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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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PHLEGMATIC a. 4 definitions

Generating or causing phlegm. "Cold and phlegmatic habitations." Sir T. Browne.

A kind of lyre used by the Greeks. Mrs. Browning.

PHYCOPHAEINE n.

A brown coloring matter found in certain algæ.

PHYLLOMORPHOSIS n.

The succession and variation of leaves during different seasons. R. Brown.

he science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany. Sir T. Browne.

PIGEON n. 3 definitions

late-blue above, streaked with black on the back; beneath, whitish or buff, streaked with brown. The tail is banded. (b) The American sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter velox, or fuscus). -- Pigeon hole. (a) A hole for pigeons to enter a pigeon house. (b) See Pigeonhole. (c) pl. An old English game, in which balls were rol…

PIGEONWING n. 5 definitions

(Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

A marine fish (Scorpæna porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

PINE n. 9 definitions

ed gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. -- Pine marten. (Zoöl.) (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten. (b) The American sable. See Sable. -- Pine moth (Zoöl.), any one of several spe…

Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

PISTILLATION n.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Full of pith. [R.] W. Browne.

] (Med.), a parasitic disease of the skin, characterized by the development of reddish or brownish patches.

PLAGIARY a. 6 definitions

Kidnaping. [Obs.] E. Browne.

PLANETIC; PLANETICAL a.

Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.

PLATINICHLORIC a.

gnating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.

PLAUSIBILITY n. 3 definitions

Anything plausible or specious. R. Browning.

Playful; wanton; sportive. [R.] R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n. [R.]

A person devoted to worldly pleasure. [R.] Sir T. Browne.