Piscine

pis'ln, adj. pertaining to fishes. [See Pl8ClVOrOUS, pis-iv'o-rus, adj devouring ox feeding on fishes. [L. piscis, fish, and voro to devour. Pish, pish, int. expre ing contempt. [Imitative.] Pismire, piz'mlr, n an ant or emmet. [M. E. pi emirt -pis se, urine, and A.S. mire, ant, cog. with Ice maurr, Ir. moirbh and Gr. murme.r PlSS, pis, 1) to discharge urine or make water. [Fr. pi rr,- imitative.] Pistachio, pis-t.Vshi o, Pigtacla, pis-ti's hi-a^ «. a small tree cultivated in S Europe and in the East its nut. [It. — L fiixtaeium— Gr. pistakum- Pers. pista Pistil, pis'n], hot.) the female organ in the centre of a flower, so called from its likene to the pestle of a mortar. -L. ptsttUum. Pestle is a doublet Pistil lace ous, pts-tiM a's lms, Oilj. growing on a pistil pertaining to or having the nature of a JMstll Pistillate, pistil-hit. adi. having a pistil. Plstllliferous, pis-til-lifcr-us, adj bearing a pistil without amc us. [Pistil, and fern, to bear Pistol, pis'tol, n a small hand-gun. LOrig. a dagger, Fr. pistole— pistol a, said to be from I'istoj ong Pistol a a town in Italy] Pistole, pis-tuF, n a Spanish gold com “about 16 shillings [hamc wmd as the above, a name jiHiikuly applied the cruwus of Spain, when reduted to a smaller size than the crowns of Frail) c Pistolet. pis'to-lel, a little pistol. Piston, pis mu, n. a short solid cylinder, used in pumps, ice. fining and moving up and down witum another hollow one Lit. the ‘pounder,’ Fr —It. pulone—peste to pound— L. pmso, pi\i7ts hce Pestle piston moved. Piston rod, pis'tun rod. the rod by which the Pit. pit, a. a hole in the earth an aby the bottomle pit a hole used as a trap lor wild beasts wlutfvei insnares the hollow of the stomach the indentation left by smallpox the gtomid-floor of a theatre the shaft ol a mine to maik with pits ot little hollows to set in competition —/>'-/- put mg P