Jer. xiii. 14.
Pit"y*ing, a. Expressing pity; as, a pitying eye, glance, or word. --
Pit"y*ing*ly, adv.
||Pit`y*ri"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, lit., bran.]
||(Med.) A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by
||irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike
||particles.
||Pityriasis versicolor [NL.] (Med.), a parasitic disease of the skin,
||characterized by the development of reddish or brownish patches.
Pit"y*roid (?), a. [Gr. &?; bran + - oid.] Having the form of, or
resembling, bran. Smart.
||Pi"˘ (?), adv. [It., fr. L. plus. See Plus.] (Mus.) A little more;
||as, pi˘ allegro, a little more briskly.
Piv"ot (?), n. [F.; prob. akin to It. piva pipe, F. pipe. See Pipe.] 1.
A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body
turns.
2. The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as,
the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
3. Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which
important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
4. (Mil.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike
the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot
man.
Pivot bridge, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot
span, turns about a central vertical axis. -- Pivot gun, a gun mounted
on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. --
Pivot tooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a
natural tooth by a pin or peg.
Piv"ot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pivoted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pivoting.] To
place on a pivot. Clarke.
Piv"ot*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to a pivot or turning point;
belonging to, or constituting, a pivot; of the nature of a pivot; as,
the pivotalopportunity of a career; the pivotal position in a battle.
Pix (?), n. & v. See Pyx.
{ Pix"y, Pix"ie } (?), n.; pl. Pixies (#). [For Pucksy, from Puck.] 1.
An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.]
2. (Bot.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with
mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and
southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.
Pixy ring, a fairy ring or circle. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pixy stool (Bot.), a
toadstool or mushroom. [Prov. Eng.]
Pix"y-led` (?), a. Led by pixies; bewildered.
||Piz`zi*ca"to (?). [It., pinched.] (Mus.) A direction to violinists to
||pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev.
||pizz.)
Piz"zle (?), n. [Cf. Prov. G. pissel, pesel, peisel, peserich, D. pees
a tendon or spring.] The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the
bull. Shak.
Pla`ca*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L. placabilitas: cf. F. placabilitÈ.] The
quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.
Pla"ca*ble (?), a. [L. placabilis, fr. placare to quiet, pacify: cf. F.
placable. See Placate.] Capable of being appeased or pacified; ready or
willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone.
Methought I saw him placable and mild.
Milton.
Pla"ca*ble*ness, n. The quality of being placable.
Pla*card" (?), n. [F., fr. plaquer to lay or clap on, plaque plate,
tablet; probably from Dutch, cf. D. plakken to paste, post up, plak a
flat piece of wood.] 1. A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict
issued by authority. [Obs.]
All placards or edicts are published in his name.
Howell.
2. Permission given by authority; a license; as, to give a placard to
do something. [Obs.] ller.
3. A written or printed paper, as an advertisement or a declaration,
posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.
4. (Anc. Armor) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or
backplate. PlanchÈ.
5. [Cf. Placket.] A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn
in the fifteenth century and later.
Pla*card", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Placarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Placarding.]
1. To post placards upon or within; as, to placard a wall, to placard
the city.