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Webster Dictionary :: Peso

PE'SO, n. [supra.] A Spanish coin weighing an ounce; a piaster; a piece of eight.

Webster Dictionary :: Pessary

PES'SARY, n. [L. pessus.] A solid substance composed of wool, lint or linen, mix...

Webster Dictionary :: Pest

PEST, n. [L. pestis; Heb. to be fetid.] 1. Plague; pestilence; a fatal epidemic ...

Webster Dictionary :: Pester

PEST'ER, v.t. To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with little vexations....

Webster Dictionary :: Pestered

PEST'ERED, pp. Troubled; disturbed; annoyed.

Webster Dictionary :: Pestering

PEST'ERING, ppr. Troubling; disturbing.

Webster Dictionary :: Pesterous

PEST'EROUS, a. Encumbering; burdensome. [Little used.]

Webster Dictionary :: Pesthouse

PEST'HOUSE, n. A house or hospital for persons infected with any contagious and ...

Webster Dictionary :: Pestiferous

PESTIF'EROUS, a. [L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.] 1. Pestilential; nox...

Webster Dictionary :: Pestilent

PEST'ILENT, a. [L. pestilens, from pestis, plague.] 1. Producing the plague, or ...

Webster Dictionary :: Pestilential

PESTILEN'TIAL, a. Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious dise...

Webster Dictionary :: Pestilently

PEST'ILENTLY, adv. Mischievously; destructively.

Webster Dictionary :: Pestillation

PESTILLA'TION, n. [from L. pistillum; Eng. pestle.] The act of pounding and brui...

Webster Dictionary :: Pestle

PESTLE, n. pes'l. [L. pistillum, and probably pinso, for piso, to pound or beat....

Webster Dictionary :: Pet

PET, n. [This word may be contracted from petulant, or belong to the root of tha...

Webster Dictionary :: Petal

PE'TAL, n. [Gr. to expand; L. pateo.] In botany, a flower leaf. In flowers of on...

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