pixy-wheel 
pixy-wheel (pik'si-hwel), w. Same as trliorl. 
Compan- fniry nnllxtniii , under /rtin/. 
pizain, pizairie, . Same as ;.;'-'. 
pizan-collar, . Same as pisan^. Plaudit. 
pize't, a- An obsolete form of y<iM. 
pize- (pi/.), ". [Also />!, J>ie; origin obscure.] 
A it-riii used in mild execration, like pox. 
A pfc upon you ; well, my father has made Lucy swear 
too never to see Truman without his content 
Cavity, Cutter of Coleman Street. (Nora.) 
Pile on 'em, they never think before hand of any thing. 
Conffreve, Lore for Love, v. 2. 
Tills peevish humour of melancholy sits 111 upon you. 
... A pia on It, send it off. Scott, Kenllworth, 1. 
pizzicato (mt-si-kii'to), a. [It., twitched, nip- 
p<>tl, pp. of pizzicare', twitch, nip, pinch: see 
/inii-li.] In music for stringed instruments of 
tin- viol family, noting the manner of playing, or 
the effect produced, when the strings are plucked 
or twanged by the finger, as in harp-playing, 
instead of sounded by means of the bow. The 
end of a passage to be thus' rendered Is marked by nil area, 
with the bow, ' or simply area. Abbreviated pia. 
pizzle (piz'l), [Early mod. E. also pizzel, 
i)inle; < LG. pescl, a pizzle; dim. of MD. pese, 
I). IICI-K, a sinew, string, pizzle, whence also 
MD. prxerick, a sinew, string, whip of bull's 
hide, pizzle, D. pezerik, peesrik = MLG. pese- 
rik, LG. (Q. dial.) peserick, pizzle. The MHG. 
visel, G. jftsel, penis, is a diff. word, akin to L. 
pi-Hi.* : see penis.] The penis of an animal, as 
a bull. Kir T. Browne. 
pk. A common contraction of park and peek. 
pkg. A commercial contraction of package. 
pi. An abbreviation of plural. 
placability (pla-ka-bil'j-ti), . [= OF. placa- 
hilite = Sp. placalnlidaH = Pg. placabilidade = 
It. placfibilila, < L. placabilita(t-)s, < placabilis, 
placable: see placable. ] The quality of being 
placable or appeasable; susceptibility of being 
pacified or placated. 
Placability is no lyttell parte of l>enignitie. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Oovernour, II. 8. 
placable (pla'ka-bl), a. [< OF. (and F.) placa- 
ble = Sp. placable = Pg. placavel = It. placabile, 
< L. placabilis, easily appeased, < plactire, ap- 
pease: see placate.'] Capable of being pla- 
cated or pacified; easy to be appeased; will- 
ing to forgive. 
Methought I saw him placable and mild. 
Milton, P. L, xi. 151. 
So mild and placable was Farilidas that he refused to 
put him (Claudius) to death, but sent him prisoner to 
the mountain of Wechne. 
lirticc, Source of the Nile, III. 444. 
placableness (pla'ka-bl-nes), w. Placability. 
placably (pla'ka-blij, adv. In a placable man- 
ner; with readiuess to forgive. 
placard (plak'iird or pla-kard'), . [Formerly 
also placart and plackard; = MD. plackaerd, < 
OV. placard, plticarl, plaquart, < F. placard, pla- 
i/uarrl (= Sp. obs. placarte), a placard, a writing 
pasted on a wall, etc., also rough-cast on walls 
(OF. also a plate, a part of aiinor, a piece of 
money), < plaqtter, stick or paste on, also rough- 
cast (< D. plakkeu, glue or fasten up, plaster), < 
//lai/ne, a plate, panel, piece of money, etc.: see 
pluck, plaque. Ct. placcate.] 1. A written or 
printed paper displaying some proclamation or 
announcement, and intended to be posted in 
H public place to attract public attention; a 
posting-bul; a poster. 2t. An edict, mani- 
festo, proclamation, or command issued by 
authority. 
And that, vpmi the Innocencle of my said chancellor de- 
clared, ft may further please the king's grace to award a 
placard vnto his attumey to confesse the sulde enditement 
to be vntrue. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 741. 
All Coins bear his Stamp, all Placarttor Edict* are pub- 
lished In his Name. //.,., Letters, I. ii. 16. 
St. A public permit, or one given by authority ; 
a license. 
"pp 
It. 
prohibited by the lawes and statutes of this realme, thai 
be ... utterly voyde and of none effect. An. 2 & 3 P. 
and M. cap. 9. Rattall, Statutes, fol. 344. 
i ithera are of the contrary opinion, and that Christianity 
give* us a placard to use these (port*. Fuller. 
4f. In medieval arntor, same as placcale. 
Some had the helme, the visere, the two bavlen and the 
twojtfadtontoof the same curiously graven and conninfily 
costed. UaU, Henry IV., f. 12. ( II alii mil ) 
6. A plate or tag on which to place a mark of 
ownership. 
