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Pad \Pad\, n. [D. pad. [root]21. See {Path}.] 1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] 2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. --Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. --Tennyson. 3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a {footpad}. --Gay. Byron. 4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.] | |
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Pad \Pad\, v. t. To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. --Somerville. | |
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Pad \Pad\, v. i. 1. To travel heavily or slowly. --Bunyan. 2. To rob on foot. [Obs.] --Cotton Mather. 3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pad \Pad\, n. [Perh. akin to pod.] 1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing. 2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper. 3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. 4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals. 6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant. 7. (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc. 8. (Naut.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. --W. C. Russel. 9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] --Simmonds. {Pad cloth}, a saddlecloth; a housing. {Pad saddle}. See def. 3, above. {Pad tree} (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. --Knight. | |
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Pad \Pad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Padded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Padding}.] 1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding. 2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. --Ure. | |
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Paddy \Pad"dy\, a. [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. [bd]Such pady persons.[b8] --Digges (1585). [bd]The paddy persons.[b8] --Motley. | |
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Paddy \Pad"dy\, n.; pl. {Paddies}. [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.] A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman. | |
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Paddy \Pad"dy\, n. [Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay p[be]d[c6].] (Bot.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. {Paddy bird}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Java sparrow}, under {Java}. | |
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Padow \Pad"ow\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A paddock, or toad. {Padow pipe}. (Bot.) See {Paddock pipe}, under {Paddock}. | |
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Paid \Paid\, imp., p. p., & a. of {Pay}. 1. Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney. 2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.] [bd]Paid of his poverty.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Pay \Pay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paying}.] [OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify, appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See {Peace}.] 1. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. --P. Plowman. [She] pays me with disdain. --Dryden. 2. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. --B. Jonson. 3. To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). [bd]Pay me that thou owest.[b8] --Matt. xviii. 28. Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. --Matt. xviii. 26. If they pay this tax, they starve. --Tennyson. 4. To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised. This day have I paid my vows. --Prov. vii. 14. 5. To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit. Not paying me a welcome. --Shak. {To pay off}. (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind. | |
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Pat \Pat\, a. [Cf. pat a light blow, D. te pas convenient, pat, where pas is fr. F. passer to pass.] Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. [bd]Pat allusion.[b8] --Barrow. | |
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Pat \Pat\, adv. In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. --Sterne. | |
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Pat \Pat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Patted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Patting}.] [Cf. G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike, tap.] To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. --Pope. | |
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Pat \Pat\, n. 1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap. 2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. --Dickens. | |
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d8Patt82 \[d8]Pat`t[82]"\, Pattee \Pat*tee"\, a. [F. patt[82], fem. patt[82]e, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. {Patten}.] (Her.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of {Cross}. [Written also {pat[82]}, {patee}.] | |
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Pate \Pate\, n. [Cf. LG. & Prov. G. pattkopf, patzkopf, scabby head; patt, patz, scab + kopf head.] 1. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. [Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.] | |
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Patee \Pa*tee"\, n. See {Pattee}. | |
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d8Patt82 \[d8]Pat`t[82]"\, Pattee \Pat*tee"\, a. [F. patt[82], fem. patt[82]e, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. {Patten}.] (Her.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of {Cross}. [Written also {pat[82]}, {patee}.] | |
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Patee \Pa*tee"\, n. See {Pattee}. | |
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d8Patt82 \[d8]Pat`t[82]"\, Pattee \Pat*tee"\, a. [F. patt[82], fem. patt[82]e, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. {Patten}.] (Her.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of {Cross}. [Written also {pat[82]}, {patee}.] | |
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Path \Path\ (p[adot][th]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pathed} (p[adot][th]d); pr.p. & vb. n. {Pathing}.] To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] [bd]Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.[b8] --Drayton. | |
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Path \Path\, v. i. To walk or go. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Path \Path\ (p[adot]th), n.; pl. {Paths} (p[adot][th]z). [As. p[ae][edh], pa[edh]; akin to D. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. pa`tos, Skr. patha, path. [root]21.] 1. A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. --Dryden. 2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. --Ps. xxv. 10. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. --Gray. | |
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Pathway \Path"way\, n. A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. --Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. --Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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d8Patt82 \[d8]Pat`t[82]"\, Pattee \Pat*tee"\, a. [F. patt[82], fem. patt[82]e, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. {Patten}.] (Her.) Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of {Cross}. [Written also {pat[82]}, {patee}.] | |
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Patty \Pat"ty\, n.; pl. {Patties}. [F. p[83]t[82]. See {Pasty}.] A little pie. | |
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Paw \Paw\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pawed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pawing}.] 1. To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely. 2. To scrape or beat with the forefoot. His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. --Tickell. | |
