Definition of pet

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

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Cosset :: Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general..
Mop :: Mop (n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet..
Cerebripetal :: Cerebripetal (a.) Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.
Petulancy :: Petulancy (n.) The quality or state of being petulant; temporary peevishness; pettishness; capricious ill humor.
Inflame :: Inflame (v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire..
Contemporary :: Contemporary (n.) One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries..
Whet :: Whet (v. t.) To make sharp, keen, or eager; to excite; to stimulate; as, to whet the appetite or the courage..
Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..
Gasoline :: Gasoline (n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor..
Perpetuity :: Perpetuity (n.) Something that is perpetual.
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time between Epiphany and Ash Wednesday wherein marriages were formerly solemnized publicly in churches. [Eng..
Sensual :: Sensual (a.) Hence, not spiritual or intellectual; carnal; fleshly; pertaining to, or consisting in, the gratification of the senses, or the indulgence of appetites; wordly..
Carpeting :: Carpeting (n.) Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general..
Battlement :: Battlement (n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches..
Vanity :: Vanity (n.) One of the established characters in the old moralities and puppet shows. See Morality, n., 5..
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides..
Woulfe Bottle :: Woulfe bottle (n.) A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks; -- so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, an English chemist..
Petaled :: Petaled (a.) Having petals; as, a petaled flower; -- opposed to apetalous, and much used in compounds; as, one-petaled, three-petaled, etc..
Cosset :: Cosset (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.
Petrified :: Petrified (imp. & p. p.) of Petrif.
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