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Petrifying

PET'RIFYING, participle present tense Converting into stone; as petrifying operation.

Petrol

PE'TROL

PETRO'LEUM, noun [Gr. a stone, and oil; quasi petrolaion.]

Rock oil, a liquid inflammable substance or bitumen exuding from the earth and collected on the surface of the water in wells, in various parts of the world, or oozing from cavities in rocks. This is essentially composed of carbon and hydrogen.

Petronel

PET'RONEL, noun A horseman's pistol.

Petrosilex

PET'ROSILEX, noun [Latin petra, Gr. a stone, and silex, flint.]

Rock stone; rock flint, or compact feldspar.

Petrosilicious

PETROSILI'CIOUS, adjective Consisting of petrosilex; as petrosilicious breccias.

Petrous

PE'TROUS, adjective [Latin petra, a stone.] Like stone; hard; stony.

Petticoat

PET'TICOAT, noun A garment worn by females and covering the lower limbs.

Pettifog

PET'TIFOG, verb intransitive [Latin voco, like advocate.]

To do small business; as a lawyer. [Vulgar.]

Pettifogger

PET'TIFOGGER, noun An inferior attorney or lawyer who is employed in small or mean business.

Pettifoggery

PET'TIFOGGERY, noun The practice of a pettifogger; tricks; quibbles.

Pettiness

PET'TINESS, noun [from petty.] Smallness; littleness.

Pettish

PET'TISH, adjective [from pet.] Fretful; peevish; subject to freaks of ill temper.

Pettishly

PET'TISHLY, adverb In a pet; with a freak of ill temper.

Pettishness

PET'TISHNESS, adjective Fretfulness; petulance; peevishness.

Pettitoes

PET'TITOES, noun [petty and toes.] The toes or feet of a pig; sometimes used for the human feet in contempt.

Petto

PET'TO, noun [Latin pectus, the breast.]

The breast; hence, in petto in secrecy; in reserve.

Petty

PET'TY, adjective Small; little; trifling; inconsiderable; as a petty trespass; a petty crime.

1. Inferior; as a petty prince.

We usually write petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason. [See Petit.]

Pettychaps

PET'TYCHAPS, noun A small bird of the genus Motacilla, called also beambird; found in the north of Europe.

The beambird is the spotted fly-catcher, of the genus Muscicapa.

Pettycoy

PET'TYCOY, noun An herb.

Petulanceulancy

PET'ULANCE'ULANCY, noun [Latin petulantia.] Freakish passion; peevishness; pettishness; sauciness. Peevishness is not precisely synonymous with petulance; the former implying more permanence of a sour, fretful temper; the latter more temporary or capricious irritation.

That which looked like pride in some, and petulance in others.

The pride and petulance of youth.

Petulant

PET'ULANT, adjective [Latin petulans.] Saucy; pert or forward with fretfulness or sourness of temper; as a petulant youth.

1. Manifesting petulance; proceeding from pettishness; as a petulant demand; a petulant answer.

2. Wanton; freakish in passion.

Petulantly

PET'ULANTLY, adverb With petulance; with saucy pertness.

Petunse

PETUNSE

PETUNTSE

PETUNTZE, noun petuns'. Porcelain clay so called, used by the Chinese in the manufacture of porcelain or chinaware. It is a variety of feldspar.

Petuntse

PETUNTSE

Petuntze

PETUNTZE, n. petuns'. Porcelain clay so called, used by the Chinese in the manufacture of porcelain or chinaware. It is a variety of feldspar.

Pew

PEW, noun [Latin podium.] An inclosed seat in a church. Pews were formerly made square; in modern churches in America they are generally long and narrow, and sometimes called slips.

PEW, verb transitive To furnish with pews. [Little used.]

Pew-Fellow

PEW'-FELLOW, noun A companion.

Pewet

PE'WET, noun An aquatic fowl, the sea crow or mire crow, of the genus Larus.

1. The lapwing.

Pewter

PEW'TER, noun

1. A composition or factitious metal, consisting of tin and lead, or tin, lead and brass, in the proportions of a hundred pounds of tin to fifteen of lead, and six of brass. This was formerly in extensive use in domestic utensils or vessels; but being a soft composition and easily melted, is now less used.

2. Vessels or utensils made of pewter; as plates, dishes, porringers and the like.

Pewterer

PEW'TERER, noun One whose occupation is to make vessels and utensils of pewter.

Phaeton

PHA'ETON, noun [Gr. to shine.]

1. In mythology, the son of Phoebus and Clymene, or of Cephalus and Aurora, that is, the son of light or of the sun. This aspiring youth begged of Phoebus that he would permit him to guide the chariot of the sun, in doing which he manifested want of skill, and being struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, he was hurled headlong into the river Po. This fable probably originated in the appearance of a comet with a splendid train, which passed from the sight in the northwest of Italy and Greece.

2. An open carriage like a chaise, on four wheels, and drawn by two horses.

3. In ornithology, a genus of fowls, the tropic bird.

Phagedenic

PHAGEDEN'IC, adjective [Gr. to eat.] Eating or corroding flesh; as a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.

Phagedenic water, is made from quick lime and corrosive sublimate.

PHAGEDEN'IC, noun A medicine or application that eats away proud or fungous flesh.

Phalangious

PHALAN'GIOUS, adjective [Gr. a kind of spider.] Pertaining to the genus of spiders denominated phalangium.

Phalangite

PHAL'ANGITE, noun [Gr. a legionary soldier.]

A soldier belonging to a phalanx.

Phalanx

PHAL'ANX, noun In Grecian antiquity, a square battalion or body of soldiers, formed in ranks and files close and deep, with their shields joined and pikes crossing each other, so as to render it almost impossible to break it. The Macedonian phalanx celebrated for its force, consisted of 8000 men; but smaller bodies of soldiers were called by the same name.

1. Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of union.

2. In anatomy, the three rows of small bones forming the fingers.

3. In natural history, a term used to express the arrangement of the columns of a sort of fossil corolloid, called lithostrotion, found in Wales.

Phalarope

PHAL'AROPE, noun The name of several species of water fowls inhabiting the northern latitudes of Europe and America.

Phantasm

PHAN'TASM, noun [Gr. to show, to shine, to appear.]

That which appears to the mind; the image of an external object; hence, an idea or notion. It usually denotes a vain or airy appearance; something imagined.

All the interim is

Like a phantasm or a hideous dream.

Phantastic

PHANTAS'TIC

PHAN'TASY, [See Fantastic and Fancy.]

Phantom

PHAN'TOM, noun [Latin phantasma.]

1. Something that appears; an apparition; a specter.

Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.

2. A fancied vision.

Pharaon

PHA'RAON, noun The name of a game of chance.

Pharaonic

PHARAON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Pharaohs or kings of Egypt, or to the old Egyptians.

Pharisaicalness

PHARISA'ICALNESS, noun Devotion to external rites and ceremonies; external show of religion without the spirit of it.

Pharisaicical

PHARISA'IC'ICAL, adjective [from Pharisee.] Pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees, a sect among the Jews, distinguished by their zeal for the traditions of the elders, and by their exact observance of these traditions and the ritual law. Hence pharisaic denotes addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; as pharisaic holiness.

Pharisaism

PHAR'ISAISM, noun The notions, doctrines and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.

1. Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion.

Pharisean

PHARISE'AN, adjective Following the practice of the Pharisees.

Pharisee

PHAR'ISEE, noun [Heb. to separate.] One of a sect among the Jews, whose religion consisted in a strict observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretended holiness led them to separate themselves as a sect, considering themselves as more righteous than other Jews.

Pharmaceutic

PHARMACEU'TIC

PHARMACEU'TICAL, adjective [Gr. to practice witchcraft or use medicine; poison or medicine.] Pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines.

Pharmaceutical

PHARMACEU'TICAL, a. [Gr. to practice witchcraft or use medicine; poison or medicine.] Pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines.

Pharmaceutically

PHARMACEU'TICALLY, adverb In the manner of pharmacy.

Pharmaceutics

PHARMACEU'TICS, noun The science of preparing and exhibiting medicines.

Pharmacolite

PHAR'MACOLITE, noun Arseniate of lime, snow white or milk white, inclining to reddish or yellowish white. It occurs in small reniform, botryoidal and globular masses, and has a silky luster.

Pharmacologist

PHARMACOL'OGIST, noun [Gr.] One that writes on drugs, or the composition and preparation of medicines.

Pharmacology

PHARMACOL'OGY, noun [supra.] The science or knowledge of drugs, or the art of preparing medicines.

1. A treatise on the art of preparing medicines.

Pharmacopaeia

PHARMACOPAE'IA

PHARMACOP'OLIST, noun [Gr. to sell.]

One that sells medicines; an apothecary.

Pharmacopolist

PHARMACOP'OLIST, n. [Gr. to sell.]

One that sells medicines; an apothecary.

Pharmacopy

PHAR'MACOPY, noun [Gr. to make.] A dispensatory; a book or treatise describing the preparations of the several kinds of medicines, with their uses and manner of application.

Pharmacy

PHAR'MACY, noun [Gr. a medicament, whether salutary or poisonous.]

The art or practice of preparing, preserving and compounding substances, whether vegetable, mineral or animal, for the purposes of medicine; the occupation of an apothecary.

Pharos

PHA'ROS, noun [Gr. This word is generally supposed to be taken from the name of a small isle, near Alexandria, in Egypt. But qu. is not the word from the root of fire, or from the Celtic fairim, to watch, and the isle so called from the tower upon it?]

1. A light-house or tower which anciently stood on a small isle of that name, adjoining the Egyptian shore, over against Alexandria. It consisted of several stories and galleries, with a lantern on the top, which was kept burning at night as a guide to seamen.

2. Any light-house for the direction of seamen; a watch-tower; a beacon.

Pharyngotomy

PHARYNGOT'OMY, noun [Gr. the muscular and glandular bag that leads to the esophagus, and to cut.]

The operation of making an incision into the pharynx to remove a tumor or any thing that obstructs the passage.

Phase

PHASE

PHAS'EL, noun [Gr.] The French bean or kidney bean.

