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   pachouli
         n 1: small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its
               leaves is used in perfumes [syn: {patchouli}, {patchouly},
               {pachouli}, {Pogostemon cablin}]
         2: a heavy perfume made from the patchouli plant [syn:
            {patchouli}, {patchouly}, {pachouli}]

English Dictionary: passel	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
paigle n Eurasian primrose with yellow flowers clustered in a one- sided umbel Synonym(s): oxlip, paigle, Primula elatior early spring flower common in British isles having fragrant yellow or sometimes purple flowers Synonym(s): cowslip, paigle, Primula veris
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paisley n a soft wool fabric with a colorful swirled pattern of curved shapes
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pas seul n (ballet) a solo dance or dance figure [syn: pas seul, variation]
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pascal n a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter Synonym(s): pascal, Pa French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) Synonym(s): Pascal, Blaise Pascal a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach
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paschal adj of or relating to Passover or Easter; "paschal lamb"
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passel n (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
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Paxil n a selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitor commonly prescribed as an antidepressant (trade name Paxil) Synonym(s): paroxetime, Paxil
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pH scale n (from potential of Hydrogen) the logarithm of the reciprocal of hydrogen-ion concentration in gram atoms per liter; provides a measure on a scale from 0 to 14 of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution (where 7 is neutral and greater than 7 is more basic and less than 7 is more acidic); Synonym(s): pH, pH scale
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phacelia n any plant of the genus Phacelia [syn: scorpionweed, scorpion weed, phacelia]
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Physalia n Portuguese man-of-war Synonym(s): Physalia, genus Physalia
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piccolo n a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
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pickle n vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" Synonym(s): fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish v preserve in a pickling liquid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picul n a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)
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pie shell n pastry used to hold pie fillings [syn: pie crust, {pie shell}]
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pigswill n wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk Synonym(s): slop, slops, swill, pigswill, pigwash
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piously adv in a devout and pious manner; "she was devoutly Catholic" Synonym(s): devoutly, piously
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pixel n (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot); "the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution" Synonym(s): pixel, pel, picture element
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psylla n small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices Synonym(s): jumping plant louse, psylla, psyllid
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Puglia n a region in southeastern Italy on the Adriatic [syn: Puglia, Apulia]
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pussley n weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan Synonym(s): common purslane, pussley, pussly, verdolagas, Portulaca oleracea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pussly n weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan Synonym(s): common purslane, pussley, pussly, verdolagas, Portulaca oleracea
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pussy willow n small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves Synonym(s): pussy willow, Salix discolor much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves Synonym(s): goat willow, florist's willow, pussy willow, Salix caprea
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puzzle n a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler" Synonym(s): puzzle, puzzler, mystifier, teaser a game that tests your ingenuity v be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" Synonym(s): perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide; "We puzzled over her sudden departure"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paigle \Pai"gle\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of {Primula}, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also {pagle}, {pagil}, {peagle}, and {pygil}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paigle \Pai"gle\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of {Primula}, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also {pagle}, {pagil}, {peagle}, and {pygil}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paigle \Pai"gle\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of {Primula}, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also {pagle}, {pagil}, {peagle}, and {pygil}.]
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Paschal \Pas"chal\, a. [L. paschalis: cf. F. pascal. See {Pasch}.] Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. --Longfellow. {Paschal candle} (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter. {Paschal flower}. See {Pasque flower}, under {Pasque}.
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Pasquil \Pas"quil\, n. [It. pasquillo.] See {Pasquin}. [R.]
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Pasquil \Pas"quil\, v. t. [R.] See {Pasquin}.
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d8Tridacna \[d8]Tri*dac"na\, n. [L., pl., a kind of oysters, fr. Gr. [?] eaten at three bites, [?] tri- + [?] to bite.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species ({T. gigas}) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also {paw shell}, and {fountain shell}.
