Ptilichthys (tilikthis)

[NL., pterygostomial (ter"i-go-stō'mi-al), a. [ carapace of crustaceans, when these turn forward in front of the bases of the limbs, parallel with each other and with the axis of the body. Milne - Edwards. - Pterygostomial plates, those parts of the carapace of the brachyurous crustaceans which run forward parallel with the axis of the body. Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 295. pterygostomian (ter"i-gō-stō'mi-an), a. [ Epistome longer than wide, and the pterygostomian regions rudimentary. Eng. Cyc., Nat. Hist., III. 575. Pterygota (ter-i-gō'tä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of Pterygotus: see pterygote.] One of the prime divisions of Insect a, containing all hex apodous insects except Aptera. Gegenbaur. They are normally winged (wingle only as an adaptive specialized modification), and meta bolo us-that is, they undergo a more or le complete metamorphosis. Also called Ptero dicer a, Pterophora, and Ptilota. pterygote (ter'i-got), a. [NL. Pterygotus, pterygotrabecular (ter"i-gō-tra-bek'ū-lär), a. [ A well developed pterygo - trabecular proce - homolo go us. with the pedicle of the tadpole's suspensorium. A. S. Woodward, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1886, p. 221. Pterygotus (ter-i-gō'tus), n. [NL., IMG:content-1253.png:[merged small][graphic][merged small] cla Insect a , distinguished from Aptera , cor- responding to Latreille's Pterodicera , and di- vided primarily into Mandibulata and Haustel- epicycle carrying the planet on its circum- ference. In the fig- ure, T is the earth; Ptilotis (ti-lō'tis), n. [NL. (Swains on, 1837), οὖς (ώτ-) = Ε. ear .] Αd the corbit K very extensive genus of meliphagine birds. It includes nearly 40 species, ranging through the Austro- malayan, Australian, and Polynesian regions, mostly of plain dull olivaceous and yellowish colors, with the skin of the sides of the head often bare and wattled, or the parotic feathers (ear-coverts) stiffened and usually white or yellow, forming a conspicuous mark, whence the name. P. chrysotis and P. carunculata are examples. Ptinidæ (tin'i-dē), n. pl . [NL. (Leach, 1819), Ptinus + -idæ .] A large family of serricorn coleopterous insects, containing beetles of small size, having the antennæ with from nine to eleven joints, the head retractile, and the ely- tra entire. Both larvæ and beetles feed mostly on dead animal and vegetable matter. The larvæ eat drugs, even pepper and tobacco. Some 44 genera and 150 species are recognized in the United States. Lasioderma serricorne is known in the United States as the cigarette - beetle , on account of the damage it does to cigarettes. Sitodrepa panicea is a wide-spread museum-pest, and is found in many drugs. Members of the genus Anobium are known as death - watches . Many of the species are cosmopolitan. See cut under book - worm . Ptinus (ti'nus), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1767), ir- reg. φθίνειν , φθίειν , decay, waste, destroy: see phthisis .] is . ] A large and wide-spread genus of beetles, typical of the family Ptinidæ , of which about 80 species are known, 6 inhabiting the United States. A number of them occur both in Europe and in North America. P. fur is cosmopolitan and a well-known museum-pest. See cut under book- Sp. Pg. It. tisana , ptisan a , πτίσσειν , τίσσειν , peel, husk.] 1. A mild harmle drink, or one having a slight medicinal quality, as deferent, or eccentric of Mars; C, the cen- ter of the orbit; GH, the equant; E, its cen- ter; AKPL, the epi- cycle; D, its center; , Mars; IJ, the line of nodes of the orbit; KL, the line of nodes of the eccentric (which is parallel to IMG:content-1254.png:[blocks in formation] the ecliptic) upon the plane of the or- bit. Mars revolves upon the epicycle so as to move uniformly relatively to P, the perigee of the epicycle, which it reaches so as to be then in opposition to the mean sun. IMG:content-1255.png:[blocks in formation] without pre ure. R. F. Burton , Arabian Nights, V. 158, note. P. T. O. An abbreviation of Please turn over : a direction, usually at the foot of a page, to call attention to matter on the other side of the leaf. ptochocracy (to-kok'rā-si), n . [ πτώσσειν , crouch or cower from fear), + -κρατία , κρατεῖν , rule.] Government by beg- gars; the rule of paupers: the opposite of plu- tocracy . [Rare.] It [the