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.

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.

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.

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.

One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.

A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

See Peddler.

The baptism of infants or of small children.

One who advocates or practices infant baptism.

An instrument carried by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey.

Pediatrics.

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

A person who has pedophilia.

A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.

Same as pedophile.

The art of nourishing children properly.

A device intended to replace the wheel of a self-propelled vehicle for use on rough roads and to approximate to the smoothness in running of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng. A vehicle, as a traction engine, having such pedrails.

A lava field.

The five of trumps in certain varieties of auction pitch. A variety of auction pitch in which the five of trumps counts five.

The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).

To urinate.

See Piece.

The dauw.

Urination; -- an informal term; as, he doesn't like peeing out of doors.

To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

A child's game; bopeep.

The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, rhebuck, rhebok, and rehboc.

Naked; -- used informally.

A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

See 1st Peel.

To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

To complain.

The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.