Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 32
Pedicle (n.) Same as Pedicel.
Pedicular (a.) Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.
Pediculate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.
Pediculati (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.
Pediculation (n.) Phthiriasis.
Pedicule (n.) A pedicel.
Pediculina (n. pl.) A division of parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust. in Appendix.
Pediculous (a.) Pedicular.
Pediculi (n. pl. ) of Pediculus.
Pediculus (n.) A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse.
Pediform (a.) Shaped like a foot.
Pedigerous (a.) Bearing or having feet or legs.
Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.
Pedigree (n.) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.
Pediluvy (n.) The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet.
Pedimana (n. pl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.
Pedimane (n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.
Pedimanous (a.) Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
Pediment (n.) Originally, in
classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple
roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors,
windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and
use.
Pedimental (a.) Of or pertaining to a pediment.
Pedipalp (n.) One of the Pedipalpi.
Pedipalpi (n pl.) A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions.
Pedipalpous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps.
Pedipalpi (n. pl. ) of Pedipalpus.
Pedipalpus (n.) One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw.
Pedireme (n.) A crustacean, some of whose feet serve as oars.
Pedlar (n.) Alt. of Pedler.
Pedler (n.) See Peddler.
Pedobaptism (n.) The baptism of infants or of small children.
Pedobaptist (n.) One who advocates or practices infant baptism.
Pedomancy (n.) Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
Pedometer (n.) An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.
Pedometric (a.) Alt. of Pedometrical.
Pedometrical (a.) Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.
Pedomotive (a.) Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
Pedotrophy (n.) The art of nourishing children properly.
Pedregal (n.) A lava field.
Peduncle (n.) The stem or stalk that supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or fruits.
Peduncle (n.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
Peduncle (n.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.
Peduncled (a.) Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.
Peduncular (a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
Pedunculata (n. pl.) A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.
Pedunculate (a.) Alt. of Pedunculated.
Pedunculated (a.) Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
Pee (n.) See 1st Pea.
Pee (n.) Bill of an anchor.
Peece (n. & v.) See Piece.
Peechi (n.) The dauw.
Peek (v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Peek (v. i.) To look surreptitiously, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]
Peek (n.) A secret look [syn: {peek}, {peep}].
Peek (v.) Throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything interesting" [syn: {glance}, {peek}, {glint}].
Peekaboo (n.) A child's game; bopeep.
Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
Peel (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Peel (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
Peeled (imp. & p. p.) of Peel.
Peeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peel.
Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
Peel (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
Peel (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Peele (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
Peeler (n.) One who peels or strips.
Peeler (n.) A pillager.
Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.
Peen (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
Peen (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
Peen (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.
Peenge (v. i.) To complain.
Peeped (imp. & p. p.) of Peep.
Peeping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peep.
Peep (v. i.) To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
There was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. -- Is. x. 14.
Peep (v. i.) To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance ; as, the sun peeped over the eastern hills.
When flowers first peeped, and trees did blossoms bear. -- Dryden.
Peep (v. i.) To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
Peep through the blanket of the dark. -- Shak.
From her cabined loophole peep. -- Milton.
Peep sight, An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.
Peep (n.) The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.
Peep (n.) First outlook or
appearance.
Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn. -- Gray.
Peep (n.) A sly look; a look as through a crevice, or from a place of concealment.
To take t' other peep at the stars. -- Swift.
Peep (n.) (Zool.) Any small sandpiper, as the least sandpiper ({Trigna minutilla).
Peep (n.) (Zool.) The European meadow pipit ({Anthus pratensis).
Peep show, A small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass.
Peep-o'-day boys, The Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]
Peep (n.) The short weak cry of a young bird [syn: cheep, peep].
Peep (n.) A secret look [syn: peek, peep].
Peep (v.) Look furtively; "He peeped at the woman through the window."
Peep (v.) Cause to appear; "he peeped his head through the window."
Peep (v.) Make high-pitched sounds; "the birds were chirping in the bushes" [syn: peep, cheep, chirp, chirrup].
Peep (v.) Speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice.
Peep (v.) Appear as though from hiding; "the new moon peeped through the tree tops."
