The common English periwinkle.

The laughing gull.

Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.

A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

A little pin.

Any pied animal; esp., a pied or /painted/ horse.

A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

One of the sights of an astrolabe.

A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.

Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.

See Pinkster.

Abounding with pines.

A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., /abounding in marsh marigolds./

To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

groundbreaking; originating; -- of efforts that begin work in a field or on a topic not previously widely known.

A pioneer.

See Peony.

The magpie.

Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.

In a pious manner.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep.

The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.

Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

To perform, as a tune, by playing on a pipe, flute, fife, etc.; to utter in the shrill tone of a pipe.

One who lays conducting pipes in the ground, as for water, gas, etc.

The laying of conducting pipes underground, as for water, gas, etc.

To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.

To whiten or clean with pipe clay, as a soldier's accouterments.

Formed with a pipe; having pipe or pipes; tubular.

Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.

One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe.

Of or pertaining to the order of plants (Piperace/) of which the pepper (Piper nigrum) is the type. There are about a dozen genera and a thousand species, mostly tropical plants with pungent and aromatic qualities.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.

Same as Pepperidge.

An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.

A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species.

A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.

A hydrocarbon obtained by decomposition of certain piperidine derivatives.

The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

Any climbing species of Aristolochia; esp., the Dutchman's pipe (Aristolochia sipho). See under Dutchman.

An ericaceous shrub (Leucotho/ acuminata) of the southern United States, from the wood of which pipe bowls are made.

Any plant of a genus (Eriocaulon) of aquatic or marsh herbs with soft grass-like leaves.

A small cord covered with cloth, -- used as trimming for women's dresses.

A small European bat (Vesperugo pipistrellus); -- called also flittermouse.

Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillid/. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.

A small earthen boiler.

An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple. A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin.

Any one of numerous species of small clamatorial birds belonging to Pipra and allied genera, of the family Piprid/. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.

Of or pertaining to the pipras, or the family Piprid/.

A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine.

Like a pipe; hollow-stemmed.

The quality or state of being piquant.

Stimulating to the taste; giving zest; tart; sharp; pungent; as, a piquant anecdote.

In a piquant manner.

To cause annoyance or irritation.

See Pickeer.

A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

The act or crime of a pirate.

See Pirogue.

Same as Piraya.

A dynamometer for ascertaining the power required to draw carriages over roads.

Same as Arapaima.

To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

Piratical.

Of or pertaining to a pirate; acquired by, or practicing, piracy; as, a piratical undertaking.

A large voracious fresh-water fish (Serrasalmo piraya) of South America, having lancet-shaped teeth.

A pear tree.

A South American bird (Guira guira) allied to the cuckoos.

To spin, as a top.

A quill or reed on which thread or yarn is wound; a bobbin; also, the wound yarn on a weaver's shuttle; also, the reel of a fishing rod.

A dugout canoe; by extension, any small boat.

To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.

A rough gale of wind.

See Pissasphalt.

See Pis/.

The right or privilege of fishing in another man's waters.

Fishing; fishery.

A fisherman; an angler.

Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.

The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs. A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.

Capture of fishes, as by angling.

Relating to pisciculture.

Fish culture. See under Fish.

One who breeds fish.

Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.

A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.

Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.

Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pis/ work.

To express contempt.

The Canada lynx.

A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

An ant, or emmet.

A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.

Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.

Pissasphalt.

Urine.

To waste; to squander; to fritter away; as, he pissed away his opportunity to get the job by arriving late for the interview.

To leave immediately; to scram; -- chiefly British, and sometimes considered vulgar.

A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

Worthless or of no significance.

Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistency of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.

Angered or very annoyed.

Something very difficult or troublesome.

a public urinal, in European countries.

See Piste.

The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it. Called also pistachio.

The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiace/, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.

The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio (Pistacia vera), the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (Pistacia Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

Epidote.

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Same as Pistacite.

The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.

Pure; genuine.

The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.