English Dictionary: peeler | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pale \Pale\, a. [Compar. {Paler}; superl. {Palest}.] [F. p[83]le, fr. p[83]lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o[?] look pale. Cf. {Appall}, {Fallow}, {pall}, v. i., {Pallid}.] 1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. [bd]Pale as a forpined ghost.[b8] --Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. --Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. --T. Randolph. 2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. --Shak. Note: Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc. | |
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Pallor \Pal"lor\, n. [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See {Pale}, a.] Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. --Jer. Taylor. | |
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Peeler \Peel"er\, n. One who peels or strips. | |
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Peeler \Peel"er\, n. [See {Peel} to plunder.] A pillager. | |
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Peeler \Peel"er\, n. A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel. [British Slang] See {Bobby}. | |
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Piler \Pil"er\, n. One who places things in a pile. | |
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Pillar \Pil"lar\, n. [OE. pilerF. pilier, LL. pilare, pilarium, pilarius, fr. L. pila a pillar. See {Pile} a heap.] 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament. Jacob set a pillar upon her grave. --Gen. xxxv. 20. The place . . . vast and proud, Supported by a hundred pillars stood. --Dryden. 2. Figuratively, that which resembles such a pillar in appearance, character, or office; a supporter or mainstay; as, the Pillars of Hercules; a pillar of the state. [bd]You are a well-deserving pillar.[b8] --Shak. By day a cloud, by night a pillar of fire. --Milton. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. [Obs.] --Skelton. 4. (Man.) The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns. {From pillar to post}, hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. [Colloq.] {Pillar saint}. See {Stylite}. {Pillars of the fauces}. See {Fauces}, 1. | |
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Pillar \Pil"lar\, a. (Mach.) Having a support in the form of a pillar, instead of legs; as, a pillar drill. | |
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Piller \Pill"er\, n. One who pills or plunders. [Obs.] | |
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Pillery \Pill"er*y\, n.; pl. {Pilleries}. Plunder; pillage. [Obs.] --Daniel. | |
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Pillory \Pil"lo*ry\, n.; pl. {Pillories}. [F. pilori; cf. Pr. espitlori, LL. piloricum, pilloricum, pellericum, pellorium, pilorium, spilorium; perhaps from a derivative of L. speculari to look around, observe. Cf. {Speculate}.] A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it. --Shak. | |
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Pillory \Pil"lo*ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pilloried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pillorying}.] [Cf. F. pilorier.] 1. To set in, or punish with, the pillory. [bd]Hungering for Puritans to pillory.[b8] --Macaulay. 2. Figuratively, to expose to public scorn. --Gladstone. | |
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Pilour \Pil"our\, n. A piller; a plunderer. [Obs.] | |
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Player \Play"er\, n. 1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. --Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. --Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. [bd]A cunning player on a harp.[b8] --1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester; a gambler. | |
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Pleura \Pleu"ra\, n.; pl. L. {Pleur[91]}, E. {Pleuras}. [NL., n. fem., fr. Gr. [?] a rib, the side.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. (b) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pleuron}. | |
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Pleura \Pleu"ra\, n.; pl. L. {Pleur[91]}, E. {Pleuras}. [NL., n. fem., fr. Gr. [?] a rib, the side.] 1. (Anat.) (a) The smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax; the pleural membrane. (b) The closed sac formed by the pleural membrane about each lung, or the fold of membrane connecting each lung with the body wall. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Pleuron}. | |
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d8Pleuron \[d8]Pleu"ron\, n.; pl. {Pleura}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?] a rib.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) One of the sides of an animal. (b) One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect. (c) One of lateral processes of a somite of a crustacean. | |
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Pleuro- \Pleu"ro-\ [See {Pleura}.] A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum. | |
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Plower \Plow"er\, Plougher \Plough"er\, n. One who plows; a plowman; a cultivator. | |
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Pluri- \Plu"ri-\ [See {Plus}.] A combining form from L. plus, pluris, more, many; as pluriliteral. | |
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Plyer \Ply"er\, n. One who, or that which, plies; specifically: (a) pl. A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross. (b) pl. See {Pliers}. | |
