PEDAGOGIC — PENCILED NWAD PEDAGOGIC.1

PEDAGOGIC, PEDAGOGICAL, a. [from pedagogue.] NWAD PEDAGOGIC.1

Suiting or belonging to a teacher of children or to a pedagogue. NWAD PEDAGOGIC.2

PEDAGOGISM, n. The business, character or manners of a pedagogue. NWAD PEDAGOGISM.1

PEDAGOGUE, n. ped’agog. [Gr. a child, and to lead.] NWAD PEDAGOGUE.1

1. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to instruct young children; a schoolmaster. NWAD PEDAGOGUE.2

2. A pedant. NWAD PEDAGOGUE.3

PEDAGOGUE, v.t. To teach with the air of a pedagogue; to instruct superciliously. NWAD PEDAGOGUE.4

PEDAGOGY, n. Instruction in the first rudiments; preparatory discipline. NWAD PEDAGOGY.1

PEDAL, a. [L. pedalis, from pes, pedis, foot.] NWAD PEDAL.1

Pertaining to a foot. NWAD PEDAL.2

PEDAL, n. One of the large pipes of an organ, so called because played and stopped with the foot. NWAD PEDAL.3

1. A fixed or stationary base. NWAD PEDAL.4

PEDAL-NOTE, n. In music, a holding note. NWAD PEDAL-NOTE.1

PEDANEOUS, a. [L. pedaneus, from pes, the foot.] NWAD PEDANEOUS.1

Going on foot; walking. NWAD PEDANEOUS.2

PEDANT, n. NWAD PEDANT.1

1. A schoolmaster. NWAD PEDANT.2

2. A person who makes a vain display of his learning. NWAD PEDANT.3

PEDANTIC, PEDANTICAL, a. Ostentatious of learning; vainly displaying or making a show of knowledge; applied to persons or things; as a pedantic writer or scholar; a pedantic description or expression. NWAD PEDANTIC.1

PEDANTICALLY, adv. With a vain or boastful display of learning. NWAD PEDANTICALLY.1

PEDANTIZE, v.i. To play the pedant; to domineer over lads; to use pedantic expressions. NWAD PEDANTIZE.1

PEDANTRY, n. Vain ostentation of learning; a boastful display of knowledge of any kind. NWAD PEDANTRY.1

Horace has enticed me into this pedantry of quotation. NWAD PEDANTRY.2

Pedantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. NWAD PEDANTRY.3

PEDARIAN, n. A Roman senator who gave his vote by the feet, that is, by walking over to the side he espoused, in divisions of the senate. NWAD PEDARIAN.1

PEDATE, a. [L. pedatus, from pes, the foot.] In botany, divided like the toes. A pedate leaf is one in which a bifid petiole connects several leaflets on the inside only. NWAD PEDATE.1

PEDATIFID, a. [L. pes, foot, and findo, to divide.] NWAD PEDATIFID.1

A pedatifid leaf, in botany, is one whose parts are not entirely separate, but connected like the toes of a water-fowl. NWAD PEDATIFID.2

PEDDLE, v.i. To be busy about trifles. NWAD PEDDLE.1

1. To travel about the country and retail goods. He peddles for a living. NWAD PEDDLE.2

PEDDLE, v.t. To sell or retail, usually by traveling about the country. NWAD PEDDLE.3

PEDDLING, ppr. Traveling about and selling small wares. NWAD PEDDLING.1

1. a. Trifling; unimportant. NWAD PEDDLING.2

PEDERAST, n. [Gr. a boy, and love.] A sodomite. NWAD PEDERAST.1

PEDERASTIC, a. Pertaining to pederasty. NWAD PEDERASTIC.1

PEDERASTY, n. Sodomy; the crime against nature. NWAD PEDERASTY.1

PEDERERO, n. [L. petra; Gr. so named from the use of stones in the charge, before the invention or iron balls.] NWAD PEDERERO.1

A swivel gun; sometimes written paterero. NWAD PEDERERO.2

PEDESTAL, n. [L. pes, the foot.] In architecture, the lowest part of a column or pillar; the part which sustains a column or serves as its foot. It consists of three parts, the base, the die and the cornice. NWAD PEDESTAL.1

