pixyseat (piksiset)

A snarl or entangled spot in a horse's mane. [Prov. Eng.] pixy-stool (pik'si-stöl), n. A toadstool or mushroom: sometimes ar applied specifically to Can thar ell us cibarius, or edible chanterelle. IMG:content-0302.png:[blocks in formation] work or cabinet-work composing the door of a closet, etc., with its framework. Hence-(b) A closet formed or built in a wall, so that only the door is visible from the exterior. A pies upon you; well, my father has made Lucy swear too never to see Truman without his consent. Couley , Cutter of Coleman Street. (Nares.) Pize on 'em, they never think before hand of any thing. Congreve, Love for Love, v. 2. This peevish humour of melancholy sits ill upon you. A pize on it, send it off. Scott , Kenilworth, i. pizzicato (pit-si-käʼtō), a. [It., twitched, nipped, pp. of pizzicare, twitch, nip, pinch: see pinch.] In music for stringed instruments of the viol family, noting the manner of playing, or the effect produced, when the strings are plucked or twanged by the finger, as in harp-playing, instead of sounded by means of the bow. The end of a pa age to be thus rendered is marked by col arco, 'with the bow,' or simply arco. Abbreviated pizz. pizzle (piz'l), n. [Early mod. E. also pizzel, pisle; a bull. Sir T. Browne. pk. A common contraction of park and peck. pkg. A commercial contraction of package. pl. An abbreviation of plural. placability (plā-ka-bil'i-ti), n. [= OF. placa bilite = Sp. placabilidad = Pg. placabilidade = It. placabilità, Placability is no lyttell parte of benign i tie. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 6. placable (plāʼka-bl), a . [ placa ble = Sp. placable = Pg. placavel = It. placabile , placabilis , easily appeased, placare , appease: see placate .] Capable of being placated or pacified; easy to be appeased; willing to forgive. Methought I saw him placable and mild. Milton, P. L., xi. 151. So mild and placable was Facilidas that he refused to the mountain of Wechne. put him [Claudius) to death, but sent him prisoner to Bruce, Source of the Nile, III. 444. placablene (plāʼka-bl-nes), n. Placability. placably (plā'ka-bli), adv. In a placable manner; with readine to forgive. placard (plakʼärd or plā-kärd′), n. [Formerly also placart and plackard; = MD. plackaerd, And that, vpon the innocencie of my said chancellor declared, it may further please the king's grace to award a placard vnto his atturney to confe e the saide endite ment to be untrue. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 741. All Coins bear his Stamp, all Placarts or Edicts are published in his Name. Howell , Letters, I. ii. 15. 3t. A public permit, or one given by authority; a license. Euery licence, placard , or graunt made to any person or persons, for the hauinge maintenance or keeping of any bowling alleys, dicing houses, or any other vnlawfull game prohibited by the lawes and statutes of this real me, shal be... utterly voyde and of none effect. An. 2 & 3 P. and M. cap. 9. Rastall , Statutes, fol. 344. Others are of the contrary opinion, and that Christianity gives us a placard to use these sports. Fuller . 4t. In medieval armor , same as placcate . IMG:content-0303.png:[blocks in formation] placard (plā-kärd' or plak'ärd), v. t. [ placate (plā kāt), v. t.; pret. and pp. placated, ppr. placating. [L. placatus, pp. of placare (> It. placare = Sp. Pg. a - placar ), appease; cf.pla cere, please: see please.] To appease or pacify; conciliate. Therefore is he always propitiated and placated , both first and last. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 476. placation (plā-kā'shon), n . [ placation = Sp.a - placacion = Pg.a - placação = It.placazione ; * placatio ( n- ), placare , placate: see placate .] 1. The act of placating, appeasing, pacifying, or conciliating; propitiation. They were the first that instituted sacrifices of placa tion, with inuocations and worship. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 4. 2. A propitiatory act. IMG:content-0304.png:[blocks in formation] Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 23. placatory (plākā-to-ri), a. [ place (plās), n. [ The other squirrel was stolen from me by the hangman Shak., T. G. of V., iv. 4. 60. boys in the market - place. In the middle is a little place , with two or three cafés decorated by wide awnings. H. James , Jr., Little Tour, p. 176. 2. An area or portion of land marked off or regarded as marked off or separated from the rest, as by occupancy, use, or character; region; locality; site; spot. The place whereon thou stand est is holy ground. Ex. iii. 5. Whilst the mercies of God do promise us heaven, our conceits and opinions exclude us from that place . Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 56. Iron Grates inclose the Place called the Choir, so that there's no Entrance. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, II. 26. There was no convenient place in the town for strangers. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 44. 