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piragua 1347 Piracy being a crime against nations, may be brought before pis.ca'tor, pis-ke'ter, n. [-TOʻREs, pl.] [L] An angler. I gave pistareens enough among the children and servants to any court, no matter what the nationality of the plaintiff or the pis'ca-to-ry, pis'ca-to-ri, a. Of or pertaining to fishes have paid twice for my entertainment. JOHN ADAMS in Familiar origin of the pirate may be. T. D. WOOLSEY International Law $ 114, p. 234. (s. '91.) or fishing; as, a piscatory occupation; a piscatory vil. Letters, July 4, 1774 p. 10. (H. & H. '76.] lage. [< L. piscatorius, < piscator, fisherman, < pis pis'telt, n. An epistle. pis'tellt: pis/tilt: pis'tlet. 3. The appropriation or unauthorized publication of an pis'tel-iert, n. An epistler. other's literary property, as a book, engraving, or other cis, fish, pis"ca-to'ri.al;. , -, n. (L.) A angler. Pis'ti-a, pis'ti-a, n. Bot. A monotypic genus of floatcopyrighted work, especially when the laws provide no Pis'ces, pis'siz or -cês, n. n. 1: Ich. A class of verte-ing herbs of the arum family (Aracex). B. Stratiotes is [ brates, especially Teleostomi; fishes. 2. (1) The twelfth the tropical duckweed or water lettuce of the West Inpiratica, f. s. of piraticus, see PIRATICAL.) sign of the zodiac. See siGN; ZODIAC. (2) A constella dies. [< Gr. pistos, liquid, < pino, drink.) pi-ra'gua, pi-rā'gwa, n. Same as PERIAGUA. pi-rai’, pi-rai', n. Same as PIRAYA, tion. See coNSTELLATION, 11. . [L., pl. of piscis, fish.] Pis"ti-a ce-æe, pis*ti-€'se-i or-g'ce-ê, n. pl. Bot. Same as pi-ram'e-ter, pai-ram'e-ter, n. 'An instrument for as- pisci.. Derived from Latin piscis, fish: a combining pistict, a. Perhaps - pure' or ' liquid ': a word of doubtful . . certaining the amount of draft-resistance of a road to form.- pis'ci-cap"ture, n. Ich. The taking or capture meaning used in describing ointment, especially nard. of fish.-pis-cico-lous, a. Parasitic on fishes, as cer; pis'til, pis'til, n. a vehicle; a traction-dynamometer. [< Gr. peirao (see The female or seed-bearing organ of tain crustaceans.- pisci-cul"ture, n. The hatching PIRATE) + metron, measure.] and rearing of fish as an industrial art; fish-culture; fish flowering plants. Normally it occupies the center of the pi-ram'i-dig, pl-ram'i-dig, n. (W. Ind.) The night-hawk. husbandry.--- pir ci-cul"tur-al, a.-- pis'ci-cul"tur- flower and is composed of the ovary, with its contained pir'a-inist, n. Same as PYRAMID, ist, n.-pisci-fac"to-ry, n. (Rare. A place for ovules, ard the stigma, with generally an intervening style. pir"a-mu'ta, pir'q-mü'ta, n. (Braz.) A South-American breeding and rearing fish.-pis'ci-fau"ya, n. The fish See illus, under OVARY. [< L. pistillum, see PESTLE.] catfish (Piramutana piramuta) having palatal teeth and a of a given region or fauna.- pis ci-form, a. Having the -pis'til-la-ry, a. Bot. Of or pertaining to the granulated head. form or structure of a fish; fish-like; ichthyomorphic: pistil pis"til·la'ceoust; pis'til-lin(et:-pis'. pi"ra-ru'cu, pióra-rû'cū, n. (S. Am.] The arapaima. See pis-civ'o-rous, a. Feeding or subsisting on fish; fishillus. under ARAPAIMA. pi”ra-cu'rut. eating, as a bird; ichthyophagous. tillate, a. Bot. Having a pistil; especially, having pi'rate, pai'rêt, c. (PI'RA-TED; PI'RA-TING.) 1.4. 1: pis-ci'na, pis-sai'na or pis-ci'na, n. [-NÆ, -nf or -nê, pistils and no stamens: said of a flower or a plant. ComTo subject to an act or acts of piracy; as, to pirate a pl.l. 1. Eccl. Arch. A stone basin, usually in a niche, in pare DIECIOUs. See illus, under HAZEL and MAPLE.ship. 2. To appropriate and publish without right or which the priest washed the chalice after administering pis"til-lid'l-um, n. [-1-A, pl.) Bot. Same as ARCHEpermission, as a book. communion. See illus. under FENESTELLA. 2. A bap GONIUM. pis'til·lidi.-pis"tillif'er-ous, a. The pamphlet (" True-Born Englishman") was pirated, and tizing-font; baptistery. 3. A credence-table. 4. A Bot. Same as PISTILLATE. pis"t1l-lig/er-oust. eighty thousand copies were sold in the streets, large uncovered tank or basin, as for an open-air swim- pis't1l-lo-dy, n. Bot. The metamorphosis of other W. MINTO Daniel Defoe ch. 2, p. 27. (H. '79.) ming-bath or for ornament in a courtyard. 5. A fish- organs, as stamens and petals, into pistils. MI1. To practise piracy: 2. To appropriate and pond attached to a Roman villa. [L., fish-pond, basin, pistil.la'tiont, n. The act of pounding with a pestle, publish another's work without right or permission. < piscis, fish.] - pis'ei-nal, a. Of or pertaining to a pis'tlet, n. An epistle. pis'telt: pis'tilt. - pis'tles pi'rate, n. 1. A rover and robber on the high seas; cloth"+, n. A cover for the Book of the Epistles. piscine. specifically, in law, one who commits the crime of piracy. piscin(e, pis'sin (-sain, E. 1. W.), a. of or pertaining pis/tol, pis’tul, vt. (PIS'TOLED or PIS'TOLLED; PIS’TOLSee PIRACY, 2. to a fish or fishes; ichthyic. [< L. piscis, fish.] ING or Pis'TOL-LING.) To shoot with a pistol. Pirates have been regarded by all civilized nations as the ene. Pis'cis Aus-tri'nus, piš'sis os-trai'nus or pis'cís qus-tri'. John had little doubt that he himself would be pistolled, and mies of the human race. KENT Comm. vol. i, pt. i, lect. ix, p. 183. nus, [L] Astron. The Southern Fish. See CONSTELLA- nothing more ever heard of him. 2. A vessel employed in the commission of piracy; loose- TION, 66. Pis'cis Aus-tra'list. BLACKMORE Lorna Doone eh. 31, p. 204. [H.] ly, a vessel making war without a commission, or under Piscis Volans; pis'sis vecanza Li... Astron: The Flying pistol, n. A small firearm having a curved stock or butt an uplawful commission. Fishusually . See , 76 to fit the hand and a short barrel or barrels. It came into Her waters feel no pirate's keel. pi" sé', pi'ze', n. [F.) Arch. A mode of wall-building by ramming earth or clay between cases: incorrectly, pisay. use early in the 16th century. In military use it has genHOLMES Voyage of the Good Ship Union st. 6. Called sometimes en pisé. erally been an auxiliary weapon, especially for cavalry, but 3. A person, as a publisher, who appropriates or pub- pis'gy, piz'gi, n. [Dial.] Same as Pixy. it has always been carried also for private defense. The form now chiefly used is the revolver. See REVOLVER. lishes without permission and without offering compensa- pish, pish, v. 1. 1. To say " pish!" to. II. 1. To extion the literary or artistic work of another: said espe- press contempt by using the interjection "pish!" < OF. pistole, < It. pistola, orig. dagger, < Pistoia (< cially in the United States of such publishers before the pish, interj. An exclamation of contempt. L. Pistorium), Italy, where said to have been first made.] passage by Congress of an international copyright law pi-shaug', pl-shog', n. [Am. Ind.) A young or female - pis'tol scape", n. A cane gun. See CANE. - Pos carbine, n. A pistol contrived so that a frame may (1891). See COPYRIGHT. literary pirates. [F., surf-scoter. be fitted to its stock, for convenience in firing from the <L. pirata, < Gr, peiratēs, pirate,' < peirad, attempt, pish's pash", pish'-pash'. n. [E. Ind.) A dish made of rice < peira, an attack.] Py'ratet. in which small bits of meat are stewed: a food commonly shoulder like a carbine.-P.-dirk, n. A combined pistol Synonyms: see ROBBER. given to Anglo-Indian children. and dirk. - p.-grip, n. A projection, in the shape of a PHIL. Soc. pistol-stock, on the under side of a gun-stock, to give a pisht, pp. Pished. -pi'rate:fish", n. (Local, Eng; The glutinous hag: pi'shu, piisha, n. The Canada lynx, pee' shooti firmer grip for the hand. p.shandi.-pospipe, n. A -p.sperch, n. An aphredoderold nsh (Aphredoderus tuyère, as in a hot-blast furnace.- p.-router, n. A car. sayanus), olive-green, dotted with black, common in slug. pish'y-mew, pish'i-miū, n. (New Eng.) A small white gull. penters' routing-plane with a handle like that of a pistol.gish waters of the eastern United States. Pis"i-di'i-dæ, pis"i-dai'i-di or -di'i-dê, n. pl. Conch. p. shot, n. 1. A shot from a pistol. 2. A marksman pi-rat'le-al, pai-rat'ic-al, a. of or pertaining to pi A fresh-water family of veneracean bivalves having an with a pistol. 3. The distance a pistol-shot will carry, as a rates or piracy; engaged in piracy; as, piratical ships; anal siphon, and branchial and pedal orifices confluent. unit of measurement. piratical publishers.”[< L. piraticus, Gr. peiratikos, Pl-sta'l-um, n. (t. g.)(Dim. of Pisum.) General Phips ... lay within pistol-shot of the enemies' cannon. < peiratēs; see PIRATE.) pi-rat'lct. - pis"l-di'id, n.- pi-sid'l-oid, a. COTTON MATHER Magnalia Christi vol. I, p. 188. (S. A. '55.] -- pl-rat'lc-al-ly, adv. By piracy. pi'si-form, pai'si-form or pi', a. Shaped like a pea; - Poss pear, n. A spear with one or more pistols fitted near pi-ra'ya, pt-rā'ya, n. (S. Am. A serrasalmonine fish, & as, the pisiform bone.< L. pisum, pea, + -FORM.) its head. - possplint, n. A splint shaped like a pistol, used caribe (Serrasalmo piraya), of tropical South-American pi'si-form, n. A small bone of the carpus, connected in certain fractures of the arm. rivers, sometimes 4 feet long. pi-rai'. with the tendon of the flexor on the ulnar side. See pis"to-lade't, n. A pistol-shot. pir'et, n. 1. A pear. 2. A pear-tree. pir'iet: illus. under CARPUS. pi'si-formet. pis-tole', pis-tol', n, A gold coin formerly current in pi-ren'net, pi-ren'et, n. (Prov. Eng.) The sheldrake. Europe. See coin. (F., < OF. pistole; see PISTOL.). pbeat form, pir'i-fórm, a. Pear-shaped. She cars pirum, pisi-met"a.carpal, pai' (or pi*Jsi-met-a-cūr' pal, a. , + Relating to the pisiform bone and to the metacarpus. [ < pis"to-leer, pis'to-lir', n. One who fires a pistol; for. merly, a soldier carrying a pistol. < OF. pistolier, < pi”riori gua, piiri-ri'gwa, n. [S. Am.] A South-American pisk, pisk, n. The American night-hawk. L. pisum, pea, + METACARPUS.) crotophagine bird or ani (Guira guira). pis to-lett, n. A small pistol. pis"to-let'tot. pistole; see Pistol. pls"io-liert. pirkt, 1. Same as PERK. pisk'y, n. Same as PIXY. pirit, o.& n. Same as PURL. pis’mire, pis’mair (XII), n. An ant. [< PISS, n., + pis'to-lett, n. A pistole. pirfliespig", pir'li-pig', n. (Scot.). A inoney box. MIRE?, n., Ice, maurr, ant.) pys'myret. pis"to-me'site, pis"to-mf'sait, n. Mineral. A vitre, pirn, pirn, oi[Scot.) To use a reel, as in angling. pi'so-lite, pai' (or pi/]so-lait, n. Geol. A coarse oolite ous, yellowish magnesium-iron carbonate (MgFeC200), pirn, .n. (Scot.] 1. A small spindle. 2. Yarn wound on a shuttle. nite globules with a distinct concentric structure and faithful (< peithö, obey), 7 NESITITE.) or concretionary limestone, composed of calcite or aragocrystallizing in the hexagonal system. [<Gr. piston, How often ... will you bring me such ill-winded pirns to ravel often as large as small peas. Called also pea-yrit, ped- pis'ton, pis'tun, n. 1. A device for receiving the pressure SCOTT Quentin Durioard ch. 7. p. 98. (R. & 8.] 3. A spinning-wheel bobbin. 4. A fishing-rod reel. stone, and sprudelstein (from Carlsbad). [< Gr. pisos, of, or operating upon, a fluid in a cylinder or tube. The most common forin is a disk fitted to a rod and having a pir'nie, pir'ni, 11. (Scot.) A woolen nightcap. pea, + -LITE.) reciprocating motion, as in a pump or steam-engine, but plinogue', pi-rog', n. 1. A dugout canoé; hence, any piss, pis , v. (Low.) 1. t. To void, as urine. 11. i. To - p1"so-lit'ic, a. Consisting of or like pisolite. sometimes it is a rectangular plate oscillating in a sector small boat. cylir and attached to a rock-shaft, or an eccentric or Always full early his pirogue came gliding out of the woods and urinate. [< F. pisser; of imitative orig.] toothed cam, as in a rotary pump. up ... to the head of canoe navigation and was hauled ashore. piss, n. (Low.) Urine. - piss':a-bed", n. (Low.] One 2. A valve in a wind-instrument, for temporarily altering CABLE Bonaventure pt. ii, ch. 5, p. 91. (s. *88.] of various plants, as the dandelion. the pitch of the tones. 3. A knob in an organ, that may 2. A large keelless flat-bottomed boat for shoal-water A thick pis'sas-phalt, pis'as-falt, -fal'tum, n. be pressed in to alter the register; a pneumatic coupler. navigation, with a lee-board and pis"sas-phaltum, dark-colored viscid mass having 4. Conch. The retractile plug of the acetabulum or suckdecked at one end only: propelled a disagreeable odor and intermediate in composition be er of a cephalopod. (F., < It, pistone, < pestone, large by rowing, or by sails on two masts tween petroleum and bitumen; mineral tar. I Lipis pestle, < pestare, pound, < LL. pisto, freq. of L. piso, that may be struck. sasphallus, < Gr. pissasphaltos, < pissa, pitch, + as pound.) Compare PERIAGUA. (F., < Sp. piragua, phaltos, asphalt.) pis'as-phaltt; pis'o-phalti. Compounds, etc.: - differential piston, in macanoe; of w. Ind. orig.] pis"sel-rum, pis'el-i'um orê'um, n. An oily matter com. cbinery, a piston exposed on its opposite sides to different -pi-rogue'srig" n. (Flori ing from bolling pitch. [< Gr. pissa, pitch, telaion, oil.] pressures, or made up of two separate pistons exposed to da. A rig consisting of two leg-of pistt, n. The track of a horseman; trail; spoor. pistet. the same or to unequal pressures in opposite directions, 80 mutton sails. pist, pist, interj. Same as hist. that it operates wíth an effective pressure different from pirol, pir'21, n. (G.) The European pis-ta'ehio, pis-tê'shið or -ta'shio (xi), n. The pis- that exerted on one side or resulting from one pressure oriole. tachio-nut. (< Sp. pistacho, < 1. pistacium, < Gr. pis- alonepiston bel"lows, 11. A blowing device with pir"ou-ette', pir’u-et', vi. [-ET'. A Pirogue with a Lee. takion, < Per. pistā, pistachio-put.) pis'tacet; pis'. air tight pistons and valves working in a tube or cylinder. TED; -ET'TING. To whirl or turn A p.shead, n. Mech. A disk fitting tightly in a cylinder, bolt. tachet; pis-ta'ciot. -pis-ta'chiogreen", n. ed to a piston-rod, and receiving the impact of or impartabout on the toes, as in dancing; perform a pirouette or light green like that of the pistacbio-nut. ing impact to the internal fluid. Called also PISTON.- p.: pis-ta'chio nut", n. The nut of a small tree (Pistacia knob, n. Same as PISTOX, 3.-P.:meter, n. A waterA pretty opera dancer, pirouetting in a hoop petticoat. IRVING rera) of western Asia and the Levant, or the tree itself. Wolfert's Roost, My French Neighbor p. 196. (G. P. P. '63.] meter in which the pressure from the mains is used to dis. The nut is about an inch long, ovate, with a brittle shell place reciprocating pistons.- p. packing, n, Any appli. pir"ou-ette', n. [F.] 1. A rapid whirling upon the enclosing a greenish almond-flavored and nutritious kernel, ance or appliances, as cast iron or brass rings, or hempen used as a dessert and in confections. pis-tn'cio-nut". gaskets, used to make a piston fluid-tight in its chamber. But nothing could well be simpler than the offering of Jacob, . . posrod, n. A rod attached to a piston-head at one end and hit did not occur ... to any of us to inquire why ... a beetle some guin tragacanth, some gum of the cistus or ladanum, some should seem to have been doing his utmost to dance a pirouette usually to a cross-head or crank-pin at the other. See Illus. pistacio nuts from the terebinth tree, and some almonds, under LOCOMOTIVE.- p.sleeve, n. Steam-engin. The GEIKIE Hours with the Bible vol. i, ch. 24, p. 185. (J. P. '82.] trunk of a trunk-engine. - p. spring, n. A spring within See ARCH. GEIKIE Geol. Sketches essay i, p. 10. (MACM. ’82.] pis-ta'chio-tree", n. 2. Manège. A sudden turn of a horse. a piston-head, pressing the packing tight against the cylin. der.- p. valve, n. 1, A piston or pair of pistons attached pirr, pir, n. (Scot.) A light breeze. Bir'ryt, 'n. A squall of wind; gale. · pir'iet; pir'riet. Pls-ta'cl-a, pis-tê'shi-a or to a piston-rod, reciprocating in a subsidiary cylindrical -tg'ci-a, n. Å small genus bore or steam-supply tube and serving the purposes of a Piosa cha, pl-sa cha, n. An evil spirit; in theosophy, a spiritof trees of the cashew fam slide-valve, as in a steam-engine. 2. A valve in a piston, as in a common pump.-p..wheel, 1. 1. A rotating disk ily (Anacardiaceæ), having alistic spirit; especially, one of those who obsess a medium. pi'sant, n. A part of heck-and-breast-armor; gorgerette. or wheel, as in a rotary engine or pump, carrying or opera. alternate, often coriaceous, ting some form of piston.-pi-whistle, n. A whistle in pi zaint, pi'zan.col"lart: pu'sanet: py'sanet. pinnate leaves, and axillary which a piston changes the length of the vibrating column pívang, pis'ang, n. (E. Ind.1 A banana. clusters of small flowers. P. of air or steam, and so alters the pitch. pi-sa'nite, pí-za'nait, n. Mineral. A vitreous, bright Lentiscus is the mastic-tree, Pl'sum, pai'sum or pi'sum, n. Bot. A small genus of blue, bydrous iron-copper sulfate (117,(FeCu)so), crys; P. Terebinthus (see illus. un plants of the bean family (Leguminosæ), the best-known Tallizing in the monoclinic system.'*'[< F. Pisani, of der TEREBINTH) the turpen being P. salivum, the common garden pea. (L., pea.) tine-tree, and P. vera the pit, pit, o. pinas-pbalt, n. Mineral. Same as PISSASPHALT. (Pit'TED; PIT'TING.), I. 1. 1. To mark pistachio-nut tree, or pista with 'dents, píts, or hollows; form hollows in; as, to pit chio-tree. (L., < Gr. pis- A Branch of the Pistachio. a mold (for producing an embossed casting). taki, pistachio-tree, < Per. tree (Pistacia vera), bear. Law. The of fishing in ingther person's waters. tum. piscariak , or fish or ish- pista, pistachio-nut.) ing Nuts. Duverrier . . . is at first sight ugly; all pitted with the small. pox. MRS. CARLYLE in Froude's Carlyle vol.ii, ch.9, p. 182. (S. '82.) Dis-ca'tiont, n. The art or practise of fishing. pis'ta-elte, pis'ta-sait, -zait, n. Epidote: so called 2. To oppose antagonistically; match in a contest; orig. , . (< l. Pis"ta-reen’, pis’ta-rin', n. pis'ta-zite, from its pistachio-green color. piscatus, pp. of priscor, fish (< piscis, fish), + -OLOGY.] An old Spanish coin, inally, to match by putting in a pit: generally followed by against; as, to pit one prize-fighter against another. COIN Page 3
moldings, a match-plane), nosing:p. (having a concave - p.-wheel, n. The exterior revolving wheel of a planet. bit, for working out stair-nosings), ogee:p. (for ogee gear.- primary p., a planet that does not revolve round moldings), ovolo:p. (for ovolo inoldings), rabbet: or any other planet. - secondary p., a moon or satellite rabbeting-p. (for plowing a rectangular groove, as in or of another planet.- superior p., a planet whose orbit is NAME. NAME. near the edge of a plank), router:p. (used in routing the outside that of the earth. bottoms of grooves, etc.), scraping-p. (having a scra- ping tool at or nearly at right angles to its sole: used for TABLE OF MAJOR PLANETS. wood or metal), slatsp. (for cutting slats from a block or board), slitting-p. (a plane-like tool for slitting small 199 Byb'lis 20 1879 5.66 290 Bru'na 29 1890 3.51 boards), smoot! g:p. (long, and properly set fine for 200 Dy-nam'e-ne 20... 1879 4.53 291 Alice 20. 1890 3.33 finishing work, a smooth plane), tonguing-p: (for making 201 Pe-nel'o-pe 20, 18794.39 22 Ludo-vi'ca 2. 1890 4.04 tongues on match-boards); (3) from their shape or con 202 Chry-se'is 20 1879 5.38 293 Bra-sil'i-a 33. 1890 4.86 struction; as, adjustable p. (in which the angle of the NAME. 203 Pom-pei'a 20 1879 4.53 294 Fe-ll'ci-a 36 1890 5.54 bit with the stock may be varied), box:slipped p. (hav 204 Cal-lis'to 29, 1879 4.87 295 The-re'si-a 29. 1890 4.68 ing its sole made more durable by boxwood insertions), 205 Mar'tha 20 1879 4,63 296 Ph-tuosa 46. 1890'3.81 bullnose p. (having its bit at the front end, in order to 206 Her-sil'1-a 20. 1879 4.54 297 Cæ-cil'i-a 35. 1890 5.66 reach into corners), circular p. (having a flexible steel 207 Hed'da 29 1879 3.45 298 Bap'tis-ti'na 29... 1890 3.81 strip for a face, with screw adjustments by which it may be 208 Lac'ri-mo'sa 29 18:9 4,2 29 Tho'ra 22. 1890 3.93 bent to varying degrees of curve), combination p. (hav. Mer'cu-ry. 36.0 3,030 87.96926) Uncertain. 209 Dildo 20. 1879 5.58 900 Ger'al-di'na 87. 1890 5.79 ing an adjustable fence or guide), concave p. (with con 210 IS a-bel'la 20. Ve'nus.... vex sole, for working surfaces that are concave lengthwise: 67.2 7,700 1879 4,49 301 Ba-va'ri-a 29. 224.7008 1890 4.50 Uncertain. 211 I-sol'da 29 1879 5.31 302 Cla-ris'sa 36. 1890 3.77 92.9 7,918 365.2564 23 56 4.091 212 Me-de'a 29. 1880 5.50 303 Jo'se-phi'na 38 1891 5.57 (having a sole of convex cross-section), long p. (about 27 Mars.... 141.5 4,230 686.9505 24 37 22.722 213 Li-lae'a 20. 1880 4.57 304 Ol'ga so 1891 3.76 inches long, for making glue-joints and similar very true Ju'pi-ter.. 4 483.3/ 86,500 4332.580 9 55 214 As-che'ra 20 1880 4.23 305 Gor-do'ni-a 86... 1891 5.45 surfaces), round or round:nosed p. (same as HOLLOW Sat’urn.. 886.0 71,000 10759.22 10 14 24 215 (E-no'ne 32 1800 4.60 306 U'ni-tas 88. 1891 3.63 PLANE), roundingp. (in which the knife projects into U'ra-nus.. o 1781.9 31,900 30686.82 Uncertain. 216 Kle-op'a-tra 20. 1880 4.67 307 Ni'ke 36. 1891 4.96 an interior hole, through which chair-rounds or wooden 217 Eu-do'ra 25 Nep'tune.lt2791.61 34,800 | 60181.11 1860 4,86 308 Po-lyx'o 25 Uncertain. handles inay be passed and smoothed), side-p. (having its 1891 4.51 218 Bi-an'ca 2. 1880 4.35 309 Fra-ter'ni-tas 29. 1891 4.27 bit on the side of the stock), skew p. (having its mouth 219 Thus-nel'da 29, 1880 3.62 310 Mar'ga-ri'ta 30. TABLE OF MINOR PLANETS. 1891 4.51 extending obliquely clear across the sole, for working close 220 Steph-a'ni-a 20... 1881 3.60 311 Clau'd1-a * 1891 4.92 up in a reentrant angle: called also badger-plane), snipes Usually, in the cases where no name is given, the planet had not 221 E'os 20 18825.23 312 Pier-ret'ta 36 1891 bill p. (narrow, deep-working, for making quirks), been specifically, named at the date of compilation, except by its 222 Lu'ci-a 20. 1882,5.53 313 Chal'de-a 29. designated number, 1891 spoutsp. (having a convex bit, for working out troughs 223 Ro'sa 29. 1882 5.46 314 Ro-sa'11-a 36. 1891 and similar objects of deep concave cross-section), sun p. 224 O-ce'a-na 29. 1882 4.30 315 Con-stan'ti-a 20 1891 (of circular plan, for dressing barrel-stave ends), tooth 225 Hen'ri-et'ta 29. 1882 6.26 316 Go-ber'ta 3). 1891 ing p. (having a toothed bit for scoring wood that is to be 226 Wer-in'gi-a 20, 1882 4.47 317 Rox-a'na 36 1891 veneered). NAME. NAME. 27 Philho-so-phl'a28.18 5,56 318 1891 plane, plên, n. A plane-tree. [F., < L. platanus, < 228 Ag'a-the 1882 3.27 319 1891 Gr. platanos, < platys, broad.] 229 Adre-lin'da 29 1882 6.28 320 Ka'tha-ri'na %0. 1891 230 Ath'a-man'tis 34. 1862 3.68 321 pla"ne-om'e-try, ple'ne-om'e-tri, n. The art of meas 29 1891 231 Vin'do-bo'na 29.. 1892 5.00 322 uring the area of a surface: a badly formed word. [< 1 Ce'res 1 1801 4.60 100 Hek'a-te 22 1868 5.43 1891 232 Rus'sia 29. 1883 4.08 323 Bru-ci'a 89 1891 PLANE', 1., + Gr. metron, measure.) 2 Pal'las 2 1802 4.61 101 Hel'en-a 22 1868 4.15 233 As-ter'o-pe 26. 1883 4.31 324 1891 pla'ner, ple'ner, n. 1. A machine for removing or 3 Ju'no3 1868 4.34 1804 4.36 102 Mir'i-am 20 234 Bar'ba-ra 20. 1883 3.68 325 Hei'del-ber'ga 39. 1892 4 Ves'ta 2. truing the surface of lumber, usually operating by cut- 1807 3.63 103 He'ra 22 1869 4.44 235 Car'o-ll'na 35 1883 4.89 326 Tam'a-ra 2 1892 ters on a rotating drum or cylinder. 5 As-tra'a 4 1845 4.13 104 Clym'e-ne 22 1868 5.61 236 Ho-no'ri-a 20 184 4,68 327 Co-lum'bi-a đồ 1892 6 He'bet, 1817 3.78 105 Arte-mis 22 1868 3.65 237 C@'les-ti'na 20. Planers for wood are often named from the character 1884 4.59 328 Gu-doun' 39. 1892 7 I'ris5. 1847 3.69' 106 D'-o'ne 22 of the work performed; as, 1868 5.66 238 Hy-pa'ti-a 82 1884'4.96 329 Sve'a 39. 1892 8 Flo'ra 5. 1847 3.27 107 Ca-mil'la 13... 1868 6.53 239 Ad'ras-te'a 29 edge-planer, panel.p., 1884 5.13 380 Il-ma'tar 39 9 Me'tis 6.. 1818 3.69 108 Hec'u-ba 8. 1869 5.75 240 Va-na'dis 20 1892 surface:p. 1881 4.85 331 36 1892 10 Hy-ge'la 7. 18495.55 109 Fe-lic'l-tas 20. 1869 4.43 241 Ger-ma'ni-a. 2. A machine by which to 1881 5.33 332 Siri 39 11 Par-then'o-pe7.. 1850 3.84 110 Lyd'1-a 20. 1870 4.51 1892 242 Krem-hil'da 29. 1881 4.84 333 Ba-de'ni-a 39 shape or true the surface of 12 Vic-to'r-a 5. 1850 8.57 111 A'te 20. 1870 4.18 243 I'da 29 1884 4.84 334 39 13 E-ge'ri-a7. 1850 4.14 112 Iphol-ge-ni'a 20. 1870 3.80 1892 244 Si'ta 20. 1884 3.21 335 Ro-ber'ta 40 14 I-re'ne 5. 1851 4.16 113 Am'al-the'a 8. 1871 3.66 1892 245 Ve'ra 13 1885 5.45 836 36 2 u 15 Eu-no'mi-87. 1851 4.30 111 Cas-san'dra 20. 1871 4.381892 246 Asopo-rl'na 26. 1885 4.42 337 36 1892 16 Psy'che 7 18525.06 115 Thy'ra. 1871 3.67 247 Eu-kra'te. 1885 4.54 398 30 17 The'tis 8. 1852 3.89 116 Si-ro'na 20. 1892 1871 4.61 248 La-mel'a 29. 1885 3.89 339 Do'ro-the'a 39 18 Mel-pom'e-ne 5. . 1852 3.48 117 Lo'mi-a 28 1871 5.17 1892 249 Il'se 20. 1885 3.67 340 1892 19 For-tu'na 5. 1852 3.81 118 Pei'tho 8. 1872 3.81 250 Bet-ti'na 20 1885 5.60 341 39 20 Mas-sa'li-a 7. 182|3.74 119 Al-thoa. 1872 1.15 1892 251 So'phl-a 20 1885 5.44 342 30 21 Lu-te'ti-a 9 1852 3.80 120 Lach'e-sis 20. 1892 1872 5.52 252 Clem'en-ti'na 30. 1885 5.60 343 22 Cal-ll'o-pes. 1852 4.96 121 Her-mi'o-ne 22 1892 1872 6.42 253 Ma-thil'de 2. 1885 4.81 344 23 Tha-li'a 5. 1852 4.26 122 Ger'da 20 1892 1872 5.76 t 254 Au-gus'ta 29. 1886 3.25 345) 80 24 The'inis 7 1853 5.54 123 Brun-hil'da 20. 1872 4.42 255 Op-pa'v1-a20 1892 1886 4.55 346 1892 25 Pho-cü'a 10. 1853 3.72 124 Al-ces'te 20. 1872 4.26 256 Wal-pur'ga 20. 1886 5.22 347 36 26 Pro-ser'pi-ne 8... 1853 4.83 125 Lib'er-a'trix 27... 1872 4.55 1892 257 Si-le si-a 29 B 1886 5,50 348 27 Eu-ter'pe 5. 1853 3.62 126 Vel'le-dá 28. 1892 1872 3.81 258 Ty'che. 1886 4.24 319 Dem-bow'ska 36. 1892 28 Bel-lo' na 8 1851 1.63 127 Jo-han'na 27. 1872 4.58 259 Al'e-thei'a 20 1886 5.57 350 38 1872 4.57 1892 29 Am'phi-trl'te 11.. 1854 4.08 128 Nem'e-sis 22 260 Huber'ta 20 1886 6.43 351 30 U-ra'ni-a 5. 1854 3.64 129 An-tig'o-ne 20. 1873 4.85 1892 261 Prym'no 20 1886 3.56 352 1873 5.50 31 Eu-phros'y-ne 12. 1851 5.58 130 E-lec'tra 2). 1893 262 Val'da 29 1886 4.07 353 1893 263 Dres'da 29 1886 4,91 354 Planers. 33 Pol'y-hym'ni-a 10 18544.87 132 Æ'thra 22 1873 4.19 1893) 264 Li-bus'sa 20. 1886 4.68 355 34 Cir'ce 18 1855 4.40 133 Cy-re'ne 22. 1873 5.85 265 An'na 20. 1887 3.77 356 hind which is the cutting-cylinder; t, adjustable table for supporting 35 Leu-co'the-a 8. 1855 5.18 134 So-phros'y-ne 8. 1873 4.11 1893 266 A-line' 20 1887 4.71 357 30 the lumber. 2. A machinists' planer; b, bed; s, feed-motion; 8, 36'At'a-lan'ta 9 1855 4.55 135 Her'tha 20 1874 3.78 267 Tir'za 36 1893 slide-rest for carrying the tool; t, table; uu, uprights. 1887 4.62 358 87 Fl'des 8. 1855 4.29 136 Aus'tri-a 20 1874 3.46 268 Ad'o-re'a 26. 1893 1887 5.43 359 1893 metal objects: usually consisting of a frame having an 38 Le'da 10 1874 5.52 1856 4.54 137 Mel'1-bæ'a 29 269 Jus-ti'ti-a 29, 1887.4.24 360 86 1893 1874 3.83 39 Læ-ti'ti-a 10 1856 4.61 138 To-lo'sa 30. upright housing bearing a tool which has transverse 270 An'a-hi'ta 20 1887 3.26 361 1856 3.41' 139 Jue'wa 22 40 Har-mo'ni-29. 1874 1.64 1893 271 Pen'the-si-le'a 32. 1887 3.20 362 feed, the workbeing borne by a reciprocating table. 1856 4.60 140 Siwa 29 1874 4.51 41 Daph'ne 9. 1893 272 An-to'ni-a. 1889 4.63 363 42 I'sís 13 1856 3.81 141 Lu'men 28 1893 1875 4.36 273 At'ro-pos 29 Planers for metal are named (1) from the thing planed; 1888 8.71 364 1893 43 A'ri-ad'ne 13 1857 3.27 142 Po-la'na 20 1875 3.77 274 Phil'a-go-ri'a 23. 1889 5.29 365 as, nut:planer, rod-p.; (2) from their design or mecha- 44 Ny'sa 9. 1857 3.77 143 A'dri-a29 1893 1875 4.59 nism; as, open:side p. 215 Sa'pi-en'ti-a 29 1888 4.61 366 45 Eu-ge'ni-49. 1857 4.49 144 Vi-bil'1-420 1875 4.33 276 A'del-heid 29 1893 3. Print. A smooth wooden block used for leveling a 1888 5.52 367 46 Hes' ti-a 13. 1857 4.01 145 A'de-o'na 20. 1875 4.37 1893) 277 El-vi'ra 38 1848 4.90 368 form of type or for taking proofs (for this use having 1893) 47 Ag-la'la 8. 1857 4.89 146 Lu-ci' na 25. 1875 4.48 278 Pau-ll'na 29. 1898 4.58 369 the face covered with felt or similar material), by laying 48 Do'ris 9. 1857 5.50 117 Prot'o-ge-nei'a 31 1875 5.55 1893 279 Thu'le 29 1888 8.91 370 it on the surface and tapping it with a mallet.- pla'ner: 49 Pa'les 1857 5.45 148 Gal'11-a 27 1893 1875 1.62 200 Pbil'i-8 29 1888 5.12 371 1893 cen"ter, n. A support, similar to a lathe-center, to hold 50 Vir-gin'i-a 12 1875 3.12 1857 4.31! 149 Me-du'sa 3). 281 Lu-cre'ti-a 20 1888 3.24 372 1875 5.15 small work on a planing-machine. - p.-head, n. 51 Ne-inau'sa 14 1858 3.64 150 Nu'wa 2 1893 282 Clo-rin'de 36. The 1889 3.56 373 traversing tool-bearing block of a planing-machine. 1893 52 Eu-ro'pa): 1859 5.44 151 A'bun-dan'ti-a29. 1875 4.17 83 Em'ma 8. 1889 5.47374 plaʼner:tree", plê'ner-tri', n. A rather small tree (Pla 1893 53 Ca-lyp'so 8 1858 4.28 152 At'a-la 29 1875 5.57 284 A-ma'll-a 38 18498.61 375 36 1893 54 Al'ex-an'dra .. 1858 4.46' 153 Hil'da 29 1875 7.87 285 Re-gi'na 36 1889 5.86 376 55 Pan-do'ra 15 1858 4.58 154 Ber'tha 27 1875 5.71 286 Ic'le-a 29 1893 1889 5.71377 and resembling the elms, but with nut-like wingless fruit 56 Mel'e-te 1859 4.19 155 Scyl'la 29 1893 1875 4.97 287 Neph'thys 21 1899 3.60 378 and small ovate leaves, growing in wet places in the 57 Mne-mos'y.nes.. 1859 5.59 156 Xan-thip'pe 23. 1875 5.29 288 Glau'ke 8 1893 1890 4.56379 southern United States. “It yields a hard and strong 58 Con-cor'di-a. 1860 4.44 157 Dej'a-ni'ra 26. 1875 4.15 289 Ne-net'ta 36 1890 4.87 1893 wood, and is cultivated as an ornamental tree. 59 El'pis 10. 1860 4.47 158 Co-ro'nis 82 1876 4.86 plan'et, plan'et, n. 60 E cho 12 1860 3.70 159 Æ-mil'i-a 28 1876 5.51 Discoverers: Piazzi 1, Olbers 2, Harding 3: Hencke, 1. One of the opaque bodies of the solar system that revolve around the sun as their center 61 Dan'a-e9 1860 5.15 160 U'na 20 1876 4.50 Hind 5, Graham 6, Gasparis 7, Luther 8, Goldschmidt 62 Er'a-to 16 Chacornac 10, Marth ii, Ferguson 19, Pogson 13, Laurent 14 of motion: classified as major and minor, inferior and 1860 5.52 161 Ath'or 29 1876 3.67 63 Au-so'ni-a 7 1861 3.71 162 Lau-ren'ti-a 27 1876 5.24 Searle 15, Foerster 16, Tempel 17, Tuttle 18, Schiaparelli 19 superior, sometimes also as primary and secondary. See 64 An'ge-ll' na 17 1861 4.39 163 E-rig'o-ne 30. 1876 3.62 Peters 20, D'Arrest 21, 'Watson 2, Tietjen 3, Stephan 2 Cog 65 Cyb'e-le 17. 1861 6.36 161 E'va 28 1876 4.28 gia 5, Borelly %. Prosper Henry 7, Paul Henry 28, Palisa * The falling aërolites present the solitary instance of a material con 66 Ma'la 18 1861 4.30 165 Lor'e-ley 20. 1876 5.55 Perrotin so, Schulhof 31, Knorrea, Cottenot 33, De Ball 34 Dection with something which is foreign to our planet. HUMBOLDT 67 A'si-g 13 1861 3.77 166 Rhod'o-pe 2 1876 4.40 Carolina 35, Charlois 36,' Spitaler 37 Millosevich 38, Wolf 39 Cosmos tr. by E. C. Otte Shooting Stars in vol iv, p. 206. (H. '59.) 68 Le'to 8 1861 4.61 167 Ur'da 90 1876 4.82 Staus 40. 69 Hes-pe'ri-a 19 1861 5.15 168 Si-byl'la 22 1876 6.20 2. In ancient astronomy, one of the seven heavenly -- plan'et-ed, a. (Rare.] Belonging to planets.- pla70 Pan'o-pæ'a 1861 1.23 169 Ze'll-a 27. 1876 3.62 net'ic, a. Pertaining to or of the nature of a planet. bodies (the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, 71 Nl'o-be 8. 1861 4.58 170 Ma-ri'a 30. 1877|4.08 pla-net'ic-alt.-plan'et-ingt, n. Celestial harmony; and Saturn) that have an apparent motion among the 72 Fe-ro'ni-a 90. 1861 3.41 171 (-phe'll-a 26. 1877 5.60 the music of the spheres.-- plan'et-istt, n. An observ. 73 Clyt'i-a 18. 1862 4.35 172 Bau'cis 26 1877 3.67 er of planets.-- plan'et-ule, n. (Rare.) A little planet. The summers Sunne bright 74 Galla-te'a 17. 1562 4.63 173 I'no 28. 1877 4.54 pla.ne'ta, pla-ni'ta or-nê'ta, n. (-TÆ, -ti or .tê, pl.] Is fairer, clerer, and hath more light 75 Eu-ryd'i-ce 20 1862 4.37 174 Ph'dra 1877 1.84 [LL.). 1. Archeol. A full circular garment of costly Than any other planet in Heven. 76 Frei'a 21 1862 6.31 175 An-drom'a-che22 1877 6.52 material, worn especially by officials and nobles in Rome 77 Frig'ga 20 1862 4.36 176 I-dun'na 20. 1877 5.69 CHAUCER Booke of the Dutchesse 1. 823. 3. Same as PLANETA. [< OF. planete, < LL. planeta, 78 Di-an'a 8 1863 4.24 177 Irma 28. in the 5th and 6th centuries. 2. R. C. Ch. A chasuble. 1877 4.61 Gr. planētēs,= planēs, lit. wanderer,' < planē, wandering.] 79 Eu-ryn'o-me 22...1863 3.82 178 Bel'l-sa'ng 20 1877 3.86 plane': ta" ble, Synonyms: see ORB. 80 Sap'pho 13 1561 3.18 179 Clyt'em-nestra1877 5.12 plên' tê'bl, et. Phrases, etc. :-interior planet, one of the two 81 Terp-sich'o-re17. 1861 4.82 180 Ga-rum'na 30 1878 4.49 Sury. To survey planets, Mercury and Venus, that revolve within the orbit 82 Alc-me'ne 8. 1864 4.59 181 Eu'cha-ris 33 1878 5,51 or map out with of the earth. -- major p., one of the eight planets named 83 Be-a'trix 7. 1865 3,79 182 El'sa 29 1878 3.75 a plane. table. in the first table below, distinguished by their great mass, 84 Cli'o 8.. 1565 3,63 183 Is'tri-a 29 1878 1.66 their nearly circular orbits, and their approach to regular: plane':ta"bler, 85 I'o 20. 1865 1.32 184 Del'o-pe'a 29. 1878 5.69 lty of arrangement. See table below.-minor p., one of n. One who surveys 86 Sem'e-le 23 1866 5.46 185 Eu-ni'ce 20 1878 4.53 several hundred planets invisible to the naked eye, revolv- with a plane-table. 87 Syl'vi-a 13 1966 6.50 186 Ce-lu'ta 27 1878 3.63 ing between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Called also -postabling, n. 88 This'be 20 1866 1.60 187 Lam-berta 25. 1878 4.50 small planets, and (incorrectly) asteroids or planetoids. 89 Ju'll-a 24. 1866 4.07 188 Me nip'pe 2). 1878 1.74 plane' ta'ble, n. of these more than 315 are now known. See table below. 90 An-tt'o-pe 8 1566 5,59 189 Phthi'a 20. 1879 3.84 1. Sury. A topoplan'et:gear", n. 1. A system of gearing in which one 91 A-gi'na 24 1866 1.10 190 Is-me'ne 20 1878 7.82 graphical instruor more toothed wheels revolve around the axis of the wheel 92 U'n-di'na 20. 1867 5.69 191 Col'ga 20. 1878 4.92 ment used in field. walth which it meshes or they mesh, at the same time ro 93 Mi-ner'va 22 1967 1.57 192 Nau-sic'a-a 29 1879 3.73 mapping, and havfating axially; a sun-and-planet motion. plan'et gear". 94 Au-ro'ra 2 1867 5.63 193 Am-bro'sia 25 1879 4.13 ing a sighting-tele. Surveyors' Plane-table, partly cut away inet. 2. A planet-wheel.n.nuricken, a. Affected by 95 Are-thu’sa 8. 1867 5.38 194 Prok'ne 20 1879 4.24 the influence of planets: blasted; moonstruck. p.:struckt. to show adjusting mechanism. 96 A'gle. 1868 5.33 195 Eu'ry-cle'a 29. scope for observing, 1879 4.89 97 Clotho 17 1868 1.36 196 Philo-me'la 20 1879 5.49 objects, whose angles may be noted, by means of an ali- 98 I-an'the 20 186S 1.10 197 A-re'te 29 1879 1.53 dade, on a paper on the table of the instrument. 2. Mi. SCOTT Quentin Durward ch. 15, p. 184. (R. & S.) 1968 4.671 198. Am-pel'la 9. 1879 3.86 ning. An inclined ore-dressing table. plain':ta"ble. au = out; o11; 1ū = feud, jų Page 4
pledge 1360 plet of polys, much, + kainos, new.] Pieis"to-scen'ict. Having the property of pleochroism. plero-chro-mat': Before all wish Pleis'to-cene, Pleis"to-cen'ic, a. ict: ple-och'ro-ousi.-ple-och'ro-ism, n. Mineral. And will of loving man, her heart and hand The property of soine bodies, especially crystals, of exhibit. ing different colors when light traverses them in different directions. It includes dichroism and trichroism. ple"o- chro'ma-tismt.-ple'o-dont, a. Zool. Solid-toothed. ple'o-mas'ti-a, n. The condition of having more than Drink to me only with thine eyes. And I will pledge with mine. ple'na-ry, plî'na-ri, C. I. S. W. Wr.? (plen'a-ri, Wr.1) one nipple on a single breast.- ple"o-ma'zi-a, n. The (XIII), a. 1. Full in all respects or requisites; entire; ab- condition in which an individual has more than the normal o-mor'phic, a. Vi or pertaining to pleomorphism.--- inspiration is confined to parts of the Bible; and affirms that it ap- stance to crystallize in two or more distinct fundamental plies to all the books of the sacred canon. forms, embracing dimorphism and trimorphism. 2. Biol. property is pledged as security for a debt.-- pledg'er, HODGE Systematic Theology vol. i, intro. ch. 6, p. 165. (s. '72.) Pleiomorphisin.-ple"o-mor'phous, a. Characterized n. 1. One who gives a pledge. pledge'ori. 2. One by pleomorphism. Law. Attended with the usual formalities: opposed to ple'o-cleis, plf'o-clals or plê'n. Crust. A tubercle of the tirst somite of the pleon, preventing the raising of the cara. of an act, contract, or duty; security for the keeping of a summary; as, a plenary cause or suit. [< LL. plena- pace bebind. [< PLEON? + Gr. Kleis, key.) ple'o-mor" phy, n. Bot. Same as PLEIOMORPHY na plenary council, an assembly in which all the bish: ple'on", pli'on or plē'on, n. Bot. A theoretical aggrega: ops of a nation or country sit.-- p. indulgence, a remis- tion of chemical molecules, as crystals containing water of crystallization, that can not be increased or diminished CELLA. [< Gr. pleon, pleion, compar, of polys, much.] ness, n. The state or quality of being plenary. 2. A formal agreementor promise regarding the perform- ple'na-ryt, n. Law. Decisive procedure. ple'on?, n. Crust. 1. The abdomen. 2. The telson or last division of the body, as in a king-crab. [< Gr. A solid-horned ru- pleon, ppr. of pleo, sail.)-- ple'o-nal, a. ple'o-nasm, plí'o-nazm, n. 1. Rhet. (1) The use of a health or a sentiment; a toast, especially when regarded plen'i-lunet, n. The full moon. more words than are needed for the full expression of a as an expression of good will or of adherence to a cause. -plen"i-lu'nart, plen"i-lu'na-ryt, a. thought; redundancy, as in saying "the very identical Deep let our pledges be: Freedom forever! ple-nipo-tencet, n.' Fulness or completeness of power. thing itself”: one of the class of igures depending on the number of words employed: a violation of grammat- ical precision. See PRECISION; FIGURE. Fully empowered; possessing or conferring full powers. If the term health expressed a well-defined state, it would be ple- excellent, etc. (2) Any instance of tautology or redundancy in speech. see POTENT. was placed in the custody of the treasurer. STUBAS Constitutional nasmus, < Gr. pleonasmos, < pleon; see PLEO..] Hist. Eng. vol, iii, ch. 18, p. 106. (CL. P. 78.] - minister plenipotentiary, a plenipotentiary, Synonyms: see CIRCUMLOCUTION. plen"i-po-ten'ti-a-ry, n. (-RIES, pl.] A person fully - ple'o-nast, n. One given to the use of superflu- ous words.-- ple"o-nas'tic, ple"o-nas'tic-al, a. A diplomatic representative invested with full power to + habeo, hold.) settle the matters connected with his mission, subject tu thePertaining to pleonasm; characterized by the use of su- Sygonyms: see SECURITY. ratification of the government by which he is commissioned perfluous words.- ple'o-nas'uic-al-ly, ado. Mineral, Ceylonite. (< Gr. pleo, nastos, abundant, < pleonazo, abound, < pleon; see PLEO-. ) three so as to be worn by the two parties and the witness to a bargain respectively.- to hold in p., to keep as securi- hehe French plenipotentiaries announced to the Congress that ple" o-nex'i-a, plio-nexil-a, n. Pathol." A form of insan. ity characterized by desire for gain. (< Gr. pleoneria, < their master was determined to keep Strasburg, ty: - to put in P., to pawn.-to take the p., to promise MACAULAY England vol. iv, ch, 22, p. 638. (P. S. & co. '56.] pleon, more, + echo, have.) solemnly to abstain from drinking intoxicating liquors. ple'o-pod, pli’o-pod, n. Crust. An abdominal limb; plen'ish, plen'ish, vt. [Scot. & Archaic) 1. To replenish; pledge'less, plej'les, a. Without a pledge. All up. 2. To furnish or stock, as a farm or dwelling.swimmeret. [< Gr. pleð, swim, + pou8 (pod-), foot.) pledgler-yt, n. Suretyship; pledging. plen'ish-ing, plen'ish-ing, n. [Scot. ) Household furniture. ple-op'o-ditet; ple-op'o-dont. pledg'et, plej'et, n. A little plug. (1) Naut. An vakum - plen'ish-ing:nail", n, A large flooring-nail. ple-ro'ma, ple-ro'ma, n. 1. A condition of fulness or filled with matter, and that no perfect vacuum exists. The spiritual divine nature; divine plenitude or being, the air, absorb discharges, or retain a dressing. [< PLENUM.] plen"i-tu"di-na'ri-ant. including all eons that emanate from it. See Eon. According to him (Cerinthus) the man Jesus was born in the catching cold is not judicious. The introduction of a pledget of cotton into the meatus to prevent plen'l-tude, plen'i.tiad, n. 1. The state of being full, complete, or abounding; also, that which fills to reple- natural way of Joseph and Mary, and the Æon Christ descendel on him, at his baptism, ... and previous to the crucifixion, the Æon (Perhaps var. dim. of PLUG, n.1 returned to the Pleroma, leaving the man to suffer. In all his plenitude and consciousness of power, there appears KEIGHTLEY Roman Empire pt. ii, ch. 7, p. 214. (A. G. & co.'41.) a humility ot spirit, which, coveting nothing but the excellencies obtained by percusston of the larynx, the glottis being open. of others, thought of nothing but imperfections in himself. H. N. 3, N. T. Fulness or completion, as of time; the time of Hudson Lect. on Shakspeare vol. i, lect. i, p. 34. (B. & SCR. '18.) fulfilment or completion. 4. Bot. Same as PLEROME. 21. In medicine, repletion; plethora. [< F. plénitude, [< Gr. pleroma, plērēs, full, < pimplêmi, fill.] - ple"ro-mat'lc, a. the moon in her plenitude (ller.), the full moon, ple'rome, plî'rom, n. Bot. A central cylinder of nascent plen"i-tu'di-na-ryt, a. Having plenitude or fulness. plesome-ter, n. Same as PLEXIMETER.' (< Gr. plēgē, plen'te-ous, plen'te-us, a. (Archaic or Poet.] 1. Am cellular tissue in the stems of dicotyledons, of which the stroke, .) axial fibrovascular bundle of the stem is formed. [< Gr. Plel'ad, plai'ad, c. E. I. S., or pli'yad, W. Wr., n. ply sufficient for every purpose; abundant; plentiful. plēroma; see PLEROMA.) pleromț; ple-ro'mat: [PLEI'A-Des or PLEL'ADS, pl.] 1. Asiron. One of the Labouring the soil, and reaping plenteous crops. - ple'rome:sheath", n. Bot. A layer or sheath of Pleiades. 2. A group of six French poets of the 16th MILTON P. L. bk. xii, 1, 18. tissue surrounding a fibrovascular bundle. Mineral. A pseudo- ductive; as, a plenteous fountain; a plenteous year. morph by infiltration. [< Gr. plērēs (see PLEROMA) [< L. Pleia( d-)s, < Gr. Pleia(d-)8, < pleo, sail, as rising Beauteous Isle And plenteous! morphē, form.] at the beginning of the sailing-season.) H. H. MILMAN Samor bk. i, st. 1. ple"ro-phoʻri-a, pli'ro-fo'ri-a, n. (Rare.) Fulness of 3. Characterized by plenty; possessing in great quantity; assurance; firm conviction. [< Gr. pierophoria, < plērēs, abounding; rich: with in (formerly oj); as, plenteous in full, + phero, bear.] plecroph'o-ryt. (XIII), 11. (L.) 1. Astron. A group of stars in the constel- honors and in years. ple-ro'sis, ple-ro'sis, n. Med. The restoration of lost sublation Taurus, six of which are visible to ordinary sight, stance, as recovery of flesh after sickness; superabundance Sometimes I have known more plenteous days while persons of keen sight can see eleven or more: said Than these. of blood in the system; plethora. [< Gr. plērösis, a Alling ROWE Jane Shore act i, sc, 2. by the ancients to have been seven, the seventh sister up, < plērēs; see PLEROMA.) having hidden herself from shame for having loved a 47. Generous. [< OF, plentious, < plentif, plenty, < ple-roi'ic, ple-ret'ic. Med. 1. a. Tending to replenish or plente; see PLENTY.] plen'te-[or -ti-]voust. fill up. 11. 11. Medicine considered efficacious in restoring More than 400 stars properly belong in the group, which Synonyms: see ABUNDANT; AMPLE. or increasing fleshiness. the contentecognized as a single systein, of which Alcyone is plen'ti-ful, plen'ti-fui, a. 7. Existing in great quan: Pler'anit, a. Same as Pleagant. ples'auntt. -plen'te-ous-ly, adv.-plen'te-ous-ness, n. ples'ancet, n. Same as PLEABANCE. ples'aupcet. . Compare ALCYONE and stars of the group are surrounded with nebulous matter. tity; abundant; plenteous; as, a plentiful supply of ple'sent, ot. To please. plesht, n. A shallow pool; plash. The navigation of the Mediterranean lasted from May to money; 2. Yielding in plenty; affording ample supply; plesio. Derived from 'Greek plēsios, pear ( pelas, November, from the early rising to the early ketting of the Pleiades as, a plentiful season, 3+. Lavish; profuse. HUMBOLDT Cosmos tr. by E. C. Otte, vol. iii, ch. 3, p. 141. (H. '59.) Synonyins: see ABUNDANT; AMPLE. near): a combining form.- Ple"si-o-che-ly'i.dæ, n. 2. Myth. The seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione and plen'ti-fyt, nt. To supply with plenty; enrich; plen'ti-ful"ly, adv.- plen'ti-ful"ness, n. pl. Herp. A Tertiary family of pleurodirous tortoises without a mesoplastron and with a cervical plate. Ple". sisters of the Hyades, that gave name to the group of plen'ty, plen'ti, a. (Colloq.) Existing in abundance; plenti. si-och'e-lys,' n. (t. g.) – ple" si-o-che-ly'id, n.stars: they were fabled to have killed themselves on ac ple"si-o-che-ly'oid, a.- Ple"si-o-met"a-carcount of grief for the death of their sisters, the Hyades, ful; as, sand is plenty at the seashore: not used attributively. pa'li-ft, n. pl. Mam. A section of Cerrinæ having the and to have been set by Jupiter as a group of stars in the The more plenty the paper money became, the more people ran proximal portions of the lateral (second and fifth) metacar. into debt. SCHURZ H. Clay vol, i, ch. 9, p. 203. (H. M. & co. '87.] heavens. Their names were Maia, Electra, Taygeta, plen'ty, n. 1. The state of being abundantly sufficient, pals persistent, including most of the Old World deer. ple"si-o-met"a-car-pa'li-an, a. & n.- ple"si-oAlcyone, Celæno, Sterope, and Merope. At-lan'ti. or of having an abundance, particularly of necessaries morphism, n. Crystal. The property of certain subdest. 3. The seven leaders of a school of chess-play- and comforts; as, to live in peace and plenty. stances of crystallizing in similar forms while unlike in ing that arose in Berlin about 1810. chemical composition. Called also isogonism. ple"sipleint, a. Full; complete. plenet.-plein'lyt, adv. Our people are on a full rush for plenty, but they have their fun 0-morphic, ple"si-o-morphous, a.- Ple"si-0plein air, plên ár. (F.) Literally, open air: used in art to as they go. S. S. Cox Why We Laugh ch. 2, p. 39. (H. '76.) sau'ri-a, n. pl. Herp. A Mesozoic order of characterize the work of a school of impressionist paint. 2. As much as can be required; an abundance or suffi. synaptosaurian reptiles without paroccipital ers who try to represent objects seen under brilliant sun. ciency: now generally without the article; as, plenty of bones, and with ribs mostly one-headed and limbs paddle-like. pleiniet, 11. Lament; complaint, OF. plente, <L. pleñitast-)s, < plenus, full.] plen'teet. Ple"si-0-gau'. rii.-ple'si-0much): a combining form. – Plei'o-cene, n. Geol. Same ple'num, plî'num or plê'num, n. 1. Fulness of mat saur, n.-ple". s-0-sauri-an, ter in space; that state of things in which space is con- several or many axes. Called also multiparous cyme. - a, & n.- Ple"si- sidered as fully occupied by matter, especially by abso- plei"o-morphism, n. 1. Biol. The occurrence of sev. sauri-doc, . eral independent stages in the life-cycle of an organism. 2. lutely continuous matter; also, space so considered. pl. Herp. A family A Plesiosaurus ( Plesiosaurus dolicho. of plesiosaurians, 0-jor"phy, n. 1. Same as PLEIOMORPHISM. as they have always done, that . ; . every part of space is full of deirur) (as restored). 1/175 especially those 2. Re. newed growth of the arrested parts in irregular flowers, matter, that there is a universal plenum. with a long neck.- ple"si-0-sau'rid, n.-ple"si-o J.C. MAXWELL in Encyc. Brit. 9th ed., vol. iji, p. 37. restoring them to regular form. ple'o-inor"phyi. sau'roid, a.& n. plei"o-phyl’ly, n. Bot. The nionstrous development 2. Any condition of fulness or plethora, or that which Ple"si-o-sau’rus, plí"si-o-sõ'rus or plê-si-o-squ’rus, n. of a large number of leaves froin a single point, or of an produces it; specifically, an enclosed body of gas under Herp. 1. A genus typical of Plesiosauridæ. 2. (p-] [-RI, unusual number of leaflets in a compound leaf.- plei". greater than normal pressure. o-phyl'lous, C. W.? (plei-oph'yl-lous, W.1), a. pli". -rai or-rî, pl. A fossil long-necked marine reptile of this The orator . , . must be a magazine of sensibility, an electric o-phyl’lount. -- Plei"o-sau'rus, n. genus; a plesiosaur, I< PLESIO- + Gr. sauros, lizard.] Same as PLIO- battery, a Leyden jar charged to a plenum. SAURUS. -plei'o-spo"rous, (I. Bot. Many-spored. MATHEWS Oratory and Orators ch. 4, p. 107. (8. C. G. '79.) ples-sim'e-ter, 1. ples'ser, 1. Same as PLEXOR. ples'sort. Same as PLEXIMETER. (L., neut. s. of plenus, full.] plet, plet, n. A whip used in Russian prisons. Compare plei"o-thal'a-mous. (. Bol. Several. or many-celled. -- plenum inethod of ventilation, a system for KNOUT. [< Rus. pletú, whip.) plete.. ventilating buildings by forcing in fresli air, the plenum or plethora created causing an outward flow of the foul air. The plét is a whip made of strips of raw hide, and having three period of geological history; the Quaternary. 2. The plen'y-tidet, n. A full tide, lashes tipped with small leaden balls. W. M. COOPER Flagella tion and Flagellants ch. 26, p. 250. (J. C. H.] Page 5
plugging 1364 plummet shave'-hook drip'-joint', d.. lav'a-to-ry plugʻging, plug‘ing, n. 1. The act of inserting a plug plu"mas-siery, plū‘ma-sir', C. Wr. (plu-mas'sfr, 1.), n. [F.] Bleeve or plugs. 2. Material for making plugs. 3. (Local, One who deals in or makes up plumes; a plumist. pump, d.-valve main drop'-el bow mo-las'ses-gate' slop'-hop'per dum'my nip'ple smoke' rock'et a bullet into a man. 4. Plugs collectively; specifically, genus typical of Plumatellidæ. 2. [P-) A polyzoan of el'bow noz'le snarl ell off'set sofl'-pipe sold'er ex-pand'er pack'ing plug":ug’ly, plug-ug'li, n. (Slang, U.S.) A rufflan in a city; Plu"ma-tel'll-dæ, pla'ma-tel'i-di or -de, n. pl. Hel- fau'cet pipe, p.-bender, p.. sold'er-ing-l'ron, 8.street rowdy: used also attributively; as, plug-ugly riots: tool fer'rule clamp, p..con. originally a Baltimore term. cially those with sedentary massive colonies and tubi- fire'-plug". nection, p.: Cov- spig'ot plumt, a. Plump; full; round. flange' -joint ering, p.-die, p. stake form zoccia. [< PLUMATELLA.) plum, plum, n. 1. The edible drupaceous fruit of any flan ging-ma-chine Atting, p.-prover, strain'er -plu"ma-tel'lid, n.-plu"ma-tel’loid, a. one of various trees of the genus Prunus, especially P. plumb, plum, vt. flashing p.-reducer, p. suc'tion-pipe' 1. To ascertain or test the perpen- flush'ing-box' stay, p.-stop, p.. T domestica; also, the tree itself. flux dicularity of by means of a plumb-line. 2. To make threading, p. tap, tongs, p.-twister, tap'-bor'er plumb or vertical ; adjust to a true perpendicular; frost'avalve and smaller than the apricot, nearly allied fruits of the straighten: often with up; as, to plumb up a wall. 3. gage'-cock p.-union, p.-vise tee same genus, is further distinguished from them by its waxy, plan'ish glaucous skin and its rather smooth flattish stone. This, the To ascertain the depth or with a plummet; hence, to take plug thim'ble gas'-pipe globe valve pump trap including the various damsons and gages. The bullace-plum A short walk restored me to myself, and renewed within me the adf-8"tor goose'neck turn'-pin' (P. insititia) and all the varieties of the P. domestica are resolve to plumb this mystery. re-du'cer un'lon gro'zing-i'ron supposed by some botanists to have sprung originally from K. L. STEVENSON The Merry Men, Olalla p. 187, (s. '87. hopper ri'ser valve the sloe or blackthorn (P.spinosa). hop'per clos'et 4. Plumbing. (1) To supply (a building) with gas- and riv'et waste'-pipe 2. The plum-like fruit of any one of various other trees water-pipes, etc. (2) To seal with solder or lead; as, to hose waste'-pre-vent'er hy'drant seal wa'ter-clos'et see phrases below and in vocabulary place. 3. A raisin, wa'ter-main especially as used in cooking; as, plum pudding. 4. The plumb, a. 1. True, accurate, and upright; perpendic- increas'er joint seam'ing-tool wir'ing-ma-chide' la-trine' serv'ice-pipe" Y (Colloq.) Fully qualified; perfect; complete. lat'ter-kin shave yoke A man who will squander his chances of fortune and the best plum'bism, plum'bizm, n. Med. Lead-poisoning. years of his life on a government or a party whicho kicks fidelity, plumbless, plum'les, a. Incapable of being sounded idiot. Otto the Knight, with the lead; unfathomable; as, a plumbless depth. verticality of something, as a wall; a plumb-bob or plum- A resinous, variously colored, translucent, hydrous lead met. 2. A position parallel to a plumb-line; the vertical aluminum phosphate, crystallizing in the hexagonal sys. tem. [< L. plumbum, lead, t gummi, gum.] One could see that it [the Irishman's house] was a little out of plum bo-sol'vent, plum bo-solvent, a. 'Solvent of and really allied to the persimmon, and hence called Aus- plumb, and a little wavy in outline, and a little ... uncertain in lead; holding lead in solution. tralian date-plum or persimmon. The fruits, respectively general aspect. HOLMES Autocrat ch. 1, p. 22. (H. M. & CO. '80.) Lead is a fruitful sonrce of disease in certain districts of England gray and dark-purple in color, are called also the gray [< F. plomb, < L. plumbum, lead.) where the water has what is termed a plumbo-solvent quality. MORELL MACKENZIE in Youth's Companion Mar. 31, '92, p. 102. - plumb' bob", n. The roughly conical weight used crimson fruit of a West African tree (Hæmatostaphis in a plumb-rule or at the end of a plumb. L. plumbum, lead, + SOLVENT, a.] plum'bous, plum'bus, a. Chem. Of, pertaining to or containing lead, especially in its lower valence; as, plumbous chlorid (PbCl2). [< PLUMBUM.) red globous, tender, succulent, and cdible fruit; also, the suspended. 2. A plumb-bob and its cord fruit.- gray p. 1. See AUSTRALIAN PLUM. 2. Same together.- p.rule, n. A narrow rule fur- plum'bum, plyin'bum, ni. (L.) Lead: so called in phar. macy and old chemistry. as GUINEA-PLUM.-- Indian p., the fruit of either of two nished with a plumb-line or a cross-level, small trees (Flacourtia cataphracta and F. Ramontchi) of with which masons and carpenters test the plumd, pp. Plumbed. PHIL. Soc. plume, plūm, C. S. (pliüm, W. Wr.)(XIII), vt. (PLUMBD;. PLU'MING.] 1. To dress or arrange the feathers or pluduina bispinosa and A. grandiflora) of the dogbane family to the plane of the horizon; in a vertical mage of; preen. 2. To adorn with or as with plumes; (Apocynacex), or their oblong, drupe-like fruits, used for direction; as, the house stands plurnb. 2. by extension, to decorate with fine clothes. preserves.- Orleans p., a cultivated variety of the garden Wild flowers plume the tops of all the walls. TAINE Notes on England tr. by W. F. Rae, ch. 10, p. 148. (H. & W. '72.) 3. To felicitate highly; overvalue; boast; used reflex- ively; as, he plumes himself on his ability. 4. To strip of plumes or feathers, as birds. 1, finger-ring; SCOTT Fair Maid of Perth vol. i, ch, 12, p. 222. (ö. & co. 7.) of the plum, peach, and cherry.- p..fir, n. A hardy green. plum-ba'gin, plum-bê'jin or -ba', n: reel for the -plumed adder, a horned viper.- p. partridge, house evergreen tree (Podocarpus Andina) from Chile, Chem. A crystalline compound contained line. the mountain-quall. with edible fruit resembling the white grape in appearance and the cherry in structure.- po gouger, n. A weevil in and forming the bitter principle of leadwort (Plumba- plume, n. 1. A feather, especially when large and or- Each bird (ostrich] has 25 white plumes in each wing, with a row Commissioner Agric., '88 p. 697. (GOV, PTG. OFF. '89.) 2. A large feather, or a bunch of feathers, worn as an ornament; also, any waving ornament resembling feath- A ple containing raisins and currants. 2. A pie containing flowers. plums.- p.spig, n. Pie-crust or dough paste shaped like It embraces 8 genera and about 300 species. 3. Entom. A plumate hair. 4. Bot. A plumule. little pigs with raisins or currants for eyes. - p.spockets, Plum-ba'go, n. (t. g.), (L., s plumbum, lead.] 5. Her. Three feathers, unless more are specified. 6. n. pl. The swollen bladder-like fruits due to a fungus Plum"ba-gin'e-æt.-plum"ba-gin'e-ous, a. A part of feather-like form; as, a branchial plume of a crustacean. Compare PANACHE. 7. A plume-moth. currants, or plums mixed in it.- p. pudding, a rich bolled used for pencils, crucibles, and lubricating, and, as it is a 8. [Rare.] Plumage. 97. A decoration of honor.. (F., back-pudding made with four, suet, raisins, currants, spices, conductor of electricity, extensively employed in electro- <L. pluma, small soft feather, < ^ plu, float, sail.) and spirits, often served with a sauce of burning brandy: re. Compounds:-plume':ul'um, n. Alum in feather or plume-like forms.- p.sbird, 12. A bird yielding ornaseason. A Perhaps you will smile I tell you that plumbago of mental plumes or having conspicuous feather-tufts; spewhaling vessel that makes only short voyages, and thus is your pencil is essentially carbon. cifically, a long-billed or epimachine bird of paradise. P: WINCHELL Walks and Talks ch. 26, p. 151. (CHAUT. '86.) able to give its crew good fresh food.- p.tree, n. Any holder, n. Something in which a plume may be held;. tree that bears plums.-P.:weevil, n. A weevil that in. 2. Bot. (P-) See PLUMBAGINACEÆ. (L.; see PLUMBAGIN.] particularly, an attachment to the top of a helmet for se. fests the plum. - Queensland p., saine as SOUR PLUM.- -plum-bag'l-nous, a. curing the plume of a knight.-P.maker, n. One who makes up feathers into plumes; plumassier: plumist:-P moth, n. A small pterophorid moth with wings divided into feathery, lobes.- p.snutmeg, dish, and useful for wheelwrights' work. The fruit is a glob. plum'be-ous, plum'be-Us, C.W.Wr. (plum-bi'us, 1.), a. n. A Tasmanian tree (Atherosperma ular drupe with a wholesome slightly acid pulp.- sweet 1. Same as PLUMBEAN. 2. Lead-colored, as a bird. [< moschatum) of the monimiad family (Monimiaceæ); the Tasmanian sas- plums growing wild. Especially: (1) The European sloe or plumber, plum'er, n. One who makes a business of blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), a thorny shrub, with solitary plumbing. See PLUMBING, 1 (1). [< F. plombier, <LL: safras. – p.splucked, a. (Rare.) Stripped of plumes or of honors; re- flowers and fruit, naturalized in the United States. (2) A duced in rank; humbled. -plumber:block", n. in the United States and Same as PILLOW-BLOCK, Derivatives: - plumeless, Canada, often cultivated for pluin'mersblock"?; plum'mer:box"+. Destitute of plumes or feathers. Its sweet roundish-oval yel. plumb'er-y, plum'er-i, n. [-les, pl.] 1. The business - plume'let, n. 1. Ornith, A low, orange, or red drupes, of plumbing. 2. A plumber's place of business. 3. down-feather; plumule. 2. Some. nearly destitute of bloom, Articles made from lead, collectively; leadwork. [< F. thing resembling a little plume, as A Plume-moth (Pee and about the size of the plomberie, < L. plumbaria, < plumbarius; see PLUMB- a spray of foliage. 3. Bot. A little rophorus periscelldamson. Called also velloro ER.) plum'mer-yi. plumule.-plu'mer-y,n. [Rare.] dactylus). plum'bic, plum'bic, a. Chem. Of, pertaining to, or con- Plumes collectively considered; a collection of plumes. greatly improved varieties. taining lead, especially in its higher valence; as, plumbic plu-me'ta, plu-me ta, n. (Sp.] A Spanish woolen cloth. plu"met-té', plü'met-te', a. Her. Covered with little feathers, or something similar, as the field, especially wben rocky hills in California yielding lead; as, a plumbiferous mineral. [< L. plum- PLUME.) plu'met-tyt. divided into fusils. (< OF. plumette, dlin. of plure; see and Oregon, with edible red bum, lead, + fero, bear.] fruit. Called also Califor. plumi.. Derived from Latin pluma, feather: a combiplumb’ing, plum'ing, n. 1. (1) The art or trade of ning form. – plu'mi-come, n. "Spong. A hexaster spicnia plum. plum, v., &., & n. Plumb. putting into buildings the tanks, pipes, traps, fittings, ule having rays with plumose branches. - plu-mico and fixtures (formerly made almost exclusively of lead) Phil. Soc. mons, a.-plu'mi-corn, n. An erect tuft of feathers plum, ado. [Colloq.) As If for conveying water, gas, and sewage; originally, the on the side of the head, as in eared or horned owls; corni. done or guided by a plumb. general art or trade of lead-working, including making, plume; ear-tuft.-plu-mig'er-ons, a. Furnished with line; exactly; hence, com putting up, and repairing, leaden roof-coverings and plumage; feathered.-plu'ini-ped. 1. a. Having feath. pletely; entirely; as, plum A Branch of the Wild Plum window-mountings. (2) The pipe-system for conveying ered feet. II. n. A plumiped bird, as an owl or ptarmi. gan. plu'ini-pedet. a, flowers; b, fruit, laid open. SANITATION. (3) The putting in and repairing of water, a feather. (<L. pluma, feather, + -FORM.) ma, w.), n. A typical feather; plume. [L., small soft gas and sewerage systems, in buildings. 2. The test- plu'mist, plūmist, n. One who makes up or deals in feather.) plu-ma'ceous, 'a. Pennaceous: opposed ing, as by a plumbuline, whether or not a wall or other plumes or feathers; a feather-dresser. to plumulaceous.--plu'mate, a. Entom. Plume-like. object is vertical;3. The act of sounding for depth, plum-line", -mer, -ming. Plumb-line, etc. Ph. S. , -line. plum'met, plum'et, vt. [-MET-ED or -MET-TED; -METThe feathers that cover a bird, taken collectively. See cifically or more especially in plumbing. Additional matter ING ON MET-TING.] To adorn or weight with plummets BIRD, N. 2. Figuratively, gaudy costume; adornment. will be found under some of the most important ones. or imitations thereof; as, a plummeted curtain, plum'met, n. box coil col'lar !. A piece of lead or heavy substance, ABBY M. DIAŻ Schoolmaster's Trunk ch.6, p. 48. lo. & co. 174.) ball cock brack'et cor’po-ra'tion stop attachable to a line, for making soundings, adjusting [F., < plume; see PLUME.] ball valve branch coup'ling walls to the vertical, etc.; a plumb or plumb-bob: chiefplu'maged, plū'mējd, a. Covered with plumage: com ba'sin burn'er creas'ing-ham®mer ly of literary and scientific use. Seamen usually say the monly in composition; as, bright-plumaged., bush'ing cross lead; mechanics, plumb or plumb-bob. See illus, under bell cross' valve plu'mage-ry, plū’mệj-ri, n. The art or industry of PLUMB-BOB. bend check' yalve preparing feathers as ornaments. dip'-pipe drain'-trap Surely the long straight rows of stately poplars . line and plummet. plu-mas'sa-ryt, n. A plume of ornamental feathers. boil'er MARK TWAIN Innocents Abroad ch. 12, p. 105. [AM. P. CO. '69.1 Page 6
plurisy 1366 pneumatic plu'ri-syt, n. Med. Plethora; repletion; specifically, su. Plu-ton'ic, pla-ten'ic, a. 1. Pertaining to Pluto or Round the lake perabundance of blood in the system. A little clock-work steamer paddling plied plu'ri-valve, plâ'ri-valv, a. Having several valves or his kingdom of Hades; hence, relating to or resembling And shook the lilies. TENNYSON Princess prol., st. 5. valve-like appendages, as an animal or plant. the underworld; subterranean and fiery; as, Plutonic 2. To be steadily employed; continue in action; be depths. 2. Geol. (1) Of or pertaining to the teachings of 1. Having an addition (of); increased the Plutonists or the Plutonic theory. (2) Deeply subter busy; as, the seamstress's fingers ply. 3. To search here and there for custom; as, the newsboys ply in the (written 4 +1 = 5). ranean in original position; crystallized, probably from a streets. 4. To proceed in haste; as, thither he plies. fused condition, at great depths: said of igneous rocks, The Bible as read and understood by any man or school of men is 5. Naut. To work against the wind; as, the ship lost God's book plus a very large element of human interpretation, W. and opposed to volcanic. R. SMITH Old Testament in Jewish Church lect. i, p. 4. (A. '81.) three days in plying. 61. To bend or yield; incline. Plutonic action has, indeed, played the most fantastic tricks 2. Being or indicating more than nothing; above zero, with the crust of the earth, which seems as plastic in the grasp of [< F. plier (< L. plico), bend.) plyet. the fiery power hidden within it as does clay in the hands of the ply, n. [PLIES, pl.] 1. A web, layer, or thickness, as in AGASSIZ Geol. Sketches sketch iv, p. 110. (T. & F. '66.] a carpet, cloth, or firewhose: principally used in com- terwoven webs; as, two-ply, three-ply, etc. trine that the principal phenomena of rock-structure are 2. An in. cotton, having a cut pile on one side commonly longer chiefly due to igneous agency; Plutonism, clination to one side; a bent or bias. than that of velvet. Plu'to-nism, plū'to-nizm, n. Geol. The system or Milton was one of those pupils who are more likely to react Flunkeys irredeemable, carrying their plush into highest heaven! opinions of Plutonists. against a tutor than to take a ply from him. MARK PATTISON Milton ch. 1, p. 6. [H.] 3. (Archaic.) A twist or turn; a strand of a rope. have been blinded by Zeus, so that his gifts should be dis. Plym'outh cloakt. (Slang.). A cudgel or walking-staff: tributed without discernment of the character of the recip- a phrase originated in Plymouth, England. lents. At Athens and Thebes he was associated with Tyche Plym'outh-Ism, plim'uth-izm, n. Ch. Hist. The doc- (Chance, Fortune) and Eirene (Peace). Compare PLUTO. trines or theories of the Plymouth Brethren. See BRETH- L., < Gr. Ploutos, < ploutos, wealth.) plush'ert, n. A kind of dogfish. REN.-- Plym'outh-ist, Plym'outh-ite, n. plush'y, plush'i, a. Having a surface like plush. pluv'er, n. Plover. PHIL. Soc. Plym'outh Rock. One of a breed of domestic The devil . . . plu'vi-al, plū'vi-al, a. 1. Pertaining to or character- fowls. See Fowl, and plate of Fowls, fig. 14. makes the first steps in the downward path to be most charming. The ground is plushy under foot, and sweet and ized by rain; rainy; as, a pluvial equinox. 2. Arising plytt, n. Same as PLIGHT2. plytet, fragrant clusters hang on each side and overhead. H. W. BEECHER from the action of rain; as, pluvial erosion. [< L. plu- pneo-. Derived from Greek pneo, breathe: a combining form.- pne"o-bi"o-man-ti'a, n. Med. Jurisprudence. - plu'vi-al, n. Eccl. A cope used in various cere- The lung or respiration test as proof of having been born monies. - Pluvi-al"i - formes, n. pl. Ornith. A alive: applied to infants. Called also hydrostatic test, doci. family of geometriform noctuid moths with broad wings, series of birds with schizognathous palate and aquatic masia pulmonum. pneu"o-bi"o-man-ti'at.-pne"ofrequently silvered or gilt, and slender ascending palpi. habits, as plovers, gulls, etc. -plu"vi-al'i-form, a.- dy-nam'ics, n. Physiol. The branch of animal mechanics Plu'şi-a, n. (t. g.). T< Gr. plousios, rich, < ploutos, plu'vi-al-in(e, a. Ornith. Of, pertaining to, or like a that treats of respiration.-pne"o-gas'ter, n. The reriches.] --plu-si id, a. & n.-plu'si-oid, a. plover; charadriomorphic, spiratory tract.- poe" o-gastric, a.- pne'o-graph, plu"si-oc'ra-cy, n. Same as PLUTOCRACY. plu'vi-an, plâ'vi-an, n. The crocodile-bird. plu". n. An instrument by which to test and trace the character plus":quam per fect, a. L. Gram. Same as PLUPERFECT. vi-a'nust. of lung-expirations, by the movements of a thin light plate plu'tar-chy, plū'tar-ki, C. E. (plit'., W.), n. [-Chies, pluvio... Derived from Latin pluvia, rain ( < pluo, rain): held before the lips and actuating a needle that traces a record on smoked paper.- pne-om'e-ter, n. Same as SPIROMETER.- pne-om'e-try, n. The measurement of An instrument for TOCRACY. A plutarchy is not recognized as among the gage; a pluviometer registering measuring thoracic motion, standard forms of government, but is regarded as a form the depth, time of occurrence, pneum.. Same as PNEUMO-1,--pneum-ap"os-te'ma, n. of oligarchy, which is itself ranked as a depraved form and rapidity of rainfall upon a An abscess of the lung.- pneum-at"el-ec'ta-sis, n. Imperfect expansion of the lungs at birth; collapse of the lung.-pneum-ec'ta-sis, n. Emphysema.-pneum-ec. - plú"vi-o-graph'ic or to-my, n. Surg. The cutting away of a portion of a lung. pneu'ma, niû'ma, n. 1. A breath or breathing. Hence: wealth.) plu"vi-og'ra-phy, plâ'yi. (1) Soul or spirit. (2) In some ancient philosophies, the universal spirit or primitive substance. (3) In New Testa- A family of tineid moths with palpi taining automatic records of ment thought, the spiritual as distinguished from the scaly below at the middle joint and rainfalls. 2. The charting and vital principle, or psyche. The natural man antennæ straight in rest. — plu .. must become a spiritual man, that is, one graphic representation of rain- in whom the spirit, the pneuma, the higher or God-touched nature, in which the Holy Spirit dwells, is predominant. L. F. STEARNS plu'te-us, plü'te-Us, n. [-TE-I, -te-ai -GRAPHY.) Evidence of Christian Experience lect. vii, p. 248. [s. ’90.1 2. [P-] Theol. The Holy Ghost, or the act by which he ming larva with a postanal lobe and e-ter, n. An instrument for proceeds, both from the Father and from the Son. 3. arms containing a calcareous skele- measuring the depth of rainfall Mus. (1) A sequence of tones upon the same pitch. (2). ton. 2. Among the ancient Romans, The Pluteus Larva over a given surface. Called An ancient melodic phrase or sequence at the end of cer- a light railing, balustrade, or breast- of an Ophiuroid, also hyetometer and ombrome- tain musical phrases, still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, resting on some one syllable. neu'mat. between columns; also, the head. a, rudiment of young plu"vi-am'e-tert. [< Gr. pneuma, breath, spirit, < pneo, blow, breathe.) board of a bed, or a shelf affixed ophiuroid; d, d, ante- It is easy to determine the amount Synonyms: compare MIND. to a wall. 3. Rom. Antiq. (1) A ríor arms; d', d', lat- (of water) which falls in any one spot pneu'ma-gram, nil'ma-gram, n. (Local, Eng.) A written wooden mantlet, parapet," breast- eral arms; e', e', poste. by intercepting and measuring a por- message blown from one place to another through a pneu- tion of it: this is done by means of an matic tube. Pall Mall Gazette Aug. 25, '92, p. 1261. [< Gr. work, or shed for protecting soldiers, rior arms. instrument called the pluviameter. pneuma, breath, + gramma, writing. ] as on a fortification. (2) A strong shed or cover, mounted JACOB ABBOTT Force ch.10, p. 165. p pneu'na-rox, n. Broken wind in horses. [< Gr. pneuma, on wheels, to protect besiegers ma- [H. "73.) breath, + rõx, fragment.] king approaches. 4. In medieval pneum"ar-thro'sis, niim"ār-thro'sis, n. - plu"vi-o-met'ric, a. The colwarfare, a covered wagon moved by. Pertaining to the measuring lection or effusion of air into the cavity of a joint. [< horses harnessed within it and be. À Pluviograph. of rainfas, as by a pluviome. The funnel (1) descends Gr. pneuma, air, + arthrosis, jointing.) tween the wheels. [L., penthouse, 1. Pertaining to the sciter. plu"vi-a-met'ric or with the weight of the water pneu.mat'ic, niu mat'ic, a. parapet.) ence of pneumatics, or to machines, instruments, or de- .ric-alt; plu"vi-o-met'. falling into it, and by means -plu'te-al, a. Echin. Of or vices in which its laws are exemplified, especially those A Pluteus (def. 4) of pertaining to a pluteus. plu'te. ric-alt: - plu"vi-a[or-0-]. of a rock-shaft and levers carries the pencil (p) with it, met'ric-al-ly, adv. that make use of compressed air; as, a pneumatic engine; pln'vi-om'. ting drum (r). When full, leaving a record on the rota- pneumatic tires. 2. Of or pertaining to or consisting of Having the form of a pluteus. The art of measuring the funnel empties itself au- air or gas; gaseous; as, pneumatic pressure. 3. Con- taining air, as the bones of birds. 4. Of or pertaining to underworld (the Greek Hades), son of Saturn, brother of rainfall, or snowfall when retomatically. the respiratory system. .5. (Rare.] Of or belonging to Jupiter and Neptune, and husband of plu'vi-o-scope, plü'vi-o-scop, n. A rain-gage. < the pneuma or spirit; spiritual. Proserpine, whom he carried off from PLUVIO- + -SCOPE.] On the mountain, Satan appealed to Christ's spirit or pneumatic Enna in Sicily to the world below. As nature. Plu"vi-ose', plü'vi-Öz' or pla'vi-os, n. [F.] The Afth G. D. BOARDMAN Divine Man ch. 21, p. 291. [A. '88.] month in the calendar of the first French republic. See [< L. pneumaticus, < Gr. pneumatikos, < pneuma; see he is a beneficent deity. Sée PLUTUS CALENDAR. PNEUMA.] His emblems in art are the dog Cer- berus, a two-pronged fork, a cornuco- plu'vi-ous, plā'vi-us, a. Of or pertaining to rain; sub- Phrases:- pneumatic despatch, the transmission pia, and a key. See Dis; HADES; TAR- ject to rains; rainy; moist. [ L. pluvius, rainy, < of written messages and light packages by means of pneu. matic tubes.- p. differentiation (Med.), a mode of TARUS. treatment by inhalation of air of varying density, either more rare or more compressed than that surrounding Plu'toni. closely, with continuation of efforts or urgency; work at the patient's body.- p. hammer, a hammer operated by - Pluto monkey, a West-Afri. with steadiness; follow diligently; as, he plies the trade pneumatic pressure.- p. paradox, the fact that a light can whiskered cercopithecine monkey of a shoemaker. object can be held against a small aperture by a current of The muskrat plied the mason's trade, air directed against it through the aperture: due to the dimwith a white forehead. And tier by tier his mud-walls laid. inution of atmospheric pressure between the object and the pluto.. Derived from Greek ploutos, WHITTIER Snoro. Bound st. 14. aperture, caused by the current escaping laterally -- p. wealth: a combining form.-plu". 2. To use with diligence; employ busily in work; as, to philosophyt, the science of pneuma or spirit; psychol. ogy; pneumatology.- p. railway, a railway ln But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied. the torms of a democracy.-plú-tol'. which pneumatic pres. MACAULAY Horatius st. 53. 0-gy, n. The science of the acqui. Piuto with Cerberus, sure in a long pipe or sition and distribution of wealth; po tube is the motor. 3. To make the subject of repetitious action: followed (Antique statue in Rome.) solicitation or questioning; urge with persistency; as, to found practicable on any made a study of plutology.-plu"to. ply one with petitions or arguments. large scale.- p. school, an old school of medi plu-toc'ra-cy, plu-toc'ra-si, n. [-CIES, pl.] 1. A Ply him (who is able to give instruction) with interrogations, cine that held that both and be in earnest to obtain information. wealthy class in a political community who control the normal and diseased ac JOHN TODD Student's Manual ch. 6, p. 200. (B. & CH. '66.] tion were due to the pneu. administration of the government by means of their (2) To treat freely with offers and gifts, as of food or drink; ma or universal soul.-p. wealth; colloquially, the wealthy classes. 2. The ruling make the recipient of continual favors or flatteries; as, trough, a trough Bink to be filled with water < ploutos, wealth, + krateo, be strong.] plou"si. he plied the butler with wine. or mercury, in which an ocra-cyt; plu"si-oc'ra-cyi. Five soldiers ... plied him with brandy, killed him, and took inverted jar, likewise plu'to-crat, pla’to-crat, n. One who exercises polit possession of his furs. filled with the same maical power by virtue of his wealth; one of a plutocracy. KINGSFORD Canada vol. i, bk. iii, ch. 5, p. 380. (R. & 1. '87.] terlal, is supported to col(3) To assail with persistent vigor; attack with continued lect by displacement at By the payment of the members of that House, it will convert it its top a gas generated from an assembly of plutocrats into one more directly in harmony activity; as, he plied the donkey with a whip. in a retort and passed by The Spaniards continually plied their enemies with hand gro- a tube under the mouth Terminal Apparatus in a System of the jar.p. tube, a of Pneumatic-tube Delivery. despatch-tube in which i, indicator-box for signaling when or a plutocrat. plu"to-crat'ic-alt. 4+. To bend; mold; shape. 57. To apply. 6t. To work. compressed air, or the a message is in the tube (t); 1, lever weight of the atmosphere for operating the valves a and 1), part smolders like punk, pressing on a disk inter- thus releasing the carrier (C); v, vac- trips: said of conveyances or those who have charge of E. EGGLESTON Faith Doctor ch. 16, p. 195. [A. '91.] them; as, ships that ply on the ocean; the captain plied posed between it and a uum-valve. vacuum produced by pumping, is the motor.-P.stube Plu-to'ni-an. I. a. Plutonic. II. n. A Plutonist. between New York and Boston, valve, a double-gate valve in a pneumatic tube, that is sofa, ärm, ask; at, fāre, accord; element, er = over, êight, e = Page 7
a city: 2. (U. S.) Mil. To make clean or orderly; clean pole, especfally by the removal of the traces of earthworms. She is not polite for the sake of seeming polite, but polite for up; clear out; as, to police a camp. (2) In metallurgy, the stirring of melted copper or tin with the sake of being kind. a pole of green wood, thereby reducing the oxid and tough- SARAH O. JEWETT Deephaven ch. 3, p. 43. (0.& co. 77.) po-lice', po-lis', n. *1. A body of civil officers, especially in a city, organized under authority to maintain ening the metal. (3) Propulsion or support by the use of 2. Highly finished and elegant in style; polished in lan. a pole or poles; as, the poling of a boat; the poling of hops. order, prevent and detect crime, and enforce law; as, 2. The board lining set up in a tunnel during construc guage; as, polite literature. the uniformed police. tion, to prevent caving in. 3. [Slang, U. S.) Cramming The first real restorer of polite letters was Petrarch. It is less than fifty years since Sir Robert Peel replaced in Eng. for examination: used by collegians. HALLAM Lit. Europe vol. i, ch. 1, p. 62. (H. 54.) land the old constabulary with a regular police force, and that is Po-lin'ya, po-lfn'ya, n. alled som why the police are An open stretch of water off 37. Lustrous; smooth. [< L. politus, pp. of polio, polish.] mes bobbies' and sometimes northern Siberia, *peelers.' ELY Polit. Econ. pt. vi, ch. 1, p. 292. (CHAUT, '89.) pol"i-o-my"el-op'a-thy, pel·l-o-mai'el-op'a-thi, n. Synonyms: accomplished, civil, complaisant, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, elegant, genteel, gracious, 2. The regulation of intercourse between citizens, em- Pathol. Disease of the gray substance of the spinal mar. obliging, polished, urbane, well-behaved, well-bred, well. bracing the care and preservation of the public peace, row. [< Gr. polios, gray. + myelos, marrow, + PATHY,) mannered. A civil person observes such propriety of health, safety, morality, and welfare; the whole system Pol”l.op"ti-llnæ, polui-opti-lai'ní or.lt'nē, n. pl. speech and manner as to avoid being rude; one who is poof internal regulation of a state, or the local government Ornith. A subfamily of Sylviidæ; gnatcatchers. See ilte (literally polished) observes more than the necessary of a city or town. illus. under GNATCATCHER. Pol”i.optiola, n. (t. 2.) and thoughtful in the intercourse of refined society. A man proprieties, conforming to all that is graceful, becoming, By the public police and economy I mean the due regulation and [< POLIO + Gr. ptilon, wing, < petomai, fly.] domestic order of the kingdom. - pol"i-op'ti-lin(e, a. & n. may be civil with no consideration for others, simply be. BLACKSTONE Commentaries bk. iv, ch. 13, p. 162. pol”i-or.ce'tics, pel·l-or-si'tics or .cê'tics, n. cause self-respect forbids hiin to be rude; but one who is (Rare.) polite has at least some care for the opinions of others, and 3. (U. S.] The cleansing or keeping clean of a camp or The art of beleaguering or besieging cities. K< Gr. poli- ft polite in the highest and truest sense, which is coming to garrison; condition of a camp or garrison as to cleanli. orketikos, of besieging, < polis, city, + herkos, fence.] be the prevailing, one, he cares for the comfort and hap. piness of others in the smallest matters. Ciril is a colder ness. (F., <L. politia, state, Gr. politeia, < polis, city.) pol"i-o'sis, pel'l-o'sis, .. Pathol. The condition of having Phrases:-police court, a municipal court with Juris gray or white hair, especially as the result of disease. Com. and more distant word than polite; courteous is fuller and diction in criminal matters extending only to the trial of pare CANITIES. (< Gr. poliõsis, < polios, gray.) richer, dealing often with greater inatters, and is used only minor offenses. - p. judge or justice, the magistrate pol'ish, pol'ish, v. 1.t. 1. To make smooth, glossy, in the good sense. Courtly suggests that which befits a who presides in a police court.- p. offense, any offense or lustrous, as by friction or the smoothing of some var royal court, and is used of external grace and stateliness coming within the jurisdiction of a police judge.- p. ofl. nish-like compound; as, to polish brass. 2. Hence, to without reference to the prompting feeling; as, the courtly manners of the ambassador. Genteel refers to an external cer, a policeman.- p. power, the power of the state, tone down the rudeness or roughness of; free from through all its agencies, both general and local, to preserve elegance, which may be showy and superficial, and the word coarseness; render polite. 3. (Slang.) To punish by is thus inferior to polite or courteous. Urbane refers to a order, regulate intercourse between citizens, and insure to pounding. politeness that is genial and successful in giving others a each the lawful enjoyment of his rights. It embraces, in its most comprehensive sense, the whole system of inter. II. i. 1. To take a gloss or polish; become smooth or sense of ease and cheer. Polished refers to external ele. nal regulation, and extends to the protection of the Ilves, burnished; as, the harder the wood the better it polishes. gancies of speech and manner without reference to spirit limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the 2. To become polite and elegant; acquire easy manners, or purpose; as, a polished gentleman or a polished scoun. protection of all property, within the state.- p. station, [< OF: polisa-, ppr. stem of polir, L. polio, polish.] droma cud ured refers to a real and high development of mind and soul, of which the external manifestation is the the headquarters of a section of the police to which arrested pullisht. smallest part. Complaisant denotes a disposition to please persons are taken. -to polish off, to finish, as a work or an adversary. - po-li cial, a. (Rare.) Of or pertaining to the police. For this phrase and polish, 3., 3, compare PUNISH, 0., 4, or favor beyond what politeness would necessarily require. See ACCOMMODATING.-Antonyms: awkward, bluft, blunt, - policiant, n. An officer of state. po-li'tient.- Po'lish, poʻlish, a. Of or relating to Poland, its inhab- boorish, brusk, clownish, coarse, discourteous, 111-behaved, pol'i-ciedt, a. Policed. po-lice'man, po-lis'man, n. [-MEN, pl.] 1. A mem. itants, or their language.-Polish checkers or draughts, III bred, ill-inannered, impertinent, impolite, impudent, in ber of the police; a city watchman. 2. In coal-mining, a variety of checkers in which all the men may, move for solent, insulting, raw, rude, rustic, uncivil, uncouth, unpol. ward or backward, and the move of the king is like that ished, untaught, untutored. a guard of wood or iron at the mouth of a pit, or at mid- of the bishop in chess.-P. fowl, one of a crested breed poolitely, po-lait'li, adv. 1. With politeness; courworkings. 3. Entom. A soldier-ant. of the domestic fowl: erroneously so called, as it did not teously; 2+. With a polished surface; smoothly. pol"l•clin'ic, pol'i-clin'ic, n. A general city hospital; originate in Poland. See plate of Fowls, fig. 20. po-lite'ness, po-lait'nes, n. 1. The quality of being a dispensary. I Gr. polis, city, + CLINIC, n.] pol'ish", pol'ish, n. 1. Smoothness or glossiness of sur. polite; polish or elegance of manner; courtesy or compoli-cyt, oi. To administer or regulate by laws; order. face, produced as by friction or the rubbing down of a plaisance in speech; as, the grace of politeness. pol'l.cy, pol'i-si, n. [-cies, pl. 1. Prudence or sagac- varnish coating; finish; as, the polish of a plano-case. Politeness is a stronger manifestation of Benevolence than mere ity in the conduct of affairs; wisdom or shrewdness in The polish on marble reveals its veined beauty. Civility. It not only avoids saying or doing what is disagreeable, management; as, a merchant's policy. 2. A course or MACDONALD Robert Falconer ch. 40, p. 281. (D. L. CO.] but seeks to say and to do what may be gratifying to the feelings plan of action or administration; especially, a course of of others. WILLIAM FLEMING Voral Philos. pt. ii, bk, ii, pt. i, ch. 2. A substance used as a foundation for or to freshen public action; the system or measures adopted by the 1, p. 203. (J. M. 71.] sovereign power of a country in the management of pub- 2. (Rare.] Finish and elegance; smoothness; polish. lic affairs, either with regard to internal arrangements or ment of manner or style; elegance; cultivation; as, the Synonyms: affability, amenity, civility, comity, com. foreign intercourse; as, a wise financial policy. polish of a poem. plaisance, courteousness, courtesy, courtliness, decorum, Nothing is truer, or more plainly proved by the whole experience I should spend a few months in Paris, where my education and elegance, gentility, polish, refinement, suavity, urbanity. of society, than that no merely selfish policy can achieve a great manners might receive their last polish. See ADDRESS. Compare synonyms for POLITE; REFINE FRANCES BURNEY Evelina letter xxvi, p. 123. (BELL '83.] MENT.-Antonyms: arrogance, awkwardness, boorish. or lasting success. NORDHOFF Politics for Young Americans ch. 98, p. 104. (H, '80.) ness, brusk ness, clownishness, coarseness, discourtesy, ImPo'lish', po'lish, n. The language of the Poles, be pertinence, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, Insolence, 3. Any system of administration or management based longing to the western branch of the Slavonic family. rudeness, rusticity, sauciness, uncouthness. on self-interest as opposed to justice or equity; hence, Its literature began in the 14th century. See SLAVONIC. pol"i-tesse', pel•l-tes' or poʻli*tes', 1. (F.) Politeness; finesse in general; artitice; cunning. pol'ish-a-ble, pol'ish-a-bl, a. That may be polished. especially, excessive, affected, or overacted politeness, Modern politesse is the development in the eighteenth and ending in the most awful crime, is found in Pontius Pilate. JOHN nline of the saddest instances of policy overbearing principle, and pol'ished, pel'isht, pa.. 1, Made smooth and glossy by polishing; as, polished marble. 2. Naturally smooth and nineteenth centuries of medieval chivalry. BARING-GOULD Ger CUMMING Life of Our Lord, Christ Before Pilate p. 450. (J. F. s.] many, Present and Past vol, ii, ch. 17, p. 292. (K. P. & co. '79.) glossy; as, the polished surface of a leaf. 3. Refined and 4. (Scot.] The pleasure-grounds about a gentleman's cultivated; free from rudeness; as, a polished gentleman. pol'i.tic, pelli.tic, a. 1. Sagacious in devising, and country residence. 57. Public business; polity. 6t. Synonyms: see FINE; POLITE; SMOOTH, carrying out a plan; pursuing one's ends with prudence Incentive; motive. [< OF. policie, < L. politia, Gr. - pol'ished-news, n. rather than with principle; given to policy; thoughtful politeia, polity; see POLICE.) pol'i ciet; polli.ciet. polish-er, pol'ish-er, n. One whoor that which polishes. of one's own interest; crafty; artful. Synonyms: see POLITY; UTILITY. Specifically: (1) One who polishes wood, stone, brass, etc. Almost the only blunders I ever committed in my life were com- policy of the law, or public policy, the general (2) A bookbinders' polishing-tool. mitted when I studied to be politic, and prided myself on my diporsi and purpose of the law, as deduced from the course of pol'ish.Ing, pol'ish-ing, npr. & verbal n. of POLISH, O. plomacy. O. A. Brownson The Convert ch.5, p. 71. (D. & J. S.) legislation, or from the principles of justice, morality, and -pol/ish-ing:bed", n. An apparatus in which stone convenience, and applied by the courts in determining mat 2. Wisely adapted to attaining an end; prudently deters concerning which the law is not explicit. Thus, many slabs, etc., are rubbed smooth, usually with vised and executed; specious; as, a most politic speech. acts and transactions are held to be invalid as against the felt-covered blocke charged with a powder.policy of the law or public policy, as, for example, conp.:block, n. 1. A block held between vise. Whensoever he (Plato) speaks of gods plurally, he must be undertracts for lobbying. stood to have done this. jaws, and usually curved, on which to rest an with the Athenians. CUDWORTH' Intell. Syst. Universe vol. i, bk. only in a way of politic compliance poll.cy, n. [-cies, pl.] 1. A written instrument em. object that is being polished. 2. A block i, ch. 4, p. 633. (G. & N. '37.) bodying a contract of insurance; as, a life insurance charged with a very fine abrasive or polishing. 3. Consisting of citizens; constituting the state; per. policy. 2. (U. S.) A gambling-game in which 78 num. bling-barrel in which objects are taining to public polity; as, the body politic. 41. Per. bers are placed in a wheel, from which 12 are drawn in rolled and polished by friction taining to the state or its government.. (< F, politique, the morning and 13 in the afternoon. A player names with each other or with a suitable <L. politicus, < Gr. politikos, < polis, city.]' pol"i. any number or combination of numberg contained in the material. 2. A barrel in which wheel, and if they appear he wins a sum proportioned to the grained gunpowder is tumbled ti'tioust.- polli.tic.ly, ado. amount of his stake. The first three numbers drawn at any with graphite to glaze it.-pos Synonyms: artful, crafty, cunning, diplomatic, dis. drawing are called a cap. A combination of two numbers disk, n. In dentistry, a creet, judicious, prudent, sagacious, shrewd, wary, wily, 1s termed a saddle, three nuinbers a gig, and four numbers a small instrument, usually wise. See PRUDENT.-Antonyms: see synonyms for im PRUDENT. rotated by a drill-stock, for horse. A numbers to pol'i-tic, n. [Archaic) A politician. nations the first three drawn" is a cupendale. edna appeare polishing teeth or their nui: nation of four numbers there are six saddles and four gigs, ings.- p.siron, n. 1. A po-lli'ic-al, po lit'ic-al, a. 1. Pertaining to public which may be played as such. laundry-iron for polishing policy; concerned in the administration of government; shirt-fronts, collars, etc. 2. belonging to the enactment and administration of the The game of policy is a kind of unlawful penny lottery specially adapted to his (the negro's] means, but patronized extensively by A bookbinders' tool for pol. laws; as, political management; a political system, 2. poor white players as well. ishing the covers of books. A Polishing-bed. Belonging to the science of government; treating of pol. J. A. Ros How the Other Half Lires ch. 13, p. 155. (s. 190.) - p.jack, n. A machine having a hard-wood slicker for polishing leather:-p.. ity or politics; as, political principles; political writers. funds. *< F. police, < LL. politicum, polyptychum, < in Eng.) 4 warrant or ticket for money in the public manekine, w. Any machine for polishing-poiminn. The genius of the (Roman race was primarily neither literary A lap of metal or other material to hold gems polished by nor artistic. It was political, and its only creative power lay in Gr. polyptychon, neut. s. of polyptychos, of many leaves, lapidaries.- p.-paste, n. A paste consisting of a fine abra- the domain of law. C. W. HUTSON Beginnings of Civilization ch, P. 7. [c, P, CÓ. 91.] < połys, many, + ptyx (ptych-), leaf, <pty880, fold.] sive material, as rouge, mixed with soft soap, oil, or other Phrases, etc. : --interest policy, a policy where the vehicle.- p. powder, n. A finely divided powder, usually 3. Having an organized system of government; adminperson assured has a real interest in the thing insured. mineral, a little harder than the substance to which it is to mixed p., a policy of inarine insurance that specifies both be applied, employed in various processes for polishing. Pol. istering a polity; as, a fully developed political commuthe time and the termini of the voyage for which the risk is ishing-powders include chalk, crocus, colcothar, diamond nity. 4. Pertaining to or connected with a party or par: ties controlling or seeking to control government in a Limited.- open p., a policy in which the value is not fixed, dust, emery, pumice, putty-powder, rouge, tripoli, and whi. state; as, political methods; a political campaign. 57. but is left to be proved by the insured in case of loss. -- pol'. ting.- p. slate, n. A gray or yellow slate, consisting of icy.book", n. A book kept by insurance companies con: silicious organisms, used for polishing: found chiefly in the Sagacious; skilful; politic. taining a record of policies.- p.sholder, n. One who holds coal-ineasures of Bohemia and in Auvergne, France.- p.: – political economist, a person skilled in political a policy of insurance.- p.-shop, n. (U. S!) A place in which snake, n. A serpentine found near the Ayr, in Scotland, economy,- p. economy, the branch of civics that treats policy drawings take place.- p.islip, n. {U.S.) In policy used formerly in polishing lithographic stones. - P.-stone, of the nature of wealth and the laws of its production and playing, a slip containing the numbers drawn at one draw. n. Polishing-slate.- p.stin, n. In bookbinding, a piece distribution, including all the causes of prosperity and the ing: p. ticket, n. (U. S.) In policy-playing, a player's of tinned Iron laid between the covers and the first and last reverse. It discusses labor, wages, population, capital, voucher for the numbers selected by him-time p., a pol. leaves of a book, to keep the linings smooth and protect the money, rent, value, trade, and the relation of government ley that specifies no particular voyage, but covers any con leaves from the dampness of the cover.-P.swheel, n. A to industry and economic conditions. It was originally åge within a specified time.- valued' p., a policy in which rapidly rotating wheel the surface of which is charged with contined mainly to pure economics, but has been extended value of the ship or cargo is agreed a -material. so as to cover economics in the wide sense. The princi. pal schools distinguished are the following: Austrian a gambling policy: insurance upon property in which the moved by any polishing process; particularly, (1) the school (the latest, which gives especial attention to the policy-bolder has no insurable interest. facts of social life, of natural science, and of modern psy. dust removed from articles of precious metal, or (2) the poldigar, -, -.A subordinate chief chology, considering inan as man), historical (compara. dust of . tively recent, originating with Roscher of Germany, which Presidency; a follower of a semi-Independent chieftain. berteile head of a pollam, slowind distried ord that wadras politische precir , peltishement, ». (Rare.) The act of polish discards the abstract method, studies economic conditions ing, or the state of being polished; retinement. Puik. Soc. in every period and country, emphasizes a continuous and abellocari pol'y-cart.-- polri.rar dog", n. A pol'isht, pp. Polished inevitable development, and regards the most stable ele. ments of economics as variable), mercantile (a bygone bunting big game; also, loosely, any large native dog, Po-ll'l-dæ, po-lai'i-di or li'i-dê, n. pl. Helminth. A hard-wood block with a long tron handle by which to flat single phase rather than a system, which made it the end of ten glass cylinders newly opened out; a flattener. 2. Toilet. all regulation to obtain and amass the precious metals as An implement for burnishing the finger-nails. the only true wealth of a country), national (best repre. nerves within the muscular stratum. Pol'i-a, n. (t. g.) po-lite/t, vt. To render polite; retine; polish. sented by List Carey of which po-ll'id, n.- pol'i-oid, a. po-Jite; po-lait', 4. 1. Exhibiting in manner of speech gives especial prominence to the intersts of a nation to the po'ling, poʻling, n. 1. The using of a pole. (1) In gar kindly others; promoted, , and favors polished and courteous in behavior; kindly civil. a protective-tariff system), orthodox or classical (first Page 8
polyparous 1378 polyspermy structed for use in such a circuit; as, a polyphote lamp; a pol"y-po'si-a, n. [Gr.) Pathol. Same as POLYDIPSIA, polyphote regulator: distinguished from nionophote. (< pol'y-po-style, pol'i-po-stai), n. Zooph. A dactylo. careous or chitinous stock of a colony of polyps, espe- pol"y-phras'i-a, pol"l-fras 1-a, n. Rambling, incoherent POLY- + Gr. phos (photo), light.] pol'y-pho"talt. zooid." [< POLYPO-+ Gr. stylos, pillar.] cially of coral; a compound anthozoan, hydrozoan, or pol"y-po-sty'lar, a. polyzoan. [< L. polypus; see POLYP.) pol"y-pa'- pol"y-phy.let'ic, pol'i-fi-let'ic, a. Biol. Of, pertain, speech. [< POLY: + Gr. phraxis, speech, < phraző, tell.] pol'y-po-iome, pol'i-po-tom, ?. Surg. An instrument for removing a polypus by excision. [< POLYPO. + Gr. ing to, or characterized by derivation from several pol"y-pean, pol'i-pi'an, E. 1. W. Wr. (po-lip'e-an, C.). temno, cut.) Post A polyp. pol"y-phyl’lous, pol'i-filus, C. $. W.? Wr. (po-lif- poi"yp-er-yth'rin, pol'ip-er-ith’rin, n. A respiratory 'il-lus, E. W.1 Wr.?) (xiii), a. Bot. Many-leaved. "Gr. roots.* 2. Med. Relating to, resembling, or affected - pol}.* po' pigment found in various cælenterates. [< POLYP + polyphyllos, < polys, many, + phylion, leaf.] pol”y. nose, < polypus, see POLYP: with polypus. [< L. polyposus, having a polypus in the p'rous presse Gr. erythros, red.) phyllin(ef. pol"y:prag-inat'ict, a. Given to meddling; overbusy. Pol"ypet'a-læ, polui-pet'a-lf or -lê, n. pl. Bot: The pol'y-phyl.ly, pol'i-fil-i, C. S. (po-lif'il-i, E.), n. Bot. osporie: pol"y-prag-matic-alt. - pol"y-prag-mat'ict, n. largest of the three divisions or groups of dicotyledonous An increase in the normal number of members in a A busybody. - pol"y- prag'ma tyt, n. The state of plants, characterized by having towers with both calyx whorl. [< Gr. polyphyllos; see POLYPHYLLOUS.] being too much engrossed in business.- pol"y-prag'. ANG vi lui and corolla, the latter of separate petals. It embraces 90 pol"y-phy'o-dont, pol-i-fai'lor -fi'lo-dent. 1. a. mont, n. One given to meddling; a busybody. pol"se orders, 3,050 genera, and 30,000 species. [< POLY- + Having several sets of teeth. 11. n. A polyphyodont pol'y-prism, pol'i-prizm, n. prag'mon-istt. Gr. petalon: see PETAL.) A compound prism con 19 - Dous de animal. [< Gr. polyphyês, divided into many < polys, sisting of a series of shorter prisms of different materipol"y-pet'al-ous, pol'i-pet'al-us, a. Bot. Having the petals free and distinct: the old and still commonly ac- Pol'y pi, pol'i-pai or -pi, n. pl. Zooph. A former class many, + phyo, produce), + odour (odont-), tooth.) als but of the same angle, fitted together end to end: cepted term, but likely to be eventually superseded by used to show the diverse refractive powers of the differ- of radiate animals, including most coelenterates, or re- ent materials. If any object - a line, for instance - bo looked at through the polyprism, its different parts are seen at unequal heights. The craving for food; voracity. 2. Zool. Polyphagy. [< Gr. Pol"y-pi-a'ri-a, n. pl. Zooph. . The Polypl. - highest portion is that seen through the flint glase, the refractive pol"y-pi-ari-an, a. & n.-poly-pi-a'ri-um, n. index of which is greatest; then the rock crystal; and so on in the virtlebous, polyphagia, < polyphagos, voracious, < polye, much, + (-RI-A, pl.] Same as POLY PARY - pol'y-pid(e, n. One order of the decreasing refractive indices. phagein, eat.) -- pol"y-phag'ic, a. Eating many things; A: Geltrai of the zooids of a polyzoan.- pol'y-pi-dom, C. (po GANOT Physics 6 544, p. 518. (w, w, '90.) subsisting on various kinds of food. po-lyph'a-gous. TM 1.1. GR. -pol"y-pris-mat'ic, a, The manubrium is diem. I er ous, a. 1. Bearing polyps. 2. Of or pertaining to the pol'y-priie, pol'i-prait , n. Zooph. pol"y-pharma.cy, pel i fär'ma-si, n. Med. 1. The Polypifera. pol"y-pig'er-onst; pol"y-pip'a-roust. of a medusa. Is POLYP.) mingling of too many medicines in a prescription, or the poly-pi-form', a. Shaped like a polyp. pol"y•pro'to.dont, pol'i-pro'to-dont, a. 1. Having pal's stig'mous taking of too many remedies at once. 2. A prescription pol"y-pier', poli-pír', W. (pul'i-pir, C.). n. 1. A polyp. more than 6 incisors in the upper jaw; as, a polyprotodont composed of too many ingredients. (< Gr. polyphar. A polypary or polyzoary: used also attributively. dentition. 2. Of or pertaining to the Polyprotodontia. lama-la, mis makos, knowing many drugs, < polys, many + phar, pollypi'e-tyt, n. The recognition or toleration of many [< POLY- + PROT- + Gr. odous (odont-), tooth.] religions or forms of belief. DEN makon, drug.) pol"y.phar-ma'ci-at. Pol"y, pro"to-don'ti-a, pol'i-pró"to-den'shi-a or -ti-a, n. pl. Mam. A suborder of marsupials with incisors POITO times pinnate. pol'y-phemet, n. A land-shell of the genus Glanding. pol"y-pi-o'sis, pel'i-pi-o'sis, n. many and canines enlarged, including Didelphyidæ, Das<< POLYPHEMU8.). Pathol. Excessive fat. 10. 1. HA yuridæ, and Peramelidæ. [< POLY. + PROT. + Gr. Pol"y.phem'i-dæ, pel*i-fem'i-di or -dê, n. pl. Crust. ness; abnormal obesity. [< POLY + Gr. pion, fat.) pol'y pite, pol'i-pait, n. A family of cladocerous entomostracans having the body 1. Zooph. (1) A nutritive odous (odont-), tooth.) Pol'y-pro"to-don'tar. not enclosed within the shell, head obtusely rounded, and zooid of a coelenterate, as a hydroid or coral; one of the Pol"y-pru'nl-da, pel*i-pra'ni-da, n. pl. Protoz. A individuals of a polypary. See illus. under SIPHONOPHORE. division of prunoidean radiolarians with the shell many. eye very large. [< POLYPHEMUS.] (2) The manubriuin of a medusa. 2. A fossil polyp. chambered. [< POLY- + Gr. prounon, plum.] pol"y phem'id, n.- pol”y:pheʼmoid, a. pol'y-plac-id, pol'i-plas-id, a. Having more than one - pol"y-pru'ni-dan, a. pol"y-phemous, pol-i-fi'mus, a. Having but one eye. [< L. Polyphemus; see POLYPHEMUS.) madreporic plate, as certain starfishes, I < POLY- + Gr. Po!"yp-teri-dæ, pel’ip-ter'i-dî or -dê, n. pl. Ich. An African family of crossopterygian fishes with rhomboid plakous, flat cake, < plax (plak-), anything flat.] 1. An animal, or sometimes a Pol"y-pla-coph'o-ra, pol'i-pla-coffo-ra, mi scales and many dorsal spines; bichirs. [< POLYPTE- Conch. IP-], the chief of the Cyclops. 2. A large American A division of mollusks, especially an order of RUS.)- pol"yp-ter'id,n.-po-lyp'ter-oid, a.& n. isopleurous gastropods with generally eight imbricated Po-lypte-rus, po-lip'te-rus, n. Ich. 1. A genus typ- 2 transverse valves girdled by a leathery margin; chitons. ical of Polypteridæ. 2. [P-) (-RI, pl.) A fish of this ge- - pol"y-pla-coph'o-ran, 'a: & n. - pol"yo many, + pteron, wing, < petomai, fly.). cases or forms in the same connection, as " government pol"y-plec'tron, pel'i-plec'tron, n. “A kind of harpsichord polyptoton, neut. s. of polyptotos, of many cases, < połys, 1. A number or series of more than three connected leaves or panels having pic- tures on one or both sides; an altar-piece or panel har. silkworm-moth (Telea polyphemus), pale yellowish- polypoDerived from Greek polypous (see POLYP): ing more than three folds or leaves. Compare Diptych; a combining form. PENTAPTYCH; TRIPTYCH. 2. Archeol. Awriting-tablet of four or more sheets or leaves. [< LL. polyptychum, register, < Gr. polyptychon, < polys, many, + ptyche, PODY, Is Gr. polypous (polypod.), < polys, many, + pol'y pus, pol'i-pus, n. (P1, -pai or -pf, pl.] 1. Pathol. A pedunculate tumor arising from a mucous membrane as a class. 2. Conch. the Nautiloidea as an order.. 3+. womb. 2. A polyp:, (L.; see POLYP.) voice, < phêmi, speak.) Helminth. A division of worms, including Nereidina and pol"y-rhi'zal, pol' i-rai'zal, a. Bot. Having numerous po!"y-phlæs-bæ'an, pol'l-fles-bî'an or .flois-bei'an, a. Serpulina. - pol"y-po'di-a, n. Teral. A monstrosity rootlets. [< Gr. polyrrhizos, < polys, many, + rhiza, (Rare.). Loud-roaring: from a Homeric epithet. characterized by an abnormal number of feet. root.] pol"y-rhizousi. ive corpulence. (< Gr. polysarkia, < polysarkor, fleshy,< sporangia with a jointed vertical ring, bursting trans- pol"y-sce’li-a, pol"i-si'll.a or -scê'll-a, n. Terat. A mou. Exhibiting prosody, permitting the use of feet of different metrical lengths or values. [< Gr. polyschematislos, < polye, than one sound or sound-combination, as some written pol'y-po"ay, pol’i-po-di, C. W. (-pod-i, E. S.; po-lip'. many, +schema: see SCHEME.) pol"y-sche-mai'iet: characters. 2. Having or capable of emitting many i. Optics. A multiplying lens; a posyopton. 2. Surg. An instrument for throw ing light into cavities of the body, as the ear or the throat. more independent parts or melodies; contrapuntal. (2) nature of a polyp or a polypus. (< POLYP + -OID.] [< POLY- + -SCOPE.] Noting an instrument, as a piano, by which two or more pol"y-poid'ali. pol"y-se'mant, pol'i-sî'mant or -se'mant, n. A kind sounds may be produced simultaneously. pol"y. Pol"y-po-me-du'sæ, pel'i-po-me-dia'sî or -dû'sê, n. of multivocal. [Rejected by committee on new words.] See MULTIVOCAL. [< Gr. polysēmantos, < polys, many, lyph'o-nousi [W.].. + MEDUSÆ.) - pol"y-po-me-du'san, a. & n. + sēmaino, signal.) The Hydrozoa as distinguished from Ctenophora. í sepals free and unconnected; aposepalous. 2. Multiplicity of sounds, as in an echo. POLYPO- + Gr. morphê, form.] pol"y-si-a'li-a, pol*i-siê'li-a or-alia, n. Pathol. Sali- pol'y-pho"nist, pol'i-fo*nist, C. (po-lif'o-nist, W.), n. pol"y-po-mor'phic, pol'i-po-mēr'fic, a. 1. Polypi- vation. [< POLY- nt Gr. sialon, spittle.) 1. One who is proficient in multiplying sounds; one form. 2. Of or pertaining to the Polypomorpha. pol"y-si-lic'ie, poli-si-lis'ic, a. Of or pertaining to a who makes many sounds; a ventriloquist. 2. Mus. One pol'y-pore, n. A fungus of the genus Polyporus. silicate containing more than one molecule of silicic acid. skilled in polyphonic composition; a contrapuntist. pol-ypo-roid, pol-ip'o-reid, a. Bot. Resembling or be. pol"y-si'phon-ous, poloi-sai'fen-us, a. Bot. Having several siphons, as the fronds of certain alga. i-po'rus, I.) (XIII), a. Characterized by many pores. [< tion of the 'frond' shows a large central elongated cell, surrounded by four or more smaller cells BENNETT AND MURRAY Crypto- gamic Botany subdiv. iv, class x, p. 192. (L. G. & Co. '89.) 1. A large genus of Boletus by its tubes not separating from one another or a texture consisting of small grains: said of minerals. [< Gr. prolysomatos, having many bodies, < in which two or more independent parts or melodies are genus. A few polypori are soft and polys, many, + soma(t-), body.] rendered simultaneously and combined harmoniously; edible; many others are hard and pol"y-so'zni-a, pol'i so'mi-a, n. Terat. A monstrosity counterpoint. woody, or corky. Some are familiar that has more than one body, '[< POLY + Gr. söma, body.] pol"y-so-mit'ic, pel'i-so-mit'ic, a. Made up of a group it was necessary, not only that every Voice should sing a melodious attached by their of coalesced somites, as the head or abdomen of an instrain; but, that each should take its share in the elucidation of one sides like inverted sect. [< POLY- + SOMITE.) single idea, not singing for itself alone, but answering its fellow brackets to the pol'y-spastt, n. 'A machine composed mainly of pulleys; Voices, and commenting, as it were, upon the passages sung by trunks of trees. Po. specifically, an apparatus of this kind formerly used for re. them. W. S. ROCKSTRO in Grove's Dict. Mus, vol. iii, p. 13. lyporus fomenutri ducing dislocations, [< Gr. polyphonia, < polyphonos, having many tones, < ux, a European spe. pol'y-sperm, pol'i-sperm, n. A tree bearing a many polyr, many, + phöni, sound.) pol"y-pho'ni-a. cies, furnishes ama Polypori. seeded fruit. [< Gr. połyspermos, many-seeded, < polye, pol'y.phore, pol'i-for, n. Bot. dou or German tin: 1. Polyporus fomentarius, growing on a A receptacle bearing P. dryadeus tree-trunk. 2. A side view of P. ulnarius. many, + perma, seed.] – pol"y-spermous, a. Bot. many distinct carpels, as that of the raspberry. [< Gr. and P. destructor Many-seeded. pol"y-spermali. polyphoros, bearing much,« polys, much; + phero, bear.) produce the dry rot in the oak timber of ships and in the pol'y-sper"my, pol'i-sper"mi, n. pol's phote, pol'i-fot, a. Of, pertaining to, or inclu- pine wood of buildings, respectively. Biol. Passage of more than one spermatozoon into the ovum. [< POLYding several arc-lamps; as, a polyphote circuit; also, con- |< Gr. polyporos; see POLYPOROUS.] + Gr. sperma; see SPERM!.] sofa, ārm, gak; at, fāre, accord; element, er = over, @igbt, ê = usage; tin, machine, i = renew; obey, nō; not, nõr, atom; full, rūle; but, börn; qisle; Page 9
porpice 1385 portend Marathon, and was called by the Romans marmor Lacedæ- As she (the ship) dips, he can discern through her open ports monium viride. Much of the porphyry used in Rome came the shining, sea WILLIAM WINTER Shakespeare's England Great sapphire-studded portals suddenly Opened on vast Ionic galleries. ALDRICH Hascheesh st. 1. from Sardinia. This is similar to the Egyptian, and is called ch. 1, P. 16, [T, & Co.] in Italian porfido ros80 antico. Other porphyries are 2. Arch. (1) A small square corner in a room, separated 2. A gate, portal, door, or other entrance; especially, the from the rest by wainscoting, and serving as a vestibule. known in Italy, according to their color, as porfido nero, gate or portal of a town, castle, or fortress; specifically, (2) The architectural composition that includes the en. porfido viride. 2. A porphyry-moth., 31. A slab of porphyry used in in heraldry, such a portal used as a bearing. 3. In medi- trances and porches of a large church or similar building; eval armor, the socket attached to the saddle or stirrup an entrance-façade. (3) An important or architecturally alchemy." (< F. porphyre, <L. porphyrites, Gr. por. phyritės , porphyra, purple.] por'phiret; pör'• upright. 4. Mach. An or in which the butt of a knight's lance rested when hela conspicuous gate or door. (4) The smaller of two gates, where there are two of different sizes at one place. ce for the passage of a mophu-rlet; porphy-ret. --porphy-ry-moth", n. (Eng.) A European pyrative fluid, as air, gas, etc.; as, a steam-port; exhaust. 3. Figuratively, any opening or entrance resembling or port. suggesting the portal of an edifice; often in the plural. lld (Botys porphyralis).- p. shell, n. 1. A dark-brown 5. In saddlery, a curved metal mouthpiece in Olive-shell (Oliva porphyria). 2. A murex. some forms of bit. [< AS. port, < L. porta, gate, door.] Famine and Fear crouch by the portals of literature as they crouch at the gates of the Virgilian Hades. por picet, n. A porpoise. Compounds: - port':bar", n. A bar for securing å A. LANG Hon to Fail in Literature p. 10. (F. & T. '90.) por'pin, pêr'pin, n. 1. [Prov. Eng.) A hedgehog. 2t. A ship's ports from the inside, as in a gale. See also PORTI, porcupine. por pintt; por pointt. n.-p. bit, n. In saddlery, any bil with a curved metal (OF., <LL. portale, < L. porta, gate.] portallt. Por'pi-ta, põr'pi-ta, nl. Zooph. 1. A genus typical of mouthpiece.- p. face, n. The Aat surface in the dis Synonyms: see ENTRANCE. tribution-chest of a steam-engine or other motor, con. por"ia-men'to, põr'ta-men'to, n. [It.) Yus. 1. Same taining the ports or openings into the motive cylinder; a as GLIDE, 2. 2. Loosely, a legato passage or effect. genus. (< Gr. porpe, brooch, < peiro, pierce.] Por-pit'i dæ, pôr-pit'i-df or .de, n. pl. Zooph. A valve-seat.- p.-flange, n. A batten above a ship's port. port'ancet, n. Personal carriage: deportment; mlen. hole to keep the drip from entering. - p. lid, n. The lid portasst, n. A prayer - book; breviary. por'tacet; family of disconectons siphonophores having the um. or cover of a port-hole.- p. lifter, n. A device used to por'tessetpor'tu-a-ryt; por'tust. brella circular and suctorial in the center, and blasto- raise and lower heavy port-lids.- p.:opening, n. Steam. portate, por'tet or .tet, a. Her Represented as if being styles with a mouth. [< PORPITA.) engin. 1. The distance through which an ordinary slide. carried: said of a cross placed diagonally on an escutcheon. -por-pit'id, n.-por'pi-toid, a. valve travels after its steam-edge is line and line with the [<L. portatus, pp. of porto, carry.) portanti: por poise, põr'pus, C. S. W. Wr. (-pois, I.), n. 1. A outer edge of the end port. 2. The amount that a port is porta-til(e, põr'ta-til, a. Portable: especially in the phrase opened for steam or exhaust. - p..sash, 11. A glazed half portatile altar. delphinine cetacean of the genus Phocæna, without a port for lighting a vessel's cabin. - p.:sili, n. A horizon. por’ta-tly(e, por'ta-tiv, a. 1. Of or pertaining to car. distinct beak or rostrum, especially P.phocæna, common tal timber at the top or bottom of a ship's port.-P.-stop-rying; capable of carrying; as, a portatire mind. 2. in the North Atlantic near shore, and often entering per, n. A heavy iron piece arranged to close a port, as on a Èasily carried; portable: obsolete except in portative or. rivers. It is dusky above, white below, about 5 feet battle-ship. - port'way", n. A passage for motive fluid, gan. [< F. portatif, < L. portatus, pp. of porto, carry.] long, gregarious, and piscivorous. Called also harbor. between a port and a motive cylinder, as in a steam-engine. - portative force (Physics), the lifting power of a porpoise, herringehog, puffing-pig, and snuffer. ports, n. The left side of a vessel as one looks from stern magnet; the force required to separate a magnet from its A school of porpoise flashed in view. to bow; larboard: opposed to starboard. keeper: measured by the greatest weight the magnet will WHITTIER Snow. Bound st. 13. port“, n. 1. The way in which one bears or carries sustain. Proportionally to the mass of the magnet, it rapidly 2. Any small cetacean, especially a dolphin. [< OF, himself; external appearance or manner; bearing; de diminishes as the size of the magnet increases. por-ta'to, por-ta'to, a. [It.) Mus. Lengthened; sustained. porpois, lit. 'hog-fish,' < L. porcus, hog, + piscis, fish.] meanor; carriage; mien; as, a majestic port. port':bar", etc. See Portland PORT2 por pesset; por picet; por'pust. In his port was the dignity of one who had borne his Majesty's port":caus'tic, port-cõs'tic, 1. Surg. A case by HAWTHORNE Scarlet Letter, The Custom-House – por poise:oil", n. See oil.- p. sperm-whale, means of which to apply or in which to carry caustic. p. 52. (H. M. & co. '89.] a pygmy sperm-whale. A metal holder for a port".cray'on, port-crê'gn, n. por"po-ri'no, pôr" po-ri'nő, n. (It.) A glaze of mercury, 27. Retinue; style. [F., < porter (< L. porto), carry.) pencil or crayon, with a spring clasp secured by an adtin, and sulfur, imitating gold: used by Italian and other Synonyms: see AIR. artists of the middle ages for decorative purposes. ports, n. A class of wines, rich in alcohol, made near justable ring; used in sketching to clasp the crayon, give firmness to the touch, and protect the fingers. (< F. por-ra'ceous, per-rê'shius, a. Being of a greenish Porto (Oporto), Portugal; also, an imitation of these wines color. < L. porraceus, like leeks, < porrum, leek.] made in California. See WINE. portecrayon, <porter (see PORT?, v.); and see CRAYON.) porte".cray'ont. por-rect', per-rect', vt. To stretch out horizontally. The white grapes are separated from the red, the white port' por-rect', a. Zool. Extended horizontally, as the long being made from the former; this wine was formerly much appre. port:cul list, vl. To provide with a portcullis; hence, to protect or to shut in. palpi of some moths. [< L. porrectus, pp. of porrigo, ex- ciated in England, but now finds its chief market on the Continent. tend, por, forth, + rego, stretch.) por-rec'tatet. H. J. NEWMAN in Encyc. Brit. 9th ed., vol. xxiv, p. 608. port.cul'lis, põrt-cul’is, n. 1. A grating or framepor-rection, per rec'shun, n. The act of delivering as by << Pg. Oporto, city in Portugal, <0(< L. ille), the, + sharp-pointed at the lower end, sliding ver work made of strong bars of wood or iron, stretching forth the hand horizontally: por rett, n. A small onion; leek; scallion. por'ett. porto, < L. portus, port.] tically in grooves on either side of the portal porridge, por’ij, v. I. 1. 1o supply with porridge. porto; n. Martial music played on a bagpipe. (Gael., tune.] II. i. To be converted into porridge. por'ta, por'ta, n. (POR'TÆ, por'ts or -tê, pl. l . Anat. of a fortified place, and so adjusted as to be let fall swiftly and suddenly in case of por'ridge, n. 1. A food made by boiling meal or flour 1. The part of an organ where its vessels and ducts enin water or milk, until it assumes a consistency. ter; especially, the transverse fissure of the liver. 2. surprise, to protect the gate from assault: The foramen of Monro. [L., gate.] commonly used in the middle ages after the PHIL. Soc. 12th century. And up, like a weary yawn, with its pulleys 2. A broth or stew of vegetables, sometimes containing by or with one from place to place, or readily moved from Went, in a shriek, the rusty portcullis. BROWNING Flight of the Duchess st. 6. meat; pottage. [ME. porrey, < OF. poree, < LL. pororata, leek-broth, < L. porrum, leek.] por'raget; one place to another; as, a portable canoe. 2. Her. (1) Same as LATTICE, 2. (2) The por'rayt; porreyt. He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close and ren- representation of a portcullis, used as a of the pursuivants of the Engli College head. (L., scurf.) A Portcullis porting. [< LL. portabilis, < L. porto, carry.) Heralds. 4+. One of several coins (a crown, in the Cas. por'rin-ger, por'in-jer, n. 1. A small and rather shal- portable dock, a dock on the principle of a caisson, half-crown, shilling, and sixpence) issued tle of Car. low dish, usually of earthenware, having straight sides for use in repairing injuries to a vessel too slight to warrant in England, during the reign of Elizabeth, cassonne, and sometimes ears; a porridge-dish. placing her in a dry dock. for the East India Company. [<OF. porte France, (of gold and , - port'a-ble-ness, n. port"a-bil'l-tyt. coulisse; porte (< L. porta), gate; coulisse, f, s. of coulis, of pots, basins, porringers, cups, bottles, barrels siune.cchiotheeport'age, port'@j, vt. To carry overland, as a boat. sliding, < LL. colatus, pp. of colo, flow, < L. colum, SIDNEY LANIER Boy's Froissart ch. 17, p. 44. (s. 79.] The boats for this expedition were ordered to be built at Oswego. strainer.] port'cluset. 2. (Humorous.] A head-dress shaped like a porringer. In that case they would not have to be portaged. KINGSFORD Canada vol. iv, bk. xiv, ch. 3, p. 381. (R. & 1. '90.) Porte, port, n. The Ottoman or Turkish government: There is the little man with a velvet porringer on his head. with the definite article. IRVING Sketch-Book, Little Britain p. 309. [G. P.P: '61.] port'age?; n. 1. The act of transporting; carriage, es See the phrase. (F., for Sub(For *porridger, < PORRIDGE.] por’ren-gert. pecially of boats and stores, from one navigable body of lime Porte (Porte (< L. porta), gate), trans. of Turk. porro, per'o, n. [It.) A wart, or a warty excrescence. water to another, or a way by which such transportation bäbi aliy, high gate (justice being dispensed at the palace gate).] - Sublime Porte. 1. The government of the is made. porrum, por'um, n. (L.) The bulb of Allium Porrum, Turkish or Ottoman empire, the cabinet representing it, the leek, sometimes used in medicine. (C.) and it would We did not require to make a single portage, or, in diplomatic or political use, the country itself. 2. A port?, port, 0. Naut. I. t. To turn or send to the appear to be navigable without portages almost to its source. building containing four Turkish departments of stateport or larboard side; as, to port the helm. II. i. To R'C. SELWYN in Geol. Survey Canada, '86 p. 44 a. (D. BROS. '87.] the Grand Vizarat, the Foreign Office, the Interior, and the turn, shift, or go toward the port side: said of a vessel. 2. That which is transported; cargo; freight. 3. The State Council porta, ot. 1. Mil. To carry, as a rifle or similar weapon, charge for transportation; as, I paid $50 portage. 47. The term Sublime Porte is never used of the person of the Sulin both hands, diagonally across the body, with the barTonnage. (F., < LL. portaticum, carriage, « L. porto, tan. It simply means the government, the cabinet, or the country; , also, a large building... which gives shelter to four differ rel sloping to the left and crossing opposite the middle carry.) ent departments. M. NORIGHIAN First Secretary of Turkish Le boothe left shoulder, the forearms and piece near the portagezt, n. A port-hole, gation, Washington, in Letter to Standard Dict. Feb. 18, '94. body, in execution of the command - Port arms! Port'age group. A division in the Upper Devonian of porte.. Derived from French porter, carry (see PORT”, 1.): And suffer'd Argillan, though bristled round the United States. See GEOLOGY. a combining form used in various French names of devices With all their ported spears, in fetters to be bound. porta-guet, n. A Portuguese gold coin, formerly cur for holding or carrying. -- porte':ac"id, n. A tube or Tasso Jerusalem Delivered tr. by Wiffen, can. 8, st. 82. rent, varying in value from $17.50 to $22.50 United States dropper for holding acid when used for local application.2. To carry or bear. money, porte-guet; por'ti-guet; por'tu-guet. 1. Of, pertaining to, or entering at porte'-ai"guille', port'-e'gwil', n. Surg. A forceps so portal, por’tal, a. constructed as to take firm hold of a needle for the inser. QUILLER-COUCH Warwickshire Avon p. 112. (H. '92.] a porta. 2. Of, pertaining to, or arranged like the por tion of sutures.- porte-bonheur', bēnör', n. An {< F. porter, < L. porto, carry.) .- port':tire", n. tal vein. [< LL. portalis, of a gate, < L. porta, gate.] amulet or charm worn to bring good luck.- porte':bou'. A a slow-match or match-cord,'as for lighting a life-buoy. - portal circu. gie, 1. A small tube by which a bougie is conducted into lation, the capilla the urethra. -- porte' dra" peau'; drg'po', n. A device porta, ut. To provide with ports, doors, or gates. portit, ot. To bring into port. ry transmission of for hoisting a fag. - portefeuille', n. A portfolio. venous blood from porte':lu"mière', n. A mirror arranged to throw paral1. Any bay, cove, or inlet within which a organ of the Tel rays of light in any desired direction: a substitute for a vessel may be sheltered from storms; a harbor or haven; body to another in its heliostat.- porte-mèche', -mesh, n., Surg.. A silver hence, a place of customary entry and exit for vessels. 2. passage to the heart. wire 4 or 5 inches long, with a forked end, used to apply a Law. Any place, whether on the coast or inland, desig. The venous plexus - p. system. 1. pledget of lint to fistulas or deep ulcers. nated as a point at which persons or merchandise may porte':co"chère', port'-co'shär', n. 1. A doorway by which blood is enter or pass out of a country, under the supervision of by which a carriage or coach may be driven under or taken up from the the customs and other proper authorities. abdominal viscera through a portion of a building or into a courtyaru. 2. In England it hath always been holden, that the King is . : . the into the portal vein A carriage porch. See CARRIAGE. [F., < porte (< L. guardian of the ports and havens, which are the inlets and gates and carried through f porta), gate, + cochere, < coche; see coach, n.] BLACKSTONE Commentaries bk. i, ch. 7, P. 264. the portal capillaries ported, põrt'ed, a. 1. Mach. Furnished with ports. [< AS. port, < L. portus, harbor.] or the liver. 2. Any 27. Having gates. which close port [Eng.), a port up a river, as opposed to an system by port":e-lectric, pört'-e-lectric, a. Carrying by elecque port, on the coast. - port':ad'mi-ral, n. Eng.) blood is removed by The commander-in-chief of a naval port. - p. bar, n. 1: tricity: applied to a proposed system of transmission of trunks that afterAn obstruction, as of spars lashed together or a chain-cable, ward break up into packages, etc., by a series of advancing spiral coils in line, across the entrance to a port or harbor. 2. A natural obcapillaries; as, the through which a cigar-shaped car is drawn by their suc. struction, as of sand or silt, at a harbor's mouth. See also portal system of the cessive magnetic attraction, the current being temporarily PORT2, n.- p.:charges, n. pl. Dues or tolls required of kidney.-p.throm switched into each coil by the movement of the car itself vessels avalling themselves of the privileges and conve: bosis, obstruction as it approaches them. [< F. porter (see PORT?, r.) + Dilences of a port. - p. of call, a port where vessels are in within the portal ELECTRIC.] the habit of putting in for supplles, repairs, information, vein, as by a blood- etc.-P. of delivery, the port of Unlading or destination. clot due to local porte'mon-naie", port’mon-nê', n. pep. of entry, a place designated by law for the entry of A pocketbook inflammation.-p. for money; especially, a small purse with clasps. (F., < Vessels with reference to the execution of the revenue vein, the large ves. The Portal Vein and its Branches. porter (see PORT?, r.) + monnaie, MONEY.) sel that conveys near a port.-P.:warden or p.:captain, n. 1. To indicate as being about A seaport town; a town situated blood from the Intes. to happen, especially by previous signs; presage: said administering the laws and regulations of a port: An otticer tines and other ab. stomach; e, small intestine , 1, large in dominal viscera to testine: 1. trunk of portal vein entering generally of some evil or momentous event." It was the second of March, of war throngh which cannon may be discharged; a port: mesenteric vein, 3, inferior mesenteric dark and stormy, as if the elehole for a gun. (2) An opening in the side of a merchant ing up into a system vein; 4, splenic vein; 5, gastric vein. ments portended the calamities that ensued. of capillaries. LINGARD England vol. ii, ch. 4, p. 140. (E. C. "27.] ship for receiving of discharging cargo. (3) A circular portal, n. 1. A passage for entrance; a door, gate, 27. To stretch forth; extend. (< L. portendo, foretell, opening admitting air and light; an air-port; also, the or entranceway, as of a house or enclosed place; espe < por- (pro), toward, – tendo, stretch.) cially, one that is grand and imposing. Synonyms: . Page 10
in possession; a possessor. 2. A member of a religious 2. The stern-post of a ship. 3. In Cambridge Univer- di-lu'vi-al, a. Coming after the deluge. post"di. the deluge.-post" dis-seiz'in, n. Eng. Law. A sub guished from a mendicant order. 3 (2). 4. Mining. (1) A pillar of coal or ore left as a sup- sequent disseizin; a writ that lay for the recovery of lands pos-sess'iv, -ly, pos-sest'. Possessive, etc. Ph. S. port for the roof of a mine. (2) Fine-grained sandstone by one who, after having once recovered them, was again possessive case (Eng.' Gram.), the case of the ternate sheets of felt ready for the screw-press. 6. A cen- recovered of him.- post-dor'su.lum, n. [-La, pl.) En- em"bry-on'ic, a. Occurring after the young has left nominative singular and to irregular plurals, and an apostro. the egg-coverings; as, postembryonic development.-- post"en-ceph'a-lon, n. Anat, 1. The medulla ob cp. postus, = positus, pp. of pono, place.) postet. longata, 2. The mentencephalon. -- post:en'try, C. affix; such -P. and pane, p. and petrail, a mode of building the times subsequent to the Jewish seventy years' captivity meanings are often presented in old phrases. In Old Eng. in which the open spaces in a framing of wall-timbers in Babylon (605 to 536 B. C.). lish there were several genitive endings, but all have given are filled with brick or plastering.--p, and rails Slang, The last of the post-exilian prophets was Malachi, the exact time way to the phrase with the preposition of (the Norman or Austral.), strong bush tea. - p. and stall (Mining), of whose prophecy is uncertain. hole borer. - p. butt, n. A block of wood or stone post"ex-il'ict.-post"ex-ist', vi. (Rare.) To exist used as a foundation for a fence-post. - p.shook, n. A soul, but the role of his shoe. afterward. - post'ex-ist'ence, n.-- post"ex-ist'ept, check-rein hook furnished with an ornamental post.-P.: - pos-sess'iv-al (pos"ses-si'val, W.), a. Of a.- post'fact". (Rare.) I. a. Pertaining to a subse- p.spullert.-P.: or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessivul ter A jack for pulling posts. quent fact. II. n. A subsequent fact. post-fac'tumi. - post-fac'tor, n. Math. The latter of two factors com bined by non-commutative multiplication. -- post-feb'. ril(e, a. Happening after a fever; resulting from febrile sessive pronoun. motion.-principal p., a corner post in a framed building. disease.-- post-fermentt, n. Transfer to a lower posi- sesses, owns, enjoye, or controls anything, as property. occupation. Especially: (1) A military station; a place 11. (.NA, pl.] Entom. That part of the metathorax of a fron'tal, a. Situated behind the forehead or frontal bone; as, a postfrontal bone. - post-fron'tal, n. 1. A bone From year to year for more than thrice a decade the flag was behind and below the frontal, as in reptiles. 2. A scale between the prefrontal and vertical, as in snakes.- post. CHARLES KING Tuo Soldiers ch. 9, p. 57. (L. '92.] termine the right of possession, as distinguished from one fur'ca, n. 1-C.E, -ki or .cê, pl.] Entom. An internal to determine title; spécitically, in old English law, a form of 2. A subdivision of the Grand Army of the Republic. vertical process of the metasternum to which the musaction to recover possession of realty. See ARMY. 3. An office or employment; a position, as of cles of the hind legs are attached.- post-furcal, a.pos'set, pes'ét, vt. 1. (Rare.] To ply with posset; pamper. trust or emolument; situation; especially, a public office. post"ge-nic"u-la'tum, n. [-TA, pl.) The internal ge2+. To curdle or coagulate. niculate body of the brain.- post-gen'i-tal, a. Entom. Addison, without high birth, and with little property, rose to a Situated behind the genital orifice.- post"gen'i-turet, sweetened, spiced, and often thickened, as with bread, MACAULAY Essays, Addison p. 606. (A. '80.] n. The state of being born after another in the same family: especially of the second-born of twins.-- post"gla'cial, a. Geol. Later than the glacial formation: applied spe- cifically to a forination in the Pleistocene between the gla- - pos' set-ale", n. Posset made with ale,- p.:pot, n. mail-matter transported from one place to another at one cial and terrace.- post-glenoid. Anat. I. a. Situated A large bowl or cup for holding posset, time; the mail; by extension, a post-office; as, has the behind the glenoid fossa; as, the postglenoid process of properly having two handles. p.cupi. post come in? put your letter in the post. the temporal bone. post"gle-noi'dali. II. n. The I rejoice to hear you are there [in Washington), and shall await postglenoid process.- post-humer-al, a. Entom. Situ ated behind the humerus of an insect, as a dipter or beetle. Dolly Madison, Nov. 1,''Os p. 58. (H. M. & co. '86.] - post-medi-an, a. Situated behind the median line. tional republican faction, or (2) of a - post-me"di-as'ti-num, n. (.XA, pl.) Anat. The 5. One who passes through fixed points on a line of tray. French socialistic faction. [< F. pos- posterior mediastinum, situated behind the heart.- post- me"di-as'ti-nal, a.- post-min'i-mus, n. (-MI, -mal BLE.) etc.; a postman; hence, a messenger; also, one of the or -mi, pl.] An accessory little finger or toe on the ulnar or pos" si-bil'l-ty, pos" i- bil'iti, no Posset-pot of Eng. points on such fixed line of travel. fibular side.- post-mor'tu-a-ry, a. Happening after [-TIES, pl.] 1. The fact or state of Dashed to the hip with travel, and dewed with baste, death; post-mortem; posthumous.-- post-inul'ti-ply, rl. lish Brown Ware, A flying post. OWEN MEREDITH Tannhäuser st. 82. To multiply into a postfactor.- post-inun'dane, a, of being possible; compossibility with with the inscrip- or pertaining to a period after the passing away of the world natural laws or with the laws of tion, "God Save 6. A size of writing-paper: so called because it bore a in its present state of existence: opposed to antemundane. postman's horn for a water-mark. See table under PA- reason: often implying improbabili. The Queen. 1711," St. John ... the seer who looked back to the ante-mundane PER ty or great uncertainty; as, a possibility of life. 77. A post-horse. 87. Haste; speed. 91. An beginning and forward to the post mundane end of all things. < old game of cardsSee POSTANE PAR pos. F. poste, SCHAFF Hist, Christian Church vol. i, ch. 3, p. 204. (8. *82.) ; see ', n post-na'res, n. pl. [Recent.) Anat. The posterior nares.- post-na'ri-al, a.- post-na'sus, n. 1-S1, -sai Compounds, etc. : -advance post, the position of 2. A possible thing; that which may arise or take place; or -si, pl.) Entom. The face behind the nasus or clypeus. troops placed in advance of the main army to cover its something that lies within the reach of power to effect; a front, or its line of guards and pickets; also, the body of - post-na'tal, a. Occurring after birth. postnatet. post-neu'ral, n. (-RA'LI-A, pl.] Herp. The element of the chelonian carapace between the last neural and the I believe, with Shelley, that it (death) is but the gateway to ing p., etc. Points or divisions of a race-track.- penny pygal. post"neu-ru'let.- post-pi'cene, a. Occur- p. (Eng.), a postal establishment for carrying letters in ring, or existing after the first ecclesiastical council held in Nicæa, Asia Minor, A. D. 325; opposed to antenicene.3. A contingency proximate or remote; a possible inter- vate enterprise. Subsequently (1840) the name was given to post-nuptial, a. 'Happening or occurring after mar. the system promoted by Rowland Hill and adopted by Par. liament.-- p. and pair, a card-game of the 17th century, riage; made after marriage; as, a postnupual settlement of property, on a wife.- post-ob"100-ga'ta, 1. Anal. Synonyms: see ACCIDENT; EVENT. The posterior portion of the medulla oblongata.- postof three cards were dealt, the value being determined by the PHIL. Soc. pos'si-bl, a. Possible. oc'u-lar. I, a. Situated behind the eye; postorbital. II. n. A scale behind the eye, as in snakes.- post-o". pos'si-ble, pes'i-bl, a. 1. That may be or may become (Eng) 1. A Way-bill of the letters despatched from a true: said of a thing, an event, or a statement; being not particular post office. 2. Same as BANK POST-BILL - p.: mo-sternum, n. [-NA, pl.) A posterior omogternum. - post-o"mo-ster'nal, a.-post:0p'er-d-tive, a. beyond the reach of power natural, moral, or supernatural. book, n. (Archaic.] A book containing regulations for Taking place after an operation; as, a post-operative ex- A boy who rides a amination by a surgeon.-post-o'ral, a. Situated be- unthinkable, is impossible, that which cannot be perceived or im- post-horse; a postilion. hind the mouth; as, the pontoral clefts of the embryo. post-or'bit-al. I. u. Situated behind the orbit; as, For evil news rides post, while good news baits. the posturbital process. II. n. 1. A bone of some rep MILTON Samson Agonistes I. 1538. 2. That may be true in some contingency; not known tiles at the posterior part of the orbit. 2. A scale behind [< Post”, n.] to be untrue; as, it is possible the order has not yet been the orbit, as in snakes; postocular.- post-pal'a-tin(e. I. a. Situated behind the palate or palatine bones. II. n. given; it is possible he speaks the truth: sometimes used post adr. & prep: (L.) Done or occurring afterward; past or behind, as in time; since: found chiefly in Latin phrases A postpalatine bone, as in a crocodile.- post-palmar, to denote extreme improbability; as, it is possible that you occurring in English. n. Echin. A brachial of the fourth order of a crinoid. may not die. [OF., < L. possibilis, < posse; see posse.] post factum, after the fact. See EX POST FACTO. - post"pa-ri'e-tal. I. a. Situated behind the parietala, Synonyms: see ADMISSIBLE. Compare IMPRACTICABLE p. lítem motam, after the beginning of the suit. II, n. A post parietal scale.- post-partum, a. Obpos'si-bly, pes'i-bli, ado. 1. By any power, mental post., prefix. Behind or after; opposed to ante. [< L. stet. After childbirth; as, a postpartum fever: - postor physical, that is possible; as, we have done all we post-, < post, after.] pec'tus, n. 1. The hinder part of the breast. 2. Entom. The entire ventral surface of the metathorax. - post- pecto-ral, 4.-post"ped-un'cu-lus, n. (.Li, pl.) Anat. The inferior peduncle of the cerebellum.- post": ped-un'cu-lar, a.- post-pet'i-ole, n. Entom. The postarytenoid postesophageal postolivary -to play or aci possum, to pretend ignorance or in. part of an abdomen behind the petiole.- post-pit'u-i. postcalcaneal posthippocampal postpalatal attention; alssemble: in allusion to the opossum's habit of postcephalic postischjal tu-ry, a. Situated behind the pituitary iossa.- post". postpharyngeal feigning death when captured or greatly alarmed. pre-dic'a-ment, n. In the Aristotelan logic, one of postcoxal postnasal Postiilial the class of conceptions treated of as supplementary to the post', post, vt. 1. To bring to the notice or attention of Other words beginning with this prefix are defined in ten categories or predicaments, embracing the conceptions the public by affixing to a post or putting up in some the following group or in vocabulary place, of " opposite," " before," "at 'once," "motion," and "to - post-a'nal, a. Situated behind the anus.-- post- have." – post-pu'bis, n. [-BES. pl.] The part of the or bulletins; to post one as a coward. 2. To fasten ap"os-tol'ic, a. Occurring after the apostolic age.- pubis behind the acetabulum, as in birds and dinosauriana. placards or posters upon; as, he posted the dead walls post-au'di-to-ry, ll, Situated behind the auditory -- post-pu'bic, a.- post "py-ram'i-dal, a. 1. Of or with handbills. 3. [Gt. Brit.) (1) Formerly, to make a chamber of the ear.-- post-ax'i-al, a. Situated behind pertaining to the time subsequent to the building of the the axis of a limb when it is extended at right angles to the post-captain of. (2) In Cambridge University, formerly, Egyptian pyramids. 2. Anut. Of or pertaining to the pos- terior pyramid of the medulla oblongata; as, the post- pyramidal nucleus.- post"re-demption, å. Made or behind a gull.-post"ca-non'ic-al, a. Occurring later done after redemption: said of United States treasury: post; station; place; as, to post a sentry. than the writing of the Scripture canon.- post-cen'tral, notes upon their second issue after being once received The dim figures ... must have been on the summit of the ridge, a. Anat. Situated behind the central sulcus of the brain. in payment of obligations due the government.- post"a few feet in advance of the spot where he was now posted. post-clas'sic-al, (I. Being or occurring between the re-niote', a. More remote in subsequent time or order; COOPER Deerslayer ch. 16, p. 262. (P. & C.] Greek and Latin classical and the medieval writers. post- further removed. – post-rhi'nal, a. Situated behind 2. To place in the post-office or in a letter-box; as, to clas'sici.- post-clav'i-cle, n. Ich. A posterior ele. the rhinencephalon; as, a portrhinal fissure. - post": post letters. 3. In bookkeeping, to transfer (items or ment of the shoulder-girdle projecting backward from ro-lan'dic, a. Situated behind the fissure of Rolando; the clavicle.- post" cla-vic'i-lar, a.- post"eli-tell- accounts) from books of original entry to the ledger; as, the postrolandic convolution.- post-sa'cral, a. Situ- ated behind the sacrum; as, the postsacrul (caudal or coc II. n. A post- cygeal) vertebra.- post-scap'u-la, n. l-la, pl.) The Entom. The posterior sclerite of a typical clypeus, scap'u-lar, a.- post-sce'ni-um, n. The portion of post-com'ımis-sure, 11. Anat. The posterior commis. the stage-structure of a theater that is behind the scene that subject: derived from def. 3. sure of the brain: a small band of transverse fibers near or back wall of the stage. - post-scribe', rt. [Rare.) II. i. 1. To travel with post-horses; hence, to travel the pineal body.-post"com-mun'ion. I. a. Coming To add a postscript to.- post" scu-tel'lumn, n. (.LA, after communion; as, a postcommunion prayer. II. n. pl.] Entom. The fourth of the four sclerites into which The closing part of the communion office.-- post-cornu, he posted off to meet his friend. 2. Manège. To rise and the notum of a typical thoracic segment is divided. post- scu'telt. - post"scu-tel'lar, a, - post-sphe'noid, uated behind the cosial vein of a wing; subcostal. 2. the remainder in the human fetus and in lower vertebrates, post, a. (Archaic. Involving haste; hurried; hasty. Anat. Situated behind a rih.- post-cru'ci-ate, I. Sit- comprising the basisphenoid, the alisphenoids, and the ptery uated behind the cruciate tissure of the brain. -- post-cu'. postat, a. Suborned; hired to do evil. goid processes. -- post-sphenoid. post"sphe-noi": posti, na bit-al, a. Situated on the back of the forcarm. - post1. An upright piece of timber, metal, or other dal, d.-post-sylvi-an, a. Situated behind the Sylvian material, used as a support, a point of attachment, or for di"as-tollic, a. Following the diantole: said of a car. fissure of the brain.-post"sys-tol'ic, a. Immediately diac murmur in auscultation.- post"di-crot'ic, a. Sucother purpose; as, a door-post, hitching post; fence-post. ceeding the double pulse-beat in dicrotism. – post". succeeding the systole of the heart.- postutab’u-la, ii. Arch. A wall or screen back of an altar; a reredos.- post: Page 11
