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Pettifogging
a.
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Paltry; quibbling; mean.
Pettifogging
n.
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Pettifoggery.
Pettifogulize
v. i.
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To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks.
Pettily
adv.
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In a petty manner; frivolously.
Pettiness
n.
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The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.
Pettish
a.
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Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper.
Pettitoes
n. pl.
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The toes or feet of a pig, -- often used as food; sometimes, in contempt, the human feet.
Petto
n.
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The breast.
Petty
superl.
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Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.
Pettychaps
n.
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Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinae, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
Pettywhin
n.
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The needle furze. See under Needle.
Petulance
n.
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Alt. of Petulancy
Petulancy
n.
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The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Petulant
a.
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Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
Petulant
a.
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Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable.
Petulantly
adv.
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In a petulant manner.
Petulcity
n.
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Wantonness; friskiness.
Petulcous
a.
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Wanton; frisky; lustful.
Petunia
n.
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A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
Petunse
n.
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Alt. of Petuntze
Petuntse
n.
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Alt. of Petuntze
Petuntze
n.
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Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain.
Petworth marble
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A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
Petzite
n.
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A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
Peucedanin
n.
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A tasteless white crystalline substance, extracted from the roots of the sulphurwort (Peucedanum), masterwort (Imperatoria), and other related plants; -- called also imperatorin.
Peucil
n.
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A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime.
Pew
n.
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One of the compartments in a church which are separated by low partitions, and have long seats upon which several persons may sit; -- sometimes called slip. Pews were originally made square, but are now usually long and narrow.
Pew
n.
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Any structure shaped like a church pew, as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in theater; a pen; a sheepfold.
Pew
v. t.
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To furnish with pews.
Pewee
n.
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A common American tyrant flycatcher (Sayornis phoebe, or S. fuscus). Called also pewit, and phoebe.