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One who protests a bill of exchange, or note.

Of or pertaining to psychology. See Note under Psychic. -- Psy`cho*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

nts, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; affecting the lungs; pulmonic. Pulmonary artery. See the Note under Artery.

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris. Pin-hole pupil (Med.), the pupil of the eye when so contracted (as it sometimes is in typhus, or opium poisoning) as to resemble a pin hole. Dunglison.

get rid of; to dispose of; especially, to pass fraudulently; as, to put off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (somethi…

poppy or blood-red color, frequently with a tinge of orange. It is used as a gem. See the Note under Garnet.

which they are distant from each other 90º, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

urth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

nson. -- Quarter nettings (Naut.), hammock nettings along the quarter rails. -- Quarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter poin…

An eighth note. See Eighth.

by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

(Mus.) A group of five connected notes; a turn of five notes.

See the Note under Quit, a.

A note upon an author. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

Company; herd; breed. For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds. Shak .

ployed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. -- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increase fraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, or printing in which the sum payable is specified. -- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place by besieg…

e crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven (Zoöl.), the cormorant.