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A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak.

A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.

y, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columbæ.

Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.

temporary way. -- Permanent white (Chem.), barium sulphate (heavy spar), used as a white pigment or paint, in distinction from white lead, which tarnishes and darkens from the formation of the sulphide.

The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.

ern hemisphere. -- Fulmar petrel, Giant petrel. See Fulmar. -- Pintado petrel, the Cape pigeon. See under Cape. -- Pintado petrel, any one of several small petrels, especially Procellaria pelagica, or Mother Carey's chicken, common on both sides of the Atlantic.

The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet. Shak.

Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3. [Obs.]

ineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment.

The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]

See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]

ow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Pit of the stomach (Anat.), the depression on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often i…

Platinum. Platina mohr, platinum black. -- Platina yellow, a pigment prepared from platinum.

Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown. -- Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which…