PAAGE, noun [See Pay.] A toll for passage over another persons grounds. [Not used.]

PABULAR, adjective [Latin , food.] Pertaining to food; affording food or aliment.

PABULATION, noun [Latin , to feed.] The act of feeding or procuring provender.

PABULOUS, adjective [Latin , food.] Affording aliment or food; alimental.

PABULUM, noun [Latin]

1. Food; aliment; that which feeds.

2. Fuel; that which supplies the means of combustion.

PACA, noun A small animal of America, bearing some resemblance to a hare and a pig. It is a species of cavy; called also the spotted cavy.

PACATE, adjective [Latin] Peaceful; tranquil. [Not used.]

PACATED, adjective Appeased. [Little used.]

PACATION, noun [Latin , to calm or appease.] The act of appeasing.

PACCAN, noun An American tree and its nut.

PACE, noun [Latin , to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.]

1. A step.

2. The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.

3. Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace

4. Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]

5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.

6. Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--

To keep or hold pace to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.

PACE, verb intransitive

1. To go; to walk; to move.

2. To go, move or walk slowly.

3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.

PACE, verb transitive

1. To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.

2. To regulate in motion.

If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--

PACED, adjective

1. Having a particular gait; used chiefly in composition; as slow-paced.

2. In composition, going all lengths; as a thorough-paced intriguer.

PACER, noun One that paces; a horse that paces.

PACHYDERMATOUS, adjective [Gr., thick, skin.] Having a thick skin; an epithet applied to an order of animals, called Pachydermata, embracing all the hoofed quadrupeds which do not ruminate, as the elephant, mastodon or North American mammoth, hippopotamus, sus or hog, rhinoceros, tapir, and horse. The horse constitutes a separate order, Solipeda.

PACIFIC, adjective [Latin , to make peace. See Peace.]

1. Peace-making; conciliatory; suited to make or restore peace; adapted to reconcile differences; mild; appeasing; as, to offer pacific propositions to a belligerent power. The measures proposed are in their nature pacific

2. Calm; tranquil; as a pacific state of things.

PACIFIC, noun The appellation given to the ocean situated between America on the west, and Asia; so called on account of its exemption from violent tempests.

PACIFICATION, noun [Latin See Pacify.

1. The act of making peace between nations or parties at variance.

2. The act of appeasing or pacifying wrath.

PACIFICATOR, noun [Latin] A peace-maker; one that restores amity between contending parties or nations.

PACIFICATORY, adjective Tending to make peace; conciliatory.

PACIFIED, participle passive Appeased; tranquilized.

PACIFIER, noun One who pacifies.

PACIFY, verb transitive [Latin , peace, and to make.]

1. To appease, as wrath or other violent passion or appetite; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay agitation or excitement; as, to pacify a man when angry, or to pacify his wrath or rage; the word being applied both to the person and to the passion. So we say, to pacify hunger, to pacify importunate demands.

2. To restore peace to; to tranquilize; as, to pacify countries in contention.

PACIFYING, participle present tense Appeasing; tranquilizing.

PACK, noun [See the Verb.]

1. A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back.

2. A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows.

3. A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together.

4. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united.

5. A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves.

6. A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.]

7. A loose or lewd person. [Not used.]

PACK, verb transitive [Latin pango, pactum, pactus; impingo, compingo.]

1. To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest.

2. To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps.

3. To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels.

4. To send in haste.

5. To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops.

PACK, verb intransitive To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well.

1. To close; to shut.

2. To depart in haste; with off.

Poor Stella must pack off to town.

3. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

Go, pack with him.

PACK'AGE, noun A bundle or bale; a quantity pressed or bound together; as a package of cloth.

1. A charge made for packing goods.

PACK'CLOTH, noun A cloth for packing goods, or in which they are tied.

PACK'ED, participle passive Put together and pressed; tied or bound in a bundle; put down and salted, as meat; sent off; united iniquitously.

PACK'ER, noun One that packs; an officer appointed to pack meat, as beef, port, fish, etc.

PACK'ET, noun

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.

2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.

3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.

PACK'ET, verb intransitive To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.

PACK'HORSE, noun A horse employed in carrying packs or goods and baggage.

1. A beast of burden.

PACK'ING, participle present tense Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, etc.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose.

PACK'ING, noun A trick; collusion.

PACK'SADDLE, noun A saddle on which packs or burdens are laid for conveyance.

PACK'STAFF, noun A staff on which a traveler occasionally supports his pack.

PACK'THREAD, noun Strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels.

PACK'-WAX, noun A tendinous substance of the neck of an animal.

PA'CO

PA'COS, n. An animal of South America, resembling the camel in shape, but much smaller. It is sometimes called the Peruvian sheep, on account of its long thick hair.

PACT, noun [Latin pactus, from pango. See Pack.]

A contract; an agreement or covenant.

PAC'TION, noun [Latin pactio. See Pack.] An agreement or contract.

PAC'TIONAL, adjective By way of agreement.

PACTI'TIOUS, adjective Settled by agreement or stipulation.

PAD, noun

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]

2. An easy paced horse.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad

PAD, noun A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.

PAD, verb intransitive To travel slowly.

1. To rob on foot.

2. To beat a way smooth and level.

PAD'AR, noun Grouts; coarse flour or meal. [Not used in U. States.]

PAD'DER, noun A robber on foot; a highwayman.

PAD'DLE, verb intransitive [Latin pes, pedis, the foot, and this is allied to Gr., to tread.]

1. To row; to beat the water, as with oars.

2. To play in the water with the hands, as children; or with the feet, as fowls or other animals.

3. To finger.

PAD'DLE, verb transitive To propel by an oar or paddle

PAD'DLE, noun [In Latin batillus is a paddle-staff; in Gr. a pole.]

1. An oar, but not a large oar. It is now applied to a sort of short oar used in propelling and steering canoes and boats.

2. The blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon.

Thou shalt have a paddle on thy weapon. Deuteronomy 23:13.

PAD'DLER, noun On that paddles.

PAD'DOCK, noun A toad or frog.

PAD'DOCK, noun

1. A small inclosure for deer or other animals.

2. An inclosure for races with hounds, etc.

PADELI'ON, noun A plant.

PAD'LOCK, noun A lock to be hung on a staple and held by a link.

PAD'LOCK, verb transitive To fasten with a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine.

PAD'NAG, noun An ambling nag.

PADUASOY', noun A particular kind of silk stuff.

PAE'AN

PA'ER-STAINER, noun One that stains, colors or stamps paper for hangings.

PA'GAN, noun [Latin paganus, a peasant or countryman, from pagus, a village.] A heathen; a Gentile; an idolater; one who worships false gods. This word was originally applied to the inhabitants of the country, who on the first propagation of the christian religion adhered to the worship of false gods, or refused to receive christianity, after it had been received by the inhabitants of the cities. In like manner, heather signifies an inhabitant of the heath or woods, and caffer, in Arabic, signifies the inhabitant of a hut or cottage, and one that does not receive the religion of Mohammed. pagan is used to distinguish one from a Christian and a Mohammedan.

PA'GAN, adjective Heathen; heathenish; Gentile; noting a person who worships false gods.

1. Pertaining to the worship of false gods.

PA'GANISM, noun Heathenism; the worship of false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans.

Men instructed from their infancy in the principles and duties of christianity, never sink to the degradation of paganism

PA'GANIZE, verb transitive To render heathenish; to convert to heathenism.

PA'GANIZE, verb intransitive To behave like pagans.

PA'GANIZED, participle passive Rendered heathenish.

PA'GANIZING, participle present tense Rendering heathenish; behaving like pagans; adopting heathen principles and practice.

PAGE, noun [Gr. a boy.]

1. A boy attending on a great person, rather for formality or show, than for servitude.

He had two pages of honor, on either hand one.

2. A boy or man that attends on a legislative body. In Massachusetts, the page is a boy that conveys papers from the members of the house of representatives to the speaker, and from the speaker or clerk to the members.

PAGE, noun [Latin pagina.] One side of a leaf of a book.

1. A book or writing or writings; as the page of history.

2. Pages, in the plural, signifies also books or writings; as the sacred pages.

PAGE, verb transitive To mark or number the pates of a book or manuscript.

1. To attend, as a page

PAGEANT, noun pa'jent. [Latin pegma; Gr. something showy carried in triumph.]

1. A statue in show, or a triumphal car, chariot, arch or other pompous thing, decorated with flags, etc. and carried in public shows and processions.

2. A show; a spectacle of entertainment; something intended for pomp.

I'll play my part in fortune's pageant

3. Any thing showy, without stability or duration.

Thus unlamented pass the proud away,

The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day.

PA'GEANT, adjective Showy; pompous; ostentatious.

PA'GEANT, verb transitive To exhibit in show; to represent.

PA'GEANTY, noun Show; pompous exhibition or spectacle.

Such pageantry to be the people shown.

PA'GIL, noun A plant and flower of the genus Primula or primrose; cowslip-primrose.

PAG'INAL, adjective Consisting of pages.

PA'GOD

PAGO'DA, noun

1. A temple in the East Indies in which idols are worshiped.

2. An idol; an image of some supposed deity.

PAGO'DA, noun A gold or silver coin current in Hindoostan, of different values in different parts of India, from $1.75 cts. to $2, or from 8 to 9s.sterling.

PAGO'DA, n.

PAGO'DA, n. A gold or silver coin current in Hindoostan, of different values in different parts of India, from $1.75 cts. to $2, or from 8 to 9s.sterling.

PA'GODITE, noun A name given to the mineral of which the Chinese make their pagodas. It is called also lardite, koreite, and agalmatolite.

PAID, preterit tense and participle passive of pay; paid for payed.

PA'IGLE

PAIL, noun An open wooden vessel used in families for carrying liquids, as water and milk, usually containing from eight to twelve quarts.

PAIL, n. An open wooden vessel used in families for carrying liquids, as water and milk, usually containing from eight to twelve quarts.

PAILMAIL. [See Pallmall.]

PAIN, noun [Latin paena; Gr. penalty, and pain labor.]

1. An uneasy sensation in animal bodies, of any degree from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from pressure, tension or spasm, separation of parts by violence, or any derangement of functions. Thus violent pressure or stretching of a limb gives pain; inflammation produces pain; wounds, bruises and incisions give pain

2. Labor; work; toil; laborious effort. In this sense, the plural only is used; as, to take pains; to be at the pains.

High without taking pains to rise.

The same with pains we gain, but lose with ease.

3. Labor; toilsome effort; task; in the singular. [Not now used.]

4. Uneasiness of mind; disquietude; anxiety; solicitude for the future; grief, sorrow for the past. We suffer pain when we fear or expect evil; we feel pain at the loss of friends or property.

5. The throws or distress of travail or childbirth.

She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Samuel 4:19.

6. Penalty; punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for a crime, or annexed to the commission of a crime.

None shall presume to fly under pain of death.

Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.

PAIN, verb transitive

1. To make uneasy or to disquiet; to cause uneasy sensations in the body, of any degree of intensity; to make simply uneasy, or to distress, to torment. The pressure of fetters may pain a limb; the rack pains the body.

2. To afflict; to render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress. We are pained at the death of a friend; grief pains the heart; we are often pained with fear or solicitude.

I am pained at my very heart. Jeremiah 4:19.

3. Reciprocally, to pain one's self, to labor; to make toilsome efforts. [Little used.]

PA'INFUL, adjective Giving pain, uneasiness or distress to the body; as a painful operation in surgery.

1. Giving pain to the mind; afflictive; disquieting; distressing.

Evils have been more painful to us in the prospect, than in the actual pressure.

2. Full of pain; producing misery or affliction.

3. Requiring labor or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service. The army had a painful march.

4. Laborious; exercising labor; undergoing toil; industrious.

Nor must the painful husbandman be tired.

PA'INFULLY, adverb With suffering of body; with affliction, uneasiness or distress of mind.

1. Laboriously; with toil; with laborious effort or diligence.

PA'INFULNESS, noun Uneasiness or distress of body.

1. Affliction; sorrow; grief; disquietude or distress of mind.

2. Laborious effort or diligence; toil.

PA'INIM, noun A pagan. [Not used.]

PA'INIM, adjective Pagan; infidel. [Not used.]

PA'INLESS, adjective Free from pain.

1. Free from trouble.

PA'INSTAKER, noun A laborious person.

PA'INSTAKING, adjective Laborious; industrious.

PA'INSTAKING, noun Labor; great industry.

PA'INT, verb transitive [Latin pingo, pictus.]

1. To form a figure or likeness in colors; as, to paint a hero or a landscape.

2. To cover or besmear with color or colors, either with or without figures; as, to paint a cloth; to paint a house.

3. To represent by colors or images; to exhibit in form.

When folly romantic, we must paint it.

4. To represent or exhibit to the mind; to present in form or likeness to the intellectual view; to describe.

Disloyal!

--The word is too good to paint out her wickedness.

5. To color; to diversify with colors.

6. To lay on artificial color for ornament.

Jezebel painted her face and tired her head. 2 Kings 9:30.

PAINT, verb intransitive To lay colors on the face. It is said the ladies in France paint

1. To practice painting. The artist paints well.

PAINT, noun A coloring substance; a substance used in painting; either simple or compound; as a white paint or red paint

1. Color laid on canvas or other material; color representing any thing.

2. Color laid on the face; rouge.

PA'INTED, participle passive Colored; rubbed over with paint; as a painted house or cloth.

1. Represented in form by colors.

2. Described.

PA'INTER, noun One whose occupation is to paint; one skilled in representing things in colors.

PA'INTER, noun A rope used to fasten a boat to a ship or other object.

PA'INTING, participle present tense Representing in colors; laying on colors.

PA'INTING, noun The art of forming figures or resembling objects in colors on canvas or other material, or the art of representing to the eye by means of figures and colors, any object of sight, and sometimes the emotions of the mind.

1. A picture; a likeness or resemblance in colors.

2. Colors laid on.

PA'INTURE, noun The art of painting.

PAIR, noun [Latin par; Heb. to join, couple or associate.]

1. Two things of a kind, similar in form, applied to the same purpose, and suited to each other or used together; as a pair of gloves or stockings; a pair of shoes; a pair of oxen or horses.

2. Two of a sort; a couple; a brace; as a pair of nerves; a pair of doves. Luke 2:24.

PAIR, verb intransitive To be joined in pairs; to couple, as, birds pair in summer.

1. To suit; to fit; as a counterpart.

Ethelinda,

My heart was made to fit and pair with thine.

PAIR, verb transitive To unite in couples; as minds paired in heaven.

1. To unite as correspondent, or rather to contrast.

Glossy jet is paired with shining white.

PAIR, verb transitive To impair. [See Impair.]

PA'IRED, participle passive Joined in couples, fitted; suited.

PA'IRING, participle present tense Uniting in pairs; fitting.

PAL'ACE, noun [Latin palatium.]

1. A magnificent house in which an emperor, a king or other distinguished person resides; as an imperial palace; a royal palace; a pontifical palace; a ducal palace

2. A splendid place of residence; as the sun's bright palace

PALA'CIOUS, adjective [from palace.] Royal; noble; magnificent. [Not used.]

PALANKEE'N

PALAN'QUIN, noun A covered carriage used in India, China, etc. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.

PALAN'QUIN, n. A covered carriage used in India, China, &c. borne on the shoulders of men, and in which a single person is conveyed from place to place.

PAL'ATABLE, adjective [from palate.] Agreeable to the taste; savory.

1. That is relished.

PAL'ATABLENESS, noun The quality of being agreeable to the taste; relish.

PAL'ATAL, adjective Pertaining to the palate; uttered by the aid of the palate.

PAL'ATAL, noun A letter pronounced by the aid of the palate, or an articulation of the root of the tongue with the roof of the mouth; as g hard and k, in eg, ek.

PAL'ATE, noun [Latin palatum, properly the arch or cope of heaven.]

1. The roof or upper part of the mouth. The glands in this part of the mouth secrete a mucous fluid, which lubricates the mouth and throat, and facilitates deglutition.

2. Taste.

Hard task to hit the palates of such guests.

[This signification of the word originated in the opinion that the palate is the instrument of taste. This is a mistake. In itself it has no power of taste.]

3. Mental relish; intellectual taste.

Men of nice palates could not relish Aristotle, as dressed up by the schoolmen.

