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ositive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.

and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk. Sydney Smith.

That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.

-- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of k…

One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith. Shak.

A cue, or queue. J. & H. Smith.

To shoot with a pistol. "To pistol a poacher." Sydney Smith.

stitution; the plan of an expedition. God's plans like lines pure and white unfold. M. R. Smith.

To act; to behave; to practice deception. His mother played false with a smith. Shak.

as plenty as blackberries. Shak. (Folio ed.) Those countries where shrubs are plenty. Goldsmith.

d; as, a plethoric constitution; -- used also metaphorically. "Plethoric phrases." Sydney Smith. "Plethoric fullness of thought." De Quincey.

en followed, with endearing wile, And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile. Goldsmith.

Dull; heavy; stupid. [R.] J. P. Smith.

; bias. The late learners can not so well take the ply. Bacon. Boswell, and others of Goldsmith's contemporaries, . . . did not understand the secret plies of his character. W. Irving. The czar's mind had taken a strange ply, which it retained to the last. Macaulay.

ction over all matters of religion, at the head of which was the Pontifex Maximus. Dr. W. Smith.

ement in a dance. [R.] Tennyson. Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. J. & H. Smith.

A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." J. & H. Smith.

d, or necessary to an end or effect proposed. The necessary prerequisites of freedom. Goldsmith.

Preternaturalness. [R.] Dr. John Smith.