packed
         adj 1: filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty
                  clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed
                  theater" [syn: {jammed}, {jam-packed}, {packed}]
         2: pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"

English Dictionary: pooch out	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
packet n a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel] (computer science) a message or message fragment a small package or bundle a boat for carrying mail Synonym(s): mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pact n a written agreement between two states or sovereigns [syn: treaty, pact, accord]
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PAGAD n a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords; evolved into a vigilante group with anti- western views closely allied with Qibla; is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East; is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism Synonym(s): People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Paget n English pathologist who discovered the cause of trichinosis (1814-1899) Synonym(s): Paget, Sir James Paget
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pagoda n an Asian temple; usually a pyramidal tower with an upward curving roof
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pashto n an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan Synonym(s): Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pashtu n an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan Synonym(s): Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan
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pass out v pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain Synonym(s): faint, conk, swoon, pass out give to several people; "The teacher handed out the exams" Synonym(s): distribute, give out, hand out, pass out lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example Synonym(s): zonk out, pass out, black out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
passado n (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward Synonym(s): lunge, straight thrust, passado
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past adv so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" Synonym(s): by, past adj earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" Antonym(s): future, present(a) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" Synonym(s): past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a) n the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] Antonym(s): future, futurity, hereafter, time to come a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Synonym(s): past, past tense
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pasta n a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg Synonym(s): pasta, alimentary paste
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paste n any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard Synonym(s): paste, library paste a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes Synonym(s): spread, paste v join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" Synonym(s): glue, paste hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent" cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pasto n an active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes Synonym(s): Galeras, Pasto
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pasty adj resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white" Synonym(s): pasty, pastelike having the sticky properties of an adhesive Synonym(s): gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous n small meat pie or turnover (usually used in the plural) one of a pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
paucity n an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Paxto n an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan Synonym(s): Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pay cut n the act of reducing a salary Synonym(s): pay cut, salary cut
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paysheet n the total amount of money paid in wages; "the company had a large payroll" Synonym(s): payroll, paysheet a list of employees and their salaries; "the company had a long payroll" Synonym(s): payroll, paysheet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pct n a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) Synonym(s): percentage, percent, per centum, pct
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peach-wood n tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry Synonym(s): brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peachwood n tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry Synonym(s): brazilwood, peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peacoat n a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket [syn: {pea jacket}, peacoat]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peaked adj somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" Synonym(s): ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy having or rising to a peak; "the peaked ceiling"; "the island's peaked hills"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peck at v eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" Synonym(s): pick at, peck at, peck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peseta n formerly the basic unit of money in Spain; equal to 100 centimos Synonym(s): peseta, Spanish peseta
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pest n a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal Synonym(s): plague, pestilence, pest, pestis any epidemic disease with a high death rate Synonym(s): plague, pestilence, pest a persistently annoying person Synonym(s): pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pesto n a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phase out v terminate gradually Antonym(s): phase in
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
phase-out n the act or instance of a planned discontinuation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Phocidae n earless seals Synonym(s): Phocidae, family Phocidae
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Physidae n freshwater snails Synonym(s): Physidae, family Physidae
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Piaget n Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980) Synonym(s): Piaget, Jean Piaget
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Picidae n woodpeckers Synonym(s): Picidae, family Picidae
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pick at v pluck or pull at with the fingers; "She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse" Synonym(s): pick at, pluck at, pull at eat like a bird; "The anorexic girl just picks at her food" Synonym(s): pick at, peck at, peck express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" Synonym(s): disparage, belittle, pick at Antonym(s): blandish, flatter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pick out v pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" Synonym(s): choose, take, select, pick out detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" Synonym(s): spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picket n a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event Synonym(s): lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work a vehicle performing sentinel duty a wooden strip forming part of a fence Synonym(s): picket, pale a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake Synonym(s): picket, piquet v serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs" fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Pickett n American Confederate general known for leading a disastrous charge at Gettysburg (1825-1875) Synonym(s): Pickett, George Edward Pickett
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picot n an edging of small loops, as on lace or ribbon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piece-dye v dye after weaving
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pig it v live like a pig, in squalor Synonym(s): pig, pig it
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pig out v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" Synonym(s): gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pigsty n a pen for swine Synonym(s): sty, pigsty, pigpen
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pigweed n common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb Synonym(s): lamb's-quarters, pigweed, wild spinach, Chenopodium album leaves sometimes used as potherbs; seeds used as cereal; southern United States to Central America; India and China Synonym(s): pigweed, Amaranthus hypochondriacus leaves collected from the wild Synonym(s): lamb's-quarter, pigweed, wild spinach
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piquet n a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake Synonym(s): picket, piquet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Piscidia n genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; roots and bark yield fish poisons Synonym(s): Piscidia, genus Piscidia
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pissed adj aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay" Synonym(s): annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung very drunk Synonym(s): besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
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piste n a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts a ski run densely packed with snow
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pistia n pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge- shaped leaves; a widespread weed in rivers and lakes Synonym(s): pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
PKD n kidney disease characterized by enlarged kidneys containing many cysts; often leads to kidney failure Synonym(s): polycystic kidney disease, PKD
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poached adj cooked in hot water Synonym(s): boiled, poached, stewed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pocked adj used of paved surfaces having holes or pits [syn: pocked, pockmarked, potholed] marked by or as if by smallpox or acne or other eruptive skin disease Synonym(s): pocked, pockmarked
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pocket n a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" Synonym(s): pouch, sac, sack, pocket a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike" a hollow concave shape made by removing something Synonym(s): scoop, pocket a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly Synonym(s): air pocket, pocket, air hole a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance" (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) Synonym(s): pouch, pocket an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck v put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" take unlawfully Synonym(s): pocket, bag
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poised adj marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action; "a gull in poised flight"; "George's poised hammer" in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble" Synonym(s): collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poke at v to push against gently; "She nudged my elbow when she saw her friend enter the restaurant" Synonym(s): nudge, poke at, prod
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poke out v reach outward in space; "The awning extends several feet over the sidewalk" Synonym(s): extend, poke out, reach out
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pokeweed n perennial of the genus Phytolacca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pooch out v round one's lips as if intending to kiss [syn: pooch, pooch out]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
posed adj arranged for pictorial purposes Antonym(s): unposed
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posit n (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning Synonym(s): postulate, posit v put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" Synonym(s): situate, fix, posit, deposit put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" Synonym(s): submit, state, put forward, posit take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" Synonym(s): postulate, posit
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posset n sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer
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post n the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" Synonym(s): post, station military installation at which a body of troops is stationed; "this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby"; "there is an officer's club on the post" Synonym(s): military post, post a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" Synonym(s): position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position; "he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them" United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935) Synonym(s): Post, Wiley Post United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) Synonym(s): Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914) Synonym(s): Post, C. W. Post, Charles William Post any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me?"; "she was opening her post" Synonym(s): mail, post a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track); "a pair of posts marked the goal"; "the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake" Synonym(s): post, stake the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'" Synonym(s): mail, mail service, postal service, post the delivery and collection of letters and packages; "it came by the first post"; "if you hurry you'll catch the post" v affix in a public place or for public notice; "post a warning" publicize with, or as if with, a poster; "I'll post the news on the bulletin board" assign to a post; put into a post; "The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu" assign to a station Synonym(s): station, post, send, place display, as of records in sports games enter on a public list transfer (entries) from one account book to another Synonym(s): post, carry ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait mark with a stake; "stake out the path" Synonym(s): stake, post place so as to be noticed; "post a sign"; "post a warning at the dump" Synonym(s): post, put up cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written" Synonym(s): mail, post, send mark or expose as infamous; "She was branded a loose woman" Synonym(s): post, brand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pouched adj having a pouch
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Psetta n a genus of Bothidae Synonym(s): Psetta, genus Psetta
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pseud n a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
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pseudo adj (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic" n a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
PST n standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States Synonym(s): Pacific Time, Pacific Standard Time, PST
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
push out v push to thrust outward [syn: push out, obtrude, {thrust out}]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pacate \Pa"cate\, a. [L. pacatus, p. p. of pacare to pacify, fr.       pax, pacis, peace. See {Pay} to requite, {Peace}.]       Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pace \Pace\, n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace,       orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere,       passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf.       {Pas}, {Pass}.]       1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a             step.          2. The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from             the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as             a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty             paces. [bd]The heigh of sixty pace .[b8] --Chaucer.          Note: Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half                linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping,                the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to                three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The                regulation marching pace in the English and United                States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and                thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace                (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of                the same foot when it next touched the ground, five                Roman feet.          3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk,             trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a             swaggering pace; a quick pace. --Chaucer.                         To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in                      this petty pace from day to day.         --Shak.                         In the military schools of riding a variety of paces                      are taught.                                       --Walsh.          4. A slow gait; a footpace. [Obs.] --Chucer.          5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.          6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. [R.]                         The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is                      to fall into confidence with Spain.   --Sir W.                                                                               Temple.          7. (Arch.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor             slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at             the upper end of a hall.          8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the             warp in pacing the web.          {Geometrical pace}, the space from heel to heel between the             spot where one foot is set down and that where the same             foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or             by some at four feet and two fifths. See {Roman pace} in             the Note under def. 2. [Obs.]          {To} {keep, [or] hold}, {pace with}, to keep up with; to go             as fast as. [bd]In intellect and attainments he kept pace             with his age.[b8] --Southey.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Paced \Paced\, a.       Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; --       used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced       villain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pace \Pace\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paced}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pacing}.]       1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or             measured steps. [bd]I paced on slowly.[b8] --Pope.             [bd]With speed so pace.[b8] --Shak.          2. To proceed; to pass on. [Obs.]                         Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace.                                                                               --Chaucer.          3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side             together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.          4. To pass away; to die. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pachyote \Pach"y*ote\, n. [Pachy- + Gr. [?], [?], ear.]       (Zo[94]l.)       One of a family of bats, including those which have thick       external ears.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pack \Pack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Packed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Packing}.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw.       packa, Icel. pakka. See {Pack}, n.]       1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a             pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack;             to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack             goods in a box; to pack fish.                         Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.                                                                               --Addison.                         Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are                      packed.                                             --Shak.          2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and             securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or             to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to             crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the             audience, packs the theater.          3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure             the game unfairly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Packet \Pack"et\, v. i.       To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pact \Pact\, n. [L. pactum, fr. paciscere to make a bargain or       contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf. pangere to       fasten, Gr. [?], Skr. p[be]ca bond, and E. fang: cf. F.       pacie. Cf. {Peace}, {Fadge}, v.]       An agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant. --Bacon.                   The engagement and pact of society whish goes by the                name of the constitution.                        --Burke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Page \Page\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Paged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Paging}.]       To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to       furnish with folios.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pagehood \Page"hood\, n.       The state of being a page.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pagod \Pa"god\, n. [Cf. F. pagode. See {Pagoda}.]       1. A pagoda. [R.] [bd]Or some queer pagod.[b8] --Pope.          2. An idol. [Obs.] --Bp. Stillingfleet.
