Vocabulary : Payndemain to Peabody bird

Payndemain : The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman.
Payne's process : A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo.
Paynim : See Painim.
Paynize : To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
Payor : See Payer.

Payse : To poise.
Paytine : An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.
Pea : The sliding weight on a steelyard. ;; See Peak, n., 3. ;; A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod. ;; A name given, especially in the Southern States, to the seed of several leguminous plants (species of Dolichos, Cicer, Abrus, etc.) esp. those having a scar (hilum) of a different color from the rest of the seed.
Peabird : The wryneck; -- so called from its note.
Peabody bird : An American sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) having a conspicuous white throat. The name is imitative of its note. Called also White-throated sparrow.

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