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pallidity
n 1: being deficient in color [syn: {paleness}, {pallidity}]

English Dictionary: plate tectonic theory	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peltate adj (of a leaf shape) round, with the stem attached near the center of the lower surface rather than the margin (as a nasturtium leaf for example) Synonym(s): peltate, shield- shaped
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peltate leaf n a shield-shaped leaf; as a nasturtium leaf
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Pholadidae n a family of Bivalvia [syn: Pholadidae, {family Pholadidae}]
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Pholidota n genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific Synonym(s): Pholidota, genus Pholidota pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata Synonym(s): Pholidota, order Pholidota
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Pholiota destruens n a large fungus with whitish scales on the cap and remnants of the veil hanging from the cap; the stalk is thick and hard
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plate tectonic theory n the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust Synonym(s): tectonics, plate tectonics, plate tectonic theory
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plate tectonics n the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust Synonym(s): tectonics, plate tectonics, plate tectonic theory
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platitude n a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
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platitudinal adj dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" Synonym(s): bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous
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platitudinarian n a bore who makes excessive use of platitudes
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platitudinize v utter platitudes; "The candidate platitudinized and bored the audience"
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platitudinous adj dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" Synonym(s): bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous
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Plattdeutsch n a German dialect spoken in northern Germany [syn: {Low German}, Plattdeutsch]
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plaudit n enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved" Synonym(s): acclaim, acclamation, plaudits, plaudit, eclat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plaudits n enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved" Synonym(s): acclaim, acclamation, plaudits, plaudit, eclat
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played out adj drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out" Synonym(s): exhausted, dog- tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out(a), worn out(p) worn out; "a played out deck of cards"
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Plethodon n type genus of the Plethodontidae [syn: Plethodon, {genus Plethodon}]
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Plethodon cinereus n common salamander of eastern North America [syn: {eastern red-backed salamander}, Plethodon cinereus]
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Plethodon vehiculum n salamander of the Pacific coast of North America [syn: western red-backed salamander, Plethodon vehiculum]
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plethodont n mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water Synonym(s): lungless salamander, plethodont
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Plethodontidae n small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults Synonym(s): Plethodontidae, family Plethodontidae
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plotted adj planned in advance; "with malice aforethought" [syn: aforethought(ip), planned, plotted]
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polluted adj rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams" Synonym(s): contaminated, polluted
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polytetrafluoroethylene n a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided Synonym(s): Teflon, polytetrafluoroethylene
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Palliate \Pal"li*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Palliated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Palliating}.] 1. To cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide. [Obs.] Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat. --Sir T. Herbert. 2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. 3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a disease. To palliate dullness, and give time a shove. --Cowper. Syn: To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal. Usage: To {Palliate}, {Extenuate}, {Cloak}. These words, as here compared, are used in a figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action. We cloak in order to conceal completely. We extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is less than has been supposed; we palliate a crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to soften some of its features, and thus palliate approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or quite identical. [bd]To palliate is not now used, though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of extenuating; to palliate our faults is not to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in part.[b8] --Trench.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pallidity \Pallid"ity\, n. Pallidness; paleness.
