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P.
P (?), the sixteenth letter of the English
alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from
the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through
the ancient Greek, from the Ph\'d2nician, its probable origin
being Egyptain. Etymologically P is most closely related to
b, f, and v; as hobble,
hopple; father, paternal;
recipient, receive. See B,
F, and M.
See Guide to Pronunciation, Pa (?), n. A shortened form of
Papa.
Pa"age (?), n. [OF.
paage, paiage, F. p\'82age, fr.
(assumed) LL. pedaticum, fr. L. pes,
pedis, foot. See Pedage,
Pedal.] (O. Eng. Law) A toll for
passage over another person's grounds. [Written also
peage and pedage.]
Burke.
\'d8Paard (?), n. [D., a
horse.] The zebra. [S. Africa]
Paas (?), n. Pace
[Obs.]
Chaucer
Paas (?), n. [D.
paash. See Pasch.] The Easter
festival. [Local, U. S.]
Bartlett.
Paas egg. See Easter egg, under
Easter.
Pab"u*lar (?), a. [L.
pabularis.] Of, pertaining to, or fit for,
pabulum or food; affording food.
Pab`u*la"tion (?), n. [L.
pabulatio, fr. pabulari to feed, fr.
pabulum food. See Pabulum.]
1. The act of feeding, or providing food.
[Obs.]
Cockeram.
2. Food; fodder; pabulum. [Obs.]
Pab"u*lous (?), a. [L.
pabulosus.] Affording pabulum, or food;
alimental. [R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Pab"u*lum (?), n. [L., akin to
pascere to pasture. See Pastor.]
The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food;
nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a
fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as,
intellectual pabulum.
Pac (?), n. A kind of moccasin,
having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the
upper.
Knight.
Pa"ca (?), n. [Pg., from the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) A small South
American rodent (C\'d2logenys paca), having blackish
brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its
sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and
the Guinea pig.
Pa"ca*ble (?), a. [L.
pacare to pacify.] Placable.
[R.]
Coleridge.
Pa*cane" (?), n. (Bot.)
A species of hickory. See Pecan.
Pa"cate (?), a. [L.
pacatus, p. p. of pacare to pacify, fr.
pax, pacis, peace. See Pay to
requite, Peace.] Appeased; pacified;
tranquil. [R.]
Pa"ca*ted (?), a. Pacified;
pacate.
Pa*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
pacatio.] The act of pacifying; a
peacemaking.
Coleridge.
Pace (?), n. [OE.
pas, F. pas, from L. passus a
step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf.
pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh.
akin to E. patent. Cf. Pas,
Pass.] 1. A single movement from one
foot to the other in walking; a step.
2. The length of a step in walking or marching,
reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; --
used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty
paces. \'bdThe heigh of sixty pace
.\'b8
Chaucer.
pace is estimated at two
and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping,
the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to
three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The regulation
marching pace in the English and United States armies
is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double
time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the
heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next
touched the ground, five Roman feet.
3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk;
as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are
paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick
pace.
Chaucer.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
Shak.
In the military schools of riding a variety of paces
are taught.
Walsh.
4. A slow gait; a footpace.
[Obs.]
Chucer.
5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a
rack.
6. Any single movement, step, or procedure.
[R.]
The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is
to fall into confidence with Spain.
Sir W. Temple.
7. (Arch.) A broad step or platform; any
part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an
altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to
maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel
between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the
same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or
by some at four feet and two fifths. See Roman pace
in the Note under def. 2. [Obs.] --
To keep, hold, pace
with, to keep up with; to go as fast as.
\'bdIn intellect and attainments he kept pace with his
age.\'b8
Southey.
Pace (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Paced (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Pacing
(?).] 1. To go; to walk;
specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. \'bdI
paced on slowly.\'b8 Pope. \'bdWith speed so
pace.\'b8 Shak.
2. To proceed; to pass on.
[Obs.]
Or [ere] that I further in this tale pace.
Chaucer.
3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same
side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
4. To pass away; to die. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pace, v. t. 1. To walk over
with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the
guard paces his round. \'bdPacing
light the velvet plain.\'b8
T. Warton.
2. To measure by steps or paces; as, to
pace a piece of ground.
3. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces
of; to teach the pace; to break in.
If you can, pace your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go.
Shak
To pace the web (Weaving), to wind
up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a
loom.
Paced (?), a. Having, or
trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in
composition; as, slow-paced; a
thorough-paced villain.
Pa"cer (?), n. One who, or that
which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
Pa*cha" (?), n. [F.]
See Pasha.
\'d8Pa`cha*ca*mac" (?), n. A
divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator of the
universe.
\'d8Pa*chak" (?), n.
(Bot.) The fragrant roots of the Saussurea
Costus, exported from India to China, and used for burning
as incense. It is supposed to be the costus of the
ancients. [Written also
putchuck.]
Pa*cha"lic (?), a. & n. See
Pashalic.
\'d8Pa*chi"si (?), Par*che"si
(, n. [Hind., fr.
pachis twenty-five, the highest throw in the
game.] A game, somewhat resembling backgammon,
originating in India.
Pa*chom"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. -meter.] (Physics)
An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a
mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.
\'d8Pa*chon"ta (?), n.
(Bot.) A substance resembling gutta-percha, and
used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree
Isonandra acuminata.
Pach"y- (?). [Gr. A
combining form meaning thick; as,
pachyderm, pachydactyl.
Pach`y*car"pous (?), a.
[Pachy- + Gr. (Bot.)
Having the pericarp thick.
Pach`y*dac"tyl (?), n.
[Pachy- + dactyl.]
(Zo\'94l.) A bird or other animal having thick
toes.
Pach`y*dac"tyl*ous (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having thick toes.
Pach"y*derm (?), n. [Cf. F.
pachyderme.] (Zo\'94l.) One of
the Pachydermata.
Pach`y*der"mal (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Of or relating to the pachyderms;
as, pachydermal dentition.
\'d8Pach`y*der"ma*ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A group of hoofed mammals
distinguished for the thickness of their skins, including the
elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, tapir, horse, and hog. It is
now considered an artificial group.
Pach`y*der"ma*tous (?), a.
1. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
pachyderms.
2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.
Pach`y*der"moid (?), a.
[Pachyderm + -oid.]
(Zo\'94l.) Related to the pachyderms.
Pach`y*glos"sal (?), a.
[Pachy- + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Having a thick tongue; -- applied to a
group of lizards (Pachygloss\'91), including the
iguanas and agamas.
Pach`y*men`in*gi"tis (?), n.
[Pachy- + meningitis.]
(Med.) Inflammation of the dura mater or outer
membrane of the brain.
Pa*chym"e*ter (?), n.
[Pachy- + -meter.] Same as
Pachometer.
Pach"y*ote (?), n.
[Pachy- + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) One of a family of bats, including
those which have thick external ears.
Pac"i*fi`a*ble (?), a. Capable
of being pacified or appeased; placable.
Pa*cif"ic (?), a. [L.
pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See
Pacify.] Of or pertaining to peace; suited to
make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not
quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or
acts; a pacific nature or condition.
Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and
Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on
account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed
while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the
Pacific, and, formerly, the South
sea.
Syn. -- Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil;
calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.
Pa*cif"ic*a*ble (?), a.
Placable. [R.]
Bp. Hall.
Pa*cif"ic*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to peace; pacific. [R.] Sir H.
Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly,
adv. [R.]
Pa*cif`i*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See
Pacify.] The act or process of pacifying, or
of making peace between parties at variance;
reconciliation. \'bdAn embassy of
pacification.\'b8
Bacon.
Pa*cif"i*ca`tor (?), n.
[L.] One who, or that which, pacifies; a
peacemaker.
Bacon.
Pa*cif"i*ca*to*ry (?), a. [L.
pacificatorius.] Tending to make peace;
conciliatory.
Barrow.
Pac"fi`er (?), n. One who
pacifies.
Pac"i*fy (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Pacified
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pacifying
(?).] [F. pacifier, L.
pacificare; pax, pacis, peace +
-ficare (in comp.) to make. See Peace, and
-fy.] To make to be at peace; to appease; to
calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or
resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man
when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or
importunity. \'bdPray ye, pacify
yourself.\'b8
Shak.
To pacify and settle those countries.
Bacon.
Pa*cin"i*an (?), a.
(Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by,
Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th
century.
Pacinian corpuscles, small oval bodies
terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in
the integument and other parts of the body. They are supposed to
be tactile organs.
Pack (?), n. [Cf.
Pact.] A pact. [Obs.]
Daniel.
Pack, n. [Akin to D. pak, G.
pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa,
Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm.
pak. Cf. Packet.]
1. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried;
especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an
animal; a bale, as of goods.
Piers Plowman.
2. [Cf. Peck, n.] A
number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a
multitude; a burden. \'bdA pack of sorrows.\'b8
\'bdA pack of blessings.\'b8
Shak.
pack of meal is
meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs.\'b8
McElrath.
3. A number or quantity of connected or similar
things; as: (a) A full set of playing cards;
also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre
pack. (b) A number of hounds or
dogs, hunting or kept together. (c) A number
of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a
gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
(d) A shook of cask staves. (e)
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling
simultaneously.
4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven
together more or less closely.
Kane.
5. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in
hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet
pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method
of treatment.
6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS.
p to deceive.] A loose, lewd, or
worthless person. See Baggage. [Obs.]
Skelton.
Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule,
etc., employed in carrying packs. -- Pack cloth,
a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or
bales. -- Pack horse. See Pack
animal (above). -- Pack ice. See def.
4, above. -- Pack moth (Zo\'94l.),
a small moth (Anacampsis sarcitella) which, in the
larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen
fabrics. -- Pack needle, a needle for sewing
with pack thread. Piers Plowman. -- Pack
saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack
animal. Shak. -- Pack staff, a staff for
supporting a pack; a peddler's staff. -- Pack
thread, strong thread or small twine used for tying
packs or parcels. -- Pack train
(Mil.), a troop of pack animals.
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Pack (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Packed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Packing.]
[Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan.
pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka.
See Pack, n.] 1. To make
a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to
place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close
order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to
pack fish.
Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.
Addison.
Where . . . the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed.
Shak.
2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is,
compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill
closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be
full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play,
or the audience, packs the theater.
3. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as
to secure the game unfairly.
And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
Pope.
4. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and
fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to
pack a jury or a causes.
The expected council was dwindling into . . . a
packed assembly of Italian bishops.
Atterbury.
5. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to
plot. [Obs.]
He lost life . . . upon a nice point subtilely devised and
packed by his enemies.
Fuller.
6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to
encumber; as, to pack a horse.
Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with
honey.
Shack.
7. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or
belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; --
sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off
to school.
He . . . must not die
Till George be packed with post horse up to
heaven.
Shak.
8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a
pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
[Western U.S.]
9. (Hydropathy) To envelop in a wet or
dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack,
n., 5.
10. (Mech.) To render impervious, as by
filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or
adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or
steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the
piston of a steam engine.
Pack, v. i. 1. To make up
packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for
transportation.
2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for
transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle
together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods
pack conveniently; wet snow packs
well.
3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the
grouse or the perch begin to pack.
[Eng.]
4. To depart in haste; -- generally with
off or away.
Poor Stella must pack off to town
Swift.
You shall pack,
And never more darken my doors again.
Tennyson.
5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill
purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] \'bdGo
pack with him.\'b8
Shak.
To send packing, to drive away; to send off
roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. \'bdThe
parliament . . . presently sent him
packing.
South.
Pack"age (?), n. 1.
Act or process of packing.
2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a
bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.
3. A charge made for packing goods.
4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on
goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the
sons of aliens.
Pack"er (?), n. A person whose
business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for
preservation; as, a pork packer.
Pack"et (?), n. [F.
paquet, dim. fr. LL. paccus, from the same
source as E. pack. See Pack.]
1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or
parcel; as, a packet of letters.
Shak.
2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to
convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying
dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days
of sailing; a mail boat.
Packet boat, ship, vessel. See Packet, n.,
2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters
to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet
note post. See under
Paper.
Pack"et, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Packeted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Packeting.] 1. To make up into
a packet or bundle.
2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
Her husband
Was packeted to France.
Ford.
Pack"et, v. i. To ply with a packet or
dispatch boat.
Pack"fong` (?), n. [Chin.
peh tung.] (Metal.) A Chinese
alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German
silver.
Pack herse. See under 2d Pack.
Pack"house` (?), n. Warehouse
for storing goods.
Pack"ing, n. 1. The act or
process of one who packs.
2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make
close. Specifically (Mach.): A substance or
piece used to make a joint impervious; as: (a)
A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material
inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.
(b) The substance in a stuffing box, through which
a piston rod slides. (c) A yielding ring, as
of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as
inside a cylinder, etc.
3. (Masonry) Same as
Filling. [Rare in the U. S.]
4. A trick; collusion. [Obs.]
Bale.
Cherd packing (Bridge Building),
the arrangement, side by side, of several parts, as bars,
diagonals, a post, etc., on a pin at the bottom of a chord.
Waddell. -- Packing box, a stuffing
box. See under Stuffing. -- Packing
press, a powerful press for baling cotton, wool, hay,
etc. -- Packing ring. See Packing, 2
(c), and Illust. of Piston. --
Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for
packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing
hydropathic patients.
Pack"man (?), n.; pl.
Packmen (. One who bears a
pack; a peddler.
{ Pack saddle, Pack thread }.
See under 2d Pack.
Pack"wax` (?), n. (Anat.)
Same as Paxwax.
Pack"way` (?), n. A path, as
over mountains, followed by pack animals.
{ Pa"co (?), Pa"cos (?),
} n. [Sp. paco, fr. Peruv.
paco. Cf. Alpaca.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Alpaca.
2. [Peruv. paco, pacu, red,
reddish, reddish ore containing silver; perh. a different
word.] (Min.) An earthy-looking ore,
consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native
silver.
Ure.
Pact (?), n. [L.
pactum, fr. paciscere to make a bargain or
contract, fr. pacere to settle, or agree upon; cf.
pangere to fasten, Gr. p\'beca
bond, and E. fang: cf. F. pacie. Cf.
Peace, Fadge, v.] An
agreement; a league; a compact; a covenant.
Bacon.
The engagement and pact of society whish goes by
the name of the constitution.
Burke.
Pac"tion (?), n. [L.
pactio: cf. F. paction. See
Pact.] An agreement; a compact; a
bargain. [R.]
Sir W. Scott.
Pac"tion*al (?), a. Of the
nature of, or by means of, a paction.
Bp. Sanderson.
Pac*ti"tious (?), a. [L.
pactitius, pacticius.] Setted by
a pact, or agreement. [R.]
Johnson.
Pac*to"li*an (?), a. Pertaining
to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden
sands.
Pa"cu (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A South American freah-water fish (Myleies pacu),
of the family Characinid\'91. It is highly esteemed as
food.
Pad (?), n. [D. pad.
Path.] 1. A footpath;
a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
Addison
An abbot on an ambling pad.
Tennyson.
3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a
highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
Gay. Byron.
4. The act of robbing on the highway.
[Obs.]
Pad, v. t. To travel upon foot; to
tread. [Obs.]
Padding the streets for half a crown.
Somerville.
Pad, v. i. 1. To travel heavily
or slowly.
Bunyan.
2. To rob on foot. [Obs.]
Cotton Mather.
3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov.
Eng.]
Pad, n. [Perh. akin to
pod.] 1. A soft, or small,
cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for
blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper,
or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or
frame.
4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on
the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
5. (Zo\'94l.) A cushionlike thickening
of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar
plant.
7. (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to
relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
8. (Naut.) A piece of timber fixed on a
beam to fit the curve of the deck.
W. C. Russel.
9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to
a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.]
Simmonds.
Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. --
Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad
tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or
metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad.
Knight.
Pad, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Padded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Padding.] 1. To stuff; to
furnish with a pad or padding.
2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly
with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
Ure.
Pad"ar (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] Groats; coarse flour or meal.
[Obs.]
Sir. H. Wotton.
Pad"der (?), n. 1. One
who, or that which, pads.
2. A highwayman; a footpad.
[Obs.]
Pad"ding, n. 1. The act or
process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
2. The material with which anything is
padded.
3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a
book, essay, etc.
London Sat. Rev.
4. (Calico Printing) The uniform
impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Pad"dle (?), v. i. [Prob. for
pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E.
pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln,
padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G.
patschen to splash, dash, dabble, F.
patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a
paw. 1. To use the hands or fingers in
toying; to make caressing strokes. [Obs.]
Shak.
2. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a
paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in
paddling a boat, etc.
As the men were paddling for their lives.
L'Estrange.
While paddling ducks the standing lake desire.
Gay.
Pad"dle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paddled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paddling (?)] 1.
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
To be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
Shak.
2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or
paddles.
3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
[Prov. Eng.]
Pad"dle, n. [See Paddle,
v. i.] 1. An implement with a
broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling
and steering canoes and boats.
2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the
stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of
a paddle.
Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon.
Deut. xxiii. 13.
3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the
circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit
or let off water; -- also called clough.
5. (Zo\'94l.) A paddle-shaped foot, as
of the sea turtle.
6. A paddle-shaped implement for string or
mixing.
7. [In this sense prob. for older
spaddle, a dim. of spade.]
See Paddle staff (b), below. [Prov.
Eng.]
Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of
two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a
steam vessel. -- Paddle board. See
Paddle, n., 3. -- Paddle box,
the structure inclosing the upper part of the paddle wheel of
a steam vessel. -- Paddle shaft, the
revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam
vessel. -- Paddle staff. (a) A staff
tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers.
[Prov. Eng.] (b) A long-handled spade
used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow
staff. [Prov. Eng.] -- Paddle
steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in
distinction from a screw propeller. -- Paddle
wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having
paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a
vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length.
Pad"dle*cock` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The lumpfish. [Prov.
Eng.]
Pad"dle*fish` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l) A large ganoid fish (Polyodon
spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It
has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed
cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.
Pad"der (?), n. One who, or
that which, paddles.
Pad"dle*wood` (?), n.
(Bot.) The light elastic wood of the
Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a
fluted trunk readily split into planks.
Pad"dock (?), n. [OE.
padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D.
pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw.
padda, Dan. padde.]
(Zo\'94l.) A toad or frog. Wyclif.
\'bdLoathed paddocks.\'b8 Spenser
Paddock pipe (Bot.), a
hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum,
especially E. limosum and the fruiting stems of
E. arvense; -- called also padow
pipe and toad pipe. See
Equisetum. -- Paddock stone. See
Toadstone. -- Paddock stool
(Bot.),a toadstool.
Pad"dock, n. [Corrupted fr.
parrock. See Parrock.]
1. A small inclosure or park for sporting.
[Obs.]
2. A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one
adjoining a stable.
Evelyn. Cowper.
Pad"dy (?), a. [Prov. E.
paddy worm-eaten.] Low; mean; boorish;
vagabond. \'bdSuch pady persons.\'b8 Digges
(1585). \'bdThe paddy persons.\'b8
Motley.
Pad"dy, n.; pl. Paddies
(#). [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick,
the tutelar saint of Ireland.] A jocose or
contemptuous name for an Irishman.
Pad"dy, n. [Either fr. Canarese
bhatta or Malay p\'bed\'c6.]
(Bot.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in
the East Indies.
Paddy bird. (Zo\'94l.) See
Java sparrow, under Java.
Pad`e*li"on (?), n. [F.
pas de lionon's foot.] (Bot.) A
plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.
\'d8Pa*del"la (?), n. [It.,
prop., a pan, a friing pan, fr. L. patella a
pan.] A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty
matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public
illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also
padelle.
Pad`e*mel"on (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Wallaby.
Pad"e*soy` (?), n. See
Paduasoy.
Padge, n. (Zo\'94l.) The barn
owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge
owl. [Prov. Eng.]
\'d8Pa`di*shah" (?), n. [Per.
p\'bedish\'beh. Cf. Pasha.] Chief
ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey,
and of the Shah of Persia.
Pad"lock` (?), n. [Perh. orig.,
a lock for a pad gate, or a gate opening to a
path, or perh., a lock for a basket or pannier, and
from Prov. E. pad a pannier. Cf. Pad a path,
Paddler.] 1. A portable lock with a
bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can
be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt, -- used for
fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or
through the links of a chain, etc.
2. Fig.: A curb; a restraint.
Pad"lock`, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Padlocked (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Padlocking.] To fasten with,
or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a
padlock.
Milton. Tennyson.
Pad"nag` (?), n. [lst pad
+ nag.] An ambling nag. \'bdAn easy
padnag.\'b8
Macaulay.
Pad"ow (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A paddock, or toad.
Padow pipe. (Bot.) See
Paddock pipe, under Paddock.
\'d8Pa*dro"ne (?), n.; pl. It.
Padroni (#), E. Padrones.
[It. See Patron.] 1. A patron;
a protector.
2. The master of a small coaster in the
Mediterranean.
3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of,
Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
Pad`u*a*soy" (?), n. [From
Padua, in Italy + F. soie silk; or cf. F.
pou-de-soie.] A rich and heavy silk
stuff. [Written also padesoy.]
Pa*du"cahs (?), n. pl.; sing.
Paducah (.
(Ethnol.) See Comanches.
P\'91"an (?), n. [L.
paean, Gr. P\'91on, Peony.]
[Written also pean.] 1.
An ancient Greek hymn in honor of Apollo as a healing deity,
and, later, a song addressed to other deities.
2. Any loud and joyous song; a song of
triumph. Dryden. \'bdPublic p\'91ans of
congratulation.\'b8
De Quincey.
3. See P\'91on.
P\'91`do*bap"tism (?), n.
Pedobaptism.
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P\'91`do*gen"esis (?), n. [Gr.
, , child + E.
genesis.] (Zo\'94l.)
Reproduction by young or larval animals.
P\'91`do*ge*net"ic (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Producing young while in the immature
or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
P\'91"on (?), n. [L.
paeon, Gr. a solemn song, also, a
p\'91on, equiv. to P\'91an.] (Anc.
Poet.) A foot of four syllables, one long and three
short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of
the long syllable. [Written also, less correctly,
p\'91an.]
P\'91"o*nine (?), n.
(Chem.) An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff,
called also red coralline.
P\'91"o*ny (?), n. (Bot.)
See Peony.
Pa"gan (?), n. [L.
paganus a countryman, peasant, villager, a pagan, fr.
paganus of or pertaining to the country, rustic, also,
pagan, fr. pagus a district, canton, the country,
perh. orig., a district with fixed boundaries: cf.
pangere to fasten. Cf. Painim,
Peasant, and Pact, also
Heathen.] One who worships false goods; an
idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a
Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
Neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of
Christian, pagan, nor man.
Shak.
Syn. -- Gentile; heathen; idolater. --
Pagan, Gentile, Heathen.
Gentile was applied to the other nations of the earth
as distinguished from the Jews. Pagan was the name
given to idolaters in the early Christian church, because the
villagers, being most remote from the centers of
instruction, remained for a long time unconverted.
Heathen has the same origin. Pagan is now
more properly applied to rude and uncivilized idolaters, while
heathen embraces all who practice idolatry.
Pa"gan, a. [L. paganus of or
pertaining to the country, pagan. See Pagan,
n.] Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to
the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen;
idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or
superstitions.
And all the rites of pagan honor paid.
Dryden.
Pa"gan*dom (?), n. The pagan
lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]
{ Pa*gan"ic (?), Pa*gan"ic*al
(?), } a. Of or pertaining to
pagans or paganism; heathenish; paganish. [R.]
\'bdThe paganic fables of the goods.\'b8
Cudworth. -- Pa*gan"ic*al*ly,
adv. [R.]
Pa"gan*ish (?), a. Of or
pertaining to pagans; heathenish. \'bdThe old
paganish idolatry.\'b8
Sharp
Pa"gan*ism (?), n. [L.
paganismus: cf. F. paganisme. See
Pagan, and cf. Painim.] The state of
being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or
false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship
maintained by pagans; heathenism.
Pa*gan"i*ty (?), n. [L.
Paganitas.] The state of being a pagan;
paganism. [R.]
Cudworth.
Pa"gan*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Paganized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paganizing
(?).] To render pagan or heathenish; to
convert to paganism.
Hallywell.
Pa"gan*ize, v. i. To behave like
pagans.
Milton.
Pa"gan*ly, adv. In a pagan manner.
Dr. H. More.
Page (?), n. [F., fr. It.
paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. puer. Cf.
Pedagogue, Puerile.] 1. A
serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree,
especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now
commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting
on the door, and similar service in households; in the United
States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative
body.
He had two pages of honor -- on either hand
one.
Bacon.
2. A boy child. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the
like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.
4. (Brickmaking.) A track along which
pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the
hack.
5. (Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species
of beautiful South American moths of the genus
Urania.
Page, v. t. To attend (one) as a
page. [Obs.]
Shak.
Page, n. [F., fr. L. pagina;
prob. akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten,
fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf.
Pact, Pageant, Pagination.]
1. One side of a leaf of a book or
manuscript.
Such was the book from whose pages she sang.
Longfellow.
2. Fig.: A record; a writing; as, the
page of history.
3. (Print.) The type set up for printing
a page.
Page, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paging (?).] To mark or number
the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with
folios.
Pag"eant (?), n. [OE.
pagent, pagen, originally, a movable
scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL.
pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L.
pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to
join together, compages a joining together, structure.
See Pact, Page of a book.]
1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle.
\'bdA pageant truly played.\'b8
Shak.
To see sad pageants of men's miseries.
Spenser.
2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the
entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a
show, spectacle, or display.
The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day !
Pope.
We love the man, the paltry pageant you.
Cowper.
Pag"eant, a. Of the nature of a pageant;
spectacular. \'bdPageant pomp.\'b8
Dryden.
Pag"eant, v. t. To exhibit in show; to
represent; to mimic. [R.] \'bdHe
pageants us.\'b8
Shak.
Pag"eant*ry (?), n. Scenic
shows or spectacles, taken collectivelly; spectacular guality;
splendor.
Such pageantry be to the people shown.
Dryden.
The pageantry of festival.
J. A. Symonds.
Syn. -- Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.
Page"hood (?), n. The state of
being a page.
\'d8Pag"i*na (?), n.; pl.
Pagin\'91 (#). [L.]
(Bot.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened
thallus.
Pag"i*nal (?), a. [L.
paginalis.] Consisting of pages.
\'bdPaginal books.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Pag`i*na"tion (?), n. The act
or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in
numbering the pages; page number.
Lowndes.
Pa"ging (?), n. The marking or
numbering of the pages of a book.
Pa"god (?), n. [Cf. F.
pagode. See Pagoda.]
1. A pagoda. [R.] \'bdOr some queer
pagod.\'bd
Pope.
2. An idol. [Obs.]
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Pa*go"da (?), n. [Pg.
pagoda, pagode, fr.Hind. & Per.
but-kadah a house of idols, or abode of God; Per.
but an idol + kadah a house, a
temple.] 1. A term by which Europeans
designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the
Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan,
-- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.
2. An idol. [R.]
Brande & C.
3. [Prob. so named from the image of a pagoda or a
deity (cf. Skr. bhagavat holy, divine) stamped on
it.] A gold or silver coin, of various kinds and
values, formerly current in India. The Madras gold pagoda was
worth about three and a half rupees.
Pa*go"dite (?), n. (Min.)
Agalmatolite; -- so called because sometimes carved by the
Chinese into the form of pagodas. See
Agalmatolite.
\'d8Pa*gu"ma (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of several species of East
Indian viverrine mammals of the genus Paguma. They
resemble a weasel in form.
Pa*gu"ri*an (?), n. [L.
pagurus a kind of crab, Gr. .]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran
crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit
crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.
Pah (?), interj. An exclamation
expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.
Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an
ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination.
Shak.
\'d8Pah (?), n. [From native
name.] A kind of stockaded intrenchment.
[New Zealand.]
Farrow.
Pa"hi (?), n. (Naut.)
A large war canoe of the Society Islands.
Pah"le*vi (?), n. Same as
Pehlevi.
\'d8Pa*ho"e*ho`e (?), n.
(Min.) A name given in the Sandwich Islands to
lava having a relatively smooth surface, in distinction from the
rough-surfaced lava, called a-a.<-- Sandwich
islands = Hawaii -->
Pah"*Utes` (?), n. pl.
(Ethnol.) See Utes.
Paid (?), imp., p. p., & a. of
Pay. 1. Receiving pay; compensated;
hired; as, a paid attorney.
2. Satisfied; contented. [Obs.]
\'bdPaid of his poverty.\'b8
Chaucer.
Pai*deu"tics (?), n. [Gr.
, fr. to teach, fr.
,, a boy.] The science or
art of teaching.
Pai"en (?), n. & a.
Pagan. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pai"gle (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of
Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose.
[Written also pagle, pagil,
peagle, and pygil.]
\'d8Pai*ja"ma (?), n.
Pyjama.
Pail (?), n. [OE.
paile, AS. p\'91gel a wine vessel, a pail,
akin to D. & G. pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a
measure of wine, Dan. p\'91gel half a pint.]
A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and
having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or
milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.
Shak.
Pail"ful (?), n.; pl.
Pailfuls (. The quantity that
a pail will hold. \'bdBy pailfuls.\'b8
Shak.
Pail*lasse" (?; F. , n.
[F., fr. paille straw. See Pallet a
bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw.
[Written also palliasse.]
Pail`mall" (?), n. & a. See
Pall-mall. [Obs.]
Pain (?), n. [OE.
peine, F. peine, fr. L. poena,
penalty, punishment, torment, pain; akin to Gr.
penalty. Cf. Penal, Pine to languish,
Punish.] 1. Punishment suffered or
denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime,
or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
Chaucer.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon
him.
Bacon.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.
Dryden.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
Addison.
2. Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from
slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from
a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence;
bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
\'bdThe pain of Jesus Christ.\'b8
Chaucer.
Pain may occur in any part of the body
where sensory nerves are distributed, and it is always due to
some kind of stimulation of them. The sensation is generally
referred to the peripheral end of the nerve.
3. pl. Specifically, the throes or
travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came
upon her.
1 Sam. iv. 19.
4. Uneasiness of mind; mental distress;
disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish.
Chaucer.
In rapture as in pain.
Keble.
5. See Pains, labor, effort.
Bill of pains and penalties. See under
Bill. -- To die in the pain, to be
tortured to death. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pain, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pained (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paining.] [OE. peinen, OF.
pener, F. peiner to fatigue. See
Pain, n.] 1. To inflict
suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. [Obs.]
Wyclif (Acts xxii. 5).
2. To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to
afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to
torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound
pained him; his stomach pained him.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.
Lock
3. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to
distress; to grieve; as a child's faults pain his
parents.
I am pained at m
Jer. iv. 19.
To pain one's self, to exert or trouble one's
self; to take pains; to be solicitous. [Obs.]
\'bdShe pained her to do all that she
might.\'b8
Chaucer.
Syn. -- To disquiet; trouble; afflict; grieve; aggrieve;
distress; agonize; torment; torture.
Pain"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F.
p\'82nible.] Causing pain; painful.
[Obs.]
The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and
painable for being composed of gold or silver.
Evelyn.
Pain"ful (?), a. 1.
Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either
physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing
Addison.
2. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed
with laborious effort; as a painful service; a
painful march.
3. Painstaking; careful; industrious.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
A very painful person, and a great clerk.
Jer. Taylor.
Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Disquieting; troublesome; afflictive; distressing;
grievous; laborious; toilsome; difficult; arduous. --
Pain"ful*ly, adv. --
Pain"ful*ness, n.
Pai"nim (?), n.[OE.
painime pagans, paganism, fr. OF. paienisme
paganism, LL. paganismus. See Paganism,
Pagan.] A pagan; an infidel; -- used also
adjectively. [Written also panim and
paynim.]
Peacham.
Pain"less (?), a. Free from
pain; without pain. -- Pain"less*ly,
adv. -- Pain"less*ness,
n.
Pains (?), n.Labor; toilsome
effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a
singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
And all my pains is sorted to no proof.
Shak.
The pains they had taken was very great.
Clarendon.
The labored earth your pains have sowed and
tilled.
Dryden.
Pains"tak`er (?), n. One who
takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work.
Gay.
Pains"tak`ing, a. Careful in doing;
diligent; faithful; attentive. \'bdPainstaking
men.\'b8
Harris.
Pains"tak`ing, n. The act of taking
pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance.
Beau. & Fl.
Pains"wor`thy (?), a. Worth the
pains o
Paint (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Painting.] [OE.
peinten, fr. F. peint, p.
p. opeindre to paint, fr. L.
pingere, pictum; cf. Gr.
many-colored, Skr. pic to adorn. Cf. Depict,
Picture, Pigment, Pint.]
1. To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint
to; as, to paint a house, a signboard,
etc.
Jezebel painted her face and tired her head.
2 Kings ix. 30.
2. Fig.: To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or
beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.
Shak.
Cuckoo buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
Shak.
3. To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a
flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or
hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints;
as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.
4. Fig.: To represent or exhibit to the mind; to
describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict.
Disloyal?
The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.
Shak.
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.
Pope.
Syn. -- To color; picture; depict; portray; delineate;
sketch; draw; describe.
Paint, v. t. 1. To practice the
art of painting; as, the artist paints
well.
2. To color one's face by way of beautifying
it.
Let her paint an inch thick.
Shak.
Paint, n. 1. (a) A
pigment or coloring substance. (b) The same
prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for
application to a surface.
2. A cosmetic; rouge.
Praed.
Paint"ed, a. 1. Covered or
adorned with paint; portrayed in colors.
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Coleridge.
2. (Nat. Hist.) Marked with bright
colors; as, the painted turtle; painted
bunting.
Painted beauty (Zo\'94l.), a
handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having
a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup
(Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs
(Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually
bright-colored and more showy than the flowers. Castilleia
coccinea has brilliantly scarlet bracts, and is common in
meadows. -- Painted finch. See
Nonpareil. -- Painted lady
(Zo\'94l.), a bright-colored butterfly. See
Thistle butterfly. -- Painted turtle
(Zo\'94l.), a common American freshwater tortoise
(Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow
markings beneath.
Paint"er (?), n. [OE,
pantere a noose, snare, F. panti\'8are, LL.
panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr.
; painteir
a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.]
(Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to
fasten it to anything.
Totten.
