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Pacate \Pa"cate\, a. [L. pacatus, p. p. of pacare to pacify, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See {Pay} to requite, {Peace}.] Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.] | |
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Pace \Pace\, n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. {Pas}, {Pass}.] 1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. 2. The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. [bd]The heigh of sixty pace .[b8] --Chaucer. Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet. 3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. --Chaucer. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. --Shak. In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught. --Walsh. 4. A slow gait; a footpace. [Obs.] --Chucer. 5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. 6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. [R.] The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain. --Sir W. Temple. 7. (Arch.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. 8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. {Geometrical pace}, the space from heel to heel between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or by some at four feet and two fifths. See {Roman pace} in the Note under def. 2. [Obs.] {To} {keep, [or] hold}, {pace with}, to keep up with; to go as fast as. [bd]In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age.[b8] --Southey. | |
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Paced \Paced\, a. Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain. | |
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Pace \Pace\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pacing}.] 1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. [bd]I paced on slowly.[b8] --Pope. [bd]With speed so pace.[b8] --Shak. 2. To proceed; to pass on. [Obs.] Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace. --Chaucer. 3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. 4. To pass away; to die. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pachyote \Pach"y*ote\, n. [Pachy- + Gr. [?], [?], ear.] (Zo[94]l.) One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears. | |
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Pack \Pack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Packing}.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See {Pack}, n.] 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. --Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. --Shak. 2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. 3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Packeting}.] 1. To make up into a packet or bundle. 2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. --Ford. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Pact \Pact\, n. [L. pactum, fr. paciscere to make a bargain or contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf. pangere to fasten, Gr. [?], Skr. p[be]ca bond, and E. fang: cf. F. pacie. Cf. {Peace}, {Fadge}, v.] An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. --Bacon. The engagement and pact of society whish goes by the name of the constitution. --Burke. | |
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Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paging}.] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. | |
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Pagehood \Page"hood\, n. The state of being a page. | |
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Pagod \Pa"god\, n. [Cf. F. pagode. See {Pagoda}.] 1. A pagoda. [R.] [bd]Or some queer pagod.[b8] --Pope. 2. An idol. [Obs.] --Bp. Stillingfleet. | |
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Pagoda \Pa*go"da\, n. [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per. but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol + kadah a house, a temple.] 1. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship. 2. An idol. [R.] --Brande & C. 3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf. Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees. | |
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Passade \Pas*sade"\, Passado \Pas*sa"do\, n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak. 2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground. | |
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Passade \Pas*sade"\, Passado \Pas*sa"do\, n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak. 2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground. | |
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Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See {Pace}.] 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. [bd]But now pass over [i. e., pass on].[b8] --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. [bd]Let him pass for a man.[b8] --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. [bd]The play may pass.[b8] --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] [bd]This passes, Master Ford.[b8] --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and {Come}. {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. [bd]The heavens shall pass away.[b8] --2 Pet. iii. 10. [bd]I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.[b8] --Tennyson. {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. {To pass on}, to proceed. {To pass on} [or] {upon}. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. [bd]So death passed upon all men.[b8] --Rom. v. 12. [bd]Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. [bd]We may not pass upon his life.[b8] --Shak. {To pass off}, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. | |
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Past \Past\, adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow. | |
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Past \Past\, a. [From {Pass}, v.] Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. [bd]Past ages.[b8] --Milton. {Past master}. See under {Master}. | |
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Past \Past\, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. [bd]The past, at least, is secure.[b8] --D. Webster. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench. | |
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Past \Past\, prep. 1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. [bd]Who being past feeling.[b8] --Eph. iv. 19. [bd]Galled past endurance.[b8] --Macaulay. Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. --L'Estrange. | |
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Paste \Paste\, n. [OF. paste, F. p[83]te, L. pasta, fr. Gr. [?] barley broth; cf. [?] barley porridge, [?] sprinkled with salt, [?] to sprinkle. Cf. {Pasty}, n., {Patty}.] 1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware. 2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough. 3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color. 4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See {Strass}. 5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc. 6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded. {Paste eel} (Zo[94]l.), the vinegar eel. See under {Vinegar}. | |
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Paste \Paste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pasting}.] To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste. | |
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Pasty \Pas"ty\, a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. [bd]A pasty complexion.[b8] --G. Eliot. | |
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Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl. {Pasties}. [OF. past[82], F. p[83]t[82]. See {Paste}, and cf. {Patty}.] A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. [bd]If ye pinch me like a pasty.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Apple pasties.[b8] --Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Paucity \Pau"ci*ty\, n. [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little: cf. F. paucit[82] See {Few}.] 1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. --Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. --I. Taylor. 2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See {Pause}, n., {Pose}.] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. [bd]Tarry, pause a day or two.[b8] --Shak. Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. --Milton. 2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.] Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak. | |
