peccancy

[Eng. peccant; -cy.] 1. The quality or state of being peccant; sinful IMG:content-0788.png:[blocks in formation] -Bacon: Advancement of Learning, bk. i. *3. Bad, informal, wrong. "Nor is the party cited bound to appear. if the citation be peccant in form or matter."- Ayliffe : Pareryon B. As subst.: An offender, a transgre or. pěc-cant-lý, adv . [Eng. peccant; -ly.] In a peccant manner; sinfully; by transgre ion. pěc-ca-rỹ, s . [Native name.] Zool .: The popular name for two species of small suilline mammals from the New World, so nearly allied that they breed freely in captivity, but never produce more than two at a birth. The Collared Peccary ( Dicotyles torquatus ) ranges from Arkansas southward to the Rio Negro, and seldom attacks other animals. The White-lipped Peccary ( D. lab i at us ) is rarely met with north of British Honduras, or south of Paraguay. It a ociates in large droves, is very pugnacious, and does not hesitate to attack nan. The hunter who encounters a herd of this species has often to take to a tree for safety. Both are omnivorous, and po e a gland in the middle of the back, secreting a musky substance, which taints the meat if not speedily removed after death. By some old travelers this gland was mistaken for a second navel, a circumstance which influenced Cuvier in selecting the generic name. pěc-ca-vi, phr . [Lat. I have sinned, 1st pers. sing. perf. indic. of pecco to sin.] A word used colloquially to expre an acknowledgment or confe ion of an offense or mistake. (Generally in the phrase To cry peccari .) IMG:content-0789.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0790.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0791.png:[blocks in formation] pěc-or-a, s . pl . [Lat., pl. of pec us =cattle col lectively.] [FEE, 8.] Zoology : The name given by Linnæus to what Cuvier called the Ruminant i a (q. v.). IMG:content-0792.png:[blocks in formation] Chem.: C16H22O15 (?). Prepared from the pulp of carrots or turnips by boiling for one hour with water containing sodic carbonate, precipitating with calcium chloride, and decomposing the cal cium pectate with hydrochloric acid. In the moist state, it is a transparent jelly, which dries up to a white horny ma , insoluble in cold, slightly solu- ble in boiling water, and insoluble in alcohol and a comb; Eng. adj. suff. -eal .] ether. Heated to 150° it blackens, and at 200 gives off carbonic anhydride and water, leaving pyго- pectic acid. The pectates of the alkali metals are soluble in water, the rest insoluble. The ammo- nium, pota ium, and sodium salts are colorle jellies. The copper salt is a green jelly, containing 16 per cent. of cupric oxide. pěc-tid-e-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. pectis, gen it. pectid ( is ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] IMG:content-0793.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0794.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0795.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Bot .: [СоMB-SHAPED.] 2. Zool .: Comb-like. Used of the gills of certain Ital. pet to rale .] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0797.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0798.png:[blocks in formation] verse teeth. Distribution nearly world-wide. Recent species fifty-eight; fo il eighty, from the Neoco- mian onward. IMG:content-0799.png:[blocks in formation] exemplars of true and undefiled religion. They accept the exhortation of St. James (v. 14, 15) in a led to a verdict of manslaughter being returned against some of their members by a coroner's jury. ( McClintock & Strong . ) The analogue of this sect in this country is to be found in the Faith-curists. The name apparently has reference to 1 Pet. ii. 9. 2. Peculiarity, strangene . pě-cū-li-um, s . [Lat.] 1. Ord . Lang .: Private property; savings. 2. Rom . Law : Savings or money allowed to be re- IMG:content-0800.png:[blocks in formation] *2. Exclusive po e ion, right, or ownership. "What need we to disclaim all peculiar i tie in goods?" -Bp. Hall: ep. ii., dec. 5. 3. That which is peculiar to or characteristic of a particular person or thing; a characteristic. "To be prayed unto is, and for ever will be one of his incommunicable peculiarities ." -Sharp: Sermons, vol. iv., pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, Syrian. 8, pedagogue *pěd-a-gogue, v. t . [Lat. pædago go , from Gr. paid a go geo to be a pedagogue (q.v.).) To teach as a pedagogue: to instruct superciliously. "Wise Greece from them receiv'd the happy plan, And taught the brute to pedagogue the man." Somervile: To the Earl of Halifax .