Peculiar (a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
Peculiar (a.) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
Peculiar (a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
Peculiar (n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
Peculiar (n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
Peculiarities (pl. ) of Peculiarity
Peculiarity (n.) The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
Peculiarity (n.) That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; particularity.
Peculiarity (n.) Exclusive possession or right.
Pecularized (imp. & p. p.) of Peculiarize
Pecularizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peculiarize
Peculiarize (v. t.) To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
Peculiarly (adv.) In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
Peculiarness (n.) The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity.
Peculium (n.) 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.
Peculium (n.) A special fund for private and personal uses.
Pecunial (a.) Pecuniary.
Pecuniarily (adv.) In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.
Pecuniary (a.) Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.
Pecunious (a.) Abounding in money; wealthy; rich.
Ped (n.) A basket; a hammer; a pannier.
Pedage (n.) A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection.
Pedagog (n.) Pedagogue.
Pedagogic (a.) See Pedagogics.
Pedagogic (a.) Alt. of Pedagogical
Pedagogical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.
Pedagogics (n.) The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.
Pedagogism (n.) The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues.
Pedagogue (n.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
Pedagogue (n.) A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.
Pedagogue (n.) One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant.
Pedagogue (v. t.) To play the pedagogue toward.
Pedagogy (n.) Pedagogics; pedagogism.
Pedal (a.) Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
Pedal (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
Pedal (a.) 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.
Pedal (a.) A pedal curve or surface.
Pedalian (a.) Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal.
Pedality (n.) The act of measuring by paces.
Pedaneous (a.) Going on foot; pedestrian.
Pedant (n.) A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
Pedant (n.) One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge.
Pedantic (a.) Alt. of Pedantical
Pedantical (a.) 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.
Pedantically (adv.) In a pedantic manner.
Pedanticly (adv.) Pedantically.
Pedantism (n.) The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry.
Pedantize (v. i.) To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions.
Pedantocracy (n.) The sway of pedants.
Pedantry (n.) The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning.
Pedanty (n.) An assembly or clique of pedants.
Pedarian (n.) 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.
Pedaries (pl. ) of Pedary
Pedary (n.) A sandal.
Pedata (n. pl.) An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.
Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf.
Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.
Peddle (v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.
Peddle (v. i.) To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle.
Peddled (imp. & p. p.) of Peddle
Peddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peddle
Peddle (v. t.) 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.
Peddler (n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
Peddlery (n.) The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.
Peddlery (n.) Trifling; trickery.
Peddling (a.) Hawking; acting as a peddler.
Peddling (a.) Petty; insignificant.
Pederast (n.) One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
Pederastic (a.) Of or pertaining to pederasty.
Pederasty (n.) The crime against nature; sodomy.
Pederero (n.) A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.
Pedesis (n.) Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.
Pedestal (n.) 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.
Pedestal (n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
Pedestal (n.) A pillow block; a low housing.
Pedestal (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
Pedestaled (a.) Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.
Pedestrial (a.) Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.
Pedestrially (adv.) In a pedestrial manner.
Pedestrian (a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
Pedestrian (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.
Pedestrianism (n.) The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
Pedestrianized (imp. & p. p.) of Pedestrianize
Pedestrianizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pedestrianize
Pedestrianize (v. i.) To practice walking; to travel on foot.
Pedestrious (a.) Going on foot; not winged.
Pedetentous (a.) Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously.
Pedi- () Alt. of Pedo-
Pedo- () Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.
Pedial (a.) Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.
Pedicel (n.) A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.
Pedicel (n.) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns.
Pedicel (n.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
Pedicel (n.) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.
Pedicel (n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
Pediceled (a.) Pedicellate.
Pedicellariae (pl. ) of Pedicellaria
Pedicellaria (n.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.
Pedicellate (a.) Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
Pedicellina (n.) A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.