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Painim
A pagan; an infidel; -- used also adjectively.
Palatize
To modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate; to palatalize; .
Paliform
Resembling a palus; .
Pall
To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
Panax
A genus of perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng.
Pander
To play the pander for.
Panful
Enough to fill a pan.
Panter
One who pants.
Paradisic
Paradisiacal.
Paradisical
Paradisiacal.
Paradoxology
The use of paradoxes.
Parasolette
A small parasol.
Parkeria
A genus of large arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to that of a tennis ball.
Parturiate
To bring forth young.
Paterero
See .
Patronymic
Derived from ancestors; .
patterned
Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.
Paw
To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.
Pegomancy
Divination by fountains.
Penang nut
The betel nut.
Peplis
A genus of plants including water purslane.
Per
Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; . is also sometimes used with English words.
Perbromide
A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series.
Perishment
The act of perishing.
Perk
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of;
Petty
Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate;
Philander
To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
Philatory
A kind of transparent reliquary with an ornamental top.
Phosphoritic
Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.
Phosphuret
A phosphide.
Picard
One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one of Flanders. See .
Pickpenny
A miser; also, a sharper.
Pill
To deprive of hair; to make bald.
Pivot
To place on a pivot.
Placard
A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
Platina
Platinum.
Platinous
Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a lower valence, as contrasted with the compounds; .
Plausibleness
Quality of being plausible.
Poach
To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
Polonaise
The Polish language.
Poly
A whitish woolly plant () of the order , found throughout the Mediterranean region. The name, with sundry prefixes, is sometimes given to other related species of the same genus.
Polymorphosis
The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.
Pomel
A pommel.
Possessively
In a possessive manner.
Postponence
The act of postponing, in sense 2.
Postponer
One who postpones.
Pott
A size of paper. See under .
Prediscovery
A previous discovery.
Predominance
The quality or state of being predominant; superiority; ascendency; prevalence; predomination.
Prengagement
Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection.
Preface
Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
Pregnancy
The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
Prelude
To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance; to serve as prelude.
Preparator
One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.
Preponderate
To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; .
Preservatory
Preservative.
Pressirostral
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
Producer's surplus
Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also .
Profundity
The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Proke
To poke; to thrust.
Prolixness
Prolixity.
Prologue
To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.
Pronely
In a prone manner or position.
Propertied
Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money.
Prospect
That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
Protocanonical
Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to .
Provoke
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
Psalmodist
One who sings sacred songs; a psalmist.
Ptomaine
One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the .
Pulled
Plucked; pilled; moulting.
Pulsate
To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
Pupil
The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under , and .
Purge
To become pure, as by clarification.