petticoat affair (petikotafar")

An affair of gallantry; a matter in which a woman is concerned. [Colloq.] Venus may know more than both of us, For 'tis some petticoat affair . Dryden, A mph i try on, i. 1. petticoat-breeches (pet'i-kōt-brich"ez), n. pl. Breeches of the kind worn about the middle of the seventeenth IMG:content-2810.png:[graphic] century, in which each thigh was covered by a loose cylinder of cloth, usually not gathered at the bottom-the two re petticoat - trou faces, two look into the cranial cavity, the superior border sembling two small formed by their juncture separating the middle from the skirts or petticoats posterior fo a. The large carotid canal perforates its sub placed side by side. stance, and the Eustachian tube opens out of it near the apex. The petrous and mastoid parts taken together form Also the petromastoid or periotic bone. See cuts under earl, sers. tympanic, and craniofacial. - Petrous sinus. Same as petrosal sinus. pettah (pet'ä), n. [E. Ind.] The town or village which clusters round a fortre ; an extramural suburb of a fortre . [Anglo-Indian.] patelliform shell, and live attached to rocks, mostly between tide-marks. petrosal (pet-rō'sal), a. and n. [L. petrosus, rocky (see petrous ), + -al.] I. a. 1. Petrous; of comparatively great hardne , as of stone or rock: said of the petrous part of the temporal bone.-2. Of or pertaining to the petrous part of the temporal bone: as, the petrosal nerves.- Petrosal bone. (a) One of several o eous parts of which the temporal bone is composed near the period of birth in man, remaining more or le distinct throughout life in many animals, the other two parts being the squamozygomatic and the tympanic. Also called periotic bone and petromastoid bone. (b) The petrous part of the temporal bone. - Petrosal nerve, one of five nerves which pa through foramina in the petrous part of the temporal bone: the large deep, a branch of the carotid plexus uniting with the large superficial from the facial to form the vidian; the small deep, a branch from the carotid plexus to the tympanic plexus; the small superfi cial, the continuation of Jacob son's nerve, terminating in the otic ganglion; the external superficial, a branch uniting the geniculate ganglion of the facial with the sympathetic plexus on the middle meningeal artery. - Petrosal sinus, one of two venous sinuses lying along the superior and inferior margins of the petrous part of the temporal bone, the superior connecting the cavernous sinus with the lateral as it turns down into the sigmoid groove, the inferior connecting the cavernous sinus with IMG:content-2811.png:[blocks in formation] In their puffings and slashings the sleeves of the dre es of both sexes were alike; nor was almost a corresponding resemblance wanting between the trunk-hose and the petticoat - breeches of one sex and the skirts of the kirtles and gowns and the veritable petticoats IMG:content-2812.png:[graphic] ... of the other sex. Encyc. Brit., VI. 472. Petticoat-breeches.