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Permeation; specif. (Magnetism),

Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to to rock. G. S. Faber.

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

Any species of Phoca; a seal.

Pholad.

The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

See Pygmean.

Consisting of, or resembling, lead. J. Ellis.

Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

Being or indicating the fourth syllable from the end of a word, or that before the antepenult.

One contemporary with, but older than, another. [Obs.] Fuller.

A carnivorous animal. Kirby.

Priority of place in sitting.[Obs.] Carew.

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

Proboscidian.

producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. [R.] "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.

to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.