Paint"er, n. [Corrupt. of
panther.] (Zo\'94l.) The
panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate
pronunciation, U. S.]
J. F. Cooper.
Paint"er, n. [See lst
Paint.] One whose occupation is to
paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings,
ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b)
An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a
flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
Painter's colic. (Med.) See
Lead colic, under Colic. --
Painter stainer. (a) A painter of coats
of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a
livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.
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Paint"er*ly (?), a. Like a
painter's work. [Obs.] \'bdA
painterly glose of a visage.\'b8
Sir P. Sidney.
Paint"er*ship, n. The state or position
of being a painter. [R.]
Br. Gardiner.
Paint"ing, n. 1. The act or
employment of laying on, or adorning with, paints or
colors.
2. (Fine Arts) The work of the painter;
also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color
on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or
scene; a picture.
3. Color laid on; paint. [R.]
Shak.
4. A depicting by words; vivid representation in
words.
Syn. -- See Picture.
Paint"less, a. Not capable of being
painted or described. \'bdIn paintless
patience.\'b8
Savage.
Pain"ture (?), n. [F.
peinture. See Paint, v. t., and
cf. Picture.] The art of painting.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Dryden.
Paint"y (?), a. Unskillfully
painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious;
also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
[Cant]
Pair (?), n. [F.
paire, LL. paria, L. paria, pl.
of par pair, fr. par, adj., equal. Cf.
Apparel, Par equality, Peer an
equal.]
1. A number of things resembling one another, or
belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of
stairs. \'bdA pair of beads.\'b8
Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. \'bdFour pair
of stairs.\'b8 Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite
disused, except as to stairs.]
Two crowns in my pocket, two pair of cards.
Beau. & Fl.
2. Two things of a kind, similar in form, suited to
each other, and intended to be used together; as, a
pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of
shoes.
3. Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a
brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of
oxen.
4. A married couple; a man and wife. \'bdA
happy pair.\'b8 Dryden. \'bdThe hapless
pair.\'b8 Milton.
5. A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to
each other and used together; as, a pair of
scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of
bellows.
6. Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as
in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a
given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified
time; as, there were two pairs on the final
vote. [Parliamentary Cant]
7. (Kinematics) In a mechanism, two
elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to
mutually constrain relative motion.
Pairs are named in accordance with the
kind of motion they permit; thus, a journal and its bearing form
a turning pair, a cylinder and its piston a
sliding pair, a screw and its nut a twisting
pair, etc. Any pair in which the constraining
contact is along lines or at points only (as a cam and roller
acting together), is designated a higher pair; any
pair having constraining surfaces which fit each other
(as a cylindrical pin and eye, a screw and its nut, etc.), is
called a lower pair.
Pair royal (pl. Pairs Royal)
three things of a sort; -- used especially of playing cards
in some games, as cribbage; as three kings, three \'bdeight
spots\'b8 etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair
royal. \'bdSomething in his face gave me as much pleasure as
a pair royal of naturals in my own hand.\'b8
Goldsmith. \'bdThat great pair royal of
adamantine sisters [the Fates].\'b8 Quarles.
[Written corruptly parial and
prial.]
Syn. -- Pair, Flight, Set.
Originally, pair was not confined to two
things, but was applied to any number of equal things
(pares), that go together. Ben Jonson speaks of a
pair (set) of chessmen; also, he and Lord Bacon speak
of a pair (pack) of cards. A \'bdpair of
stairs\'b8 is still in popular use, as well as the later
expression, \'bdflight of stairs.\'b8
Pair, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Paired (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pairing.] 1. To be joined in
paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.
2. To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.
Rowe.
3. Same as To pair off. See phrase
below.
To pair off, to separate from a company in
pairs or couples; specif. (Parliamentary Cant), to
agree with one of the opposite party or opinion to abstain from
voting on specified questions or issues. See Pair,
n., 6.
Pair, v. t. 1. To unite in
couples; to form a pair of; to bring together, as things which
belong together, or which complement, or are adapted to one
another.
Glossy jet is paired with shining white.
Pope.
2. To engage (one's self) with another of opposite
opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of
questions. [Parliamentary Cant]
Paired fins. (Zo\'94l.) See under
Fin.
Pair, v. t. [See Impair.]
To impair. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Pair"er (?), n. One who
impairs. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
Pair"ing, n. [See Pair, v.
i.] 1. The act or process of uniting or
arranging in pairs or couples.
2. See To pair off, under
Pair, v. i.
Pairyng time, the time when birds or other
animals pair.
Pair"ment (?), n.
Impairment. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
\'d8Pa`is (?), n. [OF.
pu\'8bs, F. pays, country.] (O.
E. Law) The country; the people of the
neighborhood.
per pais is a trial by the
country, that is, by a jury; and matter in pais is
matter triable by the country, or jury.
\'d8Pa`i*sa"no (?), n. [Sp., of
the country, (Zo\'94l.) The
chaparral cock.
Paise (?), n.
[Obs.] See Poise.
Chapman.
Pa"jock (?), n. A
peacock. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pak"fong` (?), n. See
Packfong.
Pal (?), n. [Etymol.
uncertain.] A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or
confederate. [Slang]
Pal"ace (?), n. [OE.
palais, F. palais, fr. L.
palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven
hills of Rome, Paladin.]
1. The residence of a sovereign, including the
lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as
well as halls for ceremony and reception.
Chaucer.
2. The official residence of a bishop or other
distinguished personage.
3. Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately
house.
Palace car. See under Car. --
Palace court, a court having jurisdiction of
personal actions arising within twelve miles of the palace at
Whitehall. The court was abolished in 1849.
[Eng.]
Mozley & W.
Pa*la"cious (?), a.
Palatial. [Obs.]
Graunt.
Pal"a*din (?), n. [F., fr.It.
paladino, fr. L. palatinus an officer of
the palace. See Palatine.] A knight-errant; a
distinguished champion; as, the paladins of
Charlemagne.
Sir W. Scott.
Pa"l\'91*o- (?). See
Paleo-.
Pa`l\'91*og"ra*pher (?), n.,
Pa`l\'91*o*graph"ic (, a.,
etc. See Paleographer, Paleographic,
etc.
Pa"l\'91*o*type (?), n.
[Pal\'91o- + -type.]
(Phon.) A system of representing all spoken
sounds by means of the printing types in common use.
Ellis. -- Pa`l\'91*o*typ"ic*al
(#), a. -- Pa`l\'91*o*typ"ic*al*ly,
adv.
\'d8Pa*l\'91s"tra (?), n. See
Palestra.
Pa*l\'91s"tric (?), a. See
Palestric.
Pa*l\'91`ti*ol"o*gist (?), n.
One versed in pal\'91tiology.
Pa*l\'91`ti*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Pal\'91o- + \'91tiology.]
The science which explains, by the law of causation, the
past condition and changes of the earth. --
Pa*l\'91`ti*o*log"ic*al (#),
a.
\'d8Pal"a*ma (?), n.; pl.
Palamme (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.) A membrane extending
between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely
together.
\'d8Pal`a*me"de*\'91 (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) An order, or
suborder, including the kamichi, and allied South American birds;
-- called also screamers. In many anatomical
characters they are allied to the Anseres, but they externally
resemble the wading birds.
Pal`am*pore" (?), n. See
Palempore.
\'d8Pa*lan"ka (?), n. [Cf. It.,
Pg., & Sp. palanca, fr.L. palanga,
phalanga a pole, Gr. (Mil.)
A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier
fortresses.
Pal`an*quin" (?), n. [F.
palanquin, Pg. palanquim, Javan.
palangki, OJavan. palangkan, through
Prakrit fr. Skr. parya, palya,
bed, couch; pari around (akin to E. pref.
peri-) + a a hook, flank, probably
akin to E. angle fishing tackle. Cf.
Palkee.] An inclosed carriage or litter,
commonly about eight feet long, four feet wide, and four feet
high, borne on the shoulders of men by means of two projecting
poles, -- used in India, China, etc., for the conveyance of a
single person from place to place. [Written also
palankeen.]
Pa*lap"te*ryx (?), n.
[Paleo- + apteryx.]
(Paleon.) A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New
Zealand.
Pal`a*ta*bil"i*ty (?), n.
Palatableness.
Pal"a*ta*ble (?), a. [From
Palate.] Agreeable to the palate or taste;
savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as, palatable
food; palatable advice.
Pal"a*ta*ble*ness, n. The quality or
state of being agreeable to the taste; relish;
acceptableness.
Pal"a*ta*bly, adv. In a palatable
manner.
Pal"a*tal (?), a. [Cf. F.
palatal.] 1. Of or pertaining to
the palate; palatine; as, the palatal
bones.
2. (Phonetics) Uttered by the aid of the
palate; -- said of certain sounds, as the sound of k
in kirk.
Pal"a*tal, n. (Phon.) A sound
uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the
letters k and y.
Pal"a*tal*ize (?), v. t.
(Phon.) To palatize.
Pal"ate (?), n. [L.
palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also
palat.] 1. (Anat.) The
roof of the mouth.
hard
palate to distinguish it from the membranous and muscular
curtain which separates the cavity of the mouth from the pharynx
and is called the soft palate, or
velum.
2. Relish; taste; liking; -- a sense originating in
the mistaken notion that the palate is the organ of taste.
Hard task! to hit the palate of such guests.
Pope.
3. Fig.: Mental relish; intellectual taste.
T. Baker.
4. (Bot.) A projection in the throat of
such flowers as the snapdragon.
Pal"ate, v. t. To perceive by the
taste. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pa*la"tial (?), a. [L.
palatium palace. See Palace.] Of
or pertaining to a palace; suitable for a palace; resembling a
palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial
structures. \'bdPalatial style.\'b8
A. Drummond.
Pa*la"tial, a. [From
Palate.] (Anat.) Palatal;
palatine. [Obs.]
Barrow.
Pa*la"tial, n. A palatal letter.
[Obs.]
Sir W. Jones.
Pa*lat"ic (?), a. (Anat.)
Palatal; palatine.
Pa*lat"ic, n. (Phon.) A
palatal. [R.]
Pa*lat"i*nate (?), n. [F.
palatinat. See Palatine.] The
province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a
palatine.
Howell.
Pa*lat"i*nate (?), v. t. To
make a palatinate of. [Obs.]
Fuller.
Pal"a*tine (?), a. [F.
palatin, L. palatinus, fr.
palatium. See Palace, and cf.
Paladin.] Of or pertaining to a palace, or to
a high officer of a palace; hence, possessing royal
privileges.
Count palatine, County
palatine. See under Count, and
County. -- Palatine hill, The palatine, one of the seven hills of
Rome, once occupied by the palace of the C\'91sars. See
Palace.
Pal"a*tine (?), n. 1.
One invested with royal privileges and rights within his
domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under
4th Count.
2. The Palatine hill in Rome.
Pal"a*tine, a. [From Palate.]
(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the palate.
Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of
bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back
of and between the maxillaries.
Pal"a*tine, (Anat.) A palatine
bone.
Pal"a*tive (?), a. Pleasing to
the taste; palatable. [Obs.]
\'bdPalative delights.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Pal"a*tize (?), v. t. To
modify, as the tones of the voice, by means of the palate;
as, to palatize a letter or sound. --
Pal`a*ti*za"tion (#),
n.
J. Peile.
Pal"a*to- (?). [From
Palate.] A combining form used in anatomy to
indicate relation to, or connection with,
the palate; as in palatolingual.
\'d8Pal`a*to*na"res (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Palato-, and Nares.]
(Anat.) The posterior nares. See
Nares.
Pal`a*top*ter"y*goid (?), a.
[Palato- + pterygoid.]
(Anat.) Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid
region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid
cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones
are developed.
Pa*la"ver (?), n. [Sp.
palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L.
parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See
Parable.]
1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling
talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk;
hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.
This epoch of parliaments and eloquent
palavers.
Carlyle.
Pa*la"ver, v. t. & i. [imp. &
p. p. Palavered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Palavering.] To make palaver
with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to
employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver
artfully.
Palavering the little language for her benefit.
C. Bront
Pa*la"ver*er (?), n. One who
palavers; a flatterer.
Pale (?), a.
[Compar. Paler (?);
superl. Palest.] [F.
p\'83le, fr. p\'83lir to turn pale, L.
pallere to be oAppall,
Fallow, pall, v. i.,
Pallid.]
1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white;
pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a
pale blue. \'bdPale as a forpined
ghost.\'b8
Chaucer.
Speechless he stood and pale.
Milton.
They are not of complexion red or pale.
T. Randolph.
2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or
hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.
The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;
It looks a little paler.
Shak.
Pale is often used in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored,
pale-eyed, pale-faced,
pale-looking, etc.
Pale, n. Paleness; pallor.
[R.]
Shak.
Pale, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Paled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paling.] To turn pale; to lose color or
luster.
Whittier.
Apt to pale at a trodden worm.
Mrs. Browning.
Pale, v. t. To make pale; to diminish
the brightness of.
The glowpale his uneffectual fire.
Shak.
Pale, n. [F. pal, fr. L.
palus: cf. D. paal. See Pol a
stake, and lst Pallet.] 1. A pointed
stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a
rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a
picket.
Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.
Mortimer.
2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a
limit; a fence; a palisade. \'bdWithin one pale
or hedge.\'b8
Robynson (More's Utopia).
3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a
limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used
figuratively. \'bdTo walk the studious cloister's
pale.\'b8 Milton. \'bdOut of the
pale of civilization.\'b8
Macaulay.
4. A stripe or band, as on a garment.
Chaucer.
5. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries,
being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally
distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.
6. A cheese scoop.
Simmonds.
7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a
timber before it is fastened.
English pale (Hist.), the limits or
territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland
held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the
country in 1172.
Spencer.
Pale, v. t. To inclose with pales, or as
with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.
[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in
With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.
Shak.
\'d8Pa"le*a (?), n.; pl.
Pale\'91 (-. [L.,
chaff.]
1. (Bot.) (a) The interior
chaff or husk of grasses. (b) One of the
chaffy scales or bractlets growing on the receptacle of many
compound flowers, as the Coreopsis, the sunflower, etc.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A pendulous process of the
skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.
Pa`le*a"ceous (?), a. [L.
palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy;
resembling or consisting of pale\'91, or chaff; furnished with
chaff; as, a paleaceous receptacle.
Pa`le*arc"tic (?), a.
[Paleo- + arctic.]
Belonging to a region of the earth's surface which includes
all Europe to the Azores, Iceland, and all temperate Asia.
Paled (?), a. [See 5th
Pale.] 1. Striped.
[Obs.] \'bd[Buskins] . . . paled part per
part.\'b8
Spenser.
2. Inclosed with a paling. \'bdA
paled green.\'b8
Spenser.
\'d8Pa`le*\'89ch`i*noi"de*a (?), n.
pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and
Echinoidea.] (Zo\'94l.) An extinct
order of sea urchins found in the Paleozoic rocks. They had more
than twenty vertical rows of plates. Called also
Pal\'91echini. [Written also
Pal\'91echinoidea.]
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Pale"face` (?), n. A white
person; -- an appellation supposed to have been applied to the
whites by the American Indians.
J. F. Cooper.
\'d8Pa`le*ich"thy*es (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology.]
(Zo\'94l.) A comprehensive division of fishes
which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.
[Written also Pal\'91ichthyes.]
Pale"ly (?), adv. [From
Pale, a.] In a pale manner;
dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.
Thackeray.
Pal`em*pore" (?), n. A superior
kind of dimity made in India, -- used for bed coverings.
[Written also palampore, palampoor,
etc.]
De Colange.
Pale"ness (?), n. The quality
or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a
sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
The blood the virgin's cheek forsook;
A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.
Pope.
Pa*len"que (?), n. pl.
(Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of
Nicaragua and Honduras.
Pa"le*o- (?). [Gr. ,
adj.] A combining form meaning old,
ancient; as, palearctic,
paleontology, paleothere,
paleography. [Written also
pal\'91o-.]
Pa`le*o*bot"a*nist (?), n. One
versed in paleobotany.
Pa`le*o*bot"a*ny (?), n.
[Paleo- + botany.] That
branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.
\'d8Pa`le*o*car"ida (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr. ancient + ,
, , a kind of crustacean.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Merostomata.
[Written also Pal\'91ocarida.]
\'d8Pa`le*o*cri*noi"de*a (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Paleo-, and Crinoidea.]
(Zo\'94l.) A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly
in the Paleozoic rocks.
Pa`le*o*crys"tic (?), a.
[Paleo- + Gr. ice.] Of,
pertaining to, or derived from, a former glacial formation.
Pa`le*o*g\'91"an (?), a.
[Paleo- + Gr. the eart]
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern
hemisphere. [Written also
pal\'91og\'91an.]
Pa"le*o*graph (?), n. An
ancient manuscript.
Pa`le*og"ra*pher (?), n. One
skilled in paleography; a paleographist.
{ Pa`le*o*graph"ic (?),
Pa`le*o*graph"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. pal\'82ographique.] Of or
pertaining to paleography.
Pa`le*og"ra*phist (?), n. One
versed in paleography; a paleographer.
Pa`le*og"ra*phy, n. [Paleo- +
-graphy: cf. F. pal\'82ographie.]
1. An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings,
collectively; as, Punic paleography.
2. The study of ancient inscriptions and modes of
writing; the art or science of deciphering ancient writings, and
determining their origin, period, etc., from external characters;
diplomatics.
\'d8Pa*le"o*la (?), n.; pl.
Paleol\'91 (#). [NL., dim. of L.
palea.] (Bot.) A diminutive or
secondary palea; a lodicule.
Pa"le*o*lith (?), n.
[Paleo- + -lith.]
(Geol.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.
Pa`le*o*lith"ic (?), a.
(Geol.) Of or pertaining to an era marked by
early stone implements. The Paleolithic era (as
proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the \'bdStone
Age;\'b8 the remains belonging to it are for the most part of
extinct animals, with relics of human beings.
Pa`le*ol"ogist (?), n. One
versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.
Pa`le*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Paleo- + -logy.] The study
or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a
discourse or treatise on antiquities; arch\'91ology .
Pa`le*on`to*graph"ic*al (?), a.
Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.
Pa`le*on*tog"ra*phy (?), n.
[Paleo- + Gr. -graphy.] The description of fossil
remains.
Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al (?), a.
Of or pertaining to paleontology. --
Pa`le*on`to*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Pa`le*on*tol"o*gist (?), n.
[Cf. F. pal\'82ontologiste.] One
versed in paleontology.
Pa`le*on*tol"o*gy (?), n.
[Paleo- + Gr. -logy. Cf. Ontology.] The science
which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils
which are the remains of such life.
Pa`le*o*phy*tol"o*gist (?), n.
A paleobotanist.
Pa`le*o*phy*tol"o*gy (?), n.
[Paleo- + phytology.]
Paleobotany.
Pa`le*or`ni*thol"o*gy (?), n.
[Paleo- + ornithology.] The
branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.
Pa`le*o*sau"rus (?), n.[NL.,
fr. Gr. ancient +
(Paleon.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the
Permian formation.
Pa`le*o*tech"nic (?), a.
[Paleo- + technic.]
Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. \'bdThe
paleotechnic men of central France.\'b8
D. Wilson.
Pa"le*o*there (?), n. [F.
pal\'82oth\'8are.] (Paleon.) Any
species of Paleotherium.
Pa`le*o*the"ri*an (?), a. [F.
pal\'82oth\'82rien.] (Paleon.)
Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.
\'d8Pa`le*o*the"ri*um (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Paleon.) An extinct genus of herbivorous
Tertiary mammals, once supposed to have resembled the tapir in
form, but now known to have had a more slender form, with a long
neck like that of a llama. [Written also
Pal\'91otherium.]
Pa`le*o*the"roid (?),
[Paleothere + -oid.]
(Paleon.) Resembling Paleotherium. --
n. An animal resembling, or allied to, the
paleothere.
Pa"le*o*type (?), n. See
Pal\'91otype.
Pa"le*ous (?), a. [L.
palea chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff;
paleaceous. [R.]
Sir T. Browne.
Pa`le*o*zo"ic (?), a.
[Paleo- + Gr.
(Geol.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, the
older division of geological time during which life is known to
have existed, including the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous
ages, and also to the life or rocks of those ages. See Chart
of Geology.
Pa`le*o*zo*\'94l"o*gy (?), n.
(Geol.) The Paleozoic time or strata.
Pa`le*o*zo*\'94"o*gy (?), n.
[Paleo- + zo\'94logy.] The
science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.
{ Pale"sie (?), Pale"sy },
n. Palsy. [Obs.]
Wyclif.
{ Pal`es*tin"i*an (?),
Pal`es*tin"e*an (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to Palestine.
Pa*les"tra (?), n.; pl. L.
Palestr\'91 (#), E. Palestras
(#). [NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr.
[Written also
pal\'91stra.] (Antiq.) (a)
A wrestling school; hence, a gymnasium, or place for
athletic exercise in general. (b) A
wrestling; the exercise of wrestling.
{ Pa*les"tri*an (?), Pa*les"tric
(?), Pa*les"tric*al (?), }
a. [L. palaestricus, Gr.
Of or pertaining to the palestra, or to wrestling.
Pal"et (?), n. [See
Palea.] (Bot.) Same as
Palea.
\'d8Pal"e*tot (?), n. [F.
paletot, OF. palletoc, prob. fr. L.
palla (see Palla) + F. toque cap,
and so lit., a frock with a cap or hood; cf. Sp.
paletoque.] (a) An overcoat.
Dickens. (b) A lady's outer garment, -- of
varying fashion.
Pal"ette (?), n. [See
Pallet a thin board.]
1. (Paint.) A thin, oval or square
board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on
which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.
[Written also pallet.]
2. (Anc. Armor) One of the plates
covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and
elbows.
Fairholt.
3. (Mech.) A breastplate for a breast
drill.
Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible
steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by
painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. --
To set the palette (Paint.), to lay
upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to
the intended use of them in a picture.
Fairholt.
Pale"wise` (?), adv.
(Her.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by
perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon
palewise.
Pal"frey (?), n. [OE.
palefrai, OF. palefrei, F.
palefroi, LL. palafredus,
parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for
extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. veredus a post horse.]
1. A saddle horse for the road, or for state
occasions, as distinguished from a war horse.
Chaucer.
2. A small saddle horse for ladies.
Spenser.
Call the host and bid him bring
Charger and palfrey.
Tennyson.
Pal"freyed (?), a. Mounted on a
palfrey.
Tickell.
Pal"grave (?), n. See
Palsgrave.
\'d8Pa"li (?), n.,
pl. of Palus.
Pa"li (?), n. [Ceylonese, fr.
Skr. p\'beli row, line, series, applied to the series
of Buddhist sacred texts.] A dialect descended from
Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the
sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India,
etc.
Pal`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
palus a stake + -ficare (in comp.) to make:
cf. F. palification. See -fy.] The
act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground to make
it firm. [R.]
Sir H. Wotton.
Pa"li*form (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Resembling a palus; as, the
paliform lobes of the septa in corals.
Pa*lil"o*gy (?), n. [L.
palilogia, Gr.
(Rhet.) The repetition of a word, or part of a
sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as, \'bdThe
living, the living, he shall praise
thee.\'b8
Is. xxxviii. 19.
Pal"imp*sest (?), n. [L.
palimpsestus, Gr. palimpseste.] A parchment which has been
written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make
place for the second.
Longfellow.
Pal"in*drome (?), n. [Gr. palindrome.] A word, verse, or sentence,
that is the same when read backward or forward; as,
madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, &
evil I did dwel.
{ Pal`in*drom"ic (?),
Pal`in*drom"ic*al (?), } a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Pa*lin"dro*mist (?), n. A
writer of palindromes.
Pal"ing (?), n. 1.
Pales, in general; a fence formed with pales or pickets; a
limit; an inclosure.
They moved within the paling of order and
decorum.
De Quincey.
2. The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth;
also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the
sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards.
[Eng.]
\'d8Pal`in*ge*ne"si*a (?),
n.[NL.] See
Palingenesis.
{ Pal`in*gen"e*sis (?),
Pal`in*gen"e*sy (?), } n.
[Gr. paling\'82n\'82sie. See Genesis.]
1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a
continued existence in different manner or form.
2. (Biol.) That form of evolution in
which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are
reproduced in development; original simple descent; --
distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in
zo\'94logy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans,
etc.
Pal`in*ge*net"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic
process. -- Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly
(#), adv.
Pal"i*node (?), n. [L.
palinodia, from Gr. Ode.] 1. An ode recanting, or
retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
Sandys.
Pal`i*no"di*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.
J. Q. Adams.
Pal"i*no*dy (?), n. See
Palinode. [Obs.]
Wood.
Pal`inu"rus (?), n. [So called
from L. Palinurus, the pilot of \'92neas.]
(Naut.) An instrument for obtaining directly,
without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the
variation of the compass
Pal`i*sade" (?), n. [F.
palissade, cf. Sp. palizada, It.
palizzata, palizzo, LL.
palissata; all fr. L. palus a stake, pale.
See Pale a stake.] 1. (Fort.)
A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the
ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such
stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
Palisade cells (Bot.), vertically
elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the
epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves. --
Palisade worm (Zo\'94l.), a nematoid
worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood
vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often
fatal.
Pal`i*sade", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Palisading.] [Cf. F.
palissader.] To surround, inclose, or
fortify, with palisades.
Pal`i*sad"ing (?), n. Fort.) A
row of palisades set in the ground.
Pal`i*sa*"do (?), n.; pl.
Palisadoes (. A
palisade. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pal`i*sa"do, v. t. To palisade.
[Obs.]
Sterne.
Pal"ish (?), a. Somewhat pale
or wan.
Pal`is*san"der (?), n. [F.
palissandre.] (Bot.) (a)
Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.
Pal"is*sy (?), a. Designating,
or of the nature of, a kind of pottery made by Bernard
Palissy, in France, in the 16th centry.
Palissy ware, glazed pottery like that made by
Bernard Palissy; especially, that having figures of fishes,
reptiles, etc., in high relief.
\'d8Pal"kee (?), n. [Hind.
p\'belk\'c6; of the same origin as E.
palanquin.] A palanquin.
Malcom.
Pall (?), n. Same as
Pawl.
Pall, n. [OE. pal, AS.
p\'91l, from L. pallium cover, cloak,
mantle, pall; cf. L. palla robe, mantle.]
1. An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.
Spenser.
2. A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the
Middle Ages. [Obs.]
Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).
3. (R. C. Ch.) Same as
Pallium.
About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's
palls into England, -- the one for London, the other
for York.
Fuller.
4. (Her.) A figure resembling the Roman
Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter
Y.
5. A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown
over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
Warriors carry the warrior's pall.
Tennyson.
6. (Eccl.) A piece of cardboard, covered
with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the
chalice.
Pall, v. t. To cloak.
[R.]
Shak
Pall, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Palled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Palling.] [Either shortened fr.
appall, or fr. F. p\'83lir to grow pale.
Cf. Appall, Pale, a.] To
become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength,
life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor
palls.
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in the eye, and palls upon the sense.
Addisin.
Pall, v. t. 1. To make vapid or
insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to
weaken.
Chaucer.
Reason and reflection . . . pall all his
enjoyments.
Atterbury.
2. To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall
the appetite.
Pall, n. Nausea.
[Obs.]
Shaftesbury.
\'d8Pal"la (?), n. [L. See
Pall a cloak.] (Rom. Antuq.) An
oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and
fastened with brooches.
Pal*la"di*an (?), a.
(Arch.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a
variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on
the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of
the 16th century.
Pal*la"dic (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from,
palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in
which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with
palladious compounds.
Pal*la"di*ous (?), a.
(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing,
palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in
which palladium has a lower valence as compared with
palladic compounds.
Pal*la"di*um (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr.
1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any statue of the
goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of
which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
2. Hence: That which affords effectual protection
or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the
palladium of our civil rights.
Blackstone.
Pal*la"di*um, n. [NL.]
(Chem.) A rare metallic element of the light
platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and
gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it
permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible.
It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to
the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy
Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and
verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in
dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid
Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd.
Atomic weight, 106.2.
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Pala"di*um*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Palladiumized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Palladiumizing
(?).] To cover or coat with
palladium. [R.]
Pal"lah (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A large South African antelope
(\'92pyceros melampus). The male has long lyrate and
annulated horns. The general color is bay, with a black crescent
on the croup. Called also roodebok.
Pal"las (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
(Gr. Myth.) Pallas Athene, the
Grecian goddess of wisdom, called also Athene,
and identified, at a later period, with the Roman
Minerva.<-- usu. spelled Athena -->
Pall"bear*er (?), n. One of
those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the
pall being formerly carried by them.
Pal"let (?), n. [OE.
paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr.
paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr.
pala straw,
pal\'beva chaff. Cf. Paillasse.] A
small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Milton.
Pa"let, n. [Dim. of pale. See
Pale a stake.] (Her.) A
perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of
the pale.
Pal"let, n. [F. palette: af.
It. paletta; prop. and orig., a fire shovel, dim. of
L. pala a shovel, spade. See Peel a
shovel.] 1. (Paint.) Same as
Palette.
2. (Pettery) (a) A wooden
implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming,
beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of
other forms. (b) A potter's wheel.
3. (Gilding) (a) An instrument
used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
(b) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the
bands.
4. (Brickmaking) A board on which a
newly molded brick is conveyed to the hack.
Knight.
5. (Mach.) (a) A click or pawl
for driving a ratchet wheel. (b) One of the
series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
Knight.
6. (Horology) One of the pieces or
levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of
a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel,
or balance wheel.
Brande & C.
7. (Mus.) In the organ, a valve between
the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
8. (Zo\'94l.) One of a pair of shelly
plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the
Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo.
9. A cup containing three ounces, --
Pal"li*al (?), a. [L.
pallium a mantle. See Pall.]
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pretaining to a mantle,
especially to the mantle of mollusks; produced by the mantle;
as, the pallial line, or impression, which marks the
attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve
shell. See Illust. of Bivalve.
Pallial chamber (Zo\'94l.), the
cavity inclosed by the mantle. -- Pallial sinus
(Zo\'94l.), an inward bending of the pallial line,
near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the
siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve.
Pal"li*a*ment (?), n. [LL.
palliare to clothe, fr. L. pallium a
manltle. See Pall the garment.] A dress; a
robe. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pal"liard (?), n. [F.
paillard, orig., one addicted to the couch, fr.
paille straw. See Pallet a small bed.]
1. A born beggar; a vagabond.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.
2. A lecher; a lewd person.
[Obs.]
Dryden.
Pal*liasse" (?), n. See
Paillasse.
Pal"li*ate (?), a. [L.
palliatus, fr. pallium a cloak. See
Pall the garment.] 1. Covered with a
mant [Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
[Obs.]
Bp. Fell.
Pal"li*ate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p.
Palliated(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Palliating(?).] 1. To
cover with a mantle or cloak; to cover up; to hide.
[Obs.]
Being palliated with a pilgrim's coat.
Sir T. Herbert.
2. To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity
of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to
palliate faults.
They never hide or palliate their vices.
Swift.
3. To reduce in violence; to lessen or abate; to
mitigate; to ease withhout curing; as, to palliate a
disease.
To palliate dullness, and give time a shove.
Cowper.
Syn. -- To cover; cloak; hide; extenuate; conceal.
-- To Palliate, Extenuate,
Cloak. These words, as here compared, are used in a
figurative sense in reference to our treatment of wrong action.
We cloak in order to conceal completely. We
extenuate a crime when we endeavor to show that it is
less than has been supposed; we palliate a
crime when we endeavor to cover or conceal
its enormity, at least in part. This naturally leads us to
soften some of its features, and thus palliate
approaches extenuate till they have become nearly or
quite identical. \'bdTo palliate is not now used,
though it once was, in the sense of wholly cloaking or covering
over, as it might be, our sins, but in that of
extenuating; to palliate our faults is not
to hide them altogether, but to seek to diminish their guilt in
part.\'b8
Trench.
Pal`li*a"tion (?), n. [Cf. F.
palliation.] 1. The act of
palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse;
as, the palliation of faults, offenses,
vices.
2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
Bacon.
3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the
state of being covered or disguised. [Obs.]
Pal"li*a*tive (?), a. [Cf. F.
palliatif.] Serving to palliate; serving to
extenuate or mitigate.
Pal"li*a*tive (?), n. That
which palliates; a palliative agent.
Sir W. Scott.
Pal"li*a*to*ry (?), a.
Palliative; extenuating.
Pal"lid (?), a. [L.
pallidus, fr. pallere to be or look pale.
See pale, a.] Deficient in color;
pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid
blue.
Spenser.
Pal*lid"i*ty (?), n.
Pallidness; paleness.
Pal"lid*ly (?), adv. In a
pallid manner.
Pal"lid*ness, n. The quality or state of
being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
\'d8Pal`li*o*bran`chi*a"ta (?), n.
pl. [NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Brachiopoda.
Pal`li*o*bran"chi*ate (?), a.
[See Pallium, and Branchia.]
(Zo\'94l.) Having the pallium, or mantle, acting
as a gill, as in brachiopods.
\'d8Pal"li*um (?), n.; pl. L.
Pallia(Palliums
(#). [L. See Pall the
garment.] 1. (Anc. Costume) A
large, square, woolen cloak which enveloped the whole person,
worn by the Greeks and by certain Romans. It is the Roman name of
a Greek garment.
2. (R.C.Ch.) A band of white wool, worn
on the shoulders, with four purple crosses worked on it; a
pall.
3. (Zo\'94l.) (a) The mantle of
a bivalve. See Mantle. (b) The
mantle of a bird.
Pall`-mall" (?), n. [OF.
palemail, It. pallamagio; palla
a ball (of German origin, akin to E. ball) +
magio hammer, fr. L. malleus. See lst
Ball, and Mall a beetle.] A game
formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven
with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name
was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game
was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall
Mall. [Written also pail-mail and
pell-mell.]
Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.
Pal*lo"ne (?), n. [It., a large
ball, fr. palla ball. See Balloon.]
An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.
Pal"lor (?), n. [L., fr.
pallere to be or look pale. See Pale,
a.] Paleness; want of color; pallidity;
as, pallor of the complexion.
Jer. Taylor.
Palm (?), n. [OE.
paume, F. paume, L. palma, Gr.
p\'beni hand, and E.
fumble. See Fumble, Feel, and cf. 2d
Palm.] 1. (Anat.) The
inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of
the fingers and the wrist.
Clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm.
Tennyson.
2. A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of
the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the
fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.
Internat. Cyc.
3. (Sailmaking) A metallic disk,
attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to
push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.
4. (Zo\'94l.) The broad flattened part
of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; -- so called as
resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding
fingers.
5. (Naut.) The flat inner face of an
anchor fluke.
Palm, n. [AS. palm, L.
palma; -- so named fr. the leaf resembling a hand. See
lst Palm, and cf. Pam.]
1. (Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the
order Palm\'91 or Palmace\'91; a palm
tree.
2. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or
worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
A great multitude . . . stood before the throne, and before
the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their
hands.
Rev. vii. 9.
3. Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority,
success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy.
\'bdThe palm of martyrdom.\'b8
Chaucer.
So get the start of the majestic world
And bear the palm alone.
Shak.
Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb
from Asia (Molucella l\'91vis), having a curious
cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the
terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm
cat (Zo\'94l.), the common paradoxure.
-- Palm crab (Zo\'94l.), the purse
crab. -- Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained
from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil
palm (El\'91is Guineensis), and used in the
manufacture of soap and candles. See El\'91is. --
Palm swift (Zo\'94l.), a small swift
(Cypselus Btassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and
cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the
leaf of the palmyra palm. -- Palm toddy. Same
as Palm wine. -- Palm weevil
(Zo\'94l.), any one of mumerous species of very
large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larv\'91
bore into palm trees, and are called palm
borers, and grugru worms. They are
considered excellent food. -- Palm wine, the
sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the
wild date palm (Ph\'d2nix sylvestrix), the palmyra,
and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by
distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also
palm toddy. -- Palm
worm, Palmworm.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) The larva of a palm
weevil. (b) A centipede.
Palm (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Palmed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Palming.]
1. To handle. [Obs.]
Prior.
2. To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of
the hand; to juggle.
They palmed the trick that lost the game.
Prior.
3. To impose by frand, as by sleight of hand; to
put by unfair means; -- usually with off.
For you may palm upon us new for old.
Dryden.
Pal*ma"ceous (?), a.
(Bot.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature
of, or resembling, palms.
\'d8Pal"ma Chris"ti (?). [L., palm of
Christ.] (Bot.) A plant (Ricinus
communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft
foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and
cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; --
called also castor-oil plant.
[Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]
Pal"ma*cite (?), n.
(Paleon.) A fossil palm.
Pal"mar (?), a. [L.
palmaris, fr. palma the palm of the hand:
cf. F. palmaire.] 1. (Anat.)
Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the
hand.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
under side of the wings of birds.
\'d8Pal*ma"ri*um (?), n.; pl.
Palmaria (#). [NL. See
Palmar.] (Zo\'94l.) One of the
bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
Pal"ma*ry (?), a. (Anat.)
Palmar.
Pal"ma*ry, a. [L. palmarius,
palmaris, belonging to palms, deserving the palm or
prize, fr. palma a palm.] Worthy of the
palm; palmy; pre\'89minent; superior; principal; chief; as,
palmary work.
Br. Horne.
Pal"mate (?), n.(Chem.) A salt
of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]
{ Pal"mate (?), Pal"ma*ted
(?), } a. [L. palmatus
marked with the palm of a hand, from palma the palm of
the hand.]
1. Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand
with the fingers spread.
2. (Bot.) Spreading from the apex of a
petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to
resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
Gray.
3. (Zo\'94l.) (a) Having the
anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds;
webbed. See Illust. (i) under
Aves. (b) Having the distal portion broad,
flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain
corals, antlers, etc.
Pal"mate*ly (?), adv. In a
palmate manner.
Pal*mat"i*fid (?), a. [L.
palmatus palmate + root of findere to
split.] (Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions
separated but little more than halfway to the common
center.
Pal*mat"i*lobed (?), a. [L.
palmatus palmate + E. lobed.]
(Bot.) Palmate, with the divisions separated less
than halfway to the common center.
{ Pal*mat"i*sect (?),
Pal*mat`i*sect"ed (?), } a.
[L. palmatus palmate + secare to
cut.] (Bot.) Divided, as a palmate leaf,
down to the midrib, so that the parenchyma is interrupted.
Palm"crist (?), n. The palma
Christi. (Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version,
note.)
Palmed (?), a. Having or
bearing a palm or palms.
Paimed deer (Zo\'94l.), a stag of
full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.
Palm"er (?), n. [From
Palm, v. t.] One who palms or
cheats, as at cards or dice.
Palm"er, n.[From Palm the
tree.] A wandering religious votary; especially, one
who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy
Land and its sacred places.
Chaucer.
Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together.
P. Plowman.
The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the
palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain,
designed place or places, but the palmer to all.
T. Staveley.
Palm"er*worm` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) Any hairy caterpillar
which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering
about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious
insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America,
the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage
of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus
pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
Pal*mette" (?), n. [F., dim. of
palme a palm.] A floral ornament, common in
Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called
the honeysuckle ornament.
Pal*met"to (?), n. [Dim. of
palm the tree: cf. Sp. palmito.]
(Bot.) A name given to palms of several genera
and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United
States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to
the Cham\'91rops, , the cabbage
tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree,
under Cabbage.
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Royal palmetto, the West Indian Sabal
umbraculifera, the trunk of which, when hollowed, is used
for water pipes, etc. The leaves are used for thatching, and for
making hats, ropes, etc. -- Saw palmetto,
Sabal serrulata, a native of Georgia, South
Carolina, and Florida. The nearly impassable jungle which it
forms is called palmetto scrub.
Pal"mic (?), a. [Cf. F.
palmique.] (Chem.) Of,
pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant
(Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); --
formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic
acid. [Obsoles.]
\'d8Pal`mi*dac"ty*les (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Palm, and Dactyl.]
(Zo\'94l.) A group of wading birds having the
toes webbed, as the avocet.
Pal*mif"er*ous (?), a.[L.
palmifer; palma a palm + ferre
to bear: cf. F. palmif\'8are.] Bearing
palms.
Pal"mi*grade (?), a. [L.
palma palm of the hand + gradi to
walk.] (Zo\'94l.) Putting the whole foot
upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
Pal"min (?), n. [From
palma Christi: cf. F. palmine.]
(Chem.) (a) A white waxy or fatty
substance obtained from castor oil. (b)
Ricinolein. [Obs.]
Pal"mi*ped (?), a.[L.
palmipes, -edis, broad-footed;
palma the palm of the hand + pes a foot;
cf. F. palmip\'8ade.] (Zo\'94l.)
Web-footed, as a water fowl. -- n.
A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
\'d8Pal*mip"e*des (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Natatores.
Pal"mis*ter (?), n. [From
Palm of the hand.] One who practices
palmistry
Bp. Hall.
Pal`mis*try (?), n.[See
Palmister.] 1. The art or practice
of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by
the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.
Ascham. Cowper.
2. A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
Addison.
Pal"mi*tate (?), n.
(Chem.) A salt of palmitic acid.
Pal"mite (?), n. [From
Palm.] (Bot.) A South African
plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having
long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making
brushes.
Pal*mit"ic (?), a. (Physiol.
Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or
palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline
body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily
soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62
Pal"mi*tin (?), n. [So called
because abundant in palm oil.] (Physiol.
Chem.) A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in
animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein
in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter,
with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of
palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to
one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called
tripalmitin, or glyceryl
tripalmitate.
Pal`mi*tol"ic (?), a.
[Palmitic + -oleic +
ic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series,
isomeric with linoleic acid.
Pal"mi*tone (?), n.
(Chem.) The ketone of palmitic acid.
Palm" Sun`day (?). (Eccl.) The
Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our
Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude
strewed palm branches in the way.
Palm"y (?), a. 1.
Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms;
as, a palmy shore.
Pope.
His golden sands and palmy wine.
Goldsmith.
2. Worthy of the palm; flourishing;
prosperous.
In the most high and palmy state of Rome.
Shak.
Pal*my"ra (?), n. (Bot.)
A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis)
having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It
is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian
Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than
eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native
writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its
fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its
leaves for thatching huts.
Pa*lo"la (?), n. [Fr. the
native name.] (Zo\'94l.) An annelid
(Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the
year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pcific
Islands, where it is collected for food.
\'d8Pal`lo*me"ta (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A pompano.
Palp (?), n. [Cf. F.
palpe. See Palpable.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Palpus.
Palp, v. t. [L. palpare: cf.
F. palper.] To have a distinct touch or
feeling of; to feel. [Obs.]
To bring a palp\'8ad darkness o'er the earth.
Heywood.
Pal`pa*bil"i*ty (?), n. The
quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
Arbuthnot.
Pal"pa*ble (?), a. [F.
palpable, L. palpabilis, fr.
palpare to feel, stroke; cf. palpus the
soft palm of the hand.] 1. Capable of being
touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a
palpable form.
Shak.
Darkness must overshadow all his bounds,
Palpable darkness.
Milton.
2. Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious;
readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable
imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable
errors. \'bdThree persons palpable.\'b8
P. Plowman.
[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
Shak.
-- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. --
Pal"pa*bly, adv.
Pal*pa"tion (?), n. [L.
palpatio, fr. palpare. See
Palpable.] 1. Act of touching or
feeling.
2. (Med.) Examination of a patient by
touch.
Quain.
\'d8Pal*pa"tor (?), n. [L., a
stroker.] (Zo\'94l.) One of a family of
clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary
palpi.
\'d8Pal"pe*bra (?), n.; pl.
Palpebr\'91 (#). [L.]
(Zo\'94l.) The eyelid.
Pal"pe*bral (?), a. [L.
palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F.
palp\'82bral.] Of or pertaining to the
eyelids.
Pal"pr*brate (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having eyelids.
Palped (?), a. (Zo\'94l.)
Having a palpus.
\'d8Pal"pi (?), n.,
pl. of Palpus. (Zo\'94l.) See
Palpus.
Pal"pi*corn (?), n. [See
Palpus, and Cornu.] (Zo\'94l.)
One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia)
having short club-shaped antenn\'91, and long maxillary
palpi.
Pal"pi*fer (?), n.
[Palpus + L. ferre to bear.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Palpiger.
Pal"pi*form (?), a.
[Palpus + -form: cf. F.
palpiforme.] (Zo\'94l.) Having
the form of a palpus.
Pal"pi*ger (?), n. [See
Palpigerous.] (Zo\'94l.) That
portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.
Pal*pig"er*ous (?), a.
[Palpus + -gerous.]
(Zo\'94l.) Bearing a palpus.
Kirby.
Pal"pi*tant (?), a. [L.
palpitans, p. pr.] Palpitating; throbbing;
trembling.
Carlyle.
Pal"pi*tate (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Palpitated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Palpitating(?).] [L.
palpitare, palpitatum, v. intens. fr.
pappare. See Palpable.] To beat
rapidly and more strongly than usual; to throb; to bound with
emotion or exertion; to pulsate violently; to flutter; -- said
specifically of the heart when its action is abnormal, as from
excitement.
Pal`pi*ta"tion (?), n. [L.
palpitatio: cf. F. palpitation.]
A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid
beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong
emotion, or by disease.
Palp"less (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Without a palpus.
Pal"po*cil (?), n. [See
Palpus, and Cilium.]
(Zo\'94l.) A minute soft filamentary process
springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.
\'d8Pal"pus (?), n.; pl.
Palpi (#). [NL. See
Palp.] (Zo\'94l.) A feeler;
especially, one of the jointed sense organs attached to the mouth
organs of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and annelids; as,
the mandibular palpi, maxillary palpi, and
labial palpi. The palpi of male spiders serve as
sexual organs. Called also palp. See
Illust. of Arthrogastra and
Orthoptera.
Pals"grave` (?), n. [D.
paltsgraaf; palts palace (l.
palatium) + graaf count; cf. G.
pfalzgraf. See Palace, and
Landgrave.] (Ger. Hist.) A count
or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the
superintendence, of a royal household in Germany.
Pals"gra*vine` (?), n.[D.
paltsgravin: cf. G. pfalzgrafin.]
The consort or widow of a palsgrave.
Pal"si*cal (?), a.[From
Palsy.] Affected with palsy; palsied;
paralytic. [R.]
Johnson.
Pal"sied (?), a. Affected with
palsy; paralyzed.
Pal"stave` (?), n. [Dan.
paalstav.] A peculiar bronze adz, used in
prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.
Dawkins.
Pal"ster (?), n. [D.
palsterstaf.] A pilgrim's staff.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.
Pal"sy (?), n.; pl.
Palsies (#). [OE.
palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie,
F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See
Paralysis.] (Med.) Paralysis,
complete or partial. See Paralysis. \'bdOne sick
of the palsy.\'b8
Mark ii. 3.
Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve,
producing distortion of one side of the face; -- so called from
Sir Charles Bell, an English surgeon who described
it. -- Scrivener's palsy. See Writer's
cramp, under Writer. -- Shaking
palsy, paralysis agitans, a disease usually
occurring in old people, characterized by muscular tremors and a
peculiar shaking and tottering gait.
Pal"sy, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Palsied (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Palsying.] To affect with
palsy, or as with palsy; to deprive of action or energy; to
paralyze.
Pal"sy*wort` (?), n.
(Bot.) The cowslip (Primula veris); --
so called from its supposed remedial powers.
Dr. Prior.
Pal"ter (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Paltered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Paltering.] [See
Paltry.] 1. To haggle.
[Obs.]
Cotgrave.
2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play
false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter.
Shak.
Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power.
Tennyson.
3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
Pal"ter, v. t. To trifle with; to waste;
to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
[Obs.] \'bdPalter out your time in the
penal statutes.\'b8
Beau. & Fl.
Pal"ter*er (?), n. One who
palters.
Johnson.
Pal"ter*ly, a. & adv. Paltry; shabby;
shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
\'bdIn palterly clothes.\'b8
Pepys.
Pal"tock (?), n. [See
Paletot.] A kind of doublet; a jacket.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
Pal"tri*ly (?), adv. In a
paltry manner.
Pal"tri*ness, n. The state or quality of
being paltry.
Pal"try (?), a.
[Compar. Paltrier (;
superl. Paltriest.] [Cf.
Prov. E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG.
paltering ragged, palte, palter,
a rag, a tatter, Dan. pialt, Sw. palta, pl.
paltor.] Mean; vile; worthless; despicable;
contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry
excuse; paltry gold.
Cowper.
The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
Byron.
Syn. -- See Contemptible.
Pa*lu"dal (?), a. [L.
palus, -udis, a marsh.] Of or
pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy. [R.]
Paludal fever, malarial fever; -- so called
because generated in marshy districts.
Pa*lu"da*ment (?), n. See
Paludamentum.
\'d8Pa*lu`da*men*tum (?), n.;
pl. Paladumenta ( (Rom.
Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his
principal officers.
\'d8Pal`u*dic"o*l\'91 (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. palus, -udis, a marsh +
colere to inhabit.] (Zo\'94l.) A
division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.
Pa*lu"di*cole (?), a. [Cf. F.
paludicole.] (Zo\'94l.)
Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicol\'91
\'d8Pal`u*di"na (?), n.; pl. L.
Paludin\'91 (#), E. Paludinas
(#). [NL., fr. L. palus,
-udis, a marsh, pool.] (Zo\'94l.)
Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate
mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho,
and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is
usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of
Pond snail, under Pond.
Pal`u*di"nal (?), a. Inhabiting
ponds or swamps.
Pal"u*dine (?), a. [L.
palus, -udis, a marsh.] Of or
pertaining to a marsh.
Buckland.
Pa*lu"di*nous (?), a. 1.
(Zo\'94l.) (a) Paludinal. (b)
Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.
2. Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen.
[R.]
Pa*lu"dism (?), n. (Med.)
The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes;
malarial disease or disposition.
Pal"u*dose` (?), a.[L.
paludosus marshy.] Growing or living in
marshy places; marshy.
Pal"ule (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Palulus or
Palus.
\'d8Pal"u*lus (?), n.; pl.
Paluli (#). [NL., dim. of L.
palus a stake.] (Zo\'94l.) Same
as Palus.
\'d8Pa"lus (?), n.; pl.
Pali (#). [L., a stake.]
(Zo\'94l.) One of several upright slender
calcareous processes which surround the central part of the
calicle of certain corals.
Pa*lus"tral (?), a. [L.
paluster, -ustris.] Of or
pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]
Pa*lus"trine (?), a. Of,
pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.
Pal"y (?), a. [From
Pale, a.] Pale; wanting color;
dim. [Poetic]
Shak. Whittier.
Pal"y, a. [Cf. F. pal\'82.
See Pale a stake.] (Her.) Divided
into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two
different tinctures disposed alternately.
Pam (?), n. [From Palm
victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph.]
The knave of clubs. [Obs.]
Pope.
Pa"ment (?), n. A
pavement. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
\'d8Pam"pa*no (?), n.
[Sp.] (Zo\'94l.) Same as
Pompano.
Pam"pas (?), n. pl. [Sp., fr.
Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast plains
in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in
South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for
the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Pampas cat (Zo\'94l.), a South
American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique
transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half
feet long. Called also straw cat. --
Pampas deer (Zo\'94l.), a small,
reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, ). -- Pampas grass
(Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass
(Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky
panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.
Pam"per (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Pampered
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen,
slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe
thick pap, and E. pap.]
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to
glut; as, to pamper the body or the
appetite. \'bdA body . . . pampered for
corruption.\'b8
Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess;
as, to pamper pride; to pamper the
imagination.
South.
Pam"pered (?), a. Fed
luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.
\'bdPampered boughs.\'b8 Milton.
\'bdPampered insolence.\'b8 Pope. --
Pam"pered*ness, n.
Bp. Hall.
Pam"per*er (?), n. One who, or
that which, pampers.
Cowper.
Pam"per*ize (?), v. t. To
pamper. [R.]
Sydney Smith.
\'d8Pam*pe"ro (?), n.[Sp., fr.
pampa a plain.] A violent wind from the
west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America
and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
Sir W. Parish.
Pam*pe"ros (?), n. pl.; sing.
Pampero (. [Sp.
American.] (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians
inhabiting the pampas of South America.
Pam"phlet (?), n. [OE.
pamflet, pamfilet, paunflet,
possibly fr. OF. palme the palm of the hand, F.
paume (see Palm) + OF. fueillet a
leaf, dim. of fueil, m., F. feuille, f.,
fr. L. folium, pl. folia, thus meaning, a
leaf to be held in the hand; or perh. through old French, fr. L.
Pamphila, a female historian of the first century who
wrote many epitomes; prob., however, fr. OF.
Pamflette, the Old French name given to
Pamphilus, a poem in Latin verse of the 12th century,
pamphlets being named from the popularity of this poem.]
1. A writing; a book.
Testament of love.
Sir Thomas More in his pamphlet of Richard the
Third.
Ascham.
2. A small book consisting of a few sheets of
printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but
not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a
subject of current interest.
<-- p. 1035 -->
Pam"phlet (?), v. i. To write a
pamphlet or pamphlets. [R.]
Howell.
Pam`phlet*eer" (?), n. A writer
of pamphlets; a scribbler.
Dryden. Macaulay.
Pam`phlet*eer", v. i. To write or
publish pamphlets.
By pamphleteering we shall not win.
C. Kingsley.
Pam*pin"i*form (?), a. [L.
pampinus a tendril + -form.]
(Anat.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied
especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
Pam"pre (?), n. [F.
pampre a vine branch, L. pampinus.]
(Sculp.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and
bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
Pam`pro*dac"tyl*ous (?), a.
[Pan- + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Having all the toes turned forward, as
the colies.
{ Pan- (?), Pan"ta- (?),
Pan"to- (?) }. [Gr. Combining forms signifying
all, every; as, panorama,
pantheism, pantagraph,
pantograph. Pan- becomes pam-
before b or p, as
pamprodactylous.
Pan, n. [OE. See 2d
Pane.] 1. A part; a portion.
2. (Fort.) The distance comprised
between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
3. [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of
gold or silver.
Pan, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. pan
skirt, lappet, L. pannus a cloth, rag, W.
panu to fur, to full.] To join or fit
together; to unite. [Obs.]
Halliwell.
Pan (?), n. [Hind.
p\'ben, Skr. parna leaf.] The
betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc.
See .
\'d8Pan (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
(Gr. Myth.) The god of shepherds,
guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is
usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with
the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the
shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
Pan, n. [OE. panne, AS.
panne; cf. D. pan, G. pfanne,
OHG. pfanna, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna,
of uncertain origin; cf. L. patina, E.
paten.] 1. A shallow, open dish or
vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for
setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also
employed for various uses in manufacturing. \'bdA bowl or a
pan.\'b8
Chaucer.
2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling
or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under
Vacuum.
3. The part of a flintlock which holds the
priming.
4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the
brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the
cranium.
Chaucer.
5. (C A recess, or bed, for the
leaf of a hinge.
6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the
soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water,
or mud.
Flash in the pan. See under
Flash. -- To savor of the pan, to
suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological
sense, to be heretical.
Ridley. Southey.
Pan, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Panned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Panning.] (Mining) To
separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of
pan. [U. S.]
We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and
panning out, which is the last process of separating
the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.
Gen. W. T. Sherman.
Pan, v. i. 1. (Mining)
To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; --
usually with out; as, the gravel panned
out richly.
2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to
result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the
speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang,
U. S.]
<-- Pan v.t. & i., to scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal
direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera
so as to keep the subject in view.
2. to criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. -->
Pan"a*base (?), n.
[Pan- + base. So called in allusion to
the number of metals contained in it.] (Min.)
Same as Tetrahedrite.
Pan`a*ce"a (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine;
a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for
affliction.
2. (Bot.) The herb allheal.
Pan`a*ce"an (?), a. Having the
properties of a panacea. [R.]
\'bdPanacean dews.\'b8
Whitehead.
Pa*nache" (?), n. [F., fr. L.
penna a feather. See Pen a feather.]
A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the
helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of
feathers.
A panache of variegated plumes.
Prescott.
{ Pa*na"da (?), Pa*nade"
(?), } n. [Sp. panada,
fr. L. panis bread: cf. F. panade. See
Pantry.] Bread boiled in water to the
consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
[Written also panado.]
Pa*nade" (?), n. A
dagger. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pan`a*ma" hat` (?). A fine plaited hat,
made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant
(Carludovica palmata).
Pan`-A*mer"i*can (?), a. [See
Pan-.] Of or pertaining to both North and
South America.
Pan`-An"gli*can (?), a.
[Pan- + Anglican.]
(Eccl.) Belonging to, or representing, the whole
Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the
Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
Pan"a*ry (?), a. [L.
panis bread.] Of or pertaining to bread or
to breadmaking.
Pan"a*ry, n. A storehouse for
bread.
Halliwell.
Pan"cake` (?), n. A thin cake
of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a
flapjack. \'bdA pancake for Shrove Tuesday.\'b8
Shak.
Pan"carte` (?), n. [F., fr. LL.
pancharta. See Pan-, and
Carte.] A royal charter confirming to a
subject all his possessions. [Obs.]
Holinshed.
Pance (?), n. (Bot.)
The pansy. [Also paunce.]
Panch (?), n. (Naut.)
See Paunch.
Panch"way (?), n. [Hind.
pan.] (Naut.) A Bengalese
four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also
panshway and paunchwas.]
Malcom.
Pan*cra"tian (?), a. Pancratic;
athletic.
Pan*cra"ti*ast (?), n. One who
engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
Pan*cra`ti*as"tic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to the pancratium.
G. West.
Pan*crat"ic (?), a. [Gr. (Opt.) Having all or many
degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an
eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying
power.
{ Pan*crat"ic (?), Pan*crat"ic*al
(?), } a. [See
Pancratium.] Of or pertaining to the
pancratium; athletic.
Sir T. Browne
Pan"cra*tist (?), n. An
athlete; a gymnast.
\'d8Pan*cra"ti*um (?), n. [L.,
fr. Gr.
1. (Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest
involving both boxing and wrestling.
2. (Bot.) A genus of Old World
amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth
with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now
placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.
Pan"cre*as (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. pancr\'82as.] (Anat.) The
sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all
vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its
secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often
together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines,
and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of
Digestive apparatus.
Pan`cre*at"ic (?), a. [Cf. F.
pancr\'82atique.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic
secretion, digestion, ferments.
Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a
colorless alkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the
pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important of the
digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct ferments,
trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts
upon all three classes of food stuffs. See
Pancreas.
Pan"cre*a*tin (?), n. [See
Pancreas.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of
the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a
preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of
animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
pancreatin is restricted
to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it
is applied to trypsin, and by still others to
steapsin.
Pan"cy (?), n. See
Pansy. [Obs.]
Dryden.
Pan"da (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having
fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the
mountains of Northern India.
\'d8Pan*da"nus (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A
genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
Pan"dar (?), n. Same as
Pander. \'bdSeized by the pandar of
Appius.\'b8
Macaulay.
Pan"dar*ism (?), n. Same as
Panderism.
Swift.
Pan"dar*ize (?), v. i. To
pander. [Obs.]
Pan"dar*ous (?), a.
Panderous. [Obs.]
Pan*de"an, a. [From 4th
Pan.] Of or relating to the god Pan.
Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument,
consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated
in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by
side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by
Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and
Panpipes.<-- also, pipes of Pan -->
Pan"dect (?), n. [L.
pandecta, pandectes, Gr. pandectes, pl.] 1. A treatise
which comprehends the whole of any science.
[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.
Donne.
2. pl. The digest, or abridgment, in
fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old
Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the
emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the
Roman civil law.
Kent.
Pan*dem"ic (?), a. [L.
pandemus, Gr. pand\'82mique.] Affecting a
whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.
-- n. A pandemic disease.
Harvey.
Pan`de*mo"ni*um (?), n. [NL.,
from Gr. 1. The
great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
Milton.
2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or
assemblage.
Pan"der (?), n. [From
Pandarus, a leader in the Trojan army, who is
represented by Chaucer and Shakespeare as having procured for
Troilus the possession of Cressida.]
1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Thou art the pander to her dishonor.
Shak.
2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and
passions of another.
Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Burke.
Pan"der, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pandered (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Pandering.] To play the pander
for.
<-- pander to (base emotions), to achieve one's purpose by
appealing to a person's base emotions (less noble desires), as
lust, prejudice, hate; to exploit base emotions -->
Pan"der, v. i. To act the part of a
pander.
Pan"der*age (?), n. The act of
pandering.
Pan"der*ism (?), n. The
employment, arts, or practices of a pander.
Bp. Hall.
Pan"der*ly, a. Having the quality of a
pander. \'bdO, you panderly rascals.\'b8
Shak.
Pan*der"mite (?), n. [From
Panderma, a port on the Black Sea from which it is
exported.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime,
near priceite.
Pan"der*ous (?), Of or relating to a
pander; characterizing a pander.
Pan*dic"u*la`ted (?), a. [See
Pandiculation.] Extended; spread out;
stretched.
Pan*dic`u*la"tion (?), n. [L.
pandiculari to stretch one's self, fr.
pandere to spread out.] A stretching and
stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and
drowsy.
Pan"dit (?), n. See
Pundit.
Pan"door (?) n. Same as
Pandour.
Pan*do"ra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr.
Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all +
dw^ron a gift.] 1. (Class.
Myth.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom
Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the
human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven.
Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when
the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone
remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all
the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora
opened it.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine
bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
Pan"dore (?), n. [F. See
Bandore.] An ancient musical instrument, of
the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also
pandoran.]<-- a bandura? -->
Pan"dour (?), n. One of a class
of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so
called from Pandur, a principal town in the region
from which they originally came. [Written also
pandoor.]
Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.
Campbell.
Pan*dow"dy (?), n. A deep pie
or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples
baked together, with no bottom crust.
{ Pan"du*rate, Pan*du"ri*form
(?), } a. [L. pandura a
pandore + -form: cf. F.
panduriforme.] Obovate, with a concavity in
each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a
panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of
an animal.
Pane (?), n. [F.
panne.] The narrow edge of a hammer head.
See Peen.
Pane, n. [OE. pan part,
portion of a thing, F. pan a skirt, lappet, part or
piece of a wall, side, fr. L. pannus a cloth, fillet,
rag; akin to E. vane. See Vane, and cf.
Panel, Pawn pledge.] 1. A
division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any
surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided
pattern.
2. One of the openings in a slashed garment,
showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the
piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
3. (Arch.) (a) A compartment of
a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a
building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight
panes. (b) Especially, in
modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
4. In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated
surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
5. (a) One of the flat surfaces, or
facets, of any object having several sides. (b)
One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant
cut diamond.
Paned (?), a. 1.
Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings;
as, a paned window; paned window
sash. \'bdPaned hose.\'b8
Massinger.
2. (Mach.) Having flat sides or
surfaces; as, a sixpaned nut.
Pan`e*gyr"ic (?), n. [L.
panegyricus, Gr. panhgyrico`s: cf. F.
pan\'82gyrique. See Panegyric,
a.] An oration or eulogy in praise of some
person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a
laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of
Eulogy.
{ Pan`e*gyr"ic (?),
Pan`e*gyr"ic*al (?), } a.
[L. panegyricus, Gr. panhgyrico`s,
from pa^, pa^n all +
Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.
\'bdPanegyric strains.\'b8 Pope. --
Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Some of his odes are panegyrical.
Dryden.
Pa*neg"y*ris (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. Panegyric.] A festival; a public
assembly. [Obs.]
S. Harris.
Pan"e*gyr`ist (?), n. [L.
panegyrista, Gr. Panegyric.]
One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or
praises, either by writing or speaking.
If these panegyrists are in earnest.
Burke.
Pan"e*gy*rize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Panegyrized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Panegyrizing
(?).] [Gr. Panegyrist.] To praise highly; to extol in a
public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to
eulogize.
Pan"e*gy*rize, v. i. To indulge in
panegyrics.
Mitford.
Pan"e*gyr`y (?), n. A
panegyric. [Obs.]
Milton.
Pan"el (?), n. [Orig., a little
piece; OF. panel, pannel, F.
panneau, dim. of pan skirt, lappet, part or
piece of a wall, side. See 2d Pane.] 1.
(Arch.) A sunken compartment with raised margins,
molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
<-- p. 1036 -->
2. (Law) (a) A piece of
parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned
as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole
jury. Blackstone. (b) (Scots
Law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a
criminal court. Burrill.
3. Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle;
hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
4. (Joinery) A board having its edges
inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the
panel of a door.
5. (Masonry) One of the faces of a hewn
stone.
Gwilt.
6. (Painting) A slab or plank of wood
upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.
7. (Mining) (a) A heap of
dressed ore. (b) One of the districts divided
by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one
system of extracting coal.
8. (Dressmaking) A plain strip or band,
as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the
skirt of a dress, for ornament.
9. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent
posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
Panel game, a method of stealing money in a
panel house. -- Panel house, a house of
prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances to
facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. --
Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for
cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one
who robs in a panel house.
Pan"el (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Paneled (?)
or Panelled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paneling or Panelling.] To
form in or with panels; as, to panel a
wainscot.<-- to put panels on (e.g. a wall) -->
Paneled back (Arch.), the paneled
work covering the window back. See Window
back.
Pan`el*a"tion (?), n. The act
of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written
also panellation.]
Wood.
Pane"less (?), a. Without
panes.
To patch his paneless window.
Shenstone.
Pan"el*ing (?), n. A forming in
panels; panelwork. [Written also
panelling.]
Pan"el*work` (?), n.
(Arch.) Wainscoting.
Pan*eu"lo*gism (?), n. [See
Pan-, Eulogy.] Eulogy of everything;
indiscriminate praise. [R.]
Her book has a trace of the cant of
paneulogism.
National Rev.
Pan"ful (?), n.; pl.
Panfuls (#). [See 5th
Pan.] Enough to fill a pan.
Pang (?), n. [Prob. for older
prange. Cf. Prong.] A paroxysm of
extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe;
as, the pangs of death.
Syn. -- Agony; anguish; distress. See Agony.
Pang, v. t. To torture; to cause to have
great pain or suffering; to torment. [R.]
Shak.
Pan*gen"e*sis (?), n.
[Pan- + genesis.]
(Biol.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in
explanation of heredity.
gemmules, which circulate freely throughout the system
and multiply by subdivision. These gemmules collect in the
reproductive organs and products, or in buds, so that the egg or
bud contains gemmules from all parts of the parent or parents,
which in development give rise to cells in the offspring similar
to those from which they were given off in the parent. The
hypothesis also assumes that these gemmules need not in all cases
develop into cells, but may lie dormant, and be transmitted from
generation to generation without producing a noticeable effect
until a case of atavism occurs.<-- ingenious, but wrong.
A hundred years later we are still only beginning to understand
the development process. -->
Pan`ge*net"ic (?), a.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis.
Pang"ful (?), a. Full of
pangs.
Richardson.
Pang"less, a. Without a pang;
painless.
Byron.
Pan"go*lin (?), n. [Malay
pang.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one
of several species of Manis, Pholidotus,
and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered
with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also
scaly ant-eater.
Pan*goth"ic (?), a.
[Pan- + Gothic.] Of,
pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races.
\'bdAncestral Pangothic stock.\'b8
Earle.
Pan`hel*len"ic (?), a. [See
Panhellenium.] Of or pertaining to all
Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the
Greeks.
Pan*hel"len*ism (?), n. A
scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.
Pan*hel"len*ist, n. An advocate of
Panhellenism.
Pan`hel*le"ni*um (?), n. [NL.,
from Gr. (Gr.
Antiq.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all
the states of Greece.
Pan"ic (?), n. [L.
panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the
genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of
some species of panic grass.
Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of
the genus Panicum.
Pan"ic, a. [Gr. panique.] Extreme or sudden and
causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as,
panic fear, terror, alarm. \'bdA
panic fright.\'b8
Dryden.
Pan"ic, n. [Gr. panigue. See Panic,
a.] 1. A sudden, overpowering
fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by
a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the
troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a
panic.
2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or
apprehension concerning financial affairs.
Pan"ic*al (?), a. See
Panic, a. [Obs.]
Camden.
Pan"i*cle (?), n. [L.
panicula a tuft on plants, dim. of panus
the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; cf. Gr. pane: cf. F. panicule. See
2d Pane.] (Bot.) A pyramidal form
of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below
and gradually simpler toward the end.
<-- Illustr. of a panicle -->
Pan"i*cled (?), a. (Bot.)
Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles;
paniculate.
{ Pan"ic-strick`en (?),
Pan"ic-struck` (?) }, a.
Struck with a panic, or sudden fear.
Burke.
{ Pa*nic"u*late (?),
Pa*nic"u*la`ted (?), } a.
[See Panicle.] (Bot) Same as
Panicled.
\'d8Pan"i*cum (?), n. [L.,
panic grass.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses,
including several hundred species, some of which are valuable;
panic grass.
Pan*id`i*o*mor"phic (?), a.
[Pan- + idiomorphic.]
(Geol.) Having a completely idiomorphic
structure; -- said of certain rocks.
Pan"ier (?), n. See
Pannier, 3. [Obs.]
Pan`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L.
panis bread + -ficare (in comp.) to make:
cf. F. panification.] The act or process of
making bread.
Ure.
Pa"nim (?), n. See
Painim. [Obs.]
Milton.
Pan*is"lam*ism (?), n.
[Pan- + Islamism.] A desire
or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest
of the world.
Pa*niv"o*rous (?), a. [L.
panis bread + vorare to devour.]
Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
Pan*nade" (?), n. The curvet of
a horse.
Pan"nage (?), n. [OF.
pasnage, LL. pasnadium,
pastinaticum, fr. pastionare to feed on
mast, as swine, fr. L. pastio a pasturing, grazing.
See Pastor.] (O. Eng. Law) (a)
The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.;
-- called also pawns. (b)
A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the
woods.
Pan"na*ry (?), a. See
Panary.
Loudon.
Pan"nel (?), n. [See
Panel.] 1. A kind of rustic
saddle.
Tusser.
2. (Falconry) The stomach of a
hawk.
Ainsworth.
3. (Mil.) A carriage for conveying a
mortar and its bed, on a march.
Farrow.
Pan"nier (?), n. [F.
panier, fr. L. panarium a bread basket, fr.
panis bread. Cf. Pantry.] 1.
A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in
pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an
ass
Hudibras.
2. (Mil. Antiq.) A shield of basket work
formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's
missiles.
3. A table waiter at the Inns of Court,
London.
4. A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women
to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.
Pan"niered (?), a. Bearing
panniers.
Wordsworth.
Pan"ni*kel (?), n. [See
Pan a dish.] The brainpan, or skull; hence,
the crest. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Pan"ni*kin (?), n. [Dim. of
pan a dish.] A small pan or cup.
Marryat. Thackeray.
Pan"nose` (?), a. [See
Pannus.] (Bot.) Similar in texture
or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.
\'d8Pan"nus (?), n. [L., cloth.
See 2d Pane.] (Med.) A very
vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by
granulation of the eyelids.
Foster.
Pan`o*is"tic (?), a.
[Pan- + Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) Producing ova only; -- said of the
ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous
cells.
Pan`om*phe"an (?), a. [L.
panomphaeus, Gr. Uttering ominous or
prophetic voices; divining. [R.]
We want no half gods, panomphean Joves.
Mrs. Browning.
Pan"o*plied (?), a. Dressed in
panoply.
Pan"o*ply (?), n. [Gr.
Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive
armor.
Milton.
We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put
on the whole armor of God.
Ray.
Pa*nop"ti*con (?), n. [NL. See
Pan-, and Optic.]
1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can
see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
2. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
Pan`o*ra"ma (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. Pan-, and Wary.]
1. A complete view in every direction.
2. A picture presenting a view of objects in every
direction, as from a central point.
3. A picture representing scenes too extended to be
beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being
unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the
spectator.
{ Pan`o*ram"ic (?),
Pan`o*ram"ic*al (?), } a.
Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama.
Panoramic camera. See under
Camera.
Pa*nor"pi*an (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus
Panorpa. -- n. Same as
Panorpid.
Pa*nor"pid (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Any neuropterous insect of the genus
Panorpa, and allied genera. The larv\'91 feed on plant
lice.
Pan*phar"ma*con (?), n. [NL.
See Pan-, and Pharmacon.] A medicine
for all diseases; a panacea. [R.]
Pan`pres`by*te"ri*an (?), a.
[Pan- + Presbyterian.]
Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold
Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a
Panpresbyterian council.
{ Pan`sclav"ic (?), Pan`sclav"ism
(?), Pan`sclav"ist, Pan`scla*vo"ni*an
(?) }. See Panslavic,
Panslavism, etc.
Pan"shon (?), n. An earthen
vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding
milk and for various other purposes. [Prov.
Eng.]
Halliwell.
Pan"sied (?), a. [From
Pansy.] Covered or adorned with
pansies. \'bdThe pansied grounds.\'b8
Darwin.
Pan`slav"ic (?), a.
[Pan- + Slavic.] Pertaining
to all the Slavic races.
Pan`slav"ism (?), n. A scheme
or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one
confederacy.
Pan`slav"ist (?), n. One who
favors Panslavism.
Pan`sla*vo"ni*an (?), a. See
Panslavic.
Pan*soph"ic*al (?), a. [See
Pansophy.] All-wise; claiming universal
knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.
[R.]
John Worthington.
Pan"so*phy (?), n.
[Pan- + Gr. pansophie.] Universal wisdom; esp., a
system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 --
1671), a Moravian educator. [R.]
Hartlib.
{ Pan*sper"ma*tist (?),
Pan"sper`mist (?), } n.
(Biol.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects
the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.
Pan`sper"mic (?), a.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to panspermy; as,
the panspermic hypothesis.
Pan"sper`my (?), n.
[Pan- + Gr. (Biol.)
(a) The doctrine of the widespread distribution of
germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria,
vibrios, etc., may develop. (b) The doctrine
that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; --
the opposite of spontaneous generation.
Pan*ste`re*o*ra"ma (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr.
A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood,
cork, pasteboard, or the like.
Brande & C.
Pan"sy (?), n.; pl.
Pansies (#). [F.
Pens\'82e thought, pansy, fr. penser to
think, L. pensare to weigh, ponder. See
Pensive.] (Bot.) A plant of the
genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally
purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers
of a great diversity of colors. Called also
heart's-ease,
love-in-idleness, and many other quaint
names.
Pant (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Panted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Panting.] [Cf. F.
panteler to gasp for breath, OF. panteisier
to be breathless, F. pantois out of breath; perh. akin
to E. phantom, the verb prob. orig. meaning, to have
the nightmare.] 1. To breathe quickly or in a
labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or
excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
Pluto plants for breath from out his cell.
Dryden.
2. Hence: To long eagerly; to desire
earnestly.
As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
Ps. xlii. 1.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose.
Pope.
3. To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to
palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
Spenser.
4. To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
[Poetic]
The whispering breeze
Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees.
Pope.
Pant, v. t. 1. To breathe forth
quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
There is a cavern where my spirit
Was panted forth in anguish.
Shelley.
2. To long for; to be eager after.
[R.]
Then shall our hearts pant thee.
Herbert.
Pant, n. 1. A quick breathing;
a catching of the breath; a gasp.
Drayton.
2. A violent palpitation of the heart.
Shak.
Pan"ta- (?). See Pan-.
Pan"ta*ble (?), n. See
Pantofle. [Obs.]
Pan"ta*cosm (?), n.
[Panta- + Gr. See
Cosmolabe.
Pan"ta*graph (?), n. See
Pantograph.
Pan*tag"ru*el*ism (?), n. [From
Pantagruel, one of the characters of Rabelais.]
1. The theory or practice of the medical
profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.
2. An assumption of buffoonery to cover some
serious purpose. [R.]
Donaldson.
Pan`ta*let" (?), n. [Dim. of
pantal.] One of the legs of the
loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower
part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a
separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.
Pan`ta*loon" (?), n. [F.
pantalon, fr. It. pantalone, a masked
character in the Italian comedy, who wore breeches and stockings
that were all of one piece, from Pantaleone, the
patron saint of Venice, which, as a baptismal name, is very
frequent among the Venetians, and is applied to them by the other
Italians as a nickname, fr. Gr. 1. Aridiculous character, or
an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in
pantomimes.
Addison.
The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon.
Shak.
2. pl. A bifurcated garment for a man,
covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of
breeches and stockings in one.
3. pl. In recent times, same as
Trousers.
Pan`ta*loon"er*y (?), n. 1.
The character or performances of a pantaloon;
buffoonery. [R.]
Lamb.
2. Materials for pantaloons.
Pan"ta*morph (?), n. That which
assumes, or exists in, all forms.
Pan`ta*mor"phic (?), a.
[Panta- + Gr. Taking all
forms.
Pan"ta*scope (?), n.
[Panta- + -scope.]
(Photog.) A pantascopic camera.
Pan`ta*scop"ic (?), a. Viewing
all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.
<-- p. 1037 -->
\'d8Pan`ta*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) One of the divisions of Flagellata,
including the monads and allied forms.
Pan*tech"ni*con (?), n. [NL.
See Pan-, and Technic.] A depository
or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected
for sale.
Pan*tel"e*graph (?), n.
[Pan- + telegraph.] See
under Telegraph.
Pant"er (?), n. One who
pants.
Congreve.
Pan"ter (?), n.[F.
panetier. See Pantry.] A keeper of
the pantry; a pantler. [Obs.]
Tyndale.
Pan"ter, n. [See Painter a
rope.] A net; a noose. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pan`teu*ton"ic (?), a.
[Pan- + Teutonic.] Of or
pertaining to all the Teutonic races.
Pan"the*ism (?), n.
[Pan- + theism.] The
doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is
God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and
laws which are manifested in the existing universe;
cosmotheism.
Pan"the*ist, n. One who holds to
pantheism.
{ Pan`the*is"tic (?),
Pan`the*is"tic*al (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to,
pantheism. -- Pan`the*is"tic*al*ly,
adv.
Pan`the*ol"o*gist (?), n. One
versed in pantheology.
Pan`the*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Pan- + theology.] A system
of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of
theology.
Pan*the"on (?), n. [L.
pantheon, pantheum, Gr. panth\'82on. See Pan-, and
Theism.] 1. A temple dedicated to
all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.
2. The collective gods of a people, or a work
treating of them; as, a divinity of the Greek
pantheon.
Pan"ther (?), n. [OE.
pantere, F. panth\'8are, L.
panthera, Gr. pundr\'c6ka a tiger.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) A large dark-colored
variety of the leopard, by some zo\'94logists considered a
distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the
centers of which are darker than the color of the body.
2. (Zo\'94l.) In America, the name is
applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the
jaguar.
<-- Illustr. of Panther (Felis leopardus, or pardus) -->
Panther cat (Zo\'94l.), the
ocelot. -- Panther cowry (Zo\'94l.),
a spotted East Indian cowry (Cypr\'91a
pantherina); -- so called from its color.
Pan"ther*ess, n. (Zo\'94l.) A
female panther.
Pan"ther*ine (?), a. Like a
panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake
(Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.
Pan"tile` (?), n. [5th pan
+ tile.] (Arch.) A roofing tile, of
peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an
elongated S laid on its side (
Pant"ing*ly (?), adv. With
palpitation or rapid breathing.
Shak.
Pan`ti*soc"ra*cy (?), n.
[Panto- + Gr.
A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such
as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their
younger days.
Pan*tis"o*crat (?), n. A
pantisocratist.
Pan`ti*so*crat"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a pantisocracy.
Pan`ti*soc"ra*tist (?), n. One
who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.
Macaulay.
Pan"tler (?), n. [F.
panetier. See Panter, Pantry.]
The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of
the bread and the pantry. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pan"to- (?). See Pan-.
Pan`to*chro*nom"e*ter (?), n.
[Panto- + chronometer.] An
instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time
dial.
Brande & C.
Pan*to"fle (?), n. [F.
pantoufle.] A slipper for the foot.
[Written also pantable and
pantoble.]
Pan"to*graph (?), n.
[Panto- + -graph: cf. F.
pantographe.] An instrument for copying
plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or
an enlarged, scale. [Written also
pantagraph, and incorrectly
pentagraph.]
<-- 2. an electrical trolley supported by a collapsible frame,
resembling a pantograph (1). -->
Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for
drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original
figure; -- also called plagiograph.
{ Pan`to*graph"ic (?),
Pan`to*graph"ic*al (?) }, a.
[Cf. F. pantographique.] Of or
pertaining to a pantograph; relating to pantography.
Pan*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Cf. F.
pantographie.] A general description;
entire view of an object.
Pan`to*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to pantology.
Pan*tol"o*gist (?), n. One
versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.
Pan*tol"o*gy (?), n.
[Panto- + -logy.] A
systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of
universal information.
Pan*tom"e*ter (?), n.
[Panto- + -meter: cf. F.
pantom\'8atre.] An instrument for measuring
angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.
Pan*tom"e*try (?), n. Universal
measurement. [R.] --
Pan`to*met"ric (#), a.
[R.]
Pan"to*mime (?), n. [F., fr. L.
pantomimus, Gr. pantomimo. See
Mimic.] 1. A universal mimic; an
actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.
[Obs.]
2. One who acts his part by gesticulation or dumb
show only, without speaking; a pantomimist.
[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could
follow the performance from the action alone.
Tylor.
3. A dramatic representation by actors who use only
dumb show; hence, dumb show, generally.
4. A dramatic and spectacular entertainment of
which dumb acting as well as burlesque dialogue, music, and
dancing by Clown, Harlequin, etc., are features.
Pan"to*mime, a. Representing only in
mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime
dance.
{ Pan`to*mim"ic (?),
Pan`to*mim"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. pantomimique.] Of or
pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.
\'bdPantomimic gesture.\'b8 Bp. Warburton. --
Pan`to*mim"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Pan"to*mi`mist (?), n. An actor
in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.
Pan"ton (?), n. [F.
patin. See Patten.] (Far.)
A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
Pan*toph"a*gist (?), n. [See
Pantophagous.] A person or an animal that has
the habit of eating all kinds of food.
Pan*toph"a*gous (?), a. [Gr.
Eating all kinds of
food.
Pan*toph"a*gy (?), n. [Gr.
The habit or power of eating all kinds of
food.
\'d8Pan*top"o*da (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Panto-, & -poda.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Pycnogonida.
Pan`to*scop"ic (?), a.
[Panto- + -scope +
-ic.] Literally, seeing everything; -- a
term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two
segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower
for vision of near objects.<-- = bifocal -->
Pan"try (?), n.; pl.
Pantries (#). [OE.
pantrie, F. paneterie, fr.
panetier pantler, LL. panetarius baker,
panetus small loaf of bread, L. panis
bread. Cf. Company, Pannier,
Pantler.] An apartment or closet in which
bread and other provisions are kept.
Pan*ur"gic (?), a. [Cf. Gr. Skilled in all kinds of work. \'bdThe
panurgic Diderot.\'b8
J. Morley.
Pan"ur*gy (?), n. [Gr. Skill in all kinds of work
or business; craft. [R.]
Bailey.
Pan"yard (?), n. See
Pannier. [Obs.]
Pepys.
Pa"nym (?), n. & a. See
Panim. [Obs.]
Pan*zo"ism (?), n.
[Pan- + Gr.
(Biol.) A term used to denote all of the elements
or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.
H. Spencer.
\'d8Pa"o*lo (?), n. [It. Cf.
Paul.] An old Italian silver coin, worth
about ten cents.
Pap (?), n. [Cf. OSw.
papp. Cf. Pap soft food.]
1. (Anat.) A nipple; a mammilla; a
teat.
Dryden.
The paps which thou hast sucked.
Luke xi. 27.
2. A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything
resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
Macaulay.
Pap, n. [Cf. D. pap, G.
pappe, both perh. fr. L. papa,
pappa, the word with which infants call for food: cf.
It. pappa.] 1. A soft food for
infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or
water.
2. Nourishment or support from official patronage;
as, treasury pap. [Colloq. &
Contemptuous]
3. The pulp of fruit.
Ainsworth.
Pap, v. t. To feed with pap.
Beau. & Fl.
Pa*pa" (?), n. [F.
papa, L. papa; cf. Gr. Pope.]
1. A child's word for father.
2. A parish priest in the Greek Church.
Shipley.
Pa`pa*bo"te (?), n. [Probably
of Creole origin.] (Zo\'94l.) The upland
plover. [Local, U. S.]
Pa"pa*cy (?), n. [LL.
papatia, fr. L. papa a father, bishop. See
Pope.] 1. The office and dignity of
the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
2. The popes, collectively; the succession of
popes.
3. The Roman Catholic religion; -- commonly used by
the opponents of the Roman Catholics in disparagement or in an
opprobrious sense.
Pap"a*gay (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Popinjay, 1
(b).
Pa*pa"in (?), n. [From
Papaw.] (Physiol. Chem.) A
proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the
green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical
America.
Pa"pal (?), a. [F., fr. L.
papa bishop. See Papacy.]
1. Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding
from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as,
papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the
papal benediction.
Milman.
2. Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic
Church. \'bdPapal Christians.\'b8
Bp. Burnet.
Papal cross. See Illust. 3 of
Cross. -- Papal crown, the
tiara.
Pa"pal*ist (?), n. A
papist. [Obs.]
Baxter.
Pa*pal"i*ty (?), n. [LL.
papalitas: cf. F. papaut\'82.]
The papacy. [Obs.]
Ld. Berners. Milton.
Pa"pal*ize (?), v. t. To make
papal. [R.]
Pa"pal*ize, v. i. To conform to
popery.
Cowper.
Pa"pal*ly, adv. In a papal manner;
popishly
Pa"pal*ty (?), n. The
papacy. [Obs.]
Milton.
Pa`pa*pho"bi*a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. L. papa bishop + Gr.
Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic
Church. [R.]
Pa"par*chy (?), n. [L.
papa bishop + -archy.]
Government by a pope; papal rule.
\'d8Pa*pa"ver (?), n. [L.,
poppy.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, including
the poppy.
Pa*pav`er*a"ceous (?), a.
(Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a
natural order of plants (Papaverace\'91) of which the
poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known
examples.
Pa*pav"er*ine (?), n.
(Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium. It has a
weaker therapeutic action than morphine.
Pa*pav"er*ous (?), a. Of or
pertaining to the poppy; of the nature of the poppy.
Sir T. Browne.
Pa*paw" (?), n. [Prob. from the
native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw,
papaya the fruit of the papaw.] [Written
also pawpaw.] 1. (Bot.)
A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America,
belonging to the order Passiflore\'91. It has a soft,
spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of
large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of
the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender.
Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten
both raw and cooked or pickled.<-- juice contains papain, a
protease? -->
2. (Bot.) A tree of the genus
Asimina (A. triloba), growing in the
western and southern parts of the United States, and producing a
sweet edible fruit; also, the fruit itself.
Gray.
Pap"boat` (?), n. 1. A
kind of sauce boat or dish.
2. (Zo\'94l.) A large spiral East Indian
marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because
used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.
Pape (?), n. [Cf. F.
pape, fr. L. papa. See
Pope.] A spiritual father; specifically, the
pope. [Obs.]
Pa"pe*jay (?), n. A
popinjay. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pa"per (?), n. [F.
papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which
the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. Papyrus.] 1. A substance in the form
of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or
to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or
other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then
molded, pressed, and dried.
2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.
3. A printed or written instrument; a document,
essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read
before a scientific society.
They brought a paper to me to be signed.
Dryden.
4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a
newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.
5. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes;
bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large
amount of his paper.
6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made
of paper. See Paper hangings, below.
7. A paper containing (usually) a definite
quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium,
etc.
8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper,
intended for external application; as, cantharides
paper.
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In the manufacture of books, etc., a sheet, of whatever
size originally, is termed, when folded once, a folio;
folded twice, a quarto, or 4to; three
times, an octavo, or 8vo; four times, a
sextodecimo, or 16mo; five times, a
32mo; three times, with an offcut folded twice and set
in, a duodecimo, or 12mo; four times, with
an offcut folded three times and set in, a
24mo.
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Paper is often used adjectively or in
combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as,
paper cutter or paper-cutter;
paper knife, paper-knife, or
paperknife; paper maker,
paper-maker, or papermaker;
paper mill or paper-mill; paper
weight, paper-weight, or paperweight,
etc.
Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc.,
given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to
accommodation paper. -- Fly paper,
paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching
flies. -- Laid paper. See under
Laid. -- Paper birch (Bot.),
the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea). --
Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a
weak naval force. -- Paper boat
(Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. --
Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel
having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held
between two plate-iron disks. Forney. -- Paper
credit, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as
promissory notes, duebills, etc. -- Paper hanger,
one who covers walls with paper hangings. -- Paper
hangings, paper printed with colored figures, or
otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the
walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. -- Paper
house, an audience composed of people who have come in
on free passes. [Cant] -- Paper
money, notes or bills, usually issued by
government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of
money, and circulated as the representative of coin. --
Paper mulberry. (Bot.) See under
Mulberry. -- Paper muslin, glazed muslin,
used for linings, etc. -- Paper nautilus.
(Zo\'94l.) See Argonauta. --
Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus. --
Paper sailor. (Zo\'94l.) See
Argonauta. -- Paper stainer, one who colors
or stamps wall paper. De Colange. -- Paper
wasp (Zo\'94l.), any wasp which makes a nest
of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. -- Paper
weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose
papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. --
Parchment paper. See Papyrine. --
Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is
used to protect engravings in books. -- Wall
paper. Same as Paper hangings, above.
-- Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or
useless, except for uses of little account. -- Wove
paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not
ribbed or watermarked.<-- paper tiger, a person or
group that appears to be powerful and dangerous but is in fact
weak and ineffectual -->
Pa"per (?), a. Of or pertaining
to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on
paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a
paper army.
Pa"per, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Papered(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Papering.] 1. To cover with
paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper
a room or a house.
2. To fold or inclose in paper.
3. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.
[Obs.]
Pa"per*weight` (?), n. See
under Paper, n.
Pa"per*y (?), a. Like paper;
having the thinness or consistence of paper.
Gray.
Pa*pes"cent (?), a. [From
Pap soft food.] Containing or producing pap;
like pap. [R.]
Arbuthnot.
Pa"pess (?), n. [F.
papesse.] A female pope; i.
e., the fictitious pope Joan.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.
\'d8Pa`pe*terie" (?), n. [F.,
paper manufacture, fr. papier paper.] A
case or box containing paper and materials for writing.
Pa"phi*an (?), a. [L.
Paphius, Gr.
Of or pertaining to Paphos, an ancient city of Cyprus,
having a celebrated temple of Venus; hence, pertaining to Venus,
or her rites.
Pa"phi*an, n. A native or inhabitant of
Paphos.
\'d8Pa`pier"-ma`ch\'82" (?), n.
[F. papier m\'83ch\'82, lit., chewed or mashed
paper.] A hard and strong substance made of a pulp
from paper, mixed with sise or glue, etc. It is formed into
various articles, usually by means of molds.
\'d8Pa*pil"i*o (?), n. [L., a
butterfly.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of
butterflies.
Papilio
polyxenes, or asterias, and related
species.
Pa*pil`io*na"ceous (?), a.
1. Resembling the butterfly.
2. (Bot.) (a) Having a winged
corolla somewhat resembling a butterfly, as in the blossoms of
the bean and pea. (b) Belonging to that
suborder of leguminous plants (Papilionace\'91) which
includes the bean, pea, vetch, clover, and locust.
\'d8Pa*pil`i*o"nes (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Papilio.] (Zo\'94l.)
The division of Lepidoptera which includes the
butterflies.
\'d8Pa*pil`i*on"i*des (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) The typical
butterflies.
Pa*pil"la (?), n.; pl.
Papill\'91 (#). [L., a nipple,
pimple.] Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the
papill\'91 of the tongue.
Pap"il*lar (?), a. [Cf. F.
papillaire.] Same as
Papillose.
Pap"il*la*ry (?), a. [Cf. F.
papillaire.] Of, pertaining to, or
resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with,
papill\'91; papillose.
Pap"il*late (?), v. t. & i. To
cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of
papill\'91.
Pap"il*late (?), a. Same as
Papillose.
Pa*pil"li*form (?), a.
[Papilla + -form.] Shaped
like a papilla; mammilliform.
\'d8Pap`il*lo"ma (?), n.; pl.
Papillomata (#). [NL. See
Papilla, and -Oma.] (Med.)
A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin
or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.
Quain.
Pap`il*lo"ma*tous (?), a.
(Med.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of,
papillomata.
Pap"il*lose` (?), a. [Cf. F.
papilleux.] Covered with, or bearing,
papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar;
papillary.
Pap"il*lote (?), n. [F., fr.
papillon a butterfly.] a small piece of
paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl
paper.
Pap"il*lous (?), a. Papillary;
papillose.
Pa*pil"lu*late (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having a minute papilla in the center
of a larger elevation or depression.
Pa"pi*on (?), n. [Prob. from
native name: cf. Sp. papion.]
(Zo\'94l.) A West African baboon
(Cynocephalus sphinx), allied to the chacma. Its color
is generally chestnut, varying in tint.
Pa"pism (?), n. [F.
papisme. See Pape, Pope.]
Popery; -- an offensive term.
Milton.
Pa"pist (?), n. [F.
papiste. See Pape, Pope.]
A Roman catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and
the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to
Roman Catholics by their opponents.
{ Pa*pis"tic (?), Pa*pis"tic*al
(?), } a. [Cf. F.
papistique.] Of or pertaining to the Church
of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery;
popish; -- used disparagingly. \'bdThe old
papistic worship.\'b8 T. Warton. --
Pa*pis"tic*al*ly, adv.
Pa"pist*ry (?), n. The doctrine
and ceremonies of the Church of Rome; popery.
[R.]
Whitgift.
Pa"pized (?), a. [From
Pape.] Conformed to popery.
[Obs.] \'bdPapized writers.\'b8
Fuller.
Pa*poose" (?), n. A babe or
young child of Indian parentage in North America.
Pap"pi*form (?), a.
(Bot.) Resembling the pappus of composite
plants.
Pap*poose" (?), n. Same as
Papoose.
Pappoose root. (Bot.) See
Cohosh.
Pap*pose" (?) a. (Bot.)
Furnished with a pappus; downy.
Pap"pous (?), a. (Bot.)
Pappose.
Pap"pus (?), n. [L., an old man
or grandfather; hence, a substance resembling gray hairs, Gr.
(Bot.) The hairy or feathery
appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other
plants of the order Composit\'91; also, the scales, awns, or
bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same
order.
Pap"py (?), a. [From
Pap soft food.] Like pap; soft; succulent;
tender.
Ray.
Pap"u*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Papua.
Pap"u*ars (?), n. pl.; sing.
Papuan (. (Ethnol.)
The native black race of Papua or New Guinea, and the
adjacent islands.
\'d8Pap"u*la (?), n.; pl.
Papul\'91 (#). [L.]
1. (Med.) A pimple; a small, usually
conical, elevation of the cuticle, produced by congestion,
accumulated secretion, or hypertrophy of tissue; a papule.
Quain.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the numerous small
hollow processes of the integument between the plates of
starfishes.
Pap"u*lar (?), a. 1.
Covered with papules.
2. (Med.) Consisting of papules;
characterized by the presence of papules; as, a
papular eruption.
Pap"ule (?), n.; pl.
Papules (. Same as
Papula.
Pap"u*lose` (?), a.
(Biol.) Having papul\'91; papillose; as, a
papulose leaf.
Pap"u*lous (?), a. [Cf. F.
pap.] Covered with, or characterized
by, papul\'91; papulose.
Pap`y*ra"ceous (?), a. [L.
papyraceus made of papyrus.]
Made of papyrus; of the consistency of paper; papery.
Pa*pyr"e*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to papyrus, or to paper; papyraceous.
Pap"y*rine (?), n. [Cf. F.
papyrin made of paper. See Paper.]
Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute
sulphuric acid.
Pa*pyr"o*graph (?), n.
[Papyrus + -graph.] An
apparatus for multiplying writings, drawings, etc., in which a
paper stencil, formed by writing or drawing with corrosive ink,
is used. The word is also used of other means of multiplying
copies of writings, drawings, etc. See Copygraph,
Hectograph, Manifold.
Pap`y*rog"ra*phy (?), n. The
process of multiplying copies of writings, etc., by means of the
papyrograph. -- Pap`y*ro*graph"ic
(#), a.
Pa*py"rus (?), n.; pl.
Papyri (#). [L., fr. Gr. Paper.] 1. (Bot.) A tall
rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family,
formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria,
Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch
thick.
2. The material upon which the ancient Egyptians
wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin
longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and
pressed.
3. A manuscript written on papyrus; esp.,
pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the
papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.
P\'83que (?), n. [F.
p\'83que.] See Pasch and
Easter.
Par (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
See Parr.
Par, prep. [F., fr. L. per.
See Per.] By; with; -- used frequently in
Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes
written as a part of the word which it governs; as,
par amour, or paramour; par cas, or
parcase; par fay, or
parfay.
Par (?), n. [L. par,
adj., equal. See Peer an equal.]
1. Equal value; equality of nominal and actual
value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a
certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
2. Equality of condition or circumstances.
At par, at the original price; neither at a
discount nor at a premium. -- Above par, at a
premium. -- Below par, at a discount. --
On a par, on a level; in the same condition,
circumstances, position, rank, etc.; as, their pretensions
are on a par; his ability is on a par with his
ambition. -- Par of exchange. See under
Exchange. -- Par value, nominal
value; face value.
Par"a- (?). [Gr. for- in forgive. Cf.
For-.] 1. A prefix signifying
alongside of, beside, beyond,
against, amiss; as parable,
literally, a placing beside; paradox, that which is
contrary to opinion; parachronism.
2. (Chem.) A prefix denoting:
(a) Likeness, similarity, or
connection, or that the substance
resembles, but is distinct from, that to
the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde,
paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric
modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ.
Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the
benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective
positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene;
paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and
Meta-. Also used adjectively.
\'d8Pa*ra" (?), n. [Turk., fr.
Per. p\'berah a piece.] A piece of Turkish
money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about
one ninth of a cent.
Par`a*ban"ic (?), a. [Gr. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the
oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance
(C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl
urea.
Par"a*blast (?), n. [Cf. Gr.
Para-, and
-blast.] (Biol.) A portion of the
mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the
cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first
blood and blood vessels.
C. S. Minot.
Par`a*blas"tic (?), a.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to the parablast;
as, the parablastic cells.
Par"a*ble (?), a. [L.
parabilis, fr. parare to provide.]
Procurable. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Par"a*ble, n. [F. parabole,
L. parabola, fr. Gr. gal to
drop. Cf. Emblem, Gland, Palaver,
Parabola, Parley, Parabole,
Symbol.] A comparison; a similitude;
specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which
might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral
is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
Chaucer.
Declare unto us the parable of the tares.
Matt. xiii. 36.
Syn. -- See Allegory, and Note under
Apologue.
Par"a*ble, v. t. To represent by
parable. [R.]
Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled.
Milton.
Pa*rab"o*la (?), n.; pl.
Parabolas (#). [NL., fr. Gr. Parable, and cf. Parabole.]
(Geom.) (a) A kind of curve; one of the
conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a
cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve,
any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called
the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the
directrix. See Focus. (b)
One of a group of curves defined by the equation y =
axn where n is a positive whole
number or a positive fraction. For the cubical
parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n =
Cubical, and Semicubical.
The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal
asymptotes.
\'d8Pa*rab"o*le (?), n. [L.,
fr. Gr. Parable.] (Rhet.)
Similitude; comparison.
{ Par`a*bol"ic (?),
Par`a*bol"ic*al (?), } a.
[Gr. parabolique. See
Parable.]
1. Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a
parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical
instruction.
2. [From Parabola.]
(Geom.) (a) Having the form or nature of
a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a
parabolic curve. (b) Generated
by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a
parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic
conoid.
Parabolic conoid, a paraboloid; a conoid whose
directing curve is a parabola. See Conoid. --
Parabolic mirror (Opt.), a mirror
having a paraboloidal surface which gives for parallel rays (as
those from very distant objects) images free from aberration. It
is used in reflecting telescopes. -- Parabolic
spindle, the solid generated by revolving the portion
of a parabola cut off by a line drawn at right angles to the axis
of the curve, about that line as an axis. -- Parabolic
spiral, a spiral curve conceived to be formed by the
periphery of a semiparabola when its axis is wrapped about a
circle; also, any other spiral curve having an analogy to the
parabola.
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Par`a*bol"ic*al*ly (?), adv.
1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.
2. In the form of a parabola.
Par`a*bol"i*form (?), a.
[Parabola + -form.]
Resembling a parabola in form.
Pa*rab"o*lism (?), n. [From
Parabola.] (Alg.) The division of
the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in
the first term. [Obs.]
Pa*rab"o*list (?), n. A
narrator of parables.
Pa*rab"o*loid (?), n.
[Parabola + -oid: cf. F.
parabolo\'8bde.] (Geom.) The
solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any
surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to
a given line are parabolas.
paraboloid has sometimes been
applied also to the parabolas of the higher orders.
Hutton.
Par`a*bo*loid"al (?), a. Of,
pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.
\'d8Par`a*bron"chi*um (?), n.;
pl. Parabronchia (#). [NL.
See Para-, Bronchia.] (Anat.)
One of the branches of an ectobronchium or
entobronchium.
Par`a*cel"si*an (?), a. Of,
pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of
Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th
century.
Ferrand.
Par`a*cel"si*an, n. A follower of
Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
Hakewill.
Par`a*cel"sist (?), n. A
Paracelsian.
\'d8Par`a*cen*te"sis (?), n.
[L., fr. Gr. (Med.) The perforation of a cavity of
the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument,
for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
{ Par`a*cen"tric (?),
Par`a*cen"tric*al (?), } a.
[Pref. para- + centric,
-ical: cf. F. paracentrique.]
Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a
center.
Paracentric curve (Math.), a curve
having the property that, when its plane is placed vertically, a
body descending along it, by the force of gravity, will approach
to, or recede from, a fixed point or center, by equal distances
in equal times; -- called also a
paracentric. -- Paracentric
motton velocity, the motion or
velocity of a revolving body, as a planet, by which it approaches
to, or recedes from, the center, without reference to its motion
in space, or to its motion as reckoned in any other
direction.
Par`a*chor"dal (?), a. [Pref.
para- + chordal.] (Anat.)
Situated on either side of the notochord; -- applied
especially to the cartilaginous rudiments of the skull on each
side of the anterior part of the notochord. --
n. A parachordal cartilage.
Pa*rach"ro*nism (?), n. [Pref.
para- + Gr. parachronisme.] An error in chronology, by
which the date of an event is set later than the time of its
occurrence. [R.]
Par"a*chrose (?), a. [Gr.
(Min.) Changing color by exposure
Mohs.
Par"a*chute (?), n. [F., fr.
paper to ward off, guard + chute a fall.
See Parry, and Chute, Chance.]
1. A contrivance somewhat in the form of an
umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon,
or any eminence.<-- usu used for descending to the ground
from an airplane, for military operations (airborne troops), in
an emergency, or for sport (sky diving) -->
2. (Zo\'94l.) A web or fold of skin
which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying
squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.
<-- parachutist; parachuting.
parachute = verb -->
Par"a*clete (?), n. [L.
paracletus, Gr. An
advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler,
Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy
Spirit.
From which intercession especially I conceive he hath the name
of the Paraclete given him by Christ.
Bp. Pearson.
Par"a*close (?), n.
(Arch.) See Parclose.
Par`ac*mas"tic (?), a. [Gr.
Para-, and Acme.]
(Med.) Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or
crisis, as a distemper.
Dunglison.
Par`a*con"ic (?), a. [Pref.
para- + aconitic.]
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an organic
acid obtained as a deliquescent white crystalline substance, and
isomeric with itaconic, citraconic, and mesaconic acids.
Par`a*co"nine (?), n. [Pref.
para- + conine.] (Chem.)
A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as
a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.
\'d8Par`a*co*rol"la (?), n.
[Pref. para- + corolla.]
(Bot.) A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as
of the Narcissus.
Par`a*cros"tic (?), n. [Pref.
para- + acrostic.] A poetical
composition, in which the first verse contains, in order, the
first letters of all the verses of the poem.
Brande & C.
Par`a*cy*an"o*gen (?), n.
[Pref. para- + cyanogen.]
(Chem.) A polymeric modification of cyanogen,
obtained as a brown or black amorphous residue by heating
mercuric cyanide.
Par`a*cy"mene, n. [Pref.
para- + cymene.] (Chem.)
Same as Cymene.
\'d8Par`a*dac"ty*lum, n.; pl.
Paradactyla (#). [NL. See
Para-, and Dactyl.] (Zo\'94l.)
The side of a toe or finger.
Pa*rade" (?), n. [F., fr. Sp.
parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise,
a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr.
parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v.
t.] 1. The ground where a military
display is held, or where troops are drilled.
2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly
arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for
inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review
of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop,
battery, or company), according to the force assembled.
3. Pompous show; formal display or
exhibition.
Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade.
Swift.
4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an
imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in
military order; as, a parade of firemen.
In state returned the grand parade.
Swift.
5. Posture of defense; guard. [A
Gallicism.]
When they are not in parade, and upon their
guard.
Locke.
6. A public walk; a promenade.
Dress parade, Undress
parade. See under Dress, and
Undress. -- Parade rest, a position
of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be
silent and motionless. Wilhelm.
Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. --
Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a
pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display;
ostentation now generally indicates a
parade of virtues or other qualities for which one
expects to be honored. \'bdIt was not in the mere
parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates
exhibited their power.\'b8 Robertson. \'bdWe are dazzled
with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of
learning, and the noise of victories.\'b8
Spectator.
Pa*rade" (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Paraded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Parading.] [Cf. F.
parader.] 1. To exhibit in a showy
or ostentatious manner; to show off.
Parading all her sensibility.
Byron.
2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to
maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade
troops.
Pa*rade", v. i. 1. To make an
exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public
place.
2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and
inspection; to form or march, as in review.
Par"a*digm (?), n. [F.
paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. Para-, and Diction.]
1. An example; a model; a pattern.
[R.] \'bdThe paradigms and patterns of
all things.\'b8
Cudworth.
2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation
or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of
inflection.
3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a
parable or fable.
{ Par`a*dig*mat"ic (?),
Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al (?), } a.
[Gr. Exemplary. --
Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
[Obs.]
Par`a*dig*mat"ic, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of
Christian excellence.
Par`a*dig"ma*tize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Paradigmatized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paradigmatizing
(?).] [Gr. Paradigm.] To set forth as a model or
example. [Obs.]
Hammond.
{ Par`a*di*sa"ic (?),
Par`a*di*sa"ic*al (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise;
paradisiacal. \'bdParadisaical pleasures.\'b8
Gray.
Par"a*di`sal (?), a.
Paradisiacal.
Par"a*dise (?), n. [OE. & F.
paradis, L. paradisus, fr. Gr.
para`deisos park, paradise, fr. Zend
pairida an inclosure; pairi around
(akin to Gr. diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr.
dih to smear, and E. dough. Cf.
Parvis.]
1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were
placed after their creation.
2. The abode of sanctified souls after death.
To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke xxiii. 43.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise.
Longfellow.
3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity
or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
The earth
Shall be all paradise.
Milton.
Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative
vision.
Beaconsfield.
4. (Arch.) An open space within a
monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister,
the open court before a basilica, etc.
5. A churchyard or cemetery.
[Obs.]
Oxf. Gloss.
Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and
Limbo. -- Grains of paradise.
(Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under
Pepper. -- Paradise bird.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Bird of paradise.
Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina
superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes
magnifica); and the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia
sefilata). The long-billed paradise birds
(Epimachin\'91) also include some highly ornamental
species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird (Seleucides
alba), which is black, yellow, and white, with six long
breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments.
See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary. --
Paradise fish (Zo\'94l.), a beautiful
fresh-water Asiatic fish (Macropodus viridiauratus)
having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental
fish. -- Paradise flycatcher
(Zo\'94l.), any flycatcher of the genus
Terpsiphone, having the middle tail feathers extremely
elongated. The adult male of T. paradisi is white,
with the head glossy dark green, and crested. --
Paradise grackle (Zo\'94l.), a very
beautiful bird of New Guinea, of the genus Astrapia,
having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints.
-- Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia
nut. See Sapucaia nut. [Local, U. S.]
-- Paradise whidah bird. (Zo\'94l.)
See Whidah.
Par"a*dise (?), v. t. To affect
or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
[R.]
Marston.
Par`a*dis"e*an (?), a.
Paradisiacal.
Par"a*dised (?), a. Placed in
paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise.
{ Par`a*dis"i*ac (?),
Par`a*di*si"a*cal (?), } a.
[L. paradisiacus.] Of or pertaining to
paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. C.
Kingsley. T. Burnet. \'bdA paradisiacal
scene.\'b8
Pope.
The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty.
G. Eliot.
{ Par`a*dis"i*al (?),
Par`a*dis"i*an (?), } a.
Paradisiacal. [R.]
Par`a*dis"ic (?), a.
Paradisiacal. [R.]
Broome.
Par`a*dis"ic*al (?), a.
Paradisiacal. [R.]
Par`a*dos (?), n.; pl.
Paradoses (#). [F., fr.
parer to defend + dos back, L.
dorsum.] (Fort.) An intercepting
mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the
defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
Farrow.
Par`a*dox (?), n.; pl.
Paradoxes (#). [F.
paradoxe, L. paradoxum, fr. Gr. Para-, and Dogma.] A tenet or
proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or
sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense;
that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true
in fact.
A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it
appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.
Hooker.
This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives
it proof.
Shak.
Hydrostatic paradox. See under
Hydrostatic.
Par"a*dox`al (?), a.
Paradoxical. [Obs.]
Par`a*dox"ic*al (?), a. 1.
Of the nature of a paradox.
2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions
contrary to received opinions.
Southey.
-- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n.
Par"a*dox`er (?), n.,
Par"a*dox`ist (, n.
One who proposes a paradox.
\'d8Par`a*dox"i*des (?), n.
[NL.] (Paleon.) A genus of large
trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.
Par`a*dox*ol"o*gy (?), n.
[Paradox + -logy.] The use
of paradoxes. [Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
Par`a*dox"ure (?), n. [Gr. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of
Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals
allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat
(Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See
Musang.
Par"a*dox`y (?), n. 1.
A paradoxical statement; a paradox.
2. The quality or state of being paradoxical.
Coleridge
{ Par"af*fin (?), Par"af*fine
(?) }, n. [F.
paraffine, fr. L. parum too little +
affinis akin. So named in allusion to its chemical
inactivity.] (Chem.) A white waxy
substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and
obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by
distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is
very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical
reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is
now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons
of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any
substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same
chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of
paraffins.
paraffin, but in commerce it is commonly spelt
paraffine.
Native paraffin. See Ozocerite.
-- Paraffin series. See Methane
series, under Methane.
Par"age, n. [F., fr. L. par,
adj., equal. Cf. Peerage, Peer an equal.]
1. (Old Eng. Law) Equality of condition,
blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an
inheritance.
Spelman.
2. (Feudal Law) Equality of condition
between persons holding unequal portions of a fee.
Burrill.
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3. Kindred; family; birth.
[Obs.]
Ld. Berners.
We claim to be of high parage.
Chaucer.
Par`a*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Pref.
para- + genesis.] (Min.)
The science which treats of minerals with special reference
to their origin.
Par`a*gen"ic (?), a. [Pref.
para- the root of (Biol.)
Originating in the character of the germ, or at the first
commencement of an individual; -- said of peculiarities of
structure, character, etc.
Par`a*glob"u*lin (?), n. [Pref.
para- + globulin.] (Physiol.
Chem.) An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to
the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin.
\'d8Par`a*glos"sa (?), n.; pl.
Paragloss\'91 (#). [NL., from Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) One of
a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium of certain
insects. See Illust. under Hymenoptera.
Par"ag*nath (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Paragnathus.
Pa*rag"na*thous (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Having both mandibles of equal length,
the tips meeting, as in certain birds.
\'d8Pa*rag"na*thus (?), n.; pl.
Paragnathi (#). [NL. See
Para-, and Gnathic.]
(Zo\'94l.) (a) One of the two lobes
which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.
(b) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of
certain annelids.
\'d8Par`a*go"ge (?), n. [L.,
fr. Gr. 1. (Gram.) The addition
of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as
withouten for without.
2. (Med.) Coaptation.
[Obs.]
Dunglison.
{ Par`a*gog"ic (?),
Par`a*gog"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. paragogique.] Of, pertaining
to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving
to lengthen, a word.
Paragogic letters, in the Semitic languages,
letters which are added to the ordinary forms of words, to
express additional emphasis, or some change in the
sense.
Par"a*gon (?), n. [OF.
paragon, F. parangon; cf. It.
paragone, Sp. paragon,
parangon; prob. fr. Gr.
1. A companion; a match; an equal.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her
sister.
Sir P. Sidney.
2. Emulation; rivalry; competition.
[Obs.]
Full many feats adventurous
Performed, in paragon of proudest men.
Spenser.
3. A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or
perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or
eloquence.
Udall.
Man, . . . the paragon of animals !
Shak.
The riches of sweet Mary's son,
Boy-rabbi, Israel's paragon.
Emerson.
4. (Print.) A size of type between great
primer and double pica. See the Note under Type.
Par"a*gon, v. t. [Cf. OF.
paragonner, F. parangonner.]
1. To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or
emulation with. [Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
2. To compare with; to equal; to rival.
[R.]
Spenser.
In arms anon to paragon the morn,
The morn new rising.
Glover.
3. To serve as a model for; to surpass.
[Obs.]
He hath achieved a maid
That paragons description and wild fame.
Shak.
Par"a*gon, v. i. To be equal; to hold
comparison. [R.]
Few or none could . . . paragon with her.
Shelton.
Pa*rag"o*nite (?), n. [From Gr.
(Min.) A
kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of
potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist
of the Alps.
Par"a*gram (?), n. [Gr. Paragraph.]
A pun.
Puns, which he calls paragrams.
Addison.
Par`a*gram"ma*tist (?), n. A
punster.
\'d8Pa`ra*gran"di*ne (?), n.
[It., from parare to parry + grandine
hail.] An instrument to avert the occurrence of
hailstorms. See Paragr.
Knight.
Par"a*graph (?), n. [F.
paragraphe, LL. paragraphus, fr. Gr. Para-, and
Graphic, and cf. Paraph.] 1.
Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to
call attention to something in the text, e.
g., a change of subject; now, the character
paragraph), the letter
being reversed, and the black part made white and the white part
black for the sake of distinctiveness.
2. A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any
section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a
particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences.
The division is sometimes noted by the mark
3. A brief composition complete in one
typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation
comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column
of news paragraphs; an editorial
paragraph.
Par"a*graph, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paragraphed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paragraphing.]
1. To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the
character
2. To express in the compass of a paragraph;
as, to paragraph an article.
3. To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs
Par"a*graph`er (?), n. A writer
of paragraphs; a paragraphist.
{ Par`a*graph"ic (?),
Par`a*graph"ic*al (?), } a.
Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or
paragraphs. -- Par`a*graph"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Par"a*graph`ist (?), n. A
paragrapher.
Par`a*gra*phis"tic*al (?), a.
Of or relating to a paragraphist. [R.]
Beau. & Fl.
Pa*ra" grass` (?). (Bot.) A
valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced
into the Southern United States from Brazil.
\'d8Pa`ra`gr\'88le" (?), n.
[F., fr. parer to guard + gr\'88le
hail.] A lightning conductor erected, as in a
vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in
order to prevent hailstorms. [France]
Knight.
Par`a*guay"an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to Paraguay. -- n. A
native or inhabitant of Paraguay.
Pa`ra*guay" tea" (?). See Mate,
the leaf of the Brazilian holly.
Par"ail (?), n. See
Apparel. [Obs.] \'bdIn the
parail of a pilgrim.\'b8
Piers Plowman.
Par"a*keet` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Parrakeet.
Par`a*lac"tic (?), a. [Pref.
para- + lactic.] (Physiol.
Chem.) Designating an acid called paralactic
acid. See Lactic acid, under
Lactic.
Par`al*bu"min (?), n. [Pref.
para- + albumin.] (Physiol.
Chem.) A proteidlike body found in the fluid from
ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a
substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
Par*al"de*hyde (?), n. [Pref.
para- + aldehyde.] (Chem.)
A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white
crystalline substance.
\'d8Par`a*leip"sis (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr. (Rhet.) A
pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker
artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for
example, if an orator should say, \'bdI do not speak of my
adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct,
his treachery and malice.\'b8 [Written also
paralepsis, paralepsy,
paralipsis.]
\'d8Par`a*lep"sis (?), n.
[NL.] See Paraleipsis.
Pa*ra"li*an (?), n. [Gr. A dweller by
the sea. [R.]
\'d8Par`a*li*pom"e*non (?), n. pl.
[L., fr. Gr. paraleipome`nwn of things omitted,
pass. p. pr. (neuter genitive plural) fr.
A title given in the Douay Bible to the Books of
Chronicles.
Paraleipome`nwn prw^ton and dey`teron,
which is understood, after Jerome's explanation, as meaning that
they are supplementary to the Books of Kings
W. Smith.
Par`a*lip"sis (?), n.
[NL.] See Paraleipsis.
{ Par`al*lac"tic (?),
Par`al*lac"tic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. F. parallactique.] Of or
pertaining to a parallax.
Par"al*lax (?), n. [Gr. parallaxe. Cf.
Parallel.] 1. The apparent
displacement, or difference of position, of an object, as seen
from two different stations, or points of view.
2. (Astron.) The apparent difference in
position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some
point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some other
conventional point, as the earth's center or the sun.
Annual parallax, the greatest value of the
heliocentric parallax, or the greatest annual apparent change of
place of a body as seen from the earth and sun; as, the
annual parallax of a fixed star. --
Binocular parallax, the apparent difference in
position of an object as seen separately by one eye, and then by
the other, the head remaining unmoved. --
Diurnal, Geocentric,
parallax, the parallax of a body with
reference to the earth's center. This is the kind of parallax
that is generally understood when the term is used without
qualification. -- Heliocentric parallax, the
parallax of a body with reference to the sun, or the angle
subtended at the body by lines drawn from it to the earth and
sun; as, the heliocentric parallax of a
planet. -- Horizontal parallax, the
geocentric parallx of a heavenly body when in the horizon, or the
angle subtended at the body by the earth's radius. --
Optical parallax, the apparent displacement in
position undergone by an object when viewed by either eye singly.
Brande & C. -- Parallax of the cross
wires (of an optical instrument), their apparent
displacement when the eye changes its position, caused by their
not being exactly in the focus of the object glass. --
Stellar parallax, the annual parallax of a fixed
star.
Par"al*lel (?), a. [F.
parall\'8ale, L. parallelus, fr. Gr. alius. See Allien.] 1.
(Geom.) Extended in the same direction, and in
all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines;
parallel planes.
Revolutions . . . parallel to the equinoctial.
Hakluyt.
2. Having the same direction or tendency; running
side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same
result; -- used with to and with.
When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and
our country, it can not be too much cherished.
Addison.
3. Continuing a resemblance through many
particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar;
as, a parallel case; a parallel
passage.
Addison.
Parallel bar. (a) (Steam Eng.)
A rod in a parallel motion which is parallel with the working
beam. (b) One of a pair of bars raised about
five feet above the floor or ground, and parallel to each other,
-- used for gymnastic exercises. -- Parallel circles of
a sphere, those circles of the sphere whose planes are
parallel to each other. -- Parallel
columns, Parallels
(Printing), two or more passages of reading matter
printed side by side, for the purpose of emphasizing the
similarity or discrepancy between them. -- Parallel
forces (Mech.), forces which act in
directions parallel to each other. -- Parallel
motion. (a) (Mach.) A jointed
system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a
reciprocating piece, as a piston rod, may be guided, either
approximately or exactly in a straight line.
Rankine. (b) (Mus.) The
ascending or descending of two or more parts at fixed intervals,
as thirds or sixths. -- Parallel rod
(Locomotive Eng.), a metal rod that connects the
crank pins of two or more driving wheels; -- called also
couping rod, in distinction from the
connecting rod. See Illust. of
Locomotive, in App. -- Parallel
ruler, an instrument for drawing parallel lines,
so constructed as to have the successive positions of the ruling
edge parallel to each other; also, one consisting of two movable
parts, the opposite edges of which are always parallel. --
Parallel sailing (Naut.), sailing on a
parallel of latitude. -- Parallel sphere
(Astron. & Geog.), that position of the sphere in
which the circles of daily motion are parallel to the horizon, as
to an observer at either pole. -- Parallel vise,
a vise having jaws so guided as to remain parallel in all
positions.
Par"al*lel (?), n. 1.
A line which, throughout its whole extent, is equidistant
from another line; a parallel line, a parallel plane, etc.
Who made the spider parallels design,
Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ?
Pope.
2. Direction conformable to that of another
line,
Lines that from their parallel decline.
Garth.
3. Conformity continued through many particulars or
in all essential points; resemblance; similarity.
Twixt earthly females and the moon
All parallels exactly run.
Swift.
4. A comparison made; elaborate tracing of
similarity; as, Johnson's parallel between Dryden
and Pope.
5. Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all
essential particulars; a counterpart.
None but thyself can be thy parallel.
Pope.
6. (Geog.) One of the imaginary circles
on the surface of the earth, parallel to the equator, marking the
latitude; also, the corresponding line on a globe or map.
7. (Mil.) One of a series of long
trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging
force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries.
They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the
fortress.
8. (Print.) A character consisting of
two parallel vertical lines (thus, \'d8) used in the text to
direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at
the foot of a page.
Limiting parallels. See under Limit,
v. t. -- Parallel of altitude
(Astron.), one of the small circles of the sphere,
parallel to the horizon; an almucantar. -- Parallel of
declination (Astron.), one of the small
circles of the sphere, parallel to the equator. --
Parallel of latitude. (a) (Geog.)
See def. 6. above. (b) (Astron.)
One of the small circles of the sphere, parallel to the
ecliptic.
Par"al*lel, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paralleled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paralleling (?).]
1. To place or set so as to be parallel; to place
so as to be parallel to, or to conform in direction with,
something else.
The needle . . . doth parallel and place itself
upon the true meridian.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Fig.: To make to conform to something else in
character, motive, aim, or the like.
His life is paralleled
Even with the stroke and line of his great justice.
Shak.
3. To equal; to match; to correspond to.
Shak.
4. To produce or adduce as a parallel.
[R.]
Locke.
My young remembrance can not parallel
A fellow to it.
Shak.
Par"al*lel, v. i. To be parallel; to
correspond; to be like. [Obs.]
Bacon.
Par"al*lel`a*ble (?), a.
Capable of being paralleled, or equaled.
[R.]
Bp. Hall.
Par"al*lel*ism (?), n. [Gr.
parall\'82lisme.]
1. The quality or state of being parallel.
2. Resemblance; correspondence; similarity.
A close parallelism of thought and incident.
T. Warton.
3. Similarity of construction or meaning of clauses
placed side by side, especially clauses expressing the same
sentiment with slight modifications, as is common in Hebrew
poetry; e. g.: --
At her feet he bowed, he fell:
Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Judg. v. 27.
Par`al*lel*is"tic (?), a. Of
the nature of a parallelism; involving parallelism.
The antithetic or parallelistic form of Hebrew
poetry is entirely lost.
Milman.
Par"al*lel*ize (?), v. t. To
render parallel. [R.]
Par"al*lel*less, a. Matchless.
[R.]
Par"al*lel*ly, adv. In a parallel
manner; with parallelism. [R.]
Dr. H. More.
Par`al*lel"o*gram (?), n. [Gr.
parall\'82logramme. See Parallel, and
-gram.] (Geom.) A right-lined
quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and
consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a
rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is
broad, and with right angles.
Parallelogram of velocities,
forces, accelerations, momenta,
etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal
of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces,
accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction,
when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are
represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides
of the parallelogram.
Par`al*lel`o*gram*mat"ic (?), a.
Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.
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{ Par`al*lel`o*gram"mic (?),
Par`al*lel`o*gram"mic*al (?), }
a. Having the properties of a
parallelogram. [R.]
Par`al*lel`o*pi"ped (?), n.
[Gr. parall\'82lopip\'8ade.] (Geom.)
A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the
opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism
whose base is a parallelogram.
Par`al*lel`o*pip"e*don (?), n.
[NL.] A parallelopiped.
Hutton.
Par`a*log"ic*al (?), a.
Containing paralogism; illogical.
\'bdParalogical doubt.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Pa*ral"o*gism (?), n. [Gr. paralogisme.]
(Logic) A reasoning which is false in point of
form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91;
a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion
does not follow from the premises.
Pa*ral"o*gize (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Paralogized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paralogizing
(?).] [Gr. To reason
falsely; to draw conclusions not warranted by the premises.
[R.]
Pa*ral"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. False reasoning;
paralogism.
Par"a*lyse (?), v. t. Same as
Paralyze.
Pa*ral"y*sis (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr. Para-, and Loose,
and cf. Palsy.] (Med.) Abolition
of function, whether complete or partial; esp., the loss of the
power of voluntary motion, with or without that of sensation, in
any part of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and
Paraplegia. Also used figuratively. \'bdUtter
paralysis of memory.\'b8
G. Eliot.
Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis
of the powers of ownership.
Duke of Argyll (1887).
Par`a*lyt"ic (?), a. [L.
paralyticus, Gr. paralytique.] 1. Of or pertaining
to paralysis; resembling paralysis.
2. Affected with paralysis, or palsy.
The cold, shaking, paralytic hand.
Prior.
3. Inclined or tending to paralysis.
Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), the
fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after
section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic
saliva.
Par`a*lyt"ic, n. A person affected with
paralysis.
Par`a*lyt"ic*al (?), a. See
Paralytic.
Par`a*ly*za"tion (?), n. The
act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being
paralyzed.
Par"a*lyze (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Paralyzed
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Paralyzing
(?).] [F. paralyser. See
Paralysis.]
1. To affect or strike with paralysis or
palsy.
2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the
energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence
paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed
his efforts.
Par"am (?), n. (Chem.)
A white crystalline nitrogenous substance
(C2H4N4); -- called also
dicyandiamide.
Par`a*mag*net"ic (?), a. [Pref.
para- + magnetic.] Magnetic, as
opposed to diamagnetic. -- n.
A paramagnetic substance. Faraday. --
Par`a*mag*net"ic*al*ly (#),
adv.
Par`a*mag"net*ism (?), n.
Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism.
Faraday.
Par`a*ma*le"ic (?), a. [Pref.
para- + maleic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from malic
acid, and now called fumaric acid.
[Obs.]
Par`a*ma"lic (?), a. [Pref.
para- + malic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid metameric
with malic acid.
Par`a*mas"toid (?), a. [Pref.
para- + mastoid.] (Anat.)
Situated beside, or near, the mastoid portion of the
temporal bone; paroccipital; -- applied especially to a process
of the skull in some animals.
Par`a*mat"ta (?), n. [So named
from Paramatta, in Australia.] A light
fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or
merino.
Beck (Draper's Dict.)
Par"a*ment (?), n. [Sp.
paramento, from parar to prepare, L.
parare.] Ornamental hangings, furniture,
etc., as of a state apartment; rich and elegant robes worn by men
of rank; -- chiefly in the plural. [Obs.]
Lords in paraments on their coursers.
Chaucer.
Chamber of paraments, presence chamber of a
monarch.
\'d8Pa`ra*men"to (?), n.
[Sp.] Ornament; decoration.
Beau. & Fl.
Par"a*mere (?), n. [Pref.
para- + -mere.] (Zo\'94l.)
One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or
spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
Pa*ram"e*ter (?), n. [Pref.
para- + -meter: cf. F.
param\'8atre.] 1. (a)
(Math.) A term applied to some characteristic
magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same
function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to
distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of
the same kind or family. Brande & C. (b)
Specifically (Conic Sections), in the ellipse and
hyperbola, a third proportional to any diameter and its
conjugate, or in the parabola, to any abscissa and the
corresponding ordinate.
parameter of the principal axis of a
conic section is called the latus rectum.
2. (Crystallog.) The ratio of the three
crystallographic axes which determines the position of any plane;
also, the fundamental axial ratio for a given species.
\'d8Par`a*me*tri"tis (?), n.
[NL. See Para-, and Metritis.]
(Med.) Inflammation of the cellular tissue in the
vicinity of the uterus.
Par`a*mi*og"ra*pher (?), n.
[Gr. -graph + -er.] A
collector or writer of proverbs. [R.]
Par`a*mi"tome (?), n. [Pref.
para- + mitome.] (Biol.)
The fluid portion of the protoplasm of a cell.
\'d8Pa"ra*mo (?), n.; pl.
Paramos (#). [Sp.
p\'91ramo.] A high, bleak plateau or
district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in
the Andes, in South America.
Par"a*morph (?), n. [Pref.
para- + Gr. (Min.) A
kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical
characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the
change of aragonite to calcite.
Par`a*mor"phism (?), n.
(Min.) The change of one mineral species to
another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without
alteration of chemical composition.
Par`a*mor"phous (?), a.
(Min.) Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting
paramorphism.
Par"a*mount (?), a. [OF.
par amont above; par through, by (L.
per) + amont above. See
Amount.] Having the highest rank or
jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme;
pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty.
\'bdA traitor paramount.\'b8
Bacon.
Lady paramount (Archery), the lady
making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the
king.
Syn. Superior; principal; pre\'89minent; chief.
Par"a*mount, n. The highest or
chief.
Milton.
Par"a*mount`ly, adv. In a paramount
manner.
Par"a*mour (?), n. [F. par
amour, lit., by or with love. See 2d Par, and
Amour.] 1. A lover, of either sex; a
wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad
one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of
a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his
paramour
Macaulay.
2. Love; gallantry. [Obs.]
\'bdFor paramour and jollity.\'b8
Chaucer.
{ Par"a*mour`, Par"a*mours` (?)
}, adv. By or with love, esp. the love of
the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.
[Obs.]
For par amour, I loved her first ere thou.
Chaucer.
Par*am"y*lum (?), n. [NL., fr.
Gr. (Chem.) A
substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum
formed on the surface of stagnant water.
Par`a*naph"tha*lene (?), n.
[Pref. para- + naphthalene.]
(Chem.) Anthracene; -- called also
paranaphthaline. [Obs.]
\'d8Par`a*noi"a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. (Med.) Mental derangement;
insanity.
Par*an"thra*cene (?), n. [Pref.
para- + anthracene.]
(Chem.) An inert isomeric modification of
anthracene.
Par`a*nu"cle*us (?), n. [Pref.
para- + nucleus.] (Biol.)
Some as Nucleolus.
Pa*ra" nut` (?). (Bot.) The
Brazil nut.
Par"a*nymph (?), n. [L.
paranymphus, Gr. paranymphe.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) (a) A friend of
the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the
bride. Milton. (b) The bridesmaid
who conducted the bride to the bridegroom.
2. Hence: An ally; a supporter or abettor.
Jer. Taylor.
Par`a*nym"phal (?), a. Bridal;
nuptial. [R.]
At some paranymphal feast.
Ford.
Par`a*pec"tin (?), n. [Pref.
para- + pectin.] (Chem.)
A gelatinous modification of pectin.
Par"a*pegm (?), n. [L.
parapegma, Gr. parapegme.] An
engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public
place.
Parapegms were used for the publication
of laws, proclamations, etc., and the recording of astronomical
phenomena or calendar events.
Par`a*pep"tone (?), n. [Pref.
para- + peptone.] (Phisiol.
Chem.) An albuminous body formed in small quantity by
the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into
peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
Par"a*pet (?), n. [F., fr. It.
parapetto, fr. parare to ward off, guard
(L. parare to prepare, provide) + petto the
breast, L. pectus. See Parry, and
Pectoral.]
1. (Arch.) A low wall, especially one
serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the
like.
2. (Fort.) A wall, rampart, or elevation
of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a
breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.
Par`a*pet"al*ous (?), a. [Pref.
para- + petal.] (Bot.)
Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.
Par"a*pet`ed, a. Having a parapet.
Par"aph (?), n. [F.
paraphe, parafe, contr. fr.
paragraphe.] A flourish made with the pen
at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort
of rude safeguard against forgery.
Brande & C.
Par"aph, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paraphed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paraphing.] [Cf. F.
parapher, parafer.] To add a
paraph to; to sign, esp. with the initials.
\'d8Par`a*pher"na (?), n. pl.
[L.] (Rom. Law) The property of a
woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower,
but remained her own.
Par`a*pher"nal (?), a. [Cf. F.
paraphernal.] Of or pertaining to
paraphernalia; as, paraphernal property.
Kent.
Par`a*pher*na"li*a (?), n. pl.
[LL. paraphernalia bona, fr. L.
parapherna, pl., parapherna, Gr. fe`rein to bring. See 1st
Bear.]
1. (Law) Something reserved to a wife,
over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments
suited to her degree.
2. Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.
\'d8Par`a*phi*mo"sis (?), n.
[NL., fr. Gr.
(Med.) A condition in which the prepuce, after
being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and
can not be brought forward into place again.
Par`a*phos*phor"ic (?), a.
[Pref. para- + phosphoric.]
(Chem.) Pyrophosphoric. [Obs.]
\'d8Par`a*phag"ma (?), n.; pl.
Paraphragmata (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.)
One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of
Crustacea. -- Par`a*phrag"mal
(#), a.
Par"a*phrase (?), n. [L.
paraphrasis, Gr. paraphrase. See Para-, and
Phrase.] A restatement of a text, passage, or
work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form,
generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a
setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler
terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to
metaphrase.
In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the
author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.
Dryden.
Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David.
I. Disraeli.
His sermons a living paraphrase upon his
practice.
Sowth.
The Targums are also called the Chaldaic or Aramaic
Paraphrases.
Shipley.
Par"a*phrase, v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Paraphrased (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paraphrasing (?).] To
express, interpret, or translate with latitude; to give the
meaning of a passage in other language.
We are put to construe and paraphrase our own
words.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Par"a*phrase, v. i. To make a
paraphrase.
Par"a*phra`ser (?), n. One who
paraphrases.
Par`a*phra"sian (?), n. A
paraphraser. [R.]
Par"a*phrast (?), n. [L.
paraphrastes, Gr. paraphraste.] A paraphraser.
T. Warton.
{ Par`a*phras"tic (?),
Par`a*phras"tic*al (?), } a.
[Gr.paraphrastique.]
Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or
translating in words more clear and ample than those of the
author; not literal; free. --
Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly,
adv.
\'d8Pa*raph"y*sis (?), n.; pl.
Paraphyses (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Bot.) A minute
jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of
mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless
plants.
{ \'d8Par`a*ple"gi*a (?),
Par"a*ple`gy (?), } n.
[NL. paraplegia, fr. Gr. parapl\'82gie.] (Med.) Palsy of
the lower half of the body on both sides, caused usually by
disease of the spinal cord. --
Par`a*pleg"ic (#),
a.
\'d8Par`a*pleu"ra (?), n.; pl.
Parapleur\'91 (#). [NL. See
Para-, and 2d Pleura.]
(Zo\'94l.) A chitinous piece between the
metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
\'d8Par`a*po"di*um (?), n.; pl.
Parapodia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. (Zo\'94l.)
One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; -- called also
foot tubercle.
notopodium, and a ventral
part, or neuropodium, are distinguished.
Par`a*poph"y*sis (?), n.; pl.
Parapophyses (#). [NL. See
Para-, and Apophysis.] (Anat.)
The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra.
See Vertebra. --
Par*ap`o*phys"ic*al (#),
a.
\'d8Pa*rap"te*rum (?), n.; pl.
Paraptera (#). [NL. See
Para-, and Pteron.] (Zo\'94l.)
A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and
metathorax of certain insects.
{ Par`a*quet" (?), Par`a*qui"to
(?), } n. [See
Paroquet.] (Zo\'94l.) See
Parrakeet.
Par"a*sang (?), n. [L.
parasanga, Gr. farsang.] A Persian measure of length,
which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or
somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in
different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at
from three and a half to four English miles.
\'d8Par`a*sce"ni*um (?), n.;
pl. Parascenia (#). [NL., fr.
Gr. (Greek & Rom.
Antiq.) One of two apartments adjoining the stage,
probably used as robing rooms.
\'d8Par`a*sce"ve (?), n. [L.,
from Gr. 1. Among
the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath.
[Obs.]
Mark xv. 42 (Douay ver.)
2. A preparation. [R.]
Donne.
Par`a*sche*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr.
Of or pertaining to
a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from
another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
Max M\'81ller.
\'d8Par`a*se*le"ne (?), n.; pl.
Paraselen\'91 (#). [NL., from Gr.
paras\'82l\'8ane.] (Meteor.) A
mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the
point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf.
Parhelion.
\'d8Par`a*si"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL.] (Zo\'94l.) (a) An
artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice,
ticks, mites, etc. (b) A division of copepod
Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are
mostly parasites on fishes. Called also
Siphonostomata.
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Par"a*si`tal (?), a. (Bot. &
Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to parasites;
parasitic.
Par"a*site (?), n. [F., fr. L.
parasitus, Gr.
1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who
lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a
hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
Thou, with trembling fear,
Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st.
Milton.
Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would
seek to be free guests at rich men's tables.
Udall.
2. (Bot.) (a) A plant obtaining
nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches
itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but
erroneously, called epiphyte. (b)
A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its
expense, as many species of fungi of the genus
Torrubia.
3. (Zo\'94l.) (a) An animal
which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in
the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or
tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc. (b) An
animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic
jager. (c) An animal which habitually uses
the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European
cuckoo.
{ Par`a*sit"ic (?),
Par`a*sit"ic*al (?), } a.
[L. parasiticus, Gr. parasitique.]
1. Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or
favors; sycophantic. \'bdParasitic
preachers.\'b8
Milton.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to
parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other
living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.
Parasitic gull, Parasitic
jager. (Zo\'94l.) See
Jager.
-- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.
Par`a*sit"i*cide (?), n.
[Parasite + L. caedere to kill.]
Anything used to destroy parasites.
Quain.
Par"a*si`tism (?), n. [Cf. F.
parasitisme.]
1. The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of
a parasite. \'bdCourt parasitism.\'b8
Milton.
2. (Bot. & Zo\'94l.)The state of being
parasitic.
Par"a*sol` (?), n. [F., fr. Sp.
or Pg. parasol, or It. parasole; It.
parare to ward off, Sp. & Pg. parar (L.
parare to prepare) + It. sole sun, Sp. &
Pg. sol (L. sol). See Parry,
Solar.] A kind of small umbrella used by
women as a protection from the sun.
Par"a*sol`, v. t. To shade as with a
parasol. [R.]
Par`a*sol*ette" (?), n. A small
parasol.
Par`a*sphe"noid (?), a. [Pref.
para- + sphenoid.] (Anat.)
Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone
situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the
skull in many animals. -- n. The
parasphenoid bone.
Pa*ras"ti*chy (?), n. [Pref.
para- + Gr. (Bot.) A
secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in
a pine cone.
\'d8Par`a*syn*ax"is (?), n.
[L., fr. Gr. (Civil Law) An unlawful
meeting.
Par`a*syn*thet"ic (?), a. [Gr.
Para-, and Synthetic.]
Formed from a compound word.
\'bdParasynthetic derivatives.\'b8
Dr. Murray.
Par`a*tac"tic (?), a.
(Gram.) Of pertaining to, or characterized by,
parataxis.
\'d8Par`a*tax"is (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr.
(Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one
after another, without indicating their connection or
interdependence; -- opposed to syntax.
Brande & C.
\'d8Pa*rath"e*sis (?), n.; pl.
Paratheses (#). [NL., from Gr.
1. (Gram.) The placing of two or more
nouns in the same case; apposition.
2. (Rhet.) A parenthetical notice,
usually of matter to be afterward expanded.
Smart.
3. (Print.) The matter contained within
brackets.
4. (Eccl.) A commendatory prayer.
Shipley.
Par`a*thet"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to parathesis.
\'d8Pa`ra`ton`nerre" (?), n.
[F., fr. parer to parry + tonnerre
thunderbolt.] A conductor of lightning; a lightning
rod.
Par*aun"ter (?), adv.
[Par + aunter.]
Peradventure. See Paraventure.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
\'d8Pa*rauque" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A bird (Nyctidromus
albicollis) ranging from Texas to South America. It is
allied to the night hawk and goatsucker.
Par`a*vail" (?), a. [OF.
par aval below; par through (L.
per) + aval down; a- (L.
ad) + val (L. vallis) a valley.
Cf. Paramount.] (Eng. Law) At the
bottom; lowest.
Cowell.
paravail is the
lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one
who holds over of another.
Wharton.
{ Par"a*vant` (?), Par"a*vant`
(?), } adv. [OF. par
avant. See Par, and lst Avaunt.]
1. In front; publicly. [Obs.]
Spenser.
2. Beforehand; first. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Par`a*ven"ture (?), adv.
[Par + aventure.]
Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par`a*xan"thin (?), n. [Pref.
Para- + xanthin.] (Physiol.
Chem.) A crystalline substance closely related to
xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.
Par*ax"i*al (?), a. [Pref.
para- + axial.] (Anat.)
On either side of the axis of the skeleton.
Par`a*xy"lene (?), n.
(Chem.) A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series
obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor
with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene.
Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.
Par"boil` (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Parboiled
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Parboiling.] [OE. parboilen,
OF. parbouillir to cook well; par through
(see Par) + bouillir to boil, L.
bullire. The sense has been influenced by E.
part. See lst Boil.] 1.
To boil or cook thoroughly. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
2. To boil in part; to cook partially by
boiling.<-- the only def. in MW10. Also, used figuratively
for "do (something) partly, incompletely" -->
Par"break` (?), v. i. & t.
[Par + break.] To throw
out; to vomit. [Obs.]
Skelton.
Par"break`, n. Vomit.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Par"buc`kle (?), n. (a)
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical
burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft,
and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the
loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed
out. (b) A double sling made of a single
rope, for slinging a cask, gun, etc.
Par"buc`kle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Parbuckled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Parbuckling (?).] To
hoist or lower by means of a parbuckle.
Totten.
Par"c\'91 (?), n. pl.
[L.] The Fates. See Fate, 4.
Par*case" (?), adv.
[Par + case.] Perchance; by
chance. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"cel (?), n. [F.
parcelle a small part, fr. (assumed) LL.
particella, dim. of L. pars. See
Part, n., and cf. Particle.]
1. A portion of anything taken separately; a
fragment of a whole; a part. [Archaic] \'bdA
parcel of her woe.\'b8
Chaucer.
Two parcels of the white of an egg.
Arbuthnot.
The parcels of the nation adopted different forms
of self-government.
J. A. Symonds.
2. (Law) A part; a portion; a piece;
as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of
another piece.
3. An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure,
or quantity; a collection; a group.
This youthful parcel
Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing.
Shak.
4. A number or quantity of things put up together;
a bundle; a package; a packet.
'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage.
Cowper.
Bill of parcels. See under 6th
Bill. -- Parcel office, an office
where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and
delivery. -- Parcel post, that department of
the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of
parcels. -- Part and parcel. See under
Part.
Par"cel, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Parceled (?) or Parcelled;
p. pr. & vb. n. Parceling or
Parcelling.]
1. To divide and distribute by parts or portions;
-- often with out or into. \'bdTheir
woes are parceled, mine are general.\'b8
Shak.
These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.
Dryden.
The broad woodland parceled into farms.
Tennyson.
2. To add a parcel or item to; to itemize.
[R.]
That mine own servant should
Parcel the sum of my disgraces by
Addition of his envy.
Shak.
3. To make up into a parcel; as, to
parcel a customer's purchases; the machine
parcels yarn, wool, etc.
To parcel a rope (Naut.), to wind
strips of tarred canvas tightly arround it. Totten.
-- To parcel a seam (Naut.), to cover
it with a strip of tarred canvas.
Par"cel, a. & adv. Part or half; in
part; partially. Shak. [Sometimes hyphened with the word
following.]
The worthy dame was parcel-blind.
Sir W. Scott.
One that . . . was parcel-bearded [partially
bearded].
Tennyson.
Parcel poet, a half poet; a poor poet.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Par"cel*ing, n. [Written also
parcelling.]
1. The act of dividing and distributing in portions
or parts.
2. (Naut.) Long, narrow slips of canvas
daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it
is served; used, also, in mousing on the stayes, etc.
Par"cel-mele` (?), adv. [See
Parcel, and Meal a part.] By parcels
or parts. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"ce*na*ry (?), n. [See
Parcener, partner.] (Law)
The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which
descends from the ancestor to two or more persons;
coheirship.
joint
tenancy, which is created by deed or devise. In the United
States there is no essential distinction between parcenary and
tenancy in common.
Wharton. Kent.
Par"ce*ner (?), n. [Of.
paronnier, parsonnier, fr.
parzon, par, parcion, part,
portion, fr. L. partitio a division. See
Partition, and cf. Partner.]
(Law) A coheir, or one of two or more persons to
whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is
held as one estate.
Parch (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Parched
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Parching.] [OE. perchen to
pierce, hence used of a piercing heat or cold, OF.
perchier, another form of percier, F.
percer. See Pierce.] 1.
To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire,
as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to
parch corn.
Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
Lev. xxiii. 14.
2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat;
as, the mouth is parched from fever.
The ground below is parched.
Dryden.
Parch, v. i. To become scorched or
superficially burnt; to be very dry. \'bdParch
in Afric sun.\'b8
Shak.
Parch"ed*ness, n. The state of being
parched.
Par*che"si (?), n. See
Pachisi.
Parch"ing (?), a. Scorching;
burning; drying. \'bdSummer's parching heat.\'b8
Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly,
adv.
Parch"ment (?), n. [OE.
parchemin, perchemin, F.
parchemin, LL. pergamenum, L.
pergamena, pergamina, fr. L.
Pergamenus of or belonging to Pergamus an
ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor, where parchment was first
used.] 1. The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat,
young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See
Vellum.
But here's a parchment with the seal of
C\'91sar.
Shak.
2. The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the
pulp.
Parchment paper. See
Papyrine.
Par"ci*ty (?), n. [L.
parcitas, fr. parcus sparing.]
Sparingless. [Obs.]
Par"close (?), n. [OF. See
Perclose.] (Eccl. Arch.) A screen
separating a chapel from the body of the church.
[Written also paraclose and
perclose.]
Hook.
Pard (?), n. [L.
pardus, Gr. p
tiger, panther.] (Zo\'94l.) A leopard; a
panther.
And more pinch-spotted make them
Than pard or cat o'mountain.
Shak.
Par"dale (?), n. [L.
pardalis, Gr. Pard.]
(Zo\'94l.) A leopard. [Obs.]
Spenser.
{ Par*de" (?), Par*die"
(?) }, adv. [F.
pardi, for par Dieu by God.]
Certainly; surely; truly; verily; -- originally an
oath. [Written also pardee,
pardieux, perdie, etc.]
[Obs.]
He was, parde, an old fellow of yours.
Chaucer.
Par"dine (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Spotted like a pard.
Pardine lynx (Zo\'94l.), a species
of lynx (Felis pardina) inhabiting Southern Europe.
Its color is rufous, spotted with black.
Par"do (?), n. [Pg.
pardao, fr. Skr. prat\'bepa splendor,
majesty.] A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent
to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts.
Par"don (?), n. [F., fr.
pardonner to pardon. See Pardon, v.
t.] 1. The act of pardoning;
forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from
penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.
Shak.
But infinite in pardon was my judge.
Milton.
Used in expressing courteous denial or contradiction;
as, I crave your pardon; or in indicating that
one has not understood another; as, I beg
pardon.
2. An official warrant of remission of
penalty.
Sign me a present pardon for my brother.
Shak.
3. The state of being forgiven.
South.
4. (Law) A release, by a sovereign, or
officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense,
being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general
obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past
offenses.
Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission. See
Forgiveness.
Par"don, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Pardoned (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Pardoning.] [Either fr.
pardon, n., or from F. pardonner, LL.
perdonare; L. per through, thoroughly,
perfectly + donare to give, to present. See
Par-, and Donation.] 1. To
absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of
crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
In this thing the Lord pardon thy servant.
2 Kings v. 18.
I pray you, pardon me; pray heartily,
pardom me.
Shak.
2. To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass
without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
I pray thee, pardon my sin.
1 S
Apollo, pardon
My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle
Shak.
3. To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.
Shak.
4. To give leave (of departure) to.
[Obs.]
Even now about it! I will pardon you.
Shak.
Pardon me, forgive me; excuse me; -- a phrase
used also to express courteous denial or contradiction.
Syn. -- To forgive; absolve; excuse; overlook; remit;
asquit. See Excuse.
Par"don*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F.
pardonnable.] Admitting of pardon; not
requiring the excution of penalty; venial; excusable; -- applied
to the offense or to the offender; as, a pardonable
fault, or culprit.
Par"don*a*ble*ness, n. The quality or
state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of
sin.
Bp. Hall.
Par"don*a*bly, adv. In a manner
admitting of pardon; excusably.
Dryden.
Par"don*er (?), n. 1.
One who pardons.
Shak.
2. A seller of indulgences.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"don*ing, a. Relating to pardon;
having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon;
merciful; as, the pardoning power; a
pardoning God.
Pare (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Pared (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Paring.] [F.
parer to pare, as a horse's hoofs, to dress or curry,
as, leather, to clear, as anchors or cables, to parry, ward off,
fr. L. parare to prepare. Cf. Empire,
Parade, Pardon, Parry,
Prepare.] 1. To cut off, or shave
off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to
pare an apple; to pare a horse's
hoof.
2. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the
skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by
off or away; as; to pare off the
ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
3. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to
lessen.
The king began to pare a little the privilege of
clergy.
Bacon.
Par`e*gor"ic (?) a. [L.
paregoricus, Gr. par\'82gorique. See Allegory.]
Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as,
paregoric elixir.
Par`e*gor"ic, n. (Med.) A
medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically,
camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric
elexir.
Pa*rel"con (?), n. [Gr.
(Gram.) The addition of a syllable or particle to
the end of a pronoun, verb, or adverb.
Par`e*lec`tro*nom"ic (?), a.
(Physiol.) Of or relating to parelectronomy;
as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.
Par*e`lec*tron"o*my (?), n.
[Pref. para- + electro- + Gr. (Physiol.) A condition of the muscles
induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical
action of the muscle is reversed.
{ \'d8Pa*rel"la (?), \'d8Pa`relle
(?), } n. [Cf. F.
parelle.] (Bot.) (a) A
name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and
R. Hydrolapathum). (b) A kind of
lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing and in
the preparation of litmus.
\'d8Pa*rem"bo*le (, n.
[NL., from Gr. Para-,
and Embolus.] (Rhet.) A kind of
parenthesis.
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Pare"ment (?), n. See
Parament. [Obs.]
\'d8Par`emp*to"sis (?), n.
[NL., from Gr. Same as Parembole.
Pa*ren"chy*ma (?), n. [NL.,
from Gr. parenchyme.]
(Biol.) The soft celluar substance of the tissues
of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of
glands, and the like.
Pa*ren"chy*mal (?), a. Of,
pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.
{ Par`en*chym"a*tous (?),
Pa*ren"chy*mous (?), } a.
[Cf. F. parenchymateux.] Of,
pertaining to, or connected with, the parenchyma of a tissue or
an organ; as, parenchymatous
degeneration.
\'d8Pa*ren"e*sis (?), n. [L.
paraenesis, Gr.
Exhortation. [R.]
{ Par`e*net"ic (?),
Par`e*net"io*al (?), } a.
[Gr. par\'82n\'82tique.]
Hortatory; encouraging; persuasive. [R.]
F. Potter.
Par"ent (?), n. [L.
parens, -entis; akin to parere
to bring forth; cf. Gr. parent. Cf. Part.] 1. One
who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a
mother.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord.
Eph. vi. 1.
2. That which produces; cause; source; author;
begetter; as, idleness is the parent of
vice.
Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.
Channing.
Parent cell. (Biol.) See
Mother cell, under Mother, also
Cytula. -- Parent nucleus
(Biol.), a nucleus which, in cell division,
divides, and gives rise to two or more daughter nuclei. See
Karyokinesis, and Cell division, under
Division.
Par"ent*age (?), n. [Cf. F.
parentage relationship.] Descent from
parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with
respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a
man of noble parentage. \'bdWilt thou deny
thy parentage?\'b8
Shak.
Though men esteem thee low of parentage.
Milton.
Pa*ren"tal (?), a. [L.
parentalis.] 1. Of or pertaining
to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority;
parental obligations.
2. Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents;
tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental
care.
The careful course and parental provision of
nature.
Sir T. Browne.
Pa*ren"tal*ly, adv. In a parental
manner.
Par`en*ta"tion (?), n. [L.
parentatio, fr. parentare to offer a solemn
sacrifice in honor of deceased parents. See
Parent.] Something done or said in honor of
the dead; obsequies. [Obs.]
Abp. Potter.
Par"en`tele` (?), n. [F.
parent\'8ale, L. parentela.]
Kinship; parentage. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pa*ren"the*sis (?), n.; pl.
Parentheses (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
Para-, En-, 2, and
Thesis.]
1. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment
or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which
would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually
inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
\'bdSeldom mentioned without a derogatory
parenthesis.\'b8
Sir T. Browne.
Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a
long parenthesis.
Watts.
2. (Print.) One of the curved lines ()
which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is
that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized
sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by
commas are logically parenthetical. In def. 1, the phrase \'bdby
way of comment or explanation\'b8 is inserted for explanation,
and the sentence would be grammatically complete without it. The
present tendency is to avoid using the distinctive marks, except
when confusion would arise from a less conspicuous
separation.
Pa*ren"the*size (?), v. t. To
make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical
marks.
Lowell.
{ Par`en*thet"ic (?),
Pat`en*thet"ic*al (?), } a.
[Cf. Gr. 1. Of the nature of a
parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a
parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a
parenthetic remark.
A parenthetical observation of Moses himself.
Hales.
2. Using or containing parentheses.
Par`en*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. In a
parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by
parentheses.
Par"ent*hood (?), n. The state
of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
Pa*rent"ti*cide (?), n. [L.
parenticida a parricide; parens parent +
caedere to kill.]
1. The act of one who kills one's own parent.
[R.]
2. One who kills one's own parent; a
parricide. [R.]
Par"ent*less (?), a. Deprived
of parents.
Par*ep`i*did"y*mis (?), n. [NL.
See Para-, and Epididymis.]
(Anat.) A small body containing convoluted
tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other
animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the
Wolffian body.
Par"er (?), n. [From
Pare, v. t.] One who, or that
which, pares; an instrument for paring.
\'d8Pa*rer"gon (?), n.
[L.] See Parergy.
Par"er*gy (?), n. [L.
parergon, Gr.
Something unimportant, incidental, or superfluous.
[Obs.]
Sir T. Browne.
\'d8Par"e*sis (?), n. [NL.,
from Gr.
(Med.) Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but
not sensation.
Par*eth"moid (?), a. [Pref.
para- + ethmoid.] (Anat.)
Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied
especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes,
and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals. --
n. A parethmoid bone.
Pa*ret"ic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to paresis; affected with paresis.
Par*fay" (?), interj.
[Par + fay.] By my faith;
verily. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"fit (?), a. Perfect.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"fit*ly, adv. Perfectly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
{ Par*forn" (?), Par*fourn"
(?) }, v. t. To perform.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Piers Plowman.
Par"gas*ite (?), n. [So called
from Pargas, in Finland.] (Min.)
A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or
hornblende.
Parge"board` (?), n. See
Bargeboard.
Par"get (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Pargeted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Pargeting.] [OE.
pargeten, also spargeten,
sparchen; of uncertain origin.] 1.
To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior
of flues; as, to parget the outside of their
houses.
Sir T. Herbert.
The pargeted ceiling with pendants.
R. L. Stevenson.
2. To paint; to cover over.
[Obs.]
Par"get, v. i. 1. To lay on
plaster.
2. To paint, as the face. [Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Par"get, n. 1. Gypsum or
plaster stone.
2. Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or
for stuccowork.
Knight.
3. Paint, especially for the face.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Par"get*er (?), n. A
plasterer.
Johnson.
Par"get*ing, n. [Written also
pargetting.] Plasterwork; esp.:
(a) A kind of decorative plasterwork in raised
ornamental figures, formerly used for the internal and external
decoration of houses. (b) In modern architecture, the
plastering of the inside of flues, intended to give a smooth
surface and help the draught.
Par"get*o*ry (?), n. Something
made of, or covered with, parget, or plaster.
[Obs.]
Milton.
Par*he"lic (?), a. Of or
pertaining to parhelia.
Par*hel"ion (?), n.; pl.
Parhelia (#). [L.
parelion, Gr. A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright
light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the
rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually
called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at
the same time. Cf. Paraselene.
\'d8Par*he"li*um (?), n. See
Parhelion.
Par"i- (?). [L. par,
paris, equal.] A combining form signifying
equal; as, paridigitate,
paripinnate.
Pa"ri*ah (?), n. [From Tamil
paraiyan, pl. paraiyar, one of the low
caste, fr. parai a large drum, because they beat the
drums at certain festivals.]
1. One of an aboriginal people of Southern India,
regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade.
They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See
Caste.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).
2. An outcast; one despised by society.
Pariah dog (Zo\'94l.), a mongrel
race of half-wild dogs which act as scavengers in Oriental
cities. -- Pariah kite (Zo\'94l.),
a species of kite (Milvus govinda) which acts as a
scavenger in India.
Pa*ri"al (?), n. See Pair
royal, under Pair, n.
Pa"ri*an (?), a. [L.
Parius.] Of or pertaining to Paros, an
island in the \'92gean Sea noted for its excellent statuary
marble; as, Parian marble.
Parian chronicle, a most ancient chronicle of
the city of Athens, engraved on marble in the Isle of Paros, now
among the Arundelian marbles.
Pa"ri*an, n. 1. A native or
inhabitant of Paros.
2. A ceramic ware, resembling unglazed porcelain
biscuit, of which are made statuettes, ornaments, etc.
\'d8Par`i*dig`i*ta"ta (?), n. pl.
[NL. See Pari-, and Digitate.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Artiodactyla.
Par`j*dig"i*tate (?), a.
(Anat.) Having an evennumber of digits on the
hands or the feet.
Qwen.
\'d8Pa"ri*es (?), n.; pl.
Parietes (#). [See
Parietes.] (Zo\'94l.) The
triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a
barnacle.
Pa*ri"e*tal (?), a. [L.
parietalis, fr. paries, -ietis,
a wall: cf. F. pari\'82tal. Cf. Parietary,
Pellitory.]
1. Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to
buildings or the care of them.
2. Resident within the walls or buildings of a
college.
At Harvard College, the officers resident within the college
walls constitute a permanent standing committee, called the
Parietal Committee.
B. H. Hall (1856).
3. (Anat.) (a) Of pertaining to
the parietes. (b) Of, pertaining to, or in
the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and
middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and
occipitals.
4. (Bot.) Attached to the main wall of
the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
Pa*ri"e*tal, n. 1.
(Anat.) One of the parietal bones.
2. (Zo\'94l.) One of the special scales,
or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and
fishes.
Pa*ri"e*ta*ry (?), a. See
Parietal, 2.
Pa*ri"e*ta*ry, n. [L.
parietaria, fr. parietarius parietal. Cf.
Pellitory, Parietal.] (Bot.)
Any one of several species of Parietaria. See 1st
Pellitory.
\'d8Pa*ri"e*tes (?), n. pl. [L.
paries a wall.]
1. (Anat.) The walls of a cavity or an
organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the
parietes of the cranium.
2. (Bot.) The sides of an ovary or of a
capsule.
Pa`ri*et"ic (?), a.
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid
found in the lichen Parmelia parietina, and called
also chrysophanic acid.
Pa*ri"e*tine (?), n. [L.
parietinus parietal: cf. parietinae ruined
walls.] A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin.
[Obs.]
Burton.
Pa*ri"e*to- (. (Anat.) A
combining form used to indicate connection with, or
relation to, the parietal bones or the parietal
segment of the skull; as, the parieto-mastoid
suture.
Pa*rig"e*nin (?), n.
[Parillin + -gen +
-in.] (Chem.) A curdy white
substance, obtained by the decomposition of parillin.
Pa*ril"lin (?), n. [Shortened
fr. sarsaparillin.] (Chem.) A
glucoside resembling saponin, found in the root of sarsaparilla,
smilax, etc., and extracted as a bitter white crystalline
substance; -- called also smilacin,
sarsaparilla saponin, and
sarsaparillin.
Par"ing (?), n. [From
Pare, v. t.] 1. The act
of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.
2. That which is pared off.
Pope.
Pare off the surface of the earth, and with the
parings raise your hills.
Mortimer.
Par`i*pin"nate (?), a.
[Pari- + pinnate.]
(Bot.) Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets
on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.
Par"is (?), n. [From
Paris, the son of Priam.] (Bot.)
A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia);
herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
Trillium, but has usually four leaves and a
tetramerous flower.
Par"is, n. The chief city of
France.
Paris green. See under Green,
n. -- Paris white (Chem.),
purified chalk used as a pigment; whiting; Spanish
white.
Par"ish (?), n. [OE.
parishe, paresche, parosche, OF.
paroisse, parosse, paroiche, F.
paroisse, L. parochia, corrupted fr.
paroecia, Gr. vicus
village. See Vicinity, and cf.
Parochial.]
1. (Eccl. & Eng. Law) (a) That
circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar,
or other minister having cure of souls therein.
Cowell. (b) The same district,
constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and
regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
Mozley & W.
2. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded
by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose
to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or
minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a
congregation live. [U. S.]
3. In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to
a county in other States.
Par"ish, a. Of or pertaining to a
parish; parochial; as, a parish church;
parish records; a parish priest;
maintained by the parish; as, parish
poor.
Dryden.
Parish clerk. (a) The clerk or
recording officer of a parish. (b) A layman who
leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of
the Church of England. -- Parish court, in
Louisiana, a court in each parish.
Par"ish*en (?), n. A
parishioner. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pa*rish"ion*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to a parish; parochial. [R.]
Bp. Hall.
Pa*rish"ion*er (?), n. [F.
paroissien, LL. parochianus.]
One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.
Pa*ri"sian (?), n. [Cf. F.
parisen.] A native or inhabitant of Paris,
the capital of France.
Pa*ri"sian, a. Of or pertaining to
Paris.
\'d8Pa`ri`si`enne" (?), n.
[F.] A female native or resident of Paris.
Par`i*sol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. -logy.] The
use of equivocal or ambiguous words. [R.]
{ Par`i*syl*lab"ic (?),
Par`i*syl*lab"ic*al (?), } a.
[Pari- + syllabic, -ical:
cf. F. parisyllabique.] Having the same
number of syllables in all its inflections.
Par"i*tor (?), n. [Abbrev. fr.
apparitor: cf. L. paritor a servant,
attendant.] An apparitor. \'bdSummoned by an
host of paritors.\'b8
Dryden.
Par"i*to*ry (?), n.
Pellitory. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"i*ty (?), n. [L.
paritas, fr. par, paris, equal:
cf. F. parit\'82. See Pair, Peer an
equal.] The quality or condition of being equal or
equivalent; A like state or degree; equality; close
correspondence; analogy; as, parity of
reasoning. \'bdNo parity of principle.\'b8
De Quincey.
Equality of length and parity of numeration.
Sir T. Browne.
Park (?), n. [AS.
pearroc, or perh. rather fr. F. parc; both
being of the same origin; cf. LL. parcus,
parricus, Ir. & Gael. pairc, W.
park, parwg. Cf. Paddock an
inclosure, Parrock.] 1. (Eng.
Law) A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with
beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the
king's grant.
Mozley & W.
2. A tract of ground kept in its natural state,
about or adjacent to a residence, as for the preservation of
game, for walking, riding, or the like.
Chaucer.
While in the park I sing, the listening deer
Attend my passion, and forget to fear.
Waller.
3. A piece of ground, in or near a city or town,
inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde
Park in London; Central Park in New
York.
4. (Mil.) A space occupied by the
animals, wagons, pontoons, and materials of all kinds, as
ammunition, ordnance stores, hospital stores, provisions, etc.,
when brought together; also, the objects themselves; as, a
park of wagons; a park of artillery.
5. A partially inclosed basin in which oysters are
grown. [Written also parc.]
Park of artillery. See under
Artillery. -- Park phaeton, a small,
low carriage, for use in parks.
Park, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Parked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Parking.] 1. To inclose in a
park, or as in a park.
How are we parked, and bounded in a pale.
Shak.
2. (Mil.) To bring together in a park,
or compact body; as, to park the artillery, the
wagons, etc.
Park"er (?), n, The keeper of a
park.
Sir M. Hale.
\'d8Par*ke"ri*a (?), n. [NL. So
named from W. K. Parker, a British
zo\'94logist.] (Zo\'94l.) A genus of large
arenaceous fossil Foraminifera found in the Cretaceous rocks. The
species are globular, or nearly so, and are of all sizes up to
that of a tennis ball.
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Parkes"ine (?), n. [So called
from Mr. Parkes, the inventor.] A compound,
originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from
different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized
India rubber and for ivory; -- called also
xylotile.
Park"leaves` (?), n.
(Bot.) A European species of Saint John's-wort;
the tutsan. See Tutsan.
Par"lance (?), n. [OF., fr. F.
parler to speak. See Parley.]
Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in
legal parlance; in common parlance.
A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.
Tennyson.
{ \'d8Par*lan"do (?),
\'d8Par*lan"te (?), } a. &
adv. [It.] (Mus.) Speaking; in a
speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style
of a recitative.
Parle (?), v. i. [F.
parler. See Parley.] To talk; to
converse; to parley. [Obs.]
Shak.
Finding himself too weak, began to parle.
Milton.
Parle, n. Conversation; talk;
parley. [Obs.]
They ended parle, and both addressed for fight.
Milton.
Par"ley (?), n.; pl.
Parleys (#). [F. parler
speech, talk, fr. parler to speak, LL.
parabolare, fr. L. parabola a comparison,
parable, in LL., a word. See Parable, and cf.
Parliament, Parlor.] Mutual
discourse or conversation; discussion; hence, an oral conference
with an enemy, as with regard to a truce.
We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain.
Dryden.
To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a
drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference
with the enemy.
Par"ley, v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Parleyed (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Parleying.] To speak with
another; to confer on some point of mutual concern; to discuss
orally; hence, specifically, to confer orally with an enemy; to
treat with him by words, as on an exchange of prisoners, an
armistice, or terms of peace.
They are at hand,
To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.
Shak.
Par"lia*ment (?), n. [OE.
parlement, F. parlement, fr.
parler to speak; cf. LL. parlamentum,
parliamentum. See Parley.] 1.
A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
[Obs.]
But first they held their parliament.
Rom. of R.
2. A formal conference on public affairs; a general
council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or
people having authority to make laws.
They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a
parliament of Gauls.
Golding.
3. The assembly of the three estates of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual,
lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting
in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the
legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on
the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
4. In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of
the several principal judicial courts.
Parliament heel, the inclination of a ship
when made to careen by shifting her cargo or ballast. --
Parliament hinge (Arch.), a hinge with
so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door
or shutter to swing back flat against the wall. --
Long Parliament, Rump
Parliament. See under Long, and
Rump.
Par`lia*men"tal (?), a.
Parliamentary. [Obs.]
Par`lia*men*ta"ri*an (?), a. Of
or pertaining to Parliament.
Wood.
Par`lia*men*ta"ri*an, n. 1.
(Eng. Hist.) One who adhered to the Parliament,
in opposition to King Charles I.
Walpole.
2. One versed in the rules and usages of Parliament
or similar deliberative assemblies; as, an accomplished
parliamentarian.
Par`lia*men"ta*ri*ly (?), adv.
In a parliamentary manner.
Par`lia*men"ta*ry (?), a. [Cf.
F. parlementaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to Parliament; as,
parliamentary authority.
Bacon.
2. Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a
parliamentary act.
Sir M. Hale.
3. According to the rules and usages of Parliament
or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary
motion.
Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a
solicitor, professionally employed by private parties to explain
and recommend claims, bills, etc., under consideration of
Parliament. [Eng.] -- Parliamentary
train, one of the trains which, by act of
Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the
conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate.
[Eng.]
Par"lor (?), n. [OE.
parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL.
parlatorium. See Parley.]
[Written also parlour.] A room for
business or social conversation, for the reception of guests,
etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a
monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and
converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from
without. Piers Plowman. (b) In large
private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar
guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room.
Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few
apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually
on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the
United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are
received and entertained.
parlor, as they called it of old and
till recently.\'b8
Fitzed. Hall.
Parior car. See Palace car, under
Car.
Par"lous (?), a. [For
perlous, a contr. fr. perilous.]
1. Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a
parlous cough. [Archaic] \'bdA
parlous snuffing.\'b8
Beau. & Fl.
2. Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.
[Obs.] \'bdA parlous boy.\'b8
Shak. \'bdA parlous wit.\'b8
Dryden. -- Par"lous*ly,
adv. [Obs.] -- Par"lous*ness,
n. [Obs.]
Par`me*san" (?), a. [F.
parmesan, It. parmigiano.] Of or
pertaining to Parma in Italy.
Parmesan cheese, a kind of cheese of a rich
flavor, though from skimmed milk, made in Parma, Italy.
\'d8Par*nas"si*a (?), n.
[NL.] (Bot.) A genus of herbs growing
in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of
Parnassus.
Par*nas"sian (?), a. [L.
Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to
Parnassus.
Par*nas"sian, n. [See
Parnassus.] (Zo\'94l.) Any one of
numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus
Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the
Old World and in America.
Par*nas"sus (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr. (Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) A
mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous
for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See
under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To
climb Parnassus, to write poetry.
[Colloq.]
Par`oc*cip"i*tal (?), a. [Pref.
para- + occipital.]
(Anat.) Situated near or beside the occipital
condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially
to a process of the skull in some animals.
Pa*ro"chi*al (?), a. [LL.
parochialis, from L. parochia. See
Parish.] Of or pertaining to a parish;
restricted to a parish; as, parochial
duties. \'bdParochial pastors.\'b8 Bp.
Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow. \'bdThe
parochial mind.\'b8 W. Black.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ism (?), n. The
quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system
of management peculiar to parishes.
Pa*ro`chi*al"i*ty (?), n. The
state of being parochial. [R.]
Sir J. Marriot.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ize (?), v. t. To
render parochial; to form into parishes.
Pa*ro"chi*al*ly, adv. In a parochial
manner; by the parish, or by parishes.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Pa*ro"chi*an (?), a. [See
Parochial, Parishioner.]
Parochial. [Obs.]
\'bdParochian churches.\'b8
Bacon.
Pa*ro"chi*an, n. [LL.
parochianus.] A parishioner.
[Obs.]
