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To season too highly.

Paradisiacal.

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

Caries of the vertebræ, frequently resulting in curvature of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.

Priority of place in sitting.[Obs.] Carew.

To search again; to examine anew.

To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.

Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries. Macaulay.

One who researches.

Making researches; inquisitive. [R.] Coleridge.

To seat or set again, as on a chair, throne, etc. Dryden.

A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.

resembling a rose in smell or color. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.

A mystic symbol consisting of two interlaced triangles forming a star with six points, often with one triangle dark and one light, symbolic of the union of soul and body.

Cessation. [Obs.]

Peace; quiet. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to to symphysis.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.