(n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.

(n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.

(n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

(v. t.) To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch.

(v. i.) To practice theft; to steal.

(pl. ) of Purple

(imp. & p. p.) of Purple

(n.) Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

(n.) Disguise; covering.

(n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.

(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

(n.) Instance; example.

(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; -- often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

(n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base).

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

(a.) Pursy.

(n.) The act of pursuit.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pursue

(n.) One who pursues or chases; one who follows in haste, with a view to overtake.

(n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

(v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.

(v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.

(v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.

(v. t.) Prosecution.

(n.) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with " Be it enacted, " as distinguished from the preamble.

(n.) The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.

(n.) Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.

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

(a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive.

(n.) A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base, containing pus.

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

(n.) The shell of a nut; the stone of a drupe fruit. See Endocarp.

(n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

(v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.

(v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.

(v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

(v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

(n.) One who putties; a glazier.

(n.) The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.

(n.) The European kite.

(n.) The buzzard.

(n.) The marsh harrier.

(n.) See Futtock.

(imp. & p. p.) of Putty

(imp. & p. p.) of Puzzle

(n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia.

(n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

(pl. ) of Pygidium

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small.

(n.) One of the Pygopodes.

(n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach.

(n.) The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

(n.) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates.

(n.) Any moth of the family Pyralidae. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth.

(n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.

(n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.

(n.) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to fever; febrile.

(n.) The febrile condition.

(a.) Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases.

(n.) A hypothetical radical, C5H4N, regarded as the essential residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.

(a.) Alt. of Pyritical

(n.) Electricity.

(n.) A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.

(n.) The science of digestion.

(n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

(n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish.

(n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paper

(n.) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.

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

(n.) Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft.

(n.) See Popinjay, 1 (b).

(adv.) In a papal manner; popishly

(n.) The papacy.

(imp. & p. p.) of People

(a.) Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.

(n.) A settler; an inhabitant.

(n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

(n.) A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

(n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

(n.) Same as Pandour.

(n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

(n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came.

(a.) See Panic, a.

(n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

(n.) The curvet of a horse.

(n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

(n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

(n.) A babe or young child of Indian parentage in North America.

(a.) Furnished with a pappus; downy.

(a.) Pappose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plash

(n.) A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

(n.) The redshank; -- so called from its note.

(pl. ) of Pelma

(n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

(a.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical.

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

(n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.

(n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display.

(a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular.

(v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic.

(pl. ) of Pagina

(a.) Consisting of pages.

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

(a.) Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

(a.) Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

(a.) Painstaking; careful; industrious.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paint

(a.) Covered or adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.

(a.) Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.

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

(n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.

(n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

(n.) A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

(n.) A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

(n.) An agreement; a compact; a bargain.

(n.) A toad or frog.

(n.) A small inclosure or park for sporting.

(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.

(n.) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

(n.) See Paduasoy.

(n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc.

(n.) Fig.: A curb; a restraint.

(v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock.

(n.) A patron; a protector.

(n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.

(n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Paganical

(adv.) In a pagan manner.

(n.) Pyjama.

(n.) The quantity that a pail will hold.

(n.) Act or process of packing.

(n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

(n.) A charge made for packing goods.

(n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

(n.) The act or process of one who packs.

(n.) Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

(n.) A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious

(n.) A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.

(n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

(n.) A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

(n.) Same as Filling.

(n.) A trick; collusion.

(pl. ) of Packman

(n.) One who bears a pack; a peddler.

(n.) Same as Paxwax.

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

(n.) The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

(n.) The material with which anything is padded.

(n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

(n.) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

(imp. & p. p.) of Paddle

(n.) Alt. of Parchesi

(v. t.) To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

(v. i.) To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.

(n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

(a.) Placable.

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

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

(n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

(n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.

(n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.

(n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

(n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.

(n.) Same as Pedicel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plank

(a.) Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.

(pl. ) of Papule

(a.) Procurable.

(n.) See Water brash, under Brash.

(a.) Caustic. See Caustic.

(n.) A caustic medicine.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (called also pyroracemic acid) obtained, as a liquid having a pungent odor, by the distillation of racemic acid.

(n.) A complex nitrogenous compound obtained by heating together pyruvic acid and urea.

(pl. ) of Pyxidium

(pl. ) of Pansy

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent.

(a.) Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.

(n.) A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).

(n.) A companion; a match; an equal.

(n.) The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.

(v. t.) To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

(n.) The condition of a peon.

(n.) Same as Peonage.

(pl. ) of Peony

(v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.

(v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.

(v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.

(n.) The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.

(n.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

(n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

(n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.

(v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.

(v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.

(v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.

(pl. ) of Panful

(imp. & p. p.) of Parade

(n.) A child's game played with pins.

(n.) Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peddle

(n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.

(v. t.) To foredoom.

(imp. & p. p.) of Preen

(v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice.

(v. t.) Sharply painful; penetrating; poignant; severe; caustic; stinging.

(v. t.) Prickly-pointed; hard and sharp.

(a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium).

(n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

(n.) A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.

(n.) In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or connected with, plasma; plasmatic.

(a.) Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plash

(n.) A small pond or pool; a puddle.

(n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass

(n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

(n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.

(n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

(a.) Covered or adorned with pansies.

(n.) The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry.

(a.) Full of pangs.

(n.) In embryonic development, a vesicle filled with fluid, formed from the morula by the divergence of its cells in such a manner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

(n.) A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased resistance to disease.

(n.) A proteid body, separated by some physiologists from blood plasma. It is probably identical with fibrinogen.

(n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.

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

(v. i.) To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.

(v. t.) To destroy; to defeat.

(a.) Belonging to plants; as, plantal life.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sole of the foot; as, the plantar arteries.

(n.) A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.

(imp. & p. p.) of Perch

(v. i.) One who, or that which, perches.

(v. i.) One of the Insessores.

(v. i.) A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar.

(n.) One who puns, or is skilled in, or given to, punning; a quibbler; a low wit.

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

(n.) The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.

(pl. ) of Papula

(a.) Covered with papules.

(n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

(adv.) Perhaps; perchance.

(n.) That which is perceived.

