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Paillasse \Pail*lasse"\ (?; F. [?]), n. [F., fr. paille straw. See {Pallet} a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also {palliasse}.] | |
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Palace \Pal"ace\, n. [OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, [?] which Augustus had his residence. Cf. {Paladin}.] 1. The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception. --Chaucer. 2. The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage. 3. Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house. {Palace car}. See under {Car}. {Palace court}, a court having jurisdiction of personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849. [Eng.] --Mozley & W. | |
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Pulas \Pu"las\, n. [Skr. pal[be][cced]a.] (Bot.) The East Indian leguminous tree {Butea frondosa}. See {Gum Butea}, under {Gum}. [Written also {pales} and {palasa}.] | |
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Paleous \Pa"le*ous\, a. [L. palea chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff; paleaceous. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Pulas \Pu"las\, n. [Skr. pal[be][cced]a.] (Bot.) The East Indian leguminous tree {Butea frondosa}. See {Gum Butea}, under {Gum}. [Written also {pales} and {palasa}.] | |
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Palesie \Pale"sie\, Palesy \Pale"sy\, n. Palsy. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Palesie \Pale"sie\, Palesy \Pale"sy\, n. Palsy. [Obs.] --Wyclif. | |
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Palewise \Pale"wise`\, adv. (Her.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise. | |
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Palish \Pal"ish\, a. Somewhat pale or wan. | |
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Palissy \Pal"is*sy\, a. Designating, or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry. {Palissy ware}, glazed pottery like that made by Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes, reptiles, etc., in high relief. | |
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Pallas \Pal"las\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], [?].] (Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also {Athene}, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva. | |
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Palliasse \Pal*liasse"\, n. See {Paillasse}. | |
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Paillasse \Pail*lasse"\ (?; F. [?]), n. [F., fr. paille straw. See {Pallet} a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also {palliasse}.] | |
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Palliasse \Pal*liasse"\, n. See {Paillasse}. | |
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Paillasse \Pail*lasse"\ (?; F. [?]), n. [F., fr. paille straw. See {Pallet} a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also {palliasse}.] | |
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Palsy \Pal"sy\, n.; pl. {Palsies}. [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See {Paralysis}.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See {Paralysis}. [bd]One sick of the palsy.[b8] --Mark ii. 3. {Bell's palsy}, paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described it. {Scrivener's palsy}. See {Writer's cramp}, under {Writer}. {Shaking palsy}, paralysis agitans, a disease usually occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a peculiar shaking and tottering gait. | |
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Palsy \Pal"sy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Palsied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palsying}.] To affect with palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to paralyze. | |
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Peelhouse \Peel"house`\, n. See 1st {Peel}. --Sir W. Scott. | |
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Pelage \Pel"age\, n. [F. pelage, fr. L. pilus hair.] (Zo[94]l.) The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair. | |
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Pelick \Pel"ick\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The American coot ({Fulica}). | |
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Pelisse \Pe*lisse"\, n. A lady's or child's long outer garment, of silk or other fabric. | |
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Pelisse \Pe*lisse"\, n. [F., fr. L. pelliceus, pellicius, made of skins, fr. pellis a skin. Cf. {Pelt} skin, {Pilch}, and see 2d {Pell}.] An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric. | |
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Pellack \Pel"lack\, n. [Cf. Gael. {Peileag}.] (Zo[94]l.) A porpoise. | |
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Pellage \Pell"age\ (p[ecr]l"[asl]j), n. [See 2d {Pell}.] A customs duty on skins of leather. | |
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Phallic \Phal"lic\, a. [Gr. [?].] Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism. | |
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Phallus \Phal"lus\, n.; pl. {Phalli}. [L., a phallus (in sense 1), Gr. [?].] 1. The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways. 2. (Anat.) The penis or clitoris, or the embryonic or primitive organ from which either may be derived. 3. (Bot.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn. | |
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Phlox \Phlox\, n. [L., a kind of flower, fr. Gr. [?] flame, fr. [?] to burn.] (Bot.) A genus of American herbs, having showy red, white, or purple flowers. {Phlox worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of an American moth ({Heliothis phloxiphaga}). It is destructive to phloxes. {Phlox subulata}, the moss pink. See under {Moss}. | |
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Phyllous \Phyl"lous\, a. (Bot.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs. | |
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Pileous \Pi"le*ous\, a. [See {Pilous}.] Consisting of, or covered with, hair; hairy; pilose. | |
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Piles \Piles\, n. pl. [L. pila a ball. Cf. {Pill} a medicine.] (Med.) The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called {hemorrhoids}. See {Hemorrhoids}. Note: [The singular {pile} is sometimes used.] {Blind piles}, hemorrhoids which do not bleed. | |
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Pileus \Pi"le*us\, n.; pl. {Pilei}. [L., a felt cap.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A kind of skull cap of felt. 2. (Bot.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See {Mushroom}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape. | |
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Pillage \Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See {Pill} to plunder.] 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak. 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. Which pillage they with merry march bring home. --Shak. Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation. Usage: {Pillage}, {Plunder}. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged. | |
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Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Pillaged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pillaging}.] To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy. Mummius . . . took, pillaged, and burnt their city. --Arbuthnot. | |
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Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay. | |
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Pilose \Pi*lose"\, a. [L. pilosus, fr. pilus hair. See {Pile}.] 1. Hairy; full of, or made of, hair. The heat-retaining property of the pilose covering. --Owen. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Clothed thickly with pile or soft down. 3. (Bot.) Covered with long, slender hairs; resembling long hairs; hairy; as, pilose pubescence. | |
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Pilous \Pil"ous\, a. See {Pilose}. | |
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Place \Place\, n. (Racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, finish first or second, in England, usually, first, second, or third. | |
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Place \Place\, v. t. 1. (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially. 2. (Rugby Football) To place-kick ( a goal). | |
