English Dictionary: parquet circle | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
--Haeckel. 2. A genus consisting of an primate ({P. erectus}) apparently intermediate between man and the existing anthropoid apes, known from bones of a single individual found in Java (hence called {Java man}) in 1891-92. These bones include a thigh bone of the human type, two molar teeth intermediate between those of man and the anthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicating a brain capacity of about 900 cubic centimeters, and resembling in form that of the Neanderthal man. Also [pl. {-thropi}], an animal of this genus. -- {Pith`e*can"thrope}, n. -- {Pith`e*can"thro*poid}, a. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Parachute \Par"a*chute\, n. [F., fr. paper to ward off, guard + chute a fall. See {Parry}, and {Chute}, {Chance}.] 1. A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Paraguay tea \Pa`ra*guay" tea"\ See {Mate}, the leaf of the Brazilian holly. | |
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Tea \Tea\, n. [Chin. tsh[be], Prov. Chin. te: cf. F. th[82].] 1. The prepared leaves of a shrub, or small tree ({Thea, [or] Camellia, Chinensis}). The shrub is a native of China, but has been introduced to some extent into some other countries. Note: Teas are classed as green or black, according to their color or appearance, the kinds being distinguished also by various other characteristic differences, as of taste, odor, and the like. The color, flavor, and quality are dependent upon the treatment which the leaves receive after being gathered. The leaves for green tea are heated, or roasted slightly, in shallow pans over a wood fire, almost immediately after being gathered, after which they are rolled with the hands upon a table, to free them from a portion of their moisture, and to twist them, and are then quickly dried. Those intended for black tea are spread out in the air for some time after being gathered, and then tossed about with the hands until they become soft and flaccid, when they are roasted for a few minutes, and rolled, and having then been exposed to the air for a few hours in a soft and moist state, are finally dried slowly over a charcoal fire. The operation of roasting and rolling is sometimes repeated several times, until the leaves have become of the proper color. The principal sorts of green tea are Twankay, the poorest kind; Hyson skin, the refuse of Hyson; Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, fine varieties; and Young Hyson, a choice kind made from young leaves gathered early in the spring. Those of black tea are Bohea, the poorest kind; Congou; Oolong; Souchong, one of the finest varieties; and Pekoe, a fine-flavored kind, made chiefly from young spring buds. See {Bohea}, {Congou}, {Gunpowder tea}, under {Gunpowder}, {Hyson}, {Oolong}, and {Souchong}. --K. Johnson. Tomlinson. Note: [bd]No knowledge of . . . [tea] appears to have reached Europe till after the establishment of intercourse between Portugal and China in 1517. The Portuguese, however, did little towards the introduction of the herb into Europe, and it was not till the Dutch established themselves at Bantam early in 17th century, that these adventurers learned from the Chinese the habit of tea drinking, and brought it to Europe.[b8] --Encyc. Brit. 2. A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage. 3. Any infusion or decoction, especially when made of the dried leaves of plants; as, sage tea; chamomile tea; catnip tea. 4. The evening meal, at which tea is usually served; supper. {Arabian tea}, the leaves of {Catha edulis}; also (Bot.), the plant itself. See {Kat}. {Assam tea}, tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850. {Australian}, [or] {Botany Bay}, {tea} (Bot.), a woody clambing plant ({Smilax glycyphylla}). {Brazilian tea}. (a) The dried leaves of {Lantana pseodothea}, used in Brazil as a substitute for tea. (b) The dried leaves of {Stachytarpheta mutabilis}, used for adulterating tea, and also, in Austria, for preparing a beverage. {Labrador tea}. (Bot.) See under {Labrador}. {New Jersey tea} (Bot.), an American shrub, the leaves of which were formerly used as a substitute for tea; redroot. See {Redroot}. {New Zealand tea}. (Bot.) See under {New Zealand}. {Oswego tea}. (Bot.) See {Oswego tea}. {Paraguay tea}, mate. See 1st {Mate}. {Tea board}, a board or tray for holding a tea set. {Tea bug} (Zo[94]l.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. {Tea caddy}, a small box for holding tea. {Tea chest}, a small, square wooden case, usually lined with sheet lead or tin, in which tea is imported from China. {Tea clam} (Zo[94]l.), a small quahaug. [Local, U. S.] {Tea garden}, a public garden where tea and other refreshments are served. {Tea plant} (Bot.), any plant, the leaves of which are used in making a beverage by infusion; specifically, {Thea Chinensis}, from which the tea of commerce is obtained. {Tea rose} (Bot.), a delicate and graceful variety of the rose ({Rosa Indica}, var. {odorata}), introduced from China, and so named from its scent. Many varieties are now cultivated. {Tea service}, the appurtenances or utensils required for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. {Tea set}, a tea service. {Tea table}, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. {Tea taster}, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. {Tea tree} (Bot.), the tea plant of China. See {Tea plant}, above. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. | |
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Parakite \Par"a*kite`\, n. [Para- + kite.] A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train. | |
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Paraquet \Par`a*quet"\, Paraquito \Par`a*qui"to\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Parrakeet}. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Paraquet \Par`a*quet"\, Paraquito \Par`a*qui"to\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Parrakeet}. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Paraquet \Par`a*quet"\, Paraquito \Par`a*qui"to\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Parrakeet}. | |
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Parasital \Par"a*si`tal\, a. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic. | |
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Parasite \Par"a*site\, n. [F., fr. L. parasitus, Gr. [?], lit., eating beside, or at the table of, another; [?] beside + [?] to feed, from [?] wheat, grain, food.] 1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. --Milton. Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. --Udall. 2. (Bot.) (a) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte. (b) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus {Torrubia}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc. (b) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager. (c) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\, Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\, a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. parasitique.] 1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. [bd]Parasitic preachers.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See {Parasite}, 2 & 3. {Parasitic gull}, {Parasitic jager}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Jager}. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness}, n. | |
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Parasiticide \Par`a*sit"i*cide\, n. [Parasite + L. caedere to kill.] Anything used to destroy parasites. --Quain. | |
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Parasitism \Par"a*si`tism\, n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.] 1. The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. [bd]Court parasitism.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Bot. & Zo[94]l.)The state of being parasitic. | |
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Parastichy \Pa*ras"ti*chy\, n. [Pref. para- + Gr. [?] a row.] (Bot.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone. | |
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Parch \Parch\ (p[aum]rch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parching}.] [OE. perchen to pierce, hence used of a piercing heat or cold, OF. perchier, another form of percier, F. percer. See {Pierce}.] 1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. --Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched from fever. The ground below is parched. --Dryden. | |
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Parchedness \Parch"ed*ness\, n. The state of being parched. | |
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Parcity \Par"ci*ty\, n. [L. parcitas, fr. parcus sparing.] Sparingless. [Obs.] | |
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Parget \Par"get\, v. i. 1. To lay on plaster. 2. To paint, as the face. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Parget \Par"get\, n. 1. Gypsum or plaster stone. 2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. --Knight. 3. Paint, especially for the face. [Obs.] --Drayton. | |
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Parget \Par"get\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pargeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pargeting}.] [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of uncertain origin.] 1. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. --Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. --R. L. Stevenson. 2. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.] | |
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Parget \Par"get\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pargeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pargeting}.] [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of uncertain origin.] 1. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. --Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. --R. L. Stevenson. 2. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.] | |
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Pargeter \Par"get*er\, n. A plasterer. --Johnson. | |
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Pargeting \Par"get*ing\, n. [Written also pargetting.] Plasterwork; esp.: (a) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth surface and help the draught. | |
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Parget \Par"get\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pargeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pargeting}.] [OE. pargeten, also spargeten, sparchen; of uncertain origin.] 1. To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. --Sir T. Herbert. The pargeted ceiling with pendants. --R. L. Stevenson. 2. To paint; to cover over. [Obs.] | |
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Pargetory \Par"get*o*ry\, n. Something made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Pariah \Pa"ri*ah\, n. [From Tamil paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low caste, fr. parai a large drum, because they beat the drums at certain festivals.] 1. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See {Caste}. --Balfour (Cyc. of India). 2. An outcast; one despised by society. {Pariah dog} (Zo[94]l.), a mongrel race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental cities. {Pariah kite} (Zo[94]l.), a species of kite ({Milvus govinda}) which acts as a scavenger in India. | |
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Wall \Wall\, n. [AS. weall, from L. vallum a wall, vallus a stake, pale, palisade; akin to Gr. [?] a nail. Cf. {Interval}.] 1. A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. The plaster of the wall of the King's palace. --Dan. v. 5. 2. A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense. The waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. --Ex. xiv. 22. In such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Troyan walls. --Shak. To rush undaunted to defend the walls. --Dryden. 3. An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder. 4. (Mining) (a) The side of a level or drift. (b) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. --Raymond. Note: Wall is often used adjectively, and also in the formation of compounds, usually of obvious signification; as in wall paper, or wall-paper; wall fruit, or wall-fruit; wallflower, etc. {Blank wall}, Blind wall, etc. See under {Blank}, {Blind}, etc. {To drive to the wall}, to bring to extremities; to push to extremes; to get the advantage of, or mastery over. {To go to the wall}, to be hard pressed or driven; to be the weaker party; to be pushed to extremes. {To take the wall}. to take the inner side of a walk, that is, the side next the wall; hence, to take the precedence. [bd]I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.[b8] --Shak. {Wall barley} (Bot.), a kind of grass ({Hordeum murinum}) much resembling barley; squirrel grass. See under {Squirrel}. {Wall box}. (Mach.) See {Wall frame}, below. {Wall creeper} (Zo[94]l.), a small bright-colored bird ({Tichodroma muraria}) native of Asia and Southern Europe. It climbs about over old walls and cliffs in search of insects and spiders. Its body is ash-gray above, the wing coverts are carmine-red, the primary quills are mostly red at the base and black distally, some of them with white spots, and the tail is blackish. Called also {spider catcher}. {Wall cress} (Bot.), a name given to several low cruciferous herbs, especially to the mouse-ear cress. See under {Mouse-ear}. {Wall frame} (Mach.), a frame set in a wall to receive a pillow block or bearing for a shaft passing through the wall; -- called also {wall box}. {Wall fruit}, fruit borne by trees trained against a wall. {Wall gecko} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of Old World geckos which live in or about buildings and run over the vertical surfaces of walls, to which they cling by means of suckers on the feet. {Wall lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a common European lizard ({Lacerta muralis}) which frequents houses, and lives in the chinks and crevices of walls; -- called also {wall newt}. {Wall louse}, a wood louse. {Wall moss} (Bot.), any species of moss growing on walls. {Wall newt} (Zo[94]l.), the wall lizard. --Shak. {Wall paper}, paper for covering the walls of rooms; paper hangings. {Wall pellitory} (Bot.), a European plant ({Parictaria officinalis}) growing on old walls, and formerly esteemed medicinal. {Wall pennywort} (Bot.), a plant ({Cotyledon Umbilicus}) having rounded fleshy leaves. It is found on walls in Western Europe. {Wall pepper} (Bot.), a low mosslike plant ({Sedum acre}) with small fleshy leaves having a pungent taste and bearing yellow flowers. It is common on walls and rocks in Europe, and is sometimes seen in America. {Wall pie} (Bot.), a kind of fern; wall rue. {Wall piece}, a gun planted on a wall. --H. L. Scott. {Wall plate} (Arch.), a piece of timber placed horizontally upon a wall, and supporting posts, joists, and the like. See Illust. of {Roof}. {Wall rock}, granular limestone used in building walls. [U. S.] --Bartlett. {Wall rue} (Bot.), a species of small fern ({Asplenium Ruta-muraria}) growing on walls, rocks, and the like. {Wall spring}, a spring of water issuing from stratified rocks. {Wall tent}, a tent with upright cloth sides corresponding to the walls of a house. {Wall wasp} (Zo[94]l.), a common European solitary wasp ({Odynerus parietus}) which makes its nest in the crevices of walls. | |
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Leopard's bane \Leop"ard's bane`\ (l[ecr]p"[etil]rdz b[amac]n`). (Bot.) A name of several harmless plants, as {Arnica montana}, {Senecio Doronicum}, and {Paris quadrifolia}. | |
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Paris \Par"is\, n. [From Paris, the son of Priam.] (Bot.) A plant common in Europe ({Paris quadrifolia}); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic. Note: It much resembles the American genus {Trillium}, but has usually four leaves and a tetramerous flower. | |
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Herb \Herb\ (?; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF. herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh` food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.] 1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent, but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering. Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower the second season, and then die; perennial herbs produce new stems year after year. 2. Grass; herbage. And flocks Grazing the tender herb. --Milton. {Herb bennet}. (Bot.) See {Bennet}. {Herb Christopher} (Bot.), an herb ({Act[91]a spicata}), whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal fern, the wood betony, etc. {Herb Gerard} (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr. Prior. {Herb grace}, [or] {Herb of grace}. (Bot.) See {Rue}. {Herb Margaret} (Bot.), the daisy. See {Marguerite}. {Herb Paris} (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the trillium ({Paris quadrifolia}), commonly reputed poisonous. {Herb Robert} (Bot.), a species of {Geranium} ({G. Robertianum}.) | |
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White \White\, n. 1. The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under {Color}, n., 1. Finely attired in a of white. --Shak. 2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye. 3. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot. 'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white. --Shak. 4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men. 5. A white pigment; as, Venice white. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to {Pieris}, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See {Cabbage butterfly}, under {Cabbage}. {Black and white}. See under {Black}. {Flake white}, {Paris white}, etc. See under {Flack}, {Paris}, etc. {White of a seed} (Bot.), the albumen. See {Albumen}, 2. {White of egg}, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar, with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it contains. --Parr. {White of the eye} (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the eye surrounding the transparent cornea. | |
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Paris \Par"is\, n. The chief city of France. {Paris green}. See under {Green}, n. {Paris white} (Chem.), purified chalk used as a pigment; whiting; Spanish white. | |
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Parjdigitate \Par`j*dig"i*tate\, a. (Anat.) Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet. --Qwen. | |
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Park \Park\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parking}.] 1. To inclose in a park, or as in a park. How are we parked, and bounded in a pale. --Shak. 2. (Mil.) To bring together in a park, or compact body; as, to park the artillery, the wagons, etc. | |
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Paroket \Par"o*ket`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Paroquet}. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Paroket \Par"o*ket`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Paroquet}. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Parosteal \Pa*ros"te*al\, (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification. | |
