Cowper.
2. (a) (Railroad Cars) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and
forming a jaw for holding a journal box. (b) (Mach.) A pillow block; a
low housing. (c) (Bridge Building) An iron socket, or support, for the
foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
Pedestal coil (steam Heating), a group of connected straight pipes
arranged side by side and one above another, -- used in a radiator.
Ped"es*taled (?), a. Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal;
figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne.
Pedestaled haply in a palace court.
Keats.
Pe*des"tri*al (?), a. [L. pedester, -esteris, fr. pes, pedis, a foot:
cf. F. pÈdestere. See Pedal.] Of or pertaining to the feet; employing
the foot or feet.
Pe*des"tri*al*ly, adv. In a pedestrial manner.
Pe*des"tri*an (?), a. Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a
pedestrian journey.
Pe*des"tri*an, n. A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler;
specif., a professional walker or runner.
Pe*des"tri*an*ism (?), n. The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian;
walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.
Pe*des"tri*an*ize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pedestrianized (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Pedestrianizing.] To practice walking; to travel on foot.
Pe*des"tri*ous (?), a. Going on foot; not winged. [Obs.] "Pedestrious
animals." Sir T. Browne.
Ped`e*ten"tous (?), a. [L. pes, pedis, foot + tendere to stretch out:
cf. L. tentim by degrees.] Proceeding step by step; advancing
cautiously. [R.]
That pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the
wise and virtuous improver to walk.
Sydney Smith.
{ Ped"i- (?), Ped"o- (?) }. [See Foot.] Combining forms from L. pes,
pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.
Pe"di*al (?), a. Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot;
pedal. Dana.
Ped"i*cel (?), n. [F. pÈdicelle. See Pedicle.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A stalk
which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many
ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of
Flower. (b) A slender support of any special organ, as that of a
capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algÊ, or a sporangium in ferns.
2. (Zoˆl.) A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or
their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion.
3. (Anat.) (a) The ventral part of each side of the neural arch
connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. (b) An outgrowth of the
frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied
animals.
Ped"i*celed (?), a. Pedicellate.
||Ped`i*cel*la"ri*a (?), n.; pl. PedicellariÊ (#). [NL. See Pedicel.]
||(Zoˆl.) A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers
||upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable
||jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of
||echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in
||Appendix.
Ped"i*cel`late (?), a. Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
||Ped`i*cel*li"na (?), n. [NL. See Pedicel.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of
||Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported
||on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.
Ped"i*cle (?), n. [L. pediculus a little foot, dim. of pes foot: cf. F.
pÈdicule. See edal, and cf. Pedicel.] Same as Pedicel.
Pe*dic"u*lar (?), a. [L. pedicularis, fr. pediculus a louse: cf. F.
pÈdiculaire.] Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper
(phthiriasis); lousy. Southey.
Pe*dic"u*late (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.
||Pe*dic`u*la"ti (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pedicle.] (Zoˆl.) An order of
||fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Angler and Batfish.
Pe*dic`u*la"tion (?), n. (Med.) Phthiriasis.
Ped"i*cule (?), n. [See Pedicle.] A pedicel.
||Pe*dic`u*li"na (?), n. pl. [NL. See Pediculus.] (Zoˆl.) A division of
||parasitic hemipterous insects, including the true lice. See Illust.
||in Appendix.
Pe*dic"u*lous (?), a. [L. pediculosus.] Pedicular.
||Pe*dic"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Pediculi (#). [L., a louse.] (Zoˆl.) A
||genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of
||man. See Louse.
Ped"i*form (?), a. [Pedi- + - form.] Shaped like a foot.
Pe*dig"er*ous (?), a. [Pedi- + -gerous.] (Zoˆl.) Bearing or having feet
or legs.
Ped"i*gree (?), n. [Of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. par degrÈs by
degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which
records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. pied
de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic genealogical
trees.] 1. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register
or record of a line of ancestors.
Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our
pedigrees.
Camden.
His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree.
Milton.