Paas (päs), n. Pace [Obs.] Chaucer

Paas (pas), n. [D. paash. See Pasch.] The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett. Paas egg. See Easter egg, under Easter.

Pabulation
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.]

Pabulum
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.

Paca
Pa´ca, n. [Pg., from the native name.] (Zoöl.) A small South American rodent ( Cœlogenys 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.

Pacable
Pa´ca•ble, a. [L. pacare to pacify.] Placable. [R.] Coleridge.

Pacane
Pa•cane´, n. (Bot.) A species of hickory. See Pecan.

Pacation
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. "The heigh of sixty pace ." Chaucer. Ordinarily the 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.] — Tokeep, or hold, pace with, to keep up with; to go as fast as. "In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age." 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. "I paced on slowly." Pope. "With speed so pace." 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. "Pacing light the velvet plain." 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." ShakTo 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.

Pacer
Pa´cer, n. One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.

Pacha
Pa•cha´, n. [F.] See Pasha.

Pachak
Pa•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.]

Pachalic
Pa•cha´lic, a. & n. See Pashalic.

Pachometer
Pa•chom´e•ter, n. [Gr. pa•chos thickness + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring thickness, as of the glass of a mirror, or of paper; a pachymeter.

Pachonta
Pa•chon´ta, n. (Bot.) A substance resembling gutta-percha, and used to adulterate it, obtained from the East Indian tree Isonandra acuminata.

Pachuca tank
Pa•chu"ca tank (Metallurgy) A high and narrow tank, with a central cylinder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; — so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.

Pachy-
Pach´y- [Gr. thick.] A combining form meaning thick; as pachyderm, pachydactyl.

Pachycarpous
Pach•y•car´pous, a. [ Pachy- + Gr. fruit.] (Bot.) Having the pericarp thick.

Pachydactyl
Pach•y•dac´tyl, n. [ Pachy- + dactyl.] (Zoöl.) A bird or other animal having thick toes.

Pachydactylous
Pach•y•dac´tyl•ous, a. (Zoöl.) Having thick toes.

Pachyderm
Pach´y•derm, n. [Cf. F. pachyderme.] (Zoöl.) One of the Pachydermata.

Pachydermal
Pach•y•der´mal, a. (Zoöl.) Of or relating to the pachyderms; as pachydermal dentition.

Pachydermata
Pach•y•der´ma•ta, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. thick-skinned; pachy•s thick + skin.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Pachydermatous
Pach•y•der´ma•tous, a.
1. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the pachyderms.
2. Thick-skinned; not sensitive to ridicule.

Pachydermoid
Pach•y•der´moid, a. [ Pachyderm + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Related to the pachyderms.

Pachyglossal
Pach•y•glos´sal, a. [ Pachy- + Gr. tongue.] (Zoöl.) Having a thick tongue; — applied to a group of lizards ( Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas.

Pachymeningitis
Pach•y•men•in•gi´tis, n. [ Pachy- + meningitis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.

Pachymeter
Pa•chym´e•ter, n. [ Pachy- + -meter.] Same as Pachometer.

Pacifiable
Pac´i•fi•a•ble, a. Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.

Pacific
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.

Pacifical
Pa•cif´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. — Pa•cif´ic•al•ly, adv. [R.]

Pacification
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. "An embassy of pacification." Bacon.

Pacificatory
Pa•cif´i•ca•to•ry, a. [L. pacificatorius.] Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.

Pacifico
Pa•ci´fi•co, n. [Sp. See Pacific.] A peaceful person; — applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms.
"While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave." Harper’s Weekly.

Pacify
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. "Pray ye, pacify yourself." Shak.
"To pacify and settle those countries." Bacon.

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. "A pack of sorrows." "A pack of blessings." Shak. "In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs." 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. pcan 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 (Zoöl.), 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.

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.] "Go pack with him." Shak. To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. "The parliament … presently sent him packing." South.

Pack, n.
1. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also the fact or condition of being so treated.
2. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also the scrummage. Pack and primeroad or way, a pack road or bridle way.

Pack, v. t. To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something; specif. (Hydropathy), to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

Pack herse. See under 2d Pack.

Packer
Pack´er, n. A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as a pork packer.

Packer
Pack´er, n. A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. [U. S.]

Packet
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, or vessel. See Packet, n. , 2. — Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. — Packet note or post. See under Paper.

Packet
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.

Packet
Pack´et, v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Packfong
Pack´fong, n. [Chin. peh tung.] (Metal.) A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.

Packhouse
Pack´house, n. Warehouse for storing goods.

Packing
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.

Pactitious
Pac•ti´tious, a. [L. pactitius, pacticius.] Setted by a pact, or agreement. [R.] Johnson.

Pactolian
Pac•to´li•an, a. Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.

Pacu
Pa´cu, n. (Zoöl.) A South American freah-water fish ( Myleies pacu), of the family Characinidae. It is highly esteemed as food.

Pad, n. [D. pad. rad.21. See 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. (Zoöl.) 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.

Padar
Pad´ar, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

Padder
Pad´der, n.
1. One who, or that which, pads.
2. A highwayman; a footpad. [Obs.]

Padding
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.

Paddle
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. rad.21.]
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.

Paddle
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.]

Paddle
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. (Zoöl.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring 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.

Paddlefish
Pad´dle•fish, n. (Zoöl) 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.

Paddler
Pad´dler, n. One who, or that which, paddles.

Paddlewood
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.

Paddock
Pad´dock, n. [OE. padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D. pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw. padda, Dan. padde.] (Zoöl.) A toad or frog. Wyclif. "Loathed paddocks." SpenserPaddock 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.

Paddock
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.

Padella
Pa•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.

Pademelon
Pad•e•mel´on, n. (Zoöl.) See Wallaby.

Padishah
Pa•di•shah´, n. [Per. padishah. Cf. Pasha.] Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; — a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

Padow
Pad´ow, n. (Zoöl.) A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, under Paddock.

Paducahs
Pa•du´cahs (pa•du"kaz), n. pl.; sing. Paducah (-ka). (Ethnol.) See Comanches.

Paedogenesis
Pae•do•gen´esis (pe•do•jen"e•sis), n. [Gr. pai^s, paido•s, child + E. genesis.] (Zoöl.) Reproduction by young or larval animals.

Paedogenetic
Pae•do•ge•net´ic (-je•net"ik), a. (Zoöl.) Producing young while in the immature or larval state; — said of certain insects, etc.

Paeon
Pae´on (pe"on), n. [L. paeon, Gr. paiw•n a solemn song, also a paeon, equiv. to paia•n. See Paean.] (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, paean.]

Paeony
Pae´o•ny (pe"o•ny), n. (Bot.) See Peony.

Paganish
Pa´gan•ish (pa"g an•ish), a. Of or pertaining to pagans; heathenish. "The old paganish idolatry." Sharp

Paganism
Pa´gan•ism (-iz’m), 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.

Paganize
Pa´gan•ize (pa"g an•iz), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paganized p. pr. & vb. n. Paganizing ] To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism. Hallywell.

Paganize
Pa´gan•ize, v. i. To behave like pagans. Milton.

Paganly
Pa´gan•ly, adv. In a pagan manner. Dr. H. More.

Page (paj), n. [F., fr. It. paggio, LL. pagius, fr. Gr. paidi•on, dim. of pai^s, paido•s, a boy, servant; perh. akin to L. 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 doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed 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. (Zoöl.) 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 manuscript; to furnish with folios.

Pageantry
Pag´eant•ry (-ry), n. Scenic shows or spectacles, taken collectively; spectacular quality; splendor.
"Such pageantry be to the people shown." Dryden.
"The pageantry of festival." J. A. Symonds.
Syn. — Pomp; parade; show; display; spectacle.

Pagehood
Page´hood, n. The state of being a page.

Pagina
Pag´i•na, n. ; pl. Paginae (#). [L.] (Bot.) The surface of a leaf or of a flattened thallus.

Paginal
Pag´i•nal, a. [L. paginalis.] Consisting of pages. "Paginal books." Sir T. Browne.

Pagination
Pag•i•na´tion, n. The act or process of paging a book; also the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

Paging
Pa´ging, n. The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

Pagod
Pa´god, n. [Cf. F. pagode. See Pagoda.]
1. A pagoda. [R.] "Or some queer pagod." Pope.
2. An idol. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

Pagoda sleeve
Pa•go"da sleeve. (Costume) A funnel-shaped sleeve arranged to show the sleeve lining and an inner sleeve.

Pagodite
Pa•go´dite, n. (Min.) Agalmatolite; — so called because sometimes carved by the Chinese into the form of pagodas. See Agalmatolite.

Pagurian
Pa•gu´ri•an, n. [L. pagurus a kind of crab, Gr. .] (Zoöl.) Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus is a type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.

Pahi
Pa´hi, n. (Naut.) A large war canoe of the Society Islands.

Pahlevi
Pah´le•vi, n. Same as Pehlevi.

PahUtes
Pah´•Utes, n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Utes.

Paien
Pai´en, n. & a. Pagan. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Paigle
Pai´gle, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A species of Primula, either the cowslip or the primrose. [Written also pagle, pagil, peagle, and pygil.]

Paijama
Pai•ja´ma, n. Pyjama.

Pail, n. [OE. paile, AS. paegel a wine vessel, a pail, akin to D. & G. pegel a watermark, a gauge rod, a measure of wine, Dan. paegel 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.

Pailful
Pail´ful, n. ; pl. Pailfuls . The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.

Paillasse
Pail•lasse´ ( F. ), n. [F., fr. paille straw. See Pallet a bed.] An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

Pailmall
Pail•mall´, n. & a. See Pall-mall. [Obs.]

Painful
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.

Painim
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.

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.

Painstaker
Pains´tak•er, n. One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.

Painstaking
Pains´tak•ing, a. Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.

Painstaking
Pains´tak•ing, n. The act of taking pains; carefulness and fidelity in performance. Beau. & Fl.

Painsworthy
Pains´wor•thy, a. Worth the pains or care bestowed.

Paint (pant), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Painted; p. pr. & vb. n. Painting.] [OE. peinten, fr. F. peint, p. p. of peindre to paint, fr. L. pingere, pictum; cf. Gr. poiki•los many-colored, Skr. piç 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.

Painted
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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a bright-colored butterfly. See Thistle butterfly. — Painted turtle (Zoöl.), a common American freshwater tortoise ( Chrysemys picta), having bright red and yellow markings beneath.

Paintership
Paint´er•ship, n. The state or position of being a painter. [R.] Br. Gardiner.

Painting
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.

Painture
Pain´ture, n. [F. peinture. See Paint, v. t., and cf. Picture.] The art of painting. [Obs.] Chaucer. Dryden.

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. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." 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. "A happy pair." Dryden. "The hapless pair." 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 "eight spots" etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair royal. "Something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair royal of naturals in my own hand." Goldsmith. "That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [the Fates]." 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 "pair of stairs" is still in popular use, as well as the later expression, "flight of stairs."

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. (Zoöl.) See under Fin.

Pair, v. t. [See Impair.] To impair. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pairing
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.

Pais
Pa•is, n. [OF. puïs, F. pays, country.] (O. E. Law) The country; the people of the neighborhood. A trial 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.

Paisano
Pa•i•sa´no, n. [Sp., of the country, ative.] (Zoöl.) The chaparral cock.

Paise, n. [ Obs.] See Poise. Chapman.

Pajock
Pa´jock, n. A peacock. [Obs.] Shak.

Pakfong
Pak´fong, n. See Packfong.

Palace
Pal´ace, n. [OE. palais, F. palais, fr. L. palatium, fr. Palatium, one of the seven hills of Rome, which Augustus had his residence. Cf. 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.

Paladin
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.

Palaestra
Pa•laes´tra, n. See Palestra.

Palaetiology
Pa•lae•ti•ol´o•gy, n. [ Palaeo- + aetiology.] The science which explains, by the law of causation, the past condition and changes of the earth. — Pa•lae•ti•o•log´ic•al (#), a.

Palama
Pal´a•ma, n. ; pl. Palamme (#). [NL., fr. Gr. the palm.] (Zoöl.) A membrane extending between the toes of a bird, and uniting them more or less closely together.

Palamate
Pal´a•mate, a. [From Palma.] (Zoöl.) Web-footed.

Palampore
Pal•am•pore´, n. See Palempore.

Palanquin
Pal•an•quin´, n. [F. palanquin, Pg. palanquim, Javan. palangki, OJavan. palangkan, through Prakrit fr. Skr. paryaka, palyaka, bed, couch; pari around (akin to E. pref. peri-) + aka 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.]

Palatability
Pal•a•ta•bil´i•ty, n. Palatableness.

Palatable
Pal´a•ta•ble, a. [From Palate.] Agreeable to the palate or taste; savory; hence, acceptable; pleasing; as palatable food; palatable advice.

Palatably
Pal´a•ta•bly, adv. In a palatable manner.

Palatal
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.

Palatal
Pal´a•tal, n. (Phon.) A sound uttered, or a letter pronounced, by the aid of the palate, as the letters k and y.

Palatalize
Pal´a•tal•ize, v. t. (Phon.) To palatize.

Palate
Pal´ate, n. [L. palatum: cf. F. palais, Of. also palat.]
1. (Anat.) The roof of the mouth. The fixed portion, or palate proper, supported by the maxillary and palatine bones, is called the 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.

Palate
Pal´ate, v. t. To perceive by the taste. [Obs.] Shak.

Palatial
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. "Palatial style." A. Drummond.

