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Overruns
- noun - flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
- run beyond or past; "The plane overran the runway"
- seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land"
- too much production or more than expected
Overtone
- noun - (usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair"
- a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency
Overwind
- - To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.
Paeonine
- - An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.
Pheasant
- noun - flesh of a pheasant; usually braised
- large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere
Piedmont
- noun - a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land
- the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
- the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
Pieplant
- noun - long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
Piercing
- verb - cut or make a way through; "the knife cut through the flesh"; "The path pierced the jungle"; "Light pierced through the forest"
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations"
- make a hole into; "The needle pierced her flesh"
- move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply; "The cold pierced her bones"; "Her words pierced the students"
- painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
- penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument
- sound sharply or shrilly; "The scream pierced the night"
Pleading
- verb - (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding
- appeal or request earnestly; "I pleaded with him to stop"
- begging
- enter a plea, as in courts of law; "She pleaded not guilty"
- make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts
- offer as an excuse or plea; "She was pleading insanity"