The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.

Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.

Rustic, rural.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Peasantlike.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.

The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.

A pea.

Pisolite.

The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.

A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

A cant hook having the end of its lever armed with a spike; it is used for handling logs.

An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

Abounding in pebbles.

Full of pebbles; pebbled.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

A species of hickory (Carya oliv/formis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.

See Peccary.

The state or quality of being peccable; liability to sin.

Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.

A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime; a trifling fault.

The quality or state of being peccant.

An offender.

In a peccant manner.

A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

See Pekoe.

A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.

One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

Inclined to eat; hungry.

Speckled; spotted.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

The pectoral muscles; -- a contraction used by body-building and health enthusiasts. Used similarly to abs and delts.

A salt of pectic acid.

A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium. The pubic bone.

Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling. It is commonly used in making fruit jelllies.

A fish whose bones resemble comb teeth.

Resembling the teeth of a comb.

In a pectinate manner.

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Of or pertaining to the pecten. Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.

One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

Having pectinated gills.

Comblike in form.

To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.

A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.

A covering or protecting for the breast.

As connected with the breast.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.

Pectoriloquy.

Pectoriloquial.

The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.

Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.

See Picul.

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.

One who peculates.

That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.

To make peculiar; to set apart or assign, as an exclusive possession.

In a peculiar manner; particularly; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.

The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.

The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.

Pecuniary.

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.

Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.

A basket; a hammer; a pannier.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.

Pedagogue.

See Pedagogics.

Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues.

To play the pedagogue toward.

Pedagogics; pedagogism.

A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.

a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle.

Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.

The act of measuring by paces.

a person who rides a pedal-driven vehicle; a pedaler.

Going on foot; pedestrian.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation.

In a pedantic manner.

Pedantically.

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.

To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.

The sway of pedants.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.

An assembly or clique of pedants.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

A sandal.

An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.

Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.

To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Sexual activity between two males; sodomy; the /crime against nature/; -- used especially when one partner is a boy.

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.

Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.

Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.

In a pedestrial manner.

A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

Going on foot; not winged.