(v. t.) To decorate with fringe or embroidery.

(n.) An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.

(n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance.

(v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions.

(v. & n.) To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.

(n.) A circle made by the notion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.

(n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.

(n.) Malt liquor, medicated or spiced; formerly, ale or beer in which wormwood or other bitter herbs had been infused, and which was regarded as tonic; at present, hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.

(n.) A tern.

(v. i. & t.) To murmur as a cat. See Pur.

(n.) The low murmuring sound made by a cat; pur. See Pur.

(n.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body.

(n.) The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain.

(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.

() Combining forms designating fire or heat; specifically (Chem.), used to imply an actual or theoretical derivative by the action of heat; as in pyrophosphoric, pyrosulphuric, pyrotartaric, pyrotungstic, etc.

(n.) Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid.

() A prefix used to signify through, throughout, by, for, or as an intensive as perhaps, by hap or chance; perennial, that lasts throughout the year; perforce, through or by force; perfoliate, perforate; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much.

() Originally, denoting that the element to the name of which it is prefixed in the respective compounds exercised its highest valence; now, only that the element has a higher valence than in other similar compounds; thus, barium peroxide is the highest oxide of barium; while nitrogen and manganese peroxides, so-called, are not the highest oxides of those elements.

(n.) A child's word for father.

(n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

(n.) See Poon.

(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

(n.) See 2d Pawn.

(n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.

(n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

(n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

(n.) The human skin.

(n.) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.

(n.) A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.

(n.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.

(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.

(n.) Pace

(n.) The Easter festival.

(n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.

(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

(n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

(n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.

(v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

(v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

(v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

(v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

(n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

(n.) First outlook or appearance.

(n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

(n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

(n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

(n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.

(n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

(n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.

(n.) A pustule; a pimple.

(v. t.) To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw.

(v. t.) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

(v. t.) To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far.

(v. t.) To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.

(v. t.) To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.

(v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword.

(v. i.) To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed.

(v. i.) To burst pot, as a bud or shoot.

(n.) A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing.

(n.) Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push.

(n.) An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action.

(n.) The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push.

(n.) A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.

(n.) One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

(n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.

(n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

(n.) A peer.

(n.) Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

(n.) A fungus (Polyporus fomentarius, etc.) sometimes dried for tinder; agaric.

(n.) An artificial tinder. See Amadou, and Spunk.

(n.) A prostitute; a strumpet.

(superl.) Imperfectly developed in size or vigor; small and feeble; inferior; petty.

(n.) A youth; a novice.

(v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.

(n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.

(n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.

(v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.

(n.) Plain; flat; level.

(adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.

(adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.

(n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.

(n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.

(n.) A vegetable substance consisting of soft, elastic, yellowish brown chaff, gathered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

(n.) A large American carnivore (Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

(v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

(v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.

(n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.

(a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.

(n.) A blow or thump.

(a.) Distorted.

(n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.

(n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.

(n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.

(n.) To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.

(n.) The plant privet.

(v. i.) To pry.

(v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard.

(v. t.) To cheapen.

(v. t.) To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief.

(n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.

(n.) A thief; a filcher.

(n.) The privet.

(a.) Formal; precise; affectedly neat or nice; as, prim regularity; a prim person.

(v. t.) To deck with great nicety; to arrange with affected preciseness; to prink.

(v. i.) To dress or act smartly.

(n.) A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

(n.) A ball of silver or other metal, which is filled with hot water, and used by the priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.

(n.) To grow to a head, or form a head in growing.

(n.) A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

(n.) Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.

(v. i.) To make a pompons display; to conduct.

(a.) Pertaining to the pia mater.

(n.) The yaws. See Yaws.

(n.) A kind of johnnycake.

(n.) A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and connected at each side with the hemispheres of the cerebellum; the mesocephalon. See Brain.

(n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.

(n.) A small horse.

(n.) Twenty-five pounds sterling.

(n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.

(n.) A small glass of beer.

(n.) A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.

(n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon.

(n.) A piggin. See 1st Pig.

(n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.

(n.) A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

(n.) A covering of hair or fur.

(n.) The head of an arrow or spear.

(n.) A large stake, or piece of timber, pointed and driven into the earth, as at the bottom of a river, or in a harbor where the ground is soft, for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.

(n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.

(v. t.) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.

(n.) A mass of things heaped together; a heap; as, a pile of stones; a pile of wood.

(n.) A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot.

(n.) A funeral pile; a pyre.

(n.) A large building, or mass of buildings.

(n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2.

(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; -- commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.

(n.) The reverse of a coin. See Reverse.

(v. t.) To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.

(v. t.) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.

(n.) The peel or skin.

(v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

(v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.

(v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.

(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

(superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

(superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.

(superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected

(superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.

(superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.

(superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.

(superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.

(superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.

(superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.

(superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.

(superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.

(superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.

