygian','a.','Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants.'),('Phrygian','n.','A native or inhabitant of Phrygia.'),('Phrygian','n.','A Montanist.'),('Phthalate','n.','A salt of phthalic acid.'),('Phthalein','n.','One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as\n   condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well\n   represented by phenol phthalein. Their alkaline solutions are\n   fluorescent.'),('Phthalic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by\n   the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances.'),('Phthalide','n.','A lactone obtained by reduction of phthalyl chloride, as\n   a white crystalline substance; hence, by extension, any one of the\n   series of which phthalide proper is the type.'),('Phthalimide','n.','An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a\n   white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like\n   succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido\n   acid, under Imido.'),('Phthalin','n.','A colorless crystalline substance obtained by reduction\n   from phthalein, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence,\n   any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.'),('Phthalyl','n.','The hypothetical radical of phthalic acid.'),('Phthiriasis','n.','A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the\n   excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.'),('Phthisic','n.','Same as Phthisis.'),('Phthisical','a.','Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis;\n   wasting; consumptive.'),('Phthisicky','a.','Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty\n   in breathing.'),('Phthisiology','n.','A treatise on phthisis.'),('Phthisipneumonia','n.','Alt. of Phthisipneumony'),('Phthisipneumony','n.','Pulmonary consumption.'),('Phthisis','n.','A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was\n   formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually\n   restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.'),('Phthongal','a.','Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; --\n   said of all the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonant\n   consonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc.'),('Phthongal','n.','A vocalized element or letter.'),('Phthongometer','n.','An instrument for measuring vocal sounds.'),('Phthor','n.','Fluorine.'),('Phycite','n.','See Erythrite, 1.'),('Phycochrome','n.','A bluish green coloring matter of certain algae.'),('Phycocyanin','n.','Alt. of Phycocyanine'),('Phycocyanine','n.','A blue coloring matter found in certain algae.'),('Phycoerythrin','n.','Alt. of Phycoerythrine'),('Phycoerythrine','n.','A red coloring matter found in algae of the\n   subclass Florideae.'),('Phycography','n.','A description of seaweeds.'),('Phycology','n.','The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology.'),('Phycomater','n.','A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed\n   to vegetate.'),('Phycophaeine','n.','A brown coloring matter found in certain algae.'),('Phycoxanthin','n.','Alt. of Phycoxanthine'),('Phycoxanthine','n.','A yellowish coloring matter found in certain algae.'),('Phylacter','n.','A phylactery.'),('Phylactered','a.','Wearing a phylactery.'),('Phylacteric','a.','Alt. of Phylacterical'),('Phylacterical','a.','Of or pertaining to phylacteries.'),('Phylacteries','pl. ','of Phylactery'),('Phylactery','n.','Any charm or amulet worn as a preservative from danger\n   or disease.'),('Phylactery','n.','A small square box, made either of parchment or of\n   black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are\n   written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi.\n   4-9, 13-22. They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day\n   mornings, during the time of prayer.'),('Phylactery','n.','Among the primitive Christians, a case in which the\n   relics of the dead were inclosed.'),('Phylactocarp','n.','A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified\n   in structure for the protection of the gonothecae.'),('Phylactolaema','n. pl.','Alt. of Phylactolaemata'),('Phylactolaemata','n. pl.','An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the\n   tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth\n   is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.'),('Phylactolaematous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Phylactolaema.'),('Phylactolema','n. pl.','Alt. of Phylactolemata'),('Phylactolemata','n. pl.','Same as Phylactolaema.'),('Phylarch','n.','The chief of a phyle, or tribe.'),('Phylarchy','n.','The office of a phylarch; government of a class or\n   tribe.'),('Phylae','pl. ','of Phyle'),('Phyle','n.','A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a\n   tribe.'),('Phyllite','n.','A mineral related to ottrelite.'),('Phyllite','n.','Clay slate; argillaceous schist.'),('Phyllo-','','A combining form from Gr. / a leaf; as, phyllopod,\n   phyllotaxy.'),('Phyllobranciae','pl. ','of Phyllobranchia'),('Phyllobranchia','n.','A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.'),('Phyllocladia','pl. ','of Phyllocladium'),('Phyllocladium','n.','A flattened stem or branch which more or less\n   resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards\n   respiration and assimilation.'),('Phyllocyanin','n.','A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.'),('Phyllocyst','n.','The cavity of a hydrophyllium.'),('Phyllode','n.','Same as Phyllodium.'),('Phyllodineous','a.','Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.'),('Phyllodia','pl. ','of Phyllodium'),('Phyllodium','n.','A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually\n   with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.'),('Phyllody','n.','A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the\n   condition of leaves.'),('Phylloid','a.','Resembling a leaf.'),('Phyllomania','n.','An abnormal or excessive production of leaves.'),('Phyllome','n.','A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a\n   leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.'),('Phyllomorphosis','n.','The succession and variation of leaves during\n   different seasons.'),('Phyllophagan','n.','One of a group of marsupials including the\n   phalangists.'),('Phyllophagan','n.','One of a tribe of beetles which feed upon the leaves\n   of plants, as the chafers.'),('Phyllophagous','a.','Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.'),('Phyllophorous','a.','Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.'),('Phyllopod','n.','One of the Phyllopoda. [Also used adjectively.]'),('Phyllopoda','n. pl.','An order of Entomostraca including a large number\n   of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or\n   leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called\n   also Branchiopoda.'),('Phyllopodous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Phyllopoda.'),('Phyllorhine','a.','Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related\n   genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.'),('Phyllosoma','n.','The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied\n   genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs\n   are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp.'),('Phyllostome','n.','Any bat of the genus Phyllostoma, or allied genera,\n   having large membranes around the mouth and nose; a nose-leaf bat.'),('Phylloltomid','n.','A phyllostome.'),('Phyllotactic','a.','Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.'),('Phyllotaxy','n.','Alt. of Phyllotaxis'),('Phyllotaxis','n.','The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the\n   science of the relative position of leaves.'),('Phyllous','a.','Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens,\n   and pistils are phyllous organs.'),('Phylloxanthin','n.','A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.'),('Phylloxera','n.','A small hemipterous insect (Phylloxera vastatrix)\n   allied to the aphids. It attacks the roots and leaves of the grapevine,\n   doing great damage, especially in Europe.'),('Phylloxera','n.','The diseased condition of a vine caused by the insect\n   just described.'),('Phylogenesis','n.','Alt. of Phylogeny'),('Phylogeny','n.','The history of genealogical development; the race\n   history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the\n   phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of\n   the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development\n   generally.'),('Phylogenetic','a.','Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a\n   type of organism.'),('Phyla','pl. ','of Phylon'),('Phylon','n.','A tribe.'),('Phyla','pl. ','of Phylum'),('Phylum','n.','One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a\n   branch; a grand division.'),('Phymata','pl. ','of Phyma'),('Phyma','n.','A tubercle on any external part of the body.'),('Physa','n.','A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral\n   shells. See Pond snail, under Pond.'),('Physalia','n.','A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the\n   Portuguese man-of-war.'),('Physaliae','n. pl.','An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.'),('Physemaria','n. pl.','A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed\n   as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies.'),('Physeter','n.','The genus that includes the sperm whale.'),('Physeter','n.','A filtering machine operated by air pressure.'),('Physianthropy','n.','The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the\n   constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.'),('Physic','n.','The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the\n   theory or practice of medicine.'),('Physic','n.','A specific internal application for the cure or relief of\n   sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.'),('Physic','n.','Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.'),('Physic','n.','A physician.'),('Physiced','imp. & p. p.','of Physic'),('Physicking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Physic'),('Physic','v. t.','To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine\n   to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.'),('Physic','v. t.','To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.'),('Physical','a.','Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created\n   existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or\n   relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as\n   opposed to things mental, moral, spiritual, or imaginary; material;\n   natural; as, armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; the\n   body is the physical part of man.'),('Physical','a.','Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy;\n   treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural\n   phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws.'),('Physical','a.','Perceptible through a bodily or material organization;\n   cognizable by the senses; external; as, the physical, opposed to\n   chemical, characters of a mineral.'),('Physical','a.','Of or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine;\n   medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative.'),('Physically','adv.','In a physical manner; according to the laws of nature\n   or physics; by physical force; not morally.'),('Physically','adv.','According to the rules of medicine.'),('Physician','n.','A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one\n   duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a\n   doctor of medicine.'),('Physician','n.','Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral\n   diseases; as, a physician of the soul.'),('Physicianed','a.','Licensed as a physician.'),('Physicism','n.','The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation\n   with, physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.'),('Physicist','n.','One versed in physics.'),('Physicist','n.','A believer in the theory that the fundamental phenomena\n   of life are to be explained upon purely chemical and physical\n   principles; -- opposed to vitalist.'),('Physicking','','p. pr. & vb. n. fr. Physic, v. t.'),('Physico-','','A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon,\n   natural causes, or the science of physics.'),('Physicochemical','a.','Involving the principles of both physics and\n   chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical\n   and chemical agencies.'),('Physicologic','n.','Logic illustrated by physics.'),('Physicological','a.','Of or pertaining to physicologic.'),('Physicology','n.','Physics.'),('Physico-mathematics','n.','Mixed mathematics.'),('Physico-philosophy','n.','The philosophy of nature.'),('Physico-theology','n.','Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by\n   physics or natural philosophy.'),('Physics','n.','The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch\n   of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the\n   forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science\n   which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism,\n   electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies;\n   natural philosophy.'),('Physiocrat','n.','One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the\n   18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the\n   supremacy of natural order.'),('Physiogeny','n.','The germ history of the functions, or the history of\n   the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of\n   the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.'),('Physiognomer','n.','Physiognomist.'),('Physiognomic','a.','Alt. of Physiognomical'),('Physiognomical','a.','Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the\n   principles of physiognomy.'),('Physiognomist','n.','Same as Physiognomy, 1.'),('Physiognomist','n.','One skilled in physiognomy.'),('Physiognomist','n.','One who tells fortunes by physiognomy.'),('Physiognomize','v. t.','To observe and study the physiognomy of.'),('Physiognommonic','a.','Physiognomic.'),('Physiognomies','pl. ','of Physiognomy'),('Physiognomy','n.','The art and science of discovering the predominant\n   temper, and other characteristic qualities of the mind, by the outward\n   appearance, especially by the features of the face.'),('Physiognomy','n.','The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of\n   the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance,\n   as denoting character.'),('Physiognomy','n.','The art telling fortunes by inspection of the\n   features.'),('Physiognomy','n.','The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without\n   reference to its scientific characteristics; as, the physiognomy of a\n   plant, or of a meteor.'),('Physiogony','n.','The birth of nature.'),('Physiographic','a.','Alt. of Physiographical'),('Physiographical','a.','Of or pertaining to physiography.'),('Physiography','n.','The science which treats of the earth\'s exterior\n   physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements\n   or changes on the earth\'s surface, as the currents of the atmosphere\n   and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.;\n   physical geography.'),('Physiolatry','n.','The worship of the powers or agencies of nature;\n   materialism in religion; nature worship.'),('Physiologer','n.','A physiologist.'),('Physiologic','a.','Physiological.'),('Physiological','a.','Of or pertaining to physiology; relating to the\n   science of the functions of living organism; as, physiological botany\n   or chemistry.'),('Physiologically','adv.','In a physiological manner.'),('Physiologist','n.','One who is versed in the science of physiology; a\n   student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs\n   and tissues.'),('Physiologize','v. i.','To speculate in physiology; to make physiological\n   investigations.'),('Physiologies','pl. ','of Physiology'),('Physiology','n.','The science which treats of the phenomena of living\n   organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic\n   of, life.'),('Physiology','n.','A treatise on physiology.'),('Physiophyly','n.','The tribal history of the functions, or the history of\n   the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch\n   of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.'),('Physique','n.','The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a\n   person.'),('Physnomy','n.','Physiogmony.'),('Physoclist','n.','One of the Physoclisti.'),('Physoclisti','n. pl.','An order of teleost in which the air bladder has\n   no opening.'),('Physograde','n.','Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as\n   the Physalia.'),('Physophorae','n. pl.','An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air\n   sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under\n   Nectocalyx.'),('Physopod','n.','One of the Physopoda; a thrips.'),('Physopoda','n. pl.','Same as Thysanoptera.'),('Physostigmine','n.','An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of\n   Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance,\n   amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was\n   regarded as identical.'),('Physostomi','n. pl.','An order of fishes in which the air bladder is\n   provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are\n   abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and\n   others.'),('Physostomous','a.','Having a duct to the air bladder.'),('Physostomous','a.','Pertaining to the Physostomi.'),('Phytelephas','n.','A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of\n   which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.'),('Phytivorous','a.','Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as,\n   phytivorous animals.'),('Phyto-','','A combining form from Gr. fyto`n a plant; as, phytochemistry,\n   phytography.'),('Phytochemical','a.','Relating to phytochemistry.'),('Phytochemistry','n.','Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies;\n   vegetable chemistry.'),('Phytochimy','n.','Phytochemistry.'),('Phytogenesis','n.','Alt. of Phytogeny'),('Phytogeny','n.','The doctrine of the generation of