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PLATEAU n. 2 definitions

An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

PLATINOCHLORIDE n.

A double chloride of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinochloric acid.

PLATINOCYANIDE n.

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

PLUMBAGO n. 2 definitions

A genus of herbaceous plants with pretty salver-shaped corollas, usually blue or violet; leadwort.

POACH v. 8 definitions

to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

POINT n. 39 definitions

That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. Chaucer. In point of religion and in point…

native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc.

A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases. [Obs.] Polychrest salt (Old Med. Chem.), potassium sulphate, specifically obtained by fusing niter with sulphur.

POLYCHROMATE n. 2 definitions

A salt of a polychromic acid.

POLYCHROMIC a. 2 definitions

Pertaining to, or designating, any one of several acids (known only in their salts) which contain more than one atom of chromium.

POLYTUNGSTATE n.

A salt of polytungstic acid.

A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

Public or open sale; auction. [Obs.] Holland.

POUND v. 10 definitions

break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

POWDER v. 7 definitions

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]

POWDERED a. 3 definitions

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.] Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.

a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. (a) A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] Shak.

PRASEODYMIUM n.

substance, one of the constituents of didymium; - - so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.

An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.