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Pelleted \Pel"let*ed\, a. Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] [bd]This pelleted storm.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peltate \Pel"tate\, Peltated \Pel"tated\, a. [Cf. F. pelt[82]. See {Pelta}.] Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- {Pel"tately}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peltate \Pel"tate\, Peltated \Pel"tated\, a. [Cf. F. pelt[82]. See {Pelta}.] Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- {Pel"tately}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peltate \Pel"tate\, Peltated \Pel"tated\, a. [Cf. F. pelt[82]. See {Pelta}.] Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- {Pel"tately}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pelt \Pelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pelted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pelting}.] [OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating.] 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. The children billows seem to pelt the clouds. --Shak. 2. To throw; to use as a missile. My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pilot \Pi"lot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piloted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piloting}.] [Cf. F. piloter.] 1. To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous. 2. Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties. [bd]The art of piloting a state.[b8] --Berkeley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plaided \Plaid"ed\, a. 1. Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan. [bd]In plaided vest.[b8] --Wordsworth. 2. Wearing a plaid. --Campbell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plait \Plait\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plaited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plaiting}.] 1. To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle. 2. To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plaited \Plait"ed\, a. Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plate \Plate\, n. [OF. plate a plate of metal, a cuirsas, F. plat a plate, a shallow vessel of silver, other metal, or earth, fr. plat flat, Gr. [?]. See {Place}, n.] 1. A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate. 2. Metallic armor composed of broad pieces. Mangled . . . through plate and mail. --Milton. 3. Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver. 4. Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold. 5. A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table. 6. [Cf. Sp. plata silver.] A piece of money, usually silver money. [Obs.] [bd]Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket.[b8] --Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate. 8. A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates. 9. That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc. 10. (Arch.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters. 11. (Her.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent. 12. (Photog.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light. 13. A prize giving to the winner in a contest. Note: Plate is sometimes used in an adjectival sense or in combination, the phrase or compound being in most cases of obvious signification; as, plate basket or plate-basket, plate rack or plate-rack. {Home plate}. (Baseball) See {Home base}, under {Home}. {Plate armor}. (a) See {Plate}, n., 2. (b) Strong metal plates for protecting war vessels, fortifications, and the like. {Plate bone}, the shoulder blade, or scapula. {Plate girder}, a girder, the web of which is formed of a single vertical plate, or of a series of such plates riveted together. {Plate glass}. See under {Glass}. {Plate iron}, wrought iron plates. {Plate layer}, a workman who lays down the rails of a railway and fixes them to the sleepers or ties. {Plate mark}, a special mark or emblematic figure stamped upon gold or silver plate, to indicate the place of manufacture, the degree of purity, and the like; thus, the local mark for London is a lion. {Plate paper}, a heavy spongy paper, for printing from engraved plates. --Fairholt. {Plate press}, a press with a flat carriage and a roller, -- used for printing from engraved steel or copper plates. {Plate printer}, one who prints from engraved plates. {Plate printing}, the act or process of printing from an engraved plate or plates. {Plate tracery}. (Arch.) See under {Tracery}. {Plate wheel} (Mech.), a wheel, the rim and hub of which are connected by a continuous plate of metal, instead of by arms or spokes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plate \Plate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plating}.] 1. To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. 2. To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense. Thus plated in habiliments of war. --Shak. 3. To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness. 4. To beat into thin, flat pieces, or lamin[91]. 5. To calender; as, to plate paper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platetrope \Plat"e*trope\, n. [Gr. [?] breadth + [?] to turn.] (Anat.) One of a pair of a paired organs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platitude \Plat"i*tude\, n. [F., from plat flat. See {Plate}.] 1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language. To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude. --Motley. 2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a truism; a commonplace.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Platitudinarian \Plat`itu`dina"ri*an\, n. One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. [bd]A political platitudinarian.[b8] --G. Eliot.
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Platitudinize \Plat`itu"dinize\, v. i. To utter platitudes or truisms.
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Platitudinous \Plat`itu"dinous\, a. Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- {Plat`itu"dinous*ness}, n.
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Platitudinous \Plat`itu"dinous\, a. Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- {Plat`itu"dinous*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plattdeutsch \Platt"deutsch`\, n. The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See {Low German}, under {German}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. {Germans}[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis origin.] 1. A native or one of the people of Germany. 2. The German language. 3. (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures. (b) A social party at which the german is danced. {High German}, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the 15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature. The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern literary language, are often called Middle German, and the Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is also used to cover both groups. {Low German}, the language of Northern Germany and the Netherlands, -- including {Friesic}; {Anglo-Saxon} or {Saxon}; {Old Saxon}; {Dutch} or {Low Dutch}, with its dialect, {Flemish}; and {Plattdeutsch} (called also {Low German}), spoken in many dialects.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plat \Plat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Platted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Platting}.] [See {Plait}.] To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait. [bd]They had platted a crown of thorns.[b8] --Matt. xxvii. 29.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tarente \Ta*ren"te\, n. [Cf. F. tarente.] (Zo[94]l.) A harmless lizard of the Gecko family ({Platydactylus Mauritianicus}) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.