(pl. ) of Peridium

(imp. & p. p.) of Plat

(a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.

(a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.

(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.

(n.) a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [MW10 gives origin of word as 1905]

(n.) Alt. of Plastide

(n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

(n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition.

(n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence.

(n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.

(v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with.

(v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival.

(v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass.

(v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.

() a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t.

(n.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.

(n.) The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.

(n.) A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.

(n.) An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournful character.

(v. t.) To limit beforehand.

(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.

() a. & n. from pump.

(n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

(a.) Attached to land or farms; as, predial slaves.

(a.) Issuing or derived from land; as, predial tithes.

(imp. & p. p.) of Punch

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

(n.) A point.

(n.) The act of driving forward; propulsion; -- opposed to suction or traction.

(a.) Tending to compel; compulsory.

(a.) Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate.

(a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

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

(n.) That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.

(v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.

(n.) A prediction.

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

(a.) Having determinate limitations; exactly or sharply defined or stated; definite; exact; nice; not vague or equivocal; as, precise rules of morality.

(a.) Strictly adhering or conforming to rule; very nice or exact; punctilious in conduct or ceremony; formal; ceremonious.

(a.) Precocious.

(v. t.) To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.

(v. t.) The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

(v. t.) Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.

(a.) Thieving.

(imp. & p. p.) of Press

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

(adv.) Closely; concisely.

(a.) Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor.

(a.) Of or pertaining to polity, or civil government; political; as, the body politic. See under Body.

(a.) Pertaining to, or promoting, a policy, especially a national policy; well-devised; adapted to its end, whether right or wrong; -- said of things; as, a politic treaty.

(a.) Sagacious in promoting a policy; ingenious in devising and advancing a system of management; devoted to a scheme or system rather than to a principle; hence, in a good sense, wise; prudent; sagacious; and in a bad sense, artful; unscrupulous; cunning; -- said of persons.

(n.) A politician.

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

(n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion.

(n.) A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.

(n.) One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement.

(n.) A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John.

(v. t.) To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.

(v. t.) To take or suppose to be true, or entitled to belief, without examination or proof, or on the strength of probability; to take for granted; to infer; to suppose.

(v. i.) To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof; to believe by anticipation; to infer; as, we may presume too far.

(v. i.) To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- often with on or upon before the ground of confidence.

(v. t.) To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

(v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden.

(v. t.) To hold out, or represent, falsely; to put forward, or offer, as true or real (something untrue or unreal); to show hypocritically, or for the purpose of deceiving; to simulate; to feign; as, to pretend friendship.

(v. t.) To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt.

(v. t.) To hold before one; to extend.

(v. i.) To put in, or make, a claim, truly or falsely; to allege a title; to lay claim to, or strive after, something; -- usually with to.

(v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep.

() A prefix signifying past, by, beyond, more than; as, preter- mission, a permitting to go by; preternatural, beyond or more than is natural.

(n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

(n.) Plunder, or extortion.

(n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote.

(v. t.) To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

(v. t.) To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

(v. t.) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.

(a.) Polluted.

(n.) A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class of phenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.

(n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

(n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

(v. i.) To overcome; to gain the victory or superiority; to gain the advantage; to have the upper hand, or the mastery; to succeed; -- sometimes with over or against.

(v. i.) To be in force; to have effect, power, or influence; to be predominant; to have currency or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day.

(v. i.) To persuade or induce; -- with on, upon, or with; as, I prevailedon him to wait.

(v. t. & i.) To come before; to anticipate; hence, to hinder; to prevent.

(v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

(v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.

(v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.

(n.) See Phonetics.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance, having a geraniumlike odor, regarded as a complex derivative of acetone, and obtained from certain camphor compounds.

(n.) The science of light; -- a general term sometimes employed when optics is restricted to light as a producing vision.

(n.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles.

(n.) A plant of the order Polygynia.

(n.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.

(v. i.) To come before the usual time.

(v. t.) To foresee.

(v. t.) To inform beforehand; to warn.

(v. t. & i.) To warn beforehand; to forewarn.

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

(a.) Disposed to take prey.

(a.) Rich in prey.

(a.) Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb.

(imp. & p. p.) of Phrase

(n.) The open sea supposed to surround the north pole.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Prick

(n.) Same as Polyp.

(n.) A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane.

(n.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the diaphragm; diaphragmatic; as, the phrenic nerve.

(n.) Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.

(v. t.) To render frantic.

(n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.

(n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.

(n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.

(n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking.

(n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

(n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.

(n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

(n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.

(v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

(a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

(n.) See Erythrite, 1.

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

(a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prig

(imp. & p. p.) of Prim

(a.) The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

(a.) The office, rank, or character of a primate; the chief ecclesiastical station or dignity in a national church; the office or dignity of an archbishop; as, the primacy of England.

(n.) A charge in addition to the freight; originally, a gratuity to the captain for his particular care of the goods (sometimes called hat money), but now belonging to the owners or freighters of the vessel, unless by special agreement the whole or part is assigned to the captain.

(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.

(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.

(a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.

(a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.

(a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.

(n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.

(n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.

(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.

(n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

(a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

(a.) One of the Primates.

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

(adv.) At first; primarily.

(adv.) In a prime manner; excellently.

(n.) A game at cards, now unknown.

(n.) The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.

(n.) The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

(n.) The first coating of color, size, or the like, laid on canvas, or on a building, or other surface.

(n.) The carrying over of water, with the steam, from the boiler, as into the cylinder.

(n.) Quality of being first; primitiveness.

() A combining form from Gr. / a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy.

(pl. ) of Phyma

(n.) A perfumed unguent or composition, chiefly used in dressing the hair; pomade.

(v. t.) To dress with pomatum.

(n.) The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.

(n.) A coxcomb; a pert boy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prink

(n.) One who prinks.

(imp. & p. p.) of Print

(n.) See Pomage.

(n.) Any one of several species of marine fishes of the genus Trachynotus, of which four species are found on the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- called also palometa.

(a.) Resembling a plant; plantlike.

(adv.) Previously.

(n.) A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.

(n.) The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

(n.) A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish.

(n.) See Pumpion.

(a. & adv.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.

(a.) Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession.

