English Dictionary: plebe | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spruce \Spruce\, n. [OE. Spruce or Pruse, Prussia, Prussian. So named because it was first known as a native of Prussia, or because its sprouts were used for making, spruce beer. Cf. Spruce beer, below, {Spruce}, a.] 1. (Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus {Picea}, as the Norway spruce ({P. excelsa}), and the white and black spruces of America ({P. alba} and {P. nigra}), besides several others in the far Northwest. See {Picea}. 2. The wood or timber of the spruce tree. 3. Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.] Spruce, a sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. --E. Phillips. {Douglas spruce} (Bot.), a valuable timber tree ({Pseudotsuga Douglasii}) of Northwestern America. {Essence of spruce}, a thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. {Hemlock spruce} (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree ({Tsuga Canadensis}) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather. {Spruce beer}. [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See {Sprout}, n., {Beer}, and cf. {Spruce}, n.] A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction. {Spruce grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Spruce partridge}, below. {Spruce leather}. See {Spruce}, n., 3. {Spruce partridge} (Zo[94]l.), a handsome American grouse ({Dendragapus Canadensis}) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also {Canada grouse}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
{Ground rattlesnake} (Zo[94]l.), a small rattlesnake ({Caudisona, [or] Sistrurus, miliaria}) of the Southern United States, having a small rattle. It has nine large scales on its head. {Rattlesnake fern} (Bot.), a common American fern ({Botrychium Virginianum}) having a triangular decompound frond and a long-stalked panicle of spore cases rising from the middle of the frond. {Rattlesnake grass} (Bot.), a handsome American grass ({Glyceria Canadensis}) with an ample panicle of rather large ovate spikelets, each one composed of imbricated parts and slightly resembling the rattle of the rattlesnake. Sometimes called {quaking grass}. {Rattlesnake plantain} (Bot.), See under {Plantain}. {Rattlesnake root} (Bot.), a name given to certain American species of the composite genus {Prenanthes} ({P. alba} and {P. serpentaria}), formerly asserted to cure the bite of the rattlesnake. Calling also {lion's foot}, {gall of the earth}, and {white lettuce}. {Rattlesnake's master} (Bot.) (a) A species of Agave ({Agave Virginica}) growing in the Southern United States. (b) An umbelliferous plant ({Eryngium yucc[91]folium}) with large bristly-fringed linear leaves. (c) A composite plant, the blazing star ({Liatris squarrosa}). {Rattlesnake weed} (Bot.), a plant of the composite genus {Hieracium} ({H. venosum}); -- probably so named from its spotted leaves. See also {Snakeroot}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pehlevi \Peh"le*vi`\, n. [Parsee Pahlavi.] An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings. [Written also {Pahlavi}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pahlevi \Pah"le*vi\, n. Same as {Pehlevi}. | |
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Palp \Palp\, n. [Cf. F. palpe. See {Palpable}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Palpus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palp \Palp\, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.] To bring a palp[8a]d darkness o'er the earth. --Heywood. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Palpus \[d8]Pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zo[94]l.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also {palp}. See Illust. of {Arthrogastra} and {Orthoptera}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palp \Palp\, n. [Cf. F. palpe. See {Palpable}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Palpus}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Palp \Palp\, v. t. [L. palpare: cf. F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel. [Obs.] To bring a palp[8a]d darkness o'er the earth. --Heywood. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Palpus \[d8]Pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zo[94]l.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also {palp}. See Illust. of {Arthrogastra} and {Orthoptera}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Palpus \[d8]Pal"pus\, n.; pl. {Palpi}. [NL. See {Palp}.] (Zo[94]l.) A feeler; especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as, the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as sexual organs. Called also {palp}. See Illust. of {Arthrogastra} and {Orthoptera}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pehlevi \Peh"le*vi`\, n. [Parsee Pahlavi.] An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings. [Written also {Pahlavi}.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pelf \Pelf\, n. [OE. pelfir booty, OF. pelfre, akin to pelfrer to plunder, and perh. to E. pillage. Cf. {Pilfer}.] Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural. [bd]Mucky pelf.[b8] --Spenser. [bd]Paltry pelf.[b8] --Burke. Can their pelf prosper, not got by valor or industry? --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Philip \Phil"ip\, n. [So called from their notes.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European hedge sparrow. (b) The house sparrow. Called also {phip}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Plebe \Plebe\ (pl[emac]b), n. [F. pl[8a]be, fr. L. plebs.] 1. The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. --Sylvester. 2. [Cf. {Plebeian}.] A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point. [Cant, U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Plop \Plop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Plopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plopping}.] [Imitative.] To fall, drop, or move in any way, with a sudden splash or slap, as on the surface of water. The body plopped up, turning on its side. --Kipling. | |
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Plop \Plop\, n. Act of plopping; the sound made in plopping. | |
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Plowboy \Plow"boy`\, Ploughboy \Plough"boy`\, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pluff \Pluff\, v. t. [Prob. of imitative origin.] To throw out, as smoke, dust, etc., in puffs. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pluff \Pluff\, n. 1. A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder. [Scot.] 2. A hairdresser's powder puff; also, the act of using it. [Scot.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polive \Pol"ive\, n. A pulley. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. [?], [?], literally, many-footed; poly`s many + [?], [?], foot: cf. F. polype. See {Poly-} and {Foot}, and cf. {Polypode}, {Polypody}, {Poulp}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as {Anthozoa}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madreporaria}, {Hydroid}. [Written also {polype}.] {Fresh-water polyp}, the hydra. {Polyp stem} (Zo[94]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. [?], [?], literally, many-footed; poly`s many + [?], [?], foot: cf. F. polype. See {Poly-} and {Foot}, and cf. {Polypode}, {Polypody}, {Poulp}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as {Anthozoa}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madreporaria}, {Hydroid}. [Written also {polype}.] {Fresh-water polyp}, the hydra. {Polyp stem} (Zo[94]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polype \Pol"ype\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Polyp}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. [?], [?], literally, many-footed; poly`s many + [?], [?], foot: cf. F. polype. See {Poly-} and {Foot}, and cf. {Polypode}, {Polypody}, {Poulp}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral. (b) One of the Anthozoa. (c) pl. Same as {Anthozoa}. See {Anthozoa}, {Madreporaria}, {Hydroid}. [Written also {polype}.] {Fresh-water polyp}, the hydra. {Polyp stem} (Zo[94]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polype \Pol"ype\, n. [F.] (Zo[94]l.) See {Polyp}. | |
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Polypus \Pol"y*pus\, n.; pl. E. {Polypuses}, L. {Polypi}. [L. See {Polyp}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Polyp}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Polyve \Pol"yve\, n. [See {Polive}.] A pulley. [Obs.] | |
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Poulp \Poulp\, Poulpe \Poulpe\, n. [F. poulpe, fr. L. polypus. See {Polyp}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Octopus}. {Musk poulp} (Zo[94]l.), a Mediterranean octopod ({Eledone moschata}) which emits a strong odor of musk. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Poulp \Poulp\, Poulpe \Poulpe\, n. [F. poulpe, fr. L. polypus. See {Polyp}.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Octopus}. {Musk poulp} (Zo[94]l.), a Mediterranean octopod ({Eledone moschata}) which emits a strong odor of musk. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulp \Pulp\, n. [L. pulpa flesh, pith, pulp of fruit: cf. F. pulpe.] A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically: (a) (Anat.) A tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth. (b) (Bot.) The soft, succulent part of fruit; as, the pulp of a grape. (c) The exterior part of a coffee berry. --B. Edwards. (d) The material of which paper is made when ground up and suspended in water. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulp \Pulp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pulped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pulping}.] 1. To reduce to pulp. 2. To deprive of the pulp, or integument. The other mode is to pulp the coffee immediately as it comes from the tree. By a simple machine a man will pulp a bushel in a minute. --B. Edwards. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pulpy \Pulp"y\, n. Like pulp; consisting of pulp; soft; fleshy; succulent; as, the {pulpy} covering of a nut; the pulpy substance of a peach or a cherry. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Philip, SD (city, FIPS 49300) Location: 44.04054 N, 101.66384 W Population (1990): 1077 (450 housing units) Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57567 | |