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d8Paxillus \[d8]Pax*il"lus\, n.; pl. {Paxilli}. [L., a peg.] (Zo[94]l.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Pea \Pea\, n.; pl. {Peas}or {Pease}. [OE. pese, fr. AS. pisa, or OF. peis, F. pois; both fr. L. pisum; cf. Gr. [?], [?]. The final s was misunderstood in English as a plural ending. Cf. {Pease}.] 1. (Bot.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus {Pisum}, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. Note: When a definite number, more than one, is spoken of, the plural form peas is used; as, the pod contained nine peas; but, in a collective sense, the form pease is preferred; as, a bushel of pease; they had pease at dinner. This distinction is not always preserved, the form peas being used in both senses. 2. A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of {Dolichos}, {Cicer}, {Abrus}, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed. Note: The name pea is given to many leguminous plants more or less closely related to the common pea. See the Phrases, below. {Beach pea} (Bot.), a seashore plant, {Lathyrus maritimus}. {Black-eyed pea}, a West Indian name for {Dolichos sph[91]rospermus} and its seed. {Butterfly pea}, the American plant {Clitoria Mariana}, having showy blossoms. {Chick pea}. See {Chick-pea}. {Egyptian pea}. Same as {Chick-pea}. {Everlasting pea}. See under {Everlasting}. {Glory pea}. See under {Glory}, n. {Hoary pea}, any plant of the genus {Tephrosia}; goat's rue. {Issue pea}, {Orris pea}. (Med.) See under {Issue}, and {Orris}. {Milk pea}. (Bot.) See under {Milk}. {Pea berry}, a kind of a coffee bean or grain which grows single, and is round or pea-shaped; often used adjectively; as, pea-berry coffee. {Pea bug}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pea weevil}. {Pea coal}, a size of coal smaller than nut coal. {Pea crab} (Zo[94]l.), any small crab of the genus {Pinnotheres}, living as a commensal in bivalves; esp., the European species ({P. pisum}) which lives in the common mussel and the cockle. {Pea dove} (Zo[94]l.), the American ground dove. {Pea-flower tribe} (Bot.), a suborder ({Papilionace[91]}) of leguminous plants having blossoms essentially like that of the pea. --G. Bentham. {Pea maggot} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a European moth ({Tortrix pisi}), which is very destructive to peas. {Pea ore} (Min.), argillaceous oxide of iron, occurring in round grains of a size of a pea; pisolitic ore. {Pea starch}, the starch or flour of the common pea, which is sometimes used in adulterating wheat flour, pepper, etc. {Pea tree} (Bot.), the name of several leguminous shrubs of the genus {Caragana}, natives of Siberia and China. {Pea vine}. (Bot.) (a) Any plant which bears peas. (b) A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States ({Lathyrus Americana}, and other similar species). {Pea weevil} (Zo[94]l.), a small weevil ({Bruchus pisi}) which destroys peas by eating out the interior. {Pigeon pea}. (Bot.) See {Pigeon pea}. {Sweet pea} (Bot.), the annual plant {Lathyrus odoratus}; also, its many-colored, sweet-scented blossoms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paigle \Pai"gle\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of {Primula}, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also {pagle}, {pagil}, {peagle}, and {pygil}.]
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Picul \Pic"ul\, n. [Jav. & Malay pikul, fr. pikul to carry on the back, to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.] A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135[frac58] lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133[frac12] lbs.; in Japan, 133[frac13] lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, {tan}. [Written also {pecul}, and {pecal}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pecul \Pec"ul\, n. See {Picul}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picul \Pic"ul\, n. [Jav. & Malay pikul, fr. pikul to carry on the back, to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.] A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135[frac58] lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133[frac12] lbs.; in Japan, 133[frac13] lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, {tan}. [Written also {pecul}, and {pecal}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pecul \Pec"ul\, n. See {Picul}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picul \Pic"ul\, n. [Jav. & Malay pikul, fr. pikul to carry on the back, to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.] A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135[frac58] lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133[frac12] lbs.; in Japan, 133[frac13] lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, {tan}. [Written also {pecul}, and {pecal}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Pessulus \[d8]Pes"su*lus\, n.; pl. {Pessuli}. [L., a bolt.] (Anat.) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
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Peucil \Peu"cil\, n. [Gr. [?] pine tree.] (Chem.) A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also {peucyl}.]