Phasis

PHA'SIS, noun plural phases. [Gr. to shine.]

1. In a general sense, an appearance; that which is exhibited to the eye; appropriately, any appearance or quantity of illumination of the moon or other planet. The moon presents different phases at the full and the quadratures.

2. In mineralogy, transparent green quartz.

Phasm

PHASM

PHAS'MA, noun [Gr. supra.] Appearance; fancied apparition; phantom.

[Little used.]

Phasma

PHAS'MA, n. [Gr. supra.] Appearance; fancied apparition; phantom.

[Little used.]

Phassachate

PHAS'SACHATE, noun The lead colored agate. [See Agate.]

Pheasant

PHEASANT, noun phez'ant. [Latin phasianus.] A fowl of the genus Phasianus, of beautiful plumage, and its flesh delicate food.

Pheer

PHEER, noun A companion. [See Peer.]

Pheese

PHEESE, verb transitive To comb. [See Fease.]

Phengite

PHEN'GITE, noun [Gr. to shine.] A beautiful species of alabaster, superior in brightness to most species of marbles.

Phenicopter

PHEN'ICOPTER, noun [Gr. red winged; red, and wing.]

A fowl of the genus Phaenicopterus, the flamingo, inhabiting the warm latitudes of both continents.

Phenix

PHE'NIX, noun [Latin phoenix, the palm or date tree, and a fowl.]

1. The fowl which is said to exist single, and to rise again from its own ashes.

2. A person of singular distinction.

Phenogamian

PHENOGAM'IAN, adjective [Gr.] In botany, having the essential organs of fructification visible.

Phenomenology

PHENOMENOL'OGY, noun [phenomenon and Gr. discourse.]

A description or history of phenomena.

Phenomenon

PHENOM'ENON, noun plural phenomena. [Gr. to appear.]

In a general sense, an appearance; any thing visible; whatever is presented to the eye by observation or experiment, or whatever is discovered to exist; as the phenomena of the natural world; the phenomena of heavenly bodies, or of terrestrial substances; the phenomena of heat or of color. It sometimes denotes a remarkable or unusual appearance.

Pheon

PHE'ON, noun In heraldry, the barbed iron head of a dart.

Phial

PHI'AL, noun [Latin phiala.]

1. A glass vessel or bottle; in common usage, a small glass vessel used for holding liquors, and particularly liquid medicines. It is often written and pronounced vial.

2. A large vessel or bottle made of glass; as the Leyden phial which is a glass vessel partly coated with tinfoil, to be used in electrical experiments.

PHI'AL, verb transitive To put or keep in a phial

Philadelphian

PHILADELPH'IAN, adjective [Gr.] Pertaining to Philadelphia, or to Ptolemy Philadelphus.

PHILADELPH'IAN, noun One of the family of love.

Philanthropic

PHILANTHROP'IC

PHILANTHROP'ICAL, adjective [See Philanthropy.] Possessing general benevolence; entertaining good will towards all men; loving mankind.

1. Directed to the general good.

Philanthropical

PHILANTHROP'ICAL, a. [See Philanthropy.] Possessing general benevolence; entertaining good will towards all men; loving mankind. 1. Directed to the general good.

Philanthropist

PHILAN'THROPIST, noun A person of general benevolence; one who loves or wishes well to his fellow men, and who exerts himself in doing them good.

Philanthropy

PHILAN'THROPY, noun [Gr. to love, a friend, and man.] The love of mankind; benevolence towards the whole human family; universal good will. It differs from friendship, as the latter is an affection for individuals.

Philippic

PHILIP'PIC, noun An oration of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, against Philip, king of Macedon, in which the orator inveighs against the indolence of the Athenians. Hence the word is used to denote any discourse or declamation full of acrimonious invective. The fourteen orations of Cicero against Mark Anthony are also called Philippics.

Philippize

PHIL'IPPIZE, verb intransitive To write or utter invective; to declaim against. [Unusual.]

1. To side with Philip; to support or advocate Philip.

Phillyrea

PHILLYRE'A, noun A genus of plants, Mock privet.

Philologer

PHILOL'OGER

PHILOLOG'IC

PHILOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Philology.] Pertaining to philology, or to the study and knowledge of language.

Philologist

PHILOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the history and construction of language. philologist is generally used.

Philologize

PHILOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To offer criticisms. [Little used.]

Philology

PHILOL'OGY, noun [Gr. to love, a word.]

1. Primarily, a love of words, or a desire to know the origin and construction of language. In a more general sense,

2. That branch of literature which comprehends a knowledge of the etymology or origin and combination of words; grammar, the construction of sentences or use of words in language; criticism, the interpretation of authors, the affinities of different languages, and whatever relates to the history or present state of languages. It sometimes includes rhetoric, poetry, history and antiquities.

Philomath

PHI'LOMATH, noun [Gr. a lover, and to learn.] A lover of learning.

Philomathic

PHILOMATH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the love of learning.

1. Having a love of letters.

Philomathy

PHIL'OMATHY, noun The love of learning.

Philomel

PHI'LOMEL

PHILOME'LA, noun [from Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, who was changed into a nightingale.]

The nightingale.

Philomela

PHILOME'LA, n. [from Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, who was changed into a nightingale.]

The nightingale.

Philomot

PHIL'OMOT, adjective Of the color of a dead leaf.

Philomusical

PHILOMU'SICAL, adjective Loving music.

Philopolemic

PHILOPOLEM'IC, adjective [Gr. a lover, and warlike.]

Ruling over opposite or contending natures; an epithet of Minerva.

Philosophation

PHILOSOPHA'TION, noun Philosophical discussion. [Not used.]

Philosopheme

PHILOS'OPHEME, noun [Gr.] Principle of reasoning; a theorem.

[Little used.]

Philosopher

PHILOS'OPHER, noun [See Philosophy.] A person versed in philosophy, or in the principles of nature and morality; one who devotes of nature and morality; one who devotes himself to the study of physics, or of moral or intellectual science.

1. In a general sense, one who is profoundly versed in any science.

Philosopher's stone, a stone or preparation which the alchimists formerly sought, as the instrument of converting the baser metals into pure gold.

Philosophic

PHILOSOPH'IC

PHILOSOPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to philosophy; as a philosophical experiment or problem.

1. Proceeding from philosophy; as philosophic price.

2. Suitable to philosophy; according to philosophy; as philosophical reasoning or arguments.

3. Skilled in philosophy; as a philosophical historian.

4. Given to philosophy; as a philosophical mind.

5. Regulated by philosophy or the rules of reason; as philosophic fare.

6. Calm; cool; temperate; rational; such as characterizes a philosopher.

Philosophical

PHILOSOPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to philosophy; as a philosophical experiment or problem. 1. Proceeding from philosophy; as philosophic price.2. Suitable to philosophy; according to philosophy; as philosophical reasoning or arguments.3. Skilled in philosophy; as a philosophical historian.4. Given to philosophy; as a philosophical mind.5. Regulated by philosophy or the rules of reason; as philosophic fare.6. Calm; cool; temperate; rational; such as characterizes a philosopher.

Philosophically

PHILOSOPH'ICALLY, adverb In a philosophical manner; according to the rules or principles of philosophy; as, to argue philosophically

1. Calmly; wisely; rationally.

Philosophism

PHILOS'OPHISM, noun [Gr. a lover, and sophism.]

1. The love of fallacious arguments or false reasoning.

2. The practice of sophistry.

Philosophist

PHILOS'OPHIST, noun A lover of sophistry; one who practices sophistry.

Philosophistic

PHILOSOPHIS'TIC

PHILOSOPHIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.

Philosophistical

PHILOSOPHIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.

Philosophize

PHILOS'OPHIZE, verb intransitive [from philosophy.] To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena and assign rational causes for their existence. Sir Isaac Newton lays down four rules of philosophizing.

Two doctors of the schools were philosophizing on the advantages of mankind above all other creatures.

Philosophizing

PHILOS'OPHIZING, participle present tense Searching into the reasons of things; assigning reasons for phenomena.

Philosophy

PHILOS'OPHY, noun [Latin philosophia; Gr. love, to love, and wisdom.]

1. Literally, the love of wisdom. But in modern acceptation, philosophy is a general term denoting an explanation of the reasons of things; or an investigation of the causes of all phenomena both of mind and of matter. When applied to any particular department of knowledge, it denotes the collection of general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject, are comprehended. Thus, that branch of philosophy which treats of God, etc. is called theology; that which treats of nature, is called physics or natural philosophy; that which treats of man is called logic and ethics, or moral philosophy; that which treats of the mind is called intellectual or mental philosophy or metaphysics.

The objects of philosophy are to ascertain facts or truth, and the causes of things or their phenomena; to enlarge our views of God and his works, and to render our knowledge of both practically useful and subservient to human happiness.

True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same principle.

2. Hypothesis or system on which natural effects are explained.

We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our schools.

3. Reasoning; argumentation.

4. Course of sciences read in the schools.

Philosphate

PHILOS'PHATE, verb intransitive [Latin philosophor, philosophatus.]

To play the philosopher; to moralize. [Not used.]

Philter

PHIL'TER, noun [Latin philtra; Gr. to love.]

1. A potion intended or adapted to excite love.

2. A charm to excite love.

PHIL'TER, verb transitive To impregnate with a love-potion; as, to philter a draught.

1. To charm to love; to excite to love or animal desire by a potion.

Phiz

PHIZ, noun [supposed to be a contraction of physiognomy.]

The face or visage; in contempt.

Phlebotomist

PHLEBOT'OMIST, noun [See Phlebotomy.]

One that opens a vein for letting blood; a blood-letter.

Phlebotomize

PHLEBOT'OMIZE, verb transitive To let blood from a vein.

Phlebotomy

PHLEBOT'OMY, noun [Gr. a vein, and to cut.] The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood for the cure of diseases or preserving health.

Phlegm

PHLEGM

PHLEGMAGOGUE, noun phleg'magog. [Gr. phlegm and to drive.]

A term anciently used to denote a medicine supposed to possess the property of expelling phlegm

Phlegmatic

PHLEGMAT'IC, adjective [Gr.]

