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PEST'ILENTLY, adv. Mischievously; destructively.
PESTILEN'TIAL, a. Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious dise...
PEST'ILENT, a. [L. pestilens, from pestis, plague.] 1. Producing the plague, or ...
PESTIF'EROUS, a. [L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.] 1. Pestilential; nox...
PEST'HOUSE, n. A house or hospital for persons infected with any contagious and ...
PEST'EROUS, a. Encumbering; burdensome. [Little used.]
PEST'ERING, ppr. Troubling; disturbing.
PEST'ERED, pp. Troubled; disturbed; annoyed.
PEST'ER, v.t. To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with little vexations....
PEST, n. [L. pestis; Heb. to be fetid.] 1. Plague; pestilence; a fatal epidemic ...
PES'SARY, n. [L. pessus.] A solid substance composed of wool, lint or linen, mix...
PE'SO, n. [supra.] A Spanish coin weighing an ounce; a piaster; a piece of eight.
PESA'DE, n. The motion of a horse when he raises his fore quarters, keeping his ...
PER'VIOUSNESS, n. The quality of admitting passage or of being penetrated; as th...
PER'VIOUS, a. [L. pervius; per and via, way, or from the root of that word.] 1. ...
PERVICA'CIOUSNESS PERVICAC'ITY, n. Stubbornness; willful obstinacy. [Little used.]