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One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz. Carlyle.

A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a philanthropist. [R.] Carlyle.

character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] Carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.

A philologist. [R.] Carlyle.

A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry. Carlyle.

To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

nt of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

and allied genera, of the family Pipridæ. The male is usually glossy black, varied with scarlet, yellow, or sky blue. They chiefly inhabit South America.

One who uses a pistol. [R.] Carlyle.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference. [R.] Carlyle.

Bacon. Pole bean (Bot.), any kind of bean which is customarily trained on poles, as the scarlet runner or the Lima bean. -- Pole flounder (Zoöl.), a large deep-water flounder (Glyptocephalus cynoglossus), native of the northern coasts of Europe and America, and much esteemed as a food fish; -- called also craig floun…

Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely that the thing may be at ome time; actual existence, that it now is. Sir W. Hamilton. Potential cautery. See under Cautery. -- Potential energy. (Mech.) See the Note under Energy. -- Potential mood, or mode (Gram.…

To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.

The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured. Carlyle.

To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols. Carlyle.

h metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white. P. Plowman. A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay. Spenser.

. Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple, and scarlet. Ex. xxvi. 1.

of any kind not possessed; a charlatan. Quacks political; quacks scientific, academical. Carlyle.