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Webster Dictionary :: Petitioning
PETI'TIONING, ppr. Asking as a favor, grant, right or mercy; supplicating. PETI'...
Webster Dictionary :: Petitioner
PETI'TIONER, n. One that presents a petition, either verbal or written.
Webster Dictionary :: Petitionary
PETI'TIONARY, a. Supplicatory; coming with a petition. Pardon thy petitionary co...
Webster Dictionary :: Petitionarily
PETI'TIONARILY, adv. by way of begging the question.
Webster Dictionary :: Petition
PETI'TION, n. [L. petitio, from peto, to ask, properly to urge or press.] 1. In ...
Webster Dictionary :: Petit-maitre
PETIT-MAITRE, n. pet'ty-maitre. A spruce fellow that dangles about females; a fo...
Webster Dictionary :: Petit
PETIT, a. pet'ty. Small; little; mean. This word petit is now generally written ...
Webster Dictionary :: Petioled
PET'IOLED, a. Growing on a petiole; as a petiolate leaf.
Webster Dictionary :: Petiolate
PET'IOLATE PET'IOLE, n. [L. petiolus, probably a diminutive from pes, pedis.] In...
Webster Dictionary :: Petiolar
PET'IOLAR PET'IOLARY, a. Pertaining to a petiole, or proceeding from it; as a pe...
Webster Dictionary :: Peterwort
PE'TERWORT, n. A plant.
Webster Dictionary :: Peter
PETER PET'EREL PE'TERPENCE,n. A tax or tribute formerly paid by the English peop...
Webster Dictionary :: Petency
COMPETENCE,PETENCY, n. 1. Sufficiency; such a quantity as is sufficient; propert...
Webster Dictionary :: Petechial
PETE'CHIAL, a. Spotted. A petechial fever is a malignant fever accompanied with ...
Webster Dictionary :: Petechiae
PETE'CHIAE, n. Purple spots which appear on the skin in malignant fevers.
Webster Dictionary :: Petard
PET`ARD, n. An engine of war made of metal, nearly in the shape of a hat, to be ...
