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To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations. Cudworth.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist (#), n. --Pil`pul*is"tic (#), a.

ton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank.

Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan. "In plaided vest." Wordsworth.

or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.

The common people; the mob. [Obs.] The plebe with thirst and fury prest. Sylvester.

A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.

Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish. Pompano shell (Zoöl.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so called because eaten by the pompano. [Florida]

d inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under Carriage, and Loggia. The graceless Helen in the porch…

ve possession, to put in another's power or occupancy. -- To put in possession. (a) To invest with ownership or occupancy; to provide or furnish with; as, to put one in possession of facts or information. (b) (Law) To place one in charge of property recovered in ejectment or writ of entry. -- To take possession, to e…

The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity. "The powers of darkness." Milton. And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Matt. xxiv. 29.…

Doing; active. [Obs.] Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.

ak. "A precedent injury." Bacon. Condition precedent (Law), a condition which precede the vesting of an estate, or the accruing of a right.

That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively.

A prince; one invested with sovereignty. "Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime." Milton.