The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

Physiogmony.

One of the Physoclisti.

An order of teleost in which the air bladder has no opening.

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx.

One of the Physopoda; a thrips.

Same as Thysanoptera.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; -- formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.

An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others.

Having a duct to the air bladder. Pertaining to the Physostomi.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

Feeding on plants or herbage; phytophagous; as, phytivorous animals.

Relating to phytochemistry.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

Phytochemistry.

The doctrine of the generation of plants.

Of or pertaining to phytogeography.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Relating to phytoglyphy.

See Nature printing, under Nature.

Of or pertaining to phytography.

The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.

Resembling a plant; plantlike.

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

An old name for a fossil plant.

One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.

The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.

Of or pertaining to phytology; botanical.

One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.

The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.

An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.

One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

The science of the origin and growth of plants.

One skilled in diseases of plants.

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.

Phytophagous.

Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.

The eating of plants.

Vegetable physiology.

One versed in phytotomy.

The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.

Same as Infusoria.

A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoophytes.

See Phiz.

To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.

The pineapple. Pi/a cloth or the fiber of which it is made.

A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.

The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and Pinus Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America. See Monkey's puzzle.

See Piassava.

A heinous offense which requires expiation.

Expiatory; atoning.

The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.

Same as Piacular.

Pertaining to the pia mater.

The yaws. See Yaws.

The magpie. The lesser woodpecker.

A small piano; a pianino.

A pianette, or small piano.

A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.

A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.

A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.

A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also pia/aba and piasaba.

A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.

See Piaster.

The act of making atonement; expiation.

Cymbals.

An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.

A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

The genus that includes the magpies.

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

The finfoot.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Of or pertaining to Picari/. One of the Picari/.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.

A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.

A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back.

A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Of or pertaining to the Piciformes.

A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.

Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.

A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

to put out a baserunner who is off base by tagging him/her, especially by a quick throw from the pitcher or catcher.

One who seeks out faults.

A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer.

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. Now (2001) used primarily in the latter sense, and in that sense often considered derogatory.

Pickaback.

A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.

On the back.

Pointed; sharp.

The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.

One who pickeers.

One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.

A young or small pike.

The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.

Petty theft.

To fortify with pointed stakes.