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pager
A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called .
Pangenesis
An hypothesis advanced by in explanation of heredity.
Panto-
See .
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.
Papillulate
Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.
Papion
A West African baboon (), allied to the chacma. Its color is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
Parament
Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural.
Parfay
By my faith; verily.
Parture
Departure.
Pastoral
Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; .
Patefaction
The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
Patriot
Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.
Pay streak
The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material.
Pearl
Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
Pedimana
A division of marsupials, including the opossums.
Pelecoid
A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.
Pen
To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; .
Penny
Denoting the weight in pounds for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; .
Pentagynia
A Linnan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.
People's party
A party formed in 1891, advocating an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
Perca
A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch.
Percher
One who, or that which, perches.
Perduellion
Treason.
Peribranchial
Surrounding the branchi; .
Perissad
Odd; not even; -- said of elementary substances and of radicals whose valence is not divisible by two without a remainder. Contrasted with .
Perisystole
The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.
Pester
To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
Petioled
Petiolate.
Pharyngeal
Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx.
Phellogen
The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.
Philander
To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
Philanthropist
One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.
Photographist
A photographer.
Phraseology
Manner of expression; peculiarity of diction; style.
Phryganeid
Any insect belonging to the Phryganeides.
Piririgua
A South American bird () allied to the cuckoos.
Pituitous
Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus.
Placentalia
A division of Mammalia including those that have a placenta, or all the orders above the marsupials.
Plastidule
One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm.
Platonize
To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
Platypoda
Same as .
Plebeianism
The quality or state of being plebeian.
Pliant
Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; . Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; .
Plitt
An instrument of punishment or torture resembling the knout, used in Russia.
Plutocratic
Of or pertaining to plutocracy; .
Pluvioscope
A rain gauge.
Podical
Anal; -- applied to certain organs of insects.
Polonaise
Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.
Polyplacophora
See .
Polypode
An animal having many feet; a myriapod.
Polysporous
Containing many spores.
Polytype
A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.;
Ponty
See .
Porime
A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident.
Portpane
A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands.
Postanal
Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.
Postliminiary
Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.
Poundage
Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
Preglacial
Prior to the glacial or drift period.
Prenticehood
Apprenticehood.
Prerequisite
Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; .
Pretorian
A soldier of the pretorian guard.
Prickmadam
A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See .
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; .
Procreativeness
The power of generating.
Prodigence
Waste; profusion; prodigality.
Proffer
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of;
Promissory
Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne.
Pronged
Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; .
Proruption
The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out.
Prose
The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; -- contradistinguished from , or .
Providentness
The quality or state of being provident; carefulness; prudence; economy.
Proxenet
A negotiator; a factor.
Prudential
That which relates to or demands the exercise of, discretion or prudence; -- usually in the
Psyche
A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.
Pullman car
A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to .
Pulpiter
A preacher.
Pulvinar
A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
Punka
A machine for fanning a room, usually a movable fanlike frame covered with canvas, and suspended from the ceiling. It is kept in motion by pulling a cord.
Punto
A point or hit.