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ng the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.

owder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags. Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios. Addison.

One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females.

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.

An instrument for measuring the size of the pupil of the pupil of the eye.

The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness. The badge of pusillanimity and cowardice. Shak. It is obvious to distinguished between an act of . . . pusillanimity and an act of great modesty or humility. South.

mind; of weak spirit; mean-spirited; spiritless; cowardly; -- said of persons, as, a pussillanimous prince.

With pusillanimity.

The appropriate music for a quadrille.

n ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Same as Quarterfoil.

A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

ng the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill. Sir H. Wotton.

The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.

An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, or Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills. "A sharp- quilled porcupine." Shak. Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.…

Subtilty; nicety; quibble. "Nice, sharp quillets of the law." Shak.

en, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.

ted bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.