Compare: Sandpiper
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
Note: The most important North American species are the pectoral sandpiper ({Tringa maculata), called also brownback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin ({Tringa alpina); the purple sandpiper ({Tringa maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot ({Tringa canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper ({Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail ({Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper ({Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See under Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper ({Actitis hypoleucus syn. Tringoides hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers.
Sandpiper (n.) (Zool.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Curlew sandpiper. See under Curlew.
Stilt sandpiper. See under Stilt.
Peeper (n.) A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.
Peeper (n.) One who peeps; a prying person; a spy.
Who's there? peepers, . . . eavesdroppers? -- J. Webster.
Peeper (n.) The eye; as, to close the peepers. [Colloq.]
Peeper (n.) A viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others [syn: voyeur, Peeping Tom, peeper].
Peeper (n.) An informal term referring to the eye.
Peeper (n.) An animal that makes short high-pitched sounds.
Peephole (n.) 窺視孔 A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without being discovered.
Peephole (n.) A hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep [syn: {peephole}, {spyhole}, {eyehole}].
Peeping hole (n.) See {Peephole}.
Peepul tree (n.) 菩提榕；菩提樹 A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See {Bo tree}.
Compare: Bo tree
Bo tree (n.) Tree Written by: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
See Article History.
Alternative Titles: Bodhi tree, Ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree.
Bo tree, also called Bodhi tree, According to Buddhist tradition, the pipal (Ficus religiosa) under which the Buddha sat when he attained Enlightenment (Bodhi) at Bodh Gaya (near Gaya, west-central Bihar state, India). A living pipal at Anuradhapura, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), is said to have grown from a cutting from the Bo tree sent to that city by King Ashoka in the 3rd century BC. See Ficus.
Compare: Enlightenment
Enlightenment (n.) [Mass noun] 啟蒙；教化；開明 The action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.
‘Robbie looked to me for enlightenment.’
Enlightenment (n.) The action or state of attaining or having attained spiritual knowledge or insight, in particular (in Buddhism) that awareness which frees a person from the cycle of rebirth.
‘The key to enlightenment is the way of the Buddha.’
Enlightenment (n.) (The Enlightenment) 啟蒙運動；啟蒙時代；理性時代 A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent figures included Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
Compare: Individualism
Individualism (n.) [Mass noun] 個人主義；強調個人獨特性；個性；利己主義 The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.
‘A culture that celebrates individualism and wealth.’
Individualism (n.) Self-centred feeling or conduct; egoism.
Individualism (n.) A social theory favouring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
‘Encouragement has been given to individualism, free enterprise, and the pursuit of profit.’
Compare: Encouragement
Encouragement (n.) [Mass noun] 鼓勵；獎勵；促進 [U]；鼓勵的話（或行為）；刺激 [C] The action of giving someone support, confidence, or hope.
‘Thank you for all your support and encouragement.’
Encouragement (n.) Persuasion to do or to continue something.
‘Incentives and encouragement to play sports.’
‘The encouragement of foreign investment.’
Compare: Investment
Investment (n.) [Mass noun] 投資；投資額；投資物 [U] [C] [（+in）]； （精力，時間等的）投入 [U]；授權（儀式）；授爵（儀式）[U] [C] The action or process of investing money for profit.
‘A debate over private investment in road-building.’
‘The need to attract foreign investment.’
[Count noun] ‘A total investment of £50,000.’
Investment (n.) [Count noun] A thing that is worth buying because it may be profitable or useful in the future.
‘Freezers really are a good investment for the elderly.’
Investment (n.) [Count noun] An act of devoting time, effort, or energy to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile result.
‘The time spent in attending the seminar is an investment in our professional futures.’
Investment (n.) (Archaic) [Mass noun] The surrounding of a place by a hostile force in order to besiege or blockade it.
Peer (n.) <Networking> A unit of communications hardware or software that is on the same protocol layer of a network as another. A common way of viewing a communications link is as two protocol stacks, which are actually connected only at the very lowest (physical) layer, but can be regarded as being connected at each higher layer by virtue of the services provided by the lower layers. Peer-to-peer communication refers to these real or virtual connections between corresponding systems in each layer.
To give a simple example, when two people talk to each other, the lowest layer is the physical layer which concerns the sound pressure waves travelling from mouth to ear (so mouths and ears are peers) the next layer might be the speech and hearing centres in the people's brains and the top layer their cerebellums or minds. Although, barring telepathy, nothing passes directly between the two minds, there is a peer-to-peer communication between them. (2007-03-27)
Peered (imp. & p. p.) of Peer.
Peering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peer.
Peer (v. i.) 與……相比，與……同等；封……為貴族；凝視，盯著看 To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic]
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. -- Shak.
See how his gorget peers above his gown! -- B. Jonson.
Peer (v. i.) To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. -- Milton.
Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. -- Shak.
As if through a dungeon grate he peered. -- Coleridge.
Peer (n.) [C]（地位，能力等）同等的人；同輩，同事；（英國的）貴族；（英國的）上院議員 One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer. -- Dryden.
Shall they consort only with their peers? -- I. Taylor.
Peer (n.) A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass. -- Spenser.
Peer (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power. -- Milton.
{House of Peers}, {The Peers}, The British House of Lords. See {Parliament}.
{Spiritual peers}, The bishops and archibishops, or lords spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords.
Peer (v. t.) To make equal in rank. [R.] -- Heylin.
Peer (v. t.) To be, or to assume to be, equal. [R.]
Peer (n.) A person who is of equal standing with another in a group [syn: {peer}, {equal}, {match}, {compeer}].
Peer (n.) A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage.
Peer (v.) Look searchingly; "We peered into the back of the shop to see whether a salesman was around."
Peer (n.). Equal. A man's peers are his equals. A man is to be tried by his peers.
Peer (n.) In England and some other countries, this is a title of nobility; as, peers of the realm. In the United States, this equality is not so much political as civil. A man who is not a citizen, is nevertheless to be tried by citizens.
Compare: Comrade
Comrade (n.) [C] 夥伴，同事；（共產黨的）同志；南非年輕黑人激進派的成員 (Among men) A colleague or a fellow member of an organization.
‘An old college comrade.’
Comrade (n.) A fellow soldier or member of the armed forces.
‘Hewett turned and rushed to help his comrade.’
Comrade (n.) A fellow socialist or communist (often as a form of address)
‘‘You're right, comrade’.’
[As title] ‘Comrade Petrova.’
Comrade (n.) (In South Africa) A young militant supporter of the African National Congress.
Peerage (n.) （總稱）貴族 [the S]；貴族爵位，貴族頭銜 [C]；貴族名冊 [C] The rank or dignity of a peer. -- Blackstone.
Peerage (n.) The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.
When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. -- Milton.
Peerage (n.) The peers of a kingdom considered as a group [syn: {peerage}, {baronage}].
Compare: Baronage
Baronage (n.) 男爵的總稱；貴族的總稱；有爵位的名冊 [Treated as singular or plural] Barons or nobles collectively.
‘He owed his position to his popularity with the baronage.’
Baronage (n.) An annotated list of barons or peers.
Peerdom (n.) Peerage; also, a lordship.
Peeress (n.) The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
Peerie (a.) Alt. of Peery.
Peery (a.) 好奇的；懷疑的 Inquisitive; suspicious; sharp. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] "Two peery gray eyes." -- Sir W. Scott.
Compare: Inquisitive
Inquisitive (a.) [(+about)] 好問的；好奇的；過分好奇的；愛打聽的Having or showing an interest in learning things; curious.
‘His poems reveal an intensely inquisitive mind.’
Inquisitive (a.) Unduly curious about the affairs of others; prying.
‘I didn't like to seem inquisitive.’
Suspicious (a.) 猜疑的，疑心的；多疑的 [（+of）]；可疑的，有蹊蹺的 Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something.
‘He was suspicious of her motives.’
‘She gave him a suspicious look.’
‘They are not treating the fire as suspicious.’
Suspicious (a.) Having the belief or impression that someone is involved in an illegal or dishonest activity.
‘Police were called when staff became suspicious.’