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Pine \Pine\, n. [AS. p[c6]n, L. pinus.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus {Pinus}. See {Pinus}. Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United States, of which the {white pine} ({P. Strobus}), the {Georgia pine} ({P. australis}), the {red pine} ({P. resinosa}), and the great West Coast {sugar pine} ({P. Lambertiana}) are among the most valuable. The {Scotch pine} or {fir}, also called {Norway} or {Riga pine} ({Pinus sylvestris}), is the only British species. The {nut pine} is any pine tree, or species of pine, which bears large edible seeds. See {Pinon}. The spruces, firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other genera. 2. The wood of the pine tree. 3. A pineapple. {Ground pine}. (Bot.) See under {Ground}. {Norfolk Island pine} (Bot.), a beautiful coniferous tree, the {Araucaria excelsa}. {Pine barren}, a tract of infertile land which is covered with pines. [Southern U.S.] {Pine borer} (Zo[94]l.), any beetle whose larv[91] bore into pine trees. {Pine finch}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pinefinch}, in the Vocabulary. {Pine grosbeak} (Zo[94]l.), a large grosbeak ({Pinicola enucleator}), which inhabits the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with red. {Pine lizard} (Zo[94]l.), a small, very active, mottled gray lizard ({Sceloporus undulatus}), native of the Middle States; -- called also {swift}, {brown scorpion}, and {alligator}. {Pine marten}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European weasel ({Mustela martes}), called also {sweet marten}, and {yellow-breasted marten}. (b) The American sable. See {Sable}. {Pine moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small tortricid moths of the genus {Retinia}, whose larv[91] burrow in the ends of the branchlets of pine trees, often doing great damage. {Pine mouse} (Zo[94]l.), an American wild mouse ({Arvicola pinetorum}), native of the Middle States. It lives in pine forests. {Pine needle} (Bot.), one of the slender needle-shaped leaves of a pine tree. See {Pinus}. {Pine-needle wool}. See {Pine wool} (below). {Pine oil}, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors. {Pine snake} (Zo[94]l.), a large harmless North American snake ({Pituophis melanoleucus}). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also {bull snake}. The Western pine snake ({P. Sayi}) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. {Pine tree} (Bot.), a tree of the genus {Pinus}; pine. {Pine-tree money}, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. {Pine weevil} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of weevils whose larv[91] bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in both Europe and America, belonging to the genera {Pissodes}, {Hylobius}, etc. {Pine wool}, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic arts; -- called also {pine-needle wool}, and {pine-wood wool}. | |
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P83que \P[83]que\, n. [F. p[83]que.] See {Pasch} and {Easter}. | |
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Paage \Pa"age\ (p[amac]"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. paage, paiage, F. p[82]age, fr. (assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See {Pedage}, {Pedal}.] (O. Eng. Law) A toll for passage over another person's grounds. [Written also {peage} and {pedage}.] --Burke. | |
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Paas \Paas\ (p[aum]s), n. Pace [Obs.] --Chaucer | |
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Paas \Paas\ (p[add]s), n. [D. paash. See {Pasch}.] The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett. {Paas egg}. See {Easter egg}, under {Easter}. | |
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Pac \Pac\, n. A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper. --Knight. | |
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Paca \Pa"ca\, n. [Pg., from the native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American rodent ({C[d2]logenys paca}), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig. | |
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Pace \Pace\, n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. {Pas}, {Pass}.] 1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. 2. The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces. [bd]The heigh of sixty pace .[b8] --Chaucer. Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet. 3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. --Chaucer. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day. --Shak. In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught. --Walsh. 4. A slow gait; a footpace. [Obs.] --Chucer. 5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. 6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. [R.] The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain. --Sir W. Temple. 7. (Arch.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall. 8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. {Geometrical pace}, the space from heel to heel between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or by some at four feet and two fifths. See {Roman pace} in the Note under def. 2. [Obs.] {To} {keep, [or] hold}, {pace with}, to keep up with; to go as fast as. [bd]In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age.[b8] --Southey. | |
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Pace \Pace\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pacing}.] 1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. [bd]I paced on slowly.[b8] --Pope. [bd]With speed so pace.[b8] --Shak. 2. To proceed; to pass on. [Obs.] Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace. --Chaucer. 3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. 4. To pass away; to die. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pace \Pace\, v. t. 1. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. [bd]Pacing light the velvet plain.[b8] --T. Warton. 2. To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. 3. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. If you can, pace your wisdom In that good path that I would wish it go. --Shak {To pace the web} (Weaving), to wind up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom. | |
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Pacha \Pa*cha"\, n. [F.] See {Pasha}. | |
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Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[be]sh[be], b[be]sh[be]; cf. Per. b[be]sh[be], b[be]dsh[be]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[be]dish[be]h. Cf. {Bashaw}, {Padishah}, {Shah}.] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was {bashaw}. [Written also {pacha}.] Note: There are three classes of pashas, whose rank is distinguished by the number of the horsetails borne on their standards, being one, two, or three, a pasha of three tails being the highest. | |
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Capitan Pasha \Ca`pi*tan` Pa*sha`\ or Pacha \Pa*cha`\ [See {capitan}.] The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. | |
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Pacha \Pa*cha"\, n. [F.] See {Pasha}. | |
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Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[be]sh[be], b[be]sh[be]; cf. Per. b[be]sh[be], b[be]dsh[be]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[be]dish[be]h. Cf. {Bashaw}, {Padishah}, {Shah}.] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was {bashaw}. [Written also {pacha}.] Note: There are three classes of pashas, whose rank is distinguished by the number of the horsetails borne on their standards, being one, two, or three, a pasha of three tails being the highest. | |
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Capitan Pasha \Ca`pi*tan` Pa*sha`\ or Pacha \Pa*cha`\ [See {capitan}.] The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. | |
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Pacha \Pa*cha"\, n. [F.] See {Pasha}. | |
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Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[be]sh[be], b[be]sh[be]; cf. Per. b[be]sh[be], b[be]dsh[be]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[be]dish[be]h. Cf. {Bashaw}, {Padishah}, {Shah}.] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was {bashaw}. [Written also {pacha}.] Note: There are three classes of pashas, whose rank is distinguished by the number of the horsetails borne on their standards, being one, two, or three, a pasha of three tails being the highest. | |
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Capitan Pasha \Ca`pi*tan` Pa*sha`\ or Pacha \Pa*cha`\ [See {capitan}.] The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet. | |
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Pachy- \Pach"y-\ [Gr. [?] thick.] A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl. | |
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Pack \Pack\, n. 1. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called {dry pack}, {wet pack}, {cold pack}, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated. 2. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage. {Pack and prime} {road [or] way}, a pack road or bridle way. | |
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Pack \Pack\, v. t. To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something; specif. (Hydropathy), to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. | |
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Pack \Pack\, n. [Cf. {Pact}.] A pact. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Pack \Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. {Packet}.] 1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. --Piers Plowman. 2. [Cf. {Peck}, n.] A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. [bd]A pack of sorrows.[b8] [bd]A pack of blessings.[b8] --Shak. Note: [bd]In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs.[b8] --McElrath. 3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; as: (a) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. (b) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. (c) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. (d) A shook of cask staves. (e) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. 4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. --Kane. 5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. 6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p[?]can to deceive.] A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See {Baggage}. [Obs.] --Skelton. {Pack animal}, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs. {Pack cloth}, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales. {Pack horse}. See {Pack animal} (above). {Pack ice}. See def. 4, above. {Pack moth} (Zo[94]l.), a small moth ({Anacampsis sarcitella}) which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics. {Pack needle}, a needle for sewing with pack thread. --Piers Plowman. {Pack saddle}, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal. --Shak. {Pack staff}, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff. {Pack thread}, strong thread or small twine used for tying packs or parcels. {Pack train} (Mil.), a troop of pack animals. | |
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Pack \Pack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Packing}.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See {Pack}, n.] 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. --Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. --Shak. 2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. 3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. | |
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Pack \Pack\, v. i. 1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. 2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well. 3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. [Eng.] 4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. Poor Stella must pack off to town --Swift. You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. --Tennyson. 5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] [bd]Go pack with him.[b8] --Shak. {To send packing}, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. [bd]The parliament . . . presently sent him packing.[b8] --South. | |
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Packway \Pack"way`\, n. A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals. | |
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Paco \Pa"co\, Pacos \Pa"cos\, n. [Sp. paco, fr. Peruv. paco. Cf. {Alpaca}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Alpaca}. 2. [Peruv. paco, pacu, red, reddish, reddish ore containing silver; perh. a different word.] (Min.) An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver. --Ure. | |
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Pacu \Pa"cu\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A South American freah-water fish ({Myleies pacu}), of the family {Characinid[91]}. It is highly esteemed as food. | |
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Page \Page\ (p[amac]j), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi`on, dim. of pai^s, paido`s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. puer. Cf. {Pedagogue}, {Puerile}.] 1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. | |