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Pay \Pay\, n. 1. Satisfaction; content. --Chaucer. 2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier. Where only merit constant pay receives. --Pope. There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. --L'Estrange. {Full pay}, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions. {Half pay}. See under {Half}. {Pay day}, the day of settlement of accounts. {Pay dirt} (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] {Pay office}, a place where payment is made. {Pay roll}, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due. | |
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Palladium \Pal*la"di*um\, n. [NL.] (Chem.) A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy {Pd2H}. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2. | |
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Peat \Peat\, n. [Cf. {Pet} a fondling.] A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b[?]tan to better, mend (a fire), b[?]t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.] A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. {Peat bog}, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. {Peat moss}. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat. (b) A fen producing peat. (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus {Sphagnum}, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places. {Peat reek}, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.] | |
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Peaty \Peat"y\, a. Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat. | |
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Ped \Ped\, n. [OE. See {Peddler}.] A basket; a hammer; a pannier. [Obs.] --Halliwell. | |
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Pedi- \Ped"i-\, Pedo- \Ped"o-\ [See {Foot}.] Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer. | |
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Pedi- \Ped"i-\, Pedo- \Ped"o-\ [See {Foot}.] Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer. | |
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Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS. hle[a0]pewince; hle[a0]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering; cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See {Leap}, and {Wink}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus cristatus}, or {V. vanellus}). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the [bd]plover's eggs[b8] of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also {peewit}, {dastard plover}, and {wype}. The {gray lapwing} is the {Squatarola cinerea}. | |
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Peevit \Pee"vit\, Peewit \Pee"wit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pewit}. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS. hle[a0]pewince; hle[a0]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering; cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See {Leap}, and {Wink}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus cristatus}, or {V. vanellus}). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the [bd]plover's eggs[b8] of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also {peewit}, {dastard plover}, and {wype}. The {gray lapwing} is the {Squatarola cinerea}. | |
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Peevit \Pee"vit\, Peewit \Pee"wit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pewit}. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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Lapwing \Lap"wing`\, n. [OE. lapwynke, leepwynke, AS. hle[a0]pewince; hle[a0]pan to leap, jump + (prob.) a word akin to AS. wincian to wink, E. wink, AS. wancol wavering; cf. G. wanken to stagger, waver. See {Leap}, and {Wink}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small European bird of the Plover family ({Vanellus cristatus}, or {V. vanellus}). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the [bd]plover's eggs[b8] of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also {peewit}, {dastard plover}, and {wype}. The {gray lapwing} is the {Squatarola cinerea}. | |
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Peevit \Pee"vit\, Peewit \Pee"wit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pewit}. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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Pet \Pet\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Petted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Petting}.] To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled. | |
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Pet \Pet\, v. i. To be a pet. --Feltham. | |
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Pet \Pet\, n. [Formerly peat, perhaps from Ir. peat, akin to Gael. peata.] 1. A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand. 2. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child. The love of cronies, pets, and favorites. --Tatler. 3. [Prob. fr. {Pet} a fondling, hence, the behavior or humor of a spoiled child.] A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. [bd]In a pet she started up.[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Pet \Pet\, a. Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory. Some young lady's pet curate. --F. Harrison. {Pet cock}. [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it. | |
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Petty \Pet"ty\, a. [Compar. {Pettier}; superl. {Pettiest}.] [OE. petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf. {Petit}.] Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. --Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. --Milton. {Petty averages}. See under {Average}. {Petty cash}, money expended or received in small items or amounts. {Petty officer}, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See {Petit}. Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous. | |
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Pewet \Pe"wet\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pewit}. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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Pewet \Pe"wet\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pewit}. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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{Laughing goose} (Zo[94]l.), the European white-fronted goose. {Laughing gull}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A common European gull ({Xema ridibundus}); -- called also {pewit}, {black cap}, {red-legged gull}, and {sea crow}. (b) An American gull ({Larus atricilla}). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. {Laughing hyena} (Zo[94]l.), the spotted hyena. See {Hyena}. {Laughing jackass} (Zo[94]l.), the great brown kingfisher ({Dacelo gigas}), of Australia; -- called also {giant kingfisher}, and {gogobera}. {Laughing owl} (Zo[94]l.), a peculiar owl ({Sceloglaux albifacies}) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes. | |
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Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ({Sayornis ph[d2]be}, or {S. fuscus}). Called also {pewit}, and {ph[d2]be}. 2. The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a bird ({Contopus virens}) similar to the pewee (See {Pewee}, 1), but of smaller size. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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{Laughing goose} (Zo[94]l.), the European white-fronted goose. {Laughing gull}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A common European gull ({Xema ridibundus}); -- called also {pewit}, {black cap}, {red-legged gull}, and {sea crow}. (b) An American gull ({Larus atricilla}). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. {Laughing hyena} (Zo[94]l.), the spotted hyena. See {Hyena}. {Laughing jackass} (Zo[94]l.), the great brown kingfisher ({Dacelo gigas}), of Australia; -- called also {giant kingfisher}, and {gogobera}. {Laughing owl} (Zo[94]l.), a peculiar owl ({Sceloglaux albifacies}) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes. | |
