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Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Same as Nostalgia.

e die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. Build him a pedestal, and say, "Stand there!" Cowper.

Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted. Hawthorne. Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.

Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

Peristaltic contraction or action.

ontraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. -- Per`i*stal"tic*al*ly, adv.

combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

The system of education introduced by Pestalozzi.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

See Pedestal. [Obs.]

Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities. Postal card, or Post card, a card sold by the government for transmission through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter. The message is written on one side of the card, and the direction on the other. -- Pos…

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

The process or recrystallizing.

To crystallize again. Henry.

To install again. Milton.

A renewed installment.

Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.