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) A row of palisades set in the ground.

Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

Inhabiting ponds or swamps.

Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.

Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.

Spotted like a pard. Pardine lynx (Zoöl.), a species of lynx (Felis pardina) inhabiting Southern Europe. Its color is rufous, spotted with black.

Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit.

A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline.

Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.

Containing fat; fatty. [Obs.]

ily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.

Plaid cloth.

One addicted to uttering platitudes, or stale and insipid truisms. "A political platitudinarian." G. Eliot.

To utter platitudes or truisms.

Abounding in platitudes; of the nature of platitudes; uttering platitudes. -- Plat`i*tu"di*nous*ness, n.

The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.

In a pleading manner.

iff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

A plenist.