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Parostotic \Par`os*tot"ic\, a. Pertaining to parostosis. | |
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Paroxytone \Par*ox"y*tone\, n. [Gr. [?], a. See {Para-}, and {Oxytone}.] (Gr. Gram.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable. | |
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Parquet \Par*quet"\, n. 1. In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the [bd]agents de change,[b8] or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the {coulisse}, or outside market. 2. In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured. | |
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Parquet \Par*quet"\, n. [F. See {Parquetry}.] 1. A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit. 2. Same as {Parquetry}. | |
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Parquet circle \Parquet circle\ That part of the lower floor of a theater with seats at the rear of the parquet and beneath the galleries; -- called also, esp. in U. S., {orchestra circle} or {parterre}. | |
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Parquetage \Par"quet*age\, n. See {Parquetry}. | |
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Parqueted \Par"quet*ed\, a. Formed in parquetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. --Evelyn. | |
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Parquetry \Par"quet*ry\, n. [F. parqueterie, fr. parquet inlaid flooring, fr. parquet, dim. of parc an inclosure. See {Park}.] A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors. | |
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Parquette \Par*quette"\, n. See {Parquet}. | |
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Parrakeet \Par"ra*keet`\, Parakeet \Par"a*keet`\, n. [See {Paroquet}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also {paroquet} and {paraquet}. Note: Many of the Asiatic and Australian species belong to the genus {Paleornis}; others belong to {Polytelis}, {Platycercus}, {Psephotus}, {Euphema}, and allied genera. The American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus {Conurus}, as the Carolina parrakeet ({C. Carolinensis}). | |
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Parricidal \Par"ri*ci`dal\, a. [L. parricidalis, parricidialis. See {Parricide}.] Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide. | |
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Parricide \Par"ri*cide\, n. [F., fr. L. parricida; pater father + caedere to kill. See {Father}, {Homicide}, and cf. {Patricide}.] 1. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor. 2. [L. parricidium.] The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor. | |
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Parricidious \Par`ri*cid"i*ous\, a. Parricidal. [Obs.] | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Parse \Parse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parsing}.] [L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. --Ascham. | |
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Coletit \Cole"tit`\ or Coaltit \Coal"tit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small European titmouse ({Parus ater}), so named from its black color; -- called also {coalmouse} and {colemouse}. | |
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Blackcap \Black"cap`\ (-k[acr]p`), n. 1. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A small European song bird ({Sylvia atricapilla}), with a black crown; the mock nightingale. (b) An American titmouse ({Parus atricapillus}); the chickadee. | |
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Chickadee \Chick"a*dee`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small bird, the blackcap titmouse ({Parus atricapillus}), of North America; -- named from its note. | |
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Titmouse \Tit"mouse`\, n.; pl. {Titmice}. [OE. titemose, titmase; tit small, or a small bird + AS. m[be]se a kind of small bird; akin to D. mees a titmouse, G. meise, OHG. meisa, Icel. meisingr. The English form has been influenced by the unrelated word mouse. Cf. {Tit} a small bird.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to {Parus} and allied genera; -- called also {tit}, and {tomtit}. Note: The blue titmouse ({Parus c[d2]ruleus}), the marsh titmouse ({P. palustris}), the crested titmouse ({P. cristatus}), the great titmouse ({P. major}), and the long tailed titmouse ({[92]githalos caudatus}), are the best-known European species. See {Chickadee}. | |
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Blue bonnet \Blue" bon`net\ or Blue-bonnet \Blue"-bon`net\, n. 1. A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman. 2. (Bot.) A plant. Same as {Bluebottle}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The European blue titmouse ({Parus c[d2]ruleus}); the bluecap. | |
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Heckimal \Heck"i*mal\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The European blue titmouse ({Parus c[d2]ruleus}). [Written also {heckimel}, {hackeymal}, {hackmall}, {hagmall}, and {hickmall}.] | |
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Peirastic \Pei*ras"tic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to try, fr. [?] a trail.] Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts. | |
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Peract \Per*act"\, v. t. [L. peractus, p. p. of peragere.] To go through with; to perform. [Obs.] --Sylvester. | |
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Peracute \Per`a*cute"\, a. [L. peracutus. See {Per-}, and {Acute}.] Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. [R.] --Harvey. | |
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Perch \Perch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Perched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perching}.] [F. percher. See {Perch} a pole.] To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. --Shak. | |
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d8Perciformes \[d8]Per`ci*for"mes\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches ({Percid[91]}); the pondfishes ({Centrarchid[91]}); the sci[91]noids ({Sci[91]nid[91]}); the sparoids ({Sparid[91]}); the serranoids ({Serranid[91]}), and some other related families. | |
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Percoid \Per"coid\, a. [L. perca a perch + -oid: cf. F. perco[8b]de.] (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family {Percid[91]}. -- n. Any fish of the genus {Perca}, or allied genera of the family {Percid[91]}. | |
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Percutient \Per*cu"tient\, a. [L. percutiens, p. pr. of percutere. See {Percuss}.] Striking; having the power of striking. -- n. That which strikes, or has power to strike. --Bacon. | |
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Periastral \Per`i*as"tral\, a. Among or around the stars. [bd]Comets in periastral passage.[b8] --R. A. Proctor. | |
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Periastron \Per`i*as"tron\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] about + [?] a star.] (Astron.) That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter. | |
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Perich91th \Per"i*ch[91]th\, n. [See {Perich[91]tium}.] (Bot.) The leafy involucre surrounding the fruit stalk of mosses; perich[91]tium; perichete. | |
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d8Perich91tium \[d8]Per`i*ch[91]"ti*um\, n.; pl. {Perich[91]tia}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] about + [?] flowing hair, foliage.] (Bot.) Same as {Perich[91]th}. | |
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Perich91tial \Per`i*ch[91]"ti*al\, a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the perich[91]th. | |
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Perich91tous \Per`i*ch[91]"tous\, a. [See {Perich[91]tium}.] (Zo[94]l.) Surrounded by set[91]; -- said of certain earthworms (genus {Perich[91]tus}). | |
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Perichete \Per"i*chete\, n. Same as {Perich[91]th}. | |
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Periosteal \Per`i*os"te*al\, a. (Anat.) Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum. | |
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d8Periostracum \[d8]Per`i*os"tra*cum\, n.; pl. {Periostraca}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] around + [?] shell of a testacean.] (Zo[94]l.) A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also {epidermis}. | |
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Perish \Per"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Perished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perishing}.] [OE. perissen, perisshen, F. p[82]rir, p. pr. p[82]rissant, L. perire to go or run through, come to nothing, perish; per through + ire to go. Cf. {Issue}, and see {-ish}.] To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away. I perish with hunger! --Luke xv. 17. Grow up and perish, as the summer fly. --Milton. The thoughts of a soul that perish in thinking. --Locke. | |
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Perissad \Per"is*sad\, a. [Gr. [?] odd, from [?] over.] (Chem.) Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with artiad. | |
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Perissodactyl \Per`is*so*dac"tyl\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Perissodactyla. | |
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Peristaltic \Per`i*stal"tic\, a. [Gr. [?] clasping and compressing, fr. [?] to surround, wrap up; [?] round + [?] to place, arrange: cf. F. p[82]ristaltique.] (Physiol.) Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- {Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Peristaltic \Per`i*stal"tic\, a. [Gr. [?] clasping and compressing, fr. [?] to surround, wrap up; [?] round + [?] to place, arrange: cf. F. p[82]ristaltique.] (Physiol.) Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- {Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Dove plant \Dove" plant`\ (Bot.) A Central American orchid ({Peristeria elata}), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers. The column in the center of the flower resembles a dove; -- called also {Holy Spirit plant}. | |
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Peristerite \Pe*ris"ter*ite\, n. [Gr. [?] a pigeon.] (Min.) A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck. | |
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Peristeromorphous \Pe*ris`ter*o*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. [?] a pigeon + -morphous.] (Zo[94]l.) Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columb[91]. | |
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Peristeropodous \Pe*ris`ter*op"o*dous\, a. [Gr. [?] a pigeon + [?], [?], foot.] (Zo[94]l.) Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods. | |
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Lyrie \Ly"rie\ (l[imac]"r[icr]), n. [Icel. hl[ymac]ri a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) A European fish ({Peristethus cataphractum}), having the body covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting in front of the nose; -- called also {noble}, {pluck}, {pogge}, {sea poacher}, and {armed bullhead}. | |
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Peristole \Pe*ris"to*le\, n. [NL.: cf. F. p[82]ristole. See {Peristaltic}.] (Physiol.) Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines. | |
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d8Peristoma \[d8]Pe*ris"to*ma\, n.; pl. {Peristomata}. [NL.] Same as {Peristome}. | |
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Peristome \Per"i*stome\, n. [Pref. peri- + Gr. [?], [?], mouth.] 1. (Bot.) The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The lip, or edge of the aperture, of a spiral shell. (b) The membrane surrounding the mouth of an invertebrate animal. | |
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Peristomial \Per`i*sto"mi*al\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to a peristome. | |
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Peristrephic \Per`i*streph"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] to turn round.] Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama). | |
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Peristyle \Per"i*style\, n. [L. peristylum, Gr. [?], [?]; [?] about + [?] a column: cf. F. p[82]ristyle.] (Arch.) A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically, a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, or surrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See {Colonnade}. | |
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Perk \Perk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perking}.] [Cf. W. percu to trim, to make smart.] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. --Cowper. Sherburne. | |
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Peroxidation \Per*ox`i*da"tion\, n. Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide. | |
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Peroxide \Per*ox"ide\, n. (Chem.) An oxide containing more oxygen than some other oxide of the same element. Formerly peroxides were regarded as the highest oxides. Cf. {Per-}, 2. | |
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Peroxidize \Per*ox"i*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peroxidized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peroxidizing}.] (Chem.) To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide. | |
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Peroxidize \Per*ox"i*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peroxidized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peroxidizing}.] (Chem.) To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide. | |
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Peroxidize \Per*ox"i*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peroxidized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peroxidizing}.] (Chem.) To oxidize to the utmost degree, so as to form a peroxide. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Perroquet \Per`ro*quet"\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Paroquet}, {Parakeet}. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Perroquet \Per`ro*quet"\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Paroquet}, {Parakeet}. | |
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Paroquet \Par"o*quet`\, n. [F. perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob. orig. meaning, little Peter. See {Parrot}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Parrakeet}. [Written also {paroket}, {parroquet}, and {perroquet}.] {Paroquet auk} [or] {auklet} (Zo[94]l.), a small auk ({Cyclorrhynchus psittaculus}) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska. The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange red. Called also {perroquet auk}. | |
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Perseid \Per"se*id\, n. [From {Perseus}.] (Astron.) One of a group of shooting stars appearing annually about the 10th of August. They are probably fragments of Swift's comet 1862 (III). | |
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Perseid \Per"se*id\, n. (Astron.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862. | |
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Perstreperous \Per*strep"er*ous\, a. [L. perstrepere to make a great noise.] Noisy; obstreperous. [Obs.] --Ford. | |
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Perstringe \Per*stringe"\, v. t. [L. perstringere; per + stringere to bind up, to touch upon.] 1. To touch; to graze; to glance on. [Obs.] 2. To criticise; to touch upon. [R.] --Evelyn. | |
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Persuadable \Per*suad"a*ble\, a. That may be persuaded. -- {Per*suad"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*suad"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Persuadable \Per*suad"a*ble\, a. That may be persuaded. -- {Per*suad"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*suad"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Persuadable \Per*suad"a*ble\, a. That may be persuaded. -- {Per*suad"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Per*suad"a*bly}, adv. | |
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Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. i. To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion. --Shak. | |
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Persuade \Per*suade"\, n. Persuasion. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Persuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Persuading}.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See {Per-}, and {Suasion}.] 1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. | |
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Persuaded \Per*suad"ed\, p. p. & a. Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- {Per*suad"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Per*suad"ed*ness}, n. | |
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Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Persuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Persuading}.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See {Per-}, and {Suasion}.] 1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. | |
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Persuaded \Per*suad"ed\, p. p. & a. Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- {Per*suad"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Per*suad"ed*ness}, n. | |
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Persuaded \Per*suad"ed\, p. p. & a. Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- {Per*suad"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Per*suad"ed*ness}, n. | |
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Persuader \Per*suad"er\, n. One who, or that which, persuades or influences. [bd]Powerful persuaders.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Persuade \Per*suade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Persuaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Persuading}.] [L. persuadere, persuasum; per + suadere to advise, persuade: cf. F. persuader. See {Per-}, and {Suasion}.] 1. To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives. | |
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Peruse \Pe*ruse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perusing}.] [Pref. per- + use.] 1. To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. --Milton. 2. To read through; to read carefully. --Shak. | |
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Periwig \Per"i*wig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Perwigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perwigging}.] To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. --Swift. | |
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Phrase \Phrase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Phrased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Phrasing}.] [Cf. F. phraser.] To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style. [bd]These suns -- for so they phrase 'em.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Piarist \Pi"a*rist\, n. [L. pius pious.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. --Addis & Arnold. | |
