Patronized – Pelagianism

Patronized

PAT'RONIZED, participle passive Defended; supported; favored; promoted.

Patronizer

PAT'RONIZER, noun One that supports, countenances or favors.

Patronizing

PAT'RONIZING, participle present tense Defending; supporting; favoring; promoting.

Patronless

PAT'RONLESS, adjective Destitute of a patron.

Patronymic

PATRONYM'IC, noun [Latin patronymicus; from Gr. father, and name.]

A name of men or women derived from that of their parents or ancestors; as Tydides, the son of Tydeus, Pelides, the son of Peleus, that is, Achilles.

Pattee

PATTEE', noun In heraldry, a cross small in the center, and widening to the extremities which are broad.

Patten

PAT'TEN, noun

1. The base of a column or pillar.

2. A wooden shoe with an iron ring, worn to keep the shoes from the dirt or mud.

Patten-Maker

PAT'TEN-MAKER, noun One that makes pattens.

Patter

PAT'TER, verb intransitive To strike, as falling drops of water or hail, with a quick succession of small sounds; as pattering hail.

The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.

Pattering

PAT'TERING, participle present tense Striking with a quick succession of small sounds.

Pattern

PAT'TERN, noun

1. An original or model proposed for imitation; the archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be copies or imitated, either in things or in actions; as the pattern of a machine; a pattern of patience. Christ was the most perfect pattern of rectitude, patience and submission ever exhibited on earth.

2. A specimen; a sample; a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; as a pattern of silk cloth.

3. An instance; an example.

4. Any thing cut of formed into the shape of something to be made after it.

To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

Patty

PAT'TY, noun A little pie.

Patty-Pan

PAT'TY-PAN, n. A pan to bake a little pie in.

Patulous

PAT'ULOUS, adjective [Latin patulus, from pateo, to be open.]

Spreading, as a patulous calyx; bearing the flowers loose or dispersed, as a patulous peduncle.

Pauciloquy

PAUCIL'OQUY, noun [Latin paucus, few, and loquor, to speak.]

The utterance of few words. [Little used.]

Paucity

PAU'CITY, noun [Latin paucitas, from paucus, few.]

1. Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools.

2. Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.

Paum

PAUM, verb transitive To impose by fraud; a corruption of palm.

Paunch

PAUNCH, noun [Latin pantex.] The belly and its contents.

The paunch in ruminating quadrupeds, is the first and largest stomach, into which the food is received before rumination.

PAUNCH, verb transitive To pierce or rip the belly; to eviscerate; to take out the contents of the belly.

Pauper

PAUP'ER, noun [Latin pauper ] A poor person; particularly, one so indigent as to depend on the parish or town for maintenance.

Pauperism

PAUP'ERISM, noun The state of being poor or destitute of the means of support; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. The increase of pauperism is an alarming evil.

Pause

PAUSE, noun paux. [Latin pausa; Gr. to cease, or cause to rest.]

1. A stop; a cessation or intermission of action, of speaking, singing, playing or the like; a temporary stop or rest.

2. Cessation proceeding from doubt; suspense.

I stand in pause where I shall first begin.

3. Break or paragraph in writing.

4. A temporary cessation in reading. The use of punctuation is to mark the pauses in writing. In verse, there are two kinds of pauses, the cesural and the final. The cesural pause divides the verse; the final pause closes it. The pauses which mark the sense, and which may be called sentential, are the same in prose and verse.

5. A mark of cessation or intermission of the voice; a point.

PAUSE, verb intransitive pauz. To make a short stop; to cease to speak for a time; to intermit speaking or action.

Pausing a while, thus to herself she mused.

1. To stop; to wait; to forbear for a time.

Tarry, pause a day or two,

Before you hazard.

2. To be intermitted. The music pauses.

To pause upon, to deliberate.

Pauser

PAUS'ER, noun s as z. One who pauses; one who deliberates.

Pausing

PAUS'ING, participle present tense Stopping for a time; ceasing to speak or act; deliberating.

Pausingly

PAUS'INGLY, adverb After a pause; by breaks.

Pavan

PAVAN', noun [Latin pavo, a peacock.] A grave dance among the Spaniards. In this dance, the performers make a kind of wheel before each other, the gentlemen dancing with cap and sword, princes with long robes, and the ladies with long trails; the motions resembling the stately steps of the peacock.

Pave

PAVE, verb transitive [Latin pavio; Gr. to beat, to strike.]

1. To lay or cover with stone or brick so as to make a level or convenient surface for horses, carriages or foot passengers; to floor with brick or stone; as, to pave a street; to pave a side-walk; to pave a court or stable.

2. To prepare a passage; to facilitate the introduction of. The invention of printing paved the way for intellectual improvement.

Paved

PA'VED, participle passive Laid over with stones or bricks; prepared; as a way.

Pavement

PA'VEMENT, noun [Latin pavimentum.] A floor or covering consisting of stones or bricks, laid on the earth in such a manner as to make a hard and convenient passage; as a pavement of pebbles, of bricks, or of marble.

PA'VEMENT, verb transitive To pave; to floor with stone or brick. [Unusual.]