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Philipp, MS Zip code(s): 38950 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Philippi, WV (city, FIPS 63292) Location: 39.15215 N, 80.04425 W Population (1990): 3132 (1342 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Puyallup, WA (city, FIPS 56695) Location: 47.18195 N, 122.28416 W Population (1990): 23875 (9377 housing units) Area: 26.6 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98371, 98372, 98373, 98374 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
PL/P Programming Language, Prime. Russ Barbour, PRIME Computer, late 70's. Subset of PL/I used internally for implementation of PRIMOS. (See SPL[4]). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Philip lover of horses. (1.) One of the twelve apostles; a native of Bethsaida, "the city of Andrew and Peter" (John 1:44). He readily responded to the call of Jesus when first addressed to him (43), and forthwith brought Nathanael also to Jesus (45,46). He seems to have held a prominent place among the apostles (Matt. 10:3; Mark 3:18; John 6:5-7; 12:21, 22; 14:8, 9; Acts 1:13). Of his later life nothing is certainly known. He is said to have preached in Phrygia, and to have met his death at Hierapolis. (2.) One of the "seven" (Acts 6:5), called also "the evangelist" (21:8, 9). He was one of those who were "scattered abroad" by the persecution that arose on the death of Stephen. He went first to Samaria, where he laboured as an evangelist with much success (8:5-13). While he was there he received a divine command to proceed toward the south, along the road leading from Jerusalem to Gaza. These towns were connected by two roads. The one Philip was directed to take was that which led through Hebron, and thence through a district little inhabited, and hence called "desert." As he travelled along this road he was overtaken by a chariot in which sat a man of Ethiopia, the eunuch or chief officer of Queen Candace, who was at that moment reading, probably from the Septuagint version, a portion of the prophecies of Isaiah (53:6,7). Philip entered into conversation with him, and expounded these verses, preaching to him the glad tidings of the Saviour. The eunuch received the message and believed, and was forthwith baptized, and then "went on his way rejoicing." Philip was instantly caught away by the Spirit after the baptism, and the eunuch saw him no more. He was next found at Azotus, whence he went forth in his evangelistic work till he came to Caesarea. He is not mentioned again for about twenty years, when he is still found at Caesarea (Acts 21:8) when Paul and his companions were on the way to Jerusalem. He then finally disappears from the page of history. (3.) Mentioned only in connection with the imprisonment of John the Baptist (Matt. 14:3; Mark 6:17; Luke 3:19). He was the son of Herod the Great, and the first husband of Herodias, and the father of Salome. (See HEROD PHILIP I. ¯T0001763) (4.) The "tetrarch of Ituraea" (Luke 3:1); a son of Herod the Great, and brother of Herod Antipas. The city of Caesarea-Philippi was named partly after him (Matt. 16:13; Mark 8:27). (See HEROD PHILIP II. ¯T0001764) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Philippi (1.) Formerly Crenides, "the fountain," the capital of the province of Macedonia. It stood near the head of the Sea, about 8 miles north-west of Kavalla. It is now a ruined village, called Philibedjik. Philip of Macedonia fortified the old Thracian town of Crenides, and called it after his own name Philippi (B.C. 359-336). In the time of the Emperor Augustus this city became a Roman colony, i.e., a military settlement of Roman soldiers, there planted for the purpose of controlling the district recently conquered. It was a "miniature Rome," under the municipal law of Rome, and governed by military officers, called duumviri, who were appointed directly from Rome. Having been providentially guided thither, here Paul and his companion Silas preached the gospel and formed the first church in Europe. (See {LYDIA}.) This success stirred up the enmity of the people, and they were "shamefully entreated" (Acts 16:9-40; 1 Thess. 2:2). Paul and Silas at length left this city and proceeded to Amphipolis (q.v.). (2.) When Philip the tetrarch, the son of Herod, succeeded to the government of the northern portion of his kingdom, he enlarged the city of Paneas, and called it Caesarea, in honour of the emperor. But in order to distinguish it from the Caesarea on the sea coast, he added to it subsequently his own name, and called it Caesarea-Philippi (q.v.). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Philip, warlike; a lover of horses | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Philippi, same as Philip, in the plural |