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.

Wanton; frisky; lustful.

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 .

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.

A system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier; Fourierism.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism.

A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men.

Any species of Phalaropus and allied genera of small wading birds (Grall/), having lobate toes. They are often seen far from land, swimming in large flocks. Called also sea goose.

A natural family of birds, consisting of the phalaropes.

The type genus of the Phalaropidae: the phalaropes.

A natural family of fungi consisting of the true stinkhorns.

An order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in the subclass Homobasidiomycetes.

Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

See Phallism.

The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

A quarter of Constantinople which, after the Turkish conquest of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

See Fane.

Evident; visible.

Same as Acraspeda.

Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to cryptocrystalline.

Same as Saurur/.

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

Phanerogamous.

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

Having a conspicious tongue; -- said of certain reptiles and insects.

An optical instrument or toy, resembling the phenakistoscope, and illustrating the same principle; -- called also phantasmascope.

An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.

A phantasm.

An optical effect produced by a magic lantern. The figures are painted in transparent colors, and all the rest of the glass is opaque black. The screen is between the spectators and the instrument, and the figures are often made to appear as in motion, or to merge into one another.

Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial.

See Phantasmagoria.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.

See Phantascope.