Palatial
Pa•la´tial, a. [ From Palate.] (Anat.) Palatal; palatine. [Obs.] Barrow.

Palatial
Pa•la´tial, n. A palatal letter. [Obs.] Sir W. Jones.

Palatic
Pa•lat´ic, a. (Anat.) Palatal; palatine.

Palatic
Pa•lat´ic, n. (Phon.) A palatal. [R.]

Palatinate
Pa•lat´i•nate, n. [F. palatinat. See Palatine.] The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. Howell.

Palatinate
Pa•lat´i•nate, v. t. To make a palatinate of. [Obs.] Fuller.

Palatine
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, or The palatine, one of the seven hills of Rome, once occupied by the palace of the Caesars. See Palace.

Palatine
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.

Palatine
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.

Palatine
Pal´a•tine n. (Anat.) A palatine bone.

Palative
Pal´a•tive, a. Pleasing to the taste; palatable. [Obs.] "Palative delights." Sir T. Browne.

Palatize
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.

Palato-
Pal´a•to- [From Palate.] A combining form used in anatomy to indicate relation to, or connection with, the palate; as in palatolingual.

Palaver
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.

Palaver
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

Pale, a. [ Compar. Paler superl. Palest.] [F. pâle, fr. pâlir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o look pale. Cf. Appall, 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. "Pale as a forpined ghost." 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 glowworm shows the matin to be near, And gins to pale 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. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More’s Utopia).
3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; — often used figuratively. "To walk the studious cloister’s pale." Milton. "Out of the pale of civilization." 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.

Palea
Pa´le•a, n. ; pl. Paleae (-e). [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. (Zoöl.) A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Paleaceous
Pa•le•a´ceous, a. [L. palea chaff.] (Bot.) Chaffy; resembling or consisting of paleae, or chaff; furnished with chaff; as a paleaceous receptacle.

Palearctic
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.] "[Buskins] … paled part per part." Spenser.
2. Inclosed with a paling. "A paled green." Spenser.

Paleichthyes
Pa•le•ich´thy•es, n. pl. [NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology.] (Zoöl.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palaeichthyes.]

Palempore
Pal•em•pore´, n. A superior kind of dimity made in India, — used for bed coverings. [Written also palampore, palampoor, etc.] De Colange.

Paleness
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.

Palenque
Pa•len´que, n. pl. (Ethnol.) A collective name for the Indians of Nicaragua and Honduras.

Paleo-
Pa´le•o- [Gr., adj.] A combining form meaning old, ancient; as palearctic, paleontology, paleothere, paleography. [Written also palaeo-.]

Paleobotanist
Pa•le•o•bot´a•nist, n. One versed in paleobotany.

Paleobotany
Pa•le•o•bot´a•ny, n. [ Paleo- + botany.] That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Paleocarida
Pa•le•o•car´ida, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ancient +,,, a kind of crustacean.] (Zoöl.) Same as Merostomata. [Written also Palaeocarida.]

Paleogaean
Pa•le•o•gae´an, a. [ Paleo- + Gr. the eart] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Eastern hemisphere. [Written also palaeogaean.]

Paleograph
Pa´le•o•graph, n. An ancient manuscript.

Paleographer
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. paleographique.] Of or pertaining to paleography.

Paleographist
Pa•le•og´ra•phist, n. One versed in paleography; a paleographer.

Paleography
Pa•le•og´ra•phy, n. [ Paleo- + -graphy: cf. F. paleographie.]
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.

Paleola
Pa•le´o•la, n. ; pl. Paleolae (#). [NL., dim. of L. palea.] (Bot.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

Paleolith
Pa´le•o•lith, n. [ Paleo- + -lith.] (Geol.) A relic of the Paleolithic era.

Paleolithic
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 "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Paleologist
Pa•le•ol´ogist, n. One versed in paleology; a student of antiquity.

Paleology
Pa•le•ol´o•gy, n. [ Paleo- + -logy.] The study or knowledge of antiquities, esp. of prehistoric antiquities; a discourse or treatise on antiquities; archaeology .

Paleontographical
Pa•le•on•to•graph´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

Paleontography
Pa•le•on•tog´ra•phy, n. [ Paleo- + Gr. existing things + -graphy.] The description of fossil remains.

Paleontological
Pa•le•on•to•log´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to paleontology. — Pa•le•on•to•log´ic•al•ly, adv.

Paleontologist
Pa•le•on•tol´o•gist, n. [Cf. F. paleontologiste.] One versed in paleontology.

Paleontology
Pa•le•on•tol´o•gy, n. [ Paleo- + Gr. existing things + -logy. Cf. Ontology.] The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

Paleophytology
Pa•le•o•phy•tol´o•gy, n. [ Paleo- + phytology.] Paleobotany.