PAL'ATE, verb transitive To perceive by the taste. [Not used.]

PALA'TIAL, adjective [from palate.] Pertaining to the palate; as the palatial retraction of the tongue.

PALA'TIAL, adjective [from Latin palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; becoming a palace; magnificent.

PAL'ATIC, a Belonging to the palate. [Not used.]

PALAT'INATE, noun [Latin palatinus. See Palatine.]

The province or seignory of a palatine; as the palatinate of the Rhine in Germany, called the upper and lower palatinate

PAL'ATINE, adjective [Latin palatinus, from palatium, palace.] Pertaining to a palace; an epithet applied originally to persons holding an office or employment in the king; s palace; hence it imports possessing royal privileges; as a count palatine

In England, formerly, were three counties palatine Chester, Durham and Lancaster; the two former by prescription, the latter by grant of Edward III. They were so called, because the proprietors, the earl of Chester, the bishop of Durham and the duke of Lancaster, possessed royal rights, as fully as the king in his palace. Of these, the county of Durham is the only one now remaining in the hands of a subject.

PAL'ATINE, noun One invested with royal privileges and rights. A palatine or count palatine on the continent of Europe, is one delegated by a prince to hold courts of justice in a province, or one who has a palace and a court of justice in his own house. In Poland, a palatine may be regarded as the governor of a province.

PAL'ATIVE, adjective Pleasing to the taste. [Not used.]

PAL'AVER, noun

1. Idle talk.

2. Flattery; adulation. [This is used with us in the vulgar dialect.]

3. Talk; conversation; conference; a sense used in Africa, as appears by the relations of missionaries.

PAL'AVER, verb transitive To flatter. [In vulgar use.]

PALE, adjective [Latin palleo, pallidus.]

1. White or whitish; wan; deficient in color; not ruddy or fresh of color; as a pale face or skin; pale cheeks. We say also, a pale red, a pale blue, that is, a whitish red or blue. pale is not precisely synonymous with white, as it usually denotes what we call wan, a darkish dun white.

2. Not bright; not shining; of a faint luster; dim; as the pale light of the moon.

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick;

It looks a little paler.

PALE, verb transitive To make pale

PALE, noun [Latin palus; coinciding with Eng. pole, as well as pale It has the elements of Latin pala, a spade or shovel.]

1. A narrow board pointed or sharpened at one end, used in fencing or inclosing. This is with us more generally called a picket.

2. A pointed stake; hence to empale, which see.

3. An inclosure; properly, that which incloses, like fence, limit; hence, the space inclosed. He was born within the pale of the church; within the pale of christianity.

4. District; limited territory.

5. In heraldry, an ordinary, consisting of two perpendicular lines drawn from the top to the base of the escutcheon, and containing the third middle part of the field.

PALE, verb transitive To inclose with pales or stakes.

1. To inclose; to encompass.

PALEA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin palea, straw, chaff.]

1. Chaffy; resembling chaff, or consisting of it; as a paleaceous pappus.

2. Chaffy; furnished with chaff; as a paleaceous receptacle.

PA'LED, participle passive Inclosed with pales or pickets.

1. Striped.

PA'LELY, adverb Wanly; not freshly or ruddily.

PAL'ENDAR, noun A kind of coasting vessel.

PA'LENESS, noun Wanness; defect of color; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness of look.

The blood the virgin's cheek forsook,

A livid paleness spreads o'er all her look.

1. Want of color or luster; as the paleness of a flower.

PALEOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. ancient, and writing.]

1. The art of explaining ancient writings. More correctly,

2. An ancient manner of writing; as Punic paleography

PALEOL'OGIST, noun One who writes on antiquity, or one conversant with antiquity.

PALEOL'OGY, noun [Gr. ancient, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise on antiquities, or the knowledge of ancient things.

PA'LEOUS, adjective [Latin palea, chaff.] Chaffy; like chaff.

PALES'TRIAN

PALES'TRIC, adjective [Gr. a struggling or wrestling, to wrestle, to strive.] Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling.

PALES'TRIC, a. [Gr. a struggling or wrestling, to wrestle, to strive.] Pertaining to the exercise of wrestling.

PAL'ET, noun The crown of the head. [Not used.]

PALETTE. [See Pallet.]

PAL'FREY, noun [Low Latin paraveredi, [plu of veredus, ] horses of a large size, used for carrying the baggage of an army.]

1. A horse used by noblemen and others for state, distinguished from a war horse.

2. A small horse fit for ladies.

PAL'FREYED, adjective Riding on a palfrey.

PALIFICA'TION, noun [from Latin palus, a stake or post.] The act or practice of driving piles or posts into the ground for making it firm.

PAL'INDROME, noun [Gr. again.] A word, verse or sentence that is the same when read backwards or forwards; as madam, or 'Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.'

PA'LING, participle present tense Inclosing with pales.

PA'LING, noun A fence formed with pales.

PAL'INODE

PAL'INODY, noun [Gr. again, and a song.] A recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one.

PAL'INODY, n. [Gr. again, and a song.] A recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one.

PALISA'DE, noun A fence or fortification consisting of a row of stakes or posts sharpened and set firmly in the ground. In fortification, the posts are set two or three inches apart, parallel to the parapet in the covered way, to prevent a surprise.

Palisades serve also to fortify the avenues of open forts, gorges, half-moons, the bottom of ditches, etc.

PALISA'DE, verb transitive To surround, inclose or fortify with stakes or posts.

PA'LISH, adjective [from pale.] Somewhat pale or wan; as a palish blue.

PALL, noun [Latin pallium.]

1. A cloke; a mantle of state.

2. The mantle of an archbishop.

3. The cloth thrown over a dead body at funerals.

PALL, noun In heraldry, a figure like the Greek.

PALL, verb transitive To cloke; to cover or invest.

PALL, verb intransitive [Gr. old.]

1. To become vapid; to lose strength, life, spirit or taste; to become insipid; as, the liquor palls.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,

Fades in the eye and palls upon the sense.

PALL, verb transitive To make vapid or insipid.

Reason and reflection--blunt the edge of the keenest desires, and pall all his enjoyments.

1. To make spiritless; to dispirit; to depress.

The more we raise our love,

The more we pall and cool and kill his ardor.

2. To weaken; to impair; as, to pall fortune.

3. To cloy; as the palled appetite.

PALLA'DIUM, noun [Gr. from Pallas, the goddess.]

1. Primarily, a statue of the goddess Pallas, which represented her as sitting with a pike in her right hand, and in her left a distaff and spindle. On the preservation of this statue depended the safety of Troy. Hence,

2. Something that affords effectual defense, protection and safety; as when we say, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.

3. A metal found in very small grains, of a steel gray color and fibrous structure, in auriferous and platiniferous sand. It is infusible by ordinary heat, and when native, is alloyed with a litter platina and iridium.

PAL'LET, noun [Latin pala.]

1. Among painters, a little oval table or board, or piece of ivroy, on which the painter places the colors to be used. On the middle the colors are mixed to obtain the tints required.

2. Among potters, crucible makers, etc. a wooden instrument for forming, heating and rounding their works. It is oval, round, etc.

3. In gilding, an instrument made of a squirrel's tail, to take up the gold leaves from the pillow, and to apply and extend them.

4. In heraldry, a small pale. [See Pale.]

5. A small part belonging to the balance of a watch; the nut of a watch. It is sometimes written pallat.

6. A measure formerly used by surgeons, containing three ounces.

PAL'LET, noun [Latin palea, straw.] A small bed.

PAL'LIAMENT, noun [Latin pallium, a cloke.] A dress; a robe. [Not used.]

PAL'LIARD, noun A lecher; a lewd person. [Not used nor English.]

PAL'LIARDISE, noun Fornication. [Not used.]

PAL'LIATE, verb transitive [Low Latin pallio, from pallium, a cloke or robe.]

1. To clothe.

2. To cover with excuse; to conceal the enormity of offenses by excuses and apologies; hence, to extenuate; to lessen; to soften by favorable representations; as, to palliate faults, offenses, crimes or vices.

3. To reduce in violence; to mitigate; to lessen or abate; as, to palliate a disease.

PAL'LIATE, adjective Eased; mitigated. [Not used.]

PAL'LIATED, participle passive Covered by excuses; extenuated; softened.

PAL'LIATING, participle present tense Concealing the enormity or most censurable part of conduct; extenuating; softening.

PALLIA'TION, noun The act of palliating; concealment of the most flagrant circumstances of an offense; extenuation by favorable representation; as the palliation of faults, offenses, vices or crimes.

1. Mitigation; alleviation; abatement; as of a disease.

PAL'LIATIVE, adjective Extenuating; serving to extenuate by excuses or favorable representation.

1. Mitigating; alleviating; as pain or disease.

PAL'LIATIVE, noun That which extenuates.

1. That which mitigates, alleviates or abates the violence of pain, disease or other evil.

PAL'LID, adjective [Latin pallidus, from palleo, to become pale. See Pale.]

Pale; wan; deficient in color; not high colored; as a pallid countenance; pallid blue.

PAL'LIDLY, adverb Palely; wanly.

PAL'LIDNESS, noun Paleness; wanness.

PALL'MALL, noun [Latin pila, a ball, and malleus, mallet.] A play in which a ball is driven through an iron ring by a mallet; also, the mallet.

PAL'LOR, noun [Latin] Paleness.

PALM, noun p'am.. [Latin palma.]

1. The inner part of the hand.

2. A hand or hand's breadth; a lineal measure of three inches.

3. The broad triangular part of an anchor at the end of the arms.

4. The name of many species of plants, but particularly of the date-tree or great palm a native of Asia and Africa.

The palms constitute a natural order of monocotyledonous plants, with a simple cylindric stem, terminating in a crown of leaves or fronds, within which rises a tuft of flowers and fruits; all natives of warm climates. They vary in size from 2 to more than 100 feet in highth.

5. Branches of the palm being worn in token of victory, hence the word signifies superiority, victory, triumph. The palm was adopted as an emblem of victory, it is said, because the tree is so elastic as when pressed, to rise and recover its correct position.

Namur subdued is England's palm alone.

6. Among seamen, an instrument used in sewing canvas instead of a thimble.

PALM, verb transitive p'am. To conceal in the palm of the hand.

They palmed the trick that lost the game.

1. To impose by fraud.

For you may palm upon us new for old.

2. To handle.

3. To stroke with the hand.

PAL'MAR, adjective [Latin palmaris.] Of the breadth of the hand.

PAL'MATED, adjective [Latin palmatus, from palma, palm.]

1. Having the shape of a hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread; as palmated leaves or stones.

2. Entirely webbed; as the palmated feet of aquatic fowls.

PALMER, noun p'amer. One that returned from the Holy Land bearing branches of palm; a pilgrim or crusader.

PALMET'TO, noun A species of palm-tree, growing in the West Indies, of the genus Chamaerops.

PALMIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin palma and fero, to bear.] Bearing palms.

PAL'MIPED, adjective [Latin palma and pes, foot.] Web-footed; having the toes connected by a membrane; as a water fowl.

PAL'MIPED, noun A fowl that has webbed feet, or the toes connected by a membrane.

PAL'MISTER, noun [Latin palma.] One who deals in palmistry, or pretends to tell fortunes by the palm of the hand.

PAL'MISTRY, noun [Latin palma, palm.] The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; a trick of imposture, much practiced by gypsies.

1. Addison used it humorously for the action of the hand.

PALMY, adjective p'amy. Bearing palms.

PALP, verb transitive to feel. [Not authorized.]

PALPABIL'ITY, noun [from palpable.]

The quality of being perceptible by the touch.

PAL'PABLE, adjective [Latin palpor, to feel.]

1. Perceptible by the touch; that may be felt; as a palpable substance; palpable darkness.

2. Gross; coarse; easily perceived and detected; as a palpable absurdity.

3. Plain; obvious; easily perceptible; as palpable phenomena; palpable proof.

PAL'PABLENESS, noun The quality of being palpable; plainness; obviousness; grossness.

PAL'PABLY, adverb In such a manner as to be perceived by the touch.

1. Grossly; plainly; obviously.

Clodius was acquitted by a corrupt jury that had palpably taken shares of money.

PALPA'TION, noun [Latin palpatio, from palpo, to feel, to stroke, from the root of feel, and Gr. to shake. Probably the primary sense is to beat or strike gently, or to touch, or to spring, to leap.]

The act of feeling.

PAL'PITATE, verb intransitive [Latin palpito, from palpo. Palpito illustrates the primary sense of palpo.] To beat gently; to beat, as the heart; to flutter, that is, to move with little throws; as we say, to go pit a pat; applied particularly to a preternatural or excited movement of the heart.

PALPITA'TION, noun [Latin palpitatio.] A beating of the heart; particularly, a preternatural beating or pulsation excited by violent action of the body, by fear, fright or disease.

1 A violent, irregular motion of the heart.

PALS'GRAVE, noun pawlzgrave. [Latin palatium, palace, and graf, an earl.] A count or earl who has the superintendence of the king's palace.

PAL'SICAL, adjective s as z. [from palsy.] Affected with palsy; paralytic.

PAL'SIED, adjective [from palsy.] Affected with palsy.

PAL'SY, noun s as z. [supposed to be contracted from Gr. relaxation; to loosen or relax.] The loss or defect of the power of voluntary muscular motion in the whole body, or in a particular part; paralysis. When one side only of the body is affected, it is called hemiplegy. When the lower part of the body is paralytic, it is called paraplegy. palsy may be a loss of the power of motion without a loss of sensation, or a loss of sensation without loss of motion, or a loss of both.

PALSY, verb transitive s as z. To paralyze; to deprive of the power of motion; to destroy energy.

PAL'TER, verb intransitive [Eng. fail.] To shift; to dodge; to play tricks. Rather, to fail; to come short; to balk.

Romans, that have spoke the word

And will not palter

PAL'TER, verb transitive To squander. [Not used.]

PAL'TERER, noun One that palters, fails or falls short.

PAL'TRINESS, noun [from paltry.] The state of being paltry, vile or worthless.

PAL'TRY, adjective [Gr. vile, and to fail.] Ragged; mean; vile; worthless; despicable; as a paltry boy; a paltry slave; a paltry trifle.

PA'LY, adjective [from pale.] Pale; wanting color; used only in poetry.

1. In heraldry, divided by pales into four equal parts.

PAM, noun [supposed to be from palm, victory.] The knave of clubs.

PAM'PER, verb transitive [Latin bibo.]

1. To feed to the full; to glut; to saginate; to feed luxuriously; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

We are proud of a body fattening for worms and pampered for corruption and the grave.

2. To gratify to the full; to furnish with that which delights; as, to pamper the imagination.

PAM'PERED, participle passive Fed high; glutted or gratified to the full.

PAM'PERING, participle present tense Glutting; feeding luxuriously; gratifying to the full.

PAM'PERING, adjective Luxuriancy.

PAM'PHLET, noun A small book consisting of a sheet of paper, or of sheets stitched together but not bound.

PAM'PHLET, verb transitive To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

PAMPHLETEE'R, noun A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.

PAN, noun

1. A vessel broad and somewhat hollow or depressed in the middle, or with a raised border; used for setting milk and other domestic purposes.

2. The part of a gun-lock or other fire-arms which holds the priming that communicates with the charge.

3. Something hollow; as the brain pan

4. Among farmers, the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; called the hard pan

5. The top of the head.

PAN, verb transitive To join; to close together. [Local.]

PANACE'A, noun [Latin from Gr. all, and to cure.]

1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine.

2. An herb.

PANA'DA

PANA'DO, noun [Latin panis.] A kind of food made by boiling bread in water to the consistence of pulp and sweetened.

PANA'DO, n. [L. panis.] A kind of food made by boiling bread in water to the consistence of pulp and sweetened.

PAN'CAKE, noun A thin cake fried in a pan.

Some folks think it will never be good times, till houses are tiled with pancakes.

PANCH, noun Among seamen, a thick and strong mat, to be fastened on yards to prevent friction.

PANCRAT'IC

PANCRAT'ICAL, adjective [Gr. all, and strength.] Excelling in all gymnastic exercises; very strong or robust.

PANCRAT'ICAL, a. [Gr. all, and strength.] Excelling in all gymnastic exercises; very strong or robust.

PAN'CREAS, noun [Gr. all, and flesh.] A gland of the body situated between the bottom of the stomach and the vertebers of the loins, reaching from the liver to the spleen, and attached to the peritonaeum. It is two fingers in breadth, and six in length, soft and supple. It secretes a kind of saliva and pours it into the duodenum.

PANCREAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to the pancreas; as pancreatic juice.

PANCY. [See Pansy.]

PAN'DECT, noun [Latin pandectoe, from Gr. all, and to contain, to take.]

1. A treatise which contains the whole of any science.

2. Pandects, in the plural, the digest or collection of civil or Roman law, made by order of the emperor Justinian, and containing 534 decisions or judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor gave the force and authority of law. This compilation consists of fifty books, forming the first part of the civil law.

PANDEM'IC, adjective [Gr. all, and people.] Incident to a whole people; epidemic; as a pandemic disease.

PAN'DER, noun [Latin mango.] A pimp, a procurer; a male bawd; a mean profligate wretch who caters for the lust of others.

PAN'DER, verb transitive To pimp; to procure lewd women for others.

PAN'DER, verb intransitive To act as agent for the lusts of others.

1. To be subservient to lust or passion.

PAN'DERAGE, noun A procuring of sexual connection.

PAN'DERISM, noun The employment or vices of a pander; a pimping.

PAN'DERLY, adjective Pimping; acting the pander.

PANDICULA'TION, noun [Latin pandiculor, to yawn, to stretch.]

A yawning; a stretching; the tension of the solids that accompanies yawning, or that restlessness and stretching that accompanies the cold fit of an intermittent.

PAN'DIT

PUN'DIT, noun In Hindoostan, a learned man.

PAN'DORAN, noun [Gr.] An instrument of music of the lute kind; a bandore.

PAN'DORE

PANE, noun A square of glass.

1. A piece of any thing in variegated works.

PANE, n. A square of glass.

PANEGYR'IC, noun [Latin panegyricus, from Gr. a public meeting or celebration, all, and an assembly.]

1. An oration or eulogy in praise of some distinguished person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium.

2. An encomium; praise bestowed on some eminent person, action or virtue.

PANEGYR'IC, adjective Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic.

PANEGY'RIS, noun A festival; a public meeting.

PANEGYR'IST, noun One who bestows praise; an eulogist; an encomiast, either by writing or speaking.

PAN'EGYRIZE, verb transitive To praise highly; to write or pronounce an eulogy on.

PAN'EGYRIZE, verb intransitive To bestow praises.

PAN'EGYRIZED, participle passive Highly praised or eulogized.

PAN'EGYRIZING, participle present tense Praising highly; eulogizing.

PAN'EL, noun

1. A square piece of board, or other piece somewhat similar inserted between other pieces; as the panel of a door.

2. A piece of parchment or schedule, containing the names of persons summoned by the sheriff. Hence more generally,

3. The whole jury.

PAN'EL, verb transitive To form with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.

PA'NELESS, adjective Without panes of glass.

PANG, noun Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, a sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. Isaiah 21:3.

I saw the hoary traitor,

Grin in the pangs of death, and bit the ground.

PANG, verb transitive To torture; to give extreme pain to.

PAN'GOLIN, noun A species of Manis or scaly lizard, found only in Hindoostan.

PAN'IC, noun A sudden fright; particularly, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic

PAN'IC, adjective Extreme or sudden; applied to fright; as panic fear.

PAN'IC, noun [Latin panicum.] A plant and its grain, of the genus Panicum. The grain or seed is like millet, and it is cultivated in some parts of Europe for bread.

PAN'ICLE, noun [Latin panicula, down upon reeds, cat's tail, allied to Latin pannus, cloth.] In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the flowers or fruits are scattered on peduncles variously subdivided, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked, the squeezed, the spreading, the diffused, the divaricating.

PAN'ICLED, adjective Furnished with panicles.

PANIC'ULATE

PANIC'ULATED, adjective Having branches variously subdivided; as a paniculate stem.

1. Having the flowers in panicles; as a paniculate inflorescence.

PANIC'ULATED, a. Having branches variously subdivided; as a paniculate stem.

PAN'NADE, noun The curvet of a horse. [See Panic.]

PAN'NAGE, noun [from Latin panis.] The food of swine in the woods; as beach nuts, acorns, etc. called also pawns; also, the money taken by agistors for the mast of the king's forest.

PAN'NEL, noun [Latin pannus, cloth.] A kind of rustic saddle.

1. The stomach of a hawk.

PANNELLA'TION, noun The act of impanneling a jury. [Not used.]

PANNIER, noun pan'yer. [Latin panis, bread.] A wicker basket; primarily, a bread-basket, but used for carrying fruit or other things on a horse.

PAN'NIKEL, noun The brain pan or skull. [Not in use.]

PAN'OPLY, noun [Gr. all, and arms.] Complete armor or defense.

We had need to take the christian panoply to put on the whole armor of God.

PANOR'AMA, noun [Gr. all, and view, to see.] Complete or entire view; a circular painting having apparently no beginning or end, from the center of which the spectator may have a complete view of the objects presented.

PANSOPH'ICAL, adjective [See Pansophy.[ Pretending to have a knowledge of every thing.

PAN'SOPHY, noun [Gr. all, and wisdom.] Universal wisdom or knowledge. [Little used.]

PAN'SY, noun A plant and flower of the genus Viola; the viola tricolor, or garden violet.

P'ANT, verb intransitive

1. To palpitate; to beat with preternatural violence or rapidity, as the heart in terror, or after hard labor, or in anxious desire or suspense.

Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake.

2. To have the breast heaving, as in short respiration or want of breath.

Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.

3. To play with intermission or declining strength.

The whispering breeze

Pants on the leaves and dies upon the trees.

4. To long; to desire ardently.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose.

As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. Psalms 42:1.

P'ANT, noun Palpitation of the heart.

PANTALOON', noun

1. A garment for males in which breeches and stockings are in a piece; a species of close long trowsers extending to the heels.

2. A character in the Italian comedy, and a buffoon in pantomimes; so called from his close dress.

P'ANTER, noun One that pants.

PANT'ER, noun A net.

P'ANTESS, noun [from pant.] The difficulty of breathing in a hawk.

PAN'THEISM, noun [Gr. all, and God, whence theism.] The doctrine that the universe is God, or the system of theology in which it is maintained that the universe is the supreme God.

PANTHE'IST, noun One that believes the universe to be God; a name given to the followers of Spinosa.

The earliest Grecian pantheist of whom we read is Orpheus.

PANTHEIS'TIC

PANTHEIS'TICAL, noun Pertaining to pantheism; confounding God with the universe.

PANTHEIS'TICAL, n. Pertaining to pantheism; confounding God with the universe.

PANTHE'ON, noun [Gr. all, and God.] A temple or magnificent edifice at Rome, dedicated to all the gods. It is now converted into a church. It was built or embellished by Agrippa, son-in-law to Augustus, is of a round or cylindrical form, with a spherical dome, and 144 feet in diameter.

PAN'THER, noun [Latin from Gr.] A fierce, ferocious quadruped of the genus Felis, of the size of a large dog, with short hair, of a yellow color, diversified with roundish black spots. This animal is carnivorous, and will climb trees in pursuit of small animals. It is a native of Africa. The name is also applied to other species of the genus.

PAN'TILE, noun A gutter tile.

P'ANTING, participle present tense [See Pant.] Palpitating; breathing with a rapid succession of inspirations and expirations; longing.

P'ANTING, noun Palpitation; rapid breathing; longing.

P'ANTINGLY, adverb With palpitation or rapid breathing.

PANT'LER, noun [Latin panis, bread.] The officer in a great family who has charge of the bread.

PAN'TOFLE, noun A slipper for the foot.

PAN'TOGRAPH, noun [Gr. all, and to describe.] A mathematical instrument so formed as to copy any sort of drawing or design.

PANTOGRAPH'IC

PANTOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a pantograph; performed by a pantograph.

PANTOGRAPH'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a pantograph; performed by a pantograph.

PANTOG'RAPHY, noun General description; view of an entire thing.

PANTOM'ETER, noun [Gr. all, and to measure.] An instrument for measuring all sorts of elevations, angles and distances.

PANTOMET'RIC

PANTOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a pantometer; performed by a pantometer.

PANTOMET'RICAL, a. Pertaining to a pantometer; performed by a pantometer.

PAN'TOMIME, noun [Latin pantomimus; Gr. all, and a mimic.]

1. One that imitates all sorts of actions and characters without speaking; one that expresses his meaning by mute action. The pantomimes of antiquity used to express in gestures and action, whatever the chorus sung, changing their countenance and behavior as the subject of the song varied.

2. A scene or representation in dumb show.

3. A species of musical entertainment.

PAN'TOMIME, adjective Representing only in mute action.

PANTOMIM'IC

PANTOMIM'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the pantomime; representing characters and actions by dumb show.

PANTOMIM'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the pantomime; representing characters and actions by dumb show.

PAN'TON

PAN'TON-SHOE, noun [Latin pando, to open.] A horse shoe contrived to recover a narrow and hoof-bound heel.

PAN'TRY, noun [Latin panarium, from panis, bread.] An apartment or closet in which provisions are kept.

PAN'URGY, noun [Gr. all, and work.] Skill in all kinds or work or business; craft.

PAP, noun [Latin papilla.] A nipple of the breast; a teat.

PAP, noun [Low Latin papa.]

1. A soft food for infants, made with bread boiled or softened with water.

2. The pulp of fruit.

PAP, verb transitive To feed with pap

PAP'A, noun [Latin papa ] Father; a word with us used by children.

PA'PACY, noun

1. The office and dignity of the pope or bishop of Rome; popedom.

2. Papal authority.

PA'PAL, adjective Belonging to the pope or pontiff of Rome; popish; as papal authority; the papal chair.

1. Proceeding from the pope; as a papal license or indulgence; a papal edict.

2. Annexed to the bishopric of Rome.

PA'PALIN, noun A papist. [Not used.]

PAPAV'EROUS, adjective [Latin papavereus, from papaver, a poppy.]

Resembling the poppy; of the nature or qualities of poppies.

PAPAW', noun The carica papaya, a tree growing in warm climates to the highth of eighteen or twenty feet, with a soft herbaceous stem, naked nearly to the top, where the leaves issue on every side on long foot-stalks. Between the leaves grow the flower and the fruit, which is of the size of a melon. The juice is acrid and milky, but the fruit when boiled is eaten with meat, like other vegetables.

1. The papaw of North America belongs to the genus Annona or custard apple.

PAPE, noun The pope.

PA'PER, noun [Latin papyrus, the name of an Egyptian plant, from which was made a kind of paper ]

1. A substance formed into thin sheets on which letters and figures are written or printed. paper is made of different materials; but among us it is usually made of linen or cotton rags. A fine paper is made of silk, particularly for bank-notes, which require to be very thin.

2. A piece of paper

3. A single sheet printed or written; as a daily paper; a weekly paper; a periodical paper; referring to essays, journals, newspapers, etc.

4. Any written instrument, whether note, receipt, bill, invoice, bond, memorial, deed, and the like. The papers lie on the speaker's table.

They brought a paper to me to be signed.

5. A promissory note or notes or a bill of exchange; as negotiable paper

6. Hangings printed or stamped; paper for covering the walls of rooms.

PA'PER, adjective Made of paper; consisting of paper

1. Thin; slight; as a paper wall.

PA'PER, verb transitive To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

1. To register. [Not used.]

2. To fold or inclose in paper

PAPES'CENT, adjective [from pap.] Containing pap; having the qualities of pap.

PA'PESS, noun A female pope.

PAP'IL, noun [Latin papilla.] A small pap or nipple.

PAPIL'IO, noun [Latin] A butterfly. In zoology a genus of insects of numerous species. These insects are produced from the caterpillar. The chrysalis is the tomb of the caterpillar and the cradle of the butterfly.

PAPILIONA'CEOUS, adjective Resembling the butterfly; a term in botany, used to describe the corols of plants which have the shape of a butterfly, such as that of the pea. The papilionaceous plants are of the leguminous kind.

The papilionaceous corol is usually four-petaled, having an upper spreading petal, called the banner, two side petals called wings, and a lower petal called the keel.

PAP'ILLARY

PAP'ILLATE, verb intransitive To grow into a nipple.

PAP'ILLATE, v.i. To grow into a nipple.

PAP'ILLOSE, adjective Nipply; covered with fleshy dots or points; verrucose; warty; as a papillose leaf.

Covered with soft tubercles, as the ice-plant.

PAP'ILLOUS, adjective Pertaining to the pap or nipple; resembling the nipple; covered with papils.

PA'PISM, noun Popery.

PA'PIST, noun A Roman catholic; one that adheres to the church of Rome and the authority of the pope.

PAPIS'TIC

PAPIS'TICAL, adjective Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

PAPIS'TICAL, a. Popish; pertaining to popery; adherent to the church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies.

PA'PISTRY, noun Popery; the doctrines and ceremonies of the church of Rome.

PA'PIZED, adjective Conformed to popery.

PAP'POUS, adjective [from Latin pappus.] Downy; furnished with a pappus, as the seeds of certain plants, such as thistles, dandelions, etc.

PAP'PUS, noun [Latin from Gr. an old man or grandfather, hence a substance resembling gray hairs.] The soft downy substance that grows on the seeds of certain plants, as on those of the thistle.

PAP'PY, adjective [from pap.] Like pap; soft; succulent.

PAP'ULAE, noun [Latin] Pimples; blisters; eruptions on the skin.

PAP'ULOSE, adjective Covered with vesicular points or with little blisters; as a papulose leaf.

PAP'ULOUS, adjective Full of pimples or pustules.

PAPY'RUS, noun [Latin] An Egyptian plant, a kind of reed, of which the ancients made paper.

P'AR, noun [Latin par equal, paro.]

1. State of equality; equal value; equivalence without discount or premium. Bills of exchange are at par above par or below par Bills are at par when they are sold at their nominal amount for coin or its equivalent.

2. Equality in condition.

PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabilis.] Easily procured. [Not used.]

PAR'ABLE, noun [Latin parabola; Gr. to throw forward or against, to compare to or against; as in confero, collatum, to set together, or one thing with another.] A fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction; such as the parable of the trees choosing a king, Judges 9:1; the parable of the poor man and his lamb. 2 Samuel 12:1; the parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1.

PAR'ABLE, verb transitive To represent by fiction or fable.

PARAB'OLA, noun [Latin See Parable.] A conic section arising from cutting a cone by a plane parallel to one of its sides, or parallel to a plane that touches one of its sides.

PARABOLE, noun parab'oly. [See Parable.] In oratory, similitude; comparison.

PARABOL'IC

PARABOL'ICAL, adjective Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as parabolical instruction or description.

1. [from parabola.] Having the form of a parabola; as a parabolic curve.

PARABOL'ICAL, a. Expressed by parable or allegorical representation; as parabolical instruction or description.

PARABOL'ICALLY, adverb By way of parable.

1. In the form of a parabola.

PARABOL'IFORM, adjective Having the form of a parabola.

PARAB'OLISM, noun [from parabola.] In algebra, the division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved or multiplied in the first term.

PARAB'OLOID, noun [Gr. form.] In geometry, a paraboliform curve whose ordinates are supposed to be in the subtriplicate, subquadruplicate, etc., ratio of their respective abscissae. Another species is when the parameter multiplied into the square of the abscissae, is equal to the cube of the ordinate. The curve is then called a semi-cubical paraboloid

A parabolic conoid. [See conoid.]

PARACEL'SIAN, noun A physician who follows the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of celebrity, who lived at the close of the fifteenth century.

PARACEL'SIAN, adjective Denoting the medical practice of Paracelsus.

PARACENTE'SIS

PARACEN'TESY, noun [Gr. through, and to pierce.] The operation in surgery called tapping.

PARACEN'TESY, n. [Gr. through, and to pierce.] The operation in surgery called tapping.

PARACEN'TRIC

PARACEN'TRICAL, adjective [Gr. beyond, and center.] Deviating from circularity.

PARACEN'TRICAL, a. [Gr. beyond, and center.] Deviating from circularity.

PARACH'RONISM, noun [Gr. beyond, and time.] An error in chronology; a mistake in regard to the true date of an event.

