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eous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

To petrify. [Obs.] Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall (1646).

Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.

Wantonness; friskiness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

articular phenomena are explained. [Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie. Chaucer. We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school. Locke.

A luminous image or appearance of a hallucinatory character.

See Camp, n., 5. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Pie crust, the paste of a pie.

igeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rolled through little arches. Halliwell. -- Pigeon house, a dovecote. -- Pigeon pea (Bot.), the seed of Cajanus Indicus; a kind of pulse used for food in the East and West Indies; also, the plant itself. -- Pigeon plum (Bot.), the edible drupes of two West…

A large haycock. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An accumulation; a heap. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ed him to death. Piers Plowman. One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack. Bp. Hall.

Practicing plagiarism. Bp. Hall.

lso plebiscit.] Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. Fitzed. Hall.

Fullness; full persuasion. "A plerophory of assurance." Bp. Hall.

unge the boy in pleasing sleep." Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunged into perpetual errors. I. Watts.

Full of pocks; affected with smallpox or other eruptive disease. Bp. Hall.

Porridge. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

Plunder, or extortion. [Obs.] E. Hall.

A blow or thump. Halliwell. -- a.