| pelt | 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. "The children billows seem to pelt the clouds." (Shak) 2. To throw; to use as a missile. "My Phillis me with pelted apples plies." (Dryden) Origin: OE. Pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. Pultare, equiv. To pulsare (v. Freq. Fr. Pellere to drive), and E. Pulse a beating. 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. "Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes." (Fuller) 2. The human skin. 3. <veterinary> The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast. Origin: Cf. G. Pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. Pelice, F. Pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. Shortened fr. Peltry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pelta | Origin: L, a shield, fr. Gr. 1. A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. 2. <botany> A flat apothecium having no rim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peltate | <botany> Of a leaf, having the stalk attached to the lower surface of the blade, not to the margin (also applied, in the same sense, to other stalked structures). (09 Oct 1997) |
| peltated | <botany> Shield-shaped; scutiform; having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; said of a leaf or other organ. Pel"tately. Origin: Cf. F. Pelte. See Pelta. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peltation | Protection provided by inoculation with an antiserum or with a vaccine. Origin: L. Pelta, a light shield, fr. G. Pelte (05 Mar 2000) |
| pelter | A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. "Let such pelters prate." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peltry | Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs. Origin: F. Pelleterie peltry, furriery, fr. Pelletier a furrier, fr. OF. Pel skin, F. Peau, L. Pelis. See Pelt a skin, Pell, Fell a skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |