Name Report For First Name PYT:
PYT
First name PYT's origin is English. PYT means "from the pit". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PYT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of pyt.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with PYT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with PYT - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming PYT
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PYT AS A WHOLE:
pythiaNAMES RHYMING WITH PYT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (yt) - Names That Ends with yt:
edyt taytNAMES RHYMING WITH PYT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (py) - Names That Begins with py:
pygmalion pylades pyn pyramus pyrena pyrene pyrenie pyrrha pyrrhusNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PYT:
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':
padgett paget pant parfait pat payat payatt pazit pert phelot pierpont pierrepont pit plat platt preost preostcot preruet prescot prescott prewitt priest pruet pruittEnglish Words Rhyming PYT
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PYT AS A WHOLE:
pythagorean | noun (n.) A follower of Pythagoras; one of the school of philosophers founded by Pythagoras. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. |
pythagoreanism | noun (n.) The doctrines of Pythagoras or the Pythagoreans. |
pythagoric | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pythagorical |
pythagorical | adjective (a.) See Pythagorean, a. |
pythagorism | noun (n.) The doctrines taught by Pythagoras. |
pythagorizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pythagorize |
pythiad | noun (n.) The period intervening between one celebration of the Pythian games and the next. |
pythian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Delphi, to the temple of Apollo, or to the priestess of Apollo, who delivered oracles at Delphi. |
pythocenic | adjective (a.) Producing decomposition, as diseases which are supposed to be accompanied or caused by decomposition. |
python | noun (n.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake. |
noun (n.) A diviner by spirits. |
pythoness | noun (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece. |
noun (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch. |
pythonic | adjective (a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events. |
pythonism | noun (n.) The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying. |
pythonist | noun (n.) A conjurer; a diviner. |
pythonomorpha | noun (n. pl.) Same as Mosasauria. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PYT (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (yt) - English Words That Ends with yt:
pleyt | noun (n.) An old term for a river boat. |
treckschuyt | noun (n.) A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PYT (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (py) - Words That Begins with py:
pyaemia | noun (n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion. |
noun (n.) Alt. of Pyemia |
pyaemic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pyaemia; of the nature of pyaemia. |
pycnaspidean | adjective (a.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds. |
pycnidium | noun (n.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced. |
pycnite | noun (n.) A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz. |
pycnodont | noun (n.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing. |
pycnodontini | noun (n. pl.) An extinct order of ganoid fishes. They had a compressed body, covered with dermal ribs (pleurolepida) and with enameled rhomboidal scales. |
pycnogonid | noun (n.) One of the Pycnogonida. |
pycnogonida | noun (n. pl.) A class of marine arthropods in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda. |
pycnometer | noun (n.) A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids. |
pycnostyle | noun (n.) A pycnostyle colonnade. |
adjective (a.) See under Intercolumniation. |
pye | noun (n.) See 2d Pie (b). |
pyebald | adjective (a.) See Piebald. |
pyelitis | noun (n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney. |
pyemia | noun (n.) See PyAemia. |
noun (n.) A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption of pyogenic microorganisms into the blood, usually from a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion. |
pyet | noun (n.) A magpie; a piet. |
pygal | adjective (a.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians. |
pygidium | noun (n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite. |
pygmy | noun (n.) One of a fabulous race of dwarfs who waged war with the cranes, and were destroyed. |
noun (n.) Hence, a short, insignificant person; a dwarf. | |
noun (n.) One of a race of Central African Negritos found chiefly in the great forests of the equatorial belt. THey are the shortest of known races, the adults ranging from less than four to about five feet in stature. They are timid and shy, dwelling in the recesses of the forests, though often on good terms with neighboring Negroes. | |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Pygmean |
pygmean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pygmy; resembling a pygmy or dwarf; dwarfish; very small. |
pygobranchia | noun (n. pl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris. |
pygopod | noun (n.) One of the Pygopodes. |
noun (n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs. |
pygropodes | noun (n. pl.) A division of swimming birds which includes the grebes, divers, auks, etc., in which the legs are placed far back. |
pygopodous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pygopodes. |
pygostyle | noun (n.) The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebrae, and supports the uropigium. |
pyin | noun (n.) An albuminoid constituent of pus, related to mucin, possibly a mixture of substances rather than a single body. |
pyjama | noun (n.) In India and Persia, thin loose trowsers or drawers; in Europe and America, drawers worn at night, or a kind of nightdress with legs. |
pykar | noun (n.) An ancient English fishing boat. |
pyla | noun (n.) The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. |
pylagore | noun (n.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council. |
pylangium | noun (n.) The first and undivided part of the aortic trunk in the amphibian heart. |
pylon | noun (n.) A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. |
noun (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers). | |
noun (n.) A tower, commonly of steelwork, for supporting either end of a wire, as for a telegraph line, over a long span. | |
noun (n.) Formerly, a starting derrick (the use of which is now abandoned) for an aeroplane. | |
noun (n.) A post, tower, or the like, as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight. |
pyloric | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pylorus; as, the pyloric end of the stomach. |
pylorus | noun (n.) The opening from the stomach into the intestine. |
noun (n.) A posterior division of the stomach in some invertebrates. |
pyne | noun (n. & v.) See Pine. |
pynoun | noun (n.) A pennant. |
pyocyanin | noun (n.) A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus). |
pyogenic | adjective (a.) Producing or generating pus. |
pyoid | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pus; of the nature of, or like, pus. |
pyopneumothorax | noun (n.) Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity. |
pyot | noun (n.) The magpie. See Piet. |
pyoxanthose | noun (n.) A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found with pyocyanin in pus. |
pyracanth | noun (n.) The evergreen thorn (Crataegus Pyracantha), a shrub native of Europe. |
pyral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pyre. |
pyralid | noun (n.) Any moth of the family Pyralidae. The species are numerous and mostly small, but some of them are very injurious, as the bee moth, meal moth, hop moth, and clover moth. |
pyramid | noun (n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape. |
noun (n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base. | |
noun (n.) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot. | |
noun (n.) The series of operations involved in pyramiding. See Pyramid, v. i. | |
verb (v. i.) To enlarge one's holding or interest in a series of operations on a continued rise or decline by using the profits to buy or sell additional amounts on a margin, as where one buys on a 10% margin 100 shares of stock quoted at 100, holds it till it rises to 105, and then uses the paper profit to buy 50 shares more, etc. The series of operations constitutes a pyramid. | |
verb (v. t.) To use, or to deal in, in a pyramiding transaction. See Pyramid, v. i. |
pyramidal | noun (n.) One of the carpal bones. See Cuneiform, n., 2 (b). |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pyramid; in the form of a a pyramid; pyramidical; as, pyramidal cleavage. | |
adjective (a.) Same as Tetragonal. |
pyramidic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pyramidical |
pyramidical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal. |
pyramidion | noun (n.) The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PYT:
English Words which starts with 'p' and ends with 't':
packet | noun (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. |
noun (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. | |
verb (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle. | |
verb (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. | |
verb (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. |
pageant | noun (n.) A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. |
noun (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. | |
adjective (a.) Of the nature of a pageant; spectacular. | |
verb (v. t.) To exhibit in show; to represent; to mimic. |
paint | noun (n.) A pigment or coloring substance. |
noun (n.) The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface. | |
noun (n.) A cosmetic; rouge. | |
verb (v. t.) To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors. | |
verb (v. t.) To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape. | |
verb (v. t.) Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict. | |
verb (v. t.) To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well. | |
verb (v. t.) To color one's face by way of beautifying it. |
pairment | noun (n.) Impairment. |
palaetiologist | noun (n.) One versed in palaetiology. |
paleobotanist | noun (n.) One versed in paleobotany. |
paleographist | noun (n.) One versed in paleography; a paleographer. |
paleologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity. |
paleontologist | noun (n.) One versed in paleontology. |
paleophytologist | noun (n.) A paleobotanist. |
palet | noun (n.) Same as Palea. |
noun (n.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale. |
paletot | noun (n.) An overcoat. |
noun (n.) A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion. |
palimpsest | noun (n.) A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. |
palindromist | noun (n.) A writer of palindromes. |
pallet | noun (n.) A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. |
noun (n.) Same as Palette. | |
noun (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms. | |
noun (n.) A potter's wheel. | |
noun (n.) An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it. | |
noun (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands. | |
noun (n.) A board on which a newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack. | |
noun (n.) A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel. | |
noun (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump. | |
noun (n.) One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. | |
noun (n.) In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes. | |
noun (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo. | |
noun (n.) A cup containing three ounces, -- /ormerly used by surgeons. |
