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pellet(2)(dictionary)
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pellet(1) (iou)



pellet noun1 & verb. LME.
[Old & mod. French pelote from Proto-Romance dim. of Latin pila ball: see -ET1.]
A. noun.
A small usu. rounded mass of something; spec. a hard compressed ball or pill of animal feed, medicine, pesticide, etc. LME.
W. H. Auden Doctor Thomas sat over his dinner..Rolling his bread into pellets. S. Plath I twisted a kleenex to small, pill-sized pellets. Stock & Land (Melbourne) When a sheep's diet shifts from grass to pellets, it is eating a more nutritious Food. Which? Protect..plants like Helleborus niger..from slugs using pellets.
spec.
a. Orig., a (usu. stone) missile shot from a mortar etc.; a cannon-ball. Later, a bullet or piece of small shot. LME.
G. Lord He fired..into the cave mouth. Pellets flew around. fig.: J. Mark Sagging clouds, out of which fell leaden pellets of water.
b. An imitation bullet, now esp. of compressed paper, used in a toy gun etc. M16.
c. A small mass of bones, feathers, etc., regurgitated by a bird of prey; a cast. E19.
d. A small round piece of animal excreta, esp. produced by a rabbit. E20.
Heraldry. A black spot representing a cannon-ball; an ogress. LME.
A rounded or flat circular boss found in coins, architectural mouldings, etc. M19.
Comb.: pellet bell Hist. a small bell sounded by a loose pellet in its cavity, and attached to a dancer's clothing, a tambourine, etc., esp. in the Middle Ages; pellet bomb a type of small anti-personnel bomb; pellet bow Hist. a type of bow firing clay pellets for shooting game; pellet mill a machine for pelleting powders.
b. verb trans.
Orig., send in the form of a pellet or pellets. Later, form or shape into pellets, pelletize; spec. coat (seed) with soluble nutritive and protective substances to facilitate handling and promote growth. L16.
Times Low seed rates can be achieved..by using seed pelleted with basic slag.
Hit with (esp. paper) pellets, small shot, etc. L19.
pelletable adjective able to be formed into pellets L20.
pelleted adjective (a) Heraldry marked or charged with pellets; (b) formed into or supplied as pellets: E17.
pellety adjective (Heraldry) pelleted L16.

dielectrophoresis (iou)



dielectrophoresis noun. M20.
[Blend of DIELECTRIC noun and ELECTROPHORESIS.]
The migration of uncharged particles towards a maximum of the electric field.