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To resound; to echo. And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men. Longfellow.

k up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. Shak.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. He all his peers in beauty did surpass. Spenser.

ked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. "Drink down to your peg." Longfellow. -- Peg tooth. See Fleam tooth under Fleam. -- Peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it. -- Screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

pendent world." Shak. Often their tresses, when shaken, with pendent icicles tinkle. Longfellow.

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "You slew great number of his people." Shak.

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

tem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

istresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. Shak.

to splash. "Plashing among bedded pebbles." Keats. Far below him plashed the waters. Longfellow.

xpression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

A playfellow. [Obs.] [Also, playfeer, playphere.] Holinsheld.

A companion in diversions; a playfellow.

heerful; enlivening; gay; sprightly; humorous; sportive; as, pleasant company; a pleasant fellow. From grave to light, from pleasant to serve. Dryden.

rced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.

A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. Spenser.