Paleornithology
Pa•le•or•ni•thol´o•gy, n. [ Paleo- + ornithology.] The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

Paleosaurus
Pa•le•o•sau´rus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ancient + a lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil saurians found in the Permian formation.

Paleotechnic
Pa•le•o•tech´nic, a. [ Paleo- + technic.] Belonging to, or connected with, ancient art. "The paleotechnic men of central France." D. Wilson.

Paleothere
Pa´le•o•there, n. [F. paleothère.] (Paleon.) Any species of Paleotherium.

Paleotherian
Pa•le•o•the´ri•an, a. [F. paleotherien.] (Paleon.) Of or pertaining to Paleotherium.

Paleotherium
Pa•le•o•the´ri•um, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ancient + beast.] (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 Palaeotherium.]

Paleotheroid
Pa•le•o•the´roid, [ Paleothere + -oid.] (Paleon.) Resembling Paleotherium. — n. An animal resembling, or allied to, the paleothere.

Paleotype
Pa´le•o•type, n. See Palaeotype.

Paleozoic
Pa•le•o•zo´ic, a. [ Paleo- + Gr. life, fr. to live.] (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.

Paleozoöogy
Pa•le•o•zo•ö"o•gy, n. [ Paleo- + zoölogy.] 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.

Palestra
Pa•les´tra, n. ; pl. L. Palestrae (#), E. Palestras (#). [NL., fr. L. palaestra, Gr., fr. to wrestle.] [Written also palaestra.] (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.

Palet
Pal´et, n. [See Palea.] (Bot.) Same as Palea.

Palfrey
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. along, beside + L. 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.

Palfreyed
Pal´freyed, a. Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

Palgrave
Pal´grave, n. See Palsgrave.

Palification
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.

Palilogy
Pa•lil´o•gy, n. [L. palilogia, Gr. ; again + to speak.] (Rhet.) The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sake of greater emphasis; as "The living, the living, he shall praise thee." Is. xxxviii. 19.

Palimpsest
Pal´imp•sest, n. [L. palimpsestus, Gr. scratched or scraped again, a palimpsest; again + to rub, rub away: cf. F. palimpseste.] A parchment which has been written upon twice, the first writing having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

Palindrome
Pal´in•drome, n. [Gr. running back again; again + to run: cf. F. 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.

Palindromist
Pa•lin´dro•mist, n. A writer of palindromes.

Paling
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.]

Palingenesia
Pal•in•ge•ne´si•a, n. [NL.] See Palingenesis. { Pal•in•gen´e•sis, Pal•in•gen´e•sy } n. [Gr. ; again + birth: cf. F. palingenesie. 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 zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

Palinode
Pal´i•node, n. [L. palinodia, from Gr. ; again + a song. See Ode.]
1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also a repetition of an ode.
2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. Sandys.

Palinody
Pal´i•no•dy, n. See Palinode. [Obs.] Wood.

Palisade
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 (Zoöl.), a nematoid worm ( Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.

Palisade
Pal•i•sade´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palisaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Palisading.] [Cf. F. palissader.] To surround, inclose, or fortify, with palisades.

Palisade
Pal•i•sade´, n. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; — usually in pl. , and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.

Palisading
Pal•i•sad´ing, n. (Fort.) A row of palisades set in the ground.

Palisado
Pal•i•sa•´do, n. ; pl. Palisadoes . A palisade. [Obs.] Shak.

Palisado
Pal•i•sa´do, v. t. To palisade. [Obs.] Sterne.

Palish
Pal´ish, a. Somewhat pale or wan.

Palissander
Pal•is•san´der, n. [F. palissandre.] (Bot.) (a) Violet wood. (b) Rosewood.

Palissy
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.

Palkee
Pal´kee, n. [Hind. palki; of the same origin as E. palanquin.] A palanquin. Malcom.

Pall, n. Same as Pawl.

Pall, n. [OE. pal, AS. pael, 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. pâlir 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.

Palla
Pal´la, n. [L. See Pall a cloak.] (Rom. Antuq.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

Palladic
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.

Palladious
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.

Palladium
Pal•la´di•um, n. [L., fr. Gr., fr.,, Pallas.]
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 safeguard; as the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

Palladium
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.

Palladiumize
Pal•la´di•um•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Palladiumized p. pr. & vb. n. Palladiumizing ] To cover or coat with palladium. [R.]

Pallas
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.

