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a well-known and stable series of salts (osmates), which were formerly improperly called osmites. -- Osmic tetroxide (Chem.), a white volatile crystalline substance, OsO4, the most stable and characteristic of the compounds of osmium. It has a burning taste, and gives off a vapor, which is a powerful irritant poison,…

; additional; second of two. Each of them made other for to win. Chaucer. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39.

A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore. Pope. His golden sands and palmy wine. Goldsmith.

To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.

lizabeth and for some time after; -- called also passing measure, and passymeasure. Percy Smith.

move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by…

asseres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.

ast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.

To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. [R.] Dr. John Smith.

ositive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

a pretender to superior knowledge. Addison. A scholar, yet surely no pedant, was he. Goldsmith.

and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk. Sydney Smith.

That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. "The perspective of life." Goldsmith.

-- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of k…

One whose occupation is to make utensils of pewter; a pewtersmith. Shak.

A cue, or queue. J. & H. Smith.

To shoot with a pistol. "To pistol a poacher." Sydney Smith.

forth. It is used in steam engines to receive motion from the steam, and in pumps to transmit motion to a fluid; also for other purposes. Piston head (Steam Eng.), that part of a piston which is made fast to the piston rod. -- Piston rod, a rod by which a piston is moved, or by which it communicates motion. -- Pisto…