Vocabulary : Peloric to Pelted

Peloric : Abnormally regular or symmetrical.
Pelorus : An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.
Pelota : A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.
Pelotage : Packs or bales of Spanish wool.
Pelt : 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. ;; The human skin. ;; The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. ;; To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. ;; To throw; to use as a missile. ;; To throw missiles. ;; To throw out words. ;; A blow or stroke from something thrown.
Pelta : A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. ;; A flat apothecium having no rim.
Peltae : of Pelta
Peltate : Alt. of Peltated
Peltated : Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ.
Pelted : of Pelt
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