Definition of pet

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Pet (n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.

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Filleting :: Filleting (n.) The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work..
Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor..
Saccate :: Saccate (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal..
Becuna :: Becuna (n.) A fish of the Mediterranean (Sphyraena spet). See Barracuda.
Indissolvable :: Indissolvable (a.) Not dissolvable; incapable of being dissolved or separated; incapable o/ separation; perpetually firm and binding; indissoluble; as, an indissolvable bond of union..
Carpetbagger :: Carpetbagger (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
Botryose :: Botryose (a.) Of the racemose or acropetal type of inflorescence.
Octonaphthene :: Octonaphthene (n.) A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum..
Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Petaled :: Petaled (a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc..
Peddling :: Peddling (a.) Petty; insignificant.
Flank :: Flank (n.) That part of a bastion which reaches from the curtain to the face, and defends the curtain, the flank and face of the opposite bastion; any part of a work defending another by a fire along the outside of its parapet..
Underskirt :: Underskirt (n.) A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.
Verbenaceous :: Verbenaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order (Verbenaceae) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom..
Petrescent :: Petrescent (a.) Petrifying; converting into stone; as, petrescent water..
Orator :: Orator (n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Neve :: Neve (n.) The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier..
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