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PIECEMEALED a.
Divided into pieces.
PIGTAILED a.
Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.
PILED a. 3 definitions
Having a pile or point; pointed. [Obs.] "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman.
PILLED a.
Stripped of hair; scant of hair; bald. [Obs.] "Pilled beard." Chaucer.
PILLED-GARLIC n.
See Pilgarlic.
PIMPLED a.
Having pimples. Johnson.
PIN-TAILED a.
Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
PIXY-LED a.
Led by pixies; bewildered.
PLATE-GILLED a.
Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
PLED n.
imp. & p. p. of Plead [Colloq.] Spenser.
PLEDGE n. 11 definitions
dertook, or became responsible, for another; a bail; a surety; a hostage. "I am Grumio's pledge." Shak.
PLEDGEE n.
The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
PLEDGELESS a.
Having no pledge.
PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR n.
One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee.
PLEDGER n.
One who pledges.
PLEDGERY n.
A pledging; suretyship. [Obs.]
PLEDGET n. 3 definitions
A small plug. [Prov. End.]
POLEDAVY n.
A sort of coarse canvas; poldway. [Obs.] Howell.
POLLED a. 2 definitions
Cropped; hence, bald; -- said of a person. "The polled bachelor." Beau. & Fl. (c) Having cast the antlers; -- said of a stag. (d) Without horns; as, polled cattle; polled sheep.
POLYCOTYLEDON n.
A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed. -- Pol`y*cot`y*led"on*ous, a.
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