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

Clod :: Clod (v. t.) To pelt with clods.

Spelter :: Spelter (n.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.

Brachyura :: Brachyura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix..

Peltae :: Peltae (pl. ) of Pelt.

Fellmonger :: Fellmonger (n.) A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts..

Pelting :: Pelting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pel.

Spelt :: Spelt (n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.

Lough :: Lough (n.) A loch or lake; -- so spelt in Ireland.

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..

Pelted :: Pelted (imp. & p. p.) of Pel.

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

Podophyllum :: Podophyllum (n.) A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi..

Pelting :: Pelting (a.) Mean; paltry.

Pelt :: Pelt (v. i.) To throw missiles.

Pell :: Pell (v. t.) To pelt; to knock about.

Shieldtail :: Shieldtail (n.) Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated..

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..

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.

Pelt :: Pelt (n.) The human skin.

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