Pallbearer
Pall´bear•er, n. One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; — so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

Pallet
Pal´let, n. [OE. paillet, F. paillet a heap of straw, fr. paille straw, fr. L. palea chaff; cf. Gr. fine meal, dust, Skr. pala straw, palava chaff. Cf. Paillasse.] A small and mean bed; a bed of straw. Milton.

Pallet
Pal´let, n. [Dim. of pale. See Pale a stake.] (Her.) A perpendicular band upon an escutcheon, one half the breadth of the pale.

Pallet
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. (Pottery) (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. (Zoöl.) 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, — ormerly used by surgeons.

Palliative
Pal´li•a•tive, a. [Cf. F. palliatif.] Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

Palliative
Pal´li•a•tive, n. That which palliates; a palliative agent. Sir W. Scott.

Palliatory
Pal´li•a•to•ry, a. Palliative; extenuating.

Pallid
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.

Pallidly
Pal´lid•ly, adv. In a pallid manner.

Pallidness
Pal´lid•ness, n. The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palliobranchiata
Pal•li•o•bran•chi•a´ta, n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Brachiopoda.

Palm Sunday
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.

Palma Christi
Pal"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.]

Palmaceous
Pal•ma´ceous, a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

Palmacite
Pal´ma•cite, n. (Paleon.) A fossil palm.

Palmar
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. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.

Palmarium
Pal•ma´ri•um, n. ; pl. Palmaria (#). [NL. See Palmar.] (Zoöl.) One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.

Palmate
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. (Zoöl.) (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.

Palmatifid
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.

Palmatilobed
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.

Palmcrist
Palm´crist, n. The palma Christi. ( Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)

Palmed, a. Having or bearing a palm or palms. Palmed deer (Zoöl.), a stag of full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.

Palmerworm
Palm´er•worm, n. (Zoöl.) (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.

Palmette
Pal•mette´, n. [F., dim. of palme a palm.] A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; — often called the honeysuckle ornament.

Palmetto
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 Chamaerops, or Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage. 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.

Palmetto State. South California; — a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.

Palmic
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.]

Palmidactyles
Pal•mi•dac´ty•les, n. pl. [NL. See Palm, and Dactyl.] (Zoöl.) A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.

Palmigrade
Pal´mi•grade, a. [L. palma palm of the hand + gradi to walk.] (Zoöl.) Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.

Palmin
Pal´min, n. [From palma Christi: cf. F. palmine.] (Chem.) (a) A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil. (b) Ricinolein. [Obs.]

Palmiped
Pal´mi•ped, a. [L. palmipes, -edis, broad-footed; palma the palm of the hand + pes a foot; cf. F. palmipède.] (Zoöl.) Web-footed, as a water fowl. — n. A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.

Palmipedes
Pal•mip´e•des, n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Natatores.

Palmite
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.

Palmitin
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.

Palmitolic
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.

Palmitone
Pal´mi•tone, n. (Chem.) The ketone of palmitic acid.

Palmy
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.

Palmyra
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.

Palo
Pa´lo, n. [Sp. See Pale a stake.] A pole or timber of any kind; — in the names of trees. [Sp. Amer.]

Palola
Pa•lo´la, n. [Fr. the native name.] (Zoöl.) An annelid ( Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.

Palometa
Pa•lo•me´ta, n. (Zoöl.) A pompano.

Palp (palp), n. [Cf. F. palpe. See Palpable.] (Zoöl.) 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 palpèd darkness o’er the earth." Heywood.

Palpability
Pal•pa•bil´i•ty, n. The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch. Arbuthnot.

Palpable
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. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman.
"[Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable." Shak. — Pal´pa•ble•ness, n. — Pal´pa•bly, adv.

Palpation
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.

Palpebra
Pal´pe•bra, n. ; pl. Palpebrae (#). [L.] (Zoöl.) The eyelid.

Palpebral
Pal´pe•bral, a. [L. palpebralis, fr. palpebra: cf. F. palpebral.] Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Palpebrate
Pal´pe•brate, a. (Zoöl.) Having eyelids.

Palped (palpt), a. (Zoöl.) Having a palpus.

Palpi
Pal´pi (pal"pi), n. , pl. of Palpus. (Zoöl.) See Palpus.

Palpiger
Pal´pi•ger, n. [See Palpigerous.] (Zoöl.) That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.

Palpitant
Pal´pi•tant, a. [L. palpitans, p. pr.] Palpitating; throbbing; trembling. Carlyle.

Palpitate
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.

Palpless
Palp´less, a. (Zoöl.) Without a palpus.

Palpocil
Pal´po•cil, n. [See Palpus, and Cilium.] (Zoöl.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Palsical
Pal´si•cal, a. [From Palsy.] Affected with palsy; palsied; paralytic. [R.] Johnson.

