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To exceed in naming or describing. [R.]

The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]

Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.

A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life. Rambler.

ra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west tropical Africa. -- Palm peach, the fruit of a Venezuelan palm tree (Bactris speciosa). -- Peach color, the pale red color of the peach blossom. -- Peach-tree borer (Zoöl.), the larva of a clearwing moth (Æge…

The act of combing; the combing of the head.

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.

A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.

The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.

- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. -- Pick hammer, a pick with…

One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

The act of piercing or stabbing.

To supply, as a building, with a system of plumbing.

A place where plumbing is carried on; lead works.

The rubbing off of the point of the wheat grain in the first process of high milling.

belliferous plant (Conium maculatum). See Hemlock. -- Poison ivy (Bot.), a poisonous climbing plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) of North America. It is common on stone walls and on the trunks of trees, and has trifoliate, rhombic-ovate, variously notched leaves. Many people are poisoned by it, if they touch the leaves. See P…

A pole on which climbing beans, hops, or other vines, are trained.