English Dictionary: Peel | by the DICT Development Group |
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Pail \Pail\, n. [OE. paile, AS. p[91]gel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & G. pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of wine, Dan. p[91]gel half a pint.] A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. --Shak. | |
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Pal \Pal\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang] | |
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Pal91o- \Pa"l[91]*o-\ See {Paleo-}. | |
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Paleo- \Pa"le*o-\ [Gr. [?], adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also {pal[91]o}-.] | |
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Pal91o- \Pa"l[91]*o-\ See {Paleo-}. | |
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Paleo- \Pa"le*o-\ [Gr. [?], adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also {pal[91]o}-.] | |
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Pale \Pale\, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See {Pol[?]} a stake, and lst {Pallet}.] 1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket. Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down. --Mortimer. 2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. [bd]Within one pale or hedge.[b8] --Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. [bd]To walk the studious cloister's pale.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Out of the pale of civilization.[b8] --Macaulay. 4. A stripe or band, as on a garment. --Chaucer. 5. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. 6. A cheese scoop. --Simmonds. 7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. {English pale} (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. --Spencer. | |
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Pale \Pale\, a. [Compar. {Paler}; superl. {Palest}.] [F. p[83]le, fr. p[83]lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o[?] look pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Fallow}, {pall}, v. i., {Pallid}.] 1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. [bd]Pale as a forpined ghost.[b8] --Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. --T. Randolph. 2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. --Shak. Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc. | |
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Pale \Pale\, n. Paleness; pallor. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Pale \Pale\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paling}.] To turn pale; to lose color or luster. --Whittier. Apt to pale at a trodden worm. --Mrs. Browning. | |
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Pale \Pale\, v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off. [Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters. --Shak. | |
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Pale \Pale\, v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. The glow[?]worm shows the matin to be near, And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. --Shak. | |
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d8Palea \[d8]Pa"le*a\, n.; pl. {Pale[91]} (-[emac]). [L., chaff.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The interior chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap. | |
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Paleo- \Pa"le*o-\ [Gr. [?], adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as, palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also {pal[91]o}-.] | |
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Pali \Pa"li\, n. [Ceylonese, fr. Skr. p[be]li row, line, series, applied to the series of Buddhist sacred texts.] A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc. | |
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d8Palus \[d8]Pa"lus\, n.; pl. {Pali}. [L., a stake.] (Zo[94]l.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals. | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury. 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. Same as {Pawl}. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[91]l, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.] 1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. --Spenser. 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). 3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as {Pallium}. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. --Fuller. 4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. 5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson. 6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Palled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palling}.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p[83]lir to grow pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Pale}, a.] To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} [or] {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. t. 1. To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken. --Chaucer. Reason and reflection . . . pall all his enjoyments. --Atterbury. 2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. Same as {Pawl}. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. [OE. pal, AS. p[91]l, from L. pallium cover, cloak, mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.] 1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. --Spenser. 2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Esther viii. 15). 3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as {Pallium}. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. --Fuller. 4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y. 5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. --Tennyson. 6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice. | |
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Pall \Pall\, n. Nausea. [Obs.] --Shaftesbury. | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. t. To cloak. [R.] --Shak | |
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Pall \Pall\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Palled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palling}.] [Either shortened fr. appall, or fr. F. p[83]lir to grow pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Pale}, a.] To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense. --Addisin. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} [or] {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. | |
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Pallah \Pal"lah\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A large South African antelope ({[92]pyceros melampus}). The male has long lyrate and annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent on the croup. Called also {roodebok}. | |
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d8Pallium \[d8]Pal"li*um\, n.; pl. L. {Pallia}([?]), E. {Palliums}. [L. See {Pall} the garment.] 1. (Anc. Costume) A large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person, worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of a Greek garment. 2. (R.C.Ch.) A band of white wool, worn on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a pall. Note: The wool is obtained from two lambs brought to the basilica of St. Agnes, Rome, and blessed. It is worn by the pope, and sent to patriarchs, primates, and archbishops, as a sign that they share in the plenitude of the episcopal office. Befoer it is sent, the pallium is laid on the tomb of St. Peter, where it remains all night. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The mantle of a bivalve. See {Mantle}. (b) The mantle of a bird. | |
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Paly \Pal"y\, a. [From {Pale}, a.] Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] --Shak. Whittier. | |
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Paly \Pal"y\, a. [Cf. F. pal[82]. See {Pale} a stake.] (Her.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately. | |
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Paul \Paul\, n. See {Pawl}. | |
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Paul \Paul\, n. An Italian silver coin. See {Paolo}. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} [or] {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. | |
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Paul \Paul\, n. See {Pawl}. | |
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Paul \Paul\, n. An Italian silver coin. See {Paolo}. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} [or] {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, n. [W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. {Pole} a stake.] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of {Ratchet Wheel}. [Written also {paul}, or {pall}.] {Pawl bitt} (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. {Pawl rim} [or] {ring} (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. | |
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Pawl \Pawl\, v. t. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off. {To pawl the capstan}. See under {Capstan}. | |
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Peal \Peal\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo[94]l.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Peal \Peal\, v. i. To appeal. [Obs.] --Spencer. | |
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Peal \Peal\, n. [An abbrev. of F. appel a call, appeal, ruffle of a drum, fr. appeller to call, L. appellare. See {Appeal}.] 1. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. [bd]A fair peal of artillery.[b8] --Hayward. Whether those peals of praise be his or no. --Shak. And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar. --Byron. 2. A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells. {To ring a peal}. See under {Ring}. | |
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Peal \Peal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pealed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pealing}.] 1. To utter or give out loud sounds. There let the pealing organ blow. --Milton. 2. To resound; to echo. And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men. --Longfellow. | |
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Peal \Peal\, v. t. 1. To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. The warrior's name, Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame. --J. Barlow. 2. To assail with noise or loud sounds. Nor was his ear less pealed. --Milton. 3. To pour out. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
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Peel \Peel\, v. t. [Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage. See {Pill} to rob, {Pillage}.] To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. --Milton. | |
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Peel \Peel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peeled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peeling}.] [F. peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. {Fell} skin). Cf. {Peruke}.] 1. To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. --Shak. 2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc. | |
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Peel \Peel\, n. [OE. pel. Cf. {Pile} a heap.] A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.] | |
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Peel \Peel\, n. [F. pelle, L. pala.] A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar. | |
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Peel \Peel\, v. i. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily. | |
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Peel \Peel\, n. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange. | |
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Peele \Pee"le\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A graceful and swift South African antelope ({Pelea capreola}). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also {rheeboc}, and {rehboc}. | |
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Wax \Wax\, n. [AS. weax; akin to OFries. wax, D. was, G. wachs, OHG. wahs, Icel. & Sw. vax, Dan. vox, Lith. vaszkas, Russ. vosk'.] 1. A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow. Note: Beeswax consists essentially of cerotic acid (constituting the more soluble part) and of myricyl palmitate (constituting the less soluble part). 2. Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance. Specifically: (a) (Physiol.) Cerumen, or earwax. See {Cerumen}. (b) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc. (c) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread. (d) (Zo[94]l.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See {Wax insect}, below. (e) (Bot.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See {Vegetable wax}, under {Vegetable}. (f) (Min.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite. (g) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. [Local U. S.] {Japanese wax}, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of {Rhus}, esp. {R. succedanea}. {Mineral wax}. (Min.) See {Wax}, 2 (f), above. {Wax cloth}. See {Waxed cloth}, under {Waxed}. {Wax end}. See {Waxed end}, under {Waxed}. {Wax flower}, a flower made of, or resembling, wax. {Wax insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of scale insects belonging to the family {Coccid[91]}, which secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially the Chinese wax insect ({Coccus Sinensis}) from which a large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained. Called also {pela}. {Wax light}, a candle or taper of wax. {Wax moth} (Zo[94]l.), a pyralid moth ({Galleria cereana}) whose larv[91] feed upon honeycomb, and construct silken galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called also {bee moth}. {Wax myrtle}. (Bot.) See {Bayberry}. {Wax painting}, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted with hot irons and the color thus fixed. {Wax palm}. (Bot.) (a) A species of palm ({Ceroxylon Andicola}) native of the Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion, consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax, which, when melted with a third of fat, makes excellent candles. (b) A Brazilian tree ({Copernicia cerifera}) the young leaves of which are covered with a useful waxy secretion. {Wax paper}, paper prepared with a coating of white wax and other ingredients. {Wax plant} (Bot.), a name given to several plants, as: (a) The Indian pipe (see under {Indian}). (b) The {Hoya carnosa}, a climbing plant with polished, fleshy leaves. (c) Certain species of {Begonia} with similar foliage. {Wax tree} (Bot.) (a) A tree or shrub ({Ligustrum lucidum}) of China, on which certain insects make a thick deposit of a substance resembling white wax. (b) A kind of sumac ({Rhus succedanea}) of Japan, the berries of which yield a sort of wax. (c) A rubiaceous tree ({El[91]agia utilis}) of New Grenada, called by the inhabitants [bd]arbol del cera.[b8] {Wax yellow}, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of beeswax. | |
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Pela \Pe"la\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Wax insect}, under {Wax}. | |
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Wax \Wax\, n. [AS. weax; akin to OFries. wax, D. was, G. wachs, OHG. wahs, Icel. & Sw. vax, Dan. vox, Lith. vaszkas, Russ. vosk'.] 1. A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow. Note: Beeswax consists essentially of cerotic acid (constituting the more soluble part) and of myricyl palmitate (constituting the less soluble part). 2. Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance. Specifically: (a) (Physiol.) Cerumen, or earwax. See {Cerumen}. (b) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc. (c) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread. (d) (Zo[94]l.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See {Wax insect}, below. (e) (Bot.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See {Vegetable wax}, under {Vegetable}. (f) (Min.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite. (g) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. [Local U. S.] {Japanese wax}, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of {Rhus}, esp. {R. succedanea}. {Mineral wax}. (Min.) See {Wax}, 2 (f), above. {Wax cloth}. See {Waxed cloth}, under {Waxed}. {Wax end}. See {Waxed end}, under {Waxed}. {Wax flower}, a flower made of, or resembling, wax. {Wax insect} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of scale insects belonging to the family {Coccid[91]}, which secrete from their bodies a waxlike substance, especially the Chinese wax insect ({Coccus Sinensis}) from which a large amount of the commercial Chinese wax is obtained. Called also {pela}. {Wax light}, a candle or taper of wax. {Wax moth} (Zo[94]l.), a pyralid moth ({Galleria cereana}) whose larv[91] feed upon honeycomb, and construct silken galleries among the fragments. The moth has dusky gray wings streaked with brown near the outer edge. The larva is yellowish white with brownish dots. Called also {bee moth}. {Wax myrtle}. (Bot.) See {Bayberry}. {Wax painting}, a kind of painting practiced by the ancients, under the name of encaustic. The pigments were ground with wax, and diluted. After being applied, the wax was melted with hot irons and the color thus fixed. {Wax palm}. (Bot.) (a) A species of palm ({Ceroxylon Andicola}) native of the Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion, consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax, which, when melted with a third of fat, makes excellent candles. (b) A Brazilian tree ({Copernicia cerifera}) the young leaves of which are covered with a useful waxy secretion. {Wax paper}, paper prepared with a coating of white wax and other ingredients. {Wax plant} (Bot.), a name given to several plants, as: (a) The Indian pipe (see under {Indian}). (b) The {Hoya carnosa}, a climbing plant with polished, fleshy leaves. (c) Certain species of {Begonia} with similar foliage. {Wax tree} (Bot.) (a) A tree or shrub ({Ligustrum lucidum}) of China, on which certain insects make a thick deposit of a substance resembling white wax. (b) A kind of sumac ({Rhus succedanea}) of Japan, the berries of which yield a sort of wax. (c) A rubiaceous tree ({El[91]agia utilis}) of New Grenada, called by the inhabitants [bd]arbol del cera.[b8] {Wax yellow}, a dull yellow, resembling the natural color of beeswax. | |
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Pela \Pe"la\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Wax insect}, under {Wax}. | |
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Pell \Pell\, v. t. [Cf. {Pelt}, v. t.] To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] --Holland. | |
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Pell \Pell\, n. [OF. pel, F. peau, L. pellis a skin. See {Fell} a skin.] 1. A skin or hide; a pelt. 2. A roll of parchment; a parchment record. {Clerk of the pells}, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls. [Eng.] | |
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Phallus \Phal"lus\, n.; pl. {Phalli}. [L., a phallus (in sense 1), Gr. [?].] 1. The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways. 2. (Anat.) The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ from which either may be derived. 3. (Bot.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn. | |
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Vial \Vi"al\, n. [OE. viole, fiole, F. fiole. See {Phial}.] A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also {phial}.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. --Shak. | |
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Phial \Phi"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Phialed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Phialing}.] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. --Shenstone. | |
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Phial \Phi"al\, n. [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow cup or bowl, Gr. [?]. cf. {Vial}.] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial. | |
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Vial \Vi"al\, n. [OE. viole, fiole, F. fiole. See {Phial}.] A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine. [Written also {phial}.] Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor thou off. --Shak. | |
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Phial \Phi"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Phialed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Phialing}.] To put or keep in, or as in, a phial. Its phial'd wrath may fate exhaust. --Shenstone. | |
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Phial \Phi"al\, n. [F. fiole, L. phiala a broad, flat, shallow cup or bowl, Gr. [?]. cf. {Vial}.] A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial. | |
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Philo- \Philo-\ A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic. | |
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d8Phyle \[d8]Phy"le\, n.; pl. {Phyl[91]}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a body of men united by ties of blood or habitation.] A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe. | |
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d8Phylon \[d8]Phy"lon\, n.; pl. {Phyla}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] race, tribe.] (Biol.) A tribe. | |
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d8Phylum \[d8]Phy"lum\, n.; pl. {Phyla}. [NL. See {Phylon}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division. | |
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Phyllo- \Phyl"lo-\ A combining form from Gr. [?] a leaf; as, phyllopod, phyllotaxy. | |
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Pial \Pi"al\, a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the pia mater. | |
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d8Pillau \[d8]Pil*lau"\, n. [Per. & Turk. pilau.] An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also {pilau}.] | |
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Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called {hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}. Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.] {Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed. | |
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Pileus \Pi"le*us\, n.; pl. {Pilei}. [L., a felt cap.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt. 2. (Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See {Mushroom}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape. | |
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Pill \Pill\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pilled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pilling}.] [F. piller, L. pilare; cf. It. pigliare to take. Cf. {Peel} to plunder.] To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See {Peel}, to plunder. [Obs.] --Spenser. Pillers and robbers were come in to the field to pill and to rob. --Sir T. Malroy. | |
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Pill \Pill\, n. [F. pilute, L. pilula a pill, little ball, dim. of L. pila a ball. Cf. {Piles}.] 1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. 2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. | |
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Pill \Pill\, n. [Cf. {Peel} skin, or {Pillion}.] The peel or skin. [Obs.] [bd]Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts.[b8] --Holland. | |
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Pill \Pill\, v. i. To be peeled; to peel off in flakes. | |
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Pill \Pill\, v. t. [Cf. L. pilare to deprive of hair, and E. pill, n. (above).] 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. [Obs.] 2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. [Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . in the rods. --Gen. xxx. 37. | |
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Pillow \Pil"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pillowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pillowing}.] To rest or lay upon, or as upon, a pillow; to support; as, to pillow the head. Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. --Milton. | |
