PETRIFICATE
PET'RIFICATE, verb transitive To petrify. [Not used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PETRIFICATION
PETRIFICA'TION, noun The process of petrifying.1. That which is petrified; a petrifaction.[The latter word is generally used.]2. Obduracy; callousness.
PETRIFIED
PET'RIFIED, participle passive Changed into stone.1. Fixed in amazement.
PETRIFY
PET'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin petra; Gr. a stone or rock, and facio, to make.]1. To convert to stone or stony substance; as an animal or vegetable substance.North of Quito, t...
PETRIFYING
PET'RIFYING, participle present tense Converting into stone; as petrifying operation.
PETROL
PE'TROLPETRO'LEUM, noun [Gr. a stone, and oil; quasi petrolaion.]Rock oil, a liquid inflammable substance or bitumen exuding from the earth and collected on the surface of the w...
PETRONEL
PET'RONEL, noun A horseman's pistol.
PETROSILEX
PET'ROSILEX, noun [Latin petra, Gr. a stone, and silex, flint.]Rock stone; rock flint, or compact feldspar.
PETROSILICIOUS
PETROSILI'CIOUS, adjective Consisting of petrosilex; as petrosilicious breccias.
PETROUS
PE'TROUS, adjective [Latin petra, a stone.] Like stone; hard; stony.
PETTICOAT
PET'TICOAT, noun A garment worn by females and covering the lower limbs.
PETTIFOG
PET'TIFOG, verb intransitive [Latin voco, like advocate.]To do small business; as a lawyer. [Vulgar.]
PETTIFOGGER
PET'TIFOGGER, noun An inferior attorney or lawyer who is employed in small or mean business.
PETTIFOGGERY
PET'TIFOGGERY, noun The practice of a pettifogger; tricks; quibbles.
PETTINESS
PET'TINESS, noun [from petty.] Smallness; littleness.
PETTISH
PET'TISH, adjective [from pet.] Fretful; peevish; subject to freaks of ill temper.
PETTISHLY
PET'TISHLY, adverb In a pet; with a freak of ill temper.
PETTISHNESS
PET'TISHNESS, adjective Fretfulness; petulance; peevishness.
PETTITOES
PET'TITOES, noun [petty and toes.] The toes or feet of a pig; sometimes used for the human feet in contempt.
PETTO
PET'TO, noun [Latin pectus, the breast.]The breast; hence, in petto in secrecy; in reserve.
PETTY
PET'TY, adjective Small; little; trifling; inconsiderable; as a petty trespass; a petty crime.1. Inferior; as a petty prince.We usually write petty constable, petty jury, petty ...
PETTYCHAPS
PET'TYCHAPS, noun A small bird of the genus Motacilla, called also beambird; found in the north of Europe.The beambird is the spotted fly-catcher, of the genus Muscicapa.
PETTYCOY
PET'TYCOY, noun An herb.
PETULANCEULANCY
PET'ULANCE'ULANCY, noun [Latin petulantia.] Freakish passion; peevishness; pettishness; sauciness. Peevishness is not precisely synonymous with petulance; the former implying mo...
PETULANT
PET'ULANT, adjective [Latin petulans.] Saucy; pert or forward with fretfulness or sourness of temper; as a petulant youth.1. Manifesting petulance; proceeding from pettishness; ...
PETULANTLY
PET'ULANTLY, adverb With petulance; with saucy pertness.
PETUNSE
PETUNSEPETUNTSEPETUNTZE, noun petuns'. Porcelain clay so called, used by the Chinese in the manufacture of porcelain or chinaware. It is a variety of feldspar.