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here it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. -- Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat.

Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.

Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of. Gov. Winthrop.

To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." Robynson (More's Utopia). Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish. Milton.…

More than once; again and again; indefinitely.

One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:

the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times i…

.] (Law) The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

n history which was accredited in the fifth century. Sir G. C. Lewis. He accredited and repeated stories of apparitions and witchcraft. Southey.

Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell.

cling a column, etc., used by itself, or with other moldings. It is used, several times repeated, under the Doric capital.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

An ave Maria. He repeated Aves and Credos. Macaulay.