PEDESTRIAL, a. [L. pedestris.] Pertaining to the foot. NWAD PEDESTRIAL.1

PEDESTRIAN, a. [L. pedestris, form pes, the foot.] NWAD PEDESTRIAN.1

Going on foot; walking; made on foot; as a pedestrian journey. NWAD PEDESTRIAN.2

PEDESTRIAN, n. One that walks or journeys on foot. NWAD PEDESTRIAN.3

1. One that walks for a wager; a remarkable walker. NWAD PEDESTRIAN.4

PEDESTRIOUS, a. Going on foot; not winged. NWAD PEDESTRIOUS.1

PEDICEL, PEDICLE, n. [L. pediculus, form pes, the foot.] In botany, the ultimate division of a common peduncle; the stalk that supports one flower only when there are several on a peduncle. NWAD PEDICEL.1

PEDICELLATE, a. Having a pedicel, or supported by a pedicel. NWAD PEDICELLATE.1

PEDICULAR, PEDICULOUS, a. [L. pedicularis, form pediculus, a louse.] NWAD PEDICULAR.1

Lousy; having the lousy distemper. NWAD PEDICULAR.2

PEDIGREE, n. [probably from L. pes, pedis, foot.] NWAD PEDIGREE.1

1. Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person or tribe descends; genealogy. NWAD PEDIGREE.2

Alterations of surnames--have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. NWAD PEDIGREE.3

2. An account or register of a line of ancestors. NWAD PEDIGREE.4

The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their several tribes. NWAD PEDIGREE.5

PEDILUVY, n. [L. pes, foot, and lavo, to wash.] NWAD PEDILUVY.1

The bathing of the feet; a bath for the feet. NWAD PEDILUVY.2

PEDIMENT, n. [from L. pes, the foot.] In architecture, an ornament that crowns the ordinances, finishes the fronts of buildings and serves as a decoration over gates, windows and niches. It is of two forms, triangular and circular. A pediment is properly the representation of the roof. NWAD PEDIMENT.1

PEDLER, n. [L. pes, pedis, the foot.] A traveling foot-trader; one that carries about small commodities on his back, or in a cart or wagon, and sells them. NWAD PEDLER.1

PEDLERESS, n. A female pedler. NWAD PEDLERESS.1

PEDLERY, n. Small wares sold or carried about for sale by pedlers. NWAD PEDLERY.1

PEDOBAPTISM, n. [Gr. a child, and baptism.] NWAD PEDOBAPTISM.1

The baptism of infants or of children. NWAD PEDOBAPTISM.2

PEDOBAPTIST, n. One that holds to infant baptism; one that practices the baptism of children. Most denominations of christians are pedobaptists. NWAD PEDOBAPTIST.1

PEDOMETER, n. [L. pes, the foot, and Gr. measure.] An instrument by which paces are numbered as a person walks, and the distance from place to place ascertained. It also marks the revolutions of wheels. This is done by means of wheels with teeth and a chain or string fastened to the foot or to the wheel of a carriage; the wheels advancing a notch at every step or at every revolution of the carriage wheel. NWAD PEDOMETER.1

PEDOMETRICAL, a. Pertaining to or measured by a pedometer. NWAD PEDOMETRICAL.1

PEDUNCLE, n. [L. pes, the foot.] In botany, the stem or stalk that supports the fructification of a plant, and of course the fruit. NWAD PEDUNCLE.1

PEDUNCULAR, a. Pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as a peduncular tendril. NWAD PEDUNCULAR.1

PEDUNCULATE, a. Growing on a peduncle; as a pedunculate flower. NWAD PEDUNCULATE.1

PEE, v.i. To look with one eye. [Not used.] NWAD PEE.1

PEED, a. Blind of one eye. [Not used.] NWAD PEED.1

PEEK, in our popular dialect, is the same as peep, to look through a crevice. NWAD PEEK.1

PEEL, v.t. [L. pilo, to pull off hair and to pillage; pilus, the hair.] NWAD PEEL.1

1. To strip off skin, bark or rind without a cutting instrument; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin; to bark; to flay; to decorticate. When a knife is used, we call it paring. Thus we say, to peel a tree, to peel an orange; but we say, to pare an apple to pare land. NWAD PEEL.2

2. In a general sense, to remove the skin, bark or rind, even with an instrument. NWAD PEEL.3

3. To strip; to plunder; to pillage; as, to peel a province or conquered people. NWAD PEEL.4

PEEL, n. [L. pellis.] The skin or rind of any thing; as the peel of an orange. NWAD PEEL.5

PEEL, n. [L. pala; pello; Eng. shovel, from shove; or from spreading.] A kind of wooden shovel used by bakers, with a broad palm and long handle; hence, in popular use in America, any large fire-shovel. NWAD PEEL.6

