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The baptism of infants or of small children. [Written also pædobaptism.]

One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]

An instrument carried by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey.

Pediatrics.

Divination by examining the soles of the feet.

An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step.

Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer.

Moved or worked by the action of the foot or feet on a pedal or treadle.

The art of nourishing children properly.

permits the feet to accomodate themselves to obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng.

A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

The five of trumps in certain varieties of auction pitch.

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.

A group of acalephs, including most of the larger jellyfishes; the Discophora.

Wing-footed, as the bat. -- n.

One of a group of perching birds, having the middle toe more or less united to the outer and inner ones.