PLUTONIAN
PLUTO'NIAN, adjective Plutonic, which see.PLUTO'NIAN, noun One who maintains the origin of mountains, etc. to be from fire.The plutonian theory of the formation of rocks and mou...
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PLUTONIC
PLUTON'IC, adjective [from Pluto, in mythology, the king of the infernal regions.] Pertaining to or designating the system of the Plutonists; as the plutonic theory.
PLUTONIST
PLU'TONIST, noun One who adopts the theory of the formation of the world in its present state from igneous fusion.
PLUVIAL
PLU'VIALPLUVIAM'ETER, noun [Latin pluvia, rain, and Gr.measure.] A rain gage, an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of water that falls in rain, or in rain and snow, in an...
PLUVIAMETER
PLUVIAM'ETER, n. [L. pluvia, rain, and Gr.measure.] A rain gage, an instrument for ascertaining the quantity of water that falls in rain, or in rain and snow, in any particular ...
PLUVIAMETRICAL
PLUVIAMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a pluviameter; made or ascertained by a pluviameter.
PLUVIOUS
PLU'VIOUS, adjective [Latin pluvialis, from pluvia, rain.] Rainy; humid.PLU'VIAL, noun A priest's cope.
PLY
PLY, verb transitive [Gr. to fold; Latin plico.]1. To lay on, to put to or on with force and repetition; to apply to closely, with continuation of efforts or urgency.And plies h...
PLYER
PLY'ER, noun He or that which plies. In fortification, plyers denotes a kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge, consisting of timbers joined in the form o...
PLYING
PLY'ING, participle present tense Laying on with steadiness or repetition; applying closely; employing; performing; urging; pressing or attempting to make way against the wind.P...
PNEUMATIC
PNEUMATICPNEUMATICAL, adjective numat'ic. [Gr. breath, spirit; to breathe or blow.]1. Consisting of air, as a thin compressible substance; opposed to dense or solid substances.T...
PNEUMATICS
PNEUMAT'ICS, noun In natural philosophy, that branch which treats of air. In chimistry, that branch which treats of the gases.1. In the schools, the doctrine of spiritual substa...
PNEUMATOCELE
PNEUMAT'OCELE, noun [Gr. air, and a tumor.] In surgery, a distension of the scrotum by air.
PNEUMATOLOGICAL
PNEUMATOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to pneumatology.
PNEUMATOLOGIST
PNEUMATOL'OGIST, noun One versed in pneumatology.
PNEUMATOLOGY
PNEUMATOL'OGY, noun [Gr. air, and discourse.]1. The doctrine of the properties of elastic fluids, or of spiritual substances.2. A treatise on elastic fluids, or on spiritual sub...
PNEUMONIA
PNEUMO'NIAPNEUMON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.PNEUMON'IC, noun A medicine for affections of the lungs.
PNEUMONY
PNEU'MONY, noun [Gr. the lungs, to breathe.]In medicine, an inflammation of the lungs.
POACH
POACH, verb transitive1. To boil slightly.2. To dress by boiling slightly and mixing in a soft mass.3. To begin and not complete.4. To tread soft ground, or snow and water, as c...
POACHARD
POACHARDPOACHED, participle passive Slightly boiled or softened; trodden with deep footsteps; stolen.
POACHED
POACHED, pp. Slightly boiled or softened; trodden with deep footsteps; stolen.
POACHER
POACHER, noun One that steals game.
POACHINESS
POACHINESS, noun Wetness and softness; the state of being easily penetrable by the feet of beasts; applied to land.
POACHY
POACHY, adjective Wet and soft; such as the feet of cattle will penetrate to some depth; applied to land or ground of any kind.
POCHARD
POCHARD, noun [from poach.] A fresh water duck of an excellent taste, weighing a pound and twelve ounces. It is the red headed duck of Lawson; found in America and in the north ...
POCK
POCK, noun [Eng. big.] A pustule raised on the surface of the body in the variolous and vaccine diseases, named from the pustules, small pox, or as it ought to be written, small...
POCK'ET, noun1. A small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles.2. A small bag or net to receive the balls in billiards.3. A certain quantity; as a pocket of hops,...