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Peucil \Peu"cil\, n. [Gr. [?] pine tree.] (Chem.) A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also {peucyl}.]
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d8Phacellus \[d8]Pha*cel"lus\, n.; pl. {Phacelli}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a bundle of fagots.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
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Phasel \Pha"sel\, n. [L. phaselus, phaseolus, Gr. [?], [?]: cf. F. phas[82]ole, fas[82]ole. Cf. {Fesels}.] The French bean, or kidney bean.
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Phocal \Pho"cal\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Pertaining to seals.
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Piacle \Pi"a*cle\, n. [L. piaculum a propitiatory sacrifice, that which requires expiation, a wicked action, fr. piare to appease, to expiate, pius pious.] A heinous offense which requires expiation. [R.] --Howell.
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Octave \Oc"tave\, n. [F., fr. L. octava an eighth, fr. octavus eighth, fr. octo eight. See {Eight}, and cf. {Octavo}, {Utas}.] 1. The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival. [bd]The octaves of Easter.[b8] --Jer. Taylor. 2. (Mus.) (a) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones. (b) The whole diatonic scale itself. Note: The ratio of a musical tone to its octave above is 1:2 as regards the number of vibrations producing the tones. 3. (Poet.) The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines. With mournful melody it continued this octave. --Sir P. Sidney. {Double octave}. (Mus.) See under {Double}. {Octave flute} (Mus.), a small flute, the tones of which range an octave higher than those of the German or ordinary flute; -- called also {piccolo}. See {Piccolo}. 4. A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Obs.] See {Picle}.
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Cf. D. pekel. Probably a dim. fr. {Pick}, v. t., alluding to the cleaning of the fish.] 1. (a) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine. (b) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc. 2. Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pickled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pickling}.] 1. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers. 2. To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
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Picke \Pi"cke\, n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also {pickle}.]
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Obs.] See {Picle}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pickle \Pic"kle\, n. [Cf. D. pekel. Probably a dim. fr. {Pick}, v. t., alluding to the cleaning of the fish.] 1. (a) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine. (b) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc. 2. Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
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Pickle \Pic"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pickled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pickling}.] 1. To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers. 2. To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
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Picke \Pi"cke\, n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also {pickle}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picul \Pic"ul\, n. [Jav. & Malay pikul, fr. pikul to carry on the back, to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.] A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135[frac58] lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133[frac12] lbs.; in Japan, 133[frac13] lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, {tan}. [Written also {pecul}, and {pecal}.]
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Piecely \Piece"ly\, adv. In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]
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Piously \Pi"ous*ly\, adv. In a pious manner.
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Pizzle \Piz"zle\, n. [Cf. Prov. G. pissel, pesel, peisel, peserich, D. pees a tendon or spring.] The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull. --Shak.
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Poicile \Poi"cile\, [or] Pd2cile \P[d2]"cile\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] (sc. [?]); cf. L. poecile.] The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. --R. Browning.
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Pokal \Po*kal"\, n. [G.] A tall drinking cup.
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d8Psylla \[d8]Psyl"la\, n.; pl. {Psyll[91]}. [NL., from Gr. [?] a flea.] (Zo[94]l.) Any leaping plant louse of the genus {Psylla}, or family {Psyllid[91]}.
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d8Pucelle \[d8]Pu*celle"\, n. [F., fr. LL. pulicella, fr. L. pullus a young animal. See {Pullet}.] A maid; a virgin. [Written also {pucel}.] [Obs.] Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan. --B. Jonson. {La Pucelle}, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
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Pucel \Pu"cel\, n. See {Pucelle}. [Obs.]
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d8Pucelle \[d8]Pu*celle"\, n. [F., fr. LL. pulicella, fr. L. pullus a young animal. See {Pullet}.] A maid; a virgin. [Written also {pucel}.] [Obs.] Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan. --B. Jonson. {La Pucelle}, the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
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Pucel \Pu"cel\, n. See {Pucelle}. [Obs.]
