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A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.

See Pedestal. [Obs.]

A man who makes or sells pies.

See Peen.

Full; having all the instruments.

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.

sonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.

Same as Wharfage. Smart.

To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument. "I pierce . . . her tender side." Dryden.

That may be pierced.

Penetrated; entered; perforated.

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically:

enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust. "Piercing eloquence." Shak. -- Pier"cing*ly, adv. -- Pier"cing*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.

Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

The Muses.

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.

The magpie. [Prov.Eng.] Jay piet (Zoöl.), the European jay. [Prov.Eng.] -- Sea piet (Zoöl.), the oyster catcher. [Prov.Eng.]