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Pedagogue.

See Pedagogics.

Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue.

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

The system, occupation, character, or manner of pedagogues. Milton. Avocation of pedantry and pedagogism. De Foe.

To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.

Pedagogics; pedagogism. South.

le assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.

ng five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. Regular pentagon, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.

Pentagonal.

A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.

Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria." Sir W. Scott.

Of, relating to, or resembling phantasmagoria; phantasmagoric.

Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.

See Phantasmagoria.

A medicine supposed to expel phlegm.

Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.

Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.