paytamine 
paytamine (pii'tam-in), . [< Priyta (barl') + 
iiiiiim:'] An amorphous alkaloid obtained frotn 
Payta bark. 
paytine (pa'tin), w. A crystallizable alkaloid 
(C2iH.> 4 N 2 O.H 2 0) of Payta bark. 
paytrellt, . Seepoiti-cl. 
pazaree, . Same &spansaree. 
Pb. In clicm., the symbol for lead (Latin plum- 
bum). 
P. B. An abbreviation of Pharmacopoeia Britan- 
nica, British Pharmacopoeia. 
P. Bor. An abbreviation of Pharmacopoeia Bo- 
ritKxica, Prussian Pharmacopoaia. 
P. 0. An abbreviation (a) of Privy Councilor; 
(6) of police constable. 
Pd., pd. A contraction of paid. 
Pd. In clicm., the symbol for palladium. 
P. D. An abbreviation of Pharmacopoeia Dub- 
lineiisis, Dublin Pharmacopeia. 
P. E. An abbreviation (a) of Pharmacopoeia Edi- 
nensis, Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; (ft) of Prot- 
estant Episcopal. 
pea 1 (pe), n. [A mod. form, assumed as sing, 
of the supposed plural pease : seepease^. The 
plural of pea is peas, as ' as like as two peas,' 
'a bushel of peas,' with ref. to the individual 
seeds, as in 'a bushel of beans' ; but when used 
collectively the old singular pease is properly 
used, as 'a bushel of pease,' like 'a bushel of 
wheat or corn.'] 1. The seed of an annual 
hardy leguminous vine, Pisum sativum; also, 
the vine itself. The pea is marked by its climbing 
habit and glaucous surface, its pinnate leaves ending in a 
branching tendril, its large stipules, and its large, com- 
monly white, papilionaceous flowers, followed by pendu- 
lous pods containing sweet nutritious seeds. The origi- 
nal form, P. sativum, var. arcense (P. arvense), the common 
gray pea or field-pea, is thought by some to be native in 
Greece and the Levant, by others to have come from fur- 
ther north. Peas were known to the ancient Greeks and 
Romans, and their cultivation is now general. Usually 
only the seeds are edible, but the pods of the sugar-pea, 
skinless pea, or string-pea are eaten, as in the case of 
"string-beans." The seeds are now mostly consumed 
when green, but are also split when ripe, and used in soups 
or ground into meal. (See pease-meal.) Before the spread 
of the potato, peas formed in England a principal food of 
the working classes. The varieties are very numerous, 
those of the marrow class being distinguished by seeds 
which are wrinkled and greenish even when ripe. 
Yes, yes, Madam, I am as like the Due de Richelieu as 
two peas ; but then they are two old withered grey peas. 
Walpole, Letters, Oct. 13, 17(15. 
The best Master I wot of is the Swabian who gave his 
scholars 911,000 callings, with standing on peas, and wear- 
ing the fool's cap in proportion. S. Judd, Margaret, ii. 1. 
2. Pea-spawn of a fish. SeesiMiicn Angolapea. 
See Cajanm. Beach-pea. See Lathyrus. Butterfly- 
pea. See CKtoria. Congo pea. Same as Angola pea. 
Cow-pea, a twining pulse-plant, Viana (Dolichos) Ka- 
tiang (V. Sitiensin), of tropical Asia and Africa, in cultiva- 
tion extending into warm-temperate climates. The pods 
are sometimes -2 feet long, and are edible while green, 
as are their seeds when dry. This is an important crop 
in the southern United States. Earthuut-pea, a plant, 
Lathyrm tubcroms, of Europe and Asiatic Russia, yielding 
edible tubers used like potatoes. Earth-pea, a Syrian 
species, Lathyrus amphicarpos, bearing underground pods. 
Egyptian pea, the chick-pea. Everlasting pea. See 
Lathyrus. Flat pea, one of three slender shrubs with 
very flat pods, of the Australian leguminous genus Platy- 
lobium, French pea. (at) The common pea or garden- 
pen, (b) pi. Canned peas prepared in France, reputed to be 
superior to those canned in other countries. Glory-pea. 
See CKanthus. Heart-pea, Same as heartneed. Hoary 
pea. See Tephronia, and catgut, 3 (6). Milk-pea See 
Oalactia, 2. Partridge-pea, (a) Cassia Chaimrcrista, a 
plant a foot high with showy yellow flowers, four of the ten 
long anthers yellow, the rest purple. It is common espe- 
cially southward in the eastern half of the United States. 
