Peter
['piːtə] or ['pitɚ]
Definition
(noun.) disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope.
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Definition
(n.) A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles,
(v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out.
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Definition
v.i. to call for trumps at whist by throwing away a higher card of a suit while holding a smaller.—n. this signal for trumps.
v.i. in mining to become exhausted (with out): (fig.) to lose power or value.
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Examples
- But those who like Peter Featherstone never had a copy of themselves demanded, are the very last to wait for such a request either in prose or verse. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Moreover, he felt he was seen through, and Peter grew black as a thunder-cloud. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They have been looking at the house in St. Peter's Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt's; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Old Uncle Peter sung both de legs out of dat oldest cheer, last week, suggested Mose. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Den Uncle Peter mus'n't sit in it, cause he al'ays hitches when he gets a singing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I am glad that Peter is acquainted with the crown soap business, so as to make what is good of the kind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- With Peter the Great (1682-1725) the empire of Muscovy broke away from her Tartar traditions and entered the sphere of French attraction. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And how is Abigail Peters? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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