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he hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc. Took a long reed for a pipestem. Longfellow.

A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite.

One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. Brande & C.

Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North.

A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases. [Obs.] Polychrest salt (Old Med. Chem.), potassium sulphate, specifically obtained by fusing niter with sulphur.

A chief ruler; a potentate. [Obs.] Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.

Authoritative. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

See Purpresture.

Same as Preoral, Prepubis, Prescapula, etc.

Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. Waterland.

The system or doctrine of the predestinarians.

Predestinarian. [Obs.] Heylin.

Predestinated; foreordained; fated. "A predestinate scratched face." Shak.

The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.

Determining beforehand; predestinating. [R.] Coleridge.

One who predestinates, or foreordains.

To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.

Predestination. [Obs.]

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.