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A philosophaster; a philosopher. [R.] Carlyle.

See Piaster.

; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

o give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.

ame whole; like; -- sometimes followed by with. Dryden. -- Piece of eight, the Spanish piaster, formerly divided into eight reals. -- To give a piece of one's mind to, to speak plainly, bluntly, or severely to (another). Tackeray. -- Piece broker, one who buys shreds and remnants of cloth to sell again. -- Piece go…

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

dle line of the epigastric region of the abdomen at the lower end of the sternum; the infrasternal depression. -- Pit saw (Mech.), a saw worked by two men, one of whom stands on the log and the other beneath it. The place of the latter is often in a pit, whence the name. -- Pit viper (Zoöl.), any viperine snake havin…

Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

Fond of flogging; as, a plagose master. [R.]

See Plaster.

A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes translated as of oracular or supernatural import.

A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.

Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; - - used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.

used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco più allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow. Poco a poco Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Little by little; as, poco a poco crescendo, gradually increasing in loudness.

Low, wooded grounds or swamps in Eastern Maryland and Virginia. [Written also poquoson.] Washington.

The works of a poetaster. [R.]

A poetaster. Swinburne.

A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.

A master of polyphony; a contrapuntist.