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One who presents a petition.

The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

One who seeks or asks; a seeker; an applicant. [R.] Fuller.

Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton. Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burril…

See Packfong.

See Petrology.

An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

See Saltpeter.

Of or pertaining to to rock. G. S. Faber.

numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridæ. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. Diving petrel, any bird of the genus Pelecanoides. They chiefly inhabit the southern hemisphere. -- Fulmar petrel, Gia…

The process of changing into stone; petrification.

Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water. Boyle.

The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.

Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.

Petrifying; petrifactive. Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton.

To petrify. [Obs.] Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646).

See Petrifaction.

o convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan.

Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.

A combining form from Gr. rock, stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.