plants.'),('Phytogeographical','a.','Of or pertaining to phytogeography.'),('Phytogeography','n.','The geographical distribution of plants.'),('Phytoglyphic','a.','Relating to phytoglyphy.'),('Phytoglyphy','n.','See Nature printing, under Nature.'),('Phytographical','a.','Of or pertaining to phytography.'),('Phytography','n.','The science of describing plants in a systematic\n   manner; also, a description of plants.'),('Phytoid','a.','Resembling a plant; plantlike.'),('Phytolacca','n.','A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having\n   berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.'),('Phytolite','n.','An old name for a fossil plant.'),('Phytolithologist','n.','One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.'),('Phytolithology','n.','The branch of science which treats of fossil\n   plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.'),('Phytological','a.','Of or pertaining to phytology; botanical.'),('Phytologist','n.','One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a\n   botanist.'),('Phytology','n.','The science of plants; a description of the kinds and\n   properties of plants; botany.'),('Phytomer','n.','Alt. of Phytomeron'),('Phytomeron','n.','An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.'),('Phytons','pl. ','of Phyton'),('Phyton','n.','One of the parts which by their repetition make up a\n   flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or\n   leaves; a phytomer.'),('Phytonomy','n.','The science of the origin and growth of plants.'),('Phytopathologist','n.','One skilled in diseases of plants.'),('Phytopathology','n.','The science of diseases to which plants are liable.'),('Phytophaga','n. pl.','A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.'),('Phytophagic','a.','Phytophagous.'),('Phytophagous','a.','Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous\n   animal.'),('Phytophagy','n.','The eating of plants.'),('Phytophysiology','n.','Vegetable physiology.'),('Phytotomist','n.','One versed in phytotomy.'),('Phytotomy','n.','The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.'),('Phytozoaria','n. pl.','Same as Infusoria.'),('Phytozoa','pl. ','of Phytozoon'),('Phytozoon','n.','A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to\n   zoophytes.'),('Phyz','n.','See Phiz.'),('Pi','n.','A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.'),('Pied','imp. & p. p.','of Pi'),('Pieing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pi'),('Pi','v. t.','To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to\n   mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.'),('Piacaba','n.','See Piassava.'),('Piacle','n.','A heinous offense which requires expiation.'),('Piacular','a.','Expiatory; atoning.'),('Piacular','a.','Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.'),('Piacularity','n.','The quality or state of being piacular; criminality;\n   wickedness.'),('Piaculous','a.','Same as Piacular.'),('Pial','a.','Pertaining to the pia mater.'),('Pia mater','','The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately\n   investing the brain and spinal cord.'),('Pian','n.','The yaws. See Yaws.'),('Pianet','n.','The magpie.'),('Pianet','n.','The lesser woodpecker.'),('Pianette','n.','A small piano; a pianino.'),('Pianino','n.','A pianette, or small piano.'),('Pianissimo','a.','Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as\n   softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)'),('Pianist','n.','A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.'),('Piano','a. & adv.','Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a\n   certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev.\n   p.)'),('Piano','a.','Alt. of Pianoforte'),('Pianoforte','a.','A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the\n   harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length,\n   thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.'),('Pianograph','n.','A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.'),('Piapec','n.','A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).'),('Piarist','n.','One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the\n   Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education,\n   founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.'),('Piassava','n.','A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea\n   funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for\n   other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba.'),('Piaster','n.','A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See\n   Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of\n   about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo,\n   was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are\n   now worth about four and a half cents.'),('Piastre','n.','See Piaster.'),('Piation','n.','The act of making atonement; expiation.'),('Piatti','n. pl.','Cymbals.'),('Piazzas','pl. ','of Piazza'),('Piazza','n.','An open square in a European town, especially an Italian\n   town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the\n   United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.'),('Pibcorn','n.','A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, --\n   used in Wales.'),('Pibroch','n.','A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the\n   musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those\n   airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go\n   out to battle.'),('Pic','n.','A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.'),('Pica','n.','The genus that includes the magpies.'),('Pica','n.','A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as\n   chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.'),('Pica','n.','A service-book. See Pie.'),('Pica','n.','A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than\n   English.'),('Picador','n.','A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives\n   the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without\n   attempting to kill him.'),('Picamar','n.','An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of\n   beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of\n   pyrogallol.'),('Picapare','n.','The finfoot.'),('Picard','n.','One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so\n   called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.'),('Picaresque','a.','Applied to that class of literature in which the\n   principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a\n   rogue, an adventurer.'),('Picariae','n. pl.','An extensive division of birds which includes the\n   woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots,\n   rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also\n   the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.'),('Picarian','a.','Of or pertaining to Picariae.'),('Picarian','n.','One of the Picariae.'),('Picaroon','n.','One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a\n   pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.'),('Picayune','n.','A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See\n   Fippenny bit.'),('Picayunish','a.','Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.'),('Piccadil','n.','Alt. of Piccadilly'),('Piccadilly','n.','A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band\n   about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.'),('Piccage','n.','Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.'),('Piccalilli','n.','A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, --\n   originally made in the East Indies.'),('Piccolo','n.','A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave\n   higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.'),('Piccolo','n.','A small upright piano.'),('Piccolo','n.','An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.'),('Pice','n.','A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a\n   cent.'),('Picea','n.','A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere,\n   including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces.\n   These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in\n   this and other respects differing from the firs.'),('Picene','n.','A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of\n   coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.'),('Piceous','a.','Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or\n   quality; pitchy.'),('Pichey','n.','A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little\n   armadillo.'),('Pichiciago','n.','A small, burrowing, South American edentate\n   (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is\n   attached only along the back.'),('Pichurim bean','','The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra\n   Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras,\n   -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.'),('Pici','n. pl.','A division of birds including the woodpeckers and\n   wrynecks.'),('Piciform','a.','Of or pertaining to Piciformes.'),('Piciformes','n. pl.','A group of birds including the woodpeckers,\n   toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related\n   groups.'),('Picine','a.','Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the\n   Piciformes.'),('Picked','imp. & p. p.','of Pick'),('Picking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pick'),('Pick','v.','To throw; to pitch.'),('Pick','v.','To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with\n   anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to\n   prick, as with a pin.'),('Pick','v.','To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as,\n   to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.'),('Pick','v.','To open (a lock) as by a wire.'),('Pick','v.','To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck;\n   to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from\n   a fowl, etc.'),('Pick','v.','To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the\n   fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to\n   pick a goose; to pick a pocket.'),('Pick','v.','To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to\n   cull; as, to pick one\'s company; to pick one\'s way; -- often with out.'),('Pick','v.','To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect;\n   to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a\n   ball or stones; to pick up information.'),('Pick','v.','To trim.'),('Pick','v. i.','To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.'),('Pick','v. i.','To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to\n   small things; to select something with care.'),('Pick','v. i.','To steal; to pilfer.'),('Pick','n.','A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in\n   composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.'),('Pick','n.','A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends,\n   wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by\n   quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing\n   millstones.'),('Pick','n.','A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a\n   buckler.'),('Pick','n.','Choice; right of selection; as, to have one\'s pick.'),('Pick','n.','That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the\n   pick of the flock.'),('Pick','n.','A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a\n   letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.'),('Pick','n.','That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct\n   an unevenness in a picture.'),('Pick','n.','The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a\n   loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing\n   the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.'),('Pickaback','adv.','On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.'),('Pickaninnies','pl. ','of Pickaninny'),('Pickaninny','n.','A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.'),('Pickapack','adv.','Pickaback.'),('Pickax','n.','Alt. of Pickaxe'),('Pickaxe','n.','A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade\n   at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a\n   flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it\n   strikes.'),('Pickback','adv.','On the back.'),('Picked','a.','Pointed; sharp.'),('Picked','a.','Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain\n   fishes.'),('Picked','a.','Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.'),('Picked','a.','Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.'),('Pickedness','n.','The state of being sharpened; pointedness.'),('Pickedness','n.','Fineness; spruceness; smartness.'),('Pickeered','imp. & p. p.','of Pickeer'),('Pickeering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pickeer'),('Pickeer','v. i.','To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish\n   in advance of an army. See Picaroon.'),('Pickeerer','n.','One who pickeers.'),('Picker','n.','One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who\n   uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton\n   picker.'),('Picker','n.','A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to\n   loosen and separate the fiber.'),('Picker','n.','The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle,\n   and impels it through the warp.'),('Picker','n.','A priming wire for cleaning the vent.'),('Pickerel','n.','A young or small pike.'),('Pickerel','n.','Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the\n   genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.'),('Pickerel','n.','The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.'),('Pickering','n.','The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.'),('Pickery','n.','Petty theft.'),('Picket','n.','A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in\n   fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used\n   for tethering horses.'),('Picket','n.','A pointed pale, used in marking fences.'),('Picket','n.','A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from\n   surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called\n   also outlying picket.'),('Picket','n.','By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other\n   labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from\n   working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.'),('Picket','n.','A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the\n   offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.'),('Picket','n.','A game at cards. See Piquet.'),('Picketed','imp. & p. p.','of Picket'),('Picketing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Picket'),('Picket','v. t.','To fortify with pointed stakes.'),('Picket','v. t.','To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.'),('Picket','v. t.','To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.'),('Picket','v. t.','To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.'),('Picket','v. t.','To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a\n   pointed stake.'),('Picketee','n.','See Picotee.'),('Pick-fault','n.','One who seeks out faults.'),('Picking','n.','The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.'),('Picking','n.','The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.'),('Picking','n.','That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.'),('Picking','n.','Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.'),('Picking','n.','The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.'),('Picking','n.','Rough sorting of ore.'),('Picking','n.','Overburned bricks.'),('Picking','a.','Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.'),('Picking','a.','Nice; careful.'),('Pickle','n.','See Picle.'),('Pickle','v. t.','A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc.,\n   may be preserved or corned; brine.'),('Pickle','v. t.','Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving\n   vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.'),('Pickle','v. t.','Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or\n   in vinegar.'),('Pickle','v. t.','A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to\n   remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or\n   other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.'),('Pickle','v. t.','A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.'),('Pickled','imp. & p. p.','of Pickle'),('Pickling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pickle'),('Pickle','v. t.','To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind\n   of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.'),('Pickle','v. t.','To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or\n   imitations of paintings by the old masters.'),('Pickled','a.','Preserved in a pickle.'),('Pickle-herring','n.','A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.'),('Pickle-herring','n.','A merry-andrew; a buffoon.'),('Pickler','n.','One who makes pickles.'),('Picklock','n.','An instrument for picking locks.'),('Picklock','n.','One who picks locks; a thief.'),('Pickmire','n.','The pewit, or black-headed gull.'),('Picknick','n.','See Picnic.'),('Pickpack','adv.','Pickaback.'),('Pickpennies','pl. ','of Pickpenny'),('Pickpenny','n.','A miser; also, a sharper.'),('Pickpocket','n.','One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.'),('Pickpurse','n.','One who steals purses, or money from purses.'),('Picksy','n.','See Pixy.'),('Pickthank','n.','One who strives to put another under obligation; an\n   officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.'),('Picktooth','n.','A toothpick.'),('Picke','n.','A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.'),('Picnic','v.','Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed\n   some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in\n   which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open\n   air, and from food carried by themselves).'),('Picnicked','imp. & p. p.','of Picnic'),('Picnicking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Picnic'),('Picnic','v. i.','To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in\n   public fashion.'),('Picnicker','n.','One who takes part in a picnic.'),('Picoid','a.','Like or pertaining to the