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To excel or overcome in staring; to face down. I would outstare the sternest eyes that look. Shak.

ransport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). [Western U.S.]

Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palæogæan.]

To palisade. [Obs.] Sterne.

A western American hackberry (Celtis reticulata), having light- colored bark.

A tree of the genus Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself. Gray.

One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea. -- Par`a*phrag"mal, a.

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

, a yellow-flowered leguminous herb (Cassia Chamæcrista), common in sandy fields in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is…

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.

Pastry. Sterne.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

ttlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.

Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

applied esp. to a Chinese porcelain, small specimens of which bring great prices in the Western countries.

A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

To endanger. [Obs.] Periclitating, pardi! the whole family. Sterne.