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Show i n t w u r p w h At hom y b t b ' e f p w a r A er 2. To encumFibt hes and peaf Fofl‘ié pcfpl Swift o too much on a hovel the «Arin near withi crowdin lay uffer th pefler' roomo 7. / 3 \PE'STERER that pefters or difturbs i bering; cumberfome note th Pestie of Pork. n. /. ‘A gammon o Ainfworth bacon [This word is of doubtfu Per. #. / 'PEsTHOUSE. 7. /. [from pe/ff and houje. t w e c f i o r p f a i ™ An hof the plague t L e i f p r [ j a U R F Pest < etymology Shake/peare nefs If all the worl Should in a per of temperance feed on pulfe Shake[peare P Drink the clear ftream, and nothing wear but freeze infectious \vo2. Peftilential; malignant all-giver would be unthankt, would be unMilton prais'd If we cannot obtain every vain thing we afk our next bufinefs is to take per at the refufal. L'Eff Life, given for noble purpofes, muft not b hrown up in a per, nor whined away in love. Collier Th It is eafy to conceive how the fteams of peffiferous bodies taint the air, while they are alive and hot Arbuthnot JESTILENCE . /. [ peftilence lntia, Latin. Plague Fr. pefticonta peft They caufe the proud their vifits to delay And fend the godly in a pet to pray Pope glous diftemper . The red peflilence ftrike all trades in Rome Shakejpeare ~ And occupations perith 2. A lamb taken into the houfe, an brought up by hand A cade lamb [Probably from petit, little.] See Pear Hanmer When my eyes beheld Olivia firft Methought the purg'd the air of peffilence. Shakefp >t'STILENT. adj. [ peftilent, French; peflidens, Latin. 1, Producing plagues; malignant PE'TAL Great ringing of bells in populous cities diffi% pated peflilent air, which may be from the contheir fpears railed againft king Ferdinand, wh with fuch corrupt and peffilent bread would fee To thofe people that dwell under or near th equator, a perpetual {pring would be a moft peffilen ./ and infupportable fummer Bentley 2, Mifchievous; deftru@ive There is nothing more contagious and peftilen than fome kinds of harmony; than fome nothin more ftrong and potent unto good Hooker Which precedent, of peffilent import PE'rarbp 3 In ludicrous language peftilens, Latin. adj tards French Italian. of metal five inches over at the mouth fine powde ee almoft in th wel beaten whe charged wit it is covered with a ma drier or plank, bound down fat with ropes, running through handles, which are round the ri near the mouth of it: this petardis applied to gate or barriers of fuch places as are defigned to b furprized, to blow them up: they are alfo ufed i it is ufed to ex countermine aggerate the meaning of another word "PESTI.LE,NTIAL [petard Havin thape of an hat, about feven inches deep, and abou Saift's Mifcellanies One pefiilent fine His beard no bigger though than thine Walk'd on before the reft [from petal. is an engin A petar Againtt thee, Henry, had been brought Daniel + The world abounds with pefilent books, writ ten againt this do&trine [ petalum, Latin. Pe'ravLovus. adj petals Pe'rar } #./ Knolles them #. / Petal is a term in botany, fignifying thofe fin coloured leaves that campofe the flowers of al plants: whence plants are diftinguithed into monopetalous, whofe flower is one continued lezf tripetalous, pentapetalous, and polypetalous, whe they confift of three, five, or many leaves. Quincy %! cuffion of the air, and not from the found. Bacon Hoary moulded bread the foldiers thrufting upo o 1. A flight paffion; a flight fit of peevifh You, that have difcover'd fecxl-ctlsc,1 and rXa;i.c fuc die iferous reports of men nobly held, muf French de/pit impetus, Latin; perhaps it may be derived fome way from peti¢, as it implies only a little fume or fret. 1. Deftruéive; mifchievous Such is thy audacious wickednefs Thy leud, peflif'rous, and diffentious pranks The very infants prattle of thy pride fro to brea throug int th enemie Fr iin In London are many fevers with buboes an carbuncles, and many petechial or fpotted fevers fet the mafs of blood, and lay the foundation o pefilential fevers » Mifchievous; deftrutive; pernicious h if Govemmgnt depends upon religion Arbuthnot Woodward Fire involv' In pefilential vapours, ftench, and fmoak. Addifon then thi ‘oe;»_'s. the peflilential defign of thofe that attemp 5j0in the civil and ecclefiaftical intexefts, South Upon my wretched women Shakefpeare Let my life be given at my petition, and my peopl at my requeft Eftber vii. 3 Thou didft choofe this houfe to be called by th name, and to be a houfe of prayer and perition fo thy people 1 Mac vii We muft not only fend up petitions and thought no an then to heaven but muft go through al our worldly bufinefs with a heavenly fpirit Law Single branch or article of a prayer Then pray'd that the might ftill pofiefs his heart And no pretending rival fhare a part _This laft perition heard of all her pray'r Drydens Zo PeTi'rioN. @. 4. [from the noun. To folicite; to fupplicate You have petition'd all the god For my profperity Skakefpeare's Coriolanus The mother petitioned her goddefs to beftow upo them the greateft gift that could be given. Addijon Peri'rioNariry. adv. [from petitionary.] By way of begging the queftion This doth but petitionarily infer a dextrality i the heavens, and we may as reafonably conclude right and left laterality in the ark of Noah. Breawz Perr'TioNnary. adj. [from petition. 1. Supplicatory; coming with petitions Pardon thy petitionary countrymen It is our bafe petitionary breat That blows 'em to this greatnefs Shakefpeare Ben Fonfon 2. Containing petitions or requefts Petitionar praye are in themfelve belonget impotent an onl to fuc ftan a in need of relief from ethers Hooker I return only yes or no to queftionary and peritionary epiftles of half a yard long Savift Peri'rioxer. 7. /. [from petition. who offers a petition Whe you hav On received the petitions and i will pleafe the petitioners well to deliver them into your own hand, let your fecretary firft read them and draw lines under the material parts Bacgn What pleafure can it be to be encumbered with dependencies thronge tioners and furrounded with petiSouth Their prayers are to the reproach of the peri tioners, and to the confufion of vain defires. L Ef.His woes broke out, and begg'd relie With tears, the dumb peitioners of grief. Dryden The Roman matrons prefented. a:petition t th fathers thi raife f muc raillery upom the petitioners, that. the ladies. never after f.fi'érc to direct the lawgivers of their country Addifon PE'TITORY..0d] toire, French. [ petitorius, "Lati peti P.etitioning; claimi-n the property of any thing. Ainfavorsh PE'TRE. 2./. [from petra, a ftone.] Nitre falt petre See NiTRE Bresun PeTEe''cHIAL. adj. [from petechie, Lat. Peftilentially {potted tagious Thefe with the air pafpafi f ing g iinto the lungs My next poor. petitio Is, that his noble grace would have fome pit Hoift with his own petar Shake[peare's Hamlet Find all his having and his holding Reduc'd teternal noife and fcoling The conjugal petard that tear Down all portcullices of ears Hudibras 1 Partak.ing of the nature of peftilence producing peftilence; infetious; con certain petition Powder made of impure and greafy petre, hat but a weak emiffion, and gives but a faint report. >Tis the fport to have the enginee [ peftilenciel unto all me Military Diticnary galleries Suckling propof Hooker real alteration can the beating of the peftl make in any body, but of the texture of it ? Locke Upon our vegetable food the teeth and jaws aé Arbuthnot as.the peft/e and mortar dif muf incident and very material in caufes of this nature a& of pounding or breaking in Wha n b g v n a a t t f th I like the parliament had of gaoling them, as tha e o n o a s o e f p l a g a c w whic I V n H n c B e examp " %y " deftruétively 2. /. [ pi/#illam, Latin. W Pe'sTtrE. % /. [piffillum, Latin,] An inftrament with which any thing is broke in a mortar On Encum "w Py'sTEROUS. adj. [from peffer. Mif{chievouily PestiLLa'tioN [from peflikent. The beft diamonds are comminuble, and fo fa from breaking hammers, that they fubmit unt pftillation, and relift not any ordinary peftle. Browvs pefler. [fro adv mortar o l M g i b t r v f a a gprive to keep up a f Pe'sTiLeENTLY Th 1.)/1()':/,/1 Confin'd and pg'i;r‘d in this pipfnld 'hc'.'(: FE PFL ::iL::'j: Pr'TER-WORT. ./. [Afcyren.] A plant PE'TIT. adj. [French. Small; inconfiderable By what {mall peziz hints does the mind recove a vanifhin notion PETI'TION. n. /. [petitio, Latin. South 1. Requeft; intreaty; fupplication ; prayer The veffel was ficft well nealed to prevent cracking, and covered to prevent the falling in of any thing that might uafeafonably kindle the petre. Boyle Nitre petre-falt wail it is in its native ftate when refined falt~petre is called Woodward PETRE'SCENT adj. [petrefeens, Latin: Growing itone; becoming ftone A cave, from whofe arched. roof there dropped down a petrefcent liquor, which oftentimes' befor it could fall to the groun congeated Boyle PrTrIFA'CTION. 7. /. [from perrifia, Lat. 1. The a& of turning to flone of being turned to ftone Its concretiv the (tat fpirit'has the feeds of petrifuio angd gorgon within itfelf 2, That which is made flone TOW Loo |