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.

Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.

The act of measuring by paces.

a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle; a pedaler.

Going on foot; pedestrian.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

In a pedantic manner.

Pedantically.

To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.

The sway of pedants.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

An assembly or clique of pedants.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

A sandal.

An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.

Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Sexual activity between two males; sodomy; the /crime against nature/; -- used especially when one partner is a boy.

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.

Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.

Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.

In a pedestrial manner.

A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

Going on foot; not winged.

Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.

Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.

Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children.

That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of infants and children.

a tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling); used in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire; as, boys who once pulled rickshaws now pedal pedicabs.

A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in alg/, or a sporangium in ferns.

Pedicellate.

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.

Same as Pedicel.

Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.

Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.

An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.

Phthiriasis.

A pedicel.

A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.

Pedicular.

A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.

Professional care of the feet, toes, and toenails.

Shaped like a foot.

Bearing or having feet or legs.

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.

A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.

Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

Of or pertaining to a pediment.

A genus of fowl including the sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioecetes phasianellus, also called the prairie chicken).

A genus of birds including the plains wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) of New South Wales as its only species. It is the only genus of the family Pedionomidae of the order Passeriformes and the plains wanderer is the only species in the family. The total world population (as of ca. 2000) is estimated to be 5 to 10 thousand.

One of the Pedipalpi.

A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.