Paver

PA'VER

PA'VIER, noun One who lays stones for a floor, or whose occupation is to pave.

Pavier

PA'VIER, n. One who lays stones for a floor, or whose occupation is to pave.

Pavilion

PAVILION, noun pavil'yun. [Latin papilio, a butterfly, and a pavilion ]

1. A tent; a temporary movable habitation.

2. In architecture, a kind of turret or building, usually insulated and contained under a single roof; sometimes square and sometimes in the form of a dome. Sometimes a pavilion is a projecting part in the front of a building; sometimes it flanks a corner.

3. In military affairs, a tent raised on posts. The word is sometimes used for a flag, colors, ensign or banner.

4. In heraldry, a covering in form of a tent, investing the armories of kings.

5. Among jewelers, the under side and corner of brilliants, lying between the girdle and collet.

PAVIL'ION, verb transitive To furnish with tents.

1. To shelter with a tent.

Pavilioned

PAVIL'IONED, participle passive Furnished with pavilions; sheltered by a tent.

Paving

PA'VING, participle present tense Flooring with stones or bricks.

PA'VING, noun Pavement; a floor of stones or bricks.

Pavo

PA'VO, noun [Latin a peacock.] A constellation in the southern hemisphere, consisting of fourteen stars; also a fish.

Pavone

PAVO'NE, noun [Latin pavo.] A peacock. [Not used.]

Pavonine

PAV'ONINE, adjective [Latin pavoninus, from pavo, a peacock.]

Resembling the tail of a peacock; iridescent.

Paw

PAW, noun [Latin pes, pedis; Eng. foot.]

1. The foot of beasts of prey having claws, as the lion, the tiger, the dog, cat, etc. Leviticus 11:27.

2. The hand; in contempt.

PAW, verb intransitive To draw the fore foot along the ground; to scrape with the fore foot; as a fiery horse, pawing with his hoof.

He paweth in the valley. Job 39:21.

PAW, verb transitive To scrape with the fore foot.

His hot courser paw'd th' Hungarian plain.

1. To handle roughly; to scratch.

2. To fawn; to flatter.

Pawed

PAW'ED, adjective Having paws.

1. Broad footed.

Pawky

PAWK'Y, adjective Arch; cunning. [Local.]

Pawl

PAWL, noun [Eng. pole; Latin palus. See Pole.] Among seamen, a short bar of wood or iron fixed close to the capstan or windlass of a ship to prevent it from rolling back or giving way.

Pawn

PAWN, noun [Latin pignus.]

1. Something given or deposited as security for the payment of money borrowed; a pledge. pawn is applied only to goods, chattels or money, and not to real estate.

Men will not take pawns without use.

2. A pledge for the fulfillment of a promise.

3. A common man at chess. [See Peon.]

In pawn at pawn the state of being pledged.

Sweet wife, my honor is at pawn

PAWN, verb transitive [Latin pignero.]

1. To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to pledge; as, she pawned the last piece of plate.

2. To pledge for the fulfillment of a promise; as, to pawn one's word or honor that an agreement shall be fulfilled.

PAWN'-BROKER, noun One who lends money on pledge or the deposit of goods.

Pawned

PAWN'ED, participle passive Pledged; given in security.

Pawnee

PAWNEE', noun The person to whom a pawn is delivered as security; one that takes any thing in pawn.

If the pawn is laid up and the pawnee robbed, he is not answerable.

Pawner

PAWN'ER, noun One that pledges any thing as security for the payment of borrowed money.

Pawning

PAWN'ING, participle present tense Pledging, as goods; giving as security.

Pax

PAX, noun [Latin pax peace.] A little image or piece of board with the image of Christ upon the cross on it, which people before the reformation, used to kiss after the service; the ceremony being considered as the kiss of peace.

Pay

PAY, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive paid.

1. To discharge a debt; to deliver to a creditor the value of the debt, either in money or goods, to his acceptance or satisfaction, by which the obligation of the debtor is discharged.

2. To discharge a duty created by promise or by custom or by the moral law; as, to pay a debt of honor or of kindness.

You have paid down

More penitence, than done trespass.

3. To fulfill; to perform what is promised; as, to pay one's vows.

4. To render what is due to a superior, or demanded by civility or courtesy; as, to pay respect to a magistrate; to pay due honor to parents.

5. To beat.

For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you.

6. To reward; to recompense; as, to pay for kindness with neglect.

To pay for, to make amends; to atone by suffering. Men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life.

1. To give an equivalent for any thing purchased.

To pay or pay over, in seamen's language, to daub or besmear the surface of any body, to preserve it from injury by water or weather.

To pay the bottom of a vessel, to cover it with a composition of tallow, sulphur, rosin, etc.; to bream.

To pay a mast or yard, to besmear it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow or varnish.

PAY a seam, to pour melted pitch along it, so as to defend the oakum.

To pay off; to make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship.

To pay out, to slacken, extend or cause to run out; as, to pay out more cable.

PAY, verb intransitive To pay off, in seamen's language, is to fall to leeward, as the head of a ship.

To pay on, to beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloquial.]

