Word Finder - pease

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A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.

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The edible seed of some of these plants.

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A ball travelling at high velocity.

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(Indiana) Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.

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Any of several varieties of bean.

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A peafowl

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Wampum.

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.

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The stock market reached a peak in September 1929.

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• apex
• pinnacle

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The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.

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They reached the peak after 8 hours of climbing.

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• summit
• top

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The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.

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The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

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peak-brails

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The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.

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The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.

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A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.

The repeal of the Test Act, the admission of Quakers to Parliament in consequence of their being allowed to affirm instead of taking the oath (1832, when Joseph Pease was elected for South Durham), the establishment of the University of London, and, more recently, the opening of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge to Nonconformists, have all had their effect upon the body.

In south Germany the so-called Fruchtwechsel is practised, the fields being sown with grain crops every second year, and with pease or beans, grasses, potatoes, turnips, &c., in the intermediate years.

The principal articles of import are shirtings, drills, jeans and twills, opium, woollens, steel, lead, needles, J apanese sea-weed and sugar; and of export, wool, skins, beans and pease, straw braid, coal, dates, tobacco and rhubarb.

Its principal products are cotton, wheat and opium - the anti-opium decrees of 1906 had little effect on the province up to 1910 - and these it exchanges with the neighbouring provinces for coal, iron, salt, &c. Kao-liang, pulse, millet, maize, groundnut, barley, beans, pease, lucerne, and rape seed are also grown.

Indian corn was cultivated in the temperate and warm regions long before the advent of Europeans, who introduced wheat, rye, oats, beans, pease and the fruits and vegetables of the Old World, for each of which a favourable soil and climate was easily found.

Bruchus pisi causes considerable damage to pease; during the spring the beetle lays its eggs in the young pea, which is devoured by the larva which hatches out in it.

Wheat, barley, millet, pease, lentils, rice, sorghum, lucerne and cotton are the chief agricultural products.

Granda's teeth's in a wee fite mug, Doon gaes the pease meal glug glug glug.

Here is produced the well known " Pease's West " coke.

The principal crops are oats and barley, a few pease, and sometimes a little wheat.

The immediate environs are very fertile and produce a great variety of fruits, including many of the temperate zone, but the surrounding country is arid and sterile, producing scanty crops of barley, Indian corn and pease.

Wheat or barley is perhaps the staple cultivation; but pease, beans, oil-seeds and cotton are also grown.

Pease straw, if not sandy, and good bright oat straw are good fodder for horses; but with barley and wheat straw, in the case of a horse, more energy is consumed during its passage through the alimentary canal than the digested straw yields.

Pease pudding hot, pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, Pease pudding in the pot - nine days old.

The farmers sow some tares for seed, instead of pease; never for hay or soiling.

The chief crops of the farmer are wheat (which from its flinty hardness and full kernel is the specialty of the Canadian north-west), oats, barley and pease.

Other agricultural products are sweet potatoes, cassava (manioc), yuca, yams, white potatoes, maguey, okra, peanuts, pease, all the vegetables of the hot and temperate climates, oranges, lemons, limes, bananas, plantains, figs, grapes, coco-nuts, pine-apples, strawberries, plums, guavas, breadfruit, mangoes and many others.

Sparse scrub timber, of little value except for posts, poles and rough beams and for fuel, occupies the region westward to approximately the longitude of the Pease river.

Smaller areas are devoted to maize, buckwheat, pease, rape, hemp, flax, hops and tobacco.