What is "procellarian"

Peg \Peg\, n. [OE. pegge; cf. Sw. pigg, Dan. pig a point, prickle, and E. peak.]

1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
   --Shak.

4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase ``To take one down peg.''

   To screw papal authority to the highest peg.
   --Barrow.

   And took your grandess down a peg.
   --Hudibras.

6. A drink of spirits, usually whisky or brandy diluted with soda water. [India]

   This over, the club will be visted for a ``peg,'' Anglice drink.
   --Harper's Mag.

7. (Baseball) a hard throw, especially one made to put out a baserunner.

   Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted.

   Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the liquor into equal portions. ``Drink down to your peg.''
   --Longfellow.

   Peg tooth. See Fleam tooth under Fleam.

   Peg top, a boy's top which is spun by throwing it.

   Screw peg, a small screw without a head, for fastening soles.

Deal \Deal\, v. i.

1. To make distribution; to share out in portions, as cards to the players.

2. To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour.

   They buy and sell, they deal and traffic.
   --South.

   This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels.
   --Dr. H. More.

3. To act as an intermediary in business or any affairs; to manage; to make arrangements; -- followed by between or with.

   Sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.
   --Bacon.

4. To conduct one's self; to behave or act in any affair or towards any one; to treat.

   If he will deal clearly and impartially, . . . he will acknowledge all this to be true.
   --Tillotson.

5. To contend (with); to treat (with), by way of opposition, check, or correction; as, he has turbulent passions to deal with. To deal by, to treat, either well or ill; as, to deal well by servants. ``Such an one deals not fairly by his own mind.'' --Locke. To deal in.

   1. To have to do with; to be engaged in; to practice; as, they deal in political matters.

   2. To buy and sell; to furnish, as a retailer or wholesaler; as, they deal in fish. To deal with.

      1. To treat in any manner; to use, whether well or ill; to have to do with; specifically, to trade with. ``Dealing with witches.''
         --Shak.

      2. To reprove solemnly; to expostulate with.

         The deacons of his church, who, to use their own phrase, ``dealt with him'' on the sin of rejecting the aid which Providence so manifestly held out.
         --Hawthorne.

         Return . . . and I will deal well with thee.
         --Gen. xxxii. 9.

Enamor \En*am"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enamored; p. pr. & vb. n. Enamoring.] [OF. enamourer, enamorer; pref. en- (L. in) + OF. & F. amour love, L. amor. See Amour, and cf. Inamorato.] To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of books or science. [Written also enamour.]

Passionately enamored of this shadow of a dream.
--W. Irving.

Otter \Ot"ter\ ([o^]t"t[~e]r), n. [OE. oter, AS. otor; akin to D. & G. otter, Icel. otr, Dan. odder, Sw. utter, Lith. udra, Russ, vuidra, Gr. "y`dra water serpent, hydra, Skr. udra otter, and also to E. water. [root]137, 215. See Water, and cf. Hydra.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) Any carnivorous animal of the genera Lutra, Enhydra, and related genera of the family Mustelidae. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. The sea otter ( Enhydra lutris) also eats clams, crabs, starfish, abalone, and other marine animals; they may come to the surface, and lying on their backs using the stomach as a table, may be seen cracking open the shell of its prey with a rock. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the North American otter (or American otter) is Lutra Canadensis, which inhabits marshes, streams and rivers; other species inhabit South America and Asia. The North American otter adult is about three to four feet long (including the tail) and weighs from 10 to 30 pounds; the sea otter is commonly four feet long and 45 pounds (female) or 60 pounds (male). Their fur is soft and valuable, and in the nineteenth century they were hunted extensively. The sea otter was hunted to near extinction by 1900, and is now protected. Fewer than 3,000 sea otters are believed to live along the central California coast.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The larva of the ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines.

   Otter hound, Otter dog (Zo["o]l.), a small breed of hounds, used in England for hunting otters; see otterhound .

   Otter sheep. See Ancon sheep, under Ancon.

   Otter shell (Zo["o]l.), very large bivalve mollusk ( Schizoth[ae]rus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excellent food, and is extensively used by the Indians.

   Sea otter. (Zo["o]l.) See in the Vocabulary.

