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Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

Truly. See Parde. [Obs.] Ah, dame! perdy ye have not done me right. Spenser.

A titanate of lime occurring in octahedral or cubic crystals. [Written also Perovskite.]

ivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. Hannah More.

To try to influence. [Obsolescent] Hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you. 2 Kings xviii. 32.

volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude petroleum at a temperature of 170° Fahr., or below. The term is rather loosely applied to a considerable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The terms petroleum ether, and naphtha, are sometimes applied to the still more volatile products, including rh…

The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.

In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

ual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. -- Platonic love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regarding the mind only and its e…

plowing; as, to plow in wheat. -- To plow up, to turn out of the ground by plowing.plow ahead, to continue in spite of obstacles or resistence by others.

An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

A Buddhist priest of the higher orders in Burmah. Malcom.

rocess of constructing pontoon bridges. "Army instruction in pontooning." Gen. W. T. Shermah.

Being or happening after the flood in Noah's days.

cestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.

the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.

ized in the form of oblique prisms, with ten molecules of water; -- distinguished from octahedral borax. -- Prismatic colors (Opt.), the seven colors into which light is resolved when passed through a prism; primary colors. See Primary colors, under Color. -- Prismatic compass (Surv.), a compass having a prism for vi…

The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zoöl.) See Kahau.

; official or general notice; publication. King Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted. 1 Kings xv. 22.

ct. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Gal. iii. 18.