Palstave
Pal´stave, n. [Dan. paalstav.] A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age. Dawkins.

Palster
Pal´ster, n. [D. palsterstaf.] A pilgrim’s staff. [Obs.] Halliwell.

Palsy
Pal´sy, n. ; pl. Palsies (#). [OE. palesie, parlesy, OF. paralesie, F. paralysie, L. paralysis. See Paralysis.] (Med.) Paralysis, complete or partial. See Paralysis. "One sick of the palsy." 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.

Palsy
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.

Palter
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.]

Palter
Pal´ter, v. t. To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things. [Obs.] "Palter out your time in the penal statutes." Beau. & Fl.

Palterer
Pal´ter•er, n. One who palters. Johnson.

Palterly
Pal´ter•ly, a. & adv. Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

Paltock
Pal´tock, n. [See Paletot.] A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Paltriness
Pal´tri•ness, n. The state or quality of being paltry.

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.

Paludament
Pa•lu´da•ment, n. See Paludamentum.

Paludicolae
Pal•u•dic´o•lae, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. palus, -udis, a marsh + colere to inhabit.] (Zoöl.) A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

Paludicole
Pa•lu´di•cole, a. [Cf. F. paludicole.] (Zoöl.) Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolae

Paludina
Pal•u•di´na, n. ; pl. L. Paludinae (#), E. Paludinas (#). [NL., fr. L. palus, -udis, a marsh, pool.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Paludine
Pal´u•dine, a. [L. palus, -udis, a marsh.] Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.

Paludinous
Pa•lu´di•nous, a.
1. (Zoöl.) (a) Paludinal. (b) Like or pertaining to the genus Paludina.
2. Of or pertaining to a marsh or fen. [R.]

Paludism
Pa•lu´dism, n. (Med.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Paludose
Pal´u•dose, a. [L. paludosus marshy.] Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

Palule
Pal´ule, n. (Zoöl.) See Palulus or Palus.

Palustral
Pa•lus´tral, a. [L. paluster, -ustris.] Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy. [R.]

Palustrine
Pa•lus´trine, a. Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Paly
Pal´y, a. [From Pale, a. ] Pale; wanting color; dim. [Poetic] Shak. Whittier.

Paly
Pal´y, a. [Cf. F. pale. See Pale a stake.] (Her.) Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

Pampano
Pam´pa•no, n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pompano.

Pamper
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. "A body … pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.

Pamperer
Pam´per•er, n. One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.

Pamperize
Pam´per•ize, v. t. To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.

Pampero
Pam•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.

Pamperos
Pam•pe´ros, n. pl.; sing. Pampero . [Sp. American.] (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

Pamphlet
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.

Pamphlet
Pam´phlet, v. i. To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. [R.] Howell.

Pamphleteer
Pam•phlet•eer´, n. A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.

Pamphleteer
Pam•phlet•eer´, v. i. To write or publish pamphlets.
"By pamphleteering we shall not win." C. Kingsley.

Pampiniform
Pam•pin´i•form, a. [L. pampinus a tendril + -form.] (Anat.) In the form of tendrils; — applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Pampre
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.

Pamprodactylous
Pam•pro•dac´tyl•ous, a. [ Pan- + Gr. forward + finger.] (Zoöl.) Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies. { Pan-, Pan´ta-, Pan´to- }. [Gr., m.,,neut., gen., all.] 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. pan, Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See etel.

Pan, 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. "A bowl or a pan." 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. (Crp.) 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.]

Panabase
Pan´a•base, n. [ Pan- + base. So called in allusion to the number of metals contained in it.] (Min.) Same as Tetrahedrite.

Panacean
Pan•a•ce´an, a. Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] "Panacean dews." Whitehead.

Panache
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.]

Panama hat
Pan•a•ma" hat A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant ( Carludovica palmata).

Panamanian
Pan•a•ma´ni•an, a. Of or pert. to Panama. — n. A native or citizen of Panama.

Pan-American
Pan•-A•mer´i•can, a. [See Pan- .] Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

Pan-Americanism
Pan-A•mer´i•can•ism, n. The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

Pan-Anglican
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.

Panary
Pan´a•ry, a. [L. panis bread.] Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

Panary
Pan´a•ry, n. A storehouse for bread. Halliwell.

Panathenaea
Pan•ath•e•nae´a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ;,, all + Athena.] The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

Pancake
Pan´cake, n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

Pancarte
Pan´carte, n. [F., fr. LL. pancharta. See Pan-, and Carte.] A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Panch, n. (Naut.) See Paunch.

Pancratian
Pan•cra´tian, a. Pancratic; athletic.

