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The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] Milton.

One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken.

A sandal. [Obs.] Latimer.

An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill.

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.

o from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.

Hawking; acting as a peddler.

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

The crime against nature; sodomy.

A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance. [Written also paterero and peterero.]

Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Build him a pedestal, and say, "Stand there!" Cowper.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet.

In a pedestrial manner.