A tropical tree Caesalpinia echinata, having a prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for cabinetry.

Resembling a peach or peaches.

The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

A bright greenish blue.

The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.

A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads. See also wampum.

See Paage.

A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.

The hen or female peafowl.

To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.

Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.

Mean; sneaking.

Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.

Having a peak or peaks.

To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.

To give off a loud pealing sound; to peal.

A song of praise and triumph. See P/an.

The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypog/a); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.

Of the form of a pear.

See Perch.

To resemble pearl or pearls.

Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with a cataract or cataracts.

Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.

A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

A diver who searches for molluscs containing pearls; a pearl diver.

Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.

Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

A kind of lace of silk or thread.

A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.

A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.

Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.

an American everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly-white scarious involucres.

White like a pearl; very white.

The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.

Rustic, rural.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Peasantlike.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

A pea.

Pisolite.

The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.

A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike; it is used for handling logs.

An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

Abounding in pebbles.

Full of pebbles; pebbled.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

A species of hickory (Carya oliv/formis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.

See Peccary.

The state or quality of being peccable; liability to sin.

Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.

A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime; a trifling fault.

The quality or state of being peccant.

An offender.

A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

See Pekoe.

A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

Inclined to eat; hungry.

Speckled; spotted.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

The pectoral muscles; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to abs and delts.

A salt of pectic acid.

A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium. The pubic bone.

Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling. It is commonly used in making fruit jelllies.

A fish whose bones resemble comb teeth.

Resembling the teeth of a comb.

In a pectinate manner.

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Of or pertaining to the pecten. Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.

One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

Having pectinated gills.

Comblike in form.

To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.

A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.

A covering or protecting for the breast.

As connected with the breast.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.

Pectoriloquy.

Pectoriloquial.

The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.

The breast of a bird.

See Picul.

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.

One who peculates.

That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.

To make peculiar; to set apart or assign, as an exclusive possession.

In a peculiar manner; particularly; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.

The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.

The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.

Pecuniary.

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.

A basket; a hammer; a pannier.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.

Pedagogue.

See Pedagogics.

Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues.

To play the pedagogue toward.

Pedagogics; pedagogism.

A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle.