Peace (v.) Exemption from, or subjection of, agitating passions; tranquillity of mind or conscience.
Peace (v.) Reconciliation; agreement after variance; harmony; concord.
Peace (v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet; to be silent; to stop.
Peaceable (a.) Begin in or at peace; tranquil; quiet; free from, or not disposed to, war, disorder, or excitement; not quarrelsome.
Peacebreaker (n.) One who disturbs the public peace.
Peaceful (a.) Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.
Peaceful (a.) Not disposed or tending to war, tumult or agitation; pacific; mild; calm; peaceable; as, peaceful words.
Peaceless (a.) Without peace; disturbed.
Peacemaker (n.) One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.
Peach (v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against.
Peach (v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.
Peach (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
Peach-colored (a.) Of the color of a peach blossom.
Peacher (n.) One who peaches.
Peachick (n.) The chicken of the peacock.
Peachy (a.) Resembling a peach or peaches.
Peacock (n.) The male of any pheasant of the genus Pavo, of which at least two species are known, native of Southern Asia and the East Indies.
Peacock (n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively; a peafowl.
Peafowl (n.) The peacock or peahen; any species of Pavo.
Peage (n.) See Paage.
Peagrit (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite.
Peahen (n.) The hen or female peafowl.
Pea-jacket (n.) A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.
Peak (n.) A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
Peak (n.) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point; often, the whole hill or mountain, esp. when isolated; as, the Peak of Teneriffe.
Peak (n.) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail; -- used in many combinations; as, peak-halyards, peak-brails, etc.
Peak (n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
Peak (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
Peaked (imp. & p. p.) of Peak
Peaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peak
Peak (v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
Peak (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky.
Peak (v. i.) To pry; to peep slyly.
Peak (v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so; as, to peak oars, to hold them upright; to peak a gaff or yard, to set it nearer the perpendicular.
Peaked (a.) Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof.
Peaked (a.) Sickly; not robust.
Peaking (a.) Mean; sneaking.
Peaking (a.) Pining; sickly; peakish.
Peakish (a.) Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
Peakish (a.) Having peaks; peaked.
Peakish (a.) Having features thin or sharp, as from sickness; hence, sickly.
Peaky (a.) Having a peak or peaks.
Peaky (a.) Sickly; peaked.
Peal (n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
Peal (v. i.) To appeal.
Peal (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
Pealed (imp. & p. p.) of Peal
Pealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peal
Peal (v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.
Peal (v. i.) To resound; to echo.
Peal (v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
Peal (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.
Peal (v. t.) To pour out.
Pean (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
Pean (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.
Peanism (n.) The song or shout of praise, of battle, or of triumph.
Peanut (n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
Pear (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below.
Pearch (n.) See Perch.
Pearl (n.) A fringe or border.
Pearl (v. t. ) To fringe; to border.
Pearl (n.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
Pearl (n.) Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
Pearl (n.) Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
Pearl (n.) A fish allied to the turbot; the brill.
Pearl (n.) A light-colored tern.
Pearl (n.) One of the circle of tubercles which form the bur on a deer's antler.
Pearl (n.) A whitish speck or film on the eye.
Pearl (n.) A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.
Pearl (n.) A size of type, between agate and diamond.
Pearl (a.) Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
Pearl (v. t.) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.
Pearl (v. t.) To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
Pearl (v. i.) To resemble pearl or pearls.
Pearl (v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling.
Pearlaceous (a.) Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance.
Pearlash (n.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.
Pearl-eyed (a.) Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
Pearlfish (n.) Any fish whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.
Pearlins (n. pl.) Alt. of Pearlings
Pearlings (n. pl.) A kind of lace of silk or thread.
Pearlite (n.) Alt. of Pearlstone
Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.
Pearlwort (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
Pearly (a.) Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells.
Pearly (a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
Pearmain (n.) The name of several kinds of apples; as, the blue pearmain, winter pearmain, and red pearmain.
Pear-shaped (a.) Of the form of a pear.
Peart (a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day.
Peasant (n.) A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
Peasant (a.) Rustic, rural.
Peasantlike (a.) Rude; clownish; illiterate.
Peasantly (a.) Peasantlike.
Peasantry (n.) Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics.
Peasantry (n.) Rusticity; coarseness.
Peascod (n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea.
Peases (pl. ) of Pease
Peasen (pl. ) of Pease
Pease (n.) A pea.