opposition to the extension of the county fran- chise) alleges the risks we run from the old and the rich, the danger of a gerontocracy and a ploutocracy; whereas, to make its argument good, it should have shown the im- minence of a płochocracy . ptochogony (to-kog'ō-ni), n. [ πτωχός , α beggar, + -γονία , generation: see- gony .] The production of beggars; pauperization. [Rare.] The whole plan of the Bishop of London is a ptochogony -a generation of beggars. Sydney Smith , To Archdeacon Singleton, iii. Ptolemæan (tol-e-me'an), a. [L. Ptolemæus , Ptolemæius , of Ptolemy, Ptolemæus , Gr. Πτολεμαίος, Ptolemy.] Same as Ptolemaic . Max Ptolemaic (tol-e-ma'ik), a. [ Πτολεμαίος , Ptolemy: rulers of Egypt from the end of the fourth to the first century B. C.; (b) relating to the Alex-poin (see below). - Ptolemaic chart. See Bonne's map- projection, under projection . - Ptolemaic system, the structure of the heavens according to Ptolemy, an Egyp- tian-Greek astronomer, whose recorded observations ex- tend from 127 to 151 A. D. His "Treatise of Mathematics" dra, commonly called the "Almagmatic is mainly devoted to an investigation of the movements of the heavenly bodies. Ptolemy holds that the earth is stationary, because there is no appearance of varia- tion in the perspective of the fixed stars. admits it would simplify astronomy to suppose it rotated daily on its axis, but thinks that refuted by physical consider a- tions, while, regarding the stars as devoid of weight, he sees no objection to supposing them to move with im- mense velocity. But these two errors of denying the mo- tion of the earth both in translation and in rotation were not incompatible with a correct representation of the mo- tions of the planets relatively to the earth. The figure shows his theory of Mars, which was exactly like that of Jupiter and Saturn. He supposed that about a circular deferent, which was really nearly similar and similarly placed to the true orbit of the planet about the sun, moved IMG:content-1256.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1257.png:[blocks in formation] A group of lizards: same as Cyclos aura . Also Ptychopleuri . locephalum , about 7 inches long, having alate folds of the integument, whence the name. ptygodere (tīgō-dēr), n. A lizard of the genus Ptygoderus . Ptygoderus (ti-god'e-rus), n. [NL., irreg. δέρος , skin, hide.] A genus of iguanoid lizards, having a crest of keeled scales on each side, as P. pectin at us . Ptynx (tingks), n. [NL., πτύγξ , the eagle- owl.] 11. An old generic name of the darters: same as Plotus . Moehring , 1752.-2. A genus of smooth-headed owls, so named by Blyth in 1840. The type is Ptynx uralensis , commonly called Syrnium uralense . Ptyobranchina (ti"ō-brang-kī'nä), n. pl . [NL., Ptyobranchus + -ina2 .] In Günther's system, a group of Murænidæ platy schistæ , with the tail much shorter than the trunk, and the heart situated at a great distance behind the gills: same as the family Moringuidæ . ptysmagogue (tis ma-gog), n. saliva ( πτύειν , spit), + ἀγωγός , leading, άγειν , charges of saliva; a sialogogue. lead, bring.] A medicine that promotes dis- ptyxis (tik's is), n. [NL., πτύξις , a folding, πτύσσειν , fold.] In bot ., the folding or con- figuration of a single part in a leaf or flower- bud: opposed to vernation and estivation , the disposition of the parts conjointly. pu' (pu), v. A Scotch form of pull . pua (po'a), n. [Hawaiian.] A Hawaiian mus i- cal instrument, made of a gourd or a joint of bamboo. It has three holes, two of which are finger- holes. It is blown by putting the third hole to the play- er's nose. When made of gourd, it resembles the ocarina; and when of bamboo, it is a variety of nose-flute. puantt, a. [ puant , puten (t-)s, ppr. of putere , stink: see putid .] Stinking. Skelton. ( Hall i well .) pub (pub), n. [Abbr. of public , n ., 2.] A pub- lic house; a tavern. Athenæum , No. 3198, p.177. Pty cho sperm a (tī-kō-spėr'ma), n. [NL. (La- billardière, 1808), Areceæ , type of the subtribe Ptycho- spermeæ . It is characterized by moncæcio us flowers, both sexes within the same spadix, the staminate flowers having orbicular concave broadly imbricated and heeled sepals, acute petals as many as the sepals, and from twenty to thirty stamens-the pistillate flowers being smaller, nearly globose, and having a single ovary which [Slang, Eng.] becomes a one-celled fruit whose thick fibrous pericarp pub. An abbreviation of public , publish , or pub- contains a single erect seed with ruminate albumen and lisher . cies are natives of the Malay archipelago, Papua, A us pub blet a smooth or deeply five-grooved surface. The 11 tralia, and the islands of the Pacific. They are thorn plump. le palms, with a tall trunk marked by annular scars, and terminal pinnately divided leaves with the segments commonly dilated to the broad apex and there erose, or appearing as if eaten off. The flowers are small, and are borne in clusters on the slender spreading branches of pub. doc. An abbreviation of public document . spadix inclosed two spathes. The species are (pub'l), a. [Prov. Eng.] Thou shalt Me fynde fat and well fed, As pubble as may be. (see puberty ), + -al.] Pertaining to puberty. Dunglison . [Rare.] puberty (pu'bėr-ti), n . [ puberte , F. pu- berté = Pr. pubertat = Sp. pubertad = Pg. pu- berdade = It. pubertà , puberta ( t- ) s , the age of maturity, manhood, pubes , puber , grown up, of mature age, adult; of plants, downy, pubescent; √pu , beget.] 1. The condition of being able to reproduce; sexual maturity in the human race. In males this is usually developed between the ages of thirteen and sixteen, and in females somewhat earlier; and it appears that in very warm cli- mates puberty is reached somewhat sooner than else- where. At common law the age of puberty is conclu- sively presumed to be fourteen in the male and twelve in 2. In bot . , the period when a plant begins to bear flowers. puberulent (pū-ber'ö-lent), a . [L. pubes , pu- ber , downy, pubescent, + -ulent.] 1. Finely and softly pubescent; downy.-2. In bot . , cov- ered with fine, short down; minutely pubescent. pubes (pūbēz), n. [L. pubes , the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals, pubes , puber , grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent: see puberty .] 1t. The pubescence or hairine of the genitals, which appears at puberty. Hence-2. (a) The place where hair grows at puberty; the supra- pubic or hypogastric region, at the middle of the lowest part of the abdomen: in women known as the mons , or mons Veneris. ( b ) The pubic bones, or bony framework of the pubes;; the underlying skeleton of the pubic region, more fully called os pubis . There being a pair of pubic bones, right and left, each is now called os pubis , plural o a pubis , or, more frequently, pubis , in the plural pubes . See pubis . 3. In bot . , same as pubescence , 3.-4. Plural of pubis . pubescence (pū-bes'ens), n . [ pubescen ( t ) + -ce.] 1. The coming of puberty, or attaining to puberty; the state of being pubescent; puberty. In the first [septenary] is dedentition or falling of teeth; in the second pubescence . Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 12. ramus, one of the two branches of which each pubis chiefly consists some In man the two rami are ( a ) the superior or horizontal, forming much of the true brim of the pelvis, and ankylosed with the ilium, and (b) the inferior, oblique, or descending ramus, forming each half of the pubic arch, partly circumscribing the obturator foramen, and ankylosed with the ischium. - Pubic spine, a prominent tubercle on the upper bor- der of the horizontal ramus of the pubis of man, about an inch from the symphysis. Poupart's ligament is in- serted into it. Also called tuberculum pubis or tubercu- lum pubicum .-Pubic symphysis, or symphysis pubis, the coming or growing together of the right and left pubic bones at the median line of the pubes. It may be a sim- ple apposition or articulation of the bones, or complete ankylosis. In man the bones are commonly articulated but not ankylosed, forming in any case an immovable joint.-Pubic vein, a tributary to the external fliac vein from the obturator vein. pubigerous (pū-bij'e-rus), a. [L. pubes , the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty (see pubes ), + gerere , carry.] Bearing down or downy hairs; pubescent. pubiotomy (pu-bi-ot'ō-mi), n. [L. pubis (see pubis ) + Gr. τομία, surg ., a section of the pubic symphysis. pubis (pū'bis), n.; pl. pubes (-bēz). [NL., for os pubis : os , bone; pubis , gen. of pubes , pubes: see pubes .] In an at . and zoöl . , a pubic bone, or bone of the pubes (os pubis); a distal in- ferior and anterior division of the pelvic arch, forming a part of the os in nomina tum or haunch-bone by ankylosis at the acetabulum with the ilium and ischium, and often, as in man and most mammals, united also with the ischium to circumscribe the obturator fora- men, and, with its fellow of the opposite side, forming the pubic symphysis. In man cach pubis IMG:content-1258.