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A pendulum. [R.] Evelyn.

Same as Perula.

A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.

A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness (number of degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and th…

Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

r organs, or parts, when arranged in rows so as to have a plumelike appearance; as, a pinnule of a gorgonia; the pinnules of a crinoid.

One of the sights of an astrolabe. [Obs.]

A little planet. [R.] Conybeare.

The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm. Haeckel.

The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray.

Fit for drink. [Obs.] "Some those herbs which are not esculent, are . . . poculent." Bacon.

A poetaster. Swinburne.

Fit to drink; potable. [Obs.] Johnson.

Very minutely downy.

o whimper; to whine, as a complaining child. It becometh not such a gallant to whine and pule. Barrow.

One who pules; one who whines or complains; a weak person.

A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See Flea.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.