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Pierce \Pierce\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pierced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piercing}.] [OE. percen, F. percer, OF. percier, perchier, parchier; perh. fr. (assumed) LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. {Contuse}, {Parch}, {Pertuse}.] 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument. [bd]I pierce . . . her tender side.[b8] --Dryden. 2. To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship. 3. Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery. [bd]Pierced with grief.[b8] --Pope. Can no prayers pierce thee? --Shak. | |
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Pierced \Pierced\, a. Penetrated; entered; perforated. | |
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Poor \Poor\, a. [Compar. {Poorer} (?; 254); superl. {Poorest}.] [OE. poure or povre, OF. povre, F. pauvre, L. pauper; the first syllable of which is probably akin to paucus few (see {Paucity}, {Few}), and the second to parare to prepare, procure. See {Few}, and cf. {Parade}, {Pauper}, {Poverty}.] 1. Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent. Note: It is often synonymous with indigent and with necessitous denoting extreme want. It is also applied to persons who are not entirely destitute of property, but who are not rich; as, a poor man or woman; poor people. 2. (Law) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. 3. Hence, in very various applications: Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected; as: (a) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc. [bd]Seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed.[b8] --Gen. xli. 19. (b) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits. [bd]His genius . . . poor and cowardly.[b8] --Bacon. (c) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings. [bd]A poor vessel.[b8] --Clarendon. (d) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil. (e) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture. (f) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night. (g) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse. That I have wronged no man will be a poor plea or apology at the last day. --Calamy. 4. Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt. And for mine own poor part, Look you, I'll go pray. --Shak. Poor, little, pretty, fluttering thing. --Prior. 5. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. [bd]Blessed are the poor in spirit.[b8] --Matt. v. 3. {Poor law}, a law providing for, or regulating, the relief or support of the poor. {Poor man's treacle} (Bot.), garlic; -- so called because it was thought to be an antidote to animal poison. [Eng] --Dr. Prior. {Poor man's weatherglass} (Bot.), the red-flowered pimpernel ({Anagallis arvensis}), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather. {Poor rate}, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. {Poor soldier} (Zo[94]l.), the friar bird. {The poor}, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintenance by the public. [bd]I have observed the more public provisions are made for the poor, the less they provide for themselves.[b8] --Franklin. | |
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Porcate \Por"cate\, a. [L. porca a ridge between two furrows.] (Zo[94]l.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed. | |
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Singing \Sing"ing\, a. & n. from {Sing}, v. {Singing bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. {Singing book}, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. {Singing falcon} [or] {hawk}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Chanting falcon}, under {Chanting}. {Singing fish} (Zo[94]l.), a California toadfish ({Porichthys porosissimus}). {Singing flame} (Acoustics), a flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound. The apparatus is called also {chemical harmonicon}. {Singing master}, a man who teaches vocal music. {Singing school}, a school in which persons are instructed in singing. | |
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Poristic \Po*ris"tic\, Poristical \Po*ris"tic*al\, a.[Gr. [?] for providing, [?] provided.] Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism. | |
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Poristic \Po*ris"tic\, Poristical \Po*ris"tic*al\, a.[Gr. [?] for providing, [?] provided.] Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism. | |
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Tapeworm \Tape"worm`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to T[91]nia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larv[91] (see {Cysticercus}) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: Three species are common parasites of man: the {pork tapeworm} ({T[91]nia solium}), the larva of which is found in pork; the {beef tapeworm} ({T. mediocanellata}), the larva of which lives in the flesh of young cattle; and the {broad tapeworm} ({Bothriocephalus latus}) which is found chiefly in the inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia. See also {Echinococcus}, {Cysticercus}, {Proglottis}, and 2d {Measles}, 4. | |
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Porket \Pork"et\, n. [Dim. of F. porc. See {Pork}.] A young hog; a pig. [R.] --Dryden. W. Howitt. | |
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Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree ({Pisonia obtusata}) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called {pigeon wood}, {beefwood}, and {corkwood}. | |
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Porosity \Po*ros"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. porosit[82].] The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density. | |
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Porrect \Por*rect"\, a. [L. porrectus, p. p. of porrigere to stretch out before one's self, to but forth.] Extended horizontally; stretched out. | |
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Porrection \Por*rec"tion\, n. [L. porrectio: cf. F. porrection.] The act of stretching forth. | |
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Poor \Poor\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small European codfish ({Gadus minutus}); -- called also {power cod}. | |
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Pr91oral \Pr[91]*o"ral\, n., Pr91pubis \Pr[91]*pu"bis\, n., Pr91scapula \Pr[91]*scap"u*la\, n., Pr91scutum \Pr[91]*scu"tum\, n., Pr91sternum \Pr[91]*ster"num\, n. Same as {Preoral}, {Prepubis}, {Prescapula}, etc. | |
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Pr91oral \Pr[91]*o"ral\, n., Pr91pubis \Pr[91]*pu"bis\, n., Pr91scapula \Pr[91]*scap"u*la\, n., Pr91scutum \Pr[91]*scu"tum\, n., Pr91sternum \Pr[91]*ster"num\, n. Same as {Preoral}, {Prepubis}, {Prescapula}, etc. | |
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Practic \Prac"tic\, a. [See {Practical}.] 1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. [Obs.] [bd]Cunning sleights and practick knavery.[b8] --Spenser. | |
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Practicability \Prac"ti*ca*bil"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility. [bd]The practicability of such a project.[b8] --Stewart. | |
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Practicable \Prac"ti*ca*ble\, a. [LL. practicare to act, transact, fr. L. practicus active, Gr. [?]: cf. F. practicable, pratiquer to practice. See {Practical}.] 1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good. 2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. {Practicable breach} (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. Syn: Possible; feasible. -- {Practicable}, {Possible}. A thing may be possible, i. e., not forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable for want of the means requisite to its performance. -- {Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Prac"ti*ca*bly}, adv. | |
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Practicable \Prac"ti*ca*ble\, a. [LL. practicare to act, transact, fr. L. practicus active, Gr. [?]: cf. F. practicable, pratiquer to practice. See {Practical}.] 1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good. 2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. {Practicable breach} (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. Syn: Possible; feasible. -- {Practicable}, {Possible}. A thing may be possible, i. e., not forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable for want of the means requisite to its performance. -- {Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Prac"ti*ca*bly}, adv. | |
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Practicable \Prac"ti*ca*ble\, a. [LL. practicare to act, transact, fr. L. practicus active, Gr. [?]: cf. F. practicable, pratiquer to practice. See {Practical}.] 1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good. 2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. {Practicable breach} (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. Syn: Possible; feasible. -- {Practicable}, {Possible}. A thing may be possible, i. e., not forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable for want of the means requisite to its performance. -- {Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Prac"ti*ca*bly}, adv. | |
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Practicable \Prac"ti*ca*ble\, a. [LL. practicare to act, transact, fr. L. practicus active, Gr. [?]: cf. F. practicable, pratiquer to practice. See {Practical}.] 1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good. 2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road. {Practicable breach} (Mil.), a breach which admits of approach and entrance by an assailing party. Syn: Possible; feasible. -- {Practicable}, {Possible}. A thing may be possible, i. e., not forbidden by any law of nature, and yet may not now be practicable for want of the means requisite to its performance. -- {Prac"ti*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Prac"ti*ca*bly}, adv. | |
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Practical \Prac"ti*cal\, a. [L. practicus active, Gr. [?] fit for doing or performing, practical, active, fr. [?] to do, work, effect: cf. F. pratique, formerly also practique. Cf. {Pragmatic}, {Practice}.] 1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from {ideal} or {theoretical}; as, practical chemistry. [bd]Man's practical understanding.[b8] --South. [bd]For all practical purposes.[b8] --Macaulay. 3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind. 4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. {Practical joke}, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; esp., a trick played upon a person. | |
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Chemistry \Chem"is*try\ (k[ecr]m"[icr]s*tr[ycr]; 277), n. [From {Chemist}. See {Alchemy}.] 1. That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See {Atom}, {Molecule}. Note: Historically, chemistry is an outgrowth of alchemy (or alchemistry), with which it was anciently identified. 2. An application of chemical theory and method to the consideration of some particular subject; as, the chemistry of iron; the chemistry of indigo. 3. A treatise on chemistry. Note: This word and its derivatives were formerly written with y, and sometimes with i, instead of e, in the first syllable, chymistry, chymist, chymical, etc., or chimistry, chimist, chimical, etc.; and the pronunciation was conformed to the orthography. {Inorganic chemistry}, that which treats of inorganic or mineral substances. {Organic chemistry}, that which treats of the substances which form the structure of organized beings and their products, whether animal or vegetable; -- called also {chemistry of the carbon compounds}. There is no fundamental difference between organic and inorganic chemistry. {Physiological chemistry}, the chemistry of the organs and tissues of the body, and of the various physiological processes incident to life. {Practical chemistry}, or {Applied chemistry}, that which treats of the modes of manufacturing the products of chemistry that are useful in the arts, of their applications to economical purposes, and of the conditions essential to their best use. {Pure chemistry}, the consideration of the facts and theories of chemistry in their purely scientific relations, without necessary reference to their practical applications or mere utility. | |
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Joke \Joke\, n. [L. jocus. Cf {Jeopardy}, {Jocular}, {Juggler}.] 1. Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes. And gentle dullness ever loves a joke. --Pope. Or witty joke our airy senses moves To pleasant laughter. --Gay. 2. Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport. Inclose whole downs in walls, 't is all a joke. --Pope. {In joke}, in jest; sportively; not meant seriously. {Practical joke}. See under {Practical}. | |
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Practical \Prac"ti*cal\, a. [L. practicus active, Gr. [?] fit for doing or performing, practical, active, fr. [?] to do, work, effect: cf. F. pratique, formerly also practique. Cf. {Pragmatic}, {Practice}.] 1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from {ideal} or {theoretical}; as, practical chemistry. [bd]Man's practical understanding.[b8] --South. [bd]For all practical purposes.[b8] --Macaulay. 3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind. 4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. {Practical joke}, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; esp., a trick played upon a person. | |
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Practicality \Prac`ti*cal"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being practical; practicalness. | |
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Practicalize \Prac"ti*cal*ize\, v. t. To render practical. [R.] [bd]Practicalizing influences.[b8] --J. S. Mill. | |
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Practically \Prac"ti*cal*ly\, adv. 1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3. In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right. | |
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Practicalness \Prac"ti*cal*ness\, n. Same as {Practicality}. | |
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Practice \Prac"tice\, n. [OE. praktike, practique, F. pratique, formerly also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] practical. See {Practical}, and cf. {Pratique}, {Pretty}.] 1. Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. | |
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Practice \Prac"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Practiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Practicing}.] [Often written practise, practised, practising.] 1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. [bd]Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works.[b8] | |
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Practice \Prac"tice\, v. i. [Often written practise.] 1. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano. | |
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Practice \Prac"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Practiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Practicing}.] [Often written practise, practised, practising.] 1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. [bd]Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works.[b8] | |
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Practiced \Prac"ticed\, a. [Often written practised.] 1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. [bd]A practiced picklock.[b8] --Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice. | |
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Practicer \Prac"ti*cer\, n. [Often written practiser.] 1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. --South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Practician \Prac*ti"cian\, n. [F. praticien, OF. also practicien.] One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner. | |
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Practice \Prac"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Practiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Practicing}.] [Often written practise, practised, practising.] 1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. [bd]Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works.[b8] | |
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Practick \Prac"tick\, n. Practice. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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d8Practico \[d8]Prac"ti*co\, n.; pl. {Practicos}. [Sp., lit., experienced, skilled. Cf. {Practical}.] A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] --D. C. Worcester. | |
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Practisant \Prac"ti*sant\, n. An agent or confederate in treachery. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Practise \Prac"tise\, v. t. & i. See {Practice}. Note: The analogy of the English language requires that the noun and verb which are pronounced alike should agree in spelling. Thus we have notice (n. & v.), noticed, noticing, noticer; poultice (n. & v.); apprentice (n. & v.); office (n. & v.), officer (n.); lattice (n.), latticed (a.); benefice (n.), beneficed (a.), etc. Cf. sacrifice ([?]; n. & v.), surmise ([?]; n. & v.), promise ([?]; n. & v.); compromise ([?]; n. & v.), etc. Contrast advice ([?]; n.), and advise ([?]); device ([?]), and devise ([?]), etc. | |
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Practisour \Prac"ti*sour\, n. A practitioner. [Obs.] | |
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Practitioner \Prac*ti"tion*er\, n. [From {Practician}.] 1. One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine. --Crabbe. 2. One who does anything customarily or habitually. 3. A sly or artful person. --Whitgift. {General practitioner}. See under {General}, 2. | |
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Practive \Prac"tive\, a. Doing; active. [Obs.] --Sylvester. -- {Prac"tive*ly}, adv. [Obs.] The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. --Warner. | |
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Practive \Prac"tive\, a. Doing; active. [Obs.] --Sylvester. -- {Prac"tive*ly}, adv. [Obs.] The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. --Warner. | |
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Praise \Praise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Praised}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Praising}.] [OE. preisen, OF. preisier, prisier, F. priser, L. pretiare to prize, fr. pretium price. See {Price}, n., and cf. {Appreciate}, {Praise}, n., {Prize}, v.] 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. [bd]I praise well thy wit.[b8] --Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. --Prov. xxxi. 31. We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe. --Dryden. 2. To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works; to do honor to; to display the excellence of; -- applied especially to the Divine Being. Praise ye him, all his angels; praise ye him, all his hosts! --Ps. cxlviii. 2. 3. To value; to appraise. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. Syn: To commend; laud; eulogize; celebrate; glorify; magnify. Usage: To {Praise}, {Applaud}, {Extol}. To praise is to set at high price; to applaud is to greet with clapping; to extol is to bear aloft, to exalt. We may praise in the exercise of calm judgment; we usually applaud from impulse, and on account of some specific act; we extol under the influence of high admiration, and usually in strong, if not extravagant, language. | |
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Praseodymium \Pra`se*o*dym"i*um\, n. [Praseo- + didymium.] (Chem.) An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; -- so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6. | |
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Prasoid \Pra"soid\, a. [Gr. [?] leek + -oid.] (Min.) Resembling prase. | |
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Pre89stablish \Pre`[89]s*tab"lish\, v. t. To establish beforehand. | |
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Pre89stablishment \Pre`[89]s*tab"lish*ment\, n. Settlement beforehand. | |
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Preach \Preach\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Preached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preaching}.] [OE. prechen, OF. preechier, F. pr[88]cher, fr. L. praedicare to cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from (assumed) LL. praedictare. See {Diction}, and cf. {Predicate}, {Predict}.] 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to deliver a sermon. How shall they preach, except they be sent? --Rom. x. 15. From that time Jesus began to preach. --Matt. iv. 17. 2. To give serious advice on morals or religion; to discourse in the manner of a preacher. | |
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Preact \Pre*act"\, v. t. To act beforehand; to perform previously. | |
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Preaction \Pre*ac"tion\, n. Previous action. | |
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Precation \Pre*ca"tion\, n. [L. precatio.] The act of praying; supplication; entreaty. --Cotton. | |
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Preative \Pre"a*tive\, Preatory \Pre"a*to*ry\, a. [L. precativus, precatorius, fr. precari to pray. See {Precarious}.] Suppliant; beseeching. --Bp. Hopkins. {Precatory words} (Law), words of recommendation, request, entreaty, wish, or expectation, employed in wills, as distinguished from express directions; -- in some cases creating a trust. --Jarman. | |
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Precaution \Pre*cau"tion\, v. t. [Cf. F. pr[82]cautionner.] 1. To warn or caution beforehand. --Locke. | |
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Precaution \Pre*cau"tion\, n. [F. pr[82]cation, L. praecautio, fr. praecavere, praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on one's guard. See {Pre-}, and {Caution}.] 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They [ancient philosophers] treasured up their supposed discoveries with miserable precaution. --J. H. Newman. 2. A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success; a precautionary act; as, to take precautions against accident. | |
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Precautional \Pre*cau"tion*al\, a. Precautionary. | |
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Precautionary \Pre*cau"tion*a*ry\, a. Of or pertaining to precaution, or precautions; as, precautionary signals. | |
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Precautious \Pre*cau"tious\, a. Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- {Pre*cau"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Pre*cau"*tious*ness}, n. | |
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Precautious \Pre*cau"tious\, a. Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- {Pre*cau"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Pre*cau"*tious*ness}, n. | |
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Precautious \Pre*cau"tious\, a. Taking or using precaution; precautionary. -- {Pre*cau"tious*ly}, adv. -- {Pre*cau"*tious*ness}, n. | |
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Precedaneous \Pre`ce*da"ne*ous\, a. Preceding; antecedent; previous. [Obs.] --Hammond. | |
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Precede \Pre*cede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preceded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preceding}.] [L. praecedere, praecessum; prae before + cedere to go, to be in motion: cf. F. pr[82]ceder. See {Pre-}, and {Cede}.] 1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. [bd]Harm precedes not sin.[b8] --Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.] It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration. --Kent. | |
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Precede \Pre*cede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preceded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preceding}.] [L. praecedere, praecessum; prae before + cedere to go, to be in motion: cf. F. pr[82]ceder. See {Pre-}, and {Cede}.] 1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. [bd]Harm precedes not sin.[b8] --Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.] It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration. --Kent. | |
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Precedence \Pre*ced"ence\, Precedency \Pre*ced"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F. pr[82]c[82]dence. See {Precede}.] 1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action? --Locke. Syn: Antecedence; priority; pre[89]minence; preference; superiority. | |
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Precedence \Pre*ced"ence\, Precedency \Pre*ced"en*cy\, n. [Cf. F. pr[82]c[82]dence. See {Precede}.] 1. The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another. 2. The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners. Which of them [the different desires] has the precedency in determining the will to the next action? --Locke. Syn: Antecedence; priority; pre[89]minence; preference; superiority. | |
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Precedent \Pre*ced"ent\, a. [L. praecedens, -entis, p. pr. of praecedere: cf. F. pr[82]c[82]dent. See {Precede}.] Going before; anterior; preceding; antecedent; as, precedent services. --Shak. [bd]A precedent injury.[b8] --Bacon. {Condition precedent} (Law), a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right. | |
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Precedent \Prec"e*dent\, n. 1. Something done or said that may serve as an example to authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an authoritative example. Examples for cases can but direct as precedents only. --Hooker. 2. A preceding circumstance or condition; an antecedent; hence, a prognostic; a token; a sign. [Obs.] 3. A rough draught of a writing which precedes a finished copy. [Obs.] --Shak. 4. (Law) A judicial decision which serves as a rule for future determinations in similar or analogous cases; an authority to be followed in courts of justice; forms of proceeding to be followed in similar cases. --Wharton. Syn: Example; antecedent. Usage: {Precedent}, {Example}. An example in a similar case which may serve as a rule or guide, but has no authority out of itself. A precedent is something which comes down to us from the past with the sanction of usage and of common consent. We quote examples in literature, and precedents in law. | |
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Precedented \Prec"e*dent*ed\, a. Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. --Walpole. | |
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Precedential \Prec`e*den"tial\, a. Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. --Fuller. | |
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Precedently \Pre*ced"ent*ly\, adv. Beforehand; antecedently. | |
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Precede \Pre*cede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Preceded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Preceding}.] [L. praecedere, praecessum; prae before + cedere to go, to be in motion: cf. F. pr[82]ceder. See {Pre-}, and {Cede}.] 1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. [bd]Harm precedes not sin.[b8] --Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.] It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration. --Kent. | |
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Preceding \Pre*ced"ing\, a. 1. Going before; -- opposed to following. 2. (Astron.) In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See {Following}, 2. | |
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Precoetanean \Pre*co`e*ta"ne*an\, n. One contemporary with, but older than, another. [Obs.] --Fuller. | |
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Prehistoric \Pre`his*tor"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins; as, the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man. | |
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Prejudge \Pre*judge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudging}.] [Pref. pre + judge: cf. F. pr[82]juger. Cf. {Prejudicate}, {Prejudice}.] To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament[bd] a universal clamor.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Prejudge \Pre*judge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudging}.] [Pref. pre + judge: cf. F. pr[82]juger. Cf. {Prejudicate}, {Prejudice}.] To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament[bd] a universal clamor.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Prejudge \Pre*judge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudging}.] [Pref. pre + judge: cf. F. pr[82]juger. Cf. {Prejudicate}, {Prejudice}.] To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament[bd] a universal clamor.[b8] --Swift. | |
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Prejudgment \Pre*judg"ment\, n. The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination. | |
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Prejudicacy \Pre*ju"di*ca*cy\, n. Prejudice; prepossession. [Obs.] --Sir. H. Blount. | |
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Prejudical \Pre*ju"di*cal\, a. Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law. | |
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Prejudicant \Pre*ju"di*cant\, a. [L. praejudicans, p. pr.] Influenced by prejudice; biased. [R.] [bd] With not too hasty and prejudicant ears.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Prejudicate \Pre*ju"di*cate\, v. i. To prejudge. --Sir P. Sidney. | |
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Prejudicate \Pre*ju"di*cate\, a. [L. praejudicatus, p. p. of praejudicare to prejudge; prae before + judicare to judge. See {Judge}.] 1. Formed before due examination. [bd]Ignorance and prejudicate opinions.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. [bd]Prejudicate readers.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Prejudicate \Pre*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicating}.] [Cf. {Prejudge}.] To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge. Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business. --Shak. | |
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Prejudicate \Pre*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicating}.] [Cf. {Prejudge}.] To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge. Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business. --Shak. | |
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Prejudicately \Pre*ju"di*cate*ly\, adv. With prejudice. | |
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Prejudicate \Pre*ju"di*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicating}.] [Cf. {Prejudge}.] To determine beforehand, especially to disadvantage; to prejudge. Our dearest friend Prejudicates the business. --Shak. | |
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Prejudication \Pre*ju`di*ca"tion\, n. 1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. 2. (Rom. Law) (a) A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. (b) A previous treatment and decision of a point; a precedent. | |
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Prejudicative \Pre*ju"di*ca*tive\, a. Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. --Dr. H. More. | |
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Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, n. [F. pr[82]judice, L. praejudicium; prae before + judicium judgment. See {Prejudicate}, {Judicial}.] 1. Foresight. [Obs.] Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. --Spenser. 2. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. --Macaulay. 3. (Law) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment. 4. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. --Locke. England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice. --Shak. Syn: Prejudgment; prepossession; bias; harm; hurt; damage; detriment; mischief; disadvantage. | |
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Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicing}.] [Cf. F. pr[82]judicier. See {Prejudice}, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts 2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak | |
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Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicing}.] [Cf. F. pr[82]judicier. See {Prejudice}, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts 2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak | |
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Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr[82]judiciel.] 1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. --Clarendon. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ly}, adv. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ness}, n. | |
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Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr[82]judiciel.] 1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. --Clarendon. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ly}, adv. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ness}, n. | |
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Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr[82]judiciel.] 1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday. 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker. His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. --Clarendon. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ly}, adv. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ness}, n. | |
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Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prejudiced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prejudicing}.] [Cf. F. pr[82]judicier. See {Prejudice}, n.] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts 2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak | |
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d8Prescutum \[d8]Pre*scu"tum\, n.; pl. {Prescuta}. [NL. See {Pr[91]-}, and {Scutum}.] (Zo[94]l.) The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous. | |
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Presidary \Pre*sid"*a*ry\, n. [L. praesidiarium.] A guard. [Obs.] [bd]Heavenly presidiaries.[b8] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Preside \Pre*side"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Presided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presiding}.] [L. praesidere; prae before + sedere to sit: cf. F. pr[82]sider. See {Sit}.] 1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. 2. To exercise superintendence; to watch over. Some o'er the public magazines preside. --Dryden. | |
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Preside \Pre*side"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Presided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presiding}.] [L. praesidere; prae before + sedere to sit: cf. F. pr[82]sider. See {Sit}.] 1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. 2. To exercise superintendence; to watch over. Some o'er the public magazines preside. --Dryden. | |
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Presidence \Pres"i*dence\, n. See {Presidency}. [Obs.] | |
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Presidency \Pres"i*den*cy\, n.; pl. {Presidencies}. [Cf. F. pr[82]sidence.] 1. The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care. 2. The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency. 3. The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison. 4. One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president. | |
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Presidency \Pres"i*den*cy\, n.; pl. {Presidencies}. [Cf. F. pr[82]sidence.] 1. The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care. 2. The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency. 3. The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison. 4. One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president. | |
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President \Pres"i*dent\, n. Precedent. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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President \Pres"i*dent\, a. Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [R.] His angels president In every province. --Milton. | |
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President \Pres"i*dent\, n. [F. pr[82]sident, L. praesidens, -entis, p. pr. of praesidere. See {Preside}.] 1. One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body. Specifically: (a) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like. (b) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States. 2. A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [Obs.] Just Apollo, president of verse. --Waller. | |
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Presidential \Pres`i*den"tial\, a. 1. Presiding or watching over. [bd]Presidential angels.[b8] --Glanvill. 2. Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election. | |
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Presidentship \Pres"i*dent*ship\, n. The office and dignity of president; presidency. --Hooker. | |
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Presider \Pre*sid"er\, n. One who presides. | |
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Presidial \Pre*sid"i*al\, Presidiary \Pre*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. praesidialis and praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See {Preside}.] Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. --Howell. | |
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Presidial \Pre*sid"i*al\, Presidiary \Pre*sid"i*a*ry\, a. [L. praesidialis and praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See {Preside}.] Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. There are three presidial castles in this city. --Howell. | |
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Presiding \Pre*sid"ing\, a. & n. from {Preside}. {Presiding elder}. See under 2d {Elder}. | |
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Preside \Pre*side"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Presided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presiding}.] [L. praesidere; prae before + sedere to sit: cf. F. pr[82]sider. See {Sit}.] 1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. 2. To exercise superintendence; to watch over. Some o'er the public magazines preside. --Dryden. | |
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Presiding \Pre*sid"ing\, a. & n. from {Preside}. {Presiding elder}. See under 2d {Elder}. | |
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Elder \Eld"er\, n. [AS. ealdor an elder, prince, fr. eald old. See {Old}, and cf. {Elder}, a., {Alderman}.] 1. One who is older; a superior in age; a senior. --1 Tim. v. 1. 2. An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. Carry your head as your elders have done. --L'Estrange. 3. A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church. Note: In the modern Presbyterian churches, elders are lay officers who, with the minister, compose the church session, with authority to inspect and regulate matters of religion and discipline. In some churches, pastors or clergymen are called elders, or presbyters. 4. (M. E. Ch.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder. {Presiding elder} (Meth. Ch.), an elder commissioned by a bishop to have the oversight of the churches and preachers in a certain district. {Ruling elder}, a lay presbyter or member of a Presbyterian church session. --Schaff. | |
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Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr. premere, pressum, to press. Cf. {Print}, v.] 1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together. --Luke vi. 38. 2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. --Gen. xl. 11. 3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes. 4. To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope. 5. To oppress; to bear hard upon. Press not a falling man too far. --Shak. 6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. 7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel. Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii. 5. 8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience. He pressed a letter upon me within this hour. --Dryden. Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison. 9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment. --Esther viii. 14. Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force. {Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}. | |
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Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pressed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr. premere, pressum, to press. Cf. {Print}, v.] 1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together. --Luke vi. 38. 2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. --Gen. xl. 11. 3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes. 4. To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope. 5. To oppress; to bear hard upon. Press not a falling man too far. --Shak. 6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. 7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel. Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii. 5. 8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press divine truth on an audience. He pressed a letter upon me within this hour. --Dryden. Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison. 9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment. --Esther viii. 14. Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force. {Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}. | |
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Brick \Brick\, n. [OE. brik, F. brique; of Ger. origin; cf. AS. brice a breaking, fragment, Prov. E. brique piece, brique de pain, equiv. to AS. hl[be]fes brice, fr. the root of E. break. See {Break}.] 1. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. --Layard. 2. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick. Some of Palladio's finest examples are of brick. --Weale. 3. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread). 4. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you 're a brick. [Slang] [bd]He 's a dear little brick.[b8] --Thackeray. {To have a brick in one's hat}, to be drunk. [Slang] Note: Brick is used adjectively or in combination; as, brick wall; brick clay; brick color; brick red. {Brick clay}, clay suitable for, or used in making, bricks. {Brick dust}, dust of pounded or broken bricks. {Brick earth}, clay or earth suitable for, or used in making, bricks. {Brick loaf}, a loaf of bread somewhat resembling a brick in shape. {Brick nogging} (Arch.), rough brickwork used to fill in the spaces between the uprights of a wooden partition; brick filling. {Brick tea}, tea leaves and young shoots, or refuse tea, steamed or mixed with fat, etc., and pressed into the form of bricks. It is used in Northern and Central Asia. --S. W. Williams. {Brick trimmer} (Arch.), a brick arch under a hearth, usually within the thickness of a wooden floor, to guard against accidents by fire. {Brick trowel}. See {Trowel}. {Brick works}, a place where bricks are made. {Bath brick}. See under {Bath}, a city. {Pressed brick}, bricks which, before burning, have been subjected to pressure, to free them from the imperfections of shape and texture which are common in molded bricks. | |
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Glass \Glass\, n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[91]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[91]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] 1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament. Note: Glass is variously colored by the metallic oxides; thus, manganese colors it violet; copper (cuprous), red, or (cupric) green; cobalt, blue; uranium, yellowish green or canary yellow; iron, green or brown; gold, purple or red; tin, opaque white; chromium, emerald green; antimony, yellow. 2. (Chem.) Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: (a) A looking-glass; a mirror. (b) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand. She would not live The running of one glass. --Shak. (c) A drinking vessel; a tumbler; a goblet; hence, the contents of such a vessel; especially; spirituous liquors; as, he took a glass at dinner. (d) An optical glass; a lens; a spyglass; -- in the plural, spectacles; as, a pair of glasses; he wears glasses. (e) A weatherglass; a barometer. Note: Glass is much used adjectively or in combination; as, glass maker, or glassmaker; glass making or glassmaking; glass blower or glassblower, etc. {Bohemian glass}, {Cut glass}, etc. See under {Bohemian}, {Cut}, etc. {Crown glass}, a variety of glass, used for making the finest plate or window glass, and consisting essentially of silicate of soda or potash and lime, with no admixture of lead; the convex half of an achromatic lens is composed of crown glass; -- so called from a crownlike shape given it in the process of blowing. {Crystal glass}, [or] {Flint glass}. See {Flint glass}, in the Vocabulary. {Cylinder glass}, sheet glass made by blowing the glass in the form of a cylinder which is then split longitudinally, opened out, and flattened. {Glass of antimony}, a vitreous oxide of antimony mixed with sulphide. {Glass blower}, one whose occupation is to blow and fashion glass. {Glass blowing}, the art of shaping glass, when reduced by heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube. {Glass cloth}, a woven fabric formed of glass fibers. {Glass coach}, a coach superior to a hackney-coach, hired for the day, or any short period, as a private carriage; -- so called because originally private carriages alone had glass windows. [Eng.] --Smart. Glass coaches are [allowed in English parks from which ordinary hacks are excluded], meaning by this term, which is never used in America, hired carriages that do not go on stands. --J. F. Cooper. {Glass cutter}. (a) One who cuts sheets of glass into sizes for window panes, ets. (b) One who shapes the surface of glass by grinding and polishing. (c) A tool, usually with a diamond at the point, for cutting glass. {Glass cutting}. (a) The act or process of dividing glass, as sheets of glass into panes with a diamond. (b) The act or process of shaping the surface of glass by appylying it to revolving wheels, upon which sand, emery, and, afterwards, polishing powder, are applied; especially of glass which is shaped into facets, tooth ornaments, and the like. Glass having ornamental scrolls, etc., cut upon it, is said to be engraved. {Glass metal}, the fused material for making glass. {Glass painting}, the art or process of producing decorative effects in glass by painting it with enamel colors and combining the pieces together with slender sash bars of lead or other metal. In common parlance, glass painting and glass staining (see {Glass staining}, below) are used indifferently for all colored decorative work in windows, and the like. {Glass paper}, paper faced with pulvirezed glass, and used for abrasive purposes. {Glass silk}, fine threads of glass, wound, when in fusion, on rapidly rotating heated cylinders. {Glass silvering}, the process of transforming plate glass into mirrors by coating it with a reflecting surface, a deposit of silver, or a mercury amalgam. {Glass soap}, [or] {Glassmaker's soap}, the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass. {Glass staining}, the art or practice of coloring glass in its whole substance, or, in the case of certain colors, in a superficial film only; also, decorative work in glass. Cf. Glass painting. {Glass tears}. See {Rupert's drop}. {Glass works}, an establishment where glass is made. {Heavy glass}, a heavy optical glass, consisting essentially of a borosilicate of potash. {Millefiore glass}. See {Millefiore}. {Plate glass}, a fine kind of glass, cast in thick plates, and flattened by heavy rollers, -- used for mirrors and the best windows. {Pressed glass}, glass articles formed in molds by pressure when hot. {Soluble glass} (Chem.), a silicate of sodium or potassium, found in commerce as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, sirupy liquid; -- used for rendering fabrics incombustible, for hardening artificial stone, etc.; -- called also {water glass}. {Spun glass}, glass drawn into a thread while liquid. {Toughened glass}, {Tempered glass}, glass finely tempered or annealed, by a peculiar method of sudden cooling by plunging while hot into oil, melted wax, or paraffine, etc.; -- called also, from the name of the inventor of the process, {Bastie glass}. {Water glass}. (Chem.) See {Soluble glass}, above. {Window glass}, glass in panes suitable for windows. | |
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Pressitant \Pres"si*tant\, a. [See 4th {Press}.] Gravitating; heavy. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. | |
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Presstriction \Pres*stric"tion\, n. [L. praestrictio a binding fast, fr. praestringere. See {Pre-}, and {Stringent}.] Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Prest \Prest\, a. [OF. prest, F. pr[88]t, fr. L. praestus ready. Cf. {Presto}.] 1. Ready; prompt; prepared. [Obs.] All prest to such battle he was. --R. of Gloucester. 2. Neat; tidy; proper. [Obs.] --Tusser. {Prest money}, money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; -- so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon. | |
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Prest \Prest\, imp. & p. p. of {Press}. | |
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Prest \Prest\, n. [OF. prest, F. pr[88]t, fr. OF. prester to lend, F. pr[88]ter, fr. L. praestare to stand before, to become surety for, to fulfill, offer, supply; prae before + stare to stand. See {Pre-}, and {Stand}, and cf. {Press} to force into service.] 1. Ready money; a loan of money. [Obs.] Requiring of the city a prest of six thousand marks. --Bacon. 2. (Law) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands. --Cowell. | |
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Prest \Prest\, v. t. To give as a loan; to lend. [Obs.] Sums of money . . . prested out in loan. --E. Hall. | |
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Prest \Prest\, a. [OF. prest, F. pr[88]t, fr. L. praestus ready. Cf. {Presto}.] 1. Ready; prompt; prepared. [Obs.] All prest to such battle he was. --R. of Gloucester. 2. Neat; tidy; proper. [Obs.] --Tusser. {Prest money}, money formerly paid to men when they enlisted into the British service; -- so called because it bound those that received it to be ready for service when called upon. | |
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Prestable \Prest"a*ble\, a. Payable. [Scot.] | |
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Prestation \Pres*ta"tion\, n. [L. praestatio a performing, paying, fr. praestare: cf. F. prestation.] (O. Eng. Law) A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. --Burrill. | |
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{Prestation money}, a sum of money paid yearly by archdeacons and other dignitaries to their bishop. | |
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Prester \Pres"ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], from [?] to kindle or burn, and [?] to blow up, swell out by blowing.] 1. A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire. [Obs.] 2. pl. One of the veins of the neck when swollen with anger or other excitement. [Obs.] | |
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Prester \Pres"ter\, n. [OF. prestre. See {Priest}.] A priest or presbyter; as, Prester John. [Obs.] | |
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Presternum \Pre*ster"num\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- {Pre*ster"nal}, a. | |
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Presternum \Pre*ster"num\, n. [NL.] (Anat.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- {Pre*ster"nal}, a. | |
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Prestidigital \Pres`ti*dig"i*tal\, a. Nimble-fingered; having fingers fit for prestidigitation, or juggling. [R.] [bd]His prestidigital hand.[b8] --Charles Reade. | |
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Prestidigitation \Pres`ti*dig`i*ta"tion\, n. Legerdemain; sleight of hand; juggling. | |
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Prestidigitator \Pres`ti*dig"i*ta`tor\, n. [L. praesto ready + digitus finger: cf. F. prestidigitateur.] One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler. | |
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Prestige \Pres"tige\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. praestigum delusion, illusion, praestigae deceptions, jugglers' tricks, prob. fr. prae before + the root of stinguere to extinguish, originally, to prick. See {Stick}, v.] 1. Delusion; illusion; trick. [Obs.] The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture. --Bp. Warburton. 2. Weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation. [bd]The prestige of his name must go for something.[b8] --Sir G. C. Lewis. | |
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Prestigiation \Pres*tig`i*a"tion\, n. [L. praestigiare to deceive by juggling tricks, fr. praestigae. See {Prestige}.] Legerdemain; prestidigitation. [Obs.] | |
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Prestigiator \Pres*tig"i*a`tor\, n. [L. praestigiator.] A juggler; prestidigitator. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. | |
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Prestigiatory \Pres*tig"i*a*to*ry\, a. Consisting of impostures; juggling. [Obs.] --Barrow. | |
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Prestigious \Pres*tig"i*ous\, a. [L. praestigiosus.] Practicing tricks; juggling. [Obs.] --Cotton Mather. | |
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Prestimony \Pres"ti*mo*ny\, n. [LL. praestimonium, fr. L. praestare to furnish, supply: cf. F. prestimonie. See {Prest}, n.] (Canon Law) A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator. | |
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Presto \Pres"to\, adv. [It. or Sp. presto quick, quickly. See {Prest}, a.] 1. Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. --Swift. 2. (Mus.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo. | |
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Priced \Priced\, a. Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor. | |
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Price \Price\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Priced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pricing}.] 1. To pay the price of. [Obs.] With thine own blood to price his blood. --Spenser. 2. To set a price on; to value. See {Prize}. 3. To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. [Colloq.] | |
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Priceite \Price"ite\, n. [From Thomas Price of San Francisco.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon. | |
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Prick \Prick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pricked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pricking}.] [AS. prician; akin to LG. pricken, D. prikken, Dan. prikke, Sw. pricka. See {Prick}, n., and cf. {Prink}, {Prig}.] 1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. 2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. --Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. --Sandys. 3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. Some who are pricked for sheriffs. --Bacon. Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. --Sir W. Scott. Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. --Shak. 4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. --Cowper. 5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. --Chaucer. The season pricketh every gentle heart. --Chaucer. My duty pricks me on to utter that. --Shak. 6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. [bd]I was pricked with some reproof.[b8] --Tennyson. Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. --Acts ii. 37. 7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. [bd]The courser . . . pricks up his ears.[b8] --Dryden. 8. To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] --Hudibras. 9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [Obs.] 10. (Naut) (a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. (b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. 11. (Far.) (a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. (b) To nick. | |
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Pricket \Prick"et\, n. [Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See {Prick}, and cf. {Brocket}.] (Zo[94]l.) A buck in his second year. See {Note} under 3d {Buck}. --Shak. | |
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Prickwood \Prick"wood`\, n. (Bot.) A shrub ({Euonymus Europ[91]us}); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also {spindle tree}. | |