Pancratiast
Pan•cra´ti•ast, n. One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Pancratiastic
Pan•cra•ti•as´tic, a. Of or pertaining to the pancratium. G. West.

Pancratic
Pan•crat´ic, a. [Gr. all- powerful.] (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

Pancratium
Pan•cra´ti•um, n. [L., fr. Gr. a complete contest, fr. all-powerful;,, all + strength.]
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.

Pancreas
Pan´cre•as, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ;,, all + flesh, meat: cf. F. pancreas.] (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.

Pancreatic
Pan•cre•at´ic, a. [Cf. F. pancreatique.] (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.

Pandanus
Pan•da´nus, n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

Pandarous
Pan´dar•ous, a. Panderous. [Obs.]

Pandean
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.

Pandemic
Pan•dem´ic, a. [L. pandemus, Gr., ;,, all + the people: cf. F. pandemique.] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. — n. A pandemic disease. Harvey.

Pandemonium
Pan•de•mo´ni•um, n. [NL., from Gr.,, all + a demon.]
1. The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits. Milton.
2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.

Pander
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.

Pander
Pan´der, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pandered p. pr. & vb. n. Pandering.] To play the pander for.

Pander
Pan´der, v. i. To act the part of a pander.

Panderage
Pan´der•age, n. The act of pandering.

Panderism
Pan´der•ism, n. The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. Bp. Hall.

Panderly
Pan´der•ly, a. Having the quality of a pander. "O, you panderly rascals." Shak.

Pandermite
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.

Panderous
Pan´der•ous, a. Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.

Pandiculated
Pan•dic´u•la•ted, a. [See Pandiculation.] Extended; spread out; stretched.

Pandit
Pan´dit, n. See Pundit.

Pandore
Pan´dore, n. [F. See Bandore.] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandoran.]

Pandowdy
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.

Panegyric
Pan•e•gyr´ic, n. [L. panegyricus, Gr. panhgyrico•s: cf. F. panegyrique. 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 an assembly of the people, a high festival; pa^, pa^n all +, an assembly.] Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. "Panegyric strains." Pope. — Pan•e•gyr´ic•al•ly, adv.
"Some of his odes are panegyrical." Dryden.

Panegyry
Pan´e•gyr•y, n. A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.

Panel
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.
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.

Panel
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. Paneled back (Arch.), the paneled work covering the window back. See Window back.

Panel
Pan´el, n. (Aëronautics) A segment of an aëroplane wing. In a biplane the outer panel extends from the wing tip to the next row of posts, and is trussed by oblique stay wires.

Panelation
Pan•el•a´tion, n. The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written also panellation.] Wood.

Paneless
Pane´less, a. Without panes.
"To patch his paneless window." Shenstone.

Paneling
Pan´el•ing, n. A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also panelling.]

Panelwork
Pan´el•work, n. (Arch.) Wainscoting.

Paneulogism
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.

Pangenesis
Pan•gen´e•sis, n. [ Pan- + genesis.] (Biol.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity. The theory rests on the assumption, that the whole organization, in the sense of every separate atom or unit, reproduces itself, the cells throwing off minute granules called 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.

Pangenetic
Pan•ge•net´ic, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Pangful
Pang´ful, a. Full of pangs. Richardson.

Pangless
Pang´less, a. Without a pang; painless. Byron.

Pangolin
Pan´go•lin, n. [Malay panglang.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Pangothic
Pan•goth´ic, a. [ Pan- + Gothic.] Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

Panhandle
Pan´han•dle, n. The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas or Idaho.

Panhandle State. West Virginia; — a nickname.

Panhellenic
Pan•hel•len´ic, a. [See Panhellenium.] Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

Panhellenist
Pan•hel´len•ist, n. An advocate of Panhellenism.

Panhellenium
Pan•hel•le´ni•um, n. [NL., from Gr. ;,, all + the Greeks.] (Gr. Antiq.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

Panic
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.

Panic
Pan´ic, a. [Gr. of or pertaining to Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; - - said of fear or fright; as panic fear, terror, alarm. "A panic fright." Dryden.

Panic
Pan´ic, n. [Gr. (with or without fear): cf. F. 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.

Panidiomorphic
Pan•id•i•o•mor´phic, a. [ Pan- + idiomorphic.] (Geol.) Having a completely idiomorphic structure; — said of certain rocks.

Panier
Pan´ier, n. See Pannier, 3. [Obs.]

Panim
Pa´nim, n. See Painim. [Obs.] Milton.

Panivorous
Pa•niv´o•rous, a. [L. panis bread + vorare to devour.] Eating bread; subsisting on bread.