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A roll of parchment; a parchment record. Clerk of the pells, formerly, an officer of the exchequer who entered accounts on certain parchment rolls, called pell rolls. [Eng.]

See Pall-mall.

A porpoise.

A customs duty on skins of leather.

An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

One who is afficted with pellagra. Chambers's Encyc.

Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.

A little ball; as, a pellet of wax .

Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] "This pelleted storm." Shak.

A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.

A thin skin or film.

Of or pertaining to a pellicle. Henslow.

The redshank; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.]

es of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.

In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell." Milton.

Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. "Pellucid crystal." Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams." Wordsworth.

The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.

In a pellucid manner.

ositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Having no carpels.