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Fondness for women; uxoriousness; -- opposed to Ant: misogyny. [R.] Byron.

See Photography. [Obsoles.]

The art or practice of using the photophone.

Pulmonary consumption.

vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.

he development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny. Haeckel.

The birth of nature. [R.] Coleridge.

The doctrine of the generation of plants.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

A miserly person.

An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

See Peony.

Pleuropneumonia.

See Pneumonia.

The place at Athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.

A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.