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PUTRESCENT, pe-tr&'sint, a. 510. Grow-ing storn*, becoming $tone. f

PETRIFACTION, pet-tre-fak'shun, $. The

act of turning to atone, the state of being turn-ed to stone ; that which is made stone.FETRIF ACTIVE, pet-tre-fak'tiv, a. Hav-ing the power to form stone.PETRIFICATION, pet-tre-fe-kk'shtin, 8.A body formed by changing other matter tostone.

PETRIFICK, pe-trjf'fik, a. 509. Havingthe power to change to stone.

To PETRIFY, pSt'tre-tf, r. a. 183. Tochange to stone.

To PETRIFY, pet'tre-fi, i\ n. To becomestone.

PETROL , pe'trol, 7 s. A liquid

PETROLEUM, pe-tro'le-um, ) bitumen,black, floating on the. water of springs.PETRONEL, pet'tro-nel, s. A pistol, asmall gun used by a horseman.

PETTICOAT, plt'tfc-kite, s. The lowerpart of a woman’s dress.

PETTIFOGGER, pet'te-fSg'gitr, s. A petty

small-rate lawyer.

PETTINESS, pet'te-nls, a. Smallness, lit-tleness, inconsiderableness, unimportance.PETTISH, pet'tish, a. Fretful, peevish.PETTISHNESS, pet'tish-nes, s. Fretful-

ness, peevishness.

PETTITOES, pet'te-toze, *. The feet of asucking pig ; feet, in contempt.

PETTO, pet'tA , rtrf. In Petto. Italian . Thebreast ; figurative of privacy.

PETTY, pet'te, a. Small, inconsiderable,little.

PETTVCOY, pet'te-koe, .*. An herb.PETULANCE, pet'tshu-linse, is. Sauci-PETULANCY, pet'tshu-lan-si, $ nees, pee-vishness, wautonness.

PETULANT, p£t/tshii-1&nt, a. 461. Saucy,perverse, wanton.

PETULANTLY, pet'tshfi-lAnt-le, ad. Willipetulance, with saucy pertness.

PEW, pu, s. A seat enclosed in a church.PEWET, pe'ivft, s. 99. A water-fowl; the

lapwing.

PEWTER, pu'tUr, s. 98. A compound ofmetals, an artificial metal j the plules anddishes in a house.

PEWTEREU, pi't&r-Sr, 5. A smith whoworks in pewter. •

PHENOMENON, fc-n<W£-n6n, s. Thishas sometimes phenomena in the plural. Anappearance in the works of nature,PHALANX, falitnks, or findnks, *. Atroop of men closely embodied.

£3* The second manner of pronouncing (bis word ismore general, but the first is more analogical. If,when we pronounce a Latin or Greek word of two ;syllables, having a single consonant between two vow-els, we always make the first vowel long, it is verynatural, when such a word is transplanted whole intoour language, to pronounce it in the same mauncr.That the quantity of the original has very little to doin this case may be seen under the word Drama, 544 ;and yet nothing but an absurd regard to this cou fthave influenced the generalityof speakers to pronouncethi* word with the fiiBt vowel short, contrary to theold genuine analogy of our own language, as Dr. " al-lis calls it, and contrary to the manner in which wepronounce the word in the original; for though local,

favour, and labour, have the first vowel short in the

Latlu loralis, favor, and labor, we pronounce then456

both In Latin and English according to onr own ana*logy, with the o and a long aud open. The same maybe observed of words from the Greek. In die wordin question, therefore, the antliorUy of Hr. Sheridan*Mr. Scott, and Dr. Ash, who make the fust vowellong, ought to outweigh (hat of I)r. Kenrick, Mr. Ter-ry, Entick, and Knchanan, who make it short.

PHANTASM, fan'tilzm, Is. Vain andPHANTASMA, fan-tdz'nnl, $ airy appear-ance, something appearing only to imagination.PHANTASTICAL,fdn-tits'th-kal, la. SeePHANTASTICK, fdn-tils'tik, 509,) Fantas-ticaU

PHANTOM, fin'tum, s. 166. A spectre, anapparition ; a fancied vision.PHARISAICAL, fdr-re-sk'e-kdl, a. Ritual,externally religious, from the sect of the Pha­ risees , whose religion consisted almost in ce-remonies.

PH ARM ACEUTICAL, fdr-md-su te-kill, 1509. >

PHARM ACF.UTICK, fir-mft-si'tlk, '

a. Relating to the knowledge or art of phar-macy, or preparation of medicines.PHARMACOLOGIST, f^r-nnl-kiinA-jlst,*.

518. A writer upon drugs.PHARMACOLOGY, far-mil-kinA-jJ, i.

The knowledge of drugs and medicines.PHARMACOPOEIA ', f&r-nnl-ko-pe'yii, s.A dispensatory, a bool: containing rules forthe composition of medicines.PHARMACOPOLIST, filr-miikiip'pA-list,s. An apothecarv, one who sells medicines.PHARMACY, fiir'mil-s*, s. The act orpractice of preparing medicines, the trade ofan apothecary.

PHAROS, fa'nis,Jwatch-tower.

PHARYNGOTOMY, fAr-In-siit'tA-mi, .«•

The act of making an incision into the wind-pipe, used when some tumour in the throathinders respiration.

PHARYNX , fVrinks, *. The upper part ofthe gullet, below the larynx.—See Phalanx•PHASI5, fVs?s, *. In the plural Phases.Appearance exhibited by any body, as, thechanges of the moon

PHEASANT, f&z h sAnt t s. A kind of wildcock ; a beautiful large bird of game.

To PHEESE, feze, c. a. To comb, to fleece #

to curry. Obsolete.

PHEN1X, fc'nlks, s. The bird whichsupposed to exist single, and to rise agaiu fromits own ashes.

PHENOMENON, fiVnflm'me-ndn, s. Ap-pearance,visible quality; any thing that strikesby n new appearance.

PHIAL, fi'tll, s. A small bottle.PHILANTHROPY , fil4n’tM-pe, *. 131-Love of mankind, good nature .PHILIPPICK, fil-lip'plk, s. Any invectivedeclamation.

PHILOLOGER , fe,Ul f \b j»r, a. 131. Onewhose chief study is language, a grammarian*n critick.

PHILOLOGICAL , fil-A-lod'jc-kal, a. Cri-tical, grammatical. .

PHILOLOGIST , fi-lillA-jfot, 131. *critick, a grammarian.

PHILOLOGY , fe-iai'lA-ji', s. 131, 518-

Criticism, grammatical learning.

PHILOMEL, fil')A-uiel, )*. The mght-PHILOMELA, fil-lAniA'lA, $ ingale.

, 644. A light-house, a