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Pagoda \Pa*go"da\, n. [Pg. pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per.       but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per. but an idol       + kadah a house, a temple.]       1. A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and             tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of             India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not             always, devoted to idol worship.          2. An idol. [R.] --Brande & C.          3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a deity (cf.             Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on it.] A gold or             silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current             in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and             a half rupees.
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Passade \Pas*sade"\, Passado \Pas*sa"do\, n. [F. passade; cf.       Sp. pasada. See {Pass}, v. i.]       1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak.          2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on             the same spot of ground.
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Passade \Pas*sade"\, Passado \Pas*sa"do\, n. [F. passade; cf.       Sp. pasada. See {Pass}, v. i.]       1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. --Shak.          2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on             the same spot of ground.
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Pass \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or       from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See {Pace}.]       1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred             from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually             with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the             kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in,             etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass             to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the             field, beyond the border, etc. [bd]But now pass over [i.             e., pass on].[b8] --Chaucer.                         On high behests his angels to and fro Passed                      frequent.                                          --Milton.                         Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And                      from their bodies passed.                  --Coleridge.          2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to             another; to change possession, condition, or             circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has             passed into other hands.                         Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass                      from just to unjust.                           --Sir W.                                                                               Temple.          3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to             pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart;             specifically, to depart from life; to die.                         Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak.                         Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass.                                                                               --Dryden.                         The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked                      with human eyes.                                 --Tennyson.          4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and             go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to             happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession;             to be present transitorily.                         So death passed upon all men.            --Rom. v. 12.                         Our own consciousness of what passes within our own                      mind.                                                --I. Watts.          5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as,             their vacation passed pleasantly.                         Now the time is far passed.               --Mark vi. 35          6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and             taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain             general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate;             to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting             value or estimation. [bd]Let him pass for a man.[b8]             --Shak.                         False eloquence passeth only where true is not                      understood.                                       --Felton.                         This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury.          7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to             validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body             that has power to sanction or reject; to receive             legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution             passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress.          8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be             approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination,             but did not expect to pass.          9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to             continue; to live along. [bd]The play may pass.[b8]             --Shak.          10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance             or opposition; as, we let this act pass.          11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.]             [bd]This passes, Master Ford.[b8] --Shak.          12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.]                         As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.                                                                               --Shak.          13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot.          14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or             other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a             certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W.          15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust.          16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an             optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to             bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline             to make the trump.                         She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior.          17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer             the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side.             [Webster 1913 Suppl.]          {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and             {Come}.          {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. [bd]The             heavens shall pass away.[b8] --2 Pet. iii. 10. [bd]I             thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.[b8]             --Tennyson.          {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or             place; as, he passed by as we stood there.          {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend             or unite with.          {To pass on}, to proceed.          {To pass on} [or] {upon}.             (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. [bd]So death                   passed upon all men.[b8] --Rom. v. 12. [bd]Provided                   no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define                   them.[b8] --Jer. Taylor.             (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence                   upon. [bd]We may not pass upon his life.[b8] --Shak.          {To pass off}, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an             agitation passes off.          {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other; to             cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
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Past \Past\, adv.       By; beyond; as, he ran past.                   The alarum of drums swept past.               --Longfellow.
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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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Past \Past\, n.       A former time or state; a state of things gone by. [bd]The       past, at least, is secure.[b8] --D. Webster.                   The present is only intelligible in the light of the                past, often a very remote past indeed.   --Trench.
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Past \Past\, prep.       1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the             reach or influence of. [bd]Who being past feeling.[b8]             --Eph. iv. 19. [bd]Galled past endurance.[b8] --Macaulay.                         Until we be past thy borders.            --Num. xxi.                                                                               22.                         Love, when once past government, is consequently                      past shame.                                       --L'Estrange.
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Paste \Paste\, n. [OF. paste, F. p[83]te, L. pasta, fr. Gr. [?]       barley broth; cf. [?] barley porridge, [?] sprinkled with       salt, [?] to sprinkle. Cf. {Pasty}, n., {Patty}.]       1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or             milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough,             as in making potter's ware.          2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust             of pies and the like; pastry dough.          3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and             water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other             substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in             calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.          4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously             colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or             gems. See {Strass}.          5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit,             licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.          6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are             imbedded.          {Paste eel} (Zo[94]l.), the vinegar eel. See under {Vinegar}.
