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ools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century. Addis & Arnold.

the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]

or the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] "Take down my buckler . . . and grind the pick on 't." Beau. & Fl.

One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl.

The center of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns. From pillar to post, hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. [Colloq.] -- Pillar saint. See Stylite. -- Pillars of the fauces. See Fauces, 1.

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, and so called from its bearing a figure of a pine tree. -- Pine weevil (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of weevils whose larvæ bore in the wood of pine trees. Several species are known in both Europe and America, bel…

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

nthropoids, and the calvaria of the skull, indicating a brain capacity of about 900 cubic centimeters, and resembling in form that of the Neanderthal man. Also [pl. -thropi],

A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America. Squier.

ivot bridge, a form of drawbridge in which one span, called the pivot span, turns about a central vertical axis. -- Pivot gun, a gun mounted on a pivot or revolving carriage, so as to turn in any direction. -- Pivot tooth (Dentistry), an artificial crown attached to the root of a natural tooth by a pin or peg.…

A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.

A small copper coin formerly current in Scotland, worth less than a cent. With not a plack in the pocket of the poet. Prof. Wilson.