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A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles, Peter boat, a fishing boat, sharp at both ends, originally of the Baltic Sea, but now common in certain English rivers. -- Peter Funk, the auctioneer in a mock auction. [Cant, U.S.] -- Peter pence, or Peter's pence. (a) An annual tax or tribute, forme…

See Petrel.

See Pederero.

A fisherman; -- so called after the apostle Peter. [An obs. local term in Eng.] Chapman.

A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

See Saint Peter's-wort, under Saint.

An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator. [R.]

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.

tic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white crystalline substance, NaNO3, having a cooling, saline, slightly bitter taste. It is obtained by leaching the soil of the rainless dis…

One who proclaims, publishes, or denounces. These men are good trumpeters. Bacon.

ans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

Saltpeter. Coxe. Johnson.

ese are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

ome; -- so called because, in the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only apostle who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of ministerial authority by a succession of bishops from th…

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

th, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

oof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit." U. S. Const. Peters. Wharton. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, desiring him to give credit to the bearer for goods or money. -- Bill of divorce, in the Jewish law, a writing given by the hu…

To confound by a loud blast or din. Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.

er and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.