(a.) Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style.

(pl. ) of Poncho

(pl. ) of Phyton

(n.) See Piassava.

(n.) A pianette, or small piano.

(n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

(n.) A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.

(n.) See Piaster.

(interj.) A corruption of pray thee; as, I prithee; generally used without I.

(n.) The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.

(n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

(n.) Concealment of what is said or done.

(n.) A private matter; a secret.

(n.) See Privity, 2.

(n.) A private friend; a confidential friend; a confidant.

(a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest; peculiar to one's self; unconnected with others; personal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

(n.) A kind of dagger, -- usually a slender one with a triangular or square blade.

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

(n.) A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

(n.) A high priest.

(n.) One of the sacred college, in ancient Rome, which had the supreme jurisdiction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus.

(n.) The chief priest.

(n.) The pope.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pons Varolii. See Pons.

(n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

(n.) A low, flat vessel, resembling a barge, furnished with cranes, capstans, and other machinery, used in careening ships, raising weights, drawing piles, etc., chiefly in the Mediterranean; a lighter.

(n.) The act of making atonement; expiation.

(pl. ) of Piazza

(n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

(n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

(n.) A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

(n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

(n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.

(n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

(n.) A small upright piano.

(n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.

(a.) Sequestered from company or observation; appropriated to an individual; secret; secluded; lonely; solitary; as, a private room or apartment; private prayer.

(a.) Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life.

(a.) Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

(a.) Having secret or private knowledge; privy.

(n.) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.

(n.) Personal interest; particular business.

(n.) Privacy; retirement.

(n.) One not invested with a public office.

(n.) A common soldier; a soldier below the grade of a noncommissioned officer.

(n.) The private parts; the genitals.

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

(n.) The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

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

(n.) A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.

(v. i.) To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.

(n.) Petty theft.

(n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

(n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.

(n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.

(n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.

(n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.

(n.) Rough sorting of ore.

(n.) Overburned bricks.

(a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

(a.) Nice; careful.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pickle

(a.) Preserved in a pickle.

(n.) One who makes pickles.

(n.) Alt. of Picotine

(n.) See Piquet.

(n.) A salt of picric acid.

(n.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

(n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.

(n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.

(n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.

(v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.

(n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Piddle

(n.) One who piddles.

(n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

(a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.

(a.) Fig.: Mixed.

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

(n.) Same as Wharfage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pierce

(a.) Penetrated; entered; perforated.

(n.) A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

(n.) One who, or that which, pierces or perforates

(n.) An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.

(n.) A piercel.

(n.) The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect.

(n.) An insect provided with an ovipositor.

(n.) The lapwing, or pewit.

(n.) Alt. of Piffara

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

(n.) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.

(n.) A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

(n.) A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

(n.) A place where swine are kept.

(a.) Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

(n.) A small inclosure.

(n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

(n.) Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

(n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.

(pl. ) of Pignus

(n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

(n.) A word of endearment for a girl or woman.

(n.) The tail of a pig.

(n.) A cue, or queue.

(n.) A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.

(n.) A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters.

(n.) Alt. of Pikelin

(pl. ) of Pikeman

(n.) A soldier armed with a pike.

(n.) A miner who works with a pick.

(n.) A keeper of a turnpike gate.

(n.) A scabbard, as of a sword.

(n.) The pilchard.

(n.) a paragraph mark, /.

(a.) Alt. of Pileated

(a.) Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose.

(n.) Petty theft.

(n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

(n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pilgrim, or pilgrims; making pilgrimages.

(v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

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

(n.) The act of pillaging; robbery.

(n.) That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

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

(n.) The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

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

(n.) The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.

(n.) The jurisdiction of the pope.

(a.) Mingled or interspersed with poppies.

(a.) Affected with poppy juice; hence, figuratively, drugged; drowsy; listless; inactive.

() a. & n. from Pop.

(pl. ) of Poppy

(a.) Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections.

(a.) Suitable to common people; easy to be comprehended; not abstruse; familiar; plain.

(a.) Adapted to the means of the common people; possessed or obtainable by the many; hence, cheap; common; ordinary; inferior; as, popular prices; popular amusements.

(a.) Beloved or approved by the people; pleasing to people in general, or to many people; as, a popular preacher; a popular law; a popular administration.

(a.) Devoted to the common people; studious of the favor of the populace.

(a.) Prevailing among the people; epidemic; as, a popular disease.

(n.) A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

(a.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.

(adv.) In a privy manner; privately; secretly.

(a.) Privacy; secrecy; confidence.

(a.) Private knowledge; joint knowledge with another of a private concern; cognizance implying consent or concurrence.

(a.) A private matter or business; a secret.

(a.) The genitals; the privates.

(a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

(pl. ) of Privy

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

(n.) The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5.

(n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc.

(n.) Proof.

(n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved.

(n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills.

(a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record.

(v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will.

(a.) Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog.

(pl. ) of Porgy

(v. i.) To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

(v. i.) To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

(n.) Plunder; pillage.

(n.) A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride.

(n.) A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.

(v. t.) To set in, or punish with, the pillory.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to expose to public scorn.

(a.) Like a pillow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pilot

(n.) Pilotage; skill in the duties of a pilot.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, a pilular mass.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in galipot, and isomeric with abietic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a substance obtained from certain fatty substances, and subsequently shown to be a mixture of suberic and adipic acids.

(a.) Designating the acid proper (C5H10(CO2/H)2) which is obtained from camphoric acid.

(n.) The friar bird.

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

(a.) Little; petty; pitiful.

(a.) Puny; sickly.

(a.) Having pimples.

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

(n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

(n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.

(n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity.

(v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

(v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

(v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.

(v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.

(v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.

(v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.

(v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.

(n.) See Proceeds.

(a.) Of high stature; tall.

(n.) The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

(n.) A series of actions, motions, or occurrences; progressive act or transaction; continuous operation; normal or actual course or procedure; regular proceeding; as, the process of vegetation or decomposition; a chemical process; processes of nature.

(n.) A statement of events; a narrative.

(n.) Any marked prominence or projecting part, especially of a bone; anapophysis.

