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.

Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone.

See Pettychaps.

A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.

wearing or furnished with a petticoat; as, petticoated ladies; a petticoated table.

To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim.

A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.

The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles; chicanery.

Pettifoggery.

To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.

In a petty manner; frivolously.

The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

Sexually titillating foreplay without contact with the genital organs.

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.

The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.

The breast.

Little; trifling; inconsiderable; unimportant; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; petty complaints; a petty prince.

Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviin/, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).

The needle furze. See under Needle.

The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.

Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.

In a petulant manner.

Wantonness; friskiness.

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnel-form or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacea, with reddish purple flowers, and Petunia nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.

To furnish with pews.

A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis ph/be, or Sayornis fuscus). Called also pewit, and ph/be.

Same as Pewit.

One who occupies the same pew with another.

The lapwing. The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing. The pewee.

A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.

One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.

Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.

Nap of cloth.

The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.

A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.

A large natural family comprising many typical cup fungi.

An order of mostly saprophytic fungi having cup-shaped ascocarps.

Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.

A genus constituted by the extinct solitaire.

A territory in southwestern Germany formerly ruled by the counts palatine.

A puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce.

A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark. In 2001 it was superseded by the euro.

A scholastic degree awarded for study beyond college; the Doctorate degree in Philosophy. In America it is usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the doctorate is the highest degree awarded by a graduate school, and is awarded in other fields, such as Doctor of Arts. The Ph.D. is broadly applicable, as in most fields of science and technology; -- the term philosophy being derived from an earlier label for experimental science as Natural Philosophy.

One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.

The wart hog.

Resembling a lentil; lenticular.

A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.

A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.

Of or pertaining to the Ph/acians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.

Any plant of the class Ph/nogamia .

The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

Same as Ph/nogamous.

Having true flowers with distinct floral organs; flowering.

See Phenomenon.

A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Ph/ospore/) of dark green or olive-colored alg/.

The son of Helios (Ph/bus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.

A canine appetite; bulimia. Spreading, obstinate ulceration.

Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine. A phagedenic medicine.

Phagedenic.

A leucocyte which plays a part in immunity and retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, foreign objects such as bacteria or cellular parts to be removed. There are two principle subtypes, (1) microphages, polymorphonuclear lymphocytes which principally digest bacteria; and (2) macrophages, mononucleated cells which primarily scavenge dead tissue and degenerate cells.

A small crested passerine bird (Pha/nopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher.

An instrument for studying the mechanism of accommodation.

A linn/an genus which included the moths in general.

Any moth of the family Phal/nid/, of which the cankerworms are examples; a geometrid.

A genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia.

Of or pertaining to the phalanges. See Phalanx, 2.

Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, and other genera of the family Phalangistid/. They are arboreal, and the species of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flying phalanger, under Flying.

pl. of Phalanx.

Phalangeal.

One of the Phalangoidea.

Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.

Any arboreal marsupial of the genus Phalangista. The vulpine phalangist (Phalangista vulpina) is the largest species, the full grown male being about two and a half feet long. It has a large bushy tail.

Same as Phalangist.

A soldier belonging to a phalanx.

A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen; and chelate jaws. They breathe by trache/. Called also Phalangides, Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea.

A phalanstery.

One who favors the system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier.