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erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. Cowper. Sherburne.

Enabled to maintain pleas in court. Cowell.

least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

pertinent. "A very pert manner." Addison. The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. Cowper.

sease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

ome, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

e sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.

Same as Philomela, the nightingale. [Poetic] Milton. Cowper.

The face or visage. [Colloq.] Cowper.

hak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper.

le. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.

The cowcatcher of a locomotive. [U.S.] Pilot balloon, a small balloon sent up in advance of a large one, to show the direction and force of the wind. -- Pilot bird. (Zoöl.) (a) A bird found near the Caribbee Islands; - - so called because its presence indicates to mariners their approach to these islands. Crabb. (b) T…

Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. "A pimple that portends a future sprout." Cowper.

Mood; humor. [Obs.] "In merry pin." Cowper.

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

rms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak. Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper.

s of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.

, to drink the health of; to toast. Pledge me, my friend, and drink till thou be'st wise. Cowley.

See under Mackerel. -- Plow alms, a penny formerly paid by every plowland to the church. Cowell. -- Plow beam, that part of the frame of a plow to which the draught is applied. See Beam, n., 9. -- Plow Monday, the Monday after Twelth Day, or the end of Christmas holidays. -- Plow staff. (a) A kind of long-handled s…