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Purloining
- verb - make off with belongings of others
Pursuivant
- - A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
Pylodictus
- noun - flathead catfishes
Pyramidded
- verb - arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid
- enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
- increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base
- use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
Pyramiding
- noun - a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated
Pyramidion
- - The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.
Pyramidoid
- - A solid resembling a pyramid; -- called also pyramoid.
Pyrimidine
- noun - a heterocyclic organic compound with a penetrating odor
- any of several basic compounds derived from pyrimidine
Pyrocitric
- - Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.