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Peasants, collectively; the body of rustics. "A bold peasantry." Goldsmith.

Any one of numerous species of large gallinaceous birds of the genus Phasianus, and many other genera of the family Phasianidæ, found chiefly in Asia.

A place for keeping and rearing pheasants. Gwilt.

Of the nature of a phrase; consisting of a phrase; as, a phrasal adverb. Earlc.

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. [Archaic] Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson.

Pleasing; grateful to the mind or to the senses; agreeable; as, a pleasant journey; pleasant weather. Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Ps. cxxxiii. 1.

Of pleasing speech.

In a pleasant manner.

The state or quality of being pleasant.

layfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage. The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit. Addison. The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world. Macaulay.

Same as Prenasal.

Situated in front of the nose, or in front of the nasal chambers.

a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged. Locke.

Sweeping; grazing; -- applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, in order that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them. H. L. Scott.

That may be released.

The pintail duck.

Near the base.

Situated under the nose; as, the subnasal point, or the middle point of the inferior border of the anterior nasal aperture.

To pour out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Holland.