(n.) The whole course of proceedings in a cause real or personal, civil or criminal, from the beginning to the end of the suit; strictly, the means used for bringing the defendant into court to answer to the action; -- a generic term for writs of the class called judicial.

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

(pl. ) of Pinax

(n. pl.) See Pinchers.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pinch

(n.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.

(a.) Extended horizontally; stretched out.

(n.) The European blue titmouse.

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

(n.) A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

(n.) A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

(n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).

(n.) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

(n.) A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.

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

(a.) Fat; unctuous; greasy.

(n.) A place where a pin is fixed.

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

(n.) A breviary; a prayer book.

(a.) Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

(v. t.) To stretch out before.

(n.) That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

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

(n.) The act of piercing or stabbing.

(n.) The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.

(a.) Somewhat pink.

(n.) A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

(n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

(n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.

(n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

(n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.

(n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.

(v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

(v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

(v. t.) To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.

(v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

(v. t.) To solicit; to entreat.

(v. t.) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

(v. t.) To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

(v. i.) To pimp.

(v. i.) To manage business for another in court.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prod

(n.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.

(n.) A man-of-war's boat.

(n.) A procuress; a pimp.

(n.) Poundage of cattle. See Pound.

(a.) Alt. of Pinnated

(n.) The hedge sparrow.

(n.) The tomtit.

(n.) Same as Pinnule.

(n.) One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

(n.) Any one of a series of small, slender organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae.

(n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plant

(n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.

(v. t.) To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.

(v. t.) To adorn with pictures.

(n.) Something extraordinary, or out of the usual course of nature, from which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies.

(n.) Anything so extraordinary as to excite wonder or astonishment; a marvel; as, a prodigy of learning.

(n.) A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster.

(v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

(v. t.) To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.

(v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to originate, as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces pain; vice produces misery.

(v. t.) To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

(v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit.

(v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.

(v. t.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle.

(v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results.

(n.) That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors

(n.) agricultural products.

(n.) See Penuchle.

(n.) Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.

(n.) A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

(n.) The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains (Pediocaetes phasianellus); -- called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail.

(n.) Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

(n.) A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.

(imp. & p. p.) of Posit

(n.) Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain.

(n.) The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35. In general, the result of any kind of multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

(v. t.) To produce; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To lengthen out; to extend.

(v. t.) To produce; to make.

(interj.) Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.

(a.) Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.

(adv.) In a pious manner.

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

(v. t.) To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

(v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book.

(v. t.) To obtain occupation or possession of; to accomplish; to gain; to seize.

(v. t.) To enter into and influence; to control the will of; to fill; to affect; -- said especially of evil spirits, passions, etc.

(v. t.) To put in possession; to make the owner or holder of property, power, knowledge, etc.; to acquaint; to inform; -- followed by of or with before the thing possessed, and now commonly used reflexively.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.

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

(n.) An act done afterward.

(n.) The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.

(a.) Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

(a.) Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

(a.) Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

(a.) To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

(a.) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

(n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

(v. t.) To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.

(v. t.) To set up a claim to; to make presence to; hence, to put on or present an appearance of.

(v. t.) To present to knowledge of, to proclaim one's self versed in; to make one's self a teacher or practitioner of, to set up as an authority respecting; to declare (one's self to be such); as, he professes surgery; to profess one's self a physician.

(v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.

(v. i.) To declare friendship.

(v. t.) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.

(v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.

(n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.

(n.) Essay; attempt.

(n.) An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

(n.) A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.

(n.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.

(n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.

(n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.

(a.) Back; being behind; private.

(n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.

(v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.

(n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.

(n.) to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.

(n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

(n.) The act of traveling post.

(n.) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.

(pl. ) of Postman

(v. t.) To represent by parable.

(n.) See Perpender.

(n.) Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillae of the tongue.

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

(a.) Containing pulp; pulpy.

(v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.

(a.) Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.

(a.) Inclined to become puckered or wrinkled; full of puckers or wrinkles.

(a.) Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

(n.) A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

(n.) Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding.

(n.) An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage.

(n.) Any food or victuals.

(n.) Same as Puddening.

(imp. & p. p.) of Puddle

(n.) One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

(n.) A small inclosure.

(n.) Modesty; shamefacedness.

(n. pl.) The external organs of generation.

(a.) Pudic.

(a.) Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

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

(n.) The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.

() a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.

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

(n.) One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

(n.) An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

(a.) Of or pertaining to puberty.

(n.) The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

(n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

(v. t.) To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

(v. t.) To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.

(v. t.) To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

(v. t.) To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper.

(n.) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (L. hirtum, and L. canescens); also, the pigment itself.

(n.) A maid; a virgin.

(n.) Any plant louse, or aphis.

(n.) Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule.

(n.) A command in writing; a species of writ or process.

(v. t.) To teach by precepts.

(n.) See Praecipe, and Precept.

(n.) A papular disease of the skin, of which intense itching is the chief symptom, the eruption scarcely differing from the healthy cuticle in color.

(a.) designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerly called prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or its compounds. See Hydrocyanic.

(n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

(interj.) See Prithee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical.

(a.) Alt. of Psychical

() A combining form from Gr. psychh` the soul, the mind, the understanding; as, psychology.

() In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo.

(pl. ) of Proxy

(a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.

(a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.

(n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.

(a.) Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

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

(n.) A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

(n.) A prebendary.

(n.) One who prays.

(v. t.) To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

(v. t.) To go before in place, rank, or importance.

(v. t.) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

(n.) The act of trimming, or removing what is superfluous.

(n.) That which is cast off by bird in pruning her feathers; leavings.

(a.) Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prowl

(n.) One that prowls.

(a.) Next; immediately preceding or following.

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

(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.

(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

(n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature.

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

() a. & n. from Pray, v.

(n.) See Pretor.

(n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.

(n.) A meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow.

(imp. & p. p.) of Praise

(imp. & p. p.) of Prance

(n.) A horse which prances.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prank

(n.) One who dresses showily; a prinker.

(a.) Resembling prase.

(v. t.) To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.

(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]

(n.) A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.

(n.) The keeper of a prison.

(v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

(v. t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.

(v. t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.

(v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.

(v. t.) To foresee.

(v. t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.

(v. i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.

(v. i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.

(v. t.) To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation.

(n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.

(n.) The hypothetical homogeneous cosmic material of the original universe, supposed to have been differentiated into what are recognized as distinct chemical elements.

(adv.) In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully.

(n.) Alt. of Proant

(v. t.) To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.

(a.) Provided for common or general use, as in an army; hence, common in quality; inferior.

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

(a.) Practical.

(a.) Artful; deceitful; skillful.

(a.) Carried forward; advanced.

(n.) See Provand.

(n.) See Provand.

(n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.

(n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

(n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

(n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.

(v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.

(v. t.) To provide with a proverb.

(v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.

(n.) The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

(n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

(a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

(a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

(a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

(n.) A dike a marsh or fen.

(v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them.

(v.) A declaration made by a party, before or while paying a tax, duty, or the like, demanded of him, which he deems illegal, denying the justice of the demand, and asserting his rights and claims, in order to show that the payment was not voluntary.

(n.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.

(n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

(n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.

(n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.

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

(n.) One of the Protista.

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

(n.) Childish sullenness.

(a.) Of or pertaining to potters.

(n.) The vessels or ware made by potters; earthenware, glazed and baked.

(n.) The place where earthen vessels are made.

(n.) Tippling.

(n.) The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.

(n.) The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining.

(n. f.) Alt. of Protegee

(n.) One of a class of amorphous nitrogenous principles, containing, as a rule, a small amount of sulphur; an albuminoid, as blood fibrin, casein of milk, etc. Proteids are present in nearly all animal fluids and make up the greater part of animal tissues and organs. They are also important constituents of vegetable tissues. See 2d Note under Food.

(n.) A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.

(v. t.) To hold out; to stretch forth.

(v. t.) To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one's loyalty.

(v. t.) To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

(v.) A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; as, the protest of lords in Parliament.

(v.) A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the nonpayment of the note, as the case may be.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pouch

(a.) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

(a.) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.

(a.) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.

(n.) Domestic fowls reared for the table, or for their eggs or feathers, such as cocks and hens, capons, turkeys, ducks, and geese.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pounce

(a.) Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle.

(a.) Ornamented with perforations or dots.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pound

(a.) Fit to be drunk; drinkable.

(n.) A potable liquid; a beverage.

(n.) A porringer.

(n.) The stud in which the bearing for the lower pivot of the verge is made.

(n.) Potassium oxide.

(n.) Potassium hydroxide, commonly called caustic potash.

(n.) A drinker.

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

(n.) Potency; capacity.

(n.) The quality or state of being potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence.

(n.) See Poteen.

(n.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania. Called also kangaroo rat.

(n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.

(n.) See Poteen.

(v. i.) To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

(v. i.) To make a solemn declaration (often a written one) expressive of opposition; -- with against; as, he protest against your votes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.

(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.

(v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

(n.) One who rides post horses; a position; a courier.

(n.) A boy who carries letters from the post.

(n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

(n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.

(n.) A written character curved like a pothook; (pl.) a scrawled writing.

(n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

(n.) The parson bird.

(n.) Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

(adv.) In a prosy manner.

(n.) Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.

(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

(n.) The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; the thorax of an arthropod.

(v. t.) To contend for; to defend; to vindicate.

(a.) Alt. of Prosaical

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

(v. t.) To propose; to bring forward.

(v.) To set forth.

(v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.

(v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.

(v. i.) To speak; to converse.

(v. i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.

(v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.

(n.) Talk; discourse.

(pl. ) of Propylon

(v. t.) To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.

(v. t.) Hence, to give in token of friendship.

(v. t.) To give, or deliver; to subject.

(n.) A pledge.

(n.) A gift; esp., drink money.

(n.) Same as Allylene.

(n.) A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

(v. i.) To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend.

(n.) Same as Propylene.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prop

(n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

(v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money.

(v. t.) To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain.

(v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward.

(v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration.

(v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil.

(v. t.) To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture.

(v. t.) To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise; to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer.

(v. i.) To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person.

(v. t.) To move forward; to advance; to promote.

(n.) The porch or vestibule of a temple.

(a.) Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.

(adv.) In a prone manner or position.

(a.) Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

(n.) Proneness; propensity.

(pl. ) of Pronotum

(n.) Prowler; thief.

(a.) To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.

(a.) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days.

(a.) To put off to a distant time; to postpone.

(a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act.

(a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made.

(a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise.

(a.) Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised.

(a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate.

(v. t.) To utter; to pronounce.

(n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

(n.) An idle scheme; an impracticable design; as, a man given to projects.

(v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.

(v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.

(v. t.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

(v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree.

(v. i.) To form a project; to scheme.

(n.) Same as Programme.

(n.) The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

(n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage.

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

(n.) The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; especially (Fine Arts), the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed; attitude.

(n.) Place; position; situation.

(n.) State or condition, whether of external circumstances, or of internal feeling and will; disposition; mood; as, a posture of defense; the posture of affairs.

(v. t.) To place in a particular position or attitude; to dispose the parts of, with reference to a particular purpose; as, to posture one's self; to posture a model.

(v. i.) To assume a particular posture or attitude; to contort the body into artificial attitudes, as an acrobat or contortionist; also, to pose.

(v. i.) Fig.: To assume a character; as, to posture as a saint.

(a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.

(a.) Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.

(v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prog

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

(adv.) In a penal manner.

(n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.

(a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.

(prep.) During; as, pending the trail.

(n.) A pendulum.

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

(v. i.) The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.

(v. i.) See To pair off, under Pair, v. i.

(n.) The chaparral cock.

(n.) A knight-errant; a distinguished champion; as, the paladins of Charlemagne.

() See Paleo-.

(a.) Alt. of Peltated

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

(n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.

(n.) A handicap.

(n.) Repentance.

(n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering.

(n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.

(v. t.) To impose penance; to punish.

(n.) Peerage; also, a lordship.

(n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

(a.) Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

(a.) Expressing fretfulness and discontent, or unjustifiable dissatisfaction; as, a peevish answer.

(a.) Silly; childish; trifling.

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

() A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

(a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.

(a.) Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.

(n.) See Pelican.

