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In a petulant manner.

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

Wanton; frisky; lustful. [Obs.] J. V. Cane.

To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavor or aroma.

s herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.

veloping from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

Having unequal petals.

Standing before a petal, as a stamen.

Having no petals, or flower leaves. [See Illust. under Anther].

The state of being apetalous.

To seek for; to desire. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency.

Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite. They had a strong appetency for reading. Merivale.

Desiring; eagerly desirous. [R.] Appetent after glory and renown. Sir G. Buck.

The quality of being desirable. Bramhall.

Desirable; capable or worthy of being the object of desire. Bramhall.