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pachytene
n 1: the third stage of the prophase of meiosis

English Dictionary: Post-millennial	by the DICT Development Group
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pack tent n a tent that can be carried in a backpack [syn: {backpacking tent}, pack tent]
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Pasadena n a city in southwestern California to the east of Los Angeles
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Pashtoon n a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan; "Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan" Synonym(s): Pathan, Pashtun, Pushtun, Pashtoon
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Pashtun n a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan; "Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan" Synonym(s): Pathan, Pashtun, Pushtun, Pashtoon an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan Synonym(s): Pathan, Pashtun
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past master n someone who was formerly a master someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity
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past tense n a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Synonym(s): past, past tense
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past times n the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] Antonym(s): future, futurity, hereafter, time to come
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pastime n a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly); "sailing is her favorite pastime"; "his main pastime is gambling"; "he counts reading among his interests"; "they criticized the boy for his limited pursuits" Synonym(s): pastime, interest, pursuit
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Pastinaca n a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips Synonym(s): Pastinaca, genus Pastinaca
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Pastinaca sativa n a strong-scented plant cultivated for its edible root [syn: parsnip, Pastinaca sativa]
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pastness n the quality of being past [ant: futurity, nowness, presentness]
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Paxton n English architect (1801-1865) [syn: Paxton, {Joseph Paxton}, Sir Joseph Paxton]
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peacetime n a period of time during which there is no war
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Pecten irradians n a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America Synonym(s): bay scallop, Pecten irradians
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Pecten magellanicus n a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America Synonym(s): sea scallop, giant scallop, Pecten magellanicus
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pectin n any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams
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pectinate adj like a comb
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pectineal adj of or relating to the pubis
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Pectinibranchia n large order of gastropods comprising univalve mollusks that have a single gill resembling a comb Synonym(s): Pectinibranchia, order Pectinibranchia
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Pectinidae n scallops Synonym(s): Pectinidae, family Pectinidae
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peg down v fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" [syn: peg, peg down] define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game" Synonym(s): pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify
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pegged-down adj fastened by pegs; "the pegged-down branches of the plant will take root"
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Piagetian adj of or relating to or like or in the manner of Jean Piaget
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Piston n United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976) [syn: Piston, Walter Piston] mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion Synonym(s): piston, plunger
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piston chamber n a chamber within which piston moves [syn: cylinder, piston chamber]
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piston ring n seal consisting of a split metal ring that seals the gap between a piston and the cylinder wall
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piston rod n connecting rod that moves or is moved by a piston
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pocket money n cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses [syn: pocket money, pin money, spending money]
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pocket mouse n any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail
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pocket-handkerchief n a handkerchief that is carried in a pocket
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Poseidon n (Greek mythology) the god of the sea and earthquakes in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and Hades and Hera; identified with Roman Neptune
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position n the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" Synonym(s): position, place a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons Synonym(s): military position, position a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" Synonym(s): position, view, perspective the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" Synonym(s): position, posture, attitude the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" Synonym(s): status, position a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" Synonym(s): position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" Synonym(s): position, spatial relation the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" the act of putting something in a certain place Synonym(s): placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" Synonym(s): situation, position a rationalized mental attitude Synonym(s): position, stance, posture an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" Synonym(s): side, position an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" Synonym(s): place, position the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" Synonym(s): stead, position, place, lieu the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom v cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" Synonym(s): put, set, place, pose, position, lay
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position effect n (genetics) the effect on the expression of a gene that is produced by changing its location in a chromosome
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position paper n a report that explains or justifies or recommends some particular policy a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications) Synonym(s): aide- memoire, position paper
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positionable adj capable of being positioned
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positional adj of or relating to or determined by position
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positional notation n a numeration system in which a real number is represented by an ordered set of characters where the value of a character depends on its position Synonym(s): positional notation, positional representation system
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positional representation system n a numeration system in which a real number is represented by an ordered set of characters where the value of a character depends on its position Synonym(s): positional notation, positional representation system
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positioner n (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track Synonym(s): rotary actuator, positioner
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positioning adj causing to fall into line or into position [syn: aligning, positioning] n the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
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post and lintel n a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)
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post meridiem adv between noon and midnight; "let's meet at 8 P.M." [syn: post meridiem, P.M.] adj after noon Synonym(s): post meridiem, p.m.
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Post-impressionist n an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism Synonym(s): Postimpressionist, Post- impressionist
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post-maturity n the state in which women have stopped ovulating [syn: post-maturity, post-menopause]
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post-menopause n the state in which women have stopped ovulating [syn: post-maturity, post-menopause]
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post-mortem n discussion of an event after it has occurred [syn: postmortem, post-mortem] an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Synonym(s): autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination
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post-mortem examination n an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Synonym(s): autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination
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posthumous adj occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; "a posthumous award"; "a posthumous book"; "a posthumous daughter"
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posthumous birth n birth of a child after the father has died birth of a child by Caesarean section after the death of the mother
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posthumously adv after death; "these piano pieces were published posthumously"; "he was honored posthumously"
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Postimpressionist n an artist of the Postimpressionist school who revolted against Impressionism Synonym(s): Postimpressionist, Post- impressionist
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postindustrial adj of or relating to a society or economy marked by a lessened importance of manufacturing and an increase of services, information, and research; "postindustrial countries"
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posting n a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" Synonym(s): poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; "the posting was made in the cash account" the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" Synonym(s): mailing, posting
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postman n a man who delivers the mail [syn: mailman, postman, mail carrier, letter carrier, carrier]
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postmark n a cancellation mark stamped on mail by postal officials; indicates the post office and date of mailing v stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing Synonym(s): postmark, frank
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postmaster n the person in charge of a post office
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postmaster general n the official in charge of the national postal service
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postmature infant n infant born after 42 weeks of gestation; usually shows signs of placental insufficiency
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postmenopausal adj subsequent to menopause
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postmeridian adj after noon Antonym(s): antemeridian
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postmillennial adj of or relating to the period following the millennium
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postmistress n a woman postmaster
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postmodern adj of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture" Synonym(s): postmodernist, postmodern
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postmodernism n genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
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postmodernist adj of or relating to postmodernism; "postmodernist architecture" Synonym(s): postmodernist, postmodern
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postmortal adj occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds" Synonym(s): postmortem, postmortal Antonym(s): antemortem
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postmortem adj occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds" Synonym(s): postmortem, postmortal Antonym(s): antemortem after death or after an event; "a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death"; "the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address" n discussion of an event after it has occurred [syn: postmortem, post-mortem] an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Synonym(s): autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination
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postmortem examination n an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease Synonym(s): autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination
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postnasal drip n chronic secretion of mucus from the rear of the nasal cavity into the nasopharynx
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postnatal adj occurring immediately after birth; "postnatal development" Synonym(s): postnatal, postpartum Antonym(s): antenatal, antepartum, perinatal, prenatal
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postnuptial adj relating to events after a marriage [ant: antenuptial, premarital, prenuptial]
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Postum n trade mark for a coffee substitute invented by C. W. Post and made with chicory and roasted grains
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pouched mammal n mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried Synonym(s): marsupial, pouched mammal
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pouched mole n small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole Synonym(s): pouched mole, marsupial mole, Notoryctus typhlops
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pouched mouse n any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats Synonym(s): pouched mouse, marsupial mouse, marsupial rat
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Psetta maxima n a large brownish European flatfish [syn: turbot, {Psetta maxima}]
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Pseudemys n sliders; red-bellied terrapin [syn: Pseudemys, {genus Pseudemys}]
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Pseudemys concinna n large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico Synonym(s): cooter, river cooter, Pseudemys concinna
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Pseudemys rubriventris n freshwater turtle of Chesapeake Bay tributaries having red markings on the lower shell Synonym(s): red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle, redbelly, Pseudemys rubriventris
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Pseudemys scripta n freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets Synonym(s): slider, yellow-bellied terrapin, Pseudemys scripta
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pseudomonad n bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water- soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals
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Pseudomonadales n one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria; Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella; some contain photosynthetic pigments Synonym(s): Pseudomonadales, order Pseudomonadales
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Pseudomonas n type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae [syn: Pseudomonas, genus Pseudomonas]
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Pseudomonas pyocanea n a species of aerobic bacteria
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Pseudomonas solanacearum n causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc Synonym(s): ring rot bacteria, Pseudomonas solanacearum
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Pseudomonodaceae n rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria; include important plant and animal pathogens Synonym(s): Pseudomonodaceae, family Pseudomonodaceae
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pseudonym n a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role Synonym(s): pseudonym, anonym, nom de guerre
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pseudonymous adj bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name; "the writings of Mark Twain are pseudonymous"
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Pseudowintera n evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand Synonym(s): Pseudowintera, genus Pseudowintera, Wintera, genus Wintera
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Pseudowintera colorata n evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits Synonym(s): pepper shrub, Pseudowintera colorata, Wintera colorata
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Psidium n guavas Synonym(s): Psidium, genus Psidium
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Psidium cattleianum n small tropical shrubby tree bearing deep red oval fruit Synonym(s): cattley guava, purple strawberry guava, Psidium cattleianum, Psidium littorale longipes
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Psidium guajava n small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit Synonym(s): guava, true guava, guava bush, Psidium guajava
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Psidium guineense n South American tree having fruit similar to the true guava Synonym(s): Brazilian guava, Psidium guineense
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Psidium littorale n small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit Synonym(s): guava, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava, Psidium littorale
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Psidium littorale longipes n small tropical shrubby tree bearing deep red oval fruit Synonym(s): cattley guava, purple strawberry guava, Psidium cattleianum, Psidium littorale longipes
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push down v cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" Synonym(s): down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down
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push-down list n a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) Synonym(s): push-down list, push- down stack, stack
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push-down queue n a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO)
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push-down stack n a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) Synonym(s): push-down list, push- down stack, stack
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push-down storage n a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) Synonym(s): push-down storage, push-down store, stack
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push-down store n a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) Synonym(s): push-down storage, push-down store, stack
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Pushtun n a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan; "Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan" Synonym(s): Pathan, Pashtun, Pushtun, Pashtoon
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Pyxidanthera n one species: pyxie; the eastern United States [syn: Pyxidanthera, genus Pyxidanthera]
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Pyxidanthera barbulata n creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas Synonym(s): pyxie, pixie, pixy, Pyxidanthera barbulata
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pyxidium n fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released Synonym(s): pyxidium, pyxis
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Mermaid \Mer"maid\, n. [AS. mere lake, sea. See {Mere} lake, and {maid}.] A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish. Note: Chaucer uses this word as equivalent to the siren of the ancients. {Mermaid fish} (Zo[94]l.) the angel fish ({Squatina}). {Mermaid's glove} (Zo[94]l.), a British branched sponge somewhat resembling a glove. {Mermaid's head} (Zo[94]l.), a European spatangoid sea urchin ({Echinocardium cordatum}) having some resemblance to a skull. {Mermaid weed} (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dentate or pectinate leaves ({Proserpinaca palustris} and {P. pectinacea}).
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Louse \Louse\ (lous), n.; pl. {Lice} (l[imac]s). [OE. lous, AS. l[umac]s, pl. l[ymac]s; akin to D. luis, G. laus, OHG. l[umac]s, Icel. l[umac]s, Sw. lus, Dan. luus; perh. so named because it is destructive, and akin to E. lose, loose.] (Zo[94]l.) 1. Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe ({Pediculina}), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man ({Pediculus capitis}), the body louse ({P. vestimenti}), and the crab louse ({Phthirius pubis}), and many others. See {Crab louse}, {Dog louse}, {Cattle louse}, etc., under {Crab}, {Dog}, etc. 2. Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See {Mallophaga}. 3. Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See {Aphid}. 4. Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See {Branchiura}, and {Ichthvophthira}. Note: The term is also applied to various other parasites; as, the whale louse, beelouse, horse louse. {Louse fly} (Zo[94]l.), a parasitic dipterous insect of the group Pupipara. Some of them are wingless, as the bee louse. {Louse mite} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of mites which infest mammals and birds, clinging to the hair and feathers like lice. They belong to {Myobia}, {Dermaleichus}, {Mycoptes}, and several other genera.
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Pacation \Pa*ca"tion\, n. [L. pacatio.] The act of pacifying; a peacemaking. --Coleridge.
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Packet \Pack"et\, n. [F. paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same source as E. pack. See {Pack}.] 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. --Shak. 2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. {Packet boat}, {ship}, [or] {vessel}. See {Packet}, n., 2. {Packet day}, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. {Packet note} [or] {post}. See under {Paper}.
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Packet \Pack"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Packeting}.] 1. To make up into a packet or bundle. 2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. Her husband Was packeted to France. --Ford.
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Paction \Pac"tion\, n. [L. pactio: cf. F. paction. See {Pact}.] An agreement; a compact; a bargain. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Pactional \Pac"tion*al\, a. Of the nature of, or by means of, a paction. --Bp. Sanderson.
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Pass \Pass\, v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. [bd]To pass commodiously this life.[b8] --Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. --Shak. (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. --Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. --Dryden. (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. --Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. --Byron. (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate. 2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. --Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. --Clarendon. (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. --Shak. Father, thy word is passed. --Milton. (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. [bd]Pass the happy news.[b8] --Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad. 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate. 4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --Shak. {Passed midshipman}. See under Midshipman. {To pass a dividend}, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. {To pass away}, to spend; to waste. [bd]Lest she pass away the flower of her age.[b8] --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
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Past \Past\, a. [From {Pass}, v.] Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. [bd]Past ages.[b8] --Milton. {Past master}. See under {Master}.