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Pewee \Pe"wee\, n. [So called from its note.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A common American tyrant flycatcher ({Sayornis ph[d2]be}, or {S. fuscus}). Called also {pewit}, and {ph[d2]be}. 2. The woodcock. [Local, U.S.] {Wood pewee} (Zo[94]l.), a bird ({Contopus virens}) similar to the pewee (See {Pewee}, 1), but of smaller size. | |
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Pewit \Pe"wit\, n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull ({Xema ridibundus}). See under {Laughing}. (c) The pewee. [Written also {peevit}, {peewit}, {pewet}.] | |
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Photo \Pho"to\, n.; pl. {Photos}. A contraction of {Photograph}. [Colloq.] | |
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Photo- \Pho"to-\ A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer. | |
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Photo \Pho"to\, n.; pl. {Photos}. A contraction of {Photograph}. [Colloq.] | |
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Photo- \Pho"to-\ A combining form from Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light; as, photography, phototype, photometer. | |
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Phyto- \Phy"to-\ [See {Physic}.] A combining form from Gr. fyto`n a plant; as, phytochemistry, phytography. | |
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Pied \Pied\, imp. & p. p. of {Pi}, or {Pie}, v. | |
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Pied \Pied\, a. [From {Pie} the party-colored bird.] Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. [bd]Pied coats.[b8] --Burton. [bd]Meadows trim with daisies pied.[b8] --Milton. {Pied antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the bontebok. {Pied-billed grebe} (Zo[94]l.), the dabchick. {Pied blackbird} (Zo[94]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus {Turdulus}. {Pied finch} (Zo[94]l.) (a) The chaffinch. (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.] {Pied flycatcher} (Zo[94]l.), a common European flycatcher ({Ficedula atricapilla}). The male is black and white. | |
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Pi \Pi\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pieing}.] (Print.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also {pie}.] | |
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Piet \Pi"et\ (p[imac]"[ecr]t), n. [Dim. of {Pie} a magpie: cf. F. piette a smew.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The dipper, or water ouzel. [Scot.] (b) The magpie. [Prov.Eng.] {Jay piet} (Zo[94]l.), the European jay. [Prov.Eng.] {Sea piet} (Zo[94]l.), the oyster catcher. [Prov.Eng.] | |
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Piety \Pi"e*ty\, n. [F. pi[82]t[82]; cf. It. piet[85]; both fr. L. pietas piety, fr. pius pious. See {Pious}, and cf. {Pity}.] 1. Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. --Rambler. 2. Duty; dutifulness; filial reverence and devotion; affectionate reverence and service shown toward parents, relatives, benefactors, country, etc. Conferred upon me for the piety Which to my country I was judged to have shown. --Milton. Syn: Religion; sanctity; devotion; godliness; holiness. See {Religion}. | |
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Piot \Pi"ot\, n. [See {Piet}.] (Zo[94]l.) The magpie. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Holland. | |
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Cyclone cellar \Cyclone cellar\ [or] pit \pit\ . A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.] | |
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Pit \Pit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitting}.] 1. To place or put into a pit or hole. They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave. --T. Grander. 2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox. 3. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another. | |
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Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a well, pit.] 1. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation; specifically: (a) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. (b) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit. (c) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Tumble me into some loathsome pit. --Shak. 2. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained. --Milton. He keepth back his soul from the pit. --Job xxxiii. 18. 3. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits. --Lam. iv. 20. 4. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body; as: (a) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit. (b) See {Pit of the stomach} (below). (c) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox. 5. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater. 6. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. [bd]As fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit.[b8] --Locke. 7. [Cf. D. pit, akin to E. pith.] (Bot.) (a) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc. (b) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct. {Cold pit} (Hort.), an excavation in the earth, lined with masonry or boards, and covered with glass, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. {Pit coal}, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. {Pit frame}, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. {Pit head}, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. {Pit kiln}, an oven for coking coal. {Pit martin} (Zo[94]l.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] {Pit of the stomach} (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. {Pit saw} (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. {Pit viper} (Zo[94]l.), any viperine snake having a deep pit on each side of the snout. The rattlesnake and copperhead are examples. {Working pit} (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used for the pumps. | |
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Cyclone cellar \Cyclone cellar\ [or] pit \pit\ . A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.] | |
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Pit \Pit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitting}.] 1. To place or put into a pit or hole. They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave. --T. Grander. 2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox. 3. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another. | |
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Pit \Pit\, n. [OE. pit, put, AS. pytt a pit, hole, L. puteus a well, pit.] 1. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation; specifically: (a) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit. (b) A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit. (c) A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit. Tumble me into some loathsome pit. --Shak. 2. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained. --Milton. He keepth back his soul from the pit. --Job xxxiii. 18. 3. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively. The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits. --Lam. iv. 20. 4. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body; as: (a) The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit. (b) See {Pit of the stomach} (below). (c) The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox. 5. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater. 6. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats. [bd]As fiercely as two gamecocks in the pit.[b8] --Locke. 7. [Cf. D. pit, akin to E. pith.] (Bot.) (a) The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc. (b) A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct. {Cold pit} (Hort.), an excavation in the earth, lined with masonry or boards, and covered with glass, but not artificially heated, -- used in winter for the storing and protection of half-hardly plants, and sometimes in the spring as a forcing bed. {Pit coal}, coal dug from the earth; mineral coal. {Pit frame}, the framework over the shaft of a coal mine. {Pit head}, the surface of the ground at the mouth of a pit or mine. {Pit kiln}, an oven for coking coal. {Pit martin} (Zo[94]l.), the bank swallow. [Prov. Eng.] {Pit of the stomach} (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. {Pit saw} (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. {Pit viper} (Zo[94]l.), any viperine snake having a deep pit on each side of the snout. The rattlesnake and copperhead are examples. {Working pit} (Min.), a shaft in which the ore is hoisted and the workmen carried; -- in distinction from a shaft used for the pumps. | |
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Ixtle \Ix"tle\, Ixtli \Ix"tli\([icr]x"tl[esl]), n. (Bot.) A Mexican name for a variety of {Agave rigida}, which furnishes a strong coarse fiber; also, the fiber itself, which is called also {pita}, and {Tampico fiber}. [Written also {istle}.] | |
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Pitahaya \Pit`a*ha"ya\, n. [Sp., prob. from the native name.] (Bot.) A cactaceous shrub ({Cereus Pitajaya}) of tropical America, which yields a delicious fruit. | |
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Pith \Pith\, n. [AS. pi[?]a; akin to D. pit pith, kernel, LG. peddik. Cf. {Pit} a kernel.] 1. (Bot.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue. 2. (a) (Zo[94]l.) The spongy interior substance of a feather. (b) (Anat.) The spinal cord; the marrow. 3. Hence: The which contains the strength of life; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith. Enterprises of great pith and moment. --Shak. {Pith paper}. Same as {Rice paper}, under {Rice}. | |
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Pith \Pith\, v. t. (Physiol.) To destroy the central nervous system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal. | |
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Pithy \Pith"y\, a. [Compar. {Pithier}; superl. {Pithiest}.] 1. Consisting wholly, or in part, of pith; abounding in pith; as, a pithy stem; a pithy fruit. 2. Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. --Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. --Addison. {Pithy gall} (Zo[94]l.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly ({Diastrophus nebulosus}). | |
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Pitta \Pit"ta\ (p[icr]t"t[adot]), n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birds belonging to {Pitta}, and allied genera of the family {Pittid[91]}. Most of the species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue, green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called also {ground thrushes}, and {Old World ant thrushes}; but they are not related to the true thrushes. Note: The pittas are most abundant in the East Indies, but some inhabit Southern Asia, Africa, and Australia. They live mostly upon the ground, and feed upon insects of various kinds. | |
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Pity \Pit"y\, n.; pl. {Pities}. [OE. pite, OF. pit[82], piti[82], F. piti[82], L. pietas piety, kindness, pity. See {Pious}, and cf. {Piety}.] 1. Piety. [Obs.] --Wyclif. 2. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. --Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. --Shak. 3. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. [bd]The more the pity.[b8] --Shak. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! --Addison. Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially in the colloquialism: [bd]It is a thousand pities.[b8] Syn: Compassion; mercy; commiseration; condolence; sympathy, fellow-suffering; fellow-feeling. -- {Pity}, {Sympathy}, {Compassion}. Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling, and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise. Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune. Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak, and hence as inferior. | |
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Pity \Pit"y\, v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. --Jer. xiii. 14. | |
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Pity \Pit"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitying}.] 1. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. --Ps. ciii. 13. 2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] It pitieth them to see her in the dust. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. | |
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-pod \-pod\ [See {Foot}.] A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod. | |
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Pod \Pod\, n. [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion, and also E. cod a husk, pod.] 1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. 2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of {Angiospermous}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. {Pod auger}, [or] {pod bit}, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted. | |
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Pod \Pod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Podded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Podding}.] To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods. | |
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-pod \-pod\ [See {Foot}.] A combining form or suffix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod. | |
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Pod \Pod\, n. [Probably akin to pudding, and perhaps the same word as pad a cushion; cf. also Dan. pude pillow, cushion, and also E. cod a husk, pod.] 1. A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Tusser. 2. (Bot.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of {Angiospermous}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals. {Pod auger}, [or] {pod bit}, an auger or bit the channel of which is straight instead of twisted. | |
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Pod \Pod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Podded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Podding}.] To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods. | |
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-poda \-po*da\ A New Latin plural combining form or suffix from Gr. [?], [?], foot; as, hexapoda, myriapoda. See {-pod}. | |
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d8Podium \[d8]Po"di*um\, n.; pl. {Podia}. [L., fr. Gr. [?], dim. of [?], [?], foot. See {Pew}.] 1. (Arch.) A low wall, serving as a foundation, a substructure, or a terrace wall. It is especially employed by arch[91]ologists in two senses: (a) The dwarf wall surrounding the arena of an amphitheater, from the top of which the seats began. (b) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers. See Illust. of {Column}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The foot. | |
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Podo- \Pod"o-\ [See {Foot}.] A combining form or prefix from Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, podocarp, podocephalous, podology. | |
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Poet \Po"et\, n. [F. po[89]te, L. po[89]ta, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make. Cf. {Poem}.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden. {Poet laureate}. See under {Laureate}. | |
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Pood \Pood\, n. [Russ. pud'.] A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois. | |
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Consolation game \Con`so*la"tion game\, match \match\, pot \pot\, race \race\, etc. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. t. 1. To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed. When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. --Encyc. of Sport. 2. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.] | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. i. To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy. | |
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Pot \Pot\, n. 1. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang] 2. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also {pot helmet}. 3. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool. | |
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Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.] 1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot. 2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug. 3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. [bd]Give her a pot and a cake.[b8] --De Foe. 4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot. 5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot. 6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc. 7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. --Knight. 8. A size of paper. See {Pott}. {Jack pot}. See under 2d {Jack}. {Pot cheese}, cottage cheese. See under {Cottage}. {Pot companion}, a companion in drinking. {Pot hanger}, a pothook. {Pot herb}, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. {Pot hunter}, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. {Pot metal}. (a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. --Ure. (c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. --Knight. {Pot plant} (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot. {Pot wheel} (Hydraul.), a noria. {To go to pot}, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] --Dryden. --J. G. Saxe. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Potted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Potting}.] To place or inclose in pots; as: (a) To preserve seasoned in pots. [bd]Potted fowl and fish.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs. (c) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. --B. Edwards. (d) (Billiards) To pocket. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. i. To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. --Feltham. | |
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Consolation game \Con`so*la"tion game\, match \match\, pot \pot\, race \race\, etc. A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. t. 1. To shoot for the pot, i.e., cooking; to secure or hit by a pot shot; to shoot when no special skill is needed. When hunted, it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed. --Encyc. of Sport. 2. To secure; gain; win; bag. [Colloq.] | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. i. To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy. | |
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Pot \Pot\, n. 1. The total of the bets at stake at one time, as in racing or card playing; the pool; also (Racing, Eng.) a horse heavily backed; a favorite. [Slang] 2. (Armor) A plain defensive headpiece; later, and perhaps in a jocose sense, any helmet; -- called also {pot helmet}. 3. (Card Playing) The total of the bets at one time; the pool. | |
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Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.] 1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot. 2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug. 3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. [bd]Give her a pot and a cake.[b8] --De Foe. 4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot. 5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot. 6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc. 7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. --Knight. 8. A size of paper. See {Pott}. {Jack pot}. See under 2d {Jack}. {Pot cheese}, cottage cheese. See under {Cottage}. {Pot companion}, a companion in drinking. {Pot hanger}, a pothook. {Pot herb}, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. {Pot hunter}, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. {Pot metal}. (a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. --Ure. (c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. --Knight. {Pot plant} (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot. {Pot wheel} (Hydraul.), a noria. {To go to pot}, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] --Dryden. --J. G. Saxe. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Potted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Potting}.] To place or inclose in pots; as: (a) To preserve seasoned in pots. [bd]Potted fowl and fish.[b8] --Dryden. (b) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs. (c) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. --B. Edwards. (d) (Billiards) To pocket. | |
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Pot \Pot\, v. i. To tipple; to drink. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] It is less labor to plow than to pot it. --Feltham. | |
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Pott \Pott\, n. A size of paper. See under {Paper}. | |
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Kinkajou \Kin"ka*jou`\, n. [F. kinkajou, quincajou, from the native American name.] (Zo[94]l.) A nocturnal carnivorous mammal ({Cercoleptes caudivolvulus}) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family ({Cercoleptid[91]}) allied to the raccoons. Called also {potto}, and {honey bear}. | |
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Pout \Pout\, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. [bd]Jack's in the pouts.[b8] --J. & H. Smith. | |
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Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. {Eelpout}.] (Zo[94]l.) The European whiting pout or bib. {Eel pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Eelpout}. {Horn pout}, [or] {Horned pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bullhead} (b) . | |
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Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), n. [F. poulet. See {Poult}.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew. | |
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Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.] | |
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Pout \Pout\ (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pouted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouting}.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.] 1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen. Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak. 2. To protrude. [bd]Pouting lips.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Bib \Bib\, n. [From {Bib}, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.] 1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes. 2. (Zo[94]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}. 3. A bibcock. | |
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Pout \Pout\, n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. [bd]Jack's in the pouts.[b8] --J. & H. Smith. | |
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Pout \Pout\, n. [Cf. {Eelpout}.] (Zo[94]l.) The European whiting pout or bib. {Eel pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Eelpout}. {Horn pout}, [or] {Horned pout}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Bullhead} (b) . | |
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Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), n. [F. poulet. See {Poult}.] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. --Carew. | |
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Pout \Pout\ (p[oomac]t), v. i. To shoot pouts. [Scot.] | |