(6) lleisteria coccinea (F. pois perdrix). See Heisteria. 
Pea iron ore. a form of brown iron ore found in England 
in the "Corallian beds " of the Middle Oolite, and especially 
at Westbury in Wiltshire. Pea of an anchor, the bill of 
an anchor. Pigeon-pea. Same as Angola pea. Poison- 
pea. See Swamsona. Rosary peas, seeds of Abrwpre- 
catorius. Sea-pea, seaside pea. the beach-pea. Sen- 
sitive pea. Cassia nictitans, a small species in the eastern 
United States, whose pinnate leaves fold when touched. 
Also called wild sensitive-plant, C. Cliamtecruita (see' 
partridge-pea, above) has been called larye-Jtawered sen- 
sitive pea. Soy-pea. Same as soy-bean. See soy, and 
Sahuca beam (under deani). Spurred butterfly-pea 
Centrosema Virginia-turn, of the southern United States! 
The genus resembles CKtoria, but is distinguished by a 
spur projecting from near the base of the standard. 
Sturt's desert-pea, the Australian CKanthus Dampieri. 
Swainson pea. See Sicainsona. Sweet pea a fa- 
vorite climbing annual, Lathi/rus odoratm, with rather 
large sweet-scented flowers, a native of Sicily and south- 
ern Italy. There are numerous varieties, differing chiefly 
in the color, which runs from pure white to deep purple 
See painted-lady, 2. - Tangier pea, Lathiirm Tinijitamis, 
a pretty garden species from Tangiers, producing abundant 
small dark red-purple flowers. -Tuberous pea. Same 
as /ieatn-]m. See Lathyrux and kiiapperts. WOOd-pea. 
Same as tuberous pea. or sometimes (by translation) Latln/'- 
rus sileestris. See Lathyrm. (See also chick-pea, heath- 
pea, isrne-pea. meadow-pea, no-eye pea.) 
pea'-' (pe), . [= Sc. pne, pa (in pajock) ; < ME. 
pe- (in comp. ), pa, po, poo, < AS. pawa, also 
pea (once, in dat. pedn), m., pdwe, f., = D. 
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paauir = MLG. pntre, pamrc = OHG. pliawo, 
fdwo, plialio, fillio, jilido, MHG. pliaice, pfil in: 
jilid, pfd, G. pfan-e, pfaw, pfmre, pfoir, ffavtc, 
etc., now pj 'line, pfau', dial, pfob, pfaub, etc., = 
Icel. pa, pai (as a nickname ; in mod. use only 
in comp. pd-fugl = Sw. pdfogel = Dan. ;. 
= E. peafowl, q. v.) = F. paon ( > obs. E. _; 
= Sp. pavon = Pg. parao = It. pavone, < L. pu- 
vo(n-), ML. also pans, m., para, f., < Gr. *T<HJI> 
(in gen. Taavo;, etc.), usually roiif or rauf, also 
written rnur, where the aspirate represents the 
earlier digamma, orig. *raf"f = Ar. Turk, tdtrus 
= Hind, tans (in Hind, also called mor), < Pers. 
tdwus, tdus, a peacock; cf. Old Tamil tdkci, 
togei, a peacock.] A peafowl. The simple form 
pea is rare. It occurs chiefly in the compound namespea- 
coc*, peahen, peafowl, pea-chick, pea-pheasant. In the 
second quotation pea is restricted to 'peahen.' 
His berd was syde ay large span, 
And glided als the fether of pae. 
Als Y yod on ay Mounday (Child's Ballads, I. 274). 
A cock and a pea gender the Gallo-pavus, which is other- 
wise called the Indian hen, being mixed of a cock and a 
pea, though the shape be liker to a pea than a cock. 
Porta, Natural Magic (trans.), ii. 14. ({fares.) 
pea-bean (pe'ben), n. See bean*-, 2. 
pea-beetle (pe'be"tl), n. The pea-weevil, Bru- 
chits pisi. 
peaberry (pe'ber'i), . ; pi. peaberries (-{/.). 
The so-called male coffee-berry. See coffee, 1. 
