One who is versed in pteridology.

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns.

A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.

An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorph/.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

Same as Pterosauria.

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.

Same as Odontotorm/.

Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.

One of the Pteropoda.

A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.

Of or pertaining to the Pteropoda.

A pterodactyl.

An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.

Of or pertaining to the Pterosauria.

A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. The pterotic bone.

A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone. A pterygoid bone.

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pteryl/, of birds.

The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

The pentail.

Same as Dasyp/des.

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasyp/dic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

An order of birds including only the penguins.

Same as Pterylosis.

A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.

One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.

A ptysmagogue.

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.

A retail business where alcoholic beverages are sold by the drink; a bar; a tavern.

to go from one pub or tavern to the next and get progressively more drunk.

Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.

Of or pertaining to puberty.

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

Very minutely downy.

The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.

The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.

Pubescence.

Arrived recently at puberty.

Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. Of or pertaining to the pubis.

The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.

Public-spirited.

Public-spirited.

A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.

The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

to make public; to announce.

With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.

The act or process of making publicly known; publication.

Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (Lithospermum hirtum, and Lithospermum canescens); also, the pigment itself.

Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

See Pucelle.

Virginity.

A maid; a virgin.

Any plant louse, or aphis.

Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.

A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.

Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar.

A puffball.

A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.

One who, or that which, puckers.

Producing, or tending to produce, a pucker; as, a puckery taste.

A puffball.

Resembling Puck; merry; mischievous.

See Koklass.

The hand; the first.

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat. A bunch of soft material to prevent chafing between spars, or the like.

A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.

A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc.

Stupid.

To make a dirty stir.

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

One who converts cast iron into wrought iron by the process of puddling.

The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. Puddle. See Puddle, n., 2.

Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul.

A small inclosure.

Modesty; shamefacedness.

The external organs of generation.

Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum.

The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.

Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

Pudic.

Modesty; chastity.

A very small deer (Pudua humilis), native of the Chilian Andes. It has simple spikelike antlers, only two or three inches long.

To make a low whistling sound; to chirp, as birds.

A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region.

A pewfellow.

The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.

A hog.

Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.

In a puerile manner; childishly.

The quality of being puerile; puerility.

The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.

Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever.

Bearing children.

The pewit.