PAR'ACHUTE, noun [Gr. against.] In aerostation, an instrument to prevent the rapidity of descent.

PAR'ACLETE, noun [Gr. to call.] Properly, an advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the consoler, comforter or intercessor, a term applied to the Holy Spirit.

PARA'DE, noun [Latin paro.]

1. In military affairs, the place where troops assemble for exercise, mounting guard or other purpose.

2. Show; ostentation; display.

Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade

3. Pompous procession.

The rites performed, the parson paid,

In state return'd the grand parade

4. Military order; array; as warlike parade

5. State of preparation or defense.

6. The action of parrying a thrust.

PARA'DE, verb transitive To assemble and array or marshal in military order. The general gave orders to parade the troops. The troops were paraded at the usual hour.

1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner.

PARA'DE, verb intransitive To assemble and be marshaled in military order.

1. To go about in military procession.

2. To walk about for show.

PARA'DED, participle passive Assembled and arrayed.

PARADIGM, noun par'adim. [Gr. example, to show.] An example; a model. In grammar, an example of a verb conjugated in the several modes, tenses and persons.

PARADIGMAT'IC

PARADIGMAT'ICAL, adjective Exemplary. [Little used.]

PARADIGMAT'ICAL, a. Exemplary. [Little used.]

PARADIG'MATIZE, verb transitive To set forth as a model or example. [Little used.]

PARA'DING, participle present tense Assembling and arraying in due order; making an ostentatious show.

PAR'ADISE, noun [Gr.] The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.

1. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.

The earth

Shall all be paradise--

2. Heaven, the blissful seat of sanctified souls after death.

This day shalt thou be with me in paradise Luke 23:43.

3. Primarily, in Persia, a pleasure-garden with parks and other appendages.

PARADIS'EA, noun Bird of Paradise, a genus of fowls, natives of the isles in the East Indies and of New Guinea.

PARADIS'EAN

PARADISI'ACAL, adjective Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity.

1. Suiting paradise; like paradise.

PARADISI'ACAL, a. Pertaining to Eden or Paradise, or to a place of felicity.

PAR'ADOX, noun [Gr. beyond, and opinion; to or suppose.]

A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion, or seemingly absurd, yet true in fact.

A gloss there is to color that paradox and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.

PARADOX'ICAL, adjective Having the nature of a paradox.

1. Inclined to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions; applied to persons.

PARADOX'ICALLY, adverb In a paradoxical manner, or in a manner seemingly absurd.

PARADOX'ICALNESS, noun State of being paradoxical.

PARADOXOL'OGY, noun [paradox and Gr.discourse.]

The use of paradoxes. [Not used.]

PARAGOGE, noun par'agojy. [Gr. a drawing out.] The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word; as dicier for dici. This is called a figure in grammar.

PARAGOG'IC

PARAGOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.

PARAGOG'ICAL, a. Pertaining to a paragoge; lengthening a word by the addition of a letter or syllable.

PAR'AGON, noun [Latin par, equal.]

1. A model or pattern; a model by way of distinction, implying superior excellence or perfection; as a paragon of beauty or eloquence.

2. A companion; a fellow.

3. Emulation; a match for trial.

PAR'AGON, verb transitive

1. To compare; to parallel.

The picture of Pamela, in little form, he wore in a tablet, purposing to paragon the little one with Artesia's length. [Little used.]

2. To equal. [Little used.]

PAR'AGON, verb intransitive To pretend comparison or equality. [Little used.]

PAR'AGRAM, noun [Gr.] A play upon words or a pun.

PARAGRAM'MATIST, noun A punster.

PAR'AGRAPH, noun [Gr. a marginal note; to write near or beyond the text; beyond, and to write.] A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any portion or section of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one sentence or many sentences. A paragraph is sometimes marked, but more generally, a paragraph is distinguished only by a break in the composition or lines.

PAR'AGRAPH, verb transitive To form or write paragraphs.

PARAGRAPH'IC, adjective Consisting of paragraphs or short divisions, with breaks.

PARAGRAPH'ICALLY, adverb By paragraphs; with distinct breaks or divisions.

PARALEP'SIS

PAR'ALEPSY, noun [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]

In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.

PAR'ALEPSY, n. [Gr. omission; beyond or by, and to leave.]

In rhetoric, a pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker pretends to pass by what at the same time he really mentions.

PARALIPOM'ENA, noun [Gr. to omit; beyond, and to leave.]

Things omitted; a supplement containing things omitted in the preceding work. The books of Chronicles are so called.

PAR'ALIZE, verb transitive [Gr.] To affect as with palsy; to check action, or destroy the power of action.

PARALLAC'TIC

PARALLAC'TICAL, adjective [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.

PARALLAC'TICAL, a. [See Parallax.] Pertaining to the parallax of a heavenly body.

PAR'ALLAX, noun [Gr. to vary, to decline or wander; beyond, and to change.] In astronomy, the change of place in a heavenly body in consequence of being viewed from different points.

Diurnal parallax the difference between the place of a celestial body, as seen from the surface, and from the center of the earth, at the same instant.

Annual parallax the change of place in a heavenly body, in consequence of being viewed at opposite extremities of the earth's orbit.

PAR'ALLEL, adjective [Gr. against or opposite, and one the other.]

1. In geometry, extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant. One body or line is parallel to another, when the surfaces of the bodies or the lines are at an equal distance throughout the whole length.

2. Having the same direction or tendency; running in accordance with something.

When honor runs parallel with the laws of God and our country, it cannot be too much cherished.

3. Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; like; similar; equal in all essential parts; as a parallel case; a parallel passage in the evangelists.

PAR'ALLEL, noun A line which throughout its whole extent is equidistant from another line; as parallels of latitude.

Who made the spider parallels design,

Sure as De Moivre without rule or line?

1. A line on the globe marking the latitude.

2. Direction conformable to that of another line.

3. Conformity continued through many particulars or in all essential points; resemblance; likeness.

'Twixt earthly females and the moon,

All parallels exactly run.

4. Comparison made; as, to draw a parallel between two characters.

5. Any thing equal to or resembling another in all essential particulars.

None but thyself can be thy parallel

PAR'ALLEL, verb transitive To place so as to keep the same direction, and at an equal distance from something else.

1. To level; to equal.

2. To correspond to.

3. To be equal to; to resemble in all essential points.

4. To compare.

PAR'ALLELABLE, adjective That may be equaled. [Not much used.]

PAR'ALLELISM, noun State of being parallel.

1. Resemblance; equality of state; comparison.

PAR'ALLELLY, adverb In a parallel manner; with parallelism.

PARALLEL'OGRAM, noun [Gr.]

1. In geometry, a right lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel and equal.

2. In common use, this word is applied to quadrilateral figures of more length than breadth, and this is its sense in the passage cited by Johnson from Brown.

PARALLELOGRAM'IC

PARALLELOGRAM'ICAL, adjective Having the properties of a parallelogram.

PARALLELOGRAM'ICAL, a. Having the properties of a parallelogram.

PARALLELOPIP'ED, noun [parallel and Gr. on, and a plain.]

In geometry, a regular solid comprehended under six parallelograms, the opposite ones of which are similar, parallel and equal to each other, or it is a prism whose base is a parallelogram. It is always triple to a pyramid of the same base and highth. Or a parallelopiped is a solid figure bounded by six faces, parallel to each other two and two.

PARALLELOPIPE'DIA, noun A genus of spars, externally of a determinate and regular figure, always found loose and separate from other bodies, and in the form of an oblique parallelopiped, with six parallelogramic sides and eight solid angles.

PARAL'OGISM, noun [Gr. beyond, and reasoning; discourse, reason.]

In logic, a fallacious argument or false reasoning; an error committed in demonstration, when a consequence is drawn from principles which are false, or though true, are not proved; or when a proposition is passed over that should have been proved by the way.

PARAL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To reason falsely.

PARAL'OGY, noun False reasoning. [supra.]

PARAL'YSIS, noun [Gr. to loosen, dissolve or weaken.] Palsy; the loss of the power of muscular motion, or of the command of the muscles.

PARALYT'IC

PARALYT'ICAL, adjective Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes, weak; trembling; subject to an involuntary shaking; as a paralytic arm.

1. Inclined or tending to palsy.

PARALYT'IC, noun A person affected with palsy.

PARALYT'ICAL, a. Affected with palsy; deprived of the power of muscular motion; sometimes, weak; trembling; subject to an involuntary shaking; as a paralytic arm.

PARAM'ETER, noun [ Gr.]

1. The latus rectum of a parabola. It is a third proportional to the abscissa and any ordinate, so that the square of the ordinate is always equal to the rectangle under the parameter and abscissa; but in the ellipsis and hyperbola it has a different proportion.

2. In conic sections, a third proportional to any diameter and its conjugate. In the parabola, a third proportional to any absciss and its ordinate.

PAR'AMOUNT, adjective

1. Superior to all others; possessing the highest title or jurisdiction; as lord paramount the chief lord of the fee, or of lands, tenements and hereditaments. In England, the king is lord paramount of whom all the land in the kingdom is supposed to be held. But in some cases the lord of several manors is called the lord paramount

2. Eminent; of the highest order.

3. Superior to all others; as, private interest is usually paramount to all other considerations.

PAR'AMOUNT, noun The chief; the highest in rank or order.

PAR'AMOUR, noun [Latin per, and amour.]

1. A lover; a wooer.

2. A mistress.

PARANTHINE. [See Scapolite.]

PAR'ANYMPH, noun [Gr. by, and a bride or spouse.]

1. A brideman; one who leads the bride to her marriage.

2. One who countenances and supports another.

PARAPEGM, noun par'apem. [Gr.] A brazen table fixed to a pillar, on which laws and proclamations were anciently engraved; also, a table set in a public place, containing an account of the rising and setting of the stars, eclipses, seasons, etc.

PAR'APET, noun [Latin pectus.] Literally, a wall or rampart to the breast or breast high; but in practice, a wall, rampart or elevation of earth for covering soldiers from an enemy's shot.

PARAPHER'NA

PARAPHERNAL, adjective Pertaining to or consisting in parapherna; as paraphernal property.

PARAPHERNAL, a. Pertaining to or consisting in parapherna; as paraphernal property.

PARAPHERNA'LIA, noun [Gr. beyond, and dower.] The goods which a wife brings with her at her marriage, or which she possesses beyond her dower or jointure, and which remain at her disposal after her husband's death. Such are her apparel and her ornaments, over which the executors have no control, unless when the assets are insufficient to pay the debts.

PAR'APHRASE, noun s as z. [Gr. beyond, and phrase.] An explanation of some text or passage in a book, in a more clear and ample manner than is expressed in the words of the author. Such as the paraphrase of the New Testament by Erasmus.

In paraphrase or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense.

PAR'APHRASE, verb transitive To explain, interpret or translate with latitude; to unfold the sense of an author with more clearness and particularity than it is expressed in his own words.

PAR'APHRASE, verb intransitive To interpret or explain amply; to make a paraphrase

Where translation is impracticable, they may paraphrase

PAR'APHRASED, participle passive Amply explained or translated.

PAR'APHRASING, participle present tense Explaining or translating amply and freely.

PAR'APHRAST, noun [Gr.] One that paraphrases; one that explains or translates in words more ample and clear than the words of the author.

PARAPHRAS'TICALLY, adverb In a paraphrastic manner.

PARAPHREN'ITIS, noun [Gr. delirium.] An inflammation of the diaphragm.

PAR'APLEGY, noun [Gr. beyond, and stroke; to smite.]

That kind of palsy which affects the lower part of the body.

PARAQUET', noun A little parrot.

PAR'ASANG, noun A persian measure of length, which Herodotus states to be thirty stadia, nearly four English miles; but in different times and places, it has been 30, 40 or 50 stadia.

PARASCEUAS'TIC, adjective Preparatory.

PARASCE'VE, noun [Gr. preparation.] Preparation; the sabbath-eve of the Jews.

PARASELE'NE, noun [Gr. about or near, and the moon.] A mock moon; a luminous ring or circle encompassing the moon, in which sometimes are other bright spots bearing some resemblance to the moon.

PAR'ASITE, noun [Latin parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]

1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.

2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.

3. In botany, a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.

PARASIT'IC

PARASIT'ICAL, adjective Flattering; wheedling; fawning for bread or favors.

1. Growing on the stem or branch of another plant; as a parasitic plant.

PARASIT'ICAL, a. Flattering; wheedling; fawning for bread or favors.

PARASIT'ICALLY, adverb In a flattering or wheedling manner; by dependence on another.

PAR'ASITISM, noun The behavior or manners of a parasite.

PAR'ASOL, noun [Latin sol.] A small umbrella used by ladies to defend themselves from rain, or their faces from the sun's rays.

PAR'AT, noun A fish or the mullet kind, found in Brazil.

PARATH'ESIS, noun [Gr.] In grammar, apposition, or the placing of two or more nouns in the same case.

PARAVA'IL, adjective In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant holding under a mean or mediate lord, as distinguished from a tenant in capite, who holds immediately of the king.

PAR'AVANT

PAR'AVAUNT, adverb In front; publicly. [Not English nor used.]

PAR'AVAUNT, adv. In front; publicly. [Not English nor used.]

P'ARBOIL, verb transitive

1. To boil in part; to boil in a moderate degree.

2. To cause little pustules or pushes on the skin by means of heat; as parboiled wretches.

P'ARBREAK, verb intransitive [See Break.] To vomit.

P'ARBUCKLE, noun Among seamen, a rope like a pair of slings for hoisting casks, etc.

P'ARCEL, noun [Latin particula, particle, from pars, part.]

1. A part; a portion of any thing taken separately.

The same experiments succeed on two parcels of the white of an egg.

2. A quantity; any mass.

3. A part belonging to a whole; as in law, one piece of ground is part and parcel of a greater piece.

4. A small bundle or package of goods.

5. A number of persons; on contempt.

6. A number or quantity; in contempt; as a parcel of fair words.

P'ARCEL, verb transitive To divide into parts or portions; as, to parcel an estate among heirs.

These ghostly kings would parcel out my power.

1. To make up into a mass. [Little used.]

To parcel a seam, in seamen's language, to lay canvas over it and daub it with pitch.

P'ARCELED, participle passive Divided into portions.

P'ARCELING, participle present tense Dividing into portions.

P'ARCELING, noun Among seamen, long narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and bound about a rope like a bandage, before it is sewed. It is used also to raise a mouse on the stays, etc.

P'ARCENARY, noun Co-heirship; the holding or occupation of lands of inheritance by two or more persons. It differs from joint-tenancy, which is created by deed or devise; whereas parcenary or co-parcenary, is created by the descent of lands from an ancestor.

P'ARCENER, noun [Latin pars.] parcener or co-parcener is a co-heir, or one who holds lands by descent from an ancestor in common with another or with others; as when land descends to a man's daughters, sisters, aunts, cousins, or their representatives. In this case, all the heirs inherit as parceners or co-heirs.

P'ARCH, verb transitive [I know not from what source we have received this word. It corresponds in elements with the Italian bruciare, to burn or roast. Qu. Latin peraresco.]

1. To burn the surface of a thing; to scorch; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn.

2. To dry to extremity; as, the heat of the sun's rays parches the ground; the mouth is parched with thirst.

P'ARCH, verb intransitive To be scorched or superficially burnt; as, corn will dry and parch into barley.

1. To become very dry.

P'ARCHED, participle passive Scorched; dried to extremity.

P'ARCHEDNESS, noun The state of being scorched or dried to extremity.

P'ARCHING, participle present tense Scorching; drying to extremity.

1. adjective Having the quality of burning or drying; as the parching heat of African sands.

P'ARCHMENT, [Latin pergamena; purgo] The skin of a sheep or goat dressed or prepared and rendered fit for writing on. This is done by separating all the flesh and hair, rubbing the skin with pumice stone, and reducing its thickness with a sharp instrument. Vellum is made of the skins of abortive or very young calves.

P'ARD, noun [Latin pardus.] The leopard; or in poetry, any spotted beast. Instead of pard we generally use leopard, the lion-pard. Pardale, from the Latin pardalis, is not used.

P'ARDON, verb transitive [Latin per and dono, to give; per having the sense of the English for in forgive, and re in Latin remitto, properly to give back or away.]

1. To forgive; to remit; as an offense or crime. Guilt implies a being bound or subjected to censure, penalty or punishment. To pardon is to give up this obligation, and release the offender. We apply the word to the crime or to the person. We pardon an offense, when we remove it from the offender and consider him as not guilty; we pardon the offender, when we release or absolve him from his liability to suffer punishment.

I pray thee, pardon my sin. 1 Samuel 15:25.

2. To remit, as a penalty.

I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

3. To excuse, as for a fault.

4. pardon me, is a phrase used when one asks for excuse, or makes an apology, and it is often used in this sense, when a person means civilly to deny or contradict what another affirms.

P'ARDON, noun Forgiveness; the release of an offense or of the obligation of the offender to suffer a penalty, or to bear the displeasure of the offended party. We seek the pardon of sins, transgressions and offenses.

1. Remission of a penalty. An amnesty is a general pardon

2. Forgiveness received.

P'ARDONABLE, adjective That may be pardoned; applied to persons. The offender is pardonable

1. Venial; excusable; that may be forgiven, overlooked or passed by; applied to things; as a pardonable offense.

P'ARDONABLENESS, noun The quality of being pardonable; venialness; susceptibility of forgiveness; as the pardonableness of sin.

P'ARDONABLY, adverb In a manner admitting of pardon; venially; excusably.

P'ARDONED, participle passive Forgiven; excused.

P'ARDONER, noun One that forgives; one that absolves an offender.

1. One that sells the pope's indulgences.

P'ARDONING, participle present tense Forgiving; remitting an offense or crime; absolving from punishment.

PARE, verb transitive [Latin paro; Gr. lame; to mutilate; Heb. to create; to cut off. The primary sense is to thrust or drive, hence to drive off, to separate, to stop by setting or repelling, as in parry, or to drive off or out, as in separating or producing.]

1. To cut off, as the superficial substance or extremities of a thing; to shave off with a sharp instrument; as, to pare an apple or an orange; to pare the nails; to pare a horse's hoof; to pare land in agriculture.

2. To diminish by little and little.

The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy.

When pare is followed by the thing diminished, the noun is in the objective case; as, to pare the nails. When the thing separated is the object, pare is followed by off or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundances.

PA'RED, participle passive Freed from any thing superfluous on the surface or at the extremities.

PAREGOR'IC, adjective [Gr. to mitigate.]

Mitigating; assuaging pain; as paregoric elixir.

PAREGOR'IC, noun A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne.

PAREL'CON, noun [Gr. to draw out.] In grammar, the addition of a word or syllable to the end of another.

PAREMBOLE, noun parem'boly. [Gr. insertion.] In rhetoric, the insertion of something relating to the subject in the middle of a period. It differs from the parenthesis only in this; the parembole relates to the subject, the parenthesis is foreign from it.

PAREN'CHYMA, noun [Gr. to suffuse.]

1. In anatomy, the solid and interior part of the viscera, or the substance contained in the interstices between the blood vessels of the viscera; a spungy substance.

Parenchyma is the substance or basis of the glands.

2. In botany, the pith or pulp of plants.

PARENCHYM'ATOUS

PAREN'CHYMOUS, adjective [See the Noun.] Pertaining to parenchyma; spungy; soft; porous.

PAREN'CHYMOUS, a. [See the Noun.] Pertaining to parenchyma; spungy; soft; porous.

PAREN'ESIS, noun [Gr. to exhort.] Persuasion; exhortation. [Little used.]

PARENET'IC

PARENET'ICAL, adjective Hortatory; encouraging.

PARENET'ICAL, a. Hortatory; encouraging.

PA'RENT, noun [Latin parens, from pario, to produce or bring forth. The regular participle of pario is pariens, and parens is the regular participle of pareo, to appear.]

1. A father or mother; he or she that produces young. The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and educate them.

When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty.

2. That which produces; cause; source.

Idleness is the parent of vice.

Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.

PAR'ENTAGE, noun Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents; as a man of mean parentage; a gentleman of noble parentage

PARENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to parents; as parental government.

1. Becoming parents; tender; affectionate; as parental care of solicitude.

PARENTA'TION, noun [from Latin parento.]

Something done or said in honor of the dead.

PAREN'THESIS, noun [Gr. to insert.] A sentence, or certain words inserted in a sentence, which interrupt the sense or natural connection of words, but serve to explain or qualify the sense of the principal sentence. The parenthesis is usually included in hooks or curved lines, thus.

These officers, whom they still call bishops, are to be elected to a provision comparatively mean, through the same arts, (that is, electioneering arts, ) by men of all religious tenets that are known or can be invented.

Do not suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis

PARENTHET'IC'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a parenthesis; expressed in a parenthesis.

1. Using parenthesis.

PARENT'ICIDE, noun [Latin parens and coedo.] One who kills a parent.

PA'RENTLESS, adjective Deprived of parents.

PA'RER, noun [from pare.] He or that which pares; an instrument for paring.

PAR'ERGY, noun [Gr. beyond, and work.] Something unimportant, or done by the by. [Not used.]

P'ARGASITE, noun [from the isle Pargas, in Finland.] A mineral of a grayish or bluish green, in rounded grains, with a dull, dun surface, rarely bright; or in crystals in carbonate of lime, in little plates mixed with lamellar mica; a variety of actinolite.

P'ARGET, noun Gypsum or plaster stone.

1. Plaster laid on roofs or walls.

2. Paint.

Parget is applied to the several kinds of gypsum, which when slightly calcined, is called plaster of Paris, and is used in casting statues, in stucco for floors, ceilings, etc.

PAR'GET, verb transitive To plaster walls.

1. To paint; to cover with paint.

P'ARGETED, participle passive Plastered; stuccoed.

P'ARGETER, noun A plasterer.

P'ARGETING, participle present tense Plastering; as a noun, plaster or stucco.

PARHE'LION, noun [Gr. near, and the sun.] A mock sun or meteor, appearing in the form of a bright light near the sun; sometimes tinged with colors like the rainbow, with a luminous train.

PA'RIAL

PA'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to Paros, an isle in the Egean sea; as Parian marble.

Parian chronicle, a chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in capital letters in the isle of Paros. It contains a chronological account of events from Cecrops, 1582 years before Christ, to the archonship of Diognetus, 264 years before that era; but the chronicle of the last 90 years is lost. This marble was procured from Asia Minor in 1627, by the earl of Arundel, and being broken, the pieces are called Arundelian marbles. They are now deposited in the university of Oxford. The antiquity of the inscription has been disputed.

PA'RIAN, a. Pertaining to Paros, an isle in the Egean sea; as Parian marble.

Parian chronicle, a chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble in capital letters in the isle of Paros. It contains a chronological account of events from Cecrops, 1582 years before Christ, to the archonship of Diognetus, 264 years before that era; but the chronicle of the last 90 years is lost. This marble was procured from Asia Minor in 1627, by the earl of Arundel, and being broken, the pieces are called Arundelian marbles. They are now deposited in the university of Oxford. The antiquity of the inscription has been disputed.

PARIE'TAL, adjective [from Latin paries, a wall, properly a partition wall, from the root of part or pare.] Pertaining to a wall.

1. The parietal bones form the sides and upper part of the skull. They are so called because they defend the brain like walls.

PARI'ETARY, noun [Latin paries, a wall.] A plant, the pellitory of the wall, of the genus Parietaria.

PAR'IETINE, noun [Latin paries, wall.] A piece of a wall. [Not used.]

PA'RING, participle present tense Cutting or shaving off the extremities.

PA'RING, noun That which is pared off; rind separated from fruit; a piece clipped off.

1. The act or practice of cutting off the surface of grass land, for tillage.

PAR'IS, noun A plant, herb paris or true-love, or rather a genus of plants of one species.

PAR'ISH, noun [Low Latin parochia; Gr. a dwelling or near residence; near, and house, or to dwell; or more probably from the Gr. a salary or largess, an allowance for support; to afford, yield or supply, whence Latin parocha, entertainment given to embassadors at the public expense. If parish is to be deduced from either of these sources, it is probably from the latter, and parish is equivalent to benefice, living, as prebend, from Latin proebeo.

1. The precinct or territorial jurisdiction of a secular priest, or the precinct, the inhabitants of which belong to the same church.

2. In some of the American states, parish is an ecclesiastical society not bounded by territorial limits; but the inhabitants of a town belonging to one church, though residing promiscuously among the people belonging to another church, are called a parish This is particularly the case in Massachusetts. In Connecticut, the legal appellation of such a society is ecclesiastical society.

PAR'ISH, adjective Belonging to a parish; having the spiritual charge of the inhabitants belonging to the same church; as a parish priest.

1. Belonging to a parish; as a parish church; parish records.

2. Maintained by the parish; as parish poor.

PARISH'IONER, noun One that belongs to a parish.

PARISYLLAB'IC

PARISYLLAB'ICAL, adjective [Latin par, equal, and syllaba, syllable.]

Having equal or like syllables.

PARISYLLAB'ICAL, a. [L. par, equal, and syllaba, syllable.]

Having equal or like syllables.

PAR'ITOR, noun [for apparitor.] A beadle; a summoner of the courts of civil law.

PAR'ITY, noun [Latin par, equal. See Pair and Peer.]

1. Equality; as parity of reason.

2. Equality; like state or degree; as a parity of orders or persons.

P'ARK, noun [Latin parcus, saving.] A large piece of ground inclosed and privileged for wild beasts of chase, in England, by the king's grant or by prescription. To constitute a park three things are required; a royal grant or license; inclosure by pales, a wall or hedge; and beasts of chase, as deer, etc.

Park of artillery, or artillery park a place in the rear of both lines of any army for encamping the artillery, which is formed in lines, the guns in front, the ammunition wagons behind the guns, and the pontoons and tumbrils forming the third line. The whole is surrounded with a rope. The gunners and matrosses encamp on the flanks; the bombardiers, pontoon-men and artificers in the rear.

Also, the whole train of artillery belonging to an army or division of troops.

Park of provisions, the place where the settlers pitch their tents and sell provisions, and that where the bread wagons are stationed.

P'ARK, verb transitive To inclose in a park

P'ARKER, noun The keeper of a park.

P'ARKLEAVES, noun A plant of the genus Hypericum.

P'ARLANCE, noun Conversation; discourse; talk.

PARLE, noun p'arl. Conversation; talk; oral treaty or discussion. [Not used.] [See Parley.]

P'ARLEY, verb intransitive [Latin fero, or pario.] In a general sense, to speak with another; to discourse; but appropriately, to confer with on some point of mutual concern; to discuss orally; hence, to confer with an enemy; to treat with by words; as on an exchange of prisoners, on a cessation of arms, or the subject of peace.

P'ARLEY, noun Mutual discourse or conversation; discussion; but appropriately, a conference with an enemy in war.

We yield on parley but are storm'd in vain.

To beat a parley in military language, to beat a drum or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.

P'ARLIAMENT, noun Literally, a speaking, conference, mutual discourse or consultation; hence,

1. In Great Britain, the grand assembly of the three estates, the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the commons; the general council of the nation constituting the legislature, summoned by the king's authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws. Primarily, the king may be considered as a constituent branch of parliament; but the word is generally used to denote the three estates above named, consisting of two distinct branches, the house of lords and house of commons.

The word parliament was introduced into England under the Norman kings. The supreme council of the nation was called under the Saxon kings, wittenage-mote, the meeting of wise men or sages.

2. The supreme council of Sweden, consisting of four estates; the nobility and representatives of the gentry; the clergy, one of which body is elected from every rural deanery of ten parishes; the burghers, elected by the magistrates and council of every corporation; and the peasants, elected by persons of their own order.

3. In France, before the revolution, a council or court consisting of certain noblemen.

PARLIAMENTA'RIAN

PARLIAMENT'ARY, adjective Pertaining to parliament; as parliamentary authority.

1. Enacted or done by parliament; as a parliamentary act.

2. According to the rules and usages of parliament, or to the rules and customs of legislative bodies.

PARLIAMENT'ARY, a. Pertaining to parliament; as parliamentary authority.

PARLIAMENTEE'R , noun One of those who adhered to the parliament in the time of Charles I.

PARLIAMENTA'RIAN, adjective Serving the parliament in opposition to king Charles I.

P'ARLOR, noun Primarily, the apartment in a nunnery where the nuns are permitted to meet and converse with each other; hence with us, the room in a house which the family usually occupy when they have no company, as distinguished from a drawing room intended for the reception of company, or from a dining room, when a distinct apartment is allotted for that purpose. In most houses, the parlor is also the dining room.

P'ARLOUS, adjective Keen; sprightly; waggish. [Not used.]

PARO'CHIAL, adjective [from Latin parochia.] Belonging to a parish; as parochial clergy; parochial duties.

PAROCHIAL'ITY, noun The state of being parochial.

PARO'CHIAN, adjective Pertaining to a parish.

PARO'CHIAN, noun [supra.] A parishioner.

PAROD'IC

PAROD'ICAL, adjective [See Parody.] Copying after the manner of parody.

PAROD'ICAL, a. [See Parody.] Copying after the manner of parody.

PAR'ODY, noun [Gr. ode.]

1. A kind of writing in which the words of an author or his thoughts are, by some slight alterations, adapted to a different purpose; a kind of poetical pleasantry, in which verses written on one subject, are altered and applied to another by way of burlesque.

2. A popular maxim, adage or proverb.

PAR'ODY, verb transitive To alter, as verses or words, and apply to a purpose different from that of the original.

I have translated, or rather parodied a poem of Horace.

PAR'OKET, noun A small species of parrot.

[More properly perroquet, which see.]

PAROL

PARO'LE, noun [Latin parabola.]

1. Properly, a word; hence, in a legal sense, words or oral declaration; word of mouth. Formerly, conveyances were made by parol or word of mouth only.

2. Pleadings in a suit; as anciently all pleadings were viva voce or ore tenus.

The parol may demur.

PAROL

PARO'LE, adjective Given by word of mouth; oral; not written; as parol evidence.

[It would be well to write this word parole, in uniformity with the following, there being no good reason for a distinction.]

PARO'LE, noun [See parol ] Word of mouth. In military affairs, a promise given by a prisoner of war, when he has leave to depart from custody, that he will return at the time appointed, unless discharged. A parole is properly a verbal or unwritten promise, but I believe it is customary to take a promise in writing.

PARO'LE, n. [L. parabola.]

PARONOMA'SIA

PARONOMAS'TIC

PARONOMAS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to paronomasy; consisting in a play upon words.

PARONOMAS'TIC

PARONOMAS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to paronomasy; consisting in a play upon words.

PARONOM'ASY , noun [from Gr. to transgress law or rule.]

A rhetorical figure, by which words nearly alike in sound, but of different meanings, are affectedly or designedly used; a play upon words; a pun. [See Pun.]

PARONYCH'IA, noun [Gr. by, and the nail.] In surgery, a whitlow or felon.

PARON'YMOUS, adjective [Gr. name.] Resembling another word.

PAR'OQUET

PAROT'ID, adjective [Gr. near, and ear.] Pertaining to or denoting certain glands below and before the ears, or near the articulation of the lower jaw. The parotid glands secrete a portion of the saliva.

PAROT'ID, a. [Gr. near, and ear.] Pertaining to or denoting certain glands below and before the ears, or near the articulation of the lower jaw. The parotid glands secrete a portion of the saliva.

PARO'TIS, noun [Gr. See Parotid.]

1. The parotid gland; a secreting salivary conglomerate gland below and before the ear.

2. An inflammation or abscess of the parotid gland.

PAR'OXYSM, noun [Gr. to excite or sharpen; and sharp.] An exasperation or exacerbation of a disease; a fit of higher excitement or violence in a disease that has remissions or intermissions; as the paroxysm of a fever or gout.

PAROXYS'MAL, adjective Pertaining to paroxysm; as a paroxysmal disposition.

PARPHRAS'TIC'TICAL, adjective Free, clear and ample in explanation; explaining or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not verbal or literal.

PAR'REL, noun [Latin paro. It coincides with apparel, which see.]

Among seamen, an apparatus or frame made or ropes, trucks and ribs, so contrived as to go round the mast, and being fastened at both ends to a yard, serves to hoist it.

PARRICI'DAL

PAR'RICIDE, noun [Latin paricida, from pater, father, and coedo, to kill.]