Pici.'),('Picoline','n.','Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to\n   pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar\n   naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also\n   methyl pyridine.'),('Picotee','n.','Alt. of Picotine'),('Picotine','n.','A variety of carnation having petals of a light color\n   variously dotted and spotted at the edges.'),('Picquet','n.','See Piquet.'),('Picra','n.','The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal,\n   employed as a cathartic.'),('Picrate','n.','A salt of picric acid.'),('Picric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid\n   (called picric acid), intensely bitter.'),('Picrite','n.','A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of\n   chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.'),('Picrolite','n.','A fibrous variety of serpentine.'),('Picromel','n.','A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet\n   taste.'),('Picrotoxin','n.','A bitter white crystalline substance found in the\n   cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant,\n   and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.'),('Picryl','n.','The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to\n   phenyl.'),('Pictish','a.','Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.'),('Pictograph','n.','A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an\n   idea.'),('Pictorial','a.','Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures;\n   forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a\n   pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.'),('Pictoric','a.','Alt. of Pictorical'),('Pictorical','a.','Pictorial.'),('Picts','n. pl.','A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited\n   Scotland in early times.'),('Pictura','n.','Pattern of coloration.'),('Picturable','a.','Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.'),('Pictural','a.','Pictorial.'),('Pictural','n.','A picture.'),('Picture','n.','The art of painting; representation by painting.'),('Picture','n.','A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a\n   building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of\n   painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in\n   colors. By extension, a figure; a model.'),('Picture','n.','An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the\n   eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind\n   some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is\n   the picture of grief.'),('Pictured','imp. & p. p.','of Picture'),('Picturing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Picture'),('Picture','v. t.','To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to\n   represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the\n   mind.'),('Pictured','a.','Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or\n   pictures; as, a pictured scene.'),('Picturer','n.','One who makes pictures; a painter.'),('Picturesque','a.','Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing\n   picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to\n   a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable\n   in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque\n   scene or attitude; picturesque language.'),('Picturesquish','a.','Somewhat picturesque.'),('Picturized','imp. & p. p.','of Picturize'),('Picturizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Picturize'),('Picturize','v. t.','To picture.'),('Picturize','v. t.','To adorn with pictures.'),('Picul','n.','A commercial weight varying in different countries and for\n   different commodities. In Borneo it is 135/ lbs.; in China and Sumatra,\n   133/ lbs.; in Japan, 133/ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called\n   also, by the Chinese, tan.'),('Piculet','n.','Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus\n   Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp\n   at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.'),('Pici','pl. ','of Picus'),('Picus','n.','A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common\n   American and European species.'),('Piddled','imp. & p. p.','of Piddle'),('Piddling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Piddle'),('Piddle','v. i.','To deal in trifles; to concern one\'s self with trivial\n   matters rather than with those that are important.'),('Piddle','v. i.','To be squeamishly nice about one\'s food.'),('Piddle','v. i.','To urinate; -- child\'s word.'),('Piddler','n.','One who piddles.'),('Piddling','a.','Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to\n   persons and things.'),('Piddock','n.','Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.'),('Pie','n.','An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in\n   it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie;\n   pumpkin pie.'),('Pie','n.','See Camp, n., 5.'),('Pie','n.','A magpie.'),('Pie','n.','Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied\n   genera.'),('Pie','n.','The service book.'),('Pie','n.','Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.'),('Pie','v. t.','See Pi.'),('Piebald','a.','Having spots and patches of black and white, or other\n   colors; mottled; pied.'),('Piebald','a.','Fig.: Mixed.'),('Piece','n.','A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in\n   any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a\n   portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.'),('Piece','n.','A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a\n   piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.'),('Piece','n.','Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the\n   same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series;\n   a definite performance'),('Piece','n.','A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry,\n   music, or statuary.'),('Piece','n.','A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a\n   following piece.'),('Piece','n.','A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied\n   specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.'),('Piece','n.','A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.'),('Piece','n.','An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain\n   nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in\n   contempt.'),('Piece','n.','One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.'),('Piece','n.','A castle; a fortified building.'),('Pieced','imp. & p. p.','of Piece'),('Piecing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Piece'),('Piece','v. t.','To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece\n   or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.'),('Piece','v. t.','To unite; to join; to combine.'),('Piece','v. i.','To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to\n   join.'),('Pieceless','a.','Not made of pieces; whole; entire.'),('Piecely','adv.','In pieces; piecemeal.'),('Piecemeal','adv.','In pieces; in parts or fragments.'),('Piecemeal','adv.','Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.'),('Piecemeal','a.','Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.'),('Piecemeal','n.','A fragment; a scrap.'),('Piecemealed','a.','Divided into pieces.'),('Piecener','n.','One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in\n   woolen mills.'),('Piecener','n.','Same as Piecer, 2.'),('Piecer','n.','One who pieces; a patcher.'),('Piecer','n.','A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken\n   threads.'),('Piecework','n.','Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate\n   based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.'),('Pied','','imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.'),('Pied','a.','Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored;\n   spotted; piebald.'),('Piedmont','a.','Noting the region of foothills near the base of a\n   mountain chain.'),('Piedmontite','n.','A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See\n   Epidote.'),('Piedness','n.','The state of being pied.'),('Piedouche','n.','A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects,\n   as busts, vases, and the like.'),('Piedstall','n.','See Pedestal.'),('Piemen','pl. ','of Pieman'),('Pieman','n.','A man who makes or sells pies.'),('Piend','n.','See Peen.'),('Pieno','a.','Full; having all the instruments.'),('Pieplant','n.','A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are\n   acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.'),('Piepoudre','n.','Alt. of Piepowder'),('Piepowder','n.','An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident\n   to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had\n   the toll was the judge.'),('Pier','n.','Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting\n   one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall\n   between two openings.'),('Pier','n.','Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a\n   wall. See Buttress.'),('Pier','n.','A projecting wharf or landing place.'),('Pierage','n.','Same as Wharfage.'),('Pierced','imp. & p. p.','of Pierce'),('Piercing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pierce'),('Pierce','v. t.','To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed\n   instrument.'),('Pierce','v. t.','To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through;\n   to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy\'s line; a shot pierced\n   the ship.'),('Pierce','v. t.','Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a\n   mystery.'),('Pierce','v. i.','To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through\n   something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and\n   figuratively.'),('Pierceable','a.','That may be pierced.'),('Pierced','a.','Penetrated; entered; perforated.'),('Piercel','n.','A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also\n   piercer.'),('Piercer','n.','One who, or that which, pierces or perforates'),('Piercer','n.','An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.'),('Piercer','n.','A piercel.'),('Piercer','n.','The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect.'),('Piercer','n.','An insect provided with an ovipositor.'),('Piercing','a.','Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point;\n   perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a\n   piercing instrument, or thrust.'),('Pierian','a.','Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.'),('Pierid','n.','Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See\n   Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.'),('Pierides','n. pl.','The Muses.'),('Piet','n.','The dipper, or water ouzel.'),('Piet','n.','The magpie.'),('Pieta','n.','A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin\n   Mary or by holy women and angels.'),('Pietism','n.','The principle or practice of the Pietists.'),('Pietism','n.','Strict devotion; also, affectation of devotion.'),('Pietist','n.','One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the\n   17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant\n   churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a\n   display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.'),('Pietistic','a.','Alt. of Pietistical'),('Pietistical','a.','Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt,\n   affectedly or demonstratively religious.'),('Pietra dura','','Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for\n   inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in\n   building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in\n   pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.'),('Piety','n.','Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of\n   his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest\n   devotion to his service.'),('Piety','n.','Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion;\n   affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives,\n   benefactors, country, etc.'),('Piewipe','n.','The lapwing, or pewit.'),('Piezometer','n.','An instrument for measuring the compressibility of\n   liquids.'),('Piezometer','n.','A gauge connected with a water main to show the\n   pressure at that point.'),('Piffero','n.','Alt. of Piffara'),('Piffara','n.','A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an\n   inflated skin for reservoir.'),('Pig','n.','A piggin.'),('Pig','n.','The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.'),('Pig','n.','Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.'),('Pig','n.','An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine\n   pig, under Mine.'),('Pig','n.','One who is hoggish; a greedy person.'),('Pigged','imp. & p. p.','of Pig'),('Pigging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pig'),('Pig','v. t. & i.','To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of\n   pigs; to farrow.'),('Pig','v. t. & i.','To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.'),('Pigeon','n.','Any bird of the order Columbae, of which numerous species\n   occur in nearly all parts of the world.'),('Pigeon','n.','An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.'),('Pigeon','v. t.','To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.'),('Pigeon-breasted','a.','Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum\n   being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.'),('Pigeonfoot','n.','The dove\'s-foot geranium (Geranium molle).'),('Pigeon-hearted','a.','Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted.'),('Pigeonhole','n.','A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping\n   of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row\n   of them to the compartments in a dovecote.'),('Pigeonhole','v. t.','To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet;\n   hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a\n   letter or a report.'),('Pigeon-livered','a.','Pigeon-hearted.'),('Pigeonry','n.','A place for pigeons; a dovecote.'),('Pigeontoed','a.','Having the toes turned in.'),('Pig-eyed','a.','Having small, deep-set eyes.'),('Pigfish','n.','Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called\n   also hogfish.'),('Pigfish','n.','A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several\n   other fishes.'),('Pigfoot','n.','A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native of Europe. It is\n   reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.'),('Pigg','n.','A piggin. See 1st Pig.'),('Piggeries','pl. ','of Piggery'),('Piggery','n.','A place where swine are kept.'),('Piggin','n.','A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a\n   handle, -- often used as a dipper.'),('Piggish','a.','Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.'),('Pig-headed','a.','Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively:\n   stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.'),('Pight','imp. & p. p.','Pitched; fixed; determined.'),('Pightel','n.','A small inclosure.'),('Pig-jawed','a.','Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with\n   the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.'),('Pigmean','a.','See Pygmean.'),('Pigment','n.','Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may\n   be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter\n   ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.'),('Pigment','n.','Any one of the colored substances found in animal and\n   vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.'),('Pigment','n.','Wine flavored with species and honey.'),('Pigmental','a.','Alt. of Pigmentary'),('Pigmentary','a.','Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.'),('Pigmentation','n.','A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of\n   coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.'),('Pigmented','a.','Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with\n   pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.'),('Pigmentous','a.','Pigmental.'),('Pigmy','n.','See Pygmy.'),('Pignerate','v. t.','To pledge or pawn.'),('Pignerate','v. t.','to receive in pawn, as a pawnbroker does.'),('Pignoration','n.','The act of pledging or pawning.'),('Pignoration','n.','The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge,\n   till satisfaction is made.'),('Pignorative','a.','Pledging, pawning.'),('Pignora','pl. ','of Pignus'),('Pignus','n.','A pledge or pawn.'),('Pignut','n.','See Groundnut (d).'),('Pignut','n.','The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya\n   glabra, / porcina); also, the tree itself.'),('Pigpen','n.','A pen, or sty, for pigs.'),('Pigskin','n.','The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles;\n   hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.'),('Pigsney','n.','A word of endearment for a girl or woman.'),('Pig-sticking','n.','Boar hunting; -- so called by Anglo-Indians.'),('Pigsties','pl. ','of Pigsty'),('Pigsty','n.','A pigpen.'),('Pigtail','n.','The tail of a pig.'),('Pigtail','n.','A cue, or queue.'),('Pigtail','n.','A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.'),('Pigtailed','a.','Having a tail like a pig\'s; as, the pigtailed baboon.'),('Pigweed','n.','A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and\n   Lamb\'s-quarters.'),('Pigwidgeon','n.','A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by\n   Drayton as the name of a fairy.'),('Pika','n.','Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys,\n   resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of\n   Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief\n   hare.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A foot soldier\'s weapon, consisting of a long wooden\n   shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the\n   bayonet.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a\n   shield or target.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A hayfork.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A pick.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A pointed or peaked hill.