(n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

() A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to go before or forward; project, to throw forward; prologue, part spoken before (the main piece); propel, prognathous; provide, to look out for; pronoun, a word instead of a noun; proconsul, a person acting in place of a consul; proportion, arrangement according to parts.

(n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known.

(v.) One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

(v.) A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

(v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.

(n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

(a.) Like pile or wool.

(n.) One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

(v. i.) To procure women for the gratification of others' lusts; to pander.

(n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.

(v. i.) To wink; to blink.

(a.) Half-shut; winking.

(v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

(v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

(v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.

(n.) A stab.

(v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.

(v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.

(v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.

(v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.

(a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

(n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

(n.) A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.

(n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.

(v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.

(a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.

(a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

(n.) A cold in the head; catarrh.

(v. t.) The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.

(v. t.) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.

(n.) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

(n.) See Monkey's puzzle.

(n.) A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, -- used in liquid and dry measures. See Quart.

(n.) The laughing gull.

(a.) Abounding with pines.

(v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.

(v. t.) To interrogate; to question.

(v. t.) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

(n.) The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.

(n.) A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ.

(n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc.

(n.) A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.

(n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

(n.) The key or sound of the voice.

(n.) The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.

(n.) The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

(n.) An elongated body or vein of ore.

(n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe.

(n.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it.

(n.) A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains.

(v. i.) To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music.

(v. i.) To call, convey orders, etc., by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain.

(v. i.) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.

(v. i.) To become hollow in the process of solodifying; -- said of an ingot, as of steel.

(v. t.) To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

(v. t.) To call or direct, as a crew, by the boatswain's whistle.

(v. t.) To furnish or equip with pipes; as, to pipe an engine, or a building.

(v. t.) To push; to dash; to throw.

(v. i.) To cry like a chicken.

(v. i.) To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child.

(n.) A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.

(n.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth.

(n.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape.

(n.) The exterior part of a coffee berry.

(n.) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water.

(v. t.) To reduce to pulp.

(v. t.) To deprive of the pulp, or integument.

(a.) Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

(n.) "The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes."

(n. & v.) See Pry.

(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.

(v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.

(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

(v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.

(n.) Alt. of Prame

(n.) The fore part of a vessel; the bow; the stem; hence, the vessel itself.

(n.) See Proa.

(superl.) Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous.

(a.) Benefit; profit; good; advantage.

(n.) A horse.

(a.) Poor.

(v. i.) To pore.

(v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

(v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.

(v. t.) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

(v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.

(n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.

(n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl.

(v. i.) To shoot pouts.

(v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.

(v. i.) To protrude.

(n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness.

(n.) The European whiting pout or bib.

() A prefix denoting priority (of time, place, or rank); as, precede, to go before; precursor, a forerunner; prefix, to fix or place before; preeminent eminent before or above others. Pre- is sometimes used intensively, as in prepotent, very potent.

(n.) A size of paper. See under Paper.

(n.) A whitish woolly plant (Teucrium Polium) of the order Labiatae, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.

(v.) To trim.

(v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

(v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

(v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.

(n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

(n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

(n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

(n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.

(n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

(n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pi

(v.) To throw; to pitch.

(v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

(v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

(v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.

(v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

(v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

(v.) To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.

(v.) To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.

(pl. ) of Pea

(n.) A trodden way; a footway.

(n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

(v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

(v. i.) To walk or go.

(n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.

(n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.

(n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.]

(n.) Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to each other, and intended to be used together; as, a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes.

(n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen.

(n.) A married couple; a man and wife.

(n.) A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

(n.) Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time; as, there were two pairs on the final vote.

(n.) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.

(v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

(v. i.) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.

(v. i.) Same as To pair off. See phrase below.

(v. t.) To unite in couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one another.

(v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.

(v. t.) To impair.

(n.) The country; the people of the neighborhood.

(v. t.) To throw; to use as a missile.

(v. i.) To throw missiles.

(v. i.) To throw out words.

(n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.

(n.) Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

(v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.

(n.) Same as Palpus.

(v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.

(n.) Oil cake; penock.

(v. i.) To hang; to depend.

(v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment.

(v. t.) To pen; to confine.

(v. t. & i.) To discharge urine, to urinate.

(n.) Urine.

(n.) See Piste.

(n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

(n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.

() imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.

(a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

(n.) The pavement.

(v. t.) To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.

(v. t.) Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise.

(n.) A small lobster.

(n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel.

(v. t.) To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

(n.) See Pan, the masticatory.

(n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.

(n.) Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1.

(n.) State of being pledged; a pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

(n.) A stake hazarded in a wager.

(v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.

(v. t.) To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; to stake; to risk; to wager; to hazard.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pay

(n.) A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

(n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.

(n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.

(n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

(n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

(v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

(v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky.

(v. i.) To pry; to peep slyly.

(v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

(n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.

(v. i.) To appeal.