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Peaked \Peaked\, a. 1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof. 2. (Oftener [?]) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.] | |
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Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peaking}.] 1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand. 2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. [bd]Dwindle, peak, and pine.[b8] --Shak. 3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak. {Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. | |
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Peascod \Peas"cod`\, n. The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea. | |
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Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pecked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pecking}.] [See {Pick}, v.] 1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree. 2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements. 3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak. 4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree. | |
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Peg \Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pegged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pegging}.] 1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. --Shak. 2. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.] | |
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Pequots \Pe"quots\, n. pl.; sing. {Pequot}. (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also {Pequods}.] | |
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Pesade \Pe*sade"\, n. [F.] (Man.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing. | |
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Peschito \Pe*schit"o\, n. See {Peshito}. | |
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac pesh[8c]t[83] simple.] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also {peschito}.] | |
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Peschito \Pe*schit"o\, n. See {Peshito}. | |
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac pesh[8c]t[83] simple.] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also {peschito}.] | |
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac pesh[8c]t[83] simple.] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also {peschito}.] | |
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac pesh[8c]t[83] simple.] The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also {peschito}.] | |
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Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.] 1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. --Cowper. 2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance. [bd]A pest and public enemy.[b8] --South. | |
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Pexity \Pex"i*ty\, n. [L. pexitas, fr. pexus woolly, nappy, p. p. of pectere to comb.] Nap of cloth. [Obs.] | |
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Phacoid \Pha"coid\, a. [Gr. [?] a lentil + -oid.] Resembling a lentil; lenticular. | |
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Phycite \Phy"cite\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed.] (Chem.) See {Erythrite}, 1. | |
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Erythrite \E*ryth"rite\, n. [Gr. 'eryqro`s red.] 1. (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, {C4H6.(OH)4}, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also {erythrol}, {erythroglucin}, {erythromannite}, {pseudorcin}, {cobalt bloom}, and under the name {phycite} obtained from the alga {Protococcus vulgaris}. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin. | |
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Phycite \Phy"cite\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed.] (Chem.) See {Erythrite}, 1. | |
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Erythrite \E*ryth"rite\, n. [Gr. 'eryqro`s red.] 1. (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, {C4H6.(OH)4}, of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also {erythrol}, {erythroglucin}, {erythromannite}, {pseudorcin}, {cobalt bloom}, and under the name {phycite} obtained from the alga {Protococcus vulgaris}. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin. | |
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Pick \Pick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to throw.] 1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. 6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper. 7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. [bd]One man picked out of ten thousand.[b8] --Shak. 8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. 9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. {To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}. {To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To pick off}. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. {To pick out}. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. {To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. {To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. {To pick up}. (a) To take up, as with the fingers. (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news. | |
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Picked \Pick"ed\, a. 1. Pointed; sharp. [bd]Picked and polished.[b8] --Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. --Mortimer. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes. 3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men. 4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. [Obs.] --Shak. {Picked dogfish}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Dogfish}. {Picked out}, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red. | |
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Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See {Pike}, and cf. {Piquet}.] 1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.] (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also {outlying picket}. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant] | |
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Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picketing}.] 1. To fortify with pointed stakes. 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.] | |
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.] | |
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Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear, pike. See {Pike}, and cf. {Piquet}.] 1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.] (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also {outlying picket}. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. [Cant] | |
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Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picketing}.] 1. To fortify with pointed stakes. 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.] | |
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.] | |
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Picketee \Pick`e*tee"\, n. (Bot.) See {Picotee}. | |
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Picoid \Pi"coid\, a. [Picus + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.) Like or pertaining to the Pici. | |
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Picotee \Pic`o*tee"\, Picotine \Pic`o*tine"\, n. [F. picot[82] dotted, picked.] (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges. | |
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.] | |
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Picquet \Pic"quet\, n. See {Piquet}. | |
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.] | |
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Picquet \Pic"quet\, n. See {Piquet}. | |
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Picts \Picts\, n. pl.; sing. {Pict}. [L. Picti; cf. AS. Peohtas.] (Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times. | |
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Piece \Piece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pieced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piecing}.] 1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. --Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. --Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. --Fuller. | |
