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rian, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart of Geology.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.

tem of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator. [R.] Hartlib.

Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. As the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

Partial; favoring one party. I will be true judge, and not party. Chaucer. Charter party. See under Charter.

n labor or application; perseverance. He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte.

To support; to patronize. [Obs.] Urquhart.

with a pencil; to paint or to draw. Cowper. Where nature pencils butterflies on flowers. Harte.

Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye.

great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.

Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

f or pertaining to physic, or the art of medicine; medicinal; curative; healing; also, cathartic; purgative. [Obs.] "Physical herbs." Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes o…

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

ched battle. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Plain chant (Mus.) Same as Plain song, below. -- Plain chart (Naut.), a chart laid down on Mercator's projection. -- Plain dealer. (a) One who practices plain dealing. (b) A simpleton. [Obs.] Shak. -- Plain dealing. See under Dealing. -- Plain molding (Join.), molding of which the s…

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

A former; a fashioner. [R.] "The sovereign plasmator, God Almighty." Urquhart.

A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "To note all the islands, and to set them down in plat." Hakluyt.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.

The rhizome and rootlet of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum), -- used as a cathartic drug.