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By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. Longfellow.

A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." Shak. Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. -- Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fas…

f enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. Patient of severest toil and hardship. Bp. Fell.

er. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

To mutter; as prayers. [The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers. Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]

To resound; to echo. And the whole air pealed With the cheers of our men. Longfellow.

k up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up. Addison. This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas. Shak.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate. He all his peers in beauty did surpass. Spenser.

The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.

ked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. "Drink 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.

raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

pendent world." Shak. Often their tresses, when shaken, with pendent icicles tinkle. Longfellow.

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the g…

One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers. "You slew great number of his people." Shak.

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow.

One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.

Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." Longfellow.

tem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.