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An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Same as Pedicel.

A pedicel.

A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written also Phryganides.]

The act or practice of contending for victory, amusement, or a prize, as at dice, cards, or billiards; gaming; as, to lose a fortune in play.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. Granville.

Prejudice; prepossession. [Obs.] Sir. H. Blount.

Influenced by prejudice; biased. [R.] " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.

Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.

With prejudice.

Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] Holyday.

To prepossess; to prejudice. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To prepossess; to engage, occupy, or engross the attention of, beforehand; hence, to prejudice. I Think it more respectful to the reader to leave something to reflections than to preoccupy his judgment. Arbuthnot.

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

o preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset. It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general. Evelyn.

but not always, used in a favorable sense; as, the prepossessions of childhood. "The prejudices and prepossessions of the country." Sir W. Scott.

Prejudice; prepossession. [A Gallicism] Dryden.