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A kind of lace of silk or thread. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Petty; insignificant. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." Burke.

The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.

Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton.

A series of piles; piles considered collectively; as, the piling of a bridge. Pug piling, sheet piles connected together at the edges by dovetailed tongues and grooves. -- Sheet piling, a series of piles made of planks or half logs driven edge to edge, -- used to form the walls of cofferdams, etc.

Entrapping; insnaring. [R.] "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.

Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.

The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.

The act of voting, or of registering a vote. Polling booth, a temporary structure where the voting at an election is done; a polling place.

The act of uniting, or an agreement to unite, an aggregation of properties belonging to different persons, with a view to common liabilities or profits.

A petty or deputy pope.

A pig; a porket. Tusser.

or force or influence; efficacious; persuasive. Shak. Saints shall assist thee with prevailing prayers. Rowe.

So as to prevail.

Prickly. [Obs.] Spenser.

A petty prince; a young prince.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

A proud or haughty person. Sylvester.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

g substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling.