passive immunity
         n 1: an impermanent form of acquired immunity in which
               antibodies against a disease are acquired naturally (as
               through the placenta to an unborn child) or artificially
               (as by injection of antiserum)

English Dictionary: piece of music	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passive matrix display n a type of LCD display used for some portable computers; parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized; "passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passiveness n submission to others or to outside influences [syn: passivity, passiveness] the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative Synonym(s): passivity, passiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peace of mind n the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phosphine n a colorless gas with a strong fishy smell; used as a pesticide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Picea pungens n tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward Synonym(s): Colorado spruce, Colorado blue spruce, silver spruce, Picea pungens
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piece of material n a separate part consisting of fabric [syn: {piece of cloth}, piece of material]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piece of music n a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" Synonym(s): musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piggy bank n a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig) [syn: {piggy bank}, penny bank]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pigpen n a pen for swine Synonym(s): sty, pigsty, pigpen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poke bonnet n a hat tied under the chin Synonym(s): bonnet, poke bonnet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poke fun v subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" Synonym(s): ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pushpin n a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board Synonym(s): thumbtack, drawing pin, pushpin
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pacify \Pac"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pacified}; p. pr. & vb.       n. {Pacifying}.] [F. pacifier, L. pacificare; pax, pacis,       peace + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Peace}, and {-fy}.]       To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to       quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of;       to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify       pride, appetite, or importunity. [bd]Pray ye, pacify       yourself.[b8] --Shak.                   To pacify and settle those countries.      --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packfong \Pack"fong`\, n. [Chin. peh tung.] (Metal.)       A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling       German silver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.]       Of or pertaining to Germany.          {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}.          {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical             pod and a scew point.          {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp.          {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica},             var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.          {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds.          {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore             in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.             --Raymond.          {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.                      {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly             cooked.          {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and             tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in             the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying             proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag             at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to             make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical             with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much             used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings             of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other             white alloys.          {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a             forge, with charcoal for fuel.          {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German             type, used in English printing for ornamental headings,             etc., as in the words,          Note: This line is German Text.          {German tinder}. See {Amadou}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packfong \Pack"fong`\, n. [Chin. peh tung.] (Metal.)       A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling       German silver.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
German \Ger"man\, a. [L. Germanus. See {German}, n.]       Of or pertaining to Germany.          {German Baptists}. See {Dunker}.          {German bit}, a wood-boring tool, having a long elliptical             pod and a scew point.          {German carp} (Zo[94]l.), the crucian carp.          {German millet} (Bot.), a kind of millet ({Setaria Italica},             var.), whose seed is sometimes used for food.          {German paste}, a prepared food for caged birds.          {German process} (Metal.), the process of reducing copper ore             in a blast furnace, after roasting, if necessary.             --Raymond.          {German sarsaparilla}, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract.                      {German sausage}, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly             cooked.          {German silver} (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and             tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in             the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying             proportions, and was originally made from old copper slag             at Henneberg. A small amount of iron is sometimes added to             make it whiter and harder. It is essentially identical             with the Chinese alloy {packfong}. It was formerly much             used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings             of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other             white alloys.          {German steel} (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a             forge, with charcoal for fuel.          {German text} (Typog.), a character resembling modern German             type, used in English printing for ornamental headings,             etc., as in the words,          Note: This line is German Text.          {German tinder}. See {Amadou}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pakfong \Pak"fong`\, n.       See {Packfong}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Passive \Pas"sive\, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See       {Passion}.]       1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving             impressions or influences; as, they were passive             spectators, not actors in the scene.                         The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.                         The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all                      its simple ideas.                              --Locke.          2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or             active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient;             not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive             submission.                         The best virtue, passive fortitude.   --Massinger.          3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as,             red phosphorus is comparatively passive.          4. (Med.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as             hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the             vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of             reaction in the affected tissues.          {Passive congestion} (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to             the return of the blood from the affected part.          {Passive iron} (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the             action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It             is then not easily acted upon by acids.          {Passive movement} (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to             exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles             which ordinarily move the part.          {Passive obedience} (as used by writers on government),             obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a             duty in all cases to the existing government.          {Passive prayer}, among mystic divines, a suspension of the             activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul             remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of             grace.          {Passive verb}, [or] {Passive voice} (Gram.), a verb, or form             of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of             some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,             she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is             assailed by slander.          Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;                suffering; enduring; submissive; patient.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Passiveness \Pas"sive*ness\, n.       The quality or state of being passive; unresisting       submission.                   To be an effect implies passiveness, or the being                subject to the power and action of its cause. --J.                                                                               Edwards.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phospham \Phos"pham\, n. [Phosphorus + ammonia.] (Chem.)       An inert amorphous white powder, {PN2H}, obtained by passing       ammonia over heated phosphorus. [Spelt also {phosphame}.] --       {Phos"pham"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phospham \Phos"pham\, n. [Phosphorus + ammonia.] (Chem.)       An inert amorphous white powder, {PN2H}, obtained by passing       ammonia over heated phosphorus. [Spelt also {phosphame}.] --       {Phos"pham"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phospham \Phos"pham\, n. [Phosphorus + ammonia.] (Chem.)       An inert amorphous white powder, {PN2H}, obtained by passing       ammonia over heated phosphorus. [Spelt also {phosphame}.] --       {Phos"pham"ic}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phosphene \Phos"phene\, n. [Gr. [?] light + [?] to show.]       (Physiol.)       A luminous impression produced through excitation of the       retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of       rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids       are closed. Cf. {After-image}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phosphine \Phos"phine\, n. (Chem.)       A colorless gas, {PH3}, analogous to ammonia, and having a       disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also       {hydrogen phosphide}, and formerly, {phosphureted hydrogen}.          Note: It is the most important compound of phosphorus and                hydrogen, and is produced by the action of caustic                potash on phosphorus. It is spontaneously inflammable,                owing to impurities, and in burning produces peculiar                vortical rings of smoke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phosphinic \Phos*phin"ic\, a. (Chem.)       Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the       phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals,       and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phosphonic \Phos*phon"ic\, a. [Phosphoric + sulphonic.] (Chem.)       Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of       phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical, and       analogous to the sulphonic acid.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phosphonium \Phos*pho"ni*um\, n. [Phosphorus + ammonium.]       (Chem.)       The hypothetical radical {PH4}, analogous to ammonium, and       regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Phycoph91ine \Phy`co*ph[91]"ine\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed + ([?])       dusky.]       A brown coloring matter found in certain alg[91].
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pickpenny \Pick"pen`ny\, n.; pl. {Pickpennies}.       A miser; also, a sharper. --Dr. H. More.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pickpenny \Pick"pen`ny\, n.; pl. {Pickpennies}.       A miser; also, a sharper. --Dr. H. More.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pigpen \Pig"pen`\, n.       A pen, or sty, for pigs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poke \Poke\, n.       1. The act of poking; a thrust; a jog; as, a poke in the             ribs. --Ld. Lytton.          2. A lazy person; a dawdler; also, a stupid or uninteresting             person. [Slang, U.S.] --Bartlett.          3. A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or             breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole             inserted, pointed forward. [U.S.]          {Poke bonnet}, a bonnet with a straight, projecting front.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pushpin \Push"pin`\, n.       A child's game played with pins. --L. Estrange.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
passive matrix display          A type of {liquid crystal display} which relies on       {persistence} to maintain the state of each display element       ({pixel}) between refresh scans.   The {resolution} of such       displays is limited by the ratio between the time to set a       pixel and the time it takes to fade.          Contrast {active matrix display}.          (1995-12-09)