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Pillow \Pil"low\, n. [OE. pilwe, AS. pyle, fr. L. pilvinus.] 1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material. [Resty sloth] finds the down pillow hard. --Shak. 2. (Mach.) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. [R.] 3. (Naut.) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit. 4. A kind of plain, coarse fustian. {Lace pillow}, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace. {Pillow bier} [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. b[81]re a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow slip. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Pillow block} (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the frame or foundation of a machine, and is often furnished with journal boxes, and a movable cover, or cap, for tightening the bearings by means of bolts; -- called also {pillar block}, or {plumber block}. {Pillow lace}, handmade lace wrought with bobbins upon a lace pillow. {Pillow of a plow}, a crosspiece of wood which serves to raise or lower the beam. {Pillow sham}, an ornamental covering laid over a pillow when not in use. {Pillow slip}, a pillowcase. | |
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Pillowy \Pil"low*y\, a. Like a pillow. --Keats. | |
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Pilwe \Pil"we\, n. A pillow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pily \Pi"ly\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Like pile or wool. | |
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Kecksy \Keck"sy\, n.; pl. {Kecksies} (-s[icr]z). [Properly pl. of kex. See {Kex}.] (Bot.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock. [Written also {kex}, and in {pl}., {kecks}, {kaxes}.] Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs. --Shak. | |
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Play \Play\, v. t. {To play hob}, to play the part of a mischievous spirit; to work mischief. d8Plebs \[d8]Plebs\ (pl[ecr]bz), n. [L. Cf. {Plebe}.] 1. The commonalty of ancient Rome who were citizens without the usual political rights; the plebeians; -- distinguished from the {patricians}. 2. Hence, the common people; the populace; -- construed as a pl. | |
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Play \Play\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Played}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Playing}.] [OE. pleien, AS. plegian, plegan, to play, akin to plega play, game, quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown origin. [root]28. Cf. {Plight}, n.] 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was playing in her walk. --Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play! --Pope. And some, the darlings of their Lord, Play smiling with the flame and sword. --Keble. 2. To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. [bd]Nay,[b8] quod this monk, [bd]I have no lust to pleye.[b8] --Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball; hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes. 4. To perform on an instrument of music; as, to play on a flute. One that . . . can play well on an instrument. --Ezek. xxxiii. 32. Play, my friend, and charm the charmer. --Granville. 5. To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. --Shak. 6. To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. --Cheyne. 7. To move gayly; to wanton; to disport. Even as the waving sedges play with wind. --Shak. The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets. --Addison. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. --Pope. 8. To act on the stage; to personate a character. A lord will hear your play to-night. --Shak. Courts are theaters where some men play. --Donne. {To play into a person's hands}, to act, or to manage matters, to his advantage or benefit. {To play off}, to affect; to feign; to practice artifice. {To play upon}. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive? Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. --Shak. (b) To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words. | |
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Play \Play\, n. 1. Amusement; sport; frolic; gambols. 2. Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game. John naturally loved rough play. --Arbuthnot. 3. The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play. 4. Action; use; employment; exercise; practice; as, fair play; sword play; a play of wit. [bd]The next who comes in play.[b8] --Dryden. 5. A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which characters are represented by dialogue and action. A play ought to be a just image of human nature. --Dryden. 6. The representation or exhibition of a comedy or tragedy; as, he attends ever play. 7. Performance on an instrument of music. 8. Motion; movement, regular or irregular; as, the play of a wheel or piston; hence, also, room for motion; free and easy action. [bd]To give them play, front and rear.[b8] --Milton. The joints are let exactly into one another, that they have no play between them. --Moxon. 9. Hence, liberty of acting; room for enlargement or display; scope; as, to give full play to mirth. {Play actor}, an actor of dramas. --Prynne. {Play debt}, a gambling debt. --Arbuthnot. {Play pleasure}, idle amusement. [Obs.] --Bacon. {A play upon words}, the use of a word in such a way as to be capable of double meaning; punning. {Play of colors}, prismatic variation of colors. {To bring into play}, {To come into play}, to bring or come into use or exercise. {To hold in play}, to keep occupied or employed. | |
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Play \Play\, v. t. 1. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. --Herbert. 2. To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ. 3. To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin. 4. To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks. Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies. --Milton. 5. To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman. Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball. 7. To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it. {To play off}, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks. {To play one's cards}, to manage one's means or opportunities; to contrive. {Played out}, tired out; exhausted; at the end of one's resources. [Colloq.] | |
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Plea \Plea\, n. [OE. plee, plai, plait, fr. OF. plait, plaid, plet, LL. placitum judgment, decision, assembly, court, fr. L. placitum that which is pleasing, an opinion, sentiment, from placere to please. See {Please}, and cf. {Placit}, {Plead}.] 1. (Law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him. 2. (Law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas. See under {Common}. The Supreme Judicial Court shall have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed. --Laws of Massachusetts. 3. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification; an excuse; an apology. [bd]Necessity, the tyrant's plea.[b8] --Milton. No plea must serve; 't is cruelty to spare. --Denham. 4. An urgent prayer or entreaty. {Pleas of the crown} (Eng. Law), criminal actions. | |
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Pley \Pley\, v. & n. See {Play}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pley \Pley\, a. Full See {Plein}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS. pl[d3]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. pl[d3]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas.] 1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. --Dryden. 2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson. 3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. --Tale of Gamelyn. 4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane. 5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. 6. (Astron.) Same as {Charles's Wain}. {Ice plow}, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.] {Mackerel plow}. See under {Mackerel}. {Plow alms}, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. --Cowell. {Plow beam}, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See {Beam}, n., 9. {Plow Monday}, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. {Plow staff}. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. {Snow plow}, a structure, usually [LAMBDA]-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plowed} (ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or {Ploughing}.] 1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. 2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope. 3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, n., 5. 4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. {To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), v. i. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. --Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? --Isa. xxviii. 24. | |
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Ploy \Ploy\, n. Sport; frolic. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Ploy \Ploy\, v. i. [Prob. abbrev. fr. deploy.] (Mil.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. --Wilhelm. | |
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Ply \Ply\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plying}.] [OE. plien, F. plier to fold, to bend, fr. L. plicare; akin to Gr. [?], G. flechten. Cf. {Apply}, {Complex}, {Display}, {Duplicity}, {Employ}, {Exploit}, {Implicate}, {Plait}, {Pliant}, {Flax}.] 1. To bend. [Obs.] As men may warm wax with handes plie. --Chaucer. 2. To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink. And plies him with redoubled strokes --Dryden. He plies the duke at morning and at night. --Shak. 3. To employ diligently; to use steadily. Go ply thy needle; meddle not. --Shak. 4. To practice or perform with diligence; to work at. Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. --Waller. | |
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Ply \Ply\, n. [Cf. F. pli, fr. plier. See {Ply}, v.] 1. A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord. --Arbuthnot. 2. Bent; turn; direction; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. --Bacon. Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. --W. Irving. The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. --Macaulay. Note: Ply is used in composition to designate folds, or the number of webs interwoven; as, a three-ply carpet. | |
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Ply \Ply\, v. i. 1. To bend; to yield. [Obs.] It would rather burst atwo than plye. --Chaucer. The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. --L'Estrange. 2. To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports. Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). --Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. --Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. --Longfellow. 3. (Naut.) To work to windward; to beat. | |
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Rod \Rod\, n. [The same word as rood. See {Rood}.] 1. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically: (a) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement. He that spareth his rod hateth his son. --Prov. xiii. 24. (b) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. [bd]The rod, and bird of peace.[b8] --Shak. (c) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. --Gay. (d) (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar. (e) An instrument for measuring. 2. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also {perch}, and {pole}. {Black rod}. See in the Vocabulary. {Rods and cones} (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [Cf. G. Pole a Pole, Polen Poland.] A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[be]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make fast. Cf. {Pale} a stake, {Pact}.] 1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See {Maypole}. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained. 2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5[?] yards, or a square measure equal to 30[?] square yards; a rod; a perch. --Bacon. {Pole bean} (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean. {Pole flounder} (Zo[94]l.), a large deep-water flounder ({Glyptocephalus cynoglossus}), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also {craig flounder}, and {pole fluke}. {Pole lathe}, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above. {Pole mast} (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree. {Pole of a lens} (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface. {Pole plate} (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall. | |
