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The pewee, or pewit.

An instrument for measuring vocal sounds. Whewell.

eous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.

eons of the genus Carpophada. -- Pigeon berry (Bot.), the purplish black fruit of the pokeweed; also, the plant itself. See Pokeweed. -- Pigeon English Etym: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication b…

A kind of twisted chewing tobacco. The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail. Swift.

o a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.

a), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.…

Toward a pole of the earth. "The regions further polewards." Whewell.

mbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

he uncommon and highly valuable metals, esp. gold and silver. -- Precious stones, gems; jewels.

n. The cause is more than the prelude, the effect is more than the sequel, of the fact. Whewell.

to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence. More pity that the eagle should be mewed, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. Shak. To prey on or upon. (a) To take prey from; to despoil; to pillage; to rob. Shak. (b) To seize as prey; to take for food by violence; to seize and devour. Shak. (c) To wear away…

ures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5.

A shrub (Euonymus Europæus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

thood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.

To be renewed, or as at first. [Obs.] Night's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again. Quarles .

rden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise. He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke.