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One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.

er wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.

A quashing; a defeating. [Obs.]

Passing through; permeating. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. Here is not a mere involution only, but a spiritual permeation and inexistence. Bp. Hall.

Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More.

The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective.

The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.

metallic crystalline substance, having very inert chemical properties. It is obtained by heating ordinary phosphorus in a closed vessel at a high temperature. -- Phosphorus disease (Med.), a disease common among workers in phosphorus, giving rise to necrosis of the jawbone, and other symptoms. -- Red, or Amorphous, p…

The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin. -- Pho`to*the*rap"ic (#), Pho`to*ther`a*peu"tic (#), a.

Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

Of or pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. "Physical philosophy." Pope.

ccording to the laws of nature or physics; by physical force; not morally. I am not now treating physically of light or colors. Locke.

The eating of plants.

The process of building up, heating, and working, fagots, or piles, to form bars, etc.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]

Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.