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Pugil \Pu"gil\, n. [L. pugillus, pugillum, a handful, akin to pugnus the fist.] As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Pusil \Pu"sil\, a. [L. pusillus very little.] Very small; little; petty. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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Pusley \Pus"ley\, n. (Bot.) Purslane. [Colloq. U. S]
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Willow \Wil"low\, n. [OE. wilowe, wilwe, AS. wilig, welig; akin to OD. wilge, D. wilg, LG. wilge. Cf. {Willy}.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Salix}, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. [bd]A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow. And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me. --Campbell. 2. (Textile Manuf.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also {willy}, {twilly}, {twilly devil}, and {devil}. {Almond willow}, {Pussy willow}, {Weeping willow}. (Bot.) See under {Almond}, {Pussy}, and {Weeping}. {Willow biter} (Zo[94]l.) the blue tit. [Prov. Eng.] {Willow fly} (Zo[94]l.), a greenish European stone fly ({Chloroperla viridis}); -- called also {yellow Sally}. {Willow gall} (Zo[94]l.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly ({Cecidomyia strobiloides}). {Willow grouse} (Zo[94]l.), the white ptarmigan. See {ptarmigan}. {Willow lark} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] {Willow ptarmigan} (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting. See under {Reed}. (b) A sparrow ({Passer salicicolus}) native of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe. {Willow tea}, the prepared leaves of a species of willow largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute for tea. --McElrath. {Willow thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a variety of the veery, or Wilson's thrush. See {Veery}. {Willow warbler} (Zo[94]l.), a very small European warbler ({Phylloscopus trochilus}); -- called also {bee bird}, {haybird}, {golden wren}, {pettychaps}, {sweet William}, {Tom Thumb}, and {willow wren}.
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Pussy \Pussy\, n. [Dim. of puss.] 1. A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl. 2. A catkin of the pussy willow. 3. The game of tipcat; -- also called {pussy cat}. {Pussy willow} (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American {Salix discolor}; -- called also {glaucous willow}, and {swamp willow}.
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Puzzel \Puz"zel\, n. [Cf. F. pucelle a virgin.] A harlot; a drab; a hussy. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Puzzle \Puz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Puzzled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Puzzling}.] 1. To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus. A very shrewd disputant in those points is dexterous in puzzling others. --Dr. H. More. He is perpetually puzzled and perplexed amidst his own blunders. --Addison. 2. To make intricate; to entangle. They disentangle from the puzzled skein. --Cowper. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplexed with error. --Addison. 3. To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; -- followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery. Syn: To embarrass; perplex; confuse; bewilder; confound. See {Embarrass}.
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Puzzle \Puz"zle\, v. i. 1. To be bewildered, or perplexed. A puzzling fool, that heeds nothing. --L'Estrange. 2. To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Puzzle \Puz"zle\, n. [For opposal, in the sense of problem. See {Oppose}, {Pose}, v.] 1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
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Pygal \Py"gal\, a. [Gr. [?] the rump.] (Anat.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.