potentness 1392 pottle there are numerous varieties of wares. They may be ar: being potent; potency. [< Gr. poton, drink, + metron, measure.) ranged in three classes and nine subclasses, as follows: (1) Earthenware, characterized by comparative softness and fusibility in a porcelain-furnace. It includes: (a) Un. loidean cephalopods having a curved fusiform shell con. Pot"o-ro-l'næ, pot'o-ro-ai'nî or -I'nê, n. pl. Mam. A glazed ware, simply baked clay, as bricks and terra cotta. tracted toward the aperture, which is simple. Po-te". subfamily of macropodoid marsupials, including the rat (b) Lustrous ware, selected clay baked and coated with kangaroos or potoroos. Pot"o-ro'us, n. (t. g.) [NL. slight vítreous glaze, as ancient Greek vases. (c) Glazed ware, ordinary clay ware with a lead glaze, as common with an opaque (tin enamel) glaze, as Italian majolica. Pathol, Insanity from the habitual or intemperate use of (2) Stonercare, characterized by hardness and infusibility alcoholic liquors or narcotics; delirium tremens. [< Gr. owing to the silica in the clay forining the body. (a) A potos, a drinking, + tromos, a trembling, + mania, mad. silicious clay, usually light-colored, and generally coated A potentate; ruler.- po-tes'ta-tivet, a. Authoritative, pot' eye", n. See Por, n. ness.) po"to-tro"mo-par"a.ne'a.with a vitreous glaze containing lead, as granite-ware. (6) pot fish", pet'fish', n. The sperm-whale. pot'pie", pot'pai', n. 1. A pie filled with pieces of A silicious clay, generally colored or dark, and usually coated with a salt glaze, as a stoneware crock. pot fishi er, pot'-tish'er, n. 1. A pot-hunter. 2. A pot. meat or of fowl and baked, 2. Meat stewed with dump- (3) Porcelain, mostly characterized by hardness, almost fisherman.-pot':fisher-man, n. One who fishes while lings or pastry; a meat pie that is boiled or stewed. infusible, with a body of clay containing silica, somewhat floating buoyed up by an earthen pot, as on Asiatic rivers. pot'pike", etc. See poti, n. translucent, and usually with an alkaline glaze. (a) Hard, pot'ful, pot'ful, n. The contents of a filled pot; as much pot':plate", pet'-plêt', n. A plate, usually of Chinese a body of kaolin and feldspar with a feldspathic glaze, as as will fill a pot. porcelain or other tine ware, decorated with circular Chinese, Sèvres, Berlin, etc., porcelain. (6) Natural soft porcelain, a body of kaolin and calcium phosphate coated pot'head', pet'hed", n. A blockhead; numskull. poth'e-ca-ryt, 11. An apothecary. poth'e-ca-riet. pot" pour"ri', po" pû rî' (XIII), n. A confused or het- with a lead and boric-acid glaze, as Worcester porcelain. (c) Artificial soft porcelain, a body resembling glass con sisting chiefly of alkaline salts and coated with a lead glaze, as the early tender porcelain of Sèvres, worry; puzzle; bother. of dried sweet-smelling flower-petals used as to perfume [< F. poterie, pottery, < pot; see POTTAGE.] Compounds:-pot'ter-y:tissue, n. A tissue-paper Why, one of his legs would just trip up the other. mixture. (3) A medley of musical airs. (4) A literary having printed on it a design that is to be transferred to silex, which the Indians obtain by burning and mingle with clay to form pottery. Especially: (1) The pottery-tree of Para (Moquilea utilis). (2) The pottery-bark tree (Licania especially when long continued; bustle; fuss. an imitative word. Guianensis); also, other species of Licania.- p.:ware, n. Earthen ware. A sneaking kindness for each other. Upper Cambrian of the United States and Canada, espe- VARIETIES OF POTTERY, The following lists include only the more important va- See rieties of stoneware and earthenware. See PORCELAIN. pot':herb", pot'-herb, n. Any herb that is prepared GEOLOGY. [< Potsdam, N. Y.) Potsdam group:. ANCIENT POTTERY. The many varieties of ancient earthfor eating by boiling, especially when the tops are used. pot':set"ting, etc. See Por1, n. en ware and stoneware known to us by existing specimens - white potsherb, corn-salad (Valerianella Olitoria): pot'sherd", pol'sherd', n. A fragment of earthenware; are named usually from the country or place of manufacso called in distinction from the black pot herb, Euro a broken bit of crockery. [< POT?, ib., + SHERD, SHARDI.) ture; as, Arabic (8th to 14th cent., including tiles, mosaics, pean alexanders (Smyrnium Olusatrum). po t'shard"; pot share"+; pot'shell"#. and vases); Assyrian (Accadian, Babylonian, Chaldean, poth'er-y, pedh'er-l, a. (Prov. Eng.) Hot; close. We use no potsherds or drainage of any sort in our pots, believing Mesopotamian, Ninevite, including Inscribed bricks and poth’i-car, peth-car, n. (Scot.). An apothecary, cylinders, wall ornaments, vases, etc., colored with vitrified enamels or painted bile Xprenean, Phentelan, Rhodlian, Egypto:. cavity in a rock, often many feet deep, formed by stones pot'stone", pet'ston", n. cian (Canopic, Cypriote, and gravel gyrated by the eddies of a stream, ket'tle: Petrol. 1. A concretionary Trojan, etc., including wall-slabs and archaic utensils in hole"#; pott; swal’low:hole": pear-shaped mass of flint having a longitudinal central biscuit, painted or enameled with inetallic oxids in brilliant cavity, found in the chalk formation of England, und colors); Etruscan (from tombs in Etruria, including wall. pot'hook", pothuk', n. 1. A piece of iron, curved or hooked at the end, for lifting or holding pots, stove-lids, pot'ssure"t, a. Confident hy reason of drink; cock-sure. sometimes 3 feet in length. 2. Same as sTEATITE.decorations, black or red glossy pottery, painted or stamped biscuit, and imitation Greek vases); Hellevic (Attic, etc. 2. A curved mark or elementary stroke formerly pottage, pot'ệj, n. 1. A thick broth or stew of meat Corinthian, Magna Grecian, Samian, Sicilian, Tanagrine, practised by children in learning to write: now little or vegetables or both. 2. A porridge of oatmeal, or of etc., including yellow clay painted in browns and reds, red used; hence, a scrawling written character. glazed and painted with black enamel, and black with red quaintance with A B C and pothooks and figures, but educated pot'tniut, n. Oid pot metal. pott; see POT', n.) pot'aget. pano: Moresque (Majorcan, Minorcan, Rhodían, Sicilian, etc., mostly enameled faience, Persian in form, color, and they are not. Booth Darkest Eng. pt. i, cb. 8, p. 63. (F. & W.] pot-teen', n. [1r.) Same as POTEEN. ornamentation); Persian (Rhodlan, Damascene, inclu- 3. A chimney-hook on which to hang pots, etc. pot'ten-gert, n. 1. One who makes pottage; a cook, 2. ding lustered ware, graffito, relief enamel); Phenician, same as Egypto-Phenician; Roman (Aretine, Greco-Ro- 1. To work loiteringly or man, Romano-British, Romano-Gaulisb, Sainian, Saguntine, etc., including glossy red (see SAMIAN), black ware, glazed grown in greenhouses for their handsome foliage. inefficiently; idle away time upon trifles. ware, and decorated in relief). potha, the Ceylonese name.] If he do not hang upon the stale scents, and potter where birds MODERN POTTERY may be classed as follows, according too slow or too steady. H. W. HERBERT Field Sports, Quail Burslem, Chelsea, Doulton, Fulham, Lambeth, Merton, Wedgwood (bajnboo, basalt, jasper, queen's-ware), etc.; 2. To walk slowly, leisurely, or idly; loiter. 3. [Lo- France - Avignon, Beauvais. Cognac, Limoges, Luneville, food or for profit rather than for sport; especially, one re- cal, U.S.) To walk or leap along on pieces of floating ice. Marseilles, Moustiers, Nancy, Nevers, Oiron Henri Deux), gardless of game laws or the conventions of sport: usually II. 1. (Prov. Eng.) To rout out; poke; disturb; Strasburg, etc., Germany and the Netherlands Paris (Palissy), Quimper, Rouen, Sarreguemines, Savigny, Amsterdam (Amstel), Cologne, Delft, Dresden, Kreussen, business and for the sake of winning and exhibiting the pot'ter, n. 1. One who makes earthenware, stone- Nuremberg, grès de Flandres; Italy - Abruzzi (Castelli), prizes offered. ware, or porcelain. Caffagiolo, Faenza, Forli, Gubbio, Pavia (graffito), Peru. gia, Pesaro, Rimini, Rome, Siena, Venice, etc.; Scandina. In such sports falconry, etc.), the quest of food (now often con- the potter's art -- Bernard Palissy, of France, and Josiah Wedg. via- Copenhagen, Marieberg, Rorstrand, Stockholm, etc.; Spain and Portugal - Alcora, Malaga, Puente del Arzo- bispo, Rato, Talavera, Triana (Seville), Valencia, etc. 2. One who pots meats, vegetables, etc. 3. The red American Pottery. Among prehistoric potteries found po-tiche', po.tish', n. [F.) A vase having an elongated bellied terrapin. 4. (Prov. Eng.) An itinerant dealer in America are those called Mexican (Aztec or Toltec, 10- round body surmounted by a cylindrical neck. in crockery. [< F. potier, < pot; see POTTAGE.] cluding black and yellow without glaze, often of grotesque mê'ni-a, W. Wr.), n. The art or process of coating glass cluding kaolin, suited to the making of earthenware, stone. Mound builders found in western mounds, unglazed vessels on the inside with paper or linen decorations, in or porcelain. - potters' consumption, an acute earthenware, often painted); Peruvian (found in tombs, bronchitis often occurring among persons employed in pot. much like Mexican); Pueblo (unglazed earthenware with painted geometrical decorations). Certain large vases, ornamented by the polite art of poticho- and the unknown. See Matt. xxvii, 1.- potters' ore, cotta tiles about 1740, slip-decorated earthenware about 1770 in Philadelphia, Rockingbain in 1839, inlaid floor-tiles po"tin', po'tan', n. (F.) A coin-alloy of the ancient Gauls, foot or power, used by pottery in 1853, and architectural terra cotta about 1870. Recent consisting of copper, zinc, lead, and iin. for holding the prepared clay d United States potiery includes wbite granite, better known po'tiont, vl. To drug. and whirling it so that by as ironstone china (see CHINA), red earthenware (used for po'tion, po'shun, n. A draft; especially, a dose of manipulation the workman umbrella-stands, tiles, etc., made of brick-clay,often glazed), liquid medicine. may mold the clay into almost yellow ware (for baking-dishes, etc., made of various bull. any rounded form. It is also colored clays), Rockingham ware (see WARE), cream-col- ored ware (see QUEEN'S WARE, under WARE), seini-porce- molding. – pot'ter:wasp", lain or Paris granite (an imitation porcelain for team 2 sets, etc.). Other United States pottery is named from the PHIL. Soc. or nest of clay, often in cylin- place of manufacture, as East Liverpool, Ohio (Rocking. ham, yellow ware), Trenton, N. J. (Rockingham, white pot'latch", pet'lach", n. [Am. Ind.] 1. A gift: used pecially, Eumenes fraterna, granite, cream-colored), Cincinnati, Ohio (Rookwood), which attaches to branches its 1. A primitive form of potters' by American Indians of the northwest coast. 2. A feast Steubenville, Ohio (Lonhuda), Bennington, Vt. (Rocking thin-walled cells, contajuing w, wheel. 2. A power-wheel: wheelic, crank for hand-power; ham), Norwalk, Conn. ( Rockingham, red and white), Kaolin, in which a rich person gives away the most of his goods larvæ for its young. d, driving-helti to the members of his tribe, as an evidence of his great- potter-er, pot'er-er, n. friction S.C., Rockingham table-ware), Philadelphia (Rockingham), А cones; r, rack for raising or Troy, Ind. (decorated with dark blue ainerican views), etc. ness: a custom among the Indians from Puget Sound to slow or inefficient person. lowering the belt on the cones, Japanese Pottery is named usually from the province where southern Alaska. pot'tern, pot'ern, a. Of or to reduce or increase the speed; manufactured, as Bizen, Hizen, Kaga, Kioto, Satsuma, Seto; other common kinds are raku (native word: hand-made, pertaining to potters or pot. w, wheel. to two thousand dollars, and the owner is poor for the rest of his odd-shaped) and Toshiro (named from an early maker). tery: - pottern ore (Old Vetal.), an ore which becomes See also DELFT; MAJOLICA; WARE. vitrified by heat, like the glazing of earthenware. pot'ti-ca-ry, pet'l-ke-ri, a. & n. Apothecary: corrupt form. He had a gallow, potticary face. where potters' ware is made. pot'ting, pot'ing, n. 1. The putting up of articles of in the pot to eat; hence, a meal not specially prepared Greece. One whole quarter of the city was called Cerameicus, or food in pots for future use. 2. Hort. The placing of for guests: usually in the phrase to take pot-luck. • The Potteries.' buds, bulbs, or plants in pots for growth or culture. 3. pot!:man", ete. See POT?, n, RAW LINSON Herodotus vol. iii, bk. v, p. 240, note. (A. '60.] Sugar refining. The removing of raw sugar from cryspot':met'al, pot'-met"al, n. 1. Cast iron suitable for 2. The manufacture of earthenware or porcelain. 3. tallizing.vessels to perforated casks for draining. making pots. 2. A copper-and-lead alloy formerly used Any kind of clay ware molded when in a plastic condi "; as -, for large pots, and for faucets, etc. See ALLOY. 3. tion and then hardened by fire. A building where plants are potted. - p.stick, 1. A Glass colored throughout while fused; pot-metal glass. The art of making pottery has been practised by all peopol'tle, peti, n. 1. A drinking vessel: pot; tankard. stick used by gardeners . See GLASS. ples, even in the prehistoric ages. Cinerary urns, vessels for Before leaving the chapel we must glance at its upper window, holding or cooking food, drinking-vessels, etc., have been 2. A liquid measure of half a gallon; also, the coutents filled with figures of saints, executed in stained glass, of the kind found in graves and barrows of both the Old and the New of such a vessel; as, a potlle of ale. And at the last, over a good pottle of Sack, he confessed to me usually ornamented with patterns of straight, crossed, or that I was in the right, potlo, n. Same as POTTO. zigzag lines (seldom with wavy or curved lines), stamped JANE G, AL'STIN Betty Alden ch. 9, p. 99. (H. M. & co. '91.) into the clay before tiring. Pottery is soft pottery when 3. A kind of chowder made by fishermen by first fry; tus, drinking, +. MANIA.) ed piece of iron; hard pottery, when the iron has no ing pork, and then making a stew by adding water and po-tom'e-ter, po-tem'e-ter, n. An instrument for effect on it. Between soft earthenware, as represented by fresh tish. 4. A small vessel or basket for holding fruit. Page 12
prayer-book 1398 preacher the bill in which the request is made. [< OF. preiere, ... A seeing in advance; prevision.- pre"a-tax'ic, a. mouth; as, the preoral arches of the embryo.--pre-o'ral. Pathol. Precursory or premonitory of the disordered state ly, adv. - pre-orbit-al. I. a. Situated in front of the < LL. precaria, f. of L. precarius, obtained by favor, < characteristic of nervous fevers. - pre-au'di-to-ry, a. orbit. II. n. Ich. A membrane-bone in front of the eye. precor, pray.) Situated in front of the auditory nerve.- pre-ax'al, a. -pre-par"oc-cipi-tal, a. Situated in front of the Synonyms: adoration, devotion, Invocation, litany, Situated in front of the axon or body-axis.-pre-ax'i-al, paroccipital gyrus. - pre"pa-tel'lar, a. Situated in orison, petition, request, suit, supplication. a. Situated on that side of the axis of a limb that is in front front of the patella or kneepan; as, the prepatellar bursa, Compounds, etc.:- house of prayer, a church, as when the limb is extended at right angles to the trunk.- -pre" pe-dun'cle, n. One of the superior peduncles of a place of devotion.-prayer'.bead", n. A seed of the pre-bac'il-la-ry, a. Med. Of or pertaining to a period the cerebellum connecting it with the corpora quadrigem. Indian licorice (Abrus precatorius).- p.scarpet, n. See or condition preceding an attack of disease caused by bacilll. ina.--pre"pe-duu'cu-lar or wate, a.- pre-pel". PRAYER-RUG.-p.acure, n. Cure of disease by prayer. - pre-ball'an-cer, n. Entom. A prehalter.- pre-bal- vi-stervum, n. An anterior pelyisternum.--pre-pel". p.-meeting, n. A meeting for divine worship in which sal, a. Situated in front of a base or basal part; as, a vi-ster'nal, a.- pre-pe'ui-al, a. Anterior to the the exercises consist chiefly of prayer and praise. - p.: prebasal plate.- pre-bas'i-lar, a. Situated in front of penis.- pre-per"i-to-pe'al, a.' Situated in front of mill, n. Same as PRAYING-WHEEL.-P.smonger, n. á basllar part, as of the occipital bone.- pre-brach'i-al. the peritoneum. præ-per"i-to-pe'alt. - pre"pigOne who makes a business of offering prayers.- p. of I. a. Situated in the front part of the forearm. II. n. men'tal, a. Being within the pigmented layer of the process, a petition in a bill in equity for the allowance and Entom. A vein between the cubitus and the postbracbial.-- eye, as in some cuttlefishes.- pre-pillu-i-ta"ry, a. Sitissue of a writ of subpæna against the respondent.- p. of pre-bran'chi-al, a. Situated in front of the gills.- uated in front of the pituitary fossa.- pre"pla-cen'tal, quiet, p. of rapture, p. of union (Mysticism), differ. pre-bron'chi-al, a. situated in front of the bronchus: a. Occurring before the formation of a placenta.- preent degrees of spiritual abnegation and absorption.-P.: specifically of a pair of air-sacs in a bird.-pre-buc'cal, pol'lence, n., Rare) Predominance. pre-pollenrug, n. A rug on which Mohammedans prostrate them. a. Situated in front of the mouth.-pre-cardi-ac, a. cyt:- pre-pol'lent, a. (Rare.) Surpassing in power; selves during prayer with their faces toward Mecca, and Situated in front of the heart.- pre-cen'tral, a. Situ. having superior efficacy; prevailing; predominant. - preoften bearing at one end a pattern indicating the point to ated in front of (1) the central fissure of the brain, or (2) pol'lex, n. [-LI-CES, pi.) A supernuinerary digit, or the be touched with the forehead. - p.:stick, n. A small stick of a vertebral centrum.- pre-cer"e-bel'lar, a. Situ- vestige of one, found on the radial side of the hand. præ. adorned with feathers and used by the Zuñi Indians in their ated in front of the cerebellum.- pre-cer e-bral, a. pol'lext.-pre-pon'til(e, a. Anat, Situated in front prayers for rain and other favors. Called also prayer. Situated in front of the cerebrum.- pre-chord'al, a. of the pons Varolll.-pre-port't, ot. To forebode; porplume. - p, thong, n. [Rare.) Same as PHYLACTERY 1. Situated in front of the anterior extremity of the noto- tend.- preprint", n. (Rare.] An advance impression, (1).-P.:wheel, n. Same as PRAYING-WHEEL. chord. 2. Prior to the existence of a notochord in animals; as of a printed article that is to appear later.-pre-prop"prayer':book", prär'-buk', n. 1. A book of ritual as, prechordal times.- pre-cho'roid, a. Situated in er-a'tiont, n. Undue haste; precipitancy.- pre-prop prescribed for conducting divine service; specifically, front of the choroid.-pre-chris'tian, a. Prior to the er-oust, a. Too hasty; precipitate.- pre-pu'bic, a. the book containing the mode and forms appointed for Christian era.- pre-cliris"ti-an'ic, a.- pre"cli-tell- Situated in front of the pubis; as, the prepubic angle of the conducting public service in the Anglican and Protestant lj-an. I, a. Having the ducts of the testes opening in urethra.- pre-pu'bis, n. (-BES, -biz or bês, pl.) The Episcopal churches: known as The Book of Common front of the clitellum, as common earth worms. II. n. A part of the pubis in front of the acetabulum, as in birds Prayer. 2, Naut. A small hand-stone for scrubbing in preclitellian earthworm.- pre"clo-a'cal, a. Anat. Sit- and dinosaurians. præ-pu'bisi. -- pre"py-lor'ic, a. uated in front of the cloaca... pre-cor'a coid. I: a. Sit. Situated in front of the pylorus. - pre-pyr'a-mid, n. places where a holystone will not reach. uated in front of the coracoid bone or cartilage; as, the pre. The anterior pyramid of the medulla oblongata.--pre"pyprayer'ful, prar'ful, a. Inclined or given to prayer; coracoid arch in fishes, II. n. The anterior element of the ram'i-dal, a.- pre-rectal, a. Situated in front of praying much; devotional; devout. coracoid, as in reptiles and amphibians.- pre-cornu, n. the rectum.– pre-reg'nantt, n. A ruler who precedes A sweet old music, swelling o'er NU-A, pl.] Same as PRÆCORNU-pre-course', vt. Rare, another.- pre"re-mote', a. occurring more remotely. - pre-re'nal, a. Anterior to the kidney.- pre-reptit, The Litanies of Providence ! -pre-crit'ic-al, a. Previous to the Kantian critical ut. To seize in advance of another.- pre-ret'i-na, n. WHITTIER Chapel of the Hermits st. 52, philosophy. See CRITICAL; KANTIAN.- pre-cru'ral, a. (-NÆ, pl.) A delicate layer of the stroma of the retina conSynonyms: see DEVOUT. Situated in front of the leg, as certain glands in the horse. tinued forward on the ciliary body from the ora serrata. -- pre-cu'ne-In, n. Same as PRÆCUNEUS.-pre-cur'. - prayer'ful.ly, adv.-prayer'ful-ness, n. præ-ret'i-nat.-pre-ret'i-nal, a.- pre-sa'cral, a. rent, a. Running or extending forward: opposed to re- Situated before or in front of the sacral vertebræ.- pre". The state of being engaged in or inclined to prayer. current.-pre"de-cay't, n. Previous decay.-pre" deprayer'less, prar'les, a. Neglecting oromitting prayer; sar-toʻri-al, a. (Rare.] Existing or occurring previous cease', or. (Rare.) To die previously to. - pre'de- to the advent of tailors.- pre-scap'u-la, n. Anal. The without prayer; unused to praying. cease", n.- pre"de-lin"e-a'tion, n. Previous deline. blade of the scapula above or anterior to its spine.- preA prayerless man is of necessity, and thoroughly, irreligious. C. ation; especially, the doctrine of the preformation of the scapu-lar, a.-pre' scene", n. An introductory HODGE Systematic Theology vol. iii, pt. iii, ch. 20, p. 692. [8. '73.] adult in the spermatozoon.-pre-den'ta-ry, a. Situated scene; a prologue.- pre-sci"en-tif'ic, a. Antedating in front of the dentary, as a bone in some reptiles.- pre- prayer'less-ly, adv.-prayer'less-ness, n. den'tate, a. Having teeth in the anterior part of the up the period of scientific research; relating to times previous to the formulation of sciences.- prese-ancet, n. Pripraying, prê’ing, ppr. & verbal n. of PRAY, V.- pray'. per jaw only.-pre"de-sert', n. Previous desert or merít. ority of place in sitting. - pre-see', ot. To foresee. îngsdesk", n. Same as PRIE-DIEU, 1.- p. flag, n. pre"de-vote', a. [Rare.) Devoted or doomed before. pre-sem"i-lu'nar, a. Situated in front of the semilunar large pole with a flag of varied shape, erected in Buddhist hand; predestinate.- pre-di"as-tol'ic, a. Physiol. Pre. fold.-pre-sein'i-nal, a. Physiol. Previous to fecunda. countries. On the flag are inscribed prayers which are ceding diastole or dilatation of the heart; as, a prediastolic tion. præ-sem'i-nali.- pre"sen-sa'tion, n. (Rare.) supposed to protect against evil. p. staff or -polet; murmur.--pre"di-crot'ic, a. Physiol. Preceding the di- Foretaste of a future state of feeling; prophetic sensation. prayer';flag"1. p. insect, n. A mantis. p.-mantis . crotic wave when the pressure of the blood is strong: said of - pre-sphenoid. I. a. Situated in front of the sphepray'ing:wheel", prê'ing-hwil", n. 1. A wheel, a pulse-wave.- pre-doom', vl. 1. To doom or condemn noid; of or pertaining to the presphenoid. pre"sphecylinder, or verti beforehand. 2. To foreordain.-pre-dor'sal, a. Situ. noi dalt. II. n. A bone, separate in young children, cal drum used in ated in series before the dorsal vertebræ. - pre-e"soph- and in many vertebrates corresponding to the anterior part prayer by Bud. ag'e-al, a. Situated in front of the esophagus. præ- of the body of the sphenoid. "See illus. under SPHENOID dhists. pray': BONE.-pre-spi'nal, a, situated in front of the spine; preinfinite past; eternal previous duration. - pre-ev"o-lu'. ing:ma-chine"I. vertebral.- pre-stomi-um, n. Same as PRÆSTOMIUMtion-ist, a. (Rare.] Antedating or anticipating the evo. pre-stric'tiont, n, Dimness of sight. præ-strictiont. The prayer wheel consists of a lutionary doctrine.- pre"ex-illic, a. Antedating the -pre-syl'vi-an, a. Anat. Situated in front of the is cylinder in which are arranged, exile: sald of events occurring or Hebrew Scriptures written sure of Sylvius. præ-sylvi-ant.-- pre"şym-phys/i. one on top of the other, sheets of before the Babylonish captivity.- pre"ex-is"ti-ma'- al, a. Anat. Situated in front of the symphysis menti. paper, on which the formula om tiont, n. Previous esteem or estimation.-pre-fac'. pre-sys'to-le, n. The interval that immediately pre. mani padmé hum’ is printed in tor, n. Alg. The first or multiplying one of two factors. fine characters. The sheets must cedes the systole.- pre"sys-tol'ic, a.-pre-thought'. - pre"flo-ra'tion, n. Bot. The disposition of flowers be wound on the axis from left to ful, a. [Rare.) Thoughtful beforehand; prudent.-- prewithin the flower-bud; estivation. præ" 80-ra'tiont.right, and the wheel, when set in tib'i-al, a. Anat. Situated in front of the tibia.- pre". motion, must revolve in the oppo pre-fo"li-a'tion, n. Bot. The disposition of leaves tym-pan'ic. I. a. Anat, Situated in front of the within the bud; vernation. præ-fo"li-a'tioni.- presite way, so that the writing passes tympanum of the ear. II. n. Ich. The metapterygoid, in front of the person turning the fool't, vl. To fool beforehand.- pre-forceps, n. A præ"tym-pan'ich.-pre-ver'te-bral, a. situated wheel in the way in which it is forceps-like process in front of the corpus callosuin.- pre- in front of the spine; as, the prerertebral muscles, etc. read, i. e., from left to right. If ful'gen-cy, n. [Rare.) Surpassing brightness or glory. - pre-zyg'a-poph’y-sis, n. A superior articular proc. made to revolve from right to left, -pre-gage't, vt. To pledge previously.- pre-gem'i- ess of a vertebra. - pre-zyg"a-po-phys'i-al, a. it is held sacrilegious. W. W pal, a. Anat. Of or pertaining to the anterior pair of the preacet, v. & n. Press. prenset. ROCKHILL Land of the Lamas, 1. Praying-wheel at Oarga, corpora quadrigemina of the brain.-pre"ge.net'ic, a. preach, prích, v. 1. t. 1. To deliver, as a sermon or Sup. Notes ch. 2, p. $34. (C.CO. '91.) Mongolla (the seat of the Preceding birth.-pre-gen'i.tal, a. Situated in front of deifled Lama). 2. A Tib. 2. In medieval times, a wheel discourse on a text of Scripture or some religious topic. the genital opening.- pre-glacial, a. Of, pertaining etan Hand Praying-wheel. hung to the ceiling of a to, or occurring in geologic time before the glacial epoch. The common phrase "preach a sermon” is a pleonasm; it - pre-gle'noid, a. Situated in front of the glenoid is better to say “deliver a sermon.” chapel and set rotating, like a wheel of fortune, to di fossa; as, a preglenoid process of the temporal bone.- If a man is called to preach the gospel he is called to preach it vine answers to prayers. prayer'-mill"#; prayer's pre"gle-noi'dal, n. A preglenoid part. - pre'gra where are men to hear it. wheel".. vatet, vt. To weigh down; bear heavily upon.-pre D. WORTMAN in Homiletic Review June, '89, p. 182. pre-, prefix. Before, as in time, place, or rank. grav'i-tate, vi. (Rare.) To descend by gravity.- pre- 2. Hence, to advocate after the manner of a preacher; In thoroughly naturalized words it takes the form pre gus'tantt, a. Having a foretaste.- pregus-ta'tiont, recommend urgently; as, to preach temperance. as, prefix, preposition, preamble, preliminary, previous: 1.- pre-hallux, n. A supernumerary toe, or the ves. How easy it is for those in power and prosperity to preach heroIn scientific and recent neo-Latin terms it often takes the tige of one, found on the tibial side of the foot. præ- ism to the vanquished ! form præ-; as, præanal, prænaris, præesophageal. Com. hal'luxi.-pre-hal'ter, n. A membranous scale in IRVING Alhambra, Mementos of Boabdil p. 153. [G. P. P. '78.] pare ante-; PRO-; PROTO-. [< LL. pre-, L. præ-, < præ, front of the halter of a dipter; tegula. – pre-hem"ia before.) ple'gic, a. Pathol.. Occurriog before or preinonitory of 3. To bring into a condition or affect with a result (inIn the following list pre- is a constituent of various nouns, hemiplegia.- pre"his-pan'ic, a. Antedating the Span. dicated by the context) by means of preaching; as, he adjectives, and verbs, sert-explaining in connection with ish colonization: said of American history or develop preached himself hoarse. 4. (Rare.] To edify by pub. their second elements, in the sense of before in time; in ad- ment.- pre-hu'man, a. Of, pertaining to, or occurring lic discourse. 5. [Archaic.1 To proclaim as a públic vance; prior; fore.'; as, preaccusation, accusation before. in the time previous to human existence on the earth. announcement; publish as tidings; utter as the message hand; pre-Columbian, existing or occurring before the time præ-hu'ant.-pre-in'di-cate, vt. To indicate pre of a herald; as, to preach glad tidings. of Columbus; preannounce, to announce in advance. viously; presignify; foreshow.- pre-lin'gual, a. 1. Ex: preaccusation II. i. 1. To discourse publicly on a text of Scripture preconquer isting or occurring before the acquisition of the power of preinstruct preacquaint or a religious topic. 2. To inculcate matters of advice preconsent speech or the development of articulate language. 2. Of preintimation preacquai tance preconsig preknowledge or pertaining to speechless infancy.-pre-look't, vi. To or instruction earnestly and zealously, sometimes persistpreact preconsolidated Prekoranic look forward.-pre-lum'bar, a. Situated before or in ently and intrusively. 3. To converse in didactic monopreaction preconstitute prelimit front of the lumbar vertebræ or the loins.- pre"man- logue. 4. To make a public announcement or proclamapreadaptation preconstruction premeritt, o. dibu-lar, a. Situated in front of the mandible, as an tion. [ OF. precher, < L. prædico, proclaim (LL, preadjustment precontemporane- prenatal element of the lower jaw in some reptiles.- pre"ina-jjpreadministration preach), < pra, before, + dico, proclaim, < dico, tell.] ous prenatally a-cal, a. Preceding insanity or an attack of mania.- pre- prechet, - to preach down. 1. To denounce pubpreadmonition precontrive preoblige licly and persistently; oppose; attempt to suppress by public preadvertise precounsel preobtain ing metals was discovered.-pre"mon-ar'chic-al, a. discourse. 2. To argue against with an assumption of su. preannounce predeclare preopinion Prior to the adoption or formation of a monarchy.-pre- perior knowledge. preappoint predecree preorder mon'st ratet, nt. To foreshow.-pre"mon-stra'. With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. preappointment prededication preordinance tiont, n. A foreshowing:- pre-mon'stra-tort, 1. TENNYSON Locksley Hall st. 47. preapprehension predefine Prepalæozoic pre-morse', a. Terminating abruptly, as if bitten or bro. - to p, up, to discourse openly in advocacy or favor of. prearmt, o. predefinition Prepaleozoic ken off; as, a premorse root. præ-morse't.-pre"moprearrange Why, that's the very thing, madam, the very thing I have been predeliberation preperception sa'ic, a. Antedating the time of Moses. - pre-mo'tion, always preaching up to you. prearrangement predesign prepractiset ARTHUR MURPHY The Way to Keep Him act v, sc. 1. preassurance predevourt preprovide pre-move't, rt. To excite or impel to motion: bring precalculate prediscover - preach'i-fy, vi. (Colloq.) To discourse tediously. prerequire about by premotion.-pre-mul'ti-ply, it. Alg. To mul. preclassical prediscovery preresolve tiply with the operating factor written first. - premų. – preach'i-pess, n. Colloq.) The quality of being given precogitate preelect prerevolutionary to exhorting and moralizing; as, children hate preachiness. ni're, etc. Same as PRÆMUNIRE, etc.- pre-na'sal. I. (Col. precogitation preelection presanctify preach’mant, n. A preacher.- preach’y, a, a. Situated in front of the nasal passages; as, a prenasal car. log.] precognizable Disposed to obtrude moral advice in lengthened dis. preembody tilage in an embryonic bird. II. n. A prenasal cartilage. preselect precognizant preemploy courses marked by prosy counsel. prestudy - pre-neb’u-lar, a. Preceding the nebular condition: precollection preerect, 0. presurinise said of the universe --pre"no-a'chi-an, a. Being or oc: preach, ??, [Colloq. ) A preaching or sermon; as, the preach and practise do not agree. pre-Columbian preexamination preteach curring before the time of Noah, especially before the deluge. precompose preexamine Pretertiary I am satisfied to point out the prenoachian origin of the two preach'er, prích'er, n. 1. One who preaches; specificprecondemn preexpectation pretorturet brown races. WINCHELL Preadamites ch. 10, p. 151. (s. C. G. ’90.] ally, one who discourses publicly on religious subjects; precondemnation preindispose pretypify a clergyman. preconforin preinscribe preview, v. pre-nun"ci-a'tiont, n. A telling or announcing preconformity Conscience rightly addressed is always on the side of the preinstinct beforehand.-pre-nun'cioust, a. prewarn Foretelling.- pre- preacher, and helps him to a victory. W. M. TAYLOR Parables muptial, a. 'Previous to marriage.- pre-ob"lon-gal-pre-ac"e-tab'u-lar, a. Situated in front of the ace of Our Saviour ch, 19, p. 20. (A. & S. '90.] tabulum or socket of the hip-bone.- pre"al-bu"min ta, n. The anterior portion of the medulla oblongata.- pre"oc-cipi-tal, a. Situated before the occipital re- 2. One who earnestly or habitually warns or admonishes, u'ric, a. Pathol. Precursory to albuminuria; as, the gion or lobe.- pre-oc'u-lar. 1. a. Situated in front as against moral delinquencies or worldly ways. prealbuminuric symptoms of kidney-disorganization. - of the eye, as the antennæ of many beetles. II. n. A pre- No preacher is listened to but Time, which gives us the same pre-a'nal, a. Situated in front of the anus. præ-a'. nalt. - pre-an"te-pe-nul'ti-mate, a. ocular scale, as in snakes.- pre-o'mi-natet, vt. To por- train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to Next before tend by omens; presage. -- pre-owo- sternum, n. put into our heads before. the antepenultimate; standing as fourth from the end. SWIFT Works, Thoughts on Various (»NA, P.) An anterior omosternum.- pre-op'tic, a. Sit Subjects p. 515. (W, P. N. 71.) pre"a-or'tic, a, Situated in front of the aorta; as, the preaortic plexus. præ"a-or'tici.-pre"as-pec'tiont, uated anterior to the optic ganglia.- pre-option, n. The Synonyms: see CLERGYMAN, right of first choice. - pre-o'ral, a. Situated before the -lay preacher, one who preaches frequently or rego Page 13
premeridian 1404 prepare considering and purposing of a subsequent act. (2) Pre- cially in preparing for the commission of a crime; the mium of five per cent. 4. The price or amount paid for pre"or-dain', pri·ör-dên', nt. To foreordain, PHIL. Soc, vious consideration or meditation. See PREMEDITATE, V. insurance. 5. A fee for instruction in a trade or a pro. pre"or-daind', pp. Preordained. fession. [L. præmium, lit. profit derived from booty, pre-or"di-na'tlon, pri-or'di-nê'shun, n. Foreordi- he who has learnt to die, has unlearned to serve. MONTAIGNE Es- < præ, before, to emo, take, buy.) nation.- pre-ordi-natet, a. Foreordained. says tr. by C. Cotton, vol. i, bk. i, ch. 19, p. 82. [R. & T. 977.) at a premium, above par; hence, figuratively, in prep, prep, n. (School Slang.) 1. (U. S.) A pupil in a pre great demand.-P. note, a promissory note given in place paratory school or department; a pupil preparing for col. , --, . immediately before noonmediator. In the cuering pre mize, promized an Premise, etten pom. Soc. 1. of payment of all a part of insurance premium, lege. 3. [Eng.) The preparation or evening study of the next day's lessons. [Abbr. of PREPARATORY.] nology of Rogers, denoting the rocks of the Lower Hel: pre-molar, pri-mo'lar, a. situated in front of the mo- pre"paid', pri" pêd', pa. Paid in advance, as postage. derberg period immediately underlying the Meridianlar teeth, præ-mo'lar : pre-pal'a-tln(e, pri-pal'a-tin, a. Situated in front of series; characterizing the seventh of the fifteen series pre-mo'lar, n. One of the teeth situated before the the palate. pre-pal'a-talt. of the Paleozoic strata of the Appalachian region. molars and behind the canines, replacing a molar of the prep'a-ra-bile, prep'a-ra-bl, a. That may be prepared. pre mi-ant, pri'mi-ant, a. [Archalc.) Serving to reward. milk-dentition. See illus. under DENTITION. præ- pre-par'aucet, n. Preparation. mo'lar.. prep a-ratet, a. Prepared. prep'a-ratt. pre-mon'ish, prg-men'ish, o. I. t. (Archaic) To ad- prep"a-ra'tion, prep'a-rê'shun, n. 1. The act of monish in advance; forewarn; notify betorehand. preparing or fitting for some use or purpose; the opera- Better it is, premonish'd, for to shun tion of making ready for a specific end; disposition; prem'i.cest, n. First-fruits. prem'icet, pre’mi-er, prî'mi-er, a. 1. First in rank or position; A sin, than fall to weeping when 'tis done. adaptation; as, the preparation of soil for a garden. HERRICK Cock Crow 1. 5. In all upbuilding by life there is first, not only a selection of the 1. To give admonition beforehand. [< L. præmoni. material, but a preparation of it, and then a placing of it where it is needed. HOPKINS Outline Study of Man lect. i, p. 5. (s. '73.) ter as premier clerk in Christendom and as a secular prince - ... warn.) præ-mon'isht. then be at once broke the charm, and gave birth to a revolution. 2. An act or proceeding designed to bring about some pre-mon'ish-ment, n. (Archaic.) Previous warning or COLERIDGE Table Talk July 24, '30. event; a precaution; provision; as, preparations for war; Information. 2. First in order of occurrence; oldest; specifically, first pre”mo-ni'tion, prî'mo-nish'un, n. A previous warn. preparation for a journey. 3. The fact of having pro- vided for or against a certain event or contingency; readi. land. [F., first, chief, < L. primarius, see PRIMARY.] presage; foreboding. [OF., <LL. præmonitio(n-), <L. ness; preparedness; as, being in a state of preparation. pre'ml-er, prî'mi-er (XIII), n. Eng. Polit. The respon- præmoneo.) 4. Something made or prepared, especially a compound, sible head of the cabinet; the prime minister. See PRIME. pre-mon'l-tor, pre-mon'l-ter , n. One who or that concoction, or composition; as, medicinal or chemical preparations; a food preparation. a party, a representative will; the sovereign, a formal official will. He concealed the blemish by some preparation. or containing premonition. T. D. WOOLSEY Political Science vol. i, pt. iii, ch. 3, p. 560. (s. 978.] H, MELVILLE Piazza Tales, Bell-Tower p. 405. (D. E. & CO. '56.] Captain John Smith's letter, in the first decade of the seven- - premi-er, vi. (Rare.] To rule as a premier.- teenth century, is a premonitory symptom of the Declaration of 5. The process of compounding or manipulating; as, the pre mi-er-ship, n. The office of premier. Independence. preparation of dynamite. 6. A specimen prepared or pre-mière', pre-mlar', a. (F.) First in a group or com- M. C. TYLER Hist. Am. Lit. vol. i, ch. 2, p. 30. (G. P. P. '79.) preserved for scientific study; as, an anatomical prepara- tion. 7. In schools and colleges, preliminary study, as pre-inière', n. (F.) 1. The first woman in a band or Pre-mon'strant, pre-mon'strant, -stra of subjects required for admission, or of the following day's tasks, or of subjects for examination; also, pre- liminary training for business or a profession; as, prepa- ration for teaching. 8. Mus. The previous introduction, isting or occurring before the millennium; premillennial. lowing the rules of Augustine, forbidding as an integral part of a chord, of a note which is then 2. Pertaining to the doctrine of premillennialism. the eating of flesh, and practising fastings continued on into a following dissonance; also, the note 80 treated. was the rival of the Cistercians, but in re- See illus. 9. millennialism. pre"mil-len'ni-al-isti. cent times it has become almost extinct. It Ecc. Devotional exercises in- pre"mil·len'ni-al, pri-mil-en'i-al, a. Preceding the was suppressed in France in 1790, but rees- troducing an office, as that of the eucharist. 10. [Ar- pre"mil-len'ni-al-ism, prí*mil-en'i-al-izm, n. The United States in 1846. The Premonstrants doctrine that the millennium is to be introduced by the were called also Norbertines, and in Eng. chaic.] The day before a Jew ish holy day, as the Sabbath personal, visible return of Christ. See MILLENNIUM. land White Canons. or the Passover; also, in some pre-mil"le-pa'ri-an-ismi. pre-mon'stratet, pre-mul'ti-ply, etc. See PRE- modern churches, the day premiot, n. (It.) A premium. Preparation. pre"mu-nitelt, ot. To fortify or guard before the celebration of the premi-oust, a. *Abounding in gifts. beforehand. communion. 111. An armed force, as a fleet or army, made ready for war. 12+. Ceremonious introduction. prefatory statement. The act of fortifying against danger or 137. An accomplishment; attainment; qualification. pre-mise', pre-maiz', v. (PRE-MISED'; PRE-MI'SING.] objection; a state of defense. [OF., < L. præparatio(n.), < præparo; see PREPARE.) pre-para-liv, -ly. Preparative, etc. PHIL. Soc. pre-par'a-tive, pre-par'a-tiv, a. Serving or tending A Premon. to make ready, render fit, or qualify; having the power strant Nun. In the beginning of a treatise, it is proper and necessary some- of preparing; preparatory. That earthly silence (of second childhood) may be the great opportunity preparative to fitness for a service in the coming life. pendent lower lip. - pre-para-tive-ly, adv. By way of preparation. viously. 5+. To send beforehand. pre-mit't. II. 1 To state premises or antecedent propositions. thing, without its being tendered or rendered. (<$F. pre:parsa-tive, n. 1. That which is of a preparatory prendre, take, < L. prendo, prehendo, seize; see PRE- nature; previous equipment or precaution, To an American visiting Europe, the long voyage he has to make is an excellent preparative. prem'ise, prem'is, n. 1. A proposition laid down, pre-nom'i-natet. I. nt. To denominate or name be- IRVING Sketch-Book, The Voyage p. 17. (G. P. P. '61. proved, supposed, or assumed, that serves as a ground forehand. II, d. Named or mentioned beforehand. 2. An act of preparation. for argument or for a conclusion; a judgment leading to - pre-nom"i-na'tiont, n. pre-para-tor, pre-par'a-ter, n. (L.) One who preanother judgment as a conclusion; a condition made. pre-nos tict, n. A prognostic. pares subjects for scientific purposes, as specimens for The truths known by intuition are the original premises from pre-no'tion, pri-no’shun, n. 1. A notion or generali. dissection or objects for preservation in collections. zation with slight basis of fact or experience; precon- pre-par'a-to-ri-ly, pre-par'a-to-ri-li, ado. By way of preparation; preparatively. a syllogism from which, their truth being granted, the pren-sa'tiont, n. The act of selzing; prehension. pre-para-to-ry, pre-par'a-to-ri, a. 1. Serving as an conclusion necessarily follows. prent; prent, 9. & n. (Scot.) Print. prent.buke", prent'-biak', n. (Scot.) A printed book. introductory or necessary preparation; preparative. The major preinise of a syllogism is the one that pren'tice, pren'tis, n. An apprentice: a colloquial aphere- Under the preparatory Hebrew system the position of woman contains the major term or predicate of the conclusion, sis formerly common and frequently met with in literature. was relatively high. and the minor premise is the one that contains the pren'tist.-prenticesot-law", n. A barrister. - STORES Divine Origin of Christ. lect. v, p. 146. (RAN. & S.] minor term or subject of the conclusion. Thus, in the syl. prenticeship, n. Apprenticeship. pren'tice. 2. Occupied in preparation; having to do with what is logism "All matter gravitates; the moon is matter; there. hoodt: pren'tis-aget; pren'tis-hodet. fore, the moon gravitates," the first proposition is the ma, pren’ziet, a. A word occurring only in Shakespeare's preliminary; as, a preparatory scholar. - Preparatory lecture, in some Protestant church es, a discourse to prepare communicants for partaking of priestly, others to princely. part. p. school, a school in which students are prepared for admission to a college or university. pre-para-to-ry, n. (Rare.) A preparation. .. t. 1. To adapt, render suitable, or qualify for a par: ticular end or purpose; put into a state for further treat- The term 'premises,' it will be perceived, has thus far been used state of having the inind, attention, or inclination preoc- universities, and the invention of printing as embracing all that part of a deed which precedes the habendum; cupied; prepossession. 3. Something that preoccupies. MAX MOLLER Chips vol. iii, ch. 1, p. 21. (s. 74.) .. but, in popular phrase, it is used for the lands and tenements He was a beautiful, natural, original genius, and his life had 2. Specifically, to provide with what is appropriate or themselves which are the subject of grant. EMORY WASHBURN Am. Law of Real Property vol. iii, p. 641. been singularly exempt from worldly preoccupations and vulgar necessary; equip or fit out; also, to provide or procure efforts. H. JAMES, JR. Hawthorne ch. 7, p. 176. (H. '80.) as suitable; as, to prepare troops for war. 3. To bring 47. Anticipation. into a suitable or desired state of mind, as by tact or adlands land with its appurtenances, as buildings; as, he pre-oc'cu-pied, pre-oc'yu-paid, pa. 1. Engrossed in dress; make ready to expect something; as, their premained lingered about the premises. 5t. A stipulation; previ-thonght or business; abstracted; unobservant. 2. Pre for anything. viously occupied. 3. Already in use as a scientific name: 4. To bring into a state of readiness or completeness, as by thought, consultation, manipulation, or other appro- MISE, v.) prem'isst. Synonyms: see ABSTRACTED. -in the premises, with reference to something already pre-oc'cu-py, pre-oc'yu-pai, vt. 1. To occupy or take priate action; as, the druggist prepared the pills; the committee have prepared their report; his lessons are pre mi-um, prí'mi-um, n. '1. Something offered or ad possession of first or in advance of another. 2. To fill prepared. 5. Mus. (1) To lead up to (a dissonant note) judged as a recompense for or in recognition of an ex or engross, as the mind; fill the mind of (a person) to the by first sounding (it) in a consonance. (2) To introduce cellent performance or production, or the best of its kind exclusion of other subjects; preengage; absorb; also, to (a note, trill, etc.) by a prefatory note or notes, as an ap. under consideration. Specifically: (1) A reward or prize, prepossess; prejudice. poggiatura or a turn. '6. [Archaic.] To set; establish; as money, a certificate of excellence (often graded, as first The employment of the fingers gives relief from all nervousness, appoint; direct. premium, second premium, etc.), a medal, or a badge, while it does not in fact preoccupy the mind at all. II. i. '1. To make oneself ready; as, to prepare for given to a successful contestant in a competition. (2) A E. EGGLESTON Roxy ch.6, p.57. (8. '78.] the worst; to prepare for evil tidings: by elsipsis of the reflexive pronoun. 2. To get everything ready; take PANT.) necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for a trip. And never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a Synonyms: see occupY. premium on vicious pleasures. MACAULAY Speeches, Copyright pre"o-per'cu-lar, priko-per'kiu-lar. I. a. Situated For a month Munich has been preparing for Christmas. C. D. WARNER Saunterings, Christmas Time p. 150. (O. & co. 72.) 2. A price paid for a loan, either (1) a sum in addition operculum. II. n. The preoperculum. to interest, a bonus, or (?) less frequently, the interest pre"o-per'cu-lum, pri o-per' kiu-lum, n. [-LA, pl.] make ready.) Synonyms: adapt, adjust, arrange, fit, get ready, make money are valued in excess of their nominal or par value; of the operculum. pre"o-per'clei. arrangements, make provision, make ready, order, procure, as, gold at ten per cent. premium; bank shares at a pre- pre-op'tic, pre-o'ral, etc. See PRE provide, put in order, qualify, set in order. See PROVIDE. - Antonyms: demolish, disarrange, disconcert, disorder, Page 14
press 1408 pressure ping sheet metal articles by rajsing the metal), u psetting: “tention; urgent; important; as, a pressing need. 3. To place or hold with or as if with force; impress; as, to press one's finger on the spot. 4. To crush, gripe, thing pressed or shaped, as, blacking box p. (for making p. (for tire-upsetting); (2) from the object, substance. or The moral and religious education of the young ... is the most pressing concern of our times. or squeeze with or as with a press; jam; crush; com. blackíng-boxes and other shallow sheet metal objects by CHANNING Works, The Sunday School p. 458, (A. U. A. '83.) striking or stamping), bonnet:p. (for pressing or ironing 5. To clasp with atfection; embrace closely; hug; as, partly formed bonnets to give them their final form), but. 2. Urging strongly or persistently; importunate. she pressed her child to her bosom. 6. To inculcate topsp. (for cutting button-blanks from sheet metal, for There have been many callers today, and pressing invitations. stamping together the parts of an orna- MRS. MADISON in Memoirs of Dolly Madison ch.6, p. 60. (H. M. strongly, as a truth; insist upon the execution or ac- mental button, or for impressing the & co. 86.) ceptance of, as a plan or an argument; enjoin; also, to design on sheet metal button.blanks); pressing, ppr. & verbal n. of PRESS, 1.- pressing: plead pertinaciously in favor of; as, he pressed his suit cameo-p. (for convexly rounding a successfully. photographie vignette), cardboard: bag", n. A porous bag, of horsehair or other material, to hold a substance to be subjected to pressure, as for the exBe sure to press upon him every motive. p. (having a pair of rolls between wbich pression of its oil.- p. board, n. 1. In bookbinding, one ADDISON Cato act i, sc. 1. to smooth and polish sheets of card. d 7. To follow closely, as in a race or chase; also, to hasten of a series of boards placed between books piled in a stand- board), cheese:p. (for expressing whey from curd), concrete:p. (for ing-press, to equalize impression. 2. An ironing board, - bit making building blocks from plastic posirop, n. A flat-iron.- p, plate, n. A board or metal concrete), cork:p. (for compressing plate placed between bags of seeds or pulp in an oll-press. - press'ing-ly, ado.-- press'ing-pess, . Urgency. and rendering elastic wetted corks), pressure; as, to press a coat. 9. To compel by necessity 1. In the Cartesian philoso. cotton:p. (à cotton-baling press), pres'sion, presh'un, n. or moral force; place in an exigency; straiten; constrain; as, pressed by hunger, he stole; to be pressed for time. hat:p. (for bringing a bat or cone of phy, an effort to move: motion being held by Descartes 10. To weigh on the mind of; harass; oppress. material, as felt, into the form of a hat; to be due always to pressure or impulsion. 2. Pressure. a hat-pressing machine), hay:p. (for If pression, and the strong attractive power of the moon, and baling loose hay or compressing hay. the weaker influence of the sun, force the immense ocean twice a bales), lard:p. (in which cooked lard day from its natural quietus, 12. To give spe- .. why has the Caspian Sea no tide! 11. To enforce or impose, as a law. is separated from the rinds or crack. T. AMORY John Buncle vol. i, p. 179. (S. P. 25.1 cial weight to, as in reading anything; impress. 13. lings), napkin-p. (for pressing damp [F., SL. pressioin-), < pressus; see PRESSI, n.] (Archaic.) To affect strongly; stir deeply; overcome. napkins fat), peat:p: for inaking Pres"Ni-ros'tres, pres°l-res'trîz or .trés, 9. pl. Ornith. Mr. S peat into blocks of artificial fuel), was so pressed by the spirit of prayer, that when sheet:metal p. (for drawing, cut A division of Grallæ, including the bustards and plovers. the meeting was dismissed he was unable to rise froni his knees. (< L. pressus (see PRESS', n.) + rostrum, beak, rodo, ting, or stamping sheet metal into va. gnaw. l-pressi-ros'tral, a.' 1. Having a compressed A Button-press for rious forms, as in making tin boxes), 14+. To print. Stamping together steel:p. (á hydraulic press for com beak. 2. Of or pertaining to the Pressiroxtres. II. i. 1. To act by weight or even force; exert pres Cloth Buttons. pressing or condensing molten steel pres'si-tantt, a: Exerting pressure; bearing down; heavy. sure; bear heavily; as, pressing against the bars. ton, as a blank, piece gots or castings), tobacco:p. (for press'lyt, adv. Closely: compactly. pres'fyt. The parts of a but- in molds and thus producing dense in press/iveta, 1. (Rare.) Pressing; urgent. 2. Oppressive. Mary had earnestly entreated that no semblance of the crown, which had pressed so heavily on her brow in life, might encumber of cloth, and covering, compressing leaf tobacco into plugs, press'man', pres'man, n. |-MEN, pl.) 1. A man who her corpse in death. AGNES STRICKLAND Queens of England, ring, being placed on pressing plugs into, boxes: packing has charge of a press, especially a prínting-press. 2. One the bed (6), in front loose tobacco closely into bags, etc.). Mary in vol. iii, ch. 6, p. 581. (L. G. & Co. 73.1 who presses clothes. 3. One who is engaged in pressing, 2. To advance strenuously; strive to progress; strain of the upright (u), the veneer-p. (for applying and holding especially wine or oil-pressing. 4. (Rare.) A member operator puts his foot veneers to the surfaces to which they of the press; journalist. goal. 3. To collect in throngs; approach closely; crowd slider (8) and die (d) ingp. (for wiring pieced tinware), together; encroach; as, people pressed in. 4. To act on descend and stamp the wool:p. (for baling wool); (3) from 2. A man pressed into the public service. the mind or will with weight or moral force. whole together, a fluid expressed, or from a substance press-mark", pres'-märk", vt. & vi. To mark (a book) with characters showing the proper place in a bookcase. A mere passionate partisan made from such fluid, or the substance from which & fluid can ill appreciate the responsi- bility which presses on the heart of the great statesinan. is expressed; as, cane:p. (for squeezing the juice from press':mark", n. A mark in a book to point out its liquid in brewing), jelly:p. (a domestic hand-press for as in the library of the British Museum. expressing the juice from fruit), oil:p. (for extracting oll press':wou"ey, pres'-mun'e, n. Money binding a man enAnd spread his vegetable store, And gayly prest and smiled. from seeds, etc.), sugar-p. (for expressing molasses from listed in the mitary service of Great Britain. GOLDSMITH The Hermit st. 13. sugar), tan:p. (for extracting the liquor from spent tan), pressnesst, n. The state of being pressed; compression. etc.), wine:p. (for expressing the juice from grapes); (4) book located by a press-mark. --press'acake", n. 1. Gunpowder caked and not yet p. (one in which a punch, platen, or shear is operated by granulated. 2. Pressed pomace, as of fish-scrap.- p.-pile, a cam), centripetal p. (for exerting pressure radially an organ; as, a pressor nerve. [< PRESS!, v.] hydraulic press: said of soft goods. wares.- to p. upon, to act upon with force, vehemence, Ive or urgency; assail dangerously. plex:lever p., inclined p. (a stamping. or drawing- pressure. 2. The expressed juice of the grape. 3. A fee paid for the use of a wine.press. press having its die and bed ínclined, to facilitate inserting pressa, pres, v. 1. t. To force into naval or military service; seize for military use; impress. the blanks), lever-p. (obtaining its increase of power from pres'sur-a), presh'ur-al, a. Of the nature of pressure. a lever or a combination of levers), pawl.p. (an upright pres'sure, presh'ur, W. (-yör, C.), Na 1. The act of By no means press them (Canadians) or any of their cattle into screw-press operated by a ratchet-wheel and levers), pit-" pressing, or the state of being pressed; man:p. (driven by a connecting-rod), power:p. (driven the action of one body placed in con- II. i. To impress sailors or soldiers; serve as a press- connected motor), revolving:p.'