Pluviometer (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the amount of rainfall at any place in a given time; a rain gauge.
Pluviometrical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pluviometer; determined by a pluviometer.
Pluviose (n.) The fifth month of the French republican calendar adopted in 1793. It began January 20, and ended February 18. See Vendemiaire.
Pluvious (a.) Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.
Plied (imp. & p. p.) of Ply
Plying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ply
Ply (v. t.) To bend.
Ply (v. t.) To lay on closely, or in folds; to work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; to press upon; to urge importunately; as, to ply one with questions, with solicitations, or with drink.
Ply (v. t.) To employ diligently; to use steadily.
Ply (v. t.) To practice or perform with diligence; to work at.
Ply (v. i.) To bend; to yield.
Ply (v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports.
Ply (v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.
Ply (v.) A fold; a plait; a turn or twist, as of a cord.
Ply (v.) Bent; turn; direction; bias.
Plyer (n.) One who, or that which, plies
Plyer (n.) A kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge. It consists of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
Plyer (n.) See Pliers.
Plyght (v. & n.) See Plight.
Plymouth Brethren () The members of a religious sect which first appeared at Plymouth, England, about 1830. They protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.
Pneometer (n.) A spirometer.
Pneumatic (a.) Alt. of Pneumatical
Pneumatical (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
Pneumatical (a.) Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.
Pneumatical (a.) Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
Pneumatical (a.) Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
Pneumaticity (n.) The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
Pneumatics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
Pneumatics (n.) The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
Pneumato- () A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
Pneumatocele (n.) A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.
Pneumatogarm (n.) A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.
Pneumatograph (n.) An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.
Pneumatological (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumatology.
Pneumatologist (n.) One versed in pneumatology.
Pneumatology (n.) The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.
Pneumatology (n.) The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.
Pneumatometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.
Pneumatometry (n.) See Spirometry.
Pneumatophore (n.) One of the Pneumonophora.
Pneumatothorax (n.) See Pneumothorax.
Pneumo- () A combining form from Gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.
Pneumococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
Pneumogastric (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
Pneumogastric (n.) The pneumogastric nerve.
Pneumograph (n.) Same as Pneumatograph.
Pneumography (n.) A description of the lungs.
Pneumology (n.) The science which treats of the lungs.
Pneumometer (n.) A spirometer.
Pneumometry (n.) Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.
Pneumonia (n.) Inflammation of the lungs.
Pneumonic (a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
Pneumonic (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
Pneumonic (n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Pneumonitic (a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonitis.
Pneumonitis (n.) Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.
Pneumonometer (n.) A spirometer; a pneumometer.
Pneumonophora (n. pl.) The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia and allied genera; -- called also Pneumatophorae.
Pneumony (n.) See Pneumonia.
Pneumootoka (n. pl.) Same as Sauropsida.
Pneumophora (n. pl.) A division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.
Pneumoskeleton (n.) A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.
Pneumotherapy (n.) The treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.
Pneumothorax (n.) A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
Pnigalion (n.) Nightmare.
Pnyx (n.) The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.
Poa (n.) A genus of grasses, including a great number of species, as the kinds called meadow grass, Kentucky blue grass, June grass, and spear grass (which see).
Poached (imp. & p. p.) of Poach
Poaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poach
Poach (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
Poach (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
Poach (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, \as fish.
Poach (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
Poach (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling
Poach (v. t.) To begin and not complete.
Poach (v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
Poachard (n.) A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.
Poachard (n.) The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.
Poacher (n.) One who poaches; one who kills or catches game or fish contrary to law.
Poacher (n.) The American widgeon.
Poachiness (n.) The state of being poachy; marshiness.
Poachy (a.) Wet and soft; easily penetrated by the feet of cattle; -- said of land
Poak (n.) Alt. of Poake
Poake (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc.
Pocan (n.) The poke (Phytolacca decandra); -- called also pocan bush.
Pochard (n.) See Poachard.
Pock (n.) A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.
Pockarred (a.) See Pockmarked.
Pock-broken (a.) Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten.
Pocket (n.) A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.
Pocket (n.) One of several bags attached to a billiard table, into which the balls are driven.
Pocket (n.) A large bag or sack used in packing various articles, as ginger, hops, cowries, etc.
Pocket (n.) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, or the like.
Pocket (n.) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
Pocket (n.) A hole containing water.
Pocket (n.) A strip of canvas, sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
Pocket (n.) Same as Pouch.
Pocketed (imp. & p. p.) of Pocket