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- English Word Petitory Definition Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.
- English Word Petong Definition See Packfong.
- English Word Petralogy Definition See Petrology.
- English Word Petrary Definition An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
- English Word Petre Definition See Saltpeter.
- English Word Petrean Definition Of or pertaining to to rock.
- English Word Petrel Definition Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey's chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.
- English Word Petrescence Definition The process of changing into stone; petrification.
- English Word Petrescent Definition Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water.
- English Word Petrifaction Definition The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.
- English Word Petrifaction Definition The state or condition of being petrified.
- English Word Petrifaction Definition That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation.
- English Word Petrifaction Definition Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy.
- English Word Petrifactive Definition Having the quality of converting organic matter into stone; petrifying.
- English Word Petrifactive Definition Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction.
- English Word Petrific Definition Petrifying; petrifactive.
- English Word Petrificate Definition To petrify.
- English Word Petrification Definition See Petrifaction.
- English Word Petrification Definition Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.
- English Word Petrified Definition of Petrify
- English Word Petrify Definition To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
- English Word Petrify Definition To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
- English Word Petrify Definition To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- English Word Petrify Definition Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- English Word Petrifying Definition of Petrify
- English Word Petrine Definition Of or pertaining to St.Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
- English Word Petro- Definition A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic.
- English Word Petrogale Definition Any Australian kangaroo of the genus Petrogale, as the rock wallaby (P. penicillata).
- English Word Petroglyphic Definition Of or pertaining to petroglyphy.
- English Word Petroglyphy Definition The art or operation of carving figures or inscriptions on rock or stone.