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pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.

The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel.

All the animals and plants, taken collectively, which live at or near the surface of salt or fresh waters. --Plank*ton"ic (#), a.

Government by planters; planters, collectively. [R.]

The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.

Plebeians, collectively. [Obs.]

A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

Plumes, collectively or in general; plumage. [R.] Southey.

sheet metal, having a perforated shelf, and used, when filled with water or mercury, for collecting gases in chemical operations. -- Pneumatic tube. See Pneumatic dispatch, above.

One who collects pods or pulse.

pressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney. She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. Shak.

er of police ranking next below a superintendent. -- Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana. Bouvier. -- Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court. -- Police offenses (Law), minor offen…

Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.

In bibliography, a collection of different works, either by one or several authors. Brande & C.

To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming.

A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon. Wyclif. Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. Bacon. The sleepy pool above the dam. Tennyson.…

Pictures, collectively; painting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A collection of people; a throng; a rabble. [Colloq.]

theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote…

To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]