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Master \Mas"ter\, n. [OE. maistre, maister, OF. maistre, mestre, F. ma[8c]tre, fr. L. magister, orig. a double comparative from the root of magnus great, akin to Gr. [?]. Cf. {Maestro}, {Magister}, {Magistrate}, {Magnitude}, {Major}, {Mister}, {Mistress}, {Mickle}.] 1. A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being. 2. One who uses, or controls at will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. --Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. --Addison. We are masters of the sea. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). 3. One who has attained great skill in the use or application of anything; as, a master of oratorical art. Great masters of ridicule. --Maccaulay. No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it. --Locke. 4. A title given by courtesy, now commonly pronounced m[cc]ster, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written {Mister}, but usually abbreviated to Mr. 5. A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. --Swift. 6. (Naut.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel. 7. A person holding an office of authority among the Freemasons, esp. the presiding officer; also, a person holding a similar office in other civic societies. {Little masters}, certain German engravers of the 16th century, so called from the extreme smallness of their prints. {Master in chancery}, an officer of courts of equity, who acts as an assistant to the chancellor or judge, by inquiring into various matters referred to him, and reporting thereon to the court. {Master of arts}, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M. {Master of the horse}, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign. {Master of the rolls}, in England, an officer who has charge of the rolls and patents that pass the great seal, and of the records of the chancery, and acts as assistant judge of the court. --Bouvier. --Wharton. {Past master}, one who has held the office of master in a lodge of Freemasons or in a society similarly organized. {The old masters}, distinguished painters who preceded modern painters; especially, the celebrated painters of the 16th and 17th centuries. {To be master of one's self}, to have entire self-control; not to be governed by passion. {To be one's own master}, to be at liberty to act as one chooses without dictation from anybody. Note: Master, signifying chief, principal, masterly, superior, thoroughly skilled, etc., is often used adjiectively or in compounds; as, master builder or master-builder, master chord or master-chord, master mason or master-mason, master workman or master-workman, master mechanic, master mind, master spirit, master passion, etc. Throughout the city by the master gate. --Chaucer. {Master joint} (Geol.), a quarryman's term for the more prominent and extended joints traversing a rock mass. {Master key}, a key adapted to open several locks differing somewhat from each other; figuratively, a rule or principle of general application in solving difficulties. {Master lode} (Mining), the principal vein of ore. {Master mariner}, an experienced and skilled seaman who is certified to be competent to command a merchant vessel. {Master sinew} (Far.), a large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the windgalls are usually seated. {Master singer}. See {Mastersinger}. {Master stroke}, a capital performance; a masterly achievement; a consummate action; as, a master stroke of policy. {Master tap} (Mech.), a tap for forming the thread in a screw cutting die. {Master touch}. (a) The touch or skill of a master. --Pope. (b) Some part of a performance which exhibits very skillful work or treatment. [bd]Some master touches of this admirable piece.[b8] --Tatler. {Master work}, the most important work accomplished by a skilled person, as in architecture, literature, etc.; also, a work which shows the skill of a master; a masterpiece. {Master workman}, a man specially skilled in any art, handicraft, or trade, or who is an overseer, foreman, or employer.
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Pastime \Pas"time`\, n. [Pass + time: cf. F. passetemps.] That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
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Pastime \Pas"time`\, v. i. To sport; to amuse one's self. [R.]
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Paste \Paste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pasting}.] To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
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Peastone \Pea"stone`\, n. (Min.) Pisolite.
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Pisolite \Pi"so*lite\, n. [Gr. [?] a pea + -lite: cf. F. pisolithe.] (Min.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also {peastone}, {peagrit}. Note: O[94]lite is similar in structure, but the concretions are as small as the roe of a fish.
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Peastone \Pea"stone`\, n. (Min.) Pisolite.
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Pisolite \Pi"so*lite\, n. [Gr. [?] a pea + -lite: cf. F. pisolithe.] (Min.) A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also {peastone}, {peagrit}. Note: O[94]lite is similar in structure, but the concretions are as small as the roe of a fish.
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Pecten \Pec"ten\, n. [L. pecten, -inis, a comb, a kind of shellfish. See {Pectinate}.] 1. (Anat.) (a) A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called {marsupium}. (b) The pubic bone. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus {Pecten}, and numerous allied genera (family {Pectinid[91]}); a scallop. See {Scallop}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) The comb of a scorpion. See {Comb}, 4 (b) .
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Scallop \Scal"lop\ (?; 277), n. [OF. escalope a shell, probably of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. scale of a fish; cf. D. schelp shell. See {Scale} of a fish, and cf. {Escalop}.] [Written also {scollop}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family {Pectinid[91]}. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species ({Vola Jacob[91]us}) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also {fan shell}. See {Pecten}, 2. Note: The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States is {Pecten irradians}; the large sea scallop, also used as food, is {P. Clintonius, [or] tenuicostatus}. 2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. 3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
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Quin \Quin\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A European scallop ({Pecten opercularis}), used as food. [Prov. Eng.]
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Pectin \Pec"tin\, n. [Gr. [?] curdled, congealed, from [?] to make fast or stiff: cf. F. pectine.] (Chem.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called {vegetable jelly}, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.
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Pectinal \Pec"ti*nal\, a. [L. pecten comb. See {Pectinate}.] Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
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Pectinal \Pec"ti*nal\, n. A fish whose bone[?] resemble comb teeth. --Sir T. Browne.
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Pectinate \Pec"tina`te\, Pectinated \Pec"tina`ted\, a. [L. pectinatus, p. pr. of pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis, a comb; cf. Gr. [?] to comb, AS. feax hair, OHG. fahs, E. paxwax.] 1. Resembling the teeth of a comb. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of {Antenn[91]}. 3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] [bd]Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. {Pectinate claw} (Zo[94]l.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.
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Pectinate \Pec"tina`te\, Pectinated \Pec"tina`ted\, a. [L. pectinatus, p. pr. of pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis, a comb; cf. Gr. [?] to comb, AS. feax hair, OHG. fahs, E. paxwax.] 1. Resembling the teeth of a comb. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of {Antenn[91]}. 3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] [bd]Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. {Pectinate claw} (Zo[94]l.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.
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Pectinate \Pec"tina`te\, Pectinated \Pec"tina`ted\, a. [L. pectinatus, p. pr. of pectinare to comb, from pecten, -inis, a comb; cf. Gr. [?] to comb, AS. feax hair, OHG. fahs, E. paxwax.] 1. Resembling the teeth of a comb. 2. (Nat. Hist.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of {Antenn[91]}. 3. Interlaced, like two combs. [R.] [bd]Our fingers pectinated, or shut together.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. {Pectinate claw} (Zo[94]l.), a claw having a serrate edge, found in some birds, and supposed to be used in cleaning the feathers.
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Pectinately \Pec"tinately\, adv. In a pectinate manner.
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Pectination \Pec`ti*na"tion\, n. 1. The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated. --Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of combing; the combing of the head. 3. (Nat. Hist.) Comblike toothing.
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Pectineal \Pectin"eal\, a. [See {Pecten}.] (Anat.) (a) Of or pertaining to the pecten. (b) Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.
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Pectinibranch \Pectin"ibranch\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
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Pectinibranchiate \Pec`tinibran"chi*ate\, a. [L. pecten, -inis, a comb + E. branchiate.] (Zo[94]l.) Having pectinated gills.
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Pectiniform \Pectin"iform\, a. Comblike in form.
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Peg \Peg\, n. [OE. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, Dan. pig a point, prickle, and E. peak.] 1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg. 2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon. 3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. --Shak. 4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board. 5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase [bd]To take one down peg.[b8] To screw papal authority to the highest peg. --Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. --Hudibras. {Peg ladder}, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. {Peg tankard}, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. [bd]Drink down to your peg.[b8] --Longfellow. {Peg tooth}. See {Fleam tooth} under {Fleam}. {Peg top}, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. {Screw peg}, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.
