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  • English Word Pesade Definition The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.
  • English Word Pesage Definition A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.
  • English Word Pesane Definition See Pusane.
  • English Word Pesanted Definition Made heavy or dull; debased.
  • English Word Peschito Definition See Peshito.
  • English Word Pese Definition A pea.
  • English Word Peseta Definition A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.
  • English Word Peshito Definition Alt. of Peshitto
  • English Word Peshitto Definition The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament.
  • English Word Pesky Definition Pestering; vexatious; troublesome. Used also as an intensive.
  • English Word Peso Definition A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.
  • English Word Pessaries Definition of Pessary
  • English Word Pessary Definition An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition.
  • English Word Pessary Definition A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
  • English Word Pessimism Definition The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.
  • English Word Pessimism Definition A disposition to take the least hopeful view of things.
  • English Word Pessimist Definition One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.
  • English Word Pessimist Definition One who looks on the dark side of things.
  • English Word Pessimist Definition Alt. of Pessimistic
  • English Word Pessimistic Definition Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding.
  • English Word Pessimistical Definition Pessimistic.
  • English Word Pessimize Definition To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism.
  • English Word Pessuli Definition of Pessulus
  • English Word Pessulus Definition A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
  • English Word Pest Definition A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
  • English Word Pest Definition Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
  • English Word Pestalozzian Definition Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher.
  • English Word Pestalozzian Definition An advocate or follower of the system of Pestalozzi.
  • English Word Pestalozzianism Definition The system of education introduced by Pestalozzi.
  • English Word Pester Definition To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.