pays a (pis a)

See pice. paysage (pa'sāj; F. pron. pā-ē-zäzh'), n. [F., But the greatest part of this paysage and landscape is sky. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 193. Life seems too short, space too narrow, to warrant you in giving in an unqualified adhesion to a paysage which is two-thirds ocean. H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 344. paysagist (pā sā-jist), n. [ paysage + -ist .] An artist or draftsman who works in landscape; a landscape-painter. The lists are now open to some clever paysagist to prove that his art is the supreme flower of all. Art Age , IV. 42. payset, v . An obsolete form of poise . paysyblet, a. A variant of peaceable . Chaucer . Payta bark (pā'tä bärk). A pale cinchona bark shipped from Payta in Peru. IMG:content-2503.png:[blocks in formation] P. B. An abbreviation of Pharma copœia Britan nica, British Pharma copœia. P. Bor. An abbreviation of Pharma copæia Bo ru ica, Pru ian Pharmacopeia. P. C. An abbreviation (a) of Privy Councilor; ( b ) of police constable. Pd., pd. A contraction of paid. Pd. In chem., the symbol for palladium. P. D. An abbreviation of Pharma copœia Dub linens is, Dublin Pharma copœia. P. E. An abbreviation ( a ) of Pharma copœia Edi nensis, Edinburgh Pharma copœia; (b) of Prot estant Episcopal. = 4340 = "= paauw MLG. pawe , pauwe OHG. phāwo , fawo, p phaho, faho, phão, MHG. phāwe, pfāwe, phā, pā , G. pfawe , pfaw , pfowe , pfow , pfauw , etc., now pfaue , pfau , dial. pfob , pfaub , etc., Icel. pā , pāi (as a nickname; in mod. use only in comp. pā - fugl = Sw. påfogel = Dan. paafugl = E. peafowl , q. v.) = F. paon (> obs. E. pawn3 ) = Sp. pav on = Pg. pavão = It. pavone , L. pa- vo (n-), ML. also pav us , m., pav a , f., ταών (in gen. ταῶνος , etc.), usually ταώς οι ταῶς , also written ταώς , where the aspirate represents the earlier digamma, orig. * ταξώς = Ar. Turk. tāwās = Hind. tāūs (in Hind. also called mor ), taw us , taus , a peacock; cf. Old Tamil tõkei , tōgei , a peacock.] peacock.] A peafowl. The simple form pea is rare. It occurs chiefly in the compound names pea- cock, peahen, peafowl , pea- chick , pea- pheasant . In the second quotation pea is restricted to 'peahen.' His berd was syde ay large span, And glided als the fether of pae . Als Y yod on ay Mounday (Child's Ballads, I. 274). A cock and a pea gender the Gallo-pav us, which is otherwise called the Indian hen, being mixed of a cock and a pea , though the shape be liker to a pea than a cock. Porta , Natural Magic (trans.), ii. 14. ( Nares .) pea-bean (pe'ben), n. See bean1 , 2. chus pis i. peal (pē), n. [A mod. form, a umed as sing. of the supposed plural pease: see peasel. The plural of pea is peas, as 'as like as two peas, a bushel of peas,' with ref. to the individual pea-beetle (pē ́bētl), n. The pea-weevil, Bru seeds, as in 'a bushel of beans'; but when used collectively the old singular pease is properly used, as 'a bushel of pease, like a bushel of wheat or corn.] 1. The seed of an annual hardy leguminous vine, Pisum sativum; also, the vine itself. The pea is marked by its climbing habit and glaucous surface, its pinnate leaves ending in a branching tendril, its large stipules, and its large, commonly white, papilionaceous flowers, followed by pendulous pods containing sweet nutritious seeds. The origi peaberry (pē'ber"i), n.; pl. peaberries (-iz). The so-called male coffee-berry. See coffee , 1. Sometimes there is but one seed, called, from its shape, Spons' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 691. peaberry . pea-bird (pē'bėrd), n. [ * pea , a syllable imi- tative of its cry, + bird1 .] The wryneck, Iynx torquilla . pea-bluff (pē'bluf), n. A pea-shooter. Halli- well . [Prov. Eng.] nal form, P. sativum , var. arvense (P. arvense ), the common gray pea or field-pea, is thought by some to be native in Greece and Levant, by others to have come from fur- tree and there how to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and their cultivation is now general. Usually throated sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis . only the seeds are edible, but the pods of the