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The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.

A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.

See Pusane.

Made heavy or dull; debased. [Obs.] "Pesanted to each lewd thought's control." Marston.

See Peshito.

A pea. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.

ated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.] Judd.

A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.

An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to Ant: optimism.

One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist.

Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.

Pessimistic.

To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.

A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

ch combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.