A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

See Purpresture.

See Pursuivant.

See Portray.

See Purveyance.

Pulse; pease.

A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of several liqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so as to remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials served at any time.

To perform a certain movement in a dance.

The European whiting pout or bib.

One who, or that which, pouts.

Childish sullenness.

In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.

Poverty.

The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

A horn in which gunpowder is carried.

a. n. from Powder, v. t.

A mill in which gunpowder is made.

Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

A dike a marsh or fen.

See Powdery.

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or Coregonus ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.

To cause (an airplane) to make a power dive; as, he power-dived his plane to escape the attackers.

Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.

Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any kind; potent; mighty; efficacious; intense; as, a powerful man or beast; a powerful engine; a powerful argument; a powerful light; a powerful vessel.

Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect.

Same as Pauldron.

See Poop, v. i.

See Pouter.

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

A support; -- used in composition; as, teapoy.

A bodkin.

A poniard.

See Poind, Poinder.

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.

A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.

See 5th Pose.

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war.

Practical.

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.

To render practical.

In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

Same as Practicality.

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman.

One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

Practice.

A guide.

An agent or confederate in treachery.

See Practice.

One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine.

Doing; active.

A horse.

The superior vena cava.

A writ commanding something to be done, or requiring a reason for neglecting it. A paper containing the particulars of a writ, lodged in the office out of which the writ is to be issued.

A division of birds including those whose young are able to run about when first hatched.

Of or pertaining to the Pr/coces.

This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.

A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.

See Precoracoid.

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.

Same as Precordial.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

See Predial.

Same as Prefloration.

Same as Prefoliation.

See Premaxilla.

See Premolar.

Same as Premorse.

To subject to the penalties of pr/munire.

See Premunitory.

The anterior nares. See Nares.

Same as Prenasal.

The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.

Of or pertaining to a pr/nomen.

Same as Preoperculum.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

See Preterist.

See Pretermit.

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

See Pretor.

A division of butterflies including the satyrs.

See Pretorian.

See Pretorium.

Same as Prezygapophysis.

One skilled in affairs.

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

In a pragmatical manner.

The quality or state of being pragmatical.

The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method.

One who is pragmatic.

To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.

The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18. See Vendemiaire.

An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains.

Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable.

In a praisable manner.

Commendation for worth; approval expressed; honor rendered because of excellence or worth; laudation; approbation.

A religious service mainly in song.

Praiseworthy.

Without praise or approbation.

Appraisement.

One who praises.

In a praiseworthy manner.

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.

Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects.

Pertaining to Prakrit.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.

a perambulator{3}; -- British informal shortened form.