Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 50
Petrologically (adv.) 關於岩石學地，岩石學上 According to petrology.
Petrologist (n.) 岩石學家 One who is versed in petrology.
Petrology (n.) 【地】岩石學 The department of science which is concerned with the mineralogical and chemical composition of rocks, and with their classification: lithology.
Petrology (n.) A treatise on petrology.
Petrology (n.) The branch of geology that studies rocks: their origin and formation and mineral composition and classification [syn: petrology, lithology].
Petromastoid (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the petrous and mastoid parts of the temporal bone, periotic.
Petromyzont (n.) (Zool.) A lamprey.
Petronel (n.) （15-17世紀的）手槍, 火槍（一種槍筒粗的、卡賓槍似的武器） A sort of hand cannon, or portable firearm, used in France in the 15th century.
Petrosal (n.) (Anat.) A petrosal bone.
Petrosal (n.) The auditory capsule. -- Owen.
Petrosal (a.) (Anat.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone.
Petrosal (a.) (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone.
Petrosal bone (Anat.), A bone corresponding to the petrous portion of the temporal bone of man; or one forming more or less of the periotic capsule.
Petrosal (a.) [Med.] (Specialized) 顳骨岩部的 Relating to the very hard section of bone surrounding the inner ear.
// The petrosal bone.
Petrosilex (n.) (Min.) Felsite.
Petrosilicious (a.) Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex.
Petrostearine (n.) A solid unctuous material, of which candles are made.
Petrous (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. -- Hooper.
Petrous (a.) (Anat.) Same as Petrosal.
Petrous (a.) (Of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness [syn: petrous, stonelike].
Pettichaps (n.) (Zool.) See Pettychaps.
Petticoat (n.) (Zool.) A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.
Petticoat government, Government by women, whether in politics or domestic affairs. [Colloq.]
Petticoat pipe (Locomotives), A short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smoke box, to equalize the draft.
Petticoat (n.) Undergarment worn under a skirt [syn: petticoat, half-slip, underskirt].
Pettifog (v. t.) To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]
Pettifogged (imp. & p. p.) of Pettifog.
Pettifogging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pettifog.
Pettifog (v. i.) 作訟棍；辦理小案子；欺詐，欺騙 ；挑剔；狡辯 To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way. "He takes no money, but pettifogs gratis." -- S. Butler.
Pettifog (v. i.) To debate or quarrel over unimportant, trifling matters.
Pettifog (v. i.) To use subterfuge, deception, or flattery for any purpose; to practice chicanery.
Pettifog (v.) Argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble].
Pettifogger (n.) 訟棍；騙人的律師 A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
A pettifogger was lord chancellor. -- Macaulay.
Pettifogger (n.) A person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods [syn: {shyster}, {pettifogger}].
Pettifogger (n.) A disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections [syn: {quibbler}, {caviller}, {caviler}, {pettifogger}].
Pettifogger (n.) One who pretends to be a lawyer, but possessing neither knowledge, law, nor conscience.
Pettifoggeries (n. pl. ) of Pettifoggery.
Pettifoggery (n.) 訟棍的手段；欺瞞 The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles; chicanery.
Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. -- Barrow.
Pettifoggery (n.) A quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {bickering}, {spat}, {tiff}, {squabble}, {pettifoggery}, {fuss}].
Pettifogging (a.) Paltry; quibbling; mean.
Pettifogging (n.) Pettifoggery.
Pettifogulize (v. i.) To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. -- De Quincey.
Pettily (adv.) 卑鄙地；小氣地；瑣碎地；小型地 In a petty manner; frivolously.
Pettily (adv.) In a petty way.
Pettiness (n.) [U] 微小，瑣碎；委瑣；器量小；卑鄙 The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
Pettiness (n.) Narrowness of mind or ideas or views.
Pettiness (n.) The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: {pettiness}, {triviality}, {slightness}, {puniness}].
Pettiness (n.) Lack of generosity in trifling matters [syn: {pettiness}, {littleness}, {smallness}].
Pettish (a.) 易怒的；怒氣沖沖的；鬧情緒的 Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." -- Sterne. -- {Pet"tish*ly}, adv. -- {Pet"tish*ness}, n.
Pettish (a.) Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome}, {peevish}, {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy}, {testy}, {tetchy}, {techy}].
Pettitoes (n. pl.) The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet. -- Shak.
Petto (n.) 【義】胸 The breast. [Obsolescent]
{In petto}, In the breast; hence, in secrecy; in reserve.
Petty (a.) 小的，瑣碎的；不重要的；小規模的，小型的 [Z]；氣量小的，心胸狹窄的 Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. -- Denham.
Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. -- Milton.
{Petty averages}. See under {Average}.
{Petty cash}, Money expended or received in small items or amounts.
{Petty officer}, A subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.
Note: For petty constable, petty jury, petty larceny, petty treason, See {Petit}.
Syn: Little; diminutive; inconsiderable; inferior; trifling; trivial; unimportant; frivolous.
Petty (a.) Inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary" [syn: {junior-grade}, {lower-ranking}, {lowly}, {petty(a)}, {secondary}, {subaltern}].
Petty (a.) (Informal) Small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}].
Petty (a.) Contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness" [syn: {petty}, {small-minded}].
Petty (n.) Larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) [syn: {petit larceny}, {petty larceny}, {petty}] [ant: {grand larceny}, {grand theft}].
Pettychaps (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler ({Sylvia hortensis).
Pettywhin (n.) (Bot.) The needle furze. See under Needle.
Petulance (n.) Alt. of Petulancy.
Petulancy (n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." -- B. Jonson.
Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. -- Clarendon.
The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. -- Cowper.
Syn: Petulance, Peevishness. -- Peevishness implies the permanence of a sour, fretful temper; petulance implies temporary or capricious irritation.
Petulance (n.) An irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
Petulant (a.) Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Petulant (a.) Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." -- Macaulay.
Syn: Irritable; ill-humored; peevish; cross; fretful; querulous.
Petulant (a.) Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy]
Petulant (a.) (Disapproving) 耍孩子脾氣的，任性的；脾氣暴躁的 Easily annoyed and complaining in a rude way like a child.
Petulantly (adv.) In a petulant manner.
Petulcity (n.) Wantonness; friskiness.
Petulcous (a.) Wanton; frisky; lustful.
Petunia (n.) A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
Petunse (n.) Alt. of Petuntze.
Petuntse (n.) Alt. of Petuntze.
Petuntze (n.) Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.
Petworth marble () A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
Petzite (n.) A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
Peucedanin (n.) A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.
Peucil (n.) A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.
Pew (n.) One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.
Pew (n.) Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold. [Obs.] -- Pepys. -- Milton.
Pew opener, An usher in a church. [Eng.] --Dickens.
Pew (v. t.) To furnish with pews. [R.] -- Ash.
Pew (n.) Long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation [syn: pew, church bench].
Pew. () A seat in a church separated from all others, with a convenient space to stand therein.
Pew. () It is an incorporeal interest in the real property. And, although a man has the exclusive right to it, yet, it seems, he cannot maintain trespass against a person entering it; 1 T. R. 430; but case is the proper remedy. 3 B. & Ald. 361; 8 B. & C. 294; S. C. 15 Eng. C. L. R. 221.
Pew. () The right to pews is limited and usufructuary, and does not interfere with the right of the parish or congregation to pull down and rebuild the church. 4 Ohio R 541; 5 Cowen's R. 496; 17 Mass. R. 435; 1 Pick. R. 102; 3 Pick. R. 344; 6 S. & R. 508; 9 Wheat. R. 445; 9 Cranch, R. 52; 6 John. R. 41; 4 Johns. Ch. R. 596; 6 T. R. 396. Vide Pow. Mortgages, Index, h.t.; 2 Bl. Com. 429; 1 Chit. Pr. 208, 210; 1 Pow. Mort. 17 n.
Pew. () In Connecticut and Maine, and in Massachusetts, (except in Boston), pews are considered real estate: in Boston they are personal chattels. In New Hampshire they are personal property. 1 Smith's St. 145. The precise nature of such property does not appear to be well settled in New York. 15 Wend. R. 218; 16 Wend. R. 28; 5 Cowen's R. 494. See Rev. St. Mass. 413; Conn. L. 432; 10 Mass. R. 323 17 Mass. 438; 7 Pick. R. 138; 4 N. H. Rep. 180; 4 Ohio R. 515; 4 Harr. & McHen. 279; Harr. Dig. Ecclesiastical Law. Vide Perturbation of seat; Best on Pres. 111; Crabb on R. P. Sec. 481 to 497.
Pewee (n.) A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.
Pewee (n.) The woodcock.
Pewet (n.) Same as Pewit.
Pewfellow (n.) One who occupies the same pew with another.
Pewfellow (n.) An intimate associate; a companion.
Pewit (n.) The lapwing.
Pewit (n.) The European black-headed, or laughing, gull (Xema ridibundus). See under Laughing.
Pewit (n.) The pewee.
Pewter (n.) A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth.
Pewter (n.) Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.
Pewterer (n.) One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith.
Pewtery (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, pewter; as, a pewtery taste.
Pexity (n.) Nap of cloth.
Peyer's glands (n.) (Anat.) 在腸道的派亞氏腺體 Patches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
Peytrel (n.) The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.
Peziza (n.) A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.
Pezizoid (a.) Resembling a fungus of the genus Peziza; having a cuplike form.
Pfennigs (n. pl. ) of Pfennig.
Pfennige (n. pl. ) of Pfennig.
Pfennig (n.) A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.
Phacelli (n. pl. ) of Phacellus.
Phacellus (n.) One of the filaments on the inner surface of the gastric cavity of certain jellyfishes.
Phacochere (n.) The wart hog.
Phacoid (a.) Resembling a lentil; lenticular.
Phacolite (n.) A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.
Phacops (n.) A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.
Phaeacian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Phaeacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.
Phaenogam (n.) Any plant of the class Phaenogamia.
Phaenogamia (n. pl.) The class of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.
Phaenogamian (a.) Alt. of Phaenogamic.
Phaenogamic (a.) Same as Phaenogamous.
Phaenogamous (a.) Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
Phaenomenon (n.) See Phenomenon.
Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.
Phaethon (n.) The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
Phaethon (n.) A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.
Phaeton (n.) 二頭四輪輕型馬車；【美】敞篷旅遊車 A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
Phaeton (n.) See Pha["e]thon.
Phaeton (n.) (Zool.) A handsome American butterfly ({Euphydryas Pha["e]ton syn. Melit[ae]a Pha["e]ton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.
Phaeton (n.) Large open car seating four with folding top [syn: touring car, phaeton, tourer].
Phagedena (n.) (Med.) A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.]
Phagedena (n.) (Med.) 【醫】 崩蝕性潰瘍 Spreading, obstinate ulceration. Phagedenic
Phagedenic (a.) 蝕瘡狀的 Alt. of Phagedenical
Phagedenical (a.) (Med.) Of, like, or pertaining to, phagedena; used in the treatment of phagedena; as, a phagedenic ulcer or medicine.
Phagedenical (n.) A phagedenic medicine.
Phagedenous (a.) Phagedenic.
Phagocyte (n.) A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.