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Palliation
The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; .
Paludinous
Paludinal.
Pancratic
Having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.
Pander
To play the pander for.
Pantisocratic
Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.
Papalty
The papacy.
Paper
A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.
Paralian
A dweller by the sea.
Parishen
A parishioner.
Pedanticly
Pedantically.
Peel
To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; .
Pela
See , under .
Peleus
A king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he was the son of Aeachus.
Pellmell
In utter confusion; with confused violence.
Penciled
Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.
Pend
To hang; to depend.
Perch
To place or to set on, or as on, a perch.
Percutient
Striking; having the power of striking.
Peregrinate
To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.
Peripatus
A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
Pestilently
In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.
Phenogamia
Same as .
Phosphureted
Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus.
Phrase
A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; .
Physalia
A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the .
Physiography
The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.
Picksy
See .
Pikeman
A soldier armed with a pike.
Pinking
The act of piercing or stabbing.
Pippin
An apple from a tree raised from the seed and not grafted; a seedling apple.
Piscator
A fisherman; an angler.
Plaining
Complaining.
-plastic
A combining form signifying , , ; .
Platinoid
Resembling platinum.
Plesiosauria
An extinct order of Mesozoic marine reptiles including the genera Plesiosaurus, and allied forms; -- called also .
Pleurapophysis
One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib.
Pluckily
In a plucky manner.
Pluteus
The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods.
Poisoner
One who poisons.
Polyconic
Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones.
Porket
A young hog; a pig.
Portableness
The quality or state of being portable; portability.
Pose
To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner;
Postpone
To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; .
Postrider
One who rides over a post road to carry the mails.
Postulate
Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
Potecary
An apothecary.
Preacquaint
To acquaint previously or beforehand.
Precaution
Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; .
Precogitate
To cogitate beforehand.
Preconcert
To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.
Precontract
A contract preceding another
Prediscovery
A previous discovery.
Prexpectation
Previous expectation.
Prehensi-ble
Capable of being seized.
Premiss
Premise.
Prerogatively
By prerogative.
Presagious
Foreboding; ominous.
Prescience
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Press
To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to compress;
Preterlapsed
Past; .
Pretext
Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.
Primrose League
A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman , Earl of Beaconsfield.
Prink
To prank or dress up; to deck fantastically.
Prismatoidal
Having a prismlike form.
Prisonment
Imprisonment.
Privateersman
An officer or seaman of a privateer.
Prizer
One who contends for a prize; a prize fighter; a challenger.
Promanation
The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux.
Promoter
One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; .
Prostracum
The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See of .
Proscriptionist
One who proscribes.
Prosody
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Prospector
One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Pseudovary
The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also .
Public
Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to ; .
Pupivora
A group of parasitic Hymenoptera, including the ichneumon flies, which destroy the larv and pup of insects.
Purposer
One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer.
Pursuit
The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution;
Putrefactive
Of or pertaining to putrefaction; .
Pygopodes
A division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back.
Pyrognostics
The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.
Pyroxylic
Derived from wood by distillation; -- formerly used in designating crude wood spirit.