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Padar
Groats; coarse flour or meal.
Paganity
The state of being a pagan; paganism.
Painim
A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.
Palamede
An order, or suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds; -- called also . In many anatomical characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally resemble the wading birds.
Pale
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
Palp
To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
Palulus
Same as .
panicky
Same as ; .
pant
Of or pertaining to pants.
Pantile
A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side ().
Papabote
The upland plover.
Paracmastic
Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.
Paraacute; cress
An annual asteraceous herb () grown in tropical countries as a pungent salad, and also used medicinally.
Paralian
A dweller by the sea.
Parallelistic
Of the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
paramagnet
A substance exhibiting , i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.
Parietal
One of the parietal bones.
Paronychia
A whitlow, or felon{3}.
parse
To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.
Parsonage
A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
Partner
One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer.
paste-up
A composition of a flat object on a board or other backing; .
Patriarchship
A patriarchate.
Paucispiral
Having few spirals, or whorls; .
Paxwax
The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebr, and helps to support the head. Called also and .
Pectose
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.
Pediluvy
The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.
Pennon
A pennant; a flag or streamer.
Peptic
Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; .
Peradventure
By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing.
Perfit
Perfect.
Pernancy
A taking or reception, as the receiving of rents or tithes in kind, the receiving of profits.
Perpetration
The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime.
Persist
To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy.
Pert
Open; evident; apert.
Petrifactive
Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
Phlorone
A yellow crystalline substance having a peculiar unpleasant odor, resembling the quinones, and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, as also by the oxidation of xylidine; -- called also .
Phrasal
Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; .
Phrase
To use proper or fine phrases.
Phyllorhine
Of or pertaining to and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.
Piciformes
A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Pickled
Preserved in a pickle.
Pilgrim
To journey; to wander; to ramble.
Pill
A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
Pimpernel
A plant of the genus , of which one species () has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Piney
A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the or piney tree, of the order , which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
Pin-fire
Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; .
Pinionist
Any winged creature.
Pique
To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
Plantlet
A little plant.
Plasticity
The quality or state of being plastic.
Playmaker
A playwright.
Plump
To grow plump; to swell out; .
Plunket
A kind of blue color; also, anciently, a kind of cloth, generally blue.
Plurilocular
Having several cells or loculi
Plutonist
One who adopts the geological theory of igneous fusion; a Plutonian. See .
Policial
Relating to the police.
Polish
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; .
Polychromate
A salt of a polychromic acid.
Possession
The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
Post-abdomen
That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called .
Postnares
The posterior nares. See .
Potale
The refuse from a grain distillery, used to fatten swine.
Potecary
An apothecary.
Prestable
Payable.
Prevailing
Having superior force or influence; efficacious; persuasive.
Prevent
To come before the usual time.
Prig
To cheapen.
Primevous
Primeval.
Princesslike
Like a princess.
Princewood
The wood of two small tropical American trees (, and ). It is brownish, veined with lighter color.
Priorship
The state or office of prior; priorate.
Prognostic
Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis;
Proin
To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn.
Prolicide
The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth.
Proof-proof
Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong.
Propterygium
The anterior of three principal cartilages in the fins of some fishes.
Protest
A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a legislative body; .
Protista
A provisional group in which are placed a number of low microscopic organisms of doubtful nature. Some are probably plants, others animals.
Protractor
One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction.
Psychomancy
Necromancy.
Ptyalism
Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.
Pumice stone
Same as .
Punter
One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro.
Puny
A youth; a novice.
Pupil
A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
Pusil
Very small; little; petty.
Putting green
The green, or plot of smooth turf, surrounding a hole.
Pyoid
Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus.