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   peptone
         n 1: any of various water-soluble compounds that form by
               hydrolysis in the digestion of proteins to amino acids

English Dictionary: pipe down by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pipe down
v
  1. become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
    Synonym(s): quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down
    Antonym(s): louden
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pivot man
n
  1. the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver
    Synonym(s): pivot, pivot man
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pivoting window
n
  1. a window that opens by pivoting either horizontally or vertically
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pop tent
n
  1. a small tent that is easy to carry and quick to set up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pup tent
n
  1. a wedge-shaped tent; usually without a floor or windows
    Synonym(s): pup tent, shelter tent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Peptone \Pep"tone\, n. [Gr. [?] cooked.] (Physiol. Chem.)
      (a) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into
            which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by
            the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones
            are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of
            boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
      (b) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products
            resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in
            either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case,
            however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as
            antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true
            peptones. Also termed albuminose.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Peptonize \Pep"to*nize\, v. t. (Physiol.)
      To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of a
      proteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Peptonoid \Pep"to*noid\, n. [Peptone + -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)
      A substance related to peptone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[c6]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire, to
      chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. {Peep}, {Pibroch}, {Fife}.]
      1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes
            of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces
            musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an
            organ. [bd]Tunable as sylvan pipe.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware,
            or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water,
            steam, gas, etc.
  
      3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, -- used in smoking
            tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
  
      4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
            windpipe, or one of its divisions.
  
      5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
  
      6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
  
                     The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
  
      8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
  
      9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise
            called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the
            accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put
            together like a pipe. --Mozley & W.
  
      10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
            their duties; also, the sound of it.
  
      11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L.
            pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually
            containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the
            quantity which it contains.
  
      {Pipe fitter}, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes,
            as to an engine or a building.
  
      {Pipe fitting}, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve,
            etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory
            to a pipe.
  
      {Pipe office}, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer,
            in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
            lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
  
      {Pipe tree} (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so
            called because their were formerly used to make pipe
            stems; -- called also {pipe privet}.
  
      {Pipe wrench}, [or] {Pipetongs}, a jawed tool for gripping a
            pipe, in turning or holding it.
  
      {To smoke the pipe of peace}, to smoke from the same pipe in
            token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace,
            -- a custom of the American Indians.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pivot \Piv"ot\, n. [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe.
      See {Pipe}.]
      1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or
            other body turns.
  
      2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a
            support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
  
      3. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on
            which important results depend; as, the pivot of an
            enterprise.
  
      4. (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his
            place whike the company or line moves around him in
            wheeling; -- called also {pivot man}.
  
      {Pivot bridge}, a form of drawbridge in which one span,
            called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical
            axis.
  
      {Pivot gun}, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage,
            so as to turn in any direction.
  
      {Pivot tooth} (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to
            the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pivot \Piv"ot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pivoted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Pivoting}.]
      To place on a pivot. --Clarke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Popedom \Pope"dom\, n. [AS. p[be]ped[d3]m.]
      1. The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.
            --Shak.
  
      2. The jurisdiction of the pope.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Poupeton \Pou"pe*ton\, n. [See {Puppet}.]
      A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] --Palsgrave.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pupation \Pu*pa"tion\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      the act of becoming a pupa.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      2. A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock
            drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
  
                     At the pipes of some carved organ move, The gilded
                     puppets dance.                                    --Pope.
  
      3. One controlled in his action by the will of another; a
            tool; -- so used in contempt. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      4. (Mach.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle
            in a lathe.
  
      {Puppet master}. Same as {Puppetman}.
  
      {Puppet play}, a puppet show.
  
      {Puppet player}, one who manages the motions of puppets.
  
      {Puppet show}, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by
            wires.
  
      {Puppet valve}, a valve in the form of a circular disk, which
            covers a hole in its seat, and opens by moving bodily away
            from the seat while remaining parallel with it, -- used in
            steam engines, pumps, safety valves, etc. Its edge is
            often beveled, and fits in a conical recess in the seat
            when the valve is closed. See the valves shown in Illusts.
            of {Plunger pump}, and {Safety valve}, under {Plunger},
            and {Safety}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Puppetman \Pup"pet*man\, n.
      A master of a puppet show.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Pfafftown, NC
      Zip code(s): 27040

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   pop-down menu
  
      {pull-down menu}
  
  
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