pelting1 (pelting)

[Verbal n. of pelt1, v.] A beating or belaboring with mi iles, as with stones, snow-balls, etc. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitile storm. IMG:content-2589.png:[blocks in formation] And howling wind he reached the gate again. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, III. 248. 21. Angry; pa ionate. They were all in a pelting heat. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii., Hill Difficulty. Good drink makes good blood, and shall pelting words spill it? Lyly , Alexander and Campaspe, v. 3. ( Nares . ) In a pelting chafe she brake all to peeces the wenches imagery worke, that was so curiously woven and so full of varietie, with her shittle. Top sell , Serpents, p. 250. ( Hall i well .) pelting2+ (pel'ting), a. [Appar. a var. of * palt ing for paltring : see paltring , and cf. pelters , peltry2 .] Mean; paltry; contemptible. IMG:content-2590.png:[blocks in formation] πέλτη, a shield, + γαστήρ, stomach.] A genus of rhizocephalous cirripeds, type of a family Pel to gast ridæ. They are parasitic upon hermit crabs. See Rhizocephala. Pel to gast ridæ (pel-to-gas'tri-dē), n. pl. [NL.,