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Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. "A pettish kind of humor." Sterne. -- Pet"tish*ly, adv. -- Pet"tish*ness, n.

The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet. Shak.

he quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor. "The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy. Jer. Taylor.

ture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent] M. Arnold.

A lover or friend of women; one who esteems woman as the higher type of humanity; -- opposed to Ant: misogynist.

, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science.

One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. Arbuthnot.

Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution. Harvey.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

ially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.

A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.

The philosophy of human life, or the doctrine of the constitution and diseases of man, and their remedies.

herbs." Sir T. North. Is Brutus sick and is it physical To walk unbraced, and suck up the humors Of the dank morning Shak. Physical astronomy, that part of astronomy which treats of the causes of the celestial motions; specifically, that which treats of the motions resulting from universal gravitation. -- Physical edu…

ers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

ng journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life. Shak. The days of the years of my pilgrimage. Gen. xlvii. 9.

Mood; humor. [Obs.] "In merry pin." Cowper.

ak; a pointed summit. Three silent pinnacles of aged snow. Tennyson. The slippery tops of human state, The gilded pinnacles of fate. Cowley.