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- English Word Pisiform Definition A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
- English Word Pismire Definition An ant, or emmet.
- English Word Pisolite Definition A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.
- English Word Pisolitic Definition Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.
- English Word Pisophalt Definition Pissasphalt.
- English Word Piss Definition To discharge urine, to urinate.
- English Word Piss Definition Urine.
- English Word Pissabed Definition A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
- English Word Pissasphalt Definition Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
- English Word Pist Definition See Piste.
- English Word Pistachio Definition The nut of the Pistacia vera, a tree of the order Anacardiaceae, containing a kernel of a pale greenish color, which has a pleasant taste, resembling that of the almond, and yields an oil of agreeable taste and odor; -- called also pistachio nut. It is wholesome and nutritive. The tree grows in Arabia, Persia, Syria, and Sicily.
- English Word Pistacia Definition The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.
- English Word Pistacite Definition Epidote.
- English Word Pistareen Definition An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.
- English Word Pistazite Definition Same as Pistacite.
- English Word Piste Definition The track or tread a horseman makes upon the ground he goes over.
- English Word Pistel Definition Alt. of Pistil
- English Word Pistic Definition Pure; genuine.
- English Word Pistil Definition An epistle.
- English Word Pistil Definition The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.