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wise ordination of God. Jer. Taylor. Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris.

The orpine.

an an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive. They live too long who happiness outlive. Dryden.

t oil which has a strong narcotic odor, and a physiological action resembling that of atropine. It is probably related to pyridine.

peaceful person; -- applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms.

ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer. Speechless he stood and pale. Milton. They are not of complexion red or pale. T. Randolph.

A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. The earth Shall be all paradise. Milton. Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. Beaconsfield.

A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark.

One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.

ent of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebræ, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

cquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sicky. "Dwindle, peak, and pine." Shak.

g different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk.

Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. There amid perky larches and pines. Tennyson.