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

Universal measurement. [R.] -- Pan`to*met"ric, a. [R.]

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

The doctrine and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery. [R.] Whitgift.

A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

The place where pastry is made. [Obs.] Shak.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.

The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

Peltry. [Obs.]

The measurement of the pelvis.

The art of using the perimeter; measurement of the field of vision.

A place for keeping and rearing pheasants. Gwilt.

The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

f the powers or agencies of nature; materialism in religion; nature worship. "The physiolatry of the Vedas." M. Williams.

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry. R. Hunt.