Ld. Burleigh.
{ Pa*rod"ic (?), Pa*rod"ic*al
(?), } a. [Gr. parodique.] Having the character of
parody.
Very paraphrastic, and sometimes parodical.
T. Warton.
Par"o*dist (?), n. [Cf. F.
parodiste.] One who writes a parody; one
who parodies.
Coleridge.
Par"o*dy (?), n.; pl.
Parodies (#). [L.
parodia, Gr. parodie. See Para-, and Ode.]
1. A writing in which the language or sentiment of
an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry,
in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied
to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's
\'bdHind and Panther\'b8 was received with great applause.
Macaulay.
2. A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
[Obs.]
Par"o*dy, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Parodied (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Parodying.] [Cf. F.
parodier.] To write a parody upon; to
burlesque.
I have translated, or rather parodied, a poem of
Horace.
Pope.
Par"o*ket` (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) See Paroquet.
Pa*rol" (?), n. [See
Parole, the same word.]
1. A word; an oral utterance.
[Obs.]
2. (Law) Oral declaration; word of
mouth; also, a writing not under seal.
Blackstone.
Pa*rol", a. Given or done by word of
mouth; oral; also, given by a writing not under seal; as,
parol evidence.
Parol arrest (Law), an arrest in
pursuance of a verbal order from a magistrate. -- Parol
contract (Law), any contract not of record
or under seal, whether oral or written; a simple
contract.
Chitty. Story.
Pa*role" (?), n. [F.
parole. See Parley, and cf.
Parol.] 1. A word; an oral
utterance. [Obs.]
2. Word of promise; word of honor; plighted faith;
especially (Mil.), promise, upon one's faith and
honor, to fulfill stated conditions, as not to bear arms against
one's captors, to return to custody, or the like.
This man had forfeited his military parole.
Macaulay.
3. (Mil.) A watchword given only to
officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign,
which is given to all guards.
4. (Law) Oral declaration. See lst
Parol, 2.
Pa*role", a. See 2d
Parol.
Pa*role", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Paroled (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Paroling.] (Mil.)
To set at liberty on parole; as, to parole
prisoners.
Par`o*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. fr.
Homologous.] (Rhet.) A
concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own
argument.
\'d8Par`o*no*ma"si*a (?), n.
[L., fr. Gr.
(Rhet.) A play upon words; a figure by which the
same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound
are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical
force to the sentence; punning.
Dryden.
{ Par`o*no*mas"tic (?),
Par`o*no*mas"tic*al (?), } a.
Of or pertaining to paronomasia; consisting in a play upon
words.
Par`o*nom"a*sy (?), n. [Cf. F.
paronomasie.] Paronomasia.
[R.]
B. Jonson.
\'d8Par`o*nych"i*a (?), n. [L.,
fr. Gr.
(Med.) A whitlow, or felon.
Quincy.
Par"o*nym (?), n. A paronymous
word. [Written also paronyme.]
Pa*ron"y*mous (?), a. [Gr. 1. Having the
same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain
words, as man, mankind, manhood,
etc.
2. Having a similar sound, but different
orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as
al and awl; hair and
hare, etc.
Pa*ron"y*my, n. The quality of being
paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
\'d8Par`o*\'94ph"o*ron (?), n.
[NL., from Gr. Para-) + (Anat.) A small mass of tubules
near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the
parepididymis of the male.
Par"o*quet` (?), n. [F.
perroquet, or Sp. periquito; both prob.
orig. meaning, little Peter. See Parrot.]
(Zo\'94l.) Same as Parrakeet.
[Written also paroket, parroquet,
and perroquet.]
Paroquet auk auklet
(Zo\'94l.), a small auk (Cyclorrhynchus
psittaculus) inhabiting the coast and islands of Alaska.
The upper parts are dark slate, under parts white, bill orange
red. Called also perroquet auk.
\'d8Pa*ror"chis (?), n. [NL.
See Para-, and Orchis.]
(Anat.) The part of the epididymis; or the
corresponding part of the excretory duct of the testicle, which
is derived from the Wolffian body.
Pa*ros"te*al (?), (Physiol.) Of
or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal
ossification.
\'d8Par`os*to"sis (?), n. [NL.
See Para-, and Ostosis.]
(Physiol.) Ossification which takes place in
purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the
periosteum.
Par`os*tot"ic (?), a.
Pertaining to parostosis.
Pa*rot"ic (?), a. [See
Parotid.] (Anat.) On the side of
the auditory capsule; near the external ear.
Parotic region (Zo\'94l.), the
space around the ears.
Pa*rot"id (?), a. [L.
parotis, -idis, Gr. parotide. ]
(Anat.) (a) Situated near the ear; --
applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.
(b) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the
parotid gland.
Parotid gland (Anat.), one of the
salivary glands situated just in front of or below the ear. It is
the largest of the salivary glands in man, and its duct opens
into the interior of the mouth opposite the second molar of the
upper jaw.
Pa*rot"id, n. (Anat.) The
parotid gland.
Par`o*ti"tis (?), n. [NL. See
Parotid, and -itis.] (Med.)
Inflammation of the parotid glands.
Epidemic, Infectious,
parotitis, mumps.
Par"o*toid (?), a.
[Parotid + -oid.]
(Anat.) Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied
especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in
many toads and frogs. -- n. A
parotoid gland.
\'d8Pa*rou"si*a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. Parusia.] (a) The
nativity of our Lord. (b) The last day.
Shipley.
\'d8Par`o*va"ri*um (?), n. [NL.
See Para-, and Ovarium.]
(Anat.) A group of tubules, a remnant of the
Wolffian body, often found near the ovary or oviduct; the
epo\'94phoron.
Par"ox*ysm (?), n. [F.
paroxysme, Gr.
1. (Med.) The fit, attack, or
exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has
decided remissions or intermissions.
Arbuthnot.
2. Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic
passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.
The returning paroxysms of diffidence and
despair.
South.
Par`ox*ys"mal (?), a. Of the
nature of a paroxysm; characterized or accompanied by paroxysms;
as, a paroxysmal pain; paroxysmal
temper. -- Par`ox*ys"mal*ly,
adv.
Par*ox"y*tone (?), n. [Gr. a.
See Para-, and Oxytone.]
(Gr. Gram.) A word having an acute accent on the
penultimate syllable.
Par*quet" (?), n. [F. See
Parquetry.]
1. A body of seats on the floor of a music hall or
theater nearest the orchestra; but commonly applied to the whole
lower floor of a theater, from the orchestra to the dress circle;
the pit.
2. Same as Parquetry.
Par"quet*age (?), n. See
Parquetry.
Par"quet*ed, a. Formed in parquetry;
inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures.
One room parqueted with yew, which I liked
well.
Evelyn.
Par"quet*ry (?), n. [F.
parqueterie, fr. parquet inlaid flooring,
fr. parquet, dim. of parc an inclosure. See
Park.] A species of joinery or cabinet-work
consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally
of different colors, -- used especially for floors.
Par*quette" (?), n. See
Parquet.
Parr (?), n. [Cf. Gael. & Ir.
bradan a salmon.] (Zo\'94l.)
(a) A young salmon in the stage when it has dark
transverse bands; -- called also samlet,
skegger, and
fingerling. (b) A young
leveret.
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{ Par"ra*keet` (?), Par"a*keet`
}, n. [See Paroquet.]
(Zo\'94l.) Any one of numerous species of small
parrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long;
-- called also paroquet and
paraquet.
Paleornis; others belong to
Polytelis, Platycercus,
Psephotus, Euphema, and allied genera. The
American parrakeets mostly belong to the genus
Conurus, as the Carolina parrakeet (C.
Carolinensis).
{ Par"ral (?), Par"rel
(?), } n. [F. appareil.
See Apparel, n.] 1.
(Naut.) The rope or collar by which a yard or
spar is held to the mast in such a way that it may be hoisted or
lowered at pleasure.
Totten.
2. A chimney-piece.
Halliwell.
\'d8Par*ra"qua (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) A curassow of the genus
Ortalida, allied to the guan.
\'d8Par*rhe"si*a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr.
(Rhet.) Boldness or freedom of speech.
Par"ri*ci`dal (?), a. [L.
parricidalis, parricidialis. See
Parricide.] Of or pertaining to parricide;
guilty of parricide.
Par"ri*cide (?), n. [F., fr. L.
parricida; pater father +
caedere to kill. See Father,
Homicide, and cf. Patricide.]
1. Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a
wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any
ancestor.
2. [L. parricidium.] The act
or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
Par`ri*cid"i*ous (?), a.
Parricidal. [Obs.]
Par"rock (?), n. [AS.
pearruc, pearroc. See Park.]
A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov.
Eng.]
Par"rot (?), n. [Prob. fr. F.
Pierrot, dim. of Pierre Peter. F.
pierrot is also the name of the sparrow. Cf.
Paroquet, Petrel, Petrify.]
1. (Zo\'94l.) In a general sense, any
bird of the order Psittaci.
2. (Zo\'94l.) Any species of
Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus,
and other genera of the family Psittacid\'91, as
distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have
a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the
cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of
Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green,
parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many
species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to
repeat words and phrases.
Carolina parrot (Zo\'94l.), the
Carolina parrakeet. See Parrakeet. --
Night parrot, Owl parrot.
(Zo\'94l.) See Kakapo. --
Parrot coal, cannel coal; -- so called from the
crackling and chattering sound it makes in burning.
[Eng. & Scot.] -- Parrot green.
(Chem.) See Scheele's green, under
Green, n. -- Parrot weed
(Bot.), a suffrutescent plant (Bocconia
frutescens) of the Poppy family, native of the warmer parts
of America. It has very large, sinuate, pinnatifid leaves, and
small, panicled, apetalous flowers. -- Parrot
wrasse, Parrot fish
(Zo\'94l.), any fish of the genus
Scarus. One species (S. Cretensis), found
in the Mediterranean, is esteemed by epicures, and was highly
prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Par"rot, v. t. To repeat by rote, as a
parrot.
Par"rot, v. i. To chatter like a
parrot.
Par"rot*er (?), n. One who
simply repeats what he has heard. [R.]
J. S. Mill.
Par"rot*ry (?), n. Servile
imitation or repetition. [R.]
Coleridge. \'bdThe supine parrotry.\'b8
Fitzed. Hall.
Par"rot's-bill` (?), n. [So
called from the resemblance of its curved superior petal to a
parrot's bill.] (Bot.) The glory pea. See
under Glory.
Par"ry (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Parried
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Parrying.] [F. par\'82, p.
p. of parer. See Pare, v.
t.]
1. To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as,
to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or
threatens harm.
Locke.
Vice parries wide
The undreaded volley with a sword of straw.
Cowper.
2. To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
The French government has parried the payment of
our claims.
E. Everett.
Par"ry, v. i. To ward off, evade, or
turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.
Locke.
Par"ry, n.; pl. Parries
(. A warding off of a thrust or blow, as
in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively,
a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual
encounter.
Parse (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Parsed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Parsing.]
[L. pars a part; pars orationis a part
of speech. See Part, n.]
(Gram.) To resolve into its elements, as a
sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their
relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and
describe grammatically.
Let him construe the letter into English, and parse
it over perfectly.
Ascham.
Par"see (?), n. [Hind. & Per.
p\'bers\'c6 a Persian, a follower of Zoroaster, a fire
worshiper. Cf. Persian.]
1. One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or
ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled
in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber.
2. The Iranian dialect of much of the religious
literature of the Parsees.
Par"see*ism (?), n. The
religion and customs of the Parsees.
Pars"er (?), n. One who
parses.
Par`si*mo"ni*ous (?), a. [Cf.
F. parcimonieux. See Parsimony.]
Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money;
frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. --
Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. --
Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n.
A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a
parsimonious.
Bacon.
Extraordinary funds for one campaign may spare us the expense
of many years; whereas a long, parsimonious war will
drain us of more men and money.
Addison.
Syn. -- Covetous; niggardly; miserly; penurious; close;
saving; mean; stingy; frugal. See Avaricious.
Par"si*mo*ny (?), n. [L.
parsimonia, parcimonia; cf.
parcere to spare, parsus sparing: cf. F.
parcimonie.] Closeness or sparingness in
the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive
frugality; niggardliness.
Bacon.
Awful parsimony presided generally at the
table.
Thackeray.
Syn. -- Economy; frugality; illiberality; covetousness;
closeness; stinginess. See Economy.
Pars"ley (?), n. [OE.
persely, persil, F. persil, L.
petroselinum rock parsley, Gr. Celery.] (Bot.) An
aromatic umbelliferous herb (Carum Petroselinum),
having finely divided leaves which are used in cookery and as a
garnish.
As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a
rabbit.
Shak.
Fool's parsley. See under Fool.
-- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley,
Stone parsley, names given to various weeds
of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley
fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves
resembling parsley (Cryptogramme crispa). --
Parsley piert (Bot.), a small herb
(Alchemilla arvensis) formerly used as a remedy for
calculus.
Pars"nip (?), n. [OE.
parsnepe, from a French form, fr. L.
pastinaca; cf. pastinare to dig up,
pastinum a kind of dibble; cf. OF.
pastenade, pastenaque.]
(Bot.) The aromatic and edible spindle-shaped
root of the cultivated form of the Pastinaca sativa, a
biennial umbelliferous plant which is very poisonous in its wild
state; also, the plant itself.
Cow parsnip. See Cow parsnip. --
Meadow parsnip, the European cow parsnip. --
Poison parsnip, the wild stock of the
parsnip. -- Water parsnip, any plant of the
umbelliferous genus Sium, the species of which are
poisonous.
Par"son (?), n. [OE.
persone person, parson, OF. persone, F.
personne person, LL. persona (sc.
ecclesiae), fr. L. persona a person. See
Person.]
1. (Eng. Eccl. Law) A person who
represents a parish in its ecclesiastical and corporate
capacities; hence, the rector or incumbent of a parochial church,
who has full possession of all the rights thereof, with the cure
of souls.
2. Any clergyman having ecclesiastical preferment;
one who is in orders, or is licensed to preach; a preacher.
He hears the parson pray and preach.
Longfellow.
Parson bird (Zo\'94l.), a New
Zealand bird (Prosthemadera Nov\'91seelandi\'91)
remarkable for its powers of mimicry and its ability to
articulate words. Its color is glossy black, with a curious tuft
of long, curly, white feathers on each side of the throat. It is
often kept as a cage bird.
Par"son*age (?), n. 1.
(Eng. Eccl. Law) A certain portion of lands,
tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a
parish.
2. The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by
a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the
maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
3. Money paid for the support of a parson.
[Scot.]
What have I been paying stipend and teind,
parsonage and vicarage, for?
Sir W. Scott.
Par"soned (?), a. Furnished
with a parson.
{ Par*son"ic (?), Par*son"ic*al
(?), } a. Of or pertaining to a
parson; clerical.
Vainglory glowed in his parsonic heart.
Colman.
-- Par*son"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Par"son*ish (?), a. Appropriate
to, or like, a parson; -- used in disparagement.
[Colloq.]
Part (?), n. [F.
part, L. pars, gen. partis; cf.
parere to bring forth, produce. Cf. Parent,
Depart, Parcel, Partner,
Party, Portion.] 1. One of
the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided,
or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number,
quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with
others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually
separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a
member; a constituent.
And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought
a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet.
Acts v. 2.
Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not contain a
secret relation of the parts ?
Locke.
I am a part of all that I have met.
Tennyson.
2. Hence, specifically: (a) An equal
constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities,
numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is
composed; proportional division or ingredient.
An homer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Ex. xvi. 36.
A thought which, quartered, hath but one part
wisdom,
And ever three parts coward.
Shak.
(b) A constituent portion of a living or spiritual
whole; a member; an organ; an essential element.
All the parts were formed . . . into one harmonious
body.
Locke.
The pulse, the glow of every part.
Keble.
(c) A constituent of character or capacity;
quality; faculty; talent; -- usually in the plural with a
collective sense. \'bdMen of considerable
parts.\'b8 Burke. \'bdGreat quickness of
parts.\'b8 Macaulay.
Which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will
not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
Shak.
(d) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the
plural. \'bdThe uttermost part of the
heaven.\'b8 Neh. i. 9.
All parts resound with tumults, plaints, and
fears.
Dryden.
(e) (Math.) Such portion of any
quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly
make that quantity; as, 3 is a part of 12; -- the
opposite of multiple. Also, a line or other element of
a geometrical figure.
3. That which belongs to one, or which is assumed
by one, or which falls to one, in a division or apportionment;
share; portion; lot; interest; concern; duty; office.
We have no part in David.
2 Sam. xx. 1.
Accuse not Nature! she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
Milton.
Let me bear
My part of danger with an equal share.
Dryden.
4. Hence, specifically: (a) One of the
opposing parties or sides in a conflict or a controversy; a
faction.
For he that is not against us is on our part.
Mark ix. 40.
Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.
Waller.
(b) A particular character in a drama or a play; an
assumed personification; also, the language, actions, and
influence of a character or an actor in a play; or, figuratively,
in real life. See To act a part, under
Act.
That part
Was aptly fitted and naturally performed.
Shak.
It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a
calf.
Shak.
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Pope.
(c) (Mus.) One of the different melodies
of a concerted composition, which heard in union compose its
harmony; also, the music for each voice or instrument; as,
the treble, tenor, or bass part; the violin
part, etc.
For my part, so far as concerns me; for my
share. -- For the most part. See under
Most, a. -- In good part,
as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly
manner. Hooker. In ill part,
unfavorably; with displeasure. -- In part,
in some degree; partly. -- Part and parcel,
an essential or constituent portion; -- a reduplicative
phrase. Cf. might and main, kith and
kin, etc. \'bdShe was . . . part and parcel of
the race and place.\'b8 Howitt. -- Part of
speech (Gram.), a sort or class of words of
a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of
speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part
of speech which asserts something of the subject of a
sentence. -- Part owner (Law), one
of several owners or tenants in common. See Joint
tenant, under Joint. -- Part
singing, singing in which two or more of the harmonic
parts are taken. -- Part song, a song in two
or more (commonly four) distinct vocal parts. \'bdA part
song differs from a madrigal in its exclusion of
contrapuntual devices; from a glee, in its being sung by many
voices, instead of by one only, to each part.\'b8 Stainer &
Barrett.
Syn. -- Portion; section; division; fraction; fragment;
piece; share; constituent. See Portion, and
Section.
Part (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Parted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Parting.] [F.
partir, L. partire, partiri, p.
p. partitus, fr. pars, gen.
partis, a part. See Part,
n.]
1. To divide; to separate into distinct parts; to
break into two or more parts or pieces; to sever. \'bdThou
shalt part it in pieces.\'b8
Lev. ii. 6.
There, [celestial love] parted into rainbow
hues.
Keble.
2. To divide into shares; to divide and distribute;
to allot; to apportion; to share.
To part his throne, and share his heaven with
thee.
Pope.
They parted my raiment among them.
John xix. 24.
3. To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart;
to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death
part thee and me.
Ruth i. 17.
While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and
carried up into heaven.
Luke xxiv. 51.
The narrow seas that part
The French and English.
Shak.
4. Hence: To hold apart; to stand between; to
intervene betwixt, as combatants.
The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
Shak.
5. To separate by a process of extraction,
elimination, or secretion; as, to part gold from
silver.
The liver minds his own affair, . . .
And parts and strains the vital juices.
Prior.
6. To leave; to quit. [Obs.]
Since presently your souls must part your
bodies.
Shak.
To part a cable (Naut.), to break
it. -- To part company, to separate, as
travelers or companions.
Part, v. i. 1. To be broken or
divided into parts or pieces; to break; to become separated; to
go asunder; as, rope parts; his hair parts
in the middle.
2. To go away; to depart; to take leave; to quit
each other; hence, to die; -- often with from.
He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.
Shak.
He owned that he had parted from the duke only a
few hours before.
Macaulay.
His precious bag, which he would by no means part
from.
G. Eliot.
3. To perform an act of parting; to relinquish a
connection of any kind; -- followed by with or
from.
Celia, for thy sake, I part
With all that grew so near my heart.
Waller.
Powerful hands . . . will not part
Easily from possession won with arms.
Milton.
It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness
at parting with an only son.
A. Trollope.
4. To have a part or share; to partake.
[Obs.] \'bdThey shall part alike.\'b8
1 Sam. xxx. 24.
Part, adv. Partly; in a measure.
[R.]
Shak.
Part"a*ble (?), a. See
Partible.
Camden.
Part"age (?), n. [F. See
Part, v. & n.]
1. Division; the act of dividing or sharing.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
2. Part; portion; share. [Obs.]
Ford.
Par*take" (?), v. i.
[imp. Partook (?);
p. p. Partaken (; p. pr. &
vb. n. Partaking.]
[Part + take.]
1. To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in
common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to
share; as, to partake of a feast with
others. \'bdBrutes partake in this
faculty.\'b8
Locke.
When I against myself with thee partake.
Shak.
2. To have something of the properties, character,
or office; -- usually followed by of.
The attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster partakes
partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney-general.
Bacon.
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Par*take" (?), v. t. 1.
To partake of; to have a part or share in; to share.
Let every one partake the general joy.
Driden.
2. To admit to a share; to cause to participate; to
give a part to. [Obs.]
Spencer.
3. To distribute; to communicate.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Par*tak"er (?), n. 1.
One who partakes; a sharer; a participator.
Partakers of their spiritual things.
Rom. xv. 27.
Wish me partaker in my happiness.
Shark.
2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner.
[Obs.]
Partakers wish them in the blood of the
prophets.
Matt. xxiii. 30.
Par"tan (?), n. [Cf. Ir. &
Gael. partan.] (Zo\'94l.) An
edible British crab. [Prov. Eng.]
Part"ed (?), a. 1.
Separated; devided.
2. Endowed with parts or abilities.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
3. (Bot.) Cleft so that the divisions
reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the
blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition;
as, three-parted, five-parted,
etc.
Gray.
Part"er (?), n. One who, or
which, parts or separates.
Sir P. Sidney.
Par*terre" (?), n. [F., fr.
par on, by (L. per)+terre earth,
ground, L. terra. See Terrace.]
1. (Hort.) An ornamental and diversified
arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated,
with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
2. The pit of a theater; the parquet.
[France]
Par*the"ni*ad (?), n. [See
Parthenic.] A poem in honor of a
virgin. [Obs.]
Par*then"ic (?), a. [Gr. Of or pertaining to the
Spartan Partheni\'91, or sons of unmarried women.
Par`the*no*gen"e*sis (?), n.
[Gr. parqe`nos a virgin + E.
genesis.] 1. (Biol.)
The production of new individuals from virgin females by
means of ova which have the power of developing without the
intervention of the male element; the production, without
fertilization, of cells capable of germination. It is one of the
phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and
Metagenesis.
2. (Bot.) The production of seed without
fertilization, believed to occur through the nonsexual formation
of an embryo extraneous to the embrionic vesicle.
Par`the*no*ge*net"ic, a. (Biol.)
Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis; as,
parthenogenetic forms. --
Par`the*no*ge*net"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Par`the*no*gen"i*tive (?), a.
(Biol.) Parthenogenetic.
Par`the*nog"e*ny (?), n.
(Biol.) Same as Parthenogenesis.
Par"the*non (?), n. [L., fr.
Gr. Parqenw`n, fr.parqe`nos a virgin, i.
e., Athene, the Greek goddess called also Pallas.] A
celebrated marble temple of Athene, on the Acropolis at Athens.
It was of the pure Doric order, and has had an important
influence on art.
\'d8Par*ten"o*pe (?), n. [L.,
the name of a Siren, fr. Gr. 1. (Gr.
Myth.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the
sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her
songs.
2. One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter,
descovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.
Par"thi*an (?), a. Of or
pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. --
n. A native Parthia.
Parthian arrow, an arrow discharged at an
enemy when retreating from him, as was the custom of the ancient
Parthians; hence, a parting shot.
Par"tial (?), a. [F., fr. LL.
partials, fr. L. pars, gen.
partis, a part; cf. (for sense 1) F.
partiel. See Part, n.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only;
not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a
partial eclipse of the moon.
\'bdPartial dissolutions of the earth.\'b8
T. Burnet.
2. Inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one
side of a question, more then the other; baised; not indifferent;
as, a judge should not be partial.
Ye have been partial in the law.
Mal. ii. 9.
3. Having a predelection for; inclined to favor
unreasonably; foolishly fond. \'bdA partial
parent.\'b8
Pope.
Not partial to an ostentatious display.
Sir W. Scott.
4. (Bot.) Pertaining to a subordinate
portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several
partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a
partial petiole.
Partial differentials, Partial
differential coefficients, Partial
differentiation, etc. (of a function of two or
more variables), the differentials, differential coefficients,
differentiation etc., of the function, upon the hypothesis that
some of the variables are for the time constant. --
Partial fractions (Alg.), fractions
whose sum equals a given fraction. -- Partial
tones (Music), the simple tones which in
combination form an ordinary tone; the overtones, or harmonics,
which, blending with a fundamental tone, cause its special
quality of sound, or timbre, or tone color. See, also,
Tone.
Par"tial*ism (?), n.
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine
of the Partialists.
Par"tial*ist n. 1. One who is
partial. [R.]
2. (Theol.) One who holds that the
atonement was made only for a part of mankind, that is, for the
elect.
Par`ti*al"i*ty (?; 277), n.
[Cf. F. partialit\'82.] 1.
The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor
one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue
bias of mind.
2. A predilection or inclination to one thing
rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a
partiality for poetry or painting.
Roget.
Par"tial*ize (?), v. t. & i. To
make or be partial. [R.]
Par"tial*ly adv. 1. In part;
not totally; as, partially true; the sun
partially eclipsed.
Sir T. Browne.
2. In a partial manner; with undue bias of mind;
with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge
partially.
Shak.
Part`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. [From
Partible.] The quality or state of being
partible; divisibility; separability; as, the
partibility of an inherttance.
Part"i*ble (?), a. [L.
partibilis, fr. partire to part, divide,
fr. L. pars: cf. F. partible. See
Part.] Admitting of being parted; divisible;
separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an
estate of inheritance may be partible.
\'bdMake the molds partible.\'b8
Bacon.
Par*tic"i*pa*ble (?), a.
Capable of being participated or shared.
[R.]
Norris.
Par*tic"i*pant (?), a. [L.
participans, p.pr. of participare: cf. F.
participant. See Participate.]
Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
Bacon.
Par*tic"i*pant, n. A participator; a
partaker.
Participants in their . . . mysterious rites.
Bp. Warburton.
Par*tic"i*pant*ly, adv. In a participant
manner.
Par*tic"i*pate (?), a. [L.
participatus, p.p. of participare to
participate; pars, partis, part +
capere to take. See Part, and
Capacious.] Acting in common;
participating. [R.]
Shak.
Par*tic"i*pate (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Participated
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Participating.] Tj have a share in
common with others; to take a part; to partake; -- followed by
in, formely by of; as, to
participate in a debate.
Shak.
So would he participateof their wants.
Hayward.
Mine may come when men
With angels may participate.
Milton.
Par*tic"i*pate, v. t. 1. To
partake of; to share in; to receive a part of.
[R.]
Fit to participate all rational delight.
Milton.
2. To impart, or give, or share of.
[Obs.]
Drayton.
Par*tic`i*pa"tion (?), n. [F.
participation, L. participatio.]
1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in
common with others; as, a participation in joy or
sorrows.
These deities are so by participation.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed
participation of himself!
Atterbury.
2. Distribution; division into shares.
[Obs.]
Raleigh.
3. community; fellowship; association.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Par*tic"i*pa*tive (?), a. [Cf.
F. participatif.] Capable of
participating.
Par*tic"i*pa`tor (?), n.
[L.] One who participates, or shares with
another; a partaker.
Par`ti*cip"i*al (?), a. [L.
participialis: cf. E. participal. See
Participle.] Having, or partaking of, the
nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as,
a participial noun.
Lowth.
Par`ti*cip"i*al, n. A participial
word.
Par`ti*cip"i*al*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p.p Participialized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Participializing.] To form into, or put
in the form of, a participle. [R.]
Par`ti*cip"i*al*ly, adv. In the sense or
manner of a participle.
Par"ti*ci*ple (?), n. [F.
participe, L. participium, fr.
particeps sharing, participant; pars, gen.
partis, a part + capere to take. See
Participate.] 1. (Gram.)
A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and
adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a
noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is
derived. In the sentences: a letter is written;
being asleep he did not hear; exhausted by
toil he will sleep soundly, -- written,
being, and exhaustedare
participles.
By a participle, [I understand] a verb in an
adjectival aspect.
Earle.
Present participles, called also
imperfect, or incomplete,
participles, end in -ing. Past
participles, called also perfect, or
complete, participles, for the most part
end in -ed, -d, -t,
-en, or -n. A participle when used merely
as an attribute of a noun, without reference to time, is called
an adjective, or a participial adjective;
as, a written constitution; a rolling
stone; the exhausted army. The verbal noun in
-ing has the form of the present participle. See
Verbal noun, under Verbal,
a.
2. Anything that partakes of the nature of
different things. [Obs.]
The participles or confines between plants and
living creatures.
Bacon.
Par"ti*cle (?), n. [L.
particula, dim of pars, gen
partis, a part: cf. F. particule. See
Part, and cf. Parcel.] 1. A
minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an
atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of
dust.
The small size of atoms which unite
To make the smallest particle of light.
Blackmore.
2. Any very small portion or part; the smallest
portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or
virtue.
The houses had not given their commissioners authority in the
least particle to recede.
Clarendon.
3. (R. C. Ch.) (a) A crumb or
little piece of concecrated host. (b) The
smaller hosts distributed in the communion of the laity.
Bp. Fitzpatrick.
4. (Gram.) A subordinate word that is
never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a
word that can not be used except in compositions; as,
ward in backward, ly in
lovely.
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Par"ti*col`ored, a. Same as
Party-colored.
Par*tic"u*lar (?), a. [OE.
particuler, F. particulier, L.
particularis. See Particle.]
1. Relating to a part or portion of anything;
concerning a part separated from the whole or from others of the
class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the
particular stars of a constellation.
Shak.
[/Make] each particular hair to stand an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
Shak.
Seken in every halk and every herne
Particular sciences for to lerne.
Chaucer.
2. Of or pertaining to a single person, class, or
thing; belonging to one only; not general; not common; hence,
personal; peculiar; singular. \'bdThine own
particular wrongs.\'b8
Shak.
Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular
juice out of the earth.
Bacon.
3. Separate or distinct by reason of superiority;
distinguished; important; noteworthy; unusual; special; as,
he brought no particular news; she was the
particular belle of the party.
4. Concerned with, or attentive to, details;
minute; circumstantial; precise; as, a full and
particular account of an accident; hence, nice;
fastidious; as, a man particular in his
dress.
5. (Law) (a) Containing a part
only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one
precedent to an estate in remainder. (b)
Holding a particular estate; as, a particular
tenant.
Blackstone.
6. (Logic) Forming a part of a genus;
relatively limited in extension; affirmed or denied of a part of
a subject; as, a particular proposition; -- opposed
to universal: e. g. (particular
affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative)
Some men are not wise.
Particular average. See under
Average. -- Particular Baptist, one
of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold
the doctrine of a particular or individual election and
reprobation. -- Particular lien (Law),
a lien, or a right to retain a thing, for some charge or
claim growing out of, or connected with, that particular
thing. -- Particular redemption, the doctrine
that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are
restricted to a limited number of the human race. See
Calvinism.
Syn. -- Minute; individual; respective; appropriate;
peculiar; especial; exact; specific; precise; critical;
circumstantial. See Minute.
Par*tic"u*lar (?), n. 1.
A separate or distinct member of a class, or part of a
whole; an individual fact, point, circumstance, detail, or item,
which may be considered separately; as, the
particulars of a story.
Particulars which it is not lawful for me to
reveal.
Bacon.
It is the greatest interest of particulars to
advance the good of the community.
L'Estrange.
2. Special or personal peculiarity, trait, or
character; individuality; interest, etc.
[Obs.]
For his particular I'll receive him gladly.
Shak.
If the particulars of each person be
considered.
Milton.
Temporal blessings, whether such as concern the public . . .
or such as concern our particular.
Whole Duty of Man.
3. (Law) One of the details or items of
grounds of claim; -- usually in the pl.; also, a bill
of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular
of premises.
The reader has a particular of the books wherein
this law was written.
Ayliffe.
Bill of particulars. See under Bill.
-- In particular, specially; peculiarly.
\'bdThis, in particular, happens to the lungs.\'b8
Blackmore. -- To go into particulars, to
relate or describe in detail or minutely.
Par*tic"u*lar*ism (?), n. [Cf.
F. particularisme.] 1. A minute
description; a detailed statement. [R.]
2. (Theol.) The doctrine of particular
election.
3. (German Politics) Devotion to the
interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those
of the empire.
Par*tic"u*lar*ist, n. [Cf. F.
particulariste.] One who holds to
particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic,
a.
Par*tic`u*lar"i*ty (?), n.; pl.
Particularities (#). [Cf. F.
particularit\'82.] 1. The state or
quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality;
minuteness in detail.
2. That which is particular; as: (a)
Peculiar quality; individual characteristic;
peculiarity. \'bdAn old heathen altar with this
particularity.\'b8 Addison. (b)
Special circumstance; minute detail; particular.
\'bdEven descending to particularities.\'b8 Sir P.
Sidney. (c) Something of special or private
concern or interest.
Let the general trumpet blow his blast,
Particularities and petty sounds
To cease!
Shak.
Par*tic`u*lar*i*za"tion (?), n.
The act of particularizing.
Coleridge.
Par*tic"u*lar*ize (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Particularized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Particularizing
(?).] [Cf. F.
particulariser.] To give as a particular,
or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the
particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but
particularizes his descent from Benjamin.
Atterbury.
Par*tic"u*lar*ize, v. i. To mention or
attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be
circumstantial; as, to particularize in a
narrative.
Par*tic"u*lar*ly, adv. 1. In a
particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or
interest; in particular; distinctly.
2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as,
a particularly fortunate man; a particularly
bad failure.
The exact propriety of Virgil I particularly
regarded as a great part of his character.
Dryden.
Par*tic"u*lar*ment (?), n. A
particular; a detail. [Obs.]
Par*tic"u*late (?), v. t. & i.
[See Particle.] To particularize.
[Obs.]
Par*tic"u*late (?), a. 1.