Otter \Ot"ter\, n. A corruption of Annotto.

Draft \Draft\, a.

1. Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse.

2. Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.

   Note: The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use.

   Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.

Draft \Draft\ (dr[.a]ft), n. [The same word as draught. OE. draught, draht, fr. AS. dragan to draw. See Draw, and cf. Draught.]

1. The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.

   Everything available for draft burden. -- S. G. Goodrich.

2. (Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.

   Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year.
   --Marshall.

3. An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.

   I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. -- A. Hamilton.

4. An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods. -- Simmonds.

5. A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.

6. The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.

7. (Masonry)

   1. A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.

   2. A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.

8. (Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

9. (Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

10. A current of air. Same as Draught.

11. A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.

12. The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.

13. A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.

Draft \Draft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Drafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Drafting.]

1. To draw the outline of; to delineate.

2. To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.

3. To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces.

   HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army? Radar: He was drafted.
   --M*A*S*H (the movie)

   Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. -- Holwell.

4. To transfer by draft.

   All her rents been drafted to London. -- Fielding.

Gild \Gild\ (g[i^]ld), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gilded or Gilt (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gilding.] [AS. gyldan, from gold gold.

1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. ``Gilded chariots.''
   --Pope.

   No more the rising sun shall gild the morn.
   --Pope.

2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.

   Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day.
   --Trumbull.

3. To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
   --Shak.

4. To make red with drinking. [Obs.]

   This grand liquior that hath gilded them.
   --Shak.

Gilt \Gilt\, n. [See Geld, v. t.] (Zo["o]l.) A female pig, when young.

Gilt \Gilt\, p. p. & a. Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow. ``Gilt hair''
--Chaucer.

Gilt \Gilt\, imp. & p. p. of Gild.

Gilt \Gilt\, n.

1. Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
   --Shak.

2. Money. [Obs.] ``The gilt of France.''
   --Shak.

Stand \Stand\ (st[a^]nd), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stood (st[oo^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Standing.] [OE. standen; AS. standan; akin to OFries. stonda, st[=a]n, D. staan, OS. standan, st[=a]n, OHG. stantan, st[=a]n, G. stehen, Icel. standa, Dan. staae, Sw. st[*a], Goth. standan, Russ. stoiate, L. stare, Gr. 'ista`nai to cause to stand, sth^nai to stand, Skr. sth[=a]. [root]163. Cf. Assist, Constant, Contrast, Desist, Destine, Ecstasy, Exist, Interstice, Obstacle, Obstinate, Prest, n., Rest remainder, Solstice, Stable, a. & n., Staff, Stage, Stall, n., Stamen, Stanchion, Stanza, State, n., Statute, Stead, Steed, Stool, Stud of horses, Substance, System.]

1. To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as:

   1. To be supported on the feet, in an erect or nearly erect position; -- opposed to lie, sit, kneel, etc. ``I pray you all, stand up!''
      --Shak.

   2. To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation.

      It stands as it were to the ground yglued.
      --Chaucer.

      The ruined wall Stands when its wind-worn battlements are gone.
      --Byron.

2. To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine.

   Wite ye not where there stands a little town?
   --Chaucer.

3. To cease from progress; not to proceed; to stop; to pause; to halt; to remain stationary.

   I charge thee, stand, And tell thy name.
   --Dryden.

   The star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
   --Matt. ii. 9.

4. To remain without ruin or injury; to hold good against tendencies to impair or injure; to be permanent; to endure; to last; hence, to find endurance, strength, or resources.

   My mind on its own center stands unmoved.
   --Dryden.

5. To maintain one's ground; to be acquitted; not to fail or yield; to be safe.

   Readers by whose judgment I would stand or fall.
   --Spectator.

6. To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady, or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. ``The standing pattern of their imitation.''
   --South.

   The king granted the Jews . . . to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life.
   --Esther viii. 11.

7. To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.

   We must labor so as to stand with godliness, according to his appointment.
   --Latimer.

8. To have or maintain a position, order, or rank; to be in a particular relation; as, Christian charity, or love, stands first in the rank of gifts.

9. To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist. ``Sacrifices . . . which stood only in meats and drinks.''
   --Heb. ix.