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Page \Page\, n. [F., fr. L. pagina; prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. {Pact}, {Pageant}, {Pagination}.] 1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. Such was the book from whose pages she sang. --Longfellow. 2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the page of history. 3. (Print.) The type set up for printing a page. | |
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Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Paging}.] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios. | |
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Paise \Paise\, n. [Obs.] See {Poise}. --Chapman. | |
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Pasch \Pasch\, d8Pascha \[d8]Pas"cha\, n. [AS. pascha, L. pascha, Gr. [?], fr. Heb. pesach, fr. p[be]sach to pass over: cf. OF. pasque, F. p[83]que. Cf. {Paschal}, {Paas}, {Paque}.] The passover; the feast of Easter. {Pasch egg}. See {Easter egg}, under {Easter}. {Pasch flower}. See {Pasque flower}, under {Pasque}. | |
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Pash \Pash\, v. t. [Prob. of imitative origin, or possibly akin to box to fight with the fists.] To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces. [Obs.] --P. Plowman. [bd]I'll pash him o'er the face.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Pash \Pash\, n. [Scot., the pate. Cf. {Pash}, v. t.] 1. The head; the poll. [R.] [bd]A rough pash.[b8] --Shak. 2. A crushing blow. [Obs.] 3. A heavy fall of rain or snow. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[be]sh[be], b[be]sh[be]; cf. Per. b[be]sh[be], b[be]dsh[be]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[be]dish[be]h. Cf. {Bashaw}, {Padishah}, {Shah}.] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was {bashaw}. [Written also {pacha}.] Note: There are three classes of pashas, whose rank is distinguished by the number of the horsetails borne on their standards, being one, two, or three, a pasha of three tails being the highest. | |
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Bashaw \Ba*shaw"\, n. [See {Pasha}.] 1. A Turkish title of honor, now written {pasha}. See {Pasha}. 2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A very large siluroid fish ({Leptops olivaris}) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called {goujon}, {mud cat}, and {yellow cat}. | |
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Pasha \Pa*sha"\, n. [Turk. p[be]sh[be], b[be]sh[be]; cf. Per. b[be]sh[be], b[be]dsh[be]h; perh. a corruption of Per. p[be]dish[be]h. Cf. {Bashaw}, {Padishah}, {Shah}.] An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was {bashaw}. [Written also {pacha}.] Note: There are three classes of pashas, whose rank is distinguished by the number of the horsetails borne on their standards, being one, two, or three, a pasha of three tails being the highest. | |
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Bashaw \Ba*shaw"\, n. [See {Pasha}.] 1. A Turkish title of honor, now written {pasha}. See {Pasha}. 2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee. 3. (Zo[94]l.) A very large siluroid fish ({Leptops olivaris}) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called {goujon}, {mud cat}, and {yellow cat}. | |
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Pashaw \Pa*shaw"\, n. See {Pasha}. | |
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Pask \Pask\, n. [See {Pasque}.] See {Pasch}. | |
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Pasque \Pasque\, n. [OF. pasque.] See {Pasch}. {Pasque flower} (Bot.), a name of several plants of the genus {Anemone}, section {Pulsatilla}. They are perennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also {campana}. | |
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Pass \Pass\, n. In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance. | |
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Pass \Pass\, v. i. In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. | |
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Pass \Pass\, n. [Cf. F. pas (for sense 1), and passe, fr. passer to pass. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. [bd]Try not the pass![b8] the old man said. --Longfellow. 2. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. --Shak. 3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist. 4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls. 5. State of things; condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. --Shak. Matters have been brought to this pass. --South. 6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy. --Kent. 7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. --Shak. 8. Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. --Shak. 9. [Cf. {Passus}.] A part; a division. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Pass boat} (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. {Pass book}. (a) A book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See {Bank book}. {Pass box} (Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. {Pass check}, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in expectation of returning. | |
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Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See {Pace}.] 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. [bd]But now pass over [i. e., pass on].[b8] --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. [bd]Let him pass for a man.[b8] --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. [bd]The play may pass.[b8] --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] [bd]This passes, Master Ford.[b8] --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and {Come}. {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. [bd]The heavens shall pass away.[b8] --2 Pet. iii. 10. [bd]I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.[b8] --Tennyson. {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. {To pass on}, to proceed. {To pass on} [or] {upon}. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. [bd]So death passed upon all men.[b8] --Rom. v. 12. [bd]Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. [bd]We may not pass upon his life.[b8] --Shak. {To pass off}, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. | |
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Pass \Pass\, v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. [bd]To pass commodiously this life.[b8] --Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. --Shak. (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. --Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. --Dryden. (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. --Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. --Byron. (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate. 2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. --Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. --Clarendon. (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. --Shak. Father, thy word is passed. --Milton. (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. [bd]Pass the happy news.[b8] --Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad. 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate. 4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --Shak. {Passed midshipman}. See under Midshipman. {To pass a dividend}, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. {To pass away}, to spend; to waste. [bd]Lest she pass away the flower of her age.[b8] --Ecclus. xlii. 9. | |
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Pass-key \Pass"-key`\, n. A key for opening more locks than one; a master key. | |
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Paugie \Pau"gie\, Paugy \Pau"gy\, n.; pl. {Paugies}. [Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See {Scup}.] (Zo[94]l.) The scup. See {Porgy}, and {Scup}. | |
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Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S. argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy}, {scuppaug}. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). | |
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Paugie \Pau"gie\, Paugy \Pau"gy\, n.; pl. {Paugies}. [Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See {Scup}.] (Zo[94]l.) The scup. See {Porgy}, and {Scup}. | |
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Porgy \Por"gy\, n.; pl. {Porgies}. [See {Paugie}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also {porgee}, {porgie}, and {paugy}.] | |
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Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S. argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy}, {scuppaug}. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). | |
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Paugie \Pau"gie\, Paugy \Pau"gy\, n.; pl. {Paugies}. [Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See {Scup}.] (Zo[94]l.) The scup. See {Porgy}, and {Scup}. | |
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Porgy \Por"gy\, n.; pl. {Porgies}. [See {Paugie}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also {porgee}, {porgie}, and {paugy}.] | |
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Scup \Scup\, n. [Contr. fr. American Indian mishc[97]p, fr. mishe-kuppi large, thick-scaled.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine sparoid food fish ({Stenotomus chrysops}, or {S. argyrops}), common on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It appears bright silvery when swimming in the daytime, but shows broad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also {porgee}, {paugy}, {porgy}, {scuppaug}. Note: The same names are also applied to a closely allied Southern species. ({Stenotomus Gardeni}). | |
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Paugie \Pau"gie\, Paugy \Pau"gy\, n.; pl. {Paugies}. [Corrupted from Amer. Indian mishcuppauog. See {Scup}.] (Zo[94]l.) The scup. See {Porgy}, and {Scup}. | |
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Porgy \Por"gy\, n.; pl. {Porgies}. [See {Paugie}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also {porgee}, {porgie}, and {paugy}.] | |
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Pause \Pause\, n. [F., fr. L. pausa. See {Pose}.] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. --Shak. 3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. 4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. 5. A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. --Locke. 6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th {Hold}, 7. Syn: Stop; cessation; suspension. | |
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Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See {Pause}, n., {Pose}.] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. [bd]Tarry, pause a day or two.[b8] --Shak. Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. --Milton. 2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.] Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak. | |
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Pause \Pause\, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Corona \Co*ro"na\ (k?-r?"n?), n.; pl. L. {Coron[91]} (-n[?]), E. {Coronas} (-n[?]z). [L. corona crown. See {Crown}.] 1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. 2. (Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of {Column}. 3. (Anat.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. 5. (Astrol.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. 6. (Bot.) (a) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. (b) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. 7. (Meteorol.) (a) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. (b) A peculiar phase of the {aurora borealis}, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. 8. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also {corona lucis}. --Fairholt. 9. (Mus.) A character [[pause]] called the {pause} or {hold}. | |
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Hold \Hold\, n. 1. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold. --Chaucer. Thou should'st lay hold upon him. --B. Jonson. My soul took hold on thee. --Addison. Take fast hold of instruction. --Pror. iv. 13. 2. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. The law hath yet another hold on you. --Shak. 3. Binding power and influence. Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of. --Tillotson. 4. Something that may be grasped; means of support. If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall. --Bacon. 5. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. They . . . put them in hold unto the next day. --Acts. iv. 3. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. --Shak. 6. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a {stronghold}. --Chaucer. New comers in an ancient hold --Tennyson. 7. (Mus.) A character [thus [?]] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also {pause}, and {corona}. | |
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Pause \Pause\, n. [F., fr. L. pausa. See {Pose}.] 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause where I shall first begin. --Shak. 3. In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts. 4. In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses. 5. A break or paragraph in writing. He writes with warmth, which usually neglects method, and those partitions and pauses which men educated in schools observe. --Locke. 6. (Mus.) A hold. See 4th {Hold}, 7. Syn: Stop; cessation; suspension. | |