Having the form of a particle.
2. Referring to, or produced by, particles, such as
dust, minute germs, etc. [R.]
The smallpox is a particulate disease.
Tyndall.
Par"ting (?), a. [From
Part, v.] 1. Serving to
part; dividing; separating.
2. Given when departing; as, a parting
shot; a parting salute. \'bdGive him that
parting kiss.\'b8
Shak.
3. Departing. \'bdSpeed the
parting guest.\'b8
Pope.
4. Admitting of being parted; partible.
Parting fellow, a partner. [Obs.]
Chaucer. -- Parting pulley. See
under Pulley. -- Parting sand
(Founding), dry, nonadhesive sand, sprinkled upon
the partings of a mold to facilitate the separation. --
Parting strip (Arch.), in a sash
window, one of the thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile
to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the
window box to separate the weights. -- Parting
tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning
or planing, for cutting a piece in two.
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Par"ting (?), n. 1.
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted;
division; separation. \'bdThe parting of the
way.\'b8
Ezek. xxi. 21.
2. A separation; a leave-taking.
Shak.
And there were sudden partings, such as press
The life from out young hearts.
Byron.
3. A surface or line of separation where a division
occurs.
4. (Founding) The surface of the sand of
one section of a mold where it meets that of another
section.
5. (Chem.) The separation and
determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of
gold from silver in the assay button.
6. (Geol.) A joint or fissure, as in a
coal seam.
7. (Naut.) The breaking, as of a cable,
by violence.
8. (Min.) Lamellar separation in a
crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as
to the presence of twinning lamell\'91.
Par"ti*san (?), n. [F., fr. It.
partigiano. See Party, and cf.
Partisan a truncheon.] [Written also
partizan.] 1. An adherent to a
party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately
devoted to a party or an interest. \'bdThe violence of a
partisan.\'b8
Macaulay.
Both sides had their partisans in the colony.
Jefferson.
2. (Mil.) (a) The commander of
a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and
harassing an enemy. (b) Any member of such a
corps.
Par"ti*san, a. [Written also
partizan.] 1. Adherent to a party
or faction; especially, having the character of blind,
passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded
by partisan zeal.
2. (Mil.) Serving as a partisan in a
detached command; as, a partisan officer or
corps.
Partisan ranger (Mil.), a member of
a partisan corps.
Par"ti*san, n. [F.
pertuisane, prob. fr. It. partigiana,
influenced in French by OF. pertuisier to pierce. It
was prob. so named as the weapon of some partisans, or
party men. Cf. Partisan one of a corps of light
troops.] A kind of halberd or pike; also, a truncheon;
a staff.
And make him with our pikes and partisans a
grave.
Shak.
Par"ti*san*ship, n. The state of being a
partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate
to a partisan.
\'d8Par*ti"ta (?), n.
[It.] (Mus.) A suite; a set of
variations.
Par"tite (?), a. [L.
partitus, p.p. of partire to part, divide,
from pars. See Part, and cf. Party,
a.] (Bot.) Divided nearly to the
base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down
nearly to the base.
Par*ti"tion (?), n. [F.
partition, L. partitio. See Part,
v.] 1. The act of parting or
dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division;
distribution; as, the partition of a
kingdom.
And good from bad find no partition.
Shak.
2. That which divides or separates; that by which
different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are
separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space;
specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of
a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick
partition; lath and plaster
partitions.
No sight could pass
Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.
Dryden.
3. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a
compartment. [R.] \'bdLodged in a small
partition.\'b8
Milton.
4. (Law.) The servance of common or
undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be
effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
5. (Mus.) A score.
Partition of numbers (Math.), the
resolution of integers into parts subject to given
conditions.
Brande & C.
Par*ti"tion (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Partitioned
(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Partitioning.] 1. To divide
into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to
partition an estate among various heirs.
2. To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls,
etc.; as, to partition a house.
Uniform without, though severally partitioned
within.
Bacon.
Par*ti"tion*ment (?), n. The
act of partitioning.
Par"ti*tive (?), a. [Cf. F.
partitif.] (Gram.) Denoting a
part; as, a partitive genitive.
Par"ti*tive, n. (Gram.) A
word expressing partition, or denoting a part.
Par"ti*tive*ly, adv. In a partitive
manner.
Part"let (?), n. [Dim. of
part.] 1. A covering for the neck,
and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by
both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.
[Obs.]
Fuller.
2. A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck
feathers. \'bdDame Partlett, the hen.\'b8
Shak.
Part"ly, adv. In part; in some measure
of degree; not wholly. \'bdI partly believe
it.\'b8
1 Cor. xi. 18.
Part"ner (?), n. [For
parcener, influenced by part.]
1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a
partaker; an associate; a sharer. \'bdPartner of his
fortune.\'b8 Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a
wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together.
(c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the
management, or in the gains and losses, of a business.
My other self, the partner of my life.
Milton.
2. (Law) An associate in any business or
occupation; a member of a partnership. See
Partnership.
3. pl. (Naut.) A framework
of heavy timber surrounding an opening in a deck, to strengthen
it for the support of a mast, pump, capstan, or the like.
Dormant, Silent,
partner. See under Dormant,
a.
Syn. -- Associate; colleague; coadjutor; confederate;
partaker; participator; companion; comrade; mate.
Part"ner, v. t. To associate, to
join. [Obs.]
Shak.
Part"ner*ship, n. 1. The state
or condition of being a partner; as, to be in
partnership with another; to have partnership
in the fortunes of a family or a state.
2. A division or sharing among partners; joint
possession or interest.
Rome, that ne'er knew three lordly heads before,
First fell by fatal partnership of power.
Rowe.
He does possession keep,
And is too wise to hazard partnership.
Dryden.
3. An alliance or association of persons for the
prosecution of an undertaking or a business on joint account; a
company; a firm; a house; as, to form a
partnership.
4. (Law) A contract between two or more
competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor,
and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that
there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the
purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or
adventure.
Kent. Story.
5. (Arith.) See Fellowship,
n., 6.
Limited partnership, a form of partnership in
which the firm consists of one or more general partners, jointly
and severally responsible as ordinary partners, and one or more
special partners, who are not liable for the debts of the
partnership beyond the amount of cash they contribute as
capital. -- Partnership in commendam, the
title given to the limited partnership (F. soci\'82t\'82 en
commandit\'82) of the French law, introduced into the code
of Louisiana. Burrill. -- Silent
partnership, the relation of partnership sustained by a
person who furnishes capital only.
Par*took" (?), imp. of
Partake.
Par"tridge (?), n. [OE.
partriche, pertriche, OF.
pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L.
perdix, -icis, fr. Gr.
(Zo\'94l.) 1. Any one of numerous
species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus
Perdix and several related genera of the family
Perdicid\'91, of the Old World. The partridge is noted
as a game bird.
Full many a fat partrich had he in mew.
Chaucer.
Perdix
cinerea) and the red-legged partridge (Caccabis
rubra) of Southern Europe and Asia are well-known
species.
2. Any one of several species of quail-like birds
belonging to Colinus, and allied genera.
[U.S.]
Colinus
Virginianus) of the Eastern States; the plumed, or
mountain, partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California;
the Massena partridge (Cyrtonyx Montezum\'91); and the
California partridge (Callipepla Californica).
3. The ruffed grouse (Bonasa
umbellus). [New Eng.]
Bamboo partridge (Zo\'94l.), a
spurred partridge of the genus Bambusicola. Several
species are found in China and the East Indies. --
Night partridge (Zo\'94l.), the
woodcock. [Local, U.S.] -- Painted
partridge (Zo\'94l.), a francolin of
South Africa (Francolinus pictus). --
Partridge berry. (Bot.) (a)
The scarlet berry of a trailing american plant
(Mitchella repens) of the order
Rubiace\'91, having roundish evergreen leaves, and
white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in
pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which
remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b)
The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria
procumbens); also, the plant itself. -- Partridge
dove (Zo\'94l.) Same as Mountain
witch, under Mountain. -- Partridge
pea (Bot.), a yellow-flowered leguminous
herb (Cassia Cham\'91crista), common in sandy fields
in the Eastern United States. -- Partridge shell
(Zo\'94l.), a large marine univalve shell
(Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those
of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a)
A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is
obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to
be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called
also pheasant wood. (b) A name
sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some
kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella
handles. -- Sea partridge (Zo\'94l.),
an Asiatic sand partridge (Ammoperdix Bonhami); --
so called from its note. -- Snow partridge
(Zo\'94l.), a large spurred partridge (Lerwa
nivicola) which inhabits the high mountains of Asia.
-- Spruce partridge. See under
Spruce. -- Wood partridge, Hill partridge (Zo\'94l.), any
small Asiatic partridge of the genus
Arboricola.
Par"ture (?), n.
Departure. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Par*tu"ri*ate (?), v. i. [See
Parturient.] To bring forth young.
[Obs.]
Par*tu"ri*en*cy (?), n.
Parturition.
Par*tu"ri*ent (?), a. [L.
parturiens, p.pr. of parturire to desire to
bring forth, fr. parere, partum, to bring
forth. See Parent.] Bringing forth, or about
to bring forth, young; fruitful.
Jer. Tailor.
Par*tu`ri*fa"cient (?), n. [L.
parturire to desire to bring forth + facere
to make.] (Med.) A medicine tending to
cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing.
Dunglison.
Par*tu"ri*ous (?), a.
Parturient. [Obs.]
Drayton.
Par`tu*ri"tion (?), n. [L.
parturitio, fr. parturire: cf. F.
parturition. See Parturient.]
1. The act of bringing forth, or being delivered
of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
2. That which is brought forth; a birth.
[Obs.]
Par*tu"ri*tive (?), a.
Pertaining to parturition; obstetric.
[R.]
Par"ty (?), n.; pl.
Parties (#). [F. parti
and partie, fr. F. partir to part, divide,
L. partire, partiri. See Part,
v.] 1. A part or portion.
[Obs.] \'bdThe most party of the
time.\'b8
Chaucer.
2. A number of persons united in opinion or action,
as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or
association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is
divided on questions of public policy.
Win the noble Brutus to our party.
Shak.
The peace both parties want is like to last.
Dryden.
3. A part of a larger body of company; a
detachment; especially (Mil.), a small body of troops
dispatched on special service.
4. A number of persons invited to a social
entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner
party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to
give a party.
5. One concerned or interested in an affair; one
who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a
party to the plot; a party to the
contract.
6. The plaintiff or the defendant in a lawsuit,
whether an individual, a firm, or corporation; a litigant.
The cause of both parties shall come before the
judges.
Ex. xxii. 9.
7. Hence, any certain person who is regarded as
being opposed or antagonistic to another.
It the jury found that the party slain was of
English race, it had been adjudged felony.
Sir J. Davies.
8. Cause; side; interest.
Have you nothing said
Upon this Party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?
Shak.
9. A person; as, he is a queer
party. [Now accounted a
vulgarism.]
\'bdFor several generations, our ancestors largely employed
party for person; but this use of the word,
when it appeared to be reviving, happened to strike, more
particularly, the fancy of the vulgar; and the consequence has
been, that the polite have chosen to leave it in their undisputed
possession.\'b8
Fitzed. Hall.
Party jury (Law), a jury composed
of different parties, as one which is half natives and half
foreigners. -- Party man, a partisan.
Swift. -- Party spirit, a factious
and unreasonable temper, not uncommonly shown by party men.
Whately. -- Party verdict, a joint
verdict. Shak. -- Party wall.
(a) (Arch.) A wall built upon the
dividing line between two adjoining properties, usually having
half its thickness on each property. (b)
(Law) A wall that separates adjoining houses, as
in a block or row.
Par"ty, a. [F. parti divided,
fr. partir to divide. See Part,
v., and cf. Partite.] 1.
(Her.) Parted or divided, as in the direction or
form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon
party per pale.
2. Partial; favoring one party.<-- partisan
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I will be true judge, and not party.
Chaucer.
Charter party. See under
Charter.
Par"ty, adv. Partly.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Par"ty-coat`ed (?), a. Having a
motley coat, or coat of divers colors.
Shak.
{ Par"ty-col`ored, Par"ti-col`ored
} (?), a. Colored with different
tints; variegated; as, a party-colored
flower. \'bdParti-colored lambs.\'b8
Shak.
Par"ty*ism (?), n. Devotion to
party.
Par`um*bil"ic*al (?), a. [Pref.
para- + umbilical.]
(Anat.) Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially
to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein
with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
\'d8Pa*ru"si*a (?), n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which
the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as
in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of
future, events.
Par`va*nim"i*ty (?), n. [L.
parvus little + animus mind.]
The state or quality of having a little or ignoble mind;
pettiness; meanness; -- opposed to magnanimity.
De Quincey.
Par"ve*nu` (?), n. [F., prop.
p.p. of parvenir to attain to, to succeed, to rise to
high station, L. pervenire to come to; per
through + venire to come. See Par, prep., and
Come.] An upstart; a man newly risen into
notice.
{ Par"vis, Par"vise } (?),
n. [F. parvis, fr. LL.
paravisus, fr. L. paradisus. See
Paradise.] a court of entrance to, or an
inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; --
sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for
lawyers.
Chaucer.
{ Par"vi*tude (?), Par"vi*ty
(?), } n. [L. parvitas,
fr. parvus little: cf. OF.
parvit\'82.] Littleness.
[Obs.]
Glanvill. Ray.
Par"vo*lin (?), n. (Physiol.
Chem.) A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the
putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and
mackerel.
Par"vo*line (?), n.
(Chem.) A liquid base, C
\'d8Pas (?), n. [F. See
Pace.] 1. A pace; a step, as in a
dance.
Chaucer.
2. Right of going foremost; precedence.
Arbuthnot.
Pa"san (?), n. (Zo\'94l.)
The gemsbok.
{ Pasch (?), \'d8Pas"cha
(?), } n. [AS. pascha,
L. pascha, Gr. pesach, fr.
p\'besach to pass over: cf. OF. pasque, F.
p\'83que. Cf. Paschal, Paas,
Paque.] The passover; the feast of
Easter.
Pasch egg. See Easter egg, under
Easter. -- Pasch flower. See
Pasque flower, under Pasque.
Pas"chal (?), a. [L.
paschalis: cf. F. pascal. See
Pasch.] Of or pertaining to the passover, or
to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal
eggs.
Longfellow.
Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), a large
wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or
the day before Easter. -- Paschal flower. See
Pasque flower, under Pasque.
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Pa*seng" (?), n.
(Zo\'94l.) The wild or bezoar goat. See
Goat.
Pash (?), v. t. [Prob. of
imitative origin, or possibly akin to box to fight
with the fists.] To strike; to crush; to smash; to
dash in pieces. [Obs.] P. Plowman.
\'bdI'll pash him o'er the face.\'b8
Shak.
Pash, n. [Scot., the pate. Cf.
Pash, v. t.] 1. The head;
the poll. [R.] \'bdA rough
pash.\'b8
Shak.
2. A crushing blow. [Obs.]
3. A heavy fall of rain or snow. [Prov.
Eng.]
Pa*sha" (?), n. [Turk.
p\'besh\'be, b\'besh\'be; cf. Per.
b\'besh\'be, b\'bedsh\'beh; perh. a
corruption of Per. p\'bedish\'beh. Cf.
Bashaw, Padishah, Shah.] An
honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to
governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier
form was bashaw. [Written also
pacha.]
pasha of three
tails being the highest.
Pa*sha"lic (?), n. [Written
also pachalic.] [Turk.] The
jurisdiction of a pasha.
Pa*shaw" (?), n. See
Pasha.
{ Pas`i*graph"ic (?),
Pas`i*graph"ic*al (?) } a.
Of or pertaining to pasigraphy.
Pa*sig"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. -graphy.] A
system of universal writing, or a manner of writing that may be
understood and used by all nations.
Good.
Pas"i*la`ly (?), n. [Gr. A form
of speech adapted to be used by all mankind; universal
language.
Pask (?), n. [See
Pasque.] See Pasch.
Pas"py (?), n. [F.
passe-pied.] A kind of minuet, in triple
time, of French origin, popular in the reign of Queen Elizabeth
and for some time after; -- called also passing
measure, and passymeasure.
Percy Smith.
Pasque (?), n. [OF.
pasque.] See Pasch.
Pasque flower (Bot.), a name of
several plants of the genus Anemone, section
Pulsatilla. They are perennial herbs with rather large
purplish blossoms, which appear in early spring, or about Easter,
whence the common name. Called also
campana.
Pas"quil (?), n. [It.
pasquillo.] See Pasquin.
[R.]
Pas"quil, v. t. [R.] See
Pasquin.
Pas"quil*ant (?), n. A
lampooner; a pasquiler. [R.]
Coleridge.
Pas"quil*er (?), n. A
lampooner. [R.]
Burton.
Pas"quin (?), n. [It.
pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up against
the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty
cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this
statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.] A
lampooner; also, a lampoon. See Pasquinade.
The Grecian wits, who satire first began,
Were pleasant pasquins on the life of man.
Dryden.
Pas"quin, v. t. To lampoon; to
satiraze. [R.]
To see himself pasquined and affronted.
Dryden.
Pas`quin*ade" (?), n. [F.
pasquinade, It. pasquinata.] A
lampoon or satirical writing.
Macaulay.
Pas`quin*ade", v. t. To lampoon, to
satirize.
Pass (?), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Passed (?);
p. pr. & vb. n. Passing.]
[F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L.
passus step, or from pandere,
passum, to spread out, lay open. See
Pace.] 1. To go; to move; to
proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to
make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal
phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to
pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly,
directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the
yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border,
etc. \'bdBut now pass over [i.e.,
pass on].\'b8
Chaucer.
On high behests his angels to and fro
Passed frequent.
Milton.
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies passed.
Coleridge.
2. To move or be transferred from one state or
condition to another; to change possession, condition, or
circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has
passed into other hands.
Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . .
pass from just to unjust.
Sir W. Temple.
3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of
knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to
depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die.
Disturb him not, let him pass paceably.
Shak.
Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will
pass.
Dryden.
The passing of the sweetest soul
That ever looked with human eyes.
Tennyson.
4. To move or to come into being or under notice;
to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur;
to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to
be present transitorly.
So death passed upon all men.
Rom. v. 12.
Our own consciousness of what passes within our own
mind.
I. Watts.
5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be
spent; as, their vacation passed
pleasantly.
Now the time is far passed.
Mark vi. 35
6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be
given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not
pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or
regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by
for before a word denoting value or estimation.
\'bdLet him pass for a man.\'b8
Shak.
False eloquence passeth only where true is not
understood.
Felton.
This will not pass for a fault in him.
Atterbury.
7. To advance through all the steps or stages
necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a
body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative
sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed;
the bill passed both houses of Congress.
8. To go through any inspection or test
successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted
the examination, but did not expect to pass.
9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence,
to continue; to live alogn. \'bdThe play may
pass.\'b8
Shak.
10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without
hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act
pass.
11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in
excess. [Obs.] \'bdThis passes,
Master Ford.\'b8
Shak.
12. To take heed; to care.
[Obs.]
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
Shak.
13. To go through the intestines.
Arbuthnot.
14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred
by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an
estate passes by a certain clause in a deed.
Mozley & W.
15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass;
to thrust.
16. (Card Playing) To decline to play in
one's turn; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
She would not play, yet must not pass.
Prior.
To bring to pass, To come to
pass. See under Bring, and
Come. -- To pass away, to disappear;
to die; to vanish. \'bdThe heavens shall pass away.\'b8
2 Pet. iii. 10. \'bdI thought to pass away
before, but yet alive I am.\'b8 Tennyson. --
To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person
or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. --
To pass into, to change by a gradual transmission;
to blend or unite with. -- To pass on, to
proceed. -- To pass on upon. (a) To happen to; to come
upon; to affect. \'bdSo death passed upon all
men.\'b8 Rom. v. 12. \'bdProvided no indirect act
pass upon our prayers to define them.\'b8 Jer.
Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give
judgment or sentence upon. \'bdWe may not pass
upon his life.\'b8 Shak. -- To pass
off, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an
agitation passes off. -- To pass
over, to go from one side or end to the other; to
cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
Pass (?), v. t. 1. In
simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by,
beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to
the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a
boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one
limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have
experience of; to undergo; to suffer. \'bdTo
pass commodiously this life.\'b8
Milton.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
Shak.
(c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention
to; to take no note of; to disregard.
Please you that I may pass This doing.
Shak.
I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.
Dryden.
(d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to
exceed.
And strive to pass . . .
Their native music by her skillful art.
Spenser.
Whose tender power
Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate
hour.
Byron.
(e) To go successfully through, as an examination,
trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a
legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the
bill passed the senate.
2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause
to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or
condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make
over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the
torch was passed from hand to hand.
I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.
Addison.
Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by
Newbridge.
Clarendon.
(b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to
pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass
sentence.
Shak.
Father, thy word is passed.
Milton.
(c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to
carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action;
specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify;
to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he
passed the bill through the committee; the senate
passed the law. (e) To put in
circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass
counterfeit money. \'bdPass the happy
news.\'b8 Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain
entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a
person into a theater, or over a railroad.
3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line,
gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make
secure.
5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust,
punto, etc.
Shak.
Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman.
-- To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and
payment of a dividend at the time when due. -- To pass
away, to spend; to waste. \'bdLest she pass
away the flower of her age.\'b8 Ecclus. xlii.
9.<-- (b) to die --> -- To pass by.
(a) To disregard; to neglect. (b)
To excuse; to spare; to overlook. -- To pass
off, to impose fraudulently; to palm off.
\'bdPassed himself off as a bishop.\'b8
Macaulay. -- To pass (something)
on upon (some one), to put upon
as a trick or cheat; to palm off. \'bdShe passed the
child on her husband for a boy.\'b8
Dryden. -- To pass over, to
overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an
affront.
Pass, n. [Cf. F. pas (for
sense 1), and passe, fr. passer to pass.
See Pass, v. i.] 1. An
opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one
through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable
barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain
pass.
\'bdTry not the pass!\'b8 the old man said.
Longfellow.
2. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an
attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
Shak.
3. A movement of the hand over or along anything;
the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of
a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
5. State of things; condition; predicament.
Have his daughters brought him to this pass.
Shak.
Matters have been brought to this pass.
South.
6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and
come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission;
as, a railroad or theater pass; a military
pass.
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an
enemy.
Kent.
7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
Shak.
8. Estimation; character. [Obs.]
Common speech gives him a worthy pass.
Shak.
9. [Cf. Passus.] A part; a
division. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or
similar boat. -- Pass book. (a) A
book in which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then
passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See
Bank book. -- Pass box
(Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry
cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. --
Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of
entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in
expectation of returning.
Pass"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F.
passable.] 1. Capable of being
passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like;
as, the roads are not passable; the stream is
passablein boats.
His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it
is a throughfare for steel.
Shak.
2. Capable of being freely circulated or
disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less
passable than another.
L'Estrange.
Could they have made this slander passable.
Collier.
3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious
objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
My version will appear a passable beauty when the
original muse is absent.
Dryden.
Pass"a*ble*ness, n. The quality of being
passable.
Pass"a*bly, adv. Tolerably;
moderately.
{ \'d8Pas`sa*ca*glia (?),
\'d8Pas`sa*ca*glio (?), } n.
[Sp. pasacalle a certain tune on the guitar,
prop., a tune played in passing through the streets.]
(Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in
slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass,
resembling a chaconne.
{ Pas*sade" (?), Pas*sa"do
(?), } n. [F. passade;
cf. Sp. pasada. See Pass, v.
i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or
thrust.
Shak.
2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse
backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
Pas"sage (?), n. [F.
passage. See Pass, v. i.]
1. The act of passing; transit from one place to
another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across,
or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage;
the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of
light; the passage of fluids through the pores or
channels of the body.
What! are my doors opposed against my passage!
Shak.
2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by
water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or
means, of passing; conveyance.
The ship in which he had taken passage.
Macaulay.
3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare;
as, to pay one's passage.
4. Removal from life; decease; departure;
death. [R.] \'bdEndure thy mortal
passage.\'b8
Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage.
Shak.
5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by
which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or
transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a
building; a hall; a corridor.
And with his pointed dart
Explores the nearest passage to his heart.
Dryden.
The Persian army had advanced into the . . .
passages of Cilicia.
South.
6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a
connected or continuous series; as, the passage of
time.
The conduct and passage of affairs.
Sir J. Davies.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
Shak.
7. A separate part of a course, process, or series;
an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. \'bdIn thy
passages of life.\'b8
Shak.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their
unbelief.
South.
8. A particular portion constituting a part of
something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or
musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
How commentators each dark passage shun.
Young.
9. Reception; currency. [Obs.]
Sir K. Digby.
10. A pass or en encounter; as, a
passage at arms.
No passages of love
Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.
Tennyson.
11. A movement or an evacuation of the
bowels.
12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The
course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the
several stages of consideration and action; as, during its
passage through Congress the bill was amended in both
Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other
proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote;
esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a
proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the
passage of the bill to its third reading was
delayed. \'bdThe passage of the Stamp
Act.\'b8
D. Hosack.
The final question was then put upon its
passage.
Cushing.
In passage, in passing; cursorily. \'bdThese .
. . have been studied but in passage.\'b8
Bacon. -- Middle passage,
Northeast passage, Northwest
passage. See under Middle,
Northeast, etc. -- Of passage,
passing from one place, region, or climate, to another;
migratory; -- said especially of birds \'bdBirds of
passage.\'b8 Longfellow. -- Passage
hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. --
Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a
passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.
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Syn. -- Vestibule; hall; corridor. See
Vestibule.
Pas"sa*ger (?), n. [See
Passenger.] A passenger; a bird or boat of
passage. [Obs.]
Ld. Berners.
Pas"sage*way` (?), n. A way for
passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
Pas"sant (?), a. [F., p.pr. of
passer. See Pass, v. i.]
1. Passing from one to another; in circulation;
current. [Obs.]
Many opinions are passant.
Sir T. Browne.
2. Curs [Obs.]
On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the
bishop.
Sir P. Pett.
3. Surpassing; excelling. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
4. (Her.) Walking; -- said of any animal
on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter
paw raised.
{ \'d8Pas`s\'82", masc.
\'d8Pas`s\'82"e, fem. } (?),
a. [F.] Past; gone by; hence, past
one's prime; worn; faded; as, a pass\'82e
belle.
Ld. Lytton.
Passe"garde` (?), n. [F.]
(Anc. Armor) A ridge or projecting edge on a
shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from
the joint of the armor.
Passe"ment (?), n. [F.]
Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
Sir W. Scott.
Passe*men"terie (?), n.
[F.] Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.
Pas"sen*ger (?), n. [OE. & F.
passager. See Passage, and cf.
Messenger.] 1. A passer or
passer-by; a wayfarer.
Shak.
2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a
coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
Passenger falcon (Zo\'94l.), a
migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger
pigeon (Zo\'94l.), the common wild pigeon of
North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on
account of its extensive migrations.<-- now extinct!
-->
\'d8Passe" par`tout" (?), n.
[F., from passer to pass + partout
everywhere.] 1. That by which one can pass
anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs.]
Dryden.
2. A master key; a latchkey.
3. A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood,
or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and
sometimes serving for several pictures.
Pass"er (?), n. One who passes;
a passenger.
Pass`er-by" (?), n. One who
goes by; a passer.
\'d8Pas"se*res (?), n. pl.
[NL., fr. L. passer a sparrow.]
(Zo\'94l.) An order, or suborder, of birds,
including more that half of all the known species. It embraces
all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small
perching birds.
Pas*ser"i*form (?), a.
(Zo\'94l.) Like or belonging to the
Passeres.
Pas"ser*ine (?), a. [L.
passerinus, fr. passer a sparrow.]
(Zo\'94l.) Of or pertaining to the
Passeres.
The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes
people the fruit trees.
Sydney Smith.
Pas"ser*ine, n. (Zo\'94l.)
One of the Passeres.
Pas`si*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L.
passibilitas: cf. F. passibilit\'82.]
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or
suffer; sensibility.
Hakewill.
Pas"si*ble (?), a. [L.
passibilis, fr. pati, to suffer: cf. F.
passible. See Passion.]
Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from
external agents.
Apolinarius, which held even deity itself
passible.
Hooker.
Pas"si*ble*ness, n. Passibility.
Brerewood.
\'d8Pas"si*flo"ra (?), n. [NL.,
from L. passio passion (fr. pati,
passus, to suffer) + flos,
floris, flower.] (Bot.) A genus
of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the
order Passiflore\'91, which includes about nineteen
genera and two hundred and fifty species.
\'d8Pas"sim (?), adv.
[L.] Here and there; everywhere; as, this
word occurs passim in the poem.
Pass"ing (?), n. The act of one
who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce
that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly
done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the
passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral
ceremonies.
Sir W. Scott. Longfellow.
Pass"ing, a. 1. Relating to the
act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away;
departing.
2. Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.
Chaucer. \'bdHer passing deformity.\'b8
Shak.
Passing note (Mus.), a character
including a passing tone. -- Passing tone
(Mus.), a tone introduced between two other tones,
on an unaccented portion of a measure, for the sake of smoother
melody, but forming no essential part of the harmony.
Pass"ing, adv. Exceedingly; excessively;
surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing
strange. \'bdYou apprehend passing
shrewdly.\'b8
Shak.
Pass"ing*ly, adv. Exceedingly.
Wyclif.
Pas"sion (?), n. [F., fr. L.
passio, fr. pati, passus, to
suffer. See Patient.] 1. A suffering
or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or
distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the
suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his
death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. \'bdThe
passions of this time.\'b8
Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18).
To whom also he showed himself alive after his
passion, by many infallible proofs.
Acts i. 3.
2. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an
external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to
action.
A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move,
and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than
an action in it.
Locke.
3. Capacity of being affected by external agents;
susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
[R.]
Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and
many other passions of matter.
Bacon.
4. The state of the mind when it is powerfully
acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the
state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions,
becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any
emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of
abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate
desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so
affected; as, to be in a passion; the
passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition,
avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an
orator should have passion as well as rhetorical
skill. \'bdA passion fond even to
idolatry.\'b8 Macaulay. \'bdHer passion is to
seek roses.\'b8
Lady M. W. Montagu.
We also are men of like passions with you.
Acts xiv. 15.
The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently
understood, without considering the affections and
passions, or those modifications or actions of the
mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or
events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.
Hutcheson.
The term passion, and its adverb
passionately, often express a very strong predilection
for any pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic
fondness for anything.
Cogan.
The bravery of his grief did put me
Into a towering passion.
Shak.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Pope.
Who walked in every path of human life,
Felt every passion.
Akenside.
When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can
have no passion for the glory of their country.
Addison.
5. Disorder of the mind; madness.
[Obs.]
Shak.
6. Passion week. See Passion week,
below.
R. of Gl.
Passion flower (Bot.), any flower
or plant of the genus Passiflora; -- so named from a
fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the instruments of
our Savior's crucifixion.
Granadilla, and Maypop).
The roots and leaves are generally more or less noxious, and are
used in medicine. The plants are mostly tendril climbers, and are
commonest in the warmer parts of America, though a few species
are Asiatic or Australian.
Passion music (Mus.), originally,
music set to the gospel narrative of the passion of our Lord;
after the Reformation, a kind of oratorio, with narrative,
chorals, airs, and choruses, having for its theme the passion and
crucifixion of Christ. -- Passion play, a
mystery play, in which the scenes connected with the passion of
our Savior are represented dramatically. -- Passion
Sunday (Eccl.), the fifth Sunday in Lent, or
the second before Easter. -- Passion Week,
the last week but one in Lent, or the second week preceding
Easter. \'bdThe name of Passion week is frequently, but
improperly, applied to Holy Week.\'b8
Shipley.
Syn. -- Passion, Feeling,
Emotion. When any feeling or
emotion completely masters the mind, we call it a
passion; as, a passion for music, dress,
etc.; especially is anger (when thus extreme) called
passion. The mind, in such cases, is considered as
having lost its self-control, and become the passive instrument
of the feeling in question.
Pas"sion (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Passioned
(?); p.pr & vb. n.
Passioning.] To give a passionate
character to. [R.]
Keats.
Pas"sion, v. i. To suffer pain or
sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
[Obs.] \'bdDumbly she passions,
frantically she doteth.\'b8
Shak.
Pas"sion*al (?), a. Of or
pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by,
or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
A passionary.
Pas"sion*a*ry (?), n. [L.
passionarius: cf. F. passionaire.]
A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and
martyrs.
T. Warton.
Pas"sion*ate (?), a. [LL.
passionatus: cf. F. passionn\'82.]
1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of
different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated;
specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered;
as, a passionate nature.
Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate.
Prior.
2. Characterized by passion; expressing passion;
ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a
passionate friendship. \'bdThe
passionate Pilgrim.\'b8
Shak.
3. Suffering; sorrowful. [Obs.]
Shak.
Pas"sion*ate (?), v. i. 1.
To affect with passion; to impassion.
[Obs.]
Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard,
The godly kind and queen did passionate.
Spenser.
2. To express feelingly or sorrowfully.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Pas"sion*ate*ly (?), adv.
1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling;
ardently.
Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and
passionately.
South.
2. Angrily; irascibly.
Locke.
Pas"sion*ate*ness, n. The state or
quality of being passionate.
Pas"sion*ist, n. (R. C. Ch.)
A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and
introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the
order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity
and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also
Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.
Pas"sion*less (?), a. Void of
passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited;
calm. \'bdSelf-contained and passionless.\'b8
Tennyson.
Pas"sion*tide` (?), n.
[Passion + tide time.] The
last fortnight of Lent.
Pas"sive (?), a. [L.
passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.] 1. Not active, but acted
upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as,
they were passive spectators, not actors in the
scene.
The passive air
Upbore their nimble tread.
Milton.
The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas.
Locke.
2. Receiving or enduring without either active
sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement;
patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive
obedience; passive submission.
The best virtue, passive fortitude.
Massinger.
3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; not showing
strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively
passive.
4. (Med.) Designating certain morbid
conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation
of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of
reaction in the affected tissues.
Passive congestion (Med.),
congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from
the affected part. -- Passive iron
(Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It is then
not easily acted upon by acids. -- Passive
movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in
order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part. -- Passive
obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience
or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to
the existing government. -- Passive prayer,
among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the
soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and
yielding only to the impulses