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   Patavium
         n 1: a city in Veneto [syn: {Padua}, {Padova}, {Patavium}]

English Dictionary: potbound by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pathfinder
n
  1. someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
    Synonym(s): scout, pathfinder, guide
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
patty-pan
n
  1. a pan for cooking patties or pasties
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pattypan squash
n
  1. squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
    Synonym(s): cymling, pattypan squash
  2. round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
photo finish
n
  1. in general, any very close finish; in particular, a finish of a race in which the contestants are so close together that the winner must be determined from a photograph taken at the instant of finishing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
potbound
adj
  1. (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots
    Synonym(s): potbound, rootbound
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
put behind bars
v
  1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
    Synonym(s): imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
put-upon
adj
  1. of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
    Synonym(s): exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized, victimised
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Patavinity \Pat`a*vin"i*ty\, n. [L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium:
      cf. F. patavinit[82]]
      The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar
      style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called
      from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pathfinder \Path"find`er\, n.
      One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed
      regions.
  
               The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. --J.
                                                                              Burroughs.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pattypan \Pat"ty*pan`\, n.
      1. A pan for baking patties.
  
      2. A patty. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Photo-epinasty \Pho`to-ep"i*nas`ty\, n. [See {Photo-}, and
      {Epinastic}.] (Bot.)
      A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of
      dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of
      exposure to light. --Encyc. Brit.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Photophone \Pho"to*phone\, n. [Photo- + Gr. [?] sound.]
      (Physics)
      An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of
      rays of light. --A. G. Bell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Photophonic \Pho`to*phon"ic\, a.
      Of or pertaining to photophone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Photophony \Pho*toph"o*ny\, n.
      The art or practice of using the photophone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pied \Pied\, a. [From {Pie} the party-colored bird.]
      Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored;
      spotted; piebald. [bd]Pied coats.[b8] --Burton. [bd]Meadows
      trim with daisies pied.[b8] --Milton.
  
      {Pied antelope} (Zo[94]l.), the bontebok.
  
      {Pied-billed grebe} (Zo[94]l.), the dabchick.
  
      {Pied blackbird} (Zo[94]l.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus
            {Turdulus}.
  
      {Pied finch} (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The chaffinch.
      (b) The snow bunting. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Pied flycatcher} (Zo[94]l.), a common European flycatcher
            ({Ficedula atricapilla}). The male is black and white.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pitpan \Pit"pan`\, n.
      A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of
      rivers and lagoons in Central America. --Squier.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Pettibone, ND (city, FIPS 62060)
      Location: 47.11779 N, 99.52010 W
      Population (1990): 93 (66 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58475
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