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A pentacle or a pentalpha. "Like a wizard pentagram." Tennyson.

device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

ting one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

s; (2) Syllabic signs, which stand for the articulations of which words are composed; (3) Alphabetic signs, or letters, which represent the elementary sounds into which the syllable can be resolved. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.

Licensed as a physician. [Obs.] "A physicianed apothecary." Walpole.

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

and MMe. Curie in pitchblende. It is closely related chemically to bismuth. It emits only alpha rays and is perhaps identical with radium F.

The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.

The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.

Same as Semé. Walpole.

Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.

Somewhat pretty. Walpole.

Implying privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. un-, non-, -less.

An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.

is word was made on the Beggar's Opera, which, it was said, made Gay rich, and Rich gay. Walpole.

ourparty.] I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. Walpole.

nce, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf. Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps. And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young.

, the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; c…