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Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See {Pause}, n., {Pose}.] 1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. [bd]Tarry, pause a day or two.[b8] --Shak. Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. --Milton. 2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses. 3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.] Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak. | |
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Pause \Pause\, v. t. To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively. [R.] --Shak. | |
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Corona \Co*ro"na\ (k?-r?"n?), n.; pl. L. {Coron[91]} (-n[?]), E. {Coronas} (-n[?]z). [L. corona crown. See {Crown}.] 1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. 2. (Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip. See Illust. of {Column}. 3. (Anat.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin. 5. (Astrol.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon. 6. (Bot.) (a) An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil. (b) Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ. 7. (Meteorol.) (a) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon. (b) A peculiar phase of the {aurora borealis}, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle. 8. A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also {corona lucis}. --Fairholt. 9. (Mus.) A character [[pause]] called the {pause} or {hold}. | |
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Hold \Hold\, n. 1. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold. --Chaucer. Thou should'st lay hold upon him. --B. Jonson. My soul took hold on thee. --Addison. Take fast hold of instruction. --Pror. iv. 13. 2. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. The law hath yet another hold on you. --Shak. 3. Binding power and influence. Fear . . . by which God and his laws take the surest hold of. --Tillotson. 4. Something that may be grasped; means of support. If a man be upon an high place without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall. --Bacon. 5. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard. They . . . put them in hold unto the next day. --Acts. iv. 3. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. --Shak. 6. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a {stronghold}. --Chaucer. New comers in an ancient hold --Tennyson. 7. (Mus.) A character [thus [?]] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also {pause}, and {corona}. | |
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Pawk \Pawk\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A small lobster. --Travis. | |
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Pawky \Paw"ky\, a. [Cf. AS. p[91]cean to deceive.] Arch; cunning; sly. [Scot.] --Jamieson. | |
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Pax \Pax\, n. Friendship, or a friend; -- esp. in the phrases to make pax with, to make friends with, to be good pax, to be good friends; also, truce; -- used esp. interjectionally. [Eng. Schoolboy Slang] | |
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Pax \Pax\, n. [L. pax peace. See {Peace}.] 1. (Eccl.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches. 2. (R. C. Ch.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in medi[91]val times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc. Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors. --Chapman. | |
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Payse \Payse\, v. t. To poise. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Peace \Peace\, n. [OE. pees, pais, OF. pais, paiz, pes, F. paix, L. pax, pacis, akin to pacere, paciscere, pacisci, to make an agreement, and prob. also pangere to fasten. Cf. {Appease}, {Fair}, a., {Fay}, v., {Fang}, {Pacify}, {Pact}, {Pay} to requite.] A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically: (a) Exemption from, or cessation of, war with public enemies. (b) Public quiet, order, and contentment in obedience to law. (c) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience. (d) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord. [bd]The eternal love and pees.[b8] --Chaucer. Note: Peace is sometimes used as an exclamation in commanding silence, quiet, or order. [bd]Peace! foolish woman.[b8] --Shak. {At peace}, in a state of peace. {Breach of the peace}. See under {Breach}. {Justice of the peace}. See under {Justice}. {Peace of God}. (Law) (a) A term used in wills, indictments, etc., as denoting a state of peace and good conduct. (b) (Theol.) The peace of heart which is the gift of God. {Peace offering}. (a) (Jewish Antiq.) A voluntary offering to God in token of devout homage and of a sense of friendly communion with Him. (b) A gift or service offered as satisfaction to an offended person. {Peace officer}, a civil officer whose duty it is to preserve the public peace, to prevent riots, etc., as a sheriff or constable. {To hold one's peace}, to be silent; to refrain from speaking. {To make one's peace with}, to reconcile one with, to plead one's cause with, or to become reconciled with, another. [bd]I will make your peace with him.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Peace \Peace\, v. t. & i. To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop. [R.] [bd]Peace your tattlings.[b8] --Shak. When the thunder would not peace at my bidding. --Shak. | |
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Peach \Peach\, v. t. [See {Appeach}, {Impeach}.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
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Peach \Peach\, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak. | |
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Peach \Peach\, n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[88]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it ({Prunus, [or] Amygdalus Persica}). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. {Guinea}, [or] {Sierra Leone}, {peach}, the large edible berry of the {Sarcocephalus esculentus}, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. {Palm peach}, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree ({Bactris speciosa}). {Peach color}, the pale red color of the peach blossom. {Peach-tree borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth ({[92]geria, [or] Sannina, exitiosa}) of the family {[92]geriid[91]}, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under {Borer}. | |
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Peach \Peach\, v. t. [See {Appeach}, {Impeach}.] To accuse of crime; to inform against. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
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Peach \Peach\, v. i. To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice. [Obs. or Colloq.] If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. --Shak. | |
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Peach \Peach\, n. [OE. peche, peshe, OF. pesche, F. p[88]che, fr. LL. persia, L. Persicum (sc. malum) a Persian apple, a peach. Cf. {Persian}, and {Parsee}.] (Bot.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it ({Prunus, [or] Amygdalus Persica}). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. {Guinea}, [or] {Sierra Leone}, {peach}, the large edible berry of the {Sarcocephalus esculentus}, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. {Palm peach}, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree ({Bactris speciosa}). {Peach color}, the pale red color of the peach blossom. {Peach-tree borer} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a clearwing moth ({[92]geria, [or] Sannina, exitiosa}) of the family {[92]geriid[91]}, which is very destructive to peach trees by boring in the wood, usually near the ground; also, the moth itself. See Illust. under {Borer}. | |
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Peachy \Peach"y\, a. Resembling a peach or peaches. | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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Paage \Pa"age\ (p[amac]"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. paage, paiage, F. p[82]age, fr. (assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See {Pedage}, {Pedal}.] (O. Eng. Law) A toll for passage over another person's grounds. [Written also {peage} and {pedage}.] --Burke. | |
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Peage \Pe"age\, n. See {Paage}. | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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Paage \Pa"age\ (p[amac]"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. paage, paiage, F. p[82]age, fr. (assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes, pedis, foot. See {Pedage}, {Pedal}.] (O. Eng. Law) A toll for passage over another person's grounds. [Written also {peage} and {pedage}.] --Burke. | |
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Peage \Pe"age\, n. See {Paage}. | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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Peak \Peak\, n. [OE. pek, AS. peac, perh of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. peac a sharp-pointed thing. Cf. {Pike}.] 1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. [bd]Run your beard into a peak.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. 2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. Silent upon a peak in Darien. --Keats. 3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also {pea} and {pee}.] {Fore peak}. (Naut.) See under {Fore}. | |
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Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peaking}.] 1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand. 2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. [bd]Dwindle, peak, and pine.[b8] --Shak. 3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak. {Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. | |
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Peak \Peak\, v. t. (Naut.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular. | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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Peak \Peak\, n. [OE. pek, AS. peac, perh of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. peac a sharp-pointed thing. Cf. {Pike}.] 1. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. [bd]Run your beard into a peak.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. 2. The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe. Silent upon a peak in Darien. --Keats. 3. (Naut.) (a) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc. (b) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it. (c) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. [In the last sense written also {pea} and {pee}.] {Fore peak}. (Naut.) See under {Fore}. | |
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Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Peaking}.] 1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand. 2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. [bd]Dwindle, peak, and pine.[b8] --Shak. 3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak. {Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch. | |
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Peak \Peak\, v. t. (Naut.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular. | |
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Peaky \Peak"y\, a. 1. Having a peak or peaks. --Tennyson. 2. Sickly; peaked. [Colloq.] | |
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Pea \Pea\, n.; pl. {Peas}or {Pease}. [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf. {Pease}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus {Pisum}, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses. 2. A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of {Dolichos}, {Cicer}, {Abrus}, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. Note: The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or less closely related to the common pea. See the Phrases, below. {Beach pea} (Bot.), a seashore plant, {Lathyrus maritimus}. {Black-eyed pea}, a West Indian name for {Dolichos sph[91]rospermus} and its seed. {Butterfly pea}, the American plant {Clitoria Mariana}, having showy blossoms. {Chick pea}. See {Chick-pea}. {Egyptian pea}. Same as {Chick-pea}. {Everlasting pea}. See under {Everlasting}. {Glory pea}. See under {Glory}, n. {Hoary pea}, any plant of the genus {Tephrosia}; goat's rue. {Issue pea}, {Orris pea}. (Med.) See under {Issue}, and {Orris}. {Milk pea}. (Bot.) See under {Milk}. {Pea berry}, a kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee. {Pea bug}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pea weevil}. {Pea coal}, a size of coal smaller than nut coal. {Pea crab} (Zo[94]l.), any small crab of the genus {Pinnotheres}, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp., the European species ({P. pisum}) which lives in the common mussel and the cockle. {Pea dove} (Zo[94]l.), the American ground dove. {Pea-flower tribe} (Bot.), a suborder ({Papilionace[91]}) of leguminous plants having blossoms essentially like that of the pea. --G. Bentham. {Pea maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a European moth ({Tortrix pisi}), which is very destructive to peas. {Pea ore} (Min.), argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains of a size of a pea; pisolitic ore. {Pea starch}, the starch or flour of the common pea, which is sometimes used in adulterating wheat flour, pepper, etc. {Pea tree} (Bot.), the name of several leguminous shrubs of the genus {Caragana}, natives of Siberia and China. {Pea vine}. (Bot.) (a) Any plant which bears peas. (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States ({Lathyrus Americana}, and other similar species). {Pea weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small weevil ({Bruchus pisi}) which destroys peas by eating out the interior. {Pigeon pea}. (Bot.) See {Pigeon pea}. {Sweet pea} (Bot.), the annual plant {Lathyrus odoratus}; also, its many-colored, sweet-scented blossoms. | |