1. Abounding in phlegm; as phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.

2. Generating phlegm; as phlegmatic meat.

3. Watery.

4. Cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; not easily excited into action or passion; as a phlegmatic temper or temperament.

Phlegmatically

PHLEGMAT'ICALLY, adverb Coldly; heavily.

Phlegmon

PHLEG'MON, noun [Gr. to burn.] An external inflammation and tumor, attended with burning heat.

Phlegmonous

PHLEG'MONOUS, adjective Having the nature or properties of a phlegmon; inflammatory; burning; as a phlegmonous tumor.

Phlem

PHLEM, noun [Gr. inflammation; and pituitous matter, to burn; hence the word must have originally expressed the matter formed by suppuration.]

1. Cold animal fluid; water matter; one of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed.

2. In common usage, bronchial mucus; the thick viscid matter secreted in the throat.

3. Among chimists, water, or the water of distillation.

4. Dullness; coldness; sluggishness; indifference.

Phleme

PHLEME, noun [See Fleam.]

Phlogistian

PHLOGIS'TIAN, noun A believer in the existence of phlogiston.

Phlogistic

PHLOGIS'TIC, adjective [See Phlogiston.]

Partaking of phlogiston; inflaming.

Phlogisticate

PHLOGIS'TICATE, verb transitive To combine phlogiston with.

Phlogistication

PHLOGISTICA'TION, noun The act or process of combining with phlogiston.

Phlogiston

PHLOGIS'TON, noun [Gr. to burn or inflame.]

The principle of inflammability; the matter of fire in composition with other bodies. Stahl gave this name to an element which he supposed to be pure fire fixed in combustible bodies, in order to distinguish it from fire in action or in a state of liberty. But the theory has been proved to be false and is generally abandoned.

Pholadite

PHO'LADITE, noun A petrified shell of the genus Pholas.

Phonics

PHON'ICS, noun [Gr. sound.] The doctrine or science of sounds; otherwise called acoustics.

1. The art of combining musical sounds.

Phonocamptic

PHONOCAMP'TIC, adjective [Gr. sound, and to inflect.] Having the power to inflect sound, or turn it from its direction, and thus to alter it.

Phonolite

PHON'OLITE, noun [Gr. sound, and stone.] Sounding stone; a name proposed as a substitute for klingstein [jingling stone.]

Phonological

PHONOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to phonology.

Phonology

PHONOL'OGY, noun [Gr. sound, voice, and discourse.] A treatise on sounds, or the science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including its various distinctions or subdivisions of tones.

Phosgene

PHOS'GENE, adjective [Gr. light, and to generate.] Generating light. phosgene gas is generated by the action of light on chlorin and carbonic oxyd gas.

Phosphate

PHOS'PHATE, noun [See Phosphor and Phosphorus.]

1. A salt formed by a combination of phosphoric acid with a base of earth, alkali or metal.

2. A mineral found in Estremadura, etc.

Phosphite

PHOS'PHITE, noun A salt formed by a combination of phosphorous acid with a salifiable base.

Phospholite

PHOS'PHOLITE, noun [phosphor and Gr. a stone.]

An earth united with phosphoric acid.

Phosphor

PHOS'PHOR, noun [Gr. light, to shine, and to bring. See Phosphorus.]

The morning star or Lucifer; Venus, when it precedes the sun and shines in the morning. In this sense, it is also written Phosphorus.

Phosphorate

PHOS'PHORATE, verb transitive To combine or impregnate with phosphorus.

Phosphorated

PHOS'PHORATED, participle passive Combined or impregnated with phosphorus.

Phosphorating

PHOS'PHORATING, participle present tense Combining with phosphorus.

Phosphoresce

PHOSPHORESCE, verb intransitive phosphoress'. [See Phosphorus.]

To shine, as phosphorus, by exhibiting a faint light without sensible heat.

Arenaceous limestone phosphoresces in the dark, when scraped with a knife.

Phosphorescence

PHOSPHORES'CENCE, noun A faint light or luminousness of a body, unaccompanied with sensible heat. It is exhibited by certain animals, as well as by vegetable and mineral substances.

Phosphorescent

PHOSPHORES'CENT, adjective Shining with a faint light; luminous without sensible heat.

Phosphorescing

PHOSPHORES'CING, participle present tense Exhibiting light without sensible heat.

Phosphoric

PHOS'PHORIC, adjective Pertaining to or obtained from phosphorus. The phosphoric acid is formed by a saturated combination of phosphorus and oxygen.

Phosphorite

PHOS'PHORITE, noun A species of calcarious earth; a subspecies of apatite.

Phosphoritic

PHOSPHORIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to phosphorite, or of the nature of phosphorite.

Phosphorous

PHOS'PHOROUS, adjective The phosphorous acid is formed by a combination of phosphorus with oxygen.

Phosphorus

PHOS'PHORUS

PHOS'PHOR, noun [Latin from the Greek. See Phosphor.]

1. The morning star.

2. phosphorus in chimistry, a combustible substance, hitherto undecomposed. It is of a yellowish color and semi-transparent, resembling fine wax. It burns in common air with great rapidity; and in oxygen gas, with the greatest vehemence. Even at the common temperature, it combines with oxygen, undergoing a slow combustion and emitting a luminous vapor. It is originally obtained from urine; but it is now manufactured from bones, which consist of phosphate of lime.

