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Pecco
n.
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See Pekoe.
Peck
n.
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The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
Peck
n.
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A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
Pecked
imp. & p. p.
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of Peck
Pecking
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Peck
Peck
v.
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To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
Peck
v.
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Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
Peck
v.
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To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
Peck
v.
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To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
Peck
v. i.
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To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
Peck
v. i.
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To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
Peck
n.
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A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
Pecker
n.
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One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
Pecker
n.
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An instrument for pecking; a pick.
Peckish
a.
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Inclined to eat; hungry.
Peckled
a.
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Speckled; spotted.
Pecopteris
n.
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An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
Pecora
n. pl.
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An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
Pectate
n.
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A salt of pectic acid.
Pecten
n.
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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.
Pecten
n.
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The pubic bone.
Pecten
n.
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Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
Pecten
n.
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The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).
Pectic
a.
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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.
Pectin
n.
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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.
Pectinal
a.
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Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb.
Pectinal
n.
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A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
Pectinate
a.
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Alt. of Pectinated
Pectinated
a.
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Resembling the teeth of a comb.
Pectinated
a.
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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.