(n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.

(n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.

(v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.

(v. i.) To resound; to echo.

(v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.

(v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.

(v. t.) To pour out.

(n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.

(n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

(n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

(n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.

(n.) A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.

(n.) pl. of Penny.

(v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

(v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

(v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.

(v. t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.

(v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.

(v. t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.

(v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.

(v. i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.

(n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.

(n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.

(n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.

(n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.

(n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.

(n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.

(n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.

(n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

(n.) To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

(n.) To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.

(n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes.

(n.) To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute.

(n.) To act; to behave; to practice deception.

(n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays.

(n.) To move gayly; to wanton; to disport.

(n.) To act on the stage; to personate a character.

(v. t.) To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump.

(v. t.) To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ.

(v. t.) To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin.

(v. t.) To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks.

(v. t.) To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman.

(v. t.) To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball.

(v. t.) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.

(n.) Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols.

(n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game.

(n.) The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.

(n.) Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit.

(n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action.

(n.) The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play.

(n.) Performance on an instrument of music.

(n.) Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action.

(n.) Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth.

(n.) A leopard; a panther.

(n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

(n.) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under Common.

(n.) That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology.

(n.) An urgent prayer or entreaty.

() of Plead

() imp. & p. p. of Plead

(v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

(v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.

(a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

(v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively.

(v. t.) To take profit of; to make profitable.

(n.) The honey buzzard.

(v. i.) To swell, as grain or wood with water.

(v. i.) To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge.

(v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.

(v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.

(n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

(n.) A plantation laid out.

(n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

(n.) A fiber obtained from the Agave Americana and other related species, -- used for making cordage and paper. Called also pita fiber, and pita thread.

(n.) The plant which yields the fiber.

(n.) See Peen.

(v. t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.

(n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.

(n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.

(n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.

(n.) A plan; a purpose.

(n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

(v. i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.

(v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.

(v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

(n.) Alt. of Plough

(v. t.) Alt. of Plough

(v. i.) Alt. of Plough

(n.) Sport; frolic.

(v. i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.

(n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent.

(n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.

(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.

(n.) A worthless horse.

(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.

(v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

(n.) The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.

(n.) A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

(n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it.

(n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient.

(n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.

(n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense.

(n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure.

(n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.

(n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction.

(n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act.

(n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc.

(n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever.

(n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share.

(n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.

(n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants.

(n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver.

(n.) To leave; to quit.

(v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle.

(v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.

(v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from.

(v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake.

(adv.) Partly; in a measure.

(a.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.

(a.) Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual.

(n.) A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.

(v. t.) To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.

(v. t.) The head; the poll.

(v. t.) A crushing blow.

(v. t.) A heavy fall of rain or snow.

(n.) See Pasch.

(n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

(n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

(adv.) A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.

(n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.

(n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

(n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

(n.) One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

(n.) The menhaden.

(n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

(n.) A bag; a sack; a pocket.

(n.) A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve.

(v. t.) To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.

(v. t.) To thrust with the horns; to gore.

(v. t.) To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.

(v. i.) To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about.

(n.) The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs.

(n.) A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person.

(n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.

(a.) Confined; cramped.

(a.) Dull; tedious; uninteresting.

(n.) A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander.

(n.) A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.

(n.) A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5/ yards, or a square measure equal to 30/ square yards; a rod; a perch.

(v. t.) To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops.

(v. t.) To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn.

(v. t.) To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat.

(v. t.) To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

(n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole.

(n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian.

(n.) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle.

(n.) The firmament; the sky.

(n.) See Polarity, and Polar, n.

(n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

(n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.

(n.) The spinal cord; the marrow.

(n.) Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith.

(v. t.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

(n.) Piety.

(n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

(n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.

(v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.

(v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.

(v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.

(n.) Alt. of Pixie

(a.) Pale; wanting color; dim.

(a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

() Alt. of Panto-

(v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

(n.) A shell, used as a die. See Props.

(v. t.) To support, or prevent from falling, by placing something under or against; as, to prop up a fence or an old building; (Fig.) to sustain; to maintain; as, to prop a declining state.

(v.) That which sustains an incumbent weight; that on which anything rests or leans for support; a support; a stay; as, a prop for a building.

(v. i.) Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

(v. i.) Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

(n.) Paleness; pallor.

(v. i.) To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

(v. t.) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

(n.) A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

(n.) That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

(n.) A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.

(n.) A stripe or band, as on a garment.

(n.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

(n.) A cheese scoop.

(n.) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

(v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

(v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

(v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

(v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

(v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

(v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.

(n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

(n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

(n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

(n.) Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.

(n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

(superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.

(superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.

(superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.

(superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.

(superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

(n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.

(v. t.) To spin, as a top.

(v. t.) To twist or twine, as hair in making fishing lines.

(n.) A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.

(n.) A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.

(a.) Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.