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Pet

noun

1.

A domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusement.

2.

A special loved one. Synonyms: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite.

3.

A fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight).

4.

Using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain). Synonym: positron emission tomography.

verb

(past & past part. petted; pres. part. petting)

1.

Stroke or caress gently.

2.

Stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking.

adjective

1.

Preferred above all others and treated with partiality. Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favourite, preferent, preferred.

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"Pet" Quotes from Famous Books

... fails because he thinks himself a genius, and therefore does not need to study. The sooner you get rid of the idea that you are a genius the better. The old idea of a genius that never has to study is the pet of laziness and the ruin of manliness. Sidney Smith truly says: "There is but one method of attaining to excellence, and that is hard labor; and a man who will not pay that price for distinction had better at once dedicate himself to the pursuit of the fox, or sport with the tangles of Neaera's hair, ...

— Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel - and Selections from his Writings • Frank G. Allen

... down at the dead bell-ringer with a kind of regret, "still there are some points about it which still remain a mystery, and always will. There is no record of there ever being monkeys found in this state. It must have been brought here by one of the Spanish gentlemen as a pet and taught the trick of ringing the bell, and yet, that theory is unbelieveable. Consider, Walter, if such is the case, this creature ...

— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely

... in the likeness and image of God, that is to say on the same Principle, then what is the Law of the Divine nature must be the Law of ours also—and as we awake to this we become "partakers of the Divine Nature" (2 Pet. i, 4). ...

— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward

... Corinthians (2 Cor. xi. 7), and once in a modified form in the pathetic letter from the dungeon, which the old man addressed to his 'son Timothy' (1 Tim. i. 11). It is also found in the writings of Peter (1 Pet. iv. 17). In all these cases the phrase, 'the gospel of God,' may mean the gospel which has God for its author or origin, but it seems rather to mean 'which ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... built by, and continued for many years to be the favorite residence of the late John Nash, esq., and was with him a sort of architectural pet, receiving from time to time such additions and alterations as appeared to be improvements to the general design, or called for on the score of enlarged accommodation; a circumstance certainly not calculated ...

— Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight • George Brannon

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