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Place \Place\, n. [F., fr. L. platea a street, an area, a courtyard, from Gr. platei^a a street, properly fem. of platy`s, flat, broad; akin to Skr. p[rsdot]thu, Lith. platus. Cf. {Flawn}, {Piazza}, {Plate}, {Plaza}.] 1. Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; site; spot; rarely, unbounded space. Here is the place appointed. --Shak. What place can be for us Within heaven's bound? --Milton. The word place has sometimes a more confused sense, and stands for that space which any body takes up; and so the universe is a place. --Locke. 2. A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. [bd]Hangman boys in the market place.[b8] --Shak. 3. A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country. Are you native of this place? --Shak. 4. Rank; degree; grade; order of priority, advancement, dignity, or importance; especially, social rank or position; condition; also, official station; occupation; calling. [bd]The enervating magic of place.[b8] --Hawthorne. Men in great place are thrice servants. --Bacon. I know my place as I would they should do theirs. --Shak. 5. Vacated or relinquished space; room; stead (the departure or removal of another being or thing being implied). [bd]In place of Lord Bassanio.[b8] --Shak. 6. A definite position or passage of a document. The place of the scripture which he read was this. --Acts viii. 32. 7. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding; as, he said in the first place. 8. Reception; effect; -- implying the making room for. My word hath no place in you. --John viii. 37. 9. (Astron.) Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. {Place of arms} (Mil.), a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe retreat for hospitals, magazines, etc. --Wilhelm. {High place} (Script.), a mount on which sacrifices were offered. [bd]Him that offereth in the high place.[b8] --Jer. xlviii. 35. {In place}, in proper position; timely. {Out of place}, inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place. {Place kick} (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. {Place name}, the name of a place or locality. --London Academy. {To give place}, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. [bd]Neither give place to the devil.[b8] --Eph. iv. 27. [bd]Let all the rest give place.[b8] --Shak. {To have place}, to have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart. {To take place}. (a) To come to pass; to occur; as, the ceremony will not take place. (b) To take precedence or priority. --Addison. (c) To take effect; to prevail. [bd]If your doctrine takes place.[b8] --Berkeley. [bd]But none of these excuses would take place.[b8] --Spenser. {To take the place of}, to be substituted for. Syn: Situation; seat; abode; position; locality; location; site; spot; office; employment; charge; function; trust; ground; room; stead. | |
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Place \Place\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Placed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Placing}.] [Cf. F. placer. See {Place}, n.] 1. To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. --Shak. 2. To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed. Place such over them to be rulers. --Ex. xviii. 21. 3. To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank. 4. To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. [bd]My resolution 's placed.[b8] --Shak. 5. To attribute; to ascribe; to set down. Place it for her chief virtue. --Shak. {To place} (a person), to identify him. [Colloq. U.S.] Syn: See {Put}. | |
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Plack \Plack\, n. [F. plaque a plate of metal. Cf. {Plaque}.] A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent. With not a plack in the pocket of the poet. --Prof. Wilson. | |
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d8Plaga \[d8]Pla"ga\, n.; pl. {Plag[91]}. [L. pl[be]ga a blow, a welt, a stripe.] (Zo[94]l.) A stripe of color. | |
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Plage \Plage\, n. [F., fr. L. plaga.] A region; country. [Obs.] [bd]The plages of the north.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Plague \Plague\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plagued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plaguing}.] 1. To infest or afflict with disease, calamity, or natural evil of any kind. Thus were they plagued And worn with famine. --Milton. 2. Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass. She will plague the man that loves her most. --Spenser. Syn: To vex; torment; distress; afflict; harass; annoy; tease; tantalize; trouble; molest; embarrass; perplex. | |
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Plague \Plague\, n. [L. plaga a blow, stroke, plague; akin to Gr. [?], fr. [?] to strike; cf. L. plangere to strike, beat. Cf. {Plaint}.] 1. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation. --Shak. And men blasphemed God for the plague of hail. --Wyclif. The different plague of each calamity. --Shak. 2. (Med.) An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. [bd]A plague upon the people fell.[b8] --Tennyson. {Cattle plague}. See {Rinderpest}. {Plague mark}, {Plague spot}, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable. | |
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Plaguy \Pla"guy\, a. Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, [bd]He is so plaguy proud.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See {Place}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European food fish ({Pleuronectes platessa}), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ({Paralichthys dentatus}; called also {brail}, {puckermouth}, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also {plaise}.] {Plaice mouth}, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See {Place}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European food fish ({Pleuronectes platessa}), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ({Paralichthys dentatus}; called also {brail}, {puckermouth}, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also {plaise}.] {Plaice mouth}, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Plaise \Plaise\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Plaice}. [Obs.] | |
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Plaice \Plaice\, n. [F. plaise, plais, prob. fr. L. platessa flatish, plaice. See {Place}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A European food fish ({Pleuronectes platessa}), allied to the flounder, and growing to the weight of eight or ten pounds or more. (b) A large American flounder ({Paralichthys dentatus}; called also {brail}, {puckermouth}, and {summer flounder}. The name is sometimes applied to other allied species. [Written also {plaise}.] {Plaice mouth}, a mouth like that of a plaice; a small or wry mouth. [R.] --B. Jonson. | |
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Plaise \Plaise\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Plaice}. [Obs.] | |
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Plaque \Plaque\, n. [F. Cf. {Plack}, and see {Placard}.] Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch. | |
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Plash \Plash\, v. t. 1. To splash, as water. 2. To splash or sprinkle with coloring matter; as, to plash a wall in imitation of granite. | |
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Plash \Plash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plashing}.] [OF. plaissier, plessier, to bend. Cf. {Pleach}.] To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of; as, to plash a hedge. --Evelyn. | |
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Plash \Plash\, n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches. | |
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Plash \Plash\, n. [OD. plasch. See {Plash}, v.] 1. A small pool of standing water; a puddle. --Bacon. [bd]These shallow plashes.[b8] --Barrow. 2. A dash of water; a splash. | |
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Plash \Plash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Plashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plashing}.] [Cf. D. plassen, G. platschen. Cf. {Splash}.] To dabble in water; to splash. [bd]Plashing among bedded pebbles.[b8] --Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. --Longfellow. | |
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Plashy \Plash"y\, a. [From 1st {Plash}.] 1. Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy. [bd]Plashy fens.[b8] --Milton. [bd]The plashy earth.[b8] --Wordsworth. 2. Specked, as if plashed with color. --Keats. | |
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Playhouse \Play"house`\, n. [AS. plegh[umac]s.] 1. A building used for dramatic exhibitions; a theater. --Shak. 2. A house for children to play in; a toyhouse. | |
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Pleach \Pleach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pleaching}.] [Cf. OF. plaissier to bend, and also F. plisser to plait, L. plicare, plicitum, to fold, lay, or wind together. Cf. {Plash} to pleach.] To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. [bd]The pleached bower.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Please \Please\, v. i. 1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. --Milton. For we that live to please, must please to live. --Johnson. 2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. --Milton. That he would please 8give me my liberty. --Swift. | |
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Please \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleased}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pleasing}.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. {Complacent}, {Placable}, {Placid}, {Plea}, {Plead}, {Pleasure}.] 1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. --Milton. 2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps. cxxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards. 3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. [bd]It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.[b8] --Col. i. 19. To-morrow, may it please you. --Shak. {To be pleased in} [or] {with}, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in. {To be pleased to do a thing}, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do it. --Dryden. | |
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Plesh \Plesh\, n. A pool; a plash. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Ploc \Ploc\, n. [F.] (Naut.) A mixture of hair and tar for covering the bottom of a ship. | |
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Steam \Steam\, n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[a0]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. [?] to erect, [?] a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The elastic, a[89]riform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage. 3. Any exhalation. [bd]A steam og rich, distilled perfumes.[b8] --Milton. {Dry steam}, steam which does not contain water held in suspension mechanically; -- sometimes applied to superheated steam. {Exhaust steam}. See under {Exhaust}. {High steam}, [or] {High-pressure steam}, steam of which the pressure greatly exceeds that of the atmosphere. {Low steam}, [or] {Low-pressure steam}, steam of which the pressure is less than, equal to, or not greatly above, that of the atmosphere. {Saturated steam}, steam at the temperature of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also applied to {wet steam}. {Superheated steam}, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water, and resembles a perfect gas; -- called also {surcharged steam}, {anhydrous steam}, and {steam gas}. {Wet steam}, steam which contains water held in suspension mechanically; -- called also {misty steam}. Note: Steam is often used adjectively, and in combination, to denote, produced by heat, or operated by power, derived from steam, in distinction from other sources of power; as in steam boiler or steam-boiler, steam dredger or steam-dredger, steam engine or steam-engine, steam heat, steam plow or steam-plow, etc. {Steam blower}. (a) A blower for producing a draught consisting of a jet or jets of steam in a chimney or under a fire. (b) A fan blower driven directly by a steam engine. {Steam boiler}, a boiler for producing steam. See {Boiler}, 3, and Note. In the illustration, the shell a of the boiler is partly in section, showing the tubes, or flues, which the hot gases, from the fire beneath the boiler, enter, after traversing the outside of the shell, and through which the gases are led to the smoke pipe d, which delivers them to the chimney; b is the manhole; c the dome; e the steam pipe; f the feed and blow-off pipe; g the safety value; hthe water gauge. {Steam car}, a car driven by steam power, or drawn by a locomotive. {Steam carriage}, a carriage upon wheels moved on common roads by steam. {Steam casing}. See {Steam jacket}, under {Jacket}. {Steam chest}, the box or chamber from which steam is distributed to the cylinder of a steam engine, steam pump, etc., and which usually contains one or more values; -- called also {valve chest}, and {valve box}. See Illust. of {Slide valve}, under {Slide}. {Steam chimney}, an annular chamber around the chimney of a boiler furnace, for drying steam. {Steam coil}, a coil of pipe, or collection of connected pipes, for containing steam; -- used for heating, drying, etc. {Steam colors} (Calico Printing), colors in which the chemical reaction fixed the coloring matter in the fiber is produced by steam. {Steam cylinder}, the cylinder of a steam engine, which contains the piston. See Illust. of {Slide valve}, under {Slide}. {Steam dome} (Steam Boilers), a chamber upon the top of the boiler, from which steam is conduced to the engine. See Illust. of Steam boiler, above. {Steam fire engine}, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels. It is usually drawn by horses, but is sometimes made self-propelling. {Steam fitter}, a fitter of steam pipes. {Steam fitting}, the act or the occupation of a steam fitter; also, a pipe fitting for steam pipes. {Steam gas}. See {Superheated steam}, above. {Steam gauge}, an instrument for indicating the pressure of the steam in a boiler. The {mercurial steam gauge} is a bent tube partially filled with mercury, one end of which is connected with the boiler while the other is open to the air, so that the steam by its pressure raises the mercury in the long limb of the tume to a height proportioned to that pressure. A more common form, especially for high pressures, consists of a spring pressed upon by the steam, and connected with the pointer of a dial. The spring may be a flattened, bent tube, closed at one end, which the entering steam tends to straighten, or it may be a diaphragm of elastic metal, or a mass of confined air, etc. {Steam gun}, a machine or contrivance from which projectiles may be thrown by the elastic force of steam. {Steam hammer}, a hammer for forging, which is worked directly by steam; especially, a hammer which is guided vertically and operated by a vertical steam cylinder located directly over an anvil. In the variety known as Nasmyth's, the cylinder is fixed, and the hammer is attached to the piston rod. In that known as Condie's, the piston is fixed, and the hammer attached to the lower end of the cylinder. {Steam heater}. (a) A radiator heated by steam. (b) An apparatus consisting of a steam boiler, radiator, piping, and fixures for warming a house by steam. {Steam jacket}. See under {Jacket}. {Steam packet}, a packet or vessel propelled by steam, and running periodically between certain ports. {Steam pipe}, any pipe for conveying steam; specifically, a pipe through which steam is supplied to an engine. {Steam plow} [or] {plough}, a plow, or gang of plows, moved by a steam engine. {Steam port}, an opening for steam to pass through, as from the steam chest into the cylinder. {Steam power}, the force or energy of steam applied to produce results; power derived from a steam engine. {Steam propeller}. See {Propeller}. {Steam pump}, a small pumping engine operated by steam. It is usually direct-acting. {Steam room} (Steam Boilers), the space in the boiler above the water level, and in the dome, which contains steam. {Steam table}, a table on which are dishes heated by steam for keeping food warm in the carving room of a hotel, restaurant, etc. {Steam trap}, a self-acting device by means of which water that accumulates in a pipe or vessel containing steam will be discharged without permitting steam to escape. {Steam tug}, a steam vessel used in towing or propelling ships. {Steam vessel}, a vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship; -- a steamer. {Steam whistle}, an apparatus attached to a steam boiler, as of a locomotive, through which steam is rapidly discharged, producing a loud whistle which serves as a warning signal. The steam issues from a narrow annular orifice around the upper edge of the lower cup or hemisphere, striking the thin edge of the bell above it, and producing sound in the manner of an organ pipe or a common whistle. | |
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Plough \Plough\, n. & v. See {Plow}. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS. pl[d3]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. pl[d3]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas.] 1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. --Dryden. 2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson. 3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. --Tale of Gamelyn. 4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane. 5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. 6. (Astron.) Same as {Charles's Wain}. {Ice plow}, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.] {Mackerel plow}. See under {Mackerel}. {Plow alms}, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. --Cowell. {Plow beam}, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See {Beam}, n., 9. {Plow Monday}, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. {Plow staff}. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. {Snow plow}, a structure, usually [LAMBDA]-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plowed} (ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or {Ploughing}.] 1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. 2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope. 3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, n., 5. 4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. {To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), v. i. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. --Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? --Isa. xxviii. 24. | |