PAY, noun Compensation; recompense; an equivalent given for money due, goods purchased or services performed; salary or wages for services; hire. The merchant receives pay for goods sold; the soldier receives pay for his services, but the soldiers of the American revolution never received full pay

1. Compensation; reward.

Here only merit constant pay receives--

Pay-Bill

PA'Y-BILL, noun A bill of money to be paid to the soldiers of a company.

Pay-Day

PA'Y-DAY, noun The day when payment is to be made or debts discharged; the day on which wages or money is stipulated to be paid.

Pay-Office

PA'Y-OFFICE, noun A place or office where payment is made of public debts.

Payable

PA'YABLE, adjective That may or ought to be paid. In general, money is payable as soon as it is due, or at the time payment is stipulated, or at the expiration of the credit; but by the usage of merchants, three or more days of grace are allowed to the debtor, and a note due at the day when payment is promised, is not payable till the expiration of the days of grace.

1. That can be paid; that there is power to pay.

Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest.

Payee

PAYEE', noun The person to whom money is to be paid; the person named in a bill or note to whom the amount is promised or directed to be paid.

Payer

PAY'ER, noun One that pays. In bills of exchange, the person on whom the bill is drawn, and who is directed to pay the money to the holder.

Paymaster

PA'YMASTER, noun One who is to pay; one from whom wages or reward is received.

1. In the army, an officer whose duty is to pay the officers and soldiers their wages, and who is entrusted with money for this purpose.

Payment

PA'YMENT, noun The act of paying, or giving compensation.

1. The thing given in discharge of a debt or fulfillment of a promise.

2. Reward; recompense.

3. Chastisement; sound beating. [Not used.]

Paynim

PAYNIM. [See Painim.]

Payse

PAYSE, PAYSER, for poise, poiser, not used.

Payser

PAYSE, PAYSER for poise, poiser, not used.

Pea

PEA, noun [Latin pisum.] A plant and its fruit of the genus Pisum, of many varieties. This plant has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, called in popular language a pod. In the plural, we write peas, for two or more individual seeds, but pease, for an indefinite number in quantity of bulk. We write two, three or four peas, but a bushel of pease. [This practice is arbitrary.]

Pea-Shell

PE'A-SHELL, noun The legume or pericarp of the pea.

Peace

PEACE, noun [Latin pax, paco, to appease.]

1. In a general sense, a state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; applicable to society, to individuals, or to the temper of the mind.

2. Freedom from war with a foreign nation; public quiet.

3. Freedom from internal commotion or civil war.

4. Freedom from private quarrels, suits or disturbance.

5. Freedom from agitation or disturbance by the passions, as from fear, terror, anger, anxiety or the like; quietness of mind; tranquillity; calmness; quiet of conscience.

Great peace have they that love the law. Psalms 119:165.

6. Heavenly rest; the happiness of heaven.

7. Harmony; concord; a state of reconciliation between parties at variance.

8. Public tranquillity; that quiet, order and security which is guaranteed by the laws; as, to keep the peace; to break the peace

This word is used in commanding silence or quiet; as, peace to this troubled soul.

PEACE, the lovers are asleep.

To be at peace to be reconciled; to live in harmony.

To make peace to reconcile, as parties at variance.

To hold the peace to be silent; to suppress one's thoughts; not to speak.

Peace-Offering

PE'ACE-OFFERING, noun An offering that procures peace. Among the Jews, an offering or sacrifice to God for atonement and reconciliation for a crime or offense.

Peace-Officer

PE'ACE-OFFICER, noun A civil officer whose duty is to preserve the public peace, to prevent or punish riots, etc.; as a sheriff, or constable.

Peace-Parted

PE'ACE-PARTED, adjective Dismissed from the world in peace.

Peaceable

PE'ACEABLE, adjective Free from war, tumult or public commotion. We live in peaceable times. The reformation was introduced in a peaceable manner.

1. Free from private feuds or quarrels. The neighbors are peaceable These men are peaceable

2. Quiet; undisturbed; not agitated with passion. His mind is very peaceable

3. Not violent, bloody or unnatural; as, to die a peaceable death.

Peaceableness

PE'ACEABLENESS, noun The state of being peaceable; quietness.

1. Disposition to peace.

Peaceably

PE'ACEABLY, adverb Without war; without tumult or commotion; without private feuds and quarrels.

1. Without disturbance; quietly; without agitation; without interruption.

Peacebreaker

PE'ACEBREAKER, noun One that violates or disturbs public peace.

Peaceful

PE'ACEFUL, adjective Quiet; undisturbed; not in a state of war or commotion; as a peaceful time; a peaceful country.

1. Pacific; mild; calm; as peaceful words; a peaceful temper.

2. Removed from noise or tumult; still; undisturbed; as the peaceful cottage; the peaceful scenes of rural life.

Peacefully

PE'ACEFULLY, adverb Without war or commotion.

1. Quietly; without disturbance.

Our loved earth, where peacefully we slept.

2. Mildly; gently.

Peacefulness

PE'ACEFULNESS, noun Quiet; freedom from war, tumult, disturbance or discord.

1. Freedom from mental perturbation; as peacefulness of mind.

Peaceless

PE'ACELESS, adjective Without peace; disturbed.

