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512 words match “WISH”

OUNCE n.
has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back. The ounce is pale yellowish gray, with irregular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.
OUTRUN v.
e behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond. Your zeal outruns my wishes. Sir W. Scott. The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher. Jhon xx. 4.
PARASHAH n.
A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.
PARTAKER n. 2 definitions
who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.
PATRIARCH n.
-- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.
PECTORAL n.
A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
PENTECOST n.
(seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth…
PETROLATUM n.
petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments. U. S. Pharm.
PHARMACOSIDERITE n.
A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
PHENOLPHTHALEIN; PHENOL PHTHALEIN n.
A white or yellowish white crystalline substance, C20H14O4, formed by condensation of the anhydride of phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids. This reaction, being very delicate, is used as an indicator.
PHOSPHORUS n.
A poisonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It…
PHTHALEIN n.
ol phthaleïn. Their alkaline solutions are fluorescent. Phenol phthalein, a white or yellowish white crystalline substance made from phthalic acid and phenol. Its solution in alkalies is brilliant red, but is decolorized by acids, and as this reaction is exceedingly delicate it is used as an indicator.…
PHYCOXANTHIN; PHYCOXANTHINE n.
A yellowish coloring matter found in certain algæ.
PIPERIC a.
found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
PISTACHIO GREEN n.
A light yellowish green color resembling that of the pistachio nut.
PLANTAIN n.
, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked. Plantain cutter, or Plantain eater (Zoöl.), any one of several large African birds of the genus Musophaga, or family Musophagi…
PLEASE v.
To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. Ps. cxxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. J. Edwards.
PLEASURE n.
What the will dictates or prefers as gratifying or satisfying; hence, will; choice; wish; purpose. "He will do his pleasure on Babylon." Isa. xlviii. 14. Use your pleasure; if your love do not presuade you to come, let not my letter. Shak.
POINSETTIA n.
b (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
PORTLAND STONE n.
A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.
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