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Oviduct
  • (n.) A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place

    Oviform
  • (a.) Having the form or figure of an egg

    Ovine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sheep

    Oviparous
  • (a.) Producing young from rggs

    Oviposit
  • (v. i.) To lay or deposit eggs
  • (v. t.) To deposit or lay (an egg).

    Ovisac
  • (n.) A Graafian follicle

    Ovoid
  • (n.) A solid resembling an egg in shape.

    Ovolo
  • (n.) A round, convex molding.

    Ovoviviparous
  • (a.) Oviparous, but hatching the egg while it is within the body, as some fishes and reptiles

    Ovulate
  • (a.) Containing an ovule or ovules.

    Ovulation
  • (n.) The formation of ova or eggs in the ovary, and the discharge of the same. In the mammalian female the discharge occurs during menstruation

    Ovule
  • (n.) An ovum.

    Ovum
  • (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent

    Owe
  • (v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received

    Owing
  • (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.

    Owl
  • (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye
  • (v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

    Owlet
  • (n.) A small owl

    Owlish
  • (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, an owl.

    Own
  • (a.) Belonging to
  • (v. t.) To grant

    Owner
  • (n.) One who owns

    Ox
  • (n.) The male of bovine quadrupeds, especially the domestic animal when castrated and grown to its full size, or nearly so

    Oxalate
  • (n.) A salt of oxalic acid.

    Oxalis
  • (n.) A genus of plants, mostly herbs, with acid-tasting trifoliolate or multifoliolate leaves

    Oxbow
  • (n.) A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke

    Oxeye
  • (n.) A fish

    Oxford
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

    Oxheart
  • (n.) A large heart-shaped cherry, either black, red, or white.

    Oxidation
  • (n.) The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result of being oxidized.

    Oxide
  • (n.) A binary compound of oxygen with an atom or radical, or a compound which is regarded as binary

    Oxidize
  • (v. t.) To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.

    Oxime
  • (n.) One of a series of isonitroso derivatives obtained by the action of hydroxylamine on aldehydes or ketones

    Oxlip
  • (n.) The great cowslip (Primula veris, var. elatior).

    Oxonian
  • (a.) Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
  • (n.) A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.

    Oxpecker
  • (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga

    Oxyacid
  • (n.) An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid

    Oxygen
  • (n.) A colorless, tasteless, odorless, gaseous element occurring in the free state in the atmosphere, of which it forms about 23 per cent by weight and about 21 per cent by volume, being slightly heavier than nitrogen

    Oxyhydrogen
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen at over 5000¡ F

    Oxyntic
  • (a.) Acid

    Oxytocic
  • (a.) Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.
  • (n.) An oxytocic medicine or agent.

    Oxytone
  • (a.) Having an acute sound
  • (n.) An acute sound.

    Oyez
  • (interj.) Hear

    Oyster
  • (n.) A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl

    Ozocerite
  • (n.) A waxlike mineral resin

    Ozone
  • (n.) A colorless gaseous substance (O/) obtained (as by the silent discharge of electricity in oxygen) as an allotropic form of oxygen, containing three atoms in the molecule

    Ozonize
  • (v. t.) To convert into ozone, as oxygen.

    Pa
  • (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

    Pabulum
  • (n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants

    Pac
  • (n.) A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper.

    Paca
  • (n.) A small South American rodent (Coelogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides

    Pace
  • (n.) A broad step or platform
  • (v. i.) To go
  • (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of

    Pachyderm
  • (n.) One of the Pachydermata.

    Pacific
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to peace

    Pacify
  • (v. t.) To make to be at peace

    Pack
  • (n.) A bundle made up and prepared to be carried
  • (v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage
  • (v. t.) To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something

    Pact
  • (v.) An agreement

    Pad
  • (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
  • (v. i.) To rob on foot.
  • (v. t.) To imbue uniformly with a mordant

    Padding
  • (n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

    Paddle
  • (v. i.) An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats
  • (v. t.) To pad

    Paddock
  • (n.) A small inclosure for pasture

    Paddy
  • (a.) Low
  • (n.) A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

    Padlock
  • (n.) A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt
  • (v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a padlock

    Padre
  • (n.) A Christian priest or monk

    Padrone
  • (n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

    Paduasoy
  • (n.) A rich and heavy silk stuff.

    Paean
  • (n.) An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity, and, later, a song addressed to other deities

    Paeon
  • (n.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable

    Pagan
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to pagans

    Page
  • (n.) A boy child.
  • (v. t.) To attend (one) as a page.

    Paginal
  • (a.) Consisting of pages.

    Pagination
  • (n.) The act or process of paging a book

    Paging
  • (n.) The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

    Pagoda
  • (n.) A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was worth about three and a half rupees

    Pah
  • (interj.) An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt.
  • (n.) A kind of stockaded intrenchment.

    Paid
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pay
  • (imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay

    Pail
  • (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail

    Pain
  • (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence

    Pair
  • (n.) A married couple
  • (v. t.) To engage (one's self) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions

    Paisano
  • (n.) The chaparral cock.

    Pajamas
  • (n. pl.) A garment, similar to the Oriental pyjama (which see), adopted among Europeans, Americans, and other Occidentals, for wear in the dressing room and during sleep

    Pal
  • (n.) A mate

    Palace
  • (n.) Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.

    Paladin
  • (n.) A knight-errant

    Palanquin
  • (n.) An inclosed carriage or litter, commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting poles

    Palatable
  • (a.) Agreeable to the palate or taste

    Palatal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the palate
  • (n.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y

    Palate
  • (n.) A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.
  • (v. t.) To perceive by the taste.

    Palatial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace
  • (n.) A palatal letter.

    Palatinate
  • (n.) The province or seigniory of a palatine
  • (v. t.) To make a palatinate of.

    Palatine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a palace, or to a high officer of a palace
  • (n.) A palatine bone.

    Palaver
  • (n.) In Africa, a parley with the natives
  • (v. t. & i.) To make palaver with, or to

    Pale
  • (n.) A cheese scoop.
  • (v. i.) Not bright or brilliant
  • (v. t.) To inclose with pales, or as with pales

    Palfrey
  • (n.) A saddle horse for the road, or for state occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.

    Pali
  • (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc

    Pall
  • (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid
  • (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y
  • (v. t.) To cloak.

    Palm
  • (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
  • (v. t.) To "grease the palm" of

    Palp
  • (v. t.) To have a distinct touch or feeling of

    Palsgrave
  • (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany

    Palstave
  • (n.) A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.

    Palsy
  • (n.) Paralysis, complete or partial.
  • (v. t.) To affect with palsy, or as with palsy

    Palter
  • (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner
  • (v. t.) To trifle with

    Paltry
  • (superl.) Mean

    Paludal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens

    Paludism
  • (n.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes

    Paly
  • (a.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately

    Pam
  • (n.) The knave of clubs.

    Pampas
  • (n. pl.) Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America

    Pamper
  • (v. t.) To feed to the full

    Pamphlet
  • (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound
  • (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

    Pamprodactylous
  • (a.) Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

    Pan
  • (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating.
  • (v. i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably)
  • (v. t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • (v. t. & i.) To join or fit together

    Panacea
  • (n.) A remedy for all diseases

    Panache
  • (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet

    Panathenaea
  • (n. pl.) The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city

    Pancake
  • (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle

    Pancratium
  • (n.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes

    Pancreas
  • (n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion

    Pancreatin
  • (n.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice

    Panda
  • (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India

    Pandean
  • (a.) Of or relating to the god Pan.

    Pandect
  • (n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

    Pandemic
  • (a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries
  • (n.) A pandemic disease.

    Pandemonium
  • (n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.

    Pander
  • (n.) A male bawd
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a pander.
  • (v. t.) To play the pander for.

    Pandora
  • (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven

    Pandore
  • (n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind

    Pandour
  • (n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army

    Pandowdy
  • (n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust

    Panduriform
  • (a.) Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin

    Pane
  • (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space

    Pang
  • (n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish
  • (v. t.) To torture

    Panhandle
  • (n.) The handle of a pan

    Panhellenic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism

    Panhellenism
  • (n.) A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

    Panic
  • (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum

    Panislamism
  • (n.) A desire or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world

    Panne
  • (n.) A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.

    Pannier
  • (n.) A bread basket

    Pannikin
  • (n.) A small pan or cup.

    Panoply
  • (n.) Defensive armor in general

    Panorama
  • (n.) A complete view in every direction.

    Pant
  • (n.) A quick breathing
  • (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly
  • (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner

    Pap
  • (n.) A nipple
  • (v. t.) To feed with pap.

    Papa
  • (n.) A child's word for father.

    Paper
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to paper
  • (n.) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application
  • (v. t.) To cover with paper

    Papeterie
  • (n.) A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

    Paphian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus, having a celebrated temple of Venus
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Paphos.

    Papilla
  • (n.) Any minute nipplelike projection

    Papilloma
  • (n.) A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillae of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart

    Papillote
  • (n.) a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl

    Pappus
  • (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae

    Pappy
  • (a.) Like pap

    Papuan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Papua.

    Papyraceous
  • (a.) Made of papyrus

    Papyrus
  • (n.) A manuscript written on papyrus

    Par
  • (n.) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
  • (prep.) By

    Para
  • (n.) A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent

    Parboil
  • (v. t.) To boil in part

    Parbuckle
  • (n.) A double sling made of a single rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
  • (v. t.) To hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.

    Parcae
  • (n. pl.) The Fates.

    Parcel
  • (a. & adv.) Part or half
  • (n.) An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity
  • (v. t.) To add a parcel or item to

    Parcenary
  • (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons

    Parch
  • (v. i.) To become scorched or superficially burnt
  • (v. t.) To burn the surface of

    Parclose
  • (n.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.

    Pard
  • (n.) A leopard

    Paregoric
  • (a.) Mitigating
  • (n.) A medicine that mitigates pain

    Parenchyma
  • (n.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like

    Parent
  • (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring

    Paresis
  • (n.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

    Parfleche
  • (n.) A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried

    Parget
  • (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone.
  • (v. i.) To lay on plaster.
  • (v. t.) To coat with parget

    Parhelion
  • (n.) A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun

    Pariah
  • (n.) An outcast

    Parian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Aegean Sea noted for its excellent statuary marble
  • (n.) A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc

    Parietal
  • (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis
  • (n.) One of the parietal bones.

    Paring
  • (v. t.) That which is pared off.

    Paripinnate
  • (a.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side

    Paris
  • (n.) A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia)

    Parity
  • (n.) The quality or condition of being equal or equivalent

    Park
  • (n.) Any place where vehicles are assembled according to a definite arrangement
  • (v. i.) To promenade or drive in a park
  • (v. t.) In oyster culture, to inclose in a park.

    Parlance
  • (n.) Conversation

    Parley
  • (n.) Mutual discourse or conversation
  • (v. i.) To speak with another

    Parliament
  • (n.) A formal conference on public affairs

    Parlor
  • (n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

    Parlous
  • (a.) Attended with peril

    Parmesan
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Parma in Italy.

    Parnassian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America

    Parochial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a parish

    Parody
  • (n.) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
  • (v. t.) To write a parody upon

    Parol
  • (a.) Given or done by word of mouth
  • (n.) A word

    Paronomasia
  • (n.) A play upon words

    Paronym
  • (n.) A paronymous word.

    Parotic
  • (a.) On the side of the auditory capsule

    Parotid
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland.
  • (n.) The parotid gland.

    Parotitis
  • (n.) Inflammation of the parotid glands.

    Parousia
  • (n.) The last day.

    Paroxysm
  • (n.) Any sudden and violent emotion

    Paroxytone
  • (a.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

    Parquet
  • (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra

    Parr
  • (n.) A young leveret.

    Parse
  • (n.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement

    Parsimonious
  • (a.) Exhibiting parsimony

    Parsimony
  • (n.) Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money

    Parsley
  • (n.) An aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum), having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a garnish

    Parsnip
  • (n.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild state

    Parson
  • (n.) Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment

    Part
  • (adv.) Partly
  • (n.) A constituent of character or capacity
  • (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces

    Parure
  • (n.) An ornament or decoration for the person

    Parvenu
  • (n.) An upstart

    Pas
  • (n.) A pace

    Paschal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter

    Pash
  • (v. t.) A crushing blow.

    Pasquinade
  • (n.) A lampoon or satirical writing.
  • (v. t.) To lampoon, to satirize.

    Pass
  • (n.) In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to another player of one's side, usually at some distance
  • (v. i.) A movement of the hand over or along anything
  • (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress

    Past
  • (adv.) By
  • (n.) A former time or state
  • (prep.) Above
  • (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state

    Pat
  • (a.) Exactly suitable
  • (adv.) In a pat manner.
  • (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand
  • (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand

    Pataca
  • (n.) The Spanish dollar

    Patagium
  • (n.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing

    Patch
  • (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  • (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

    Pate
  • (n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place

    Path
  • (n.) A trodden way
  • (v. i.) To walk or go.
  • (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).

    Patience
  • (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe

    Patient
  • (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion
  • (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment
  • (v. t.) To compose, to calm.

    Patina
  • (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware

    Patio
  • (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation

    Patisserie
  • (n.) Pastry.

    Patois
  • (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes

    Patriarch
  • (n.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops

    Patrician
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth
  • (n.) A person of high birth

    Patriciate
  • (n.) The patrician class

    Patricide
  • (n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.

    Patrimony
  • (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father

    Patriot
  • (a.) Becoming to a patriot
  • (n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.

