Webster's Dictionary 1828

1486

PETECHIAL

PETE'CHIAL, adjective Spotted. A petechial fever is a malignant fever accompanied with purple spots on the skin.

1487

PETENCY

COMPETENCE, PETENCY, noun1. Sufficiency; such a quantity as is sufficient; property or means of subsistence sufficient to furnish the necessaries and conveniences of life, witho...

1488

PETER

PETERPET'ERELPE'TERPENCE, noun A tax or tribute formerly paid by the English people to the pope; being a penny for every house, payable at Lammas day. It was called also Romescot.

1489

PETEREL

PET'EREL

1490

PETERWORT

PE'TERWORT, noun A plant.

1491

PETIOLAR

PET'IOLARPET'IOLARY, adjective Pertaining to a petiole, or proceeding from it; as a petiolar tendril.1. Formed from a petiole; as a petiolar bud.2. Growing on a petiole; as a pe...

1492

PETIOLARY

PET'IOLARY, a. Pertaining to a petiole, or proceeding from it; as a petiolar tendril.1. Formed from a petiole; as a petiolar bud.2. Growing on a petiole; as a petiolar gland.

1493

PETIOLATE

PET'IOLATEPET'IOLE, noun [Latin petiolus, probably a diminutive from pes, pedis.]In botany, a leaf-stalk; the foot-stalk of a leaf.

1494

PETIOLE

PET'IOLE, n. [L. petiolus, probably a diminutive from pes, pedis.]In botany, a leaf-stalk; the foot-stalk of a leaf.

1495

PETIOLED

PET'IOLED, adjective Growing on a petiole; as a petiolate leaf.

1496

PETIT

PETIT, adjective pet'ty. Small; little; mean.This word petit is now generally written petty.PETIT constable, an inferior civil officer subordinate to the high constable.PETIT ju...

1497

PETIT-MAITRE

PETIT-MAITRE, noun pet'ty-maitre. A spruce fellow that dangles about females; a fop; a coxcomb.

1498

PETITION

PETI'TION, noun [Latin petitio, from peto, to ask, properly to urge or press.]1. In a general sense, a request, supplication or prayer; but chiefly and appropriately, a solemn o...

1499

PETITIONARILY

PETI'TIONARILY, adverb By way of begging the question.

1500

PETITIONARY

PETI'TIONARY, adjective Supplicatory; coming with a petition.Pardon thy petitionary countrymen.1. Containing a petition or request; as a petitionary prayer; a petitionary epistle.

1501

PETITIONER

PETI'TIONER, noun One that presents a petition, either verbal or written.

1502

PETITIONING

PETI'TIONING, participle present tense Asking as a favor, grant, right or mercy; supplicating.PETI'TIONING, noun The act of asking or soliciting; solicitation; supplication. Tum...

1503

PETITORY

PET'ITORY, adjective Petitioning; soliciting. [Not used.]

1504

PETONG

PETONG', noun The Chinese name of a species of copper of a white color. It is sometimes confounded with tutenag.

1505

PETRE

PETRE, [See Saltpeter.]

1506

PETREAN

PETRE'AN, adjective [Latin petra, a rock.] Pertaining to rock or stone.

1507

PETREL

PET'REL, noun An aquatic fowl of the genus Procellaria.

1508

PETRESCENCE

PETRES'CENCE, noun The process of changing into stone.

1509

PETRESCENT

PETRES'CENT, adjective [Gr. a stone; Latin petra.]Converting into stone; changing into stony hardness.

1510

PETRIFACTION

PETRIFAC'TION, noun [See Petrify.] The process of changing into stone; the conversion of wood or any animal or vegetable substance into stone or a body of stony hardness.When th...

1511

PETRIFACTIVE

PETRIFAC'TIVE, adjective Pertaining to petrifaction.1. Having power to convert vegetable or animal substances into stone.

1512

PETRIFIC

PETRIF'IC, adjective Having power to convert into stone.The cold, dry, petrific mace of a false and unfeeling philosophy.