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  • English Word Peon Definition A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
  • English Word Peon Definition See 2d Pawn.
  • English Word Peonage Definition The condition of a peon.
  • English Word Peonies Definition of Peony
  • English Word Peonism Definition Same as Peonage.
  • English Word Peony Definition A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
  • English Word People Definition The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • English Word People Definition Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • English Word People Definition The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • English Word People Definition One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • English Word People Definition One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • English Word People Definition To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
  • English Word Peopled Definition of People
  • English Word Peopled Definition Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.
  • English Word Peopleless Definition Destitute of people.
  • English Word Peopler Definition A settler; an inhabitant.
  • English Word Peopling Definition of People
  • English Word Peoplish Definition Vulgar.
  • English Word Peorias Definition An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
  • English Word Pepastic Definition Same as Maturative.
  • English Word Peperine Definition Alt. of Peperino
  • English Word Peperino Definition A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.
  • English Word Peplis Definition A genus of plants including water purslane.
  • English Word Peplus Definition An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women.
  • English Word Peplus Definition A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen.
  • English Word Pepo Definition Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.
  • English Word Pepper Definition A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum.
  • English Word Pepper Definition The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
  • English Word Pepper Definition Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper.
  • English Word Pepper Definition To sprinkle or season with pepper.