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The act of combing; the combing of the head.

A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

Comblike in form.

Combining forms from L. pes, pedis, foot, as pedipalp, pedireme, pedometer.

Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.

Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds.

A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.

Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon.

tters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4.

on; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. Newcomb.

Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

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 treason, formerly, i…

A combining form from Gr. rock, stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.

Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union. At present they formed a united phalanx. Macaulay. The sheep recumbent, and the sheep that grazed, All huddling into phalanx, stood and gazed. Cowper.

To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See Feaze, v.

any one of series of derivatives of phenol and carbinol which have the properties of both combined; thus, saligenin is a phenol alcohol. -- Phenol aldehyde (Chem.), any one of a series of compounds having both phenol and aldehyde properties. -- Phenol phthalein. See under Phthalein.

A combining form from Gr. fi`los loving, fond of, attached to; as, philosophy, philotechnic.

To combine phlogiston with; -- usually in the form and sense of the p. p. or the adj.; as, highly phlogisticated substances.