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  • English Word Pelter Definition One who pelts.
  • English Word Pelter Definition A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
  • English Word Peltiform Definition Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate.
  • English Word Pelting Definition of Pelt
  • English Word Pelting Definition Mean; paltry.
  • English Word Peltry Definition Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.
  • English Word Peltryware Definition Peltry.
  • English Word Peludo Definition The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).
  • English Word Pelusiac Definition Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.
  • English Word Pelvic Definition Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.
  • English Word Pelvimeter Definition An instrument for measuring the dimensions of the pelvis.
  • English Word Pelvis Definition The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum.
  • English Word Pelvis Definition The calyx of a crinoid.
  • English Word Pemmican Definition Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun.
  • English Word Pemmican Definition Meat, without the fat, cut in thin slices, dried in the sun, pounded, then mixed with melted fat and sometimes dried fruit, and compressed into cakes or in bags. It contains much nutriment in small compass, and is of great use in long voyages of exploration.
  • English Word Pemphigus Definition A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.
  • English Word Pen Definition A feather.
  • English Word Pen Definition A wing.
  • English Word Pen Definition An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
  • English Word Pen Definition Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
  • English Word Pen Definition The internal shell of a squid.
  • English Word Pen Definition A female swan.
  • English Word Pen Definition To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
  • English Word Pen Definition To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
  • English Word Pen Definition A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
  • English Word Penal Definition Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
  • English Word Penal Definition Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
  • English Word Penal Definition Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
  • English Word Penal Definition Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.
  • English Word Penality Definition The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment.