PAWNED — PED NWAD PAWNED.1

PAWNED, pp. Pledged; given in security. NWAD PAWNED.1

PAWNEE, n. The person to whom a pawn is delivered as security; one that takes any thing in pawn. NWAD PAWNEE.1

If the pawn is laid up and the pawnee robbed, he is not answerable. NWAD PAWNEE.2

PAWNER, n. One that pledges any thing as security for the payment of borrowed money. NWAD PAWNER.1

PAWNING, ppr. Pledging, as goods; giving as security. NWAD PAWNING.1

PAX, n. [L. pax, peace.] A little image or piece of board with the image of Christ upon the cross on it, which people before the reformation, used to kiss after the service; the ceremony being considered as the kiss of peace. NWAD PAX.1

PAY, v.t. pret. and pp. paid. NWAD PAY.1

1. To discharge a debt; to deliver to a creditor the value of the debt, either in money or goods, to his acceptance or satisfaction, by which the obligation of the debtor is discharged. NWAD PAY.2

2. To discharge a duty created by promise or by custom or by the moral law; as, to pay a debt of honor or of kindness. NWAD PAY.3

You have paid down NWAD PAY.4

More penitence, than done trespass. NWAD PAY.5

3. To fulfill; to perform what is promised; as, to pay one’s vows. NWAD PAY.6

4. To render what is due to a superior, or demanded by civility or courtesy; as, to pay respect to a magistrate; to pay due honor to parents. NWAD PAY.7

5. To beat. NWAD PAY.8

For which, or pay me quickly, or I’ll pay you. NWAD PAY.9

6. To reward; to recompense; as, to pay for kindness with neglect. NWAD PAY.10

To pay for, to make amends; to atone by suffering. Men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life. NWAD PAY.11

1. To give an equivalent for any thing purchased. NWAD PAY.12

To pay, or pay over, in seamen’s language, to daub or besmear the surface of any body, to preserve it from injury by water or weather. NWAD PAY.13

To pay the bottom of a vessel, to cover it with a composition of tallow, sulphur, rosin, etc.; to bream. NWAD PAY.14

To pay a mast or yard, to besmear it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow or varnish. NWAD PAY.15

To pay a seam, to pour melted pitch along it, so as to defend the oakum. NWAD PAY.16

To pay off; to make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship. NWAD PAY.17

To pay out, to slacken, extend or cause to run out; as, to pay out more cable. NWAD PAY.18

PAY, v.i. To pay off, in seamen’s language, is to fall to leeward, as the head of a ship. NWAD PAY.19

To pay on, to beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloquial.] NWAD PAY.20

PAY, n. Compensation; recompense; an equivalent given for money due, goods purchased or services performed; salary or wages for services; hire. The merchant receives pay for goods sold; the soldier receives pay for his services, but the soldiers of the American revolution never received full pay. NWAD PAY.21

1. Compensation; reward. NWAD PAY.22

Here only merit constant pay receives-- NWAD PAY.23

PAYABLE, a. That may or ought to be paid. In general, money is payable as soon as it is due, or at the time payment is stipulated, or at the expiration of the credit; but by the usage of merchants, three or more days of grace are allowed to the debtor, and a note due at the day when payment is promised, is not payable till the expiration of the days of grace. NWAD PAYABLE.1

1. That can be paid; that there is power to pay. NWAD PAYABLE.2

Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. NWAD PAYABLE.3

PAY-BILL, n. A bill of money to be paid to the soldiers of a company. NWAD PAY-BILL.1

PAY-DAY, n. The day when payment is to be made or debts discharged; the day on which wages or money is stipulated to be paid. NWAD PAY-DAY.1

PAYEE, n. The person to whom money is to be paid; the person named in a bill or note to whom the amount is promised or directed to be paid. NWAD PAYEE.1

PAYER, n. One that pays. In bills of exchange, the person on whom the bill is drawn, and who is directed to pay the money to the holder. NWAD PAYER.1

PAYMASTER, n. One who is to pay; one from whom wages or reward is received. NWAD PAYMASTER.1

1. In the army, an officer whose duty is to pay the officers and soldiers their wages, and who is entrusted with money for this purpose. NWAD PAYMASTER.2

PAYMENT, n. The act of paying, or giving compensation. NWAD PAYMENT.1

1. The thing given in discharge of a debt or fulfillment of a promise. NWAD PAYMENT.2

2. Reward; recompense. NWAD PAYMENT.3

3. Chastisement; sound beating. [Not used.] NWAD PAYMENT.4

PAYNIM. [See Painim.] NWAD PAYNIM.1

PAY-OFFICE, n. A place or office where payment is made of public debts. NWAD PAY-OFFICE.1

PAYSE, PAYSER, for poise, poiser, not used. NWAD PAYSE.1

PEA, n. [L. pisum.] A plant and its fruit of the genus Pisum, of many varieties. This plant has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, called in popular language a pod. In the plural, we write peas, for two or more individual seeds, but pease, for an indefinite number in quantity of bulk. We write two, three or four peas, but a bushel of pease. [This practice is arbitrary.] NWAD PEA.1

PEACE, n. [L. pax, paco, to appease.] NWAD PEACE.1

1. In a general sense, a state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; applicable to society, to individuals, or to the temper of the mind. NWAD PEACE.2

2. Freedom from war with a foreign nation; public quiet. NWAD PEACE.3

3. Freedom from internal commotion or civil war. NWAD PEACE.4

4. Freedom from private quarrels, suits or disturbance. NWAD PEACE.5

5. Freedom from agitation or disturbance by the passions, as from fear, terror, anger, anxiety or the like; quietness of mind; tranquillity; calmness; quiet of conscience. NWAD PEACE.6

Great peace have they that love the law. Psalm 119:165. NWAD PEACE.7

6. Heavenly rest; the happiness of heaven. NWAD PEACE.8

7. Harmony; concord; a state of reconciliation between parties at variance. NWAD PEACE.9

8. Public tranquillity; that quiet, order and security which is guaranteed by the laws; as, to keep the peace; to break the peace. NWAD PEACE.10

This word is used in commanding silence or quiet; as, peace to this troubled soul. NWAD PEACE.11

Peace, the lovers are asleep. NWAD PEACE.12

To be at peace, to be reconciled; to live in harmony. NWAD PEACE.13

To make peace, to reconcile, as parties at variance. NWAD PEACE.14

To hold the peace, to be silent; to suppress one’s thoughts; not to speak. NWAD PEACE.15

PEACEABLE, a. Free from war, tumult or public commotion. We live in peaceable times. The reformation was introduced in a peaceable manner. NWAD PEACEABLE.1

1. Free from private feuds or quarrels. The neighbors are peaceable. These men are peaceable. NWAD PEACEABLE.2

2. Quiet; undisturbed; not agitated with passion. His mind is very peaceable. NWAD PEACEABLE.3

3. Not violent, bloody or unnatural; as, to die a peaceable death. NWAD PEACEABLE.4

PEACEABLENESS, n. The state of being peaceable; quietness. NWAD PEACEABLENESS.1

1. Disposition to peace. NWAD PEACEABLENESS.2

PEACEABLY, adv. Without war; without tumult or commotion; without private feuds and quarrels. NWAD PEACEABLY.1

1. Without disturbance; quietly; without agitation; without interruption. NWAD PEACEABLY.2

PEACEBREAKER, n. One that violates or disturbs public peace. NWAD PEACEBREAKER.1

PEACEFUL, a. Quiet; undisturbed; not in a state of war or commotion; as a peaceful time; a peaceful country. NWAD PEACEFUL.1

1. Pacific; mild; calm; as peaceful words; a peaceful temper. NWAD PEACEFUL.2

2. Removed from noise or tumult; still; undisturbed; as the peaceful cottage; the peaceful scenes of rural life. NWAD PEACEFUL.3

PEACEFULLY, adv. Without war or commotion. NWAD PEACEFULLY.1

1. Quietly; without disturbance. NWAD PEACEFULLY.2

Our loved earth, where peacefully we slept. NWAD PEACEFULLY.3

2. Mildly; gently. NWAD PEACEFULLY.4

PEACEFULNESS, n. Quiet; freedom from war, tumult, disturbance or discord. NWAD PEACEFULNESS.1

1. Freedom from mental perturbation; as peacefulness of mind. NWAD PEACEFULNESS.2

PEACELESS, a. Without peace; disturbed. NWAD PEACELESS.1

PEACEMAKER, n. One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance. NWAD PEACEMAKER.1

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Matthew 5:9. NWAD PEACEMAKER.2

PEACE-OFFERING, n. An offering that procures peace. Among the Jews, an offering or sacrifice to God for atonement and reconciliation for a crime or offense. NWAD PEACE-OFFERING.1

PEACE-OFFICER, n. A civil officer whose duty is to preserve the public peace, to prevent or punish riots, etc.; as a sheriff, or constable. NWAD PEACE-OFFICER.1

PEACE-PARTED, a. Dismissed from the world in peace. NWAD PEACE-PARTED.1

PEACH, n. A tree and its fruit, of the genus Amygdalus, of many varieties. This is a delicious fruit, the produce of warm or temperate climates. In America, the peach thrives and comes to perfection in the neighborhood of Boston, northward of which it usually fails. NWAD PEACH.1

PEACH, for impeach, not used. NWAD PEACH.2

PEACH-COLOR, n. The pale red color of the peach blossom. NWAD PEACH-COLOR.1

PEACH-COLORED, a. Of the color of a peach blossom. NWAD PEACH-COLORED.1

PEACHER, n. An accuser. [Not used.] NWAD PEACHER.1

PEACHICK, n. The chicken or young of the peacock. NWAD PEACHICK.1

PEACH-TREE, n. The tree that produces the peach. NWAD PEACH-TREE.1

PEACOCK, n. [L. pavo.] A large and beautiful fowl of the genus Pavo, properly the male of the species, but in usage the name is applied to the species in general. The feathers of this fowl’s tail are very long, and variegated with rich and elegant colors. The peacock is a native of India. NWAD PEACOCK.1

PEACOCK-FISH, n. A fish of the Indian seas, having streaks of beautiful colors. NWAD PEACOCK-FISH.1

PEAHEN, n. The hen or female of the peacock. NWAD PEAHEN.1

PEAK, n. [Eng. pike, beak.] NWAD PEAK.1

1. The top of a hill or mountain, ending in a point; as the peak of Teneriffe. NWAD PEAK.2

2. A point; the end of any thing that terminates in a point. NWAD PEAK.3

3. The upper corner of a sail which is extended by a gaff or yard; also, the extremity of the yard or gaff. NWAD PEAK.4

PEAK, v.i. To look sickly or thin. [Not used.] NWAD PEAK.5

1. To make a mean figure; to sneak. [Not used.] NWAD PEAK.6

PEAK, v.t. To raise a gaff or yard more obliquely to the mast. NWAD PEAK.7

PEAKING, a. Mean; sneaking; poor. [Vulgar.] NWAD PEAKING.1

PEAKISH, a. Denoting or belonging to an acuminated situation. NWAD PEAKISH.1

PEAL, n. [from L. pello, whence appello, to appeal. The sense is to drive; a peal is a driving of sound. This word seems to belong to the family of L. balo, and Eng. to bawl, jubilee, bell, etc.] NWAD PEAL.1

A loud sound, usually a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts of a multitude, etc. NWAD PEAL.2

PEAL, v.i. To utter loud and solemn sounds; as the pealing organ. NWAD PEAL.3

PEAL, v.t. To assail with noise. NWAD PEAL.4

Nor was his ear less pealed. NWAD PEAL.5

1. To cause to ring or sound; to celebrate. NWAD PEAL.6

The warrior’s name NWAD PEAL.7

Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame. NWAD PEAL.8

2. To stir or agitate. [Not used.] NWAD PEAL.9

PEALED, pp. Assailed with sound; resounded; celebrated. NWAD PEALED.1

PEALING, ppr. Uttering a loud sound or successive sounds; resounding. NWAD PEALING.1