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Pole \Pole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poling}.] 1. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops. 2. To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn. 3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat. 4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [L. polus, Gr. [?] a pivot or hinge on which anything turns, an axis, a pole; akin to [?] to move: cf. F. p[93]le.] 1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole. 2. (Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian. 3. (Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle. 4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. --Milton. 5. (Geom.) See {Polarity}, and {Polar}, n. {Magnetic pole}. See under {Magnetic}. {Poles of the earth}, [or] {Terrestrial poles} (Geog.), the two opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes. {Poles of the heavens}, [or] {Celestial poles}, the two opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis produced, and about which the heavens appear to revolve. | |
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Rod \Rod\, n. [The same word as rood. See {Rood}.] 1. A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes). Specifically: (a) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement. He that spareth his rod hateth his son. --Prov. xiii. 24. (b) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression. [bd]The rod, and bird of peace.[b8] --Shak. (c) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole. --Gay. (d) (Mach. & Structure) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar. (e) An instrument for measuring. 2. A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also {perch}, and {pole}. {Black rod}. See in the Vocabulary. {Rods and cones} (Anat.), the elongated cells or elements of the sensory layer of the retina, some of which are cylindrical, others somewhat conical. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [Cf. G. Pole a Pole, Polen Poland.] A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Polander. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [As. p[be]l, L. palus, akin to pangere to make fast. Cf. {Pale} a stake, {Pact}.] 1. A long, slender piece of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See {Maypole}. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers. (e) A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained. 2. A measuring stick; also, a measure of length equal to 5[?] yards, or a square measure equal to 30[?] square yards; a rod; a perch. --Bacon. {Pole bean} (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean. {Pole flounder} (Zo[94]l.), a large deep-water flounder ({Glyptocephalus cynoglossus}), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also {craig flounder}, and {pole fluke}. {Pole lathe}, a simple form of lathe, or a substitute for a lathe, in which the work is turned by means of a cord passing around it, one end being fastened to the treadle, and the other to an elastic pole above. {Pole mast} (Naut.), a mast formed from a single piece or from a single tree. {Pole of a lens} (Opt.), the point where the principal axis meets the surface. {Pole plate} (Arch.), a horizontal timber resting on the tiebeams of a roof and receiving the ends of the rafters. It differs from the plate in not resting on the wall. | |
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Pole \Pole\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poling}.] 1. To furnish with poles for support; as, to pole beans or hops. 2. To convey on poles; as, to pole hay into a barn. 3. To impel by a pole or poles, as a boat. 4. To stir, as molten glass, with a pole. | |
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Pole \Pole\, n. [L. polus, Gr. [?] a pivot or hinge on which anything turns, an axis, a pole; akin to [?] to move: cf. F. p[93]le.] 1. Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole. 2. (Spherics) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian. 3. (Physics) One of the opposite or contrasted parts or directions in which a polar force is manifested; a point of maximum intensity of a force which has two such points, or which has polarity; as, the poles of a magnet; the north pole of a needle. 4. The firmament; the sky. [Poetic] Shoots against the dusky pole. --Milton. 5. (Geom.) See {Polarity}, and {Polar}, n. {Magnetic pole}. See under {Magnetic}. {Poles of the earth}, [or] {Terrestrial poles} (Geog.), the two opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes. {Poles of the heavens}, [or] {Celestial poles}, the two opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis produced, and about which the heavens appear to revolve. | |
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Poley \Po"ley\, n. (Bot.) See {Poly}. | |
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Poley \Po"ley\, a. Without horns; polled. [Prov. Eng.] [bd]That poley heifer.[b8] --H. Kingsley. | |
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Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order {Labiat[91]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.] {Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary. | |
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Poley \Po"ley\, n. (Bot.) See {Poly}. | |
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Poley \Po"ley\, a. Without horns; polled. [Prov. Eng.] [bd]That poley heifer.[b8] --H. Kingsley. | |
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Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order {Labiat[91]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.] {Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary. | |
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Poll \Poll\, n. [Akin to LG. polle the head, the crest of a bird, the top of a tree, OD. pol, polle, Dan. puld the crown of a hat.] 1. The head; the back part of the head. [bd]All flaxen was his poll.[b8] --Shak. 2. A number or aggregate of heads; a list or register of heads or individuals. We are the greater poll, and in true fear They gave us our demands. --Shak. The muster file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand poll. --Shak. 3. Specifically, the register of the names of electors who may vote in an election. 4. The casting or recording of the votes of registered electors; as, the close of the poll. All soldiers quartered in place are to remove . . . and not to return till one day after the poll is ended. --Blackstone. 5. pl. The place where the votes are cast or recorded; as, to go to the polls. 6. The broad end of a hammer; the but of an ax. 7. (Zo[94]l.) The European chub. See {Pollard}, 3 (a) . {Poll book}, a register of persons entitled to vote at an election. {Poll evil} (Far.), an inflammatory swelling or abscess on a horse's head, confined beneath the great ligament of the neck. {Poll pick} (Mining), a pole having a heavy spike on the end, forming a kind of crowbar. {Poll tax}, a tax levied by the head, or poll; a capitation tax. | |
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Poll \Poll\, n. [From Polly, The proper name.] A parrot; -- familiarly so called. | |
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Poll \Poll\, n. [Gr. [?] the many, the rabble.] One who does not try for honors, but is content to take a degree merely; a passman. [Cambridge Univ., Eng.] | |
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Poll \Poll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polling}.] 1. To remove the poll or head of; hence, to remove the top or end of; to clip; to lop; to shear; as, to poll the head; to poll a tree. When he [Absalom] pollled his head. --2 Sam. xiv. 26. His death did so grieve them that they polled themselves; they clipped off their horse and mule's hairs. --Sir T. North. 2. To cut off; to remove by clipping, shearing, etc.; to mow or crop; -- sometimes with off; as, to poll the hair; to poll wool; to poll grass. Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it. --Chapman. 3. To extort from; to plunder; to strip. [Obs.] Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise. --Spenser. 4. To impose a tax upon. [Obs.] 5. To pay as one's personal tax. The man that polled but twelve pence for his head. --Dryden. 6. To enter, as polls or persons, in a list or register; to enroll, esp. for purposes of taxation; to enumerate one by one. Polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms. --Milton. 7. To register or deposit, as a vote; to elicit or call forth, as votes or voters; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. --Tickell. 8. (Law) To cut or shave smooth or even; to cut in a straight line without indentation; as, a polled deed. See {Dee[?] poll}. --Burrill. | |
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Poll \Poll\, v. i. To vote at an election. --Beaconsfield. | |
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Polly \Pol"ly\, n. A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot. | |
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Polo \Po"lo\, n. A game similar to hockey played by swimmers. | |
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Polo \Po"lo\, n. [Sp., an air or popular song in Andalucia.] A Spanish gypsy dance characterized by energetic movements of the body while the feet merely shuffle or glide, with unison singing and rhythmic clapping of hands. | |
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Polo \Po"lo\, n. [Of Eastern origin; -- properly, the ball used in the game.] 1. A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback. 2. A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates. | |
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Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See {Full}, a.] A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic. | |
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Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order {Labiat[91]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.] {Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary. | |
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Poly- \Pol"y-\ [See {Full}, a.] A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic. | |
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Poly \Po"ly\, n. [L. polium, the name of a plant, perhaps Teucrium polium, Gr. [?].] (Bot.) A whitish woolly plant ({Teucrium Polium}) of the order {Labiat[91]}, found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus. [Spelt also {poley}.] {Poly mountain}. See {Poly-mountain}, in Vocabulary. | |
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Pool \Pool\, v. i. To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. | |
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Pool \Pool\, n. [AS. p[d3]l; akin to LG. pool, pohl, D. poel, G. pfuhl; cf. Icel. pollr, also W. pwll, Gael. poll.] 1. A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. --Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. --Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. --Tennyson. 2. A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. [bd]The filthy mantled pool beyond your cell.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.] [Written also {poule}.] 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes. 2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table. Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. He plays pool at the billiard houses. --Thackeray. 3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners. 4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. 5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool. 6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. 7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. {Pin pool}, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. {Pool ball}, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. {Pool snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] {Pool table}, a billiard table with pockets. | |