Peacemaker

PE'ACEMAKER, noun One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9.

Peach

PEACH, noun A tree and its fruit, of the genus Amygdalus, of many varieties. This is a delicious fruit, the produce of warm or temperate climates. In America, the peach thrives and comes to perfection in the neighborhood of Boston, northward of which it usually fails.

PEACH, for impeach, not used.

Peach-Color

PE'ACH-COLOR, noun The pale red color of the peach blossom.

Peach-Colored

PEA'CH-COLORED, adjective Of the color of a peach blossom.

Peach-Tree

PE'ACH-TREE, noun The tree that produces the peach.

Peacher

PE'ACHER, noun An accuser. [Not used.]

Peachick

PE'ACHICK, noun The chicken or young of the peacock.

Peacock

PE'ACOCK, noun [Latin pavo.] A large and beautiful fowl of the genus Pavo, properly the male of the species, but in usage the name is applied to the species in general. The feathers of this fowl's tail are very long, and variegated with rich and elegant colors. The peacock is a native of India.

Peacock-Fish

PE'ACOCK-FISH, noun A fish of the Indian seas, having streaks of beautiful colors.

Peahen

PE'AHEN, noun The hen or female of the peacock.

Peak

PEAK, noun [Eng. pike, beak.]

1. The top of a hill or mountain, ending in a point; as the peak of Teneriffe.

2. A point; the end of any thing that terminates in a point.

3. The upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff or yard; also, the extremity of the yard or gaff.

PEAK, verb intransitive To look sickly or thin. [Not used.]

1. To make a mean figure; to sneak. [Not used.]

PEAK, verb transitive To raise a gaff or yard more obliquely to the mast.

Peaking

PE'AKING, adjective Mean; sneaking; poor. [Vulgar.]

Peakish

PE'AKISH, adjective Denoting or belonging to an acuminated situation.

Peal

PEAL, noun [from Latin pello, whence appello, to appeal. The sense is to drive; a peal is a driving of sound. This word seems to belong to the family of Latin balo, and Eng. to bawl, jubilee, bell, etc.]

A loud sound, usually a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts of a multitude, etc.

PEAL, verb intransitive To utter loud and solemn sounds; as the pealing organ.

PEAL, verb transitive To assail with noise.

Nor was his ear less pealed.

1. To cause to ring or sound; to celebrate.

The warrior's name

Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame.

2. To stir or agitate. [Not used.]

Pealed

PE'ALED, participle passive Assailed with sound; resounded; celebrated.

Pealing

PE'ALING, participle present tense Uttering a loud sound or successive sounds; resounding.

PE'AN, noun [L poean.] A song of praise or triumph.

Pean

PE'AN , noun Among the ancients, a song of rejoicing in honor of Apollo; hence, a song of triumph.

1. In ancient poetry, a foot of four syllables; written also paeon. Of this there are four kinds; the first consisting of one long and three short syllables, or a trochee and a pyrrhic, as temporibus; the second of a short syllable, a long and two short, or an iambus and a pyrrhic, as potentia; the third of two short syllables, a long and a short one, or a phrrhic and a trochee, as animatus; the fourth of three short syllables and along one, or a pyrrhic and iambus, as celeritus.

Peanism

PE'ANISM, noun The song or shouts of praise or of battle; shouts of triumph.

Pear

PEAR, noun [Latin pyrum.] The fruit of the Pyrus communis, of many varieties, some of which are delicious to the taste.

Pear-Tree

PEAR-TREE, noun The tree that produces pears.

Pearch

PEARCH. [See Perch.]

Pearl

PEARL, noun perl.

1. A white, hard, smooth, shining body, usually roundish, found in a testaceous fish of the oyster kind. The pearl-shell is called matrix perlarum, mother of pearl and the pearl is found only in the softer part of the animal. It is found in the Persian seas and in many parts of the ocean which washes the shores of Arabia and the continent and isles of Asia, and is taken by divers. Pearls are of different sizes and colors; the larger ones approach to the figure of a pear; some have been found more than an inch in length. They are valued according to their size, their roundness, and their luster or purity, which appears in a silvery brightness.

2. Poetically, something round and clear, as a drop of water or dew.

3. A white speck of film growing on the eye.

PEARL, verb intransitive perl. To set or adorn with pearls.

PEARL, verb intransitive perl. To resemble pearls.

Pearl-Eyed

PEARL-EYED, adjective perl'-eyed. Having a speck in the eye.

Pearl-Grass

PEARL-GRASS, noun A plant of the genus Sagina.

Pearl-Sinter

PEARL-SINTER, noun Fiorite; a variety of silicious sinter, the color gray and white.

Pearl-Spar

PEARL-SPAR, noun perl'-spar. Brown spar.

Pearl-Stone

PEARL-STONE, noun A mineral regarded as a volcanic production. It occurs in basaltic and porphyritic rocks, and is classed with pitch stone.

PEARL-STONE is a subspecies of indivisible quartz.

Pearl-Wort

PEARL-WORT

PEARLASH, noun perl'ash. An alkali obtained from the ashes of wood; refined potash.