3. A particular town or village: as, Hampton is a historic place; a thriving place. I am a Devons hire man born, and Tav i stock the place of my once abiding. R. Peeke (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 632). This inner part of the bay [of Fana] has a fine beech on the west and south sides for boats to come up to, and seems to be the place called Notium by Strabo. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 7. 4. A mansion with its adjoining grounds; a residence or dwelling; a manor-house. The Harringtons had of ancient time a faire manor place , within a mile of Horneb Castell. Leland , Itinerary, VI. 59. Yborn he was in fer contree In Flaundres al biyonde the see, At Pope ring in the place . Chaucer , Sir Thopas, 1. 9. place 5. A building or a part of a building set apart for any purpose; quarters of any kind: as, a place of worship; a place in the country; a place of busine . I do not like the Tower of any place. Did Julius Cæsar build that place , my lord? Shak., Rich. III., iii. 1. 70. To see Mr. Spong, and found him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his chamber, a bye place , but with a good prospect of the fields. Pepys, Diary, IV. 65. 6. A fortified post; a stronghold.-7. Room to abide in; abode; lodgment; location. I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you. John viii. 37. Can Discontent find Place within that breast? Congreve, To Cynthia. 8. Room to stand or sit in; a particular location, as a seat, or a space for sitting or standing, as in a coach, car, or public hall. Our places by the coach are taken. Dickens, David Copper field, xxii. "No person to be admitted to keep Places in the Pit" seems a singular order, were it not explicable by the fact that people used to send their footmen to keep places for them until their arrival, and that the manners of these gentry gave great offence to the habitués of the pit. J. Ashton , Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 13. 9. A particular locality; a particular spot or portion of a surface or in a body: as, a sore place ; a soft place .-10. The proper or appro priate location or position: as, a place for every thing, and everything in its place. This is no place for Ladies; we allow Her absence. Heywood, Royal King. That it may be po ible to put a book in its place on a shelf there must be (1) the book, and (2), distinct and apart from it, the place on the shelf. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 55. 11. In the abstract, the determinate portion of space occupied by any body. Place A mind not to be changed by place or time; The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton , P. L., i. 253. stands for that space which any body takes Locke, Human Understanding, II. xiii. 10. up, and so the universe is in a place. 12. A portion or pa age of a book or writing. The place of the Scripture which he read was this. Acts viii. 32. Hosea, in the person of God, saith of the Jews: They have reigned, but not by me: Which place proveth plainly that there are governments which God doth not avow. Bacon , Holy War. This place some of the old doctors understood too literally. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 136. 13. [In this sense a translation of L. locus, Gr. τόπος (see topic ).] In logic and rhet., a topic; a cla of matters of discourse; an order of considerations comprising all those which have analogous relations to their subjects. A place is the resting corner of an argumente, or els a mark which geveth warning to our memorie what we may speake probably, either in the one parte or the other, upon al causes that fal in question. For these places bee nothing elles but covertes or boroughs, wherin, if any one searche diligently, he maye finde game at pleasure. Wilson, Rule of Reason (1551). 14. In falconry , the greatest elevation which a bird of prey attains in its flight. A falcon, towering in her pride of place , Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd. Shak ., Macbeth, ii. 4. 12. Eagles can have no speed except when at their place , and then to be sure their weight increases their velocity. Thornton, Sporting Tour. 15. Room; stead: with the sense of substitution: preceded by in . And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? Gen. 1. 19. IMG:content-0305.png:[blocks in formation] place Their summons call'd From every band and squared regiment By place or choice the worthiest. Milton , P. L., i. 759. She teaches him his place by an incomparable discipline. The Century, XXXVII. 231. 18. Precedence; priority in rank, dignity, or importance. Come, do you think I'd walk in any plot Where Madam Sempronia should take place of me, And Fulvia come in the rear, or on the by? B. Jonson, Cat i line, iii. 2. You do not know What 'tis to be a lady and take place. Shirley, Love in a Maze, i. 2. 19. Point or degree in order of proceeding: as, in the first place; in the second place; in the last place.