Pease (n.) A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
Peastone (n.) Pisolite.
Peasweep (n.) The pewit, or lapwing.
Peasweep (n.) The greenfinch.
Peat (n.) A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
Peat (n.) 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.
Peaty (a.) Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
Peba (n.) An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.
Pebble (n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
Pebble (n.) Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
Pebbled (imp. & p. p.) of Pebble
Pebbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pebble
Pebble (v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
Pebbled (a.) Abounding in pebbles.
Pebblestone () A pebble; also, pebbles collectively.
Pebbly (a.) Full of pebbles; pebbled.
Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
Pecan (n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), 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.
Pecary (n.) See Peccary.
Peccability (n.) The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin.
Peccable (a.) Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
Peccadillos (pl. ) of Peccadillo
Peccadillo (n.) A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.
Peccancy (n.) The quality or state of being peccant.
Peccancy (n.) A sin; an offense.
Peccant (a.) Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
Peccant (a.) Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.
Peccant (a.) Wrong; defective; faulty.
Peccant (n.) An offender.
Peccantly (adv.) In a peccant manner.
Peccaries (pl. ) of Peccary
Peccary (n.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.
Peccavi () I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.
Pecco (n.) See Pekoe.
Peck (n.) The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
Peck (n.) A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Pecked (imp. & p. p.) of Peck
Pecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peck
Peck (v.) To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
Peck (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
Peck (v.) To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
Peck (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
Peck (v. i.) To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
Peck (n.) A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
Pecker (n.) One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
Pecker (n.) An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Peckish (a.) Inclined to eat; hungry.
Peckled (a.) Speckled; spotted.
Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
Pecora (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
Pectate (n.) A salt of pectic acid.
Pecten (n.) 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.
Pecten (n.) The pubic bone.
Pecten (n.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
Pecten (n.) The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).
Pectic (a.) 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.
Pectin (n.) 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.
Pectinal (a.) Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
Pectinal (n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
Pectinate (a.) Alt. of Pectinated
Pectinated (a.) Resembling the teeth of a comb.
Pectinated (a.) Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennae.
Pectinated (a.) Interlaced, like two combs.
Pectinately (adv.) In a pectinate manner.
Pectination (n.) The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.
Pectination (n.) The act of combing; the combing of the head.
Pectination (n.) Comblike toothing.
Pectineal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pecten.
Pectineal (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone.
Pectinibranch (n.) One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.
Pectinibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.
Pectinibranchiate (a.) Having pectinated gills.
Pectiniform (a.) Comblike in form.
Pectize (v. i.) To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass.
Pectolite (n.) A whitish mineral occurring in radiated or fibrous crystalline masses. It is a hydrous silicate of lime and soda.
Pectoral (a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
Pectoral (a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
Pectoral (a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
Pectoral (n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.
Pectoral (n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
Pectoral (n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
Pectoral (n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Pectorally (adv.) As connected with the breast.
Pectoriloquial (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy.
Pectoriloquism (n.) Pectoriloquy.
Pectoriloquous (a.) Pectoriloquial.
Pectoriloquy (n.) 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.
Pectose (n.) 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.
Pectosic (a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.
Pectostraca (n. pl.) A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.
Pectous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose.
Pectora (pl. ) of Pectus
Pectus (n.) The breast of a bird.
Pecul (n.) See Picul.
Peculated (imp. & p. p.) of Peculate
Peculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peculate
Peculate (v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Peculation (n.) 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.
Peculator (n.) One who peculates.