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town of Bohemia, in the circle of Czaflau: feven miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Czaflau.—A town of Bohemia, in the 
circle of Moldau : fix miles fouth of Seltfchan. 
PETROW'NAH, a town of Hindooftan in Bahar: 
twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
PETROZAVODSK, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Olonetz, fituated on the welt coaft of the Onez- 
fkoe lake : 224 miles fouth-we ft of Archangel, and 13a 
north-eaft of Peterlburg. Lat. 61. 40. N. Ion. 34. 14. E. 
PET'SCHAKEN, a town of B'ohemia, in the circle of 
Bechin : eight miles fouth of Pilgram. 
PET'SCHANOI, a fort of Ruflia, in the governmentof 
Kolivan: i 38 miles well-fouth-weft of Kolivan. Lat. 53. 
N. Ion 76. 34. E. 
PET'SCHANOI, a cape on the north conll of Ruflia, 
in the Frozen Sea. Lat. 75. 25. N. Ion. 165. 14. E. 
PETSCIINEC'ZA, a town in the duchy of Carinthia : 
twelve miles fouth-weft of Clagenfurt. 
PETS'KA, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Ko- 
nigingratz -. eleven miles eaft-north-eaft of Gitfchin. 
PE rS'KAU, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz: 
twenty-two miles eaft of Eger, and fixty-eight welt of 
Prague. Lat. 50. 4. N. Ion. 12. 55. E. 
PET'SMO, a fmall illand on the eaft fide of the gulf of 
Bothnia. Lat. 63. 14, N. Ion. 21. 33. F,. 
PET'TAH, f. [Indian.] A town adjoining to a fort, 
which is in general furrounded by a fence of bamboos, a 
wall, and a ditch. Roberts's Indian Glojfary. 
PET'TAL, a town of Hindooftan, in Madura : twenty 
miles eaft of Coilpetta. 
PETTAPOL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Guntoor, fituated on the coaft of the Bay of Bengal: 
forty-two miles fouth-weft of Mafulipatam, and forty-two 
north eaft of Ongole. 
PETTAPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Rajamundry : thirty miles eaft-north-eaft of Rajamun- 
tiry.—A town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: twelve miles 
north-weft of Arnedabad. 
PETTAW', a town in the duchy of Stiria, on the 
Drave, containing one parilh-church and three cloifters. 
The manufactories of this town are confiderable. It is a 
very old place, being frequently mentioned as well by 
the Roman as other ancient authors: thirteen miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Marpurg, and 100 fouth of Vienna. Lat. 46. 
34. N. Ion. 15. 52 - E. 
PET'TEN, a village of Holland, near the German Sea, 
celebrated for its oylters: ten miles north-weft of Alc- 
maer. 
PET'TENAW, a town of the county of Tyrol, near 
the Inn : twelve miles weft-fouth-weft of Infpruck. 
PET'TENDORF, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Culmbach : fix miles fouth-weft of Bayreuth. 
PET'TEREL, a river of England, which unites with the 
Eden near Carlifle, and runs into the fea at Sol way-frith. 
PET'TERKAW, a town of Pruffia, in Oberland : 
twenty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Marienwerder. 
PETTERLIN'GEN. See Payerne. 
PET'TERSDORF, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Natangen : twenty-eight miles eaft of Konifberg. 
PET'TERSWALDT, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Natangen : twenty-four miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Brandenburg.— A town of Pruffia, in the province of 
Ermeland : ten miles weft of Heilfberg. 
PET'TERWITZ, a town of Pruflia, in the province of 
Oberland: four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Neidenburg.— 
A town of Pruflia in the province of Oberland : four 
miles north of Bifchopwerder. 
PETTIAU'GER, f. A fmall vefiel ufed on the rivers 
in Weft Florida. 
PET'TICOAT, f. [ i. e. a fmall coat, or part of a coat, 
as breeches are called fmall-clothes.] The lower part of a 
woman’s drefs.—What trade art thou, Feeble?—A wo¬ 
man’s taylor, fir.—Wilt thou make as many holes in an 
enemy’s battle, as thou haft done in a woman’s petticoat ? 
Shakefpeare. — It is a great compliment to the fex, that the 
virtues are generally fliown in petticoats. Addifon. 
