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.

The rank or dignity of a peer.

Peerage; also, a lordship.

The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.

Same as Peart.

Same as Pewit (a b).

Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.

Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.

The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

A large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs; the pewit.

See Pewit.

To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.

Tapering toward teh bottom; as, pegged pants.

One who fastens with pegs.

The act or process of fastening with pegs.

A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.

Graphic granite. See under Granite. More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.

Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.

Divination by fountains.

Same as Setterwort.

An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings.

A woman's loose dressing sack; hence, a loose morning gown or wrapper.

See Peen.

A dynamometer for measuring the force required to draw wheel carriages on roads of different constructions.

Fitted for trial or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.

To poise or weigh.

See Peytrel.

Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging; unfavorable.

See Fisher, 2.

a Pekingese.

a Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle.

A kind of black tea.

See Wax insect, under Wax.

The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair.

Of or pertaining to Pelagius, or to his doctrines.

The doctrines of Pelagius.

Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast. Compare benthic.

Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (called also nonoic acid) found in the leaves of the geranium (Pelargonium) and allied plants.

A large genus of plants of the order Geraniace/, differing from Geranium in having a spurred calyx and an irregular corolla.

Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.

See Pelican.

A natural family of birds consisting of the pelicans.

Those birds that are related to the pelican; the Totipalmi.

A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.

A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.

Same as Lamellibranchia.

same as lamellibranchiate.

See Peregrine.

A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.

A king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he was the son of Aeachus.

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

Of or pertaining to pelf.

Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash.

Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored.

The American coot (Fulica).

See Pelecoid.

A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation.

A variety of iolite, of a smoky blue color; pelioma.

A livid ecchymosis.

An outer garment for men or women, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's or child's long outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.

A skin or hide; a pelt.

See Pall-mall.

A porpoise.