—nỏ, môve, når, nôt,—tåbe, tåb, bål ;—81;—pôånd;—thin, THIS. PERSONIFICATION, për-son-ne-fè-kà'shản. 8. This word, as may be seen in Johnson, was generally accented by the poets on the first sylfable; but the harshness of this pronunciation|| arising from the uncombinable consonants in the latter syllables, has prevented this pronunciation from gaining any ground in prose; and it were much to be wished that the same reason had prevented the initial accentuation of similar words. See IRRefragable, CORRUPTIBLE, ACCEPTABLE, &C. PERSPECTIVE, per-spektiv. a. Relating to the science of vision, optick, optical. PERSPICACIOUS, per-spe-ká'shas. a. Quick sighted, sharp of sight. Mentally applied. stubborn; perversely resolute; "esolute, com stant, steady. PERTINACIOUSLY, pêr-tè-nå'shûs-lè. ad Ob `s. Just ness of relation to the matter in hand, proprie PERTINENTLY, pêr'tè-nënt-lè. ad. Appositely, siteness. PERTINGENT, për-tin'jent. a. Reaching to, touching. PERSPICACIOUSNESS, pêr-spè-ka'shas-nes.|| PERTLY, pêrt'lè. ad. Briskly, smartly; saucily, s. Quickness of sight. PERSPICACITY, pêr-spè-kås'sè-tè. s. Quick- the mind, easiness to be understood, freedom fran obscurity or ambiguity transparency. PERSPICUOUS, per spikku-ds, a. Transparent, clear, such as may be seen through; clear to the understanding, not obscure, not ambiguous. PERSPICUOUSLY, pêr-spik'kù-is-lè. ad. Clearly, not obscurely. PERSPICUOUSNESS, per-spik'kú-as-nễs. S. PERSPIRABLE, pêr-spl'rå-bl. a. Such as may be emitted by the cuticular pores; perspiring,|| emitting perspiration. PERSPIRATION, pêr-spê-rå'sħản, s. Excretion by the cuticular pores. PERSPIRATIVE, per-spi'ra-tiv. a. 512. Performing the act of perspiration. To PERSPIRE, pêr-spire'. v. n. To perform excretion by the cuticular porcs; to be excreted by the skin. PERSUADABLE pêr-swa'dâ-bl. a. Such as may be persuaded. fo PERSUADE, pêr-swade'. v. a. 331. To bring to any particular opinion; to influence by ar gument or expostulation.-Persuasion seems rather applicable to the passions, and Argument to the reason; but this is not always observed. To inculcate by argument or expostulation. PERSUADER, pêr-swå dår,s. 98. One who influences by persuasion, an importunate adviser. PERSUASIBLE, pèr-swå'zè-bl. a. 439. To be influenced by persuasion. PERSUASIBLENESS, per-swa'zè-bl-nês. s. 439. The quality of being flexible by persuasion. FERSUASION, per-swa'zhin s. The act of persuading, the act of influencing by expostulation, the act of gaining or attempting the pas sions; the state of being persuaded, opinion. PERSUASIVE, per-swa'siv. a. 428. Having the power of persuading, having influence on the passions. PERSUASIVELY, pèr-swa'slv-lè. ad. In such a manner as to persuade. PERSUASIVENESS, per-swa'siv-nès. s. Infiu- PERSUASOKY, pèr-swà'sår-è. a. 49, 512, 557. To PERTAIN, pêr-tane'. v. n. To belong, to re- PERTINACIOUS, për-to-na'shds. a. Obstinate, petulently. PERTNESS, pêrt'nês. s. Brisk folly, sauciness petuience; petty liveliness, sprightliness with out force. over. PERTRANSIENT, per-trấn’shè-ênt. a. Passing V. a To disquiet, to disturb; to disorder, to con fuse. PERTURBATION, pêr-tår-ba'shan. s. Disquiet of mind; restlessness of passions; disorder cause of disquiet; commotion of passions. PERTURBATOR, pêr-tår-bà'tår. s. S14. Raise of commotions. PERTUSION, pêr-tu'zhân. s. The act of pierc ing or punching; hole made by punching or piercing. To PERVADE, pêr-våde'. v. a. Tu pass through an aperture, to permeate; to pass through the whole extension. PERVASION, pêr-va'zhan. s. The act of per- PERVERSE, pêr-verse'. a. Distorted from the crossness. Petulance, To PERVERT, pèr-vèrt'. v. a. To distort from the true end or purpose; to corrupt, to turn from the right. PERVERTER, pêr-vērt'år. s. 98. One that changes any thing from good to bad, a corrupter; one who distorts any thing from the right purpose. PERVERTIBLE, për-vèrt'tè-bl. a. That may be easily perverted. PERVICACIOUS, pêr-vè-kà ́shûs. a. Spitefully PERVICACIOUSNESS, pêr-vè-kå'shůs- PERVICACITY, p^r-vè-kås'se-tè. 559.