Phosphuret

PHOS'PHURET, noun A combination of phosphorus not oxygenated, with a base; as phosphyret of iron or copper.

Phosphureted

PHOS'PHURETED, adjective Combined with a phosphuret.

Photizite

PHO'TIZITE, noun A mineral, an oxyd of manganese.

Photologic

PHOTOLOG'IC

PHOTOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Photology.] Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.

Photological

PHOTOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Photology.] Pertaining to photology, or the doctrine of light.

Photology

PHOTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. light, and discourse.] The doctrine or science of light, explaining its nature and phenomena.

Photometer

PHOTOM'ETER, noun [Gr. light, and measure.]

An instrument for measuring the relative intensities of light.

Photometric

PHOTOMET'RIC

PHOTOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to or made by a photometer.

Photometrical

PHOTOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to or made by a photometer.

Phrase

PHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. to speak.]

1. A short sentence or expression. A phrase may be complete, as when it conveys complete sense, as humanum est errare, to err is human; or it may be incomplete, as when it consists of several words without affirming any thing, or when the noun and the verb do the office of a noun only; as, that which is true, that is, truth, satisfied the mind.

2. A particular mode of speech; a peculiar sentence of short idiomatic expression; as a Hebrew phrase; an Italian phrase

3. Style; expression.

Thou speak'st

In better phrase

4. In music, any regular symmetrical course of notes which begin and complete the intended expression.

PHRASE, verb transitive To call; to style; to express in words or in peculiar words.

These suns,

For so they phrase them.

Phraseless

PHRA'SELESS, adjective Not to be expressed or described.

Phraseologic

PHRASEOLOG'IC

PHRASEOLOG'ICAL, adjective Peculiar in expression; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Phraseological

PHRASEOLOG'ICAL, a. Peculiar in expression; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Phraseology

PHRASEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. phrase, and to speak.]

1. Manner of expression; peculiar words used in a sentence; diction.

2. A collection of phrases in a language.

Phrenetic

PHRENET'IC, adjective [Gr. See Phrensy.] Subject to strong or violent sallies of imagination or excitement, which in some measure pervert the judgment and cause the person to act in a manner different from the more rational part of mankind; wild and erratic; partially mad. [It has been sometimes written phrentic, but is now generally written frantic.]

PHRENET'IC, noun A person who is wild and erratic in his imagination.

Phrenic

PHREN'IC, adjective [from Gr. the diaphragm.] Belonging to the diaphragm; as a phrenic vein.

Phrenitis

PHREN'ITIS, noun [Gr. from the mind; Latin animus, animosus, and the Teutonic mod; Eng. mood.]

1. In medicine, an inflammation of the brain, or of the meninges of the brain, attended with acute fever and delirium.

2. Madness, or partial madness; delirium; phrenzy. [It is generally written in English, phrensy or frenzy.

Phrenology

PHRENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. the mind, and discourse.] The science of the human mind and its various properties.

Phrenology is now applied to the science of the mind as connected with the supposed organs of thought and passion in the brain, broached by Gall.

Phrensy

PHREN'SY, noun s as z. [supra.] Madness; delirium, or that partial madness which manifests itself in wild and erratic sallies of the imagination. It is written also frenzy.

Demoniac phrensy; moping melancholy.

Phrontistery

PHRON'TISTERY, noun [Gr. to think; mind.] A school or seminary of learning. [Not used.]

Phrygian

PHRYG'IAN, adjective [from Phrygia, in Asia Minor.] Pertaining to Phrygia; an epithet applied to a sprightly animating kind of music.

Phrygian stone, a stone described by the ancients, used in dyeing; a light spungy stone resembling a pumice, said to be drying and stringent.

Phthagorean

PHTHAGOREAN, noun A follower of Pythagoras, the founder of the Italic sect of philosophers.

Phthisic

PHTHIS'IC, noun tiz'zic. A consumption. [Little used.]

Phthisical

PHTHISICAL, adjective tiz'zical. [Gr. See Phthisis.] Wasting the flesh; as a phthisical consumption.

Phthisis

PHTHISIS, noun the'sis or thi'sis. [Gr. to consume.] A consumption occasioned by ulcerated lungs.

Phylacter

PHYLAC'TER

PHYLAC'TERED, adjective Wearing a phylactery; dressed like the Pharisees.

Phylactered

PHYLAC'TERED, a. Wearing a phylactery; dressed like the Pharisees.

Phylacteric

PHYLAC'TERIC

PHYLACTER'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to phylacteries.

Phylacterical

PHYLACTER'ICAL, a. Pertaining to phylacteries.

Phylactery

PHYLAC'TERY, noun [Gr. to defend or guard.]

1. In a general sense, any charm, spell or amulet worn as a preservative from danger or disease.

2. Among the Jews, a slip of parchment on which was written some text of Scripture, particularly of the decalogue, worn by devout persons on the forehead, breast or neck as a mark of their religion.