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Peucedanin \Peuced"anin\, n. (Chem.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort ({Peucedanum}), masterwort ({Imperatoria}), and other related plants; -- called also {imperatorin}.
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Peucedanin \Peuced"anin\, n. (Chem.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort ({Peucedanum}), masterwort ({Imperatoria}), and other related plants; -- called also {imperatorin}.
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Cowish \Cow"ish\, n. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum Cous}) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon. [Written also {cous}.]
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Dill \Dill\ (d[icr]l), n. [AS dile; akin to D. dille, OHG. tilli, G. dill, dille, Sw. dill, Dan. dild.] (Bot.) An herb ({Peucedanum graveolens}), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also {dillseed}.
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Fennel \Fen"nel\ (f[ecr]n"n[ecr]l), n. [AS. fenol, finol, from L. feniculum, faeniculum, dim. of fenum, faenum, hay: cf. F. fenouil. Cf. {Fenugreek}. {Finochio}.] (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus {F[91]niculum} ({F. vulgare}), having very finely divided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. --Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. --S. G. Goodrich. {Azorean, [or] Sweet}, {fennel}, ({F[91]niculum dulce}). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb. {Dog's fennel} ({Anthemis Cotula}), a foul-smelling European weed; -- called also {mayweed}. {Fennel flower} (Bot.), an herb ({Nigella}) of the Buttercup family, having leaves finely divided, like those of the fennel. {N. Damascena} is common in gardens. {N. sativa} furnishes the fennel seed, used as a condiment, etc., in India. These seeds are the [bd]fitches[b8] mentioned in Isaiah (xxviii. 25). {Fennel water} (Med.), the distilled water of fennel seed. It is stimulant and carminative. {Giant fennel} ({Ferula communis}), has stems full of pith, which, it is said, were used to carry fire, first, by Prometheus. {Hog's fennel}, a European plant ({Peucedanum officinale}) looking something like fennel.
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Madnep \Mad"nep\, n. (Bot.) The masterwort ({Peucedanum Ostruthium}).
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Masterwort \Mas"ter*wort`\, n. (Bot.) (a) A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum Ostruthium}, formerly {Imperatoria}). (b) The {Astrantia major}, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre. (c) Improperly, the cow parsnip ({Heracleum lanatum}).
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Milk \Milk\, n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mj[?]ok, Sw. mj[94]lk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. [?]. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Milch}, {Emulsion}, {Milt} soft roe of fishes.] 1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. [bd]White as morne milk.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See {Latex}. 3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water. 4. (Zo[94]l.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. {Condensed milk}. See under {Condense}, v. t. {Milk crust} (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See {Eczema}. {Milk fever}. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also, a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving. {Milk glass}, glass having a milky appearance. {Milk knot} (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. {Milk leg} (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. {Milk meats}, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] --Bailey. {Milk mirror}. Same as {Escutcheon}, 2. {Milk molar} (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. {Milk of lime} (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. {Milk parsley} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ({Peucedanum palustre}) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice. {Milk pea} (Bot.), a genus ({Galactia}) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. {Milk sickness} (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water. {Milk snake} (Zo[94]l.), a harmless American snake ({Ophibolus triangulus}, or {O. eximius}). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also {milk adder}, {chicken snake}, {house snake}, etc. {Milk sugar}. (Physiol. Chem.) See {Lactose}, and {Sugar of milk} (below). {Milk thistle} (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ({Silybum marianum}), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. {Milk thrush}. (Med.) See {Thrush}. {Milk tooth} (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth in young mammals; in man there are twenty. {Milk tree} (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow tree of South America ({Brosimum Galactodendron}), and the {Euphorbia balsamifera} of the Canaries, the milk of both of which is wholesome food. {Milk vessel} (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See {Latex}. {Rock milk}. See {Agaric mineral}, under {Agaric}. {Sugar of milk}. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See {Lactose}.
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Phagedena \Phag`e*de"na\, n. [L. phagedaena, Gr. [?], fr. [?] to eat.] (Med.) (a) A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.] (b) Spreading, obstinate ulceration.
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Phagedenic \Phag`eden"ic\, PhagedenicAL \Phag`eden"ic*AL\, a. [L. phagedaenicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. phag[82]d[82]nique.] (Med.) Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n. A phagedenic medicine.
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Phagedenic \Phag`eden"ic\, PhagedenicAL \Phag`eden"ic*AL\, a. [L. phagedaenicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. phag[82]d[82]nique.] (Med.) Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. -- n. A phagedenic medicine.
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Phagedenous \Phag`e*de"nous\, a. (Med.) Phagedenic.
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Phocodont \Pho"co*dont\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Phocodontia.
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Pickedness \Pick"ed*ness\, n. 1. The state of being sharpened; pointedness. 2. Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] Too much pickedness is not manly. --B. Jonson.
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Picket \Pick"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Picketing}.] 1. To fortify with pointed stakes. 2. To inclose or fence with pickets or pales. 3. To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse. 4. To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket. 5. To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. [Obs.]
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Pickthank \Pick"thank`\, n. One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. --Shak.
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Picotee \Pic`otee"\, Picotine \Pic`otine"\, n. [F. picot[82] dotted, picked.] (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
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Piscation \Pis*ca"tion\, n. [L. piscatio, fr. piscari to fish.] Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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Piston \Pis"ton\, n. [F. piston; cf. It. pistone piston, also pestone a large pestle; all fr. L. pinsere, pistum, to pound, to stamp. See {Pestle}, {Pistil}.] (Mach.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. {Piston head} (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. {Piston rod}, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. {Piston valve} (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.
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Displacement \Dis*place"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d[82]placement.] 1. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place. Unnecessary displacement of funds. --A. Hamilton. The displacement of the sun by parallax. --Whewell. 2. The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body. 3. (Chem.) The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent. {Piston displacement} (Mech.), the volume of the space swept through, or weight of steam, water, etc., displaced, in a given time, by the piston of a steam engine or pump.
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Piston \Pis"ton\, n. [F. piston; cf. It. pistone piston, also pestone a large pestle; all fr. L. pinsere, pistum, to pound, to stamp. See {Pestle}, {Pistil}.] (Mach.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. {Piston head} (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. {Piston rod}, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. {Piston valve} (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.
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Piston ring \Pis"ton ring\ (Mach.) A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.
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Piston \Pis"ton\, n. [F. piston; cf. It. pistone piston, also pestone a large pestle; all fr. L. pinsere, pistum, to pound, to stamp. See {Pestle}, {Pistil}.] (Mach.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. {Piston head} (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. {Piston rod}, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. {Piston valve} (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.
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Piston \Pis"ton\, n. [F. piston; cf. It. pistone piston, also pestone a large pestle; all fr. L. pinsere, pistum, to pound, to stamp. See {Pestle}, {Pistil}.] (Mach.) A sliding piece which either is moved by, or moves against, fluid pressure. It usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within a cylindrical vessel along which it moves, back and forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. {Piston head} (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. {Piston rod}, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. {Piston valve} (Steam Eng.), a slide valve, consisting of a piston, or connected pistons, working in a cylindrical case which is provided with ports that are traversed by the valve.
