Definition of pelt

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Pelt (v. i.) To throw missiles.

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Pelting :: Pelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pel.
Pelt :: Pelt (n.) The human skin.
Fell :: Fell (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell..
Bepelt :: Bepelt (v. t.) To pelt roundly.
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..
Pelta :: Pelta (n.) A flat apothecium having no rim.
Mandrake :: Mandrake (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum..
Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..
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.
Pelter :: Pelter (n.) One who pelts.
Jack-a-lent :: "Jack-a-lent (n.) A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow..
Peltiform :: Peltiform (a.) Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate..
Pepper :: Pepper (v. t.) Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds..
Snowball :: Snowball (v. t.) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
Spelter :: Spelter (n.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.
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..
Pell :: Pell (n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.
Spelt :: Spelt (v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
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..
Fellmonger :: Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts..
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