Pearled

PEARLED, adjective perl'ed. Set or adorned with pearls.

Pearly

PEARLY, adjective perl'y. Containing pearl; abounding with pearls; as pearly shells; a pearly shore.

1. Resembling pearls; clear; pure; transparent; as the pearly flood; pearly dew.

Pearmain

PEARMAIN, noun A variety of the apple.

Peas-Antlike

PEAS-ANTLIKE

PEAS-ANTLY, adjective Rude, clownish; illiterate; resembling peasants.

Peas-Antly

PEAS-ANTLY, a. Rude, clownish; illiterate; resembling peasants.

Peas-Cod

PE'AS-COD

PEASANT, noun pez'ant. A countryman; one whose business is rural labor.

PEASANT, adjective pez'ant. Rustic; rural.

Peasant

PEASANT, n. pez'ant. A countryman; one whose business is rural labor.

PEASANT, a. pez'ant. Rustic; rural.

Peasantry

PEASANTRY, noun pez'antry. Peasants; rustics; the body of country people.

1. Rusticity. [Not used.]

Pease

PEASE, noun Peas collectively, or used as food. [See Pea.]

Peastone

PE'ASTONE, noun A subspecies of limestone.

Peat

PEAT, noun A substance resembling turf, used as fuel. It is found in low grounds or moorish lands, and is of several species; one is of a brown or yellowish brown color, and when first cut has a viscid consistence, but hardens when exposed to the air; another consists chiefly of vegetable substances, as branches of trees, roots, grass, etc.

PEAT. [See Pet.]

Peat-Moss

PEAT-MOSS, noun [peat and moss.] An earthy material used as fuel.

1. A fen producing peat.

Pebble

PEB'BLE

PEB'BLE-CRYSTAL, noun A crystal in form of nodules, found in earthy stratums and irregular in shape.

Pebble-Crystal

PEB'BLE-CRYSTAL, n. A crystal in form of nodules, found in earthy stratums and irregular in shape.

Pebbled

PEB'BLED, adjective Abounding with pebbles.

Pebblestone

PEB'BLESTONE, noun In popular usage, a roundish stone of any kind from the size of a nut to that of a man's head. In a philosophical sense, minerals distinguished from flints by their variety of colors, consisting of crystalline matter debased by earths of various kinds, with veins, clouds and other variegations, formed by incrustation round a central nucleus, but sometimes the effect of a simple concretion. Pebbles are much used in the pavement of streets.

A general term for water-worn minerals.

Pebbly

PEB'BLY, adjective Full of pebbles; abounding with small roundish stones.

Pec-Cary

PEC-CARY, noun A quadruped of Mexico, in general appearance resembling a hog, but its body is less bulky, its legs shorter, and its bristles thicker and stronger, like the quills of the porcupine. Its color is black and white, and it has on the hind part of the back a protuberance like the navel of other animals, with an orifice form which issues a liquor of a very strong scent.

Pecary

PEC'ARY

PECCABIL'ITY, noun [from peccable.] State of being subject to sin; capacity of sinning.

Peccable

PEC'CABLE, adjective [from Latin pecco.]

Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.

Peccadillo

PECCADIL'LO, noun [Latin peccatum.]

1. A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.

2. A sort of stiff ruff.

Peccancy

PEC'CANCY, noun [from peccant.] Bad quality; as the peccancy of the humors.

1. Offense.

Peccant

PEC'CANT, adjective [Latin peccans. See Peccable.]

1. Sinning; guilty of sin or transgression; criminal; as peccant angels.

2. Morbid; bad; corrupt; not healthy; as peccant humors.

3. Wrong; bad; defective; informal; as a peccant citation. [Not used.]

PEC'CANT, noun An offender. [Not used.]

Peccavi

PECCA'VI. [Latin I have offended.] A colloquial word used to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.

Pechblend

PECH'BLEND, noun Pitchblend, an ore of uranium; a metallic substance found in masses, or stratified with earths or with other minerals, in Swedish and Saxon mines. It is of a blackish color, inclining to a deep steel gray, and one kind has a mixture of spots of red.

Peck

PECK, noun

1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as a peck of wheat or oats.

2. In low language, a great deal; as, to be in a peck of troubles.

PECK, verb transitive

1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into, as a bird that pecks a hole in a tree.

2. To strike with a pointed instrument, or to delve or dig with any thing pointed, as with a pick-ax.

3. To pick up food with the beak.

4. To strike with small and repeated blows; to strike in manner to make small impressions. In this sense, the verb is generally intransitive. We say, to peck at.]

[This verb and pick are radically the same.]

Pecked

PECK'ED, participle passive Struck or penetrated with a beak or pointed instrument.

Pecker

PECK'ER, noun One that pecks; a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

Pecking

PECK'ING, participle present tense Striking with the bill; thrusting the beak into; thrusting into with a pointed instrument; taking up food with the beak.

Peckled

PECKLED, for speckled, not used.

Pectinal

PEC'TINAL, adjective [Latin pecten, a comb; pecto, to comb.]

Pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.

PEC'TINAL, noun A fish whose bones resemble the teeth of a comb.

