Webster's Dictionary 1913

3322

Petulant

Pet″u‐lant (?), a. [L. petulans, -antis, prop., making slight attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. F. pétulant. See Petition.] 1. Forward; pert;...

3323

Petulantly

Pet″u‐lant‐ly, adv. In a petulant manner.

3324

Petulcity

Pe‐tul″ci‐ty (?), n. [See Petulcous.] Wantonness; friskiness. Bp. Hall.

3325

Petulcous

Pe‐tul″cous (?), a. [L. petulcus. Cf. Petulant.] Wanton; frisky; lustful. J. V. Cane.

3326

Petune

Pe‐tune″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Petuned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Petuning.] [See Petunia.] (Agric.) To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

3327

Petunia

Pe‐tu″ni‐a (?), n. [NL., fr. Braz. petun tobacco.] (Bot.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia ...

3328

Petunse

{ Pe‐tunse″, Pe‐tuntse″, Pe‐tuntze″ } (?), n. Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

3329

Petworth marble

Pet″worth mar″ble (?). A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; — called also Sussex marble.

3330

Petzite

Petz″ite (?), n. [From Petz, who analyzed it.] (Min.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

3331

Peucedanin

Peu‐ced″a‐nin (?), n.(Chem.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plant...

3332

Peucil

Peu″cil (?), n.(Chem.) A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

3333

Pew

Pew (pū), n. [OE. pewe, OF. puie parapet, balustrade, balcony, fr. L. podium an elevated place, a jutty, balcony, a parapet or balcony in the circus, where the emperor and other...

3334

Pew (2)

Pew, v. t. To furnish with pews. Ash.

3335

Pewee

Pe″wee (?), n. 1. (Zoöl.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phœbe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phœbe.2. The woodcock.Wood pewee(Zoöl.), a bird (Contopus vi...

3336

Pewet

Pe″wet (?), n.(Zoöl.) Same as Pewit.

3337

Pewfellow

Pew″fel′low (?), n. 1. One who occupies the same pew with another.2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.

3338

Pewit

Pe″wit (?), n. [Prob. of imitative origin; cf. OD. piewit, D. kievit, G. kibitz.] (Zoöl.) (a) The lapwing. (b) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). Se...

3339

Pewter

Pew″ter (?), n. [OE. pewtyr, OF. peutre, peautre, piautre: cf. D. peauter, piauter, It. peltro, Sp. & Pg. peltre, LL. peutreum, pestrum. Cf. Spelter.] 1. A hard, tough, but easi...

3340

Pewterer

Pew″ter‐er (?), n. One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith. Shak.

3341

Pewtery

Pew″ter‐y (?), a. Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.

3342

Pexity

Pex″i‐ty (?), n. [L. pexitas, fr. pexus woolly, nappy, p. p. of pectere to comb.] Nap of cloth.

3343

Peyer's glands

Pey″er's glands′ (?). [So called from J. K. Peyer, who described them in 1677.] (Anat.) Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; — c...

3344

Peytrel

Pey″trel (?), n. [OF. peitral. See Poitrel.] (Anc. Armor) The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel. Chaucer.

3345

Peziza

‖Pe‐zi″za (?), n. [NL., corrupt. from L. pezica a sessile mushroom, fr. Gr. �, fr. �, �, a foot.] (Bot.) A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are ...

3346

Pezizoid

Pez″i‐zoid (?), a. [Peziza + -oid.] (Bot.) Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.

3347

Pfennig

‖Pfen″nig (?), n.; pl.Pfennigs (#), G. Pfennige (#). [G. See Penny.] A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United S...

3348

Phacellus

‖Pha‐cel″lus (?), n.; pl.Phacelli (#). (Zoöl.) One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.