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hile each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat. Milton. My fate is Juno's most peculiar care. Dryden.

Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The care of the feet and nails.

ble to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. Pope.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly. Boyle.

one merely to get rid of a duty; performed mechanically and as a thing of rote; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference; as, perfunctory admonitions. Macaulay.

Excessive care or diligence. [Obs.]

A careless or inaccurate delineation of anything. Etym: [R.]

To weight carefully in the mind. [R.] "Perpend my words." Shak.

Careful consideration; pondering. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler.

To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. Milton.

Careful watching. [Obs.]

f 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, Giant petrel. See Fulm…

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

A small calcareous concretion formed in a vein; a vein stone.

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

Nice; careful. [Obs.] was too warm on picking work to dwell. Dryden. Picking peg. (Weaving) See Picker, n., 3.

Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. He . . . did not care a pin for her. Spectator.