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia public To the publick good Private respects must yield. Milton , S. A., 1. 867. 2. Open to all the people; shared in or to be shared or participated in or enjoyed by people at large; not limited or restricted to any particular cla of the community: as, a public meeting; public worship; a public subscription; a public road; a public house; public baths. The church, by her publick reading of the book of God, preached only as a witne ; now the principal thing required in a witne is fidelity. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. I saw her once Hop forty paces through the public street. 4830 use without restriction by one or more members of the community, as distinguished from use by the inventor: thus, an inventor of a secret spring who should allow its use by others without patenting it might be deemed to allow its public use, although, from its peculiarities of structure and relation, its use could not be seen by the public. - Public war. See war. - Public waters, waters which are deemed navigable at common law. See nav i gable. Public works, all fixed works constructed for public use, as railways, 'docks, canals, water-works, roads, etc.; more strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost. II. n. 1. The general body of people constituting a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely: with the . God made man in his own image; but the public is made poor-law guardians. uate prayers. Shak ., A. and C., ii. 2. 234. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 119. There are also divers Convents, which have spacious and well kept Gardens, which are always open and publick to People of any Note. Lister , Journey to Paris, p. 185. We leave the narrow lanes behind, and dare Th' unequal combat in the public square. Dryden, Æneid, ii. 3. Open to the view or knowledge of all; notorious: as, a public exposure; public scandal. Of this ordynaunce and bondes there were made instrumentes publikes and letters patentes. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., I. clxxiii. Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. Mat. i. 19. 4. Regarding or directed to the interests of the community at large, and not limited or confined to private, personal, or selfish matters or interests: as, public spirit; a public benefaction. Every true member of the church hath a public spirit, preferring the church's interest to his own, and suffering with fellow-members in their suffering, and having a care of one another, 1 Cor. xii. 25, 26. Baxter, Self-Denial, ii. In the public line, engaged in keeping a public house or tavern. [Colloq., Great Britain.j Mysell being in the public line , I look for howfs I kenn'd lang syne, Whar gentles used to drink gude wine. Scott, Epil. (spoken by Meg Dods) to Drama founded on [St. Ronan's Well. Notary public. See notaryl. - Public acts, bills, laws, legislation, statutes, such acts, bills, etc., as concern the community at large, or the state or its municipalities, as distinguished from private acts, etc. (see private ), one important result of the distinction being in the rule that the courts take judicial notice of public acts, but a private act must be alleged and proved by him who relies upon it.- Public administrator, corporation, credit, document, domain, enemy, etc. See the nouns. -Public funds. See fund. - Public holiday. Same as legal holiday (which see, under holiday ). - Public house. (a) An inn or tavern; in England, especially, one which rarely accommodates lodgers, and which has for its chief busine the selling of beer and other liquors. [In the United States rare and used in a general sense.] (b) Public house and public place are used in numerous statutes against im moral practices, gaming, prostitution, etc., with varying limitations of meaning, but generally implying a place to which any one may have acce without trespa ing.Public indecency. See indecency. - Public institution, an establishment of an educational, charitable, reformatory, or sanitary character, maintained and conducted for the use and benefit of the public, and usually at the public expense. Education, shorter hours of labour, sanitary homes, and public institutions to take the place of the public house. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 741. Public lands, lands belonging to government, especially such as are open to sale, grant, or other method of disposal to whosoever will comply with the conditions prescribed by law. - Public law, international law. See ternational, a. Public loan. See loan. Public nui sance. See nuisance, 5.- Public office. See office, 4.Public opinion. See opinion.-Public orator. See orator, 6.-Public policy, the policy, or general purpose and spirit, of the law: thus, contracts calculated to defeat justice or to hinder wholesome competition in trade are held void, as against public policy, or against the policy of the law, even when there is no positive statutory prohibition. See policy of the law, under lawl. - Public printer, prosecutor, records, etc. See the nouns. Public right, feudal law, the technical name given to a heritable right granted by a va al to be held, not of himself, but of his superior. Public school. See school. Public spirit. See spirit. - Public stores. (a) Naval and military stores, equipment, etc. (b) Warehouses to which dutiable goods are sent for appraisement; bonded warehouses, or stores in which goods are held under bond for duty until sold or exported. [U. S.]-Public trust, a trust constituted for the benefit either of the public at large or of some considerable part of it answering to a particular description. See private. Public use. (a) In the constitutional provisions authorizing the taking by the state or nation of private property for the use of the people at large on making compensation, a use directly subservient to public nece ity or convenience, as for a park, a highway, a railroad, etc., as distinguished from uses for private interest, though incidentally beneficial to the public, as for a mill or factory: thus, the supplying of water to a town is a public use for which it may constitutionally be authorized to condemn the rights of private owners in watercourses. (b) A use so intimately allied to or affecting the public welfare or convenience that the state may regulate it as to the management or charges thus, the great grain-elevators of modern commerce, standing between the wharves of lake or ocean navigation and the termini of trunk lines of railway, have been held to be so affected with a public use that the state may regulate by law the rates of charges. (c) In patent law, Disraeli , Coningsby, iii. 1. That the nobler, and what are vulgarly called the higher cla es of society, are insufficient in their number, power, and co-operation of sentiment to support any particular theatre, or piece, independent of the public; and that it is only the great ma of the people that can finally establish the fate of any theatrical representation. W. Cooke , Memoirs of S. Foote, I. 64. 2. A public house. [Colloq., Eng.] It's so far from the world, as a man may say; not a decent public within a mile and a half, where one can hear a bit of news of an evening. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xli. In every little comfortable public within a circle of thirty miles' diameter, the home-brewed quivers in the gla es on the open tables. The Atlantic, LVIII. 458. In public, in open view; before the people at large; not in private or secretly. In private grieve; but, with a carele scorn, In public seem to triumph, not to mourn. Granville . publican (pub'li-kan), n. [ As Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publi cans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Mat. ix. 10. How like a fawning publican he looks! Shak ., M. of V., i. 3. 42. Hence-2. Any collector of toll, tribute, customs, or the like. In law, under the term The custom-house of certain publicans that have the tonnag ing and pound aging of all spoken truth. Milton , Areopagitica. 3. The keeper of a public house or other such place of entertainment. publicans are included innkeepers, hotel-keepers, keepers of ale-houses, wine-vaults, etc. Wharton . [Great Britain.] The publican can profitably combine the busine of a bookmaker with the equally profitable busine of sell ing intoxicant fluids. Nineteenth Century, XXVI. 849.