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One who pardons. Shak.

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Furnished with a parson.

A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.

A peacock. [Obs.] Spenser.

A famous throne formerly of the kings of Delhi, India, but since 1739, when it was carried off by Nadir Shah, held by the shahs of Persia (later Iran); -- so called from its bearing a fully expanded peacock's tail done in gems.

A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic.

Pisolite.

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

Same as Valylene.

tions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.

Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

The smooth serous membrane which lines the cavity of the abdomen, or the whole body cavity when there is no diaphragm, and, turning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac. [Written also peritonæum.]

Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula.

See Perpender.

See Perpender.

Personality. [R.] Coleridge.