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Pout \Pout\ (pout), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pouted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouting}.] [OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly.] 1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen. Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. --Shak. 2. To protrude. [bd]Pouting lips.[b8] --Dryden. | |
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Bib \Bib\, n. [From {Bib}, v., because the bib receives the drink that the child slavers from the mouth.] 1. A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes. 2. (Zo[94]l.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus}), allied to the cod; -- called also {pout} and {whiting pout}. 3. A bibcock. | |
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Pud \Pud\, n. Same as {Pood}. | |
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Pud \Pud\, n. The hand; the first. [Colloq.] --Lamb. | |
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Pudu \Pu"du\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A very small deer ({Pudua humilis}), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long. | |
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Pue \Pue\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puing}.] To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds. --Halliwell. | |
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Puet \Pu"et\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The pewit. | |
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Nose \Nose\, n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n[94]s, Sw. n[84]sa, Dan. n[84]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[be]s[be], n[be]s. [?] Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See {Nostril}, and {Olfactory organ} under {Olfactory}. 2. The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier. 3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer. {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge. {Nose leaf} (Zo[94]l.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. {Nose of wax}, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. [bd]A nose of wax to be turned every way.[b8] --Massinger {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. {To hold}, {put}, [or] {bring one's nose to the grindstone}. See under {Grindstone}. {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. --Shak. {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in. {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang] | |
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Put \Put\, n. [See {Pit}.] A pit. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Put \Put\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Put}, contracted from putteth. --Chaucer. | |
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Put \Put\, n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.] A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person. Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign. --Bramston. What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. --F. Harrison. | |
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Put \Put\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out). His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight. This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). 5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case. Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. 7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion [bd]overhand,[b8] the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight. 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. {Put case}, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. {To put about} (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. {To put away}. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. {To put back}. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. {To put by}. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money. {To put down}. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion or traitors. Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name. {To put forth}. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. {To put forward}. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour. {To put in}. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. --Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. {To put off}. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle. I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory | |
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Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go. His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden. 3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. {To put about} (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. {To put back} (Naut.), to turn back; to return. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak. {To put in} (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. {To put in for}. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. --Locke. {To put off}, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. {To put on}, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. {To put over} (Naut.), to sail over or across. {To put to sea} (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. {To put up}. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange. | |
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Put \Put\, n. 1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. [bd]A forced put.[b8] --L'Estrange. 2. A certain game at cards. --Young. 3. A privilege which one party buys of another to [bd]put[b8] (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date. [Brokers' Cant] A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price. --Johnson's Cyc. | |
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Put \Put\, n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.] | |
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Nose \Nose\, n. [AS. nosu; akin to D. neus, G. nase, OHG. nasa, Icel. n[94]s, Sw. n[84]sa, Dan. n[84]se, Lith. nosis, Russ. nos', L. nasus, nares, Skr. n[be]s[be], n[be]s. [?] Cf. {Nasal}, {Nasturtium}, {Naze}, {Nostril}, {Nozzle}.] 1. (Anat.) The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See {Nostril}, and {Olfactory organ} under {Olfactory}. 2. The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. --Collier. 3. A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. {Nose bit} (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. {Nose hammer} (Mach.), a frontal hammer. {Nose hole} (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. {Nose key} (Carp.), a fox wedge. {Nose leaf} (Zo[94]l.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. {Nose of wax}, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. [bd]A nose of wax to be turned every way.[b8] --Massinger {Nose piece}, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. {To hold}, {put}, [or] {bring one's nose to the grindstone}. See under {Grindstone}. {To lead by the nose}, to lead at pleasure, or to cause to follow submissively; to lead blindly, as a person leads a beast. --Shak. {To put one's nose out of joint}, to humiliate one's pride, esp. by supplanting one in the affections of another. [Slang] {To thrust one's nose into}, to meddle officiously in. {To wipe one's nose of}, to deprive of; to rob. [Slang] | |
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Put \Put\, n. [See {Pit}.] A pit. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Put \Put\, obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Put}, contracted from putteth. --Chaucer. | |
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Put \Put\, n. [Cf. W. pwt any short thing, pwt o ddyn a squab of a person, pwtog a short, thick woman.] A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person. Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign. --Bramston. What droll puts the citizens seem in it all. --F. Harrison. | |