(a baling-press having tact with another when the two are gang. [< PREST, a., ready (<OF. prest, < LL. præstus, a rotating box in which the followers or platens are driven pressed against each other by some force, as grarity, or by some mecha- fused with PRESS, r.) or through wedges). nism, as a screw or lever: commonly Compounds, etc.:- Associated Press, a bureau, measured in pounds. 2. Mech. (1) originated by several New York newspapers, for furnishing gether; a dense throng. Such stress between two bodies in telegraphic news to the daily press of the United States. Cortes ... plunged headlong into the thickest of the press. The United P., also American, and the P. Association contact as would tend to cause them to approach more nearly were they 2. The act of urging or straining forward or of crowding hydrostatic press: named after the inventor. - domestic slightly separated. (2) The force ex. erted by either of two such bodies on p., a press for household use, as in pressing cheese, sausage, together. 3. Hurry or pressure of affairs; stringent de- etc. - press'sa"gent, nl. A person employed in a theat. the other. (3) Such strees or force rical company to attend to newspaper advertising. - P.: The press for sailors to man the royal navy was at that time so bed, n. 1. The bed or base-plate of a press. 2. (Archaic.] per unit of area of the surfaces in conhot that Kidd could not obtain his full complement of hands in the An enclosed or folding bed.- p.:board, n. tact. (4) Stress of any kind: chiefly 1. A wooden Thames. MACAULAY England vol. v. ch. 25, p. 191. (H. 268.) board placed between sheets in a standing press. 2. An iron. in phrases; as, axis of pressure. 3 An impelling or constraining moral Illustrating prompting or influence; as, outside the ratus or machine by which pressure, especially strong and Ical; specifically, such a clipping containing a book-review or personal notice.-po-fatt, n. A vat, as of a wine-press.---p.s Effect of Pres. continuous pressure, is applied to any article. Specific. felt, n. An endless felt running on the second pair of press. pressure; bringing pressure to bear. sure on a Fluid. ally: (1) A machine for compressing bulky substances 4. Exigent demand on one's time or rolls in a paper-making machine.- p.:proof, n. Print. Compression of the strength; urgency; also, exhausting bulb causes the fuid 1. The last proof taken before printing. 2. A proof taken press. (2) A machine for expressing oil or juice. on a press with care, as distingiushed from one taken on aactivity; rush; hurry; as, pressure of in the bottle to rise revise of a press-proof.- p.:roll, n. Piper-making. One The oppressive influence or depress. upright tubes. E. ROBINSON Bib. Researches vol. ii, $ 8, p. 96. (c. B. '41.) of a set of rolls for squeezing the water out of a newly ing effect of something hard to bear; weight, as of (3) A machine for printing; a printing press. (4) A pho formed web of paper.-press room", n. A room in which grief or trouble; grievousness; onerousness; as, pressure presses are worked or kept, especially that part of a printing- tographic printing-frame. (5) In a Jacquard loom, the ottice where the presses are, as distinguished from the com- of taxation; pressure of calamity. 6t. A printed char- see ATMOSPHERIC,- average p., the mean or average of the pressure of motive fluid in a working cylinder during a piston-stroke. It may be either total, back, or effective collectively; also, printed literature in the abstract; as, a time. pressure.-effective p. 1. The difference between total - press':mas"ter, n. The commander of a press-gang. and back pressures in a motor. 2. Net pressure, as after ginea). merly, the pressure in a non-condensing steam engine; how that of an engine using steam at a high initial pressure: used LECKY Eng, in the Eighteenth Cent. vol. jii, ch. 11, p. 284. [A. '82.] liable to impressment. adjectively; as, a high-pressure engine.- initial cylin7. Newspaper writers as a class; editors, reporters, or press'er, pres'er, n. 1. One who or that which presses; der-p., initial p., the pressure of motive Huid in a others engaged in newspaper work, taken collectively; as, especially, in mechanics, any machine or apparatus ex working cylinder at the beginning of a single piston-stroke. - low p. (Steam engin.), formerly, the pressure in a con- erting pressure, as by the aid of a spring. Specifically: the press gallery; members of the press. 87. Compul- densing steam-engine; now, that in one using steam at low initial pressure: mostly as an adjective; as, lou-pressure en- of ironing-machine. 2. One who cleans and presses gines. -- inean effective p., the difference between aver. pp. of premo, press.) preaset; preest; prest. clothes. 3. One who operates a press; as, a cotton. age total pressure and average back-pressure, being the net PARTIAL LIST OF PRESSES. presser. 4. One who presses or urges arguments, de- fluid pressure useful in driving a motor. - pres' sure: mands, or entreaties. press'ourt. an"e-mom'e-ter, n. Ananenometer showing the wind's Presses are sometimes named (1) from their use or pur. press'er:bar", n. 1. In a knitting-machine, a bar velocity by means of the pressure exerted.- p. bar, n. pose; as, baling press (for making loose material, as hay forcing the needle's barb into the groove of the shank, to Woodviborking. A device for holding lumber down to the or cotton, into bales, or for further compressing bales), bed of a planing machine.- p.:blower, n. form the yarn into a loop. 2. In a sewing-inachine, the A machine or blank: or blanking:p. (for stamping out sheet metal vertical bar bearing the presset foot. 3. A presser-foot. blower having either pistons, cams, or fans for furnishing blanks), bundling:p. for compressing yarn skeins into an air-blast above atmospheric pressure.- p. figure, n. Mineral. A figure produced by intersecting lines of part. spring-finger that presses against the bobbin, to regulate stamps, is on letters), coining:p. (for making metal plan. ing, due to gliding when certain minerals, like mica, are the tension of the yarn. 2. A bobbin-fraine furnished with chets from which to strike coin, or for impressing planchets compressed or indented by a blunt point. They are similar in character, but not in position, to the so-called percus chine, to hold the fabric down to the feed-plate. - p.: done with copying-ink), crimping:p. (for pressing wet leather into forms, as in making saddle pads), flangintip: press':gang", pres’oyang", n. frame, n. Same as PRESSER-FLIER, 2. sion-figures produced by a sharp point. - p. filter, n. A A detachment, as of filter, as in a pipe, when the liquid is subject to a pressure. (see FLANGING MACHINE), gilding:p. (a stamping-press for effecting sunken decoration with gold-leaf), gluing:p. marines, detailed to press men into the naval or military - p. forging, 'n.' Forging done by a steady pressure, as in a hydraulic press.- p. frame, n. Phoi. * A photog. service, as formerly in England; an impress-gang. (for pressing freshly bound books in order to keep the glue on their edges from soaking too far between their pages), raphers' printing frame and burnisher.- p.:gage, n. See The first step .. , to maintaining a really respectable body of herbarium p. (consisting of two boards drawn together men in the service (navy) was taken when ihe Government a bol GAGE.- p. height, n. Physics, The height of a column by screws and nuts: for pressing plants and leaves to be pre- of uniform fluid that has the same density as the air at & glven elevation, and would exert a pressure equal to that practically possible to do away with the flooring discipline. for varieties), repressing:p. (for recompressing bales, as MCCARTHY Epoch of Reform ch. 10. p. 152. (S.) existing at that elevation. Called also the height of a homoof cotton, for transportation), stamping p. (for striking geneous atmosphere. For dry air at 0° C. at Greenwich, it is - press'sgang", vi. (Rare.) To seize men for the pub. sheet metal into hollow-ware, etc., of not very great depth, 7,988 meters.- p.:note, n. "Mus. A note marked with a lic service. crescendo, indicating that its tone is to be increased by pres. Page 15
prin-cipi-ant, prin-slp'i-ant. I. a. (Rare.) Relating to print, print, v. I. t. 1. To make a mark or marks At the beginning of the eighteenth century there were thirty principles or beginnings. II. n. A beginner. (< LL. upon, as by pressure; impress. four counties without a printer. The only press in England north principian(6-), ppr. of principio, begin, <L. principium; of the Trent was at York. See PRINCIPIUM. PPr. The damp sand was delicately printed with the tracks of birds. prin-cip'i-atet, vt. To Initiate or begin. G. W. CURTis Howadji in Syria pt. i, ch. 13, p. 89. (H. '72.] JOHN W. DRAPER Intell. Devel. Europe vol. ii, ch. 7, p. 240. [H.] prin-cip'i-atet, a. Original. 2. Print. (1) To impress (matter arranged for repro 2. By extension, one who owns a printing-establishment prin-cip"i-a'tion, prin-sip"lê'shun, n. (Rare.] 1. Analy. duction, as type, plates, and the like) on paper, cloth, and employs printers. 3. One who prints, stamps, imsis into elemental parts; reduction to elements. 2. Logic. etc., us by inking the surface and subjecting to pressure, presses, or transfers copies of anything as a business; The act or process of deriving a general principle, as an in. as, thus securing a reverse impression; as, to print an en copperplate-printer; a calico-printer. 4. A teleductive law. Compare IN DUOTIVE VERIFICATION. -prin-cip'i-a-tive, a. graving. It has been held by courts in the Enited States graphic machine that makes a printed record on a roll of that impressions made on paper with a typewriter are paper; a recording telegraph. prin-cip'i-um, prin-sip'icum or.cip’i-um, n. [-1-A, pl.] printers' mark, an engraved device of a printer An argumentative thesis formerly required of bachelors written, not printed. (2) To make copies of by means or publisher, serving the purpose of an imprint.- public in theology. [L., < princeps (princip-); see PRINCEPS.] of a printing-press; as, 500 circulars were printed. printer (U. S.], the official head of the government printPhil. Soc. It is a noteworthy fact that these persecuted Bohemians gave prin'ci-pl, -pld. Principle, etc. ing office at Washington, D.C. the first printed edition of the Bible to the world, and the oldest print'er-y, print'er-i, n. prin'ci-ple, prin'si-p!, vt. [-PLED; -PLING.) To estab (Rare.) A place where cotton version in any modern language. ABEL STEVENS Hist. Methodism goods are printed; a calico print-works; sometimes, a lish or confirm in principles or tenets; furnish or im- vol. i, bk, i, ch. 5, p. 97. (CA. & P.) printing-office. press with a principle, good or bad: used chiefly in the 3. To put in print, or cause to be put in print or issued printing, print'ing, n. 1. The art or trade of making past participle; as, men principled against bribery. from the press; carry or send forth in print; publish; as, and issuing matter for reading, by means of type and the Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel the newspaper printed the story. 4. To reproduce by printing-press, including all that is done from the recepfrom the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the jour; sun-printing, mimeograph, electric pen, carbon-paper, tion of inanuscripts to the issuing of matter printed; the ney. W.M. PUNSHON Lectures and Sermons lect. i, p. 8. (E. & L.) or other transfer process; as, to print photographs; to process of making books, newspapers, magazines, etc. prin'el-ple, n. 1. A source or cause from which a print carbon copies. 5. To mark by pressing with a Printing has secured the intellectual achievements of the past, thing proceeds; a power that acts continuously or uni- formly; a permanent or fundamental cause that natu- form or stamp; imprint; as, to print butter; specifically, and furnished a sure guarantee of future progress, in founding, to make an impression of in a mold with LECKY Hist. Eur. Morals vol.1 ch. i, p. 131. (A. 173.] rally or necessarily produces certain results; as, the reg- a core-print or with a pattern. 6. To fix as by impress 2. The process of producing printed matter by the inkulative principle in nature; the vital principle. 2. That ing; imprint, in a figurative sense; as, he printed a ing of type, plates, etc., and impressing them upon paper which is inherent in anything, determining its nature; kiss upon her lips; the scene is printed in my memory. or the like, as in a printing machine; presswork; as, the essential character; essence. 7. To impress or mark as if by printing or stamping; plates are cast, but the printing is yet to be done. 3. That the divine law is essentially the same in principle with delineate; as, his character is printed in his face. 8. To The act or process of reproducing a design upon a surhuman law, both conscience and the Bible clearly teach. R. S. CANDLISH Reason and Revelation ch. 3, p. 93. (BL. 267.) form in imitation of the characters used in print, in dis- face, as by making an impression from it on a suitable tinction from the cursive or written style; as, the child substance by any process; as, lithographic printing; 3. A general truth or proposition. (1) A truth comprehending various subordinate truths or leading to certain printed a letter. 97. To place on record; write. photographic printing by the action of sunlight on sen 11. 1. 1. To practise printing as a business; execute sitized paper; the printing of pottery by means of transnecessary inferences; also, a statement that is self-evident or generally admitted; an 'axiom; postulate; as, the princi printing. 2. To form letters in imitation of printed fer-paper or oil-colors, which are fixed by heat, etc.; ples of mathematics or of logic. (2) That which is assumed characters. 3. [Archaic.] To be engaged in publishing. printing for the blind by letters in relief. 4. That which or held as fundamental in any system or chain of reasoning, [Abbr. of IMPRINT, 0.] is printed. whether expressed or implied, true or false; an elementary Synonyms: see IMPRESS. Printing is commonly referred to as "the art preservative of all other arts," since it furnishes the means of recordproposition; ground; as, reasoning on false principles. - printed or print goods, printed calicoes. It is to be held as a fixed, unwavering principle, that God is - print'a-ble, a. Capable of being or suitable to ing knowledge for the use of future generations. Printing from blocks was known in China at an early period, and right and true, whatever consequences it may involve. be printed or published. came into use in Europe in the 12th century for ornamentALBERT BARNES Notes on Romans iii, 4. print, a. (Prov. Eng.) Clear and bright. H. Dict. ing fabrics. In the 14th century playing-cards were printed. (3) That which is held as vital or essential by any school or print, n. 1. An impression with ink from type, plates, The first real advance in printing was the invention of sect; a doctrine or tenet; as, the principles of the Baptists; etc.; printed characters collectively; printed matter; as, movable types about the middle of the 15th century. This the principles of the higher criticism, 4. A settled law or rule of action. Especially: (1) A small print; the print is illegible. Invention is probably due to Lourens Janszoon Coster, of Haarlem, but Johann Gutenberg, with the aid of Johann rule consciously and resolutely adopted as a guide to action Cold print could never do them (Clay's speeches) justice. when unqualified; a determined rule of right action, or ha. CARL SCHURZ Henry Clay vol. i, ch. 12, p. 325. (H. M. & co. '87.] Fust and Peter Schoeffer, of Gerinany, is generally credited with being the first to put it to practical use. The first book bitual devotion to right as right; as, the principles of moral- 2. Anything printed from an engraved plate or litho printed in English was "The Recuyell of the Historyes of ity; a man of principle. (2) An original tendency, faculty, or graphic stone; a proof; a printed picture or design; as, Troye,” from the press of William Caxton, of London, Impulse; as, the principle of self-love; the active principles an antique print. 3. A newspaper, pamphlet, or the like. about 1475. Printing received a second great impulse with of the mind. There is a tendency to limit principle, as applied the invention of the cylinder press early in the 19th century, to conduct, wholly to sense (1), as distinguished from or op That such views were prevalent, we know; for, nefarious as they and the application of steam. The old-fashioned hand-press posed to impulse. are, they found their way into the public prints. CHANNING Works, Annexation of Texas p. 768. [A. U. A. '83.] turned out about 200 copies an hour, the cylinder press inSince the generality of persons act from impulse, much more creased the production to 2,000 an hour, while the web per. than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are 4. An impression or mark made upon or sunk into a fecting presses, devised within the last generation, are capaapt to think them. A. W. AND J. C. HARE Guesses at Truth first ble of printing from 5,000 to 100,000 perfected sheets in an series, p. 32. (MACM. '66.] hour. The use of movable types is beginning to give way to machines that substitute a line as a unit instead of a 5. A law of nature as illustrated in the mechanical powers; a law of mechanics under which a given mech pc letter. See LINOTYPE. Compare LITHOGRAPHY. The secret of printing must have been discovered many thouanism accomplishes a certain result. Specifically (Patent sands of times before it was used, or could be used.... Not, thereLav): (1) An abstract idea; a motive power; cause. (2) fore, any want of a printing art, - that is, of an art for multiply. The combination of mechanical parts to produce a certain ing impressions, - but the want of a cheap material for receiving result; the mode of operation, as in the phrase principle of such impressions, was the obstacle to an introduction of printed the machine. The latter is patentable; the former is not. books, even as early as Pisistratus. DE QUINCY Opium-Later, 6. Philos. (1) Cause in the widest sense, as embracing Sequel, Palimpsest p. 226. [T. & F. ?56.) the Aristotelian causes; one of the ultimate elements, PARTIAL LIST OF PRINTING TERMS. powers, laws, or ideas that furnish the final explana The following list contains many terms used technically tion of beings and phenomena. In philosophy the cd in typographical printing, the most important of which, and word has been used to mean (a) one of the ultimate es. those not self-explaining, will be found defined in their ap. sential elements that enter into the composition of all be. Cra ing; fon a moving cause, force, or power by which being propriate places. al'ley finger low'er case re-vise manifests itself; (c) a universal' truth expressing the law of bank fly mack'le roll this manifestation; (d) Anal cause as explaining the pur: bas'tard font mail'er roll'er posive phenomena in this manifestation. Called also ulti beard foot'-stick make-up ro'man mate principle. (2) Same as FIRST PRINCIPLE. Philosophy bear'er form mar'gin rounce is the science of principles, in all these senses. Compare bite foun'tain ma'trix rule PHILOSOPHY, 3. bray'er fraine mat'ter run in 7. Chem. A constituent of a compound or substance break'-line" frisk'et meas'ure script that gives character to it or forms its essential ingredi broad'side full point nick set'-ofl' ent. 87. Commencement; beginning. [< F. principe, can'on fur'ni-ture nip'per shank <L. principium; see PRINCIPIUM.] cast'ing-box' gage'-pin' off'cut sheep's' foot A Printing-machine for Calico. catch'-line" galley, etc. off'set shooting Synonyms: see DOCTRINE; LAW. a, adjusting-screws; c, impression-cylinder; cd, color-doctors; catch'word" Phrases: - Carnot's principle, the principle that grip'per o'pen mat'ter stick d, doubler, or endless blanket for softening the impression; cr, en cer'iph hair' line" out the motive power of heat is independent of the material side'-stick agents employed to realize it, being determined solely by graved color-rollers; ct, color-troughs; P, engraved pattern-rollers; chap'el hang'ing in- o'ver-lay'. signature pc, printed cloth; u, unprinted cloth; m, motor. chase den'tion the quantiiy of heat used and by its fall in temperature. O'ver-runo slice'-galley click'er head'ing Doppler's p., the principle that if an observer and a slip substance by pressure; imprint; as, the print of a foot in pack'ing col'umn-rule' headline" Vibrating body (as a source of sound or of light) are ap page' cord slug proaching each other, or receding from each other, the the sand; the print of a nail. com- pan'ion. head'-stick" pa' ging.ma slur In the snow the mother spied The print of Lucy's feet. ship vibrations will appear' respectively closer together or far: hell'-box' chine sort WORDSWORTH Lucy Gray st. 11. com-pose',etc, horse per'fo-ra'ting.space ther apart than they actually are. Thus an approaching. sound is sharpened, while a receding sound is flattened; 5. A reproduction from such an impression; as, the of- com"po-si'tion im-pose'. rule" space'.rule con-densed' and lines in the spectrum of an approaching or receding ficers took prints in plaster of the tracks. 6. Cotton impression - pi squab'ble сор'y star appear to be shifted to one side, thus furnishing a cyl'in-der cloth bearing printed designs; printed calico. pick'-up' stand cop'y-hold'er im'print means of computing its rate of motion.-first p. Philos. piece' frac'. stem 1. One of the conceptions or principles at the basis of all The dairyman's wife ... wore a hot stuff gown in warm weather cor'ner-piece' in-dent tion ster'e-o-type because the dairymaids wore prints. coun'ter in-den'tion phenomena, and forining the subject of metaphysic: inclu. pla'ner T. HARDY Tess of the D'Urbervilles bk, i, ch. 15, p. 95. (1. "92.) cross'-bar" in-fe'ri-or plate stick ding being, time, space, etc. Sec METAPHYSIC. Compare PHILOSOPHY, 3. 2. One of the fundamental assumptions 7. Something formed for stamping, as a coin-mold or cut plate'.cyl'in- sub cut'-in" 1-tallic blacksmiths' swage. 8. That which bears the impres- that are essential to thought, or to system, or especially to der 80.pe'ri-or the system of evolution. Ås presented in Herbert Spencer's sion of a stamp; as, a print of butter. 9. Any pattern cutting-rule' Jus't1.fy, etc. plat'en take dab'ber kern "First Principles," in relation to evolution, they embrace point tape'less dethe Indestructibility of matter, the continuity of motion, used in stamping, etc., as on silverware; hence, the boss 10. dead mat'ter lay point system lly'er-y on old vessels which bore the arms of the owner. de'le lead the persistence of force, etc.- Pascal's p., ihe principle pom'pett throw'-off" Phot. A positive picture made from a negative. 11. doub'let lead'er that pressure throughout a liquid is transmitted equally in post'er title Founding (1) A projection on a core, by which it is drive out all directions. See Illus. under PRESSURE.- p. of law, a lean proof to'ken general, elementary, fundamental rule of law. placed and held in proper position in a mold; a core. e-lec'tro-type let'ter quad transfer prin cockt, n. A coxcomb. prime'cockt; prin'coxt. print. (2) An impression of a pattern or of a part thereof, let'ter-press quad'rat turtle lig'a-ture prin'cod, prin cod, n. [Prov. Eng.) 1. A pincushion. 2. quoin tym'pan Figuratively, a short, stout woman. H. Dict. en line'-form'er quo-ta'tion ty'po-graph for empreinte; see IMPRINT, n.] ex-tended prin'cumt, n. A prim or affected idea; scruple. lin'o-type rack un'der-lay" prine, prain, n. (Prov. Eng. Synonyms: see MARK; PICTURE. face live mat'ter reg'is-ter vi'bra-tor The bar-tailed godwit. in print. 1. Sull on sale, copies remaining unsold; fat lock'-up prin'gap, prin'gap, n. (Local, Eng.] The intervening space reg'let white line between two mining-claims. in stock: said of newspapers, books, magazines, music, etc. feet log'o-type re'print' prin'glet, n. A small Scotch silver coin. when they can still be had of the publisher. 2. 'In a printed publication; printed. 37. In an exact or formal manner. - Compounds, etc. : - electromagnetic printing, 1. t. To dress or adorn ostentatiousout of p., no longer on sale, the edition being exhausted. printing at a distance, by using an electromagnetic tele. ly; arrange with nicety; as, to prink one's hair. - prini' cloth", n. Cotton cloth suitable for printing graphic apparatus, as in the stock-printing telegraph, or with designs.- p. holder, n. 1. I stand or other device Yonder bird Prinks with deliberate bill his ruffed plumes. ticker.- einbossed p., printing without ink, the type or design being impressed in relief, as in printing for the blind. BAYARD TAYLOR Prince Deukalion act i, sc. 1. for displaying a photograph or an engraving. 2, Phot. A II. i. 1. To dress or adorn oneself for show; primp; frame for holding a print in any desired position.-P.:sell. print'ing:bod"y, n. Ceram. Pottery when in condition er, n. One who offers for sale prints or engravings.-P.: to be printed; biscuit.-- p. frame, n. Phot. A frame in as, Julia is prinking before the mirror. 2. To assume shop, n. A shop or store where prints or engravings are which negatives and sensitized paper are fixed in order that pompous or stately airs; strut. (See PRANK.) primpi. the principal articles kept for sale.-P.:works, n. photographs may be formed by exposure in the light.- p.: prink'er, n. calico-printing factory.- silver p. (Phol.), a positive pic house, il. An establishinent where typographical printprinkle, priņ kl, vi. [Scot.) To tingle: ture made, usually on paper, with silver nitrate as the sensi ing is done. - p. oflice, n. A place where books, news. prin'kle, n. "(Local, Eng.) The coaltish. tizing material.- solar p. (Phot.), a photographic picture, paper., or job.printing is carried on.- p.;paper, n, See prinkt, pp. Prinked. PHIL. Soc. usually enlarged, made through the agency of a lens by ex. PAPER.- p. telegraph, any self-recording telegraph; a prin'kum.pran"kumt, n. A kind of dance. posure behind a negative in the sunlight. ticker.- p.:wheel, n. A wheel in a numbering-machine, 1. One engaged in the trade of having on its periphery figures for printing. Fond of prinking: The longe typographical printing; one who sets type or runs a print- printing machine", print'ing-ma-shin', n. Any (Prov. Eng.) machine for printing, as on cotton cloth; particularly, an ing-press; specifically, a compositor. Page 16
processional 1420 procuration Prokris, daughter of Erechtheus.] tonyms: herd, mob, rabble, rout. When the birth of Christ was proclaimed, indeed it was matter of Pro-crus'te-an, pro-crus'te-an, a. 1. Pertaining to joy, and worth the proclamation of Angels. M.HALE Contempla. or characteristic of Procrustes, a legendary Greek robber, trine that the Holy Ghost proceeds from both the Father tions, Knowledge of Christ Crucified pt. i, p. 53, (SHROW. 1882.] said to torture captives by stretching their limbs if too and the Son.-pro-ces'sion-flow"er, n. The common 2. That which is proclaimed, especially by authority; short, or cutting them off if too long, to fit a certain bed. any announcement made in a public manner. 3. Law. I have not put forth the plan in that Proclamation as a procrus- in Nicolay and Hay's Lincoln vol. viii, ch. 17, p. 426. (c. co. '90.] - pro-ces'sion-al, a.- pro-ces'sion-al.ly, adv.- public, or of command, caution, or warning in relation to 2. [p-] Ruthlessly forcing into conformity, as by muti. pro-ces'sion-ist, n. One who takes part in a proces. sion. pro-ces'sion-al-isti. a matter impending; as, a proclamation of peace. (2) lation or contortion. Pro"crus-te'si-ant. -Pro-crus'te-an-ize, vt. An announcement made by a ministerial officer of a court To force into con- of something to be done, as that court is about to open formity with some standard. hymn sung during a religious procession, especially while or adjourn, or a prisoner to be discharged. pro-cryp'tic, pro-crip'tic, a. Serving to conceal for the clergy and choir are entering the church. Proclamations have then a binding force, when ... they are the purpose of protection: said specitically of animal grounded upon and enforce the laws of the realm. coloration. See ANIMAL COLORS, under COLOR. [< PRO- The procession moved from the parish building into the church, BLACKSTONE Commentaries bk. i, ch. 7, p. 270. + CRYPTIC.) Derived from Greek proktos, anus: combining 4. (Archaic.] A formal declaration; an avowal; as, a proct., 3. A procession-path., [F., <LL. processionale, a pro- proclamo; see PROCLAIM.) – emancipation proclama. proclamation of love. [F., < LL. proclamatio(n.), <L. procto-. $ forms.-- proct-al'gi-a, n. Pathol. Pain in the anus or rectum. proct'a-graf.- proct"a-tre'. si-a, n. tion, see EMANCIPATION. Pathol. -processional cross, a mounted cross such as is An imperforate state of the anus. rectum.-proc'to-cele, n. Pathol. The coming down and clergy. pro-cline', pro-clain', vi. (Rare.) To incline forward. of the mucous memb ne of the rectum through the anus, pro-ces'sion-a-ry, pro-sesh'un-e-ri, [< L. proclino, < pro, forward, + clino, lean. due to relaxation of the sphincter; also, hemorrhoidal pro. trusion.-proc"to-cys-tot'o-iny, n. Surg. The opera- cession.- processionary caterpillar, attached to or dependent on a following word: said of tion of extracting stone from the bladder by incision through the larva of a processionary, moth. R. the rectum.- proc"to-dæ'um, n. (-DX'A, pl.] The in. monosyllables that attach themselves so closely to a folwormi. - p. moth, a bombycid moth vagination of the epiblast by which the anus and lower part lowing word as to have no separate accent. Compare (genus Cnethocampa), especially the Euro. of the rectum are formed. proc"to-deunt.-proc". ENCLITIC; ATONIC. [< Gr. proklino, lean forward, < to-delal, a.- proc"to-dyn'i-a, n. Pathol. Same as shaped Ales, whose larvæ feed gregariously pro, before, t. klino, lean.)-pro-clit'ie, n. PROCTALGIA,-- proc"to-me'ni-a, n. Pathol. Menstru. on oak-leaves. pro-clive't, vt. & vi. To make or be prone or inclined. ation through the rectum. - proct-on'cus, n. Pathol. pro-clive', pro-claiy', a. (Archaic.] Disposed; inclined. Tumor or swelling of the anus.- Proc"10-not'i-dæ, n. pro-ces'sion.er, pro-sesh'un-er, n. 1. << OF. proclit, < L. prociiris, < pro, forward, + clious, pl. Conch. A family of polybranchiate nudibranchiates One who marches in a procession. 2. [Lo- sloping, clino, lean.) with dorsal papillæ spread over the back, corneous mandi. cal, U. S.] An official land-surveyor. 3. pro-cliv'i-tous, pro-cliv'i-tus, a. Ascending or de- bles, and multíserial teeth. See illus, under NUDIBRANCHI. [Prov. Eng.) One who goes processioning. scending with much inclination; steep; abrupt. ATE. Proc"to-no'tus, n. (t. g.)-proc"to-pot'id, n. -proc"to-no'toid, a.--procto-pa-rally-sis, n. Pathol. Paralysis of the sphincter muscle of the anus. proc"top-toma, n. Pathol. Same as PROCTOCELE. North Carolina and Tennessee, and possibly complain. proc"top-to'sist.-proc"tor-rha'gi-a, n. Pathol. in some of the British colonies, See PERAM. If the gentleman (Hayne) wishes to increase his stores of party Hemorrhoidal hemorrhage,-proc"tor-rhe'a,n. Pathol. BULATION. abuse, ... if he has a determined proclivity to such pursuits, An abnormal flow of mucus from the anus. proc"tor- pro-ces'siv(e, pro-ses'iv, a. Character- there are treasures of that sort south of the Potomac, much to his rhæ'at:-proc"tor-rbeu'ma, n. Pathol. Rheuma- ized by forward movement; advancing. taste, yet untouched. WEBSTER Works, Second Speech on Foot's tism of the anus.--- proc"to-scirrhus, n. Pathol. Can- cer of the rectum and anus.- proc"to-spasmus, n. Pathol. Spasın of the sphincter of the anus; frequent, pain. 2. (Archaic.) Facility or quickness of learning; aptness. E. B. BROWNING The Seraphim pt. ii, 1, 499. ful, and ineffectual desire to evacuate the bowels.-- proc". to-ste-no'sis, n. Pathol. Stricture of the rectum.- CEED.) proc'to-tome, n. Surg. A cutting-instrument for di. Synonyms: see APPETITE; INCLINATION. Civ, pro-ces'su-al, pro sesh'yu-al, a. viding a stricture of the rectum.-proc-tot'o-my, n. Surg. The operation of making an incision from the anus ward: said specífically of incisor teeth. legal proceeding. through a strícture of the rectuin.-proc"to-to-reu'sis, 1. Surg. Perforation of an imperforate anus.-- proc'to. Processual rules (are) enacted to facilitate liti Procni-a-ti'næ, prec*ni-a-tai'nf or -ti'ne, n. pl. Or trete, n. A South American iguanoid lizard (genus Proc- gation that in the long run is just, or to check litiga- totretus),- Proc"to-tru'pi-dæ, n. pl. Entom. A fam- ily of pupivorous hymenopters with the anterior wings almost vefnless, the posterior margin of the prothorax reach. ing the tegulæ, and the ovipositor at the apex of the abdo- pro-c@'li-a', pro-si'li-a or-coi'li-a, n. [-LI-Æ, -li-1 or -ê, men. Proc"to-tru'pes, n. (t.g.)-proc"to-tru'pid, pro'cès ver"bal', pro'se' verobāl'. [F.) pl.] The cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ven. a. & n. -- proc"to-tru poid, a.- Proc"to-tryp'i. tricle of the brain. [< PRO- + Gr. koilia, a hollow, < dæ, n. pl. Entom. The Proctotrupidæ. Proc"to-try'. made by an official relating to the commis. koilos, hollow.) pro-cæle'i. pes, n. (t. 8.)- proo"to-try'pid, a.& n.- Proc-tu'. sion of a crime within his jurisdiction, 2. cha, C. (Proc'iu-chu, W., n. pl. Helminth. A section of turbellarians with a distinct anus, as in Nemertidæ.- proc-tu'chous, a. The official minutes of the proceedings of a Gr. koilor, hollow.] proc tort, vt. 1. To manage as a procurator or attorney. publlc meeting: A Proces. pro-co'li-an, pro-sî'lian or -coi'li-an. 1. a. 1. Pro- 2. To hector or bully, pro'chein, pro'shen, a. Lav. Nearest, as in sional Cross. colous. 2. Of or pertaining to the Procoelia or the pro- proc'tor, proc'tor, n. 1. An agent acting for another; cælia. II. n. One of the Procolia. an attorney; a procurator or proxy; specifically, a practi. ami or amy, a next friend. See NEXT.-P. tioner in an adiniralty, ecclesiastical, or probate court. PRO- + Gr. korlos, hollow.) this unhappy consort, he appeared by his old proctor in divorce af- lips. [< Gr. procheilos, < pro, forward, + cheilos, lip.) oficial who exercised consular authority in one of the prov- Anne Boleyn in vol, ii, ch. 11, p. 685. (L. G. & co. '75.) feebly pearly-green, translucent to opaque silicate (H 40 Judea was henceforth to be incorporated into the province of cing rules and maintaining order. 3. Anglican Ch, One GEIKIE Life of Christ vol. i, ch. 18, p. 277. [A. '80.] chapter in convocation, proctor of the clergy I. system < PRO- + CHLORITE.] Pro-cho"a-ni'tes, pro-co'a-nai'tîz or -ni'tês, n. pl. (L., orig. pro consule; pro, for; consule, abl. sing. of 4+. [Slang.] One who collected for a disabled beggar; Conch. A group of holochoanoid cephalopods with sep- consul; see CONSUL.)-pro-con'su-lar, a. 1. Per- hence, any beggar or vagabond. 57. The licensed head funnel, < cheo, pour.)-pro-cho'a-nite, q. & n. proconsul, pro-con'su-la-ry1.-pro-con'su. tor: see PROCURATOR.] proc'tert; proc'tourt. late, n. The dignity, office, or term of office of a pro- - king's or queen's proctor (Eng. Law), an official who appears in behalf of the crown in the probate and di. vorce courts when collusion between the parties is suspect. ed or apprehended.-- proctor's man or dog (Eng.), the time, as through indolence or lack of resolution; defer or for laving the hands before meals. - proc'tor-age, n. Management by a proctor; keep deferring to a future time; delay from time to time; hence, management 'in general.-proc-to'ri-al, a. << Gr. prochoos, < pro, forth, + cheo, pour.] pro'choust; pro'chusi.as, to procrastinate a journey. Relating to a proctor, especially an academical proctor. proc-tor'ic-alt. - proc'tor-ize, vt. College terior to the notochord. [< PRO-+ As I grow in years, I find I grow more.... apt to procrastinate. Slang, Eng.) To call before a proctor, as for punishment. CHORDA.] B. FRANKLIN Autobiography vol. i, pt. ii. ch. 1, p. 425. [L. '74.] - proc'tor-ship, n. The office or dignity of a proc. [< L. procrastinatus, pp. of procraslino, < pro, for, + tor, as in a university; also, management; proctorage. The primitive chorion or original en- crastinus, of to-morrow, < cras, to-morrow.] pro- pro-cum'bent, pro-cum'bent, a. 1. Bot. Lying flat velope of the ovum; the zona pellu. cras'tinet. on the ground; trailing. Synonyms: adjourn, defer, delay, postpone, put off. The stem is ... Procumbent or Trailing, when the whole stem See ADJOURN.- Antonyms: accelerate, despatch, drive, pro-chrom'a-tin, pro-crem'a- expedite, hasten, hurry, press, quicken, urge. trails along the ground. ASA GRAY How Plants Grow $ 90, p. 37. (1. & P. '59.) the nucleolus of a cell is composed. -pro-cras'ti-na-tive, aAddicted to procras 2. Lying down or on the face; prone. [< L. procum. tination. - pro-cras'ti-na"tor, n. - [< PRO- + CHROMATIN.] pro-cras'. bent-)s, ppr. of procumbo, bend forward, < pro, forward, pro'chro-nism, pro'cro-nizm, W. ti-na-to"ry, a. Pertaining to procrastination. + cubo, lie.] pro-cras" ti-na'tion, pro-crasti-ne'sbun, n. The act, pro-cura 61, a. Procurable. (-cren-izm, C.), n. The dating of an PHIL. Soc. event before the time of actual occur- tendency, or habit of procrastinating; dilatoriness; delay. pro.curra-ble, pro-kiir'a-bl, a. That may be procured. especially culpable delay. cras"ti-na'tiont. management of another's affairs; the office or service or connected with procreation or reproduction; genera- performed by a procurator. 24. The written instrument To date (an event) before the time of the island of ting; productive; fruitful. authorizing a procurator to act; a power of attorney; Thera.) pro'cre-ant, n. One who or that which procreates. happening; antedate. proxy. [< LL. procuratia, a caring for, < L. procuro; PROCURE. 1. The act of procuring; specifically, the act of procuring girls for pros- titution Synonyins: see PROPAGATE. 2. Law. (i) The acting of one person in the ous, a. Falling from its place. – pro'cre-atet, a. Begotten.--- pro'cre-a"tive, business of another by the latter's authorization; an agency; a proxy; as, done by procuration or per proc. It is clear, that a person may draw, accept, or indorse a bill by his agent, as well as by himself. In these cases, he is said to draw, ac cept, and indorse by procuration. a"trix, n. [Rare.) A mother. A solemn council, forth with to be held. CHITTY Bils of Exchange pt. i, ch. 2, p. 31. [G. N. '36.] MILTON P. L. bk. i, I. 754. pro"cre-a'tion, pro"cre-ê'shun, n. 1. The act or (2) The instrument by which one is authorized to act for 2. Formerly, in England, to ontlaw by public proclama- process of procreating; the begetting or producing of tion. 3. [sr.) To bring within certain legal restrictions young. 2t. Thatrwhich is begotten or brought forth. another; power of attorney. (3) [Eng.) A scrivener's fee, amounting to twelve pence, for drawing a bond. 3. PHIL. Soc. Eccl. Formerly, provision for the entertainment of a A small Synonyms: see ANNOUNCE; PUBLISH. zyganid moth (genus Procris); as, the grape leaf proc- visiting bishop or dean and sometimes of a lord temporal; also, the commutation-fce paid in lieu of that provision. pro-claim', n. (Rare.] A calling out; proclamation. spotted with black, and feed gregariously on the leaves - proc"u-ra'tion-fee", n. A bonus for obtaining a loan. p. moneyt. Page 17
prohibition 1424 proletarian in the mind--airy, visionary. Contrivance is the finding how CHART.-- horizontal p., a projection on a plane parallel Synonyms: debar, disallow, forbid, binder, inhibit, in- to do something, especially how to get over or around a to the horizon. - isometric p., a mode of geometrical terdict, preclude, prevent. Debar is said of persons, disal difticulty: device has much the same meaning, especially in drawing in which three planes are projected at equal angles low of acts; one is debarred from anything when shut off as mechanical art, but in other uses with more suggestion of upon a single plane, and all measurements are upon the trick or subterfuge. Invention is the coming to a method by some irresistible authority or necessity; one is prohibited same scale: used in showing machinery, buildings, etc.from an act in express terins; he may be debarred by silent or process that has been sought by study and endeavor, and powder of p, (Alchemy), a powder cast into a prepared is a nobler and more complete word than contrivance. See substance in order to transmute the latter into gold. have allowed it; the word is especially applied to acts which synonyms for DESIGN; PLOT. - Antonyms: accomplish- pro-ject'iv(e, pro-ject'iv, a. 1. Pertaining to, treat- are done before they are pronounced upon; thus, a govern- ment, achievement, act, deed, doing, execution, performing of, or derived by projection, especially in mathemat. ics; as, projective geometry; a projective figure. 2. PHIL. Soc. Specifically, such as may be derived from one another by projection, as two geometrical plane figures.-- pro'. 1. Projecting, or causing jee-tiv'l-ty, n. The character of being projective. to use such force as may be needed to give effect to the Produced by projection; imparted or communicated by pro-ject'or, pro-ject'or, n. enactment; a parent forbids a child to take part in some impulse; urged or impelled forward; as, a projectile ects, or schemes: often used in an invidious sense." 2. 1. One who devises proj- game or to associate with certain companions; the slaves movement. 3. Intended to be projected or thrown That which projects. Specifically: (1) A lens, combi- of the world. nation of lenses, or a parabolic mirror, for projecting a prevented, as gambling and prostitution; on the other hand, pro-ject'll(e, n. 1. A body projected or thrown for- beam of light. (2) A box holding a system of lenses pro- things may be prevented which are not prohibited, as the ward by force, as a stone from the hand or from a sling; vided screen. , , or military con- quest. That which is precluded need not be prohibited. especializi, a missile (commonly elongated, asdistinguished 3. The result obtained by dividing the square of a perderea Compare ABOLISH; HINDER;PREVENT.-Antonyms; allow, from ball) for discharge from of a plane triangle by the continned product of its sides. authorize, command, consent to, direct, empower, enjoin, a projectile for a dynamite-gun. pro-jec'trix, pro-jec'trix, n. (-TRI-CES. pl.] Math. A glve consent, leave or permission, let, license, order, per Sir Isaac Newton was the first to see that the curved path of the curve derived from another by compounding projections. mit, put up with, require, sanction, suffer, tolerate, warrant. Moon is similar to that of a projectile, and that both are due to the pro-jec'tu re, pro-jec'chur or tlar, n. [F.) An extension - Prepositions: an act is prohibited by law; a person is same cause as the fall of an apple - namely, the attraction of the beyond a surface or line; a jutting out; projection; specificprohibited by law from doing a certain act, Prohibit was earth. J. N. LOCKYER Elements of Astron. ch. 16, p. 274. (A. '89.] ally, a projecting architectural member or molding. formerly construed, as forbid st111 18, with the infinitive, but 2. pl. The branch of military science or of mechanics projet, pro‘zhe', n. (F.) A plan or outline; scheme; dethe construction with from and the verbal noun has now that has to do with the laws governing the motion, proke, prõk, vt, '& vi. (Prov. Eng. or Obs.1 To prod or sign; specifically, a draft, as of a proposed treaty or law. entirely superseded the older usage. -pro-hib'it-er, n, pro-bib'it-ori. range, etc., of bodies poke; goad; stir; incite.-pro/king-spit", n. A rapier. driven pro"hi-bi'tion, pro-hi-bish'un, 7. 1. The act of pro- through the air -pro'ker, n. (Prov. Eng.] That which prokes; a poker. hibiting; also, a decree or an order forbidding some pro-keilmen-on, pro-kal'men-en, n. (-NA, pl.) Gr. Ch. A short anthem sung before the epistle. I< Gr. prokeime- thing; an interdiction. 2. (U. S.) Specifically, the for. by an impelling force. non, neut. ppr. of prokeimai, be set before, < pro, before, bidding by legislative enactment of the manufacture and + keimai, lle.] pro.jeet'ing, sale of alcoholic liquors for use as beverages. pro-ject'ing, pa. pro-la'bi-um, pro-lê'bi-um or lg'bi-um, n. (-BI-A, n , lip:} I am now fully convinced that the next great battle is to be for 1. Throwing -pro-labi-al, a. ade, ch. 3, p. 316. (F. & W. '90.) out or jutting pro-lapse', pro-laps', vi. To fall down or out. [< L. pro. An Apparatus for out; as, project Synonyms: see BARRIER; ORDER. lapsus, pp. of prolabor,, < pro, forward, + labor fall.] 2. The muzzle of the gun and the target are manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.- or constructing graph seen in the foreground. The exit of through an opening or into a cavity with which it is connected by electric wires with the chrono ing down of an organ or a part from its normal position writ of p., a writ issued by a superior court to an inferior ideas objective the bullet from the gun and its striking of normally connected; as, prolapsus of the womb or of the court, commanding it to desist from proceeding in a matter rectum. pro-lapse't; pro-Jap'siont or tiont. ly. 3. Origina- the target are both recorded by the chrono not within its jurisdiction. Pro”hi-bitionism, pr0°hi-bish?vn-izm, n. The ting; inventive; taph, and thus the speed of the bullet for the pro-latert, vl. To pronounce or utter with a drawl. distance . pro'late, proʻlet or -lệt, a. Extended lengthwise; drawn principles and policy of the Prohibitionists. pro"hi-bl'tion-ist, proʻhi-bish'un-ist, n. One who genius.-project'ing-ly, adv. In a manner to jut out; elongated; specifically, lengthened in the direction of the polar diameter: opposed to oblate. [< L. prolatus, -- prolate cycloid, etc. See CYCLOID, etc. ing, in any sense of the verb; a throwing, shooting, or and sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages; in a more re- stricted sense [P-), a member of the Prohibition party. extending out or forth. 2. That which projects; a pro- pro'late-ness, n. The quality of being prolate. pro-la'tiont, n. 1. Pronunciation; utterance. 2. Delay, (2) A person who favors the imposition of prohibitive jecting part or object; a prominence. 3. Measure; time. 4. In medieval music, a method of The 'castle' import duties on foreign goods; a protectionist. ...: was now hidden from view by half a dozen in rhythmical subdivision. COOPER The Deerslayer ch. 3, p. 82. [A. °76.] prolatum, pro-lé'tum or 'tum, n. [-ta, pl.] A 3. A physiological or mental process regarded as an ex prolate spheroíd. [< L. prolatus; see PROLATE, ternal or objective reality; as, the projection of a retinal pro"lec-ta'tiont, n. Allurement; enticement. lation. pro'leg", proʻleg", n. One of the fleshy abdominal legs image or of a phantasm of the brain. The rules of prudence in general, like the laws of the stone ta. of many insect-lårvæ, as of caterpillars and larval savo The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see flies; proped; prop-leg; false leg.' See illus. under cat. EMERSON Nature, Addresses and Lect. p. 157. (H. M. & co. '89.) ERPILLAR. [< PRO- LEG.) 2. Loosely, prohibitory. 4. That which is projected as a contrivance; a scheme; proʻleg"ate, proʻleg ét, W. (pro-leg'êt, C.), n. A leg. project. 5. Math. (1) The foot of the perpendicular let ate's deputy or substitute. pertaining or tending to or resulting in prohibition. fall from a given point to a line or plane, or the straight pro"leg.om'en-a-ry, proʻleg-em'en-e-ri, s. (-e-ri, C. its; involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the extremities of a straight line. (2) More widely, the nature of a prolegomenon or prolegomena; introductory. (-NA, pl.] An introductory observation or remark; espe. ments. 2. Loosely, prohibitive. drawn from å vertex through all the points of an object; also, the pencil of lines or rays so cially, in the plural, introductory remarks, or an intro- ductory treatise; an introduction or preface, as of a make it, and will hold on grimly, book; as, Green's “Prolegomena of Ethics." ing them. (3) Still more widely, in E. E. HALE in Atlantic Monthly Dec., '68, p. 751. chartography, any two-dimensionalTo each of the translations inserted in his (Origen's] Hexapla was prefixed an account of the author: each had its separate pro - prohibitory amendment (U. S.), an amendment resents another, point by point: when legomena; and the ample margins were filled with notes. 7. H. to the Constitution of a State, or of the United States, pro- used in delineating part of the earth's HORNE Intro. to the Bible vol. ii, pt. i, ch.3, p. 70. (L. G. & co. 72.) [< Gr. prolegomenon, < pro, before, + legomenon, nent. proin, prein, 0. [Dial. or Obs.), To prune; trim; adorn. The position of the vertex relatively proignet; proynet.- proin'er, n. to the plane giyes rise toppr. pass. of lego, say, ]-- pro"leg-om'e-nous, a. pro-ject', pro-ject', v. 1.1. 1. To shoot or throw forth; various types of projection. 1. Same as PROLEGOMENARY. 2. Given to tedious pref. atory statements; prolix. pro-lep'sis, pro lep'sis, n. Anticipation. Specifically: vertex is infinitely distant, (1) Rhet. A figure consisting in the anticipation, and an. swering or nullifying beforehand, of objections or oppo. sing arguments. (2) Gram. The use of an adjective or a noun as an objective predicate in anticipation of the result 2. To sketch out in the mind; contrive or plan; devise; these parallel lines are per- of the verbal action; as, to shoot a person dead; to create a statesman duke. (3) Chronol. An error by which a date earlier than the true date is assigned to an event. (4) Phi- los, Preassumed notion or intuition; presupposition. 3. To throw forth or forward, as an image, a shadow, surface of a sphere on whose surface Epicurus, endeavoring to pervert and adulterate the notion of God, pretended to satisty that natural prolepsis or anticipation in making maps), and the plane of pro- form a corresponding figure by drawing lines through every the minds of men, by a feigned and counterfeit asserting of a mul- jection is at the extremity of the di: A Projection of a Winding Stairway. tiplicity of co-ordinate deities. CUDWORTH Intell, Syst. Universe ameter through the vertex and per. a projection by means of, as lines or rays. (3) To form as vol. i, ch. 4, § 10, p. 282. [G. & N. 37.] pendicular to it. This and all the remaining kinds de. a projection. See PROJECTION. (5) Bot. The premature development of a shoot from a bud. 4. Figuratively, to externalize or make objective; view scribed in this paragraph are called projections of the (L., < Gr. prolēpsis, < po, before, + lambano, take.] sphere. (d) In globular p. the vertex is at a distance as an external reality; as, to project ideas or the creations from the sphere equal to the radius divided by 9 , and the pro-Jep'uic, (pro-lep'tic, -al, a. 1. Pertaining to of fancy into space; to project retinal images into the field diameter through the vertex is perpendicular to the plane pro-lep'tic-al, Sor of the nature of prolepsis; antici . of external vision. 5. (Rare.] To portray or set forth, of projection. (e) In gnomonic p., used in constructing pative; previous. 2. Of the nature of an axiom or inThe empirical philosopher ... can only learn nature, as she has sun-dials, the vertex is at the center of the sphere. (1) stinctive notion. 3. Med. Anticipating the asual time: already made herself to be; and cannot project nature in her pri. In cylindric and conic p. the vertex is at the center applied to a periodic disease whose paroxysm recurs at of the sphere, and, instead of on a plane, the surface is pro- an earlier hour each time. [< Gr. prolēptikos, < prolēp- II. i. 1. To extend forward or beyond something jected on a cylinder or a cone touching the sphere. (9) In polyconic p. the sphere is divided into narrow zones sis; see PROLEPSIS.]-Proleptic-al-ly, ade. each of which is projected on the particular cone that is pro-lep'tics, n. Med. The art and science of predict- thus converting the latter into a precious metal or into through a polar circle. (i) In Mercator's p. (which strictly, children of a lawful marriage. [L., offspring, < philosopher's stone. [< OF, projecter, < LL. projecto, is a projection in the third sense defined above - 'not in the second) the meridians of a sphere are represented by paral. pro, before, + N al in alo, nourish.] lel straight lines at equal intervals on the equator, and the pro"lesta'ne-ous, pro le-tê'ng-us, C. E. I. W.2, or prel'e, parallels of latitude by lines perpendicular to the meridi. W. Wr., a. [Rare.] Having numerous offspring. [< L. - to project (proj'ect) with [Local, U.S.), to jest with ans, and at increasing intervals, so as to preserve the actual proletaneus, - proletarius; see PROLETARY. ratio between the increments of longitude and latitude at pro"le-ta'ri-an, pro le-tê'[or-tg']ri-an or prel'e-,a: 1. every point. See also HOMOLOGRAPHIC; ORTHOMORPHIC; of or pertaining to the lower or lowest classes of society. mapped out in the mind, as a course of action; a scheme; STENOT EROUS. He was no marquise - lover, either, but he had a sense of justice plan; contrivance; as, a useful project: used frequently The projection of an area, plane or curved, on any plane, is in him, this proletarian host of ours. R. L. STEVENSON Inland in an unfavorable sense; as, a man full of projects. the area included in the projection of its bounding line. Voyage, Origny Sainte-Benoîte p. 136. (K. P. & co. '78.) THOMSON AND TAir Nat. Philos. vol. 1, $ 233, p. 172. (CL. P. '67.] 2. Of or pertaining to proletarians or the proletariat. So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be. 6. In alchemy, the casting of a substance, especially It was idle to attempt to carry out our plans by means of a work. ing man's party, or, so to speak, a proletarian party. 2t. The point or place from which something projects. posed result of transmuting the latter; also, the critical 0. A. BROWNSON The Convert ch. 7, p. 103. [D. & J. s.] (OF., < L. projectum, something thrust out, < projectus, point of a culinary or other process. pro"le-taire't; pro'le-ta-ryt. He had rollid in money like pigs in mud, Synonyms:' contrivance, design, device, invention, plan, pro"le-ta'ri-an, n. 1. A person of the lowest or Till it seem'd to have enter'd into his blood poorest class. purpose, scheme. A is something drawn out on a By some occult projection, flat surface, as the ground-plan of a house. A project is a Hoop Miss Kilmansegg, Her Christening st. 11. A sixth class (in Rome), consisting of the proletarians, thing thrown forth or out, and hence is something tentative, [F., < L. projectio(n.), < projicio: see PROJECT, 0.] no political rights, but were ... exempt frotn military service. L. SCHMITZ Manual Anc. Hist, bk, ili, ch. 2, p. 389. [BL. °55.] Page 18
