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ennial herbs with rather large purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter, whence the common name. Called also campana.

To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] "This passes, Master Ford." Shak.

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

A master key; a latchkey.

e by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton. Past master. See under Master.

A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.

The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

here 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.

A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed. Shpiley.

es the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

ards the person; individually; particularly. She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king. Bacon.

ny. The distinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit…

s white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.