Webster's Dictionary 1828

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PEDATIFID

PED'ATIFID, adjective [Latin pes, foot, and findo, to divide.]A pedatifid leaf, in botany, is one whose parts are not entirely separate, but connected like the toes of a water-f...

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PEDDLE

PED'DLE, verb intransitive To be busy about trifles.1. To travel about the country and retail goods. He peddles for a living.PED'DLE, verb transitive To sell or retail, usually ...

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PEDDLING

PED'DLING, participle present tense Traveling about and selling small wares.1.adjective Trifling; unimportant.

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PEDERAST

PED'ERAST, noun [Gr. a boy, and love.] A sodomite.

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PEDERASTIC

PEDERAS'TIC, adjective Pertaining to pederasty.

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PEDERASTY

PED'ERASTY, noun Sodomy; the crime against nature.

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PEDERERO

PEDERE'RO, noun [Latin petra; Gr. so named from the use of stones in the charge, before the invention or iron balls.]A swivel gun; sometimes written paterero.

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PEDESTAL

PED'ESTAL, noun [Latin pes, the foot.] In architecture, the lowest part of a column or pillar; the part which sustains a column or serves as its foot. It consists of three parts...

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PEDESTRIAL

PEDES'TRIAL, adjective [Latin pedestris.] Pertaining to the foot.

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PEDESTRIAN

PEDES'TRIAN, adjective [Latin pedestris, form pes, the foot.]Going on foot; walking; made on foot; as a pedestrian journey.PEDES'TRIAN, noun One that walks or journeys on foot.1...

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PEDESTRIOUS

PEDES'TRIOUS, adjective Going on foot; not winged.

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PEDICEL

PED'ICELPED'ICELLATE, adjective Having a pedicel or supported by a pedicel

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PEDICELLATE

PED'ICELLATE, a. Having a pedicel, or supported by a pedicel.

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PEDICLE

PED'ICLE, noun [Latin pediculus, form pes, the foot.] In botany, the ultimate division of a common peduncle; the stalk that supports one flower only when there are several on a ...

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PEDICULAR

PEDIC'ULARPEDIC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin pedicularis, form pediculus, a louse.]Lousy; having the lousy distemper.

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PEDIGREE

PED'IGREE, noun [probably from Latin pes, pedis, foot.]1. Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person or tribe descends; genealogy.Alterations of surnames--have obscured the ...

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PEDILUVY

PED'ILUVY, noun [Latin pes, foot, and lavo, to wash.]The bathing of the feet; a bath for the feet.

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PEDIMENT

PED'IMENT, noun [from Latin pes, the foot.] In architecture, an ornament that crowns the ordinances, finishes the fronts of buildings and serves as a decoration over gates, wind...

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PEDLER

PED'LER, noun [Latin pes, pedis, the foot.] A traveling foot-trader; one that carries about small commodities on his back, or in a cart or wagon, and sells them.

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PEDLERESS

PED'LERESS, noun A female pedler.

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PEDLERY

PED'LERY, noun Small wares sold or carried about for sale by pedlers.

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PEDOBAPTISM

PEDOBAP'TISM, noun [Gr. a child, and baptism.]The baptism of infants or of children.

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PEDOBAPTIST

PEDOBAP'TIST, noun One that holds to infant baptism; one that practices the baptism of children. Most denominations of christians are pedobaptists.

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PEDOMETER

PEDOM'ETER, noun [Latin pes, the foot, and Gr.measure.] An instrument by which paces are numbered as a person walks, and the distance from place to place ascertained. It also ma...

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PEDOMETRICAL

PEDOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to or measured by a pedometer.

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PEDUNCLE

PEDUN'CLE, noun [Latin pes, the foot.] In botany, the stem or stalk that supports the fructification of a plant, and of course the fruit.

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PEDUNCULAR

PEDUN'CULAR, adjective Pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as a peduncular tendril.