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Steam \Steam\, n. [OE. stem, steem, vapor, flame, AS. ste[a0]m vapor, smoke, odor; akin to D. stoom steam, perhaps originally, a pillar, or something rising like a pillar; cf. Gr. [?] to erect, [?] a pillar, and E. stand.] 1. The elastic, a[89]riform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. 2. The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage. 3. Any exhalation. [bd]A steam og rich, distilled perfumes.[b8] --Milton. {Dry steam}, steam which does not contain water held in suspension mechanically; -- sometimes applied to superheated steam. {Exhaust steam}. See under {Exhaust}. {High steam}, [or] {High-pressure steam}, steam of which the pressure greatly exceeds that of the atmosphere. {Low steam}, [or] {Low-pressure steam}, steam of which the pressure is less than, equal to, or not greatly above, that of the atmosphere. {Saturated steam}, steam at the temperature of the boiling point which corresponds to its pressure; -- sometimes also applied to {wet steam}. {Superheated steam}, steam heated to a temperature higher than the boiling point corresponding to its pressure. It can not exist in contact with water, nor contain water, and resembles a perfect gas; -- called also {surcharged steam}, {anhydrous steam}, and {steam gas}. {Wet steam}, steam which contains water held in suspension mechanically; -- called also {misty steam}. Note: Steam is often used adjectively, and in combination, to denote, produced by heat, or operated by power, derived from steam, in distinction from other sources of power; as in steam boiler or steam-boiler, steam dredger or steam-dredger, steam engine or steam-engine, steam heat, steam plow or steam-plow, etc. {Steam blower}. (a) A blower for producing a draught consisting of a jet or jets of steam in a chimney or under a fire. (b) A fan blower driven directly by a steam engine. {Steam boiler}, a boiler for producing steam. See {Boiler}, 3, and Note. In the illustration, the shell a of the boiler is partly in section, showing the tubes, or flues, which the hot gases, from the fire beneath the boiler, enter, after traversing the outside of the shell, and through which the gases are led to the smoke pipe d, which delivers them to the chimney; b is the manhole; c the dome; e the steam pipe; f the feed and blow-off pipe; g the safety value; hthe water gauge. {Steam car}, a car driven by steam power, or drawn by a locomotive. {Steam carriage}, a carriage upon wheels moved on common roads by steam. {Steam casing}. See {Steam jacket}, under {Jacket}. {Steam chest}, the box or chamber from which steam is distributed to the cylinder of a steam engine, steam pump, etc., and which usually contains one or more values; -- called also {valve chest}, and {valve box}. See Illust. of {Slide valve}, under {Slide}. {Steam chimney}, an annular chamber around the chimney of a boiler furnace, for drying steam. {Steam coil}, a coil of pipe, or collection of connected pipes, for containing steam; -- used for heating, drying, etc. {Steam colors} (Calico Printing), colors in which the chemical reaction fixed the coloring matter in the fiber is produced by steam. {Steam cylinder}, the cylinder of a steam engine, which contains the piston. See Illust. of {Slide valve}, under {Slide}. {Steam dome} (Steam Boilers), a chamber upon the top of the boiler, from which steam is conduced to the engine. See Illust. of Steam boiler, above. {Steam fire engine}, a fire engine consisting of a steam boiler and engine, and pump which is driven by the engine, combined and mounted on wheels. It is usually drawn by horses, but is sometimes made self-propelling. {Steam fitter}, a fitter of steam pipes. {Steam fitting}, the act or the occupation of a steam fitter; also, a pipe fitting for steam pipes. {Steam gas}. See {Superheated steam}, above. {Steam gauge}, an instrument for indicating the pressure of the steam in a boiler. The {mercurial steam gauge} is a bent tube partially filled with mercury, one end of which is connected with the boiler while the other is open to the air, so that the steam by its pressure raises the mercury in the long limb of the tume to a height proportioned to that pressure. A more common form, especially for high pressures, consists of a spring pressed upon by the steam, and connected with the pointer of a dial. The spring may be a flattened, bent tube, closed at one end, which the entering steam tends to straighten, or it may be a diaphragm of elastic metal, or a mass of confined air, etc. {Steam gun}, a machine or contrivance from which projectiles may be thrown by the elastic force of steam. {Steam hammer}, a hammer for forging, which is worked directly by steam; especially, a hammer which is guided vertically and operated by a vertical steam cylinder located directly over an anvil. In the variety known as Nasmyth's, the cylinder is fixed, and the hammer is attached to the piston rod. In that known as Condie's, the piston is fixed, and the hammer attached to the lower end of the cylinder. {Steam heater}. (a) A radiator heated by steam. (b) An apparatus consisting of a steam boiler, radiator, piping, and fixures for warming a house by steam. {Steam jacket}. See under {Jacket}. {Steam packet}, a packet or vessel propelled by steam, and running periodically between certain ports. {Steam pipe}, any pipe for conveying steam; specifically, a pipe through which steam is supplied to an engine. {Steam plow} [or] {plough}, a plow, or gang of plows, moved by a steam engine. {Steam port}, an opening for steam to pass through, as from the steam chest into the cylinder. {Steam power}, the force or energy of steam applied to produce results; power derived from a steam engine. {Steam propeller}. See {Propeller}. {Steam pump}, a small pumping engine operated by steam. It is usually direct-acting. {Steam room} (Steam Boilers), the space in the boiler above the water level, and in the dome, which contains steam. {Steam table}, a table on which are dishes heated by steam for keeping food warm in the carving room of a hotel, restaurant, etc. {Steam trap}, a self-acting device by means of which water that accumulates in a pipe or vessel containing steam will be discharged without permitting steam to escape. {Steam tug}, a steam vessel used in towing or propelling ships. {Steam vessel}, a vessel propelled by steam; a steamboat or steamship; -- a steamer. {Steam whistle}, an apparatus attached to a steam boiler, as of a locomotive, through which steam is rapidly discharged, producing a loud whistle which serves as a warning signal. The steam issues from a narrow annular orifice around the upper edge of the lower cup or hemisphere, striking the thin edge of the bell above it, and producing sound in the manner of an organ pipe or a common whistle. | |
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Plough \Plough\, n. & v. See {Plow}. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), n. [OE. plouh, plou, AS. pl[d3]h; akin to D. ploeg, G. pflug, OHG. pfluog, pfluoh, Icel. pl[d3]gr, Sw. plog, Dan. ploug, plov, Russ. plug', Lith. plugas.] 1. A well-known implement, drawn by horses, mules, oxen, or other power, for turning up the soil to prepare it for bearing crops; also used to furrow or break up the soil for other purposes; as, the subsoil plow; the draining plow. Where fern succeeds ungrateful to the plow. --Dryden. 2. Fig.: Agriculture; husbandry. --Johnson. 3. A carucate of land; a plowland. [Obs.] [Eng.] Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five. --Tale of Gamelyn. 4. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane. 5. (Bookbinding) An implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books. 6. (Astron.) Same as {Charles's Wain}. {Ice plow}, a plow used for cutting ice on rivers, ponds, etc., into cakes suitable for storing. [U. S.] {Mackerel plow}. See under {Mackerel}. {Plow alms}, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. --Cowell. {Plow beam}, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See {Beam}, n., 9. {Plow Monday}, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. {Plow staff}. (a) A kind of long-handled spade or paddle for cleaning the plowshare; a paddle staff. (b) A plow handle. {Snow plow}, a structure, usually [LAMBDA]-shaped, for removing snow from sidewalks, railroads, etc., -- drawn or driven by a horse or a locomotive. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plowed} (ploud) or {Ploughed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plowing} or {Ploughing}.] 1. To turn up, break up, or trench, with a plow; to till with, or as with, a plow; as, to plow the ground; to plow a field. 2. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. --Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. --Pope. 3. (Bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plow. See {Plow}, n., 5. 4. (Joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc. {To plow in}, to cover by plowing; as, to plow in wheat. | |
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Plow \Plow\, Plough \Plough\ (plou), v. i. To labor with, or as with, a plow; to till or turn up the soil with a plow; to prepare the soil or bed for anything. --Shak. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow ? --Isa. xxviii. 24. | |
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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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Pluck \Pluck\, v. i. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown. | |