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Polar \Po"lar\, a. [Cf. F. polaire. See {Pole} of the earth.] 1. Of or pertaining to one of the poles of the earth, or of a sphere; situated near, or proceeding from, one of the poles; as, polar regions; polar seas; polar winds. 2. Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed. 3. (Geom.) Pertaining to, reckoned from, or having a common radiating point; as, polar co[94]rdinates. {Polar axis}, that axis of an astronomical instrument, as an equatorial, which is parallel to the earths axis. {Polar bear} (Zo[94]l.), a large bear ({Ursus, [or] Thalarctos, maritimus}) inhabiting the arctic regions. It sometimes measures nearly nine feet in length and weighs 1,600 pounds. It is partially amphibious, very powerful, and the most carnivorous of all the bears. The fur is white, tinged with yellow. Called also {White bear}. See {Bear}. {Polar body}, {cell}, [or] {globule} (Biol.), a minute cell which separates by karyokinesis from the ovum during its maturation. In the maturation of ordinary ova two polar bodies are formed, but in parthogenetic ova only one. The first polar body formed is usually larger than the second one, and often divides into two after its separation from the ovum. Each of the polar bodies removes maternal chromatin from the ovum to make room for the chromatin of the fertilizing spermatozo[94]n; but their functions are not fully understood. {Polar circles} (Astron. & Geog.), two circles, each at a distance from a pole of the earth equal to the obliquity of the ecliptic, or about 23[deg] 28[b7], the northern called the arctic circle, and the southern the antarctic circle. {Polar clock}, a tube, containing a polarizing apparatus, turning on an axis parallel to that of the earth, and indicating the hour of the day on an hour circle, by being turned toward the plane of maximum polarization of the light of the sky, which is always 90[deg] from the sun. {Polar co[94]rdinates}. See under 3d {Co[94]rdinate}. {Polar dial}, a dial whose plane is parallel to a great circle passing through the poles of the earth. --Math. Dict. {Polar distance}, the angular distance of any point on a sphere from one of its poles, particularly of a heavenly body from the north pole of the heavens. {Polar equation of a line} [or] {surface}, an equation which expresses the relation between the polar co[94]rdinates of every point of the line or surface. {Polar forces} (Physics), forces that are developed and act in pairs, with opposite tendencies or properties in the two elements, as magnetism, electricity, etc. {Polar hare} (Zo[94]l.), a large hare of Arctic America ({Lepus arcticus}), which turns pure white in winter. It is probably a variety of the common European hare ({L. timidus}). {Polar lights}, the aurora borealis or australis. {Polar}, [or] {Polaric}, {opposition} [or] {contrast} (Logic), an opposition or contrast made by the existence of two opposite conceptions which are the extremes in a species, as white and black in colors; hence, as great an opposition or contrast as possible. {Polar projection}. See under {Projection}. {Polar spherical triangle} (Spherics), a spherical triangle whose three angular points are poles of the sides of a given triangle. See 4th {Pole}, 2. {Polar whale} (Zo[94]l.), the right whale, or bowhead. See {Whale}. | |
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Polar \Po"lar\, n. (Conic Sections) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree than the second, and poles and polar planes to surfaces of the second degree. | |
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Polary \Po"lar*y\, a. Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Poler \Pol"er\, n. One who poles. | |
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Poler \Pol"er\, n. An extortioner. See {Poller}. [Obs.] --Bacon. | |
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Poller \Poll"er\, n. [From {Poll}] One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex>. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter. | |
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Pooler \Pool"er\, n. A stick for stirring a tan vat. | |
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Puler \Pul"er\, n. One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person. | |
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Puller \Pull"er\, n. One who, or that which, pulls. Proud setter up and puller down of kings. --Shak. | |
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d8Pylorus \[d8]Py*lo"rus\, n.; pl. {Pylori}. [L., fr. Gr. [?] pylorus, gate keeper; [?] a gate + [?] watcher, guardian.] (Anat.) (a) The opening from the stomach into the intestine. (b) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates. | |
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Pooler, GA (city, FIPS 62104) Location: 32.10528 N, 81.25749 W Population (1990): 4453 (1593 housing units) Area: 28.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31322 | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Pillar used to support a building (Judg. 16:26, 29); as a trophy or memorial (Gen. 28:18; 35:20; Ex. 24:4; 1 Sam. 15:12, A.V., "place," more correctly "monument," or "trophy of victory," as in 2 Sam. 18:18); of fire, by which the Divine Presence was manifested (Ex. 13:2). The "plain of the pillar" in Judg. 9:6 ought to be, as in the Revised Version, the "oak of the pillar", i.e., of the monument or stone set up by Joshua (24:26). |