PEELED, pp. Stripped of skin, bark or rind; plundered; pillaged. NWAD PEELED.1

PEELER, n. One that peels, strips or flays. NWAD PEELER.1

1. A plunderer; pillaged. NWAD PEELER.2

PEELING, ppr. Stripping off skin or bark; plundering. NWAD PEELING.1

PEEP, v.i. [L. pipio; Heb. to cry out.] NWAD PEEP.1

1. To begin to appear; to make the first appearance; to issue or come forth from concealment, as through a narrow avenue. NWAD PEEP.2

I can see his pride NWAD PEEP.3

Peep through each part of him. NWAD PEEP.4

When flowers first peeped-- NWAD PEEP.5

2. To look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely or slyly. NWAD PEEP.6

A fool will peep in at the door. NWAD PEEP.7

Thou are a maid and must not peep. NWAD PEEP.8

3. To cry, as chickens; to utter a fine shrill sound, as through a crevice; usually written pip, but without reason, as it is the same word as is here defined, and in America is usually pronounced peep. NWAD PEEP.9

PEEP, n. First appearance; as the peep of day. NWAD PEEP.10

1. A sly look, or a look through a crevice. NWAD PEEP.11

2. The cry of a chicken. NWAD PEEP.12

PEEPER, n. A chicken just breaking the shell. NWAD PEEPER.1

1. In familiar language, the eye. NWAD PEEPER.2

PEEP-HOLE, PEEPING-HOLE, n. A hole or crevice through which one may peep or look without being discovered. NWAD PEEP-HOLE.1

PEER, n. [L. par.] NWAD PEER.1

1. An equal; one of the same rank. A man may be familiar with his peers. NWAD PEER.2

2. An equal in excellence or endowments. NWAD PEER.3

In song he never had his peer. NWAD PEER.4

3. A companion; a fellow; an associate. NWAD PEER.5

He all his peers in beauty did surpass. NWAD PEER.6

4. A nobleman; as a peer of the realm; the house of peers, so called because noblemen and barons were originally considered as the companions of the king, like L. comes, count. In England, persons belonging to the five degrees of nobility are all peers. NWAD PEER.7

PEER, v.i. [L. pareo.] NWAD PEER.8

1. To come just in sight; to appear; a poetic word. NWAD PEER.9

So honor peereth in the meanest habit. NWAD PEER.10

See how his gorget peers above his gown. NWAD PEER.11

2. To look narrowly; to peep; as the peering day. NWAD PEER.12

Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads. NWAD PEER.13

PEERAGE, n. [See Peer, an equal.] NWAD PEERAGE.1

The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman. NWAD PEERAGE.2

1. The body of peers. NWAD PEERAGE.3

PEERDOM, n. Peerage. [Not used.] NWAD PEERDOM.1

PEERESS, n. The consort of a peer; a noble lady. NWAD PEERESS.1

PEERLESS, a. Unequaled; having no peer or equal; as peerless beauty or majesty. NWAD PEERLESS.1

PEERLESSLY, adv. Without an equal. NWAD PEERLESSLY.1

PEERLESSNESS, n. The state of having no equal. NWAD PEERLESSNESS.1

PEEVISH, a. NWAD PEEVISH.1

1. Fretful; petulant; apt to mutter and complain; easily vexed or fretted; querulous; hard to please. NWAD PEEVISH.2

She is peevish, sullen, froward. NWAD PEEVISH.3

2. Expressing discontent and fretfulness. NWAD PEEVISH.4

I will not presume NWAD PEEVISH.5

To send such peevish tokens to a king. NWAD PEEVISH.6

3. Silly; childish. NWAD PEEVISH.7

PEEVISHLY, adv. Fretfully; petulantly; with discontent and murmuring. NWAD PEEVISHLY.1

PEEVISHNESS, n. Fretfulness; petulance; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper; as childish peevishness. NWAD PEEVISHNESS.1

When peevishness and spleen succeed. NWAD PEEVISHNESS.2

PEG, n. [This is probably from the root of L. pango, pactus; Gr. denoting that which fastens, or allied to beak and picket.] NWAD PEG.1

1. A small pointed piece of wood used in fastening boards or other work of wood, etc. It does the office of a nail. The word is applied only to small pieces of wood pointed; to the larger pieces thus pointed we give the name of pins, and pins in ship carpentry are called tree-nails or trenails. Coxe, in his travels in Russia, speaks of poles or beams fastened into the ground with pegs. NWAD PEG.2