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Pool \Pool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pooled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pooling}.] To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic. Finally, it favors the poolingof all issues. --U. S. Grant. | |
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Pool \Pool\, n. [F. poule, properly, a hen. See {Pullet}.] [Written also {poule}.] 1. The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes. 2. A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table. Note: This game is played variously, but commonly with fifteen balls, besides one cue ball, the contest being to drive the most balls into the pockets. He plays pool at the billiard houses. --Thackeray. 3. In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners. 4. Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join. 5. A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool. 6. (Railroads) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement. 7. (Law) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities. {Pin pool}, a variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls. {Pool ball}, one of the colored ivory balls used in playing the game at billiards called pool. {Pool snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the European redshank. [Prov. Eng.] {Pool table}, a billiard table with pockets. | |
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Pule \Pule\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puling}.] [F. piauler; cf. L. pipilare, pipire, to peep, pip, chirp, and E. peep to chirp.] 1. To cry like a chicken. --Bacon. 2. To whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. --Barrow. | |
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Pull \Pull\, v. i. To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope. {To pull apart}, to become separated by pulling; as, a rope will pull apart. {To pull up}, to draw the reins; to stop; to halt. {To pull through}, to come successfully to the end of a difficult undertaking, a dangerous sickness, or the like. | |
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Pull \Pull\, n. 1. The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one. I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box. --Swift. 2. A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull. --Carew. 3. A pluck; loss or violence suffered. [Poetic] Two pulls at once; His lady banished, and a limb lopped off. --Shak. 4. A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull. 5. The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river. [Colloq.] 6. The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug. [Slang] --Dickens. 7. Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull. [Slang] 8. (Cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side. The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket. --R. A. Proctor. | |
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Pull \Pull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pulled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pulling}.] [AS. pullian; cf. LG. pulen, and Gael. peall, piol, spiol.] 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. --Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. --Gen. viii. 9. 2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate. --Lam. iii. 11. 3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. 4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. 5. (Horse Racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. 6. (Print.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. 7. (Cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See {Pull}, n., 8. Never pull a straight fast ball to leg. --R. H. Lyttelton. {To pull and haul}, to draw hither and thither. [bd] Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. [b8] --South. {To pull down}, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. [bd] In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up.[b8] --Howell. [bd] To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud.[b8] --Roscommon. {To pull a finch}. See under {Finch}. {To pull off}, take or draw off. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulley \Pul"ley\, n.; pl. {Pulleys}. [F. poulie, perhaps of Teutonic origin (cf. {Poll}, v. t.); but cf. OE. poleine, polive, pulley, LL. polanus, and F. poulain, properly, a colt, fr. L. pullus young animal, foal (cf. {Pullet}, {Foal}). For the change of sense, cf. F. poutre beam, originally, a filly, and E. easel.] (Mach.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one of the mechanical powers, consists, in its simplest form, of a grooved wheel, called a sheave, turning within a movable frame or block, by means of a cord or rope attached at one end to a fixed point. The force, acting on the free end of the rope, is thus doubled, but can move the load through only half the space traversed by itself. The rope may also pass over a sheave in another block that is fixed. The end of the rope may be fastened to the movable block, instead of a fixed point, with an additional gain of power, and using either one or two sheaves in the fixed block. Other sheaves may be added, and the power multiplied accordingly. Such an apparatus is called by workmen a block and tackle, or a fall and tackle. See {Block}. A single fixed pulley gives no increase of power, but serves simply for changing the direction of motion. {Band pulley}, [or] {Belt pulley}, a pulley with a broad face for transmitting power between revolving shafts by means of a belt, or for guiding a belt. {Cone pulley}. See {Cone pulley}. {Conical pulley}, one of a pair of belt pulleys, each in the shape of a truncated cone, for varying velocities. {Fast pulley}, a pulley firmly attached upon a shaft. {Loose pulley}, a pulley loose on a shaft, to interrupt the transmission of motion in machinery. See {Fast and loose pulleys}, under {Fast}. {Parting pulley}, a belt pulley made in semicircular halves, which can be bolted together, to facilitate application to, or removal from, a shaft. {Pulley block}. Same as {Block}, n. 6. {Pulley stile} (Arch.), the upright of the window frame into which a pulley is fixed and along which the sash slides. {Split pulley}, a parting pulley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulley \Pul"ley\, b. t. To raise or lift by means of a pulley. [R.] --Howell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pullus \[d8]Pul"lus\, n.; pl. {Pulli}. [L.] (Zo[94]l.) A chick; a young bird in the downy stage. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pyla \[d8]Py"la\ n.; pl. L. {Pyl[91]}, E. {Pylas}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] an entrance.] (Anat.) The passage between the iter and optoc[d2]le in the brain. --B. G. Wilder. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paauilo, HI (CDP, FIPS 59300) Location: 20.04337 N, 155.37174 W Population (1990): 620 (197 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96776 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pahala, HI (CDP, FIPS 59750) Location: 19.20325 N, 155.48241 W Population (1990): 1520 (521 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96777 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pala, CA Zip code(s): 92059 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Palo, IA (city, FIPS 61230) Location: 42.06419 N, 91.79599 W Population (1990): 514 (195 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52324 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paola, KS (city, FIPS 54250) Location: 38.57699 N, 94.86624 W Population (1990): 4698 (1892 housing units) Area: 8.9 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66071 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paoli, CO (town, FIPS 57245) Location: 40.61213 N, 102.47240 W Population (1990): 29 (20 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Paoli, IN (town, FIPS 57780) Location: 38.55763 N, 86.46922 W Population (1990): 3542 (1596 housing units) Area: 9.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 47454 Paoli, OK (town, FIPS 57100) Location: 34.82692 N, 97.26213 W Population (1990): 574 (242 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73074 Paoli, PA (CDP, FIPS 57816) Location: 40.04235 N, 75.49275 W Population (1990): 5603 (2229 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19301 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paul, ID (city, FIPS 61210) Location: 42.60644 N, 113.78239 W Population (1990): 901 (361 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83347 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pe Ell, WA (town, FIPS 53930) Location: 46.57153 N, 123.29692 W Population (1990): 547 (249 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98572 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Peel, AR Zip code(s): 72668 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pella, IA (city, FIPS 62040) Location: 41.40865 N, 92.91900 W Population (1990): 9270 (3179 housing units) Area: 11.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50219 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Philo, CA Zip code(s): 95466 Philo, IL (village, FIPS 59533) Location: 40.00314 N, 88.15796 W Population (1990): 1028 (388 housing units) Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61864 Philo, OH (village, FIPS 62442) Location: 39.86121 N, 81.90933 W Population (1990): 810 (306 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 43771 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pillow, PA (borough, FIPS 60264) Location: 40.64119 N, 76.80243 W Population (1990): 341 (137 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Polo, IL (city, FIPS 60937) Location: 41.98468 N, 89.57833 W Population (1990): 2514 (1060 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61064 Polo, MO (city, FIPS 58916) Location: 39.55219 N, 94.04005 W Population (1990): 539 (258 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 64671 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Poloa, AS (village, FIPS 64900) Location: 14.31827 S, 170.86348 W Population (1990): 176 (21 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 34.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pool, WV Zip code(s): 26684 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Powell, AL (town, FIPS 62088) Location: 34.53077 N, 85.89510 W Population (1990): 762 (308 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Powell, MO Zip code(s): 65730 Powell, OH (village, FIPS 64486) Location: 40.16051 N, 83.06563 W Population (1990): 2154 (752 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Powell, TN (CDP, FIPS 60480) Location: 36.03368 N, 84.02828 W Population (1990): 7534 (3023 housing units) Area: 21.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37849 Powell, TX (town, FIPS 59168) Location: 32.11648 N, 96.32872 W Population (1990): 101 (52 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75153 Powell, WY (city, FIPS 62450) Location: 44.79183 N, 108.73589 W Population (1990): 5292 (2175 housing units) Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 82435 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
poll v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered. 2. To repeatedly call or check with someone: "I keep polling him, but he's not answering his phone; he must be swapped out." 3. To ask. "Lunch? I poll for a takeout order daily." | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