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Pocket \Pock"et\, n. [OE. poket, Prov. F. & OF. poquette, F. pochette, dim. fr. poque, pouque, F. poche; probably of Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a pocket, and cf. {Poach} to cook eggs, to plunder, and {Pouch}.] 1. A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth. 2. One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven. 3. A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc. Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight. 4. (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like. 5. (Mining.) (a) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity. (b) A hole containing water. 6. (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace. 7. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pouch}. Note: Pocket is often used adjectively, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc. {Out of pocket}. See under {Out}, prep. {Pocket borough}, a borough [bd]owned[b8] by some person. See under {Borough}. [Eng.] {Pocket gopher} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera {Geomys}, and {Thomomys}, family {Geomyd[91]}. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also {pouched gopher}. {Pocket mouse} (Zo[94]l.), any species of American mice of the family {Saccomyid[91]}. They have external cheek pouches. Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus {Dipadomys}), and are called {kangaroo mice}. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc. {Pocket piece}, a piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent. {Pocket pistol}, a pistol to be carried in the pocket. {Pocket sheriff} (Eng. Law), a sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. --Burrill.
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Pocket \Pock"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pocketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pocketing}.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. {To pocket a ball} (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. {To pocket an insult}, {affront}, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. [bd]I must pocket up these wrongs.[b8] --Shak.
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Pauhaugen \Pau*hau"gen\, n. [North Amer. Indian.] (Zo[94]l.) The menhaden; -- called also {poghaden}.
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Posit \Pos"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Positing}.] [L. ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}.] 1. To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects. --Sir M. Hale. 2. (Logic) To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle. --Sir W. Hamilton.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. [?]) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v., {Depone}, {Deposit}, {Expound}, {Impostor}, {Opposite}, {Propound}, {Pose}, v., {Posit}, {Post}, n.] 1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. --Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position. 3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. --I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position. 5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the {rule of trial and error}. {Angle of position} (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. {Double position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. {Guns of position} (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. {Position finder} (Mil.), a range finder. See under {Range}. {Position micrometer}, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. {Single position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. {Strategic position} (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force. Syn: Situation; station; place; condition; attitude; posture; proposition; assertion; thesis.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, v. t. To indicate the position of; to place. [R.] --Encyc. Brit.
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Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.] 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. --Milton. 2. (Geom.) (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet. (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. 3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. --Dryden. 4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. --Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope. {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than 90[deg]. {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg common to both angles. {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}. {Angle bar}. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}. {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight. {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines. {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}. {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined figure. {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved line. {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90[deg]. {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}. {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right lines. {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a quarter circle). {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence}, {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction}, see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection}, {Refraction}, etc.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. [?]) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v., {Depone}, {Deposit}, {Expound}, {Impostor}, {Opposite}, {Propound}, {Pose}, v., {Posit}, {Post}, n.] 1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. --Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position. 3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. --I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position. 5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the {rule of trial and error}. {Angle of position} (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. {Double position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. {Guns of position} (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. {Position finder} (Mil.), a range finder. See under {Range}. {Position micrometer}, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. {Single position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. {Strategic position} (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force. Syn: Situation; station; place; condition; attitude; posture; proposition; assertion; thesis.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, v. t. To indicate the position of; to place. [R.] --Encyc. Brit.
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Angle \An"gle\ ([acr][nsm]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.] 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. --Spenser. To search the tenderest angles of the heart. --Milton. 2. (Geom.) (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet. (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. 3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. Though but an angle reached him of the stone. --Dryden. 4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological [bd]houses.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. 5. [AS. angel.] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. --Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. --Pope. {Acute angle}, one less than a right angle, or less than 90[deg]. {Adjacent} or {Contiguous angles}, such as have one leg common to both angles. {Alternate angles}. See {Alternate}. {Angle bar}. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. --Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as {Angle iron}. {Angle bead} (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. {Angle brace}, {Angle tie} (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. --Knight. {Angle iron} (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. {Angle leaf} (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. {Angle meter}, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. {Angle shaft} (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. {Curvilineal angle}, one formed by two curved lines. {External angles}, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. {Facial angle}. See under {Facial}. {Internal angles}, those which are within any right-lined figure. {Mixtilineal angle}, one formed by a right line with a curved line. {Oblique angle}, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. {Obtuse angle}, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90[deg]. {Optic angle}. See under {Optic}. {Rectilineal} or {Right-lined angle}, one formed by two right lines. {Right angle}, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90[deg] (measured by a quarter circle). {Solid angle}, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. {Spherical angle}, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. {Visual angle}, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. {For Angles of commutation}, {draught}, {incidence}, {reflection}, {refraction}, {position}, {repose}, {fraction}, see {Commutation}, {Draught}, {Incidence}, {Reflection}, {Refraction}, etc.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. [?]) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v., {Depone}, {Deposit}, {Expound}, {Impostor}, {Opposite}, {Propound}, {Pose}, v., {Posit}, {Post}, n.] 1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. --Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position. 3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. --I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position. 5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the {rule of trial and error}. {Angle of position} (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. {Double position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. {Guns of position} (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. {Position finder} (Mil.), a range finder. See under {Range}. {Position micrometer}, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. {Single position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. {Strategic position} (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force. Syn: Situation; station; place; condition; attitude; posture; proposition; assertion; thesis.
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Micrometer \Microm"eter\, n. [Micro- + -meter: cf. F. microm[8a]tre.] An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. {Circular, [or] Ring}, {micrometer}, a metallic ring fixed in the focus of the object glass of a telescope, and used to determine differences of right ascension and declination between stars by observations of the times at which the stars cross the inner or outer periphery of the ring. {Double image micrometer}, a micrometer in which two images of an object are formed in the field, usually by the two halves of a bisected lens which are movable along their line of section by a screw, and distances are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optical coincidence. When the two images are formed by a bisected object glass, it is called a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer. {Double refraction micrometer}, a species of double image micrometer, in which the two images are formed by the double refraction of rock crystal. {Filar, [or] Bifilar}, {micrometer}. See under {Bifilar}. {Micrometer} {caliper [or] gauge} (Mech.), a caliper or gauge with a micrometer screw, for measuring dimensions with great accuracy. {Micrometer head}, the head of a micrometer screw. {Micrometer microscope}, a compound microscope combined with a filar micrometer, used chiefly for reading and subdividing the divisions of large astronomical and geodetical instruments. {Micrometer screw}, a screw with a graduated head used in some forms of micrometers. {Position micrometer}. See under {Position}. {Scale}, [or] {Linear}, {micrometer}, a minute and very delicately graduated scale of equal parts used in the field of a telescope or microscope, for measuring distances by direct comparison.
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Position \Po*si"tion\, n. [F. position, L. positio, fr. ponere, positum, to put, place; prob. for posino, fr. an old preposition used only in comp. (akin to Gr. [?]) + sinere to leave, let, permit, place. See {Site}, and cf. {Composite}, {Compound}, v., {Depone}, {Deposit}, {Expound}, {Impostor}, {Opposite}, {Propound}, {Pose}, v., {Posit}, {Post}, n.] 1. The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. --Locke. 2. The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position. 3. Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position. Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which go before. --I. Watts. 4. Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position. 5. (Arith.) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the {rule of trial and error}. {Angle of position} (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. {Double position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. {Guns of position} (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed for quick movements. {Position finder} (Mil.), a range finder. See under {Range}. {Position micrometer}, a micrometer applied to the tube of an astronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the field of view. {Single position} (Arith.), the method of solving problems, in which the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is to the true result as the number assumed is to the number required. {Strategic position} (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or a large detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observing an opposing force. Syn: Situation; station; place; condition; attitude; posture; proposition; assertion; thesis.
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Positional \Posi"tional\, a. Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. --Sir T. Browne.
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Posset \Pos"set\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posseted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posseting}.] 1. To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To treat with possets; to pamper. [R.] [bd]She was cosseted and posseted.[b8] --O. W. Holmes.
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.
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Post \Post\, n. [AS., fr. L. postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See {Position}, and cf. 4th {Post}.] 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses. --Ex. xii. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. --Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. --Chaucer. Note: Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. [Obs.] When God sends coin I will discharge your post. --S. Rowlands. {From pillar to post}. See under {Pillar}. {Knight of the post}. See under {Knight}. {Post hanger} (Mach.), a bearing for a revolving shaft, adapted to be fastened to a post. {Post hole}, a hole in the ground to set the foot of a post in. {Post mill}, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. {Post and stall} (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine.
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Post note \Post" note`\ (Com.) A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. --Burrill.
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Post \Post\, n. [F. poste, LL. posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. fr. L. positus placed, p. p. of ponere. See {Position}, and cf. {Post} a pillar.] 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: (a) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route; as, a stage or railway post. (b) A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. (c) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. --Abp. Abbot. I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post. --Shak. 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post. --Pope. 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] [bd]In post he came.[b8] --Shak. 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. [Obs.] He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years. --Palfrey. 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. The post of honor is a private station. --Addison. 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under {Paper}. {Post and pair}, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. --B. Jonson. {Post bag}, a mail bag. {Post bill}, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. {Post chaise}, or {Post coach}, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. {Post day}, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. {Post hackney}, a hired post horse. --Sir H. Wotton. {Post horn}, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. {Post horse}, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. {Post hour}, hour for posting letters. --Dickens. {Post office}. (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. {Postoffice order}. See {Money order}, under {Money}. {Post road}, [or] {Post route}, a road or way over which the mail is carried. {Post town}. (a) A town in which post horses are kept. (b) A town in which a post office is established by law. {To ride post}, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. {To travel post}, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place.
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Postanal \Post*a"nal\, a. [Pref. post- + anal.] (Anat.) Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
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Postencephalon \Post`enceph"alon\, n. (Anat.) The metencephalon.
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Postentry \Post"en*try\, n. [Pref. post- + entry.] 1. A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake. 2. (Bookkeeping) An additional or subsequent entry.
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Posthume \Post"hume\, Posthumed \Post"humed\, a. Posthumous. [Obs.] --I. Watts. --Fuller.
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Posthume \Post"hume\, Posthumed \Post"humed\, a. Posthumous. [Obs.] --I. Watts. --Fuller.
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Posthumous \Post"hu*mous\ (?; 277), a. [L. posthumus, postumus, properly, last; hence, late born (applied to children born after the father's death, or after he had made his will), superl. of posterus, posterior. See {Posterior}.] 1. Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter. 2. Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition. 3. Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation. --Addison. --Sir T. Browne.
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Posthumously \Post"humously\, adv. In a posthumous manner; after one's decease.
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Post-impressionism \Post`-impres"sionism\, n. (Painting) In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of C[82]zanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post-impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.
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Posting \Post"ing\, n. 1. The act of traveling post. 2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. {Posting house}, a post house.
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Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Posting}.] 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. [bd]It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . or to get him posted.[b8] --De Quincey. 5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] [bd]Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?[b8] --Baxter. {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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Posting \Post"ing\, n. 1. The act of traveling post. 2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. {Posting house}, a post house.
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Postman \Post"man\, n.; pl. {Postmen}. 1. A post or courier; a letter carrier. 2. (Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman. --Whishaw.
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Postmark \Post"mark`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postmarked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postmarking}.] To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
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Postmark \Post"mark`\, n. The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.
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Postmark \Post"mark`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postmarked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postmarking}.] To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
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Postmark \Post"mark`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postmarked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postmarking}.] To mark with a post-office stamp; as, to postmark a letter or parcel.
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Postmaster \Post"mas`ter\, n. 1. One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses. 2. One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
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Postmaster-general \Post"mas`ter-gen"er*al\, n.; pl. {Postmasters-general}. The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
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Postmaster-general \Post"mas`ter-gen"er*al\, n.; pl. {Postmasters-general}. The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet.
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Postmastership \Post"mas`ter*ship\, n. The office of postmaster.
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Postman \Post"man\, n.; pl. {Postmen}. 1. A post or courier; a letter carrier. 2. (Eng. Law) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman. --Whishaw.
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Postmeridian \Post`merid"ian\, a. [L. postmeridianus; post after + meridianus. See {Meridian}.] 1. Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.) 2. Fig., belonging to the after portion of life; late. [R.]
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d8Post-mortem \[d8]Post-mor"tem\, a. [L., after death.] After death; as, post-mortem rigidity. {Post-mortem examination} (Med.), an examination of the body made after the death of the patient; an autopsy.
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Postnatal \Post*na"tal\, a. [Pref. post- + natal.] After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.
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Postnate \Post"nate\, a. [LL. postnatus second or subsequently born; L. post after + natus born.] Subsequent. [bd]The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate.[b8] [Archaic] --Jer. Taylor.
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Postnuptial \Post*nup"tial\, a. [Pref. post- + nuptial.] Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. --Kent.
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Post-temporal \Post-tem"po*ral\, a. [Pref. post- + temporal.] (Anat.) Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. -- n. A post-temporal bone.
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Post-tympanic \Post`-tym*pan"ic\, a. [Pref. post- + tympanic.] (Anat.) Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
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Postumous \Pos"tu*mous\, a. See {Posthumous}. [R.]
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Pouched \Pouched\, a. (Zo[94]l.) (a) Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat. (b) Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher. (c) Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels. {Pouched dog}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Zebra wolf}, under {Zebra}. {Pouched frog} (Zo[94]l.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage. {Pouched gopher}, [or] {Pouched rat}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pocket gopher}, under {Pocket}. {Pouched mouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pocket mouse}, under {Pocket}.
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Pseudembryo \Pseudem"bryo\, n. [Pseudo- + embryo.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A false embryo. (b) An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
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Cooter \Coot"er\ (-[etil]r), n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A fresh-water tortoise ({Pseudemus concinna}) of Florida. (b) The box tortoise.
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Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys acebra}) of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys rugosa}), native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also {potter}, {slider}, and {redfender}), and the diamond-back or salt-marsh terrapin ({Malaclemmys palustris}), are the most important American species. The diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of the Atlantic coast of the United States. {Alligator terrapin}, the snapping turtle. {Mud terrapin}, any one of numerous species of American tortoises of the genus {Cinosternon}. {Painted terrapin}, the painted turtle. See under {Painted}. {Speckled terrapin}, a small fresh-water American terrapin ({Chelopus guttatus}) having the carapace black with round yellow spots; -- called also {spotted turtle}.
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Slider \Slid"er\, n. 1. One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The red-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys rugosa}). [Local, U. S. ] {Slider pump}, a form of rotary pump.
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Note: The yellow-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys acebra}) of the Southern United States, the red-bellied terrapin ({Pseudemys rugosa}), native of the tributaries Chesapeake Bay (called also {potter}, {slider}, and {redfender}), and the diamond-back or salt-marsh terrapin ({Malaclemmys palustris}), are the most important American species. The diamond-back terrapin is native of nearly the whole of the Atlantic coast of the United States. {Alligator terrapin}, the snapping turtle. {Mud terrapin}, any one of numerous species of American tortoises of the genus {Cinosternon}. {Painted terrapin}, the painted turtle. See under {Painted}. {Speckled terrapin}, a small fresh-water American terrapin ({Chelopus guttatus}) having the carapace black with round yellow spots; -- called also {spotted turtle}.
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Pseudh91mal \Pseud*h[91]"mal\, a. [Pseudo- + h[91]mal.] (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids. {Pseudh[91]mal fluid}, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of annelids, analogous to the blood of vertebrates. It is often red, but is sometimes green or colorless. {Pseudh[91]mal vessels}, the blood vessels of annelids.
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Pseudh91mal \Pseud*h[91]"mal\, a. [Pseudo- + h[91]mal.] (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids. {Pseudh[91]mal fluid}, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of annelids, analogous to the blood of vertebrates. It is often red, but is sometimes green or colorless. {Pseudh[91]mal vessels}, the blood vessels of annelids.
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Pseudh91mal \Pseud*h[91]"mal\, a. [Pseudo- + h[91]mal.] (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids. {Pseudh[91]mal fluid}, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of annelids, analogous to the blood of vertebrates. It is often red, but is sometimes green or colorless. {Pseudh[91]mal vessels}, the blood vessels of annelids.
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d8Subimago \[d8]Sub`i*ma"go\, n. [NL. See {Sub-}, and {Imago}.] (Zo[94]l.) A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also {pseudimago}.
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Pseudo-metallic \Pseu`do-me*tal"lic\, a. [Pseudo- + metallic.] Falsely or imperfectly metallic; -- said of a kind of luster, as in minerals.
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Pseudo-monocotyledonous \Pseu`do-mon`ocot`yled"on*ous\, a. [Pseudo- + monocotyledonous.] (Bot.) Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
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Pseudomorph \Pseu"do*morph\, n. [See {Pseudomorphous}.] 1. An irregular or deceptive form. 2. (Crystallog.) A pseudomorphous crystal, as a crystal consisting of quartz, but having the cubic form of fluor spar, the fluor crystal having been changed to quartz by a process of substitution.
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Pseudomorphism \Pseu`do*mor"phism\, n. (Crystallog.) The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.
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Pseudomorphous \Pseu`do*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. [?]; pseydh`s false + [?] form: cf. F. pseudomorphe.] Not having the true form. {Pseudomorphous crystal}, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.
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Pseudomorphous \Pseu`do*mor"phous\, a. [Gr. [?]; pseydh`s false + [?] form: cf. F. pseudomorphe.] Not having the true form. {Pseudomorphous crystal}, one which has a form that does not result from its own powers of crystallization.
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d8Pseudonavicula \[d8]Pseu`donavic"u*la\, n.; pl. {Pseudonavicul[91]}. [NL., fr. Gr. pseydh`s false + NL. navicula, a genus of diatoms. See {Navicular}.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the minute spindle-shaped embryos of Gregarin[91] and some other Protozoa.
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d8Pseudonavicella \[d8]Pseu`donav`icel"la\, n.; pl. {Pseudonavicull[91]}. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pseudonavicula}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Insecta \[d8]In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn[91], three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[91], opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n. 2. (Zo[94]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See {Hexapoda}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats; {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura}, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Book \Book\ (b[oocr]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[omac]c; akin to Goth. b[omac]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[omac]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[omac]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[omac]c, b[emac]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and Germans in general wrote runes on pieces of beechen board. Cf. {Beech}.] 1. A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing. Note: When blank, it is called a blank book. When printed, the term often distinguishes a bound volume, or a volume of some size, from a pamphlet. Note: It has been held that, under the copyright law, a book is not necessarily a volume made of many sheets bound together; it may be printed on a single sheet, as music or a diagram of patterns. --Abbott. 2. A composition, written or printed; a treatise. A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. --Milton. 3. A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of [bd]Paradise Lost.[b8] 4. A volume or collection of sheets in which accounts are kept; a register of debts and credits, receipts and expenditures, etc. 5. Six tricks taken by one side, in the game of whist; in certain other games, two or more corresponding cards, forming a set. Note: Book is used adjectively or as a part of many compounds; as, book buyer, bookrack, book club, book lore, book sale, book trade, memorandum book, cashbook. {Book account}, an account or register of debt or credit in a book. {Book debt}, a debt for items charged to the debtor by the creditor in his book of accounts. {Book learning}, learning acquired from books, as distinguished from practical knowledge. [bd]Neither does it so much require book learning and scholarship, as good natural sense, to distinguish true and false.[b8] --Burnet. {Book louse} (Zo[94]l.), one of several species of minute, wingless insects injurious to books and papers. They belong to the {Pseudoneuroptera}. {Book moth} (Zo[94]l.), the name of several species of moths, the larv[91] of which eat books. {Book oath}, an oath made on {The Book}, or Bible. {The Book of Books}, the Bible. {Book post}, a system under which books, bulky manuscripts, etc., may be transmitted by mail. {Book scorpion} (Zo[94]l.), one of the false scorpions ({Chelifer cancroides}) found among books and papers. It can run sidewise and backward, and feeds on small insects. {Book stall}, a stand or stall, often in the open air, for retailing books. {Canonical books}. See {Canonical}. {In one's books}, in one's favor. [bd]I was so much in his books, that at his decease he left me his lamp.[b8] --Addison. {To bring to book}. (a) To compel to give an account. (b) To compare with an admitted authority. [bd]To bring it manifestly to book is impossible.[b8] --M. Arnold. {To curse by bell, book, and candle}. See under {Bell}. {To make a book} (Horse Racing), to lay bets (recorded in a pocket book) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses. {To speak by the book}, to speak with minute exactness. {Without book}. (a) By memory. (b) Without authority.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudoneuropterous \Pseu`doneurop"ter*ous\, a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Pseudoneuroptera.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonumity \Pseu`donum"ity\, n. The using of fictitious names, as by authors.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonym \Pseu"do*nym\, n. [Cf. F. pseudonyme. See {Pseudonymous}.] A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name. [Written also {pseudonyme}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonym \Pseu"do*nym\, n. [Cf. F. pseudonyme. See {Pseudonymous}.] A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name. [Written also {pseudonyme}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonymous \Pseudon"ymous\, a. [Gr. [?]; pseydh`s false + [?], [?], a name: cf. F. pseudonyme. See {Pseudo-}, and {Name}.] Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- {Pseudon"ymously}, adv. -- {Pseudon"ymousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonymous \Pseudon"ymous\, a. [Gr. [?]; pseydh`s false + [?], [?], a name: cf. F. pseudonyme. See {Pseudo-}, and {Name}.] Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- {Pseudon"ymously}, adv. -- {Pseudon"ymousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pseudonymous \Pseudon"ymous\, a. [Gr. [?]; pseydh`s false + [?], [?], a name: cf. F. pseudonyme. See {Pseudo-}, and {Name}.] Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- {Pseudon"ymously}, adv. -- {Pseudon"ymousness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pixy \Pix"y\, Pixie \Pix"ie\, n.; pl. {Pixies}. [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also {picksy}.] 2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant ({Pyxidanthera barbulata}), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring. {Pixy ring}, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] {Pixy stool} (Bot.), a toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pasadena, CA (city, FIPS 56000) Location: 34.16070 N, 118.13872 W Population (1990): 131591 (53032 housing units) Area: 59.5 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 91101, 91103, 91104, 91105, 91106, 91107 Pasadena, MD (CDP, FIPS 60475) Location: 39.11210 N, 76.55245 W Population (1990): 10012 (3509 housing units) Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water) Pasadena, TX (city, FIPS 56000) Location: 29.66060 N, 95.15202 W Population (1990): 119363 (47539 housing units) Area: 113.4 sq km (land), 1.4 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 77502, 77503, 77504, 77505, 77506, 77507
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pasadena Hills, MO (city, FIPS 56396) Location: 38.70857 N, 90.29136 W Population (1990): 1165 (484 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pasadena Park, MO (village, FIPS 56414) Location: 38.71020 N, 90.29693 W Population (1990): 532 (234 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pasquotank County, NC (county, FIPS 139) Location: 36.26497 N, 76.26190 W Population (1990): 31298 (12298 housing units) Area: 587.7 sq km (land), 162.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Passadumkeag, ME Zip code(s): 04475
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Paxtang, PA (borough, FIPS 58504) Location: 40.26190 N, 76.83426 W Population (1990): 1599 (706 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Paxton, FL (town, FIPS 55475) Location: 30.97587 N, 86.31266 W Population (1990): 600 (266 housing units) Area: 10.1 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Paxton, IL (city, FIPS 58239) Location: 40.45837 N, 88.09946 W Population (1990): 4289 (1826 housing units) Area: 5.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60957 Paxton, MA Zip code(s): 01612 Paxton, NE (village, FIPS 38610) Location: 41.12478 N, 101.35541 W Population (1990): 536 (239 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 69155
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Paxtonia, PA (CDP, FIPS 58528) Location: 40.31620 N, 76.79084 W Population (1990): 4862 (2032 housing units) Area: 6.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pecatonica, IL (village, FIPS 58408) Location: 42.30994 N, 89.35854 W Population (1990): 1760 (700 housing units) Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61063
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pesotum, IL (village, FIPS 59273) Location: 39.91290 N, 88.27405 W Population (1990): 558 (212 housing units) Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61863
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pickstown, SD (town, FIPS 49460) Location: 43.06694 N, 98.53049 W Population (1990): 95 (49 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pickton, TX Zip code(s): 75471
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Piketon, OH (village, FIPS 62708) Location: 39.06823 N, 82.99995 W Population (1990): 1717 (708 housing units) Area: 5.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Poestenkill, NY (CDP, FIPS 58794) Location: 42.69355 N, 73.56450 W Population (1990): 1000 (378 housing units) Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 12140
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Post Mills, VT Zip code(s): 05058
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Poston, AZ (CDP, FIPS 57170) Location: 33.95912 N, 114.41523 W Population (1990): 480 (158 housing units) Area: 18.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
posting n. Noun corresp. to v. {post} (but note that {post} can be nouned). Distinguished from a `letter' or ordinary {email} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or email; perhaps the best dividing line is that if you don't know the names of all the potential recipients, it is a posting.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
postmaster n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}. The Internet standard for electronic mail ({RFC}-822) requires each machine to have a `postmaster' address; usually it is aliased to this person.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
psyton /si:'ton/ n. [TMRC] The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. [This term appears to have been largely superseded by {bogon}; see also {quantum bogodynamics}. --ESR]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Packed Encoding Rules (PER) {ASN.1} encoding rules for producing a compact {transfer syntax} for data structures described in {ASN.1}, defined in 1994. PER provides a much more compact encoding then {BER}. It tries to represents the data units using the minimum number of {bits}. The compactness requires that the decoder knows the complete {abstract syntax} of the data structure to be decoded, however. Documents: {ITU-T} X.691, {ISO} 8825-2. (1998-05-19)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Packet in Plastic Grid Array (PPGA) The package used for {Intel}'s {Celeron} {Socket 370} {CPU}. [Description?] (1999-06-24)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Packet InterNet Groper (ping, originally contrived to match submariners' term for the sound of a returned sonar pulse) A program written in 1983 by Mike Muuss (who also wrote {TTCP}) used to test reachability of destinations by sending them one, or repeated, {ICMP} echo requests and waiting for replies. Since ping works at the {IP} level its server-side is often implemented entirely within the {operating system} {kernel} and is thus the lowest level test of whether a remote host is alive. Ping will often respond even when higher level, {TCP}-based services cannot. Sadly, Mike Muuss was killed in a road accident on 2000-11-20. The term is also used as a verb: "Ping host X to see if it is up." The {Unix} command "ping" can be used to do this and to measure round-trip delays. The funniest use of "ping" was described in January 1991 by Steve Hayman on the {Usenet} group comp.sys.next. He was trying to isolate a faulty cable segment on a {TCP/IP} {Ethernet} hooked up to a {NeXT} machine. Using the sound recording feature on the NeXT, he wrote a {script} that repeatedly invoked ping, listened for an echo, and played back the recording on each returned {packet}. This caused the machine to repeat, over and over, "Ping ... ping ... ping ..." as long as the network was up. He turned the volume to maximum, ferreted through the building with one ear cocked, and found a faulty tee connector in no time. See also {ACK}, {ENQ}, {traceroute}, {spray}. {The Story of the Ping Program (http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html)}. {Unix manual page}: ping(8). (2002-11-29)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Paged Memory Management Unit {Memory Management Unit}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
posting A message sent to a {newsgroup} or {mailing list} (may also be called "a post") or the act of sending it. Distinguished from a "letter" or ordinary {electronic mail} message by the fact that it is broadcast rather than point-to-point. It is not clear whether messages sent to a small mailing list are postings or e-mail; perhaps the best dividing line is that if you don't know the names of all the potential recipients, it is a posting. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
postmaster The {electronic mail} contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the {Internet} or {UUCPNET}. Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}. The Internet standard for electronic mail ({RFC} 822) requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is aliased to this person. See also {webmaster}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PSDN {Public Switched Data Network}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PSTN {Public Switched Telephone Network}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
psyton /si:'ton/ (From {TMRC}) The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. This term appears to have been largely superseded by {bogon}; see also {quantum bogodynamics}. (1997-04-26)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Push Down List (PDL) In {ITS} days, the preferred {MIT}ism for {stack}. See {overflow pdl}. (1995-12-21)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pas-dammim the border of blood = Ephes-dammim (q.v.), between Shochoh and Azekah (1 Sam. 17:1; 1 Chr. 11:13).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Pasdammin, portion or diminishing of blood