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A salt of oxalic acid.

A salt of oxanilic acid.

Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide. [R.]

Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste. Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests. Pope.

Extended; spread out; stretched.

Same as Panicled.

To cover with papillæ; to take the form of a papilla, or of papillæ.

Having a minute papilla in the center of a larger elevation or depression.

or produced by, particles, such as dust, minute germs, etc. [R.] The smallpox is a particulate disease. Tyndall.

Hanged on a gallows. [R.]

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Of or pertaining to the Pediculati.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.

To swing as a pendulum. [R.]

Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.