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Presbyter \Pres"by*ter\, n. [L. an elder, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Priest}.] 1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under {Bishop}, n., 1. 2. (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also {priest}. I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. --Hooker. New presbyter is but old priest writ large. --Milton. 3. (Presbyterian Ch.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical. 4. A Presbyterian. [Obs.] --Hudibras. | |
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Priest \Priest\, v. t. To ordain as priest. | |
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Priest \Priest\, n. [OE. prest, preost, AS. pre[a2]st, fr. L. presbyter, Gr. [?] elder, older, n., an elder, compar. of [?] an old man, the first syllable of which is probably akin to L. pristinus. Cf. {Pristine}, {Presbyter}.] | |
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Presbyter \Pres"by*ter\, n. [L. an elder, fr. Gr. [?]. See {Priest}.] 1. An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under {Bishop}, n., 1. 2. (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) One ordained to the second order in the ministry; -- called also {priest}. I rather term the one sort presbyter than priest. --Hooker. New presbyter is but old priest writ large. --Milton. 3. (Presbyterian Ch.) A member of a presbytery whether lay or clerical. 4. A Presbyterian. [Obs.] --Hudibras. | |
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Priest \Priest\, v. t. To ordain as priest. | |
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Priest \Priest\, n. [OE. prest, preost, AS. pre[a2]st, fr. L. presbyter, Gr. [?] elder, older, n., an elder, compar. of [?] an old man, the first syllable of which is probably akin to L. pristinus. Cf. {Pristine}, {Presbyter}.] | |
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Swallowtail \Swal"low*tail`\, n. 1. (Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See {Dovetail}. 2. (Bot.) A species of willow. 3. (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a re[89]ntrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also {priestcap}. 4. A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. --Thackeray. 5. An arrow. --Sir W. Scott. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. Note: The black swallowtail, or asterias (see {Papilio}), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see {Turnus}), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under {Zebra}) are common American species. See also {Troilus}. | |
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Priestcap \Priest"cap`\, n. (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also {swallowtail}. | |
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Swallowtail \Swal"low*tail`\, n. 1. (Carp.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See {Dovetail}. 2. (Bot.) A species of willow. 3. (Fort.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a re[89]ntrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also {priestcap}. 4. A swallow-tailed coat. This Stultz coat, a blue swallowtail, with yellow buttons. --Thackeray. 5. An arrow. --Sir W. Scott. 6. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe. Note: The black swallowtail, or asterias (see {Papilio}), the blue swallowtail, or philenor, the tiger swallowtail, or turnus (see {Turnus}), and the zebra swallowtail, or ajax (see under {Zebra}) are common American species. See also {Troilus}. | |
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Priestcap \Priest"cap`\, n. (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also {swallowtail}. | |
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Priestcraft \Priest"craft`\, n. Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. --Macaulay. | |
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Priestery \Priest"er*y\, n. Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Priestess \Priest"ess\, n. A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. --Abp. Potter. | |
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Priesthood \Priest"hood\, n. 1. The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. 2. Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests. | |
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Priesting \Priest"ing\, n. The office of a priest. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Priestism \Priest"ism\, n. The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood. [R.] | |
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Priestless \Priest"less\, a. Without a priest. --Pope. | |
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Priestlike \Priest"like`\, a. Priestly. --B. Jonson. | |
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Priestliness \Priest"li*ness\, n. The quality or state of being priestly. --R. Browning. | |
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Priestly \Priest"ly\, a. Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. --Shak. | |
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Priest-ridden \Priest"-rid`den\, a. Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. --Swift. | |
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Prig \Prig\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prigging}.] [A modification of prick.] To haggle about the price of a commodity; to bargain hard. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] | |
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Prighte \Prigh"te\, obs. imp. of {Prick}. --Chaucer. | |
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Prigidity \Pri*gid"i*ty\, n. [L. frigiditas: cf. F. frigidit[82].] 1. The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. Ice is water congealed by the frigidity of the air. --Sir T. Browne. 2. Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc. 3. Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age. | |
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Pristinate \Pris"tin*ate\, a. Pristine; primitive. [Obs.] [bd]Pristinate idolatry.[b8] --Holinshed. | |
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Pristine \Pris"tine\, a. [L. pristinus, akin to prior: cf. F. pristin. See {Prior}, a.] Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor. | |
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Prize \Prize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prizing}.] [F. priser, OF. prisier, preisier, fr. L. pretiare, fr. pretium worth, value, price. See {Price}, and cf. {Praise}.] [Formerly written also {prise}. ] 1. To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. A goodly price that I was prized at. --Zech. xi. 13. I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honor. --Shak. 2. To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem. [bd][I] do love, prize, honor you. [b8] --Shak. I prized your person, but your crown disdain. --Dryden. | |
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d8Pro94stracum \[d8]Pro*[94]s"tra*cum\, n.; pl. {Pro[94]straca}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] before + [?] shell of a testacean.] (Zo[94]l.) The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of {Phragmocone}. | |
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Procatarctic \Pro`cat*arc"tic\, a. [Gr. [?] beginning beforehand. fr. [?] to begin first; [?] before + [?] to begin; [?] intens. + [?] to begin: cf. F. procatarctique. ] (Med.) Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. [Obs.] Note: The words procatarctic causes have been used with different significations. Thus they have been employed synonymously with prime causes, exciting causes, and predisposing or remote causes. The physician inquires into the procatarctic causes. --Harvey. | |
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Procd2le \Pro*c[d2]le"\, n. [Pref. pro + Gr. [?] hollow.] (Anat.) A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. --B. G. Wilder. | |
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d8Procd2lia \[d8]Pro*c[d2]"li*a\, n.; pl. {Proc[d2]li[91]}. [ NL.] (Anat.) Same as {Proc[d2]le}. | |
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Procd2lian \Pro*c[d2]"li*an\, a. [See {Proc[d2]le}.] (Anat & Zo[94]l.) Concave in front; as, proc[d2]lian vertebr[91], which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex. | |
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Procd2lian \Pro*c[d2]"li*an\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A reptile having proc[d2]lian vertebr[91]; one of the Proc[d2]lia. | |
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Procd2lous \Pro*c[d2]"lous\, a. Same as {Proc[d2]lian}. | |
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Procedure \Pro*ce"dure\, n. [F. proc[82]dure. See {Proceed}.] 1. The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. [bd]The true procedure of conscience.[b8] --South. 2. A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. [bd]Gracious procedures.[b8] --I. Taylor. 3. That which results; issue; product. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Proceed \Pro"ceed\, n. See {Proceeds}. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Proceeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proceeding}.] [F. proc[82]der. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See {Cede}.] 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou proceed in this thy insolence. --Shak. 2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument. 3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. --John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. --Shak. 4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. --Locke. 5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.] He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. --Shak. 6. To have application or effect; to operate. This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. --Ayliffe. 7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. | |
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Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Proceeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proceeding}.] [F. proc[82]der. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See {Cede}.] 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou proceed in this thy insolence. --Shak. 2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument. 3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. --John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. --Shak. 4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. --Locke. 5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.] He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. --Shak. 6. To have application or effect; to operate. This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. --Ayliffe. 7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. | |
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Proceeder \Pro*ceed"er\, n. One who proceeds. | |
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Proceeding \Pro*ceed"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding. The proceedings of the high commission. --Macaulay. 2. pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. --Blackstone. {Proceedings of a society}, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See {Transaction}. | |
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Proceed \Pro*ceed"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Proceeded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Proceeding}.] [F. proc[82]der. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See {Cede}.] 1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou proceed in this thy insolence. --Shak. 2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument. 3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. --John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. --Shak. 4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. --Locke. 5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.] He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. --Shak. 6. To have application or effect; to operate. This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. --Ayliffe. 7. (Law) To begin and carry on a legal process. Syn: To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate. | |
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Proceeding \Pro*ceed"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding. The proceedings of the high commission. --Macaulay. 2. pl. (Law) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. --Blackstone. {Proceedings of a society}, the published record of its action, or of things done at its meetings. Syn: Procedure; measure; step, See {Transaction}. | |
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Proceeds \Pro"ceeds\, n. pl. That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc. | |
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Procidence \Proc"i*dence\, d8Procidentia \[d8]Proc*i*den"ti*a\, , n. [L. procidentia, fr. procidens, p. pr. of procidere to fall down forward.] (Med.) A falling down; a prolapsus. [R.] --Parr. | |
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Prociduous \Pro*cid"u*ous\, a. [ L. prociduus.] Falling from its proper place. | |
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Proctocele \Proc"to*cele\, n. [Gr. [?] anus + [?] tumor.] (Med.) Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. --Dunglison. | |
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Proctor \Proc"tor\, n. [OE. proketour, contr. fr. procurator. See {Procurator}.] One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. Specifically: (a) A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. [Obs.] --Nares. (b) (Eng. Law) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity. --Wharton. (c) (Ch. of Eng.) A representative of the clergy in convocation. (d) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution. | |
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Proctor \Proc"tor\, v. t. To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. --Bp. Warburton. | |
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Proctorage \Proc"tor*age\, n. Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; -- in contempt. [bd]The fogging proctorage of money.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Proctorial \Proc*to"ri*al\, a. Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial. | |
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Proctorical \Proc*tor"ic*al\, a. Proctorial. [R.] | |
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Proctorship \Proc"tor*ship\, n. The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. --Clarendon. | |
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Proctotomy \Proc*tot"o*my\, n. [Gr. [?] anus + [?] to cut.] (Surg.) An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture. | |
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Prog \Prog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Progged}. p. pr. & vb. n. {Progging}.] [Cf. D. prachen, G. prachern, Dan. prakke, Sw. pracka, to beg, L. procare, procari, to ask, demand, and E. prowl.] 1. To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. --Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. --Burke. 2. To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] --Johnson. 3. To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.] | |
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Proocutorship \Pro`o*cu"tor*ship\, n. The office of a prolocutor. | |
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Prosdist \Pros"dist\, n. One skilled in prosody. | |
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Edda \Ed"da\, n.; pl. {Eddas}. [Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynj[a3]lf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643.] The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes. Note: There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or {prose Edda}, called also the {Edda of Snorri}, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178. | |
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Prose \Prose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prosing}.] 1. To write in prose. 2. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way. | |
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Prosodiacal \Pros`o*di"a*cal\, a. Prosodical. | |
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Prosodiacally \Pros`o*di"a*cal*ly\, adv. Prosodically. | |
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Prosodial \Pro*so"di*al\, a. Prosodical. | |
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Prosodian \Pro*so"di*an\, n. A prosodist. --Rush. | |
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Prosodical \Pro*sod"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. prosodique, L. prosodiacus.] Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody. -- {Pro*sod"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Prosodical \Pro*sod"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. prosodique, L. prosodiacus.] Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody. -- {Pro*sod"ic*al*ly}, adv. | |
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Prosody \Pros"o*dy\, n. [L. prosodia the tone or accent of a syllable, Gr. [?] a song sung to, or with, an accompanying song, the accent accompanying the pronunciation; [?] to + [?] song, ode: cf. F. prosodie. See {Ode}.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition. | |
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Nol-pros \Nol`-pros"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-prossed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-prossing}.] To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute. | |
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Prostate \Pros"tate\, a.[Gr. [?] standing before, fr. [?] to set before; [?] before + [?] to set: cf. F. prostate.] (Anat.) Standing before; -- applied to a gland which is found in the males of most mammals, and is situated at the neck of the bladder where this joins the urethra. -- n. The prostate gland. | |
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Prostatic \Pro*stat"ic\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prostate gland. {Prostatic catheter}. (Med.) See under {Catheter}. | |
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Prostatic \Pro*stat"ic\, a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prostate gland. {Prostatic catheter}. (Med.) See under {Catheter}. | |
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Catheter \Cath"e*ter\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] a thing let down or put in, catheter, fr. [?] to send down, to let down; [?] + [?] to send.] (Med.) The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. {Eustachian catheter}. See under {Eustachian}. {Prostatic catheter}, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate. | |
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Prosternation \Pros`ter*na"tion\, n. [F. See {Prostration}.] Dejection; depression. [Obs.] --Wiseman. | |
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Prosternum \Pro*ster"num\, n. [NL. See {Pro-} and {Sternum}.] (Zo[94]l.) The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect. | |