Pectinate

PEC'TINATE

PEC'TINATED, adjective [from Latin pecten, a comb.] Having resemblance to the teeth of a comb. In botany, a pectinate leaf is a sort of pinnate leaf, in which the leaflets are toothed like a comb.

A mineral is pectinated, when it presents short filaments, crystals or branches, nearly parallel and equidistant.

Pectinated

PEC'TINATED, a. [from L. pecten, a comb.] Having resemblance to the teeth of a comb. In botany, a pectinate leaf is a sort of pinnate leaf, in which the leaflets are toothed like a comb. A mineral is pectinated, when it presents short filaments, crystals or branches, nearly parallel and equidistant.

Pectination

PECTINA'TION, noun The state of being pectinated.

1. A combing; the combing of the head.

Pectinite

PEC'TINITE, noun [Latin pecten, a comb.]

A fossil pecten or scallop, or scallop petrified.

Pectoral

PEC'TORAL, adjective [Latin pectoralis, from pectus, breast.]

Pertaining to the breast; as the pectoral muscles; pectoral medicines.

The pectoral fins of a fish are situated on the sides of the fish, behind the gills.

PEC'TORAL, noun A breastplate.

1. A sacerdotal habit or vestment worn by the Jewish high priest, called in our version of the Bible, a breastplate.

2. A medicine adapted to cure or relieve complaints of the breast and lungs.

Peculate

PEC'ULATE, verb intransitive [Latin peculatus, peculor, from peculium, private property, from pecus, cattle.]

1. To defraud the public of money or goods entrusted to one's care, by appropriating the property to one's own use; to defraud by embezzlement.

2. Among civilians, to steal.

Peculation

PECULA'TION, noun The act, practice or crime of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods entrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement of public money or goods.

Peculator

PEC'ULATOR, noun [Latin] One that defrauds the public by appropriating to his own use money entrusted to his care.

Peculiar

PECU'LIAR, adjective [Latin peculiaris, from peculium, one's own property, from pecus, cattle.]

1. Appropriate; belonging to a person and to him only. Almost every writer has a peculiar style. Most men have manners peculiar to themselves.

2. Singular; particular. The man has something peculiar in his deportment.

3. Particular; special.

My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.

[Most cannot, in strict propriety, be prefixed to peculiar but it is used to give emphasis to the word.]

4. Belonging to a nation, system or other thing, and not to others.

PECU'LIAR, noun Exclusive property; that which belongs to a person in exclusion of others.

1. In the canon law, a particular parish or church which has the probate of wills within itself, exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop's court.

Court of peculiars, in England, is a branch of the court of arches. It has jurisdiction over all the parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only.

Peculiarity

PECULIAR'ITY, noun Something peculiar to a person or thing; that which belongs to or is found in one person or thing and in no other; as a peculiarity of style or manner of thinking; peculiarity in dress.

Peculiarize

PECU'LIARIZE, verb transitive To appropriate; to make peculiar.

Peculiarly

PECU'LIARLY, adverb Particularly; singly.

1. In a manner not common to others.

Peculiarness

PECU'LIARNESS, noun The state of being peculiar; appropriation. [Little used.]

Pecuniary

PECU'NIARY, adjective [Latin pecuniarius, from pecunia, money, from pecus, cattle.]

1. Relating to money; as pecuniary affairs or losses.

2. Consisting of money; as a pecuniary mulct or penalty.

Pecunious

PECU'NIOUS, adjective Full of money. [Not used.]

Ped

PED, noun [for pad.] A small pack-saddle.

1. A basket; a hamper.

Pedagogic

PEDAGOG'IC

PEDAGOG'ICAL, adjective [from pedagogue.]

Suiting or belonging to a teacher of children or to a pedagogue.

Pedagogical

PEDAGOG'ICAL, a. [from pedagogue.]

Suiting or belonging to a teacher of children or to a pedagogue.

Pedagogism

PED'AGOGISM, noun The business, character or manners of a pedagogue.

Pedagogue

PEDAGOGUE, noun ped'agog.[Gr. a child, and to lead.]

1. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to instruct young children; a schoolmaster.

2. A pedant.

PED'AGOGUE, verb transitive To teach with the air of a pedagogue; to instruct superciliously.

Pedagogy

PED'AGOGY, noun Instruction in the first rudiments; preparatory discipline.

Pedal

PE'DAL, adjective [Latin pedalis, from pes, pedis, foot.]

Pertaining to a foot.

PED'AL, noun One of the large pipes of an organ, so called because played and stopped with the foot.

1. A fixed or stationary base.

Pedal-Note

PED'AL-NOTE, noun In music, a holding note.

Pedaneous

PEDA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin pedaneus, from pes, the foot.]

Going on foot; walking.

Pedant

PED'ANT, noun

1. A schoolmaster.

2. A person who makes a vain display of his learning.

Pedantic

PEDANT'IC

PEDANT'ICAL, adjective Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description or expression.

Pedantical

PEDANT'ICAL, a. Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description or expression.

Pedantically

PEDANT'ICALLY, adverb With a vain or boastful display of learning.

Pedantize

PED'ANTIZE, verb intransitive To play the pedant; to domineer over lads; to use pedantic expressions.

Pedantry

PED'ANTRY, noun Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind.

Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation.

Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning.

Pedarian

PEDA'RIAN, noun A Roman senator who gave his vote by the feet, that is, by walking over to the side he espoused, in divisions of the senate.

Pedate

PED'ATE, adjective [Latin pedatus, from pes, the foot.] In botany, divided like the toes. A pedate leaf is one in which a bifid petiole connects several leaflets on the inside only.

Pedatifid

PED'ATIFID, adjective [Latin pes, foot, and findo, to divide.]

A pedatifid leaf, in botany, is one whose parts are not entirely separate, but connected like the toes of a water-fowl.

Peddle

PED'DLE, verb intransitive To be busy about trifles.

1. To travel about the country and retail goods. He peddles for a living.

PED'DLE, verb transitive To sell or retail, usually by traveling about the country.

Peddling

PED'DLING, participle present tense Traveling about and selling small wares.

1. adjective Trifling; unimportant.

Pederast

PED'ERAST, noun [Gr. a boy, and love.] A sodomite.

Pederastic

PEDERAS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to pederasty.

Pederasty

PED'ERASTY, noun Sodomy; the crime against nature.

Pederero

PEDERE'RO, noun [Latin petra; Gr. so named from the use of stones in the charge, before the invention or iron balls.]

A swivel gun; sometimes written paterero.

Pedestal

PED'ESTAL, noun [Latin pes, the foot.] In architecture, the lowest part of a column or pillar; the part which sustains a column or serves as its foot. It consists of three parts, the base, the die and the cornice.

Pedestrial

PEDES'TRIAL, adjective [Latin pedestris.] Pertaining to the foot.

Pedestrian

PEDES'TRIAN, adjective [Latin pedestris, form pes, the foot.]

Going on foot; walking; made on foot; as a pedestrian journey.

PEDES'TRIAN, noun One that walks or journeys on foot.

1. One that walks for a wager; a remarkable walker.

Pedestrious

PEDES'TRIOUS, adjective Going on foot; not winged.

Pedicel

PED'ICEL

PED'ICELLATE, adjective Having a pedicel or supported by a pedicel

Pedicellate

PED'ICELLATE, a. Having a pedicel, or supported by a pedicel.

Pedicle

PED'ICLE, noun [Latin pediculus, form pes, the foot.] In botany, the ultimate division of a common peduncle; the stalk that supports one flower only when there are several on a peduncle.

Pedicular

PEDIC'ULAR

PEDIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin pedicularis, form pediculus, a louse.]

Lousy; having the lousy distemper.

Pedigree

PED'IGREE, noun [probably from Latin pes, pedis, foot.]

1. Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person or tribe descends; genealogy.

Alterations of surnames--have obscured the truth of our pedigrees.

2. An account or register of a line of ancestors.

The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their several tribes.

Pediluvy

PED'ILUVY, noun [Latin pes, foot, and lavo, to wash.]

The bathing of the feet; a bath for the feet.

Pediment

PED'IMENT, noun [from Latin pes, the foot.] In architecture, an ornament that crowns the ordinances, finishes the fronts of buildings and serves as a decoration over gates, windows and niches. It is of two forms, triangular and circular. A pediment is properly the representation of the roof.

Pedler

PED'LER, noun [Latin pes, pedis, the foot.] A traveling foot-trader; one that carries about small commodities on his back, or in a cart or wagon, and sells them.

Pedleress

PED'LERESS, noun A female pedler.

Pedlery

PED'LERY, noun Small wares sold or carried about for sale by pedlers.

Pedobaptism

PEDOBAP'TISM, noun [Gr. a child, and baptism.]

The baptism of infants or of children.

Pedobaptist

PEDOBAP'TIST, noun One that holds to infant baptism; one that practices the baptism of children. Most denominations of christians are pedobaptists.

Pedometer

PEDOM'ETER, noun [Latin pes, the foot, and Gr.measure.] An instrument by which paces are numbered as a person walks, and the distance from place to place ascertained. It also marks the revolutions of wheels. This is done by means of wheels with teeth and a chain or string fastened to the foot or to the wheel of a carriage; the wheels advancing a notch at every step or at every revolution of the carriage wheel.

Pedometrical

PEDOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to or measured by a pedometer.

Peduncle

PEDUN'CLE, noun [Latin pes, the foot.] In botany, the stem or stalk that supports the fructification of a plant, and of course the fruit.

Peduncular

PEDUN'CULAR, adjective Pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as a peduncular tendril.

Pedunculate

PEDUN'CULATE, adjective Growing on a peduncle; as a pedunculate flower.

Pee

PEE, verb intransitive To look with one eye. [Not used.]

Peed

PEED, adjective Blind of one eye. [Not used.]

Peek

PEEK, in our popular dialect, is the same as peep, to look through a crevice.

Peel

PEEL, verb transitive [Latin pilo, to pull off hair and to pillage; pilus, the hair.]

1. To strip off skin, bark or rind without a cutting instrument; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; to bark; to flay; to decorticate. When a knife is used, we call it paring. Thus we say, to peel a tree, to peel an orange; but we say, to pare an apple to pare land.

