English Dictionary: pdl | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paddling}] 1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. --Shak. 2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. 3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, n. [See {Paddle}, v. i.] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. 2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. --Deut. xxiii. 13. 3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. 4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called {clough}. 5. (Zo[94]l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. 6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. 7. [In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade.] See {Paddle staff} (b), below. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle beam} (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. {Paddle board}. See {Paddle}, n., 3. {Paddle box}, the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle shaft}, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. {Paddle staff}. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also {plow staff}. [Prov. Eng.] {Paddle steamer}, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. {Paddle wheel}, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Paddle \Pad"dle\, v. i. [Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash, dash, dabble, F. patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a paw. [?].] 1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. --L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. --Gay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Padella \[d8]Pa*del"la\, n. [It., prop., a pan, a friing pan, fr. L. patella a pan.] A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also {padelle}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Patella \[d8]Pa*tel"la\, n.; pl. {Patell[91]}. [L., a small pan, the kneepan, dim. of patina, patena, a pan, dish.] 1. A small dish, pan, or vase. 2. (Anat.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee. | |
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Patly \Pat"ly\, adv. Fitly; seasonably. --Barrow. | |
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Patolli \Pa*tol"li\, n. [Mex. patolli dice.] An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination. | |
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Pedal \Pe"dal\, a. [L. pedalis, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See {Foot}, and cf. {Pew}.] 1. Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zo[94]l.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion. 2. Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals. {Pedal curve} [or] {surface} (Geom.), the curve or surface which is the locus of the feet of perpendiculars let fall from a fixed point upon the straight lines tangent to a given curve, or upon the planes tangent to a given surface. {Pedal note} (Mus.), the note which is held or sustained through an organ point. See {Organ point}, under {Organ}. {Pedal organ} (Mus.), an organ which has pedals or a range of keys moved by the feet; that portion of a full organ which is played with the feet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pedal \Pe"dal\, n. [Cf. F. p[82]dale, It. pedale. See {Pedal}, a.] 1. (Mech.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle. 2. (Geom.) A pedal curve or surface. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Peddle \Ped"dle\, v. i. [From {Peddler}.] 1. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license. 2. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle. | |
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Peddle \Ped"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Peddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peddling}.] To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware. | |
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Pedial \Pe"di*al\, a. Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal. --Dana. | |
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Petal \Pet"al\, n. [Gr. [?] a leaf, a leaf or plate of metal, fr. [?] outspread, broad, flat: cf. F. p[82]tale. See {Fathom}.] 1. (Bot.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See {Corolla}, and Illust. of {Flower}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini. | |
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d8Petalum \[d8]Pet"a*lum\, n.; pl. {Petala}. [NL.] A petal. | |
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Petiole \Pet"i*ole\, n. [F. p[82]tiole, fr. L. petiolus a little foot, a fruit stalk; cf. pes, pedis, a foot.] 1. (Bot.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of {Leaf}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) A stalk or peduncle. | |
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Pettily \Pet"ti*ly\, adv. In a petty manner; frivolously. | |
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Piddle \Pid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Piddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piddling}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. pittla to keep picking at, Sw. peta to pick.] 1. To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. --Ascham. 2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift. 3. To urinate; -- child's word. | |
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Pithily \Pith"i*ly\, adv. In a pithy manner. | |
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Pit-hole \Pit"-hole`\, n. A pit; a pockmark. | |
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Podley \Pod"ley\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A young coalfish. | |
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Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc. | |
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Podley \Pod"ley\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A young coalfish. | |
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Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poodle \Poo"dle\, n. [G. pudel.] (Zo[94]l.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pot \Pot\, n. [Akin to LG. pott, D. pot, Dan. potte, Sw. potta, Icel. pottr, F. pot; of unknown origin.] 1. A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot. 2. An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug. 3. The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale. [bd]Give her a pot and a cake.[b8] --De Foe. 4. A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot. 5. A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot. 6. A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc. 7. A perforated cask for draining sugar. --Knight. 8. A size of paper. See {Pott}. {Jack pot}. See under 2d {Jack}. {Pot cheese}, cottage cheese. See under {Cottage}. {Pot companion}, a companion in drinking. {Pot hanger}, a pothook. {Pot herb}, any plant, the leaves or stems of which are boiled for food, as spinach, lamb's-quarters, purslane, and many others. {Pot hunter}, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. {Pot metal}. (a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for various purposes in the arts. --Ure. (c) A kind of stained glass, the colors of which are incorporated with the melted glass in the pot. --Knight. {Pot plant} (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot. {Pot wheel} (Hydraul.), a noria. {To go to pot}, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] --Dryden. --J. G. Saxe. | |
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Potale \Pot"ale`\, n. The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine. | |
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Pothole \Pot"hole`\, n. A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pottle \Pot"tle\, n. [OE. potel, OF. potel, dim. of pot. See {Pot}.] 1. A liquid measure of four pints. 2. A pot or tankard. --Shak. A dry pottle of sack before him. --Sir W. Scott. 3. A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. --Dickens. {Pottle draught}, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puddle \Pud"dle\, n. [OE. podel; cf. LG. pudel, Ir. & Gael. plod pool.] 1. A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. --Spenser. 2. Clay, or a mixture of clay and sand, kneaded or worked, when wet, to render it impervious to water. {Puddle poet}, a low or worthless poet. [R.] --Fuller. | |
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Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Puddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puddling}.] 1. To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water). Some unhatched practice . . . Hath puddled his clear spirit. --Shak. 2. (a) To make dense or close, as clay or loam, by working when wet, so as to render impervious to water. (b) To make impervious to liquids by means of puddle; to apply puddle to. 3. To subject to the process of puddling, as iron, so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. --Ure. {Puddled steel}, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process. | |
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Puddle \Pud"dle\, v. i. To make a dirty stir. [Obs.] --R. Junius. | |
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Puddly \Pud"dly\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. [bd]Thick puddly water.[b8] --Carew. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Patela \[d8]Pat"e*la\, n. [Hind. patel[be].] A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also {puteli}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pedley, CA (CDP, FIPS 56350) Location: 33.97673 N, 117.47065 W Population (1990): 8869 (2754 housing units) Area: 13.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Petal, MS (city, FIPS 56800) Location: 31.34415 N, 89.25144 W Population (1990): 7883 (3180 housing units) Area: 25.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39465 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
PDL /P-D-L/, /pid'l/, /p*d'l/ or /puhd'l/ 1. n. `Program Design Language'. Any of a large class of formal and profoundly useless pseudo-languages in which {management} forces one to design programs. Too often, management expects PDL descriptions to be maintained in parallel with the code, imposing massive overhead to little or no benefit. See also {{flowchart}}. 2. v. To design using a program design language. "I've been pdling so long my eyes won't focus beyond 2 feet." 3. n. `Page Description Language'. Refers to any language which is used to control a graphics device, usually a laserprinter. The most common example is, of course, Adobe's {{PostScript}} language, but there are many others, such as Xerox InterPress, etc. 4. In ITS days, the preferred MITism for {stack}. See {overflow pdl}. 5. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of {Zork}; (his {network address} on the ITS machines was at one time pdl@dms). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Paddle A language for transformations leading from specification to program. Used in the {POPART} programming environment generator. (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDEL Partial Differential Equation Language. A {preprocessor} for {PL/I}. ["PDEL - A Language for Partial Differential Equations", A.F. Cardenas, CACM 13(3):184-191 (Mar 1970)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDIL France in the 1970s for description of communication {protocol}s. It was part of the {RHIN} project. (1995-02-28) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDL 1. {Page Description Language}. 2. {Program Design Language}. 3. {Push Down List}. 4. Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of {Zork}. His {network address} on the {ITS} machines was at one time 5. {Propositional Dynamic Logic}. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pedahel redeemed of God, the son of Ammihud, a prince of Naphtali (Num. 34:28). | |
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Pethuel vision of God, the father of Joel the prophet (Joel 1:1). | |
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Puteoli a city on the coast of Campania, on the north shore of a bay running north from the Bay of Naples, at which Paul landed on his way to Rome, from which it was distant 170 miles. Here he tarried for seven days (Acts 28:13, 14). This was the great emporium for the Alexandrian corn ships. Here Paul and his companions began their journey, by the "Appian Way," to Rome. It is now called Pozzuoli. The remains of a huge amphitheatre, and of the quay at which Paul landed, may still be seen here. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pethuel, mouth of God; persuasion of God | |
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Puteoli, sulphureous wells | |
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Putiel, God is my fatness |