Their Plstolls was the next, which marked Smith upon 
the placard. CapL John Sintik, True Travels, I. 17. 
4520 
6t. Pargeting; parget-work. 7. () The wood- 
work or cabinet -work composing the door of a 
closet, etc., with its framework. Hence (6) 
A closet formed or built in a wall, so that only 
the door is visible from the exterior. 
placard (pla-kard' or plak'iird), v. t. [< pla- 
card, n.] 1. To post placards upon : as, to pla- 
card the walls of a town. 2. To make known 
or make public by means of placards: as, to 
iilacard the failure of a bank. 
acate (pla'kat), v. t. ; pret. and pp. placated, 
"pr. placating. JX L. placatus, pp. of placare (> 
t.placare = Sp. Pg. a-placar), appease ; cf.pla- 
cere, please : see please.] To appease or paci- 
fy; conciliate. 
Therefore Is he always propitiated and placated, both 
first and last. Cvduvrth, Intellectual System, p. 476. 
placation (pla-ka'sbon), n. [< OF. placation = 
Sp. a-placacion = Pe-a-placaqSo =li.placazione; 
< L. as if f placatio(n-), < placare, placate: see 
placate.] 1. The act of placating, appeasing, 
pacifying, or conciliating; propitiation. 
They were the first that Instituted sacrifices of placa- 
tion, with inuocatlons and worship. 
J'utttnliain, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 4. 
2. A propitiatory act. 
The people were taught and perswaded by such placa- 
Hi in* and worships to receaue any helpe, comfort, or bene- 
flte to them selues. 
l-iiiiinlinin. Art,- of Eng. Poesie, p. 23. 
placatory (pla'ka-to-ri), a. [< placate + -ory.] 
Conciliatory; intended to placate or appease 
or propitiate ; betokening pacific intentions. 
placcate (plak'at), n. [= MD. plackaet, D. 
plakkaat, a placard, an altered form of plack- 
aerd (see placard) ; appar. < ML. 'placcata, < 
placca, placa, a plate : see plack, and cf . pla- 
card.] In medieval armor: (a) A plate of steel 
used as additional defense, and specifically the 
doublingof the lower part of the breastplate, of- 
ten made by bolting on an additional solid thick- 
ness of iron : a similar placcate was used for the 
back. (&) A plate of hammered iron reinfor- 
cing the gambeson or brigandine in the same 
parts of the body as (a), (c) A garment of 
fence worn in the thirteenth century, consist- 
ing of a leather jacket or doublet lined with 
thin strips or splints of steel ; a variety of the 
brigandine. Also placket, plaquet. 
place (plas), n. [< ME. place (= MD. plaetse, 
D. floats = MLG. plas, pldtse, pldtze = MHG. 
plats;, blatz, blaz, G.platz = Icel. (13th century) 
nlaz = Sw. plats = Dan. plads), < OF. place, 
F. place, a place, court, = Sp. plaza = Pg. 
praca = It. piazza, < 'L.platia, a street, court- 
yard, area, < Gr. jr/ortia, a broad way in a city, 
a street; prop. fern. (sc. ociof, way) of ir/arrf, 
flat, wide, broad: see plat*.] 1. A broad way 
or open space in a city or town; an area or 
public courtyard devoted to some particular 
use or having some specific character; a public 
square or quadrangle. With a proper or other dis- 
tinctive name prefixed, place Is often applied to a street 
or part of a street, or to a square : as, Waverley Place, Wa- 
terloo Place, Temple Place. 
The other squirrel wa* stolen from me by the hangman 
boys In the market ^incc. Shot., T. G. of V., iv. 4. 00. 
In the middle is a little place, with two or three cafes 
decorated by wide awnings. 
a. Jamct, Jr., Little Tour, p. 176. 
2. An area or portion of land marked off or 
regarded as marked off or separated from the 
rest, as by occupancy, use, or character; re- 
gion; locality; site; spot. 
The place whereon thou standest Is holy ground. 
Ex. III. 5. 
Whilst the mercies of God do promise us heaven, our 
conceit* and opinions exclude us from that place. 
Sir T. Browne, Rellgio Medici, I. 66. 
Iron Grates Inclose the Place called the Choir, so that 
there 's no Entrance. 
.V. linilru, it. of Colloquies of Erumus, II. 26. 
There was no convenient place In the town for strangers. 
Pocodre, Description of the Eaat, II. II. 44. 
3. A particular town or village: as, Hampton 
is a historic place; a thriving place. 
I am a Devonshire man born, and Tavlstock the place of 
my once abiding. Jl. Petite (Arber't Eng. Garner, I. 832). 
This Inner part of the bay [of Fana| ha* a fine beech on 
the west and south sides for boats to come up to, and 
*eems to be the place called Notliim by Strabo. 
foeoctf. Description of the Ea*t, II. II. 7. 
4. A mansion with its adjoining grounds; a 
residence or dwelling ; a manor-house. 
The Harringtons had of ancient time a falre manor place, 
ithln a mile of Home 1 ' CaatelL Island, Itinerary, VI. 69. 
Vborn he was in fer contree 
In Flaundres al blyonde the see, 
At Popering in the place. 
Chaucer, Sir Thopa*, I. 9. 
place 
5. A building or a part of a building set apart 
for any purpose ; quarters of any kind : as, a 
place of worship; a place in the country; a 
place of business. 
I do not like the Tower of any place. 
Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord? 
Shot., Rich. III., III. 1. Tn. 
To see Mr. Snong, and found him out by Southampton 
Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his cham- 
ber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the field*. 
fepyt. Diary, IV. 65. 
6. A fortified post; a stronghold. 7. Room 
to abide in; abode; lodgment; location. 
I know that ye are Abraham's wed ; but ye seek to kill 
me, because my word hath noplace In you. John vlli. 37. 
Can Discontent find Place within that breast? 
Congrece,, To Cynthia. 
8. Room to stand or sit in; a particular loca- 
tion, as a seat, or a space for sitting or stand- 
ing, as in a coach, car, or public hall. 
Our placet by the coach are taken. 
liirki-nx. David Copperfleld, xxli. 
" No person to be admitted to keep Placet in the Pit " 
seems a singular order, were it not explicable by the fact 
that people used to send their footmen to keep placet for 
them until their arrival, and that the manners of these 
gentry gave great offence to the habitues of the pit. 
.' .\fl,i<:n. Social Life In Reign of Queen Anne, II. IS. 
9. A particular locality; a particular spot or 
portion of a surface or in a body : as, a sore 
place; a software. 10. The proper or appro- 
priate location or position : as, a place for every- 
thing, and everything in its place. 
This is no place for Ladies ; we allow 
Her absence. Heymxtd, Royal King. 
That it may be possible to put a book in Its place on a 
shelf there must be (1) the book, and (2), distinct and apart 
from it, the place on the shelf. 
J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 65. 
11. In the abstract, the determinate portion of 
space occupied by any body. 
A mind not to be changed by place or time ; 
The mind is it* own place, and in itself 
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 
Mttton, P. L., L 253. 
Place . . . stands for that space which any body takes 
up, and so the universe is in a place. 
Locke, Human Cnderstandlng, II. xlil. 10. 
12. A portion or passage of a book or writing. 
The place of the Scripture which he read was this. 
Act* vlll. 32. 
Hosea, in the person of God, saith of the Jews : They have 
reigned, but not by me : . . . Which jrfa proveth plainly 
that there are government* which God doth not avow. 
Bacon, Holy War. 
This place some of the old doctors understood too liter- 
ally. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 13. 
13. [In this sense a translation of L. locus. 
Gr. rojrof (see topic).] In logic and i'liet., a 
topic; a class of matters of discourse ; an order 
of considerations comprising all those which 
have analogous relations to their subjects. 
A place Is the resting corner of an argumente, or els a 
mark which geveth warning to our memorie what we may 
speake probably, either in tne one parte or the other, upon 
al causes that fal In question. . . . For these placet. Dee 
nothing elle* but coverte* or boroughs, wherln. If any one 
searche diligently, he maye finde game at pleasure. 
Wilton, Rule of Reason (1551). 
14. In falconry, the greatest elevation which a 
bird of prey attains in its flight. 
A falcon, towering In her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill. I. 
slink:, Macbeth, It. 4. 12. 
Eagles can have no speed except when at their place, 
and then to be sure their weight increases their velocity. 
Thornton, Sporting Tour. 
15. Room; stead: with the sense of substitu- 
tion : preceded by tn. 
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not ; for am I in the 
place of God? Gen. 1. 19. 
Sir Thomas More Is chosen 
Lord Chancellor t'n your place. 
Skat., Hen. VIII., 111. 2. 304. 
In place 
Of thanks, devise to extlrpe the memory 
Of such an act. II. Jonton, Volpone, Iv. 2. 
16. A situation; an appointment : unemploy- 
ment; hence, office: as, a politician striving 
for place; a coachman wanting & place. 
Though he had offered to lay down his place, yet, when 
he saw they went about it, he grew passionate, and ex- 
postulated with them. 
IfiiifAro;), Hist. New England, I. 304. 
For neither pension, post, nor place 
Am I your humble dcbtur. 
Burnt, The Dream. 
17. Official or social status or dignity; voca- 
titin, station, or condition in lite, t-ti-.: sis. tn 
make one know his ///<< . 
When any of great plarf ilyi-th. tiny axsrinlili- the As- 
trologers, anil t.ll tin- lioiire of his tiatiultie. Unit tin \ 
may by their Art nndi- a Plani-t tminii l<> tin' inn-nlnc '< 
lln'i-iirpe*. Pvrchat, I II Iff |i. 427. 
