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fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. -- Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, formerly paid by the English people to the pope, being a penny for every house, payable…

A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.

he purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed. -- Pigeon English Etym: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is En…

ilgrim steps." Milton. Pilgrim fathers, a name popularly given to the one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

The common English periwinkle. [Prov. Eng.]

A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe. Mozley & W.

An old English name for a fairy; an elf. [Written also picksy.]

A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland. Not having one plowgate of land. Sir W. Scott.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude. Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck. Thackeray.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

ns the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

A Russian weight, equal to forty Russian pounds or about thirty-six English pounds avoirdupois.

ch opens its blossoms only in fair weather. -- Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who depend on charity or maintena…

An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.

In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. [Obs.] Fabyan.

In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town. [Obs.] Blackstone.

e of the spine and paralysis of the lower extremities; -- so named from Percival Pott, an English surgeon. Pott's fracture, a fracture of the lower end of the fibula, with displacement of the tibia. Dunglison.