PETUNTSE
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PETUNTZE
PETUNTZE, n. petuns'. Porcelain clay so called, used by the Chinese in the manufacture of porcelain or chinaware. It is a variety of feldspar.
PEW
PEW, noun [Latin podium.] An inclosed seat in a church. Pews were formerly made square; in modern churches in America they are generally long and narrow, and sometimes called sl...
PEW-FELLOW
PEW'-FELLOW, noun A companion.
PEWET
PE'WET, noun An aquatic fowl, the sea crow or mire crow, of the genus Larus.1. The lapwing.
PEWTER
PEW'TER, noun1. A composition or factitious metal, consisting of tin and lead, or tin, lead and brass, in the proportions of a hundred pounds of tin to fifteen of lead, and six ...
PEWTERER
PEW'TERER, noun One whose occupation is to make vessels and utensils of pewter.
PHAETON
PHA'ETON, noun [Gr. to shine.]1. In mythology, the son of Phoebus and Clymene, or of Cephalus and Aurora, that is, the son of light or of the sun. This aspiring youth begged of ...
PHAGEDENIC
PHAGEDEN'IC, adjective [Gr. to eat.] Eating or corroding flesh; as a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.Phagedenic water, is made from quick lime and corrosive sublimate.PHAGEDEN'IC, ...
PHALANGIOUS
PHALAN'GIOUS, adjective [Gr. a kind of spider.] Pertaining to the genus of spiders denominated phalangium.
PHALANGITE
PHAL'ANGITE, noun [Gr. a legionary soldier.]A soldier belonging to a phalanx.
PHALANX
PHAL'ANX, noun In Grecian antiquity, a square battalion or body of soldiers, formed in ranks and files close and deep, with their shields joined and pikes crossing each other, s...
PHALAROPE
PHAL'AROPE, noun The name of several species of water fowls inhabiting the northern latitudes of Europe and America.
PHANTASM
PHAN'TASM, noun [Gr. to show, to shine, to appear.]That which appears to the mind; the image of an external object; hence, an idea or notion. It usually denotes a vain or airy a...
PHANTASTIC
PHANTAS'TICPHAN'TASY, [See Fantastic and Fancy.]
PHANTOM
PHAN'TOM, noun [Latin phantasma.]1. Something that appears; an apparition; a specter.Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.2. A fancied vision.
PHARAON
PHA'RAON, noun The name of a game of chance.
PHARAONIC
PHARAON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Pharaohs or kings of Egypt, or to the old Egyptians.
PHARISAICALNESS
PHARISA'ICALNESS, noun Devotion to external rites and ceremonies; external show of religion without the spirit of it.
PHARISAICICAL
PHARISA'IC'ICAL, adjective [from Pharisee.] Pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees, a sect among the Jews, distinguished by their zeal for the traditions of the e...
PHARISAISM
PHAR'ISAISM, noun The notions, doctrines and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.1. Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion.
PHARISEAN
PHARISE'AN, adjective Following the practice of the Pharisees.
PHARISEE
PHAR'ISEE, noun [Heb. to separate.] One of a sect among the Jews, whose religion consisted in a strict observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, an...
PHARMACEUTIC
PHARMACEU'TICPHARMACEU'TICAL, adjective [Gr. to practice witchcraft or use medicine; poison or medicine.] Pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of prepar...
PHARMACEUTICAL
PHARMACEU'TICAL, a. [Gr. to practice witchcraft or use medicine; poison or medicine.] Pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines.
PHARMACEUTICALLY
PHARMACEU'TICALLY, adverb In the manner of pharmacy.
PHARMACEUTICS
PHARMACEU'TICS, noun The science of preparing and exhibiting medicines.