Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 32

Pedicle (n.) Same as Pedicel.

Pedicular (a.) Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.

Pediculate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.

Pediculati (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.

Pediculation (n.) Phthiriasis.

Pedicule (n.) A pedicel.

Pediculina (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.

Pediculous (a.) Pedicular.

Pediculi (pl. ) of Pediculus

Pediculus (n.) A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.

Pediform (a.) Shaped like a foot.

Pedigerous (a.) Bearing or having feet or legs.

Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Pedigree (n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.

Pediluvy (n.) The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.

Pedimana (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

Pedimane (n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.

Pedimanous (a.) Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.

Pediment (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.

Pedimental (a.) Of or pertaining to a pediment.

Pedipalp (n.) One of the Pedipalpi.

Pedipalpi (n pl.) A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.

Pedipalpous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.

Pedipalpi (pl. ) of Pedipalpus

Pedipalpus (n.) One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.

Pedireme (n.) A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.

Pedlar (n.) Alt. of Pedler

Pedler (n.) See Peddler.

Pedobaptism (n.) The baptism of infants or of small children.

Pedobaptist (n.) One who advocates or practices infant baptism.

Pedomancy (n.) Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

Pedometer (n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.

Pedometric (a.) Alt. of Pedometrical

Pedometrical (a.) Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

Pedomotive (a.) Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

Pedotrophy (n.) The art of nourishing children properly.

Pedregal (n.) A lava field.

Peduncle (n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.

Peduncle (n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.

Peduncle (n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Peduncled (a.) Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Peduncular (a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

Pedunculata (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Pedunculate (a.) Alt. of Pedunculated

Pedunculated (a.) Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

Pee (n.) See 1st Pea.

Pee (n.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).

Peece (n. & v.) See Piece.

Peechi (n.) The dauw.

Peek (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

Peekaboo (n.) A child's game; bopeep.

Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

Peel (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

Peel (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

Peeled (imp. & p. p.) of Peel

Peeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peel

Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

Peel (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

Peel (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Peele (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

Peeler (n.) One who peels or strips.

Peeler (n.) A pillager.

Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.

Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.

Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.

Peen (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

Peenge (v. i.) To complain.

Peeped (imp. & p. p.) of Peep

Peeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peep

Peep (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

Peep (v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.

Peep (v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.

Peep (n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

Peep (n.) First outlook or appearance.

Peep (n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.

Peep (n.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper (Trigna minutilla).

Peep (n.) The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).

Peeper (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

Peeper (n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.

Peeper (n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers.

Peephole (n.) A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.

Peeping hole () See Peephole.

Peepul tree () A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree.

Peered (imp. & p. p.) of Peer

Peering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peer

Peer (v. i.) To come in sight; to appear.

Peer (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

Peer (n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

Peer (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

Peer (v. t.) To make equal in rank.

Peer (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal.

Peerage (n.) The rank or dignity of a peer.

Peerage (n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

Peerdom (n.) Peerage; also, a lordship.

Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

Peerie (a.) Alt. of Peery

Peery (a.) Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp.

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