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A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck.

Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columbæ.

Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods.

Peristaltic action, especially of the intestines.

Same as Peristome.

The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

Same as Peristome.

Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).

the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.

Any flying marsupial of the genera Petaurus, Phalangista, Acrobata, and allied genera. See Flying mouse, under Flying, and Phalangister.

A system of phalansteries proposed by Fourier; Fourierism.

Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth.

The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect. Sharp.

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.

See Pharisaism.

A specialist in photometry.

One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.