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to, or derived from, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the decomposition of phloretin.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.

A phosphide. [Obsoles.]

Impregnated, or combined, with phosphorus. [Obsoles.] [Written also phosphuretted.] Phosphureted hydrogen. (Chem.) See Phosphine.

A little pillar. [R.] Fuller.

Plethoric. [Obs.] Johnson.

ey protest against sectarianism, and reject all official ministry or clergy. Also called Brethren, Christian Brethren, Plymouthists, etc. The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren.

See Pockmarked.

A polysulphide. [Obsoles.]

One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (S. niger, S. argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.

A scallion; a leek or small onion. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.

Situated in front of the temporal bone.

See Pretense, Pretenseful, Pretenseless.

a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden.

A pretender; a claimant.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.

The act of pretending; pretense. [Obs.] Daniel.

The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.