English Dictionary: penal facility | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Water lemon \Wa"ter lem"on\ (Bot.) The edible fruit of two species of passion flower ({Passiflora laurifolia}, and {P. maliformis}); -- so called in the West Indies. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Sweet \Sweet\, a. [Compar. {Sweeter}; superl. {Sweetest}.] [OE. swete, swote, sote, AS. sw[c7]te; akin to OFries. sw[c7]te, OS. sw[d3]ti, D. zoet, G. s[81]ss, OHG. suozi, Icel. s[91]tr, s[d2]tr, Sw. s[94]t, Dan. s[94]d, Goth. suts, L. suavis, for suadvis, Gr. [?], Skr. sv[be]du sweet, svad, sv[be]d, to sweeten. [fb]175. Cf. {Assuage}, {Suave}, {Suasion}.] 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense. The breath of these flowers is sweet to me. --Longfellow. 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. To make his English sweet upon his tongue. --Chaucer. A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --Hawthorne. 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion. Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. --Milton. 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --Bacon. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades? --Job xxxviii. 31. Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working. --M. Arnold. Note: Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. {Sweet alyssum}. (Bot.) See {Alyssum}. {Sweet apple}. (Bot.) (a) Any apple of sweet flavor. (b) See {Sweet-top}. {Sweet bay}. (Bot.) (a) The laurel ({laurus nobilis}). (b) Swamp sassafras. {Sweet calabash} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Passiflora} ({P. maliformis}) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple. {Sweet cicely}. (Bot.) (a) Either of the North American plants of the umbelliferous genus {Osmorrhiza} having aromatic roots and seeds, and white flowers. --Gray. (b) A plant of the genus {Myrrhis} ({M. odorata}) growing in England. {Sweet calamus}, [or] {Sweet cane}. (Bot.) Same as {Sweet flag}, below. {Sweet Cistus} (Bot.), an evergreen shrub ({Cistus Ladanum}) from which the gum ladanum is obtained. {Sweet clover}. (Bot.) See {Melilot}. {Sweet coltsfoot} (Bot.), a kind of butterbur ({Petasites sagittata}) found in Western North America. {Sweet corn} (Bot.), a variety of the maize of a sweet taste. See the Note under {Corn}. {Sweet fern} (Bot.), a small North American shrub ({Comptonia, [or] Myrica, asplenifolia}) having sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves. {Sweet flag} (Bot.), an endogenous plant ({Acorus Calamus}) having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent aromatic taste. It is found in wet places in Europe and America. See {Calamus}, 2. {Sweet gale} (Bot.), a shrub ({Myrica Gale}) having bitter fragrant leaves; -- also called {sweet willow}, and {Dutch myrtle}. See 5th {Gale}. {Sweet grass} (Bot.), holy, or Seneca, grass. {Sweet gum} (Bot.), an American tree ({Liquidambar styraciflua}). See {Liquidambar}. {Sweet herbs}, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary purposes. {Sweet John} (Bot.), a variety of the sweet William. {Sweet leaf} (Bot.), horse sugar. See under {Horse}. {Sweet marjoram}. (Bot.) See {Marjoram}. {Sweet marten} (Zo[94]l.), the pine marten. {Sweet maudlin} (Bot.), a composite plant ({Achillea Ageratum}) allied to milfoil. {Sweet oil}, olive oil. {Sweet pea}. (Bot.) See under {Pea}. {Sweet potato}. (Bot.) See under {Potato}. {Sweet rush} (Bot.), sweet flag. {Sweet spirits of niter} (Med. Chem.) See {Spirit of nitrous ether}, under {Spirit}. {Sweet sultan} (Bot.), an annual composite plant ({Centaurea moschata}), also, the yellow-flowered ({C. odorata}); -- called also {sultan flower}. {Sweet tooth}, an especial fondness for sweet things or for sweetmeats. [Colloq.] {Sweet William}. (a) (Bot.) A species of pink ({Dianthus barbatus}) of many varieties. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The willow warbler. (c) (Zo[94]l.) The European goldfinch; -- called also {sweet Billy}. [Prov. Eng.] {Sweet willow} (Bot.), sweet gale. {Sweet wine}. See {Dry wine}, under {Dry}. {To be sweet on}, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. [Colloq.] --Thackeray. Syn: Sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Phenol alcohol} (Chem.), any one of series of derivatives of phenol and carbinol which have the properties of both combined; thus, saligenin is a phenol alcohol. {Phenol aldehyde} (Chem.), any one of a series of compounds having both phenol and aldehyde properties. {Phenol phthalein}. See under {Phthalein}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Phthalein \Phthal"e*in\, n. [See {Phthalic}.] (Chem.) One of a series of artificial organic dyes made as condensation products of the phenols with phthalic acid, and well represented by phenol phthale[8b]n. Their alkaline solutions are fluorescent. {Phenol phthalein}, a white or yellowish white crystalline substance made from phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids, and as this reaction is exceedingly delicate it is used as an indicator. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pineal \Pi"ne*al\, a. [L. pinea the cone of a pine, from pineus of the pine, from pinus a pine: cf. F. pin[82]ale.] Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone. {Pineal gland} (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also {pineal body}, {epiphysis}, {conarium}. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pupil \Pu"pil\, n. [F. pupille, n. fem., L. pupilla the pupil of the eye, originally dim. of pupa a girl. See {Puppet}, and cf. {Pupil} a scholar.] (Anat.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under {Eye}, and {Iris}. {Pin-hole pupil} (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. --Dunglison. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Penelope, TX (town, FIPS 56672) Location: 31.85839 N, 96.92908 W Population (1990): 210 (102 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76676 | |
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Pennellville, NY Zip code(s): 13132 | |
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Pine Level, NC (town, FIPS 52020) Location: 35.51002 N, 78.24617 W Population (1990): 1217 (558 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) |