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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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Pasty \Pas"ty\, a.       Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. [bd]A pasty       complexion.[b8] --G. Eliot.
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Pasty \Pas"ty\, n.; pl. {Pasties}. [OF. past[82], F. p[83]t[82].       See {Paste}, and cf. {Patty}.]       A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a       crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a       dish; a meat pie. [bd]If ye pinch me like a pasty.[b8]       --Shak. [bd]Apple pasties.[b8] --Dickens.                   A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. --Sir W.                                                                               Scott.
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Paucity \Pau"ci*ty\, n. [L. paucitas, fr. paucus few, little:       cf. F. paucit[82] See {Few}.]       1. Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. --Hooker.                         Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the                      paucity, and the incompleteness, of its                      communications.                                 --I. Taylor.          2. Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity             of blood. --Sir T. Browne.
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Pause \Pause\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Paused}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pausing}.] [Cf. F. pauser, L. pausare. See {Pause}, n.,       {Pose}.]       1. To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit             speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest. [bd]Tarry,             pause a day or two.[b8] --Shak.                         Pausing while, thus to herself she mused. --Milton.          2. To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses.          3. To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. [R.]                         Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture. --Shak.
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Peaked \Peaked\, a.       1. Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.          2. (Oftener [?]) Sickly; not robust. [Colloq.]
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Peak \Peak\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Peaked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Peaking}.]       1. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear             as, a peak.                         There peaketh up a mighty high mount. --Holand.          2. To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look             thin or sicky. [bd]Dwindle, peak, and pine.[b8] --Shak.          3. [Cf. {Peek}.] To pry; to peep slyly. --Shak.          {Peak arch} (Arch.), a pointed or Gothic arch.
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Peascod \Peas"cod`\, n.       The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
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Peck \Peck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pecking}.] [See {Pick}, v.]       1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a             bird pecks a tree.          2. Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with             a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc.,             with repeated quick movements.          3. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak;             to bite; to eat; -- often with up. --Addison.                         This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. --Shak.          4. To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed             instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
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Peg \Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pegged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pegging}.]       1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to             peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit             closely.                         I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty                      entrails.                                          --Shak.          2. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as,             she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]
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Pequots \Pe"quots\, n. pl.; sing. {Pequot}. (Ethnol.)       A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern       Connecticut. [Written also {Pequods}.]
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Pesade \Pe*sade"\, n. [F.] (Man.)       The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he       keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.
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Peschito \Pe*schit"o\, n.       See {Peshito}.
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac       pesh[8c]t[83] simple.]       The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated       from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New       Testament. [Written also {peschito}.]
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Peschito \Pe*schit"o\, n.       See {Peshito}.
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac       pesh[8c]t[83] simple.]       The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated       from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New       Testament. [Written also {peschito}.]
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac       pesh[8c]t[83] simple.]       The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated       from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New       Testament. [Written also {peschito}.]
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Peshito \Pe*shit"o\, Peshitto \Pe*shit"to\, n. [Syriac       pesh[8c]t[83] simple.]       The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated       from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New       Testament. [Written also {peschito}.]
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Pest \Pest\, n. [L. pestis: cf. F. peste.]       1. A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the             plague.                         England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest.                                                                               --Cowper.          2. Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which,             is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a             nuisance. [bd]A pest and public enemy.[b8] --South.
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Pexity \Pex"i*ty\, n. [L. pexitas, fr. pexus woolly, nappy, p.       p. of pectere to comb.]       Nap of cloth. [Obs.]
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Phacoid \Pha"coid\, a. [Gr. [?] a lentil + -oid.]       Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
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Phycite \Phy"cite\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed.] (Chem.)       See {Erythrite}, 1.
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Erythrite \E*ryth"rite\, n. [Gr. 'eryqro`s red.]       1. (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, {C4H6.(OH)4},             of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens,             and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called             also {erythrol}, {erythroglucin}, {erythromannite},             {pseudorcin}, {cobalt bloom}, and under the name {phycite}             obtained from the alga {Protococcus vulgaris}. It is a             tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.
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Phycite \Phy"cite\, n. [Gr. [?] seaweed.] (Chem.)       See {Erythrite}, 1.
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Erythrite \E*ryth"rite\, n. [Gr. 'eryqro`s red.]       1. (Chem.) A colorless crystalline substance, {C4H6.(OH)4},             of a sweet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens,             and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called             also {erythrol}, {erythroglucin}, {erythromannite},             {pseudorcin}, {cobalt bloom}, and under the name {phycite}             obtained from the alga {Protococcus vulgaris}. It is a             tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.