2. The pins of an instrument on which the strings are strained. NWAD PEG.3

3. A nickname for Margaret. NWAD PEG.4

To take a peg lower, to depress; to lower. NWAD PEG.5

PEG, v.t. To fasten with pegs. NWAD PEG.6

PEGGER, n. One that fastens with pegs. NWAD PEGGER.1

PEGM, n. pem. [Gr.] A sort of moving machine in the old pageants. NWAD PEGM.1

PEGMATITE, n. Primitive granitic rock, composed essentially of lamellar feldspar and quartz; frequently with a mixture of mica. In it are found kaolin, tin tourmaline, beryl, aqua marina, tantale, scheelin and other valuable minerals. NWAD PEGMATITE.1

PEIRASTIC, a. [Gr. to strain, to attempt.] Attempting; making trial. NWAD PEIRASTIC.1

1. Treating of or representing trials or attempts; as the peirastic dialogues of Plato. NWAD PEIRASTIC.2

PEISE. [See Poise.] NWAD PEISE.1

PEKAN, n. A species of weasel. NWAD PEKAN.1

PELAGE, n. [L. pilus, hair.] The vesture or covering of wild beasts, consisting of hair, fur or wool. NWAD PELAGE.1

PELAGIAN, PELAGIC, a. [L. pelagus, the sea.] Pertaining to the sea; as pelagian shells. NWAD PELAGIAN.1

PELAGIAN, n. [from Pelagius, a native of Great Britain, who lived in the fourth century.] A follower of Pelagius, a monk of Banchor or Bangor, who denied original sin, and asserted the doctrine of free will and the merit of good works. NWAD PELAGIAN.2

PELAGIAN, a. Pertaining to Pelagius and his doctrines. NWAD PELAGIAN.3

PELAGIANISM, n. The doctrines of Pelagius. NWAD PELAGIANISM.1

PELF, n. [probably allied to pilfer.] Money; riches; but it often conveys the idea of something ill gotten or worthless. It has no plural. NWAD PELF.1

PELICAN, n. [Low L. pelicanus.] NWAD PELICAN.1

1. A fowl of the genus Pelicanus. It is larger than the swan, and remarkable for its enormous bill, to the lower edges of the under chop of which is attached a pouch or bag, capable of being distended so as to hold many quarts of water. In this bag the fowl deposits the fish is takes for food. NWAD PELICAN.2

2. A chimical glass vessel or alembic with a tubulated capital, from which two opposite and crooked beaks pass out and enter again at the belly of the cucurbit. It is designed for continued distillation and cohobation; the volatile parts of the substance distilling, rising into the capital and returning through the beaks into the cucurbit. NWAD PELICAN.3

PELIOM, n. [Gr. black color.] A mineral, a variety of iolite. NWAD PELIOM.1

PELISSE, n. pelee’s. [L. pellis, skin.] Originally, a furred robe or coat. But the name is now given to a silk coat or habit worn by ladies. NWAD PELISSE.1

PELL, n. [L. pellis.] A skin or hide. NWAD PELL.1

Clerk of the pells, in England, an officer of the exchequer, who enters every teller’s bill on the parchment rolls, the roll or receipts and the roll of disbursements. NWAD PELL.2

PELLET, n. [L. pila, a ball.] NWAD PELLET.1

A little ball; as a pellet of wax or lint. NWAD PELLET.2

1. A bullet; a ball for fire-arms. [Not now used.] NWAD PELLET.3

PELLETED, a. Consisting of bullets. NWAD PELLETED.1

PELLICLE, n. [L. pellicula, dim. of pellis, skin.] NWAD PELLICLE.1

A thin skin or film. NWAD PELLICLE.2

1. Among chimists, a thin saline crust formed on the surface of a solution of salt evaporated to a certain degree. This pellicle consists of saline particles crystallized. NWAD PELLICLE.3

PELLITORY, n. [L. parietaria, the wall plant, from paries.] NWAD PELLITORY.1

The name of several plants of different genera. The pellitory of the wall or common pellitory is of the genus Parietaria; the bastard pellitory of the genus Achillea; and the pellitory of Spain is the Anthemis pyrethrum. NWAD PELLITORY.2

PELL-MELL, adv. With confused violence. NWAD PELL-MELL.1

PELLUCID, a. [L. pellucidus; per and lucidus; very bright. See Light.] Perfectly clear; transparent; not opake; as a body as pellucid as crystal. NWAD PELLUCID.1

PELLUCIDITY, PELLUCIDNESS, n. Perfect clearness; transparency; as the pellucidity of the air; the pellucidness of a gem. NWAD PELLUCIDITY.1

PELT, n. [L. pellis.] NWAD PELT.1

1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it; a raw hide. NWAD PELT.2

2. The quarry of a hawk all torn. NWAD PELT.3

3. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [infra.] NWAD PELT.4

PELT, v.t. [L. pello.] NWAD PELT.5

1. Properly, to strike with something thrown, driven or falling; as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. NWAD PELT.6

The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds. NWAD PELT.7

2. To drive by throwing something. NWAD PELT.8

PELTATE, PELTATED, a. [L. pelta, a target.] In botany, having the shape of a target or round shield, as a peltate stigma; having the petiole inserted in the disk, as a peltate leaf. NWAD PELTATE.1

PELTATELY, adv. In the form of a target. NWAD PELTATELY.1

PELTED, pp. Struck with something thrown or driven. NWAD PELTED.1

PELTER, n. One that pelts; also, a pinch-penny; a mean, sordid person. NWAD PELTER.1

PELTING, ppr. Striking with something thrown or driven. NWAD PELTING.1

PELTING, n. An assault with any thing thrown. NWAD PELTING.2

PELTING, a. In Shakespeare, mean; paltry. [Improper.] NWAD PELTING.3

PELT-MONGER, n. A dealer in pelts or raw hides. NWAD PELT-MONGER.1

PELTRY, n. [from pelt, a skin.] The skins of animals producing fur; skins in general, with the fur on them; furs in general. NWAD PELTRY.1

PELVIMETER, n. [L. pelvis, and Gr. measure.] An instrument to measure the dimensions of the female pelvis. NWAD PELVIMETER.1

PELVIS, n. [L. pelvis, a bason.] The cavity of the body formed by the os sacrum, os coccyx, and ossa innominata, forming the lower part of the abdomen. NWAD PELVIS.1

PEN, n. [L. penna; pinna, a fin, that is, a shoot or point.] NWAD PEN.1

1. An instrument used for writing, usually made of the quill of some large fowl, but it may be of any other material. NWAD PEN.2

2. A feather, a wing. [Not used.] NWAD PEN.3

PEN, v.t. pret. and pp. penned. To write; to compose and commit to paper. NWAD PEN.4

PEN, n. A small inclosure for beasts, as for cows or sheep. NWAD PEN.5

PEN, v.t. pret. and pp. penned or pent. To shut in a pen; to confine in a small inclosure; to coop; to confine in a narrow place, usually followed by up, which is redundant. NWAD PEN.6

PENAL, a. [L. poena; Gr. pain, punishment. See Pain.] NWAD PENAL.1

1. Enacting punishment; denouncing the punishment of offenses; as a penal law or statute; the penal code. Penal statutes must be construed strictly. NWAD PENAL.2

2. Inflicting punishment. NWAD PENAL.3

Adamantine chains and penal fire. NWAD PENAL.4

3. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as a penal act of offense. NWAD PENAL.5

PENALITY, n. Liableness or condemnation to punishment. [Not used.] NWAD PENALITY.1

PENALTY, n. NWAD PENALTY.1

1. The suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense or trespass, as a punishment. A fine is a pecuniary penalty. The usual penalties inflicted on the person, are whipping, cropping, branding, imprisonment, hard labor, transportation or death. NWAD PENALTY.2

2. The suffering to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of non-fulfillment of his stipulations; the forfeiture or sum to be forfeited for non-payment, or for non-compliance with an agreement; as the penalty of a bond. NWAD PENALTY.3

PENANCE, n. NWAD PENANCE.1

1. The suffering, labor or pain to which a person voluntarily subjects himself, or which is imposed on him by authority as a punishment for his faults, or as an expression of penitence; such as fasting, flagellation, wearing chains, etc. Penance is one of the seven sacraments of the Romish church. NWAD PENANCE.2

2. Repentance. NWAD PENANCE.3

PENCE, n. pens. The plural of penny, when used of a sum of money or value. When pieces of coin are mentioned, we use pennies. NWAD PENCE.1

PENCIL, n. [L. penicillus.] NWAD PENCIL.1

1. A small brush used by painters for laying on colors. The proper pencils are made of fine hair or bristles, as of camels, badgers or squirrels, or of the down of swans, inclosed in a quill. The larger pencils, made of swine’s bristles, are called brushes. NWAD PENCIL.2

2. A pen formed of carburet of iron or plumbago, black lead or red chalk, with a point at one end, used for writing and drawing. NWAD PENCIL.3

3. Any instrument of writing without ink. NWAD PENCIL.4

4. An aggregate or collection of rays of light. NWAD PENCIL.5

PENCIL, v.t. To paint or draw; to write or mark with a pencil. NWAD PENCIL.6

PENCILED, pp. Painted, drawn or marked with a pencil. NWAD PENCILED.1

1. Radiated; having pencils of rays. NWAD PENCILED.2