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Cucking Stool :: Cucking stool () A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening them in it, usually in front of their doors, to be pelted and hooted at by the mob, but sometimes to be taken to the water and ducked; -- called also a castigatory, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool..

Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..

Peytrel :: Peytrel (n.) The breastplate of a horse's armor or harness. [Spelt also peitrel.] See Poitrel.

Catapeltic :: Catapeltic (a.) Of or pertaining to a catapult.

Spelt :: Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.

Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum..

Pelt :: Pelt (n.) The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

Bowl :: Bowl (v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

Jack-a-lent :: "Jack-a-lent (n.) A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow..

Navelwort :: Navelwort (n.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort..

Stone :: Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones..

Spalt :: Spalt (n.) Spelter.

Skean :: Skean (n.) A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.].

Spelt :: Spelt () imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.

Nasturtium :: Nasturtium (n.) Any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads..

Peltry :: Peltry (n.) Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs..

Spellable :: Spellable (a.) Capable of being spelt.

Bepelt :: Bepelt (v. t.) To pelt roundly.

Pelt :: Pelt (n.) A blow or stroke from something thrown.

Fitch :: Fitch (n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt..

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