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.

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 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.

A blow or stroke from something thrown.

A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.

Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ.

A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.

Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate.

Mean; paltry.

Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

Peltry.

The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.

An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the pelvis.

The measurement of the pelvis.

The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

An order of extinct reptiles including edaphosaurus and dimetrodon.

A breed of dog, the smaller and straight-legged variety of Welsh corgi having pointed ears and a short tail.