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Plaudit \Plau"dit\, n. [From L. plaudite do ye praise (which was said by players at the end of a performance), 2d pers. pl. imperative of plaudere. Cf. {Plausible}.] A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. --Longfellow. Syn: Acclamation; applause; encomium; commendation; approbation; approval.
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Plauditory \Plau"ditory\, a. Applauding; commending.
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Play \Play\, v. t. 1. To put in action or motion; as, to play cannon upon a fortification; to play a trump. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. --Herbert. 2. To perform music upon; as, to play the flute or the organ. 3. To perform, as a piece of music, on an instrument; as, to play a waltz on the violin. 4. To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute; as, to play tricks. Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies. --Milton. 5. To act or perform (a play); to represent in music action; as, to play a comedy; also, to act in the character of; to represent by acting; to simulate; to behave like; as, to play King Lear; to play the woman. Thou canst play the rational if thou wilt. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To engage in, or go together with, as a contest for amusement or for a wager or prize; as, to play a game at baseball. 7. To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it. {To play off}, to display; to show; to put in exercise; as, to play off tricks. {To play one's cards}, to manage one's means or opportunities; to contrive. {Played out}, tired out; exhausted; at the end of one's resources. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plead \Plead\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleaded} (colloq. {Plead}or {Pled}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Pleading}.] [OE. pleden, plaiden, OF. plaidier, F. plaider, fr. LL. placitare, fr. placitum. See {Plea}.] 1. To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! --Job xvi. 21. 2. (Law) To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea. --Blackstone. Burrill. Stephen. 3. To contend; to struggle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plod \Plod\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Plodded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plodding}.] [Gf. Gael. plod a clod, a pool; also, to strike or pelt with a clod or clods.] 1. To travel slowly but steadily; to trudge. --Shak. 2. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. [bd]Plodding schoolmen.[b8] --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plot \Plot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plotting}.] To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate. This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth. --Carew.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Polluted \Pollut"ed\, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- {Pollut"edly}, adv. -- {Pollut"ed*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pollute \Pol*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polluted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polluting}.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See {Position}, {Lave}.] 1. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. The land was polluted with blood. --Ps. cvi. 38 Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. --2 Esd. xv. 6. 2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. 3. (Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. --Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood. --Lam. iv. 14. Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Polluted \Pollut"ed\, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- {Pollut"edly}, adv. -- {Pollut"ed*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Polluted \Pollut"ed\, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- {Pollut"edly}, adv. -- {Pollut"ed*ness}, n.
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Polyiodide \Pol`yi"odide\, n. (Chem.) A iodide having more than one atom of iodine in the molecule.
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Titanic \Ti*tan"ic\, a. [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the {titanous} compounds. {Titanic acid} (Chem.), a white amorphous powder, {Ti.(OH)4}, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; -- called also {normal titanic acid}. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also {metatitanic acid}, {polytitanic acid}, etc. {Titanic iron ore}. (Min.) See {Menaccanite}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Platte Woods, MO (city, FIPS 58196) Location: 39.22930 N, 94.65196 W Population (1990): 427 (185 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Paltite the designation of one of David's heroes (2 Sam. 23:26); called also the Pelonite (1 Chr. 11:27).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pelethites mentioned always along with the Cherethites, and only in the time of David. The word probably means "runners" or "couriers," and may denote that while forming part of David's bodyguard, they were also sometimes employed as couriers (2 Sam. 8:18; 20:7, 23;1 Kings 1:38, 44; 1 Chr. 18:17). Some, however, think that these are the names simply of two Philistine tribes from which David selected his body-guard. They are mentioned along with the Gittites (2 Sam. 15:18), another body of foreign troops whom David gathered round him.
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Pelethites, judges; destroyers