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Paigle \Pai"gle\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of {Primula}, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also {pagle}, {pagil}, {peagle}, and {pygil}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pyxle \Pyx"le\, n. (Bot.) Same as {Pixy}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Paisley, FL Zip code(s): 32767 Paisley, OR (city, FIPS 56250) Location: 42.69298 N, 120.54439 W Population (1990): 350 (170 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97636
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pascola, MO (town, FIPS 56432) Location: 36.26607 N, 89.82651 W Population (1990): 120 (63 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Peekskill, NY (city, FIPS 56979) Location: 41.28941 N, 73.92388 W Population (1990): 19536 (8401 housing units) Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 3.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pixley, CA (CDP, FIPS 57512) Location: 35.97288 N, 119.28717 W Population (1990): 2457 (816 housing units) Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 93256
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Pocola, OK (town, FIPS 59750) Location: 35.24172 N, 94.47884 W Population (1990): 3664 (1360 housing units) Area: 78.5 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 74902
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
Pascal n. An Algol-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967-68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and {{Ada}} (see also {bondage-and-discipline language}). The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of {K&R} fame) entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language", which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies. It was eventually published in "Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages", edited by Alan Feuer and Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself after ten years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of many other bondage-and-discipline languages. At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote: 9. There is no escape This last point is perhaps the most important. The language is inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary. There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the "standard procedures". The language is closed. People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap. Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they really want. Extensions for separate compilation, FORTRAN-like COMMON, string data types, internal static variables, initialization, octal numbers, bit operators, etc., all add to the utility of the language for one group but destroy its portability to others. I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for teaching but not for real programming. Pascal has since been almost entirely displaced (by {C}) from the niches it had acquired in serious applications and systems programming, but retains some popularity as a hobbyist language in the MS-DOS and Macintosh worlds.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PAISley An operational specification language from {Bell Labs}. ["An Operational Approach to Requirements Specification for Embedded Systems", P. Zave, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-8(3):250-269 (May 1982)]. (1995-01-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal (After the French mathematician {Blaise Pascal} (1623-1662)) A programming language designed by {Niklaus Wirth} around 1970. Pascal was designed for simplicity and for teaching programming, in reaction to the complexity of {ALGOL 68}. It emphasises {structured programming} constructs, data structures and {strong typing}. Innovations included {enumeration types}, {subranges}, sets, {variant records}, and the {case statement}. Pascal has been extremely influential in programming language design and has a great number of variants and descendants. ANSI/IEEE770X3.97-1993 is very similar to {ISO Pascal} but does not include {conformant arrays}. ISO 7185-1983(E). Level 0 and Level 1. Changes from Jensen & Wirth's Pascal include name equivalence; names must be bound before they are used; loop index must be local to the procedure; formal procedure parameters must include their arguments; {conformant array schema}s. An ALGOL-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967--68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and {Ada} (see also {bondage-and-discipline language}). The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of {K&R} fame) entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Programming Language", which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies. It was eventually published in "Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages", edited by Alan Feuer and Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself after ten years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of many other bondage-and-discipline languages. At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote: 9. There is no escape This last point is perhaps the most important. The language is inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary. There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the "standard procedures". The language is closed. People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap. Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they really want. Extensions for separate compilation, Fortran-like COMMON, string data types, internal static variables, initialisation, {octal} numbers, bit operators, etc., all add to the utility of the language for one group but destroy its portability to others. I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for teaching but not for real programming. Pascal has since been almost entirely displaced (by {C}) from the niches it had acquired in serious applications and systems programming, but retains some popularity as a hobbyist language in the {MS-DOS} and {Macintosh} worlds. See also {Kamin's interpreters}, {p2c}. ["The Programming Language Pascal", N. Wirth, Acta Informatica 1:35-63, 1971]. ["PASCAL User Manual and Report", K. Jensen & N. Wirth, Springer 1975] made significant revisions to the language. [BS 6192, "Specification for Computer Programming Language Pascal", {British Standards Institute} 1982]. [{Jargon File}] (1996-06-12)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal- Pascal subset used in Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers, P. Brinch Hansen, P-H 1985. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal (After the French mathematician {Blaise Pascal} (1623-1662)) A programming language designed by {Niklaus Wirth} around 1970. Pascal was designed for simplicity and for teaching programming, in reaction to the complexity of {ALGOL 68}. It emphasises {structured programming} constructs, data structures and {strong typing}. Innovations included {enumeration types}, {subranges}, sets, {variant records}, and the {case statement}. Pascal has been extremely influential in programming language design and has a great number of variants and descendants. ANSI/IEEE770X3.97-1993 is very similar to {ISO Pascal} but does not include {conformant arrays}. ISO 7185-1983(E). Level 0 and Level 1. Changes from Jensen & Wirth's Pascal include name equivalence; names must be bound before they are used; loop index must be local to the procedure; formal procedure parameters must include their arguments; {conformant array schema}s. An ALGOL-descended language designed by Niklaus Wirth on the CDC 6600 around 1967--68 as an instructional tool for elementary programming. This language, designed primarily to keep students from shooting themselves in the foot and thus extremely restrictive from a general-purpose-programming point of view, was later promoted as a general-purpose tool and, in fact, became the ancestor of a large family of languages including Modula-2 and {Ada} (see also {bondage-and-discipline language}). The hackish point of view on Pascal was probably best summed up by a devastating (and, in its deadpan way, screamingly funny) 1981 paper by Brian Kernighan (of {K&R} fame) entitled "Why Pascal is Not My Favourite Programming Language", which was turned down by the technical journals but circulated widely via photocopies. It was eventually published in "Comparing and Assessing Programming Languages", edited by Alan Feuer and Narain Gehani (Prentice-Hall, 1984). Part of his discussion is worth repeating here, because its criticisms are still apposite to Pascal itself after ten years of improvement and could also stand as an indictment of many other bondage-and-discipline languages. At the end of a summary of the case against Pascal, Kernighan wrote: 9. There is no escape This last point is perhaps the most important. The language is inadequate but circumscribed, because there is no way to escape its limitations. There are no casts to disable the type-checking when necessary. There is no way to replace the defective run-time environment with a sensible one, unless one controls the compiler that defines the "standard procedures". The language is closed. People who use Pascal for serious programming fall into a fatal trap. Because the language is impotent, it must be extended. But each group extends Pascal in its own direction, to make it look like whatever language they really want. Extensions for separate compilation, Fortran-like COMMON, string data types, internal static variables, initialisation, {octal} numbers, bit operators, etc., all add to the utility of the language for one group but destroy its portability to others. I feel that it is a mistake to use Pascal for anything much beyond its original target. In its pure form, Pascal is a toy language, suitable for teaching but not for real programming. Pascal has since been almost entirely displaced (by {C}) from the niches it had acquired in serious applications and systems programming, but retains some popularity as a hobbyist language in the {MS-DOS} and {Macintosh} worlds. See also {Kamin's interpreters}, {p2c}. ["The Programming Language Pascal", N. Wirth, Acta Informatica 1:35-63, 1971]. ["PASCAL User Manual and Report", K. Jensen & N. Wirth, Springer 1975] made significant revisions to the language. [BS 6192, "Specification for Computer Programming Language Pascal", {British Standards Institute} 1982]. [{Jargon File}] (1996-06-12)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal- Pascal subset used in Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers, P. Brinch Hansen, P-H 1985. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal-80 A successor of Platon. Developed at RC International for systems programming. Later it was renamed Real-Time Pascal. "PASCAL80 Report", J. Staunstrup, RC Intl, Denmark Jan 1980.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pascal/L A {SIMD} parallel extension of {Pascal}. ["Implementation of an Array and Vector Processing Language", C. Fernstrom, Intl Conf Parallel Proc, IEEE, pp.113-127 (1982)]. (1994-11-02)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Pasqual ["Pasqual: A Proposed Generalization of Pascal", R.D. Tennent, TR75-32, Queen's U, Canada, 1975].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PCL 1. Printer Control Language. A {Document description language} used by {Hewlett-Packard} {Laserjet} printers, a superset of {HP-GL/2}. [PCL 5 Printer Language Printer Technical Reference Manual, HP 33459-90903. Versions: PCL 3, PCL 5]. 2. {Portable CommonLoops}. 3. Peripheral Conversion Language. A {Honeywell} command language for {file transfer} between I/O devices on the {CP-V} and {CP-6} {operating system}s. 4. ["PCL - A Process Oriented Job Control Language", V. Lesser et al, Proc 1st Intl Conf Distrib Comp Sys, IEEE 1979, pp.315-329].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PICL Language on {Ncube} or {iPSC} machines?
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
pixel {picture element}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
POCAL PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PSL 1. {Portable Standard Lisp}. 2. Problem Statement Language. See {PSL/PSA}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pagiel God allots, a prince of the tribe of Asher (Num. 1:13), in the wilderness.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Phicol great, the chief captain of the army of Abimelech, the Philistine king of Gerar. He entered into an alliance with Abraham with reference to a certain well which, from this circumstance, was called Beersheba (q.v.), "the well of the oath" (Gen. 21:22, 32; 26:26).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Pagiel, prevention, or prayer, of God
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Phichol, the mouth of all, or every tongue