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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Patefaction \Pat`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. patefactio, fr. patefacere to open; patere to lie open + facere to make.] The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b[?]tan to better, mend (a fire), b[?]t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.] A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. {Peat bog}, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. {Peat moss}. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat. (b) A fen producing peat. (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus {Sphagnum}, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places. {Peat reek}, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.] | |
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Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.] To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler. | |
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Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. t. To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.] | |
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Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.] To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler. | |
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Pettifogger \Pet"ti*fog`ger\, n. A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer. A pettifogger was lord chancellor. --Macaulay. | |
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Pettifoggery \Pet"ti*fog`ger*y\, n.; pl. -{ies}. The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. --Barrow. | |
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Pettifog \Pet"ti*fog\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pettifogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pettifogging}.] [Petty + fog to pettifog.] To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. [bd]He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis.[b8] --S. Butler. | |
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Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, a. Paltry; quibbling; mean. | |
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Pettifogging \Pet"ti*fog`ging\, n. Pettifoggery. | |
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Pettifogulize \Pet`ti*fog"u*lize\, v. i. To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. --De Quincey. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Petty \Pet"ty\, a. [Compar. {Pettier}; superl. {Pettiest}.] [OE. petit, F. petit; probably of Celtic origin, and akin to E. piece. Cf. {Petit}.] Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. --Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. --Milton. {Petty averages}. See under {Average}. {Petty cash}, money expended or received in small items or amounts. {Petty officer}, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army. Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See {Petit}. Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous. | |
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Phd2bus \Ph[d2]"bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] pure, bright.] 1. (Class. Myth.) Apollo; the sun god. 2. The sun. [bd]Ph[d2]bus 'gins arise.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Photopsia \Pho*top"si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. fw^s, fwto`s, light + [?] sight.] (Med.) An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See {phosphene}. | |
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Photopsy \Pho*top"sy\, n. Same as {Photopsia}. | |
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Photovisual \Pho`to*vis"u*al\, a. (Optics) Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays. | |
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1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility. Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc. 2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. 3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett. 4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n. {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus eburneus}). {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts. {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts. {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually white with red or brown spots. {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut} (above). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility. Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc. 2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc. 3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett. 4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang] {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n. {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus eburneus}). {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso nuts. {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts. {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually white with red or brown spots. {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut} (above). | |
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Phytophagic \Phy`to*phag"ic\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Phytophagous. | |
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Phytophagous \Phy*toph"a*gous\, a. [Phyto- + Gr. [?] to eat.] (Zo[94]l.) Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. | |
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Phytophagy \Phy*toph"a*gy\, n. The eating of plants. | |
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Phytophysiology \Phy`to*phys`i*ol"o*gy\, n. [Phyto- + physiology.] Vegetable physiology. | |
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Rust \Rust\, n. [AS. rust; akin to D. roest, G. & Sw. rost, Icel. ry[eb]; -- named from its color, and akin to E. red. [fb]113. See {Red}.] 1. (Chem.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion. 2. (Bot.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses ({Trichobasis Rubigo-vera}), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew ({Puccinia graminis}). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish. Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which infest vegetation, such as the species of {Ustilago}, {Uredo}, and {Lecythea}. 3. That which resembles rust in appearance or effects. Specifically: (a) A composition used in making a rust joint. See {Rust joint}, below. (b) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat. (c) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. --Eikon Basilike. Note: Rust is used in the formation of compounds of obvious meaning; as, rust-colored, rust-consumed, rust-eaten, and the like. {Rust joint}, a joint made between surfaces of iron by filling the space between them with a wet mixture of cast-iron borings, sal ammoniac, and sulphur, which by oxidation becomes hard, and impervious to steam, water, etc. {Rust mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Phytopius oleivorus}) which, by puncturing the rind, causes the rust-colored patches on oranges. | |
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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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Putty-faced \Put"ty-faced`\, a. White-faced; -- used contemptuously. --Clarke. | |
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Patapsco, MD Zip code(s): 21048 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Path Pascal Parallel extension of Pascal. Processes have shared access to data objects. Constraints on their synchronisation are specified in a path expression. ["An Overview of Path Pascal's Design", R.H. Campbell, SIGPLAN Notices 15(9):13-24 (Sep 1980)]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PDP Assembly Language {PDP-11}. [Description?] (1995-01-26) |