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e, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

Coming after the sun has passed the meridian; being in, or belonging to, the afternoon. (Abbrev. P. M.)

One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft.

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

Full of pride; haughty. Tennyson. -- Pride"ful*ly, adv. -- Pride"ful-ness, n.

Without pride. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] Thackeray.

Proudly. [Obs.]

Controlled or oppressed by priests; as, a priest-ridden people. Swift.

The longtailed titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

One who is versed in pteridology.

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns. [R.] C. Kingsley.

A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.

decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction.

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Putridity. Floyer.

Related to, or formed from, pyridin or its homologues; as, the pyridic bases.

A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation of bone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids, as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleus of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaïn…

A hypothetical radical, C5H4N, regarded as the essential residue of pyridine, and analogous to phenyl.