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One. [Obs.] Chaucer. "Alle thre but o God." Piers Plowman.

, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

dom by observation and experience, or the wisdom so acquired; -- opposed to inwit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

e other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

See Apparel. [Obs.] "In the parail of a pilgrim." Piers Plowman.

To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

ermitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman.

rn (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling parsley (Cryptogramme crispa). -- Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb (Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for calculus.

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.

Bread. Having Piers Plowman.

A pea. [Obs.] "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman.

the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.

riously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.

A weight; a poise. [Obs.] "To weigh pence with a peise." Piers Plowman.

l, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; - - called also pennoncel. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.

The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Cheyne.