peganite

[Gr. pēgan on =the herb rue; suff. ite (Min.).] Mineral.: An orthorhombic mineral, occurring in incrustations of small crystals at Striegis, near 2-49-2-50; luster, greasy; color, shades of green to greenish-white; streak, white. Composition: Phosphoric acid, 31'1; alumina, 45.2; water, 23.7=100, resulting formula, (Al2O3)2PO5+6HO. pē-gan-um, s. [Lat. peganon; Gr. peganon rue.] Bot.: A genus of Zygophyllese. Peganum har mala , a strongly scented plant, with dense foliage, has alternate, se ile, dotle leaves, white flowers with greenish veins, fifteen stamens, and capsular fruit with three valves. A bush, one to three feet high, wild in Spain, Hungary, North Africa, Arabia, Cashmere, the Him a lay as, . In Turkey its seeds are used as a vermifuge and a spice, also for dyeing red. pě-gā-se-an, peg-a-se-an, a . [PEGASUS.] 1. Lit .: Of or pertaining to Pegasus; swift, speedy. 2. Fig .: Pertaining or relating to poetry; poet ical. IMG:content-0813.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Astron.: The Flying Horse; one of the twenty ancient Northern constellations, bounded on the north by Lacerta and Andromeda, on the south by Aquarius, on the east by Pisces, and on the west by Equuleus and Delphin us. It is on the meridian in September at midnight. Alpha Pegasi is Markab, Beta Pegasi is Scheat, and Gamma Pegasi is Algenib (q. v.). These with Alpha Andromedæ constitute the great square of Pegasus. 2. Cla . Mythol .: A winged steed which sprang forth from the neck of Medusa after her head had been severed by Perseus; so called because born near the sources ( pēgai ) of Ocean. As soon as he was born he flew upward, and fixed his abode on Mount Helicon, where, with a blow of his hoofs, he produced the fountain Hippocrene. 3. Ichthy .: The only genus of the family Pegaside. Pectoral fins broad, horizontal, long, composed of simple rays, sometimes spinous. Upper part of the snout produced. Four species are known; all very small fishes, probably living on sandy shoal places near the coast. pěg-ger, s. [Eng. peg, v.; -er.] One who pegs or fastens with pegs. pěg-ging, pr. par., a. & s. [PEG, v.] IMG:content-0814.png:[blocks in formation] Pě-gu-an, a. & s. [See def.] A. As adj .: Of or pertaining to Pegu, in Burmah, or its inhabitants. B. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Pegu Pêh-le-vî, Pêh-lạ vĩ, Pah-la-vi, subst . [From Pehlav , a district in Persia.] Languages : A Parsee sacred language, which succeeded the Zend and preceded the modern Persian. It was a development of the old Zend. The Zend Avesta was translated into it. *pêine, s . [Fr., from Lat. pæna =punishment.] Penalty, suffering, grief, torment. *peine forte et dure, phr . (Lat. pæna fortis et dura .] Old Eng. Law : A penalty or punishment inflicted on those who, being charged with felony, remained mute, and refused to plead. It was introduced by the statute 3 Edward I., c. 12, and was vulgarly called pre ing to death, whence there was in New gate a place called the pre -yard, where such penalty was inflicted. "To return to the peine forte et dure , which was the English judgment for standing mute; it was that the prisoner be remanded to prison, and put in a low dark chamber, and there be laid on his back on the bare floor, naked, unle where decency forbids; that there be placed upon his body as great a weight of iron as he could bear, and more; that he have no sustenance, save only, on the first day, three morsels, of the worst bread; and, on the second day, three draughts of standing water, that should be nearest to the prison-door; and in this situation this should be alternately his daily diet till he died, or, as anciently the judgment ran, till he answered."- Black stone: Comment., bk. iv., ch. 25. *pein-ture, s. [Old Fr.) [PAINTURE.]