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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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... of people would be anxious to avoid; in the days when he used to pack his grip from Montreal and go forth on lectural pilgrimages over Ontario and other parts. On a platform he always seemed like a long, lean schoolmaster. Sometimes he used a blackboard. One of his pet subjects was prohibition. He looked entirely like it. One could scarcely recollect having heard quite so dry a man on any subject. He looked like the genius of self-denial—like a man who long ago should have gone into ...

— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino

... reasons, and as Blass states the case bluntly, "Solon, or Pisistratus, or whoever it was, put a stop, at least as far as Athens was concerned, to the mangling of Homer" by the rhapsodists or reciters, each anxious to choose a pet passage, and not going through the whole Iliad in due sequence. "But the unity existed before the mangling. That this has been so long and so stubbornly misunderstood is no credit to German scholarship: blind uncritical credulity ...

— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang

... him on the way, His pet lamps will meet him on the way, His pet lamps will meet him on the ...

— The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65 • Osbourne H. Oldroyd

... frightened. Then I found myself only among women, and they took off my clothes and dressed me in their fashion. I think I was very happy, when I once got accustomed to it. The ladies made a sort of pet of me, and I was taught to dance and to sing little native songs. There were other white girls here, and they were all very kind to me, though they always seemed very sad, and I could not make out why they cried so often, especially when they ...

— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty

... always to help others. He would spend whole mornings explaining to elderly hens how to hatch eggs, and would give up an afternoon's black-berrying to sit at home and crack nuts for his pet squirrel. Before he was seven he would argue with his mother upon the management of children, and reprove his father for the way he was bringing ...

— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome

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