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Pick \Pick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to       Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F.       piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to throw.]       1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]                         As high as I could pick my lance.      --Shak.          2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with             anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;             to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.          3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;             as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.          4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.          5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to             pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the             stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.          6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with             the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to             pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.                         Did you pick Master Slender's purse?   --Shak.                         He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an                      old tavern quill, is hungry yet.         --Cowper.          7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable;             to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; --             often with out. [bd]One man picked out of ten             thousand.[b8] --Shak.          8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to             collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often             with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up             information.          9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          {To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.          {To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}.          {To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's             Utopia).          {To pick off}.             (a) To pluck; to remove by picking.             (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters                   pick off the enemy.          {To pick out}.             (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark                   stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.             (b) To select from a number or quantity.          {To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence             [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.          {To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel             intentionally.          {To pick up}.             (a) To take up, as with the fingers.             (b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;                   as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
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Picked \Pick"ed\, a.       1. Pointed; sharp. [bd]Picked and polished.[b8] --Chapman.                         Let the stake be made picked at the top. --Mortimer.          2. (Zo[94]l.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of             certain fishes.          3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.          4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. [Obs.] --Shak.          {Picked dogfish}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Dogfish}.          {Picked out}, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like,             of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage             body dark green, picked out with red.
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Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear,       pike. See {Pike}, and cf. {Piquet}.]       1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in             fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles;             or one used for tethering horses.          2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.          3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.]             (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army             from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the             enemy; -- called also {outlying picket}.          4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other             labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent             them from working for employers with whom the organization             is at variance. [Cant]
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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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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},       and {Picket}.]       A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two       cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being       set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
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Picket \Pick"et\, n. [F. piquet, properly dim. of pique spear,       pike. See {Pike}, and cf. {Piquet}.]       1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in             fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles;             or one used for tethering horses.          2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences.          3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.]             (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army             from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the             enemy; -- called also {outlying picket}.          4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other             labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent             them from working for employers with whom the organization             is at variance. [Cant]
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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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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},       and {Picket}.]       A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two       cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being       set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
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Picketee \Pick`e*tee"\, n. (Bot.)       See {Picotee}.
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Picoid \Pi"coid\, a. [Picus + -oid.] (Zo[94]l.)       Like or pertaining to the Pici.
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Picotee \Pic`o*tee"\, Picotine \Pic`o*tine"\, 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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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},       and {Picket}.]       A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two       cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being       set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
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Picquet \Pic"quet\, n.       See {Piquet}.
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},       and {Picket}.]       A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two       cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being       set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
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Picquet \Pic"quet\, n.       See {Piquet}.
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Picts \Picts\, n. pl.; sing. {Pict}. [L. Picti; cf. AS.       Peohtas.] (Ethnol.)       A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland       in early times.
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Piece \Piece\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pieced}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Piecing}.]       1. To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or             pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with             out. --Shak.          2. To unite; to join; to combine. --Fuller.                         His adversaries . . . pieced themselves together in                      a joint opposition against him.         --Fuller.
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Pig-eyed \Pig"-eyed`\, a.       Having small, deep-set eyes.
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Pig \Pig\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Pigged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pigging}.]       1. To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of             pigs; to farrow.          2. To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
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Pight \Pight\, imp. & p. p. of {Pitch}, to throw; -- used also       adjectively.       Pitched; fixed; determined. [Obs.]                   [His horse] pight him on the pommel of his head.                                                                               --Chaucer.                   I found him pight to do it.                     --Shak.
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Pig-jawed \Pig"-jawed`\, a. (Zo[94]l.)       Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the       upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.
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Pigsty \Pig"sty`\, n.; pl. {Pigsties}.       A pigpen.
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Pigweed \Pig"weed`\, n. (Bot.)       A name of several annual weeds. See {Goosefoot}, and       {Lamb's-quarters}.
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Pique \Pique\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Piqued}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Piquing}.] [F. piquer. See {Pike}.]       1. To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate;             to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.                         Pique her, and soothe in turn.            --Byron.          2. To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to             stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.             --Prior.          3. To pride or value; -- used reflexively.                         Men . . . pique themselves upon their skill.                                                                               --Locke.          Syn: To offend; displease; irritate; provoke; fret; nettle;                sting; goad; stimulate.
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Piquet \Piqu"et\, n.       See {Picket}. [R.]
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Piquet \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},       and {Picket}.]       A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two       cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being       set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
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Pist \Pist\, n. (Man.)       See {Piste}.
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Piste \Piste\, n. [F., fr. L. pisere, pinsere, pistum, to       pound.] (Min.)       The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes       over. --Johnson.
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Poach \Poach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poached}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Poaching}.] [F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs       (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white),       from poche pocket, pouch. See {Pouch}, v. & n.]       1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water;             also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.             --Bacon.          2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as             game; hence, to plunder. --Garth.
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Pocket \Pock"et\, n.       Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use;       specif.:       (a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.       (b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.       (c) A bight on a lee shore.
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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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Pockwood \Pock"wood`\, n. [So called because formerly used as a       specific for the pock.] (Bot.)       Lignum-vit[91].