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A large haycock.'),('Pike','n. & v.','A turnpike; a toll bar.'),('Pike','sing. & pl.','A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in\n   Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also\n   pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.'),('Piked','a.','Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.'),('Pike-devant','n.','A pointed beard.'),('Pikelet','n.','Alt. of Pikelin'),('Pikelin','n.','A light, thin cake or muffin.'),('Pikeman','pl. ','of Pikeman'),('Pikeman','n.','A soldier armed with a pike.'),('Pikeman','n.','A miner who works with a pick.'),('Pikeman','n.','A keeper of a turnpike gate.'),('Pikestaff','n.','The staff, or shaft, of a pike.'),('Pikestaff','n.','A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against\n   slipping.'),('Piketail','n.','See Pintail, 1.'),('Pikrolite','n.','See Picrolite.'),('Pilage','n.','See Pelage.'),('Pilaster','n.','An upright architectural member right-angled in plan,\n   constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally\n   corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree\n   with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the\n   projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.'),('Pilastered','a.','Furnished with pilasters.'),('Pilau','n.','See Pillau.'),('Pilch','n.','A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.'),('Pilchard','n.','A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling\n   the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great\n   numbers on the coast of England.'),('Pilcher','n.','A scabbard, as of a sword.'),('Pilcher','n.','The pilchard.'),('Pilcrow','n.','a paragraph mark, /.'),('Pile','n.','A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also,\n   the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.'),('Pile','n.','A covering of hair or fur.'),('Pile','n.','The head of an arrow or spear.'),('Pile','n.','A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into\n   the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground\n   is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other\n   superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.'),('Pile','n.','One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a\n   wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.'),('Pile','v. t.','To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen\n   with piles.'),('Pile','n.','A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of\n   stones; a pile of wood.'),('Pile','n.','A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.'),('Pile','n.','A funeral pile; a pyre.'),('Pile','n.','A large building, or mass of buildings.'),('Pile','n.','Same as Fagot, n., 2.'),('Pile','n.','A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar\n   metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper\n   moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of\n   electricity; -- commonly called Volta\'s pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic\n   pile.'),('Pile','n.','The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.'),('Piled','imp. & p. p.','of Pile'),('Piling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pile'),('Pile','v. t.','To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to\n   collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to\n   pile up wood.'),('Pile','v. t.','To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or\n   overfill; to load.'),('Pileate','a.','Alt. of Pileated'),('Pileated','a.','Having the form of a cap for the head.'),('Pileated','a.','Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the\n   head.'),('Piled','a.','Having a pile or point; pointed.'),('Piled','a.','Having a pile or nap.'),('Piled','a.','Formed from a pile or fagot; as, piled iron.'),('Pileiform','a.','Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.'),('Pilement','n.','An accumulation; a heap.'),('Pilenta','pl. ','of Pilentum'),('Pilentum','n.','An easy chariot or carriage, used by Roman ladies, and in\n   which the vessels, etc., for sacred rites were carried.'),('Pilorhizae','pl. ','of Pileorhiza'),('Pileorhiza','n.','A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a\n   root; a rootcap.'),('Pileous','a.','Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.'),('Piler','n.','One who places things in a pile.'),('Piles','n. pl.','The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the\n   anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called\n   hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]'),('Pilei','pl. ','of Pileus'),('Pileus','n.','A kind of skull cap of felt.'),('Pileus','n.','The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See\n   Mushroom.'),('Pileus','n.','The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.'),('Pileworm','n.','The teredo.'),('Pile-worn','a.','Having the pile worn off; threadbare.'),('Pilewort','n.','A plant (Ranunculus Ficaria of Linnaeus) whose tuberous\n   roots have been used in poultices as a specific for the piles.'),('Pilfered','imp. & p. p.','of Pilfer'),('Pilfering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pilfer'),('Pilfer','v. i.','To steal in small quantities, or articles of small\n   value; to practice petty theft.'),('Pilfer','v. t.','To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by\n   little.'),('Pilferer','n.','One who pilfers; a petty thief.'),('Pilfering','a.','Thieving in a small way.'),('Pilfering','n.','Petty theft.'),('Pilfery','n.','Petty theft.'),('Pilgarlic','n.','One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow,\n   or one who is hardly used.'),('Pilgrim','n.','A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.'),('Pilgrim','n.','One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some\n   holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury\n   pilgrims. See Palmer.'),('Pilgrim','a.','Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making\n   pilgrimages.'),('Pilgrim','v. i.','To journey; to wander; to ramble.'),('Pilgrimage','n.','The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a\n   journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human\n   life.'),('Pilgrimage','n.','A tedious and wearisome time.'),('Pilgrimize','v. i.','To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.'),('Pildia','pl. ','of Pilidium'),('Pilidium','n.','The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean\n   worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops\n   in its interior.'),('Pilifera','n. pl.','Same as Mammalia.'),('Piliferous','a.','Bearing a single slender bristle, or hair.'),('Piliferous','a.','Beset with hairs.'),('Piliform','a.','Resembling hairs or down.'),('Piligerous','a.','Bearing hair; covered with hair or down; piliferous.'),('Piling','n.','The act of heaping up.'),('Piling','n.','The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots,\n   or piles, to form bars, etc.'),('Piling','n.','A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the\n   piling of a bridge.'),('Pill','n.','The peel or skin.'),('Pill','v. i.','To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.'),('Pill','v. t.','To deprive of hair; to make bald.'),('Pill','v. t.','To peel; to make by removing the skin.'),('Pilled','imp. & p. p.','of Pill'),('Pilling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pill'),('Pill','v. t. & i.','To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to\n   plunder.'),('Pill','n.','A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass,\n   to be swallowed whole.'),('Pill','n.','Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be\n   accepted or endured.'),('Pillage','n.','The act of pillaging; robbery.'),('Pillage','n.','That which is taken from another or others by open force,\n   particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.'),('Pillaged','imp. & p. p.','of Pillage'),('Pillaging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pillage'),('Pillage','v. i.','To strip of money or goods by open violence; to\n   plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.'),('Pillage','v. i.','To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.'),('Pillager','n.','One who pillages.'),('Pillar','n.','The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated\n   support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column\n   or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument\n   or an ornament.'),('Pillar','n.','Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in\n   appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the\n   Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state.'),('Pillar','n.','A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a\n   cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church.'),('Pillar','n.','The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around\n   which a horse turns.'),('Pillar','a.','Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs;\n   as, a pillar drill.'),('Pillar-block','n.','See under Pillow.'),('Pillared','a.','Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar,\n   or pillars.'),('Pillaret','n.','A little pillar.'),('Pillarist','n.','See Stylite.'),('Pillau','n.','An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton,\n   fat, or butter.'),('Pilled','a.','Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald.'),('Pilled-garlic','n.','See Pilgarlic.'),('Piller','n.','One who pills or plunders.'),('Pilleries','pl. ','of Pillery'),('Pillery','n.','Plunder; pillage.'),('Pillion','n.','A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of\n   saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man\'s saddle, on which a\n   woman may ride.'),('Pillorize','v. t.','To set in, or punish with, the pillory; to pillory.'),('Pillories','pl. ','of Pillory'),('Pillory','n.','A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having\n   holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as\n   to be exposed in front of it.'),('Pilloried','imp. & p. p.','of Pillory'),('Pillorying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pillory'),('Pillory','v. t.','To set in, or punish with, the pillory.'),('Pillory','v. t.','Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.'),('Pillow','n.','Anything used to support the head of a person when\n   reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair,\n   or other soft material.'),('Pillow','n.','A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize\n   pressure; a brass; a pillow block.'),('Pillow','n.','A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.'),('Pillow','n.','A kind of plain, coarse fustian.'),('Pillowed','imp. & p. p.','of Pillow'),('Pillowing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pillow'),('Pillow','v. t.','To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support;\n   as, to pillow the head.'),('Pillowcase','n.','A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of\n   white linen or cotton cloth.'),('Pillowed','a.','Provided with a pillow or pillows; having the head\n   resting on, or as on, a pillow.'),('Pillowy','a.','Like a pillow.'),('Pill-willet','n.','The willet.'),('Pillworm','n.','Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which\n   rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.'),('Pillwort','n.','Any plant of the genus Pilularia; minute aquatic\n   cryptograms, with small pill-shaped fruit; -- sometimes called\n   peppergrass.'),('Pilocarpine','n.','An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus\n   pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has\n   a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.'),('Pilose','a.','Hairy; full of, or made of, hair.'),('Pilose','a.','Clothed thickly with pile or soft down.'),('Pilose','a.','Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs;\n   hairy; as, pilose pubescence.'),('Pilosity','n.','The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness.'),('Pilot','n.','One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.'),('Pilot','n.','Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by\n   authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain\n   waters, for a fixed rate of fees.'),('Pilot','n.','Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a\n   difficult or unknown course.'),('Pilot','n.','An instrument for detecting the compass error.'),('Pilot','n.','The cowcatcher of a locomotive.'),('Piloted','imp. & p. p.','of Pilot'),('Piloting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pilot'),('Pilot','v. t.','To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation\n   is dangerous.'),('Pilot','v. t.','Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or\n   difficulties.'),('Pilotage','n.','The pilot\'s skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks,\n   bars, and channels.'),('Pilotage','n.','The compensation made or allowed to a pilot.'),('Pilotage','n.','Guidance, as by a pilot.'),('Pilotism','n.','Alt. of Pilotry'),('Pilotry','n.','Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.'),('Pilour','n.','A piller; a plunderer.'),('Pilous','a.','See Pilose.'),('Pilser','n.','An insect that flies into a flame.'),('Pilular','a.','Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as,\n   a pilular mass.'),('Pilulous','a.','Like a pill; small; insignificant.'),('Pilwe','n.','A pillow.'),('Pily','a.','Like pile or wool.'),('Pimaric','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot,\n   and isomeric with abietic acid.'),('Pimelic','a.','Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from\n   certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of\n   suberic and adipic acids.'),('Pimelic','a.','Designating the acid proper (C5H10(CO2/H)2) which is\n   obtained from camphoric acid.'),('Pimelite','n.','An apple-green mineral having a greasy feel. It is a\n   hydrous silicate of nickel, magnesia, aluminia, and iron.'),('Piment','n.','Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3.'),('Pimenta','n.','Same as Pimento.'),('Pimento','n.','Allspice; -- applied both to the tree and its fruit. See\n   Allspice.'),('Pimlico','n.','The friar bird.'),('Pimp','n.','One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a\n   procurer; a pander.'),('Pimped','imp. & p. p.','of Pimp'),('Pimping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pimp'),('Pimp','v. i.','To procure women for the gratification of others\' lusts;\n   to pander.'),('Pimpernel','n.','A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A.\n   arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple,\n   blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.'),('Pimpillo','n.','A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); --\n   called also pimploes.'),('Pimpinel','n.','The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.'),('Pimping','a.','Little; petty; pitiful.'),('Pimping','a.','Puny; sickly.'),('Pimple','n.','Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether\n   going on to suppuration or not.'),('Pimple','n.','Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.'),('Pimpled','a.','Having pimples.'),('Pimply','a.','Pimpled.'),('Pimpship','n.','The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.'),('Pin','v. t.','To peen.'),('Pin','v. t.','To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.'),('Pin','n.','A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for\n   fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one\n   article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.'),('Pin','n.','Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or\n   other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes,\n   attaching papers, etc.'),('Pin','n.','Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.'),('Pin','n.','That which resembles a pin in its form or use'),('Pin','n.','A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the\n   tension of the strings.'),('Pin','n.','A linchpin.'),('Pin','n.','A rolling-pin.'),('Pin','n.','A clothespin.'),('Pin','n.','A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which\n   serves as a journal.'),('Pin','n.','The tenon of a dovetail joint.'),('Pin','n.','One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to\n   mark how much each man should drink.'),('Pin','n.','The bull\'s eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.'),('Pin','n.','Mood; humor.'),('Pin','n.','Caligo. See Caligo.'),('Pin','n.','An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by\n   a pin; as, a Masonic pin.'),('Pin','n.','The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.'),('Pinned','imp. & p. p.','of Pin'),('Pinning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pin'),('Pin','n.','To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a\n   garment; to pin boards together.'),('Pia cloth','','A fine material for ladies\' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs,\n   etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other\n   fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a\n   slight tinge of pale yellow.'),('Pinacoid','n.','A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.'),('Pinacolin','n.','A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and\n   obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one\n   of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.'),('Pinacone','n.','A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and\n   made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of\n   substances of which pinacone proper is the type.'),('Pinacotheca','n.','A picture gallery.'),('Pinafore','n.','An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress;\n   a tier.'),('Pinakothek','n.','Pinacotheca.'),('Pinaster','n.','A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern\n   Europe.'),('Pinaces','pl. ','of Pinax'),('Pinax','n.','A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a\n   tablet.'),('Pince-nez','n.','Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.'),('Pincers','n. pl.','See Pinchers.'),('Pinched','imp. & p. p.','of Pinch'),('Pinching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pinch'),('Pinch','v. t.','To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers,\n   between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to\n   squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.'),('Pinch','v. t.','o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.'),('Pinch','v. t.','To plait.'),('Pinch','v. t.','Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to\n   starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.'),('Pinch','v. t.','To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a\n   pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.'),('Pinch','v. i.','To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as,\n   the shoe pinches.'),('Pinch','v. i.','To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.'),('Pinch','v. i.','To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.'),('Pinch','n.','A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or\n   with an instrument; a nip.'),('Pinch','n.','As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any\n   very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.'),('Pinch','n.','Pian; pang.'),('Pinch','n.','A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum,\n   -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.'),('Pinchbeck','n.','An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow\n   metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It\n   is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap\n   jewelry.'),('Pinchbeck','a.','Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.'),('Pinchcock','n.','A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a\n   fluid through the pipe.'),('Pinchem','n.','The European blue titmouse.'),('Pincher','n.','One who, or that which, pinches.'),('Pinchers','n. pl.','An instrument having two handles and two grasping\n   jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast,\n   drawing nails, etc.'),('Pinchfist','n.','A closefisted person; a miser.'),('Pinching','a.','Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching\n   cold; a pinching parsimony.'),('Pinchingly','adv.','In a pinching way.'),('Pinchpenny','n.','A miserly person.'),('Pincoffin','n.','A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine\n   violet tints.'),('Pincpinc','n.','An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).'),('Pincushion','n.','A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.'),('Pindal','n.','Alt. of Pindar'),('Pindar','n.','The peanut (Arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the West\n   Indies.'),('Pindaric','a.','Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after\n   the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.'),('Pindaric','n.','A Pindaric ode.'),('Pindarical','a.','Pindaric.'),('Pindarism','n.','Imitation of Pindar.'),('Pindarist','n.','One who imitates Pindar.'),('Pinder','n.','One who impounds; a poundkeeper.'),('Pine','n.','Woe; torment; pain.'),('Pined','imp. & p. p.','of Pine'),('Pining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pine'),('Pine','v.','To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.'),('Pine','v.','To grieve or mourn for.'),('Pine','v. i.','To suffer; to be afflicted.'),('Pine','v. i.','To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any\n   distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away.'),('Pine','v. i.','To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for\n   something; -- usually followed by for.'),('Pine','n.','Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.'),('Pine','n.','The wood of the pine tree.'),('Pine','n.','A pineapple.'),('Pineal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.'),('Pineapple','n.','A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; --\n   so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external\n   appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though\n   conjectured to be American.'),('Pineaster','n.','See Pinaster.'),('Pine-clad','a.','Alt. of Pine-crowned'),('Pine-crowned','a.','Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.'),('Pinedrops','n.','A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United\n   States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.'),('Pinefinch','n.','A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus);\n   -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.'),('Pinefinch','n.','The pine grosbeak.'),('Pinenchyma','n.','Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which\n   the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.'),('Pineries','pl. ','of Pinery'),('Pinery','n.','A pine forest; a grove of pines.'),('Pinery','n.','A hothouse in which pineapples are grown.'),('Pinesap','n.','A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M.\n   hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine\n   trees, but more probably saprophytic.'),('Pinetum','n.','A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living\n   pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.'),('Pineweed','n.','A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra),\n   common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.'),('Piney','a.','See Piny.'),('Piney','a.','A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria\n   Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in\n   Malabar, etc.) or its products.'),('Pin-eyed','a.','Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous\n   corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of\n   dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.'),('Pinfeather','n.','A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary\n   feather just emerging through the skin.'),('Pinfeathered','a.','Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly\n   developed.'),('Pinfish','n.','The sailor\'s choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).'),('Pinfish','n.','The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).'),('Pinfold','n.','A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are\n   confined; a pound; a penfold.'),('Ping','n.','The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in\n   passing through the air.'),('Pinged','imp. & p. p.','of Ping'),('Pinging','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Ping'),('Ping','v. i.','To make the sound called ping.'),('Pingle','n.','A small piece of inclosed ground.'),('Pingster','n.','See Pinkster.'),('Pinguicula','n.','See Butterwort.'),('Pinguid','a.','Fat; unctuous; greasy.'),('Pinguidinous','a.','Containing fat; fatty.'),('Pinguitude','n.','Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.'),('Pinhold','n.','A place where a pin is fixed.'),('Pinic','a.','Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine;\n   formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common\n   resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.'),('Pining','a.','Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.'),('Pining','a.','Wasting; consuming.'),('Piningly','adv.','In a pining manner; droopingly.'),('Pinion','n.','A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose\n   larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.'),('Pinion','n.','A feather; a quill.'),('Pinion','n.','A wing, literal or figurative.'),('Pinion','n.','The joint of bird\'s wing most remote from the body.'),('Pinion','n.','A fetter for the arm.'),('Pinion','n.','A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted\n   to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel\n   having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which\n   is its axis.'),('Pinioned','imp. & p. p.','of Pinion'),('Pinioning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pinion'),('Pinion','v. t.','To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding\n   the wings.'),('Pinion','v. t.','To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.'),('Pinion','v. t.','To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the\n   arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.'),('Pinion','v. t.','Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.'),('Pinioned','a.','Having wings or pinions.'),('Pinionist','n.','Any winged creature.'),('Pinite','n.','A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull\n   grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and\n   is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.'),('Pinite','n.','Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to\n   the Pine family.'),('Pinite','n.','A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum\n   of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and\n   resembles, quercite.'),('Pink','n.','A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.'),('Pink','v. i.','To wink; to blink.'),('Pink','a.','Half-shut; winking.'),('Pinked','imp. & p. p.','of Pink'),('Pinking','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pink'),('Pink','v. t.','To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth\n   or paper, in small scallops or angles.'),('Pink','v. t.','To stab; to pierce as with a sword.'),('Pink','v. t.','To choose; to cull; to pick out.'),('Pink','n.','A stab.'),('Pink','v. t.','A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous\n   genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant\n   and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly\n   perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled\n   flowers with a tubular calyx.'),('Pink','v. t.','A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red\n   with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the\n   flower.'),('Pink','v. t.','Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection\n   of something.'),('Pink','v. t.','The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its\n   abdomen in summer.'),('Pink','a.','Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink\n   (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.'),('Pinked','a.','Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on\n   the edge.'),('Pink-eyed','a.','Having small eyes.'),('Pinking','n.','The act of piercing or stabbing.'),('Pinking','n.','The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a\n   pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a\n   pinking iron.'),('Pinkish','a.','Somewhat pink.'),('Pinkness','n.','Quality or state of being pink.'),('Pinkroot','n.','The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful\n   vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).'),('Pinkroot','n.','A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica),\n   sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina\n   pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.'),('Pinkroot','n.','An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia\n   Anthelmia).'),('Pinkster','n.','Whitsuntide.'),('Pink stern','','See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.'),('Pink-sterned','a.','Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.'),('Pinky','n.','See 1st Pink.'),('Pinnae','pl. ','of Pinna'),('Pinnas','pl. ','of Pinna'),('Pinna','n.','A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf,\n   under Bipinnate.'),('Pinna','n.','One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.'),('Pinna','n.','One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.'),('Pinna','n.','Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks\n   found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long,\n   silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a\n   curiosity.'),('Pinna','n.','The auricle of the ear. See Ear.'),('Pinnace','n.','A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly\n   employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally,\n   spynace or spyne.'),('Pinnace','n.','A man-of-war\'s boat.'),('Pinnace','n.','A procuress; a pimp.'),('Pinnacle','n.','An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in\n   a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a\n   proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like.\n   Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is\n   necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.'),('Pinnacle','n.','Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed\n   summit.'),('Pinnacled','imp. & p. p.','of Pinnacle'),('Pinnacling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pinnacle'),('Pinnacle','v. t.','To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.'),('Pinnage','n.','Poundage of cattle. See Pound.'),('Pinnate','a.','Alt. of Pinnated'),('Pinnated','a.','Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions,\n   arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush,\n   a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under\n   Abruptly.'),('Pinnated','a.','Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of\n   the neck.'),('Pinnately','adv.','In a pinnate manner.'),('Pinnatifid','a.','Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not\n   reaching to the midrib.'),('Pinnatilobate','a.','Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.'),('Pinnatiped','a.','Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as\n   certain birds.'),('Pinnatiped','n.','Any bird which has the toes bordered by membranes.'),('Pinner','n.','One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.'),('Pinner','n.','A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.'),('Pinner','n.','An apron with a bib; a pinafore.'),('Pinner','n.','A cloth band for a gown.'),('Pinner','n.','A pin maker.'),('Pinner','n.','One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t.'),('Pinnet','n.','A pinnacle.'),('Pinniform','a.','Shaped like a fin or feather.'),('Pinnigrada','n. pl.','Same as Pinnipedia.'),('Pinnigrade','n.','An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that\n   serve as paddles.'),('Pinniped','n.','One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.'),('Pinniped','n.','One of the Pinnipedes.'),('Pinnipedes','n. pl.','Same as Steganopodes.'),('Pinnipedia','n. pl.','A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including\n   the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.'),('Pinnock','n.','The hedge sparrow.'),('Pinnock','n.','The tomtit.'),('Pinnothere','n.','A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under\n   Oyster.'),('Pinnulae','pl. ','of Pinnula'),('Pinnula','n.','Same as Pinnule.'),('Pinnulate','a.','Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of\n   its pinnae.'),('Pinnulated','a.','Having pinnules.'),('Pinnule','n.','One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf.\n   See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.'),('Pinnule','n.','Any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts,\n   when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a\n   pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.'),('Pinnywinkles','n. pl.','An instrument of torture, consisting of a board\n   with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.'),('Pinocle','n.','See Penuchle.'),('Pinole','n.','An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of\n   chocolate.'),('Pinole','n.','Parched maize, ground, and mixed with sugar, etc. Mixed\n   with water, it makes a nutritious beverage.'),('Pion','n.','The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree\n   producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P.\n   Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western\n   North America.'),('Pion','n.','See Monkey\'s puzzle.'),('Pinpatch','n.','The common English periwinkle.'),('Pint','n.','A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills,\n   -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.'),('Pint','n.','The laughing gull.'),('Pintados','pl. ','of Pintado'),('Pintado','n.','Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in\n   Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the\n   crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.'),('Pintail','n.','A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents.\n   The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck,\n   piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant,\n   and gray widgeon.'),('Pintail','n.','The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky\n   Mountains (Pediocaetes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse,\n   pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.'),('Pin-tailed','a.','Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers\n   longest; -- said of birds.'),('Pintle','n.','A little pin.'),('Pintle','n.','An upright pivot pin'),('Pintle','n.','The pivot pin of a hinge.'),('Pintle','n.','A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns.'),('Pintle','n.','A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of\n   gun carriages.'),('Pintle','n.','A kingbolt of a wagon.'),('Pintos','n. pl.','A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near\n   Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face\n   irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.'),('Pinule','n.','One of the sights of an astrolabe.'),('Pinus','n.','A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in\n   the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces,\n   larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the\n   primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the\n   secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two\n   to seven. See Pine.'),('Pinweed','n.','Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs\n   with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.'),('Pinworm','n.','A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is\n   parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children\n   and aged persons.'),('Pinxit','','A word appended to the artist\'s name or initials on a\n   painting, or engraved copy of a painting; as, Rubens pinxit, Rubens\n   painted (this).'),('Pinxter','n.','See Pinkster.'),('Piny','a.','Abounding with pines.'),('Pioned','a.','A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., \"abounding\n   in marsh marigolds.\"'),('Pioneer','n.','A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig\n   trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.'),('Pioneer','n.','One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the\n   way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of\n   reform.'),('Pioneered','imp. & p. p.','of Pioneer'),('Pioneering','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pioneer'),('Pioneer','v. t. & i.','To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to\n   act as pioneer.'),('Pioner','n.','A pioneer.'),('Piony','n.','See Peony.'),('Piot','n.','The magpie.'),('Pious','a.','Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential;\n   dutiful; religious; devout; godly.'),('Pious','a.','Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by\n   mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds.'),('Piously','adv.','In a pious manner.'),('Pip','n.','A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness,\n   discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in\n   the mouth, forming a \"scale\" on the tongue. By some the term pip is\n   restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.'),('Pip','n.','A seed, as of an apple or orange.'),('Pip','n.','One of the conventional figures or \"spots\" on playing cards,\n   dominoes, etc.'),('Pipped','imp. & p. p.','of Pip'),('Pipping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pip'),('Pip','v. i.','To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.'),('Pipas','pl. ','of Pipa'),('Pipa','n.','The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar\n   breeding habits.'),('Pipage','n.','Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe\n   conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.'),('Pipal tree','','Same as Peepul tree.'),('Pipe','n.','A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of\n   straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds;\n   as, a shepherd\'s pipe; the pipe of an organ.'),('Pipe','n.','Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or\n   the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas,\n   etc.'),('Pipe','n.','A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco,\n   and, sometimes, other substances.'),('Pipe','n.','A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the\n   windpipe, or one of its divisions.'),('Pipe','n.','The key or sound of the voice.'),('Pipe','n.','The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.'),('Pipe','n.','The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.'),('Pipe','n.','An elongated body or vein of ore.'),('Pipe','n.','A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise\n   called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts\n   to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.'),('Pipe','n.','A boatswain\'s whistle, used to call the crew to their duties;\n   also, the sound of it.'),('Pipe','n.','A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons;\n   also, the quantity which it contains.'),('Pipe','v. i.','To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind\n   instrument of music.'),('Pipe','v. i.','To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a\n   pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.'),('Pipe','v. i.','To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to\n   whistle.'),('Pipe','v. i.','To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of\n   an ingot, as of steel.'),('Piped','imp. & p. p.','of Pipe'),('Piping','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pipe'),('Pipe','v. t.','To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife,\n   etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.'),('Pipe','v. t.','To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain\'s whistle.'),('Pipe','v. t.','To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or\n   a building.'),('Pipe clay','','A plastic, unctuous clay of a grayish white color, -- used\n   in making tobacco pipes and various kinds of earthenware, in scouring\n   cloth, and in cleansing soldiers\' equipments.'),('Pipeclay','v. t.','To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier\'s\n   accouterments.'),('Pipeclay','v. t.','To clear off; as, to pipeclay accounts.'),('Piped','a.','Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.'),('Pipefish','n.','Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or\n   Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular\n   body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a\n   long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the\n   incubation of the eggs takes place.'),('Pipelayer','','Alt. of Pipe layer'),('Pipe layer','','One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for\n   water, gas, etc.'),('Pipe layer','','A politician who works in secret; -- in this sense,\n   usually written as one word.'),('Pipelaying','','Alt. of Pipe laying'),('Pipe laying','','The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for\n   water, gas, etc.'),('Pipe laying','','The act or method of making combinations for personal\n   advantage secretly or slyly; -- in this sense, usually written as one\n   word.'),('Pipemouth','n.','Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco\n   pipefish. See Fistularia.'),('Piper','n.','See Pepper.'),('Piper','n.','One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.'),('Piper','n.','A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large\n   head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular\n   spines.'),('Piper','n.','A sea urchin (Goniocidaris hystrix) having very long spines,\n   native of both the American and European coasts.'),('Piperaceous','a.','Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperaceae)\n   of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen\n   genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and\n   aromatic qualities.'),('Piperic','a.','Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex\n   organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper\n   family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.'),('Piperidge','n.','Same as Pepperidge.'),('Piperidine','n.','An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery,\n   ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the\n   decomposition of piperine.'),('Piperine','n.','A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic\n   acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other\n   species.'),('Piperonal','n.','A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of\n   piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.'),('Piperylene','n.','A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain\n   piperidine derivatives.'),('Pipestem','n.','The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking\n   tobacco, etc.'),('Pipestone','n.','A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco\n   pipes. Cf. Catlinite.'),('Pipette','n.','A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in\n   the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or\n   delivering measured quantities.'),('Pipevine','n.','The Dutchman\'s pipe. See under Dutchman.'),('Pipewort','n.','Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh\n   herbs with soft grass-like leaves.'),('Piping','v.','Playing on a musical pipe.'),('Piping','v.','Peaceful; favorable to, or characterized by, the music of\n   the pipe rather than of the drum and fife.'),('Piping','v.','Emitting a high, shrill sound.'),('Piping','v.','Simmering; boiling; sizzling; hissing; -- from the sound of\n   boiling fluids.'),('Piping','n.','A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for\n   women\'s dresses.'),('Piping','n.','Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house.'),('Piping','n.','The act of playing on a pipe; the shrill noted of birds,\n   etc.'),('Piping','n.','A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting; also,\n   propagation by cuttings.'),('Pipistrel','n.','Alt. of Pipistrelle'),('Pipistrelle','n.','A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); --\n   called also flittermouse.'),('Pipit','n.','Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging\n   to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillidae. They strongly\n   resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the\n   hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.'),('Pipkin','n.','A small earthen boiler.'),('Pippin','n.','An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted;\n   a seedling apple.'),('Pippin','n.','A name given to apples of several different kinds, as\n   Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.'),('Pippul tree','','Same as Peepul tree.'),('Pipras','pl. ','of Pipra'),('Pipra','n.','Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds\n   belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Pipridae. The male\n   is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They\n   chiefly inhabit South America.'),('Piprine','a.','Of or pertaining to the pipras, or the family Pipridae.'),('Pipsissewa','n.','A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with\n   narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding\n   fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also\n   prince\'s pine.'),('Pipy','a.','Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.'),('Piquancy','n.','The quality or state of being piquant.'),('Piquant','a.','Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp;\n   pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.'),('Piquantly','adv.','In a piquant manner.'),('Pique','n.','A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress\n   goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.'),('Pique','n.','The jigger. See Jigger.'),('Pique','n.','A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a\n   social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded\n   pride; stinging vexation.'),('Pique','n.','Keenly felt desire; a longing.'),('Pique','n.','In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in\n   hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.'),('Piqued','imp. & p. p.','of Pique'),('Piquing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pique'),('Pique','v. t.','To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate;\n   to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.'),('Pique','v. t.','To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to\n   stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.'),('Pique','v. t.','To pride or value; -- used reflexively.'),('Pique','v. i.','To cause annoyance or irritation.'),('Piqueer','v. i.','See Pickeer.'),('Piqueerer','n.','See Pickeerer.'),('Piquet','n.','See Picket.'),('Piquet','n.','A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two\n   cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set\n   aside.'),('Piracies','pl. ','of Piracy'),('Piracy','n.','The act or crime of a pirate.'),('Piracy','n.','Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from\n   others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and\n   with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.'),('Piracy','n.',''),('Piragua','n.','See Pirogue.'),('Pirai','n.','Same as Piraya.'),('Pirameter','n.','A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to\n   draw carriages over roads.'),('Pirarucu','n.','Same as Arapaima.'),('Pirate','n.','A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes\n   the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it\n   his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the\n   seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.'),('Pirate','n.','An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal\n   commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high\n   seas.'),('Pirate','n.','One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the\n   work of an author without permission.'),('Pirated','imp. & p. p.','of Pirate'),('Pirating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pirate'),('Pirate','v. i.','To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high\n   seas.'),('Pirate','v. t.','To publish, as books or writings, without the permission\n   of the author.'),('Piratic','a.','Piratical.'),('Piratical','a.','Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or\n   practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.'),('Piraya','n.','A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of\n   South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.'),('Pirie','n.','See Pirry.'),('Pirie','n.','A pear tree.'),('Piririgua','n.','A South American bird (Guira guira) allied to the\n   cuckoos.'),('Pirl','v. t.','To spin, as a top.'),('Pirl','v. t.','To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.'),('Pirn','n.','A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin;\n   also, the wound yarn on a weaver\'s shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing\n   rod.'),('Pirogue','n.','A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.'),('Pirouette','n.','A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.'),('Pirouette','n.','The whirling about of a horse.'),('Pirouetted','imp. & p. p.','of Pirouette'),('Pirouetting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pirouette'),('Pirouette','v. i.','To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.'),('Pirry','n.','Alt. of Pirrie'),('Pirrie','n.','A rough gale of wind.'),('Pisasphaltum','n.','See Pissasphalt.'),('Pisay','n.','See Pise.'),('Piscary','n.','The right or privilege of fishing in another man\'s waters.'),('Piscation','n.','Fishing; fishery.'),('Piscator','n.','A fisherman; an angler.'),('Piscatorial','a.','Alt. of Piscatory'),('Piscatory','a.','Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.'),('Pisces','n. pl.','The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.'),('Pisces','n. pl.','A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of\n   Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.'),('Pisces','n. pl.','The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The\n   principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei.'),('Piscicapture','n.','Capture of fishes, as by angling.'),('Piscicultural','a.','Relating to pisciculture.'),('Pisciculture','n.','Fish culture. See under Fish.'),('Pisciculturist','n.','One who breeds fish.'),('Pisciform','a.','Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.'),('Piscina','n.','A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small\n   basin for rinsing altar vessels.'),('Piscinal','a.','Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.'),('Piscine','a.','Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.'),('Piscivorous','a.','Feeding or subsisting on fish.'),('Pise','n.','A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in\n   between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also\n   pise work.'),('Pish','interj.','An exclamation of contempt.'),('Pish','v. i.','To express contempt.'),('Pishu','n.','The Canada lynx.'),('Pisiform','a.','Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a\n   pisiform iron ore.'),('Pisiform','n.','A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and\n   many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.'),('Pismire','n.','An ant, or emmet.'),('Pisolite','n.','A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of\n   aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also\n   peastone, peagrit.'),('Pisolitic','a.','Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.'),('Pisophalt','n.','Pissasphalt.'),('Piss','v. t. & i.','To discharge urine, to urinate.'),('Piss','n.','Urine.'),('Pissabed','n.','A name locally applied to various wild plants, as\n   dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.'),('Pissasphalt','n.','Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence\n   of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate\n   between petroleum and asphalt.'),('Pist','n.','See Piste.'),('Pistachio','n.','The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order\n   Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has\n   a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of\n   agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome\n   and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.'),('Pistacia','n.','The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which\n   bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia\n   Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or\n   Cyprus turpentine.'),('Pistacite','n.','Epidote.'),('Pistareen','n.','An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty\n   cents.'),('Pistazite','n.','Same as Pistacite.'),('Piste','n.','The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes\n   over.'),('Pistel','n.','Alt. of Pistil'),('Pistil','n.','An epistle.'),('Pistic','a.','Pure; genuine.'),('Pistil','n.','The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an\n   ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which\n   is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When\n   composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it\n   is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.'),('Pistillaceous','a.','Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or\n   pertaining to a pistil.'),('Pistillate','a.','Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers\n   having pistils but no stamens.'),('Pistillation','n.','The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar;\n   pestillation.'),('Pistillida','pl. ','of Pistillidium'),('Pistillidium','n.','Same as Archegonium.'),('Pistilliferous','a.','Pistillate.'),('Pistillody','n.','The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.'),('Pistol','n.','The smallest firearm used, intended to be fired from one\n   hand, -- now of many patterns, and bearing a great variety of names.