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A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. Shak.

The European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]…

A supposed new metal found in columbite, afterwards shown to be identical with columbium, or niobium.

crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for committing them. -- Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.] -- Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.…

Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.

An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors. -- Per*thit"ic, a.

Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.

A genus of trilobites found in the Silurian and Devonian formations. Phacops bufo is one of the most common species.

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.

o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. Chapman.

To act as, or convey, a poison. Tooth that poisons if it bite. Shak.

bitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization; to cause to be inhabited; to people.

tential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in simple language; she is not presentable in such a gown.