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A basket; a hammer; a pannier. [Obs.] Halliwell.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

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.

One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

Pedagogics; pedagogism. South.

rally or figuratively; specifically (Zoöl.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.

Relating to the foot, or to a metrical foot; pedal. [R.] Maunder.

The act of measuring by paces. [R.] Ash.

Going on foot; pedestrian. [R.]

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Obs.] Dryden. A pedant that keeps a school i'th' church. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Shak.

In a pedantic manner.

Pedantically. [R.]

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [Obs.]

To play the pedant; to use pedantic expressions. [R.]

The sway of pedants. [R.] J. S. Mill.