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Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.] A distaff in her other hand she had. Spenser.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

61, had a white palmetto in the center of a blue field and a white crescent in the upper left-hand corner.

l house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.

Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv.

Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.

Divided or cleft into five parts.

A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.

stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic. How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period. Bacon.…

oth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

They are worn by Jews on the head and left arm, on week-day mornings, during the time of prayer. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

g reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. -- Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,…

Petty theft. [Scot.] Holinshed.

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

Petty theft. -- Pil"fer*ing*ly, adv.

Petty theft. [R.] Sir T. North.

ull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.