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PE'SO, n. [supra.] A Spanish coin weighing an ounce; a piaster; a piece of eight.
PES'SARY, n. [L. pessus.] A solid substance composed of wool, lint or linen, mix...
PEST, n. [L. pestis; Heb. to be fetid.] 1. Plague; pestilence; a fatal epidemic ...
PEST'ER, v.t. To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with little vexations....
PEST'ERED, pp. Troubled; disturbed; annoyed.
PEST'ERING, ppr. Troubling; disturbing.
PEST'EROUS, a. Encumbering; burdensome. [Little used.]
PEST'HOUSE, n. A house or hospital for persons infected with any contagious and ...
PESTIF'EROUS, a. [L. pestis, plague, and fero, to produce.] 1. Pestilential; nox...
PEST'ILENT, a. [L. pestilens, from pestis, plague.] 1. Producing the plague, or ...
PESTILEN'TIAL, a. Partaking of the nature of the plague or other infectious dise...
PEST'ILENTLY, adv. Mischievously; destructively.
PESTILLA'TION, n. [from L. pistillum; Eng. pestle.] The act of pounding and brui...
PESTLE, n. pes'l. [L. pistillum, and probably pinso, for piso, to pound or beat....
PET, n. [This word may be contracted from petulant, or belong to the root of tha...
PE'TAL, n. [Gr. to expand; L. pateo.] In botany, a flower leaf. In flowers of on...