PEDUNCULATE
PEDUN'CULATE, adjective Growing on a peduncle; as a pedunculate flower.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PEE
PEE, verb intransitive To look with one eye. [Not used.]
PEED
PEED, adjective Blind of one eye. [Not used.]
PEEK
PEEK, in our popular dialect, is the same as peep, to look through a crevice.
PEEL
PEEL, verb transitive [Latin pilo, to pull off hair and to pillage; pilus, the hair.]1. To strip off skin, bark or rind without a cutting instrument; to strip by drawing or tear...
PEELED
PEE'LED, participle passive Stripped of skin, bark or rind; plundered; pillaged.
PEELER
PEE'LER, noun One that peels, strips or flays.1. A plunderer; pillaged.
PEELING
PEE'LING, participle present tense Stripping off skin or bark; plundering.
PEEP
PEEP, verb intransitive [Latin pipio; Heb. to cry out.]1. To begin to appear; to make the first appearance; to issue or come forth from concealment, as through a narrow avenue.I...
PEEP-HOLE
PEE'P-HOLEPEE'PER, noun A chicken just breaking the shell.1. In familiar language, the eye.
PEEPER
PEE'PER, n. A chicken just breaking the shell.1. In familiar language, the eye.
PEEPING-HOLE
PEE'PING-HOLE, noun A hole or crevice through which one may peep or look without being discovered.
PEER
PEER, noun [Latin par.]1. An equal; one of the same rank. A man may be familiar with his peers.2. An equal in excellence or endowments.In song he never had his peer3. A companio...
PEERAGE
PEE'RAGE, noun [See Peer, an equal.]The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman.1. The body of peers.
PEERDOM
PEE'RDOM, noun Peerage. [Not used.]
PEERESS
PEE'RESS, noun The consort of a peer; a noble lady.
PEERLESS
PEE'RLESS, adjective Unequaled; having no peer or equal; as peerless beauty or majesty.
PEERLESSLY
PEE'RLESSLY, adverb Without an equal.
PEERLESSNESS
PEE'RLESSNESS, noun The state of having no equal.
PEEVISH
PEE'VISH, adjective1. Fretful; petulant; apt to mutter and complain; easily vexed or fretted; querulous; hard to please.She is peevish sullen, froward.2. Expressing discontent a...
PEEVISHLY
PEE'VISHLY, adverb Fretfully; petulantly; with discontent and murmuring.
PEEVISHNESS
PEE'VISHNESS, noun Fretfulness; petulance; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper; as childish peevishnessWhen peevishness and spleen succeed.
PEG
PEG, noun [This is probably from the root of Latin pango, pactus; Gr. denoting that which fastens, or allied to beak and picket.]1. A small pointed piece of wood used in fasteni...
PEGGER
PEG'GER, noun One that fastens with pegs.
PEGM
PEGM, noun pem. [Gr.] A sort of moving machine in the old pageants.
PEGMATITE
PEG'MATITE, noun Primitive granitic rock, composed essentially of lamellar feldspar and quartz; frequently with a mixture of mica. In it are found kaolin, tin tourmaline, beryl,...
PEIRASTIC
PEIRAS'TIC, adjective [Gr. to strain, to attempt.] Attempting; making trial.1. Treating of or representing trials or attempts; as the peirastic dialogues of Plato.