Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the
ureter expands as it joins the kidney.
Pem"mi*can (?), n. [Written also pemican.] 1. Among the North American
Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the
sun.
Then on pemican they feasted.
Longfellow.
2. Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun,
pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and
compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small
compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
||Pem*phi"gus (?), n. [Nl., fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, a bubble.] (Med.) A
||somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs
||upon different part of the body. Quain.
Pen (?), n. [OE. penne, OF. penne, pene, F. penne, fr. L. penna.] 1. A
feather. [Obs.] Spenser.