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pachysandra
Any plant of the genus ; they are low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover.
Page
To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript; to furnish with folios.
Pagoda sleeve
A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.
Paint
To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to;
Pairer
One who impairs.
Palestra
A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for athletic exercise in general.
Palgrave
See .
Paludose
Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.
Pantograph
An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.
Paraglobulin
A protein in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See .
parapsychological
Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; .
Parashoth
of .
Pargeter
A plasterer.
Parthian
Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia.
Pasture
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
patterned
Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
Peat
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.
Pedimana
A division of marsupials, including the opossums.
Pehlevi
An ancient Persian dialect in which words were partly represented by their Semitic equivalents. It was in use from the 3d century (and perhaps earlier) to the middle of the 7th century, and later in religious writings.
Penciling
The work of the pencil or bruch; .
Pentad
Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; .
Pentalpha
A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.
Perfectionist
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
Periscope
A general or comprehensive view.
Perpetration
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
Perpetual calendar
A calendar that can be used perpetually or over a wide range of years. That of Capt. , as given below, dates from 1750 to 1961 only, but is capable of indefinite extension.
Persuasive
That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation.
Pes
The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.
Petre
See .
Pewter
A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
Phacochere
The wart hog.
Phalanstre
A phalanstery.
Photo-epinasty
A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light.
Phototherapy
The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin.
Phraseless
Indescribable.
Phrenology
The science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.
Phyllome
A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.
Pianette
A small piano; a pianino.
Pianissimo
Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. .)
Picoline
Any one of three isometric bases () related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also .
Piewipe
The lapwing, or pewit.
Piquantly
In a piquant manner.
Pitpat
See .
Plagihedral
Having an oblique spiral arrangement of planes, as levogyrate and dextrogyrate crystals.
Plasterly
Resembling plaster of Paris.
Playgoing
Frequenting playhouses; .
Plunder
To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; .
Poet
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Pole
Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; .
Polychrest
A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases.
Polygyn
A plant of the order Polygynia.
Polyphase
Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; .
Polyporous
Having many pores.
Polythalamia
A division of Foraminifera including those having a manychambered shell.
Poriness
Porosity.
Porteress
See .
Portrayer
One who portrays.
Positively
In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to .
Post-abdomen
That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called .
Postern
Back; being behind; private.
Postmaster
One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
Premeditate
To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; .
Prepayment
Payment in advance.
Presbytership
The office or station of a presbyter; presbyterate.
Preserve
That which is preserved; fruit, etc., seasoned and kept by suitable preparation; esp., fruit cooked with sugar; -- commonly in the plural.
Presiding
from .
Prime
To be renewed, or as at first.
Prolegomenon
A preliminary remark or observation; an introductory discourse prefixed to a book or treatise.
Prosingly
Prosily.
Prothallium
Same as .
Protopine
An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Protracter
A protractor.
Proudish
Somewhat proud.
Provant
To supply with provender or provisions; to provide for.
Proverbialism
A proverbial phrase.
Provincialist
One who lives in a province; a provincial.
Prune
To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
Psalter
The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.
Punt
To play at basset, baccara, faro. or omber; to gamble.
Pustulation
The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.
Putter
To act inefficiently or idly; to occupy oneself in a liesurely manner; to trifle; to potter; .
Putting
The throwing of a heavy stone, shot, etc., with the hand raised or extended from the shoulder; -- originally, a Scottish game.
Pyrognostic
Of or pertaining to characters developed by the use of heat; pertaining to the characters of minerals when examined before the blowpipe; .