<B>pedate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>having a foot or feet. <DD><B> b. </B>having tubular, somewhat footlike organs, as many echinoderms do. <DD><B> 2. </B>footlike. <DD><B> 3. </B>having divisions like toes; divided in a palmate manner with the two lateral lobes divided into smaller segments. <BR> <I>Ex. a pedate leaf.</I> adv. <B>pedately.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pedd">
<B>Ped. D.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Doctor of Pedagogy. </DL>
<A NAME="pedder">
<B>pedder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a peddler. </DL>
<A NAME="peddle">
<B>peddle, </B>verb, <B>-dled,</B> <B>-dling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to carry from place to place and sell. <BR> <I>Ex. The farmer peddled his fruit from house to house. [He] had emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1908, made a fortune peddling clothes and real estate in the Chinatowns of the Far West (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to offer or deal out in small quantities. <BR> <I>Ex. to peddle candy, to peddle a new idea, to peddle gossip.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to travel about with things to sell. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to occupy oneself with trifles; piddle. <BR> <I>Ex. Coteries ... peddling with the idlest of all literary problems (John A. Symonds).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="peddler">
<B>peddler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who travels about selling things that he carries in a pack or in a truck, wagon, or cart. (SYN) hawker, huckster. Also, <B>pedlar,</B> <B>pedler.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="peddlery">
<B>peddlery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dleries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the business of a peddler. <DD><B> 2. </B>peddlers' wares. <DD><B> 3. </B>trumpery; trash. </DL>
<A NAME="peddling">
<B>peddling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>engaged in the trade of a peddler. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) piddling; trifling; paltry. </DL>
<A NAME="pederast">
<B>pederast, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who engages in pederasty. </DL>
<A NAME="pederastic">
<B>pederastic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with pederasty. adv. <B>pederastically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pederasty">
<B>pederasty, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the unnatural sexual union of males with males, especially of a man with a boy. </DL>
<A NAME="pedes">
<B>pedes, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>pes.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pedestal">
<B>pedestal, </B>noun, verb, <B>-taled,</B> <B>-taling</B> or (especially British) <B>-talled,</B> <B>-talling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the base on which a column or statue stands. <DD><B> 2. </B>the base of a tall vase or lamp. <DD><B> 3. </B>any base; support; foundation. <BR> <I>Ex. Respect for others is the pedestal of society.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a place or position of importance, especially one of idolization. <BR> <I>Ex. In his eyes, she was always on a pedestal.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to set on or supply with a pedestal. </DL>
<A NAME="pedestrian">
<B>pedestrian, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who goes on foot; walker. <BR> <I>Ex. Pedestrians have to watch out for automobiles turning corners.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>going on foot; walking. <DD><B> 2. </B>for or used by pedestrians. <BR> <I>Ex. The pedestrian windows [at the bank] are proving highly popular with housewives who find it hard to push their baby buggies through a revolving door, or don't feel they are dressed well enough to go into the bank (Birmingham News).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) without imagination; dull; slow. <BR> <I>Ex. a pedestrian style in writing. The circumstances and events of his life were anything but pedestrian (Scientific American).</I> (SYN) commonplace, uninspired, prosaic. </DL>
<A NAME="pedestrianism">
<B>pedestrianism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the practice of traveling on foot; walking. <BR> <I>Ex. a large, cheerful street, in which ... a great deal of pedestrianism went forward (Henry James).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a commonplace quality or style. </DL>
<A NAME="pedestrianize">
<B>pedestrianize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to convert (a road, street, alley, or bridle path) to use by pedestrians; make free of vehicular traffic. <BR> <I>Ex. Eventually it intends to pedestrianize Low Street and turn the whole centre into a traffic-free area (Sunday Times).</I> noun <B>pedestrianization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pediarchy">
<B>pediarchy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a society or culture dominated or ruled by children. </DL>
<A NAME="pediatric">
<B>pediatric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with pediatrics. Also, <B>paediatric.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pediatrician">
<B>pediatrician, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a doctor who specializes in pediatrics. Also, <B>paediatrician.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pediatrics">
<B>pediatrics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the branch of medicine dealing with children's diseases and the care of babies and children. Also, <B>paediatrics.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pediatrist">
<B>pediatrist, </B>noun. =pediatrician.</DL>
<A NAME="pediatry">
<B>pediatry, </B>noun. =pediatrics.</DL>
<A NAME="pedicab">
<B>pedicab, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a three-wheeled vehicle with a hooded cab for one or two passengers, operated by pedals. It is used especially in the Orient. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicel">