-Fåte, får, råll, fåt ;—mè, mët;—pine, pin ;— PERUKEMAKER, pêr'råke-må-kår. s. A maker || PETRIFACTION, pêt-trè-fâk'shån. 1. The act of perukes, a wigmaker. PERUSAL, pe-ru zâl, a. 88. The act of reading. To PERUSE, pé-rúze', v. a. Tổ read; to ob serve, to examine. PERUSER, pé-ruzûr. s. 98. ́ A reader, examiner. PEST, pest. s. Plague, pestilence; any thing mischievous or destructive. To PESTER, pes'tår. v. a. 98. To disturb, to perplex, to harass; to encumber. PESTERER, pês'tār-år. s. 555. One that pesters or disturbs. PESTEROUS, pês'tår-ås. a. 314. Encumbering; troublesome. PESTHOUSE, pest'hoose. s. An nospital for persons infected with the plague. PESTIFEROUS, pès-tif'fêr-ås. a. Destructive; pestilential, infectious. PESTILENCE, pês'tè-lênse. s. Plague, pest, contagious distemper. of turning to stone, the state of being turned to stone; that which is made stone. PETRIFACTIVE, pêt-tré-fák’tiv. a. Having the power to form stone. PETRIFICATION, pêt-trẻ-sè-kå shůn. s. A body formed by changing other matter to stone. PETRIFICK, pè-trif fik. a. 509. Having th power to change to store. To PETRIFY, pêt'trè-fl. v. a. 183. To chang to stone. To PETRIFY, pêt'trẻ-fl. v. n. To become stone. PETTICOAT, pet'tè-kote. s. The lower part of PETTIFOGGER, pet'tè-fog-går. s. A petty small-rate lawyer. pesti-PETTINESS, pet'tè-nês. 8. Smallness, littleners, inconsiderableness, unimportance. PETTISH, pet tish. a. Fretful, peevish, PETTISHNESS, pet'tish-nês. s. peevishness. PESTILENT, pês'te-lent. a. Producing plagues, malignant; mischievous, destructive. PESTILENTIAL, pës-tè-lên'shâl. a. Partaking of the nature of pestilence, producing lence, infectious, contagious; mischievous, destructive. PESTILENTLY, pês'tè-lênt-lè. ad. Mischievously, destructively. PESTILLATION, pès-til-lá'shan. s. The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar. PESTLE, pês'tl. s. 472. An instrument with which any thing is broken in a mortar. PET, pêt. s. A slight passion, a slight fit of anger; a lamb jaken into the house, and brough: up by hand; any animal tamed and much fondled; a favourite. To PET, pet. v. a To spoil by too much fondling PETAL, pè'ta!, or pêtål. s. Petal is a term in Botany, signifying those fine-coloured leaves that compose the flowers of all plants. The leaf of a flower, as distinguished from the leaf of a plant. I must retract my former pronunciation of the first syllable of this word with Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Perry, and join Dr. Kenrick and Mr. Scott, who make the elong. In all words of this form we ought to incline to this pronunciation, from its being so agreeable to analogy. Let it not be pretended that the e in the Latin petalum is short; so is the a in labellum, and the i in kbelus, which yet in the English label and libel we pronounce long. But however right the long sound of e may be by analogy, I am apprehensive that, as in Pedals, the short gound is in more general use.-See PEDALS. PETALOUS, pêt tå-lås. a. 503. Having petals. PETAR, pé-tár'. S. A piece of ord PETARD, pè-tard'. } nance resembling a high-crowned hat, chiefly used to break down a barrier. PETECHIAL, pè-tè kè-ål. a. 353. Pestilentially spotted. PETER-WORT, pè'tår-wirt. s. A plant somewhat different from St. John's-wort. PETITION, pè-tỉsh ́ản. 8. Request, entreaty, supplication, prayer; single branch or article of a prayer. 2 To PETITION, pè-tish'an v. a. To solicit, to supplicate. PETITIONARILY, pè-tish'an-á-rè-lè. ad. By way of begging the question. PETITIONARY, pè-tîsh'ân-â-rè. a. Supplicatory, coming with petitions; containing petitions Fretfulness, PETTITOES, pet'tè-tòze. s. The feet of a suck ing pig; feet, in contempt. Italian. The PETTO, pet'to. ad. In Petto breast; figurative of privacy. PETTY, pet'tè. a. Small, inconsiderable, little PETTYCOY, pèt'tè-kõè. s. PETULANCE, pet'tshu-lânse. PETULANCY, pet'tshd-län-sè.) PETULANT, pet'tshu-lånt. a. 461. Saucy, per peevishness, wantonness. verse, wanton. An berb. Sauciness, PETULANTLY, pêt'tshu-lånt-lè. ad. With pe tulance, with saucy pertness. PEW, på. s. A seat enclosed in a church. PEWET, pe'wit. s. 99. A water fowl; the lap wing. PEWTER, pu'tår. s. 98. A compound of metals, an artificial metal; the plates and dishes in a house. A smith who works PEWTERER, på'tår-år s. in pewter. PHENOMENON, fè-nôm'è-nôn. s. sometimes Phænomena in the plural. pearance in the works of nature. PHALANX, falánks, or fål'lârks. s. of men closely embodied. This has An ap A troop The second manner of pronouncing this word is more general; but the first is more analogi cal. If, when we pronounce a Latin or Greek word of two syllables, having a single consonant between two vowels, we always make the first vowel long; it is very natural, when such a word is transplanted whole into our own language, to pronounce it in the same manner. That the quantity of the original has very little to do in this case, may be seen under the word DRAMA, 344; and yet nothing but an absurd regard to this could have influenced the generali ty of speakers to pronounce this word with the first vowel short, contrary to the old genuine analogy of our own language, as Dr. Wallis calls it, and contrary to the inanner in whic we pronounce the word in the original; fo though local, farour, and labour, have the firs vowel short in the Latin localis, favor, and labur we pronounce them both in Latin and English according to our own analogy, with the c and a long and open. The same may be observed of words from the Greek. In the word in ques tion, therefore, the authority of Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Scott, and Dr. Ash, who make the first vowel long, ought to outweigh that of Dr. Keu rick, Mr. Perry, Fntick, and Buchanan who make it short —nd, mỏve, når, nôt ;—tåbe, tåb, båll ;-8îl ;-påånd ;—thin, THIS. } s. Vain and airy PHANTASM, fân'tâzm. words as pronounced like x. For the reasons, see Principles, No. 425, 435. appearance, something appearing only to im-To PHILOSOPHIZE, fè-los'sò-fize. v. a. To agination. PHANTASTICAL, fân-tâs'tè-kål. TASTICAL. } a. See FAN PHANTOM, fân'tům. s. 166. A spectre, an apparition; a fancied vision. play the philosopher, to reason like a philosopher. PHILOSOPHY, fè-lôs'sò fè. s Knowledge na tural or moral; hypothesis or system upon which natural effects are explained; reason. ing, argumentation; the course of sciences read in schools. PHARISAICAL, får-ré-sà ́è-kål. a. Ritual, externally religious: from the sect of the Phari-PHILTER, fil'tår. s. 98. Something to cause seen, whose religion consisted almost wholly in ceremonies. love. PHARMACEUTICAL, får-mâ-scrtè-kâl. 509.a.To PHILTER, filtar. v. a. To charm to love. This word ought rather to be written Philtre See Principles, No. 416. PHARMACEUTICK, får-må-sù'tik. Relating to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or preparation of medicines. PHARMACOLOGIST får-må-kól'lò-jlst. s. 518. A writer upon drugs. PHARMACOLOGY, får-må-kô!'-jè. s. The knowledge of drugs and medicines. PHARMACOPŒIA, får-mâ-ko-pè'yâ. s. A dispensatory, a book containing rules for the composition of medicines. PHARMACOPOLIST, får-må-kôp'pò-list. s. An apothecary, one who sells medicines. PHARMACY, får'må-sè. s. The art or practice of preparing medicines, the trade of an apothe cary. PHAROS, få'rôs. s. 544. A light-house, a watch tower. PHARYNGOTOMY, fâ-rin-gôt'tò-mè. s. The The PHIZ, fiz. s. The face. A low word. PHLEBOTOMIST, flè-bôt'tò-mist. s. One that opens a vein, a blood-letter. To PHLEBOTOMISE, fè-bôt'tò-mize. v. a. To let blood. PHLEBOTOMY, flè-bôt'tò-mè. s. Blood-letting, the art or practice of opening a vein for medi cal intentions. PHLEGM, dễm s. 389. The watery humou of the body, the tough viscid matter discharg ed by coughing; watery. PHLEGMAGOGUES, tlèg'mâ-gôgz. s. 389. A purge of the milder sort, supposed to evacuate phlegm, and leave the other humours.-Sec PATHOGNOMONICK. PHLEGMATICK, fig'må-tik. a 510. Abound ing in phlegm; generating phlegm; watery dull, cold, frigid. FHLEGMON, flêg'môn. s. 166 An inflammation, a burning tumour. PHLEGMONOUS, flèg'mò-nås. a. Inflammatory, burning. Ap-PHLEME, fleme. act of making an incision into the windpipe, used when some tumour in the throat hinders respiration. PHARYNX, fa'rinks. s. See PHALANX. upper part of the gullet, below the larynx. PHASIS, fa'sis, s. In the plural Phases. pearance exhibited by any body, as the change of the moon. PHEASANT, fêz'zânt. s. A kind of wild cock; a beautiful large bird of game. To PHEESE, fèze. v. a. To comb, to fleece, to curry. Obsolete. PHENIX, feniks. 8. The bird which is supposed PHENOMENON, fè-nôm’mè-nôn. 8. Appear PHILIPPICK, fil-lip'pik. s. Any invective de- PHILOLOGER, fè-lôl′ld-jår. s. 131. One whose chief study is language, a grammarian, á critick. PHILOLOGICAL, fil-lôd'jè-kål. a. Critical, grammatical. PHILOLOGIST, fè-lôl'd-jlst. s. 131. a grammarian. S. An instrument which is placed on the vein and driven into it with a blow. PHLOGISTICK, Bo-jis't?k. a. Having phlogiston. PHLOGISTON, flo-jis tôn, or flo-gis'ton. s. 560 An old chymical name for an imaginary substance, supposed to be a combination of fire with some other matter, and a constituent part of all inflammable bodies, and of many other substances.-Parkes' Chymistry. Professors of every art think they add to its dignity, not only by deriving the terms of it from the Greek, but by pronouncing these guage. For this reason our pronunciation beterms contrary to the analogy of our own lan comes full of anomalies, and the professors of an art speak one language, and the rest of the world another. Those, therefore, who are not chymists, ought, in my opinion, to enter their protest against the irregular sound of the g in this and similar words. Pronouncing the g soft, would only hurt the pride of the profesbut pronouncing it hard, would hurt the genius of the language.-See HETEROGENEOUS. PHOSPHOR, fös'ïår. 166. s. The morn PHRASEOLOGY, frå-zè-ôl′ld-jè. s. 513. Style, This word, as well as Frenitis, is pronounced by Mr. Sheridan with the accent on the first syllable; in which, though he is contrary to analogy, he is consistent. But Dr. Johnson, Dr. Kenrick, and Mr. Barclay, pronounce Fri netick with the accent on the first syilable, and Phrenitis, with the accent on the second. That the penultimate accent is the true pronuncia 559.