Sometimes there is but one seed, called, from its shape, 
peaberry. Spans' Encyc. itanuf., I. 691. 
pea-bird (pe'berd), n. [< "pea, a syllable imi- 
tative of its cry, + bird 1 .'} The wryneck, lynx 
torquilla. 
pea-bluff (pe'bluf), n. A pea-shooter. Halli- 
well. [Prov. Eng.] 
pea-bone (pe'bon), . The pisiform bone of 
the wrist: so called from its size and shape. 
pea-bug (pe'bug), n. The pea-weevil, Bruclius 
pisi. TIL S.] 
pea-bush (pe'bush), n. An evergreen heath- 
like shrub, Burtonia scabra, of eastern Austra- 
lia. It has large purple papilionaceous flowers, 
single in the upper axils. 
peace (pes), n. [< ME. pece, pees, pes, peis, pais, 
< OF. pais, pai:, F. paix = Sp. Pg. paz = It. 
pace, < L. pax (ace. pacem), peace, < \/ pae, 
pag, as in paciscere, agree, make a bargain, 
pangere, fix: see pact. Cf. pacate, pay 1 , paci- 
fy, etc., appease, etc.] A state of quiet or 
tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agi- 
tation; calm; quietness; repose. Specifically 
(a) Freedom from war or hostile attacks ; exemption from 
or cessation of hostilities ; absence of civil, private, or 
foreign strife, embroilment, or quarrel. 
And aftre him Mango Chan, that was a gode Cristene 
man, and baptized, and zaf Lettres of perpetuelle pes to 
alle Cristene men. MandevUle, Travels, p. 230. 
The king has also the sole prerogative of making war 
and peace. Blackstotie, Com., I. vii. 
(b) Freedom from agitation or disturbance by the passions, 
as from fear, terror, anger, or anxiety ; quietness of mind ; 
tranquillity; calmness; quiet of conscience. 
Great peace have they which love thy law. Ps. cxix. 165. 
But now a joy too deep for sound, 
A peace no other season knows. 
Bryant, Summer Ramble. 
(c) A state of reconciliation between parties at variance ; 
harmony ; concord. 
"What tydinges now," quod he, "I praye yow saye." 
"Be of good chere," quod they, "donght ye no dele, 
Your pece is made, and all shall be right wele." 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 1806. 
St. Anselm and his Peace or composition with Henry the 
First. H. W. IHxon, Hist. Church of Eng., ii. 
(d) Public tranquillity ; that quiet order and security which 
are guaranteed by the laws : as, to keep the peace; to break 
the peace; a justice of the peace. 
The king has, in fact, become the lord ; ... the public 
peace, or observance of the customary right by man to- 
wards man, has become the king's peace, the observance 
of which is due to the will of the lord, and the breach of 
which is a personal offence against him. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 203. 
(e) A compact or agreement made by contending parties 
to abstain from further hostilities ; a treaty of peace : as, 
the peace of Byswick. 
A peace differs not from a truce essentially in the length 
of its contemplated duration, for there may be very long 
armistices, and states of peace continuing only a definite 
number of years. Wuolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 150. 
Armed peace. See armed. Articles of the peace. 
See article. Bill of peace, in tow, a bill or suit in equity 
brought by a person to establish and perpetuate a right 
of such a nature and under such circumstances that with- 
out the intervention of the court it may be controverted 
by different persons at different times, and by different 
actions ; or where separate attempts have already been 
unsuccessfully made to overthrow the same right, and 
where justice requires that the party should be quieted 
in the right by a decree of the court. Bird of peace 
breach of the peace, clerk of the peace, commis- 
sion of the peace. See bird, breach, etc. Conser- 
vators of the peace. See conservator. Justice of the 
peaceably 
peace. See justice.- Kiss of peace. See Ms*. Let- 
ters of peacet. Same as pacijical letters (which see, 
under pacifiad). Peace Congress. See cmujreft. 
Peace Convention or Conference. Same as Peace Can- 
grew. Peace establishment, the reduced quantity of 
military supplies and number of effective soldiers kept 
under arms in a standing army during time of peace. 
Peace money, in early Eng. hist., a payment or fine for 
breach of the public peace. Peace Of God and the 
Church, that cessation which the king's subjects former- 
ly had from trouble and suit of law between the terms anil 
on Sundays and holidays. Peace Preservation Acts 
(Ireland), English statutes of 1870, etc., and especially 
the act of 1881. The last contained stringent provisions 
in regard to the carrying, importation, and sale of arms. 