    Patristics
  • (n.) That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church

    Patrol
  • (v.) t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman
  • (v. i.) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts

    Patron
  • (a.) Doing the duty of a patron
  • (n.) A guardian saint.—called also patron saint.
  • (v. t.) To be a patron of

    Patroon
  • (n.) One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey

    Patten
  • (n.) A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud

    Pattern
  • (n.) A diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire
  • (v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern

    Patty
  • (n.) A little pie.

    Patulous
  • (a.) Open

    Paucity
  • (n.) Fewness

    Paul
  • (n.) An Italian silver coin.

    Paunch
  • (n.) A paunch mat
  • (v. t.) To pierce or rip the belly of

    Pauper
  • (n.) A poor person

    Pause
  • (n.) A break or paragraph in writing.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stop or rest

    Pave
  • (n.) The pavement.

    Pavid
  • (a.) Timid

    Pavilion
  • (n.) A covering
  • (v. t.) To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

    Paving
  • (n.) A pavement.

    Pavior
  • (n.) A brick or slab used for paving.

    Pavo
  • (n.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

    Paw
  • (n.) The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
  • (v. i.) To draw the forefoot along the ground
  • (v. t.) To pass the paw over

    Pawky
  • (a.) Arch

    Pawl
  • (n.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass
  • (v. t.) To stop with a pawl

    Pawn
  • (n.) A man or piece of the lowest rank.
  • (v. t.) To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed

    Pax
  • (n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times

    Pay
  • (n.) An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed
  • (v. i.) Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble
  • (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly

    Payable
  • (a.) Matured

    Payee
  • (n.) The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid

    Payer
  • (n.) One who pays

    Paymaster
  • (n.) One who pays

    Payment
  • (n.) Punishment

    Pea
  • (n.) A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc

    Peace
  • (v.) A state of quiet or tranquillity
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become quiet

    Peach
  • (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone
  • (v. i.) To turn informer
  • (v. t.) To accuse of crime

    Peacock
  • (n.) In common usage, the species in general or collectively

    Peafowl
  • (n.) The peacock or peahen

    Peag
  • (n.) A kind of aboriginal shell money, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States

    Peahen
  • (n.) The hen or female peafowl.

    Peak
  • (n.) A point
  • (v. i.) To acquire sharpness of figure or features
  • (v. t.) To raise to a position perpendicular, or more nearly so

    Peal
  • (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc
  • (v. i.) To appeal.
  • (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.

    Pean
  • (n.) A song of praise and triumph.

    Pear
  • (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates

    Peasantry
  • (n.) Peasants, collectively

    Peat
  • (n.) A small person

    Pebble
  • (n.) A small roundish stone or bowlder
  • (v. t.) To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

    Pecan
  • (n.) A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees

    Peccable
  • (a.) Liable to sin

    Peccadillo
  • (n.) A slight trespass or offense

    Peccant
  • (a.) Morbid
  • (n.) An offender.

    Peccary
  • (n.) A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.

    Peck
  • (n.) A great deal
  • (v.) Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument
  • (v. i.) To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.

    Pectate
  • (n.) A salt of pectic acid.

    Pectin
  • (n.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc

    Pectize
  • (v. i.) To congeal

    Pectoral
  • (a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored
  • (n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.

    Peculate
  • (v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public

    Peculiar
  • (a.) One's own
  • (n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.

    Peculium
  • (n.) A special fund for private and personal uses.

    Pecuniary
  • (a.) Relating to money

    Ped
  • (n.) A basket

    Pedagogics
  • (n.) The science or art of teaching

    Pedagogue
  • (n.) A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.
  • (v. t.) To play the pedagogue toward.

    Pedagogy
  • (n.) Pedagogics

    Pedal
  • (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes

    Pedant
  • (n.) A schoolmaster

    Pedate
  • (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments

    Peddle
  • (v. i.) To do a small business
  • (v. t.) To sell from place to place

    Pederast
  • (n.) One guilty of pederasty

    Pedestal
  • (n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

    Pedestrian
  • (a.) Going on foot
  • (n.) A walker

    Pediatrics
  • (n.) That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of children.

    Pedicel
  • (n.) An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals

    Pediculate
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.

    Pedicure
  • (n.) One who cares for the feet and nails

    Pediform
  • (a.) Shaped like a foot.

    Pedigree
  • (n.) A line of ancestors

    Pediment
  • (n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof

    Pedipalp
  • (n.) One of the Pedipalpi.

    Pedology
  • (n.) Pediatrics.

    Pedometer
  • (n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over

    Peduncle
  • (n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain


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