Puz"zle*dom (?), n. The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C.
Kingsley.
Puz"zle-head`ed (?), a. Having the head full of confused notions.
Johnson.
Puz"zle*ment (?), n. The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss
Mitford.
Puz"zler (?), n. One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.
Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads.
Brome.
Puz"zling*ly (?), adv. In a puzzling manner.
{ Puz"zo*lan (?), Puz`zo*la"na (?), } n. See Pozzuolana.
||Py*Ê"mi*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; pus + &?; blood.] (Med.) A form
||of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of
||morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation.
||It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses
||throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring
||chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
Py*Ê"mic (?), a. Of or pertaining to pyÊmia; of the nature of pyÊmia.
Pyc`nas*pid"e*an (?), a. [Gr. &?; thick, crowded + &?;, &?;, a shield.]
(Zoˆl.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small
irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.
||Pyc*nid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Pycnidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; crowded.]
||(Bot.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of
||the inner walls of which spores are produced.
Pyc"nite (?), n. [Gr. &?; thick.] (Min.) A massive subcolumnar variety
of topaz.
Pyc"no*dont (?), n. [Gr. &?; thick, crowded + &?;, &?;, a tooth.]
(Paleon.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have
numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.
||Pyc`no*don"ti*ni (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) An extinct order of ganoid
||fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs
||(pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales.
Pyc*nog"o*nid (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Pycnogonida.
||Pyc`no*gon"i*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; thick crowded + &?;
||knee.] (Zoˆl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is
||small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also
||Pantopoda.
The abdomen is rudimentary, and the triangular mouth is at the end of a
tubular proboscis. Many of them live at great depths in the sea, and
the largest of them measure two feet across the extended legs.
Pyc*nom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; dense, compact + -meter.] (Physics) A
specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing
the densities of liquids. [Also written pyknometer.]
Pyc"no*style (?), a. [Gr. &?; with the pillars close together; &?;
close + &?; a column, pillar: cf. F. pycnostyle.] (Anc. Arch.) See
under Intercolumniation. -n. A pycnostyle colonnade.
Pye (?), n. See 2d Pie (b).
Pye"bald` (?), a. See Piebald.
||Py`e*li"tis (?). n. [Gr. basin + - itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the
||pelvis of the kidney.
Py*e"mi*a (?), n. (Med.) See Py∆mia.