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  • English Word Pedunculate Definition Alt. of Pedunculated
  • English Word Pedunculated Definition Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.
  • English Word Pee Definition See 1st Pea.
  • English Word Pee Definition Bill of an anchor. See Peak, 3 (c).
  • English Word Peece Definition See Piece.
  • English Word Peechi Definition The dauw.
  • English Word Peek Definition To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
  • English Word Peekaboo Definition A child's game; bopeep.
  • English Word Peel Definition A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • English Word Peel Definition A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
  • English Word Peel Definition To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
  • English Word Peel Definition To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
  • English Word Peel Definition To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
  • English Word Peel Definition To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
  • English Word Peel Definition The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
  • English Word Peele Definition A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.
  • English Word Peeled Definition of Peel
  • English Word Peeler Definition One who peels or strips.
  • English Word Peeler Definition A pillager.
  • English Word Peeler Definition A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
  • English Word Peelhouse Definition See 1st Peel.
  • English Word Peeling Definition of Peel
  • English Word Peen Definition A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
  • English Word Peen Definition The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
  • English Word Peen Definition To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.
  • English Word Peenge Definition To complain.
  • English Word Peep Definition To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
  • English Word Peep Definition To begin to appear; to look forth from concealment; to make the first appearance.
  • English Word Peep Definition To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry.
  • English Word Peep Definition The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.