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To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

The crime against nature; sodomy.

Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.

A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Of or pertaining to photochromy; produced by photochromy.

hysical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation. -- Physical education, training of the bodily organs and powers…

llowers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order. F. A. Walker. -- Phys`i*o*crat"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy. -- Phys`i*og*nom"ic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Physiognomy, 1.

To observe and study the physiognomy of. [R.] Southey.

One versed in phytotomy.

Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.

The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] Sterne. Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.

Of or pertaining to polychromy; many-colored; polychromatic.