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skillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface. [Cant]

nd with. When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it can not be too much cherished. Addison.

The Iranian dialect of much of the religious literature of the Parsees.

colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated woo…

A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod.

A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather.

tentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

h melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.

A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. "[A bridge] with . . . pendants graven fair." Spenser.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn.

An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.

te; perspicuous, evident throughout or very evident; perplex, literally, to entangle very much.

By the day; substantively (chiefly U. S.), an allowance or amount of so much by the day.

A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.

A pie made of truffles, much esteemed by epicures.

Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three- petaled, etc.

of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc. Petroleum spirit, a volatile liquid obtained in the distillation of crude petrole…

Reasoning; argumentation. Of good and evil much they argued then, . . . Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. Milton.

a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.