Peacemaker - PE'ACEMAKER, n. One who makes peace by reconciling parties that are at variance.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. Mat 5.
Perfect - PER'FECT, a. [L. perfectus, perficio, to complete; per and facio, to do or make through, to carry to the end.]
1. Finished; complete; consummate; not defective; having all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as a perfect statue; a perfect likeness; a perfect work; a perfect system.
As full, as perfect in a hair as heart.
2. Fully informed; completely skilled; as men perfect in the use of arms; perfect in discipline.
3. Complete in moral excellencies.
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. Mat 5.
4. Manifesting perfection.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor 12.
Perfect chord,in music, a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the fifth and the octave; a perfect consonance.
A perfect flower, in botany, has both stamen and pistil, or at least another and stigma.
Perfect tense, in grammar, the preterit tense; a tense which expresses an act completed.
PER'FECT, v.t. [L. perfectus, perficio.] To finish or complete so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to any thing all that is requisite to its nature and kind; as, to perfect a picture or statue. 2 Chr 8.
-Inquire into the nature and properties of things, and thereby perfect our ideas of distinct species.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4.
1. To instruct fully; to make fully skillful; as, to perfect one's self in the rules of music or architecture; to perfect soldiers in discipline.
Pipe - PIPE, n. [Eng. fife.]
1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a long tube of wood or metal; as a rural pipe. The word, I believe, is not now the proper technical name of any particular instrument, but is applicable to any tubular wind instrument, and it occurs in bagpipe.
2. A long tube or hollow body; applied to the veins and arteries of the body, and to many hollow bodies, particularly such as are used for conductors of water or other fluids.
3. A tube of clay with a bowl at one end; used in smoking tobacco.
4. The organs of voice and respiration; as in windpipe.
5. The key or sound of the voice.
6. In England, a roll in the exchequer, or the exchequer itself. Hence, pipe-office is an office in which the clerk of the pipe makes out leases of crown lands, accounts of sheriffs, &c.
7. A cask containing two hogsheads or 120 gallons, used for wine; or the quantity which it contains.
8. In mining, a pipe is where the ore runs forward endwise in a hole, and does not sink downwards or in a vein.
PIPE, v.i. To play on a pipe, fife, flute or other tubular wind instrument of music.
We have piped to you, and ye have not danced. Mat 11.
1. To have a shrill sound; to whistle.
PIPE, v.t. To play on a wind instrument. 1 Cor 14
Piston - PIS'TON, n. [L. pinso, the primary sense of which is to press, send, drive, thrust or strike, like embolus.]
A short cylinder of metal or other solid substance, used in pumps and other engines or machines for various purposes. It is fitted exactly to the bore of another body so as to prevent the entrance or escape of air, and is usually applied to the purpose of forcing some fluid into or out of the canal or tube which it fills, as in pumps, fire-engines and the like.
1. An artificial cavity made in the earth by digging; a deep hole in the earth.
2. A deep place; an abyss; profundity.
Into what pit thou seest
From what height fallen.
3. The grave. Psa 28 and 30.
4. The area for cock-fighting; whence the phrase, to fly the pit.
5. The middle part of a theater.
6. The hollow of the body at the stomach. We say, the pit of the stomach.
7. The cavity under the shoulder; as the arm-pit.
8. A dint made by impression on a soft substance, as by the finger, &c.
9. A little hollow in the flesh, made by a pustule, as in the small picks.
10. A hollow place in the earth excavated for catching wild beasts; hence in Scripture, whatever ensnares and brings into calamity or misery, from which it is difficult to escape. Psa 7. Prov 22. and 23.
11. Great distress and misery, temporal, spiritual or eternal. Isa 38. Psa 40.
12. Hell; as the bottomless pit. Rev 20.
Plat - PLAT, v.t. [from plait, or plat, flat.]
To weave; to form by texture. Mat 27.