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- English Word Peck Definition The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
- English Word Peck Definition A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- English Word Peck Definition To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
- English Word Peck Definition Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
- English Word Peck Definition To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
- English Word Peck Definition To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
- English Word Peck Definition To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
- English Word Peck Definition To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
- English Word Peck Definition A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
- English Word Pecked Definition of Peck
- English Word Pecker Definition One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
- English Word Pecker Definition An instrument for pecking; a pick.
- English Word Pecking Definition of Peck
- English Word Peckish Definition Inclined to eat; hungry.
- English Word Peckled Definition Speckled; spotted.
- English Word Pecopteris Definition An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
- English Word Pecora Definition An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
- English Word Pectate Definition A salt of pectic acid.
- English Word Pecten Definition A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
- English Word Pecten Definition The pubic bone.
- English Word Pecten Definition Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
- English Word Pecten Definition The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).
- English Word Pectic Definition Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.
- English Word Pectin Definition One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.
- English Word Pectinal Definition Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
- English Word Pectinal Definition A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
- English Word Pectinate Definition Alt. of Pectinated
- English Word Pectinated Definition Resembling the teeth of a comb.
- English Word Pectinated Definition Having very narrow, close divisions, in arrangement and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennae.
- English Word Pectinated Definition Interlaced, like two combs.