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A sum or quantity over; surplus. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Work in excess of the usual or stipulated time or quantity; extra work; also, excessive labor.

The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.

The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.

A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram.

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.

which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back p…

Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood. Sir T. Browne.

A paste made by mixing ground fresh roasted peanuts with a small quantity of water or oil, and used chiefly as a relish on sandwiches, etc.

A great deal; a large or excessive quantity. "A peck of uncertainties and doubts." Milton.

ail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.

A small quantity; a trifle. Bacon.

particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon.

Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.

e well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.

k out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. (a) To take up, as with th…