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Pease \Pease\, n.; obs.pl. {Peases}, {Peasen}. [See {Pea}.] 1. A pea. [Obs.] [bd]A peose.[b8] [bd]Bread . . . of beans and of peses.[b8] --Piers Plowman. 2. A plural form of {Pea}. See the Note under {Pea}. | |
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Pea \Pea\, n.; pl. {Peas}or {Pease}. [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf. {Pease}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus {Pisum}, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses. 2. A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of {Dolichos}, {Cicer}, {Abrus}, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. Note: The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or less closely related to the common pea. See the Phrases, below. {Beach pea} (Bot.), a seashore plant, {Lathyrus maritimus}. {Black-eyed pea}, a West Indian name for {Dolichos sph[91]rospermus} and its seed. {Butterfly pea}, the American plant {Clitoria Mariana}, having showy blossoms. {Chick pea}. See {Chick-pea}. {Egyptian pea}. Same as {Chick-pea}. {Everlasting pea}. See under {Everlasting}. {Glory pea}. See under {Glory}, n. {Hoary pea}, any plant of the genus {Tephrosia}; goat's rue. {Issue pea}, {Orris pea}. (Med.) See under {Issue}, and {Orris}. {Milk pea}. (Bot.) See under {Milk}. {Pea berry}, a kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee. {Pea bug}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pea weevil}. {Pea coal}, a size of coal smaller than nut coal. {Pea crab} (Zo[94]l.), any small crab of the genus {Pinnotheres}, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp., the European species ({P. pisum}) which lives in the common mussel and the cockle. {Pea dove} (Zo[94]l.), the American ground dove. {Pea-flower tribe} (Bot.), a suborder ({Papilionace[91]}) of leguminous plants having blossoms essentially like that of the pea. --G. Bentham. {Pea maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a European moth ({Tortrix pisi}), which is very destructive to peas. {Pea ore} (Min.), argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains of a size of a pea; pisolitic ore. {Pea starch}, the starch or flour of the common pea, which is sometimes used in adulterating wheat flour, pepper, etc. {Pea tree} (Bot.), the name of several leguminous shrubs of the genus {Caragana}, natives of Siberia and China. {Pea vine}. (Bot.) (a) Any plant which bears peas. (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States ({Lathyrus Americana}, and other similar species). {Pea weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small weevil ({Bruchus pisi}) which destroys peas by eating out the interior. {Pigeon pea}. (Bot.) See {Pigeon pea}. {Sweet pea} (Bot.), the annual plant {Lathyrus odoratus}; also, its many-colored, sweet-scented blossoms. | |
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Pecco \Pec"co\, n. See {Pekoe}. | |
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Pekoe \Pek"oe\, n. [Chin. pih-hoau: cf. F. peko[89]] A kind of black tea. [Written also {pecco}.] | |
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Pecco \Pec"co\, n. See {Pekoe}. | |
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Pekoe \Pek"oe\, n. [Chin. pih-hoau: cf. F. peko[89]] A kind of black tea. [Written also {pecco}.] | |
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Peck \Peck\, v. i. 1. To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. --Carew. 2. To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat. [The hen] went pecking by his side. --Dryden. {To peck at}, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease. | |
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Peck \Peck\, n. [Perh. akin to pack; or, orig., an indefinite quantity, and fr. peck, v. (below): cf. also F. picotin a peak.] 1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat. [bd]A peck of provender.[b8] --Shak. 2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. [bd]A peck of uncertainties and doubts.[b8] --Milton. | |
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Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pecked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pecking}.] [See {Pick}, v.] 1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree. 2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements. 3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak. 4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree. | |
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Peck \Peck\, n. A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument. | |
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Peece \Peece\, n. & v. [Obs.] See {Piece}. | |
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d8Dauw \[d8]Dauw\, n. [D.] (Zo[94]l.) The striped quagga, or Burchell's zebra, of South Africa ({Asinus Burchellii}); -- called also {peechi}, or {peetsi}. | |
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Peek \Peek\, v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick, E. pique. Cf. {Peak}.] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.] | |
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Peag \Peag\, n. [Written also {peage}, {peak}, {peeke}.] [Prob. of North Amer. Indian origin.] A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. | |
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d8Pishu \[d8]Pi"shu\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The Canada lynx. [Written also {peeshoo}.] | |
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Peg \Peg\, n. A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water. [India] This over, the club will be visted for a [bd]peg,[b8] Anglice drink. --Harper's Mag. | |
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Peg \Peg\, n. [OE. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, Dan. pig a point, prickle, and E. peak.] 1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg. 2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon. 3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. --Shak. 4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board. 5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase [bd]To take one down peg.[b8] To screw papal authority to the highest peg. --Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. --Hudibras. {Peg ladder}, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. {Peg tankard}, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. [bd]Drink down to your peg.[b8] --Longfellow. {Peg tooth}. See {Fleam tooth} under {Fleam}. {Peg top}, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. {Screw peg}, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles. | |
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Peg \Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pegged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pegging}.] 1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails. --Shak. 2. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.] | |
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Peg \Peg\, v. i. To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task. | |
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Peise \Peise\, n. [See {Poise}.] A weight; a poise. [Obs.] [bd]To weigh pence with a peise.[b8] --Piers Plowman. | |
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Peise \Peise\, v. t. To poise or weight. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Lest leaden slumber peise me down. --Shak. | |
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Poise \Poise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poised}, ; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poising}.] [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh, balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il p[8a]se, fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, n., and cf. {Pensive}.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance. 2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance. Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie. --Dryden. 3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance. One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality. --Shak. To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit. --Dryden. 4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh. He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence. --South. 5. To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. --Shak. | |
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Poise \Poise\, n. [OE. pois, peis, OF. pois, peis, F. poids, fr. L. pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. {Avoirdupois}, {Pendant}, {Poise}, v.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. [bd]Weights of an extraordinary poise.[b8] --Evelyn. | |
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Peise \Peise\, n. [See {Poise}.] A weight; a poise. [Obs.] [bd]To weigh pence with a peise.[b8] --Piers Plowman. | |
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Peise \Peise\, v. t. To poise or weight. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Lest leaden slumber peise me down. --Shak. | |
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Poise \Poise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poised}, ; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poising}.] [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh, balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il p[8a]se, fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, n., and cf. {Pensive}.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance. 2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance. Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie. --Dryden. 3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance. One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality. --Shak. To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit. --Dryden. 4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh. He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence. --South. 5. To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. --Shak. | |
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Poise \Poise\, n. [OE. pois, peis, OF. pois, peis, F. poids, fr. L. pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. {Avoirdupois}, {Pendant}, {Poise}, v.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. [bd]Weights of an extraordinary poise.[b8] --Evelyn. | |
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Pekoe \Pek"oe\, n. [Chin. pih-hoau: cf. F. peko[89]] A kind of black tea. [Written also {pecco}.] | |
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Pese \Pese\, n. [See {Pea}.] A pea. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pesky \Pes"ky\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.] --Judd. | |
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Phase \Phase\, n. 1. (Phys. Chem.) A homogenous, physically distinct portion of matter in a system not homogeneous; as, the three phases, ice, water, and aqueous vapor. A phase may be either a single chemical substance or a mixture, as of gases. 2. (Zo[94]l.) In certain birds and mammals, one of two or more color variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age. Some of the herons which appear in white and colored phases, and certain squirrels which are sometimes uniformly blackish instead of the usual coloration, furnish examples. Color phases occur also in other animals, notably in butterflies. 3. (Elec.) The relation at any instant of a periodically varying electric magnitude, as electro-motive force, a current, etc., to its initial value as expressed in factorial parts of the complete cycle. It is usually expressed in angular measure, the cycle beb four right angles, or 360[f8]. Such periodic variations are generally well represented by sine curves; and phase relations are shown by the relative positions of the crests and hollows of such curves. Magnitudes which have the same phase are said to be in phase. | |
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Phase \Phase\, v. t. [Cf. {Feeze}.] To disturb the composure of; to disconcert; to nonplus. [Colloq.] | |
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Phase \Phase\, n.; pl. {Phases}. [NL. phasis, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make to appear: cf. F. phase. See {Phenomenon}, {Phantom}, and {Emphasis}.] 1. That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object. 2. Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases. 3. (Astron.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under {Moon}. 4. (Physics) Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side. | |
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Pheese \Pheese\, v. t. To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See {Feaze}, v. | |
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Pheese \Pheese\, n. Fretful excitement. [Obs. or Local] See {Feaze}, n. | |