palliament | noun (n.) A dress; a robe. |
palmatisect | adjective (a.) Alt. of Palmatisected |
palmcrist | noun (n.) The palma Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.) |
palpitant | adjective (a.) Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. |
palsywort | noun (n.) The cowslip (Primula veris); -- so called from its supposed remedial powers. |
paludament | noun (n.) See Paludamentum. |
pament | noun (n.) A pavement. |
pamphlet | noun (n.) A writing; a book. |
noun (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest. | |
verb (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. |
pancratiast | noun (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium. |
pancratist | noun (n.) An athlete; a gymnast. |
pandect | noun (n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. |
noun (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. |
pandit | noun (n.) See Pundit. |
panegyrist | noun (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. |
panhellenist | noun (n.) An advocate of Panhellenism. |
panslavist | noun (n.) One who favors Panslavism. |
panspermatist | noun (n.) Alt. of Panspermist |
panspermist | noun (n.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist. |
pant | noun (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp. |
noun (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart. | |
verb (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. | |
verb (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | |
verb (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart. | |
verb (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish. | |
verb (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. | |
verb (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after. |
pantalet | noun (n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural. |
pantheist | noun (n.) One who holds to pantheism. |
pantheologist | noun (n.) One versed in pantheology. |
pantisocrat | noun (n.) A pantisocratist. |
pantisocratist | noun (n.) One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy. |
pantologist | noun (n.) One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology. |
pantomimist | noun (n.) An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes. |
pantophagist | noun (n.) A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food. |
papalist | noun (n.) A papist. |
papboat | noun (n.) A kind of sauce boat or dish. |
noun (n.) A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing. |
paperweight | noun (n.) See under Paper, n. |
papescent | adjective (a.) Containing or producing pap; like pap. |
papist | noun (n.) A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents. |
parablast | noun (n.) A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. |
parabolist | noun (n.) A narrator of parables. |
paracelsist | noun (n.) A Paracelsian. |
paradoxist | noun (n.) One who proposes a paradox. |
paragrammatist | noun (n.) A punster. |
paragraphist | noun (n.) A paragrapher. |
parakeet | noun (n.) Same as Parrakeet. |
noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet. |
parament | noun (n.) Ornamental hangings, furniture, etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. |
paramount | noun (n.) The highest or chief. |
adjective (a.) Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preeminent; as, a paramount duty. |
parapet | noun (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like. |
noun (n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate. |
paraphrast | noun (n.) A paraphraser. |
paraquet | noun (n.) Alt. of Paraquito |
parchment | noun (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. |
noun (n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp. |
parement | noun (n.) See Parament. |
parent | noun (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. |
noun (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice. |
parfit | adjective (a.) Perfect. |
parget | noun (n.) Gypsum or plaster stone. |
noun (n.) Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork. | |
noun (n.) Paint, especially for the face. | |
verb (v. t.) To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses. | |
verb (v. t.) To paint; to cover over. | |
verb (v. i.) To lay on plaster. | |
verb (v. i.) To paint, as the face. |
parliament | noun (n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference. |
noun (n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws. | |
noun (n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws. | |
noun (n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts. |
parodist | noun (n.) One who writes a parody; one who parodies. |
paroket | noun (n.) See Paroquet. |
paroquet | noun (n.) Same as Parrakeet. |
parquet | noun (n.) A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle; the pit. |
noun (n.) Same as Parquetry. | |
noun (n.) In various European public bourses, the railed-in space within which the "agents de change," or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them; -- distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market. | |
noun (n.) In most European countries, the branch of the administrative government which is charged with the prevention, investigation, and punishment of crime, representing the public and not the individual injured. |
parrakeet | noun (n.) Alt. of Parakeet |
parrot | noun (n.) In a general sense, any bird of the order Psittaci. |
noun (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. | |
verb (v. t.) To repeat by rote, as a parrot. | |
verb (v. i.) To chatter like a parrot. |
part | noun (n.) One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. |
noun (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient. | |
noun (n.) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual whole; a member; an organ; an essential element. | |
noun (n.) A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a collective sense. | |
noun (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural. | |
noun (n.) Such portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of a geometrical figure. | |
noun (n.) That which belongs to one, or which is assumed by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment; share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office. | |
noun (n.) One of the opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a faction. | |
noun (n.) A particular character in a drama or a play; an assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively, in real life. See To act a part, under Act. | |
noun (n.) One of the different melodies of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as, the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin part, etc. | |
noun (n.) To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. | |
noun (n.) To divide into shares; to divide and distribute; to allot; to apportion; to share. | |
noun (n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder. | |
noun (n.) Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to intervene betwixt, as combatants. | |
noun (n.) To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from silver. | |
noun (n.) To leave; to quit. | |
verb (v. i.) To be broken or divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts in the middle. | |
verb (v. i.) To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from. | |
verb (v. i.) To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a connection of any kind; -- followed by with or from. | |
verb (v. i.) To have a part or share; to partake. | |
adverb (adv.) Partly; in a measure. |
partialist | noun (n.) One who is partial. |
noun (n.) One who holds that the atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the elect. |
participant | noun (n.) A participator; a partaker. |
adjective (a.) Sharing; participating; having a share of part. |
particularist | noun (n.) One who holds to particularism. |
particularment | noun (n.) A particular; a detail. |
partitionment | noun (n.) The act of partitioning. |
partlet | noun (n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. |
noun (n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. |
parturient | adjective (a.) Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. |
parturifacient | noun (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. |
pasquilant | noun (n.) A lampooner; a pasquiler. |
passement | noun (n.) Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. |
passe partout | noun (n.) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. |
noun (n.) A master key; a latchkey. | |
noun (n.) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures. |
passionist | noun (n.) A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross. |
passport | noun (n.) Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. |
noun (n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter. | |
noun (n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. | |
noun (n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. |
past | noun (n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by. |
verb (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. | |
adverb (adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past. | |
prep (prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. | |
prep (prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. | |
prep (prep.) Above; exceeding; more than. |
pat | noun (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap. |
noun (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. | |
adjective (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. | |
verb (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. | |
adverb (adv.) In a pat manner. |
patent | adjective (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. |
adjective (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. | |
adjective (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. | |
adjective (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. | |
adjective (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. | |
adjective (a.) A writing securing to an invention. | |
adjective (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. | |
adjective (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. | |
verb (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands. |
pathologist | noun (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases. |
patient | noun (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient. |
noun (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse. | |
adjective (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear. | |
adjective (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering. | |
adjective (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor. | |
adjective (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed. | |
adjective (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering. | |
verb (v. t.) To compose, to calm. |
patriot | noun (n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. |
adjective (a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic. |
patrist | noun (n.) One versed in patristics. |
pauciloquent | adjective (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech. |
paulianist | noun (n.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ. |
paulist | noun (n.) A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants. |
pavement | noun (n.) That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with a pavement; to pave. |
payment | noun (n.) The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. |
noun (n.) That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. | |
noun (n.) Punishment; chastisement. |
peagrit | noun (n.) A coarse pisolitic limestone. See Pisolite. |
peanut | noun (n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. |
pearlwort | noun (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family. |
peart | adjective (a.) Active; lively; brisk; smart; -- often applied to convalescents; as, she is quite peart to-day. |