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skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped.

Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- Pel"tate*ly, adv.

One who pelts.

The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.

A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.

Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate. Henslow.

Mean; paltry. [Obs.] Shak.

A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.

Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

Peltry. [Obs.]

To pelt roundly.

Having a shell or covering like a double shield.

Of or pertaining to a catapult.

A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

nt of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]