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Feeze \Feeze\, v. t. [For sense 1, cf. F. visser to screw, vis screw, or 1st E. feaze, v.t.: for sense 2, see {Feese}.] 1. To turn, as a screw. [Scot] --Jamieson. 2. To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also {feaze}, {feize}, {pheese}.] --Beau. & Fl. {To feeze up}, to work into a passion. [Obs.] | |
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Pheese \Pheese\, v. t. To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See {Feaze}, v. | |
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Pheese \Pheese\, n. Fretful excitement. [Obs. or Local] See {Feaze}, n. | |
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Feeze \Feeze\, v. t. [For sense 1, cf. F. visser to screw, vis screw, or 1st E. feaze, v.t.: for sense 2, see {Feese}.] 1. To turn, as a screw. [Scot] --Jamieson. 2. To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also {feaze}, {feize}, {pheese}.] --Beau. & Fl. {To feeze up}, to work into a passion. [Obs.] | |
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Phiz \Phiz\, n.; pl. {Phizes}. [Contr. fr. physiognomy.] The face or visage. [Colloq.] --Cowper. | |
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Phyz \Phyz\, n. See {Phiz}. | |
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Piazza \Pi*az"za\, n.; pl. {Piazzas}. [It., place, square, market place, L. platea street, courtyard. See {Place}.] An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Pic \Pic\, n. [Cf. F. pic.] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches. | |
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Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. {Pie} magpie.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The genus that includes the magpies. 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See {Pie}. [Obs.] 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. Note: This line is printed in pica Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like. {Small pica} (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. Note: This line is printed in small pica | |
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Pice \Pice\, n. [Hind. pais[be]] A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. --Malcom. | |
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Pichey \Pi"chey\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A Brazilian armadillo ({Dasypus minutus}); the little armadillo. [Written also {pichiy}.] | |
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Pichey \Pi"chey\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) A Brazilian armadillo ({Dasypus minutus}); the little armadillo. [Written also {pichiy}.] | |
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d8Picus \[d8]Pi"cus\, n.; pl. {Pici}. [L., a woodpecker.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species. | |
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Picine \Pi"cine\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers ({Pici}), or to the Piciformes. | |
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Pick \Pick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to throw.] 1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. 6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper. 7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. [bd]One man picked out of ten thousand.[b8] --Shak. 8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. 9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. {To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}. {To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia). {To pick off}. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. {To pick out}. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. {To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. {To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. {To pick up}. (a) To take up, as with the fingers. (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news. | |
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Pick \Pick\, v. i. 1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. | |
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Pick \Pick\, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See {Pick}, and cf. {Pike}.] 1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. | |
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Picke \Pi"cke\, n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also {pickle}.] | |
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Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Picksy \Pick"sy\, n. See {Pixy}. | |
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Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Picksy \Pick"sy\, n. See {Pixy}. | |
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Virtu \Vir*tu"\ (?; 277), n. [It. virt[97] virtue, excellence, from L. virtus. See {Virtue}.] A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities. --J. Spence. {An article}, [or] {piece}, {of virtu}, an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virt[97]. --Goldsmith. | |
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Piece \Piece\, n. [OE. pece, F. pi[8a]ce, LL. pecia, petia, petium, probably of Celtic origin; cf. W. peth a thing, a part, portion, a little, Armor. pez, Gael. & Ir. cuid part, share. Cf. {Petty}.] 1. A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. --Ezek. xxiv. 6. 2. A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper. 3. Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance; especially: (a) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary. (b) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece. (c) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings. (d) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge. 4. An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt. [bd]If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. --Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. --Coleridge. | |
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Piece \Piece\, v. i. To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join. [bd]It pieced better.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Piece \Piece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pieced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piecing}.] 1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. --Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. --Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. --Fuller. | |
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Virtu \Vir*tu"\ (?; 277), n. [It. virt[97] virtue, excellence, from L. virtus. See {Virtue}.] A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities. --J. Spence. {An article}, [or] {piece}, {of virtu}, an object of art or antiquity; a curiosity, such as those found in museums or private collections. I had thoughts, in my chambers to place it in view, To be shown to my friends as a piece of virt[97]. --Goldsmith. | |
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Piece \Piece\, n. [OE. pece, F. pi[8a]ce, LL. pecia, petia, petium, probably of Celtic origin; cf. W. peth a thing, a part, portion, a little, Armor. pez, Gael. & Ir. cuid part, share. Cf. {Petty}.] 1. A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. --Ezek. xxiv. 6. 2. A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper. 3. Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance; especially: (a) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary. (b) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece. (c) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings. (d) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge. 4. An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt. [bd]If I had not been a piece of a logician before I came to him.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. --Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. --Coleridge. | |
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Piece \Piece\, v. i. To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join. [bd]It pieced better.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Piece \Piece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pieced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piecing}.] 1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out. --Shak. 2. To unite; to join; to combine. --Fuller. His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in a joint opposition against him. --Fuller. | |
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Pig \Pig\, n. A piggin. [Written also {pigg}.] | |
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Pig \Pig\, n. [Cf. D. big, bigge, LG. bigge, also Dan. pige girl, Sw. piga, Icel. p[c6]ka.] 1. The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. [bd]Two pigges in a poke.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any wild species of the genus {Sus} and related genera. 3. [Cf. {Sow} a channel for melted iron.] An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See {Mine pig}, under {Mine}. 4. One who is hoggish; a greedy person. [Low] {Masked pig}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Masked}. {Pig bed} (Founding), the bed of sand in which the iron from a smelting furnace is cast into pigs. {Pig iron}, cast iron in pigs, or oblong blocks or bars, as it comes from the smelting furnace. See {Pig}, 4. {Pig yoke} (Naut.), a nickname for a quadrant or sextant. {A pig in a poke} (that is, bag), a blind bargain; something bought or bargained for, without the quality or the value being known. [Colloq.] | |
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Pig \Pig\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pigged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pigging}.] 1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow. 2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. | |
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Pig \Pig\, n. A piggin. [Written also {pigg}.] | |
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Pigg \Pigg\, n. A piggin. See 1st {Pig}. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Pig \Pig\, n. A piggin. [Written also {pigg}.] | |
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Pigg \Pigg\, n. A piggin. See 1st {Pig}. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Pika \Pi"ka\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus {Lagomys}, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also {calling hare}, and {crying hare}. See {Chief hare}. | |
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Pious \Pi"ous\, a. [L. pius: cf. F. pieux.] 1. Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly. [bd]Pious hearts.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Pious poetry.[b8] --Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care? --Pope. 2. Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety; as, pious errors; pious frauds. Syn: Godly; devout; religious; righteous. | |
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Pique \Pique\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piqued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piquing}.] [F. piquer. See {Pike}.] 1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. --Byron. 2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity. --Prior. 3. To pride or value; -- used reflexively. Men . . . pique themselves upon their skill. --Locke. Syn: To offend; displease; irritate; provoke; fret; nettle; sting; goad; stimulate. | |
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Pique \Pique\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The jigger. See {Jigger}. | |
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Pique \Pique\, n. [F., fr. piquer. See {Pike}.] 1. A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation. Men take up piques and displeasures. --Dr. H. More. Wars had arisen . . . upon a personal pique. --De Quincey. 2. Keenly felt desire; a longing. Though it have the pique, and long, 'Tis still for something in the wrong. --Hudibras. 3. (Card Playing) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one. Syn: Displeasure; irritation; grudge; spite. Usage: {Pique}, {Spite}, {Grudge}. Pique denotes a quick and often transient sense of resentment for some supposed neglect or injury, but it is not marked by malevolence. Spite is a stronger term, denoting settled ill will or malice, with a desire to injure, as the result of extreme irritation. Grudge goes still further, denoting cherished and secret enmity, with an unforgiving spirit. A pique is usually of recent date; a grudge is that which has long subsisted; spite implies a disposition to cross or vex others. | |
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Pique \Pique\, v. i. To cause annoyance or irritation. [bd]Every [?]erse hath something in it that piques.[b8] --Tatler. | |
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Pisay \Pi"say\, n. (Arch.) See {Pis[82]}. | |
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Pish \Pish\, v. i. To express contempt. --Pope. | |
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Pish \Pish\, interj. An exclamation of contempt. | |
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Piss \Piss\, v. t. & i. [OE. pissen, F. pisser; akin to It. pisciare, D. & G. pissen, Dan. pisse, Icel. pissa.] To discharge urine, to urinate. --Shak. | |
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Piss \Piss\, n. Urine. | |
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Pix \Pix\, n. & v. See {Pyx}. | |
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Pyx \Pyx\, n. [L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi`s a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See {Box} a receptacle.] [Written also {pix}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. 2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. --Mushet. 3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. --Weale. 4. (Anat.) Same as {Pyxis}. {Pyx cloth} (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. {Trial of the pyx}, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. --Encyc. Brit. | |
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Pix \Pix\, n. & v. See {Pyx}. | |
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Pyx \Pyx\, n. [L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi`s a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See {Box} a receptacle.] [Written also {pix}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. 2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. --Mushet. 3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. --Weale. 4. (Anat.) Same as {Pyxis}. {Pyx cloth} (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. {Trial of the pyx}, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. --Encyc. Brit. | |
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Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Poach \Poach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poaching}.] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See {Pouch}, v. & n.] 1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. --Bacon. 2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. --Garth. | |
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Poach \Poach\, v. i. To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. | |
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Poach \Poach\, v. t. [Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to thrust against.] 1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish. [Obs.] --Carew. 2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [Obs.] His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To make soft or muddy by trampling --Tennyson. 4. To begin and not complete. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Poach \Poach\, v. i. To become soft or muddy. Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. --Mortimer. | |
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Poachy \Poach"y\, a. [See {Poach} to stab.] Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land | |
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Poak \Poak\, Poake \Poake\, n. Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc. | |
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Poak \Poak\, Poake \Poake\, n. Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc. | |
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Pock \Pock\, n. [OE. pokke, AS. pocc, poc; akin to D. pok, G. pocke, and perh. to E. poke a pocket. Cf. {Pox}.] (Med.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases. Of pokkes and of scab every sore. --Chaucer. | |
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Pocky \Pock"y\, a. [Compar. {Pockier}; superl. {Pockiest}.] Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Poesy \Po"e*sy\, n. [F. po[82]sie (cf. It. poesia), L. poesis, from Gr. [?]. from [?] to make. Cf. {Posy}.] 1. The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy. --Shak. 2. Poetry; metrical composition; poems. Music and poesy used to quicken you. --Shak. 3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy. --Bacon. | |
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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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Poggy \Pog"gy\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) See {Porgy}. (b) A small whale. | |
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Menhaden \Men*ha"den\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt ({Brevoortia tyrannus}), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also {mossbunker}, {bony fish}, {chebog}, {pogy}, {hardhead}, {whitefish}, etc. | |
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Pogy \Po"gy\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The menhaden. Note: Pogy is often confounded with porgy, and therefore incorrectly applied to various fishes. | |
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Menhaden \Men*ha"den\, n. (Zo[94]l.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt ({Brevoortia tyrannus}), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also {mossbunker}, {bony fish}, {chebog}, {pogy}, {hardhead}, {whitefish}, etc. | |
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Pogy \Po"gy\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The menhaden. Note: Pogy is often confounded with porgy, and therefore incorrectly applied to various fishes. | |
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Poise \Poise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poised}, ; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poising}.] [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh, balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il p[8a]se, fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Poise}, n., and cf. {Pensive}.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the scales of a balance. 2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance. Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised, did on her own foundation lie. --Dryden. 3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance. One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality. --Shak. To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit. --Dryden. 4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh. He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise the weight, and discern the evidence. --South. 5. To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.] Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. --Shak. | |
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Poise \Poise\, n. [OE. pois, peis, OF. pois, peis, F. poids, fr. L. pensum a portion weighed out, pendere to weigh, weigh out. Cf. {Avoirdupois}, {Pendant}, {Poise}, v.] [Formerly written also {peise}.] 1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. [bd]Weights of an extraordinary poise.[b8] --Evelyn. | |
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Poise \Poise\, v. i. To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. The slender, graceful spars Poise aloft in air. --Longfellow. | |
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Poize \Poize\, n. See {Poise}. [Obs.] | |
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Poke \Poke\, v. i. To search; to feel one's way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about. A man must have poked into Latin and Greek. --Prior. | |
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Poke \Poke\, n. 1. The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the ribs. --Ld. Lytton. 2. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting person. [Slang, U.S.] --Bartlett. 3. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.] {Poke bonnet}, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front. | |
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Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.) A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({P. decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine. | |
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Poke \Poke\, n. [AS. poca, poha, pohha; akin to Icel. poki, OD. poke, and perh. to E. pock; cf. also Gael. poca, and OF. poque. Cf. {Pock}, {Pocket}, {Pouch}.] 1. A bag; a sack; a pocket. [bd]He drew a dial from his poke.[b8] --Shak. They wallowed as pigs in a poke. --Chaucer. 2. A long, wide sleeve; -- called also {poke sleeve}. {To boy a pig a poke} (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. --Camden. | |
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Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poking}.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a blow, Gael. puc to push.] 1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed; hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire. He poked John, and said [bd]Sleepest thou ?[b8] --Chaucer. 2. To thrust with the horns; to gore. 3. [From 5th {Poke}, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox. [Colloq. U. S.] {To poke fun}, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.] {To poke fun at}, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.] | |
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Pokey \Pok"ey\, a. See {Poky}. | |
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Poky \Pok"y\, a. [Written also pokey.] 1. Confined; cramped. [Prov. Eng.] 2. Dull; tedious; uninteresting. [Colloq.] | |
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Compo \Com"po\, n.; pl. {-pos}. Short for {Composition}; -- used, esp. in England, colloq. in various trade applications; as : (a) A mortar made of sand and cement. (b) A carver's mixture of resin, whiting, and glue, used instead of plaster of Paris for ornamenting walls and cornices. (c) A composition for billiard balls. (d) A preparation of which printer's rollers are made. (e) A preparation used in currying leather. (f) Composition paid by a debtor. | |
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Pose \Pose\, n. [AS. gepose; of uncertain origin; cf. W. pas a cough, Skr. k[be]s to cough, and E. wheeze.] A cold in the head; catarrh. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Pose \Pose\, n. [F. pose, fr. poser. See {Pose}, v. t.] The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue. | |
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posing}.] [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause, in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make to cease, prob. akin to E. few. In compounds, this word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place, the substitution in French having been probably due to confusion of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere. See {Few}, and cf. {Appose}, {Dispose}, {Oppose}, {Pause}, {Repose}, {Position}.] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait. | |
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Pose \Pose\, v. i. To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude. He . . . posed before her as a hero. --Thackeray. | |
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [Shortened from appose, for oppose. See 2d {Appose}, {Oppose}.] 1. To interrogate; to question. [Obs.] [bd]She . . . posed him and sifted him.[b8] --Bacon. 2. To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand. A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. --Barrow. | |
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Poss \Poss\, v. t. [See {Push}.] To push; to dash; to throw. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] A cat . . . possed them [the rats] about. --Piers Plowman. | |
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Posse \Pos"se\, n. See {Posse comitatus}. {In posse}. See {In posse} in the Vocabulary. | |
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Posy \Po"sy\, n.; pl. {Posies}. [Contr. fr. poesy.] 1. A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring. [bd]The posy of a ring.[b8] --Shak. 2. [Probably so called from the use of flowers as having an enigmatical significance. Wedgwood.] A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay. [bd]Bridegroom's posies.[b8] --Spenser. We make a difference between suffering thistles to grow among us, and wearing them for posies. --Swift. | |
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Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouching}.] 1. To put or take into a pouch. 2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham. 3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. 4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Pouch \Pouch\, n. [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a bag, and cf. {Poach} to cook eggs, to plunder.] 1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc. 2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zo[94]l.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials. (c) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. --S. Sharp. (d) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse. (e) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting. {Pouch mouth}, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips. | |
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Pousse \Pousse\ (p[oomac]s), n. Pulse; pease. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Pox \Pox\, n. [For pocks, OE. pokkes. See {Pock}. It is plural in form but is used as a singular.] (Med.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases. Note: Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis. | |
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Pox \Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Poxing}.] To infect with the pox, or syphilis. | |
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Poze \Poze\, v. t. See 5th {Pose}. | |
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Pshaw \Pshaw\, interj. [Of imitative origin.] Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc. [Written also {psha}.] | |
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Pshaw \Pshaw\, interj. [Of imitative origin.] Pish! pooch! -- an exclamation used as an expression of contempt, disdain, dislike, etc. [Written also {psha}.] | |
