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.

In a peevish manner.

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.

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.

A customs duty on skins of leather.

An affection of the skin, characterized by redness, especially in exposed areas, scaling and shedding of the skin, and accompanied with severe gastrointestinal disturbance and nervous symptoms. It is due to a deficiency of niacin (vitamin B3; nicotinic acid) and protein in the diet, and may be caused by malnutrition, or, in some cases, by a heavy dependence on maize for food. It was at one time (ca. 1890) endemic in Northern Italy, and was called Alpine scurvy. It may also be caused by alcoholism or diease causing an impairment of nutrition. It is also called St. Ignatius's itch, maidism, mal de la rosa, mal rosso, and psychoneurosis maidica. A variety of pellagra seen in children is called infantile pellagra or kwashiorkor.

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.

To form into small balls; to pelletize.

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets.

To form into small balls; as, to pelletize ore. The spelling pelletise is mostly British.

A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.

A thin skin or film.

Of or pertaining to a pellicle.

The redshank; -- so called from its note.

A composite plant (Anacyclus Pyrethrum) of the Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers. The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used as an irritant and sialogogue. Called also bertram, and pellitory of Spain. The feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium); -- so called because it resembles the above.

In utter confusion; with confused violence.

Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.

In a pellucid manner.

The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air.

The under surface of the foot.

A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.

Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece. A native or an inhabitant of the Peloponnesus.

the southern peninsula of Greece.

Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity.

Abnormally regular or symmetrical.

An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.

A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.

Packs or bales of Spanish wool.