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Poise \Poise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poised}, ; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Poising}.] [OE. poisen, peisen, OF. & F. peser, to weigh,       balance, OF. il peise, il poise, he weighs, F. il p[8a]se,       fr. L. pensare, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Poise},       n., and cf. {Pensive}.] [Formerly written also {peise}.]       1. To balance; to make of equal weight; as, to poise the             scales of a balance.          2. To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.                         Nor yet was earth suspended in the sky; Nor poised,                      did on her own foundation lie.            --Dryden.          3. To counterpoise; to counterbalance.                         One scale of reason to poise another of sensuality.                                                                               --Shak.                         To poise with solid sense a sprightly wit. --Dryden.          4. To ascertain, as by the balance; to weigh.                         He can not sincerely consider the strength, poise                      the weight, and discern the evidence. --South.          5. To weigh (down); to oppress. [Obs.]                         Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow. --Shak.
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Poke \Poke\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Poking}.] [Cf. LG. poken to prick, pierce, thrust, pok a       dagger, knife, D. pook, G. pocken to beat, also Ir. poc a       blow, Gael. puc to push.]       1. To thrust or push against or into with anything pointed;             hence, to stir up; to excite; as, to poke a fire.                         He poked John, and said [bd]Sleepest thou ?[b8]                                                                               --Chaucer.          2. To thrust with the horns; to gore.          3. [From 5th {Poke}, 3.] To put a poke on; as, to poke an ox.             [Colloq. U. S.]          {To poke fun}, to excite fun; to joke; to jest. [Colloq.]          {To poke fun at}, to make a butt of; to ridicule. [Colloq.]
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Poket \Pok"et\, n.       A pocket. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.)       A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({P.       decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also       {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root       and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are       used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a       substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used       in Europe to color wine.
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Pokeweed \Poke"weed`\, n. (Bot.)       See {Poke}, the plant.
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Poke \Poke\, n. (Bot.)       A large North American herb of the genus {Phytolacca} ({P.       decandra}), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also       {garget}, {pigeon berry}, {pocan}, and {pokeweed}. The root       and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are       used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a       substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used       in Europe to color wine.
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Pokeweed \Poke"weed`\, n. (Bot.)       See {Poke}, the plant.
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Posed \Posed\, a.       Firm; determined; fixed. [bd]A most posed . . . and grave       behavior.[b8] [Obs.] --Urquhart.
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Pose \Pose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Posing}.] [F. poser to place, to put, L. pausare to pause,       in LL. also, to place, put, fr. L. pausa a pause, Gr. [?],       fr. [?] to make to cease, prob. akin to E. few. In compounds,       this word appears corresponding to L. ponere to put, place,       the substitution in French having been probably due to       confusion of this word with L. positio position, fr. ponere.       See {Few}, and cf. {Appose}, {Dispose}, {Oppose}, {Pause},       {Repose}, {Position}.]       To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of       effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a       studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a       sitter for a portrait.
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Posied \Po"sied\, a.       Inscribed with a posy.                   In poised lockets bribe the fair.            --Gay.
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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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Posset \Pos"set\, n. [W. posel curdled milk, posset.]       A beverage composed of hot milk curdled by some strong       infusion, as by wine, etc., -- much in favor formerly. [bd]I       have drugged their posset.[b8] --Shak.
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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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Sheth \Sheth\, n.       The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,       for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called       {standard}, or {post}.
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\       A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic       symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of       the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the       Koluschan stock.
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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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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr.       pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.]       A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure,       postdot, postscript.
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position,       generally for a bad purpose.]       Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys.
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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. [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\, 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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Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.]       1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in             haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8]             --Shak.                         And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton.          2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with             the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]
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Post \Post\, adv.       With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
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Sheth \Sheth\, n.       The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,       for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called       {standard}, or {post}.
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\       A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic       symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of       the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the       Koluschan stock.
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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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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr.       pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.]       A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure,       postdot, postscript.
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position,       generally for a bad purpose.]       Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys.
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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. [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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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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Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.]       1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in             haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8]             --Shak.                         And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton.          2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with             the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]
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Post \Post\, adv.       With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
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Sheth \Sheth\, n.       The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,       for holding the share and other working parts; -- also called       {standard}, or {post}.
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Totem pole \To"tem pole\ [or] post \post\       A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic       symbols, set up before the house of certain Indian tribes of       the northwest coast of North America, esp. Indians of the       Koluschan stock.
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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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Post- \Post-\ (p[omac]st). [L. post behind, after; cf. Skr.       pa[87]c[be]behind, afterwards.]       A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure,       postdot, postscript.
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Post \Post\, a. [F. aposter to place in a post or position,       generally for a bad purpose.]       Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. [Obs.] --Sir E. Sandys.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Post \Post\, v. i. [Cf. OF. poster. See 4th {Post}.]       1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in             haste. [bd]Post seedily to my lord your husband.[b8]             --Shak.                         And post o'er land and ocean without rest. --Milton.          2. (Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with             the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. [Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Post \Post\, adv.       With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pouching}.]       1. To put or take into a pouch.          2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham.          3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth.          4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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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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Poussette \Pous*sette"\ (p[oomac]*s[ecr]t"), n. [F., pushpin,       fr. pousser to push. See {Push}.]       A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.       --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poussette \Pous*sette"\, v. i.       To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] --Tennyson.                   Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. --J. &                                                                               H. Smith.
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Pox \Pox\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poxed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Poxing}.]       To infect with the pox, or syphilis.
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Pseudo- \Pseu"do-\ [Gr. pseydh`s lying, false, akin to psey`dein       to belie; cf. psydro`s lying, psy`qos a lie.]       A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit,       pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle;       pseudo-clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy,       pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used       adjectively.
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Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]       1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery,             etc.          2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread             with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of             deadening sound. See {Pugging}, 2.
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Puke \Puke\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puked}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Puking}.] [Cf. G. spucken to spit, and E. spew.]       To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.                   The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.                                                                               --Shak.
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Puseyistic \Pu"sey*is"tic\, Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, a.       Of or pertaining to Puseyism.
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Puseyite \Pu"sey*ite\, n.       One who holds the principles of Puseyism; -- often used       opprobriously.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Push \Push\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pushed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Pushing}.] [OE. possen, pussen, F. pousser, fr. L. pulsare,       v. intens. fr. pellere, pulsum, to beat, knock, push. See       {Pulse} a beating, and cf. {Pursy}.]       1. To press against with force; to drive or impel by             pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without             striking; -- opposed to {draw}.                         Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat.                                                                               --Milton.          2. To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.                         If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, .                      . . the ox shall be stoned.               --Ex. xxi. 32.          3. To press or urge forward; to drive; to push an objection             too far. [bd] To push his fortune.[b8] --Dryden.                         Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt                      to procure honor to the actor.            --Spectator.                         We are pushed for an answer.               --Swift.          4. To bear hard upon; to perplex; to embarrass.          5. To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease.          {To push down}, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.
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d8Pygidium \[d8]Py*gid"i*um\, n.; pl. {Pygidia}. [NL., fr. Gr.       [?], dim. of [?] the rump.] (Zo[94]l.)       The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain       insects. See Illust. of {Limulus} and {Trilobite}.
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d8Pyxidium \[d8]Pyx*id"i*um\, n.; pl. {Pyxidia}. [NL., fr. Gr.       [?], dim. a [?] a box. See {Pyx}.] (Bot.)       (a) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower             half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in             the pimpernel and purslane.       (b) The theca of mosses.
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Pachuta, MS (town, FIPS 54960)       Location: 32.04282 N, 88.88436 W       Population (1990): 268 (130 housing units)       Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 39347
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Packwood, IA (city, FIPS 60915)       Location: 41.13246 N, 92.08180 W       Population (1990): 208 (98 housing units)       Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 52580    Packwood, WA       Zip code(s): 98361
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Paguate, NM (CDP, FIPS 54710)       Location: 35.13459 N, 107.36381 W       Population (1990): 492 (195 housing units)       Area: 19.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Peosta, IA (city, FIPS 62130)       Location: 42.44885 N, 90.85074 W       Population (1990): 128 (39 housing units)       Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 52068
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Pick City, ND (city, FIPS 62260)       Location: 47.51190 N, 101.45609 W       Population (1990): 203 (129 housing units)       Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
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Pickett, WI       Zip code(s): 54964
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Piggott, AR (city, FIPS 55130)       Location: 36.38388 N, 90.20081 W       Population (1990): 3777 (1777 housing units)       Area: 9.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 72454
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Piscataway, NJ       Zip code(s): 08854
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Poquott, NY (village, FIPS 59157)       Location: 40.95222 N, 73.08918 W       Population (1990): 770 (313 housing units)       Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Post, OR       Zip code(s): 97752    Post, TX (city, FIPS 59012)       Location: 33.19087 N, 101.38131 W       Population (1990): 3768 (1547 housing units)       Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)       Zip code(s): 79356
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Puckett, MS (village, FIPS 60360)       Location: 32.08443 N, 89.77837 W       Population (1990): 294 (116 housing units)       Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
page out vi.   [MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings    temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.   "Can you repeat    that?   I paged out for a minute."   See {page in}.   Compare {glitch},    {thinko}.   2. Syn. `swap out'; see {swap}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
pastie /pay'stee/ n.   An adhesive-backed label designed to be    attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard    character which can be accessed through that key.   Pasties are    likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is    associated with a special character.   A pastie on the R key, for    example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho    character.   The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices    formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws;    compare {tits on a keyboard}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
post v.   To send a message to a {mailing list} or {newsgroup}.    Distinguished in context from `mail'; one might ask, for example:    "Are you going to post the patch or mail it to known users?"
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
pseudo /soo'doh/ n.   [Usenet: truncation of `pseudonym'] 1. An    electronic-mail or {Usenet} persona adopted by a human for amusement    value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's    net.behavior; a `nom de Usenet', often associated with forged    postings designed to conceal message origins.   Perhaps the    best-known and funniest hoax of this type is {B1FF}.   See also    {tentacle}.   2. Notionally, a {flamage}-generating AI program    simulating a Usenet user.   Many flamers have been accused of    actually being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of    the required sophistication yet exists.   However, in 1989 there was    a famous series of forged postings that used a    phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the styles of    several well-known flamers; it was based on large samples of their    back postings (compare {Dissociated Press}).   A significant number    of people were fooled by the forgeries, and the debate over their    authenticity was settled only when the perpetrator came forward to    publicly admit the hoax.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
packet          The unit of data sent across a {network}.   "Packet" is a       generic term used to describe a unit of data at any layer of       the {OSI} {protocol stack}, but it is most correctly used to       describe {application layer} data units ("{application       protocol data unit}", APDU).          See also {datagram}, {frame}.          (1994-11-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PackIt          A file format used on the {Apple       Macintosh} to represent collections of Mac files, possibly       {Huffman} compressed.   Packing many small related files       together before a {MacBinary} transfer or a translation to       {BinHex} 4.0 is common practice.          (1994-11-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PACT I          An early system on the {IBM 701}.   Version PACT IA was for the       {IBM 704}.          [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)].          (1994-11-30)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
page out          What a {paging} system does when it copies       part of a {task}'s working memory from {RAM} to {swap space}       on disk.          [{Jargon File}]          (1995-01-23)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
paged          {paging}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
paste          {copy and paste}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
pastie          /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key       on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which       can be accessed through that key.   Pasties are likely to be       used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated       with a special character.   A pastie on the R key, for example,       might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho       character.   The term properly refers to nipple-concealing       devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to       indecent-exposure laws; compare {tits on a keyboard}.          [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PC AT          {IBM PC AT}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
P-CAD          A {CAE} system marketed by {CADAM}, an {IBM} company.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
P-code          The intermediate code produced by the {Pascal-P} compiler.       Assembly language for a hypothetical stack machine, the       P-machine, said to have been an imitation of the instruction       set for the Burroughs Large System.   The term was first used       in Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, N. Wirth, P-H       1976.   Byte articles on writing a Pascal Compiler in Northstar       BASIC (ca Aug 1978) also used the term.   Later used in Apple       Pascal, and as the intermediate language in the UCSD P-system.          Variants: P2 P-code, P4 P-code, UCSD P-code, LASL P-code.          Address: USUS, Box 1148, La Jolla, CA 92038, USA.          ["A Comparison of PASCAL Intermediate Languages", P.A. Nelson,       SIGPLAN Notices 14(8):208-213 (Aug 1979)].          (1995-10-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PCTE          {Portable Common Tool Environment}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PCTE+          A European NATO specification based on {PCTE} with security       enhancements.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PCTE          {Portable Common Tool Environment}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PCTE+          A European NATO specification based on {PCTE} with security       enhancements.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PICT          An {Apple} graphics format.          [Details?]          (1997-06-06)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
poset          {partially ordered set}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
post          To send a message to a {mailing list} or       {newsgroup}.   Usually implies that the message is sent       indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to "mail"       which implies one or more deliberately selected individual       recipients.          You should only post a message if you think it will be of       interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the       group or list, otherwise you should use private {electronic       mail} instead.   See {netiquette}.          [{Jargon File}]          (1997-12-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
POST          {power-on self-test}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
post          To send a message to a {mailing list} or       {newsgroup}.   Usually implies that the message is sent       indiscriminately to multiple users, in contrast to "mail"       which implies one or more deliberately selected individual       recipients.          You should only post a message if you think it will be of       interest to a significant proportion of the readers of the       group or list, otherwise you should use private {electronic       mail} instead.   See {netiquette}.          [{Jargon File}]          (1997-12-04)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
POST          {power-on self-test}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
PSD          {Portable Scheme Debugger}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
pseudo          /soo'doh/ ({Usenet}) Pseudonym.          1. An {electronic-mail} or {Usenet} persona adopted by a human       for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative       repercussions of one's net.behaviour; a "nom de {Usenet}",       often associated with forged postings designed to conceal       message origins.   Perhaps the best-known and funniest hoax of       this type is {BIFF}.          2. Notionally, a {flamage}-generating {AI} program simulating       a {Usenet} user.   Many flamers have been accused of actually       being such entities, despite the fact that no AI program of       the required sophistication yet exists.   However, in 1989       there was a famous series of forged postings that used a       phrase-frequency-based travesty generator to simulate the       styles of several well-known flamers; it was based on large       samples of their back postings (compare {Dissociated Press}).       A significant number of people were fooled by the forgeries,       and the debate over their authenticity was settled only when       the perpetrator came forward to publicly admit the hoax.          [{Jargon File}]          (1995-03-13)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pekod       probably a place in Babylonia (Jer. 50:21; Ezek. 23:23). It is       the opinion, however, of some that this word signifies       "visitation," "punishment," and allegorically "designates       Babylon as the city which was to be destroyed."
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Pisidia       a district in Asia Minor, to the north of Pamphylia. The Taurus       range of mountains extends through it. Antioch, one of its chief       cities, was twice visited by Paul (Acts 13:14; 14:21-24).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Post       (1.) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of       letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; 8:10, 14; Job 9:25;       Jer. 51:31). Such messengers were used from very early times.       Those employed by the Hebrew kings had a military character (1       Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25, "guard," marg. "runners"). The modern       system of postal communication was first established by Louis       XI. of France in A.D. 1464.                (2.) This word sometimes also is used for lintel or threshold       (Isa. 6:4).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Pekod, noble; rulers
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Pisidia, pitch; pitchy