<B>pedicel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small stalk or stalklike part; an ultimate division of a common peduncle, supporting one flower only. The main flower stalk when small, a secondary stalk that bears flowers, or each of the secondary or subordinate stalks that immediately bear the flowers in a branched inflorescence is a pedicel. <BR> <I>Ex. All those parts--calyx, corolla, stamens, and carpels--are attached to the receptacle, the somewhat specialized summit of the pedicel (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any small stalklike structure in an animal. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicellar">
<B>pedicellar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or of the nature of a pedicel. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicellaria">
<B>pedicellaria, </B>noun, pl. <B>-iae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of many small pincers which project from the base of the spines of echinoderms and have the functions of warding off foreign matter and seizing food. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicellate">
<B>pedicellate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a pedicel or pedicels. </DL>
<B>pedicle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small stalk; pedicel or peduncle. <BR> <I>Ex. A vertebra has a body, and above this a pedicle on either side (A. Brazier Howell).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pedicular">
<B>pedicular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a louse or lice; lousy. </DL>
<A NAME="pediculate">
<B>pediculate, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or belonging to an order of teleost deep-sea fishes characterized by the elongated rays of the dorsal fin, the front one having a bulb on the tip which serves to lure smaller fish. <DD><I>noun </I> a pediculate fish. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicule">
<B>pedicule, </B>noun. =pedicle.</DL>
<A NAME="pediculosis">
<B>pediculosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being infested with lice; lousiness; phthiriasis. </DL>
<A NAME="pediculous">
<B>pediculous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> infested with lice; lousy. <BR> <I>Ex. Like a ... pediculous vermin thou hast but one suit to thy back (Thomas Dekker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pedicure">
<B>pedicure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>treatment of the feet and toenails, including removal of corns, massage, and the trimming of nails. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who cares for the feet and toenails, such as a podiatrist or chiropodist. </DL>
<A NAME="pedicurist">
<B>pedicurist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a podiatrist or chiropodist. </DL>
<A NAME="pediform">
<B>pediform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> shaped like a foot. </DL>
<A NAME="pedigree">
<B>pedigree, </B>noun, verb, <B>-greed,</B> <B>-greeing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a list of ancestors of a person, animal, or plant; family tree. <BR> <I>Ex. That champion dog has a very fine pedigree. Pedigrees of plants ... are usually made for groups rather than individual plants (J. Herbert Taylor).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>line of descent; ancestors; ancestry. <BR> <I>Ex. I can look but a very little way into my pedigree (Daniel Defoe). Virtue lieth not in pedigree (Thomas Hobbes).</I> (SYN) lineage. <DD><B> 3. </B>derivation, as from a source. <BR> <I>Ex. the pedigree of a word.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>distinguished or noble descent. <BR> <I>Ex. a man of pedigree.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to breed (animals) so as to establish a pedigree. <DD><B> 2. </B>to obtain a pedigree for (an animal), especially by formal registry of it as the offspring of parents with a pedigree. </DL>
<A NAME="pedigreed">
<B>pedigreed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a known pedigree. Horses, cows, dogs, and other animals of known and recorded ancestry are called pedigreed stock. <BR> <I>Ex. Her dog is pedigreed.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pediment">
<B>pediment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the low triangular part on the front of buildings in the Greek style. A pediment is like a gable. <DD><B> 2. </B>any similar decorative part on a building, door, bookcase, or other facade. <DD><B> 3. </B>a base; foundation. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Geology.) a gradual slope at the base of a mountainous region in desert or semiarid areas. It consists of a bedrock foundation covered by a veneer of gravel eroded from the hills. </DL>
<A NAME="pedimental">
<B>pedimental, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, on, or like a pediment. </DL>
<A NAME="pedimented">
<B>pedimented, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having or like a pediment. <BR> <I>Ex. The pile confronts us in the form of a large rectangle made by a colonnade of Roman Doric; pedimented and columned porches set off the wings (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pedipalp">
<B>pedipalp, </B>noun, pl. <B>pedipalpi.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of a pair of short, leglike appendages near the mouth and fangs of spiders, used as aids in feeding and as copulatory organs. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of an order of arachnids, including the whip scorpions, distinguished by large pedipalpi. </DL>
<A NAME="pedipalpate">
<B>pedipalpate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having pedipalpi. </DL>
<A NAME="pedipalpus">
<B>pedipalpus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-pi.</B> <B>=pedipalp </B>(def. 1).</DL>
<A NAME="pedlar">
<B>pedlar</B> or <B>pedler, </B>noun. =peddler.</DL>
<A NAME="pedlary">
<B>pedlary</B> or <B>pedlery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-laries</B> or <B>-leries.</B> =peddlery.</DL>
