Chapter Perverseness to Pickedness of P by Soule's Synonymes

Pharmacon, n.

1. Medicine, drug.

2. Poison.

Pharmacopœia, n. Dispensatory.

Pharmacopolist, n. Apothecary, druggist.

Pharos, n. Lighthouse, watch-tower, beacon.

Phascolomys, n. Wombat, phascolome (Phascolomys ursinus).

Phase, n. Appearance (as of the moon or a planet), aspect, phasis.

Phenomenon, n. [pl. Phenomena.]

1. Appearance, manifestation, what is seen (as distinguished from its essence or substance).

2. Prodigy, wonder, marvel, miracle.

Philander, v. n. Coquet, flirt, make love, make a show of love, affect to be in love, play at courtship, pretend admiration, dally.

Philanthropic, philantropical, a. Benevolent, kind, benignant, gracious, humane, loving mankind.

Philanthropy, n. Humanity, love of mankind, general benevolence, good-will to all men, universal good- will, large-heartedness, public-spiritedness.

Philibeg, n. [Written also Fillibeg]. Kilt.

Philippic, n. Invective.

Philister, n. Commonplace person, philistine.

Philistine, n. Commonplace person, prosaic man, practical man, utilitarian, mediocre person, narrow- minded man.

Philology, n.

1. Love of learning, love of literature, love of letters.

2. Study of language, study of literature.

3. Criticism, grammatical learning.

4. Science of language, linguistic science, linguistics.