1. A person who murders his father or mother.

2. One who murders an ancestor, or any one to whom he owes reverence. Blackstone applies the word to one who kills his child.

3. The murder of a parent or one to whom reverence is due.

4. One who invades or destroys any to whom he owes particular reverence, as his country or patron.

PAR'RICIDE, n. [L. paricida, from pater, father, and coedo, to kill.]

PARRIDIC'IOUS, adjective [See Parricide.] Pertaining to parricide; containing the crime of murdering a parent or child.

1. Committing parricide.

PAR'RIED, participle passive [See Parry.] Warded off; driven aside.

PAR'ROT, noun

1. The name of fowls of the genus Psittacus, of numerous species. The bill is hooked and the upper mandible movable. The hooked bill of the parrot is used in climbing. These fowls are found almost every where in tropical climates. They breed in hollow trees and subsist on fruits and seeds. They are also remarkable for the faculty of making indistinct articulations of words in imitation of the human voice.

2. A fish found among the Bahama isles, esteemed to be delicate food and remarkable for the richness of its colors.

PAR'RY, verb transitive

1. In fencing, to ward off; to stop or to put or turn by; as, to parry a thrust.

2. To ward off; to turn aside; to prevent a blow from taking effect.

3. To avoid; to shift off.

The French government has parried the payment of our claims.

PAR'RY, verb intransitive To ward off; to put by thrusts or strokes; to fence.

PAR'RYING, participle present tense Warding off, as a thrust or blow.

PARSE, verb transitive p'ars. [from Latin pars, part.] In grammar, to resolve a sentence into its elements, or to show the several parts of speech composing a sentence, and their relation to each other by government or agreement.

PARSIMO'NIOUS, adjective [See Parsimony.] Sparing in the use or expenditure of money; covetous; near; close. It differs from frugal, in implying more closeness or narrowness of mind, or an attachment to property somewhat excessive, or a disposition to spend less money that is necessary or honorable.

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.

[It is sometimes used in a good sense for frugal.]

PARSIMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With a very sparing use of money; covetously.

PARSIMO'NIOUSNESS, noun A very sparing use of money, or a disposition to save expense.

P'ARSIMONY, noun [Latin parsimonia, from parcus, saving, literally close; Eng. park.] Closeness or sparingness in the use or expenditure of money; sometimes used perhaps in a good sense, implying due or justifiable caution in expenditure, in which sense it differs little from frugality and economy. More generally, it denotes an excessive caution or closeness; in which case, it is allied to covetousness, but it implies less meanness than niggardliness. It generally implies some want of honorable liberality.

The ways to enrich are many; parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent, for it withholdeth men from works of liberality.

P'ARSLEY, noun [Latin petroselinon; Gr. a stone, and parsley; stone-parsley, a plant growing among rocks.] A plant of the genus Apium. The leaves of parsley are used in cookery, and the root is an aperient medicine.

P'ARSNEP, noun [Latin napus, which occurs also in turnep.] A plant of the genus Pastinaca. The root of the garden parsnep is deemed a valuable esculent.

PARSON, noun p'arsn.

1. The priest of a parish or ecclesiastical society; the rector or incumbent of a parish, who has the parochial charge or cure of souls. It is used in this sense by all denominations of christians; but among independents or congregationalists it is merely a colloquial word.

2. A clergyman; a man that is in orders or has been licensed to preach.

P'ARSONAGE, noun In America, the glebe and house belonging to a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance of the incumbent or settled pastor of a church.

1. In England, the benefice of a parish, or the house appropriated to the residence of the incumbent.

Parsonically, in Chesterfield, is not an authorized word.

P'ART, noun [Latin pars, partis.]

1. A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing; as, to divide an orange into five parts.

2. A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself. In what part of England is Oxford situated? So we say, the upper part or lower part the fore part a remote part a small part or a great part

The people stood at the nether part of the mount. Exodus 19:17.

3. A portion of number, separated or considered by itself; as a part of the nation or congregation.

4. A portion or component particle; as the component parts of a fossil or metal.

5. A portion of man; as the material part or body, or the intellectual part the soul or understanding; the perishable part; the immortal part

6. A member.

All the parts were formed in his mind into one harmonious body.

7. Particular division; distinct species or sort belonging to a whole; as all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.

8. Ingredient in a mingled mass; a portion in a compound.

9. That which falls to each in division; share; as, let me bear my part of the danger.

10. Proportional quantity; as four parts of lime with three of sand.

11. Share; concern; interest.

Sheba said, we have no part in David. 2 Samuel 20:1.

12. Side; party; interest; faction.

And make whole kingdoms take her brother's part

13. Something relating or belonging to; that which concerns; as for your part; for his part; for her part

For my part I have no servile end in my labor.

14. Share of labor, action or influence; particular office or business.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part

Do thou but thine.

15. Character appropriated in a play. The parts of the comedy were judiciously cast and admirable performed.

16. Action; conduct.

17. In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity. Thus 3 is a part of 12. It is the opposite of multiple.

Parts, in the plural, qualities; powers; faculties; accomplishments.

Such licentious parts tend for the most part to the hurt of the English--

Parts, applied to place, signifies quarters, regions, districts.

When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. Acts 20:2.

All parts resound with tumults, plaints and fears.

In general, parts is used for excellent or superior endowments, or more than ordinary talents. This is what we understand by the phrase, a man of parts.

In good part as well done; favorably; acceptably; in a friendly manner; not in displeasure.

God accepteth it in good part at the hands of faithful man.ill part as ill done; unfavorably; with displeasure.

For the most part commonly; oftener than otherwise.

In part in some degree or extent; partly.

Logical part among schoolmen, a division of some universal as its whole; in which sense, species are parts of a genus, and individuals are parts of a species.

Physical parts, are of two kinds, homogeneous and heterogeneous; the first is of the same denomination; the second of different ones.

Aliquot part is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes equal to an integer. Thus 6 is an aliquot part of 24.

Aliquant part is a quantity which being repeated any number of times, becomes greater or less than the whole, as 5 is an aliquant part of 17.

Part of speech, in grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character. Thus the noun is part of speech, denoting the names of things, or those vocal sounds which usage has attached to things. The verb is a part of speech expressing motion, action or being.

P'ART, verb transitive [Latin partio.]

1. To divide, separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.

2. To divide into shares; to distribute. Acts 2:45.

3. To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. Ruth 1:17.

4. To keep asunder; to separate. A narrow sea parts England from France.

5. To separate, as combatants. Night parted the armies.

6. To secern; to secrete.

The liver minds his own affair,

And parts and strains the vital juices.

7. In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.

8. To separate metals.

P'ART, verb intransitive To be separated, removed or detached.

Powerful hands will not part

Easily from possession won with arms.

1. To quit each other.

He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted.

2. To take or bid farewell.

3. To have a share.

They shall part alike. 1 Samuel 30:24.

4. To go away; to depart.

Thy father

Embraced me, parting for th' Etrurian land.

5. To break; to be torn asunder. The cable parted.part with, to quit; to resign; to lose; to be separated from; as, to part with near friends.

Celia, for thy sake I part

With all that grew so near my heart.

PARTABLE. [See Partible.]

P'ARTAGE, noun Division; severance; the act of dividing or sharing; a French word. [Little used.]

PARTA'KE, verb intransitive preterit tense partook; participle passive partaken. [part and take.]

1. To take a part, portion or share in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; usually followed by of, sometimes less properly by in. All men partake of the common bounties of Providence. Clodius was at the feast, but could not partake of the enjoyments.

2. To have something of the property, nature, claim or right.

The attorney of the duchy of Lancaster partakes partly of a judge, and partly of an attorney general.

3. To be admitted; not to be excluded.

PARTA'KE, verb transitive To have a part in; to share.

My royal father lives;

Let every one partake the general joy.

[This is probably elliptical, of being omitted.]

1. To admit to a part. [Not used.]

PARTA'KEN, participle passive Shared with others; participated.

PARTA'KER, noun One who has or takes a part, share or portion in common with others; a sharer; a participator; usually followed by of.

If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things-- Romans 15:27.

Sometimes followed by in.

Wish me partaker in thy happiness--

If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Matthew 23:30.

1. An accomplice; an associate.

When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Psalms 50:18.

PARTA'KING, participle present tense Sharing with others; participating.

PARTA'KING, noun An associating; combination in an evil design.

P'ARTED, participle passive Separated; divided; severed.

P'ARTER, noun One that parts or separates.

PARTERRE, noun parta're. In gardening, a level division of ground furnished with evergreens and flowers; sometimes cut into shell and scroll work with alleys.

P'ARTIAL, adjective [Latin pars.]

1. Biased to one party; inclined to favor one party in a cause, or one side of a question, more than the other; not indifferent. It is important to justice that a judge should not be partial

Self-love will make men partial to themselves and friends.

2. Inclined to favor without reason. Authors are partial to their wit, and critics to their judgment.

3. Affecting a part only; not general or universal; not total. It has been much disputed whether the deluge was partial or total.

All partial evil, universal good.

4. More strongly inclined to one thing than to others. [Colloquial.]

5. In botany, subordinate; applied to subdivisions; as a partial umbel or umbellicle; a partial peduncle. A partial involucre is placed at the foot of a partial umbel.

P'ARTIALIST, noun One who is partial. [Unusual.]

PARTIALITY, noun parshal'ity. Inclination to favor one party or one side of a question more than the other; an undue bias of mind towards one party or side, which is apt to warp the judgment. partiality springs from the will and affections, rather than from a love of truth and justice.

1. A stronger inclination to one thing than to others; as a partiality for poetry or painting; a colloquial use.

P'ARTIALIZE, verb transitive To render partial. [Not used.]

P'ARTIALLY, adverb With undue bias of mind to one party or side; with unjust favor or dislike; as, to judge partially

1. In part; not totally; as, the story may be partially true; the body may be partially affected with disease; the sun and moon are often partially eclipsed.

PARTIBILITY, noun [See Partible.] Susceptibility of division, partition or severance; separability; as the partibility of an inheritance.

P'ARTIBLE, adjective Divisible; separable; susceptible of severance or partition; as, an estate of inheritance may be partible

PARTIC'IPABLE, adjective [See Participate.] That may be participated or shared.

PARTIC'IPANT, adjective [See Participate.] Sharing; having a share or part; followed by of.

The prince saw he should confer with one participant of more than monkish speculations.

PARTIC'IPANT, noun A partaker; one having a share or part.

PARTIC'IPATE, verb intransitive [Latin participo; pars, part, and capio, to take.]

1. To partake; to have a share in common with others. The heart of sensibility participates in the sufferings of a friend. It is sometimes followed by of.

He would participate of their wants.

2. To have part of more things than one.

Few creatures participate of the nature of plants and metals both.

PARTIC'IPATE, verb intransitive To partake; to share; to receive a part of.

Fellowship

Such as I seek, fit to participate

All rational delight--

PARTIC'IPATED, participle passive Shared in common with others; partaken.

PARTIC'IPATING, participle present tense Having a part or share; partaking.

PARTICIPA'TION, noun The state of sharing in common with others; as a participation of joys or sorrows.

1. The act or state of receiving or having part of something.

Those deities are so by participation and subordinate to the Supreme.

2. Distribution; division into shares.

PARTIC'IPATIVE, adjective Capable of participating.

PARTICIP'IAL, adjective [Latin participialis. See Participle.]

1. Having the nature and use of a participle.

2. Formed from a participle; as a participial noun.

PARTICIP'IALLY, adverb In the sense or manner of a participle.

P'ARTICIPLE, noun [Latin participium, from participo; pars, part, and capio, to take.]

1. In grammar, a word so called because it partakes of the properties of a noun and of a verb; as having, making, in English; habens, faciens, in Latin. The English participles having, making, become nouns by prefixing the to them; as the having of property; the making of instruments. But all participles do not partake of the properties of a noun, as the passive participles for example, had, made.

Participles sometimes lose the properties of a verb and become adjectives, as willing, in the phrase, a willing heart; engaging, as engaging manners; accomplished, as an accomplished orator.

2. Any thing that participates of different things. [Not used.]

P'ARTICLE, noun [Latin particula, from pars, part.]

1. A minute part or portion of matter; as a particle of sand, of lime or of light.

2. In physics, a minute part of a body, an aggregation or collection of which constitutes the whole body or mass. The word is sometimes used in the same sense as atom, in the ancient Epicurean philosophy, and corpuscle in the latter. In this sense, particles are the elements or constituent parts of bodies.

3. Any very small portion or part; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue; he would not resign a particle of his property.

4. In the Latin church, a crumb or little piece of consecrated bread.

5. In grammar, a word that is not varied or inflected; as a preposition.

Organic particles, very minute moving bodies, perceptible only by the help of the microscope, discovered in the semen of animals.

PARTIC'ULAR, adjective [Low Latin particularis, from particula.]

1. Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application.

2. Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person.

3. Noting some property or thing peculiar.

Of this prince there is little particular memory.

4. Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law.

5. Single; not general.

6. Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others.

7. Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress.

8. Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news.

9. Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder.

10. Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant.

PARTIC'ULAR, noun A single instance; a single point.

I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal.

1. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story.

2. An individual; a private person.

3. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.]

4. Private character; state of an individual.

For his particular I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.]

5. A minute detail of things singly enumerated.

The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.]

In particular specially; peculiarly; distinctly.

This, in particular happens to the lungs.

PARTICULAR'ITY, noun Distinct notice or specification of particulars.

--Even descending to particularities, what kingdoms he should overcome.

1. Singleness; individuality; single act; single case.

2. Petty account; minute incident.

To see the titles that were most agreeable to such an emperor--with the like particularities--

3. Something belonging to single persons.

4. Something peculiar or singular.

I saw an old heathen altar with this particularity that it was hollowed like a dish at one end, but not the end on which the sacrifice was laid.

5. Minuteness in detail. He related the story with great particularity

PARTIC'ULARIZE, verb transitive To mention distinctly or in particulars; to enumerate or specify in detail.

He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin.

PARTIC'ULARIZE, verb intransitive To be attentive to single things.

PARTIC'ULARLY, adverb Distinctly; singly.

1. In an especial manner.

This exact propriety of Virgil I particularly regarded as a great part of his character.

PARTICULATE, to mention, is not in use.

P'ARTING, participle present tense [from part.] Dividing; separating; breaking in pieces.

1. adjective Given at separation; as a parting kiss or look.

2. Departing; declining; as the parting day.

P'ARTING, noun Division; separation. Ezekiel 21:21.

1. In chimistry, an operation by which gold and silver are separated from each other by different menstruums.

2. In seamen's language, the breaking of a cable by violence.

P'ARTISAN, noun s as z.

1. An adherent to a party or faction.

2. In war, the commander of a party or detachment of troops, sent on a special enterprise hence,

3. By way of distinction, a person able in commanding a party, or dexterous in obtaining intelligence, intercepting convoys or otherwise annoying an enemy.

4. A commander's leading staff.

5. A kind of halberd.

P'ARTITE, adjective [Latin partitus, from partio, to divide. See Part.]

In botany, divided. A partite leaf is a simple leaf separated down to the base.

PARTI'TION, noun [Latin partitio, from partio, to divide.]

1. The act of dividing, or state of being divided.

2. Division; separation; distinction.

And good from bad find no partition

3. Separate part; as lodged in a small partition

4. That by which different parts are separated; as a partition of wood or stone in a building.

5. Part where separation is made.

No sight could pass

Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass.

6. Division of an estate into severalty, which is done by deed of partition

P'ARTI'TION, verb transitive To divide into distinct parts; as, to partition the floor of a house.

1. To divide into shares; as, to partition an estate.

P'ARTITIVE, adjective In grammar, distributive; as a noun partitive

P'ARTITIVELY, adverb In a partitive manner; distributively.

P'ARTLET, noun [from part.] A ruff; a band or collar for the neck.

1. A hen.

P'ARTLY, adverb In part; in some measure or degree; not wholly.

P'ARTNER, noun [from part.] One who partakes or shares with another; a partaker; an associate; as, she is partner of my life, of my joys, of my griefs.

Those of the race of Shem were no partners in the unbelieving work of the tower.

1. An associate in any business or occupation; a joint owner of stock or capital, employed in commerce, manufactures or other business. Men are sometimes partners in a single voyage or adventure, sometimes in a firm or standing company.

2. One who dances with another, either male or female, as in a contra dance.

3. A husband or wife.

P'ARTNER, verb transitive To join; to associate with a partner [Little used.]

Partners, in a ship, pieces of plank nailed round the scuttles in a deck where the masts are placed; also, the scuttles themselves.

P'ARTNERSHIP, noun The association of two or more persons for the purpose of undertaking and prosecuting any business, particularly trade or manufactures, at their joint expense. In this case, the connection is formed by contract; each partner furnishing a part of the capital stock and being entitled to a proportional share of profit, or subject to a proportional share of loss; or one or more of the partners may furnish money or stock, and the other or others contribute their services. The duration of the partnership may be limited by the contract, or it may be left indefinite, subject to be dissolved by mutual agreement. A partnership or association of this kind is a standing or permanent company, and is denominated a firm or house. We say, A and B entered into partnership for the importation and sale of goods, or for manufacturing cotton or glass.

Partnerships may be and usually are associations of private persons, not incorporated. In other cases, the company is incorporated. Banking companies in the United States are usually incorporated, and are essentially partnerships, but do not bear that name. Manufacturing companies are also frequently incorporated.

1. Joint interest or property.

PARTOOK', pret. of partake.

P'ARTRIDGE, noun [Latin perdix.] A wild fowl of the genus Tatrao. Latham arranges the partridge and quail in a genus under the name of Perdix, and assigns the grous to the genus Tetrao. The partridge is esteemed a great delicacy at the table.

The term partridge is applied in Pennsylvania to the bird called quail in New England, a peculiar species of Perdix; in New England it is applied to the ruffed grous, a species of Tetrao.

PARTU'RIATE, verb intransitive [Latin parturio, from partus, birth, from pario, to bear.] To bring forth young. [Little used.]

PARTU'RIENT, adjective [Latin parturiens.] Bringing forth or about to bring forth young.

PARTURI'TION, noun [Latin parturio.] The act of bringing forth or being delivered of young.

P'ARTY, noun [Latin pars. See Part.]

1. A number of persons united in opinion or design, in opposition to others in the community. It differs from faction, in implying a less dishonorable association, or more justifiable designs. Parties exist in all governments; and free governments are the hot-beds of party Formerly, the political parties in England were called whigs and tories.

2. One of two litigants; the plaintiff or defendant in a lawsuit.

The cause of both parties shall come before the judges. Exodus 22:1.

3. One concerned or interested in an affair. This man was not a party to the trespass or affray. He is not a party to the contract or agreement.

4. Side; persons engaged against each other.

The peace both parties want, is like to last.

Small parties make up in diligence what they want in numbers.

5. Cause; side.

Aegle came in to make their party good.

6. A select company invited to an entertainment; as a dining party a tea party an evening party

7. A single person distinct from or opposed to another.

If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony,

8. In military affairs, a detachment or small number of troops sent on a particular duty, as to intercept the enemy's convoy, to reconnoiter, to seek forage, to flank the enemy, etc.is used to qualify other words and may be considered either as part of a compound word, or as an adjective; as party man, party rage, party disputes, etc.

PAR'U, noun A singular American fish.

P'ARVIS, noun A church or church porch. [Not used.]

P'ARVITUDE

P'ARVITY, noun Littleness. [Not used.]

P`ARVITY, n. Littleness. [Not used.]

PAS, noun Right of going foremost; precedence. [Not used.]

PAS'CHAL, adjective [Latin pascha.] Pertaining to the passover, or to Easter.

PAS'QUIL

PAS'QUILER, noun A lampooner.

PASQUINA'DE, noun A lampoon or satirical writing.

PAS'QUIN, noun A mutilated statue at Rome, in a corner of the palace of Ursini, so called from a cobbler of that name who was remarkable for his sneers and gibes. On this statue it has been customary to paste satiric papers. Hence, a lampoon.

PAS'QUIL

PAS'QUIN

P'ASS, verb intransitive [Eng. pat, and as a noun, a pass a defile, an ambling, pace; passen, to be fit, to suit; Latin patior, whence passion, to suffer, and peto, competo, in the sense of fit; Gr. to walk or step, to suffer; The word pass coincides with Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, Latin passus, a step, and this is from pando, to extend; n being casual, the original word was pado.

1. To move, in almost any manner; to go; to proceed from one place to another. A man may pass on foot, on horseback or in a carriage; a bird and a meteor pass through the air; a ship passes on or through the water; light passes from the sun to the planets; it passes from the sun to the earth in about eight minutes.

2. To move from one state to another; to alter or change, or to be changed in condition; as, to pass from health to sickness; to pass from just to unjust.

3. To vanish; to disappear; to be lost. In this sense, we usually say, to pass away.

Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass

4. To be spent; to go on or away progressively.

The time when the thing existed, is the idea of that space of duration which passed between some fixed period and the being of that thing.

5. To die; to depart from life. [Little used.]

6. To be in any state; to undergo; with under; as, to pass under the rod.

7. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.

Neither of these bills has yet passed the house of commons.

8. To be current; to gain reception or to be generally received. Bank bills pass as a substitute for coin.

False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood.

9. To be regarded; to be received in opinion or estimation.

This will not pass for a fault in him, till it is proved to be one in us.

10. To occur; to be present; to take place; as, to notice what passes in the mind.

11. To be done.

Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to defile them.

12. To determine; to give judgment or sentence.

Though well we may not pass upon his life.

13. To thrust; to make a push in fencing or fighting.

14. To omit; to suffer to go unheeded or neglected. We saw the act, but let it pass

15. To move through any duct or opening; as, substances in the stomach that will not pass not be converted into ailment.

16. To percolate; to be secreted; as juices that pass from the glands into the mouth.

17. To be in a tolerable state.

A middling sort of man was left well enough by his father to pass but he could never think he had enough, so long as any had more.

18. To be transferred from one owner to another. The land article passed by livery and seizin.

19. To go beyond bounds. For this we generally use surpass.

20. To run or extend; as a line or other thing. The north limit of Massachusetts passes three miles north of the Merrimac.

To come to pass to happen; to arrive; to come; to be; to exist; a phrase much used in the Scriptures.

To pass away, to move from sight; to vanish.

1. To be spent; to be lost.

A good part of their lives passes away without thinking.

To pass by, to move near and beyond. He passed by as we stood in the road.

To pass on, to proceed.

To pass over, to go or move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over to the other side.

To pass into, to unite and blend, as two substances or colors, in such a manner that it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

P'ASS, verb transitive To go beyond. The sun has passed the age of frivolousness.

1. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.

2. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.

3. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart.

4. To cause to move hastily.

I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number.

5. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A to B by deed; to pass a note or bill.

6. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter.

7. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works.

8. To procure or cause to go.

Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.

9. To put an end to.

This night

We'll pass the business privately and well.

10. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention.

I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.

11. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.

12. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.

13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,

14. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.

15. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy.

16. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.

17. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.

18. To thrust; to make a push in fencing.

To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto.

To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of like in idleness.

To pass by, to pass near and beyond.

1. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault.

2. To neglect; to disregard.

Certain passages of Scripture we cannot pass by without injury to truth.

To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain.

1. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.

P'ASS, noun A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as a pass between mountains.

1. A passage; a road.

2. Permission to pass to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport.

A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas.

A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.

3. An order for sending vagrants or impotent persons to their place of abode.

4. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as , to make a pass at an antagonist.

5. State; condition or extreme case; extremity.

To what a pass are our minds brought.

Matters have been brought to this pass--

P'ASSABLE, adjective That may be passed, traveled or navigated. The roads are not passable The stream is passable in boats.

1. That may be penetrated; as a substance passable by a fluid.

2. Current; receivable; that may be or is transferred from hand to hand; as bills passable in lieu of coin. False coin is not passable

3. Popular; well received.

4. Supportable. [This should be passible.]

P'ASSABLY, adverb Tolerably. [See Passible.]

P'ASSAGE, noun

1. The act of passing or moving by land or water, or through the air or other substance; as the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a fowl; the passage of light or a meteor; the passage of fluids through the pores of the body, or from the glands. Clouds intercept the passage of solar rays.

2. The time of passing from one place to another. What passage had you? We had a passage of twenty five days to Havre de Grace, and of thirty eight days from England.

3. Road; way; avenue; a place where men or things may pass or be conveyed.

And with his pointed dart,

Explores the nearest passage to this heart.

4. Entrance or exit.

What! are my doors opposed against my passage?

5. Right of passing; as, to engage a passage on board a ship bound to India.

6. Occurrence; event; incident; that which happens; as a remarkable passage in the life of Newton. [See the Spanish verb, supra. This sense is obsolescent.]

7. A passing away; decay. [Little used.]

8. Intellectual admittance; mental reception.

Among whom I expect this treatise will have a fairer passage than among those deeply imbued with other principles.

9. Manner of being conducted; management.

On consideration of the conduct and passage of affairs in former times--

10. Part of a book or writing; a single clause, place or part of indefinite extent.

How commentators each dark passage shun.

11. Enactment; the act of carrying through all the regular forms necessary to give validity; as the passage of a law, or of a bill into a law, by a legislative body.

Bird of passage a fowl that passes at certain seasons from one climate to another, as in autumn to the south to avoid the winter's cold, and in spring to the north for breeding. Hence the phrase is sometimes applied to a man who has no fixed residence.

P'ASSAGER, noun A traveler or voyager; one who passes or journeys on foot, in a vehicle, or in a ship or boat. This word is usually written corruptly passenger, and the first vowel is often short.

P'ASSED

P'ASSENGER, noun One who is traveling, as in a public coach, or in a ship, or on foot. This is the usual, though corrupt orthography.

Passenger falcon, a kind of migratory hawk.

P'ASSER, noun One that passes; a passenger.

P'ASSERINE, adjective [Latin passer, a sparrow.] Pertaining to sparrows, or to the order of birds to which sparrows belong, the Passeres.

PAS'SIBLE, adjective Susceptible of feeling or of impressions from external agents.

Apollinarius held even Deity to be passible

P'ASSING, participle present tense Moving; proceeding.

1. adjective Exceeding; surpassing; eminent.

2. Adverbially used to enforce or enhance the meaning of another word; exceedingly; as passing fair; passing strange.

P'ASSINGLY, adverb Exceedingly.

PAS'SION, noun [Latin passio, from patior, to suffer.]

1. The impression or effect of an external agent upon a body; that which is suffered or received.

A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.

2. Susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

The differences of moldable and not moldable, etc., and many other passions of matter, are plebeian notions. [Little used.]

3. Suffering; emphatically, the last suffering of the Savior.

To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs. Acts 1:3.

4. The feeling of the mind, or the sensible effect of impression; excitement, perturbation or agitation of mind; as desire, fear, hope, joy, grief, love, hatred. The eloquence of the orator is employed to move the passions.

5. Violent agitation or excitement of mind, particularly such as is occasioned by an offense, injury or insult; hence, violent anger.

6. Zeal; ardor; vehement desire.

When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.

7. Love.

He owned his passion for Amestris.

8. Eager desire; as a violent passion for fine clothes.

PAS'SION, verb intransitive To be extremely agitated. [Not used.]

PAS'SIONARY, noun A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.

PAS'SIONATE, adjective

1. Easily moved to anger; easily excited or agitated by injury or insult; applied to persons.

Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate

2. Highly excited; vehement; warm; applied to things; as passionate affection; passionate desire; passionate concern.

3. Expressing strong emotion; animated; as passionate eloquence.

PAS'SIONATE, verb transitive To affect with passion; to express passionately. [Not used.]

PAS'SIONATELY, adverb With passion; with strong feeling; ardently; vehemently; as, to covet any thing passionately; to be passionately fond.

1. Angrily; with vehement resentment; as, to speak passionately

PAS'SIONATENESS, noun State of being subject to passion or anger.

1. Vehemence of mind.

PAS'SIONED, adjective Disordered; violently affected.

1. Expressing passion.

PAS'SIONLESS, adjective Not easily excited to anger; of a calm temper.

1. Void of passion.

P'ASSIVE, adjective [Latin passivus, from passus, patior, to suffer.]

1. Suffering; not acting, receiving or capable of receiving impressions from external agents. We were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.

The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all its simple ideas.

God is not in any respect passive

2. Unresisting; not opposing; receiving or suffering without resistance; as passive obedience; passive submission to the laws.

Passive verb, in grammar, is a verb which expresses passion, or the effect of an action of some agent; as in Latin doceor, I am taught; in English, she is loved and admired by her friends; he is assailed by slander.

Passive obedience, as used by writers on government, denotes not only quiet unresting submission to power, but implies the denial of the right of resistance, or the recognition of the duty to submit in all cases to the existing government.

Passive prayer, among mystic divines, is suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet and yielding only to the impulses of grace.

Passive commerce, trade in which the productions of a country are carried by foreigners in their own bottoms. [See Active commerce.]

P'ASSIVELY, adverb With a passive nature or temper; with a temper disposed to submit to the acts of external agents, without resistance.

1. Without agency.

2. According to the form of the passive verb.

P'ASSIVENESS, noun Quality of receiving impressions from external agents or causes; as the passiveness of matter.

1. Passibility; capacity of suffering.

We shall lose our passiveness with our being.

2. Patience; calmness; unresisting submission.

PASSIV'ITY, noun Passiveness, which see. [Little used.]

1. The tendency of a body to persevere in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body.

P'ASSLESS, adjective Having no passage.

P'ASSOVER, noun [pass and over.] A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God smiting the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb.

1. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover

P'ASSPORT, noun

1. A written license from a king or other proper authority, granting permission or safe conduct for one to pass through his territories, or to pass from one country to another, or to navigate a particular sea without hindrance or molestation.

2. A license for importing or exporting contraband goods or movables without paying the usual duties.

3. That which enables one to pass with safety or certainty.

His passport is his innocence and grace.

P'AST , participle passive Gone by; done; accomplished; ended.

1. Enacted; having received all the formalities necessary to constitute a law.

PASTE, noun [Latin pistus, or Gr. to sprinkle, or some root which signifies to mix and knead.]

1. A soft composition of substances, as flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded, or any kind of earth moistened and formed to the consistence of dough. paste made of flour is used in cookery; paste made of flour or earth, is used in various arts and manufactures, as a cement.

2. An artificial mixture in imitation of precious stones or gems, used in the glass trade.

3. In mineralogy, the mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

PASTE, verb transitive To unite or cement with paste; to fasten with paste

PASTEBOARD, noun A species of thick paper formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or by macerating paper and casting it in molds, etc. It is used for the covering of books, for bonnets, etc.

PAS'TEL, noun A plant, the woad, of the genus Isatis.

1. A coloring substance.

PAS'TERN, noun The part of a horse's leg between the joint next the foot and the coronet of the hoof.

1. The human leg; in contempt.

PASTIC'CIO, noun A medley; an olio.

PAS'TIL, noun [Latin pastillus.]

1. A roll of paste, or a kind of paste made of different colors ground with gum-water in order to make crayons.

2. In pharmacy, a dry composition of sweet smelling resins, aromatic woods, etc. burnt to clear and scent the air of a room.

P'ASTIME, noun [pass and time.] Sport; amusement; diversion; that which amuses and serves to make time pass agreeably.

P'ASTIME, verb intransitive To sport; to use diversion. [Little used.]

P'ASTOR, noun [Latin from pasco, pastum, to feed.]

1. A shepherd; one that has the care of flocks and herds.

2. A minister of the gospel who has the charge of a church and congregation, whose duty is to watch over the people of his charge, and instruct them in the sacred doctrines of the christian religion.

P'ASTORAL, adjective [Latin pastoralis.] Pertaining to shepherds; as a pastoral life; pastoral manners.

1. Descriptive of the life of shepherds; as a pastoral poem.

2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as pastoral care or duties; a pastoral letter.

Piety is the life and soul of pastoral fidelity.

P'ASTORAL, noun A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds, or a poem in imitation of the action of a shepherd, and in which the speakers take upon themselves the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.

P'ASTORATE, noun The office, state or jurisdiction of a spiritual pastor.

P'ASTORLIKE

P'ASTORLY , adjective Becoming a pastor.

P`ASTORLY , a. Becoming a pastor.

P'ASTORSHIP, noun The office or rank of pastor.