PEAN, n. [L poean.] A song of praise or triumph. NWAD PEAN.1

PEANISM, n. The song or shouts of praise or of battle; shouts of triumph. NWAD PEANISM.1

PEAR, n. [L. pyrum.] The fruit of the Pyrus communis, of many varieties, some of which are delicious to the taste. NWAD PEAR.1

PEARCH. [See Perch.] NWAD PEARCH.1

PEARL, n. perl. NWAD PEARL.1

1. A white, hard, smooth, shining body, usually roundish, found in a testaceous fish of the oyster kind. The pearl-shell is called matrix perlarum, mother of pearl, and the pearl is found only in the softer part of the animal. It is found in the Persian seas and in many parts of the ocean which washes the shores of Arabia and the continent and isles of Asia, and is taken by divers. Pearls are of different sizes and colors; the larger ones approach to the figure of a pear; some have been found more than an inch in length. They are valued according to their size, their roundness, and their luster or purity, which appears in a silvery brightness. NWAD PEARL.2

2. Poetically, something round and clear, as a drop of water or dew. NWAD PEARL.3

3. A white speck of film growing on the eye. NWAD PEARL.4

PEARL, v.t. perl. To set or adorn with pearls. NWAD PEARL.5

PEARL, v.i. perl. To resemble pearls. NWAD PEARL.6

PEARLASH, n. perl’ash. An alkali obtained from the ashes of wood; refined potash. NWAD PEARLASH.1

PEARLED, a. perl’ed. Set or adorned with pearls. NWAD PEARLED.1

PEARL-EYED, a. perl’-eyed. Having a speck in the eye. NWAD PEARL-EYED.1

PEARL-SINTER, n. Fiorite; a variety of silicious sinter, the color gray and white. NWAD PEARL-SINTER.1

PEARL-SPAR, n. perl’-spar. Brown spar. NWAD PEARL-SPAR.1

PEARL-STONE, n. A mineral regarded as a volcanic production. It occurs in basaltic and porphyritic rocks, and is classed with pitch stone. NWAD PEARL-STONE.1

Pearl-stone is a subspecies of indivisible quartz. NWAD PEARL-STONE.2

PEARL-WORT, PEARL-GRASS, n. A plant of the genus Sagina. NWAD PEARL-WORT.1

PEARLY, a. perl’y. Containing pearl; abounding with pearls; as pearly shells; a pearly shore. NWAD PEARLY.1

1. Resembling pearls; clear; pure; transparent; as the pearly flood; pearly dew. NWAD PEARLY.2

PEARMAIN, n. A variety of the apple. NWAD PEARMAIN.1

PEAR-TREE, n. The tree that produces pears. NWAD PEAR-TREE.1

PEASANT, n. pez’ant. A countryman; one whose business is rural labor. NWAD PEASANT.1

PEASANT, a. pez’ant. Rustic; rural. NWAD PEASANT.2

PEASANTLIKE, PEASANTLY, a. Rude, clownish; illiterate; resembling peasants. NWAD PEASANTLIKE.1

PEASANTRY, n. pez’antry. Peasants; rustics; the body of country people. NWAD PEASANTRY.1

1. Rusticity. [Not used.] NWAD PEASANTRY.2

PEAS-COD, PEA-SHELL, n. The legume or pericarp of the pea. NWAD PEAS-COD.1

PEASTONE, n. A subspecies of limestone. NWAD PEASTONE.1

PEASE, n. Peas collectively, or used as food. [See Pea.] NWAD PEASE.1

PEAT, n. A substance resembling turf, used as fuel. It is found in low grounds or moorish lands, and is of several species; one is of a brown or yellowish brown color, and when first cut has a viscid consistence, but hardens when exposed to the air; another consists chiefly of vegetable substances, as branches of trees, roots, grass, etc. NWAD PEAT.1

PEAT. [See Pet.] NWAD PEAT.2

PEAT-MOSS, n. [peat and moss.] An earthy material used as fuel. NWAD PEAT-MOSS.1

1. A fen producing peat. NWAD PEAT-MOSS.2

PEBBLE, PEBBLESTONE, n. In popular usage, a roundish stone of any kind from the size of a nut to that of a man’s head. In a philosophical sense, minerals distinguished from flints by their variety of colors, consisting of crystalline matter debased by earths of various kinds, with veins, clouds and other variegations, formed by incrustation round a central nucleus, but sometimes the effect of a simple concretion. Pebbles are much used in the pavement of streets. NWAD PEBBLE.1

A general term for water-worn minerals. NWAD PEBBLE.2

PEBBLE-CRYSTAL, n. A crystal in form of nodules, found in earthy stratums and irregular in shape. NWAD PEBBLE-CRYSTAL.1

PEBBLED, a. Abounding with pebbles. NWAD PEBBLED.1

PEBBLY, a. Full of pebbles; abounding with small roundish stones. NWAD PEBBLY.1

PECARY, PEC-CARY, n. A quadruped of Mexico, in general appearance resembling a hog, but its body is less bulky, its legs shorter, and its bristles thicker and stronger, like the quills of the porcupine. Its color is black and white, and it has on the hind part of the back a protuberance like the navel of other animals, with an orifice form which issues a liquor of a very strong scent. NWAD PECARY.1

PECCABILITY, n. [from peccable.] State of being subject to sin; capacity of sinning. NWAD PECCABILITY.1

PECCABLE, a. [from L. pecco.] NWAD PECCABLE.1

Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law. NWAD PECCABLE.2

PECCADILLO, n. [L. peccatum.] NWAD PECCADILLO.1

1. A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. NWAD PECCADILLO.2

2. A sort of stiff ruff. NWAD PECCADILLO.3

PECCANCY, n. [from peccant.] Bad quality; as the peccancy of the humors. NWAD PECCANCY.1

1. Offense. NWAD PECCANCY.2

PECCANT, a. [L. peccans. See Peccable.] NWAD PECCANT.1

1. Sinning; guilty of sin or transgression; criminal; as peccant angels. NWAD PECCANT.2

2. Morbid; bad; corrupt; not healthy; as peccant humors. NWAD PECCANT.3

3. Wrong; bad; defective; informal; as a peccant citation. [Not used.] NWAD PECCANT.4

PECCANT, n. An offender. [Not used.] NWAD PECCANT.5

PECCAVI. [L. I have offended.] A colloquial word used to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense. NWAD PECCAVI.1

PECHBLEND, n. Pitchblend, an ore of uranium; a metallic substance found in masses, or stratified with earths or with other minerals, in Swedish and Saxon mines. It is of a blackish color, inclining to a deep steel gray, and one kind has a mixture of spots of red. NWAD PECHBLEND.1

PECK, n. NWAD PECK.1

1. The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as a peck of wheat or oats. NWAD PECK.2

2. In low language, a great deal; as, to be in a peck of troubles. NWAD PECK.3

PECK, v.t. NWAD PECK.4

1. To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into, as a bird that pecks a hole in a tree. NWAD PECK.5

2. To strike with a pointed instrument, or to delve or dig with any thing pointed, as with a pick-ax. NWAD PECK.6

3. To pick up food with the beak. NWAD PECK.7

4. To strike with small and repeated blows; to strike in manner to make small impressions. In this sense, the verb is generally intransitive. We say, to peck at. NWAD PECK.8

[This verb and pick are radically the same.] NWAD PECK.9

PECKED, pp. Struck or penetrated with a beak or pointed instrument. NWAD PECKED.1

PECKER, n. One that pecks; a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker. NWAD PECKER.1

PECKING, ppr. Striking with the bill; thrusting the beak into; thrusting into with a pointed instrument; taking up food with the beak. NWAD PECKING.1

PECKLED, for speckled, not used. NWAD PECKLED.1

PECTINAL, a. [L. pecten, a comb; pecto, to comb.] NWAD PECTINAL.1

Pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb. NWAD PECTINAL.2

PECTINAL, n. A fish whose bones resemble the teeth of a comb. NWAD PECTINAL.3

PECTINATE, PECTINATED, a. [from L. pecten, a comb.] Having resemblance to the teeth of a comb. In botany, a pectinate leaf is a sort of pinnate leaf, in which the leaflets are toothed like a comb. NWAD PECTINATE.1

A mineral is pectinated, when it presents short filaments, crystals or branches, nearly parallel and equidistant. NWAD PECTINATE.2

PECTINATION, n. The state of being pectinated. NWAD PECTINATION.1

1. A combing; the combing of the head. NWAD PECTINATION.2

PECTINITE, n. [L. pecten, a comb.] NWAD PECTINITE.1

A fossil pecten or scallop, or scallop petrified. NWAD PECTINITE.2

PECTORAL, a. [L. pectoralis, from pectus, breast.] NWAD PECTORAL.1

Pertaining to the breast; as the pectoral muscles; pectoral medicines. NWAD PECTORAL.2

The pectoral fins of a fish are situated on the sides of the fish, behind the gills. NWAD PECTORAL.3

PECTORAL, n. A breastplate. NWAD PECTORAL.4

1. A sacerdotal habit or vestment worn by the Jewish high priest, called in our version of the Bible, a breastplate. NWAD PECTORAL.5

2. A medicine adapted to cure or relieve complaints of the breast and lungs. NWAD PECTORAL.6

PECULATE, v.i. [L. peculatus, peculor, from peculium, private property, from pecus, cattle.] NWAD PECULATE.1

1. To defraud the public of money or goods entrusted to one’s care, by appropriating the property to one’s own use; to defraud by embezzlement. NWAD PECULATE.2

2. Among civilians, to steal. NWAD PECULATE.3

PECULATION, n. The act, practice or crime of defrauding the public by appropriating to one’s own use the money or goods entrusted to one’s care for management or disbursement; embezzlement of public money or goods. NWAD PECULATION.1

PECULATOR, n. [L.] One that defrauds the public by appropriating to his own use money entrusted to his care. NWAD PECULATOR.1

PECULIAR, a. [L. peculiaris, from peculium, one’s own property, from pecus, cattle.] NWAD PECULIAR.1

1. Appropriate; belonging to a person and to him only. Almost every writer has a peculiar style. Most men have manners peculiar to themselves. NWAD PECULIAR.2

2. Singular; particular. The man has something peculiar in his deportment. NWAD PECULIAR.3

3. Particular; special. NWAD PECULIAR.4

My fate is Juno’s most peculiar care. NWAD PECULIAR.5

[Most cannot, in strict propriety, be prefixed to peculiar, but it is used to give emphasis to the word.] NWAD PECULIAR.6

4. Belonging to a nation, system or other thing, and not to others. NWAD PECULIAR.7

PECULIAR, n. Exclusive property; that which belongs to a person in exclusion of others. NWAD PECULIAR.8

1. In the canon law, a particular parish or church which has the probate of wills within itself, exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop’s court. NWAD PECULIAR.9

Court of peculiars, in England, is a branch of the court of arches. It has jurisdiction over all the parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. NWAD PECULIAR.10

PECULIARITY, n. Something peculiar to a person or thing; that which belongs to or is found in one person or thing and in no other; as a peculiarity of style or manner of thinking; peculiarity in dress. NWAD PECULIARITY.1

PECULIARIZE, v.t. To appropriate; to make peculiar. NWAD PECULIARIZE.1

PECULIARLY, adv. Particularly; singly. NWAD PECULIARLY.1

1. In a manner not common to others. NWAD PECULIARLY.2

PECULIARNESS, n. The state of being peculiar; appropriation. [Little used.] NWAD PECULIARNESS.1

PECUNIARY, a. [L. pecuniarius, from pecunia, money, from pecus, cattle.] NWAD PECUNIARY.1

1. Relating to money; as pecuniary affairs or losses. NWAD PECUNIARY.2

2. Consisting of money; as a pecuniary mulct or penalty. NWAD PECUNIARY.3

PECUNIOUS, a. Full of money. [Not used.] NWAD PECUNIOUS.1

PED, n. [for pad.] A small pack-saddle. NWAD PED.1

1. A basket; a hamper. NWAD PED.2