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. They forget that they are in the statutes: . . . there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees. B. Jonson.

Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.

The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.

point, as in the carrot and milkweed. It is simple or compound; in the latter case, each peduncle bears another little umbel, called umbellet, or umbellule.

One who, or that which, undersets or supports; a prop; a support; a pedestal.

Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal. Sir H. Wotton.

Bearing one flower only; as, a uniflorous peduncle.

Not distinguished by a pedigree. [R.] Pollok.

A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn. A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, found an urn, or earthen…

A little sheath, as that about the base of the pedicel of most mosses.

king the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.

One who walks; a pedestrian.

carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.

An instrument for measuring the distance which one has traveled on the road; an odometer, pedometer, or perambulator. The waywiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles, and showing them by an index. Evelyn.

grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum capillare) with minute spikelets on long, slender pedicels forming a light, open panicle. -- Witch meal (Bot.), vegetable sulphur. See under Vegetable.

found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.