(n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

(n.) A retort or still having a curved tube or tubes leading back from the head to the body for continuous condensation and redistillation.

(n.) A livid ecchymosis.

(n.) See Peliom.

(n.) An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.

(n.) A customs duty on skins of leather.

(n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

(n.) A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

(a.) Mean; paltry.

(n.) A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

(a.) Painstaking; assidous.

(n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

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

(n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.

(n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features.

(n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase.

(n.) A pendulum.

(n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.

(n.) A kind of doublet; a jacket.

(a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.

(a.) Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.

(n.) An ant, or emmet.

(n.) The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

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

(n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

(n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.

(n.) A patten.

(n.) That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.

(v. i.) To sport; to amuse one's self.

(pl. ) of Pasty

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

(n.) A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.

(pl. ) of Patagium

(n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.

(imp. & p. p.) of Patch

(n.) One who patches or botches.

(n.) A small dish, pan, or vase.

(n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

(n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.

(n.) The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

(n.) The state of being patent or evident.

(pl. ) of Patera

(n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

(a.) Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.

(a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.

(a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.

(a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.

(a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.

(a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.

(n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

(n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

(v. t.) To compose, to calm.

(n.) Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.

(a.) Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

(a.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.

(n.) A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.

(n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.

(a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

(n.) One versed in patristics.

(n. & v.) See Patrol, n. & v.

(n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.

(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.

(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.

(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

(pl. ) of Patty

(n.) Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity.

(n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood.

(a.) Pot-bellied.

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

(n.) A soldier who carried a pavise.

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

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now live mostly in the Indian Territory. The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

(pl. ) of Paxillus

(a.) That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due.

(a.) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.

(a.) Matured; now due.

(n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.

(n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return.

(n.) Punishment; chastisement.

(n.) The wryneck; -- so called from its note.

(n.) One who peaches.

(n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

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

(a.) Mean; sneaking.

(a.) Pining; sickly; peakish.

(a.) Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

(a.) Having peaks; peaked.

(a.) Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.

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

(n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

(a.) Rustic, rural.

(n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pebble

(a.) Abounding in pebbles.

(n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

(a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.

(a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.

(a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.

(n.) An offender.

(n.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

() I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.

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

(a.) Inclined to eat; hungry.

(a.) Speckled; spotted.

(n.) A salt of pectic acid.

(v. i.) To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.

(n.) An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.

(pl. ) of Pectus

(n.) Pedagogue.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plain

(adv.) In a plain manner; clearly.

(n.) Manstealing; kidnaping.

(a.) Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plague

(n.) One who plagues or annoys.

(a.) Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.

(a.) Wearing a plaid.

(n.) A rack for pens not in use.

() A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.

(pl. ) of Pulley

(n.) One who plans; a projector.

(n.) One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter.

(n.) One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter.

(n.) A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia.

(pl. ) of Paramo

(n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

(n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.

(n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.

(a.) Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

(n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

(n.) Alt. of Perigeum

(imp. & p. p.) of Peril

(n.) Now, in the United States service, half of a company.

(a.) To flatten and make into sheets or plates; as, to platten cylinder glass.

(n.) A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.

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

(n.) A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.

(v. t.) To shade as with a parasol.

(v. t.) To boil or cook thoroughly.

(v. t.) To boil in part; to cook partially by boiling.

(n.) A day given to play or diversion; a holiday.

(a.) Sportive; gamboling; frolicsome; indulging a sportive fancy; humorous; merry; as, a playful child; a playful writer.

(imp. & p. p.) of Parch

(n.) A leopard.

(a.) Spotted like a pard.

() a. & vb. n. of Play.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plead

(n.) One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.

(n.) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.

(imp. & p. p.) of Please

(a.) Experiencing pleasure.

(n.) One who pleases or gratifies.

(pl. ) of Plectrum

(n.) Alt. of Parelle

(n.) A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and R. Hydrolapathum).

(n.) A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in the preparation of litmus.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pledge

(n.) The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.

(n.) One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to pledgee.

(n.) A small plug.

(n.) A string of oakum used in calking.

(n.) A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.

(a.) Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority.

(n.) Decisive procedure.

(n.) Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.

(n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.

(v. t.) To replenish.

(v. t.) To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm.

(n.) One who holds that all space is full of matter.

(n.) One of the abdominal legs of a crustacean. See Illust. under Crustacea.

(n.) The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.

(n.) A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.

(v. t.) To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.

(v. t.) To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.

(v. t.) To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.

(n.) A perjured person.

(v.) False swearing.

(v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

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

(n.) Same as Pearlite.

(pl. ) of Pleura

(pl. ) of Pleura

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleurae, or to the sides of the thorax.

(a.) Pleural.

() A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.

(n.) A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.

(n.) An apparitor.

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

(pl. ) of Parley

(n.) One of the sides of an animal.

(n.) One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.

(n.) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean.

(n.) The act or process of weaving together, or interweaving; that which is woven together.

(v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

(v.) Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.

(n.) The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.

(v. t.) To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.

(v. t.) To exchange; to barter; to traffic.

(v. t.) To weight carefully in the mind.

(v. i.) To attend; to be attentive.

(a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.

(a.) Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.

(a.) Alt. of Plicated

(imp. & p. p.) of Plod

(n.) One who plods; a drudge.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plot

(a.) To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

(a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety.

(a.) To plague; to vex; to tormen.

(a.) Intricate; difficult.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plait

(a.) Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Plan

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.

(n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

(n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

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

(adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.

(n.) A light, repeated sound; a pattering, as of the rain.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pitch

(a.) Affected with palsy; paralyzed.

(n.) A pilgrim's staff.

(pl. ) of Palsy

(imp. & p. p.) of Palsy

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

(pl. ) of Penny

(a.) Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.

(a.) Uttered by the aid of the palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k in kirk.

(n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

(a.) Palatal; palatine.

(n.) A palatal.

(n.) See Pinfold.

(n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

(n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

(n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

(n.) See Peytrel.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.

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

(a.) Alt. of Parodical

(imp. & p. p.) of Parole

(n.) A paronymous word.

(a.) Abounding with plots.

(n.) One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

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

(n.) A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.

(n.) A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides.