- Fate, får, fåll, fåt,—mê, mêt ;-pire, pîn ;→→ tion in both can scarcely be doubted, if we con- || PIASTER, pi-âs tår. s. 152. An Italian coin, sult analogy, 509; and that it is most in use, may appear from the additional suffrages of Dr. Ash, Mr. Nares, Mr. Scott, Mr. Perry, W. Johnston, Entick, Bailey, and Fenning. PURENITIS, frè-ni'tis. s. 503. Madness; inBammation of the brain. about five shillings sterling in value. PIAZZA, pè-áz'zâ. s. 132. A walk under a roof supported by pillars. PHRENSY, frên'zè. s. Madness, frantickness. PHTHISICAL, tỉz'zè-kâl. a. 413. Wasting. PHTHISICK, tiz'zîk. s. 413. A consumption. PHTH SIS, thi'sis. s. 544. A consumption. PHYLACTERY, fè-lák'têr-è. s. A bandage on which was inscribed some memorable sentence.] PHYSICAL, flz'zè-kål. a. Relating to nature or to natural philosophy, not moral; pertaining to the science of healing; medicínal, help-] ful to health; resembling physick. PHYSICALLY, fîz'zè-kâl-lé. ad. According to nature, by natural operation, not morally. PHYSICIAN, fe-zish'an. s. One who professes the art of healing. PICA, pika. s. Among printers a particular size of their types or letters. PICAROON, pik-kâ-rôỏn', s. A robber, a plun derer. To PICK, plk. v. a. To cull, to choose; to tak up, to gather; to separate from any thing use less or noxious; by gleaning out either part; to clean by gathering off gradually any thing adhering; to pierce, to strike with a sharp instrument; to strike with bill or beak, to peck; to rob; to open a lock by a pointed instrument To pick a hole in one's coat, a proverbial ex pression for finding fault with another. To PICK, pîk. v. n. To eat slowly and by small morsels; to do any thing nicely and leisurely. PICK, pik. s. A sharp-pointed iron tool. PICKAPACK, pik'å-påk. ad. In manner of a pack upon the back. A vulgar phrase. An axé not made to cut PICKAXE, pik'âks. s. but pierce, an axe with a sharp point. PICK BACK, pik'bak. a. On the back. PHYSICOTHEOLOGY, fiz-zè-kd-tñè-ôl′ld-jè. s.||PICKED, pik’kèd. a. 366. Sharp, smart. Divinity enforced or illustrated by natural phi-To PICKEER, pik-kèèr'. v. a. To pirate, to pil losophy. PHYSICK, fiz'zik. s. The science of healing ; medicines, remedies: in common phrase, a purge. Io PHYSICK, fis'sik. v. a. To purge, to treat with physick, to cure. } S. PHYSIOGNOMER, fîzh-d-ôg'nd-mår, or fiz- lage, to rob; to make a flying skirmish. PICKER, pik'kår. s. 98. One who picks or culls; a pickaxe, an instrument to pick with. PICKEREL, pîk'kår-îl. s. 99. A small pike. PICKEREL-WEED, pik'kår-il-weed. s. A wa ter plant from which pikes are fabled to be generated. PICKLE, pik'kl. s. 405. Any kind of salt liquor, in which flesh or other substance is preserved; thing kept in pickle; condition, state. To PICKLE, pîk'kl. v. a. To preserve in pic kle; to season or imbue highly with any thin bad, as, a pickled rogue. A low phrase. For the propriety of pronouncing the s in those words like zh, we need only appeal to analogy. S before a diphthong beginning with i, and having the accent before it, either primary or secondary, always goes into th, as may be seen, Principles, No. 451. The secondary accent on the first syllabie of these words gives a feebleness to the second, which occa-PICKLEHERRING, pik-kl-her'ring. s. A jack sions the aspiration of s as much as in evasion, adhesion, &c. where the s is preceded by the pri-PICKLOČK, pík ́lők. s. An instrument by which mary accent. It must, however, be acknowledged, that this is far from being the most general pronunciation.