P3L (Superscript 3). A language with explicit parallelism including constructs for {farm}s and {geometric parallelism}. P3L currently uses {C++} as a host language. [S. Pelagatti, "A method for the development and the support of massively parallel programs. PhD Thesis - TD 11/93, University of Pisa, Mar 1993]. (1994-07-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PAL 1. 2. For the {AVANCE} distributed {persistent} {operating system}. ["PAL Reference Manual", M. Ahlsen et al, SYSLAB WP-125, Stockholm 1987]. ["AVANCE: An Object Management System", A. Bjornerstedt et al, SIGPLAN Notices 23(11):206-221 (OOPSLA '88) (Nov 1988)]. [What is it?] 3. ["Inheritance Hierarchy Mechanism in Prolog", K. Akama, Proc Logic Prog '86, LNCS 264, Springer 1986, pp. 12-21]. 4. 5. 6. 7. (2001-04-02) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PEEL Used to implement version of {Emacs} on {PRIME} computers. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PFL 1. Matthews, using {CCS}. ["PFL: A Functional Language for Parallel Programming", S. Holmstrom in Proc Declarative Language Workshop, London 1983]. 2. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PIL Procedure Implementation Language. A subsystem of {DOCUS}. [Sammet 1969, p.678]. (1994-11-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PILE 1. Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M. ["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282]. 2. P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979]. (1999-06-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PIL/I Variant of JOSS. Sammet 1969, p.217. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pl (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL1 (1996-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/1 (1996-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL1 (1996-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/1 (1996-12-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL-11 {PDP-11} developed by R.D. Russell of CERN in Nov 1971. It is similar to {PL360} and is written in {Fortran IV} and {cross-compile}d on other machines. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL360 {Structured assembly language} for the {IBM 360} and {IBM 370}, with a few high-level constructs. Syntactically it resembles {ALGOL 60}. Its grammar is defined entirely by operator precedence. ["PL/360, A Programming Language for the 360 Computers", N. Wirth, J ACM 15(1):37-74 (Jan 1968)]. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL516 An {ALGOL}-like {assembly language} for the {DDP-516}, similar to {PL360}. ["PL 516, An ALGOL-like Assembly Language for the DDP-516", B.A. Wichmann, Natl Phys Lab UK, Report CCU 9, 1970]. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL-6 A {PL/I}-like system language for the {Honeywell} {operating system}, {CP-6}. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL.8 A systems dialect of {PL/I}, developed originally for the {IBM 801} {RISC} {minicomputer}, later used internally for {IBM RT} and {R/6000} development. ["An Overview of the PL.8 Compiler", M. Auslander et al, Proc SIGPLAN '82 Symp on Compiler Writing]. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Pla written in {SAIL}. Pla includes {concurrency} based on {message passing}. ["Pla: A Composer's Idea of a Language", B. Schottstaedt, Computer Music J 7(1):11-20, Winter 1983]. (1999-06-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLAY 1977. ["An Introduction to the Play Program", J. Chadabe ete al, Computer Music J 2,1 (1978)]. (1999-06-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/I Programming Language One. An attempt to combine the best features of {Fortran}, {COBOL} and {ALGOL 60}. Developed by George Radin of {IBM} in 1964. Originally named NPL and Fortran VI. The result is large but elegant. PL/I was one of the first languages to have a formal {semantic} definition, using the {Vienna Definition Language}. {EPL}, a dialect of PL/I, was used to write almost all of the {Multics} {operating system}. PL/I is still widely used internally at {IBM}. The PL/I standard is ANS X3.53-1976. PL/I has no {reserved word}s. Types are fixed, float, complex, character strings with maximum length, bit strings, and label variables. {Array}s have lower bounds and may be dynamic. It also has summation, multi-level structures, {structure assignment}, untyped pointers, {side effect}s and {aliasing}. {Control flow} constructs include goto; do-end groups; do-to-by-while-end loops; external procedures; internal nested procedures and blocks; {generic procedure}s and {exception handling}. Procedures may be declared {recursive}. Many implementations support {concurrency} ('call task' and 'wait(event)' are equivalent to {fork}/join) and compile-time statements. {LPI} is a PL/I {interpreter}. ["A Structural View of PL/I", D. Beech, Computing Surveys, 2,1 33-64 (1970)]. (1994-10-25) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLL {phase-locked loop} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ply {branches} between that node and the {root}. 2. Of a tree, the maximum ply of any of its nodes. (1998-12-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
poll To check the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered. Contrast {interrupt}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Poly developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. A language developed at Saint Andrews University, Scotland. [Software Practice & Exp, Oct 1986]. 3. A {polymorphic} language used in the referenced book. ["Polymorphic Programming Languages", David M. Harland, Ellis Horwood 1984]. (2000-11-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POOL Parallel Object-Oriented Language. A series of languages from {Philips Research Labs}. See {POOL2}, {POOL-I}, {POOL-T}. (1995-02-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POOL2 Parallel Object-Oriented Language 2. Philips Research Labs, 1987. Strongly typed, synchronous message passing, designed to run on {DOOM} (DOOM = Decentralised Object-Oriented Machine). ["POOL and DOOM: The Object- Oriented Approach", J.K. Annot, PAM den Haan, in Parallel Computers, Object-Oriented, Functional and Logic, P. Treleaven ed]. ["Issues in the Design of a Parallel Object-Oriented Language", P. America, Formal Aspects of Computing 1(4):366-411 (1989)]. (1995-02-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POOL-I One of the {POOL} languages. ["A Parallel Object-Oriented Language with Inheritance and Subtyping", P. America et al, SIGPLAN Notices 25(10):161-168 (OOPSLA/ECOOP '90) (Oct 1990)]. (1995-02-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PPL Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on {APL}, from {Harvard University}. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. (1994-10-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pull {pull media} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pallu separated, the second son of Reuben (1 Chr. 5:3); called Phallu, Gen. 46:9. He was the father of the Phalluites (Ex. 6:14; Num. 26:5, 8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Paul =Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy "for use in the Gentile world," as "Saul" would be his Hebrew home-name. He was a native of Tarsus, the capital of Cilicia, a Roman province in the south-east of Asia Minor. That city stood on the banks of the river Cydnus, which was navigable thus far; hence it became a centre of extensive commercial traffic with many countries along the shores of the Mediterranean, as well as with the countries of central Asia Minor. It thus became a city distinguished for the wealth of its inhabitants. Tarsus was also the seat of a famous university, higher in reputation even than the universities of Athens and Alexandria, the only others that then existed. Here Saul was born, and here he spent his youth, doubtless enjoying the best education his native city could afford. His father was of the straitest sect of the Jews, a Pharisee, of the tribe of Benjamin, of pure and unmixed Jewish blood (Acts 23:6; Phil. 3:5). We learn nothing regarding his mother; but there is reason to conclude that she was a pious woman, and that, like-minded with her husband, she exercised all a mother influence in moulding the character of her son, so that he could afterwards speak of himself as being, from his youth up, "touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless" (Phil. 3:6). We read of his sister and his sister's son (Acts 23:16), and of other relatives (Rom. 16:7, 11, 12). Though a Jew, his father was a Roman citizen. How he obtained this privilege we are not informed. "It might be bought, or won by distinguished service to the state, or acquired in several other ways; at all events, his son was freeborn. It was a valuable privilege, and one that was to prove of great use to Paul, although not in the way in which his father might have been expected to desire him to make use of it." Perhaps the most natural career for the youth to follow was that of a merchant. "But it was decided that...he should go to college and become a rabbi, that is, a minister, a teacher, and a lawyer all in one." According to Jewish custom, however, he learned a trade before entering on the more direct preparation for the sacred profession. The trade he acquired was the making of tents from goats' hair cloth, a trade which was one of the commonest in Tarsus. His preliminary education having been completed, Saul was sent, when about thirteen years of age probably, to the great Jewish school of sacred learning at Jerusalem as a student of the law. Here he became a pupil of the celebrated rabbi Gamaliel, and here he spent many years in an elaborate study of the Scriptures and of the many questions concerning them with which the rabbis exercised themselves. During these years of diligent study he lived "in all good conscience," unstained by the vices of that great city. After the period of his student-life expired, he probably left Jerusalem for Tarsus, where he may have been engaged in connection with some synagogue for some years. But we find him back again at Jerusalem very soon after the death of our Lord. Here he now learned the particulars regarding the crucifixion, and the rise of the new sect of the "Nazarenes." For some two years after Pentecost, Christianity was quietly spreading its influence in Jerusalem. At length Stephen, one of the seven deacons, gave forth more public and aggressive testimony that Jesus was the Messiah, and this led to much excitement among the Jews and much disputation in their synagogues. Persecution arose against Stephen and the followers of Christ generally, in which Saul of Tarsus took a prominent part. He was at this time probably a member of the great Sanhedrin, and became the active leader in the furious persecution by which the rulers then sought to exterminate Christianity. But the object of this persecution also failed. "They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word." The anger of the persecutor was thereby kindled into a fiercer flame. Hearing that fugitives had taken refuge in Damascus, he obtained from the chief priest letters authorizing him to proceed thither on his persecuting career. This was a long journey of about 130 miles, which would occupy perhaps six days, during which, with his few attendants, he steadily went onward, "breathing out threatenings and slaughter." But the crisis of his life was at hand. He had reached the last stage of his journey, and was within sight of Damascus. As he and his companions rode on, suddenly at mid-day a brilliant light shone round them, and Saul was laid prostrate in terror on the ground, a voice sounding in his ears, "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" The risen Saviour was there, clothed in the vesture of his glorified humanity. In answer to the anxious inquiry of the stricken persecutor, "Who art thou, Lord?" he said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest" (Acts 9:5; 22:8; 26:15). This was the moment of his conversion, the most solemn in all his life. Blinded by the dazzling light (Acts 9:8), his companions led him into the city, where, absorbed in deep thought for three days, he neither ate nor drank (9:11). Ananias, a disciple living in Damascus, was informed by a vision of the change that had happened to Saul, and was sent to him to open his eyes and admit him by baptism into the Christian church (9:11-16). The whole purpose of his life was now permanently changed. Immediately after his conversion he retired into the solitudes of Arabia (Gal. 1:17), perhaps of "Sinai in Arabia," for the purpose, probably, of devout study and meditation on the marvellous revelation that had been made to him. "A veil of thick darkness hangs over this visit to Arabia. Of the scenes among which he moved, of the thoughts and occupations which engaged him while there, of all the circumstances of a crisis which must have shaped the whole tenor of his after-life, absolutely nothing is known. 'Immediately,' says St. Paul, 'I went away into Arabia.' The historian passes over the incident [comp. Acts 9:23 and 1 Kings 11:38, 39]. It is a mysterious pause, a moment of suspense, in the apostle's history, a breathless calm, which ushers in the tumultuous storm of his active missionary life." Coming back, after three years, to Damascus, he began to preach the gospel "boldly in the name of Jesus" (Acts 9:27), but was soon obliged to flee (9:25; 2 Cor. 11:33) from the Jews and betake himself to Jerusalem. Here he tarried for three weeks, but was again forced to flee (Acts 9:28, 29) from persecution. He now returned to his native Tarsus (Gal. 1:21), where, for probably about three years, we lose sight of him. The time had not yet come for his entering on his great life-work of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles. At length the city of Antioch, the capital of Syria, became the scene of great Christian activity. There the gospel gained a firm footing, and the cause of Christ prospered. Barnabas (q.v.), who had been sent from Jerusalem to superintend the work at Antioch, found it too much for him, and remembering Saul, he set out to Tarsus to seek for him. He readily responded to the call thus addressed to him, and came down to Antioch, which for "a whole year" became the scene of his labours, which were crowned with great success. The disciples now, for the first time, were called "Christians" (Acts 11:26). The church at Antioch now proposed to send out missionaries to the Gentiles, and Saul and Barnabas, with John Mark as their attendant, were chosen for this work. This was a great epoch in the history of the church. Now the disciples began to give effect to the Master's command: "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." The three missionaries went forth on the first missionary tour. They sailed from Seleucia, the seaport of Antioch, across to Cyprus, some 80 miles to the south-west. Here at Paphos, Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul, was converted, and now Saul took the lead, and was ever afterwards called Paul. The missionaries now crossed to the mainland, and then proceeded 6 or 7 miles up the river Cestrus to Perga (Acts 13:13), where John Mark deserted the work and returned to Jerusalem. The two then proceeded about 100 miles inland, passing through Pamphylia, Pisidia, and Lycaonia. The towns mentioned in this tour are the Pisidian Antioch, where Paul delivered his first address of which we have any record (13:16-51; comp. 10:30-43), Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe. They returned by the same route to see and encourage the converts they had made, and ordain elders in every city to watch over the churches which had been gathered. From Perga they sailed direct for Antioch, from which they had set out. After remaining "a long time", probably till A.D. 50 or 51, in Antioch, a great controversy broke out in the church there regarding the relation of the Gentiles to the Mosaic law. For the purpose of obtaining a settlement of this question, Paul and Barnabas were sent as deputies to consult the church at Jerusalem. The council or synod which was there held (Acts 15) decided against the Judaizing party; and the deputies, accompanied by Judas and Silas, returned to Antioch, bringing with them the decree of the council. After a short rest at Antioch, Paul said to Barnabas: "Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do." Mark proposed again to accompany them; but Paul refused to allow him to go. Barnabas was resolved to take Mark, and thus he and Paul had a sharp contention. They separated, and never again met. Paul, however, afterwards speaks with honour of Barnabas, and sends for Mark to come to him at Rome (Col. 4:10; 2 Tim. 4:11). Paul took with him Silas, instead of Barnabas, and began his second missionary journey about A.D. 51. This time he went by land, revisiting the churches he had already founded in Asia. But he longed to enter into "regions beyond," and still went forward through Phrygia and Galatia (16:6). Contrary to his intention, he was constrained to linger in Galatia (q.v.), on account of some bodily affliction (Gal. 4:13, 14). Bithynia, a populous province on the shore of the Black Sea, lay now before him, and he wished to enter it; but the way was shut, the Spirit in some manner guiding him in another direction, till he came down to the shores of the AEgean and arrived at Troas, on the north-western coast of Asia Minor (Acts 16:8). Of this long journey from Antioch to Troas we have no account except some references to it in his Epistle to the Galatians (4:13). As he waited at Troas for indications of the will of God as to his future movements, he saw, in the vision of the night, a man from the opposite shores of Macedonia standing before him, and heard him cry, "Come over, and help us" (Acts 16:9). Paul recognized in this vision a message from the Lord, and the very next day set sail across the Hellespont, which separated him from Europe, and carried the tidings of the gospel into the Western world. In Macedonia, churches were planted in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea. Leaving this province, Paul passed into Achaia, "the paradise of genius and renown." He reached Athens, but quitted it after, probably, a brief sojourn (17:17-31). The Athenians had received him with cold disdain, and he never visited that city again. He passed over to Corinth, the seat of the Roman government of Achaia, and remained there a year and a half, labouring with much success. While at Corinth, he wrote his two epistles to the church of Thessalonica, his earliest apostolic letters, and then sailed for Syria, that he might be in time to keep the feast of Pentecost at Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Aquila and Priscilla, whom he left at Ephesus, at which he touched, after a voyage of thirteen or fifteen days. He landed at Caesarea, and went up to Jerusalem, and having "saluted the church" there, and kept the feast, he left for Antioch, where he abode "some time" (Acts 18:20-23). He then began his third missionary tour. He journeyed by land in the "upper coasts" (the more eastern parts) of Asia Minor, and at length made his way to Ephesus, where he tarried for no less than three years, engaged in ceaseless Christian labour. "This city was at the time the Liverpool of the Mediterranean. It possessed a splendid harbour, in which was concentrated the traffic of the sea which was then the highway of the nations; and as Liverpool has behind her the great towns of Lancashire, so had Ephesus behind and around her such cities as those mentioned along with her in the epistles to the churches in the book of Revelation, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. It was a city of vast wealth, and it was given over to every kind of pleasure, the fame of its theatres and race-course being world-wide" (Stalker's Life of St. Paul). Here a "great door and effectual" was opened to the apostle. His fellow-labourers aided him in his work, carrying the gospel to Colosse and Laodicea and other places which they could reach. Very shortly before his departure from Ephesus, the apostle wrote his First Epistle to the Corinthians (q.v.). The silversmiths, whose traffic in the little images which they made was in danger (see {DEMETRIUS}), organized a riot against Paul, and he left the city, and proceeded to Troas (2 Cor. 2:12), whence after some time he went to meet Titus in Macedonia. Here, in consequence of the report Titus brought from Corinth, he wrote his second epistle to that church. Having spent probably most of the summer and autumn in Macedonia, visiting the churches there, specially the churches of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, probably penetrating into the interior, to the shores of the Adriatic (Rom. 15:19), he then came into Greece, where he abode three month, spending probably the greater part of this time in Corinth (Acts 20:2). During his stay in this city he wrote his Epistle to the Galatians, and also the great Epistle to the Romans. At the end of the three months he left Achaia for Macedonia, thence crossed into Asia Minor, and touching at Miletus, there addressed the Ephesian presbyters, whom he had sent for to meet him (Acts 20:17), and then sailed for Tyre, finally reaching Jerusalem, probably in the spring of A.D. 58. While at Jerusalem, at the feast of Pentecost, he was almost murdered by a Jewish mob in the temple. (See TEMPLE, HEROD'S ¯T0003611.) Rescued from their violence by the Roman commandant, he was conveyed as a prisoner to Caesarea, where, from various causes, he was detained a prisoner for two years in Herod's praetorium (Acts 23:35). "Paul was not kept in close confinement; he had at least the range of the barracks in which he was detained. There we can imagine him pacing the ramparts on the edge of the Mediterranean, and gazing wistfully across the blue waters in the direction of Macedonia, Achaia, and Ephesus, where his spiritual children were pining for him, or perhaps encountering dangers in which they sorely needed his presence. It was a mysterious providence which thus arrested his energies and condemned the ardent worker to inactivity; yet we can now see the reason for it. Paul was needing rest. After twenty years of incessant evangelization, he required leisure to garner the harvest of experience...During these two years he wrote nothing; it was a time of internal mental activity and silent progress" (Stalker's Life of St. Paul). At the end of these two years Felix (q.v.) was succeeded in the governorship of Palestine by Porcius Festus, before whom the apostle was again heard. But judging it right at this crisis to claim the privilege of a Roman citizen, he appealed to the emperor (Acts 25:11). Such an appeal could not be disregarded, and Paul was at once sent on to Rome under the charge of one Julius, a centurion of the "Augustan cohort." After a long and perilous voyage, he at length reached the imperial city in the early spring, probably, of A.D. 61. Here he was permitted to occupy his own hired house, under constant military custody. This privilege was accorded to him, no doubt, because he was a Roman citizen, and as such could not be put into prison without a trial. The soldiers who kept guard over Paul were of course changed at frequent intervals, and thus he had the opportunity of preaching the gospel to many of them during these "two whole years," and with the blessed result of spreading among the imperial guards, and even in Caesar's household, an interest in the truth (Phil. 1:13). His rooms were resorted to by many anxious inquirers, both Jews and Gentiles (Acts 28:23, 30, 31), and thus his imprisonment "turned rather to the furtherance of the gospel," and his "hired house" became the centre of a gracious influence which spread over the whole city. According to a Jewish tradition, it was situated on the borders of the modern Ghetto, which has been the Jewish quarters in Rome from the time of Pompey to the present day. During this period the apostle wrote his epistles to the Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, and to Philemon, and probably also to the Hebrews. This first imprisonment came at length to a close, Paul having been acquitted, probably because no witnesses appeared against him. Once more he set out on his missionary labours, probably visiting western and eastern Europe and Asia Minor. During this period of freedom he wrote his First Epistle to Timothy and his Epistle to Titus. The year of his release was signalized by the burning of Rome, which Nero saw fit to attribute to the Christians. A fierce persecution now broke out against the Christians. Paul was siezed, and once more conveyed to Rome a prisoner. During this imprisonment he probably wrote the Second Epistle to Timothy, the last he ever wrote. "There can be little doubt that he appered again at Nero's bar, and this time the charge did not break down. In all history there is not a more startling illustration of the irony of human life than this scene of Paul at the bar of Nero. On the judgment-seat, clad in the imperial purple, sat a man who, in a bad world, had attained the eminence of being the very worst and meanest being in it, a man stained with every crime, a man whose whole being was so steeped in every nameable and unnameable vice, that body and soul of him were, as some one said at the time, nothing but a compound of mud and blood; and in the prisoner's dock stood the best man the world possessed, his hair whitened with labours for the good of men and the glory of God. The trial ended: Paul was condemned, and delivered over to the executioner. He was led out of the city, with a crowd of the lowest rabble at his heels. The fatal spot was reached; he knelt beside the block; the headsman's axe gleamed in the sun and fell; and the head of the apostle of the world rolled down in the dust" (probably A.D. 66), four years before the fall of Jerusalem. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pelaiah distinguished of the Lord. (1.) One of David's posterity (1 Chr. 3:24). (2.) A Levite who expounded the law (Neh. 8:7). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Phallu separated, the second son of Reuben (Gen. 46:9). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pool a pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper pool at Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20); the pool of Samaria (1 Kings 22:38); the king's pool (Neh. 2:14); the pool of Siloah (Neh. 3:15; Eccles. 2:6); the fishpools of Heshbon (Cant. 7:4); the "lower pool," and the "old pool" (Isa. 22:9,11). The "pool of Bethesda" (John 5:2,4, 7) and the "pool of Siloam" (John 9:7, 11) are also mentioned. Isaiah (35:7) says, "The parched ground shall become a pool." This is rendered in the Revised Version "glowing sand," etc. (marg., "the mirage," etc.). The Arabs call the mirage "serab," plainly the same as the Hebrew word _sarab_, here rendered "parched ground." "The mirage shall become a pool", i.e., the mock-lake of the burning desert shall become a real lake, "the pledge of refreshment and joy." The "pools" spoken of in Isa. 14:23 are the marshes caused by the ruin of the canals of the Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Babylon. The cisterns or pools of the Holy City are for the most part excavations beneath the surface. Such are the vast cisterns in the temple hill that have recently been discovered by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund. These underground caverns are about thirty-five in number, and are capable of storing about ten million gallons of water. They are connected with one another by passages and tunnels. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pul (1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (q.v.), or was his predecessor. The weight of evidence is certainly in favour of their identity. Pul was the throne-name he bore in Babylonia as king of Babylon, and Tiglath-pileser the throne-name he bore as king of Assyria. He was the founder of what is called the second Assyrian empire. He consolidated and organized his conquests on a large scale. He subdued Northern Syria and Hamath, and the kings of Syria rendered him homage and paid him tribute. His ambition was to found in Western Asia a kingdom which should embrace the whole civilized world, having Nineveh as its centre. Menahem, king of Israel, gave him the enormous tribute of a thousand talents of silver, "that his hand might be with him" (2 Kings 15:19; 1 Chr. 5:26). The fact that this tribute could be paid showed the wealthy condition of the little kingdom of Israel even in this age of disorder and misgovernment. Having reduced Syria, he turned his arms against Babylon, which he subdued. The Babylonian king was slain, and Babylon and other Chaldean cities were taken, and Pul assumed the title of "King of Sumer [i.e., Shinar] and Accad." He was succeeded by Shalmanezer IV. (2.) A geographical name in Isa. 66:19. Probably = Phut (Gen. 10:6; Jer. 46:9, R.V. "Put;" Ezek. 27:10). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pallu, marvelous; hidden | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Paul, small; little | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pelaiah, the Lord's secret or miracle | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Phallu, Pallu, admirable; hidden | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pul, bean; destruction | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Palau Palau:Geography Location: Oceania, group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines Map references: Oceania Area: total area: 458 sq km land area: 458 sq km comparative area: slightly more than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 1,519 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 3 nm International disputes: none Climate: wet season May to November; hot and humid Terrain: about 200 islands varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs Natural resources: forests, minerals (especially gold), marine products, deep-seabed minerals Land use: arable land: NA% permanent crops: NA% meadows and pastures: NA% forest and woodland: NA% other: NA% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: inadequate facilities for disposal of solid waste; threats to the marine ecosystem from sand and coral dredging and illegal fishing practices that involve the use of dynamite natural hazards: typhoons (June to December) international agreements: NA Note: includes World War II battleground of Beliliou (Peleliu) and world-famous rock islands; archipelago of six island groups totaling over 200 islands in the Caroline chain Palau:People Population: 16,661 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: NA 15-64 years: NA 65 years and over: NA Population growth rate: 1.76% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 22.11 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 6.61 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 2.12 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 25.07 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.01 years male: 69.14 years female: 73.02 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 2.85 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Palauan(s) adjective: Palauan Ethnic divisions: Palauans are a composite of Polynesian, Malayan, and Melanesian races Religions: Christian (Catholics, Seventh-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Assembly of God, the Liebenzell Mission, and Latter-Day Saints), Modekngei religion (one-third of the population observes this religion which is indigenous to Palau) Languages: English (official in all of Palau's 16 states), Sonsorolese (official in the state of Sonsoral), Angaur and Japanese (in the state of Anguar), Tobi (in the state of Tobi), Palauan (in the other 13 states) Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980) total population: 92% male: 93% female: 90% Labor force: NA by occupation: NA Palau:Government Names: conventional long form: Republic of Palau conventional short form: Palau former: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Digraph: PS Type: self-governing territory in free association with the US pursuant to Compact of Free Association which entered into force 1 October 1994; Palau is fully responsible for internal affairs; US retains responsibility for external affairs Capital: Koror note: a new capital is being built about 20 km northeast in eastern Babelthuap Administrative divisions: there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 16 states: Aimeliik, Airai, Angaur, Kayangel, Koror, Melekeok, Ngaraard, Ngardmau, Ngaremlengui, Ngatpang, Ngchesar, Ngerchelong, Ngiwal, Peleliu, Sonsorol, Tobi Independence: 1 October 1994 (from the US-administered UN Trusteeship) National holiday: Constitution Day, 9 July (1979) Constitution: 1 January 1981 Legal system: based on Trust Territory laws, acts of the legislature, municipal, common, and customary laws Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state and head of government: President Kuniwo NAKAMURA (since 1 January 1993), Vice-President Tommy E. REMENGESAU Jr. (since 1 January 1993); election last held 4 November 1992 (next to be held NA November 1996); results - Kuniwo NAKAMURA 50.7%, Johnson TORIBIONG 49.3% Legislative branch: bicameral Parliament (Olbiil Era Kelulau or OEK) Senate: elections last held 4 November 1992 (next to be held NA November 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (14 total) number of seats by party NA House of Delegates: elections last held 4 November 1992 (next to be held NA November 1996); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (16 total) number of seats by party NA Judicial branch: Supreme Court, National Court, Court of Common Pleas Member of: ESCAP (associate), SPC, SPF (observer), UN Diplomatic representation in US: chief of mission: Liaison Officer NA liaison office: 444 North Capital Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 telephone: (202) 624-7793 FAX: NA note: relationship of free association with the US pursuant to compact of free association which entered into force 1 October 1994 US diplomatic representation: chief of mission: Liaison Officer Lloyd W. MOSS liaison office: Erenguul Street, Koror, Republic of Palau mailing address: P.O. Box 6028, Republic of Palau 96940 telephone: [680] 488-2920 FAX: [680] 488-2911 note: relationship of free association with the US pursuant to compact of free association which entered into force 1 October 1994 Flag: light blue with a large yellow disk (representing the moon) shifted slightly to the hoist side Economy Overview: The economy consists primarily of subsistence agriculture and fishing. The government is the major employer of the work force, relying heavily on financial assistance from the US. The compact of "free association" with the United States, entered into after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides Palau with $500 million in US aid over 15 years in return for furnishing some military facilities. The population, in effect, enjoys a per capita income of $5,000, twice that of the Philippines and much of Micronesia. Long-run prospects for the tourist sector have been greatly bolstered by the expansion of air travel in the Pacific and the rapidly rising prosperity of leading East Asian countries. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $81.8 million (1994 est.) note: GDP numbers reflect US spending National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $5,000 (1994 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% Unemployment rate: 20% (1986) Budget: revenues: $6 million expenditures: $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (1986 est.) Exports: $600,000 (f.o.b., 1989) commodities: trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts partners: US, Japan Imports: $24.6 million (c.i.f., 1989) commodities: NA partners: US External debt: about $100 million (1989) Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 16,000 kW production: 22 million kWh consumption per capita: 1,540 kWh (1990) Industries: tourism, craft items (shell, wood, pearl), some commercial fishing and agriculture Agriculture: subsistence-level production of coconut, copra, cassava, sweet potatoes Economic aid: recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $2.56 billion; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $92 million Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents Exchange rates: US currency is used Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September Palau:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 61 km paved: 36 km unpaved: gravel 25 km Ports: Koror Merchant marine: none Airports: total: 3 with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 2 Palau:Communications Telephone system: NA telephones local: NA intercity: NA international: 1 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 radios: NA Television: broadcast stations: 2 televisions: NA Palau:Defense Forces Branches: NA Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP Note: defense is the responsibility of the US pursuant to Compact of Free Association which entered into force 1 October 1994 |