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Put \Put\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Put}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Putting}.] [AS. potian to thrust: cf. Dan. putte to put, to put into, Fries. putje; perh. akin to W. pwtio to butt, poke, thrust; cf. also Gael. put to push, thrust, and E. potter, v. i.] 1. To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out). His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight. This present dignity, In which that I have put you. --Chaucer. I will put enmity between thee and the woman. --Gen. iii. 15. He put no trust in his servants. --Job iv. 18. When God into the hands of their deliverer Puts invincible might. --Milton. In the mean time other measures were put in operation. --Sparks. 3. To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression. 4. To lay down; to give up; to surrender. [Obs.] No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends. --Wyclif (John xv. 13). 5. To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case. Let us now put that ye have leave. --Chaucer. Put the perception and you put the mind. --Berkeley. These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. --Milton. All this is ingeniously and ably put. --Hare. 6. To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige. These wretches put us upon all mischief. --Swift. Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense. --Sir W. Scott. Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge. --Milton. 7. To throw or cast with a pushing motion [bd]overhand,[b8] the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight. 8. (Mining) To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway. --Raymond. {Put case}, formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. --Bp. Hall. {To put about} (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. {To put away}. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. {To put back}. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. --Shak. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to an earlier hour. (d) To restore to the original place; to replace. {To put by}. (a) To turn, set, or thrust, aside. [bd]Smiling put the question by.[b8] --Tennyson. (b) To lay aside; to keep; to sore up; as, to put by money. {To put down}. (a) To lay down; to deposit; to set down. (b) To lower; to diminish; as, to put down prices. (c) To deprive of position or power; to put a stop to; to suppress; to abolish; to confute; as, to put down rebellion or traitors. Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. --Shak. Sugar hath put down the use of honey. --Bacon. (d) To subscribe; as, to put down one's name. {To put forth}. (a) To thrust out; to extend, as the hand; to cause to come or push out; as, a tree puts forth leaves. (b) To make manifest; to develop; also, to bring into action; to exert; as, to put forth strength. (c) To propose, as a question, a riddle, and the like. (d) To publish, as a book. {To put forward}. (a) To advance to a position of prominence or responsibility; to promote. (b) To cause to make progress; to aid. (c) To set, as the hands of a clock, to a later hour. {To put in}. (a) To introduce among others; to insert; sometimes, to introduce with difficulty; as, to put in a word while others are discoursing. (b) (Naut.) To conduct into a harbor, as a ship. (c) (Law) To place in due form before a court; to place among the records of a court. --Burrill. (d) (Med.) To restore, as a dislocated part, to its place. {To put off}. (a) To lay aside; to discard; as, to put off a robe; to put off mortality. [bd]Put off thy shoes from off thy feet.[b8] --Ex. iii. 5. (b) To turn aside; to elude; to disappoint; to frustrate; to baffle. I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue. --Boyle. We might put him off with this answer. --Bentley. (c) To delay; to defer; to postpone; as, to put off repentance. (d) To get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\ (put; often p[ucr]t in def. 3), v. i. 1. To go or move; as, when the air first puts up. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. To steer; to direct one's course; to go. His fury thus appeased, he puts to land. --Dryden. 3. To play a card or a hand in the game called put. {To put about} (Naut.), to change direction; to tack. {To put back} (Naut.), to turn back; to return. [bd]The French . . . had put back to Toulon.[b8] --Southey. {To put forth}. (a) To shoot, bud, or germinate. [bd]Take earth from under walls where nettles put forth.[b8] --Bacon. (b) To leave a port or haven, as a ship. --Shak. {To put in} (Naut.), to enter a harbor; to sail into port. {To put in for}. (a) To make a request or claim; as, to put in for a share of profits. (b) To go into covert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. --Locke. {To put off}, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. {To put on}, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. {To put over} (Naut.), to sail over or across. {To put to sea} (Naut.), to set sail; to begin a voyage; to advance into the ocean. {To put up}. (a) To take lodgings; to lodge. (b) To offer one's self as a candidate. --L'Estrange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\, n. 1. The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball. [bd]A forced put.[b8] --L'Estrange. 2. A certain game at cards. --Young. 3. A privilege which one party buys of another to [bd]put[b8] (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date. [Brokers' Cant] A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price. --Johnson's Cyc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Put \Put\, n. [OF. pute.] A prostitute. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putt \Putt\, n. [Cf. {Put}, v. t.] (Golf) A stroke made on the putting green to play the ball into a hole. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putt \Putt\, v. i. (Golf) To make a putt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puttee \Put"tee\, n. Same as {Putty}, a kind of gaiter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n.; pl. {Putties}. [Written also {puttee}, {puttie}.] [Hind. pa[tsdot][tsdot]i ribbon, brace, tie.] A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puttee \Put"tee\, n. Same as {Putty}, a kind of gaiter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n.; pl. {Putties}. [Written also {puttee}, {puttie}.] [Hind. pa[tsdot][tsdot]i ribbon, brace, tie.] A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n.; pl. {Putties}. [Written also {puttee}, {puttie}.] [Hind. pa[tsdot][tsdot]i ribbon, brace, tie.] A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n. (Golf) A ball made of composition and not gutta percha. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n.; pl. {Putties}. [Written also {puttee}, {puttie}.] [Hind. pa[tsdot][tsdot]i ribbon, brace, tie.] A kind of gaiter of waterproof cloth wrapped around the leg, used by soldiers, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, n. [F. pot[82]e, fr. pot pot; what was formerly called putty being a substance resembling what is now called putty powder, and in part made of the metal of old pots. See {Pot}.] A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. {Putty powder}, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing glass, metal, precious stones, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Putty \Put"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Puttied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puttying}.] To cement, or stop, with putty. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Piatti \[d8]Pi*at"ti\, n. pl. [It., prop., plates.] (Mus.) Cymbals. [Written also {pyatti}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyet \Py"et\, n. A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.] Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyoid \Py"oid\, a. [Gr. [?] pus + --oid.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus. {Pyoid corpuscles} (Med.), cells of a size larger than pus corpuscles, containing two or more of the latter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyot \Py"ot\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The magpie. See {Piet}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Payette, ID (city, FIPS 61300) Location: 44.07696 N, 116.92895 W Population (1990): 5592 (2270 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83661 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Petty, TX Zip code(s): 75470 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Piti, GU (CDP, FIPS 58600) Location: 13.46466 N, 144.69541 E Population (1990): 723 (237 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pitt, MN Zip code(s): 56665 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Poteau, OK (city, FIPS 60350) Location: 35.04103 N, 94.63483 W Population (1990): 7210 (3162 housing units) Area: 73.7 sq km (land), 7.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74953 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Poth, TX (town, FIPS 59096) Location: 29.07240 N, 98.08091 W Population (1990): 1642 (598 housing units) Area: 8.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78147 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pyatt, AR (town, FIPS 57890) Location: 36.25126 N, 92.84442 W Population (1990): 185 (91 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pyote, TX (town, FIPS 59996) Location: 31.53721 N, 103.12252 W Population (1990): 348 (97 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79777 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
path n. 1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {{Internet address}}; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up in diagnostics and trace headers ocvcasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers). 2. [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory (as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes called a `relative path'). This is also called a `pathname'. 3. [Unix and MS-DOS] The `search path', an environment variable specifying the directories in which the {shell} (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for example, the C preprocessor has a `search path' it uses in looking for `#include' files). | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
PBD /P-B-D/ n. [abbrev. of `Programmer Brain Damage'] Applied to bug reports revealing places where the program was obviously broken by an incompetent or short-sighted programmer. Compare {UBD}; see also {brain-damaged}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
PD /P-D/ adj. [common] Abbreviation for `public domain', applied to software distributed over {Usenet} and from Internet archive sites. Much of this software is not in fact public domain in the legal sense but travels under various copyrights granting reproduction and use rights to anyone who can {snarf} a copy. See {copyleft}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
peta- /pe't*/ pref [SI] See {{quantifiers}}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
pod n. [allegedly from abbreviation POD for `Prince Of Darkness'] A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it. Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
P.O.D. /P-O-D/ [rare] Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section). See also {pod}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
pod n. [allegedly from abbreviation POD for `Prince Of Darkness'] A Diablo 630 (or, latterly, any letter-quality impact printer). From the DEC-10 PODTYPE program used to feed formatted text to it. Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
P.O.D. /P-O-D/ [rare] Acronym for `Piece Of Data' (as opposed to a code section). See also {pod}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PAD {Packet Assembler/Disassembler} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PAT 1. 2. (1998-05-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
path 1. address}; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. 2. 3. (under {Unix}) or the command interpreter (under {MS-DOS}) searches for {executables}. It is stored as part of the {environment} in both operating systems. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the {C} {preprocessor}, for example, uses such a search path to locate "#include" files. [{Jargon File}] (1996-11-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PBD {Programmer Brain Damage} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PD {public domain} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDA {Personal Digital Assistant} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDH {Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDU {Protocol Data Unit} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
peta- {prefix} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PID {process identifier} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PIT Language for IBM 650. (See {IT}). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pod Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}. 1. Darkness") A {Diablo} 630 (or, latterly, any {letter-quality} {impact printer}). From the {DEC-10} {PODTYPE} program used to feed formatted text to it. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1998-12-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
P.O.D. Piece Of Data (as opposed to {code}). [{Jargon File}] (2000-04-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pod Not to be confused with {P.O.D.}. 1. Darkness") A {Diablo} 630 (or, latterly, any {letter-quality} {impact printer}). From the {DEC-10} {PODTYPE} program used to feed formatted text to it. 2. [{Jargon File}] (1998-12-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
P.O.D. Piece Of Data (as opposed to {code}). [{Jargon File}] (2000-04-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PPD {Parallel Presence Detect} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pt 1. 2. (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PTI {Portable Tool Interface} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PTT {Post, Telephone and Telegraph administration} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pedaiah redemption of the Lord. (1.) The father of Zebudah, who was the wife of Josiah and mother of king Jehoiakim (2 Kings 23:36). (2.) The father of Zerubbabel (1 Chr. 3:17-19). (3.). The father of Joel, ruler of the half-tribe of Manasseh (1 Chr. 27:20). (4.) Neh. 3:25. (5.) A Levite (8:4). (6.) A Benjamite (11:7). (7.) A Levite (13:13). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pethahiah loosed of the Lord. (1.) The chief of one of the priestly courses (the nineteenth) in the time of David (1 Chr. 24:16). (2.) A Levite (Ezra 10:23). (3.) Neh. 9:5. (4.) A descendant of Judah who had some office at the court of Persia (Neh. 11:24). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Phut Phut is placed between Egypt and Canaan in Gen. 10:6, and elsewhere we find the people of Phut described as mercenaries in the armies of Egypt and Tyre (Jer. 46:9; Ezek. 30:5; 27:10). In a fragment of the annuals of Nebuchadrezzar which records his invasion of Egypt, reference is made to "Phut of the Ionians." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Piety Lat. pietas, properly honour and respect toward parents (1 Tim. 5:4). In Acts 17:23 the Greek verb is rendered "ye worship," as applicable to God. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pit a hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a grave (Ps. 30:3). It is used as a figure for mischief (Ps. 9:15), and is the name given to the unseen place of woe (Rev. 20:1, 3). The slime-pits in the vale of Siddim were wells which yielded asphalt (Gen. 14:10). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pedaiah, redemption of the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pethahiah, the Lord opening; gate of the Lord |