Peace resolves, in U. S. IM., a series of resolutions 
reported to the Congress of the United States by the Peace 
Congress of February, 1801, embodying suggestions for the 
averting of civil war. The king's (or queen's) peace, 
originally, the exemption or immunity secured by severe 
penalties to all within the king's house, in attendance on 
him, or employed on his business, and gradually accorded 
to all within the realm who are not outlaws; the public 
peace, for the maintenance of which the sovereign is re- 
sponsible. The peace. Same as kiss of peace (which see, 
under kiss). To hold one's peace. See holdl. 
So hold thipees; thow slest me with thi speche. 
Cha-ucer, Troilus, iv. 455. 
To keep the peace, to abstain from violation of the 
public peace. See breach of the peace, under breach. To 
make (a pel-son's) peace (with another), to reconcile the 
other to him. 
I will mate your pence with him. Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 296. 
Treaty of peace. See treaty. =Syn. Stillness; silence, 
(a) Amity. (6) Quiet, Tranmtilltty, etc. See rest. 
peacet (pes), v. [< ME. peacen, peaseii, pccrti, 
pesen, < OF. paisier, pacify, bring to peace, 
make peace ; from the noun : see jieacc, n. Cf. 
appease.] I. intrans. To hold one's peace; be 
or become silent ; hold one's tongue. 
Heruppon the people peacyd and stilled unto the tyme 
the shire was doon. Paston Letters, I. 180. 
I will not peace. IS. Jomon, Alchemist, iii. 2. 
Then since, dear life ! you fain would have me peace, 
And I, mad with delight, want wit to cease, 
Stop you my mouth. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 543). 
II. trans. To appease; quiet; allay. 
Which only oblation to be sufficient sacrifice, to peace 
the Father's wrath, and to purge all the sins of the world. 
Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), 
fp. 265. 
peaceabilityt (pe-sa-bil'i-ti), . [< ME. pesi- 
blete; us peaceable -f -ity.] Tranquillity; calm; 
peace. 
He roos and blamede the wynd and the tempest of the 
watir, and it ceesside, and pesiblete was inaad. 
Wydif, Luke viii. 24. 
peaceable (pe'sa-bl), a. [< ME. pcsable, pesi- 
ble, paisible, etc. ; < OF. paisible, pesible, peace- 
able, < pais, peace: see peace.] 1. Accom- 
panied with or characterized by peace, quiet- 
ness, or tranquillity; free from agitation, war, 
tumult, or disturbance of any kind ; peaceful. 
A hlisful lyf, a paitdble and a swete, 
Ledden the peples in the former age. 
Chaucer, Former Age, 1. 1. 
His peaceable reign and good government. 
Shak., Pericles, ii. 1. 108. 
But the treachery, the contempt of law, the thirst for 
blood, which the King had now shown, left no hope of a 
peaceable adjustment. Macaulay, Nugent's Hampden. 
2. Disposed to peace ; not quarrelsome, rude, 
or boisterous. 
Thre of the barons apart [she] drew hastily 
Off moste gretteste, sayng in wyse pesible 
As woman full sage and ryght sensible. 
Rom. ofPartenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3653. 
Men of mild, and sweet, and peaceable spirits, as indeed 
most Anglers are. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 48. 
= Syn. Peaceful, etc. (see pacific), amicable, mild, friendly, 
peaceableness (pe'sa-bl-ues), . The state or 
character of being peaceable; quietness; dis- 
position to peace. 
peaceably (pe'sa-bli), adv. In a peaceable 
manner, (a) Without war, tumult, commotion, or dis- 
turbance; without quarrel or feud: as, the kings of this 
dynasty ruled peaceably for two hundred years. (6) In or 
at peace; quietly; without interruption, annoyance, or 
alarm : as, to live and die peaceably. 
Therfore thei suffren. that folk of alle I.awes maype;/t- 
bely duellcn amonges hem. Mandeinlle, Travels, p. 262. 
Disturb him not, let him pass peaceaHy. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 25. 
They were also very careful that every one that be- 
longed to them answered their profession in their behaviour 
among men, upon all occasiouns ; that they lived peace- 
ably, and were in all things good examples. 
fenn, Rise and Progress of Quakers, iv. 
(c) Without anger or disposition to quarrel; amicably; 
as one disposed to peace. 
And when his brethren saw thut their father loved him 
more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could nut, 
speak jicaceably unto him. Gen. xxxvii. 4. 
To live peaceably is so to demean ourselves in all the of- 
fices and stations of life as to promote a friendly under- 
standing and correspondence among those we converse 
with. p. Attcrburi/, SeTmuns, II. xxjy. 
