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  • English Word Peat Definition A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
  • English Word Peat Definition A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
  • English Word Peaty Definition Composed of peat; abounding in peat; resembling peat.
  • English Word Peba Definition An armadillo (Tatusia novemcincta) which is found from Texas to Paraguay; -- called also tatouhou.
  • English Word Pebble Definition A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
  • English Word Pebble Definition Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; -- so called by opticians.
  • English Word Pebble Definition To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.
  • English Word Pebbled Definition of Pebble
  • English Word Pebbled Definition Abounding in pebbles.
  • English Word Pebblestone Definition A pebble; also, pebbles collectively.
  • English Word Pebbling Definition of Pebble
  • English Word Pebbly Definition Full of pebbles; pebbled.
  • English Word Pebrine Definition An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.
  • English Word Pecan Definition A species of hickory (Carya olivaeformis), growing in North America, chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well-flavored meat.
  • English Word Pecary Definition See Peccary.
  • English Word Peccability Definition The state or quality of being peccable; lability to sin.
  • English Word Peccable Definition Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.
  • English Word Peccadillo Definition A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault.
  • English Word Peccadillos Definition of Peccadillo
  • English Word Peccancy Definition The quality or state of being peccant.
  • English Word Peccancy Definition A sin; an offense.
  • English Word Peccant Definition Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
  • English Word Peccant Definition Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors.
  • English Word Peccant Definition Wrong; defective; faulty.
  • English Word Peccant Definition An offender.
  • English Word Peccantly Definition In a peccant manner.
  • English Word Peccaries Definition of Peccary
  • English Word Peccary Definition A pachyderm of the genus Dicotyles.
  • English Word Peccavi Definition I have sinned; -- used colloquially to express confession or acknowledgment of an offense.
  • English Word Pecco Definition See Pekoe.