sugar-pea, pea-bone (pē'bon), n. The pisiform bone of skinle pea, or string-pea are eaten, as in the case of 'string-beans." The seeds are now mostly consumed when green, but are also split when ripe, and used in soups pea-bug (pē'bug), n. The pea-weevil, Bruchus Peabody bird (pē'bo-di berd). [From the Pea body Glen, White "Mountains.] The white or ground into meal. (See pease - meal.) Before the spread of the potato, peas formed in England a principal food of working cla es. The varieties numerous, those of the marrow cla being distinguished by seeds which are wrinkled and greenish even when ripe. Yes, yes, Madam, I am as like the Duc de Richelieu as two peas ; but then they are two old withered grey peas , Walpole , Letters, Oct. 13, 1765. The best Master I wot of is the Swabian who gave his scholars 911,000 canings, with standing on peas , and wearing the fool's cap in proportion. S. Judd , Margaret, ii. 1. 2. Pea-spawn of a fish. See spawn. - Angola pea. See Cajanus.-Beach-pea. See Lathyrus. - Butterfly pea. See Clitoria. - Congo pea. Same as Angola pea. -Cow-pea, a twining pulse-plant, Vigna ( Dolichos ) Ka tiang (V. Sinensis), of tropical Asia and Africa, in cultivation extending into warm-temperate climates. The pods are sometimes 2 feet long, and are edible while green, as are their seeds when dry. This is an important crop in the southern United States. - Earthnut-pea, a plant, Lathyrus tuberosus, of Europe and Asiatic Ru ia, yielding edible tubers used like potatoes. - Earth-pea, a Syrian species, Lathyrus a mph i car pos, bearing underground pods. Egyptian pea, the chick-pea. - Everlasting pea. See Lathyrus. Flat pea, one of three slender shrubs with very flat pods, of the Australian leguminous genus Platylobium. - French pea. (at) The common pea or garden pea. (b) pl. Canned peas prepared in France, reputed to be superior to those canned in other countries. - Glory-pea. See Clianthus. - Heart-pea. Same as heartseed. - Hoary pea. See Tephrosia, and catgut, 3 (b). - Milk-pea. See Galactia, 2.-Partridge-pea. (a) Ca ia Chamæcrista, a plant a foot high with showy yellow flowers, four of the ten long anthers yellow, the rest purple. It is common especially southward in the eastern half of the United States. (b) Heister i a coccinea (F. pois perdrix ). See Heister i a. Pea iron ore, a form of brown iron ore found in England in the "Cor all i an beds" " of the Middle Oolite, and especially at Westbury in Wilts hire.-Pea of an anchor, the bill of an anchor. Pigeon-pea. Same as Angola pea. - Poison pea. See Swains on a. - Rosary peas, seeds of Abrus pre cat or i us.-Sea-pea, seaside pea, the beach-pea. - Sensitive pea, Ca ia nictitans, a small species in the eastern United States, whose pinnate leaves fold when touched. Also called wild sensitive-plant. C. Chamæcrista (see partridge- pea, above) has been called large -flowered sensitive pea. Soy-pea. Same as soy - bean. See soy, and Sahuca beans (under bean1 ). Spurred butterfly-pea, Centrosema Virginianum, of the southern United States. The genus resembles Clitoria, but is distinguished by a spur projecting from near the base of the standard.Sturt's desert-pea, the Australian Clianthus Dampier i. -Swains on pea. See Swains on a. - Sweet pea, a favorite climbing annual, Lathyrus odoratus, with rather large sweet-scented flowers, a native of Sicily and southern Italy. There are numerous varieties, differing chiefly in the color, which runs from pure white to deep purple. See painted - lady, 2.- Tangier pea, Lathyrus Ting it an us, a pretty garden species from Tangiers, producing abundant small dark red-purple flowers. Tuberous pea. Same as heath- pea. See Lathyrus and knapperts. Wood-pea. Same as tuberous pea, or sometimes (by translation) Lathy rus silvestris. See Lathyrus. (See also chick - pea, heath pea, i ue - pea, meadow - pea, no - eye pea. ) pea2 (pē), n. [= Sc. pae, pa (in pajock ); the wrist: so called from its size and shape. pis i. [U. S.] pea-bush (pēʼbush), n. An evergreen heathlike shrub, Burton i a scabra, of eastern Australia. It has large purple papilionaceous flowers, single in the upper axils.