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Same as Pepperidge.

ry, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.

A white crystalline compound of piperidine and piperic acid. It is obtained from the black pepper (Piper nigrum) and other species.

Of or pertaining to the pleura and pericardium.

Pleuropneumonia.

Of or pertaining to the pleural and peritoneal membranes or cavities, or to the pleuroperitoneum.

The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.

Properispomenon.

A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.

r enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. Now prosperity begins to mellow. Shak. Prosperities can only be enjoyed by them who fear not at all to lose the Jer. Taylor.

Falsely or imperfectly peripteral, as a temple having the columns at the sides attached to the walls, and an ambulatory only at the ends or only at one end. -- n.

A renewed or repeated experience.

The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.

from Simper, v.

In a simpering manner.

In a slippery manner.

The quality of being slippery.

Situated under the cardiac pericardium.

Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation (Surg.), a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.

Situated under the peritoneal membrane.