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ation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of p…

A member of a Russian aristocratic order abolished by Peter the Great. Also, one of a privileged class in Roumania.

nd leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.

are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church; being those of James, Peter, Jude, and John.

end, with a clout. And old shoes and clouted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.

; as, a complaisant gentleman. There are to whom my satire seems too bold: Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough. Pope.

cardinals. It was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. South.

rs in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19.

entralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

The whole material composing the world. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter iii. 10.

e of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

treme as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme." J. P. Peters.

The value of a fig, practically nothing; a fico; -- used in scorn or contempt. "A fig for Peter." Shak. Cochineal fig. See Conchineal fig. -- Fig dust, a preparation of fine oatmeal for feeding caged birds. -- Fig faun, one of a class of rural deities or monsters supposed to live on figs. "Therefore shall dragons dwe…

rver. This reform bill . . . had been used as a float by the conservative ministry. J. P. Peters.

rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise. Burrill. He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish. Jer. Taylor.

One of the four evangelists. Rom. of R. Mark the gospeler was the ghostly son of Peter in baptism. Wyclif.

To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.

they brought unto Moses. Ex. xviii. 26. In which are some things hard to be understood. 2 Peter iii. 16.