10. Accomplish what your signs foreshow; I stand resigned, and am prepared to go.
    --Dryden.

    Thou seest how it stands with me, and that I may not tarry.
    --Sir W. Scott.

    10. To be consistent; to agree; to accord.

    Doubt me not; by heaven, I will do nothing But what may stand with honor.
    --Massinger.

11. (Naut.) To hold a course at sea; as, to stand from the shore; to stand for the harbor.

    From the same parts of heaven his navy stands.
    --Dryden.

12. To offer one's self, or to be offered, as a candidate.

    He stood to be elected one of the proctors of the university.
    --Walton.

13. To stagnate; not to flow; to be motionless.

    Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
    --Dryden.

14. To measure when erect on the feet.

    Six feet two, as I think, he stands.
    --Tennyson.

15. (Law)

    1. To be or remain as it is; to continue in force; to have efficacy or validity; to abide.
       --Bouvier.

    2. To appear in court.
       --Burrill.

16. (Card Playing) To be, or signify that one is, willing to play with one's hand as dealt. Stand by (Naut.), a preparatory order, equivalent to Be ready. To stand against, to oppose; to resist. To stand by.

    1. To be near; to be a spectator; to be present.

    2. To be aside; to be set aside with disregard. ``In the interim [we] let the commands stand by neglected.''
       --Dr. H. More.

    3. To maintain; to defend; to support; not to desert; as, to stand by one's principles or party.

    4. To rest on for support; to be supported by.
       --Whitgift.

    5. To remain as a spectator, and take no part in an action; as, we can't just stand idly by while people are being killed. To stand corrected, to be set right, as after an error in a statement of fact; to admit having been in error. --Wycherley. To stand fast, to be fixed; to be unshaken or immovable. To stand firmly on, to be satisfied or convinced of. ``Though Page be a secure fool, and stands so firmly on his wife's frailty.'' --Shak. To stand for.

       1. To side with; to espouse the cause of; to support; to maintain, or to profess or attempt to maintain; to defend. ``I stand wholly for you.''
          --Shak.

       2. To be in the place of; to be the substitute or representative of; to represent; as, a cipher at the left hand of a figure stands for nothing. ``I will not trouble myself, whether these names stand for the same thing, or really include one another.''
          --Locke.

       3. To tolerate; as, I won't stand for any delay. To stand in, to cost. ``The same standeth them in much less cost.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia). The Punic wars could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the species. --Burke. To stand in hand, to conduce to one's interest; to be serviceable or advantageous. To stand off.

          1. To keep at a distance.

          2. Not to comply.

          3. To keep at a distance in friendship, social intercourse, or acquaintance.

       4. To appear prominent; to have relief. ``Picture is best when it standeth off, as if it were carved.'' --Sir H. Wotton. To stand off and on (Naut.), to remain near a coast by sailing toward land and then from it. To stand on (Naut.), to continue on the same tack or course. To stand out.

          1. To project; to be prominent. ``Their eyes stand out with fatness.''
             --Psalm lxxiii. 7.

          2. To persist in opposition or resistance; not to yield or comply; not to give way or recede. His spirit is come in, That so stood out against the holy church. --Shak. To stand to.

             1. To ply; to urge; to persevere in using. ``Stand to your tackles, mates, and stretch your oars.''
                --Dryden.

             2. To remain fixed in a purpose or opinion. ``I will stand to it, that this is his sense.''
                --Bp. Stillingfleet.

          3. To abide by; to adhere to; as to a contract, assertion, promise, etc.; as, to stand to an award; to stand to one's word.

          4. Not to yield; not to fly; to maintain, as one's ground. ``Their lives and fortunes were put in safety, whether they stood to it or ran away.''
             --Bacon.

       5. To be consistent with; to agree with; as, it stands to reason that he could not have done so; same as stand with, below .

    6. To support; to uphold. ``Stand to me in this cause.'' --Shak. To stand together, to be consistent; to agree. To stand to reason to be reasonable; to be expected. To stand to sea (Naut.), to direct the course from land. To stand under, to undergo; to withstand. --Shak. To stand up.

