PHY SUPPLEMENT. PYC 



PiiYcoi.or.Y, the branch of botany de- camp occupied by the General's tent, raited 

 Totd to the Alg<e or sea-weeds. some feet above the level of the rest of the 



PJOHUBIM BKAX, the medicinal seeds camp. 



of N&Kandra, Puchury, used as a cure for ' PRAKRIT, the old languages or dialects of 

 c*lic. j the lower classes during the period when the 



PINK WOOL, or VEGETABLE WOOT,, a older Sanscrit was a spoken language, the 

 flbn.- of the leaves of the Pinus Sylvestrit, Sanscrit itself, or polithed language, being 

 or silver fir, from which a fabric like flannel confined to the educated and upper classes, 

 may be made. It is highly useful and valu- 1 PBICK.LY PEAK, the Opuntia or Indian 

 ableforr .ler clothing, being anti-rheumatic fig. 

 and specially healthy. | PRIMURIES, the pinion feathers or quills 



PlHTACtni, a greenish variety of iron in the wings of birds. 



and lime epidote, composed of silicate of PRISTIS, the genus of sharks of which the 

 alumina, lime, and iron. sawfish, P. Antiquorum, is an example. 



PI,KSIOSAI;KI;S, the genus of fossil PROCURATOR FISCAL, au officer in Scot- 

 Ifcwds or marine saurians characterised by land who makes the preliminary inquiries 

 their great length of neck. Into crime, and acts as public prosecutor 



PLKUiUTis, inflammation of the pleura, in all the less important criminal prose- 

 or pleurisy. cutions of the inferior courts of Scotland 



PLUMBUM CORXEUM, fused chloride of other than the police courts, 

 lead, formerly called horn lead. i PROEM, a poetical introduction to a larger 



PtTMOUTH BIIKTHHKX, a body of poem. The word Is sometimes used in the 

 Chrisrtans opposed to sectarianism and all its same sense as a preface, 

 distinctions, and holding adhesion only to PROLUSION, a trial or essay in literature, 

 what they consider to be vital or essential PROPER MOTION, the actual motion of 

 truths. stars, as contradistinguished from their 



I''.; UAfiUA, gout affecting the foot. apparent motion. 



rOLARi.'coHKs, a'varietyof instruments PROTEIN, the azotised base of albumen, 

 for the purpose of detecting the polarisation casein, and fibrin, 

 of light. . | PROTOGENESIS, the first beginning of life ; 



POLYGAMOUS, applied in botany to a term intended to signify the development 

 grasses which have spikelets of unisexual and of an organic vitalised body from inorganic 

 also of hermaphrodite organs. and non-vitalised matter. The phenomenon 



POLYGAMY, plirrality of wives : a custom has been sought for, but not found, 

 peculiar to the Semitic and Hamitic races, PROTOPLASM, the vegetable matter formed 

 but apparently never adopted nationally by on the inside walls of a cell after the cell is 

 any of the Japtethites. formed. 



POLYONYM Y, the description of one object PSOROPHTHALMIA, ulceration and itching 

 under a variety of names. inflammation of the eyelids. 



POMELLOES, the smaller varieties of shad- PTYALISM, salivation, or an increased 

 dock, known as the Forbidden fruit. secretion of saliva. 



PORTREEVE, the chief magistrate of a PUGMILL, the mill in which briekmakers 

 maritime town or port under the Anglo- mix and prepare the materials of which their 

 Saxons. It is a corruption of portgrieve, and bricks are made. 



is said to have been the title of mayors of PULP, the juicy tissue of fruits and 

 seaports. plants ; also applied to the macerated fibre 



POSIDONIA SCHIST, a schistose deposit of from which paper is made, 

 the lias formation, consisting of bituminous PULQUE, a drink consisting of the fer- 

 shale full of the remains of a flat bivalve mented juice of the agave, 

 shell, the Potidonia. It is rich enough in PUMPKIN, the esculent gourd Cimirlita 

 carbon to be of value for distillation. Pepo. 



POSOLOGY, the administration of medi- PUNIC WARS, the wars between Rome 

 cine, as regards quantity or doses. and Carthage. 



POT METAL, an alloy of copper and lead. PUPIPAROUS, insects which bring forth 



POUDRETTE, a manure composed of dried their young in the nymph or pupe form, 

 night soil and clay. The night soil of Paris PURPURE, a tincture orcolourin henldry 

 is so prepared for manure. indicated by lines running diagonally from 



PRAAM, a kind of Dutch and Baltic the sinister side of the shield downwards, 

 lighter. It is equal to amethyst among gems and 



PR.KFLORATION and PRJSFOLIATION, the mercury among planets. 



condition of flowers or leaves in the flower- PUTAMEN, the endocarpium or stone of 

 bud or leaf-bud before expansion. fruit. 



PRJE-HAPHAELITISM, a modern school of PYCMTE, a silicate of alumina, in which 

 painting, which has revived the system of fluorine replaces about a seventh part of 

 art characteristic of the fifteenth century, the oxygen. It is a massive variety of 

 with some modifications. topaz. 



PRJJTORIUM, the portion of a Roman PVCNOTROP, a variety of serpentine. 



