Sir P. Sidney.
The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes.
Atterbury.
2. (Stock Breeding) A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as
of a horse.
Ped"i*lu`vy (?), n. [Pedi- + L. luere to wash: cf. It. & Sp. pediluvio,
F. pÈdiluve.] The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet. [Obs.]
||Pe*dim"a*na (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. pes, pedis, foot + manus hand.]
||(Zoˆl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.
Ped"i*mane (?), n. [Cf. F. pÈdimane.] (Zoˆl.) A pedimanous marsupial;
an opossum.
Pe*dim"a*nous (?), a. [See Pedimana.] (Zoˆl.) Having feet resembling
hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.
Ped"i*ment (?), n. [L. pes, pedis, a foot. See Foot.] (Arch.)
Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the
gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over
porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal
having a similar position and use. See Temple.
Ped`i*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a pediment.
Ped"i*palp (?), n. [Cf. F. pÈdipalpe.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Pedipalpi.
||Ped`i*pal"pi (?), n pl. [NL. See Pedipalpus.] (Zoˆl.) A division of
||Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied
||forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true
||scorpions.
Ped`i*pal"pous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the
pedipalps.
Ped`i*pal"pus (?), n.; pl. Pedipalpi (#). [NL. See Pes, and Palpus.]
(Zoˆl.) One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some
they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a
claw.
Ped"i*reme (?), n. [Pedi- + L. remus oar.] (Zoˆl.) A crustacean, some
of whose feet serve as oars.
{ Ped"lar, Ped"ler } (?), n. See Peddler.
Pe`do*bap"tism (?), n. [Gr. &?;, &?;, a child + E. baptism.] The
baptism of infants or of small children. [Written also pÊdobaptism.]
Pe`do*bap"tist (?), n. One who advocates or practices infant baptism.
[Written also pÊdobaptist.]
Ped"o*man`cy (?), n. [Pedi- + -mancy.] Divination by examining the
soles of the feet.
Pe*dom"e*ter (?), n. [Pedi-, pedo- + -meter: cf. F. pÈdomËtre.] (Mech.)
An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so
ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a
watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index
to advance a certain distance at each step.
{ Ped`o*met"ric (?), Ped`o*met"ric*al (?), } a. Pertaining to, or
measured by, a pedometer.
Ped`o*mo"tive (?), a. [Pedi-, pedo- + -motive.] Moved or worked by the
action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.
Pe*dot"ro*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, a child + &?; to nourish:
cf. F. pÈdotrophie.] The art of nourishing children properly.
||Pe`dre*gal" (?), n. [Sp., a stony place, fr. piedra stone.] A lava
||field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]
Pe*dun"cle (?), n. [Formed fr. (assumed) L. pedunculus, dim. of pes,
pedis, a foot: cf. F. pÈdoncule.] 1. (Bot.) The stem or stalk that
supports the flower or fruit of a plant, or a cluster of flowers or
fruits.
The ultimate divisions or branches of a peduncle are called pedicels.
In the case of a solitary flower, the stalk would be called a peduncle
if the flower is large, and a pedicel if it is small or delicate.
2. (Zoˆl.) A sort of stem by which certain shells and barnacles are
attached to other objects. See Illust. of Barnacle.
3. (Anat.) A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different
parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles
of the pineal gland.
Pe*dun"cled (?), a. Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle;
pedunculate.
Pe*dun"cu*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. pÈdonculaire.] Of or pertaining to a
peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.
||Pe*dun`cu*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL. See Peduncle.] (Zoˆl.) A division of
||Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.
{ Pe*dun"cu*late (?), Pe*dun"cu*la`ted (?), } a. (Biol.) Having a
peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a
pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
Pee (?), n. See 1st Pea.
Pee, n. (Naut.) Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
Peece (?), n. & v. [Obs.] See Piece.
||Pee"chi (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The dauw.
Peek (?), v. i. [OE. piken: cf. F. piquer to pierce, prick, E. pique.
Cf. Peak.] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a
crevice; to peep. [Colloq.]
Peek"a*boo (?), n. A child's game; bopeep.
Peel (?), n. [OE. pel. Cf. Pile a heap.] A small tower, fort, or
castle; a keep. [Scot.]
Peel, n. [F. pelle, L. pala.] A spadelike implement, variously used, as
for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped
implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of
paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
Peel, v. t. [Confused with peel to strip, but fr. F. piller to pillage.
See Pill to rob, Pillage.] To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.]
But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces.
Milton.
Peel, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Peeled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Peeling.] [F.
peler to pull out the hair, to strip, to peel, fr. L. pilare to deprive
of hair, fr. pilus a hair; or perh. partly fr. F. peler to peel off the
skin, perh. fr. L. pellis skin (cf. Fell skin). Cf. Peruke.] 1. To
strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing
off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel
an orange.
The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
Shak.
2. To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an
animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
Peel, v. i. To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin,
bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels
easily or readily.
Peel, n. The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Pee"le (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A graceful and swift South African antelope
(Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and
sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and
very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
Peel"er (?), n. One who peels or strips.
Peel"er, n. [See Peel to plunder.] A pillager.
Peel"er, n. A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert
Peel. [British Slang] See Bobby.
Peel"house` (?), n. See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.
Peen (?), n. [Cf. G. pinne pane of a hammer.] (a) A round-edged, or
hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch
or bend metal by indentation. (b) The sharp-edged end of the head of a
mason's hammer. [Spelt also pane, pein, and piend.]
Peen, v. t. To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the
peen of a hammer or sledge.