Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 83
Pluviometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
Pluviometer (n.) Gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation [syn: rain gauge, rain gage, pluviometer, udometer].
Pluviometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer.
Pluviose (n.) The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.
Pluviose (n.) Fifth month of the Revolutionary calendar (January and February); the rainy month.
Pluvious (a.) Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial. -- Sir T. Browne.
Plied (imp. & p. p.) of Ply.
Plying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ply.
Ply (v. t.) To bend. [Obs.]
As men may warm wax with handes plie. -- Chaucer.
Ply (v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.
And plies him with redoubled strokes. -- Dryden.
He plies the duke at morning and at night. -- Shak.
Ply (v. t.) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
Go ply thy needle; meddle not. -- Shak.
Ply (v. t.) To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply. -- Waller.
Ply (v. i.) To bend; to yield. [Obs.]
It would rather burst atwo than plye. -- Chaucer.
The willow plied, and gave way to the gust. -- L'Estrange.
Ply (v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.
Ere half these authors be read (which will soon be with plying hard and daily). -- Milton.
He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. -- Addison.
The heavy hammers and mallets plied. -- Longfellow.
Ply (v. i.) (Naut.) To work to windward; to beat.
Ply (n.) A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.
Ply (n.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.
The late learners can not so well take the ply. -- Bacon.
Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. -- W. Irving.
The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. -- Macaulay.
Note: Ply is used in composition to designate folds, or the number of webs interwoven; as, a three-ply carpet.
Ply (n.) One of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination; "three-ply cord"; "four-ply yarn."
Ply (n.) (Usually in combinations) One of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood.
Ply (v.) Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance; "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests" [syn: provide, supply, ply, cater].
Ply (v.) Apply oneself diligently; "Ply one's trade."
Ply (v.) Travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast" [syn: ply, run].
Ply (v.) Join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding; "ply fabric."
Ply (v.) Wield vigorously; "ply an axe."
Ply (v.) Use diligently; "ply your wits!"
Ply, () Of a node in a tree, the number of branches between that node and the root.
Ply, () Of a tree, the maximum ply of any of its nodes.
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Plyer (n.) One who, or that which, plies.
Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
Plyer (n.) See Pliers.
Plyght (v. & n.) See Plight.
Plymouth Brethren () The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.
Pneometer (n.) A spirometer.
Pneumatic (a.) Alt. of Pneumatical.
Pneumatical (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
Pneumatical (a.) Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.
Pneumatical (a.) Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
Pneumatical (a.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
Pneumaticity (n.) The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
Pneumatics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Pneumatics (n.) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Pneumato- () A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
Pneumatocele (n.) A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.
Pneumatogarm (n.) A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.
Pneumatograph (n.) An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.
Pneumatological (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumatology.
Pneumatologist (n.) One versed in pneumatology.
Pneumatology (n.) The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.
Pneumatology (n.) The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.
Pneumatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.
Pneumatometry (n.) See Spirometry.
Pneumatophore (n.) One of the Pneumonophora.
Pneumatothorax (n.) See Pneumothorax.
Pneumo- () A combining form from Gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.
Pneumococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
Pneumogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
Pneumogastric (n.) The pneumogastric nerve.
Pneumograph (n.) Same as Pneumatograph.
Pneumography (n.) A description of the lungs.
Pneumology (n.) The science which treats of the lungs.
Pneumometer (n.) A spirometer.
Pneumometry (n.) Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.
Pneumonia (n.) (Med.) 【醫】肺炎 [U] Inflammation of the lungs.
Note: Catarrhal pneumonia, or Broncho-pneumonia, Is inflammation of the lung tissue, associated with catarrh and with marked evidences of inflammation of bronchial membranes, often chronic; -- also called lobular pneumonia, from its affecting single lobules at a time.
Croupous pneumonia, Or ordinary pneumonia, is an acute affection characterized by sudden onset with a chill, high fever, rapid course, and sudden decline; -- also called lobar pneumonia, from its affecting a whole lobe of the lung at once. See under Croupous.
Fibroid pneumonia Is an inflammation of the interstitial connective tissue lying between the lobules of the lungs, and is very slow in its course, producing shrinking and atrophy of the lungs.
Pneumonia (n.) Respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants.
Pneumonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
Pneumonic (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
Pneumonic (n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Pneumonitic (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonitis.
Pneumonitis (n.) Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.
Pneumonometer (n.) A spirometer; a pneumometer.
Pneumonophora (n. pl.) The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophorae.
Pneumony (n.) See Pneumonia.
Pneumootoka (n. pl.) Same as Sauropsida.
Pneumophora (n. pl.) A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.
Pneumoskeleton (n.) A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.
Pneumotherapy (n.) The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.
Pneumothorax (n.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
Pnigalion (n.) Nightmare.
Pnyx (n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.
Poa (n.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).
Poached (imp. & p. p.) of Poach.
Poaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poach.
Poach (v. t.) 水煮 （荷包蛋）To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. -- Bacon.
Poach (v. t.) （侵入他人地界）偷獵（或偷捕）；偷獵；偷捕 [（+from）]；侵佔，侵犯；竊取 To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. -- Garth.
Poach (v. i.) 侵入他人地界；偷獵；偷捕 [（+on）] To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
Poach (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. [Obs.] -- Carew.
Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [Obs.]
His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. -- Sir W. Temple.
Poach (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling. -- Tennyson.
Poach (v. t.) To begin and not complete. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Poach (v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
Chalky and clay lands . . . chap in summer, and poach in winter. -- Mortimer.
Poach (v.) Hunt illegally; "people are poaching elephants for their ivory."
Poach (v.) Cook in a simmering liquid; "poached apricots."
POACH, () PC-On-A-Chip (PC).
Poachard (n.) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.
Poachard (n.) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.
Poacher (n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
Poacher (n.) The American widgeon.
Poachiness (n.) The state of being poachy; marshiness.
Poachy (a.) Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land
Poak (n.) Alt. of Poake.
Poake (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
Pocan (n.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
Pochard (n.) See Poachard.
Pock (n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Pockarred (a.) See Pockmarked.
Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
Pocket (n.) Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:
Pocket (n.) (a) A bin for strong coal, grain, etc.
Pocket (n.) (b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
Pocket (n.) (c) A bright on a lee shore.
Pocket (n.) [C] 口袋；錢；財力 [S1] A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
Pocket (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
Pocket (n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
Note: In the wool or hop trade, the pocket contains half a sack, or about 168 Ibs.; but it is a variable quantity, the articles being sold by actual weight.
Pocket (n.) (Arch.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
Pocket (n.) (Mining.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
Pocket (n.) (Mining.) A hole containing water.
Pocket (n.) (Nat.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
Pocket (n.) (Zool.) Same as Pouch.
Pocket (n.) Any hollow place suggestive of a pocket in form or use; specif.:
Pocket (n.) (a) A bin for storing coal, grain, etc.
Pocket (n.) (b) A socket for receiving the foot of a post, stake, etc.
Pocket (n.) (c) A bight on a lee shore.
Pocket (n.) (d) A small cavity in the body, especially one abnormally filled with a fluid; as, a pocket of pus.
Pocket (n.) (e) (Dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the gum from the tooth.
Pocket (n.) An isolated group or area which has properties in contrast to the surrounding area; as, a pocket of poverty in an affluent region; pockets of resistance in a conquered territory; a pocket of unemployment in a booming ecomony.
Pocket (n.) (Football) The area from which a quarterback throws a pass, behind the line of scrimmage, delineated by the defensive players of his own team who protect him from attacking opponents; as, he had ample time in the pocket to choose an open receiver.
Pocket (n.) (Baseball) The part of a baseball glove covering the palm of the wearer's hand.
Pocket (n.) (Bowling) the space between the head pin and one of the pins in the second row, considered as the optimal point at which to aim the bowling ball in order to get a strike.
Note: Pocket is often used adjectively in the sense of small, or in the formation of compound words usually of obvious signification; as, pocket knife, pocket comb, pocket compass, pocket edition, pocket handkerchief, pocket money, pocket picking, or pocket-picking, etc.
Deep pocket or Deep pockets, Wealth or substantial financial assets.
Note: Used esp. in legal actions, where plaintiffs desire to find a defendant with "deep pockets", so as to be able to actually obtain the sum of damages which may be judged due to him. This contrasts with a "judgment-proof" defendant, one who has neither assets nor insurance, and against whom a judgment for monetary damages would be uncollectable and worthless.
Out of pocket. See under Out, prep.
Pocket borough, A borough "owned" by some person. See under Borough. [Eng.]
Pocket gopher (Zool.), any one of several species of American rodents of the genera Geomys, and Thomomys, family Geomyd[ae]. They have large external cheek pouches, and are fossorial in their habits. they inhabit North America, from the Mississippi Valley west to the Pacific. Called also pouched gopher.
Pocket mouse (Zool.), Any species of American mice of the family Saccomyid[ae]. They have external cheek pouches.
Some of them are adapted for leaping (genus Dipadomys), and are called kangaroo mice. They are native of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, etc.
Pocket piece, A piece of money kept in the pocket and not spent.
Pocket pistol, A pistol to be carried in the pocket.
Pocket sheriff (Eng. Law), A sheriff appointed by the sole authority of the crown, without a nomination by the judges in the exchequer. -- Burrill.
Pocketed (imp. & p. p.) of Pocket.