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Parson \Par"son\, n. [OE. persone person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne person, LL. persona (sc. ecclesiae), fr. L. persona a person. See {Person}.] 1. (Eng. Eccl. Law) A person who represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church, who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure of souls. 2. Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment; one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher. He hears the parson pray and preach. --Longfellow. {Parson bird} (Zo[94]l.), a New Zealand bird ({Prosthemadera Nov[91]seelandi[91]}) remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft of long, curly, white feathers on each side of the throat. It is often kept as a cage bird. | |
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Prosthetic \Pros*thet"ic\, a. [Cf. Gr. [?] disposed to add, [?] put on.] Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word. | |
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Prostibulous \Pros*tib"u*lous\, a. [L. prostibulum prostitute.] Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. [Obs.] --Bale. | |
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, a. [L. prostitutus, p. p.] Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes. Made bold by want, and prostitute for bread. --Prior | |
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, n. [L. prostituta.] 1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot. 2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. --Pope. | |
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See {Statute}.] 1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. [bd]Do not prostitute thy daughter.[b8] --Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. --Milton. | |
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See {Statute}.] 1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. [bd]Do not prostitute thy daughter.[b8] --Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. --Milton. | |
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Prostitute \Pros"ti*tute\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostituted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostituting}.] [L. prostitutus, p. p. of prostituere to prostitute; pro before, forth + statuere to put, place. See {Statute}.] 1. To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire. [bd]Do not prostitute thy daughter.[b8] --Lev. xix. 29. 2. To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers. --Milton. | |
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Prostitution \Pros`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. prostitutio: cf. F. prostitution.] 1. The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman. 2. The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. [bd]Mental prostitution.[b8] --Byron. | |
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Prostitutor \Pros"ti*tu`tor\, n. [L.] One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. --Bp. Hurd. | |
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d8Prostomium \[d8]Pro*sto"mi*um\, n.; pl. {Prostomia}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] before + [?], [?], mouth.] (Zo[94]l.) That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth. -- {Pro*sto"mi*al}, a. | |
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d8Prostomium \[d8]Pro*sto"mi*um\, n.; pl. {Prostomia}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] before + [?], [?], mouth.] (Zo[94]l.) That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth. -- {Pro*sto"mi*al}, a. | |
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Prostrate \Pros"trate\, a. [L. prostratus, p. p. of prosternere to prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. See {Stratum}.] 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate. --Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. --Milton. 2. Lying at mercy, as a supplicant. --Dryden. 3. Lying in a humble, lowly, or suppliant posture. Prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults. --Milton. 4. (Bot.) Trailing on the ground; procumbent. | |
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Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostrating}.] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. --Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. 3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. --Milman. 4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. | |
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Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostrating}.] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. --Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. 3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. --Milman. 4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. | |
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Prostrate \Pros"trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Prostrated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Prostrating}.] 1. To lay fiat; to throw down; to level; to fell; as, to prostrate the body; to prostrate trees or plants. --Evelyn. 2. to overthrow; to demolish; to destroy; to deprive of efficiency; to ruin; as, to prostrate a village; to prostrate a government; to prostrate law or justice. 3. To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself. --Milman. 4. To cause to sink totally; to deprive of strength; to reduce; as, a person prostrated by fever. | |
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Prostration \Pros*tra"tion\, n. [L. prostratio: cf. F. prostration.] 1. The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. 2. The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship. A greater prostration of reason than of body. --Shak. 3. The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits. [bd]A sudden prostration of strength.[b8] --Arbuthnot. 4. (Med.) A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor. Note: Prostration, in its medical use, is analogous to the state of a spring lying under such a weight that it is incapable of action; while exhaustion is analogous to the state of a spring deprived of its elastic powers. The word, however, is often used to denote any great depression of the vital powers. | |
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Prostyle \Pro"style\, a. [L. prostylus, Gr. [?]; [?] before + [?] pillar, column: cf. F. prostyle.] (Arch.) Having columns in front. -- n. A prostyle portico or building. | |
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Proustite \Proust"ite\, n. [From the French chemist, J. L. Proust.] (Min.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver. | |
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{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay. | |
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Proustite \Proust"ite\, n. [From the French chemist, J. L. Proust.] (Min.) A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver. | |
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{Red horse}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species. (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}. {Red lead}. (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}. {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}. {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}. {Red maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of the wheat midge. {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}. {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his color. {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See {Maple}. {Red mite}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Red spider}, below. {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color ({Morus rubra}). {Red mullet} (Zo[94]l.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}. {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. {Red perch} (Zo[94]l.), the rosefish. {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}. {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark. {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}. {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, -- because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}. {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}. {Red scale} (Zo[94]l.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii}) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver. {Red snapper} (Zo[94]l.), a large fish ({Lutlanus aya [or] Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. {Red spider} (Zo[94]l.), a very small web-spinning mite ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also {red mite}. {Red squirrel} (Zo[94]l.), the chickaree. {Red tape}, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay. | |
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Prow \Prow\, a. [Compar. {Prower}; superl. {Prowest}.] [OF. prou, preu, F. preux, fr. L. pro, prod, in prodesse to be useful. See {Pro-}, and cf. {Prude}.] Valiant; brave; gallant; courageous. [Archaic] --Tennyson. The prowest knight that ever field did fight. --Spenser. | |
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Prussiate \Prus"si*ate\, n. [Cf. F. prussiate.] (Chem.) A salt of prussic acid; a cyanide. {Red prussiate of potash}. See {Potassium ferricyanide}, under {Ferricyanide}. {Yellow prussiate of potash}. See {Potassium ferrocyanide}, under {Ferrocyanide}. | |
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Pure \Pure\, a. [Compar. {Purer}; superl. {Purest}.] [OE. pur, F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider, think, Skr. p[?] to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. {Putative}.] 1. Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion. The pure fetters on his shins great. --Chaucer. A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy. --I. Watts. 2. Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons. [bd]Keep thyself pure.[b8] --1 Tim. v. 22. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience. --1 Tim. i. 5. 3. Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions. [bd]Pure religion and impartial laws.[b8] --Tickell. [bd]The pure, fine talk of Rome.[b8] --Ascham. Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records. --Macaulay. 4. (Script.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services. Thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord. --Lev. xxiv. 6. 5. (Phonetics) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants. {Pure-impure}, completely or totally impure. [bd]The inhabitants were pure-impure pagans.[b8] --Fuller. {Pure blue}. (Chem.) See {Methylene blue}, under {Methylene}. {Pure chemistry}. See under {Chemistry}. {Pure mathematics}, that portion of mathematics which treats of the principles of the science, or contradistinction to applied mathematics, which treats of the application of the principles to the investigation of other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See {Mathematics}. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) {Pure villenage} (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. --Blackstone. Syn: Unmixed; clear; simple; real; true; genuine; unadulterated; uncorrupted; unsullied; untarnished; unstained; stainless; clean; fair; unspotted; spotless; incorrupt; chaste; unpolluted; undefiled; immaculate; innocent; guiltless; guileless; holy. | |
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Purgation \Pur*ga"tion\, n. [L. purgatio: cf. F. purgation. See {Purge}.] 1. The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels. 2. (Law) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See {Ordeal}. --Wharton. Let him put me to my purgation. --Shak. | |
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Purgative \Pur"ga*tive\, a. [L. purgativus: cf. F. purgatif.] Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. (Med.) A purging medicine; a cathartic. | |
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Purgatively \Pur"ga*tive*ly\, adv. In a purgative manner. | |
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Purgatorial \Pur`ga*to"ri*al\, Purgatorian \Pur`ga*to"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory. | |
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Purgatorial \Pur`ga*to"ri*al\, Purgatorian \Pur`ga*to"ri*an\, a. Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory. | |
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Purgatorian \Pur`ga*to"ri*an\, n. One who holds to the doctrine of purgatory. --Boswell. | |
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Purgatory \Pur"ga*to*ry\, a. [L. purgatorius.] Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. --Burke. | |
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Purgatory \Pur"ga*to*ry\, n. [Cf. F. purgatoire.] A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven. | |
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Purge \Purge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Purging}.] [F. purger, L. purgare; purus pure + agere to make, to do. See {Pure}, and {Agent}.] 1. To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous. [bd]Till fire purge all things new.[b8] --Milton. 2. (Med.) To operate on as, or by means of, a cathartic medicine, or in a similar manner. 3. To clarify; to defecate, as liquors. 4. To clear of sediment, as a boiler, or of air, as a steam pipe, by driving off or permitting escape. 5. To clear from guilt, or from moral or ceremonial defilement; as, to purge one of guilt or crime. When that he hath purged you from sin. --Chaucer. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. --Ps. li. 7. 6. (Law) To clear from accusation, or the charge of a crime or misdemeanor, as by oath or in ordeal. 7. To remove in cleansing; to deterge; to wash away; -- often followed by away. Purge away our sins, for thy name's sake. --Ps. lxxix. 9. We 'll join our cares to purge away Our country's crimes. --Addison. | |
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Purist \Pur"ist\, n. [Cf. F. puriste.] 1. One who aims at excessive purity or nicety, esp. in the choice of language. He [Fox] . . . purified vocabulary with a scrupulosity unknown to any purist. --Macaulay. 2. One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. --M. Stuart. | |
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Puristic \Pu*ris"tic\, Puristical \Pu*ris"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to purists or purism. | |
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Puristic \Pu*ris"tic\, Puristical \Pu*ris"tic*al\, a. Of or pertaining to purists or purism. | |
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Purse \Purse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pursing}.] 1. To put into a purse. I will go and purse the ducats straight. --Shak. 2. To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit. Thou . . . didst contract and purse thy brow. --Shak. | |
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Purset \Purs"et\, n. A purse or purse net. --B. Jonson. | |
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Pursue \Pur*sue"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pursued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pursuing}.] [OE. pursuen, porsuen, OF. porsivre, poursuivre, poursuir, F. poursuivre, fr. L. prosequi; pro forward + sequi to follow. See {Sue}, and cf. {Prosecute}, {Pursuivant}.] 1. To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare. We happiness pursue; we fly from pain. --Prior. The happiness of men lies in purswing, Not in possessing. --Longfellow. 2. To seek; to use or adopt measures to obtain; as, to pursue a remedy at law. The fame of ancient matrons you pursue. --Dryden. 3. To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course. 4. To prosecute; to be engaged in; to continue. [bd] Insatiate to pursue vain war.[b8] --Milton. 5. To follow as an example; to imitate. 6. To follow with enmity; to persecute; to call to account. The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have pursued me, they shall pursue you also. --Wyclif (John xv. 20). Syn: To follow; chase; seek; persist. See {Follow}. | |
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Pursuit \Pur*suit"\, n. [F. poursuite, fr. poursuivre. See {Pursue}, v. t.] 1. The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. --Clarendon. Weak we are, and can not shun pursuit. --Shak. 2. A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure. 3. Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit. 4. (Law) Prosecution. [Obs.] That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. --Fuller. {Curve of pursuit} (Geom.), a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according to some specified law. | |
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Chess-apple \Chess"-ap`ple\, n. The wild service of Europe ({Purus torminalis}). | |
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Pyroacetic \Pyr`o*a*ce"tic\, a. [Pyro- + acetic: cf. F. pyroac[82]tique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone) obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also {pyroacetic ether}, and formerly was called {pyroacetic spirit}. | |
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Pyroacetic \Pyr`o*a*ce"tic\, a. [Pyro- + acetic: cf. F. pyroac[82]tique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone) obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also {pyroacetic ether}, and formerly was called {pyroacetic spirit}. | |
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Pyroacetic \Pyr`o*a*ce"tic\, a. [Pyro- + acetic: cf. F. pyroac[82]tique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, and designating, a substance (acetone) obtained by the distillation of the acetates. It is now called also {pyroacetic ether}, and formerly was called {pyroacetic spirit}. | |
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Pyroacid \Pyr`o*ac"id\, n. [Pyro- + acid.] (Chem.) An acid obtained by sybjecting another acid to the action of heat. Cf. {Pyro-}. | |
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Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.) A phenol, [?][?][?][?][?], produced by the distillation of catechin; called also {oxyphenic acid}, and now {pyrocatechin}. | |
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Pyrocatechin \Pyr`o*cat"e*chin\, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, {C6H4(OH)2}, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also {catechol}, {oxyphenol}. etc. | |
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Oxyphenol \Ox`y*phe"nol\, n. (Chem.) A phenol, [?][?][?][?][?], produced by the distillation of catechin; called also {oxyphenic acid}, and now {pyrocatechin}. | |
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Pyrocatechin \Pyr`o*cat"e*chin\, n. [Pyro- + catechu.] (Chem.) A white crystalline substance, {C6H4(OH)2}, of the phenol series, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also {catechol}, {oxyphenol}. etc. | |
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Pyrocitric \Pyr`o*cit"ric\, a. [Pyro- + citric: cf. F. pyrocitrique.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively {citraconic}, {itaconic}, and {mesaconic} acid. | |