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Pluck \Pluck\, n. 1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. 2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.] The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. --Thackeray. 4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See {Pluck}, v. t., 4. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pluck \Pluck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plucking}.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G. pfl[81]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka. [?]27.] 1. To pull; to draw. Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution. --Je[?]. Taylor. 2. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. --Goldsmith. 3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. They which pass by the way do pluck her. --Ps. lxxx.[?]2. 4. (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for degrees. --C. Bront[82]. {To pluck away}, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. {To pluck down}, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. {to pluck off}, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. {to pluck up}. (a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluck up a nation. --Jer. xii. 17. (b) To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage. | |
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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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Pluck \Pluck\, v. i. To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown. | |
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Pluck \Pluck\, n. 1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch. 2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.] The heart, liver, and lights of an animal. 3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. --Thackeray. 4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See {Pluck}, v. t., 4. 5. (Zo[94]l.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Pluck \Pluck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plucking}.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G. pfl[81]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka. [?]27.] 1. To pull; to draw. Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution. --Je[?]. Taylor. 2. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes. I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. E'en children followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. --Goldsmith. 3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl. They which pass by the way do pluck her. --Ps. lxxx.[?]2. 4. (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for degrees. --C. Bront[82]. {To pluck away}, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. {To pluck down}, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. {to pluck off}, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the skin. {to pluck up}. (a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluck up a nation. --Jer. xii. 17. (b) To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage. | |
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Plucky \Pluck"y\, a. [Compar. {Pluckier}; superl. {Pluckiest}.] Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. --Barham. | |
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Plug \Plug\, n. {Breech plug} (Gun.), in breech-loading guns, the metal plug or cylinder which closes the aperture in the breech, through which the gun is loaded. Plug board \Plug board\ (Elec.) A switchboard in which connections are made by means of plugs. | |
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Plug \Plug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plugged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plugging}.] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. | |
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Plug \Plug\, n. [Akin to D. plug, G. pflock, Dan. pl[94]k, plug, Sw. plugg; cf. W. ploc.] 1. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple. 2. A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. [U. S.] 3. A high, tapering silk hat. [Slang, U.S.] 4. A worthless horse. [Slang, U.S.] 5. (Building) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails. {Fire plug}, a street hydrant to which hose may be attached. [U. S.] {Hawse plug} (Naut.), a plug to stop a hawse hole. {Plug and feather}. (Stone Working) See {Feather}, n., 7. {Plug centerbit}, a centerbit ending in a small cylinder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. {Plug rod} (Steam Eng.), a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. {Plug valve} (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet. | |
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Plus \Plus\, a. [L., more; akin to Gr. [?], [?], and E. full. See {Full}, a., and cf. {Pi[97]}, {Pleonasm}.] 1. (Math.) More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to {minus}. 2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power. --Emerson. {Plus sign} (Math.), the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity. | |
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Plush \Plush\, n. [F. pluche, peluche (cf. It. peluzzo), fr. L. pilus hair. See {pile} hair, and cf. {Peruke}.] A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. --Cowper. | |
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Plushy \Plush"y\, a. Like plush; soft and shaggy. --H. Kingsley. | |
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Polacca \Po*lac"ca\, n. [It. polacca, polaccra, polacra; cf. F. polaque, polacre, Sp. polacre,] [Written also {polacre}.] 1. (Naut.) A vessel with two or three masts, used in the Mediterranean. The masts are usually of one piece, and without tops, caps, or crosstrees. 2. (Mus.) See {Polonaise}. | |
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Polack \Po"lack\, n. A Polander. --Shak. | |
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Poleax \Pole"ax`\, Poleaxe \Pole"axe`\, n. [OE. pollax; cf. OD. pollexe. See {Poll} head, and Ax.] Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel. | |
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Poleax \Pole"ax`\, Poleaxe \Pole"axe`\, n. [OE. pollax; cf. OD. pollexe. See {Poll} head, and Ax.] Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel. | |
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Polewig \Pole"wig\, n. [Cf. {Polliwig}.] (Zo[94]l.) The European spotted goby (Gobius minutus); -- called also {pollybait}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Police \Po*lice"\, n. [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to be a citizen, to govern or administer a state, fr. [?] citizen, fr. [?] city; akin to Skr. pur, puri. Cf. {Policy} polity, {Polity}.] 1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough. 2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state. 3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws. 4. (Mil.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison. 5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state [?] a camp as to cleanliness. {Police commissioner}, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police. {Police constable}, [or] {Police officer}, a policeman. {Police court}, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police. {Police inspector}, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent. {Police jury}, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. --Bouvier. {Police justice}, [or] {Police magistrate}, a judge of a police court. {Police offenses} (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction. {Police station}, the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons. | |
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Police \Po*lice"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Policed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Policing}.] 1. To keep in order by police. 2. (Mil.) To make clean; as, to police a camp. | |
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Blanket mortgage \Blanket mortgage\ [or] policy \policy\ . One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n.; pl. {Policies}. [L. politia, Gr. [?]; cf. F. police, Of. police. See {Police}, n.] 1. Civil polity. [Obs.] 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course. 4. Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem. 5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. --Fuller. 6. Motive; object; inducement. [Obs.] What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury? --Sir P. Sidney. Syn: See {Polity}. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Policied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Policying}.] To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. [Obs.] [bd]Policying of cities.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n. [F. police; cf. Pr. polissia, Sp. p[a2]lizia, It. p[a2]lizza; of uncertain origin; cf. L. pollex thumb (as being used in pressing the seal), in LL. also, seal; or cf. LL. politicum, poleticum, polecticum, L. polyptychum, account book, register, fr. Gr. [?] having many folds or leaves; [?] many + [?] fold, leaf, from [?] to fold; or cf. LL. apodixa a receipt.] 1. A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds. 2. The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See {Insurance}. 3. A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. {Interest policy}, a policy that shows by its form that the assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter insured. {Open policy}, one in which the value of the goods or property insured is not mentioned. {Policy book}, a book to contain a record of insurance policies. {Policy holder}, one to whom an insurance policy has been granted. {Policy shop}, a gambling place where one may bet on the numbers which will be drawn in lotteries. {Valued policy}, one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified. {Wager policy}, a policy that shows on the face of it that the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in anything insured. | |
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Blanket mortgage \Blanket mortgage\ [or] policy \policy\ . One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n.; pl. {Policies}. [L. politia, Gr. [?]; cf. F. police, Of. police. See {Police}, n.] 1. Civil polity. [Obs.] 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course. 4. Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem. 5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him. --Fuller. 6. Motive; object; inducement. [Obs.] What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury? --Sir P. Sidney. Syn: See {Polity}. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Policied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Policying}.] To regulate by laws; to reduce to order. [Obs.] [bd]Policying of cities.[b8] --Bacon. | |
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Policy \Pol"i*cy\, n. [F. police; cf. Pr. polissia, Sp. p[a2]lizia, It. p[a2]lizza; of uncertain origin; cf. L. pollex thumb (as being used in pressing the seal), in LL. also, seal; or cf. LL. politicum, poleticum, polecticum, L. polyptychum, account book, register, fr. Gr. [?] having many folds or leaves; [?] many + [?] fold, leaf, from [?] to fold; or cf. LL. apodixa a receipt.] 1. A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds. 2. The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See {Insurance}. 3. A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. {Interest policy}, a policy that shows by its form that the assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter insured. {Open policy}, one in which the value of the goods or property insured is not mentioned. {Policy book}, a book to contain a record of insurance policies. {Policy holder}, one to whom an insurance policy has been granted. {Policy shop}, a gambling place where one may bet on the numbers which will be drawn in lotteries. {Valued policy}, one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified. {Wager policy}, a policy that shows on the face of it that the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in anything insured. | |
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Polish \Pol"ish\, v. i. To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well. --Bacon. | |
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Polish \Pol"ish\, n. 1. A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster. Another prism of clearer glass and better polish. --Sir I. Newton. 2. Anything used to produce a gloss. 3. Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners. This Roman polish and this smooth behavior. --Addison. | |
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Polish \Pol"ish\, a. [From {Pole} a Polander.] Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n. The language of the Poles. | |
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Polish \Pol"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polishing}.] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. {Polite}, {-ish}] 1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc. 2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners. --Milton. {To polish off}, to finish completely, as an adversary. [Slang] --W. H. Russell. | |
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Polka \Pol"ka\, n. [Pol. Polka a Polish woman: cf. F. & G. polka.] 1. A dance of Polish origin, but now common everywhere. It is performed by two persons in common time. 2. (Mus.) A lively Bohemian or Polish dance tune in 2-4 measure, with the third quaver accented. {Polka jacket}, a kind of knit jacket worn by women. | |
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Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
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Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc. | |
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Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ({Pollachius virens}). Called also {greenfish}, {greenling}, {lait}, {leet}, {lob}, {lythe}, and {whiting pollack}. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. | |
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Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc. | |
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Pollage \Poll"age\, n. A head or poll tax; hence, extortion. [Obs.] --Foxe. | |
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Pollax \Poll"ax`\, n. A poleax. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Tadpole \Tad"pole`\, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t[be]die, t[be]dige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See {Toad}, and {Poll}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also {polliwig}, {polliwog}, {porwiggle}, or {purwiggy}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.] {Tadpole fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Forkbeard} (a) . | |
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Polliwig \Pol"li*wig\, Polliwog \Pol"li*wog\, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. {Poll} head, and {Wiggle}.] (Zo[94]l.) A tadpole; -- called also {purwiggy} and {porwigle}. | |
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Tadpole \Tad"pole`\, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t[be]die, t[be]dige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See {Toad}, and {Poll}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also {polliwig}, {polliwog}, {porwiggle}, or {purwiggy}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.] {Tadpole fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Forkbeard} (a) . | |
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Polliwig \Pol"li*wig\, Polliwog \Pol"li*wog\, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. {Poll} head, and {Wiggle}.] (Zo[94]l.) A tadpole; -- called also {purwiggy} and {porwigle}. | |
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Tadpole \Tad"pole`\, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t[be]die, t[be]dige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See {Toad}, and {Poll}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also {polliwig}, {polliwog}, {porwiggle}, or {purwiggy}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.] {Tadpole fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Forkbeard} (a) . | |
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Polliwig \Pol"li*wig\, Polliwog \Pol"li*wog\, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. {Poll} head, and {Wiggle}.] (Zo[94]l.) A tadpole; -- called also {purwiggy} and {porwigle}. | |
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Tadpole \Tad"pole`\, n. [OE. tadde toad (AS. t[be]die, t[be]dige) + poll; properly, a toad that is or seems all head. See {Toad}, and {Poll}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) The young aquatic larva of any amphibian. In this stage it breathes by means of external or internal gills, is at first destitute of legs, and has a finlike tail. Called also {polliwig}, {polliwog}, {porwiggle}, or {purwiggy}. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The hooded merganser. [Local, U. S.] {Tadpole fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Forkbeard} (a) . | |
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Polliwig \Pol"li*wig\, Polliwog \Pol"li*wog\, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. {Poll} head, and {Wiggle}.] (Zo[94]l.) A tadpole; -- called also {purwiggy} and {porwigle}. | |
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Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo[94]l.) A marine gadoid fish ({Pollachius carbonarius}), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called {coalfish}, {lob}, {podley}, {podling}, {pollack}, etc. | |
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Pollucite \Pol"lu*cite\, n. [See {Pollux}, and 4th {Castor}.] (Min.) A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurring with castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate of alumina and c[91]sia. Called also {pollux}. | |
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Pollywog \Pol"ly*wog\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A polliwig. | |
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Polwig \Pol"wig\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A polliwig. Holland. | |
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d8Polyzo94n \[d8]Pol`y*zo"[94]n\, n.; pl. {Polyzoa}. [NL. See {Polyzoan}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the individual zooids forming the compound organism of a polyzoan. | |
