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Same as Peepul tree.

The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds. Tennyson.

Same as Peepul tree.

The Canada lynx. [Written also peeshoo.]

e; the vital or essential part; concentrated force; vigor; strength; importance; as, the speech lacked pith. Enterprises of great pith and moment. Shak. Pith paper. Same as Rice paper, under Rice.

Having nervous energy; forceful; cogent. This pithy speech prevailed, and all agreed. Dryden. In all these Goodman Fact was very short, but pithy. Addison. Pithy gall (Zoöl.), a large, rough, furrowed, oblong gall, formed on blackberry canes by a small gallfly (Diastrophus nebulosus).

compass of an octave. (b) A simple melody. -- Plain speaking, plainness or bluntness of speech.

r shallow dish on which meat or other food is brought to the table. The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott.

Of pleasing speech.

xxxv. 6. A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. J. Edwards.

s in sailing. Let patient Octavia plow thy visage up With her prepared nails. Shak. With speed we plow the watery way. Pope.

To strip of feathers; to pluck; to strip; to pillage; also, to peel. [Obs.] Bacon. Dryden.

ted out. Pope. He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. Dickens.

sons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession. Pope. To . . . calm the peers and please the populace. Daniel. They . . . call us Britain's barbarous populaces. Tennyson.

Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. [Obs.] "In post he came." Shak.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

To drug. [Obs.] Speed.

Most ancient; -- said of the peer bearing the oldest title of his degree.

d States. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. -- Primrose peerless, the two-flowered Narcissus (N. biflorus). [Obs.]