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An obsolete form of poise. Spenser. peba (pē'ba), n. [S. Amer.] Akind of armadillo, Dasypus peba; also, the seven or nine-banded armadillo, Tatusia septemcincta or novemcincta. peba Peba, or Texan Armadillo ( Tatusia novemcincta). The true peba is South American, but the name has also been given to the Texan armadillo. pebble (peb'l), n. [Formerly also peeble, pib ble; ME. pibble, pibbil (in pibblestone, pib bilston ), pobble, rounded stone. The term is usually applied to stones worn and rounded by the action of water. Pebbles are le in size than cobbles; and ordinary gravels are chiefly made up of sand, the grains of which pa by imperceptible gradations of size into pebbles, with which are frequently intermixed more or le of rounded fragments large enough to be called cobbles. My fords with pebbles, clear as orient pearls, are strow'd. Drayton, Polyolbion, xxv. 270. The market-place and streetes, some whereof are deliciously planted with limes, are ample and straite, so well paved wth a kind of pibble that I have not seen a neater Evelyn, Diary, April 21, 1644. towne in France. IMG:content-2521.png:[blocks in formation] 5. A large size of gunpowder; pebble-powder. Large cannon powder, such as pebble,... is... enclosed in cases. Encyc. Brit., XI. 328. 6. One of several different pyralid, tortricid, and bombycid moths: an English collectors' name. The garden pebble is Botys forficalis; the check ered of the pebble, bus Teras rodonta con tamin an a. are also called bombycid prominents pebbles and tooth backs.-Brazilian pebble, Egyptian pebble, etc. See the adjectives. - Mocha pebble. Same as Mocha stone (which see, under stone ). — Variegated pebble. See pebble ware. pebble (peb'l), v.; pret. and pp. pebbled, ppr. pebbling. [ In currying it will "set out," pebble , "stone out," "gla in black and paste." C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 454. II. trans. To prepare, as leather, so as to cause the grain to become prominent and to present a roughened or ribbed appearance. See pebbling . pebbled (pebʻld), a. [ And the blithe brook that strolls along Its pebbled bed with summer song. Scott , Rokeby, iv. 2.