Webster's Dictionary 1913

4807

Pityroid

Pit″y‐roid (?), a. [Gr. � bran + -oid.] Having the form of, or resembling, bran. Smart.

4808

Più

‖Pi″ù (?), adv. [It., fr. L. plus. See Plus.] (Mus.) A little more; as, più allegro, a little more briskly.

4809

Pivot

Piv″ot (?), n. [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe. See Pipe.] 1. A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.2. The end of a shaft or arbor...

4810

Pivot (2)

Piv″ot, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pivoted; p. pr. & vb. n.Pivoting.] To place on a pivot. Clarke.

4811

Pivotal

Piv″ot‐al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point; belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as, the pivotalopportunity of a career; the piv...

4812

Pix

Pix (?), n. & v. See Pyx.

4813

Pixy

{ Pix″y, Pix″ie } (?), n.; pl.Pixies (#). [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1. An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.]2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Py...

4814

Pixy-led

Pix″y–led′ (?), a. Led by pixies; bewildered.

4815

Pizzicato

‖Piz′zi‐ca″to (?). (Mus.) A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)

4816

Pizzle

Piz″zle (?), n. [Cf. Prov. G. pissel, pesel, peisel, peserich, D. pees a tendon or spring.] The penis; — so called in some animals, as the bull. Shak.

4817

Placability

Pla′ca‐bil″i‐ty (?), n. [L. placabilitas: cf. F. placabilité.] The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

4818

Placable

Pla″ca‐ble (?), a. [L. placabilis, fr. placare to quiet, pacify: cf. F. placable. See Placate.] Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or willing to be pacified; willing t...

4819

Placableness

Pla″ca‐ble‐ness, n. The quality of being placable.

4820

Placard

Pla‐card″ (?), n. [F., fr. plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate, tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a flat piece of wood.] 1. A public procla...

4821

Placard (2)

Pla‐card″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Placarded; p. pr. & vb. n.Placarding.] 1. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard the city.2. To announce by placards; a...

4822

Placate

Plac″ate (?), n. Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

4823

Placate (2)

Pla″cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Placated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Placating.] [L. placatus, p. p. of placare to placate, akin to placere to please. See Please.] To appease; to pacif...

4824

Placation

Pla‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. placatio.] The act of placating. Puttenham (1589).

4825

Place

Place (?), n. [F., fr. L. platea a street, an area, a courtyard, from Gr. πλατει̑α a street, properly fem. of πλατύσ, flat, broad; akin to Skr. pṛthu, Lith. platus. Cf. Flawn, P...

4826

Place (2)

Place (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Placed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Placing (?).] [Cf. F. placer. See Place, n.] 1. To assign a place to; to put in a particular spot or place, or in a cert...

4827

Place (3)

Place, n.(Racing) The position of first, second, or third at the finish, esp. the second position. In betting, to win a bet on a horse for place it must, in the United States, f...

4828

Place (4)

Place (?), v. t. 1. (Racing) To determine or announce the place of at the finish. Usually, in horse racing only the first three horses are placed officially.2. (Rugby Football) ...

4829

Place-kick

Place″–kick′, v. t. & i. To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. — Place″–kick′er, n.

4830

Place-proud

Place″–proud′ (?), a. Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.

4831

Placebo

‖Pla‐ce″bo (?), n. [L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.2. (Med.) A prescription intended to humor or s...

4832

Placeful

Place″ful (?), a. In the appointed place.

4833

Placeless

Place″less, a. Having no place or office.