3. Among the primitive christians, a case in which they inclosed the relics of the dead.

Phyllite

PHYL'LITE, noun [Gr. a leaf, and a stone.] A petrified leaf, or a mineral having the figure of a leaf.

Phyllophorous

PHYLLOPH'OROUS, adjective [Gr. a leaf, and to bear.] Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.

Physalite

PHYS'ALITE, noun [Gr. to swell or inflate, and a stone.] A mineral of a greenish white color, a subspecies of prismatic topaz; called also pyrophysalite, as it intumesces in heat.

Physeter

PHYSETER. [See Cachalot.]

Physianthropy

PHYSIAN'THROPY, noun [Gr.nature, and man.] The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and the remedies.

Physic

PHYS'IC, noun s as z. [Gr. from nature; to produce.]

1. The art of healing diseases. This is now generally called medicine.

2. Medicines; remedies for diseases. We desire physic only for the sake of health.

3. In popular language, a medicine that purges; a purge; a cathartic. [In technical and elegant language this sense is not used.]

PHYS'IC, verb transitive To treat with physic; to evacuate the bowels with a cathartic; to purge.

1. To cure.

Physical

PHYS'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to nature or natural productions, or to material things, as opposed to things moral or imaginary. We speak of physical force or power, with reference to material things; as, muscular strength is physical force; armies and navies are the physical force of a nation; whereas wisdom, knowledge, skill, etc. constitute moral force. A physical point is a real point, in distinction from a mathematical or imaginary point. A physical body or substance is a material body or substance, in distinction from spirit or metaphysical substance.

1. External; perceptible to the senses; as the physical characters of a mineral; opposed to chimical.

2. Relating to the art of healing; as a physical treatise.

3. Having the property of evacuating the bowels; as physical herbs.

4. Medicinal; promoting the cure of diseases.

5. Resembling physic; as a physical taste.

[In the three latter senses, nearly obsolete among professional men.]

Physical education, the education which is directed to the object of giving strength, health and vigor to the bodily organs and powers.

Physically

PHYS'ICALLY, adverb According to nature; by natural power or the operation of natural laws in the material system of things, as distinguished from moral power or influence. We suppose perpetual motion to by physically impossible.

I am not now treating physically of light or colors.

1. According to the art or rules of medicine.

He that lives physically must live miserably.

Physician

PHYSI'CIAN, noun A person skilled in the art of healing; one whose profession is to prescribe remedies for diseases.

1. In a spiritual sense, one that heals moral diseases; as a physician of the soul.

Physico-Logic

PHYSICO-LOG'IC, noun Logic illustrated by natural philosophy.

Physico-Logical

PHYSICO-LOG'ICAL. adjective Pertaining to physico-logic. [Little used.]

Physico-Theology

PHYSICO-THEOL'OGY, noun [physic or physical and theology.] Theology or divinity illustrated or enforced by physics or natural philosophy.

Physics

PHYS'ICS, noun s as z. In its most extensive sense, the science of nature or of natural objects, comprehending the study or knowledge of whatever exists.

1. In the usual and more limited sense, the science of the material system, including natural history and philosophy. This science is of vast extent, comprehending whatever can be discovered of the nature and properties of bodies, their causes, effects, affections, operations, phenomena and laws.

Physiognomer

PHYSIOGNOMER. [See Physiognomist.]

Physiognomicical

PHYSIOGNOM'IC'ICAL, adjective s as z. [See Physiognomy.] Pertaining to physiognomy; expressing the temper, disposition or other qualities of the mind by signs in the countenance; or drawing a knowledge of the state of the mind from the features of the face.

Physiognomics

PHYSIOGNOM'ICS, noun Among physicians, signs in the countenance which indicate the state, temperament or constitution of the body and mind.

Physiognomist

PHYSIOG'NOMIST, noun One that is skilled in physiognomy; one that is able to judge of the particular temper or other qualities of the mind, by signs in the countenance.

Physiognomy

PHYSIOG'NOMY, noun [Gr. nature, and knowing; to know.]

1. The art or science of discerning the character of the mind from the features of the face; or the art of discovering the predominant temper or other characteristic qualities of the mind by the form of the body, but especially by the external signs of the countenance, or the combination of the features.

2. The face or countenance with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast or expression of countenance.

[This word formerly comprehended the art of foretelling the future fortunes of persons by indications of the countenance.]

Physiography

PHYSIOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. nature, and to describe.] A description of nature, or the science of natural objects.

Physiologer

PHYSIOL'OGER, noun A physiologist. [The latter is generally used.]

Physiologic

PHYSIOLOG'IC

PHYSIOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Physiology.] Pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the properties and functions of living beings.

Physiological

PHYSIOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Physiology.] Pertaining to physiology; relating to the science of the properties and functions of living beings.

Physiologically

PHYSIOLOG'ICALLY, adverb According to the principles of physiology.

Physiologist

PHYSIOL'OGIST, noun One who is versed in the science of living beings, or in the properties and functions of animals and plants.

1. One that treats of physiology.

Physiology

PHYSIOL'OGY, noun [Gr. nature, to discourse.]

