It was called oxygen from
two Greek words, signifying to produce acid, from its power of giving
acidity to many compounds in which it predominates.
_Oxygenized_: Combined with oxygen.
_Pancreas_: A gland within the abdomen just below and behind the
stomach, and providing a fluid to assist digestion. In animals, it is
called the sweet-bread.
_Pancreatic_: Belonging to the pancreas.
_Parterre_: A level division of ground, a flower-garden.
_Pearlash_: The common name for impure carbonate of potash, which in a
purer form is called _Saleratus_.
_Peristaltic_: Contracting in successive circles; worm-like.
_Petroleum_: Rock oil, an inflammable, bituminous liquid exuding from
rocks or from the earth in the neighborhood of the carboniferous or
coal-bearing formation.
_Phosphorous_: One of the elementary substances.
_Physician in Ordinary to the Queen_: The physician who attends the
Queen in ordinary cases of illness.
_Pitt, William_: A celebrated English statesman, son of the Earl
of Chatham. He was born May 28th, 1759, and at the age of twenty-three
was made Chancellor of the Exchequer, and soon afterward Prime Minister.
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