PASTRY, noun [from paste.] Things in general which are made of paste, or of which paste constitutes a principal ingredient, as pies, tarts, cake and the like.

1. The place where pastry is made.

P'ASTURABLE, adjective [from pasture.] Fit for pasture.

P'ASTURAGE, noun

1. The business of feeding or grazing cattle.

2. Grazing ground; land appropriated to grazing.

3. Grass for feed.

P'ASTURE, noun [Latin pasco, pastum, to feed.]

1. Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.

2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food or cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture It is sometimes called pasture-land.

3. Human culture; education. [Not used.]

Common of pasture is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.

P'ASTURE, verb transitive To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.

P'ASTURE, verb intransitive To graze; to take food by eating grass from the ground.

PASTY, adjective Like paste; of the consistence of paste.

PASTY, noun [from paste.] A pie made of paste and baked without a dish.

PAT, adjective Fit; convenient; exactly suitable either as to time or place. [Not an elegant word, but admissible in burlesque.]

PAT, adverb Fitly; conveniently.

PAT, noun A light quick blow or stroke with the fingers or hand.

PAT, verb transitive To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to tap.

Gay pats my shoulder and you vanish quite.

PATA'CA

PATA'CHE, noun A tender or small vessel employed in conveying men or orders from one ship or place to another.

PATA'CHE, n. A tender or small vessel employed in conveying men or orders from one ship or place to another.

PATACOON', noun A Spanish coin of the value of 4s. 8d.sterling, or about $1.04 cents.

PATAVIN'ITY, noun The use of local words, or the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; so denominated from Patavium or Padua, the place of his nativity.

PATCH, noun

1. A piece of cloth sewed on a garment to repair it.

2. A small piece of any thing used to repair a breach.

3. A small piece of silk used to cover a defect on the face, or to add a charm.

4. A piece inserted in mosaic or variegated work.

5. A small piece of ground, or a small detached piece.

6. A paltry fellow. This use is sometimes heard in vulgar language; as a cross-patch.

PATCH, verb transitive To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces; as, to patch a coat.

1. To adorn with a patch or with patches.

In the middle boxes were several ladies who patched both sides of their faces.

2. To mend with pieces; to repair clumsily.

3. To repair with pieces fastened on; as, to patch the roof of a house.

4. To make up of pieces and shreds.

5. To dress in a party-colored coat.

6. To make suddenly or hastily; to make without regard to forms; as, to patch up a peace.

PATCH'ED, participle passive Mended with a patch or patches; mended clumsily.

PATCH'ER, noun One that patches or botches.

PATCH'ERY, noun Bungling work; botchery; forgery.

PATCH'ING, participle present tense Mending with a piece or pieces; botching.

PATCH'WORK, noun Work composed of pieces of various figures sewed together.

1. Work composed of pieces clumsily put together.

PATE, noun

1. The head, or rather the top of the head; applied to persons, it is now used in contempt or ridicule.

2. The skin of a calf's head.

3. In fortification, a kind of platform resembling what is called a horse shoe.

PA'TED, adjective In composition, having a pate; as long-pated, cunning; shallow-pated, having weak intellect.

PATEE'

PATEFAC'TION, noun [Latin patefactio; pateo, to open, and facio, to make.] The act of opening or manifesting; open declaration.

PATEL'LIFORM, adjective [Latin patella, a dish, and form.] Of the form of a dish or saucer.

PAT'ELLITE, noun Fossil remains of the patella, a shell.

PAT'EN

PAT'ENT, adjective [Latin patens, from pateo, to open.]

1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]

2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]

3. Appropriated by letters patent.

Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.

4. Apparent; conspicuous.

PAT'ENT, noun A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, verb transitive To grant by patent.

1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

PAT'ENT, a. [L. patens, from pateo, to open.]

PAT'ENT, n. A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, v.t. To grant by patent.

PAT'ENTED, participle passive Granted by patent; secured by patent or by law as an exclusive privilege.

PATENTEE', noun One to whom a grant is made or a privilege secured by patent or by law.

PAT'ENTING, participle present tense Granting by patent; securing as a privilege.

PATERN'AL, adjective [Latin paternus, from pater, father.]

1. Pertaining to a father; fatherly; as paternal care of affection; paternal favor or admonition.

2. Derived from the father; hereditary; as a paternal estate.

PATERN'ITY, noun Fathership; the relation of a father.

The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership.

PA'TERNOSTER, noun [Latin our father.] The Lord's prayer.

P'ATH, noun plural paths. [Gr. to tread.]

1. A way beaten or trodden by the feet of man or beast, or made hard by wheels; that part of a highway on which animals or carriages ordinarily pass; applied to the ground only, and never to a paved street in a city.

2. Any narrow way beaten by the foot.

3. The way, course or track where a body moves in the atmosphere or in space; as the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor.

4. A way or passage.

5. Course of life.

He marketh all my paths. Job 33:11.

6. Precepts; rules prescribed.

Uphold my going in thy paths. Psalms 17:4.

7. Course of providential dealings; moral government.

All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant. Psalms 25:4.

P'ATH, verb transitive To make a path by treading; to beat a path as in snow.

To push forward; to cause to go; to make way for.

P'ATH, verb intransitive To walk abroad.

PATHET'IC

PATHET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic

PATHET'IC, noun Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions.

A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction.

PATHET'ICAL, a. [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

PATHET'ICALLY, adverb In such a manner as to excite the tender passions.

PATHET'ICALNESS, noun The quality of moving the tender passions.

P'ATHFLY, noun A fly found in foot-paths.

PATH'IC, noun [Gr.] A catamite; a male that submits to the crime against nature.

P'ATHLESS, adjective Having no beaten way; untrodden; as a pathless forest; a pathless coast.

PATHOGNOMON'IC, adjective [Gr. passion or suffering, and to know.]

Indicating that which is inseparable from a disease, being found in that and in no other; hence, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; characteristic; as pathognomonic symptoms.

PATHOG'NOMY, noun [Gr. signification.] Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

PATHOLOG'IC

PATHOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Pathology.] Pertaining to pathology.

PATHOLOG'ICAL, a. [See Pathology.] Pertaining to pathology.

PATHOLOG'ICALLY, adverb In the manner of pathology.

PATHOL'OGIST, noun One who treats of pathology.

PATHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. passion, suffering, and discourse.] That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms; or the doctrine of the causes and nature of diseases, comprehending nosology, etiology, symptomatology, and therapeutics.

PA'THOS, noun [Gr. to suffer.] Passion; warmth or vehemence, in a speaker; or in language, that which excites emotions and passions.

P'ATHWAY, noun A path; usually, a narrow way to be passed on foot.

1. A way; a course of life. Proverbs 12:28.

PAT'IBLE, adjective [Latin patibilis, from patior, to suffer.]

Sufferable; tolerable; that may be endured. [Not used.]

PATIB'ULARY, adjective [Latin patibulum, a gallows.]

Belonging to the gallows, or to execution on the cross.

PATIENCE, noun pa'shens. [Latin patientia, from patior, to suffer.]

1. The suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation or other evil, with a calm, unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness. patience may spring from constitutional fortitude, from a kind of heroic pride, or from christian submission to the divine will.

2. A calm temper which bears evils without murmuring or discontent.

3. The act or quality of waiting long for justice or expected good without discontent.

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matthew 18:26.

4. Perseverance; constancy in labor or exertion.

He learnt with patience and with meekness taught.

5. The quality of bearing offenses and injuries without anger or revenge.

His rage was kindled and his patience gone.

6. Sufferance; permission. [Not used.]

7. A plant, a species of rumex of dock.

PATIENT, adjective pa'shent. [Latin patiens.]

1. Having the quality of enduring evils without murmuring or fretfulness; sustaining afflictions of body or mind with fortitude, calmness or christian submission to the divine will; as a patient person, or a person of patient temper. It is followed by of before the evil endured; as patient of labor or pain; patient of heat or cold.

2. Not easily provoked; calm under the sufferance of injuries or offenses; not revengeful.

Be patient towards all men. 1 Thessalonians 5:14.

3. Persevering; constant in pursuit or exertion; calmly diligent.

Whatever I have done is due to patient thought.

4. Not hasty; not over eager or impetuous; waiting or expecting with calmness or without discontent.

Not patient to expect the turns of fate.

PA'TIENT, noun A person or thing that received impressions from external agents; he or that which is passively affected.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient

1. A person diseased or suffering bodily indisposition. It is used in relation to the physician; as, the physician visits his patient morning and evening.

2. It is sometimes used absolutely for a sick person.

It is wonderful to observe how inapprehensive these patients are of their disease.

PA'TIENT, verb intransitive To compose one's self. [Not used.]

PA'TIENTLY, adverb With calmness or composure; without discontent or murmuring. Submit patiently to the unavoidable evils of life.

1. With calm and constant diligence; as, to examine a subject patiently

2. Without agitation, uneasiness or discontent; without undue haste or eagerness; as, to wait patiently for more favorable events.

PATIN. [See Paten.]

PAT'IN, noun [Latin patina.] A plate. [Not used.]

1. In the Romish church, the cover of the chalice, used for holding particles of the host.

PAT'LY, adverb [from pat.] Fitly; conveniently.

PAT'NESS, noun [from pat.] Fitness; suitableness; convenience.

PA'TRIARCH, noun [Latin patriarcha; Gr. a family, father, and a chief.]

1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs by paternal right. It is usually applied to the progenitors of the Israelites, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the sons of Jacob, or to the heads of families before the flood; as the antediluvian patriarchs.

2. A learned and distinguished character among the Jews.

3. In the christian church, a dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Ephesus.

PATRIARCH'AL

PA'TRIARCHATE

PATRIARCH'IC, adjective Belonging to patriarchs; possessed by patriarchs; as patriarchal power or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see.

1. Subject to a patriarch; as a patriarchal church.

Patriarchal cross, in heraldry, is that where the shaft is twice crossed, the lower arms being longer than the upper ones.

PA'TRIARCHATE

PATRIARCH'IC, a. Belonging to patriarchs; possessed by patriarchs; as patriarchal power or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see.

Patriarchal cross, in heraldry, is that where the shaft is twice crossed, the lower arms being longer than the upper ones.

PA'TRIARCHSHIP, noun The office, dignity or jurisdiction of a patriarch or ecclesiastical superior.

PA'TRIARCHY, noun The jurisdiction of a patriarch; a patriarchate.

PATRI'CIAN, adjective [Latin patricius, from pater, father.] Senatorial; noble; not plebeian. This epithet is derived from the Roman patres, fathers, the title of Roman senators; as patrician birth or blood; patrician families.

PATRI'CIAN, noun A nobleman. In the Roman state, the patricians were the descendants of the first Roman senators.

PATRIMO'NIAL, adjective Pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as a patrimonial estate.

PATRIMO'NIALLY, adverb By inheritance.

PAT'RIMONY, noun [Latin patrimonium, from pater, father.]

1. A right or estate inherited from one's ancestors.

2. A church estate or revenue; as St. Peter's patrimony

PAT'RIOT, noun [Latin patria, one's native country, form pater, father.]

A person who loves his country, and zealously supports and defends it and its interests.

Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

PAT'RIOT, adjective Patriotic; devoted to the welfare of one's country; as patriot zeal.

PATRIOT'IC, adjective Full of patriotism; actuated by the love of one's country; as a patriotic hero or statesman.

1. Inspired by the love of one's country; directed to the public safety and welfare; as patriotic zeal.

PAT'RIOTISM , noun Love of one's country; the passion which aims to serve one's country, either in defending it from invasion, or protecting its rights and maintaining its laws and institutions in vigor and purity. patriotism is the characteristic of a good citizen, the noblest passion that animates a man in the character of a citizen.

PATRIS'TIC

PATRIS'TICAL, adjective [from Latin pater, patres, fathers.]

Pertaining to the ancient fathers of the christian church.

PATRIS'TICAL, a. [from L. pater, patres, fathers.]

Pertaining to the ancient fathers of the christian church.

PATROC'INATE, verb transitive To patronize. [Not used.]

PATROCINA'TION, noun Countenance; support. [Not used.]

PATROL

PATROLL, noun

1. In war, a round; a walking or marching round by a guard in the night, to watch and observe what passes, and to secure the peace and safety of a camp or other place.

2. The guard or persons who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty is to patroll.

In France, there is an army of patrols to secure her fiscal regulations.

PATROLL, verb intransitive To go the rounds in a camp or garrison; to march about and observe what passes; as a guard.

PATROLL, n.

PATROLL, v.i. To go the rounds in a camp or garrison; to march about and observe what passes; as a guard.

PATROLLING, participle present tense Going the rounds, as a guard.

PAT'RON, noun [Latin patronus; Gr. father.]

1. Among the Romans, a master who had freed his slave, and retained some rights over him after his emancipation; also, a man of distinction under whose protection another placed himself. Hence,

2. One who countenances, supports and protects either a person or a work.

3. In the church of Rome, a guardian or saint, whose name a person bears, or under whose special care he is placed and whom he invokes; or a saint in whose name a church or order is founded.

4. In the canon or common law, one who has the gift and disposition of a benefice.

5. An advocate; a defender; one that specially countenances and supports, or lends aid to advance; as patrons of the arts; a patron of useful undertakings; the patrons of virtue.

6. In seamen's language, the commander of a small vessel or passage-boat; also, one who steers a ship's long boat.

PAT'RONAGE, noun Special countenance or support; favor or aid afforded to second the views of a person or to promote a design.

1. Guardianship, as of a saint.

2. Advowson; the right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice.

PAT'RONAGE, verb transitive To patronize or support. [Not used.]

PAT'RONAL, adjective Doing the office of a patron; protecting; supporting; favoring; defending. [Little used.]

PAT'RONESS, noun A female that favors, countenances or supports.

Now night came down, and rose full soon

That patroness of rogues, the moon.

1. A female guardian saint.

2. A female that has the right of presenting to a church living.

PAT'RONIZE, verb transitive To support; to countenance; to defend; as a patron his client.

1. To favor; to lend aid to promote; as an undertaking.

2. To maintain; to defend; to support.

This idea has been patronized by two states only.

PAT'RONIZED, participle passive Defended; supported; favored; promoted.

PAT'RONIZER, noun One that supports, countenances or favors.

PAT'RONIZING, participle present tense Defending; supporting; favoring; promoting.

PAT'RONLESS, adjective Destitute of a patron.

PATRONYM'IC, noun [Latin patronymicus; from Gr. father, and name.]

A name of men or women derived from that of their parents or ancestors; as Tydides, the son of Tydeus, Pelides, the son of Peleus, that is, Achilles.

PATTEE', noun In heraldry, a cross small in the center, and widening to the extremities which are broad.

PAT'TEN, noun

1. The base of a column or pillar.

2. A wooden shoe with an iron ring, worn to keep the shoes from the dirt or mud.

PAT'TER, verb intransitive To strike, as falling drops of water or hail, with a quick succession of small sounds; as pattering hail.

The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.

PAT'TERING, participle present tense Striking with a quick succession of small sounds.

PAT'TERN, noun

1. An original or model proposed for imitation; the archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be copies or imitated, either in things or in actions; as the pattern of a machine; a pattern of patience. Christ was the most perfect pattern of rectitude, patience and submission ever exhibited on earth.

2. A specimen; a sample; a part showing the figure or quality of the whole; as a pattern of silk cloth.

3. An instance; an example.

4. Any thing cut of formed into the shape of something to be made after it.

To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

PAT'TY, noun A little pie.

PAT'ULOUS, adjective [Latin patulus, from pateo, to be open.]

Spreading, as a patulous calyx; bearing the flowers loose or dispersed, as a patulous peduncle.

PAUCIL'OQUY, noun [Latin paucus, few, and loquor, to speak.]

The utterance of few words. [Little used.]

PAU'CITY, noun [Latin paucitas, from paucus, few.]

1. Fewness; smallness of number; as the paucity of schools.

2. Smallness of quantity; as paucity of blood.

PAUM, verb transitive To impose by fraud; a corruption of palm.

PAUNCH, noun [Latin pantex.] The belly and its contents.

The paunch in ruminating quadrupeds, is the first and largest stomach, into which the food is received before rumination.

PAUNCH, verb transitive To pierce or rip the belly; to eviscerate; to take out the contents of the belly.