A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
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An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition. A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
Least favorable for survival; -- of an organism's environment.
The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.
One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.
Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.
Pessimistic.
To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism.
A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.
The system of education introduced by Pestalozzi.
To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; as, the exasperation of a pestered animal.
One who pesters or harasses.
The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.
Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome.
Pestiferous.
A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
That which conveys contagion or infection.
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
In a pestiferous manner.
Specifically, the disease known as the plague; hence, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating.
Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous.
Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence.
Pestilently.
Pestilential.
In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.
The quality of being pestilent.
The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar.
To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
A sauce used in Italian cuisine, typically made by blending olive oil, basil, garlic, pine nuts, and grated parmesan cheese; it is served hot or cold over pasta, meat, or fish. Where pine nuts are expensive, sunflower seeds are sometimes substituted.
Petted; indulged; favorite; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory; a pet animal.
To be a pet.
One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc.
Bearing petals.
Having the form of a petal; petaloid; petal-shaped.
Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.
A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.
A rare mineral, occurring crystallized and in cleavable masses, usually white, or nearly so, in color. It is a silicate of aluminum and lithium.
The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals.
Petaline.
Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline.
An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.
Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous.
A petal.
See Petard.
A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.
One who managed a petard.
The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans.
Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.
A genus of very large Asiatic flying squirrels.
A natural family of Old World flying squirrels.
A small cock or faucet or valve for letting out air or releasing compression, or for draining a vessel.
Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.
Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi/; spotted.
To become depleted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.
See Petrel.
See Pederero.
A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter.
A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.
See Saint Peter's-wort, under Saint.
Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud.
Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.
A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
Petiolate.
Supported by its own petiolule.
A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.
Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.
A size category of women's clothing, for women with less than average height.
The fallacy of assuming the conclusion in the premises; begging the question.
To make a petition or solicitation.
By way of begging the question; by an assumption.
Supplicatory; making a petition.
A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
One who presents a petition.
The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.
One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant.
Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
See Packfong.
See Petrology.
An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
See Saltpeter.
Of or pertaining to rock.
Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellarid/. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.
The process of changing into stone; petrification.
Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
Petrifying; petrifactive.
To petrify.
See Petrifaction.
Converted into stone.
To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
Of or pertaining to St. Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
A genus of perennial tussock-forming rock plants; native to the Pyrenees and mountains of Northern Spain; it is similar to and sometimes placed in the genus Lychnis.
Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (Petrogale penicillata).
A carving or drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric humans; called also a petrograph.
Of or pertaining to petroglyphs or petroglyphy.
The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.
A carving or drawing on rock, especially one made by prehistoric humans; called also a petrograph.
Pertaining to petrography.
The art of writing on stone.
Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.
Petroleum.
A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments.
Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc.
One who makes use of petroleum for incendiary purposes.
A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.
Of or pertaining to petrology.
According to petrology.
One who is versed in petrology.
The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone; periotic.
A lamprey.
A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.
A petrosal bone. The auditory capsule.
Felsite.
Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex.
A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
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