1. According to the Greek, this word signifies a discourse or treatise of nature, but the moderns use the word in a more limited sense, for the science of the properties and functions of animals and plants, comprehending what is common to all animals and plants, and what is peculiar to individuals and species.

2. The science of the mind, of its various phenomena, affections and powers.

Physy

PHYSY, for fusee. [Not used.]

Phytivorous

PHYTIV'OROUS, adjective [Gr. a plant, and Latin voro, to eat.] Feeding on plants or herbage; as phytivorous animals.

Phytographical

PHYTOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the description of plants.

Phytography

PHYTOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a plant, and description.] A description of plants.

Phytolite

PHYT'OLITE, noun [Gr. a plant, and a stone.] A plant petrified, or fossil vegetable.

Phytologist

PHYTOL'OGIST, noun [See Phytology.] One versed in plants, or skilled in phytology; a botanist.

Phytology

PHYTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a plant, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise of plants, or the doctrine of plants; description of the kinds and properties of plants.

Pia mater, [Latin] in anatomy, a thin membrane immediately investing the brain.

Piaba

PIABA, noun A small fresh water fish of Brazil, about the size of the minnow, much esteemed for food.

Piacle

PI'ACLE, noun [Latin piaculum.] An enormous crime. [Not used.]

Piacular

PIAC'ULAR,

Piaculous

PIAC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin piacularis, from pio, to expiate.]

1. Expiatory; having power to atone.

2. Requiring expiation.

3. Criminal; atrociously bad.

[These words are little used.]

Pianet

PI'ANET, noun [Latin pica or picus.] A bird, the lesser woodpecker.

1. The magpie.

Pianist

PI'ANIST, noun A performer on the forte-piano, or one well skilled in it.

Piano-Forte

PIANO-FORTE, noun [Latin planus, plain, smooth; Latin fortis, strong.]

A keyed musical instrument of German origin and of the harpsichord kind, but smaller; so called from its softer notes or expressions. Its tones are produced by hammers instead of quills, like the virginal and spinet.

Piaster

PIAS'TER, noun An Italian coin of about 80 cents value, or 3s.7d. sterling. But the value is different in different states or countries. It is called also, a piece of eight.

Piazza

PIAZ'ZA, noun [Eng. id.] In building, a portico or covered walk supported by arches or columns.

PIB'-CORN, noun Among the Welsh, a wind instrument or pipe with a horn at each end.

Pibroch

PI'BROCH, noun A wild irregular species of music, peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland. It is performed on a bagpipe, and adapted to excite or assuage passion, and particularly to rouse a martial spirit among troops going to battle.

Pica

PI'CA, noun In ornithology, the pie or mag-pie, a species of Corvus.

1. In medicine, a vitiated appetite which makes the patient crave what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.

2. A printing type of a large size; probably named from litera picata, a great black letter at the beginning of some new order in the liturgy; hence,

3. pica pye or pie, formerly an ordinary, a table or directory for devotional services; also, an alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records.

Pica marina, the sea-pye, ostralegus, or oyster-catcher; an aquatic fowl of the genus Haematopus. This fowl feeds on oysters, limpets and marine insects.

Picaroon

PICAROON', noun A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robber, but to pirates and plunderers of wrecks.

In all wars, Corsica and Majorca have been nests of picaroons.

Piccadil

PIC'CADIL

PICCADIL'LY

PIC'CAGE, noun Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.

Piccadilly

PICCADIL'LY

Piccage

PIC'CAGE, n. Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.

Pick

PICK, verb transitive [Latin pecto.]

1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that grows or adheres to another thing; to separate by the hand, as fruit from trees; as, to pick apples or oranges; to pick strawberries.

2. To pull off or separate with the teeth, beak or claws; as, to pick flesh from a bone; hence,

3. To clean by the teeth, fingers or claws, or by a small instrument, by separating something that adheres; as, to pick a bone; to pick the ears.

4. To take up; to cause or seek industriously; as, to pick a quarrel.

5. To separate or pull asunder; to pull into small parcels by the fingers; to separate locks for loosening and cleaning; as, to pick wool.

6. To pierce; to strike with a pointed instrument; as, to pick an apple with a pin.

7. To strike with the bill or beak; to puncture. In this sense, we generally use peck.

8. To steal by taking out with the fingers or hands; as, to pick the pocket.

9. To open by a pointed instrument; as, to pick a lock.

10. To select; to cull; to separate particular things from others; as, to pick the best men from a company. In this sense, the word is often followed by out.

To pick off, to separate by the fingers or by a small pointed instrument.

PICK out, to select; to separate individuals from numbers.

To pick up, to take up with the fingers or beak; also, to take particular things here and there; to gather; to glean.

To pick a hole in one's coat, to find fault.

PICK, verb intransitive To eat slowly or by morsels; to nibble.

1. To do any thing nicely or by attending to small things.

PICK, noun A sharp pointed tool for digging or removing in small quantities.

What the miners call chert and whern--is so hard that the picks will not touch it.

1. Choice; right of selection. You may have your pick

2. Among printers, foul matter which collects on printing types from the balls, bad ink, or from the paper impressed.

Pickapack

PICKAPACK, adverb In manner of a pack. [Vulgar.]