(James), a doctor of physic, and an eminent mathematician, was born in 1517. He was an excellent Latin and French poet, a good orator, physician, and grammarian. He wrote, Œuvres Poétiques, Commentaires Latins sur Euclide, &c.

PELETS, in heraldry, those roundels that are black; called also agrettes and gunstones, and by the French torteaux de sable.

PELICCLE, among physicians, denotes a thin film or fragment of a membrane. Among chemists it signifies a thin surface of crystals uniformly spread over a saline liquor evaporated to a certain degree.