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Pshaw \Pshaw\, v. i. To express disgust or contemptuous disapprobation, as by the exclamation [bd] Pshaw![b8] The goodman used regularly to frown and pshaw wherever this topic was touched upon. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Puce \Puce\, a. [F., fr. puce a flea, L. pulex, pulicis.] Of a dark brown or brownish purple color. | |
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Puck \Puck\, n. A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals. | |
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Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[umac]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.] 1. (Medi[91]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, [bd]the merry wanderer of the night;[b8] -- called also {Robin Goodfellow}, {Friar Rush}, {Pug}, etc. --Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Puck \Puck\, n. [OE. pouke; cf. OSw. puke, Icel. p[umac]ki an evil demon, W. pwca a hobgoblin. Cf. {Poker} a bugbear, {Pug}.] 1. (Medi[91]val Myth.) A celebrated fairy, [bd]the merry wanderer of the night;[b8] -- called also {Robin Goodfellow}, {Friar Rush}, {Pug}, etc. --Shak. He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall. --Drayton. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The goatsucker. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.] 1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc. 2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See {Pugging}, 2. | |
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Pug \Pug\, n. 1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic. 2. A pug mill. {Pug mill}, a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed. | |
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Pug \Pug\, n. [Corrupted fr. puck. See {Puck}.] 1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as {Puck}. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.] --Addison. 3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.] --C. Kingsley. 4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.] --Lyly. 5. pl. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.] --Holland. 6. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. 7. (Zo[94]l.) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog. 8. (Zo[94]l.) Any geometrid moth of the genus {Eupithecia}. | |
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Pugh \Pugh\, interj. Pshaw! pish! -- a word used in contempt or disdain. | |
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Puke \Puke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puking}.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.] To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. --Shak. | |
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Puke \Puke\, v. t. To eject from the stomach; to vomit up. | |
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Puke \Puke\, n. A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit. | |
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Puke \Puke\, a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Of a color supposed to be between black and russet. --Shak. Note: This color has by some been regarded as the same with puce; but Nares questions the identity. | |
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d8Pucka \[d8]Puck"a\, a. [Written also {pukka}.] [Hind. pakk[be] cooked, ripe, solid.] Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [India] It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. --Kipling. | |
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Pus \Pus\, n. [L., akin to Gr. [?], [?], and to E. foul: cf. F. pus. See {Foul}, a.] (Med.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid. | |
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Push \Push\, n. A crowd; a company or clique of associates; a gang. [Slang] | |
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Push \Push\, n. [Probably F. poche. See {Pouch}.] A pustule; a pimple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Bacon. | |
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Push \Push\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pushing}.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare, v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pursy}.] 1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to {draw}. Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. --Milton. 2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore. If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, . . . the ox shall be stoned. --Ex. xxi. 32. 3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection too far. [bd] To push his fortune.[b8] --Dryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. --Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. --Swift. 4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass. 5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. {To push down}, to overthrow by pushing or impulse. | |
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Push \Push\, n. 1. A thrust with a pointed instrument, or with the end of a thing. 2. Any thrust. pressure, impulse, or force, or force applied; a shove; as, to give the ball the first push. 3. An assault or attack; an effort; an attempt; hence, the time or occasion for action. Exact reformation is not perfected at the first push. --Milton. When it comes to the push, 'tis no more than talk. --L' Estrange. 4. The faculty of overcoming obstacles; aggressive energy; as, he has push, or he has no push. [Colloq.] Syn: See {Thrust}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Push \Push\, v. i. 1. To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword. --Shak. 2. To make an advance, attack, or effort; to be energetic; as, a man must push in order to succeed. At the time of the end shall the kind of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him. --Dan. xi. 40. War seemed asleep for nine long years; at length Both sides resolved to push, we tried our strength. --Dryden. 3. To burst pot, as a bud or shoot. {To push on}, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. The rider pushed on at a rapid pace. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Puss \Puss\ (p[usdot]s), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.] 1. A cat; -- a fondling appellation. 2. A hare; -- so called by sportsmen. {Puss in the corner}, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one. {Puss moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to {Cerura}, {Harpyia}, and allied genera, esp. {Harpyia vinuli}, of Europe. The larv[91] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pussy \Pussy\, n. [Dim. of puss.] 1. A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl. 2. A catkin of the pussy willow. 3. The game of tipcat; -- also called {pussy cat}. {Pussy willow} (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American {Salix discolor}; -- called also {glaucous willow}, and {swamp willow}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pussy \Pus"sy\, a. See {Pursy}. [Colloq. or Low] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyx \Pyx\, n. [L. pyxis a box, Gr. pyxi`s a box, especially of boxwood, fr. py`xos the box tree or boxwood. See {Box} a receptacle.] [Written also {pix}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The box, case, vase, or tabernacle, in which the host is reserved. 2. A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint. --Mushet. 3. (Naut.) The box in which the compass is suspended; the binnacle. --Weale. 4. (Anat.) Same as {Pyxis}. {Pyx cloth} (R. C. Ch.), a veil of silk or lace covering the pyx. {Trial of the pyx}, the annual testing, in the English mint, of the standard of gold and silver coins. --Encyc. Brit. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pyx \Pyx\, v. t. To test as to weight and fineness, as the coins deposited in the pyx. [Eng.] --Mushet. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pace, FL (CDP, FIPS 53725) Location: 30.59987 N, 87.15970 W Population (1990): 6277 (2526 housing units) Area: 24.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32571 Pace, MS (town, FIPS 54920) Location: 33.79206 N, 90.85908 W Population (1990): 354 (130 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Pagai, AS (village, FIPS 62230) Location: 14.27400 S, 170.60338 W Population (1990): 107 (18 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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Page, AZ (city, FIPS 51810) Location: 36.90425 N, 111.45782 W Population (1990): 6598 (2307 housing units) Area: 43.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Page, ND (city, FIPS 60500) Location: 47.15800 N, 97.57060 W Population (1990): 266 (144 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58064 Page, NE (village, FIPS 38085) Location: 42.39904 N, 98.41741 W Population (1990): 191 (100 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68766 | |
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Pahokee, FL (city, FIPS 53800) Location: 26.81892 N, 80.66199 W Population (1990): 6822 (2422 housing units) Area: 13.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33476 | |
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Paige, TX Zip code(s): 78659 | |
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Pasco, WA (city, FIPS 53545) Location: 46.25207 N, 119.12776 W Population (1990): 20337 (7698 housing units) Area: 59.1 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99301 | |
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Paukaa, HI (CDP, FIPS 61700) Location: 19.76437 N, 155.09857 W Population (1990): 495 (209 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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Pawhuska, OK (city, FIPS 57600) Location: 36.66944 N, 96.33125 W Population (1990): 3825 (2029 housing units) Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74056 | |
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Pax, WV (town, FIPS 62356) Location: 37.90961 N, 81.26388 W Population (1990): 167 (84 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Peak, SC (town, FIPS 55150) Location: 34.23811 N, 81.32906 W Population (1990): 78 (37 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Pease, MN (city, FIPS 50056) Location: 45.69811 N, 93.65060 W Population (1990): 178 (70 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56363 | |
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Peck, ID (city, FIPS 61840) Location: 46.47387 N, 116.42409 W Population (1990): 160 (84 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83545 Peck, KS Zip code(s): 67120 Peck, MI (village, FIPS 63260) Location: 43.25907 N, 82.81651 W Population (1990): 558 (233 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48466 | |
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Peggs, OK Zip code(s): 74452 | |
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Pequea, PA Zip code(s): 17565 | |
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Pewaukee, WI (village, FIPS 62250) Location: 43.08571 N, 88.25199 W Population (1990): 4941 (2004 housing units) Area: 10.3 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53072 | |
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Piasa, IL Zip code(s): 62079 | |
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Pickaway, WV Zip code(s): 24976 | |
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Pike, NH Zip code(s): 03780 Pike, NY (village, FIPS 57815) Location: 42.55587 N, 78.15422 W Population (1990): 384 (142 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pioche, NV Zip code(s): 89043 | |
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Piqua, KS Zip code(s): 66761 Piqua, OH (city, FIPS 62848) Location: 40.14657 N, 84.25096 W Population (1990): 20612 (8034 housing units) Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45356 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pisgah, AL (town, FIPS 60720) Location: 34.68215 N, 85.84776 W Population (1990): 652 (277 housing units) Area: 10.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35765 Pisgah, IA (city, FIPS 63075) Location: 41.83082 N, 95.92676 W Population (1990): 268 (141 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51564 Pisgah, MD Zip code(s): 20640 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Poca, WV (town, FIPS 64516) Location: 38.47440 N, 81.81284 W Population (1990): 1124 (445 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Posey, CA Zip code(s): 93260 | |
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Puako, HI (CDP, FIPS 65150) Location: 19.94476 N, 155.87107 W Population (1990): 397 (545 housing units) Area: 26.7 sq km (land), 14.4 sq km (water) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
peek n.,vt. (and {poke}) The commands in most microcomputer BASICs for directly accessing memory contents at an absolute address; often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any {HLL} (peek reads memory, poke modifies it). Much hacking on small, non-MMU micros used to consist of `peek'ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulated (see {{interrupt list}}). The results of `poke's at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or (most likely) total {lossage} (see {killer poke}). Since a {real operating system} provides useful, higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a question like "How do I do a peek in C?" is diagnostic of the {newbie}. (Of course, OS kernels often have to do exactly this; a real kernel hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it.) | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
