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Pearly; resembling pearl.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

A phylactery. Sandys.

Wearing a phylactery.

Of or pertaining to phylacteries.

A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii. 2-10, and 11-17, Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

An order of fresh-water Bryozoa in which the tentacles are arranged on a horseshoe-shaped lophophore, and the mouth is covered by an epistome. Called also Lophopoda, and hippocrepians.

Of or pertaining to the Phylactolæma.

Same as Phylactolæma.

A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.

Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.

Black as pitch or tar.

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

ied; ready or willing to be pacified; willing to forgive or condone. Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton.

The quality of being placable.

A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [Obs.] All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell.

Same as Placard, 4 & 5.

The act of placating. [R.] Puttenham (1589).