Propontic 1430 propupa [-LA, pl.) Entom. The postscutellum of the pronotum. pounds a thing; specifically, in law, one who presents a pro"post-scu'tel-lar, a. will for probate, or, in ecclesiastical law, one who pre- tional; adjust according to a settled or proper ratio. TING! To cause to be in proportion; make propor. ProPound', pro-paund', vl. 1. To state formally for consideration or solution; propose; as, to propound an sents a complaint or allegation, Pro-pon'tic, pro-pen'tic, a. Of or pertaining to the proportion, especially in due proportion; according to pro-portion-ate, church-membership. [< L propono, < pro, before, + Propontis, now the Sea of Marmora, Pro-porl.dæ, pro-por'i-di or -de, n. pl. Helminth. A some standard; proportional; as, a proportionate share. pono, place.) Synonyms: see AFFIRM; ANNOUNCE. family of acælous turbellarians with a single genital ap- 1. One who pro- pounds. 2. (Prov. Eng.) A monopolist. prop'page, prop @j, n. Anything that serves as a prop PHIL. Soc. or support; material of which props are made. as to relative magnitude, amount, or degree; put or pro-po'sal, pro-po'zal, n. 1. An offer proposing some pro"præ-scu'tum, propri-skiū'tum or -prê-ecü'tum, cause to be in suitable or quantitative relation; as, to n. (-ta, M.] Entom. The præscutum of the pronotum. thing to be accepted, adopted, or considered, especially proportion the length of a thing to its thickness; to pro- one made in words; also, that which is proposed for ac- pro-præ'tor, etc. - pro"præ-scu'tal, pro"pre-scu'tal, a. Same as PROPRETOR, etc. prop ret, prop're-tet. Same as PROPER, PROPERTY. I cannot listen to any proposal for a gradual abolition of wick- pro-pre'tor, pro-pri'ter or -prê'tor, n. Rom. Antiq. edness. GARRISON in 0. Johnson's William Lloyd Garrison ch. An officer having the authority of a pretor without pre- torian rank; especially, a person who, having been pretor 2. To form with a harmonious relation of parts; form 2. Eng. Law. The written statement of some matter at Rome, was sent abroad as governor of a province; as, the historian Pliny was propretor of Bithynia. [< L. For it so high was, and so broad and long, order of court, as for the appointment of a guardian. proprætor, <, pro, for; and see PRETOR.) pro-præ'. Synonyms: bid, offer, overture, proposition. An offer iort.- pro"pre-for-præ-)to'ri-al, a. or proposal puts something before one for acceptance or pro'pri-atet, a. Appropriated; special. 3. To separate methodically into portions; apportion; rejection, proposal being the more formal word; a propo- pro-pri"et-a'ri-an, pro-prai'ét-e'ri-an, n. (Rare.) One sition sets forth truth (or what is claimed to be truth) in allot; as, to proportion one's time among duties. 4. To who strictly insists upon the proprieties; a formalist. formal statement. The proposition is for consideration, pro-pri'ei-a-ry, pro-prai'et-e-ri, a. Of, pertaining to, Industry must be conducted more on the mutual instead of the Synonyms: see ADAPT. in the sense of proposal when it is a matter for delibera. - pro-portion-ment, n. tion; as, a proposition for the surrender of a fort. A bid proprietary principle. RAE Contem, Socialism ch.2, p. 90. (s.] pro-portlon, n. 1. The relation as to magnitude, is commercial and often verbal; as, a bid at an auction; pro- [<LL. proprietarius, <L. proprieta(t-)s; see PROPERTY.) degree, quantity, value, or importance that exists be posal is used in nearly the same sense, but is more formal, pro-pri"et-o'ri-alt.- proprietary article, an arti An overture opens negotiation or conference, and the word cle that a certain individual or certain individuals have the tween portions or parts, a part and the whole, or differ- is especially used of some movement toward reconciliation; exclusive right to manufacture and sell, as a proprietary ent things; relative magnitude, number, or degree: often as, orertures of peace.- Antonyms: acceptance, decision, medicine.- p. chapel (Eng.), a chapel belonging to prí. in the plural; as, elements combine in proportion. denial, refusal, rejection. vate persons, or to a college, school, hospital, asyium, or pub. sealed proposal, a written offer in a sealed en- lic or charitable institution,- p. colony, a colony organ- of oxygen can combine with a certain precise quantity of carbon. closure by a bídder for a contract. ized under a grant of territory, with governmental powers, one who offers himself as a candidate. 2. Harmonious arrangement or distribution, especially pro-pose', pro-poz', 1. [-POSED'; -POʻsing.) 1. 1. 1. and Delaware were proprietary colonies - P: govern ment, government by a proprietor; specifically, the gov. as relating to generai effect; due balance of all the parts; To offer, as a plan or scheme, for acceptance or consid. ernment of a proprietary colony.- p. school or estab- such mutual adjustment or adaptation of parts as satis- eration; present, as a candidate, for admission or ap. lishinent [Eng.), a school owned by a community or body fies the eye; in art, fitness and harmony in the relation pointment; put forward, as a topic or question, for dis- corporate, as distinct from a state and from a private school, of the measures of the parts; as, this feature mars the or one conducted by private enterprise. cussion, 2. To put and hold before one's mind as a de- proportion of the structure. sign or determination; formulate as a purpose; purpose;pro-pri'et-a-ry, n. [-RIES, pl.] 1. A person who holds or shares in an exclusive legal right to anything; intend; as, man never does all he proposex. 3f. To set a proprietor; owner; especially, in American history, a ch. 2, p. 341. (J. J. W. '30.) grantee or one of the grantees of a proprietary colony; II. i. 1. To make or announce a plan or design. 2. 3. A proportionate or proper share; also, loosely, any as, Penn, the proprietary of Pennsylvania. 2. A body To make an offer, especially of marriage. 3. In the share or part; as, a partner's proportion of profit. of proprietors, collectively; also, a book containing a list game of écarté, to demand new cards in exchange for He spent a great proportion of his time simply in making of proprietors. 3. The state or fact of being an own- some or all of those in the hand. 4+. To discourse people happy. DRUMMOND Greatest Thing ch.3, p. 2. (J. P. '90.) er; proprietorship; ownership: 4. Ecd. A monk who, familiarly: converse. F: proposer, < pro- (< L. (wo), though renouncing all worldly possessions on entering forth, POSE", . goods and effects to A person or one of the persons having the exclusive title or legal right to which is called arithmetical proportion. we propose is offered or stated to others. In this use of anything; as, the proprietor of a shop or a farm. [< OF. proprietaire, <LL. proprietarius; see PROPRI- ETARY.] used interchangeably. pressed thus: 4:2::6:3, or 4:2 = 6:3, or 4/9 = 6/3. These But in the majority of cases what Synonyms: see MASTER. and dennite; I purpose to do right; I propose to do this etor or of property; the state of being a proprietor; own- (2) That rule of arithmetic by which, when three num- specifle thing because it is right. In the historic sentence ership. - pro-prilet-ress, 11. A feinale proprietor. "I propose to move immediately on your works," purpose bers are given, a fourth is found having the same ratio pro-priet-rixi. would not have the same sharp directness. to the third as the second has to the first; the rule by which a missing term of one of two equal ratios is found. --pro-poset, n. Discourse; conversation; talk._ pro-pri'et-y, pro-prai'et-i, n. [-IEs, pl.] 1. The char acter or quality of being conformed to a correct or an acknowledged standard; especially, accordance with recognized usuge, custom, or principles; fitness; becom. numbers expressing the vibrations per second of two ingness; correctness; also, a mode of action or conduct 1. A scheme or tones. (2) Meter; rhythm. 67. Figure or form; shape. prop"o-si'tion, prop‘o-zish'un, n. that is thus accordant; as, propriety of literary style. 2. measure proposed or presented for acceptance, adoption, [F., < L. proportio(n.), < pro, for; and see PORTION.] Rhet. In style, the principle that requires the use of the or consideration; an offer of terms or conditions, or the correct grammatical and rhetorical elements, and upity pro-porciont: pro-portion-a-ryt. terms or conditions offered; also, the act of offering or - alternate proportion, the proportion arising on and congruence in the parts and relations of the discourse comparing the ratiog between the first and third and be. proposing; as, a business proposition. 2. Gram. & and in the thought presented. Compare IMPROPRIETY; SOLECISM. 3. [Archaic.] An exclusive right of posses. - arithmetical p., see PROPORTION, 4.- combining a subject and a predicate, and variously distinguished as sion; also, a possession or property owned, 4+. A distin. proportions, see DEFINITE PROPORTIONS, below, to forms (for which see JUDGMENT). guishing quality; peculiarity. 57. An estate; holding. compound p., a proportion having one or both of its Propositions are of four normal forms, distinguished acratios composed of the product of two or more simple cording to their quality and quantity by the four letters [< OF. propriete, < L. proprieta(t-)s; see PROPERTY.] ratios.- continued p., see cONTINUED.- definite pro- A, E, I, O, as shown below: -the proprieties, the methods or standards of con duct recognized as proper; conventional usages. portions, the relatively fixed amounts of the ditrerent pro'pri-um, pro'pri-um, n. [-PRI-A, 1. Philos. & substances that unite to form a chemical compound.- di- Quantity. Quality. Symbol. Example. . i rect p., a proportion expressing the equality of two ratios in any personality which differentiates it from other perin which the antecedents and consequents reter respective. Universal Affirmative All men are mortal. sonalities; the ground of individuality and personal free. ly to the same things or conditions, as opposed to an in Universal Negative Nomen are perfect. dom. (L., neut. s. of proprius, one's own.] ter se proportion. See IX VERSE.--geometrical p., see Particular Affirmative Some men are honest. PROPORTION, 4.--in p., in the degree or measure; according; pro-proc'tor, pro-proc'ter, n. An assistant proctor, Particular Negative Some men are not honest. propst, prope, n. pl. A game played with four small sea. shells used as dice; also, the shells thus used. [< PRop!, n.] - musical p., same as HARMONIC PROPORTION. 3. Rhet. That which is proposed as a subject of dis- props2, n. (Theat. Slang.) 1. A property-man. See Prop- enunciated; in a poem, the part setting forth the theme, prop'-stay", prop'-stê", n. A stay acting as a strut be- The theme in confirmation must always admit of being expressed tween tubes in steam-boilers, etc.; often made tubular. Pui. Soc. 1. Such pro-por'tion-a-ble, pro-põr'shun-a-bl, a. in the form of a logical proposition, having subject, predicate, propt, pp. Propped. basal elements of a pectoral fin, as in sharks. [< PRO-+ PTERYGIUM.] -- prop"ter-yg'i-al, a. Pathol. A pro prop-to'sis, prop-to'sis or pro-to'sis, n. lapse of a part or an organ, generally with protrusion. [< [Archaic.] A formal statement of a point of religious pro-pugn't, rl. To contend or right for; vindicate; defend. pro-portion-al, pro-põr'shun-al, a. 1. Of or per belief an article phaocreed: des propositioín-), < proppo mariomt, probeeree columpuk T A taining to proportion; being in proportion; as, a propor- propositus, pp. of propono; PROPONE. "pugnac'u-lum, pug-nac'yu-, n. (L.) means of defense; a bulwark. pro-pug'na-clet. tion is grammatically dependent.-- Pythagorean p., the Great changes had occurred in the interval of thirteen years. geometrical theorem that the square on the hypotenuse No longer was Chalmers the propugnator of establishments on 1. The act or opera- - directly proportional, increasing or decreasing pro-pul'sion, pro-pul'shun, n. prop"o-si'tion-al, a. Of, pertaining to, or havtogether in the same ratio.- inversely or reciprocally ing the character of a proposition; considered as a prop tion of propelling; a driving onward or forward; an im- p., in inverse proportion. See INVERSE.-- p. parts, parts pulse given or received; as, the propulsion of a ship., 2. Pathol. Same as FESTINATION, 1. [F., <L. propulsus, si'tion-ize, ri. To form a proposition or propositions. ternately, they form a proportion. pp. of propello; see PROPEL.] Power to propel. cheol. A disputation on the canon law required of bach: pro-pul'sióty, pro-pul'si-ti, n. elors in law at medieval universities. pro-pullsiv, a. Propulsive. Pul. Soc. pro-por'tion-al, n. 1. Any quantity or number in pro-pos'i-tus, pro pez'i-tus, 11., 1-TI, -tai or .tf, pl.] Laur. pro-pul'sive, pro-pulsiv, a. Having power or a tend. proportion with or to another or others. (1) Math. One The person from whom a line of descent is reckoned. 15 of the four terms of a proportion. ency to propel; driving on. (2) Chem. The pro-pul'so-ryt. L. propositus, proposed; see PROPOSITION.) pro-pu'pn, pro-piū'pa, n. Entom. A semipupa. Page 19
protocol 1435 prove n. Conch. The primitive siphon of a protoconch.-pro"to- it may be itself a copy of a previously existing standard. pro-tri'æne, pro-trai'in, n. Spony. A triæne with so'mite, n. One of the primitive segments of the body of [F., < LLprototypus, < Gr. prototyros, < protos (see rays curved forward. [< PRO- + Gr. triaina, trident, an animal.- pro"to-so-init'ic, a.- pro'to-spasm, n. PROTO-) + tynos, type.) < treis (w tri), three.] pro"tri-x'nat. Pathol. Cortical epilepsy in which the convulsions are Synonyms: see EXAMPLE; IDEAL: MODEL. pro'tritet, a. usually limited at first to the upper limbs but gradually Worn out; obsolete. (PRO-TRU'DED; PRO-TRU'. become general, due to some lesion of the cortex of the proto-typ-em'bry.o, pro-to-taip-em'bri-o, n. An pro-trude', pro-trūd', v. brain: a form of Jacksonian epilepsy. Compare moxo embryo at the stage when it exhibits the prototype or DING.) 1. t. 1. To push out or thrust forth; cause to SPASM.-pro"to-sperma-to-blast,n. Biol. A cell that primitive form of the group to which it belongs. project or issue, as from an orifice or from confinement; gives rise to spermatozoa.--pro"to-spon'gi-an, a. Of, - pro"to-typ-em"bry.on'ic, a. as, to protrude the tongue. 2. To push forward; thrust pertaining to, or representing a priınitive genus (Proto pro"to-ver'te-bra, pro-to-ver’te-bra, n. One of the or drive onward. spongia) of lyssacine sponges.pro/to-spore;. A spore primitive segments formed from the muscle-plates of the II. i. To be thrust forward, or to project outward. [< first -ra, n. L. protrudo, < pro, forward, + trudo, thrust.) pl. Zool. The hypothetical stock of the Stapedifera.- embryo; a protosomite: formerly supposed to be a tem. pro-tos'to-ma, n. [-MA-TA, pl.) A primitive mouth or porary vertebra. (< PROTO- + VERTEBRA.) pro-tru'si-ble, pro-trū'si-bl, a. Capable of being proarcheostoma. - Pro"to-sym-phila, n. pl. Entom. The -pro"to-ver'te-bral, a. truded; loosely, protrusile. pro-tru'da-bler. hypothetical stock of the Symphila, etc. - pro"to-sym. Pro"to-ver"te-bra'ta, pro"to-ver"te-brê'ta or - brg.pro-trú'sile, pro-trū'sil, a. Capable of being thrust phi'lar, a.- Pro"to-syn'gna-tha, n. pl. Entom. An ta, n. pl. Zool. The hypothetical ancestral stock of out, as from a sheath: often implying rapidity of motion; extinct group of myriapods resembling chilopods.- pro". vertebrates.- pro"to-ver'te-brate, a. as, the protrusile tongue of an ant-eater. [< L. protrusus, to-syn'gna-thous, a.- pro"to-ter'gite, n. Entom. The foremost dorsal segment of the abdomen.-pro"to: proto'vum, prot-o'vum, n. [-va, pl.] A primitive or pp. of protrudo; see PROTRUDE.) undifferentiated ovum. [< PROT- + L. ovum, egg. pro-tru'sion, pro-trů zhun, n. thal'lus,n. Same as PROTHALLIUM-Pro"to-the'ri-a, 1. The act of protrun.pl. Mam. 1. A division of mammals, variously ranked, prot-ox'id, prot-ex'id, n. Chem. An oxid containing ding, or the state of being protruded. 2. The part or obincluding the monotremes.. 2. Promammals., proto- only one atom of oxygen. [< PROT- toxin.] ject protruded. [< L. protrusus; see PROTRUSILE.] there, n.-pro"to-the'ri-an, a.& n.- pro"to-tho- - prot-ox'i.dize, ot. Chem. To combine with pro-tru'siv, .lý, •ness. Protrusive, etc. Phil. Soc. rax, n. Same as PROTHORAX. - Pro"to-tra"che-al. pro.tru'sive, pro-trü'siv, a. 1. Causing or tending to ta, n. pl. Entom. The Protracheata. oxygen to form a protoxid. 2. Pushing or driving pro'to.col, prð'to-col, o. (-COLLED; -COL-LING.] 1. t. proto-xy'lem, prooto-zai'lem, n. Bot. Primary wood; bulge or project; pushing out. . To reduce to a protocol; make a protocol of. II, i. To the first-formed wood-elements of a fibrovascular bundle. forward; protruding. – pro-tru'sive.ly, ado. write first drafts, or form protocols; issue protocols. [< PROTO- + XYLEM.) pro-tru'sive-ness, n. pro'to-col, n. 1. (1) The preliminary sketch or draft Pro"to-zo'a, pro*to-zo'a, n. pl. Zool. A primary di prott':goose", prot'-gūs”, n. (Prov. Eng.) The brant. vision of the animal kingdom, variously ranked and lim. pro-tu'ber-ance, pro-tia' ber-ans, n. 1. Something of a treaty, despatch, or other official document. (2) A that protrudes or swells out from a surrounding surface; diplomatíc document, minute, or agreement, containing ited, embracing organisms consisting of a single cell or knob; prominence. 2. The state or quality of being the official record or embodying the results of a negotia groups of cells not separable into different tissues. tion; a declaration or memorandum of agreement less Reproduction is usually by fission, gemmation, or spore. protuberant. pro-tu'ber-an-cyt; pro-tu"ber formation. The Protozoa are divided into (1) Gymnomyza, a'tioni.--- solar protuberance, a solar prominence. solemn and formal than a treaty; also, a supplementary including Proleromorpha, Mycetozoa, Lobosa, Labyrinthu See PROMINENCE. clause or a declaration explaining a treaty, or extending lidea, Heliozoa, Radiolaria, and Foraminifera; (2) Corti-pro-tu'ber-ant, pro-tiū’ber-ant, a. Swelling out be. its scope or duration. 2. A record or registry. Specific cata, including infusorians and sporozoans. See ANIMAL yond the surrounding surface; bulging. [< F. protubeally: (1) Civ. Law. The record made and kept by a notary of KINGDOM, under ANIMAL. rant, < LL. protuberan(t).*, ppr. of protubero, swell, < a contract or other act executed before him. (2) Hence, in [< PROTOZOON, < PROTO: + Gr. zoon, animal.) L. pro, forth, + tuber, swelling.) pro-tu'ber-ousi. that part of the United States which formerly belonged to - pro"to-zo-æ'a, n. Crust. A larval stage pre -pro-tu'ber-ant-ly, auto. Mexico, the original entry made by a notary, alderman, or ceding the zoxa, and in which the paired eyes appear and pro-tu'ber-ate, pro-tio ber-êt, vi. [-A'Ted; :A'TING.] commissioner, of a grant, transfer, or extension of title to the abdomen first becomes segmented.-pro"io-zo'. lands. Called also the matrix of the title. To bulge or swell beyond the surrounding surface. [< ting. (< F. protocole, < LL. protocollum, < Gr. proto- Protozoa.-pro"to-zo'a-ry,n. A protozoan;- pro"; pl. Mam. The hypothetical stock of ungulates. (< kollon, orig. a leaf glued on in front of a manuscript, < protos (see PROTO-) + kolla, glue.) to-zo'ic, a. 1. Protozoan. 2. Containing the earliest forms of life, as a geological stratum.- pro"to.zo-prot"u-re'ter, prātýu-ri'ter, n. PROT- + UNGULATA.), prot-un'gu-late, a. & n. Anat. The duct of the pro'to-col-ist, n.-pro'to-col-ize, vi. To form or draw up protocols. pro'to-coli. ol'o-gy, n. The branch of zoology that treats of the protonephron or primitive Kidney, K<PROT. + URETER.) pro/to-cone, pro"to-gas'ter, etc. See proto-. Protozoa. See ZOOLOGY and Protozoa.- pro"to-zo'-pro-tu'tor, pro-tiū’tor, n. [LL.) Civ. Law. A person pro.ton'ic, pro-ton'ic, a. Preceding the accent or tone. on, n. A protozoan., pro"to-zo'um.-pro"to. who has acted as guardian to a minor without authority, Zool. zo'on-al, a.- pro"to-zo'o-nite, n. One {C} [< PRO + Gr. tonos, tone.) or who, being really a guardian, has acted as one without Proton-op'si-dæ, pro-ton-ep'si-di , or .dê, n. pl. pro"to-zoph's-lous, a. Bot. Protozoa-loving: said prot.xte, prāt:al'1 aprõrtii optat, pra The hypo: of the primary segments of an embryonic arthropod. - being aware of his authority; a quasi-guardian. Herp. The Cryptobranchidæ. Pro"ton-op'sis, n. of certain water-plants that are fertilized by Protozoa. thetical primitive undifferentiated material of uni. (t. g.) [< Gr. Proteus, Proteus, + opsis, appearance.) verse; a substance of which all existing substances have been pro"ton-op'sid, n.- pro'ton.op'soid, a.& n. pro"to-zo'o-spo-range", pro-to-70'o-spo-ranj', n. pro-ton"o-ta'ri-at, etc. Same as PROTHONOTARIAT, etc. Bot. A zoosporange within which the protoplasm breaks supposed by some to be modifications. Compare BIOGEX; PSYCHOPLASM; ZOETHER. [< PROT. + Gr. hyle, matter.) Pro-toph'y-ta, pro-tof'i-ta, n. pl. Bot. One of the up into zoospores. proudt, vt. & ri. To make or be proud. primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom, embracing pl. Zool. A primary division of arthropods, including festing pride. (1) Having an overweening estimate of Pro-tra”che-ata, pro-tre-ke-bota or trg ke-gota, 7 proud, Prand, a. 1. Actuated by, possessing, or manionly the lowest and simplest plants, such as Protococ. Malacopoda. < PRO- + Tracheata.] cuceæ, Diatomaceæ, Bacteria, etc. (< Gr. protophytos; one's own abilities, merit, station, or real or supposed see PROTOPHYTE.) – pro"lo-phyi'ic, a. pro-tra' che-ate, I. pro'to-phyte, pro'to-fait, n. 1. To extend in time; dinate assumption; arrogant; haughty. superiority of any kind; hence, often, manifesting inor. One of the simplest pro-tract', pro-tract', vt. known plants; 'a member of the Protophyta. [< Gr. lengthen out; prolong; especially, to cause to occupy a The vain man looks for the admiration of others - the proud man requires nothing but his own. protophytos, first produced, <protos (see PROTO-) * longer time than is usual or expected. ROBERTSON Sermons third series, ser. xviii. p. 597. (H. 72.) phyton, plant.) Burton, a hypochondriac, wrote the 'Anatomy of Melancholy,' pro'to-plasm, pro’to-plazm, n. Biol. (2) Unwilling to condescend or to submit to anything The viscid, that marvel of learning, and protracted his life to the age of contractile, semi-liquid, more or less granular substance sixty-four. that is or is thought to be lowering to one's personal MATIIEWS Getting Om in the World ch. 20, p. 342. (S. C. G. 73.) that forms the principal portion of an animal or vege character or dignity; self-respecting. 2. Cherishing a table cell; sarcode. 2. In surveying, to map by means of a scale and pro- feeling of elation or high satisfaction; sensible of honor The name was first applied in 1846 to the matter in veg; tractor; represent the lines and angles of on paper; plot; and personal clevation; exultant: generally followed by etable cells, which was identified later with the aniinal 3. Anat. To draw forward; protrude; extend: opposed of or by a verb in the infinitive; as, I am proud of your substance previously known as sarcode. The protoplasm of to retract. 4. (Rare.] To extend or lengthen in space. friendship; I shall be proud to serve you. 3. Exermost cells appears under high powers of the microscope as In their shaded walks cising a spirit and vigor such as pride often produces; a network (spongioplasm or reticuluin containing a inore And long protracted bowers, enjoyed at noon high-mettled; full of daring; bold and fearless in action; fluid substance (hyaloplasm or enchylema) in its meshes. The gloom and coolness of declining day. Chemically it is a mixture of 80 to 85 per cent. water and 15 CowPER The rask bk. 1, 1. 257. grand in movement: applied also figuratively to any ob? to 20 per cent, solids, chiefly proteids, as albunioses, globu. ject; as, a proud steed; a proud ship. 4. Proceeding lins, and peptones, with small quantities of fat, carbohy. 5. [Archaic.] To put off till the future; defer; as, to from or inspired by pride; as, proud looks or words. drates like glycogen and inosite, and inineral salts, espe- protract the payment of a debt. [< L protructus, pp. Neville shook his head with a proud smile. cially those of potassium, which 'cause it to yield an alka- of protraho, < pro, forward, + traho, draw.] DICKENS Educin Drood ch. 7, p. 86. (E. & L. '86.] line reaction. Protoplasm has been called hy Huxley, owing Synonyms: continue, defer, delay, draw out, elongate, 5. Being a cause or ground of pride, especially of an to its presence in all organized bodies, the physical basis of extend, lengthen, postpone, prolong. We defer a negotia. dife" and soine have held that its phenomena show that honorable pride; noble, grand, or magnificent; as, this is tion which we are slow to enter upon; we protract a ne. the difference between organized and unorganized matter is gotiation which we are slow to conclude; delay may be used the proudest day of my life; a proud achievement. simply a difference of complexity of che!nical constitution. of any stage in the proceedings: we may deliy a person as Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use It is a fact of great biological interest that in animals the es. well as an action, but defer and proir ict are not used of soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly: sential constituent of all living parts is a substance similar to the persons BACON Works, Essays, Of Riches p. 289. (H.G. B. 71.] protract is very rarely used of concrete objects or exten. 6. (Prov. Eng.) Swollen and high, as a stream during a chemical or physical tests, and can only say that, taken as a whole, sion in space; we vlongite a line, protruci a discussion. flood. 77. Excited by sexual desire: said of the females the protoplasm of plants differs from that of animals in its secre Protract has an unfavorable sense, implying that the mat. of certain animals. (< AS, prüt, proud.) Synonyms: see HAUGHTY; HIGH. Compare synonyms for PRIDE cular and ciliary movement, with which it is closely connected by the desirable or the undesirable. - Antonyms: abbreviate, numerous transitional forms, as phenomena of contractility. abridge, conclude, contract, curtail, hasten, hurry, reduce, -proudpied"+, a. Brilliantly variegated.- p.s stomached, a. Bloated with pride; arrogant. W. D. HALLIBURTON Chemical Physiol. p. 186. [L. G. & co. '91.] shorten. , a. .) extended or prolonged. – protracted meeting (U. S.), à ado. - proud'ness, n. (Archaic.) Pride. Pro"to-plas'mic, pro-to-plaz'ınic, a. *i. Of, pertain. Closely connected series of religious meetiugs, especially proustite, prūst'ait , "n. Vineral. An adamantine ing to, like, or consisting of protoplasm. 2. Of or per: revival meetings, continued often for weeks. ruby•red silver sulfarsenite (AVASS;), crystallizing in taining to the first formation of living organisms. pro". - pro-tract'ed-ly, adv. In a long or tedious man. the rhombohedral system. Called also ruby silrer ore. to-plas'mali; pro"to-plas-mat'ict. ner.- pro-tract'ed-ness, n. [<J. L. Proust, French chemist.] pro'io-plast, pro'to-plast, n. 1. That which is first pro-tract'er, pro-tract'er, n. 1. One who or that prov'a-bl, -ness. Provable, etc. PHIL. Soc. formed; the original; especially, the first-formed indi which protracts or prolonge. 2. A protractor. prov'a-ble, prův'q-bl, a. That may be proved, phone or one of the pair of first formed individuals, of a pro-tract'il(e, pro-tract'il, a. Capable of being pro - prov'a-ble-ness, n.- prov'a-bly, adr. precies 2. One of the Protopraxia: a protozoan. Ota tracted or protruded: protrusile. provlandt. 1. a. Of common quality; belonging to a sol. La protoplastus, <. Gr. proloplastova Crmed first, pro-traction, pro-trucʻshun, ni 1. The act of draw. dier's allowance. II. n. An allowance of provender for prolos (see PROTO-) + plastos: see PLASTIC, ing out or lengthening in time; the act of delaying the man or beast; food, especially for an army: rations prov'. Pro"to-plas'ta, pro-to-plas’ta, n. pl. Protoz. A di ant+: prov'endt: prov'entt.- provandt, ri. To termination of anything; as, the protraction of a debate. supply with forage or provisions provendt. vision of rhizopods. [< LL. protoplastus; see PROTO 2. The action of a protractor muscle. 3. (Rare.] The making of a surveyor's plot on paper, or such a plot when prov'and-mas"iert, n. A commissary of subsistence. pro"to-plas'tic, pro’to-plas'tic, a. 4. Anc. Prox. The irregular lengthening of a prove, prūv, 4. (PROVED: PROVED or PROV'EN; PROV. ing to a protoplast or protoplasm. 1. Of or pertains made, ING.) 1. t. 1. To furnish proof for: establish or make 2. Of or pertaining syllable ordinarily short: opposed to correption. clear and certain, as a fact or a truth, by argument or PHIL. Soc. proflo-prisin, pro’to-salt, etc. See Protopro-tract'iv, a. Protractive. evidence; show to be true; demonstrate; as, to prove a pro'to-ty"pal, pro’to-tai"pal, a. pro-tract'ive, pro-tract'iv, a. Prolonging. to protract'or, pro-tract'or. 1. An instrument for proposition or an accusation. See PROOF. As no proof beside the light is necessary to show that the sun prototype; being or resembling a prototype: archetypal. "measuring and’laying off angles: con shines, 80., . Jesus prores himself by his own self evidence. pro"to-typ'ict; pro"to-typ'ie-alt: BUSHNELL Character of Jesus p. 10. (8, 84.] prosto-type, pro’to-taip, n. 1. A primitive form or sisting usually of a graduated arc or circle bearing a radial arm (and some. 2. To put to a test or trial to ascertain the quality of, as rude and general design to which subsequent forms are ). 2. A tailers' ad. by some standard; subject to experiment; find out the itated in form or spirit, or a person who was an original ita cod; also, a work, original in character, afterward im justable pattern for drafting garments capacity or power of; as, to prove a gun. in just proportion. 3. Anal. Amus The spider of a kind exemplified later by others; archetype; original. commits her weight to no thread ... till she cle that extends a limb or moves it has pulled on it with ber arms, and proved its strength. Both these writers (Poe and Hawthorne) struck out for them: selves an independent line. They have no prototypes in English forward. 4. Surg. Formerly, an in. GUTHRIE Gospel in Ezekiel ser. iv, p. 71. (C. & BROS. '56.1 strument for extracting foreign bod. 3. To learn by personal experience; have personal ex A Protractor perience of; participate in with pleasure or pain. (def1. an original, as [< L. ; see PROTRACT. After a short delay he (Frederick of Bohemia found his way back the standard to which all others must conform thought pro-trepicant, Filted to Tidluence; hortatory: to the Hague, to prove, as many a wiser man had proved before Page 20
pseudomorph 1440 psycho- n. 1. A medicine that operates to resuscitate, as in faint. ing. 2. (Rare.) One who conjures up the dead; a necro. mancer.- psy'chal, a. [Rare.] Of or pertaining to the soul; psychic. psy-chal'gi-a, n. Puihol. Mental suf. (Geomys). [< PSEUDO- + Gr. stoma, mouth.] Psy'che, sai'kę, n. along which any figure that can be drawn on it may be slid 1. Gr. Myth. A beautiful mortal without distortion. 2. A sphere in non-Euclidean geom - pseu"do-sto'min(e, a. Having external cheek- maiden, beloved of Eros, or Cupid: otherwise represented etry.- pseu"do-spher'ic-al, a.-- pseudo-spore, n. pouches, as a gopher or geomyid.-- pseu"do-sto. as a butterfly, or as a maid with the wings of a butterfly, Bol: 1. One of the barren cells investing the teleutospore mo'sis, n. Spong. The formation of a pseudostome. pursued by or united with Eros: the Greek personificain certain smuts. 2. Same as TELEUTOSPORE,-- pseu". - pseu"do • sto. mot'ic, a. Pseudos'to. tion of the human soul. 2. [p] The soul as capable of seeing and feeling; the principle of life as connected with the body; hence, the human soul; the mind. pshaw”; utter interjections of disdain or contempt. Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul Of cypress, with Payche, mny Soul. PoE Ulalume st. 2. met-ry, n. Crystal. A resemblance to a form of symmet- gust, dissatisfaction, or impatience. pshaf; pshahf. 3. (p.) [Rare.) Anat. The brain and spinal cord. 4. ry higher than that which is characteristic of the mineral: pshem, pshem, n. A form of hat, A genus typical of Psychidæ. 5. (p-] A cheval-glass. usually a result of twinning, as the apparently hexagonal typically of straw, worn by women [L., < Gr. Psyche, < psychi, soul, breath, a butterfly, forms of aragonite, which are orthosymmetric. mim'e- only, introduced into Spain from the < psycho, breathe.), psy'che-glass"I. tryi.- pseu"dosym - met'ric, a.- pseudo-syn- carp, n. A collective fruit, as a mulberry or pineappler psi, psí or sai, n. (Gr.) The twenty: East in the 13th century. pschemi. psyche-ism, sai'ko-izm, n. med. Animal magnetism. psy"che-om'e-try, sai"ke-em'e-tri, n. The application of or other sores resembling syphilis.- Pseu"do-te-tram- third letter in the Greek alphabet matheinaties to mental phenomena, as attempted by Chris. tian Wolff (1679-1751). (< Gr. psyche (see PSYCHE)+ met- (4,4); equivalent to English ps. ron, measure.) psy'chi-an, sai’ki-an, n. One of the Psychidæ. bling or closely simulating death; asphyxia. - pseu"do- psi"lan-throp'ie, a. Pertaining psy-chi'a-try, sai-cai'a-tri, n. The branch of medicine thera-py, n. med. A false system of treatment of dig. to or of the nature of psilanthropy. that relates to mental diseases. [< PSYCH- + Gr. iatreia, ease. See quotation under psEUDOPATHY. - Pseu"do- psi-lan'thro- pism, n. (Rare.) healing, < iqomai, heal.] psychi-a-tri'at, - psy"chi-at'ric, .al, a.- psy-chi'a-trist, One skilled in psychiatry. psy-chi'a-tert: manity of Christ; a humanitarian, atropin.-pseu"do-tra'che-a, n. psychic, 1 sai kic, al, a. 1. Of or pertaining to I am a Psilanthropist, one of those Psychic-al, the mind or soul; mental, as distinguished who believe our Lord to have been the real Pseq"do-trim'e-ra, n. pl. Entom. The Subterram. son of Joseph, and who lay the main stress from physical and physiological. The Pshem. on the resurrection rather than on the cruci. The facts and phenomena recognized by the cerebralists are true We may even admit that they all deserve to Eocene family of cryptodirous tortoises without epidermic be considered among the conditions of the purely psychical activ. -psi-lan'thro-py, n. The doctrine of the mere human- (t. 5.) - pseu"do- ities. . . There is no evidence that they produce these phenom. ena; they do not appear among the constituent elements of any tite, n. A fossil ægoceratoid cephalopod genus Psiloce. Psychical state or act. , . . The nervous system might perforro ras).-Psi"lo-derma-ta, n. pl. llerp. The Amphibia. every one of its functions without a single psychical result. PORTER Human Intellect $ 41, p. 54. (s. '70.) fir, or Oregon pine, of the Pacific slope, a large tree from no scales, as the Amphibia.- psi-lollo-gy, n.'(Rare] 150 to 300 feet high, supplying the most valuable timber of Love of mere talk; idle chatter -- psi-lo'ma, n. Puthol. 2. Of or pertaining to unusual operations of the mind or the region. See illus. under SPRUCE.- pseu"do-tur'bi. Baldness, -- psi-lom'el-ane, n. Mineral. A subietal. to occult phenomena attributed to the mind. nal, n. A false turbinal; an incurved portion of the nasal lic, iron-black to steel-gray, hydrous manganese manganite These studies are termed psychic in a modified sense; they perwall, as in reptiles and birds.- pseud-oval, a. Of or per (HAMOs), found massive, psi-lom'el-ant. - psi"lo- tain not to the ordinary operations of the mind, but to the unusual, taining to a pseudovum, - pseu"do-va-rio-ln, n. Pu mel-an'ic, u.- Psi"lo-pældes, n. pl. Orniih. The such as thought-transference, somnambulism, mesmerism, clair Altrices.-psilo-pædic, C.W.2 (psi"lo-pæd'ic, W.1), voyance, spiritualism, apparitions of the living, haunted houses, ghosts, and the Buddhistic occultism. Many of the phenomena to en-pox, bives, swine-pox, or varicella.- pseu"do-ya'ri. der,-- Psi-loph'y-ton, n. A genus of fossil fern-like be investigated seem to lie in the dim borderland between the spirit A layer, as on a hay infusion, from which infusorians were plants, ranging from the Lower Silurian to the Upper De- and the body, or, if there be no such neutral zone, in the territory supposed to be spontaneously generated. pseu-do'va. vonian, with crect, spreading stems or branches, bearing where they overlap and mingle, a region hitherto occupied only by the savage hordes of superstition, imposture, and quackery. FRANKry. - pseu"do-va'ri-al, a.-- pseu"do-ve'luun, n. thorn-like processes, minute leaves, and supposed narrow LIN JOHNSON New Psychic Studies ch. 1, p. 7. (F. & w. ?87.) Zooph. A vascular velum, as in scyphomedusans.- Pseu". pod-like sporangia.- psi-los'o-pher, 1. (Rare.) A predo-vi'pe-ræ, n. pl. The Acrochordidæ. -- pseu"do tended philosopher; a shallow pretender to wisdom.-- psi- 3. Of or pertaining to the animal soul, or vital and sen- los'to-chous, (. Bot. Having an inflorescence in very tient principle; in New Testament exegetical literature, mountain or hull that emits steam and gases, but no lava.- slender spikes.- psi’lo-thron, n. A depilatory, of, pertaining to, or swayed by the affections and pas- A false Psit'ta-ci, sit'a-sai or psit'ta-ci, n. pl. Ornith. An sions of human nature; natural: distinguished from Phrases: -- psychical blindness, blindness due to -psit-tn'cean, psit-ta'ceous, a.- Psit-tac'i. impairment or disturbance of the cerebral centers, while alkaloid compound (C4H; N50) contained in muscular tissue. dre, n. pl. Ornith. A family of parrots, especially those the external organs of vision and the tracts connecting with pseu"dox-an'thiner.with bill-book ne-like underneath, sternum complete, and Pseudo- is also used in many self-explaining com them may be unimpaired; blindness due to lack of power to orbital ring incomplete, including the African gray parrots. interpret visual sensations. A similar affection of the sense pounds and nonce-words; as, Psit'ta-cus, n. (t. g.) - psittacid, a. &n.-Psit". of hearing is called p. deafuess.- p. center, a hypopseudo-ascetic pseudo-citizen pseudo-evangelism ta-cinæ, n. pl. Ornith. A subfamily of psittacids, es. theucal center of the brain regarded as the seat of psychical pseudo-Bible pseudo-classicism pseudo-geyser pecially those with tail-feathers soft and never acuminate, activities.- p. contagion, the communication of morbid pseudo-Christ pseudo-critic pseudo nartyr and orbital ring always incomplete.- psit'in-cin(e. l. conditions or phenomena through sympathetic mental in- pseudo-Christianity pseudo-episcopacy pseudo-patron a. Of or pertaining to the Psittaci or Psittacin&. II. n. fluence without a direct morbític cause, as in epidemic One of the Psittacinde.-psit'ta-cin-ite, n. Minerul. A hysteria.- p, research, investigation of obscure, unex. mineral having the external crystalline form of another pulverulent, mammillary, olive to siskin-green lead-copper plained, or questionable mental or spiritual phenomena, such vanadate (H36Pb Cug V 056), found usually in thin crypto. mineral. as clairvoyance, apparitions, thought-transference, certain intelligence transmitted between minds, etc., without phys. -- psychic-al-ly, adv. phic, a. - Psit-tac"u-linæ, 1. pl. Ornill. A sub- nese different from that of the mineral simulated in forin. 1. Same as PSYCHOLOGY. 2. psychics, sai'kics, n. 2. An irregular or false form. [< complete and no furculi, including the love birds: gener. Psychical research. ally united with Conurinæ. Psit-tac'u-la, n. (t. 8.) – Psychi-dæ, sui'ki-di or -dê, n. pl. Entom. A family - pseu"do-morphi-a, que psit-tac'u-lin(e, a. n. of bombycid moths whose larve ure case-bearers, as the Same PSEUDOMORPHIN. - pso'as, so'as, 1. A muscle of the interior of the pelvis, bagworni. [< PSYCHE, 4.) – psy'chid, (1. & n. arising from the spine. In man the psoas magnus arises psy'chism, sai'kizm, n. 1. Philos. The doctrine of an relating to a pseudomorph. pseu". from the centra of the lumbar and last dorsal vertebre and Quesne that a universally diffused fluid animates all living do-morphoust. the transverse processes of the former, and after blending with the iliacus is attached to the femur. The psous par- beings, the difference in their actions being due to the dif- ference of individual organizations. 2. The state of be- nence. The psoas muscles constitute the tenderloin. phenomenon in which a mineral ex- [< Gr. psoa, inuscle of the loins] psychist, saí'kist, n. 1. A believer in psychic force. hibits a form not belonging to it. pso-ad'ic, a. Of or pertaining to the psoas muscles. 2. One who engages in psychical research pseu"do-mor-pho'sisi. pso-at'ic:.-Pso-i'tis, n. Intammation of the psoas psycho.. Derived from Greek paycha, soul, mind (see Psyche): a combining form.-Psy'cho-blast, n. The A fictitious name, as when assumed Psoc'i-da, sos’i-di or pisci'ci-dê, n. pl. Entom. A fam- germ of a soul: a suggested term. - psy"cho-co'ma, n. by a writer; pen-name; nom de ily of pseudoneuropterous insects with narrow prothorax, Puuthol. A condition of mental stupor.psy"cho-deci: tic, a. Soul-destroying.- psy"chio-eth'ic-al, a. Of or pertaining to imate moral principles. – psychom'a. chy, n. A condict of soul and body.-- psycho-nan". pseudonymor, with a false name, < A Pseudoscope. - psoc'id, a. &1.- Pso'coid, a. cy, n. 1. Divination by communicating with the souls of the dead; necromancy. 2. A supposed mystic influ. ence of one soul over another. -psycho-mai'tic, a. Echin. A fam- - psy'cho-no"tor, C. (psy"cho-motor, W.), a. Of or will. - psy"cho-ned-rol'o-gy, n. The science of ymous.- pseu - don'y-molis, mye. In natural vision mental phenomena as dependent on neurology. - psy". cho-neu-lo'sis, n. Mental derangement without or. ganic lesion, as in hypochondria.- psy-chon'o-my, n. A South-American family of gruoidean birds; trumpet- assumed namre. - pseu don'y. hence the observer ers. Pso'phi-a, n. (t.g.). Gr. psophos, noise.) The study of the laws and development of mental phenom. ena. – psy"cho-110-sol'o-gy, n. The branch of med. ical science that treats of mental diseases, especially of 1. Pathol. The itch, or some similar their specific forms and classification. - psy"cho-pan': pseu'do-scope, siū'do-scop, n. convex; but the prismspso'ra, so'ra, n. An instrument of the stereoscope reverse the order of the skin-disease. 2. The itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei). [L., ny-chism, n. Theol. The doctrine that at death the soul that those falls asleep not to awaken until the resurrection.- psy": cho • pan ny -chist, .-Psy” cho • Pare • sis 1. jects instead of pictures, and revers, nas at bi and b2 make festing, patches of scales. Called also scaly tetter, dry Weakness of mind resulting from disease. - psycho- ing their relief, inaking projections a smaller angle than path, nl. One who, because of mental infirmity, is morally appear as depressions, and vice versa. those at ai and 22 or di and c2. a. Pertaining to psora, II. n. A remedy for psora.-Less con brresponsible: --- psy-chop'a-thist, n. One learned or skilled in treating mental derangement.-- psy"cho-pa- thol'o-gy, n. dinary visual relations between the near axes is therefore re- prepared from itch-pus.-- pso"ro-co'mi-um, n. 1-MIA, The branch of pathology that relates to and treats of mental derangement. - psy-clop'a-tby, versed. . . . so that a convex figure be than a or c; b appears -- pso'roid, 4. Resembling psora. - pso"roph-thall 1. Med. 1. Disease of the mind; especially, mental de. comes a concave one, an impression of a farther away, and the mi-il, n. Pathol. Suppurative or granulous ophthalmia; rangement due to disorder of the nervous system apart seal resembles the seal itself, a bust seen surface looks concave. purulent ophthalmia of infants.- pso"roph-thal'inic, from disease of the brain. 2. The system or plan of treat- in front appears as a hollow inask. 11.- pso'ro-sperm, ». One of certain vesicular usually ing disease by means of mental influence; mind-cure.- psycho-path'ic, (1.-psy"cho-ra'gi-a, 1. A dying ably mostly embryonic gregarines. - pso"ro-sperini. condition; death-agony; deaih. psychor-rba'gi-a. [< PSEUDO. +.SCOPE.) al, pso"ro - spermic, a. - pso'rous, a. - psycho-scope, 1. - pseu"do-scop'ic, a. Of or pertaining to the pseu- Allected An aid to psychological obser- with psora. vation; a condition in which the mental processes of the doscope; causing or characterized by error or delusion in the perception of the relief of solid objects, pseu"do- pso'vie, so'vi, n. The Russian wolfhound. See plate sen-so'ri-al, a. Of or periaining to percepis not pro subject can be easily studied, as hypnotism.-psy"cho- duced by peripheral sensory impressions, as in hallucination. Page 21
pucras 1444 pas cras, plū’cras, n. (E. Ind.) An Asiatic pheasant (genus pudge, poj, n. (Prov. Eng.) 1. A ditch. 2. An owl. 3. Pucrasia) with a median and lateral crests, as P. macrolopha ud to put ty.forests of the western Himalayas. pukrasi, pudry, puj 1, al. (Colloq. 1. Shortor blunt and the ki oman. especially, an interested or insincere printed commen. !, , n[) D. pool, .] A short, fat person. pud2, 11. Same as Poop. dation, as of a play, book, or article of merchandise. pud'den-ing, pud' n-ing, I. (pud'ning, C.; -den-ing, E. W. and fatas, hands; pudgy A friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs, LOUISA M. ALCOTT Little Women vol. i, ch. 14, p. 222. (R. BROS.] vas, used as a fender, ?. Formerly, a siinllar covering for Hers was an intelligent countenance with pudgy features. 3. An inflated, spongy, or fluffy article. (1) A light tart or cake filled with some sweet substance; as, cream of arcborring, used with a rope cable. Let pudden, cor, pu'dic, piū’dic, a. Of, pertaining to, or supplying the PUDDING.) puff's. (2) In dressmaking, a part of a fabric so gathered pud'dert, v. 1. 1. To confuse the mind of; bother. II. pudenda; as, the pudic artery or nerve. [< L. pudicus, as to produce a loose, fluffy distention. (3) A light ball, i. To make a pother.- pud'dert, n. A pother; confusion. wad, tuft, or pad, as of swan's-down, feathers, or other soft pud'ding, pud'ing, n. 1. A dish for dessert, usually a bashful, s pudeo, be ashamed.] pu'dic-alt. material, especially such an arrangement for use in dusting mixture, as of fruit, milk, eggs, etc., sweetened or fla- pu-dic'i-ty, n. Native modesty; delicacy; chas- powder on the hair or skin; a powder-puff. (4) A loose roll of tity; padency. hair in a coiffure, or a light cushion over which it is rolled, vored, with a farinaceous basis; now commonly boiled But the pudicity of his behaviour and language covers a soul 4. A puffball. 57. One putfed up with vanity. 6t. A or baked, but formerly always boiled in a bag. tremulous with emotion. MARK PATTINON Miiton Ch. 3, 0135. 19.) puffer. Limitative; cp. G. puffen, D. puffen, F. bouffer.] Puddings are often named (1) from their principal ingre- pu'du, pu'au, n. is. Am.) A small deer (Pudu humile) of the pud'i, pud'ld, pudling. Puddle, etc. Phil. Soc.-- puf":box", n. A box for holding a puff and powder. dient; as, bread pudding, rice p. ; (2) from their orig. - p. fish, n. A puffer; swellfish.- p. netting, n. Same inal compounder or in honor of some prominent person; as, pud' worin", pud'wūrm", n. [Local, Eng.) The piddock. Chilean Andes, with small spike-like antlers. ve-na dat. as LEAF NETTING. - P.spaste, n. A short, flaky paste Nesselrode p., Victoria p., or (3) from something puet, vi. To chirp, as a bird. for fine pastry.--veiled p. used in the making; as, bag p. (boiled in a bag). (Pathol.), a modified cav. ernous respiration as heard 2. A dish, usually farinaceous, made to be eaten with pueb'lan, pieb'lan, a. Of or pertaining to a pueblo. puff', interj. An exclama- in auscultation. meat or as the substantial part of a meal; as, Yorkshire" pueb'lo-ant. pudding; hasty pudding; meat pudding. 3. A skin or tion of impatience or dis- gut filled with seasoned minced meat, blood, or the like, original architecture exhibited in buildings and remains in -Pueblan architecture, the style of American ab- dain, and usually boiled or broiled; a large sausage; as, a black pudding. 4. [Slang, U. S.) A piece of good fortune. Mexico, New Mexico, and Arizona, the work of the Zuñi puff".ad"der, puf'-ad"er, Indians and others, consisting mainly of low, massive, often n. 1. A very poisonous 5. Naui. Same as PUDDENING. *6. [Scot, or Obs.] An terraced structures made of adobe, as those of the Pueblo Central and South Afri. de Taos, in the Rio Grande valley. See plate of ARCHITEC- can viper (Clotho arietans), Compounds, etc. : - Indian pudding, a pudding of pueblo, pueb'lo or pū-ê'blo (pweb-lo, W., n. TURE, fig. 19, about 4 feet long, with The Puff-adder (Clotho arie- which Indian meal is the basis.- pudding:bag", p. [$p. whose venom the Bush- tans). cloth, n. A stout bag or cloth in which puddings are Am.] 1. A communal habitation peculiar to the aborigi. boiled.- p..faced, a. Having a round, fat, smooth face.- nal inhabitants of New Mexico and adjoining regions. men poison arrows. 2. A puffing adder. Why do you suppose the puffadder is called puffy! Simply be cause he swells himself up to hiss. RUSKIN Deucalion vol. ii, ch. 1, p. 17. (G, A, '80.) about three sides of a court. The ground floor has no doors out its dark-colored dusty spores p. pipestree, see PIPE-TREE.--p.-prickt, n. A skewer to housed a whole tribe. when the matured plant is broken fasten a pudding-bag.- p.-sleeve, n. A full sleeve, as on 2. Any town or settlement of village Indians or Spanish- open. See LYCOPERDON. Called also bullfice, bullfist, puckfist, putt, etc. -giant puffball, Lycoperdon for dinner, pudding having formerly been the first course; - Pueblo Indians, Indians of Mexico and the south- hence, the nick of time.- p.:wife, n. The pudding-fish. giganteum, which is from 4 to 12 western United States that dwell in a settled state of semi- inches in diameter. - starry p., an pud'ding-y, pud'ing-1, a. (Colloq.) Resembling a pudding. civilization, as distinguished from savage and nomadic earth-star. Metal. To convert melted pig'iron), as in a reverbera. Zuñlan, or Shoshonian stock. The most important groups South - American bucconoid bird tory furnace, into wrought iron by expelling carbon and are the Zuñi and Moqui Indians. See AMERICAN, and plate having a short arched bill, rounded impurities. The melted pig is stirred continually with a of RACES OF MANKIND, at MAN, fig. 27. gonys, and puffy plumage nsually A Puffball (Lycoper. -pueb'lo-ize, vt.' To bring, as nomadic Indians, into rabble or other mechanical device, or by the rotation or don cælatum). pueblos or settled communities.-- pueblo-i-za'tion, n. plain-colored; aofissirostral barbet. oscillation of the hearth, thus liberating part of the carbon. puler, plü'er, a. (Eng.) Pure: an incorrect form. puff'er, puf'er, n. 1. One who puffs. Specifically: (1) The ordinary process, where the furnace is lined with ma. terial rich in oxid of iron, is terined wet puddling, from pu-er'co, puérico, n. (Sp.) A hog.-- pu-er'co:beds", n. One who writes or utters extravagant commendations the fact that a thin stratum of liquid cinder forms in the pl. Geol. A series of 'strata of the Lower Eocene, found in from interested motives. (2) One employed at auctions the central United States. See GEOLOGY. process. When the hearth has a silicious lining the proc to run up the price by making false bids; a capper. ess is known as dry puddling, pu'er-11, -ly, ness. Puerile, etc. PHIL. Soc. A secret puffer employed by the owner is not fair bidding. KENT Commentaries vol. ii, pt. v, lect, xxxix, p. 537. thick paste; make puddle of. (2) To line, as canal-banks, Pertaining to or characteristic of childhood; childish; 2. A plectognath fish that inflates its body with air, with puddled clay for the purpose of rendering water. juvenile; hence, befitting a child; immature; weak; silly. as Spheroides maculatus, common on the Atlantic coast of the United States; swellfish. 3. A puffing-pig. 4. ostentation totally disproportioned to the circumstances. 4. To dip into clay mud, as small roots, to protect them PARDOE Court of Francis First vol. i, ch.5, p. 115. (S. & W. '87.) A bucking-keir. -- puff'er-pipe", n. The central pipe from the air in planting: [< L. puerilis, < puer, boy.] of a bucking-keir, discharging water over the cloth, II. i. 1. To gtir up filth; dabble in or as in mud. 2. Synonyms: see CHILDISH. pufl'er-y, puf'er-i, n. The act or practise of puffing; (Prov. Eng.) To tipple. [< PUDDLE?,n.; cp. PUDDLE", v.] -pu'er-ile-ly, adr.- pu'er-ile-ness, n. The praise bestowed for the purpose of creating a factitious pud'dle?, vi. 1. To piddle. 2. [Scot.) To bother. state or quality of being puerile; childishness. reputation; interested public commendation. Among my experiences of that nauseous ingredient in theatrical : . , the people actually do their own work. MRS. CARLYLE in The sorcerer hated the priest, .. who ridiculed his perpetual life, puffery, some have been amusing enough. FRANCES A. KEMBLE Records of a Girlhood ch. 12, p. 223. (11. 1. & co. "79.] F. PARKMAN Jesuits in N. A. ch. 4, p. 29. (L. B. & CO. '67.) pufl'i-ly, puf'i-li, adv. In a puffy manner, plash. 2. Same as PUDDLING, 2. pud'alingi. [< ME. 3. Cir. Law. The period of life from seven to fourteen having the inner claw largest and most curved, the bill deep and excessively compressed, and thick naked skin at the corner of the mouth. Fratercula arctica is the common puffin of the North Atlantic; F. corniculata is the horned puffin and Lun- 2 woman, < puer, child, + pario, bring forth.) da cirrhata the tufted puf. poetaster.- p.:rolls, n. pl. Metal. The roughing-rolls pu-er. fin of the North Pacific. The puffinssit in long soldiers like rows on the rocks, and ing the process of pūddling before wrought iron is produced, The puerperal condition. pu"er-pe'ri-umi. plunge headlong into the sea at pud'ale, 1. [Prov. Eng.) A short, fat, stupid person. pu-erto, pu-êr'to, n. (Sp.) A pass in a mountain range. the first signal of danger, H. H. puddle-ment, podél-ment, n. (Scot.] Inconvenience. BOYESEN Modern V'lpud'dler, pud'ler, n. 1. One who puddles; specific. Bulet, piitet, n. Prov] The pewit or laughing gull. pu'itt. puf, pust. , etc. PHIL. Soc. kings. Skerry of American Puf. - rotary, puddler, a puddling-furnace in which the figuratively, to repel as if with a breath in contempt: the Manx shearwa- tins. fused metal is agitated by the rotation of a cylindrical ves. often with away; as, to puff smoke in one's face; the ter. 3. Bot. (1) A 1. The horned sel in which the fusion takes place. 1. Metal. The operation or puffball. (2) A kind puffin (Frater- cornicu. business of making wrought iron from pig iron in a pud- puffs or whiffs, as a cigar. 3. To distend, expand, or fill lata). 2. The dling-furnace. See PUDDLE?, it., 1. 2. Puddled clay out as with air or gas; inflate: often with up or out, also puffing-apple. tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata). Both are for lining canals or the like; puddle. See PUDDLE', ut., This fellow, ... being in very truth a born frog, ventures to [< PUFF: from its from Alaskan examples in summer plumage 2. 3. The act or operation of lining a canal with puddle maintain that frogs i can put themselves out to the dignity of GRANT ALLEN in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan., '89, p. 343. pu f'i-ness, puf'i-nes, n. puffed-out beak.) and with perfect bills. puddling.fur"nace, n. A reverberatory furnace 1. The state or quality of for puddling pig iron,- p.-rolls, n. pl. 4. Figuratively, to inflate with pride or vanity: with up; being puffy or turgid. 2. Pathol. Specifically, swelling Same as PUDDLE-ROLLS. as, puffed up with a sense of one's own importance. that yields to pressure; intumescence, partial or general, pud'dly, pud'li, a, of the na- Oh man, vain man! poor fool of pride and pain ! due to accumulation of fluid or gas in the cellular tissue. Puff'd up with every breath from Fortune's wav'ring vane! ture of a puddle; muddy. TASSO Jerusalem Delivered tr. by Wiffen, can. 12, st. 58. pufting, puf'ing, n. The act or practise of giving puffs, pud'dock, pud'. in any sense. Especially: (1) The act or practise of wri. 5. To praise highly to the public or to a third person: ac, n. [Prov. ting or publishing puffs, (2) Lar. The making of false bids Èng. Same as said especially of undue or interested eulogy, or of pub- at an auction. (3) In dress, ornamentation by means of putts. PADDOCK! lished notices; as, to put an author or a medicine. 6. (4) The sudden discharging of spores, as from a puffball. In dressmaking, to fashion into puffs, as a sleeve. puff'ing, ppr. of PUFF, v. [Scot.] Same as II. i. 1. To expel or emit something, as breath, smoke, puding adder, a hognose-snake.- p. grubby, a PADDOCK. or steam, in short, quick blasts; breathe hard, as after sculpin.-- pull'ing:pig", n. A porpoise. violent exertion; move or act with puffs or whitfs; pant; puff'ing-ly, adv. In a puffing manner; with puffs. PUDGY. as, he came in puffing from his run; the engine puffed puff'kint,, A dust-ball ; wortiñess excrescence. pu' den.cy, up the grade. 2. To swell with air; dilate: often with pufl''leg", puf'leg", n. A humming bird (genus Erioc- piū’den.si, Puddling-furnace, shown in partial out; as, the sail putts out in the breeze. 3. (Archaic.) nemis) having white tufts on the legs, like powder-puffs. Natural delicacy To send out the breath scornfully; also, to repel a matter pufl'y, puf'i, a. puff :wig", n. A full, fluffy wig. cross-section. or shame; mod- 1. Swollen with air or any soft mat- ter: tumid and yielding to pressure; bloated; soft; as, a esty: bashful the rate bars (8), the fuel being supplied at A most outrageous, roaring fellow; one that frowns, puffs, and looks big at all mankind. OTWAY Cheals of Scapin act ii, sc. 1. puffy tumor, 2. Inflated in manner; bombastic; as, a puffy style. 3. Blowing in puffs; as, the breeze was tumid, pomhas a bed (b), and over the fue-bridge (d) light and pufy:-putrily, adr.- pufl'i-ness, n. dency about friend. pous air. (Imitative.) ship: as about love through the neck (n) to the chimney (c). The Synonyms: blow, compliment, flatter, inflate, pant, pugl, pug, nt. (PUGGED; PUG'GING.] 1. To tamp with lever it) operates the working-door (16), which though fine praise, swell. See BLUSTER. - Antonyms: belittle, conis used for charging with pig and removing clay or puddle, as the bottom of a canal. 2. To fill souls sight of it, yet they the puddled balls, while the stopper hole (8) tract, disparage, draw in, shrink, shrível. as with mortar, sawdust, or felt, as a wall or floor, to do not name it. Ex serves for the introduction of the rabble. pu, n. 1. A breath emitted suddenly and with force, deaden sound. 3. In brickmaking, etc., to grind, usuERSON Conduct of Life, Considerations p. 214. (H. M. & co. '88.) or any quick, short blast; a whiff, as of air, smoke, or ally with water, as clay; temper (clay, etc.) so as to ren. [< L. puden((-)s, bashful, < pudeo, be ashamed.] steam; a slight gust of wind; also, the amount of air, der plastic. 4. [Prov? Eng.) To strike; pull; pluck puga, ri. [Anglo-Ind.] To track game. 2. A pug-nose. 3. A 1. Pain in the genitals. 2. Syphilis.--pn-den'dal, (1. The silver water-dust in pull's arose mischievous imp; goblin; puck: obsolete except as a fapu-den"do-hem"or-rhoid'al, a. Pertaining to the And turned to dust of jewels in the sun. miliar name of various animals. (1) A fox. (2) A mongenitals in connection with hemorrhoids or hemorrhoidal BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Journal, Second Evening st. 2, key. (3) A pug-moth. (4) (Prov. Eng.) A third-year parts.- pu-den'dous, a. (Rare.) Worthy of shame. 2. A public expression of praise, usually exaggerated; salmon. [Form of Puck.] Page 22
opening for the liquid to be pumped. The apparatus pum'ice, pum'is, C.? E. S.2 W. Wr.? (pia'mis, C.? 1. fire:p. (a force-pump for extinguishing fires), gas-fit. having been primed, admission of steam to one chamber S.1 Wr.1) (XIII), ut. (PUM'ICED; PUM'I-CING.) To use ters' p. (see PLUMBERS' PUMP), mining p. (for removing forces the liquid into the delivery-pipe until the increasing pumice upon, as in polishing or cleaning; pumicate. water from deep mines), oil-line p. (for forcing crude pe. area of the surface in contact with the steam condenses the latter and causes pum'ice, n. Volcanic scoria or lava, spongy or cellular troleum along a pipe-line), plumbers' p. (a force-pump a vacuum, which causes the inlet-valve for testing the tightness of pipe-fittings, etc., or for blowing Liv from bubbles of steam or gas which it contained during out obstructions), pressure:p. (for applying pressure toor to shut off the steam from that side of liquidity: much used as a polishing-material, especially by a fluid, as a hydraulic pump or a force.pump), racking: the apparatus and admit it to the other. when powdered. pum'eyt; pum'ice:stone":. p. (used in racking off liquors to a higher level), ship or More liquid then rushes in to fill the d Pumice ... in composition ... is allied to the obsidians. vacuum while the other side is dis. ship's p. (for freeing a vessel's bull from water: usually charging, and so on in alternation. some forin of bucket-pump), sinking:p. (a stout vertical Its porosity renders it so exceedingly light that in the dry condition it floats readily on the surface of water, sinking only when thor pump for use in sinking shafts and in pumping out flooded [< PULSE", n., + -METER.] w oughly saturated. Owing to this property it is found very widely mines), wrecking:p. (a steam-pump for drawing water pul-ta'ceous, pul-tê'shius, a. Mac diffused over the ocean-bed.... It is obtained for industrial pur. from the holds of sunken vessels); (2) from their mech. erated and softened; rendered pulpe poses in the regions of recent volcanoes – the Lipari Islands, Ice- anism, construction, or method of operation; as, bag:p. or land, Auvergne, Teneriffe, &c. Encyc. Brit. 9th ed., vol. xx, p. 105. diaphragm p. (In which the vacuum is produced by collike or semi-fluid. [< L. pult-)s, pottage.] [< L. pumex (pumic-), perhaps < spuma, foam.] lapsing and extending a bag or diaphragm instead of by a piston), differential p. (a steam-pump in which the puļtesset, pul'tiset, n. Poultice. .-pum'iced, a. Veter. Surg. Affected with a mor: slide-valve is operated by a differential motion), double. pul'triet, n. Same as POULTRY. bid growth of spongy horn between the coffin-bone and acting p. (discharging fluid at each single stroke of the pol'turet, n. Same as PUTURE, the outer wall of the foot; as, pumiced feet.-pu-mi'e piston), double-cylinder p. (having two cylinders in pu'lu, pū'la, n. [Hawaii.) A substance Lengthwise section ceous, a. of or pertaining to or containing pumice. which reciprocating pistons act alternately), double-pisobtained from certain Hawaiian trees of a Pulsometer. - pu-mic'i-form, E. I. S. W. Wr. (pum'i-ci. ton p. (having two reciprocating pistons working in oppoferns of the genus Cibotium, consisting site directions in a single cylinder), eccentric p. (a rotaof silky hair-like scales found on the i, inlet for steam; form, (.), a. Resembling or having the texture of upper part of the stem and at the bases iv, inlet-valve; c, c, pumice.- pum'l-cose, c. (pu'mi.cose, E. I.), a. elastic-piston p. (a diaphragm-pump), fixed piston ry pump having an eccentrically arranged cylinder-piston), of the frond-stalks, used for stufting chambers: P, passage Resembling or consisting of pumice. p. (having a fixed piston and moving barrel), hand-p. mattresses, cushions, etc. admitting water:, 0, pum'macet, n. Pomace. (any pump worked by hand), hollow:plunger p. (for pol'ver-a-bl, a. Pulverable. Ph. S. admitting water, w, w, valves pum'mel, v. & n. Pommel. Phil. Soc.: common form. mining and quarrying, as in muddy and gritty water), je pal'ver-a-ble, pul’ver-a-bl, a. (Rare.] Foreduction of water pum'meld, pp. Pummeled. PHIL. Soc. p. (an ejector in which the suction and forcing of fluid are Pulverizable. caused by a jet, usually of steam), oscillating, P. (hav. pul"ver-a'ceous, pulover-ê'shius, for water; a, air d, delivery - passage pump, pump, v. I. t. 1. To raise with a pump; as, ing one or more radial plates in a case, and provided with valves so that oscillation of the plates causes suction [< L. pulvis valves (not shown) at small snifting, or airs and discharge of liquid), pendulum:p. (see PENDULUM), cistern dry. 3. Figuratively, to extract information piston-p. (having a reciprocating piston, as opposed to (pulver-), powder, dust. pul ver-aint, n. A powder-horn. o, c, and a from by means of persistent or artful questioning; also, a rotary pump, diaphragm-pump, etc.), portable p. (for to extract by means of such questioning; as, to pump a watering gardens, etc.), post:p. (attachable to a post), pul ver-atet, ot. To pulverize.- pul"ver-a'tiont, n. pul’yer:day", pul'ver-dé", n. Same as ASH WEDNESDAY. witness; to pump out secrets. propeller or spiral p. (having blades forming part of << L. pulvis (pulver-), dust, + DAY1, n. II. i. To raise water or fluid with a pump; work a pump. an advancing screw, as in a screw propeller, and rotating , holding ashes to be -pump'ing-shaft", n. The shaft containing the in a practically fluid-tight casing), steam:p. (a pump operated by steam, usually a sprinkled on pulver-day. pumping-machinery of a 'mine. steam - englne arranged for pul-ve're-ous, pul-vi're-us or -ver'-, a. Covered with pump!, n. 1. A mechanical device for raising, circula pumping water, made in vari. dust; powdery. [< L. pulvereus, < pulvis, dust.) ting, exhausting, or compressing a fluid by drawing or ous forms, a familiar type be. pul'ver-in, pul ver-in, n. Ashes of barilla: used in pressing it through apertures and pipes. 1 ing the direct-acting tank making soda -ash and other salts. [< L. pulvis (pulver-), The simpler kinds of pump for raising water in domestic steam-pump shown in the dust.] pul'ver-inet. use are of three types: (1) suctionspump, in which the illus.), sucking p. or sucupward stroke of a piston in a cylinder causes the water to pul ver-1"za-b](e, pul'ver-ai"za-bl, a. That may be rise beneath it by atmospheric pressure; (2) lift-pump, pulverized. pul'ver-i"sa-blet. pul"ver-i-za'tion, pulóver-i-zê'zhun, n. 1. The act a piston, chain with buckets, or similar device; (3) forces of pulverizing; as, the pulverization of rock, 2. pump, in which the water is driven or forced by a push of the piston. The first two have valves in the piston or barrel, Specifically, in medicine: (1) The reduction of solid sub or both, arranged so that the water from the reservoir is stances to a fine powder. (2) The dispersion of liquids admitted to the barrel at the proper moment, and so that the a into a fine spray as a mode of application to wounds and water that has been raised part way is retained while the 2 diseased parts. pul"ver-i-sa'tioni. piston moves into position for its next stroke. See illus. pul ver-ize, pulver-aiz, v. [-IZED; -I"ZING.) I. t. To under FORCE-PUMP and st'CTION-PUMP. For other types of W reduce to powder, as by grinding, crushing, etc.; hence, pump, see the list and phrases below. figuratively, to demolish, as in argument; crueh. 2. (Colloq.) An attempt to extract information by artful or persistent questioning. [< F. pompe; cp. D. pomp, Clay, when once burnt, never regains its power of cohesion, but rc always remains in a pulverized state; and therefore is just as use. G. pumpe.] ful, mechanically, in making a heavy soil light, as sand itself. A.J. Compounds, etc.: -- centrifugal pump, a pump hav; ing a cylindrical case in which is a piston with four radial arms.- centripetal p., & pump with a rotating mecha. si II, 1. To become reduced to powder; also, to wallow nism that gathers a fluid at or near the circumference of ra in dust, as a bird. (<LL. pulverizo, < L. pulvis (pul. dial tubes and discharges it at the axis.--circulating p., SC ver-), dust,, powder.] pul ver-iset: - pulver.i". a pump, generally a centrifugal pump, for forcing cooling zing:mill", n. An apparatus for separately comminuting water through a condenser or similar apparatus.- Geiss. d the materials of gunpowder before incorporating them. ler p., see MERCURY-PUMP.-horizontal p., a pump having its piston in a horizontal line. - hydraulic or izes; any pulverizing machine. pul'ver-1"sert; hydrostatic p., a pump for applying considerable pres- Pumps. sure by means of a liquid, as for a hydrostatic press.-ina. pul'ver-ous, pul'ver-us, a. Being or resembling dust. 1. Rotary power-pump, having toothed gears (c) meshing to[< L. pulois (pulver-), dust.) rine p., any pump for use on shipboard, having usually gether fluid-tight and rotating in a fluid-tight case and creating a large valve-area, passages, etc.- pneumatic p., a pump vacunm, thus raising the water and discharging it at the top. 2. pul-ver'u-lence, pul-ver'u-lens, C. (-yu-lens, W.), n. adapted for compressing, forcing, exhausting, or moving Direct-acting steam-pump: a, air-chamber; ac, air-cock; c, c, c, c, The state of being pulverulent; dustiness. air; also, one in which a liquid or a semi-solid is trans. cylinder-heads; dp, distance-piece; d, d, d, drip-cocks: 1, lubricapul-ver'u-lent, pul-ver'u-lent, C. (-yu-lent, W.), a. 1. ported by the pressure of air or other gas in a closed ves. tor; r, rocker-bar; ie, rocker-connection; 8, steam-chest; sb, stuffConsisting of fine powder or dust; powdery; dusty. sel, forcing it along a pipe. - pump':bar"rel, n. The ing-box; $c, steam-cylinder; si, suction-inlet; 1, tappet-arm; v, tube within which works the piston of a pump: p. cylin- valve-rod; w, water-cap; wc, water cylinder. the plunger in a Cornish pumping-engine.- p.:box, n. tion=p. (see sucTioN), three-throw p. (having three E. HITCHCOCK Elementary Geology $ 3, p. 69. (1. & P. '54.) barrels side by side and operated by a three-throw crank), 1. A cap or case for the top of a puinp: 2. The casing of union p. (on the same frame with the engine that drives 2. Med. Covered with dust-colored granulations, as from a valve in a pump.-p. brake, n. The handle or lever the thickening of the mucus of the eye. 3. Bot. & Zool. of a pump. See illus. under FORCE-PUMP:- p.:cart, n. An it), vacuum p. (raising a liquid by means of the vacuum Covered with powdery grains. [< L. pulverulentus, < irrigating-machine consisting of a hand-cart with a pump formed by the condensation of steam in a closed vessel pilvis (pulcer-), dust.) a reservoir for water. - p. cistern, n. Naul. 1. Å communicating with the source of supply: see PULSOME cistern over the head of a chain-pump on a vessel, to receive TER), wind p. (driven by a windmill); (3) from the fluid pullvilt, ot. To perfume with or as with a pulvil or sachet. the casing to prevent foreign or substance pumped or removed; as, acid:p. (made of pallvilt .:. A sachet-bag: powdery perfume. pul-vill. fouling the chain-pumps.- p.:coat, n. Naut. A canvas glass or lead, and resembling a siphon: used for withdraw. iot: pul'villet; pul-villiot. covering fastened about a pump where it passes through a ing acid from carboys, etc.), beer:p. (a hand-pump for pal.vil'lus, pul-vil'us, n. [-LI, -lai or -11, pl.] Entom. vessel's deck, to prevent water returning to the hold. - p.s raising beer, etc., from a cask, as from a cellar to a bar: The pad often present between the tarsal claws of an in- dale, n. The spout or dale of a pump; specifically, a long called also barapump, and incorrectly bare-pump), gass drip p. (for removing condensed liquids from gas-pipes), sect, as the cushion of a fly's foot. [L., contr. of pulvinu. trough, spout, or hose for carrying water from a pump: - hot water p. (for raising water from the hot-well of a condensing engine and discharging it into the feed-wa-pullvil-lar, a. Of or pertaining to a pulvillus. pump; a pump-brake.- p. head, n. The casing on the pul-vil'li-formi, a. Having the form of a pulvillus. top of a chain-pump, serving to direct the water into the ter cistern), liquor:p. (see BEER PUMP, above), milkap. pul vl'nar, pul-vai’nar or .vi'nar, a. Cushion-like; discharge-spout. p.:hoodt. - p. house, n. A building, (see BREAST-PUMP, under BREAST), sand:p, or shellsp. as one at a water supply station, containing pumping-ap- (for bringing up sand, etc., from a bored well). pad-like. [< L. pulvinaris, < pulrinus, cushion.] pul.vi/nar, n. 1. Anat. The cushion-like eminence paratus. pump'ing station.-poikettle, m. A ket: pump?, n. A light, slipper-like shoe with a low heel, tle-like strainer placed at the lower end of a túbe supply. often worn in dancing, now made mostly of patent at the posterior end of the optic thalamus of the brain. ing a pump.-- p.log, n. A log bored out lengthwise for leather; also, any low heelless slipper: generally in the 2. Arch. The lateral part of the volute of an Ionic use as a pump-stock-p: lug, n. In a locomotive, a lug capital; the roll or cushion: same as BALUSTER. 3. A on the cross-head affording a place of attachment for the plural.' [< F. pompe; see POMP. pillow; especially, a medicated cushion. plunger of the pump.- p. plunger, ". A long cylindrical pump'age, pump’êj, n. The amount raised by pumpPuheve nate, pul vi-net or-net, "us. Cushion- or pillow. pump piston pavins not valve, as lo force-pumps; any simli ing; as, the pumpage of an oil-well . shaped pump-piston.- Mining. A rod pumped, pumpt, pa. [Colloq.) Out of breath; breathless. shaped; pad-like. [<L. pulvinatus, < pulrinus, cush- or system of rods, often heavy beams, connecting a pump. pumpeda, a. (Rare.) Wearing pumps or dancing-slippers. ion,), pul-vin'i-formt.-pul'vi-nate-ly, adv. ing-pumppul'vi-na"ted, pulvi-nê ted, a. Arch. Swelling out n. 1. A public room at a mineral spring for convenience Pump'er, pumper, n. 1. One who or that which pumps. 2. An oil-well in which a pump is used, is dislike a pillow; pillowed: said of a convex frieze. of persons drinking the waters. 2. A room, as in a wa tinguished from one that flows. pal-vi'nus, pul-vai'nus or -vi'nus, n. (-NI, -nai or-nf, pl.] ter-works supply-station, where one or more large pumps m. Bot. A cushion: applied to the swelling on the stem are placed. - p.-scraper, n. A device for cleaning out pum'per-nick"el, puni'per-nic'), W. (el, C. E. I. Wr.), immediately below the lear, also to the enlargement of the the interior of a pump-barrel.-p..sollar, n. Mining. A n. A bread of coarse unbolted rye, usually heavy, acid, and not very nourishing, used chiefly by peasants in Ger. base of some petioles. -pul-vin'i-form, a. Having the platform to give access to the door-piece and working many, [G., originally dolt, block head, <pumper, sound form of a pulvinus or cushion; pulvinate: parts of a lift or set of pumps.- p. spear, 1. A connect. pul'vl-plume, pul'vi-plūm, n. Ornith. A powder-down ing-rod between a pump-handle and the piston. p.:staff:. of a fall (pumpen, fall)+ Nickel, abbr. of Nicolaus, Nicholas. j bom'ber-nick"eli. feather; dust-feather. [<L. pulris, dust, + PLUME.] - p. station, n. Mining. An enlarged part of a shaft pul war, pul'wār, n. [E. Ind.j? A light, keelless hoat. where a pump is placed. - p.-stock, n. The barrel or pum'pett, n. A pompet. 2 pu'ma, piū’ma, n. Peru.) A large American carni. body of a pump, especially of a wooden pump.- p.-stop- pum'pi-ont, n. A pumpkin: same as POMPION well, n. Shipbuilding. A casing or compartment, in the pun'kin), n. 1. The hold of a vessel, containing the pump-stocks and usually a large, round, yel. 1 It strainer.-- rotary p., see ROTARY.-Sprengel p., see low fruit of a va- ordinarily MERCURY-PUMP - unlimited P: a deep-well pump oper. riety of Cucurbitu ated from the level of the ground above. Pepo, or the plant PARTIAL LIST OF PUMPS. that bears it, a large [For important pups not defined below, as AIR-PUMP, trailing vine with upon cattle, sheep, and FORCE-PUMP, etc., see vocabulary place. ] The Pumpkin heart-shaped leaves. Some pumps are named (1) from their purpose or use, or The fruit contains 1. Flower and the place or business in which used; as, boreshole pump a fleshy edible layer leaf, 2. The fruit (for use in a bored well), counter:p. runder a counter or next the rind, and bar, for drawing liquids from barrels in the cellar), deep. is used as food for stock and also in cookery, especially for well p. (for oil wells, etc.), dental p. (for removing pies, which in the United States are regarded as especially puine, piom, n. A small saliva), diving bell p. (for supplying air to a diving-bell), appropriate for Thanksgiving day. See CỰCURBITA. The Puma, 1/52 dredging:p. (fur drawing up silt, loose sand, etc., as in Compare illus. under FELIDE. dredging), driven:well or drive-well p. (one whose pum'el-o, n. Same as POMELO. pum'mel-of. What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye 1 tube may be driven through the ground), excavating:p. What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie! pu'mi-catet, ot. To smooth with pumice. (a dredging-pump, or a pump for emptying cesspools, etc.), WHITTIER The Pumpkin st. 3. Page 23
putrescible 1454 pylagoras ' tis, he Pathol. Inflammation of the bladder and the pelvis of the pu•tres ci-ble, piu-tres'i-bl, a, Liable to putrefy. tangle. kidney. (< Gr. pyelos, pelvis, + kystis; see cyst.) pu-tres'ci-blie, n. II. i. To be in per py."el-o-neph-ri'tis, pal'el-o-net.rai'tis or pi'el-o-nef-ri'. tis, n. Pathol. Intiammation of the pelvis of the kidney, tain temperature in contact with air and moisture: gen. A body that decomposes at a cer- plexing doubt. involving the body of that organ, [< Gr. pyelos, trough, erally containing nitrogen. Synonyms: see PER pelvis, + nephros, kidney.)- py"el-o-neph-rit'ic, a. PLEX pu-tres cin, piu-tres'in, n. Chem. An alkaloid compound py-em'e-sis, pai-em'e-sis or pl., n. Pathol. Vomiting of pus (C4H12N2) contained in decomposing flesh, also in the feces - to puzzle over, or purulent matter. I<py.+'EMESIS.) py-æm'e-sisi. py-e'mi-a, pai-i'mi-a or pî:ê'mi-a, n. Pathol. A poi. or solve, PUTRESCENT.) pu-tres'cinet. sonous infection of the blood, due to the absorption of -puzzle-ment, n. pu'trid, piū’trid, a. 1. Bearing signs of or produced by The state of being puz 3 vitiated pus or putrid animal secretions into the circula- tion; blood-poisoning; as, pyemia from the decomposed One who or that which Puzzles. pus of a gunshot wound or from the glanders of a dis< L. putridus, < putreo, be rotten.) pu'tryt. 1. The ring puzzle: the problem eased horse. [< PY. + Gr. haima, blood.] py-hæ'. putrid fever, typhus, jail, or ship fever, p. sore mi-.--e'mic, py-æ'mic, a. throat, sore throat with gangrene or with a foul discharge. ly, adv. In a puzzling in the countrigates is there bar frora phe pensadwy pai-eņʻgaat, 1. [E. Ind. A large tree manner. -pu'trid-ness, n. The state of being putrid. zle: the problem is to take the scis (Xylia dolabriformis) of the bean family (Leguminosa), puzzle, n. 1. A thing sors off the cord without moving with bipinnate leaves and axillary racemes of flowers, re. pu-trid'i-ty, piu-trid'i-ti, n. 1. Putridness. 2. That difficult to understand or the cord from the stick. 3. Love's markable for its hard, heavy, close-grained, indestructible which has become putrid; corruption, reddish brown wood. It is called ironwood, and is very solve; a thing or proba puzzle the problem is to get the two lem that perplexes; espe-, hearts on the same loop of the cord, valuable for constructive purposes, the heart-wood being unassailable by either the white ant or the teredo. matter, as sloughs froin certain ulcers. (F., L. putrilago, cially, something purposely arranged so as to require time, pyret. n. Same as Pier. patience, and ingenuity to arrive at the solution of its in. Py'gal, pai'gal, a. Of, pertaining to, or situated near the rump or hinder parts; as, the pygul shield of a tur. This apparent paradox of identity in diversity constituted one of tle's carapace. [< Gr. pyge, rump.] put'ter, put'er, vi. (Colloq.) To trifle; potter. the earliest puzzles in metaphysics put'ter, put'er, n. Py'gal, n. Herp. A hindermost median or supracau. 1. One who puts. 2. (Prov. Eng.) H. L. MANSEL Metaphysics, Judgment pt. i, p. 226. (BL. '60.) dal marginal plate of a chelonian carapace; a pygal One who hauls coal from the mining point to the point 2. The state of being puzzled; a quandary; perplexity. shield. Py'galet; whence it is raised to the surface; a drawer; trammer. [Aphetic for opposal, < OPPOSE.] py'garg, pai'gārg, n. 1. The osprey. 2. The female of 3. Golf. An upright stiff-shafted club used when the ball Synonyms: see RIDDLE. the hep-harrier. 3. (Archaic.] An antelope, probably the is on the putting-green. See ilius. under Golf. puzzle-head", n. One who is perplexed or con- addax. Deut. xiv, 5. I<L. pygargus, kind of antelope or put'ier:on", n. [Rare.] One who incites or insti. fused over things that are clear and siinple to others.- eagle, < Gr. pygargos, lit. white-rumped, <pygē, rump, + gates.- p.:out, n. (Eng.) One who engaged in a form of puz'zle-head"ed, a. p. pated.-puzzle-head". argos, white.) pygarguet; py-gargusi. ed-ness, n.-p.-jug, n. A trick-vessel used for purposes pyghtf, pp. of PITCH1, 0. Py"gi-di'i-dæ, pai-ji-dai'i.df or pi'gi-di'i-dê, n. pl. Ich. A South-American family of catfishes having the Pull. Soc. cupt; sur-prise':cup"1.- p. lock, body naked and the air-bladder included within a cage n. A combination lock.-- p.monkey, formed by lateral processes of anterior vertebræ. (< bling Cupid, abounding in Italian art of the 15th, 16th, and PYGidium.]-py"gi.di'id,n.-Pyógid'l-oid, a. &n. 17th centuries. peg, n. A piece of wood so secured un. der a dog's jaw as to project and keep py-gid'l-um, pai-jid'i-um or pi-gf'di-um, n. (-1-A, pl.] 1. The terminal or posterior segment, as of an insect or A ring made of several small rings intri. trilobite; a caudal shield. 2. (P-) Ich. A genus typical cately linked together, which may be ta. covered with turf, around a hole in a golfing ground.-p.. ken apart and put together again. See of Pygidiidæ. [Dim, < Gr. pyge, rump.] stone, n. A heavy stone used in the athletic sport called Illus, under GEMEL-RING. - py-gid'i-al, a. Of or pertaining to a pygidium, putting the stone. See PUT, 7., 8. puzzle-dom, puz'l-dum, n. (Colloq.) pyg-me'an, pig-mi'an, a. Pygmy. pig-me'ant. pyg'myt, vt. To diminish to the size of a dwarf. pig'myt, Brown Yearg. puz'zo-lan, n. Same as poZZUOLANA. for its kind or family; as, a pygmy antelope. pig'myt. pattock1, put'ec, n. '[Prov. Eng.) 1. The European kite. puz"zo-la'nat; puz"zo-la'nof; ley Yorkshire 2. The common European buzzard. 3. A marsh-harrler. Ware, with the - pygmy goose, a goslet. - p. musk:deer, a chey. puz'20-litet. rotain. - p. owl, a small American owl (genus Glaucidi. "John put'too, put", n. . Indsta Cashmerlan fabric of long pyar mina nyaeemic. Same as pye- PySame as PYO um), as the gnome-owl(G.yoma).- p. parrot, a parrot Wedgwood (genus Nasiterna) of New Guinea, etc., about the size of 8 coarse goat's wool. Cashgar clothi; put'tot. 1691” incised in MIA, etc. sparrow, inostly green and with pointed tall-feathers.-- p. put'ty, put'i, vt. (PUT TIED; PUT'TY-ING.) To fill up Py"a-nep'si-a, pai'a-nep'sl.a or pi“., n. script. sperm:whale, a small kogiine sperm-whale, as Kogia or make secure with putty; apply putty to. pl. Gr. Antig. An Attic festival of Apollo, on the 7th of Py. brericeps, of warm seas and occasional on the American minutive person or creature; a dwarf; figuratively, a person of small understanding or narrow intelligence. Let us not be pigmies in a case that calls for men. WEBSTER Works, Constitution and Union in vol. v, p. 365. (L. B. & co. '58.] ing posterior scutella separate and massed together without and Batwa in Central Africa. 3. [P-1 Class. Myth. definite order, as the tarsi of rupicoline, tityrine, and cotin. One of a race of dwarfs fabled to have been destroyed orbit: so called by pigeon-fanciers.- p..faced, a, Having gine Colingidæ. - pyc-raster, n. Spong. A form of in their wars with the cranes. 4. The chimpanzee. [< a colorless and expressionless face, resembling putty:- p.s spongerspicule.- pycnid, nl. Bot. Same as PYCNIDIUM. L. Pygmæus, < Gr. Pygmaios, < pygmé, a measure pid'i-0-spore,n. A pyenospore; stylospore. - pyc-nid'. equal to about 131 inches, orig. a tist.] pig'meyt; i-um, n. 1.I-A, pl.) Bot. In ascomycetous fungi, a special pig'myi. & plastic composition that hardens after molding. receptacle, somewhat resembling a perithecium, in which pyg'my-weed", pig'mi-wid', n. A rare tufted annual (Til. spores, technically termed stylospores, pycnospores, or putty-root", put'i-rūt", n. læa simpler) of the houseleek family (Crassulaceæ), from Bot. A rather rare Amer. pyenoconídia, are abjointed from sierigmata.- pýc-nid'. 1 to 3 inches high, with entire, linear-oblong, opposite, ican orchid (Aplectrum hyemale) with i-al, a.- pycnis, p. [PYC'NI-DES, pl.) Bol. Same as fleshy leaves, and minute, solitary, axillary, greenish-white single large coriaceous biennial leaf, PYCNIDIUM. - pycnite, no Mineral. A columnar vari. flowers. It grows on muddy banks from Massachusetts to and a scape bearing a loose raceme ety of topaz.-pyc" no-co-nid'i-um, n. 1-1•A, pl.) Bot. Maryland. pig'my-weed"1. of brownish flowers produced each A conidium produced within a pycuidium. pye no-go- pygo-. Derived from Greek pygē, the rump: a combi: year from a new corm containing a mid'i-um:.- Pye'no-don'tes, n. pl. Ich. The Pyc- ning form.- Py"go-bran'chi-a, n. pl. Conch. A di. strongly glutinous matter, sometimes vision of nudi ranchiates with a circlei of gills round the anus, as in Dorrida. Py"go-bran"chi-a'ta 1.-py". Eve'i. go-bran'chi-ate, a. & n. - py"go-did'y mus, n. forming rib-like rows, molar teeth on palate and sides of mandible, and incisors in front of mandible and intermax. (-MI, pl.] A monster double from the umbilicus downward, put:up", put'-up', a. (Colloq., U.S:} Prearranged or contrived in an artful illaries. Pycno-dus, n. (t. 8.) pyc"10-don'tid, n.- -py-gom'e-les, n. Terut. A monster having an enor. mous growth on the rump.-py-gom'e-lus, n. (.LI, pl.) A monster with supernumerary lower extremities.- py- n. pl. Ich. A suborder of ganoid fishes having rhombic right by custom, claimed by bailiffs and scales in pleurolepidal lines, notochord persistent, bran. gop'a-gus, 11. [-G1, pl.] A monster with two bodies forest-keepers, to take food for man, chiostegals developed, and paired tins without axial skele. united at the sacrum.-- py"go-par"a-sit'i-cus, n. A horse, and dog from residents within form of pygopagus in which one fetus is a parasite.- py'. of the Pycnogonidea or Pycnogonidæ.- Pyc"no-gon'i. gope, 1. Apygopodoid snakc-like lizard, especially of the genus Pygopus, having rudimentary hind limbs.- pyl- turet. dæ, n. pl. Crust. Afamily of 1. (l. go Pogopodid.-Py-gop'o-den, n. pl. Ornith. An or. 1. Pygopodous. 2. Pygopodoid. A village recorder or accountant. hose with cheliforiand palpi patwa-rit. suppressed in both sexes, der or suborder of carinate birds having the toes webbed or lobate and the legs inserted far behind the middle, so false legs developed only in ble larvæ of various flies of the genus males, and body stout. Pyc- that an erect position is assumed, as in the auks, grebes, and loons; diving birds.- Py"go-pod’i-dæ, n. pl. Herp: An Australian family of lizards having the prefrontals and in western North America. pyc-pog'o-noid, a. & n. postfrontals cortiguous and the body snake-like. Py'go- pus, n. (t. g.) - py"go-pid'id, 1.-py-gop'o-doid, a. ical hill of volcanic origin, especially a, corms; b, flowers. rine arthropoda, especially a py-gop'o-dous, a. 1. Having the legs inserted in Auvergne, France, either (1) of volcanic ashes or sco. class with spider-like form A Pycnogonid (Nymphon his- far behind the middle. 2. Of or pertaining to the Pygopo: des.- Py'go-style, n. Ornith. A bone consisting of fused ria with or without intervening sedimentary strata, (2) without special breathinga pidum): ventral aspect. Pyc"no-gon'i. caudal vertebra, forming the end of the vertebral column organs. sedimentary or granitie with a cap of basalt, or (3) sedi- dat: Pyc"no-gon'i-dest: Pyc"no-go-noi'de-at. in most birds; the plowshare-bone; caudal vomer.- py'. go-styled, ú. Having a pygostyle. dike of basalt or trachyte. um, n. Same as PYCNOCONIDIUM.- pyc-nome-ter, n. py'ic, pai'ic or pí'ic, a. Of or pertaining to pus; puru A specific-gravity flask. See GRAVITY, -pyc"no-me lent. I< Gr. pyon, pus.] almost every stream of lava to the crater which marks the spot of to'chi-a, n. Use of participial constructions in close py'in, pai'in or pi'in, n. A proteid compound contained its emission. G. POULLET SCROPE Geology and Extinct Vol succession.-pyc"no-me-to'chic, a.- Pyc"no-not- in certain varieties of pus. ' It resembles mucin, and is canoes of Central France p. 180. (J. M, '58.) i-dæ, n. p... Ornith. The Pycnonotinæ as a family. probably a mixture. [< Gr. pyon, pus.) py'inef. [F., < appui; see PFW?, n.] pye" no-not'id, n.- pye"no-no'toid, a.- Pye”no- Ho-linæ, 1. pl. Ornith. A Paleotropical subfamily of pyjamas, n. pl. (Anglo-Indl Same as PAJAMAS. South American genus of showy plants of the pineapple timelioid birds with the vill thrush-like and front shields pyk'ar, pik'ar, n. An ancient English fishing-boat. (w.) of tarsus joined together by an external plantar lamina; pyke, paik, n. [Anglo-Ind.) A foot-soldier; a village watchman; a footman or runner. - pye'no-style, n. Arch. See INTERCOLUMNIATION. pu'ya2, n. Same as POOAHI. , . Same : in Greek pyi., pyle Derived from Greek pylē, gate, orifice: puz'i, puz'ld. Puzzle, etc. PHIL. Soc. music, about a -tone; in semitone, combining forms.- pyl"em-phrax'ís, n. [< Gr.pyhnon, neut. s. of pyknos, dense.) puz'zle, puz'l, v. (PUZZLED; PUZ'ZLING.) 1. t:.1. pyebaldt, a. Same as PIEBALD. pyet, n. A magpie; pie. of the portal vein of the liver. pyl"eth-rom-bo'sist. pyl'e-phle-bi'tis, n. Inflammation of the veins of or as py-ecchyosis, pai-ek"-sis Aneffusion of purulent the portal system, py"lo-phle-bi'tist. intricate, problematic, strange, or hurd to settle; bring Pattern: Porshi due," pix.Boatingche pour pyla, pai'la or pila, n. (PY’LÆ, pai'lf or píʻle, p?.. with the iter. (< Gr. pylē, gate.] have in their turn occurred to all the wise men. Gr. oidima; see EDEMA) py"e-demai. py-lag'o-ras, pi-lag'o-ras or pai, n. Gr. Hist. A delegate mation of the pelvis and calices of the kidney. [< Gr. py. Pytagoras,' < Pylai, Pass of Thermopylæ (lit. « The Gates," pl. of pyli, gate), + ageirő, collect.] pyl'a-goret. Page 24
quaily 1460 quantitative quail'y, cwel'l, n. [Manitoba.) Bartram's sandpiper. I have already had the honour of being invited to dinner by ser. 3. Restriction by exceptions, or a restrictive exception; quainit, ut. To acquaint. limitation of meaning; partial negation; hence, abate eral of the first people of quality: MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU quaint, ewênt, a. 1. Combining an antique appearance Letters, Sept. 8,1716 in vol. I, p. 275, (BEN. & SON '37.1 ment; mitigation; as, the epithet was used without qualiwith a pleasing oddity, fancifulness, or whimsicalness; 8. Logic. (1) The character of a proposition or judgment fication; the qualification of a privilege. as, quaint manners; quaint attire; a quaint city. as asserting or denying. Considered with reference to The queen.. replied, that their prayer was granted, with this His garb was very quaint and odd – a long, long way behind quality, propositions are either (a) affirmative, as "all qualification - that wit and speech were calculated to do harm, the time. DICKENS Christmas Stories, Cricket on the Hearth and their liberty of speech extended no further than ay men are mortal," or (b) negative, as “no man is perfect.' chirp i, p. 229. (E. & L. '86.] that it affirms or de AGNES STRICKLAND Queens of Eng., Elizabeth in vol. The differential Quality of a Judgment 2. Hence, pleasingly odd; fanciful; singular; as, a quaint iii, ch. 11, p. 472. (BELL '80.] nies the agreement of Subject and Predicate. Hence in respect of Quality, Fudgments are either Affirmative or Negative. Let the fancy. 3. [Archaic.] Elaborate, or curiously fashioned; 4. Logic. The attaching of quality to a term as affirma. learner remember that the Logical Quality of a Judgment refers to hence, ornamental; showy; fine. 4t. Crafty. 5t. Prim; tive or negative. 57. Appeasement; assuagement. (< its being Affirmative or Negative. sqneamish. 6t. Well known. [< OF. coint, < L. coge LL. qualificatus, pp. of qualifico; see QUALIFY.] L. H. ATWATER Elementary Logic ch. 3, p. 89. (L. '67.1 nitus; see coGNITIVE.) queintt; queyntet. Synonyms: see ABILITY. (2) The character of mental apprehension as clear or Synonyms: see ANTIQUE; ODD; QUEER. qual'i-fi-ca'tiv(e, cwol'i-fi-kê"tiv. I. a. Serving to obscure: a Kantian use. 9. Physics. That which dis- quaintt, adv. Daintily.- quaint'ly, adv.- qualify or limit. II. n. A qualifying or modifying word tinguishes sounds of the same pitch and intensity from quaint'ness, n. or expression. [< LL. qualificatus; see QUALIFICATION.) different sources, as from different instruments; timbre. quant'ançet, n. Acquaintance. quali-fi-eator, cwel'i-fi-kế-ter, . R. C. Ch. An 101. An accomplishment. 117. Particular temper or quain'tiset, ot. To make cunningly; adorn skilfully. officer who prepares ecclesiastical causes for trial or quain'tiset, n. 1. Cunning. 2. Trimness; ele. disposition. 12+. A particular group, fraternity, or states what theological note should be applied to a propgance, quen'tiset. class. [< F. qualité, < L. qualitas, < qualis, of what osition. (LL., < qualificatus: see QUALIFICATION. quairt, n. A quire of paper: a book. quairet. sort, < qua, abl. of quis, who.] quai'sý, a. (Prov. Eng. or Obs.] Same as QUEASY. quali-fi-carto-ry, cWolof-fl-kể"to-ri, (t. [Rare.] Of Synonyms: see ATTRIBUTE; CHARACTERISTIC. quait, cwét, ni. (U.S.) A quoit. or pertaining to qualification. 2. Qualificative. [< LL. Phrases, etc. : - accidental quality, a quality not quake, cwek, v. [QUAKED; QUA'KING.) I. i. 1. To qualificatus, see QUALIFICATION.) essential to the nature of a thing or substance.- essential be agitated with quick, short, repeated motions; shake, quali-fied, cwel'i-faid, pa. 1. Possessing requisite q., a quality that makes a thing what it is in its very nature. as with violent emotion or cold; tremble; quiver. qualities or qualitications; competent; fitted; adapted. - qual'i-ty-bind"ing, n. A worsted tape for binding 2. Limited by a certain degree of negation or diminution; carpets, etc. - 9. of estate, the extent or limit of owner. ship whereby the manner of enjoyment or use of an estate Gray birch and aspen wept beneath. is determined during the continuance of the right to its use SCOTT Lady of the Lake can. 1, st. 12. There is no such thing as half-way justice or qualified veracity; 2. To vibrate or shake from violent convulsions or from for what is wrongly so called is not honesty or veracity at all.. or enjoyment. the action of physical forces; as, the earth quakes. F. BOWEN Modern Philos. ch. 3, p. 53. (s. 177.1 qualmt, vi. To feel or to cause qualms. 3. Lavo. Limited to less than the whole; restricted; as, qualm', cwâm (XIII), n. 1. A fit of nausea; a feeling Our horses snorted with terror, and the mountain quaked be of sickness. neath our feet. a qualified estate in land. 4. Old Canon Law. Enabled And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm J. L. STEPHENS Travel in Cent. Am, vol. I, ch. 15, p. 327. (H. '44.1 to hold two benefices. came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering, 3. To move or shake, as from lack of consistency or Synonyms: see ADEQUATE. R. L. STEVENSON Dr. Jekyll chi 10, p. 75. (J. H.) solidity; as, a quaking moraes. Phrases: -qualified fee, an estate that may endure forever unless a certain event happen, as a grant to A and 2. A twinge of conscience; moral scruple; compuncII+. t. To cause to shake. [< AS. cuacian, shake.] his heirs till B marries; a base fee.-24. negative, the tion. 37. Any sudden attack of pain or faintness. 4+. Synonyms: quaver, qulver, shake, shiver, shudder, power of veto limited by the provision that the vetoed bill Disease; pestilence. [< AS. cuealm, death, < cuelan, tremble, vibrate, waver. - Prepositions: quake at the may become a law without approval of the executive if die.] calm (Dial.]; qualmet. threat; with or for fear. passed a second time by a specified majority. qualio+, m. The cry of a raven; a caw. Gazing at her brother, with an affrighted glance of inquiry, she qualifies: used specifically of grammatical qualifying. qualms. (1) Sick at the stomach. (2) Mentally uneasy; The words and phrases thus added to the subject noun, or bare disturbed by conscience. subject, and to the verb, or bare predicate, are, in either case, -qualm'ish-ly, adv.- qualm'ish-ness, ?. qunke' breech"+, 1. A coward. called its qualifiers, or modifiers, or adjunets; or, collectively, its qualm'y, cwām'i, a. Of, pertaining to, or causing quake' grass", n. Same as QUAKING-GRASS. complement. W.1). WHITNEY Essentials Eng. Grammar ('107, qualms; qualmish, quake'mire", n. A quagmire, p. 180. [G. & CO, '90.] qua'ker, cwo'ker, n. 1. One who quakes. Shut in the qualmy rooms, where meals are cooked and clothing 2. (Q-] qual'i-fy, cwol'i fai, v. [-FIED; · FY'ING.] 1. t. 1. To washed and dried besides, A member of the religious Society of endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowl- J. A. Riis How the Other Half Lives ch. 10, p. 108. [s. '90.] Friends: a name not used by the so edge, skill, or possessions; fit for a particular place, of- quam'ash, cwom'ash, W. (Cwa-mash', C.), 11. Camass. ciety, though no longer regarded by fice, or occupation; render competent. qunin'o-clit, cwam'o-clit, n. [Mex.] 1. The cypress-vine. them as opprobrious: applied origi What one reads, another thinks he must read, that he may qualify cardinal quainoelirt. 2. (Q-1 A former genus of nally in derision of emotional mani. himself for conversation. EGERTON BRYDGES Autobiography plants, now regarded as a section of the genus Ipoman. festations of contrition. See FRIEND. vol, i, ch. 23, P. 3:31. [C, & Moc, '34.] quam prox'i-me, cwam prox'i-mi or «me. (L.) As near as possible. The Quaker of the olden time! 2. To limit or modify by exceptions or conditions; re. quan'dang, cwan'dang, n. [Austral.] 1. A small tree How calm and firm and true! strict; as, to qualify a statement or a grant. 3. To (Fusanus acuminatus) of the sandalwood family (Santa. modify by diminution or abatement; moderate; soften; lacea). 2. Its edible drupaceous fruit, used as a preserve. native peach 3. A dummy cannon. Quaker gunt. 4. (1) The sooty albatross. Life had been for him (Pope) a splendid success indeed, but the success had been qualified by much bitterness and pain. nung nui i quan'tongt.-quan'. n. The stone of the quan(2) The nankeen-bird. 5. A grass. MCCARTHY Four Georges vol. ii, ch. 33, p. 197. (H. '90.] quan'da-ryt, vt. & vi. To put into or dang, which has an edible kernel, hopper (genus Elipoda): named from its tremulous noise when flying. 4. Hence, to alter the strength or taste of, as by admix. to be in a quandary. 6. One of various plain-colored noc ture; dilute or flavor; as, to qualify brandy. 5. Scots quan'da-ry, cwon'da-ri (xiu), n. tuid moths, as Agrotis castanea. Law. To establish by proof; authenticate. 6. Gram. To [-Ries, pl.) A state of hesitation or Compounds, etc. : - qua'ker: attribute a quality to; restrict in application; modify; perplexity; puzzling predicament. but"tons, n. pl. The round flat seeds limit; as, an adjective qualifies a noun; adverbs qualify (Çor. of ME. wanitreth, evil, perof the nux vomica.- 9.:color, 1. verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. 7. Logic. To bring plexity, < Ice, randrædhi, < candr, Drab: because much worn by Quakers. out the quality of (a proposition), as hy a negative particle difficult.] See SPECTRUM.-9. drab, n. A soft Costume of a Flem. or otherwise. 8. [Rare.] To note the qualities of; char-quan'dy, cwendi, w cwan'di, C.), 11. gray shade of drah.-- 9. grass, 1. ish Quaker of the acterize. 9+. To cure; sooth. (Local, U.S.] The old-squaw or long. (Prov. Eng.) Quaking.grass.-9. a. 18th Century. II, i. 1. To take the steps or undergo the preparation tailed duck, See illus. under OLD SQUAW. dies, n. pl. The delicate little flow. ers of Houstonia cærules, appearing in large pale-blue necessary for entering upon a function, employment, right, quamne!, CWon'et, W (ewan'et,1,1. A file or filescut surface in a frame patches in American meadows and woods. See illus, under or privilege, as by taking an oath or giving a bo like a carpenters' plane: used in comb. Houstoxia. blu'etst. - Shaking Qo, see Shaker- qualify for an elector; to qualify as an engineer. 2. making, etc., for working or smoothing stewed q. (Colloq.), molasses or honey heated with but- (U. S.) Specifically, to take a prescribed out of office; ter, vinegar, and spices: an old reinedy for colds.- the Q. hence to make oath to anything. [< F. qualifier, < LL. qua-non'. n. Same as KANUN, City, Philadelphia, Penn. qualifico, < L. qualis (see QUALITY); and see -FY.] quant, cwant, C. I.Wi (cwont, W.2 Wr.), Qua'ker-dom, n. Quakers as a class; the SoSynonyms: see CHANGE; PREPARE. n. (Prov. Eng. 1 1. A punt or settingciety of Friends.- Qua'ker-ess, n. A female Friend. qual'i-ta-tiv, -ly. Qualitative, etc. PHL. Soc. pole with a flange at the end to prevent Leaves and Fruit Qua'ker-ish, a. Characteristic of or like a Qua- qual'i-ta-tive, cwol'l-ta-tiv, a. Of or pertaining to Its sinking in the mud; also, the flange or cap. 2. A cane. ker-Qua'ker-ism, n. The belief or practise of the (Fuxanus uçumi. Friends. Qua?ker-yt.-Qua’ker-ly, I, a. Qua natus). differences or distinctions kerish. II. adv. After the manner of the Quakers. as differ. a, the flowers. ences in quantity, and thus distinguished from quantita- quan'ta-tivet, a.. Quantitative. quake'tail", cwek'tel", n. (Local, Brit.) A wagtail. tive; as, qualitative analysis. quan'tic, cwon'tic, n. A rational homogeneous func. quaking, cwbking, Dr. & Cebu n. of QUA KE, ti. Phrases, etc.:-quaking asp, the American aspen The difference between perception and conception is qualitative, tion of any number of variables. If it contains two vari. as is that of the objects with which they have respectively to do. ables, it is a binary quantic; if three, ternary, etc. (Populus tremuloides). See ASPEN, and illus, under pop CAIRD Kant vol. i, intro., ch. 5, p. 176. (MACM. '89.] According to their degree, quanties are called, in ascending LAR.-4. bog, a bog that shakes under the foot, consist. ing of growing peat saturated with water.- qua'king: << LL. qualitativus, <L. qualitas: see QUALITY.] order, beginning with the second degree, quadrics, cubice, quarlics, quinticx, serticx, etc. The variables are sometimes grass", n. 1. Any one of various grasses of the genus qualsi-ta-tive"ly, cwel'i-ta-tivali, ado. As regards called facients. An example of a binary quantic (cubic) is Briza, especially the European pasture quality, kind, or character: opposed to quantitatively. 4:33 + 36x24 + 3cry+ dy3, written (a, , c, d]. x, y)3. perennial (B. media), sparingly intro. Holding that the Causa causarum is revealed qualitatively to [< L. quantus, how much, < quum, how, 3 qui, who.] duced in the eastern United States: So every rational being. WINCHELL Evolution pref., p. 10. (11. 74.) called from the treinulous motion of quan'tic-al, a. Of or pertaining to quantics. the large purplish spikelets pendent qual'i-tied, ewol'l-tid, a. [Archaic.) Furnished with quali- quan"li-fi-ca'tion, cwon"ti-ti-kê'shun, n. The act from its slender spreading branches. ties or faculties. or process of quantifying. (1) The introduction of the 2. The rattlesnake-grass (Glyceria qual'i-ty, cwol'iti, n. [-ties, pl.] 1. That which is element of quantity; specifically, in logic, the attaching Canadensis). - large quakings an element of anything or aids in making it distinct from of a sign of logical quantity, as all or some, to a term. grass, an ornamental species (Briza other things; distinguishing character; strictly and etymarima) grown in gardens and pre The subject of a proposition is regularly quantitied, and it mologically, that which makes a being or thing such as has been argued, notably by Sir William Hamilton, that the served in vases as dry houquets., it is; essential property; as, whiteness and coldness are predicate should be quantitied also, thus making proposi. qua'king-ly, cwe'king-li, adv. In qualities of snow. See ESSENTIAL QUALITY. tions of the form "all A is all B," "all A is some B," etc. a quaking manner. It is generally held now that this form is admissible only The essential qualities of a thing are those aptitudes, those man. qua'ky, cwê'ki, a. Characterized by ners of existence and action, which it cannot lose without ceasing in strictly quantitative propositions, since it would make quaking; quivering; tremulous. to be. HAMILTON Metaphysics lect. viii, p. 105. (G. & L. '59.) the copula a'siga of identity instead of inclusion, -qua’ki-less, n. 2. The attributes or characteristics of anything as deter- quan'ti-fy, cwon'ti-fai, vt. (FIED; -FY*ING.] 1. To (2) The determination of quantity. quale, cwe'lî or cwg'le, n. A qual mining its value, place, worth, rank, position, etc., or the ity, especially an object of percep determine the quantity of; rate as to quantity; as, to condition of a thing as so determined; character; kind; quantify syllables (in prosody). 2. To express the quantion. [L., neut. of qualis; see QUAL- α as used absolutely, peculiar or characteristic excellence; tity of; introduce quantity into. 3. Logic. To attis the ITY.] qual'i-fi"a.bl(e, cwol'i-fai"a-hl, a. as, a voice of mellow quality; wine of quality: 3. De- sign of quantity (as al or some) to. See QUANTIFICATION. That may be qualified; subject to Quaking. gree of excellence; relative goodness; grade; as, sugar grass of good or bad quality. To quantify the predicate is simply to state whether the whole qualitication. (Briza or the part only of the predicate agrees with or differs from the The quality of the milk is estimated by the quantity of butteror qualoi- ti-aotion, cwoli-i-kể”• media). subject. JEVONS Lessons in Logic lesson xxii, p. 183. (MAOM. 176.) shun, 7. 1. The act of qualifying, or a, a single cheese that it will yield. YOUATT Cattle ch. 3, p. 131. (B. & c. 38.] [< L. quantus (see QUANTIC) +-FY.] the state of being qualified. 2. Any flower. 4. Amoral trait or characteristic; as, a person of excel- quan'ti-ta-tiv, ly. Quantitative, etc. Pul. Soc. trait or possession that qualities or lent qualities. 5. Capability of producing specific effects; quan'ti-ta-tive, cuen'li-ta-tiv, a. Of or pertaining to fits a person or thing for a place or purpose; a requisite virtue; as, herbs possessing healing, qualities. 6. Par- quantity; having to do with quantities only: relating to for an employment, position, right, or privilege; specific ticular character or part; capacity; function. differences or distinctions of quantity rather than kind ally, legal power or capacity; adaptation; as, qualifica As early as the year 1780, Hastings sent over Major Scott to Eng. or character: distinguished from qualitative; as, quantitions for admission to college. land, in quality of his agent. WRAXALL Posthumous Memoirs, tative chemical analysis. Aug. 20, 1784 in vol. 1, p. 171. (BEN. & SON '36.] The village carpenter, . . . equally with the builder of a Britanthe terms of the original grant . , it is perhaps impossible to 7. (Prov. or Obs.) Social rank or status; hence, gen- nia Bridge, makes hourly reference to the laws of quantitative re determine. STUBBS Constitutional Hist. Eng. vol. ii, ch. 15, p. tility or superior rank; also, persons of rank, collectively; lations. SPENCER Education ch. 1, p. 45. ( A. '89.1 178. CL. P. 75.] as, people of quality; all quality were there. << LL. quantitatirus, < L. quantitas; see QUANTITY.] Page 25
quartern 1463 quaternity lights, signal-apparatus, signals, soundings, etc. Some- fusible in the blowpipe-flame, and resists all acids except of the whole function by another function.-9. radiate, times called signal-quartermaster. hydrofluoric. It abounds in rocks, and is an essential ele- a. Bot. Characterized by small or inconspicuous ray-ftoThe quarter-master, whose duty it was to superintend the helm, ment of granite. Optically, it is remarkable as exhibiting rets, as the heads of certain composite plants. soon announced that he was losing the command of the vessel, as rotatory polarization, some specimens being dextrorotatory Quas"i-mo'do, cwas i-mo'do, C. W., or cwg'si.. n. she was no longer obedient to her rudder. and some levorotatory. See POLARIZATION. Eccl. The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday: so COOPER Pilot ch. 4, p. 54. (1. & H. '69.) Here is a perfect crystal of quartz for you. . There is not called from the introit Quasi modo geniti infantes (as -quarter-inas"tersgen"er-al, n. A staff-officer a flaw in its contour throughout; not one of its myriads of compo- new-born babes). Quasimodo Sunday:. whose relation to an army is similar to that of quarter nent sides but is as bright as a jeweller's facetted work. master to his regiment. In the United States army he ranks Ruskin Ethics of the Dust lect. v, p. 86. (8. E. & co. '67.) quasje,cwas'ji,n. (Ş. Am.) A coati, especially Nasua narica. as a brigadier-general and is at the head of the quarter Quartz is either phenocrystalline, which is crystallized quasst, vt. & vi. To quash. quassi, cwas, rt. & vi. (Prov. Eng. or Obs.] To quaff; drink. master's department.-9.-sergeant, n. Mil. A and has a vitreous luster, as rock-crystal, or crypiocrystal. quass, n. Same as KvASS. non-commissioned staff-officer appointed to assist the quar. line, which is massive, like flint, and generally colored. quas-sa'tiont, n. The act or process of shaking, or the termaster. See illus, under SERGEANT. Chief among the phenocrystalline varieties are: amethys. state of being shaken; a concussion. quartern, cwör'tern, n. (Eng.) 1. A quarter, or tine quartz (colored purplish or bluish-violet by man. - quas'sa-tivet, a. Easily shaken or made tremulous. fourth part, especially the fourth part of certain measures ganese), asteriated a. (having whitish or colored radia- quas si-a, cwash'ia or cwosh'i-a (x111), n. 1. The in. or weights. (1) A quarter of a pint; å gill. (2) A quar tions within the crystals: called also star-quartz), aven- tensely bitter wood of the bitter ash (Picræna excelsa) of turin q. (see AVENTURIN),cat's-eye g. (see CAT'S EYE), ter of a peck; two quarts. (3) A quarter of a pound. (4) citrine q. (yellow and clear, resembling yellow topaz: Jamaica and the Caribbean A quarter of a stone; sometimes, four pounds. 2. A called also false or Spanish topaz), milky q. (nearly islands, of the Quassia amara quartern loaf. [< F. quarteron, < LL. quartero(n-), < opaque and milk-white, sometimes greasy-lustered, called of Surinam, or sometimes of L. quartus; see QUARTER', n.) quarter-ount. greasy, quartz), rock:q. (the ordinary crystallized varie- the bitter damson (Simarubu -quartern loaf, a loaf of bread made of a quarter of ties, also including the crystalline varieties, as Brazilian amara) of the West Indies a stone of flour; a loaf weighing 4 pounds. pebbles - rock :crystalt), rose-q. (rose red or pink, and South America. quar-ter'ni-on, n. A quaternion: an erroneous form. sometimes massive, supposed to be colored by titanium), Quassia is one of the purest quarter-on, cwõr'ter-on, n. A fourth part, as of a sagenitic q. containing incinded acicular crystals of and strongest of the simple pound or a hundred; a quarter. [F.; see QUARTERN.] rutile (then called Venus's hair-stone) or sometimes similar crystals of black tourmaline, goethite, stibnite, asbestos, ac- bitters, and is inuch used as a tonic in cases of gastric dequar"ter-oon', cwör'ter-ūn' (cwor'ter-ũn, S.W.), n. Same tinolite, hornblende, and epidote), sapphire.q. (a dark or as QUADROON. quarter-ont. indigo-blue variety: called also blue quarta, false sapphire, bility, etc., but when taken in overdoses produces narcotic quarter-seal", cwõr'ter-sil", n. Scots Law. A seal and siderite), smoky q. (same as CAIRNGORM). The black and irritant effects, somein form originally a fourth, but now one-half, of the varieties of sinoky quartz are called morion. The crypto. times causing vomiting. It is great seal, of which it is called the testimonial. It is crystalline varieties, many of which are used as gems (see made into cups which impart kept by the director of the Chancery, and is affixed to cer. table of precious and ornamental stones, under STONE), in. their bitter and tonic propertasn writs, commissions, and minor royal grants. clude agate, agate-jarper, agatized wood, basanite (called ties to water drunk from quarter-ses"sions, cwõr'ter-sesh'unz, 1. 1. A them, but is usually sold in the A Flowering Branch of Sucourt held quarterly: in England, by all the justices of cedony, chrysoprase, flint, granular quartz (as itacolu forin of chips. It is also used rinam Quassia (Quassia mite), heliotrope (called also bloodstone), nornstone, iaspis, as a fly-poison and as an unthe peace in a county, or by the recorder in a borough; amara). jasper, onyx, plasma, porcelain jasper, prase, pseudomor wholesome substitute for hops in Scotland, by all justices of the peace in a county; in phous quartz, sardonyx, and silicious sinter. See plate of a, a flower; b, the fruit. in making beer. Ireland, by county court judges. În England and Scot- GEMS. land it tries many indictable offenses, hears appeals from [< G. quarz, quartz.) Quassia. Linnæus applied this name to a tree of Surinam in the petty sessions, and exercises a minor civil jurisdiction. Compounds, etc. : -cap quartz, a variety of quartz honour of a negro, Quassi or Coissi, who employed its bark as a rem edy for fever, and enjoyed such a reputation among the natives as 2. (u.'s.] In some States, a quarterly county court. consisting of separate layers or caps separated from each to be almost worshipped by some, and suspected of magic by others. other by thin layers of clay. capped quartzt.quar'ter:stafr", cwõr'ter-staf", n. A stout stick or Treas. of Bot. ed. by Lindley and Moore, pt. ii, p. 947. (L.G.& co.'89.] quartz':crush'er, n. A machine for breaking up quartz. staff, usually about 64 feet long, formerly much used in -q. liquefier, n. Metal. An apparatus in which, by the 2. [Q-] Bot. A genus of plants of the quassia family England as a weapon, and for fencing in sport: used by action of an alkali and high-pressure steam, gold bearing (Simarubacea), containing only two species, one in tropgrasping the middle with one hand and a point midway quartz is converted into a soluble silicate from which the ical Africa, the other (Q. amara) being the bitterwood between the middle and the end with the other, whirling gold may be separated by washing.- 9.-mill, n. A ma. or quassia of tropical America. [< Quassi; see quot. the staff rapidly by shifting the latter, and giving severe chine or establishment for under def. 1.] - quas'si-a-tree", n. Any one of the trees blows with the ends. pulverizing quartz ore, in or that yield quassia or bitterwood. der that the gold or silver it quar-tet', cwör-tet', n. 1. A composition for four voices contains may be separated quas'sin, cwas'in, C. E. I. W.? (cwes'in, S. W.1 Wr.), or four instruments. 2. The set of four singers or by chemical means. - q. n. A white crystalline compound (C10H,20g) contained players who render such compositions. re mining, n. The extraction in quassia-wood, of which it is the bitter principle. A quartet of singers is usually (1) mixed (soprano, alto, of any hard or rocky aurifer. quas'si-int; quas'sinet; quas/siter. tenor, and bass), or (2) male (first and second tenor, and ous or argentiferous ore. quat, cwet, o. (Prov. Eng.) I. 1. 1. To satiate or satis. first and second bass), or (3) female (first and second qo-porphyry, see PORPHY fy; overload; cloy. 2. To flatter. 31. To repress; subdue. soprano, and first and second alto). The ordinary instru. RY.-9.:reef, n. A quartz At. To release. II. i. To squat down. mental quartet is the string quartet (first and second vein.-9, rock, n, Quartz quat, 0. [Scot.) To quit; cease from. violin, viola, and violoncello). ite. quat, a. (Scot.) Set free or released; quit. 3. Pros. A stanza of four lines. 4. Car-building. A quartz-if'er.ous, quat, n. 1. A diminutive, insignificant, shabby, or trouble. quadruplet of springs. [< It. quartetto, dim. of quarcwörts-if'er-us, Geol. some person. 2. A pustule; pimple. to, fourth, < L. quartus: see QUARTER", n.] quar. Consisting of or containing A Centrifugal Roller Quartz- qua'in, cwa'ta, n. [S. Am. 1. same as QUASJE. qual'. (Dial., Eng.What. tette'i; quar-tet'tor. quartz. < QUARTZ + L. mill. tot. 2. The coaita. See illus, under COAITA. - double quartet (Mus.), two sets of four voices or fero, bear.] instruments, or music written for them. quartz'ite, cwörts’ait, n. the pulleys (p); the quartz is put The power is furnished through quatch, cwech, vi. (Prov. Eng.) To betray confidence; peach; tattle, quart/fult, a. In good health; prosperous. [C.] quart'. * Petrol. A very compact, in at the hopper (h) the three quatcht, a. squat; flat. i-fult.-quart'ful-nesst, n. granular quartz-rock rollers (r) rotate on their shafts quatch, 'n. (Prov. Eng.) A word, quarti., quart.. Derived from Latin quartus, fourth formed by the induration (8), and revolve together soraino qua'ter-cous"in, keter-cuz'in, C. w., or cg':,n. A fourth (see QUARTER!, n.): combining forms.-quar"ti-lu'nar, of a sandstone by the sec- the ring die (d), grinding the qua'ter-foil": n. Same as QUARTERFOIL. outward against cousin. (<F.quatre, four, + cousin.] ca'ter-cous"ini. 4. Of, pertaining to, or containing one-fourth of a lunar month. --quartine, n. Bot. A hypothetical or not ondary deposition of a sili- quartz, and forcing the slime out clearly demonstrable fourth layer of an ovule, counting cious cement, which usually of the screen (1). The discharge quatern, cwê'tern, C., or cuà'tern, E., a. Consisting of or having four; growing in fours; fourfold; quadruple. from the outside.-quart"in-va'ri-ant, n. Math. An enlarges each grain by the is at the rear on the left. [< L. quaterni, by fours, < quattuor, four.) invariant of the fourth degree in the coefficients of the addition of crystallographically continuous substance. quantic.- quar"ti-sec'tion, n. Same as QUADRISEC- It differs from sandstone in its superior compactness qua-ter'na ry, cwa-ter'na-ri, a. '1.. Consisting of TION.- quar"ti-ster'nal, n. [Rare.] The fourth seg. and in the very difficult visibility of the component four things, parts, or elements; arranged in fours. ment or division of the sternum. In ordinary chemistry binary equivalents are put in complete combination, but in organic chemistry we have ternary and qua. quartie, cwör'tic. Math. 1. a. Of the fourth degree grains (which seem as if fused together), though it is or order. Compare BIQUADRATIC. II. n. A quantic, a clastic sedimentary rock. quartz'ytei. ternary combinations. HICKOK AND SEELYE Mental Science div. curve, or surface of the fourth degree. [< L. quartus; quartz'oid, cwörts’oid, n. - quartz-it'ic, a. i, ch. 2, p. 102. (G. & co. '82.] see QUARTER', n.), A crystal having the form 2. Fourth in order, as of time, place, or development. quartile, cwõr'til, C. E. S. W. Wr. (-tail, I.), a. & n. of two six-sided pyramids base to base. [<QUARTZ+-op.] The first comprehensive determination breaks itself up into sul Petrol. Con. quartz"o-phyr'ic, cwörts'o-fir'ic, a. Astrol. Quadrate. '[< L. quartus; see QUARTER', n.] sidiary determinations, so that the primary will becomes secondary, quart!e, cwör'tl, n. Prov. Eng.) A quarter; fourth part. taining distinct crystals of quartz. [< QUARTZ + Gr. the secondary becomes tertiary, and the tertiary quaternary. BEECHER Plymouth Pulpit in vol, ii, p. 486. (J. B, F. '74.) quart lett, n. A goblet or vessel'that will hold a quart. phyro, mix.] quar'to, cwõr'to, a. 1. Having four leaves to the sheet, quartz'ose"; cwörteros", a. Geol, Composed of quartz 3. Math. Containing four variables; as, a quaternary or made up of sheets of four leaves; as, a quarto book. or containing it largely. quartz'oust; quartz’yt. cubic. 4. Crystal. Tetragonal. 5.'(Q.) Ged. Pertain. 2. Of the common form of a quarto; nearly square. The skilful manner in which their lapidaries cut crystal, agate, ing to the Quaternary: Post-tertiary. I< L. quaternaquar'to', n. 1. A book or pamphlet whose pages are and other quartzose minerals, is well known. S. WELLS WILL- rius, < quartuor, foar.) of the size of the fourth of a sheet; a size made by twice IAMS Middle Kingdom vol. i, ch. 6, p. 308. (s. 83.) - quaternary number, ten, as made up of the four numbers 1+2+3+4: a terin of the Pythagoreans. folding a sheet, which then makes four leaves: often quas, cwas, n. Same as kvass. Qua-ter'na-ry, n. quas'chi, n. Same as QUASJE. 1. Geolperiod of sally riding to present usage, the page of a quarto is quash, cwesh, ot. Law To make cvoid or set aside; geological history sometimes replaced by an upward from X abate; annul; as, to quash an indictment. extension of the term Tertiary. Called also Pleistostood to denote a shape broad in proportion to its length and Innocent the Third quashed both the contested elections. cene, Post-Pliocene, and Post- Tertiary. See chart under approaching the square, rather than an exact size. This GREEN Short Ilist. Eng. People ch. 3. $ 2, p. 119. MACM, 74.) GEOLOGY. (2) The formation, system, or group of strata dictionary is a quarto. assigned to this period: included within the Cenozoic 2. An eight-page newspaper of any size. [< L. in [< OF. quasser, < LL. casso, < L. cassus, empty.] era, or placed in a separate one called the era of man. quarto: in, in; quarto, abl. of quartus: see QUARTER', n.] Synonyms: see ANNUL; CANCEL. 27. [9.) The number four; a group of four things. page is greater than its height.--small q., a quarto with agebroad quarto, a quarto in which he waath the quash”, v. I. t. 1. To put down or suppress forcibly or summarily; make an end of; subdue; extinguish: qua-ter'nate, cwa-ter'net or net, a. Consisting of nearly square pages of octavo size. confused in use with QUASH?; as, to quash a seditious four things, parts, or the like; arranged in fours or sets quar'io, n. Fencing. Same as CARTE. of four; quaternary. (< L. quaterni; see QUATERN.) uprising. 2. [Archaic.) To beat down; beat or dash in -quaternate leat, a leat composed of four leaflets. Quar"to-dec'i-man, cwör to-des'i-mən, n. [-MA'NI, pieces; crush; squash; as, to quash an apple. To divide into or as into sets of four. -mê'nai or -ma'ni, pl.] Ch. Hist. One of those Eastern 117. i. To be shaken or dashed about forcibly or nois. qna-terni-ont, ri. qua-ter'ni-on, cwq-ter'ni-un, a. Of or pertaining to Sibristians who in the early centuries celebrated the pas ily. < OF: quarer, < 1, quasso i<.quatio), shake.) sion and death of our Lord by a paschal festival on what-quasht, n. 1. A squash. 2. A pumpkin. quaternions; fourfold; as, a quaternion rime. A negro, especially a West-Indian La Place, and all the great mathematicians of that period, had ever day of the week the Jewish Passover (14th of the quash'ee; cwoshire, scarcely passed away when the more powerful Quaternion system month Nisan) might fall in the given year, negro: often used as a proper name. began to dawn. MARY SOMERVILLE Personal Recollections ch, quash'ey, cwesh'ę, n. " A pumpkin. (< QUASH?, r.) 11, p. 189. (R. BROS. 74.) a Tohart of John's individual leanings long continued to be in qua'si, cwêrsai or cwa'sı, ado. & conj. As if; in a cer 1. A set, system, or file of four (as proved by ... the countenance he gave to the Quartodecimans, who kept the Passover on the 11th of tain sense or to a certain degree. See Qu'ASI. [L., <qua-ter'ni-on, n. parts, things, persons, or companies). Nisan. FARRAR Early Days Christianity ch. 25, p. 391. [E. P. D.] < qui, who), as, + si A quaternion of soldiers with their centurion were left on the ground to guard the cross. tus (see QUARTER', n.) + decimus; see DECIMAL.] ance; not fully genuine: the Latin quasi used, like FARRAR Life of Christ vol. ii, ch. 61, p. 41. (E. P. 1.1 Quar"to-dec'i-ma'ni-an, a. & n. pseudo-, properly as a prefix, but frequently written sep 2. (Rare.) A quadrisyllable. 3. Math. (1) An operator quar/tole, cwār'tol, n. Mus. arately as an adjective; as, a quasi-contract; a quasi that changes one vector into another: so called because performed in the time of three or six. [C] [<L. quartus; A group of four notes to be organism; quaxicofficial. I<li quasi; see Qu'Ast] qua'si contract, n. An obligation to do something, expressible as the sum of four quantities, three vectors quar' traint, n. A quatrain. enforceable by a contract remedy, but imposed by operation and a scalar. (2) pl. The form of the calculus of directed quar'tre, câ'tr, n. A local coin of New Orleans, La., for of law regardless of the consent of the defendant; as, a man quantities or vectors based on and making use of the idea merly representing six and a quarter cents, but now only is under a quasi-contruct to pay for necessary articles fur. of the operator defined above: invented by Sir William two and one-half cents. Those in present use have the lat. nished to his wife or to his child, as though (quireme.) Rowan Hamilton in 1813. Compare VECTOR. [< L. quater numerals stainped thereon, with the name of the mer: he had contracted so to do.-9. corporation, n. A body ternion-), <quaterni; see QUATERN. ] chant issuing them. The term is a remnant of the Spanish that exercises certain corporate functions, though not ex. Cio. -qua-ter"ni-on'ic, a.- qua-ter'ni-on-ist. dominion. <F.quartier, OF.quarter; see QUARTERI, n.] pressly incorporated by any statute.-9.elict. n. quartridget, n. Quarterage. Lane. An act that resembles an offense, and produces the n. One who studies or uses quaternions; one who upholds quartz, cwörts, n. Mineral. A native silicon dioxid (Si same result to the extent of imposing an obligation to pay the quaternionic notation in opposition to other systems, damages or a penalty. - gollerical, q.. 0f, per: qua-terni-ty, cwaterni-ti, n. 02), either massive or crystallizing in the hexagonal evs 1. (Rare.] That which taining to, or referring to hyperspace.-9. periodic, a. is fourfold; a union or combination of four in one; a group tem, and varying greatly in luster, transparency, and Math. Voting a function in which the increase of the va of four: correlative of trinity. 2. The state or condition color. It is the hardest of the common minerals, is in riable by a fixed amount is equivalent to the multiplication of being or making four or of being fourfold. feud, jū Page 26
quietness 1467 quinin tion, or disturbance; without agitation or emotion; noise- quilled material, as of fluted lace or muslin. 2. A single quince?, n. A card.game; quinze. [= QUINZE.] lessly; peaceably; peacefully; calmly; patiently; as, to fute or rounded plait in such material; a quill.. quin-cen'te-na-ry, cwin-sen'te-ne-ri, à. Pertaining live quietly; to close a door quietly. quil"lon', kí'lyon', n. One of the arms of the cross- to, consisting of, or coming at the end of five hundred, The great forces of God work quietly, as in light and life. guard of a sword. See illus. under SWORD. especially a period of five hundred years; of, pertaining A. MCKENZIE Cambridge Sermons ser. vii, p. 124. (D. L. co.] quill'tail", cwil'tel', n. (Local, U. S.) The ruddy duck. to, or being a five-hundredth anniversary. [< L. quin. qui'et-ness, cwai'et-nes, n. The state, fact, or quality quill' wort", cwilwūri, n. Any species of Isoetes, que, five, CENTENARY.] – quin-cen’te-na-ry, n. of being quiet, in any sense. especially I. lacustris. They are all small, vascular, A five-hundredth anniversary, or its celebration. The rule of quietness prevails, almost to the point of an English cryptogamic, and mostly quince' wort", cwins' wort', 1. Same as QUINSYWORT. dinner-party. R. H. DANA, JR. To Cuba ch.2, p. 20. (T. & F. 59.] aquatic plants, consisting quincht, vi. 1. To make a noise. 2. To wince; stir. Synonyms: see CALMNESS; REST. of a corm-like stem send quin-cun'cial, cwin-cun'shal, a. 1. Arranged in the quieto, cwie'tő, a. & ado. (It.) Mus. Quiet; quietly. ing up a tuft of quill-like form of a quincunx or so as to form quincunxes. 2, qui'et-oust, a. Quiet.- qui'et-ous-lyt, adv. leaves. There are about Bot. Arranged in a set of five: said of estivation and qui'et-somet, a. Quiet; still; calm. 50 species, of which more phyllotaxy. quin-cun'tiallt; quin-cunx'lali. qui'e-tude, cwai'e-tiūd, n. The state or quality of be- than a dozen are indige quincuncial estivation, an arrangement in esti. ing quiet; repose; tranquillity; rest. nous in the United States. vation in which two of five parts are exterior, two are in. Her natural quietude of mien and movement the same, indeed, See IBOETACEÆ. terior, and one is half exterior and half interior.-4. phyl. but with more languor in it. BULWER-LYTTON Kenelm Chil- quill'y, cwil'i, a. Possess lotaxy, a spiral arrangement of leaves on a stem in which each leaf is two-fifths of a circle from the next. lingly vol. ii, bk. viil, ch. 10, p. 321. (L. '87.) ing or full of quills; having - quin-cun'cial-ly, adv. [< F. quiétude, < L. quietudo, < quietus; see QUIET, v.] the quills exposed, as when quin'cupx, cwin'cunx, n. 1. An arrangement or disSynonyms: see CALMNESS; REST. the soft barbs are worn off. qui-e'tus, cwai-i'tus or qui-e'tus, n. 1. The act of position of five things in a square having one in each corner and one in the center, as in the five-spot of a die; quieting, or that which quiets; a silencing, suppressing, quilt, cwilt, 1, 1. 1; To stitch through and or ending; hence, death; repose; rest. 2. A final dis also, a similar arrangement or pattern repeated indefthrough at intervals or in initely; especially, such an arrangement of trees. charge or quittance, as of an account; a settlement. 3. lines or figures (often orna The better plan for large orchards apple) is what is called the [Slang.) A decisive blow. [< LL. quietus, discharged, mental) so as to hold to quincunx, ... in which th one row are opposite the <L quietus, see QUIET, v.] quighut, vt. 1. To release; set free. 2. To requite. quitet. gether the layers or mate spaces in the next. In this way, although the trees are at equal quight , ado. Quite. rials of (as outside, wad distances, there is a larger clear area around each tree. P. BARRY Fruit Garden pt. iii, ch. 1, p. 186. (0. J. co.] qui hi', cwal'chal', n. [Anglo-Ind.) 1. An Anglo-Indian ding, and lining); as, to 2. Astrol. The position of planets when distant from or English resident in Bengal. 2. A call to a servant out- quilt a cloak or a petticoat. side of the room; also, the servant so waiting. [< Hind, kol 2. To stitch in ornamental each other five signs, or 150° 3. A cruciform reliquary hai, who is there?] qui' bye':. patterns or crossing lines; or the like having five equal portions, that can be folded Qul.I'na, cwi-ai'na or .i'na, n. A genus of tropical up by closing the outer parts over the central one. F. as, to quilt a piece of cloth. American trees and shrubs 3. To wad or stuff with Sup. Dict. [< L. quincunx, five-twelfths, < quinque, of the gamboge family (Gut five, + uncia, twelfth part.) something stitched or fasttifera). [Of Guiana origin.] ened in place. 4. To Quincy meth'od. [Recent.) An educational system quiket. I.ot. To quicken. work, as a needle, into The Quillwort (Isoetes quikket. that lays special stress on the development of the activ. II. a. Quick; lacustris). ities of the child. allve. quikt.-quik'. cloth as if quilt-stitching. pesset, n. Liveliness; life. She quilted her needle carefully into her work, which she folded quin-dec'a-gon, cwin-dec'a-gon,n. Geom. A figure, especially a plane figure, with fifteen sides and fisteen quil, v. &n. Quill. precisely, and laid in a basket with her thimble and thread and PHIL. Soc. scissors. MARY E. WILKINS New England Nun p. 1. (H. '91.] angles. [< L. quinque, five, + DECAGON.] A fifteenth; especially, a subsidy or tax quile, cwail, o, & n. Coil: 5. To give a quilted appearance to, or interweave elabo quin'de-cint, n. of a fifteenth. quin'deit: quin'dismet. a corruption. rately. 6. To make protective with any material, as ar. quin-dec'i-ma, cwin-des'i-ma, n. Mus. 1. An organHere, too, in all directions, the mor with iron. 7. [Archaic.) To stuff with dressing, stop two octaves above the foundation-stops. [C.] 2. The hay-fields lay, either in green as a pigeon. 8. (Prov. Eng. & Slang.) To beat; thrash. interval of a fifteenth. (LL., f. of quindecimus, fifteenth, swathes, or tedded, or in luxuriII. 1. To stitch as in making a quilt; make or help to <L. quindecim, fifteen, < quinque, five, + decem, ten.) antly-scented quiles. make a quilt or quilted work, in any sense. DINAH M. CRAIK John Hali quin'de-cim'vir, cwin de-sim'ver, -sem'ver, n. fax ch. 5, P. 64. [H.] -quilted grape-shot, grape-shot on disks. one above quin"de-cem'vir, l-virs or -VI-RI, -vi-rai orri, pl.) another, the whole covered with canvas stitched tightly. qui'ler, cwal'ler, n. (Local, Rom. Antiq. A member of an official body of tifteen men; See GRAPE-SHOT. U.S.) The breeching-strap of a harness.. -quilt'er, n. One who or that which quilts. especially, one of the fifteen officials appointed for the quilt, n. 1. A bedcover or coverlet made by stitching care or inspection of the Sibylline books. [< L. quinquiz.js'ma, cwl-lls'ma, ". Leaves and Fruit of Quiina 'together two layers of cloth or patchwork with some decimvir, < quinque, five, to decem, ten, + vir, man.) (LL) Anc. Mus. A , quin"de.cim [or-cem']vir-ate, n. trill, or reiterated note, or its Guianensis. soft and warm substance (as wool or cotton) between A body of sign. a, longitudinal section of a bud. them. 2. Any bedcover, especially if thick and warm. quindecimvirs collectively, or their office or term of oitice. quilla, cwil, v. Chem. Of or per1. t., 1. To pluck quills from or out of. 3. A quilted skirt, or other quilted article. 4. A mat- quin"de-cyl'ic, cwin'de-sil'ic, a. taining to a compound containing fifteen atoms of car2. To wind on a quill or quills. 3. (Prov. Eng.) To tap, tress. [< OF. cuilte, < L. culcita, quilt.) quiltet. as a barrel of liquor. bon, specifically one of the fatty acid series; as, quindequilt'ing, cwilt'ing, n. 1. The act or process of making cylic acid. [< L. quindecim (see QUINDECIMA) + .YL.] II. i. [New Eng.) To wind thread or yarn on a quill. a quilt, or of stitching as in making a quilt. 2. Material Leave your quilling. WHITTIER The Ranger st. 7, for quilted work; specifically, a cotton or linen fabric pen"ta-de-cyl'ict. quilla, vt. To make or iron (a garment or fabric) with with raised pattern, used for quilts, vests, etc. 3. Quilt-quin'denet, n. The fifteenth day. quinel, n. (Scot.) A quean. quills, flutes, or rounded plaits or ridges. ed work, or stitching like that of quilted work, as on quineaf, n. 'A quince. quill', n. 1. One of the relatively large, stiff, and strong cloak- or coat-facings. 4. A quilting-bee. 5. Naut: qui'net, cwai'net, n. (Prov. Eng.) A quoin or wedge. flight-feathers or tail-feathers of a bird; a remex or a (1) A wrapping of braided or plaited sennit , or strands of quin-hy'drone, cwin-hai'dron, n. Chem. A green rectrix; loosely, any feather suitable for forming a pen. rope, for coating vessels for holding water. (2) (Slang.] crystalline compound (C12H2,0) with metallic luster, Zora pen made from a feather; hence, any pen; with the Flagellation with a rope's end. formed by mixing aqueous solutions of quinone and definite article, the profession of literature. --- quilt'ing:bee", n. A gathering of friends to make quinol. [< quin- (in QUINONE) + HYDRO-] chinIn the republic of letters there is no member of such inferior or work upon a quilt or quilts. - 4. cotton, 1. Cotton hydronet batting.–4. frame, n. An adjustable frame for holding quíni.. Derived from Quinia: a combining form in rank, or who is so much disdained by his brethren of the quill, as the hurmble novelist. FRANCES BURNEY Evelina pret., p. 9. (H. "13.) quin, cwin, n. [Local, Eng, A scallop or queensquint: in proper position a fabric to be quilted. chemical names of substances derived from or allied to 3. The hollow, horny basal part or stem of a feather; quina, cwai'na, C.: E. 7. Wr. (ki'na, E:2), n. "The fe quinin. See also QUINA-; QuiroA tube; barrel; calamus; specifically, such a stem used orj abrifugai bark of various South American trees, especially quin'i;a, cwin'1:0, . Quinin: formerly so called. for a receptacle or a measure, as for gold-dust or a drug, certain species of Cinchona. [Sp., < S. Am. quina, bark.) quin'i-ble, cwin'i-bl, n. Archaic. An interval of a fifth, or a part sung at such interval; a descant in fifths or at a of (2) as a plectrum, or, attached by a jack to a key, for -quin-am'i-cin, quin-am'i-cine, 1. Chem. An fifth. [< L. quini; see, QUINATE, a.) quyn'i-blet. playing a stringed instrument. 4. One of the large, hol- amorphous artificial alkaloid compound (C12H24N,02) ob. quin'i-bl(e, ri. [Archaic.] To sing a quiníble or quinibles. low, sharp spines (modified hairs) that form the covering tained from quinamin by treatment with dilute sulfuric of porcupines, hedgehogs, etc. acid.-quin-ain'i-din, quin-am'i-dine, n. Chem. An quin'ic, cwin'ic, a. Chem. Of, pertaining to, or derived 5. The pen of a squid. 6. Some hollow cylindrical part resembling the stem of amorphous artificial alkaloid compound (CH24N209) iso- from quinin. chin'ict; cin-chon'ict; kin'ics. a feather. meric with quinamicin and derived similarly froin quin- -quinic acid, a white crystalline compound (C7H1906) contained in cinchona.bark, coffee beans, and the leaves of (1) A piece of cane or reed or other slender amin.-quin-am'in, quin-am’ine, n. Chem. A white tube used as a musical pipe. (2) A tube, as of paper, to the oak, ash, and other trees. crystalline alkaloid compound (C18H.N209) contained in wind or keep yarn, thread, or silk upon, etc., as in weaving. cinchona-bark. quin-a'mi-ai. quin'i-cin, cwin'i-sin, n. Chem. A white, bitter, amor. (3) The hollow rotating mandrel or spindle which holds the quin'an-cyt, n. Quinsy. quin'i-cine, phous alkaloid compound (C20H194 N20,) procuttingtools in certain machines, as for seal-engraving. quin'an-cy:wortt, n., Quinsywort, duced by the molecular transformation of either of the al. fear A slow-burning fuse made formerly of the qulll of a qui"na-qui'na, ki'na kî'na, C. (cwai'na-cwai'na, E.), n. kaloids quinin and quinidin, hence produced only by sy n. feather filled with powder. (5) A piece of bark rolled into (S. Am.] Same as CINCHONA: applied to the bark. thesis. qui-ni'ci-at. qui-na'ri-an, cwal-n@ʻri-an, c. winār'i-an, E.... 1. a. quin"id-am/in, cwin'id-am'in, n. Chem. A crystalline 7. A writer; quill-driver. 8. (Prov. Eng. (1) A faucet. Quinary. II. An advocate of the quinary system. quin"id-am'ine, s alkaloid compound (C19H24N2O2) con. tained in several species of cinchona-bark, especially in the (3) A stalk, as of a cane or reed! [Prob.& F. quille, nine qui'na-ry, ewal'na-ri, c. 1. S. W. Wr. cwin'ari, E.), a: pin, < OHG. kegil, cone; cp. G. kiel, quill.] *quillet. Consisting of or containing five parts or elements arranged red bark. It is called conchinamin by Hesse. [< QUINA quill': covert, n. + AMIN, AMINE.] A wing. or tail-covert. - 9.. by fives, or in sets or groups of five; quinarian. Chem. A white crystalline driver, n. [Slang.]' One who writes.-9.-driving, ?: The naked, hairy, feathered, shelly, and scaly tribes constitute quin'i-din, cwin'i-din, n. (Slang.) Writing. -9. nib, a quill pen made to be used with the quinary system of ancient Chinese naturalists. S. WELLS quinidine; coinpound (CyH24N209) isomeric with quin. in, contained in certain cinchona-barks. It is used in medi. a holder.-9. quip,n. A short witty paragraph.-4. turn, WILLIAMS Middle Kingdom vol. i, ch. 6, p. 342. (8. '83.] cine, and its sulfate is officinal. Called conchinin by Hesse. n. The machine in which a weaver's quill is turned.-9.. The rose, the buttercup, and our other quinary flowers. chin'i-dini. work, n. Embroidery made of or with colored porcupine. "GRANT ALLEN Flowers ch. 1, p. 22. (L. G. & Co. "83.) quin'in, cwin'in, A., or cwin'ain, S.? Wr.: (-in, (!?; quills, as by the North-American Indians on birch-bark. qulll2, n. A flute, rounded ridge, or cyliudrical fold, as [<. , . in a ruff or ruffle.' <F. quille, keel.] ---quinary system Zol.), a system of classification by quin'ine, kinîn, C.; cwai'nain, C.: w.2; cwi-nain; Wr) (n quil.lai', ki-lai', n. fives originally propounded by Macleay in 1819. Chem. A white amorphous or slightly crystalline very the soapbark-tree (Quillaia Saponaria), of the rose fam of parts. bitter alkaloid compound ily (Rosaceæ), whose alkaline Inner bark is used instead qui'nate, cwai'net or -net, a. Bot. Arranged in fives; of soap in Chile and elsewhere. Written also cullay. (Chilean, < quillean, wash.] having five similar parts together, as the tive leaflets in (C20H24N20,) contained in lay't:-quil.lai':bark", n. quil·la'lat; quil. the Virginia creeper. See illus. under AMPELOPSIS.[s cinchona-barks. Its salts, as the hydrochlorate, sulSee BARK? quill’back", cwil' bac", n. L. quini, tive each, < quinque, five.! fate, and others, are largely piodes), especially c. velifer, common in the Mississippi natet; ki nater, A carp-sucker (genus Çar: qui'nate, n. Chem. A salt of quinic acid. cin'cho. used in medicine on ac count of their tonic and walley, with the anterior rays of the dorsal fin elongated quin'ca-jou", n. Same as KinkaJOU. quincei, cwins, n. 1. The hard, acid, fragrant, pleas. antipyretic qualities, espe. cially in malarial affections quilled', cwild, a. 1. Provided or secured with or hav. ant-flavored, yellowish fruit of a large shrub or small of all kinds, ing quills; as, a quilled wing; a many-quilled hedgehog; tree (Cydonia vulgaris or Pyrus Cydonia) of the rose It has been suggested that the aquilled suture. 2. Shaped like or rolled into the form family (Rosaceæ): not eaten raw, but much used for quinin reaction may have failed of a quill or quills; as, quilled cinchona-bark. 3. Her. preserves, jellies, and marmalade. 2. The shrub or tree either by reason of the converHaving the quills of the feathers of that bears the fruit, or any one of several shrubs or sion of quinin into one of its quilled", a. 1. Made or prepared for use with quilling small trees thought to resemble it . (ME. quence, < isomers - quinidin or quinicin -or by reason of its absorption cum flutes, fluted; crimpea. Prema naving diluted or nearly quine, < OF. coin, < 1. cydonium, < Gr. kydônion; and elimination. tabular petals, florets, or the like; of a fluted form. see CYDONIA.] quencet. R. A. WITTHAUS in Requiler, cwil'er, n. sørov. Eng.)'An unfledged bird: -- Bengal quince, the ripe fruit of Ægle Marmelos. searches of Loomis Laboratoquii'let', cwil'et; n. (Archaic.] A quibble; suhtlety; nicety. See ÆGLE.-Japan or Japanese q., an ornamental ry vol, ii, p. 14. (V. N, Y. '92.] I have no skill in these nice quillets of philosophy: shrub (Cydonia or Pyrus Japonica) from the Old World, [F., < Sp: quina; see QUI A Flowering Branch of Cina (F. & prized mainly for its early and profuse large flowers, usu NA.) chin'int; quin'. chona Calixaya, an imporally or , but varying white. Its fragrant (Contr . 5 L. quidlibet, what you please, < 'quid (see prescribentistes couleusemerines to play or making and i-at. QUID2) + libet, it pleases.] tant source of Quinin. -anin'in flow"er, n. a, the flower; b, a dehiscent fruit. Often called japonica and burning-buxh.-9. leaf-blight quil leta, n. (Prov. Eng.) 1. A croft. 2. A furrow. or quince-spot, a disease of the quince-tree, due to a fun- A much branched herb (Sab. 1. A ruffle, band, or piece of gus Entomosporium maculatum. batia Elliottii) of the gentian family (Gentianacea), with |
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