\n   See Illust. of Revolver.'),('Pistoled','imp. & p. p.','of Pistol'),('Pistoling','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pistol'),('Pistol','v. t.','To shoot with a pistol.'),('Pistolade','n.','A pistol shot.'),('Pistole','n.','The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly\n   coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a\n   quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the\n   same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.'),('Pistoleer','n.','One who uses a pistol.'),('Pistolet','n.','A small pistol.'),('Piston','n.','A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against,\n   fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within\n   a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used\n   in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to\n   transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes.'),('Pit','n.','A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or\n   artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation'),('Pit','n.','The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.'),('Pit','n.','A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or\n   quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made\n   by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.'),('Pit','n.','A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.'),('Pit','n.','Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.'),('Pit','n.','A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall;\n   hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.'),('Pit','n.','A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body'),('Pit','n.','The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or\n   armpit.'),('Pit','n.','See Pit of the stomach (below).'),('Pit','n.','The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.'),('Pit','n.','Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house,\n   below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England,\n   commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet;\n   also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.'),('Pit','n.','An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals\n   are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.'),('Pit','n.','The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a\n   stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.'),('Pit','n.','A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.'),('Pitted','imp. & p. p.','of Pit'),('Pitting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pit'),('Pit','v. t.','To place or put into a pit or hole.'),('Pit','v. t.','To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a\n   face pitted by smallpox.'),('Pit','v. t.','To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a\n   contest; as, to pit one dog against another.'),('Pita','n.','A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related\n   species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber,\n   and pita thread.'),('Pita','n.','The plant which yields the fiber.'),('Pitahaya','n.','A cactaceous shrub (Cereus Pitajaya) of tropical America,\n   which yields a delicious fruit.'),('Pitapat','adv.','In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of\n   beats.'),('Pitapat','n.','A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.'),('Pitch','n.','A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by\n   boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in\n   coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.'),('Pitch','n.','See Pitchstone.'),('Pitched','imp. & p. p.','of Pitch'),('Pitching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pitch'),('Pitch','n.','To cover over or smear with pitch.'),('Pitch','n.','Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.'),('Pitch','v. t.','To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to\n   cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a\n   ball.'),('Pitch','v. t.','To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles;\n   hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange;\n   as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.'),('Pitch','v. t.','To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as\n   an embankment or a roadway.'),('Pitch','v. t.','To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.'),('Pitch','v. t.','To set or fix, as a price or value.'),('Pitch','v. i.','To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to\n   encamp.'),('Pitch','v. i.','To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.'),('Pitch','v. i.','To fix one\'s choise; -- with on or upon.'),('Pitch','v. i.','To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or\n   slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy\n   sea; the field pitches toward the east.'),('Pitch','n.','A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as,\n   a good pitch in quoits.'),('Pitch','n.','That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights\n   when bowled.'),('Pitch','n.','A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or\n   depression; hence, a limit or bound.'),('Pitch','n.','Height; stature.'),('Pitch','n.','A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.'),('Pitch','n.','The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity\n   itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope;\n   slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.'),('Pitch','n.','The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by\n   the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a\n   scale of high and low.'),('Pitch','n.','The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of\n   the ore taken out.'),('Pitch','n.','The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth\n   of gearing, measured on the pitch line; -- called also circular pitch.'),('Pitch','n.','The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of\n   the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw\n   propeller.'),('Pitch','n.','The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes\n   in boiler plates.'),('Pitch-black','a.','Black as pitch or tar.'),('Pitchblende','n.','A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide\n   of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.'),('Pitch-dark','a.','Dark as a pitch; pitch-black.'),('Pitcher','n.','One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.;\n   specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the\n   batsman.'),('Pitcher','n.','A sort of crowbar for digging.'),('Pitcher','n.','A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a\n   spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large\n   ear or handle.'),('Pitcher','n.','A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves\n   of certain plants.'),('Pitcherfuls','pl. ','of Pitcherful'),('Pitcherful','n.','The quantity a pitcher will hold.'),('Pitch-faced','a.','Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the\n   rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared\n   stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.'),('Pitchfork','n.','A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay,\n   sheaves of grain, or the like.'),('Pitchfork','v. t.','To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork.'),('Pitchiness','n.','Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.'),('Pitching','n.','The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild\n   pitching in baseball.'),('Pitching','n.','The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of\n   stone.'),('Pitching','n.','A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by\n   tides or currents.'),('Pitch-ore','n.','Pitchblende.'),('Pitchstone','n.','An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster\n   like pitch.'),('Pitchwork','n.','The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his\n   product.'),('Pitchy','a.','Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.'),('Pitchy','a.','Smeared with pitch.'),('Pitchy','a.','Black; pitch-dark; dismal.'),('Piteous','a.','Pious; devout.'),('Piteous','a.','Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate;\n   tender.'),('Piteous','a.','Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable;\n   lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.'),('Piteous','a.','Paltry; mean; pitiful.'),('Pitfall','n.','A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a\n   trap of any kind.'),('Pitfalling','a.','Entrapping; insnaring.'),('Pith','n.','The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many\n   plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous\n   classes. It consists of cellular tissue.'),('Pith','n.','The spongy interior substance of a feather.'),('Pith','n.','The spinal cord; the marrow.'),('Pith','n.','Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or\n   essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as,\n   the speech lacked pith.'),('Pith','v. t.','To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a\n   frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral\n   canal.'),('Pitheci','n. pl.','A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys.\n   Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.'),('Pithecoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily\n   Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South\n   American monkeys.'),('Pithecoid','a.','Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular,\n   or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.'),('Pithful','a.','Full of pith.'),('Pithily','adv.','In a pithy manner.'),('Pithiness','n.','The quality or state of being pithy.'),('Pithless','a.','Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.'),('Pit-hole','n.','A pit; a pockmark.'),('Pithsome','a.','Pithy; robust.'),('Pithy','superl.','Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in\n   pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit.'),('Pithy','superl.','Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent.'),('Pitiable','a.','Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion;\n   miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable\n   condition; pitiable wretchedness.'),('Pitier','n.','One who pities.'),('Pitiful','a.','Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind;\n   merciful; sympathetic.'),('Pitiful','a.','Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.'),('Pitiful','a.','To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable;\n   paltry; contemptible; despicable.'),('Pitiless','a.','Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a\n   pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.'),('Pitiless','a.','Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.'),('Pitmen','pl. ','of Pitman'),('Pitman','n.','One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber,\n   etc.'),('Pitman','n.','The connecting rod in a sawmill; also, sometimes, a\n   connecting rod in other machinery.'),('Pitot\'s tube','','A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running\n   water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height\n   to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter.'),('Pitpan','n.','A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of\n   rivers and lagoons in Central America.'),('Pitpat','n. & adv.','See Pitapat.'),('Pitta','n.','Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds\n   belonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittidae. Most of\n   the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green,\n   crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also ground\n   thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not related to the\n   true thrushes.'),('Pittacal','n.','A dark blue substance obtained from wood tar. It consists\n   of hydrocarbons which when oxidized form the orange-yellow eupittonic\n   compounds, the salts of which are dark blue.'),('Pittance','n.','An allowance of food bestowed in charity; a mess of\n   victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole.'),('Pittance','n.','A meager portion, quantity, or allowance; an\n   inconsiderable salary or compensation.'),('Pitted','a.','Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.'),('Pitted','v. t.','Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the\n   vascular parts of vegetable tissue.'),('Pitter','n.','A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums,\n   and other stone fruit.'),('Pitter','v. i.','To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering\n   streams.'),('Pittle-pattle','v. i.','To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.'),('Pituitary','a.','Secreting mucus or phlegm; as, the pituitary membrane,\n   or the mucous membrane which lines the nasal cavities.'),('Pituitary','a.','Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the\n   pituitary fossa.'),('Pituite','n.','Mucus, phlegm.'),('Pituitous','a.','Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of\n   mucus; discharging mucus.'),('Pities','pl. ','of Pity'),('Pity','n.','Piety.'),('Pity','n.','A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or\n   others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion;\n   fellow-feeling; commiseration.'),('Pity','n.','A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be\n   regretted.'),('Pitied','imp. & p. p.','of Pity'),('Pitying','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pity'),('Pity','v. t.','To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to\n   compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any\n   one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.'),('Pity','v. t.','To move to pity; -- used impersonally.'),('Pity','v. i.','To be compassionate; to show pity.'),('Pitying','a.','Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.'),('Pityriasis','n.','A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by\n   irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.'),('Pityroid','a.','Having the form of, or resembling, bran.'),('Piu','adv.','A little more; as, piu allegro, a little more briskly.'),('Pivot','n.','A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or\n   other body turns.'),('Pivot','n.','The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a\n   support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.'),('Pivot','n.','Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on\n   which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.'),('Pivot','n.','The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike\n   the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot\n   man.'),('Pivoted','imp. & p. p.','of Pivot'),('Pivoting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Pivot'),('Pivot','v. t.','To place on a pivot.'),('Pivotal','a.','Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging\n   to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the\n   pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.'),('Pix','n. & v.','See Pyx.'),('Pixies','pl. ','of Pixie'),('Pixy','n.','Alt. of Pixie'),('Pixie','n.','An old English name for a fairy; an elf.'),('Pixie','n.','A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata),\n   with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and\n   southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.'),('Pixy-led','a.','Led by pixies; bewildered.'),('Pizzicato','','A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the\n   finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)'),('Pizzle','n.','The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull.'),('Placability','n.','The quality or state of being placable or appeasable;\n   placable disposition.'),('Placable','a.','Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing\n   to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.'),('Placableness','n.','The quality of being placable.'),('Placard','n.','A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by\n   authority.'),('Placard','n.','Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a\n   placard to do something.'),('Placard','n.','A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a\n   declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.'),('Placard','n.','An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or\n   backplate.'),('Placard','n.','A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in\n   the fifteenth century and later.'),('Placarded','imp. & p. p.','of Placard'),('Placarding','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Placard'),('Placard','v. t.','To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall,\n   to placard the city.'),('Placard','v. t.','To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.'),('Placate','n.','Same as Placard, 4 & 5.'),('Placated','imp. & p. p.','of Placate'),('Placating','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Placate'),('Placate','v. t.','To appease; to pacify; to concilate.'),('Placation','n.','The act of placating.'),('Place','n.','Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct\n   from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use;\n   position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space.'),('Place','n.','A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or\n   short part of a street open only at one end.'),('Place','n.','A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a\n   mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a\n   stronghold; a region or country.'),('Place','n.','Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement,\n   dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition;\n   also, official station; occupation; calling.'),('Place','n.','Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or\n   removal of another being or thing being implied).'),('Place','n.','A definite position or passage of a document.'),('Place','n.','Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as,\n   he said in the first place.'),('Place','n.','Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for.'),('Place','n.','Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually\n   defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and\n   longitude.'),('Placed','imp. & p. p.','of Place'),('Placing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Place'),('Place','n.','To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place,\n   or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to\n   fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place\n   balls in tennis.'),('Place','n.','To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to\n   surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint\n   to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is\n   placed.'),('Place','n.','To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place\n   money in a bank.'),('Place','n.','To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a\n   friend.'),('Place','n.','To attribute; to ascribe; to set down.'),('Placebo','n.','The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.'),('Placebo','n.','A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.'),('Placeful','a.','In the appointed place.'),('Placeless','a.','Having no place or office.'),('Placemen','pl. ','of Placeman'),('Placeman','n.','One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office\n   under government.'),('Placement','n.','The act of placing, or the state of being placed.'),('Placement','n.','Position; place.'),('Placentae','pl. ','of Placenta'),('Placentas','pl. ','of Placenta'),('Placenta','n.','The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the\n   parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.'),('Placenta','n.','The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or\n   seeds are attached.'),('Placental','a.','Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or\n   characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal.'),('Placental','a.','Of or pertaining to the Placentalia.'),('Placental','n.','One of the Placentalia.'),('Placentalia','n. pl.','A division of Mammalia including those that have a\n   placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.'),('Placentary','a.','Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary\n   system of classification.'),('Placentation','n.','The mode of formation of the placenta in different\n   animals; as, the placentation of mammals.'),('Placentation','n.','The mode in which the placenta is arranged or\n   composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.'),('Placentiferous','a.','Having or producing a placenta.'),('Placentiform','a.','Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened\n   disk somewhat thinner about the middle.'),('Placentious','a.','Pleasing; amiable.'),('Place-proud','a.','Proud of rank or office.'),('Placer','n.','One who places or sets.'),('Placer','n.','A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable\n   mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed\n   of a mountain torrent.'),('Placet','n.','A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university,\n   of an ecclesiastical council, etc.'),('Placet','n.','The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an\n   ecclesiastical ordinance.'),('Placid','a.','Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene;\n   peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle.'),('Placidity','n.','The quality or state of being placid; calmness;\n   serenity.'),('Placidly','adv.','In a placid manner.'),('Placidness','n.','The quality or state of being placid.'),('Placit','n.','A decree or determination; a dictum.'),('Placitory','a.','Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law.'),('Placita','pl. ','of Placitum'),('Placitum','n.','A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which\n   the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of\n   state.'),('Placitum','n.','A court, or cause in court.'),('Placitum','n.','A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.'),('Plack','n.','A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less\n   than a cent.'),('Placket','n.','A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term\n   for a woman.'),('Placket','n.','The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for\n   convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.'),('Placket','n.','A woman\'s pocket.'),('Placoderm','n.','One of the Placodermi.'),('Placodermal','a.','Of or pertaining to the placoderms; like the\n   placoderms.'),('Placodermata','n. pl.','Same as Placodermi.'),('Placodermi','n. pl.','An extinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids.\n   The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust.\n   under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.'),('Placoganoid','a.','Pertaining to the Placoganoidei.'),('Placoganoidei','n. pl.','A division of ganoid fishes including those that\n   have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.'),('Placoid','a.','Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often\n   bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.'),('Placoid','n.','Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.'),('Placoid','n.','One of the Placoides.'),('Placoides','n. pl.','A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the\n   Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.'),('Placoidian','n.','One of the placoids.'),('Placophora','n. pl.','A division of gastropod Mollusca, including the\n   chitons. The back is covered by eight shelly plates. Called also\n   Polyplacophora. See Illust. under Chiton, and Isopleura.'),('Plagae','pl. ','of Plaga'),('Plaga','n.','A stripe of color.'),('Plagal','a.','Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; --\n   said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called\n   authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave.'),('Plagate','a.','Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.'),('Plage','n.','A region; country.'),('Plagiarism','n.','The act or practice of plagiarizing.'),('Plagiarism','n.','That which plagiarized.'),('Plagiarist','n.','One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings,\n   or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief;\n   a plagiary.'),('Plagiarized','imp. & p. p.','of Plagiarize'),('Plagiarizing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plagiarize'),('Plagiarize','v. t.','To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to\n   appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of\n   another).'),('Plagiary','v. i.','To commit plagiarism.'),('Plagiaries','pl. ','of Plagiary'),('Plagiary','n.','A manstealer; a kidnaper.'),('Plagiary','n.','One who purloins another\'s expressions or ideas, and\n   offers them as his own; a plagiarist.'),('Plagiary','n.','Plagiarism; literary thief.'),('Plagiary','a.','Kidnaping.'),('Plagiary','a.','Practicing plagiarism.'),('Plagihedral','a.','Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as\n   levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.'),('Plagiocephalic','a.','Having an oblique lateral deformity of the skull.'),('Plagiocephaly','n.','Oblique lateral deformity of the skull.'),('Plagioclase','n.','A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the\n   Note under Feldspar.'),('Plagionite','n.','A sulphide of lead and antimony, of a blackish\n   lead-gray color and metallic luster.'),('Plagiostomatous','a.','Same as Plagiostomous.'),('Plagiostome','n.','One of the Plagiostomi.'),('Plagiostomi','n. pl.','An order of fishes including the sharks and rays;\n   -- called also Plagiostomata.'),('Plagiostomous','a.','Of or pertaining to the Plagiostomi.'),('Plagiotremata','n. pl.','Same as Lepidosauria.'),('Plagiotropic','a.','Having the longer axis inclined away from the\n   vertical line.'),('Plagium','n.','Manstealing; kidnaping.'),('Plagose','a.','Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master.'),('Plague','n.','That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity;\n   any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.'),('Plague','n.','An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in\n   Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of\n   Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great\n   London plague.'),('Plagued','imp. & p. p.','of Plague'),('Plaguing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plague'),('Plague','v. t.','To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural\n   evil of any kind.'),('Plague','v. t.','Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass.'),('Plagueful','a.','Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as,\n   plagueful exhalations.'),('Plagueless','a.','Free from plagues or the plague.'),('Plaguer','n.','One who plagues or annoys.'),('Plaguily','adv.','In a plaguing manner; vexatiously; extremely.'),('Plaguy','a.','Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse.\n   [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, \"He is so plaguy proud.\"'),('Plaice','n.','A European food fish (Pleuronectes platessa), allied to the\n   flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more.'),('Plaice','n.','A large American flounder (Paralichthys dentatus; called\n   also brail, puckermouth, and summer flounder. The name is sometimes\n   applied to other allied species.'),('Plaid','n.','A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the\n   checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray\n   with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.'),('Plaid','n.','Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid\n   or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.'),('Plaid','a.','Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid;\n   checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one\n   another; as, plaid muslin.'),('Plaided','a.','Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.'),('Plaided','a.','Wearing a plaid.'),('Plaiding','n.','Plaid cloth.'),('Plain','v. i.','To lament; to bewail; to complain.'),('Plain','v. t.','To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.'),('Plain','superl.','Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth;\n   even. See Plane.'),('Plain','superl.','Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.'),('Plain','superl.','Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious;\n   clear; unmistakable.'),('Plain','superl.','Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without\n   conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.'),('Plain','superl.','Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show\n   or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.'),('Plain','superl.','Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere;\n   artless; honest; frank.'),('Plain','superl.','Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain\n   food.'),('Plain','superl.','Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain\n   woman.'),('Plain','superl.','Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.'),('Plain','superl.','Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.'),('Plain','adv.','In a plain manner; plainly.'),('Plain','a.','Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of\n   land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities;\n   as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.'),('Plain','a.','A field of battle.'),('Plained','imp. & p. p.','of Plain'),('Plaining','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plain'),('Plain','v.','To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.'),('Plain','v.','To make plain or manifest; to explain.'),('Plainant','n.','One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.'),('Plain-dealing','a.','Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain\n   dealing, under Dealing.'),('Plain-hearted','a.','Frank; sincere; artless.'),('Plaining','n.','Complaint.'),('Plaining','a.','Complaining.'),('Plain-laid','a.','Consisting of strands twisted together in the ordinary\n   way; as, a plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.'),('Plainly','adv.','In a plain manner; clearly.'),('Plainness','n.','The quality or state of being plain.'),('-men','pl. ','of Plainsman'),('Plainsman','n.','One who lives in the plains.'),('Plain-spoken','a.','Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also,\n   spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words.'),('Plaint','n.','Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint;\n   hence, a mournful song; a lament.'),('Plaint','n.','An accusation or protest on account of an injury.'),('Plaint','n.','A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person\n   sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing.'),('Plaintful','a.','Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with\n   an audible voice.'),('Plaintiff','n.','One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a\n   remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.'),('Plaintiff','a.','See Plaintive.'),('Plaintive','n.','Repining; complaining; lamenting.'),('Plaintive','n.','Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.'),('Plaintless','a.','Without complaint; unrepining.'),('Plaisance','n.','See Pleasance.'),('Plaise','n.','See Plaice.'),('Plaister','n.','See Plaster.'),('Plait','n.','A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box\n   plait.'),('Plait','n.','A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.'),('Plaited','imp. & p. p.','of Plait'),('Plaiting','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plait'),('Plait','v. t.','To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to\n   plait a ruffle.'),('Plait','v. t.','To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat;\n   as, to plait hair; to plait rope.'),('Plaited','a.','Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved;\n   intricate; artful.'),('Plaiter','n.','One who, or that which, plaits.'),('Plan','a.','A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a\n   plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or\n   the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything,\n   as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.'),('Plan','a.','A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed\n   or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution;\n   the plan of an expedition.'),('Plan','a.','A method; a way of procedure; a custom.'),('Planned','imp. & p. p.','of Plan'),('Planning','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plan'),('Plan','v. t.','To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by\n   a diagram.'),('Plan','v. t.','To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as,\n   to plan the conquest of a country.'),('Planariae','pl. ','of Planaria'),('-rias','pl. ','of Planaria'),('Planaria','n.','Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria,\n   and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth.\n   Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.'),('Planarian','n.','One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian\n   worm.'),('Planarida','n. pl.','A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.'),('Planarioid','a.','Like the planarians.'),('Planary','a.','Of or pertaining to a plane.'),('Planch','n.','A plank.'),('Planched','imp. & p. p.','of Planch'),('Planching','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Planch'),('Planch','v. t.','To make or cover with planks or boards; to plank.'),('Plancher','n.','A floor of wood; also, a plank.'),('Plancher','n.','The under side of a cornice; a soffit.'),('Plancher','v. t.','To form of planks.'),('Planchet','n.','A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready\n   to be stamped as a coin.'),('Planchette','n.','A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.'),('Planchette','n.','A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having\n   a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper,\n   while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are\n   sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.'),('Planching','n.','The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of\n   boards or planks.'),('Plane','n.','Any tree of the genus Platanus.'),('Plane','a.','Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying\n   in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.'),('Plane','a.','A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points\n   are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that\n   surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a\n   straight line; a surface without curvature.'),('Plane','a.','An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or\n   containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve;\n   as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the\n   equator.'),('Plane','a.','A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a\n   standard of flatness; a surface plate.'),('Plane','a.','A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for\n   forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of\n   wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel\n   cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward,\n   with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack\n   plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.'),('Planed','imp. & p. p.','of Plane'),('Planing','p. pr. & vb. n.','of Plane'),('Plane','a.','To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of\n   the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a\n   plane; as, to plane a plank.'),('Plane','a.','To efface or remove.'),('Plane','a.','Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.'),('Plane-parallel','a.','Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and\n   parallel, as a piece of glass.'),('Planer','n.','One who, or that which, planes; a planing machine; esp., a\n   machine for planing wood or metals.'),('Planer','n.','A wooden block used for forcing down the type in a form,\n   and making the surface even.'),('Planer tree','','A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica)\n   related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit.'),('Planet','n.','A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit\n   of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet\n   by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See\n   Solar system.'),('Planet','n.','A star, as influencing the fate of a men.'),('Plane table','','See under Plane, a.'),('Planetarium','n.','An orrery. See Orrery.'),('Planetary','a.','Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary\n   inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.');
