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A combining form signifying equal; as, paridigitate, paripinnate.

t pass upon his life." Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. [Obs.] "Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth." Shak.

Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.

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

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically:

Possessing or enjoying peace; not disturbed by war, tumult, agitation, anxiety, or commotion; quiet; tranquil; as, a peaceful time; a peaceful country; a peaceful end.

A European titmouse (Parus, or Ægithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers.

Having five digits to the hand or foot.

ulminating powder. -- Percussion sieve, Percussion table, a machine for sorting ores by agitation in running water.

To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer.

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Perturbed; agitated. [R.]

The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind.

Agitated; disturbed; troubled. Shak. -- Per*turb"ed*ly, adv.

One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode.

duated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Upright piano, one with an upright frame and vertical wires.

A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

dle which is its axis. Lantern pinion. See under Lantern. -- Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions.

l leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. -- California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. -- Pitcher plant, any plant with the whole or a part of…