To fifty chofen fylphs, of fpecial note, 
We truft th’ important charge, the petticoat; 
Oft have we known that fevenfold fence to fail. 
Though ftiff with hoops, and arm’d with ribs of whale. 
Pope's Rape of the Lock. 
PET'TICOAT, adj. Wearing a petticoat; belonging 
to a woman ; female. 
PET'TICOAT-GOVERNMENT, f. Female govern¬ 
ment; the authority of the wife unduly exercifed over 
the hufband. 
PETTICOT'TA, a town of Hindooftan in the Carnatic: 
twenty-feven miles fouth of Tanjore. 
To PET'TIFOG, v. n. [from petit, and voguer, to row, 
Fr.] To play the pettifogger.—He is a common barreter 
for his pleafure, that takes no money, but pettifogs gratis. 
Butler's Charac. 
PET' riFOGGER,yl [from the Fr. petit, and vogueur, 
a rower.] A fmall-rate lawyer.—The worft-conditioned 
and leaft-cliented petivoguers get, under the fweet bait of 
revenge, more plentiful profecution of actions. Carew's 
Stirv. of Cornwall. —Confider how indecent it is to.aban¬ 
don your (hop and follow pettifoggers; there is hardly a 
plea between two country efquires about a barren acre, 
but you draw yourfelf in as bail, furety, or folicitor. 
Arbulhnot's J. Bull. — Phyficians are apt to defpife empy- 
rics, lawyers pettifoggers, merchants pedlars. Swift. 
Your pettifoggers damn their fouls 
To fliare with knaves in cheating fools. Hudibras. 
PETTIFOG'GERY, f. The practice of a pettifogger. 
—Whence tedious fuits, crafty pleadings, quirks of law, 
and pettifoggeries, will neceflarily creep in. Barrow's Serrn. 
on the Unity of the Church. —Trick; quibble.—The laft 
and lowed fort of their arguments, that men purchafed not 
their tithe with their land, and fuch-like pettifoggery, I 
omit. Miltons Means to remove Hirelings out of the 
Church. 
PET'TIFOGGING, adj. PraCtifing as a pettifogger. 
PET'TIFOGGING, J. The practice of a pettifogger. 
PF.TTIN'CO, a river of Sicily, in the Valley of Mazara, 
which runs into the fea fix miles north-weft of Milt- 
re rta. 
PET'TINESS, f. [from petty.] Smallnefs; littlenefs; 
in c onfi d erabl e n efs; u 11 i m p0 rtance.—Th efe pettinejfes bei ng 
below the Divine Majefty to catch at. More's Myftery of 
Godlinefs. 
The Ioffes we have borne, the fubjeCts we 
Have loft, and the difgrace we have digefted ; 
To anfwer which, his peltinefs would bow under. Shahef. 
PETTI'NI, a fmall illand in the gulf of Venice. Lat. 
24. 37. N. Ion. 44. 49. E. 
PET'TISH, adj. [from pet.] Fretful ; peevith.—They 
[melancholy perlons] are apt to miftake and amplify ; 
telly, pettifh, peevilh, and ready to fnarle upon every 
fmall occafion. Burton's Anat. of Mel. —There are thole 
who are pettifh and crabbed in youth ; there are contrarily 
thofe who are mild, gentle, fociable, in their decayed 
years. Bp. Hall's Balm of Gilead. 
Nor doth their childhood prove their innocence ; 
They’re froward, pettifh , and unus’d to fmile. Creech. 
PET'TISHLY, adv. In a pet.— Petlifhly, ridiculoufly, 
to fling away your fortune. Beaum. and FI, Mad Lover. 
PET'TISHNESS, j Fretfulnefs; peeviflinefs.—Like 
children, when we lofe our favourite plaything, we throw 
away the reft in a fit of peeviflinefs. Collier. 
PET'TIT (Edward, M. A.), born at Bury in Suffolk, 
was entered in Jefus-college, Cambridge, in 1670. He was 
afterwards vicar of Shepherdfwell and Coldred in Kent, 
in which latter church there is a monument to his memory, 
with his arms. He was great-grandfather to Valentine 
Simpfon, 
