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Popish Plot – Porridge

Popish Plot

in English history, an alleged plot made known by Titus Oates asserted that two men had been told off to assassinate Charles II., that certain Roman Catholics whom he or kins d

Poppy Head

a generic term applied to the groups of foliage or other ornaments placed on the summits of bench ends, desks, and other ecclesiastical woodwork in the Middle Ages.

Populist Party

OR PEOPLE'S

Porcellanite

a very hard, impure, jaspideous rock, frequently met with in the immediate vicinity of intrusive eruptive masses. In most cases porcellanite is simply a highly baked and altered argillaceous rock-shales being frequently converted into porcellanite along their line of junction with an igneous rock.

Porch

a covered entrance to a building; a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway. When a row of columns is added it becomes a portico.

In some old churches the porches are of two stories, the upper being termed a parvis.

Porch

THE, the School of the Stoics, so called because Zeno, the philosopher and founder of the sect, gave his lectures in the Athenian picture-gallery, called the stoa poikile, or painted porch.

Porcupine Wood

the outer portion of the trunk of the cocoanut palm, a hard, durable wood, which, when cut horizontally, shows beautiful markings, resembling those of porcupine quills.

Porgy

POGGY, or PAUGIE, Pagrus argyrops, an important food fish found on the coast of the United States. It attains a length of 18 inches and a weight of about four pounds.

PORIFERA ("pore-bearing"), a term occasionally employed to designate the sponges.

Porosity

the quality or state of being porous or of having pores; porousness; specifically, that property of matter in consequence of which its particles are not in absolute contact, but are separated by pores or intervals; the opposite to density.

PORPHYRIO

Porphyrio

a genus of Rallidæ, sub-family Gallinæ, with 18 species, chiefly Oriental and Australian, but occurring in South America, in Africa, and in the S. of Europe. In habits they resemble the water hen, but are larger and more stately birds; bill and legs red, general plumage metallic blue.

Porphyrite

or PORPHYRYTE, a name used by some petrologists for the porphyritic orthoclase rocks which are free from quartz.

Porridge

a kind of dish made by boiling vegetables in water with or withmade by slowly stirring oatmeal or simiout meat; broth, pottage, soup; or a food lar substance in water or milk while boiling, till it forms a thickened mass.