-20. In geom. See locus, 3.21. Position; specifically, in astron., the bearing of a heavenly body at any instant: as, the moon's place (that is, its right ascension and declination, or direction otherwise specified). -22. Ground or occasion; room. There is no place of doubting but that it was the very Hammond, Fundamentals. same. 23. Position, in general. By improvement they [of Scio] have all sorts of fruit trees, and the mulberry-tree for their silk has a great place among them. Pococke , Description of the East, II. ii. 9. Acronychal, aphetical, common, decimal, eccentric place. See the adjectives. - Apparent place of a star. See apparent . - Body of a place. See body. Heliocentric, high, holy, inward place. See the adjectives. In place. (a) In position or adjustment. (b) Into occasion, opportunity, or use. And gladly ther-of wolde the i ben a-venged, yef the i myght come in place . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 444. (c) In geol., in its original position; not moved, especially by currents of water or by other erosive agencies, from its natural bed, or the place which it occupied when the deposit of which it constitutes a part was formed. (dt) In presence; present. Thy love is present there with thee in place . Spenser , F. Q., VI. x. 16. Jumping-off place. See jump1 . - Law of place, the law in force within a particular jurisdiction: commonly used with reference to the place where a contract is made or to be performed; the lex loci. - Mean place. See mean3 . -Most holy place. See holy of holies , under holy . - Out of place. (a) Not properly placed or adjusted in relation to other things; displaced. Hence-(b) Ill-a orted; illtimed; inappropriate; disturbing: as, conduct or remarks out of place . -Place kick. See kick . -Place of election, in surg. See election .-Place of worship, a church, chapel, or meeting-house.-Places of arms, in fort . See arm2. Strong place, a fortre ora fortified town; a stronghold. At a few miles' distance was the strong place of Ripa Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 2. Candida. To give place, to make room or way; yield. And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place . Gay, Hare and many Friends. They heard Jonah and gave place to his preaching. Latimer , Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. Neither give place to the devil. Eph. iv. 27. To have place. ( a ) To have room, seat, or footing: as, such desires can have no place in a good heart. (b) To have actual existence. - To make place, to make room; give way. Make place! bear back there! B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. To take place. (a) To come to pa ; happen; occur. (b) To take precedence or priority. See def. 18. (ct) To take effect; avail. But none of these excuses would take place . Spenser . The powder in the touch-hole being wet, and the ship having fresh way with wind and tide, the shot took place in the shrouds and killed a pa enger. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 271. place (plās), v. t.; pret. and pp. placed, ppr. pla cing. [=F. placer; from the noun.] 1. To put or set in a particular place or position. Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake, That so her torture may be shortened. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 4. 57. IMG:content-0306.png:[blocks in formation] This seate is admirably plac'd for field sports, hawking, hunting, or racing. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 10, 1677. Congreve, Hymn to Venus. 2. To put or set in position or order; arrange; dispose. Over all a Counterpane was plac'd . Commend his good choice, and right placing of wordes. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 88. For he obtain eth places of honor which can most fitly place his wordes, and most eloquently write of the subiect propounded. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 438. 3. To put in office or a position of authority; appoint; ordain to a charge. 4521 Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousne ; and place such over them to be rulers of you sands. Ex. xviii. 21. This gentleman was a Mr. Thompson, the son of a placed minister of Melrose. Mem . of R. H. Barham , in In golds by Legends, I. 80. 4. To find a place, home, situation, etc., for; arrange for the residence, instruction, or employment of. I am always glad to get a young person well placed out. Four nieces of Mrs. Jenkinson are most delightfully situated through my means. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, xxix. 5. To put out at interest; invest: as, to place provision for: as, to place a loan.-7. To set; money in the funds.-6. To arrange or make base; put; repose: as, to place confidence in a friend. Let them shew where the God of our Fathers imposed any of those heavy burdens which the Scribes and Pharisees place so much of their Religion in. Stilling fleet, Sermons, II. i. The Egyptians place great faith in dreams. E. W. Lane , Modern Egyptians, I. 339. Syn. 1. Set , Lay , etc. (see put ), station, establish, deposit.