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Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character.

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. -- Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from…

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. Sir W. Scott. Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.

Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

Southern Europe, and P. Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America.

ession on the middle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. -- Pit viper (Zoöl.), any vip…

The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

eal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. Sterne.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. [Written also poquoson.] Washington.

A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States. Johnson's Cyc.

Politic; wise; also, artful. [Obs.] Sterne. Political economy, that branch of political science or philosophy which treats of the sources, and methods of production and preservation, of the material wealth and prosperity of nations.

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

Western; occidental. [R.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.

To break over the poop or stern, as a wave. "A sea which he thought was going to poop her." Lord Dufferin.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.