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In a paltry manner.

The state or quality of being paltry.

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron.

The papacy. [Obs.] Milton.

or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton.

traction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly, adv.

The state or condition of being perpetual. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]

Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property.

See Pissasphalt.

Pissasphalt. [Obs.]

tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt. [Written also pisasphaltum, pisasphalt, etc.]

A salt derived from a protoxide base. [Obs.]

The Book of Psalms; -- often applied to a book containing the Psalms separately printed.

Of or pertaining to the psalterium.

The third stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies.

rews, the form of which is not known. Praise the Lord with harp; sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Ps. xxxiii. 2.

One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

Royalty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Retinite.