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generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

A legal holiday in the States of Massachusetts and Maine, April 19, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington in 1775. It was first observed in 1894. [U. S.]

a certain rank, without deductions. -- Half pay. See under Half. -- Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts du…

That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.

Same as Setterwort.

Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for commi…

A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.

To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.

me to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or ecc…

he one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. [Southern U. S.]

ree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. -- Pine weevil (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of weevils whose larvæ bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in bot…

e shrub itself; -- called also Pinxter blomachee by the New York descendants of the Dutch settlers.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. Mortimer.

or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak.

les, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon.

The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. [R.]