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Pig-eyed \Pig"-eyed`\, a. Having small, deep-set eyes. | |
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Pig \Pig\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pigging}.] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow. 2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. | |
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Pight \Pight\, imp. & p. p. of {Pitch}, to throw; -- used also adjectively. Pitched; fixed; determined. [Obs.] [His horse] pight him on the pommel of his head. --Chaucer. I found him pight to do it. --Shak. | |
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Pig-jawed \Pig"-jawed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs. | |
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Pigsty \Pig"sty`\, n.; pl. {Pigsties}. A pigpen. | |
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Pigweed \Pig"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A name of several annual weeds. See {Goosefoot}, and {Lamb's-quarters}. | |
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Pique \Pique\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piqued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piquing}.] [F. piquer. See {Pike}.] 1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. --Byron. 2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity. --Prior. 3. To pride or value; -- used reflexively. Men . . . pique themselves upon their skill. --Locke. Syn: To offend; displease; irritate; provoke; fret; nettle; sting; goad; stimulate. | |
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Piquet \Piqu"et\, n. See {Picket}. [R.] | |
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike}, and {Picket}.] A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.] | |
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Pist \Pist\, n. (Man.) See {Piste}. | |
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Piste \Piste\, n. [F., fr. L. pisere, pinsere, pistum, to pound.] (Min.) The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over. --Johnson. | |
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Poach \Poach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poaching}.] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See {Pouch}, v. & n.] 1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. --Bacon. 2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. --Garth. | |
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Pocket \Pock"et\, n. Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.: (a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc. (b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc. (c) A bight on a lee shore. | |
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Pocket \Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a pocket, and cf. {Poach} to cook eggs, to plunder, and {Pouch}.] 1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. 2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. 3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. 4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. 5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water. 6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. 7. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pouch}. Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. {Out of pocket}. See under {Out}, prep. {Pocket borough}, a borough [bd]owned[b8] by some person. See under {Borough}. [Eng.] {Pocket gopher} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera {Geomys}, and {Thomomys}, family {Geomyd[91]}. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also {pouched gopher}. {Pocket mouse} (Zo[94]l.), any species of American mice of the family {Saccomyid[91]}. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus {Dipadomys}), and are called {kangaroo mice}. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc. {Pocket piece}, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent. {Pocket pistol}, a pistol to be carried in the pocket. {Pocket sheriff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. --Burrill. | |
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Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pocketing}.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. {To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. {To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. [bd]I must pocket up these wrongs.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Pockwood \Pock"wood`\, n. [So called because formerly used as a specific for the pock.] (Bot.) Lignum-vit[91]. | |
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Poise \Poise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poised}, ; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poising}.] [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh, balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il p[8a]se, fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, n., and cf. {Pensive}.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance. 2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance. Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie. --Dryden. 3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance. One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality. --Shak. To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit. --Dryden. 4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh. He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence. --South. 5. To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. --Shak. | |
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Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poking}.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a blow, Gael. puc to push.] 1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire. He poked John, and said [bd]Sleepest thou ?[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To thrust with the horns; to gore. 3. [From 5th {Poke}, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox. [Colloq. U. S.] {To poke fun}, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.] {To poke fun at}, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.] | |
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Poket \Pok"et\, n. A pocket. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({P. decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine. | |
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Pokeweed \Poke"weed`\, n. (Bot.) See {Poke}, the plant. | |
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Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({P. decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine. | |
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Pokeweed \Poke"weed`\, n. (Bot.) See {Poke}, the plant. | |
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Posed \Posed\, a. Firm; determined; fixed. [bd]A most posed . . . and grave behavior.[b8] [Obs.] --Urquhart. | |
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posing}.] [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause, in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make to cease, prob. akin to E. few. In compounds, this word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place, the substitution in French having been probably due to confusion of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere. See {Few}, and cf. {Appose}, {Dispose}, {Oppose}, {Pause}, {Repose}, {Position}.] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait. | |
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Posied \Po"sied\, a. Inscribed with a posy. In poised lockets bribe the fair. --Gay. | |
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Posit \Pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Positing}.] [L. ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}.] 1. To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects. --Sir M. Hale. 2. (Logic) To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle. --Sir W. Hamilton. | |
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Posset \Pos"set\, n. [W. posel curdled milk, posset.] A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. [bd]I have drugged their posset.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Posset \Pos"set\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posseted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posseting}.] 1. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To treat with possets; to pamper. [R.] [bd]She was cosseted and posseted.[b8] --O. W. Holmes. | |