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Service \Serv"ice\, n., [or] Service \Serv"ice\ [Properly, the tree which bears serve, OE. serves, pl., service berries, AS. syrfe service tree; akin to L. sorbus.] (Bot.) A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus {Pyrus}, as {Pyrus domestica} and {P. torminalis} of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see {Shad bush}, under {Shad}). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. {Service berry} (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree. In British America the name is especially applied to that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush ({Amelanchier}.) | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sorb \Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. F. sorbe. See {Service tree}.] (Bot.) (a) The wild service tree ({Pyrus torminalis}) of Europe; also, the rowan tree. (b) The fruit of these trees. {Sorb apple}, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree. {Sorb tree}, the wild service tree. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parachute, CO (town, FIPS 57400) Location: 39.44582 N, 108.05510 W Population (1990): 658 (405 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Park City, IL (city, FIPS 57654) Location: 42.35075 N, 87.89102 W Population (1990): 4677 (2215 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Park City, KS (city, FIPS 54450) Location: 37.79596 N, 97.32191 W Population (1990): 5050 (1741 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67219 Park City, KY (city, FIPS 59232) Location: 37.09387 N, 86.04948 W Population (1990): 549 (248 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42160 Park City, MT Zip code(s): 59063 Park City, UT (city, FIPS 58070) Location: 40.65643 N, 111.49298 W Population (1990): 4468 (5544 housing units) Area: 21.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84060 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parkdale, AR (city, FIPS 53510) Location: 33.12078 N, 91.54584 W Population (1990): 393 (147 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71661 Parkdale, MO (town, FIPS 56280) Location: 38.47895 N, 90.52657 W Population (1990): 212 (70 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Parkdale, OH Zip code(s): 45240 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parksdale, CA (CDP, FIPS 55751) Location: 36.94722 N, 120.02191 W Population (1990): 1911 (499 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parkside, PA (borough, FIPS 58176) Location: 39.86645 N, 75.37867 W Population (1990): 2369 (956 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parkston, SD (city, FIPS 48460) Location: 43.39330 N, 97.98555 W Population (1990): 1572 (716 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57366 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parkton, NC (town, FIPS 50340) Location: 34.90223 N, 79.00995 W Population (1990): 367 (182 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 28371 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Parkwood, CA (CDP, FIPS 55842) Location: 36.92682 N, 120.04358 W Population (1990): 1659 (511 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Parkwood, NC (CDP, FIPS 50480) Location: 35.88853 N, 78.90884 W Population (1990): 4123 (1453 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Parkwood, WA (CDP, FIPS 53440) Location: 47.52598 N, 122.59667 W Population (1990): 6853 (2579 housing units) Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Peoria Heights, IL (village, FIPS 59026) Location: 40.75678 N, 89.55707 W Population (1990): 6930 (3350 housing units) Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 11.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61603, 61614 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Perry Heights, OH (CDP, FIPS 62134) Location: 40.79675 N, 81.46907 W Population (1990): 9055 (3459 housing units) Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pierceton, IN (town, FIPS 59598) Location: 41.19956 N, 85.70762 W Population (1990): 1030 (413 housing units) Area: 1.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46562 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Powersite, MO Zip code(s): 65731 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Prescott, AR (city, FIPS 57260) Location: 33.80070 N, 93.38800 W Population (1990): 3673 (1567 housing units) Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71857 Prescott, AZ (city, FIPS 57380) Location: 34.57601 N, 112.44908 W Population (1990): 26455 (13393 housing units) Area: 83.9 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 86301 Prescott, IA (city, FIPS 64560) Location: 41.02343 N, 94.61240 W Population (1990): 287 (132 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50859 Prescott, KS (city, FIPS 57650) Location: 38.06303 N, 94.69610 W Population (1990): 301 (114 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66767 Prescott, MI (village, FIPS 66300) Location: 44.19139 N, 83.93186 W Population (1990): 314 (131 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48756 Prescott, OR (city, FIPS 59750) Location: 46.04733 N, 122.88582 W Population (1990): 63 (30 housing units) Area: 0.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Prescott, WA (town, FIPS 56240) Location: 46.29905 N, 118.31147 W Population (1990): 267 (123 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99348 Prescott, WI (city, FIPS 65375) Location: 44.75065 N, 92.79008 W Population (1990): 3243 (1195 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 1.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54021 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Prescott Valley, AZ (town, FIPS 57450) Location: 34.60823 N, 112.32142 W Population (1990): 8858 (3913 housing units) Area: 42.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 86314 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Presidential Lakes Estates, NJ (CDP, FIPS 60840) Location: 39.91374 N, 74.56493 W Population (1990): 2450 (709 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Presidio, TX (city, FIPS 59396) Location: 29.56111 N, 104.36369 W Population (1990): 3072 (1049 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 79845 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Presidio County, TX (county, FIPS 377) Location: 29.99830 N, 104.22926 W Population (1990): 6637 (2890 housing units) Area: 9986.5 sq km (land), 1.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Presto, PA Zip code(s): 15142 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Preston, CT Zip code(s): 06365 Preston, GA (city, FIPS 62720) Location: 32.06013 N, 84.54020 W Population (1990): 388 (155 housing units) Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31824 Preston, IA (city, FIPS 64605) Location: 42.04847 N, 90.39931 W Population (1990): 1025 (420 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52069 Preston, ID (city, FIPS 65260) Location: 42.09732 N, 111.87455 W Population (1990): 3710 (1392 housing units) Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83263 Preston, KS (city, FIPS 57675) Location: 37.75797 N, 98.55549 W Population (1990): 177 (104 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Preston, MD (town, FIPS 63825) Location: 38.71077 N, 75.90864 W Population (1990): 437 (190 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 21655 Preston, MN (city, FIPS 52450) Location: 43.67157 N, 92.08253 W Population (1990): 1530 (613 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55965 Preston, MO (town, FIPS 59870) Location: 37.94008 N, 93.21354 W Population (1990): 136 (80 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 65732 Preston, MS Zip code(s): 39354 Preston, NE (village, FIPS 40325) Location: 40.03414 N, 95.51729 W Population (1990): 40 (16 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Preston County, WV (county, FIPS 77) Location: 39.46946 N, 79.66830 W Population (1990): 29037 (12137 housing units) Area: 1679.3 sq km (land), 7.9 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Preston Heights, IL (CDP, FIPS 61860) Location: 41.49280 N, 88.07310 W Population (1990): 2750 (983 housing units) Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Preston Hollow, NY Zip code(s): 12469 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Preston Park, PA Zip code(s): 18455 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Prestonsburg, KY (city, FIPS 62940) Location: 37.67365 N, 82.76665 W Population (1990): 3558 (1516 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Prestonville, KY (city, FIPS 62958) Location: 38.67948 N, 85.19516 W Population (1990): 205 (74 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Priest Point, WA (CDP, FIPS 56304) Location: 48.03691 N, 122.24973 W Population (1990): 703 (313 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 7.3 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Priest River, ID (city, FIPS 65530) Location: 48.18514 N, 116.91011 W Population (1990): 1560 (699 housing units) Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83856 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Proctor, AR Zip code(s): 72376 Proctor, MN (city, FIPS 52630) Location: 46.74310 N, 92.22739 W Population (1990): 2974 (1245 housing units) Area: 7.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55810 Proctor, MT Zip code(s): 59929 Proctor, OK Zip code(s): 74457 Proctor, VT Zip code(s): 05765 Proctor, WV Zip code(s): 26055 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Proctorsville, VT Zip code(s): 05153 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Proctorville, NC (town, FIPS 53900) Location: 34.47542 N, 79.03787 W Population (1990): 168 (70 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Proctorville, OH (village, FIPS 64766) Location: 38.43762 N, 82.38092 W Population (1990): 765 (336 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45669 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Purgitsville, WV Zip code(s): 26852 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n. [C programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler. Used esp. of certain common coding errors in C due to the nonintuitively low precedence levels of `&', `|', `^', `<<', and `>>' (for this reason, experienced C programmers deliberately forget the language's {baroque} precedence hierarchy and parenthesize defensively). Can always be avoided by suitable use of parentheses. {LISP} fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in _their_ favorite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere. See {aliasing bug}, {memory leak}, {memory smash}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {overrun screw}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
prestidigitization /pres`t*-di`j*-ti:-zay'sh*n/ n. 1. The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand. 2. Data entry through legerdemain. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
priesthood n. obs. [TMRC] The select group of system managers responsible for the operation and maintenance of a batch operated computer system. On these computers, a user never had direct access to a computer, but had to submit his/her data and programs to a priest for execution. Results were returned days or even weeks later. See {acolyte}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
powerset subsets of S, usually written PS. (1994-11-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ A {C} coding error in an expression due to unintended grouping of arithmetic or logical operators. Used especially of certain common coding errors in {C} due to the nonintuitively low precedence levels of "&", "|", "^", "<<" and ">>". For example, the following C expression, intended to test the least significant bit of x, x & 1 == 0 is parsed as x & (1 == 0) which the compiler would probably evaluate at compile-time to (x & 0) and then to 0. Precedence lossage can always be avoided by suitable use of parentheses. For this reason, some {C} programmers deliberately ignore the language's precedence hierarchy and parenthesise defensively. {Lisp} fans enjoy pointing out that this can't happen in *their* favourite language, which eschews precedence entirely, requiring one to use explicit parentheses everywhere. Other sources of {bug}s include {aliasing bug}, {memory leak}, {memory smash}, {smash the stack}, {fandango on core}, {overrun screw}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-16) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
prestidigitization /pres`t*-di"j*-ti:-zay"sh*n/ 1. A term coined by Daniel Klein digital notation via sleight of hand. ["Open Channel", IEEE "Computer", November 1981]. 2. Data entry through legerdemain. [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PRESTO A parallel language for shared-memory multiprocessors, built on top of C++ by Bershad et al, U Washington 1987. PRESTO provides {class}es for {thread}s and {spinlock}s as well as {Mesa}-style {monitor}s and {condition variable}s. {(ftp://cs.washington.edu/pub/presto1.0.tar.Z)}. E-mail: ["PRESTO: A Kernel for Parallel Programming Environments", B.N. Bershad et al, U Wash CS TR, Jan 1987]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
procedural language to describe a language where the programmer specifies an explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce a result. The term should not be confused with "{imperative language}". An example (non-imperative) procedural language is {LOGO}, which specifies sequences of steps to perform but does not have an internal state. Other procedural languages include {Basic}, {Pascal}, {C}, and {Modula-2}. (2003-06-23) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Procedural Language/SQL {procedural language} extension of industry-standard {SQL}. [Features? Reference? Any relation to {PL/I}?] (1999-09-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
procedure {subroutine} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ProSet A derivative of {SETL} with {Ada}-like {syntax} developed at the {University of Essen} in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E. ["SETL/E, A Prototyping System Based on Sets", E.E. Doberkat et al, in Tagungsband TOOL90, W. Zorn ed, pp. 109-118, U Karlsruhe, Nov 1990]. ["ProSet - A Language for Prototyping with Sets", E.-E. Doberkat et al, in Proc Third Intl Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, N. Kanopoulos ed, IEEE Comp Soc Press, June 1992, pp. 235-248]. | |
From The Elements (22Oct97) [elements]: | |
praseodymium Symbol: Pr Atomic number: 59 Atomic weight: 140.907 Soft silvery metallic element, belongs to the lanthanoids. Only natural isotope is Pr-141 which is not radioactive. Fourteen radioactive isotopes have been artificially produced. Used in rare-earth alloys. Discovered in 1885 by C.A. von Welsbach. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Parched ground (Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun on the glowing sands of the desert, causing them suddenly to assume the appearance of a beautiful lake. It is called by the modern Arabs by the same Hebrew name _serab_. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Perizzites villagers; dwellers in the open country, the Canaanitish nation inhabiting the fertile regions south and south-west of Carmel. "They were the graziers, farmers, and peasants of the time." They were to be driven out of the land by the descendants of Abraham (Gen. 15:20; Ex. 3:8, 17; 23:23; 33:2; 34:11). They are afterwards named among the conquered tribes (Josh. 24:11). Still lingering in the land, however, they were reduced to servitude by Solomon (1 Kings 9:20). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pharaoh's daughters Three princesses are thus mentioned in Scripture: (1.) The princess who adopted the infant Moses (q.v.), Ex. 2:10. She is twice mentioned in the New Testament (Acts 7:21: Heb. 11:24). It would seem that she was alive and in some position of influence about the court when Moses was compelled to flee from Egypt, and thus for forty years he had in some way been under her influence. She was in all probability the sister of Rameses, and the daughter of Seti I. Josephus calls her Thermuthis. It is supposed by some that she was Nefert-ari, the wife as well as sister of Rameses. The mummy of this queen was among the treasures found at Deir-el-Bahari. (2.) "Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took (1 Chr. 4:18). (3.) The wife of Solomon (1 Kings 3:1). This is the first reference since the Exodus to any connection of Israel with Egypt. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Presidents Three presidents are mentioned, of whom Daniel was the first (Dan. 6:2-7). The name in the original is _sarkhin_, probably a Persian word meaning perfects or ministers. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Priest The Heb. kohen, Gr. hierus, Lat. sacerdos, always denote one who offers sacrifices. At first every man was his own priest, and presented his own sacrifices before God. Afterwards that office devolved on the head of the family, as in the cases of Noah (Gen. 8:20), Abraham (12:7; 13:4), Isaac (26:25), Jacob (31:54), and Job (Job 1:5). The name first occurs as applied to Melchizedek (Gen. 14:18). Under the Levitical arrangements the office of the priesthood was limited to the tribe of Levi, and to only one family of that tribe, the family of Aaron. Certain laws respecting the qualifications of priests are given in Lev. 21:16-23. There are ordinances also regarding the priests' dress (Ex. 28:40-43) and the manner of their consecration to the office (29:1-37). Their duties were manifold (Ex. 27:20, 21; 29:38-44; Lev. 6:12; 10:11; 24:8; Num. 10:1-10; Deut. 17:8-13; 33:10; Mal. 2:7). They represented the people before God, and offered the various sacrifices prescribed in the law. In the time of David the priests were divided into twenty-four courses or classes (1 Chr. 24:7-18). This number was retained after the Captivity (Ezra 2:36-39; Neh. 7:39-42). "The priests were not distributed over the country, but lived together in certain cities [forty-eight in number, of which six were cities of refuge, q.v.], which had been assigned to their use. From thence they went up by turns to minister in the temple at Jerusalem. Thus the religious instruction of the people in the country generally was left to the heads of families, until the establishment of synagogues, an event which did not take place till the return from the Captivity, and which was the main source of the freedom from idolatry that became as marked a feature of the Jewish people thenceforward as its practice had been hitherto their great national sin." The whole priestly system of the Jews was typical. It was a shadow of which the body is Christ. The priests all prefigured the great Priest who offered "one sacrifice for sins" "once for all" (Heb. 10:10, 12). There is now no human priesthood. (See Epistle to the Hebrews throughout.) The term "priest" is indeed applied to believers (1 Pet. 2:9; Rev. 1:6), but in these cases it implies no sacerdotal functions. All true believers are now "kings and priests unto God." As priests they have free access into the holiest of all, and offer up the sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, and the sacrifices of grateful service from day to day. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Perizzites, dwelling in villages |