-See ECCLESIASTICK. PHYSIOGNOMY, fizh-è-dg'nd-mè. s. The art of discovering the temper and foreknowing the fortune by the features of the face; the face, the cast of the look. pudding, a merry-andrew, a buffoon. locks are opened; the person who picks locks. PICKPOCKET, pik pok-it. s. A thief who steals pîk purse. by putting his hand privately into the pocket or purse. An instrument by PICKTHANK, pik'thank. s. An officious fellow, who does what he is not desired. PICKTOOTH, pik'tödth. s. which the teeth are cleaned. There is a prevailing mispronunciation of this word, by leaving out the g, as if the word were French. If this arises from ignorance of PICT, pikt. s. A painted person. the common rules of spelling, it may be observ-PICTORIAL, pik-to'ré-âl." a. ed, that g is always pronounced before n when painter. Produced by ▲ it is not in the same syllable; as, sig-nifu, indig. ||PICTURE, pik'tshure. s. 461. A resemblance of nity, &c.; but if affectation be the cause of this errour, Dr. Young's Love of Fame will be the best cure for it.-See PATHOGNOMONICK. persons or things in colours; the science of painting; the works of painters; any resemblance or representation. PHYSIOLOGICAL, flzh-è-6-lôd'jè-kål. a. Re-To PICTURE, pik'tshure. v. a. To paint, to rep lating to the doctrine of the natural constitution of things. PHYSIOLOGIST, fizh-¿-61′ld-jist, s. A writer of PHYSIOLOGY, î'îzh-è̟-ôl'lò-jè. s. 518. The doc- a. Expiatory, having the power to atone ; such as requires expiation; criminal, atrociously bad. PIA-MATER, pl-ä-má'tâï. s. 98. A thin and delicate membrane, which lies under the dora *mater, and covers immediately the substance of the brain. PIANET, pa-nêt. §. A bird, the lesser woodperker" the mug ple resent by painting; to represent. PICTURESQUE, pik-tshů-rêsk'. a. Expressed happily as in a picture. To PIDDLE, pid'dl. v. n. 405. To pick at table, to feed squeamishly and without appetite; to trifle, to attend to small parts rather than to the main, PIDDLER, pid'dl-år. s. 98. One that eats squeam ishly and without appetite. PIE, pl. s. Any crust baked with something i it; a magpie, a party-coloured bird; the old po pish service book, so called from the rubrick. PIEBALD, pl'bald. a. Of various colours, di versified in colour. PIECE, pèèse. s. A patch ; a fragment; a part To PIECEŊ pěèse. v. To enlarge by the ad —nỏ, mỗve, når, nôt ;— tåbe, tåb, båll ;—¿N‚—pôånd,—thin, THIS. dition of a piece, to join, to unite. To piece out; to increase by addition. To PIECE, pèèse. v. n. To join, to coalesce, to be compacted. PIECER, pèès'år. s. 98. One that pieces. #PIECELESS, pèès'lès. a. Whole, compact, not made of separate pieces. 1 PIECEMEAL, pèès❜mèle. ad. In pieces, in frag ments. PIECEMEAL, pèès'mèle a. Single, separate, ? divided. PIEU, pide. a. 233. Variegated, party-coloured. PIELED, pil'd. a. Bald. Obsolete. wall, and only showing a fourth or fifth part of its thickness. PILCHER, pilts! 'år. s 98. A furred gown or case, any thing lined with fur; obsolete; a fish like a herring. ||PILE, pile. s. A strong piece of wood driven in. to the ground to make firm a foundation; heap, an accumulation; any thing heaped to gether to be burned; an edifice, a building; a hair; hairy surface, nap, one side of a coin the reverse of cross: in the plural, Piles, the hæmorrhoids. To PILE, pile. v. a. To heap, to lay one thing on another; to fill with something heaped. PILEATED, pîl'è-à-têd. a. 507. In the form of a cover or hat. PILER, pile år. s. 98. He who accumulates or heaps up. PILFER, pil'får. v. a. To steal, to gain by petty robbery. To PILFER, pil'får. v. a. 98. To practice petty theft. This word is derived from the French pié, a foot, and poudré, dusty: q. d. Dusty-foot Court. “A Court held in fairs, particularly at Bar-To tholomew Fair in West Smithfield, London, to do justice to buyers and sellers, and to redress disorders committed in them."-Such was the old derivation of this word; bu the late Daines Barrington, and Blackstone after him, derive it with much more probability from Pied Puldreaux, a peddler.-Mason's Supplement to Johnson's Dictionary. PIER, pèèr. s. 275. The columns on which the arch of a bridge is raised. To PIERCE, peerse, or perse. v. n. To penetrate, to enter, to force; to touch the passions, to affect. What has been observed of the word Fierce is perfecty applicable to this word and its compounds. PILFERER, þîl'får-år. ε. One who steals petty PILFERINGLY, pil'får-Ing-lè. `ad. With petty count. Petty theft. To PILGRIM, pilgrim. v. n. To wander, to ramble. PILGRIMAGE, pil'grim-ådje. s. 90. A long journey, travel, more usually a journey on account of devotion. PILL, pil. s. Medicine made into a small ball or mass. bark. To PIERCE, péèrse, or pèise, v. a. To make PIERCINGNESS, pèèr'sing-nês, or pèrs'ing-nès. | PIG, pig. s. A young sow or boar; an oblong To PIG, pig. v. n. To farrow, to bring pigs. PIGGIN, piggin. s. 382. A small vessel. PIGMY, pigmè. s. A small nation, fabled to be PIGNUT, pig nåt. s. An earth nut. PIGSNEY, pigs'nl. s. A word of endearment to a girl. Obsolete. PIKE, pike. s. A large fish of prey; a long lance used by the foot soldiers to keep off the horse, to which bayonets have succeeded; a fork used in husbandry: among Turners, two iron springs between which any thing to be turned is fastened. PIKED, pik'ked. a. 366. Sharp, acuminated, ending in a point. PIKEMAN, plke’mån. s. 88. A soldier arined with a pike. PIKESTAFF, pike'ståf. s. The wooden frame of a pike. PILASTER, pè-lás'tår. s. 132. A square column sometimes insulated, but oftener set within a To PILL, pil. v. n. scoriæ. To rob, to plunder. To come off in flakes or This word, says Dr. Johnson, should be written peel. To strip off the bark or rind of any thing is universally so pronounced; but when it is written pill, it is impossible to pro nounce it peel, as Mr. Sheridan has done, with out making the eye contradict the ear too pal pably. I am of opinion that the pronuncia tion ought to conform to the orthography.--Sec BOWL. PILLAGE, pillidje. s. 90. Plunder, something got by plundering or pilling; the act of plund ering. To PILLAGE, pil'līdje. v. a. To plunder, to spoil |PILLAGER, píl·lidje-år. s. 98. A plunderer; a spoiler. PILLAR, pil lår. s. 88. A column; a supporter, a maintainer. PILLARED, pil'lår'd. s. 359. Supported by columns; having the form of a column. PILLION, pil yan. s. 113. A soft saddle set be hind a horseman for a woman to sit on ; a pad a low saddle. PILLORY, pillar-è. s. 557. A frame erected on a pillar, and made with holes and folding boards, through which the heads and hands of criminals are put. ||To PILLORY, pil'lår-é. v. a. To punish with the pillory. PILLOW, pil'lò. s. 327. A bag of down or feathers laid under the head to sleep on. To PILLOW, pîl′ld. v. a. To rest any thing on a pillow. PILLOWBEER, pil'lò-bère. S. PILOSITY, pè-lôs'sè-tè, s. 132. Hairiness. course To steer, to direct in the |