n. a genus of epiphytic or terrestrial ferns of America and Africa and Polynesia.
Syn. -- genus Amauropelta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To pelt roundly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + peltate. ] Having a shell or covering like a double shield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a catapult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. pelz a pelt, fur, fr. OF. pelice, F. pelisse (see Pelisse); or perh. shortened fr. peltry. ] 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The human skin. [ Jocose ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Falconry) The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pelting. ] [ OE. pelten, pulten, pilten, to thrust, throw, strike; cf. L. pultare, equiv. to pulsare (v. freq. fr. pellere to drive), and E. pulse a beating. ] 1. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail. [ 1913 Webster ]

The chidden billows seem to pelt the clouds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw; to use as a missile. [ 1913 Webster ]

My Phillis me with pelted apples plies. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To throw missiles. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw out words. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Another smothered seems to pelt and swear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A blow or stroke from something thrown. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Peltæ. [ L., a shield, fr. Gr. pe`lth. ] 1. (Antiq.) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptic form, or crescent-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A flat apothecium having no rim. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. pelté. See Pelta. ] Shield-shaped; scutiform; (Bot.) having the stem or support attached to the lower surface, instead of at the base or margin; -- said of a leaf or other organ. -- Pel"tate*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. One who pelts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [ Obs. ] “Let such pelters prate.” Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ After Jean C. A. Peltier, French physicist, the discoverer. ] (Elec.) The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Elec.) A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pelta + -form. ] Shieldlike, with the outline nearly circular; peltate. Henslow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Mean; paltry. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Mech.) A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. pelleterie peltry, furriery, fr. pelletier a furrier, fr. OF. pel skin, F. peau, L. pelis. See Pelt a skin, Pell, n., Fell a skin. ] Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Peltry. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ See Spell a splinter. ] To split; to break; to spalt. [ Obs. ] Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. spelt, fr. L. spelta. ] (Bot.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Spalt. ] (Metal.) Spelter. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LG. spialter, G. & D. spiauter. Cf. Pewter. ] (Metal.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts. [ 1913 Webster ]