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To peer; to look inquisitively. Dickens.

A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton.

A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness. "In a pet she started up." Tennyson.

Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

The pewee. [Written also peevit, peewit, pewet.]

ially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

n a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. [Written also fillipeen and phillippine.]

s by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

rument for the mechanical registration and reproduction of audible sounds, as articulate speech, etc. It consists of a rotating cylinder or disk covered with some material easily indented, as tinfoil, wax, paraffin, etc., above which is a thin plate carrying a stylus. As the plate vibrates under the influence of a soun…

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

thy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depres…

Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The Pictish peer." Byron.

See Peen.

The peel or skin. [Obs.] "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Holland.

rvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.

To peen.

To cry or chirp, as a chicken; to peep. To hear the chick pip and cry in the egg. Boyle.