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Sheth \Sheth\, n. The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called {standard}, or {post}. | |
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\ A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr. pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.] A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript. | |
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose.] Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place. | |
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Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posting}.] 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. [bd]It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted.[b8] --De Quincey. 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] [bd]Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?[b8] --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.] 1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8] --Shak. And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton. 2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.] | |
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Post \Post\, adv. With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. | |
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Sheth \Sheth\, n. The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called {standard}, or {post}. | |
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\ A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr. pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.] A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript. | |
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose.] Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place. | |
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Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posting}.] 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. [bd]It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted.[b8] --De Quincey. 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] [bd]Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?[b8] --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.] 1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8] --Shak. And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton. 2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.] | |
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Post \Post\, adv. With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. | |
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Sheth \Sheth\, n. The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam, for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called {standard}, or {post}. | |
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\ A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the Koluschan stock. | |
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}. | |
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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr. pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.] A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript. | |
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose.] Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place. | |
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Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posting}.] 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. [bd]It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted.[b8] --De Quincey. 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] [bd]Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?[b8] --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.] 1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8] --Shak. And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton. 2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.] | |
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Post \Post\, adv. With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. | |
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place. | |
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Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouching}.] 1. To put or take into a pouch. 2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham. 3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. 4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Pouched \Pouched\, a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat. (b) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher. (c) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels. {Pouched dog}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Zebra wolf}, under {Zebra}. {Pouched frog} (Zo[94]l.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. {Pouched gopher}, [or] {Pouched rat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pocket gopher}, under {Pocket}. {Pouched mouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pocket mouse}, under {Pocket}. | |
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Poussette \Pous*sette"\ (p[oomac]*s[ecr]t"), n. [F., pushpin, fr. pousser to push. See {Push}.] A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. --Dickens. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poussette \Pous*sette"\, v. i. To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] --Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. --J. & H. Smith. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pox \Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poxing}.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pseudo- \Pseu"do-\ [Gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.] A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.] 1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc. 2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See {Pugging}, 2. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puke \Puke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puking}.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puseyistic \Pu"sey*is"tic\, Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, a. Of or pertaining to Puseyism. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, n. One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used opprobriously. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Push \Push\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pushing}.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare, v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pursy}.] 1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to {draw}. Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. --Milton. 2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore. If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. --Ex. xxi. 32. 3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. [bd] To push his fortune.[b8] --Dryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. --Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. --Swift. 4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass. 5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. {To push down}, to overthrow by pushing or impulse. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pygidium \[d8]Py*gid"i*um\, n.; pl. {Pygidia}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], dim. of [?] the rump.] (Zo[94]l.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of {Limulus} and {Trilobite}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pyxidium \[d8]Pyx*id"i*um\, n.; pl. {Pyxidia}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], dim. a [?] a box. See {Pyx}.] (Bot.) (a) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane. (b) The theca of mosses. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pachuta, MS (town, FIPS 54960) Location: 32.04282 N, 88.88436 W Population (1990): 268 (130 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39347 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Packwood, IA (city, FIPS 60915) Location: 41.13246 N, 92.08180 W Population (1990): 208 (98 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52580 Packwood, WA Zip code(s): 98361 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Paguate, NM (CDP, FIPS 54710) Location: 35.13459 N, 107.36381 W Population (1990): 492 (195 housing units) Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Peosta, IA (city, FIPS 62130) Location: 42.44885 N, 90.85074 W Population (1990): 128 (39 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52068 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pick City, ND (city, FIPS 62260) Location: 47.51190 N, 101.45609 W Population (1990): 203 (129 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pickett, WI Zip code(s): 54964 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Piggott, AR (city, FIPS 55130) Location: 36.38388 N, 90.20081 W Population (1990): 3777 (1777 housing units) Area: 9.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72454 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Piscataway, NJ Zip code(s): 08854 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Poquott, NY (village, FIPS 59157) Location: 40.95222 N, 73.08918 W Population (1990): 770 (313 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Post, OR Zip code(s): 97752 Post, TX (city, FIPS 59012) Location: 33.19087 N, 101.38131 W Population (1990): 3768 (1547 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79356 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Puckett, MS (village, FIPS 60360) Location: 32.08443 N, 89.77837 W Population (1990): 294 (116 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
page out vi. [MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation. "Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute." See {page in}. Compare {glitch}, {thinko}. 2. Syn. `swap out'; see {swap}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
pastie /pay'stee/ n. An adhesive-backed label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare {tits on a keyboard}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
post v. To send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}. Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example: "Are you going to post the patch or mail it to known users?" | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
pseudo /soo'doh/ n. [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym'] 1. An electronic-mail or {Usenet} persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net.behavior; a `nom de Usenet', often associated with forged postings designed to conceal message origins. Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of this type is {B1FF}. See also {tentacle}. 2. Notionally, a {flamage}-generating AI program simulating a Usenet user. Many flamers have been accused of actually being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of the required sophistication yet exists. However, in 1989 there was a famous series of forged postings that used a phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their back postings (compare {Dissociated Press}). A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
packet The unit of data sent across a {network}. "Packet" is a generic term used to describe a unit of data at any layer of the {OSI} {protocol stack}, but it is most correctly used to describe {application layer} data units ("{application protocol data unit}", APDU). See also {datagram}, {frame}. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PackIt Macintosh} to represent collections of Mac files, possibly {Huffman} compressed. Packing many small related files together before a {MacBinary} transfer or a translation to {BinHex} 4.0 is common practice. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PACT I An early system on the {IBM 701}. Version PACT IA was for the {IBM 704}. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
page out part of a {task}'s working memory from {RAM} to {swap space} on disk. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
paged {paging} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
paste {copy and paste} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pastie /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare {tits on a keyboard}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PC AT {IBM PC AT} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
P-CAD A {CAE} system marketed by {CADAM}, an {IBM} company. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
P-code The intermediate code produced by the {Pascal-P} compiler. Assembly language for a hypothetical stack machine, the P-machine, said to have been an imitation of the instruction set for the Burroughs Large System. The term was first used in Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, N. Wirth, P-H 1976. Byte articles on writing a Pascal Compiler in Northstar BASIC (ca Aug 1978) also used the term. Later used in Apple Pascal, and as the intermediate language in the UCSD P-system. Variants: P2 P-code, P4 P-code, UCSD P-code, LASL P-code. Address: USUS, Box 1148, La Jolla, CA 92038, USA. ["A Comparison of PASCAL Intermediate Languages", P.A. Nelson, SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):208-213 (Aug 1979)]. (1995-10-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCTE {Portable Common Tool Environment} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCTE+ A European NATO specification based on {PCTE} with security enhancements. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCTE {Portable Common Tool Environment} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCTE+ A European NATO specification based on {PCTE} with security enhancements. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PICT [Details?] (1997-06-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
poset {partially ordered set} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
post {newsgroup}. Usually implies that the message is sent indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to "mail" which implies one or more deliberately selected individual recipients. You should only post a message if you think it will be of interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the group or list, otherwise you should use private {electronic mail} instead. See {netiquette}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-12-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POST {power-on self-test} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
post {newsgroup}. Usually implies that the message is sent indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to "mail" which implies one or more deliberately selected individual recipients. You should only post a message if you think it will be of interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the group or list, otherwise you should use private {electronic mail} instead. See {netiquette}. [{Jargon File}] (1997-12-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POST {power-on self-test} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PSD | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pseudo 1. An {electronic-mail} or {Usenet} persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de {Usenet}", often associated with forged postings designed to conceal message origins. Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of this type is {BIFF}. 2. Notionally, a {flamage}-generating {AI} program simulating a {Usenet} user. Many flamers have been accused of actually being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of the required sophistication yet exists. However, in 1989 there was a famous series of forged postings that used a phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their back postings (compare {Dissociated Press}). A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-13) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pekod probably a place in Babylonia (Jer. 50:21; Ezek. 23:23). It is the opinion, however, of some that this word signifies "visitation," "punishment," and allegorically "designates Babylon as the city which was to be destroyed." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pisidia a district in Asia Minor, to the north of Pamphylia. The Taurus range of mountains extends through it. Antioch, one of its chief cities, was twice visited by Paul (Acts 13:14; 14:21-24). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Post (1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25; Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times. Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern system of postal communication was first established by Louis XI. of France in A.D. 1464. (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold (Isa. 6:4). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pekod, noble; rulers | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pisidia, pitch; pitchy |