2. In a general sense, to remove the skin, bark or rind, even with an instrument.

3. To strip; to plunder; to pillage; as, to peel a province or conquered people.

PEEL, noun [Latin pellis.] The skin or rind of any thing; as the peel of an orange.

PEEL, noun [Latin pala; pello; Eng. shovel, from shove; or from spreading.] A kind of wooden shovel used by bakers, with a broad palm and long handle; hence, in popular use in America, any large fire-shovel.

Peeled

PEE'LED, participle passive Stripped of skin, bark or rind; plundered; pillaged.

Peeler

PEE'LER, noun One that peels, strips or flays.

1. A plunderer; pillaged.

Peeling

PEE'LING, participle present tense Stripping off skin or bark; plundering.

Peep

PEEP, verb intransitive [Latin pipio; Heb. to cry out.]

1. To begin to appear; to make the first appearance; to issue or come forth from concealment, as through a narrow avenue.

I can see his pride

PEEP through each part of him.

When flowers first peeped--

2. To look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely or slyly.

A fool will peep in at the door.

Thou are a maid and must not peep

3. To cry, as chickens; to utter a fine shrill sound, as through a crevice; usually written pip, but without reason, as it is the same word as is here defined, and in America is usually pronounced peep

PEEP, noun First appearance; as the peep of day.

1. A sly look, or a look through a crevice.

2. The cry of a chicken.

Peep-Hole

PEE'P-HOLE

PEE'PER, noun A chicken just breaking the shell.

1. In familiar language, the eye.

Peeper

PEE'PER, n. A chicken just breaking the shell. 1. In familiar language, the eye.

Peeping-Hole

PEE'PING-HOLE, noun A hole or crevice through which one may peep or look without being discovered.

Peer

PEER, noun [Latin par.]

1. An equal; one of the same rank. A man may be familiar with his peers.

2. An equal in excellence or endowments.

In song he never had his peer

3. A companion; a fellow; an associate.

He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

4. A nobleman; as a peer of the realm; the house of peers, so called because noblemen and barons were originally considered as the companions of the king, like Latin comes, count. In England, persons belonging to the five degrees of nobility are all peers.

PEER, verb intransitive [Latin pareo.]

1. To come just in sight; to appear; a poetic word.

So honor peereth in the meanest habit.

See how his gorget peers above his gown.

2. To look narrowly; to peep; as the peering day.

PEERing in maps for ports and piers and roads.

Peerage

PEE'RAGE, noun [See Peer, an equal.]

The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman.

1. The body of peers.

Peerdom

PEE'RDOM, noun Peerage. [Not used.]

Peeress

PEE'RESS, noun The consort of a peer; a noble lady.

Peerless

PEE'RLESS, adjective Unequaled; having no peer or equal; as peerless beauty or majesty.

Peerlessly

PEE'RLESSLY, adverb Without an equal.

Peerlessness

PEE'RLESSNESS, noun The state of having no equal.

Peevish

PEE'VISH, adjective

1. Fretful; petulant; apt to mutter and complain; easily vexed or fretted; querulous; hard to please.

She is peevish sullen, froward.

2. Expressing discontent and fretfulness.

I will not presume

To send such peevish tokens to a king.

3. Silly; childish.

Peevishly

PEE'VISHLY, adverb Fretfully; petulantly; with discontent and murmuring.

Peevishness

PEE'VISHNESS, noun Fretfulness; petulance; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper; as childish peevishness

When peevishness and spleen succeed.

Peg

PEG, noun [This is probably from the root of Latin pango, pactus; Gr. denoting that which fastens, or allied to beak and picket.]

1. A small pointed piece of wood used in fastening boards or other work of wood, etc. It does the office of a nail. The word is applied only to small pieces of wood pointed; to the larger pieces thus pointed we give the name of pins, and pins in ship carpentry are called tree-nails or trenails. Coxe, in his travels in Russia, speaks of poles or beams fastened into the ground with pegs.

2. The pins of an instrument on which the strings are strained.

3. A nickname for Margaret.

To take a peg lower, to depress; to lower.

PEG, verb transitive To fasten with pegs.

Pegger

PEG'GER, noun One that fastens with pegs.

Pegm

PEGM, noun pem. [Gr.] A sort of moving machine in the old pageants.

Pegmatite

PEG'MATITE, noun Primitive granitic rock, composed essentially of lamellar feldspar and quartz; frequently with a mixture of mica. In it are found kaolin, tin tourmaline, beryl, aqua marina, tantale, scheelin and other valuable minerals.

Peirastic

PEIRAS'TIC, adjective [Gr. to strain, to attempt.] Attempting; making trial.

1. Treating of or representing trials or attempts; as the peirastic dialogues of Plato.

Peise

PEISE. [See Poise.]

Pekan

PEK'AN, noun A species of weasel.

Pelage

PEL'AGE, noun [Latin pilus, hair.] The vesture or covering of wild beasts, consisting of hair, fur or wool.

Pelagian

PELA'GIAN

PELA'GIANISM, noun The doctrines of Pelagius.

Pelagianism

PELA'GIANISM, n. The doctrines of Pelagius.