(a.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.

(a.) Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.

(n.) The parotid gland.

(n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit.

(n.) Same as Parquetry.

(n.) A croft, or small field; a paddock.

(n.) Alt. of Ploughboy

(n.) Alt. of Ploughman

(imp. & p. p.) of Pluck

(a.) Having courage and spirit.

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

(n.) A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.

(v. i.) To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.

(imp. & p. p.) of Parry

(pl. ) of Parry

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

(n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish.

(n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state; also, the plant itself.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plug

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

(n.) The entire clothing of a bird.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plumb

(n.) One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.

(n.) Same as Person, n., 8.

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

(n.) Division; the act of dividing or sharing.

(n.) Part; portion; share.

(imp.) of Partake

(v. i.) To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others.

(v. i.) To have something of the properties, character, or office; -- usually followed by of.

(v. t.) To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.

(v. t.) To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to give a part to.

(n.) The technical name of lead. See Lead.

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

(n.) Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage.

(n.) A piece of lead attached to a line, used in sounding the depth of water.

(n.) A plumb bob or a plumb line. See under Plumb, n.

(n.) Hence, any weight.

(n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.

(a.) Alt. of Plumous

(a.) Having feathers or plumes.

(a.) Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plump

(v. t.) To distribute; to communicate.

(n.) Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.

(n.) Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent; as, a judge should not be partial.

(n.) Having a predelection for; inclined to favor unreasonably; foolishly fond.

(n.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole.

(n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks.

(n.) A vote given to one candidate only, when two or more are to be elected, thus giving him the advantage over the others. A person who gives his vote thus is said to plump, or to plump his vote.

(n.) A voter who plumps his vote.

(n.) A downright, unqualified lie.

(adv.) Fully; roundly; plainly; without reserve.

(pl. ) of Plumula

(n.) A plumule.

(n.) A down feather.

(n.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle.

(n.) A down feather.

(n.) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.

(n.) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

(v. t.) To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

(v. t.) To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy plundered all the goods they found.

(n.) The act of plundering or pillaging; robbery. See Syn. of Pillage.

(n.) That which is taken by open force from an enemy; pillage; spoil; booty; also, that which is taken by theft or fraud.

(n.) Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage.

(imp. & p. p.) of Plunge

(n.) One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

(n.) A long solid cylinder, used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.

(n.) One who bets heavily and recklessly on a race; a reckless speculator.

(n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.

(n.) The firing pin of a breechloader.

(n.) A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded.

(v. i.) To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life.

(v. i.) To have relation or reference to something.

(v. t.) To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

(v. t.) To disorder; to confuse.

(v.) Serving to part; dividing; separating.

(v.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

(v.) Departing.

(v.) Admitting of being parted; partible.

(n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

(n.) A separation; a leave-taking.

(n.) Superabundance; excess; plethora.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a pluteus.

(n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rain; rainy.

(a.) Produced by the action of rain.

(n.) A priest's cope.

(n.) The crocodile bird.

(a.) Alt. of Pertused

(n.) The act of carefully viewing or examining.

(n.) The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peruse

(n.) One who peruses.

(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.

(v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.

(v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.

(v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

(n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.

(n.) A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

(n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

(n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

(n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

(n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

(n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.

(n.) A suite; a set of variations.

(a.) Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.

(n.) One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.

(a.) Pervious.

(n.) An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

(n.) A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.

(n.) An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership.

(n.) A framework of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.

(v. t.) To associate, to join.

() imp. of Partake.

(n.) Departure.

(pl. ) of Party

(n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

(n.) a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs.

(n.) See Pasquin.

(v. t.) See Pasquin.

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

() A combining form from Gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.

(imp. & p. p.) of Poach

(n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.

(n.) The American widgeon.

(n.) See Poachard.

(a.) Pestiferous.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pestle

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

(a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc.

(n.) Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia.

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

(n.) Gout in the joints of the foot; -- applied also to gout in other parts of body.

(n.) One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages.

(n.) A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy.

(pl. ) of Podetium

(a.) Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.

(n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.

(imp. & p. p.) of Peter

(n.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

(n.) A stalk or peduncle.

(n.) One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.

(n.) An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

(a.) Of or pertaining to to rock.

(v. t.) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.

(v. t.) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.

(v. i.) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

(v. i.) Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

(v. i.) Alt. of Passado

(v. i.) A pass or thrust.

(v. i.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

(v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

(v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

(v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

(v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

(v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.

(v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

(v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.

(n.) Any species of Podura or allied genera.

(a.) Pertaining to the poduras.

(a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone.

(a.) Same as Petrosal.

(v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

(v. i.) Reception; currency.

(v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

(v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

(v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.

(v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.

(v. i.) Curs/ry, careless.

(v. i.) Surpassing; excelling.

(v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

(n.) The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.

(a.) Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.

(a.) Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.

(adv.) Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.

(n.) A female poet.

(n.) The principles and rules of the art of poetry.

(v. i.) To write as a poet; to compose verse; to idealize.

(n.) The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.

(n.) One who distrains property.

(adv.) In a petty manner; frivolously.

(a.) Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

(n.) Alt. of Petuntze

(n.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.

(n.) The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.

(a.) Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

(a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.

(a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.

(a.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.

(n.) A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.

(a.) Resembling a lentil; lenticular.

(n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

(n.) See Phaethon.

(n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.

(n.) One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.

(v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends.

(v. t.) To lay hold of; to seize.

(n.) The office or dignity of a prelate; church government by prelates.

(n.) The order of prelates, taken collectively; the body of ecclesiastical dignitaries.

(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.

(v. i.) To act as a prelate.

(n.) Prelacy.

(v. t.) To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.

(v. i.) To discourse publicly; to lecture.

(v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture.

(v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.

(v. t.) To introduce with a previous performance; to play or perform a prelude to; as, to prelude a concert with a lively air.

(v. t.) To serve as prelude to; to precede as introductory.

(a.) Alt. of Premiant

(a.) First; chief; principal; as, the premier place; premier minister.

(a.) Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.

(n.) The first minister of state; the prime minister.

(n.) A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

(n.) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.

(n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

(n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.

(n.) To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

(n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.

(v. i.) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.

(n.) Premise.

(n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.

(n.) Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.

(n.) A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.

(n.) A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he sold his stock at a premium.

(imp. & p. p.) of Panel

(n.) The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered.

(v. t.) To note or designate beforehand.

(a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth; as, preoral bands.

(n.) A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.

(n.) Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union.

(n.) A Fourierite community; a phalanstery.

(n.) One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

(n.) A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

(n.) The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

(n.) The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ from which either may be derived.

(n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.

(n.) That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a phantasm; a sprite; an airy spirit; an ideal image.

(v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.

(v. t.) To procure as suitable or necessary; to get ready; to provide; as, to prepare ammunition and provisions for troops; to prepare ships for defence; to prepare an entertainment.

(v. i.) To make all things ready; to put things in order; as, to prepare for a hostile invasion.

(v. i.) To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death.

(n.) Preparation.

(imp. & p. p.) of Prepay

(imp. & p. p.) of Point

(n.) The pistil of a plant.

(n.) A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages.

(n.) See Poyntel.

(a.) Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.

(a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing.

(n.) See Pointal.

(v. t.) To place or set before; to prefix.

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

(n.) The hand of a timepiece.

(n.) One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.

(n.) The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.

(n.) Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

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

(n.) The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.

(n.) Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.

(n.) The foreskin.

(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.

(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.

(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.

(n.) Weight.

(a.) The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel.

(n.) Same as Polacca, 1.

(n.) A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with, and resembling, dextrose.

(imp. & p. p.) of Phial

(a.) See Polar.

(a.) Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

(a.) Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance.

(n.) A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called also fitchet, foulmart, and European ferret.

(n.) The zorilla. The name is also applied to other allied species.

(a.) Of or pertaining to controversy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

(a.) Engaged in, or addicted to, polemics, or to controversy; disputations; as, a polemic writer.

(n.) One who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.

(n.) A polemic argument or controversy.

(n.) Pudding made of Indian meal; also, porridge made of chestnut meal.

(a.) Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident.

(a.) Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit.

(a.) Favorably attentive; propitious.

(a.) Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present.

(a.) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, " Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, " per has literas praesentes; " -- in this sense, rarely used in the singular.

(a.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.

(a.) To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce formally; to offer for acquaintance; as, to present an envoy to the king; (with the reciprocal pronoun) to come into the presence of a superior.

(a.) To exhibit or offer to view or notice; to lay before one's perception or cognizance; to set forth; to present a fine appearance.

(a.) To pass over, esp. in a ceremonious manner; to give in charge or possession; to deliver; to make over.

(a.) To make a gift of; to bestow; to give, generally in a formal or ceremonious manner; to grant; to confer.

(a.) Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.

(a.) To present; to personate.

(a.) To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

(a.) To nominate for support at a public school or other institution .

(a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.

(a.) To lay before a court as an object of inquiry; to give notice officially of, as a crime of offence; to find or represent judicially; as, a grand jury present certain offenses or nuisances, or whatever they think to be public injuries.

(a.) To bring an indictment against .

(a.) To aim, point, or direct, as a weapon; as, to present a pistol or the point of a sword to the breast of another.

(v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.

(n.) Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.

(n.) The position of a soldier in presenting arms; as, to stand at present.

(n.) The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also pollybait.

(imp. & p. p.) of Police

(a.) Regulated by laws for the maintenance of peace and order, enforced by organized administration.

(n.) A potion or charm intended to excite the passion of love.

(v. t.) To impregnate or mix with a love potion; as, to philter a draught.

(v. t.) To charm to love; to excite to love or sexual desire by a potion.

(v. t.) To foreshow.

(v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate.

(v. i.) To exercise superintendence; to watch over.

(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

(v.) The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.

(v.) A substance that emits an agreeable odor.

(v. t.) To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.

(adv.) By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be.

(n.) A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.

(n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

(n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.

(n.) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.

(n.) Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to do something.

(n.) A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

(n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.

(n.) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

(v. t.) To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.

(v. t.) To announce by placards; as, to placard a sale.

(n.) Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

(v. t.) To appease; to pacify; to concilate.

(n.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.

(n.) A prescription intended to humor or satisfy.

(n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

(n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.

(n.) A woman's pocket.

(a.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.

(n.) Any fish having placoid scales, as the sharks.

(n.) One of the Placoides.

(a.) Having plagae, or irregular enlongated color spots.

(a.) Pertaining to, or desingating, an acid (called also valeric acid) derived from pentane.

(n.) A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.

(a.) Pious; devout.

(a.) Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.

(a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.

(a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful.

(n.) A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.

(a.) Full of pith.

(adv.) In a pithy manner.

(a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.

(a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.

(a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.

(n.) Mucus, phlegm.

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

(a.) Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word.

(imp. & p. p.) of Pivot

(n.) A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

(n.) Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.

(n.) Same as Palus.

(n.) A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.

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

(n.) Same as Amylene.

(n.) A penthouse.

(n.) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Same as Valerylene.

(v. t.) To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.

(v.) To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer.

(a.) Ornamented; decorated; esp., embroidered on the edges.

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

(n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

(a.) That purges; cleansing.

(n.) The act of cleansing; excessive evacuations; especially, diarrhea.

(n.) See Pirogue.

(n.) Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

(n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.

(n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.

(n.) One of the plates covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.

(n.) A breastplate for a breast drill.

(n.) A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.

(n.) A small saddle horse for ladies.

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

(pl. ) of Puppy

(imp. & p. p.) of Puppy

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

(n.) A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

(a.) Of or pretaining to a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle; as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.

(v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.

(n.) An overcoat.

(n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

(a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

(a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

(a.) Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.

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

(n.) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment.

(n.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall.

(n.) The mantle of a bivalve. See Mantle.

(n.) The mantle of a bird.

(n.) An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

(n.) Feathery covering; plumage.

(n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.

(n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

(a.) Alt. of Pennated

(imp. & p. p.) of Pirate

(a.) Piratical.

(n.) A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

(n.) The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

(n.) A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.

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

(a.) Palmar.

(a.) Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.

(n.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate.

(a.) Alt. of Palmated

(n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

(n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.

(n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

(n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

(v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pipras, or the family Pipridae.