       1. To rise from sitting; to be on the feet.

       2. To arise in order to speak or act. ``Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed.''
          --Acts xxv. 18.

       3. To rise and stand on end, as the hair.

       4. To put one's self in opposition; to contend. ``Once we stood up about the corn.'' --Shak. To stand up for, to defend; to justify; to support, or attempt to support; as, to stand up for the administration. To stand upon.

          1. To concern; to interest.

          2. To value; to esteem. ``We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth.''
             --Ray.

          3. To insist on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony.

          4. To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] ``So I stood upon him, and slew him.''
             --2 Sam. i. 10.

             To stand with, to be consistent with. ``It stands with reason that they should be rewarded liberally.''
             --Sir J. Davies.

Procellarian \Pro`cel*la"ri*an\, n. [L. procella a storm.] (Zo["o]l.) One of a family of oceanic birds ( Procellarid[ae]) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.

vb. 1 To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle. 2 Usually with ''of'', to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point.

n. A ladder with only one standard, into which cross-pieces are inserted.

a. Of or pertaining to a micrometastasis

adv. (context legal English) “from now on”. Used to describe certain legal effects which are applicable solely from this point (in time) on and therefore don’t affect past actions.

n. (plural of picometer English)

vb. (alternative spelling of enamor from=UK from2=AU from3=NZ from4=Canada English)

a. Not tortious.

n. (plural of instructress English)

n. (plural of counterfoil English)

n. (sexual orientation English)

n. a dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

n. (context geology English) A sedimentary limestone matrix derived from calcite mud

a. (context biology English) relating to rheotaxis

n. (fish cake English)

n. (context legal English) In the legal area of torts, a hazardous object or condition that is likely to attract children who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object or condition, and to whom the landowner can therefore be held liable for injuries.

Etymology 1 n. 1 Any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal, member of the family ''Mustelidae'', which also includes weasels, polecats, badgers, and others. 2 (context gay slang English) A hairy man with a slender physique, in contrast with a bear, who is more broadly set Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) annatto.

n. The area in which the baton must be passed from one runner to another during a relay race.

n. (context video games English) A downloadable content file that unlocks items, characters, levels, or other content that was included with a video game but not immediately accessible (if at all through normal gameplay).

vb. (en-past of: luncheon)

n. (plural of rheomotor English)

n. (context US English) a shirtwaist

vb. (present participle of luncheon English)

1. (context not comparable English) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled n. 1 An early version of a written work [also spelled draught]. 2 A preliminary sketch, rough outline [also spelled draught]. 3 (context nautical English) Depth of water needed to float a ship [also spelled draught]. 4 A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle [also spelled draught]. 5 draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process. 6 A cheque, an order for money to be paid 7 An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow [also spelled draught] 8 conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military. 9 (context politics English) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position 10 (context sports English) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams 11 (context rail transport English) the pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition. v

2. 1 (context transitive English) to write a first version, make a preliminary sketch. 2 to write a law 3 (context transitive English) to conscript a person, force a person to serve in the military 4 to select and separate an animal or animals from a group. 5 (context transitive politics English) to force or convince a person to take an elected position they are not interested in 6 (context transitive sports English) to select a rookie player onto a professional sports team 7 (context intransitive English) To follow very closely behind another vehicle, thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower, thereby conserving energy or increasing speed. 8 the act of drawing fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn

n. (plural of inrush English)

a. Applied to various marine creatures whose shell or mouth has a white edge.

n. (context ice hockey English) a shot that involves using the arm muscles, predominantly the wrist, to propel the puck using the concave side of the blade.

n. (plural of ambling English)

Etymology 1

1. golden coloured. n. 1 (context uncountable English) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. 2 (context uncountable slang English) money. 3 (context countable finance English) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged) Etymology 2

   n. A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. v

2. (en-past of: gild)

n. (alternative form of rogues' gallery English)

a. (obsolete form of theologic English)

n. (context surgery English) A gauze or surgical sponge left inside a patient body during surgery.

n. (alternative namecovert stuttering)

vb. (present participle of prebuffer English)

n. (context zoology English) Any of a family of oceanic birds (Procellaridae) including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters.