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to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. "She passed the child on her husband for a boy." Dryden. -- To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.

ject exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

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.

rce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold. "Penetrant and powerful arguments." Boyle.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly. Boyle.

The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing. Boyle.

The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. Boyle.

Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water. Boyle.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.

See Pitchstone. Amboyna pitch, the resin of Dammara australis. See Kauri. -- Burgundy pitch. See under Burgundy. -- Canada pitch, the resinous exudation of the hemlock tree (Abies Canadensis); hemlock gum. -- Jew's pitch, bitumen. -- Mineral pitch. See Bitumen and Asphalt. -- Pitch coal (Min.), bituminous coal. -…

an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end. "Hangman boys in the market place." Shak.

into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep." Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts.

A long, wide sleeve; -- called also poke sleeve. To boy a pig a poke (that is, in a bag), to buy a thing without knowledge or examination of it. Camden.

A servant in a public house; a potboy.

its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.

2. -- Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine. -- Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. -- Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry. -- Powder puff. See Puff, n.

A white robe with a purple border, worn by a Roman boy before he was entitled to wear the toga virilis, or until about the completion of his fourteenth year, and by girls until their marriage. It was also worn by magistrates and priests.

Of or pertaining to prey; plundering; predatory. [R.] Boyse.

ion. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.

To descend by gravity; to sink. [R.] Boyle.