phage n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized ways; esp. one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}. See also {worm}, {mockingbird}. The analogy, of course, is with phage viruses in biology. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. "What's your phase?" "I've been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I'm going to {wrap around} to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in `night mode'. (The term `day mode' is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called `changing phase'; `phase shifting' has also been recently reported from Caltech. 2. `change phase the hard way': To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase. 3. `change phase the easy way': To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is _shortening_ your day or night that is really hard (see {wrap around}). The `jet lag' that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without traveling. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
pico- pref. [SI: a quantifier meaning * 10^-12] Smaller than {nano-}; used in the same rather loose connotative way as {nano-} and {micro-}. This usage is not yet common in the way {nano-} and {micro-} are, but should be instantly recognizable to any hacker. See also {{quantifiers}}, {micro-}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
poke n.,vt. See {peek}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
push [from the operation that puts the current information on a stack, and the fact that procedure return addresses are saved on a stack] (Also PUSH /push/ or PUSHJ /push'J/, the latter based on the PDP-10 procedure call instruction.) 1. To put something onto a {stack} or {PDL}. If one says that something has been pushed onto one's stack, it means that the Damoclean list of things hanging over ones's head has grown longer and heavier yet. This may also imply that one will deal with it _before_ other pending items; otherwise one might say that the thing was `added to my queue'. 2. vi. To enter upon a digression, to save the current discussion for later. Antonym of {pop}; see also {stack}, {PDL}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
p2c A {Pascal} to {C} translator by Dave Gillespie {Version 1.20 (ftp://csvax.cs.caltech.edu/)}. Supports {ANSI}/{ISO} {standard} {Pascal} as well as substantial subsets of {HP Pascal}, {Turbo Pascal}, VAX, and many other dialects. (1990-04-13) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PACE A CPU based on the {Nova} design, but with 16-bit addressing, more {addressing mode}s and a 10 level {stack} (like the {Intel 8008}). (1994-11-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PAGE A typesetting language. ["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley 1972]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
page 1. 2. (1997-04-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PAGE A typesetting language. ["Computer Composition Using PAGE-1", J.L. Pierson, Wiley 1972]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
page 1. 2. (1997-04-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PASC {Perceptional Adaptive Subband Coding} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PBX {Private Branch Exchange} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PC 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pC++ {Data parallel} extension to {C++}. {Class}es and {method}s for managing distributed collections. E-mail: Dennis Gannon ["Distributed pC++: Basic Ideas for an Object Parallel Language", F. Bodin et al, Proc Supercomput 91, ACM SIGARCH, pp. 273-282]. (2001-02-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PC 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pC++ {Data parallel} extension to {C++}. {Class}es and {method}s for managing distributed collections. E-mail: Dennis Gannon ["Distributed pC++: Basic Ideas for an Object Parallel Language", F. Bodin et al, Proc Supercomput 91, ACM SIGARCH, pp. 273-282]. (2001-02-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PC200 {Sinclair PC200} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCA A dynamic analyser from {DEC} giving information on run-time performance and code use. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCI {Peripheral Component Interconnect} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCS 1. {Personal Communication Services}. 2. {PC-Scheme}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PCU {PCI Configuration Utility} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pcx created with the {IBM PC} {Paintbrush} tool. [Format?] (1995-12-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PEEK The command in most {microcomputer} {BASIC}s for reading memory contents (a byte) at an absolute address. POKE is the corresponding command to write a value to an absolute address. This is often extended to mean the corresponding constructs in any {High Level Language}. Much hacking on small {microcomputer}s without {MMU}s consists of "peek"ing around memory, more or less at random, to find the location where the system keeps interesting stuff. Long (and variably accurate) lists of such addresses for various computers circulate (see {interrupt list}). The results of "poke"s at these addresses may be highly useful, mildly amusing, useless but neat, or total {lossage} (see {killer poke}). Since a {real operating system} provides useful, higher-level services for the tasks commonly performed with peeks and pokes on micros, and real languages tend not to encourage low-level memory groveling, a question like "How do I do a peek in C?" is diagnostic of the {newbie}. Of course, {operating system} {kernel}s often have to do exactly this; a real {C} hacker would unhesitatingly, if unportably, assign an absolute address to a pointer variable and indirect through it. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PEX (PHIGS Extension to X) Extension to the {X Window System} providing 3d graphics support. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pg (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PGA 1. 2. (1999-08-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PGA370 {Socket 370} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
phage A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorised ways; especially one that propagates a {virus} or {Trojan horse}. See also {worm}, {mockingbird}. The analogy, of course, is with phage viruses in biology. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
phase 1. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle; a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed schedule. It is not uncommon to change one's phase by as much as 6 hours per day on a regular basis. "What's your phase?" "I've been getting in about 8 P.M. lately, but I'm going to {wrap around} to the day schedule by Friday." A person who is roughly 12 hours out of phase is sometimes said to be in "night mode". (The term "day mode" is also (but less frequently) used, meaning you're working 9 to 5 (or, more likely, 10 to 6).) The act of altering one's cycle is called "changing phase"; "phase shifting" has also been recently reported from Caltech. 2. "change phase the hard way": To stay awake for a very long time in order to get into a different phase. 3. "change phase the easy way": To stay asleep, etc. However, some claim that either staying awake longer or sleeping longer is easy, and that it is *shortening* your day or night that is really hard (see {wrap around}). The "jet lag" that afflicts travelers who cross many time-zone boundaries may be attributed to two distinct causes: the strain of travel per se, and the strain of changing phase. Hackers who suddenly find that they must change phase drastically in a short period of time, particularly the hard way, experience something very like jet lag without travelling. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PHIGS {Programmers Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PIC 1. 2. A graphics language by {Brian Kernighan}, for textually describing pictures with {troff}. [Featured in "More Programming Pearls", Jon Bentley]. ["PIC - A Language for Typesetting Graphics", B.W. Kernighan, Soft Prac & Exp 12(1):1-21 (Jan 1982)]. ["PIC - A Graphics Language for Typesetting, Revised User Manual", Bell Labs TR 116, Dec 1984]. (1994-10-28) 3. {personal intelligent communicator}. (2001-04-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pico- {prefix} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PICS {Platform for Internet Content Selection} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PIGUI {Platform Independent Graphical User Interface} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
pk (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PKE {public-key encryption} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PKI {Public Key Infrastructure} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POC {Point Of Contact} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POGO Early system on G-15. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
poke The {BASIC} command to write a value to an absolute address. See {peek}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-31) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POS {point of sale} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
POSE ["POSE: A Language for Posing Problems to Computers", S. Schlesinger et al, CACM 10:279-285, May 1967]. (1996-12-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PPC {PowerPC} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PPGA {Plastic Pin Grid Array} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PQS {Picture Quality Scale} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS {PostScript} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS 440 {Telefunken TR 440} computer, developed by K. Lagally in about 1974. (2003-07-29) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS1 {Sony Playstation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS2 {Sony Playstation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS/2 The PS/2 series introduced three advances over the PC series: 3.5" 1.44 megabyte {microfloppy} disks, {VGA} and {8514} graphics {display standard}s, and the {Micro Channel} bus architecture. The 3.5" disks and VGA can be easily installed on other PCs and will become the standard for new compatible computers. The Micro Channel bus allows for multiprocessing and less aggravation, but cannot be retrofitted to older PCs. PS/2 models 25 and 30 are {ISA}, other models have Micro Channel and {ESDI}. (1995-11-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS2 {Sony Playstation} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PS/2 The PS/2 series introduced three advances over the PC series: 3.5" 1.44 megabyte {microfloppy} disks, {VGA} and {8514} graphics {display standard}s, and the {Micro Channel} bus architecture. The 3.5" disks and VGA can be easily installed on other PCs and will become the standard for new compatible computers. The Micro Channel bus allows for multiprocessing and less aggravation, but cannot be retrofitted to older PCs. PS/2 models 25 and 30 are {ISA}, other models have Micro Channel and {ESDI}. (1995-11-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PSA Problem Statement Analizer. See {PSL/PSA}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PSI {Portable Scheme Interpreter} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PSK | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PSO {Oracle Parallel Server} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
push 1. Opposite: "{pop}". 2. [{Jargon File}] (1997-04-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PVC 1. 2. (2001-03-26) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pekah open-eyed, the son of Remaliah a captain in the army of Pekahiah, king of Israel, whom he slew, with the aid of a band of Gileadites, and succeeded (B.C. 758) on the throne (2 Kings 15:25). Seventeen years after this he entered into an alliance with Rezin, king of Syria, and took part with him in besieging Jerusalem (2 Kings 15:37; 16:5). But Tiglath-pilser, who was in alliance with Ahaz, king of Judah, came up against Pekah, and carried away captive many of the inhabitants of his kingdom (2 Kings 15:29). This was the beginning of the "Captivity." Soon after this Pekah was put to death by Hoshea, the son of Elah, who usurped the throne (2 Kings 15:30; 16:1-9. Comp. Isa. 7:16; 8:4; 9:12). He is supposed by some to have been the "shephard" mentioned in Zech. 11:16. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pekahiah the Lord opened his eyes, the son and successor of Menahem on the throne of Israel. He was murdered in the royal palace of Samaria by Pekah, one of the captains of his army (2 Kings 15:23-26), after a reign of two years (B.C. 761-759). He "did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pisgah a part, a mountain summit in the land of Moab, in the territory of Reuben, where Balak offered up sacrifices (Num. 21:20; 23:14), and from which Moses viewed the promised land (Deut. 3:27). It is probably the modern Jebel Siaghah. (See {NEBO}.) | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Paseah, passing over; halting | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pekah, he that opens; that is at liberty | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pekahiah, it is the Lord that opens | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Pisgah, hill; eminence; fortress |