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d8Bryozoa \[d8]Bry`o*zo"a\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] moss + [?] animal.] (Zo[94]l.) A class of Molluscoidea, including minute animals which by budding form compound colonies; -- called also {Polyzoa}. Note: They are often coralike in form and appearance, each small cell containing an individual zooid. Other species grow in delicate, flexible, branched forms, resembling moss, whence the name. Some are found in fresh water, but most are marine. The three principal divisions are {Ectoprocta}, {Entoprocta}, and {Pterobranchia}. See {Cyclostoma}, {Chilostoma}, and {Phylactolema}. | |
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Pulas \Pu"las\, n. [Skr. pal[be][cced]a.] (Bot.) The East Indian leguminous tree {Butea frondosa}. See {Gum Butea}, under {Gum}. [Written also {pales} and {palasa}.] | |
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Pulley \Pul"ley\, n.; pl. {Pulleys}. [F. poulie, perhaps of Teutonic origin (cf. {Poll}, v. t.); but cf. OE. poleine, polive, pulley, LL. polanus, and F. poulain, properly, a colt, fr. L. pullus young animal, foal (cf. {Pullet}, {Foal}). For the change of sense, cf. F. poutre beam, originally, a filly, and E. easel.] (Mach.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. Note: The pulley, as one of the mechanical powers, consists, in its simplest form, of a grooved wheel, called a sheave, turning within a movable frame or block, by means of a cord or rope attached at one end to a fixed point. The force, acting on the free end of the rope, is thus doubled, but can move the load through only half the space traversed by itself. The rope may also pass over a sheave in another block that is fixed. The end of the rope may be fastened to the movable block, instead of a fixed point, with an additional gain of power, and using either one or two sheaves in the fixed block. Other sheaves may be added, and the power multiplied accordingly. Such an apparatus is called by workmen a block and tackle, or a fall and tackle. See {Block}. A single fixed pulley gives no increase of power, but serves simply for changing the direction of motion. {Band pulley}, [or] {Belt pulley}, a pulley with a broad face for transmitting power between revolving shafts by means of a belt, or for guiding a belt. {Cone pulley}. See {Cone pulley}. {Conical pulley}, one of a pair of belt pulleys, each in the shape of a truncated cone, for varying velocities. {Fast pulley}, a pulley firmly attached upon a shaft. {Loose pulley}, a pulley loose on a shaft, to interrupt the transmission of motion in machinery. See {Fast and loose pulleys}, under {Fast}. {Parting pulley}, a belt pulley made in semicircular halves, which can be bolted together, to facilitate application to, or removal from, a shaft. {Pulley block}. Same as {Block}, n. 6. {Pulley stile} (Arch.), the upright of the window frame into which a pulley is fixed and along which the sash slides. {Split pulley}, a parting pulley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulse \Pulse\, n. [OE. pous, OF. pous, F. pouls, fr. L. pulsus (sc. venarum), the beating of the pulse, the pulse, from pellere, pulsum, to beat, strike; cf. Gr. [?] to swing, shake, [?] to shake. Cf. {Appeal}, {Compel}, {Impel}, {Push}.] 1. (Physiol.) The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries. Note: In an artery the pulse is due to the expansion and contraction of the elastic walls of the artery by the action of the heart upon the column of blood in the arterial system. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards. These, in turn, as they already contain a certain quantity of blood, expand, recover by an elastic recoil, and transmit the movement with diminished intensity. Thus a series of movements, gradually diminishing in intensity, pass along the arterial system (see the Note under {Heart}). For the sake of convenience, the radial artery at the wrist is generally chosen to detect the precise character of the pulse. The pulse rate varies with age, position, sex, stature, physical and psychical influences, etc. 2. Any measured or regular beat; any short, quick motion, regularly repeated, as of a medium in the transmission of light, sound, etc.; oscillation; vibration; pulsation; impulse; beat; movement. The measured pulse of racing oars. --Tennyson. When the ear receives any simple sound, it is struck by a single pulse of the air, which makes the eardrum and the other membranous parts vibrate according to the nature and species of the stroke. --Burke. {Pulse glass}, an instrument consisting to a glass tube with terminal bulbs, and containing ether or alcohol, which the heat of the hand causes to boil; -- so called from the pulsating motion of the liquid when thus warmed. {Pulse wave} (Physiol.), the wave of increased pressure started by the ventricular systole, radiating from the semilunar valves over the arterial system, and gradually disappearing in the smaller branches. the pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. --H. N. Martin. {To feel one's pulse}. (a) To ascertain, by the sense of feeling, the condition of the arterial pulse. (b) Hence, to sound one's opinion; to try to discover one's mind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulse \Pulse\, n. [OE. puls, L. puls, pultis, a thick pap or pottage made of meal, pulse, etc. See {Poultice}, and cf. {Pousse}.] Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulse \Pulse\, v. i. To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb. --Ray. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulse \Pulse\, v. t. [See {Pulsate}, {Pulse} a beating.] To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate. [R.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Pyla \[d8]Py"la\ n.; pl. L. {Pyl[91]}, E. {Pylas}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] an entrance.] (Anat.) The passage between the iter and optoc[d2]le in the brain. --B. G. Wilder. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Palco, KS (city, FIPS 54125) Location: 39.25395 N, 99.56416 W Population (1990): 295 (175 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67657 | |
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Palouse, WA (city, FIPS 52950) Location: 46.91110 N, 117.07382 W Population (1990): 915 (428 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99161 | |
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Pelkie, MI Zip code(s): 49958 | |
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Pell Lake, WI (CDP, FIPS 61725) Location: 42.54088 N, 88.35797 W Population (1990): 2018 (1207 housing units) Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) | |
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Phyllis, KY Zip code(s): 41554 | |
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Plaza, ND (city, FIPS 62980) Location: 48.02564 N, 101.95935 W Population (1990): 193 (126 housing units) Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58771 Plaza, TN Zip code(s): 37110 | |
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Pleak, TX (village, FIPS 58088) Location: 29.48390 N, 95.80987 W Population (1990): 746 (250 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Plush, OR Zip code(s): 97637 | |
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Polacca, AZ (CDP, FIPS 56890) Location: 35.83564 N, 110.36559 W Population (1990): 1108 (303 housing units) Area: 24.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 86042 | |
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Pole Ojea, PR (comunidad, FIPS 63697) Location: 17.97890 N, 67.18474 W Population (1990): 1539 (611 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Polk, MO Zip code(s): 65727 Polk, NE (village, FIPS 39660) Location: 41.07519 N, 97.78277 W Population (1990): 345 (199 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68654 Polk, OH (village, FIPS 63996) Location: 40.94522 N, 82.21435 W Population (1990): 355 (114 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 44866 Polk, PA (borough, FIPS 61936) Location: 41.36922 N, 79.93013 W Population (1990): 1267 (234 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 16342 | |
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Pollock, ID Zip code(s): 83547 Pollock, LA (town, FIPS 61580) Location: 31.52456 N, 92.40761 W Population (1990): 330 (171 housing units) Area: 3.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 71467 Pollock, MO (village, FIPS 58898) Location: 40.35901 N, 93.08410 W Population (1990): 66 (41 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 63560 Pollock, SD (town, FIPS 51260) Location: 45.90149 N, 100.29017 W Population (1990): 379 (180 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57648 | |
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Pollok, TX Zip code(s): 75969 | |
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Pulaski, GA (town, FIPS 63000) Location: 32.39080 N, 81.95633 W Population (1990): 264 (86 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Pulaski, IA (city, FIPS 65055) Location: 40.69750 N, 92.27406 W Population (1990): 221 (98 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 52584 Pulaski, IL (village, FIPS 62211) Location: 37.21601 N, 89.20695 W Population (1990): 361 (180 housing units) Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62976 Pulaski, KY Zip code(s): 42567 Pulaski, MS Zip code(s): 39152 Pulaski, NY (village, FIPS 59960) Location: 43.56531 N, 76.12819 W Population (1990): 2525 (1147 housing units) Area: 8.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13142 Pulaski, PA Zip code(s): 16143 Pulaski, TN (city, FIPS 61040) Location: 35.19569 N, 87.03432 W Population (1990): 7895 (3545 housing units) Area: 10.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38478 Pulaski, VA (town, FIPS 64880) Location: 37.05257 N, 80.76222 W Population (1990): 9985 (4376 housing units) Area: 20.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24301 Pulaski, WI (village, FIPS 65675) Location: 44.66923 N, 88.23689 W Population (1990): 2200 (877 housing units) Area: 4.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54162 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Pulga, CA Zip code(s): 95965 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
plugh /ploogh/ v. [from the {ADVENT} game] See {xyzzy}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Palace reality}-like {talk} system. The Palace is distinguished from most other VR-like systems in that it is only two-dimensional rather than three; rooms, {avatars}, and "props" are made up of relatively small 2D {bitmap} images. Palace is a crude {hack}, or lightweight, depending on your point of view. {Home (http://www.thepalace.com/)}. (1997-09-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLACE Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment. ["The Compiler for the Programming Language for Automatic Checkout Equipment (PLACE)", AFAPL TR-68-27, Battelle Inst, Columbus, May 1968]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLAGO A translator-interpreter for a PL/I subset. "PLAGO/360 User's Manual, Poly Inst Brooklyn. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLC {Programmable Logic Controller} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/C {Programming Language/Cornell} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLC {Programmable Logic Controller} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/C {Programming Language/Cornell} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/S {Programming Language/Systems} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
plugh [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-01) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLUS Late 60's. Machine-oriented systems language used internally by Univac. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
plus + Common: {ITU-T}: plus; add. Rare: cross; {INTERCAL}: intersection. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLUS Late 60's. Machine-oriented systems language used internally by Univac. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
plus + Common: {ITU-T}: plus; add. Rare: cross; {INTERCAL}: intersection. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PLUSS Proposition of a Language Useable for Structured Specifications. Algebraic specification language, built on top of ASL. "A First Introduction to PLUSS", M.C. Gaudel, TR, U Paris Sud, Orsay 1984. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Polka language, built on top of {Parlog}. ["Polka: A Parlog Object-Oriented Language", Andrew Davison, TR, Parlog Group, Imperial College, London 1988]. (1995-01-31) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Palace Used now only of royal dwellings, although originally meaning simply (as the Latin word palatium, from which it is derived, shows) a building surrounded by a fence or a paling. In the Authorized Version there are many different words so rendered, presenting different ideas, such as that of citadel or lofty fortress or royal residence (Neh. 1:1; Dan. 8:2). It is the name given to the temple fortress (Neh. 2:8) and to the temple itself (1 Chr. 29:1). It denotes also a spacious building or a great house (Dan. 1:4; 4:4, 29: Esther 1:5; 7:7), and a fortified place or an enclosure (Ezek. 25:4). Solomon's palace is described in 1 Kings 7:1-12 as a series of buildings rather than a single great structure. Thirteen years were spent in their erection. This palace stood on the eastern hill, adjoining the temple on the south. In the New Testament it designates the official residence of Pilate or that of the high priest (Matt. 26:3, 58, 69; Mark 14:54, 66; John 18:15). In Phil. 1:13 this word is the rendering of the Greek praitorion, meaning the praetorian cohorts at Rome (the life-guard of the Caesars). Paul was continually chained to a soldier of that corps (Acts 28:16), and hence his name and sufferings became known in all the praetorium. The "soldiers that kept" him would, on relieving one another on guard, naturally spread the tidings regarding him among their comrades. Some, however, regard the praetroium (q.v.) as the barrack within the palace (the palatium) of the Caesars in Rome where a detachment of these praetorian guards was stationed, or as the camp of the guards placed outside the eastern walls of Rome. "In the chambers which were occupied as guard-rooms," says Dr. Manning, "by the praetorian troops on duty in the palace, a number of rude caricatures are found roughly scratched upon the walls, just such as may be seen upon barrack walls in every part of the world. Amongst these is one of a human figure nailed upon a cross. To add to the 'offence of the cross,' the crucified one is represented with the head of an animal, probably that of an ass. Before it stands the figure of a Roman legionary with one hand upraised in the attitude of worship. Underneath is the rude, misspelt, ungrammatical inscription, Alexamenos worships his god. It can scarcely be doubted that we have here a contemporary caricature, executed by one of the praetorian guard, ridiculing the faith of a Christian comrade." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Palsy a shorter form of "paralysis." Many persons thus afflicted were cured by our Lord (Matt. 4:24; 8:5-13; 9:2-7; Mark 2:3-11; Luke 7:2-10; John 5:5-7) and the apostles (Acts 8:7; 9:33, 34). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Peleg division, one of the sons of Eber; so called because "in his days was the earth divided" (Gen. 10:25). Possibly he may have lived at the time of the dispersion from Babel. But more probably the reference is to the dispersion of the two races which sprang from Eber, the one spreading towards Mesopotamia and Syria, and the other southward into Arabia. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Phalec (Luke 3:35)=Peleg (q.v.), Gen. 11:16. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Plague a "stroke" of affliction, or disease. Sent as a divine chastisement (Num. 11:33; 14:37; 16:46-49; 2 Sam. 24:21). Painful afflictions or diseases, (Lev. 13:3, 5, 30; 1 Kings 8:37), or severe calamity (Mark 5:29; Luke 7:21), or the judgment of God, so called (Ex. 9:14). Plagues of Egypt were ten in number. (1.) The river Nile was turned into blood, and the fish died, and the river stank, so that the Egyptians loathed to drink of the river (Ex. 7:14-25). (2.) The plague of frogs (Ex. 8:1-15). (3.) The plague of lice (Heb. kinnim, properly gnats or mosquitoes; comp. Ps. 78:45; 105:31), "out of the dust of the land" (Ex. 8:16-19). (4.) The plague of flies (Heb. arob, rendered by the LXX. dog-fly), Ex. 8:21-24. (5.) The murrain (Ex.9:1-7), or epidemic pestilence which carried off vast numbers of cattle in the field. Warning was given of its coming. (6.) The sixth plague, of "boils and blains," like the third, was sent without warning (Ex.9:8-12). It is called (Deut. 28:27) "the botch of Egypt," A.V.; but in R.V., "the boil of Egypt." "The magicians could not stand before Moses" because of it. (7.) The plague of hail, with fire and thunder (Ex. 9:13-33). Warning was given of its coming. (Comp. Ps. 18:13; 105:32, 33). (8.) The plague of locusts, which covered the whole face of the earth, so that the land was darkened with them (Ex. 10:12-15). The Hebrew name of this insect, _arbeh_, points to the "multitudinous" character of this visitation. Warning was given before this plague came. (9.) After a short interval the plague of darkness succeeded that of the locusts; and it came without any special warning (Ex. 10:21-29). The darkness covered "all the land of Egypt" to such an extent that "they saw not one another." It did not, however, extend to the land of Goshen. (10.) The last and most fearful of these plagues was the death of the first-born of man and of beast (Ex. 11:4, 5; 12:29,30). The exact time of the visitation was announced, "about midnight", which would add to the horror of the infliction. Its extent also is specified, from the first-born of the king to the first-born of the humblest slave, and all the first-born of beasts. But from this plague the Hebrews were completely exempted. The Lord "put a difference" between them and the Egyptians. (See {PASSOVER}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Plough first referred to in Gen. 45:6, where the Authorized Version has "earing," but the Revised Version "ploughing;" next in Ex. 34:21 and Deut. 21:4. The plough was originally drawn by oxen, but sometimes also by asses and by men. (See {AGRICULTURE}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pulse (Dan. 1:12, 16), R.V. "herbs," vegetable food in general. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Paulus, same as Paul | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Peleg, division | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Phalec, same as Peleg |